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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.
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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,
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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.