Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 12, 1955, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textm mm mm I 1M MEDFORDfe Unite Pr Ml Full Leased Wire 49th Year 14 Pages u u VACATIONING PREMIER French Premier Mendes-France (left) walks through the fish ing village of Positano, Italy south of Naples during brief vacation with his wife. Sources in Rome said Mendes-France thinks this is just the right moment for the West to pro- ose Big Four talks with Russia, and they add that he will press this point in talks with talian leaders. HamarckjoldTo Be Met by Top UN ficials at SF : United Nations, N.Y. U.R) Two tbp UN officials flew to San Francisco today to receive from UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold his first hand re port on his efforts to win free dom for 11 American-airmen jailed in Red China on "spy" charges. V ; Hammarskjold, who has drop ped no hint of the results of his negotiations in Peiping, is ex pected to arrive in San Francisco tomorrow. . I 'American and UN authorities are deeply concerned because of the growing threat that U.S. con gressional sources will bring heavy new pressure for a block ade of the China mainland and other retaliation unless the U.S. airmen are released. Failure Reported Their concern has been height ened by reports from highly placed diplomatic sources in London that Hammarskjold fail ed to obtain from Red China's Premier-Foreign Minister Chou En-lai the immediate release of the airmen. Hammarskjold is expected to report that he has kept the door open to further negotiations which may bring freedom to the II jailed Americans at some fu ture date. On hand to receive his report on his arrival in San Francisco will be Andrew W. Cordier, the secretary general's chief execu tive assistant, and Wilder Foote, top press spokesman for the Un ited Nations. Even- then it is doubted that a public report will ' be made available until Hammarskjold has returned to UN headquarters here and reported to the United Nations and the United States. Radio HighUghfs Claire Eooth Luc. United Stales ambassador to Italy, will spak over CBS, and sta tion KYJC (1230 kc) at 9:30 ; pjn- Thursday. ? Crater Lake Park Visitors Make 1954 Second-Best Year ;- Travel into Crater Lake Na tional park during 1954 was the second highest on record, Super intendent Thomas J. Williams said today. It was exceeded only by 1947. . ; The number of visitors last year was 370,554, compared to 447,300 in 1947, the post-war year when virtually all tourist records were broken.. ? : July Biggest Month ; July of last year, ' however, was the largest single travel month in the history of the park, Williams reported, when 114,154 people entered the park. . -Williams said he expects 1955 to bring, more visitors to the ' ark than 1954, largely because of the increasing interest in win ter sports and the improved snow clearance program in ef fect on the park's roads during the winter. - , . " MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1 2, 1 955 Cms I! 0 .Temporary offices" for Fir- Ply, Inc., have been built and a lng pond is being dug, it was announced today. , ,- The newly-formed company, which announced plans recently for a " half -million dollar rough plywood mill, has leased 40 acres -in the Camp White area from the White City Realty company. Work on the mill proper is to begin Monday, ac cording to Carl Jacobson mana ger of the company. To Buy Logs The pond is being completed rapidly so that logs can be pur chased on the open market to be ready when the mill itself is completed, he said. Construction of the mill is expected to take about three months, and ' the work is being handled by the Acting Poiice Chief At Ashland Gets Hod Ashland Acting Police Chief Herb Hays will receive a: per manent appointment as chief when the city council meets next week, the Ashland Daily Tidings has reported. - Hays has been acting chief since . the ' . resignation . of Vern Smith . recently. He : has been a member of the police force since 1946, and was named 'assistant chief in 1948s Three men had submitted ap plications for the job, Hays, for mer Deputy Sheriff DeArmond Leigh and Police ' Sgt. George Bennett. Mayor Richard Neill last week submitted Leigh's name to the council for confir mation, but the .council rejected it. - . -'r;,-; The Tidings said the council this week met informally and voted, five to one, to approve Hays' appointment. Two regular ski runs are maintained from the rim to park headquarters, and many families come to the park for skiing, or simply to play in the snow or look at the scenery, Williams said. , A warming hut is open at the rim on week ends and holi days. ; Reports Clear Days . The; superintendent reported that 10 days in December were clear and were ideal for winter time photography. He suggested that weather conditions be checked before" driving to the park, and the park i telephone exchange i3 open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 pan. daily. All cars visiting the park should carry chains, though oft en they will not be needed, par ticularly on - cars which have