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Dbe-'Ms. OMgbsr Mail : Wsi!ii I : : : : nS - ; Costa Rica Said To Be Invaded by Nicaragua Forces Town Near Capital m J c -J f San Jose, Costa Rica (U.B Reports ' reaching the . capital said today that a force from Nicaragua had begun' an inva sion Of Costa Rica. t ' J The invading forces were said to havs captured the town of Villa Quesada in Alajuela Prov ince, only 30 miles from the capital. Villa Quesada is the commercial center of the so- cauea ona anos luwuuia. 11 u a railhead of the line leading to mm m mm mmt . . . . mm - Ran Jose " the camtal. Communications Out The San Carlos lowland is a fertile plain producing grain, to bacco, coffee, cattle and lumber. Communications were cut and no further details were avail able. . , Government troops have not yet contacted the. invaders. " Reports that an invasion ac tually had started followed by only a few Hours the official ouster . of a -Nicaraguan diplo mat from Costa Rica and a call for volunteers to patrol the capi tal against the alleged threat from the neighboring republic, . Costa Rica's ambassador to Nicaragua, Bernardo Montes de Oca, was placed in charge of the volunteer patrol in- his home capital, , which otherwise pre sented a calm appearance. " The Nicaraguan charge d' affaires left here today . after having been declared persona non grata by the Costa - Rican government late yesterday. Ousted Over Remark - V Foreign Minister Mario Esqui- vel said the withdrawal, of Al fonso Ortega Urbina had been demanded because the diplomat said publicly that Costa .Rica "was "in a state of great internal tension" and had repeated the statement despite a denial by the Costa Rican government. 4 The opposing governments of the two nations have been feud ing for months. Nicaragua re cently charged that Costa Ricans had f tried to assassinate its 'presidents It has ... denied .the Costa Rican; allegation that an invasion JLs, .approaching-- Second Pedeslrian Accident Medford's second severe auto pedestrian accident of ;the ; new year occurred yesterday at about 4 n.m. when Emanuel u. ueicner, 73. of 216 South Columbus ave., was struck by a vehicle on West Main st. '- ' Belcher spent a "fair night,' and was suffering from head and pelvic injuries, according to a renort from Community nos rvital whprp h was 'taken bv " Medford Ambulance. . - The accident followed one on Jan. -l..,when - James -Kenneth Jones; 59, Jacksonville, died as a result of injuries when he was struck in a crosswalk" at -Main and Fir sts. . . . " ' - ' Yesterday's accident happened at the. intersection of Main st. and Columbus ave. Don V: Han ning, 30, Box 684, Ross lane, driver of the 1949 sedan which struck Belcher, told police that as he approached the intersec tion, Belcher ran in front of his car before he could stop, striking the left front fender. - .... - ... Belcher has not yet been in terviewed, due to his condition. The investigation will continue . andno citations have been issued as yet, police said. - , ' i. : The car skidded 57 feet 4 inches before it came to a stop, according" to ' police: I measure ments. Estimated speed of the vehicle was 25 miles an hour, ac cording to the accident report. - DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 400.25 off 0.64; 20 railroads 144.98 off 1.25; 15 util ities 62.57 Up 0.19 and 65 stocks 149.17 off 0.43. Sales today were about 3,680,000 shares compar ed with 4,300,000 shares yester - day. , ; ' - .By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail-Tribune Correspondent Washington For a fleeting moment the other night before he rose to make bis maiden speech in tl;e nation's capital, Sen. RichardL. Neuberger had the thought that his remarks might cause something of a to do.' : ',:.;:V ; : - This occurred when, he saw -Vice-President Richard Nixon arrive at the dinner of the Wom en's National Press club at which Oregon's freshman Democratic senator and New Jersey's Repub Reported r- ; ' - - - . - - tat"- - ': ' ' : . Mil -; MiQRDKA'RlBUNE . i 1 1&,"Z.JJ j United Press-Full Leased Wire ; . . .. "2 . . . . United Pre-rull Leased Wire fc V4,T: i1 4?thYear 14 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1955 Price 5c No. 253 VKSXJ 3 ; : "Mil 1 I IVl SNOW FUN Doreen Woodbury, feature dancer at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nov., Who a , week before posed for "fun