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Weather Recommended A featur itory on a nw ln duatrlil development on South Grape itreet apprarf on Page 11 of today'i Issue of The Mail Tribune. Tribune EDFORD FORECAST Fair today and Monday, except for possible thunderstorms over the moun tain! today. Slightly cooler Monday. High today 10-82, low tonight 45-50, Highest yesterday St Lowest yesterday ...i...,,.,.. 49 United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 30 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1952 No. 55. M Local Pear Crops 20 Per Cent Below Last Year's Level Frost Damage Said' Principal Reason The Medford area 1952 pear crop may be as much as 20 per cent less than last year, accord ing to an estimate quoted last week by C. B. Cordy, county agent for horticulture. He said the principal reason the crop will be less is frost damage. In addition, Cordy stated, "It would be conservative to say that an additional 10 per cent will be of lower grade fruit, and as a result will bring less mon ey." Cordy added, "If half of the crop reduction was due to frost, this would mean a loss to the valley (from frost) of more than $1 ',4 million. This makes it easy to see why the fruit growers are actively seeking better and more effective means of protection against frost." Another cause of loss to fruit men was the hailstorms of two weeks ago, according to Cordy. He pointed out that while the actual damage done was restric ted to a few orchards and the percentage of loss was low, there was a loss of some 550,000 in income to the valley, or about one half of one per cent of the annual income from pears. "The pear industry represents uch a large income to the val ley that frequently, when these relatively minor losses occur, they are overlooked," he said. "Actually, however, it does rep resent the loss of considerable new money." Cordy pointed out that it is too early to determine definitely the exact extent of the loss, or to accurately estimate the crop. Reports on Experiments He also reported on the recent experiments with wind mach ines as a solution to the problem of frost damage. His report said: "There were four machines tried out in the valley this year. Two of these worked on the heli copter principle, and two of them were propeller type. One of the propeller types was a mall machine, while the other was a larger machine with two propellors each one blowing in an opposite direction. These ma chines were checked very care fully this spring, and the results Indicated that none of them would give satisfactory or eco nomical frost protection. "The small helicopter type ma chines would raise the tempera ture from IVi to 2 degrees over a circle of about 300 feet in dia meter. This would be roughly Ha acres. Even when 50 heat ers were lit in a circle 125 feet from the machine, it had no ef fect beyond the area of approxi mately 300 feet in diameter. A small propcllor type mach ine was very little more effec tive, while the large machine gave a rise of l'i to 2 degrees over an area 600 feet in diamet er. This would be about seven acres. As this large machine cost over $4,000 and gave a maxi mum of 2 degrees protection, it would be an uneconomical high price and insufficient protection on severe nights. "In addition to this Robert W. (Root arranged to have an air plane fly over an orchard. This airplane flight gave results very similar to the wind machine in that it raised the temperature "Orchard heating is extremely important in protecting the val ey's fruit crop." 2,000 Persons Mary Kathryn Phoenix About 2,000 Rogue valley citizens witnessed the crowning of Queen Mary Kath ryn White of the Fourth Annual Phoenix May Festival yesterday morning in Phoenix. Queen Mary was chosen from five princesses and her court in cluded Miss Betty Louise Hen drickson, Miss Betty Jean Hop per, Miss Leota May Perry, and Miss Kay Marie Fisher. The queen received a $50 cash prize and members of her court were given boxed gifts. A parade IV miles long fol lowed the coronation and open ing ceremonies in which Secre tary of State Earl Newbry, Ash land, gave the official address. The grand parade included 30 ofiicial entries with the Phoenix Garden club taking top honors for the best float which was drawn by a large floral swan and catured some floral scenes with hildren 8nd a running fountain of water. The club was awarded 'he new 32-iuch gold trophy v. ., X ' .a f - 4f E. C. (JERRY) JEROME New Shrine Association Leader Shriners Choose Medford lor 1953 Regional Conclave Fourteen temples of the Shrine, all members of the Pa cific Northwest Shrine associa tion, will participate in the 1953 convention of the association in Medford. This city was select ed as the convention site Friday at closing sessions of the 1952 convention in Billings, Mont. Between 4,000 and 5.000 Shriners are expected to attend, making it probably the largest convention ever held in Medford. Some 2,000 of the Shriners will be members of uniformed units attending. E. C. (Jerry) Jerome, long active in Shrine work, was elect ed president of the association and, as is frequently the case, the convention agreed to meet next at the home city of the incoming president. From Large Area The temples belonging to the association are located in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho, Mon tana, Wyoming, British Colum bia and Alberta. Before he left for Billings, Jerome said that it had been hoped Medford would be select ed for the '53 convention, and that a great deal of preliminary work has already been done to line up accomodations for the visiting Shriners.