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Price 5c 24 Pages MEDFORD OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1955 49th Year No. 263 fe. ft Ms MUM MMM MM MM HNaMMBHHM MM MHIBM MHMMHMMHHWiHHMMWaVMMM MmMMMMMMMT IIP on Project; Planned; 0 Spokesman States Morse, Neuberger Hope To Add Funds By A. ROBERT SMITH f. Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The Eisenhower administration"1 has decided to defer construction of the Talent .division of the Rogue River rec lamation project at least another year, : according to an official "spokesman. , . Despite reports on Capitol Hill end in the -Medford area rf, a possible request for construction funds being sent' to.. Congress later this year, the spokesman -denied, this would be done. .-. , However, confidence was ex- pressed in several quarters that the Budget Bureau would have V change of heart and .agree to aend Congress a request for con atruction money fort the fiscal year that begins July 1. $30,000 for Plans President Eisenhower's bud- : get which went to Congress last Monday failed to Include funds to start construction of the Tal ent project as 5 authorized by . Congress last xummer. It con tained only a $30,000 item to continue planning the project. , ;ncuvi bcuiji tire uuinu Ji. iwi- . .tarnation had included the pro ject in its original budget re quests thai' went to the White House, where- the - project v was knocked out by the Bureau of the Budget. - - 4s- Asked why the project was not in the president's budget, Miss Virginia de Pury, 'chief of Information for the Budget Bur eau, said: . ' " Wants Further Review ' ; ' ' "Because of the large invest ment and the high federal sub sidy, and the fact that total an nual benefits are ' only slightly in excess of -costs, the' bureau decided to defer action on it and have a further - review ' in con nection with the '1957 budget (which will be out one year from now." Miss de Pury said she con sulted the i officials who i": made the adverse decision concerning the Talent project, and they said that with the $30,000 request for planning funds for fiscal 1955 they hoped to review the project with more 1 detailed 'cost ; esti mates in hand. When told of reports that con struction funds would be includ- ' ed in a supplemental budget re quest, - expected to go to : Con gress later e this year, - she . de clared: ' . - '. "As far as the .Bureau of the Budget is concerned, this project has been deferred for another year until the 1957 budget." . The Budget Bureau ordinarily has the last word on which pro jects shall be included and which are to be rejected, but Congress has the authority to add money for. projects not men tioned in the administration's budget Hope To Add Funds . ; Sens. Wayne Morse and Rich ard - L. Neuberger said ' they hoped to persuade the Senate to add construction funds for Tal ent division when the appropri ations bills come ud for consid eration this spring. : Neuberger recalled the Jack- 'son county celebration last fall of congressional authoriza tion of the project, saying: "In spite of the extravagent cam paign : promises m a d e to the -voters of southern Oregon by" nearly every Republican candi date, in the election of 1954, the Talent irrigation and power pro ject in Jackson county, revives not one cent in" construction funds. Both Senator Morse and I urged Secretary McKay to honor his party's campaign promises to southern Oregon, but our plea has gone ignored.". '. 1 (See Story en Page 2) London - 4U.R) Soviet Am- voooa4m Taonh "Malik left Sabir. day for Moscow qn a summons from the Kremlin to join the ether two big three envoys in 1- , fiGEsicag Sentenced to 1 5 Ysars m Prison; tfairta Pleads ffiuilty Marion Franklin Piening, 50, of 425 South Grape st., yester day .was sentenced to 15 years in the state prison, and was fined $100, on a charge of manslaugh ter. The charge grew out of the April 19, 1949 death of Mrs. Margaret Ann Cornell. Sentence was passed by Cir cuit Judge Orval Millard, who termed ' Piening "a dangerous sadist." When ask e d by the judge if he had any recommend ation for leniency for Piening, District Attorney Walter Nunley said "None at all." Before .passing sentence, Brainerd Studios Slates Move Into Old Bank Building Brainerd Studio and Camera shop, located at 40 South Central ave.for the past 15 years, will be one of the occupants of .the location at 120 East 3 Main at.; the: ord Firet National Bank buil ding, it 'was announced! Satur day. V Remodeling is now under way. New owner of the building is Ben Dierks, Grants Pass lumber man. It is expected that the re modeling. wiU.be completed by mid-summer, when"- the . photo hop will.'move; ' Jewalry Firm Planned Z Other .occupant of the space, which' -will ' be - redesigned into modern store accomodations will be a branch store of Wiesfield's, Inc., a chain - jewelry concern with headquarters in - Seattle, Wash., according to Dierks. Ben H. Todd is architect for the buil ding remodeling. Mr. and Mrs. Phil ; Brainerd, operators ' of the photographic business,' said; plans have been made for a considerably increas ed floor space for their opera tion, wjfh additional lines of merchandise - and new fixtures for display. The finishing labor atory will be designed for great er efficiency and will be larger to permit more rapid processing of customer and studio work. Increased Quarters. . 