in the sun" pictures turns to snowballs after a blanket of snow covered the desert gambling mecca for the first time in five years. Ba nk Opening Mondiay Dravs About-12,000 . People During pay More than 12,000 persons vis- ited the new Medford branch', of First National Bank of Portland during , its grand opening and open house held all day 'yester day. Bank Manager Elwood Hed- berg said this morning. t : The first commercial deposi tor at the new half million dol lar branch was Earl Gaddis, 815 East Jackson street, retired one time- mavor of Medford and a customer, of. the branch since its inception.' - E. M. Tucker of Tucker Sno- Cat corporation made the first deposit at the new , drive-in ;Win dows 'from his- 1906"Buiek tour- ing'Tser?--' ; Mrs.; James W.Kolls, 512 Sum mit ave., mother of triplet sons, Opened the lirst new savmgsr ac counts in the expanaea DanK. She opened an account for each of the boys, James M., William D,. and Robert J., who are now 13 days old and still confined to incubators at Sacred ; Heart hospital. During the day-long affair, the - throng . consumed . 6,240 doughnuts, 5000 pieces of cake, several hundred dozen cookies, nearly 700 gallons of coffee (14, 700 cups), and 265 gallons of punch (5561 cups). Six thousand Burgess-McLean London-XU-PJ--A letter mail ed in London but believed to have come from behind the Iron Curtain revived today;the mys tery of Guy Burgess and Don ald McLean, the British diplo mats who vanished Vh years ago. .- . Col. J. R. Bassett, father-in- law of Burgess," disclosed Mon Hav tiiirht that Burgess' mother had received a second Christ mas message from her son. Both were mailed in London but ap narAntlv ' were brought "here through some secret pipeline. The diplomats' disappearance in May, 1951, baffled the best notice brains of the Continent and '; brought ' hurried Anglo- American conferences "to deter mine whether they could have carried - valuable . secrets with them. ; , ' ' z ;':f J Chiang's Forces Attack Reefs' Tachen Positions Taineh. Formosa U,R) Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek's air force today attacked. Red held positions in the. Tache ; islands area with heavy four-engined bombing planes. lican Sen. Clifford Case. were the guest speakers. . - ' "But," Neuberger said he thought to himself, "it's got to be said" and shortly thereafter he plunged into ; the subject of the evils of character, assassina tion and charges of treason used in the 1954 political campaign.' That everyone present - in cluding ' some 70 senators as sumed he was referring to Nixon, without ever mentioning the vice-president by name, gave the occasion its higiT political draina. And the walkout of the wife of Sen. George Malone (R Nev.) made the occasion the talk of Washington the - next day. 4. .. ' .w3t orchid and "gardenia corsages were presented to women visit ors at. the. bank' opening, before the supply : was exhausted at 7 p.m. "- :.. " 1 ;..( i -r ':j vi ?-.; " The interior of the new struc ture was decorated with more than- 60 flower, arrangements sent to the bank : by Jackson county , businessmen and friends of the First National.;; ; Hedberg ' said he was over whelmed by the tremendous suc cess of the opening, and extend ed . his sincere thanks to. every one who. visited ;the open house and contributed to the success Lof .the. eyenU:-: "rrTT ;i;r-ri At Prospect Mill ProspecWFire last night de stroyed the. dry kiln at the Red Blanket Lumber company Mill No.i l on the Red Blanket road east of here. - ; V , . . Volunteer help, which com pany officials termed "just won derful" assisted in fighting the blaze and prevented the loss- of the band mill, which caught fire at one point but was extin guished. ; Firefighters . included . men from other : nearby- mills and logging operations, the Prospect fire department, and "about half the population -'-of "Prospect." Snow - on the ground hampered their "work , somewhat,' but as sisted ..' in preventing the -j fire from spreading! .