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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.