Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 24, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textfo) fm mm Icosft Q eh ears Measures To Take Igainsf Overthrow 4!tempf Practiced lamonstration for Itsstive Populace By JOSEPH FLEMING United Press Correspondent cBerlin !U.R East German Communists are openly rehears ing for revolution. "- ?Ticy are practicing the meas ures they would take against any anti-communist attempt to ' overhrow the Red government which rules the eastern half of divicted Germany. They are trying to show the restive East German populace that loyal German Communist units could crush any rebellion without calling for help from the 22 Soviet army divisions stationed in the Russian zone The maneuvers revealed the degp fear which has gripped all satellite governments since Hun garian freedom fighters rose against their Communist over lorcfc six months ago. Does East Germany face re volt? In the early days of the Hun garian revolution a spark could have touched off widespread ac tions against the East Germany government. There had been an open uprising of workers in East Germany in June of 1953. But the spark did not flare astf now the mood appears to be H of deep dicontent rather tfrnt revolutionary zeal. Pa. any case, the Communists a taking no chances. They have staged maneuvers in East Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Dresden and other cities. The maneuvers are carried out by Communist forces composed of, the police. army and "fighting groups" a workers militia formed in factories, government agencies and on collective farms. The Communists speak con stantly of the threat posed to East Germany by the North At lantic Treaty Organization (NATO). American "imperial ism" and West German "mili tatarism." Danger Within But in these war games all pretext is dropped that the dan ger comes from outside. The "enemy" is the East German anti-Communist movement, la beled as "fascists," "terrorists," "counter - revolutionaries," and "provocateurs." In East Berlin maneuvers they attempt to seize police head quarters. In Magdeburg they at tacked the local Communist union headquarters. In Eisenach they tried to take over the auto mobile plant. In Potsdam they raided the local Communist party newspaper plant. In- each case the "attacks" were crushed. In the words of a Communist commentator: "So will all attacks." Western observers do not be lieve that the East German mili tia are so loyal as the Commu nist; claim. In a showdown, they believe Soviet troops would have to be called out in East Germany just as they were in Hungary. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 2 12 0 New York 3 11 0 Johnson and Ginsberg; Dit mar. Grim ' (8) and Berre. Home runs: Berra. New York; Mantle. New York. Dr. Chisholm To Speak at Group's Meeting Thursday Dr. Brock Chisholm, special ist in world health problems, will discuss "Growing Up in a New Kind of World," at the an nual dinner meeting of the Southern Oregon Child Guid ance Clinic association at 7:45 p.m. Thursday at Hedrick Jun ior High school. Dr. Chisholm will talk at an informal coffee hour Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Carl E. Wimberly Jr., 30 South Earncburg rd., Medford, accord ing to association members. He has recently completed a European conference tour about world health and a series of lectures at Columbia university. He was formerly director-general f the world health organi zation of the United Nations. ermmoini kccsdo xuvuan MEDFORD MEDFORD, Women Say Affidavit on Behalf of Schrunk False Portland Deputy Sheriff Denies Pair's Testimony Perjury Committed, McClellan Declares Washington (U.R) Two wo men narcotics addicts, one an admitted prostitute, told Senate rackets investigators today they were forced to sign a false affi davit on behalf of Mayor Terry D. Schrunk of Portland. Their testimony was denied by Portland Deputy Sheriff George Minielly, who took their statement. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), of the Senate Rackets committee said somebody com mitted perjury today, and per haps also was guilty of suborna tion of perjury (inducing or per suading someone else to lie). "I'm getting a little bit tired of this committee being imposed on by lying," said McClellan. McClellan sent the testimony to the Justice Department with a request that it prosecute. Statements Were False - McClellan recessed the hear ing, but told Minielly to stand by for possible questioning if the staff could check some de tails of his story. The chairman said the women and Minielly were witnesses on whom Schrunk and Teamsters Union organizer Clyde C. Cros by "wanted the committee to rely ... to bolster their own testimony. McClellan said if the women told the truth, "someone is guil ty of subornation of perjury. If they didn't tell the truth today, they committed perjury." Offered To Committee . Mrs. Kathleen Lucille Cooper Weeks, a self-described prosti tute and narcotics addict, said statements she made in the af fidavit against Portland rackets king James B. Elkins, one of the committee's