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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1960)
tan Sdiatws (MBniie v n n n mm Against . - - SENATORS RELAX Sen. Russell Long (D-La.) is sur-.. rounded by Republicans as he relaxes with colleagues on cots set up in the old Supreme Court chamber. The Sena- tors are catching a brief rest during the long session on Maid's Testimony Target of Defense in Finch Trial . Los Angeles-dJPD - The de- -fense for Dr. R. Bernard Finch was to rip again today into the testimony of Swedish maid Marie Anne Lidholm about the struggle preceding the death of the doctor's wife. Miss Lidholm, 19, and ."pretty as they grow them in Sweden," is the most danger ous witness the 43-year-old 'surgeon had in his trial with Carole Tregoff, 23,- for the alleged murder of Barbara Finch. 'Discrepancies Pinpointed Grant Cooper, Finch's law 'yer, pinpointed.il discrepan cies in her story Monday and "was set today to emphasize pwhat he thinks may be a key to the case. That consists of the two -varying stories of whether "Finch had a gun in his hand when he ran out o the Finch garage after his wife the night of Julv 18. She was found short in the back. The defense says the - fatal injury came after a struggle for a gun first held by Mrs. Finch. Believe Doing Her Best Cooper said Monday he thought Miss Lidholm was do ing her best to tell the truth. But - she was more sympa thatie toward Mrs. Finch, he said, and open to the "power of suggestion." t Cooper said the jury was duty bound to accept reason able explantions of actions by Finch that might have been innocent. He said they also had to find the surgeon guilty beyond reasonable doubt. ."Reasonable doubt is like love," he said. "You can't de fine it but you know when you've got it." Judge Holman Named As Justice Pro-Jem Salem - !UPD - Circuit Judge Ralph M. Holman, Oregon City, was named a justice pro tern of the Oregon Supreme Court indefinitely beginning today. - . r v Judge Holman will serve alcng with Circuit Judges Paul R. Harris, Portland, and George R. Duncan, Salem, who have been with the high court on a prc-tem basis since January. I love variety that s why I insist on V.KOSS Made to pamper your eat ...they're not just flavors there the real thing. INDUE ClUCKEII HEAT Ml eilOPPEP HSU Medford Rogue Valley Edition New Lamb Grading Standards in Effect Washington - (UPD - Lower govern ment standards for grading lamb and mutton went into effect today and may help housewives save money on the family grocery bill. Agriculture Department of ficials said the new standards would permit more lamb to be marked prime and choice, increasing the supply. The normal operation of supply and demand should result in lower prices, they added. To Get Honest Deal One official said that as long as the housewife de pends on government grades in buying meat, she will get an honest deal. He pointed out that few persons are qualified to judge meat ac curately" 'and expertly. "." "The housewife is not go ing to be Cheated," the official said. " Stocks Irregular in Moderate Electronics ' New York-flJPD-Stocks mov ed irregularly today in mod erate trading. Electronics were strong and motors firm, while metals dropped sharply and steels eased. IBM jumped more than 4 in the electronics where Beck man and Collins Radio rose around 2 each. Record February produc tion reports for American Mo tors and . Ford lifted these shares more than 2 and 1, respectively. Chrysler jumped more than 1. Youngstown fell more than a point in the steels. Bethle hem and U.S. Steel eased. DOW-JONES AVERAGS New York-OOPD-Dow-Jones ' final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 626.87, off 3.25; 20 railroads 148.61, off 1.34; 15 utilities 87.33, up 0.57, and 65 slocks 207.20. off 0.76. Sales today were about 2.920,000 shares compared with 2.990.000 shares Mon day. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical ; 52 ?i Alum Co. Am. American Can American Motors '. AT&T Anaconda Copper Armco Steel 88 Y 40b 7'3 898 55 ?4 65 74 483. 27 303, 57 Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Air Caterpillar Corp. Chrysler Corp. Continental Can 45 46 'i Crown Zellerbach Curtiss Wright Dow Chemical Du Pont - 23 V .. 89 3,: ..220 : Eastman Kodak Firestone General Electric General Foods -103 43 U 90 102 - 46 . 49 - 2 - 20 . 29 . 