TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, October 29. 1957
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SOARING INTO SPACE more than 4,000 miles, a U. S. Air Force rocket is pictured as it
starts its historic flight, higher than any other man-made object, from a balloon at Eni
wetok atoll Left, rocket flames start beneath the balloon; middle, rocket is inside balloon;
right it is above balloon and on its way to outer space. (International Soundphoto)
Back Stairs: Queen's Lasting
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press White House Writer
Washington CP) Back stairs
at the White House
Queen Elizabeth and Prince
Philip made a lasting impression
on the White House
A truck that came to pick up
their baggage the night they de
parted banged into the large
metal canopy over the entrance
to the White House office wing
and buckled it noticeably
The canopy is still twisted at
an angle, its supporting steel
rods bent. There is a split down
the center and a quite noticeable
accordion pleat in part of the
"roof.
One observer said It would
seem that the British weren't
satisfied with burning the White
House in 1814 they're trying to
knock it down.
But the truth is that the of
fending truck belonged to the
United States Army!
State Department protocol
chief, Wiley T. Buchanan Jr.
wore a worried look last Friday
when, in an obvious flutter, he
raced through the West Execu
tive ave. entrance to the White
House.
Buchanan Is a gear for pro
priety, formality, dignity and
punctuality. In fact, he carries
himself with more regality than
many of the diplomats and for
eign "leaders he presents to Presi
dent Eisenhower.
One reason for his worried
look may have been that he was
late for the White House arrival
of Paul Henry Spaak. the secre
tary general of NATO.
If Buchanan looked back to
the record of some of his prede
cessors Buchanan might not wor
ry so much about the preserva
tion of starchy formality.
George Summerlin, who re
tired years ago, was one of the
most famous protocol officers in
history, and one of the most ac
complished. George could pre
sent a queen to the President
with flourish and aplomb seldom
matched. Then he would walk to
the side of the room, fish out a
bag of Bull Durham from his
tail coat and roll a cigarette in
cowboy style without spilling a
flake of tobacco.
Stanley Woodward, the proto
col chief during the Truman ad
ministration, at one time was
probably about as stiff as Bu
chanan. But under Harry Tru
man's influence, he became a
study in proper but quite easy
going manners. He even learned
to take a straight shot of bour
bon out of a jelly glass.
It probably never will be an
nounced, but it won't be denied
.when Buchanan gave the
heave-ho to his hard-working
deputy. Victor Purse, he fired a
man who was and still is highly
popular around the White House.
Press Secretary James C. Hag-
Paisley Killer
Gels Life Term
Lakeview, Ore. CPi Jesse
Thurman Hibdon. 30, of Merced,
Calif., began serving a life sen
tence in Oregon State prison to
day for the gunshot killing of
a town marshal during a holdup
at Paislev. Ore.
Hibdon was found guilty of
shooting to death John T. Law
son, 60, acting town marshal,
while trying to rob the Paisley
nost office in Oct. 10.
Circuit Judge Charles Foster
imposed a life sentence when
Hibdon appeared in his court
room Monday.
Hibdon's attorney. Robert
Welch said Hibdon could be pa
roled after serving 7,2 years.
However, Hibdon faces charges
of armed robbery at McCloud.
Calif., and federal charges for
robbing the Paisley post office.
Appearing in court with Hib
don was Donald Ferguson, 32,
of Bakersfield, Calif., his al
leged partner in the holdup.
Ferguson asked the court to
appoint an attorney for him be
cause he has no. money. Foster
designated Welch as his attor
ney. Ferguson will apear in
court Wednesday
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erty has no intention of sticking
his White House ear into the
State Department family squab
ble between Buchanan and
Purse. But he makes no secret of
the fact that he considers Purse
a good, personal friend.
Purse, according to White
House gossip, earned Buchanan's
dislike because "Vic" was con
sulted more and more on ar
rangements for high-ranking for
eign visitors. Around the White
House, they have rather firm
reason to believe that Buchanan
had known for some time that
Purse wanted to leave protocol
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The Hollywood Scene
Hollywood (IP) Movie stu
dios have had singular lack of
success at turning out top-rated
TV shows. The
switch from
widescreen to
micro -wave
seems too tough
for the big
fellows to han
dle. Now, how
ever, Warner
B r o thers an-
Vernon Scott nounces a ma
jor expansion program to gear
itself to the demands of video.