-.v :-X ' f - There was a small amount of lumber in the Jciln. ... ... " .;.' Plans for rebuilding were un certain today, and company of ficials were not sure how much insurance will cover 'the loss, which was estimated roughly in excess of $50,000. .' t -,. ;- Weekly X-Ray Program lengthened by Hour 1 - Hours for outpatient x-rays at the' permanent x-ray center at Community hospital have been changed from-4 to 6 p.m. to 3 to 6 'pan.' each Wednesday, accord ing to Mrs. Jack Walker, x-ray chairman for the Jackson County Public Health association. . -" The additional hour was added because' of the number of r per sons calling at the center for x-rays since the opening early in December,' she said. It should al low more time for x-rays of both working- men and , housewives, Mrs. Walker added. . - Only cost is $1.75 for film. No appointments are necessary. Mrs. Malone. incidentally, is well-known socially here for her sharp! tongue, - which she exer? cised every day of ;the Army McCarthy ' hearings by. sitting directly behind the .three Demo crats on the committee and offer ing her pro-McCarthy sentiments in the case to the point' almost of being .a heckler. X.-' i . So Neuberger's fleeting pre monition wascorrect it caused quite a to-do. The speech itself, however,.- was .'nothing new' for Neuberger, since it ' contained material he had used in his vic torious senatorial campaign. The portion most widely quoted here was that "an election campaign Destroys No Report Given On Effort To Free American Fliers Report Expected After Conference Hong Kong-lj(U.R) U. N., Sec retary - general Dag Hammars kjbld crossed the China border today, ending a week-long mis sion to the Communist regime on . behalf of jailed American fliers. ' -. " :"r . Hammarskjold reached the ... . London (U.R) rHighly plac ed diplomatic sources said to-: day that U.N. Secretary-gen-, ral Dag Hammaskjold apoar tntly has failed to win free- dom for 11 American airmen jailed in Red China on es-. pionage charges. They said Hammarskjold, apparently has kept the door open for further negotiations with Red China which might bring about the release of the ', American fliers later. border on a train from Canton, where he had landed on a flight from Peiping.. M:;i On arriving in i Hong Kong proper, the . U.N. - secretary-general told-newsmen he could not "comment in substance" on his talks, with Chou En-laL . Questions Refused He told, the correspondents who met him at the Hong Kong railway 'station he could not an- A Communist newspaper xn Hong Kong derided the secre tary-general's 10,000-mile trip to Peiping, capital of a government which the United States refuses to recognize. ' . The-newspaper Wen Wei Pao said Red China "is so great a world power that even the U.N. Secretary - general Hammars kjold has to go to New China to meet wjth Premier Chou En-lai." To Withhold Report It was believed that Hammars kjold will withhold his report until after he has conferred with President Eisenhower or other high-ranking U.S. officials. :r D. ; R. Mahkekar, "New Delhi resident editor of the Times of India who is in Peiping on spe cial assignment for United Press, said m cables it was as sumed Hammarskjold is taking back to the United Nations the Red Chinese , viewpoint, on - n fliers' case. , : Mankekar said it also was in dicated. that Hammarskjold had promised to inform Chou of the United Nations' . reaction. .. No Inkling Given ' Those views grew from the wording of a joint communique issued by. Chou and . Hammars kjold in Peiping Monday. As in the case of other com muniques issued by Peiping and U.N. headqarters in New York, no inkling was given on the out come of the talks but the final message said "we hope to con tinue the contact established in these meetings." Weather FORECAST: Cloudy tonight and .7 Wednesday; little: change in temperature. Low' tonight 32; high Wedneiday . 40. -: Temp." Highest Yesterday - 3 Lowest, this Morning 33 Free. ,to 4:39 u. Today, Trace never should be an excuse io suspend the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount, which Neuberger said at-J'orest Grove on election eve. i -.i- Neuberger and his' wife,' Mau rine, " were invited in mid-December to attend the dinner and share the guest speaker honors with Case, wh6 had won a dra matic see-saw battle. Sitting in Portland, they knew, not who would attend, other than the lady i correspondents . and their guests. They accepted, the invi tation and picked their theme, j Though it was a familiar topic to Neuberger, .he. drew, up well in advance a set of notes for 26 Bills Auait Senate; To Patterson's ;.Salem-U.R) The brand new session of the Oregon Legisla ture was off to an unprecedented start today, with committees in the Senate all ready to work on a jam of 26 bills the