Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 13, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texto o fo) on n IE WIS w e o U ... Inleini Body Placed Under Log; Talk of Gun Theft Said Feared Youths Spend Night Ono'Hunting Trip' Klamath Falls W Bcrnie B. Kurtz, 13, Henley, admitted shooting his 11-year-old com panion to death and placing tho body under a log because he was afraid the boy would "talk' about their taking eight guns. Sheriff Murray Britton said to day. The body of Johnny Morris of Henley was found on the slope? of BIy mountain about 60 miles east of here Monday after Kurtz broke down and confessed in the sheriff's office, Britton said The young victim had been shot in the back and in the head the sheriff said. On 'Hunting Trip' Britton said the shooting oc curred a'fter the two boys had gone on a runaway "hunting trip" to the mountain and the Morris boy had become home sick. Sheriff Britton said Bernie told him this story: The boys had planned to go hunting for some time and early Saturday they took eight guns from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Buford Boyd in Henley. Then they headed along Highway 66 in a pickup truck taken from the Morris home. Although neither had driven before Bernie said he managed to hold the truck on the road and drive it up a forest road on Bly mountain. Raccoon Eaten On Saturday night they camp ed out. eating a raccoon they shot. They had food ready for the trip but had forgotten to take it. ....... On Sunday morning the Mor ris boy became homesick and cried. Bcrnie said he started to take him home but then was afraid he "would talk" and they would be blamed for taking the guns and truck. He suggested some "target practice" before re turning home and they drove down a nearby mountain road. When they got out of the truck, the Morris boy was shot and the body placed under a log, Britton said. Boy Said 'Bright' Sheriff's deputies had been alerted to look for the boys Sat urday. Bernie was taken into custody late Sunday near Bly. driving the pickup. Britton said that for several hours the Kurtz boy claimed young Morris had started for home, but that about noon Monday "he broke down.'" He led a sheriff's party to the body. The Kurtz boy was placed .n the county jail to await action by juvenile authorities. The sheriff described young Kurtz as very bright in school, approaching "quiz kid" caliber Henley is about 10 miles southwest of here. American Pair Said Behind Iron Curtain New York API Martha Dodd Stern, daughter of the late U.S. ambassador to Germ-ny, and her husband, Alfred K. Stern, have disappeared behind the Iron Curtain, the Daily News said today. The News said Mexican sources had disclosed that the couple liquidated more than $1 million in securities and fled to Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Sterns have been sought by a federal Grand Jury here for quest;onin5 in conection with Soviet espionage. They had persistently refused to leave Mexico and were reported to be on the verge of deportation as undesirables. U. S. Protests Russian Closure of Siberia Area Washington (IPi The U. S lSs delivered a "strong protest" to the Soviet Union over its "un lawful" move to close a large area of the high sea off Siberia to foreign ships, the State de partment disclosed today. On July 20, Russia declared Peter the Great bay, the sea ap proach to the huge naval and air -ise at Vladivostok, Soviet "in ?rnal waters." Any ships or planes entering the Peter the Great bay area would have to obtain advance permission from Soviet ae thori tes. No traffi would be per medQj Vladivostok. eylBoy CC51s: CompoiniDoin), 11 o52nd Year MEDFORD United Presj Full Leased Wire 16 Pages Postal Increase Approval Expected By Vote in House Chance Seen Slim For Senate Passage Washington (IP) House ap proval today of the administra tion's request for a penny boost in letter rates was expected by Democratic and Republican sup porters. Even opponents of the in crease said as they prepared to fight the bill they were "not too Tjptimistic" over their chances of blocking it. However, despite House ap proval, the bill was reported to have almost no chance of pass age this year in the Senate. Designed to Cut Deficit The one-cent boost in letter charges is the heart of the multi-million dollar postage rate bill before the House. It is designed to cut the huge postal service deficit, estimated at $651 million for the current fiscal year. Raise the charge for regu lar letters from three to four cents an ounce. Increase airmail letters from six to seven cents an ounce. Boost the charge for regular postcards from two to three cents each and hike airmail post cards from four to five cents. Second Class Boost. . .. Provide four annual 15 per cent Increases in second class rates for newspapers and maga zines. Increase the individual piece rate on third class (advertising matter) rates 50 per cent. For bulk third class mail, the mini mum ra.te would go up 66 per cent over a two-year period. Increase book rates 25 per cent. Boost rates for controlled circulation publications to 12 cents a pound. Rates now are 10 cents below eight ounces and 11 cents above that weight. Youths Due Varning On Red China Trip Washington OP) The State Department has asked the Amer ica i Embassy in Moscow to make last -minute efforts to warn American youths they may be in trouble if they travel to Red China. Officials at the same time said the department is considering possible administrative and legal action if the group of Americans ignore government warnings and goes to Peiping from the Mos cow Youth Festival. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson has warned a few of the more than 40 Americans planning the trip of possible con sequences. He has said fines and legal action may follow and passports of those making the trip may not be renewed when they expire. Timber Slash Fires Are Extinguished Two fires in timber slash were extinguished yesterday by crews rom the outhwestern Oregon district office, state department of forestry. Both fires were discovered after logging operators had left the area. Forestry department officials said they were caused by power saws. A crew went to a fire near the Rogue river below McLeod guard station about 4 p.m. An other was sent about 5:30 p.m. to a fire in the Moon Prairie vicinity on Dead Indian rd. i Recamaf ion Projects Win Approval in House Washington 'IP The House today approved S858,094,323 worth of rivers and harbors ;.nd reclamation projects but refused to give the green light to the controversial Bruces Eddy dam in the Pacific Northwest. Among the projects approved was one for SI million for start of the John Day dam on the Columbia river. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1957 Civil Rights Bill Fails in Motions For House Action Washington (IT) Two at tempts to get action in the House on the civil rights bill failed to day. Neither was able to muster the required unanimous consent. One motion proposed immedi ate House acceptance of the heavily amended Senate bill, with a single House - imposed modification. Moves Foredoomed The other was an attempt to send the bill to a House-Senate conference committee for draft ing a more complex compromise between the differing versions. Both move requiring unani mouse consent had been antici pated and were foredoomed by opposition announced in ad vance. Contract Awarded For Work on PT&T Radio Relay System Albert Vik and Son, Eugene contractors, have been awarded a contract for preliminary work on construction of a $1,300,000 radio relay system between Med ford and Klamath Falls, the Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph company has announced. Low bid was $188,616. Seven contractors were invited to bid Howard Barnhart, Medford, was the only other bidder at $217, 227. In addition to the basic bid. there will be a considerable am ount of unit-price rock excava tion work, PT&T Medford Man ager Jack Creager said. Equipment Buildings The contract calls for con struction of one-story radio re lay equipment buildings at Hay maker mountain, west of Klam ath Falls, and at Chinquapin hill east of Ashland, and a one-story addition to the existing building at Mt. Baldy, southeast of Med ford. Other contract items include erection of 37Vi-foot steeL tow ers at Mt. Baldy and Chinqua pin and fencing of the building areas at Haymaker, Chinquapin and Mt. Baldy. The construction schedule calls for start of the work im mediately and completion by December, Creager said. When the system is placed in service it will increase the num ber of long distance telephone circuits between Medford and Klamath Falls and certain Cal ifornia and Oregon points. The new system will tie in at first with the California-to-Oregon coaxial cable and later also with the'San Francisco-to-Port-land radio relay system; Creager noted. Water Storage Sites Discussed at Rogue River No Feasible al ternative water storage site sug gestions were made by interested persons at a meeting called by the Izaak Walton league to con sider suggestions here last night. The meeting was called to con sider possible suggestions for sites which are not now being considered by the Army corps of engineers. Ross Hatch, who has been in the area gathering infor mation for the engineers on water storage sites, attended the meeting. A couple of suggestions were made, but were rejected as not feasible. One was a site on the Applegate river about six miles above the McKee bridge. Hatch said, however, if a dam was con structed there, a dam at Ruch would lose its advantage. Three-Dam Plan He said the corps is seriously considering a three-dam flood control plan which would in clude storage sites at Lost creek, Elk Creek and Big Butte. These would be an alternate to Lewis creek, he added. They were offered merely as preliminaries to a real fight ex pected later in the House Rules committee. Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (N.YJ House GOP leader on the civil rights bill, made" the first request to send the bill to con ference. Several Democrats jumped up to object, but were told by Speaker Sam Rayburn to wait until Keating's request could be read. - The request to accept the Sen ate's version with an amend ment, limiting the Senate's jury trial amendment to voting rights cases, was made by Rep. Emanuel Celler (N.Y.) Demo cratic floor leader for the bill Keating objected to it. Up to Committee Rayburn said the next step would be up to the Rules com mittee. Any member can ask the committee to call a meeting. To day's motions were efforts to by pass the committee. ' Rayburn has appealed to the Republicans on the committee to go along with a northern and western Democratic plan to send the bill to the .House floor with the new Celler amendment at tached. The Democratic leader ruled out talk of adjournment of Con gress until "some action" is tak en on the bill. Loyal Tribes Take Over Rebel Territory Bahrein, Persian Gulf (UT A thousand Bedouins from nine tribes loyal to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman moved in from the hills today like con querors to take over territory wrested from rebel forces in the nearly ended war. The sultan's troops were; re ported advancing from the east and west into the heart of rebel territory where only two forts are still firing the flag of the rebel Imam of Oman. They were Tanuf ana Jabrin, some 20 miles west of Nizwa. The loyal forces were reported to have linked up at the Birkat El-Mauz road in their drive to ward the fleeing rebels. DEW Line Due First Official Defense Test Point Barrow, Alaska lift America's great Arctic venture, the $500 million DEW line, was to get its first official test today when a friendly aircraft skims through its radar signals to send a warning to the Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs, The DEW line (Distant Early Warning) has been completed on schedule in 32 months as a 20th century defense bulwark. ArMifinnal ams hpinff studied include Elk creek dam, Little Butte, Evans creek, a dam at Rnrh nn the Anoleestp and a dam on Bear creek near Ash land.. Hatch said the three-dam group is being considered since it is believed it will ao least Dam age to fish spawning grounds. Final selection of a plan depends on cost ratio to benefits received and the over-all benefits to the Rogue river basin. The latter factor would be most important, he indicated. Hatch said there is no tmie limit for submitting alternative site suggestions. Cole Rivers, Grants Pass, rep resentative of the state fish and game commission said the organ ization is opposed "to any main stem dam on the Rogue river as set forth in a statement made by the department in 1948." Law creek would be included, he added. Flood Spawning Grounds The corps feels that any dams downstream would flood out the Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 124 Khrushchev. East Germany Sign Pact To Strengthen Ties Economic, Political Problems Said Covered Berlin HP) Soviet Com munist boss Nikita Khrushchev signed an agreement with East German leaders today to tighten Soviet-East German economic and pilitical ties. The East German radio said the agreement covered "further cooperation" between the two nations, "problems of the in ternational workers movement, ' and other economic and political problems. Provides for Mutual Aid The broadcast said the agree ment provided for "friendship, mutual aid, the strengthening of peace in Europe, and the wel fare of the Grman people." It was signed by Khrushchev, Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, East German Premier Otto Grotewohl and East Ger man Communists Leader Walter Ulbricht. The agreement was believed to promise Soviet political, mili tary and economic support for East Germany, and to rule out any hopes of unification in the foreseeable future. Western Proposals Rejected Khrushchev has made it plain since he arrived in East Berlin last Wednesday that ' Germany can be reunited only on Com munist terms. He rejected western proposals for unity throuah free elections and said a unified Germany cannot be a member of the North . Atlantic Organization. It was considered certain the agreement indorsed the Stalinist leaders of East Germany and promised them Soviet aid if East Germans revolt against Red rule. Klamath Basin Compact Gets Committee OK Washington (IP) The House Interior committee today ap proved a bill granting congres sional consent to the Klamath river basin compact between Oregon and California. The measure, which already has been passed by the Senate, now goes to the House. Mem bers of the interior committee endorsed the bill without ob jection or amendment. Weather FORECAST Clear tonight. Cloudy Wednesday, clearing soon after sunrise. Low to night SS. High Wednesday 88. Temp. Highest Yesterday 8 Lowest This Morning 52 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise ... Sunset 5:16 a.m. 7:16 p.m. 828 p.m. . Aug. 18 Moonrise Last Quarter FRUMl.MLhl s 1 Ana Spica, sets 8:59 p.m. A returns, high above Splca. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in west 8:06 p.m. Jupiter, low In west 8:25 pjn. Saturn, low in southwest 10:14 p.m. spawning grounds, Hatch said. A "good sized" dam on the Ap plegate river at Ruch would oe beneficial since it would relieve the flow of water and provide cooler water beneficial to fish, he said. A storage reservoir on Evans creek at the mouth of Home stead Gulf, three miles above the Evans Valley school, might be desireable, he added. Such proposed reservoirs would start receiving water as soon as it reaches what the crops would determine a damaging lev el. Then these reservoirs would only control the peak flow. The dams would also control the flow of silt. The reservoir would get half full of silt in about 100 years, the engineer estimated. Hatch said that a lake behind a dam would have recreation possibilities as the one at Fern crest near Eugene where sail ing regattas are held. Only pub lic recreation facilities would be allowed, he added. Costs of such projects so far have not been written off under 'The Drifting of the Boat Caused the Anchor To Rise" Commission Discusses Water Service Policy A "hardship" water use case was brought before the city plan ning commission last night by the city water commission. City Water Superintendent Robert Lee said the purpose of the move was to get a clarifica tion of city policy on granting water service to residents out side city limits. Considerable discussion follow ed a request for purchase of city water by William E. Brew, 1426 Lawnridge st. Brew said his well water had Bids On Ranger Homes Are Called Bids for construction of two ranger residences at the Butte Falls and Fort Klamath ranger stations in the Rogue River Na tional forest will be received un til 2 p.m. Aug. 26, it was. an nounced this week. Construction of the three bed room homes will "catch up with staff requirements," according to Hector Langdon, forest engi neer. - Bids submitted earlier on the houses were rejected because they were too high, he said. Construction of the Cinnabar lookout above the Star ranger station, Applegate, is almost complete and a new lookout at Halls Point northwest of Pros pect will be built soon. Langdon said other improve ments under way in the forest include construction of a one half mile road into the Fish Lake camp grounds, which will provide a gentler grade in and out of the area. The new route is part of the forest service plan for general road improvement and will be followed with work at the Aspen camp ground at Lake of the Woods. Crews are making surveys this summer to plan improve ments of existing campgrounds and construction of new facili ties next summer in various parts of the forest, according to Langdon. Meeting recr-ation, he added. Flood con trol, navigation and fish life benefits are all non-reimburse-able, he explained. Power rev enues will repay irrigation pro ject costs, but irrigation projects must be in the general region of the dam. Hatch said he understood that Congressman Charles O. Porter would amend his bill in line with recommendations from the engineers. Bill Introduced The Porter bill was introduc ed into the House Aug. 1. It provides for flood control in the Rogue River Basin and "fur ther development of the land and water resources of the bas in." Units of the Rogue River basin project mentioned are Lewis creek dam, reservoir and power plant, Trail diversion dam, and power plant, Pease bridge, Meadows, Ruch, Slate creek, Indian Hill and Deer Creek dams and reservoirs, and Cascade George dam and power plant. Appropriation for the propos ed Porter bill is $66,500,000. been polluted, and there was no way for him to get water ex cept through the city system. He has been borrowing drinking water from neighbors, he ex plained. All houses adjoining his use water purchased from the city, Brew said. Members of the commission acknowledged that for about 15 months it had been city policy not to sell water service to cus tomers outside the city. Commis sioner Don Root stated that per sons wanting water service will work harder to" be annexed to the city under such a policy. Mayor John Snider, appearing in tne audience as a citizen, commented that the city prob ably would have to suspend tem porarily annexation of land, and during that time some cases would require extending water service outside the tity. He favored granting Brew's request. The commission referred the matter back to the water com mission for final decision. Military Construction Bill Given Approval Washington (IPI The Senate has passed the $1,203,413,000 1 military construction bill to build new military bases and other facilities in this country and abroad. ; The - bill passed now goes back