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ReJect.Test Ian aui i. n' ti ' " ' ; ; - j.sf v4 -r r-TTL3 uLaZ hat to ao until the lire department comes was demonstrated by Mail Tribune linotype operation Chester Ashton when a trash box full of paper caught on fire in an alley between the Tribune office and Sims' Cycle and Hobby shop about 9:30 p.m. yesterday. Ashton grabbed a fire extirlguish er that was handy and jumped out a ground-' level window into the alley, where he squirt Stale Policeman Files Damage Suit Against Convict A state police lieutenant has filed suit in circuit court asking recovery of $15,935.88 in dam ages against a Medford man now serving a three-year sentence in the state penitentiary for illegal possession of narcotics. IX Paul E. Morgan, 726 Broad st., has brought the suit against Donald La Verne Ambuehl, 31, whose Medford address at the time of sentencing was 1615 Crater Lake ave. Morgan charges that as a re sult of negligent operation of, a vehicle by Ambuehl on July 18, 1956, he suffered "severe, acute and permanent injury to chest and heart muscles." The state policeman was driv ing a police car which was in volved in an accident with Am buehl's vehicle at 11th and Lau rel sts., on that date. It was then that Ambuehl was arrested on illegal possession of narcotics charges. Ambuehl was sentenced in cir cuit court to three years in the state penitentiary and fined $500 in January, this year. Walter D. Nunley, former dis trict attorney, is representing Morgan as attorney. Resort Building Destroyed by Fire Hornbrook The main build ing . at Bur-Bel resort on the Klamath river,' about six miles south of here, burned to the ground about 3 a.m. today. The owners, Mr. and Mrs. Preston E. Stretz, barely es caped. He first detected the fire after they had gone to bed. All their personal belongings were lost. The building contained the popular 'restaurant, a cocktail lounge and the Stretz' living quarters. Fire apparently started in the storeroom, but Stretz had no idea how it was ignited. The Horn brook and Yreka fire depart ments, and a forest service fire crew from Yreka, were called, but the building was gone in only about 10 minutes. Rental units behind the main building were not burned. Mrs. Stretz said this morning that much of the loss would be covered by insurance, but they have not yet decided about re building. The resort was built about 25 years ago by Irvin Sawyer, and had several owners. Mr. and Mrs. Stretz have owned it for about six years. Salem HP Oregon faces a shortage of about 2,000 teach ers. Superintendent of Public Instruction Rex Putnam said to day. Weather FORECAST: Occasional cloudi-b-ss tonisht nd Thursday. Low tonight i. High Thurs day J. Temp. Ilichrst Vrsfrdav Rl Lonrst Um Morning 46 Our Skies Tonight Thf Sun rises . 5:32 a.m. and sets .. S:SJ p.m. The invisible stars in its hark cround are now those ol the rnnstrilalion. Leo. The .Moon sets :3S t.m. N'ear it tonight is seen Spica" hrichtest star of Virgo. J'irst Quarter Saturday night Reformatory Riot In Colorado Leaves One Dead, Others injured Buena Vista, Colo. (IP) Gov. j Steve McNichols arrived here today to make an on the spot investigation of a riot of refor matory convicts Tuesday night that left one dead, several in jured and two guards wounded. More than 100 unruly prison ers, who had kept up a din of cat-calling and noise throughout the night, became silent as the governor drove -into the-re formatory yard about 9 ajn. McNichols went into an imme diate huddle with Warden James Thomas. Fifty Guards Fifty guards, armed with rifles, patrolled the corridors and grounds of this mountain medium security reformatory. They herded the convicts to a late breakfast in small groups from dormitories and cell blocks that were quiet. k But at 10 a.m., the 100-odd troublemakers were still isolat ed in "C" cell block, where the riot started. ' McNichols told newsmen he had heard . a rumor last week that there might be trouble over 'racial relations" in the re formatory. But Warden Thomas said he was at a loss to understand the outbreak, although he called it deliberate. Thomas earlier said he had noticed grumbling because the boys thought "they were worked too hard." Most of the 380 inmates, some teen-aged first offenders and others with extensive crim inal records, work on farm land and aie now in harvest season. Everesto Gomez, 23, of Den ver, who touched off the riot by attacking guard Robert Alinger with a table leg, was shot to death. McNichols ordered an investi gation today of what Thomas called the first major .outbreak at the reformatory "to my knowledge." Thomas has been warden here for 13 years. , The warden said "everything had been normal and quiet. There had been no indication that a riot was impending." Richard Benjamin, 19, , and