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Recommended Weather MEDFORD Tribuk A feature itory on the reiulti of a vacation travel study con ducted by the national park ier vice concerning the travel hablti and expenditures of tour ists in this area In the summer of 1950 appears on Page 8 of today's Issue of The Mall Trlb- FORECAST Bunny and warm today and Monday. High both days SO, low tonight 50. Temp. Highest yesterday 88 Lowest yesterday 55 United Press Full leased Wir -r United P- .eased Wire 47th Year 26 Pages . MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1952 No. 67 A, Camp White Work Depends on Action Taken in Congress Rehabilitation May Begin This August Start of rehabilitation work at Camp White depends on the approval of congressional com mittees for land acquisition, The Mail Tribune was informed Fri day. It may be in August. In a letter to the newspaper written in response to a query, Brig. Gen. John R. Hardin, as sistant chief of engineers for military construction, said. "It is estimated that bids can be invited within 10 days after this approval is received. Actual con struction should be feasible about August 15, after a normal 30-day bidding period, and con tingent on sdch final cost ap provals as may be required un der present law." Long Studied Plans for the reactivation of Camp White, north of Medford, which was a big infantry train ing site during World War II, have been considered for nearly two years. Last year, congress voted more than $11,000,00 for the project, to bring the camp to stand-by readiness. No actual training program is contemplat ed for the present. General Hardin described it this way: "Although Camp White is to be reactivated, present plans call only for a very limited initial program, which will serve as the framework to permit full expan sion on an expedited basis should emergency condition so dictate. "The preliminary phase will be confined to the acquisition of real estate and to rehabilitation of utility systems, roads and rail road connection. Also included Is a telephone and telegraph building. "The expenditure involved is estimated 'at slightly in excess of $3,500,000. ". . . The number of personnel In the initial activation will be restricted to custodial forces only, assigned to guard and oper ate the standby facilities being rehabilitated. " Eventual " expan sion will, of course, depend on ; future developments in the de fense situation." Ambassador Shift "Not Significant" Washington. (U.P.) U. S. officials said Saturday the switch of Russian ambassadors here had no particular significance in the cold war. They said it would have been "ominous" if Soviet Ambassa dor Alexander S. Panyushkin had been recalled and the Rus sian post left .unfilled for a long time. Panyushkin annuonced Friday he had been recalled to Moscow. Diplomatic sources said he will be succeeded by Georgi Nikol aevich Zarubin, recalled a week ago as Soviet ambassador to London. These sources said President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson approved Zaru bin's appointment after studying his record as ambassador to Canada from 1944-46, when the Russian spy ring was uncovered In Ottawa. v School Board Filings Deadline Is Tomorrow Monday is the last day on J, which candidates for the board f of Medford School District 49 may file for election. One candidate has filed for the vacancy created by the ex piration of the term of Don Rice. He is Otto Ewaldsen, 20 Ross court. The board election is sched uled for a week from Monday, June 16. Eugene Explosion Blamed On Well-Planned Vandalism Eugene (U.P.) Police Sat urday investigated a heavy blast that shook downtown Eugene early Saturday and tore out about half of one side of the huge yellow O on the side, of Skinner's Butte overlooking the city. Police said the explosion look ed like a case of "well - planned vandalism." No arrests have been made but police said they had some leads on identity of the culprits. Apparently Dynamitt The blast, apparently a dyn amite charge, Jarred the city about 3:45 a. m. and threw big chunks of concrete for several hundred yards in every direc tion. One piece of concrete sail ed for two blocks, denting the FLOYD J. COOK Dies in Portland Floyd J. Cook Dies in Portland; Well Known Here Portland (U.P.) Floyd J Cook, 69-year-old veteran Ore gon Republican leader, was found dead Friday in his rooms at the University Club here where he had lived in recent years. He apparently had died in his sleep. Cook was a delegate to the national Republican convention in 1928 and 1932 and w a s a presidential elector in 1936. He was secretary Of the Republican State Central committee from 1926 to 1930 and was chairman of the group from 1930 to 1932. He was also secretary of the state highway traffic committee under former Gov. Charles sprague. A native of Portland, Cook re tired several years ago from the insurance business. . Floyd J. Cook lived in Med ford several years and was well known here. He was prominent in Jackson county Republican circles before moving to Port land about 20 years ago. Mr. Cook was married to Helen tJale Colvig, daughter of Judge Wil liam M. Colvig of Medfor'a'.vrl ... A native of Portland, he at tended Bishop Scott academy and Lawrenceville college m New Jersey. Mr. Cook served overseas as an infantry captain during World War I and was a member of the American Leg ion, post here. