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Last f oldier Gulf srae o o O o o 51st Year Medford United Press OH Lsmc4 Wire 24 Pages EISENHOWER'S uuuufcT PARED BY COMMITTEE Bill To Abolish Control Board Given Airing Salem (U.P.) The State Board of Control was defended as a shield against politics in operation of state institutions and at tacked as a means of controlling the governor at a hearing on House bill 50S here today. The bill provides for abolishing the board. State Treasurer Sig Unander said the board had administered state institutions capably. "The only change I would suggest is possible employment of a high-powered administrator who would work under the direction of the board," Unander said. He added that Oregon was not rich enough to have .veral boards to control institutions as Califor nia does. Secretart) t Stale Mark Hatfield said abolition of the board now af mature without an overall look at reorganizing state government through a constitutional convention. '"It da not arem- consistent for the Latfislatura to abolish one or te-o bnaroks post-haste and then devote itaclf U a thorough bipartisan study of other boards, (jfhme relatively of less import ance then the Board of Con trol," lUtfieta said. An interim committee to study abolition or consolidation of the state's 112 boards and commis sions is la-inf considered by the Legislature. Rep. Keith D. Skelton. Eu gene Democrat, 'said the Board of Control was formed by a Re publican Legislature to control a stbrrn Democratic governor, Oswald west. 'The Republicans still wish to control 3he governor and diffuse J auftiority ml responsibility," Skelton sSid. Orville Thompson, the gover nor's legit couiwel, said Gov. Holmes has favored abandoning the board siace he was a mem ber of the sfate Legislature. He said the governor believed In pinpointing responsibility in running state institutions. "This is difficult to accom plish," Thompson said, "when authority is diffused." Both Unander and Hatfield. Republicans, are members of the board alone, with Cov. Holmes, a Democrat. Red Cross March Fund Drive Wei lobe Held (-Officials in the Jackson Coun ty Red Cross chapter office said today the annual March fund campaign will not be conducted this year. They said it was decided to eliminate the usual countywide March drive at the recent an nual meeting of state Red Cross officers. The chapter will at tempt to raise $10,000 next fall at the same time the' United Medford Crusade drive is con ducted. n Chapter officials said that the Alarch campaign was suspended largely because of current un employment conditions in the county. Qsual goal for the March drive is S8.000. Goal for the fall drive will be 510.000. Chapter offi cials said reason for the higher goal is Increased need for funds to rsist victims of eastern Ore gon floods. Even though Fed Cross work ers will not h soliciting funds this month, officials said contri butions will be received from trios who wish to donate now. Search for Cave Is Interrupted Search near Highway 238 at Jacksonville in the Forest Creek rd. area for cave reportedly containing a complete human skeleton has been interrupted. sSriff's deputies reported today. The search started yesterday after Darrell Mon. route 2. Jacksonville, told officers a skeleton had been found in a cave property owned by Wal ter L. Cce)ch. Couch reportedly made the find. Deputies said they have been unable to locate the cave and were attempting to get in touch with Couch. The search was ex pected to resume after officers talked with Couch. MEDFORD. OREG Unemployment Commission To Be Headed by Woman Salem (U.P.) Gov. Robert D. Holmes yesterday picked Mrs. Cecelia Patricia Galey, a prom inent woman lawyer and pro-tem Circuit Court judge, to head Ore gon's State Unemployment Com pensation Commission. She is the first woman to serve on the commission which was created in 1935 to adminis ter widespread activities under state unemployment compensa tion laws. She succeeds T. Morris Dunne, chairman of the commission, who has resigned effective April 1. She also succeeds Dunne as em ployer representative o n the three-man commission. Other members are William A Callahan and L. O. Ahrens. Lawyer at Ontario Mrs. Galey, 49, has been prac ticing law at Ontario with her father, Patrick J. Gallagher, and brother, Martin P. Gallagher. both of whom served in the state Legislature. She is the widow of John D, Galey with whom she practiced law in Linn county for many years. ine new commissioner re ceived a law degree from the University of Oregon and was admitted to the bar in 1930. During the past two years she has frequently served as pro tem Circuit Court judge in the Multnomah and Marion county Circuit Courts. Mrs. Galey will become the Republican member of the com mission. Dunne was also a Re publican. