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o Mebforb United Pre FuU 14 Pages impeach ir Fore Akiclk Prabeir Asks Washington (IP) Rep. John B. Bennett (R-Mich.) today called on President Eisen . hower to fire or Congress to impeach FCC Commissioner Richard A. Mack. Bennett, 'a member of a House subcommittee investi gating Mack's finances, said evidence so far has shown that Mack's dealings were "grossly improper." He told a reporter that Ei senhower should remove Mack from his post. To Siart Proceedings Bennett said that if Eisen hower does not have the legal authority to remove Mack, the House should impeach Mack and thus remove him from office. Bennett said that he would start proceedings to try to im peach Mack if the President does not remove him from the FCC. The president was asked about the Mack case at his news conference this morning. He pointed out that the Jus tice Department, through the FBI, is looking into the mat ter. He said that pending a re port from the attorney gen eral, he had no judgment to make at this time as to whether Mack should be ousted. Tangled Finances Bennett made his statement after the subcommittee heard new details of the tangled web of Mack's financial deal ings in Miami, his home town, wth Thurman A. Whiteside, a Coral Gables attorney and life-long friend. "The hearings have shown without any doubt Mack's un fitness to be a member of the FCC," Bennett said. Whiteside testified that be fore the award of channel 10 one of the National's rival ap plicants, Col. A. Frank Kat zentine, threateaed business reprisals if he continued to urge Mack to support the air lines. He said Katzentine threat ened to withdraw insurance business from an insurance France Warned on Use of Weapons Washington Pt The United States has given France a blunt warning against using any more planes or, weapons supplied under the military aid program on Tunisian targets, it was dis closed today. ' At the same time Sen. J. W. Eulbright (DArk.), a member tT the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee, called for withdrawal of the planes from France "if they can be." Use of American - made planes in a bloody Feb. 8 at tack on the Tunisian border town of Sakiet Sidi Youssef is expected to be brought up by the committee in hearings slated to start next month. Sen. Homer Capehart (R Ind.) said VI don't think we can follow every little detail and every act of our allies and be responsible for all of their acts." He said he did not think the incident necessitated any change in the foreign aid program. Substantial Amounts of Snow Measured in Area Substantial amounts of snow at Fourmile and Fish lakes were reported by Jack Hoffbuhr, manager of Med ford Irrigation district, who took snow measurements yes terday. He reported 28 inches of snow at Fish lake, with a wat er content of 13 inches. There was no snow there at this time last year. The lake has about 6,074 acre feet of water, about 2,000 less than capacity, he said. It was full at this time last year. Sixty-eight inches of snow was measured at Billy creek yesterday, compared to 10 inches last year. Water con tent was 26 inches, Hoffbuhr said. Fourmile lake is about 6,000 acre feet short of being full, he reported, but snow is 83 inches deep with a water con tent of 33 inches. Last year at this time, snow was 32 inches 52nd Year Leased Wire company, in which Whiteside owns one-third of the stock, if the attorney did not "cease and desist" from pressure on Mack to vote for another ap plicant, National Airlines. Received Insurance Money Mack owns one-sixth of the insurance firm, the Stembler Shelden agency of Miami, and has received $13,000 from it in the past five .years. He and three other com missioners voted for National Airlines, which got the con tested Miami channel last February. Subcommittee Chair man Oren Harris (D-Ark.), said on Tuesday that the investiga tion has shown a "very bad situation" that may lead to jail sentences for criminal violations of the federal com munications act. Two Groups Are Named io Study. Parks Program Two subcommittees to ev aluate and make recommen dations on Medford's park and recreation program have been appointed by Mayor John Snider. The action is the first step in an organized plan for a city-wide parks and recreation program, the may or said. Charles Jones heads the parks evaluation committee which will "study existing city-owned properties suitable for park use and determine the necessary "distribution of areas to give best service to all parts of the community," Mayor Snider explained. Dick Knight was named chairman of the recreation committee, which will analyze immediate and long range recreational needs of the community. Efforts of Both "The efforts of both sub committees will be coordin ated to put into action an or ganized plan for the leisure time growth and develop ment in the community," Sni der stated. Long range planning will probably include areas for model planes, boats, lighted baseball diamonds and tennis courts, family picnic areas and supervised playground activities, according to the mayor. Parks committee members include Mrs. O. A. Eden, Mrs. Fred Lorish, Mrs. Wilbur Tucker, Glenn Linn and F. E. Bowman. Members