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12 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfonf, Oron. Tfiursdjy, January 8. 19S9 Bay Area Couple Sends Message to Infant's Parents V By LILLIE PITTS United Press International San Fra ncisco-dTD-A couple whose ' infant son was'' kid naped from his hospital crib in 1955 and returned unharm ed, said 'today they had wired a message of encouragement to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chion chio of New York. The couple. Dr. Sanford Marcus and his wife, Hanna, said they were praying for the safe return of little Lisa Rose Chionchio, who was stol en from St. Peter's hospital in Brooklyn on Jan. 2, ZVz hours after her birth.' The message from the Mar cus read: "Be of good courage. Our own child was taken from use but returned safely. We pray that your own child will also be returned safely to you." , Missing Nine Days , In expressing his fervent hope for the safe recovery of Lisa Rose, Dr. Marcus point ed out that his own son, Rob ert, was missing for nine days before he was turned over by the kidnaper to a priest in Stockton, Calif., on Sept. 28, 1855. Betty Jean Benedicto, who confessed to , snatching the Marcus child from Mt. Zion hospital, is currently being sough in the Chionchio case because of striking similari ties in the two abductions. Dr. Marcus said that if New York authorities were correct in their theory that Lisa Rose was taken by a frustrated mother, he would "tend to doubt" that the kidnaper was Mrs. Benedicto. , He pointed out that the Benedicto woman had 'ad mitted stealing Robert be cause she wanted to make good a lie of pregnancy to her husband.- Not Frustrated Desire "It was not a case of her frustrated desire to be a moth er since she already had one child," he said. ' St. Peter's hospital authori ties have described the abduc tor as a blonde woman, in her 30s, of average height and weighing between 130 and 140 pounds. - Mrs. Benedicto is 31, and answered the rest of the de scription when last seen by her mother on June 22,. 1957, in Miraloma, Calif. She has been sought as a parole .vio lator since that time. Dr. Marcus, speaking from bitter experience, reiterated his feeling that convicted kid napers should be kept locked up to discourage others from committing the "most heinous of all crimes." ,' Speaking both for himself and his wife, he said: . "We wonder whethej this present episode, and possibly the Weinberger case, ' could not have been avoided if it had been made abundantly clear by authorities that the punishment for ' this crime would be serious enough to Distributors Are Fined by Judge " Portland -flJPD-' Eight milk distributors and a trade as sociation Wednesday were fin ed a total of S36,250 for vio lation of anti-trust laws by conspiring to fix prices of milk. The government had asked fines totalling $95,500. - The defendants had pleaded nole . contendere, by which they accept the punishment the court hands out without pleading guilty. They were indicted more than a year ago.. The fines, as assessed by Federal Judge William East, uiciuaea: uairy vooperauve association, $12,500; Damas cus Milk company, $10,000; Safeway stores, Inc., $2,500; " Arden Farms, $2,000; Farm ers Dairy association S3.750; Oregon Milk Distributors Sl, nnn. Cimnn riiSn, o enn. Siinnv Rrnnke Farms Milk and ice Cream company $1,- 000; and Fairview Farms $1,000. . warrant lifetime confine ment." " After returning the Marcus child Mrs. Benedicto was com mitted to a state mental hos pital but in a few months was pronounced cured. She was then given a 5-to25 year sus pended prison sentence and placed - on five years' proba tion on condition t hat ' she serve a year in county jail. Missing Since 1957 Upon her release in Decem ber, 1956, she went to live with her mother, Mrs. Ruth Berg, in Riverside county. County probation officials there said they last heard from her on June 6, 1957. Mrs. Berg said her daugh ter vanished about two weeks later and had not been heard from since. The kidnaping of four-day-old Robert Marcus touched off one of San Francisco's big gest searches, in which 600 policemen' conducted a door-to-door search for the missing infant. " Sheriff Checks 133'Complaints A total of 33 complaints of felonies were received by the Jackson county sheriffs of fice during December, accord ing to the monthly report issued today. . They include 12 burglaries, 15 larcenies, 3 bad checks and 1 each of embezzlement, robbery and auto theft. Eighteen misdemeanor com plaints were received, .includ ing 6 malicious mischief, 3 disorderly ' conduct, 2 illegal possession of weapons, 3 traf fic violations, and 1 each of trespass, prowler, road violai tion and assault. .'