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Weather Recommended A ftitura i tor 7 on recent annexation! to t h city o! Medford and on past growth ol the city appean on Page I of today's iitut of The Mail Tribune. MEDFORD Triune FORECAST Partly cloudy and warmer today with increasing cloudinesi tonight. A light rain li expected Monday with cooler temperatures. High to day 7580, low lonicht 45-50. Temp. Highest yeiterday "2 Lowest yeiterday 51 United Press Full Leased Wire United Preu Full Leased Wire 47th Year 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1952 No. 79 Senator Taft Claims Sufficient Delegates To Garner Nomination Washington (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft said Saturday he has the 604 votes needed to win the Republican presidential nomination but wasn't sure they Shrevepori, La. (U.R) Louisiana supporters of Ohio Sen. Robert A. Taft scored an overwhelming victory Sat urday as the "old line" Re publican state central com mittee ousted seven delegates pledged io Dwight D. Eisen hower. Taft forces dominat ing the powerful central com j mittee swept the entire slate ' of 11 district delegates by re placement of nine Eisenhow er delegates with those pledg ed to Taft. Two Eisenhower delegates were disqualified at a meeting last week. would all be used on the first ballot at the National conven tion. A spokesman for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower promptly called is "the most ludicrous statement of this campaign." Question of Strategy The Ohio Senator told a press conference he figures his dele gate strength now is "just about 603 or 604" but "it's a question Rural Fire Districts Near Budget Deadline A barrier to actual formation of proposed rural fire districts in Medford and Central Point before another year loomed yes terday when it was disclosed by the county assessor's office that both districts have only un til August 1 to submit budgets for a four-mill tax levy. Elections for the districts are scheduled for July 21 at Cen tral Point (moved -later from July 14 to comply with state law) and July 25 for Medford. It is not possible to have the el ections sooner as they must be held 31 days after a public hear ing. State law requires that all such districts submit budgets and tax levies no later than July 15 to the assessor, unless an ex tension is made "if deemed rea sonable." Deputy County Assessor An drew Hawver revealed yester day, after a conference with C. A. Myers, county assessor, and other officials, that "in view of the great effort done by backers of the proposed districts, the fil ing date has been extended from July 15 to August 1, jn an effort to cooperate with the districts and see their formation." He .noted that the work which is placed in the office at this time of year is "tremendous" and that it would be impossible to Ashland Girls Hurt When Car Overturns Two Ashland girls were hos pitalized Saturday afternoon fol lowing an accident in which the the car they were driving went out of control and turned over in a ditch near Jackson Hot Springs on Highway 99, accord ing to state police. Operator of the vehicle was Shirley Jean Balderstone, 88 Era erick street, Ashland, and the only passenger was Paula My att, 411 Taylor street. Ashland, police reported. The former re ceived a fractured collarbone, police said, and both had other minor injuries. They were to remain over night in the Ash land General hospital for obser vation, police continued. Police said the girls' vehicle, which was rented from Daily's U-Drie in Medford, had started to pass a car which pulled out to pass at the same time. When the driver applied her brakes, she evidently lost control, the police continued, and swerved Into the ditch. Grand Jury Will Get Bridge Test Results County Engineer Paul Rynn lng hasn't heard the results of tests on a piece of defective con crete from the bridge at Rogue River. And when he docs it still may be some time before the results are made public. The concrete was sent to the Slate Highway commission lab oratories after a section of the bridge fell out June 28. "When we know what the tests show we'll take them to the grand Jury over at Rogue River first," Rynning said Sat urday. "It will be the grand Jury, not the public who'll be told first." of strategy whether to try to win on the first ballot." He suggested, without ex planation, that it might be better to hold back some of his dele gate strength in reserve. , The challenge from the Eisen hower camp was issued by Wes Roberts, executive director of the General's campaign