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tfedford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, SO and
40 years ago.
1 YEA fit AGO
Jwne It. H4T (Monday)
Members of Rogue Valley Ra
dio club return to Medford fol
lowing 11th ARRL field day at
Prescott park on Roxy Ann.
From Ar t h u r Perry's Ye
Smud Pot column: "1941 Ply
pnouth, 5-passenger coupe, for
sale" (Exchange) An antique
usd bv Columbus.
n rtAKS AGO
Jtwo IS. 18ST (Vedawday)
If Medford's million dollar In
vestment la paved streets is to
fct saved, repairs must be made
Without further delay, accord
ing to Fred W. Scheffel, city
juprintendent.
Plana for .'Sponsoring a junior
Mjnonphon? in this area are made
'bf Zontians at meeting held
at studio of Mrs. Iffie Kurtz.
M TEAKS AGO
Jtae IS. HzT (Thursday)
Pars ia the Rogue valley will
pfrovido a ood crop this year
though not as food as last year's,
according to W. H. Gore, Med
tcfi bankr.
The new nine holes at the
Medford o!f club officially
opens with tournament.
40 YE AX AGO
June 1. Iti7 (Satuiday)
Local Red Cross organizes so
licitation teams that will can
vass Jackson county to fill chap
ter's quota foi "war funds."
From Local and Personal col
umn: David Watt and D. D.
Good report a rich strike is
made In the high grade mine
located on Hungry creek.
at's Your LQ.?
Nln er tn corrrtt In n1or;
rvrn or Uht U cillet: Uvm or
tlx Is good.
1. Did the Ancients, to whom
the earth was a disk, believe
there was land beyond the At
lantic?
2. Who was Vice - President
during Franklin D. Roosevelt's
first term as President?
3. Bible: "The Lord our God
shall deliver us out of the of"
was it Assyria, Persia, or Greece?
4. The Republic of the Philip
pines gained its independence
on January 1, 1946: July 4, 1946
or January 1, 1947?
5. There were three U. S. Pres
idents who wer born in Febru
ary; name them.
6 February 2 is associated
with a weather legend concern
ing what animal?
7. Hypnosis is a disease of the
hip; true or false?
8. Does human hair graw from
the roots or from the ends?
9. How do you pronounce "ex
emplar"?
1(1 "Arrestment, sudden real
ly as a bolt out of the blue has
hit strange victims." Carlyle,
"The French Revolution": To
what substance was he referring?
Answers: 1. Yes. The kingdom
of the dead. 2. John Nance Gar
ner. 3. Assyria 4 July 4, 194S
5 George Washington, (February
22, 1732); William Henry Harri
son, (February 9. 1793); Abra
ham. Lincoln, (February 12.
1809) 6. Ground hog or wood
chuck (who is said io emerge
from his burrow to see whether
the weather is good; if he sees
his shadow, he will retire for six
weeks more cf winter sleep). 7.
False: it is a state resembling
normal sleep. 8. From the roots.
9. Eg lem-pler or eg-iem-plahr.
10. Lightning.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
Boston, Mass., June 13th: Have been travelling too much to
keep up our "home work." Drove Monday to catch the 10 o'clock
bus from Saranac Lake to Plattsburg, N.Y.
Never visited Plattsburg before, but had several friends who
took officer's training at Plattsburg just before the U.S.A. de
clared war on Germany in 1916. It is on Lake Champlain and
now the site of a U.S. jet-plane base. It is about the size of Med
ford, but as of today has more empty buildings and "For Rent"
signs.
Like Malone, Potsdam and all other towns in Upper New
York we have visited, the business districts are shabby but the
residence districts are not. In fact the residence districts are uni
formly attractive with a deep nostalgic flavor large "Gay
Ninety" mansions with cupalos. bay-windows, many fringed with
colored glass, porte-cocheres, large stables turned rather un
happily into garages. The residence streets are wide, elms and
maples forming an arch of Gothic greenery a general atmos
phere of homey security and substantial rather than sensational
prosperity.
Did you ever hear of Count Charles D. Fredenbrugh? Neither
had we, but it seems he built one of the most attractive red brick
residences in Plattsburg, where he died in 1787. The Count must
have turned in his grave many times since then for his "mansion"
is today little better than an abbatoir for it is occupied by
Armour 4 Company. Another very attractive building near the
scene of the battle of Ticonderoga is a colonial frame building
which was British headquarters in the war of 1812.
