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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.