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Coroner System Mrs. Duncan's Trial Bills Studied Salem -4CPD- The bills re vamping Oregons', coroner system got a thorough going over by the Senate Public Health committee Tuesday. Line-by-line study of the two bills will continue next week. They call for abolition of all county coroner positions outside Multnomah county .and substitution of medical investigators who shall either be the county or district health officer or a licensed physician. A chief medical investiga tor appointed by the State Board of Health would be a doctor specializing in pathol ogy. He wouli coordinate work in the counties. The bills arose from an in terim investigation headed by Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D Milwaukie) into the present system. Sweetland noted that morti cians now have a near monop oly on coroner jobs and that relationships between coron-. ers and morticians in hand ling deaths have impaired public confidence in coroners. Sweetland said Multnomah county was not included be cause of its large size large budget and facilities for inves tigating causes of death, but Sweetland added that Multno mah might want to join the program later. Film on Oregon Parks Is Available Saelm-Oregon state park developments, their notable features and facilities, are de picted in a new motion pic ture now available from the travel information division of the Oregon state highway de partment. The film, "Vacation Adven tures in Oregon State Parks, runs 14 minutes, has sound and is in color. It was photo graphed and produced by the . travel division, and narrated by Oregon radio and televi sion and radio announcer Johnny Carpenter. Oregon has nearly 170 parks, more than any other state in the nation. The parks, under the jurisdiction of the Oregon state highway com mission, are situated in out standing recreational regions throughout the state. Hears Completion; Friday Goal Seen EX-NEWSMAN DIES Redondo Beach, Calif. -flJPJ)-Firial rites will be held today for Samuel Goddard Austin, 84, former newspaperman and retired Redondo Beach city judge who died Tuesday after a long illness. PUBLICIST DIES New York -UPD- Stephen L. Jennings, 60, publicist and former newspaperman, died Monday. Ventura, Calif. -(UPD- The 17-day-old trial of Elizabeth Duncan on charges of bargain ing for the death of her son's pregnant wife entered its fin al stages today. District Attorney Roy Gus tafson expected to present the rest of more than a score of rebuttal witnesses by noon and, perhaps, launch into his final argument after lunch. Best estimate of Gustafson and defense attorney S. Ward Sullivan was that the case might go to the jury by Fri day. The prosecutor worked me thodically in testimony Tues day to destroy the image of Frank Duncan, 30-year-old lawyer son of the defendant, as a husband who cherished his wife but feared his moth er might kill herself if he left home. Mrs. Duncan is accused of hiring Luis Moya, 22, and Augustine BalDonado, 25, last November to kill her daughter-in-law, Olga, a 30-year-old Canadian-born nurse. Killers Confessed Her body was discovered last Dec. 21 buried in a shal low grave north of here in the Casitas Pass area. Moya and Baldonado pleaded innocent by reason of insanity after confessing Mrs. Duncan of fered them $6,000 to kill Olga. One of Tuesday's rebuttal witnesses, Valentine Ponomar off , a Santa Barbara insurance agent, testified that Frank once hoped to get rid of Olga before their marriage last June 20. "I'm getting in a little too deep with Olga," Ponomaroff quoted Duncan as saying. "I wish I could palm her off on someone else." In his testimony the young attorney said he still loved Olga when he left her last Nov. 7, ten days before she was kidnaped from her Santa Barbara apartment and killed. When Gustafson asked Dun can if it wasn't true he had married the nurse only be cause she was pregnant, Frank said, "I would have married Olga whether she had been pregnant or not." Ponomaroff said he went to Frank's office in August and told him that Elizabeth Dun can had found out where the attorney was living with Ol ga. "Oh no, he said Duncan re plied. Ponomaroff said he once advised Frank to leave his mother's apartment and live with Olga, but Duncan re plied, "you don't know my mother." Gustafson indicated he felt the prosecution had scored heavily against Mrs. Duncan's story that she was being blackmailed by Moya and Bal donado with testimony of Lawrence E. Weitekamp, a Santa Barbara probation offi cer. Perjury Claimed The prosecutor claimed Wei- tekamp's testimony showed that Mrs. Duncan was not telling the truth when she claimed Moya and Baldonado were "blackmailing her" for return of a legal fee her son had charged Mrs. Esperenza Esquivel, operator of a Santa Barbara cafe. Mrs. Duncan testified that Moya had pulled her from the street into Mrs. Esquivel's car on Nov. 13th and demanded return of a legal fee because Mrs. Esquivel's husband had been denied probation. The district attorney claim ed that the earliest date Mrs Esquivel could have known that her husband was going to prison was on Nov. 14, when Frank Duncan said he remem bered meeting with the wom an in his office. The prosecutor claimed that if Mrs. Esquivel did not learn about the denial of probation until Nov. 14, then Mrs. Dun can's story that she was being blackmailed on Nov. 13 be cause Esquivel was being sent to prison, was obviously false Corvallis Vants Airport Returned Corvallis - (UPD - 'Corvallis wants its airport back. Through no fault of