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No. 9
Auto
Smashup South
Of Coquille Takes
Lives of Three
Portland Pedestrian
Dies When Hit by Car
Portland (U.R) Eight per
sons were killed over the week
end on Oregon highways and a
ninth died Saturday of injuries
suffered when struck by an auto-
mobile Thursday night.
Three persons lost thsir lives
in a two car collision on High
way 101 five miles south of Co
quille Saturday. Killed were
Victor O. Newton, 50, of Gold
Beach; Leslie W. Moench, 38, of
coquille, and Mrs. Mona Barnes,
Eugene. The crash occurred dur
ing a heavy rainstorm and both
vehicles were demolished.
SwervM Into Truck
Killed in a car-truck crash
near Medford Sunday , were Lee
Riggs, 19, of Fort Lewis and
Lila M. Gunter, 24, of Tacoma.
Riggs died instantly when his
car swerved into the path of an
oncoming truck and Miss Gun
ter died three hours later in a
Medford hospital.
Two lost their lives when their
car failed to negotiate a turn
at Lime near Baker. Dead in the
accident were Mary Jean Howe,
24, Baker, and Beryl Ham, 39,
of Summerville near La Grande.
A third person, Jack Arnold
Whitbread, 36, Baker, was in
"serious" condition at Holy
Rosary hospital in Ontario. A
fourth passenger, Robert Gor
don, 23, of Baker, is in "fair"
condition in the same hospital
with a fractured hip.
Porilander Killed
A Portland man, Mortimer H.
Hartwell, 72, was killed Satur
day when he was struck by a
car driven by Dr. Werner E. Zel
ler. Mrs. Maude F. Hamburger, 79,
Portland, died Saturday night of
injuries suffered when hit on
' Thursday by a car driven by
Kenneth R. Cook, 18, of Fossil.
Medford Airport
To Receive Granl
Medford's municipal airport is
scheduled to receive a Civil
Aeronautics administration
grant-in-aid of $48,750, Rep. Wal
ter R. Norblad (R-Ore.) ' an
nounced today.
The CAA is scheduled to re
lease grants-in-aid funds for Ore
gon airports totaling $1,074,477
on Tuesday, Norblad said.
The largest grant, $1,074,477,
is scheduled to go to Portland
International Airport for instal
lation of sewer, water and elec
tric systems, supplies, acquisition
of land to build taxiways and
aprons and to light them and to
provide parking facilities for
automobiles.
Also scheduled to receive
grants are Grants Pass, $56,61,1;
Eugene, 5137,403; and Pendle
ton, $10,356, Norblad said.
Mobile Therapy Clinic
Plan of Oregon Group
Portland U.R) A mobile
therapy clinic is on the planning
boards of the Oregon Society
for Crippled Children and
Adults. The mobile unit would
travel around the state offering
to teach parents and others how
to apply physical and occupa
tional therapy to crippled chil
dren and adults.
The unit would make periodic
checks on the progress of its
pupils and advise on new ap
proaches. Sentence Suspended
For Medford Woman
Mrs. Hazel Annette Farmer,
18, of 1110 East Main st, Med
ford, was given a two-year sus
pended sentence in circuit court
today on a charge of forgery by
endorsement.
Mrs. Farmer, who pleaded
guilty to the charge March 13,
was sentenced by Circuit Judge
H. K. Hanna.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 474.98, up 0.17; 20 rail
; roads 143.76, off 0.29; 15 utilities
71.53, up 0.06, and 65 stocks
167.99, off 0.01. Sales today were
about 1,620,000 shares compared
with 1.650,000 shares Friday.
Crasoes Kill
Pre-Dawn Crash Sunday
Claims Lives of Young Couple
The Helicopter Era
Aswan Offer Cancelled
To Gall Soviet Bluff,
Book on Dulles Says
Washington (U.R) Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
"brutally" withdrew a U. S. of
fer to help finance Egypfs As
wan dam in a calculated risk "to
call Russia's hand" in the cold
war, a new book reported to
day. "... The decision was . .
comparable ... to the calculated
risks of war taken in Korea and
Formosa," the book said.. It was
"a truly major gambit in the
cold war."
