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Discloses f lams Inside Today Section On Women's niwi 2. 3 Editorial 4 Sports 8. 9 Locals. Markets 11 Section Two Badio. TV 2 Comica ,, 2 Classified Ada 4. S. 6. 7 PORTLAN Pinball Operator Says No Payment Given Teamsters Terry Denies Effort To Buy Into Union Washington (U P.) A Port land pinball operator today flat ly denied testimony that he paid $10,000 to a West Coast teamster boss to buy his way into the union and break its pir.ball monopoly. Stanley G. Terry told the Sen ate Rackets Committee he did not make the reported S10.000 payment to Frank W. Brewster, vice president of the Teamsters Union and president of its West ern Conference. Never Discussed Payment Terry also swore that "as far as I can remember, he never discussed such a payment and never told anyone he made it. He said he "never saw" Brew ster in the period when Terry was trying to get back into the ' Teamsters Union at the time the union was picketing his ma chines in behalf of a rival's. James B. Elkins. Portland racketeer who has been the committee's star witness the past four days, said Thursday that Terry once told him he paid "a chunk of money . . . S10.000 or more" to Brewster in order to buy his way into the union. Answers Direct Question Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy, after fencing with Terry for several hours, abrupt ly asked: "Did you pay $10,000 to Frank Brewster In San Fran cisco, Los Angeles, or Seattle?" "1 am here under oath," Terry replied. "Of my own free will, I say I did not." "Did you ever make a state ment to anyone that you paid S10.000 or a large sum of money to Frank Brewster in ordjr to get into, the union?" Kennedy asked. "No, sir," said Terry. He said he did not remember any discussion with Brewster about the possibility of such pay ment. Portland (U.Ri Mayor Terry Schrunk said today he has been subpoenaed to appear before the Senate committee investigating labor racketeering in Washing ton, DC. New Clerks Contract Effective Today A new contract between gro cery clerks and store operators In the Medford and Ashland areas went into effect today, ac cording to representatives of grocery store owners and opera tors. The contract grants demands of the clerks union for a 44-hour week with the present 48-hour salary, and a further reduction to a 40-hour week at the same pay starting March 1, 1958, spokesmen said. Earlier this year, the union threatened to strike. Negotia tions have been held between the union and store owners and operators for more than a month. Southern Oregon Farm Loan Association Stockholders Gold Hill Oregon farmers and ranchers are making use of long-term land bank credit to refinance indebtedness, buy real estate, make repairs and improvements and purchase live stock and machinery, according to C. D. Putz, regional manager of the Federal Land Bank of Spokane. He spoke to about 110 stock-bolder-members and valley resi dents at a meeting of the South ern Oregon National Farm Loan association in the Gold Hill Grange hall yesterday. Putz said farmers and ranch ers from Oregon borrowed S7.0G8.100 from the bank in 1956. In the four northwest states. Idaho. Montana. Oregon and Washington, the bank's new loan volume reached $34,545,300 last year, an increase of about S2 million over 1955. according to Putz, and the largest single year 51st Year MEDFORT United 20 Pag KC52UC ' luvusn JAMES B. ELKINS Testimony Refuted Dr. O.M.Wilson To Speak at UMC Annual Meeting; Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, presi dent of the University of Ore gon, will be principal speaker at the fourth annual meeting of the United Medford Crusade Thurs day, March 21, at Jcdrick Jun ior High schol cafetorium. Dr. Merle Foland. chairman of the dinner committor has An nounced. All contributors have been In vited to the meeting, at which the annual report will be made and new directors will be elected. Contributors, member agen cies, and UMC chapter repre sentatives elect new directors. Outstanding Service iwjrdi Awards for outstanding serv ice will be presented to several campaign workers af others who heloed make the camDaien last fall a success, according to ! William H. Prentice, UMC presi dent. Prentice said a large attend ance is expected. The dinner will start at 6:30 p.m., and reservations shoulg) be made by March 15, Dr. Fo land said. Dr. Foland said reservations for the $1.50 dinner may be made by writing the UMC head quarters, post office box 5000, Medford, or by telephoning the office. Medford 3-4287. Doc Simpson to gocoi?Q Citation from &OGA Lewis L. (Doc) Simpson, for ester and secretary-manager of the Southern Oregon Tree Farm association, will receive a cita tion from the Keep Oregon Green association at 8 p.m. to day at a dinner-meeting at the Jackson hotel. Presentation of the citation will be Rodney Keating, Jackson county judge. The ciAation, in the form of a wood piaque, is in scribed as follows: "Lewis L. Simpson, awarded for outstand ing achievement in forest fire prevention." It is dated Feb. 4 and signed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes and D. L. Phipps of the Keep Oregon Green association. Hold Meeting of volume in the bank's 40-year history. The volume of new loan busi ness, Putz declared, is particu-, l:rlv .i-nifirant in view nf ihpTre"uer creuu service to iarmers - - - .... v ... - - - ' "tight money" situation, and fshows the bank is keeping loan funds available to farmers and ranchers having a sound basis for credit. The bank's loan ac count on Dec. 31. 