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Beek
Money Said Not
Advanced as Loan;
Cousin Excused
Accountants Going
' Over Union Books
Washington (IP) Teamsters
bookkeeper Donald McDonald
testified today that President
Dave Beck took $370,000 from
his union but has repaid it in
the past two weeks.
"At no time," McDonald told
Washington (in Teamsters
President Dave Beck refused
today on grounds of possible
self-incrimination to answer
Senate Rackets Committee
charges that he misused his
' union power and trust in
"some 52 ways."
the Senate Rackets Committee,
"was the money advanced as a
loan." - ..
Beck sat in the hearing room
as McDonald . testified. Before
the session, the union president
told newsmen:
He has no intention of re
signing as teamsters boss, and
will run for reelection. ; .
But if the union decides his
resignation would be in the best
interest, he would give the mat
ter "serious consideration."
The committee called McDon
ald after excusing Norman J.
Gessert. Mrs. Beck's cousin and
erstwhile missing -witness, for at
least one day at request of his
lawyer.
McDonald testified that Beck
has repaid $370,000 to the un
ion in installments of $200,000,
$20,000, $50,000, and $100,000
"within the last two weeks."
"At no time," he said, "was
the money advanced as a loan."
McDonald testified that a
team of accountants is going
over the union's books to find
out how much money Beck still
has to return.
McDonald said the checks
never were recorded as going to
Beck." He said some were made
out to a building contractor and
some to "Los Angeles for pro
motion and expense."
"But Beck received the bene
fit of the checks?" Sen. Carl
Curtis (R-Neb.) asked.
"Yes."
The committee has charged
that Beck stole more than $322,
000 from union treasuries before
early 1954, and that he only
claimed that it was a loan and
began replacing it when tax
investigators, got on his trail.
McDonald said that for eight
years he has kept the books of
the 11-state Western Conference
of Teamsters, which Beck head
ed before 1953. Since sometime
in 1950, McDonald said, he has
also kept the books of the Joint
Council 28 Building Associa
tion, a subsidiary teamsters unit
to which Beck made his repay
ment. Records of the Western Con
ference and the Building Asso
ciation have been destroyed.
McDonald testified," however,
that no loans to Beck were car
ried on those books from 1949
to 1953.
Parking Meter
Bkkpir
Are Being Readjusted Here
City crews are now at work
readjusting the time limits of
about 50 parking meters in
downtown Medford from "12 to
30 minutes, according to Vera
Thorpe, public works director..
Rates on the former 12-min-ute
meters will be adjusted to 5
cents for 30 minutes and 10 cents
for an hour. Thorpe said. The
work is scheduled for comple
tion Monday.
The new parking meter ordin
ance recently adopted by the
city council also will change me
ter operation hours from 9 a.m.
to 5 P-m. to 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
each day. The change in meter
operation hours will affect all
850 parking meters in Medford
Thorpe said. They will be
changed by Monday.
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.PRACTICES 50 YEARS-MedfordC-Dentist,
: Dr. Frank Roberts, second from left, is shown
above receiving an award for 50 years con
tinuous practice in dentistry. The award was
. made by Dr. Paul Kunkel, left, president
of the Oregon State Dental society, at a meet
ing of the society's southern Oregon district
at the Rogue Valley Country club -Tuesday -, v
nignt. Dr. Roberts, 78,ist- oame t'MrfforcU
in 1900,' and after graduating "from dental
County Budget to
Be Signed Today;
Public Hearing Set
Signing of the Jackson coun
ty budget for, 1957-58 is sched
uled today.
County court members said
that theys will not delay the
signing any longer although
they have not received a legal
opinion from Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton concerning
a fund of $12,500 set aside for
operation and maintenance of
the juvenile detention home.
They stressed that the sign
ing of the budget at this time
did not mean that the budget
couldn't be changed at a latter
date.
Public Hearing Set -
The law allows changes to be
made in public hearing. Date
of the public hearing for the
county budget has been set for
June 17 at 10 a.m. in the county
court. .
The legal question arose . on
I hether the fund for the deten
tion home may remain as labeled
in the budget until the building
is completed which is expected
sometime after September or
whether it must go into the gen
eral county fund.