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.Rl Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 471.63, off 2.54: 20 rail roads 142.72, off 0.55: 15 utilities 70.74, off 0.56. and 65 stocks 166.65. off 0.93. Sales today were about 1.630.000 shares compared with 1.830.000 shares Thursday, 'There You Are n Sir --- - uv-i Ike's Top Officer Said Unacquainted With Agency Needs Bill for White House Cut by $4,805,000 Washington (UP.) The House' Appropriations Committee today took a third whack at Presi dent Eisenhower's budget and assailed his top budget officer for apparently being "unac quainted with the budget of his own agency." The Democratic controlled Committee, approving a spend ing bill for the White House and assorted minor agencies, chopped $4,805,500 out of the President's requests, a reduction of 23 per cent. Previous Cuts Made The economy minded Commit tee previously had recommend ed, and the House has approved, a 2 per cent cut in funds for the Treasury and Post Office de partments and a 12 per cent reduction in money to run the Interior Department. In dollars, these reductions totalled only about $141 million. Other developments in the budget cutting picture: Some congressmen warned President Eisenhower that un less he stops talking budget cuts some of his major legislation will be killed off in a snow balling congressional economy drive. House Democrats announced they will hold hearings on a resolution calling on the Presi dent to junk the record peace time budset of $71.8 billion he has sent to Congress and submit a new one not exceeding $60 billion by April 15. No Evidence of Cuts A United Press spot survey of federal agencies turned up no evidence, that they are con sidering any cuts in their budg ets now before Congress. The check was made after Mr. Eis enhower told his news confer ence Thursday he had ordered a new review of federal spend ing plans to see if reductions can be made. Part of today's house com mittee cut was aimed at the Budget Bureau which authored the President's record budget for the new fiscal year. In a report to the House the committee charged that the Budget Bureau was permitting its own payroll, as well as those of other agencies, to climb above the levels authorized by Con gress in money bills for the current year. ' v The report said Budget Direc tor Percival F. Brundage. under questioning, appeared unaware that projected employment in the Budget Bureau was to ex ceed the specified levels. Newton, N.C. (U.P) A brief riot flared Thursday night at the Catawba Prison when a guard ordered prisoners to turn down their radio. Snug as a Bug in a Rug" Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Lejsed Wii No. 299 President Probably Going To Florida For Rest, Exercise Trip Will Precede Jaunt To Bermuda Washington (U.P.) President Eisenhower probably will go to Florida about the middle of next week for sun and exercise to combat a lingering head cold and cough, the White House said today. Press Secretary James C. Hag erty said Mr. Eisenhower hopes and expects to get away to Flor ida five or six days before going to Bermuda March 20 for his scheduled conference with Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Mac millan. The conference with Macmil lan opens March 21, and Hagerty said he expects the President to fly to Bermuda directly from Florida March 20. Mr. Eisenhower is being treat ed with antibiotic drugs for his cold and a resultant slight in flamation of the eustachian tube of his left ear. No Trip To Arixona Hagerty said the President's cough seemed to be "a little better-' this morning. But he still has a slight ear inflamma tion and head cold. There had been reports, started by the President himself, that the chief executive might go to Arizona in an effort to lick his cough, but Hagerty flatly ruled out any such possibility today. Both Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles are out of the country, and Mr. Eisenhower does not want to be as much as five to eight hours away from Washington by air. Because of this, Hagerty said the President will not go to Ari zona or ftny other Western Va cation site. Woman Hurt When Struck by Bicycle A Medford woman was struck and knocked down by a bicyclist yesterday while she stood in her own doorway. Mrs. O. V. Myers, a great grandmother, was standing in the doorway of the Myers' home, 20 Ashland ave., yesterday after noon, and didn't pay much at tention to two boys and their bicycles until one came careen ing down steep Bundy ave., which intersects with Ashland. The boy and bike flew across the lawn and up onto the porch and banged into the screen door a new one which had been in stalled a few days before. The bicycle was stopped by