ome Time Seen for Anti-Recession Moves To Have Effect ore Economy
Washington w Gov-
:rnmcnt officials said today it'
Aiil be weeks and in some
:ases months before anti-recession
moves by Congress
and the Administration have
an appreciable effect on the
with Congress in recess, of
ficials were working over
time to translate the flood of
anti-slump measures into gov
ernment contracts, purchase
orders and ultimately
jobs.
But key administration ex
perts interviewed by the
United Press said there is lit
tle or no apparent effect yet
except for a possible psycho
logical gain.
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EASTER SERVICES Nearly 1,000 persons attended the
community Easter service at Hedrick Junior high school
auditorium Sunday at 11 a.m. Dr. George G. Roseberry,
pastor of First Methodist church, spoke at the second an
nual service held by First Methodist and St. Luke's Meth
odist churches. On the platform in addition to Dr. Rose
berry are the Rev. George Trobough, associate pastor, at
Candidates Listed
For School Boards
In Jackson County
Petition deadline for can
didates filing for election to
school boards in Jackson
county closed Friday. Elec
tion of school directors in the
first, second or third class dis
tricts and the rural school
board will be held May 5.
Candidates who have filed
for the five first class dis
tricts include:
Medford, Mrs. Allyn (Doro
thy) Monroe and Keith Hock
ersmith; District 6C, J. W.
(Jerry) Fitzgerald, Sams Val
ley, unopposed; Ashland, M.
Dale Williams and Richard
JWesterberg; and Phoenix,
Curtis Barnes, Fern Valley
rd., present chairman of the
school board, unopposed.
Three at Eagle Point
Three candidates have filed
to fill two vacancies on the
Eagle Point school board. One
vacancy is for a three year
term to fill the post of Dale
Ackerman who moved from
the area, and a five year
term.
Filed for the five year post
are John Reid, currently fill
ing the vacancy created by
Ackerman, and Raymond
Palm. Leonard Bradshaw,
present chairman of the board,
did not seek reelection. Elmer
Harnish has filed for the three
yc ir term.
Four persons have filed for
election to the county rural
st iool board, according , to
County School Superintend
ent Alf B. Mekvold. There
are four vacancies.
Filed are Gerald Latham,
Medford, central zone, (Med
ford school district); Mrs.
Edith Hoag, Prospect, north
east zone (Eagle Point, Lone
Pine, Elk-Trail, Prospect,
Shady Cove, Butte Falls and
Howard); Clarence Holdridge,
Talent, southeast zone (Ash
land. Talent, and Pinehurst);
and C. Elwood Hedberg, mem
ber at large. All of the can
didate are unopposed.
Nominees for the 14 indi-;
vidual school districts were
not available today.
One Killed, Two Injured
On Malin-Bonanza Road
Klamath Falls OP One
person was killed and two
were injured when their car
failed to negotiate a curve on
the Malin-Bonanza highway
and crashed off a cliff into
the Lost river early Sunday.
State Police said Frank Ed
win Wessels, 22, of Klamath
Falls, driver of the north
bound car, died in the wreck
age as the car hurtled over
"A national economy as
cumbersome and complex as
ours cannot be turned on a
dime," Dr. Gabriel Hauge,
President Eisenhower's spec
ial economic adviser has said.
Government e c o n o mists
and staffs of several top pri
vate research organizations
such as the Committee for
Economic Development and
the National Planning associ
ation agree the impact of
major public works projects
would not be felt for a year
or more.
That is one reason key Ad
ministration advisers, and
apparently the President him
self, oppose further sharp
step-ups in public works pro-(
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Predicts Little Hope
For Domiciliary Plan;
V. A. Discouraging
It will be a "difficult job"
to convince the Veterans Ad
ministration of the need for
expansion at the Camp White
domiciliary. Congressman
Charles O. Porter reported to
day. In a letter to Eugene Orr,
Medford merchant and Ameri
can Legion official, Porter
said he had received a nega
tive reply to his letter to the
VA. reauestine a survey of
Camp White to determine the
possibility of using idle build
ings there for a general medi
cal and surgical hosptal.
The letter to Porter, from
William S. Middleton, chief
medical director for the VA,
indicated the number of medi
cal specialists in Jackson coun
ty is "quite limited." He add
ed, "This bears out our con
tention it would be exceeding
ly difficult to obtain and re.
tain trie proiessionai person
nel required to maintain the
desired standard of care and
treatment. Therefore, we
could not .in good conscience
request authority to establish
a hospital at Camp White."
