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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1957
No. 8
U.S. Expected to
Offer $75 Million
In Aid to Poland
Government Sought
4300 Million
Washington (U.R) The
United States is expected to of
fer Communist Poland some $75
million worth of economic aid,
it was disclosed Saturday.
Administration officials said
n aid program of this approxi
mate size is up for final study
by President Eisenhower and
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles. An announcement of the
American offer may . be made
next week.
Such an offer would be only
a fraction of the $300 million in
aid the Polish government
sought in talks which began
here Feb. 26.
Poland, which has been seek
ing to loosen its ties with Mos
cow, wanted approximately $100
million worth of mining and
agricultural machinery, about
$200 million more in cotton, and
mtre than a million tons of food
grains. The Polish shopping list
includes wheat, corn, barley, rye,
fats and oils.
U.S. officials were overwhelm
ed bythe amount of aid Poland
sought, and pointed out early
in the negotiations that the $300
million bid just could not be
met.
Poland would pay, in one way
or another, for all the $75 mil
lion in aid it receives.
As it now shapes up, the $75
million project would be started
in carefully-controlled phases.
This would allow the United
States to cut off the program
quicky if the Polish Communist
regime moved closer to Moscow.
American officials relieve the
program would provide enough
aid, as a starter, to let Poland's
20 million people know there is
hope for them if they tighten
their ties with the West and re
main aloof from the Soviet line.
There is some doubt whether
Poland will accept-1he $75 mil
lion aid proposal.
Any American aid offer is
sure to run into some congress
ional nposition. Senate Minority
Leader William F. Knowland (R
Calif.). is opposedt o aid. But
several Democratic senators and
Rep. Thomas S. Gordon, (D-IU.),
chairman of the House Foreign
Affairs committee have come out
in favor of aid to Poland.
Women's Clothing
Taken From Rooms
Thirty-five dollars in currency
a(d miscellaneous women's
clothing valued at $300 were re
ported taken Friday In a burg
lary at an apartment occupied
by Mrs. Margaret Emma Riley,
217 Soutft Riverside ave., Med
ford. Mrs. Riley told city police the
burglary occurred between 2:50
and 10:30 p.m.
Officers said the apartment
was apparently entered through
a kitchen window. They said
the window screen had been re
moved after it Was unlocked by
the burglar, who apparently
reached the lock through a hole
In the screen.
After ransacking the kitchen
and living room, the burglar
took the money, which had been
placed in a jewel box, and the
clothing, and left through the
front door of the apartment, po
lice) said.
Investigation by officers is
still in progress.
Prince Rainier Sells
Yacht for $142,350
Paris U.R Prince Rainier of
Monaco Saturday sold his 29-year-old
yacht "Deo Juvante" on
which he spent his honeymoon
with Princess Grace last April.
The ship was bought by Homes
Lines company founded in 1948
in Panama City. The reported
price was $142,350.
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River Basin Compact
Ready For Governor
Salem (U.R) The Klamath
river basin compact with Cali
fornia was ready for the consid
eration ' of Gov. Robert D.
Holmes Saturday after the House
passed it Friday with only one
dissenting vote.
Final action on the compact
was delayed pending an inves
tigation by the Judiciary com
mittee of changes in administra
tive procedures that should be
made in the compact.
However, Rep. Robert Duncan
Medford Democrat, said his com
mittee felt it would be too com
plicated to confer with Califor-
Mrs. T. L. Roberts,
Ex-School Teacher,
Dies at Her Home
Mrs. Thora Lawrence Roberts,
for many years a Medford school
teacher and administrator, and
later a jewelry store proprietor
here, died at her home Friday
afternoon. She was 77.
Funeral services will be held
at Conger-Morris Funeral home
at 10 a.m. Monday, with the
Rev. George R. V. Bolster, of St.
Mark's Episcopal church, offic
iating. Commital will follow in
the IOOF cemetery.
Pallbearers will Include Vic
tor Sether, Ben Trowbridge, Tod
Tibbutt, Otto Frohnmayer, H. D.
