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1 TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Three Youngsters Trapped in Old Vault Think of Edgar San Francisco (U.R) Three youngsters who were locked up in a vault in an abandoned man sion said today "it felt like Edgar Allen Poe" when the mas live door slammed shut with a '"scary boom." Frantic firemen worked for 86 hour and a half Thursday eight to cut through the concrete tf4 steel vault to rescue the 4'0 boys and a girl. Their par ents stood with 300 neighbors As the floodlighted darkness as ctfce rescue went on. dtoungsterg Filed Out .At last, a safe expert sprang fin? door with a single blow at tumbler of its combination iBck, and the three grinning youngsters filed out into the fl?re of lights. The youijgsters were William Moore, a 6-foot 16-year-old with a crew cut; David Rude, 15; 'and Cheri Stevenson, 11. All are from well known families who live in the fashionable Pacific Heights district. They and a dozen or so other youngsters were playing Thurs day afternoon in a 15-foot Vic Gov. Holmes Suggests Transfer of Welfare Administrator at K.F. Salem (U.R) Gov. Robert 1 Solmes suggested Thursday that 3e Klamath county welfare ad ministrator, Mrs. Altha Urqu- 3&fert, be transferred, to help Obi ear up the controversy over (the welfare situation in Klamath acsiinty. The suggestion drew Sftnmediate protests from Klam gfih county welfare officials. Gov. Holmes' suggestion to Welfare Administrator Jeanne 9ewett came after a detailed Sjudy of results of an investiga otisn by the state welfare office (igto complaints against Klamath county public welfare office op erations. Miss Jewett said any gfction would have to be taken 3jjr the commission. Some 75 persons signed a petition calling for the study fallowing the fatal shooting of the welfare commission chair Stan, Fred Peterson, and the pounding of two officials, in cluding Mrs. Urquhart, by an aged welfare recipient early this year. Commission Said Absolved The governor said the profes sional skills and good intent of Mrs. Urquhart were not in ques tion but that her transfer would create a fresh atmosphere. Martin Swanson, new head of the Klamath County Welfare Commission, said his group is opposed to any change and would back retention not Mrs. Urquhart all the way. 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To their horror, the children realized they were trapped First Fright William said he and David didn't get scared until they tried to bang against the wall with a board' they found lying on the floor. "Dave and I rammed it against a wall and it just went boom. That was the hollowest, scariest boom I ever heard in my life. We all began to think about Egar Allen Poe." Meanwhile, Cheri's sister, Cathy, ran home and told her mother. Mrs. Steveson dialed the Fire Department while her hus band ran to the mansion to see what he could do. The vault seemed impregn able. It was seven feet long, seven feet wide and eight feet tall. Its walls were a foot thick and were backed by quarter inch steel plates. the state office absolved the Klamath county commission of criticism leveled against staff members. Swanson quoted the report as saying that "testimony and state ments submitted and given to the field service by residents of Klamath county do not support the contention in the petition that the department and com mission treated applications in a harsh, or in an inequitable manner." The governor said "I believe there still exists in Klamath county a residue of resentment and suspicion about the welfare department there. Whether it is justified or not is not the ques tion. That is does exist creates a difficult if not impossible problem for those whose busi ness it is to administer welfare funds justly and humanely." Miss Jewett said in Portland that any action on the governor's suggestion would have to be taken by the commission which does not meet until April 26. She declined comment except to say the commission had ap proved the report which gave Mrs. Urquhart's administration a clean bill. Miss Jewett said the report was not released until Thursday because of the trial of Guy Earl Cramer, 76, who was found in nocent by reason of insanity on a murder charge in connection with Peterson's death. Outdoor Furniture Phone: 2-5458 Friday. April S. 1957 Allen Poe An acetylene torch was wheel ed to the vault and a rescue squadman burned off the hinges. The dial was knocked off and a fireman shouted into the opening, "Can you hear us?" Agonized Silence The parents of the three youngsters waited in agonized silence. The firemen turned to them in a moment: "They're talking . . . they're okay," he said. ' It proved futile to burn the doors and rescuers began ham mering the massive sides with sledge hammers. This did no good and soon they brought jack hammers to the scene. Firemen piped oxygen into the vault through the dial opening. Then a safe expert, Walter Starke, arrived on the scene. He worked for about 20 minutes, drilling a hole to the side of the dial hole. Soon he sheared off the pins that held the tumblers in place and the door creaked open. The three youngsters walked out, unharmed. Council Accepts GH Resignation Gold Hill Mayor Ernie Coop er presided at a meeting of the Gold Hill city council Monday. The council accepted Council man Ed Tulare's resignation. Tu lare has moved to Grants Pass. The council voted to proceed with action to vacate that por tion of Fifth ave. extending east from First st. to state highway 234 (Sams Valley road). A public hearing on the matter will be held May 6 at 8:30 p.m. The council granted a request to repair the Runyan building on Second ave. to be acceptable to the state fire marshal for use as a secondhand goods