most ever introduced in the Senate on the opening day of the session. And legislators in both houses were . pondering the inaugural address of Gov. Paul L. Patter son in which he advocated means of raising more revenue without resorting tot the - sales tax. His recommendations in cluded a levy of a six-mill state property tax; elimination of fed eral tax offset on personal state income tax;: a business tax 4o in clude partnership and' individual operations of business as well as corporations, and elimination of the . ""sky-scraper" . clause and other exemptions on corporate income tax. , . . , Gov. Patterson said Oregon faces a "deficit of $45,000,000 in its budget, for the-1955-57 bien nium, or of more than $60,000, 000 if the state is to proceed with its"; building program for the state system of higher edu cation and state institutions. Reaction to his inaugural ad dress was mixed. . , V - - . v Senate , President Elmo E. Smith, a Republican like iPat tersoh, said: "I thought he did a very good job of clarifying and enumerating the problems this legislature faces." House Speaker Edward Geary said: "I think the" governor cov ered the field thoroughly. He as- gon "want to -.maintain the serv ices 'of the state they' are now getting ... j, I feel he left it to this Legislature to decide what new ways are best to raise the revenue needed to balance the budget." : Sen. Monroe' Sweetland, Mil waukee, made the most outspok en observations. He said: '"It is amazing that a governor's mes sage in 1955 could omit ref erence to such . basic . issues as public' education, turmoil in the governnor's ownliquor and real estate agencies,; the. burning need for attention to old-age as sistance, welfare and i public health, repeal of the unconstitu tional auti-labor laws passed in 1953, recommendations on the mounting problems of public transit in metropolitan areas, and the need for stimulation of Oregon's tourist business . Sen. Robert -D. Holmes ; of Gearhart, like Sweetland a Dem ocrat, said: "He sounded like a man who already is thinking in lleuberger Says Ike Gave Up Power Stand Washington-U.PJ--Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger said yesterday President-Eisenhower has aban don e d . "poUtical scarecrow" warnings against a federal pow er monopoly. -' The freshman Oregon Demo crat spid Mr. Eisenhower's state of the union message last Thurs day "abandoned the pretense of an impending "'federal power monopoly" "which has so long served as a political scarecrow for the opponents T of continued public power development in the Columbia river basin." Calling attention to the presi dent's statement that "federal hydroelectric developments sup ply But a small fraction of the nation's power needs," Neuber ger issued ,a statement - urging federal development of the pro posed Hells Canyon project. this . important - debut in - the Washington spotlight. .He. didn't know until the day before the dinner that Nixon X would be there. When he did learn this, the senator admitted he thought of picking another subject, but he decided to go through with his prepared address when he looked at it this way: A'' "Isn't it a terrible thing to think that -one shouldn't talk . about character -assassination in the presence of the second ' highest officer of the United States government for fear of embarrassing him. It's like I steering clear- of a. discussion-' of the evils of crookedness : terms of being a' candidate for higher political office." .In this respect, Holmes said,' Gov. Pat terson indicated in-his speech that "he clearly is moving to be associated with - the liberal Eis enhower wing of the Republican party." - Sen. Josepli ' K.- Carson - Jr., Portland, Democrat whom Pat tersons defeated for governor, said "there were : a " number of things in Patterson's message which I have advocated hereto fore.":-: i-T:, -ikk,. Sen. Howard C. Belton, Can by, Republican and only former Senate president who is still -in the Senate, said Gov. Patterson was "forthright and - forward Refunds Mailed Ouf To County Taxpayers In 9 School Districts v Refunds on county tax over payments are being mailed to residents of nine Jackson county school districts, county officials said today. The overpayment resulted from an error in the levies set up last year for the, nine dist ricts, - including Jacksonville, Griffin Creek, - Talent, : Rogue Sanitarian