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11:30 a. m. at J. P. Finley and Son mortuary in Portland. ' -...''', Commies Raid Farm In French West Berlin Berlin (U.P.) Soviet soldiers and Communist East German police raided a farm on the bord er of the French-occupied sector of West Berlin Saturday and carted off cattle and horses. West Berlin police said the Reds also forced 13 West Berlin- ers working on the farm to take their personal possessions from the farmhouse and leave the pro perty. All stocks of cattle and horses grazing in the fields or confined in the farm's barns were herded off into East Germany, the police said. VAPOR TRAIL SEEN A vapor-trail left by a high flying airplane was noted' by a number of Medford and Ashland people Friday afternoon. The aircraft which left the plume like trail was so high that it could barely be distinguished, and some of the observers could not see it. The phenomona, a not unusual one, is caused by the vaporizing of engine exhaust gases from planes at high alti tudes when conditions are right. They were familiar sights in Eu rope during World War II when bombers were flying high en route to German targets. top of a car parked on East 2nd avenue. Other chunks landed on the Southern Pacific depot at the foot of the butte. Siren Sounded Just before the blast went off, someone sneaked Into the Eu gene Water and Electric board steam plant on the butte and touched off the city's air raid siren. At the same time a meter in the automatic transmitter, al so on the butte, was disconnect ed, cutting off the city and state police and fire department com munications system. Calls about the blast flooded police and fire department head quarters and newspaper offices and radio stations. Some callers from as far as four miles away said they felt the blast. Optimistic Report From Meeting On Steel Disputes Negotiators Slated v To Meet Again Today Washington U.R) Steel in dustry and union negotiators met for five hours at the White House Saturday In a new at tempt to settle the crippling six day steel strike and announced, amid signs an agreement was near, that another session would be held at 11 a.m. EDT today." The bargaining teams main tained silence when they left the cabinet room in the White House at 6 p. m. EDT. Back Sunday Presidential Assistant John R Steelman, who has been direct ing the new round of meetings, told newsmen both sides would be back Sunday. He said the negotiators would "meet with their own people and go over the situation to night in preparation for the meeting." Steelman sat in briefly at the beginning and end of the morn ing and afternoon sessions, but he was not more communicative about what progress had been made than the negotiators them selves. , "But there had been a. scatter ing of optimistic reports from some well-placed congressional sources, all attributed to- high quarters. "Very Hopeful" One Senate source said he had been informed the administra tion was "very hopeful" of get ting a settlement during the week-end. Another, whose in formation came from the same place, reported he had been told progress was' 'so encouraging" a settlement was possible by night fall. It was indicated the negotia tors were trying to come up with a complete "package ' on wage and fringe issues, including dis position of the disputed union shop issue. Taft's Forces Get 32 Delegates From Indiana Convention Washington (U.P.) The Indiana State Republican con vention fanned new bitterness between Taft-Eisenhower parti sans Saturday reminiscent of the Texas skirmishing between the two camps. " The convention at Indianapolis came to a surprise ending with all 32 delegates pledged to Sen. Robert A. Taft. The pledge was applied evento two district dele gates the Eisenhower forces won in Friday's first round of the convention. -Convaniion "Illegal" Eugene C. Pulliam, Indianap olis publisher and one of the two Eisenhower delegates, promptly said he would Ignore the conven tion mandate. It is illegal, Pul liam said, because "I was not elected by the state convention I was chosen by the 11th Congressional district delegates at a caucus. ' Pulliam said he was certain William L. (Big Bill) Hutcheson, president emeritus of the AFL Carpenter's union and the other Eisenhower delegate elected by caucus, shared his sentiment. Meanwhile, Taft headquarters here announced it would have probably today, a statement on the Texas situation. Pro-Taft forces, in control of the creden tials machinery of the Texas convention, beat down Eisenhow er delegations in a series of contests to get control of the overwhelming majority of the state's 38 delegates. The contests will be continued at the nation al GOP convention at Chicago next month. - Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower said in New York that "honor able men" would try to settle disputes between his and Taft's backers. Phoenix Voters Defeat Proposed City Budget Phoenix An election to ex ceed the six per cent city budget limitation by $10,370.91 was de feated by Phoenix voters Friday by 85 against to 33 for, accord