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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1957
No. 86
MEDFORDJMgO'RI
BCJJEW1ALLS Mark Rusher, state Chap
ixin from Pendleton, and Clem Roskoski,
tate president from Portland, are initiated
in! the Screwball club of the Eagles lodge
in ceremonies in front of the Medford Eagles
Pendleton Man Is
Elected Presidenl
Of Stale Eagles
Francis Baker, Pendleton, was
lected president of the Oregon
gtate Eagles Saturday at the fin
al session of the organization's
annual three-day convention.
Election of officers was held at
the Knights of Pythias building.
Pendletwi was choen as the
site for next year's Eagles con
vention. A parade in downtown Med
ford Saturday taj- drill teams and
drum and bugle corps climaxed
the state organization's conven
tion. Outgoing president is Clem
Roskoski, Portland.
Other officers elected include
Bill Bisoni. Portland, vice presi
dent: Mark Rusher. Pendleton,
chaplain: Bill Kent. Coos Bay,
conductor; Jack Weber. Med
ford, inside guard: Kenneth Res-
trom, Nyssa. outside guard: C. N.
Bennett, McMinnville; Marvin
Hamstrert. Klamath Falls; and
Harold Manney. Hermiston, all
trustees.
Elected president nf the lady's
atate auxiliary was Grayce John-
on. Pendleton.
Also elected to auxiliary posts
were Wuanita Walter. Prineville,
vice president; Louise Rogers.
La Grande, chaplain; Zoe Wil
liams, The Dalles, conductor;
Mary Chapman. Salem, secre
tary; Barbara Jacques. Nyssa,
treasurer; Opal Havlina. Bend,
inside guard; Mary Odegaard,
Lakeview. outside guard: Car i
Kne Roskoski, Portland; Lucil e
Lawson. Eugene: Mclba Klatt,
Medford: Mable Thomas. Tilla
mook; and Irene Cliastain. all
trustees: Iris Enck. Salem; mus
ician: and Mary Brown. Pendle
ton, membership director.
Record High Merest
Collected on Funds
Jackson county collected a rec
ord high of S40. 718 50 interest
on county government funds dur
ing 1556-57. according to Treas
urer Karl Janouch.
Janouch said he collected S32,
0fi5.07 of the total interest from
hanks throughout the county
Friday. He said substantial in
terest was also earned on school
and other funds in the 1956-57
fiscal year.
Interest on county government
funds the previous year totaled
$25,540.79. which was also a rec
ord figure The treasurer will
ilose his 1956-57 books on Mon
day. Sports Bulletins
Seatll IP A two -run
homer by Bill Causion in th
seventh inning powered Holly
wood to a 6-3 Pacific Coast
league victory over Seattle
last night and gave the Stars
a 4-1 lead in the series.
John Kovenx cracked a
three-run homerun with one
out in the ninth inning to give
the Medford Cheney Studs a
5 to 2 triumph over the Drain
Black Sox in a non-league
semi-pro baseball game at the
fairgrounds diamond here.
Hon Bowen solo homered for
Drain in th eighth inning.
Col. John Nickerson
Fined, Reprimanded
Huntsville, Ala. W Col.
John C. Nickerson, Jr. Saturday
was fined, reprimanded and de
prived of his rank for a year for
his admitted carelessness with
military secrets in a "Billy
Mitchell fight for the army s
guided missiles.
A 10-membcr court martial
board fined the 41-year-old col
onel $1,500 and took away for
year his rights even to order
Program Planned
By Y For July 4
Two' thousand dollars worth of
fireworks will be used in the
YMCA second annual fireworks
show about 8:30 p.m. Thursday,
July 4, at the Medford High
school stadium.
"Americana" will be the theme
of this year's show. Cliff Mc
Ginty, chairman, has beer, work
ing with the Southern Oregon
Timing association and Jerry
Lausman in constructing a set
of ground display and colored
lights. Some of the additions to
the show will be a star bomb,
which will rise out of the ground
in cofbred floral fire wreaths.
Preliminary events are sched
uled to start at 7:45 p.m. with a
hot rod and home made car dem
onstration by the Southern Ore
gon Timing association, the
Wheelers and other car clubs.
