Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 25, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texti Blizzard Leawi 30-Foot If ifts Is Number of eatl tatiraes To tor: Oil 52nd Year Medford United Pn Full Leased Wire 16 Pages Eisenho To Work Siejjped-Up Plans jftflU. Missiles T&ffilain Coming 3r Atomic Warheads jfctJuld at Present Washington (U.R) Presi ent f isenhoer, tanned and rid of his cold out not his cough, put his advisers to work today to tfcck up new agreements rr.-hed with America's old ally Britain. ilitary sources indicated one of )h first results of the Bermu r'4 conference with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will b stepped-up planning for turn irj over U. S. missiles to the Bntii. 'h sources said prclimin 'ir fiscussiong already have fieri held and "something tangi b:' is expected within the next few months certainly by the end of the year within the fr.-ework of the North Atlan tic Treaty Organization. O Mo Atomic Warheads The sources indicated the most likely missiles to be given the British, for the present at least, will be shoi tcr-range "battle fid" types like the "Honest) John" 20-mile rocket, the "Cor Cporal'' missile with a 75-miic range and possible anti-aircraft missiles like 'he Navy's Talos. t)iey said any move to give the British jo-called intermed iate ballistic missiles such as the proposed Thor or Jupiter with an est. mated 1.500-mile ranc are " a little ways off." They pointed out this country itself has no such missile ready for use yet. The sources emphasized that any missiles handed the British would be without atomic war ' heads, since tie President is for bidden by law to part with these save in urne oi war. Bridges Favors Warheads Sen. Stylos Bridges of New Hampshire, chairman of the Sen ate Republican Policy Commit tee, said Sunday night he also favors turning over the atomic warheads for the missiles to the British, French. West Germans and ail of this country's "true allies. " Bridges said "some restric tions on usa of the weapons should be imposed. But he said if friendly nitions do not have atomic weapons, a war might end before thev could get them This appeared to be the first such proposal from such an in fluential Republican. There was no indication that Bridges' pro posal constituted an administra tion "feeler" on the issue. Anicr subject that will oc cupy the newly-returned Presi dent will be effort to expand the apparent new Bermuda-born understanding on the Mid-east into a unitea British-American front for dealing with the still troublesome area. Prosecution Rests Case In K. Falls Murder Trial Klamath Falls (U.R) The state rested its case in the first degree murder trial of Guy Earl Cramer. 76. welfare recipient, today and the defense an nounced its first witness would be the elderly defendant. The prosecution wound up its cas after Circuit Judge David R.'andenberg ruled against ad mission of a typed transcript of a statement taken from Cramer and signed by him a short time after his arrest. The judge did allow June Hodges, secretary to District At torney Richard Bcasley. to read shorthand notes she took of the interrogation of Cramer to the jury. Cramer is accused of premedi tated murder in the death of Fred Peterson, county welfare commission chairman. Peterson was killed when Cramer drew a gun and opened fire during a commission hearing last Jan. 4. MkV MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1957 on ' fid- f fe-. ' X !. ;::., ' SAW a$ -r i.,V!V,:.: w . ., V, . ,. y., .. 1 IMII t f MEETING IN TUCKER'S TOWN, BERMUDA, President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announce agreement on major issues. From left: British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd. Mr. Eisenhower, Macmillan, and Secretary of State John Foster Guiles. President urged joint action on world problems. (International Soundpiwto) New Rain Storm Sets March Precipitation Record for A storm which brought 1.41 inches of rain yesterday and to day has made this month the wettest March on record for the Medford vicinity. Precipitation total since Sept. 1 now exceeds the yearly aver age for an agricultural year, the Medford station of the weather bureau reported. Record Set Rainfall for this month amounted to 4.59 inches up to 10:30 a.m. today, according to the weather bureau. Heaviest Heart Massage Fails To Save Boy Doctors in Grants Pass mas saged the heart of a two-year-old boy back to life Saturday, but the child died five hours later in Medford at Sacred Heart hospital. The child, Charles Walker, died at 10:35 p.m. Saturday. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Walker, route 1, box 1085, Grants Pass. He celebrated his second birthday March 13. Charles was taken to the hos pital after a piece of a walnut lodged in his trachea. Doctors in serted a tube in his trachea be low where the walnut was lodged. It was then that the boy's heart stopped. An emergency operation fol lowed, during which the doctors massaged his heart until it start ed beating. The boy was then rushed to Sacred Heart hospital where a respirator was available and the walnut removed. Two other officials were injured by the gun fire. In the interrogation notes read into the record, Cramer said he intended to kill Peterson. He said the gun had been lying around his house for "a couple of months " Sheriff Murray Britton testi fied that he questioned Cramer following the district attorney's interrogation. He said he asked Cramer if he intended to shoot the people in the courthouse to which he said Cramer "leaned forward in his chair and said "absolutely'." Judge Vandcnberg recessed the trial before calling Cramer to take the stand when attorneys for the elderly man said he was feeling ill. The defense has freely ad mitted that Cramer fired the fatal shot that killed Peterson but has entered a plea of inno cent by reason of temporary insanity. Puts Advisers Agreements Medford ' previous precipitation for March was 4.19 inches in 1940. The weather station here also record ed 3.34 in 1938 and 3.28 in 1928. Precipitation for the Medford vicinity since Sept. 1, 1956 total led 19.04 inches this morning. Average for an agricultural year, Sept. 1 through Aug. 31, is 18:15. The storm brought .75 of an inch of rain yesterday and .66 this morning. Mori Rain Due More rain is foreseen for this area in the next five days. The weather bureau's five-day pre diction for western Oregon calls for .50 to 1 inch of precipitation. Showers are forecast for Wed nesday over western Oregon with more general rains late Friday and Saturday. Outlook tonight and Tuesday is for partly cloudy weather. City and council officials said that no damage to roads in this area had been reported to them. Motor, Supplies Taken From Marine Company Theft of an outboard motor and some boat supplies from the Medford Marine company, 827 West Jackson st., Medford. some time Saturday night was report ed today by Medford police. Val ue of the motor was S659 and the supplies were valued at about S350 officers said. The break and entry occurred sometime between 6 p.m., Satur day and 9 a.m. Sunday it was reported. Entrance was made to the building by prying off a padlock with a pry bar, police said. John Joseph McCann, own er and manager of the company, reported the theft. No Chains Necessary On Oregon Highways Salem (U.R) Motorists don't have to worry about chains on any Oregon routes today, the State Highwy Department re ported. Only new snow reported was 2 inches at Timberline. l's inch es at Santiam pass, half an inch at Chemult and a trace at Sene ca. Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday with a few patches of valley fog Tuesday morning. Low tonight 38. High Tuesday 60. Tebp. Hiehest Yesterday AS Lowest This Morning 41 Precipitation To 10:311 a.m. Today 1.41 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:07 a.m. Sunset 6:29 p.m. Moonri.se Tuesday 3:34 a.m. New Moon March 31 Jupiter rises shortly before sunset and wjll be the brightest -star" in the skv throughout the night until it sets shortly before lunrise. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wira No. 3 One Killed, One Jailed Following Sunday Accident A Seattle. Wash., man died Sunday night about 3'4 hours after he was struck by a car on Highway 99 at Talent. Another Seattle man is being held in the county jail in connection with the accident, according to state police. Jack Everett Englcr, 25 died at Rogue Valley hospital at 11:15 p.m. According to police, Eng ler's car had s'allcd and he was pushii.g it north on the highway about 7:50 r-m. He was on the left side of the car with the door open when he was struck by a vehicle operated by Lawrence Alvis Workman, 25, also of Se attle. Tentative Charges Workman is being held on ten tative charges of negligent homi cide with bail set at $1,500. Po lice said Workman was charged with reckless driving prior to Engler's death. Exact charge is pending completion of officers' investigation. District Attorney Thomas Recder reported. According to police. Work man's vehicle approached Eng ler's car from the rear and ap parently swerved to the left, striking Engler and the left door of his