Plea Scheduled
For Robert Ayres
Robert Lee Ayres, 31, San
Diego, charged with second
degree murder, is tentatively
scheduled to enter a plea to
the charge in circuit court
Tuesday at 9:15 a.m., accord
ing to Philip B. Lowry, Med
ford attorney who was ap
pointed as counsel for Ayres.
An extension of time was
granted earlier so Lowry
could make a thorough in
vestigation of Ayres' back
ground. Ayres was arrested by Ore
gon state police March 18
after the fatal shooting of
Wayne Wilbur Dailey, 48,
Ashiand, service station and
motel owner. Ayres was iden
tified by Naval officials as a
chief ship's serviceman sta
tioned at the North Island
Naval air station, San Diego.
a 30-foot cliff and sank in
20 feet of water about 125
feet from shore.
Police said the two passen
gers, Marilyn Lehigh, 17, and
Gregory Monroe Schulze, 21,
both of Klamath Falls, pad
dled to safety with the help
of a spare tire which came
loose in the crash. They found
shelter in a nearby shed
where they were found about
8:30 a.m. Sunday,
posed by some congressional
Democrats and labor groups.
These advisers, still confi
dent of a business upturn by
the end of this year at the
latest, fear a business boost
coupled with the impact of
new heavy federal spending
would touch off another seri
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First Methodist, and the Rev. Melvin Dixon, pastor of St.
Luke's. Churches throughout the valley reported over
flow audiences at the Easter services with more than 2,000
persons attending the three services at First Presbyterian
church, Medford. Good attendance was also reported at
the sunrise services although several of the early morning
services had to be held indoors due to rain.
(Kenn Knackstedt photo)
Dr. Middleton's" letter in
dicated there are other draw
backs, including the VA's con
tention that existing hospitals
are adequately meeting the
hospitalization demand of
qualified veterans.
Porter's letter to Orr added
that in conversations with VA
officials, he -vas told most
cases now being treated in
VA hospitals are nonservice
connected, and "any new
facility, would, in effect, be
for the purpose of establishing
additional beds for the treat
ment of nonservice connected
disabilities.
"In view of these facts,"
Porter added, "it seems to me
that we have a difficult job
ahead in attempting to justify
the proposal to rehabilitate
the existing unused buildings
. . . for use as a Veterans hos
pital . . . We will certainly
need a great deal more speci
fic information and evidence
regarding the need for addi
tional beds and ability of the
community to staff the facility
than has so far been made
available.'
Porter also .reported that
there is no intention of tear
ing down the unused buildings
at Camp White. If it is found
there is no foreseeable use for
them by the VA, they will be
declared surplus so they can
be made available to other
federal agencies, which are
short of office or other space
in the Medford area, or to
make them available to the
county or to the city for
similar use, Porter stated.
Parents' Refusal
Blamed for Death
Ashland Leon Bolin Jr.,
18, of 91 Gresham st., Ashland,
died yesterday evening of self
inflicted gun shot wounds,
according to Ashland police.
Officers said the youth shot
himself through the chest with
a 12-gauge shotgun given him
by his father, Leon Bolin. He
was found by the youth's
mother in an upstairs bed
room. The body was taken to the
Ashland mortuary. Funeral
arrangements will be an
nounced later.
Ashland police said they
are continuing their investi
gation. The youth was de
sDondent over the fact his
parents would not buy him a
car, according to the note he
left, police reported.
New York OP) Camera
men, electricians and other
members of the International
Brothermhood of Electrical
Workers went on strike today
against the Columbia Broad
casting system.
ous inflationary spiral in 1959
or 1960.
One high official has said
this view may be translated
into several major vetoes by
the chief executive before the
end of the 1958 congressional
session. This was based on
the assumption that -Congress
Year
MEDFORD,
350 Appointments
Goal Of Red Cross
A total of 350 appointments
are needed when the Red
Cross bloodmobile visits Med
ford Tuesday, April 8, i Red
Cross officials here said to
day. Quota is 290 pints for
Jackson county.
So far only 25 appointments
have been made for the blood
drawing scheduled for 1 to
6 p.m. Tuesday in the Red
Cross chapter building at 60
Hawthorne st., officials said.