41 General Motors . Georgia Pacific . Graham Paige Greyhound Gulf Oil Homestake Mining taano rower .... I- B. M. Int Paper .. 47: i4 ..421 -lll'i Johns Mansville 503, Jvaty Kennecott Copper Lockheed Aircraft .. Montana Power Montgomery Ward" Natl Biscuit New York Central" Pac Gas & Elec Penney. J.C. Penn RR Radio Corporation Richfieid Cil Safeway Sears . 5?, - 84 . 26 .-231a . 48 - 53 i - 2.63; - 64H -lis'; - 14 - 68H - 73 - 38i Shell Oil 34 Socony Mobil Oil 377 Southern Co 42'4 Southern Pacific 20?, Standard- California 43 HO.g civil rights debates being held around the clock. From left to right are Sens. Clifford Case (R-N.J.), Norris Cotton (R- Ky.), Norman Brunsdale (R-N.D.), Long, Hiram Long (R- Hawaii) and Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.). (UPI Telephoto) Tribune Page 2A Another Agriculture De partment aide pointed out that beef standards were lowered some time ago and there was no anguish to the buying pub lic. No Price Change The official had no fear that retail prices would rise be cause grading revisions would put more meat in the so-called expensive classifications. He said competition in the meat industry would take care of any price change. The Agriculture Depart ment reduced minimum re quirements for the prime and choice grades of lamb and mutton. This change will in crease the number of lambs that qualify for the two grades. Prior to the revision, few buyers could get prime or choice lamb because it . was not available under the old standards. Trading; Strong Standard N. .. 44T'8 - 6 - 74 - 17 - 17 - 26 V .. 15 - 35 ..133 - 29 4 37 .. 29 Sun Mines Texas Co Texas Gulf Sulfur Tex Pac Land Trust . Transamerica . .... Trans World Air Tri-ConUnental .. Union Carbide . Union Pacific United Aircraft . United Air Lines . U. S. Rubber 56 '4 U. S. Steel ... .. 88 -114 Youngstown S & T Grants Pass Man Files for DA Post Grants Pass Lawrence A. Aschenbrenner, Grants Pass attorney and justice of the peace, announced his candi dacy for district attorney of Josephine county today. He is a Democrat. Ascben brenner, 29, is a graduate of the University of Oregon Law school and has practiced law in Grants Pass since the fall of 1957. He was appointed justice of the peace m September, 1959. Aschenbrenner has been active in many civic affairs Among these was tht Heart fund campaign, civic develop ment division of the chamber of commerce, and vice chair man of the county's centen nial committee. Byrnes Opposes Defense Arguments Aiken, S.C. - (UPD - James F. Byrnes, former U.S. - Su preme Court justice and secre tary of state, said Monday night the nation's "admirals and generals should settle their differences behind closed doors." Byrnes told a civic club that once the President has made a decision about defense funds, military officials should drop their own argu ments and "strive to prove their commander-in-chief was right." SAFETY FIRST Tokyo -(UPD The Yamatake Taxi Co. took strong measures to protect its cabs from strik ing drivers Monday. A crane hoisted 26 taxis to the roof of the firm's three-story head Leak of Military Information Being Studied Washington-fUPD - The gov ernment has been investiga ting "leaks" of classified mili tary information after it has been secretly given to Con gress by U. S. intelligence agencies. The matter could lead to administration review of the whole question of how wide ly Congress should be briefed on secret military informa tion, informal sources said to day. ... Dulles Testimony Leaked The investigation centered on a leak to the press of closed-door testimony by Al len W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, before the Senate space-preparedness committees in Jan uary. Dulles' testimony concern ed estimates of Russian mis sile capabilities. Security on the whole has been, considered good. Publi cation of what purported to be Dulles' January testimony is regarded in some official quarters as the one major "leak." But the incident prompted an investigation both inside and outside the CIA. It also raised in official circles the problem of how to deal with one basic stra tegic advantage, of the Soviet Union over the United States Russia' far superior capaci ty for .keeping information secret. rne Kussian advantage is based bh both geography her vast open spaces and on her totalitarian system of gov ernment. It has been behind Russia's consistent refusal to permit disarmament inspections by Western countries. " Early Bonneville Employee Succumbs Portland flJPD - Private funeral services were to be held today for Allingsworth Wilson, 72, one of the first employees of Bonneville Pow er Administration. He died Sunday. Wilson, a resident of Ore gon City, joined BPA early in 1938. He was born in Wash ington, D.C., and worked dur ing his early life as a Panama Canal surveyor. f. r i ' .