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I TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, October 10. 1957 - r Stale Describes Thomas Maloney As Conspirator Portland The jury hear ing the conspiracy trial of Thom as Maloney, Seattle and Spokane race track figure. Wednesday heard him described by the state as a conspirator to get money from gambling operations in Portland, and by the defense as a man who likes people and has aspirations to be influential. Assistant Attorney General John D. Nichols told the jury that the state will try to prove that Maloney was a conspirator with ex-District Attorney Wil liam M. Langley and Joseph P. McLaughlin, Seattle cardroora operator, to get money from gambling operations in Portland. Petty Details Defense Attorney Howard Lon ergan said "the state has singled out a few petty details from a living picture" and drawn an erroneous conclusion from them. Seven witnesses were called at Wednesday's opening session, in cluding a deposition by Kenneth E. Rinke, former chairman of the Multnomah County Democratic Central Committee. Rinke testified that Maloney took an active part in Langley's 1954 campaign for district at torney. Marvin Chamberlain, auditor of the Multnomah hotel, testified that the Western Conference of Teamsters paid two hotel bills for Maloney. Double Taxation Threat Studied Corvallis IP) Two Benton county legislators said today they will try to remove a threat of double taxation hanging over some Oregon school districts when the Legislature meets in special session this month. Sen. Francis Ziegler and Rep. Wayne Giesy said they would introduce a bill drafted by the Oregon Farm Bureau. Members of the Benton coun ty farm bureau said they had learned that a new law regulat ing rural school districts per mits an area within an adjacent county's union high school dis trict to be taxed twice once by the rural district in its own county and again by the rural district in the adjacent county. Four school districts in Ben ton county would be affected by the law. A Benton county deputy assessor said it would probably boost their taxes by 50 mills for every dollar of as sessed value on real property. School districts in Multnomah, Washington. Polk, Clackamas, Yamhill, Marion, Lane, Linn, Douglas, Harney, Malheur and Coos counties face the same threat of taxation by two counties. World's Largest Barge To Be Built Seattle W The largest barge In the world will be built at the Todd Shipyard here and will go into service in 1958, it was an nounced Wednesday. Capt. A. Leppaluoto, general manager of the Upper Colum bia River Towing Co., Vancou ver, Wash., said the barge will be 299 feet long and 74 feet 8 inches wide. It will have a draft of 15 feet 6 inches. The baree. which was design ed by Philip F. Spaulding and Associates, Seattle, will carry 7.500 tons, or 250.000 bushels cf wheat. '. 4 ' ROMANCE IS IN THE AIR Penny, who was a baby elephant when bought by con tributions (mainly from children) for the San Francisco Zoo two years ago, is a big girl now and love has found her heart Penny balances on the edge of the moat to hold trunks with her unidentified boy friend, whose attention she attracted by rattling the metal at right. Robber Gets $2200 At Caldwell Bank Caldwell, Idaho TP) Law enforcment officers in Idaho and eastern Oregon today searched for the blond robber who held up the bank of Idaho at Caldwell and took S2.200 Wednesday. The man walked into the bank about 2:30 p.m., handed a teller a note demanding money, and then fled with the bills which the teller handed over. Bank rVice-Presrderti-Martin Warberg said the robber last was seen running through the bank parking lot. ... Warberg said the man carried out the holdup after standing in line at the window operated by Mrs. Beth Whitney. Mrs. Whitney said the man handed her a note informing her he wanted all the S20, $10 and S5 bills in her pay cage and that he "had a gun." She said there was "more" to the note, 'but I can't remember what it said." Puget Sound Fishing Season Reopened Olympia Hi Milo Moore, di rector of the Department of Fisheries, Wednesday announc ed the reopening of a restricted commercial salmon fishing sea son in the Puget Sound. Willapa and Grays Harbor starting Oct. 20. Moore said the emergency closure, put into effect Sept. 27. had allowed escapement of chinook and silver salmon to the streams for spawning. He added that the limited reopening is for chum dog salmon and some late silver runs. Farmers Advised To Grow Christmas Trees Urbana. 111. (I? W. F. Bulk ley, a University of Illinois for ester, advises farmers that "con sidering the high price of pro ducing corn" Christmas tree planting may net more income per acre and do it on poorer soil. Christmas trees give a rapid turnover from land that is not paying its taxes. Bulkley added. Pine trees can be purchased for only a few cents apiece from state nurseries and sold for around S2 each, he pointed out. MOVIES OFF LIMITS Sao Paulo, Brazil IP Minors under 18 years of age were barred by a juvenile court de cree today from attending the aters showing an American rock 'n roll movie. The film's title is "New York Fantasy." Special Paddy Wagon Hauls Huge Deserter Portland HP) Military po lice from Fort Lewis made them selves a big haul here Wednes day. A special paddy wagon de tail came to Portland to pick up 370-pound Samuel K. Wood. Authorities said Wood, 41, faces a charge of wartime de sertion, having disappeared from Camp Forest, Tenn., in August of 1943. The provost marshal's office said Wood had been convicted of forgery and was reporting to the Multno mah county sheriffs office when a fingerprint check disclosed him as a deserter. The