Those wishing to make an
appointment should call the
chapter headquarters at SP
ring 3-3813. Drop-in donors
are always welcomeofficials
said. They are especially wel
come between 3 and 4 p.m.
which is usually a lack period,
it was explained.
An official said it is vital
Jackson county make its
quota this time since it js al
ready far behind. It went over
the quota this fall, but has
generally dropped behind for
the last two years. Approxi
mately 10 per cent or 38
would be donors usually have
to be turned away due to
colds, high blood pressure, re
cent sickness or operations.
"We can still draw blood
from the regional blood-bank
in Portland even if we con
tinue to drop behind." a
chapter spokesman said.
"However, if the regional
bank falls too far behind in
its supplies the soldiers at
Fort Lewis, Wash., are 'draft
ed' as donors."
Those people planning to
donate blood can establish
credit for organizations, or
for companies for which they
work, a spokesman said.
The Voice Of
will return from its Easter
recess fired by popular de
mand to push, through "more
and bigger anti-recession and
job-promoting schemes.
What about anti-recession
steps thus far? Take the big
$1,800,000,000 highway bill
passed by Congress just be
OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1958
Supreme Court
Orders Cosfello
Case Dismissed
Gambler Free
Pending Appeal
Washington (IP) The Su
preme court today ordered
dismissal of the government's
five-year-old denaturalization
case against New York gam
bler Frank Costello.
The court acted in a brief
order on three cases which
raised the same issue.
The order said the govern
ment must file an "affidavit
of good cause" in denaturali
zation cases at the same time
it files the complaint in court.
Costello, 66, is now before
the Second U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in another case in
volving income tax evasion.
He started serving a five
year sentence for that but was
freed pending '' appeal pro
ceedings. Other Cases
The other cases acted on
today concerned Gaetano Luc
chese, 58, an Italian, natural
ized in Newark, N.J.; and
Matles, New York, director of
organization for the united
electrical workers.
Costello had appealed both
the income tax and denatur
alization cases on grounds
that wire-tap evidence had
been used against him. But
this issue was not involved in
the court's action today.
Both cases have been de
layed pending the outcome of
a test wiretap case decided
by the Supreme court Dec.
9, 1957.
25 Reservations in
For Crime Meeting
About 25 reservations to
the Western State Crime con
ference have been received,
according to Lyle Perkins,
Mdford police lieutenant in
charge of the event.
The conference will be held
in Medford on May 19; 20
and 21 with law enforcement
representatives of the 11 west
ern states, he explained. The
conference features a discus
sion of all known burglars
operating in the area.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York IIP! Dow
Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 440.09, off
0.41; 20 rails 100.67, off
0.76; 15 utilities 74.12, up .
0.06; 65 stocks 149.95, off
0.27. Sales today were about
2,090,000 shares compared
with 2.130,000 shares
Thursday.
WEATHER
FORECAST Partly cloudy to
night. Increasing cloudiness
Tuesday. Chance of showers
Tuesday afternoon and eve
ning. Low tonight 30. High
Tuesday 5g. TEMP.
Highest Yesterday 54
Lowest This Morning ... 29
OurSJcies Tonight
Sunrise 5:45 a.m.
Sunset .. 6:44 p.m.
Moonrise 11:17 p.m.
Last Quarter April 10
PROMINENT STAR
Spica, rises 7:34 p.m.
Jupiter, follows Spica.
Saturn, follows the Moon.
Mars, rises .. 3:52 a.m.
Venus, rises 4:14 a.m.
The Turtle
- L-T
fct-ERBLOtK.
fore it quit last Thursday for
a 10-day Easter holiday.
While still to be signed by the
President, the measure might
seem to promise a prompt
transfusion to the economy
and jobs for the unemployed.
Not so simple, say federal
experts. They estimate a time
Tribune
GRAS
MOVIELAND MURDER Underworld char
acter Johnny Stompanato, one time body
guard of gangster Mickey Cohen, was
stabbed to death by actress Lana Turner's
daughter, Cheryl, 14, in their Beverly Hills,
Calif., home. Booked for murder, Cheryl
told police she stabbed Stompanato because
Planned
On Timber Sales
A meeting with timber op
erators to review the Rogue
River national forest timber
sale plans for next year will
be held in the Federal court
room of the Post Office build
ing from 9 a.m. to 12 noon to
morrow, according to Forest
Supervisor Carroll E. Brown.
