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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,
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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)
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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.