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o 6 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdfortf, Or. Wedaesday, June 3, 1959 SF Bank Teller Admits Hoax in Holdup Report San Francisco (UPD Joseph F. Pearce faced a charge to day of faking a holdup at a bank as a teller and opening an account with half the loot reported missing. FBI agents said Pearce, 25, admitted the holdup he re ported March 31 was a hoax, but he denied he had taken the $2030 missing from his cage. Pearce was fired from the job he held for two years and arraigned yesterday on a fed eral complaint charging him with filing false information and withholding material facts from the FBI. . A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office said agents worked for weeks on the as sumption Pearce had been robbed of 20 hundred dollar bills by a well-dressed man in his late 40s. However, they became suspicious when none of the 25 persons in the bank at the time of the alleged hold Gup remembered seeing a man fitting the description given by the teller. When it was found that Pearce had quietly opened an account, depositing $1,000, agents questioned his story. - At his arraignment Pearce steadfastly denied taking the money. He said he had been saving money in a fruit jar at home and decided to put it Into the bank. 0 4-H Club Hews a Eagle Point Ranchers . The Eagle Point Ranchers met May 25. The meeting was called to order by Francis Huffman. Patsy Sutton took roll Call. A sheep-shearing and field day was planned for June 13, starting at 1 p.m. at Danny Burrils home. All members re asked to be present. . Refreshments were served by Mrs. Huffman and Mrs. Adamson. Next regular meeting will be June 8 in the agriculture building in Eagle Point, at 7 p.m. i i Gordon DeHaas, Reporter ' mm. ...... v n. . 'I. . . .' . 'i (0 urn i P i SPACE MONKEY DEAD Able, one of the little monkeys fired into space aboard a Jupiter rocket last week, has died, the Defense Department has announced in Wash ington. The seven-pound Rhesus monkey died at the Army Medical Research Laboratory in Fort Knox, Ky., during an operation for removal of an electrode. Scandinavian Plane Ordered To Land at Baghdad Airport Rome (UPD The pilot of Scandinavian Airlines System plane forced to land in Bagh dad said today there was "no real explanation" for the inci dent, the second in a month. The airliner, an SAS DC-6 flying over Iraq from Tehran, Iran, to Beirut, Lebanon, was ordered by radio to land at Baghdad Airport Tuesday. There were 58 persons aboard. Permitted To Continue Iraqi officials held the plane for an hour and 15 minutes "Ytor aosf outstanding buy unbeam s ravtrfil 4-eycii RfiM opelltSi CAS EZOTAQY Positive iirii toith srits kit. Nt jlippaje-nsver nee adjusting. O u Specially desitnif" steel hausing-ribbe4 flaie sjl reinforced for ex$ V suppert AdjustaWesfii ' ntreloiMBlc Cleitiji is up to ytH 8ets vsseeiMi, esji !iig19,0Jft---- t 245 S. Central 1C3 P MQt PLENTY OD PD0 kAOfftiO before permitting it to con tinue. , . . Capt. Ake Lennart Berg lund, pilot of the plane, said he saw no Iraqi fighter planes in the air when he received the radio order. i An Alitalia DC-6 carrying 17 ' passenges was forced . by Iraqi jets to land at Baghdad Airport May 6. That airliner was held for 27 hours before it was allowed to proceed. Most passengers aboard, the SAS airliner said they were not worried about the inci dent and it had caused them little' inconvenience. The plane was two hours late into Rome, the next stop after Bei rut. Crossover Confirmed Berglund said he had ra dioed as usual to confirm per mission to fly over Iraqi terri tory , before he entered the country from Iran. Baghdad airport eom- firmed by radio I could cross over Iraqi territory," he said. "It was not until I was fly ing over Baghdad that they demanded I land. After we landed they fave no tA ap planation for the inciiast. "However, there seemed o be some doubt an their minds that we had the proper per mission to cros Iraf. 2S-Yotf-Qld Nether ills 1tt Child Hawtnone, Clit. - ICrl - ThS) edmirma group of 12 chilflMn gazing at the new born child of 38-year-old Mrs. Uici Garnicg today had a riffta to be proud - they were the bRy' brothers and ttitterg. The petite, 100-pound, 3 fctJt Aousevife fem nearby Iaelale, gave bh-th to 6 gDuBd, 11-ouace laughter yes tJdee ft ' KawfAorne Com munity hqKfitel. It was her lfth child in the pest 13 years. There . were . ae multiple birth. Hey Rusbend, Gene, 43, a tfwtk Criver, took it all in ettide. "That makes a baker's iOKen," he said. Mrs. Garnica said she and her husband were married when she was IS and have had a child almost every year since. The other children are: Gloria, 15; Robert, 13; Irene, 12; Romona, 11; Martha, '. 