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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1958)
M JVI IM ,r I NEW AWNING Installation of a Tran slucent awning on Main st. and Central ave. is expected to be complete next week, according to Dick-Dunphy, foreman with the Translucent Awning and Metalcrafters, Spokane. The awning covers the sidewalk, and is supported at the outer edge with two-inch pipes set in pairs and "laced" Schedule for Road Link Between KF, Medford Told Klamath Falls -flD A ten tative schedule for comple tion of a Klamath Falls-Med-ford highway link was an nounced here today by Klam ath County Engineer William Canton. He said survey work would be started in 1959 with bid invitation for construction contracts scheduled for late 1939 or 1960. Southern Oregon's two prin cipal cities would be linked by a route through McAllister springs and Lake of the Woods. ' ; ' Canton said some confusion existed in connection with qualifying the last few miles of the route for public road Improvement funds. . .. He said it was pointed out during a meeting with for estry officials in Portland late 'last week that no Bureau of Reclamation funds have been earmarked for the high way but that the project is to be considered along with oth er contemplated 'road work In the Pacific Northwest. Both Jackson and Klamath county courts have urged com pletion of the all-weather highway. Both have said that Federal funds were required for construction but they were willing to undertake mainte nance costs. State Archivists Inventory Records David Duniway, state arch ivist from Salem, and two staff members from the Ore gon state library are in Med f"d to inventory records of the county assessor's and tax collector's offices. Assisting him are Librar ians Neil Riggs and Richard Dolph. Duniway said they were in vited to the county by the county court and are work ing in an advisory capacity to the district attorney. They are selecting records which should be saved. The inventory has been car ried on throughout the state during the past 12 years, with some early records going to the state library. Others here probably will go to the Jack sonville . museum, Duniway said. Records in the county of fices go back as far as 1854, according to the archivist. Some early records were de stroyed in 1927 to facilitate moving the county seat from Jacksonville to Medford. Land Bank Reviewed at Farm Loan Group Event The history of the land bank system, which was founded more than 40 years ago, was reviewed by E. C. Prestbye. attorney for the Federal Land bank, Spokane, at the annual meeting of the Southern Oregon National Farm Loan association at Gold Hill last night. . Farmer and stockmen mem bers from Jackson and Jose phine counties attended the meeting in Gold Hill Grange hall. The Southern Oregon association serves both counties. Harold White, superintend ent of the Southern Oregon Experiment station, discussed plans for the establishment of a new experiment station on the Hanley property west of Medford. The property re cently was purchased by the (Governor's Aide Skeptical on Suit Bn SBiBly Nunn Case Salem IP! Orval Thomp son, legal aide to Gov. Robert D. Holmes, was skeptical to day of efforts of a Klamath Falls couple to assure the execution of their son's mur derer. The Albany attorney said a temporary restraining order signed by Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna of Jackson county on petition of Mr. and Mrs. John Burglary Attempt Foiled by Police An attempt to burglarize the safe at' Oregon Egg Pro ducers, 727 North Central ave., last night apparently was foiled when a police officer noticed the safe missing from its regular place while mak ing a routine check. The safe was discovered missing about 3:20 a.m., po lice said, and several officers were called to check the building. The safe, moved to a base ment back room, was not cracked although the dial was knocked off and several marks were made in an attempt to chip the concrete imbeded cash box loose, police .eaid. Entrance to the building was gained by climbing a box car and entering, through win dows on the roof, police added. Apparently one thief cut his hand on window glass and left a trail of blood through the building and on the safe, according to police. The thieves moved the safe from the office to the basement room with the aid of a hand truck and freight elevator. Police said the would-be thieves apparently were scar ed off before they could begin work on the safe. A large number of tools were found near the safe, they reported. Nothing was reported missing in the building, according to the firm's manager. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York iff) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 437.80, off 2.62; 20 rails 102.70. off 0.74; 15 utilities 72.01, off 0.26; 65 stocks 149.15. off 0.86. Sales today were about 1.670.000 shares as compared with 1,880.000 shares Wednesday. county for an experiment station. F. E. Bowman, secretary treasurer, reported that the Southern Oregon association extended $145,000 in credit last year. Andrew E. Stevens, Med ford, and Albert L. Straus, Gold Hill, were reelected to three-year terms on the board of directors. Holdover direc tors are J. W: Bigham, Eagle Point, president; Oliver H. Roundtree, Williams, vice president; and W. C. Higin botham, Central Point, who presided at the meeting. Entertainment was provid ed by Crater High school dance band, and dinner was served by the Gold Hill Grange with Mrs. Lucy Edington in charge of prepa- rations. with steel rods. Rafters are made of light weight steel, braced to add strength and to give the awning an ornamental ap pearance. The fiberglass is beige to match the color of the building. The picture above was taken looking north toward Main st. on Central ave. lEacret df Klamath Falls left him skeptical because of the constitutional provision that the governor "shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations, and pardons ..." He cited Article 5, Sec tion 4 of the Qregon consti tution. , Two Sentences Commuted Gov. Holmes has commuted death sentences of two con victed murderers but still has under study the case of Billy Junior Nunn, 28 . con victed slayer of Alvin Eacret, 14-year-old son of the peti tioners before Judge Hanna. The temporary order granted them against the governor would prohibit him from com muting or 'attempting to com mute the death sentence re cently re-imposed on Nunn after appeal and scheduled for March 28. Thompson commented that "generally, a discretionary act cannot be enjoined, only a violation of law." . Walter Nunley, attorney for the Eac rets, had contended the gov ernor may use his. discretion ary powers only in the public interest and not on mere per sonal opinion. Gov. Holmes has been a staunch opponent of capital punishment on mor al grounds. Sees Venue Question Thompson said that in Ore gon persons can be sued only in the county where they live or can be served. "I don't know how they would get around the venue question on this, unless they expect to serve the governor when he goes to Medford to make a speech," he said. - (Governor Holmes will speak at mass initiation ceremonies of American Legion Posts of southern Oregon at the Med ford National Guard Armory Saturday. He is expected to arrive in Medford about noon.) The Nunn case was prose cuted in Medford since the Sacret boy was slain at Tub Springs state park, just across the Jackson county line from Klamath county. Jackson county district attorney at the time, April 19o6, was Nunley, the present attorney for the Eacrets. Money Token from Shady Cove School Shady Cove Burglars tooc an undetermined amount of money from the Shady Cove school Wednesday night after forcing open three doors to gain entry to the principal's office, the sheriffs office re ported today. A safe in the office was badly damaged when it was broken into, deputies said. Not more than S10 was be lieved missing. Candidate Moved to Eagle Point in 1957 Ralph A. Larson, 37, Eagle Point hardware store owner who has announced his candi dacy for sheriff of Jackson county on the Republican ticket, moved to Eagle Point in 1957, instead of 1951, as appeared in a previous story. He was with the Los Ange les sheriffs office for 10 years, and took several police courses at various colleges in southern California. Salem (IP) Phil Hitchcock, Clackamas county Republi can, has filed for his party's nomination as U. S. repre sentative from the first con gressional district. JhBHfii Couple Charged With Obtaining Unlawful Funds Reeder Withdraws Leniency Request Mr. and Mrs. Clarence John son, 781Vi Beatty st., Med ford, were sentenced to 2V2 years each in prison Wednes day afternoon by Circuit Court Judge Edward C. Kelly on charges of unlawfully ob taining public assistance. t The Johnsons, who had pleaded guilty in circuit court Aug. 23, 1957, had been free on $1,500 bond each. Sentenc ing had been postponed sev eral times for pre-sentencing investigation reports. Maxi mum penalty on the charge is three years in the state peni tentiary. District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder withdrew an earlier request for leniency, due to new information that had come to light in a pre-sentence report. He had made the len iency request Jan. 30 in circuit court. It was at that time Judge Kelly requested a pre-sentence report from the Oregon parole and proba tion officer. Disliked Examples In pronouncing sentence, Judge Kelly explained that he disliked making examples of people, -but said that the court could not overlook the ability of the Johnsons to lie and falsify in obtaining pub lic assistance and loans, and in making financial reports. Prior to sentencing the couple, he said that it was one of the most amazing per formances of fraud of which he had heard. He added that the Johnsons had been ob taining public assistance for approximately 10 years. He stated that reports com piled by the Oregon parole and probation officer snowed at least five cases where the Johnsons could be tried for false swearing, and several others on felony charges for making false financial state ments., ' The Johnsons were arrest ed June 6,. 1957, by sheriff's deputies' after an investiga- (Continued on page 15) Ramsay Canyon Road Slide Cleared Traffic on the Ramsay Can yon rd. north of Sams Valley was held up Tuesday by an earth slide which was cleared yesterday by county road crews, County Engineer Paul Rynning reported today. More work is required for permanent repair, he said. Rynning reported that fur ther damage from the .heavy rains occurred at the county farm home,, where Bear creek washed out fruit trees and other experiments along with about two acres of land. Heavy erosion also was re ported along the creek be tween Suncrest and Valley View rds. Bolton, England (IP) A chartered British airliner crashed into a fog-shrouded foothill of the Pennine Moun tains of Northern England early today with a heavy loss of life. 