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Northwest Area
On Alert For
Jail Escapees
State Patrolman
Disarmed in Oregon
Arlington IP A wide
spread manhunt was launched
in the PacificNorth west to
day for two men who stole
an Oregon State Police car
after disarming a state pa
trolman late Wednesday
night.
State Police said the men
answered the description of
two who escaped from the
Anacortes, Wash., jail Mon
day night.
"The pair fled eastward on
Highway 30 in the State Po
lice car after disarming an
officer nine miles west of
Boardman.
Car Seen Along Road
The police car was spotted
about 9:40 a.m. today by the
crew of a tugboat on the Co
lumbia river. Crewmen said
the car parked on a side road
off Highway 30 into Board
man and radioed the informa
tion to the Umatilla county
sheriff's office.
Officers sent to the scene
found the car abandoned and
a police rifle missing. Another
car was reported stolen in
Boardman earlier, presumably
by the state- policeman's as
sailants. It was described as
a 1949 blue Chevrolet with
license No. 1E-2357.
Airplane Aids Search
An airplane was sent up
at dawn from Pendleton and
from 35 to 40 State Police
cars were in on the manhunt,
which also spread to Wash
ington state.
State Police said the de
scriptions of the two men an
swered those of Jack N. Gibb,
18, and Wesley Davis, 30,
both of Portland, who escaped
from the Anacortes jail Mon
day night where they were
held on a burglary charge.
Patrolman Donald Gore
stopped a car about 11 p.m.
Wednesday which had been
reported stolen earlier in
Portland. The two men got
out of the vehicle as he ap
proached and wrestled him
to the ground, taking his pis
tol and then fleeing in his car.
One shot was fired in the
struggle but no one was hit.
Police throughout eastern
Oregon were alerted and
were up all night manning
roadblocks and hunting the
car.
WEATHER
FORECAST: rlfludv with or.
rational light rain tnnicht.
Variable cloudiness and a
few light showers Friday,
low tonight 38-40. High
Fridav 4R-S0. Temp.
Hlrest Yesterday 52
Lowest This Morning 31
Our Skies Tonight
sunrise
Sunset
7:41 .m.
4:57 p.m.
Moonrise
10:05 p.m.
Last Quarter Jan. 13
Orion has more bright stars
than any other constellation.
Tonight It rises In the eve
ning twilight and will he
high in the south at moon-rise.
Mrs. Allen Gebhard Replaces Charles
Shepherd as Democratic Treasurer
Mrs. Allen Gebhard, 1519
North Riverside ave., was
unanimously elected Demo
cratic county treasurer at a
meeting cf the Democratic
Central committee in the
Labor Temple last night. She
succeeds Charles Shepherd,
who recently resigned due to
a busfness change which takes
him eut of the city.
Vice Chairman Neva J.
Clarke, Jacksonville, report
ed on the Democratic State
committee meeting in Port
land last week which three
local members attended. Mrs.
Clarke spoke of the "deep
appreciation" expressed
throughout the meeting for
the "devotion and selfless ser
vice" rendered Vie committee
by Medford's retiring State
Chairman Robert A. Boyer.
She also said that "opti-j
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUAP"' 958
PRAY FOR GUIDANCE The Rev.
Bernard Braskamp, Chaplain of the House
of Representatives, leads members of the
House in a prayer for God's guidance in
Father Beats Girl
To Death Because
She Wouldn't Cry
Chowchilla. Calif. ilPi A
29-year-oJd cotton picker was
"held on murder charges to
day for beating his 4-year-old
daughter to death because she
wouldn't cry.
Booked at the county jail
in Madera was Claude Wil
liam Schindler. His wife, Opal
Pauline, who admittedly stood
by and watched the beating
without intervening, was also
held, on suspicion of murder.
The child, tiny Sandra
Schindler, died at Chowchilla
hospital Wednesday with "a
m i n i u m" of 200 welts,
bruises and cuts over 'her
body.
Hospital physician, Dr. Zed
nek Fluss, one-time refugee
from Nazi-occupied Czechoslo
vakia, called the affair "the
most vicious thing I've ever
Rogue Valley Low
Bidder on Bonds
Trail The Rogue Valley
State bank of Medford was
successful bidder on 825,000
worth of bonds issued by the
Elk-Trail school district, ac
cording to a recent announce
ment. The bonds, approved by dis
trict voters Oct. 15. will be
used to complete remodeling
and enlargement of the school
gym. New equipment also will
be purchased, school officials
said.
