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By FRANK JENKINS
Let's lead this piece off today
With a quiz question:
Who Is Judge Harold Medina and
what did he do to become famous?
Having asked it, I'll answer it.
Me is the Judge who back in 1949 1
presided at the trial of the eleven
top communists who were charged
with conspiring to upset the gov
ernment of the United States by
;. the use of force and violence.
In his conduct of the. trial he
was so fair and so firm and so
forceful and! so courageous and so
j clear In his thinking and so ac
. curate in his knowledge of the ls
. sues that were Involved that the
trial resulted in their conviction.
The conviction of these top com
munists set the pattern for our de
fense of our way of life against
; the plots of the communists to de
stroy us.
Well, i Judge Medina has come
forth again. Speaking to one of the
sections of the American Bar As
sociation that is cow meeting in
Chicago he urges that television
and radio be barred from court
rooms. Defending h's opinion, he
says:
"Whenever you seek 'to ascertain
the truth, eliminate radio and tele
vision and all those things which
make the truth impossible."
Citing the televised McCarthy'
army hearings, he asserted:
"Everybody (at the McCarthy
hearings) put on an act.. I sup
pose I'd do the same. You can't
help It when you're before a tele
vision camera. As a result, the
whole thing gets so mixed up and
confused that so far as truth is
. concerned you can not find it.'
Judge Medina told the lawyers
lie has no objection to the presence
of news reporters in the court
Toom. "Their coming and going,"
he said, "is orderly and Inconsplc-
uous and does not Interfere with
finding the truth."
But
He concluded
"When (court) proceedings are
broadcast by radio or television
lawyers, prosecutors and witnesses
INDULGE IN PERSONAL PROP'
AGANDA RATHER THAN AD
HERING TO THE TRUTH."
I'm a newspaper man, and I rea
lize that by endorsing Judge Me-
dina's views on the broadcasting
of court proceedings by radio or
television I seem to be condemning
competitors of the newspaper and
seeking to shut them off from the
opportunity to do their part in the
job of telling the news and letting
the Deoole know,
I don't mean to do that. But I
was fortunate enough .last spring
to be present for several days at
the McCarthy-army hearings, and
I couldn't escape the conclusion
that because of the broadcasting,
especially the televising, of what
went on the whole thing became
a three-ring circus in which the
actors were much more intent on
putting on a show and hogging the
spotlight whenever possible than in
getting at the real truth of the mat
ter.
That Is the meat of what Judge
Medina has to say about radio and
television broadcasting of court
proceedings in his remarks in Chi'
- cago to the lawyers.
I think the time will come when
radio and television can be admit
ted even to our court rooms and
our congressional investigative
hearings in congress and else'
where. They are certainly a legiti
mate part of what we call "the
press."
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BIG SPRINGS PARK IN BONANZA is a beauty spot made possible by hard
work, community cooperation and ideas to make money. The recreation area
is located on Lost River at the edge of the town.', A birthday party is being
planned in celebration of the third anniversary of the first meeting called to
start the ball rolling toward what has been accomplished. The affair, a potluek
supper will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, August 21 at the park. There will be
Woodworkers Ask Right
To Negotiate With Company
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CIO Woodworkers at the Booth
Kelly Lumber Co.,- Springfield
Ore., asked union officials for per
mission to conduct their own nego
tiations as the Pacific Northwest
lumber strike went into its 58th
day Tuesday..
Booth-Kelly employes, including
both mill and. woods workers, votr
ed 164-11 Monday night to take
their dispute out of the hands of
the union's regional negotiating
committee.
Frank Worley, business agent
for the union, said the Booth-Kelly
employes could bring their request
to a union meeting and that the
Anderson Mill
Pact Signed
The Hayfork Lumber Company,
Anderson, California, and AFL lo
cal 2608 have signed an agreement
extending their present contract,
without wage change, until Its 1956
anniversary date according to
PIRC today.
Under terms of the agreement,
negotiations can be opened to dls
iuss wages, on the part of either
the company or the union, with 30
days notice of desire to open. This
provision will be in eflect from
now until December l, 1954, alter
which time the wage opening
clause reverts to the normal con
tractual provision of 60 days no
tice. All employes are to return to
their former positions, with a dead
line of August 23 for returning to
work. Thirty-six men are Involved.
There shall be no retaliation
or discrimination of any kind by
either the union or the company
by reason of the strike or any em
ployes' actions during, the strike,
it was agreed. '
The strike settlement agreement
provides further that . hereafter
there can be not strike involving
ine operation unless approved by a
majority of the employes in that
particular plant.
FLOOD AID
BERLIN I German Red
Cross officials have promised to
distribute American food aid to
Iron Curtain flood victims on
basis of need and without regard
to race, creed or political convic
tion. Welfare officials from the
Soviet Zone met here Monday,
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matter could be voted on by the
entire membership, which he esti
mated at between 1,600 and 1.800.
