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Newspaper Page Text52nd Year Price IQc Medford Tribune United Press Full Leased Wlr United Press Full Leased 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1957 N. 69 0 ,ti C AV- o Ill l.i 4fps I v r T i i t - ii i 'i i in i i i iif"i i "iimffiK in ii i inihi in iliififlltrBTiiatWM i r, ; ( i -" r if 1ir w ttiirt nr I POOL OPEKS Ovrr 400 Medford younsstcrs were on hand v.M'n li-e public S'Aimmina pool nperird at Hawthorne parit jrstrrdnv. airnrding to Ed Knapp. swimminc po"l manager. Above. Mrs. Don Bradshaw, lifeguard, watches while a rrowd of younz .swimmers "whoop it up" at the shallow end of the pool. Other lifeiuards are Bob Sutherlin and Herb Bowman. Girard's Brother Plans To Appeal To Eisenhower Ottawa, III. i." The brother of CI William Girard will try to get President Eisenhower to keep the Japanese from trying Cirard today. Louis Cirard lrft here for Washington with petitions mgnrd by almost 7.000 persons. They protested the United States derision to turn over Armv Snriahst 3P William r:,rrH nf ... 'On Ninth Petition Ottav.a to the Japanese courts! The sprcmc Court action fnr trial on manslaughter came on Chessman's ninth peti- chargrs. He is accused of the tion to the high tribunal. fatal shooting of a Japanese Justice John M. Harlan wrote woman j ",e P'nion for the Supreme Can't Fetreat Now The United Press Irarnrd that even if the brother does get in to see Mr. Eisenhower, the President will slicrf to his guns that the I'niied States can't go back on its promise to Japan now. The Girard case also mav be headed f'r a major court test in this country over confidential i government documents. The! United Press was told the gov-1 rrnment will move in federal district court in Washington j Tuesday to quash subpoenas ob tained by Girard's defense at torneys. They call for produc tion in court of all written records in the case. Girard told the United Press in Tokyo by telephone from the base where he is being held that "It sure helps to know I got some good people on my side." Asked how he was feeling, the GI replied: "About as well as you w o u 1 d if you were up against what I am." Girls State Starts At Willamette U. Salem 'If A week-long training - in - gov ernment course for some 250 girls opened here today under sponsorship of the American Legion auxiliary. The biggest Girls State con vention in the past 16 years with registrations today at Wil lamette University. The girls all high school jun-ii-rs, will set up city, county and state government units and elect officers during their meet ing. Gov. Robert D. Holmes and other state, city and county of ficials will participate in the activities. Linda Thompson. Astoria. last v ear's cirl state governor, will address the group tonight. Eugene IP Dr. Charles G. Howard, professor of law at the University of Oregon, has been named recipient of the first an nual Erstrd award, for distin guished teaching. Knowland and Nixon Clash Over Issue of Polish Aid Washington IP Vice Pros-1 ident Richard M. Nixon and Sen-1 ate GOP Leader William E. i Knowland. potential Republican i rivals for the presidency, clash ed today on the issues of U.S. aid to Communist Poland. j Strongly Favors Decision Nixon, in a speech in East ' Lansms. Mich.. Sunday, came nut s'mncly for the administra tion's decision to send Poland ?15 million worth of surplus f irm products and machinery. "If because of our action the movement toward independence; and freedom is enabled to re-' mam alive and grow in Poland." ; he said, "the other satellite conn-' tries will have an example which they, in turn, can follow." 1 New Court Hearings Due Caryl Chessman Washington ip The Su preme Court today ordered new state court hearings for doomed convict-author Caryl Chessman. He claims the court record of his trial was fradulently prepar ed Chessman is in the death house at San Quentin Prison in Cali fornia. The high court ordered the new hearing to determine wheth er Ihere were any inaccuracies in the trial court reporter's rec- rd nf the ,ri;,l i Court, which split 5 to 3 on the ca.-:e. Chief Justice Earl War ren, former California governor, did not participate. . Chessman, once known as the Red Light Bandit" of Los An geles, was convicted in 1943 on 17 counts of kidnaping, robbcryj ana sexual assuit. tie drew two death sentences and 15 prison sentences. While holding off execution in California's gas chamber by var Juvenile Internee Sought by Police Portland -IPi State local police throughout and the northwest were on the lookout for Dorothy LaVerne Burns. 