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13 C C O O CO Q Recommended A feature itory ea tha mw First Kfttloiial lnk Building appears on Pas. 14 of today's Issuo of The Mall Tribune. A feature story on the forest ser vice appears on Pace It. Weather FORKCABT DeerMttnc etoneJ ness and scattered showers or snow flurries today. Valley , fog tonight and Monday. High today SS to 38, low tonight 25. -: I , : Temp. Highest yesterday - 32 Lowest yesterday ..,. 24 Precip. To !: sjb. yesterday M United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c ,28 Pages MEDFORD, OREGf f, JANUARY 91955 49th Year No. 251 J n Tw I . m , i, ,' owuiwt xuane u. wiemenis is.y majority whin- Sen- VT F- e(D)i?a- resident pro tempore; Senator Lyndon Johnson (D) T& 2a" lority leader and Senator Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (D), Mo, majorSy secretary? ai3i Two Developm Fruit Industry Aimed At Eliminating Smoke Two developments in the fruit industry, aimed at elim inating black smudge smoke dur ing the period of orchard heat ing in the spring, were made public this week, v They were: ; ; 1. Experiments are being made in an attempt to work out a satisfactory substitute for heat ing by oil, which creates the ob jectionable smoke; aid 2. A committee of the Fruit Growers League of Jackson County and of the Rogue River Valley , Traffic association has S i ;" i Group Transferred The Medford airport is now without U.' S. Air Force person nel for the first time in a num ber of years'; . ,r The Air Force refueling and crash detachment stationed here out of McClellan AF base at Sacramento has left. The change was effective Jan. ; 1 and in volved 15 men under the direc tion of a warrant officer, senior grade. " ! ..- Another regular AF group, the Army Airways communica tion station. Delta Waters rd., ceased operation .' about six months ago. The property there is still held by the government, To Be Reassigned Federal officials at the air port reported that the refueling . group will be. reassigned else where from Sacramento. ; The Medford city fire depart ment ..'was notified unofficially Friday that there would be.no 'fire truck available from the "Air Force at the airport. The department will now send two trucks to the airport on each emergency, with full crews. One truck from both the central and east side stations will be . used. :' Refueling of AF planes will now be on a contract basis with the Medford Air service, officials - Said. ' "-i"' i ' r'V Fields? Daughter Jailed in Siberia ' Washington U.R) Mrs. Erika Glaser Wallach, foster -daughter of Noel and Herta Field, has communicated with relatives from a Soviet prison camp at Vorkuta in Russian Si beria, it was disclosed Saturday. - Her husband and his two chil dren are living in the-Washing ton area waitmg and hoping for her release. She disappeared mysteriously, in Berlin on Aug. 26, 1950, while searching for news about her foster parents, the Fields, who had disappeared behind the Iron Curtain a year before. ' r Temperatures Medford Airport 1954, Summary of .Year's Weather Shows i '.Temperatures in Jackson county were slightly below (normal during 1954, according ;to" figures released yesterday by the Medford weather bureau. More Fog Than Usual 5 The figures show that. the ' county's rainfall was slightly below normal, but that the year was somewhat cloudier and fog gier than usual. - The mean maximum tempera ture, or the one midway between the extreme high maximum and the extreme low maximum, last year was 66.6 degrees, compared to a normal of 66.8.-The mean 'minimum was 40.0 degrees, com pared to a normal of .41.1 de grees. The average last year was 53.3 degrees, against a 54.0 de Y4 1 f enfs in recommended the use, where- ever possible, of Vsmokeless' heaters, and reported that a number have already been in stalled at a cost of $44,800, Letters Tells of Pleas ' A letter dated Dec. 30 and addressed to all fruit growers in the valley contained the news of these developments. It was signed by Orville C. Hamilton, president of the Fruit Growers league, and David Lowry, presi dent of the Traffic association. ' The letter follows: ' , A committee of the Rogue River Valley Traffic association and the Fruit Growers league was appointed' for-the purpose of making recommendations to the fruit industry in order to re duce the amount of smoke pro duced in orchard heating to a minimum. 1 ' It recommends: . . 