4 The portrait studio area will have the size and dressing room facilities for large group pictures and wedding photographs, they said.-4. , Ai The entire building will be air conditioned, and the plant will be one of the most modern .in southern Oregon. The Brainerds will occupy, the western portion of the building, and Wiesfield's the eastern side. .-.,..- The present location of the photo business has already been leased, it was reported. - Phoenix Woman Enters Pica Of Guilty in Polygamy Case f A Phoenix woman " yesterday pleaded guilty in circuit court to polygamy; charges in . , the first case - of its kind prosecuted in Jackson county in many years. The woman: is Mrs. Odessa Ev elyn Campbell Mires Davis, 35, mother of three children. Rec ords at the courthouse list her home address as Fifth and F. sts., Phoenix. 1 - - Mrs. Davis was arrested after one- of her two husbands, George Davis, Box 116, Talent, brought a complaint to the district attor ney. office.- i She and Davis were married June 25, 1952, in Roseburg after she had served as housekeeper for Davie -foi seven years, ac cording to District Attorney Walter-Nunley. Records in the district attorn ey's office show that Mrs. Davis and Laurence Eldred Vielbig, 46, IM1 a visas Judge Millard turned down a re quest by Piening's attorneys that their client be given a psychiat ric examination In denying the request, Judge Millard declared that experts agree there is not much a state . hospital - can do for a man "guilty of sadism." Piening's wife was present in the courtroom during the entire proceedings, " which .included a reading of Piening's statement of the events which -led up to the death of Mrs. Cornell. Pien ing was represented by Attorney Fred Warden, 31, of route 1, box 350K, Medford, appeared in court -yesterday .morning and pleaded guilty . to manslaughter charges resulting from the death of 12-year-old Philip Stephen Minear, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ro bert , Mmear, route, 1, box 331, Medford, in a hunting accident last year. , - ' The case was continued ' for pre-sentencing investigation, and Warden's bail was continued at $7,500. ; ' " i . Two other men appeared In circuit court yesterday. T h e y were Alexander James Heagle, 36, Cottage Grove, and Charlie William JBringhv 46. of route 2, box 245, Grants Pass. "" Heagle pleaded guilty to char ges of obtaining money under false pretenses and the case was continued - for - s e n t en c 1 n g. Bjr ingle pleaded guilty to a charge of concealing stolen prop erty, - and was. sentenced to 18 months in prison, with the sen tence suspended for two years. Sale of Oakdale. Market Announced; Terms Undisclosed Edgar and ' Josephine Link, owners of the Oakdale market, yesterday completed sale of the store and real property to a local group, according to the attorney for the new owners. The new owners have' organ ized a : corporation , called Oak- aaie xaarxet, inc. The stock holders did not wish their names to be disclosed at this time, the attorney said. . v . ;y- - Although no exact sale price was revealed, the nttnmpv saiH 'it was the biggest food market transaction in ; the area during the past five' yearsl" V ; ';.r- No j change in , personnel is planned by the new owners, the omciai added. , , The Links have onerated the market, ; located at the intersec tion of Oakdale ave. and "J" st, for more than: 13 rvears. Thev plan to now devote their time to Holdings .in. the eastern Ore gon area, continuing in the same type ' of business. .They . will move from Medford in the near future, trfe spokesman added.' a Phoenix mechanic- were mar ried in a Medford ' church on Dec; 29 of last year, Nunley said. County clerk's records for the same day show an ' application for a marriage license by Odes sa Evelyn Campbell Mires, of Mioenix, with the notation that she had been divorced. - Mrs. Davis : -was taken into custody by the sheriff following her plea . of guilty, and was lodg ed in the county jail for about an hour Saturday morning. She was then released on $1,000 bond put up by Davis. District Attorney Nunley ex plained to both Davis and Mrs. Davis . that he was responsible for her appearance in court for sentencing after receipt of rec ords from the FBI. Both