Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 18, 1959, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextFactor Takes Lie Detector Test in Roger Touhy Death Chicago - (CPD - John (Jake the Barber) Factor today un derwent a voluntary lie test to prove he didn't have any thing to do with the shotgun murder of Roger Touhy, a man he sent to prison and later sued for libel. Police said an hour before the lie test they had no inter est in Factor's desire to face the polygraph because they cleared him previously of any connection with the Wednes day night gangland - style shooting. Officer Observes Test However, a sergeant was sent to observe the test, held in a private laboratory. Police said they don't have much to work on in trying to solve the ambush that also wounded Touhy's bodyguard, Walter Miller, 62, a retired police sergeant. Federal officials said the assault was carried out by the Mafia, the notorious interna tional underworld organiza tion, to seal Touhy's lips for ever. There seems to be no short age of men who could have ordered the pint-sized prohi bition era bootleg figure mur dered. The job could have been arranged by hoodlums Burk's- you carry a purse that's slimmer than ever the new French Purse by ... LADY DUXTON Sleek m year's fashion! Yet there's a full-size photo ease, space for charge plates, spar key! You can take bills from the billfold out of the coin purse! In smart leathers. ' from $3.95 plus tax. S&H GREEN STAMPS OPEN TONIGHT Burks 314 East Main SP 2-4472 from Toughy's roaring 20s past, or by representatives of the current crime syndicate. The police labor unit was ordered into the investigation under the assumption that criminal elements trying to muscle in on union affairs might have had a hand in the shooting. Touhy was known as a tal ented organizer and once sold automobiles to union business agent. Police thought someone might have believed Touhy might have been ready to use his organizing talents again. There was hope, but not much, that Miller might be able to help in the investiga tion if he recovers. When po lice arrived on the scene Wed nesday night, Miller said he didn't know who pulled the trigger. Miller, a longtime friends of Touhy and a defense wit ness at his parole hearings, was in critical condition, but showing some improvement. He had been shot in the legs, buttocks and back. Factor, a Chicago promoter during Touhy's days as a gang chieftain, was here Wednes day night in connection with a $3 million libel suit he had filed against Touhy for state ments made in Touhy's auto- Tax Law Overhaul Chances Ruled Out Washington- (UPD -Chairman Wilbur D. Mills of the house ways and means committee today ruled out the possibility of a major overhaul of tax laws next year. ' ' The Arkansas Democrat commented as his oommittee wound up five weeks of hear ings during which it heard tax reform proposals from 175 tax experts, economists and others. Mills said in a prepared statement that the hearings were "exploratory" and the next step would be for the staffs of the committee and the Treasury to sift through the mountain of suggestions. biography, "The Stolen Years." Police believed Factor's ap pearance here was only coin cidental with Touhy s death, but the wealthy Beverly Hills, Calif., real estate operator took a lie test. He also told Chicago police he had received a threat on a postcard in Los Angeles after filing suit against Touhy. The card said: "You goniff, you'll be taken care of, and I don't mean for $3 million." Goniff is a Yiddish word meaning thief. Czech Official Blamed for Salt Poison Aifempf Munich, Germany - (UPD - A Red Czech vice-consul sta tioned in nearby Austria masterminded last month's unsuccessful attempt to poison employees of Radio Free Eu rope, the U. S. Army an nounced today. "The counter intelligence corps investigation shows that Jaroslav Nemec, a vice-consul of the Czech Consulate in Salzburg, Austria, on Nov. 16 gave a Communist agent salt shakers containing atrophine for placement in the RFE cafeteria in Munich," the Army announcement said. Discovered in Time A spokesman for the radio station, which broadcasts to Czechoslovakia and other satellite nations, had reported earlier that the poison-loaded salt shakers were discovered just in time. He said the amount of the deadly alkaloid contained in the doctored salt probably would have been sufficient to cause at least some deaths among the 1.200 employees using the cafeteria. The Army announcement said the Red agent sent by Nemec to plant the salt shak ers thought they contained only a "mild laxative." it - ' f t- Q 'kCS IKE GETS HORSE-President Bourguiba, center, of Tunisia, looks on as President Eisenhower pats the nose of a horse given him by the Tunisian President on Ike's arrival in Tunis. (UPI Radiotelephoto) West Coasf Phone Reveals Plan for Improvements Portland -(UPD- West Coast Telephone company today un veiled a 1960 construction program budget providing $3,250,000 for improvements in 27 exchanges in north w e s t e rn , southeastern and southwestern Oregon. . The budget allocates an ad ditional S334.000 to the com pany's Camas-Washougal and Woodland exchanges in Washington and S372.620 to the wholly-owned West Coast subsidiary, Beaver State Tel ephone company in Lake and Klamath counties. 