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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.
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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
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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.