Retires; Successor . Walter I. Sutherland has re tired from the position of Jack son county sanitarian which he has EeW smce : Septli943, it was. announced today by Dr. A. ' E( Merkel, county health of ficer. .. . , i Sutherland, a registered sani tarian, came here from th e State Board of Health'. He will be succeeded by Robert Hart, who has been with the county health department since last Oc tober. Hart formerly was with the state board of health sanitary authority. - Active in Mosquito Work ' Sutherland has taken, an ac tive part "in : mosquito - control work in ? Jackson county, and was instrumental in working out the original survey for. the pro gram. Dr. Merkel said this mor ning that he hopes to - secure Sutherland's services during the summer months to help with the county's . mosquito ? abatement program. ' ; .; '' y ' While" associated ', w i t h: the county, health department, Suthr erland took post-graduate, work in f sanitation at the University of California, Berkeley, and. also took several short courses at Oregon State .college. - ' Cose Fails To Bump ' McCarthy From Post ': Washington " U,R) Sen. Clifford P. Case, (R-N.J.E tried and failed today to persuade fel low Republicans' to bump Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy off the Sen ate Government Operations Com mittee. Case made- his move . during the preliminary stage of prepar ing Republican assignments to legislative committees.' He then abandoned the effort. . ; 7 or chicanery in the presence of, . say,: a secretary of the treasury for fear of embarrass-. ing him.. If the shoe fits, put it on him." . , .','. i ' Although, by week's end he- was t getting : telegrams of con gratulations from around the country, Neuberger said with, a puzzled look: . ,, "I don't know whether I got off to a good start or a bad ' . one." And in the shifting political winds of , Washington, no one could' tell' immediately whether he had started his career by sell ing the , cat or. stumbling into a nest of hornets. ,BeaeUeo UairiGl looking. He didn't duck, the is sues, but met them squarely that was characteristic of the great statesman he is." ' . . Sen. Lee V. Ohmart, Salem, one' of the youngest members of the Senate but a veteran of the House," said the i address as "ex cellent, well prepared and well delivered.";? -'-v.:-- Rep. Loran L. Stewart, Cot tage Grove, chairman of the im portant House committee . on taxation, said he . considered Gov. Patterson's speech , thor ough .indeed, and said .his -committee would get . to work, at once to study the proposals of the governor for raising more revenue..; , . . River,' Elk-Trail, Oak Grove, Shady Cove, : Butte Falls and West Side. First Mailed Friday First of the county warrants was mailed Friday, and another group was sent out yesterday. So far approximately 1,152, or about half of the estimated total, have been mailed. .."-' " ' The largest check-sent out so far was for $6,025.79, and went to--,- CaJiforaiaOregondwef company. Other large checks in clude .Pacific v Telephone -a - and Telegraph .' company, $2,678.33; Southern Pacific railroad, r $1, 361.52 - and California " Pacific Utilities company,.-$171.51. Some Only One Cent -; -'-, 'A Several of the checks have been for only . one cent, and many more have been for less than 10 cents. t AX'XX , Fefunds are beng sent from both the county ' tax department, and the county clerk's office, de pending upon the method and time of payment of the taxes. ; ' " No 3 figures ' are ' available to date as to the total amount of refunds to be paid. Deputy coun ty, clerks estimated; today that payments will be completed in about six . weeks. . - School Zone Speed Sighs Nov Installed Installation of new school zone speed signs has been completed for six. Medford schools, accord ing to; Vernon Thorpe, director of public works.-! r ; The signs re of a type recent ly designed by the' State High way department and have, white letters on black,"reading "Speed 20 Miles."-. :.v- Thorpe said that the council authorized the project about two months ago, but that installation was upheld until the new type sign was designed. ; . .The , signs , are located at all major . school crossings near Jackson, Lincoln, Washington, and Roosevelt grade schools and the junior high and high schools. . He said that the county receiv ed a number of signs in the same shipment for installation on county roads in school zones. Homemade 'Bombs'! Exploded in City Four explosions from what ap peared to be homemade , bombs were reported to city police yes- reiuajr :-. u.ief nuon - zrom tne vi- cmity of the Pacific Fruit and Produce company, 706 South central avenue.