1. For the replacement of ex isting pots the committee rec ommends only ' that i orchard heaters meeting the smoke ' tol erance , specifications, be pur chased. This may be ' accomp lished either by purchasing of new type heaters or converting old heaters to the accepted type. May Be Difficult 2. The committee . recognizes that due to the severe economic hardship imposed by last year's frost it may be financially im possible for some growers that have not previously heated all or part of their acreage to buy new heaters due to the high cost involved. The committee urges all growers to buy only heaters convertable to return stack heat ers, however, the committee rec ommends that : all ' growers at tempt to buy at least some new units of accepted standard in or der to indicate their desire to cooperate in reducing the smoke from orchard heating. 3. The committee recommends and where possible the return stack heaters be . utilized y on nights of less severe frosts. ' 4. The committee wishes to advise .that the . Fruit , Growers league and Rogue River Valley Traffic association have inter ested the Forest Products labor atory at Corvallis in developing a satisfactory substitute for oil heating. . . , ' 5. The Fruit Growers league has underwritten an experiment to be conducted , by the Experi mental Station from the Frost Protection fund. ; 6. The Experimental' station, in conjunction with Oregon State college,1 will conduct experi ments this year to determine ex isting temperature ceilings in or der to establish as much infor mation for the basis of new de velopments in orchard frost pro tection, -v" To date $44,800 has been spent by the orchardist in con verting to. return stack heaters. in Count Below Normal in gree normal. 'The' highest temperature re corded, during 1954 was 98 de grees on July 13, well below the highest on record here, a torrid 115 degrees on July 20, 1946. Last year's lowest temperature was 16 degrees on. Dec. 27. The all time low of 10 below zero came on Dec. 13, 1919. -Snowfall Normal V Precipitation last year amounted to 16.25 inches, or 1.90 inches below the 18.15 normal. Snow last year totalled 7.2 inches, exactly normal. -i- The greatest monthly precip itation total ever recorded by the Medford weather bureau was in January, 1930, when 22.6 inches fell,'. Defense Secretary Called To Testify On Manpower Cuts Washington i (U.R) The House Armed Services commit tee Saturday called on Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson to testify publicly later this month in defense , of President Eisen hower's proposed military man power cuts. V s Wilson probably ; will - testify during the week of Jan. 24 and he will be followed by other key defense officials, including . all members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gen. Matthew B. ;Ridg way, Army chief of staff, is re ported concerned at the proposed cutbacks. , ;..( - - Committee , - Chairman i Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), said the hear ings were arranged at a Penta gon - lunch Saturday at " which Wilson and his top , aides were hosts to Vinson and Rep. Dewey Short (R-Mo.), r outgoing chair man and ranking committee Re publican. ' Short predicted after - the ses sion that the. manpower, slashes announced by Wilson on Dec. 20 and later eased- somewhat by Mr. Eisenhower, would stand up under congressional scrutiny. He said Democratic furor over the cut would fade away. . There were some indications that Vinson, who earlier had ex pressed serious concern at the reductions, had softened his op position somewhat in view of the President's , decision late Wed nesday to restore 25,000 of the cut ordered for the Army. i- The fact that the Pacific Grey hound - lines -settled a damage case out of court does not imply that the company admitted liab ility, attorneys for the bus com pany said Saturday. - The firm and one ofrits driv ers, defendants in a $107,500 damage suit in circuit court here last week, - "have at all times vehemently denied the claim of Greg ' S. Scarborough that he was struck by a Greyhound bus or was in the vicinity," on Feb. 3, 1954, when the bus left the depot here. Scarborough claim ed he had been injured when he was hit by a bus. H The attorneys' statement add ed:4 . ' i I "The case was settled for; a small fraction of the amount demanded ; merely to avoid ; the expense of continued litigation, and without any admission of liability whatsoever on the part of