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Newspaper Page TextOregon t IS MOVE TRANSFORMERS gon Power company today moving four giant 75-ton transformers from a site near the railroad on McAndrews rd. to the new Lone Pine substation. To do the job a mammoth drop-bed truck was hired from the Wilhelm Trucking company, Port land. The 80-foot vehicle is claimed to be the only one of its kind in the world, having two drivers, one in front and one in back, who communicate with each other over an intercom system. The transformers will nest g gpg gmfc umm Suffers- Big Envoy Withdraws Charges Rather Than Face Vote united Nations, N.Y. (IP) The Soviet Union suffered a major propaganda defeat of its own making in the U.N. Security Council Monday night, and the big question today was "why. Diplomatic quarters said the Soviets, in accusing the United States of "provoca tive" flights by nuclear-armed bombers, must be trying to block an East-West summit conference for unknown rea sons. Until now Russia has led the cry for summit talks. Preliminary talks for such a conference actually were in progress in Moscow Friday when Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said U.S. hydrogen bombers threatened a new world war by heading toward Russia every time there was an alert. Within hours Soviet Ambas sador Arkady A. Sobolev announced he would air the propaganda charge in the Se curity Council although a motion to censure the United States faced sure defeat. He withdrew all charges Monday night rather than put the issue to a losing vote. Diplomats connected the un usual procedure of the Mos cow pre-summit negotiations with the H-bomber charge, based on a dispatch written April 7 by United Press Presi dent Frank H. Bartholomew and approved by the Defense Department in advance of publication. The debate on the Russian H-bomb charges raged for six hours until 9 p.m. (EST). Neu tral Sweden did not speak, but all the other 10 members of the Security Council did. All save Russia supported the United States and declared they saw no menace in the U.S. H-bomber flights. Indonesia Rebels Flee Capital City Singapore (IP) The reb el government of Indonesia has held its capital city of Bukittinggi and taken refuge in the mountainous interior of Sumatra, it was announced today. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow Jones final slock averages: 30 industrials 449.55, off 1.17; 20 railroads 110.76, off 0.84; 15 utilities 74.43, " off 0.10, and 65 stocks 155. 64, off 0.52. Sales today were about 2.440,000 shares compared with 2.550.000 chares Monday. Hitchcock Claimed Victim Of 'Anonymous Mailings' Salem Iff) Phil Hitchcock, candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress from the 1st district, protested to Secretary of State Mark Hat field today that he was the victim of "anonymous mail ings" running down his can didacy for office. The protest was lodged with Hatfield in his capacity as pverseer of state elections. Oregon law requires Hat field to investigate such mailings. "As elections officer for the state charged with respon sibilities for administering elections laws, I have forward convert the began the job of California Ore-.. RECEIVE HONORS The Rev. Stanley G. Matthews, right, chairman of the National Religious Publicity council pre sents awards to United Press Writer Albin Krebs, and Miss Peggyann Hutchinson, church page editor of the Medford Mail Tribune, for distinguished coverage of religious news during 1957. The awards were made in Riverside church in New York City last week. Krebs received the U.P. award and a certificate for Louis Cassels, U.P. news writer. (United Press Photo) FHA Sefects State For Pilot Program Oregon has been selected the old method of the FHA as one of two states to try out a new method of issuing Federal Housing Administra tion insurance on loans, ac cording to Howard Heydlauff, assistant director of the Port land FHA district, who spoke at a meeting here last night. Medford will be the first city in Oregon to participate. He said Montana would be the other state in, the pilot program. A three to four month test period will be conducted to iron out "any bugs" before it will be tried in other states. The major change in policy of the FHA is the establish ment of the Certified Agency Program, or "CAP". The pro gram provides that appraising and inspecting for loans will be done by local men rather than by men from the Port land office. Approved by Office Local appraisers and inspec tors must be approved by the Portland FHA office, he ex plained. He noted houses must still meet the FHA minimum restrictions, which in some cases have been tightened.