snow tires, he said. . .. . - .. ill Construction- Fir IFIywooi liirat rail login Monday n . , SJgpRiBUNE - United PretruU Leased Wire . Ltd Dim c t Ausland v. Construction Co. Grants Pass. ' manager, and his family have moved . to Medford, and other officers of the company plan to move here later. All were with the Southern Oregon Plywood corporation in . Grants Pass be fore they resigned to form the new company. Besides Van Duker and Jacob- son, they include Ernest Clark, production manager, Ray Hen ry, logging manager, and Arthur Michelson, maintenance superin tendent and engineer. Behind Ross Mill V ' : The new plant will be locat ed behind the Ross Lumber com pany, which is just beyond the turn in Highway 62 about a mile southwest of the Camp White domiciliary center. Plans -for the mill, which were first announced last Dec. 16, call for the employment of some 100 to. 110 men, with an annual payroll of about $500, 000, and the expenditure of an other $500,000 annually for the purchase of logs for the rough plywood to be manufactured. . House Passes Bill On Legislative Pay Salem U.R) The House to day passed its first bill, House bill No. 1, which provides mon ey to pay- legislative salaries and expenses. Approval was unani mous. At the same time Dr. F.; H. Dammasch (R.-Portland) intro duced a bill that would provide for an advance of $300 to mem bers on their second year's sal ary. Legislators receive $1200 per biennium. ?;; The House received and -tabled four bills passed at the 1953 session but vetoed by the gover nor! The bills included the tim ber privilege tax involving tim ber on mining claims; the requir ed removal of brush and debris on beaches by the state highway, commission; a requirement for a public vote on development of public housing projects by cities or counties, and the investment of funds held by inmates of pub lic institutions. - i - A bill to give state police per sonnel the right to appeal to the state civil service board in case of dismissal was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Monroe Sweetland of Milwaukie and Norman R. Howard of Portland, both Democrates. " ; :; ' FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness through Thursday. 'Some valley tog Thursday morning-. Low tonifht 25: - hih Thursday 4S. $ - .Temp. . Highest Yesterday ' ' - Jg Lowest this Morning 28 of Price 5c No- 254 Ado 15 Persons Killed; Wreckage, Bodies Videly Scattered Pldnes Smash Near Cincinnati ; Cincinnati U.R) A Trans World Airlines plane and a .pri vately owned DC3 aircraft col lided in flight and crashed- in flames near here today, killing 15 persons. TWO officials said that 13 persons, 10 passengers and three crew members, - were aboard its twin-engined Martin 202. The plane had left the Greater Cincinnati Airport en route to Dayton, Columbus, and Cleveland. ' The passenger list, released by TWO in Chicago,, included only one from the West. He was listed as H. Rooney of Lewis ton, Ida. '. The twin-engined DC3 was owned by Castleton Farms, famous Lexington, Ky.; harness horse farm. It was en route from Battle Creek, Mich, to pick up the farm owners, M. and Ms. Frederick Van Lennep, to take the socially prominent couple to Florida. The pilot, Arthur Werk haven, and co-pilot Eddie Anger were killed. Planes Catch Fir Kentucky State Police Detec tive Robert Gordon, one .of the first officers to the scene, said, 'It looks like everybody , is dead." . , . Gordon said the nlanes ap parently : caught fire after ; the collision and were iflaayy, whf n they hit th : ground,' about a mile anart. He said parts of the planes and bodies were scattered over a wide area. There was no immediate ex planation of ; what ; caused the collision. In New York, the Civil Aero nautics Administration said an unofficial report from the Great er Cincinnati Airport was that the TWA plane was in radio con tact with the airport tower by radio two minutes after the takeoff. The CAA said TWA pilot iden tified the plane, then . sounded as . if he were . alarmed, anen his voice faded away. The collision was about two miles south of the Greater Cin cinnati Airport, which is in Kentucky about 12 miles from Cincinnati. Howard Crisler. owner of the farm on which . the planes crashed, said that the TWA plane hit the top of a hill and hounceH into a wooded ravine leaving a hundredyard trail of wreckage. TWO officials in Washington said the accident was the first crash in its domestic service since December, 1944. The company said that since the airline had flown 14.221.567,045 miles with out an accident, carrying more than 18,000,000 passengers. Congress Taking Sides for Battle Washirieton (U.R) Battle linp.o Vtpean for'minff in Congress today on the issue of pay raises for its own members, ior gov ernment workers and ior ; tne military. There were : these '. develop ments: 1. Most Republican members of the Senate were reported ready to approve a hike in con gressional, salaries. ... 