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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1953)
roxnrnxH MroroRD (oucoohi mail tmbotis Sunday. August SO, IMS fitfF" if IEAUTY SALON 2nd Floor Use Mann's LAY-AWAY PLAN For School Togs 11 AC TO CIL f (7 0 SO) USUI SOVIET-EAST GERMAN ECONOMIC PACT SIGNED Soviet Premier Georgl MalenlT(teeoBdfrom left) witnesses Otto Grotewohl's signing of tha East German-Russian agreement in Moscow. Tne pact granted the Communist East Zone of Germany seven major economic concessions, including an end to reparations after January-1. Left to right: Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, Malenkor, Gen. Eimenti Voroshilov, NikiU Kruscbev, Nicolal Bulganin and Grotewohl (seated). To the right of Grote ; wohl are members of the East German mission. 10,000th Allied POW Released By Reds; General May Be Last Panmunjom, Korea The Communists released their 10,000th prisoner Saturday and among the 14S Americans freed was possibly the first U.S. soldier captured in the Korean War. In addition to the Americans, Mercy Flights Has Subscribers Due For Plan Renewals Officers of Mercy Flights, Inc., this week end reminded pre-paid subscribers to the firm's subscription plan that nearly 900 subscriptions expire this week. The plan, originated some two years ago. enables residents of southern Oregon to insure free air ambulance service in a medi cal emergency, the same service at greatly reduced rates in non emergency cases. Some 4,000 county residents are subscribers. The subscription costs $2 per year for a family. Those whose subscriptions expire August 31 have already received their re newal notices in the mail, and all they need to do to continue their subscription is to mail $2 to Mercy Flights, Inc., PO Box 522. Medford. The mechanical and ground equipment of the non-profit cor poration is in the best condition it hss ever been, according to a report given to the board of directors at a meeting last week. The hangar, built for the firm by Contractor Bill Brooks and volunteer workmen, has been Jn service for several months. The twin-engined Cessna am bulance plane recently under went an overhaul, and is in excellent condition, and the single-engine Stinson Reliant re cently was completely rebuilt, recovered and overhauled, and is in top condition. Volunteer pilots have flown nearly 200 patients since the non-profit servipe was put in op eration more than 3J4 years ago. Many have been polio patients, while others have been accident victims, or patients suffering ether illnesses. Planes are com pletely fumigated after each flight where a communicable disease patient is carried. The 4,000-year-old palace of King Minor at Cnossus, Crete, was as large as London's Buck ingham Palace- wmrn .At;'! Drop in and tee -the SON0T0NE 1010-winner of famous AUDIO ENGINEERING 19S3 AWARD at the world's finest hearing aidl J If you're hard of hearing, a ? trained SONOTONE consultant will give you a FREE audio, I hearing- test-precis, . , eaentafle-no obligation! : THE HOUSE Cf KAKS ' : 839 East Jackson I Phone 2-5904 I C. R. ADAMSON, ; Z Dist. Manager Z FINEST" Heating AJit the Reds turned looe 250 South Koreans, three Turks and two Australians in the 25th day of "operation Big Switch." The Allies, in turn, repatriated 2,400 Communist prisoners. Near Completion If the Communists continue re leasing prisoners at the present rate, the last man will walk through Freedom Gate next Fri day. He probably will be Major Gen. William F. Dean, their high est-ranking captive. Prisoners returning to free dom Friday reported that Dean was being held at nearby Kae- song. It was believed that Dean asked to be repatriated last in a gesture toward prisoners of lesser rank. Master Sgt. Martin Strahan of Pontiac, Mich., climbed down from a Russian truck and told Indian Troops Move To Guard Prisoners , Panmunjom, Korea U.R) -The first contingent of Indian troops moved into the Korean demilitarization zone Friday to take charge of war prisoners re fusing to go home. They were soldiers from the Indian hospital unit which has been attached to the First Brit ish Commonwealth division since the early part of the war. Guards from India proper have not yet arrived. The In dians still guard the reluctant prisoners while interrogators on both sides attempt to persuade the captives to change their minds. newsmen at Freedom Gate he believed he was the first Amer ican taken prisoner by the North Koreans. Taken July 6. 1950 Strahan said he was captured July 5, 1950 at 4:30 p.m., four days after the first, ground forces landed in Korea. He said the North Koreans took the first group captives to Seoul and then marched them north to Pyongyang where more prisoners were picked up. "We had G.I.'s and civilians by then," Strahan said. "There were Russian, Turkish, German and Irish civilians with us. We even had four French nuns along." Sugar Beet Hearing Slated for Oakland Washington (U.R) The Agri- culture Department has an nounced a public., hearing for Oct. 6 in Oakland, Calif., on wage rates and prices for the 1954 sugar beet crop in Cali fornia, Southwestern Arizona, Western Nevada, and Southern Oregon. Under the federal sugar act, growers must pay "fair" wages set by the secretary of agricul ture to qualify for subsidy pay ments. Processors, to qualify for subsidies, must pay growers "fair and reasonable" prices set by the secretary. The 1954 rates, which will be set after official study testimony delivered at the hearing, prob ably will be announced before Jan. 1, a department spokesman said. 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