10; QM, , Illem, 7 Carroll, 5; Anna Marie, 8; Alicia, 3 Mar eeliao, 2, and Lydia, 1. Dtfy Sucked Through Irrigation Pharr, Tex. - BM -. Giant pumps sucked e teen-age boy nearly a quarter-mile through a 14-inch irrigation pipe to his death yesterday. Agapite Saurei, 14, - died from drowning. His body had little skin left from scraping sides ef the pipe. firemen shut oil the pumps and recovered the body from as outlet. The youngster was playing with two companions near the intake pipe in an irrigation eeaal that fed water inte the system. The other two boys said they grabbed him by his hair, but were unable to hold tim. : : ; Hatfield Defends lExfra $140 Million Number of Vetoes Against Charges Salem-(DPD-Gov. Mark Hat field, today defended himself from charges made by State, Rep. Ed Whelan (D-Portland) that he vetoed too many bills. "The assaults that are be ing made upon my vetoes by the inner circle of the AFL CIO in the Portland Labor temple are but a coverup for their own shortcomings in the legislative session,' Hatfield said. The governor vetoed '; 23 bills. Most Important Omission "Other than dodging the tax" and revenue problems, the most important single omis sion of the 1959 Legislature was the way in which propo sals that would have helped the' rank and file laboring men and women were ig nored," Hatfield said. "I refer to secret ballot, audit of funds and other anti coercion measures. Rather than facing up to labor-management problem the whole matter was foisted off on an interim committee," Hatfield continued. Whelan sponsored 94 meas ures." "That I did not auto matically accept each of these has disturbed him," the gover nor said. . Loran Stewart Heof Oregon Industrie . Portland - ; (UPD - Loran Stewart, Cottage Grove lum berman and former state rep rsentative, Tuesday was elect ed president of Associated Oregon Industries, Inc. George L. Wollenberg, gen eral manager of Sears, Roe buck and Co. here, was named vice president. The group represents 390 business and industrial firms in the state. The town e Andover, Mass., was purchased from the Indians for about f 20 and a coat. - . To Strengthen Army, Corps Sought Marine Washington-fUPS-Rep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.) urged the House today to override the Eisenhower administra- tion and vote an extra $140 million . to strengthen , the Army and Marine Corps. , A hot floor fight loomed over the proposal as the House prepared to wind up debate on the $38,848,339,000 defense appropriation bill and begin voting on amendments. Amendments Fail Another controversy was sure to develop over an amendment. by Rep. William E. Minshall (R-Ohio) to wipe out the $200 million remain ing in the bill for procurement of the Air Force Bomarc mis sile. - ' : j Both Flood and Minshall failed to get their amendments adopted when the House Ap propriations Committee ap proved the bill. Committee leaders as well as administra tion forces were expected to oppose the proposals on the floor. - Indications were that the House would pass the bill and send it to the Senate by night fall, although lengthy debate on amendments could delay final action until Thursday. Less Than Request As written by the Appropri ations Committee, the bill carried $399,861,000 less than President Eisenhower request ed. Though the committee made major charges in some of the President's proposed programs it did not appear that the administration would seek to alter the bill in the House. Flood said he would offer a series of amendments which would add enough cash to fi nance a 900,000-man Army and Marine Corps of 200,000 men. He Indicated he would attempt to make the increases mandatory. Congress voted extra money last year to forestall a cut in the Army from 900,000 to 870,000 men by next June 30, but the administration has gone ahead with the reduction anyway. The Marine Corps is being trimmed , to 175,000 men. , . . Five Missing in Mississippi River Boat Trip Found ' Memphis, Tenn.