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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1957)
s f -v 1 . o ! O o o o ' ' ' - ' i 111 iMiiMliTO'psBywp.Tr til -v . - f If " I Y'--'II, C-Cfc . j flJCTIO VISIT Rear Adm. Albert M. commandant of the 13th Naval dis trict, third from left, was in Medford yester day on 3 special inspection tour of Naval Deserve Electronics division training facilities CfeJ tli Federal building at 33 North Riverside fi-se On hand to greet him at the airport were Acting Mayor Stan Jones, second from left, fand it. Commander Dick Knight, of the Med Jtiird A'aval Rrv. far right. With Admiral e-e arrant issued for Woman To Testify for 'PurtWnd & Circuit Judge Jt '. Crawford today issued a oe: h srrant for the appear ance f woman witness at the trjura trial of Mayor Terry Srhrurg after defense attorneys fi hrr testimony was "most Important" to their case. Tha woman was identified as a Shirley Martin. Her connec tion with the case was not made clear. Judge Crawford today ruled against further testimony by James Burr Miller, an Oregon ian reporter, concerning a con versation between Miller and racketeer James B. Elkins. The judge said he could find no le gal basis for its admission in the trial. The state had objected Monday to Miller's testimony about a threat he claimed was made against him by Elkins. The judge 'also made a simi lar ruling about testimony of Rol&rt W. link, a Washington state prison inmate, who had been summoned as a defense witness. Different versions of a trip to Great Falls, Mont., last year were told Monday. Schrunk is accused of lyini; when he told a grand jury last lummer he did not pick up an envelope which the state claims contained a bribe to call off a 1955 raid on the 8212 Club, op erated by Clifford O. Bennett Schrunk was Multnomah coun ty sheriff at tne time. Raymond F. Clark, who has been accused by the defense of "masterminding" a political plot to bring about Schrunk's down fall in the defendant's race for mayor, testified he visited Great Falls last August. He said that Bennjt told him several times he had paid a $500 bribe to Schrunk. Two other witnesses had a different story. Tom Board, who worked at the 8212 Club when it was raided, said he overheard Clark tell Bennett at Great Falls that he wanted him to come back to Portland to defeat Schrunk. Frederick D. Moore, a merchant seaman, testified by deposition that he was a barten der in Great Falls and that he overheard Clark say to Eennett: "I want you to come back with me and Elkins wants you to testify that you gave Terry Schrunk. the sheriff. 5500 ' Moore then said Bennett re plied: "But I didn't give him no money." The deposition then quoted Clark as saying "That don't make a ... bit of difference. Go back and say you did and you can have any spot in town if we can convict Schrunk . . ." James B. Miller, an Oregon- Hoffa Tried To Information, Washington IP A Senate Rackets Committee employee testified today that Teamsters Union Vice President James R. Hoffa offered him S18.000 to serve as a spy" inside the com mittee. Ranted Inside Data The witness. John Cye Che- astv. a New ork lawyer, said Hoffa asked him to get a job on i the committee staff so that the Teamsters Union could have "somebody on the inside of the committee to pass out informa tion." Chca.-ly testified as the gov ernment's chief witness in the bribery conspiracy trial of Hof fa and Miami attorney Hyman Schrun k Defense I ian reporter, testified that he once talked to racketeer Elkins at lunch and that Elkins tried to give him a roll of money, ap parently for membership in the Fontprinlers association, which Miller did not take. Miller tes:i fied that he told Elkins "I House Votes Extra Post Office Funds Washington If The House has voted an extra $133 million to keep the nation's mail service running along without cutbacks next year. The total was SI 6.500.000 less than the S 149.500.000 Postmaster General Arthur E. Summcrfield asked for but apparently was enough to satisfy the mail boss. Rep Gordon Canfield (R-N.J.) said Summerfield assured him County Budget Still Awaiting Signatures Jackson county's final, budget for 1957-58 still has not been signed by all members of the budget committee. Three members of the com mute signed it last week and signatures of two other members were expected to be obtained to day. The remaining committee member. Roger Rath of Ashland, reportedly has refused to sign the budget. Rath also refused to sign the original budget prior to the pub lic hearing because he protested a S104.000 item designated as a sinking fund for purchase of an agronomic research site. At the public hearing last week, title of the items was changed to agri cultural and horticultural re search sinking