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Newspaper Page TextMedford United Press Full Leased Wire 47th Year 16 Pages Control Measure Expected To Be Discussed Next Wednesday Congress Takes Steps To Extend Controls Washington (U.R) The House stood Friday as the last major legislative hurdle to con gressional action extending wage-price-rent controls. Chairman Brent Spence of the House Banking committee said I the House probably will start de bate Wednesday on extending the Defense Production act be yond its June 30 expiration date. The Kentucky Democrat was hopeful that the Houst would complete action on the legisla tion by next Friday. Two Big Steps Congress took two big steps Thursday in the race to extend anti-inilation economic controls before the deadline: 1. The Senate, by a 58 to 18 vote, passed legislation extend ing wage-price-rent controls for eight months, to next March 1. 2. The House Banking com mittee followed the senate ac tion by recommending Thursday night that controls be extended for one year. Versions Differ The Senate and House ver sions of the controls bill differ in several important details, but both fall far short of President Truman's request for a strength ened, two-year extension of the Defense Production act. The House committee intro duced a new feature in the con trols legislation by recommend ing an anti-red tape amendment aimed at keeping prices below ceilings. The amendment would suspend the requirement for re tailers and wholesalers to keep ' full records on their sales if their selling prices are 7 or more per cent below government ceil ings. Compromise Amendment The amendment is a comprom ise with a widespread congres sional demand that controls be lifted from items consistently selling below ceiling levels. The Senate bill contains no similar provision, but does include a" rec ommendation that controls be suspended in cases where they would not be unstabilizing. Salem IU.P.) Funeral ser vices were held here Friday for Paul B. Wallace, Salem business and civic leader who died Mon day in Chicago. Old Gravestone Found Under Medford House Whether Boy Scout Execu tive Clifford Hanson's resi- dence is built over a grave is debatable. But one thing is certain. There was a grave- stone under it. The stone was discovered yesterday under Hanson's house at 538 West 10th street, where a new foundation Is be ing Installed. Part of the Inscription on the stubby obelisk-shaped slone had chipped off but the name appeared to be "Reese , P. Kendall," who was born In 1829. Date of death was possi bly 188S or 1905. Hanson said the house was built about 50 years ago and that a former occupant report- edly worked for a grave stone firm. A possibility is that the stone was accidentally chip ped and thereby ruined and was brought home for use as a support for the house. Soap Box Derby Near. ng; First Racer Given Testing With the Rogue Vallev SoaD Box derby a month away, testing of the East Main street hill, site of the races got underway this " week. Ronald V. Meyer. 13 son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Meyer. 1663 . South Stage road, was clocked at 21 miles an hour in a run made in his own racer, the first to be completed for the derby. He started at Lindley street from a ramp 4 feet high and 18 feet long. Derby officials indicated that the official starting line will be moved up the hill to Academy place, where a five-foot ramp will be installed. This should in V crease speed to about 25 to 27 miles an hour, they said, and give a speed comparable to that achieved in other derbies throughout the country. Bill Waits House r irmi nrinTi rrnrmMniiii n ffnmr 1 ini n GAZING AT HEAVY TIRE CHAINS, Charles Utter, 9, tells Cam den, N. J. police parents padlocked them to his ankle to prevent him from running away. Mother, 38; father, 88,.are being held on charge of neglect for staying away from home. (International) Ten Men Feared Dead As Air Force Plane Crashes in Pacific Honolulu (U.R) Ten men were feared dead and one was rescued Friday when an Air Force B-29 crashed into the shark-infested Central Pacific 125 miles west of Kwajalein Island. Pilot Has Broken Leg The commander of a Navy rescue party reported the pilot an Air Force captain, was the only survivor among a crew of 11. He suffered a broken leg. The pilot told his rescuers the B-29 broke up when it crashed shortly after taking off from Kwajalein for Guam and that only one other man besides him self managed to get out of the plane. He said this man sank be fore he could get to his side. The Navy P-C boat that res cued the pilot, another Navy boat and a Navy patrol bomber were ordered to stay on the scene and search for other pos- sible survivors. Several hours after the crash, only floating de bris was found. Many Sharks in Area The Navy boats reported there Blood Gilt Appeal Issued by Workers Volunteer workers in charge of the Jackson county blood