Booth-Kelly normally employes
about 275.
There were these other develop
ments in the lumber strike:-
J. L. Jennings, the public repre
sentative, was named chairman' of
the Oregon Conciliation Board
which held its first meeting Mon
day. The board is interviewing
management and labor representa
tives in the dispute. . .
PARTIAL OPERATIONS
At Lebanon, Ore., the Santiam
Lumber CO. resumed partial oper
ations Monday with non-union and
supervisory help. CIO Woodwork
ers earlier turned down a man
agement proposal to return to
work at the old wage rate.
In the Sultan, Wash., area, CIO
employes have returned to work
at six small concerns after gain
ing a 12 Vj-cent hourly pay in
crease, union headquarters in
Portland reported Monday. The
largest of the six plants employs
about 25 men.
At Olympia, Judge Charles T.
Wright postponed a decision on t
controversy over picketing of the
city's port by CIO Woodworkers.
- Last week the court issued tem
porary orders restraining the union
from picketing the port and re
straining the port from moving
building products owned by Simp
son Logging Co. from a warehouse
to railroad cars. Monday's hear
ing was on whether the orders
should be made permanent. Judge
Wright delayed his decision until
Aug. 23 to give both sides time
to file written arguments.
SPOKANE MILLS
In the Spokane. Wash., area
workers at two mills were repor
ed ready to go back to work.
. The Lincoln Lumber Co. at Lin
coln, Wash., reported its 150 AFL
Lumber and Sawmill Workers had
voted to end their strike and get
back on the Job at the old wage
rate Monday or Tuesday. But Wll-
liam L. Ransbottom, executive sec
retary of the union's district coun
cil, said the settlement had not
been authorized by the council and
may not be recognized:
Some 100 employes of the Post
Falls, Idaho, Lumber Co. voted to
return to their jobs without a pay
increase. A union spokesman said
the company offered to meet any
wage pattern established by the In
dustry in the area.
The lumber strike began June
20 when management refused to
grant the two unions' demands for
a 12 'i-cent hourly wage increase.
Red Prisoner
List ReVised
PANMUNJOM Wl The U. N.
command - Tuesday demanded an
accounting of 2,840 missing allied
soldiers including 526 Americans
named on a "newly revised list"
of men the Reds are accused of
holding prisoner'.
Rear Aflm. T.'B. Brlttaln told
the Communists the U. N. wants
to know when the men will be
freed if they are alive and when
their bodies will be returned if
they are dead.
The Communists promptly branded-the
U. N. list "a fabricated
roster" and declared that "all per
sons have been repatriated in ac
cordance with the armistice agree
ment." The new list, given the Commu
nists at a meeting of the Military
Armistice Commission, carries the
names of 526 Americans, 50 from
other U., N. nations and 2.264
South Koreans.
It includes men whom the Reds
have admitted holding in China.
The Reds Insist that all allied
war prisoners who wanted to re
turn home were repatriated last
year.
All of the small group of cap
tives in China are believed to be
airmen who drifted down In Man
churia after their planes were
erlnn'od In air battles lust south
o( the border, ine ncos conieuu
thev are not war prisoners.
Britain said the revised list car-
rles the names of POWs "we are
convinced were in your hands and
whom we still consider as not hav
ing been accounted for in a satis
factory manner."
Oregon Lawyers
Name New Board
PORTLAND ln The board of
governors for the Oregon State Bar
was announced Monday following
tabulation of election results.
The new board, which will take
office at the bar's convention at
Gearhart In September, Includes:
William H. Dashney, McMlrmvllle,
first district: George H. Corey,
Pendleton, second district; Allan
Davis, Portland, third district
Frank Van Dyke, Medford, fourth
district.
Van Dyke defeated D. J. Grant,
Coos Bay, and Davis was the lead
er m a three-man race in the only
contests. .
William H. Morrison, Portland,
was named to the house of dele
gates of the American Bar Assn
square dancing and motion pictures for the children. Here No. I is a pie
ture of the children's play equipment and the sprinkler system. No. 2 is part
of the flower-bordered springs with the pump house in the rear. No. 3 shows
a bed of watercress and across the spring, the fenced-in picnic area with
barbecue built by 4-H boys and girls. No. 4 is a picture of Lost River with
bridge in rear.
Big Springs Park Built By
Residents Of
Three years ago residents of Bo-
nanzaand of the surrounding ara
were deeply concerned over the
drowning of a small child in Lost
River which flows close to , the
small town. Drownings in other
years had also taken the lives of
children, enticed- to the water be
cause there was no adequate spot
to play where there was no danger.
