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mm ram ry. JL it 0 Pentagon Leans To Air Industry, Nickerson Says Huntsvilie. Ala. W Col. John C. Nickerson Jr., testified today that service rivalries for new weapons were usually de cided in the Pentagon "in favor of the aircraft industry." and thus the A;r Force got the assign ments. The outspoken colonel court martialrd for leaking secret data in h:s fielit 'to keep the 1.500 mile jupitcr ballistic missile in the Army, used his trial to bring the bitter inter-service disputes and their relations with industry into the open. Speaking loudly and rapidly. Nickerion piled into the aircraft ' industry which he said had no indention f letting civil service rontnctirg fet all the big missile mre. "Tsey realired tint contracts for jrrraft ere going down and thrwe ' for miiile were going up." he aid. Jf Voactae Fulled A"d in lh Jcntaj(on, he said, the tendency grew to settle strug gle tor miwils money in favor of the Air form. Kickeri'in did not pull a punch, except when he ventured near rUMiftM ground, the thing that (tot him court martialed. He has -piegdei nuiltj to 15 counts of fa-ling to safeguard secret data in violation of army regulations. Hi r6 his other witnesses were attempting to show the 10-mem-bef court martial board mitigat ing and extenuating circumstanc es which might lighten his sen tence. H could serve up to 30 years, t hard labor on the charg es. Nickerson said that Army Chief of Staff Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Secretary of Army Wil ber Brucker and Maj. Gen. John B. Mcdaris, commander of the Army ballistics missile agency here, all shared his views that the Army needed to produce the Jupiter. Counterpart weapoa The Air Force has a counter part weapon, theThor, which has been described in published re ports as a fizzle in three attempts at launching. He said that the Air Force had embarked on its own project to change the Defense Department's mind when the Army was first allotted the Jupiter project. Explaining further his opinion v th,e state of mind in the Fen- Like Highway May Be Done in 1958 The 455,000 realignment of Crater Lale highway between Elk Craig and Trail creek should 1 completed by the end of nct aummcr. according to W. C. (Dutch) Williams, Oregon itate highway engineer.- "William, in a letter to State Rep. 5. A. A1) Littrcll, said it is planned to get the job under way in the late fall or early winter of thi year, in time to be completed by the end of the 1958 construction season. The project, while it is a federally-sponsored job, will be handled by the state. It involves the realignment and paving of the highway along that section of the Crater Lake highway, long sought by residents of the upper river erea. Williams elso told Littrell that the state has as yet received " no word from the bureau of pub lic roads concerning the rebuild ing of the Medford-Klamath Falls road, via Eagle Point. Mc Allister Springs and Lake of the Woods, although approval of the project is Expected soon. Weather FORIT "T- rttv elnurfv 1 mchl lr,Jsv Lw tO mtht Sijik Friday t. Temp. HiKht tfv M Lowest tVs Mtraing 59 Our 5feie Tonight Srtne - 4:18 l.lti. Sunset P.m. New 12:53 p.m. nuhhe. Merak. Phecda and Me Itrei for :4e bowl of the Dip per. Mrcre. i the rim of the howl at tfce junction of . the handle, i tf dimmest of the suren stars f te Bit Dipper. United States Increases To New York IP U.S. Steel Corp. announced today steel -?rice increases averaging S6 a : n. which could affect the price of hundreds of consumer items i goes into effect the same day ranging from autos to hairpins, j and which the company con The price hike, effective July ! tends will boost its labor costs 1. came a day after President ! by 21 cents an hour per man. Eisenhower's renewed plea to in-1 U.S. Steel s hike, which is ex- dustry and labor to show re-! 1 tagon, Nickerson said that "the civilians woiking there usually have high paying jobs in the back of their minds and the air craft industry is where the high salaries are." Nickerson said the team at Redstone, with 20 years' experi ence on the part of its German born rocketters. is "bound to de velop" a successful intermediate missile "years sooner" than any other agency. (See Story on Page 11) Eacles Convention Gels Under Way in City This Morning A total of 625 Eagles and auxiliary members registered yesterday for the 1957 Oregon state convention which official ly started at 10 a.m. today. E. C. (Chet) Lawson, Eugene, convention manager, said it was the heaviest first day enrollment for a state Eagles convention in the past 15 years. Registration continued this morning, ani will continue tomorrow morn ing in the Eagles hall. Unofficial Start The convention got an unof ficial start last night when 39 new members for the conven tion class were initiated in ceremonies in the Knights of Pythias building. Participating in the ceremonies were Erving Reeter and Sherman Dahl, both of Grants Pass. The first of four business ses sions also are scheduled at 10 a.m. tomorrow, and at 