- He said the new procedure for securing a loan would be to go to a local CAP lender to fill out an application. The lender then uses his judg ment about the credit rating of the applicant rather than ed the protest to the district attorney for whatever inves tigation and action seems ap propriate," Hatfield said. "I have also advised the other district attorneys of the 1st congressional district' of the receipt of the protest," he continued. Tom Brand, Salem attorney and chairman of the Hitch cock for. Congress committee, protested for Hitchcock over material mailed to Marion county. Hatfield reminded Oregon ians that literature advocating a candidacy arid in opposition must bear the name and ad dress of the author. 220,000 vclts of electricity com ing from Klamath river over the company's new transmission line to 66,000 volts that will supply feeder lines in this area, accord ing to company officials. The installation will serve to increase the available power here substantially. Three of the units will be used full time and one will serve as a spare, company officials said. In the pic ture above, workmen brace the sides of the truck bed prior to skidding one of the units aboard. making credit judgment. The next step would be to have an approved FHA ap praiser go over the home, at which time a $10 fee is col lected from the applicant. If the appraisal meets FHA re quirements and is acceptable by the lender, a commitment which is binding for one year is signed. A major change provides that the local or CAP lender can sign the loan insurance application rather than the FHA commissioner, he noted. He added that requirements for change of design in houses are acceptable if the house still meets minimum require ments. Reason for Change Heydlauff said the major reason for the new program is to make service faster and to help the construction busi ness. He said the government is depending to a great extent on increased construction as a means of stimulating busi ness. He told the group the plan is not designed as a "give-a-way" program, as minimum restrictions must still be kept. He urged lenders to contract for loans only if they are sure the applicant's credit is good. About 1 in 10 appraisals by locally approved men will be spot-checked by the Port land office, he said. He added that the Portland area would not come under the CAP pro gram and that the Medford area will be the first to get the program under way. He asked interested lenders, appraisers and inspectors jn the Medford area to contact the Portland office for appli cations and further informa tion. Neuberger-Javitz Discussion on KYJC "The Postman Rings Once," a program of the National Association of Letter Carriers, will be heard over radio sta tion KYJC (1230 kc) at 7:30 p.m. today. The program will feature Sens. Richard Neu berger (D-Ore.) and Jacob Javitz (R-N.Y.) in a discussion on postal pay legislation. Wdl hu iron .YonfllSh Neighbor Boy Claims Shooting Was Accidental Further Questioning Of Youngster Due Woodburn (IP) A 15-year- old Woodburn-area boy was shot and killed Monday night and state Police Capt. R. G. Howard said in Salem that a 14-year-old neighbor boy had admitted the shooting and claimed it was an accident. No charges were filed im mediately pending further questioning of the youth, Capt. Howard said. The youth was questioned by Sgt. James Darby of State Police and Chief Criminal Deputy John Zabinski of the Marion coun ty sheriffs office. Horrified parents of John Edward Manning returned from a Parent-Teacher asso ciation meeting about 11:15 p.m. Monday to find their adopted son sprawled in the front yard with a bullet through his body. ,' The shooting occurred about a mile north of St. Louis, a small community near here. Mr., and Mrs. Alwin Man ning said they left their farm home about 7:30 p.m. for the PTA meeting after giving in structions to John to feed the pigs and accomplish other farm chores. The best clue police had was a report from a neighbor lad, Rick Ferschweller, that he heard about "20 shots" about 9:30 p.m. He told offi cers he was viewing television and was afraid to investigate further. A cousin of the Manning family and the victim's young er sister were in the house at the time of the shooting but said they heard . no gun fire. They also were viewing tv. - ::--.5H Saw Youth in Road Ferschweller told officers that he saw some youths in the road in front of his home after the firing. He said they had flashlights and there was conjecture that they might have been hunting foxes, as area residents do at this time of year. ; Ferschweller also said he heard a car leave the scene shortly after the. firing. Young Manning was killed by a slug which entered his