Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 12, 1961, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY. i:iflHUArlf 12, 1961 InCdUtvniJ vin.i.u .AiDubt iHiuut OfiD, Ott MtDrOKD MAIL 'IHiuuMtJ, tafcDrOHD, OHE. Classified Ad In NY Newspaper Proves A False Clue In Mystery Of Missing Police Commissioner : Editor's note: A tiny classified d In a suburban newspaper last week caused a flutter of activity. Police and Federal Bureau of Investiga tion acents, believing they bad a clue to Uie mysterious aisniiucai ance of missing Police Commissioner John Beckmann, converged on the county seat in aimeoia. , tti.H ' international dis patched a special reporting team, headed by UP1 roving correspond ent Jack V. Fox, to the scene. The report by Fox and reporters Thomas D. Zumbo and yrea i. Ferguson follows. By UPI Special Reporting Team Mineola, N.Y.-(UPI)-The fine ly printed classified ad was In an unusual . position, It stood out among the news stories on page S of the news paper. 1 , ! ; ' And for a few hours it pro voked an unusual furor. It seemed ' to portend a break in the great mystery of the missing Long Island police commissioner. If there is one case the police of sprouting suburban Nassau county are determined to crack, it is the ' disappearance of their own boss. The ad read: ' "Personal-To my confiden '' tial caller who knows I have gone away for a month. Please call me P.I. number between 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. any day Monday through Friday. Ask for Mr. Z. The money is ready and. all security agreed upon will be observed. Time is important." , Those words rang bells all the way to the offices of the Federal Bureau of investiga tion... ' For it was a month ago that 62-year-old John Beck mann vanished after dropping his wife at a beauty parlor and presumably heading for his job directing a 2,000-man police force-second largest in New York state. The'alluslons to both "mon ey"' and "security" and the mysterious telephone Instruc tions fitted into theories that Beckmann might have been 1 I ijjfl - 9 V. jPlff ' t ' . , ' "Hr .,.1 t'.J?JIP' it tJI&L,' I' C i - NEW LINER The SS Oriana, a 40,000-ton new queen of the Pacific, arrived at the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor last week. The world's newest passenger liner, it is the largest now operating in the Pacific. : ,.- , . (UPI Telephoto) abducled-that the most wide ly accepted theory of suicide was not right, after all. Then the excitement melted as rapidly as it had built up. The ad turned out to be a device of an ingenious news paper seeking to got a "scoop" on Beckmann's whereabouts from, an anonymous tipster who had telephoned previ ously. But it brought back into sharp focus the "impossible" disappearance of a man who had spent a lifetime breaking just such cases. . . ' John Beckmann was a Dig man, nara to miss, nuaay or. 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Dllsd cold, hirdom Into mw. wis sv $no u. tuba only ... ?1 TRY ACME FIRST FREE PARKING QUALITY AT LOWEST PRICESI IN tnCIAlliTS 245 S. Central at 10th HOMCWAUffJ Phone SP 2-S201 it tace and white-thatched, he stood 6 feet 1 inch and weigh ed 215 pounds even though he had taken off 30 pounds in recent weeks on a rigid diet. - Despite a yearly salary of $17,500, he had lived with ilk" wife, Florence, for 21 years in the same two-story red brick house at 153 Fonda rd. in Rockville Centre, It is one of the develop ments that had engulfed Long Island in the last generation, neater and more individual than the blob of box con formity that is Leviltown, but a far cry from the vast old estates of the Vanderbllt and Theodore Roosevelt clans. To his neighbors on Fonda rd Beckmann was a gregari ous kindly man, who 'liked nothing better than a curb stone chat. Few of them still believe he took his own life by jumping into the icy wa ters of an Atlantic inlet. To his men, he was a cold, aloof taskmaster. But he was never reproached for his ef fectiveness as a cop. He had held the commissioner's job fur 15 years and, as an aide remarked, "he never thought he was running in a popu larity contest. "Police work was his whole life and just about everything that he talked about." To Miss Haircut ' It was 8 o'clock on the morning of Friday, Jan. 6, that Beckmann started out with his wife in their 1059 Oldsmobile. When he dropped her off at the beauty parlor, he remarked he had decided not to get his usual Friday haircut, but would go straight to his office. At 8:28 a.m. his car passed through the toll gate leading onto Mendowbrook Parkway out to famous Jones Beach, packed with millions in sum mer time but nearly deserted on the biting January morn ing. The toll gale keeper remem bered only one man was in the car. He did not recall whether it was Beckmann. He knows the exact lime because It was stamped on the county pass handed him for free passage through the toll gate. Just 12 minutes later Dwight Crowl, a bridge fore man for the Long Island State Park Commission, stopped alongside the Oldsmobile parked on the middle of a causeway over the surging lldul waters o Sloop Channel. The ear was empty. In the glove compartment were Bcckmuim's wallet and the .32 caliber service revolver he usually carried on his person. ilierc were no notes, only a letter his wife had given him and which, like many a husband, he had forgotten to mail. The circumstances might have pointed clearly to sui-eide-a leap into Sloop Chan-ncl-cxccpt for the fact that Beckmann seemed to have no reason whatsoever