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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1952)
ME RE MM TALK truce Weather TORFCAST: Partial rlearlni with ihowfri tonight ana Thuridav. Uw tonight 40-43. High Thuriday 3-65. Temp. Higheit Yeiterday 0 Lowest thit Morning ...- 4 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today 12 RUSSELL - VICTOR DM TAFT SWEEPS VOTE COUNCILMEN MAY DECIDE ON CLOCK MOVE THURSDAY A decision on daylight saving time for Medford will probably be made at a noon public meeting of the city council Thursday in Ihe city hall. , At a regular council meeting last night, some 40 local resi dents, including a representative of 200 Bear Creek Orchards em ployees, urged that the council enact daylight saving time for Medford. Two persons appeared to oppose such action. Otto Ewaldsen, chairman of the Medford Retail Merchants association, told the council that failure to go on daylight time lo cally has cut the time in which Medford residents can dd business with areas now on daylight time to four hours a day. Hardship Said Worked On Local Merchants He pointed out that local busi ness firms are an hour off of day light time in their opening and closing hours and lose two hours in the middle of the day because of a one-hour difference in lunch Members of the Medford city council will hold a meet ing on the 1952-1953 citf bud get t 7:30 p.m. today in the council chambers of the city hall. Department heads have prepared estimates of their costs for the coming fiscal year, according to City Super intendent Robert Duff. The deadline for completion of the budget is July 15. ' hours. This difference is work ing a hardship on local mer chants, he said. Ewaldsen stated that much of Medford's inter-city business is with areas now on daylight time. These include California, Portland, Eugene and Klamath Falls, he said. Jimmy Dunlevy, station mana ger of radio station KVJC, and Jennings Pierce, manager of sta tion KMED, told the council that failure of Medford to go on day light time is bringing many diffi cult problems to both stations. They pointed out that their na tional networks are operating on a daylight time basis, a fact which makes scheduling of pro grams here to conform with local advertising very difficult. Tn rnnversation. five of theJ eight councilmen indicated that they were in favor of daylight time here. One definitely oppos ed it and the other two indicated that they personally are not in favor or opposed to daylight time. Persons against changing the clocks locally stated that it would be disadvantageous to per sons living in the area surround ing Medford. They stated that the council should make no change until Gov. Douglas Mc Kay orders daylight saving time fnr the entire state. The council's delay of a deci sion on the subject until Thurs day was made to allow City At torney Frank Farrcll time to study time-changing ordinances nasspH bv Portland and other cities. Several members of the coun cil expressed doubt that the city could legally proclaim aayngm time here in view of Governor McKay's proclamation of stand ard time for the entire state. (See Story on Page 7) Fairgrounds Seen As Site for Armory The Jackson county fair grounds appear to be the favored site for reconstruction of the Medford armory which was par tially destroyed by fire last year. city officials said today. Mayor D. L. Flynn and other city repre sentatives met yesterday with Oregon National Guard officers. Thev indicated that the federal government will appropriate about $138,000 for construction of a new armory and the state of Oregon will contribute about S46.000. Property on the present armory site will be sold after the next meeting of the state legislature and the money thus derived will go into a restoration fund, they said. Plans are still being discussed for construction of a civic audi . torium in connection with the 1 armory building. Funds for such a project would be provided by me city or Jackson county. Medford. United Prii Full Lcai.d Wirt 47th Year 18 Pages Council Accepls Appraisal for 8th Street Opening The Medford city council last night accepted an appraisal of the Myron Root properties need ed for the opening of West Eighth street across the South ern Pacific railroad tracks. Amount of the appraisal was withheld by the council. On a motion by Councilman Paul Selby, City Superintendent Robert Duff was instructed to. go ahead with plans for opening the street and to determine what costs will be involved. The mat ter was also referred to the coun cil streets and roadr and finance committees for further investi gation. John Niedermeyer, Route 2, Medford, appeared before the councjl to urge opening of the street. "Now is the time to- act," Niedermeyer said. He pointed out that the traffic situation on Main and Sixth streets, the streets which now cross the tracks in the downtown area, "is very bad." Culbertson Letter Heard The council also heard a letter from Thomas A. Culbertson Jr., 2509 Lyman avenue, urging opening of the street. Culbert son has circulated petitions re questing the street opening and stated in his letter that he would bring more signatures before the council