We have always been a bit skeptical of American histories
of this war and- one of these days intend to read some British
ones. We suspect that England gained many victorias on land
and sea American historians have as a whole ignored and that
political conditions in Europe played a larger role in the final
victory than anything else. .
Before leaving on the Deleware and Hudson for Montreal
we were treated to somethihg new, a blizzard of dandelion
seeds. We might have suspected snow had it not been so hot and
nun-id. They covered the grass around the Ticonderga monument
a miniature replica of Bunker Hill and formed a dirty white
scum on the lake inlet. Apparently the fish were not fooled. At
least we observed no activity in that direction. The one resident
of Plattsburg taking a sunbath on a stone curbing said he had
never seen anything like it before and he had been working in
Plattsburg for around ten years.
Montreal is the reverse of northern New York state. Its
business section is most impressive but the residence sections we
have seen were not. In fact, we would say that Canadian residences
as a whole are most uninteresting and commonplace. (We fear
Canadians will be greatly shocked and disturbed when they read
this!)
Came here via the CPR and Boston Maine, seeing so many
pulp mills and the rich pulp-wood along the Connecticut river
with apparent normal life going on, that we wondered if the
talk about noxious odors was all a myth, or do Connecticut
Yankees suffer from olfactory insensitiveness.
Coming through Vermont the train passed close to a village
named "Glenn Jackson." (If anyone doubts this let them look up
a railroad map.) Much to our disappointment we did not stop.
Perhaps the B&M will have better sense on the way back. We
would like to at least open the window and get an electric
shockl R.W.R.
A Little Something for Father
IF THE NATION as a whole is less stirred emotional-
ly by Father's Day on Sunday than it had been by
Mother's Day five weeks before, that wouldn't mean
that Americans follow more closely in the case of
Mom than of Pop the Biblical injunction to honor our
parents. It means only that we let ourselves get more
emotional about Mother.
The chances are almost 50-50 that the Father hon
ored on June 16 is a war veteran. He is much more
likely to have worn the uniform in World War II than
in World War I. Only about one-fourth as many
Americans served in 1917-19 as in 1939-45.
WHEN the draft act became law in September,
1940, 15 months before the Japanese and Ger
man declarations of war on the United States, all men
with dependents were deferred. That barred practic
ally all fathers of draft age. It was not until October,
1943, when the pool of non-fathers had become ex
hausted, that Fathers became subject to induction.
And in the point system of discharge after V-E Day,
the discharge of Fathers was speeded up in Wash
ington, expedited by allowing 12 points for each de
pendent child up to and through three.
The typical father of today presides over a smal
ler household than did the typical father of 45 years
ago. In 1956 the average population per household
was 3-13 persons; in 1910 it was more than 4'2- And
Pop probably married earlier than Grandpa had. To
day more than one-half of all males of 23 are married ;
in 1910, it was less than one-third.
To Regulate Welfare Funds
Legislation on union welfare funds is probable
from this session of Congress, now that the Admini
stration has abandoned its bill on the subject that Sen.
Douglas (D-Ill.) called toothless. Secretary of Labor
fames P. Mitchell has told the Senate Labor commit
tee that he endorses in general the Douglas bill to con
trol the funds.
Tho nnp Hirpct federal control over them at pres
ent is a vague section of the
only to the relatively lew iuncis jointly administered
by Labor and Management. And of these it requires
Hit., nature unsDecified. with no aerency
specified to receive it, and with penalties for failure
to file also unspecified.
The Douglas bill applies to all labor welfare and
pension funds, however administered, covering more
than 25 employees. The administrators would have to
register the funds with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and file with it a periodic statement, in
prescribed detail and audited by a C.P.A., on receipts,
expenditures, holdings, fees and commissions paid,
financial situation of the administrators. The S.E.C.
would have investigatory and subpoena powers.
The statements would be available to the public,
with summaries sent to the beneficiaries. Falsification
would be a penal offense, as would embezzlement.
The chief change that Secretary Mitchell would make
in the bill would be to have .the Labor Department the
supervisory agency instead of the S.E.C. E.R.R.
Sunday. June 18, 1957
Taft-Hartley act applying
' I DOM'T KNOW THE NAME, 6UT rr SMELLS AWfUt!
