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Body of City Clerk
Discovered in River;
Inquest Will Be Held
Bomedale. Idaho W Owyhee
CCmty officials said today they
Woml4 continue their efforts to
0 determine whether foul play or
i'ci4e caused the death of
Bemedale city clerk Bertha Ehr
elwt, 3, whose body was found
U the Snake river Monday near
rfrian. Ore.
he dead woman's hands were
3fejn behind her back, but Dr.
i'eph Beeman, Boise patholo
st, said it would have been
.ible for her to have tied the
or' herself because of the na
ture of the slipknots.
There was no other evidence
Sf foul play. Beeman said,
fewest Planned
Dr. William G. Reimer. Owy
hee county coroner, said he
would hold an inquest to deter
mine exactly, if possible, how
the woman met her death.
Mrs. Ehrhart had disappeared
from Homedale under mysteri
ous circumstances just three
weeks prior to the finding of
her body by Hoy Haynes, a
rancher.
Haynes spotted the remains
caught on a snag in water on the
Oregon side of the river about a
quarter-mile upstream from the
Adrian bridge. The spot is about
12 miles downstream from
Homedale.
Decomposition of the bady
made the woman unrecogniza
ble, but Homedale Police Chief
Jim Hill made positive identifi
cation from a set of false teeth
and clothing.
Last Seen July 8
Mrs. Ehrhart had worked in
Slate Funeral Puts
End To Career of .
Guatemala Chief
Guatemala City np A state
funeral today put a final period
to the meteoric career of Presi
dent Carlos Castillo Armas, who
rose from obscurity to fame to
death in three short years.
A pontifical mass for the as
sassinated president's soul was
celebrated in the Cathedral here
this morning. His body was bur
ied in the general cemetery.
Maj. John Eisenhower, son of
America's president, represented
his father at Castillo's funeral.
He expressed his parents' sym
pathy to the slain president's
widow, Odilia.
Shot by Communist
Castillo was shot down by a
Communist who had inflitrated
his president guard on Friday,
barely 37 months after he had
led an army of refugees to vic
tory against the regime of pro
Red President Jacobo Arbenz.
The killer, Romeo Vasqucz
Sanchez, committed suicide min
utes after he had assassinated
the president.
The government announced
Monday that two officers and
seven enlisted men of the palace
guard are among more than 100
Guatemalans who have been ar
rested on suspicion of complicity
in the assassination.
her office the night of July 8
and was last seen leaving a
Homedale night club about 10:30
p.m. Police noticed her car still
parked in front of the city hall
about 3 a.m. the following day
and investigated the darkened
office. They found the office door
open and the room disarrayed.
Her purse, containing a note
which apparently threatened
Mrs. Ehrhart's life, was found in
her office.
Officials later discovered that
some city records kept by Mrs.
Ehrhart were missing and Owy
hee County Prosecutor Sylvan
Jeppeson said there was evi
dence some of them had been
burned. Sheriff Jim Tucker is
sued a warrant for the clerk's
arrest, charging her with de
struction of public records.
MacArfhur Says
'Lust for Taxes'
Threat To Nation
New York W Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, chairman of Sperry
Rand Corp., charged today that
the government's "lust for
taxes" is the greatest threat to
the nation's free enterprise sys
tem. MacArthur, in an unusually
strong attack on big govern
ment, said the nation's tax bur
den is "oppressive" and has re
sulted "in a creeping inflation
which has devitalized the Ameri
can dollar to 40 per cent of its
previous purchasing power."
Threat Internal
"The greatest threat to lib
erty today is internal, from the
consant growth of big govern
ment through the constantly in
creasing power and spending of
the federal government," he said
in a speech prepared for de
livery at the company's annual
meeting.
MacArthur told Sperry Rand
stockholders that taxes have
grown so rapidly in recent years
that they now are the largest
single item in the cost of living.
"Americans will pay for gov
ernment this year more than
they will spend on food, cloth
ing, medical care and religious
activities combined," he added.
MacArthur said the per capita
tax burden has soared from $1.98
in 1885 to an all-time high of
$446.86 in 1956.
tog Truck Drivers
Escape Injury in Crash
Two truck drivers escaped in
jury in a log truck accident
about 4:30 p.m. Monday on the
Fish Lake rd., one-half mile cast
of Butte Falls, according to slate
police.
Elbert Ryder White, 46, of
3410 North Pacific highway, was
cited for failure to operate on
the right side of the highway
after his loaded log truck 'col
lided with a truck and trailer
driven by Sharold Waldo Chap
man, 35, Prospect, police said.
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NOT A FOXHOLE IN SIGHT If anyone wanted a hole
to crawl into, it's Marine Pfc Charles E. Baker (right)
as he is caught flatfooted by an overwhelming line of
brass. Baker tries to keep from dropping that cake he's
carrying, come to attention and balance on one foot all
at the same time. When asked later what he thought
about all those stars (the line was four generals long),
he answered, "1 wasn't thinking, I just wanted to get
out of the way."
