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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE No Shortage of Hydroelectric Power Expected in Near Future The Dalles (U.R) Public power agencies that get prefer ence in allocations of Bonneville power will feel no hydroeleetri- city shortage for the next 12 years, according to Byron Price, assistant administrator of the BPA. Price told the annual meeting of the Wasco County Electric Cooperative that adequate power for preference customers would be supplied from existing proj ects and from those under con struction. Will Meet Needs He said that, except for large Industrial loads, the 3,000,000 kilowatts now installed and an additional 3,000,000 kilowatts of federal capacity will meet pres cnt load forecasts of the public agencies. Present contracts now limit new industrial loads to an initial 10,000 kilowatts as a protection of the preference rights granted the public agencies by law. On the other hand, Price warned, if new hydroelectric projects are not started in the immediate future, power sup plies available from the federal government will preclude serv ing an large electroprocess or heavy power-using industries as well as private utilities, from existing dams or those under construction by 1964. More Needed Price told the cooperative meeting that BPA estimates an additional 9,000,000 kilowatts will Rep. Martin Says House Will Refuse To Drop Committee Washington U.fi) Speaker .Joseph W. Martin. Jr. (R-Mass.) believes the House will refuse to abolish it3 Un-American Ac ticities committee when the Democrats take control in Janu ary. The move to kill the commit tee was launched the day after Tuesday's congressional elec tions by Rep. Francis Walter CD Pa.) who is slated to become chairman .of the group in the new Congress. Walter announced he would ask the House at the outset of the session next January to turn over the committee's functions to a House Judiciary subcommit tee. He said he believed that would stop what he called past "abuses" of the Un-American Activities groups' investiga tive powers. Walter's proposal has picked up some support. Rep. Frank Chelf (D-Ky.) said he will vote for it And Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R-NY) said Saturday he may support it. Both Chelf and Keating, along with Walter, are members of the Judiciary committee. But Martin, who has proved a pretty good judge in the past of the collective temper and at titude of the House, told a re porter late Friday that he does not believe a majority will sup port Walter's move. Korea To Advance Funds To America Seoul, Korea (U.R) The Republic of Korea announced Saturday that it would advance the United States another 300, 000,000 hwan so the U.S. Army in Korea could meet its Octob er obligations. Political observers believed the new move was an attempt to get the U.S. Army to release gasoline supplies to the ROK government, which is threaten ed with a weekend transporta tion stoppage. Hull has told the ROK gov ernment that he is willing to sell the ROK petroleum supplies on the Korean market for hwan. But he said the U.S. could not loan the fuel to the ROK's as long as the Army's hwan supply was cut off. The ROK government had re fused to advance additional hwan to the U.S. because of a dispute over the rate of ex change. BROADCASTS BANNED , Tegucigalpa, Honduras (U.R) The Honduran government has banned all political broad casts. The interior ministry Fri day prohibited radio stations to air speeches, comments and all other material dealing with 'political subjects. Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. ' Sleep Well at the .... PLAZA HOTEL Broadway at Washington IN DOWNTOWN PORTLAND be needed by 1974 even if no new electroprocess industries are added to the Bonneville system. That would be equivalent to the capacity of 18 Bonneville dams or eight The Dalles dams. Price reported that public ag U.S. Woman Ordered Out of Russia Arrives in London London (U.R) Mrs. Betty Jane Sommerlatte arrived here Saturday with her diplomat hus band on their way home from Russia under orders from the United States government to stay silent about her Moscow arrest. A spokesman for the American embassy in London said the pretty American blonde and her husband had been instructed by Washington not to make any statements about the Russian claim that she slapped a Red police agent. Rsiuses Comment Although she smiled for pho tographers as she stepped from a Scandinavian Airlines plane Dredge Working To Clear Debris From Panama Canal Balboa, Canal Zone-OJ.R) A dipper dredge worked Saturday to clear away approximately 5,000 cubic yards of rock which slid into the Panama Canal at Gaillard Cut and blocked one- half the channel. The huge mass of rock and mud tumbled from the north end of Contractors Hill into the vital waterway sometime during Thursday night. It was discov ered at dawn Friday by an in spection launch. The slide narrowed the chan nel from its normal 300 feet to 175 feet and created a one-way bottleneck in ship traffic. Authorities could give no estimate on how long it would take to restore Gaillard Cut to its normal width. But, for the time