smiled from time to time, and they, ap peared to be on good terras. The two then' left the court- house together. May Set Stage for War or Peace With Communist China Hardening of U.S. Policies Predicted v Washington (U.R) ' Presi dent' Eisenhower will ask Con gress at noon Monday to ap prove a ' definite U.S. defense line in the Far East ' in .what may set the stage for, a war-or-peace showdown , with Red China. ' "A"; White . House announce ment Saturday said Mr. Eisen hower will ' submit a special message that "will, clarify-. the purposes ' and application of United States policy in relation to the security of Formosa and ask for the support thereof by the Congress." " . J Hardening of Policy Those sparse words high. fad ministration officials said, rep resented a hardening of Ameri can policy toward the Commu nists in the face of intensified encroachment v on Nationalist China's island territories. Though doubts ' were voiced that Mr. Eisenhower will , seek to - establish 1 publicly in his message a specific defense line, several congressmen reported a "definite" line would be drawn . Overstepping of that line in the embattled Formosan area by Red China would invite retalia tion by U.S. sea and air forces in support of Generalissimo Chi ang Kai-Shek., , .?.,' Conflicting Reports ' Therewa a welter of con flicting reports about what the message would contain, specifi cally whethetr, it would ;, draw s defense Derlrneter arftund the Natiortalistba1nFonmTMt and . the" nearby Pescadores Ur lands. r .The President and Dulles, al ready, have said . this; country must defend : Formosa and the Pescadores. But some informed administration sources said not to discount the possibility that the Nationalist-held islands of Quemoy and : Matsu would be included within i the defense line. ' V Quemoy is almost within eye sight of the Red Chinese Port of Amoy. It is regarded as vital to the defense of Formosa Should the Reds attempt an in vasion. Matsu. is farther north. A Congressional source said he did not believe Quemoy and Matsu would be included in the defense area, y 3 ' It is fairly certain that the Tachen Islands, some 200 miles north of Formosa and under at tack by, Red Chinesei will not be included. , As one adminis tration source put 'it: "We would not spend one -man, one Chinese Nationalist, one bullet, to defend a rocky! bunch ef crags which are of no : import ance. : d - Democratic leaders in Con gress were filled in en the pro posed draft of the' President's message. And Undersecretary of State Walter Robertson, who handles Far Eastern affairs, con ferred with .Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister George Yeh and Ambassador . Wellington Koo at the state department. ; .; Major Water Shuloff Scheduled far Monday " There will be a major water shutoff for the area north of the Big Y market and west of Bear creek Monday from 6 p jn. : to about midnight, residents have been reminded by Robert Lee, assistant Medford water superin tendent. -; - The' area involved Includes the. Midway water district, city of Central Point and users along Table Rock rd. The shutoff, is to allow connection of a new feeder; pipeline served by the Medford system. Sports Ballalin r ; ; Medford high's cagers. hit ' ting full stride in the second.; half, whipped Klamath Falls . 70 to 43 here last night. Half time aargin for the Black Tor- ' nade was 31 to 22. Dave DV. Olivio, Klamath, led scorars with 22. Frank. Redox,, Med-, . ford, got 20. ; , , - ' , ' Qraier 72, Illinois Valler Phoenix S4, Eagle Point 33. ; Oregon' State. 5S, Oregon' 54.' - Washington State 74V Wash- a RED RAIDER A Red Chinese plane (arrow), one of a 120-pIane attack, makes its rna t ' past Tachen Island as numerous anti-aircraft bursts can be seen in the . sky. Strong Chinese Communist invasion; forces aimed a giant pincer at the Jxmib battered Tachen ; and the Nationalist defenders braced for an assault expected any timev Committee rk s ; ''pE ' By PHILIP B. LOWRY - Oregon Slate Senator . Salem Very few , bills "have been considered by either . the House or Senate for final pas sage up to this writing,' al though a-total of, 134 .bills nave -been .introduced.-. Most of the time both the House and Senate this sen. lowk .a week has been occunied with Committee consid eration of pending, bills. The really painstaking,, -important work of the Legislature is ac complished through the commit tee system. Of course, bills of a controversial character of gen eral interest are , the subject of individual consideration by ev ery member of the Legislature a n d extensive : debate on ;t h e floor of both houses.. ' ' '' i After introduction of a bill in the House or Senate a mea sure is referred to the appropri ate committee for study and recommendation as , 4o .further action. The House has 22 stand- ingy committees and the- Senate 20; which are designated accord ing to the subject matter, of leg islation considered' by them Measures requiringan appropri ation always receive the atten tion of the ' Ways and Means Committee as well as any other committee which .is concerned with its subject matter other than appropriation'.