right chest and came out through his left side. He was a . freshman at Mt: Angel prepatory school. The lad's adoptive parents said their boy had no enemies at school and was a well adjusted student. Unander Visits Southern Oregon State Treasurer Sig Unan der, candidate for Republican nomination for governor and his wife, arrived in Medford today for several days of cam paigning in southern Oregon. Unander appeared at a pub lic coffee hour in Ashland at 10 o'clock this morning, after which he met students and faculty members at Southern Oregon college. Unander will be in Medford as a guest of the Republican Women at a coffee hour be tween 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon at the Pioneer room in the Jackson hotel. 'Secrecy? What Secrecy?" 53rd Year Medford 16 Pages Equalization Board to Examine County Tax Rolls The Jackson county board of equalization will meet in the county courthouse Mon day, May 12, Ray Schumach er, county assessor, has an nounced. The board will examine the assessment rolls for 1958-59, and correct errors in valua tions, description, or qualit ies of land, lots or other prop erty assessed by the assessor, he said. The ratio between assessed and true cash value, adopted by the board of equalization yesterday, is 28 per cent, Schumacher said. Invited To Appear Persons interested have been invited to appear, and petitions for adjustment of assessments must be filed with the board not later than the end of the first week the board is in session. The tax ratio of 28 per cent adopted means that Jackson county property will be as sessed at 28 per cent of true cash value for the 1958-59 tax year, he explained. The true cash value had already been set at 90 per cent of market value by the state tax commission, he add ed. The true cash value is set by the state tax commission based on studies of the real estate market and adjusted to normal conditions. The posted ratio is deter mined by the assessor through a study of sales and assessed values of the preceding year. These sales and assessments are broken into classifications of properties with a median, weighted average, and an adjusted average, using the normal condition factor for the year of study. Ratio Founded ' After consideration of the studies and arriving at the average percentage of sales to assessed value, the ratio to be posted for the current year is found. This ratio is then posted by the assessor and approved by the county equalization board and the state tax commission. The county assessor ex plained that the state tax commission can change the 28 per cent ratio if it finds it is 10 per cent more or less than the figure arrived at during theu studies. ' Members of the county board of equalization are County Judge Rodney Keat ing, Arnold Bohnert, Central Point, and Ed Singmaster, Ashland. IBasebaSB NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee 5 9 3 Pittsburgh 2 10 0 Buhl and Rice; Kline, Gross (8) and Foiles. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 9 9 1 Detroit 8 8 0 Wynn, Moore (2) and Lollar; Hoeft and Hegan. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1958 AIRLINER AND JET COLLIDE Forty- glided with, an nine persons were killed when this United south of Las Air Lines DC-7, en route from Los Angeles, photo shows Calif., to Denver, Colo., apparently col- the airliner. Private Plane Believed Down Near Pendleton Pendleton (IP) A Cessna 182 airpline with a Fresno, Calif., couple aboard was pre sumed ' down in a 300-mile radius of here today after radio reports were received that the aircraft was running out of gas. . The Civil ' Aeronautics Ad ministration identified the missing couple as Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Davis. The couple left Klamath Falls, Ore., at 1:30 p.m. Mon day after refueling and were en route to Spokane, Wash., via Redmond, Ore., and Pen dleton, according to their flight plan. Reports Picked Up . The CAA control tower at Pendleton said it picked up reports from the aircraft ask ing for help. Davis said he be lieved he was near Pendleton but radar at Pendleton was unable to pick him up. Later he radioed he believed he was near Condon, some dis tance from Pendleton. The CAA said it instructed him to change frequencies to talk to the radar station but Davis apparently was unable to receive the radar station's instructions. Davis's plane was believed to have had about two hours of gas left when he first radio ed for help, at 3:51 p.m. Mon day. The CAA said planes of the Oregon air search and rescue unit of the state aeronautics board and the Condon CAP squadron would take part in today's search for the plane. Oregon PTA Picks Slate of Officers Bend OPI