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By CHARLES W. CORDDRY
United Press Correspondent
Washington U.R) The
United States is building a
$4 13,000,000,000 fleet of giant
jet aircraft capable of delivering
H-bombs, defense authorities re
vealed today.
. Pentagon sources indicated
the awesome new "retaliation"
.force will comprise about 350
B52 bombers, which fly more
than 600 miles an hour, and 200
tankers for inflight refueling.
- The all-jet fleet will be or
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'Three Youths Die
In Auto-Truck
Wreck Hear Albany
Passenger Killed ,
; As Car Leaves Road
By UNITED PRESS
, Traffic mishaps in Oregon
claimed the lives of at least five
persons and injured eight others
during the week end. A sixth
accidental death was attributed
to drowning. .
John H. Gemetti, 32, of Cor-
vallis, was killed last night when
the car in which he was a pass
enger left Highway 20 some
. three miles north of Corvallis
and rolled over twice. William
E. Wilkinson Jr., 28, Philomath,
, driver of the car, suffered a back
.injury when thrown from the
.par against a tree. Gemetti was
also thrown from the car and
. suffered a skull fracture. .
v Three teenaged boys died
:arly yesterday when their au
tomobile crashed into a large
truck four miles south of-. Al
bany. Two youths were injured
in the wreck, which demolished
the car.
"; The dead were Willis LeRoy
-3ould, "19,- and Albert Edward
Bear, 16, both of Deadwood, and
Burrel R. Ownes, 18, Swisshome.
Emil Max Brainard Jr., Dead
wood, was in critical condition
at an Albany hospital with a
fractured skull, broken leg and
other injuries, and Gary Lee Gib
bons, 14, Swisshome, suffered a
broken leg.
Florence Man Dies
. , A two-car collision on High
way- 36 three miles west of
Mapleton yesterday morning re
sulted in the death of one man
. and serious injuries to five other
persons.
Donald G. Smith, 29, Flor
ence, who was driving alone,
died some 10 minutes after he
was taken to Sacred Heart hos
pital at Eugene. Smith's car
struck one driven by Robert Mc
Cain, 24, Tiernan. McCain suf
fered a concussion and multiple
cuts and bruises.
I Riding with McCain were Iris
Berry, 29, who received frac
tures, facial lacerations and
bruises; her husband, Clarence,
37, back injuries: Wayne Kelly,
22, concussion, back injuries and
lacerations, and Harry Swan,
severe head, face and leg cuts
and a fractured jaw. All are from
Mapleton.
The death by drowning occur
red in the north fork of the
Santiam river near Stayton
Saturday afternoon. The victim
was Ricky Hunt, 3, the son of
, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hunt, Suth-
erlin. .
The child and a 12-year-old
companion were swept down
stream and over a small dam
when they fell from a log while
crossing the river. The older
boy, Roger Garland, managed to
swim to shore.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow-
Jones final stock averages: 30 in
dustrials 388.51 up 0.72; 20 rail
roads 133.04 up 0.77; 15 utilities
60.87 up 0.12, and 65 stocks
142.52 up 0.42. Sales today were
about 3,300,000 shares, compared
with 3,010,000 shares traded
Friday.
Central Point
Following Accident, Fracas
A young Central Point man
was sentenced to 60 days in jail
today in city police court on
charges of resisting arrest and
being drunk in public, follow
ing a Saturday night hit and run
accident and destruction of jail
property.
Glenn Buster Jones, 22, 10th
and Maple sts, pleaded guilty to
both offenses. He was the occu
pant of a car which struck two
cars and the Hawkins All-Night
garage, 616 South Riverside
ave., police said. The driver is
feeing sought by officials for fail
ganized into 11 wings in the Air
Force's Strategic Air Command.
Designed for immediate counter
attack from American bases if a
global war starts, those wings
now fly much slower B36 super
bombers. The B36s now are
America's chief means of de
livering the H-bomb. ?