Jerry Troxell, 21, underwent Scientists Say Strontium 90 Could Be Fatal San Franciscc (IP Two U.S, Navy scientists warned today the concentration of strontium 90 could reach fatal proportions by 1970 as a result of nuclear weapons set off through 1955. This warning came from J. D. Teresi and C. L. Newcombe of the U.S. naval radiological de fense laboratory in San Fran cisco. They spoke before a fall out symposium at the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Scientists consider strontium 90 one of the worst hazards of an atomic blast. The reason is that three months after a nuclear detonation, the danger from other radioactive particles has lessened but not that from stron tium 90. Its beta rays attack the bone structure of living beings "for exceptionally long times." As strontium 90 falls to earth, plants, animals and eventually humans take it up. It has an af finity for calcium. ed the 20 to 3u foot flame until the extinguish er ran dry. Firemen arrived shortly afterward to make quick work of the blaze. The trash box was badly charred, but no other damage, other than a smoked wall, was reported. Above, Ashton,' shows Firemen Bob Coash, Leonard Dusenbury and Walter Swaser how he tried to put out the fire with the small extinguisher. surgery for gunshot wounds in the back and stomach at XtlO Grande hospital at nearby Sa lida, Colo. Alinger, the guard, was in fair condition with a possible skull facture. Another guard, Sam Montgomery, about 45, was beaten on the, head. He was re leased from the hospital after treatment. Medford Aviator Swims From Crash Grasonville, Md. HP) Lt. Gayle Williams Jr., 28, Med ford, Ore., and co-pilot Lt. George K. Bowling, 25 Roa noke, Va.( swam to safety Sun day night from waters of Chesa peake bay after bailing out of their T-33 jet trainer. The aircraft's electrical sys tem failed as they were en route from Andrews Air Force base to Greenville, Miss. Williams reached shore near here after spending one hour and 20 minutes alternately swimming and wading. Bowling was in the water for more than two hours, but finally reached safety at Parsons island. Neither was injured. The plane crashed near Bennett Point. Lieutenant Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gayle Williams, 619 South Ivy st., Medford, called his parents Sunday eve ning to say that he is all right. The pilot had returned to duty at Mellis Air Force base, Las Vegas, Nev., Aug. 16, after spending a week in Medford with his parents. He recently re turned to the-United States aft er serving four years with the Air Force in Germany. Bomb Threat Halts UAL Plane in Portland Portland (IP) A telephoned bomb threat that turned out to be phoney last night forced a United Airlines plane carrying 72 passei.gers from Vancouver, B. C, to New York to turn back to Portland for a check out. Experiments indicate that 60 to 70 per cent of the strontium 90 which has fallen out in the United States is in soluble form and is therefore available to plants," Teresi and Newcombe reported. The Maximum The maximum amount of strontium 90 that the human body can carry safely is one tenth of a mlcrocurie, or 100 mi cromicrocuries per gram of cal cium. Teresi and . Newcombe indi cated the chances are "the body burden would be 3.8 micromicro curies per gram of calcium by 1970 as the result of weapons detonated through 1955." " . . . The possibility exists that the body burden may reach approximately 350 micromicro curics per gram of calcium in some individuals by 1970 as a re sult of weapons dfctonated through 1955." 52nd Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 22 Pages Beck Indicted by Tacoma Federal Grand Jury Today Union Boss Charged With Tax Evasion Tacoma (IP Teamsters Un ion President Dave Beck was in dicted by a federal Grand Jury here today on charges he evaded paying federal income taxes. Five other individuals were also named in the indict ment. It was the second time in less than four months that the feder al Grand Jury indicted the port ly union boss on income tax charges. Named with Beck as defend ants in today's indictment were Dave Beck Jr., Nathan Scheffer man, Chicago labor relations consultant; his son, Shelton; Norman, Gessert, general or ganizer for the teamsters and Fred Verschueren, auditor for the Teamsters Union. The government charged Beck failed to report $254,000 income during the years 1951, 1952 and 1953. The first three counts of the seven-count indictment cHarged Beck with wilful attempted eva sion of his federal income taxes during those three years. Beck was not present in court. He was in Los Angeles attending a meeting of the union s Execu tive Board. Contacted there,' he . ,. . . ai . -r ai uiuiciiueiii, uui uiai ix mere were, "it probably definitely is in connection with income taxes." Bond for the elder