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A, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1958
No. 257
FLOATING ICE FLOES New York's
waterfront shows the impact of the cold
wave gripping the eastern seaboard. It re
sembles the Bering sea more than upper
New York harbor. World's famous skyline
is in background. (See weather story on
page 3.) (International soundphoto)
Students Take Over
Offices in County,
City Wednesday
Students from seven Jack
son county high schools will
take over city and county of
fices Wednesday and Thurs
day in the Medford Elks' club
annual Student Government
Day program.
The event will start at 1:15
p.m. Wednesday in the Elks
lodge, with registration. Stu
dents will take oaths of office
at .2:30 p.m. and then will
tour radio stations KYJC and
KMED. Both stations will pre
sent a special radio program
featuring student officials.
A television program on
KBES-TV at 4:30 p.m. will
feature several students. A
get-acquainted meeting will be
held for the group at 6 p.m
in the Elks temple followed
by the annual banquet. Dr.
Arthur Kreisman, professor
at Southern Oregon college,
will speak.
Meetings Scheduled
Students holding city offices
will meet in the council cham
bers at 8:30 a.m. Thursday
and students holding county
offices will meet in the court
house auditorium at 9 a.m.
Students will then report to
work at the office of . their
official counterpart. '
A luncheon is scheduled at
the Elks' building followed
by tours of city and county
departments. Students will
conduct a city council meet
ing Thursday night.
Under the plan, Medford
and St. Mary's High school
students assume city offices
while students from Crater,
Phoenix', Eagle Point, Jack
sonville. Prospect, and Butte
Falls assume county offices
All elective offices and most
appointive offices will be fin
ed with students.
The major city officers in
elude Frank Albert, mayor;
Gladys Beddoe, city manager;
Tom Hamlin. Cony a Lea, Bob
nee. Pat Rushton, Curtis
Cook, John Jones, Henry
Courtney and Kathy Metz,
commissioners; Sue Knight,
recorder-treasurer; Dick Du
rante, director of public
works; Dick Sorenson, police
chief; Jerry Kerr, fire chief;
Steve Morris, city attorney;
Tom Alley, municipal judge;
Judy Hout, school superin
tendent; and Gail Prentice,
planning commission chair
man. ,
.Major county officers in
clude Stan Zwan, county
judge; Allen Barnes and Bill
Turner, county commission
ers; Jerry Kime and Charles
Swingle, circuit judges; Joe
Teeter, district judge; Jim
Estramado, county assessor;
Sandra Guss, county treas
urer; Lyle Bigham, county
agent; Sharon Coffman, girls
4-H club agent; Cody Rambo,
boys 4-H club agent; Dick
Schauble, school superintend
ent; 'Hudson Branson, dis
trict attorney; John Winning
ham, engineer-surveyor; Rich
ard Robinson, sheriff; Joyce
Moore, county health officer;
and Deborah Dunlap, horticul
ture agent.
Heart Sunday Drive
Scheduled in Area
A door-to-door campaign
for the Heart Fund will be
held in Medford, Central
Point and Phoenix Sunday,
Feb. 23, according to Mrs.
Manville Heisel, Heart Sun
day chairman.
About $1,000 already has
been collected during the first
half of the month-long drive,
officials said. About 150 vol
unteers will take part in the
door-to-door campaign, Mrs.
Heisel said.
Each volunteer will wear
an identification tag and car
ry a contribution envelope.
The money will be used by
the Oregon Heart association
to carry, on research, educa
tion and community service
against heart diseases, Mrs.
Heisel noted.
English Girl Still
Pancake Champion
Liberal, Kan. (If) De
fending champion Sandra Sib
ley, 19, Olnty, England, re-j
tained her crown today in the !
great international Shrove
Tuesday pancake race against
the girls from Liberal, Kan.
Miss Sibley dashed from
the Olney market place to the
church door in one minute
10.8 seconds for the English
challenge time. A few hours
later, nine girls at Liberal
tried to break that mark but
fell short.
The best time turned in at
Liberal was one minute 12
seconds by Miss Mary Colling-
wood, 25, a high school gym
teacher.
Bids Called on
Construction of
Wilson School
Bids will be opened at 7:30
p.m. March 5 in the Medford
school administration build
ing for construction of Wil
son Elementary school on
Corona ave.