Officials emphasized that it
will take several years to build
the new multi-million dollar jets
and forge them into a fighting
force. They .will be long-range
Loves
Snow Possible
In Area Tuesday
It's a bit early to think of
sleigh rides and snow men,
but snow is a possibility here
.Tuesday. "
Prediction of the Medford
office of the weather bureau
is for increasing cloudiness to
morrow with mixed rain and
snow showers by afternoon.
18 Nominated for
Board of Directors
Of County Chamber
- Eighteen members of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce have been nominated
to serve on the chamber's board
of directors, it was announced
today by Don McNeil, chamber
secretary-manager. , .
Those nominated were chosen
by popular ballot. From the
group, nine directors are to be
selected. The eight receiving the
highest number of votes will
serve for a period of three years,
and the ninth will serve for one
year.
Final ballots have been mail
ed to all members of the cham
ber. Members of the elections
committee are William Barker,
Otto Ewaldsen, and L. W. Bates.
.Those nominated are:
Reese-Alexander, Alexander
and Brown. Agency; Eric AJlen,
Medford Mail Tribune; E. L.
Bartholomew, Wahl - Bartholo
mew agency; N. B. Bender, Bear
Creek Orchards; M. O. Besson
nette, Bessonnette and Graff; W.
B. Brill, Brill Metal Works; B.
E. Budge, Crane Company;
Hugh Coleman, Crater Lake Mo
tor company; Sam Colton, Of
fice Stationery and Supply com
pany. George C. Flanagan, Elk Lum
ber company; Ronald Gandee,
Mailwell Envelope company; B.
L. " Nutting, Medford Corpora
tion; Eugene Orr, Weeks and
Orr Furniture; Mrs. Bert Pree,
Bert Pree's Fashions, Fred Rob
inson, Robinson Brothers; Paul
Selby, Selby's; John Snider,
Pepsi-Cola .Bottling company
and Snider's Dairy, and Frank
Van Dyke, Van Dyke and Del
lenback. .
Three Burglaries
Reported to Police
Three burglaries were report
ed to sheriff's deputies and city
police over the weekend. .
About $12 in currency and an
undetermined amount of. silver
was reported taken from the
residence of the Rev. Clarence
William Frost, 901 North Cen
tral ave., sometime yesterday
evening, police said. Entry was
gained . through an open rear
door and by breaking a glass
pane in an inner door.
The sheriff's office stated that
the LeRoy L. Lowell cabin on
the Tiller-Trail highway was
broken into and - numerous
household items and furniture
removed. A nearby cabin, own
ed by Otto Neilson, ' Vallejo,
Calif., was also entered and the
owner is now being contacted
to determine what - is missing.
Locks were pried off both plac
es. Man Gets 60
ure to stop at the scene of an
accident. . t
After the accident, the two
men left the car and were
chased by a mechanic and Wil
bern Franklin ; Hammers, Eu
gene, owner of one of the two
struck cars. The other car was
owned by Ed Montgomery,
route 2, box 167C, Central
Point. .- r -
The two abandoned the chase
after they lost the fugitive in
the fog. Police stopped the two
men later and before help could
arrive, the two men ran off
big brothers of the B47 stratojet
medium bombers, of , which the
Air Force now has 1000 with
another 1000 to come.
Medford
H United Press Full Leased Wire
49th Year 12 Pages
tf Owe
Soviet Satellites
Urged To Build Up
Military Position
Molotov Tells Need '
For Stronger Defenses
Moscow U.R) Soviet Rus
sia tonight, called upon her
Communist sattelites in Europe
to build up and consolidate
their military front if the West
rearms West Germany.
Soviet Foreign Minister V.
M. Molotov told delegates from
seven European Communist
countries and Comunist China
that "to firmly ensure the se
curity of the peace loving states
of Europe" they should "con
solidate their forces, and
strengthen them " considerably
in event that the Paris agree
ments for West German rearm
ament and creation of a West
ern European union are rati
fied and implemented." r
Molotov said the European
Communist countries must
"prepare sure measures to
strengthen their defenses ac
cording to the necessities of the
present moment.
"This demands on the parts
of the.- governments participat
ing in this conference that they
carry out, in common, meas
ures in the field of the organiz
ation of military forces and
command and take such other
measures as necessary to . . .
guarantee the integrity of their
frontiers against possible ag
gression," Molotov said.
