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Portland Mayor Is
Indicted by Grand
Jury on Bribery
Portland, Ore. (U.R: Mayor
Terry D. Schrunk of Portland
said today he will demand an
immediate trial on bribery and
perjury charges filed against
him by a grand jury.
"I m convinced that I will
be acquitted of these ridiculous
charges," Schrunk said.
The Multnomah county grand
jury returned a total of seven
indictments Thursday against
Schrunk, District Attorney Wil
liam Langley, Clifford O. Ben
nett, ex-night club operator
here, and police officer Richard
Sutter.
Schrunk, Langley and Ben
nett recently appeared in Wash
ington 9s witnesses before the
Senate Rackets committee.
Mayor Potts Bond
Schrunk surrendered to two
indic'gients specifically charg
ing him with receiving and
agreeing to receive a bribe, and
with Pjrjury. He posted $1,000
bond on each charge.
Langley was accused of con-
O spiracy to commit the felony of
receiving and agreeing to re
ceive a bribe as an executive of
ficer, conspiring to hinder and
obstruct justice, and for incom
petency, corruption, malfeasance
posted $1,000 bond on each of
the ifcree charges.
Langley ' had been indict
ed previously but has remained
in offsjp- because there is no
Oregon law calling for removal
of officials under indictment.
However, ie attorney general's
offic has been handling the
local Grand Jury investigation
in3k it was ordered to do so
ytr by ex-Gov. Elmo Smith.
pveitl witnesses testified be
fore the Senate committee that
Schrunk, when he was sheriff
of Multnomah County, had ac
cepted a $300 bribe from Ben
nett during the course of a
sambling raid.
Schrunk denied under oath
that he had taken any bribe. The
indictment did not specify any
amount.
Bennett invoked the Fifth
Amendment when the Senate
committee questioned him about
the matter? The grand jury ac
cused him of perjury as a result
of its own investigation.
Sutter Charged Similarly
The grand jury also charged
Sutter with perjury.
The officer testified about the
alleged bribe before a grand
jury last summer. In November,
he signed an affidavit recant
ing his testimony that he had
seen Schrunk pick up an en
velope supposed to contain the
$300.
Langley was quizzed by the
Senate committee about an al-.-iyged
tie-up with Teamsters
union officials and racketeers to
"take over" gambling and other
vice operations in Portland. He
invoked the Fifth Amendment.
The grand jury handed down
four other indictments, but they
were not immediately disclosed.
Police Block Highway
After Yreka Alarm
An eight-hour road block was
maintained on Highway 99 near
the California border last night
after state police here received
an alarm from the Siskiyou
county sheriff s office.
Sheriff's officers at Yreka
called state police at 10:42 p.m.
Thursday, saying a car believed
to be occupied by George Cole,
a California man wanted in con
nection with the recent slaying
of a San Francisco police offi
cer, was believed to be headed
in this direction. They said the
man had been tentatively identi
fied by photographs.
Eariy this morning. Siskiyou
sheriff's officers reprtcd thex had
located the car and learned the
occupant was no Cole. The road
block was lifted at 7:15 a.m.
today.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.P. Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 industri
als 474.81. off 0.20: 20 railroads
144.05. off 0.38; 15 utilities 71.47,
off 0.11; and 65 stocks 168.00,
rJ 0.19. Sales today were about
l.$50.000 shares compared with
1,930,000 shares Thursday.
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Oregon Senate Passes
Key District Plan
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
Senate voted 17 to 13 today in
favor of Senate bill 64. known
as the key district plan to intro
duce a new system of distribut
ing state basic school support
funds.
Opposition to the .measure was
led by senators from Portland
and from large sections of east-
President Leaves
For Week End Rest
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower left by automo
bile today for a restful week end
at his Gettysburg Pa., farm.
He was accompanied by Col.
Walter Tkach, assistant White
House physician. The President
is still bothered somewhat by a
cough.
Before leaving, the President
met with his Cabinet, held an
extended conference with a
group of Republican and Demo
cratic congressional leaders,
kicked off the annual financial
drive for the American Cancer
Society, and spoke briefly to
several hundred members of the
National Press Photographers
association.
