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Newspaper Page TextDUTCH PLANE FILLS mm mil" i i i in MyjpuM hi fit V) J4 ittitiiani- wiii t imriv-iii nwMr-'A Wr 1-1 PINNING A RIBBON ON MISS ITALY, Valeria Fabrizzi, is Miss Mexico, Irma Arevalo, one of the comliest girls in the Miss Universe contest at Long Beach. (International) Ward Spatz Named Adviser To State Agriculture Board Salem A recreated! State Board of Agriculture that will represent Oregon consumers was announced today by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. New members named to ad vise department director Rob ert Steward are: Mrs. Kenneth Livingston, Portland civic and club leader, who will represent consumers. Loyd Key, Milton-Freewater grain rancher and cannery offic ial, to represent wheat interests. Robert Pierce, Ontario mint trower, to represent row crop interests. Medford Man Named Ward Spatz, Medford orchard- 1st and fruit packer, to represent horticulture. Cornelius Bateson Sr., Salem crop and poultry raiser, to rep resent diversified farming. Ralph G. Witcher, Junction City dairy rancher and Grange official, to represent dairy in dustry. Terms of the previous agri culture board were ended by the 1957 Legislature in a bill which provides for a new seven-mem-bar board to advise the director of the Agriculture Department. Wider Representation Holmes, in announcing the new board, said it would, give much wider representattion of the gate's divergent agricultural interests. Under provisions of the law, six of the members must be ac tivity engaged in agriculture Yale Auditor May Have To Return Money Vale, Ore. (IH Malheur County Attorney E. Otis Smith id today County Auditor Don Hosier may have to give back le S50Q paid him last year in frmnection with construction of h new home for the aged in Vale. , The money was paid Hosier for a claim he submitted through the liquor indigent fund which $as used to pay for the build-OS- Smith, in a letter to Hosier, id Oregon law sets the audit or's salary, and any other com pensation for services performed could not lawfully be granted. Hosier's claim had been ap proved by the county court and board of commissioners. Hosier explained that the money was paid him as expenses in connection withh is duties as county purchasing agent. He said the expenses were incurred dur ing several trips to Portland and Boise while putting the home for the aged into operation. Requiem Mass Scheduled For Ford McCormick Requiem mass will be conduct ed at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 17, at Sacred Heart Catholic church for David Ford McCor mick. 69, Eagle Point, who died Sunday. Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. today at Perl's Funeral home. , Mr. McCormick was a well known southern Oregon mining consultant, engineer and civic worker. He had been ill for sev eral months. Byrd Compares Chief Justice Warren To Thaddeus Stevens of Civil War Fame Washington P Sen. Har ry F. Byrd today compared Chief Justice Earl Warren to Thaddeus Stevens, long hated in the South as the author of re pressive acts after the Civil War. Also Attacks Brownell The Virginia Democrat also at tacked Attorney General Her- ?rt Brownell Jr., in a Senate leech against President Eisen hower's civil rights bill. Byrd said Brownell had ducked ques-' tions as to whether it would per mit use of federal troops to force racial integration of the schools in the South. Byrd said President Eisenhower didn't. and represent one or more branches and phases of agricul ture. The seventh member is the consumer representative. Mrs. Livingston, wile of a Portland doctor, has been on the board of the Portland League of Women Voters and also is ac tive in Parent Teacher associa tion work. Confession Ties To Sheppard Case Dcland. Fla. (IP) A 34-year-old convict has signed a state ment that he beat a housewife to death in Cleveland about the same time pretty Marilyn Shep pard was killed in 1954, Sheriff Rodney Thursdy reported today. Bushy-haired Donald Joseph Wedler told Thursdy that he could not sleep nights until he got the murder confession off his mind. Details of the confes sion matched closely some of the circumstances of the celebrated Sheppard murder July 4, 1954, although the sheriff said Wedler never - mentioned the name "Sheppard." i ' Dr. Samuel Sheppard, a young Cleveland osteopath, was con victed Dec. 21, 1954, of second degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He always maintained that he was not guilty of killing his pretty wife in their fashionable suburban home in Cleveland. Dr. Sheppard told the court that a bushy-haired stranger beat his wife to death with 35 blows on the head. County Receives Share of State Funds Jackson county yesterday re ceived a total of $118,967.19 as its portion of the state highway fund, alcoholic beverage taxes and amusement device taxes for the last quarter of fiscal year 1956-57. The county received $112, 023.05 from the state highway fund, which is based on motor vehicle registrations, fuel taxes; motor carrier fees and fines col lected here. Treasurer Karl Jan ouch said this amount is $750 more than the county received last year. Jackson county's share of alco holic beverage tax funds totaled S6.922.71. Janouch said that amount is exactly the same as was received for the same quar ter last year. Amusement device tax funds for the county totaled $21.43, which is only 1.5 per cent of the amount received for the same quarter last year, Janouch point ed out. Warning on Packages Of Cigarettes Urged Washington OPi Sen. Wal lace F. Bennett (R.