- (UPD Two men and five children, miss ing and feared drifting in the Mississippi were found safe near Memphis Tuesday night. Bill Urdak, 28, his two chil dren, Johnny 3, and Michele, 6, Army MSgt. Virgil Green, 28, of Ft. Benning, Ga., and his three children, Billy 12, David, 10, and Diane, 8, had been sought by nearly 30 boats that scoured the river below Memphis. The men said they put their 14-foot motorboat in McKel ler lake intending to reach the river channel and go up river to land at the Memphis water front.. Their wives drove to the landing place. Beached in tniat Urdak and Green said that as they reached the main channel the boat's motor be gan missing and they turned into an inlet and beached their craft. They said they hailed pass ing boats but no one heard them. Urdak was fully cloth ed. The rest wore only bath ing suits, but life preservers helped them keep warm. The men's wives waited three hours at the landing, then called police, who alert ed the Coast Guard and city marine rescue squadron. A search boat found the men and children after a two hour hunt. . G.P. Woman o Arraigned on Murder Charges Grants Pass-fUPD-Mrs. Fran ces McCurdy, 49, Grants Pass, was arraigned in Circuit Court Tuesday on first degree mur der charges in the butcher knife slaying of her son and daughter 1 1 years ago. The woman recently was released from the state hos pital at Salem, and two in dictments against her were returned by the Josephine county grand jury. The McCurdy children, Pamela, 11, and Paul, 9, were killed with a butcher knife in a Grants Pass motel. The mother was arrested later in Portland, charged with mur der in the death of the boy and subsequently committed to the state hospital. Said Unable To Plea Mrs. McCurdy's attorney, Gene Brown, told the court Tuesday that his client still was "unable" to enter a plea. He also said she appeared to be under the jurisdiction of the state hospital yet and filed for dismissal of the charges. Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly postponed a decision until June 15. District Attor ney Max McMillin filed for dismissal ef the original in dictment against Mrs. McCur dy, returned in 1948, and Judge Kelly postponed a rul ing until June 19 so argu ments could be heard. o New York - (UPD - Moody's Stock Survey says stocks re main dearly priced and should be bought only with caution and discrimination. There is nothing as yet to indicate that the over-all mar ket has reached an important top, or that many Individually attractive issues, with strong technical price patterns, which are still laggmg behind the broad advance of the past year, will not soon begin to more fully discount their brighter prospects apparent for the next 6 to 12 months, according to Hayden, Stone & Co. Sandy Man Dies In Highway Crash Oregon City-fUPD-Lawrence B. Finley, 39, Sanday, was dead on arrival atQOregon City hospital late Tuesday af ter his car collided with the trailer of a logging truck on the Mt. Hood loop highway near Cherryville. State police said Finley's auto apparently went out of control on Qcurve. Driver of the truck was James Wil3$lm Yelton of Clackamas. Bache & Co. holds that the market's recent behavior in dicates that although the ave rages were going forward an internal correction was taking; place in the market as a whole, and looks for a con tinuation of this action. Softness in United Aircraft,' says W. E. Hutton it Co., re, fleets the general uneasiness about the earnings outlook for the big aircraft companies, where profits from missiles and electronics are not com pensating for the loss of man ned aircraft business. Diamond Gardner expected to earn $2.30 a share in 1959 on a 5 per cent rice in sales, against $1.92 a share in 1958, according to Reynolds it Co. Poor's investment advisory survey thinks a further rise is likely in auto parts stocks, and mentions such issues as Kelsey-Hayes, Bendix Avia tion, Borg-Warner, Dana Corp., Eaton Mfg., Electric Storage Batatery, Federal-Mogul Power, Gould National, Libby Owens-Ford Glass, Ray bestos Manhattan, and Stewart-Warner. Brooklyn Union Gas this year probabaly will earn around $3.60 a share, against $3.17 in 1958 with a dividend boost likely, says Green, El lis & Anderson. Grange km Lake Cieek raajge Lake Creek Gfaage is spon soring e dance Saturday, June '. Refreshments will be served by the HIC. 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