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Newspaper Page Text(Sep 1 enfioire Tax Wot B m off rag Yi 52nd Year MEDFC United Press VuU Leased Wire 16 Pages Both Sides Ready To Debate Rights Bill 'AJI Winter' SenateoWill Turt To Pressing Business Washington ;lr) Senator Wayn Morn (D-Or.) blocked a mora today to interrupt the Senate's three-week's old ciril Tights debate to permit action on a series of urgent money bills and other non-controversial legislation. His objection to the "cease fire" came amid some of the sharpest Senate debate yet on President Eisenhower's civil rights legislation. Northerners heatedly de nounced race conditions in the South and the southerners be wailed anti-Negro riots in the North. Washington Wl Senate Republicans and southern Demo crats swapped declarations to day that they are willing to de bate the civil rights bill "all winter" if necessary. But all sides agier-j1 in the meantime to sidetrack the bill for a while this wf.i to let the Senate catch T on some pressing business. This includes getting money to igencics about to go broke. Would Have Company Senate Republican leader Wil liam F. Knowland said after a GOP legislative conference at the White House that Republi cans are willing to stay in ses sion until mid-August or mid September, or even all winter if necessary, to pass the civil rights bill. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D Ga ). leader of the southern bloc fighting the bill, made this re ply: "If it takes all winter to explain and discuss this bill, we'd stay with him. He'd have some company around here." Agree To Truce Russell said southern senators agreed to a two-day truce in the civil rights fight, probably be ginning Wednesday, to allow the Senate to clean up some of its backlog of urgent legislation. Knowland said he thought the Senate could dispose of its most pressing business in one day, probably Thursday. He also said after the White House meeting that President Eisenhower still believes firmly that the Senate should reject a jury trial amendment to the civ il rights bill. He reiterated his own belief that sponsors of the bill have enough votes to defeat the jury trial proposal. Russell said the southern bloc discussed modifying the jury trial proposal but took no action that would change their support of the amendment offered by Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D Wyo). Discuss Proposal He said the group discussed a proposal by Sen. Richard I. Neuberger (D-Ore.), that jury trials be limited to areas where Negroes are permitted on juries. out nusscll said he could see "nothing practical" in the pro posal because it contained "no machinery for applying it." He said Negroes serve on federal court juries in all states. Washington iin Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) has an nounced approval by the full Joint Committee on Atomic Energy of a S27 million author ization in the 1958 fiscal year for Hanford Atomic Works. New Box Office Hours Are Announced for Festival Ashkind New hours have been announced at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival box of fice in Ashland. The windows are now open daily from 9:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. Reservations may also be made n Sundays when the office will be open from 3 to 9 p.m. This schedule will continue through out the season, Festival officials said. Telephone reservations are now being accepted by telephon ing MUrdock 9-5111. The tickets will then be held for a few days until picked up. or until the rheck arrives to cover payment, festival officials said. Record crowds are anticipated for opening night and through out the season, as advance sales continue to set a pace well above last year. The "As You Like It" cast completed its final dress re MEDFORD, wrr -- Iteii (iSf 4-H PRE-FAIR About 400 persons, including some 170 4-H club members, were on hand at the 4-H pre-fair, held at the C. W. Anhorn ranch in Central Point Saturday. The Ante lope pre-fair will be held Wednesday at the Elbert Bigham ranch near Eagle Point and the Applcgate-Ruch pre-fair is scheduled Fri day at Ruch school. In the picture above the youngsters are receiving instruction in judg ing beef cattie. The pre-fairs are held each Leopold's Clemency Bid Turned Down by Governor of Illinois Springfield. 