-Utah) who does not smoke, today proposed in a bill that each package of cigarettes be required to carry this label: "Prolonged use of this product may result in can cer, in lung, heart and circula tory ailments, and in other dis eases." ' know what could be done under the bill in his connection but that the Chief Justice did. "Of course," he said. "I have no documentary proof, and I suspect by design there is none, but speaking for-myself, I strong ly suspect that the modern Thad deus Stevens now cloaked in the robe of the Chief Justice ... has a thorough and complete knowledge of what could and would be done under the bill.'' 20th Century Caesar As for Brownell, Byrd said: '.'This is the man the attorney general of whom this bill would make a 20th Century, 52nd Year MEDFOED United Presi Full Lesued Wir 16 Pages Dulles Sees Recent Kremlin Upheaval Answer to People Presidium Divided, Secretary Believes Washington (W Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today attributed the recent upheaval in the Kremlin to an "irresistible demand" of the Russian people for more freedom and "more en joyment of the fruits of their labor." Dulles said at a news confer ence that the Soviet ruling body. the Presidium, was divided on how to deal with this demand of the people. Wanted 'Rod of Iron' The "fundamentalists" wanted to use the Stalinist "rod' of iron." The "modernists," led by Nikita S. Khrushchev, thought it better to "allow the people at least to hope" for better things. Khrushchev, through "adroit tactics," won out, Dulles said. But this, he added, does not indi cate any change in Soviet for eign policy. Dulles also: Said he sees no absolute ob struction to continued disarma ment negotiations despite recent Russian attacks on U.S. pro posals. Considering Stockpiling Disclosed the U.S. is consid ering some stockpiling system for making atomic weapons avail able to North Atlantic Treaty partners in event of war. But no decision probably can be made until outcome of the disarma ment talks is known. Said there has been -no de velopment in the Middle East which makes the U.S. feel it should alter her agreement with Saudi Arabia to supply the Arab country with arms. . Dulles said it is not clear wnat role Marshal Zhukov played in the Kremlin shakeup but that it is apparent the Red army leader supports Khrushchev. Tour Proposal Dashed Dulles threw cold water on a proposal of Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) that Dulles make a tour of Soviet European satellites to survey conditions behind the Iron Curtain. Dulles said he thought it would be neither proper nor a productive use of his time as things now stand. Dulles said the U.S. has more than 200 Americans assigned be hind the Iron Curtain to report on conditions there and he relies on them. . Los Angeles Man Pleads Innocent Burton Daniels, 32, Los An geles, pleaded innocent to a charge of -larceny by bailee in circuit court here this morning. Date for trial will be set by Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly.- Daniels, who was recently extra dited from Los Angeles, is rep resented by the "Medford law firm of Boyer and Holmes. The parole of Claron William Henderson, 20, of 515 South Riv erside ave., was ordered revoked in circuit court today. Hender son was sentenced last August to one year in the county jail on a charge of injury to prop erty by explosives. After serv ing three months he was placed on parole. Today he was order ed to serve the remaining nine months of his original sentence in jail. Seaside Girl Killed As Truck Leaves Road Eureka, Calif. OP Marshall Airington, 23, Areata, Calif., and Gladys M. Jackson, 17,-Seaside, Ore., were killed at mid night when the gravel truck in which they were riding skidded off U.S. 299 down a 350-foot em bankment. American Caesar. He wants no questions asked, even now in advance, as to .what his powers would be under the bill." Earlier, Republican legislative ieaders -had reported Eisenhow er would not object to "clarifi cation" of the bill through am endments but is not willing to compromise its "basic" purpose. Victory Predicted Both - friends and foes of the legislation predicted the Senate would hand the administration a victory late today by voting io bring it formally before the chamber lor debate. 