20 Complete Programs The Beaver State program calls for completion of build ing programs in Chemult, Fort Klamath, Chiloquin and Rocky Point next summer, and dial conversions at Chiloquin and Rocky Point. Nine other projects will use another $175,000 in Lake and Klamath counties' long distance service. Some $1,206,000 has been earmarked for the Coos Bay division which includes a new central office building in North Bend. A new central office in Brookings will cosj $28,000. The budget provides for $365,350 in the La Grande division and $2,096,440 for the Beaverton division, not including Camas, Washougal and Woodland. The figure includes work on additional land and buildings. Government Calls Steel Negotiators Washington -(UPD- The gov ernment today summoned Un ion management negotiators to Washington Monday after noon to resume talks in the steel dispute. Federal Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finnegan said he would resume mediation ef forts Monday in his offices in the Labor Department. Bargaining talks under Fin negan's direction broke off Dec. 10. He reported then that no substantial progress had been made toward a settlement. P r e s i dent Eisenhower's fact-finding board plans to reopen public hearings an the dispute the following Monday, Dec. 28. Half the states rate the tourist trade as one of their three largest sources of in come. In New Jersey and New Mexico it ranks first. Average depth of Lake Erie is only about 58 feet and be cause of this shallowness it is unusually subject to sud den violent storms. Any person is competent to make a will legally with the exceptions of infants, persons of unsound minds, and those legally adjudged to be idiots. MedfordTribune Regional Edition Page 2 Stocks Firm Under Lead of Electronics New York -(UPD- Stocks firmed today under the lead of electronic and special is sues. Gains in the electronics ran to nearly 5 in Texas Instru ments, more than 3 in Ampex, and moje than 1 each in In ternational Business Machin es and Beckman. Superior of California tack ed on 17 in the oils where the majority favored the upside. Steels backed away some what after the president of the steelworkers union advis ed his negotiators to reject, the companies' last offer no matter what it was. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York-fUPD-Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 673.S0. off 1.30; 20 railroads 154.33. off 0.6B; 15 utilities 87.01. off 0.03 and 65 stocks 218.16. off 0.46. Sales Thursday were about 3.040,000 shares compared with 3.270.000 shares Wednesday. Thursday's price on selected stocks: Allied Chemical Alum Co. Am American can . 117', 1043. 41 American . ... dmpriran Motors 78 AT&T : 76i, Anaconda Copper . 6o J i- - ' Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air Caterpillar Corp. Chrysler Corp. Continental Can Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright . Dow Chemical Du Pont Eastman Kodak Firestone 73i . 72 54 30' 34' . 69. 45H 551, 30 a 99 3a 265 1094 .135 X iresione General Electric 93', Migratory Farm Wages' Defended Chicago-OIPD-The American Farm Bureau federation end ed its 41st annual convention Thursday with a defense of wages paid to migratory farm laborers. "Incomes of farm workers may not be high; neither are those of farmers," said a res olution passed by the nation's biggest farm organization. But wages of migratory workers "have increased ap proximately twice as fast as the cost of living during the past 10 years," the resolution said. "Virulent and often unin formed criticism of farm wage rates has ignored the fact that such rates in 1959 averaged 47 per cent above the 1947-49 levels." Moths will eat Americans out of as much as five billion dollars worth of clothes and other woolens this year. Tel Aviv, economic center of Israel, started as a planned city in 1909 ad now has 500, 000 inhabitants. Finest in foods at special low prices now at Safeway Powdered Sugar i C&H dark or light brown, & white. Reg. 2 for 31 e Mb. pkg. t(P)c These are the plump, smooth-skinned kind near burst ing with juice. Their flavor is something special the tangy sweet, lively taste that only truly good grapefruit has. Just the thing for adding a bright touch to any meal breakfast, lunch, dinner. We're offering it now at a special feature price. Best Foods MAYONNAISE Reg. 69 Value Here's a real money saver Qt. 5 W From Your Friendly 3 STORES TO SERVE YOU ab Bacon Fully smoked, lean streaked whole or half slabs of famous Del Monte ."Sweetheart" Agar or Morrell's Pride. Look at this special price. lb. j General Foods .. General Motors Georgia Pacific Lrraham Paige Greyhound isuu Oil Homestake Mining w Idaho Power I. B. M Int. Paper Johns Manville Katy Kennecott Copper . Lockheed Aircraft Montana Power Co. Montgomery Ward Natl Biscuit New York Central . Pac Gas & Elec Penney, J. C. Penn RR Radio Corporation ... Richfield Oil Safeway bears Shell ..I0 52; 48'. 