- The convention will be of considerable economic impor tance to McdCord, also, it was pointed out, and estimates are that some $300,000 of new money, at a minimum, will be brought into the city by the Shriners. Medco Labor Dispute Settlement Reached The dispute between the Med ford corporation and Local 6-221. International Woodworkers of America, CIO, was finally settled yesterday. B. L. Nutting, Medco manager, reported that a signed contract was delivered to him Saturday, ending the dispute which started several weeks ago. Some 150 woods and railroad workers were on strike until a tentative agreement was reached May 16. They returned to work last Tuesday. I The union approved the terms of the agreement at a meeting Wednesday night, Nutting was informed. The terms of the agreement are generally similar to those of other contracts throughout the industry. Witness Festival Events; White Crowned Queen InjWKJWHyH .(Si -V M-'Jt',1'. "UP" I Hi j ": -St. K Irs.:?-- MARY KATHRYN WHITE Named Festival Queen which will be rotated until any group or person wim it three AFL Sailors Strike Throttles Shipping On Pacific Coast Owners Claim Korea Cargoes Are Delayed San Francisco (U.R) A weekend walkout by American Federation of Labor sailors throttled private shipping i n Pacific coast ports Saturday and shipowners claimed that even "priority" military cargoes for Korea were being delayed. Hardest hit by the wage dis pute were 400 passengers aboard the liner President Wilson in San Francisco whose departure for Hawaii and Orient points already had been several hours delayed by the walkout. At Los Angeles, another 400 passengers waited with fading hope for the ship's arrival. Sailing Postponed Shortly after 4 p. m. Ameri can President Lines officials "postponed" the President Wil son's sailing for the day and re scheduled it tentatively for noon today. "It is patent that the union will not provide a crew today," an APL spokesman said. "There is no assurance we will have a crew Sunday." The AFL sailors union of the pacific headed by fiery Harry Lundeberg, staged the walkout to back up demands for "true collective bargaining" by own ers in re-negotiating the wage provisions of their working agreement. The sailors quit work at 4 p. m. PDT Friday and voted at stop-work meetings In principal West coast ports to stay off the job at least until 5 p. m. Monday. Catholic Pastor Issues Statement On Rev. Caliandro Further information o n t h e activities and background of the Rev. Anthony Caliandro, who spoke in Medford last week, was given in a prepared statement issued Saturday by the Very Rev. John M. Berger, pastor of the Sacred Heart Roman Catho lic church of Medford. Mr. Caliandro was described as an "Italian-born ex-priest of the Roman Catholic church," in information given out prior to his appearance in Medford. He is at present traveling through the United States under the auspices of the National Association of Evangelicals, and addressed a group at the Medford Friends church Friday evening. Deny Former Priesthood Father Berger's statement said. "We deny categorically that Anthony Caliandro was ever a priest of the Roman Catholic church; no authentic credentials of any kind Jiave been presented locally. Information from Italy, received through news services in the United States, affirms that this man, if he was at any time a Catholic, severed his relation ship with the church at about the age of 15." The pastor concluded by say ing, "May we suggest that those who may be interested in the Catholic church and her doc trines, manifest that interest by contacting the local Catholic clergy, rather than by inviting into this community foreigners of extremely doubtful antece dents." limes for permanent possession. The Lady Liom of Phoenix won second prize in the float division and the Phoenix Com munity club took third honors. C. Lyall Fidler, well-known valley master of ceremonies, an nounced the program and Fes tival Coordinator Curt Fisher awarded the prizes for the float winners. Many booths and displays were set up on the Community club grounds and several thou sand patrons were on the grounds during the day and eve ning. Modern and square danc ing was held in the evening as well as other types of amuse ments. Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) The Atomic Energy Commission an nounced Saturday that weather conditions had improved and that It hoped to fire a nuclear device, the 18th to be tested in the southern Nevada desert- at dawn Sunday, FRENCH Eisenhower Gains Additional Ground In Battle for Republican Delegates General Receives Strong Majority From Washington Maryland Delegation Favors Eisenhower Washington (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A. Taft late Saturday continued in a neck-and-neck race- for the Republican presi dential nomination with "Ike" picking up ground in Washing ton and Maryland. Eisenhower won 20 of Wash ington's 24 delegates. Ike May Get 18 Maryland's d e 1 e g a tion was pledged to Gov. Theodore R. Mc Keldin on the first ballot at the national convention to be held at Chicago in July, but unin structed after that. McKeldin is reported to favor Eisenhower, however. There were reports that Mc Keldin may take as many as IB of Maryland's 24 votes for '"Ike" to the convention. Taft has four of Washington's delegates. That brings the total of formally chosen delegates for Taft to 392 to Eisenhower's 380. On the other side of the polit ical fence, Delaware Democrats chose a six-vote delegation un pledged to any of the wide field of candidates for the presidential nomination. Opposition Expected The Maryland situation is touchy in that McKeldin who al so waserected national commit teeman and a delegate to the con vention, will have opposition from Sen. Marshall Butler who is an avowed Taft supporter. The Taft-Eisenhower fight in Washington was for a majority of the state's 24 votes at the na tional convention. Former Gov. Harold E. Stas sen claimed the three at-large delegates being named in the Minnesota state convention on the strength of winning the pri mary there last March. Stassen got 21 delegates in the primary and four others went to Eisenhower because the Gener al's write-in votes in two districts exceeded those cast for the for mer governor. Two Small Boys Have Close Call A policy of "living dangerous ly" almost paid off in tragedy yesterday for two small Central Point boys, according to sheriff's deputies and Central Point po lice. One of the boys, eight years old, came home with what ap peared to be a bullet hole in his thumb, they said. He told his parents he and a nine-year-old friend had been riding their bicy cles when they heard a gun shot and he was hit in the thumb. Police were notified and start ed to check the stories the pair told. When the tales didn't quite Jibe with each other, officers be gan to check more closely. They found the boys had been taking high caliber rifle ammu nition from a Central Point ware house. They had pounded the lead slugs from the shells by placing them on a metal manhole cover and hammering them with rocks. When the slugs came out they used matches to touch off the powder in the shells. The eight-year-old was wound ed when the powder exploded and a piece of the shell hit him In the thumb, officers said. School District No. 6 Schedules Budget Vote Central Point A meeting of school district No. 6 will be held at 8 p.m. June 9 at Central Point junior high school gymnasium for discussing the 1952 1953 school budget and voting on a levy in excess of the six per cent limitation. The total budget proposed Is $548,925 with a levy of $320,450 of which $247,410.23 Is outside the six per cent limit. Of the overall budget, $493,525 is the general fund estimate and $55. 400 ia the bond interest and inking fund total. TRY l' I I I -erftf 1 n - uv DISPUTE ENDS Shown tion by employees of Kims restaurant, Highway 99 south, is a waitress (right), walking with two union pickets. The union called off its pickets Saturday afternoon and ended the dispute with the employes. The union set up pickets on May 2 and was joined last Sunday by the employees. The employees marched shouldcr to shoulder with the union pickets throughout the week until the picketing was discontinued yesterday. Union Withdraws Pickets From Medford Restaurant Pickets of AFL Local 329, Cul inary Alliance and Bartenders union were withdrawn at 3:30 p. m. Saturday from Kim's res taurant and the dispute between the employees and the union was terminated, according to Fred Morlan, spokesman of the Industry Council of "Southern Oregon. The action was made follow ing an open discussion held at Kim's restaurant earlier in the afternoon which was attended by Morlan, representing the In dustry council, Mrs. Gertrude Sweet, Portland, international representative of the eighth dis trict of the union; Harold Tee pie, business agent of Local 329; and 12 waitresses from the res taurant. Pickets had been placed in front of the restaurant on May 2 by the union and these were joined in a counter-picket on May 18 by representatives of the restaurant's employees in protest to the picketing. The un ion pickets were against the employees and not the employ er. During the discussion, Agent Tecple pointed out that the em ployer, Henry Fong, had been notified by the central labor council to appear before it by letter and had not done so. This placed the business on "the un fair status." Teeple had also writ ten a letter last December to the employees requesting a Idaho State Prison Riot Lasts 5 Hours