Christensen and Bert Lageson.
Honorary palbearers will be E.
H. Hedrick, Lcland Brophy, J.
C. Collins, and George Grabow.
Mrs. Roberts was born in
Kingston, Tenn., on Jan. 20,
1880. At the age of six, she came
to Phoenix, Ore. with her par
ents the late William H. and El
izabeth Pickle Smith, and later
attended what was then Ash
land Normal school (now South
ern Oregon college), graduating
in 1906.
Taught In Alaska
As a teacher, she went to
Alaska and taught for four
years, returning to Oregon in
1914, enrolling at the Univer
sity of Oregon, from which she
graduated. Returning to Medford
she taught for many years in
both grade and high schools, re
tiring from teaching in 1928 as
principal of Jackson school.
That same year she was mar
ried in Tucson. Ariz., to John
F. Lawrence. He preceded . her
in death in 1944, and until 1952,
when she sold the Lawrence
Jewelry store, she operated the
establishment.
On April 25. 1950, she was
married to Dr. Frank Roberts of
Medford, who survives. They
have made their home at 2218
East Main st.
She was an active worker in
St. Mark's Episcopal church for
a number of years, and belonged
to the Zonta, Eastern Star,
Daughters of the Nile, Zulemia
Temple; American Association
of University Women, and the
League of Women Voters.
Survivors beside her husband
include a brother, Justin Smith,
and a sister, Mrs. Grace Cle
mans, both of Medford.
GOP Central Group
Names James Short
Portland (U.R) The Re
publican Central committee Sat
urday chose James F. Short as
its new chairman but postponed
for further study a proposal to
make the job salaried.
Short, who is a former direct
or of agriculture from Salem,
Ore., used to live at Redmond,
where he still operates a live
stock ranch.
Short. 54. succeeds Astoria at
torney Wendell Wyatt who re
signed to resume his law prac
tice. Sunday newspaper reading.
In addition to articles of inter
est, each issue brings recipes for
homemakers, and a page of puz
zles, stories and games for
younger members of the family.
Among the features in next
Sunday's edition will be articles
on gardening, recipes, the wide
spread use of handy folding fur
niture, knitted swimming suits,
an article about Red Skelton and
his family, a description of how
teen-agers learn safe driving in
school programs, a story on big
game hunting, as well as jokes,
cartoons, and other attractions.
The New Mail Tribune sup
plement will be distributed to
subscribers at no additional sub
scription cost.
nia and make the changes sug
gested. The bill passed un
changed. Similar legislation is now in
the California House after pass
age by that state's Senate.
Duncan said it was of major
importance to get the compact
out now to assure that water
from the Klamath basin was not
diverted into the central valley
of California.
Duncan added that the com
pact would validate all claims on
the basin's water for domestic
use, irrigation, recreation, hy
droelectric and industrial uses.
Water Stays in Basin
Specifically, the compact pro
vides that waters diverted from
the Klamath river within the up
per Klamath river basin for use
in California shall not be taken
outside the Upper Klamath river
basin.
Objections that delayed pass
age of the compact centered on
whether the Klamath River Bas
in commission should have lim
ited rule-making power and
should not be suable. Both pro
visions are in the compact.
Duncan said that if any sec
tion of the compact was declared
unconstitutional, it would not af
fect other sections of the compact
not involved in the dispute.
Rep. Robert Bennett, Portland
Republican, said that the unlim
ited rule-making power given
the commission was probably un
constitutional. He voted against
passage.
Duncan agreed, but stated that
if unlimited rule-making was de
clared unconstitutional, it would
only affect the pollution pro
gram and not the major water
use agreement which is the heart
of the compact.
He added that if the Congress
approves the compact it will
give some precedent to the con
tention that states have the right
to determine the uses to which
they will put their water.
Local Man Killed
In Auto Accident
Fay E. Diamond, 82, of 723
Sherman st., Medford, was kill
ed and another Medford resident
was injured about 10:26 a.m.
