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EVERY INCH A QUEEN AND WIFE A pretty picture of
royalty is 21-year-old Leona Gage (Miss Maryland) as she sits on
her tfcrone after being crowned Miss U.S.A. in the Miss Uni
verse contest at Long Beach. Calif. But today the beautiful win
ner admitted that rumors are true . . . she is married to an air
force sergeant and is the mother of two boys.
Miss U.S.A. Revealed
As Wife and Mother
Long Beach, Calif. W Miss
United States, Leona Gage of
Maryland, admitted today she is
married and the mother of two
sons, and officials of the Miss
Universe contest announced
there would be no Miss U.S.A.
in tonight's finals.
With the disqualification of
Miss Gage the judges named
Miss Utah. Charlotte Sheffield
20. of Salt Lake City, as Miss
U.S.A.
Miss Sheffield, a member of a
pioneer Mormon family will
receive all the premiums and
rewards that go with the title.
However, she will not be among
the 15 finalists.
After a mid-morning meeting,
contest officials announced that
Miss Argentina, Monica Lamas
Oregon Planning
Director Appointed
Salem UPi Gov. Robert D.
Holmes today picked Julius R.
Jensen, a 45-year-old Seattle in
dustrial promotion leader, to
head the new Department of
Planning and Development.
Jensen, who organized and di
rected the industrial develop
ment program for the state of
Iowa for more than five years,
will come to the $12 000-a-year
Oregon post after serving the
past year as managing director
of the Seattle Industrial Expan
sion Association.
The governor said 'Oregon is
most fortunate in being able to
attract a recognized leader in
his field to take over this vitally
important task."
Agriculture Board
To Meet on July 3 1
Salem (IB Agriculture
Director Robert J. Steward to
day called an organizational
meeting of the new State Board
of Agriculture for July 31 at
the department's headquarters
here.
It will also be the first meet
ing with the state director of the
agricultural extension service.
Dean F. E. Price of Oregon State
College, sitting in as an ex-official
member of the board.
TOUGH JOB
Lynn, Mass. rtP Burglars
got only blisters during a two
hour attempt to force open a
safe in a Lynn Credit office, but
damage to the safe was so ex
tensive that it took officials of
the firm and safe company ex
ports two days to get to the
$2,000 the safe contained.
Salem W Bids that will
complete the U.S. Highway 99
freeway to Albany and improve
the route from Salem to the
coast have been opened by the
State Highway Commission.
Liberace's Mother Beaten by
Pair at Home; Pianist Under
Sherman Oaks, Calif. W
Pianist Liberace was under sed
atives at his lavish home today
following the beating of his 65-year-old
mother by two hooded
men.
The musician was given seda
tives early today after promis
ing to "take every precaution
from this moment on to protect
our home, our lives and our
American rights."
Liberace's mothers. Mrs. Fran
ces Liberace, suffered possible
rib fractures and bruises Thurs
day night when two men accost
ed her in her garage and beat
and kicked her.
21, Buenos Aires, was named as
the 13th contestant in tonight'
finals.
The lovely Miss Utah, whose
father is a state legislator, was
jubilant this morning. She said
she felt "terribly sorry about
Leona" whom she thought was a
"very fine representative of the
United States."
"i'm flabbergasted. It is very
wonderful to wake up in the
morning and be told that you are
Miss U.S.A.". she smiled.
Miss Alaska. Martha Leh
mann, 18, Fairbanks becomes
the lone representative connect
ed with the United States al
though she is considered a "for
eign" entrant by contest offic
ials. She formerly lived in Lou
isiana, i
"I knew the Miss Universe
rules forbade a married girl
from entering the contest, but
I thought I had a chance," she
sobbed. "I took it and lost. Yes,
I'm married and I have two chil
dren." Under Physician's Car
The hysterical 21 - year - old
from Glen Burnie, Md., who
previously denied rumors that
she was married, was placed un
der a physician's care and given
sedatives. A police officer was
stationed at her hotel door.
Miss Gage was selected Miss
United States Wednesday night.
Oscar Meinhardt pageant di
rector, said Miss Gage, who is
really Leona Ennis. wife of Air
Force S.Sgt. G. N. Ennis, would
remain in seclusion as long as
she wished.
"After all, she's a young kid,"
he said. "Often a girl is urged
and pushed into these things. It
seems like a small lie at the be
ginning. We think she's a pretty
wonderful girl and will protect
her seclusion as long as she
wishes."
House Votes Juggle
Foreign Aid Monies
Washington U" The House
voted $300 million back into
President Eisenhower's foreign
aid. program today and then
voted to take $200 of it out
again.