In addition to getting a rest
the President will have a re
union with Mrs. Eisenhower who
has been at the farm for two
weeks. She went to Gettysburg
at the time Mr. Eisenhower left
by Navy cruiser for the Bahamas
and Bermuda.
Workman Faces
Suit for Damages
Lawrence Alvis Workman, 25.
Seattle, appeared in circuit court
Thursday afternoon for pre-trial
deposition.
A complaint has been filed by
Robert R. Dickey, administrator
of the estate of John E. Engler,
asking for $20,000 damages.
Workman was held by police
earlier this week as the driver
of a vehicle which struck Engler,
25, of Seattle, as Engler was
pushing his stalled vehicle north
on Highway 99 at Talent Sunday
evening. Engler died 3V. hours
later in a local hospital. Charges
of negligent homicide against
Workman were dropped Wednes
day after a preliminary hearing
in district court because of in
sufficient evidence.
Workman is represented by
James Main with Manville M.
Heisel, attorney for the Engler
estate.
Nehru Reelected Leader
Of Governing Congress
New Delhi. India U.R) Jaw-
aharlal Nehru was reelected
leader of the governing Congress
party today, insuring his contin-
uation as Prime Minister
it: i;i ..--it- If4 rtut !
. k
by Congress party memoers
chosen to Parliament in the re-
cent general elections.
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iuvutn c ic
seek
Gotten Any Closer?"
ern and southeastern Oregon.
Arguments for the measure
were voiced by' senators from
western Oregon outside of Mult
nomah county and from southern
Oregon.
Voting for the measure, which
now., goes - to the House, were
Sens. Belton, Cameron, Chap
man, Chase, Dimick, Francis,
Gill, Hare. Husband Leth,
Lowry Naterlin, Ohmart, Schle
singer, Swcetland, Thicl and
Ziegler.
Voting against the measure
were Sens. Boivin, Brady, Cook,
Corbett, G 1 e a s o n, Hopkins,
Lewis, Musa, Pearson, Quiring,
Wilhelm, Yturri and Overhulse.
A motion was made by Sen.
Ward Cook of Portland to re
refer the bill to the Senate Edu
cation committee on grounds
that it contained defects that
had to be corrected. But oppon
ents to the motion said the de
fects could be ironed out in the
House. That motion lost and the
main question was put.
Speaking for Bill
Speaking for SB64 were Sens.
Monroe Sweetland of Milwau
kie, chairman of the education
committee; Donald R. Husband
of Eugene, Philip Lowry of Med
ford and Dan Dimick of Rose-
burg.
Speaking against the measure
were Sens. Rudie Wilhelm Jr.
Jean Lewis and Cook, all of
Portland.
The bill was taken up as a
special order of business at 10:15
a.m., and a packed gallery heard
the debate which lasted until
after the noon hour.
The Senate recessed until 2
p.m. with several measures still
to come up for third reading
and final Senate action.
Under the measure, Portland
would be the key district and
needs of other school districts
throughout Oregon would be
based upon a scale using Port
land as the standard.
Provision for
Areas Removed by House
Salem (U.R) The House bill
535 removing a provision in the
law for setting up timber market
ing areas on state land passed
the House 41-13 yesterday.
Rep. W. O. Kelsay, Roseburg
Democrat, said the marketing
areas had never been used and
that the state board of forestry
did not intend to use them to
limit processing of timber to
local areas.
Marketing Areas
. Kelsay said there are market
ing areas now only on bureau of
land management forest lands,
but he said the bureau was con
siderine abandoning them.
! Rep. Clarence Barton. Coquille
Democrat, opposed the bill on
grounds it might open up some
6.000 acres of Coos county land
now managed by the state to
'raiding by other counties who
managed their timber less
effectively.
Barton's move to have Coos
county excepted from the act
n urch 29, 1957
OmmedrateTirrafl
Convoy of Ships
Starts Through
Suez Canal Today
By WALTER LOGAN
United Press Correspondent
A convoy sailed through the
Suez canal today for the first
time since the triple invasion of
Egypt five months ago, but a
Jordani machine gun attack on
an Israeli freight train ended
hopes the period of Mideast cri
sis was over.
