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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1957
No. 38
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Beck, Teamsters
Leaders Meet to
Get United Front
Preparing to Appear
Before AFL-CIO Group
Washington OJ.R Dave
Beck and other Teamsters Union
leaders are expected to try to
work out a united front today
against AFL-CIO charges that
the big union may be dominated
by corrupt influences.
The union's 13-man executive
board will hold its extraordin
ary Sunday meeting to prepare
for an appearance Monday be
fore the AFL-CIO ethical prac
tices committee to face the
charges.
The committee's inquiry could
lead to an AFL-CIO ultimatum
to the Teamsters to "clean
house" or get out of the AFL
CIO. The meeting today could be
'particularly crucial for Beck.
The AFL-CIO investigation of
the union involves his admitted
"borrowing" of more than $300,
000 of . union funds without in
terest and his refusal to answer
Senate Labor Rackets committee
questions on charges that he
used union money for personal
matters.
Discuss Rebuff
The teamsters leaders also are
supposed to discuss AFL-CIO
President George Meany's rebuff
of protests against the suspen
sion of Beck as an AFL-CIO vice
president on the same charges.
The AFL-CICv executive council
has asked Beck to appear for
trial as an AFL-CIO officer on
May 20.
The portly union president Fri
day was still campaigning for
reelection at the union's Sep
tember convention despite signs
that his leadership may be de
teriorating and despite his arrest
earlier in the day on income tax
evasion charges.
The meeting today will start
a strenuous week for Beck. He
also has been summoned to ap
pear again before the Senate
committee on Wednesday to
hear what the committee calls
additional "derogatory informa
tion." The beleaguered Beck, after
posting $5,000 bond on the tax
evasion indictment, attended on
Atlantic City, NJ-, meeting of
Eastern Teamsters officials to
bolster his support.
He told them, at a closed meet
ing, of the growth in finances
and members of the union
under his leadership and said "if
you can find anyone who can do
a better job than I have done, go
ahead and elect him.
Construction Starts
On Medical Buildi
Construction of a $100,000
moriiral office building opposite
the Medical-Dental building on
East Main st., got under way
Thursday.
The structure will' be owned
-Profpssional Properties Inc.,
of Medford. It will be a single
story Haydite block building
of about 6.000 square
feet. Office facilities are plan
ned for six physicians, accord
William Brooks of Med
ford, contractor for the project.
Completion of the building is
.iannH for September or Oc
tober, Brooks said. Brooks also
was contractor for the Meaicai
rental huildine.
Parking facilities for the estab
lishment will accommodate more
than 100 cars. The parking area
will include a one-way drive
from Main st. to layior st.
- nii hnuse on the construc
tion site was razed several
' months ago in preparation for
the project.
Thousands File Past
Bier of Joe McCarthy
The body
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of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, the
...u-. Wamp a hero and an
man vvnv
epithet, lay in state Saturday
at a Pennsylvania ave. lunerai
nome iioiim"s
Thousands of friends, associ
ates and the simply curious were
expected to file past the bier of
the 47-year-old Republican be
. ' r,rai services are held
Monday in the Senate The fun
eral home was m-hu.
,pen to the puDiic i- nours
9nH Sunday.
ill noj " - . .
senators, cab drivers and
tprf socialites were
. ih fii-d norenns who naia
among m-
their final respects to McCarthy
Friday night when his body was
. 1,j Tiiihlie view.
flpSl UldLCM Vn Z
McCarthy, who died Thursday
night at nearoy cemma
, ..,-, hrnueht durine the
dav to Joseph Gawler s Sons
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Funeral ieme a
the White House where McCar
NicaraguaGovernment
Claims Honduras Air
Force Attacks Towns
Tgucigalpa, Honduras U.R)
The Nicaragua government
said planes of the Honduras Air
Force attacked two Nicaraguan
border villages Saturday. Nicar
aguan radio stations called im
mediately for "total war."
A Managua government com
munique reported the attack
after a 10-man fact-finding mis
sion from Washington flew to
Honduras Saturday to try to
find out just what is going on
along the disputed border.
