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Five States Named
Disaster Areas in
Face of Dry Spell
Harvest Prospects
Hurt by Rain Lack
Nashville, Tenn. (U.R)
Farm officials of nine drought-
stricken states held an emergen
cy session called by the Depart
ment of Agriculture Friday as
estimates of crop damage in the
Southeast passed the $o00,000,
000 mark.
The department has designated
disaster areas in five states and
may extend it to include the
others as a result of one of the
most damaging dry spells in the
region's history. 1
Salvaga Means Sought
Secretary of Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan called the
meeting here to find some way .to
salvage the South's agricultural
economy and tide farmers over
until thev can reap another
harvest.
. Knox T. Hutchinson, assistant
secretary of agriculture, was ex
pected to represent Brannan at
the meeting.
Harvest Prospects Cut
Two months of rainlessness
coupled with unusually hot
weather cut heavily into cur
rent harvest prospects, totally
damaging some crops, and forc
ing stockmen to buy feed to
suDDlement dried up pastures.
The Agriculture Department
enabled the farmers to obtain
emergency loans from the Farm
ers Home Administration and
qualified them for "other bene
fits to help them recultivate
fields. - - ,
Reserve Unit Sets
Summer Camp Trip
The 55 officers and men of
304th Logistical Command (A),
headquarters here at 33 North
Riverside avenue, will leave Sun
day at 7 a.m. for two weeks of
summer training at Fort Lewis,
Wash., officers reported today.
The unit, made up of reserve of
ficers and men from Jackson,
Klamath and Josephine counties
include 18 from the Medford
area.
An advance party headed by
Maj. George Bruse, Medford, left
yesterday for Fort Lewis to pre
pare for the unit's arrival there.
The unit is commanded by Col.
Tom Gunn, Grants Pass.
While at Fort Lewis, the local
unit will serve as administration
and training and supply head
quarters for 15 attached units
from Oregon, Washington and
Utah. .
The Jackson and Klamath
county unit members will leave
here by bus and will pick up
the Josephine county members
in Grants Pass. They are sched
uled to return August 17.
Springfield. Ore. (U.R) Wey
erhaeuser Timber Company's
new plywood plant here began
producing its first Douglas fir
veneer early this week, John R.
Titcomb, manager of the firm's
lumber division, announced Fri
day. JUVENILE OFFICER Mrs.
Kay . Kunkel, pictured above,
was recently named to be the
new head of the Juveniledepart
ment of the Jackson county cir
cuit court. Formerly chief pro
bation officer of San Joaquin
county, California, she will as
sume her new duties here August
12.
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PLANNING NEW DEVILTRY, no doubt, Marine Sergeant John E.
Boitnott (left), Comfort, N. C, and his buddy, Pfc. Henry A. Fri
day, Mikoosa, Wis., are checking their score of nine Reds bagged
In two days on North Korea front. Friday would draw Red snipers
fire and Bcitnott, a crack shot, then went into action. Command
ing officer has ordered them to be more carefuL (International)
Annual Shakespeare
ival Opens Today
Ashland The 12th annual
Oregon Shakespearean . festival
will be opened at 8:30 p.m. here
today by Chief Justice James T.
Brand pf ' the Oregon supreme
court. A capacity audience is ex
pected to witness the opening
play, "The Tempest," a fantasy
directed by Richard. Graham.
A 25-minute program of Eli
zabethan music, starting at 8
p.m., will precede curtain tiaie.
The musicians and madrigal
singers, under the direction of
Hans Lampl of the University of
Southern California, will be ap
pearing for the first time at a
performance here.
During the brief opening cere
monies, E. H. Singmaster, asso
ciation vice-president will act as
master of ceremonies and Judge
Brand, Nanette Cuddie, Ash
land, festival queen, and Angus
Bowmer, producing director,
will be .introduced. President
Rodney Keating will welcome
visitors, as will . Mayor Phil
Stansbury of Ashland.