The school is one of two
new elementary schools
planned under the two-year
$1,786,000 building program
in the Medford district. Other
projects in the program in
clude a new Hoover Elemen
tary school on Siskiyou blvd.,
a warehouse and school bus
shop, an addition to Medford
high school and renovation
and remodeling in other
schools.
Wilson school will be an
open corridor, single - story
building with about 28.000
square leet. iweive class
rooms, with an alternate for
three more, is planned.
Other Space
Other space will include
administrative area, gymna
sium with dressing, shower
and locker- facilities, kitchen,
library, music room, toilets,
boiler and janitorial space.
Colored masonry block
will be used along with glued
laminated beams except in
the cafeteria, where a glued
laminated support will hold
one-inch sheathing.
Artificial light willl be
fluorescent except in the gym
and corridor where it will be
incandescent.
Plans are available from
Wayne Struble, Medford ar
chitect in- the James L. Payne
office. They also are on file
at the Cal-Ore Builders Ex
change, 246 South Central
ave., Medford.
GOP
Chiefs Veto
Hyvimig Prosperity
Washington (ffl The ad-1 and the need to hold the fed
ministration's legislative and eral debt line,
economic high command to- The administration, Know-
day ruled out attempts to buy land said, feels the economy
prosperity with a federal
"spending orgy."
It also said no to anti-recession
tax cuts now, banking in
stead on expectations of a bus
iness upswing in midyear and
on economy - bolstering pro
grams already started.
Senate Republican leader
William F. Knowland said af
ter a White House breakfast
meeting that "merely going
on a spending orgy is not the
solution to our economic prob
lems." He said a tax(cut would not
be ."advisable, feasible, or
wise at this time" because of
heavy government obligations
will pick up by the middle of
the year. If it doesn t, the sit
uation will be reviewed before
Congress adjourns.
Republican legislative lead
ers discussed the recession
with administration economic
leaders over bacon and eggs
at a White House conference
in President Eisenhower's ab
sence. The President, who us
ually presides at the weekly
legislative meetings, is vaca
tioning in Georgia.
Meeting . with . Knowland
and the other legislative lead
ers were Treasury Secretary
Robert B. Anderson, Com
merce Secretary Sinclair
Gale Warnings Up
On Oregon Coast
Salem (IP) The State
Wage, and Hour Commission
will hold a public meeting
here Thursday.
Medford Churches Set
Ash Wednesday Services
Several Medford churches
have announced special Ash
Wednesday services Feb. 19.
Roman Catholics may at
tend mass at 6:30 and 8 a.m.
or 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, ac
cording to Sacred Heart Cath
olic church officials. The tra
ditional blessing of ashes will
be held prior to the 8 a.m.
mass with the distribution of
Ashes will also be distributed
Ashes wil lalso be distributed
at the evening mass, it was
reported.
Publish Papal Decree
Last week Pope Pius XII
published a papal decree
which granted permission for
the blessing of ashes during
the evening mass on Ash
Wednesday. Prior to this year
the blessing had to be per
formed only in the morning
before high mass. Sacred
Heart parish spokesman said
the blessing of ashes would be
held only once Wednesday.
St. Mark's episcopal church
will hold their penitential
service followed by holy com
munion at 10:30 a.m. Wednes
day. During the Lenten period
a many will be held at 11
a.m. each Friday followed by
holy communion and a Lenten
meditation. They will be con
ducted by the Rev. John S.
Power.
Wednesday evening, Ash
Wednesday service of holy
communion will be held at 8
p.m. at Zion Lutheran church,
Fourth st. and Oakdale ave.
The Rev. G. Herbert Hiller-
man, pastor, will speak on
"The Opening of the Door."
Services Wednesday
Services .with sermon and
holy communion will be held
Wednesday at 8 p.m. at St.
Peter Evangelical Lutheran
church, 1020 East Main st.,
according to the Rev. Ken
neth F. Korby, pastor.
Lenten services at Ascen
sion Lutheran church, 2501
Barnett ( rd., will be held
Thursday, Feb. 20, at 8:15
p. m. immediately following
choir practice. The Rev. Elvin
S. Tollefson, pastor, will
speak on "The Cross, A Syrn
bol of Grace." Lenten com-
mimion ivil' hr srrvcri at the
Gold Hill Youths
Arrested by Police
Three Gold Hill juveniles,
ages 14, 15 and 17, were ar
rested by state police and
sheriffs deputies yesterday in
connection with the burglary
of Pippin Lumber company
on Galls Creek rd. near Gold
Hill.