'Not 52nH" 26 Pages Veterans Accused Of Breaking Into Appliance Store Conscience Bothers Confessing Officer Portland (IP) Three Port land police officers, all vet-1 erans of. six or more years on the force, were arrested early today on. burglary charges. Police Chief William Hil bruner said the three were ac cused of breaking into an ap pliance store last Saturday J night and hauling off a car load of loot. Others Implicated Hilbruner identified the of ficers as Donald E. Roberts, 29; Fred Matthies Jr., 37, and Warren L. Moore, 33. Rob erts joined the forpe in 1951, Matthies in 1947 and Moore in 1950. . .. The. chief said Moore impli cated the other two after go ing to his commanding offi cer, Capt. E. Y. Maddocks. "His conscience was just kill ing him and he confessed," Hilbruner said. , The appliance store had re ported loss of 13 television sets, 21 radios, two record players and other small elec trical appliances.,. Loot Thrown Into River Hilbruner said some of the loot had been recovered. He said Moore told officers he had disposed of some of it in the Tualatin river and skin divers were to try to lo cate it. The chief said the three of ficers had been drinking af ter leaving their shifts Sat urday. The ' three were charged with burglary not in a dwell ing, lhey were released on $1,500 bail each. Hilbruner said he would request that the three be discharged from the force. All are . married and have families. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight, becoming foggy or low overcast early Fri day. Fair Friday after noon.' Low tonight - 32. High Friday, about 52. Temp. Highest Yesterday ..- 48 Lowest this Morning 32 ' Free, to 4 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:51 a.m. 5:58 p.m. Sunset The Moon rides high and sets Friday 2:45 a.m. Full Moon March 5 .EVENING STAR Jupiter, rises 10:40 p.m. and is now moving nearer Spica in Virgo. (Jupiter will he seen near Albedaran in Taurus in 1964). Yet" PIMTLMhI policemen ". . I . MEDFORD, OREGON, di- - yITv NEW SNOW When residents of the valley awoke Tuesday morning, they were greeted by snow-covered hills and the area, looked more like a spot in the Himalayas than mild Rogue River valley. The sun poked through the clouds from time to time Kohler Worker Tells of Beating Threat by Union Washington (IPI A Kohler Co. employee testified today that he joined the United Auto Workers Union under a "sign up or get beat up" threat, but later conceded his statement conflicted with pre vious testimony he had given. Union attorney Joseph Rauh was the first to challenge the witness, Herman Miesfeld, who was testifying before the Senate Rackets Committee. Rauh said the committee should consider bringing pen jury charges. Statements Correct Miesfeld contended, how ever, that all his statements were correct. He said that in previous testimony before the National Labor Relations Board he had not been asked questions that would lead him to tell of being coerced into joining the union. He had told the NLiRB tnat UAW men "weren't unfriend ly" to him. Miesfeld told how he and four other non-union employ ees of the Sheboygan, Wis., plant were captured by. a picket patrol wnen tney sneaked across a field to re port to work through a back entrance. Taken to 'Kitchen He said he was taken to -it fi 1 a striKe Kucnen anu to ."sign up with the union or get beat up." "So I signed up, ne saia. After that, he said, the strikers gave him coffee and doughtnuts and , took him home. ' Miesfeld identified Emit Mazey, UAW , secretary-treas urer, and Donald itano, ana Robert Burkhardt, . interna tional representatives of the union, as among those pres ent in the kitchen. Sehafe Expected To Approve Postal Rates Washington (in me Senate was expected to ap- w m : 1 1 : prove today a $11 numuu postal rate increase bill fea turing a five-cent stamp for out-of-town letters. The Senate was likely to tack on a IV2 per cent pay increase for about 500,0001 postal employees. 2 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, At Least 512 CUSIecS As Tornadoes Uake Southern States Jackson, Miss. (IP) Ugly black tornadoes struck sec tions of Mississippi and Loui siana Wednesday night, kill ing at least 12 persons and flattening scores of buildings. Authorities feared more dead would be found in the scattered wreckage today. More than 100. persons were injured. ' More than a dozen funnels dipped down throughout south and central Mississippi during a two-hour period shortly after dusk. Earlier in the day a twister had left two injured near Hosston, La. Timber Kills Woman Walnut Grove, a commu nity of about 600 northwest of Jackson, probably was the largest settlement crippled by the winds. Half its home were damaged, 28 persons were in jured and a 60-year-old wom an was killed by flying tim ber which crashed through her window. A few miles to the west of Walnut Grove, in the hamlet of Farmhaven, three died and 20 were injured. A mother and her 12-year-old son died in the Brewer community in Perry county in southeast Mississippi. The first highway . patrolman to reach the scene of that twister radioed back: "Get some help out here. This place has been flattened." . Another community in the same area was hit by pos sibly the same twister min utes later and another death was the result. Perry county's injured totaled more than 20. 