TWO 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.
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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.
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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. - -
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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
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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
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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.
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night and mornine San Joaauin
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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. -
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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
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