Westerns have been the key
to success for the giant studio.
Its three hour-long horse operas
"Cheyenne," Maverick and
"Sugarfoot" have inspired the
moguls to spawn still another
oat oper, "Colt .45," a half-hour
series.
Horror Epic Next
Next in sight is a horror epic
titled "House of Wax," sched
uled to go on the air next year.
Up to now the majority of
Warners' 21 huge sound stages
have been empty. On an aver
age, only three pictures are
shooting on the lot at any given
time.
But television, the upstart in-
Boy Seoul Group
Aided by Crusade
The Crater Lake council of
the Boy Scouts, which supports
cubs, scouts' and explorers, is
another of the 25 agencies in
the Medford area which receive
all or part of the supporting
funds through the efforts of the
United Medford Crusade.
The program is divided into
the three phases of instruction
according to the boy's ages.
Cubs are boys eight through 10
years, scouts 11 through 14
years and explorers 14 years
and older.
The Cub Scout program cen
ters about a weekly den meet
ing which is made of a neigh
borhood group and watched
over by a den mother. They
hold a meeting once each month
termed a pack meeting at which
the boys show projects, present
skits and receive awards before
their parents
The Boy Scouts take part in
out-of-doors programs and meet
once weekly with a local group
called a patrol and once per
month as a troop when all pa
trols meet together. The boys
are under the leadership of a
boy leader under the Boy
Scouts program.
The Explorer Scout is under
the guidance of a skilled man.
The boy learns to plan, build
and see the results of his own
program. Explorers participate
in four types of activities inclu
ding outdoor, social, service and
vocational.
The money received from the
Crater Lake council goes to
towards paying the salary of
professional scout leaders, to
conduct training for the boys'
leaders, to make literature avail
able, for operation of the coun
cil office and to operate a sum
mer camp.
The boys scouts are now in
the middle of a four-year pro
gram named "Onward for God
and My Country". The program
places emphasis on the boys be
ing prepared physical, skill,
spirit, will and as a member of
a team so they may achieve the
skill of working and living in a
democracy.
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Impression
work and return to his previous
State Department field of per
sonnel and congressional liaison.
Purse was removed from his
post not too many minutes after
Buchanan watched from the
ground as Purse alighted from
the presidential plane, Colum
bine III, after a flight from New
York.
Buchanan made the same trip
the night before by commercial
aircraft.
He could have traveled aboard
the President's plane if he had
asked. Purse didn't ask. He was
invited.
By VERNON SCOTT
United Press Writer
dustry that wrecked the box
office in the first place, is giv
ing new life to the old lot.
Says company president Jack
L. Warner, "possibilities for
television motion pictures are
limitless, and Warner Brothers
is prepared to meet their maxi
mum potenial."
To back up his words, Warn
er is building a new million
do 1 1 a r television operations
building on the lot.
He also revealed a TV detec
tive 'series is coming up.
For the first time in Cinema
City history a major studio is
turning out more celluloid for
TV than for popcorn palaces.
Initial Breakthrough
This is the initial break
through by a studio in the TV
field. Three years ago 20th
Century-Fox and Metro-Goldwn-Mayer
invaded the electronic
medium with promies of "ma
jor league" entertainment.
They flopped. Other studios
stood by watching cautiously.
Surprisingly, Warners did not
depend on established stars to
carry the TV load instead
they called on newcomers to
tote the six-guns. Clint Kalker
('Cheyenne"), James Garner
("Maverick"), Will Hutchins
("Sugarfoot") and Wayde Pres
ton ("Colt .45" are foreign
names to theater marquees.
A reverse twist may be em
ployed. These new-found TV
stars may soon be starring in
feature length movies.
Thanks to the western, movies
are getting back in the saddle,
and it looks as if Warner Broth
ers was the fastest on the draw.
Satellite Rocket To
Be Seen in December
Cambridge, Mass. (IP) Near
ly everyone on the face of the
earth should be able to see the
Russian satellite rocket in early
December, an astronomer said
today.
The rocket's orbit will lie in
the twilight band of the earth
during these days and will be
"highly visible" between Dec. 1
and 3, Karl S. Henice said.
Henice, senior astronomer at
the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory, said the rocket
will be visible over New Eng
land and many other areas of
the United States on the evening
of Dec. 1.