being, ships moving through the canal must take turns using the one lane left open. There were no ships nearby at the time of the slide since there is no night transit of the canal at present. Canal officials said they ex pected the latest slide to have little effect on ship movements through the canal. Hunter Held in Fatal Shooting ' Longview (U.R) Alfred A. Gifford, 52-year-old Longview resident, was held in Cowlitz county jail in lieu of $2000 bail Saturday on a charge of man slaughter in connection with last Sunday's hunting death of Mich ael W. Lee, 32, of Kelso. Gifford was arraigned Friday on an information filed in Cow litz county superior court. Pros ecutor Joe L. Johnson alleged in the complaint that Gifford was guilty of negligent handling of a firearm, thereby causing Lee's death. A coroner's jury found Thurs day night that Gifford was guilty of negligence in the hunting mis hap. In his testimony at the inquest Gifford said he fired at what he believed to be a bear while hunt ing 20 miles northeast of Long view. The .35 calibre bullet struck Lee in the right thigh at a range of 65 feet. He died three hours later at a Longview hospital. Maple Park District Slates Bond Election Residents of Maple Park Wat er district will vote Dec. 6 on use of about $75,000 for a bond issue. Two board members will be elected. The bond issue is to permit expansion of the district and give Medford water to residents of the area not now being serv ed. The district's board chairman, Allie E. Graham, is running for reelection, and James Eek, ser ving under appointment, is a candidate for an elected term. Polling place will be the resi dence of William A. Hughes, 1242 Ben's lane from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, November 7. 1954 encies have filed on some 15 hydroelectric sites with a total capacity of 3.7 million kilowatts, and private companies have filed on 14 additional sites with a tota capacity of 1.8 million kilo watts. that brought "her from Stock holm, she refused to comment on the incident. Mrs. Sommerlatte and her husband Karl, former second secretary of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow, made their exit from Russia Friday in a Soviet plane. Twenty Soviet musicians shared the plane with the Som merlattes. The stewardess, who asked that her name be with held, said none df the Russians tried to engage either of the Soramerlattes in conversation during the flight. "The Russians were by them selves and mostly kept quiet," the stewardess said. Mr. and Mrs. Sommerlatte had little to say, according to the stewardess. ' The only time any of them spoke to me was when Mr. Som merlatte asked me for two whiskies," she said. Scuiry From Plane The Russians scurried away from the plane when newsmen crowded around to greet Mrs. Sommehlatte Friday night.. Neither the Sommeriattes nor the Russians spoke to the news men. Mrs. Sommerlatte was accused of '"hooliganism" by Soviet authorities after an incident in volving two Soviet secret police agents and another American woman, Mrs. Frances Stiff, wife of the U.S. Moscow Embassy's assistant naval attache. The Russians charged Mrs. Sommerlatte a 1 1 ac k e d two "workers" after she had been asked not to photograph some children with a heap of rubble as a background. Eleanor Roosevelt Unhurt in Accident Hollywood (U.R) Mrs. El eanor Roosevelt escaped injury but film actor Humphrey Bogart was cut on the head and in the face when a movie kleig light blew up on a studio set and splattered glass. The former first lady was vis iting the movie set of "Desper ate Hours" at Paramount Stu dios Friday, talking to Bogart, the picture's star, , when the heavy light blew up. Studio officials said the widow of the late President was spared serious injury because her back was turned to the light. Bogart, facing the, 'lamp re ceived gashes in his head and cuts on his face from glass splin ters. Two technicians also were cut. The condition of Bogart and the technicians was described as not serious. FARE ENOUGH London (U.R) Bernard Haw ley, 29, was fined $2.80 Satur day for allegedly trying to strangle bus conductor William Henry Lloyd when Lloyd asked him for his fare. Returned to Medford Dr. ROBT. E. LEE, Optometrist OFFICES NOW OPEN AT THE BIG Y MARKET BUILDING 1912 N. Pacific Hwy. Phone 3-5923 EASY PARKING ANNOUNCEMENT Picard's of Medford JEWELERS WILL OPEN ON OR ABOUT NOVEMBER 15th at the Bigger, Better BIG Y Shopping Center. The Jewelry Store will be located in the new section near the west entrance between Dr. Robert E. Lee, Optometrist, and the Big Y. Toy land. Free parking at the Big Y let's you enjoy shopping. - ROY R, PICARD H.I.A. CERTIFIED MASTER WATCHMAKER r " . ST 1 " ess 'y0 ARRIVING In Paris, Josiane Mariani-Berenger, 19, says she is seeking TJ. S. visa so she can marry Marlon Brando, film star, in America. (International) Inquiry Into Vote In New York Slated New York (U.R) An inten sive investigation into alleged voting irregularities in New York state begins next week, with 260 investigators checking rerults that gave Averell Harri man an apparent victory over Republican Sen. Irving Ives for the governorship. State Atty. Gen. Nathanial