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Oregon Education Delegates Given Royal Treatment By OLIVEST ARCHER I Mail Tribuna Staff Wi-iter sacrifices in supporting and Washington june 23 Orecon maintaining an outstanding delegates to the anjal meeting school system. It is also a tribute " the National Commission on to the caliber of Oregon teachers Teaser Education and Stand- and school administration." aroVare the envy of delegations i School Legislatii from other stcs. Mrs- Edith Green, congress- An OregoniaP, Miss Martha ; woman from Portland, briefly Shull of Portland, is the retiring I discussed school legislation now head of National Education asso- pending in the House of Repre ciation. Oregon has the longest sentatives and said that the bill and most impressive list of na-1 whgVi would provide federal aid tional officers and committees chairmen, and to add to all this, Oregon's senators and congress man are payinjCSOe attention to their home state delegation than those of any other state. All-Oregon Btakfait Thursday morning an all-Qjfga gon breakfast was held here in the Mayflower hotel, commis sion meeting headquarters, with about 30 attending; this morning Senator and Mrs. Wayne Morse entertained the Oregon group at a breakfast in the Senate din ing room, and then personally conducted the visitors on a tour of the Senate building. When Sen. Richard L. Neu berger was introduced he an nounced iece of news of gjr ticularinteTest to teachers the fact that the most recent statistics on the ratings of in ductees into the Army show that Oregon's inductees rated seconfc in the percentage of men pass ing the test. rr Co Senator Nciiherger announced t3C l?idin;s tn the Senate thaO day and at both the breakfast and in the Senate said: '"Ihis achievement by the sons of Ore gon parents who were educated jo,Oregon schools, provides some nie;fi.$e of the generous and un cosiStishi degree to which the tax- Straight BOURBON s Whiskey Uourbon S3 mmm ' QUAKER . Qt. $060 , pin, jfl Mtfe. 11 Ki-rs lil 111 I. . Ifl 1 m unwed- M by Representatives of payers of our State have made for scltl construction is now in the rules committee and that it was hoped the bill coi?id be broughrili the floor for dis cussion in the near future. Mrs. Green is also working on a loan and scholarship bill. Miss Mildred Warton, Port land, president of Oregon Edu cation association, also intro duced James McDonald, Med- ford, as the newly elected nation al president of Student National Education association another national office added to the long Oregon list. Young McDonald was received at the White House later that morning and present ed President Eisenhower with a citation from the national stu dent group. Congressman Al Ullman of Eastern Oregon was also present. Congressman Charles O. Porter had? already left for Colombia South America, for a three-day speaking tour and Senator Morse was in Wisconsin on a speaking engagement. Morsa Discusses Bills Friday morning during break fast and the Senate tour. Sena tor Morse spoke informally of recent legislation, including the Hell's Canyon dam bill, the fight on the civil liberties bill, and discussed his vork on the Dis trict of Columbia committee. Senator Morse told how ailing Senator Langer, with a doctor at his side, left his sick bed long enough to report on the floor of the Senate and cast his vote with Senator Morse on the Hells Canyon bill, saying Sena tor Langer's colleagues had cheered him for his agfion. The senator explained the heavy burden of wofk which Stale Plans To Drop Schrunk Bribe Charge Portland opt Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said today the state planned to drop a bribery charge against Mayor Terry Schrunk of Portland. Schrunk was found innocent Friday evening of a perjury charge by a Circuit Court jury after a two week trial. The bribery charge involves the same incident upon which the perjury charge was based. The state had claimed Schrunk pick ed up an envelope containing a bribe from Clifford O. Bennett, operator of an after hours place, while Schrunk was sheriff In 1953. Thornton said a motion to dis miss the bribery indictment would be filed in Circuit Court here. The attorney general indicated that other grand jury charges agaivlSt Schrunk would proceed th the regular judicial process. These include illegally copying wiretaps and subrrnation of per jury. Howard Lajourette Dies at Rest Home Portland Wl Howard F. Latourette, 73. a long time Ore gon political leader, died Satur day in a Portland rest home. Latourette for many years was A Democratic party leader but was a critic of the New Deal administration and in later years chanced his registration to Re publican. His brother. Supreme Court Justice Earl C. Latourette, died last year. In 1950 Latouret was nomi nated for the Senate by the Democratic party but was defeat ed by Sen. Wayne Morse, then a Republican. He was the last speaker of the Oregon House in the old state capitol building which burned in 1936. Four Tie on TV's W.OOO ChiJIenge' New York A jockey and a housewife and two young science experts wound up in ties Sunday night on "The $64,000 Challenge." Billy Pearson, jockey from Pasadena. Calif., tied at the S16. 