Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 09, 1959, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Texti wade Jet over a sfly 0 - . s ike mm m Afghanis Russian I Admitted Killer I Of Jack Whalen i. I Claims Defense Los Angeles - (CPD - The county Grand Jury met today to determine whether the fatal shooting of Jack (The Enforc er) Whalen. in a crowded restaurant was in self defense as his admitted killer claims. Sam Frank Locigno, 38, ac companied by two attorneys and Joe De Carlo, 35, surren dered to police Tuesday and confessed the fatal shooting last Wednesday of Whalen in nearby Sherman Oaks. ' De Carlo, who was at the restaur ant the night of the shooting, was sought for -questioning about the slaying. Persuaded By Cohen Mickey Cohen, ex -convict and friend of Locigno, said he had talked to Locigno and De Carlo several days ago and persuaded them to give up to police. "I induced them to come in to save the taxpayers money and to save some time and problems for' some decent members of the police depart ment," said Cohen. Cohen and his girl friend, model, Sandy Hagen, 18, were among witnesses subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury today. Panel Investigates .' De Carlo, former manager of stripper Candy Barr, and Locigno were sitting .at Co hen's table the night of the shooting. De Carlo went before the grand jury Tuesday shortly after surrendering to 'police and being released. The panel began its investigation of the shooting Tuesday before Lo on gno admitted the shooting and it then decided to com plete its probe, probably late today. END OUTBREAK Brussels, Belgium (CPD Colonial troops have suc- ceeded in temporarily ending - a new outbreak of fighting be- tween the rival Lulua and Baluba tribes in the Congo town of Luluabourg but the - state of military emergency has been extended, according to reports here today. it. i. 7 ' ' ,fJU. vimi Vt w v 7 it ... m ... k. r IKE IN PAKISTAN With uniformed bodyguard in attend ance, President Eisenhower, left, and President Mohammed Ayub Khan stand outside the latter's residence in Karachi Tuesday. Later they flew in a helicopter to inspect a housing development (UPI Radiotelephoto) De Gaulle Solves Cabinet Dispute Paris-flJPD-President Charles de Gaulle, who smoothed over an inter-cabinet dispute over government aid to Catholic schools, prepared today to fly to Senegal in West Africa to preside over a meeting of the Executive Council of the French Community. v w . ' De Gaulle and his wife are scheduled to leave tonight in a specially-fitted plane for St. Louis-du-Senegal, the oldest French city of the African continent. The council of the French community will meet Friday and Saturday." The agenda calls for talks on economic and aid matters.. Premier Michel Debre and other French government of ficials will leave for St. Louis Thursday evening to join de Gaulle in the discussions. De Gaulle Tuesday settled a potentially explosive dispute within the cabinet ovef the question of government as sistance to Roman Catholic parochial schools. The cabinet, like French men throughout the country, was divided over whether private Catholic schools should receive increased aid or be incorporated into the national school system. . The dispute was placed be fore i de Gaulle after Debre failed to bring about an ac cord between the rival fac tions. De Gaulle . listened to his ministers present their views and then produced - a "syn thesis" of their arguments which won the cabinet's ap proval, according to informa tion Minister Robert Frey. Warsaw, Poland uTPD U. S. Ambassador Jacob D. Beam and Communist Chinese Am bassador Wang Ping-nan met for two hours Tuesday in the protracted talks on Formosa The discussions began in Sept 1958. 3 y IN THE MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER a inty ' yW frothy trilh ruffles and embroidery . . nyloa tricot slips 3.29 Chooss either fluted trim or cfa: mbroidered-ruffle style ... or this exciting price. Friendship Told By King Zahir In Welcome Talk Kabul. Afghanistan (UPD- President Eisenhower landed today in .this winter-bound mountain nation at Russia's back door on an airfield pa troled by MIG jets of the Soviet-equipped Afghan air force. King Zahir and other. Af ghan and foreign officials were waiting to greet Eisen hower when his special jet touched down at 8:22 a.m. (7:52 p.m. Tuesday, p.s.t.) on the mountain-framed airport. Six Russian-made MIG-17S improved models of the jet fighter bested, by