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MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1963 g y Attorney General Accuses Kansan of Worthless Oil Lease Sale By CHARLES F. JUSTICE United Press International New York (UPD In the ex treme and lonely southwest corner of Kansas, the small (pop. 13,813) city of Liberal breeds a spirit of competition. Thus, it can produce such phenomena as the yearly pan cake races between the house wives of Liberal and those of Olney, England, and such citizens as James E. Lofland, who thinks big. Lofland is a 36 - year - old onetime appliance salesman from Liberal who traded the dusty Kansas flatlands for the concrete canyons of Manhat tan a year ago and took to the big town and its ways like a big bass takes to the waters of the Cimarron. Lofland talked a lot about big oil and big land deals. Soon, he was rubbing elbows with the rich and the famous with a striking woman often on his arm. Among them: svelte and blonde Broadway actress Dolores Gray ("Des try Rides Again") and Jo hanna Revson van Boythan, Dutch-born former wife of cosmetics czar Charles Rev son. Next Thursday, Lofland has another date - to under go questioning by Louis J. Lefkowitz, balding ' and en ergetic attorney general of the state of New York. No Laws Broken The attorney general has not accused Lofland of vio lating any laws or of any criminal offense. But he has charged the suavely hand some and persuasive Kansan with "an attempt to sell $3 million in worthless oil leases to New York investors" and obtained a court order barring any more sales. Miss Gray, Miss Van Boythan among others, Lefkowitz said, un wittingly aided Lofland by introducing him to influential people. What Lofland did, accord ing to Lefkowitz, was this: He went to homesteaders in oil rich Lea county, N. M., tell ing them they had been "wrongfully deprived" of their mineral rights by the federal government, which collects $6 million yearly from royalties. Lofland bought portions of the mineral rights from the land owners, Lefkowitz said, telling them he would have federal legislation passed which would allow them to share in the royalties. In 1960, the attorney gen eral said, Lofland began sell ing the deeds to the public, contingent on the passage of such legislation. But says Lofland, it was not fraud. "There was nothing hidden in any way, shape or form. Everybody was aware that the sale of the oil leases was contingent on legislation that would give the rights back to the homesteaders. "As for the investors, they were well-to-do people who felt this was a good gamble. As far as we're concerned, it's still not dead and if any of the investors are unhappy, I'll take back their interests if I have to borrow the money to do it." Lefkowitz, obtained a state supreme court order requiring Lofland, Miss Gray, Miss Van Boythan, a former cabinet member, a former congress man, two sons of former U.S. senators and four other per sons to tell under oath what they knew about the Kan san's alleged scheme "to in duce various individuals to part with $200,000." Lofland did this, the at torney general claimed "by falsely representing he was a millionaire oil man who own ed mineral rights on oil pro ducing lands in New Mexico. No investor has received any return on his money." The high flying Kansan, who has vigorously denied any attempt to defraud anyone, liked to give parties in his penthouse overlooking Cen tral Park at Fifth Avenue in the fashionable 70's. He became engaged to Miss Gray and they were photo graphed at the Stork Club last November smilingly hold ing hands. On Dolores' third finger, left hand, was a $55, 000 diamond. 