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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1957)
M LIS? -HI . . fl'. i VUw '' f 3 1 GUESP SPEAKER Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, third from left, president of the University of Oregon, congratulated United Medford Cru aade workers in a speech at the annual UMC dinner last night at Hedrick Junior High school. He is shown above shaking hands with John Dcllenback, retiring board member. Dr. Wilson Praises Crusade Campaign Workers at Dinner Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, presi dent of the University of Ore gon, praised United Medford Crusade campaign workers last night for carrying out one of the most successful campaigns in 'the state last year. About 130 heard Dr. Wilson peak at Uie annual UMC dinner at Hedrick Junior High school. Medford was the only area in Oregon to exceed its quota in the UMC drive last fall. UMC of ficials said. The goal was set at $117,175 and Medford workers raised a total of $122,000 during the campaign. Special framed citation awards were presented to 37 section chairmen of the United Medford Crusade who topped in dividual quotas. Officers Elected ' During the business session of the meeting new officers of the organization were elected. They are Edward Branchfield, president: Tom G. Polk, first vice- president; and Dr Merle E. Foland, second vice president. Ray M. Sorenson was reelected as treasurer. Also elected as directors for a three year term were Branch field, Russell I. Brown, Sam Hersh, Robert A. Johnson and Lindsey E. Grigsby. Three past presidents, William H. Prentice, A. R. (Tony) Manno and John Dellenback, who are retiring from the board of direc tors, were given citations for their services. They became hon orary members of the board. Prisoner Escipes, Returns to Jail A prisoner who escaped from city jail Thursday night when Police Lieutenant Jack McMillan forgot to lock the jail door turned himself in at 2 a.m. today after seven hours of freedom, according to Police Chief Charles Champlin. Jerold Decman Couch, 18, who was arrested by city police re cently on a charge of . being AWOL from the Navy, said he gave himself up because friends told him "I was really in trouble and the Medford police were after me," according to Champ lin. Officers said Couch, formerly of Medford and recently sta tioned at the Naval Air station. Moffett Field. Calif., is aaain confined to city jail awaiting Naval authorities. Relative Responsibility Law Repeal Tabled Salem iU.R) A proposed bill to repeal Oregon's relative re sponsibility law was tabled in committee yesterday. The bill had been requested by Gov. Robert Holmes. The Senate Public Welfare Committee decided to table the measure after it was defeated by a 4 to 3 vote in committee. Proposal of Korean Bonus Ready for Debate in House Salem (U.R) The Oregon House had ready for discussion today a $12 million Korean bonus proposal. The House Military Affairs Committee voted yesterday to -pasw the boi;s bill to the floor of the House for a vote. Coii.mittee Chairman William Grenfcll Jr.. Portland Democrat, said "this is only a bill to be re ferred to the people to decide in the 1958 general election." Before passage from commit tee the resolution was amended to provide a levy of three-fourths of one per cent of the assessed valuation of the state instead of tht two per cent levy originally proposed. I" U.S. Said Willing To Join Military Phase Of Baghdad Treaty Tucker's Town, Bermuda (U.R) President Eisenhower to day informed British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan that the United States was willing to join the military phase of the Baghdad pact. The Arab nations, it was an nounced, have been adv'ised of the new American position through a presidential mission now in the Middle East. The President gave the same news to Macmillan and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd here today. They spent most of the morn ing exploring the Anglo-Amer- Annual Water Supply Forecast Scheduled W. B. (Ben) Tucker, county agriculture agent, today remind ed residents of the annual water supply forecast meeting for Jackson snd Josephine counties to be held in the Grants Pass city council chambers, Friday, April 5. Ben Hilton, Grants Pass, will be chairman of the session. Pre senting reports and forecasts will be W. T. (Jack) Frost, Port land, state snow survey coordi nator for the soil conservation service. Tucker said the meeting will be open to anyone interested in getting reports and information on the prospective water supply in the two counties in coming months. Study Approved for Umatilla Pulp Mill Umatilla -Au.R) The Uma tilla Port commission has ap proved an appropriation of $2. 