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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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. Judy Holdrige
demonstrated the making of
strawberry jam from frozen
berries which she had helped !
prepare. The hostess served re- i
freshments using orange marma
lade that we made at our last '
meeting.
Annette Carter,
y Reporter
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