ing to Mrs. Curt Fisher, city re- The total tax levy for the pro posed 1952-53 budget was $10, 656.20, of wnich only $285.29 was within the limitation set by state law for general fund accounts. The total budget figure was $28,672.20. The recorder said the council would meet in the Immediate future to decide what course of action to take for the next fiscal year's budget. FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM COMPOUND 77 on Koje Islannd Communist POW is loaded into waiting vehicle by UN personnel aided by another prisoner, for hospital treatment which for some reason he refused. Ailment was Local Man Vice-Chairman Of Oregon GOP Delegation; Final Count Changes Slate Salem (U.P.) Oregon's 18 man, Eisenhower-pledged dele gation to the R e pu b 1 i c a n National convention in Chicago Saturday elected Gov. Douglas McKay as delegation chairman. Robert A. Elliott, Medford, the state chairman of the Republican Central committee, was named vice-chairman at the delegation. , Two Salem delegates, Mrs. James Mott and State Represent ative Mark Hatfield, will be Ore gon members of the platform committee. The state's member of the crucial credentials com mittee will be State Senator William E. Walsh of Coos Bay Salem (U.P.) A last-minute turn in the -tide of the .i':jf 16 primary 'Indicates two-ratid idates for delegate -to the Republican national convention who had been "counted out" may deplace two who had almost certainly clinched places on the Oregon delegation. Dave O'Hara, head of the state elections bureau, said nearly complete but unofficial returns from the primary indicated Dr. Frank E. Fowler of Astoria and UN Negotiators Walk Out on Reds For 3-Day Period Tokyo, Sunday (U.R) Com munist truce negotiations de manded today that the United Nations return to Panmunjon where Allied delegates broke off the talks for a three-day period yesterday in protest against Red propaganda "drivel." The U. N. flatly refused the Communist demand and said the Allied truce team would not re turn to the armistice site until Wednesday, June 11 The date laid down before the U, N, walk out yesterday. Chinese Col. Tsai Chen Wen made the request this morning at a liairon officers' meeting with Col. James C. Murray. Red delegates did not appear at Pan munjon after the firm U. N. re fusal. Tsal said "I am instructed by my senior delegate, North Kor ean Gen. -Nam II., to request your side to come to the con ference at 11 a. m. today to con tinue the regular proceedings of the plenary sessions of the dcl& gations." An hour later, Murray replied: "I am instructed by my sen ior delegate, Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison, to notify you that, as we stated yesterday and for the reasons given then, we can not agree to meet until 11 a. m., June 11, unless there Is some special circumstance which dic tates an earlier meeting and which would make progress to wards the achievement of an armistice." . The walkout, which left the Communist delegates open mouthed with surprise a n d be wilderment, came after the Reds refused at an extra-ordinary afternoon session to agree to a three-day recess. Bonn, Germnnv (U.R) . The West German Cabinet approved the European Army pact Friday night and sent it to t!e Upper House of Parliament loi ratifi cation. not disclosed. (International) State. Rep. J. O. Johnson of Ti- gard had won places on the 18-man Oregon delegation. They apparently displaced Leslie Scott and Zylpha Dell Burns of Portland as delegates. As far as Oregon's vote at the national convention goes, the switch of Dr. Fowler and John son to the delegation will make little difference. Both have in dicated they favor Gen. Dwight Eisenhower for president. . Local OES Office Says Employment Increasing Here Employment continued a steady "seasonal" increase dur ing May, the State Employment Service s Medford office report ed yesterday. . A shortage of some skilled and semi-skilled workers began to show up, among them fallers and buckers, rachett setters, edg ermen and choker setters, in the lumber industry, and auto and truck mechanics, machin ists, waitresses, domestic work ers and stenographers. ' There was still a surplus of unskilled labor, the report said. Unemployed Fewer - The number of those unem ployed at the end of the month was estimated at 1,070, down about 27 per cent from April. Seasonal ' migration into the area is under way, and "is help ing to keep the total of unem ployed from going down even more rapidly," the report add ed. A large proportion of those coming here are season crop workers, while a few are fam ily groups looking for new per manent locations. In view of estimates that the pear crop will be some 20 per cent less than last year, the re port predicted that there will probably be less thinning need ed than a year ago, but that the labor needs will be large during the harvest season, requiring much outside labor to handle the crop. Students Seek Work A large number of students, many of them high school grad uates, are seoklng"summcr work, with many looking for perman ent employment, the report said, adding that, "Many of the high school graduates have been giv en a general aptitude test by the employment service, and have an application