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isenhoYer-.Swe'eps, Mew Jersel; Primary,. General Receives Medford JUNE 4 Ptm rnM Laid WlM 132,000 Majority United Prut run Lined Wire Over Ohio Senator 47th Year 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1952 No. 22 mmif imr j.rf lCT-' - .. Ait ysSfes SWIRLING WATERS OF MISSOURI RIVER are pouring into Sioux City, Iowa, after inundating South Sioux City (lower right) which is virtually deserted. Sioux City's new auditorium (white building at upper left) is surrounded by water which reaches beyond into industrial and stock yards sections. Interstate bridge (left center) is closed to traffic. (International Soundpholo) Levee Workers Reinforce Dikes As Streams Omaha, Neb. (U.R) More than 8,000 levee workers pour ed sand, gravel and lumber into the dikes holding back the pounding waters of the Missouri river. They swarmed like ants over the levees, building them ever higher Wednesday and rushing to repair the slightest chink through which the river could burst in upon the near-deserted cities of East Omaha and Council Bluffs, la. River Rises Hourly The river swept past at a rec ord 28.5 feet. It rose hourly to ward a predicted crest Thursday of 31.5 feet. Even as levee workers struggled ceaselessly to build the dike protecting Council Bluffs 2 feet higher, the Red Cross at Omaha announced that 106,480 persons in nine states have been "affected" by the disastrous floods. Figure Broken Down The Red Cross figure was broken down into 52,000 in Iowa, 12,844 in Nebraska, 11,124 in Minnesota, 10,000 in South Dakota, - 6,000 in Wisconsin, 4,892 in North Dakota, 4,520 in Missouri, 3,300 in Montana and 1,800 in Kansas. The figure included homeless, those who suffered damage and those who suffered hardship, the Red Cross said. In Minnesota, three rivers rushed south at record heights. Greatest Mississippi Crest The Mississippi hurtled to ward St. Paul, Minn. ,at its greatest crest. Already 5,000 per sons were homeless there. The river also threatened to pour over one-third of Winona, Minn. The Red River of the North and the Minnesota river pound- School Board Begins 1952-53 Budget Study The District 49 school board met last night in a special ses sion for discussion of the 1952 1953 fiscal year budget for the Medford city schools. The first meeting with the budget com mittee has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 22, in the city school office, and committee members are being notified of the meeting today. Fiscal estimates for the city of Medford are still being prepared by department heads and no budget meetings had been sched uled. City officials indicate that they expect to complete work on the budgets well in advance of the July 15 deadline. New York (U.R) A joint ne gotiating session was scheduled in Washington for Thursday at the request of federal mediators in an attempt to end the 14-day-old strike of 30,000 Western Union employes. Television Viewers To See Next Atomic Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) The entire nation may have a chance to see the atom in action when the first "public" atomic ex plosion is held next week. The television broadcasters of Southern California have agreed to pool their facilities to put the awe inspiring spectacle on TV screens from Coast to Coast. Scheduled Next Week The Atomic Energy Commis sion has announced that the "public" blast will be held some time next week with authorized representatives of the nation's press and radio permitted 'o witness the show at the French man's Flat proving ground. Some 7.000 troops, including a large contingent of Marines will participate in the test, which also will be witnessed by scores of civil and military officials. -a' i Continue ed at cities in North Dakota and Minnesota. But the Big Muddy was the meanest river of them all. Its crest was less than 80 miles north of Omaha. From the air above the city the river looked like a huge bottle. 15 Miles Wide It spread 15 miles at ' some points then sudden narrowed as it reached Omaha and Council Bluffs and swept between them, Living Cost Increase Seen if Steel Wage Demands Are Granted Washington (U.R) Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall said Wed nesday the steel industry's price increase demands would drive up the cost of living at least 5 per cent. In his first speech outlining why he insists that the govern ment cannot yield to the "Indus- East Main Street Widening Started Contractor Everett Den Herd er yesterday started work on widening of East Main street from Willamette avenue to r-cne?ee street, city officials re ported today. Completion date lor the $11,105.35 project is Sep tember 30, but the project will probably be completed well in advance of that time, they said. DenHerder also has the con tract for widening of Dakota avenue from Oakdale avenue to King street. This $3,386.80 proj ect, which is also scheduled for completion before September 30, will probably be started in the near future. Work on three Medford street paving projects has been started recently, according to City En gineer Ed McKinstry. They are on Beekman street from