ElkCreekClubhouse
Destroyed by Blaze
Shady Cove The Elk Creek
Social clubhouse, an old land
mark situated about seven miles
up Elk Creek from the Crater
Lake highway was destroyed by
fire early Sunday morning. The
building, which was owned by a
group of residents of the vicinity
was uninsured. . '
Sheldon Hughes, a neighbor,
discovered the fire and called
the Shady Cove Volunteer fire
department at 2:30 a.m., but
the building was too far gone
for anything gto be saved.
State police and sheriff's dep
uties investigated the fire Sun
day as the possibility of arson
was indicated due to the fact
that the clubhouse had not been
used for several days.
Enrico Fermi, First
Atom Splitter, Buried
Chicago (U.R) Private
funeral services were held to
day for Enrico Fermi, the Ital
ian born scientist who unlocked
the gates through which the
world entered the atomic age.
Fermi died yesterday at 53 of
an incurable and spreading can
cer, a disease, ironically, which
he had once predicted would be
controlled through by-products
of atomic science. ,
His experiments and work
with radioactive materials were
not contributing factors in his
death, physicians and associates
said.
-Day Sentence
in City Jail
again, with Jones being appre
hended later.
' About 10 minutes after Jones
was jailed, he was found to
have smashed three windows
.with his fist, and upon treatment
struggled with two attending
physicians and officers before
his hands were bandaged. He
was placed in the solitary cell,
runway for the night.
Besides damage to the cars,
two large plate glass windows
at the garage were knocked out
as a result of the impact.
mm
,The B52 Stratojet, an eight-
jet monster estimated to cost $8,-
000,000, is in production at
I Boeing Airplane Company's Se-1
eJiflTRIBUNE
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1954
Knowland Receives
List of Additional
Yanks in Prisons
Dulles Expected To .
Blast Red China
Washington (U.R) Senate
Republican Leader William F.
Knowland said today that the
State Department has given him
the names of 26 more American
civilians imprisoned in Com
munist China. .
The names are in addition to
those of the 13 Americans, 11
military men and two civilians,
who have been imprisoned by
Red China on "trumped up"
spy charges.
Knowland, who Saturday ad
vocated a naval blockade against
Red China if necessary to free
the 13, said he believes all the
American citizens are entitled
to the protection of this govern
ment. China Rejects Note
Peiping yesterday rejected a
U.S. note protesting the impris
onment of the 13 and demand
ing that they be freed "forth
with." .
"I think we're going to have
to do something other than to
send notes or act through the
United Nations," Knowland told
reporters. "If they ignore a note
from this government, they're
not going to pay any more at
tention to one worded a little
differently from the United Na
tions." .; Knpwland did . not elaborate
-Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles, in a major foreign
policy speech from Chicago to
night at 7:30 p.m. (PST) is ex
pected to lambast Red China
for refusing to free the 13 im
prisoned men for alleged spy
ing. '
Knowland revealed Saturday
that he had asked the State De
partment for a lists of all U.S.
citizens in Red China prisons
in addition to the 13 accused of
.being spies.
Two Die In Prison
Knowland said today the de
partment had submitted a list of
26 other civilians, some of whom
were on a similar list of 32 giv
en him in December, 1951.
He reported that the State De
partment memorandum said that
15 on the 1951 list had been re
leased and that two others had
died in prison as a result of
Communist "mistreatment."
Washington (U.R) The
State Department today issued
the list of 26 persons held in
Red China which was submit
ted to Sen. William F. Know
land, (R-Calif .). v .
The list, giving the latest ad
dress available and date of im
prisonment, included:
Lawrence R. Buol, Stockton,
Calif., January, 1950; Rev. John
William Clifford, San Francisco;
Rev. John Alexander Houle, San
Francisco; Levi A. Lovegren,
Seattle. January, 1951; Robert
McCann, Altadena, Calif., June,
1951. Rev. Charles J. McCarthy,
San Francisco; Rev. Thomas L.