star witnesses, were "false." Schrunk and Crosby had of fered her 'statement to the committee last month to discred it charges by Elkins that Crosby and Schrunk were part of a plot by teamsters officials and rack teers to take over Portland's vice and gambling. Schrunk, Crosby, and Minielly are under indictment in Portland. (Continued on Page 13) Two Named To Board Of Dental Examiners Salem Appointment of Dr. Harry Winkler Jr., Portland, and Dr. T. Rex Baldwin, Gear hart, to the State Board of Den tal Examiners was announced Tuesday by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. The pair succeed Dr. Burt L. Lageson. president of the board of Medford, and Dr. Chalmer Lee George, Portland, both of whose terms expired April 1. Attending the dinner-meeting will be delegations from Klam ath and Douglas counties and representatives from the state board of health, Fairview Home and state department of educa tion. The meeting is open to the public, according to Mrs. Melvin Hall, chairman of the event. Friday morning Dr. Chisholm will meet with the clinic staff to discuss child guidance clinic work. Preceding the talk new asso ciation board members will be elected to fill vacancies. Retir ing members are Mrs. Carl Wim berly Jr., John Graff, the Rev. Richard ones, Al Potter and Robert Minear, all of Medford; Mrs. Phil Engle. Rogue River; and Dr. Aubrey Hill, Ashland, CommrDytniDss (evolution 'siracna o ao n OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1957 No. 29 2 Hospital Budgets Approved by House Salem (U.R) Appropriations of $9,446,187 for Oregon State hospital and $4,142,069 for East ern Oregon State hospital were approved by the House today and sent to the 'Senate. Joint Ways and Means com mittee members said that while there had been some criticism of cuts made in the budgets, both of them provided for in creases in the general level of service. A department of Motor Ve hicles budget of $4,627,819 also passed despite ' some opposition that there might be a little du plication of services with the secretary of state's office. Rep. Robert J. Steward. Keat ing Democrat, said the duplica tion question could be studied in the Senate. The Motor Vehible department was set up as an agency separate from the sec retary of state's office last July 1. Smaller budgets approved by the House included $25,000 for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and $18,968 to pur chase anti-tuberculosis drugs. The Oregon State hospital budget represented an increase Cat Believed Victim Of Strychnine Poison A calico cat owned by Harold Raymond Littrell of 2015 East Majn st., Medford, died Tuesday morning from what is believed to be another, case of strychnine poisoning, according to city police. Littrell notified police after finding the cat dead in his gar age about 8 a.m. Officers said the cat showed the same symp tons of other recent strychnine cases. The Littrell cat was poisoned in the same vicinity where four dogs have been reported poisoned this month. Three of them have died. City police are investigating all the poisoning cases. Nuclear Safety Test Conducted in Nevada Mercury, Nev. (U.R) The Atomic Energy commission early today conducted the first in its 1957 series of nuclear "safety" tests, an explosion of a non-nu clear device near atomic wea pons to see if concussion will trigger nuclear bombs. The AEC's usual brief an nouncement said only that the 6:27 a.m. test was "successful." In a similar test last year, the concussion set up a radia tion reading among the weapons that indicated sharp blows on atomic weapons could stir radio activity. There was no report of any explosion of a nuclear wea pon during last year's safety test series. The AEC is conducting these tests of storage and handling of nuclear weapons during the summer months at times when the test site on the Yucca Flats Proving Grounds is not being used for the regular nuclear ex periments scheduled for this year. Holmes' Program Opens Mental Health Week Salem (U.R) Gov. Robert D. Holmes will lead viewers on a film visit inside the Oregon State hospital on his TV pro gram "report to the people" this Sunday. The half hour program, de voted largely to a look at treat ment and care of the mentally ill in Oregon institutions, will officially open mental health week which Gov. Holmes has proclaimed for April 28 through May 4. Tribune i of $1,364,000 over the current budget, but a reduction of $188,- 982 from requests. Some $60,000 was cut from the Eastern Oregon hospital budget by ways and means, Also passing the House was House bill 247 revising the reg ulations covering use of surface and ground water. Local Man Dies of Injuries Suffered In Accident Sunday Charlie N. Kelly, 44, of 118 East McAndrews rd., Medford, died Tuesday night in a local hospital as a result of what were believed at first to be minor in juries suffered in an automobile accident Sunday. He was operator of a car which collided with another ve hicle on Highway . 