the end of the present paving to the end of the street, on 13th street from Peach to Newtown streets and on Madison place from Reddy avenue to East Jackson street, he said. 236 Blood Donors Processed Wednesday A total of 236 donors were processed yesterday by the Jack son county bloodmobile unit sta tioned at the Elks temple, ac cording to Red Cross officials. "Walk-in" donors were only "normal' 'this morning, accord ing to officials, and it will not be known until late this after noon whether the two-day goal of 500 will be reached. Explosion Test The AEC warmed up for the big show by firing a device Tues day that sent the brightest fire ball yet seen in the tests here soaring upward from the deso late desert firing range. The device a term the AEC prefers in place of "weapon" or "bomb" in describing atomic im plements ;was dropped from an Air Force bomber flying in from Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. Fireball Splits The detonation appeared to observers 45 miles away like a huge, red fireball. It stood for an instant on the horizon and then split in two. A brownish cloud obscured the fireball in a few seconds, but the mushroom-shaped cloud that usually accompanies atomic blasts failed to appear. Flooding held within its banks only by the man-made dikes. The critical point at Council Bluffs was a levee to the north. The scene was lighted through out the night by flood lights powered by portable generators. One main levee absorbed the brunt of the rushing waters. Be hind it a secondary levee stood in waiting should the primary dike break before the force of the water. try plan, Arnall said that when the effects spread through the economy, it would add $300 a year to the average family's ex penses. Arnall addressed a National Press club -luncheon as Secre tary of Commerce Charles Saw yer; gowrnment manager of the federally-seized industry, studied plans to give the CIO Steelwork ers union a wage increase. Senate Republican Leader Styles Bridges introduced legis lation authorizing the Senate Judiciary Committee to investi gate President Truman s seizure of the industry eight days ago. Bridges said the seizure posed "the gravest constitutional cri sis since the Civil War." Unrest among the steel work ers closed Republic Steel Corp.'s bolt and nut division plant at Cleveland, O., where 900 em ployees staged a wildcat strike. Their spokesmen said they were "fed up with vicious, false, anti union propaganda" from the steel companies. Republic countered that the workers were defying the gov ernment and were protesting federal "failure to force a wage settlement." The steel companies have ask ed a $12-a-ton price increase to offset the cost of pay increases recommended by the Wage Sta bilization Board. "The effect of a $12 a ton in crease in the price of steel, in my opinion, would be an In crease of at least 5 per cent in the cost living," Arnall said in his luncheon address. Serious Head Injury Received in Accident John E. Bohan, 71, route 2, box 138, Winlock, Wash., receiv ed a serious head injury In a head-on automobile collision at Four Corners on the Table Rock road at about 11:30 a.m. today, according to state police. His wife Julia, 68, was also injured, but first reports Indi cated she was not as seriously hurt as her husband. Both were taken to Community hospital by Perl ambulance. Keith T. Alsup, Ideal Court, House A, Medford, driver of the other car was not injured. State police said the Bohans were thrown out of their car by the accident, with the car continuing on.- The couple Is visiting relatives in the Rogue valley, Including Mary Watkin.i, Central Point, it was reported. Communist Soldiers Capture Hill From UN Seoul, Korea (U.R) Commun ist soldiers, backed by mortar and artillery fire, captured a hill from the Allie? Wednesday In one of four engagements on the Western Front. Some 75 Communists drove back an Allied advance position west of Korangpori after a 25 minute clash. However, the Al lies later repulsed an enemy probe in this. area. PRESIDENT TOURS FLOOD AREA New Campaign (or National Disaster Program Promised Deeply Impressed By Destruction Omaha (U.R) President Tru man, landing here after a 14 state aerial inspection trip of the devastating Middle West floods, 'promised to start a new drive in Congress for enactment of his national disaster insurance pro gram. "I will push it and I will give it a kick when I get back tonight (Wednesday)," Mr. Truman said, jTcferring to his request last year for a $400,000,000 program com bining flood relief and a form of federal flood insurance. Deeply Impressed Flying low over the flood area, starting at Rock Island, 111., on the Mississippi and end ing with low-level tour of the swollen Missouri from Sioux City, la., to .Omaha, Mr. Truman was deeply impressed by the de structive force of the floods. "This is just as bad as it can possibly be," he told reporters as he landed at the Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha. The Chief Executive said what he saw Wednesday morning con firmed more than ever his belief that the nation needed an "over all" flood control program "from