Rogue Valley's bid was for
a 3 1 2 per cent interest rate,
which would cost, the district
54,850.90. The other bidder
on the bonds was First Na
tional Bank of Portland,
which bid 4',-i per cent inter
est or a total of $5,863.47 cost
to the school district.
mism was strong for Demo
cratic victory in 1958," and
that "ranks closed completely
behind the new state chair
man following his election, in
spite of the hotly contested
three way race."
She also said that a resolu
tion backed by Jackson Coun
ty Democrats to allow county
chairmen and vice chairmen
to sit in on state executive
committee meetings also car
ried. The committee passed a
resolution clearly enunciating
the spirit of the law entitling
any interested party member
to file for office. No "screen
ing or discouragement of can
didates to enter any of the
races will be tolerated." was
included in the wording of
the resolution.
Under the law, the resolu
tion stated, anyone who has
ft
seen I didn't see anything
worse under "'the Hitler re
gime:" Mrs. Schindler told police
that she was getting supper
Tuesday night when her hus
band "took a willow switch"
to Sandra for some minor dis
obedience. She said he whipped the
little girl's legs, ordering her
to cry, and when she refused
to even whimper he beat her
for 45 minutes with his belt.
"I didn't think whipping a
kid would kill it," she said.
Schindler told police that
Sandra "wouldn't mind so I
beat her." "She wouldn't cry
when I whipped so I whipped
her more first with a strap
then with a willow branch.
She was disobedient and stub
born' "She didn't even whimper,"
the mother said. "Not once.
It made him mad when she
wouldn't cry."
Sandra died several hours
after she was brought to the
hospital. The coroner's office
said death was due to "trau
matic bruises, cuts and lacera
tions over the entire body." '
Madera officials said the
case was "the worst of its
kind" in the history of the
county.
Out-Running Police
Cars To Be Costly
Sa lem IIP) Drivers who
try to out-run police cars will
find their drivers' licenses in
jeopardy, the Motor Vehicle
Department announced today.
Director James Johnson
said the department will take
action ranging up to suspen
sion of drivers' licenses based
on police reports of drivers
speeding to escape.
been a registered party mem
ber for 180 days and a regis
tered voter in a county for at
least a month is eligible to
file.
To assist potential candi
dates with information or ad
vice, County Chairman James
Redden appointed a sectional
committee including William
V. Deatherage, Medford,
chairman, Scott Hamilton,
Central Point; Earl Cook,
Gold Hill; Mrs. Dee Newton
and Mr. Sidney Ainsworth,
Ashland: Marcus Norton,
Phoenix, Mrs. Neva Clarke,
Jacksonville, and Cecil Nor
ris. Eagle Point.
Redden announced that the
next Democratic Central com
mittee meeting would be held
in Ashland with State Rep.
Robert B. Duncan as guest
speaker.
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No. 223
Foir
ice Coir
the coming session, as the second session
of the 85th Congress opened in Washington.
Increase Urged
In Alias, Thor
Missile Making
' Washington-, (IPt,. - Maj.
Gen. Bernahr A. Schriever,
head of the Air Force ballistic
missile program, testified to
day that production of the
Thor and Atlas missiles "can
and should be increased" be
yond what the administration
has authorized.
Schriever told the Senate
Prepardness Subcommittee he
had submitted both verbal
and written recommendations
for a speed-up in production
and for more missile units.
Follows Complaint
But he said the only re
sponse "has been directives
looking toward a program
that is lower than physical
capabilities would permit."
Schriever's testimony fol
lowed a complaint voiced be
fore the subcommittee Wed
nesday by Gen. Thomas D
White, Air Force chief of
staff, that funds for the in
tercontinental ballistic mis
sile program were inadequate
in the new administration
budget.
According to Subcommittee
Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson
(D-Tex.), Schriever .thought
that Thor and Atlas missile
development, as' opposed to
production, was proceeding
adequately.
But he " said the general
thought the development pro
gram for the Titan missile
could be accelerated.
Morse Says lkers
Message 'Apology'
Washington HP) Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) today
had this comment on Presi
dent Eisenhower's State of
the Union message: "It was a
sermon of apology delivered
at the wake of a dead admin
istration. Between its' lines
was a confession of five years
of failure to meet America's
foreign policy needs."
Coos Bay Democrat
Files for Legislature
Salem HPi Beryl Taylor,
Coos Bay Democrat, filed to
day for election to the State
Legislature as a representa
tive from Coos county.
