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Congress To Get
Chief's Request
On January 11
Military Pay Boost
: Request Due Later
Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower decided to re
submit his request to Congress
for higher federal pay and high
er postal rates on Jan. 11.
: The chief executive also on
Jan. 13 will send a special mes
sage to the House and Senate
asking for increased pay for the
armed services, plus a number
of collateral benefits.
To Deal with Federal Pay
The Jan. 11 message will deal
primarily with a proposed pay
increase for federal employees
and upping the price of a three
cent stamp to four cents. Air
mr.il, under the Eisenhower pro
gram, will jump to seven cents
an ounce. - . .
The postal rate increases were
recommended earlier this year
by, the President, " but "turned
Hnwn bv Congress. The . Presi
dent also vetoed a congressional
proposal to raise postal salaries
because there were not compen
satory postal rate hikes.
New Pay Structure f
: Press Secretary James C.
Kaggeirty, as the White House
waited somewhat tensely for
tews of the European defense
vote today by the French Cham
ber of Deputies, , disclosed that
Mr, Eisenhower on Jan. 11 will
recommend a new pay structure
for federal employees that will
cost the government about
$202,000,000. ,
The Jan. 13 military pay raise
bill also will include the ad
ministration's new armed forces
reserve program plus a request
for a number of other benefits
for servicemen and their fam
ilies. T7 Precise Estimate
The White House would not
estimate the precise size oi tne
military increase, but Hagerty
the Civil Service recom
mendation would, if adopted,
amount to a pay hike of about
5 tier cent for federal workers,
ranging from $125 on the lower
Civil Service grades to a max
imum of $800 a year for the top
brackets.
DA Asks Juvenile
Court To Hear Case
A motion was made today by
District Attorney Walter Nunley
to remand a 16-year-old defend
ant in an assault and robbery
case from the district court to
juvenile court, according, to the
district attorney s oiiice.
The youth, Lyle Vernon Doty,
1125 Maple Park dr., was ar
raigned Friday in district court
on a charge of assault and rob
bery while armed with a dan
gerous weapon, and held in jau
in lieu of $7,500 bail.
The charge involved holding
uo Wallace Stearns, Grants
Pass merchant, and taking his
delivery truck at gunpoint. -
In the notion, Nunley stated
that "... although his crime is
of a serious nature, that he is
markedly immature for his age
and the interests of justice ,re-
ouire that he be handled as a
juvenile court case."
Judge Rawles Moore was not
in his office this morning to con
sider the motion which will be
followed by an order, , if ap
proved.
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Flax Processing at Prison
Be Up To
Salem (U.R) Whether or not
the processing of flax will con
tinue as an industry at the Ore
gon state penitentiary will be up
tn thP 1955 Legislature to de
cide.
The State Board of Control
met with the State Flax and
Linen Board today to discuss
with Warden Clarence T. Glad
den and other .prison, officials
the rehabilitation value of .the
industry and its importance, to
Oregon agriculture.
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MEDFO.
.tGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1954
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SNOW BLANKETS CITY A blanket of white covered
Medf ord 'yesterday morning, as the first sustained fall of
the season fell during the early morning hours. Most of it
had vanished, however, in the afternoon's above - freezing
temperatures. The view above is on South Ivy st.i looking
north from the Medford High school baseball field. Since
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On
Outgoing Mayor D. L." Flynn
will deliver a report on his three
terms in office and his recom
mendations for future projects
at the year end council meeting
Friday noon in the city hall.
He said loday he has request
ed . both old : and ,new . council
members to be present. The
mayor and Councilmen Paul
Selby and Frank Runtz will be
attending their last council meet
ings as members. .New council-
men are Fred E. Robinson, Paul
Meyers and Don Hansen.
Beside approving the Decem
ber payroll for the city the coun
cil is expected to discuss the
proposed land acquisition by
Fir -Ply, Inc., of city -owned
Camp White property. Repre
sentatives of the firm, which
have announced plans for a
rough plywood plant . installa
tion, plan immediate construc
tion in the area.
