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Convicts Smash Legs with Sledge Hammers legs on rocks and whacking away" with the sledge hamers normally used to rock at the 34-acre quarry There were no cries of pain he said Guards watching the 189 prisoners in the fenced-in quarry were taking a rest at the time and said they did not notice what had happened until they ordered the men back to work -Warden Hubert Smith said the injured men told him after the incident that they felt their wheelbarrows were too heavily loaded and the sun was too hot Jack Forrester state director of corrections said a prison doctor told him 29 white and seven Negro inmates shattered bones in their legs during an afternoon rest period at a rock quarry where they were working half a mile ftom the prison He said the men placed their Temperatures were reported in the low 90s at the time Rock Quarry prison was built in 1949 Forrester said it was used to house incorrigible prisoners and that men hard to handle were sent there from other prisons in the state Smith said that prisoners work from 6 am to 6 pm with half-hour breaks in the morning and afternoon and a two-hour lunch break at noon The prison at Buford is in the north Georgia hills about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta BUTORD Ga Thirty-six prlsoneri broke their own legs with 10-pound sledge hammers yesterday in protest against working conditions at Roek Quarry state prison the Alcatraz" of the Georgia penal system Redding ecordvSearchli 1852 as ilie Shasta Courier) And the Courier-Free Press (Founded March 13 VOL no 121 REDDING 1956 CALIF TUESDAY JULY 11 eeps cKeon on Stand Recessed Briefly Rumor Out of Has Bechtel Beresa Firm gfPLL' WARDEN CHIEF SHOWS FISHING GEAR Capt Jay Cox Tries a Rod State Puts Rifles Rods Up for Bids At Auction Friday a physician That doctor arrived about 8 pm she said and told her it wis too late to pump stomach In the meantime Mrs Bechtel told the officer she had to go to town and she returned home just before Armitage arrived with her husband She told the officer she was Details of a change in stockholders of Beresa Inc a home development firm will be made public tomorrow Robert Reil-ley president said today He declined to comment before tomorrow on a rumored sale of Beresa stock held by Mr and Mrs Bechtel of Anderson Bechtel reportedly has attempted suicide twice in the past 10 days and Reilley admitted yesterday that the suicide attempts might be connected with the rumoned sale of stock Bechtel has been manager of the firm in its development of 150 homes in a 600-home Ander A 1 He Tried Hardware Diet JLl iaCllCSt Ate Umbrella Bone Nails went for ridiculously high juices and some went at practically nothing It's hard to figure The fish and game office will be open this week from 8 am to noon and 1 to 5 pm to let prospective buyers look over the merchandise Barnett said he would open the building Thursday night from 7 to 10 pm to allow people who cant get away during the day have a look also cvi-J Barnett has men in the Inspection room at all times the last auction people would pocket small things likp rifle clips when they were inspecting he explained at one of the Los Angeles auctions somebody came In and loaded several rifles before we caught TOBATA Japan July 31 UP) Passersby found 52-year-old Goichl Kawakami lying in the trpptr doubled UP with pain At Kyoritsu hospital doctors decided his stomach was inflamed They operated Inside they found: 1 piece of wire 13 razor blades 1 fountain pen 1 toothbrush 1 pencil 1 pair Estes Cancels Out WASHINGTON UP) Sen Estes Kefauver of Tennessee today withdrew as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nom nation and urg to back Adlai Stevenson Kefauver said that since the primaries for the election of convention delegates he had surveyed the situation and had decided to withdraw In favor of Stevenson the party's 1952 nominee Kefauver's action gives a tremendous psychological lift to Stevenson's bid since it could lead to a wagon" drive for him The announcement from Kefauver came at a news conference he called at a downtown hotel Red Boss Says Egy pt Is Right LONDON UP) Nikita Khrushchev Soviet Communist party chief said today Egypt was entitled to nationalize the Suez canal Moscow radio broadcast speech by Khrushchev before a rally of building workers in the Soviet capital in support of President Gamal Abdel move to take over the 103-mile long waterway HE SAID Britain and France have received the nationalization too much "Unwise voices are even heard there asking for the application of some unspecified means of oppression even of military he said "I think that the common sense experience political soberness of the statesmen of Britain and France will allow them to find the correct comprehension of this historic act and make the proper deductions from Crisis Calls Dulles to London Talks WASHINGTON President Eisenhower is sending Secretary of State Dulles to London to confer with Britain and France about Egypt's seizure of the Suez canal The White House announced this today shortly after the president and Dulles had discussed nationalization of the waterway for an hour and a half worried about finding her husband gone and the jeep missing and was about to call police She refused offer to take Bechtel to a hospital Bechtel has been' unavailable to the telephone since last week and is described as vacation" of chopsticks 1 bone from an umbrella 21 nails and 41 other items of all it appeared swallowed during the past six