-';. Miscellaneous complaints totaled 82 and total com plaints for the month, 133. The sheriffs office jailed 19 persons during December. Eighteen were placed in the county jail by state police, 7 by Medford police, 6 by the U. S. marshal, 2 by Ashland and Central Point police and 1 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ." The office closed a total of 83 complaints during! Decem ber. Twenty-seven warrants were setved out of 30 issued, the report stated. Backstairs: Kendall Goes Places Economy Zip Said Shaping Up Now Washington (CPU A poten tial source of extra zip for the economy shaped up today in the wake of a government report on business inven tories. . The report, issued by the Commerce Department, said that a 200-million-dollar in ventory "build - up in Novem ber reversed a 13-month de cline. The rise was attributed to en unusually big jump in deal ers' supplies of new cars, par tially compensating for a slowdown in deliveries that resulted from production cur tailments in October. Dulles Intends to Maintain Pace Washington -(UPD- Adminis stration sources said today that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles intends to main tain his vigorous working schedule despite expressions of concern about his health. There had been a feeling in some quarters that the 70-year-old . cabinet member should ease up a bit in view of his age and two recent illnesses. But reliable sources said that . President Eisenhower had no plans to ask Dulles to slow down. The President was said to feel that Dulles, be cause of ' his temperament, would be miserable if forced to adopt a reduced workload. Furthermore, the sources added, Eisenhower had been assured by physicians that there was nothing of a . seri ous nature in Dulle's recent ailments to justify putting him into enforced idleness. Concern over . the secre tary's health dates,, of course, from his operation in late 1956 for. intestinal cancer. It is no medical secret that such ailments sometimes recurr. The concern, which died down after Dulles recovered, was heightened again in re cent weeks by the new ail ments. In December, Dulles was hospitalized by diverticulitis- an intestinal inflam mation. Earlier this week he was sent home with a virus attack. . ' By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter Washington-ftPD-Backstairs at the White House: When President Eisenhower a few weeks back named Da vid Kendall as his special counsel, members of the Pres ident's staff applauded and predicted that the personable Michigan lawyer would "go places." ' While Eisenhower was in Gettysburg over New Year's, Kendall did just that. He went to the New Year's Day party given by Clark Clif ford, who was counsel to for mer President Truman. ' Clifford, now engaged in a lucrative private law prac tice, associates with top Re publicans as well as his old friends from the Democratic party. The highball glasses had hardly been put away at the Cliffords before the society pages blossomed forth with stories about the party. Clifford, as part of a pro gram of family entertain ment for the guests, read an elaborate spoof of Eisenhow er's forthcoming state of the union message. Clifford grave ly said he had gotten hold of an advance copy. Actually, it was I rather pointed satire. One of the town's top society columnists, Betty Beale, called the Clif ford satire of . Eisenhower "a pearl of ambiguity, non-se-quititr and high-flown plati tudes." dent. He seemed confident the boss would get a bang out of it. Came the dawn m Gettys burg and White House cour iers, stayed by neither sleet nor snow, got through with all sorts of official documents -the Washington papers. Then these interesting items began to seep out of the oth erwise frozen Eisenhower farm: -Kendall was being refer red to, spoofingly of course, as "the former counsel." -Men who have -. been around Eisenhower much longer than Kendall were will ing to bet a hundred to one that the counsel never shows the Clifford script to the Pres ident, or for that matter, even mention it. -Kendall does not walk in or-out of the President's of fice 'at will. When he wants to see the President, he . has to arrange it through higher ranking members of staff. As someone close to Eisen hower remarked after reading the account of the party: "Somehow I just can't pic ture Dave Kendall or any one else walking in to the boss and saying, 'Mr. Presi dent, Clark Clifford, who used to work for Harry Tru man had a party the other day and he really kidded the pants off your state of the union message -1 thought you would like to see it.' " Another White House vet eran closed . his eyes and mused: "Can5t you just see it? Dave says, "Yessir, Mr. Presi dent, everybody got a terrific kick out of this part where you talk about never dealing in personalities, but how do you want to say a word or two for George Washington. " 'Mr. President, why are you looking at me that way? " 'For heavens . sake, Mr. President, you don't have to ring for the Secret Service. This was just good fun. At torney General Rogers was there. I wasn't the only one. No sir, I didn't say. Rogers laughed. ". 