-. ; Chairmen Powerful r ;' ," The . chairmen of . committees occupy a powerful; position and can greatly ' influence the ' dis position of a bill. In actual prac tice,' the committee chairmen proceed in an exceedingly demo cratic manner. Mr. Mann is the only member- of -the Jackson county delegation to Jiead a com mittee, although Mr. LittreU, in his iirst - term; receivecL., an ap pointment as .. vice-chairman ' of the Commerce and Utilities Com mitee of the House. Every com mittee strives to get at the facts relating to a proposal, and ' Wel comes the view of every sincere individual or organization.. ; v The loads of' the committees vary - greatly. .. For instance, the Joint Ways and Means commit tee, composed of members from both the House and the Senate, is the watchdog of the budget, and will put in long, arduous hours. - - Money Bills Later The separate Taxation com mittees of the House and Senate must learn from Ways and Means how much money will be appropriated .before, determin ing the method of raising that amount. No doubt the final p uiiis uccuoie Weeks i muni ,ttm y,, , Study: op . .. . - . j m - d'giltatiPei propriation bills recommended by .Ways and " Means rand the revehue-raising bills from' the Tax committees will not come out on the floor until the session is fairly well along. After committee deliberation, a bill favorably considered for passage will be recommended back to the entire House or Sen ate, for enactment . If commit tee opinion r be divided, ' there may be .both a majority and a minority .-report.: Most bills ;not favorably i regarded by the com mittee are tabled or indefinitely postponed, . and ;- in this manner a . substantial part of, proposed legislation is sidetracked. . .' In the .past," many, bills of doubtful wisdom .have been : in troduced by committees . rather than 'individual members, who prefer not to be directly identi fied with the bill. ri The so-called "trash" "bills are :' introduced simply Vto - satisfy 'a' constituent or organization. Such' bills are a great waste of time -and money. A real, effort has been made at this session .to niinimize. this waste. For instance the' Sen ate Judiciary committee has a strict., rule forbidding introduc tion, of committee bills. On the other hand, many of the other committees - will introduce bills of merit 'in - the interest of the general" welfare. . - When a bill is reported back from committee, it is subject to general - debate before ' a final vote.. ; As one would expect, it is in many instances necessary to accept the recommendation of hthe committee because .of lack of time and failities properly to ascertain the facts., concerning a proposed lawl 'This unfortun ate by-product of the committee system can be held rto a mini mum by checking the calendar the night -before to determine what bills will be considered for final passage on the following day and re-examining such bills. ,' Any Jackson county resident or organization interested in leg islation beiflg considered by' a particular House or Senate com mittee, or desiring to appear be fore a. committee, can learn 'the time and place of House commit tee hearing from Mr.' Mann or Mrr Littrell and Senate 'bearing dates from me. r ' " Bills introduced since my last report which are of general public interest include: . "" 1. A. bill .to establish a com prehensive health - and sanitary inspection and permit system for the slaughter and disposition of meat products to be used for human consumption. . The bill authorizes inspection of all meat packing plants and slaughter houses under , the direction of the Director of Agriculture for &oee net -covered tf isdsxl U:tl; Triistseship Fdr BySenatDrl'jSiSi Washington (U.PP Senator Wayne Morse, uregon xnaepena ent said. Saturday night that Formosa should be .brought; un der United Nations trusteesmp "as rapidly as possible" , so the U. ( S. .7th Fleet, may ,be .with drawn. ,'I think of, it as a great mis take ' for ' the ' United States . to take unto itself the full respon- Washington (U.R) .San. Wayne Morse,; Oregon Inde pendent who was enee a -Re-' ' publican, said Saturday night he may ; disclose- within, two weeks whether he: will run, as, a Democrat for re-election in 1956.- ,' ? ' t , -; sibility of policing the Formosa area,", he said, "and my position Is the same as it was . . . on Korea when, on the floor of the Senate, I urged a United Nations mandate over Korea . until elec tions could - be held, 7 the -. same as it was last spring, . when I urged the United Nations trus teeship over indo-cnina. 