Both votes were tentative, and
the House can, if it wishes, de
cide later to juggle the figures
around some more.
Oregon Driver License
Cost Goes Up Aug. 20
Salem (W Oregon residents
whose drivers' licenses expire
on or after Aug. 20 began re
ceiving reminders today that the
new fee will be S2.50, an in
crease of $1 over recent years.
The additional $1 was ear
marked by the 1957 legislature
for a driver education fund to
be administered b;- the Depart
ment of Education.
The elderly woman told po
lice one of the men kicked her
and said, just before she fainted.
"Kick her again so we'll have
something to laugh about later."
Liberace was not informed of
the alack until he finished his
final show at the Moulin Rouge
night club in Hollywood. When
told, he said: 1
"It's shocking that anyone
could attack our mother in such
a cruel and inhuman way. At
this time we are unaware of the
reasons behind this violent act."
Police also were puzzled by
the motive for the attack. They
said there was no evidence of
burglary or robbery.
Nuclear Rockef
Fired From Plane
High Oyer Nevada
Five on Ground Below
Prove Survival Safety
Atomic Test Site, Nev. Pi
A nuclear-armed rocket was
fired from a jet fighter plane to
day in a dazzling display of
things to come in the harnessing
of atomic energy to the nation's
defenses.
As the device was launched
somewhere between 20,000 and
30,000 feet above the Atomic
Energy Commission's desert test
site, five Air Force officers stood
lonely and unprotected on the
ground directly below the blast
to prove that civilian popula
tions could safely survive the
ordeal of an overhead explosion.
Lead Plana Launches Rocket
In the sky above, three F89
Scorpion jets flew in V-forma-tion
and the leading plane
launched the rocket. Crew mem
bers of the jets were doused
with radiation because of their
proximity to the blast and had to
scurry to the ground for decon
tamination.
The device was fired at 6
a.m. (P.S.T.) and was seen very
brightly by reporters on News
Nob a dozen miles away. The
fireball was visible for between
15 and 20 seconds, and then the
cloud formed into a doughnut
or smoke ring shape with a
tinge of pink coloring and a
weird spray trailing earward.
Feel Shock Wave
More than a minute later the
shock wave was felt. The cloud
retained its doughnut form as
it climbed and the ballerina
skirt spray began to disinte
grate. Minutes later the cloud
appeared as a puff of salmon
tinged cotton as it drifted out of
sight.
Today's test was the first fir
ing of a nuclear device by a
fighter plane, and its impact was
rated by the AEC only as less
than 20,000 tons of TNT.
Russia Rejects Offer
To Cut Armed Forces
London (W Russia today re
jected the U.S. offer to join the
Soviet Union in cutting their
armed forces to 1,700,000 men
apiece. The U.S. offer hinged on
the condition that certain politi
cal improvements are made on
East-West differences.
Soviet delegate Valerian Zo
rin told the five-power Disarma
ment Conference that Moscow
could accent the three-stage
troop cut plan, but only if this
condition is dropped.
Zorin also rejected British
Foreign Secretary Selwyn
Lloyd's suggestion that technical
working groups start now in
planning the types of disarma
ment on which agreement in
principle has been reached.
Eisenhower's Vocation
Expected in August
Newport, R.I. (If) President
and Mrs. Eisenhower's prospec
tive vacation at this famous sea
side community is expected to
begin sometime in mid-August
and continue for three or four'
weeks, according to White House
Press Secretary James Hagerty.
Arrangements for the Presi
dent's stay were made by Hag
erty and 11 other staff members
who spent Thursday conferring
with city officials here and in
specting accommodations.
State Department Eyes
China Reporter Problem
Washington OB The State
Department pitched into the job
today of trying to figure out
how many American reporters
would go to Red China if travel
restrictions on newsmen were
lifted.
Indications were that some
U.S. reporters will eventually
be okayed for assignment on the
Chinese mainland. The number
and timing are still undecided.
Washington HPi The gov
ernment ended fiscal 1957 with
a surplus of $1,645,000,000, the
Treasury Department " an
nounced. Hooded
Sedatives
The normally smiling musi
cian, turned glum with news of
the beating of his mother, spent
Thursday giving a deposition de
manded by a scandal magazine
which he has sued for 25 million
dollars.
Mrs. Liberace, who was re
ported sleeping comfortabley at
the musician's home today, told
officers that she had gone to
the garage when two men ap
proached her.
"They had black hoods with
slits for their eyes. They also
had some kind of covering,
probably stockings, over their
shoes," she said.
