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SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Too Many Population London U.R) A distinguish' ed member of the House of Lords says men and women in the United States are having too many babies - The 2,800,080 bundles of joy that arrived iu America during 1954 brought no joy at all to 'Lord Simon of Wythenshawe, -who is concerned about how the 'world is going to clothe, feed ,and shelter its growing popula tion. . -3 "The United States is devour ' hag the world's mineral end fuel reserves at an almost terrifying rate," he said. He believes Amer ica should cut down its birth :rate, perhaps to the point of -keeping its population steady, ?with births balancing deaths. Extended Rasaarch Lord Simon, 75, is chairman of i committee which is drafting a (report on. population problems for a privately financed research Igroup devoted to "political and economic planning." His commit- 3ee has been working for 18 months. i "Is the West ethically justified 4n so rapidly consuming the ineans of existence? Ought we not rather to slow down or halt altogether the growth of western Portland Chinese pn Girl's Death Portland ' - U.R) Police last jiight arrested Wey Him Fong, 26, and his wife, Sherri, 23, for 3he murder of lfVyear-old Diane Jiank whose body was found yearly a year ago hear Wasougal, aVash.- " " I The Multnomah county' grand 3ury yesterday -( afternoon indict ed the Fongs and Kwong Ting :Yee, 38, for first degree murder of the Lincoln High school girl. Yee was believed to be in Palif. . .-Went To Baby Sit - Diane Hank disappeared from Tier Portland home Jan. 6, 1954. Jler parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert R. Hank, said she had gone "to the Fong home where she was a baby sitter. However, the girl disappeared and her body was found near Washougal on "Feb. 26, 1954. -vim A J Mrs. Fong has admitted hav ing the girl as a dinner guest Jhe night of Jan.' 6, but maintains she left "dressed for school" on the morning of Jan. 7. Tuesday's secret indictment by the grand jury after a two hour address from District Attorney William M. Langley climaxed months of complex investiga tion by police, detectives and FBI. ' ; : Langley said he is confident the state now has sufficient evi dence to support a charge of murder against the trio. The Fongs still await trial on a charge of contributing to the dead girl's delinquency. ? The' grand jury indictment yesterday charge the three sus pects with killing the girl "de liberately and with premeditated violence, by means unknown to the grand jury." Oil Well Exploration Near Vale Abandoned ' - i Ontario (U.R) The El Paso Natural Gas company has aban doned its exploratory well in the Double mountain area near Vale and today was plugging the 74,070-foot hole. " Company geologist Roy Bech el said the well showed no sign of gas or oil after extensive testing and that it f was not worth further investment, i Bechtel said he didn't know if the company planned ' to drill inother well in the area, but laid the drilling rig would be left where it was for the time being. v Couple Arrested -'PRtDAY, 'JAGlUfiBY'21-- Y.C3.G.A:B'UILDIE3 MJL MEMBIEIHiS FRUIT GROWER'S LEAGUE OF JACKSON Babies Born Committee populations?" Lord Simon ask ed. . - .- - - - r : The more the West uses fuel and mineral reserves the less there will be for undeveloped countries which, sooner or later, will be wanting them on a large scale, he warned. Th Moral Question Lord Simon declined to go into specific detail about his committee's findings until its re port is published. It is under stood the committee will report there is no "reliable" evidence to support the belief that food production can keep pace with a world population which is in creasing at the rate of 70,000 a Highvay Commission Approves Surveys for Road I improvements Portland (U.R) The State Highway Commission yesterday approved several surveys for road improvements in various parts of the state and okayed a request by Siletz residents for a $150,000 project in Lincoln county. The major road survey ap proved for was widening of SE 82nd avenue from the Portland city limits at SE Flavel street to Lake road near Clackamas. Esti mated cost is $440,000, spread over a "two-year period.- The road would be widened to four lanes. ., , . Tualatin Job Approved Other surveys approved in cluded: , Widening of the Tualatin high way to four lanes between Beaverton and Reedyille. : Blizzard Closes Schools at Vale Vale, Ore. (U.R) Blizzard conditions in eastern Oregon closed the elementary and high school here' yesterday because deep snow drifts prevented the school buses from making their rounds. ' ' ' Snow plows were clearing rur al routes, but ithe job was not expected to be completed in time for morning classes today. The elementary school at Adrian to the south was also closed. ' Snow, fell ' continuously, yest erday, in the Vale-Ontario area, to a depth of about seven inches. Some 19 inches were reported 19 miles north of here, and there was considerable drifting in rur al areas. ;v Two wreckers spent yesterday pulling motorists up grades and out of ditches on Highway 30, about 25 miles north of Ontario. Ilew Warden Starts Duties at Alcaf raz ! San Francisco-CU.R)r-Alcatraz prison had a new warden today. He is Paul J. Madigan, 57-year-old veteran of 22 years in the federal prison system." He took over yesterday from War den Edwin. B. Swope, who will become warden of the New Mex ico state prison at Santa Fe. Madigan once served