do nation program today issued an appeal to residents of the area "to keep up the good work" in maintaining a high level of blood giving. The next bloodmobile visit will be at the Medford Elks tem ple next Wednesday, June 18, from 1 to 6 p.m. Prospective donors may make appointments by telephoning 3-3813. Last month the Portland re gional blood center, of which Medford is a part, averaged 62 pints per 1,000 persons, a na tional record. Jackson county was sixth of the 35 Counties in the area. Blood program loaders alio pointed out that little Sherman county, in eastern Oregon, has a record of one out of every eight persons giving blood, despite the fact that most of them have to travel from 10 to 30 miles to make their gift of vitally-needed blood. The trial run also showed that three lanes can be used on the street instead of two, as first planned. This will increase com petition, officials of the event stated. A meeting of all derby en trants and sponsors has been scheduled for 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the north end of Hawthorne park. At that time, officials of Barnes Chevrolet company, one of the sponsors of the Rogue Valley derby, will help with technical problems in volved in the construction of racers. Other sponsors of the derbv in clude The Mail Tribune and" the local chapter of Footprinters. The derby is also being spon sored by other groups in Ash land and Grants Pass. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1952 I were many sharks in the area. rne pilot was lorced to ditch in the water after feathering two engines and losing power in a third. A second B-29 spotted the pilot on a life raft. The plane circled overhead until the P-C boat arrived about four hours later. Some 250,000 See Portland's Rose " Festival Parade Portland (U.R) Grants Pass won first place among -visiting high school bands In Friday's Rose Festival parade. Pat Bezner, Grants Pass drum majorette, won honorable mention. Portland (U.R) Some 250, 000 sun-baked persons lined Portland's streets Friday to see the annual Rose Festival grand floral parade. Flower-decked floats, high stepping bands and prancing horses stretched out for blocks behind the Grand Marshal, ra dio's Cisco Kid, and the royal float carrying Queen Jeanne I of Rosaria and her court. Meier-Frank Float Wins The 75-foot long Meier it Frank Co. float won the com mercial grand sweepstakes prize and the City of Vancouver's float took top honors in the non-com mercial division. The Meier c Frank float had a circus motif with ringmaster, bareback rider, elephant, giraffe, lions and a callione. Winners in other divisions in cluded: Cities outside Oregon, Pasadena. Calif.: cities in Ore gon, Beaverton; community clubs, fraternal and civic groups, Portland Kiwanis club; public utilities and transportation, Port land General Electric Co.; patri otic groups, American Red Cross; banks and department stores, Sears-Roebuck; petroleum. Shell Oil Co.: wholesale and retail or ganizations, Radio Cab Co.: trade associations, Hollywood Boosters club. "Childhood Memories" was the theme of this year's parade Portland (U.R) Crimson Glory, entered by Mrs. David Koppclman, Portland. Friday held the sweepstakes prize in the Portland Rose society's 64th an nual Rose . show. More than 2,500 roses were entered. Walla Walla vU.R) M. W. Boyer. general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, be lieves construction of Ice Harbor dam is necessary for the pro posed expansion of the Hanford atomic works. Radio High!. Gen. of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower will be heard in radio broadcast over radio sta tion KYJC at 6 30 p.m. Satur day. His talk will be sponsored by the Michigan Eisenhower lor President committee. President Truman will be heard in a Flag day talk over the same station at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. , ' Debate Ike's Backers Say Many Unpledged Delegates Won Taft Men Pooh-Pooh Rival Camp's Claim Washington (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's cam paign organization claimed Fri day that he is making steady in roads on the big bloc of "uncom mitted" delegates who may hold Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) Dwight D. Eisenhower made it plain Friday that he would clean out all top State Depart ment officials If he wins the Republican presidential nom ination and is elected presi dent. Eisenhower set forth his po sition in a picnic-meeting with the 70-member Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican National Convention. the balance of power at the Re publican presidential nominat ing convention. Supporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft pooh-poohed the claim. They said that the swing has been away from, not toward, Eisenhower since his June 1 homecoming. Delegates Wooed With selection of delegates for the July 7 GOP Convention vir tually complete, both Eisenhow er and Taft devoted their pri mary attention to wooing the up wards of 130 delegates who thus far have not committed them selves in the hard-fought con test. Eisenhower scheduled a meet ing at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm Friday with members of the 70 man delegation from pivotal Pennsylvania. He confers with Michigan's 46-member delega tion at Detroit Saturday. The retired five-atar -tjeneral has been meeting with a proces sion of. delegations during the past week at Abilene, Kan., and New York. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Eisenhower s cam paign manager, said the general had wen over "important mem bers of delegates either uncom mitted or favorable to Taft. Lodge' gave no figures. Another Eisenhower campaign spokesman said he knew of at least seven heretofore uncom mitted Midwestern delegates Who privately pledged them selves to Eisenhower in the past week, and two North Carolina delegates made public endorse ments. He expressed the belief that "many more" had been con verted at the New York confer ences. Taft Schedules Meetings Taft also has scheduled meet ings with the Pennsylvania dele gation and with the 24-member Maryland delegation which, vis ited Eisenhower Wednesday. . From Detroit Eisenhower will go to Denver where he will meet delegations from the Far West. Meanwhile, Sen. Richard B, Russel of Georgia, candidate for the Democratic nomination, set off on a 15-state Western tour, opening with conferences with Nebraska Democrats at Omaha Friday. Flag's Anniversary Observed Tomorrow Tomorrow, June 14, is Flag day, the 175th anniversary of the date in 1777 when the U. S. congress officially adopted the Stars and Stripes as the flag of this country. The day is not a holiday, but traditionally has been set aside for observances honoring the flag, and the symbolism it car ries. Stores and homes have been asked to display the flag. SPRAY NEEDED Second spray for cherry fruit fly should be applied as soon as possible, according to L. G. Gentner, Southern Oregon ex periment station entomologist, and C. B. Cordy. county horti cultural agent. The mixture is two pounds of Methoxychlor to 100 gallons of water. A pint of Black Leaf 40 may be added for aphis control. The two men ad vised that the fruit not be used for about two weeks because of spray residue. Weather FORECAST: Partly rlmidy tn nlffht and Saturday with r ut tered afternoon ihowers. R Inf da v time temperature!. Low ton. (lit !-). Utgh Sat urday T2-7S. Ttmp. Hitheit Yeilerdar ? I.oweit thlft Morninc 1 Pre, to 4:3f a.m. Trnfar, Trara - 1? jvernment Quits lRIBUNP,ans To Abandon W 'J a' mil iff - vkvawfet - ; - . . s7 tK j ir'i t rrrf-- 1 ROUNDUP CHAIRMAN Frank Christian, rodeo director of the 1952. Rogue River roundup which will begin here tomorrow, is shown above mounted on his American Quartcrhorse "San Dionsio," which will take part in the stake races in the rodeo portion of the roundup program. The 11th annual roundup will open with kids' events tomorrow afternoon, a downtown parade at 6:30 p.m., the first showing of the rodeo at 8 p.m., the second showing Sunday afternoon, and dances both evenings. 11th Annual Rogue River Roundup Opens Tomorrow Afternoon The 11th annual Rogue. River Roundup gets underway tomor row with a kids show, open to children between the ages of 6 and 18, starting at 1 p.m. The roundup parade will start at 6:30 p.m. and will end at the Jackson County Mounted Sher iff's posse club grounds at Posse lane and Sage road, where the regular roundup program will begin at 8 o'clock. Children entering the kids pro gram must be accompanied by a parent and must have a signed waiver. The program for the event will include a calf scram ble for 4-H and Future Farmers of America members. There will also be games, including musical Youths Escape Collapsing Silo Have you ever been inside a near-full silo when it started to fall apart? It happened to two young Rogue valley men Wednesday evening. They had the silo at the Victor Birdseye farm, Central P oi n t - Jacksonville highway, within five feet of being full. "All of a sudden the walls started cracking," according to Ted Birdseye, 21. route 2, box 394, Medford. "and a crack opened from the top down to the bottom." Birdseye and the other occu pant, Jessie Speaks, 19, "didn't know what to do." They man aged to get some planks over the silage to stand on and waited. When the crack widened over the milk barn, they leaped down 15 or 20 feet to the roof of the milk barn to safety, unscathed. The silo began to crumble. Silage was scattered all over the barnyard and the remains of the 15-year-old silo fell on the barn and yard. No estimate has been made yet of the damage. Cloud-Seeders Fly Over Valley Thursday Anti-hail pilots flew a total of 5 hours 27 minutes yesterday, ft vas reported by them today. Seeding, took place for about 3'-5 hours. The flights were from 17.000 to 20.000 