store with living quarters in the rear of the building. Superintendent Floyd Taylor gave a report on work recently completed, which included the cleaning of the water reservoirs, patching streets, cleaning ' catch basins, building a railing at the disposal plant and clean up work at the city dump. Permission was given to Tay lor's request of using the second floor as a meting place for the Junior Police, which recently was organized under the super vision of Taylor. Archbishop Ends 13-Month Exile Mahe, Seychelles Islands (U.R) Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus ends a 13-month exile today and leaves by ship for Africa on the first leg of a jour ney to Europe. He planned to board the Greek tanker Olympic Thunder er later in the day to begin a trip he hopes eventually will take him back to his eastern Mediterranean home. Up to the declaration of his freedom last week by Britain, the archbishop had been con fined to his villa near here. Th archbishop and members of his staff were exiled to the Seychelles March 8, 1956. The British hoped his removal from Cyprus would brake the back of the EOKA terrorist activities there. It was not certain which port the Olympic Thunderer would take Makarios to.. The British said he was free to go anywhere except Cyprus. Tax Relief Said Certainly Coming Washington (U.R) Rep. Richard M. Simpson (R-Pa.) said today taxpayers can count on substantial tax relief possibly this year but certainly by next year. Simpson, a high-ranking Re publican on the . tax-writing House Ways and Means Com mittee, disclosed that he plans soon to introduce a bill to pro vide for billions of dollars worth of reductions in both personal income taxes and levies on cor poration income. Simpson said his bill would provide for a "modest increase" in the $600 personal exemptions and for some revisions in- the tax ation of capital gains. He said the measure is aimed at provid ing S5,500,000.000 to.$6,000,000, 000 in tax relief. Truckers League to Meet in Roseburg The Oregon Log and Lumber Truckers league will hold a din ner meeting starting at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, April 7, in the civic room of the Umpqua hotel in Roseburg. Business at the meeting in cludes consideration of bills pending in the state legislature that affect the log and lumber industry and election of .officers. The board of trustees will ap point a new- secretary-manager. Seafon Undergoes Operation for Old Injury To Back Washington . (U.R) Secre tary of Interior Fred A. Seaton underwent a two-hour operation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center today to relieve a recur ring back injury. Physicians reported to Lome Kennedy, Seaton's assistant, that the operation was "entirely suc cessful" and that his condition was "good." Nervt Irritated Kennedy said the physicians found a "protruding cartilage" which had been irritating a branch of the sciatic nerve. This had produced an acute sciatic neuritis. The cartilage was removed, Kennedy said. He reported the doctors said there were "no other complications" and that "nothing else was found." Kennedy said the doctors re ported the "situation did not re quire a fusion of the vertebrae." Kennedy said the doctors ex pect Seaton's disability will be "relatively short." To Restrict Travel During Seaton's convalescence he will be required to restrict his travel for some weeks, Ken nedy said. Seaton has been at Walter Reed hospital under observation and treatment . since March 7. He entered the hospital shortly after he returned from an in spection trip to Hawaii. He also was hospitalized in Hawaii. He had been troubled with a back condition for more than 25 years. Communiquefte Tells Midget Aims Reno, Nev. , (U.R) The midgets of America returned to their homes across the country Friday, determined to press for a man-sized program. At the organizaion's first an nual convention Thursday, the little people adopted a slogan, "Don't Tread On Us," and issued a communiquette stating their aims: Half fare on trains, planes and buses. Half-price meals and lower cafeteria steam tables. Mass production of midget sized clothing to lower prices which are now too high for pint sized budgets. The delegates elected Bill Barty of Hollywood, Calif., a performer on the Spike Jones television show, as president. Dan Turner, Black Mountain, N.C., was named president-elect to take over alter Barty's two year term.' L a u n a Shelton, Phoenix, Ariz., was named recording sec retary. Robert Hinkson; Wash ington, D.C., was named fi nancial secretary and Richard Preston of American Fork, Utah, was elected sergeant at arms. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Delfino of San Diego, Calif., were named Mr. and Mrs. Lilliput of the 1957 convention. The second annual convention will be held a year from now at Reno's Riverside HoteL Mobilgas Run Will Cover 1,568 Miles , Los Angeles U.R) This year's 'Mobilgas economy run will cover a record 1568-mile route from Los Angeles to Sun Valley, Idaho, through San Fran cisco, Reno, Salt Lake City, and Pocatello, Idaho. The route, announced today by U.S. Auto Club officials, is the longest in the history of the annual test of performance of the newest model stock cars. Twenty-four men and women drivers will leave Los Angeles at 11 p.m. April 14 on the first leg of the route which climbs from sea level to a 7,382-foot pass and includes travel in heavy city traffic. Women were allowed to drive in the run this year for the first time. Eden and Wife Rest at Suva Government House ' Suva, Fiji Islands U.R) Sir Anthony Eden and his wife spent a restful morning in the grounds of Suva's Government House today before leaving for Honolulu on their way to Bos ton. The 59-year-old former