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2 MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dforJ, Oraton, Sunday, September 7. 1958 Plans To Get More Boys in Scouting To Be Outlined Here "A three-point program to get "more boys in Scouting and more Scouting in boys" will be 'outlined by N. H. Gladfelter, chairman of the or ganization and extension com mittee of the Crater Lake Council, Boy Scouts of Amer ica, at a meeting of the Coun cil executive board Wednes day, Sept. 10. - Gladfelter listed the three points of emphasis." Every Cub ScoUt pack and Boy Scout troop should use the "pack recruiting plan" and "troop recruiting plan." National materials, are avail able to use in connection with local school surveys.. 40 New Institutions Organization of new Scout units where boys are Vith each new unit assigned to one organizer 'is another point. Gladfelter estimated that there are at least 40 new in stitutions where there could be a Cub Scout pack, Boy Scout troop, or Explorer unit. The third is renew all Scout unit charters on time, which will keep more boys in bcout- ine and will assure a Deuer program in every Scout unit The Crater Lake council which serves Jackson, Jose- nhine and Siskiyou counties is a member-agency of the United Medford Crusade, Ash land-Talent United Fund, and Josephine County United Fund, and conducts uoy scout campaigns in Siskiyou county and in Jackson county outside of the united fund areas. "The spirit of Scouting im plies action and growth," Gladfelter repeated from ma terial prepared for united funds which outlined the 1959 council program and operat ing budget. "Scout leaders have sought and are seeking constantly to extend the scout ing influence to more boys. "Boy membership in the m OLP "FASHIONED esptciolly when used with the Ashley downdraft thermo stot controlled wood heater. Ashley gives 24-hour gleaner heat with "no fires to build en cold mornings." Remember, Ashley means MORE HEAT. Repair Parti and Service BIG Y FEED & SEED 194S Pacific Hiway, North SP 3-3160 MEDFORD These Items MUST BE SOLD BEFORE END OF SEPT.! P frnV KlUUUf III Wur Vf I Ur7 III I m , I fore inventory.) council has more than dou bled in the last ten years. More have the opportunity to be Scouts as more churches, schools, PTA's, service clubs, veterans' posts, and other civic organizations become partners with the council m the sponsorship of Scout units. "From our present base of over 4,000 boy-members," Gladfelter continued, "t h e council must increase nearly 10 per cent a year just to keep up with the ever-growing number of available . boys and further increases must be made if we are to reach more than our--present one out of three boys even though our membership is almost one third better than the national average." Other members of the coun cil's organization and exten sion committee are Robert D. Church and Harry Barneburg of Medford, Walfred Koski of Grants Pass, Martin Scha backer of Dunsmuir and Glenn Tripp of Yreka. Other executive members on the committee are Robert Duncan and Otto A. Ewaldsen of Med ford and Glenn , Halm of Grants Pass. Fairview Inmate Admits Arson Hillsboro -UPD- a 22-year-old inmate of the Fairview home for the mentalyl defi cient in Salem hat admitted setting off a $50,000 fire Thursday morning in the Trinity Lutheran church here. Daniel Edward Cate, a Port land youth who has left the mental home 25 times in the past five years, admitted that he had set three small f irs in a Sunday school room after ransacking the study of Pas tor George Reule. Thursday morning Hills boro police picked Cate up on a vagrancy charge and later learned that he was from Fairview. He was re turned to the home Friday, with the arson charges pend ing in Hillsboro. Lt. Walt Hatfield of the state police arson squad said damage to the $140,000 stone structure was approximately $50,000, rather than an; earli er $25,000 estimate, ; : Hammarskjold Flies To Meet Ben Gurion Cairo -(DPI)-U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold left by air yesterday for Jeru salem, still hopeful that rival Arab factions can reach agree ment on the role the United Nations should ' play in the Middle East. Weekend talks with Israeli Premier David Ben Gurion will interupt Hammarskjold's tour of the Arab world, which resumes when he flies to Baghdad Monday. The U. N. official wound up inconclusive talks with President Gamal Abdel Nas ser in Cairo Friday night. LIPPERT'S Our Big (Wa taka our annual inventory en Septembar 30th. Tha following ittms are drastically reduced clear be SAVE 10 to 50 on o SOFAS o SECTIONALS o LAMPS DINING ROOM SUITES CARPETS RUGS o UPHOLSTERED CHAIRS o BEDROOM SUITES o FOLDING CHAIRS o OCCASIONAL TABLES Faubus Warns Again of Closing Central High Washington -(UPB- Gov. Or val Faubus of Arkansas, has warned again" that he will close Little Rock's Central High chool if the Supreme Court orders that it be inte grated. The high court is slated to resume consideration of the issue next - Thursday; The school is. scheduled to open four days later on Sept. 15. Feelings Deeper," Stronger Faubus - said Friday night there are "much deeper and stronger" feelings in Little Rock now than a year ago. " If there is a surface ap pearance of less tension, the governor said ,it is because of "all the threats and possibili ty of wholesale arrests and trials in court for even indi rect opposition." Faubus said in a radio inter view that tension actually has worsened because "it took a while to sink in." 