500 to conduct a study of the Umatilla rivet and its tributary streams to determine feasibility of constructing a pulp mill in the area. The action followed a report to the commission Tuesday by Foy Troute, executive secretary oi the Oregon Development com mission. Troute said that Umatilla was one of nine possible sites being considered by a Canadian firm for the location of a pulp plant. He listed sites in the order of their present consideration as Harrisburg, Umatilla, the Upper Snake river area, and the Rogue River valley. Portland Records Ninth Traffic Death of Year Portland (U.R Portland re corded its ninth traffic death of 1957 today ' when George D Lynde, 21, died in a local hos pital from injuries suffered about I a.m. in a two-car col lision. At this time a year ago Port land had 17 traffic deaths. Committee members felt the levy would be sufficient to pro vide the needed money. Another amendment provides coverage for veterans who have been retired for disabilities and are rated not less than 50 per cent disabled. The proposed bonus would cover state residents who served in the armed forces sometime between June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. Arch L. Brewster, vice chair man of the Oregon Veterans Legislative Committee, said the average bonus for Oregon's esti mated 40,000 Korean vets would be $250. while the organization's new president, Ed ward Branchfield, left, and retiring president William H. Prentice look on. Medford was the only city in Oregon that topped its quota in last fall's United Fund drive,' UMC officials taxi. lean views on European integra tion, relations with the Soviet Union and a possible increase in trade with Communist China. There was no change in the American position against recog nition of Red China or her ad mission to the United Nations. The President and Macmillan at noon had a private meeting with no one else present. Later today they planned a highly se cret discussion of mutual defense problems, including cooperation between the two nations on atomic weapons. Members of Pact After the president and the Prime Minister met. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagcrty announced the willing ness of the United States to join the military committee of the Baghdad pact. A spokesman said the United Slates already was a member of the pact's economic and counter- subversive committees. With the latest development tt'xvould now belong to all thVee committees. Pact members are the United Kingdom. Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. The American spokesman, An drew Berding. assistant secre tary of state for public affairs, strongly emphasized that the new move would not entail addi tional military assistance by the United States to pact members, all of whom already receive military assistance. But what it would do, he said, would be to permit joint mili tary planning against Commu nist aggression in that area. Dulles, Lloyd Talk Secretary of State John Foster Dulles met with Lloyd this morn ing. Spokesmen gave these high lights of their talks: The discussion of Red China was brief, but the United States stood firmly against recognition of the Communist Chinese gov ernment or its admission to the United Nations. Dulles and Lloyd agreed that reunification of Germany should be achieved at the earliest prac ticable moment through free elections in both East and West Germany. Cost of Living Up, During February Washington (U.R) The cost of living jumped four-tenths of 1 per cent ir. February, setting a new record for the sixth straight month, the government reported today. Higher prices for food, hous ing costs, gasoline.- and a num ber of other items, boosted the Bureau of Lbor Statistics'1 con sumer price index to 118.7 per cent of average 1947-49 prices. The index stood 3.6 per cent higher than in February, 1956. The BLS also reported that "the cost of living jump brought a slight decline in the buying power of tne average factory worker's pay check. It said the increased prices more than off set a small rise in the average factory worker's take home pay. Local Cancer Society Chapter Being Formed About 44 valley residents and physicians started organizing a county chaoter of the National Cancer Society at a meeting at the Rogue Valley Country club today. Dr. Earl Lawson. Medford. presided at the"meeting. Local physicians and residents were to meet this afternoon to outline activities of the new organiza tion. The meeting was called by Mrs. John Day Medford. "alem ;u.R) The Joint Ways and Means Committee has ap proved S25.000 to cover state wide investigation of juvenile delinquency by a legislative