head quarters. Roberts accused Taft of try ing to explain in advance the "embarrassment" of a first bal lot total that failed to come up to pie-convention claims. "The public can be sure that whatever delegate strength Taft has will be used as soon as it can be mustered," Roberts said. Taft told reporters that re gardless of when he throws his full strength into the battle, he is confident of winning the nom ination on an "early ballot" at the Chicago convention. Roberts issued a long state ment charging that the Taft claims were a gross "exaggera tion" and the "tactics of a los ing candidate whose campaign is cracking wide open." He called it "the old political trick of making inflated claims to en tice support for a sagging bandwagon." accept a budget filing any later. Hawver pointed out that the office is only able to extend the time limit because fire dis tricts in Oregon can levy up to four mills without a special el ection, making the work con siderably less. He noted that no district can levy more than four mills before next year because the law requires a 20-day elec tion notice before the election which would place both districts beyond the maximum time lim it. , A public hearing was held Friday by the Medford district in which the moundaries were accepted as proposed by the Jackson county court. No ob jections were raised against the boundaries. Several people ap peared at the hearing who lived adjacent to the proposed bound aries and expressed a desire to petition into the district after it is formed. Nominations for directors of the Medford district were also submitted and they will be vot ed on July 25 at the election to form the district. They include Leigh E. Campbell, 1390 Beek man street; Carl W. Norris, 103 Lozier lane; Oscar Chinn, 1827 North Riverside avenue; Floyd W. Fogclquist, 1863 Crafler Lake avenue; Allen Harris, 340 Char lottee Ann Road; Eugene She! ton, 1059 Morrow road; and J, R. Chenault, 1735 Orchard home court. Any additional directors can be nominated and placed on the ballot by obtaining 15 signatures of legal property owners in the proposed district and filing them not later than July 15 for the Medford district and July 11 for the Central Point district Rainfall Greets Arrival Of Summer Here Saturday Summer, which arrived offi cially in southern Oregon at 3:13 o'clock Saturday morning, got a damp start. Rainfall on Friday and early Saturday brought to 1.04 inches the amount of rain which has fallen during June, according to the weather bureau. The normal June rainfall to this date is .76 of an inch. Last year, no rain fell in June. The one-day storm total was .22 of an inch. Of this total, .04 of an inch fell Friday morning and .18 fell Friday evening and Saturday morning. The evening rain fell in short and heavy showers through out the valley, and in a few instances brief hail showers were reported. Piloti Seed Clouds Medford'j anti-hail pilots. Harvey Brandau and Eugene Kooser, flew Friday afternoon, just before sundown, they said, when several of the rainclouds began building up into forma tions which threatened hail. They id the tops were around 12.000 feet high, with the cloud bases at about 10.000. They seeded for a total of about an hour, with total flight time being 1 hour 48 minutes, they reported. The heaviest portion of the rain fell after their flights. Justice Department Forbids Lattimore To Leave Country Planned Russian Trip Said Cause of Order Washington (U.R) The Justice Department directed the State Department to bar'Owen Lattimore, target of pro-Communist charges, from leaving the country, a usually reliable source said Saturday. The State Department refused to say specifically where it got its information which resulted in shutting the country's doors on the Far Eastern expert and Johns Hopkins University pro fessor. The State Department would say only that it took its action as a result of information from an "official agency" that Latti more planned a trip to Russia or to Soviet satellite countries. There was speculation that the "official allegation" came from the FBI or the Central Intelli gence agency. The Uniled Press informant said it was from the Justice Department of which the FBI is a part. Lattimore first said" at his home in Baltimore that he had "no plans to go to Russian or to any other country now or in the foreseeable future." Later, however, he said, he had talked with Johns Hopkins authorities about the "possibil ity" of a one-year leave of ab sehce. If he got the leave, he said, one of the possibilities was that "I might spend a year lec