car. Police said Workman continued driving north, but la ter returned to the accident scene and was taken into cus tody. Officers said two witnesses es timated Workman's speed be tween 80 and 85 miles per hour when the accident occurred. Both cars were towed from the scene and were impounded by state police. ine accident occurred oppo site the Chuck Wagon cafe at Talent. Engler's body was taken to Conger Morris Funeral home. Workman was not injured. Girl's Condition Said 'Unchanged' The condition of Joy Dahl, 19-year-old Jacksonville girl who suffered a gunshot wound while baby sitting in Medford Friday afternoon, was "unchanged" to day, according to attendants at Rogue Valley hospital. Miss Dahl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dahl, route 1, box 48C, Jacksonville, has been in "poor" condition since she was shot by a 30-30 caliber rifle at the residence of Mr. and Mrs Joseph A. Deenin, 415 Edwards St.. Medford. Police quoted Miss Dahl as saying the gun discharged when she attempted to move it from a stand in the corner of a bedroom She suffered an abdominal wound. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Dcenan were home at the time the shot was fired. Two of the Decnan children were watching television in another room and did not hear the shot, accordin" to police. Medford police are still investigating the case. Supreme Court Rules on Certain Labor Disputes Both Sides Possibly Right, Warren Says Washington U.P.) The Su preme Court refused today to review school desegregation orders for Charlottesville and Arlington, Va. The court's brief order means lower court desegrega tion instructions are now final. Washington (U.R) The Su preme Court ruled today that certain labor disputes which the National Labor Relations board nas reiused to handle also are outside the 'urisdiction of the states. The 6 to 2 decision dealt with three cases from Ohio, Californ ia and Utah. Chief Just-ce Earl Warren, speaking for the majority, said one side had argued denial of state jurisdiction by no agency or court. The other side con tended that 'to grant jurisdic- tion would produce confusion and conflicts with federal pol icy." "Unfortunately, both may be right. Warden said. "We be lieve, however, that Congress has expressed its judgment in favor of uniformity." Left Up To Congress The court .eft it up to Con gress to decide, by legislation what to do about such "twilight zone cases. The issue arose from action of the NLRB in 1950 and 1934 limiting its own jurisdiction to cases of companies whose flow of goods in interstate commerce exceeded certain specified val ues. The board did so for budge tary and administrative reasons federal lanor law contains a provision that lets the board make agreements with states ceding certain jurisdiction ' to -wj-.-Uhem. provided state an feder al statutes coincide. But no such agreement covered these cases. Warren held that this proviso is "the exclusive means where by states may 'be enabled to act concerning tiip matters which Congress has entrusted to the National Labor Relations board." Phoenix Census To Start Tuesday Phoenix An official cen sus of the city of Phoenix will be taken beginning Tuesday, March 26. according to Mayor Vince Claflin. The census has been author ized by the state of Oregon and will serve as a basis for appor tionment of state funds paid to the city, Claflin said. Women of the Fireman's aux iliary will take the census, which is to be completed by April 1. Councilwoman Miss Fay Carver will be in charge. Flood Control, Water Resources Body To Meet The Rogue Basin Flood Con trol and Water Resources asso ciation will hold a public organ izational meeting at 8 p.m. to day in the Jackson county court house auditorium. Newly elected directors, Jen nings Pierce and Chester Wendt, will be among those attending, according to H. F. Norwood, Rogue River, spokesman for the association. There will be two guest speakers and a review of the past year's work, along with a congressional report on flood control, Norwood said. San Francisco Area Residents Tackle Huge Task of Cleaning Up After Friday's Quake San Francisco (U.R) Resi dents of San Francisco and its suburbs, hopeful that there would be no more big earth quakes for a while, today began repairing the damage left by the biggest temblor since 1906. Many housewives, aided by their husbands and children, spent the last two or three days sweeping up the broken dishes, glassware and household articles that tumbled pell-mell onto the floors of several thousand homes last Friday. But today came the more seri ous problem