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Establishments involved in the raid were the Medford hotel lounge, 406 West Main St., Med ford; The Tavern, 43 South Front St., Medford; and the Tal ent club. Talent. Bartender Arrested Arrested wera Joseph Edward Stratman, Redding, Calif., bar tender at tha Medford hotel lounge, who as charged with operating a gams of chance; Lloyd Keller, 624 Valley View drive, Bedford, operator of The Tavern, chared vith possessing and operating a game of chance Sam Proa ah, ener ei the Tal ent club, charged with possess ing, oing, operating and dis playing a me f chance; and Charle Vill Cleim, Talent, bar tender et Vhs Talent club, charged itk operating a game of chance.. Ajl four vere lodged in the county jail and released after postinf 0100 bail. They are to appear in f istriet court Monday afternooi. Officers making the arrests wera, Bit. Keith M. Gildesgard, Ofcer Ronald G. Clawson and Officer Jack L. Sanders, all of th Hartford police department; Chi Drputy Shariff Joe Walsh nj rput Sheriff Glenn ne)ht. liaaaiy 'ly-Offi tween p.m. and 11:42 p.m.. the officers received al leged pay-offs over the counter in the total amount of S12. After receiving the money, the officers placed the operators under ar rest and the machines were con fiscated. The sheriff's deputies arrived at the Talent club in a pick-up truck and had brought along equipment with which to carry the machine from the establish ment. City police officers, after mak ing their arrests, called the po lice station where other officers were standing by with moving equipment. The machines were taken to a store room in the county courthouse where they will be kept pending disposition of the cases in court Monday. The officers' financial "win nings" are also being held as court evidence. It was reported that several other establishments in the coun ty were investigated by officers during the evening, but no other arrests were made. Following the first arrests, officers stated machines in a few other estab lishments they visited carried "out of order" signs. Urged to Hurry One officer said the bartender in an establishment where he was playing a machine urged him to "hurry up" and finish his games "because they've raid ed another place" -where similar pav-off machines were allegedly being operated. The officer ar rested the bartender a few min utes later. Alvin Hartley, Oregon Liquor Control commission inspector for this district, said investigation for possible OLCC disciplinary action against the establishments included in the raid Is pending court disposition of the cases. Construction of Home May Start This Week Construction of the proposed $89,630 county juvenile deten ti j home will begin at a coun-ty-oaned site near the fair grounds aometime this week if wetuher permits, according to lconette and Graff, contract- Contractors. Architect William S:tairt and members of the couety court signed the contract for tha project Friday afternoon. Completion date for the buil fcnjl if scheduled to be 180 wording days from the date the contract was signed. The con tractor said they expect to corn pic; the building in about three 1 months if weather conditions are jeo:ble O trUi'iso tU.P.1 Fifty-six per ora ere out on bond Saturday ft their arrest during cock !Ia,ri Mid by state police which re.:ied 12-month surveil 3c en a farm in suburban Oregon's Democratic Delegation Declares No Rift Among Group The Democratic members of Oregon's congressional delega tion both Senators and three of the four Representatives Saturday declared there is "no personal rift within this dele gation," contrary to published and broadcast reports. In an "open letter to the peo ple of Oregon," they declared they constitute a united delega tion. Signing the letter, tele graphed to the papers of Ore gon, were Senators Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger, and Representatives Charles O. Porter of the Fourth district, Edith Green of the Third dis trict, and Al Ullman of the Second district. The declaration, issued after a conference in Senator Morse's office, follows: Disturbed for Tim "We have been disturbed for some time by allegations regard ing a rift within the Oregon Congressional delegation. A re cent radio broadcast and news paper column, as well as pre- Charles G. Howe's Body Is Recovered From Rogue River The body of