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Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended Medford 1RIBUNE A Danish exchange student, attending Mtdford High school, rive hit impressions of the I mted States In a story pas 12 of today's Mali Tribune. Unitd Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 32 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 1957 No. 246 on Oregon Building r.mit5 TT4t coo, floo.

Presents New "Want To Know How It Ends?" Proposal Involves Calculated Bisks tOflflLOQO. Washington CUP)" asked Congress Saturday for power to use U.S. aimed forces, on a moment's notice, to defend any Middle East nation which seeks American protection from Communist attack. Addressing a joint session of the House and Senate, he said the "best insurance" against getting involved in a war in the Middle East is to "make clear now our readiness" to fight if necessary to defend the Hi Pensioner Charged With Murder Of Welfare Chairman Cramer Held Without Bail for Grand Jury Klamath Falls Ore. (U.R) Guy E.

(Bill) Cramer, 87, Bonanza pensioner who shot and killed the Klamath County welfare commission chairman Friday, was held in Klamath county jail without bail Saturday, charged with first degree murder. Cramer, who police said fired point-blank at Fred Peterson, 75, the welfare chairman, and wounded two others in a shooting spree before he was overpowered in the Klamath County courthouse, was arraigned before District Judge D. E. van Vactor late Friday and was ordered held without bail for the grand jury. Jerry Rajnus was critically injured and Mrs.

Altha Urqu-hart, county welfare administrator, was also wounded. On Critical List Hospital attendants said Mrs. Uhquhart was recovering satisfactorily after surgery. They oil-rich area from the aggressive designs of Russia's 195a Total i Total 3L ambitious despots. He acknowledged that J953 1954 1955 1956.

New Residential Pcrmits Ofll Building, Permits. which diplomats have labelled the "Eisenhower doctrine' involves calculated risks because Russia "will not like" it. yk 1- RsMf dential permits in Washington and Idaho, like Oregon, show a slight decline from 1954 to 1956. Meanwhile Medford has continued upward in the volume of new residences built. Mackie pointed out that the decline of 1953 residences built in Medford was due to a scarcity of vacant residential lots.

Since 1953 there have been numerous annexations to Medford where new buildings have been constructed. Most conspicuous areas of new building growth in Medford are the Garfield school area and Wilson Park Addition in southwest Medford and the Country Club Manor area in southeast Medford. Mackie said it can be anticipated there will also be a growth in new buildings in the southeast Medford area near Rogue Valley Memorial hospital, now under construction. BUILDING INCREASE IN MEDFORD Graph shows steady increase in volume of building in Medford from 1952 to 1936. For the first nine months of 1956 building permits increased in Medford 36 per cent over the corresponding period in 1935.

Increase for the entire state of Oregon during that time was only 8 per cent. Also during the first nine months of 1956 residential permits in Medford increased 12 per cent over the same period in 1955. Volume of residential permits in the state during the nine months period of 1956 decreased 9 per cent from the 1955 total. Although total valuations for new buildings in Oregon, Washington and Idaho also have increased from 1952 to 1956, figures show the building trend in Medford has risen at a faster rate, according to H. E.

Mack city building superintendent. Volume of resi Medford District Is Faced With Need for Additional School Chase Described by Police Sergeant at Narcotics Trial The trial of Ambuehl, charged. President Eisenhower his far-reaching proposal to use any means to gain their ends. "3. The free nations of the mideast need, and for the most part want, added strength to assure their continued independence." Any wishful thought that Rus sia had changed ways since the death of Stalin, he said, disappeared "in the aftermath of the Hungarian tragedy." 'We have lust seen the sub jugation of Hungary by naked force and it would be lolly to doubt Russia's readiness to swallow up the Middle East if Communist leaders should either falsely or correctly estimate that the Middle East is inade quately defended.