Police said the youths led
them to $725 worth of prop
erty which they had hid in
on old barn in the area.
Marvin James Pippin,
Grants Pass, notified police
yesterday morning of the
break-in at the lumber com
pany. Property missing in
cluded a calculator, h.: said.
Police indicated the youths
may be connected with other
burglaries in this area.
The two older boys were
lodged in the county jail and
the 14-year-old was lodged in
the county detention home,
pending action by juvenile
authorities.
Russia Asked To Show
Sincerity in Meeting
Washington (in ine
United States has put it
srmarelv UD to Russia to
show the world whether it
sincerely wants a fruitful
cummit meeting or just a
propaganda tug of war, U. S
officials said today.
That was the interpretation
placed on Monday's caustical
ly-worded note from Presi
dent Eisenhower to Soviet
Premier Nikolai Bulganin.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York ilP Dow
Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 442.71, up
0.44; 20 railroads 106.01, off
0.03; 15 utilities 71.96. off
0.16 and 65 stocks 151.33.
up 0.02. Sales today were
about 1.680.000 -shares com-
By UNITED PRESS
Gale warnings were up on
the southern Oregon . and
northern California coasts to
day but the weather man said
some letup' was expected in
heavy rains which have
brought slides and flooding
to widespread areas.
Warm temperatures accom
panied more heavy rain Mon
day with Roseburg in Doug
las county reported a high of
70 and many points petting
readings in- the 60s; The Ore
gon coast got the heaviest
rainfall with North Bend mea
suring 1.24 inches, Brookings,
1.21, Newport 1.17 and As
toria 1.16.
Some partial clearing was
forecast tonight and Wednes-
Rhode Island Red
Lays Green Egg
The Dick Kosmacka fam
ily of route 2. Central
Point, is still puzzling how
a Rhode Island Red hen
could lay a green egg.
The parents thought it
must have been something
one of their boys ate when
he reported at breakfast
that he had dreamed one of
their hens laid a green egg.
But when Kosmacka went
out to gather the eggs later,
that morning, sure enough
there was a green egg be
neath one of the hens.
"It was a sea-mist green
color." Mrs. Kosmacka
said. Eat it? Oh, no. we're
going to save it!"
Injunction Denied
In Klamath Case
Portland IIP) A federal
judge today denied an injunc
tion sought by a Klamath In
dian woman seeking to set
aside a part of the Klamath
reservation termination act
which gives the government
authority to administer tim
berlands for its wards.
In her petition, Mrs. Cora-
lie Crawford Nelson of Palo
Alto, Calif., claimed the 1954
termination act gave her the
right to dispose of her exten
sive timber holdings on the
reservation "just like any
other citizen."
Judge William East in de
nying her petition, however,
agreed to consider asking for
mation of a three-judge Fede
ral court to hear the matter
further.
WEATHER
Forecast Cloudy with rain
tonight. Showers and par
tial clearing Wednesday.
Low tonight 48. High
Wednesday 58.
TEMP.
Highest 63
Lowest this Morning 57
PRECIPITATION
To 10 a.m. Today T
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonset
7:04 a.m.
5:47 p.m.
6:16 p.m.
pared with 1,700,000 shares
church the following Sunday. Monday.
First Quarter Feb. 26.
PROMINENT STAR
Capella. high
overhead 7:32 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Jupiter, rises 11:17p.m.
Saturn, rises 3:44 a.m.
Mars, rises 5:05 a.m.
Vrnos. in the southeast at
sunrise.
day although showers will
persist, the weatherman said.
Slide Closes 101
In northern California,
a huge slide closed U. S.
Highway 10L south of Garb
erville near the Humboldt
Mendocino county line. The
slide blocked a- 200-foot sec
tion of the highway a .half
mile north of another slide
which had blocked the high
way since last Thursday.
The Coast Guard cutter Av
oyel stood by a tug and tank
er in heavy seas off the Hum
boldt ' county ' c6"ast. It " pre
pared - to place food, water
and butane gas aboard the
tug sometime this morning.
The tug Tillamook left Port
land Feb. 5 with the tanker
Mission Santa Ana for San
Francisco but ran into heavy
seas and strong winds. The
Coast Guard in San Francisco
said none of the 17 men on
board the tug or the 7 on
the tanker was in any dang
er.
