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Newspaper Page TextA 1ft MAft TRIBUNE. MeJfori. Or. ::1U Thunday, July 16, 15 , Appling Defends : Against Charges Of Fund Misuse Salem - (UPD - Secretary of - State Howell Appling Wednes- - day defended nimseii irom !r charged made by Rep. Beulah Hand (D-Milwaukie) that the secretary had misused public funds by processing what she called a "diatribe against the Democratic party" through the state for mailing to news . papers in Oregon. '-. Mrs. Hand asked Freeman Holmer, state director of fi- . ' nance and administration, to investigate 'a four-page news release on a speech Appling made to a Republican gather ing in Klamath Falls Sunday. ;' She maintained that the news release should not have . been prepared and mailed at state expense. Appling said Mrs. Hand was barking up the wrong tree." He denied that the speech was partisan and said that al- - though the paper he used be- ; longed to the state, he paid 2' the cost of mailing to Oregon newspapers himself. m n The Milwaukie Democrat wanted Appling to reimburse the state in full for the time of the civil service employee who mimeographed the lease and for the state terials used. re-, ma- Appling said he requested his staff long ago to charge postage for such releases to him personally. Mayors Approve Veto Hearings - - Los Angeles (UPD The Unit- ed States Conference of May ors overwhelmingly approved Wednesday a resolution urg ing the folding of public hear ings by Congress on President ; Eisenhower's veto of the fed- eral housing bill. , The action said a survey .. among the nation's mayors in-'-' dicated that $800 million in . xcuda (ioum ituuiu iitcii . ed annually for urban renew- p al activities. The President's X n e W 1 y - proposed measure i would authorize only next $600 two million for the years. 1 The mayors : also endorsed during the final session of their three-day. meeting the ' - President's stand on West Berlin. Another approved i.'measure called for support of tZ a congressional V, bill which j would establish a permanent advisory commission on inter- governmental relations. "Z Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago, took over as., presi - dent in the closing session. He succeeaea mayor jn orris r oui- - sun oi iuos Apgeies. mayor j Richardson Dilworth of Phil- I dent. , ' jeis ueiDiame For Salem Blasts t Salem-IUPD-Blasts, variously ' . estimated as from one to four, shook the Salem area Wed- nesday evening and swamped police and press switchboards. . They were believed caused by i jet planes breaking the sonic J : barrier. Minor cracks in concrete r and plaster were reported by residents. No broken windows were Z . caused, but residents iriorth : east Salem were sure some ' small cracks in plaster walls, 'driveways and sidewalks were - caused. . ' ' Portland Air Force. Base " officials said a jet fighter may v have caused this disturbance, " There were eight of them in the Salem area. Maj. Doyle, Thompson,, a "ZZ fighter squadron executive of- JJficer, said the jets never came closer than about 25 miles to Salem and flew at 34,000 feet or better. But he added the sound could "carry that far.' I FAT ! OVERWEIGHT C ,Sor available to you for first time without a doctor's prescription, our new drug called ODRINEX. You 2! must lose ugly fat in 7 days or your money back. .No mare starva- tion diets, strenuous exercise, laxa- nves. massage or taking of so- called reducing candies, crackers or cookies, or chewing gum. ODRI- NEX is a tiny tablet and easily swallowed. Absolutely harmless. w When you take ODRINEX, you "Z. still enjoy your meals, still eat the C foods you like, but you simply ZZ .don't have the urge -for extra por- -tions because ODRINEX depresses your appetite and decreases - your desire for food Automatically your a weight must come down, because 'as your own doctor will tell you. 7 wben you eat less, you weigh less. ZL !Get rid of excess fat and live Uonger ODRINEX is sold on this GUARANTEE: You must lose Jweight- within 7 days or your ? money back. Just return the pack- age to your druggist and and get mr 'your full money back. ODRINEX ! costs S3.00 and is sold with this tstrict money back cuarantee by: 2 Iwestera Thrift Store 3 M. Central Z Mil Ordete Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF - PARKE CUMMINGS, listing his mementoes and memorable moments at the Detroit Athletic Club, gave high priority to a pair of tickets to South Pacific that he bought from a speculator. They turned out to be