Goldstein said Friday his check into 19,000 vote challenges would begin not later than Tues day and would be completed by Nov. 25. If he finds that fraud material ly affected the results of the election, Goldstein may petition the state Supreme Court to order another election in the areas in volved. All of the challenges are in 10 counties, five of which are the populous boroughs of heavily Democratic Jtfew York City. New Skyhawk Jet Plane Reaches 500 MPH Speed Inyorkern, Calif. (U.R) The Navy said Saturday Douglas test pilot Bob Ryan flashed through the sky at a speed of 500 miles an hour in the first public dem onstration of the atom bomb carrying A4D Skyhawk. The Skyhawk, described as the smallest and lightest U. S. jet combat plane, was one of sev eral late model Navy warplanes demonstrated for aviation writ ers and Navy officials Friday at the Naval Ordinance Test sta tion here. The Skyhawk is able to fly at least 2600 miles non-stop and is less than half the size of many jet fighters but can outperform a number of theturrent types. It can carry atomic weapons, rockets and missiles. Knowland's Loss of Majority Leader Job Said Blow to Korea Seoul, Korea (U.R) A semi-official Korean newspaper said Saturday Republican Sen. William F. Knowland's fall from majority to minority leader may be Korea's "biggest loss" in last Tuesday's American elections. The Korean Republic, which reflects government thinking, called the California senator "a great friend of Korea and the whole of free Asia." State Department Sidesteps Demand By Ousted Diplomat Washington (U.R) The State Department Saturday ducked demands of ousted ca reer diplomat John Patton Dav ies Jr., that it publish the rec ord of his case, including a rec ommendation that the . United States seek a "preventive show down" with Russia. Davies was fired Friday by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on grounds he lacked "judgment, discretion and reli ability" necessary for his high diplomatic position. Davies im mediately said he would not cpn test the decision but wanted the full record of his case published. A department spokesman said it has been past practice in such cases not to make the records public. . He also declined to say what, French Authorities Jail 13 Leaders of Fanatical Outlaws Algiers, Algeria (U.R) French authorities Saturday jailed 13 leaders of a fanatical band of Arab outlaws which has killed at least 10 persons in a bloody revolt. Officials said white-capped Foreign Legionnaires joined reg ular French army troops in rounding up the principal organ izers of the terrorist movement. Awell-placed source said the leaders were arrested Friday jiight at Turgot, in the Oran Department, where an army pa trol was ambushed. Fight Phantoms French forces hunting through the arid eastern part of Algeria found themselves fighting a phantom foe in their concentrat ed drive to quell the 1,250-man unrising. The troops were reported to be slowly gaining control over the desolate mountain region where the terrorists have been operating but officials said the rroels now are resorting to hit-and-run night raids to keep clear of French planes, tanks and half tracks. Security forces Friday also rounded up about 175 persons suspected of having connections with the terrorists, who call themselves "The Army of God." 4 WHOLESOME : P., TISTEP FIFTY YEARS OF PROVEN SATISFACTION I , ... ... - . . . ' . . ( . . ' . if any, part Davies' 1950 recom mendation of a. "preventive showdown" with the Soviet Un-i ion played in his firing. It was presumed Davies in his hitherto unknown proposal had urged steps that might lead to a "pre ventive war," something Presi dent Eisenhower has strongly opposed ... Not Eligible for Pension The 46-year-old diplomat, a veteran of 23 years in the For eign service, is not eligible for a pension because he has not yet reached the retirement age of 50. Experts said he likely will get back contributions he has been making through the years toward such a fund. Davies, a central target of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis.), had undergone eight pre vious loyalty-security investiga tions and had been cleared each time. Dulles said Friday that a spec ial security hearing board reach ed the unanimous decision in the latest investigation. Dulles said that neither he nor the board found Davies to be disloyal "in the sense of having any Communistic affinity or con sciously aiding or abetting any alien elements hostile to the Un ited States." But Dulles said "It is not enough that an employee be of complete and unswerving loyalty. He must be reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character." Enough Recrimination In announcing he would not contest the decision, Davies said "there has been enough recrim ination. I am not prepared to add to it and thereby detract from There's a jsl m a?? . the strength of my country in its mortal struggle with the Com munist enemy." Davies said "there are inade quate grounds for such judg ment. But the secretary of state has more important problems on his hands than the reputation and future of one civil servant." 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