if they were needed. Councilmen Selby and Dwight Houghton requested that the amount of the appraisal be with held in the interest of better negotiations. Houghton stated that, as in private business, it is the city's duty to obtain the property for the best possible price." He stated that revealing the amount of the appraisal would be tantamount to making an offer for the property. Councilman Harold Fry urged that in planning the opening, consideration be given to con struction of an underpass. He stated that, in the future, it will be necessary to have a free flow of traffic which will not be hindered by passing trains and now is the time to give thought to such a project. Sen. Wayne Morse Visitor in Medford Sen. Wayne Morse arrived in Medford by plane this morning on the first laD of a state-cover ing tour in" an attempt to per suade voterj to vote against him for the Republican presidential nomination. The' junior senator, whose name was pu t on the ballot against his will, is an Eisenhow- er supporter. In another phase of the same campaign he is seeking support for his candidacy as delegate at large to the Republi can convention. Morse was to speak at the Ki- wanis ekib's noon luncheon .to day, and later had talks sched uled at Southern Oregon college in Ashland, and in Coos Bay to night. BASEBALL AMERICAN Chicago i t S 0 Boston 7 9 1 -Holcombe, Kennedy 2, Siobbt and Lollari Henry and While, , MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY Kefauver Suffers First Defeat in Primary Contest Taft Claims All Ohio Delegates Washington (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver suffered his first de feat in a presidential primary Wednesday, losing to Sen. Rich ard B. Russell in the Florida pri mary, as Sen. Robert A. Taft claimed all of Ohio's 56 Repub lican delegates in a "tremendous landslide victory." Returns from 1,370 of Flori da's l,ti83 precincts gave Russell 269,362 votes to 246,394 for Ke fauver. However the stringbean Tennesseean apparently prevent ed Russell from winning the de cisive victory which the Geor gian's supporters said was need ed to win non-Southern support at the Democratic National con vention. Lead Changes Hands The lead in the Florida contest changed hands eight times dur ing the night before Russel fi naly pulled ahead for good. Taft's headquarters said the senator now has 401 delegates to the GOP convention, two-thirds of the 604 needed for nomina tion. Taft claims some elected delegates who are not publicly committed to any candidate. A United Press tabulation prior to the . Ohio primary show ed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower with 291 pledged or publicly an nounced delegates 1o 274 for Taft: Florida Race Surprises The see-saw Florida race was somewhat of a surprise. Kefau ver had said he thought he had "a good chance of winning," but was opposed by Florida's two Democratic senators, Spessard L. Holland and George A. Sma ters, and Florida Go.v. Fuller Warren. Russell's supporters had predicted a 2-to-l victory. Kefauver got heavy support in Miami and the surrounding, heavily populated "Gold Coast," counties in which his Senate Crime Committe helped wipe out gambling. Russell appeared es pecially strong in rural voting in North Florida and inland counties. The outcome of the popularity contest was sure to have a strong influence when the South's two presidential hopefuls clash again May 27 in the election of Flor ida's national convention dele gates. Administration Plans Gambling Tax Flight Washington (U.R) Adminis tration ' officials, who once op posed a federal tax on gamblers, were ready Wednesday to fight all the way up to the Supreme Court if necessary to keep it. They said the tax has proved a flop as expected from the standpoint of bringing revenue into the treasury. But it has. ap parently been surprisingly ef fective in putting big-time book makers out of business. 40 and 8 Voyageurs From On City Saturday for Annu Voyageurs of the 40 and 8 from California, Nevada and Oregon will converge on Med ford Saturday for the annual Tri-State South wreck. It will also be known as the Bogus Creek wreck, according to S. S. Humphries. Tri-State wreck chairman. Wreck is the term for initiation of "poor goofs" into the fun and honor society of the American Legion. Merle Jarmin, chef de gare of the local voiture is housing chairman for the wreck. Regis tration will be at the Legion club Friday afternoon and Sat urday morning and the initia tion will take place Saturday evening in the Elks Temple base ment. The candidates will en tertain with street stunts during the afternoon. Officials Coming Charlea Wells, Portland, Tri State commander; Harry Bahl man, Portland, state commander of the 40 and 8; Dr. F. J. Ernest, jlTRIBlE FL o CANDIDATES QUIZZED Senator Estes Kefauver (left) of Tennessee and Senator. Richard Russell of Georgia appear on a television show at Miami on the eve of the Florida democratic presidential primary. The candidates answered questions put by three newsmen during panel discussion. Senator Russell is examin ing a magazine article presented at the panel by Senator Kefauver. Nevada Atomic Blast Gives Brilliant Flash