S MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdfortJ. Oregon, Sunday, November 3, 1958
Trick-or-Treat' Tragedies Mar
Clean, 'Scary' Hallowe'en Fun
Reports from around the
nation showed that most kids
had clean, "scary" fun, but
pranksters and nervous vic
tims caused several accidents
to mar the Hallowe'en cele
brations. Tragedy struck in Pitts
burgh Friday night when two
youngsters on "trick-or-treat"
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MARK X
MEL L ATT IE
for
State Representative
Pd. Adv. Latrie for Representative Committee,
Dick Gray, Chairman, Cherry Lane, Medford
rounds were run down and
killed by a truck on a busy
street. The children, Gary
Molek, 6, dressed as a space
man, and his sister, Gayle, 5,
wearing an Easter bunny cos
tume, had strayed momentari
ly from their mother's side
Pennies For U.N.
Children wearing costumes
of every description, with
trick-or-treat bags in one
hand and pieces of chalk and
soap in the other, made their
customary visits to millions
of homes. In many cities, spe
cial efforts were made to
channel the goblins-for-a-day
into constructive adventures.
Storeowners invited chil
dren to draw on their win
dows and offered prizes for
the most artistic efforts. Many
of the small-fry turned over
their Hallowe'en pennies to a
United Nations Childrens'
fund, and a spokesman in Mil
waukee said that donations
there would "exceed last
year's figure."
Several parents reported
their children had been lost
during the beggars' night for
ays, but all were found later
-usually at a police station.
There were several shoot
ings associated with Hallo
we'en. A Bicknell, Ind., school
teacher shot one of her pu
pils " in the throat Thursday
night when the boy, Earl Mar
tin, 13, tried to scatter corn
on her porch. In Liberty, Mo.,
a farmer sprayed two young
sters with buckshot for try
ing to overturn his outhouse.
In Chicago, police held a
40-year-old Negro laborer in
the fatal shooting of a white
youth Friday night. Louis
Shoemate said a group of
white teen-agers out for Hal
lowe'en began to jeer and
tried to attack him. Dead was
Gene A. Stanford, 18.
But it appeared that most
youngsters kept the peace,
content to be, at worst, play
ful nuisances. Returning home
with their loot, they put away
their costumes for next year.
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Thornton, Oregon ion Publisher
Swap Jabs On Failure of Probe
Salem-(DPD - Attorney Gen
eral Robert Y. Thornton has
broken a two-year silence on
the Portland vice investiga
tion and said the maior share
of the blame for failure of
the probe rested with the Ore
gonian. Michael J. Frey, publisher
of the Portland newspaper,
said Thornton was "distorting
the truth when he attempts to
blame the Oregonian for his
failures."
Thornton, Democratic candi
date for Congress from the
1st district, said he was re
plying to two recent editorials
in the Oregonian and said the
newspaper was prompted by
"my refusal to take orders
from you during the vice in
vestigations." Frey replied that Thorn
ton's "implied charge that the
Oregonian attempted to 'ord
er' his conduct during the in
vestigation is ridiculous and
completely untrue."
"Problems" Oullined
Thornton outlined a num
ber of "problems" vhe said
his special prosecutors were
confronted with and which he
said contributed to their fail
ure to secure convictions. One
was the "unexpected refusal
of the Oregonian's chief wit
ness, James Elkins, to testify
in the main cause the con
spiracy to 'open up' Portland."
Frey said "I have no idea, of
course, why Elkins refused to
testify. Nor does the Oregon
ian assume any responsibility
for Mr. Thornton's handling
of Mr. Elkins or any other
witnesses available to the
state in the vice prosecutions."
Thornton also charged there
were "technical shortcomings
of the famous tape record
ings.". Frey said the only tape
put in evidence by Thornton
was in one trial. He said this
tape withstood attacks by the
defense and was finally ad-
Sister of Sen. Morse Seeks
House Seat as N.Y. Democrat
Syracuse, N.Y. - (UPB - Mrs.
Caryl M. Kline, like her broth
er, Sen. Wayne Morse of Ore
gon, used to be a Republican
Court, Planners
Tour Recreation
Sites in County
A tour of possible recreation
sites in Jackson county was
made Thursday and Friday by
county court members and
representatives of the county
planning commission.
Thursday, county represent
atives were accompanied by
Mark Pike and Neal Butter
field, both of the Portland of
fice of the National park serv
ice. Two acres of a proposed
roadside picnic area on Dead
Indian rd. which may be do
nated to the county were in
spected. The group checked
three proposed recreation
areas at Howard Prairie res
ervoir totalling 250 acres and
examined the right of way of
the new road which the coun
ty is building to connect with
the public parking area at the
west side of the reservoir.
