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3 10 A MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. FRIDAY. AUGUST 5, I960 State AFL-CIO Delegates Vote On Resolutions : Pendleton-dlPD-Delegates to the AFL-CIO state 'convention came out for development of power resources by public agencies in action on two reso lutions here Thursday. i Delegates ; turned down a resolution that would have fa vored granting a license to the ..private Pacific Northwest Power Company to build High Mountain Sheep Dam. A resolution supporting a license for the Washington Public Power Supply System to build Nez Perce Dam, on the other hand, was approved by the union delegates. A group of resolutions deal- . ing with the Portland news paper strike, and a resolution calling for repeal of the Lan-drum-Griffln labor reform act : were slated to come before the convention for action today. The convention was also scheduled to decide, before adjournment late today, where the 1961 convention will be held. Three cities Eugene, Coos Bay, and Salem have put in bids for the 1961 gathering. During the- convention's Thursday session State Sen. Monroe Sweetland presented Janet Baumhover of Portland with a special service award on behalf of the Multnomah County Employees Local 88 Congo Problem Dangerous Challenge Facing System of Free Enterprise Doctor Says Signs Cost Him Business Tunbrldge Wells, England -MP!) - Dr. Eric St. John Ly burn said Thursday he plans to sue the town council be cause of a group of municipally-erected signs that point straight at his house. The signs read. "Cemetery Kent and Sussex Crematori um." "People take one look at them and say 'I'll steer clear of that doctor,'" Lyburn sair. He claimed the'' signs have cost him $14,000 in lost business. . By LEROY POPE New York - (UPD - The prob lem of the Congo is the most dangerous challenge the free enterpise system has faced since World War II, United Nations circles said today. If the United States govern ment and American business leaders are outwitted by the Communists in the new Afri can republic, U.N. circles said privately, then much of Africa and Latin America will slide behind the Iron Curtain as has East Europe and Red China. They point out that the Bel gians built a modern indus trial state in the Congo but failed to train the Congolese to run it before the tidal wave of African nationalism forced them to grant the Congo po litical independence. Belgian, American and U.N. experts say it will cost $1 billion to $2 billion and five to 20 years of tireless work to train the Congolese. , Soviets Willing The Soviets are willing and eager to spend that much time and money - plus providing the technical manpower to do the job. The Reds stand to win vir tual control of the world if they succeed in the Congo, some U.N. experts are convinced. So the question arises - is the free world, led by the United States, willing to spend the money and time and pro vide the manpower to save the Congo in the only way it can be saved? U.N. officials say it must be done only through the U.N. Any effort to do the job any other way only would give the Communists, the excuse and opportunity to muscle their way in and grab the ball - as they have come so close to doing in Cuba. Castro Sought U.S. Help Premier Fidel Castro came to the United States soon after his rise to power in Cuba to seek American understand ing and help. Neither Castro nor his program aroused American enthusiasm. In the light of subsequent events it's by no means cer tain his radical brother, Raul, and "Che" Guevarra, his Argentine-born chief lieutenant, would have permitted Castro to follow a policy friendly to the United States even if the Eisenhower administra t i o n had romanced the Cuban revolutionaries. But the significant thing is that neither the U.S. govern ment nor the American peo ple have succeeded in identi fying themselves with the fer vent revolutionary hopes of most of the Cubans. The Communists have suc ceeded and are trying to do the same in the Congo. Atks U.N. Aid ' Congo Prime Minister Pa trice Lumumba came to the United States as Castro did -only he was asking United Nations help primarily, U.S. help secondarily. But if Lu enthusiasm, he did get prompt and substantial help. How ever, Lumumba seems to be a mercurial man with only one fixed policy - to get the Bel gian army out of all the Con go, including metal-rich Ka tango, which is trying to se cede from Lumumba's re public. Lumumba says he wants the Belgian civilians to re turn. But in spite of their $8 billion stake in the Congo, the Belgian civilians seem fearful of returning unless the Bel gian army slays on. Two Choices This raises the need of either making the U.N. police force and the U.N. aid pro gram so strong the Belgian civilians will come back, or else the U.N. must take over the long and costly burden of training the Congolese to run their country and its complex industry. U.N. circles say t lat other wise, the Communists will be in a position to move in and fill the vacuum. They point out that, as in Cuba, there are Red sympathizers in some im portant posts in the Congolese government. Disappearance of Judge Crater Still Mystery After 30 Years By DOC QUIGG New York- IUPII- Have you seen this man? "Description - born in the United States -age, 41 years; height, 6 feet; weight, 185 pounds; mixed grey hair, orig inally dark brown, thin at top, parted in middle 'slicked' down; complexion, medium dark, considerably tanned; brown eyes; false teeth, upper and lower jaw. . . This is a New York police circular, offering $5,000 for information leading to his lo cation. But don t get excited. The reward period expired long ago. If alive, Judge Cra ter, the missing man, would be 71. He disappeared 30 years ago Saturday. To the police missing per sons bureau, the Crater dis appearance is still an "open case." The bureau has check ed about 3,000 leads over the three decades; they're still coming in at a rate of five or six a year. The latest, only a few weeks old, is from an inform ant who said he had known a man, now dead, who had Model DA.) 1-60 S BIG