turing at the University of New Delhi in India." "There is also the possibility of my going to Europe, but not to any Iron Curtain country," he added. Paving Ordered At Bybee Bridge The approaches to Bybee bridge, across the . Rogue river near the Table Rocks, will be paved shortly, the Jackson coun ty court was advised last week by the State Highway commis sion. The court, which has been under criticism for not having the work done sooner, pointed out Saturday that the job was a slate project and that the state and the contractor are respon sible for having the work done. County Commissioner L. G. Morthland recently wrote the commission, urging that the work be done as the weather is not suitable. He was told by W. C. Williams, assistant state highway commissioner, that the commission has "issued orders to the contractor to prepare at the earliest possible date to oil these approaches ..." Williams added that Division Highway Superintendent Tom Edwards, Roseburg, has been in structed to take such action as is necessary to secure "early per formance of the orders. Reno, Nev., (U.R) Millionaire Lavere Redfield "raised an aw ful racket" in Washoe county jail Saturday when a news pho tographer snapped his picture, the very thing the victim of the famed $1,500,000 Reno burglary had sought to avoid by going to jail in the first place. The pilots, who claim that their efforts have prevented hail damage to pear crops, make no claim to affect rainfall totals one way or the other. Rain Beneficial Little damage to Jackson county hay crops resulted from last week's rains, according to W. B. Tucker, Jackson county agent for agriculture, He said most of the hay cut so far had been put up before the rains. Even that still in the fields was not destroyed, but was bleached out somewhat, he said. It still has value for feed ing stock. The good the rains did the hay crops will probably far ex ceed the damage. Tucker esti mated. "They got the second crops on dry land alfalfa fields nicely started, and they helped the seed crops tremendously," he added. By UNITED PRESS Summer came officially to Oregon Saturday at 4:13 a. m. PDT. The weather was mostly cloudy. The Weather Bureau said Sat urday, Sunday and Monday would just about tie for the long est days in the year with the sun rising at 4:22 a. m. (PST) and setting at 8:03 p. m. (PST), or 15 hours and 41 minutes. Monday will actually be a few seconds longer, however. 1 t. SUPPORTING GROUND FORCES in Korea, USS Iowa makes per fect powder puff as her No. 2 turret opens up during bombard ment of Chongjin, Red supply, transportation centerVnlernationoi; Brazilian Police Battle 200 Escaped Convicts Sao Paulo, Brazil (U.R) Police and state troopers fought a bitter battle Saturday night with more than 200 armed and well entrenched convicts who staged a mass break Friday from the island prison of Anchieta Brazil's Alcatraz. The clash occurred in the small port of Pirati, and in volved some two thirds of the more than 300 prisoners who staged the break and escaped to the mainland after killing 16 prison guards. Fighting Starts Reports reaching here said the fighting started shortly after dark when police reinforcements from Niteroi reached the Parati region, southernmost tip of Rio De Janeiro state. Departmental Security Chief Morais Coutinho said five of the convicts were recaptured in the fighting and that several police were injured. Coutinho, personally directing Jhe action, against the fugitives, sent an appeal for reinforce ments and ammunition. He said the convicts were well armed and dug-in. In an earlier clash near the mainland town of Ubautuba, two policemen were injured and 21 convicts captured making a total of 26 fugitives caught in Brazil's biggest manhunt in his tory. The break from the prison the "Alcatraz" of Brazil was led by Alvaro Carvalho and Geraldo "blond devil" Fonseca considered two of the most dangerous inmates of a prison. Fruit Regulations -To Set '52 Ceiling - Portland (U.R) District Director Carl Donaugh of the Office of Price Stabilization an nounced Saturday the 1951 fro zen fruit ceiling price regulation will be used by the OPS as an interim measure to establish processor ceiling prices for the 1952 pack. Donaugh said an amendment to the existing frozen fruit regu lation becomes effective July 11, or may be put into effect by processors any time after June 23. He pointed out two important changes in the regulations. Pro visions are made for adjustments for raw material cost increases for pears and prunes in Oregon and Washington due to lower yields of these fruits and for freestone peaches in all states. A new method also Is provid ed for pricing new items placed on the. market since. 