Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 28, 1957, Image 15

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Newspaper Page TextLocal and fa Machine Taktn Theft of a gum machine from in front of the Craterian theater on South Central ave was reported Fri day to city police. It wai valued at $27.50. Officers are also in vestigating the theft of a 24-by-36-fot canvas tarpaulin from a pill of lumber at 60 Hawthorne it. Myers D. Jones, building con tractor, reported the theft Fri day morning. To TraTl County Judge Rodney Keating plans to attend a meeting in Portland Monday of the public land committee of the Association of Oregon counties. Keating said the com mittee will discuss problems per taining to public lands in vari ous counties. A report also will be made by the legal council during the annual meeting. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Zotolla's Country Club kcatd n Grant! Pott Golf Courso SERVINO DINNERS DAILY Featuring FINI ITALIAN FOOD and ftZZA HI-SCHOOL FOOTBALL STADIUM Medford FRIDAY, SATURDAY Aug. 2-3 2 Days Only Twice Daily: 2:30 - 8:15 P.M. The Medford SHRINE CLUB Presents the 8th ANNUAL BIGGER! BETTER! MORE THRILLS THAN EVER! Amazing Annie Achieve ment . . . Aoround . . . Awheel . . . Afloat . . . Embel lished with Sparkling Span glad Trappings . . . The Ulti mate in Unique Entertainment . All New ... All Differ ent ... with no advance in prices . . . Avoid standina in Line . . . Buy Tickets NOW at 7 North Bartlstt. Adults 90c 50c Children Reserved Section (Extra) 1st Drive In Run TONITE! lJOniriii-.iAHTllTjriJ mm 5) Behind" Ml) K i -""T JjAlbj J Vip JtSSII K)rC( UNDfJ JTFFftlDIIR Personal Llnfiold Student Wallace Eri, 2212 East Main St., is among new students enrolled for the second session of summer school at Linfield college in McMinn ville. Eri is an education stu dent, and is one of 186 persons taking part in the summer pro gram. o Logan Visits Robert Logan, Airman 2c, is home on a 11-day leave, it was reported Saturday afternoon. He is visiting his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Bald win and brother Albert, all of Talent. Logan is a former Mail Tribune carrier. He has just com pleted aircraft radio school at Scott Air Force Base near Bell ville, III. Logan will be station ed with the Strategic Air Com mand at Altun, Oklahoma. Collisions Reported Two dri vers were cited to municipal court Friday following auto col lisions on Medford streets. Char he Jefferson Cornelius, 61.9 Co lumbus ave., was cited for in proper right turn following an accident at Main st. and Central ave., involving his sedan and a station wagon operated by Rob ert Lloyd Kagy, Old Stage rd., city police reported. Ua Bess Chapman, Prospect, was cited for failure to yield right of way after a collision at Apple and Fourth sts. between a jeep she i was operating and a pickup truck driven by George E. Beltz, 1119 Niantic St., according to police. Bandit Leaves Shoes In Haste To Escape Hollywood IW A bandit ran out of his shoes Saturday in escaping with $150 from a market robbery as a police of ficer fired at him. Traffic Officer Mason Sexton said he fired four shots at the man who rushed from the El Adobe market, and, posing as a "customer" said that a suspic ious man might stage a holdup. The "customer" turned and walked away as the officer and his partner went into the market to investigate. The officers were told by cashier Lathe Warner, 50, that the "customer" was the man who pulled the robbery with a .22 gun. Sexton found the man tamp ering with cars nearby and fired when the suspect fled, ignoring a command to halt. The man's shoes were found a block away. Probe of Labor Leader Requested Washington (W Senate investigators have asked the Jus tice Department and Internal Revenue service to look into the affairs of a theater-loving labor leader charged with spending $11,411 of his union's money for tickets to hit Broadway shows. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), of the Senate Rackets committee, sent the two agencies copies of the testimony of Lloyd Klenert, secretary-treasurer of the United Textile Workers un ion, after the committee accused Klenert of misusing $101,963 of union funds for his personal ben efit. Klenert said the personal Items were bought with a special $6,-500-a-year expense fund the un ion gave him from 1948 until last November. Loan Manager Held For Theft Charges San Francisco W . Police reported Saturday Richard P. Landiges, former manager of a savings and loan office here, was being held by Jacksonville, Fla., authorities on charges he skipped with $14,000 in comp any funds. Landiges, 36, disappeared last month, police said. An audit of his books at the Redwood Thrift company of California disclosed he hadtaken the money by writ ing fictitious loans. An inspector was sent to Jack sonville to return Landiges to face grand theft charges. Sweden is one of the most wooded countries in the world. Show Starts at 8 P.M. News About Servicemen ABOARD BATTLESHIP Midshipman 1c Orlin M. Stansfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Stansfield, route 2, box 381C, is aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin in the Atlantic. Stansfield, a student at Ore gon State college, is on a sum mer training cruise to South America, Panama and the Carib bean sea, as part of his Naval reserve officer training. IN