2. Opposition mounted to.tne President's .. renewed. . proposal that mail rates be increased to finance a raise for postal work ers. . ' a. Thp President prepared to send Coneress Thursday a mes sage giving details of his pro posal to grant salary increases to military men with more than two years of service. DOW-JONES AVERAGES- New York -(U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indust rials 399.78 off 0.47; 20 railroads 144.28 off 0.72? 15 utilities 62.64 up 0.07, and 65 stocks 148.88 off 0.29. Sales today were about 3, 400,000 shares compared : with ,680,000 shares traded yester day., - Portland J(U.R) The Western States Republican Conference has been invited to hold its 1955 meeting in Portland. z ": Wavy LFDSers ia-Mc Say ddh Berlin U.R) An American freed from al most 10 years enslavement in Soviet prisons said" on Tuesday night fellow captives had told him eight U.S. Navy fliers survived a Soviet at tack over the Baltic sea four, years ago. .y John H.' Noble, 31, of Detroit," informed offi cials that he heard the fliers, crewmen aboard a Navy Privateer downed by Soviet aircraft April 8, 1950, were in Russian hands. Two others died, Noble said he was told. Noble said the reports claimed the surviving airmen were either in the Vorkuta slave labor complex in the Arctic, where he heard the infor mation, or would be taken there. Russians Circulated Death Report He said the Soviets attempted to suppress this news because the Russian; themselves had cir culated reports that all 10 airmen had been killed in the incident which brought strongest protests from the U.S. State department. . Noble emphasized that he did not see any of the fliers. He said only he' had "heard" that air men shot down over the Baltic and some Ameri cans captured in Korea were in the frigid Vor kuta complex. ; j If the reports Noble heard were true, the Eliers probably were convicted on "spy" charges as in the caseof 11 U.S. airmen who were shot Peace and Prosperity for World Is Aim Of Itinerant 'Santa'i Plan 'Can't Fail' Christmas season would be the whole year around if a plan pro posed by Albert S. Falk should be adopted by nations through out the world. Falk, 63, a plain-clothes Santa Claus, was in Medford today in the interests of spreading his plan to end poverty and bring world peace. The blonde bearded self-styled prophet's idea is simply this: Apply a two per cent federal tax to all transactions, ; plus a small income ' tax. : That : way enough money would be raised to pay back - to all adults 21- years and older a sum of about $100 per month. This would be in addition to salaries and other income." This would eliminate poverty by giving collective se curity, Falk maintains. Each family would receive a , mini mum of $1,200 to $1,500 in guar anteed income yearly. . Falk would have each country take care of its own people, thus eliminating the continual drain on the United States for upkeep of. starving people ,abroadB.ut putting money in the pockets or people, they would then be able to buy the many things they may now be aiming to sell else where, he claims, 1 Currently on a jaunt from Minnesota to Sacramento, Calif., Falk, a painter and paperhanger, started his! travels lobbying for peace . in the. early 1930s. His Pressure Credited For Soviet Action X Washington U.R) -U.' S.' offi cials said tod ay unceasing American pressure apparently forced Russia to its sudden deci sion to free the last three Ameri cans known in Soviet hands. They said Russia 1 probably would have left the trio in So viet labor camps much longer if Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen had not hammered at the Krem lin door repeatedly during the past year. " :- XI - '.' The Soviets agreed yesterday to turn over to American author ities in Berlin - Army. Pvt. ; Wil liam A. Verdine, 28, of. Starks, la., who is believed to have been held by the Russians almost six years. " . Eisenhower Silent Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower, at his news confer ence today, was not asked for, and did not volunteer, comment on v new recommendations by Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for a blockade of China if the" Reds fail to free the jailed Americans. Mr. Eisenhower has said before this would be an act of war. ' - Nor 'did the President com ment on the just concluded mis sion to Red China by Day Ham marskjold, U. N. secretary-general, who met with Chinese Communist . leader Chou : En-lai in an effort to win freedom for the prisoners. The, White House has remained silent on the Ham- marckjold mission," Edith Green Assigned To Education, Labor Washington JJ0 Mrs. Edith Green, : Oregon's 'new Demo cratic congresswoman from Portland, has "jeen assigned to the Education and Labor com mittee of the House of Represen tatives. . ' ' j. Mrs. Green's appointment was confirmed by the House today; The committee was the congress woman's first choice. . Mrs. Green said she had been asked to serve on the District of Columbia Committee, 4 but had declined in order to devote more time to the major committee as signment. -j ' - - toft OTDteft aim is a world peace mission. He has visited every state in the nation, and hopes, to travel j in 4 : 4 vi i ALBERT S. FALK ' 4 Seaks Ptaca and Plenty Europe next year if 'he has funds enough; OHherwisheiwill .