111. UPl Gov. William G. Stratton today de nied thrill slayer Nathan Leo pold executive clemency. Stratton's decision meant that Leopold, the rich and brilliant college boy who helped murder Bobby Franks in the "crime of the century" in 1924, will have to serve out his present 85-year sentence. Leopold had asked Strattorrto cut his term to 64 years, which would have freed him with time Easf-of-Cascades Fire Danger High By UNITED PRESS Fire danger remained high east of the Cascades today where new blazes late Monday burned over more range and wheat land and destroyed a 10 room farmhouse. But cooler air in western Ore gon eased the danger in that re gion with the humidity general ly above 30 per cent. A fire Monday evening burned a farmhouse at the LcRoy Vader ranch in the Rhea creek area south of Heppner with loss esti mated at S8000 to $10,000. The blaze charred about 160 acres of range land before being con trolled. Another blaze Monday burned about 50 acres of wheat and 200 acres of stubble at the Otto Ruhl ranch near Lexington, in Morrow county. Gar Leyva. a spray plane pilot from Lexington, helped put out both blazes by spraying them with water from his plane's spray tanks. hearsal Sunday night and will open the 1957 season on Thurs day evening with an 8:30 p.m. performance. "Othello," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," and "Henry VIII" will have their final dress rehearsals this week. Salem W Gov. Robert D. Holmes will take his first real holiday since assuming office by attending the Ashland Shake spearean festival Thursday through Sunday. The governor and Mrs. Holmes will attend each of the Shake speare productions and will be guests of the Shakespearean Fes tival Association at a banquet preceding the opening play Thursday night. While in Ashland, the gover nor will put finishing touches on a speech he will deliver Mon day to the annual convention of the Oregon Labor Council. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY off for good behavior next Dec. 10. However, Stratton held out some slim hope for the possible future release of Leopold through parole. He said Leopold "may file a petition for a re hearing of his case at any time he desires." 'If in the opinion of the mem bers of the Parole and Pardon Board a rehearing is warranted, his name will be placed on a sub sequent docket for a hearing and then further consideration will be given his case on the question of his possible release on parole under supervision in commun ity life," the governor said. In announcing his denial of Leopold's pica, Stratton said the Pardon and Parole Board had "come to the conclusion that they would not be warranted in recommending that executive clemency be granted." Should Die in Prison Judge John Caverly, who sen tenced Leopold and Richard Locb, his partner in the notor ious slaying of the Franks boy in Chicago in 1924, said then it was his intention that they should die in prison. Loeb was the victim of an other prisoner's razor in a prison fight in 1936. But Leopold has been fighting for his freedom since 1949 when former Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson commuted his 99-year sentence to 85 years. Leopold was 19 and Loeb 18 on May 21, 1924 when they lured their 14-year-old victim into an automobile, killed him and threw his body into a cul vert. Eyeglasses Lead To Capture The two murderers were cap tured when a pair of eyeglasses found near the body was traced to Leopold. They were spared from the electric chair, largely through the persuasiveness of their de fense lawyer, the famed Clar ence Darrow. In his petition Leopold said "I earnestly beg you, gentlemen, to show me the mercy I did not show." He said he has had "12,- 000 days to carry my guilt in my soul 12,000 nights to be bit terly remorseful." Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE (1st Game) Brooklyn 15 2 Chicago 0 6 1 Maglie. Labine (8) and Cam panella; Drabowsky, Drott (9) and Neeman. AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City 4 13 New York 10 IB Coleman, Morgan (2). Dermotl (6). Urban (7) 0 0 Me and Thompson; Ford and Berra. Tribune 30, 1957 year prior to the county-wide 4-H and Future Farmers of American fair to give club mem bers training in livestock judging, baking, sewing and other crafts. The week-long con tests and demonstrations in home economics division will held in the courthouse start ing Monday, Aug. 5. and the regular fair will be held at the fairgrounds Aug. 20 through 24 A 4-H horse show will be held Aug. 18 at the Jackson County Sheriff's Posse grounds. Man Arrested After Shooting Into Two Medford Houses William Douglas Edwards, 32 of 1410 Hilton rd., was to be arraigned in district court to day following his arrest late yesterday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Edwards was taken into cust ody about 6 p.m. Monday by Medford police who converged on a Pearl st. neighborhood where they reported Edwards had fired a Savage rifle into two houses and into the air. Ofticers were called to the home of Edwards' brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Turner, 417 Pearl St., where Ed wards entered the back door of their house and fired at Mrs. Turner as she