"I am convinced that the best insurance against this dangerous contingency is to make clear now our readiness to cooperate fully and freely with our friends in the Middle East in ways consonant with the-purposes and principles of the United tions." Na- Bus Crashes Into Truck Killing Six Lexington, Va. U.R) A Greyhound bus carrying 39 passengers smashed into a disabled trailer-truck -near here Friday night killing six persons and injuring 32 others. Rescuers using acetyline torches and wrecker hoists worked for nearly two hours to free the passengers some of them seriously injured and remove the dead from the twisted wreckage of the glass-domed "Scenicruiser." Police said the bus, en route from Memphis. to New York, crashed into the rear of the parked cross-country trucK shortly after 7 p.m. EST on the rise of a small hill.

The truck had pulled to the side of the busy, divided highway because of motor trouble and the driver, who was slightly injured, had just set out emergency flares. Ambulance and wreckers from four nearby communities rushed the injured to hospitals here as they were freed from the twisted steel and the jam med seats of the bus. Arab League Group Schedules Meeting Cairo UR) The Arab League Political Committee meets here today, to map a joint Arab policy on events growing out of the buez crisis, including president Eisenhower's proposed Middle East doctrine. Authoritative sources said today the Eisenhower doctrine will be one of the main items on the agenda. The stand the Arab league takes will have an important bearing on how the president's plan will be accepted here.

Weather FORECAST: IOff overcast and smoky in valley through Monday with partial afternoon clearing. Fog Sunday night and Monday, lifting during midday. Little change In temperature. hoth days near 3.1. Low tonight 27.

TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterday 32 Lowest Yesterday' 25 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset 7:41 a.m. 4:54 pan. Moon set 10:43 p.m. Prominent Constellations Orion, high in south 10:42 p.m. Leo, high in south 3:21 a.m.

PROMINENT STARS Altalr. low in west 6:20 p.m. Betelf ense, low In west with illegal possession and con trol of narcotics, was originally scheduled for Jan. 8, but was rescheduled for Jan. 2.

District Attorney Walter D. Nunley has been representing the state at the trial. He will leave office Monday, but has agreeed to finish the case as a special deputy district attorney. Nunlcy's successor. Thomas Reeder, Saturday made the following statement: "Unfortunately, Mr.

Nunley saw fit to have the Ambuehl case moved up on the trial docket. Since he has begun the trial of this case, the only sensible and proper thing for me to do is to let him conclude the trial. Therefore, I shall request that he be appointed as special deputy without compensation for the sole purpose of completing the Ambuehl case. Propriety and ethics of the legal profession dictate that this course of action be followed." New Airlift Slated For Hungarians Washington 'U-R The United States Saturday set up a two-flight-a-week airlift to bring Hungarian refugees to freedom in this country. A spokesman for the Military Air Transport Service first announced that two planes a day would begin carrying the refugees under operation Safe Haven II.

He announced later that the number of flights would be two a week. He said the exact days of the flights had not been determined yet. But he said one or two flights might be made Sunday. But he said the greatest risk that power-hungry Commu nists may miscalculate our in tentions and launch a territory grab that would "gravely en danger all of the free world." The troop request highlighted word speech in which he also asked congress to vote a big economic and military aid program to help stabilize the trouble-torn area. He asked for $400 million dur ing the next two fiscal years, plus an unstated amount of im mediate aid from already-appro priated funds.

Mr. Eisenhower pledged that he would not send U. S. troops into action in the Middle East except at the desire of the na tion attacked." Special Mission He also disclosed he will "promptly" send a special mission to the Middle East to ex plain the cooperation we are pre pared to give. These statements answered Communist propaganda blasts that the Eisenhower Doctrine is an attempt to impose U.

colonialism" on unwilling Mid dle East nations. The President also promised that if a situation arises which calls for U. S. military action he will "maintain hour-by-hour contact" with congress. If a crisis develops while congress in recess, he said, he win lat once" call it into special session.

Close Scrutiny The Democratic controlled congress is expected to ap prove the program, but only fter long and close scrutiny oi the details. Reaction of congressional leaders was generally favorable after Secretary of State John Foster Dulles outlined the main points to Senate and House Foreign Affairs committees. The President -received a noisy standing ovation when he strode to the rostrum of the House chamber promptly at 12:30 p.m. (EST) to deliver his historic address in person. The tone of urgency which ran through his speech was underlined by the circumstances in which it was delivered.