Britain Gives OK
To West German Pact
London (U.R) The House of
Commons approved the Allied
peace contract with Western
Germany Friday after a debate
that cracked long-standing Bri
tish bi-partisan foreign policy
and widened a split between
orthodox and leftist labor fac
tions. Foreign .Secretary .Anthony
Eden said in a closing debate
that approval of the contract
which Russia bitterly opposes
would not remove the possibil
ity of four-power talks on Ger
many. Britain is still ready to
talk with Russia in a four-power
conference, he said.
Acheson To Assist
Pacific Defense Council
Washington (U.R) Secretary
of State Dean Acheson left for
Honolulu Friday to help set up
the Pacific Defense Council, pos
sible forerunner of a Pacific
wide alliance against aggression
in the Far East.
It marked the first time in
history that an American secre
tary of state has taken a trip
into the Pacific.
Egypt Turns Down
Big Three Proposals
Cairo (U.R) Egypt's biggest
political party announced Fri
day its "categorical rejection" of
Western Big Three proposals for
a Middle East defense command
The declaration was contained
in a Wafd Party manifesto is
sued by party leader and former
Premier Mustapha el Nahas on
the "opening of a new era" with
last month's Army coup and ab
dication of King Farouk
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1952
$500,000,000
A buffet supper will be held
at Susanne Homes hall on the
Southern " Oregon . college cam
pus : before " the performance.
Press and radio representatives,
city and state officials, and other
visitors will be guests of the fes
tival association, the city pf Ash
land and the college at the
buffet.
Independent Steel
Firm Starts Work
Pittsburgh (U.R) Production
resumed Friday at one major in-
defendent steel company follow
ing settlement with the CIO
Steel workers, but another firm
remained idle after negotiations
with the union collapsed.
Crucible Steel joined the "Big
Six" in reopening its mills after
reaching an "interim" agree
ment with the union Thursday
affecting 16,000 employes in five
plants in Pennsylvania, New
York and New Jersey.
Wheeling Steel balked at set
tlement terms for its 15,000
workers and the strike there en
tered its 60th day.
Bank Robber Flees
With $25,720 in Sack
Ankeny, la. (U.R) A tall,
husky bandit carrying a pair of
guns held up the State Bank of
Ankeny today, forced an assist
ant cashier to give him $25,720
and fled in a light-colored car.
The bandit, wearing dirty
light tan clothes, crawled into
the bank through a basement
window, forced assistant Cash
ier Wayne Roland to open the
vault and safe and scooped the
money into a sack, officers said.
He then locked Roland in the
vault and escaped.
Russians Claim Aviation Day Posters Show
Actual Events of U.S. Violation of Borders
Moscow (U.R) Pravda, Rus
sian Communist Party news
paper, Friday said three Avia
tion Day posters which offended
the United States portrayed ac
tual events.
The posters purported to show
Soviet fighter planes driving off
American planes which violated
Russian or satellite territory.
Display Boycotted
Display of the posters caused
American Ambassador George
F.- Kennan, the British ambas
sador and the French charge d'af
faires to boycott the aviation dis
play Sunday.
Pravda's foreign editor, Yakov
Victorov, said Friday the artist
who painted the posters showed
actual events and showed the
vigilance of the Soviet air de
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No. 114
Jack Fitzgerald
Files for Election
Tc. City Council
Seeks Ward 4 Post
Vacated by Childers
Jack Fitzgerald, 1728 Wood
lawn drive, has filed a petition
for the councilman position 'in
Ward 4 - according to Ralph
Woodford, city recorder. The
election will be in November.
This is the second filing for
city councilman. There will be
four positions up for election
and Fitzgerald's application is
for the position currently held
by Elmer Childers. Childers is
not a candidate. Dick Woodcock
was the first councilman appli
cant and filed for the position up
for election in ward No. 2 held
by Dwight Houghton. Positions
will" also be up for election
which are presently held by
Harold Frye and John Snyder.