Flynn will turn the mayor's
gavel over to Mayor-Elect Earl
Miller at the meeting s end.
C-1 19 Plane Crashes;
Seven Reported Dead
Huntsville, Ala. (U.R) An
Air Force C119 Flying Boxcar
crashed into a hilly area near
here today and the sheriffs of
fice said at least seven of the
11 crewmen aboard were killed.
Deputy Sheriff C. D. Stovall
said the Highway Patrol re
ported that rescuers found
bodies of seven persons. He said
it was also reported that two
other survivors were found in
jured. The deputy said witnesses re
ported three parachutes were
seen to blossom from the plane
before it crashed.
The.Weather Bureau at Birm
mingham shortly before noon
warned of severe thunderstorms
and the possibility of tornadoes
in the area where the crash oc
curred.
Legislature
. Gladden said the peak of
employment in flax comes at a
time when help can be used in
other jobs, and he doubted the
over-all rehabilitation value of
the industry. Flax" now is proc
essed at the prison and sold to
the Linen Thread Company, in
Salem and in the East. Other
linen plants have retired from
the Salem area, the last to . go
being , a linen, plant in . West
Salem which has moved to Oak
land, Calif.
Mayor Will Repo
His 3 Terms
At Council Meeting
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Triplets, All
Today to Medford Cou
'.' Three tons weie born her this morning to Mr. Jam
W. .Rolls. r .:- - .
The first of the triplets arrived at 10:14 a.m., with the
second five minutes later and the third three minutes after
that. Each weighed about ZVa pounds. The three babies and
Mrs. Rolls are "doing fine." according to the pleased and
excited nures in the obstetrical department of Sacred Heart
hospital. , . ;
. The babies' father is an employee of the City Sanitary
Service Co. The Rollses live at 512 Summit ave. and have
been married about eight years.
Their only other child, Teresa Susan, 2, died last July
after taking some quinine pills by mistake.
' The tiny boys are not identical triplets, according to the
attending physician. Names for them have not yet been
chosen. They were born about a month ahead of schedule.
The county health officer. Dr. A. Erin Merkel, said that
there are' about four to eight sets of twins born in Jackson
county each year, but he recalls no other triplets having
been born here in many years. The two hospitals have no
records of such a multiple birth in the past.
Sen. Morse Predicts
Minimum Wage Boost
Washington . (U.R) Sen,
Wayne Morse predicted today
that Congress will increase the
75-cent hourly minimum wage. .
The Oregon independent said
he hopes the minimum will be
increased to no less than $1 an
hour and that the minimum
wage law will be broadened to
cover workers in all segments of
the economy.
McCarthy Raps Ike
in Asia
Washington U.R) Sen. Jo
seph R. McCarthy credited Pres
ident Eisenhower today with a
"substantially .good job" on for
eign policy in Europe but blam
ed him for "a disastrous job in
Asia."
The Wisconsin Republican,
who broke with the President
earlier this month, told news
men "our foreign policy is def
initely heading, in the right di
rection in Europe."
But in Asia, -he said, it is
heading "in the wrong direction
to the. point where it could be
catastrophic," . '
McCarthy's . foreign policy
comments came as he laid plans
for "morning, afternoon and eve
ning" hearings by his investigat
ing subcommittee next Monday
on alleged subversion in defense
plants. ,;
Conciliation Service
Appoints Commissioner
" San Francisco U.R) The
Federal Conciliation service to
d a y appointed Commissioner
George Hillenbrand to study the
Pacificus cargo handling dispute
after Secretary of Labor James
P. Mitchell refused a Pacific
Maritime association request for
intervention. - .... . . :
Press FuU Leaaed Wire
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Medf ord schools are now having their annual Christmas va
cation, a multitude of snowmen sprang up in front yards
throughout the 'city. Drivers had slippery driving conditions
in the morning, but police said their extra caution paid off
not a single accident was reported in Medford yesterday
attributable to snow. , (Brainerd photo)
Boys, Born
Morse said an increase in the
wage minimum would have a
double-barrelled effect:
1. It would "bring necessary
cost of living - relief to people
with low, minimum wages."