District rangers will present
sale plans for each of the six
ranger districts which make
up the national forest.
"The meeting is designed to
acquaint timber operators and
other parties interested in the
timber sale program with the
proposed sale program and
give them an opportunity to
ask questions or present ideas
on it.
Bids will be received Tues
day afternoon by the forest
supervisor for five different
tracts of national forest tim
ber which have been adver
tised for sale during the re
quired 30-day period.
Total estimated volume in
the five tracts offered for bid
is 9,980,000 board feet.
Porter Schedules
Tour of District
Rep. Charles O. Porter, CD
Ore.), plans to be in Medford
Friday. He will meet with
voters here and visit the
Camp White domiciliary.
Porter will appear in
Grants Pass Friday noon for
a luncheon then visit Med
ford. Saturday he will return to
Eugene. Those wishing to see
Congressman Porter during
his office hours here Friday
afternoon should contact
James Redden, chairman of
the Jackson County Demo
cratic Central committee, or
Bernard Kelly, here.
The Medford and Grants
Pass visits will be part of a
general tour by Porter
through the Fourth Congres
sional, district during the
Easter recess of Congress. He
plans to make at least 11 ma
jor addresses in various cities
in addition to many informal
stops, according to the news
release. He will return to
Washington, D. C, Sunday,
April 13.
MAYOR LEAVES
Medford Mayor John Snider
will lead a discussion of city
need's before the Oregon dele
gation at the Western Reg
ional conference of the Presi
dent's committee for traffic
safety in San Francisco early
this week.
Meeting
lag of 18 months to two years
from origin of a big inter
state highway project to the
placement of contracts. Bad
weather and the need to as
semble equipment and a work
force may make this even
longer.
"A highway program
is
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Legal Process To
Determine Penalty
For Cheryl Turner
Hollywood (IP) Mobster
Johnny Stompanato, who died
at the hands of the teen-age
daughter of screen star Lana
Turner rather vthan in true
gangland style, probably died
"in a matter of minutes" from
a stab wound, a coroner's of
fice spokesman said today.
Meanwhile, the slow legal
process to determine what
penalty if any Cheryl
would pay for slaying her
mother's lover was set in mo
tion . as the girl waited in
juvenile hall for a hearing to
determine whether she shall
be released to her parents or
kept in custody.
Dr. Frederick Newbarr,
chief pathologist for the cor
oner's office, said that al
though the full autopsy report
has not yet been prepared, a
statement on the cause of
death would not be changed
by the report.
Largest Artery Cut
Cause of death was listed
as "stab wound of abdomen,
penetrating the liver, portal
vein and aorta, with massive
bleeding."
Final Plans Set
For Pear'Fefe
Final planning meeting of
the Pear Blossom festival
committees will be held at
7 a.m. tomorrow at Henry's
Broiler in Medford, accord
ing to Fred Beck, group pres
ident. All groups and organiza
tions who are participating in
activities scheduled in this
area during the two-day event
this Saturday and Sunday are
urged to attend.
Beck has invited especial
ly representatives of the Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce,
sponsors of th Saturday
morning parade; Crater Lions
club, sponsors -of the Saturday
and Sunday boat and sports
show, Job's Daughters, who
are holding its convention in
Medford this week; and the
Camp White wheel chair
parade committee.
Beck said plans have been
completed for the selection of
the Pear Blossom Festival
court. Details of the program
planned and scheduled for
Wednesday night at Lincoln
school will be reported at the
Tuesday morning breakfast
meeting. -- -
probably one of the poorest
places known for creation of
relatively quick employment"
one federal authority said.
Building of state roads or
improvement of existing high
ways could be begun much
faster than new arterial high
ways, officials said. They said
the interstate road program,
while slow-moving, may how
ever, stimulate a pickup in in
dustries supplying machines
and material for highways.
Federal housing officials
expressed confidence the
government's program to
speed housing construction
has translated itself into new
jobs. But they had no figures
FAIRLin
WES JF 4?
he thought he was going to disfigure her
mother. This photo from file shows uniden
tified reporter (left) talking with Miss Tur
ner as Cheryl chats with Stompanato who
accompanied the actress to Los Angeles last
month following a two-month vacation in
Mexico.
Dr. Newbarr said that be
cause "all soft tissue was
penetrated death probably
took place very rapidly. The
biggest blood vessel in the
body being cut would make
bleeding very rapid," he said.
