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2 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Orgori, Sunday, November 23, 1958 (MED -1440 - eg GjU u CQ (A u o KM ED NBC Medford Woman Injured in One -Of Two Accidents Mrs. Julia Anna Smith, 52, of 316 Lindero t., Medford, suffered a jaw injury in an automobile accident at Cen tral Point Saturday afternoon. She was reported in fair condition Saturday at Rogue .; Valley hospital, attendants said. The car, driven by M r s. i Smith's husband, Allen Chris j tian Smith, 52, was travelling j north on Highway 99 when the accident occurred just north of the stop light at Cen I tral Point, according to state ' police. A truck driven by Thomas Warner Laird, 644 Faith ave., Ashland, turned ; left in front of the Smith car, ; police said. The front end of the Smith : car was damaged and the truck received slight damage to the left side, officers said i Second Accident i Another accident occurred ; about 10:15 a.m. Saturday at ; Gold Hill, state police said I A car driven by Ernest I Theodore Ross, route 1, box 51, Gold Hill, struck the car of William Henry Bramblett, : Grants Pass, which was park I ed on Second ave., police ! said. ! Ross told officers he at j tempted to pick up a dust cloth from the floor of his car when it turned in and struck the Bramblett car in the rear. The front end of Ross's car was damaged heavily and the left rear fender and front of the Bramblet car was slightly damaged. The car W3S pushed into a tree by the force of the collision, officers said. No citations were issued. Reclamation Group Opposes Federal Finger In Projects Houston, Tex. -IPD- The National Reclamation associa tion in its closing sessions voiced strong disapproval of federal control and regulation over water rights and recla mation projects. Some 650 delegates from 17 DAs' Association Approves Full Job Portland - (UPD - The Dis trict Attorneys Association of Orezon Friday voted 16 to 4 to approve proposed legisla tion to make the district at torney's office a full time job in counties with 10,000 or more population. The association also ap proved the report of the in terim legislative committee on judicial administration. The committee proposed that the office be made full time in counties with the 10, 000 or over population and that the position draw a sal ary of $12,000 a year. The proposal included a move to have the office elec tive on a non-partisan instead of the present partisan basis. In other action closing the two day meeting here, Win ston Bradshaw was elected president of the association. Bradshaw, who is Clackamas county DA, succeeds Tom Brownhill, Clatsop county dis trict attorney. western states attending the association's 27th anuual con vention Friday passed a ser ies of resolutions calling for compliance by all federal agencies with state water laws. The resolutions also called for federal legislation recog nizing the rights of states to regulate and control the ap propriation, distribution and use of waters. In another vein, the mem bers also called for the prohi bition of withdrawal of addi tional public lands through wilderness legislation" until further study. Also on the disapproved list was the creation of fed eral corporations as regional or valley authorities such as the proposed Columbia River Development corporation. The convention's final spaker, U.S. Sen. Ralph Yar- Kindergarten for Retarded Planned A nursery and kindergarten for retarded children between 6 and 9 years old has been opened at the Friends church, Merriman and DeBarr rds., Mrs. Carl Whitman, tempor ary president of the group, has announced. The kindergarten meets five days a week between 9 and 11:30 a.m. She said four chil dren are now enrolled, and a group of between 5 and 7 is desired. ' ; Mrs. Whitman said a child should have no serious handi caps, have compatibility, be toilet trained and be able to feed himself. Complete par ental cooperation also is de sired before a child will be en rolled, she said. The kindergarten's pur poses, she said, include group play, sociability and coordina tion therapy. Karl Hayes, director of spe cial education classes at Tal ent school, will screen chil dren before they are enrolled in the kindergarten, Mrs. Whitman said. Mrs. Una B. Inch, former assistant county school superintendent, will serve as advisor for the group of parents interested, she said. Daughters Locate Mother for Reunion Mrs. Harold (Dixie) Bowen, 3680 Elliott St., Medford, and her sister, Mrs. Leon Wood ard, Eugene, were visited by their mother, Mrs. Nicholas Hill of Blackstone, Mass., re cently, . the first time they had seen their mother in 22 years. ' Mrs. Bowen, who was five years old. when she last saw her mother, contacted Mrs. Hill through the cooperation of the Medford Police depart ment. Previously, attempt to locate her were unsuccessful, friends of the family said. Mrs. Hill was contacted through sources in Rockport, Maine. Following a telephone con versation between Mrs. Hill and her daughter, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Hill decided to visit her daughters in Oregon. She flew to Portland, where her sons-in- law from Eugene and Med ford met her. Neither Mrs. Bowen nor Mrs. Woodard were, aware their mother planned to visit them. A new type of emergency tire has one and a quarter inches of solid rubber on a steel disc. It weighs only 30 pounds, takes up minimum space and can be driven for 100 miles. v Oregon Gas War Reaches Vancouver Vancouver, Wash.