The statements were "contain
ed in a new book, "John Foster
Dulles: A Biography," by John
R. Beal, diplomatic correspond
ent of Time magazine. Beal said
his book "benefits from person
al interviews" with Dulles. .
Would Defend Islands
Beal said "the 'brink' in For
mosa" was reached three years
ago. He said President Eisen
hower wrote a letter at that
time to Nationalist Chinese lead
er Chiang Kai-shek which con
vinced Chiang the- United States
would help repel any attack by
Red China on the islands of
Quemoy and Matsu.
The Communists also became
convinced this country would
defend the islands, Beal said,
"and this was the knowledge
that deterred them."
The book said Dulles deter
mined to force a showdown with
Russia over competition between
t,he Xko countries in supplying
economic aid abroad.
Called Russia's Hand
It said: "For Dulles, a moment
of cold war climax had come.
It was necessary to call Rus
sia's, hand in the game of econ
omic competition. It was nec
essary to make the demonstra
tion on a grand scale. .
"Nasser (Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser) combined
the right timing, the right geo
graphy and the right order of
magnitude for a truly major
gambit in the cold war."
C. D. Jackson, former presi
dential adviser on psychological
Weather
FORECAST: Fair tonight and
Tuesday. I.ow tonir,ht 33. High
fucsday 62.
TEMPERATURE
Hichpst yesterday M
Lowest this morninc , IS
PRECIPITATION
To 4:39 a.m. today
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunset .
55 a.m.
6:37 p.m.
Moonset
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First Quarter April 7
PROMINENT STAR
Arrturtis. in the east . 9:15 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Mars, in the west at moonset.
Saturn, due south -4:31 a.m.
Jupiter, low in west 4:32 a.m.
warfare and now an editorial
official of Time magazine, also
said last month the Aswan aid
offer was withdrawn "to call the
Soviet bluff" on its economic
aid offers to Mid-East nations.
Critics of Dulles have charged
that his abrupt withdrawal of
the offer brought on the Suez
crisis last fall.
Bermuda Conference
Rapped by Russians
Moscow U.R) A Soviet
statement that the United States
and Britain used the Bermuda
conference to plan "atomic war
fare" heralds an increased
Soviet diplomatic offensive in
the Middle East and Europe,
Western diplomats said today.
A statement by the Soviet For
eign Ministry attacking the Ber
muda conference followed a
series of attacks during the past
week against Norway and Den
mark, new attacks on Marshal
Tito of Yugoslavia and warnings
to Israel and France against new
military action against Egypt.
Western diplomatic sources
said the Soviet moves appear de
signed to keep the West off bal
ance in the diplomatic struggle
for influence in key areas, to
encourage "neutralist" sentiment
Eastern Europe against "imper
ialistic intrigues."
This Boy Swallows
Hook, Line and Sinker
Hollis Center, Me. lU.R) .
Ronald Berude, 13, was prac
ticing casting Sunday. The
hook landed in his mouth and
Berube, startled, gulped and
swallowed ererylhing hook,
line and sinker.
He was recovering in a hsv
piial.
Ted Williams Tells of Attempted Pressure in Effort
To Avoid Being Tabbed for Duty During Korean War
New Orleans-(U.R) Ted Wil
liams of the Boston Red Sox in
en outburst against former Pres
ident Harry Truman, the late
Sen. Robert Taft and the Marine
Corps said today he tried to use
political pressure to avoid being
recalled to service during the
Korean war.
The temperamental outfield
er, vho played an exhibition
game with the Sox against the
New Orleans Pelicans here Sun
day, said in an interview with
the New Orleans States he was
far from being the proud serv
iceman that legend had made
Mm. .