Pittsburgh to Denver, from Min nesota to the gulf of Mexico." In flight, he asked congres sional members of the Missouri Basin Survey Commission "to make a complete survey and give us a long-term program which will help meet this situation." The President, a long-standing witness' of Middle Western flood, said he thought the present in undation in the Upper Middle West had put more land under water than ever before in the nation. "It's worse than I thought it would be," he said. "It is cer tainly worse here than it was in the lower reaches of the Missouri and the Mississippi last year. And it is just as bad as It can be." Maple Park Water District Approved Residents of the Maple Park area west and northwest of Med ford overwhelmingly approved formation of a water district in an election yesterday. The vote was 132 favoring the district, 2 against, and 2 invalid ballots, according to Miss Jcan ette Thatcher, attorney for the district. An official canvass of votes will be conducted by the county court on April 22, and when the results are proclaimed, the dis trict will be in official existence. It will then be in a position to work out a bonding plan to fi nance a pipeline to serve the area from the Medford water system. Voters also elected the five nominees for positions on the district's board of directors. They are Carol W. Corcoran, B. T. Green, Ray N. Gresham, Hugh O. Hile and Harry S. Walker. At their organizational meeting the directors will assign each member to five, four, three, two or one-year term. A bond election in the district may be called later, it was re ported. Fair Weather Forecast; Medford State's Hottest By UNITED PRESS A storm headed toward Ore gon and Washington veered northward late Tuesday and as a result the two states can ex pect mostly fair weather through Thursday, the weather bureau reported. Temperatures ranging as high as 70 degrees are expected for the area. Medford was Oregon's hottest spot Tuesday with 73. TO ENFORCE ORDINANCE Police Judge Warren Lesslg warned today that city police have been instructed to enforce ordinances forbidding all-night parking on paved streets within the city limits. Violator! will be fined $5 for each offense In most cases, Judge Lessig stated. The ordinance forbids street parking between 1 and 6 a.m. for auto mobiles and from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. for trucks of all types. Stevenson Not To Become Candidate Springfield, 111. (U.R) Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson said Wednes day he "could not accept the nomination for any other office" than that of Illinois governor, closing the door on his possible draft as Democratic presidential nominee. The Illinois chief executive, reported to be President Tru man's choice as a successor in the White House, said emphati cally that all he wants is a sec ond term in Springfield. Repeats Statement "I have repeatedly said that I was a candidate for governor of Illinois and had no other am bition," he said. "To this 1 must now add that ... I could not accept the nomination for any other office this summer." The 52-year-old governor said he was aware his decision would not be "universally understood or my conclusions universally approved." "I can hope that friends with larger ambitions for me will not think ill of me," he said. "They have paid me the greatest com- Medford Planners Favor Annexation Of New SW Section The Medford city council last night received a planning com mission recommendation favor ing annexation to the city of Westside Heights-addition, which is bei s developed by D. A. Par- Ker. The matter was referred to the council land appraisal com mittee for investigation and re port May 6. The addition is located on the southwest Medford city limits north of Stewart avenue and West of Plum street. Plans for development of the addition in clude extension of Winchester and Mt. Pitt streets into the area and construction of a section of Columbus avenue which would eventually connect with the pres ent street. The council also heard discus sion of a location for the pro posed east side fire department substation. Councilman urged use of city owned property' at the intersection of Keencway drive and Eastwood drive for construction of the station, and pointed out that the location has been approved by insurance un derwriters. The council safety committee was instructed to bring in a recommendation on the matter at the May 6 meeting. (See Story, Page 12) Pilot Given Term For Refusal To Fly El Paso, Tex. (U.R) First LI. Verne Goodwin of Peabody, Mass., has been sentenced to two years in prison and dismissed from the Air Force for refus ing to fly. Goodwin was the first of 22 reserve officers charged with dis obedience to be court-martialed for their part in a "stay-down' strike which has hit three Air Force bases. Goodwin's father-in-law, Par ker Cullom, an auto dealer at Las Cruccs, N.M., disclosed that the 30-year-old veteran had been sentenced. Col. James Y. Parker, commandant of Briggs Air Force Base here, earlier had announc ed that Goodwin's case was heard by a court martial Tues day nipht but he refused to re veal tha court's verdict. SERGEANT HOME Sgt, Phil H. Blood, 345 Bart lett street, Medford, arrived home Monday after serving about a year with the army In Korea, friends said today. Ser geant Blood's wife and eight-months-old daughter moved to Medford about two months ago from Redding, Calif. Mrs. Blood received the first word of her husband's return in a story car ried by The Mail Tribune. Weather FORECAST: Cloudy ind mild through ThttrRday. Low to nljhlJH, Hlrh Thundey 72-73. Temp. Hleheit Veitrdy ... 