1 lei Montgomery Wd President Denies Trade With Beck Inferences Claimed 'Absolutely Untrue' Washington (IB The presi dent of Montgomery Ward & Co. denied today that his firm swapped Dave Beck the right to organize its employees in ex change for Beck's votes in a proxy fight. John A. Barr, president and board chairman of the firm, told the Senate Labor Rackets com mittee that such inferences in prior testimony "are completely and absolutely untrue and un founded." Attempt To Correct Wrong Barr said he appeared before the committee at his own re quest "to attempt to correct a great wrong which has been done to Montgomery Ward & Co." The committee heard Barr's testimony to tidy up a loose end from its investigation of Beck, president of the Teamsters' union. It planned to hear more testimony later today about the, affairs of President James C. Cross of the Bakery Workers. The committee also drew a bead on a new union, the United Textile Workers. It has received allegations that two top officials misused union funds. McClellan also called several witnesses for an afternoon ses sion to explore loans by a Zion, 111., bakery owner to Cross. ' Earlier witnesses charged and Cross denied that after getting the loans from Martin Philipsborn Sr., Cross signed a sub-standard wage contract for Philipsborn's employees in Zion Industries, Inc. He said the committee also would check into an attempt by Cross to "suppress and intimi date" a witness. Egypt, Saudi Arabia Joins Against Israel Cairo (tf Egypt and Saudi Arabia have' again joined forces to prevent Israeli shipping from using the Gulf of Aqaba, a move that could touch off another ma jor crisis in the Middle East. Egypt is delivering jet fighter planes to Saudi Arabia under a military agreement to help en force a blockade of Israeli ship ping, and there were reports Egypt may use its three Russian submarines for the same pur pose. Repeated border clashes be tween Israel and Syria have kept the Middle East simmering. Israel Premier David Ben-Gu- rion told Syria he would "re turn blow for blow" if need be. Syrian Premier Sabri Assali said there can be no peace with Israel. New PUC Hearing . Will Be Aug. 20 New public hearing date on fixing and regulating railway train speeds within the city of Medford has been set for Aug. 20 by the Public Utilities com mission. City Attorney E. R. Ba shaw corrected today. The Mail Tribune had reported erroneously ' yesterday that 'the hearing was scheduled for Aug. 30. According to the explanation given in a letter, from the Public Utilities Commission, principal witnesses will not be available until after Aug. 18. Bogus Money Ring i Cracked in Chicago Chicago (IPT A counter feit ring which recruited narcot ics, addicts to pass 560,000 in bogus bills has been cracked with the arrest of 19 persons, U. S. Secret Service agents said today. , Paul J. Paterni, head of the local Secret Service office, id entified Jesse Cowan, 27, as the leader of the gang of 18 men and one woman, all of whom were apprehended in recent oays. V He said all but four of them were drug aaaicis wno agreea to pass the crudely printed $5 b'lls to satisfy their cravings for narcotics. MP' ,-vS.0 .AY, JULY 16, 1957 .calks "Notice How Fluffier-Than-Ever White They Are?" County Court to Name Chairman of Group to Study Use The task of appointing a com - mittee chairman for study of local water uses on the Rogue rfvefwas left in'""the hands of the Jackson county court yest erday afternoon. - County Judge Rodney Keat ing said the court would make us appointment in a day or two." Quentin Bowman, field repre sentative of the Oregon State Water Resources, board, met with the court "and about 20 county residents in the court room yesterday. Explains Immediate Job Bowman explained the im mediate job of the state board to make a study of the Rogue basin and present a program for use of its water to the. next state legislature. He also gave the court ' an outline of the court's part in the project. The court is to appoint a chairman and three members of a .committee to supervise the gathering and coordination of lo cal data and opinions on use of the Rogue's waters. The committee will pick sub committees to work on specific problems. Public Hearings Planned The state board plans to hold a public hearing in this county sometime this fall. Bowman said. At this time information gathered locally is to be pre sented. County people are to provide "a reflection of local opinion towards local water uses," Bow man explained. Some doubt was voiced by members of the court and au dience as to whether enough in formation could be gathered in so short a time. William Jess, chairman of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re: Police Rush to Bank When Alarm Sounds Pitv nnlice hurried to the Rogue Valley State Bank yester day when an alarm sounded there. However, it proved to be noth ing more than a short in the wiring svstem. a bank spokes man said. Similar false alarms have occurred before when em ployees accidentally set off the alarm, he said. Weather FORECAST: Fair tonitht and partly elnndy Wednesday. Little chance In temperature, low tonight 48. hllh Wednei- r day 0. Temp. Bishert Yesterday ... tZ Loweit thlt Morning . .