Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 11, 1955, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. January 11. 1955 Committees Listed By Senate President WHERE ARE THEY? American experts on Russia say that Stalin's son, Vasilly (shown top, as Soviet Air Force Major Gen eral), -may have lost his life in the same purge that took life of his close friend, Police Chief Lavrenti Beria. Vasilly has not been seen in public since he took part in his father's funeral in March, 1953." Unconfirmed reports from Vienna, Austria, say that Stalin's daughter, Svetlana (bottom in Stalin's arms in 1937), has been ban ished from Moscow by Premier Malenkov. Soldier Feared Lost In Atlantic Sought " New York (U.R) An air. sea search unit combed the cold Atlantic ocean off famed Jones Beach this morning for a sold ier feared lost last night when Property Purchase Urged by State Group Salem (U.R) The. Capitol Planning commission ; yesterday recommended an appropriation of $400,000 for purchase of church property in the capitol mall and other .property, exten ding as far . north, as D street. The State Board of control went on record favoring purchase of the church property several months ago. - .-.-.. . k " The planning commission also recommended an appropriation of $50,000 for providing profes sional architectural planning and landscape assistance to the. com--mission. , :. . an Air Force C-46 trashed in the water. The missing man was not im mediately identified but he was believed to. be an Army passen ger riding in the Air Force plane. The transport's three crew mem bers were picked up almost im mediately by : a private fishing boat after they fired two distress flares. -.- ' : . . The two-engined plane, on a routine flight from Miami to Mitchell Field, N. Y., crashed af ter "machanical failure"- at 7:10 p.m. some seven and a lialf miles I southwest of Jones Inlet. Salem (U.R) Senate Presi dent Elmo E. Smith announced his committee appointments to day. Chairman and vice-chairman are:, - Agriculture Sen. Stuart Chase, Eugene, chairman. Fran cis. W. Ziegler, ; Corvallis, vice chairman. ' " Alcoholic traffic Sen. John P. Hounsell; Hood River, chair man. Sen. Carl Francis, Dayton, vice-chairman. Assessment and taxation Sen. Rudie Wilhelm, Portland, chairman. Sen. Lee. V. Ohmart, Salem, vice-chairman. , Commerce and utilities Sen. Ohmart, chairman. Sen. Stew art Hardy, Condon, vice-chairman. "- " Education Sen. John C. F. Merrifield, Portland, chairapn. Sen. Mark Hatfield, Salem, vice chairman. ' ' .' ' : ' ' Election and privileges Sen. Pat.'IiOnergan, Portland, chair man. Sen. Warren Gill, Lebanon, vice-chairman. " " Financial affairs Sen. S. Eu gene Allen, Portland, chairman. Sen. J. O. Johnson, Tigard, vice chairman. . ' . Game Sen. Charles W. Bing ner, La Grande, chairman. Sen. Walter-C. Leth, Monmouth, vice chairman. Judiciary Sen. Gill,' chair man. Sen..Eugene Brown, Grants Pass, vice-chairman. . Labor and industries Sen. George - Ulett, Coquille, chair man. Sen. Allen, vice-chairman. Local government Sen.' Don Husband, Eugene,, chairman. Sen. Chase, vice-chairman . Natural resources Sen. Paul Geddes, Roseburg, . chairman. Sen. Ulett, vice-chairman. : : Public health Sen. Carl Fran cis, Dayton, chairman. Sen. Lon ergan, vice-chairman. N Public welfare Sen. Lowell Steen, Miltoh-Freewater, chair man. Sen. Husband, vice-chairman. ';' Resolution Sen' Brown, chairman. Sen. Geddes, vice- chairman.- ; 1 - ; - Roads and highways' Sen. Warren McMinimee,1 Tillamook, chairman. Sen. Binger, . vice chairman. Rules and bills Sen. Hardie, chairman. 'Sen. Howard . Belton, Canby, vice-chairman. " State and. Federal' affairs Sen. , Mark Hatfield, Salem,' chairman. Sen. Wilhelm, vice chairman. . - . . Veterans, affairs Sen. J. O Johnson, Tigard, chairman. Sen, Leth, vice-chairman. Ways and means Sen. Bel- ton, chairman. Sen,. Merrifield, vice-chairman . Ed Mann Heads Committee; Other Local Legislators Given Committee Positions 1S.000 UNEMPLOYED Portland ' (U.R) There are 15,000 unemployed union mem bers in the greater Portland area. Bill Way, president of the Central Labor Council, said last night. He said the figures were gathered from all the AFL and CIO locals in the area m a union survey completed yesterday. Salem State Rep; E. H,- (Ed) Mann, Medford, was the only member of the Jackson county legislative delegation to receive a committee chairmanship when they were announced here Mon day. Mann, the only county legisla tor with prior service in the leg islature, was named to head the elections and reapportionment committee, on which he has previously served. His other committee assignments . include the forestry and mining, medical affairs, and social welfare com mittees. . State Sen. Philip . B. Lowry, Medford, was assigned to the ju diciary, taxation, elections