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Deputy Marshal in Area, Paul Hanlin, Now on Retirement Paul Hanlin, 57, one of Ore gon's best-known law enforce ment officers, recently was placed on disability retire ment after serving as a fed eral employee for 25 years, of which 21 were as a deputy U.S. marshal in the Medford area. A native of Washington, Hanlin came to the Rogue valley as a young man, and Champlin Urges Safety Measures Crowds of Christmas shop pers on downtown streets have prompted Medford Po lice Chief Charles P. Champ lin to urge special safety pre cautions. In a statement this week, he warned pedestrians against letting' their vision become ob structed by an armload of packages or, in wet weather, an umbrella. He urged them to obey traffic signals, to make sure an oncoming vehi cle will yield the right of way before stepping into its path and to wear or carry some thing light in color at night. Drivers, he said, should keep their minds on driving i rather than on shopping lists and should watch for careless pedestrians. "It's easier to say 'take it easy' than to practice it," he said. "But we must curb the desire to rush and hurry. At the wheel, or on foot, take time to move safely-to avoid endangering yourself or oth ers." He warned in particular against the "biggest menace of the season, the driver who has been drinking." Last year, he said, 20 pedes trians died in Oregon traffic during the last two months of the year. There was a total of 100 traffic deaths in that pe riod, he added. Todd Corporation Accounting Asked Wilmington,. Del. (UPD Actress Evelyn Keyes has tak en legal steps to find out how the corporation founded by the late Mike Todd has con ducted its affairs. A m rry a ripfpnrlanfa nampH In a suit filed in Miss Keyes behalf Monday were Todd's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, and his son, Michael Todd Jr. Miss Keyes holds 100,000 shares in the corporation. She charged that company funds were used for property "unnecessary for the corpor ation's business, such as jew elry, paintings, cars, airplanes and yachts." Miss Keyes ask ed the court to block pay ment of nearly S5 million to the Todd estate and $174,953 to Todd Jr. She said the firm's princi pal asset was the movie "Around The World In 80 Days," which Miss Keyes said has earned $10 million. Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland, received Its first charter in 1613. after working at a variety of jobs, including railroading, entered federal service as a warehouseman for the old Civilian Conservation corps in June. 1933. He worked at the CCC shops and ware houses on the county fair grounds, the buildings which are now used by the bureau of land management. Four years later he was named deputy U.S. marshal, a post he held until his disabil ity retirement, resulting from a hip ailment. Traveled Widely During that period of time he traveled widely, having been in 45 of the 48 states es corting prisoners. He has seen all of the federal penal insti tutions except Alcatraz (where prisoners are met by guards at the boat and escorted to "The Rock"). Hanlin has handled prison ers accused or convicted of virtually all federal crimes, but the largest number was of men charged with furnishing liquor to Indians, he said. Once, Hanlin recalled, he was in charge of a coach with 31 prisoners, and all but three were charged with that of fense. The veteran marshal re called another trip, with 17 prisoners, when one of them jumped from the car near Riddle, Ore., but who was re captured within a few hours. Aiding in the arrest was Sgt. (now Captain) Paul Morgan of the Oregon state police, Han lin reported. The prisoner was convicted and sentenced to 18 months for violation of the Dyer act (interstate trans portation of stolen goods), but received a four-year sentence for attempted escape. Hanlin, like all federal of ficers, received training in firearms, but says he never had to use a gun in all his years of service. Once, he said, he looked at another man over the barrel of a rifle "that looked as big as that cannon in the Library park." But he was able to talk the man into putting it down, and he says that he's still on speaking terms with the man who almost shot him. Had Many Duties Hanlin has had many duties in addition to transporting prisoners. He has officiated as a court official when federal district court is in session here, and he also has had to serve papers in connection with his work. The most unpleasant