One private property con
taining 40 acres on the Ap
plegate was examined as a
possible park site.
BLM Properly Examined
Two properties of the bu
reau of land management
were also examined as to pos
sible park use. One is on Star
gulch near Lookout mountain
and the other an old CCC pic
nic area on Sterling rd. The
first area has 10 picnic tables
and toilets and the second two
or three picnic tables and
toilets.
"The BLM is working close
ly with the county court in
selection and acquisition of
park and recreation areas." .
County Judge Rodney Keat
ing said.
The group also examined
the Emigrant lake recreation
site as to possible daytime
recreation use. This area
would be restricted to early
season use because of the
problem of draw-down for ir
rigation, Keating said.
The contract to be submit
ted to the county court for ad
ministration of recreation
sites in the Talent project has
not been returned yet from
the regional bureau of reclam
ation office at Boise, Idaho,
Keating said.
22 Influenza Cases
Reported Last Week
Twenty-two cases of influ
enza and seven cases of pneu
monia were reported to the
Jackson county health depart
ment last; week, according to
Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county
health physician.
Eight influenza cases were
reported in Phoenix, five were
reported in Central Point,
four in Ashland, three in Med
ford and two in Shady Cove,
Dr. Merkel said.
Three pneumonia cases
were reported in Ashland,
two in Medford and one each
in Jacksonville and Butte
Falls.
Other cases of communic
able diseases reported in the
county last week included tu
berculosis, Eagle Point 1;
chicken pox, Butte Falls 1;
mumps, Shady Cove and Med
ford 1 each; strep throat, Med
ford 2; and measles, Shady
Cove 3.
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but now embraces the Demo
cratic Party.
They both started out in
Wisconsin as what Mrs. Kline
calls "La Follette Progressive
Republicans." Then they went
to opposite ends of the coun
try only to discover "a com
pletely different kind of Re
publicanism," according to
Mrs. Kline.
She is running on the Democratic-Liberal
tickets for the
House seat from the 35th Con
gressional District of New
York. The District includes
all of Onondaga county.
Mrs. Kline, named Caryl
because she was born on
Christmas day in 1914, faces
a tough fight in trying to
unseat Rep. R. Walter Riehl
man, the Republican who has
held the job she seeks for 12
years.
Observers Hedging
But, for the first time in
years, some observers are
D.A. Annonces
No Prosecution
For July 5 Blast "
Portland-(UPD-A 20-year-oid
Milwaukie youth, now a state
hospital inmate, who admitted
accidentally touching off a
warehouse fireworks explo
sion here July 5 in which a
little girl was killed, will not
be prosecuted, according to
Multnomah County District
Attorney Leo Smith.
Smith said Friday that the
youth, Richard George Wag
ner, has been judged mental
ly incompetent and incapable
of standing trial by psychia
trists at the state hospital.
Wagner told investigators
that he had broken into the
warehouse during the night
and set off a series of explo
sions. The blast killed the girl,
Sleeping in a nearby house,
injured 26 other persons and
damaged several buildings in
the Southeast area.
A Clackamas county depu
ty arrested Wagner two days
later after recognizing him as
an habitual escapee from state
hospitals.
The building that blew up
was the warehouse of the Sig
nal Fireworks Co., where py
rotechnics were i stored.
I very sincerely believe
that Oregon business and
industry cannot survive an
other four years of the re
strictive, unfriendly atmos
phere created by Gov
Holmes.
With Homles in office
new industry will not come
to Oregon and existing in
dustry cannot operate effec
tively, cannot prosper and
cannot expand.
For Progressive Leader
ship, Economy in Govern
ment and leadership free of
entangling alliances I urge
you to vote for Mark Hat
field for Governor.
WALLY IVERSON
1316 Queen Anna
Medford
Pd. Adv. Wally Iverson,
1318 Queen Anne, Medford
hedging on the outcome be
cause Mrs. Kline is giving
Riehlman his first real oppo
sition. In the past, a Republi
can victory was nearly taken
for granted, partly because of
a rather weak local Demo
cratic organization. "
Mrs. Kline has purchased
radio and television time on
a wider scale than is normal
for local Democrats. She has
used to good advantage her
experience as a speech teach
er and debating coach. She
has arranged "coffee hours"
in homes throughout the
county during which she tells
groups of women why they
need a housewife in Congress.