Deadline August 30
Petitions require 25 registered
voters to place a person's name
on the ballot with filing dead
line on August 30. Woodford
noted that submission of peti
tions should be before this date
as they had to. be checked for
legality and some names might
be disqualified.
Fitzgerald has been a Medford
resident for 17 years. He is mar
ried. He has been chairman of
the Red Cross Fund drive for
two years, is a member of the
library board, Kiwanis director,
member of the Chamber of
Commerce, and city iralfic com"
mittee. He is vice-president and
a stockholder of the Davis
Transfer and Storage ''company
and president of. the Ashland
Moving and Storage company.
Radio Station KWIN
Suspends Operation
A suit in equity for foreclo
sure of a mortgage against the
owners of KWIN, Ashland, was
filed yesterday in circuit court,
according to records in the coun-
'ty clerk's office.
The complaint was filed by
M. S. Hamaker and Bessie B.
Hamaker against the Rogue Val
ley Broadcasting company for
$16,973.33 plus $2,314.80 in real
and personal taxes, accrued in
terest and attorney's fees.
The complaint stated that the
mortgage included "all of the
real and personal property of
KWIN" and was a combined
real and chattel first mortgage.
The original loan was advanced
on May 10, 1948, by M. S. Ham
aker and H. H. Hild under the
firm of Hamaker and Hild, for
$17,000. This amount was chang
ed to the other sum on Oct. 15,
1951, the complaint sets forth.
James Strickland, station
manager, left the station yester
day and operations were sus
pended at 4:29 p.m. Strickland
expressed his gratitude to his
staff "which stuck by me during
the last few hard months."
A station attache said today
nothing definite was known as
to plans for resuming broadcast
ing. -
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Wayne L. Morse, R-Ore., said
Friday that he and Sen. Earl
Long, D-La., will leave here
next "Juesday on a 25,000-mile
tour of the nation's overseas air
bases.
fenders.
Victorov said, the posters por
trayed three American aerial
violations " of Communist terri
tory: 1. In April, 1950, when Soviet
fighters pursued an American
"Flying Fortress" south of Lie
paja, Latvia;
2. In November, 1951, when
an American plane "violated
Hungarian territory and was
forced by Soviet fighter planes
to land;
3. November 6, 1951, when an
American Neptune plane crossed
the Russian Far Eastern frontier.
Violation Charged
The United States charged
Russia ' with shooting down an
unarmed Navy Privateer plane
over the open Baltic April 8,
Weather
FORECAST: Partly cloudy with
thunder showers over moun
tains this evening. Fair and
warmer Saturday. High 95-100
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 73
Lowest this Morning 64
Prec. to 3 p.m. Yesterday 04
Elk Creek Forest
Fire Cause Under
Study by State Men
Lightning Ruled Out
By Investigating Crew
Possibility of incendiarism in
a 35-acre fire in the Elk creek
area was being investigated to
day by the state forestry office.
District Warden Ted Maul
said incendiarism is a possibil
ity, but that it has by no means
been" proven. He said lightning
has been ruled out as a cause
but that the fire, although in vir
gin timber, is near roads and
might have been started acci
dentally. The fire broke out Wednesday
noon on state forest protected
land. It was still being patroled
today.
Dunkin Not Blamed
Capt. Paul Parson, of the state
police, said this morning it was
unlikely that George Dunkin,
wanted for the murder of State
Patrolman Phil Lowd, had set
this fire. He would not be ex
pected to set any fire near a
road, Captain Parson said.
"We'll just have to face it,"
he added. "Dunkin is going to be
blamed by the people for every
thing that happens in this part
of the country."
Crediting Thursday's rais
with a definite assist. Maul said
there are no fires burning on
state lands today. Officials at
Rogue River National forest said
this morning that all of their
fires are out. also. '
Rain Helps Fire Fighters ,
Light rain in southern and
northeastern Oregon and in
northern California helped fire
fighters control more than 150
forest fires, United Press report
ed this moring. But the weather
bureau warned that the fire dan
ger has decreased only slightly
and was expected to build up
again soon.
