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: O o o .o o . 0 o I G I O United Press Full Leased Wire Xi5i - - . . . D e n -r-r i . ,'T--v United Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 12 Pages QsMeBtrfc WdID Ask Measures Scuttled During Last Year ' To Be Presented Q Good Chance Seen o For Some Approval Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower's State of the Union message Thursday will u ask a Democratic congress to approve domestic legislation scuttled last, year when his own n Republican party was in control congressional leaders said to day. The facts of political life be ing what they are, the Prest dent stands a eood chance ml set ting at leas! some of these mea sures approved. A more liberal reciprocal trade agreements program, for example. Mr. Eisenhower plans to ask for a three-year renewal of this program with new auth ority to cuttariffs. This idea was initiated by the Democrats 20 years ago and it still gets more support from Democratic ranks than it does from the GOP. The President also probably will find greater sympathy among the Democrats than he didcamong Republicans for ad ditional public housing units, and for revision of the Taft- Hartley law May Resist Postal Rata Hike On the otler hand, the Dem ocrats are expected to resist his proposal for higher first-class j Cpostal rates, and for Hawaiian I statehood without simultaneous Alaskan statehood. The last ' Congress pushed through a bill j increasing the pay of federal ' Civil Service and postal work t . ers without an- increase in mail o xatesp Mr. Eisenhower vetoed the bill. : O h o Democrats succeeded in link '? Ings Alaskan statehood with Hawaiian statehood in the last Congress. They will do the same I tiuSg again. Whether the Presi dent would veto a bill provid ing stateho8d for both remains to Be seen. To Be Dismissed in Message u All these domestic problems, along with many others, will be discussed by the President in his 6,400 word message. Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R-Mass.), retiring speaker of the House, told newsmen after a GOP hud dle at the White House Mon- o day that the message would con- tain "no surprises." He said that with a limited number of exceptions the Presi dent would renew proposals previously made. Former Code Expert Gets Seven-Year Term Alexandria, Va. (U.R) Joseph S. Petersen Jr., former code ex pert in the super-secret National Security Agency, was sentenced to seven years in prison today foPusing government secrets to the harm of U.S. security. "Federal Judge Albert Bryan said Petersen "has deliberately violated both the trust and the confidence placed in him by our couftfasy." tf Benson- Adams Confer o yn ixraef nsicy uusrer Washington (U.R) The White House disclosed today that Agjiculhire Secretary Ezra T. Bensonjhas conferred with Pres idential Assistant Sherman Ad - ams ahdiit the controversy over e Agriculture Department's se 3 curity ouster of Tokyo attache Wolf Ladejinsky. Road Conditions o O Motorists griving in all higher elevations in southern O Oregon were advised to carry chains lodtfy.oState police said (ft was snowing in mountain areas, with the snow still breaking up at mid-day. How- ever, they warned that colder temperatures would cause trouble. Spots of ice were re exported at Siskiyou summit "this morning. Weather ("FORECAST Rain tonight,' chang ing lo snow snowers eariy Wednesday. Warmer tonight, low 42; high Wednesday 3S to 38. Temp. Highest Yesterday 43 Lowest thi Morning 23 &&JM-ij!uls,. ' mmmlhl& '--f '&--- munTT i i"T?'i J RIDING ON SWEEPSTAKES WINNER in Pas adena's Rose Parade is Miriam Stevenson, "Miss Federal Agricultural Payment Application Withdrawn Bear Creek orchards, one of southern Oregon's largest orch ard firms, has withdrawn appli cations for federal land improve ment assistance and will accept no further aid of this type. In letter to hie Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation office in Medford, David H. Holmes, president of Harry and David, Inc., said the applica tions -.-ae beirig - withdrawn -be-t cause it is our feeling that such payments are, in effect, subsidies," reimbursing us for costs which we feel our govern ment should not be called upon to assume."' On Two Properties The applications were for fed eral reimbursement on irriga tion and drainage projects on i two of the company's orchard properties. Harry and David, Inc. operates Bear Creek orchards. Talbert Sehorn, in charge of the Medford ASC office, said the payments could have am ounted to up to about $600. The applications were made under provisions of the Agri culture Conservation program, in effect since 1936, which en titles land owners to refunds from the government on cer tain land improvement pro jects. Holmes noted that in the past, his firm has applied for and received assistance on sim ilar projects. He added, howev er, that "we have changed our policy in connection with the acceptance of such funds. Here after, it will be the policy of this organization not to make applications for or accept assis tance for such improvements of our properties." Cites 'Giveaway Dollars' "We