Matter of Fact By stewa aiSoP
IN THE NUCLEAR FOG
Washington Now that the
scientists have had their say
about the radiation effects of
nuclear weap
ons tests, the
c o n f usion is
worse than it
ever was
Some people
have been led
to believe that
the tests will
give every
body bone'
cancer, or that
Stewzit Alsop
ine next generation will con
sist largely of monsters. Others
have been led to believe that
anyone who talks about the dan
gers of nuclear radiation is
Communist propaganda.
One reason why the confusion
is worse than ever is the simple
fact that the scientists them
selves do not really know what
the ultimate effects of the mon
strous weapons they have cre
ated may be. As last week's Sen
ate hearings proceeded, that be
came rather frighteningly clear
"We do not yet understand," a
scientist would say, or "it is not
now possible to reach a firm
conclusion," or "the data are in
sufficient." The scientists. In short, are
groping in a great nuclear fog,
like all the rest of us, and they
see different shapes in the fog.
But there were at least three
basic facts on which all, or al
most all, the scientists seem
to agree, though they put very
different interpretations on the
meaning of these facts. The
three areas of agreement may
be summarized about as follows
THIRST, if anyone is worrying
about how controlled, peace
time testing of nuclear weapon"!
may affect his own health, he
can stop worrying. As a statis
tical matter, there is hardly
more chance that the reader of
this report, or any living indi
vidual, will be hurt by peace
time testing than that he will
be, say, bitten by a camel or
clubbed to death in a gondola
Some scientists, to be sure,
do believe that the increase in
global radiation resulting from
the tests may increase the total
number of people in the world
who will die of bone cancer or
leukemia. But even the most
alarmist scientists agree that the
number who may be so affected,
as a proportion of the total glo
bal population, is tiny so tiny
as to be negligible, in statistical,
if not in human, terms.
Second, all the scientists agree
even the most conservative,
like Dr. Willard Libby of the
Atomic Energy commission
that there is some danger that
some mutations in the genes
will result from the increase
in the global radiation level
This means that some babies of
the .future will be still-born, or
born disfigured.
HOW great is this danger?
Here the nuclear fog settles
thickly In. But the answer again
depends in part on whether you
consider the danger in statistical
or human terms. One reputable
scientist, a Nobel Prize winner,
warned that "hundreds of thou
sands, or millions" of future
lives will be lost or impaired as
a result of the nuclear tests al
ready held. Others maintained
that this danger, too, was
"negligible."
In statistical terms, it is negli
gible, since even "hundreds of
thousands" of babies-to-be make
up a negligible fraction of the
tens of millions yet unborn
There is only a very tiny risk
that any one individual's de
scendants will be hurt by con
trolled peace time testing. But
again, in human terms, even
a few thousand babies let alone
"millions," is undoubtedly a lot
of babies.
Third, virtually all the scien
tists agreed that there must be
some annual limit on the global
rate of testing nuclear weapons
otherwise, even in statistical
terms, the dangers might be by
no means negligible. Some sci
entists put this limit as low as
two megatons. But most put the
limit at around ten megatons of
fission products. This is the
equivalent of a single medium
power hydrogen bomb. The
I United States has already test-
ed a device with a power of
about forty megatons, and the
Soviet tests have reached at
least twenty megatons.
rpHIS, then to summarize, is
what the confusing uproar
about nuclear testing is all
about: there is a small danger to
living persons inherent in the
testing, but if the testing is kept
at a certain level, the danger is
so small it can be virtually dis
regarded. There is also a danger,
small in statistical terms but
perhaps affecting very large to
tal numbers, to the yet unborn.
The position of the American
government is that the require
ments of national security make
it necessary to accept these risks.
The official position raises pro
found moral questions, and it is
silly to say that any who dispute
it are pro-Communists or fools.
But it is probably the right posi
tion, since freedom depends on
our maintaining nuclear parity
with the Soviets, and freedom is
worth a risk.
Yet the facts outlined above
insistently suggest other ques
tions. If nuclear testing must, in
the interests of global safety, be
limited to ten megatons a year,
what happens to the world when.
say, 5,000 megatons are exploded
in an all-out nuclear war? Can
the high yield nuclear weapons
really be used in decisive quan
tities in wartime, save as a final
despairing, suicidal gesture? Is
then, the United States justified
in relying so heavily in nuclear
weapons as the central instru
ment of national power? There
are the questions, far more than
the assentially peripheral ques
tion of controlled testing, which
must be examined, through the
nuclear fog, most coolly and
carefully.
