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To Work
Siejjped-Up Plans
jftflU. Missiles
T&ffilain Coming
3r Atomic Warheads
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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.
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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.
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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)