for the wrong night. He also prizes a baseball hit by the immortal Babe Ruth It was a foul pop that conked Parke behind the ear. He was in a seat behind third base. "I still get head aches." adds Cummir.gs proudly, "i Tfor Zsa Zsa's press agent would have us believe (if these Gabon said half the things tributed to them, they'd have to talk continuously 24 hours a. day!) she suddenly an nounced, "In school, they taught me that money isn't everything and that being happy is what really counts but as soon as mother got wind of this, she made me change schools." X very big talker from Texas was speedily defeated at SaroVs the ther night by a. stinging "Pipe down, Buster! There wouldn't even be a Texas today if that Alamo had had a back door:" C 1359, br Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Solar Eruptions Disrupting Radio Communications By United Press International Worldride radio communi cations slowly returned to nor mal today after 24 hours of disruption caused by sun spots and accompanying electrical disturbances ' The solar activity was de scribed by scientists as the greatest in many years. The sun spots resulted from an immense explosion of the sun s gasses. The huge flare on the sun was observed early Tuesday in Europe and its effects were felt 30 hours later on earth. .. It was the second such bom bardment in the last 45 days and a Standards Bureau spokesmarisaid its 'effects were expected to equal or ex ceeded tfie record disturbance Feb. 11, 1958. To Measure Particles .A cosmic 'ray balloon was launched Wednesday by Uni versity of Chicago physicists to measure the subatomic par ticles loosed by the solar blast. The balloon was released from Stagg Field on the uni versity campus and drifted high over the 'city, remitting radio signals detailing the in tensities and approximate energies of the particles. Three ..Geiger counters at tached to the balloon took continuous . readings which the physicists said would take weeks to evaluate. Detectors at the University of. Alaska' and a balloon launched by the University of Minnesota were also reported studying the sun spots. , . Minneapolis, : Minn. (UPD--Lethal sun spot rays with an energy of 500 million volts could kill future space travel lers, scientists revealed today. University of Minnesota as tronomers, who launched bal loons to study recent sunspot disturbances, said the serious ness of such beams was dis covered during measurements of a "solar flare" May 11. Dr. John R: Winkler, uni- Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Francis Virginia Holbrook, dis- ODeyea trattic signal. So. Myles Francis Doran, violation basic rule. $10. Susan Deuel Robinson, disobeyed traffic -sign, $5. Clifford Alton Branham Jr., vio lation basic rule, S10. Charles Oscar Smith, no Oregon driver's license, S10. Oscar Bunt, disobeyed red light, $10. , Elfriede Anna Jones, failed to yield right of way. S25. Ko&ert t,arl Hincks. vehicle regis tration not displayed. $5; violation -of basic rule, $10. Walter Olaf Peterson, violation basic -rule $10. - Jerry Nea Crumm, violation basic rule, $10. Sam William Jennings, violation basic rule, $10. Patricia Ann Green, disobeyed traffic signal, $10. - Donna Delight Wiggins, violation basic rule, $10. Kenneth Dale Walker, failed to stop before entering public street from private drive, $5. Kay Douglas Crammer, improper lane usage. S5. ' Richard Roy Zediker, disobeved traffic sign, $10. ' - " William Lamar Reynolds, wrong way on one way street, $10. Charles Royce Swanson, dis obeyed traffic signal. $5. , Angel Ingle excessive noise, tires., S5. . Francis Hector Jarnigan, no op erator's license in possession, $10. James Allen Smith, violation ba sic rule, $10. ' . Donald G. Voss. disobeyed traf fic sign. $10. Ronnie Patrick Murray, no oo- era tor's license in possession. So. Clayton Bramhill Whitlock, dis obeyed traffic sign, $5. Eddie Wallace Murray, disobeyed traffic signal, $10. Gary Ronald West, violation ba sic rule. $10. Cheryl Lynn Epperson, no op erator's license in possession, S10. - Paul Gilbert.Benasco, no opera tor's license in possession S5; ve hicle displayed expired plates. 55. Darrel Charles Roberts, following too close. S25. ' . John Henry Holtz. disobeyed traf fic sign, $5. Lester I loya Payne, improper turn. $5. William Paul owen. excessive noise, tires, $5. Marione Brown Yotaw. failed to yield right of way. S25. Herbert Eugene Kelley. violation of driving restrictions, probationaL 5i .. . iesiie Amos Laaa. excessive noise, tires $5. .-:.