2". 203, ...-107-. .. 43', .... 463,4 ....433 - 135 . 50 si 95", - 32", . 24i2 52 . 54 , 28 64 2 .120ii 15g 68 ',i .. 75 35', 49, .. 80 40 30 22 'i 46 i 41 1; . 473; , 5", 80 U Oil Socony Mobil Oil Southern Co Southern Pacific Standard California Standard Indiana Standard N. J. Sun Mines Texas Co. Texas Gulf Sulfur 181, Tex Pac Land Trust 19.; Transamerica 29 t Trans World Air 18 Tri-Continental 39 'i Union Carbide 149'i Union Pacific 30', United Aircraft 38 lt United Air Lines 35?, U.S. Rubber 64 ia U.S. Steel 99 Youngstown S&T 131 i Fir Market Prices Firm Portland -(UPD- Crow's Lum ber Market News Service said today heavy buying in the past two weeks had resulted in a sudden firming of the fir lumber market. Prices were up $2 to $3 per 1,000 board feet- Buying reached a peak in the week ending Dec. 11 with" orders on the West Coast Lumbermen's Assoc i a t i o n weekly barometer report to taling 163 million board feet. This was 47 per cent over pro duction and the highest week ly volume of orders reported to the Association since Au gust, 1950, Crow's said. Light production is expected over the holiday season and prices traditionally strengthen at this time. Crow's also said part of the heavy buying was due to dealers wanting to buy for inventory before winter price advances take place. Because of the heavy buy ing, standard and better grade green two - by - fours have moved up to the $70 mark for random assortments with eight-foot studs at $60 for the utility and better grades. These prices represent ad vances of $2 to $3 per 1,000 over the past 10 days. S A WONDERFUL STORE A IT'S A WONPCRFUL STORl Saturday Check List OF GOOD VALUES THE PRIISTTEID TAFFETA PARTY DRESS Full skirted party dresses of lush printed taffeta, ideal for the coming round of parties. Printed gaily with flowers these belittle your waist, make much of your figure. Designed by Judy Gold High Fashion at LaPointe's Magic price. Christmas Shop 9:30 till 9 (Saturday till 5:30) IN THE MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER Taffeta print party dresses Only $19.95 . . . nationally advertised $25.00 . . . full skirted taffeta party dresses printed gainly with flowers on white background. Contrasting cum berbund to belittle your waist. See our ad in tonight's paper. Full skirted jacket dresses Very exceptional at $17.95. Eye catching full skirted prin.t jacket dresses in silk-like magic crepe. One style with 3-button jacket, cumber bund waistline and satin trim. Second style with darling spun linen jacket. A wonderful gift for the young in heart. Nylon slips Only $5.49. Made to sell for much" more. Dainty rosebud embroidery on bodice of these slips and wide lace at the hemline with embroidered rose bud outline. Bias cut midriff for fine fit. Just in time for Christmas giving. Casual dresses Only $15.95 , . . nationally $17.95. Full skirted dresses of shimmering magic crepe with the look of silk. Convertible neckline. Tailored collar. Green or blue print. Shop tonight 'til 9. Cashmere coats ... Only $49.00. Imported, costly cash mere coats meticulously tailored. 3 ele gant styles. 2 typical cashmere shades . . . light beige and bamboo. Specially purchased. It's worth a trip to Medford to shop La Pointe's. Flannel pajamas Only $3.79. Regularly $4.00. Floral print on cozy white flannel background. 3-way collari it's a mandairn, it's an ivy league classic, it's a Peter Pan. Action it sleeves and elasticized flat-bak waistband. Cuddly and soft. Extra nice is a La Pointe's free gift wrap. Quilted Christmas robes Only $7.98 regularly $8.98. Sheer, nylon quilted robes in lovely floral print. Peter Pan collar. Contrasting trim on white or pastel background. Give her a robe for Christmas. Nylon slips for Christmas Only $3.49 . . . nationally $3.98. Deep nylon lace on bodice and back. Bias midriff fit. Wide scalloped lace at hemline. White and lovely colors of pink, blue, red. A wonderful Christ mas surprise. Leather Coats Only $45.95 . . . nationally $59.95. Full length cabretta leather coats. Lovely back detail. Pretty pockets. New wing sleeves. In beige and white. First on her Christmas list. Shop tonight. See our ad in tonight's paper on Page 1A. 2-Piece sport suits Only $15.95 . . . regularly $17.95. 100 wool in basket weave or in flannel. One style has interesting double breasted jacket, slightly fitted with lovely self-covered buttons. Skirt and jacket lined with matching taffeta. Gold, black, light blue, red, beige. Velveteen Capri pants Exceptional at $8.79. Slim Capri pants in jewel toned velveteen. Back zipper for fine fit. Scalloped slit at ankle. Flame red, Christmas green, coral, royal, purple, black.