either Pacific Greyhound Lines or Donald E. Tackley, (the driver), : by whom liability has at all times been denied." ' ; ?. Tackley has an unblemished safety - record as a Greyhound driver, it was pointed out. f Measurable rainfall fell on 96 days last year. The normal mea sureable rainfall is 99 days, i 122 ClearDays . The Medford area had 122 clear days in .1954, with 70 part ly - cloudy and 173 cloudy days listed. The longtime figures 'are 124 clear days, 83 partly cloudy days, and 158 cloudy days, i ' ft Only four days with thunder storms were reported in 1954, against the usual of eight, but 50 days with heavy, fog were re corded, eight more s than the average. ? ' The last killing frost' in the spring of 1954 was recorded on May 1, and the first killing frost in the; fall came on Oct.T 24, leaving a 176-day growing sea son in the Medford arear Firm Says N Liability Admitted Talent Project Out Of Federal Budget, Correspondent Says Election Results Said Reason for Removal By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The Eisenhower administration has passed over Ore eon in nrenanne the new federal budget in the field of new reclamation projects for 1955, while approving new starts on added irrigation acreages m neighboring Washington, Idaho ana uaiuornia. Oregon was ' left out because of the outcome of the recent election, in which the, voters of the state refused to return Re publican Sen. Guy Cordon and thereby gave Democrats control of the Senate, according to a highly placed administration of ficial. ' . -. v The Oregon project which the Bureau of Reclamation and Ore gon members of Congress have been seeking to get ' started in 1955 is the Talent division of the Rogue river project, a $20, 500,000 irrigation proposal near Medford authorized by Congress last summer. -; . : i. Reported Turned Down ; But reportedly the project was turned down by the Budget bureau, which has the last word on how to allocate the presi dent's annual budget requests that is, which projects go in and which get chopped off. Official word on the matter will not be out until President. Eisenhower sends his detailed budget mes sage to Congress Jan. 17, Only -three new reclamation projects are reportedly contain ed in the new budget Santa Maria, near Santa Barbara, Calif.; Michaud Flats near American Falls dam on the Snake river, Idaho; and Foster creek near Chief Joseph dam on the Col umbia river, Wash. A high administration official said Sen. Cordon had tried be fore leaving office this past week to get the Budget bureau to un loosen funds for the Rogue river project. .-. ; ' ' . , "Why HefplCordon?" i& ... "But the boys in the bureau feel, 'Why -. should they help Cordon? He was defeated.' And that's all they need to cut a project out of the budget." . Reminded . that Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay is still in office and favors the project, the official : declared:. : "But the Budget bureau has seen the Ore gon election ' returns, and they know McKay came out on . the short end. In short, it was pointed out the few projects gaining approv al were doled out to states that stood by GOP, candidates.. The California project is a pet of Sen, Thomas KucheL a Republi can re-elected in November; the Idaho -. project ' is a favorite of Sen. Henry Dworshak, a victor ious Republican in 19o4; and the Washington project goes to Rep, Wall; Horan, Republican, and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, a Democrat who will be the top man from the Northwest on the powerful Senate Appropriations committee in this Congress. Ellsworth Sought Approval Rep. Harris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) said he vigorously argued for Rogue river project funds but had no word a on ."whether they had been' approved or disap proved. From Democratic circles, it be came clear than Sen. Wayne Morse and Sen. Richard L, Neu- berger will try to add funds to the budget during its review by Congress, and that the slighted Oregon project would be one they would push. The long-haul strategy of Democrats so long as they control Congress and the GOP controls the executive de partments, it is expected, will be something like this: Although Eisenhower does not ask Congress for funds to start many new projects, the Demo crats will move to jack up ms budgets bv adding funds for such resource developments They will initially appropriate the : mini mum amount of money needed in