in terim committee. MisoppropirraftD!! If Teamster Funds Todd Committee Makes Charge at End of 3J4-Week Phase 'Some Said Repaid To Union Treasury Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Rackets Committee said to day that teamster officials mis appropriated or spent for "ques tionable" purposes $709,420 in union money. The committee made the charge in windup of the first 3',2-weck phase of its investiga tion of improper conduct in labor and management. Soma Paid Back Some of the 5709,420 has since been repaid to the union treas ury, the committee's records show. The repaid portion includ ed $270,000 which, committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said, Teamsters President Dave Beck used "for hir personal benefit. ' He paid it back, a committee staff member said, when federal income tax investigators began looking into his finances. ' Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) made public a commit tee summary of expenditure of union funds totaling $709,420 which he said "need accounting for." Vic and Rackets Items in the committee's sum mary included payments by Vice President Frank W. Brewster of union funds to support his own horse racing ventures, payments to various "funds" which the committee contends do not exist, and payments to Brewster's cronies who, according to com mittee testimony, were sent to Portland to open the city to vice and rackets. McClellan commented that the summary did not include a $400,- 000 loan to a Vancouver, B.C., trucking line. Nor does it in clude an additional $11,000 which, the committee said, Brew ster owes to union groups over and above a $76,600 debt which he has acknowledged. Mimeographed Listing McClellan's financial sum mary included a mimeographed listing of items which have fig ured in the testimony. That list totalled $409 309.93. To it he added the $27C,000 which Beck repaid and another $30,000 item which came up in today's testi mony. Committee accountant Carmine S. Bellino testified that more than $30,000 in outstanding loans disappeared in 1955 from the books of teamsters Seattle Local 174. County Authorizes Hospital Payments The county court has author ized payment of $2,000 each to Rogue Valley hospital and Sa cred Heart hospital for care of indigent patients in the county who were treated at the hospi tals. In the 1956-57 county budget, $6,000 was appropriated for lo cal hospitals as the county's share in care of indigent pa tients. These include transients and others without funds or means of support, .but who are not eligible for welfare aid. The payments were made last ! week. The county court explain ed this amount is far from meet ing hospital expenses in caring for these patients. It was indi cated the hospitals would seek larger appropriations in the 1957 58 budget. Dealers Attend Hearing On Anti-Gas War Bill Salem (U.R) Several hundred gasoline dealer: turned out here yesterday for hearings on House bill 633 which is intended to end gasoline price wars. - The bill prohibits the estab lishment of company-owned re tail stations and provides for differentiation of wholesale prices only in accordance with geographic zones and depend ing on distance of delivery and location of competing distribu tors. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 472.94, off 1.08:20 rail roads 143.52, off 0.07, 15 utili ties 70.70, up 0.15, and 65 stocks 167.15. off 0.16. Sales today were about 1.610.000 shares compared with 1,630,000 shares Thursday. 51st Year Medford United Pren run ueatta Wir 22 P ages MEDFORD, Angry Teamsters At San Francisco Ask For Accounting Official Collapses After Excited Speech San Francisco (U.R) An of ficial of Teamsters Local 85 col lapsed and died Thursday night a few minutes after stalking from a meeting attended by 2.000 angry union members who demanded an accounting of their money. It was the first repercussion here of the investigation into the union's financial activities now being carried on in Washington by a Senate committee. Apparent Heart Attack Tom Leonard, 54, a trustee and organizer of Local 85. was dead on arrival at Central Emer gency hospital. Doctors said he apparently suffered a heart at tack. Union officials were reluctant to divulge trie nature of Thurs day night's meeting except to say it concerned the Washington investigation. They said it was "quiet." But observers "outside the Labor Temple, where the meet ing was held, heard angry shouts during the three-hour meeting. An employee of the temple said it was the "wildest meet ing" he had ever seen there. '.'They were shouting and argu ing so loud I thought there was going to be a riot," he said. A union member said every body was ' hot about this