and privileges and alcohol commit tees. The first two were commit tee assignments which . Senator Lowry had requested. Rep. E. A. (Al) Littrell, Med ford, was assigned to the import ant : house highways ; committee and to the committees on com merce and utilities, and on labor and industries. - - Continues with Exceptional Values That Will Amaze You! BEST BUYS in... Q 1 Stripes Plaids and Plain Materials Values to $12.93 98 5 OVER A2)Vj DRESSES All Sizes, Silks, Wools and Orlons i i CA All Styles and Materials Values 52) fo)98 to $69.98 T 1 j ! AU Colors and Sizes Pay Top Price for One, Select Another for Just. . . . M3T)0?GIEIB J I TABLE of BLOUSES Wool Jerseys, Velvets and Lame' Strapless, Halterneck and " Weskits included. Values to 12.98........ . ....... O No Refunds O No Exchanges O All Sales Final 214 East Main Adri nenne s phoBe 2.7169 Salem U.R) Speaker Ed ward A. Geary today announced the chairman of the House com mittees for the 1955 session':. : They are: ' i - Agricultures-Rep. H e r m a n Chmdgren, Molalla. Livestock Loran L. Stewart, Cottage Grove. Alcoholic control Harry C. Elliott, Tillamook. - Education Charles A. Tom, Ruf us. "' ; Election and reapportionment E. H. Mann, Medford. Financial institutions Robert T. Jensen, Portland. , Fish and gam& John P. Ama- chef, Roseburg. Forestry and mining Ed R. Cardwell, Sweet Home. 1 Judicial George ; Layman, Newberg. . Labor and industries Gust "Anderson, Portland. . . ; . Local government--Al Loucks, Salem. ! y y r- Medical affairs"-'F. H.5 Da mash, Portland. ; - kj: Military affairs LloydE. Haynes, Grants Pass.. - 5- Rules and regulations W.' W. Chadwick, Salem. -. Social welfare Jess "W. Sav age, Albany. . r ' State-federal affairs William W. Bradeen, Burns. - : ; M ; Taxation Loran ! L. Stewart, Cottage Grove.' ', Passengeu Thank Crew lor Rescue St. Petersburg, Fla. (U.R) The 10 passengers of st twin-engined airline plane today thank ed the three crewmembers, in cluding a plucky stewardess, for getting them safely off the craft before it burst into flames. The National Airlines Lock heed Lodestar plane caught fire on takeoff yesterday before it got off the - runway and burst into flames. - The pilot and co-pilot scramb led out of escape hatches and as sisted Sarah Reeves, an attract ive brunette, suffered the, only injury, a bruised thigh. She had rushed back into the plane after a count of passengers showed one ' missing. But . she found the missing passenger, Tony Rizzo, 46, Buffalo, N. Y., who boarded the plane with ' a broken leg, had been carried to safety by Jesse P. Thompson, 53, St. Petersburg. Texas-Ohio Valley Area Under Snow j ; By UNITED PRESS A storm spawned in the South west laid a snow blanket from west-central Texas to the Ohio valley and hit the Southeast with torrential rains today. '. The snow blanket rangld from half a foot to one inch, but there was no -repetition of the thou sands, of stranded motorists in another ' wintry blast from the Southwest two weeks ago. ' However, pounding rainfalls measured 1.74 inches at Atlanta and 1.61 inches at Savannah, Ga. Snow. was falling on West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky today, while more rain bit the Eastern Carolinas and Virginia. At Natchez, Miss., A. D. Wil son, 45, Monroe, La., was killed when his light "'plane crashed and burned in a fog. SHOULD HAVE KEPT GOING Chicago U.R) Nathan Ko tell, an ,,jnsurance executive, stopped his car during a drive to a bank Monday to let several fire engines ; pass. - During the pause, two gunmen entered his auto and robbed him of $5,000. France Will Pull Bulk of Forces Saigon," Indochina-U.T!)--Gen. Paul Ely, French high commis sione.r, said last night France will pull,the bulk of her batter ed forces out of Indochina in the next few months. ' The withdrawal will be car ried out "within the framework of the ' Viet Nam government's needs and the necessities of se curity in this part of the world," he said. r - - Faster Withdrawal Under the French budget the French Expeditionary corps which fought , the Indochinese war would have been cut to 100,000 by January, 1956. The withdrawal as - outlined by vEly would be considerably faster. ' Ely's statement at a press con ference echoed recent Paris de cisions which informed sources said were f orcedj in part by re fusal of the United States to foot the bill for 150,000 French troops in free South Viet Nam. Under SEATO Protection . South- Viet Nam. as well as Laos and Cambodia - will come under the protective wing of the Southeast Asia , Treaty Or ganization backed by mobile American ; striking power. The Trench decision to bring out the bulk of the .French army was generally agreed upon dur ing the Big Three meetings .in Paris the week before Christmas. Telephone Service Installers Walk Out Portland (U.R) Telephone