The Managua communique
said the Honduran planes at
tacked the town of Mocoron and
the hamlet of Laimon. Unoffic
ial sources said Laimon suffer
ed "numerous casualties.''
Challenge Raiders
The communique did not dis
close the number of planes that
took part in the attack or
whether the planes used bombs
or machineguns on the village.
It said planes of the Nicaragua
Air Force challenged the raid
ers in an aerial dog fight.
Radio stations called for "to
tal war," and some sources said
reinforcements left for the bor
der with tanks and heavy ar
tillery. Ricardo M.' Arias of Panama,
chairman of the team sent to
Tegucigalpa by the organization
of American States (Pan-American
Union), said earlier yester
day he believed the situation
was improving. Both Honduras
and Nicaragua promised to co
operate with the OAS mission,
which includes officials of five
western hemisphere nations.
Confusion continued to veil
the exact state of affairs on the
"Mosquito Coast," a border strip
some 12 miles wide which has
been claimed by both Nicaragua
and Honduras for more than a
century.. The entire Tegucigalpa
police force has left for tne
front." High school students
took over the task of directing
traffic here Saturday.
Somoza said every inch of
territoryt hat Nicaragua is hold
ing is that country's legitimate
property. He said any Honduran
attempt to "trespass" on the dis
puted zone would be considered
an act of aggression."
Gen. Roque - Rodriguez, . a
Tax Bill Is Due
For Opposition
Salem (U.R) The Demo
cratic tax program which passed
the Oregon House Mast week Is
due-- for some more opposition
this time from one of its own
members.
Sen. Ben Musa, The Dalles
Democrat and vice-chairman of
the Senate Taxation committee,
announced Saturday he is oppos
ed to the bills "with its present
tax structure.
The bill would repeal the 45
rw?r cent ' surtax, increase ex-
emntions from S500 to $600 and
allow' rates ranging from four
per cent to 11.6 per cent. How
ever, the offset for federal tax
es paid was retained in the law.
Sen. Bpn Musa wants to ab
olish the offset, keep the person
al exemptions at $500 and to
set up tax rates ranging from
two to eight per cent.
Sports Bulletins
Portland (U.R) Six Port
land errors plus 11 hits off
eight Portland pitchers en
abled the Sacramento Solons
to defeat Portland, 15-6. last
night in Multnomah Stadium
and even the series at two
games apiece.
Seattle (U.R) Seattle bunts
helped along by loose San
Francisco infield play enabled
tha Rainier to defeat the
Seals 5-1 last night and take
a 4-2 edge in the eight-came
Pacific Coast league series.
Richards Arrives in
Tunisia En Route Home
Tunis. Tunisia U.R U.S
sDecial Eisenhower doctrine en
voy James P. Richards arrived
in Tunisia Saturday for a two-
day visit before flying home to
report to the president on his
Middle East mission.
Richards and a party of eight
officials landed at El Aouina air
field after a flight from Athens,
Greece. He will make a final ex
planation of the Eisenhower doc
trine to Tunisian officials before
flying on Monday.
London U.R A London
newspaper identified engineer
ing Inspector Ian Shaw, 42, Sat
urday as a leader of the Ku Kliut
Klan in Britain.
member of the three-man mili
tary junta that governs Hondur
as, retorted that this country is
"engaged in a military operation
to drive out the Nicaraguan in
vaders." "If Nicaraguan planes drop
bombs on our cities, the Hon
duran Air Force will retaliate bv
bombing military objectives in
Managua," he said.
'-
DONALD B. WHALIN .
Lumber Division Head
Whalin Named to
Head UMC Division
Donald B. Whalin, 300 Wind
sor ave., has been appomted
lumber division leader for the
1957 United Medford Crusade,
according to Robert A. Johnson,
UMC general chairman. -t .
Whalin is timber manager at
Timber Products company. He
is president of the Southern Ore
gon Conservation and Tree Farm
association, active in the First
Presbyterian church, member of
the county planning commission
and executive officer of a local
Army Reserve unit. He is also
area leader and treasurer of the
Jackson county Republican cen
tral committee.