for taking his lite. . His physician, Dr. Harvey L. Myers, had given him a complete checkup two weeks before. Beckmann was pro nounced In good health except for slight high blood pressure. He apparently had no mon ey problems. The commission- er had access to two depart- and petty cash. Audits in De cember had shown no Irregu larities, i Although, they were child less, Beckmann and his wife had been a devoted couple. She had long suffered from a serious cardiac condition. A priesi broke the news of her husband's disappearance. She has never accepted the idea of suicide. "He lived for hit And I know he was happy in it," she said. "He had been cheer ful recently except for mild irritability because of his diet pills, but we had a fine time at Christmas." .: Skin divers have gone down into the bay and ships have dragged it without finding the body. Officers point out that Beckmann's car was driven over three other bridges-from which he could have leaped. Received Beating Report On the day before his dis appearance, Beckmann receiv ed a report on a charge by 18-year-old burglary sus pect that county police had beaten him. The report, in which the charge was denied, was delivered personally by Beckmann to County Execu tive Hollie Patterson. Patter son denied a report that he had asked or been offered Beckmann's resignation. Nassau police have sent out a 17-state missing persons alarm lor tneir commissioner. That is still the status of the, caso-a mlsslne Dcrson. There still is some belief that Beckmann may have suffered an attack of amnesia. Kidnap ing Is not ruled out. The ad in the Long Island newspaper, Newsday, seemed at first to bear out the kid naping theory. But what had happened was this. A man had called the newspaper four times from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2. He said Beckmann was alive and in the vicinity and he could lead a reporter to him. The newspaper became con vinced the man was not a crank, but whenever it tried to pin him down to an ap- 4,500 Scouts Are Attending Church As Part of Week Approximately 4,500 boys. members of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Explorers, are at tending church today to mark Boy Scout Sunday. Today marks the end of Boy Scout week which has been observed by the council which includes Jackson and Jose phine counties in Oregon and Siskiyou county in California. Scouting is essentially re ligious, but nondenomination- al, its leaders point out. It is a strong supplement to the work program of more than 42,000 churches of all denomi nations throughout the coun try- Awarded Recognition Since the inception of the church awards program 1939, 171,500 Boy Scouts and Explorers have been awarded church recognition by their own religious leaders. Almost all of the 823 Boy Scout camps have regular chaplain service. A staff chaplain is available at the Crater Lake council summer camp all sum mer. , . - The summer camp program at Camp McLoughlin.at Lake of the Woods in Klamath county is one of the main scouting activities in this area. It has been used for five years. Campers usually stay for one week of the total six weeks program. Scouts ' receive training in boating and swimming, wood lore and take a regular hike each year. Civic Activities ', Civic activities form an im portant part of the year around Scouting program. Crater Lake council Scouts have been active In get out the vote campaigns, planted thousands of young trees and are always available for other services. As part of Its citizenship training program, the execu tive board of the Crater Lake council invited out standing Scouts to participate in a pro gram called "run your coun cil." Each executive board member invited one of his out standing Scouts in the council area as his guest for dinner and the regular board meeting in Hotel Jackson on Feb. 8. Each Scout selected repre sented his host on the execu tive board and made his regu lar report to the assembled group. . . pbintment to go find Beck mann, the tipster, shied away and asked for more time. The newspaperman the tip ster talked to on each occa sion left last week on a long- planned Puerto Rican vaca tion. It was his own month's absence he was referring to in the ad. The money was the reward he promised the caller for a scoop. There s been no response to the ad. Police are skeptical. They say they have checked out 100 similar tips and all have proved groundless. But this is one case that won't be marked closed until Beckmann is found-dead or alive. . , Drop in anytime and see our selection of Valentine gifts, candies and cardsl Please her with a gift of toiletries or perfumes from our list of famous brands (see our list below) or a beautiful box of fine quality chocolatesi GERMAINE MONTEIL D'ORSAY 4711 REVLON JACQUELINE COCHRAN ANJOU HELENA RUBINSTEIN MARY CHESS JEAN NATE BLANCHARD YARDLEY LENTHERIC WORTH HELENE CURTIS SHULTON BONNE BELL ' LENEL There's Still a Wonderful Selection of HALLMARK VALENTINE CARDS! TV:- 4J &i A Si" of Boxed VALENTINE CHOCOLATES Hoefler's Roger's Whitman's . MEDFORD PHARMACY 101 No. Central at 6th Phone SP 2-6253 Open Week Days: 8:30 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. li it ne7 1 ADMIRAL J SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, T9BI on NEW ADMIRAL Refrigerator Reg. 229.95 ' With Trade H $16988 J M yNEw"v p3 f ADMIRAL X Iff I ii i . 1 uprignr FREEZER Reg. $269.95 $15933 With Trade NEW ADMIRAL RANGE Reg.$l 89.95 With Trade jf I 23 Ft. 