--a .-w X2hX T ' Around-Clock Debate Continues On Senate Floor Washington - (UPD - The Senate droned into the second day of its around-the-clock civil rights debate today with a conciliatory note from Southerners on proposed Ne gro voting guarantees. But the Southern senators, fighting to block passage of a civil rights bill, showed no Signs of surrendering to Sen ate leaders' efforts to break t.hfir talkathon hv keeDins them in continuous session. 16 Consecutive Hours By 4 a.m. (e.s.t.), weary senators had heard 16 con secutive hours of talk on civil rights and a variety of other topics - both important and irrelevant and had become embroiled in complic a t e d parliamentary discussi ons. The most significance, how ever, was placed on a state ment by Sen. Richard B. Rus sell (D-Ga.), leader of the Dixie bloc, that two parts of the Eisenhower administra tion's seven-point civil rights proposal were relatively in offensive to the South. Russell told the Senate that Attorney General William P. Rogers' plan for court ap pointed voting Teferees to pro tect Negro voting rights in the South was "way down the line in the order of being obnoxious to me and my as sociates." Least Objectionable And he described as "the least objectionable provision of the bill" a section which would require state election officials to preserve voting records for three years. In fact, Russell said he saw little wrong with this section except for some increase in the attorney general's power. But otherwise the well-organized band Of 16 Southern' senators continued to oppose stubbornly new rights legisla tion. They worked in relays to keep part of their forces on the floor at all times. Sen. A. Willis Robertson (D Va.) indicated the Southern ers were prepared to keep up their talkathon for days. Af ter talking for more than four hours Monday night, he said he planned to speak again Thursday. Sen. Spessard L. Holland (D-Fla.), who spoke in the hours between midnight and dawn, hinted that new civil rights laws might spark racial violence in the South. The South hasn't had any race riots yet, he said, but it is "apt to have." Sen. Evertt B. Jordan (D N.C.), who followed Holland, complained that governors and other state officials had not been given a chance to testify at congressional hear ings on civil rights legislation. Democrats Name Finance Chairman ' Portland - (UPD - D e w e y Rand Sr., publisher of the weekly Salem Capital Press, has been named chairman of the State Democratic Finance committee. Rand, active in Democratic party activities for many years, said an immediate drive would be started to raise an executive budget. He said this would be used to support a state headquarters staff which would offer in creased services to all Demo cratic county organizations wcifah IT'S COMING TO WARDS ON THURSDAY. ....... AND IT'S JAM-PACKED WITH VALUES FOR BOYS I : iasnc Ussue on CSviD CSights Washington -(UPD- The basic issue behind the Senate's his toric around-the-clock civil rights debate is the right of Negroes in' the South to vote. Republicans and .Northern Democrats both want credit for federal action to insure wider Negro suffrage in this presidential election year. Want To Go Further But many civil rights advo cates from ' big Northern states want to go much further. On the other hand, many moderates are willing to settle for some Jrind of vot ing rights bill. A hard core Southern bloc is fighting all proposals on grounds that they violate state sovereignty and that present federal laws are ade quate. Officially before the Senate is President Eisen h o w e r's rights program, offered by Senate Republican Leader Ev Rail Negotiators Discuss Machinery For Arbitration Chicago - (UPD - Negotiators , of the nation's railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers resumed talks today in an effort to set up machinery for arbitration of their wage