1956, totaled $126 million, an all-time high, he said. The Spokane bank official ex plained the bank's capital stock, owned by the Southern Oregor National Farm Loan association and 64 similar associations in the northwest, was $7 million at the end of 1956. Capital stock of the associa tions is owned by farmer and rancher members who borrow from the bank. Since the bank was chartered in 1917. Putz said, it has closed 88,000 loans for S-H0 million to farmers and ranchers in the northwest. GON, DBIDAY, iiABCH 1, i9S7 o io n State Sales f ax-Seen To Assist Education Salem (U.R) Predictions that Oregon eventually will have a sales tax to help finance educa tion, among other matters, were made at a hearing last night on a proposal to boost state basic school support from SfcO to $120 per census school child. Would Shift Load Wendell Van Loan, superin tendent of Corvallis schools, said "I feel little doubt that Oregon will be in the sales tax business in a few years." Floyd Light, superintendent of David Douglas high school, expressed belief that a sales tax must be adopted eventually to shift part of the tax' load from income and property. Mrs. J. W. Staggs of Milton Freewater, president of the Ore. gon Congress of Parents and Teachers, said the purpose be hind the basic school support Chnmbct Directors Endorse Senate Bills The board of directors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce yesterday voted unanimously to endorse two Ore gon Senate bills which would increase the authority of the public utilities commissioner over railroads in the state. The two measures. SB 274 and 275. were introduced by Sen. POilip B. Lowry and Rep. Al Littrcll, with others, and would increase the PUC's regulatory power over railroads and the services provided by them, in cluding the power to suspend One Call Received By CPRFPD in Montfl Central Point There were no fires in the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district during February, Fire Chief L.-C. Lis enbee has reported. The rural firemen received one call during the month from the Berrydale area and respond- Ql when it was not certain the blaze was in the Medford or Central Point district. The small grass fire proved to be in the Medford district. L;Q fire in protection area of Central Point rural firemen was an attic blaze at Table Rock Four Corners on Jan. 31. Porter Uaiks Of Dominican Attach WaslChgton (U.R) Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) wait ed today to see if his attack on Dominical strongman Rafael L. Trujillo has "aroused the Ameri can conscience" to demand a congressional investigation. Por ter charged Thursday that Tru jillo's government was "liquidat ing" American citizens with kid naping, murder and terror as tools of government policy. Meanwhile police had thrown a tight security around the cap itol and cancelled the usual pub lic tours. in Gold Hill He said the only purpose of the land bank and the national farm loan associations is to m I:. . and ranchers at $ie lowest cost consistent with sound business practices. Miss Marge Hatten of the counTy extension office illus trated her visit to Norway with colored slides. The Crater High School Glee club participated in the program. Association directors reelect ed for three-year terms were William C. Higinbotham. Cen tral Point, and Oliver Round tree. Williams. Other directors are J. W. Blgham, Eaglgj Point, A. E. Stevens. Phoenix, and Al bert L. Straus, Gold Hill. Elected for one-year terms to the board of directors were J. W. Bigham, president; Round tree, vice president: F. E. Bow man, secretary . treasurer, and Margaret Morrison, assistant secretary-treasurer. PAYOFrDENlED law was that the state pay fjbout half of Altai operational costs of local districts. She urged the $120 figure as bringing the fund more closely into line with its original intent. Rep. Clarence Barton of Co quille. chairman of the House Taxation committee, said the added burden would fall on in comes, and he posc$ the ques tion as to whether Oregon tax payers would stand for having their income taxes raised 28 per cent to pay for the propod in crease in basic school support. 