5 Morse's comment was made on the CBS radio program, capi- tol cloakroom. Tne oroaacasi was recorded-; before the . an nouncement i that ' President Eis enhower will send to Congress On .Monday a special : message to clarify ; and outline U. S. for eign policy . in the Far East 2. A bill providing: that no State :. -; administrative . agency shall adopt a rule or regulation except at a meeting open to the public and.' that public notice shall begiven by notifying' the press, radio and television in the county in which the meeting is to be held ' not less than : five days prior to the date of the meeting. -, . 3. -A bill designed to enforce more, strictly tne non-support laws where county welfare gives aid to a dependent child. 4.: A bill to place the control and use of all water resources of the jtate under a single board and generally to v permit this board to do anything to conserve waters resources of Oregon for the general welfare.- t , 5.v A bill designed to conserve ground water resources to the same extent as surface water. 6. A bill to increase fire-fight ing equipment requirements for loggers' during the closed season. : 7. A biU to abolish the State Department of Finance created in. 1991.' The 1931 law was de signed to streamline state fi nances and produce the" maxi mum possible economy. The Jackson.ctnmty delegation is far more interested in receiv ing your viewa while the legis lation is pending A after It Formosa Carriers Aunrnsnt -- U.S. force; Tachen Being Evacuated . Red Subs Reported In Formosa Straits : 1 . t TaioeL Formosa. Sunday oj.r U. S. Vice-Admiral -Alfred Tride, raced today' aboard ' his lagship toward a rendezvous off Formosa with his American 7th Tleet,, ' newly -reinforced . wfia ihree ' aircraft: carriers i from Manila:- The fleet commander sailed 'n 'the Cruiser Helena suddenly .ait night from Hong Kong. Sources- in ...Taipei : reported he was steaming across Formosa. Strait to meet his fleet which is under orders from President Eisenhower to ,-defend Formosa. Carrie rs Augment Fleet ., v The U- S. carriers Essex, Kear sarge and. Yorktown were or dered to augment the 7th Fleet in the wake of the Chinese Com munist invasion of the Island of Yikiangshan some 200 miles north of Formosa; fc- ' ' The ' sudden American naval movements coincided with re ports- from- well informed sources the Nationalists had started the evacuation of threat ened. Tachen. Island. . ' !-,. v UB. naval . eourceaenorted today-the Communists have at least , three- submarines in the waters around Tachen where the, 7th Fleet units are father ing.1"" - ., Submarines Keported Naval authorities here would not confirm the Teport publicly. But naval sources said U. S. air and- surface unis searching for enemy underseas craft repeated ly identify .submarines in the area. - - , . . . "We. get from two to five sightings per day,' one source said. "We know two are ours." The Chinese Nationalists re peatedly have reported Red subs in. the area, and U. S. naval of- uciais nave estimated there are as many as 100 .Russian . sub marines, in the, Far East The Soviets are said to have given some" cf these "to1 the Chinese Reds.- " ' , '"V , " Naval authorities were re ported concerned over the pos sible role r of Communists subs in i evunti the " Chinese Reds do not, attoid aside to let American vessel!! ' evacuate Nationalists from 'rachen..- - . L AssemMbs of Cc J Plan Kediord The state district council' of the Assemblies of God -will ,h held .in Medford at the Medford Assembly of Crod church, 1108 West Main st, April 28 to 29. it was - announced Saturday. The district presbytery of the Oregon Assemblies of Cod sicked Med. ford during a recent quarterly; meeting at Brooks. t - ; Some 300 to 400 persons, church delegates and ministers, ire' expected.- The Oregon district-includes more than- 1S9 churches. . 1 The morning and - afternoon ; sessions will be for business, and the night services will be evan gelistic. The Rev. R. M. Kigg general, superintendent of the Aasemblles of God. Springfield. Mo., will be the ch ef speaker. Host pastor-for die convention will be the Rev. F. Wildon Col- baugh; of the Medford Assembly -of God. -The hospitality commit i. tee includes the Rev. Wm. Turn- bull, chairman, Jacksonville; the Rev. Lawrence D. Krause, of the Bethel Assembly, Medford: the Hev. Morris Nylander, Talent; the Rev. Lyman D. Stiles, ZledV ford; and Rev. E. E. Rails, Four Corners. Tht. Sm tUm im 4iry,m Umt ford has been host for the Ore Con district council of the As semblies of God. Last year's con vention was held in Portland. Berlin UJ0 The 0. C. - Army Saturday Jiiled Pvt TT1 Uim A. -Verdine wtUs it in vestijates whether 1m was cb rmt rrizt l"ri Cii ct r"ra L wsa ia CxrL. c'J.Jjv