Charles G. Howe, 60, Grants Pass real estate deal er, whose station wagon left Highway A3 about four miles north of the city of Rogue River and plunged into Rogue river the night of Jan. 28. was recov ered from the water about 9:50 a.m. Saturday. State police said positive iden tification of the body was made by Howe's stepson, Farlcne O. Cochran, 2700 Almar rd.. Grants Pass. The body was brought to shore 200 to 300 yards south of the mouth of Savage creek, about six miles downstream from the spot near Miller's gulch, where the station wagon left the road. Body Seen Police said the body was seen first by Helen Henderson highway J of 4830 South Pacific Grants Pass. She called her fath er. Homer B. Henderson, who summoned aid from Lyman i uneney urams jrass ana rtar- old N. Dcming. Roseburg. They used a boat belonging to Ray Fitzner and brought the body to shore. Police and Jackson County Coroner Carlos Morris were called to the scene. State police, sheriff's deputies. Rogue River police and Rogue River-Grants Pass area sports men conducted unsuccessful dragging operations for several days after the accident in an at tempt to recover the body. The unoccupied station wagon, registered to Howe's wife, was recovered Feb. 1. the day after a Glendale couple reported see ing it leave the highway as it was headed south. It was reported that Howe was en route to Yreka on business. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Cecilia Cochran Howe, who had offered a S300 reward for recovery of the body. Conger- Morris Funeral home is in charge of funeral arrangements. Highway Department The state highway depart ment will prepare sketches, maps and engineering data in cluding changes stipulated by the Medford city council of the proposed Highway 99 freeway along the Bear Creek-Hawthorne park route, according to Mayor John Snider. A committee, composed of Mayor Snider, City Manager Robert Duff and Councilman Robert Van Sickle, met with W. C. (Dutch) Williams, state high way engineer, and represent atives of the state highway com mission in Salem Thursday to seek agreement on several con ditions in plans for the freeway through Medford. Formal Request In about two months the com mission said it will submit a formal request to the city coun cil for final approval of the pro posed freeway location. The request will include approximate information on crossings, inter changes and commission attitude on the council's conditions for the freeway. The committee negotiated for agreement from the commission on providing access roads, de - ceieratioa lanes, parking faciii - viously printed material in the Oregon press, give further circu lation to the allegations. "Despite the obvious hopes of our political opponents, we want to state for the public record for all to see that there is no personal rift within this delega tion. "There have been legislative matters on which we have not voted as a bloc. This is normal, and no member of this delega tion expects any other member to take any stand except one in accord with the dictates of his conscience. The people of Ore gon have just given unmistak able proof that they do not ex pect their representatives to be party-liners, voting at the dicta tion of any party or individual. On matters affecting the well being of the people of Oregon, there has been a high degree of unanimity among the five Demo cratic members. This has been unanimity of conviction the only legitimate sort of unanim ity. Not True Now "As for the allegation that various members of the delega tion are planning to run for the seats now held by other mem bers, this has never been true. This is not true now. "To the persons who are at tempting to diminish the useful ness of this delegation by seek ing to divide us, we give this advice; You can stop wasting your time. We are a unified dele gation and we will stay that way." Robert A. Boyer, Medford chairman of the Oregon Demo cratic Party, issued a similar statement last week, referring specifically to a March 12 col umn by Drew Pearson. He said it was "motivated by desires to create friction within the ranks of Oregon Democrats." Pearson's charges were "neith er correct nor original," Boyer's statement said, and by indirec tion he pointed out that the columnist has been called a liar by the last three presidents of the United States. Advisory Council to Meet Monday Night