Commissioner Chester Wendt
said that if the present labeling
of the fund is found improper
by the attorney general s opin
ion, it may be changed at the
public hearing.
Total proposed budget for
1957-58 js $2,990,446.72.
New York IW Sid Caesar,
an NBC-TV top banana for nine
years, has been dropped by the
network.
Time Limits
According to the city traffic
department meter revenue
would increase to $15,482 per
year for 17 meters under the
changes, compared to $11,320
per year from 50 meters under
the previous system.
The meter changes resulted
from a recent parking survey
which indicated 12-minute. me
ters do not accommodate any
more parked cars per day than
one hour meters. Twelve-minute
meters also are difficult for the
police department to check, ac
cording to the survey.
Police Chief Charles Champ
lin said the department could
check meters during the new
operation hours without adding
a new patrolman to the force.
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,.urORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1957
CloDmras
- school at St. Louis, Mo., returned to Medford
to set up his dental practice. He has practiced
here ever since with the exception of four
years spent in Myrtle Creek. Roberts' two
sons, William and Frank, right, also are
dentists. William has his practice in the same
office as his father and Frank has an office
Vof his own. Dr. W. W, Walker of Grants Pass
w-received an awardier-&Tyears contmtrews
""'practice in dentistry, at' the.' district "meeting.; i
House Caught Up in
Congressional Trend
To Reduce
Washington (IP) The congres
sional economy drive today
caught up, in a small way, with
Congress, itself.
The House Appropriations
Committee, which has been deal
ing out cuts averaging 7 per cent
against the record high budgets
of the government's executive
agencies, reduced by about 2.7
per cent next year's spending
plans of the House itself.
Fresh Evidence
Small as it was, amounting to
only $2,208,343, the recommend
ed curtailment came as fresh
evidence that the congressional
economy drive was rolling un
checked, despite a stern new
warning from President Eisen
hower against unwarranted cuts.
In the face of the President's
press conference comments on
the dangers of "trifling" with
the national defense, House de
fense experts clung to their
$2,500,000,000 cut in Eisenhow
er's request for ' new defense
funds. ' .
Rep. George H. Mahon (D-Tex.)
chairman of a House appropria-
Council May Call
Hearing on Rezoning
The Medford city council to
night will consider calling for a
public hearing on a proposal to
annex ,to the city of Medford
12.6 acres north of Jackson st.
and east of Biddle rd. the meet
ing will be held at 7:30 p.m. in
the city hall.
The area proposed for annexa
tion is a portion of 28.3 acres
owned by Dr. I. D. Phipps. The
remaining 15.7 acres is already
inside the city limits. .
The 28.3-acre area is being
considered for a site of a new
Sears Roebuck and ' company
store, according to Mark Goldy,
Medford broker. The planning
commission recommended to the
council the area be annexed at
a meeting earlier this week.
In other business the council
will consider adopting a new
municipal liquor control ordin
ance. The proposed ordinance,
patterned after a model ordin
ance prepared by the League of
Oregon Cities, would provide for
various phases of liquor control
to be all under one ordinance.
Fugene 0P Voters in Eu
gene and two laree residential
suburbs will decide on annexa
tion of the two areas to the city
in special balloting today.
Tribune
Spending
tions subcommittee, said as far
as he knew no effort 'will be
made to reconsider the group's
tentative $2,500,000,000 cut in
the defense budget.
President Thought Right
"I think the President is abso
lutely right in opposing rash,
indiscriminate reductions," Ma
hon said. "Whatever cuts are
made by our subcommittee will
be designed to improve efficen
cy and economy of our military
forces." -
A ; Republican subcommittee
source expressed hope Eisen
hower and other administration
leaders will go slow in condemn
ing the reported cut until they
know its details. . . -
This source confirmed earlier
reports that much of the . rec
ommended defense slash is in
the nature of deferments, trans
fers and other bookkeeping de
vices and does not represent ac
tual savings.
The President, who warned
Tuesday night of "terrible con
sequences" from any "material"
cut in his $36,200,000,000 de
fense budget,' told his news con
ference Wednesday he could
"not see" how an "honest" cut
of such magnitude could be
made, v '
BoyDo You
Price 10c
United Press Full Leased Wire
No. 48
New Threat Looms
Oyer Suez Canal;
Egypt Raps Ike
France To Seek UN
Order for Compliance
By UNITED PRESS
A new crisis was blowing up
today over the Suez Canal.