fund. Professional Board To Pick McLaren Successor . Salem ilp The State Board of Control today agreed to ap point a professional board to se lect and recommend a succes sor to James Lamb, resigning superintendent of MacLaren School for Boys at Woodburn. However, the professional group will not be appointed un til after Gov. Robert Holmes re turns to Salem from the Gover nors' Conference about July 1 Senate President Boyd Over hulse. serving as governor dur ing the absence of Holmes, pre sided at today's meeting of the Board of Control. Get Inside Lawyer Says I. Fischbach. They are accused of planting Cheasty as a "spy" on the Senate committee to fur nish them confidential informa tion during its investigation of the union. In Presence of Fischbach Cheasty said Hoffa made the proposition to him in the Mid west union leader's office on the evening of Feb. 13 in the pres- ence of Fischbach who, Cheasty said, first approached him on the matter. Cheasty said Hoffa wanted to know what teamsters officials would be subpoenaed by the committee, when they would be subpoenaed and wTiat questions thev would be asked. Bledsoe were Commander J. R. Waldman, left, of the Seattle Naval Reserve, and Lt. D. F. Milligan, not pictured. The group, traveling by Navy observation plane, arrived about 11 a.m. yesterday and left this morn ing to visit other Naval installations in Eugene and Salem. This is the first time a commandant of the 13th Naval district has ever visited Medford. The 13th Naval district headquarters is located in Seattle. might get an assignment to find out what makes you tick." He said Elkins replied with threats' and that he was told "an investigation too far behind the scenes might well end up with a concrete vest in the Wil lamette river." the Post Office Department would be able to get along with the reduced amount. The new funds, if approved by the Senate, will boost to a record S3.325.000. 000 the total available for mail operations in the fiscal year beginning Monday. Sum merfield had warned of a scries of postal cutbacks, including Sat urday post office closings and suspension of Saturday deliv eries, if the additional money was not forthcoming. The cost of some special mail services will go up Monday to produce an estimated S28 mil lion a year in postal revenues. The price of a special delivery stamp goes up from 20 to 30 cents and charges for registered and insured letters and money orders also go up. Bish Committed to Mental Hospital Lowell Allen Bish, 32, of 945 Brooksdale rd., Medford, has been committed to the state men tal hospital in Salem. District Attorney Thomas Rceder report ed today. Bish was arrested by sheriff's deputies and state police on June 17 on a warrant charging assault with a deadly weapon. The charge was filed by a state po lice officer. Bish was taken into custody after officers fired 12 shots at the tires of his car as he attempt ed to escape moments before his arrest. His 61-year-old father, Louis Bish. was struck in the leg by a bullet which apparently bounced off a wheel of the car. He was not seriously hurt. Police found several loaded weapons and altered license plat es in Bish's car after the arrest. Reeder said charges against Bish are being held in abeyence. Fewer Mosquitoes Reported in County Fewer mosquitoes have hatch ed in Jackson county this season than in average years, according to county sanitarians. They attributed the reduced number of mosquitos to the cool spring and to earlier control measures. It was explained that control of mosquitoes started ear lier this season than usual be cause more funds were available. Log ponds and roadside ditches were among breeding places re ceiving earlier treatment. The sanitarians explained that "fog" machines are in operation every night now and are being used from about 1 a.m. until morning breezes begin. The ma chines are being operated all over the county. Washington 'IP The Con troller of the Currency has is-. sued a call for the condition of .'national banks as of June 6. Stassen Proposes U.S.-Russian Cut In Troop Strength Three Sucessive Stages in Scheme London W The United j States formally proposed today 1 that American and Soviet armed i forces be reduced in three sue-: cessive stajes to a level of 1,- i 700,000 men each. i U.S. delegate Harold E. Slas- sen made the proposal to Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valer ian Zonn at the London live power disarmament conference. Canada Welcomes Plan Britain and France joined the United States and proposed that their forces also be reduced in three steps to 650.000 men each. Canada, the fifth meriber of the conference, also welcomed the western plan. Zorin, the Soviet delegate, re served his position on the U. S. proposal. The United Stales