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PgsfOf Avenges Death 'Registration for m DaI.1 Plants Course Set At Hands of Robber Sellersburg. Ind. U.R A Methodist pastor avenged the murder of his state trooper friend ?ynday afternoon by blasting a bank bandit to death (it. a gun duel. The Rev. Robert W. Gingery, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church in New Albany. Ind., shot and killed tVilliam Hassett, 25, Louisville. Ky., at a police blockade near here. locked and fumbled with the gun until he found it. While the minister was trying to release the safety catch. "the robber crept to the back of the car and fired at Gingery. The minister whirled around in the front seat and shot through the back window. Hassett fell with a blast in the chests. Gingery said Walts, who was due to retire next year, had Hassett moments before had j joined his congregation two shot and killed state police Sgt. Marvin Walts. 47. who had stopped the bandit for question years ago and was a deeply re ligious man. Walts had made it a habit to ing in the $1,655 robbery of the ; irn.ite tfe Pastor oul for ,unch flnu nutr in ilia Ldr uii nit: an I niuprwrv nf inininc tho rhurnh Sellersburg, Ind., State Bank. Gingery, 37, whose steely calm broke down shortly after the shooting, was given sedation and placed under a doctor's care today. Carried Two Gum The minister said Walts, a close friend and parishioner, had stopped a car carrying a man who answered the bank bandit's description. Walts radioed head quarters with the information. A short time lated. Gingery reported over the police radio: "Marvin has been shot and I have killedothe bank robber." Walts was killed with a bul let iS the head when he ap proached Hassctt's car to ques tion the bandit. Hasset Jumped out, grabbed Walt's service revolver and ad vanced toward Gingery with guns in both hands. Gingery picked up a sa wed-off shotgun, kept loaded on the front seat of the officer's squad car, and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. The clergyman, al though unfamiliar with guns, real'ed the safety catch must be Gingery said. Monday was the second anniversary date. The shooting occurred only about 10 minutes after Hassett had held up five women em ployees in the Sellersburg bank. He scooped up about $1,655 and fled in a car. The loot was recovered. Registration for a course in the native plants and geology of the Siskiyou area being spon sored by the tourist committee of the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce will be held Thursday, March 21. The class will be held in room 217 at Med ford High school. Following registration, which will be from 7:30 to 8 p.m., speakers will be introduced and the first lecture will be given by C. W. Fairbanks, Crater Lake National park naturalist. He will speak on the geology of the Klamath area. Subsequent talks will be giv en by Dr. D. L. Wells, Southern Oregon college; Marcel Le Pinicc, widely known botanist and authority on rock plants and a Fellow of the Royal Hor ticultural society since 1932; Eoyd Kline, Medford. They will lecture on native plants of the Siskiyous, with one lecture devoted to lilies, on how to col lect and transplant native ma terial, how to photograph native plants and the building of gar dents from native material. Tutsday, March 19, 1357 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FTVZ Israel Will Fully Defend Rights For Ships, Ben-Gurion Declares Editor't note: Premier David Ben Gurion of Israel has granted his first interview since the Israeli Army with- 1 drew from Caa and the ouii oi 1 Aqaba. In it he sav Israel will de ! fend fully its rights to the Gulf of j Aqaba and that Israel will never per mit a belligerent Eeypt to reoccupy J Gaza. F.Iiav Simon is dean of corres pondents in Israel and has covered j events there since the nation began i It strncele for Independence under uie British mandate. Suburban Services Bill Given Support From County Courts Auto Theft Subject At Police School , Robert Wamplcr of the Ore gon state police will instruct a class in auto thefts at the Ore gon regional police school in Medford Wednesday afternoon. The classes, held in the coun cil chambers in the city hall, have been attended by 55 law enforcement officials in the county and are held in coopera tion with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Oregon state po lice. League of Oregon Cities and the bureau of municipal re search and service at the Uni versity of Oregon. The last class in the series of six will be held the following Wednesday on the officer in court to be instructed by special agents of the FBI. Salem (U.R; Support for a bill to give suburban residents power to set up county service districts to provide numerous services