the screen, but Mrs. Myers was knocked to the floor. The fright ened boys helped Mrs. Myers to her bed and then speedily disap peared. Mrs. Myers' family reported this morning that apparently she suffered only mild shock and and bruises in the accident. Porter Carries Gun After Making Speech Washington (U.R) Rep. Charles O. Porter said today he has" been toting a pistol ever since he denounced the "gang ster" tactics of Dominican strong man Rafael Trujillo's regime. The Oregon Democrat said he had received no threats but he believed there was a possibility of harm to him and his family because of his anti -Trujillo speech. He said ''friends have told me I should take these precautions because these folks stop at noth ing." Porter in a House speech last Thursday accused Trujillo of having a hand in the disappear ances of Gerald L. Murphy, a free-lance pilot from Eugene, Ore., who vanished in the Do minican Republic, and Jesus De Galindez, a Columbia University professor. Articles by Doctor Due in Mail Tribune Dr. Elmer Hew, 1956 presi dent of the American Medical Association, has prepared a series of three articles for United Press, the first of which will appear in the Mail Tribune on Monday. Dr. Heis, an outspoken and articulate member of his pro fession, has written on public animosity towards doctors and hospitals, particularly with re gard to fees. LINKED WITH VICE Nate Zusman (right), owner of the Desert Room in Portland, Ore., sputtered "that's a lie" when Senate labor rackets investigators confronted him with testimony from a Portland madam that he assured her the district attorney wouldn't mind a quiet call house. Zusman is shown conferring with his attorney, John Bonner, as he took the stand for the second day in Washington Justice Department To Receive Schrunk Testimony for Study Washington U.R) Senate rackets investigators today sent the Justice Department "for pos sible perjury prosecution" con flicting testimony alleging that Mayor Terry D. Schrunk accept ed a S500 bribe from a gambler. Schrunk, 43-year-old former sheriff of Multnomah county, de nied that he too' the money, de nounced the charges as a "fan tastic frameup" and offered to take a lie detector test. Trying To Destroy Him He said his chief accuser, Racketeer James B. Elkins, the committee's star witness, was trying to destroy him. Chairman John L. McCIellan (D-Ark.) of the rackets commit tee agreed to arrange for the secret service to give Schrunk a lie detector test, probably on Monday. He also announced that he was sending the transcript of Schrunk's testimony to the attor ney general, along with that of other witnesses which, he said. was "directly in conflict" with the mayor's. Elkins testified that gambler Clifford O. (Jimmy) Bennett told him he paid S500 to Schrunk at the time he was sheriff so the 5212 club he operated would not be raided.' Job Sometimes Difficult McCIellan commented that the Justice Department some times has a "difficult job" of re solving such cases where there is "just a conflict of two wit nesses." Boys Arrested for Burglarizing School Three .12- year - old Medford boys have admitted burglarizing Jefferson school Jan. 23 of 75 cents from a vending machine and ice cream from the school today. The boys have been released to their parents with instructions to appear before county juvenile authorities, officers said. Police are continuing their in vestigation of a break and entry at Jefferson school Wednesday night when a nickel was stolen and considerable damage was done in school offices. Officers indicated there appar ently was no connection between Wednesday's burglary and the previous one by the three juveniles. Ike To Sign Doctrine; Mission To Be Dispatched Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today prepared to sign his Middle East doctrine and immediately dispatch a spe cial mission to the Middle East to explain it. Special Ambassador James P. Richards, head of the presiden tial mission, said he expected to leave Tuesday to visit possibly as many as 18" nations. Weather FORKCAST: Orraiinral ratn t nicht. Showpry with prtUI Kiinhtn Saturday, l.nw to night 45. Hiph Saturday Temp. Hitbfst Vestrrday fiO Lowest this Mornlnc 43 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:36 a.m. Sunset 6:10 p.m. Moonset Saturday 1:29 First Quarter Saturday 3:50 a-m. PROMINENT STAR Aldeharan below the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS lupiler. low in east 7:21 p.m. Mar, in the west :5" p.m. atnrn. rise 1:42 a.m. "In this instance," he added "I believe there is an opportu nity for the Justice Department, by pursuing the matter, to find the correct answer and determ ine what its duty is." In requesting a lie detector test on his story, he conceded that he already had flunked a