,2.. It would, provide a "spiral
ing effect" which would "ripple
up" through the entire wage in
structure and increase the pur
chasing " power of the nation's
consumers.1 : J-
In addition, Morse said, an in
crease would be further demon
stration to the Communists of
"the strength of the free world
with respect to advancing the
welfare of the individual.".
Proposal Expected "
Informed sources expect the
Eisenhower . administration ' to
recommend some increase in the
75-cent minimum wage base, but
not to "the :$l an hour figure
recommended by Morse.
They expect the wage recom
mendation will be accompanied
by a proposal for broader cover
age but not including all farm
labor, workers in; retail estab
lishments, domestic servants and
the like who are not now cov
ered. Memphis Columnist
Wins Ernie Pyle Award
New York U.R) Eldon
Roark, the Memphis Press-Scimitar's
"strolling" columnist and
feature writer, was named today
as winner of the $1000 Scripps
Howard Ernie Pyle Memorial
Fund award for 1954. : - -;
Simultaneously, a gift of $4000
from the Ernie Pyle Fund to the
department of journalism at the
University of Denver was an
nounced. The grant will be used
to "bring journalism - students
closer to professional : news
papermen" through the estab
lishment of a series of lectures
by active newspapermen from
all parts of the country.
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Weather
FORECAST: Mostly cloudy
through Thursday with scat
tered light, showers tonight. .
Patches of fog early Thurs
day. Little temperature
change. Low tonight 33. High
Thursday 40. .
Temp.
Highest Yesterday . 38
Lowest this Morning 34
Prec. to. 4:30 a.m. Today 07
Red China, Japan
Africa-Asia Parley
- Bogor, Indonesia : (U.R)
The leaders' of five Asiatic na
tions announced today they will
invite 25 other nations, includ
ing Red China and Japan, to at
tend an African-Asian confer
ence next April.
Nationalist China and Israel
were the only two nations of
the African-Asian area omitted
from the invitation list.
An official communique is
sued by the premiers of the
Colombo Nations said they invit
ed "all countries with independ
ent governments" to meet in In
donesia next April. ' ' ' '
' The communique was issued
at the windup of. a two-day con
ference on Asiatic problems held
here s by Premiers Ali Sastroam
idjojo of .Indonesia, , Jawaharlal
Nehru of India, Mohammed Ali
of Pakistan, Sir John Kotelaw
ala of Ceylon and U Nu of Bur
ma. 4 ' ; ,;
"The conference will work for
world peace, economic and social
development of Africa and Asia
and tackle such special, prob
lems ' as colonialism, r racialism
and national sovereignty," the
communique said. '." , ,.".v
Bank Robber Seized
After Brief Chase
-: Coolidge, Ariz. U.R) - An
unarmed man robbed the Valley
National bank branch office of
,$11,500 - shortly - after ; noon to
day, but Coolidge police said he
was arrested within a few min
utes as he tried to flee on foot.
Police Chief Clem J. Cruse
said that, the 30-year-old man,
identified as Marvin Carson
White, - a' laborer, was taken into
custody, by. Policeman James L.
Smith at the rear ; of the bank
building in an alley. The suspect
offered no resistance, according
to Cruse. '
. Cruse said he was told 1 the
suspect walked into the bank
and handed a .note 'and paper
bag to teller Everett Ufford. Uf
ford said " the robber kept his
right hand in his pocket as if he
had a gun.
Cruse said later no gun was
found on the suspect.
An alarm was sounded as soon
as the robber left the building.