Most of the, .fires were started
by ' lightning Wednesday and
Thursday. Five Oregon fires
were still .burning but all were
Under control, United Press re
ported. The largest was a 2,400
acre blaze east of Coos Bay.
Fire danger in this area was
expected to increase over the
week-end. The weather bureau
expected a high of 95 to 100.
Thy said the woods woidd soon
be dried out with temperatures
that high. v
The variation yesterday be
tween high and low temperature
was only nine degrees. The high
est temperature reported was
73. The lowest was 64. Four hun
dredths inch of rain fell yester
day. Thus the only rain to fall
in July came July 31, the last
day of the month.
A-Powered Aircraft
Carrier Engine Asked
Pittsburgh (U.R) The gov
ernment moyed closer Friday to
making atomic power the chief
driving force of all its fighting
machines.
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
spokesmen disclosed t h a t the
government had asked the firm
to develop an atomic engine to
power a gigantic aircraft carrier
for the U. S. Navy.
Westinghouse presently is con
structing an atomic power plant
for a super-submarine. The com
pany reported recently it was
making "considerable" progress
on its project.
Boulogne, France. (U.R)
Port authorities announced 11
men were believed killed Friday
when a dredge snared a sub
merged mine or torpedo head in
the outer harbor and blew up.
1950. Its 10 men were lost. Rus
sia said the plane was a "Flying
Fortress" and violated Russian
territory.
A C-47 cargo plane strayed off
its course on a flight from Ger
many to Yugoslavia in Novem
ber. 1951, and was forced down
in Hungary by Soviet planes. The
United States paid a ransom of
$120,000 to the Hungarian gov
ernment, in the form of a "fine"
for violation of Hungarian terri
tory, to get the four-man crew
released.
Ten Lost in Pacific
Ten Navy men were lost when
Russians shot down their Nep
tune weather reconnaissance
plane over the Pacific off Vladi
vostok, Siberia, last Nov. 6. Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway, then Al
Denver (U.R) Dwight D. Eisenhower said Friday lhat
the great issue confronting this country and th world is
"the initiation of a sound program for peace."
' At his first newt conference since winning the Repub
lican presidential nomination, Eisenhower said that it would
be over simplifying to say that foreign policy was the only
b:g of the presidential campaign.
But he said thai "we have got to get on the right road '
to peace very soon." '
Denver (U.R) An unprecedented proposal by the "Citizens
for Eisenhower" organization that it be given at least equal status
with the Republican National Committee Friday threatened to set
back hopes for unity in the GOP.
The citizens group, which played an important role in obtaining
the Republican presidential nomination for Dwight D. Eisenhower,
proposed that it be given a campaign status equal to and possibly
superior to, the Republican National Committee.
Walter Williams, Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, New
York; co-chairman of the citizens' organization, were prepared to
lay their plan before a group of top-level Republicans who assem
bled here today for a series of week-end conferences.
Chamber Manager
Resigns To Accept
Portland Position
Don Lane, secretary and man
ager of the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce since Aug:
1, 1947, has resigned to become
manager of the East Side Com
mercial club, in Portland, it was
announced today.
Lane submitted his resignation
to the chamber's board of di
rectors at a meeting yesterday
noon.. He will leave for his new
post about September 1.
The chamber officer came here
from Springfield, Ore., where
he held a similar position. Before
that he was with the Lakeview
chamber. A Navy veteran of
World War II, Lane is a gradu
ste of Oregon State college.
He and Mrs. Lane and their
two daughters have made then
home at 340 Mae street. ,
Draws Praise
Directors of the chamber had
high praise for the manner in
which Lane has served the
group. With his assistance, a
wide program of effective, com
mitPP work has been continued
and improved, they said, includ
ing work on such important
phases' of the valley's economy
as improved highways, addition
al irrigation projects, wider utili
zation of lumber products which
before had gone to waste, de
velopment of a broader attrac
tion to the tourist trade in the
area, now the third ranking in
dustry of southern Oregon, and
the attraction of new industrial
concerns to the valley.
