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Over Little Rack I GOVERNORS PLAN Melhod To Ease Little Rock Crisis Given President Withdrawal of Troops Understood in Scheme Washington HP) Four "mod erate" southern governors pre sented to President Eisenhower today a plan for easing the Little Rock school integration crisis. Shortly before they went to the White House for the crucial conference. North Carolina Gov. Luther Hodges, chairman of the delegation, said: "I have high hopes that we ran come to some solution of the Little Rock situation." Hodges and Govs. Leroy Col lins of Florida, Theodore R. Mc Keldin of Maryland and Frank Clement of Tennessee drafted their "plan of action" at a mara thon strategy meeting which broke up two hours before they went to the White House. All four were "cautiously op timistic." Withdrawal of Troops They refused to reveal their "plan of action," but it was un derstood to call for withdrawal of federal troops from Little Rock coupled with a promise to "sell" Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus on any compromise solu tion and win assurance of his compliance. It was believed the four were in telephone communication with Faubus during their advance strategy huddle. Before the four governors went to the White House, the federal government took the first step toward removing the irrita ti n of what Faubus has called "federal occupation" of Little Rock. Paratroops of the 101st Airborne Division were replaced on guard at Central High school by the federalized Arkansas Na tional Guard. Meanwhile, a dozen segrega tionists, led by itinerant agitator John Kasper, picketed the White House before and during the meeting, protesting against "po lice state rule of Arkansas by General Eisenhower. The seg regationists, in turn, were pick eted by two Negroes. Kasper said the "scalawag" governors were here to "sell the white people generally and the South in particular." Hold Long Huddle The four governors announced after s four-hour, 20-minute strategy sessirn before the White House conference that they would confine their proposals to the federal-state clash in Little Rock. But Hodges said they did not close the door on broadening the area of discussion if Eisen hower wants to bring up general questions on southern racial problems. Train WredKilts 300 in Pakistan Lahore, Pakistan HP) A head on colision between a passenger train and an oil train in West Pakistan Sunday has claimed nearly 300 lives, according to re ports reaching here today. It was West Pakistan's fifth major rail disaster in seven years. The passenger express missed a loop that was to have carried it around the oil train which was stopped on the main line at a wayside station at Gambar, about 81 miles from Lahore. The collision showered both trains with oil and the resulting fire reduced to cinders te first four passenger cars. Four other passenger cars were telescoped. Biy Declared Emergency Area as Result of Storm Bly, Ore. UP! The Klamath county chapter of the Red Cross today was authorized to consid er the town of Bly an emergency area as a result of damage done by a violent hailstorm Sunday afternoon. Roofs Damaged The roof of virtually every building in the community was damaged by hailstones the size of golf balls and roofs of 10 per cent of the buildings were wrecked. The Red Cross disaster com mittee of Klamath Falls visited the stricken area today to assess damages and to allocate aid on the basis of need. IF ACT 0 Wrong Toofh Yanked; Patient Threatens To Murder Dentist San Francisco HP Police rushed to the dental office of Dr. Gerald T. O'Connor Mon day lo quiet a patient who threatened io kill the dentist, berated him an hour, and told all his patients to go home. The patient, Nicholas Aor lowsky, told police he had a good reason for his action he claimed O'Connor pulled the wrong tooth. Japan Elected To Security Council On First Ballot United Nations, N.Y. ftp Japan was elected to the U.N. Security Council on the first ballot over Soviet opposition to day. Canada and Panama also were elected to two-year terms. All three countries take office next Jan. 1. The U. S. supported all three successful candidates. Russia, claiming under the "gentleman's agreement" of 1946 the seat wen by Japan belonged to Eastern Europe, waged a vig orous campaign for Czechoslova kia on the council. 