After graduating from Am
herst college, Whalin enlisted in
the Connecticut National Guard
and served five years in the in
fantry in World War II, includ
ing 18 months in the European
theater of operations.
Whalin and his wife, Lois,
have two daughters, Barbara and
Charlotte.
Chosen to assist in the lumber
division campaign are S. V. Mc
Queen, assistant division lead
er; R. J. Hogue, lumber mills;
G. T. Haupert, loggers; Robert
C. Taylor, wholesale lumber;
and Riley C. Cook, retail umber.
Finnish Freighter
Sinks in Atlantic
New 'York (U.R) The Fin
nish freighter Bornholm sank
Saturday in the mid-Atlantic
minutes after her 28 crew mem
bers were rescued by the Coast
Guard cutter Duane.
The Coast Guard here said
there were no injuries. The
crew was aboard the cutter
eight minutes before the freight
er sank.
Early Friday the 342-foot
freighter, bound for Wilming
ton, Del., radioed that it was
"leaking badly." The Duane, on
a weather, search and rescue pa
trol out of - Boston, picked up
the distress signal and sped to
the scene.
Effects of
Effects of the admittance to
the United Nations of 21 new
member-nations were discussed
by Dr. Charles P. Schleicher at
the annual meeting of the Med
ford League of Women Voters
yesterday.
About 50 persons here for the
annual convention of the Oregon
United Nations association were
special guests.
Dr. Schleicher, professor of
political science at the Univer
sity of Oregon, recently spent a
year in India as a Fullbright
professor at AHahad university.
He is on the executive commit
tee of the Oregon association
of UN.
The professor explained eight
effects which might result from
the new members' admission to
the UN.
"The day is passed," he de
clared, "when the United States
can ba assured of an aromatic
AEC Calls Hearing
Into Why Report
Of Accident Late
Four Houston Men
'Burned' by Element
Houston, Tex. (U.R) The
Atomic Energy commission sum
moned the officials of a Houston
nuclear laboratory Saturday to
a May 22 laring in Washington
to explain why they waited 29
days to report that a dangerous
radioactive element had gotten
loose and "burned" four men.
It was learned that the acci
dent was the second in a year
at the M. W. Kellogg company,
which used radioactive iridium
192 to check steel construction
material for flaws. Two men
were burned earlier on the hands
while handling radioactive co
balt. First Accident
The first accident was worse
than the second. A doctor who
treated the two men burned ear
lier plant superintendent James
Martin and technician J. C. Wil
liams said their hands looked
"just like hot grease had been
poured over them."
The blisters healed and they
returned to work. Later, the
blood supply to their fingers was
constricted and "day ulcers" de
veloped. The ulcers were excised
and skin grafted over their fin
gers so they could work again.
It could not be determined
whether this accident was re
ported to the AEC. But the sec
ond accident, which happened
March 13, was not reported un
til 29 days later.
Dr. Willard F. Libby, a mem
ber of the AEC, said there will
be a full-scale investigation to
find out why.
Attempted Measures
S. B. Converse, an official of
the Kellogg compaffy from New
York, said the accident was not
reported sooner because "we at
tempted our own control mea
sures. :
'.'But the control was not ad
equate," he said. "As soon as
we saw it was inadequate, we
notified the AEC."
The four men and the whole
laboratory were contaminated
when a safety clutch mechan
ism used to handle the iridum
192 slipped and cut into a can
nister of pellets.
The men were immediately
sworn to secrecy and put under
continuing medical checkups to
detect any symptoms of radio
active poisoning.
. But they apparently received
only small doses and there was
no outward sign they were
"burned."
New York Police
Fear Gangland War
New York (U.R) Police
feared Saturday that a gangland
war might erupt in the wake of
the abortive assassination at
tempt against reputed rackets
czar Frank Costello.
Without suspects or motives,
a squad of 66 detectives tried to
track down the burly gunman
who Thursday night fired One
shot that creased the scalp of
the erstwhile underworld king
as he entered the foyer of his
apartment building.