months Kawakami explained: was told at a festival they would give me a big prize if I ate hardware" patient is doing fine? Kawakami's doctors reported She had hoped to secure $64-771 then lowered her sights to $62428 in conferences with Minton and then watched her proposed budget whittled to $60-708 Last year the budget was $58148 Miss Mardon pointed out that the increase from -last year is due to salary raises given library personnel after a salary hike was granted county employees She warned that purchase of books may have to be reduced in the future and she asked: the library have to absorb salary increases by cutting out The group called "Friends of the Library" will meet again next Monday at 8 pm at the library in Redding Library Friends To Request Money About 25 people crowded into a small basement room at the Shasta county free library last night and gave every indication that they think the library is being short changed when county funds are passed out Called together by Esther Mardon county librarian the discussed group for two hours SINGLE COPY PRICE 16 CENTS KVIP Ready To Go television station KVIP channel 7 is scheduled to start programming at 4 pm to morrow when George Fleharty president Ted Dooley program director and Russell Olsen gen' eral manager lead off a two-hour opening show The opener will culminate planning which started hi ore than a year ago when Shasta Telecasters Inc was formed by a group of northern California men Including several from Red' ding THE TWO-HOUR program will include band numbers Introduction of civic officials from northern California cities and representatives of newspapers and periodicals and of the armed forces KVIP staff members will be Introduced and pictures of the construction of the studio and transmitter will be shown Dooley will describe the local and NBC network programs the station will carry Troubles ranging from a shortage of electrical gear to equipment breakdowns have beset the station since work began on the studio transmitter building and transmitter this spring when the A listing of KVIP programs for Wednesday through Friday will bo found on page 3 A special section about television and KVIP starts on page 11 federal communications commission granted a construction permit Test patterns originally scheduled to be on the air last week were delayed by shortages of connectors and small parts for the transmitter and later by breakdowns in two big diesel electric generators which will supply power until the commercial electric lines are completed to the top of Shasta Bally mountain 12 miles west of Redding AROUND-THE-CLOCK coni struct! cm crews have been unable to finish all of the studio-office building at 2770 Pioneer drive although the section necessary for tomorrow's opening broadcast will be ready to use Offices are expected to be occupied within' a week or two Meantime the staff has been working in a crowded apartment at 1210 Placer street Stockholders in Shasta Telecasters Inc besides Fleharty president and Olsen vice president are William Nystrom of Redding secretary Ross and Laurence Carr of Redding Robert Hammett of San Francisco Carl McConnell of Etna and Morris Cohen of Oakland Redding Sets Water Record Redding quenched lta thirst last week with a record supply of water pumped by the city water department Elbert Dick water department superintendent reported yesterday that 9861000 gallons of Sacramento river water were pumped last Tuesday The figure was 519000 gallons more than the previous 8342' 000 gallons pumped on July 18 19 and 2a Trial General Will Testify PARRIS ISLAND Marine SSgL Matthew Me-Keon dissolved into tears today he told of the disciplinary as march on which six of his recruits drowned McKeon's breakdown forced a brief recess in the court-martial of the 31-year-old former drill instructor In the course of telling about the fatal march of Platoon 71 McKeon said the men who got into trouble had wandered away from the column and some 30 feet out toward the center of Ribbon creek The tall ramrod straight McKeon took the witness stand in his own defense on charges of involuntary manslaughter and oppression of recruits as a result of his marching a recruit platoon into Ribbon Creek at the cost of six lives Defense attorney Emile Zola Berman asked him: the course of your boot training here was your platoon ever marched into the swamps marshes boondocks and waters adjacent to the base?" "Yes sir on several occasions" McKeon replied Berman then asked whether anything unusual occurred during those marches "YES said McKeon drill instructor used to blow a blast on a squad whistle and this would Indicate an air raid and we all had to hit the the mud and water?" Berman inquired said McKeon Meanwhile in Washington the navy said the marine corps has approved a defense request for retired Lieut Gen Lewis Puller to testify Puller a much decorated marine hero and champion of tough training and hard fighting will be recalled to temporary active duty to appear as a witness a navy spokesman said The general now lives in Saluda Va The courtroom began to resemble a battle briefing session before yesterday's session closed with maps being used right and left to indicate the route of march of ill-fated Platoon 71 On April 8 McKeon at the head of a 74-man column of recruits marched Into the tidal waters of the Ribbon creek marsh teach them discipline' a FURTHER MEDICAL testimony was Introduced for the defense purpose of showing that McKeon when he led the march was a man In pain and acting above