now performed by in dividual service districts was given by county courts here yes terday. Included in. the new service districts would be water supply, street lighting, fire protection, park and recreation service, san itary service and street and side walk service. Supporters of the bill said it was designed to deal with prob lems created by a welter of spec ial districts with overlapping boundaries now found in sub urban areas. School Book Bill Approved by Senate Salem U.R) The Oregon Sen ate Monday passed with only eight dissenting votes a measure to provide free textbooks to pri vate and parochial schools on the same basis as public schools. Sen. Philip Lowry of Medford explained that the ratio of teach crs to students has been one of the determining factors on whether or not a school came up to standards of the State Depart ment of Education. Free text books have been supplied to pub lic schools failing to meet this standard but have been denied to private or parochial schools failing to meet the standard. Jet Bomber Fails To Crack Speed Record Patuxent River. Md. (U.R) A Navy skywarrior jet bomber tried but failed to crack the Los Angeles to New York speed rec ord Monday. An Air Force Thunderflash streaked across the continent March 9. 1955, to set the record at 3 hours 44 minutes 53 seconds. Cmdr. Dale W. Cox Jr., pilot of the Skywarrior, radioed ahead from Columbus, Ohio, to New York that he was giving up the attempt to crack that record. He landed at the Naval Air Station here instead. 4 hours and 7 minutes after taking off. The Navy said insufficient tail winds thwarted the attempt. House 8 Concerns Wage Claim Collection Salem (U.R) Only one bill was introduced in the Oregon House today. It was House bill 714 which would permit a legitimate hold er of a wage claim to assign the claim to the labor commissioner for collection. Sponsor of the measure was Rep. Ed Benedict, Portland Democrat. Raymond A. Lathrop, presi dent of the Oregon association of Counties, and a county judge of Josephine county, told the House Local Government com mittee that the services would be paid for by residents of the new district. He said that the county's only expense would be paying for the election in case formation1 of the new district failed when residents of the dis trict voted on it. Under House bill 531, county courts themselves also could set up the districts to provide urban services in the counties. F. L. Phipps, The Dalles, ex ecutive secretary of the Associ ation of Oregon Counties, said county judges and commission ers agreed fully with the prin ciple of the bill. He pointed out that the people would vote on new district formation and that if present special districts' in dividual services were doing good jobs, they would probably remain in existence. Opposition to the bill came from Bill Bade. Oregon tax re search, who said it left the tax ing power of the new district "wide open" with no limit on bonded indebtedness. Amendenls Asked Bade said he agreed with the bill in principle but felt it would have to be severely amended. He said 25 per cent of the district freeholders should be required to sign petitions to start a new district rather than the 10 per cent of the voters required by the bill now. Former State Rep. E. H. Mann of Medford. said the bill was "vital to the people of Oregon" in helping to solve fringe area problems. Mann said the bill would en able suburban people to solve their sewer, water and fire prob lems without being annexed into a city. Some opposition to the bill was voiced on grounds it would give too much power to the county courts who would admin ister the service districts. BIG M DREAM CAR CONTEST 0 FREE MERCURYS $450.000 IN 15 Mercurys given away every week, including the fabulous new Turnpike Cruiser! 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"5 - reran By ELIAV SIMON United Press Correspondent Jerusalem, Israel UR Pre- : T . :1 T1 ;j i day Israel would fully defend I S.1Shment f 3 more lieve, recognizes that it was a cardinal error to show indul gence to this infringement. Israel for its part will naturally exer cise her rights of free passage when the canal is reopened. It is to be hoped that necessary inter national pressure will be applied to Egypt, should she attempt to renew her illegal blockade." On Egypt's takeover in the Gaza Strip: "I feel that a ereat nnnnrin. wuuiu miiy uckuu ....,, ; its rights to passage through the':, u: ., . .;' cs ""-uoi winuujr iiirown away. Gulf of Aqaba and that return of Egypt to the Gaza Strip means the search for a Mid-east peace is "being almost wilfully thrown away." Ben-Gurion, in the first inter view he has granted since the Is raeli withdrawal from Gaza and Sharm El Sheikh on the Gulf of Aqaba, also renewed