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SOAL PARLEYS END David Cole (left), chairman of the Presidential fact-finding board in the coal
jpute, and United Mine Workers President John L. Lewie (right) talk with Washington reporters after
negotiations between the U. M. W. and the soft coal operators collapsed. End of the hearings paves the
way for President Truman to seek a court order sending '.00,000 striking miners back to work. Cole said,
however, that he expects talks to resume.
Ghost Of Future Germany Hovers
Over America-Russia Atomic Race
London. Feb. IS (U.R) The
ahost of a future Germany, re
united and powerful, hovered to
day over the atomic race oe
tweon . the United States and
Russia, .
For if the German scientists
now working for the Americans
and Soviets could go back home
and pool their knowledge, Ger
many probably would lead the
world in atomic weapons.
Possibility Disturbing
It could happen. The possi
bility is disturbing British
atomic scientists. They believe
Germany will be reunited some
day, and that pressure will be
exerted to permit the research
ers to return to their homeland
from the United States and
Russia.
Informally the Britons are
wondering what safeguards are
being prepared against any such
pooling of information from the
east and from the west.
For some time now the Brit
ish scientists have taken pains
to point out that while Russia
struggles for knowledge of Am
erican experiments and the west
wonders what goes on behind
the Urals, one group knows al
most precisely what both sides
are doing the defeated Ger
mans.
Scientists Grabbed
The United States and Russia
grabbed German scientists al
most before the shooting stop
ped, and hurried them into re
search on atomic energy and
secret weapons. Some of them
hold positions of vital import
ance, and probably some have
knowledge of development be
yond their i own particular
spheres.
The ability of a scientist to
assemble material outside his
own compartment was emphasiz
ed last week in the confession of
Dr. Klaus Fuchs, German-born
physicist whose espionage for
Russia may have helped the So-
Starlet To Play In
Religious Pictures
New York, Feb. IS (U.R)
Starlet Colleen Townsend has
disclosed that she will begin "my
work for Christ" next month by
starting work on three motion
pictures with religious themes.
The first, sho said in an inter
view yesterday, will be based on
intolerance and will be pro
duced by the Protestant com
mission. The other two will be
made by a new religious film
concern called the Great Com
mission. The pictures will be
shown In churches and schools.
Instead of her present salary
of S350 a week, she will receive
only "a nominal fee to cover
expenses."
Miss Townsend was passing
through New York en route to
1 lolly wood.
vlets cut years from the time it
would have tanen them to pro
duce an atom bomb.
"Bearing in mind the techni
cal aptitude of the Germans,
the piecing together of what they
each have learned into a danger
ous whole is not Inconceivable,"
said a British source. Like most
scientists in the jittery after
math of the Fuchs case, he
would not permit the use of his
name.
Would Be Surprised
"I shall be very much surpris
ed If the German scientists we
are using ever are permitted to
go home that is, without tre
mendous safeguards." he said.
"I suppose that Russia is
equally alive to this problem
and presumably has its own me-
tnoas of insuring mat me west
ern world does not learn of any
advances it may have made."
Thus the east and the west
some day may face the prob
lem of whether the German
scientists will be given the
choice of citizenship or becom
ing virtual hostages, in fact if
not in name.
J'ville Schools
Aid Polio Fund
Jacksonville, Feb. 15 Sup-
Eort of the March of Dimes drive
y Jacksonville schools was out
standing this year. The elemen
tary school conducted a contest
between rooms. Three rooms
went through the top of their
thermometers marked $10.50.
The final count gives $77.23 to
the March of Dimes campaign.
In the high school chocolate
candy, offered as a prize by the
Jacksonville Lions club, cleared
$17.40. Ill addition the sopho
more closs gave 25 per cent of
its profits from the hot dog and
pop sale at the donkey basket
ball game. This amounted to $6.
An additional $17.83 was raised
by selling programs.
As a result of these various
efforts a total of $118.46 was
contributed to the local drive.
The shared enterprise of a
high school league bosketbHll
game held on the same night
with the donkey basketball
game resulted In a further con
tribution of $62. All profits were
given to the March of Dimes.
BODY REMOVED
Anchorage, Alaska, Feb. 15
(U.R) Rescue crews early today
removed the body of an F-80 Jet
fighter pilot from the wreckage
of his plane 50 miles southwest
of a gunnery range near here.
His craft had collided with a
second F-80 over the range yes
terday.
Manila, Feb. 15 (U.R) Mrs.
Rosario Acuna Picazo, 80, mother
of late president Manuel Roxas,
died yesterday of a heart attack
at her home in Quezon City.
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Sending Of Skunk
Amuses Columnist
Hollywood, Feb. 15 (U.R) A
movie gossip columnist said to
day it was "very amusing" of
Joan Bennett to send her a skunk
as a valentine.
The glamorous star mailed the
skunk yesterday and said it was
"as good a time as any to an
swer back."
"For years I've been the vic
tim of her nasty remarks," she
said.
Miss Bennett also took $800
worth of heart-shaped ads in two
movie trade papers to hint the
columnist is a "frustrated and
Jobless actress."
"I didn't know she had that
much m o n e y," the columnist
trilled.
Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb. 15
(U.R) An unidentified plane was
reported to have crashed in
flames into the Baltic sea nine
miles off the south Danish port
of Nysted today.
Revenue Pooling
Of Columbia River
Projects Favored
Washington, Feb. 15 (U.R)
The reclamation bureau said to
day that both army engineer and
bureau power projects in the
northwest should participate in
the proposed basin account for
Columbia river development.
