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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
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Chicago 4 9 0
Hearn and Wesirum, Yvars
8: Hi lien, Klippstein 4.
Schultt $, Hacker 8. and At
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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,