17. Rainier, who reportedly escaped from the Multnomah county juvenile home a month ago. The girl had pleaded guilty at St. Helens to manslaughter in the death of her father, Robert Hollis Burn. 37. Dorothy had ad mitted to Columbia" county of ficials she entered her father's room last November late at night and shot him. She had said her father reprimanded her for be ing out late at night. Juvenile authorities made pub lic the disapperance of the Burns girl Saturday. They said she escaped about May 10 while at a swimming pool off the juve nile grounds. Siie had been com mitted to the juvenile home pend ing a pre-sentence investigation. North Dakota Man Dies On Sandy Fishing Trip Portland IP A heart at tack apparently caused the death of Dan Power, 56, of Lang don. North Dakota legislator, while he was fishing along the Sandy river about three miles upstream from Viking Park. Power, who was visiting Dr. Frank Spaulding. Troutdale, a brother-in-law, went fishing alone Saturday and did not re turn. Dr. Spaulding notified sher iff's deputies and they located the bodv after a two-hour search. But Knowland. a bitter critic of Polish aid, said he did not think the free world could win the battle against Communism 'if we tax the American people to support Communist economic and political systems." Would Amend Bills He indicated he would try to prevent such aid in the future to Soviet-controlled nations by amending appropriations bills carrying aid funds. Knowland is a member of the Senate Appro priations Committee. The two Californians are con sidered two of the leading pos sibilities as candidates for the Republican nomination in I960. with Nixon regarded the front-; runner. j Registration for swimming instruction will begin Thursday, June 13, and classes will start on ?.Ionriay, June 17, Knapp said. The classes, oppn for children over eight years of age as well as adults, will include 10 lessons over a tw-o-week period. Instructors will be Sutherlin and Mrs. Bradshaw. ious legal maneuvers. Chessman w rote "Cell the best-selling novels 1455 Death Row" and "Trial By Ordeal." He is now 36. Sorry Chapter "All we hold," Harlan said, "is that, consistent with proced ural due process, California's af firmance of Chessman's convic tion upon a seriously disputed record, whose accuracy he (Chessman) has had no voice in determining, cannot be allowed to stand. "Without blinking the fact that the history of this case presents a sorry chapter in the annals of delays in the administration of criminal justice, we cannot allow that circumstances to fet ter us from withholding relief so clearly called for." Hearing June 26 jOn Right-of-Way The Public Utilities commis sioner will hold a public hearing in Medford June 26 on the city council's request to acquire a right-of-way for a railroad cross ing at Eighth St., it was reported today. The hearing will be held at 9:30 a.m. in the city hall. Announcement of the hearing date was received from the PUC today, in an acknowledgement to a request for the hearing filed in March by City Manager Rob ert Duff. The action was author ized by the city council. The crossing is one phase of the SI. 656, 100 arterial street im provement program approved by Medford voters last November. Eventually, Eighth st. is planned to form a one-way couplet with Main St., from a junction in the Hawthorne park area west to ward the city limits. Proceeding through the public utilities commissioner's office is necessary to obtain a grade cross ing right-of-way at Eighth St., Duff said. The Eighth st. project has a high priority in the overall 10 year street program, according to the city manager. Body May Be That of Missing Commander London itp The discovery of the decomposed body of a swimmer in a British harbor has touched off a government inves tigation. A London newspaper said the body may- be that of Commander Lionel Krabb, a wartime frog man hero who mysteriously dis appeared a year ago last April. His disappearance became an international incident after Rus sia protested that her sailors had spotted a frogman swimming be tween two Soviet ships on the same day Krabb disappeared. The ships were the ones carrying Premier Bulganin and Party j Chief Khrushchev on their Lon don visit. Carnival Accident Injures Ten Persons Davenport, Iowa 'W Ten persons were injured Sunday night when a man and girl whirled out of a carnival 1 fly-a-plae" ride into a crowded midway. Authorities said Ruth How ard, 16, and Edward Eberle. 