cannot complain about high taxes and government en try into private business on the one hand while holding out'the other hand for giveaway dol lars," he added. He added that, while his Accident Victim Taken To Portland Hospital Charles Blackshear, 20, who suffered the loss of parts of both legs as the result of a re cent automobile accident, was taken from Community hospital to Good Samaritan hospital to day by Perl ambulance service. The young man, whose home is in Bend, was scheduled to go by Mercy Flights plane but be cause of weather conditions the flight was cancelled. He has been receiving treatment at in tervals at the local hospital and will receive further treatment at the Portland hospital. He was working for the State Highway commission when the truck on which he was riding was struck by an automobile. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 406.17, off 2.72; 20 rail roads 145.80, off 0.74; 15 utilities 62.76 up 0:32; 65 stocks 150.67, off 0.64. Sales today were about 4,420,000 shares, compared with yesterday's 4,570,000-share total, the heaviest since June 27, 1950. MEDFORD, OREGON, Bmniesfi:DS by Firm firm believes there is a definite need for government aid to ag riculture, "It would be far bet ter handled, in instances of this kind, by long-term, low-interest loans, rather than by what we consider our. government 'give-away' programs." Holmes said that he "was not starting a crusade," but he add ed the hope "that others will see fit to do the i vsamehing.. '- : " -n "-. Mother of Triplets Home from Hospital Mrs. James W. Rolls, 512 Summit ave., returned home from Sacred Heart hospital yes terday, but her triplet sons, Robert, James and William, will remain there for. incubator care for a while longer. The baby boys, bom last Wednesday, are reported coming along nicely at the hospital. Mrs. Rolls telephoned The Mail Tribune yesterday after aoon to express her appreciation to all those who have "been so nice to us." The Rollses have received a number of gifts for the boys, including baby food, laundry service and cash gifts. She told the newspaper that the first glimpse she had of the babies was the picture of them printed in The Mail Tribune last week. Richard Arndt Given One Year on Probation Portland (U.R) A one-year probation term was ordered to day for Richard F. Arndt, 39, former operator of the Mejody Music Company of Medford, for failure to file a federal income tax return in 1951. U. S. Judge Gus J. Solomon said one condition of the proba tion was for Arndt to "make a reasonable effort" to pay the tax liability on his 1951 income which the government said was $4693. City directories - list Richard F. Arndt's address as 38 Van couver ave., Medford. Sen. Meuberger Found More Ready Than Cordon To C3eei Press By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Among the many sharp contrasts between Senator-elect Richard L. Neu berger and Sen. Guy Cordon, the most noticeable on Capitol Hill this past week as the for mer checked in and the latter checked out was their contrast ing relationship with the Wash ington press corps. 1 Just before he moved to a downtown law office, Cordon welcomed Oregon reporters into his office for a final bull ses sion, a rare give-and-take which the newsmen told him he should have conducted much more often in his 10 years in office but which he neglected for "more important matters." The TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1955 Universe." Float' is Long Beach, Calif., entry, "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever." (Intl.) Several Lumber Operators Grant Hourly Pay Boost , Portland (U.R) Several Ore gon lumber operators were re ported today to have granted the 7 1-2 cent hourly pay in crease recently recommended by the governor's seven-man panel which investigated issues in last summer's lumber strike. The executive board of the Northwestern Council of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill .Worker's Union ' was "tor "meet here tomorrow to consider the recommendation. The regional negotiating committee of the CIO Woodworkers Union recent ly recommended to locals the in crease, effective to April 1, 1956, be accepted. Booth-Kelly Lumber Company of Eugene, Hult Lumber Com pany of Lane county and the logging division of West Coast Plywood of Springfield had agreed to pay the new scale. The Diamond Lumber Company of Tillamook and Forest Grove signe'd up earlier. A. F. Hartung, CIO Woodworkers president, said three companies in the Lebanon area had signed up. Meetings between CIO and AFL unions and plywood em ployers are scheduled for Jan. 11 and 12, respectively. Hammarskjold Lands On Red China Soil United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) U. N. Secretary - general. Dag Hammarskjold reached Hankow on Red China's Yangtze river today and elected to stay over night before proceeding to Peip ing tomorrow on his delicate mission to obtain the release of 11 imprisoned American air men. The first, message from the general secretary and his party from behind the Bamoo Curtain said "All is well." ' Hammarskjold, -who has been entrusted