400 Atlcjnd Hearing The measure is estimated to cost an additional $40 million a biennium. Sen. Jean Lewis of Portland, chairman of the ways and means subcommittee on education, pre sided at the hearing. Some 400 persons filled the largest hear ing room in the capitol. proposed changes in rates or services pending a hearing, and the power to require them to provide what the PUC considers to be adequate service. So Authority The bills were submitted as an outgrowth of the abandon ment by the Southern Pacific of rail passenger service fronV Eu gene to the California border, an v,,. ;, , Klt ,, jrJ had no authority to halt undeW existing law. Hearings on the matter were held last year, but the results have not yet been ascertained. At the time of the hearings. the chamoer was active in or ganising testimony and obtain ing witnesses to testify that the service was needed, and that earlier service was inadequate. The two senate bills would include freight service under the PUC's regulatory power. The bills are now under considera tion by the Senate committee on commerce and utilities. The board, in other action at its regular meeting yesterday noon, endorsed "Operation Home Improvement" planned for this spring, gave tentative approval to the chamber's budget for the coming year, and approved an audit report on the chamber's financial operations for the past year. Planning Commission Sets Special Meeting The Medford planning com mission will consider recom mendations on a proposed Berry dale area annexation at a spe cial meeting in the city hall at 7:30 p.m. Monday. The Berrydale Sanitation com mittee and the commission, act ing as a committee, agreed on proposed boundaries last week. Since that time, a few minor changes have been made. A map and story on the proposed boun daries appears onjage 10 of to day's Mail Tribune, q The commission also will con sider a request for ahange of zone from class IA (single fam ily) to class IIIA (limited com mercial) of property south of Crater Lake highway and south west of Delta Waters rd. SfcSsen Now Undor Supervision of Dullac Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisnehower today switched Harold E. Stassen's office of dis armament to the State Depart ment and ordered him to report directly to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles hereafter. Stassen remains as a special assistant to the President but as of today his operations were transferred to the control and guidance of the secretary of stata DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 468.91, up 4.29: 20 rail roads 142.42. up 1.38: 15 utilities 70.79. up 0.39. and 65 stocks 166.06. up 1.42. Sales today were about 1.700.000 shares compared with 1,620,000 shares Thursday. Price lQc Uniifcd Press Pull Leased Y?ire Uo. 293 Nixon Receives Rousing Welcome At Morocco Stog Traditional Dare OOGoat Givea Rabat Morocco (U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon plunged into welcoming crowds at the start of a goodwill tour today with a handshaking, head patting routine that had them cheering in the streets. Nixon and his party, including his wife, Pat, and a group of newsmen, landed at colorfully decorated Sale Airfield outside Rabat in two U. S. Military Air Transport Service DC6B planes. It was the first stop of a three week tour aimed at countering Communist advances in Africa. Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, cabinet officials, government dignataries and the diplomatic corps greeted the Nixons. After the customary courte- ( sics, Nixon was given the tra ditional Moslem welcoming fare of goat's milk and dates. Mrs. Nixon received two huge floral pieces. Engulfed Br Crowd Twice during the five-mile trip into downtown Rabat, Nixon scrambled out of his black con vertible and shouldered his way through a police guard into the welcoming crowds. Dark-robed Moslem men, bare foot children and veiled women clustered around him, grinning, laughing and reaching to touch him. At Sultan Mohammend Ben Youssef's palace the scarlet-and- . . ir0. ..-,,, fla.. gold uniformed "Black Guard snapped to attention as Nixon walked in. Gave Personal fclesinge The vice-president gave the ruler of Morocco's 9,600,000 in habitants a personal message from President Eisenhower. They chatted for 15 minutes, with only a Moroccan interpreter and the Sultan's two sons present. A lurf?h given for Nixon by the Sultan followed by pro longed talks between Nixon and Moroccan officials. . Chief topics were reported to be the question of American fi nancial aid and the status of five key U. S. air bases in Mor occo. Airport Zojiing Board Adoofs Regulations The joint city-county airport zoning board last night adopted the Medford airport zoning regu lations after a public hearing at the Jackson county courthouse auditorium. Adoption of the zoning regu lation Q as recommended by the Medford planning commission last November. The commission, at the board's request, served as an "airport zoning commission" to advise the board and to pre pare reguQitions. Regulations restrict the height of structures and natural growth in the Medford airport vicinity by creating an airport hazard area, and property, approach and transition zones. Existing struc tures will not be subject to the proposed zone, only future build ings, the board noted. Members of the board are Irv ing