each state to get construction work started, which ' would be calculated to force the admini stration in subsequent years to request additional funds to com plete the projects without politically-risky and uneconomic in terruptions. Washington U.R Republi can leaders charged the Demo cratic National committee Sat urrtav with "irresnonsible" ef forts to repudiate and .under mine pledges of Democratic Coneressional leaders to coop erate with President Eisenhow er. Washington - (U.R The Jus tice department soon will spon sor legislation to make it easier for the Immigration Service to deport undesirable aliens, it was learned Saturday. . " TTrt- l n rr ' n era n m ORITISflL PHASE, U.tl OFFICIALS SAV United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) United Nations Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold met for more than five hours with Red Chinese3 Premier Chouf En-Lai Saturday and was believed to" have received the Communists' reply i to U.N.'" demands for re lease of 1 1 imprisoned Ameri can airmen. U.N. officials here believed the talks had entered, the criti cal phase. ; . ' Democrats on Washington (U.PJ-Demo- crats are expected to demand that Army, officials tell the Peress story under oath on the grounds they have been reluct ant "to come, clean" about the case, informed sources said Sat urday. -: ' , 'f ,. -,',' Sen.' Joseph R. McCarthy (R- Wis.) probably will beat the Democrats to the punch, how ever. He has been belaboring the Army for almost a year about the promotion and honorable discharge of former Maj. Irving Peress, a dentist whom he calls "Fifth Amendment Commun- ist." , : j -v v Unappeased by the Army's 10,000 word explanation Friday night Of i-s handling of the case, McCarthy .-, called a closed meet ing for 11 a.m. (EST) Monday of the Senate investigating com mittee. McCarthy is still chairman of the group until the. Democrats organize the committee, prob ably, later in the week. McCar thy swill propose that top mili tary and civilian army officials be called for testimony. , Sen. John L. McClellan ' (D- Ark.), who will succeed Mc Carthy; had no comment on the Army report, but sources close to the subcommittee said he had intended to pursue , the Peress case even before the Army issued its explanatory document. Future in Doubt ) "" The report said the Army's top lawyer, Army Counselor John G. Adams, and a three-star General, Lt. Walter L. Weible, deputy chief of staff, decided to let Peress discharge go through despite McCarthy's court martial demand. ' ' ' '-';' - v The report cast the future of Army Secretary Robert T. Stev ens ' and Adams in doubt ' Sen. Charles E. Potter (R-Mich) al ready has suggested to President Eisenhower that they resign for the good of the Army's morale Both have said they have no in tention of quitting. But other top officials in the defense de partment and the White House have not commented. : Sports Bulletins . Grants Pass Medford high's ; Black Tornado last night proved F r i d a y's win over Grants Pass was no fluke when they trounced the Cave men for the second time, 86 to 37. Medford lead at the periods, 20 to 16, 42 to 27 and 59 to 35. Larry Copple bit 18. and Jerry Kalapus 17 for the winners. Eagle Point The Earle Point; Eagles defeated Talent, high school last night 47 to 30. The winners were lead by Forward Harvey Nelson who hit for 17 points. ". I - Corvallis. Ore (U.R) The Oregon Stale Beavers pulled a .close game out of the fire in the second - half Saturday night to defeat the Washing ton State Cage squad 56 to 52. Seattle, Wash (U.R) The University: of Idaho downed the University of Washington 52-44 Saturday , night in a Northern division basketball game before 5,300 fans. Pooeaix 10. Begua Biref 43. Expect To Demand Story Army 1 Messages reaching .United Na- tions . headquarters - from the Hammarskjold party in Peiping indicated, the diplomat was ex pected to wind lip his historic mission with a final conference Monday and leave for New York the following day. ' . . :'; D. R. Mankekar, Times of India editor on special assign ment torjthe United Press - in Peiping," "said it was believed Chou had replied to Hammarsk jold's plea for release of the 11 Americans and the 2,850 other U.N. command prisoners ' still held by the Communists in vio lation of, the Korean truce. w There was no indication ;. of whether Chou has stuck to his previous claims that the U.N. has no jurisdiction in 'the