- Charles Hubert Lambeth, inade quate equipment. $2.50. tiuDerx werriein, msoDeyed traf fic sign. S3. Albert Leroy Crapo, inadequate equipment. $2.50. - Lamerne Kosamond Chnstensen. disobeyed traffic signal, $10. 1 versity physicist, described the deadly beams as "low energy cosmic rays." ' Winkler said any manned space flight within the earth's magnetic field probably would not undergo the danger of ex posure to the rays. Might Avoid Rays ' ; Ona trip to the moon, the rays might be avoided by launching during a time when it was "fairly certain" that no solar outbursts would occur. . But he said for a longer trip the cosmic rays would pose a "serious problem." . ' , "The closer you are to the sun, the worse it would be," Winklep' said. He said it is "not possible to shield against these cosmic rays." . University scientists have sent up "about a dozen", in struments carrying balloons the past few days, reaching heights of 100,000 'to 120,000 1 feet. Loan Plan OK'd Portland (UPD The Interior Department today announced a change in federal regula tions which . will , permit the Bureau of Indian Affairs to make loans to withdrawing members of the Klamath In dian tribe of Oregon regard less of their degree; of Indian blood. ; , Under former rules, loans could not be made to individ uals of less than a quarter de gree Indian blood. The amend ment of the regulations was made possible as a 'result of legislation recommended by the Interior Department and recently enacted by Congress. The Indian Bureau has been making loans to withdrawing Klamath tribe members of one-fourth or more Indian blood since last February! ' Loans have been made without interest and . have been set off against funds pay able to the borrowers under the Klamath termination act, Flash Fire Aboard Boat Injures Boy Detroit, ure.-HFU-A nine- year-old Portland boy was out of the hospital and recov ering today from burns he re ceived when a flash fire en veloped a boat on Detroit lake Wednesday. The boy, Donald Gaske, was with his father, R. F. Gaske, and two brothers when a leak ing gas tank exploded. The family was about 300 feet from shore when the accident occurred, , ' , A Mill City woman, Mrs. Lee.Baasett, saw the explo- ion and went to the 'rescue in another boat. None of the others aboard was injured. , Donald was . taken to an emergency hospital at Mill City suffering from second and third degree burns on his legs and second degree face burns. , McKay's Condition Said Unchanged Salem-IUPD-Condition of for mer Interior Secretary Doug las McKay, 66. remained about the same today accord ing to attendants at Salem General Hospital. McKay spent a "good night" and was out., of his oxygen tent 'at meal times.. The former Oregon gover nor suffered a recurrence of a heart ailment Monday and was hospitalized.- Since then his condition has been listed as "fairly, good" with no change reported today. Currently McKay is chair man of the joint U.S.-Cana-dian Water Commission. Monitors To Seek , f Authority To Probe Hoffa Complaints Washington-tUPD-The Team ster Union's "watchdog" mon itors were to ask a federal judge today for .authority to investigate rank-and-file com plaints against union Presi dent James R. Hoffa and his lieutenants. , The action came on' the heels of a charge Wednesday night by Chairman John L. McClennan (D.-Ark.) of the Senate Rackets Committee that Hoffa is a "fountain-head of . . . corruption" who never will clean up the Teamsters. Hoffa Refuses Cleanup McClellan said congress and the courts will have to under take the clean-up job because "notwithstanding Mr. Hoffa's previous promises and assur ances ... he has failed and still refuses to remove known criminals and - disreputable characters." The three court-appointed monitors were to meet with Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to discuss a revision of the rules covering their as signment to oversee, a clean up of the Teamsters. The monitors were reported to feel that they could get faster and fairer results if they conducted their own in vestigations of rank-and-file complaints rather than turn ing them over to the union. The monitors have investi gated a few cases in the past But they do not have the au thority to conduct inquiries over union objections Monitors Replaced Two new monitors, - Wash- ington attorney Daniel B Maher and New . York City attorney Lawrence T. Smith; will be. attending their first meeting. Tie' replaced two Rivers; Harbors Bilj Called Up ' Washington (UPD - A $640,- 931,000 rivers