of the recreation al committee are Miss Col leen Hope, James Zack, Mrs. D. L. Flynn, Dr. Ernest Duce, Mrs. Earl Miller, Ve'rl Walk er and Dick Knight. Mayor Snider said service clubs, churches and other in terested groups will be in vited to participate as the pro gram expands. Salem (IPi John. i. Ker bow, Klamath Falls, has filed for the Democratic nomina tion for state representative from Klamath county. deep. Hoffbuhr said both lakes probably will fill this season. He said snow below the 5,000 foot level is melting rapidly, but he . noted that there was more snow 6n the ground there earlier this month. Walter Hoffbuhr, manager of Talent Irrigation district, said Emigrant lake has been full since mid-January, but Hyatt lake has only 11,320 acre feet. Capacity of Hyatt lake is 16,000 acre feet. There were 14 inches of snow at Hyatt lake with a water content of 5.8 inches, he said. Jack Hoffbuhr made the trip yesterday in a Tucker Sno-Cat owned by Marshal Bessonette and Neil Collins, and operated by Glen Besso nette. He reported blizzard conditions at the higher elevations. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1958 Rackets Group Opens Hearing on Kohler Dispute Reuther Statement Charges Defiance Washington OP! The Senate Rackets Committee's long delayed hearing on the Kohler Co. strike finally began today with a second ary witness on the stand and the principals fighting a bat tle of statements. In one statement to news men, President Walter P. Reuther of the United Auto Workers Union charged that the Kohler Co. "is in defiance of the law" and does not want to end the marathon strike at its Wisconsin plumbing fix ture plant. President Accused Reuther attacked the "im morality" of the company and accused its president, Herbert Kohler, of "a campaign of villification and misrepre sentation" against the UAW. He said the company forced the strike and has prolonged it through nearly four full years. The company in turn ac cused the union of more than 800 "acts of violence and vandalism" against it and said it has b e e n the victim of "UAW-CIO violence and in timidation." Reuther's charges were con tained in a 26-page statement prepared for presentation be fore the Senate's Rackets Committee. Plan Junked The statement was released to newsmen as the committee finally opened its hearings on the Kohler strike, but junked at the insistence of Republi can committee members a plan to hear Reuther and a company . spokesman as lead off witnesses. Despite the committee's de cision, Reuther and the com pany released mimeographed statements shortly after the hearings began. - ; Budget Procedures Topic oi Meeting An instructional meeting on new school budget pro: cedures and the use of new budget forms will be held at 8 p.m. today in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium, according to Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent. School clerks, administra tors, and school board mem bers of first and second clas districts have been invited. Karl Janouch, county treas urer, will discuss the debt service levies and the use of new forms in connection with bond, interest and sinking fund". ' ; George Stacy, certified pub lic accountant under contract with the boundary board to audit the books of second and third class districts, will ex plain the five-year audit which recently was completed for all second and third class districts. Higher Postal Rate Approval Expected Washington OP Sen. A. S Mike Monroney predicted to day the Senate will approve higher postal rates and pay raises for postal employees by nightfall after a "big fight" on a key provision. The Oklahoma Democrat said there probably would be a "fairly close" vote on his amendment to knock out a proposed five-cent stamp for out-of-town letters. "If the Republicans all stand together," he admitted, "we can lose." . Monroney, a member of the Senate Post Office Commit tee, is a leader in the fight to hold any postal raise to a four-cent stamp for both lo- cal and out-of-town first class mail. It now requires a three- cent stamp. He expected the support of all but a handful of Democrats. 47,119 Passengers Use United Planes in City More passengers flew in and out of Medford via Un ited Air lines in 1957 than in any previous year, accord ing jto K. W. Cook, 'station ground services manager here In the year, 47,119 passeng ers, equivalent to more than twice the population of Med' ford, boarded or deplaned from United planes at Muni cipal airport, an increase of 5 per cent over 1956. cr ftiimmoKLTRY Complaint Says Action Would Be Violation of Oath Suit Against Holmes Brought by Eacrets Jackson County Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna has issued an order temporarily restrain ing Gov. Robert D. Holmes from commuting or attempt ing to commute the death sen tence of Bill Junior Nunn un til after court action is taken on a complaint filed here this week. The complaint asks that the court order Governor Holmes to appear and show cause why such an order should not be granted pending final deter mination of the suit. No date has been set for the governor to appear. The suit was brought by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Eacret, Klamath