Allen, Chet Hubbard, John Neidermeyer, Dolph Phipps, and Ralph Pierce. The city building department has responsibility of administering the zoning regu lations. Maps and copies of the regula tions are available at the city hall for residents interested in the zoning restrictions, according to City Attorney E. R. Bashaw. Veather FORECAST: Generally rlnudy tonight and Saturdav. Low to night 42. High Saturday fin. Temp. Hichest Yesterday 64 I,nwet thi Mnrninc 4fi Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset 6:48 a.m. t:01 p.m. There will be two eclipses of the Sun this year: the first in April and the second in Octo ber. Moonset d O) p.m. First Quarter March 3 There will also he two eclipses of the Moon: the first in May and the second in November. "I Demand - YW S Marshal Recommends Fife Hazards Removal The Jackson county court has received a copy of 10 recom mendations for the removal or remedy of fire hazards from the state fire marshal's office in Salem. The recommendations were made after an inspection of the courthouse Feb. 20 with- County Commissioners C. H. Wendt and R. A. James, Sheriff.' Howard Gault, Medford Fire Marshal Truman NCson, and Deputy State Fire Marshals M. J. Gilson and W. P.-Roble. Included In the proposed changes are provision of a stair way emergency egress from the custodOn apartment on the fifth floor to the annex roof level, and provision of an emergency egress from the jail section on the fourth floor as remote as possible from the existing inside stairway. Recommended Enclosure Also recommended were en closure of the main stairway on the third floor with not less than one-hour fire resistive ma terial. Installation of approved type fire doors in the enclosure, equipped with self-closing de vices, was includedin the recom mendation. On the second floor,- installa tion of an "emergency exit only" sign over the sheriff's office door leading to the inside stair way was recommended. For the first floor, it was recommended that both Oakdale ave. stair ways, leading from the first to the second floor, with one-ho'ur fire resistive materials was rec ommended. Installation of firemen's lad der and standpipe on the west side of the building was recom mended as were adequate "exit" signs wherever necessary from all floors of the entire building. Fire Alarm System It was further recommended that all fire doors be normally kept closed or equipped with fusible links. Installation of a fire alarm system with gongs and switches located on each floor and wing of the building was the final recommendation. The letter stated plans for these installations Should be sub mitted to the state fire marshal for approval prior to construc tion. Extension for compliance Princeton Professor Sues Conant for Libel Trenton, N.J. (U.R) Judge William Clark of Princeton has filed a $150,000 libel suit in federal court here against Dr. James B. Conant, president emeritus of Harvard University and former U.S. High commis sioner in Germany. Conant, who dismissed Clark as high commission chief justice in 1953, Nvas served a summons by a U.S. deputy marshal in connection with the suit at Princeton University Thursday where he delivered the last of three special lectures on Ger man affairs. Conant would not comment on the suit. " Clark, in a statement, said as a result of Conant's "assertions, the U.S. State Department had reneged on their expressed promise to reappoint me as a chief justice of the high com mission." Bulletin Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today nomi nated Thomas S. Gates Jr.. now the undersecretary of Navy, to succeed Secretary of Navy Charles S.Thomas whose resignation becomes effective April 1. Sanctions" with the recommendations was granted to allow appropriation in the 1957-58 county budget. Commissioner Wendt, superin tendent of the courthouse struc ture, said the county court in tends to invite representatives of the state fire marshal's ' s partment to Jackson county for further discussion of the recom mendations. Planning Council Meeting Here Today About 50 people were present for this morning's session of the Jackson county agricultural planning council all-day meeting which started at 10 a.m. in the courthouse auditorium. Eighteen committees were to present reports and recommen dations during the day. Their re ports were to cover such things as family and community living, youth activities, various phases of horticultural and agricultural activity, livestock and fish and game studies. More than 200 people were se lected to serve on the commit tees last October and have made studies of these phases of county activity since that time. Recom mendations for improvements submitted at the public meeting today are based on these studies. Detailed stories on the com mittees' recommendations ap pear on pages 5 and 12, section one, and page 3, section two, of today's Mail Tribune. Central Point Girl Bruised in Accident Cetnral Point Dianne Holt, about 9, Central Point grade school student, '. suffered leg bruises