'Incredibility' "People at first just didn't comprehend what was hap pening," he said, "the incredi bility of the whole thing, of the 101st Airborne coming in as if to conquer an enemy of this country." Faubus referred to Army troops dispatched to Little Rock by President Eisenhow er last year to enforce a fed eral court order for integra tion of Negro and white stu dents at Central High School. The givernor said he still did not know how soon he would sign legislation passed by the Arkansas Legislature at his request giving him au thority to close schools where violence threatens. Youfh, 15, Arrested For Setting Fires Eugene-(UPD - A 15-year-old Springfield youth has been arrested on charges of arson after he admitted setting fire to two Springfield firms, state police in Eugene announced Friday. The boys was charged with arson"in a petition filed with the Lane county juvenile court. The youth will be de tained at the juvenile center here. ' Police said the boy admitted he had set fire to the Oregon Handle factory and Allen's Tire shop. Arson-, squad investigators said the youth is now being questioned in connection with the $250,000 Nalley's Potato Chip Factory fire in Spring field in early August. Reuther Will Set In For 'Showdown Week Detroit-OJPD - Walter Reuth er's return to the stalled auto negotiations failed to prompt immediate progress but the United Auto Workers presi dent will be back at the bar ganing table Monday to open" the union's "showdow week." U. N. sources said it is too early to determine whether his mission to the Middle East has succeeded or failed . CONTINUING at PRE-IMVENTORV OF FLOOR SAMPLES Woman Tourist KiUfed IBy Bullet Klamath Falls, Ore. -UPD-A Minneapolis woman tourist riding in a car through the Klamath Indian reservation early yesterday may have been the innocent victim of an Indian crime spree that cost her life and that of an Indian youth. Mrs. Helen Frances Fred rickson, 48, of Minneapolis, died instantly when a bullet pierced the rear of the car in which she was sleeping in the back seat. The other six occu pants of the moving vehicle were unaware of her death about 3:30 a.m. between Mo doc Point, Ore., and Beaver ICC Concludes Oregon Hearings On SP Rate Cut Portland-(UPD - The Inter state Commerce Commission has concluded four days of hearing here on proposed rail freight rate reductions affect ing lumber shipments between Oregon and California and Arizona points. Walter Baumgartner, ICC examiner, said the hearings on Southern Pacific's fates proposals would resume Wed neesday in San Francisco. The hearings were brought here at the request of San. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), Oregon lum bermen and Oregon AFL-CIO. Calif ornians Agree California lumber whole salers joined with Oregon Lumber shippers Friday in the claim that high freight rates are freezing Oregon lumber out of the markets in California and Arizona. ' ' Albert A. Kelly, wholesale lumberman from Alameda, Calif., testified that all the lumber he buys comes from Oregon -and that "all of the shipments travel by rail. Kelly said he bought 191 carloads from Oregon ship pers in 1953 under lower rates, and only 118 in 1957. He attributed the decline to rate differential. ' Hated 'Discriminatory' ' Wholesaler Carl W. Baugh, Pasadena, Calif., said he too has bought less lumber from Oregon shippers due to higher rates. Some Oregon shippers described the rates as "dis criminatory" in their testimony.- Southern Pacific Railroad proposes to cut rates about one fifth on carloads of more than 34,000 pounds shipped between Oregon' and Cali fronia and Arizona points. The railroad claims the freight rate cuts are needed to meet competition from both truck and water carriers. Benson Calls Farming Economy's Bright Spot Colfax, Ill.