Falls, in an attempt to stop the possible commu tation of the death sentence of Nunn. They are the par ents of Nunn's murder victim. Filed By Nunley The suit was filed by Med ford Attorney Walter D. Nun ley, former Jackson county district attorney representing the Eacrets. Nunn was re-sentenced Monday to die in the state's lcthcl gas chamber March 28 for the murder of Alvin William Eacret. Nunn was convicted of the murder in May, 1956, and the sentence was upheld by state supreme court, Jan. 31. The complaint declares that any attempt on Holmes' part "to commute the death sen tence of Billy Junior Nunn upon the grounds of the al leged personal conscientious scruples of said defendant or from personal motives or in pursuance of mere private views is an arbitrary and ca pricious abuse of the power and discretion vested'' in the governor by the constitution. Violation of Oath Such an action, it continues, constitutes a violation of the oath of office" taken by the governor, and constitutes an attempt on Holmes' part 'to usurp and to exercise the functions of the judicial and legislative branches of the government." The complaint notes that Governor Holmes "publicly stated that he would im mediately begin to consider the commutation of the death sentence" the day the Su preme Court affirmed the con viction and sentence. It also noted that Governor Holmes indicated he would make an announcement concerning the case about the time Nunn was returned to Jackson county for re-sentencing. No such an nouncement has as yet been made. ' The Eacrets, in the com plaint, point out that it is common knowledge that Gov ernor Holmes "is opposed to capital punishment upon the basis of his alleged personal conscientious scruples, and takes the position that the (Continued on page 9) '"I'll Have The REFUELING One of eight Army helicop ters is refueled at Medford Municipal air port this morning. The eight are part of a flight transferring from Ft. Riley, Kan., to Ft. Lewis, Wash., for duty. They are part of the 75th Transportation company. Three helicopters crashed, killing six crewmen, near Red Bluff Saturday morning. Five Landscape Clinic Set March 10,11 A landscape clinic to assist owners of modest homes with yard plantings will be held March 10 and 11 in the coun ty courthouse auditorium, ac cording to Clifford B. Cordy, county agent in charge of horticulture. The clinic has been an an nual 'service planned by his office. Landscape architects who will work ,; with interested home "owners include" "Mrs. Fred C. Lorish and John Adams, Medford; Professors Ben Solberg and George Fre deen, Oregon State college; and Chester E. Corry, Ash land. Cordy said appointments may be made now by calling the agent's office in the court house. Scale drawings or pic tures of the home should be brought to the clinic, and the more material made available to the architects, the better the advise they can give, he said. There is no obligation to follow instructions and no charge is made for the help. Samples of shrubs will be on display during the clinic. Boy's Body Found On Watseco Beach Tillamook (IP) The sheriff's offke here today re ported recovery of the body of a boy about six years old on 'the sands at Watseco beach about 14 miles north of here. Authorities expressed be wilderment about the identity of the body since the only re port of a prson that age miss ing in the Pacific is that of five-year-old Ted Meservey drowned 20 miles up the Rogue river on Feb. 1. The sheriff's office said it was dif ficult to believe that the body could have been swept so far north at least 250 . miles when prevailing ocean cur rents are in the other direc tion. Law On You' Price RIBUNE United Press 'copters which stopped in Medford over night Friday left for Ft. Lewis Sunday noon. The helicopters landing here today were delayed in Red Bluff because of the weather conditions. The cargo type heli copters plan to leave Medford when weath er conditions permit, Pacific Coast Storm Moves Into Plains; Sacramento Floods By UNITED PRESS A Pacific storm that caused a n estimated S5 million dam age in California whipped across the plains into the Mid west today, its punch weaken ed but still windy and wet. Clearing skies Tuesday and today eased the threat of fur ther serious f lbodirigin water-logged California, but au thorities continued their watch along levees burdened by high waters. The storm system, which hit California Monday, push- Trouble Shooter Discusses Crisis Tunis (IPI U. S. Deputy Undersecretary of State Rob ert Murphy conferred hur riedly today with American officials over Tunisian deter mination to turn the Franco Tunisian crisis into a full scale inquest of the Algerian war. Murphy spent the morning conferring with U. S. Ambas sador Lewis Jones at the am bassodar's Carthage villa. Of ficials said no new meeting with President Habib Bour guiba had yet been arranged. Although official silence has been thrown over the "good offices" talks well in formed sources said Murphy was surprised by the strength of Tunisian determination to press for a settlement of the Algerian conflict. American Bases in Britain Opposed London (IP) Opposition La borites prepared today to at tack the government for au thorizing the United States to set up missile bases in Bri tain. A two-day defense debate began today with the Socialists expected to concentrate their fire1 against the U.S.