At 8 p.m. Medford policemen
and firemen will present a dem
onstration of firefighting equip
ment. The fireworks show; will
begin when darkness occurs.
John Lusk will be organ accom
panist for the show. The fire
works display will be directed
by Glenn Jennings, with Howard
Lage. Gary Shaffer and others
assisting.
Proceeds from the show will
be used in developing the Dia
mond Lake YMCA camp. Instal
lation of showers and sanitation
facilities are planned this year.
as well as improvement of equip
ment on the water front.
National Guardsmen
Return to Medford
More than 200 Medford Na
tional Guard troops returned
home about 1 p.m. yesterday aft
er two weeks of tactical combat
training at Ft. Lewis, Wash.
The "active duty" period was
climaxed Thursday with a re
view honoring Brig. Gen. Fred
erick L. Weigand. who is retir
ing as the assistant division com
mander of Oregon. All Oregon
units participated.
Earlier in the week a two
day one-night bivouac was held
in a wooded area" several miles
from a large tent city where 9.
000 Oreson and Washington
Guard troops made their base.
Here field problems and range
maneuvers were set up to re
semble a realistic combat situa
tion. Late Friday afternoon Med
ford Guard troops, of Headquar
ters company and Company A,
1st battalion. 186th regiment.
Oregon National Guard, boarded
pullman cars for the return trip
to Medford.
hall Friday. The outgoing president usually
is included in the club. Officers for the new
year were elected yesterday, the last day of
the three-day state Eagles convention. Photo
by Tompkins, Convention Photographer).
a buck private to sweep out his
office, if he gets an office.
Nickerson's lawyer called the
sentence a "magnificent victory,"
since the colonel could have re
ceived up to 30 years at hard la
bor. Appears Jubilant
Nickerson, appearing jubilant
at the light sentence, indicated
he would not appeal.
The sentence, however, will
be reviewed automatically by
the commande- of the third
army, Lt. Gen. Thomas F. Hick
ey, in Atlanta and by an ex
amination board in the Judge
Advocate General's office in
Washington It can be lightened
even more but reviewing author
ities cannot increase it.
Defense Secretary Charles E.
Wilson, who was a target of
sharp criticism by Nickerson for
his order giving the air force
control over 1,500-mile range
missiles, declined comment on
the sentence, as did army secre
tary Wilber Brucker.
Technically, Nickerson, as
field coordination officer, had
no command at Redstone arsenal
here. But when he is transferred,
which Washington sources said
would come this week, he will
have to be assigned to a duty
where it will not be necessary
for him to give orders to sub
ordinates. Grants Pass Girl
Reported Missing
Grants Pass More than 500
volunteers, state police and Jo
sephine county sheriff's deputies
late Saturday were searching for
Sheryl Lee Johnston, 5, of
Grants Pass, reported missing
since 5 p.m. yesterday from
I Mattson park near here.
State police said the girl was
last seen playing among some
rocks on the banks of Rogue riv
er which runs through te park.
Dragging operations on the river
were not scheduled until early
today, police said.
Several small boys later re
ported they saw the girl wander
into a heavily wooded area,
which led searching parties to
canvass the countryside near the
river, according to police.
The girl was visiting at the
park with friends of her parents
at the time, police said.
Washington (IP Scientists
said Saturday they hope to get
some good out of evil fallout by
using it to trace vast air move
ments which determine earth's
weather.
Mayflower
Newport. R.I. OP The Mav
flower II faced the most cliff i-
cult task of its trans-oceanic voy-
age Saturday as it tried to meet
a strict New York reception
timetable.
The 92-foot replica ship was
scheduled to depart from its
third port of call. Newport, at 8
a.m. on the final leg of a trip
that has been alternately two
weeks late and two hours early.
The Mayflower II. due to star
in a huge land-sea-air reception
Freight Smashes
Into Streamliner;
Six Known Dead
More Than 20 Hurt
In Kentucky Mishap
Guthrie, Ky. W A freight
train smashed into the side of
a Chicago to Miami streamliner,
The Dixieland, near a railway
station here late Saturday knock
ing over the diner and derailing
five other cars.
Officials of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, which oper
ated both trains, said six per
sons were known dead and 21
were injured.
H. E. Webb, an undertaker
and the mayor of this town just
north of the Tennessee border.
said the injured numbered 25
or more.