99 near Beall lane, about a mile north of Med ford, according to state police. Mr. Kelly and a passenger were thrown from the car onto the highway, police said; The death brought to six the number killed in traffic acci dents in Jackson county thus far this year. Mr. Kelly was born July 20, 1912, in Lyra, Ohio. He was mar ried to Ida I. Stage Sept. 21, 1951, in Reno, Nev. She survives. He was a member of the Hoist ing and Portable Engineers oper ators union, Portland. Moose Lodge Member He was employed by Ed Ste vens General Construction com pany, Medford, and was a mem ber of the Moose lodge. Mr. Kelly was a veteran of World War II. He served as a corporal in the Army Fair Force. Survivors, besides his wife, in clude two brothers, James Kelly, Beaver, W. Va., and John Kelly, Roseburg, and a step-son, Keith Sullivan, Oakland, Calif. He was preceded in death by one broth ere, McPherson Kelly, in 1914, and a sister, Nellie Kelly, in 1916. ' Funeral services will be held in Conger-Morris chapel at 1 p.m. Thursday. The Rev. D. E. Millard will officiate. Pallbear ers will be Moose lodge mem bers. Committal will be in Sis yiyou Memorial park, where the Moose lodge will be in charge of services. Orchard Heating Is Indicated Tonight Firing of orchard heaters after 1 a.m. Thursday was indicated in the forecast today by Bill Rogers, weather bureau meteor ologist and frost forecaster. Rogers said that a tempera ture reading of 27 degrees is anticipated in the coldest spots. A low of 33 degrees is pre dicted at the airport station of the weather bureau. Forecast by the Medford station of the weather bureau is for clearing conditions and colder tempera tures tonight and fair weather on Thursday. Weather FORECAST: Clearing and cold er tonight with low 33. Fair Thursday with high 65. Temp. HichPt Yesterday 63 Lowest thii Morning 43 Our Skies Tonight . Sunrise 5:17 a.m. Sunset 7:03 p.m. Moonrise Thursday -2:58 a.m. New Moon April 29 PROMINENT STAR Spica. in southwest 8:38 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS lupiter. high in south 9:35 p.m. Mars sets 10:39 p.m. Saturn, low In south- east . 11:40 p.m. U. S. Blamed for Bamboo Curtain Around Red China ANPA President Urges Travel by Newsmen New York (U.R) William Dwight president of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers asso ciation charged today that the U. S. government is responsible for keeping the Bamboo Curtain around Red China. In a strong attack on the State Department's ban on travel by American newsmen in China Dwight told the ANPA's 71st annual convention that the gov ernment's policy runs counter to "the people's right to know a precious right inherent in our way of life." He promised that the ANPA would continue to oppose this policy "at the highest level." Wants Travel Freedom Dwight who is president of the Holyoke, Mass., Transcript Telegram, said the ANPA has asked the President, the secre tary of state and Congress "that newspapermen who are Amer ican citizens and are employed by American publications and news gathering services to gath er and write news or express opinion on facts be accorded by our government freedom to travel for that purpose in any country in the world with which the United States is not at war." Right To Report "ANPA has in mind particu larly the granting of the right to go to Red China and report back to the American people," he said. "The Bamboo Curtain now hangs by order of our gov ernment between us and Red China." Dwight's speech at a general meeting of delegates marked the second day of the convention at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. More than 1,200 publishers from the United States, Canada, Ha waii and Puerto Rico are attend ing the various sessions dealing with all phases of daily news paper publication. The conven tion ends Thursday. ' Canyonville Man Sentenced in Court John D. Abel of Canyonville was sentenced to three years in Oregon state penitentiary this morning by Circuit Court Judge H. K. Hanna on charges of ob taining money by false pre tenses. He previously pleaded guilty. Also appearing in circuit court was Ten Vinson Roberts, 19, Klamath Falls, who pleaded guilty to charges of failing to stop at scene of accident involv ing bodily injury. Sentencing was deferred pending Federal bureau of investigation reports. Roberts was arrested by. Med ford police March 16 after driv ing through several red lights and hitting another car at the intersection of East Main st. and Riverside ave., according .to police reports. The driver of the other car, three passengers, and two girl pedestrians were injured in the accident. ' Roberts is free on $1,000 cash bail. Eisenhower's Day Will Include Golf Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower was expected to get in his usual round of golf today in an interim between two important conferences of his current vacation. The President intends to con fer with Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell at the vaca tion White House Thursday morning about anti-racketeering bills to be submitted to Con gress. Mitchell is scheduled to arrive here by plane tonight. Presidential press secretary James C. Hagerty said Eisenhow er had no announced conferences today and probably will get in a round of golf as he did late Tuesday. Waco Flood Conditions Ease as Storm Tapers By UNITED PRESS Summer flexed its muscles in the East today, and violent thun derstorms tapered off in the West, easing a flood threat at Waco, Tex. A wave of mild, muggy gulf air drifted across the East from the Mississippi river to the At lantic Coast, bringing summery temperatures throughout the area. A flash flood along Waco creek, which- only a few weeks ago was a dry ditch, forced hun dreds of persons from their homes in Waco Tuesday, but most of them were back today. 