000 level with his challenger, Mrs. Jane Wilson, New York City housewife, model and artiste n T?.-in-iii-con-o art falaonrv Robert Strom, 11, of the Bronx. N.Y., who won S192.000 on "The S69,000 Question," tied with David Junchen, 11. Sher- rard. 111., in an electronics cate gory. The Pearson-Wilson match continues on the CBS television program next week at the S32. 000 level. Strn and Junchen will try for S8.000. EDEN'S EX-WIFE DIES London tlPt Mrs. Beatrice Beckett Eden, first wife of for mer Prime Minister Sir Anthony he and his staff of 12 carry on, not only for Oregonians but for citizens throughout the united i States, adding that his mail. which averages between 400 and 500 pieces daily requiring an swer, is surpassed in quantity by only two or three other men in the Senate. Through Cenaie Chambers The tour of the Senate was possible because the body was not in session. Senator and Mrs. Morse conducted the visitors through the President's and Vice President's rooms, the cloak rooms and lounge and the im pressive Senate chamber itself. The visitors, in a holiday mood. o - A 1 State from time to time tried out the chair and desk of a high-ranking dignitary and a tew narctier souls even took a bit of snuff from the box which, tradition dictates, must be provided for the sena tors; others found that part of the equipment on the desk of each senator is a shaker filled with find sand going back to the time before the invention of blotters when sand was used to dry ink. And of course, the entire group was taken by Senator and Mrs. Morse for a ride from the Senate wing to the office section of the Capitol on the lit tle underground subway train. jvire yg9 at a Union Oil station bbrgc more that your car. For one thing, you fergg you 11 find dea rest rooms. The ru& is: Inspactiom rfery hour on the hour. This '& g oxitine part jf Minute Man serv ic But it is one the tremendous triSes tht roga this serv j;e ft thorough, so swift, ( completoi Ouc eu3torafl teS'se 'saca you& trfel linut M rvic& 5gi' npt liSely to l o Carllon Woman, 43, Drowns While Fishing McMinnville OP The body of Mrs. Priscilla Lund, 43, Carlton, was recovered from Carlton lake about 11:45 a.m. .Sunday after she apparently drowned while fishing at the Shadden mill. Her body was found by her husband, Alfred, while he and members of the Carlton fire de partment dragged the lake with pike poles. Deputy sheriffs said the bi8y was found in four feet of water about 30 feet from the end of the catwalk at the mill. Lund told oficers his wife left the house about 4 p.m. Saturday to go fishing and had not returned. ' S '. ... Monday. July I. 1957 Foreman Appointed For Pelion Project Portland OPi Portland General Electric Company said today Victor HBacon, a veteran of 23 years service with the uti lity, has been named foreman of the company's S25 million Pel ton hydroelectric project on the Deschutes river in central Ore gon. Bacon assumed his new duties today and will have charge .of all plant operations upon com pletion of the project, now 55 per cent complete. He has been a load dispatcher since 1L5 in PGE's Portland office. The sigh that means what it says satisfied with anything less. Because (the cus tomers add) the service you get at a Union Oil station is as good as the gasoline. , This is exorbitant praise because the gaso line is the West's most powerful premium new Royal 76. inute Mn Sfjfvice plus'new Eoyal 76 gaso line. Reason enough to make your next stop the sign of the big 76 where yop kow you always get fSe finest. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Lone Survivor Brought Out of Swiss Mountains Petresina, Switzerland (W Rescue workers Sunday brought out the lone survivor of 10 Ital ian climbers who plunged down the face of Piz Palue Mountain Saturday. The other nine, including two women, died when a rain-weak- .ened snow ledge collapsed. It was the worst mountain-climbing accident in Switzerland since World War II. TRUST DIRECTOR DIES New York IP William N. Enstrom, chairman of the exec utive committee and a director of the Irving Trust Co., died Sunday of a heart attack. He was 68. mm try Phoenix, Ariz. IB Justice Arthur T. La Prade of the Ari zona Supreme Court died Sun day. He was 62. Daily's U-Driva Medford Airport America's Finest Service Station System Eden, died Saturday. She vgs TTTioof - out ouut imuMji.i 31.