Frank Brewster and Dave Beck deal." Speaker Had To Shout When Leonard arose to speak, he had to shout into the micro phone for a full minute to get attention. Then he launched into a brief and excited speech, at the end of which he strode from the building.. He collapsed on the sidewalk. He had been under a doctor's care for some time because of a heart condition Full Time Parole Board in House Bill Salem (U.R) A full time three-man state board of parole and probation was called for in House bill 722 introduced in the Oregon House today. . Rep Norman Howard," Port land Democrat and a sponsor of the bill, said the three men would not all be of the political party and would be paid $11,000 a year. Under the bill, trial courts, the district attorney and arrest ing agency would be required to furnish reports on prisoners to the bar. The minimum sentence for each prisoner would be set at a public hearing within six months after his sentence started. Hospital District Bill in Second Reading Salem (U.R) A bill to pro vide that a hospital district may include within its boundaries all or any part of the territory of a port district, provided the. port district does not then op erate and maintain a hospital, was up for second reading in the Senate today. The measure was introduced by Sen. R. W. Chapman, Coos Bay Democrat, at request of the Bandon hospital district. Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudv tt nieht and Saturday. Cooler ton icht with low 30. Warmer Saturday with high 38. Temp. Hichm Yesterday ' Lowest tht Mornint 3 Tree, to 4:30 a.m. Today 02 Our Skies Tonight Sunme 6:13 a.m. Sonet Moonrise Saturday Last Quarter 6:2H p.m. 1:45 a.m. 9:04 p.m. Mar innicht appear a little An the left of the Pltade and it is now about 166 million tnllps from the Farth. In a few weeks Mars will be seen be tween Aldebaran and Elnath. OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH QUAKE SHAKES SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco ''U.R) A strong earthquake shook the down town section of San Francisco at 11:45 a.m. (PST) today and sent people streaming into the streets. The quake, strongest since lh earthquake and fire of 1906, was the third of the morning to hit the middle of the bay area. The ear lier two were mild with the stronger one recording a magnitude of 3.75. The third quake was much more violent, knocking cornices off buildings in some sections of the city and sending people into the streets in fright. The San Francisco News building was rocked as if hit by a blast. The temblor shot clouds of dust from the older San Fran cisco buildings. The quake was felt distinctly as far distant as Petaluma, some SO miles north of San Francisco. It also was felt among the San Francisco peninsula as far distant as San Jose, SO miles to the south. Police switchboards were flooded with calls from frightened citizens and with calls of damage which police immediately began checking out. Police said that "much glass was broken" and they also had received "unconfirmed" reports that "a bridge is down someplace" and that "there was a cavein at the San Francisco city hall." The famed Palace hotel reported that four plate glass windows were shattered, showering glass along sidewalks and into the lobbies. The Golden Gate bridge swayed and shook, with the towers bending like trees in a gala and the bridge deck "galloping" up and down. , A 400-foot stretch of boulevard bordering Lake Merced toppled into the waters. A long stretch of the scenic Coast Highway slipped into the Pacific. . The "Top of the Mark," atop the Mark Hopkins hotel on fash ionable Nob Hill swayed like a tree limb in the wind. The plate glass windows circling the room bulged in and out for "several minutes" but wiihsioori ihm Itrnna fpmhlnr. ' At the San Francisco xoo, which borders the Pacific ocean, the animals were stirred. Elephants squawked, and the chimpanzees, like their human brethren screamed. Israel Offers New Middle East Plan; Pessimism Voiced By UNITED PRESS 1 Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir said today she had handed the United States a new peace plan for the Middle East but admitted she was "not complete ly optimistic" on how things were going. She refused in a statement to newsmen at Rome's Ciampino Airport to elaborate on the new Israeli plan but said it contem plates the policing of the Gaza Strip by United Nations forces, a problem now being threshed out in Cairo. A new development in Gaza itself jarred the delicate Mid East situation today. Mouhir Rayess, Egyptian mayor of Gaza Town, accused Israel of the mass slaughter of 36 Gaza civilians whose decomposed bodies were found in abandoned Egyptian trenches near