Eight
Ft. Lewis Soldier,
Woman Passenger
Die in Accident
Auto, Truck Collide
On Highway 99 Sunday
A 19-year-old Ft. Lewis,
Wash., soldier and his 23-year-old
bride or fiancee died Sun
day in a pre-dawn auto-truck col
lision about one mile south of
Medford on Highway 99.
State police said Army Pfc.
Lee Roy Riggs was killed out
right when his northbound car
crossed the highway center line-
and struck the left front of a
southbound truck. Mrs. Lila Mae
Gunter, Madrin, Wash., only pas
senger in the car, died from in
juries at 3 a.m. in Rogue Valley
hospital. Officers said evidence
indicated Riggs apparently fell
asleep while driving.
The accident occurred near the
secretary of stale's branch office
at 5:45 a.m., during a heavy
downpour of rain.
Robert Roes Faubion, 23, Rath
drum, Ida., driver of the truck
trailer, and 'Edward Allen
Knight, 32, Spokane, Wash., al
ternate driver, were reported un
injured. Police said Knight was
in the truck sleeping compart
mcnt ' when the accident oc
curred. The couple was believed en
route to Ft. Lewis from the home
of Riggs' parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel T. Riggs, Coachella,
Calif. Papers among Riggs ef
fects showed he was on leave
from March 15 to April 1. Of
ficers also found a letter from
Riggs' father giving his permis
sion for the young man to marry
in California. Whether they had
been married was not yet deter
mined by authorities here.
A birth certificate listed the
woman's maiden name as Lila
Mae Shoemaker. Other papers
indicated she had been married
previously and her last name
was Gunter.
Officers reported the impact
of the crash spun the Riggs ve
hicle around and it came to rest
in the middle of the highway,
about 10 feet from the point of
collision. Riggs was thrown into
the back seat, and his passenger
was pinned in the front seat.
The truck, registered to Ar
thur Chantry, Post Falls, Ida.,
continued south for 75 feet and
came to rest against a curb.
Heavy damage resulted to the
left side of the truck, and thn
Riggs auto was totally wrecked,
pohce said.
Funeral arrangements for
Riggs and Mrs. Gunter are pend
ing at Conger-Morris Funeral
Home.
The Sunday crash brought to
five the total of- traffic fatalities
in Jackson county since Jan. 1.
Charles J. Howe, 60, Grants
PafS, was killed when his station
wagon left Highway S9 and
plunged into the Rogue river
near Miller's Gulch, on an. 31
Mrs. Lssna Pearl Eskue, 39,
lympia, Wash., was killed
Feb. 4 in an accident oa High
way 238 about .2 ef a mile from
Medford'. Jack Evertt Engler, 25,
Seattle, Wash., was killed on
Sundfay, Ma-reh 2$, when he was
itruck by a. car a-s he was push
ing his stalled auto R.8?t.!a Ga
Highway S;9 i a-kfit.
He exploded and spat on the
floor at the mention ef Mr. Tru
man's name.
In the interview, Williams
said he had resentment against
the Marine Corps which recalled
him for the Korean war.
Has Resentment
"You're damned right I have
resentment against the Marine
Corps and the whole damned
governm.ent," he said.'.
While being interviewed he
jumped from his' car at Moisant
International airport and strode
into the lobby.
Williams talked freely of his
attempts to stop the Marine
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
Legislature entered its i::th
week today with taxes back in
the spotlight if they ever
really left it.
The House Taxation Commit
tee today buckled down to three
bills that would take the state
out of the property tax field.
Would End Property Tax
Senate bill 92 sponsored by
Sens. Harry Boivin Klamath
Falls Democrat, Warren Gill,
Lebanon Republican and G. D,
Gleason, Portland Democrat,
provides that the state cannot
levy or collect a property tax
after July 1, 1957. TJnder pres
ent law the state can levy a tax
up to 6 mills if other state funds
are not adequate to meet ex
penditures.