FAMILY SIZE II cu. ft REFRIGERATOR New! Meat Tender, Chill-Drawer! Full Width, Big 61 -Lb. Freexer Cheit! Convenient! Overnight Defrost Setting And Adjustable Season Control! Full Width Hydrator Pan (not shown) Included! With your 10-year old Refriger ator, a popular make in operating condition. Newer refrigerators are worth even more in trade, older ones a little less! $6.77 A Month FRIGIDAIRE BIG 10 FAIR The big 1 1 cu. ft. refrigerator above, plus matching 10.39 cu. ft. freezer Glvn you 424 I hi. of frozen food itor ie plui 21.26 cu. ft of rtfrlcerator freezer convenience In Juit 56" of wall pa.ee. s 359 With your 10-yrar old refrlKcrntor, it iuulnr mnko in (.unci condition. N f w e r ones are worth morr In trade, nldrr ones a little less. i; LEONARD A CO. Medford' Leading Appliance Dealer for the Past 29 Yean JUDGE JOSEPH CRATER Still an 'Open Case' (Ul'l Telephoto) a farm in Canada and who kept in his house a picture of himself as a youth. The informant claims that six or seven years later, he saw in a detective magazine what ap peared to him to be an iden tical picture-of Crater as a youth. . "The stuff is still coming in saying Judge Carter Is here or there, and we check out all leads," said Lt. John Cron in, missing persons bureau head. "And so far, nobody can say whether it was hom icide, suicide, or voluntary absence. We just don't know. There isn't any concrete evi dence to support any of the theories. You can speculate from now to doomsday." Joseph Force Crater, New York Supreme Court justice, stepped out of Billy Haas' res taurant on West 45th st. about 9:15 p.m. Aug. 6, 1930, after dining with friends. A hot, 12-mile breeze was curling over the brownstones; it had been a 94-degree day with three deaths due to heat. Vanishes Into Night Judge Crater wore a brown suit with a light stripe. He had left the vest at home. He hailed a cab, stepped in, and vanished westbound into the night and into one of the classic mysteries of American history. The theories and reports are many and complicated. Did he flee an investigation of Tammany corruption? One was under way, which pro gressed finally to the resigna tion of Mayor James J. Walk er. Crater's name was not brought into the hearings Was he blackmailed, or killed, because of affairs with women? One woman to whom he allegedly had been giving money, Connie Marcus, naa expected to dine with him the night he disappeared and was mystified, she said, when he didn't show up. His former wife, Stella, now Mrs. Carl Kunz, white-haired and in her 60's, is still insist ing 30 years later that he was an honest, honorable man who had absolutely nothing to do with any other women-that if he had, it was purely busi ness. Declared Legally Dead Judge Crater was declared legally dead in 1937. Mrs. Crater and her long-time at torney, Emil K. Ellis, remain firmly convinced he was mur dered. Ellis in the 1930s de cided one June Brice had proof of the murder. When he found her, she was in a mental institution, too con fused to make a statement. Stella Crater has a book, "The Empty Robe," scheduled for fall publication by Dou bleday. In it she will disclose that Crater kept his business and home life completely sep-arated-so much so that on the day he was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice she didn't know anything about it until she picked up the paper, the phone began ring ing, and flowers arrived from Al Smith and Jimmy Walker. The new judge came home and said-well, this was busi ness; at no time would he involve her in his business' life. She couldn't tell the police much when he vanished, President Gets Full Relaxation Newport, R. I. -iUPD- Presi dent Eisenhower today was getting some of the complete relaxation he came here for on July 7. With his scheduled depar ture just two days away, he made no official appointments and was confining the rou tine of White House paper work to a minimum. On most days since his ar rival July 7 the President has mixed work with his play. He faces a busy schedule on his return to Washington Sunday, and is hoping to go back fully rested. TIMBER PRODUGTS CO. Sage & McAndrews Road SP 2-8086 Defense Accused Of Wasting Large Sums on Housing Washington - (UPD - Congres sional auditors have accused the defense department of wasting over $147 million in its long-term program to build housing for enlisted men and officers; , The General Accounting Of fice, which checks on federal spending for Congress, said it had found ' that the three services had built or pro g r a m m e d for construction 5,900 houses at 15 different installations which were in "excess of actual or apparent need." Many Prefer Rented Homes The auditors said the pri mary reason for the overbuild ing was the "failure of the departments to realize that many members of the service prefer to live in personally owned or rented homes." But Assistant Secretary of Defense Floyd S. Bryant said in a letter included in the report that the defense de partment "cannot agree with the major findings" of the GAO. The GAO report, singled out Hawaii as a prime exam ple cf unjustified construc tion. It said there was an "urgent need for coordina tion" of the three services' building programs in the 50lh state. NAVAL AVIATOR Ensign Maurice R. Butts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice L. Butts, 100 West Main st., Medford, was recently desig nated a Naval aviator at the Naval Air Basic Training com mand, Naval Air station, Pen- sacola, Fla. Before entering the service in December, 1958, he attended Southern Oregon college. CLOSE OUT! Coast Grown ks. c 1 NOW ONLY IS I I t m - - each Hours: 8-5 Saturday; 10-2 Sunday "THE BUILDITORIUM" 765 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Phone SP 2-6211 2fl Just started-and the savinis are just terrific! mmmmm Hi (jjj We're really "YES" men during this tremendous end-of-the-model-year sale! DO WE HAVE wide choice of models and colors? DO WE MAKE the hottest deals in town? WILL WE GIVE high trade-in allowances? WILL WE MAKE on-the-spot, no- red-tape deals? YES ! Yl YES! YES! 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