Friday when their car overturn
ed on U. S. Highway 199 about
23 miles northeast of Crescent
City, Calif.
Injured was Raleigh C. Wy
att, 71, Medford, who was tak
en by ambulance to Seaside hos
pital at Crescent City. Wyatt
suffered a broken leg, accord
ing to California officials.
California state police said
the accident occurred when Wy
att, driver of a station wagon
pulling a trailer, swerved to
avoid a rock which fell on the
highway as a large truck ap
proached the station wagon.
The vehicle, which was trav
elling about 35 miles per hour,
crashed into a bank before it
turned over, police said. Impact
from the crash knocked the ve
hicle's engine into the front
seat, they added. The two men
were en route to Crescent City
on a fishing trip, according to
reports.
Diamond's body is being re
turned to Medford for services
and interment. Conger-Morris
Funeral home is in charge of arrangements.
Police Say President
Wasn't Speeding
Washington ' (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower's limousine did
not break any speed limits while
travelling through nearby Mont
gomery County, (MD.) en route
to Gettysburg, Friday, the coun
ty police superintendent insisted
Saturday.
Reporters immediately behind
the presidential car said the
speedometer on their automobile
was registering 70 miles an hur
when two county policemen
flagged them down to the legal
55-mile speed limit.
Col. James S. McAuliffe, coun
ty police superintendent, said
two policemen "got a glimpse of
the president's car three times
and on none of these occasions
was he observed breaking the
speed limit." The incident oc
curred when Mr. Eisenhower
was riding in his limousine, driv
en by a secret service agent, for
a week end visit to his Gettys
burg estate.
Vienna vU.R The Communist
radio said Saturday an Israeli
diplomat has been ordered out
of Czechoslovakia because he
was caught in the act of buying
information from an "Interna
tional spy ring."
U.S. Accused of
'Aiming to Starve'
Egypt by Nasser
Continue to Oppose
Israeli Ships in Suez
Cairo iU.P.) President Gamal
Abdel Nasser Saturday accused
the United States of "aiming to
starve" Egypt and pressure it
into surrender in its disputes
with Israel.
In one of his most bitter pub
lic attacks on United States
policy, Nasser indicated that he
would continue to oppose pass
age of Israeli ships through the
Suez Canal and the Gulf of
Aqaba.
He insisted that Egypt is not
Communist and wishes to be
friendly with the United States
since his government has a
"basically American" concept of
neutrality. But he added that
Egypt was more opposed than
ever to Israel.
Visiting Newsmen
As he spoke to a group of 30
visiting American newsmen, the
first convoy to clear the blocked
Suez Canal in five months
steamed through Port Said har
bor into the Mediterranean from
the Red Sea.
The convoy included Russian,
Italian and West German vessels.
Another five-ship convoy en
tered the canal at Suez. Opera
tion of the canal made it ap
parent the West would accept
Egypt's terms for running it as
an Egyptian operation.
In New Delhi, informed
sources said Egypt has agreed to
discuss Israel's right to use the
canal before the World Court at
The - Hague.
Nasser told his audience that
the canal and the Gulf of Aqaba,
despite claims to the contrary,
are territorial waters.
He said the United States re
fused t send wheat to Egypt
while Russia offered 600,000
tons of it for the hungry Egypt
ian people.
"The United States is aiming
to starve us," he said, "while
the Soviet Union is aiming to
help us."
He accused the United States
of talking about freedom of navi
gation but not "about freedom
of the refugees" of the Pales
tine war in the Gaza Strip whom
Israel refuses to take in.
Cramer Ordered to
Mental Hospital
Klamath Falls (U.R) The
two remaining charges against
76-yearold Guy Earl Cramer
were dismissed late Friday by
Circuit Judge David R. Vanden
berg. Cramer was found innicent
by a jury Thursday on a charge
of first degree murder because
of insanity.
Judge Vandenbcrg after dis
missing the two charges of as
sault with intent to kill ordered
Cramer committed to the Ore
gon state mental hospital.