now has 2, 800,000 in its armed forces. Rus sia has an estimated 3,500,000. Political Problems Stassen, who is gradually un folding the U. S. disarmament plan, proposed that U. S. and Russian forces be reduced first to a 2,500,000 level, then to 2, 100,000, and finally to 1,700,000 men each. But the United States. Britain and France made it clear that the last two stages of the man-power cuts would be conditional on the solution of political problems. They did not specify what type of East-West problems would have to be resolved. Said 'Nothing New' Stassen began a ''step-by-stcp" presentation of the new Ameri can disarmament proposal before the five-power U.N. disarma ment subcommission Thursday. The commission includes repre sentatives from the United States. Great Britain, France, Canada and Soviet Russia. Soviet newspapers over the week end derided as "nothing new" the proposal made by Stassen for an1 initial reduction in Soviet and United States armed forces to 2,500,000 men each. Fire Damages House In Downtown Ashland Ashland Fire Monday dam aged a three story frame house behind the Ashland Groceteria at 31 South Second St., accord ing to Fire Chief C. H. Davis. The fire. broke out about 3:30 p.m. in the attic, and was large ly confined there, Davis said Cause of the blaze was undeter mined and the amount of dam age was not fixed. The building, which served as an apartment house, is the prop erty of L. M. Sefferies, of Ash land, and is one of the town's older houses. People living in the down stairs apartment escaped injury It is believed that the apart ments on other floors of the buil dings were unoccupied. Public Hearing on Zone Change Set Tomorrow The Medford planning com mission will hold a public .hear ing in the city hall at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow to consider a change of zone in four lots in the Ber- rydale addition. The change asked is from sin gle family to light industrial Berrydale addition property in volved is on the west side of Highway 99 north, just north of the Y. The planning commission met shortly last night for the pur pose of scheduling the hearing tomorrow. "Who's In Contempt Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 20 Page MEDFORD, v - i.0 i Commsnd Called To Panmunjom Radio Says Lesson Should Be Remembered Tokyo (1P The North Kor ean and Chinese Communists ob served the seventh anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean war today by summoning the UN Command to Panmunjom Wednesday and by rattling the sabre from Pyongyang to Que moy. Both Pyongyang and Peiping radio attacked the United State.- with angry blasts. They accused it of trying to increase war ten sions in the Far East, bragged of the Reds new armed strength and said in any future war the United States would be defeated. Should Remember Lessons The United Nations should "remember the lessons of its de feat" in the Korean war, Peip ing said. At the same time Red China attacked the Nationalist Chin ese island of Quemoy with the heaviest artillery barrage in years but there was no official comment in Taipch whether the Red attack was a prelude to in vasion. The Communists called a meeting of the Korean military armistice commission at Pan munjom, Korea, Wednesday aft ernoon to protest the UN Com mand decision last Friday to abrogate the portion of the ar mistice agreement freezing the arms buildup. The propaganda broadcasts by Red China and North Korea left no doubt as to the Reds' inten tions. They planned to reject the American-led decision to build up a massive defense force in the Republic of Korea, and the.v planned to accuse the United States of violating the armistice agreement. Dysentery Cause Still Being Checked .The county health department is still attempting to learn facts concerning an outbreak of dy sentery among several delegates to the state Lions club conven tion here last week end. Sanitarians have been inspect ing places where conventioners dined but have not completed their reports. They explained the illness, which affected at least 20 Lions and auxiliary mem bers, was tentatively traced to s morning or noon meal. This is because they became ill about 9 or 10 p.m., and dysentery bac teria require about 12 hours to take effect. Reports indicated only one woman remained in the hospit al today as a result of the ill ness. NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 3 11 1 Chicago 5 10 0 Friend. King (7), Arroyo (8) and Foiles; Kaiser, Hollman (1), Lown (8) and Neeman. HR Litlrell. (Chi.); Long, (Chi.); Moryn, (Chi.). Of Congress Now?' iniliWMift4l OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE re At E agle Convention 3 Wi'21 iry,-v.