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Weather Medford Tpune FORECAST: Increailnf fclfta cloudiness tonlfht and fefier llv cloudy Wednesday. Low tonlfht SO, high Wednesday TS Temp. Htfhest Yesterday Si Lowest, this Morning 0 United Prei--FuU Leued Wire UalUd Pri fuU Luted wtie 47th Year 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 3,r 2 No. 63 STEELWORKERS STRIKE Steelworkers at the Bethlehem Pacific Coast plant in South San Fran cisco, Calif., who walked off the job within an hour after 'l.e Supreme Court decision declared Presi dent Truman's seizure of the steel industry unconstitutional, examine newspaper announcing ruling. BULLETIN Washingian (U.R) Tht Senate passed by voice vote Tuesday a $1,381,000,000 long-range highways bill af ter slashing $208,000,000 from its original total. Wafer Regulations Designed To Keep Pressure in Mains Medford City Superintendent Robert Duff today requested that Medford residents observe regulations which will conserve water. He emphasized that these regulations, published for the first time this year yesterday, do not include "watering hour" re strictions, and no such restric tions are contemplated at the present time. Included in the regulations ire bans on watering with an open hose and wasting of water, and a requirement to turn off water when a fire alarm sounds. They are designed primarily to maintain adequate water press ure, Duff said. He pointed out that water pressure continues to be a prob lem, despite construction of the new Big Butte springs pipeline, which was completed last all. The problem is caused, he said, by the iaqt that the city', trunk water main system," started in 1948, is not yet completed in some areas of the city, particu larly in west Medford. As the trunk main system pro gresses, Duff stated, water press ure will become adequate in all sections of the city. Mail Truck Contract Let by Post Office A contract for transportation of Star route mail between Grants Pass and Dunsmuir, suc ceeding railroad service, has been let to Horton Caldwell and Virgil Hade, both Klamath Falls, it was reported here to day. The two-year contract for the truck mail route will begin July 1 this year, according to Med ford Postmaster Moore Hamil ton. A temporary contract, which will expire June 30, has been held by the Peters Trucking com pany, Yreka, Calif. The mail has been moved by truck since the Southern Pacific railroad discontinued passenger train service between ' Grants Pass and Dunsmuir last Febru ary. Portland (U.R) Philip Burns, 47, Oregon City, was in "fairly good" condition at Providence hospital Tuesday after being struck by a car as he dashed cross the street Monday eve ning. Spokane (U.R) Price Stabili zation investigators said Tuesday "many" Spokane restaurants "have been forced to buy food they did not want" in order to get scarce potatoes. Tappings Guide Rescuers Toward 5 Trapped Miners Ironwood. Mich. (U.R) Three of five trapped miners were pulled out alive Tueiday from a mine cave-in half a mile below the earth's surface here. Ironwood, Mich. (U.R) Bud dies of five trapped miners bor ed through 8 cave-in a half mile below the earth's surface Tues day guided by tapping sounds believed to be an Indication the men still were alive. Mar Have Sufficient Air ' Rescuers detected the lapping as three drilling crews tunneled toward the trapped men. Work ers believed the miners may have been blocked into a cavern undercut with sufficient air to keep them alive Official! said they hoped the 6th Army's Railroad Map Useless, Norblad Points Out in Letter Salem (U.R) Oregon Con gressman Walter 'Norblad said Tuesday that he hopes the Army isn't as confused about the rest of the country as it is about Oregon, or, he indicated, it could do more than the enemy to "mess up" an organized exo dus under civil defense. , Norblad wrote to Lt. Gen. Joseph M. Swing, commanding general of the 6th army at San Francisco that 6th army civil de fense plans for the Far West Local Boy Chosen For International CAP Exchange Plan Albert R. Eaton Jr., 18, a Med ford high school junior and a cadet in the Jackson county wing of the Civil Air Patrol, has been selected as one of the Ore gon's CAP cadets to participate in an international cadet . ex change program this summer, it was announced today. Eaton is one of 121 cadets from throughout the ; United States,, who willvisit "foreign countries during July and Aug ust, Assignment of countries has not yet been made, nor has it been decided how many of Oregon cadets will join in the program. Cadet Eaton is the second Medford boy to be chosen for the: honor.. Last year James Merritt, another Medford high schoolboy and CAP cadet, vis ited Denmark to study airplanes and aviation. He was one of the three from the state. Young Eaton is the son of Mrs. Mildred O. Eaton, 626 Park Place 5. Basis of selection is eludes character, physical re leadership, social poise and CAP encampment performance. City Budget Studies Due Tomorrow Night The 1952-53 Medford city budget is slated to come up for approval before a joint meet ing the city council and the