Th(, advisorv council of the Jackson County Juvenile court ,,: ..i..i.m. rnniv'c Increasing Problem of Juvenile Delinquency, at 8 p.m. Monday March 18, in the circuit court room at county courthouse. Members of the panel will be Joseph Walsh, chief deputy, sher iff's office; Sgt. Russell Bren- dell, Oregon state police; Lt. Lyle Perkins, detective division. Medford police department Chief Herb Hayes, Ashland po lice department; and Mrs. Kay Crowcll, director of the Jack son County Juvenile depart ment. They will discuss facts, causes and possible controls of the juv enile problem. A question per iod will follow the panel discus sion. New York U.R Some 125,- 000 sons and daughters of Erin marched up Fifth Avenue Sat urday in the annual St. Pat rick's Day parade. ties and landscaping along the route. A resolution conditionally co operating with the highway com mission in its decision to con struct the proposed freeway through Medford was passed by 6-2 council vote in February. The resolution can be reversed at a future meeting, according to City Attorney E. R. Bashaw. ApproT Items Mayor Snider said the com mission has approved several of the items but that further nego tiations with Williams and the commission will be necessary before final action is taken on the council conditions. Commission representatives noted that 92 per cent of the freeway project will be paid for from federal funds and the final decision on engineering matters does not rest entirely with the highway department. The free way will be rebuilt under a fed eral 13-year program. Williams indicated Thursday the proposed freeway would be confined to the area immediately I adjacent to the Bear Creek j banks. "Every bit of the park 1 could still be utilized io park Resolution Passes House for Vote on Penalty Abolition Parole Made Harder In Other Action Salem (U.P.) Abolition of the death penalty in Oregon by a vote of the people was called for in House joint resolution 11 which passed the House 49-7 late Friday after more than an hour of debate. The vote on capital punish ment took the House into its first afternoon meeting of the 61-day session. In contrast to the jammed House calendar, the Senate had no bills up for final action. Joint resolution 11 which now goes to the Senate, sets the penalty for first degree murder at uie imprisonment, except that a person who commits a murder while imprisoned under life sentence could be punished by death. Gov. Robert D. Holmes asked for abolition of the death penalty in his inaugural address. He said the practice was inhuman and uncivilized. I In order to actually abolish capital punishment, the people will have to vote on the resolui tion in the 1958 general election to amend the Oregon constitu tion. Also passing the House 40-10 was a companion House bill 355 which makes parole on first de gree murder impossible before 15 years. An inmate may now be released in seven years. The bill, which would only go into effect if the people voted to abolish capital punishment, also eliminates the Heath penalty for treason and sets 25 years as the punishment for second de gree murder. Rep. Robert B. Duncan, Med lord Democrat and a sponsor of the resolution, said that be fore 1914. the death penalty for first decrre murder was manda tory in Orpgon. It was then vot ed out until 1920 when it was voted Tack again. Duncan said statistics show ed there was no more murder in stales without capital punish ment provisions than in states with it. He said capital punish ment was not a deterrent to murder. Several representatives said they were voting for the resolu tion not because they favored abolishing the death penalty, but because they wanted the people to vote on it. Duncan quoted Warden Clar ence Gladden of Oregon state penitentiary that the death penalty was sometimes used "on the poor and friendless." Duncan added that under the jury system, good as it is, there was always the lurking possi bility that a mistake could be made and an innocent man kill ed. , 10 Killed in Coal Mine Blast in France Lens, France J.P.) Dy namite charges triggered a coal gas explosion in a mine here Saturday killing 10 men. Four other miners were se riously burned in the blast at the No. 3 pit in nearby Lieven, Five miners escaped injury. The men were using dynamite to open a new shaft in the mine when the controlled dynamite explosions