They feared, however, that
gangsters either friends of the
66-year-old Costello or members
of the assassin's own mob
would get to the gunman first.
Authorities based their theory on
the belief that the assassin, hav
ing failed in his mission, was
marked to die by those who hired
him.
Police were convinced that the
attempt on the life of the rack
ets kingpin was a carefully-plan
ned, professionally - executed
scheme. But they were at a loss
for a. motive.
21 New UN
majority" in its "UN activities,
and we must now modify our
proposals or give them up."
The United States now can
almost always block anything
proposed in the UN, "but not
always," he said.
He predicted that the Soviet
Union will not be any better
off now by the increased mem
bership, and added that "it may
be that on important matters the
great powers may tend to do
more business outside the UN."
Until there is a satisfactory
"substitute for force," Dr.
Schleicher said the world can
not expect an end to armed con
flict "We have gone further
against the use of force than
we have provided a substitute."
The general assembly may be
moved toward a working com
promise, "rather than the "hol
low voting victories," and be
come, less of a propaganda
Mew
lrll
American Newsman
Roughed Up During
Recording Attempt
High School Girls
Against Doctrine
Damascus, Syria U.R) Syr
ians shouted anti-American slo
gans Saturday and roughed up
an American newsman but other
wise failed to show much inter
est in by-elections billed as an
important test of Communism.
The American newsman was
roughed up when he tried to
tape-record shouts by high school
girls against the Eisenhower doc
trine. Police spared" another news
man from mob attack only by
explaining to frenzied crowds
that he was a German and not
an American.
The ominous anti-American
feelings erupted during parlia
mentary by-elections that provid
ed the first test of strength be
tween Syrian left and . right
wingers since the upheaval in
neighboring Jordan. '
But despite the heated emo
tions only 24 per ' cent . of the
electorate had balloted by poll-
closing time and the government
decreed the election will contin
ue today. . i
The first target of anti-Ameri
can feeling was Welles Hangen,
National Broadcasting company
correspondent.
An angry youth tried to grab
the tape-recorder which Hangen
was using to record shouts
against the Eisenhower doctrine.
The American newsman's clothes
were , torn and his-notebook dis
appeared in the scuffle.
Later, Hans Hartmann, staff
television cameraman covering
the elections for United Press-
Movietone news, had to show his
German passport to escape mob
anger. Police assigned Hartmann
a detective bodyguard who fol
lowed him on the rounds of poll
ing places.
Work on County
Budget Completed
The Jackson county budget
committee Friday completed all
but signing the 1957-58 county
budget.
Committee members will meet
late this week to sign the budg
et after tabulations are finish
ed, according to Tom Wray,
chairman. After the budget is
signed, date for a public hearing
will be set.
Wray said the committee made
a few salary adjustments for em
ployees in several departments,
including the health department,
clerk's office and sheriff's office,
The new budget also calls for
a $3,000 county parks fund,
which would be used to install
boat landings and . maintain
parks which are not eligible for
state funds.
Committee members also ap
proved purchase of about 90
acres of property at the Hanley
ranch near the Jacksonville-Central
Point rd. for southern Ore
gon branch experiment station
agronomic research. Price of the
property is between $600 and
$650per acre, they said.
. Agronomic research is cur
rentlv being conducted at a site
near Phoenix. Property there has
been declared unfit for research
projects because a high concen
tration of lead arsenate there un
dermines effectiveness of experi
ments.
Members
organ. . -
Because of the economic sta
tus of most the new members,
Dr. Schleicher said there is in
creasing pressure for the UN
to be more concerned with eco
nomic and social questions.
He also forecast increased
anti-colonialist voices in the
world organization and the pos
sibility that USSR might be in
fluenced toward greater moder
ation in its foreign policy.