stood at the tele phone, police were told. Runs From House Mrs. Turner ran from the house with her small daughter to the home of a neighbor, Wil liam H. Alger, where she lay on the floor as Edwards fired into the air and at the Alger residence, police said. One shot killed a dog. Alger and another neighbor, Gus Aguirre. grabbed the rifle when Edwards discarded it after it failed to fire again, according to police reports. Edwards then embraced his small son, who was at the scene. Edwards was arrested by offic ers shortly after. Police said family trouble ap peared to have been the reason for the shooting. Edwards' wife Lea Marie Edwards, 15 Vi Genes see st., reportedly has been stay ing at an unregistered hotel room. Courthouse Roof Gets Asphalfic Coating An asphaltic coating is being completed on the main county courthouse building roof today, the county court said. The work is being done by Andrew Bjornsen, who was con struction superintendent for the new annex of the courthouse. He also put the new roofs on the north and south wings of the courthouse. Total cost for all three roofing jobs was 53.052.18. Work has been completed also in the county courthouse on a connecting stairway from the old building to the annex stair way. The annex stairway, which runs from the lower floor to the roof, and the new connecting stairway will serve as a fire escape. Commissioner Chester Wendt said. The work is being done on recommendation of the fire marshal. Washington OB Maritime Administrator Clarence G. Morse said today the first nuclear pow ered merchant ship should be "sailing the oceans" in 1960. Price 10c United Prrs Full Leased Wirt No. 112 Dulles Tackles Attempts To Save Disarmament Talks Secretary of State Confers With Stassen London OPi Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today began an attempt to salvage the London Disarmament conference from a stalemate and win ap proval for President Eisenhow er's open skies plan. His efforts came in the face of a Moscow Radio prediction that he would throw a monkey wrench into the disarmament ne gotiations. Enters Urgent Talks Dulles spent three and a half hours in conference with U. S. disarmament expert Harold E. Stassen and then plunged inio urgent talks with the rest of the western delegations here! Informed sources said Dulles' mission was to: Save as much as possible of the aerial inspection plan, Eisenhower's personal contribu tion to end the East-West arms race'. Prevent a complete collapse of the negotiations with Britain, France, Canada and the Soviet Union. Win as hopeful a final re port as possible to prevent world pessimism if the talks are forced to adjourn. Family Problems Western sources said the sec retary of state's first problems were "within the family," in cluding the open skies proposal. They said the western powers still have not reached agreement on the details of an open skies package to be offered to Rus sia. Only general lines of three open skies zones have been drawn. The sources said it was pos sible that Wednesday's schedul ed session of the UN Disarma ment Subcommittee, already postponed from today, would be postponed again to Thursday lo allow the western powers to hash out their problems. Alaska. Hawaii Statehood Voted Washington (IP) The Senate Interior Committee voted unani mously today to grant statehood tc Alaska and Hawaii. The two bills are expected to be called up as a first order of business in the Senate when Congress reconvenes in January. Sen. Gordon Allott (R-Colo.) offered the only objection dur ing the hour long meeting. He reserved the right to op pose the Hawaiian statehood bill Ijecause of "serious" concern over the infiltration of subver sive elements in the island's labor movement. During a committee visit to Hawaii, he said, dockworkers were called out on a strike. The island was paralyzed, he said, for no purpose, "except to show tney control the situation." McCarthy Successor Voter Turnout Light Milwaukee, Wis. IP Only about one-fourth of Wisconsin's 2,300,000 eligible voters were turning out today in a special primary election to pick nomi nees for the seat vacated by the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. The voting weather was fair and pleasant, but even this was not enough1 to lure more than 500,000 persons to the polls. A bumper crop of seven Re publicans and two Democrats are seeking nomination for the Aug,. 