Cruse said all the money appar
ently was recovered.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York -(U.R) Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 indust
rials 401.97 up 3.46; 20 railroads
146.23 up 0.87; J5 utilities 61.78
up' 0.35, and 65 stocks 149.57
up 1.10. Sales today were about
4,430,000 shares compared with
3,660,000 shares yesterday,
Alsop Broth
ers
Claim American
iced
Book Raps Refusal
To Clear Oppenheimer
New York U.R) Columnists
Joseph and : Stewart Alsop
charged today that the Atomic
Energy .Commission "dishonored
and disgraced the high name of
American freedom" by denying
security clearance to Dr. J. Rob
ert Oppenheimer.
The brothers made the-charge
m a book, 'We Accuse!" pub
lished by Simon and Schuster,
Inc. ' - '
Denied Data Access "
The AEC on June' 29 voted
4 to 1 to deny Oppenheimer ac
cess to restricted data on
grounds he is a security risk.
The ruling meant that Oppen
heimer, wartime director of the
laboratory at Los Alamos, N. M.,
that built the first atomic bomb,
no longer could be employed by
the government . or be i trusted
with classified information.'' ;
- In addition to accusing ' the
AEC "in : particular and the
American government in gen
eral of a shocking miscarriage
of justice" in the Oppenheimer
case, the Alsops charged "the
U. S. "insecurity system" is "in
herently repugnant in its present
standards and procedures to
every high tradition of the
American past." .. - -. .- .
Traditions Forgotten : a: ;
"It is an insecurity system be
cause, with the laudable , and
necessary aim of safeguarding
our government from subver
sion, we ' have . forgotten pur
American traditions; , we have
borrowed the methods of the
enemy; : we have ' made intelli
gence and originality dangerous
to their possesors; and we have
placed the highest premium on
conformity,", the brothers wrote.
. . Every witness called by
the AEC was hostile to Oppen
heimer in one way. or another,
Every document or other piece
of evidence introduced, by the
AEC was intended to be. damag
ing, to Oppenheimer in one way
or another." " V
Life Sentence
The Dalles (U.R) Harry ' C
Knowles, 46, was sentenced to
life imprisonment today, for
strangling a ranch hand near
Shaniko, Ore., last October.
Wasco County Circuit Judge
Malcolm Wilkinson, immediate
ly, -after, imposing .sentence,
handed Knowles over to Sheriff
Ernest Mosier and Deputy Grant
Cyphers for delivery to Federal
Court at Sacramento, Calif.,
where he is scheduled to be sen
tenced tomorrow on a federal
automobile theft count. ' V : .
Judge Wilkinson said Knowles'
life sentence on the second de
gree murder charge would begin
after he has served his federal
sentence. Maximum, penalty on
the federal count is five years.
Knowles1 pleaded guilty last
Friday to strangling Albert C.
Stuart and burying his body in
a shallow grave along U. S.
Highway 30.
Knowles also has pleaded
guilty to stealing Stuart's car
and taking it across the Oregon
California border. : ' -:- 1 ? - -:
Road Conditions
"'' Traffic was moving with
out chains over southern Ore
gon mountain highways this
afternoon, state police said.
; Sand has been put on roads
where snow is packed, and
elsewhere highways are clear.
Anchorage, Alaska . (U.R)
For the third day in a row An
chorage thermometers dropped
to a record low early yesterday
with a chilly minus 28 degrees.
Freedom Disar
Neuberger Confident Incoming Demos
Will Restore
; Chicago (U.R) Richard. L.