case, that it is one entirely within Chinese jurisdiction. Longest Talk , The - third and longest : talk between Hammarskjold -' and Chou lasted from 3 p.m. until 8 - p.m. (11- p.m. Friday to 4:10 a.m. PST) in the ornate Shihwa (West Flower) hall in Peiping's ancient Forbidden City. The two officials and ; other ' aides have conferred a total of 12 hours and ; 25 minutes in secret ses sions. i':'r: X-'-i The officials ? were' believed also to have discussed such prob lems as the case of 35 Chinese Nationals refused ' exit permits by the United States, the trans fer to Formosa of captured Chi nese war prisoners who refused fo return 16' Red" Chin tinder the Panmunjom "truce agree ment,' and . China's complaint of espionage activities against ' its government. :"--V : ' '". ' ; No meeting was scheduled for Sunday.- A Peiping broadcast and cablegrams : sent here by Hammarskjold's party said -the next meeting was set- for Mon day, but the exact timewas not given. V ' ;.v U.N.' officials here said Mon day's 'meeting was expected to be the last. . Lack of Shipping Hits PNW Lumber v Portland -V (U.R) Lumber in dustry spokesmen here said Sat urday the Pacific Northwest faces a serious slowdown in lum ber production "because of .;"a growing lack of shipping space. One lumber leader said the shipping situation was the worst in 30 years. Another said "the nineh is iust beginning to be felt. Mills that don't already have ' space for late January through March shipments will have to gear their production ac cordingly." ' v . -The more than 40 water-shipping mills in. the region's Doug las fir industry make much of the Pacific Northwest's . large mills and a big part of its pay rolls r A'" spokesman 'said' the ''real impact" would be felt in Feb ruary and March, v Because of the shortage of steamer space, lumber shippers are asking - for more rail . car space but outloadings of lumber are much greater than inload ings and extra cars are difficult to get. ' . v" "'I; GOP Convention Set After Demo Conclave : s Washington U.R) ' A sub committee of the Republican National committee decided tentatively Saturday to brfak a century-old precedent by holding the 1,956 GOP national nomina ting convention after the Demo crats hold theirs. The decison was made at a meeting called to hear ..invita tions for toe party to hold its conventions in one of three con testing cities Philadelphia, Chi cago and Atlantic City. Philadel phia was regarded as havin a good chance. The p arty was founded there in 1856. -: .. - '' , s Democratic ; National Chair man Paul M. Butler earlier an nounced the'Democratic conven tion : would be held Aug ; 27, 1956, the latest start in 92 years for the Democrats. No conven-, tioa site was announced : : r" :-' K v f ' ; TRIP TO FRANCE Terry Bre reton) 161 Ross lane, has been named a delegate to the YMCA Centennial World Conference in Paris, 'France, in August. '. The Medford high school youth will represent "YY" groups . from represent "Y' groups from Med ford, Ashlandi" Klamath Falls and Rosebufg, (See story on Page 12, Section 2.) ' - ..-.';;; r: izeor Of Ezra T. Benson - Washington (U.R) Sen. Hubert H. Humnhrey Saturdav demanded that Agriculture Sec retary . E z r a T. Benson either apologize or; resign . f or ;'cruel , and -.inhuman treatment? of Wolf Ladejinsky.1 - 7 The Minnesota Democrat un leashed his most blistering crit icism of the 4 handling of the Ladejinsky "securit y" case which reached ' into J the "White HOUSe. ; ' ' . - -;.f Relieved by Benson . . , : - Ladejinsky, Russian-born and reform expert, was relieved by Benson, of. an - agricultural de partment post on "security" and technical" grounds. He had been agricultural attache in Tok yo under the State' department. After - the Agricultural depart ment, refused him security clear ance the Foreign Operations ad ministration hired him to help in carrying out land reforms n Vietnam. - - ; ' . '' - - Humphrey said that if Lade jinsky has been cleared for his new, overseas job . with , White House approval, Benson "should either. apologize, or resign." -Asked "Best Judgement". ; After. FOA . announced this week that . it : was hiring Lade jinsky, White House Press Sec retary James C. Hagerty: said: ; b The White H o u s e asked heads ' of the : departments and agencies involved to use their best judgement in . working : out this situation. We believe that judgement has been exercised." Apolog U.S. Space Satellites Said Possible : Within two Years Washington . u.R) A re search t scientist . said ', Saturday night' the" United States can launch, several space satellites by 1957 for less than the cost of one long-range' bomber. : 1 .Thef scientists Prof, , Fred S. Singer of Maryland university', said -this "would pave the way for : flight into interplanetary space." ; : '";". ; ;.;-;': In addition, he said, the in strument-packed satellites would glean -.information, above' the earth's atmospheric blanket of tremendous military, economic and scientific value on solar and cosmic radiation affecting wea ther and communications. 