-British agreement under which U.S. medium-range Thor guided missiles with nuclear war heads will be stationed in the British Isles. ' The first missiles are sched uled to reach Britain by the end of the year. They would be capable of hitting Moscow and other major Soviet tar gets in the event of war: WEATHER FORECAST: Clearing and colder tonight with valley fog. Variable cloudiness Thursday. Low tonight 28 30. High Friday 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday 47 Lowest this Morning 35 Prec. to 4 a.m. Today .79 Our.Skies Tonight Sunrise . 6:53 a.m. Sunset 5:57 p.m. The Moon, at First Quarter .12:51 p.m. sets Thursday 1:52 a.m. The star seen near it this evening is Aldebaian in the constellation, Taurus. Next year at this time Mars, now a morning star, will be seen in the evening sky near Aldebaran. 10 Cents Full Leased Wire No. 264 ed eastward Tuesday, draw ing mild temperatures into the midlands. Ail-Time Highs Record high temperatures were set at Fargo, N.D., which hit an all-time February high of 66 degrees, and at Minne apolis, where a 55-degree reading was' a new high mark for the date. A United Press count since last week end showed at least 21 persons killed in floods or traffic accidents on rain washed highways. There were 14 victims in Texas, six in California and one in Oregon. The Army Corps of Engi neers estimated flood and wind damage in California at $5 million. The figure includ ed damage to roads, downed utility lines, inundated farms and cropland, and flooded homes and businesses. Sacramento Tops Levees The Sacramento river in California topped its levees Tuesday north of Hamilton City, but damage was con fined to farmlands. The Plains and Midwest warmup touched off minor flooding as snows melted and ice packs broke up in rivers and small streams. Rivers rose in Southwestern Minnesota, Southeast Wiscon sin and Northeast Iowa. Flooding was reported in Iowa on the East Nishnabotna river near Shenandoah, the Racoon river near Des Moines and the East Maquoketa river north of Dubuque. . Heavy rains caused road washouts in Southern Idaho Tuesday and sent the Portneuf and Blackfoot rivers climbing rapidly. Pomeroy, Wash. (IP) Elgin Kuykendall, 87, father of Federal Power Commission Chairman Jerome Kuyken dall, died here Tuesday. Telephone Company Men In Oregon on $2,300,000 Program Telephone men are work ing in the hi'ls of Oregon this winter as part of a 52,300,000 program to provide more cir cuits for long distance tele phone calls. In Jackson county, accord ing to Pacific Telephone Man ager Jack Creager, Western Electric installers are work ing at microwave relay cen ters on Baldy mountain, Sis kiyou summit and Chestnut hill. Relay Equipment The men are installing radio-telephone relay equip ment for the new Medford to Klamath Falls microwave relay system, and for addi tion of a long distance tele phone channel to the existing Portland - Sacramento relay system. Microwave radio relay sys tems, Creager pointed out, beam long distance messages isenhover Asks Maooo For Faith Washington 0? Presi dent Eisenhower said today it will take some time to stop the business recession but he advised the nation to abide in his confidence that there will be an upturn by mid year. The President said the de velopment of an upturn natur ally would be a slow, gradual process. He remained confi dent that basic improvement in business and employment conditions would be evident by the middle of the year. In a newi conference the President made these other major points: He strongly defended Ag riculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson and said he had no intention of asking Benson to resign. He said it is his busi ness alone not congress- Ike's Invitation Doesn't Include i Top Soviet Brass i Washington HP! President Eisenhower said today his re cent suggestion that influen tial Russians visit the United States did not include Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin or Communist boss Nikita Khru shchev. The President told a news conference that he meant to suggest that Russian leaders of thought and influence, not Soviets in official govern ment positions. If officials of the Soviet government visited this coun try, he said, it might be con strued by some as a summit meeting between the U.S. and Russia. On another foreign policy ppint, the President took issue wth a suggestion of Harold E. Stassen, his former disarma ment adviser, that the U.S. negotiate a two-year trial agreement with Russia calling for a halt to nuclear testing. One Difficulty Stassen did not link the suggested agreement to a ban on production of atomic ma terials as the U.S. has insisted upon in the past. A reporter asked the President how he felt about .that. Eisenhower replied that, without going into details, he would say there was one very great difficulty involved in making a flat agreement for cessation of testing, even if the U.S. could detect every nuclear test. That obstacle, he said, involved America's NATO allies. The President said some of these nations are in various stages of producing weapons that require testing. The U.S., therefore, would have a diffi cult time making any agree ment on a test ban which would be binding on them, he said. Kapers To Open At MHS Tonight , "Krazy Kapers of 1958," Medford Kiwanis club's pro duction of songs, skits, gags and dancing, opens at Med ford High school auditorium this evening. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. The show will be repeated at 8:15 p.m. on Thursday, Fri day and Saturday. ' . Theme of the show is a magazine revue. There will be a variety of skits in the first act and the second act features the Kiwanis Kor isters. The show has all local talent with professional direc tion. Proceeds mainly' will be used for a Kiwanis sponsored county-wide dental clinic. through the air on a line-of- sight To make unobstructed line-of-sight transmission pos sible, relay stations in such systems are usually located on hills or mountains and spaced about 30 miles apart. Despite Oregon's relatively mild winter, travel to and from many of Pacific Tele phone's mountain-top relay centers here and elsewhere throughout the state has been difficult, Creager said. On several of the highest mountain peaks in this area, Sno-Cats have been used at times to traverse access roads covered with snow four to six feet deep. At other times the roads could be cleared and four-wheel drive trucks have been used for daily transport of men and equipment. New System The new Medford-Klamath Falls system will provide a "telephone skyway" over the men, who is in his Cabinet. He denied a story pub lished in Time magazine to day, that the cumulative effect of his illnesses since 1955 had forced him to reduce his workload by as much as 25 per cent. The President chuck led and said he had never heard of such a thing. No Comment on FCC He declined to express an opinion on whether Rich ard A. Mack of the Federal Communications Commission, should resign". The President said that as long as the at- torney general was in the pro cess of investigating the con troversy involving Mack, he himself had no judgment to pass at the present time. He said he still believed in the" basic merits of the natural gas bill that he recom mended last year, but that he hoped there would be no repetition of the recent fund raising incident involving J. H. Porter, Republican nation al committeeman from Texas. The proposed bill would ease federal regulation of natural gas prices. t In discussing the'sagging economy and possible methods of pepping it up, the Presi dent said a reduction in taxes was still a possibility in event of a deepening of the eco nomic decline, but he said he did not want to consider a tax cut unless it proved absolutely necessary to bring about an upturn. Increased Federal Spending He said it is desirable to ' get as much money as possible into the federal purse because of the increased federal spend ing expected this year. (Continued on Page 9) Eisenhower, Nixon Have Understanding Washington HP) Presi dent Eisenhower disclosed to day that there is a clear un derstanding between him and his Cabinet and Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon as to what should be done in case of the President's disability. The President said Nixon knows exactly what to do in such a situation. He said the people around him are privy to his understanding with Nix on. Eisenhower ' made the dis closure in response to a press conference question about disability legislation. He said this is something Congress should take action on; that he personally thinks it re quires a constitutional amend ment. Two Children Die In Fire in House Everett, Wash. (IP) Two children were killed in a house fire in a rural area) southeast of here today. The Snohomish county sher iff's office said the victims,- a two-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl, were the chil dren of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hauffle. Salem HP) The State Agri culture Board has suggested the name "producers market ing service" to replace the term "commission" now used to describe Oregon's com-, mody groups. . DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York ttPI Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 440.42, up 3.53; 20 railroads 103.44; off 0.26; 15 utilities 72.72, up 0.21 and 65 stocks 150.01 up 0.75. Sales today were about 1,880,000 shares com pared with 1,920,000 shares Tuesday. Work in Hills mountains starting in July. It also will serve as an alter nate route to connect eastern Oregon points with western Oregon, Washington and Cal ifornia. Another new radio relay system is going in service be tween Portland and Pendleton in May of this year. Pacific Telephone is also expanding its present micro wave routes, Creager said." Recently the number of voice paths on the Portland-Spokane system were increased. In July, a second channel, capable of handling 600 long distance conversations at the same time, will be added on the present Portland-Seattle route. At the same time the first long distance telephon ing channel will be placed la service on the Portland-Sacramento system that has been handling network television programs since August, 1953. v
