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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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