Neuberger, Democratic senator
elect from Oregon, has express
er confidence that the incoming
Democratic Congress "will re
store the public power - pro
gram." ,
Neuberger, first Democrat el
ected to the Senate from Oregon
in 40 years, told newsmen yesterday-during
a visit with Adlai
Stevenson that he believed "Ore
gon voted as it did-Nov. 2" be
cause of confidence in ' Demo
cratic power policies.' " 5
Favors 'High Level' Dam
, Neuberger said he would spon
sor a bill, in the new congress
for construction of a "high lev
el" dam at Hell's Canyon, Ida.,
as recommended by Army En
gineers.. . , . . -
This would be in place of
J three smaller dams proposed by
Officials Express Hope : ;
Soviet Will FreetYanks
Washington U.R) U. S. offi
cials expressed renewed hope
today that Russia will' release
three Americans held in Soviet
prison 'camps for years. r
News that the Americans are
still alive was brought out of
Russia byva group of Austrian
prisoners who were freed. Offi
cials planned to use statements
by the Austrians in pressing de
mands that the American trio
be releaed. ; . ' '
Russia so far has never admit
ted holding the Americans, iden
tified as Wflliam T. Mar chuk,
Brackenridge, Pa.; William A.
Verdine, Starks, La, and John
Hellmuth Noble, "Detroit.
President Dulles
In Conference on
Crisis in France
Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower held a 30-min-ute
. telephone conference with
Secretary. of State. John Foster
Dulles today on the French cris
is., I ; ' ' .:-..'; ' ' : ' '
The chief executive received
latest . reports from- the Ameri
can embassy in Paris on the cru
cial ' European defense vote in
the "French"" assembly, " : which
probably will come sometime
after nooh'(PST) today. '
! The vacationWhite House an
nounced that . Dulles telephoned
Mr. Eisenhower and that the two
talked about 30 minutes, 'r-
"Now we'll just sit and wait
for the: vote," White House Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty told
reporters. . -. ,
In another development here
today nere tne Persident , is
spending his Christmas-N e w
Year's holiday, the White House
denied categorically a publish
ed report that Defense Secretary
Charles E. Wilson has submitted
his resignation; Hagerty said the
story was "entirely without any
basis of fact whatever. ' - ?
$75 Fine Meted
In Highway Crash
- The driver in an accident case
which resulted in a Bend, youth
losing portions of both legs on
Highway. 99, north last Nov.
was found guilty yesterday in
district court on a reckless driv
ing charge, according to court
records.
James Norbert Frank, 18, Co
quille, was . fined $75 and $5
costs, by Judge Rawles Moore in
a trial without a jury. Frank's
license; was also recommended
to be suspended for 45 days by
the court. " '. '
The youth had been charged
in the ; complaint with : driving
60 miles an hour in a 25-mile
zone and crashing into the rear
of a lVfc-ton truck which was
working on a new highway sec
tion. As a result of the accident,
Charles Henry Blackshear, 20,
Bend, was severely injured in
both legs. He had been riding on
the rear of the truck. Blackshear
returned to the Community hos
pital Monday after spending a
few days at his home for Christ
mas. - ;
Frank, a student at Oregon
Technical institute, Klamath
Falls, was represented by At
torney Dewey Wilson. Russell
DeForest, deputy district attor
ney, represented the state.
Gregory Peek's Wife
Awarded Divorce
Hollywood (U.R) Mrs.
Gregory Peck won a divorce to
day from the handsome actor 6n
what she called "easy" test
mony because. Peck gave her. a
"generous" $60,000 "a year set
tlement. The former Greta Konen, 42,
also was granted custody of the
couple's three children, their
home, furnishings, a 1950 Cadil
las and 50 per cent of everything
owned by the couple since their
marriage 12; years'ago
Public Power
the Idaho Power Co., Neuberger
said. '' " '"V"-'' "
He said he couldn't understand
why Secretary of Interior Doug
las McKay rejected a "high levr
el" dam at Hell's Canyon while
indorsing the similar Libby Dam
on the Kootenay river in Mon
tana. , -
McKay appeared to be apply
ing "political considerations to
technical considerations,", Neu
berger said. '
Parks Said Deteriorating '
,,He also accused the Republi
can administration of- allowing
national parks to "deteriorate
shamefully." . :
-Neuberger, who stopped here
with his wife and pet cat for a
"purely social" visit with Stev
enson while en route to Wash
ington, hedged when asked'if he
would support Stevenson for the
Unhappy French
Assembly Meets
cision
Mendes-France Stakes
Life of Government '
Paris' (U.R) Opponents of
German rearmament attacked
theUnited States today before
a torn and unhappy French Na
tional assembly convened to
make its most important decis
ion since the end of the war.