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Bribery-Conspiracy
Charges by Jury
Burst of Cheering
Greets Verdict
Washintgon (If) A Federal
Court jury today acquitted
Teamsters Vice President James
R. Hoffa of government bribery
conspiracy charges that he
planted a spy in the Senate
Rackets Committee.
A burst of cheering from spec
tators greeted the foreman's ver
dict, announced 4 hours and 40
minutes after the case was sub
mitted to the jury.
"God bless the judge and
jury," shouted one spectator as
marshals sought to restore order.
Three Counts
The tough little labor leader
was charged in three counts of
conspiracy, bribery and corrupt
ly impeding the inquiry of the
Senate committee.
Hoffa's future in the Team
sters Union rode on the out
come of his trial. It had been an
nounced that he would be a can
didate to succeed Dave Beck as
union president if he were
acquitted.
The government charged that
Hoffa and Miami attorney Hy-
man I. Fischbach offered John
Cye Cheasty, a New York attor
ney, $18,000 to get a job on the
Senate committee and smuggle
its secrets to them.
Hired as Counsel
Hoffa testified that he did hire
Cheasty, but only as a counsel
to represent teamsters personnel
called before the. Senate group.
Fishbach went on trial . with
Hoffa, but his case was severed
when his attorney became ill.
When the jury had been dis
missed, Hoffa told reporters:
"It proved once again that if
you are honest and tell the truth
you have nothing to fear."
"I will make it my business
within the next six days to call
a meeting in Chicago of my
friends in the international
union and decide what my fu
ture activities will be in the
international."
Colorado Dam Said
'Holding Its Own'
Capulin, Colo. HP! The crum
bling Terrace reservoir dam was
"holding its own" today against
more than six billion gallons of
water threatening 1,000 south
ern Colorado residents in the
valley below.
Engineers said pressure be
hind the earthen dam was
dropping "steadily but slowly"
and danger of a break "lessened
by the hour."
The 198-foot high dam has
threatened to send a wall of
water down Alamosa Canyon
since Thursday morning when
a gushing hole formed in the
earth-fill face.
"We're lowering it as fast as
possible and the way it looks
now we've saved the dam," said
Dave Mathias, assistant state
engineer.
Tokyo IIP) A U.S Air
Force B57 bomber crashed about
six miles south of the Atsugi
U.S. Naval Air Station tonight. -
New York flfl Billy Gra
ham's New York Crusade has
been extended for three more
weeks, to run through Aug. 10.
"Now How Do I Keep The Goose That Lays The
Golden Eggs From Killing Me?"
AO
ID, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1957
SEVENTH HUNDRED PATIENT Being placed on a Mercy
Flights Inc., plane at the Medford airport is Mrs. Robert Ander
son, 21, Medford. Mrs. Anderson, who is believed to be suffer
ing from polio, was rushed Thursday night to Eugene. She is
the 700th person to be transported by the non-profit air ambu
lance service. (Kenn Knackstedt photo)
Second Polio Case
Suspected in Valley
A second case of suspected!
polio this year was reported
when Mrs. Robert Anderson, 21
Bids Called for
Sale of Bonds for
Improvement Jobs
Bids will be opened at the
Medford council meeting Aug. 1
3n general obligation bonds to
taling $195,000 lor construction
of the first segments of the capi
tal improvement program ap
proved by residents in last No
vember's general election.
Of the total, $95,000 will be
for a cross-town , storm sewer
project, and $100,000 for part of
the arterial street program.
The arterial street program
will involve 25 per cent of the
estimated cost of the Eighth St.,
Riverside to Columbus ave. proj
ect, which will -be a city-state
program, according to City Man
ager Robert Duff. The city is
committed to about $64 000 on
the project.
The city administration rec
ommended that an additional
$36,000 for purchase of right-of-way
be added to the arterial
street bond sale. Duff said rec
ommendations for righof-way
purchases on various arterial
streets will be presented to the
council shortly.
Eighth st., under the 10-year
arterial street program, will be
made part of a one-way couplet
with Main St. from Riverside
ave. to the west city limits. The
state will participate in the pro
gram because Eighth st. would
become part of state Highway
238.
The first segment of the six-
year storm sewer program is
for a sewer from Lincoln st.. to
Bear creek. The sewer would ex
tend along Eighth st. east to
Laurel St., then south to 10th st.
which it would follow to Bear
creek.
Several short sections of storm
sewer are planned to extend out i
from the cross-town line to pick
up drainage and tap several
catch basins which are now dis
charging into the sanitary sewer
system.
of Medford, was rushed last
night to the Sacred Heart hos
pital in Eugene by Mercy
Flights, Inc.