"The freight train just hit the
side of the passenger train," the
superintendent of the L&N's
Louisville Division said. He was
not sure exactly how it hap
pened.
Two Tracks Cross
The accident occurred at a
spot where two tracks crossed
The streamliner, moving slowly
southward through town on the
main line, was rammed and six
of its cars were sent reeling off
the tracks.
J. T. Smith, fireman on the
freight, said he could see as his
train approached the crossing
that "we weren't going to make
it" without a collision. He said
he and the brakeman jumped
but that the engineer, Walter
Rasberry, "didn't have time to
jump."
29 Freight Cars
There were 29 cars on th
freight, including two engines
and the Dixieland carried 13
cars. Witnesses said one of the
freight's engines hit one car on
the streamliner, breaking it
loose from the rest. The other
engine ripped into the diner.
Twenty or more ambulances
sped to the scene from towns
in both states and the injured
were taken to "a "number of dif
ferent hospitals in several towns.
Railroad officials said about
300 passengers were on the
Dixieland. Presumably, only a
few crewmen were on the
freight, bound from Louisville to
Memphis.
Kelly to Be Sworn
In as Judge Monday
Edward C. Kelly, newly ap
pointed judge for Oregon's first
judicial district, will be sworn
into office Monday at 9 a.m. in
the new circuit courtroom of the
Jackson county courthouse.
Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna
will administer the oath to Kelly.
Several representatives of the
Jackson County Bar association
are expected to be present at the
public installation ceremony.
Kelly, who has practiced law
in Medford since 1927, was ap
pointed judge on June 14 by
Gov. Robert D. Holmes. The ap
pointment followed creation of a
third judgeship in this district
by the legislature. Already serv
ing in the district are Judge
Hanna of Jacksonville and Judge
Orval Millard of Grants Pass.
Kelly's term will extend until
the next general election in No
vember. 1948. The Kelly law
firm will be maintained by his
daughter, Noreen, who is also
Medford municipal judge, and
his son. Bernard, who recently
completed military service and
has been doing post graduate
work in Washington, D.C.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair today and
Monday. Charier of thunder
storm! over the mountains
Mondav afternoon. Uich to
dav 86, lnw tonight 50, high
Monday n?.
Hichm VetterdaT -1
Lowest Yesterday . 50
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrie
4:17 a.m.
Sunset
:53 p.m.
The Moon set 9:48 p.m.
and is in Perijee.
The planet. Mars, is now in
the constellation. Cancer. In lt
hack c round tonijchl is lranus. a
telesmpir planet revolvinr
around the Sun well beyond Saturn.
II Facing Hard Task
at New York Monday morning
will be towed the 124-mile dis
tance with scheduled off-shore
stops designed only to keep the
ship on the reception timetable.
Staid Newport was shocked
and somewhat embarrassed
when the Mayflower II pulled
into port three hours ahead of
its scheduled, arrival Friday. In
stead of the planned full-scale
welcome, the tiny ship was tow
ed to a point in Newport harbor
with scarcely a whistle.
Wamin
oised
Jury Unanimous in
Innocfent Verdict
Of Mayor Schrunk
Jubilant Crowd Hears
Decision in Court
Portland an A Circuit
Court jury here Friday night
took less than two hours to re
turn a unanimous vedict of in
nocent in the perjury trial of
Mayor Terry D. Schrunk.
The verdict, read at 6:38 p.m.
touched off the wildest demon
stration seen in a Portland court
room in recent history and it
was rapped to silence only long
enough for Judge James W.
Crawford to poll the nine wom
en and three men on the jury
and then adjourn the court.
A jubilant crowd of nearly
200 well wishers crowded for
ward to congratulate Mayor
Schrunk and his tearful family.
Returns to Desk
The city's chief executive,
who faced a five-year prison
term if he had been convicted
on the perjury charge, returned
to his desk in city hall Saturday
determined to get on with the
job he assumed in January.
The state had charged Schrunk
with perjuring himself when he
denied before a grand jury last
summer that he accepted a bribe
trom a gambler. A trio of assist
ant attorneys general who prose
cuted the case had called Robert
F. Kennedy of the Senate Labor
Rackets committee staff as one
of its stellar witnesses. One of
the chief accusers of Schrunk
had been racketeer and convict
ed wire tapper James B. Elkins.
