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.
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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.
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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.
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