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m CColedl os Traomi Smashes cl TrycDc Bank Forced To Close; More Than $2 Million Embezzled by Sheldon, Iowa - IUPD - The Sheldon National Bank closed its doors today after the as sistant cashier and daughter of the bank president ad mitted embezzling more than i $2 million, federal authorities said. Mrs. Burnice Geiger, 58, a bank employee for 40 years, was held in jail at Sioux City after waiving to the federal grand jury on a charge of em bezzlement from a national Republicans Ask Kennedy To Push Civil Rights Bills wasmngton-lUPU - A seven point civil rights program was . placed before the Senate to i day by two Republicans who called on President-elect John F. Kennedy to push it as must legislation. The measure was introduc ed by New York Sens. Jacob K. Javits and Kenneth B. Keating. They said Kennedy's Incoming administration "must take the initiative to recommend civil rights legis lation and constantly press for consideration of it . . ." Javits and Keating said that the announced intention of the new administration to ex ercise executive action to end discriminatory practices in education, housing, employ ment and voting is not adequ ate to do the job and "will not remedy the legislative gaps which exist." The Senate's main atten tion, however, was devoted to Senate Armed Services com mittee hearing on the nomina tion of Robert S.rMcNamara as defense secretary ;j under Kennedy. ' ' .: The ' former Ford' ' Motor company president offered to modify his controversial trust National Forest, Man Transferred The transfer of D. F. .O'Leary of the Rogue River National forest to the regional forestry office in Portland has been announced by C. E. Brown, forest supervisor. O'Leary, who has been serv ing as administrative assistant since April, 1959, will be pro moted to a position in the regional fiscal agent's office Jan. 22. .He is a native of Boston, Mass., and has attended the Boston School of Accounting and the University of San Francisco. He served as chief score keeper in the Navy from 1943 1946. Following his discharge from the Navy, he served as assistant dispersing officer for the San Francisco regional office of the post office de partment and as a cost ac countant for the corps of en gineers. Replacing O'Leary will be James A. Butler, supervisory fiscal technician of the Wil lamette National forest in Eu gene. Butler, who has held that position since October, 1958, received his first federal appointment in July, 1957, with the bureau of land man agement at Malta, Mont. Eastern Oregon Timber Tax Bill Scheduled ; Salem - IUPII - A timber tax bill calling for a severance, or harvest, tax only on Eastern Oregon timber will be intro duced in the Oregon House Wednesday. " Rep. W. O. Kelsay (D-Rosc-btirg), chief sponsor of the bill, said it Is one of two measures supported by the In dustrial Forestry association. Duncan Praises Oregon Tax Setup; Urqes Repeal of Tax on Inventories Pendleton - (UPII - House Speaker Robert Duncan (D Medford) said today Washing ton state is trying to "imitate" Oregon in developing a better tax climate for business and described this as further proof that Oregon is second to none in the northwest in this field. But to maintain Oregon's "impressive record, it Is essen tial to repeal the obsolete per sonal property tax on business inventories," he said. He addressed a tax confer ence here sponsored by the rural affai council in co operation with the Umatilla coigty extension service. O 0 bank. Her bond was set at $10,000. Mrs. Geiger, daughter of bank president W. P. Iverson, was arraigned today before U.S. commissioner Wilford M Forker at Sioux City. Although she was specific ally charged with converting bank accounts "in excess of $100" to her own accounts be tween Jan. 1, 1960, and Oct. 21, 1060, U.S. Dist. Atty. F. E. Van Alstine said Mrs Geiger fund arrangement "to avoid even a hint of conflict of in terest" in the defense post. He said he thinks he has gone further toward eliminating any possible conflict of inter est than any other appointee to appear before the Senate group. Other congressional news: Communists: Chairman Francis E. Walter of the House Committee on Un American Activities, said Communists "are openly mov ing back into" the Holly wood movie industry. Walter said in the Congressional Rec ord that certain studios are hiring Red agents under fic titious names. Roads: Sen. Prescott Bush (R-Conn.), proposed that the federal government pay the states for any roads incorpor ated into the interstate high way system. He introduced a bill which would authorize payment for state highways which meet the interstate re quirements and would be lim ited to the cost of the high way,' less