Beck was set at $25,000 and for all other defendants at ?5,000 each. Federal Judge John C. Bowen set Sept. 12 as the arraignment date for all defendants. Beck was indicted last May 2 by ..the same Grand - Jury on charges of evading his income taxes for the year 1950 in the approximate amount of $56,000. If convicted, Beck colild be jailed for five years and fined $10,000' for each of the nine counts in the two indictments. The maximum penalty . thus would be 45 ytears and $90,000. The fourth and fifth counts charged that Beck aided and as sisted in the preparation of fraudulent returns for 1951 and 1952 for the Joint Council Build ing Association, a teamsters real estate company. ' ' The sixth count alleged a con spiracy by Beck and his son, both of the Scheffermans, and Ges sert to evade Beck's taxes on in come from a partnership be tween the teamsters boss and Nathan Shefferman. The final count charged a con spiracy between Beck and Ver scheuren to evade taxes Beck should have paid on income di verted from union funds during 1950-53.. , Five Men To Apear . In Circuit Court Five men were scheduled to face charges in circuit court in a session opening at 2. p.m. to day. Roscoe A. Smith, 27, of Port land, and James W. Edwards, 59, of Portland, were scheduled to appear on charges of obtaining money by false pretenses. Local men expected to come before the court were Joseph W. Rawhauser, 46, St. Louis hotel, charged with forgery; Robert Gale Coftiett, 18, 516 Liberty st., charged with grand larceny; and William Douglas Edwards, 31, 14ip Hilton rd., charged with as sault with a dangerous weapon. They reached this figure by combining the lowest reported value for exchangeable calcium with the highest surface contami nation value. "The probability of the occur rence of this condition is not known," they emphasized. "Significantly, ; a predicted 1970 value of 64 micromicro curies of strontium 90 per gram of calcium was obtained for a city in Wales, based upon an actual observation of surface ac tivity and available calcium con tent and on the assumption that individuals would obtain their food supply solely from this area," Teresi and Newcombe said. ' Another Method Using another method of cal culation, the scientists found that the . expected body burden of strontium 90 by 1970 would be 1.3 micromicrocuries for the Mr MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1957 roxmire isiece To. McCarthy Se 'Miss What's-Your-Name, I've Fallen In Love With You" Ordinance Requested . All suggestions on the pro posed Jackson county sub division ordinance should - be submitted in writing , to the county court, county planning commission officials requested Monday night. ' The request came at the end of a public question and an- swer session on xne proposeu ordinance in the Jackson county . . i courthouse attended by only a few people. - A public hearing on the ordi nance will be neia some time within the next 10 days, county court members announced Mon day. If the county court ap proves the ordinance a 30-day waiting period follows Derore the new set of regulations, ber come legal, Hobert O. Pritchard, planning consultant, explained. Legal Difficulties No legal difficulties have been encountered with the ordi nance as far as can be de termined, the planning consul tant said replying to a question by Al Franzke, deputy district attorney. Franzke asked if such an ordinance had ever been challenged on its constitution ality. Pritchard said the ordinance has been established in many cities. One city held 104 hear ings on the ordinance .and adopt ed it in its entirety, he said. Purpose of the ordinance is not to burden the small man with lots of problems, he ex plained. Its aim is that only those areas which can be econo mically serviced and main tained will be developed. A surveyor at the meeting suggested that cluttering of a subdivision map could be avoid ed by putting a lot of the infor mation in narrative form to be filed with the final subdivision map which is required accord ing to the proposed ordinance. The commission said they would consider the idea further." The same man said he has an average case and 72 for the maxi mum possible case. This was based on direct analyses of bone samples in 1955 showing an aver age body burden of .12 micro microcuries of strontium 90 per gram of calcium. "In case of atomic warfare, the levels of strontium 90 may be many orders of magnitude greater than the present levels so that the problem of living in a contaminated environment af ter the survival of the emer gency period must be solved by adequate countermeasures," sci entists said. ' x "Our survival and recovery from the immediate effects of atomic warfare will have been in vain if we cannot cope with the lasting global contamination. Therefore it is imperative that ecological studies be promptly started on the urgent problems that would result from atomic warfare." 