The Oregon Congress of Parents and Tea chers elected new officers at its annual convention here to day and named Corvallis as the 1959 convention city. Officers elected this year included Mrs. James King, Sherwood, treasurer; Mrs. Roy C. Baker, of Newberg, representative from Region 1; Mrs. Joseph Edmiston, Mil waukee, Region 3; Mrs. George McBride, Coos Bay, Region 4; Mrs. Art Moore, Klamath Falls, Region 5, and Mrs. Wallace Van Hise, Bend, Region 6. Those were the only nominations. The execu tive committee Monday elect ed Mrs. Donald Healey of Portland to represent Region 2. Klamath Plebiscite Voting Completed Klamath Falls (IP) Mon day midnight was the dead line for return of Klamath In dian plebiscite ballots. The 2133 members of the tribe were asked to indicate wheth er they would withdraw from the reservation or remain un der a government manage ment plan. Final counting of the bal lots was . not expected until Thursday. CAA Probers Study Airplane Wreckage Las Vegas, Nev. OPI Civil A e r o n a u tics investigators pieced together in the desert today the burned and twisted evidence that may tell why an Air Force jet and an air liner collided Monday morn ing, killing 49 persons. In Washington, key mem bers of Congress burned tele phone lines to. the Civil Aero nautics Administration , with demands for increased protec- Six Appear in Circuit Courts Theodore Benjamin Crosby, 22, Florida, yesterday after noon was sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary on charges of grand larceny. He appeared before Circuit Judge Edward Kelly. Crosby was charged with stealing a 1958 Buick from Skinner's garage in Medford April 4. - Donald Conrad Hansen, 21, of Brookings, pleaded guilty to charges of burglary not in a dwelling. A pre-sentence re port was ordered from the probation officer. George M. Yorton, 22, of 203 Fourth st., Phoenix, ap peared on charges of obtain ing money under false pre tenses and a pre-sentence re port was ordered. A pre-sentence report also was ordered for Carl Weiss Jr., 24, of 808 East Ninth st. Medford, who is charged with burglary not in a dwelling. In Circuit Judge Herbert K. Hanna's court this morn ing Lester Lee Price, Butte Falls, pleaded innocent to charges of grand larceny. No date has yet been set for the trial. Donald Glen Robertson, 33, of Phoenix, received a five year suspended sentence on charges of grand larceny. Petitions Ordered For Street Work Central Point Petitions for street paving and curbs and gutters were ordered pre pared for interested prop erty owners by the Central Point council Monday night. The petitions are now available for circulation and can be picked up at the city hall, according to Lyle Paull, city recorder. He said the council ordered petitions prepared after sev eral complaints by residents about the condition of city streets. A letter-poll conduct ed by the recorder resulted in a slight majority of those returning cards favoring the street improvements. The council said the pro ject would be the largest of its kind understaken in Cen tral Point, amounting to about $400,000 and concerning 11 miles of streets. ' Petitions must be signed by more than 50 per cent of property owners wishing im provements, Paull said. He added that cost of the project will be by assessment of propertyinvolved. ODD Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 27 Air Force jet plane ten miles Vegas, Nev., Monday. The the still-burning fuselage of tion for civilian airliners against the hurling military jets which the Civil Aeronau tics Board has said are in volved in about one-third of all "near collisions" in flight, The key question appeared to be whether the Air Force F100F fighter-trainer was fall ing out of control when it crossed the path of the United Air Lines DC7 or whether its instructor pilot simply failed to see the silver airliner dur ing a controlled descent. If the former, the accident was a "one-in-a-million freak," a CAA spokesman said. The Air Force has said it has 1,150 planes in flight at all times. The wheel of fortune stop ped on death 12 miles south west of this gambling resort Monday in a cloudless sky. The jet, carrying an instructor and a student on a blind-flying training flight, was de scending from 28,000 feet when its path converged with that of the airliner, flying at 21,000 feet with 42 passen gers and five crew members. The airliner, en route from Los Angeles to New York, "screamed and boomed" earth ward in a death dive, ending in a skidding crash, explosion and fire on the rock-studded desert. , Wreckage of the plane was scattered over a square mile area. Its four engines fell several hundred feet from the main mass of bodies, debris and charred personal belong ings of the plane's occupants. The jet, from nearby Nellis Air Force Base, spiraled into the ground about 6V2 miles away. (See stories on Pages 3. 6) WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Wednesday. Cooler tonight with freezing tempera tures. Low generally 32 de grees, hut 26 likely in coldest places. Warmer Wednesday, high 60. Temp. Highest Yesterday 65 Lowest this Morning 40 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:20 a.m. Sunset 7:01 p.m. Moonset 10:33 p.m. First quarter April 26 PROMINENT STAR Spica, in the south east 8:46 p.m. The planet, Jupiter, which has been moving nearer Spica since the middle of February, will be seen near that star until September. Lana Turner, Daughter Named in $750,000 Suit Hollywood (IP) Film star Lana Turner, her ex husband, Stephen Crane, and their daughter, Cheryl, 14, to day were sued for $750,000 for the slaying of the actress' boy friend by Cheryl. The suit was filed in Su perior Court on behalf of John Stompanato III, Ham mond, Ind., son of the slain man by one of his three for mer wives. TV director Jack Harris brought the suit as temporary guardian of the boy. The suit charges that Stom panato, 32, once a bodyguard for former mobster Mickey Cohen, was stabbed fatally Lake Labish, Pendleton Areas Suffer Damage 15 Inches of Snow Falls at Meacham By UNITED PRES Forty - one families were evacuated from their homes near McKay creek -south of Pendleton Monday night and more than 450 acres of valu able onion land were under water in the Lake Labish area near Salem today as heavy rains continued to fall over parts of Oregon. Rain continued in the east ern Oregon area today, adding to flood dangers. Colder weather was forecast for to night but McKay creek and the Umatilla river were re ported still rising today. Guard Called Out The National Guard was called out Monday night to help families move out of their homes and to aid resi dents in sandbagging in the McKay area. I Meacham, about 30 miles from Pendleton on the high way to La Grande, got a spring snowstorm which total ed about 15 inches, clogging the highway. Trees were blown across power lines and the community was without power for some time. The rising Umatilla river for a time threatened the Un ion Pacific railroad bridge at ' Squaw creek about 25 miles east of Pendleton. Trains were going through today although water was lapping at the ties. Farmers in the Echo, Stan- field and Hermiston areas were warned to move cattle to higher ground. At Reith, west of Pendleton, sawmill operations were flooded out, temporarily idling 27 workers. At Troutdale, tons of debris piled against construction work on a new highway bridge over the Sandy river. The muddy current hampered efforts of workers to clear away the debris, which caused a bend in the falsework for the 770-foot structure. Planting Threatened The unusually late flood covered only a small part of the planted ground in the Lake Labish onion farming area, but threatened to delay planting of other areas beyond the safe deadline for fall harvest. The Pudding river, which was causing the trouble for the onion farmers, began spilling over its banks Sun day. The crest of the flood was expected today. The Santiam river at Jeffer son was at 12.7 feet today. Flood stage there is 13 feet. The Willamette river was still far below the flood mark in the valley but was at 14.3 feet at Portland, 3.7 under flood stage. Autoists crossing the San tiam and Willamette were ad vised to carry chains because of snowfall last night, the state highway department said. Inquest Scheduled Into Youth's Death An inquest into the cause of death Edmond Cheadle, 16, who was found dead near Applegate April 10, will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the old store at Ruch, it was announced this morning. District Attorney Thomas Reeder and County Corner Carlos Morris called the in quest, which will be open to the public. Among other testimony ex pected to be presented will be that of the physician who con ducted an autopsy into the physical cause of death. The boy was found under a tree with a broken rope around his neck. . April 4 in Miss Turner's Bev erly Hills home, "without cause, excuse, reason, justi fication or provocation." A coroner's inquest ruled previously that Cheryl killed Stompanato because she fear ed he would hurt her 38-year old mother. A hearing Thurs day will determine the cus tody of Cheryl, now in Juv enile Hall. Acts by Miss Turner and Cheryl in the episode were "intentional, wrongful, un lawful, wanton, reckless and oppressive," the suit charged in demanding $ 500,000 for general damages and $250, 000 for exemplary damages.