71 l.o est Uill Morning . ......... 3S $7 it) ADLAI STEVENSON Not After Presidency pliment within their gift and they have my utmost gratitude." Responds to Pressure The governor issued a 300 word statement in response to pressure upon, him to say flatly whether he would accept the presidential nomination. "I have been urged to an nounce my candidacy for the Democratic nomination for presi dent," Stevenson said, "but I am a candidate for governor of Illinois and I cannot run for two offices at the same time. "Moreover my duties as gov ernor do not presently afford the time to campaign for the nomination even if I wanted It." The governor said he is "proud andtontont to stand on my corrf- mitment to ask the people of Illinois to allow me to continue for another four years In my present post. SP Freight Rates To Go Up May 2 Increased railroad freight rates, approved Monday by the Interstate Commerce commis sion, will go into effect here on May 2, it was reported today by Robert H. Holmes, Southern Pa cific district freight and passen gcr agent. Rate increases here will be more than In some sections of the country, where no prior in creases have been in effect, and less than in other sections, which have had larger prior increases, Holmes said. Rate increases here will be more than in some sections of the country, 'where no prior in creases have been in effect, and less than in other sections, which have had larger prior increases, Holmes said. On the two main products ship ped from the Rogue valley, in creases of 4 cents per 100 pounds have already been granted on lumber, and 6 cents on fruit. The rates will rise 8 cents on lum ber, and 6 cents on fruit to the maximum allowable increase of 12 cents under the new plan, he added. Rates for building woodwork and millwork, subject to a maxi mum increase of 14 cents per 100 pounds, have already been increased in this area by 6 per cent, and the new Increase will amount to the difference be tween 8 per cent and the maxi mum increase, Holmes reported. Cave Junction Mi Destroyed by Flames Cave Junction, 0,re. (U.R) A $150,000 fire Tuesday night wiped out the Salvage Brothers Lumber company near here. Owners Howard and Herbert Salvafcc said the loss was partial ly insured but that the fire would put the firm out of busi ness. The flames were discovered between 10 and 10:30 p.m. by night watchman Archie Masoner who said they seemed to have started from a small "explosion" near the edger. The fire spread so rapidly that the mill's own pumping equipment was inade quate. The state forest patrol sent equipment from Its Cave Junc tion station and a pumper and crew from the Oregon Caves Lumber company also assisted in fighting the blaze. Portland Phone Property Picketed By CIO Workers Other Upstate Picketing Expected Portland (U.R) All Portland properties of the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company were picketed by striking CIO communications workers Wed nesday and union officials said pickets were expected at most upstate exchanges during the day. The Oregon division of the union and the independent union of repeatermen joined the strike yesterday after the company said it would give regular jobs to those 'who showed up regularly to work. No Contract Dispute Pickets from striking Western Electric employees have appear ed at various exchanges. No contract dispute was in volved in the new walkout. The union's contract does not expire until July 29. Arne Gravem, CWA strike di rector, said upstate locals had assured support but did not act immediately. The strike will not affect areas served by the West Coast Telephone company whose employees belong to an AFL union. Telephone company officials said the atrika would probably have Its most serious effect In communities having manual phones. A slow-up of long dis tance service also was predicted. Gravem also said the union planned to file unfair labor prac tices charges against the com pany. The union charged it was required to sign "yellow- dog' contracts that forced members to cross picket lines. , New Ybrk U.R) Joint nego tiation sessions between Western Electric officials and represent atives of the Communications Workers of America (CIO) broke up Wednesday with "no prog ress" reported in settling the 10 day old telephone strike. Union leaders of the striking 18,000 Western Electric em ployees stalked out of the joint meetings at 5:30 a.m. and refused to comment. They were followed by com pany officials and federal media tors who both reported no prog ress had been made. Police Consultant Here on Short Visit Sgt. William Beall, Berkeley, Calif., police department consul tant, arrived in Medford yester day by plane for final discus sion and consultation on changes which he recommended In the local department last year, ac cording to city officials.