Rarely if ever, before has a President addressed a new congress on a specific issue in advance of his State of the Union message. Review Situation Mr. Eisenhower told the law makers he will review the overall world situation in the State of the Union message, which he will deliver in person next Thursday. But he said he did not want to wait until then to call attention to the "grave" situa tion in the Middle East. That situation is a power vacuum resulting from the col lapse of British and French influence following their attack on Egypt.

Mr. Eisenhower assured Rus sia that it has "nothing whatso ever to fear, from the United States in the Middle East, or anywhere else in the world, so long as its rulers do not themselves first resort to aggression." He said this country has no intention- of using the Middle East "as a base for aggression against Russia." Its only goal is peace, stability and the tun sovereignty and independence of every nation" in the area. Three Facts Mr. Eisenhower said his pro posals were made in the light of three "simple and indisputable "1. The Middle East, which has always been coveted by Russia, would today be prized more than ever by international Communism.

"2. The Soviet rulers continue to show that they do not scruple still listed the condition of Raj nus as critical. The shooting occurred when Cramer, described as a chronic complainer, demanded an increase in his state welfare payments during the regular meeting of the commission in the Klamath county courthouse. Peterson, former county school superintendent for whom a grade school near Klamath Falls is named, died minutes after reaching the hospital. Police said Cramer later in jail, asked whom he had hit, and when informed Mrs.

Urquhart, said: "Well, when you go into a den of coyotes, you might as well get them all." The officers said Cramer had a prison record. He served year in Oregon State Prison in 1934 after he stole a cabin from the Jerry McCartie ranch in Bonanza and moved it away. Earlier, in 1926, he served six months for assault with a dan-gerous weapon. Ships Slated To Move in Canal Port Said, Egypt (U.R) Thirteen merchant ships marooned for two months in the blocked Suez Canal were scheduled to start moving out of the waterway early today. A United Nations source said the ships would move under Egyptian control.

Orders to get the ships underway were suddenly cancelled Saturday until it could be settled whether Egypt or the UN canal clearing force under U.S. Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler would control the operation.

The announcement by the UN source early today indicated the Egyptian Suez Canal Authority had won UN concession for its stand that only Egypt had the right to control navigation in the formerly international waterway. Columbus, O. (U.R) Gov. John W. Brown has turned down a defense request to grant clemency to Dr.

Samuel H. Sheppard, now serving a life term for the second degree murder of his wife, Marilyn. night when her two abductors, whom she described as two Latin-type men, threw her out of their car in the desert. She said one of her abductors was a "pachuco-type" Mexican with an Elvis Presley haircut. While she was telling from her hospital bed here this story of bejng held blindfolded with a sack over her head, Sgt.

Alex Chambreau of the Los Angeles police department called in the press at Los Angeles city hall, some 125 miles from here, and related what he said was her story of rape and indigities. He quoted Sgt. Ernest Johnston of the Valley Envision of Los Angeles police, controlling the area where Miss McDonald's 565,000 home sits in the San Fernando valley, and from where she disappeared Thurs and spells out the objectives of the educational program in the Medford school system, including citizenship, basic schools and appreciations, health, economic life. moral and spiritual values, family life and aesthetic values. The hoard aiso heard reports on the operation of the junior high school plan (the so-called 6-3-3 system of grade, junior high and.

high school years) as com pared-, with the 8-4 system ot grade and high schools only; on the development of extra-curncu- ar activity periods in the schools. and a list of subject areas to be taken up for consideration at later similar meetings. State Convention Slated for- Medford The Oregon State Bar associ ation will hold its annual con vention in Medford next Septem ber, it was reported Saturday The meeting is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 18 to 20, and more than 1,000 attorneys and their families from all parts of the state are expected to attend according to Frank J. Van Dyke Medford, vice president of the Bar's board of governors.