set off a shattering gas blast. to Prepare purposes. Williams said. According to Mayor Snider the highway department will give complete landscaping treat ment to the entire freeway and surrounding area. The depart ment proposes to fence Bear creek and plant shrubs along its route through the park. Screening Program ' Highway department officials told the Medford committee that there would be no "raw fills" and there would be a long range screening program for the creek. The department pointed out such improvements' have been made in both Salem and in Port land. Landscaping treatment along Bear creek would be to the edge of the banks. A paving program under the overpass for persons wishing to park and use park facilities may be included in the freeway plans, the Medford officials said. They added the highway de partment would protect Bear creek banks wherever it was dis- j turbed by construction of the freeway. The department also is con sidering an exchange of land to replace the Girl Scout Day Camp area, they said. Part of POL 01 Indiana Parolee Arrested South of Ashland Saturday Robbed Dunsmuir Service Station Five Jackson county sheriff's deputies and a state police of ficer Saturday apprehended a 28-year-old Indiana state prison parolee, about eight hours after he allegedly stole S178 from a Dunsmuir, Calif., service sta tion operator while holding him at gunpoint. Errol Lowell Hungerford, who reportedly has been evading law enforcement officers since violat ing his parole a year ago, was taken from a Southern Pacific freight train by Deputy Glenn Wright at 12:20 p.m. Saturday, when the train stopped at the Misletoe Lumber company yard about four miles south of Ash land. Officers said Hungerford was carrying a loaded .38 caliber automatic pistol in his belt and also was carrying a tobacco pouch containing $178. He re portedly told officers that was the entire amount he had taken at 4:30 a.m. Saturday from the operator of a Chevron service station in Dunsmuir. Sheriff's deputies were alert ed to watch for Hungerford at 10:15 a.m., by the Siskiyou sheriffs office. Siskiyou county officers said the fusitive had left the service station on a motorcycle, which was later found ahandoned near the South ern Pacific company track. A check of schedules showed freight train No. 636 was due at Ashland about noon Saturday and it was believed Hungerford was on board. Officers said Hungerford was riding in a box car near the front of the train, which was surrounded by Wright, Sgt. Dean DeBerry, Sgt. Paul Bettiol, Dep uty Dean Coe and Chief Deputy Joe Walsh of the slieriu s omce, and State Police Officer May- nard Shoen. Police said Hunger ford did not have opportunity to draw his weapon when he was apprehended. Hungerford, who was lodged in the Jackson county jail waiv ed extradition and was to be picked up by Siskiyou county authorities Saturday afternoon. Victim of the Dunsmuir robbery, who was not identified here, ran from the scene after re linquishing the money, and was not harmed. Parts of Hawaii Are Designated Disaster Aboard Eisenhower Escort Ship (U.P.) President Eisenhow er Saturday designated parts of Hawaii stricken by a tidal wave as major disaster areas. The president made an initial alloca tion of $60,000. He messaged Hawaiian Gov. Samuel Wilder King extending federal disaster relief to dam aged sections of the islands of Oahu and Kauai. King had asked for $500,000. More allocations will be made when the extent of damage is better known. King estimated total damage at more than $2 million. Sketches, Other Data the freeway interchange would be in that approximate area. Freeway Lighting Medford would not be required to participate in the cost of any freeway lighting, the three-man committee was told. It was also agreed the state would provide their own sweeping equipment in keeping the freeway clean. ' If the proposed freeway is ap proved by the council the exist ing route through Medford will be known as "99 Medford Bus iness Route," according to Wil liams. The highway department would consult with the city council concerning signs identi fying approaches and inter changes, it was pointed out. The commission agreed utility crossings could be provided dur ing the freeway's construction if needed locations are known. They indicated future utility crossings could be provided at a time of need. Traffic Control