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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.
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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
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Lowest this Mornlnc 43
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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.
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