52 Votes Necessary In the secret ballof, Panama received 74 votes, Canada 72, Ja pan 55, Czechoslovakia 25. Single votes were cast for Argen tina, Brazil, Chile, the Domini can Republic, Italy, India and Sudan. Fifty-two votes were necessary for election. Panama .will replace Cuba, Canada takes over from Austra lia, and Japan assumes the seat now held by the Philippines next January. The Steering Committee voted Monday to include on the Gen eral Assembly agenda two items proposed by Russia, peaceful co existence and suspension of nu clear tests. Young Men Arrested On Larceny Charges Two young men, one reported to be from Gold Hill and the other from Portland, are in the Jackson county jail charged with grand larceny. Sheriff's officers said they ar rested Gary, Lee Pyle, 21, Gold Hill and Ervin Frederick Grubbe Jr., 22, Portland, yesterday at Kane creek near Gold Hill. They are charged with taking two 1956 Chevrolet cars from Port land recently. One car was found in a shed in the Kane creek area and the two drove up in the sec ond car while the officers were investigating. Officers said they were cheek ing the possibility that Jackson county men were involved in three burglaries reported in Grants Pass recently. Serial numbers had been filed off the engine blocks of both cars and license plates switched, the officers said. Three Children Die In School Bus Wreck Los Angeles 0?) Three chil dren were killed and 25 others injured Monday when a paroch ial school bus went out of con trol down a steep grade and plunged into a 35-foot ravine. Police said brakes on the bus apparently failed as the vehicle was halfway down the three block hill. The bus, travelling at an estimated 70 miles an hour, crashed through a guard rail at the end of the street and overturned in the ditch. Parked cars were damaged and shop and home windows shattered by the storm centered over the city. The stones fell over a 30-minute period. The melting hail built up tc three inches of water over the floor of the Sycan store and owner Larry Svensgaard esti mated damages at S2500. Oat Crop Lost Rancher William Tucker said his entire 300 acres of oats, just ready for harvesting, was lost. The General Adjustment Bureau of Klamath Falls dispatched Don Tullis of San Francisco, a spec ial adjustor, to Bly to estimate crop damages. 5 Political Crisis Grips France as Government Falls De Gaulle May Be Summoned To Duty Paris (IF. France was plunged today into its most difficult political crisis since World War II. There was speculation Gen. Charles De Gaulle might be called from political retirement to save the Four'.h Republic. The government of Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury fell on a vote of confidence shortly before midnight. The issue was his proposed law to give more home rule to rebellious Algeria, and the fight against it was led by fiery Conservative Jacques Soustelle. Deeply Divided Never since the war has France been split so deeply on an issue as on Algeria. A solu tion appeared impossible and the influential Paris newspaper La Monde warned that the crisis may be so big there may even be a "call to De Gaulle." De Gaulle retired from active politics in 1952 after helping form the Fourth Republic at end of World War II and twice serv ing as premier. France's splintered National Assembly voted 279-253 against Bourges - Maunory's "framework law" for Algeria and the 109-day government fell with a crash, triggered by Soustelle's declara tion the plan would lead Algeria to independence. It was the 23rd postwar gov ernment. Man Arrested After Accident, fight City police arrested Tommy Carlyle Natwick, 34, of 616 Palm st., Medford, on charges of disorderly conduct and cited him for failure to leave information at the scene of an accident last night. Police said Natwick was trav eling at high speed on Central ave. when he lost control of the car and went onto a lawn be tween Court and Clark sts. where he hit two trees. The car continued with one tire flat, witnesses told police. Police went to the area, and the Medford central fire station reported that a car matching the Natwick car's descriDtion raced along West Third st.. crossed the tracks and parked near the Grape st. intersection. Police said hubcaps and headlight parts found at the ac cident scene matched those missing on the car. A man was seen leaving the car and head ing south along the Southern Pa cific tracks, firemen told police. Natwick was arrested later after police received reports of a fight at the Yellow Cab com pany stand at Fifth st. and Cen tral ave. Police said Natwick at tempted to take the keys of a taxi from the driver. c; Police arrested Natwick - on charges of disorderly conduct and then cited him for failing to leave information at the scene of an accident. He was released this morning on S50 bail, police said. Little Girl's Body Discovered in River Bellingham, Wash. OP) The body of 2-year-old Yvonne Rus sell was found in the Nooksask river today, ending a 22-hour search in which more than 600 persons participated. The search party combed the area about 15 miles northeast of here Monday and resumed the search after the girl's mother ex pressed fear her daughter had been kidnaped. The river winds through a for est near the Canadian border and flows within 300 yards of the Russell home. Registration Figures Show Increase atSOC Ashland Fall registration at Southern Oregon college in Ashland is approximately the same as in 1956, Mrs. Mabel W. Winston, registrar, said today. Total enrollment this fall is 740 compared to 733 for the fall term of 1956. she said. Freshman enrollment is up 3 per cent, she added. The distribution is about equal between men and women. 