High water and the threat
of slides remained in Ore-!
gon.
Coquille River Up
The Coquille river remain
ed up and three plywood mills
were closed because of water,
Deputy Coos County Civil De
fense Director Eugene Fields
reported.
aoutnern facmc crews
worked to remove two slides
covering ' tracks on the Eu
gene to Coos Bay line.
Central Oregon also got
somt high water. Small
streams' in the Prineville
area were out of their banks
and covered some lowlands.
Water covered Highway 26
about 17 miles east of Prine
ville but traffic was' not halt
ed. -
Near Vale in eastern Ore
gon a break was reported in
an irrigation canal and heavy
rams sent tne jviaineur riv
er's south fork and Bully and
Cottonwood creeks up.
Route Reopened
Highway 101 between Co
quille and Bandon was reop
ened to normal traffic at 7:35
a.m. today after high water
had closed it Monday and
forced rerouting over second'
ary roads.
The Eastside secondary
highway near Corvallis was
open to one-way controlled
traffic this morning and was
expected to be open to two-
way traffic by noon.
Oregon Highway 87 from
Baker to Homestead was clos
ed from Robinette to mile
point 63 by high water. The
Frenchglen secondary high
way was open to one-way
traffic only at mile point 24.3.
Weeks, and Secretary of La
bor James P. Mitchell.
As the Republicans con
ferred, congressional Demo
crats were calling for. in
creased federal spending on
public works to pull business
out of its slump.
The administration already
has proposed a $2 billion post
office building program spread
over five years. Knowland
said anti-recession programs
already projected will have a
"beneficial chain reaction ef
fect throughout the economy."
Increased Spending
Knowland cited stepped up
spending on the federal-state
highway program and in
creased defense expenditures
in addition to the proposed
post office construction pro
gram as steps that would ben
efit the economy. -
The GOP leader also said
that private housing starts
showed an upturn in January
and would total $1,100,000 if
continued at the January rate.
Weeks reported that $2,
100,000,000 will be spent on
the highway program in 1958
compared with $750 million
in 1956.
Knowland said Mitchell re
ported that unemployment is
expected to decline in April,
when the figures for March
are released by the govern
ment. Unemployment was 4,
500,000 in January, and
Weeks has predicted it will
climb to five million this
month.
It Looks as If Somebody Had Pay TV"
it
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North Korea Rejects
Demand for Return
Of Hijacked Plane
Tunisia Keeps World
Guessing on Charges
By UNITED PRESS -
Tunisia kept the world
guessing , today whether it
would press its charges of
"aggression" against France in
the U. N. Security Council:
Britain, France and the
United States feared they had
lost their battle to prevent
open U.N. discussion of the
Tunisian and Algerian crises.
They said open debate would
wreck Anglo-American ef-
j forts to settle the dispute
I quietly. ,
Arrests in Yreka.
Clear Burglaries
Apprehension of two Ash
land residents in Yreka on
charges of burglary cleared
up four attempted burglaries
in the Ashland area recently,
Sgt. Paul Bettiol of the Jack
son county sheriff's office,
said this morning.
Following questioning' by
Yreka authorities, Jack Sid
ney Wilcox, 18, and Samuel
Gene Bell, both of Ashland,
admitted to attempted burgla
ries in the Ideal Supermar
ket, the Market Basket, Ideal
drug store and a vacant
building.
Bettiol said he and Ashland
Police Chief Herbert Hays
went to Yreka yesterday to
question the youths. Plans
have not yet been made to
bring the pair back.
The youths are charged with
ransacking McNeil's Drive
and Save market south of
Yreka for two cases of assort
ed liquor Saturday.
The two were apprehended
by Yreka police after , they
were sighted during a routine
patrol.
Gill Challenges
'Money Bag' Groups
Lebanon (Ut Sen. Warren
Gill, a Lebanon attorney seek
ing the Republican nomina
tion for governor, today is
sued a curbside challenge in
front of his campaign office
here to what he called the
"cliques of money bags in
Portland" who, he said, have
been calling the tune in Ore
gon politics too long. j
Gill said that a Portland
newspaper had intimated
"you have to have a pot full
of money to successfully run
for office in Oregon, and that
sine: I don't have it, my ef
forts to be elected governor
are futile."
He asserted that "the real
squawk that paper has is that
it wasn't consulted as to
whether or not I could run
for office."