However, a sandstorm halted
the convoy in the Great Bitter
Lakes, about halfway up the
canal on its way to the Mediter
ranean. Officials said that it
would continue Saturday if the
weather permits.
An Israeli military spokesman
said machine gun fire was
opened on the train Thursday
night from the Jordan strong
point of Talkarem, 10 miles
north of Qalqilya on the Israeli
frontier, scene of a major Is
raeli retaliatory raid last Oct.
10-11.
No casualties were reported,
but the attack north of Jerusa
lem where Jordan bulges into
former Palestine territory was
expected to inflame Israeli feel
ings, already tense because of
recent ambushes and minor Fe
dayeen attacks.
The Israeli raid on Qalqilya,
which came less than a month
before invasion of the Sinai des
ert, killed 66 persons.
Ten ships entered the 101-mile-long
Sueza canal at Suez
shortly after Egypt suddenly de
clared the canal open to big
ships. The action was timed to
come before the West could or
ganize opposition to Egypt's de
mand for payment first and
passage later.
Egypt demanded and received
full dues from each ship before
it was allowed to sail from Suez
into the canal.
In other Mideast develop
ments: '
Informed sources in Cairo
said the $20 million to pay for
the UN salvage operation prob
ably would be collected by im
posing a special surcharge on
canal tolls.
Jerusalem dispatches said
the Israeli cabinet had decided
to recall Ambassador Abba S.
Eban from Washington. This
would be Israel's admission of
failure in agreeing through Eban
to withdraw from the Gaza
strip, sources there said.
Auditing of School
Budgets Under Way
Auditing of the school dis
trict budgets by the rural school
board has gone into (the third
day, according to county school
officials.
During the audit any neces
sary changes are made in the
budgets that have been compiled
by the individual districts. Be
fore April 10, the board will
notify the districts of any
changes and they may request
a hearing.
Notification of final action on
the budget by the board will be
AprU 20.
Marketing
failed after Rep. George Annala.
Hood River Democrat, said the
Coos timber was on small tracts
that would not be of interest to
large operators because of the
expense of hauling it out of the
county.
Counties Affected
Annala said 16 counties
would be affected by removal
of the marketing restrictions.
He said the only objection was
from Coos county and that the
county's timber amounted to
only about 1 per cent of the
total affected.
Some 647,000 acres of timber
are now managed by the state
forest service.
Barton and Rep. Robert Klem
sen, St. Helens Democrat, dis
agreed over whether a repre
sentative should be primarily
interested in representing his
own district or the whole state.
Barton contended he was obliged
to place the position of Coos
county before tha House.
1RIBUNE
Committee
Proposed
A proposed budget of $2,807,
146.59 for 1957-58 has been sub
mitted to the Jackson county
budget committee. It will be
considered at a meeting of the
committee late next week.
The proposed budget exceeds
the approved 1956-57 budget by
$161,877.52. The current budget
is $2,645,269.07.
Guy Cramer Found
Innocent by Jury
In Klamath Falls
Klamath Falls (U.R) Ac
quittal of Guy Earl Cramer, 76,
of a first degree murder charge
because of insanity left a legal
snarl in its wake today.
A Circuit Court jury here yes
terday found Cramer innocent
of the slaying of Fred Peterson,
County Welfare commission
chairman, on Jan. 4. The jurors
adjudged Cramer insane at the
time he shot up a welfare com
mission meeting, killing Peter
son and wounding two others.
The jury 'decided Cramer was
insane as of Jan. 4. Since Jan. 4,
a Klamath county medical exam
iner ruled Cramer was sane. The
result has left officials uncertain
as to legal procedure, but Judge
David R. Vandenberg ordered
the county clerk to proceed to
call a jury for Monday to try
Cramer on a charge of assault
to kill Mrs. Altha Urquhart,
county welfare administrator.
Judge Vandenberg said pres
ent law does not specify proced
ure for committing Cramer to
an institution nor the institu
tion to which he should be held.
Cramer attorneys based their
plea by saying their client suf
fered from hallucination and
that he claimed that his guard
ian angel instructed him to "cast
fire on thine enemies.