Earlier, W. O. Bun Kelsay
and Al Flegel, Douglas coun
ty Democratic representa
tives, filed for reelection.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York HP) Dow
Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 443.24, off
3.37; 20 railroads 101.87. off
1.34; 15 ulilities 70.16, off
0.07, and 65 stocks 149.29.
off 1.10. Sales today were
about 2,180.000 shares com
pared with 2.230.000 shares
Wednesday.
ike Interrupted
39 Times During
Important Speech
Washington (IP) Presi
dent Eisenhower evidently
told Congress what it wanted
to hear today.
Thirty nine times the joint
ly assembled senators and
representatives interrupted to
applaud the President's State
of The Union Message. Last
year, during the same address
he was interrupted only five
times.
Maybe they were cheering
Dwight D. Eisenhower, a
game patient recovered from
illness.
Mother, Three
Children Found
Slain in Reno
Reno (IP) The bodies of a
socially prominent young
mother, recently discharged
from a sanatorium, and her
three children, all shot to
death, were found todav in the
upstairs bedroom cf a fashion
able home.
Assistant District Attorney
William Rassio said "it ap
peared to be a suicide on the
part of the mother. Until an
autopsy is conducted I cannot
say about the children."
Coroner William Beemer
said murder-suicide "would be
a reasonable assumption."
The dead were identified as
Darlene Yvonne Cavanaugh,
about 34, and her three chil
dren, Anthony, 9, Carol, 8,
and Kevin, 4.
Police said it appeared all
had been shot to death with
a .25 caliber automatic before
dark Wednesday. The two eld
est children were still dressed
in their parochial school uni
forms. Officers said indications
pointed'' to a terrifying few
minutes before the children
were shot to death. They said
it appeared the mother had
stalked the children through
the upstairs section of the
plush home and shot them
one by one.
Then, they were lined up
on a blanket before Mrs. Cav
anaugh placed herself beside
the children and shot herself.
Action Expected on
Expelling Teamsters
The Medford Central Labor
Council expects to take of
ficial action at their meeting
next Monday expelling Team
sters Local No. 962, according
to President George Potucek.
This will be in accordance
with an official notice re
ceived from National AFL
CIO headquarters. about Jan.
1, said Potucek, who also is
financial secretary and busi
ness agent of Carpenters local
2067 here.
He explained that normally
the council meeting is held
the first Wednesday of each
month, but due to the recent
holiday coming on Wednes
day it was postponed.
A spokesman for the labor
council here said he had no
official comment to make re
garding the action. However,
an official reply will be forth
coming after the letter has
been presented to the mem
bership for its approval, he
said.
McMinnville Fire
Damages School
McMinnville (IP) Fire
early today broke out in the
boiler room under the gym
nasium of Cook elementary
school and caused about $40,
000 damage to that wing of
the building. Classrooms were
not damaged.
Firemen said the fire ap
parently had been under way
about two hours before it was
spotted at 3:15 a.m. by a po
lice patrolman. It virtually
destroyed the playing floor of
the gymnasium, charred walls
and ceilings and destroyed all
the school's athletic equip
ment. Firemen brought flames un
der control in short time after
the alarm was turned in. The
full loss was covered by in
surance. Classes were dismiss
ed until Friday or Monday.
Salem (IP) Albert D.
Day, for seven years director
of the National Fish and Wild
life Service, has been named
director of fisheries for Oregon.
Maybe they were cheering
the President of the United
States at a critical time in
history.
Resounding Ovation
They gave the beaming
President a two-minute re
sounding ovation before he
could start his dead-serious
speech. They applauded again
when Speaker Sam Rayburn
introduced him.
And they rose to a man a
few seconds later with ap
plause for Mrs. Eisenhower,
who stood in the gallery smil
ing her "thank you's", after
the President said she joined
him in wishing the lawmakers
a happy and prosperous new
year.
Two minutes later he won
his first round of applause
when he promised "action"
to correct deficiencies in Am
erica's strength.
That was what the mem
bers and galleries had turned
out to hear turned out in
near record numbers.
Not a seat nor a bit of
standing room was vacant.
No Speech Impediment
The President spoke clear
ly and easily throughout the
long speech, with no sign of
the speech impediment he
suffered for some days after
his mild stroke Nov. 25'
The Joint Chiefs of Staff
joined in applauding as the
President said that military
organization must help the
national defense, not hurt it,
and again when the President
said the military is devoted
solely to the United States
and that the military must be
subject to civilian control.