dispute. Robert O. Boyd, chairman of the National Railway Me diation Board, said selection of two neutral members of a six-man arbitration panel was the chief issue holding up agreement of the arbitiation procedures. Negotiators Hopeful Talks in Washington last week failed to bring agree ment on the make-up of the board but Boyd, who was sit ting in on the talks together witft Leverett Edwards, ano'h- er NMB member, said he was hopeful the two sides could get together. The Railway Labor Act pro vides that the mediation board shall name the neutral mem bers if the two sides cannot agree. The railroads and en gineers agreed Feb. 4 to let arbitrators decide their dis pute, in.. which the 40,000' member BLE seeks a 12 per cent wage increase and the carriers want; to cut engi neers' wages 15 cents an hour. Talks To Resume Wage talks were scheduled to be resumed today between the railroads and the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen on contract terms affecting more than 100,000 BRT members. Mediators also expected to pall carrier bargainers and representatives of 11 non- Cold Weather Due In Western Nation Washington-(UPD-The Weath er Bureau predicts continued wintry weather for much of the nation in , March, with temperatures averaging below seasonal normals except in the : extreme northeast and southeast. - -, The coldest weather was forecast for the western half of the country. Precipitation is expected to exceed normal over the entire southern half of the nation and in the northeast, with more snow than usual for March. Subnormal amounts were predicted for the Pacific Northwestern and nor t h e r n plains. Near normal precipi tation is indicated in other areas. for erett M. Dirksen (111.) as a substitute amendment to an unrelated minor bill affect ing a Stella, Mo., school dis trict. Proposals Introduced More than 200 proposals bills, resolutions, amend ments, etc.-pertaining at least vaguely to civil rights have been introduced last year and this. Most of them could be offered as amendments to the Stella bill unless the Senate voted to cut off debate by imposing its rarely-used clOj ture rule. The Eisenhower proposal would: . -Make use of force or threats to obstruct court or dered school desegregation a federal ojffense. -Permit federal officers to cross state lines for arrests in "hate" bombings of schools, churches, etc. -Enpower the attorney gen- operating rail unions, repre senting more than 500,000 workers, into renewed wage negotiations late today or Wednesday. The sessions have been in recess for several weeks. Phone C keep watch over your calls Though snow may lie deep in high mountain country, phone men are on the j6b caring for lines that carry your calls. Where cars can't go, they travel on snowshoes, checking wires and poles. Other telephone men constantly watch over lines and cables along high ways and through cities. Winter or summer, good weather or bad, Telephone Patrolmen go wherever your calls go. This is part of the care we give your calls. It's one more way we work to make sure you get the greatest value from your phone service. 2 eral to inspect local voting records in federal elections and require that the records be preserved for a "reason able period." -Provide for temporary fi nancial and technical aid to localities trying to integrate schools. -Provide education for chil dren of military personnel when their public schools are closed because of integration disputes. Edmund E. Hass Vice-President TM n .CIFIC NORTHWEST 10MFANT euutm Since 1f13 SUITE 303, FlUHRER BLDG. PHONE SP 3-7319 5 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE Consult With Investment and Retirement Using the Securities of . . . Utilities Banks insurance Industrial Mutual Fund Shares Other offices in Portland, Salem, Eugene, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Aberdeen, Sellingham, Yakima, Wenatchee and Walls Walla. men on Pacific Telephone-Northwest PART OF THE NATION-WIDE BELL SYSTEM Debate -Extend the federal Civil Rights Commission until 1961. Congress already did this last year. -Make the President's com mittee on equal job oppor tunity under government con tracts a permanent organiza tion. It is headed by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. -Establish federal voting referees to insure Negro suf frage. Mr. Hass on Programs m