-- e- i f ioya vernon Palmer. 3S2 Mae st., an employee at the Cal ifornia-Oregon Power company's shops near the scene, reported that a- flying piece of ? copper tubing narrowly missed him aft er tne third explosion. The blasts occurred between 4:20 and 4.S0 p.m. - - Police said that someone . ap parently filled the tubing with ome tyne of vrloiive ana placed it on the railroad tracks, where it was fired by a passma train.. An unidentified youth J seen, nev the scene by Fm(7 and another witness, police " President's Plan ; Would Cost Nation Over $354,000,000 r Postal Increase Said In Interest of Public Washington (U.F3 President Eisenhower ' today asked ; Con gress to hike postal rates and in crease the pay and benefits of federal workers at" a cost to the government of more than ?394, 000,000 a year. Mr. Eisenhower said in twin , messages to;i Congress that , the mail rate increase "will be in the public interest? to assure effic ient service ioC the Post Office Department, ?and the pay raise boost is essential "to the further improvement of the federal ca reer service." In an effort to. make the Post Office - Department self-support- ' ing, Mr. Eisenhower proposed that the postal rates on the first three classes of mail be increas ed. He did not spell out the ac tual proposed increases. He said -the postmaster general soon will submit details to' raise the rates to "more reasonable levels." Fourtnt Letters However , the administration stand r has been that three cent postage on out of town mail should be increased to four cents and air mail upped from six cents to seven cents. - Included in Mr. Eisenhower's postal, rate plan was a recom mendation that the second class rate on . newspapers and maga zines should be increased "until such matter makes a fair and reasonable, contribution to. post - al revenues." Mr. Eisenhower :recommend-N ed that the postal rate increases be regarded as tentative pending congressional L establishment of . an mdependent commission which would have the authority to - prescribe future postal rate adjustments under broad policy guidance of Congress. General Pay Increase Mr. Eisenhower recommended what amounted to an approxim ate five per cent pay raise, for all federal civilian workers. He , said ihat for the classified or civil service employees' this would add about $210,000,000 to the federal -TmyrolLi A compaf able wage.adjustment in the pos tal service would . cost about $129,000,000. - i v x - S 1 The civil service pay increas es proposed by the - President would range from 4.7 per cent to 7.4 per cent according to a complex formula based on the employee's grade, length of ser-, vice, and present pay. 'Dollarwise, the smallest boost. $125 a year, would go to bottom -bracket r grade -" 1 employee? whose salaries now range 'from . $2625 to $3105 a year. A grade 10 employee, in tne salary Dracjt- et of $5800 to $6550, would get a 300 a vear raise., . The too raise, $800 a year, would go to employees in grades 15. i and 17. whose present sai aries range up from $11,600 a year. However, the ceiling ox $14,800 on civil service salaries would not be raised. : Health Insurance He also r! recommended group; insurance .benefits for civilian f ederalJemployees. The govern ment would contribute approxi mately one-third of the cost. The contribution was - estimated at about $55,000,000. annually. r Slightly less than $1,000,000 people would be affected by the President's civil service pay in-- e r e a s e recommendation' and -about 500,000 persons by his . recommended postal service pay increase. ' ' Health insurance . coverage would be extended to about 2, 000,000 federal 'employees, in cludlng .'thousands V of workers who are not classified and not part of the postal service. . -The postal service - pay hike actually represented a - payroll increase of 6.S ner cent. How ever, 1.5 per cent, of this rep sented the cost of adjusting cur rent pay scale inequities. ,' iSalem (U.F9 The SU : Board of Control has named i' Russell Guiss as assistsn , superinienaeni oi u-rt hospital-here and: : L. 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