office equipment installers - in Oregon, Washington and Idaho began a walkout yesterday but a union official said service throughout the area was not' ex pected to be affected. - Scotty Ward, president of the Portland local of the CIO Com munications Workers of Ameri ca, said the walkout was in pro test against work beings done by a night shift at Moses Lake Wash. He said Western Electric which. manufacture and installs telephone equipment, has not ab ided by- a verbal agreement to exclude normal daytime work from that performed by a night shift at Moses Lake. WEATHER ,- By United Press . - . Northern California: Fair ex cept fog and low cloudiness night and mornine San Joaauin valley; little change in tempera ture.-, -c " NAME D Army Counselor John G. Adams (above), shown in bis Washington n o m e, reads report in which Army Secy. Robert Stevens named him and Lt Gen. Walter Weible as having ordered the honorable discharge of al leged Communist Maj. Irving Peress. Only Spark Said Heeded To Ignite Dewey Sees Ike-Nixon Victory in Next Vote Washington (U.R) Former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York is "firmly convinced" that the team of Eisenhower and Nix on can lead the Republicans to another ."overwhelming victory" in 1956. . Dewey said he "prayerfully hopes the Republican party will again choose Mr.- Eisenhower and Nixon to head its ticket next year. Dewey, who championed Mr. Eisenhower in 1952, was an over night, guest at the White House last night after attending a stag dinner given by. Mr. Eisenhower. : Berlin U.R) An "American released from nearly 10 years in Russian captivity said today "only, a spark" is needed to touch .off a revolt in the Soviet slave labor empire. j John H. Noble, 31, who spent years in the notorious Vorkuta slave labor camps near the Arc tic Circle in Siberia, said "there is great dissatisfaction in Vor kuta among both the prisoners and the guards." ; y , Noble said another prisoner sent to the Soviet slave labor camps told him Lt Gen. Vassily Stalin, son of the late Soviet Premier, is being held in Lubi anka prison in Moscow. . The newspaper Kleine Zei tung of Graz, Austria, reported last week Vassily had died in a slave labor camp in Central Asia and his sister, Svetlana, had dis appeared from Moscow." Noble, whose home is in De troit, said chances of a revolt in the Arctic slave labor camps "are very great." "Only a spark is needed to set a revolt off," he said. ' 710 Shot by Guards Noble said at a press confer ence that in 'July, 1853, about 100,000 of the 500,000 prisoners held in the Vorkuta slave labor area revolted and 710 were shot by guards.7 : - v - The American, who was seized with his father in Dresden in the last days of World War II, said life in Russia is so grim that all prisoners .hope for war. "Half' the people outside the prison also .hope for a war to liberate them, Noble added. - - Special TYPING CLASS Saturday ': 9 to 12 a.m. For 8 WEEKS , . ' Beginning Jan. 15 for Parwas ? Orr" 12 Tears of Ate . Complete SAC Course . . - Includes Materials ni Seeeliei Robertson School of Business r " 1 40-42 N. RIVERSIDE ; Phone 3-4264 , . Iatelligent young men and women seek ing a future could hardly find richer rewards than those offered by the pro fession of teacher. ' It is a secure profession and one for ' which there is a great and growing -need. In America's public schools alone, over 80,000 new teachers are, wanted, tin's year . . . and more will be required 7 through the years to come. . Why don't you decide to seek the greatest of rewards by helping children learn ... helping shape the future? Far III fr k! "Haw Cob W Oat laaagh Oead TaadMnf writa Baltar i cauls, 2 Watt 41th Stiaat, Naw Yatfc U, N. T. Better Schools -Build Beffer Camnnmhit Published as a public service in co operation with The Advertising Council 23 Disease Cases Listed With Oliice Twenty-three cases of com municable disease were report ed to the county public health office last week. ' Among them were six cases of influenza in -Ashland: , three of scalp ringworm in Medford; three of mumps in Jacksonville; two of pneumonia " in Ashland; three of chicken pox in Ashland and - one in - Medford; two of measles in Medford, and single cases - of infectious ( mononucle osis in Medford. rheumatic fe- jer in Ashland and scarlet fever in Medford.: . f Winter China & Glass SALE Some Patterns of Fostoria Syracuse Miscellaneous lines PRICED TO CLEAR D0N7 MISS THESE BARGAINS! 2nd Floor ' at em s 217 East Main Medford, Oregon II 1 1 - i For the Next 4 Days . . . Lawrence's Are Celebrating Their . . . 4T" z7 fiMjjm i I n a m mm mm mm .m awr- Help Us Celebra te With These All Prices EFFECTIVE o Wednesday o Thursday O Friday O Saturday NATIONALLY ADVERTISED Watches Wo DISCOUNT! 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