'You See Propaganda Everywhere" ' New Phone Directory Delivery Commences The delivery of 24,300 new telephone directories in Med ford, Ashland and nearby towns started today. Locally hired employees of Products Development corpora tion will personally deliver 18, 300 copies in Medford, 4,000 in Ashland, 550 in Jacksonville and 1,600 in Central Point, accord ing to Pacific Telephone Man ager Jack Creager. A total of 1,850 directories will be mailed to the company's customers in Gold Hill, Phoenix and Talent. All subscribers should receive a copy of the directory by Satur day, April 27, when the new telephone numbers for Medford, Ashland, Gold Hill, Jackson ville and Phoenix-Talent go into effect, Creager said. How to Dial Information on how to dial the new- numbers is printed in the front of the directories, Creager stated. Also printed there are a map and chart show ing the new expanded local call ing areas which can be dialed directly without payment of long distance charges. The new telephone numbers and the expanded local calling areas are part of Pacific Tele phone's $645,000 service ex pansion and improvement pro gram which goes into effect at 11 p.m. Saturday. The program also includes establishment of the new Phoenix-Talent ex change at an estimated cost of $200,000. This year's directory has a total of 256 pages, 22 pages more than last year's. Seventy six pages are devoted to alpha betical listings and 180 to "yellow-page" classified listings. Printed Together Printed together in one alpha betical section are telephone numbers for Medford, Central Point and Phoenix-Talent. They are followed by separate Gold Hill, Jacksonville and White City listings. Next come the "yellow-pages" and the Ashland alphabetical section. Directories delivered in Ash land will have a different make up. In these the Ashland alpha betical section is bound in the Morse, Neuberger Declared Disgrace Syracuse, N.Y. (U.R) Ernest W. Swigert, president of the National Association of Manu facturers, said Tuesday night the two U. S. senators from Oregon were a "disgrace to the nation." Swigert, of Portland, Ore., said "everybody in Washington admits the necessity for tax re duction but the plea is that it is 'politically inexpedient' to do anything about it." Swigert did not name the two senators but told newsmen after his speech to the Manufacturers Association of Syracuse he re ferred to Democratic Sens. Wayne Morse and Richard Neu berger. ' . "We must convince the men in Washington," Swigert said in his speech, "that American vot ers are less interested in getting part of their money back in boondoggles than they are in hanging onto their money in the first place." DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 493.66, up 1.78; 20 rail roads 146.55, up 0.64; 15 utilities 72.73, off 0.26, and 65 stocks 173.05, up 0.39. Sales today were about 2,990,000 shares com pared with 2,840,000 shares Tuesday. front part of the book. This is followed , by the "yellow-page" section and the listings for Med ford and the other towns. I The front cover of directories delivered in all towns except Ashland has a full-page picture of it of Crater Lake. On the front cover of Ashland direct ories is' a full-page picture of the administration building at Southern Oregon college. Not Picked Up ' Old telephone directories will not be picked up, Creager re ported. He added that they should be used until 11 p.m. Saturday and then destroyed. At 11 p.m. the new Medford, Ashland, Gold Hill, Jackson ville and Phoenix-Talent num bers will go into effect and the old numbers will be wrong num bers. Telephone users whose . new directories are delivered by em ployees of Products Devlopment corporation will also receive alphabetized "Blue Books." The "Blue Books" are handy for compiling a list of frequently called local and long distance telephone numbers. Persons who do not receive a "Blue Book" with their new directory may get one by contacting the tele phone company business office. Bank Debits Show Increase in Area Eugene Bank debits for March in the southern Oregon area showed an increase of 6.7 per .cent over February of this year, and a decrease of 13.2 per cent from March of last year. Bank debits for the entire state, totalling $1,588,612,459 with 165 banks reporting, indi cated a rise of 12.1 per cent from February 1957 and also a gain of 5.1 per cent over March a year ago. - Bank debits, regarded as good