the city of Albany, the Corvallis air port has disappeared from some maps and airline sched ules, and apparently has been given to Albany. Corvallis City Manager John F. Porter has filed an official protest with Nick Bez, president of West Coast Air lines, because the Corvallis air field is listed as the Al-bany-Corvallis stop. In some cases, Porter said, Corvallis is not even listed. He de clared: "This matter is becoming a source of severe irritation to the people of Corvallis." Porter said the airport is located at Corvallis, is owned and operated by the city of Corvallis and joins with no other city in financing, man agement or naming of this facility." Mother's Screams Draw Tots To Death Manila (UPD Four small children, responding to their 22-year-old mother's screams for help, grabbed and clung to her Tuesday when she touched an electric light sock et. All five were electrocuted. CENTRAL POINT Royal Neighbors Meet By DORIS HUGHES Central Point The Royal Neighbors of America met on March 3 at the home of Mrs. Roy Kelly, 239 Cherry st., Central Point. Acting as cohostess was Mrs. Emmet Nealon. Seven teen members and two guests attended. The club's new yearbook was shown. The executive board made plans to go to Klamath Falls March 13 to at tend a preparatory meeting concerning the district con vention in April. Plans were made to attend the Royal Neighbors of Amer ica Rally in Grants Pass March 25. Mrs. Emma Collins won the mystery package. The penny birthday cake was bak ed by Mrs. Emmet Nealon. Mrs. D. R. Hendricksoh re ceived the penny, giving her the cake baking project for the June meeting. The next meeting of the Royal Neighbors of America will be held April 7 in Eagle Point at the home of Mrs. E. Chamberlain. A spaghetti dinner will be held Wednesday, March 25, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Crater High school cafetorium. Pro ceeds will be for Boy Scouts, Troop 40. Mrs. Darrel Greb, public ity chairman, reminded mem' bers of Gamma Xi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi to have their prepared dishes at the Postal Rexall Drug store in Central Point by 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 14, for the baked foods sale. At a city council meeting recently, Mayor Freeman Ma son appointed a police com mittee consisting of Les Big ham and Don Patterson to work with Lyle Paull, city administrator, and the police department. Recently installed on West Pine st., Central Point,, are "stop" signs on either side of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Second grade students from Jewett Elementary school last week and this, went in groups of two on city tours. They visited the city hall, the police department, the city fire station and the post of fice. There are 162 students in the second grade. Teachers accompanying the students were Mrs. Alice Gay, Mrs. Gladys Jewett, Mrs. Hel en Johnson, Mrs. Olivia Ryer- son, Mrs. Viola Schwab and Mrs. Betty von der Hellen. Miss Alice Turner was co hostess with Mrs. John Clark recently at an open house honoring Miss D'Anne Clark. Many friends dropped in dur ing the evening to visit Miss Clark, who was home from college for a few days. With miss uiarK was her room mate, Mrs. Anita Garner, whose home is in Arkansas. Mrs. James Smith and son, Jimmy, arrived home Thurs day morning from California. They had spent a few days visiting relatives in Pitts burgh and San Francisco. A guest at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott has been her daughter, Mrs. J. J. (Mil dred) Swain, who has been making her home in Ger many. Mrs. Swain also visit ed her sister, Mrs. Bernice McCue, and other relatives in the valley. After a month's visit here, she left Saturday for Post Falls, Idaho, to visit relatives. She will go from there to Portland and to Seattle to visit. Mrs. Swain will then go to San Francisco where she will go by Trans-World Air lines the polar route non-stop flight to Europe. Swain will meet .his wife in Frankfort, Germany. They live in Munich. A weiner roast was the entertainment for the Crater Rockets 4-H Rock and Min eral club at their meeting in Central Point March 2. A business meeting led by Car olyn Leonard preceeded the affair. Ricky Campbell was elected club treasurer. Sam my Hughes is the publicity chairman. The next meeting of the Crater Rockets will be at 4:30 p.m., April 6 at the home of Mrs. Lawerence Leonard of Snowy Butte rd. A special program on safety will be given by Danny Leonard, safety chairman. Gladys Schwebs will be in charge of entertainment. Spring vacation for the schools of Central Point will be . Monday through Friday next week. School will re sume on Monday, March 23. Research Grants Said Increased Portland - (UPD - The State Board of Higher Education was told Tuesday that it is "superintending one of the fastest-growing industries in the state"-that of administer ing research funds. Chancellor John R. Rich ards told the Board that re search grants of $6 million in the current biennium rep resented an increase from $2 million in 1953-55. One of the most recent out side grants is $382,000 from the National Science Founda tion. With this the Univer sity of Oregon will put on the road 20 station wagons equip ped as demonstration science classrooms to travel around the state for local in-service teacher training. v A RARE TREAT ONLY ONCE THIS YEAR our fines! world-famous, Paris fashion nylons so fantastically sheer, yet amazingly well wearing... 