feet, in high clouds. The flights were followed by oc casional scattered showers of rain and some snow, it was re ported. A "trace" of rain was recorded yesterday at the Med ford weather bureau. Corvallis U.R Thomas P. Robb, Benton county coroner, died unexpectedly Thursday, ap parently of a heart attack. Sport Bulletin Omaha (U.R) Texas knocked Oregon State out of the NCAA baseball tourna ment Friday with a 10-1 Tic- United Press Full I. chairs and a barrel race for to youngsters'. Queen To Reign Queen Judy Briggs will reign over the roundup program. The Saturday night events will in clude competitive games by state posse members and a square dance on horseback, as well as five competitive events for cow boys. Contestants from all sec tions of Oregon and northern California are expected to com pete. Also on the Saturday night program will be a performance by the Jackson County Junior Sheriff's posse, under the direc tion of Homer Marx. The same events, plus competi tive drills by Siskiyou, Josephine and Jackson county mounted groups, will make up the Sunday afternoon program, which starts at 1 o'clock. A win by the Jack son county entrants would give them permanent possession of the Dick Kay trophy. The two day program will be under the direction of Capt. Max Lemmon and General Chairman Frank Christian. State Highway Men Inspect River Bridge Three officials from the State Highway Department were in the Rogue valley on Wednesday, according to County Engineer Paul Rynning. and made an in spection of the bridge at Rogue River, which recently had a portion collapse because of "bad concrete." Here for the inspection were G. S. Paxson, state highway bridge engineer, Mervyn Steph enson, assistant bridge engineer, and Ivan D. Merchant, chief bridge designer, Rynning noted. The county engineer said the trio would issue a report from Salem to the county on their findings, which will also be bas ed on data from the concrete an alysis by the state laboratory. He expects the report shortly, as the men returned to Salem im mediately after their inspection. UN Negotiators Hint Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) Allied truce negotiators hinted at a new walkout Friday after accusing the Communists of maintaining combat troops in side the 1,000-yard neutral zone around Panmunjom. They said the area was not es tablished "to protect" Commun ist soldiers. Officers Bicker Liaison officers bickered over the neutral zone before and af ter a 16-minute session of the truce delegations. Maj. Gen. William K. Harri son. Allied senior delegate, hint ed that the United Nations may either request or impose a new Building Loss of Steel Through Strike Brings Revocation of Orders Washington !U.R) The government abandoned plans Friday for relaxing controls on building as the nationwide steel strike went into its 12th day. Informed sources said the National Production Authority has decided to revoke a series of orders, scheduled to take effect July 1, which would have eased curbs on construction of stores, theaters, schools, roads, amusement projects, private homes and all other types of civilian buildings. With upwards of 3,000,000 tons of steel already lost as' a re sult of the strike, informants said, the NPA may have to make building controls even tighter than they are at present, instead of relaxing them. Officials also warned that the automobile industry will begin shutting down late this month if the strike continues. The Ford Motor Co. announced plans to start closing its assembly plants June 26, and officials here said other automakers are expected to follow suit. Method of Settling Dispute Not Indicated There was no indication when, where or how. the government will renew its so-far-futile at tempts to settle the dispute over wage increases and a union shop which led to the strike by 650, 000 CIO Steelworkers. Congressional efforts to arm President Truman with legisla tive authority to seize the indus try collapsed Thursday. The nor mally pro-administration House Banking committee rejected a seizure proposal by a 15 to 10 vote. The Senate, which had re jected four seizure plans in a row, passed an economic con trols bill calling on Mr. Truman to use the Taft-Hartley law. President Silent Mr. Truman refused to say at his news conference Thursday whether he intends to invoke the law, which provides for 80-day anti-strike injunctions. High administration officials said Friday that the president had "no immediate plans" for using the Taft-Hartley ma chinery. Pittsburgh (U.R) CIO Presi dent Philip Murray told cheer ing top policy makers of CIO United Steelworkers Friday that he was prepared to carry the union's dispute with the steel industry "to the very end." In a fighting speech to mem bers of the 36-man executive board and -170-man-wage policy committee he charged the steel dispute, which has resulted in an 11-day strike by 650,000 workers, has been made a "polit ical football, made so by men who either do not care or do not understand the economic situa tion." He told the cheering represen tatives: "As far as I am concerned, I am prepared to carry your man date and the mandate of our last convention to the very end." Koje Incidents Over, Gen. Boatner Claims Koje Island, Korea (U.R) Brig. Gen. Haydon L. (Bull) Boat ner claimed victory Friday in the bloody "little war" to regain control of this island's 80,000 Communnist prisoners. "The thing is over," he said. Boatner, tough combat veter an who took command a month ago after prisoners kidnaped Brig. Gen. (now Col.) Francis T. Dodd, walked unarmed among recently belligerent Reds inside a new compound. Little Daisy Again Fouls Up the Works Little Daisy, local cow and "columnist" for The Mail Trib une, has overburdened the city hall switchboards again. This time, Daisy's Wednes day column pointed out that "All city water will be shut off for 12 hours tomorrow (Thursday) while the main conduit of the Big Butte stano fram is cut into the reservoir overflow reserve. We guess that this makes tomorrow Thirsty." . City Superintendent Robert Duff and other city officials spent the better part of the dey yesterday denying that the water would be off. How ever, they bear no grudge against Daisy. "It's just water over the stanofram," they said. recess such as the three-day walkout that ended Wednesday. He held a whispered confer ence with Maj. Gen. Howard Turner and Rear Adm. R. E. Libby, U.N. negotiators, when North Korean Gen. Nam II pro posed a meeting Saturday. Agree io Meeting "We were considering wheth er it was worthwhile to come back tomorrow," Harrison said later. At the Communists' insist ence, Harrison agreed to meet again Saturday. Liaison officers from the two sides met after the Communists demandned that the U.N: report Controls Yesterday's Cold Snap Not Confined To Rogue Valley The unseasonal cold snap re corded here yesterday was not confined to the Rogue valley, it was reported this morning by County Agent C. B. Cordy reported this morning that damage to the valley's pear : crop may not be as extensive t as first feared yesterday. In a few locations there has been discoloration to the fruit's flesh, and he said the outlook is hopeful that it will not be too serious. However, he said, where there had previously been minor hail damage, the freese will enlarge the small hail markings on fruit, which if not exposed to the cold would have grown out into sound pears. Bosc pears were dam aged the least, some Anjoua were hurt, and Bartlelts were the worst sufferers. Bob Church, meteorologist in charge of the Medford weather bureau. Unusually low temperatures, some of " them record-breaking minimums for this time ot year, as tar north as Seattle, and from, the Pacific coast inland past the Cascade mountains Church explained .that there was a mass of cold air over the entire coastal area and, accord ing to thermometers carried by weather balloons, the mass was colder over southern Oregon than anywhere else. If there had been cloud cover, Church continued, the cold air would not have come down to chill the air near the ground. But night before last the expect ed cloud cover did not material ize. Both Sacramento and Red Bluff had their lowest June tem peratures since records have been kept. Klamath Falls record ed a minimum of 28 degrees, 3 below the Medford weather bu reau's minimum. It was 31 in Redmond, 25 in Mt. Shasta, and even Brookings, on the usually warm ocean coastline, recorded a low of 39. Low temperatures were also recorded in the nor mally mild Willamette valley. The cold air mass alqft was as cold as it sometimes Is in winter. Church added, and the freezing level was only 4,000 feet up. Girls State Favors World Organization Salem (U.R) The girls of Oregon's- Girl State would like to see the organization of a girls world and are so proposing in a bill up for consideration by their house of representatives Friday. There is now a girls nation, sponsored by the American Le gion auxiliary, and the Oregon girls are proposing that the or ganization be extended to for eign countries to make it a girls world. This proposal is in the form of a memorial to "girls nation, which meets In Washington, D.C., the latter part of July. Mary Jenks, pretty 17 year old Albany high school senior, if girl governor. She was inaugur ated late Thursday. at Walkout on the wounding of three civil ians inside the neutral zone by an Allied shell on June 5. The Reds had reported the lm cident earlier. The U.N. promis ed to re-survey the area to make certain markers were located properly. Evidence Inadequate Marine Col. James C. Murray first told the Reds the evidence supporting their complaint was "inadequate." He added that investigation showed the Reds were maintain ing troops in the neutral zona and that non-combatant civilians were kept close to military ln stallations.