Referring to . his "fight, to
lower taxes and help the old
people in this state," Gill re
fused to clear it with "the
eastern-owned Portland news
paper." "Thank God," he said, "we
can depend on the news serv
ices and our own home-owned
local newspapers and radio
stations throughout the state
to tell us the truth as they see
it unshaded by prejudice and
unaffected by slights to a big
shot complex."
Panmunjom, Korea (IP)
Communist North Korea to
day rejected a United Nations
demand for return of a hi
jacked South Korean airlin
er. It seemed certain the Reds
planned to use the 34 persons
aboard as blackmail for rec
ognition of the Red regime.
Two Americans and two
Germans were aboard the
plane which disappeared into
North Korea Sunday.
Red Cross Help Asked
The Republic of Korea Red
Cross cabled the ' Internation
al Red Cross in Geneva ask
ing help in effecting return
of the plane's occupants after
the Communists rejected the
UN demand.
U. S. Navy Capt. George
W. Kehl, of. Kittery Point,
Maine, presented the U N
Command demand for return
of the plane at a meeting of
the joint UN-Communst Sec
retariat here in the neutral
zone dividing the two seg
ments of Korea.
North Korean Col. Kim
Choon Kyung bluntly rejected
it.
Kim claimed the two-engined
DC-3 of the Korean Na
tional Airlines entered North
Korea "voluntarily" in a
righteous action to escape the
war policy of the American
imperialists and the puppet
Syngman Rhee clique."
Therefore, he said, return
of the aircraft was not a mat
ter for the military armistice
commission to discuss and it
should be taken care of In
"direct" negotiations between
the South and North Korean
governments.
Recognition R" ":sed
North Korea has tried un
successfully for years to pro
mote direct contact between
the North and South govern
ments. South Korea's Pr- :
dent Rhee had stonily re
fused to recognize either the
armistice or the Communist
"illegal puppet government in
Pyongyang."
The missing plane was pi
loted by Willis P. Hobbs, 36,
of Vallejo, Calif. It's co-pilot
was Lt. Col. Howard W. Mc
Clellan of Buchanan, Mich.,
an Air Force officer 'aboard
to get in some flying time.
'Land Grab' By
Nasser Decried
By British Press
Officials Discuss
Tense Situation
By UNITED PRESS
Egypt curtly demanded
today that the Sudan with
draw its forces from two
key areas on the Sudan side
of the Egypt-Sudan border.
Sources in Khartoum said
the Sudan would fight rath
er than yield to Cairo.
Services Slated
For W. H. Jordan
TV Applicant Said
least Qualified'
Washington OP) A Fed
eral Communications Com
mission examiner said today
that the FCC picked the
"least qualified" of four ap
plicants when it awarded a
Miami television channel sub
sidiary of National Airlines.
The examiner, Herbert
Sharfman, testified before a
House investigating subcom
mittee which has heard
charges that FCC Commis
sioner Richard A. Mack re
ceived money from an attorn
ey for the successful appli
cant Public Service Televis
ion, Inc.
Mack, who has denied any
wrongdoing, has been prom
ised an early hearing. The
subcommittee also had heard
allegations that Col. George
Gordon Moore, Mrs. Mamie
Eisenhower's brother-in-law,
was a "key influence" in the
FCC decision.
OBTAINING release on $14,
000 bond, Mrs. Priscilla Rose,
22, held as material witness
in slaying of husband, is
awaiting summons by grand
jury at Long Beach, N. Y. to
testify.
Funeral services for Wil
liam Henry Jordan, 98, of
1014 West 10th. St., Medford
who died in a local conva
lescent home Monday, will be
held at 11 a.m. Thursday at
Perl Funeral home. Services
will be read by a Christian
Scientist. Interment will be in
Pleasant Valley cemetery in
Grants Pass.
Mr. Jordan was one of the
few remaining southern Ore
gon residents who drove a
stage coach as a young man.
He was born March 17, 1860,
at the family home on Whis
key gulch, which was then
a part of Jackson county. He
was the son of James Jordan
and the former Mary Louisa
Fidler. '
He drove a mail and pas
senger stage between Grants
Pass and Waldo, a town be
tween Grants Pass and Cres
cent City which no longer
exists, and later was a driver
for the Idaho Stage line.