1948. Pro-L cessors may establish ceilings on these items by using their own prices for a similar item for comparison, rather than by use of a competitor's ceiling price. UN LeadersSlate Release of Koreans Tokyo. Sunday (U.R) The United Nations command an nounced today the completion of plans for the release of 27.000 South Korean civilian internees from protective custody. The UN command said prepar ations for release of the civil ians would be completed in about two weeks. No exact date for releasing the first group was announced. The civilians to be released are those men who wore taken into protective custody' during the Korean fighting. They are now being held at Pusan and Yongchon. They are not includ ed on prisoner of war lists un der discussion in the truce talks at Panmunjom. 1 , The island is reserved for mur derers and other major crimin als. One of them was believed to be masquerading in an army lieutenants uniform taken from the deputy commander of the prison. Medford Water Use By Jacksonville To Receive Study Jacksonville The engineer ing firm in charge of the water survey for Jacksonville has been ordered to go ahead with ob taining additional information concerning possible connection with Medford's water system, according to H. L. Markwith, councilman. Markwith said that the coun cil met last Tuesday with Engin es Archie H. Rice of Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merryficld, consulting engineers, Corvallis, and after discussion decided that developing Jacksonville's own water supply is not feasible. A public hearing will be held about July 10, Markwith said, in which the further information on the proposed Medford con nection will be given for the general public's information. "It is hoped," Markwith said, "that the minimum water charge will be approximately $2.50, with the" pipe installation and initial costs covered by a special bond issue supported by taxes." In explaining the council's action, Mrs. Lois Fretwell, city recorder, said that the council considered the long-range view and noted that although the costs would be "a little more" with Medford water, the supply would be adequate, whereas, if Jacksonville developed its own supply at a large expense, it would find itself in the same situation in 20 years as it is right now. Other factors in the decision, the recorder related, were that the present watershed is not large enough to supply the city's needs, the quality of Medford's soft water as compared to hard water, of stored water to fresh pipeline water, and others. Mrs. Fretwell noted that the engineering firm, through its representative, gave a very im partial explanation of their study to the council and mayor and neither recommended using the city's own sources nor con nection with Medford. She con cluded that the decision by the council to go ahead with further study of the Medford connection was based on its value to the citizens of Jacksonville and future residents. ind Youth Drowns ile Seeking Shore Millers Falls. Mass. (U.R) Calling in vain for directions from the shore, an 18-year-old blind youth sank exhausted and drowned in Green Pond while a group of girls ignored his pleas because they thought he was joking. John Hawthorne Jr., of Mill ers Falls, blind since birth, swam parallel to the beach Fri day crying out: "Where's shore? Where's shore?" The girls, un aware of his blindness, paid no attention. He kept swimming about 30 feet from the shore until he could go no farther and sank out of sight. Rosalie Gracleski, 17, of Am herst saw him go under and told Norman Gerber. of Millers Falls, a 17-year-old high school athlete. Gerber swam out and after diving several times re covered Hawthorne body in 20 icet oi water. U -'l Kefauver Aide Charges Bosses Plan Fake Draft EISENHOWER SAYS MAJORITY FLOUTED BY TAFT SUPPORTERS Dallas, Tox. (U.R) Gen. the same tactics, he would be Dwight D. Eisenhower returned indicted and sent to prison by an Saturday to the slate in which; he was born and charged that Sen. Robert A. Taft's support- General Dwight D. Eisen hower, candidate tor the Re publican nomination for presi dent, will speak over radio station KMED (1440 kc) from 8 to 8:15 p.m. Monday. The general's speech will be car ried over a nationwide net work from Denver. ers in Texas had "deliberately and ruthlessly disfranchised thousands upon thousands of Re publican voters. He said they had "flouted and overridden" majority rule, "the very basis of our free govern ment" and compared them with rustlers, who, instead of steers, "stole the Texas birthright.". He demanded an 'open door policy" for the Republican party, so that "all disillusioned and dis turbed Democrats can come in. He said that is the only way the Republicans can hope to win the November lection. Eisenhower, after visiting the littlo white house in which he was born in Dcnison, Tex., on Oct. 14, 1890, and making short speeches there and in Denton, Tex., came to Dallas to make a major address in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.