to the House which ap proved a bigger program. The House can accept the Senate changes or force the measure into a conference committee to work out a compromise. The Senate figure was $213, 160,000 less than the House's and $145,000,000 less than Eisenhower- originally requested. Boxcar Shortage Will Be Discussed Salem (IP) An emergency session of the governor's new transportation committee will be held Wednesday to discuss a boxcar shortage in the Eugene Roseburg area. George Brown, committee chairman and legislative direc tor of the Oregon State Labor Council, said the number of cars has been dwindling daily in the area for the past week or 10 days. He said lumber and agricul tural shipping via the Southern Pacific would soon come to a standstill unless more cars could be supplied soon. Public Utilities Commissioner Howard Morgan said a study made Aug. 8 indicated that 345 boxcars about one-half the needed cars were available. Survey Ship To Be Built on West Coast Washington (IP) The new Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Surveyor II, designed for Paci fic Northwest and Alaska opera tions, will be constructed at a Pacific coast shipyard. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.) said today. Salem (IP) Gov. Robert D. Holme- has appointed William I. Moon, Florence, to be justice of the peace for the Florence dis trict of Lane county. Heavily-Armed Militia Defied , In Pay Demands Army Trucks Running Emergency Service Lodz, Poland (IB Five thousand striking streetcar workers occupied the main de pot here today and defiei heavily-armed milita to break their walkout. The atmosphere was tense and ugly. The Communist regime posted machine gun carrying milita men and secret police outside the "Tramway Owa," the main street depot where the strikers who bedded down there during the night refused to come out to work this morning. A fleet of 200 army trucks was running emergency shuttle service along the deserted trol ley tracks, and not a trolley was moving in this city of 600,000. Recall Freedom Riots The walkout was the most serious defiance of Communist authority since the freedom riots at Pozan. Those bloody riots brought a "liberalized" regime to Poland and significant con cessions to workers and other citizens. Communist leader Wladyslaw Gomualk ordered in the troops and secret police when it be came apparent new violence might flare in Lodz. Poland's second biggest city and its main textile center. Workers, especially women, were angered after reading to day's newspapers which called the strikers "hooligans" and ac cused them of attacking police with club's. The stri':-rs said the stories in the Communist newspapers Aziennick Lodzki and Glos Ro botniczi were "lies" and that the, militia with fixed bayonets attacked them with tear gas in Monday's rioting. ....Five Women Injured The strikers said five women were hospitalized after one clash. They reported- "the trouble started when police and a party of Communist Party activists boarded one trolley and tried to get it moving. The strikers threw them off and the militia moved in. Early today it appeared that only the use of force byhe mili tia and police could dislodge the strikers from the main depot and that the strikers appeared to sit down until their demands are met. The transport workers walked out Monday morning demanding a 50 per cent pay increase and the same 40-hour week. They now get a basic average of 800 zlotys a month about enough to buy a medium-priced pair of shoes. Dupree Poe Denied Habeas Corpus Salem (IPI Dupree Poe, one of Oregon's more notorious con victs, appeared in Circuit Court here Monday, but officials were not taking any chances that last week's daylight break from the Marion county courthouse would be duplicated. Poe presented his habeas cor pus argument to Circuit Judge . Victor Olliver with his left wrist handcuffed to his belt. Before the escape of convicts Leonard Miller and Andrew Taylor last week, prisoners had been unshackled in the court room. Judge Olliver discussed Poe's third attempt to gain his free dom by habeas corpus proceed ings. Poe contended he should be freed because he was not al lowed to appear in the courtroom during his trial in 1932 when he was convicted of slaying a Silverton policeman. Medford Policeman Stops Car; Gives Sister Citation Medford Police Officer George L. Lucas, 23, says he still doesn't know whether to laugh or cry over a traffic ticket he gave yesterday to an attractive young woman driver.' She was his 19-year-old sister, Judith. Officer Lucas said he had a "strong suspicion" it was his sister, when .he motioned a driver over lo the curb on Haven it Monday afternoon. "She . was very friendly about it," Lucas said after he had presented her a citation for driving on a temporary permit without being, accom panied by a licensed driver. "I'd warned her before," he declared. Judith is scheduled to ap pear Friday in municiple court.