Wednesday afternoon when she was struck by an un identified car while crossing Kirtland rd., after she left a district 6C school bus, according to Leonard Freeman, driver of the bus. According to Freeman, the girl was knocked to the ground when she was grazed by the car fender. She was not injured seri ously, and was not taken to the hospital, he said. The girl is the daughter of Philip Holt, route 1, box 46D, Central Point. Athena-Weston Rancher Named To Succeed Mann Pendleton (U.R) Stafford Hansell, 43-year-old rancher from the Athena-Weston area, to day was named state representa tive from Umatilla county to succeed the late Irving Mann. The appointment was made by the Umatilla county court. Fair Weather March Week By UNITED PRESS Mostly fair weather was pre dicted today for Oregon's first 1957 March week end and streams were on their way down throughout the slate. But hard-hit Malheur county still felt the effects of high water and Gov. Robert Holmes asked President Eisenhower for $500, 000 for relief ior the area. Highway 30 Reopened Highway 30 just north of On tario was reopened to one-way traffic at 9 a.m. today at the Malheur bridge after being closed earlier in the week. Rural schools in Malheur county were asked to remain UNEF To Be Sent Info Areas; Must Keep Aqaba Open 'Full, Prompt' Troop Removal Disclosed United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) Israel today announced plans for "full and prompt" withdrawal of its forces from the Gaza and Aqaba strips with the under standing that the U.N. Emergen, cy Force would be sent into the areas and the waterway kept open to ships of all countries. Israeli Foreign, Minister Mrs. Golda Meir announced Israel's decision in a statement to the General Assembly. Leans on U.S. Support She leaned heavily on U.S. support expressed for Israel's policy in American-Israeli dis cussions in Washington daring the past two weeks and upon policies enunciated by President Eisenhower. In agreeing to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, Mrs. Meir re peated Israel's contention that the disputed land finger must not again be used for Egyptian military activities against Israeli territory. If Gaza reverts to its status as an Egyptian base for raids on Israel, she said, "Israel would reserve its freedom to act to defend, its rights." Proposes Meeting Mrs. Meir proposed immedi ate meetings between Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada, com mander of UNEF, and the chief of staff of Israel's Army to ar range for the U.N. forces to take over the Gaza and Aqaba stripr. "We have repeatedly stated," she said, "that Israel has no interest in the strip of land over looking the western coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. Our sole purpose has been to ensure "that, on the withdrawal of Israeli forces, continued freedom of navigatiqn will exist for Israel and inter national shipping in the Gu'l of Aqaba and the Straits of Tiran ..." Four Appear in Circuit Court One man pleaded guilty, another received a penitentiary sentence, one woman received a suspended sentence and another woman received a penitentiary sentence this morning in circuit court. Elmer Boyd Gravelle, 25, of 421 Clover lane, Medford, plead ed guilty to a charge of using a motor vehicle without permis sion of the owner and his case was ordered continued pending receipt of FBI records. Mrs. Millie B. Yates, 45, Pros pect, was given a . suspended three-year penitentiary sentence after previously pleading guilty to a charge of attempting to ob tain a narcotic drug unlawfully. Glenn Arthur Andrew Meske, 19, Portland, received a three- year penitentiary sentence and probation revocation for bur glary not in a dwelling. Meske was extradited from The Dalles by Deputy Sheriff Veryl Va- noose and was lodged in the county jail yesterday. Miss Donna Lou Brereton, 26, Portland, received a sentence of one year aid six months in the state penitentiary and probation revocation for uttering and pub lishing a false check. Small Plane Lands On Baldock Freeway Portland (U.R) A small pri vate plane made a forced land ing on the heavily traveled Baldock freeway about eight miles south of Portland city limits last night without injury to either of the persons aboard. Pilot of the plane was Philip Carrell, 21, Portland. He said that an oil leak, possibly from a broken line, forced him to bring the plane down. Aboard the plane with Carrell was George Voss, 37, Portland. Greets First End in Oregon closed for another week to Per mit repairs on hee vily damaged county roads. The Vale elementary school suffered loss of all its floors to the high water. The Willamette river was go ing down today and the Santiam at Jefferson was back within its banks after passing flood stage because of heavy rains earlier in the week. Some Rain Predicted The weather bureau said some rain may fall in northwest Ore gon early next week. A disturb ance from the south brought light rain as far north as Rose burg this morning. Tempera tures were. mild.