Israel reaffirmed its right and
determination to use the Inter
national waterway while Egyp
tian officials repeated their de
termination to halt' any Israeli
ship and blamed President Eis
enhower for "encouraging Is
rael. Statement Attacked
Egyptian newspapers attacked
the Eisenhower statement today
and said "it is really to be re
gretted that when conditions are
beginning: to stabilize, America
should . encourage an Israeli
move which may result in world
conflagration."
France today requested a
meeting of the United Nations
Security Council Monday to seek
an order for Egypt to comply
with the six principles approved
by the council and agreed to
by the government of President
Gamal Abdel Nasser last Octo
ber. Britain today announced
it would support the French
demand.
Egypt has contended the Anglo-French
invasion of Suez last
November nullified Cairo's ac
ceptance of the principles, which
provided for the "insulation" of
the canal from politics.
Principles Remain Valid
Secretary - general Dag Ham-
marskjold, however, told a press
conference today -that the . prinr
ciples remain yaHd..yntU, revok
ed by the Securfiy'-Couhcil. '
In London, Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan faced a Labor
party vote of censure tonight on
his government's decision to use
the canal on terms laid down by
Egyptian President Gamal Ab
del Nasser. ;.. '
' Israeli Foreign Minister Golda
Meir today reaffirmed Israel's
rights to use the Suez Canal and
said, "we shall defend our rights
by all the means1 at our dis
posal." -
However highly placed Israeli
sources said Israel has acceded
to a request from President Eis
enhower not to launch a test
ship through the canal in the
near future. Previously Israel
was expected to test the block
ade "very soon."
Ashland Man Killed
In Accident Here
Richard Ray Cox, 29, of 343
Patterson st., Ashland was killed
in an accident at Elk Lumber
company's unloading deck about
9:02 p.m. yesterday. '
Jackson County .Coroner
Carlos Morris ' said Cox had
pulled his truck into the unload
ing area, . and was unhooking
binding chains. As he removed
the last chain, three logs rolled
off the truck onto him, Morris
said.
Cox was employed by Carroll
Smith of Ashland.
He is survived by his wife and
three children. . V
Ashland mortuary is in charge
of funeral arrangements.
Look Silly?"
18 Mangled Bodies
Located in Ruins;
Houses Blown Away
At Least 80 Hurt;
Eight Said Critical
Silverton, Tex. (If) A tor
nado descended upon the sleep
ing town of Silverton late
Wednesday night like an ex
ploding cloud of red sand and 18
torn bodies were recovered to
day from ditches and under piles
of wreckage.
. Sheriff John Lanham said at
least 80 were injured. Eight of
these were in critical condition.
"My man up there tells me he
has seen and counted 18 bodies
and identified them at least to
the extent of probable age,"
Highway Patrol Capt. J. W.
Blackwell said at his district
headquarters in Amarillo. "He
says there are other bAdies he
has just not been able to get to
yet.
"It looks like 19 or 20 dead is
about right."
Like Red Sand
"It dipped and popped and
looked like red sand boiling and
rumbling when it hit," Mrs. Billy
Stevens said. "It looked like a
real low cloud that had a belly
on it and then it began moving
through town."
The tornado was one of at
least a dozen that rumbled
around over the Texas Panhan
dle Wednesday night, injuring at
least six other persons and shat
tering homes and barns at scat
tered points.
Twenty-five homes were de
stroyed in Silverton, a town of
about 850 residents. Fifteen
more were badly damaged and
another 15 slightly damaged. A
cotton gin was destroyed, along
with four grain elevators and a
barracks that in cotton picking
season houses Mexican workers.
Lumber, Furniture Scattered
The tornado disgorged pieces
of lumber and furniture from
the homes it wrecked for a mile
around. -There was nothing ex
cept the foundation left of some
homes." Five memberse of one
family were reported killed.
. United Press- Correspondent
Tom Higley said six bodies were
loaded into one pickup truck.
The dying and . injured were
parcelled out to hospitals in
nearby, towns.