duties are the serving of warrants, he said, particularly on such charges as income tax viola tion, when sometimes the ac cused persons were long-time personal friends. Mr. and Mrs. Hanlin live at 508 King st. Their four chil dren are all grown. Warren is manager of Robinson Bros, men's store here; Don is serv ing in Korea with the U.S. signal corps, Robert is a pas tor in Los Angeles, and Pau line (Mrs. Al Cleven) lives in Millbrae, Calif. Her husband, formerly of Medford, is an airline pilot. Hanlin is avoiding possible boredom of retirement by working as assistant jailer at the Jackson county jail. Runaway Youth Admits Killing Five Persons El Cajon, Calif. -(CPU A lanky 16-year-old runaway youth tearfully admitted on Monday night that he killed the wife and four children of his benefactor because one of the children "wouldn't stop screaming." The youth was captured by an off-duty policeman. "I guess I just flipped my lid," 6-foot, 4-inch Carl Eder told police. "I pray that God will take mercy on him," grieving Thomas Pendergast, 39, hus band and father of the vic tims said. "Why did you do it? Why? Why?" Pendergast asked Eder when he confronted Eder, a runaway from Irond equoit, N.Y., at the police sta tion. Surrenders Peaceably Eder was captured Monday night after a civil engineer told an off-duty police officer of seeing him in San Diego about 12 miles from the scene of the killings. The officer arrested the youth who sur rendered peaceably. "I did it because Diane, 4 years old, one of the slain children was screaming. She wouldn't stop screaming. That started the whole thing," he said. Pendergast, an aircraft plant worker and a deeply religious man who had taken Eder into his home six weeks ago to "help save the boy's soul," found his wife, Lois, 37, fatally shot in their home here Friday. Happy Over Capture In various rooms through out the house and adjoining garage, Pendergast found his four children, Allen,' 2; Di ane, 4; Thomas Jr., 6 and Da vid, 9. all with their throats slashed. The two oldest boys also were disembowled. "I'm glad I'm captured," Eder said. "I am happy to get somewhere where it's warm and to get food." The youth, who was booked on suspicion of murder and jailed after questioning by po lice, said he had been living for the past three days in a deserted ballroom in the San Diego Mission Beach area. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Moscow-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, attacking ex premier Nikolai Bulganin and other ousted Russian leaders: "Everyone can now see the shameful debacle of this des picable group of wretched splitters exposed and routed by the central committee and swept aside by the party and people." Chicago-Chicago Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn, on fire prevention: ' "No one wants to spend money on fire prevention, not only in Chicago but in the rest of the country. It seems that Americans have to have something like this (the recent Chi cago school fire) to make them realize the problem." El Cajon, Calif. -Carl Eder, 16, on the slaying of a mother and her four children: "I did it. I just flipped my lid." Fosston, Minn.-Maurice O. Nelson, an active supporter of Odin Langen, on charges that he wrote the "Coya, come home" letter believed to have led to the defeat of Rep. Coya Kuntson (D.-Minn.) by Langen: "Mrs. Knutson's charges are ridiculous and simply are not true. She ought to have the good sense to accept her defeat graciously." Athena Child, 11, Victim of Fire Athena, Ore. -(UPD Eleven-year-old Cathy Ball, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ball, died early today in a fire that destroyed their home in this northeastern Oregon community. The mother, Mrs. ' Eunice Ball, managed to save their six-year-old daughter, Connie. Cathy, who had gone to bed in a front room apparently ran to a rear bedroom and hid under the bed, where her body was found after fire men had managed to cool the area sufficiently to enter. Lawrence Ball was taken to a Pendleton hospital with cuts on his arms suffered, authorities said, when he jumped from a' rear window. 