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Martins New ADE-Out Search for Will DncBude The DQDogica! Places' Portland - CPD - Author ities from nine Oregon and Southwest Washington coun ties Friday formulated a new all-out search plan for the Kenneth R. Martin family of Portland, missing since Dec. 7. State and county officers foresters and civil defense of ficials met here to plan the renewed hunt. Hood River county Sheriff Robert J. Gill mouthe said "We have looked in all the logical places -now we must search in the illogical places." The group adopted a num ber of suggestions for contin uing the search, including one to ask the U.S. Army En gineers to lower the water level of the lake behind Bon neville dam so that police can make a close search of both banks of the Columbia river for the Martin car, a cream and red-trimmed 1954 station wagon. The officials also agreed, elective immediately, to fil ter alt clues and leads to the family's disappearance through the Multnomah coun ty sheriffs office here to avoid duplication of effort. The Martins and their three daughters vanished aft er setting out to get Christ mas greens. The only tangi ble clue so far is a gasoline purchase receipt showing Martin bought gas at a Cas cade Locks service station on the day of the disappearance. Other Procedure Other search procedures adopted were: 1. Oregon state police and the Washington state patrol will check on all accidents that occurred on Dec. 7 and in each case attempt to de termine if any of the damaged vehicles could have had any contact with the Martin ve hicle. 2. County and state high way crews in both states will be requested to list all high way guard rails repaired or New Rail Wage Proposal Is Due Spokane CP0 The national head of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen said here Friday- his group v' would present U.S. railroads r. with a new wage proposal early this year. James A. Paddock, Cedar had not yet decided whether to ask for a health and wel fare program which is pres ently given non-operating rail road .mployes. He said group menr jers presently pay four cents an hour for a similar program. ' Paddock said various rail road labor organizations were asking for a 10 per cent in crease in Railroad Retirement " act benefits. A bill to this effect failed to reach the floor of Congress last year. Paddock said, however, that the union was not asking for extra unemployment benefits, but hoped to bring retirement benefits on a level with the cost of living. replaced since Dec. 7. 3. Civil defense officials in Clackamas county will again use sonar equipment to sound lake and river bottoms. Cameras 4. Portland city detectives will try to trace a still cam era and movie camera car ried by Martin on the day of the family's disappearance by its serial numbers. 5. A screening of movie film "made by Martin in past years will be made in the hope of turning up a clue as to where ' the family might have gone for Christmas greenery. 6. Klickitat county Sheriff Ed Kaiser will conduct a search of the road between Trout Lake and Randall, Wash., with vehicles that can travel on snow-drifted routes west of Mt. Adams. Silver Star Mounlain 7. A search in the Silver Star mountain area where Martin once worked as a for est service lookout will be renewed by Clark county Sheriff Clarence McKay. ' Col. A. F. Clark, division engineer, said the Corps of Engineers will co-operate in every way possible within reason. He noted that lower ing of the waters back of Bonneville dam would have to be co-ordinated with the lowering of waters back of dams farther upstream to ex pose more shoreline back of Bonneville. Johnson Asserts Congress Will 'Face Up' to Challenges Washington (LTD Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said yesterday that the 86th Congress which con venes Wednesday will "face up" to all its challenges, in cluding that dramatized by Russia's moon probe shot. ' Johnson joined House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a fel low Texans, in forecasting that democratic control of the new Congress will be responsi ble and constructive. Demo crats won their heaviest ma jority in Congress since New Deal Days in the elections last Nov. 4. Johnson and Rayburn busied themselves with preparations for handling opening day dis putes over rule changes in their respective chambers. It appeared that both, despite reluctance to discuss specific developments, had their prob lems fairly well in hand. : A bloc of six House liberals announced yesterday they had abandoned their drive to curb the power of the predominant ly conservative rules commit tee, a move Rayburn opposed. They said they did so on the basis of Rayburn's promise that no new key legislation would be bottled up by the committee. 'Greater Challenges' "This Congress has cut out for it some of the greatest challenges in our history," Johnson said in a statement "The tasks we face were placed in bold relief by the Soviet's moon shot which, whether or not it is success ful, emphasizes the urgency of our situation.' Johnson is chairman of the Senate Space committee and headed the 1958 Senate in vestigation of this country's rocket and missile programs He emphasized that he has Two Weeklies Reported Sold Pendleton UPI Sale of two Oregon weekly newspapers, the Condon Globe and the Fossil Journal, has b e en announced by Mrs. Stewart Hardie, widow of the late state Senator Stewart Hardie, owner and publisher of the papers. The new owners are Mr. and Mrs. Richard Zita of New Britain, Conn. The Zitas will take possession Jan. 5. For the past six years Zita has published the Commercial Record, a Hartford, Conn, business weekly. upen Monday Nights Til 9 STRONGEST " most f i s y rttnct . BALANCE aA LA M s v CHIRKS SDZLs Tie Miff est, Sfnaftst, MtST CUtkes Drytr IvtrUitt! lnragine! Almost o city block ef continuous, self-adjusting Toe enough to dry 37 FULL SIZE SHEETS! So perfectly balanced that even little girl con open and close it with ease. Stand in one spot ond hang your entire wash in healthful sunshine ond fresh otr. UST PRICE SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER. ... .. 