Dr. Schleicher also discussed
membership qualifications of the
UN, saying the problem has be
come "political rather than
legal." He declared that , there
was no question of "admitting
Communist China," but rather,
"What is China?" '
The effects of the new mem
bers, many of which are also
new nations, will be nominal in
the various UN organs, according
to Dr. Schleicher, "but will be
rpn n
Cemtral Tenuis
"Look, Lady You Don't See Me Worrying"
Attorney General to
Be Questioned About
Charg es Ag
Salem K'U.R) Chairman War
ren Gill of the Senate Judiciary
committee said Saturday At
torney General Robert Y. Thorn
ton will be questioned concern
ing charges -made against him
by the vicei probing Multnomah
grand jury. ;
The attorney general was the
target of a blistering report by
the grand jury , which charged
the state's top law enforcement
officer with "appalling inability"
in the - current vice investiga
tions. -
While the grand jury was pre
senting its report to Circuit
Judge Charles W. Redding in
Portland, Multnomah County
District Attorney William M.
Langley was suggesting to the
Judiciary committee in Salem
that the Legislature "should give
serious consideration to abolish
ing the grand jury system."
Thornton, who also appeared
before the committee Friday
night, said the grand juries
should not be restricted in their
investigative powers. ;
The two law enforcement of
ficers were the first witnesses
before the committee's special
hearing on legislation to change
the laws on criminal procedures.
RemOTal Hit
Langley, who is under several
indictments and has been con
victed of one count, said that
indicted public officials should
not be suspended from office
pending trial ' because "that
smacks of impeachment" which
is prohibited by the state constitution-'
He said removal from office
should be left to the courts.
Thornton told the committee
a recently - published estimate
that the cost of prosecuting the
welter of indictments returned
by the Multnomah county grand
jury would run to one million
dollars was "way out of line and
beyond reality." However, under
questioning the attorney general
said he didn't know just how
much the cost would be.
Richard Carney, attorney for
Langley, told the committee
grand jury procedure should be
most influential in the general
assembly.
He explained that while the
Soviet bloc and the "non-Soviet'
bloc, can muster sufficient help
to block a general assembly vote,
it is more difficult to . secure
the two-thirds majority required
for passage of a proposal. .
: In a business session preced
ing the talk, Mrs. Hugh Collins
was elected president of the
Medford League of Women Vot
ers. Mrs. Dunbar Carpenter was
elected vice president; Mrs. John
Ousterhout, second vice presi
dent: Mrs. Ron James, secretary;
and Mrs. Ogden Kellogg and
Mrs. Donald Bohnert, directors.
Mrs. Robert Hiatt, retiring
nresident. was in charge of the
inpptinff. She announced - that
the league's annual one-half fin
ance drive will take place
morrow.
to-
A AA --
ainst H i m
changed to give Circuit judges
express control over their de
liberations. He critized Thorn
tons' handling of the Multnomah
grand jury charging the attorney
had "purposely" brought out
two indictments against Langley
during thi district attorney's
recent neglect of duty trial,
Sen. Gill said the next session
of the committee would be Tues
day at 7:30 p.m. He did not dis
close the names of. witnesses
but he said Thornton "will be
interrogated again, in executive
session."
Press Services Ask
Defeat of Bill
Salem U.R Newspaper and
radio representatives have call
ed for defeat of a Senate-passed
bill to toughen the state's libel
law. -
The measure, recently passed
16-14 by the Senate, would per
mit recovery of punitive dam
ages for negligent libel and put
on the publisher the burden of
proof that the libel was uninten
tional. .".-
The present law, passed in
1955, provides for recovery of
actual damages only for inten
tional or negligent libel, if a re
traction has been published.
Lamar Tooze, attorney for the
Oregon Newspaper Publishers
association, told the committee
that there is no other instance
where the defendant must bear
the buraeit oi prooi. tie saw ine
present law is adequate and that
it is constitutional.
Sen. Philip Lowry, Medford
republican, sponsor of the bill,
said the law was unconstitution
al and called it a "special inter
est law."
James W. Frost, manager of
the Oregon State Broadcasters
association, handed the commit
tee a resolution from the group
opposing the new measure and
asking that it be defeated.
Police Officer Acts
Cowboy Part Briefly
Medford Police Officer Ger
ald Butler Friday night dou
bled as a cowboy long enough
to help drive 20 head of -cattle
from Crater Lake ave., be
tween McAndrews rd. and
Buckshot Hill rd.