cit izens budget committee at 7:30 tomorrow night in the city hall, city officials said today. The budget committee will meet tonight in the office of Mayor D. L. Flynn in the city hall for final consideration of the fiscal program, they stated. A regular meeting of the city council is scheduled for the same hour tonight in the council chambers of the city hall. Rou tine business slated to come be fore the council includes dis cussion of renewal of fueling and civil aeronautics adminis tration leases at the municipal airport. Washington (U.R) The Cen sus Bureau said Tuesday the fi nal official figures of the 1950 census showed 154,233,234 Amer icans. faint tapping came from the miners and not from , another rescue crew. The men were caught' when four "sub-levels." or horizontal sections of the Penokee pit iron mine gave way. The Republic Steel Co., owner of the mine, called out its entire working shift of 100 men to at tempt to rescue the miners. Walkout Postponed The employees volunteered to postpone their scheduled walk out at 11 p.m. Monday "until the emergency is over." The miners were identified as Christopher Hocking, 46, Matt Crocker, 54; Seraphram Zacliar zewski, 56, Jorma M. Olkonen, 33, and Victor Kox, 51. have "a number of errors" about the railroad network. For in stance: Lines Not Shown "This map shows no railroad connecting Portland and Spo kane although two major lines do exist between these two cities." "And: "It shows a major railroad line running from Eugene over the McKenzie Pass to Bend and on to Burns, although there is no rail lint connecting these three cities. The map, on the other hand, shows no line connecting Eu gene with "Klamath Falls, al though this is the ma'jor arterial Southern Pacific North and South rail line along the Pacific Coast. Astoria Line Not Shown The plan shows no railroad between Portland and Astoria although there is one, and "shows no line whatsoever in existence? to Aberdeen and Hoquiam or to South Bend and Raymond; there is no rail line shown whatsoever going to Coos Bay, Ore. The Oregon congressman, catching the 6th Army complete ly with its railroad maps down, continued: - - "Your map shows 'a major railroad line- from Seattle to Bend, Ore., by way of Yakima and Moro and this does not exist. There are three major rail lines from Seattle to Spokane and the map indicates only one and in the case of the other two it indi cates that they run only from Seattle to Ellensburg and Seat tle to Yakima to terminate there. The main line running out of San Francisco to Portland is not indicated on your map and the same thing is true of the main line carrying heavy traffic from San Francisco east through Sac ramento, which is also a blank. The rail line shown on the map from Boise to Lewiston, Ida., isl non-existent. Another very lengthy rail line, according to your map, running from Twin Falls through Idaho up to Challis and on to Missoula is also non existent . . ." Norblad said he was calling these errors to the 6th Army's attention so it could "rectify these mistakes, as in case of dif ficulty, I am sure that any rail transportation program based on the map as it is would be virtu ally useless." Search Continuing For Missing Youth Searching continued yesterday afternoon and last night and will be resumed late today, for the body of 8-year-old Gary Lar son, who has been missing since Sunday afternoon when he fell into the Rogue river while fish ing, according to state police. A state officer, assisted by vol unteers and residents of the area near Casey state park where the boy disappeared, searched the river banks until about 1 o'clock this morning. Two offi cers were scheduled to return to the area today. The boy was fishing with a friend, Alex. Mete, 12, at the time he fell into the water. He was the son .of Mr.- and Mrs. Einer Larson, 1011, West Uth street, Medford. Salem (U.R) Mrs. Gilbert, Pendleton, and Miss Jean Brandt. Lebanon, were reappointed to the state board of cosmetic exam iners Tuesday by Gov. Douglas McKay. BASEBALL NATIONAL New York 17 17 I Chicago 4 9 0 Hearn and Wesirum, Yvars 8: Hi lien, Klippstein 4. Schultt $, Hacker 8. and At well, Prameia 8. Horn runsi Westrum, on on. . Demands Ringing For Taft-Hartley Law Use in Strike President Urged To Invoke Measure Washington (U.R) Demands mounted in Congress Tuesday for President Truman to invoke the Taft-Hartley law to halt the steel strike rather than seek new emergency legislation. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R-O., co author of the Taft-Hartley law, said, "I do not feel that Congress is called upon to pass any emer gency legislation until the presi dent has exhausted his present statutory power.". Early Action Urged Chairman Graham A. Barden, D-N.C, of the House Labor Com mittee, ip effect, said the same tning. v Barden told a reporter no group should be permitted to "bring the country to its knees." He said Mr. Truman should act at once under the Taft-Hartley law to get steel production rolling again. The Taft-Hartley law permits 80-day injunctions against strikes endangering the national health and safety. Mr. Truman had re fused to use it, on grounds that the steel workers voluntarily re frained from striking for 99 days. No Committee Plans ' Barden indicated he has no plans for his committee to con sider any further, anti-strike or seizure legislation. There were reports the House Armed Services Committee might act in the steel emergency unless some other committee acts in the next day or so. Chair man Carl Vinson, D-Ga., declined to comment. The White House declined to say whether Mr. Truman would send a message to Congress. Press' Secretary Joseph Short told reporters he had nothing to say about the steel strike or what action the President might take to end it. County '53 Budget Published Today A public hearing on the 1952-53 Jackson county budget, totaling $2,270,572.02, has been called for 10 a. m. Wednesday June 25, it was announced by the county court today. The budget is published for the first time in today's edition of The Mail Tribune, on Pages 6 and 7. The hearing will be for the purpose of permitting those who disagree with various phases of the budget to present their arguments to the budget committee. Of the total expenditures call ed for by the budget, it is esti mated that $1,671,950.20 will be taken care of by cash already on hand, or receipts from var ious fees, transfers and other funds. The largest receipts will be from Oregon and California revested lands, held by the fed eral government. A total of $598,621.82 will be raised by taxes. The budget, ex cept for expenditures previously approved by the voters of the county, is within the six per cent limitation on increases im posed by the state constitution, and no election will be neces sary further to approve the bud get. Two Youths Seniented On Disorderly Charge Two Medford youths were sentenced this morning in dis trict court to terms in the county jail for disorderly conduct, ac cording to the district attorney's office, i A 17-year-old boy was sen tenced to six months in the coun ty jail, and Norman George Bur sing, 18, of 425 Ross lane, was sentenced to three months. Deputy District Attorney Bob Dickey said that a portion of both sentences may be suspend ed at a later date. The complaint, filed in dis trict court by Charles Bateman, owner of the Richfield Truck cafe, against the youths, charged that they "conducted themselv es in a disorderly manner, using profane, abusive and obscene langauge" while at the cafe, June 1. Walla Walla (U.R) Willis Cunnington, Walla Walla fire man, was killed and a second fireman seriously injured when the fire truck they were riding turned over after a collision with a private car here Monday, Experimenting Atomic Get Over-Exposure of Chicago (U.R) Specialists kept an anxious watch Tuesday over four atomic scientists who were over-exposed to radiation, and waited to see if the re searchers would be struck by deadly radiation sickness. Something Went Wrong The scientists were rushed to Billings hospital after something went wrong during an experi ment with fissionable materials at the sprawling Argonne Na tional laboratory and exposed them to a heavy dose of atomic rays. Doctors said it would be "some time" before they would know if the exposure, was harmful to the scientists. V . ' A statement issued by Lester BRITISH RUSSIAN Berlin Operation Surrounded in Allied Retaliation Berlin (U.R) British troops under orders to "meet force with force" laid seige to Russian-run Radio Berlin in. West ern Berlin Tuesday in the first Allied retaliation for the Sov iets' new "creeping blockade" of the city. One hundred British military police and 100 West Berlin po lice surrounded the block - long building in 'CharlottenbUrg ' in the British sector, threw Up barbed wire barricades around it, and prevented the Com munist day shift from reporting for work. Siege to Continue The British said the siege would continue until the Rus sians evacuated the radio studios,- the largest in Germany. No one will be permitted to enter the building, the British said, but the night shift and the 24 armed Soviet guards may leave whenever they like. At mid-morning, two Russian Army officers and a civilian drove past the entanglement to a British Army headquarters building, where they asked per mission to enter the studios. Re fused, they drove back' to the Soviet sector. Russian Car Followed The Soviet Army car was followed through the streets by. a crowd of fist-shaking, shout ing West Berliners. A number of Communists tried to demonstrate outside the radio studios and one woman was arrested by West Berlin police. Ex-Medford Man Gets 5-Year Prison Term San Francisco (U.R) Ed ward David Reed, 23, formerly of Medford, Ore., was sentenced to five years in federal prison and fined $10,000 for draft eva sion by Federal Judge Edward P. Murphy. Murphy gave the maximum sentence for this offense to Reed, a student minister at the Christ Church of Golden Rule. Reed was found ' guilty on May 20 of refusing to be In ducted into the army on reb. l. .He claimed he should be exempt from the draft as a student mm ister. . Selective Service Board No. 17, serving