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No one gets it to as many areas in less time at less cost Fall Enrollments Under Gl Bill Below Last Year Fall enrollments of veter ans under the Korean GI Bill are 14 per cent under last year, but the veteran still is leaving his mark on the American college campus, S. T. Brannock, officer in charge of Medford, VA office, said today. Brannock estimated that some 600,000 Korea veterans are in training this fall, a drop of 100,000 under the 1957 fall enrollment figure of 703,000. Of the 600,000, more than 400,000 are in the nation's colleges . and universities, where they make up one out of every six males attending higher educational institu- Second Charge In Trailer Blast Hillsboro .-(UPD- A second charge was filed Monday against a deaf mute burned Sunday in a fire and explos ion at a house trailer near Tigard. District Attorney - Francis Linklater of Washington coun ty said he signed a complaint charging Robert D. Monroe, 35, with assault with intent to commit rape. Monroe earl ier was charged with assault with a deadly weapon in con nection with a knife threat against Donald Wyatt of Sil verton. - - Linklater said the second charge was filed after he talk ed to the daughter of Mrs. Rita Mount. Mrs. Mount, a deaf mute also was burned in the fire. The daughter told Linklater she returned home from a grocery store and found her mother had gone to the house trailer. The daughter said she called po lice after hearing a struggle inside. The fire and explos ion followed, apparently after a gas stove was turned on, the district attorney said. Monroe remained under guard in a hospital here. Mrs. j Mount is in St. Vincent hos-1 nital in Portland. ! tions. ' GI college enrollments pret ty well held its own this year dropping only a few percent age points below last year's 446,000. The big drop in Korean GI Bill enrollments occurred in on-the-job training and on-the-farm training. Oregon follows closely the national trend, said Brannock. At the end of November, 1957, there were 6,481 vet erans in training under Pub lic Law 550, the Korean GI bill. At the end of November, this year, there were 5,435 in training, 4,157 of them in institutions of higher learn ing, 1,275 in other schools, and the balance in institution al on-farm and job training. LABOR OF LOVE Tokyo-(UPD-A big favorite in Red China's current musical hit parade is an ideologically correct ballad entitled "Three Young Men," Radio Peiping reported today "It is a song about love of three young men for the same girl," the Communist broadcast said. "The hardest worker-a model worker-wins the maiden." The U. S. educates about 10,000 engineers a year while Russia trains 50,000 annually, according to the U. S. Office of Education. UO President Defends Dean of Medical School Portland-(UPD-The president of the University of Oregon spoke up Monday night in de fense of the medical school after what he termed a "scarcely veiled, direct attack upon the dean" by the Oregon Medical society. Dr. O. Meredith Wilson said that in his opinion the Board of Higher Education has a dean who is doing "an excel lent job" at the medical school. The Medical society, in a report read to the board by Dr. Karl H. Martzloff of Port land, did not mention Dean D. W. E. Baird of the medical school by name. Striking Contrast Dr. Martzloff spoke of med ical schools where deanship changes often and "where the position is generally occupied by a fulltime faculty member, not infrequently a man of na tional or international reputa tion in his field . . . men who have the confidence and re spect of their faculties and the profession at large . . ." "It is therefore disquieting to note in striking contrast the mediocre caliber of some med ical school deans, who. fall into the group of professional administrators for which they have no special qualifica tions . . ." Dr. Martzloff said. Dr. Wilson said that the dean, "while not always in rapport with the Medical so ciety ... is in excellent rap port with the full-time medi cal school staff. I just want this on the record." The society said that in sev eral areas earlier disagree ments with board policy have been resolved. Wreaths, Material Taken From Workshop Portland-4UPD-Forty wreaths and the material for more was stolen from the Double 66 Workshop, it was reported to day. The shop is a small opera tion sponsored by the Oregon Federation of Handicapped children which provides work for handicapped teen-agers. The theft occurred over the week end. MAIL TRIBUNE, MedW, Oregon, Tuesday, December 16, 195S 7 Senate Republicans Choosing Sides in Fight for Leadership Washington- (UPD - The Sen ate's 34 Republican members are choosing sides for the hot test leadership fight that the Grand Old Party has seen since the 1952 National con vention. Members of a rebellious lib eral ' faction claimed they needed only four votes to in sure success for their revolt and grab off the top leader ship post held by conserva tives next month. They said they would spend the next two weeks trying to line up more supporters and putting together a slate of candidates. They were reluc tant to mention names at this point but Sens. George D. Aiken (R.