of cleaning up and repairing cracked plaster, ce ment foundations, broken win dows and other damage to homes and stores. The quake shook an area of central California roughly be tween Ukiah, Sacramento and Hollistcr. but the western part of San Francisco and the suburb "I Haven't Laid A Hand On Her" Hammarskjold Failed On Cairo Mission, Israeli Sources Say By UNITED PRESS Israeli officials said today that UN Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold had failed on his mis sion to Cairo. Informed sources said in Jerusalem that he had been unable to soften the atti tude of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser and that the West would have to adopt a tougher attitude toward Nasser. Nasser's attitude has strength ened the Israeli positions, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has agreed that Israel has the right to defend itself if attacked in the Gulf of Aqaba or from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli sources said. Indian Prime Minister Jawa harlal Nehru took note of the growing impasse today and call ed in New Delhi for direct talks between the United States and Russia to solve the Middle East and other international prob lems. Nehru, in a foreign policy de bate in parliament, outlined- a three-point program he said would bring peace to the Mid dle East: The big powers would with draw from the affected areas as they did in settling the Indo china war. The big powers would reach an understanding in direct nego tiations and there would be fewer and fewer military pacts. In this connection Nehru particu larly condemned the Baghdad Pact. There was no official com ment in Western capitals on the Israeli position that Hammars skjold had failed to resolve the differences between Israel and Egypt. President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan merely agreed pub licly at their Bermuda confer ence not to do or say anything that would imperil the Ham marskjold position. They forged a joint Mid-East policy, but it remained top secret. Hammarskjold himself inter rupted his talks with Nasser and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Faw zi today and flew to the Suez Canal Zone to watch the UN salvage team begin raising the last obstacle in the main channel to the southwest, Daly City, bore the brunt of it. After the main quake Friday, which had a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale, a series of aftershocks continued to jiggle the area. The University of Cali fornia counted 120 by Sunday afternoon. As time went on, only sensitive seismographs could .de tect them. District Closed Off Daly City police closed off the Westlake Palisades district along the ocean Sunday because of the throngs of sightseers who mo tored to the area. "The crowds were so thick that if a fire had broke out, the engines couldn't have gotten in," a police officer said. City Manager Harold Stites of Daly City estimated from 500 to 1,000 homes in his suburb were damaged. Civil Defense Director Harry Koch, San Ma the sunken freighter Edgar Bonnet near Ismailia, midway through the canal. Only one major obstacle re mains after that, the frigate Abukir near Suez, and ships of 10,000 tons are expected to be gin transiting the canal as soon as Egypt gives permission. The Egyptian Suez Canal Au thority announced today the waterway was open to ships up to 4.000 tons. Israeli newspapers demanded that an Israeli .ship try- to use the canal the moment it is de clared open, but Israeli sources said the U.S. State Department opposed such a move. Israel was reported using the Gulf of Aqaba in the meantime despite Egyptian and Saudi Arabian declarations the gulf was closed to Israeli shipping. Roberts Bound Oyer To Grand Jury Today Ted Vinson Roberts, 19, Klam ath Falls, waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury after appearing in district court today on charges of failing to stop at the scene of an accident involving bodily in jury. Roberts, who is represented by Ervin B. Hogan, was arrested by city police March 16 after running several red lights and hitting another car at the inter section of East Main st. and Riv erside ave. Driver of the other car, three passengers and two girl pedestri ans were injured in the accident. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indust rials 471.51, off 1.43; 20 railroads 143.47, off 0.0e- 15 utilities 70.69, off 0.09; and 65 stocks 166.81, off 0.34. Sales today were about 1, 590,000 shares compared with 1,610,000 sha-es Friday. PLANNERS TO MEET Revised bylaws will be re viewed and other unfinished bus iness will be discussed at a meeting of the Jackson county planning commission at 7:30 p.m. today in the courthouse an nex conference room. teo, said damage in the Daly City area might amount to $500,000. John Doelger, official of the firm that developed the West lake and Westlake Palisades tracts of Daly City, surveyed the area. There are about 4,000 homes in both tracts. "There are about 200 homes that show damage," he said. "Of these, about 20 are what you would call severely damaged." Schools Ordered Reopened He estimated the average re pair cost at between $50 and $200. In San Francisco, Superintend ent of Schools Harold Spears ordered all schools reopened to day, including Sheridan Elemen tary school, the hardest hit. Janitors worked overtime dur ing the week end cleaning up fallen plaster and shattered glass. Seven-State Area Hard Hit by Storm As Many Stranded Illinois, Missouri Expected To Feel Fury Amarillo, Tex. (U.R) A great blizzard that piled up snow drifts as deep as 30 feet roared eastward today, but the toll of persons who died increased steadily as rescue crews burrow ed into the drifts. At least 12 persons were dead, three in Texas, two in ' Nebraska, two in Kansas and five in Oklahoma. Four of the victims in Okla homa were men whose bodies were found in a highway de partment maintenance truck, stalled in a drift, in the Okla homa Panhandle. Three of the four men were employees of the highway department. The blizzard, which began Friday and started easing on its southern edge early today, hit seven states, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexi co, Nebraska and Missouri. As it moved out of Texas and Oklahoma,' leaving endless snow fields 'of Northern Missouri, Northern Illinois and Southern Iowa expected soon to begin feeling its fury. "We may have a story that's not pretty to tell when we are able to get to some of those cars and get to looking into them," Sgt. R. G. Gravestock of the Amarillo sheriff's office said. There may be dozens of mo torists lost out there: we iust don't know," a spokesman for the Oklahoma Highway Depart ment said. "We can't even get our snowplows through." He reported the missing in Oklahoma included "fully a dozen" highway workers, includ ing some not heard from since Saturday. Rescue crews in Okla homa fought drifts up to 30 feet in an effort to get through. A total of at least 4,000 per sons, including 1,500 in the Pan handle of Texas where trees were beginning to bud and the range to get green, were mar ooned by the storm. The persons officials were worried about were those stalled in automobiles on remote roads without food throughout the bliz zard. They may have frozen. Four crack passenger trains were stalled in the snow in Kan sas. The Rock Island Railroad prepared to fly food supplies and a physician to 225 persons mar ooned in a train near Meade, Kan., for more than 48 hours. Some 20 persons became ill on Sunday night from "leakine zas fumes of some sort' but were re covered today. All passengers were removed by military equipment from the Santa Fe's eaatbound Grand Can yon Limited near Lakin, Kan., and the westbound Grand Can yon, stalled east of Dodge City. The Union Pacific said it had been unable to contact its west bound City of St. Louis, stalled near Winona, Kan. All roads in the Texas Pan handle were either blocked or "extremely dangerous." But in Kansas, the Highway Patrol said, 'the picture hasn't changed during the night." West ern Kansas was paralyzed: at least four passenger trains in Kansas were stalled and an esti mated 300 automobiles were snowbound. Five persons stranded in a grain elevator near Sublette, Kan., ate dog food and boiled raw wheat in the cans to appease their hunger. The Western Light and Telephone company at Great Bend, Kan., estimated that two thirds of its 50,000 customers were without electricity. Spears estimated damage to all schools at $50,000. San Francisco Works Director Sherman P. Duckel said he would ask for a special appro priation of $30,000 to repair Lake Merced blvd., sections of which slipped into Lake Merced when the earth shifted. Mayor To Call Meeting Mayor George Christopher said he would call city department heads for a meeting today or Tuesday to study how to avert the communications tie-up that beset the city Friday. As soon as the quake took place, so many thousands rushed to their telephones that it took as much as 30 minutes to an hour to complete a call of any kind, even an emergency call. The mayor thought he might suggest a special radio service for such emergencies. (See Stories and Photo Pag 13)