52nHx' r CALVIN SMITH Receives Forester Post Association Names District Forester In Southern Oregon Calvin L. Smith has been ap pointed district forester for the Industrial Forestry association at Medford, according to W. D. Hagenstein, executive vice pres ident of the association. Smith will handle the associ ation's tree farm ' program in Jackson, Josephine and Curry, and parts of Douglas and Coos counties, Hagenstein explained. Smith is a graduate of the school of forestry, University of Minnesota. He has five years of industrial forestry experience in the Douglas fir region in west ern Washington and northern California. Starts As Logger Starting as a logger, Smith has , had experience in forest production, engineering, cruis ing, scaling and forest manage ment. He served in the U. S.' Navy in World War II and is a membor of the Society of Am erican Foresters. Smith will work directly un der H. R. Glasscock Jr., the as sociation's district Jorester at Eugene. The two men will work as a team to aid private land owners and the forest industries throughout southwestern Ore gon in tree farming and other forestry matters. Smith's headquarters will be in the Goldy building and he will share offices with the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association. Though the forest products market is currently soft, tree farming must continue right along to assure an adequate timber supply, Hagenstein con cluded. White Man Terrorizes Negroes in Oklahoma Stillwater, Okla. (IP) Charges of assault with a deadly weapon were to be filed today against a 22-year-old white laborer who terrorized a Negro family with a shotgun and butcher knife after listening to a tavern dis cussion of the events at Little Rock. David L. Ventris said "I must have been nuts to do something like that." He said he had been drinking and couldn't remember anything about breaking into the home of Louis Johnson, dressd in Ku Klux Klan style. Johnson, 46, overpowered Ventris and took away the shot gun and knife and bashed him unconscious with a vacuum cleaner tube. The Negro said he would have killed Ventris had his wife not calmed him. 27 Asian Flu Cases Confirmed in Oregon Portland OP New laboratory reports confirming three more cases of Asian influenze were disclosed today by the State Board of Health. The latest cases brought the total of confirmed Asian flu cases in the state to 27. Involved were a teacher and a girl stu dent at Lincoln High School in Portland where the absentee rate rose 25 per cent last week, and a boy at Beaverton High school. An outbreak of about 300 flu like ailments is under, investiga tion at Beaverton. Dr. Samuel B. Osgood, state epidemiologist, emphasized that there is no general epidemic of flu in Oregon now, but he said a major outbreak could strike I before next spring. Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1957 Hoffa Stopped Lee Soys Contenders Will Discuss Coalition To Block Election Backstage Drive Gains Momentum Washington (IT) Chief Justice Earl Warren refused today to bar the Teamsters Union national election sched uled in Miami Beach, Fla., la ter this week. Miami Beach, Fla. OPl Wil liam A. Lee of Chicago reported today that he and other candi dates opposing James R. Hoffa for president of the Internation al Brotherhood of Teamsters have "got him stopped." Lee huddled briefly with fel low Chicagoan, Thomas J. Hag gerty, also a candidate for presi dent, on a possible merger to block Hoffa's bandwagon. A Haggerty spokesman said Lee, Haggerty and the third contend er, Thomas L. Hickey of New York, plan to meet late today to discuss a coalition. Drive Gains Momemtum The all-out drive to cut Hoffa's big lead gained momentum back stage while the convention was tied up in a dull session on con stitutional changes. The other big developments during the morning session were in the Cre dentials Committee where chal lenges to seating of more than 500 delegates were being con sidered. Many of the brawny truck drives are indignant over ob.iec tionf. to their credentials. They said they would let off steam when the convention considers the challenges at its second ses sion. But Hoffa's lieutenants said the credentials squabble will be just a sideshow in the clash of contenders to succeed departing Dave Beck. English Backs Hoffa Old-time Teamster John F. English, secretary - treasurer of the union, struck a heavy blow at anti-Hoffa forces by coming out for the Midwest boss of tne big union. Haggerty, milk wagon driver from Chicago in the presidential race, was geared to fight against accepting credentials of 177 del egates, i He said most of them were pledged to Hoffa. The credentials committee, on its own initiative, questioned 394 other delegates for the grand to tal of 571. Ashland Firm Fined $20,000 on Charges Sacramento OP) Magnolia Lumber company, Ashland, Ore., was fined $20,000 in Federal court here Monday for theft and destruction of government prop erty on about 60 acres of gov ernment land near Pecwan creek drainage in Humboldt county. The fine was levied by U.S