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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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