Mt. Charleston. Nev. (U.R) Atomic scientists fired a nuclear blast atop a steel tower before dawn Wednesday at the Yucca Flat proving grounds. , The brillianJT flash momentar- Motorists Watch Gas Gauges as Oil Strike Continues Denver, Colo. (U.R) The nation's motorists kept an anx ious eye on their gasoline fuel gauges Wednesday, hoping that 90,000 striking oil workers would bow to a government re quest for return to work before the needle pointed to "zero." A spokesman for the coalition of 22 striking CIO, AFL and in dependent oil unions said in Den ver that the decision "possibly", would be made Wednesday. The Wage Stabilization Board requested that the week-old strike of oil workers be ended "immediately" and summoned union and industry leaders to a board meeting in Washington next Tuesday. ' WSB Chairman Nathan Fein singer told representatives of the unions and officials of 75 oil companies that they should con tinue collective bargaining and be prepared to make a "full re port" to the board Tuesday on the status of the dispute. Breakdown Seen Although union officials said they would attend the meeting, they said, "We regret the board's action at this time and point out that it might cause an immedi ate breakdown in negotiations, which have been Droarcssing ' favorably in several areas." Portland, past national vice com mander; Bert Haffenden, Port land, past state commander; Fred Paulus, Salem, past state attorney for 40 and 8; Charles Whipps, Cottage Grove, past slate chaplain and Earl Newbryi Salem, secretary of state of Ore gon, have notified the committee that they will be here for the ceremonies. Newbry and Carl Y. Tcngwald are on the distin guished guests committee. The society of forty men and eight horses was conceived in 1920. It grew out of the happy habit that the American service men had of laughing off their troubles, difficulties and . dis comforts. A group of Legion naires decided that the funniest sight in War I was the way they packed forty full sized American soldiers, with all of their gear and equipment into a half size French boxcar, while the horses rode In the roomy comfort of eight to car. United Preii ru'l Leased WIm 7,' 1952 No, 40 RflDA; HB ily blinded observers 45 miles away and then dissolved into a beautifully colored fireball. Observers Blinded Observers on this 11,000-foot mountain peak were 'blinded for several seconds' by a flash more brilliant than a desert sunrise as the power of the atom un folded on the desert below. Under cloudy skies, the flash condensed into a colorful fire bad that lasted about five sec onds, dying down unusually quickly in a rainbow of reds, whites, yellows and oranges. Mushroom Cloud Follows The spectacular display was followed by the usual mushroom- shaped cloud that is the trade mark of atomic explosions, but it was barely visible because of the darkness. The flash of the atomic de vice blast was seen in Prescott and Williams, Ariz., more than 200 miles southeast of the prov ing grounds.. The flash and ensuing shock wave caused one small child who observed it from Las Vegas, Nev., to become hysterical. She was taken to a hospital for treat ment. Brightest Flash . The nuclear device was fired at 5:15 a.m. (PST) at the top of a 300-foot steel tower, produc ing a colorful flash far brighter than any seen during the 16 pre vious tests at the desolate Ne vada desert firing range. No troops were employed in the test although a number of military observers, mostly sen ior officers, were on hand as usual. Salem (U.R) Gov. Douglas McKay was back in his office Wednesday after a trip to San Francisco for a meeting of the Pacific Coast Board of Inter governmental Relations. Three States Will Converge al Tri-State South Wreck When the boys from the French box cars got back home they needed laughs to carry them through the difficulties of the yars following the war. They laugTied off their troubles when they tried to buy a com plete outfit of civilian clothes, with the $60 dollars to walk the streets to try to find a job. There was no American Legion dur ing War I to fight for the rights of the men who were away fight ing a war. Needing a place to blow off steam and laugh at their troubles, the young vet erans remembered the close brotherhood of the French box car and , decided to reproduce It in an inner organization of chosen Legionnaires. The first thing the new or ganization did was to assess It self for $50,000 to be used for needy children of veterans who were being neglected. Bringing help and happiness to children Eisenhower Favors Control by States In Flood Program National Farm Program Favored, Paris (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower discussed Missouri River flood control, a national farm program and foreign af fairs Wednesday with two visit ors from the United States. Eisenhower was quoted as saying he favored Missouri flood control measures, but with as much authority as possible re served for individual states. Favors State Level Similarly, in a farm program which would include govern ment help to farmers against some of the risks they take in growing the country's food Eisenhower was quoted as say ing that authority