-gO1 central America. He insists his plan is not Just another . "crackpot" :. idea. ; "It can't fail,"; he says. : "'; :' f Falk has worn a' beard for about ? f our . . years, ; about : i the Rates Approved Portland U.R) Oregon mo torists ' may save - an estimated $155,000 on "reduction in fire, theft and collision automobile in surance,.' approved Tuesday by Robert B. Taylor, state insurance commissioner.; "6- ' ' - .1 T h e ' National !. Automobile Underwriters Association made the reductions on behalf of its member- companies. About ; 175 member companies do business in Oregon, Taylor said. -pj;-. The new rates are retroactive of all policies issued on or after Dec. 1. $100 and $50 deductible collision insurance will go down about six per cent in Portland and about 5V per cent in the rest of the state, the insurance commissioner said. . ' . Rates on fire, theft and com prehensive insurance have been cut about 15 per cent. The coast wise slasn leaves out some 75 in dependent companies doing business in Oregon, but they are expected to adjust their rates to meet; the competition. . Salem 1 (U.PJ The Oregon State Land Board has an nounced the appointment v of Alva C. Goodrich of Bend as attorney for the- board. . P Lower Insurance Legislators Attend School To iVlake Them Experts on Salem (U.R) Oregon legisla tors went to school today a tax school designed to make tthem experts on taxation in. 22 not so easy lessons.. i With revenue problems slated to be one of the biggest issues before the 1955 legislature, Rep. Loran L .Stewart, chairman of the House Taxation Committee, arranged for a series of lectures by tax experts to give legislators the fundamental of tax princi ples to guide them as they .tackle a mass of complex fiscal matters. Senators have been invited to attend the "school." ;, " r y r Seminar Thought Good - v k; House , Speaker .Edward A. Geary urged the representatives to attend the tax seminar when ever possible. Senate President Elmo E. Smith said he thought the seminar was especially good for - new , members , unfamiliar with . tax committee . work, . but was 'excellent for all. ; . .. . First speaker at today's open ing session was ur. u ward Macy, head of the economics de partment at - the University of m vec Klaoiidls down in uniform during the Korean war and Jailed by Communist China on espionage allega tions. ;-' The Soviet note on the Baltic plane incident, like Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai's blast at the United Nations, claimed that the fliers had violated Communist territory. : It said the Privateer, erroneously identified by the Soviets as a B-29, violated Communist territory south of Lepaya, Latvia, and failed to obey the order of Soviet fighter planes to land. Violation of Tarriory Denied . ; The United States charge that the plane had not violated Soviet territory .and was unarmed when attacked. ' The crew of the' Privateer, all of whom re ceived posthumous awards was composed of Lt. John ' Henry 'Fette, Connellsville, Pa., and in cluded Lt. Howard William Seeschaf, Fairling ton, Va.; Lt. Robert Duward Reynolds, Dansville, N.Y.; v Ens. Tommy Lee Burgess. Osawatomie, Kan. Edward ' Joseph Purcell, Southwestville, N.J.; Jack William, Thomas, Stillwater, N.J.; Joe Henry Danens Jr., Cutbank, Mont.; Frank Llovd Eckman, Newport, Ky.; Joseph Norris Rinnier Jr., Philadelphia and Joseph J. Bourassa, Lin wood, Mich. length of time he has campaign ed for his plan on an interna tional basis. . The idea for wear ing the beard is to attract' at tention. He says it does, and that children call him "Santa Claus." Falk, who, calls Wheaton, Minn., home, campaigned for president in 1952. He plans to be a Republican candidate in 1956. He admits that being president and commander-in-chief of . the Armed Forces may not be con sistent with his peace aims, but says he would leave the Army and Navy up to the Military, and would work for world dis armament. Old Bank Building Remodeling Slated Remodeling jof the former site of n the Medford ; branch of the First National Bank of Portland will begin in about 10 days, ac cording to Ben Dierks Grants Pass lumberman who- purchased the building. " The bank moved from the old quarters to its new building last week end. ., " , Dierks said today the ground floor will be remodeled to. acco mmodate two stores, and a mez zanine floor, will be added. Ne gotiations with two organiza tions for lease of the space are now under way, Dierks added.; The lumberman also announc ed the recent sale of the lumber mill and timber holdings' of the Ben Dierks Lumber Co., Inc.) of Murphy, to Joe M. Crahane and his associates. The operation is a modern band mill, built in 1951. A new firm, Conifer Wood Products, has been formed - to take over, the operation. . Dierks retains the name of the company, and has moved its office from Murphy to the First National - ban k building, in Grants Pass. ' . " " Washington U.R) Tha : govarnmant ';' plans to bagin -distribution . of ' from $6,000, 000 to $9,000,000 in Impound ed timber sale receipts to 18 counties in Oregon, it