House bill 399 is similar to
the Senate measure and provides
that no state property tax can
be levied without approval of
the Legislature. It also provides
that the state treasurer must
set aside enough money to cov
er payments on bonded indebt
edness from general state funds
so that "a state property tax will
not be necessary. Republican
Reps. Eddie Ahrens and Robert
Elfstrom, Marion county, spon
sored this measure.
Legislature Must Approve
A companion House bill, 130,
also provides that the state can
not levy a property tax without
permission of the Legislature
except for payment of bonded
indebtedness. It is sponsored by
Republican Reps. Edwin .Cone,
Eugene; Wayne Giesy, Monroe;
Allen Tom, Rufus, and Sens.
Phil Lowry, Medford, Lee Ohm
art, Salem, and Rudie Wilhelm
Jr., Portland, and Democratic
Sen. Ward Cook, Portland.
Thirty-six bills were sched
uled for final action in both
houses today.
Highlights of last week's ac
tion saw the Senate approve the
controversial key district plan
for distributing basic school sup
port money and pass it along
lv the .House where amendments
will probably be made. Senators
also voted to retain the anti
picketing law on the statute
books, but to set up a State Con
ciliation Service to aid settle
ment of labor disputes.
The House squelched the 11
million dollar Korean bonus pro
posal and approved both the
Klamath river basin compact
with California and the bound
ary compact with Washington.
Israel Plan Calls
For Suez Showdown
By UNITED PRESS
Israel plans to force a show
down on the question of free
passage of the Suez Canal, Jeru
salem dispatches said today.
A Dutch trade delegation in
Israel quoted high government
sources as saying a ship flying
the Israeli flag will join a con
voy soon m a major test cf
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel
Nasser's intentions.
"We know what will happen,"
the Israeli officials were quoted
as saying. "Our ship and cargo
will be seized and the crew will
be arrested. What 'will happen
then will be of considerable sig
nificance." O&CTimberMarkeling
Restrictions Lilted
Portland (U.R) Marketing
area restritcions on timber cut
from O&C lands in western Ore
gon were abolished today by Un
dersecretary of Interior Hatfield
Chilson. Also affected by the
order were reconveyed Coos Bay
Wagon Road grant lands of west
ern Oregon.
The order, effective immed
iately, will permit timber cut
on the O&C lands to be' process
ed anywhere. Marketing restric
tions imposed in 1947 had-required
that the timber be pro
cessed only in the marketing
area where it, was cut.
Corps from recalling him.
"You think Sen. Taft was a
great man?" he said. "Well,
here's what I think of him."
He spat on the floor of the air
port waiting room.
Taft Said Afraid
"He was afraid to do anything
for me," he said. "He said he
wouldn't mind going to bat for
some other guy. But not me. I
was too 'important."
Williams said the effort to
prevent his recall may have
gone as far as former President
Truman.
"And the same goes for Harry
Trurrian," he .said as he. spat
MRS. ANITA CARROLL
No Mercy To Be Shown Killers '
Body of Iran Kidnap
Victim Located; Aid
Operations Suspended
Tehran, Iran 'iU.R) The Iranian government is expected to
fall as a result of the murder of three Americans by bandits, in
formed political sources said tonight.
Premier Hussein Ala probably will hand In his resignation to
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi Wednesday, the sources said.
The resignation has been brewing for some time, the sources
said, but it is being forced at this
economic aid has been suspended
bandit gang is caught.
Fair Weather Due;
Rain Sets Record
AVith a forecast of fair weather
tonight and Tuesday, the Med
ford vicinity drew at least a
brief respite from the week end
rains which brought to 5.54
inches the total precipitation for
the wettest March on record.
Medford station of the weath
er bureau reported .83 of an inch
of precipitation for the last three
days of March, bringing the rain
fall for the month to 4.02 more
than normal.