-',-!'M 4 -fM-Sn 2 mm ' ROBERT W. HANSEN Eagles National Chairman About 1,200 Eagles and aux iliary members are expected to attend the Oregon state ' Aerie convention which starts in Med ford Thursday morning. . Business sessions for the three-day convention will be held in the Holly theater, with ritualistic competition in the Carpenter's Union hall, and other activties in the Eagles hall. Among dignitaries attending the convention will be Robert W. Hansen, past Grand Worthy president ot the Iraternal Order of Eagles and national chairman of the program and activities de partment, and Michael T. Gaff ney; financial advisor for the Grand Aerie Eagles. Both are from Milwaukee, Wis. Also at tending will be Lawrence Governors Turn To State Problems Williamsburg, Va. IP The nation's governors buckled down to discussion of state prob lems today but national issues and politics appears to be hold ing the center of the stage. President Eisenhower's pro poal for a joint federal-state "task force" to carve out areas in which the states should as sume more functions now per formed by the federal govern ment drew mixed reaction. i Democrats generaljy spurned the idea advanced by Eisenhow- ed Monday night. Most Republi cans were enthusiastic but even the GOP governors refrained from promising any massive re- ersal of the trend toward great er power in federal government. Gov. Earnest W. McFarland of Arizona, a Democrat, called the proposal "just another one of those studies. We've had lots of studies but nothing ever comes of them." Court Seeks More Road Right of Way Members of the county court planned to spend this afternoon contacting property owners in regard to acquiring more right- of-way property for the . stale secondary highway between Ross lane and Jacksonville. The state highway commission will receive bids Thursday on improving the road. The project will be completed this fall, and is a federal, state and county participation project. The court spent Monday in Roseburg at a district 4 meeting of the association of Oregon Counties. Most of the discussion concerned legislative bills in cluding bangs disease control appointment of budget commit tee members and market areas for O & C timber lands. County Judge Rodney Keat ing is in Portland today attend ing a meeting of the Oregon Association of O & C counties. U. S. Prods Russia To Exchange Programs Washington OP! The Unit ed States has prodded Russia to agree to a regular exchange between the two nations of un- censored radio and television broadcasts. The proposal was handed to Soviet Ambassador Georgi N Zaroubin Monday by Ambassa dor William S. Lacey, special assistant to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles for East- West exchanges. The State De partment said the move was prompted by the recent appear ance of Soviet Communist part boss Nikita S. Khrushchev on an American TV program. mine Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire 25, 1957 No. 82 Expected "irili ij tmlt ' "if - MICHAEL T. GAFFNEY Financial Advisor Leahy, Wenatchee, Wash Grand Worthy president, and Ralph Goodman, Vancouver. B.C., Grand Aerie president of the northwest region. Prior to the convention open ing a welcoming banquet for state officers will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Medford hotel. City Manager Robert Duff and Medford Police Chief Charles Champlin will welcome the officers. I Registration will start at 8 a.m. Thursday at the Eagles hall, and business sessions Thursday and Friday will start at 10 a.m. al the Holly theater. The auxili ary business sessions will be held in the Knights of Pythias hall. A joint meeting, at which there will be welcoming cere monies and memorial services. will be open to the public at 8 p.m. Thursday at McLoughlin Junior Kiglr school. Friday at 7 p.m. a drill team and drum and bugle corps com petition will be held at Medford High school stadium. The event is open to the public. A parade of drill teams and drum and bugle corps will start at 1 p.m. Saturday. Parade Route Named The parade will form at Ivy and West Main sts. at 12:30 p.m., and will proceed east on Main st. to Bartlett st., then to Sixth St., and west to Ivy st., then south to Main s., and will dis band at the Eagles hall. Drum and bugle and drill team competition winners will be announced at a joint meeting of the Eagles and auxiliary at the Holly theater at 4 p.m. Sat urday. E. C. (Chct) Lawson, Eugene, past slate president, is state manager for the convention, and A. W. (Art) Klatt, Medford, is local chairman. Mrs. Lona Pickell, Medford, past state president of the auxiliary, is in charge of the auxiliary conven tion, i Among chairman of slate committees for the convention are Ray Smith, Portland, resolu tions; W. H. Lynch, Eugene, leg islative; Cass Capon, Portland, and Jim Sims, Salem, cochair men of the