"It will be glowing much
brighter," he said, "because it
will be much closer to the
earth."
Henice said that everyone
from southern Canada to Argen
tina and from Great Britain to
South Africa should be able to
see the rocket in either evening
or morning passing between
Dec. 1 and 3.
Wreath Laid in Tribute
To Snell, Two Others
Sale HP) A memorial wreath
in tribute to the late Gov. Earl
Snell, Marshall Cornett and Rob
ert S. Farrell was placed behind
the state seal in the capitol
rotunda Monday.
The wreath marked the 10th
anniversary of the death of the
three high state officials in an
air crash. At the time, Snell was
serving as governor, Cornett as
Senate president and Farrell as
secretary of state.
Washington OP) Agricul
ture Secretary Ezra T. Benson
may ask Congress next year for
authority to ease up on federal
planting controls.
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Salem OPi Elimination of
the state property tax is provid
ed in the first bill introduced in
the State Senate Monday.
The bill was signed by Sens.
Harry Boivin, Klamath Falls
Democrat; Warren Gill. Leba
non Republican; and G. D. Glea
son, Portland Democrat.
Another bill granting an ex
emption for persons 65 years of
age or over from real property
taxes on homesteads up to a
true cash value of $7,500 was
introduced.
Senate President Boyd Over
hulse strengthened the Senate
Rules Committee by making it a
10-member committee with five
Democrats and five Republicans
making up its membership.
Members Named
Four members of the regular
1957 Senate Rules Committee
will serve on the special session
committee. They include Sens.
Jean Lewis, Portland Democrat,
chairman; Boivin, vice chair
man; Howard Belton, Canby Re
publican: and Truman Chase,
Eugene Republican. Sen. Walter
Pearson, Portland Democrat,
who was a member of the regu
lar session committee, resigned
because of the load of work fall
ing on his shoulders as chairman
of the Senate Committee on As
sessment and Taxation.
The new members of the com
mittee named by Overhulse in
clude Sens. John D. Hare, Hills
boro; Walter Leth, Monmouth;
and Gill, all Republicans, and
Dan Thiele, Astoria; Dwight H.
Hopkins, Imbler; and Ward H.
Cook, Portland, all Democrats.
Under amendments to the
1957 regular session rules, made
at the afternoon session, all bills
except those dealing with taxa
tion and basic school fund will
be referred to the rules commit
tee after being printed and read
for the first time. The basic
school bills will go to the Sen
ate Taxation Committee.
Sen. Monroe Sweetland, Mil
waukie Democrat, was the only
member of the Senate to vote
against the change in the rules.
"I voted 'no' because all-powerful
rules committees have done
great damage to the national
legislative process and in a num
ber of states," Sen. Sweetland
said. "I do not want to see this
practice gain a foothold in this
state, even temporarily."
Bills Resubmitted
Overhulse added Republican
Senator Yturri and Democratic
Senator Alfred Corbett, Port
land, to the Senate Committee
on Assessment and Taxation,
making it a nine-member com
mittee. Three bills passed in the 1957
regular session and vetoed by
Gov. Robert D. Holmes, were re
turned to the Senate by Secre
tary of State Mark Hatfield.
One, Senate bill 172, dealing
with trust deeds was referred to
Judiciary. Another allowing li
censed sanitarians to lay sewer
lines from homes to main sewers
or cesspools instead of plumbers
was referred to the Committee
on Public Health. The third bill
creating a new identification bu
reau in the state police depart
ment and allowing peace offi
cers to finger-print persons con
victed of misdemeanors involv
ing sex, was referred to Judici
ary Committee.
Joy Bowerman Funeral
To Be Held Wednesday
Portland (IP) Funeral serv
ices for Jay Bowerman, former
governor of Oregon, will be
held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the
Finley Morninglight ' Chapel
here. Commitment will be in
Lincoln Memorial Park mauso
leum. Bowerman died Friday night
at his home here at the age of
81.
EX-CONGRESSMAN DIES
New York (IP) Joseph
Clark Baldwin, 60, Republican
member of Congress from 1941
through 1946, died Sunday night
in a veterans administration hos
pital here. He was the first Re
publican ever elected to Con
gress in a special elections from
Manhattan's Democrat-dominat
ed "silk stocking" district. He
previously had served as New
York City alderman, state sena
tor and New York City councilman.