23. both of Davenport, were riding in a whirling plane when the door came open. They wcr? flung 30 feet through the air and lanced in a crowd walking through the midway. Eight other persons were injured when the couple fell on them. Elderly Couple, Grandson Die in Fire at La Grande La Grande IP Fire last night took the lives of an elder ly La Grande couple and their six-year-old grandson who was visiting here with liis parents. Dead were Joseph L. Crab tree and his wife, Elizabeth, 75, and Ronnie Darcangelo, 6, son of the Crabtree's daughter, Mrs. Bonita Darcangelo. Flames engulfed most of the interior of the Crablree home by the time it was discovered by neighbors who heard Mrs. Dar cangelo and her husband Angelo screaming in the front yard. The Darcangclos escaped from the burning house through their bedroom window apparently after a vain attempt to rescue their sleeping son from a daveno in the living room. Both were burned and hospi talized. Darcangelo suffering cuts from broken glass and Mrs. Darcangelo with internal inju ries suffered when she wai I L (.....,!. I iiuwwii miwuii me ivinuuw Mr. and Mrs. Crabtree appar-' ently died of heat and suffoca-j tion in their bedroom. The boyi body was badly burned. Cause of the fire had not yet been determined but firemen said a short circuit was probably responsible. Drain Woman Indicted On Charge of Murder Roseburg, Ore. ilPi Mrs. Irma Myrtle Miller, 57, Drain, Ore., was arraigned on a charge of first degree murder before cir cuit Judge Carl E. W'imberly to day. Defense attorney. Dan Dimick presented a motion asking the court to appoint one or more ex perts to examine Mrs. Miller and report on her medical condition and to determine her mental con dition. She is accused of shooting Garrett A. Maupin. 62, of Drain, early Sunday, May 26, as he was sleeping in his home. Mrs. Miller was released from custody Friday upon the order of district judge Warren Wood ruff because he said the state did not present sufficient evi dence to link Mrs. Miller with the crime. Just after her release, a Doug las county grand jury rctruncd a secret a indictment against Mrs. Miller charging her with the murder of Maupin. Planning Commission Jo Discuss Ordinance The Medford planning com mission tojiight will decide whether to call a public hearing on a proposal to recommend to the city council adoption of a new subdivision ordinance. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the city hall. Other business will include a report from Commissioners Paul Selby and Mark Goldy regarding change of property setback for A. W. Adams. 13th and Hamilton sts., a report by Goldy on the Edgemont subdivision plat and a request from Alvin C. Lucas for change of property setback on the southeast corner of Oak and Clark sts. City Firemen Aid Entangled Bird Sunday City firemen we.-e dispatch ed on another mission of mercy last night. A bird, spe cies not reported, was the beneficiary. The firemen were sent out with the aerial lad der truck to free the bird which had become entEngled in a string hanging fro-n the J. C. Penney company sign at Sixth it. and Central ave. Pro-Wsierners Win Parliamentary Vote in Lebanon Egypt-Syria Axis Further Isolated By UNITED PRESS Premier Sami Bey Solh of Lebanon and his pro-Western government won a major parlia mentary election victory today that further isolated the Egyptian-Syrian axis from the other Arab nations. Election of nearly all the gov ernment candidates in the Sun day balloting was seen in Lebanon as a rejection of Left ist political attempts to tie Lebanon to Syria and Egypt. God's Guidance Asked Belief that Lebanon was mov ing away from Syria and Egypt was heightened by a message from Lebanese President Camile Chamoun to King Hussein of Jordan and King Saud of Saudi Arabia in Amman asking God's guidance in achieving Arab aims. The Saud visit to Jordan was expected to wean Hussein further from Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser although there has been no official statement that the old Arab alliance had been broken or badly bent. Worsening of Relations Egypt's semi-official Middle East News Agency indicated a worsening of Egyptian-Jordan relations today with a dispatch from Beicut accusing Jordan of expelling two Egyptian officials in a "military plot." The agency said the Jordanian government had expelled the Egyptian military attache in Amman and the consul general in Jerusalem in a "Jordanian government conspiracy." Forest Industry Expansion Planned; Rogue Area Named Portland ttF The Oregon Development Commission an nounced here yesterday a pro gram for expansion of Oregon forest industries through devel opment of the use of wood resi due promising "the creation of an estimated 3100 new jobs" and .in additional state payroll of $15 million. The study, the commission said, was based on research by Sandwcll and Co., a nationally known firm of consulting en gineers who blue-print plans for conversion of wood waste into "payrolls and jobs." ODC chairman Joseph W. Smith said the Sandwell firm found three areas of Oregqn "particularly" suited to the es tablishment of wood composition board industries. They are South ern Lake county. Grant county and Curry county. The engineers also picked nine other sites which all had basic factors "conducive to the estab lishment of pulp and paper in dustries." They include