'House Blew Away' Ninety minutes later twist ers hit three communities in nearby Wayne county, killing one woman at the Winchester community; The highway pa trol said "Her house blew away. The first twister reported hit the Fannin Road village about 13 miles northeast of Jackson. One rescue worker said "it sounded like a train going through, then the lights went out." A Fannin girl, three-year- old Kathy Jones, was killed Price 10 Cents Tribune 1958 No. 265 during the day, making, the .mountains glisten, but it also went to work melting the powdery snow, starting little rivulets like the one above. The picture was taken on the road leading to Oregon Switzerland, on the east side of the valley. when the twister carried her home 100 yards. Her father, mother and one - year - old brother, who was in a high chair at ' the time, were injured. 12-Year-Old Hurt When Hit by Car.. Brady Webb Keister, 12, of 901 Clark st., was treated and released at Rogue Valley hos pital about 4:30 p.m. Wednes day after he was struck by a car on West Jackson st., be tween the railroad tracks and Fir st., according to city po lice. , , They said the youth ap parently tepped into the path of a car operated by Erie Monroe Gray, 832 Dakota st. Several witnesses told police the youth stepped into street from behind a parked car without looking, v . He was taken to Rogue Valley hospital . by Medford Ambulance service after he complained of his right leg hurting, police said. Both Sides See Victory As Sudan Holds Elections Khartoum, Sudan 0P The Sudan today held its first general elections since grant ed full independence in 1956 with both pro-Western and p r o-Egyptian parties con fidently predicting victory. Women Not To Vole About 1,500,000 male citi zens in this nation of nine mil lion pouplation are eligible to cast ballots in the elections for members of parliament. There is no woman suffrage. The results may well deter mine whether the Sudan leans closer to the United Arab Re public led by President Gamel Abdel Nasser or toward closer ties with the West. The controversy with Egypt over the disputed bor der areas north of the 22nd FCC Official I Swears' Influence; Lacking in Vote E Subcommittee Hears". Reply To Charges Washington (IP) Federal Communications Commission er Richard A. Mack denied under oath today charges that his vote in a Miami televis ion award was influenced by money and friends. He also declared that "I certainly have no intention of resigning." Mack testified before a House Commerce subcommit tee which has heard charges that he- received $2,650 from a Florida attorney, Thurman A. Whiteside, who supported the successful applicant for the TV channel. Not Pressured Appearing before the sub committee for the. first time since it started delving into FCC operations, Mack declar ed he "was not swayed or in fluenced" by anybody who approached him about the Miami channel 10 case. Mack said that if he had felt that he was "being sway ed or pressured into a vote against my convictions," he would not have voted at all in the case. He said he listened to all sides and voted his convic tions based on "the record before us." Before his appearance to day a 1 reporter asked Mack if he intended to resign. "Of course not," he said. "I certainly have no inten tion of resigning." . . V In Form of Loans Whiteside has told the sub committee the money he gave Mack was in the form ol loans and that Mack had paid back most of it. Whiteside also testified that Mack own ed a one-sixth interest in a Miami insurance agency from which - the ; commissioner has received $13,000 in the past five years. Subcommittee Chair man Oren Harris (D-Ark.), has said Whiteside's testimony in dicated law violations which couldbe punished by a jail sentence. Nunn, D'Aulremonf Returned to Prison Billy Junior Nunn, 29, and Hugh D'.Autremont, 54, con victed murderers from Jack son county, were returned to the Oregon state penitentiary today by sheriff's deputies. - Nunn was returned to Jack son county this week for re sentencing by Circuit Court Judge H. K. Hanna on a first degree murder charge. He was found guilty last year of the death of Alvin William Eacret. DAutremont, youngest of three brothers convicted of first degree murder in 1927 in the attempted train robbery which resulted in five deaths, appeared in circuit court Monday. He was brought here to enter pleas of guilty to second degree murder on a pending outstanding murder indictment and to stopping a train with the intent of robbery- Three other first degree murder indictments against D'Autremont were dismissed by the court at the appear ance. , " French, Algerian Troops in Battle Algiers API French troops were locked in hand to hand combat today with a major Algerian Nationalist Army near the Tunisian bord er, French military authorit ies reported. parallel was one of the major campaign issues. But para doxically the dispute may benefit the pro-Egyptian Na tional Unionist Party of former Prime Minister Ismail el-Azhari. Troops Pulled Out When Egypt agreed to post pone settlement of the dispute until after the elections, Nas ser cabled that it was in re sponse to the appeal -from el-Azhari. Egypt pulled its troops out of the three border enclaves after pro-Western Prime Minister Abdullah Khalil fired off sharp notes to Cairo and ordered the Sudanese delegation to take the issue to the United Nations Security CounciL