The account would pool rev
enues from all projects proposed
for construction under the
$2,500,000,000 basin program.
Such pooling would permit
financially weak projects to be
helped by fiscally sturdier ones.
Joint Use Endorsed
J. W. Dixon, bureau spokes
man, said during senate interior
committee hearings on the pro
gram that the bureau and the
army engineers endorsed their
joint use of the basin account.
Projects could be included in it
only by specific authorization of
congress.
A spokesman for the budget
bureau Assistant Director Rog
er Jones said his bureau rec
ommended that both agencies be
permitted to pay irrigation sub
sidies from power interest rev
enues to whatever extent recla
mation law now permits such
procedure.
Sen. uuy uoraon, in., ure.i.i
had uuestioned that the intent
of the budget bureau, was to
make such a recommendation.
Jones confirmed that it was.
The committee received a let
ter from Washongton's Gov. A.
B. Langlie urging favorable ac
tion on the basin program.
Pending congressional action on
the policy of using power inter
est revenues for irrigation sub
sidies, Langlie said he favored
such use.
Elizabeth Taylor
'Going Steady' Again
Hollywood, Feb. 15 (U.R)
Elizabeth Taylor, 18 - year - old
movie glamour girl, said today
she's "going steady" with the
handsome son of hotel magnate
Conrad Hilton.
But she denied Valentine's day
rumors that she and Nick Hil
ton are engaged or have set their
wedding date.
"They are going steady with
our full approval," Mrs. Francis
Taylor said. "If and when there
is an engagement, we, her par
ents, will announce it."
Schoolground Landscaping Study Set
By District No. 49 Board Committee
A study of landscaping prob
lems for Medford schools will be
undertaken by a committee
working in cooperation with
Medford Parent-Teacher groups
and others interested, it was de
cided at a meeting of the school
board of District 49 here last
night.
Board Members Otto Frohn
maycr and Mrs. Stephan G. Nye
were named to a committee to
consider an overall plan for
schoolground planning and beau
tification, and they will ask the
advice and assistance of the PTA
in making the survey, and pre
paring suggestions. The project
arose out of a proposal made at
the meeting that cottonwood
trees at the Roosevelt school be
trimmed for the sake of attrac
tiveness and safety.
Policy Change Asked
De Vere Taylor, president of
the Medford City Teachers' as
sociation, and Kenneth Hulburt,
principal of Washington school,
and chairman of the association's
economic security committee,
asked the board that the present
cost of living allowance being
paid Medford teachers be incor
porated as a part of the regular
salary schedule. The teachers
point out that this action would
be a policy matter only, and
would not involve the expendi
ture of funds in excess of those
already budgeted.
The board took the matter un
der consideration, and Superin
tendent E. H. Hedrick will con
sult with other school officials
of the state to see what action
has been taken elsewhere.
Payment of bills totaling $64.
184.06 was authorized by the
board. A considerable portion of
the total was payment to con
tractors for work done in the re
cent remodeling projects on all
schools except the junior high
school. The bulk of the district's
contract obligations have been
paid, Hedrick pointed out.
To Install Gutters
Lindley street between Queen
Anne avenue and Main street
will have curbs and gutters as
soon as city crews can do the
work, Hedrick told the board.
Adjacent property owners have
signified they would cooperate
with the school district in finan
cing the project.
Elliott Becken, assistant sup
erintendent, said that nearly 200
persons are taking advantage of
the adult evening classes now be
ing offered by the city. He said
the community has received the
classes "very well."
Operation of school gymna
siums on Saturday is proving
highly successful, and continued
supervised play on Saturdays
may be continued in to the
spring months, board members
Indicated. A study will be made
to determine whether elemen
tary school athletic instructors
are receiving compensation to
which they are entitled for sup
ervising after-school and Satur
day playground usage.
The board voted to request a
written opinion from the attor
ney general on whether the dis
trict can legally pay a portion of
the cost of a hospitalization plan
for teachers. If hia opinion is fav
orable the board will then decide
what action should be taken,
and if the opinion is unfavor
able, the matter may be brought
before the 1951 legislature by
teacher eroups.
Hedrick was given authority
to set the time for Easter vaca
tion to coincide with the wishes
of a majority of the city's teach
ers, many of whom will attend
a state convention of the Ore
gon Education association that
week-end.
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Wet, Cold, Snowy
Weather Recorded
During January
January, 1950, was the third
wettest, the fourth coldest and
had the second deepest snowfall
of any month on record since the
winter of 1911-12, the Medford
weather bureau reported today.
In its monthly summary of
weather in Medford and vicinity,
the bureau said an adequate
snow cover prevented freezing
injury to winter grains and pas
tures, and there was no apparent
damage to fruit trees. Tree prun
ing was delayed, however, and
logging and lumbering were
practically at a standstill. Heavy
yard-feeding of stock nearly de
pleted hay supplies.
Temperatures Low
The coldest day of the month
was the 31st when the mercury
dropped to one degree above
zero. The warmest day was the
i 21st wTien It was 52. Altogether
there were 26 days during which
th eminimum daily temperature
(dropped below freezing, making
an average temperature for the
Imnnth nf 33 rfpffTPPS.
Water content of precipitation
during January was 5.96 inchei
nearly three and a half inches
above normal. Total snowfall
amounted to just over 20 inches
with more than five inches fall
ing on the 16th. The five inches
that lay on the valley floor the
16th and 17th was the greatest
depth on the ground at any one
time during the month.
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