Boise, Ida. (U.R) Rioting convicts at tne i a a n o state Prison here surrendered and re turned to their cells late Satur day in the face of a tear gas barrage and a flying squad of club-swinging guards and police men. The riot by 250 belligerent prisoners lasted slightly more than five hours. Warden L. E. Clapp ordered a complete lockup after the riot ers' were back in their cells. He said they would stay there "until this thing is straightened out." He said there would be no more grievance committees and the prison would be run from the front office from now on. Rooms in Shambles The recreation room and the laundry were a shambles. Every movable piece of furniture and equipment was broken up. The commissary in the recreation room was looted of candy and tobacco. All of the windows were shattered in the building the convicts held during the riot. Before it was over, the con victs set file to two buildings and boasted that they had wrecked the laundry and auto license shop. The prison houses about 470 convicts. About 170 were not Involved in any way. The other SO were members of work TO P'JiY SI n iuteT wow, 1 above in a counter- picketing ac meeting with them, and told the group he had received no ans wer from the letter. A spokesman for the waitres ses told the union representa. tives that their present condi tions "were okay with them" and they wore now getting 75 cents an hour and working a 40 hour week. Their main objec tions were (1) they hadn't been contacted personally, and (2) the conditions were such in Local 329 that the union "would hnve to clean its own house before it brought in any new employ ees." Mrs. Sweet summed up the meeting with "we will call the whole thing off and go to work in bringing about better work ing conditions in the local union. She pointed out to the group that two things were determined by the meeting: the first was the employees weren't given a chance to sit down with the un ion representative over the mat ter she attributed the lack of personal contact to the "current tension of these days" and that a letter was deemed better in not disrupting the working hours at the restaurant by ask ing for some other meeting place and, second, that the lo cal union conditions under con tract "are not lived up to in many houses." She expressed her apprecia tion at the "frankness with which the employees had given their views at the meeting." detail who were caught outside the yard when the riot broke and who huddled outside the strife-torn compound until order was restored. SPORTS BULLETINS Portland (U.R) Tha Portland all-star track team defeated the Southern Oregon high school stars. 87 to 37, In their annual track meet here Saturday night. Don Spinas, Medford won the high hurdles and Bob Newland and Jack Moad took second In the pole vault and shot put respec tively. The Medford Cheney Studs scored two runs each in the third, fourth and fifth innings Saturday night to defeat Roieburg 6 to 1 in a South western Oregon Baseball tussle at the fairgrounds here. Paul Gehrman, pitching for Medford gave up only five hits, no more than one an Inning and rapped a double that drovt In the first Stud run of the game. Roieburg got its run In the fourth on a walk, a hit, two fielder's choices and two errors. The Studs got six hits off Pitcher Dave Mann and two off Bust Spirer. Rebellious POWs inq Under To Tough Policy Illegal Banners Are Hauled Down Koje Island, Korea, Sunday (U.R) Rebellious Communist war prisoners knuckled under to the Allies new get tough policy yesterday and hauled down their illegal flags and taunting propaganda banners, A North Korean spokesman for the prisoners assured Brig Gen. Haydon L. Boatner, the is land s tough new commandant, the prisoners are now "willing to obey orders. Gen. Mark W Clark had ordered Boatner to regain "uncontested control" of the prisoners. The first flags to come down were in notorious Compound 76 where former Brig. Gen. Fran cis T. Dodd was kidnaped. La ter, captives in nine of the 17 compounds on this island pulled down their Communist flags and banners and the remainder were expected to do so shortly. Washington dispatches dis closed Gen. Matthew B. Ridg- way advised congress the Com munist truce team had threaten ed reprisals against Allied pris oners if harsh action was taken against the rebellious prisoners, However, no "harsh action" was responsible for the Com munists knuckling under to Boatner. The Communist action appear ed voluntary in the face of a Show of force by American para troopers and newly arrived British Commonwealth troops. North Korean prison leader Col. Lee Hak Koo wrote Boatner re questing a meeting and said the prisoners were now "willing to obey orders." Boatner received Lee In a headquarters room where he told him the Geneva convention "requires that prisoners of war act in a disciplined, respectful manner" and that "flying flags and displaying signs is con trary to discipline and respect." Pear Committee Elects Members Members of the Winter Pear Committee representing the Medford growing area were elec