Husband Professor
In addition, Mrs. Kline
manages a family which con
sists of her husband, Hibberd
V. B. Kline Jr., a professor
of geography at Syracuse
University, and two school
boy sons, Hibberd III, 11, and
Wayne Morse Kline, 7, named
after his Senator uncle.
Mrs. Kline, a native of
Madison, Wis., gives this ac
count Of her switch to the
Democratic Party:
"We came to Syracuse in
1956 and were surprised to
find a completely different
Republican party. There was
nothing like the La Follette
progressivism of Wisconsin. It
was all very conservative. In
1948 I voted for Harry S. Tru
man but because Wayne was
a Republican, I felt it would
be unwise to openly change
parties at that time. But after
Wayne became an Independ
ent in 1952, I registered as
a Democrat."
anJ others. .
Fred said he wholehearted
ly agreed with Thornton's con
tention that much was ac
complished in the probe
"which the Oregonian started
and Mr. Thornton continued,
despite the attorney general's
inability to convict most of
the accused."
mitted by the court as evi
dence.
Regarding a charge by
Thornton of "premature ex
posure" by the Oregonian of
the evidence, Frey said that
as early as March 9, 1956, al
most a month and half before
the Oregonian began its series
of disclosures, the chief ex
ecutive of the state was in
formed that it was making an
investigation.
"Some two weeks before we
began publishing, top state df-
ficials, including police, were
invited to inspect our evi
dence and were briefed on
what we had uncovered,"
Frey said.
Thornton also referred to:
"The bitter, spiteful duel be
tween the two Portland news
papers and the destructive ef
fect of their inter-meddling on
the state's cases. A prime ex
ample of this was the attempt
by the Oregonian to black
jack me into procuring the in
dictment of Mayor Terry
Schrunk after the charge had
been twice submitted to and
rejected by the grand jury."
Frey replied that the Schrunk
matter was "not a part of our
disclosures." Schrunk was
found innocent.
Thornton listed several ac
complishments of the vice
probe including "the closing
of a whole series of illicit
bootleg and gambling estab
lishments which had flourish
ed openly for more than three
years; closing the houses of
prostitution; a house cleaning
in the Multnomah county dis
trict attorney's office . . . "
Lumber Price Index
In Slight Decline
Portland Crow's Lumber
Price Index moved down a
notch last week, as a result of
price weakness and slack de
mand during the past two
weeks.
However, as the week
neared an end, there were
signs of an improved trend.
Mill prices on standard and
better green Douglas fir di
mension were moving up
slightly. There was also some
increase for utility dimension.
The major reason for the
drop in the Index was the
price decline in kiln-dried fir
dimension. It has been exper
encing recently the decline
which had previously hit
green fir.
high tax
Can We Solve This Problem?
Yes, says Paul Geddes
We can solve our high tax problem by living within
bur means on the local, state, and national levels.
Paul Geddes' opponent, according to the Con
gressional Quarterly, voted FOR economy bills
only 8 of the time in Congress. He voted
AGAINST economy bills 3 of the time.
(Reported in the Oregonian, Oct. 30, 1958.)
PAUL GEDDES SAYS:
"The only way to obtain tax relief for every citi
zen is by practicing the strictest economy in
government. I will support those essential public
services which people cannot perform for them
selves. I will oppose all other costly govern
ment activities."
PAUL
GEDDES
Will represent
YOU
In CONGRESS
(Pd. Pol. Adv., Geddes for Congress Comm.,
V. .-Jormson, Eugene, Chmn. ;
To the people off Jackson County
MULTNOMAH COUNTY
POLITICAL MACHINE
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:
Oon'f Send Rubber Stamps
to Salem to Represent You!
1. Robert Duncan Rubber Stamped those of us over 65 with limited income out of need
ed property tax relief. '
2. Robert Duncan Rubber Stamped a 100 increase in income tax rates on those of us
in the lowest bracket.
3. Robert Duncan Rubber Stamped approximately $30,000,000.00 in extra spending
bills over the Governor's recommended budget. :- hr
4. Robert Duncan Rubber Stamped Governor Holmes in action on a needed freight rate
decrease thereby lossng jobs and payrolls for those of us who work in the woods
and the sawmills.
5. Robert Duncan Rubber Stamped decisions made with the Multnomah County Demo
crat caucus which cost Jackson County representation.
Pd. Adv. Jackson C6. Republican Central Committee,
Medford, Don Stathes, 8 N. Riverside, Chairman.