America's Sabrejets .over Korea - circ led overhead, providing cere monial air cover for the visit ing Chief of State. Zahir assured Eisenhower of this . "genuine friendship and-: sincere good wishes" in a brief address of welcome. "I hope the chill of our ear ly winter will be made up for by the warmth and affection with which our people greet your excellency and your honorable companions," . the king said. ' Eisenhower replied that "true friendship is not only desirable but essential" in a world where jet planes flash from continent to continent at speeds near or exceeding - the speed of sound. "All of us live very, close together in the 20th century," he said. Eisenhower, traveled the 38 miles from the airfield to this mile-high capital by car. Five hours later, he returned by helicopter to take off for In dia. - -Weather Clear and Czisp The weather was clear and crisp, with the temperature just above freezing - a sharp contrast to the snow last week, which "was so heavy it was uncertain fpr a time whe ther the presidential plane could land here. . A dark-blue overcoat, a muffler and a black fedora shielded the President from the cold. Turbaned, heavily-r o b e d tribesmen lined the road to applaud as the President pass ed. An arch of red flags over the road where it joined the main highway to Kabul bore the message "welcome to the President of the . United States." Few Women Appear In Kabul, flag-waving chil dren whose winter vacation was postponed because of the President's visit, joined the crowds. Few women appear ed - reflecting the Moslem tradition that women's place is in the home. Native bands and long-haired, gowned folk dancers en tertained the crowds while they awaited the President's arrival. . . ' .. The Afghan government" has been taking aid from both East and West. The United States has poured millions of dollars into such basic items as education, while the Rus sians have concentrated on more tangible things. " ;. Time did not. permit the President to visit ; the most ambitious U.S. project now under way in Afghanistan -the multi-million-doliar Hel mand river development, miles from Kabul. Portlander Injured When Hit by Train Portland-(UPD-A 54-year-old man was struck by an SPAS train . in the Beaverton area about 5 p.m. Tuesday and in jured seriously. The victim was identified as J. C. Stone, Portland. The accident occurred ab&ut a quarter of a mile south of Denny road near Progress. Stone received head, chest and back injuries. He was taken to St Vincent hospital here. Anchovies are the stable food of the guanay, South American bird. . A guanay colony may eat 1,000 tons of the tiny fish a day. Big Manhunt Staged For Escaped Felons Yanceyville, N.C. - (UPD The biggest manhunt in mo dern North Carolina history was staged today for 19 psy chopathic felons who escaped from the Ivy. Bluff maximum security prison. The search for the' heavily armed convicts extended over the entire eastern sector of the nation and into the South and Midwest. The FBI also joined in the hunt. In central North Carolina, posses searched from farm house to farmhouse and from barn to barn. The fugitives" include 14 white men and five Negroes. One Recaptured The mass break-out Tues day by 20 convicts was mas terminded by Charles "Yank" Stewart. It was so well plan ned and executed that more than eight hours elapsed from the time the prisoners gained control of the prison until the alarm was sounded. One prisoner was recaptur ed later in the day. Heretofore the maximum security prison .had been con sidered escape-proof and was reserved for the state's most dangerous and incorrigible prisoners. Y Stewart, the ringleader, was described by authorities as a short squat, graying man. His crime career dates back to the 1920s when both his father and brother were executed for the slayings of a detective and an FBI agent. All Dangerous Stunned prison officials said the 54-year-old Stewart and his cohorts were the worst of the 41 men incarcerated at Ivy Bluff. "These men are all danger ous," State Prisons Director W. F. Bailey said. "They're all psychopaths" and are armed with eight high - powered rifles, a submachinegun and eight pistols. Bailey blamed laxity and failure to follow prescribed rules and regulations for the break -out. He fired three guards on the spot. Stock List Extends Tuesday's Advance New York- (UPD Stocks ex tended Tuesday's advance to day. Support for the industrials continued but at a slower pace. The industrial stock ave