41 United Remarks On Paper aversion to putting the set back line on the final plat as stipulat ed in the proposed ordinance. If a street is, vacated, the setback is not vacated and involves the builder too often in serious dif ficulties, it was pointed out further. Not. to Control Land Answering -further comments and . questions, Pritchard said the ordinance is not designed to control land . use. Exceptions would occur when such pro posed use violates public health regulations or similar situations ine planning commission is not trying to develop an over all plan for use of land in the county, John Pletsch, chairman. explained. The commission may recommend that subdivisions not be located in certain areas but that is all it is empowered to do under the proposed ordi nance, he explained further. -Since the county ordinance covers a broader area than the city's proposed subdivision ordi nance it is necessarily weaker, it was explained AFL-CIO Opposes Hoffa, Sources Say Washington (IP) By filing corruption charges against James R. Hoffa the AFL-CIO has given a tip-off that it opposes him as president of the giant Teamsters union, miormed labor sources said today. Elevation of Hoffa now from vice president to president of the Teamsters would almost in sure the ouster of the union from the AFL-CIO, the sources said. The AFL-CIO Ethical Prac tices committee Tuesday sent the charges against Hoffa, Teamster President Dave Beck and vice presidents Frank Brewster and Sidney Brennan to the Teamsters Union. The charges will be aired before the committee late next week at a meeting here. While not made public, the AFL-CIO indicated the charges were based primarily on the Sen ate Rackets committee investiga tion which issued a 48-point ac cusation against Hoffa. The sen ators accused Hoffa of rising to power in the 1,400,000 member Teamsters, with the aid of rack eteers, loaning union money to his friends and borrowing money from officials of ' companies where the Teamsters have con tracts. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee 6 14 1 New York 12 13 2 Conley. Trowbridge (3). Jol ly (4). Pixzaro (5) and Cran dalL Sawatski (S); Barclay, McCormick (6). Crone (6) and Thomas. Home run: Mdthews, Milwaukee. Price 10 Cents Tribune Press Full Leased Wire No. 137 Former Governor Beaten by Large Majority of Votes Demo Party Claims 'Earthquake Victory' Milwaukee, Wis. (IPI Dem ocrat William Proxmire, Wis consin's upset choice to replace the late. Sen. Joseph R. McCar thy, asked state officials today to cut unnecessary red tape so he can get to' Washington im mediately. The 41-year-old baldish Prox mire defeated former Gov. Wal ter Kohler, an Eisenhower Re publican, by a whopping 116,-000-vote majority. The state Democratic Party called the election of Wiscon sin's first Democratic senator since 1932 "an earthquake vic tory." Returns from all of the state's 3,361 precincts gave Proxmire 435,523 votes and Xohler 318, 894. Three other independent candidates never were in the running and got fewer than 25, 000 votes combined. "Anxious" For Work Proxmire asked the Wiscon sin secretary of state to accept unofficial returns and certify him as the state's newly-elected senator. "I'm anxious to get to work," Proxmire said. His victory increased the Democrats' ratio in the Senate to 50-46. Democrats in the state and nation hailed Proxmire's election in this traditionally Re publican state as a "revolt" of farmers and small businessmen against ' the Eisenhower admia istration. Proxmire was ahead of Koh ler in the balloting from the start. A trend was evident shortly aftert he polls . closed when returns from traditionally GOP precincts gave Proxmire the edge. His lead mounted steadily. At 10:12 p.m. (CDT), he claimed victory and 25 years of Demo cratic frustration was ended. At his home in Kohler, Wis., Proxmire's foe, who had beaten him twice in gubernatorial elec tions, refused to comment. Sights Full Term Telephone calls to the Kohler home went unanswered and the house was dark. Kohler, who had never lost an election, was heavily favored and apparently took the setback hard. Milwaukee attorney Howard Boyle, who campaigned as a "McCarthy Republican," got 20,- 451 votes; Douglas Wheaton, an 'Always America First" candi date," got 2,256, and Mrs. Geor gia Cozzini, a Socialist Laborite, got 762. Kohler's expected strength in rural areas never materialized. Proxmire won . 