-- "Instead of the great upsurge of moral and physical strength we need, how sadly must we look on what has happened here," he said. "Thousands upon thousands of Republican voters and over whelming majority of them were deliberately and ruthlessly disfranchised. Majority Rule Flouted "Majority rule, the very basis of our free government was here flouted and overridden. As one of our own Texas newspa pers said: 'If a businessman used GP Man Not Guilty of Gambling Charge Grants Pass A six-man jus tice court jury last week found Clifford G. Martin innocent on a clinrgc of illegal possession of gambling devices, Martin is one of two men who faced similar charges, which In volved ownership of 18 of cache of 154 slot machines found in a Grants Pass shed June 4 The other man, Vcrn V. Helbig, has not yet been brought to trail Martin's trial last week was his second. Earlier a three-man and three-women Jury could not arrive at a verdict. The case hinged on a question of legal ownership, and a ques tion of whether the machines, adjustable either to "pay-off" ori "free-play" operation, were used as gambling devices. ' 14-Mile Deep Cricket Army Threatens Austin, Nevada Austin, Nev. (U.R) Cooling! weather and poison brigades of beleaguered townsmen Saturday stemmed, at least temporarily, the vanguard of a 25-mile long army of mormon crickets which inched its way on a relentless inarch that threatened to engulf this little Nevada town and ruin the only water supply. A 20 degree drop in tempera ture into the 80's made the little crei'tures sluggish and millions of them were killed by cricket fighters spreading tons of poison ed bran along the line of march across the rangclonds. Cattle Stampeded But no sooner was the threat to the town and water supply averted for the time being than ranchers in the area set up a howl of complaints the crickets were eating their way through Alfalfa and hay crops and ter rorizing beef cattle on the ranges into near stampede. Ranchers said cattle were ter rified by the little bugs and each time they broke in panic, it was American jury. And in this case, the rustlers stole the Texas birthright instead of Texas steers." Eisenhower was talking about the tactics Taft supporters, who control the Republican party in Texas, used at the state GOP con vention in Mineral Wells. Eisen hower supporters apparently had a majority there. Accident Injuries Fatal to Elderly Medford Pedestrian Horace Henry Bodenhammer, 80, of 2495 West Main street, died Saturday evening about 7 o'clock after being critically in Jured two hours earlier when he apparently walked into an on coming car after stepping off a bus on West Main street, accord ing to state police Conger -Morris ambulance took him to the Community hospital. He did not regain con sciousness. Funeral arrange ments are In charge of Conger Morris funeral home. Stepped From But Police stated that Mr. Boden hammer had apparently gotten oft- a west bound bus on West Main street and had waited for it to drive on. He then started to cross the street and apparently walked into a car driven by Harold Edward Rikard, 30, gen eral delivery, Central Point, which was traveling east on West Main street, police related. After the impact, Rikard's vehicle swerved Into the ditch and rolled over, police said. Neither Rikard nor his passen ger, Cloisc Elton Brewer, Jack sonville, were injured, police said. Rikard was cited for not having an operator's license and Brewer was cited for being drunk on a public highway, police reported. Mr. Bodenhammer Is I h e father of Mrs. Ralph Smltlf, 103 Jcannette street, according to police. Sergeant Found Guilty In Army Court Martial Ford Ord, Calif. (U.R) Sgt. Colonel Dean Chase, 24, of Salt Lake City, Friday was found guilty of disrespect to a superior officer by a special court martial. Chase, who wrote a letter to Gen. Mark Clark denouncing his handling of the Koje prison riots, was reduced to rank of private first class and ordered to forfeit $75 per month of