the border. The mayor said 700 Gaza residents were still missing fol lowing Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip and hinted-th,at they too might be victims of the Israeli occupation. Israel was sure to deny the Multnomah Young GOP Opposes Rackets Portland (U.R) A group of Young Republicans last night started a move "opposing the in filtration of racketeering or law less elements into our commun ity." Some 40 members of the Mult nomah County Young Republi c?n club passed a resolution, with two dissenting votes, to seek other groups to join a so criled United Community Com mittee. Clay Meyers, who introduced the resolution, said it would in dicate "to the nation at large that there are decent people in Portland who want to see the town clean and are going to do something about it." He referred to recent Senate hearings in Washington, D C. Salem (U.R) House bill 187 establishingt the authority of weighmasters to weigh and measure trucks has passed the Oregon House. r Price 10c Tribune United Plea full Leued Wira 22, 1957 No. 310 trumpeted, gibbons whistled, birds charges but the incident was ex pected to have bitter repercus sions in future Arab-Israeli rela tions, still in a "state of bel ligerency" more than seven years after the end of the Palestine war. In Cairo UN Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold was re ported trying to persuade Egypt not to send troops into the Gaza Strip and Sharm El Sheikh al though admitting Egypt was per mitted by the 1949 armistice agreement to administer Gaza. A neutral diplomatic source in Cairo said Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi had laid before Hammarskjold a compromise plan for running the Suez Canal. Egypt still demands it receive all Suez Canal tolls but under th'e reported compro mise would agree -to pay some of the money into a joint bank accpunt with the United States for development of the canal. "We've Got To Stop All This Spending On Essentials" Military Craft Vanishes Into Ocean Off Japan 67 Persons Aboard Boeing Stratocruiser Tokyo (U.R) Air Force planes searched vainly through pre dawn darkness today for a U.S. Military Air Transport Service C97 Boeing Stratocruiser that vanished into storm - lashed, shark-infested waters off Japan wim t7 persons aboard. With the coming of davlieht. 70 planes combed 75,000 square miles of the Pacific in the area where the plane is believed to have crashed the day before. All aboard were feared dead. Some 48 U.S. Air Force and Navy planes scoured an estimat ed 54.000 square mile sector of the ocean, but found no trace of the huge $1,100,000 transport missing on the Wake Island to Tokyo leg of a routine flight from Travis Air Force Base. Calif. Survivor Hopes Dashed Brief hopes for the 10 crew members and 57 passengers aboard the huge C97 Boeine Stratocruiser were dashed when a sighted "life raft" turned out to be. an overturned rowboat with a straw mat floating be side it. A senior Air Force pilot said it would have been nearly im possible to make a successful ditching under the conditions the plane would just break to pieces in high seas like this." Latest in Series Disappearance of the plane brought to 109 the number of dead or missing in a series of six U.S. Far Eastern crashes the past month. The Air Force and Navy joined in a search for possible survivors. It appeared a hopeless task at first, for solid clouds rose from the surface of the sea to a height of 5,000 feet. An Air Force spokesman said the plane from, the 1501st Air Transport Wing at Travis car ricd two women, one ra member of the crew, the othet "Navy de pendent. In addition, there were nine other crewmen, 27 airmen, 17 Army men, 10 sailors and two male civilian employees. Allocation of Polio Vaccine Considered Washington (U.R) The gov ernment was studying today a possible return to its voluntary rationing system as a way to deal with the sudden shortage of Salk polio vaccine. Officials of the Public Health Service said they are consider ing an allocation plan to make sure the vaccine goes to those vho need it most, chiefly chil dren and pregnant women. Dr. Leroy E. Burney, sur geon general, said this will be one of the subjects discussed March 30 when a conference is held here to map new polio vaccination plans. 'Very Large Earthquake' Reported in Aleutians New York (U.R) Columbia University's Lamont Seismologi cal Observatory reported today a new "very large earthquake" in the Aleutian Islands. Dr. Jack Oliver estimated the quake had an intensity of 7. He said it appeared to be nearer the Alaska mainland than earlier quakes in the series which began March 9. The first quake rolled a damaging tidal wave across the Pacific. 1