He was married to the for
mer Emma Jane Thompson,
daughter of a pioneer Grants
Pass family, and for a while
they operated the Pioneer ho
tel in Merlin. Mr. Jordan ran
a livery stable, and drove a
freight wagon from Merlin to
Galice.
Survivors include three
daughters, Mrs. Winnie Bogle,
San Francisco, Calif., Evan
geline Pittock, Medford, and
Mrs. Irma Campbell, Kansas
City, Mo., 11 grandchildren
and 17 great grandchildren.
By UNITED PRESS
Egypt and the Sudan rushed
troops, political commissars
and armed police to a disputed
border area today in a new
Middle East incident denounc
ed by the British press as a
land grab" by Egyptian
President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
A statement issued in Khar
toum, capital of the two-year
old Sudanese Republic, ac
cused Egypt of trying to brine
the mineral-rich border areas
into the new Syrian-Egyptian
Republic and settle by force
Egypt's claim to ; a lareer
share of the waters of the
Nile.
'Flagrant Violation'
A communique issued to
day in Cairo said Sudanese
forces had moved into an
Egyptian border area in "fla
grant violation "of an 1899
treaty and of Egyptian sov
ereignly. 11 asKeri lor a
peaceful settlement, called
for withdrawal of the troops
and denied Sudanese charges
Egypt wanted the valuable
mineral resources.
Rival elections on both
sides of the border brought to
a firy head the long-standing
border dispute. Sudan is hold
ing general elections on Feb.
27. Egypt is holding a plebi
scite Feb. 21 on setting up the
United Arab Republic with
Syria. .
The dispute was so serious
Sudanese Premier Abdullah
Khalil dispatched Foreign
Minister Mohammed Mah
goub to Cairo, 1,000 miles
away, today to try to reach
a settlement. Khalil tried to
reach Nasser by telephone
Monday, but was told he was
busy.
Sudden Meeting '
Mahgoub arrived in Cairo
and met immediately with
Egyptian Foreign Minister
Mahmoud Fawzi, Minister of
Interior Zakarta Mohieddin
and Sudanese Ambassador
Yussef El Teni. Fawzi and
Mohieddin had conferred on
the situation earlier.
The Khartoum dispatch
said so far there had been no
fighting in the disputed area.
The British press, mindful
of Britain's remaining inter
ests in the Sudan, said Nasser
was out to "grab" all Sudan
ese territory north of the
22nd parallel in. defiance of
frontier agreements. Some
newspapers said Egypt was
trying to "occupy" the areas.
Resigning Lawmakers
May Retain Salary
saiem m Attorney
General Robert Y. Thornton
said today that a legislator
who resigns after Jan. 1 of
this year may still keep his
$600 1957 salary.
The opimon was asked by
ex-Rep. Keith Skelton who
resigned to devote more time
to his Eugene law practice. -
Portland flP) The Board
Directors of Cascades Ply
wood Corporation have de
clared the regular 25 cents
per share dividend on com
mon stock payable March 10
to stockholders of record on
Feb. 27. . ;
Coquille Man Jailed for
Attack on Police Officer
Coquille OPT Phillip
Arnold Johnson, 21-year-old
Pori Orford fisherman, was
in Coos county jail under $1,
000 bail today on drunken
driving and assault charges
after a tussle with a state po
liceman which resulted in the
officer losing his right eye.
Eye Badly Cut
Doctors at McAuley hospit
al in Coos Bay removed the
right eye of State Police Pvt.
Marvin Achison of Coquille
Sunday. The eye had been
badly cut in the struggle with
Johnson after his arrest on
the drunk driving count.
Achison and fellow officer
Ernest D. Walden of Coquille
had stopped - Johnscn's car
early Sunday when they no
ticed the vehiclewas traveling
in an arratic manner about
eight miles south of Bandon
on Highway 101. .
The officers said Johnson
became belligerent and they
put handcuffs on him. He was
put in the patrol car with
Achison while Walden drove
Johnson's car to a nearby ser
vice station. Achison said that
Johhnson struck him across
the face with his manacled
hands, shattering the right
lense of his glasses.
Taken To Coos Bay
Achison was treated by a
Bandon doctor and taken by
ambulance to the Coos Bay
hospital. Doctors said, the iris
and pupil of the officer's eye
had been severely cut.
Johnson was arraigned in
District Court here Monday
on the drunk driving charge
and pleaded innocent. He wat
scheduled for arraignment to
day on the assault count.