the upper Willamette valley, upper Columbia river. Snake river. South central coast, Deschutes plateau. Rogue river valley, Umpqua river valley, Klamath basin. Middle Columbia river and the northern coast of Ore gon. Man Thought Suffering From Poliomyelitis A 25-year-old Medford man is reported to be at Rogue Val ley hospital suffering from non paralytic poliomyelitis. If the case is confirmed as poliomyelitis, it will be the first case of the illness reported in Jackson county this year, ac cording to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer. No further details of the case were available today. Weather FORECAST: Fir throujrh T'js dv. Low tonitht SO. Hiffh Tllsdav R V TEMPER TVRE H'rbt vtrrd v Lowest this morning 7 Sunri 4 :3( a.m. SunM ? :48 p.m. Th Moon np atfi:20 p.m. and form a trianplf with Sat urn and Antarpv rt ts Tow dav at 4:06 a.m. and will be full nn June 12. PROMINENT STARS The Twins. t at p.m. Th dim rrd "Mar"' to th left of them is the planet Mars. "I'm Painting The Clouds With Sunshine" r :l 1 . Lower Down Payment On FHA Housing Help For Lumber Industry By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribuna Correspondent Washington Congressional agreement to reduce down pay ments on FHA insured housing is "a major legislative achieve ment" which will give housing construction and the Pacific Northwest's slumping lumber in dustry a shot in the arm. This is the view of the Na tional Association of Home Builders of the United States', which is hailing the likely pros pect of enactment soon of a new housing bill. Both House and Senate have passed differ ent versions of a housing meas ure, which must be compro mised before it can go to the White House. Both houses agreed to reduce the down payment requirements, especially tor low and moderate ly priced housing. Under the present housing act, the Federal Housing Administration will guarantee a mortgage with no less than 7 per cent or S700 down on a 510.000 house, and 10 per cent or $1200 down on a $12,000 house. Requirement Reduced Under the bills now pending, both House and Senate reduced the down payment requirement for a $10,000 house to 3 per cent oi $300. For a S12.000 house, the House chopped the require ment in- half to 5 per cent or S600. The Senate went even further, to make it 4.2 per cent or $500. Lumber and housing trade groups have been lobbying for a number of changes which they feel would stimulate the hous ing market. Housing construc tion has slumped to an eight year low, according to the Home Builders Association. Some trade groups want inter est rates on government insured mortgages raised, arguing that the trouble with housing is the deficiency of mortgage money because other forms of loans are drawing higher interest rates and are therefore more attrac tive to banks and other lenders than are mortgages. Idea Turned Down The Eisenhower administra tion has supported this argument by asking Congress to increase the interest rate on G.I. mort gage loans from 4'i to 5 per cent. Congress, however, has already turned this idea down amidst criticism from Democrats of the "hard money" policy. The administration was able, without going to Congress, to raise the interest rate on FHA loans to 5 per cent. The action in Congress now to reduce down payments "is the re sult of a year-long effort to pro vide a much needed and long overdue redress of balance for the housing industry, which has lagged behind the rest of the economy," the Home Builders declared. "It is a major legislative achievement, made possible by strong bi-partisan support, and one which can again bring mod erately priced new homes within the reach of tens of thousands of American families," the trade association added. Here is how the new housing bill would reduce down pay' ments on other prices of housing: 1 tWMPm A $14,000 house now takes $1700 down payment. House cut it to S900, and Senate to $700. A $16,000 house takes $2200 down payment. House would cut it to $1200 and Senate to S900. An SI 8.000 house takes S2700 now. House would cut it to $1800 and Senate to SI 500. A S20.000 house now takes S3200. House would cut it to $2400 and Senate to S21Q0. . .. Harmony Must Come The differences between the two figures presented in each case by the House and Senate are what must be brought into harmony before the new housing bill can become law. The new housing bill also lib eralizes the secondary mortgage market for the Federal National Mortgage Administration to buy additional mortgages. The House increased FNMA borrowing power by $1.25 billion, the Sen ate by $350 million. "It is hoped," said the Home Builders, "that lenders can be persuaded to make adequate funds available for lower and moderate income family housing. Failure to do this during the next year could well result in