by the United Nations with the task of obtaining re lease of other imprisoned U. N. personnel in Red China as well as the American airmen, reached Hankow after a 500-mile flight from Canton where his plane first touched Red Chinese soil. . senator, however, true to form, was relishing the thought that he would soon "no - longer be news," . which probably best ex pressed his delight in public obscurity. But it- was not simply that Cordon hesitated to put himself forward into the spotlight. Take the time he was asked off the Senate floor to explain his vote against ' a foreign aid bill. He told the reporter brusquely he would explain : that to Oregon voters in due time, . turned on his heel and marched away. Far from being an isolated incident, this issustrates the manner in which. Cordon generally con ducted the public's business as though it were a confidential law - case, too -important to be :ce 5c V Japanese To Get $2,000,000 for Bomb Test Damage United States Plans To Take Precautions Tokyo U.R) The United States has agreed to pay Japan $2,000,000 for loss to life and property as result of its hydro gen bomb tests in the Pacific this year, the Foreign Office"" an nounced today. . The agreement was signed by Foreign Minister Mamoru Shige mitsu and U. S. Ambassador John Allison at a ceremony at the Foreign- Ministry Building. Allison assured the Japanese in an informal statement after the signing that the United States "will take every possible precaution" against a recurrence of the Fortunate Dragon incident in future tests. "This is not a safe world," he warned. "It is sometimes neces sary to make dangerous experi ments. But they should be sur rounded by the utmost pre cautions." Japanese officials hoped the agreement would heal the anti-' American feelings which were aroused by the atom-dusting of 23 Japanese tuna fishermen near Bikini March 1 last year and end the agitation against further H-bomb tests. The United States specified that it did not recognize any legal responsibility to compen sate the fishermen of the Jap anese fishing industry for subse quent losses as a result of the "atomic tuna jitter" which fol lowed the illness of 23 fishermen and the death of one of them. ;The United States maintained that fishing vessels had been warned to stay out of the danger area and that the fishing boat Forunate Dragon was in the dan ger area when it was hit by a radioactive fallout. Japan agreed that it would ask no more compensation from the United States for damages rising out of the Bikini tests. Hearing Tests Set For School Students Hearing tests for Jackson county school children were scheduled to get underway this afternoon at Washington school in Medford, with Miss Patricia Beaudoin, audiometrist for the state board of health, in charge. The hearing tests, arranged by the board of health in col laboration with the state depart ment of education and lo cal school and public health ad ministrations, are given each year to one-third of the ele mentary grade school children, and all first graders, in the county. The tests are expected to be given to about 4,100 children this year and will run through Feb. 11. Schools where testing will be given this year are Med ford public schools, St. Mary's, Central Point, Phoenix, Talent, Lone Pine, Griffin Creek, Ruch, Applegate, Rogue River, Rogue River academy, Gold Hill, Ev ans Valley, Shady Cove, Elk Trail, Prospect, Butte Falls, Eagle Point, and for a few stu dents at Ashland. Portland (U.R) Lutheran Homes and Hospitals, Inc., has announced plans for a $450,000 home for the aged to be built on the grounds of Fairlawn hos pital here. shared with his ctizenry. Neuberger's arrival here was greeted by newsmen who im mediately called for a press con ference in which to fire ques tions at the newcomer. They found him articulate on issues with which he is familiar, but not ready with solutions to most national . problems with which he admitted unfamiliari ty in . adequate detail. But he answered all questions report ers asked without resort to a "no comment" defensive maneu ver. . . ' In Republican circles, the fact. that the new Democratic senator-elect "made news" on arrival caused remarks about his being a champion self-publicist. Perhaps sensitive to - this (Q) No. 247 Three Lawmakers Of Jackson County Slate Salem Trips State Legislature To Convene Jan. 10 Jackson county's three mem. bers of the state legislature will leave Medford this week to as sume their duties when the leg islative session opens Jan. 10 in Salem. Two of them, Sen. Philip Lowry and Representative A. E. (Al) Littrell will be starting their first term in office. State Representative Ed Mann will be starting his second term in the lower house. AH three were elected with out opposition at last fall's gen eral election. To Leave Saturday . Senator Lowry, and Mrs. Lowry, who will act as his sec retary, plan to leave Medford Saturday. While in Salem they will make their home at 1195 Alpine ave. - Mr. and Mrs. Littrell, who will live at 310 North 19th st. in Salem, plan to leave Friday. Mrs. Littrell will act as secre tary for her husband. Mann also