and harbors bill was called up today for House action. Backers said the measure was certain to be approved because it had unanimous ap proval of the -House Public wonts uommiuee ana cen tained no projects opposed by the administration. XThe bill would authorize Congress to provide funds for the projects in later appro priations bills. It would authorize: '. -28 harbor improvement projects costing a total of $80,136,300 in 15 states and Hawaii. ' . -Seven new or modified flood control, projects in five states at an estimated total cost of $35,423,700. This in cludes work at .a reservoir on the West Fork of Cali fornia's Mojave river, and con struction to protect the area at and below Walnut- Creek, Calif., from ilood damage. -Increases totaling $379,- 000,000 in previously author ized outlays for work ;on com prehensive basin plans. The basins include the Los An geles'1- river, and Columbia river. , Vice President Is Named at Local Bank Ron E. Cordon of Rogue Valley State bank was elected vice president of the bank's board of directors at a recent meeting,' according to Clar ence Young, president. A graduate of Oregon State college, Cordon has been with the bank since 1954. . The directors noted that to tal assets of the bank have passed the $5 million mark and the board looks for con tinued growth of the commu nity. - Young stated that work on the building of the East Med f ord branch is progressing and it is hoped that the office will be open early in September. Cohen's Girlfriend Faces Sentencing Los Angeles- (DPD -Showgirl Liz Renay, sometime girl friend of ex-gambler Mickey Cohen, will be sentenced Fri day on one count of perjury arising out of her testimony efore a federal grand jury inv estigating Cohen's fi nances. " The 34-year-old showgirl entered a surprise plea of guilty to one count of per jury Wednesday just five days before she was to go on trial for five counts of perjury. She faces a possible sentence of S2,000 fine and five years imprisonment. - Miss Renay , also agreed to appeas before the Grand Jury today, to testify again about Cohen's finances, . including two loans involving more than $5,000 she raised for him. Cohen, who once served a prison term for income tax evasion, is under federal scrutiny on tax matters. monitors who resigned. The third member is Chairman Martin F. O'Donaghue. The monitors scheduled a session later this week with Hoffa to discuss ways to' en force their clean-up recom mendations approved by the U.S. Court of Appeals.. . The appeals couij Wednes day refused to stay or recon sider its clean-up go-ahead. Union attorneys said they would ask Chief Justice Earl Warren for a stay while they appeal to the Supreme Court. Warren has jurisdiction over appeals in this area. Belgian Pilot Tells of Attack Brussels, Belgium - (UPD - A Belgian Sabena airlines pilot said today that one of four Communist MIGs that forced his plane down in Hungary Wednesday nearly crashed into him. The airliner, a DC6, was carrying 54 passengers from Athens to Vienna. The Com munists let the plane continue after questioning the pilot on the ground. Capt. George Rolin, the pilot, said he had to leave the recognized air corridor in an attempt to get around a storm and veered north to ward the Hungarian frontier. "I do not think we left Yugoslav territory," he said Rolin said' four Hungarian MIGs suddenly swooped on his plane and waggled their wings to indicate he should follow them. "Some of their dives at me were really dangerous," he saidj , "One MIG zoomed up justi" a , few feet in . front of my nose. I thought we were going to. collide." Jhe MIGs forced him to land at Veszprem. He said the Hungarians told him their ra dar indicated his plane was over Hungarian territory but added that "if you leave the corridor in the future because of weather just ask our per mission." ' . ' ' ' f . Youngster Drowns In Fern Ridge Lake Eugene -(UPD- Larry Wyman Chick, 9, son of George and Donna Chick of Woodland. Wash., drowned Wednesday afternoon in a swimming area at the northwest end of Fern Ridge lake, 11 miles west of here. The Lane county coroner's offices said the boy, who was unable to swim, had been playing in three and one-half to four ' feet, of water, with three cousins. . He had been staying with his aunt and uncle, Don and Irene Chick of Junction City. The body was discovered when Shirley Deadman of Springfield stepped on what she thought was someone's arm on the bottom . of the lake. She told the coroner that she ran to shore and no one would