The Bonanza welfare recipient
had admitted freely to the Jan.
4 fatal shooting of Fred Peter
son, 75, Klamath County Wel
fare Commission chairman, and
the critical wounding of Welfare
Administrator Mrs. Altha Urqu
hart, and Commissioner Jerry
Rainus.
The dismissal of the charges
was made on the motion of Dis
trict Attorney Beesley who stat
ed that the state did not have
sufficient evidence to overcome
"the adjudication of insanity"
made in the Thursday verdict.
Elmo Smith Buys
Albany Newspaper
Albany (U.R) Elmo Smith,
former governor of Oregon,
bought the Albany Democrat
Herald here Saturday, according
to a joint statement by Smith
and R. R. Cronise, its former
owner.
The owner of the Blue Moun
tain Eagle, John Day, Ore., and
co-owner of the Madras Pioneer,
Madras, will assume the position
of publisher and general man
ager of the paper Monday.
Cronise will remain on the
paper as advisory editor.
Smith was governor of Ore
gon in 1956 after being elevated
from his position as president of
the Oregon Senate at the death
of Governor Paul Patterson in
January, 1956. He was a mem
ber of the Oregon Senate from
1949.
Washington (U.R) Heli
copters "might" be used to evac
uate President Eisenhower from
Washington in an emergency.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty, has announc
ed.
Probers T
With
British Industry
May Be Paralyzed
By Growing Dispute
Half Million Walk
Off Jobs Saturday
London (U.R) Half a mil
lion more factory workers walk
ed off their jobs in the Greater
London area Saturday in a
growing wage dispute that
threatens to paralyze British in
dustry. The new walkouts brought to
1,700,000 the number of discon
tented employes who have gone
on strike to press demands for a
10 per cent pay raise. Some 200,
000 shipyard workers have been
out two weeks and one million
engineering workers have been
out a week.
Leaders to Meet
Leaders of 40 unions involved
in the mushrooming work stop
page will meet Tuesday to de
cide whether to call out another
1,500,000 engineering and fac
tory workers.
Hopes that the new walkouts
would be called off disappeared
Friday night when management
made a "final" offer well below
the union demands. The unions
flatly rejected it.
Labor Minister Iaen Mac
Leod had asked the union lead
ers to suspend their strike pend
ing investigations by two courts
of inquiry.
Interim Contract Demanded
The union leaders indicated
willingness to do so if the em
ployers granted 5 per cent in
creases immediately under an
"interim" contract.
Management came up with a
top offer of five to six shillings
(70 to 80 cents) a week an in
crease amounting to between 3
and 4 per cent.
It was the first meeting be
tween labor and management
since the engineering and fac
tory worker strikes began a
week ago seven days after
the shipyard strikes.
MacLeod has appointed sep
arate courts of inquiry for the
shipbuilding workers and en
gineering and factory workers.
Neither has had its first meet
ing. Industry sources estimated
the strike so far has cost Brit
ain more than 30 million dol
lars. Chessman Is Named
To Highway Group
Salem (U.R) Robert B.
Chessman, 36, publisher of the
Astorian-Budget and manager of
Astoria radio station KAST, was
named to the three-man State
Highway commission Friday by
Gov. Robert D. Holmes.
Chessman, who will give Ore
gon's populous first congression
al district its first representa
tion on the commission in eight
years, succeeds Ben R. Chandler
of Coos Bay whose term expires
March 31.
Chessman's term will be for
three years.
Chandler, chairman of the
commission and a member for
11 years, had announced he
would not be a candidate for re
appointment. Chessman's appointment pre
sented a unique father-son pat
tern on the Highway Commis
sion. His father, Merle R. Chess
man, a former state senator from
Clatsop county and Astorian
Budget publisher until his death,
served from 1943 to 1946 on the
commission.
Weather
FORECAST: Mostlr rloudy to
day, tnnirht and Monday with
hnt-er thrnurh tnnirht. HUh
fodav 55, low tonight 38, high
Monday 37.