plans to leave Fri day. He and Mrs. Mann will live at 695 North Summer st. in Salem. Mann's secretary will be Mrs. Jessie Hoffman, Salem. Mrs. Hoffman formerly served as secretary for Giles French, who is no longer a member of the legislature. Mrs. Mann, whose sister is 'visiting" here at the present' time, plans to join her husband later this month. Death Car Driver Pleads Innocent The 17-year-old driver of the car which struck and fatally in jured a pedestrian Saturday night at Main and Front sts pleaded innocent today in mu nicipal court to a charge of fail ure to yield right of way to a pedestrian, according to court records. The case was continued indef initely, and will be set for trial by the city attorney. District At torney Walter Nunley is study ing the case to determine if more severe prosecution is warranted. The youth, Lester Dale Liv ingston, 513 King st., was rep resented by Attorney Ervin Ho gan. He was released Sunday by police after posting $10 bail. Livingston drove a 1939 coupe which struck James Kenneth Jones, 59,, Jacksonville, who died soon after in a local hos pital. ' . ' . Hawaii Statehood Bill Due Wednesday Washington (U.R) A bill calling for admission of Hawaii as the 49th. State of the Union will be introduced tomorrow on the opening day of the new Con gress. The measure, sponsored by Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington, Re publican delegate from Hawaii, will touch off a new fight over not only the admission of the Pa cific island, but also of Alaska. Mrs. Farrington wants Hawaii statehood legislation handled sep arately, but t. ere will be de mands for a package bill provid ing simultaneous admission of both territories. The Hawaii-Alaska cause car ried farther than ever before in the 83rd Congress and came within a tantalizing, parliamen tary inch of fulfillment. Portland, Ore. (U.R) Port land's 1954 traffic death toll has been placed at 40 with the death Monday of Gertrude Marpert, 67, who was struck by a car Christmas eve. charge, Neuberger," was ;. plainly taking a go-slow approach at the outset. But like any color ful public figure, so long as he has something new and mean ingful to say on current public issues, he will make legiti mate news. And Oregonians can make their day-to-day judg ments accoordingly, however large or small the headlines in the Oregon press. Quite apart from "his demon strated effectiveness and his long-houred conscientiousness, Cordon strayed too far in the direction of secrecy, cloaking much of his activity from news papermen whose only reason for inquiring was that- he was engaged in important public en deavors and that it was their 4 S2 ' Medford's building permit valuation for 1954 rose 52 per cent over 1953, and the trend looks even better for 1955, ac- cordin& to Herbert Mackie, city building inspector. Last year's total was $2,513, 029.71 in construction value, for 608 permits. During 1953, the valuation was $1,649,942.13 for 563 permits. Mackie .said, "There is every Juvenile Court Will Handle Case Of Armed Robbery The case of Lyle Vernon Doty has been turned over to Jack son county circuit court's juve nile department. The 16-year-old Doty, whose home is at 1125 Maple Park dr., was arraigned last week on a charge of assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. He has been held on $7,500 bond. - , The charge grew out of the armed theft of a delivery truck Dec. 23 from Wallace A Stearns, Grants Pass merchant. The Doty boy was arrested the same day by state police while in j& car stolen from Allen Guches, Grif fin Creek. Motion Filed District Attorney Walter Nun- ley filed a motion in district court on Dec. 29 for the juvenile department to be given jurisdic tion on the case. District Judge Rawles JVIoore signed an order for the transfer yesterday. In the order, Judge Moore. noted th4t law requires that the trans fer be made. In another case, six Eagle Point area teenagers appeared in district court yesterday and each paid $15 fines and $5 in court costs on charges of illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. Two of the boys, a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old, spent a short time in jail yesterday when they were committed in lieu of pay ment of the fines. Payment was made later in the day, and the two. . were released. All six pleaded guilty ' to the charge. They were arrested the evening of Dec. 29 by state polfce. - University President Schedules Talk Here Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, pres ident of the University of Ore gon, -will be the speaker at the annual dinner meeting of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Jan. 18, it was re ported today. Dr. Wilson came to the uni versity earlier this year. This will be his second visit to Med ford since he assumed the uni versity position. The meeting will be in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. Jimmy Dunlevy, manager' of radio station KYJC, will be master of ceremonies. Dr. Wilson is tentatively scheduled -to speak in Grants Pass the following evening. City Council Slates First 1955 Meeting Medford's city council will hold its first meeting of the new year tonight in the city hall -at 7:30 o'clock. Heading the agenda will the consideration of plans and spec ifications for airport, improve ments under the $45,000 in fed eral aid allocated last fall. Other matters will include a report- on negotiations for sale of city-owned land to Fir-Ply, Inc., at Camp White and adop tion of assessment ordinances. Newlv - elected Mayor Earl Miller is expected to make his appointments to committees and to commissions and boards where there are vacancies. 