District Judge Frank McLaugh lin after the firm was found guilty last June of theft of logs Judge McLaughlin issued the highest possible fine on each of the two proven charges S10.000 apiece. President of the lumber company is R. Drew Lamb, also of Ashland. Man Crushed To Death At Cougar Dam Site Springfield (IP) Don A Acord, 27, Twist, Wash., was crushed to death by a rolling tractor today. It was the first fatality on the Army Engineers Cougar dam site on the south fork of the McKenzie river. Weather FORECAST: Generally cloudy with occasional light showers tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 50. High tomorrow 68 Temp. Highest Yesterday "0 Lowest this Morning 54 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 12 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:05 a.m. Sunset 5:54 p.m.' Moonset Wednesday ..12:21 a.m. Full Moon (Hunter's Moon) Oct. 8 PROMINENT STARS Vega, high overhead at sunset, will he in the northwest at mid night. Capella. in the northeast it midnight, will be high over head at 4:40 a.m. United "Later On, I'd Like To Booklet Explaining County Taxes Mailed Small booklets explaining the how's and why's of county taxes have been mailed to about 30, 000 taxpayers in Jackson county with their tax statements, Coun ty Assessor Ray . Schumacher said today. . This is the first, time Jackson county taxpayers have received such a booklet. Previously vital tax information was mailed out in separate sheets by the asses sor's and the sheriff's offices. "I've tried to publish main in formation which taxpayers re quest of this office during tax time," Schumacher explained. "This way I hope to save us many man hours and give a more complete, satisfactory ex planation to the taxpayers." Explanation of Taxes The only thing new about the booklet is the explanation of taxes. Codes and summary of the county taxes have been mailed in previous years, he said. The small attractive booklet explains why property taxes are paid, what a property owner re ceives for his tax money, what a fair share is and to what pub lic bodies the tax money is dis tributed. On the back of the booklet the county valuation and tax system is charted. "I feel anyone who really wants to analyze the booklet will find practically all the answers to his tax questions, the assessor said.. Schumacher said a few of the larger counties have published such booklets in order to ex plain figures and summarize the total values in cities and school districts. Booklet Explained In the first few pages, the booklet explains why the tax payers guide is being furnished. It .also explains how the county provides such services as the health department, agricultural programs, county schools, rural fire protection, veterans' serv ice and welfare. City services listed include parks, water and sewer facilities, police and fire protection, libraries, street maintenance, airport, traffic en gineering and planning commis sion. Under schools are listed such items as management to save Ike Urges Worldwide Plan For Nuclear Development Vienna OP) President Eisen hower delivered a new atoms for peace call today coupled with a prayer "that the splitting of the atom may some day unify a divided world." Urges Program In a message read to the open ing session here of the 55-nation International Atomic Energy conference, the President urged a worldwide nuclear develop ment program "whereby the fis sioned atom will be transformed into the means of proyiding rich er, healthier and happier lives." "May this conference," the President added, "be inscribed in history as marking the turn ing point where man's fears of Price 10 Cents Tribune Press Full Leased Wire No. 138 Ask You Something' tax dollars, buildings and main- t e n a n c e, teachers salaries, books ancT supplies, buses and transportation for children. An explanation of the special districts such as water, sanita tion and irrigation districts is included. Why Property Taxes A concise explanation is giv en on why property taxes are required: "Taxes are the results of requirements of budgets of taxing districts who give serv ices or improvements to prop erty owners requesting these services or improvements. If people did not request and vote taxing districts, bonds, improve ments and services, property taxes would be a minor consid eration in the life of the average taxpayer." The general method of assess ing property is explained. Work done in the county as sessor's office is outlined. Charts of figures such as the classification of property as to value, general summary of taxes, other statistics such as what the average appraised value is inside and outside Med ford, is included. The 1957-58 tax codes and levies are listed. Thundershowers Add To Florida Troubles By UNITED PRESS Thundershowers today fed the rain-swollen waters of Lake Tal quin, near. Tallahassee, Fla., which already have washed away a dam and threatened to flood Gulf Coast fishing, .villages. While torrential rains caused numerous lakes and ponds in the Tallahassee area to swell over