27 general election when the two major party candidates will op pose a Socialist-Labor candidate and an independent. Weather FORECAST: Fair throueh Wed nesday with mild tempera turps. Low tonic bt 56 high Wednesday 90. Temp. Hirhest yesterday .. Jlft Lowest this morning 57 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset 5:01 a.m. 7:34 p.m. 9:3t p.m. .. Friday Moonset First Quarter PROMINENT STARS Arcturus. in the west.. 10:16 p.m. Fomalhaut. rises -.11:12 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in west R:25 p.m. Jurtiter, north of the Moon. Saturn, low in south- Kefauver Charges Stockholders Get 'All the Benefit' Local Firm Said One Of 13 Using Privilege Washington OPI Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), charged anew today that private utilities have found a "bonanza" in the "misuse" of rapid tax amortiza tion privileges. He said evidence presented before his Senate Monopoly sub committee "shows clearly that company stockholders, not the consumers, get all the benefits." But Willard W. Gatchell, gen eral counsel for the Federal Power commission, disagreed. Not Considered Windfalls Gatchell, principal witness as the subcommittee resumed hear ings on the controversy, said the FPC "does not consider that fast lax write-offs are windfalls." It feels, he said, that-they are "an inducement to get private com panies to take on projects which are beneficial to the national de fense." Two hours had been set aside for a reumption of hearings on tax concessions granted by the administration to the Idaho Pow er Co., concessions the firm da- cided not to accept. But all the available time was devoted to a cross-examination of Gatchell and the Idaho Power case did not come up. 13 Firms Made Savings The subcommittee staff pre sented a table to show that 13 companies made a "substantial savings" by using fast tax-write off formulas. Kefauver charged that one of them, the Washington Power Co. 'started the practice of using X least part of the money it saved . . to give to stockholders as a return on capital." "The savings was not passed on the rate payer as it should have been," he said. The subcommittee said other firms which took advantage of the "bonanza" included South ern California Water Co., Calif ornia Oregon Power Co., and Pacific Power and Light. Should Look Into It Gatchell said the write-offs "do not seem to me in any way a windfall. But if the compan ies, in fact, are using the tax savings to give to stockholders. "this is something the FPC should look into," he said. Kefauver said the group "def initely" intends to continue its investigation of Idaho Power write-offs event hough the ad ministration feels that the case is' closed. Beating. Robbery, Reported to Police' Billy Joe Thompson, 24, Gold Hill, and William Matthew Nic kle, 21, route 1, box 47, Central Point, were lodged in the county jail early today pending investi gation of an attack upon John J. Araway, 39, Portland, according to state police. Araway was taken to Sacred Heart hospital about 3:30 a.m. today by Medford Ambulance service for treatment of injuries suffered in an altercation on Highway 99 near the Willow Springs junction, officers re ported. He told authorities he had been beaten and robbed. Mrs. Hazel Florence O'Neil, 46, Ash land, a passenger in the car in which police said also were Thompson, Nickle and Araway, was released after questioning. Charges against the pair are pending, according to the district attorney's office. Halsey Resting Alter Cerebral Hemorrhage New York OPI Fleet Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey Jr., who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday,- was reported resting comfortably and "doing fine" to day at Doctors hospital. Doctors said Halsey's speech had been affected by a slight paralysis, but not his limbs. Little Girl Rescued Four Hours After Tumbling 33 Anderson, S.C OPt Well drillers using the method which saved Benny Hooper rescued 17-month-old Yvonne Beasley Mon day night four hours and 10 minutes after she had fallen 33 feet down a 10-inch pipe. Rushed to Hospital Like 7-year-old Benny, blue eyed, brown-haired Yvonne was rushed to a hospital. Doctors said she suffered from bruises and exposure. Fire Chief Bailey Maddox. who directed the rescue, said an "elbow" angle pleading the iron pipe into the sile of a cov ered terra cotta w.-ll stopped the child's plunge, otherwise "Now Do You Want Committee Opposes Proposed Duck Stamp Bill, Keating Says Members of the public lands committee of the Association of Oregon Counties were generally opposed to the proposed duck stamp bill, County judge Rod ney Keating said. Keating returned yesterday from the Monday meeting of the committee in Portland. He said his understanding of the bill is that it restricts stamp revenue use to purchase more land and water sites for wild life refuge. The committee went on record favoring use of the stamp funds Beer DDribulors, Representatives of Teamsters to Meet Beer distributors of the Med ford area will meet with Team sters' Local 962 representatives later this week to negotiate fur there on a new contract, it was reported