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Lauramay Noble and Ellen Hay demonstrated proper table setting and Frances Huff man and Susan Carroll show ed how to make butter frost ing. Bonnie Smith of Shady Cove demonstrated bread making. The Reese Creek Renegades conducted a model meeting with Jack Esp, presi dent, presiding. As part of the business of the meeting, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hoover were elected honorary members of the Reese Creek Renegades. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brown were honored by the Grange in recognition of their 49th wedding anniversary. ' Cele brating birthdays were C. C. Hoover, Mrs. C. C. Hoover, A. T. Wattenburg and Mrs. Thomas Vestal. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Roberts of Medford and Mrs. Sadie Cypers. Mrs. J. Brown reported on the success of the sausage din ner held at the Grange hall on Feb. 28. The cooking was done on a modern electric stove, but also in the Grange kitchen is an old four-burner wood stove which is used for keeping foods warm. This stove was originally part of the old Sunnyside hotel in Eagle Point, owned and oper ated by Mrs. Sarah "Maw" Howlett. Following Mrs. Hew lett's death, her daughters gave the stove to the Eagle Point Grange. According to Grange Master Robert Bitterling, the next meeting on March 17 will start with a potluck supper at 7 p.m., to be followed by the initiation into the Eagle Point Grange of the following per son: Robert C. Cocks, Ruby M. Cocks, Robert D. Scobie, Mary Ellen Scobie, Percy A. Scobie, Delton T.- Stephenson, Asenath L. Stephenson, W. D. Mongold, Mary Mongold, Carole M. Moore, Anna Davis, Dale Bigham, Barbara Big ham, Viola H. Bigham, James P. Morgan, Hilda L. Morgan, Gladys L. Canterbury, Fred A. Canterbury, Campbell H. Young. Refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Palm and Mr. and Mrs. Earle Jossy. Mrs. Robert" N. Meyer, Publicity Chairman and retiring drills, with Wil ber McLean in charge, a rec ent appointee of the master. Refreshments were served by Leona Jenks and Lena Laricks. At the next meeting of the Grange, March 19th, the "Rogue Valley Black lighters" will stage a program at 8 p.m. All residents of com munity are invited. Grace Bruce, publicity Fort Erie on the Niagara river in Ontario was origi nally a military post built in 1764. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, March 11, 1959 5 Mrs. Green Backs Sfafe Power Bill Salem-(UPD -House Speaker Robert Duncan said today he has received a letter from Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) en dorsing the State Power Com mission bill before the Ore gon Legislature. He quoted Mrs. Green as saying: "This bill in my opinion poses a solution for the prob lem which both parties and men of good will at every economic level admit is the single most vital problem of our time: How to secure full- time employment for all Ore gon's people. Duncan said Oregon's fu ture industry would be based on an adequate power supply and that the measure was too important to get bogged down in partisan politics. BANK OFFICIAL DIES Port Chester, N. Y. -(UPD Minor L. Wheaton, 55, a vice president of the Chase Man hattan Bank of New York, died Tuesday after a long illness. Gold Hill Grange Charles Foote, master, con ducted a very good meeting of the Gold Hill Grange, Thursday March 5, in spite of a bad case of laryngitis. He did, however, turn the closing of the meeting over to Over seer Willie McLean. Channcey Page, agricultural chairman, reported beef prices still high with hogs and eggs on the decline. Mrs. Ferd Jones, also spoke on agriculture, comparing present production to that con ducted 100 years ago. Mrs. Jones stated that the first farm to be established in Ore gon was in Marion county. Ferd Jones reported fewer dairy cows in the state, now than in anytime during the last 13 years. Marie Christensen and Adale Jones brought many old books and pictures and Mrs. Christensen called attention to the fact that Gold Hill Grange was 24 years old this week. Both Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Christensen spoke on educa tion in the state, now, and in the "olden days". Hal Bishop was installed as steward and Mrs. Bruce and Mrs. Lucy Edington received recognition for their prompt reports on the lecturers work and the Home Economics club, respectively for the year 1958. Ferd Jones was appointed by the master to assist the ways and means committee in the National Grange Com munity Service contest, which Gold Hill has entered. Secretary Lena Laricks stated that there was to be a film on cancer, put on by the Gold Hill Health Unit at the Gold Hill Methodist church March 17. The film Is for women only. C. C. Hoover, a member of Eagle Point Grange told about the project which his Grange has undertaken, namely the giving away of thousands of trees. The purpose of this is for the beutifying of our com munities Hoover said. Hoover visits many Granges, taking" along a supply of these trees, which are of many var ieties. Hoover says the Forest Service and garden clubs are always glad to give advice and assistance in this project. The lecturers hour was giv en over, for the most part, to the rehearsing of the seating We s IS ay You For Your Old MATTRESS or SPRINGS Traded in on One of the Many Styles of Mattresses & Box Springs. We're Closing Out During Our Yes, it's an Early Spring at Gates Furniture and NOW is the time for you to profit by this Limited Offer 3 PAYS ONLY! Thursday, Friday & Saturday m Personalized Credit Terms We Carry Our Own Contracts 341 N. 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