similar test on the same subject back in Oregon. But he said he was "framed" on that one. (See story on Page 8. Section 2) No Word Received On Jensen Appeal .. No .word has been received as yet from Gov. Robert D. Holmes concerning an appeal filed by Attorney Edward C. Kelly for a commutation of the death sen tence imposed against James Norman Jensen, 27, Larkspur, Calif. Jensen was convicted of first degree murder in 1954. fol lowing the death of Mrs. Fern Hile, Medford housewife. Kelly said he served notice of appeal Feb. 6 in the form of a letter to the governor. Copies of the letter were sent to the district attorney and the state parole board. Statutes require 20 days notice before appeal for commutation of a death sentence. The appeal became effective Feb. 26. According to Kelly, the gov ernor is not required to reply either positively or negatively to the appeal. . Walter D. Nunley, former dis trict attorney, who prosecuted Jensen, said he has written to Governor Holmes expressing his views against commuting Jen sen sentence. Ashland Man's Body Found in California Klamath Falls (U.R) The body of a 63-year-old Ashland man was found yesterday after noon near a railroad embank ment at Keg Pitt, near Bray, Calif., authorities reported today. The man was identified as Jesse Boone Hanson, who had been missing since late last month. He had been employed by Southern Pacific as a car penter bridge builder. Northern California author ities said an autopsy would be performed. Hanson had been reported missing by Wilfred Steffenson of the Bary store where Hanson made a telephone call Feb. 27. Authorities said a sister. Mrs. Evie Jones of Memphis, Tenn., had been notified. Navy, Coast Of Freighter, New Castle, Del. (U.R) Navy and Coast Guard investigators delved today into causes of a collision that sent a Navy-owned gasoline tanker to explosive death on the Delaware river, carrying down 10 men with her. 10 Presumed Dead The 10 men aboard the Mis sion San Francisco when she was rammed by the Liberian freight er Elna II were missing and pre sumed dead. Among them were the Mission's captain,' William Allen, 54, of Galveston, Tex., and a pilot, Capt. Ralph Smith of New York. 1 Thirty-five other men on the tanker and the 23-member crew of the freighter were saved. Departing Blow Up Gun Emplacements By UNITED PRESS The last Israeli combat troops pulled out of Sharm el Sheikh on the Gulf of Aqaba today, completing the final withdrawal from the last bit of Egyptian territory seized during last October's in vasion. Then the last 150 Israeli infantrymen boarded the frigate Iznak and headed north through the Gulf of Aqaba for the Israeli port ot Elath. Behind them they left a hand-1 ful of technicians to help the UNEF establish control of the area. Before they left, they also blew up the remaining Egyptian pillboxes and gun emplacements they had occupied since the Sinai invasion. Earlier in the day, U.N. Sec retary-general Dag Hammarsk jold reported in New York that Israel had complied fully with General Assembly demands that it get out of the Gaza Strip and the Sharm el Sheikh area. UNEF forces have taken over from the Israelis at both Gaza and Sharm el Sheikh. The Is raelis say that Egypt must never resume administration of the Gaza Strip and that the Gulf of Aqaba must remain open to the shipping of all nations. Egypt contends, however, that the UNEF force in Gaza can be ordered out at any time that Cairo wants. It also contends that the Strait of Tiran, at the southern mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, is Egyptian territorial water and the passage of any shipping remains within Cairo's discretion. Israel has said that if what it considers its rights at either place are violated, it reserves the right to use force again to guarantee them. The question of passage of Is raeli ships through the Suez Canal still remained unsettled. Tlie Egyptian Suez Canal Au thority opened the canal today to passage of ships up to 500 tons, and the first one through was a Iebanese freighter. Larger ships will be able to transit the waterway when remaining obsta cles are cleared. At Port Said, the Egyptian di rector of the canal said all ships will be permitted to pass through Suez "on condition they pay tolls to Egypt." This was under stood to mean inclusion of Brit ish and French vessels. But ob servers at Port Said were certain the Egyptian official did not mean to include Israeli ships. Arabs Are Killed The takeover of Gaza was not without tragedy, however. Arab refugees who had fled into the Sinai Desert ahead of the Is raeli Army swarmed back into the strip across unmarked mine fields and many were reported killed or injured. U. N. surgeons attached to the UNEF worked through the night amputating mangled limbs