Israel's demand for freedom of passage through the Suez Canal and ap pealed for international pres sure against Egypt's "illegal ' blockade." In this connection he recalled that "President Eisenhower has stated that it should not be as- j sumed that Israeli shipping will I be interfered with in the Suez i Canal." j Spirited But Tired j The 70-year-old Prime Minis-j ter who wrote out his replies in answer to questions by the United Press seemed to be in ex cellent spirits despite the tense- j ness of the past weeks and a gov-1 ernment crisis threat that has ; not entirely disappeared. He ap- 1 peared tired. j Ben-Gurion repeated his pre-1 vious offers to sit down with Arab leaders and negotiate either a peaceful settlement of facts of non-aggression and sug-' gested that this could be done by j the United Nations. He was firm, ! though, and he stated, "we are ; here to stay." , Following are Ben-Gurion's statements on the most import- i ant issues facing Israel today: On freedom of passage in the ' Gulf of Aqaba: "We certainly expect that Is rel, like other nations, will con- j tinue to exercise its rights of! passage through this interna-! tional waterway and we shall, if necessary, fully defend these : rights." On freedom of passage of the Suez Canal: "President Eisenhower has stated that it should not be as sumed that Israel shipping will be interfered with in the Suez 1 Canal. Egypt in blocking Isreal's shipping in the canal has defied a part of the Security Coun cil's desolution of October 1956, that of September 1951 as well ; as the Constantinople Conven tion of 1888. "International opinion, we be- "We proposed a continuance of the Israel administration in suitable relationship with the United Nations. This would have been a course most likely to se cure peace along Israel's border and within the strip itself. Withdraw on Assumption "The General Assembly took a different line and we with drew on the assumption that the Egyptians would not be allowed to return Heavy responsibility for what may develop now rests : on the United Nations and on ; those powers in whose word we I placed our trust that belligerent ! Egypt would not be restored to -the strip with all that that meant ! for our border settlements. What , is happening is that the United : Nations is associating with a Fedayeen (Arab commando) re gime in the control of the strip." No Snowfall Reported' In Oregon Overnight Salem (U.R) Oregon drew a blank overnight as far as snow was concerned, the State High way Department reported, and motorists were advised that chains were unnecessary on any of the state's highways. School of Whales Depoe Bay, Ore. (U.R) A school of whales was sighted off Depoe Bay today. The whales cavorted off the bay here for about an hour and a half and then began moving northward. No estimate of the number was given but Capt. Stan Allan of Depoe Bay called it "quite a school." BHS - FHE Slabs and Rough Blox Green Dandy to Burn with Dry Wood Big Double Load or Single Load MEDFORD FUEL CO. Telephone 2-2111 Court & McAndrews T ' ' iumiii mi ev asssHDIUMeiaeMMaaBBeeaHeeesieHeoMHseassMBBeM Aftershock Jolis Aleutian Islands Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) A strong aftershock of the March 9 earthquake in the Aleutian Is lands which caused a damaging : Pacific tidal wave was recorded on the University of California seismograph today. Seismologist Don Tocher said the quake had a Richter magni tude of about 7.0 when first re corded at 4:58:23 a.m. (PST). ! The shock continued for about ! two hours, he said. j The March 9 quake had a Rich- i ter magnitude of about 8. Tocher j said the March 9 temblor exerted ; from 50 to 60 times as much en- ! ergy as today's aftershock. I "This quake is part of the same series of disturbances that started on the ninth," Tocher ' said. "I would doubt that it i would cause a tidal wave, but it is not out of the question." 4-H Club News Desert Pegasus The "Desert Pegasus," newly organized Saddle club of Eagle Point held their first ride Sat urday, March 23, leaving the West ranch at 11 a.m., riding around the loop. Members riding were Jim and Maria Ackerman, Dale West, Betty Ann. Don and Michael Higday, Dawn, Juanita and Charlotte Zimmerlee, Benny Sutton, Mike Blanchet, Ricky Meyers, Gale Norris, Bob Burris and Bill Morgan. Leaders riding were Mr. and Mrs. J. Dunn and Mrs. J. West. Visitors riding were Jack Rice, Willie West, Pedro and Kay Moore, and Billie Zimmer lee. Other members who were unable to attend are Laura Mae and Norma Noble, Joan Owen, Fredrick Martin, John Minter, Ronnie Greb and Dan Olson. Saucy Canners The Saucy Canners of the Talent-Phoenix area held their meeting at their leader's home. Mrs. Carter. 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