TRAINING Pvt. Jerry L. Loper, Talent, is receiving eight weeks ad vanced individual engineer con struction training at Ft. Leon ard Wood, Mo. Loper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Loper, route 1, Talent, recently completed eight weeks of basic combat training. He is entering the second phase of six months of active duty under the Reserve Forces Act program. The 18-year-old soldier attend ed Talent High school. ABOARD WISCONSIN Midshipman 3 c Donn R. John son, son of Mrs. Helen M. John son, Central Point, is among the naval reserve training corps midshipmen on a summer train ing cruise aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin. Johnson is a student at Ore gon State college. The 11 ships on the cruise left Norfolk, Va., June 19 and will return Aug. 5, according to a navy news re lease. Omer Ritter Dies Alter Logging Mishap Omer A. Ritter, 58, of Camp U Rest, highway 99 south of Medford, died yesterday in local hospital. He was injured Friday when struck by a tree Ritter was employed by the FL' Milling and Planing mill at Ashland. He was logging near Dead Indian rd., when a tree he was felling struck another tree . which bounced up and struck Ritter. - Conger Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrange ments. Obituaries GESENA OSBORN Gesena Johanna Osborn, 77, died in a Medford hospital Fri day night. Mrs. Osborn was born Aug. 14, 1879 at Emden, Germany. She has been a resident of Ashland for the past year. She came from Centerville, Calif. She is survived by her three sons. Dewey Osborn of Rich mond, Calif., Russell Osborn of Ashland, Roy Carier of Ashland; one daughter. Betty Jane Drake of Paulsbo. Wash., and a grand daughter, Mary Gay Peacock of Ashland. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today at Litwiller's Mountain View Chapel in Ash land. The remains will be taken to the Chapel of The Chimes, Oakland, Calif. OWEN RUTH Funeral services for Owen A. Ruth, 81, of 121 Laurel St., who died Friday, are pending at Perl Funeral Home. Roseburg Man Killed In Highway Crash Coquille. Ore. (IP) Andrew Ross Knott, Roseburg, was fa tally injured Saturday when his car went out of control and struck a bridge abutment and telephone pole on highway 42 three miles east of here. State police said Knott, about 75, died at a hospital in Myrtle Point soon after his arrival. Knot was following a pickup truck driven by his son-in-law, Leon King, of Remote, Ore. They were on their way to the beach to dig clams. When King noticed his father-in-law's car was not following, he went back, found the injured man and took him to the hospital. IDENTIFIED A pretty 19-year-old student nurse iden tified John Rexinger, 23, as the "torture-kit rapist" who assaulted her in San Fran . Cisco's Golden Gate Park July 20. Rexinger, an ex convict with a sex crime rec ord, is shown here in City Prison aftep being booked as a suspect in the case. ' Ml . .teM WHO'S AFRAID OF A BIG OL' BEAR? Apparently Jeaniene Cook (Miss Sacramento County) isn't. Jeaniene, an entrant in the Maid of California contest, was posing with this ursine roue at the state fairgrounds in Sacra mento. Her charms are natural and obvious but the bad ol' bear got that leering expression from the whimsical end of a retouch artist's brush. 'Girard Case' Bill Passage Expected Washington (IP) The House appeared likely Saturday to pass a heavily watered-down bill de signed to prevent another "Gir ard case" in the foreign trial of American servicemen. However, proposals for a ma jor revision of the international status of forces agreement on trial and punishment of U.S. troops overseas were losing ground in the face of stiff ad ministration opposition. A compromise bill, if it clears the House, will still face in the Senate a log-jam of legislation caused by the lengthy civil rights debate. Its chances of Sen ate approval before adjourn ment remain slim. Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga: vet eran chairman of the House armed services committee, said he favored a slight change in U.S. administrative procedures under the foreign trial arrange ments. Unless some compromise bill is approved by the commit tee, he said, "We may be con fronted on the floor with some thing that could cause a lot of friction with our allies." More planes per person are owned in Nebraska Sand Hills than in any other region of the world, according to the Ne braska Aeronautics Department. Most of the ranchers and farm ers fly their own planes. ANNUAL FUN CIRCUS! Fun HOUSE of North of Gold Hill AT On Display - One of the West's Finest Collections of Gold Dust and Nuggets Summer Hours 8 to 6 .. Under Founder's Management Since 1930 5L&fe Sharman Douglas Out of Santa Monica Hospital Santa Monica (IPl Shar man Douglas, daughter of a for mer United States ambassador to Great Britain, was released from St. John's hospital Satur day after she underwent minor surgery and observation.' Miss Douglas, whose father is Lewis William Douglas, en tered the hospital a week ago. School Desegregation Ordered in Virginia Alexandria, Va. HP) Feder al district judge Albert Bryan Saturday ordered Arlington Arlington county, Va., to deseg regate its schools at the opening of the fall semester in Septem ber. He upheld a motion by negro attorneys to order a year-old Arlington desegregation decree into effect immediately. The ruling was the exact re versal of a ruling Friday by fed eral judge John Paul of Harri sonburg, Va., in a Charlottes ville, Va., desegregation case. Judge Paul, ruling on an iden tical motion in a nearly identi cal school case, ordered a year old desegregation decree against Charlottesville delayed until-the U.S. supreme court passes on Virginia's pupil-placement act. Jan. 8 is a legal holiday in Louisiana in honor of Andrew Jackson for his defeat of the British at New Orleans in 1815. Sponsored by Medford "20-30" Club TODAY-2.00 P.M. MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL STADIUM for All Ages! DONKEY BASEBALL MYSTERY Open Throughout The Year Sunday. July 28. 