Phillips, San Francisco; Mr. and
Mrs. William A. Rickett, Seattle.
July, 1951.
Knowland placed the names
of the 26 in the Congressional
Record and told the Senate that.
many of them were imprisoned
"with no semblance of a trial."
He also said this government
does not know how' many . Am
erican soldiers, listed as missing
in action in Korea, may be in
Communist prisons or slave la
bor camps.
Mercy Flights Takes
Patient to Portland
Mrs. Earl Woodley, Dufur,
Ore., who has 'been at Sacred
Heart hospital since Oct. 20, be
cause of injuries suffered when
a logging truck dumped its load
onto the car in which she was
riding near Cascade gorge, was
taken this morning to Portland
by Mercy Flights. She will re
ceive further treatment . in a
Portland hospital.
The - patient's .husband and
father-in-law were killed in the
same accident. Mrs. Woodley is
the 304th patient to be flown in
the Mercy Flights plane. George
Milligan -was. pilot for. the trip
today. .
attle. Wash., plant and will be
coming later from Boeing's
second line at Wichita, Kan. The
first jet tanker, the Boeing 717,1
United Pre
M
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FIRST X-RAY County Judge Rodney Keat
ing, left, became the first county resident to
have a chest x-ray under the new tuberculo-,
sis case-finding program of the Jackson Coun
ty Public Health association, the Jackson
County Medical society and Community hos
pital in Medford. Keating had his x-ray in a
Medford Officials
To Attend Meeting
About 28 Medford city offic
ials will ' attend the regional
League of Oregon Cities meet
ing tonight at 6 p.m. in the Phoe
nix Community hall, according
to city officials".
The meeting will be a joint
affair with the Jackson county
members of the Oregon High
way Lifesavers association. The
latter group will organize and
elect officers.
v Medford's delegation will be
headed by Mayor-Elect Earl Mil
ler. Mayor D. L. Flynn, newly
elected president of the League
of Oregon Cities, is representing
Oregon at the national conven
tion of the American Municipal
association ' at Philadelphia,
Penn., and will be unable to at
tend. ',
Phoenix will be host city at
tonight's meeting, to which 12
incorporated communities in
Jackson and Josephine counties
are invited to attend. Reports
on the recent state LOC conven
tion will be made.
No Answer Expected
Soon in Damage Suit
No answer is expected for at
least two weeks from the Talent
Irrigation district on , two civil
complaints filed against it Nov.
22, seeking combined damages
of $21,351.40, according to
Frank Farrell, TID attorney.
The suits were filed by W. R.
Mayfield and Walter F. Monroe,
who both allege that waters from
a collapsed spillway extension
last May 5 at Hiatt , reservoir
flooded their properties at the
Green Springs summit on High
way 66. Mayfield stated in the
complaint that he had truck
garden crops, while Monroe
claimed soil and erosion dam
age. . ' '
Named in the suits were . R.
M. Kent, district secretary and
manager; and directors, Homer
Moore, Joe H. Meyer and Henry
A. Owens. Farrell said Kent
would not be in the area until
about a week as he is on vaca
tion. -
TRUCK OVERTURNS
City police said that a panel
truck, operated by Donald Ora
Garner, 2583 Howard ave., was
turned on its side in a collision
at Third and Front sts., at about
9:10 a.m. today. The car was
righted by a wrecker and was
driven away. Officers stated that
the driver of the other car, a
coupe, Emerson Glen Wolfe, 801
North Central ave., was cited for
failure to yield the right-of-way.
Parma, Ida. (U.R) Mrs. C.
Ben Ross, wife of Idaho's late
Democratic governor, died at her
home in Parma today. . She was
78.
is some months away. Contracts
for a larger tanker are expected
to be placed soon with one of
several bidders. The tankers
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First of Two Centers
Ope
The first of two permanent
chest x-ray centers will go into
operation this week at Commu
nity hospital, according to Miss
B. J. Larson, administrator of
the hospital, and officers of the
Jackson County Public Health
association.
Purpose of the x-ray units is to
discover unkown cases of tuber
culosis, lung cancer, tumors,
heart trouble and other chest
diseases, according to Dr. C. I.