on file , . . Employers are urged to consid er these young people in filling openings in their organizations. The service will begin test ing applicants this month for pear sorting and packing jobs. The industry'has indicated that many of their workers will be hired on the basis of the tests. WOMAN INJURED Patricia Terry, 3594 Roberts road was given first aid in the Community hospital last night for knee lacerations following an automobile collision at West Main and Ivy streets at 8:20 p. m., according to hospital attend ants. She was a passenger in one of the two cars involved and the drivers were Wilson Frederick Moeller, route 3, box 82, Med ford, and Pearl Catherine Walk er, 1120 Rcddy avenue. City po lice reported both cars "badly damaged," having to be towed away. No citations were issued. HST SAYS 16 CAW BOMB KOREAN Eisenhower Willing To Meet with Stalin For Talks on Peace New York (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said Sat urday he would go anywhere in the world at any time to talk with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin about world peace. The prevention of another war will be the biggest issue in the coming presidential campaign, Eisenhower said at his second news conference since becoming a civilian and opening his per sonal campaign for the Republic an presidential nomination. He indicated he would cam paign on that issue, despite a de luge of advice from many per sons opposing a "Peace, it's won derful" theme. "I can't ' conceive anything more Important to the American people than security and peace in this troubled world," Eisen hower said. Eisenhower answered a bar rage of questions put to him by 200 newsmen during a 40-minute press conference at the Commo Sixteen Carloads Prove Puzzle to Anybody order 16 carloads of C-rations? , Well, they've arrived. Ten car loads are in storage at Eads Transfer and Storage, and six are at Commercial Transfer and Storage. r. , . , ADnarentlv the Armv la re sponsible. But a check Saturday failed to find anyone who knows: . 1. Why they're here. ; 2. Where they're going. . CO Denies Knowledge A representative of the county civilian defense office denied knowledge of the shipment. There was some thought that they might have been sent here for the CD mass evacuation and shelter program. Are they for Camp White? It was pointed out that Camp White's status and schedule is still uncertain, and within'the foreseeable future only and a handful of caretaker troops will be stationed there. From Fresno The C-rations (there are a lot of emergency meals in 16 box carloads) were ordered here by the Army's general ' depot in Ogdcn, Utah, and are apparently Credit Easing Seen On Home Purchases Washington ' (U.R) The government is expected early next week to relax its last major credit control the regulation governing down payments and mortgages on homes. Officials said the Federal Re serve Board will probably make two major changes in the so-called Regulation X: 1. Scale down the minimum down payments required on home purchases, with the major benefit given to more expensive houses. 2. "Smooth out" down pay ment requirements on homes in the $7,000 to $12,000 bracket so that the differences within the price range will be less sharp. There is also a chance the board may remove outright the present requirement for at least 10 per cent down on houses cost ing less than $7,000, officials said. Trimmed Foreign Aid Before Senate Monday Washington (U.R) The Sen ate will consider final approval of the trimmed-down $6,431,249, 750 foreign aid bill Monday, Democratic Leader Ernest W. McFariand said Saturday. Senate leaders had olanned to take up the measure Friday, but were delayed by long debate on the agriculture appropriation bill. . The compromise mutual se curity bill, as worked out by Senate-House conferees and al ready approved by (he House, authorizes nearly $1,500,000,000 less than requested by President Truman, ENEMY dore hotel. He emphasized the current East-West struggle and said: . "We all have to work and sac rifice. There is no easy road to peace and security , . . in the long run, I have the utmost faith in the action of many people rather than the genius of one man." - - Asked if as president "he would be willing to meet with Stalin, Eisenhower replied: ,'.-' Not Certain Best Approach "I would say this: I am not so certain that that is the way to approach it. But I will say this: Had I the . slightest reason to believe that . such a meeting would be welcome, I would go to any . place in . this world in order to promote this thing that Is to my mind so completely nec essary to ui all. ' ., "There is nothing that I would not do to promote the whole cause of peace and. security for the United States in this world. of C-Rations Local Officials under the control of the Army's commercial warehouse at the general Mepot at Auburn, Wash They were shipped here . from Rosenburg Brothers, Fresno, Calif., who, it is believed, held the contract for packaging the rations, ; -v'v-n .-.- As far, a -the storage com panies are concerned, the ra tions are "in transit."