For years adults had spoken of
the wide, low shores as an ideal
spot to build a park but time
passed and no move was made
to get the work started. Three
years ago the idea Jelled. A meet
ing was held.
There was no possibility of rais
ing a large sum of money for the
project so it was siariea on a snoe-
string, after a small group oi
townspeople met to exchange ideas.
Most of the land was donaiea 10
be used as a park site. Labor and
equipment to clear the brush ana
debris, the accumulation of years
of time; was donated. ,
Women gave cooked food sales.
variety shows, engineered a Dutch
auction and put a pink pigKie Danx
In the local variety Hore for stray
nlrkels and dimes. Nelhborin
towns hive helped. Giraen Club
members have planted flowers and
helped care for them.
The fund grew, a lawn was
planted. A good pumping system
which also is used by the Bonanza
Fire Department, was installed and
a sprinkler system was put in.
Shade trees were planted. Four-H
Club boys and girls helped build a
rock barbecue. Tables and Dencncs
have been built and this summer a
fence was built along tho river.
Playground equipment, swings, a
teeterboard, slide and merry-go-round
are on the grounds. All this
has been accomplished in three
years.
Ground for a tennis court, skat
ing rink and square dance area
has been cleared and the commu
nity folks are eyeing plans for a
swimming pool. Funds for these
improvements are needed and
some way must be found to raise
more money.
To celebrate the start of the
Wcallicr
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Fair and warmer throueh
Wednesday. HUh vteanesaay au;
low Tuesday night 47.
High yesterday 68
Low last night 43
Preclp last 24 hours . 0
8lnre Ort. 1 - l'-64
Same period last year 14.87
Normal for period .i 12.58
Bonanza Area
work there will be a potluck sup
per at the park, Saturday, August
21, 6 p.m. Cakes have been do
nated which will be sold with cof
fee. There' will be a potluck sup
per at the park, Saturday, August
21, 6 p.m. Cakes have been do
nated which will be. sold with cof
fee. There will also be a wishing
well to collect small change.
Park association memberships will
be sold.
The supper will be followed by
square dancing with J. B. Stanley
and guest callers invited, square
dance groups from other arts of
the Klamth Basin have postponed
regular dance nights to help Bo
nanza celebrate. . ,
Everyone Is Invited to take a
potluck dish and attend.
Bandit Added
To FBI List
WASHINGTON W Walter
James Wilkinson, tagged as lead
er of a New York state bandit
gang, Tuesday was added to the
FBI's list of "10 most wanted
men."
The government wants Wilkin
son on a charge of fleeing across
slate lines alter what it described
as a vicious kldnap-rpbbery at
Corinth, N.Y., last Feb. 12.
Wilkinson, 30, and two others
were alleged to have gone at night
to the home of a Corinth super
market manager, forced him at
gunpoint to accompany them to
the store and then looted Its safe
of nearly $3,000.
The FBI SBld the abductors de
cided to leave the manager to
freeze to death In a locked meat
refrigerator. The man's life was
saved when his family, alarmed at
his dl5appcarence, started a police
search.
The fugitive is of medium height
and weight, with blue eyes and
blond hair which the FBI said may
have been dyed a dark brown. He
Is reported to have visited Cleve
land after the Corinth robbery and
Is known to have expressed a de
sire to spend some time in Day
tona Beach, Fla.
Wilkinson replaces on the "most
Wanted" list Lloyd Reed Russell,
escapee, from Michigan State
prison who was shot and killed In
a skirmish with deputy sheriffs at
Opportunity, Wash., Aug. I.
Infiltration Of
Labor Unions Hit
WASHINGTON Ufl The Senate
Tuesday passed a bill to strip the
Communist Party of all its legal
rights and overrode administration
objections by voting to make mem
bership in it a crime.
The bill, passed by the House
Monday in a form described as
acceptable to the administration,
also would deprive labor unions,
found to be Communist-dominated,
of any legal standing before the
National Labor Relations Board.
The Senate ignored administra
tion opposition as It wrote into the
bill, by a vote of 41-39, an amend
ment of Sen. Humphrey (D-MInn)
tn innirA Communist Party mem
bers subject to imprisonment and
heavy fines.
The House-passed bill would not
no so far. It would take away all
the legal rignts 01 uie uommumsi
Party.
AMENDMENT
Humphrey, who introduced tne
Senate amendment, described the
Houie measure a "powder puff
legislation.
The bin now goes oack to me
House, where It faces an uncertain
fate.
The final Senate vote on the bill
was 81-1 with sen. Kefauver (D-
Ike Critic
Blasted By
Both Parties
WASHINGTON Un Democratic
National Chalrmaiv Stephen A.