Drummond, Dr. Earl Lawson
and Dr. A. E. Merkel. They are
members of a committee appoint
ed by the Jackson County medi
cal society to work with the
health association and the hos
pitals on the project. " '
Starts New Plan
Monday, morning Community
hospital "began a routine pro
cedure of giving a chest x-ray
to all patients upon admittance
to the hospital.
Wednesday, Dec. 1, from 4 to
6" p.m., will see the first of the
out-patient clinics when the
public may go to Community
hospital for x-rays. Included in
this will be referrals from doc
tors, from the health department,
special groups such as teachers
and food handlers and those who
have had contact with a tuber
culosis patient. Children who
have a positive reaction to the
tuberculin test? now being given
in the schools will also be asked
to go to the x-ray center for a
chest x-ray; ,
Small Fee Charged . -
A small fee to cover cost only
bf . film and materials will be
made for this and anyone desir
ing to have an x-ray may go di
rectly to the hospital on Wed
nesdays between 4 and 6 p.m.
No appointment is necessary.
Purchase of two x-ray ma
chines for the" county's largest
hospitals, Community and
Sacred Heart, was announced
recently by the Jackson, County
Health association. Funds de
rived from the sale of this year's
Christmas seals will go ' toward
the purchase of these machines.
Installation of the machine at
Sacred Heart hospital will be
made shortly after the first of
the year, according to Mrs. Jack
Walker case-finding chairman
Weather
FORECAST: Fair and cold to
. night. Foe patches Tuesday
morninf. Increasing eloudi-.
neu Tuesday with scattered
mixed rain and snow showers
by afternoon. Low tonight 25
. 28. High Tuesday about 46.
. " Temp.
Highest yesterday 45
Lowest this moraine 28
will cost an estimated $4,000,-
000 each.
: Defense sources reckoned the
cost of the B52 program at more
than $3,500,000,000, taking into
account the costs of tooling and
instructing the labor' forces at
Wichita and Seattle. The tanker
program adds at least $800,000,
000 more' to the cost of build
ing the new intercontinental
striking force.
''- The Stratofort, which later
may be built in reconnaissance
as well as bomber versions, is
reported slightly faster than the
test run in preparation for the "out-patient"
clinic for chest x-rays which opens at the hos
pital Wednesday afternoon. Shown with Keat
ing are Robert Sutton, head technician at the
hospital, and Mrs. Jack Walker, case finding
chairman of the Health association. Christ
mas seal funds are financing the program.
. (Brainerd photo)
s Set
ration
for the health association.
"We fee. sure many lives are
going .to be saved by this new
program, Mrs. Chester Guches,
president of the association
stated, "and everyone purchas
ing Christmas seals will be hav
ing a part and as well will be
helping to , protect their family
from tuberculosis." '.
Will Save Money,
It-is felt the new case finding
will also be saving the county
money 'since each advanced case
of tuberculosis cbsts the taxpay
ers of the community $15,000.
According to Dr. Merkel, county
health officer, there are 200
cases of tuberculosis in Jackson
county, 100 ; of which are un
known even to themselves. Each
advanced case is estimated to
have infected nine other persons.
The county health association
began work on this new x-ray
program when it was learned
mobile units provided by the
Federal government would no
longer be available.
Roof Lathe Installed
At Courthouse Annex
Steel lathe was being instal
led today on the roof of the new
courthouse annex and concrete
will be applied tomorrow, if
the weather is not freezing, ac
cording to construction workers,
t Work was also continuing to
day on the last of three vaults
to be placed on the new annex.
The concrete rooms will be lo
cated in the basement, first and
second floors. " "
Lack, of ' steel materials has
held up construction on the buil
ding, which i$ primarily of met
al construction. ' -
Adena uer's Pa
Rav
By Vote in Hesse Province
Frankfurt, Germany U.PJ
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer s
Christian. Democrats suffered a
punishing defeat by the power
ful Socialists in Hesse province
in a Sunday ; election that
showed the rearmament issue
still a big question mark. ,
At the same time, Adenauer's
party scored an impressive vic
tory in crucial state elections in
neighboring Bavaria.