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LADIES' SEAMLESS NYLONS i e Proportioned Knit Reg. $1.99 !5 c Li 1 '- :" tym; I Safe, sure, quick $1177 BLEACHED MUSLIN T DISH TOWELS 4.99c RAYON-ACRYLIC BLANKET S3.99 ZIPPER Ref. $1.91 3-RIHG BINDER S1.77 Reg. $1.29 88c R EDDY-LOCK WINDOW SCREENS ALL COTTON RIG. 39c TRAINING PANTS 3 -89c FOAM BACK, 18.27 REG. $1.49 SCATTER RUG 88c CERAMIC REG. 88c MOSAIC TILE 77c WEBSTER REG. $1.69 DICTIONARY S1.33 met Johanna Revson van Boy than, also known as Anky ("don't call me Anky in the newspapers"). Johanna re ceived a $2.5 million settle ment when she was divorced from Revson in 1960 after 20 years of marriage. Anky and Jim became close friends. Too close, according: to Dolores, who twisted the 25 carat diamond from her third finger, left hand, and gave it to Anky. The engagement was off. Dolores has now sued Lof land for $845,000, which she breaks down into $55,000 for "sentimental value" of the ring and $790,000 for the "pain and harm" inflicted upon her when he allegedly socked her in London's Gros venor House. She also is suing Anky for return of the dia mond. Counter Suit Lofland entered a general denial to her suit and counter sued for $22,500. She owes him $10,000 for one reason or another, he said, and owes another $12,500 that he ad- ' vanced her to buy certain oil interests in Lea county. Back at the estate, in Rye, N. Y, - which was another part of her settlement from Revson - Anky was uncon cerned .about Dolores' suit against her, but demanded more accuracy on the Broad way star's part. "It's not a 25-carat ring," Anky said. "It is 21 carats. I don't need a 25-carat ring. I have a 24-carat ring of my own. I don't need gifts from Mr. Lofland like Miss Gray." Anky said she and Jim did not have any immediate mar riage plans, but that she would stick by him through it all. Federal Lobbyist In 1960, Lofland registered in Washington as a federal lobbyist. His attorneys, he said, were former Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman, former Massachusetts Repre sentative Joseph E. Casey, Dennis Chavez Jr., and James E. Murray Jr., son of the late senator from Montana. Chavez, who has denied any connection with Lofland, is the son of the former senator from New Mexico who in 1959 and 1961 introduced bills in the Senate "to authorize the granting of mineral rights to certain homestead patentees who were wrongfully de prived of such rights." Both bills failed to pass. "I have never been asso ciated with him (Lofland) in htisiflfves in a Ificrnt rananlttf i , -.. - a - I or socially." Chavez said. Cha vez declared he was merely acquainted with Lofland and considered him "quite an op erator." Chapman, who voluntarily appeared before Lefkowitz, said he had acted for the Kansan "only as an attorney to investigate the legal as pects of mineral rights he claimed to have and of pos sible legislation in that con nection." But, said the cabi net official in the Truman ad ministration, he "terminated our relationship many months ago when I was told he had misused my name" and be cause he found that Lofland didn t have what he thought he had." Chapman said Lof land paid him $13,500. Casey said he still is look ing into the matter "to see If there is still some value" to the Kansas entrepreneur's efforts. CHEF KING REG. 9Sc GIRLS' COTTON SIZE 3-14 AT CASHIER'S BOOTH R.C.A. RADIO OR Red Ripe Plums ir- ,17 MULOM SIP o Honey Dew o Persian o Casaba c I Mist 0' Gold Pure Orange Juice qt. 49c Barbeque Base 69c Bermuda Shorts 77c TV Tubes 40 Off IIMaeiAICAlLI aOLYITMYLIMI REG. 11.19 GIRLS' MORPUL GIANT BAG REG. 79c Beverage Jug 88c Ankle Socks . 77c Sponges 2 .. 99c . INCH REG. 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Herbert Stone, regional forester. Pac ific Northwest region. The harvest comprises about 40 per cent of the total timber cut from all lands In the two states. Value of the timber sold was $92,332,699.46 and value of the timber harvested was $80,239,759.18, final figurea show. The previous year, sales volume was 4,800,000, 000 board feet valued at $80, 667,000 and the harvest vol ume was 4,157,000,000 board feet valued at $78,643,000. About 500.000,000 board feet of the 1963 volume was in pine stumps sold to Heyden .Newport Chemical Corpora tion for chemical extraction. The large sale will result In development of a new indus try in south-central Oregon. The Willamette National forest of Oregon led the re gion in volume of timber sold anrl harvested. The Siuslaw National forest, hardest hit by the Columbus Day storm, was next highest. Highest In Washington was the Cifford Plnchol National forest.