Precipitation Sunday amount
ed to .52 of an inch and included
hail in some parts of the valley.
C. B. Cordy, county horticul
tural agent, said no damage to
fruit from hail was reported. He
stated that fruit buds are not
damaged by hail unless the
stones are very large and ac
companied by rain.
A telephone company pump
was used to remove an estimated
2,000 gallons of water from the
track it Medford High school
stadium Sunday.
The 5.54 inches of rain for
March compares to the previous
high of 4.19 for the month in
1940. Precipitation from the be
ginning of the agriculture year,
last Sept. 1, through March
amounted to 19.99 was 5.58 more
than normal and compares to
18.15 which is normal for ' an
entire agricultural year.
While fair weather is predict
ed for this vicinity, the five day
weather forecast indicated pos
sibility of rain in parts of west
ern Oregon and western Wash
ington tonight and Tuesday.
SOC Enrollment Said
Over Last Year's Total
Ashland Tentative total en
rollment for spring term at
Southern. Oregon college is 756
students, 7 per cent over the
total last year for spring term,
SOC officials reported today.
Thirty-one new students enrolled
this term:
The total includes 273 fresh
men, 196 sophomores, ua jun
iors and 105 seniors, it was re
ported. Among SOC's enroll
ment are - eight graduate stu
dents, 35 ' special students and
187 veterans.
again.
"And the whole damned thing
is phony," he said.
Williams was a Marine flier
in World War H. He was re
called from the inactive reserve
duririg the Korean war.
Not Now in Reserve
Asked if he were still in the
reserve, Willaims said:
"Boy, you know I'm not.
When I got out this last time
and they gave me a chance to
pick up that paper (discharge
paper) I grabbed it.'
Williams ended the interview
by leaving the reporter and
walking into the rain.
time because American Point 4
in southeastern Iran until the
Tehran, Iran (U.R) U. S.
officials today suspended Amer
ican Aid operations in southeast
Iran as a safety measure against
the bandit gang that kidnaped
and killed Mrs. Anita Carroll.
Point Four Director Clark
Gregory announced the decision
and said U. S. officials would
stay out of the wild countryside
until the- brigands were captur
ed. The gang also "killed two
Point Four officials and two
Iranian assistants.
To Show No Mercy
Iran already had pledged to
"Show no mercy" on the band
its led by the notorious Dad
Shah who was reported close to
the Pakistani border in a des
perate race to elude police.
Latest reports from the Raz
orback mountains of Baluchistan
indicated Dad Shah had picked
up reinforcements and was with
in a day's forced march of the
thinly-guarded frontier. Moun
tain folk said they spotted the
hated bandit lord only 20 miles
from Pakistan.
Body Found Sunday
The mutilated body of Mrs.
Carroll, 35, of Issaquah, Wash.,
was found Sunday 10 miles from
the ambush scene. An Iranian
Air Force plane flew her white
draped coffin back to Tehran on
Sunday night where the Shah
paid his last tribute with a
wreath of carnations.
She had been shot with a shot
gun and stabbed and her body
was partially stripped of cloth
ing. She apparently suivived the
ambush only to be. slain later
when the bandits discovered she
had left a trail for the National
Gendarmerie.
Maj.. Ali Qoli Golpira, head
of the Iranian Gendarmerie (fed
eral police), stepped up his
search for the bandits, and pro
mised no mercy.
Rains Impede Search
Torrential rains handicapped
the. search and the flight of
the bandits. Only camels could
get through some of the wild
areas, a land of steep cliffs, and
razor-sharp rocks.
The Dad Shah bandit gang is
reported to include at least four
men and a number of women
and children. "
Kevin M. Carroll, 37, husband
of the kidnaped woman, and
Brewster A. Wilson, 35, of Port
land, Ore., were killed outright
with two Iranians who were ac
companying them on their mis
sion of aid. Both men were Point.