believe her She said that she returned to a raft in the lake where two boys dived into the water, and eventually found Chick s body. Woman Divorced From 'TV Addict' Los Angeles-fflPD-Television actress Caroline Van Dyke was awarded a divorce from her husband, Bernard Goetke III, Wednesday when she tes tified he was a "TV addict." "From the minute he got home at night he was glued to that set," she said. "I even had to serve his meals there." Actress Elrae Harris, a wit ness for Miss Van Dyke, said, I never saw anything like it. He was like a man hypno tized." ' - Miss Van Dyke told Super ior Judge Joseph L. Call she and Goetke, an accounting, were married in 1954. Asked Judge Call before granting, the decree: "Don't you ever watch TV yourself?" "Never" answer Miss Van Dyke. ' HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at . HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrewt at Court Phone SP 3-9068 Chessman Will Petition Court For Rehearing San, Francisco (UPD Convict-author Caryl Chessman will petition the California Supreme Court 'for a rehear ing within the next two weeks, according to attorney Rosalie Asher. Miss Asher, who visited prison Wednesday, said the Chessman 1 at San Quentin convicted kidnap-rapist was not optimistic that a new appeal to the court would suc ceed. However, she said he planned to go back to the U. S. Supreme Court if necessary. "I think he has a better than even chance in the U.S. Supreme Court," she said. Sentences Affirmed The State Supreme Court affirmed the two death sen tences against Chessman last week. Condemned under Cali fornia's "L i 1 1 le Lindbergh law," Chessman has spent 11 years in death row at San Quentin. One of his principal contentions is that the tran script of his original trial was faulty. ' Although not an attorney of record for Chessman, Miss Asher has been associated with the case at various times during the past-11 years. "There is no doubt in my mind that certain very valid constitutional rights have been violated," she said after Wednesday's two-hour visit. "I hope that ultimately he will be saved." Body of Florence Man Discovered Florence, Ore.-IUPD-The body oi Egbert Straight, 76, missing since June 29, was found in some brush Wednesday south west of Canary about five miles from here. The victim's son - in - law, Charles Panschow, located the body. Authorities said Straight, apparently died of exposure. Straight was the object of a widespread search when he vanished after setting out to pick berries. When the offi cial hunt was discontinued for lack of clues, relatives con tinued to look for him. t mm 1 gallon famous quality HP ACT NOW! Offer Ends Saturday, July 18th FOR BEAUTIFUL WALLS SUPER' KEM-TONE latex wall paint OK YOU 1 SUPER Only $215 Quart Use Kern Glo in Matching Enamels for woodwork. L U.S. Steel Hour Show Called Contrived Play Of Wacky Stage Mother By FRED DANZIG UPI Correspondent New York-CPD-June Havoc, the world's foremost author ity on stage mothers, played the part of a wacky stage mother Wednesday night in "The Pink Burro" on CBS TV's U. S. Steel Hour. It was a contrived play. Havoc Wrecks Havoc Miss Havoc wrecked havoc as she attempted to create show business stars out of every one who came close to her pink-colored roadside diner. That went for her cus tomers and a Mexican wet back as well as her own Bonneville Power Hearings Resumed Washington - (UPD - Senate hearings on the establishment of a Bonneville Power , Cor poration resumed Wednesday. The Bonneville Power Corpo ration would be a new public agency designed to sell rev enue bonds for financing con struction of dams and related Pacific Northwest power fa cilities. Main attention in the hear ings was centered on k modi fication proposed by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.), sponsor of the bill: . Neuberger's modification is aimed at ensuring that Ore gon receives a fair share of Columbia river federal power in future if public power agen cies in Washington decide to use their preference rights to utilize most of the energy. Grange Nevs... Upper Rogue A' "fisherman's breakfast" of hotcakes, ham and eggs and coffee, will be served by Up per Rogue Grange Sunday, July 19, between 6 and 11 a.m. The public is invited.. The Grange hall is located on Crater Lake highway about 10 miles north of Trail. The breakfast is one of sev eral Centennial events Upper Rogue Grange is planning this summer. Vogue Home Safety LADDER For Women Only! 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