1957 Charred Bodies Of Boys Found Brockton, Mass. (IP The charred mutilated and bound bodies of two young brothers were found in a public park under a pile of burning branch es baturday, the . victims of a sadistic killer. The youngsters, John Logan, 12, and his brother, Paul, 10, who had been missing since Fri day when they went for a swim, were found face down about a yard apart close by a large pond. The bathing suits had been stripped from their bodies, their wrists had been bound with clothesline rope and one of them had been hacked with a knife. Car keys on a ring were be neath one boy's body. The youngsters, of Stoughton, Mass., had been missing after their father took them to the D. W. Field park, which is guar ded by eight lifeguards and park police. i Late Friday their clothes and half eaten lunches were found beside the Ellis Brett pool in the park by the father when they tailed to come home. Garcia Nominated as ilippine President Manila (IP! The majority Nationalist party has nomina ted President Carlos P. Garcia by an overwhelming majority to run for president in the No vember elections. Garcia won the nomination by a landslide over three other can didates, indicating he has almost as much popularity in the party as his predecessor, the late Ra mon Magsaysay. Garcia was elected vice presi dent in the 1955 election and ascended to the presidency when Magsaysay was killed in a plane crash last March 17. TEENAGE TRAGEDY for two days, Elaine Soule, 19-year-old typist (above) from Freeport, Long Island, N. Y., lived with the body of her roommate in their Burlin game, Calif, apartment. The roommate, Catherine Marie Elvins, from Seattle, also 19, had been brutally bludg eoned with a flatiron and re peatedly stabbed. Elaine told police she did it for a $180 check that Miss Elvins had received from her mother. CONTINUOUS JAMES STEWART i:,:'aw--?s Wek faf a mi Ike McLalae twethers, whe f followed different trails, livod by different law, bat waatod tko DAN DURYEA -DUNNE FOSTER 7 k Permmouot Metiw TSttfSBF-Teehnleeler MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIFTEEN Sultan of Oman Beefs Up Forces Sharja, Trucial Oman (in The Proabritish sultan of Oman beefed up his forces on the edge of rebel-held territory Saturday in preparation for an all-out campaign to wipe out an Arab insurrection that threatens his rule. Half the Sohar regiment from (he sultan's Muscat and Oman force had moved into the area at Ibri. Ibri is 80 miles north east of the rebel headquarters at Nizwa. In the Buraimi oasis, Trucial Oman scouts commanded by British Col. Stewart Carters es tablished a headquarters and started sending patrols down the rough, sun-baked trail to Irbi, 80 miles to the southwest. Ibri has served as the nerve center of the sultan's Oman reg iment since it was pushed out of Nirwa by the rebels in the week-old desert war. Approximately 1,000 Trucial scouts moving into Buraimi were expected to take off shortly to join the sultan's Sohar and Oman forces of about 400 men. Hearing Scheduled on Government Return Washington (If Congres sional hearings will open Mon day on President Eisenhower's proposal to return to state and local governments some of the jobs now being handled by the federal government. Chairman L. H. Fountain (D N.C.) of the House sub-committee on intergovernmental rela tions said the Washington ses sions will lay the groundwork for further hearings to be held alter Congress adjourns in var ious regions of the country. U.S.-Panama Highway To Be Completed in 1959 Washington M The inter- American highway linking the U.S. border with 'Panama is ex pected to be ready for traffic in early 1959, the international road federation said Saturday. It said that only 5 per cent of the 3,200-mile road remains to be built but this will take two years because of rough and sometimes inaccessible terrain. Here the builders must contend with jungle, tropical heat, rocky mountains, landslides, rivers, and torrential rains which wash out roadbeds. Utah's state tree is the blue spruce, the sea gull the state bird, and the Sego lily the state flower. ENJOY GENUINE CHARCOAL BROILED FOODS In the CANDLE ROOM at the Medford Hotel a.m. Daily HELD OVER! BUT HURRY! FROM 1:00 P.M. - AUDIE MURPHY TCCMNICOUO TSS" STARTS WEDNESDAY (All I TOO LATE FOR HIM Shelburne, Mass. IW Less than an hour after tree warden George Vickerson convinced the town meeting that the tree war den's salary should be raised from $200 to $500 a year, he was defeated for reelection by Reuben L. Stacy, 310 to 158. STARTS TONITE Ingrid Bergman in Her Academy Award Winning Role BERGMAN IS BACK! INGDID gLiiuuinn V ' BRYNNER Vj. 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