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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.
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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
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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.