Mitchell drew a blast from Re
publican senators and criticism
from aome members 'of his own
party Tuesday for linking Presi
dent Elsenhower's friendship for
golfer Bobby Jones with a pro
posed power contract. -
The senate had scarcely con-
vened when OOP leader Knowland
of California teed off on Mitchell'
intimation, In a speech Monday
night, , that Eisenhower was In
fluenced by Jones to order a pri
vate power contract in the area
served by the .Tennessee Valley
Authority. . , ,-
Knowland told the Senate that
If Mitchell has any information
which lndicatea the contract Is
Vlllegal" or the result. of t'undue
influence," he haa a duty to pre.
sent his facts to the Justice De
partment or the Senate-House
Atomic Committee.
The Callfornlan said he Tecog
nlzes the growl-.g heat of this
year's political campaign, but 'I
regret that it can't be kept on a
level other than attacking the per
sonal motives of the President of
the United States."
Sen. Cooper- (R-Ky) noted that
he had argued against the con
tract "with all the strength at my
command" In Senate debate on
the atomic bill. He aald he still
regretted that Elsenhower had
ordered it made.
But Cooper said he was certain
the President "acted In what he
thought were the best Interests of
the country" and concluded:
"I do not believe there Is any
truth at all In the statement made
by the chairman of the Demo
cratic Party."
Off the Senate floor, Sen. Ke
fauver (D-Tennl told a reporter
that he feels Mitchell "carried
guilt by association too far" in
hitting at Eisenhower's contract
order.
In a debate Monday with Re
publican National Chairman Leon
ard W. Hall, Mitchell asserted the
President Issued a personal order
on awarding the contract to supply
electricity to an atomic instaii
llon despite protests of both the
Atomic iuiergy Commission and
the TVA, without benefit of com
petitive bidding.
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A NEW RADIO has bean added to the Bonania' Pre Depart,
ment's fruelc to aid m covering -he big area around tha town.
Here. Roy Warefield, fir chief, Test out tha newly installed
equipment.
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Tenn) casting the lone "no."
The Senate also added six
amendments to the labor union
r o v 1 s 1 o n. In general, these
mendments made It easier for
the federal government to certify
union as "Communist-inftlirat
Humphrey's ' amendment Would
make members of the Communist
Party subject to five years in Jail
and a 810,000 fine.
Humphrey had won Senate an.
proval of his proposal 85-0 last
week only to see It deleted bv the
House. .
GOP OPPOSITION
Reuuhllcan leaders fighting' the
Humphrey amendment had said its
adoption would kill the whole leg
islation. '
In the debate, there had been
contentions from Sen. - Kefauver
(D-Tenn and others that the
House bill would not actually out
law the Communist Party.
The Senate approved the Butler
amendments, 62-10. The chief ones
among them would do these
things:
1, Make It clear beyond doubt
that the Communist Party Is not
legitimate political organization.
2. Remove the word, "knowing
ly," from sections dealing with la
bor unions whose leaders are
found to be aiding the world Com
munlst mr-vement,
CHALLENGE
As the legislation stood before
the amendments were adopted,
one of test of Communist infiltra
tion was that a union leader, to
be challenged, must "knowingly
give aid. . ."
3. Forbid a union that has been
found to be Communist-Infiltrated
from petitioning tho attorney gen
eral for a renewal of lta bargain
lng rights within six months ot
the finding that it is Communist-
Infiltrated.
Senate Republican leadershln
called up the House version ot the
bill Monday night but no action
was taken on --It after Butler of
fered six amendments which he de
scribed as "technical," each deal
lng with the union aspects of the
measure.
Kefauver and Sens. Humphrey
(D-MInn) and Lehman (D-Llb)NY)
questioned the "technical" descrip
tion and said halt the amendments
made Important changes. They de.
manded that they be produced tor
study.
Vote Approves
Auto Merger
DETROIT W A new automo
bile Industry merger combining
Packard Motor Car Co. and tho
Studebaker Corp., with total assets
in excess of 251 million dollars
was approved by stockholders of
the two companies Tuesday.
Packard stockholders voted 12,
016,402 of the company's nearly IS
million shares, with almost 00 per
cent favoring the consolidation,
Studebaker shareholders voted 1,
926,846 of 2,360,548 shares outstand
ing, with 98.8 per cent favoring
the merger.
The Studebaker vote was tabu
lated at the company's corporate
headquarters In Wilmington, Del.
The Packard vote was counted in
Detroit.
When final details have been
completed, including the transfer
of Studebaker properties to Pack
ard, a new company to be Known
as the Studebaker-Packard Corp.
will be created. This probably will
bo within the next four weeks.
James J. Nance, 53, will be
president and chief executive offi
cer. Paul G. Hoffman, 63, will be
board chairman, and Harold 8.
Vance, will head the executive
committee.
Nance has been president of
Packard; Hoffman and Vance
have been board chairman and
president, respectively, of Stude
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