Dr. . C. H. Black said he had
treated 50 or 60, persons, all
covered with mud and suffering
from shock, head injuries and
cuts.' ;
Blackwell's figure of 58 in
jured evidently' included only
those in serious enough condi
tion to be kept in hospitals.
Other Areas Hit
.The tornado hit the southwest
ern part of the town's residential
section. Higley said it looked as
if the funnel smacked squarely
upon five houses in a row.
There was nothing left of them
but the foundations.
Before the tornado descended
on Silverton, it touched down at
Lockney, about 17 miles to the
southeast, injuring a woman and
two children.
The tornado roared into Sil
verton long after an alert had
been sounded in the Panhandle,
but residents went to bed at the
usual hour and ' were trapped
when their homes crashed upon
them.
The rash of tornadoes kept
Panhandle residents in near
panic. One tore down seven
houses in the community of
Goldston and another damaged
five in a rural area five miles
west of the city of Clarendon.
Still another hit Plains, a town
on the western side of the Pan
handle, destroying a home and
two business houses.
Rogue River Man Hurt
In Sawmill Accident
James Melvin McDonald, 25,
of Rogue River, was injured
early this morning while work
ing as head sawyer at DeAr
mond Brothers Mill at Rogue
Riyer.
Benson Denounces House Move To Kill
Multi-Billion
Washington (If) Agricul
ture Secretary Ezra T. Benson
today denounced the House
move to kill the multi-billion
dollar soil bank program next
year as "false economy . . . with
out justification."
Benson said the House had
"prejudged" the program acre
age reserve section on a "partial
evaluation" of its 1956 operation.
More Surpluses Seen
He said the program was in
tended to cut down on price de
pressing surplus crops, but there
is "every likelihood" the sur
pluses will pile up farther if the
House action stands.
His statement was released
while Benson was testifying be
Hearing on Speed
Of Trains May Be
Requested by City
A resolution requesting the'
Oregon Public Utilities commis
sioner to hold a hearing regard
ing the speed of trains in Med
ford will h nrpspnfprf in tho
city council at its 7:30 p.m. meet
ing today.
The speed with which trains
travel through Medford was
brought to public attention by
two recent accidents at railroad
crossings in which persons were
killed.
City Attorney Roy Bashaw
told a Medford Safety Council
committee yesterday afternoon
that the resolution not only
would 'concern the speed of
trains, but "also other safety fea
tures at railroad crossings deem
ed necessary by the PUC for
public safety. 1
Discuss Possible Action
Bashaw and Acting City' Man
ager Vernon Thorpe discussed
possible action to reduce the ac
cident potential at crossings
Public Meeting in
Berrydale District
Called for Friday
A public meeting called by
the leading opponent to annex
ation of the Berrydale area to
the city of Medford will be held
at 7:45 p.m. Friday in the How
ard school.
-. The meeting notice was mailed
out on unsigned mimeographed
postcards received by many resi
dents of the area yesterday.
After the cards were received,
Nick Gier, chairman of the Ber
rydale Sanitation committee
which has been working for an
nexation since last fall, issued
a statement disclaiming respon
sibility for the1 cards.
' Gier raid: "The Berrydale
Sanitation committee wishes to
notify everyone concerned that
they are not responsible for the
public meeting announced on un
signed postcards received by the
residents of the proposed Berry
dale annexation area.
"All arrangements for this
meeting were made by William
Doernbach, 143 Mace rd. Inas
much as .the proposed topics of
discussion are of vital interest
to everyone living in the area,
the committee urges every in
terested person to attend."
The discussion subjects listed
on .the card are "Annexation-Taxes-Sewage-
Restrictions- Buil
ding Code and Misinformation
Corrections." Speakers are list
ed as "Your Neighbors."
Also being distributed in the
area this week is a mimeograph
ed discussion of the annexation
proposal, prepared by Gier and
other committee members, and
based on information gathered
from official sources over the
past several months.
It gives details of tax and fee
changes which would result
from annexation, alternatives to
annexation data from county
ana state health departments,
and comments on the sanitation
problem and the annexation pro
posal. Weather '
FORECAST: Fair through Fri
day. Low tonight 45. Hirh
Friday 78. Temp.
Hih Yesterday 74
Lowest This Morning 42
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
4:49 a.m.