"Death in my opinion was
in a matter of minutes," New
barr said. He said doctors
called to the scene of the Fri
day night slaying could not
have arrived in time to save
the dying man's life.
The slaying of the former
gangland tough was not done
in true mobster style as has
marked deaths of Cohen as
sociates in recent years.
Rather than being taken for a
"ride" or being shot down
from a speeding car, Stom
panato met death at the hands
of a child who her mother
thought was just jabbing a
finger at the victim.
Preliminary Hearing
A preliminary hearing for
Cheryl may be held late to
day. Later, 'at another session,
the juvenile court will decide
whether she shall be tried for
plunging an 8-inch butcher
knife into handsome Johnny
Stompanato, 32-year-old un
derworld figure, last Friday
night.
Cheryl said she stabbed the
dapper ''Adonis" of the gang
which used to suijround for
mer gambler Mickey Cohen
because he had threatened to
disfigure her glamorous
mother.
Children on
Killed by Speeding Train
Macdona, Tex. OPl The
Southern Pacific Sunset limit
ed roared around a bend
northeast of here Sunday on
its run to El Paso and killed
five children who were
snapping pictures from a rail
road trestle.
Three of the children were
knocked over .the railing into
the Medina river, 18 feet be
low the bridge. Te other two
were found on the three
fourth mile long bridge by
their parents, horribly man
gled. Engineer J. W. Euforth,
speeding his 12-car passenger
train around a bend at 60
miles an hour, couldn't see the
children until it was too late.
to back this up nor could
they estimate its effect on
overall employment.
As for government moves
to speed up buying programs
and defense spending, a key
Administration official said
he could not truthfully say
even these had been translat
ed into jobs yet. He said this
process also "takes time."
Another official remarked:
"Thig is a recession for the
manufacturers of durable
goods (autos, refrigerators,
tractors and the like) and
thus far moves by the govern
ment have not been of appre
ciable iielp in that direction.
Later, yes, but not for the
present or very near future."
Michigan Scene
Of Sunday Night
Wreck in Field
Viscount Falls
Short of Runway
Midland, Mich. OPl A
Capital Airlines Viscount
landing on instruments in a
light snow storm crashed
short of the runway at Tri-
City Airport Sunday night.
killing all 47 aboard. Search
ers who returned to a muddy
cornfield at dawn today found
the last of the dismembered
and burned bodies.
Short of Runway
Civil Aeronautics Board and
Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion inspectors and engineers
converged on the scene to
try and find out why the
"million mile," 17-year vet
eran pilot landed more than a
third of a mile short of the
runway.
The inspectors said Pilot
William J. (Joe) Hull, 44,
either could have misjudged
his approach or the plane
could have crashed because
of a power or instrument
failure.
Fred G. Powell, CAB in
vestigator-in-charge from Chi
cago, said it might be a week
before any solid conclusion
could be reached on the cause
of the crash.
Engines Deep in Mud
The plane nosed into a field
where, rescuers sank ankle
deep in the mud to bring out
the last three bodies. Powell
said the plane's four engines
were embedded deep, in the
mud.
Heating Period
Second Longest
General heating of orchards
was reported in the valley
early today with the heating
started shortly after midnight
in the colder orchards and
continuing until sunup. "
According to Clifford B.
Cordy, county horticultural-
ist, this was the second long
est heating period this season.
Temperatures dipped to 27 de
grees in the colder spots, he
said.
D'Anjou and Bartlett pear
trees are now reported in full
bloom with the bosc and
cornice behind in normal bud
development, Cordy explain
ed. He added that the majority
of the pear trees would be in
full bloom this week end for
the Pear Blossom festival. .
Smoke from the heavy heat
ing this morning resulted in a
fire report in Ashland, accord
ing to fire department officials
there.
Salem fiP Oregon
highways were generally
clear today and no chains re
quired. Rail Trestle
He yanked frantically on his
horn and slammed on the
emergency brakes at the same
time and the train stopped
with two cars still on the
bridge.
The children, ranging from
11 to 16 years old, were on
an Easter picnic with their
parents below " the bridge.
Their parents wsmed them
not to go up on the trestle
because the bend in the tracks
made it too dangerous.
But they went up anyway
and started taking pictures.
When" they saw the engine
bearing down on them they
froze, Euforth said, and then
started to run. But they had
gone too far on the bridge to
get off in time.