-Vt.) and Thomas H. Kuchel (R.-Calif.) figured in speculation. They mapped their strategy at a rump caucus Monday at tended by 10 senators while present GOP leaders sat in on a legislative conference at the White House. Had Backed Taft Some of the White House group - notably Sens. Styles Bridges (R.-N.H.) and Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.), backed the late Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. Ohio) against President Eisen hower for the presidential nomination six years ago. But the insurgent band which met in Aiken's office included some of the staunch est supporters of the Presi dent's legislative program. Bridges, chairman of the Senate Policy committee, said afterwards that he regarded Dirksen as the logical man to succed to the Senate GOP leadership vacated by Sen. William F. Knowland (Calif.). He said he personally would like, to continue as policy said he still favors working out a compromise on the dispute. "I certainly don't want to start a new session with a bat tle among Republicans," he added. " I hope there will be some way of adjusting the dif ferences and giving represen tation to all elements of the party." Full-Blown Battle However, the Aiken group served notice it would put up candidates for all five leader ship posts when the Republi can Senate conference con venes in January to select party officers for the new ses sion. The liberals began demand ing a greater voice in party affairs, in the Senate immedi ately after the November con gressional elections reduced GOP membership to 34. This has now developed into a full blown battle for leadership control. After Aiken had announced the move, Sen. Clifford P. Case (R.-N.J.) called a news conference to explain it fur ther. He quickly found him self the target of a barrage of pointed questions. Case insisted the situation was too fluid at this stage to endorse one candidate or har poon another. But he finally FILM DIRECTOR DIES London-!UPD-Sir Arthur Jar ratt, 64, manager director for British Lion Films Ltd., died here Sunday. conceded that he would pre fer Aiken over Dirksen for the leadership job. Aiken said his group would pick its candidates at a meet ing Dec. 30. re all our friends in the Rogue Valley with an extra "THANK YOU" for your wonderful pa tronage during 1958. SOUTHERN OREGON BOX COMPANY Earl W. and Geraldine M. -Etrers, Owners 4529 S. Pac Hi way, Phoenis KE 5-1472 fol BOOKS GIFTS BECORPsT ftwwti NEW DELUXE GOURMET GIFT PACKAGES of the finest foods from the four corners, of the world w,v y t 1L V Court Records DISTRICT COURT Robert . Klump, failure to stop, $10. Evelyn J. Miller. 724 West 11th st., Medford. drivine while under the influence of intoxicating liq uor, S233. Charles O. Strawn, insufficient light, $10. Burdette W. Holroyd, failure to stop, $10. Dale W. Kiser. violation basic rule., $15. Marian T. Ford, failure to stop, $10. Alfred B. Martin, route 1, box 200, Talent, drunk on public high way, $30. Howard R. Calkins, overlength, $6. Eugene A. Ritzinger, overload, $25. Richard G. Shafer, failure to stop, $10. Karl M. Proctor, truck speeding, $15. Donald D. Nelson, hunting dur ing prohibited months, $10. Paul E. Sanders, operating on wrong side of highway, $15. Richard L. Akin, overload, $101. Carroll G. Zacnry, violation basic rule. $15. Reginald G. Cox. overwidth, $10. Laurence P. Thornsen, failure to stop. $10. Herbert S. Grafton Jr., failure to signal, $5. . 1 Maurice W. White, failure to yield, S5. Charles C. McCaslin, violation of basic rule, S15. George C. Holberton, overlength, SB. CIRCUIT COURT Ralph L. Hackney vs Patricia M. Hackney, divorce decree. Inez Cratty v Paul R. Cratty, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS David Ross Lovejoy. Hampton, N. H., and Caroline Ed McHenry, box 66, Prospect. Neil Russell Dusenberry, box 44. Trail, and Edna Fave Grey, 204 South E st.. Eagle Point. Franklin Ray Lindsey, 16 Mistle toe st.. and Nedra Ruth Sheppard, 2901 Beall lane. Central Point. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Smart 'On the Job' Fashions For Girl in While... 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