The dramatic return of the
jury during the dinner hour Fri
day and its reading of the verdict
was witnessed by Portlanders in
their homes via the first tele
vision cameras over to be per
mitted to telecast a court pro
ceedings live west of the Rock
ies. Indictments Pending
The fate of Schrunk concern
ing four indictments still pend
ing against him is up to the
attorney-general Robert Y.
Thornton.
Mayor Schrunk has four in
dictments still standing against
him. They are: Agreeing to re
ceive a bribe as a public of
ficer, illegally obtaining wire
taps, conspiracy for subornation
of perjury, conspiracy to illegal
ly obtain wiretaps.
The consensus of opinion of
lawyers around Portland, not
connected with the case at all, is
that the four remaining indict
ments will be thrown out.
Attorney-General Thornton is
outof state attending an at-tornevs-eeneral
convention at
Sun Valley, Idaho, and he was
not available for comment on
the situation.
Harry Birch Named
State Commander
Pendleton (W Election of
officers was held here Friday
at the annual Veterans of For
eign Wars encampment.
Elected new commander was
Harry A. Birch, 52, Medford, of
the Shady Cove Post. Birch serv
ed in both World Wars and is a
Medford building supplier.
His senior vice-commander is
former St. Paul, Minn., Army
Major Jerry Leibel. Leibel, 44.
belongs to Willamette Post 293
in Eugene.
Harriet Shumaker of Portland
Police Post Auxiliary 2807 was
elected President of the Auxili
ary unit.
Wayne E. Richards. Command
er-in-Chief of the VFW, flew into
Pendleton early Friday. to speak
to the some 1000 VFW's gather
ed here.
The delegates at the encamp
ment voted to hold next year's
encampment at Redmond, Ore.
The early arrival was in mark
ed contrast with the two-week
delay in the ship's arrival at
both Provincetown and Plym
outh, Mass., on its 54-day ocean
crossing.
Capt. Allan Villiers, explain
ed the early arrival as the result
of a strong following tide as the
ship was towed through the Cape
Cod Canal. He said the ship han
dles best at four knots and he
could take no chances in order
ing towing speed reduced.
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FOREST PANORAMA From lofty Dutchman peaK in the
Siskiyous, Forest Service Lookout Hal VonStein can see for
about a hundred miles in any direction. Other lookouts in
southern Oregon, both the state forestry department and the
U. S. forest service, are now manned, ready for the coming
forest fire season. (See story on page 12).
Resources
Discuss Rogue Bill
The stale vatcr resources
board will discuss its study of
the Rogue River basin and the
flood control bill recently intro
duced by Congressman Charles
O. Porter Monday at a meeting
in Medford.
The meeting will start at 10
a.m. in the Jackson county court
house. The bill drafted by Porter
would authorize several flood
control projects in the Rogue
Material Witness
Held in Rost Case
Santa Rosa, Calif W A
material witness in the unex
plained death of Eureka Fisher
man Elwood V. Rost was held by
Sonoma county authorities Sat
urday. Sheriff's officers held Calixto
Galvez of Stockton pending fur
ther investigation into the my
sterious death of the 38-year-old
Rost whose body was found off
Bodega bay last week end.
Rost died from a deep stab
wound at the base of the neck.
His wife had reported him miss
ing June 16 and said she feared
her husband "had met with foul
play."
Sheriff's deputies emphasized
no charges had been filed against
Galvez. They said he had volun
tarily agreed to remain in cus
tody until his story could be
checked.
Deputies said Galvez was a
known companion of Homer Gib
son, believed to be the last per
son to see Rost alive.
Gibson has been sought since
Rost's body was found. He has
not been apprehended.
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basin, including a high dam at
Lewis creek. Board members
will consider effects from the in
troduction of this bill on then
study of the basin. The Army
Corps of Engineers has been sur
veying the basin to determine
feasibility of a flood control and
reclamation program but have
not completed their report.