depreciation and the total amount of federal funds used in its- construc tion. . Bowles: Sen. Norris Cotton (R-N.H.), opened a contest over the selection of Chester Bowles as undersecretary of state in the Kennedy admin istration. Cotton said in a pre pared Senate speech that if Bowles stands for ultimate recognition of Red China "then he should not be con firmed," SBA Head Named By John Kennedy Palm Beach, Fla. - (UPII -President-elect John F. Ken nedy appointed a small busi ness administrator today, packed his golf clubs and looked over a final draft of his inaugural speech before heading to Washington where the presidency awaits him Fri day. Kennedy named John E. Home, currently administra tive assistant to Sen. John Sparkman (D-Ala.) as head of the small business administra tion to complete his pre-in-augural schedule of top level appointments. ' ' Monday night the President elect selected Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Prize winning chemist and chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Kennedy was scheduled to fly to Washington this after noon where he may look In on two or three inaugural parties before flying on to New York tonight. He is to confer in New York Wednesday with Gov. Luis Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico and return to Washington that night. Elisabethville, The Congo -IUPII - Sixty Swedish U.N sol diers fought off three attacks by rampaging Baluba tribes men in Katanga today, inflict ing heavy casualties. Duncan cited tax bills intro duced recently In the Wash ington legislature designed to help attract new industry. Two of these measures "are already firmly incorporated into Oregon's tax structure," Duncan said. He listed them as one de ferring property taxes on new or expanding businesses and another which would elimi nate from the sales tax all materials used in industrial construction. The second ad vantage has always been in effect in Oregon, Duncan said, because Oregon has no sales tax. Cashier had signed a statement admit ting taking $2,126,859.10 over a period of years. "A large amount of the to tal was taken within the last year," Van Alstine added. He said Mrs. Geiger had been "very cooperative" since the "irregularities" in her ac counts were discovered Mon day by national bank exam iners who arrived for a rou tine examination of the bank. Deposits Insured Van Alstine declined to dis cuss what Mrs. Geiger did with the money pending fur ther investigation. A federal spokesman said all deposits at the bank, esti mated to total $3 million, were insured up to $10,000 per depositor, and that all would be paid off up to the limit of the insurance. The bank's closing had a heavy impact on residents of this Iowa farming community of 3,700. There is one other bank in town. Russia Claims Ship 'Molested' In Arabian Sea ' Moscow-IUPD-A Soviet ship claimed it was "pursued" and "molested" for 25 minutes to day in the Arabian Sea by a destroyer flying the Ameri can flag. The official Soviet Tass news agency said word of the incident was received in a radiogram to Moscow from the captain of the Soviet mo tor vessel Andreyev. The radio message said the destroyer. Ingraham molested the Soviet vessel ipr 25 min utes and twice approached to within one cable length-600 or 700 feet. ' It said the destroyer ap proached the Andreyev flying the American flag and "bear ing the number 694 on its side." . i Indignation Expressed Tass said the Soviet ship and crew expressed its "pro found indignation" at the de stroyer's action. The agency added that the Andreyev was on a course from Archangel to Besra with a load of timber. Tass gave no further details immediately of how the de stroyer allegedly molested the Andreyev. Last Saturday Soviet Dep uty Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov handed U.S. Am bassador Llewellyn Thompson a diplomatic note demanding that the United States stop what the note called provoca tive acts by American war ships against Soviet vessels in neutral waters. Wrong Man Named In News Story A mistake on a police report led to the Mail Tribune iden tifying the wrong man as a person charged with violating state gambling laws. The mis take was made in the Dec. 30 issue of the Tribune. Foster Henry Greb Jr., 21, Eagle Point, was one of four men arrested by police on Dec. 29, and charged with dis playing a game of chance. Greb was an employee at Foss' Billiards, 415 East Main st., and allegedly paid a plain clothes policeman for games won on a pinball machine. Greb later forfeited $250 bail in district court to a charge of displaying a game of chance. In its Dec. 30 issue, the Mail Tribune identified the man as Robert Otis Greb, which was wrong. The Tribune regrets the error. Duncan said Washington