yesterday. Distributors met yesterday with union representatives in the office of the Industry Coun cil of Southern Oregon. The meeting was primarily to recon sider the positions of both par ties and consider a later meet ing, it was explained. Among those attending were Hayes Distributing company. Southern Oregon Distributing company, McDonald Candy com pany, and Wilson Distributing company, and Teamsters' repre sentatives Bob Shaw and Alvin York. Discuss Positions During the meeting the two groups discussed the relative po sitions of proposal and counter proposal and the issues at stake in other areas. The latter includ ed the strike issue at Coos Bay where Teamsters, are out on strike. Local economy was also stressed, it was reported. ' The teamsters are asking for 19 cents an hour to be included in the contract which would run from June 1, 1957, to June 1, 1958. Distributors have pro posed a two-year contract offer ing 12V2 cents increase per hour the first year and an additional 6V4 cents per hour for the sec ond year. The parties signatory to the agreement received notice from the union within the specified 60-day period. May 1 through June 1, that the contract is open for negotiation. U. S. Steel Reports , First Half Earnings New York flB U. S. Steel Corp., world's largest steel pro ducer, today reported record first half earnings of $231,421,308 and retained its 75-cent dividend. Earnings also hit a record high for the second quarters. Feet Down "she would have kept going and drowned." The fire department rescue and salvage truck arrived first and quickly lowered an oxygen hose that doctors credited with keeping Yvonne alive in another striking parallel to Benny's fa mous rescue last May at Manor ville, N.Y. Doctors Take Over Shortly afterward two physi cians arrived and administered tl-e oxygen from a cylinder on the truck during the drilling. After a bulldozer had scooped futilely-at the earth beside the pipe, Maddox said, Eugene Bobo Jr., Bill Hughes and volunteer To Try For Nothing? for further development of such public lands. This would include road construction, improving fa cilities for hunting and improv ing the drainage. Estimated Revenue Keating said it is estimated that the duck stamps bring in a national revenue of from $5 mil lion to $6 million a year. The committee also went on record saying that Congress should have the right to say where the refuges should be lo cated. The in-lieu of tax payments to counties should be continued, the ' committee recommended. Keat ing said according to present law the federal government pays the county for use of the federal land located within its bound aries. The annual payments are made in lieu of money the coun ty would ordinarily receive in taxes. Concerning enactment of a "wilderness bill" now pending in Congress, the committee recom mended that a hearing be held in Oregon before Congress offi cially establishes such areas in this state. According to the proposed law. areas which would he ram. piete wilderness could be set asiae in eacn stale. Keatine said in this state where worthless loriep nole Dine tends to crowd out good tim ber, such a bill mieht work a hardship. The committee alsn nprarl a resolution opposing withdrawal 01 any more lands from private domain lor defense purposes. - Holmes Oposes Kuykendall Choice Salem OP) Strong opposition to the reappointment of Jerome Kuykendall to the Federal Pow er Commission was voiced today by Gov. Robert D. Holmes in a telegram to Washington's Sen. Warren Magnuson. Kuykendall, public service commissioner for the state of Washington under Gov. Arthur Langlie, was nominated for re appointment recently by Presi dent Eisenhower. "I wish to join with Sens. Morse, Neuberger and yourself in opposition to the appointment of Mr. Jerome Kuykendall to the Federal Power Commis sion," the governor wired Mag nuson, who is chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. "His past position with re spect to the granting of the fast tax writeoff to the Idaho Power Company plus his bitter opposi tion to Hells Canyon in spite of his own examiner's report favoring the building of this multiple purpose dam in my opinion disqualified him for this important post," the governor continued. 10-Inch Pipe helpers used Bobo's machinery to drill a 36-inch-wide hole be side the pipe to a 40-foot depth. Then Vaughn (Red) Roberts, the most insistent of numerous volunteers, was lowered into the new well. He broke through the terra cotta wall just below Yvonne and pulled her down into his arms. Unaware of Pipe Mrs. Lenora Beasley, 28, said they had recently moved to their home about eight miles from Anderson and were unaware that old wash tub turned upside down in their backyard covered the exposed, treacherous pipe.