congressional action next year deliberately designed to channel funds into this segment of the economy." Director Candidacy Petitions Due Today Deadline for the filing of school director candidacy peti tions is 5 p.m. today, according tc school officials. Two candidates have filed for the single vacancy on the board of education in the Medford school district. They are the present board chairman, Otto A. Ewaldsen, whose term expires this year, and Francis Cheney. Election of directors in all dis tricts will be held Monday, June 17. One vacancy in each school district will be filled this year for a term of five years. Searchers Hunt Body In North Umpqua River Roseburg, Ore. Ut Dragging operations were continued today in an attempt to recover the body of 26-year-old John Q. Vickers who is presumed drown ed in the North Umpqua river above Rock Creek about 20 miles east of here. Police Net Closes Quickly On Two La Grande Robbers l.3 Grande If Two men who robbed a service station in downtown La Grande Sunday night, were in custody of state poiice less than an hour later. Asked for Change Being held in Union county jail were Eugene Russell Caton, 33, and Ralph Frank Orlando, 33, transients who had been working in Athena, Ore. State police gave this report of the crime: The two men drove into the service station run by Bob Hill. One of the men gave Hill a $5 bill and asked for 1 change. When Hill opened the 'Upset Stomach' o I Beds President; Said Satisfactory Blueberry Pie Believed Cause Washington IP An "up set stomach" kept President Ei senhower in bed today. The White House said he was re sponding to treatment "very sat isfactorily." Doctors attributed the attack to something the President ate Sunday night. Blueberry pie was suspect. Three physicians in attendancen reported that pulse, blood pres sure, temperature, respiration were normal, and his heart un affected. Sleeping Comfortably The President became ill Sun day night and vomited threa times. Press Secretary Jarpcs C Hagcrty said, however. h had had "no nausea . . . Sinne, early this mornin." Hagcrty told nlwsirln at Sit a.m. (PST) thkt the President was "sleeping comfortably" ijl. that hour. Hagerty said repeatedly that) there was no medical evidenoeri to connect th President's litest digestive upset with his ileitis, operation of a year ao or hi) earlier heart attack of 155. o An electrocardiogram, he s i. showed no change in tht rf dent's heart condition. The secretary's announcement said: "The President is progressing very satisfactorily. He has had no nausea from his stomach up set since early this mornirue l9 is now sleeping comfortably. No More Announcements Barring any important change in his condition, he said, there will be no further announc ments until 2 or 2:30 p.m. (PDT). Vice President Richard M. Nixon said he expected thfi President would be back on th C job Tuesday. Hagerty said this will be up to the doctors to rieM cide. "When most of use have a co'4 or an upset stomach," Nixog) said, " It is not news. When h) (Eisenhower), does, it is." Hagerty said Mrs. EisenhoSer summoned the President's per sonal physician, Maj. Gen. HBv ard McC. Snyder, to the Whit House Sunday night when hj5 complained of nausea. Something He Ate q Hagerty said the doctors at tributed the upset to something) the President ate although as of early afternoon the physicianP had not definitely identified th food that caused the trouble. Secretary of State John ?a ter Dulles told a conrekjonJ leader that blueberry pie caused it. Hagerty said it wastrue that the President ate blueberry pie Sunday night, but the doctors did not know yet that this was the source of the upset. Knowland Asks Russia To Leave Hungary Washington HP. Senate Re publican leader William Know land. (R-Calif.) has met Com munist Chief's Khrushchev's TV challenge with one of his own. Knowland asked Khrushchev to withdraw Soviet troops from Hungary in exchange for the neutralization of Norway. In a television interview Knowland said he had suggested making Norway part of the neutral bloc of Baltic nations in a letter to Secretary of State Dulles. Khrushchev recently said in a television interview, that Rus sia would withdraw its troops from East Germany, Poland and Hungary if the United States would pull its troops out of West Germany and France. cash register, one of the men put his hand into the register and said. "We want it all." Hill told police he thought th man was kidding and told him, "take your hand out of there." Hit with Bottle Then the second man hit Hill over the head with a soda pop bottle, stunning him. The men took about $40 out of the regis ter and ran to their car. Hill got up just in time to get the license number and notified police. State police app-chended the men a short timp later about 20 miles east of La Grande.