should be re served as far as possible on a state level as opposed to a cen tral federal authority. Eisenhower, preparing to go home to become a candidate for the Republican presidential nom ination, discussed the domestic issues with former Republican Governor T. Mickelson of South Dakota, one of his leading Mid west boosters. Hour-Long Conference He talked foreign affairs at a one-hour conference with John Foster Dulles, Republican for eign policy expert who is men tioncd as possible secretary of state if the Republicans win the November election. Nothing was said of the Eisen hower-Dulles talk but Mickelson told of his two-hour ta'.k with Eisenhower, .whom he had seen previously during the week-end "After my six hours of talk ing to Eisenhower in two ses sions I'm convinced he knows and appreciates and is sincerely interested in farm problems, Mickelson said. "He is for the federal government talking a rightful part in a federal agri cultural program with the ad ministration on a local level.' Seattle (U.R) Gen. Dwight Eisenhower will answer ques tions on "all essential issues" of the Presidential campaign at a press conference in Abilene, Kan., July 5, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., said here Tuesday- Airport Terminal Bids Will Be Called Plans for construction of a modern terminal building at Medford municipal airport came a step nearer realization Tuesday when the city council authorized City Superintendent Robert Duff to call for bids on the structure. Bids on the terminal building will be operled on June 6. The council also authorized j Mayor D. L. Flynn to file an application with the civil aero nautics administration for gov ernment funds to be used in con struction of the terminal. Duff pointed out to council men that, although the deadlthe for application for federal funds is drawing near, it will be pos sible to' readvertise the project if bids received June 6 are not acceptable. City officials Indicated today that construction on the building will start as soon after accept ance of bids as possible. They pointed out the desirability of having the structure "under cover" before bad weather starts in the fall. Excessive Requirements Of Plane Pilot Charged Los Angeles (U.R) The Civil Aeronautics Administration charged Wednesday that North Continent Airlines required Pilot Lewis R. Powell to fly 16 hours out of 24 just prior to the crash of his non-scheduled C-46 I airliner that killed 29 persons near here April 18. is still the major 40 and 8 ac tivity. Meiring's local committees for the wreck are: registration and finance, Earl Bigalow, chairnnfo, Oliver Gustafson, Cole Holmes. Earl York, Morris Leonard Sr.. and Roy Stoy; entertainment, Eddie Randall, chairman and A. Eugene Orr; food, Ernest Reinking. chairman, Glen Bjork, John Holmer and Bud Fisher; refreshments. Ray Huson, chair man, Hugh Williams, Fred Luv. Hugh McKenzie, E. L. Knight; wreck and street stunts. Jack Peters, chairman, Ed Russell, Charles Wiley, Bert Staats, Rich ard Smith, Robert Dames, Pat Finney, Cap Hampton and Ed ward Kelly; publicity, Bud Fish er, chairman, and Tom Glnn; ritual, Harry Goold, chairman, and Ellis Capp;. The wives of the -10 and 8'ers will be entertained by Mrs. H. L. Melrlng and Mrs. Howard McClurt at the country club, ON THE MEND Actress Marilyn Monroe smiles from her hospital bed in Hollywood following a re cent appendectomy. Upon com plete recovery she will journey tn Niagara Falls to film a new picture. Bill Force, Former Tribune Reporter, Gets Press Award Portland Bill Force, former ly a reporter on The Mail Trib une, Medford, last night was pre sented with a Press Club of Oregon award for the best news- writing in a downstate paper during the year 1951. The award was for a series of articles on taxation which appeared in the Medford paper last winter. Force, who is now with the United Press in Portland, was one of several Oregon newsmen who were honored with Press Club awards at the fourth an nual awards dinner of the club. Gov. Earl Warren of California was the speaker. Covered Tax Structure Writing under the title, "Pub lic Money; The Tax Dollar is a Fast Buck Here's Its Story," Force covered various phases of the complicated tax structure in Oregon, with emphasis on how it affects each citizen. He was presented with the award first honorable mention for writing in non-metropolitan newspapers, by Eric Allen jr. cltv editor of The Mall Tribune Other awards presented at the dinner included: Rolla Crick of the Oregon Journal and Wallace Turner of The Oregonian top awards in the metropolitan field for re porters. Crick was honored for investigation and coverage of the abortion situation in Port land. Turner was honored for gathering, evidence that led to a gambling raid in Clackamas county that led to 11 indict ments. Warren Campaigns In Willamette Valley Portland (U.R) Gov. Earl Warren of California Wednes day headed into Oregon's Wil lamette valley in his campaign for the state's 18-man Republican delegation in the May 16 primary election after questioning some of the "inherent powers" of the presidency in a speech here Tues day night. After a breakfast meeting at McMinnvHle and a luncheon at Corvallis, Warren was scheduled to speak at Albany Wednesday night. He will fly to Los Ange les Thursday and return to Salem Friday afternoon. In an address at the annual awards banquet of the Press Club of Oregon, the Republican presi dential nomination aspirant said the trend of federal officials to determine what Is news and what is confidential was brought home to the American people when the President sairrhe had the Inherent power to take over the press and radio. f Suspect Arrested In Local Burglaries James Turney Eakln. 