But Eisenhower then spoke
of the charges of "harmful
service rivalries."
"Whatever they are," Eis
enhower said "America wants
them stopped."
The great audience ap
plauded loudly.' The Joint
Chiefs did not join in the ap
plause.
Horticulturist
Named to Firm
Selection of Dr. R. J. Hig
don for a new position of the
staff of Bear Creek Orchards
was announced today by Da
vid H. Holmes, president.
Dr. Higdon is "splendidly
qualified," Holmes said, "to
further horticultural research
in connection with our pres
ent acreage and to assist in
the development of new orch
ord plantings which are being
made each year."
Dr. Higdon graduated from
Clemson college in South
Carolina in 1948 with a bach
elor of science degree, and
went on to Michigan S,tate
University where he received
his master's degree in 1950
and his Ph. D. degree in hor
ticulture in 1952.
For five years he was as
sociated with the South Car
olina experiment station at
Columbia," S.C., and follow
ing this for two years at the
Michigan experiment station.
Grand Rapids, Mich., until
his appointment to the South
thern Oregon experiment sta
tion as director of research
from 1953 to 1956.
He is married, has two sons,
ages 8 and 3, and a daugh
ter, age 2. His home is locat
ed at Twin Pines orchard,
just south of Medford. ,
"Never Mind About Trees And Soil
Make Us Some Fruit"
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER
Addresses Joint Session
Scandinavian
Nation Suggested
For Summit Talks
London (IP) Communist
diplomats suggested today
that an East-West summit con
ference should be held in a
Scandinavian country, pos
sibly in Stockholm, the cap
ital of neutral Sweden. .
The sources were not in
clined to believe the United
States favors a top-level meet
ing, but they expressed belief
America's NATO allies might
prevail over Washington's re
luctance.
Pressure on the. United
States to agree to meet the
Russians was building up in
Paris where the North Atlan
tic Treaty Organization's per
manent council met Wednes
day to discuss the situation.
It set another meeting for Fri
day. To Consider Replies
The NATO meetings were
called to consider Allied re
plies to the flurry of letters
sent out in December by So
viet Premier Nikolai Bulganin
to NATO members.
Most of the nations were
holding back to see what the
United States '"planned to re
ply. "The draft , of President
Eisenhower's reply is up for
discussion at Friday's meet
ing. The NATO group debated at
length British Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan's call for a
non-aggression pact with Rus
sia but said this would not
form the basis of the replies
to Bulganin.
Any Site Agreeable
Communist sources in Lon
don were asked what site
would be agreeable to the Rus
sians if an East-West confer
ence materializes.
They said Russia would ap
prove any locale even Aus
tralia but that "under the
circumstances" the Scandina
vian countries offered the
most favorable "climatic con
ditions." They suggested either Stock
holm or Copenhagen, Den
mark. There was no mention
of Geneva, Switzerland, where
the 1955 summit conference
was held. Washington and
New York were ruled out.
Bids To Be Opened
On New Loofcouf
. Bids will be opened at 3
p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, by
the regional supply officer,
Portland, for drilling a well
for the Rogue River National
forest's new lookout station
at Ft. Klamath.
The lookout, which will in
clude a ranger's residence, is
about 32 miles north of Klam
ath Falls. The forest service
recently purchased land for
the ranger station.
STATE OF UNION
MESSAGE GIVES
MUST PROGRAM
Washington (IP) President Eisenhower told Congress
today that America's defense machinery must be reorganized
to stop feuding between the armed services in the missile era.
The Soviet threat to the Free World grows daily, he said.
The chief executive in his State of The Union Message
outlined an eight-point "imperative" program for waging
"total peace" and, at the same time, overtaking Russia in
the field of rockets and missiles.
The President also used the occasion to direct this message
from the American people to the Russian people: Join us
immediately in the reduction of world tensions and move to
ward "a genuine peace."
However, until the leaders of the Soviet Union show
some signs of sincerely cooperating with the West, America
must remain strong. And maintenance of this strength, he
said, undoubtedly would involve new sacrifices by the
American people.
Defense Differences Must Stop
On the subject of defense reorganization he was blunt and
sharply worded, saying that "harmful service rivalries" must
be ended, and quickly.
The former five-star general said that whatever the dif
ferences between the armed servics, "America wants them
stopped."