Speed and traffic control for the freeway will 'be discussed with the superintendent of state police, commission representa tives said. Freeway speeds prob ably would be at a maximum of TAKE Report From Behind rue i f T . f. 2T V J XT Michigan Governor to Speak at Roosevelt Memorial Dinner Here Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan has accepted invitation from Oregon's Gov. Robert Holmes to be guest speaker at Medford's seventh annual Roose velt Memorial dinner at Hedrick Junior High school Saturday, April 27, according to Slate Democrat Party Chairman Rob ert A. Boyer. The speaker last year was Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who drew a crowd estimated at 1.400. Governor Williams will be in troduced at the dinner by Gov ernor Holmes who will be ac companied here by Mrs. Holmes and- other prominent state and party officials. Committee Named Democratic County Chairman Larry Sheehan announced the committee in charge of Roose velt Memorial dinner plans at a meeting of the county central committee Wednesday night. Main speaker at the meeting was District Attorney Thomas Reeder who analyzed pending legislation and explained aspects of the district attorney's office in relation to the public. The memorial dinner commit tee includes, as general chair man, Mrs. Edward C. Kelly; foods committee, Mrs. George A. Watson, chairman, Mrs. Albert Straus, Mrs. Jesse Wagner, Mrs. Dee Newton, Mrs. L. Peers Wil meth, Mrs. Mark Norton, Mrs. Frank Parke, Mrs. Bert Wil liams, Mrs. Robert A. Boyer, Mrs. William V. Deatherage, Mrs. Earl Cook. Mrs. James Main and Mrs. Jim Redden. Ticket committee, James Red den, chairman, William V. Deatherage co-chairman, Ralph James, Mrs. Moore Hamilton, Marvin Madden, Mrs. Frank Boothby of Prospect, Mrs. Eva Seggesman, Ray Briggs of Shady Cove. Arrangements Committee Arrangements committee, Mrs. Moore Hamilton, chairman, re ception and serving committee, 50 miles per hour, they said. The highway department, at council request, will stake the approximate route, showing the location of the freeway through Medford. Williams said the completed overpass would be of smooth rubbed-surface finish. About 20 series of columns 60 feet apart are proposed to support the over pass. Actual construction date is about two years' away, he said. Same Standards The highway engineer said in February the Jackson county section of the freeway, with the exception of the 35-foot-high overpass between Jackson and 12th streets in Medford, would be built to the same standards as those employed in the con struction of the recently-completed R. H. Baldock freeway between Salem and Portland. Representing the highway commission at the Thursday ses sion were Williams; G. S. Pax son, assistant state highway en gineer; D. J. Barbee, assistant construction in charge of urban planning; Walter Wright, chief locating engineer; and Mark H. Astrup, landscaping engineer. 0T The Golden Curia... 5 on comWk Marvin Madden, Clyde Fichtner, co-chairmen, Larry Sheehan, Ed ward Kelly, Henry Corbin, Art Lusk, Kenneth Corliss, George Watson, Earl Cook. James Main, James Redden. Stan Zapell, Hank Wilson, Mark Norton. Earl Peffley; decorations committee, Mrs. Marvin Madden, chairman, Mrs. Lew Miles, Mrs. Lewis Ul rich. Mrs. Harlan P. Bosworth Jr., Mrs. Roy Clark; program com mittee, Mrs. Stan Zapell. chair man, assisted by Miss Noreen Kelly. Magsaysay Plane Overdue in Manila Manila U.R) A two-engine C-47 plane carrying Phillip pine President Ramon Magsay say and 10 other persons was re ported overdue today on a flight from Cebu to Manila. The U.S. Air Force sent 21 rescue and search planes to scour hundreds of miles of land and sea. U.S. Navy units also joined the giant search but Air Force spokesmen said only "neg ative" reports were, received from , pilots who covered the missing plane's route from Ita- zuke, on Kyushu, southern Japan, and Naha, Okinawa. The Philippine government an nounced officially at noon that the imposing, Communist-fighting president was aboard a plane nine hours overdue from Cebu. His cabinet called an emer gency Sunday meeting. Vice President Carlos P. Garcia, who is in Australia, was the only ab sent member. Air Force officers said there was "a good chance" the presi dential plane either landed on water or at an emergency field. Gaza Resident Killed; UN Soldier Is Held Cario (U.R) An- Arab resi dent of the Gaza Strip was shot and killed Saturday, and a Scandinavian soldier serving with United Nations forces was arrested on suspicion of causing his death. The UN Information center here said Ismail Y. Bakka, who was standing in Gaza's main street northeast of UN head quarters, was hit in the neck by a bullet at about the time that a UN sentry fired on a group of suspicious loiterers at the northern end of the head quarters compound. Weather FORECAST: Mostly cloudy through Monday. Showery to day with rain beginninr early Mondav. High todav 53, low tonight 35, high Monday 48. Temp. Hichest Yesterday 50 Lowest Yesterday 32 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:31 a.i Sunsft 6:211 pi The Moon rises 8:49 p.m. ind is seen tonight near Spin in uie constellation. Virgo. en above them shines Jupiltr, n-hich is now 413.400.000 miles from the Earth, the nearest lt will be this year. GAZr Palestine Force Has Responsibility For Order in City UN Troops Still Guard Installations Gaza U.R Egyptian-led Palestine police took over re sponsibility for law and order in the Gaza Strip from United Nations troops Saturday. It was another blow to Israel. UN emergency force detach ments abruptly vanished from the streets of Gaza. A Yugoslav detachment pulled out of the strip entirely and returned to El Arish, the UNEF advance head quarters in Egypt's Sinai Des ert, 30 miles west of the Gaza Strip border. UN authorities said the Yugoslavs were no longer needed. Other UN troops, however. continued to guard UNEF instal lations and the supply warehous es of the UN refugee organiza tion where food and clothing for the 215,000 Palestine Arab ref ugees in the strip are stored. Capt. A. Wnk of Norway, chief of UN security operations in the Gaza city announced: 'We handed over public secur ity responsibilities to the Pales tine police since control of order would revert to local authori ties." One of the first jobs of the Egyptian authorities was to or ganize a search for two prison ers who escaped Friday night from the local jail. U.N. authori tiese identified them only as "criminals." But UNEF troops were remain ing in the strip at least for the time being. A UNEF spokesman in Cairo denied reports in the Egyptian press that UN troops would be evacuating most sections of the strip within 48 Iours to take up positions on the Gaza- Isra el demarcation line. Israel, wMch opposed Egypt's return to the strip, has forbidden UN troops to enter Israeli territory. No Time Limit The spokesman said there was no time limit for such a move which would leave Ejrypt in vir tually complete control of the 30-mile long and six-mile wide strip. Western diplomats in Cairo doubted that Egyptian troops would move jfti behind the Egyp tian Governor, Maj. Gen. Hassan Abdel Latif, who arrived in Gaza Thursday night. Reports that a trainload of Egyptian military police had left El Kantara in the Sinia desert for the Gaza strip could not be confirmed. Emphasis in Cairo was shifting to the question of the Gulf of Aqaba, which Israel holds to be international waters and which Egypt claims as territorial wa ters. Cairo radio quoted Saudi Ara bia's statement Friday night that the gulf is Arab-controlled and that Israeli ships will not be per mitted to use it. Sports Bulletins Eugene U.R) Lincoln High school upset Central Catholic, 44 to 42. here last night to win tha Oregon high school class A-I basketball championship. In the third place game. North Salem High handed Eugene a 52 to 48 de feat. Eugene Members of the slate high school all-star first team, selected here last night, are: Jim Altenhofen, Central Catholic; Ron Anderson. Lin coln; Glenn Moore and Butch Kimpion, Klamath Falls; and Charles Warren, Eugene. NAIA at Kansas City Tennessee A&I 92, South eastern Oklahoma 73 (cham pionship). Pacific Lutheran 87. East ern Illinois 85 (consolation). NIT First Round Dayton 79. St. Peters 71. St. Bonaventure 90, Cincin nati 72. NCAA Tournaments At Corvallis: San Francisco 50, California 46 (quarter finals); Brigham Young 65. Idaho State 54 (consolation). At Dallas: Kansas 81, Okla homa City 61 (quarter-finals); Southern Methodist 78. Si. Louis 68 (consolation). At Philadelphia: North Carolina 67. Syracuse St (quarter-finals); Canisius 82. LaFayette 76 (consolation). At Lexington. Ky.; Michi gan State 80. Kentucky 68 (quarter-finals). i