56 of the state's 71 counties. He also nailed down populous ' Milwaukee county, which had been viewed as pivot al. ' Proxmire will serve out the remainder of McCarthy's term, which ends in January,- 1959. Even as the vote totals came in, Proxmire was looking ahead to campaigning for the full six year term. State Representative Changes Registration Salem (IPI Stave Rep. Joe Rogers, Independence, an nounced today he was switching his registration from Democrat to Republican. Rogers, who was chairman of the House Education committee in the last legislative session. said the move was not a break of faith with the voters because he was elected on both tickets. "No threats or reprisals were involved and no political favors are expected," Rogers said. "I simply found ' I ' was ' more in agreement with the Republican party. The Polk county farmer said he decided to switch after long and careful study and after talk ing to local Republican leaders. He added, however, that Repub licans made no effort to pres sure him into the change. Rogers said he was not bitter at the Democrats, but would at simply "run next time as a Re Zorin Agrees to Stay To Hear Rest Of American Plan Open Skies Program Also Rejected London (IP) Russia deliv ered a flat no today to the West's demand for suspension of nuclear tests as part of a first step disarmament package. But Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin agreed to keep the faltering disarma ment conference going at least long enough for the West to. present the rest of its package plan. Tuesday, Zorin rejected the plan's key proposal for open skies inspection, and indicated rejection of the latest western offer to halt nuclear tests for two years was certain. He de livered that rejection today. In Washington, President Eis enhower warned Russia that hasty rejection of western dis armament proposals would con demn the world to a future of "immeasurable danger." Pledges Efforts The President pledged the U. S. to continued efforts to "establish a just and lasting peace" despite Zorin's bitter at tack here Tuesday. Eisenhower delivered his in direct appeal and warning to .Russia in a statement issued after a one-hour conference this morning with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Shortly afterward, the State Department ' announced that U. S. delegate Harold E. Stassen is making a quick trip to the U. S. this week end to report on the London conference and to attend his son's wedding. Zorin told today's meeting, which was shorter than usual: "We do not regard the West's proposals of Aug. 21 for a con ditional two-year nuclear test suspension as a basis for agree ment." What Zorin rejected today was a major concession by the West. The Aug. 21 plan propos ed a two-year suspension of tests. Zorin condemned the open skies and nuclear-test -suspen sion offers made by the West in a blast delivered here less . than 24 hours after the' Soviet Union announced it had success fully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. '' '. But American and British of ficials said today they consid ered it highly unlikely that the Soviet Union would follow up its attack on the West with an abrupt walkout from the con ference. . "Russia has been very careful to try to make it seem as if any trouble at the conference is. en tirely the West's fault," one dele gation member said. "It would not stand to reason for them to take the onus of breaking off the talks." Stassen discussed Zorin's bit ter words with his western col leagues before today's session. Tentatively, at least, it was de cided not to make any immed iate rebuttal to Zorin, who ac cused the West of playing a "double game" and "preparing for war." Police Official Kills Children, Himself Queen City, Que. (IP) A high-ranking police official Tuesday night hurled two of his children to- their deaths in the St. Lawrence river, then leaped to his own death clutching his third child. Authorities said that Roland Masse, 42, chief of the detec tives in the Quebec City police force' was walking along a pier when he suddenly flung his son, Richard, 4, and a daughter, Micheline, 8, into the harbor. The third child, Lisete, 12, ran along the pier, screaming hysterically for help. But, as by standers looked on in horror Masse caught the child when she tripped over a coil of rope. He then leaped into the water clutching her in his arms. Crew members of a ship tied up nearby threw life, buoys into the water in a futile rescue at tempt. Authorities said Masse had appeared depressed the last two months. They said he left his office Tuesday evening, went home and told his wife he was taking the children for a drive in a police cruiser. The children were walking along the pier with their father as darkness was setting in when he suddenly turned on them. STAMPS PLANNED Washington IP) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said today he has been notified by the White House that Postmaster General Summerfield has al ready started planning for the commemorative postage stamp that will observe the centennial of Oregon's admission to the union.