'Mr. President, please, I implore you, put down that putter : .. .' '' t , Local Flag Program Planned by Jaycees The Medford Jaycees this month are starting a holiday flag program in conjunction with a program already un derway in other cities by the Oregon State Junior Cham ber of Commerce. The purpose of the program, according to Art Van Leeu wen, local Jaycee -president, is to stimulate interest in the national holidays and to , aid in the decoration of the city on those days. The Jaycees will display a large American flag on a standard in front of each business or home of partici pating persons. The flags will be displaved on an average of at least one day a month, it was reported, depending upon the frequency of the holidays. The Jaycees will contact persons and businesses to dis play, maintain and store the flags in exchange for an an nual fee. The flags will ' re main the property of the or ganization. , Van.Leeuwen said that the program will get underway this yeafJuly 4. Collision Kills Cow Wednesday Evening A cow owned by Clyde M. Moody, 6121 Crater Lake highway was killed and a sec ond ' injured about 10 pjn. Wednesday when struck by a sedan operated by William Floyd Cavin, 46, Eagle Point, state police reported. Officers said Cavin told them he struck the cows as they crossed the dark high way single file with three others. The sedan was badly damaged. Navy Flier Rescued; 14 Hours on Raft San Diego UPD A Navy flier who spent 14 hours on a life raft after his plane had crashed in the Pacific ocean was rescued Wednesday. Lt. Cmdr. W. L. Armstrong, 35, Chula Vista, Calif, attach ed to San Diego Naval Air station, was reported in good condition although suffering from exposure. He was res cued 20 miles south of here by a Navy helicopter crew, one of 20 aircraft crews par ticipating in the search. Junior High Gym Damaged by Fire ' Eugene (UPD Fire broke out in the gymnasium of Woodrow Wilson Junior High school here Wednesday after noon after school was let out for the day. Damage was esti mated at $15,000. - The fire broke out in the vicinity of the stage in the three-story wood structure. Firemen were unable to de termine the cause of the blaze. The main part of the build ing suffered no damage but the stage itself was destroyed and there was heavy smoke damage to the south end of the gym. There were only a few stu dents in the building at the time of the fire. About 800 students attended the junior high school. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 3-7335 COOKIES CRUMBLE Kendal, England-(UPD-A 12 ton load of cookies crumbled Wednesday when the big bakery truck John Thompson was driving turned over on the main England - Scotland road. Cars were lined up for five miles. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS LOOK FOR THE HAPPY LITTLE COG SKPPf TOPS IN QUALITY! LOW IN PRICE Healy Reappointed Slate Commissioner Salem (CPU Reappoint ment of Salem attorney Frank J. Healy as Oregon's corpora tion commissioner was an nounced Wednesday by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. Healy, 36, was first appoint ed to the commissioner post in. 1954 to succeed the late Maurice Hudson- He was re appointed by former Gov. Paul Patterson in December of 1954. ., r The new four-year term ex tends to Jan. 7, 1963. As corporation commission er, Healy has charge of part nership certificates and arti cles of incorporation for Ore gon businesses. His salary is 510,000 annually. Kendall plunged into the spirit of things and expressed quite an appreciation of the spoofing. The society sections reported that Eisenhower's new counsel thought so much of the take-off that he asked Clifford for a copy so he could show it to the'-Presi- Mathematics Course Now Available Here A three hour college credit class in foundations of ele mentary mathematics is be ing offered for the first time in. the valley Monday eve nings at .then Medford HiSh school. The course, which may be taken ' for , either undergradu ate or graduate credit, is be ing taught by Dr. Floyd Tay-. lor, associate professor ? of mathematics at Southern Ore gon college. The class is reg ularly offered on the Oregon State college campus at Cor vallis but is now offered lo cally to the people of the area because of the national interest in science and mathe matics, it was reported. The class includes a study of the fundamental concepts and logical structure of arith metic, algebra, and geometry. It will be held Mondays from 7 until 9:45 p.m. in room 244 of the high school. Final registration is Jan. 12 at the class meeting and will cost $27 for both credit or. non credit students. "', There are more than 390 flammable liquids in use to day. - be sure to ask fcr o CHEETOS o BAR-B-Q FRITOS Ideal for Watching TV or Snacks Family Cake & Cookie Co. L. S. (Stan) Tiegs, -Distributor Talent Ph. EE 5-2775 Plus SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS! 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