Is also considering amending its inventory tax but Washing ton's plan "docs not go as far toward achieving equitable taxation as docs the repeal bill before the Oregon house of representatives." Its repeal in Oregon and re placement with a net income tax on business would spread the tax over the entire busi ness community, he said, based on ability to pay and would assure that "Oregon would continue to present the most favorable tax climate to business." Regional Edition Medford 14 Pages NAVY PIER BURNS Six men were missing and six others were Injured, Pier at the Charleston, S. C, naval base Monday. The fire was believed four of whom were hospitalizied with burns, after a fire swept the Navy to have started on a welding job. (UPI Telephoto) WEATHER Forecast: Valloy fog lifting, this afternoon and partly cloudy tonight. Valley fog late tonight and early Wednesday morning. Considerable cloudiness Wednes day with a chance or light rain In the morning. High Wednes day 40. Low tonight 34. TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterday 40 Lowest This Morning 34 PRECIPITATION To 5 p.m. Yesterday .......trace To 10 a.m. Today trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:06 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 1:37 a.m. Moonsct ton! eh t 6:34 P.m. First Quarter ........ .'......-....Jan. 23 PROMINENT STAR Aldebaran, In the cast at sunset, will he high In south. ...8:58 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars Is In the cast and Venus In the southwest at moonset. Cuba Executes 3 'Terrorists' Havana, Cuba -IUPII- Three Cubans were executed before a revolutionary firing squad today, barely an hour after they had been convicted by a court martial as "terrorists." One was charged with orig inating a plot to blow up an ammunition dump at a time when Premier Fidel Castro was scheduled to be present in an apparent attempt on his life. The military trial of Balblno Diaz Balboa, Jose M. Mesa Lopez and Julio A. Yebra Suarcz ended about midnight. By 1 a.m., all three were dead. They were shot against the floodlighted wall of the grim Cabana fortress-prison, where hundreds of "war criminals ' died during Premier Fidel Castro's first year in power. Although no one is certain exactly how many persons the Castro regime has executed, the deaths of Diaz, Mesa and Yebra are believed to have increased the total to more than 630. The total includes three Americans killed as "in vaders" late last year. Plans for Pear Festival Start Plans for the Rogue Valley Pear Blossom Festival, sched uled April 7, 8 and 9 this year, were started at a meet ing of the association this morning. Theme for the annual event will be decided at the next meeting, Feb. 7, in the Jack son hotel. Art Wood, Medford, was elected president of the associ ation, succeeding Russ Jami son. Bob Boyer, Medford law yer, was elected vice presi dent, and Mrs. Phyllis Wager was reelected secretary-treasurer. John Hockstatter was named finance chairman. Other com mittees will be named at the next mcccting, Wood said. Icy Spots Reported On Some State Roads Salem-a'PU-The Slate High way Department today report ed icy spots at Ontario, Meac ham, Willamette Pass, Santlan Pass, Sisters, Prospect, Green Springs and Government Camp. Thrrip was packed mow at Austin. X MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY Bill Would Raise Minimum Age of Drivers To Salem - IUPD - The Oregon House today received a bill, sponsored by eight representa tives, to raise the minimum age for drivers in Oregon from 16 to 18 years. The age required for a learner's permit would .be raised from 15 to 17. v -Gov. Mark Hatfield's '.pro posal to increase state support of schools from 36' to 42 per cent was introduced in the House. It would increase the amount- per child from $105 to $115. For Property Tax Relief A similar bill was - intro duced by Rep. Thomas R. Mc- Clellan (D-Neotsu).- It would, however, specify that the in crease must be used for local property tax relief. Children entering the first grade would have to be six years old by July 1, instead of Nov. 15, under a bill intro duced by the education com mittee. The bill also would prevent children who do not enter first grade during the first four weeks of fall term from entering in the spring term. Meanwhile, in the Senate bills to tighten air and water pollution control and increase minimum salaries of public school teachers were intro duced. The pollution bills were in troduced at the request of the State Sanitary Authority. The air pollution bill de scribes contaminating ele ments as dust, fumes, gas, mist, odors, smoke, vapor, pol len, soot, carbon, acid, or any combination of these. Higher Pay for Teachers At the request of the Ore gon Education