and beyond the call of duty The medical testimony came from a navy doctor Lieut Ben Jamln'M Kraynick a former Allentown Pa orthopedic surgeon Kraynick told the court Me Keon wu suffering from what is known generally as a slipped disc near the base of the spine Such a condition Kraynick said would result In pressure on a nerve and some pain varying in intensity Berman hopes to show that In this condition McKeon was act-v ing unselfishly in conducting the march that he was moti vated by a real desire to instill a sense of dlsdpliae into the -4 son Heights subdivision and also has been associated with Beresa in construction of Layton Oaks and Cypress Gardens tracts in Enterprise in a tract at Burney and the proposed Northgate Manor development in north Redding Bechtel twice attempted suicide in Anderson according to a report by Vic Armitage sheriffs deputy on the Anderson police force According to re' pert July 20 he was called to the Anderson Heights subdivision by dr and Mrs John Goodrich who had stopped there shortly before midnight to Inspect a tome they are buying They heard a noise coming from a neighboring garage Goodrich Identified it as a running car motor He found Bechtel groggy and sitting on the floor beside his jeep Goodrich pulled him out of the garage After Armitage arrived Bechtel appeared to revive partially and was taken home where his wife told the officer he had been worried over business and unable to sleep for several days Mrs Bechtel said her husband told her while he was eating breakfast that day that he had taken all of her quarter-grain phenobarbital tablets She add' ed that she believed there were 99 in the bottle She said she tried unsuccessfully to get several doctors to come to the couple's home on the Ferry road and finally called a friend In Chico who Is Eighty rifles guns and various pieces of fishing the former property of hunters and fishermen who ran afoul of the will be auctioned off at the Cypress avenue state department of fish and game office Friday larting at 9 am The equipment was all confis cated by judges from fish and game law violators In the eight northern California counties Utt der the fish and game code such i pn qliiiH nr I JfllJCII llu lw IW dence and if the offender Is found guilty can be permanently taken away from him and sold or destroyed THE VIOLATOR can however buy his favorite gun or fishing rod back at auction if the high bidder Three people bought back their confiscated equipment at the last auction in 1954 Barnett business service officer at the Redding fish and game office who will conduct the auction said that the local auction's main purpose is to squelch rumors about the disposition of the property people think we use this stuff ourselves" he said our first auction in 1954 all the equipment was sent to Los Angeles or San Francisco and sold there and people always wondered what happened to it Now they'll know" BARNETT SAID that 600 people including buyers from all over the state showed up for the 1954 auction of the stuff trfe Tt 3 4 library standards and lack of funds to meet them Result was a decision to request the board of supervisors to allow the library a budget of $62428 for 1956-57 This amount 'as approved in the preliminary budget but has been pared to $60708 by Bill Minton county executive for the consideration at a final budget session Representatives of the group will present the case for the library when the supervisors conduct the final budget hearing Aug 20 MISS MARDON a i last night that the $60708 would Just about allow the library to time" during the next fiscal year Knight Asks Treasurer Face Charges SACRAMENTO UP) Gov Knight declared today Stat Treasurer Charles Johnsoi has shown his conduct" tha he is not qualified to hold his of fice The governor demanded tha the 75year-old treasurer com out of seclusion and face up new charges which Knight sail Involved a form of influence peddling NOTING EVIDENCE present ed to a legislative investigatinj committee last week that John son secured private loans fron banks in which he placed stati deposits the governor told i news conference: borrowed money on th credit and not on hli own" Johnson state treasurer sinci 1923 declined the legislativi Invitation to testify His doctor said he was suffering from emotional strain' KNIGHT HIMSELF appeared before the committee to den Johnson's charges that the gov emor pressured him to channe state deposits to politicslly friendly banks He said today hi felt he has been completely vindicated Knight said he didn't know whether there was anything II legal in Johnson's persona transactions but he indicated strongly he felt It was entirelj unethical We a li NORTHERN MOUNTAINS and SACRAMENTO Fair through tomorrow FIRE High SHASTA Elevation: 105255 ft down 40 ft Storage: 4134200 acre feet Depth at dam: 50253 ft Discharge at Keswick dam! 9500 cjf LOCAL DATA: Highest temp yesterday 99 Lowest temp today 92 Rainfall to date 0 04 in Average to date 009 in Last year this date 00 in Sunset today 138 Sunrise tomorrow 8:08 IJS- RABBIT CASUALTY A jackrabbit was the only casualty when John Bullock crop sprayer from Anderson crash landed his single place plane in a field on the Sam Moore ranch near the Happy Valley road south of Redding this morn ing The pilot was shaken up but not seriously hurt when the plane apparently developed engine trouble Deputy Sheriff Vernon Lake is under the plane wing looking for information Neighbors of Moore are standing by i 51 RIFLES SHOTGUNS UP FOR BID Barnett Will Be Aictloneer.