Jackson county, has no record of an Edward David Reed and he is not listed In any local directories. Light Rain Seen for State by Wednesday By UNITED PRESS An end to bright sunshine ov er most of Oregon was predicted by the weather bureau Tuesday. A storm moving northeast ward off the coast Is expected to bring light rain and cooler temperature to most of the state by Wednesday, the bureau said. Another storm front, now out at sea, la expected to move into the northwest by Thursday and bring additional showers. C. Furney, assistant director of the Argonne laboratory, said, "it cannot be determined at this time whether or not the exposed persons will suffer serious con sequences." On Secret Experiment The four persons rushed to the hospital Monday were Dr. Peter A. Morris, 30, a physicist; Physicist Aaron J. Uliich, 31; Research Technician Mrs. Louise Kollman, 38, and Roland A. Bach, 29, also a research tech nician. , They were working as a team on a secret Atomic experiment at the Du Page County labora tory of the Argonne installation in suburban Lemont, 111., when LAY SIEGE TO RADIO STATION Idleness Mounting In Steel Industry As Workers Strike Pittsburgh (U.R) The na tion's steel production was locked in the grip of a strike of 650,000 CIO United Steel workers Tuesday with idleness in steel-dependent industries growing by the hour. Furnaces Banked The last furnaces of the de fense vital steel plants were be ing banked as pickets marched before the gates in answer to CIO President Philip Murray's call to stop production because Only One Candidate Seeks School Post With less than a week re maining before the filing dead line, Otto A. Ewaldscn, 20 Ross court, today was still the only candidate for election j to the Medford city school board. The deadline is Monday, June 9, and the election will be held Mon day, June 18. Th evacancy on the board is caused ' by expiration of the term of E. Ronald Rice, 302 Vancouver avenue. Rice has previously stated he will not be a candidate for reelection "because my children will no longer be in school after this year." - Final classes for the current school year were held in all public schools and St. Mary's grade and high schools this mor ning. Students will return to school on Friday to pick up their report cards. Baccalaureate services for some 210 Medford senior high school students were held Sun day night and graduation exer cises, with Dr. Victor P. Mor ris, dean of the University of Oregon school of business ad ministration as main speaker, will be held Thursday night in the high school auditorium. $2 Million Shopping Center Construction Planned on Highway 99 South of Medford John Welsbrod, an Eagle Point and Medford real estate man, today announced plans for the development of an extensive shopping center on the Pacific highway south of Medford. Land has already been pur chased, he said, and preliminary negotiations with a number of firms wishing to locate stores or branch shops there are under way. Cost Soma $2,000,000 The proposed center, which takes the shape of a rough tri angle and is located east of the highwey between the baseball field at the Fairgrounds and the "Red Barn'" dining room, will cost In the neighborhood of $2,000,0000 when completed, Weisbrod said. A "well-rounded" develoment to attract entire families, not only from Medford and the vicin ity, but from all of southern Or egon and northern California, Is being planned, Weisbrod said. One of the chief features of the center will be a large supervised play ground and recreation area for children, located in the cen Scientists Radiation the mishap occurred at about 4 p.m. Monday. . The group was at work, a spokesman said, when they sud denly realized that they had been over-exposed to radiation. Fears Corroborated Their fears were corroborated by readings they took on instru ments which were also near the scene of the experiment. The scientists reported the incident and were rushed to the hospital. Furney indicated there was no explosion of any kind and said there was "no damage to the lab oratory property." Furney was tight-lipped about the nature of the experiment the four researchers were conduct ing. the U. S. Supreme Court nulli fied President Truman's seizure of the mills. With steel-hauling shut off, railroads furloughed at least 2,000 workers and scheduled layoffs for at least 10,000 more by Thursday. Approximately 20,700 miners, who produce coal tor tne steel i furnaces, were idled In Western Pennsylvania aione. Miners Join Strike In Minnesota's famed Mesabl range, richest iron ore field of the world, 10,000 to 18,000 wor kers walked out of the diggings to join .the steel workers In their strike. Steel Industry sources here said that negotiations to end the strike, second this year, may be opened In New York Friday. Representatives of more than 12 steel producers' were gathering in New York for a conference Wednesday. Murray asked the companies for negotiations "looking to ward the perfection of a con tract firmly based upon the rec ommendations of the Wage Stab ilization Board." Klamath Farmers Baffle Grasshoppers Klamath Falls (U.R) Grasshoppers Tuesday won the first round in the battle to keep countless thousands of the In sects out of valuable barley fields in the Klamath Basin, Six planes were out Monday, dropping thousands of pounds of poisoned bran on fields where some of the grasshoppers have Jumped "battle lines." Farmers said there was noth ing left In areas hit by the In sects. Authorities said that the situation southwest of Tulelake, Calif., was grim, but not out of hand. ter of the store area. It will In clude a merry-go-round, a min iature railroad, a pony ride and other rides and concessions. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Koln, 19 South Barneburg road have purchased the land, which Weln brod is managing, and they are now in the south purchasing the equipment for the children's area he said. Intertsi Shown It Is contemplated that all types of stores, shops and mar kets will be located in the 23 acre center, the manager said. He added that considerable in terest has been shown by a vari ety of firms. One feature will be a medical-dental-profcssional building, and it is also planned to have branch banks (perhaps of the "drive-in" variety), a drive-in restaurant and a sub postoffice. A lounge may also be constructed. The area Is Just south of the site now being considered for an armory aut'ltorlum," Weisbrod pointed out, and would be a "natural" for convention service. Taft's Attack on Air Power Stand Answered in Talk Global War Danger Not Seen by General Washington (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower defend ed his record on air power Tuesday against criticism by Sen. Robert A. Taft, his princi pal rival for the Republican presidential nomination. He said dangers of a "delib erately planned" global war by Russia are not great, but there is an ever-present danger of Korea-like actions. This makes imperative our continued build up of friendly nations by econ omic and military aid. In a news conference that was his farewell to a military car. eer of 40 years, Eisenhower an swered a series of questions dealing primarily with military aspects of the world fight against Communism. . Some of them had political implications, bearing on the presidential campaign which Eis enhower joined Tuesday as an active participant. When the news conference ended, he received formal or- ders for his retirement at I brief ceremony on the Penta gon steps overlooking the Po tomac river, then he returned to his Statler hotel suite where he changed into civilian clothes and got down to real political business. He had lunch In his hotel suite with three of his campaign chiefs Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., R-Mass., and Sen. James H. Duff, R-Pa., and Paul Hoffman. Tuesday night Esienhower the civilian will fly to Kansas City. Wednesday he goes home to Abilene, Kan., for his first political speech and a municip al celebration expected to draw up to 100,000 into the Plains country town whose normal population Is about 6,900. Eisenhower opened the SB minute news conference with ! a 12-minute speech, first asking to be excused from political ques tions and then appraising hit work of the past 18 months as supreme Allied commander in Europe. The first question from the au dience of 100 newsmen, howev er, was on Taft's charge In a Sunday speech that deteriora tion of American air power be gan in the period, lB43-'48, when Eisenhower was Army chief of staff. Eisenhower said, "I've always fought for more Ajr Force than ever was granted by Congress," and invited a look at his record. He made these other points: Dangers of "losing Allies" through "stealing" and "subver sion" of Russian satellites are greater than by assault. On the buildup of North At lantic Treaty Organization coun tries, he has never been "one of those who insisted on reaching a specific military goal this year, next year or the year after," but rather insisted on "keeping headed for the goal." There has been much progress, he said. , Cuts In the foreign aid budget of $7,900,000,000 would neces sarily lower calculations upon which the Lisbon meeting of NATO countries based their pro gram of cooperation for the com ing year, Another of the more attract ive features of the proposed de velopment would be the fact that off-street, convenient park ing for some 1,500 cars would be provided more cars than can be accommodated in the business area of downtown Medford, Em ployees would have their own parking area In the rear, and would not use that reserved for customers. Under the plan, stores and shops locating In the area would be largely non-competitive in na ture, and would offer a complete one stop shopping service. AH buildings would be built to the same general plan one story each, and each following the same "ranch type modern" design. Utilities would be un derground. Financing will be kept in southern Oregon as much as pos sible, Weisbrod said, and the em phasis ,in the construction will be on the use of local money, lo cal people and local materials. Construction on portions of the development is expected to start soon, he added,