-(UPD-The current gasoline war in Ore gon has spread to this city with some stations selling ethyl gasoline at 31 cents gallon. Premium grades of gasoline usually sell here for 38 to 40 cents a gallon. It is the first time in 20 years that Vancouver gas dealers have been involved in a price war. : It was indicated that Ore. gon's gas war was affecting Vancouver dealers' trade in gas, tires and other products This year send the new JX "LARGE-PICTURE" PHOTO- GREETING borough, told delegates at a luncheon Friday that an ex panded program of reclama tion would help make the West and Southwest "largely self-sufficient." He said such a program could bring an-additional six million acres into production in the 17 western states by 1975. The Texas senator pledged his support of the develop ment of the reclamation pro gram and said the future of the West is tied to use and conservation of water. In reference to "wilderness legislation," the association said that such areas, u cre ated, would interfere with or derly programs of land and watershed development and management, and would im pair present public land uses for grazing, lumbering and mining. Barring Barristers Behind Bars Upheld By Warden, Others Salem - (DPD - Lewis Barnes, , assistant warden at Oregon State Penitentiary yesterday detailed replies to charges of seven inmates who said their constitutional rights were be ing violated when they were denied the right to unrestrict ed legal study. Barnes testified in the fed eral district court trial of the prisoners' suits. Friday, Gov. Robert D. Holmes, Secretary of State Mark Hatfield and State Treasurer Sig Unander de nied on the witness stand that they conspired with Barnes and Warden Clarence T. Glad den to deprive the inmates of their federal civic rights. Conspiracy Charged The convicts charged the of ficers with conspiracy and claimed, that prison regula tions restricting legal study in the prison limited their ac cess to the courts in attempts to free themselves. Hatfield said on the stand that he believed the restric tions imposed on inmates were reasonable. Gladden, a 23-year veteran of the federal prison system Deiore ms appointment as warden of the Oregon prison, said "this legal business in prisons has been a bone of contention for many years." Gladden asserted that un restricted legal study would permit a small group to be come legal advisors to the ma jority of prisoners and exploit them. The warden also said he has two notaries and typing services for the convicts to help them prepare legal briefs. Legal study is forbidden in the cell when occupied by two inmates, because it would en courage trading and compar ing petitions, by "jailhouse lawyers" and would result in a flood of writs, Gladden said. Judge To Clear Legal Log Jam In Beck Trial . Tacoma, Wash. -(DPD judge George H. Boldt will rule Monday on a legal log jam that has temporarily blocked the Dave Beck income tax evasion trial. Beck, former president of the Teamsters' union, is charged with evading $240,- 000 in income taxes during the years 1950-1953. Friday, check stubs were admitted as evidence of finan cial dealings between Beck and a Chicago labor relations expert. The exhibits were describ ed as the "informal records" of Nathan Shefferman, head of Labor Relations Associates of Chicago, by Shefferman's bookkeeper Miss Florence Ouska. Key Pieces Shefferman's contribution to Beck's wealth is one of the key pieces in the govern ment's jigsaw puzzle by which it hopes to depict that Beck evaded income taxes during the years 1950-1953. Boldt had admitted two of the check stubs but after a conference among attorneys for both sides withdrew the two stubs and said he would rule on the matter Monday. The defense contends the stubs are not admissable be cause they are not "business records." The government ad mits they are not business records but contends they are part of the transactions in volving Beck and Shefferman. Russian Student Enters Princeton Princeton, N. J. - (UPD -A Russian student will arrive at Princeton University this week to enter graduate school, it was announced Friday. The student whose name was not disclosed was be lieved to be the first Soviet New York -(UPD- The city housing authority announced Friday that it will raise the rents of 86,000 families in public housing developments by $1 to $10 a month Jan. 1. Rising operating costs made the $6,760,000-a-year rent boosts necessary, the author ity said. citizen to enter Princeton since the Communist Revolu tion of 1917. Dennison, assistant dean of the Graduate School, the Russian will be one of 15 graduate students arriving in New York from the U.S.S.R. on Tuesday. Dennison said the student will concentrate on biology or physics. The group of 15 Russians is part of an exchange pro gram, arranged by the Inter state University Committee on travel grants. They will study in seven American universities. In the Russo-Japanese War of W-ac, AtArI Sriteiii' Queen Alexandria liked to pose with a, Japanese spaniel under her left arm and a Rus sian wolfhound at her right side. 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