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SET COFFEE TABLE & END TABLES Regular $39.95 9 t i 9 r Odds and Ends TABLES $J99 Contempory Extra-length Davenports Foam Reversible Cushions STORE-SOILED $9988 and Up I 3 to Choose KITCHEN SERVING CARTS Reg. $16.95 $088 CARPET REMNANTS and up USED FURNITURE-APPLIANCES 2 Used Maple Twin Beds Large Used Bookcase Headboard 2 Used Electric Ranges As Is, You Haul Used 9x12 Rugs New 9x12 Bedroom Rugs Used Coffee Tables & End Tables Used 21-Inch TV Set Used 14-Inch TV Set Used Maple Bunk Beds Like New 3-Pc. Living Room Set Used Platform Rocker Used Dinette Set 6 Chairs and Buffet . Like New 3-Pc. Living Room Set Like New G-E Dishwasher . 95 ea 54.88 $9.88 , $10.88 $9.88 $12.88 $12.88 $39.88 $49.88 $49.88 $49.88 $16.88 $49.88 $119.88 $139.88 REPOSSESSED FURNITURE Like New BEDROOM SET Was M88 $169.95 oy Like New Mattresses $Q88 Box Springs ea. Innersprings up RHP IS INC. Open Today--Noon 'til 6:00 Hi way 99, Central Point Sale Starts Sunday -12 noon LAMPS Your Choice '08 BEDROOM PICTURES Unfinished DESKS $1488 and Up ts Unfinished Bookcase BED Regular $29.95 : $1088 Twin Size Innerspring Mattress 0 Box Spring I9J B Large Size Innorcnrmn .. ....... .r....g Mattress & dox spring large Selection r PLATFORM ROCKERS l Were $39.95 J k $2788 A SALE STARTS NOON TODAY! Big Selection Choice of Covers RECLINING CHAIRS Were $59.95 V r 3-Pe. FOAM SECTIONAL Reg. $289.95 f mapie x I r Maple Drop Leaf Dinette Set 4 Chair-Wa $139.95 Log Brands Need To Be Renewed, Salem Anyone in western Oregon transporting logs by highways or railroads or who dumps logs into its waters is required under law to mark each log with a brand which is registered with the state , forestry department in Salem, according to State Forester D. L. Phipps. Brands are registered for five-year periods, then they must bo renewed. The re newal period established by law is from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1B61, at which time renewal forms will be sent to all those having registered brands. Prior to this time, however, applications for renewal can not bo accepted. Logging operators desiring to register brands may request applications by letter from the office of state forester, post of fice box 2289, Salem. Contain Name of Brand The letter must contain the name under which the brand is to be registered and the ad dress and a drawing of the pro- posect Drana. nils drawing is essential in determining whether the brand is avail able. Should the proposed brand not meet registration require ments or is lound to be a du plication of a brand already registered, suggestions will be made by the department for .o . tnnr. hnf ...111 mntPH li ceptable and the request re turned to the operator for an-, proval. Upon approval of the pro posed brand, registration ap plication forms and instruc-: tions are sent to the operator. The application form requires an actual imprint of the brand from the finished hammer. . Problem in Devising Since there have been more than 6,169 log brand regis tered to some 6,851 operators since the law became effective in 1943, the operator now ap-; plying has a problem in devis ing a brand which will not du plicate one of these already on ' file. - Changes In the present law are now being considered by the state legislature to broad en the combination of svmbols : that can be used ' for the brands. Assistance in prepar ing the log brand is also given In the form of a log brand di rectory that Is available for inspection at various state for- psfrv fnvnat npnfAptlin flnnn. elation . and national . forest headquarters throughout western Oregon, The directory should be consulted by the operator as he designs his own brand prior to writing for an appli cation. The directory is avail able in Southern Oregon at the Cave Junction guard sta tion; the state department of , forestry offices at Grants Pass and Medford; and at the Pros pect ranger station. Boundary Board Ta P 4 am m jJ j atl Ikvif 4t J ( m mm m h v bwbb IU VAJIMIUGI I'lUfC The Jackson county school district boundary board will consider transferring the Gil- breath property from Butte Falls district to Eagle Point district, County Judge Earl Miller said Friday. The Butte Falls school board wrote the county court protesting the Jackson Coun ty School District Reorganiza tion committee's earlier rec- : ommendation that the prop erty be transferred. It is lo cated one mile pant nf the Crowfoot rd. and 300 yards from the old Derby school, which was consolidated with the Butte Falls district. "Any such recommendation at' this time is not within the jurisdiction of the reorganiza tion board and property should not be transferred one piece at a time," the Butte Falls board wrote. "Consolidation or reorgani zation of Butte Falls and Eagle Point districts should not be considered. Complete boundary or property should be changed between districts." The Butte Falls board rec ommended the Deen property as the boundary line since It would provide a natural ter rain division. The school district bound ary board is composed of the three members of the county court and County School Sup erintendent Alf B. Mekvold. After considering the prob lem, the boundary board may call a public hearing. ... . IN DAD'S SHOES Carson City, Nev. - (UPI) -Richard Chrlstensen, 14, of Sparks, Nev., got a chance to fill his father's shoes Thurs day. He was one of 132 Ne vada Boy Scouts who took over the reins of state govern ment for a day, and was as signed to sit as speaker of the assembly,1 a post his father holds at the current session of the legislature. .. s