his pay for the next six months. He was not ordered to confine ment. Chase called Clark's actions ronugnant and disgraceful" in handling the Koje riots. Clark passed the letter on to the Sixth Army for action. costing good money In run off beef weight. John Del Curio, federal cricket control supervisor from nearby Elko, promised to send help to the ranchers today if conditions around Austin continued to show improvement. The threat to the town's reser voirs was that the crickets might contaminate the water with the poison used to kill them If they managed to reach It. However, the poison brigades saturated the area around the reservoirs and open springs that fill them and managed to divert the lava-like flow of the creatures to by-pass the area. With the drop In temperature and the birth of a strong breeze residents also got some relief from the nauseating stench from dead insects which has hung over the town. Although practically halted, the cricket "army", estimated to be 14 miles In depth, already nearly surrounds the town. fownsfolks feared they may be under ilege for another QO-dayi. Sullivan Claims Stevenson Choice Of "Conspirators" Russell Said In Line For Vice-Presidency Chicago (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver's campaign manager charged Saturday that the "pol itical bosses of the Democratic party" are "conniving'' to dead- Washington (U.R) The White House said Saturday, apparently in reference to Gov, Adlal I. Stevenson of Illinois, thai neither Presi dent Truman nor anyone in his behalf Is seeking to get the Democratic presidential nomination for "any particu lar individual." Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Short took the unusual step of is suing a formal statement in answering to several differ ent reports about Stevenson. lock the national convention and ' stage a phony draft of Illinois Gov. Adlal E. Stevenson for president. National Kefauver-f o r-presi-dent Chairman Gael Sullivan said the party "bosses" whom he did not name have "entered into a conspiracy" and set up a "Plan A" and alternative "Plan B" to give Stevenson the nomin ation. Television Speech Sullivan made his charge In a speech prepared for delivery over CBS television. Kefauver spoke on the same program and also charged that Democratic, machine politicians were trying to organize a "phony draft" but he did not mention Stevenson. Sullivan said delegates to the Chicago convention beginning a month from today would be of fered a "package deal" which he accused the "political bosses" with "conniving." "The backers of Gov. Adlal Stevenson of Illinois and Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia have been in conference on this deal and have entered into a conspir acy calculated to deadlock the convention," he said. "Plan" Outlined "These political bosses have concocted the following plan. "They will have Governor Stevenson throw his support to W. Averell Harriman at the out set. They will have Senator Russell stay in the race with his delegates. "The bosses expect that this will result in a standoff for the three candidates, each with a bloc of delegates Sen. Kefauv er, Mr. Harriman and Sen. Rus sell. "While Sen. Kefauver will have more delegates than any one else, no one of the three will have the majority necessary for nomination. By this maneuver, they hope to stop Estes Ke fauver. "Then Stevenson will mag nanimously allow himself to be drafted. "Out of gratitude for Steven son's previous support, these bosses foresee that Mr. Harri man will throw what little sup port he has to the governor. Sen. Russell will then swing his support to Gov. Stevenson." As the Inst step in the alleged plan. Sullivan said, "the backers of Governor Stevenson will then throw his support to the backers of Sen. Russell for the vice-presidential nomination." Jackson County Budget Hearing Slated June 25 A hearing on the 1952-53 bud get for Jackson county will be held in the Jackson county courthouse at 10 a. m., Wednes day, June 25. The budget com mittee, composed of the county court and three appointed mem bers, will hear representations regarding the budget at thnt time. A hearing on the Medford budget will be at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, July 8. Gearhart, Ore. (U.R) The Oregon Newspaper Publishers association Saturday elected Charles V. Stanton of the Rose burg News Review president of the organization at its 65th an nual meeting here. Alton F. Baker of the Eugene Register Guard was named representative at large on the board of trustees of the Eric W. Allen Memorial fund, 1