(c) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Missing Ft. Lewis
Boys Found Saturday
Tillamook (IP) Forest service
ground searchers Saturday found
two missing Ft. Lewis, Wash.,
youths in good condition after
they had spent a rain-soaked
night in a wooded area near
Cape Lookout.
The forest service said the
boys were found shortly after 1
p.m. and that it would take
about two hours to bring them
down the mountain trail where
they became lost Friday eve
ning. The missing youths were Craig
Hadley, 15, and Kirk Hadley, 13,
sons of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Cleo V.
Hadley. Their father is deputy
chief of staff at Ft. Lewis.
They apparently became lost
during a cloudburst while walk
ing along the mountain trail in
densely wooded country near the
seaside resort of Cape Lookout.
Board of Education
Accepts Grants
Portland TO The State Board
of Higher Education Saturday
received grants totaling nearly
S190.000 for 46 research proj
ects on its seven campuses.
The research totals were only
a part of the S280.000 in gifts
and grants to be placed before
the Board for acceptance at its
meeting here Wednesday.
Largest single offer was for
S19.550 for the University of
Oregon Medical School for the
study of certain skin responses.
The grant is from the federal
Public Health Service.
Oregon State College will re
ceive 25 research grants totalling
S82.000. University of Oregon
will get five grants for $28,000;
University of Oregon dental
school, 6 grants for S22.400.
DOESN'T WANT HORSE
Pasadena, Calif. (IP) Mrs.
Mildred Peime, a favorite high
school English teacher, received
a 50 spider monkey from her
graduating class this week as a
present. "The students say I al
ways tell them to stop the mon
key business and that I call them
a bunch of monkeys,'' she said.
"I know one thing that I'll
never tell any class to stop hors
ing around."
Byrd May Let Chips
Fall Where They May
In Financial Probe
Washington (CQ) The rec
ord of Sen. Harry FlOQd Byrd
(D-Va.) indicates he will conduct
a "let the chips fall where they
may" investigation of the Na
tion's financial system.
Byrd heads the Senate Fin
ance committee which has voted
to put public and private reven
ue, debt, interest rates and cred
it under a microscope. The com
mittee then expects to make rec
ommendations to Congress early
next year. Byrd said he hopes to
begin the hearings within the
next few weeks.
The probe will be far more
than a clinical study of nation
al finance. Democrats see it as
loaded with political capital.
They will try to show that the
Press Corps Likes
Ike's Limited Use
Of 'No Comment'
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington One thing mem
bers of the press corps here ap
preciate about President Eisen
hower is that
i n answering
questions
at his news
conferences he
seldom reverts
to that famil
iar dodge, "no
comment."
Quite the
W$gtiM& opposite, the
A. Robt smitb president
sometimes gets wound up and
spins out quite an answer. Often
he is -extremely lucid and in
formative. But sometimes he
uses many words to say very
little, in the manner of the prac
ticed politician.
One source of constant amuse
ment to those who watch his
words carefully is the way he
frequently gets tangled up in
his grammar and word selection,
sprinkling comas instead of pe
riods between his thoughts. After
habit for over four years, one
of the talented members of the
press corps has figured out how
Eisenhower would have written
and delivered the famous Gettys
burg address of President Lin
coln, memorized by most every
school boy for generations. This
good-natured version follows:
Certain Eastern Areas
"I haven't checked these fig
ures, but 87 years ago, I think
it was, a number of individuals
organized a governmental setup
here in this country, I believe
it covered certain eastern areas,
with this idea they were follow
ing up, based on a sort of na
tional independence arrange
ment and the program that every
individual is just as good as
every other individual.
"Well, now of course we are
dealing with this big difference
of opinion, civil disturbance you
might say, although I don't like
to appear to take sides or name
any individuals, and the point
is naturally to check up, by ac
tual experience in the field see
whether any government setup
with a basis like the one I was
mentioning has any validity
whether that dedication, you
might say, by those early indi
viduals has any lasting values.
"Well, here we are, you might
put it that way, all together at
the scene where one of those dis
turbances between different
sides got going. We want to pay
our tribute to those loved ones,
those departed individuals who
made the supreme sacrifice here
on the basis of their opinions
about how this setup ought to
be handled. It is absolutely in
order and 100 per cent OK to
do this.