Announcement of the selec tion of Medford was made at the annual election meeting of the Jackson County Bar association Thursday noon, according to Paul Haviland, outgoing presi dent of the association. New officers of the local bar include G. W. (Bill) Kellington president; Harry Skerry, Ash land, first vice president; James M. Main, second vice president; Miss Noreen Kelly, treasurer, and Ervin B.

Hogan, secretary. A social gathering of the as sociation, at which time the new officers will be installed, will be held later this month, Haviland said. Sports Bulletins Medford high made it two straight over Crater in the Southern Oregon conference basketball chase by waxing the Comets 63 to --5 here last night. The Black Tornado led 51 to 36 at the end of three quarters. Crater crept up to 51 to 43 before Medford moved out in the final canto.

Dick McLaughlin scored 18 points for the Tornado and Don Goy- ette 16 for the Comets. Ashland Southern Oregon college evened its series with Eastern Oregon college here last niSht with an 80-66 Ore gon Collegiate conference basketball win. SOC led at halftime 37-30. Grants Pass Grants Pass high evened its Southern Ore gon conference basketball series with Ashland here last night by nudging the Grizzlies 43 to 41. California 61, Washington Slate 51.

UCLA 69, Idaho 68. Stanford 60, Oregon Slat 58. The Medford school district is faced with the need for one and possibly two new schools by the 1958-59 school year, the board of education was told last week. School Superintendent Leonard Mayfield discussed the situation with the board at the first of a series of meetings held specifically to discuss educational and curriculum problems, as distinct from administra'tive and business problems. The latter will be considered at the second meeting of each month.

Children Increasing Mayfield pointed out that the number of children in the school system has been increasing at a regular rate equal to about 10 or 12 classrooms each year, and that provision must be made to accommodate them. At present, preliminary discussion is centering about the need for one or two schools on the east side of the district. It may be possible that only one new school will be needed, the board was told, although census figures tend to indicate it would be wise if two were erected, one in the northeast part of the district on a site at Grand and Corona aves. already owned by the district, the other on a site in the southeast area now under negotiation. If a second new school were built, it probably would be a plant containing basic units for administration, heating and so on, with a minimum number of classrooms, more of which couio.

be added later. Preliminary Data At next Tuesday's business meeting of the board, prelimin-arv data submitted by architects interested in the projects will be considered by the board, May' field said. The rest of the meeting was devoted to a discussion of cur riculum considerations in the schools, including a "general philosophy of education," a state ment of which was presented to the board for study and possible adoption. It was drawn up as a result of discussions and propos als on the part of teachers and administrators of the district day about midnight. Johnston, he said, got a story from Miss McDonald that she was forced to submit to assaults and to "unnatural sex acts." The story spread quickly to Indio where reporters clustered around Coachella Valley hospital, a few miles from where she had been found wandering dazedly and incoherent along a highway.

But hospital physician Dr. Al lan Fisher disputed the story. The hospital, as part of normal routine in kidnap cases where women are involved, had taken a vaginal smear. "There is no evidence whatso ever of a criminal attack," said Dr. Fisher.

Approximately two hours later, Lt. Herman Zander of the Los Angeles detective squad re futed Chambreau statement. City Police Sgt. LyTe C. Per-i kins, third witness In the narcotics trial of Donald LaVerne Ambuehl.

Friday afternoon described a high-speed, reverse-gear automobile chase that ended with a collision and the arrest of Ambuehl on July 18. Sgt. Perkins said he had been assigned by Police Chief Charles P. Champlin to observe activity around the Plaza apartments, 235 South Oakdale the morning of July 18. He said he was told to give State Police Lt.

Paul Morgan whatever assist ance was needed. According to his testimony, the sergeant had not been specifically instructed to watch for Ambuehl. Unmarked Car Sgt. Perkins said he arrived with Lt. Morgan in an unmarked state police car about 2 a.m.

About 4:30 a.m.. the police chief ordered Sgt. Perkins to get into a nearby city police car. He said William Cruickshank who was affiliated with the Burns Detective agency, joined him. About 6:30 a.m., Sgt.