3295 BUY NOW AND SAVE $13.07 long felt that the nation was "not going far enough fast enough" in space exploration. Citing a tense world situa tion, pressing domestic prob lems and an "overriding" need for peace, Johnson ad ded: 'Constructive, Responsible' "I believe this Congress will face up to all of the chal lenges, and I hope that when it is concluded the American people will be able to say -it was constructive, responsible, and dedicated to increasing Mrs. Duncan's Attorney To Ask Trial Site Change Ventura, Calif. - (UPD -The attorney for Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, accused of plotting the "for hire" slaying of her pregnant daughter - in - law, will ask that her trial site be transferred. S. Ward Sullivan, Los An geles criminal lawyer, said, "The Ventura county district attorney, Roy Gustafson, has been making some statements to the press which are then relayed to the public, and by doing so has definitely at tempted to influence the pub lic in general against the de fendants." Sullivan added that the statements "have rendered it impossible for my client to receive a fair and impartial trial at the hands of an un biased jury in 'Ventura coun ty." Mrs. Duncan, 54, was in dicted by the grand jury along with two ex-convicts in the murder of Olga Kup czyk Duncan, 30, whose strangled body was discover ed in a shallow grave at a drainage construction pro ject. The mother-in-law also was accused of impersonating the slain woman at proceedings to annul Olga's marriage to her son, attorney Frank Dun can, 29. the strength and prosperity of the United States." . Johnson outlined his own general legislative objectives three days after the Demo crats' . election victory. He promised o meet President Eisenhower "at least half way." He also set forth a 12 point program of propoesed legislation dealing with hous ing, labor, farm, space, atom ics, depressed areas and other matters. He also called for a sweep ing study of inflation along the lines of that conducted in the 1930's by the temporary national economic committee. Conference Tomorrow Foreign policy and defense portions of Eisenhower's forth coming state of the Union message will be outlined to both democratic and republic an leaders at a White House conference tomorrow morn ing. The President's message, embracing his promise of a 77-billion-dollar balanced bud get, will go to Congress Fri day, two days after the leg islators convene. The Presi dent will read it in person to a joint Senate-House ses sion. Tomorrow afternoon south ern Democrats with Johnson not participating will caucus to map strategy for meeting a liberal demands for a tight er anti-filibuster rule, " Senate liberal Republicans meet Tuesday morning to com plete their slate of candidates for minority leadership posts. The liberals already have nominated Sen. John Sher man Cooper (Ky.) to oppose Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (111.) for the GOP floor leadership. Dirksen is expected to win on the basis of present commit ments. Cooper conceded yesterday that he has an "uphill fight" but said he felt he still had a chance of winning. He said a victory for the liberal GOP bloc would "put our party in an image to give it a better chance" in the 1960 presi dential elections. Councilman Says TV 'Deteriorating Video VP Replies The latest census of great er snow geese shows there are about 46,300 of them in the world. ' Local television was ac cused of "deteriorating very rapidly" by Medford City Councilman Robert L. Van Sickle, Ward III, at Friday night's council meeting. He was answered yesterday by Everett Faber, vice-president of Medford KBES-TV station. Van Sickle asked the coun cil to consider revoking a franchise for closed-circuit pay video granted to Faber last spring. Faber was granted the franchise at the same time that one was granted to Trim ble Television, Inc., Portland, for a similar operation. Van Sickle stated that Fa ber asked . for the franchise in order to compete with the Portland outfit. But he added yesterday that he believed Faber and KBES-TV have "impeded" Trimble in setting up its operation in this area. Faber Denies He said KBES-TV had ac quired an exclusive franchise for closed-circuit television in Ashland. Faber yesterday de nied this, saying no firm con tract with Ashland has been signed. V Van Sickle cited KBES TV's failure to telecast the professional football champi ionship between the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts as an example of "de teriorating" service. "We made every effort to get the football game," Fa ber replied. "But due to pre vious commitments with oth er networks, we were not able to clear it." 'What He's Done' "All I'd like to do," Van Sickle said yesterday with reference to the closed-circuit operation, "is have Ev Faber tell us what he's done." "Evidently," Faber said, "we have been a little dere lict in keeping people inform ed." He said development has been delayed locally by the. necessity of clearance from California Oregon Pow er company and Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph com pany for use of their poles for stringing video cable. He said necessary red-tape in obtaining clearance for use of specific telephone poles was slowing progress here. But, he, said, development of similar facilities in Klamath Falls, Roseburg and Grants Pass is progressing satisfac torily. Roseburg Operation Roseburg operations, he added, got under way Jan. 1. "Our contractor, Trow bridge and Flynn, and the Oregon Broadcasting com pany," Faber said, "have done everything possible to pro ceed in an orderly fashion with installation of cable sys tems in the southern Oregon cities of Ashland, Grants Pass and Medford Both KBES-TV and Trimble reportedly have two years under the terms of their Med ford franchises to commence development of operations here. The council Friday night voted to place consideration of possibly revoking Faber's closed-circuit franchise on the agenda for the Jan. 15 meeting. Klamath Drug Store Reported Purchased Klamath Falls -(UPD- Frank J.' Broderick of Grants Pass has purchased Lee Hendricks Drug Store on Scuth 6th street here, Broderick and Hendricks announced Friday. Hendricks, who started his career in pharmacy 45 years ago in Portland, established the suburban drug store at that location nearly 20 years ago. He will remain with the new owner as pharmacist on a part time basis. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford', Oregon. 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