- , Sergeant Beall conducted a survey on modernization of the Medford police department last summer. During his brief stay here he will discuss the changes with Police Chief Clatous Mc Credle and other city officials. The final checkup on suggested changes is a routine part of the survey, according to Mayor D. L. Flynn. Scattered Heating Needed for Orchards "Light scattered orchard heat ing was needed for the valley orchards early this morning," according to C. B. Cordy, county agent, horticulture. Heating was started In most orchards at about 4:30 a.m., Cor dy said, with the minimum tem perature in the coldest spots at 29 degrees. Last-Minute Flurry Crowds County citizens wishing to register for the primary elec tion filled the courthouse corri dors up until the 8 p.m. dead line last night, according to offic ials In the county clerk's office. A clerk slated this morning that "I could hardly get out in the hall to close the door, the people were crowded in so tight." Ten clerks were on duty during the evening to handle the late-comeri. Although no final figures will be available until the first of next week, officials said this morning that the six or seven clerki on duty during yesterday Stassen Comes In As Weak Third Newark, N. J. (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received approximately 132,000 more votes than Sen. Robert A. Taft in the New Jersey presidential preferential primary, almost complete returns demonstrated Wednesday. Eisenhower, in Brussels, Bel gium on a farewell tour as su preme commander of NATO forces, grinned at the news and said: "That's fine." Second Taft Defeat The general had defeated the Ohio Senator in New Hampshire last month the only other elec tion in which both their names appeared on the same ballot. He was virtually assured of at least 32 of New Jersey's Repub lican Convention delegates. Eisenhower collected approxi mately 60 per cent of the Re publican vote while Taft got about 37 per cent. But Taft forces claimed a "moral victory" because Taft was a reluctant candidate in the New Jersey election, Campaign Disbanded Angered when New Jersey Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll threw support of his regular state GOP organization behind Eisenhower March 10, Taft disbanded his state campaign groups, refused to campaign in person, and fought unsuccessfully in court to have his name taken off the ballot. Harold E. Stassen, the former Minnesota governor, ran a weak third in the rainy day election Tuesday which drew approxim ately 750,000 GOP and Demo cratic voters to the polls. Kefauver Ran Alone Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten nessee ran "alone on the Demo cratic side of the primary which elected 38 delegates to the Demo cratic Chicago convention July 21. With 3,525 of the 3,840 elec tion districts counted, the Re publican vote atood: Eisenhower 337,494 Taft 203,002 Stassen 19,801 - With 3,419 districts counted on the Democratic side, Kefau ver had 153,991 votes. The missing precincts were mainly rural ones in south Jer sey and could not appreciably change the results. Taft leaders in the state said the senator would be lucky to win the support of six delegates. The primary popularity contest results are not binding, and delegates are technically "un Instructed" but the bulk of those elected are Eisenhower men. Wins 20 Counties Eisenhower won 20 of 21 coun ties, losing only Hudson in the strongly pro-Taft northern met ropolitan area near New York city. Taft's worst showing, how ever, was Essex county, which includes Newark, largest city in the state, where he lost by 50, 000 votes. Eisenhower's victory slowed down the Taft machine which gained Impetus In the recent Wisconsin, Nebraska and Illi nois elections where Eisenhower was not on the ballot. State Highway Fund Distributions Made Salem (U.R) Distribution of more than two million dollars to Oregon's 36 counties from first quarter collections in the state highway fund was announced Wednesday by Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. The amount, $2,034,188.13, represents 19 per cent of the Lhighway fund for the first three months of lS2. This is the way the money came In: Motor vehicle registra tions, $3,567,440.07; motor ve hicle fuels tax, $5,626,941.36; mo tor carrier fees, $1,426,980.07, and fines, $84,882.83. Distribution by counties in cluded: Jackson $89,126.23; Josephine, $41,158.90; Klamath, $61,293.01. Registration Courthouse "averaged 100 registrations." The last available figure on April 1 was 29,090 with a "very heavy" registration since. A trend noted by the clerks was the above average number of older people registering for the first time. The hustle of the larger than average registration was appro priately concluded this morning when a fellow county employee from another department arriv ed early with the statement, "I would like to register, please." The prompt reply was an equal ly bland, "Do ou want to get hot?" C