- 49 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset , 4:48 sum. .7:46 p.m. Mooniise 9:57 p.m. Last Quarter- .- July l PROMINENT STARS Antares-.' due south .8:58 p.m. Veea. high overhead li:06 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, rjrht abofe'Antares. Venus, low In west 8:40 p.m. luplter, low In west 10:03 p.m. Tribune Speed of Water 1 sources association, declared that the job of county people would be to assimilate avail able data," rather than do orig inal engineering work. Concentrated Study ' Jess said he believed 80 to 120 days of concentrated study would be sufficient to accomp lish this.- Bowman said state and feder al agencies involved would pre sent their views at the fall hear ing. It is up to county people, he stated, to present theirs. . The state board's suggested or ganization plan for local study includes the four-man commit tee appointed by the court, and nine sub-committees to be chos en under it., The sub-committees would be concerned with agricultural, recreation- fish- wildlife, domestic -municipal, industrial mining power, information, develop ment, watershed management, pollution abatement and flood control aspects of water use. Bulgaria Purges Three From Party Berlin (IB Communist Bul garia followed the Soviet lead today and purged three members from its Communist party lead ership, the East German AIN news agency reported from Sofia tonight. The Communist dispatch said Politburo member Georgi Tschankoff and , two Central Committee members, Dobri Ter pescheff and Jonko Panoff, were dismissed for trying to "under mine the collective work of the Politburo and the Central Com mittee." ....... Bulgaria thus became the sec ond of the satellites, to follow up Russia's ouster 'of the "antiparty" group led by V. M. Molotov. The first was Romania, which fired two Politburo members the day after the Molotov purge was announced. Khrushchev Tells Coordination Plan Prague, Czechoslovakia (If) Soviet Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev announced today that Russia and Czechoslo vakia have agreed to unify their industrial and economic power so we can successtuiiy compete with the capitalist world." - In his farewell speech in Prague's Old Town Square, Khrushchev disclosed the bare OBtline of a new coordination plan which would integrate the economies of the two Communist countries as never before. "We discussed economic ties between the two countries," Khrushchev told the cheering crowd of tens of thousands. "We have to improve the coordination of the industry and agriculture of our two countries." Price 10c United Presi Full Leased Wire No. 100 Mark Navy Fighter Spans Nation in Record Air Time 3 Hours, 23 Minutes Clocked by Crusader New York (IP) A Navy jet fighter set a new transcontinen tal speed record today. Marine Maj. John Glenn Jr, took off from Los Alamitos Na val Air Station, Calif., at 5:04:12.2 a.m. (p.s.t.). His F8U1P Crusader jet was clocked over the control tower at Floyd Bennet Naval Air Sta tion here at 9:27:20.6 a.m., an elapsed time of three hours, 23 minutes and 8.4 seconds. Second Plane Forced Down A second Crusader jet, piloted by Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles Demmler, took off 28 minutes behind Glenn but was forced to land at Albuquerque, N.M when its refueling gear was damaged. The Navy had hoped that one of the pilots would be the first person in history t span the nation faster than the speed of sound. The Navy also was shoot ing at breaking the coast-to- coast record of 3 hours, 44 min utes and S3.8 seconds set March 9, 1955 by an F84F jet plane. Navy tankers refueled the jet over Grants, N.M., 45 minutes after takeoff. Two more refuel ings in air took place over Em poria, Kan., and over Indianapo lis, Ind., some two hours and 20 minutes after takeoff here. Maj. Glenn, 36, a native of New Concord, Ohio, is assigned to the Navy Bureau of Aeronau tics as a Marine Corps project officer for the Crusader at Washington, D.C. He was credit ed with downing three enemy planes in nine days during the Korean war. He is married and has two children. The Navy rates the Crusader as its first "truly high perform ance aircraft. The plane's top speed is still cloaked by secur ity restrictions but it was clocked at 1,015.428 miles an hour more than 16 miles a min ute in setting a national speed record in August, 1956. The speedy jet is being used by fleet squadrons on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Japan Relaxes Trade Ban on Red China Tokyo (If) Japan followed Britain today and relaxed its trade embargo against Commu nist China. Certain strategic items are still. on the prohibited list, but some. Japanese businessmen op timistically saw the freeing of 200 or more