-tUPD- of Agricul ture Ezra Taft Benson said yesterday "there is no reces sion in agriculture," despite recent setbacks in farm prices. Agriculture is the "bright est spot in our national eco nomy," Benson said in a speech prepared for delivery at the third annual Heart of America Tractorama on the Carl Alpers farm. 1 H For Furnishings with a Sense of Style Always Shop Next to Greyhound Depot Marsh in the high Cascades. Second Body Found A few miles from the point where Mrs. Fredrickson was shot police found the body of Eldon Cress, 19, a Klamath Indian. Officers said bullets in the two bodies appeared to be the same caliber and they were sent to the crime labora tory to see if thev came from the same 30-30 rifle. Shortly before noon yester day sheriff s Officers took My ron Barkley, 26, of Chiloquin, Ore., into custody for ques tioning in connection with both deaths. An Indian farm er, Charley HilT,- told Sheriff Britton he saw Cress and Barkley. fighting aldng Jack son creek about dawn today. Barkley and Cress were also identified, Britton said, as the two men who burglarized a Chiloquin filling station at 2:30 a.nv Both men have po lice records. ; , Heard Popping Sounds Driver of the death car was Russell Crawford, of Oakland, Calif. Crawford told police he had heard- popping sounds as he drove aloAg Highway 97 north of here. Thinking it might be a tire, he stopped to investigate. He said all his passengers appeared " to be sleeping peacefully and he continued on to Chemult, Ore., where he stopped for coffee. Everyone in the car- still ap peared to be asleep. The party arrived in Bend at the home of Mrs. Fredrick- son's and Mrs. Crawford's sister, Mrs. Norbert Schaedler, at 5:30 a.m. Others in the car besides Mrs. Fredrickson and Crawford were Crawford's wife, their three children, and Bryan Fredrickson, 8. Bov Tried To Wake Her When the boy tried to awaken his mother at Bend, the family discovered she was dead. It was then that the bullet holes were found in the rear of the car. A bullet had entered the trunk lid and passed into Mrs. Fredrickson's back left of the spine and lodged under the skin of the chest. Girl Recovering From Operation Portland - (UPD - Marta, the pretty seven-year-old girl who was given a new life Wednes day through a delicate open heart operation, was recover ing "excellently" Friday at the University of Oregon med ical school hospital here. Although the plucky young ster will remain on the hos pital critical list for another two or three days, her physi cian reported that her pro gress was "satisfactory" and she is being taken out of her oxygen tent for short periods of time. During the dramatic opera tion the girl's heart was stop ped for five and one-half min utes when surgeons sewed up a hole between the main pumping chambers of her heart. The girl had been faced with a childhood as an invalid and an early death because of the leaking heart. i Open Monday Till Ph: SP 3-4394 .9 p.m. I . Police Seek Friend Of Slain Woman PortlancWUPD-The homicide division of the" Portland po lice bureau yesterday sought a missing man who may have been the last person to see Mrs. Dorothy Balfour alive at her Southeast Division street filling station. Detectives investigating the death of the 48-year-old sta tion operator in her apart ment at the rear of the station said they had learned that a man friend had visited Mrs. Balfour on Monday. She was not seen alive since then and Friday police battered in the door of her apartment to find her body lying on the bed. A metal cash box.normally kept under the bed and con taining station receipts . was missing, along with Airs. Bal four's 1956 model car. Police said they know the identity of the male friend. J 15 cu.1l $16 a month ' PERFUME ' ?K:-ij tffiZfS j ! PCJsj TSS t ' ' " , cookbooks tJfif im&ski Fc9rts ol H r- TY?r , SIGNATURE fully automatic Deluxe Washer Rg. 199.95! Fast rotating $OflQ agitation gets clothes cleaner. Saves soap, water, tool OOWM French Reds Plot Paris - (UPD - Red leaders shaped strategy yesterday to kill Premier Charles de Gaul le's new constitution which they fear might doom the Communist Party in France. Members of the Central Committee were summoned to an emergency meeting to ex amine the Red crisis. They met at suburban Gennevil liers, with Jacques Duclos, National Assembly floor lead er, presiding. The Communists declared war on De Gaulle because his "strong man" constitution for a Ffith Republic would per mit only democratic parties to operate in France. French voters are expected to approve the constitution in the Sept. 28 referendum. De Gaulle probably will become first president of the Fifth Republic. ' . The Communists, who hold 142 seats in the National As WA RDS I MONTGOMERY WAsn II Jl I T:? IT JQ "! i I I II upright Freezer Protection Plan Included SALE!12.1cu.ft.TRU-COLD Refrigerator-freezer Hers Cycl Cold outomatk de- $Q1Q95 changer. frost, separate 10l Zero freezer, and Roomy storage doers. Birthday Cake Will Be Served In Appliance Dept. 6 to 9 P.M. BE SURE TO ATTEND OUR SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY HOUSE PARTY TOMORROW, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th. 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