of the victims. "Many" Arabs were reported killed, but there was no immediate count of the cas ualties. Israel was still bitter over giv ing up so easily the areas it had won in the Sinai campaign, and the opposition parties called major demonstrations again to day to protest Premier David Ben-Gurion's withdrawal poli cies. Preparations Are Being Made to Widen Roads County road crews are clear ing and grubbing land along county roads between Butte Falls and Prospect and between Butte Falls and Willow Creek in preparation for widening the roads in the near future, Paul Rynning, county engineer, said today. . Starting date for widening the roads will depend upon weather conditions, Rynning said. The added crews have been unable to gra'de or improve many roads in the county in recent days because - of excessive rainfall. He said there have been several reports of rough roads through out the county since the rainy period started in late February. Guard To Probe Collision Tanker in Delaware River A team of investigators and a salvage supervisor were sent by the Navy to the scene and the Coast Guard questioned some of the survivors in Philadelphia. The Coast Guard said a three man Marine board will investi gate the collision at a hearing in Philadelphia Monday. Testimony will be taken and recommenda tions sent to Washington. The collision occurred early Thursday on a bend of the Dela ware river near here, known as the "graveyard of ships." The out-bound Elna sliced the 5,739 ton Mission in two about mid ships, touching off an explosion that wrapped the empty vessels in flame and rocked a wide area. Troops Egyptian Mrs. L. E. Butler Dies in Hospital Here Early Today Mrs. Marjorie M. Butler, 48, of 61014 King st., dean of girls at Medford High school for seven years, died this morning at a local hospilal. She was the wife of Laurence E. Butler, director of audio visual aids at Southern Oregon college. Mrs. Butler was a member of the faculty at the senior high from 1947 until 1954, when she resigned because of ill health. Born in Washington She was born Nov. 17, 1908 at St. John, Wash., was gradu ated from Willamette university and attended the Universities of Washington, Oregon and Cali fornia. She was a charter mem ber of the Altrusa club here and belonged to Delta Kappa uamma sorority. Private funeral services will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Mark's Episcopal church with the Rev. George R. V. Bol ster officiating. Cremation serv ices will be at Siskiyou Memo rial park. Perl Funeral home has charge of funeral arrange ments. Possible Deletions In Home Discussed The county court, architect for the proposed county juvenile de tention home, and prospective contractors this morning di cussed possible deletions in plans for the structure to reduce the construction cost and architect's fee from $93,000, low bid for the project, to less than S89.000. County Judge Rodney Keating said the alterations, including changes in the heating system plan and fixture changes, would not affect soundness of the struc ture. It was proposed that the heal ing system be changed from oil to gas at considerable saving. Fixture changes would be of a miscellaneous nature, it was in dicated. . District Attorney Thomas Reeder has been called in on the discussions and has been asked to hand down an opinion on all legal aspects involved in the pro posed construction. After the opinion has been submitted, a contract wlil be drawn up and signed by the court and con tractor. Reeder's opinion will be pre sented at a meeting of the court, architect and prospective con tractors next week. Final plans for the structure will then be arranged. Judge Keating said. Bessonett and Graff were low bidders for the project. Architect is William Siebert. Salem (U.R) The Legislature vill be asked to allow use of The Dalles tuberculosis hospital for other purposes, the Slate Board of Control has decided. Auckland, N.Z. (U.R) Sir An thony Eden has postponed a pleasure flight to Otehi Bay be cause of a recurrence of a high fever. Ragusa, Sicily (U.R) A strong earthquake rocked a large area of Sicily today, panicking the population of a score of towns. The 4,500 ton Elna, en route to Baltimore after discharging a cargo of wood at Wilmington, Del., ran aground. The tanker, on its way to Paulsboro to take nn cargo, sank five hours later. Visibility Six Miles Alexander Karre, master of ' the Elna, said he was on the bridge when the ships collided with visibility close to six miles despite a fall of rain mixed with sleet and light snow. Karre, 62, of Toronto, Ont., said the fteighter failed to ack nowledge a signal and cut across his bow. He said he could not turn to avoid the collision be cause of a jetty running north of Pea Patch Island. "1