Premier Pierre Mendes-
France had staked the life of
his government and the 'future
of West European unity on two
votes of confidence in today's
Assembly session , and, despite
ths biggest guns of the opposi
tion, he still was expected to win
by a narrow margin. "'
Tnrlnv'c atanlr nn Viz TTnifoJ
State was a last desperate fling
and brought into the action the
Assembly's most venerated mem
ber, 82-year-old Edouard Herriot.
He called for rejection of Ger
man rearmament. . -.
Rightist Deputy Gen. Adolphe
Aumeran," the man. whose mo
tion killed the European De
fense community ill-fated .pre
decessor 'of ithe Western: Euro- ,
pean - Union, mounted his ' last
bitter attack which also' includ-'
ed an attack on the ' United
States.-. ; "
'Are we going. to let a coun
try inexperienced in foreign pol-'
icy show the way to France?
he demanded. .
Would not Germany, ' ven
;indpr the cnnncnrckin k.
United States, still remain dang
erous?" .: ' " ."
Then the noisy chamber hush
ed to hear Herriot. ,
The ' old man leaned forward
on his bench and told Mendes
France before the silent depu
ties: . ; :
At the present moment you
ycui ucguuaie wiui me jasi. xou
are free. .
Tomorrow, you will ': first
have to get the agreement of
Germany." ..
He called for respect of the
Franco-Russian 1944 friendship
treaty. , ,
Even if Mendes-France wins
today v his margin is expected, to
be so narrow -that France" will
be marked as an unwilling part
ner to an alliance she accepted
only because she feared the al
ternatives more.
Scientists Attack
Restrictions
Berkeley, Calif. U.R) Some
of the nation's most prominent
scientists joined today , in an
anffnr offolr a. AWMAnH;.uf
j t.bcivxk vix cAtcaaivc se
curity, restrictions imposed by
congressmen they said created a
"sickness ; of suspicion" in the
country. -:
Dr. Warren Weaver, president
of the American Association for '
the Advancement of Science, led
the barrage in a speech before
the powerful organization's
121st annual meeting here.
He said the science profession
"cannot afford to disregard
the "sickness of rumor and anx
iety, of suspicion and distrust
and. at its worst, of fear and
tragedy." .- ; . . ;.
"In part this s'ckness is due
to overemphasis on caution for
the past rather than constructive
courage . with respect to the
future." : ' , ;
Civil Service Group
To Investigate Ouster
Washington (U.R) The Senate
Civil Service Committee will in
vestigate the ouster by Agricul
ture Secretary Ezra T. Benson
of Wolf Ladejinsky as U.S. agri
cultural attache in Tokyo.
, H. W. .Brawley, ; minority
counsel for the committee, said
the investigation has been order
ed by Sen. Olin D. Johnsonton
(D-S.C), slated to become com
mittee chairman when the Dem
ocrats take control of Congress
next month. -
Program
1946 Democratic presidential
nomination. V-
He said he could not yet pick
a presidential candidate for 1956
but added he and his wife were
"great admirers" of Stevenson.
Neuberger said he believed
President Eisenhower was right
and Sen. William F. Knowland,
Republican majority leader from
California, was wrong in the
matter of Americans imprisoned
hv Ken unina.
Dixon-Yates Not Good Deal
On the controversial Dixon
Yates power contract, Neuberger
said that " from my knowledge,
from what I've' read, I wouldn't
say it was a very good deal for
the neoDle." - t , '
He said he would support Pres
ident Eisenhower on extension
of reciprocal trade legislation. ..
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