paddy wagon was em ployed to transfer Wood to Fort Lewis because he proved too bulky to squeeze through bus doors. He will be held in the stockade at Fort Lewis "and appear before a court martial board as soon as supply ser geants find a dress uniform to fit him. Motorist Killed as Auto Hits Barrier Pendleton ftP) James L. Mendenhall, 50, The Dalles tele phone company employee, was injured fatally Wednesday night when his car struck a barrier on a newly paved section of High way 395 about 5M miles south of here and rolled into a ditch Mendenhall, who was travel ing alone, was thrown from the car about 6 p.m. He died a short while later at St. Anthony's hos pital in Pendleton. It was Umatilla county's 11th traffic fatality of the year. Girards Victim Warned To Stay Away From Range Maebashi, Japan (IPi The husband of the Japanese shell picker who was shot and killed by Army Sp-3 William S. Girard testified today he warned his wife "numerous times" to stay away from the Camp Weir firing range during U. S. Army exer cises. Arikichi Saki told of his re peated warnings before the Jap anese court trying Girard on charges of manslaughter in the death of Mrs. Naka Sakai last Jan. 30. He admitted it was one of his duties as village councillor to instruct villagers to keep away from the range when firing prac tices were underway. Crowded Soldiers The first witness called by the defense, however, testified that shell pickers crowded so close to American soldiers the day Mrs. Sakai was killed that they kicked over a machinegun and knocked down the gunner. 1st Lt. William G. Gigante, 25, of Detroit, Mich., said the ex ercises were finally suspended because the Japanese crowded so close "their lives were en dangered." Gigante was a pla toon leader during the Camp Weir maneuvers. Visual Problems Discussed at Meeting Ashland V i s u a 1 problems rank second only to dental de fects as the nations greatest health problem, according to Dr. William J. Thompson, Medford optometrist, director of profes sional services of the Oregon Optometric association. Dr. Thompson spoke at a meeting of the Ashland Kiwa nis club this week. The optometric profession is alarmed over the high incidence of rejection from the armed services because of visual de ficiencies, Dr. Thompson said. He noted that more men were rejected for inadequate vision than for any other single cause. In tracing the cause of these rejections, Dr. Thompson ex plained that cultural and envir onment changes have contribut ed to the high incidence of visual problems and society has not kept pace in adapting to greater demands on our visual processes. t He stated that greater atten tion should be. placed on the visual environment of school children. Woman, 66, Object Of Wide Search Umatilla OF A search was pressed today in the Umatilla- Boardman area for Mrs. Clara Lovette, 66, of Arlington, Ore. State police said Mrs. Lov ette had been missing from her home since 2 p.m. Tuesday, when she said she was going for a walk. A search in the Mor row county area has failed to produce any trace of her, police said. Her husband, Jesse Lov ette. said his wife suffered from a heart condition. Mrs. Bird Builds Nest in Mop Left Out To Dry Memphis, Tenn. (IP Harold Faircloth put her mop on the back porch to dry and when next she sought to use it, found that a bird had made a nest in it. The bird had burrow ed out a small hole in the yarn and made it secure with - mud and straw. , - - Chesterfield Claim Crackdown Urged Washington (W A Federal Trade Commission examiner rec ommended today that the FTC call a halt to Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. claims that Chester fields have no bad effect on smokers. But examiner William L. Pack did not suggest that the com pany drop its claims that Chest erfields are "milder" and more "soothing and relaxing." In his ruling Pack said cig arette smoking is bound to have "some adverse effect" on the smoker's nose, throat and other organs. yAHenlion!W Peoples Market I NOW OPEN TILL 11 P.M. J i 304 N. Main, Ashland Across from M Briscoe School No Solution Seen For French Crisis Paris (W French political leaders began discussing the government crisis in terms of weeks and even months today. The crisis precipitated by fall of Premier Maurice Bourges Maunoury was 10 days old to day, and no solution was in sight though France was deep in eco nomic troubles and beset by the costly Algerian rebellion. Failure Wednesday night of moderate leader Rene Pleven to form a cabinet committed the country to a long and potenti ally dangerous stalemate that may end with dissolution of the National Assembly and new gen eral elections. Pleven's failure apparently boosted the chances of Socialist Guy Mollet. Mollet gave up on one attempt to form a govern ment when he found the many political parties unable to unite; the dangers France faces now could bring them into line. William Clark Dies in Ceylon Colombo, Ceylon (IP) Wil liam Clark, controversial former U.S. chief justice in postwar Germany, died of a heart at tack while on vacation here, it was reported. Clark was vacationing with his wife at Nuwheraeliya. She was at his side when he died. Clark was 66. He was born in Newark, N.J., son of the founder of the Clark thread mills. Clark was appointed chief jus tice of the Court of Appeals of the U.S. military government in Germany in 1948. He held that post until 1953 when he was dis missed in the climax of a long feud with then U.S. High Com missioner James B. Conant. The controversy involved the question of court jurisdiction. In November of 1953, Clark was ordered to return to Washing ton for "consultations." 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