31, of 707 Clark street, Apartment 3, was arrested last night by city police. He is being held for in vestigation in a total of more than 12 burglaries here, officers stated. Police indicated that Eakln will be arraigned on a burglary charge today. They said that he has admitted taking part in sev eral burglaries. Burglaries believed to have been cleared up by Enkln's ar rest Include three at the Junior Red Cross building, two at Med ford Lumber company, two at Big Pines Lumber company, the First Presbyterian church, the Medford Public library, Crater Lake Lumber company, Key's Second Hand store and Smith- Dynge Lumber companies. Portland (U.R) Seventeen-year-old Valerie Cowls Wednes day ruled as Roosevelt high schools choice for the 1952 Port land Rose Festival princess. Prisoner Problem Still Snarls Plan For Peace in Korea Communists Withdraw Russia Nomination Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) United Nations and Communist negotiators tentatively settled two of their three truce dead locks Wednesday, but Red de mands for forcible repatriation of 62,000 war prisoners still blocked a Korean armistice. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway promptly informed the Reds in a virtual ultimatum that there can be no cease fire in Korea unless they drop their Insistence on the forcible return of prison ers who have renounced Com munism. Agreement Disclosed Lifting of the secrecy agree ment that has cloaked meetings of the truce teams during the pasi wees disclosed that the UN and Reds were In agreement on two of the last three disputed issues noming up an armistice. Red negotiators offered tn withdraw their nomination of Russia to the neutral truce in spection commission, and the Al lies offered to drop their demand for a ban on military airfield construction during an armistice. contingent on Issue But both offers were contin gent on settlement of the prison er problem. The Communists de manded the return of all 132,000 prisoners held by the Allies; the UN offered to return .only tha 70,000 prisoners who have said they would not resist reoatrla- tion.' Thus only the single issue of a prsoner exchange still blocks a Korean cease fire. But the issue Is so fundamental that unless one side or the other yields, it can prolong the war indefin itely." UN Cannot Retreat Both Ridgway, as supreme United Nations commander, and Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, chief Allied truce delegate, told the Communists that the U. N. "can not and shall not retreat" from its stand against forcible repatriation of prisoners, Joy even proposed at Wednea day's armistice session that tha truce talks be broken off until the Communistf "desire to meet again." Washington (U.R) United States military and diplomatic authorities said Wednesday Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway'i latest truce offer to the Communistf in Korea is final. Secretary of State Dean Ache son told a news conference tha Allied recommendations were fair and reasonable measurei and anyone who wanted a truce in Korea would have accepted them. Deputy Defense Secretary William C. Foster said there would be no compromise in tha Allied stand on return of war prisoners, the point on which tha peace talks are deadlocked. Eisenhower Leader To Speak Here Friday U. S. Senator Frank Carlson, former governor of Kansas and one of the leaders in the national Eisenhower for President cam paign, Will speak here May 9 at a public rally, Elsenhower, boost ers were reminded today. The rally is scheduled for 8 p.m. In the Medford high school auditorium.- . Senator Carlson will meet with Medford and Jackson coun ty Eisenhower workers at the Medford hotel at 6:15 p.m. Fri day. Carlson served as a member of the United States house of representatives from 1937 to 1947, and In 1950 was elected to the senate. He was a member of the Kansas legislature in 1929 and 1931, served as chairman of the Kansas Republican state com mittee from 1932 to 1934, and in 1047 was elected governor of the state. Baker, Ore. (U.R) Stata Policeman Roger Armstrong sig naled the eastbound Union Pa cific streamliner City of Port land to a halt about five miles west of here early Tuesday after seeing flames leaping from tha big diesel engine. BULLETINS Washington (U.R) Tha Federal Reserve Board Wed nesday suspended controls over installment buying of automobiles and olher such consumer goods as furniture, radios and household appli ances. Washington (U.R) The Defense Department reported Wednesday that announced American battle casualties tn Korea now total 108,172. an Increase of 207 over last week's report.