Peterson was. killed and Mrs
Urquhart and Jerry Rajnus were
wounded during a welfare meet
ing. ,
Youth Pinned Under
Vehicle in River
"Rogue River A badly
skinned leg was the only injury
suffered by Ray Hilton, 19, of
2599 Lone Pine rd., Medford
early Wednesday morning after
the car he was operating
plunged into the Rogue river at
Fots creek, trapping him under
the water.
Hilton barely escaped death
when his car was submerged in
18 to 20 feet of wate.r after he
lost control of the car and it
swerved across Pacific highway
into the river.
The 19-year-old boy was re
ported as saying, "I had to push
with all my strength to get the
door open against the current-
He was slightly injured when
water pressure forced the door
against his leg. Once free of the
door, he swam ashore and went
for help, it was reported.
He was picked up by a Calif
ornia-Oregon-Nevada freight run
on a pre-dawn run to Medford.
The car was pulled from the
river by Dick's Wrecker service
of Medford Wednesday night.
The youtii lives with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hilton,
Medford.
Trial Set April 12
On Assault Charge
The trial date of an Ashland
man and a Medford couple was
set for April 12 at 10 a.m.. by
District Court Judge Rawles
Moore Thursday afternoon.
The three had pleaded inno
cent in district court earlier to
charges of assault and battery in
connection with a reported beat
ing of Mrs. John Drager, " 272
Orange St., Ashland, in Ashland
Sunday.
Released on $500 bond each
are Guy Fred Witham, 62, of
route 1, box 101, Ashland, and
Mr. and Mrs. Lorren Cecil Keck,
2645 South Stage rd., Medford
Harbison and Piazza law firm
lis representing tha three.
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United Press Full Leased Wirt)
No. 7
Receives
Budget
Individual county department
heads have made requests total
ing $1,158,599.20 for the 1957-58
budget. Other proposed expendi
tures, including those for gen
eral road, county library, emer
gency, civil defense, courthouse
construction and county school
purposes, total $ZU7,3ZU. out
side of the 6 per cent limitation
are the Jackson county Histori
cal fund, $18,864, and the juven
ile detention home operation and
maintenance fund, $12,500.
Estimated receipts for the
1957 - 58 budget year total
$2,807,146.59, the same figure
as the proposed budget. No tax
levy would be required if the
proposed budget were to be
adopted, according to committee
members.
Ask Funds
Request by individual county
departments and comparisons
with 1956-57 budget allocations
are as follows: county court,
$24,021.40 (3.7 per cent in
crease); circuit court, $21,540.40
(10.5 per cent increase); district
court, $12,252.50 (12 per cent
increase); justice court, Ashland,
$7,336 (3.4 per cent increase);
justice court, Gold Hill, $2,680
(1.3 per cent decrease); sheriff,
$101,305.64 (9.2 per cent in
crease); clerk,' $70,871.20 (13.6
per cent increase).
Election, $29,815.55 (no
change); treasurer, $10,703.40 18
per cent increase); school super
intendent, $26,902.66 (41.9 per
cent increase); assessor, $118,329
(31.5 per cent increase); (Court
house, $35,834.85, (16.4 per cent
increase); jail, $22,160 (0.6 per
cent decrease); county farm,
$74,755 (5.3 per cent increase);
care of poor not at county farm,
$229,846 (4 per cent increase);
miscellaneous relief, $14,000,
(133.3 per cent increase).
County compensation, $360
(no change); Red Cross, $1,500
(no change); indigent veterans,
$1,500 (no change); coroner,
$1,200 (no change); juvenile,
$32,504.62 (81.5 per cent in
crease); health department, $96,
341.40 (0.02. per cent decrease);
mosquito control, . $8,500 (41.7
per cent increase); surveyor,
$9,635.40 (no change); water mas
ter, $16,805 (7.3 per cent in
crease); district attorney, $19,
021.40 (7.4 per cent increase).