Umpqua Project
Robert Root of Medford, mem
ber of the board, will give a pro
gram committee report regard
ing the staff draft of the Ump
qua basin program. L. C. Bin-
ford of Grants Pass will report
on a meeting of the Columbia
River Compact commission at
Spokane, Wash., June 20 and 21
Other reports to be given at
the meetini; will include a fin
ancial report as of May 30; sec
retary's report by Don Lane;
chief engineer's report by E. J.
Watson; field representative's re
port by Quentin Bowman; and
state engineer's report by Lewis
A. Stanley.
Vincent A. Oslrom, newly ap
pointed board member, will be
introduced at the meeting. He
was appointed by Gov. Robert
D. Holmes to fill the unexpired
term of the late H. E. Maxey.
Phil towry fo Speak
At Roundtable Meeting
State Sen. Phil Lowry will
give the first in a series of leg
islative reports for the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce
roundtable Monday noon in the
Pioneer room of the Jackson
hotel.
The roundtable meetings are
open to the public. Representa
tives Al Littrcll and Robert
Duncan will give legislative re
ports on the two succeeding
weeks.
Hurricane Disaster,,
Shows 150-167 Dead
In Coastal Stales
3,000 Injured, Sick;
Bodies Being Found
Lakes Charles. La. HP A
bitter argument developed last
night over whether the victims
and the survivors of hurricane
Audrey's terrible onslaught
along the Louisiana coast were
warned to flee in time.
A clearer picture of the dis
aster was emerging from official
sources; 1.205 homes in Cameron
Parish, La., destroyed and 100
more badly damaged.
In addition to the damage and
misery hurricane Audrey visited
Buffalo, N.Y. UP! Hurri
cane Audrey swept into Can
ada Saturday after cutting a
1.500-mile path from the Lou
isiana coast to Lake Ontario.
The first hurricane of the
season had lost some of its
punch as it slashed through
southern and midwestern
states. But it whipped up rain,
thunder, lightning and a few
tornadoes that claimed new
victims and smashed mora
property.
upon Louisiana Thursday, it left
11 dead and six million dollars
worth of damage in Texas and
killed 19 other persons as it
dove north of Louisiana into
Canada.
Charges Leveled
Survivors charged that tha
New Orleans weather bureau,
which predicted the hurricane's
movements, said it would hit the
coast Thursday night and that
it actually hit Thursday morn
ing. Cameron, a fishing town of
2,500 population on the Louis
iana coast, and half-a-dozen vil
lages were engulfed between 9
and 10 a.m. Thursday by a giant
tidal wave.
The impression seemed to be
growing among leaders close to
the tragedy that the eventual
total of dead in Louisiana would
turn out to be around 150.
Bodies Recovered
Sixty-one bodies were recover
ed. Some, identified, were par
celled out to undertakers. A
boatload of ice was shipped up
from the Texas coast to preserve
the others in the icehouse at
Cameron.
United press reporter James
M. Flinchum returned last night
to Lake Charles from Cameron
on the sheriffs boat wmcn.
brought in 17 bodies.
Flinchum told of finding the
bodies of a mother and three
children, all bound together with
quarter-inch rope. He said it ap
peared the woman had tied her
children to her in a vain at
tempt to save their lives.
Bodies on Fence
Welcome W. Wilson, a region
al civil defense administrator,
told of the discovery of 35 bod
ies entangled in a fence two ,
iles north and eight miles east
of Cameron. He said the bodies
apparently washed into the
fence. The bodies were to be
picked up by motor boat, sealed
in plastic bags and flown to
Lake Charles by helicopter.
Flinchum found the commun
ity of Holly Beach demolished.
Johnson Bayou, another com
munity, was 75 per cent wreck
ed. Grand" Chenier, where 700
persons lived, was demolished.
All these points are 30 to 40
miles below Lake Charles.
(See stories on page 7)
All But Rath Sign
County Budget
All members of the Jackson
county budget committee who
intended to sign the 1957-5S
county budget have done so, it
was reported Friday night.
Members of the county court.
who are also members f the
budget committee, signed the
budget last week. Signatures of
Chairman Tom Wray and Arn
old Bohnert, committee mem
ber, were obtained Friday.
Roger Rath of Ashland, an
other committee member, re
fused to sign the budget because
of a S104.000 item designated
as an agricultural and horticul
tural research station sinking
fund, to which he has ieeeej op
posed.