He said he would take executive action to reorganize the
defense set-up partly, and would send Congress a special
message soon recommending legislative steps to finish the
job of curing organizational defects in the armed services.
The President said war could be deterred by maintenance
of heavy strength in American military services.
But the Free World faces "a different kind of war one
that has already been launched against us."
Foreign Aid Cut Said 'Folly'
"It is the massive economic offensive that has been
mounted by the Communist imperialists against free nations,"
he said.
To cut the American overseas aid program "would be
nothing less than reckless folly," he said.
He admitted that Russia
some scientific fields, primarily in missiles, but he was con
fident that with wisdom and sacrifice this country could
maintain a proper defense position.
The President delivered the
packed joint session of the House and Senate.
The message aroused greater congressional anticipation
than any presidential message
hours before he set out for
in the document. This was the President's longest speech,
about 35 minutes, since he suffered his mild stroke Nov. 25.
Imperative Eight-Point Program
His "imperative" eight-point program:
Defense reorganization. He cracked down on the armed
services by reminding them that their "basic alliance" Is
to the U.S. and not to one individual service.
Accelerated defense efforts. This category included im
provement in the Early Warning System in case of attack,
expansion and dispersal of Strategic Air Command bases,
faster work on long-range missiles, and the construction of
nuclear-powered submarines and cruisers to maintain free
dom of the seas.
Strengthening, rather than reducing this country's pro
gram of mutual military and economic assistance to friendly
nations.
A five-year extension of the reciprocal trade agree
ments act "with broadened authority to negotiate."
Legislation to permit greater exchange of American
nuclear secrets with friendly allies.
Balanced Budget Involves Economies
A $1 billion federal program over four years to train
more science students and teachers.
A balanced budget for fiscal 1959. In view of sharply
increased defense requirements, this will involve some sharp
economies in other parts of government. These would in
clude postponement of new civilian programs, outright
elimination of some and reducing expenditures on less
essential military programs and installations. He said
later message would deal with the national debt ceiling and -tax
revenues.
This point was not addressed primarily to Congress,'
but to the people of the Soviet Union. He said "the world
must stop the present plunge toward more and more de
structive weapons of war, and turn the corner that will
start our steps firmly on the path toward lasting peace."
"This will require more than words of peace," the Presi
dent said, speaking in effect to the Russians. "It requires
works of peace."
Then he invited the Soviet government to join with the
West in tangible steps toward peace and international co
operation. Disarmament Position Unchanged
"We will always go the extra mile with anyone on earth
if it will bring us nearer a genuine peace," he promised.
Tha President did not change this country's basic position
on disarmament. He invited the Soviets to negotiate anew on
the mutual inspection plan Russia rejected in United Nations
negotiations last year. The President insisted that any dis
armament plan, if it is to bring real promise of peace, must
include "reliable means to insure compliance by all."
He left most of the purely domestic questions for discus
sions in his Budget Message next Monday. Today, he said, he
wanted to stress American "safety through strength" and
"the constructive work of building a genuine peace."
x He said it would be a tragic mistake "merely to concen
trate on military strength ... for if we did only this, the
future would hold nothing for the world but an age of
terror."
Military Reorganisation Necessary
"We must never become so pre-ocenpied with our desire
for military strength that we neglect those areas of economic
development, trade, diplomacy, education ideas and prin
ciples where the foundations of real peace must be laid."
In the field of defense reorganization, responsible 'ad
ministration officials said that the studies directed by the
President had not reached the point of deciding whether,
for example, there should be a single armed service chief of
staff or whether there should be a so-called "missile czar."
These officials pointed out, however, that the reorganiza
tion planning of the President undoubtedly would involve
increasing the authority of the secretary of defense.
In his message, the President said that one requirement
in military organization "is a clear subordination of the
military services to duly constituted civilian authority."
Authority Must Be Real
'This authority must be real; not merely on the surface,"
he said. "Next, there must be assurance that an excessive
number of compartments in organization will not create
costly and confusing compartments in our scientific and in
dustrial effort."
As the President called for a halt in inter-service feuding
and for defense reorganization, administration authorities
pointed out that in mapping reorganization plans the Presi
dent had to move carefully lest radical changes delay rather
than speed up this country's scientific progress.
He said the Soviet threat to the safety of the Free World
is real and "increasingly serious" because every human
activity under Russian control had been pressed into service
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was ahead of this country in
message in person to a jam-
in recent years. Until a few
Capitol Hill, he made revision!