Other Requests
Fruit inspection, $1,550 (12.3
per cent increase); county agents,
$19,662 (no change); miscellane
ous general county, $119,540.78
(5 per cent decrease); veterans
service officer, $8,285 (14 per
cent increase); board of equaliza
tion, $650 (35 per cent decrease);
constable, $8,190 (0.7 per cent
decrease); and planning commis
sion, $11,000 (10 per cent in
crease). Requests for other services in
clude: general road fund, $1,286,
841.72 (0.2 per cent increase);
Jackson county library fund,
$30,000 (25 per cent increase);
emergency fund, $50,000 (25 per
cent increase); civil defense fund,
$8,021.67 (8.5 per cent decrease);
and courthouse construction,
$35,000 (40 per cent increase).
McKennon Appointed
Acting Ag Director
Salem (U.R) Frank McKen
non, chief of the division of plant
industry since 1935, was named
by Gov. Robert D. Holmes today
to serve as acting director of the
state department of agriculture.
McKennon will serve in the
interim period between April 1
and the end of the 1957 legisla
tive session, at which time Rep.
Robert Steward, Keating Demo
crat, is scheduled to take over
the post.
McKennon succeeds J. F.
Short, who had agreed to remain
on at the request of Gov. Holmes.
Last week he asked to be per
mitted to leave at the earlier date
to take another position.
The acting director was named
to the plant industry post May
1. 1935 after being engaged in
farming and land bank apprais
ing in Union county for several
years.
Washington (U.R) The United
States and Iran were reported
ready today to put up ransom if
Iranian kidnapers of Mrs. Anita
Carroll demand money for her
safe return.
DAVE BECK
Trial Date Set
Beck's Heir Pleads
Innocent to Trying
To Bribe Prober
Washington (U.R) Pudgy
James R. Hoffa, heir apparent
of Dave Beck as president of the
giant Teamsters Union, pleaded
not guilty today to charges of
trying to bribe a Senate Rackets
committee investigator.
Miami attorney Hyman I.
Fischbach, a codefendant, also
entered a plea of innocent.
Federal Judge Richmond B.
Keech fixed the date of trial for
both for May 27.
Hoffa's attorney, Edward Ben
nett Williams, said he would
prefer a date during the first
week in June. Keech said he
should take up the possibility of
a postponement with the assign
ment commissioner.
Declines To Comment
The judge gave Williams
three weeks in which to present
motions which the attorney de
scribed as of transcendent and
overriding importance."
Keech continued Hoffa's $25,
000 bond and directed Fischbach
to post a local bond of $10,000
The attorney previously posted
bond in Miami.
Questioned by newsmen after
the arraignment, the pint-sized
teamsters official said: "I have
no comment whatever. This is
legal matter, and not one to be
tried in the papers. I'm sure you
understand."
He did tell newsmen, how
ever, that "Nobody has been af
ter our records." He made the
statement when asked if the
Rackets committee has been
seeking his records in the Cen
tral States Teamsters Confer
ence.
Williams, asked for comment
on the "very complex" motions
he intends to offer, said he
could not comment on them at
this time.
Williams, a noted young trial
lawyer, defended Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy (R-Wis.) during Sen
ate censure hearings in 1954.
A Grand Jury -returned the
three-count indictment against
Hoffa and Fischbach March 19.
The jury was hastily called
March 14 less than 24 - hours
after FBI agents arrested the
chunky labor leader in a plush
Washington hotel.
The government charges that
Hoffa, a ninth vice president of
the teamsters, passed $3,000 in
bribe money to Senate investiga
tor John Cye Cheasty to filch
committee documents on him
when he was arr ited.
Jacksonville Man
Enters Guilty Plea
Alan John McBelh, post office
box 152, Jacksonville, pleaded
guilty in district court Thursday
to charges of driving while un
der the influence of intoxicat
ing liquor.
McBeth, who was arrested by
Oregon state police Aug. 14,
1956, has previously pleaded in
nocent to the charge and trial
was set for March 28.
He was fined $250 plus $5
court costs and given a 30 days
suspended jail sentence during
good behavior by District Court
Judge Rawles Moore. McBeth
also had his driver's license sus
pended for 90 days.
Visiting Off icials View Local
National Guard Armory
About 12 officials from Mar
ion and Polk counties, Salem and
the state military department
were in Medford yesterday to
inspect the new National Guard
armory, now nearing comple
tion in south Medford.