Association, Sen. Al Flegel (D-Roseburg) introduced a bill to raise mini mum salaries of teachers with bachelor's degree from $3,400 a year to $4,000. Mini mum salaries for those with "To The End of master's degrees would go from $4,000 to $4,800. Substitute teachers would get more pay too. The act would.be effective July 1, 1962. A bill requested by the Ore gon AFL-CIO would extend unemployment c o mpensation benefits to, packing house em ployees whose work is inci dent to ordinary farm oper ations. : ' j Would Duplicate Books Sen. Anthony Yturri (R-On- tario) and others sponsored a bill that ' would designate three volumes of the Oregon Revised Statutes to duplicate originals of books missing from the secretary of state's office. The volumes, since replaced, 'New Leadership' Need Pointed Out Washington -IUPII- Advisers reported to . President elect John F. Kennedy today that the nation needs "vigorous now leadership" in conserving and developing its natural re sources. They predicted that the new Demo cratic administration "will establish landmarks of achievement toward a con structive program that will protect the rightful heritage of all Americans." The report, submitted by the Kennedy-Johnson Natural Resources A d visory commit tee, recommended a speedup in constructing flood control and small watersheds projects, federal aid to combat water pollution, expansion of the national parks system, harbor and waterways improvements, establishment of a national fuels policy and stepped-up re search In a variety of fields. The Line, Mac" Tribune 17, 1961 18 Years were made a campaign issue against Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. by Sen. Monroe rSweetland (D-Mil- waukie).; Sweeiland had charged Appling, keeper of the official documents, with "losing" them but Appling said the volumes were mis placed before He took office. Hatfield Invited To Explain Plans ; Salem-IUPD-Gov. Mark Hat field Monday was offered an opportunity to appear in per son next Tuesday before the Senate State and Federal Af fairs committee to explain his sweeping proposals for reorg anizing Oregon's government. The committee, headed by Sen. Walter J. Pearson. (D Portland), issued the invita tion as a courtesy, Pearson said. Governors do not usually appear before legislative com mittees, and Hatfield has nev er done so as chief executive. Pearson, who favors Hat field's idea for a cabinet sys tem, was a member of . the governors advisory commit tee on government reorganiza tion. Russian Charges , In Laos Denied Washington -IUPII- The Stale Department today called "wholly untrue ' Russian charges that the United States was transferring F84 jet fight er bombers to the pro-Ameri can government in Laos. The department also rejectr ed as untrue allegations made Monday in the official Soviet newspaper Pravda that the United States was supplying American pilots to fly armed observation planes turned over last week to the govern ment of Prince Boun Oum. Stale Department spokes man Lincoln White read a statement which said that if the Russians really wanted to contribute to peace in the area they would halt the "Illegal Soviet airlift" to the Communist-led rebels in the Lao tian fighting. White said the Soviet air lift is still continuing. Portland State Has Enrollment of 4,223 Portland - IUPD - Winter en rollment at Portland State col lege is 4,223, a new record, Dr. Howard Impecoven, regis trar, said today. Last winter's figure was 3, 635. BONDS SOLD Salom-tUPD-The Oregon Vet erans' Affairs Department has sold $30 million worth of Cfl farm and home loans to the First National Bank of Ore gon, first issue of !?llltildlt Ing bonrtt autkoriar4 b Mat voteri la Nottnilaw. f in tcjatt sop &i& pr mit 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 259 'Brother' Takes Prisoner's Items A man who represented himself as being the brother of Thomas Edwin Cornwall 30, who is being held in the county Jail on a charge of burglary, took more than $1,000 worth of clothing and personal- Items from Corn wall's apartment during the week end. i: , Police were notilecf of the theft yesterday' when : Corn wall's real brothci1, .the. Rev, Robert Lee Cornwall, went to his brother's apartment at 145 South Ivy at., to pick up suit, and found the apart ment empty. Mr. Cornwall told police he was Informed by the landlord, John William Poage, that a man who said he was- Corn wall's brother came to the apartment Saturday afternoon and took all of Cornwall's be longings away. Poage said the man told him that Thomas . Cornwall would be going to the . peni tentiary for five years and would therefore not need his belongings, so he (Cornwall's alleged brother) was going to store them for him. Included among the stolen Items are