credentials and elec tion committee; and Bill Kent, Empire, Drill team and Drum corps. Constructon of New Home Is Progressing Construction of the new Jack son county juvenile detention home. at the old county fair grounds site is progressing well, the county court reported today. The foundation has been com pleted, walls erected and heating plqnt installed. Roofing is in progress, now. The court said completion of the . structure is still planned for September. Teamsters Not Move To Oust San Diego, Calif. HPI The Teamsters Union high command today made it clear that it will not tolerate any move by a re form clement within the vast or ganization to oust Frank Brew ster of Seattle as chairman of the union's powerful ' 11-state Western Conference. Dissatisfaction There was still an undercur rent of dissatisfaction this morn ing and reports that strong ele ments were considering a last minute fight to oust Brewster or at least censure him. San Francisco area delegates were reported to be in near open defiance of the union high com mand. A closed meeting of Southern California delegates reportedly wV-i hit - I Ufi'ili'iu"iflvi''1ti VfririfHMtfi Y'f ' i ftirtfrtt'Ati'hiiiii M Nationalist China Orders Patrols To Keep Watch Heaviest "Artillery Bombardment in Years Taipeh W Nationalist China alerted its offshore island fortresses todav for a possible Communisi Chinese invasion fol lowing the heaviest Red artillery bombardment in nearly three years. The defense ministry said "sev eral" civilians had been killed and at least 20 others injured in the bombardment. It was feared military casualties wSuld run higher. War Flares Anew The vest pocket war between the Communists and the Nation alists flared anew Monday night when Red artillery on Amoy pounded the Quemoy Island group with 9,395 rounds. About 180 houses were lev eled on little Quemoy, only three or four miles from the mainland. The overall casualties arSH dam ages were heavier than the Na tionalists suffered at the height of the "little war" in Septem ber, 1954. An air of tension grew rapidly in the Formosa Straits and in Taipeh itself, aiid all military 'r forces were alerted for a possi ble Chinese Communist attack from the mainland on the off shore islands. Task Force Ordered Out Press reports in Taipeh said a strong Nationalist task force composed of planes and warships were ordered to patrol along the Red Chinese coast watching Red movements. The Chinese Nationalist bat teries on yuemoy a-na L,uiie yue- moy returned tne uommunist fire which broke out at dinner time Monday night. There was no official report on casualties inflicted by the Nationalists. Budget Election Set In Fire District Central Point A special elec tion for increasing the levy to raise additional funds for the Central Point Rural Fire Pro tection district will be held July 2. The levy is not to exceed five mills on the dollar. It amounts to S6.555.52 more than the 6 per cent limitation. The reason the district is ask ing for the increase is the loss of assessed value within the district due to the loss of the Berrydale district which was an nexed to Medford. About 4b per rent of the Berrydale area an nexed was in the CPRFPD. The district board called the election at a meeting June 19. Polls will be open at the fire hall from 2 to 8 p.m. McAZsfer To Attend New York Bar Meeting Salem W Chief Justice William C. Perry and Associate Justice George Rossman of the Oregon Supreme Court will at tend the annual convention of the American Bar Association in London July 24-31. In addition, Associate Justices William McAllister and Randall Koestner will attend a New York meeting of the Bar Asso ciation before it adjouys for its London session. Weather FORKC AST: Fair and warm through Wednesday. Low to night 55, high tomorrow 96. Temp. Hichett Yesterday 91 Lowest this Morning 52 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:35 .m. S-jnsrt 7:53 p.m. The .Moon rites Wednes day at 3:38 a.m. and rides bifih. New Moon June 27 PROMINENT STARS The Big Hipper, in the north west at midnight. Aikaid. the star at the end of the handle, is now the highest in the figure. To Tolerate Brewster endorsed the proposed changes in the conference's constitution which would allow the election ' of the chairman. One union official, who asked not to be named, said he thought it was "rotten" the way things were "rammed down throats'' at Monday's meeting. Down To Buiinesa The conference settled down to the business aspects of its five day convention here after the ' question of whether Brewster would keep his job was resolved without a fight. Teamster President Dave Beck Monday came to Brewster's res cue. The Teamster boss beat the reform group to the punch by reappointing his friend, Brew ster, to another term.