three years as associate warden 'at the "Rock" under Swope. On taking office, Madigan de clared that "for 1 some time to come there will be a need for a maximum security prison such as Alcatraz, especially in the next few years, "because of the increase of crime throughout the country." ' Alcatraz island is located in San. Francisco bay. Because of the swirling tides that surround it, the prison is considered escape-proof. - ODD Wednesday. January 19, 1955 in U.S., Head Says day. The report also is expected to raise a moral question of wheth er people in one part of the world should increase their pop ulation, creating more mouths to feed, while people in another part of the world are alive and hungry. In the past the "political and economic planning'' organization has always been careful to recog nize that proposals for limiting population may run counter to religious beliefs. But it is also known to hold the view that a stable world population is one way . of ensuring food enough for -all. Building a short new section of the Willamina-Salem second ary highway around a slide near Buell in Polk county. Relocating U. S. Highway 30 between Meacham and Hilgard. Improving the Redwood high way between Grants Pass and Wilderville in Josephine county. Replacing the existing narrow bridge , on U. S. Highway 99W at the north edge of Newberg with a four-lane fill. The commission also approved a request by Siletz residents for resurfacing and oiling a 16 1-2 mile stretch of the Siletz sec ondary highway immediately north of Siletz at an estimated cost of $150,000. To Sell Right-of-Way ' The commission agreed to sell to the city of Eugene the state owned right-of-way between 7th and 11th avenues for $2908. : A protest by property owners against the commission's plan to build a bypass for The Dalles California highway through the west side of Klamath Falls was overruled. The commission said it would abide by its agreement with the Klamath ' Falls city council in the matter. ' : - The state parks division was authorized to charge the same fees for use of park facilities this year as were collected in 1954. ..v Four Business tlames Changed on Record! Four business name changes were listed yesterday in the office of the Jackson county clerk. v:' v 'yy rr" Albert H. Herndobler and Richard A. Herndobler have as sumed the business name Hern dobler's Furniture. Robert G. Beatty has assumed the business name Beatty and McDougal. The business address is listed as 204 West Main st. Me'dford. The assumed business name Southern Oregon Equipment Company,1 with an address of 3540 North Pacific highway, has been assumed by C. Edward Gor don, secretary. Dom S. Provost, Mildred S. Provost, and Dom S. Provost Jr., have cancelled the assumed business name. Provost Furni ture, which has been assumed by Billy E. Slack and Gerald Ray Hamilton. The business ad dress is 357 East Main st., Ash land. Senate Pays Tribute To Stricklin, Hudson .- Salem. (U.PJ The Oregon Senate yesterday paid tribute to Charles E. Stricklin, long-time state engineer, arid Maurice Hudson, state corporation com missioner, both of whom died last year. The senators stood at attention for a ; moment in re spect for these two men, ; de scribed in Senate concurrent resolutions as faithful and effi cient servants of the state, -y AUME COUNTY, Inc. - iff: -j n f 1 X-i i - - .--Mc X f X PREPARED TO INTRODUCE bill in Senate to authorize research program into smog conditions. Sen. Thomas Kuchel (R) Cal, (left) discusses smog problems of Los Angeles with Lauren B Hitchcock, president of Air PoUution Foundation. (International) II f Ir ' ' ' ' ' ' '' 5 y I : 4. ' ' ' ' ' ' ' j . : X ALL NEW ' Xf ' SPRING . I r r' 'X mmzzlA - styles and V FABRICS. 4 It -Mli sIMf . - I 1 7 WWmwT WiPJMt j ' yl sUaaofciaoaaoaaaMCtaoahaaai (v) ; " ' wmM& .... Jackson County Tops Sond Sales Goal Jackson county passed its 1954 quota for sales of E and H sav ings bonds, according to an an nual report prepared by Morris B. Leonard Sr., - county chair man. - The county's sales for 1954 were $1,000,619 in 1954, com pared with . $876,957 in 1953. Sales in Jackson county during December amounted to $86,590, compared with $63,763 in the same month for 1953. . Bond sales were well below the quota in Josephine and Klamath counties.. Josephine county reached 89.5 per cent of its goal, .with sales of $425,061, compared with $343,338 in 1953. Klamath county reached 76.8 per cent of its goal, with- sales of $633,550, against $640,122 in 1953. 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The national gain in sale of E and H bonds was 12 per cent, Man Gets Last Laugh Over Initiation Joke i1 Denver (U.R) They laugh ed back .in 1951 when E. G. Dunne sat down on a hench, rose quickly and -then fetto the floor during a shriners inlti" ation at Pueblo, Colo. j The boys had wired the bench with electricity. Dunne got the last laugh Mon day when the Colorado Supreme Court awarded ' him $44,918 in damages against the Al Kaly temple, for a permanent neck in jury. QUALITY. r- STYLES! From Misses styles, .. - Tweeds, PRICE! you can not af- f i ...I - -mm them tomorrow SUITS FROM! r ' v !i','A ! .... i V - with sales amounting to $4,889,119,000 last year. This was the largest volume on record for any year since 1945. The cash value of E and H bonds reached $38,233,000,000 on Dec 31, 1954, an all-time record, and represented 14 per cent of the public debt TYPING CLASS ' for Beginners' , Oh Saturdays 9 to 12 a.m. . 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