Among them were Col. Paul
Kliever. director of armories
and facilities for the state mili
tary department. Salem; Col.
Robert Irving, regismental com
mander of the Oregon National
Guard; and Salem City Manager
Kent Mathewsbo. Salem city
councilmen and chamber of
commerce members also at
tended. The inspection was in connec
tion with a new National Guard
armory planned for Salem. The
Group Suspends
Teamsters' Boss;
Union Probe Called
Extraordinary Meeting
Lasts About 2 Hours
Washington UB The AFL
CIO Executive council today or
dered teamsters boss Dave Beck
to stand trial May 20 on charges
of "bringing the labor move
ment into disrepute."
In an extraordinary meeting
lasting less than two hours tha
council also:
Suspended Beck as an AFL-
CIO vice president.
Ordered an investigation- of
the 1,540,000-member Teamsters
Union to determine whether it
is substantially dominated or
controlled by corrupt influ
ences." Beck, a vice president of the
AFL-CIO, has refused -2
grounds of possible self incrimi
nation to tell the Senate Rackets
committee whether he "misap
propriated" more than $322,000
of teamsters funds. He did not
attend today's council session.
The actions were announced
after a meeting at AFL-CIO
headquarters that lasted less
than two hours.
The council is made up of
AFL-CIO President George
Meany, Secretary-Treasurer Wil
liam Schnitzler, and 26' vice
presidents, including Beck.
The council directed Meany
to file charges against Beck as
a vice president of the federa
tion for his action in bringing
the labor movement into disre
pute and his failure to explain
the many charges brought
against him regarding the mis
handling of union funds."
Beck was suspended pending
the disposition of these charges.
-he council also directed the
AFL-CIO's Ethical Practices
Committee "to investigate the
situation in the teamsters to
determine whether or not the
Teamsters Union is substantially
dominated or controlled by cor
rupt influences."
The action against Beck was
unprecedented in the AFL and
CIO in that the action involved
an officer so high in the labor
movement.
The Teamsters Union is the
fourth to be investigated by the
AFL-CIO Ethical Practices com
mittee on charges of corruption.
Suspension Possible
If the Ethical Practices com
mittee and the Executive council
should find the teamsters to be
dominated by corruption, it could
lead to suspension of the union
from the AFL-CIO
Three small unions, the Dis-.
tillery Workers, the Laundry
Workers, and the Allied Indus
trial Workers Unions, are pres
ently on notice to "clean house"
or be thrown out of the AFL
CIO on corruption charges.
Upon a finding that a union
is dominated by corruption he
council has authority to direct
it to take certain steps to clean
house and to suspend t from the
AFL-CIO if it fails to do so.
Meany called today's meeting
last Tuesday shortly after Beck
refused on grounds of possible
self incrimination to answer Sen
ate Rackets Committee charges
that he "may have misappropri
ated" more than $322,000 in
teamsters money.
Beck protested in Seattle that
Meany called the council meet
ing with such little notice that
he was deprived of his right to
attend.
Weather
FORECAST: Partly cloudy to
cloudy tonight and Saturday
-with decreasing shower activ
ity. Cooler. Low tonight it.
High Saturday 62.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday
Lowest this Morning at
Prec to 10 a-m. Today .06
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise 6:00 a.m.
Sunset 6:34 p.m.
Woonrise Saturday 5:23 p.m.
New Moon March 31
PROMINENT STARS
Sirius. in the south
west 9:22 p.m.
Procyon. well above Sirius.
PROMINENT
CONSTELLATIONS .
Orion, in the southwest 7:34 p.m.
Leo, high in south 9:47 p.m.
proposed Salem armory would
serve National Guard troops
there and house offices of state
National Guard officials, Med
ford City Manager Robert Duff
reported.
The Salem officials were ac
companied on their inspection
by Medford and Jackson county
officials, including Duff, Mayor
John Snider, City Councilman
Stanley Jones, County Judge
Rodney Keating, County Com
missioners Chester Wendt and
Ralph James; architects Jack
Edson and Bob Keeney; and one
of the contractors of the build
ing, W. McLoughlin.
The visiting officials arrived
from Salem by plane about 12:45
p.m. and left Medford about 4
p.m. Thursday.