TEMP.
Highest Yesterday 5ft
Lowest Yeiterdiy - 35
Our. Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunset ...
5:56 a.m.
6:36 p.m.
7:20 p.m.
April 7
Moonset .
First Quarter
VISIBLE PLANETS
Jupiter, in the east at sunset,
will be high in south
east 9:11 p.m.
Mars, in the west . 8:09 p.m.
Saturn, low in south-
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AFL-O
'Who
Porter to Be Master
Of Ceremonies at
7th Memorial Dinner
Congressman Charles O. Por
ter will act as master of cere
monies for the seventh annual
Roosevelt Memorial dinner to
be held at McLoughlin Junior
High school Saturday, April 27,
according to Democratic County
Chairman Larry Sheehan.
A telegram accepting the com
mittee's invitation to preside
was received yesterday, Shee
han said. Congressman Porter is
scheduled during the same week
to attend a series of flood con
trol and water resources meet
ings throughout the district, his
Eugene office has notified the
local committee.
Gov. G. Mennen Williams of
Michigan, recently listed by
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as one
of five topflight Democrats
qualified for the presidency (the
list also naming Oregon's Sen
ator Wayne Morse) will be guest
speaker at the dinner.
Introduced by Holmes
He will be introduced by Gov.
Robert D. Holmes, whose per
sonal invitation is bringing Gov
ernor Williams to Oregon. Ore
gon's first lady will also attend
the dinner, as will other state
and party leaders, Sheehan said.
James Redden, ticket chair
man for the dinner, has an
nounced that tickets are being
distributed to committee mem
bers. The ticket will include the
full dinner and an evening of
entertainment and no potluck
dishes will be requested this
year, according to Redden. Co-
Fire Season Starts
Officially Monday
The 1957 forest fire season
will officially start Monday,
April 1, state forestry officials
have announced.
All regulations pertaining to
the fire season will be in effect
then. Permits will be required
for burning on or within one
eighth mile radius of any forest
land. Logging and sawmill op
erators must be equipped with
regulation fire fighting tools in
order to continue operations, of
ficials stated.
Sawmill operators must have
forest service permits before
starting work, it was explained.
Anyone needing information per
taining to fire season regulations
may obtain it from forest inspec
tors. U.S. Should Pay More
For Canal, Experts Say
Panama City iU.R) Latin
American legal experts express
ed the opinion here Friday night
that the United States should
pay Panama a higher fee for the
use of the Panama canal.
Panama University's Interna
tional conference on interoceanic
canals adjourned without adopt
ing any formal resolutions, but
the consensus of those attending
was that the SI, 943,000 a year
Panama receives from the U.S.
owned canal company is not
enough. 1
in Tri
Me?"
chairman of the ticket commit
tee is William V. Deatherage.
Heading the reception and
serving committee are Clyde
Fichtner and Marvin Madden;
foods committee co-chairman,
Mrs. George A. Watson and
Mrs. Bert. Williams; arrange
ments chairman, Mrs. Moore
Hamilton; decorations chairman,
Mrs. Marvin Madden, co-chairman
Mrs. Roy Clarke; program
chairman, Mrs. Stanley Zapell.
Bandit Agrees lo
Release American
Tehran, Iran U.R) Iranian
Deputy Minister of Interior
Parviz Khanlari said last night
a leader of an outlaw band be
lieved holding a pretty Ameri
can woman captive in Baluchis
tan has agreed to release her.
The outlaw leader said she was
"safe."
Khanlari said one of the Dad
Shah brothers, who control a
desert bandit tribe, messaged
authorities he is willing to hand
over the woman in exchange for
a promise he will not be prose
cuted. Iranian police reported earlier
last night they are in a position
to close in on a band of tribal
women believed to be holding
the woman in a wild and deso
late area of Baluchistan.
U.S. Embassy officials denied
earlier reports that authorities
had made contact with a messen
ger from the -robber band and
were negotiating with him.