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Saturday. At 8 p.m. today, welcoming ceremonies and memorial ser vices, which are open to the public, will be held at McLough lin Junior High school. The services will be a joint meet ing of the Eagles and auxil iary. Competition Eventi Winners of ritualistic, drilU team and drum corps competi tion will be announced at a meeting at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Holly theater. Ritualistic competition started at 7 a m. to day, and will continue at 7 a.m. tomorrow. Both sessions are scheduled in the Carpenter's Union hall. The drill team and drum corps competition will start at 7 p.m Friday in the Medford High school stadium. The event will be open to the public. Drill teams and drum and bugle corps also will participate in a parade starting at 1 p.m. Saturday in downtown Medford. About 15 units are expected to compete. Property Owners Contacted by Court The Jackson county court is still contacting property owners in connection with obtaining more right of way for the state secondary highway between Ross lane and Jacksonville. Members of the court began discussing the right of way with about 11 property owners Tues day. They resumed the discus sions yesterday and planned to continue them this afternoon. The court explained right of v ay conferences have kept them too busy to obtain the remain ing signatures for the 1957-58 budget. However, they said they hoped to contact Tom Wray. budget committee chairman, and Arnold B o h n e r t. committee member, for their signatures to day. All others have signed the budget except Roger Rath, who has refused to do so. Boy Questioned In Connection With Fire A small fire was started in the second grade classroom at Lone Pone school yesterday. Police ar rested a 12-year-old Medford boy in connection with the fire, and referred the case to county juve nile authorities. The fire was reported at 10 a.m. by Harold Foster Boner, 3439 Lone Pine rd. Steel Announces Price Become Effective July 1 straint on the wage-price front to ease inflationary pressures. The price increase was made to offset a wage increase which pected to set the pattern for the , 52nd Year Mei United Pr rull La.d 23 Pages Hoffa Gave $2, For Documents on Beck, Witness Says Step by Step Account Of Arrangements Told Washington W The gov ernment's star witness in the bribery-conspiracy trial of Team sters Vice President James R. Hoffa testified today that Hoffa gave him S2.000 for Senate Rack ets Committee documents on Teamsters President Dave Beck. The witness. John Cye Cheasty, said the exchange took place March 12 on a street near the DuPont Plaze Hotel here the eve ning before Hoffa's arrest. Hoffa and his codefendant. Mi ami attorney Hyman I. Fisch bach, are accused of bribing Cheasty. a New York lawyer, to get a job on the committee staff and pass them confidential in formation on its investigation of the big Teamsters Union. Cheasty tipped off the Senate Committee and the FBI before going to work for the committee. Step by Step Account He gave a federal court jury a step by step account of the careful arrangements he made with the FBI and the committee to pass the documents to Hoffa March 12. He said he picked Hoffa up in front of the DuPont Plaze Hotel in a cab driven by an FBI agent. He told Hoffa he had "some stuff" from committee files on Beck's deals with Nathan Shef ferman, Chicago labor relations expert. He said the documents were selected from committee files by Carmine Bellino, chief staff investigator, and were de livered to him the morning of March 12 by an FBI agent. Hoffa was arrested by FBI agents at the hotel early the fol lowing morning. Hoffa. seated in the courtroom, stared at Cheasty with no dis cernible expression during most of the testimony. Benson Asked To Help Ease Canned Pear Surplus Washington W Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) asked Ag riculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson today to take action to help ease the canned pear sur plus in the Pacific Northwest. Jackson sent a letter to Ben son urging prompt approval of a plan submitted by B. I. Free man, secretary-manager of the Washington-Oregon Pear Asso ciation, -which has its head quarters at Yakima. Freeman suggested that canned Bartlett pears be placed on the list of commodities which get export marketing assistance under Public Law 480. Jackson told Benson it is "im perative" that the department adopt the plan. CCC Payi Seller The law provides that the gov ernment will help export surplus products to foreign countries. Under the plan the Commodity Credit Corp. pays the seller in American dollars and the gov ernment assumes the responsibil ity for the foreign currency used to pay for the products overseas. In his letter to Benson, Jack son said exports of canned pears dropped from 6R8.000 cases in 1955-56 to 250,000 cases in 1956 57. The senator said the forth coming crop of Bartlett pears in the Northwest alone is expected to be 20 per cent above last year. Pointing out that last year's crop in the Northwest hit a record high, Jackson said favor able action on the request was necessary to "alleviate this ser ious situation." rest of the steel industry, is less than what many steel leaders have insisted was necessary to offset the automatic wage in crease. Last August the steel firms signed a three-year pact with the United Stcelworkers of America calling for automatic increases in wages and fringes each year, KC iuvusn c jo n POSTAL Senate Approves Extra $133 Million For Fiscal Year President Expected To Sign Appropriation Washington W The nation was assured today of full postal service for the year beginning July 1. The Senate passed and sent to the White House today a supple mental Post Office Department money bill providing an extra 133 million for next fiscal year. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield had warned of new cuts in postal services and the shutdown of possibly thousands of local post offices unless Con gress provided him more funds to run his department. Summerfield had asked an ad ditional 5149.500,000, but the Senate, in approving the bill Wednesday, went along with House cuts of 516.500,000. However, Chairman Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.) of the Senate Appropriations Committee as sured his colleagues that the re duction would not mean any curtailment of daily rural mail deliveries or suspension of Sat urday service in cities and towns. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-II1.), voting agains-t the bill, accused Summerfield of trying to inti midate Congress with threats in stead of seeking to save money by modernizing the mail service. Signature Expected President Eisenhower, who had backed Summerfield in his fight to obtain extra funds, was almost certain to sign the measure. The postmaster general had curtailed postal services- briefly earlier this year when Congress refused to grant . him extra funds to tide his department over the fiscal year ending June 30. On another matter. Summer field told the House Post Office Committee Wednesday he and Eisenhower would give "careful consideration" to any postal pay raise recommended 'by the group. $54,00TWorth of Bonds Are Sold A total of 554,000 worth of general obligation bonds were sold by the Kings Highway water district to the First National Bank last night. The bonds were sold to finance installation of a water main in the area annexed to the district May 8, south of Shafer lane. The bonds sold at S98 per each S100 per value, with interest rate set at 4-1 4 per cent on S26.000 and 5 per cent on 528.000. The whole issue will be paid off by 1980 at a net effective interest rate of 5.0477 per cent. Bonds were sold at a meeting of the district board of commis sioners last night, according to attorney for the district, Mrs. Jeannette Marshall. The United States National Bank also sub mitted a bid. Bids for laying the water main and installing fire hydrahts throughout the district will be opened in Mrs. Marshall's office July 1. Work will begin as soon as possible. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 2 8 3 Washington 7 10 0 Foytack. Hoeft (2). Aber (4), and Wilson: Pascual, Cleven ger (6). Stealer (E) and Court ney, Yewcic (6). Cleveland 2 5 0 New York 0 0 Wynn and Brown: Byrne and Berra. Chicago ".. J 8 1 Boston 8 8 0 Harshman, Fischer (1), Sta ler (5). Derrington (6) and Mess: Sullivan. Chakales (3) and Daley. NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn 14 1 Milwaukee 2 4 0 Dryidale. Koufsx (8) and Campanilla; Buhl and Rie. N-- MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE SERVICE FOR YEAR 'It Seems To Be Kennedy at Schrunk Trial; Judge Vetoes Motion for Mistrial Portland dpi The defense to day lost a motion for a mistrial in the perjury case against May or Terry Schrunk based on the appearance of Robert Kennedy, chief counsel of the Senate Rackets Committee. Defense attorneys claimed that Kennedy's appearance late Wed nesday was engineered by the state and that Kennedy was used as "a sort of Trojan horse." They claimed he injected into the trial prejudicial matter which could not be removed by any precautionary instructions to the jury. Thomas Tongue III, one of Schrunk's attorneys, said Ken nedy's testimony was offered by Assistant Attorney General Ralph K. Wyckoff to support the idea that -racketeer James B. Elkins as not out to frame Schrunk. Tongue said Elkins was not out to frame Schrunk. Tongue said Elkins may have argued this year against a Sen ate investigation of the alleged bribery incident but that this had nothing to do with what Elkins may have said and done in 1956. Motion Overruled Tongue said: "Kennedy made the grand exit. Here's the great man come to town . . . this na tional celebrity, the great vice crusader ... to lend the weight of his opinion ... to tell the jury that he and the Senate committee concluded the mayor of Portland .was guilty of ac cepting a bribe." Circuit Judge James W. Craw ford overruled the motion. Prospects were that the case may go to the jury Friday or Saturday. The defense called one more witness and then rested its case. He was Alexander C. Brown, Portland city attorney, who testi fied he had played no role in calling Kennedy to Portland. De fense Attorney Edwin Hicks said there were two witnesses he had hoped to call but that circum stances which he could not dis close to the jury made it impos sible to subpoena them. Trial Enlivened The state then called Capt. Delegate to Convention Suffers Heat Stroke State Secretary of the Eagles, L. A. Hamilton. 