rage Tuesday moved within three points of -the all-time high posted Aug. '3. Drugs, under severe pres sure by the congressional in vestigation of pricing prac tices, steadied somewhat dur ing the first hour. Schering and Carter Products fell a point or more, while Merck and Parke-Davis dropped frac tions. Pfizer firmed. Steels had some irregular ity. U.S. Steel and Bethlehem were off fractionally. Youngs town and Republic were up a bit. DOW - JONES AVERAGES New York - (tPD - Dow Jones final stock averages: ' 30 industrials 675.39, up L89; 15 utilities 07.13. un 9.72; 20 railroads 154.90, -up changed, and 65 stocks 218.67, up 2.50. Sales Tues day were about 3.870,000 shares compared with 3, 620.00 shares Monday. U.S. Hubber .. U.S. Steel Youngstown SfitT . 64 101 133 MEDFORD Tribune I dam and several miles sou' of the Brownlee dam sit. Regional Edition Page 2 Idaho Power Asks Permission To Bypass Two Spawning Grounds In Conservation Plan An FPC license, issued in 1955, ordered tne company to Washington-UPD-The Idaho Power Co. asked the Federal Power Commission Tuesday for permission to bypass two spawning grounds off the Snake river in its three-dam fish conservation program. The company specifically asked that it be permitted to transport steelhead and sal mon from below the proposed Hells Canyon dam upstream past the completed Brownlee dam. African Missionary Receives Boat Olivet, Mich. (UPD - Friends of the Rev. James" Barnard re port the African missionary has been successful in a "long range" appeal for a boat. Barnard,' former Assembly of God pastor here who now serves in Liberia, broadcast a shortwave request for a boat he could use to navigate the streams around his mission. . The message was picked up by a .ham radio operator in Illinois and the request found its way to a New England con gregation which raised funds, bought the vessel and ship ped it to Africa. build a fish ladder at the Hells Canyon dam and then pick up the fish down stream from- the Oxbow dam, 23 miles north of Hells Canyon 3 Immediate Delivery MULTI-BARK Natural Organic Soil Conditioner & Mulch for Flowers Shrubs Lawns Gardens Also for Erosion Control KOGAP LUMBER IND. SP 3-6601 Ext. 46 You don't hove to be rich to enjoy I RICH BOURBON Yf? . 3 iL ;j $A 20 $075 Pint Code 145C Qt. Code 1451 I Old Oumek I I A BARREL OF QUALITY IN EVERY BOTTLE J tlUICHI lOOIIOl VIIIKU U MOM ou qumh OISTIUIKS C0,UWIE.CEIUIS.IH. Tuesday's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical .. 123 V Alum Co. Am. 106 American Can . 431.i6 American Motors (xd) 813i AT&T - 76i,b Anaconda Copper 63 'a Armco Steel , . 75 1; Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air Caterpillar Corp. Chrysler Corp. Continental Can .. Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright Dow Chemical Du Pont ' 76 55 "a 33 33 i . 67?i ; 47 i 55 ?i : 31 99 261 Eastman .Kodak Firestone General Electric General Foods .... General Motors Georgia Pacific Greyhound Gulf Oil Homestake Mining ... Idaho Power Graham Paige I. B. M Int. Paper Johns Manville . Katy . 108',i 132 'i 69 103 52V2 45 5a 20-t, no;; 42 47 i 2i 435 137 51 5: Kennecott Copper ; 933,i Lockheed Aircraft 32, Montana Power Co 25 'i Nat'l Biscuit ..... 52',' New York Central 30-:8 Pae Gas & Elec ; 62 Penney. J. C !22i I Penn RR 161 Radio Corporation '. 71 i Richfield Oil Safeway . Sears Shell Oil .... 79 36!,4 48 , 78 41" 40 -224 48 Socony Mobil Oil South Co Southern Pacific Standard California .. Standard Indiana 42 'j Standard N.J. 49' Sun Mines , 6;,is Texas Co 84 Vi Tex Pac Land Trust 19i,2 Transamerica 30 Va Trans World Air 19 Tri-Continental 40 -i Union Carbide 144?4 Union Pacific 31 Vi United Air Lines 43 !a TO SEEK TRADE ROUTES Knoxville, Tenn. - (CPD - An attempt to locate one - time trade routes between North and South America by recov ery of Central American relics will be made by an archeo- logical expedition to Costa Rica. The expedition is sched uled to leave here Dec. 17. mimcTMAC i Anne GIFT WRAP, RIBBONS, R CHRISTMAS NAPKINS rs IT aiiu inuhii vvniiuv 1a oxo o ) r OPEN MON. & FRI. NITES TIL 9 P.M. Smart Stocking Staffers! plastic clutch looks like leather 1.00 Ladies' alligator, levant or calf grain plastic wallet, some with 32-view picture case. Others styled for a teen ager one featuring her shiny birth stone. " plus tax. Oil famous Kings Men after shave set 1.00 Set of he-man shave lotion and tal cum powder or lotion and 1 Va ox. cologne! 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