In addition, Lane has been ac
tive in a wide variety of civic
and fraternal affairs, and has
assumed large responsibility for
many projects, such as assistance
in the holdifig of the annual
Shrine Pear Bowl game here in
November, and for development
of the unique Medford Plan for
channeling individual charity do
nations through a central dis
bursing agency. .
He was chosen outstanding
junior citizen of .the year several
years ago by the Medford Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
Man Hospitalized
After Knife Fight
Earl Armitage is in the Camp
wv,ito infirmary after being
,rM,nHpri hv a knife in a fight
this morning, it was learned from
the camp.
District Attorney Paul Havi-
land said warrants charging dis
orderly conduct have been issued
against both Armitage and Rob
ert Taylor, the Camp White man
who was said. to have stabbed
him.
The two started fighting in the
bus from Medford, Haviland said,
and they continued after they
got out. Taylor said he took out
his knife in self defense.
. It was learned from the camp
that Armitage suffered cuts and
a loss of blood.
lied supreme commander in the
Far East, rsla the plane was 20
miles from -the coast when at
tacked. Pravda accused the State De
partment of inspiring a violent
anti-Soviet campaign in the
American press, and cited ar
ticles in Collier's Weekly, For
tune, The American Magazine,
the New York Times and the
New York Journal-American.
Leaders Blamed
- "Not only the reactionary
press, but Cabinet members, gen
erals, admirals and top political
leaders incite war," it said.
It cited Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, Adlai E. Stevenson,- Air
Secretary Thomas K. Finletter
and Adm. William M. Fechteler,
chief of Naval operations.
4
Advance Presentation
Of Proposal Made
Williams and Mrs. Lord made
an advance presentation of their
proposal to Eisenhower Thurs
day and told reporters later that
the GOP nominee "likes it."
One Republican source said
he expected the recommenda
tion to meet with stiff resistance
from spokesmen for the regular
GOP organization. There was
one report that the Republican
National Committee would ad
vocate . the assigning of a com
pletely subordinate role to the
citizens' group.
Chairman in Agreement
Williams said Arthur E. Sum
merfield, Republican national
chairman who was scheduled to
arrive here this afternoon, was
in "general agreement" with the
organizational plan. But Wil
liams conceded . that Summer
field had not seen details of the
proposal.
West Coast Vessels
Sail Without Trouble
San Francisco (U.R) West
Coast ships sailed unhampered
by labor difficulties for the first
time since May 26 Friday after
the most recent maritime union
dispute was cleared up.
The American Radio Associa
tion miv), involved m a juris
dictional dispute with a deck
officer's union, reached an agree
ment with ship-owners Thursday.
Radio operators had started
picketing .38 vessels up and
down the coast earlier in the
day but were called off when
the Pacific Maritime Association
resolved the trouble.
However, William Steinberg,
president of the ARA, warned
that the union's fight with the
AFL masters, mates and pilots
union over manning of radios
aboard ship, -had not been set
tled permanently.
UN Agrees to Minor
Armistice Changes
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R)
United Nations staff officers
agreed Friday to minor Commu
nist changes in the proposed
draft of a Korean armistice in
an attempt to clear up petty de
tails before high-level truce ne
gotiations are resumed Sunday.
The chief Allied and Red ne
gotiators, .Maj. Gen. William K
Harrison and North Korean
Gen. Nam II, will take up again
their bitter debate on exchang
ing war prisoners after a seven
day recess called by the U. N.
in protest against Communist
stalling.
. The deadlock is over the Com
munists' demand for the return
of 116,000 war prisoners held by
the Allies.