59, of Salem. suffered a light heat stroke while attending convention activities at the Holly theatre this morning. Hamilton was taken to Osteo pathic hospital by Medford Am bulance about 11:10 a.m.. where he was treated and released. Highway Department Repairs Front Street A crew from the Oregon State highway department was in Med ford yesterday patching the Front st. truck route between Fourth and 10th sts. Tribune 27, 1957 Rising Again" ! lyle Robert Mariels, who was in National Guard uniform. Mariels admitted arranging a luncheon meeting between El kins and James B. Miller, an Oregonian reporter, at the re quest of Miller who was "writing a book" and wanted to meet a "variety of characters." The appearance of Kennedy and of a mysterious redhead enlivened the trial Wednesday. Mystery witness for the de fense was Mrs. Shirley Martin who was flown to Portland from cut of state by the defense and who demanded police protec tion while she was here. Mrs. Martin identified hersedf as a former waitress in a Port land after hours club. She con tradicted the prosecution testi mony of John (Buster) Vance, who had said he was at the Clandestine 8212 Club the night Schrunk is accused by the state of accepting a payoff from the club manager. Mrs. Martin testified that Vance was with her at the other after hours . joint the night Schrunk was at the 8212 Club. Vance had said he saw Club Manager Clifford Bennett put money in an envelope for a payoff. Cause of Illness Sought by State Portland dfl The state hoard of health said today it was try ing to determine the cause of what appeared to be an out break of food poisoning follow ing a Lions' convention lunch eon at Medford last Saturday. Tho board said it was diffi cult to trace the cause because the convention delegates left before tests could be made. The Jackson county sanitarian reported symptoms were stom ach cramps and diarrhea. The state board's epidemiology sec tion is mailing letters to conven tion delegates in efforts to de termine the cause. 1 The board said the county health department reported that 779 delegates and 32 dining room workers had lunch Satur day noon in a school cafeteria. Food was catered by the Med ford hotel. . The county health office said it knew of 23 known to have been ill, and estimated the total might have been close to 70. Fire Breaks Out in Logging Operation State forestry department pa trolmen reported a fire yester day on a logging operation on the south fork of Little Butte creek. The blaze broke out about 5 p.m. and covered about one acre before being controlled. Patrolmen said they were not sure of the cause. Patrol and operator crews were mopping up today. Price 1 0c United Pr Full Leued Wtr No. 84 ASSURED Eisenhower Seen Cooling To Idea Of Bomb Test Ban Stctssen Expected To Present U. S. Position London flfl Reports that President Eisenhower might be having second thoughts on the wisdom of an immediate ban on nuclear tests sent up storm sig nals today at the London dis armament conference. Harold E. Stassen was keeping the emphais on conventional dis armament at today's session, but he was expected to put forth the American nuclear position soon. Western delegates here receiv ed another firm warning Wed nesday from Soviet Deputy For eign Minster Valerian Zorin that any first step disarmament agree ment must include a ban on tests. Ike Retreat Seen Observers interpreted Eisen hower's latest declaration on the subject as an indication of a re treat from previous apparent willingness to meet the Russians on the issue. Last week the President said he would be "perfectly delight ed" to accept an immediate ban. Wednesday he appeared far less ready and emphasized instead the possibility of an "absolutely clean" H-bomb, that is, with no radioactive fall-out. Stassen and his fellow Western delegates received a stern warn ing from the Russians about the Soviet determination to halt tests. According to a Moscow radio broastcast this morning, Zorin told the delegates that those who complicate the settlement of the question of ending atom and hydrogen weapon tests by vari ous contrived conditions are, in effect, raising obstacles to and undermining the possibility of ending the nuclear arms race. The Zorin statement was ac companied by another venomous Soviet attack on U.S. Gen. Lauris Norstad, the NATO commander, which outdid the Tuesday state ments by Soviet Foreign Minis ter Andrei Gromyko. Moscow radio said Norstad was a "cannibal" who spends his time dreaming "how to drop thousands of bombs on our coun try," It recalled that he was chief of staff of the World War II 20th Air Force which bombed Hiro shima and Nagasaki. Public Hearings On