ted at two meetings here last week. The committee Is set up under the Department of Agriculture, and is composed of grower and shipper members from the six major fruit producing areas of the west coast. The committee establishes the minimum grades and sizes for all winter pears. David B. Lowry was elected as grower-member of the com mittee for this area; Stephen G. Nye was named first alternate and Paul Culbcrtson second al ternate. They were elected at a meeting of the Jackson County Fruit Growers league Friday. The shipper-member, elected at a meeting of the Rogue Valley Traffic association, is Shelby M. Tuttle. Alternates are Joe Nau mes and Harold A. Holmes. Spokesmen said that the work of the committee will be of par ticular Importance this year, since there will be an unusual amount of frost-marked fruit to be considered. Medford Guard Units Set Annual Training , Medford's two national guard units, Headquarters company and Company A, 1st battalion, 186th Infantry, are scheduled to leave here for summer training at Ft. Lewis, Wash., June 14 guard officers said Saturday. They will travel by train for the annual encampment. About 70 men from the Med ford area will take part In the exercises and a national guard anti-aircraft unit is scheduled to train at Yakima, Witah., at about the same time, they said. The 382nd quartermaster bat talion, organized reserve corps, is scheduled for training at Ft Lewis from July 20 to August 3. and the 304th logistical Company A- ORC, will train from August 3 to 18 at Ft. Lewis. Late Hour Attempt To Stall Two Pacts Ends With Failure Schuman Had Agreed To Signing Earlier Bonn. Germanv. Sunriav (U.R) France tried again early today to stall the German Peace contract and the European Army London. Sunday (U.R) Russia charged in a new note to the western Allies today that the West German peace contract it "actually an open military alliance" between the Big Three western powers and the Bonn republic. The Soviets denounced the contract as a "flagrant viola tion of the Potsdam agree ment" and said it would in volve West Germany in preparations for a new war. trpntv hilt infnrmfH mirAi said the eleventh-hour attempt ended in failure. French Fnreipn Minister RnR. ert Schuman. whn arliaf agreed "reluctantly" to sign tha iwo agreements, reopened tne subject In a conference with Sec retary of State Dean G. Acheson and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden tnat lasted trom 10:40 p.m. to 12:50 a.m. ' Urge Further Delays , There was little rinnht that the French, who have delayed effective preparations for the de fense of Europe for nearly two years, were urging still further delays. French sources hern arlmittert quite frankly that their govern ment, taiten aback by the quick progress of Allied-German nego tiations in the past few weeks, ' was stalling for time. , They said that officials In Paris, -frJBrmrrthat National As sembly debate on the the treaties would bring about a Cnvprnmunt crisis, wanted to delay it as long as possible. Fear Loss of Aid Informed sources said, how ever, that the threat of losing U. S. aid had persuaded Schuman that he should sign the pacts on schedule the German contract on Monday and the Army Treaty on Tuesday. Earlier today, France had de clared that Schuman could not sign the treaty until the United States and Britain promised to prevent any future German "se cession" from the six - nation force. Later, however, the Paris government backed down. The French cabinet watered down its original stiff demand for formal guarantees to a de mand that the United States and British to join France in a strong declaration of solidarity against a future German betrayal. French fears of a walk-out from the European defense com munity by Germany once she is rearmed had prompted the sudden cabinet threat to with hold Schuman's signature from the German treaty. Forestry Department To Man Guard Posts The State Department of For estry will begin to man its look outs and guard stations in this area on Monday, it was reported yesterday by District Warden Ted Maul. It will be some two weeks be fore all of them are manned, he said. Maul added that "quite a few smokes" have already been re ported to the district headquar ters on Table Rock road. Most of them have turned out to be debris burning fires which were started without permits. But he said that department personnel must chock on each one on the chance that It is an uncontrolled fire. Each such "false alarm" costs the state about $25, he pointed out. When fires are burned with out permits, warnings are Issued, he said, and arrests are made up on a second violation. Grants Pass Merchants Continue Fight for DST Grants Pass Merchants be longing to the Grants Pass and Josephine county Chamber of Commerce haven't given up their fight to get the city on day light saving time, the Grant! Pasi Courier reports. The merchants voted Thurs day to ask Mayor Morris Mil bank to call another special city council meeting to reconsider previous action when the coun cil turned down daylight time.