7:27 p.m.
Sunset
nuiiar,
nfoonrlse
10:15 p.m.
Last Quarter :.. Next Tuesday
PROMINENT STAB
Arcturus, high In
south 10:45 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Saturn, low In
southeast 10:M p.m.
Mars. eU 10:13 p.m.
Jupiter, high In
ioutnwesi
..10:09 p.m.
Dollar, Soil Bank Program
fore, the House Agriculture Com
mittee to renew his plea for leg
islation to let him set farm price
supports at lower levels.
His office said that because of
"recent legislative develop
ments "presumably the House
decision, Benson and his wife
have canceled a trip they
planned to make to South Amer
ica starting next Wednesday. .,
Vote Eliminates Authority '
The House voted Wednesday
192 to 187 to eliminate authority
for 1958 acreage reserve pro
gram and reduce the long-range
conservation reserve section of
the soil bank from $450 to $250
billon annually. Farmers re
ceive government payments for
within the city with the Safety
Council committee, which was
appointed to investigate the
matter.
Bashaw said the PUC could
order more effective safety pre
cautions at crossings if it found
the situation warrented it. He
added that the city can only
make requests for an" investiga
tion and hearing, and suggest
speeds for trains t rva v e 1 i ng
through the city.
Claude Haggert, safety direc
tor at California Oregon Power
company, pointed out that the
11th st. crossing is among the
more dangerous since the rail
road does "flying switching" in
the area. He cited examples
where boxcars have crossed 11th
st. unattended and without lights
at night.
He noted that at times while
switching is being conducted a
flagman is stationed at the cross
ing motioning traffic to proceed
when conditions allow. But this
is not always satisfactory, he
commented.
The committee also discussed
ways of preventing "crying
wolf" signals at crossings. "Cry
ing wolf" is the term when sig- "
nals continue to sound at cross
ings when no train is near the
crossing.
Haggert noted that such a con
dition exists at crossings south
of Sixth st., and is especially
bad' at 11th st. Police Chief
Charles Champlin noted that on
several occasions trainmen park
a train between Main and 11th
sts. and go to dinner while sig
nals at llth st. are sounding. ,
The committee noted that
with reduced speeds through
Medford, a train would not re
quire a great distance in which
Ito stop and signal switches could
be installed closer to crossings,
eliminating some "crvine wolf"
conditidns while switching is be-
ing done.--
The committee believed some-'
thing should be done about "fly-,
ing switching" at crossings, but
Bashaw pointed out there are -no
regulations governing that
type switching at present. Ba-'
shaw said he discussed "flying
switching" with a representative
of the PUC yesterday morning.
Dr. William J. Thompson is
chairman of the Safety Council
committee, and other members
besides Haggert include Aubrey
Loper, president of the council.
and Leo Sevcik, state drivers '
license examiner.
Phoenix District
Approves Budget
Phoenix Voters in Phoenix
school district 4 yesterday ap
proved a 1957-58 budget total
ing 5365,815. The vote was 110
in favor and 80 against.
The levy will be $246,863. The
present year's budget - is $339,
752. The budget includes funds to
provide necessary classroom fa- ;
cihties for an anticipated in-.
crease in enrollment, which will
require hiring two more teach
ers. Some of the increase in next'
year's budget is for bond pay
ments and interest, which was -paid
from excess O and C funds
allotted to the district by the
county last year. The funds are ;
not available this year, school
officials noted. ' ! :
General operating and mainte
nance is generally the same as
this year's budget, officials said.
HasebaDO
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit .. 2 8 0
Boston : 1 5 0
Bunning and House; Porter
field. Delock (9) and White.
taking farmland out of corn, cot
ton, wheat, rice and tobacco pro
duction And placing it in the so
called acreage reserve.
Costs Seen Greater
If the soil bank acres of these :
crops are "forced back into pro- ;
duction" nex year, Benson said, :
the cost of price supports prob
ably will "be greater than would
have been the cost of an acreage
reserve for 1958."
He conceded that the soil
bank approved by Congress last ,
year as a $1,200,000,000 a year
program for four years, is "tem
porarily expensive." But he said
it would save money for taxpay
ers eventually if permitted to
continue. P"