indicators of business activity, represent the dollar value of checks drawn against the depos it accounts of individuals and business firms. The bureau of municipal research University of Oregon, collects bank debits monthly. Senafe Approves Bill Prohibiting 'Kickbacks' Salem (U.R) The Oregon Senate today passed House bill 255 making it a misdemeanor for an employer to accept a "kickback" from an employee. Sen. Phil Brady, Portland Democrat, referred to it as the "kickback bill" and said he was for it as far as it went but he thought it didn't go far enough. The measure now goes to the governor for signature. Ashland, Medford, Klamath Groups To Be Orchestras and bands from Ashland, Medford and Klamath Falls will ' participate in Friday night activities in the Southern Oregon Music contest at Hed rick Junior High school, accord ing to Elmer V. Ayres of Mc Loughlin Junior High school, contest chairman. More than 2,000 students from as far east as Lakeview and as far west as Brookings . are ex pected to participate in the event here Friday and Saturday. Ayres said there will be no admission charge to any of the sessions with the exception of the Friday night event, at Hed rick, for which there will be a 50-cent charge for the public. Stone-Throwing Mobs Push Through Principal Cities Cairo Publishes Terms For Operation of Suez By UNITED PRESS Stone-throwing mobs surged through Amman and other prin cipal Jordanian cities today to enforce demands for the resig nation of pro-Western Premier Hussein El Khalidi's govern ment. Khalidi, however, was stand ing firm. After a 90-minute con ference with King Hussein, he announced: "I have not re signed." As mob rule and civil war threatened Jordan, another Mid east crisis apparently had run its course through the channels of diplomacy. Cairo published its long awaited terms for operation of the Suez canal. Egypt, the document said, will run the canal on its own terms, including collection of tolls. The most important conces sion Egypt made was that dis putes over operations and tolls could be taken to arbitration. - In both Egypt and Jordan, the United States figured promi nently. U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Raymond Hare represented ca nal users in the weeks of patient negotiations with the govern ment of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. In Jordan, the issue was be tween young, pro-Western King Hussein and the pro-Egyptian, pro-leftist forces which had tak en opposition to the Eisenhower doctrine as their chief issue. Today's mobs shouted equal ly against the doctrine and the Khalidi government. By mid-day the situation was reported under the control of Bedouin troops and police loyal to Hussein. But a further omi nous note was added in 'reports that the demonstrators were told to come out again Thursday if thejr demands were not met' Street mobs break or make Arab governments and may be turned on or off with almost push-button control at the com mand of the highest bidder. A further complication to the troubled Mid-East situation was added when an Egyptian mem ber of the Mixed Armistice com mission reported that troops of the United Nations Emergency Force fired on an Israeli plane when it flew over the Gaza strip village of Jabalia this morning. The Suez canal's future was thrown back into the U.N. Secu rity council when the U.S. for mally requested a meeting of that organization to consider the waterway question. No date was set for the meet ing, but there were indications it would be called for Friday. Before the U.S. report could be made, Egypt released its own memorandum outlining its plans for operating the canal. The Cairo document reflected a few minor concessions to U.S. and western demands, but it was emphatic that Egypt alone would run the canal. Israeli ships would continue to be barred from it, and Egypt will collect all tolls. Albert Wachsmuth Jury Deliberating at Eugene Eugene U.R) A iurv in . thm Albert Wachsmuth first degree murder trial retired at 10:05 a.m. today to consider charges that the elderly man murderpH State Police Officer Charles San ders in a gun battle Feb. 22. Circuit Judge William S. Fort gave the jurors six possible ver dicts from which to choose: In nocent, not guilty by reason of insanity, guilty of first decree murder making no recommenda tion lor leniency; first degree with a recommendation for life imprisonment, second deffrp. and manslaughter. In Program The Friday session will start at 8:30 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. Friday's daytime events will be held at Medford High school auditorium and the boys gym nasium, as will Saturday events. The Friday night session at Hed rick will start at 7:30 p.m. Groups will be rated accord ing to a musical standard with grades of superior, excellent, good, fair and poor. Judges will be Ira Lee, Uni versity of Oregon; John O'Con nor, Oregon State college; Glen Matthews, Southern Oregon col lege; Dean Melvin Geist, Wil lamette university; Oscar Bjorlie, Southern Oregon col lege; and Stanley Glarum, Lewis and Clark college.