three suits, six sports coats, five pairs of slacks, two pairs of shoes, two radios, , miscellaneous men s Jewelry and eight paintings painted by Thomas Cornwall and valued at $30 each. Police said the stolen items were valued by Cornwall at ; ap proximately $1,100.; SOC Enrollment Reaches 1,258 Ashland - Winter term en rollment at Southern Oregon college totaled 1,258, follow ing the final day for registra tion yesterday. - The previous winter term enrollment record was 1,225, set last year. College officials said today this year's figure will probably fluctuate slight ly until records of new stu dents are received. Of the 1,258, 738 are men and 520 women. School Principals Here Agree To Saturday Games Jackson county school prln cipals and supcrinlcndcnts yesterday afternoon voted to hold spring athletic events on Saturdays, according to Coun ty School Supt. Alf B. Mck void. The group also recommend ed that principals be present when coaches schedule events to avoid conflicts with other school programs and activities. All A-l schools will hold conference games on Satur days and makeups on Fridays or Tuesdays. Games held with Klamath Falls will be on Fri days, It was decided. All dis trict tennis playoffs will ba on Saturdays. fit (roue also voted to 14 a reUlon to the state MWure recommending all "PS0W wibnbarsable programs, Three Unloading Boxcar Perish In Roaring Fire Four Others Hurt In Flaming Crash Magnolia, Miss. - IUPD - A streamlined passenger train collided with a gasoline truck I here today in a flaming crash that killed six persons and critically injured four others. The City of New Orleans, a northbound Illinois Central train, crashed into an oil truck at the depot and threw the flaming truck into boxcars on another track and a ware house. State police earlier had re ported eight dead but the er ror apparently was due to a mixup in identifying tha bodies. Engineer, Fireman Die Killed were the train's en gineer and fireman, the truck driver and three men who ere unloading a nearby box car. Firemen from Magnolia and McComb fought the blaze for two hours before bringing it under control. The wreck set fire to the diesel, three box cars, the truck and the ware house. No passengers on the train were injured. lope Abandoned For Surviviors n Radar Tower New York IUPD Rear. Adm. Allen M. Shlnn said to day there no longer was any hope that survivors were still alive in the submerged wreck' ge of a radar tower that col lapsed during an Atlantic gals Sunday night. Twenty six of the 28 men aboard the tower were miss ing. One body had been re covered and another was seen but drifted away. Slumps Located F i , divers this morning: ag? located the stumps of the 4: uge triangular structure. Admiral Shlnn, revealed in a radio - telephone conversation with United Press Internation al from the aircraft carriap Wasp. The slumps were being marked so that the submarine rescue vessel . Sunbird and other diving vessels could ba moved into position whera divers with heavy equipment could go down to examine tha tower structure in the 180- foot deep water. No Sounds Heard Shlnn said the operation would continue until divers made certain there were no survivors In an air pocket as had been hoped Monday. No sounds have been heard from the tower since Monday after- , noon, Shlnn said, and thosa sounds were probably due to movement of the wreckage. ' Jailers' Course Planned in County Sheriff Joe Walsh wll) spon sor a regional Jailer's confer ence and training session at the county courthouse Jan. 23. Walsh said the course will be conducted by Harold Swen son, correctional program of ficer for the United States Bureau of Prisons. All Jail personnel and law enforce ment officers of Jackson, Josephine and Douglas coun ties have been invited to at tend, Walsh said. "This is the first program of such a nature to be conduct ed purely on a regional basis, and since we are so fortunate to be able to secure an In structor of Mr. Swenson's cali ber for this session. I strongly urge all city and county law enforcement officials to at tend," the sheriff said. , such as driver training and programs for able and gifted children, also be scheduled on Saturdays. School administrators heard Dr. Frederick Trost, associate professor of social science at Southern Oregon college, re port that Circuit Judge Ed ward C. Kelly proposes a plan for delinquency prevention, and needs names of student high school leaders so student representatives can be called together to work on the pro gram. Gene Farthing, president of the Elementary School princi pals association, recommend a counly-wide study on a pos sible county-wido social stud ies course. The administrators agreed to establishing an 18 months study for all districts. V