"But if you look at the overall
picture of this, we can't pay any
tribute we can't sanctify this
area we can't hallow, accord
ing to whatever individual
creeds or faiths or sort of re
ligious outlooks are involved,
like I said about this particular
area. It was those individuals
themselves, including the enlist
ed men very brave individuals
who have given this religious
character to the area. The way
I see it. the rest of the world
will not remember any state
ments issued here, but it will
never forget how these men put
their shoulders to the wheel and
carried this idea down the fair
way. "Our joy, the living individ
uals' job here is to pick up the
burden and sink the putt they
made these big efforts here for.
t mir ioh to eet on with the
assignment and from these de
ceased fine individuals to iac
vtra insniration VOU could call
it, for the same theories about
which they did such a lot.
"We have to make up our
mmJc i-iaht hprp and now. as I
see it. they didn't put out all
that blood, perspiration and
well, that they didn't just make
a dry run here, that all of us,
under God, that is, the God of
our choice, shall beef up this
idea about freedom and liberty
and those kind of arguments,
and that government of all in
dividuals, by all individuals and
for the individuals shall not pass
out of the world picture."
L3h
Eisenhower Administration's fis
cal policy has enriched bank
ers but hurt the "little man" try
ing to buy a house or expand a
small business.
Politically Explosiva
Other politically explosive top
ics in prospect include: who is
benefiting from current tax pol
icies how the Administration is
financing the public debt and
the wisdom of the Federal Re
serve Board in raising interest
rates on its money.
As Chairman, Byrd will have
the most to say about the direc
tion the investigation takes and
its duration. He calls the hear
ings, decides who shall testify
and for how long, hires the coun
sel, asks the questions and di
rects the majority's conclusions
in the final report.
An attempt by Rep. Wright
Patman (D-Tex.), a strong critic
of Administration fiscal policy,
and the House Democratic lead
ership to have Patman conduct
a money policy investigation was
defeated. Also shelved, though it
has not come to the floor in
either chamber, is President Ei
senhower's proposal for a citi
zens' commission to study U.S.
money policy.
Unanimous Agreement
Byrd, meanwhile, got the Sen
ate Finance committee's seven
Democratic and seven Republi
can members to agree unani
mously on the investigation. He
avoided having to receive Sen
ate approval by specifying the
probe would be paid for out of
the Committee s regular funds.
The committee's unanimity in
taking on the investigation and
having it headed by Byrd indi
cates both Democrats and Re
publicans believe the probe will
benefit their cause. Byrd's views
and his past performance pro
vide enough surface evidence to
build a case for either Demo
cratic or Republican partisans.
Byrd told Congressional Quar
terly he would make no effort to
restrict the depth or breadth of
the investigation. Although he
said his own attitude during the
investigation would be non-po
litical, he added: "There is just
no way you can avoid political
issues coming out of it.
In support of the Republicans'
feeling about Byrd as their best
bet to handle the investigation
are his political independence
and fiscal conservatism. He step
ped way across party lines m
1952, for example, to support
General Eisenhower for Presi
dent. And he long has been urg
ing Federal economies and mini
mum Government interference
with business.
Byrd's philosophy of business
and government was spelled out
as early as March 19, 1935, when
he told the Senate: "Individuals
should be allowed to develop a
business without fear of compe
tition bv the Federal Govern
ment or undue interference with
the reasonable control of their
business so long as they act with
a decent regard for the rights of
others."
Byrd's votes over the years
further indicate what to expect
from the man whose investiga
tion may spawn the major issues
for the 1958 Congressional cam
paigns. Byrd's votes add up to
the conclusion that he cannot be
counted on to follow the lead of
his own party nor the Republi
cans; also that he cannot be la
beled accurately as a conserva
tive or liberal, or as a friend or
foe of big business.
Supported NRA
For example, in 1933 he voted
for the National Industrial Re
covery Act, President Roosevelt's
New Deal blueprint. He also vot
ed to let Roosevelt revalue the
dollar and to authorize Federal
development of the Tennessee
Valley (TWA).
But other New Deal era votes
show Byrd against the 1935 Util
ity Holding Company Act which
broke up utility empires. Byrd
also was one of six Democrats
who opposed spending $4 billion
on work relief.
In 1940, Byrd voted to draft
industries which could not reach
an operating agreement with the
Government. He also voted in
favor of taxing income on pub
lic securities and the excess prof
its of corporations.
He has repeatedly opposed
Federal development of tideland
oil fields and such Federal
aid programs as money to help
build public schools or to ease
unemployment in economically
depressed areas.