items as a cure-all. to eliminate Japan's economic ills. Most were more cautious. Lifting of the ban scaled the Red China embargo down to the same level as the restrictions in existence against Soviet Russia. These include "strategic" items that could be used for war. Washington (Vfi President Eisenhower has nominated Ken neth V. Richards to be post master at Cottage Grove, Ore. Salem (IP) Permission to place the proposad new Salem armory on the State Fair grounds has been granted by the State Fair Board. Medford Fire Main Dispatching Unit The Medford central fire hall will be the main dispatching unit in the mutual aid plan for Jackson county fire depart ments. The operational plan for mu tual aid was approved at a meeting of county fire chiefs at the Medford hall last night. In case of major conflagra tions which an area's depart ment is unable to control, a call will be made to the Medford sta tion. Help from neighboring fire departments will be dispatched from there. ' For the first time. Camp White domiciliary was included in the plan. Medford Fire Chief Gordon Barker was named coun ty fire chief. Present at last night's meeting were J. F. Christian, mayor of Talent: Floyd Lance, mayor of Gold Hill; Sheldon Hughes, fire 56 Feared Dead, 12 Persons Saved Off Pacific Isle Airliner Catches Fire on Takeoff Hollandia, New Guinea A Dutch airliner caught fire to day on takeoff from the South Pacific isle of Biak and crashed into the sea with 68 persons aboard. Preliminary reports said 56 persons were missing and fear ed dead in the crash and that 12 persons including the stewardess escaped with their lives. Several Injured The airline said several of the 12 survivors were injured seriously. All of the survivors were Dutch, it said. The plane, a Constellation of the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, was reported to have sunk in 700 feet of water. It was taking off from Mokmer airstrip which was hacked out of a coral is land by U. S. Navy Seabees in World War II. The plane carried 59 passeng ers, three of them Britons and the remainder Dutch, and a crew of nine, all Dutch. Many of the victims were consular officials and naval officers and their families en route to Holland on leave. Wartime Airstrip Biak Island is off the north ern tip of New Guinea and was used by the U. S. Navy during the war for operations against the Japanese-held Solomon Is lands. KLM uses the old airs trio for a twice weekly service to Amsterdam. Holland maintains a naval base on Biak and Dutch Royal Marines from the base launched boats to search for the survivors shortly after the early morning crash. Native' islanders also launched their canoes to help in the search. Airline officials said the plane took off, caught fire and then plunged into the sea, crack ing apart as it hit. The steward ess and other survivors were flung out." KLM officials said the plane's first stop would have been M nila. Warrant Issued For Missing Woman Murphy, Idaho (W Owyhee County Sheriff Jim Tucker said here today that a warrant had been issued for Mrs. Bertha Ehr hart, 39, missing city clerk of Homedale, Idaho. The warrant charges the wom an with destruction of city rec ords, including police dockets for more than a year, two bank de posit slips and city receipts. Tucker emphasized that there was no report of funds missing since an audit now under way has not yet been concluded. Mrs. Ehrhart worked late in her office the night of July 8 and was last seen leaving a Homedale night club later that night. Her car still was parked in front of city hall the following day and her office was disar ranged. Police revealed later that a note threatening Mrs. Ehrhart's life was found in herpurse which was still in her office. Definite Speed Limit Favored for Oregon Salem (W Three state police ... . commissioners iftinK uregon should have 'a definite speed limit rather than a basic rule of driving reasonably and taking into account all road and weath er conditions. Superintendents William Mor ris, Ilinois; G. O. Hathaway, Ari zona, and B. R. Caldwell, Cali fornia, told a regional meeting of the International Association of Police Chiefs here that traffic can be regulated better with designated speed limits. Hall Named man from Shady Cove rural fire department; .Gordon Hatch, chief of Rogue River rural fire department; L. C. Lisenbee, chief of Central Point rural fire department; Gordon Barker, Medford fire chief; Earl Harri son, assistant fire chief at Med ford; Lee Furry, Phoenix fire chief; Charles Davis, Ashland fire chief; Lou Applebaker, Jacksonville fire chief: Don Tur ner, -Central Point fire chief; William Cody, Camp White fire chief; Clyde Kell, Gold Hill fire chief, and David KahL Eagle Point fire chief. Fire departments cooperating in the mutual aid program in clude Medford, Ashland, Talent, Phoenix. Jacksonville, Eagle Point, Central Point rural. Camp While, Gold Hill, Rogue River, Rogue River rural, and Shady Cove rural.