She had been staying with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
DeWitt. route 2, Central Point,
since she first became ill Wed
nesday. She had been having
severe headaches for a few dayf,
her attending physician said.
Yesterday she lost the use of
her legs. Spinal tests made yes
terday afternoon by a local phy
sician proved inconclusive so
she was sent to the Eugene hos
pital where more complete diag
nostic equipment is available,
he said.
Mother of Two
Mrs. Anderson is the mother
of two children one 22-months-
old and the other nine-months-
old. Neither she nor her chil
dren have had polio shots, the
doctor said. Her husband is an
agricultural worker and present
ly unemployed, the mother said.
Dr. A Erin A. Merkel, public
health physician, said no report
has been received on further
diagnosis at the first suspected
polio case this year.
Both Dr. Merkel and Mrs. An
derson's physician urged every
one to get polio shots. The vac
cine is now available to all ages,
they said. A significant shortage
had been reported locally .umil
a few weeks ago.
French Express Train
Wrecked; 21 Killed
Boilene, France (IB A Paris
bound express train carrying va
cationers home from the Riviera
leaped the tracks and was
wrecked near this small town in
Southern France today.
Official reports sard there
were 21 dead and 77 injured.
The locomotive and 10 cars
left the tracks. An overturned
sleeper was rammed through the
engine's tender by the force of
the crash.
Five persons, including the
chief conductor and the firemen,
died in or near the wreck and
seven others died later of burns
It nearby hospitals. Most of the
injured suffered from burns re
ceived when the train's steam
pipes burst in the crash.
Cause of the accident was un
known. White House Silent on
Charge by Neuberger
Washington OPi The White
House had no comment today on
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger's
charge that President Eisenhow
er must bear responsibility if
the civil rights bill is "frittered
away."
The Oregon Democrat made
the charge Thursday in com
menting on President Eisenhow
er's news conference statements
Wednesday which were inter
preted widely as a retreat from
some of the most controversial
sections of the bill.
J 5-Year-Old Youth Is
Lodged in County Jail
A 15-year-old Medford boy
was placed in the county jail
yesterday after being arrestea
for molesting several small girls,
according to city police.
The youth was placed in we
county jail by order of juvenile
authorities. He was picked up
by city police, who said he made
a statement to tnem aanuiung
he sexually molested several
girls between the ages of four
and 10 this week.
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Weather
FORECAST: Chance of scattered
afternoon and evening- thun
der storms over mountains.
Otherwise fair through Sat
urday. Low tonight 42. High
Saturday 88.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 84
Lowest this Morning 51
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise 4:51 a.m.
Sunset 7:44 p.m.
The Moon, at Last Quar
ter 6:17 p.m.
rises 11:23 p.m.
PROMINENT CONSTELLATION
Cassiopeia, In the northeast at
noon rise. The five orijrhtest
tUrs of this croup form a let
:er "W in the sky.
Knowland Oilers
Minor Amendments
To Civil Rights
Washington HP) Republi
can leader Sen. William F.
Knowland introduced today
three minor amendments to the
civil rights bill to meet some
southern objections.
He acted after a two-hour stra
tegy conference of GOP -leaders
on proposed compromises ap
parently refused to consider a
major revision of the bill's most
controversial features.
Stnator Walks Out
Sen. George D. Aiken (R.Vt.)
walked out of this meeing charg
ing that his Republican col
leagues were playing politics in
the civil rights battle.
Aiken said he was unable to
present his proposed amendment
to strike from the bill part three
which gives the federal govern
ment power to enforce civil
rights of all sorts, including de
segregation, by court injunction
without jury trial.
Sen. Charles E. Potter (R.
Mich.) said that unless an "ade
quate" civil rights bill is passed
he will introduce legislation that
would exempt from the draft
any man of voting age who is
prevented from exercising his
voting rights.
"I see no decency and justice
in asking a man to die for a
country where he is not permit
ted to avail himself of the' sim
ple democratic privileges of the
Bill of Rights," Potter said in a
speech prepared for Senate de
livery. Knowland's amendments ap
plied only to the bill's first sec
tion, which would create a bi
partisan commission on civil
rights.
Two of the changes met de
mands of the southern opposi
tion bloc. One would make the
commission's staff director a
presidential appointee subject to
Senate confirmation. Another
would prohibit the commission
from using unpaid volunteer
staff workers.
The third amendment would
require the commission to report
to Congress, as well as the Presi
dent. Florence Chadwick
Plans Channel Swim
Weston-Super-Mare, England
OP) Channel swimmer Flor
ence Chadwick announced
Thursday she will try to set a
record for the 10 mile Bristol
Channel swim to Wales Monday
if weather permits.