British prime minister is en route from a New Zealand vacation for a medical checkup by Dr. Richard Cattell, who operated on him in Boston in 1953 for a bile duct complication. Daily's U-Orive Medford Airport Kaiser Reports 1956 Earnings of $42,349,131 Oakland (U.R) Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Cor poration reported Thursday its 1956 earnings totaled $42,349, 131, a 17 per cent increase over 1955. The '1956 earnings were equi valent to S2.71 a common share. Net earnings for 1955 were 536,021,114, equivalent to $2.43 a share. Iran Police Said To Have Surrounded Notorious Bandits Tehran, Iran !U.R) Iranian police have surrounded the no torious bandit Dad Shah and his gang some 20 miles east of the site where they murdered three Americans and two Iran ians, it was reported here today. Iranian police Monday track ed down and killed three other members of the Dad Shah gang including the man blamed for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Carroll, Issaquah, Wash., and Brewster A. Wilson, Portland. Familiar With Terrain A police squad of 20 men, led by a mountaineering warrant of ficer, was reported closing in on the rest of the bandit gang in a torrential downpour. All of the men in the police squad, were reported familiar with the difficult terrain where Dad Shah has thus far eluded hundreds of searchers. The search area, some 800 miles east of Tehran, consists of wild mountainous country studded with needle sharp rocks and filled with hidden canyons which has made the search ex tremely difficult. Dad Shah and his gang have terrorized the area for years and police were tracking him down when the Americans, offi cials attached to the U.S. Point 4 program, were ambushed a week ago Sunday and slain. Gang Cut Down New Premier Manouchehr Eghbal pledged only Thursday to continue the nation's efforts to capture the bandits. Reports from the desolate area said the Dad Shah gang in re cent weeks had been cut down sharply from the original ma rauding force of 20 men and some 50 women and children who accompany the men on their desert forays. Fossil, Ore. U.R) A retrial of suits brought by victims of last summer's flash flood at Mitchell will open here next Monday. THE FIFTH AT BARTLETT STREETS . vj- : :. .y..w..-v-.v- . tx - ...... n v... t i .a vm lni n ft ' ih(t m 937 Rambler V-8 or For the thrill of a lifetime, fun-teet America's fastest growing car in popularity. You'll be amazed at the . wav it handles. Now available with new 190 H.P. V-8 or record-breaking Economy 6. 1937 Nash Ambassador The moment you slip behind the wheel of this beauty you'll see why it's known as the world's finest travel car. Power's way up and the price is down in the biggest of the big V-8's. COME IN Van Dyke to Speak at Regional Conference Of Education Group Frank J. Van Dyke, Medford attorney, will speak at the West ern Regional conference, organ ized by the President's commit tee on ' education beyond the high school, at the St. Francis hotel in St. Francis hotel in San Francisco, Calif., April 9-11. Van Dyke is chairman of the western interstate commission for higher education, an inter state agency which is holding the conference for the Presi dent's committee. About six governors, including Gov.- Robert D. Holmes of Ore gon, several state legislators, college presidents and .leaders in business, labor and agricul ture r will consider, measures states can take to prepare for new students who are estimated to double western- college en rollments within 15 years. More than 350 delegates, ap pointed by governors of 11 western states and Alaska and Hawaii, are scheduled to attend the meeting. Governors To Attend Among governors attending will be Governor Holmes, Gov. George D. Clyde of Utah, Gov. Stephen L. R. McNichols of Col orado, Gov. Charles H. Russell of Nevada,- and Gov. Milward Simpson of Wyoming. Governors Holmes, McNichols, Russell and Simpson will pre side at convention sessions. Major addresses will be de livered by President O. Meredith Wilson of the University of Ore- Klamath Termination Delay Gets Approval Washington (U.R) The House Interior committee has approved a Senate-passed bill providing for a delay in termination of federal control over Oregon's Klamath Indians. The House group attached sev eral amendments to the measure, including one which would cut in half the amount of money the federal government would con tribute toward the costs of ter mination. The Senate bill called for the government , to reimburse the tribe up to $1.1 million for th costs involved in terminating federal control. The House com mittee would provide that the government help the tribe defray termination expenses on a 50-50 basis, so long as the govern ment's share did not exceed $550,000. ADDITION OF TO OUR LINE OF FINE CARS - RAMBLER AND NASH- LEA 'MOTORS AND MEET THE gon, President Robert Gordon Sproul of the University of Cal ifornia, Dean Tracey E. Strevey of the University of Southern California, and Governor Clyde. Delegates will divide into groups to consider problems on how to provide more classroom space and hire more teachers, how to apportion students among junior colleges, technical insti tutes and universities, and how to preserve and improve - the quality of education. A group of special panels will be held on "Adult Education," "Two-Year Institutions," "Fi nancial Aid to Students," "New Approaches to Higher Educa tion," and" "Issues in State Con trol of Higher Education." Conference chairman will be Edgar W. Smith, former presi dent of the Oregon state board of higher education and a mem ber of th President's committee. Make Every Cent Count! J ) Open or add to Your savings account by April 10.. . 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