Indian Men Suspended
Pending Court Hearing
Portland (U.R) E. Morgan
Pryse, head of the Portland of
fice of the U. S. Bureau of In
dian affairs, Friday said Bureau
Special Officer Charles Hoskins
and Indian Policeman Lawrence
Goudy of Klamath county had
been suspended from service
pending outcome of a federal
court case against them.
The two men are charged with
infringement . of civil rights in
the handling of a prisoner.
3 State Institutions
Hike Patient Care
Salem (U.R) A $5 a month in
crease in charges for care and
treatment of patients in three
state institutions was announced
Friday by the State Board , of
Control.
Charges we're raised from $67 !
a month to ,$72 for patients in
the state hospitals for the men
ally deficient in Salem.
BULLETIN
Washington (U.R) Charles
Patrick Clark, Washington at
torney was found guilty of as
sault Friday for socking col
umnist Drew Pearson on the
jaw.
Stevenson To Call
Defeated Aspirants
For Conferences
National Campaign
Plans To Be Aired
Springfield, 111. (U.R) Gov. -Adlai
E. Stevenson announced
Friday that he is inviting the
men he defeated for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination
to confer with him about plans
for the national campaign this
fall.
He telephoned an invitation
this morning to Sen. Estes Ke
fauver of Tennessee, who led on
the first two ballots at the Dem
ocratic National Convention last
week before Stevenson forged,
ahead to win on the third.
To Meet Kefauver
"I have talked with Senator
Kefauver, who is heavily en
gaged in the reeledion cam-,
paign of Gov. Gordon Brown
ing." Stevenson said in a note
read to reporters by his press
secretary. William I. Flanagan.
"He will come up to Spring
field to see me after the Ten-,
nessee election, which is next.
Thursday." ,
Will Invite Harriman
Flanagan said the governor
will extend similar
Mutual Security Administrator
w. Averen mrriman and Sen
Richard B. Russell of fjpnrcria
two other defeated presidential
aspirants. He already has confer
red twice with another, Sen.
Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma.
Flanagan said Stevenson
wants to talk about thp cam
paign." He presumed the invita-
uons were extended in an effort,
to promote party harmony.
Reds Handed Double
Defeat by UN Forces
"Seoul, Korea (U.R) The Unit
ed Nations handed the Commu
nists a smashing double defeat
Friday, destroying or damaging
five enemy jets in an air battle
and recapturing strategic Old
Baldy hill on the Western front.
The Allied victories came as
the Communists celebrated the
25th anniversary of the "tri
umphant" Chinese Red army.
Among the congratulatory mes
sages announced by the Chinese
was one from Soviet Premier
Josef Stalin.
Three enemy MIG-15 jet fight
ers were shot down and two
damaged in a 10-minute air bat
tle between 32 F-86 Sabrejets
and 60 MIGs just below the Yalu
river in northwest Korea. It was
the first Communist challenge to
U. N. air superiority since
July 23.
Dr. Stevenson
lllhilpp tnoalror
Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, presi
dent of Southern Oregon Col
lege of Education in Ashland,
will be speaker at the pioneers'
gathering in connection with the
Jubilee Saturday in Jackson
ville. His address. "The March
of Science Since Pioneer Days,"
will be part of the program
which will be held on the lawn
of the Jacksonville Museum,
starting at 2 p.m.
Frank J. VanDyke of Medford
will be master of ceremonies.
Other features will include in
vocation: "God Bless America,"
by the Eve Prentice Accordi
anas; Salute to the Flag, led by
Boy Scouts; western music by
Vertis Flood; a talk on the mu
seum by Miss Claire Hanley,
president of the Southern Ore
gon Historical Society; remarks
by County Judge J. B. Coleman.
The address of the day by Presi
dent Stevenson will conclude
the exercises after which it is
expected that old time residents .
of the area will enjoy visiting
and resting under the shade of
the old trees which surround the
former county court house.
The museum will be open to
the public from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, and from 9 a.m. to 6
p m. Sunday.
DR. ELMO STEVENSON
To Address Pioneers