- That's all they know, except that one of them has a five-year contract with the Army for storing the food which is cancellable after a year s notice. i , Acheson Schedules Flight to Vienna Washington U.R) Secretary of State Dean Acheson plans to fly to Vienna late this month through the same Russian-con trolled corridor where an Amer ican diplomat's plane was buzzed by Red fighters last Wednesday, it was learned Saturday. Official Informants said Ache- son's present flight plan aboard President Truman s personal plane, the Independence, calls for an overnight stop behind the Iron Curtain in Vienna, as well as a visit to Berlin, deep inside the Soviet zone of Germany. He also may stop olf at Rome if there is time. It was considered likely that American Jet fighters might es cort Acheson a plane through the corridors to prevent another in cident." American officials in Vienna already have fired a strong pro tect to the Soviet occupation au thorltles against the "buzzing" Incident Two Russian Jet fighters flew within 250 feet of U.S. Air Force transport plane carrying Walter J. Donnelly, U.S. high commissioner to Austria, from Vienna lo Paris en route to the United Stales.' Tear Gas Barrage Breaks Up Defiant Show Koje Island, Korea, Sunday (U.R) Seven British soldiers showed Communist war prison ers they were boss Saturday by using tear gas to enforce an order the Reds had disobeyed. Seven men of the King's Shropshire light infantry tossed six tear gas grenades into com pound 66 and broke up the first real show of defiance in three days. . ; Wear Gas Masks The guards, wearing gas masks, went into action when North Korean officer prisoners refused to remove themselves and their blankets from the barb ed wire enclosure around the compound. The, blankets covered tne sharp barbs and Allied of ficers feared escape attempts while British troops dug for es cape tunnels. Maj. Dawney Bancroft, com mander of the British company AT WILL President Warns Against Cutting Defense Budget Defends US Air Power From Taft Criticism Springfield, Mo. (U.R) President Truman warned Sat urday that Russia may be plan ning "new Koreas," but he said the U. S. Air Force now has 15,000 planes in operation and in Korea can "bomb the enemy at will.". ..- ' The President, who came here to meet his World War I buddies of the 35th Division at their art- nual reunion, took leave of them with a speech defending his air power program from the critic ism of Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-O.) and others. Mr. Truman spoke In a small auditorium from which his re marks were broadcast nation ally by radio. It was one of his most serious analyses of Inter national affairs, and he warned that cutting the defense budget would be "playing wth fire." Before his address, the Presi dent paraded for . nearly three miles in hot, humid weather through the streets of Spring field. He headed Battery D, the outfit he commanded as an artil lery captain in World War I. Immediately after the speech, Mr. Truman boarded his DC-6 Independence to return to Wash ington. He arrived at 6:11 p. m EDT and went directly to the White House. Mr. Truman was Introduced by Gov. Forrest Smith of Missouri,- who described him as a "Fighting Son-of-a-Gun." The President made several interpolations 1 in ' his'.; prepared speech: He said his senate in vestigation ' during World War II showed that military planes were obsolete before they, could be built. "That's what we're trying to avoid now," he said. "The B-29 is as obsolete today as the cars of 1938." He added to his prepared text that In Korea, "Our planes have knocked the Russians out of the air at a rate of eight to one." In connection with his visit next week to New London, Conn., for the keel-laying of the nations first atomic-powered submarine, the President said: "Some of these new weapons will amaze you." He described as political hooey" the ideas of the congres sional economy bloc. Sport Bulletin The Medford Cheney Sludi chalked up their third win in the Southwestern Oregon Baseball league by downing Brookings 6 to 3 at the fair grounds here last nighi. ' Medford tallied once In the tint inning on a hit and an error, three times In the fourth on a walk, hit baiter, sacrifice. Jack Gordon's sin gle and Snuffy Smith's triple and twice in the seventh on singles by Moos Blevins and Gordon, a double by Frank Roelandi and two fielder's choices. Brookings scored once in the sixth on a double, error and flyout and twice in the eighth on a hit batter, error and four singles L1NKHCORE: Brookings 000 001 0'io 3 8- 2 M'ritord .100 31)0 20x S 7 Atin and Peterion; Gehrman and Roelandt. . by Prisoners assigned to the island, said the prisoners in 66 were given 10 minutes to remove themselves and the blankets from the fence. The North Koreans retreated In the cloud of gas as the guards moved up with bayonet-tipped rifles. None of the guards was Injured. Beds Display Signs Allied correspondents were greeted with a barrage of propa ganda when they gathered to watch the digging for tunnels the Reds may have burrowed. Five garish signs illustrated "massacres" and Communist ver sions of past Koje riots. Bancroft ordered a lieutenant to "got an Interpreter and tell the prisoners to take down the signs in a quarter of an hour. If they don't, throw some gas bombs In." The Inmates removed he signs within the deadline.