their banks, the U.S.' Weather Bureau promised no relief for the region which has just finish ed its wettest September in 30 years. . x At some points, eight inches of rain fell Monday, while at Panacea, near the Gulf Coast, well over a foot has fallen since the week end began. Cloudy skies and general rains today were forecast for the southeast portion of the country from Virginia through Alabama, Georgia and Florida. the atom yielded to hope and to the wider cooperation neces sary to establish that peace which is desired of all men." The message was read to the conference by Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss. Worldwide Agency Goal The conference was summon ed to set up the. first worldwide atoms - for - peace agency stem ming directly from President Eisenhower's historic call to the United Nations Dec. 8, 1953. At the start of the conference the U.S. drummed up support from wetern and neutral nations to block any Soviet move to rail road Red China into this organization. 3 YEARS h Action Firs) Step At Withdrawal of Federal Troops Faubus Undecided On Special Session Little Rock, Ark. OP) Na tional Guards replaced the reg ulars of the 101st Airborne Di vision on daytime sentry duty around Central High School to day in the first step to vard with drawal of federal troops. An Army spokesman said members of the federalized Arkansas National Guard hence forth will be in "comDlete charge" of protecting Central High around the clock. Quartered Beneath Stadium About 100 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne remained at the high school, quartered in locker rooms beneath the football sta dium. Nearly 1,000 other para troopers are being held at an Army reserve training armory in Little Rock and at Camp Robin son, on the outskirts of the city. Gov. Orval E. Faubus, mean while, told a news conference he still hasn't made up his mind whether to call the Arkansas Legislature into special session to consider closing Central High School. i Faubus said "it is possible" that the conference of southern governors with President Eisen hower today will have "some weight" on his decision. Makes Own Decisions The governor said he would "welcome any suggestion" from the conference in Washington "which will ease the situation here." But he quickly added that he will not feel bound by' any agreements or decisions reached in the White House talks. His only comment on the switch from regulars to guards men at Central High was to riote that "the 101st is still in Little Rock." Asked whether he thought there would be any dan ger of mob violence now, if all troops were removed, Faubus re plied: "That is something 'they (the federal authorities) should judge for themselves." -. . - Walker inspected the guards men this morning shortly after nine Negro students were escort ed into the school for their fifth day of integrated classes. The West Point trained general said he was "impressed" with the guard troops, and . satisfied of their ability to keep order. To Stay in City . Military, sources intimated that the paratroopers will stay in Little Rock for several more days at least, but will keep "in the background" while the 153rd Infantry Regiment of the Ar kansas Guard escorts, the Negro children to the school and keeps order in the school area. The nine Negro students drove to school as usual this morning in an Army station wagon pre ceded and followed by Jeep loads of troops. This time, how- ;ever, the troops in the Jeeps ("were Arkansas guardsmen rath er than members cf the 101st Airborne. The Negroes walked up the front steps of the high school at 8:22 a.m., trailed by several guardsmen. The usual crowd of white students waited on the steps to watch them enter. There was a flurry of excite ment when two white boys step ped into the path of the Negro students, and one of the Negro girls, Melba Petillo, 15, dropped one of her books. Guardsmen raced up. But by the time they reached the spots, Melba had retrieved her book and all of the Negro children had walked on into the building. Walk Around Whites Some witnesses who observed the incident from about 100 yards away on the sidewalk opposite the school thought one of the white boys had deliber ately knocked the girl's books from her arms. But Lt. Col. Thomas Matthews a regular Army public informa tion officer who was on the scene, said there was no jost ling. Matthews said two boys did step into the path of the Negroes, apparently intending to block, their entry, but the Negroes walked around them and went on in. He said the girl's books fell accidentally from her arms. September Hoffesf in Portland Records Portland (IP) The weather bureau said here today last month was the hottest Septem ber on record in the 55 years that weather records have been kept at the downtown customs house. The average high temperature for the month was 80.1 degrees, compared to an average of 13.4. There was sunshine 74 per cent of the daylight hours while nor mally the sun shines onry 59 per cent of the time in Septem ber in Portland.