was re ported today. v-. ";t;- Tha receipts have bean held ? for 12 years pending court ; fights - over the distribution ' formula ,: . San Francisco U.R) Di rectors of tha Pacific Coast league . today named Claira Goodwin, prominent Oakland : civic, sports and financial fig ure,' president of tha loop. Oregon, The seminar will be conducted through' Feb. 10 The House met at the regular time, of; 1.0 a on.; today, but the Senate moved its opening up to 9 ajn. because, of a hearing be fore the Oregon .Supreme Court at 10 a.m. concerning the consti tutionality of a controversial labor, bill passed in 1953. Challenged in Courts , : ' That bill had some anti-picket-lng provisions in it which were challenged in the courts. Circuit judges independently arrived at the conclusion -that section 17 of the.bili, regarding picketing, was unconstitutional. The matter was appealed to the Oregon Supreme court, and that was the hearing Three bills introduced in the uouse at the afternoon session yesterday came from the com mittee on financial institutions w Tevue statutes affecting, in surance companies doing busi ness in Oregon. One would nprmit Buspension BoaDDeQaims - - : . -- . ' f or not more than a year of in Important Rail, Communications Town Recaptured Road Gangs Reported Subjected To Attack San Jose, ' Costa Rica (U.R) President Jose Figueres said to day rebel invading planes have strafed 10 Costa Rican towns, including this capital city, in the nation's twodays-old rebellion. ' He said his own land forces, meanwhile, have recaptured the important railway and com munications center of Villa Quesada from the insurgents in sharp fighting. Villa Quesada is 50 miles from Sari Jose. Figueres, in an interview with the United Press; said the in surgent forces were "completely destroyed" in the battle which regained for Costa Rica the rich est prize to fall to date to the insurgent, forces. ; The president said to the best of his . knowledge no persons were killed or injured in the air attacks . on "innocent civilian people." . Americans in Danger Road gangs and American provided equipment working on the U. , S.-supported Pan-Ameri can Highway also were reported subjected to air attack. " In Washington, the Bureau of Public Roads said that 13 Ameri cans, technicians and engineers. are working on the Pan-American Highway in Costa Rica. "It was reported in Washing ton that one vehicle carrying workers on the road was machine-gunned and the windshield was shattered. It was not learned whether the workers were native or U. S. citizens. No one was re ported injured. President Confidant ' ' President Figueres Indicated he was confident the rebellion will , be , crushed. But he con firmed, there are ."indications" the tiny border port town of Puerto Soley was taken by rebel forces during the night. ' The ; President said ha wat awaiting the arrival of the Inter American" Commission here to "ay, - ' 'm - I " Washington (U.R) President f 1 . t j u ttm i.. Xiisexuioweir saia wixay uic win- ted States will have nothing to say tn the dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua until a special Inter-American. Com mission has made ' its on tha spot investigation. The President pointed out at his news conference that tha Knecfal five-man commission, ap pointed by the Council of tbs Organization of American states left' Washington by plana for Costa Rica today- . , Protest FPC Action , . Washington U.R Oregon senators today protested tha "high handed action" of thai Federal Power, Commission - in allowing the, Idaho Power Com pany to change plans for ae voinnment of Hells Canyon after the company filed its original application. - The company has applied for licenses for three low dams in the canyon, on the Snake river Sens. Wayne Morse (Ind-Ore.) and Richard L. Neuberger CD- Ore.) favor a single government dam in the canyon. ; .; After the close of an FPC hearing, they said, "the commis sion is permitting the company and the commission staff to jug gle and re-write the company plan . . . this is high handed ac tion which places an intolerable burden upon the intervenors ad vocating the high dam." ; Designed Tan Problems surance agents and solicitors guilty of violating the state insur ance code. Present law calls for outright revocation of their li censes. The other two measures would stiffen the requirements, for insurance companies and tme insurance companies, incresslng the paid up capital requirements. Three Bills in Senate v Jhree bills ;werttiiS: duced in the nate jesterday afternoon. Two, introduced by Senl Francis W. Zlegler Cor vailis would correct dates. One wouW make the date for veter n. oreanizaUons to file reports SmoSeyout of county ifidigent . i" th fourth Monday in July instead of Jan. 1, so that the report comes after the counties' teal year has started.- Another would provide for refund of cer- -: tain ' license, monies to dairies. . The old license expired May 30 but this was changed to coincide with the state's fiscal year, which starts July 1, and this bill would merely enable the -dairies to be - repaid the overlapping license money.