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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
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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."
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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.