Commission Studies
Master Schemes for
Mall Development
Salem IW The Capitol
Planning commission Monday
was presented some master
schemes for long-range develop
ment of the Capitol Mall are.i.
Nofinal action was taken by
the commission on plans pre
sented by the Eugene architec
tural firm of Wilmsen and En
dicott and Francis Kealy, New
York architect who designed the
state capitoi building.
The Eugene firm presented
three major studies of possible
mall development, the most rad
ical of which blocked all streets
through the mall areae xcept
Center st.
Mansion Discussed
Architects were thinking in
terms of extending the mall
north from the capitoi building
into a more informal, wooded
area with pools, fountains and
room for many types of govern
ment buildings and a public
park.
New structures might include
a museum, auditorium, exhibit
area and a governor's mansion.
Broad tree-lined walks were
suggested for the mall with os
much fringe area parking as
possible. Any streets through the
area would be sunken so as not
to disturb the view if current
ideas are followed. ,
City Cooperation Needed
The auditorium might be built
as a joint venture of the state
and the city of Salem In return
for the city's permission to close
some streets into 'the area.
Architects emphasized that
close city- state cooperation
would be needed to complete
long-range plans for the mall.
Chairman of the commission
is Robert Sawyer, Bend. Present
at the meeting were Gov. Rob
ert D. Holmes, Secretary of State
Mark Hatfield and State Treas
urer Sig Unander.
Columbia River
Maintains Top Spot
Walla Walla OPI The Co
lumbia river maintained a top
spot in industrial development
during the first half of 1957,
Herbert G. West, executive vice
president of Inland Empire Wa
terways Association, said today.
West cited the Harvey Aluminum
Co. plant at The Dalles, Ore.,
and the Phillips Pacific Chem
ical plant near Kennewick. He
said that elsewhere along the
river "there is a growing indica
tion that industry is interested
in the Pacific Northwest."
He said industry's need for
low-cost barge transportation,
water and electric energy was
responsible for the trend.
Graham Salutes
United Nations
As Peace Symbol
New York npi Billy Graham
saluted the United Nations Mon
day as "a symbol of man's desire
for peace" but added that it
would never be successful unless
there "is a great moral and spir
itual resurgence to supplement
it."
The North Carolina evangelist
made his remarks to a news con
ference shortly after a half hour
conversation with Secretary Gen
eral Dag Hammerskjold at U.N.
headquarters. He said the major
portion of his talk with Hammar
skjold was devoted to moral and
spiritual problems.
Wouldn't Solve Problems
"You could give the whole
world economic security and
give everybody a doctor of phil
osophy degree," Graham said,
"but you would still not solve
the problems of the world. They
are moral and come from with
in." He said he did not believe the
whole world ever "not in our
lifetime at least" would be con
yerted to Christianity or to any
other one religion.
"But a climactic situation is
coming," Graham warned,
"when this body of people in this
building will be at their wit's
end and it will look like nothing
they can do will prevent a push
button war. Then, I think Christ
is coming back in person to set
up his kingdom."
ANYONE FOR SPYING?
Francine Yerrick looks
pretty sly as she cases the
Sheraton-Palace ,. Hotel in .
San Francisco for the Na
tional Counter Intelligence
Corps Association. The
NCICA is holding its 10th
annual convention there
August 2-4. Francine is an
entrant in their Miss Cloak
'n Dagger contest and judg
ing from that dagger, who'd
want to compete?
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Portland Civic Group
Counters E-R Effort
Portland W Unlimited
Progress, a new civic group dedi
cated to 'development of the
Greater Portland area," Monday
voted to balk further delays to
complete the Exposition-Recreation
center on the Broadway
Steel bridge site.
About 50 members of the or
ganization pledged a campaign
to back the E-R commission, and
voted to counter efforts of an
other group. Tax Savers. Inc.,
petitioning an E-R center at
Delta Park.
Handcuffs Lead Vanted
Man To Police Station
Philadelphia dpi Hcywood
Butler, 38, found a pair of hand
cuffs in his new apartment Mon
day and tried them on. They
worked fine. He couldn't get
them off.
He decided police could best
help him and went to a police
station. While one cop was fil
ing the handcuffs, another made
a routine check. He found Butler
was wanted by police for failure
to pay a $25 fine six years ago.
Norwegian Producer
Denies Being Married
To Ella Fitzgerald
Oslo iW A Norwegian assist
ant producer told newspapers
here today that reports he is
married to American Negro
singer Ella Fitzgerald are "pure
nonsense."
Thor Larsen acknowledged,
however, that he and Miss Fitz
gerald, who is now in Oslo, are
good friends. He said they plan
to go together from here to
Monte Carlo and later to Los
Angeles.
Oslo newspapers reported yes
terday the couple had been se
cretly married for two years.
HOW TO LIVE LONG
West Hartford, Conn. W
Mrs. Nellie A. Faxon, 100, ad
vises: "Take as good care of
yourself as you do of your automobile."
Albuquerque, N.M., founded
in 1706, was named for the vice
roy of New Spain, the Duke of
Alburquerque, but the first "r"
was later dropped from, tha
spelling.
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