These reports followed the an
nouncement that Iran had of
fered a $65,000 reward for the
safe return of Mrs. Anita Carroll
of Issaquah, Wash., and another
$10,000 for information leading
to the arrest of the four men in
the band who have split off from
the women in an attempt to lose
their pursuers.
Salute to Stedman Show
Draws Capacity Audience
Friday night's performance of
the "Salute to Bob Stedman"
show drew what is probably the
largest audience ever to attend
any event at the high school
auditorium, school officials re
ported Saturday.
The Thursday evening perfor
mance of the testimonial to the
Medford High school English
and drama instructor had an
audience of about 600, but Fri
day night every regular seat in
the 915-seat auditorium was fill
ed, 124 extra chairs were
brought in, about 50 "standees"
were permitted to remain along
the sides, a number of others
stood in the rear doors of the
auditorium, and about 100 had
to be turned away.
As a result, a check represent
ing the proceeds of the two per
formances, which will probably
operate
oD
Group to Consider
Any Requests for
Case Information
Labor Council Acts
After Beck Appears
Washington (U.R) Senate
rackets investigators Saturday
pledged "enthusiastic coopera
tion" with the AFL-CIO in its
investigation and trial of Team
sters President David Beck.
Chairman John L. McClellan
(D-Ark.), of the Senate Commit
tee on Rackets in Labor and In
dustry, said "any request" for
information from AFL-CIO of
ficials in bringing charges
against Beck and in investigat
ing his union "will be given im
mediate consideration."
Suspend Beck
The AFL-CIO executive coun
cil suspended Beck as a council
member and an AFL-CIO vice
president on Friday and order
ed that he stand union trial May
20 on charges of "bringing the
labor movement into disrepute."
The council also ordered ita
Ethical Practices committee to"
investigate whether the Team
sters union is dominated by
"corrupt influences."
The council acted within two
days after Beck had invoked the
Fifth Amendment 117 times ra
ther than answer questions about
his finances before the McClel
lan committee.'
At a news conference yester
day McClellan said , resumption
of the committee's hearings, ex
pected "int wo weeks, could in
volve any one of four cities
Scranton, Pa., New York City,
Los Angeles, or Philadelphia.
Figure In Hearings
McClellan said Beck and Cen
tral States Teamster Czar James
B. Hoffa will figure in one phase
of the committee's investigation
in New York establishment
of so-called paper locals of the
Teamsters union. .
The high command of the 1.5
million member Teamster union
appeared to be splitting under
the clean-up pressures. Secretary-Treasurer
John English
broke with Beck on Beck's plan
to spend $1 million in union
funds on a publicity campaign
to counter the committee's
charges. English said he was not
consulted about the plan and
would oppose it.
McClellan told newsmen that
as chairman he could not pro
mise every document in the
committee's files to AFL-CIO in
vestigators since such action
would have to be voted on by
the committee. But he said all
such requests would get swift
action.
Bloodmobile Visit
Staled April 9
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will visit Medford Tuesday.
April 9, and will be in Ashland
Wednesday, April 10. Red Cross
officials have announced.
Quota for the Medford visit
will be 290 pints, Red Cross of
ficials said, which means a quota
of 350 donors. Appointments,
which are being accepted now,
may be made by telephoning
the Blood Bank office, 3-3813,
tney said.
The Bloodmobile will be at
the. Elks temple in Medford be
tween 1 and 6 p.m.
total about $1,200, will be pre
sented to the Stedman family
next week by Mrs. Ivan Burton,
general chairman of the event,
when she goes to Portland,
where Stedman is convalescing
from a series of serious opera
tions. The money will go to help
defray his medical expenses.
Mrs. Burton, whose idea the
local talent variety show was,
said Saturday the plan grew
from "just an idea" into some
thing that the entire community
participated in wholeheartedly.
She said the way the Footlight
ers, other volunteer performers,
the school system, and "every
one else we asked to help," did
so was inspiring to her, and a
real tribute to Stedman and the
services he hag performed for
the community. ,