Police were notified at 7:08
p.m. that the cattle were roam-
- ing - at large and creating a
traffic haiard.
Owner of the cattle. Charles
Bateman. route 1, box 74, Cen
tral Point, was called to the
scene to assist Officer Butler
in driving the animals to their
'pasture.
.Officer Butler's brief cow
; boy career ended as Bateman
repaired the break in the fence
through which the cattle had
escaped.
Taipie, Formosa U.R A
Nationalist Chinese military
spokesman said Saturday that
Communist China has some 960
planes stationed along its "first
line on the mainland coast.
40 Families Are
Forced to Move
In Wichita Falls
Louisiana Town Is
Threatened by Stream
Dallas, Tex. 0J.R) New flood
crests poured down the Brazos
and Bosque rivers toward a
junction in water-logged central
lexas Saturday and another
stream invaded the city of Wich
ita Falls, driving out 40 families.
a nood crisis developed in
northwestern Louisana. where
600 men . with sandbags and
earthmovine. machi
shoring up the levels of Red
river before it can pour over
13,000 acres and th nrnimnnitv
of East Point. La.
The water receded from nart
of Dennis, Tex., 40 miles from
Forth Worth, where a resurging
flood made all 200 residents flee
into the hills. The flood also
drained out of Bennett, near
Dennis, where 24 families were
driven out.
Rirer Receding
in east Texas, along the Louis
iana line, the Sahi np river
which had been flooding all
week, was falling as far south
as Tatum. Tex., freeino t.h
homes of 300 person and 1,000
oilwells gradually from the grip
oi yeiiow water.
President Eisenhower author
ized one million dollars to Texas
from federal emergency funds
to be spent on projects that have
to do with public health.
Gov. Price Daniel had asked
for one million dollars immed
iately but had said that ."tenta-"
tive and preliminary estimates'
indicate the damage to public
facilities alone would total five
million dollars.
Weather forecasters for the
first time said a siege of deluges,
tornadoes and floods that hit
Texas since April 19, may be
ending. The weather, according
to a ; United Press count, has
taken 21 lives since then, mostly
by drowning.
May Avoid Flood
Officials in Waco, Tax., where
the Brazos and Bosque run to
gether, forming one stream call
ed the Brazos, believed they
would avoid another flood like
a disastrous one two weeks ago.
The danger was below Waco,
where levees are lower and
here the crests of the combined
rivers will flow into on chan
nel already running bank-to-bank.
,
The flood in Wichita Falls was
caused by a heavy local rain
that sent Holliday creek over
its banks into 25 or 30 blocks.
Civil defense authorities set up
a guard to prevent looting.
The crest on Red river, In
Louisiana, was below Shreve
port, but the river was not ex
pected to fall before Monday.
East Point, where the Red
threatened to break its banks, is
30 miles below Shreveport.
Morse Urges Hall
To Nuclear Tests
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Wayne L. Morse urged last night
that the United States halt, its
nuclear weapons tests "right
now", and challenge Russia to
do the same.
The Oregon Democrat said
such a move would "give a new
impetus to disarmament."
"Such an announcement by
us would put the Soviet Union
in the position of having to de
cide whether to continue the
tests alone, in the face of world
wide religious and scientific ob
jections and in the face of world
wide public opinion," Morse
said.
Weather
FORECAST: Mostly sonny to
day and Monday. Thunder
storms forming over the Cas
cades this afternoon and asain
. Monday afternoon. High to
day 82. low tonight near 40,
high Monday near SO.
TEMP.
Highest Yesterday . SI
Lowest Yesterday 41
Our Skies Tonight
Snnrlse
5:02 a.m.
Snnset
7:15 p.m.
12:34 a-m
Moonset Monday
T"h transit of MerenrT
across
the face of the Sun today will
be seen. In part. In most of
North America except the ex
treme eastern part where It will
not begin until after sunset. The
planet will be seen as a very
tiny dot moving across the Sun.
The transit begins here 4:00 p.m.
and ends at S:2 p.
thy seldom wa weicuu.