Four officials the U. S. Inter
national Cooperative adminis
tratiton. Civil Defense Relay
Time To Be Cut Down
Washingtonj (U.R) Starting
next month,'" the nation's civil
defense fighters from Maine to
California can be alerted to an
attack by enemy hydrogen bom
bers in a flat 60 seconds.
The warning can be flashed to
more than 200 civil defense cen
ters across the land under an
intricate new warning system go
ing into operation May 1.
It is the Federal Civil Defense
Administration's new national
warning system NAWAS, and
will cut down the current 8 to
10-minute relay time to just one
minute.
Supreme Court
Rules Against
Public Interests
Association Loses
Appeal for Review
Washington (U.R) Public
power interests lost in the Su
preme Court today their long
legal fight to block develop
ment of Hells Canyon in the
Pacific Northwest by a private
power company.
The ceurt, in a brief order
refused to review an appeal by
the National Hells Canyon as
sociation from a ruling against it
last October by the U. S. Court
of Appeals here.
Decision Now Final
The lower court affirmed Fed
eral Power commission action in
1955 authorizing construction by
the Idaho Power Co. of three
dams across the Snake river at
the Idaho-Oregon border. This
decision now becomes final.
Supreme Court Justice Wil
liam O. Douglas thought the high
tribunal should have considered
the case.
Public power advocates favor
ed a single high dant built by
the federal government as part
of the overall development of the
Colombia river and its tributar
ies. Idaho Power already . has
spent $15 million on building
Brownlee dam, the first of the
three now scheduled. It is 40
per cent complete. The others
will be Oxbow, 11 miles down
stream, and Hells Canyon, 25
miles farther down.
The states of Washington and
Oregon filed briefs in the high
court urging review of the case.
Idaho opposed review.
Joining the Hells Canyon as
sociation as appellants were the
National Rural Electric Cooper
ative association and eight Wash
ington public utility districts.
Design Said Undisclosed ' - -
The association contended that
two of the three dams ultimately
approved were "never tested" in
FPC proceedings.
"The actual design of the
third dam is still undisclosed,"
the petition said.
"If the decision below stands,"
it . added "the Army Engineers
must be ready at all times , to
revamp their comprehensive
plan to accommodate whatever
conflicting individual projects
the commission may see fit to
license."
The commission in its' reply
brushed aside the association's
arguments. It said more hear
ings on revised drawings would
be repetitive and unnecessary."
Beck Back in Capital;
Questioning Expected
Seattle (U.R) Teamsters
President Dave Beck slipped out
of Seattle during the week end
and today, was in Washington
where he was expeted to- be
questioned again by the Senate
Rackets Committee.
Beck had not been expected
to leave h home here until
the middle of this week. No
explanation was available as to
why he left during the week end.
Sen. John McClellan (D-Ark.)
chairman of the committee, said
Sunday he expeeted Beck would
be recalled to the witness stand
in the near future.
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House Bill Doubles
Automobile Insurance
Salem U.R) The House to
day passed a bill doubling the
amount of insurance required of
motorists ' to insure their finan
cial responsibility.
The bill. House bill 773, would
require motorists to carry $10,
000 for death or bodily injury
to one person, $20,000 for death
or bodily injury to two or more
persons, and $5,000 property
damage insurance.
The law now requires $5,000,
$10,000 and $2,000 respectively.
Timber Access Road
Fund Increase Asked
Washington (u.R) Sen.
Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), to
day asked the Senate Appropri
ations committee to increase by
approximately 50 per cent the
budget for actual construction of
timber access roads.
He said he made the request
for "the sake of economy and
small business." He argued that'
access roads enabled small oper
ators to bid on National Forest
timber, thus stimulating compe
tition, which produced higher
prices and brought more money
into .the treasury than would go
out to build the roads.
He asked that the budget be
revised to provide about $7,500,
000 more for access roads next
year. This would boost from $15,-
ouu.uuu io 523 million the total
amount for actual construction.
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