4? .They would help to ; make long-range weather forecasts pos sible, he said. '. - ' . '-: Singer addressed the monthly meeting, of the National Capital Astronomers on what "he calls the minimum orbital Tinmanned satellite of the.earth mouse for short. v Ai '- 'K J: ":' k He first proposed the ... mouse some time ago. But last night's was Ins first detailed public dis cussion of the artificial moon which . he said would be the ffirst long step ; away from the earth since cave man tossed up his first rock." Th tima-te start b spec Hp Soldier, Civilian Rushed To Hospital In Vesfern Berlin ; Third American Still Held by Communists Berlin U.R) The Russians Saturday released two Ameri cans who had spent from six' to nine and a half years in Com munist slave labor camps. They, were rushed to the American hospital ; in Berlin and placed under guard.- A guard was placed at the hospital door of Pvt. William T. Marchuk, 38, of Norristown, Pa.f because he is listed by the U.S. Army as absent without leave. He disappeared in I Berlin Feb. II, 1949. The other American, John H. Noble, 31, of Detroit, requested the guard so he could rest. .hr:--, fCood To Be Free Both agreed that it was good to .be free although- it took Marchuk a little time to warm to the idea. He seemed indiffer ent on the drive to the American sector. But in . the hospital he grinned and said to Noble: "It's good to be out," Noble, who was arrested with his German-born father in Dres den in 1945 when they refused to take down an American flag flying from their home, was happy from the start over being free. , -j ' ' '"; : He said he was ."happy but tired." In Good Health c; Both men appeared in good health,' but the Army wanted them to have a thorough check in the hospital.' They- had been held in the Vortuna slave labor camp area in Arctic Russia. Noble said the food was "hor rible'" but about six months aeo the Soviets began to fatten them up for release. - "I am overjoyed at being free,'! Noble said ; at the hos pital. "I can hardly believe it is true. I'm a little nervous and I haven't been able to figure this out yet, but I'm happy." ' Third American Held He had news of a third Ameri can still held in' the Soviet Union. He ; told American au- . thoritles he saw Pvt William A." Verdine, of Starks, La., who was arrested by the Soviets in Ger- ' many in 1949, early, last year in Vorkuta. . ' : Verdie "appeared to be 11L Noble told the American an thorities.' However he did not know ; how ill 1 the soldier was. Other 'former prisoners of the Soviets : have said Vetdie ' was suffering from tuberculosis. Noble said that f much of the work in the Vorkuta area was dangerous" because the Soviets were constructing many roads, bridges and buildings there. - The. Army said Marchuk s "status will be investigated." flight, Singer sa.id, is "right now."- - - ' H we begin this year, he added, "we can have space sat ellites flying around : the earth by 1957." - i--: British Note Raps Viet Minh Regime London (U.R) Britain, in a. note, to Moscow, has accused the. Communist Viet Minh re gime of 'an attempt to flout" the authority of the Internation al Indochina Armistice commis sion, the foreign office announc ed Saturday.-' : .'..'; i i The British note sharply J re jected fa Russian request that Britain circulate to other mem bers of the Geneva conference on Indochina Communist com-, plaints of alleged breaches of the truce by the United States. France and Viet Nam. The note, ic reply to a Soviet communica tion pf Dec. 30, ; was delivered to the Russians' in Moscow Fri day; VlV-"'- h. - Britain maintained that under the Geneva agreement all such complaints ' must be channeled through the International Sup ervisory commission composed cf India, CbnadAeuidFolaad, I, 1 1 . f f t V 'if. I i. . 1 1 - 1 'V - JW2a,'s..HT,X" -4t : r