Atomic Power Program
He voted in 1956 for a bill to
launch the Federal Government
on an atomic power program,
voted against the bill to free
natural gas producers from pub
lic utility regulation.
Asked how he would define his
own political philosophy, Byrd
said, 'Tin a liberal based on fis
cal conservatism." He said the
term conservative one usually
applied to him was the "most
misunderstood term in the coun
try. A conservative," he said,
'is a man who conserves the re
sources of the country."
Labels aside, Byrd a 69-year-old
apple grower who pilots one
of the biggest political machines
left in the country in his state
can be counted on to allow his
financial probe to be a wide open
one.
(Copyright 1957, Congressional
Quarterly Nawsfeatures)
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
The annual National Rooster
Crowing contest was held yester
day in Rogue River. A Mail Trib
une reporter, covering the event,
noted:
"With about 20 minutes of
crowing time gone, a three-dies-el
Southern Pacific freight
rumbled through on the tracks
closeby and issued a few In
eligible blasts."
That lama reporter brought
back a souvenir toy rooster,
which, whan a handle is turn
ed, crows. During th after
noon, when the ofiica was itill
(which isn't too often) ha got
a notion io liven things up.
He took the rooster, con
cealed in a magazine, to a spot
behind our city editor, who,
like other members of lb
staff, was busy at the tima.
The crow echoed off the of
fice walls, and evan into tha
"back shop" over tha inter
com. All but ona staff mem
ber was shaken up by tha
noise.
Without fluttering an eye
lid, our city editor slowly
looked around to sea tha
cause of tha noise.
Shades of individualism- The
manager of the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce rolls his
own.
So does one of our staff mem
bers (who recently returned from
the University of Oregon for the
summer), but not as efficiently
as the Chamber's manager.
One of our staff members
(who is now at the National
Guard summer camp) tees at
least one drawback in the May
flower II landing at Plymouth:
"It will mean the creation of
a whole new generation of
sailors for bluebloodi to de
scend from."
A staff member and his wife
faced almost bare food supply
shelves when they returned
from a mide-western vacation re
cently. After considerable dis
cussion as to what to prepare
for dinner, they decided to dine
out instead of eating the only
available food at home:
Hot beans and cold sardines.
Boyer Lists Gains
In 1957 Legislature
Bend Robert Boyer, Demo
cratic state chairman from Med
ford, Friday listed several "im
portant gains" of the 1957 Dem
ocratic legislature Friday at a
central Oregon conference of
party leaders here.
Boyer said the gains were In
the fields of agriculture, educa
tion, social welfare, labor, Ore
gon development, election laws
and local property tax relief. He
especially praised the leadership
of Gov. Robert D. Holmes during
the legislative session.
Referring to the need for in
creased financing, Boyer stated,
"The party which has elected
two senators, three representa
tives, a governor and a legisla
ture, must be solvent. It must
also remain unified, refusing to
fragmentize itself out of exist
ence as has the Republican party
of Oregon, where the Arlington
Club boys sit back like spiders
in a web laughing at the 'modern
Republicans' who are bright,
beaming and bankrupt."
Judge Crawford to
Hear Schrunk Trial
Portland 0P Judge James
W. Crawford Friday was assign
ed to preside over the perjury
trial here Monday of Mayor
Terry Schrunk. The trial will be
gin at 9:30 a.m.
Presiding Circuit Judge Char
les Redding, who made the Crow
ford assignment, at the same
time denied a defense motion
for a transcript of the mayor's
testimony before the Multnoamh
county grand jury.
Judge Redding said there ap
peared to be no unusual or ex
ceptional circumstances which
would justify his allowing the
motion.
Mayor Schrunk is accused in
a grand jury indictment of lying
when he denied that he accepted
a bribe from an operator of an
after-hours night spot.
Four Injured in Car
Crash in Redmond
Redmond W Four persona
were injured here Friday when
a car driven by Eldon Lea
Tompsett, 22. Madras, Ore,
struck a car driven by John L.
Campbell, 68, also of Madras.
State police said that the ac
cident occurred when Campbell
and his wife, Ella Elizabeth, 6,,
were turning off the highway
to enter a park. Tompsett's car
struck them dead center critical
ly injuring both of them.
Tompsett was treated for head
injuries and his passenger, La
Vonne Ethelyn Jennerjohn, 19,
was hospitalized for shock.
Police said Tompsett's car
skidded 200 feet before striking
Campbell's car.
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