Perkins testified, he saw Ambuehl come out of the Plaza apartments and approach his car, which was parked a few feet in front of the city police vehicle. He said Lt. Morgan walked over to Ambuehl rapidly got into his car and started driving in reverse gear in an "erratic manner." Sgt. Perkins said he gave chase to Ambuehl and was also traveling in a reverse direction. He said Ambuehl traveled over curbs on both sides of the street.

proceeded through an intersec tion at 10th and Laurel sts knocked down a mail box, climb ed a curb and drove onto the parking strip near Laurel st. Perkins said he and Ambuehl traveled as fast as 50 miles per hour. He said he followed Am buehl onto the parking strip, then Ambuehl stopped his car and threw a vial out of the win dow. Sgt. Perkins said he let Cruickshank out of the car and instructed him to stand guard over the vial.

According to the sergeant. Ambuehl then started his car acain. By that time Lt. Morgan passed Perkins' vehicle and was in direct pursuit of Ambuehl. Perkins said he followed Lt.

Morgan's vehicle until it collid ed with Ambuchl's car and both vehicles stopped. Perkins said he then found out that Chief Champlin. who was riding with Lt. Morgan, had placed Ambuehl under arrest. Shots Fired At least two shots were fired during the chase, Perkins said.

He told the jury he fired one shot into the air and also in structed Cruickshank to fire his gun, but did not know how many times the detective fired. Sgt. Perkins said Lt. Morgan took charge of the-vial Ambuehl threw from the car and that he next saw Ambuehl at the police station. He said he used a fluor-stained with powder invisible to buehl's hands and clothing, which Sgt.

Perkins said were eained with powder invisible to the naked eye. Clifton Lacy, who was at that time connected with Burns De tective agency, earlier testified that he and two police officers had dusted the powder on two paper sacks believed to contain marijuana. The sacks were in the closet of one of the Plaza apartments, which had been rented bv Mrs. Wilma Scott First Witnesi Mrs. Scott, a waitress and partner in Stan's club at the same time Ambuehl was manager of the establishment, was the state's first witness the trial.

She said Ambuehl had paid one month's rent on her apartment during June and had stored- drug there over her protests. The woman, now a resident of Los Angeles, said she refused to use the apartment other than as a place to change clothes and slept in the home of a friend. Mrs. Alice Dell. She said she told Mrs.

Dell that Ambuehl was storing narcotics in her Plaza apartment and Mrs. Dell contact ed Lacy. Lacy said he relayed the information to state police and under Lt. Morgan's instruction obtained a sample of the alleged narcotics. He said Mrs.

Scott and Mrs. Dell had cooperated in obtaining the sample, which he turned over to state police. Mrs. Scott said she had gone to her apartment to change clothes on July 18 sometime between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m. She testified that while she was there Ambuehl came in and refused to let her leave.

She said she left without him and upon leaving, encountered Lacy, who searched her purse. According to Mrs. Scott, Lacy then instructed her to go to Mrs. Dell's home and remain there. Under Surveillance During his testimony, Sgt.

Perkins commented that the 31-year-old former club manager had been under surveillance for about two years in connection with narcotics activities. Defense Attorney Edward Kelly objected to this phase of his testimony. Circuit Judge Orval Millard sustained the objection and instructed the jury to disregard the statement. Since Judge Millard has committments in Grants Pass Monday morning, the trial will resume at 1:30 p.m. Monday; Spectators filled the courtroom nearly to capacity Friday.

Marie McDonald Found in Desert After Being Beaten; Claim, of Rape Refuted Indio, Calif. (U.R) Marie (The Body) McDonald, bruised and with two teeth broken apparently from a beating, told police Saturday a harrowing tale of 24 hours in kidnapers' hands, threatened by a sawed-off shotgun. Then Los Angeles police added their own twist to the most bizarre case in the history of movicland by first calling a press conference to announce she told them she had been criminally assaulted and then refuting that announcement after a doctor's examination showed no evidence of such an assault. The beauteous native of Kentucky told of being held captive from Thursday night until Friday night shortly before mid.