1 duty to keep the voting tax' payers as closely informed about these undertakings as pos sible. The senator didn't see it that way, and that was that. , Every elected official has his own personal approach to pub lic offices, and only a few stray too far toward being headline hunters or . being mysteriously secretive. Sen. George Malone (R-Nev.) is an example of a headline hunter on whom the press exercises tempering " con trol, often ignoring for the most part his long-winded repetitous oratory on the - Senate floor against . foreign trade. Some years ago he sought, to over come this by telegraphing copies of his speeches to news papers all over the country at federal expense until this back Inereas! iveirYeairte indication that permits for the new year will be larger than 1954, and will probably ap proach the post-war high re corded in 1950." o Rose After War After World War II, Medford building rose steadily to a pea of $3,551,442 valuation in 1950. It' declined to $1,631,000 in 1952, rose slightly in 1953, and jumped higher last year. The upward trend here ap pears to be considerably greater than the Oregon average, Mackie said For the first nine months, Oregon was up over 1953 by only 5 per cent, whereas Med ford valuation increases for the same period soared 74 per cent. It finally settled back down to 52 per cent at year's end. Doesn't Include School The inspector added that- the 1954 total does not include new junior high school construction. December's total valuation was $94,935, an increase from December, 1953, cf $26,448.12. Included last month were $59, 500 in new residences, $5,83 residence remodel and repair! and $13,140 in business remodel and repair. , - Snow FaJIs Here; Hits Upstate Area Snow began fallinff in Med.. ford early this morning, and "by mid-day the recurring showers had covered , the ground with white in many places. The weather bureau, however, predicted that there would be mixed rain and snow showers in the afternoon, with warmer tem peratures and ram tonight." There may. be snow showers early Wednesday, the forecast said. By UNITED PRESS Snow fell throughout much of western Oregon today, snarling traffic in many places. Snow began falling in' the Portland area shortly after 7 a.m. and still was coming down three hours later. It also flutter ed down on the Willamette val ley, with an inch reported at Salem. It was mixed with rain at some places. r The weather bureau said the temperature was expected to warm up west of the Cascades with snow turning to rain. Snow flurries were forecast east of the mountains. 1 Snow was thick in the Portland heights area with an estimat ed 1000 cars stalled on South-- west Canyon road during the morning rush hour. A truck be came stalled on the Oregon City-West Linn bridge, snarling traffic for nearly an hour. Young Father Held For Beating Infant Portland (U.R) A . 22-yeap. old former Army corporal was jailed by Multnomah county sheriff's officers here last night on a charge of assault with in tent to kill his 18-month-old son. Officers, responding to a call from the operator of a motel found the child, Willis I. Rus sell Jr., suffering from shock and his face swollen from a beat ing. Hair had been torn from his head. . The mother, 19-year-old Betty Jean Russell, told officers her husband had become enraged at the child and had stuffed its head first into the toilet. She said the hair was torn out when Russell pulled the baby out of the toilet. She fled to the motel office to get help when the young father continued to beat the child as it lay on the bed. : Russell told police he had lost his temper and admitted striking his son and, pulling his hair. JURY IN SESSION Jackson county's grand jury was called into session this morning, according to District Attorney Walter Nunley. He said0 several matters are on the agenda for consideration by the r jurors. fired with more complaint than headlines. But against the secretive wall of "no comment," newsmen are severely handicapped to inform the public either accurately or completely, to the detriment of free elective government. It is generally believed that Cordon helped dig his own political grave by his behind-the-scenes approach to public affairs yet the rear indictment of political secrecy is not that it may contribute to any individ ual's defeat at the polls, but that it destroys the very ideal of a sovereign, democratically - gov erned people being sufficiently well-informed to make wise, ma ture political judgment upon which the future course of the American nation depends. 0 i i l: i i ft 3 I i I S I fa i: i I! S : i. t' -O H