Hopes Wrecked
By emerging again as the
top party in Hesse, the Social
ists wrecked Adenauer's hope
of ousting, them decisively from
a state they have ruled since
1945 ;
But once more the Socialists
failed to gain absolute control
of the Hesse legislature and
won with fewer votes than in
their 1950 landslide but .re
smaller six-Jt B47, Gen. Alfred
m. Orruentner, supreme allied
commander in turope, has said
repeatedly that Russia has no
defense today against a plane of
the B47 type.
BS2s can carry either "ordin
ary" atomic weapons or H
bombs, but are intended chiefly
for the latter. Their range is
estimated at more than 6000
miles, much less than the 10
engine B36s. But with jet tank
ers they can strike targets any
where on the globe, operating
from U. .S." bases.
Surprise Proposal
For Showdown Vole
Wednesday Heard
Senator Admits To ;
Being 'Extremely Blunt
. - ': -' - . i . ' ' -y :
i Washington U.R) Sen. Jo
seph R. McCarthy apologized to
the Senate today for using "ex
tremely blunt" language - at
times, but emphasized that he
was not backing down on any
of the opinions he has expressed.
He made the statement in a
short dramatic speech proposing
that the Senate cut off its de
bate on censuring him and brine
xne issue to a snowaown vote
Wednesday, "
His surprise proposal for an
early vote got an immediate fa
vorable response from Republi
can and Democratic leaders and
from Chairman Arthur V. Wat-
kins (K.-Utah) of the special
committee , that recommended
censuring McCarthy. But formal
action was witheld pending dis
cussion of the details.
Elbow Bandaged
McCarthy, his right arm ban
daged to the knuckles and car
ried in a sling, read his six-minute
speech from a prepared text
when the Senate reconvened
after taking a 10-day recess to
give him time to recover from
an elbow injury. .
The Wisconsin Republican said
he is "prepared for whatever
action the, Senate may take" on'
the censure - resolution, but
wants to set it over with auick
so that senators may give their
attention to more important
matters, such as recent hostile
acts by Red .China.
He said the charges against
him "boil down simply to the
accusation that I have used dis
courteous and offensive words."
He admitted having been "ex
tremely blunt in expressing my
opinions," and said he wished to
assure any senators "who feel
they have been offended, that I
had no intention. in the words
that were used of hurting the
feelines of anvnne."
"But in facts and opinions
that I held, I am unchanged,
he said. V
After McCarthy read his pre
pared-speech. Sen. Karl E.
Mundt (R-S.D.), told the TSenate
that he regarded it as a "re
traction or apology" for words
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'Bad Choice of Words
McCarthy replied that he
conceded if was "a hail phniiv
of words" to Call Sen. Robert
C. Hendrickson (R-N'-J.) "A liv
ing miracle . . . without brains
or guts." But he said he still
feels strongly that Hendrick
son did wrong in signing a
1951-52 Elections Subcommit
tee report which questioned'
McCarthy's finances.
McCarthy said he also ad
mits using the . wrong word
when he called the Censure
Committee an "unwitting hand
maiden" of , the Communist
party, "because a handmaiden
is a female servant and nhiH.
ously they aren't female ser
vants." "That word handmaiden
could be stricken and some oth
er word substituted," he said.
McCarthy, spoke after Sen.
Wallace F. Bennett (R-Utah)
had formally filed a third cen
sure charge against him.
rty Rebuffed
gained most of the losses they
suffered in last year's general
election.
Neither the Socialists nor the
Christian Democrats were in a
position to form a new Hesse
government without a coalition
of their allies.
Hoped for victories
Adenauer had hoped to score
victories both in Hesse and Ba
varia as a sweeping popular en
dorsement of both German re
armament - and his agreement
for temporary internationaliza
tion of the Saarland. -
The chancellor had stumped
for these issues in a whirlwind
campaign in ' Hesse, where ha
thought the ' Christian Demo
crats might win, considering
the Socialist-' Door ebjowins in
1953.