Council's Agenda Two public hearings are on the agenda for the Medford city council at 7:30 p.m. today at an adjourned meeting. One hearing is on annexation of city and county property in the old fairgrounds area, which includes the new National Guard Armory south of Med ford. The other hearing is on with drawal of parts of five special service districts annexed to the city in the Berrydale annexa tion. Other items on the agenda in clude consideration of a plumb ing code adoption and transfer of budget items. Planners Suggest Change Of Zone in Berrydale Area The Medford planning com mission at a special meeting last night recommended to the city council that four lots in the Berrydale area be rezoned from single family to light in dustrial. . . The property is located west of Highway 59 and north of the Y. L. E. Juniper of Pacific Ma chinery company requested the change of zone, explaining he wants to construct a business building there. John Dellenbeck, Medford at torney,. appeared at the meeting on behalf of Juniper. No oppo sition to the rezoning was voiced. Although last night's session was an adjourned meeting for the purpose of holding a hearing on Juniper's request, thi com Many Terrified Residents Flee Storm's Path o Cities Cut Off By Howling Winds Port Arthur, Tex. itn An unseasonable and vicious hur ricane, which already had killed 10 men, swept across the Texas Louisiana coast today and beat inland cities with winds of 100 miles an hour. The wind, torrential rain and crashing waves of hurricane Au drey isolated whole towns. Elec trical power was knocked out in Port Arthur and Beaumont, Tex., and in Lake Charles. La. Terrified residents, 50.000 in Port Arthur alone by one esti mate, fled their homes. Some took refuge in schools, churches and steel-framed buildings. Oth ers fled in their automobiles to sectors out of the tempest's path. Raging seas more than 200 mil es down the Texas coast swept four vessels, including the 400 foot Sinclair Co. tanker Sheldon Clark, aground in Arkansas Bay. The other vesels were two barges and a tug. The crews apparently were safe. The New Orleans Weather Bu reau said the center of Audrey was about halfway between Beaumont and Lake Charles, along the border between the states, and moving northward about 15 miles an hour. The hurricane victims were all drowned, nine of them in a fishing vessel that went down in the threshing Gulf of Mexico near Galveston. The calm eye of the hurricane, surrounded by a vast doughnut of deadly winds, passed straight up the Louisiana-Texas border. Observers clocked its passage as the wind stopped when the eye was directly overhead. Then, as the eye passed, the wind started howling again from the opposite direction. The eye first passed over Port Arthur, the first major city in its path. Then, at 7:15 a.m. (p.s.t.). Orange, Tex., about 25 miles northeast, reported the cye passing over- o head. o But the worst winds were in the northeast quadrant of the hurricane, which was slamming into the Louisiana coast in the Cameron area and east. As Audrey raged toward the shore, it hurled a two-masted fishing vessel, the Kcturah, into an oil rig ear Galveston. The Keturah went down with all nine crewmen on board. An other man was drowned Wed nesday night off the Texas coast. Deputy Sheriff L. D. Farrow at Port Arthur estimated that 50.000 persons fled the city. All except two families fled the little town of Sabine, Tex., five stores and a population of 260, south of Port Arthur. The two families were cut off. The worst part of the storm appeared to be passing east of the rich manufacturing triangle of Beaumont-Port Arthur-Orange on the southeast Texas coast. High Waves Reported At Galveston waves were crashing over the seawall there and white caps were smacking against hotels. Galveston is a kesort city, southwest of the Beaumont-Port Arthur sector, where the worst hurricane on record killed between 5,000 and 8,000 persons in September, 1900. It was feared that conditions might be critical at Cameron, La., which was isolated hours before the center of the storm hit. In Houston, the largest city in Texas, wind did heavy dam age on the north, southwest and east sides. Giant limbs were blown out of trees. Signs and small trees were blown down. Heavy rain flooded out one over pass, but Houston escaped hurricane-strength winds. mission set dates for two other hearings. A hearing will be held Mon day, July 8, on rezoning from single family to light industrial a portion of property tt the corner of Spring st. and Crater Lake ave. The property is owned by Wayne (Shady) Wakefield and . it was reported that Associated Oil company wants to construct s a service station there. 5 Rezoning from single. familyC to light industrial other prop- erty owned by Wakefieffl in then area will be discussed July 8.Jj Another hearing will be held July 8 on a change of setback for property on the southeast corner of Clark and Oak sts., owned by Alvin C. Lucas. Lucas has requested the setback be moved from four feet to the property line to accommodate garage expansion project. o
