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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.
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4-H Club Hews
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. Everyone
is invited to Attend.
A potluck supper will bj
served before Gjenge meet
ing Tune It. All Members
having had e birthday during
the meatfte e4 Aertl, May and
June will be keAeMSl. The.
supper will trt gt I0 jm
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