"If the weather is too bad I'll
go on to Belfast to get ready for
trying a swim from Northern
Ireland to Scotland," she said.
Some swimmers consider the
Bristol Estuary a trickier chal
lenge than the English Channel
because of treacherous currents
and tides sweeping in from the
open North Atlantic. .
People Visiting Festival
Rehearsals Are Increasing
Ashland Residents in in- Saturday, "Othello"; Monday
creasing numbers have been vis
iting rehearsals at the Oregon
Shakespearean Festival as open
ing night, Aug. 1, draws near.
Now in progress are technical
rehearsals, concerned mainly
with coordinating sound and
light cues. Festival officials have
invited the public to attend the
remaining rehearsals before
dress rehearsal time next week.
Starting today, the plays will
be worked in their August reper
tory order, with one full day de
voted to each play. Afternoon
sessions start at 2:15 p.m. with
evening rehearsals slated for
7:30 p.m. "Pericles," the fifth
show, is being rehearsed every
day at 1 p.m. ,
For the interest of visitors to
the theater, the rehearsal sched
ule for the next few days is Fri
day July is, "As You Like It";
City Council Votes
7 to 0 (or Change; -Sears
Plans Store
Councilman Robinson
Abstains from Voting
The Medford city council last
night rezoned 28.3 acres of land
at the corner of Jackson st. and
Biddle rd. to permit construc
tion of a large shopping center.
Seven councilmen voted in
favor rezoning from "single
family" to "limited commercial."
The proposed $lVi million cen
ter will be on part of the Dr. I.
D. Phipps farm. It will include
a Sears, Roebuck and company,
store, Safeway store and other
establishments.
Abstains from Voting
Councilman Fred Robinson
abstained from voting. He was
one of several downtown bus
inessmen who retained Attorney
Robert Duncan as their repre
sentative in opposing the change
of zone.
Last night Duncan reviewed
his clients' position concerning
rezoning. The proposed change
of zone was discussed at a pub
lic hearing July S.
Duncan pointed out that his
clients are not opposed to Sears,
Roebuck and company estab
lishing a retail store in Medford.
They were opposed, however, to
rezoning property outside the
downtown business area for de
velopment of "another down
town area," Duncan said.
John G. Wadahm, Lot An
geles, real estate representative
for Sears, Roebuck and com
pany, reviewed the firm's plans
for the retail store, and briefly
discussed the company's pur
chase of property in Medford.
He pointed out that property be
tween Central and Riverside
aves. near 10th st. has been split
in four pieces since portions
were deeded to the city for ex
tension of 10th st. and alleys ex
tending north and south.
Wadham said ground grading'
should start "in about 30 days"
depending on the council action
on the request. He indicated,
construction of the shopping
center would start soon;.--
The center is being developed
by J. E. McClellan, of Buttress
and McClellan, Los Angeles, and
associates.
An overflow crowd of about
60 residents and businessmen at
tended last night's meeting. A
large majority favored rezontag
the property when Mayor John
Snider called for a showing of
hands. A small group opposed
rezoning.
(Sea council story page 16)
Judge Turns Down
Plea by Miller
Washington (IP) A federal
district judge today rejected
playwright Arthur Miller's latest
plea to set aside a contempt of
Congress conviction. He fined
him $500 and imposed a sus-,
pended one month jail sentence.
In suspending the jail sen
tence. Judge Charles F. Mc
Laughlin placed Miller on pro
bation for three months.
Miller was released In the
custody of his attorney, Joseph
L. Rauh Jr., Washington, until
he can make another bond in
connection with an appeal to the
U.S. Court of Appeals.
Millers conviction stemmed
from an appearance before a
House Subcommittee on Un
American Activities July 25,
1956.
English Runner Breaks
World Record for Mil
London API Derek Ibbot
son of England broke the world
record for the mile today when
he ran the distance in three min
utes, 57.2 seconds.
The clocking broke the mark
of 3:58.0 set by Australia's John
Landy at Turku, Finland, June
21, 1954.
"The Gentlemen of Verona": and
Tuesday, "Henry VIII."
Each play will have a com
plete run-through at both the
afternoon and evening period.
This will be the public's last
chance to see the shows in the
process of production. Festival
officials said. .
When dress rehearsals 'start
Wed., July 24, the theater will
be closed to visitors. During the
final round of dress rehearsals,
July 28 through 31 only mem
bers of the association or their
out-of-state guests wilf be ad
mitted. Advance ticket sales are con
tinuing to show a steady increase
over last year. The membership
sales are up 17.2 per cent over
1956 and single ticket sales are
showing a rise of 23.3 per cent
over last year's leveL