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Women Attend Bazaar
By MRS. M. F. CAVIN
Hilts Mrs. Frank Graves,
Mrs. Ernest Spannausand Mrs.
M. G. King attended the pot
luck dinner and bazaar given
by the Ladies Aid at the Com
munity church in Hornbrook
Thursday.
Mrs. Agnes Cunial, who makes
her home with her daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Eastman,
is visiting in Yreka with her
son, Gino, and family and anoth
er daughter, Mr. and Mrs. "Bus"
Perry and family.
Mrs. Del Bagley, Mrs. Louie
Fossoletti and son, of Yreka,
called at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Williams last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest DeAvella
and son of Yreka visited rela
tives here Saturday and Sun
day. Mrs. W. Snook, who recently
underwent major surgery at the
Siskiyou County hospital is con
valescing at her home here.
Mrs. Marjorie Snyder and
daughter, Karen, of Medford
visited Sunday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Cavin and
daughter Janet.
William Spannaus of Orville
was a week end guest of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Spannaus.
Sympathy is extended to the
Bob Goodwin family on the
for information tall or write:
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R. D. TOOMEY, General Traffic Agent
207 Medical Center 'Bldg., Medford, Ore.
Phone SP 3-5388
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Mayor . . . governor . . . senator . . why
not? Our Bobbies of today are our leaders
of tomorrow!
That's why Bobby and the 32,000,000
other children from whose ranks will come
1 the leaders of our land need first-rate
schools. Yet in many communities, the
shortage of classrooms, teachers and up-to-date
schoolbooks is dangerously acute. As
WE MUST HAVE
FflRST-RATE SCHOOLS
death Wednesday, of Goodwin's
grandmother, Mrs. Lena A.
Puckett, who made her home
with a daughter, Mrs. Leonard
Wood near Central Point.
Services were held Saturday
at the Community church in
Cedarville, Calif., with the Rev.
James W. Neely, of the First
Baptist church of Medford, of
ficiating. Interment was in the
Cedarville cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Martin of
Klamath Falls accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Gwinn,
made a business trip to Medford
on Friday. Returning in the
evening, they were overnight
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gwinn.
They left Saturday morning for
their home in Klamath Falls.
Welker Reported in
Critical Condition
Washington (IP) Former
Idaho Sen. Herman Welker was
in critical condition today fol
lowing brain surgery.
The 50 - year - old Republican
was operated upon Monday night
at the National Institutes of
Health Clinical Center in sub
urban Bethesda, Md. Welker
was admitted to the clinic Oct.
16 and underwent surgery the
next day. The nature of the first
operation was not discussed.
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Sherry Fong Jury
Tentatively Chosen
Portland ttfl A panel of 12
jurors was tentatively chosen
in the fourth murder trial of
Sherry Fong which opened Mon
day. Mrs. Fong is charged with
second degree murder in the
death of her babysitter, Diane
Hank, 16, in 1954.
Of 28 prospective jurors ques
tioned Monday 10 were excused
for cause, eight of them because
they admitted they had formed
opinions on the case.
Mrs. Fong was brought from
Rocky Butte jail where she has
been since early 1955 waiting
disposition of the case.
Chicago (IP The temptation
must have been too much for
40-year-old Donald J. Dalman.
He was sentenced to three years
in prison Friday for writing
phony checks on a check-writing
machine he won in a poker
game.
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a result, the level of teaching and learning is
seriously lowered.
Let's be sure this doesn't happen in our
schools. Join with the other good citizens
to back up our School Board, attend PTA
meetings and school conferences.
For a free booklet telling you more about
what you can do, write to: Better Schools,
9 East 40th Street, New York 16, N. Y.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Littrell Proposes
25 Per Cent Tax Cut
Salem A bill which would
reduce income taxes 25 per cent
in all brackets was one of three
bills introduced in the House
Monday by Republican ' Rep.
E. A. Littrell, Medford.
Representative Littrell also
introduced a bill which would
repeal the present corporate ex
cise tax law and revert to the
law in effect prior to the 1957
regular session of the legisla
ture. His final bill would require
that any future surplus in the
State treasury in excess of $10
million at the end of the bien
nium would be earmarked to
undelegated bonded indebted
ness. .
Rep. Littrell's bill would also
require that where there is no
bonded indebtedness the surplus
be put into the general fund.
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