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Dike's i Washington (U.R) President TSisenhower' today laid before Congress' an - eight-point, 571 750,000 program to improve the nation's health and ease the financial burden of medical care for millions of families. Repeat Request , , Keystone of the program was a repeat request for the federal health, reinsurance plan which Congress rejected : last : year, Under this proposal, a govern ment agency with an initial cap italization of $25,000,000 would underwrite the extra risks which private health insurance firms would face in offering more Xaprehensive benefits and , oioader coverage to policy holders. ' Pleading for approval of the plan this year, Mr. Eisenhower said many private health insur ance policies now offered are "too limited in scone.'' He said they are expensive and hard to get for some individuals and families, particularly those in rural areas. Better Protection He said the reinsurance plan involves "no government .sub sidy. " He called it simply a "sound and effective" method of . encouraging private firms ; to offer policies that provide "bet ter protection . . . against expen sive illness" and which, cover ."medical care costs in the home end physicians office as well as In the hospital." - - " Other major items in his pro gram were a $20,000,000 a year program of direct federal pay ments to help the states provide medical care for the blind, aged,. orphans and others on relief rolls; a $15,000,000 appropria ; tion to launch a new program of Y federal insurance for private hospital construction mortgages; expanded grants for training nurses; mental health research, Oregon Lawmaker To Propose State , Live Within Means .-. . v L j - v .. . . . w j Salem (U.PJ A Washington county lawmaker said today he will introduce a resolution in the house demanding that - Oregon start living within its means. Rep. John Hare of Hillsboro malA tVio nntciira -tnr nevw iavM is increasing and that they may soon exceed the ability, of ; the people to pay. As a result, the Joint Ways and Means Commit tee should be instructed to turn down all bills that call for new spending unless the money to pay the cost is actually in sight. Wants Money Included " His resolution would stipulate that all bills provide for raising the additional money needed or that they be held up until the house has passed companion measures to raise the necessary -money! Hare ' further., would stipulate that - the necessary money be raised without any . new tax on real or personal property. iv "It is time to call a halt Hare said. He added that "if the line is held against increasing our tax load, Oregon's increased 'wealth will soon enable us to increase expenditures and provide public services without increasing the tax burden." ' ' The Washington county seed grass grower said the ."real property taxpayers have few champions." ... I , Nilsen Speaks in Favor; Of Conciliation Service Tillamook (U.R) State Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen said Saturday the formation of an Oregon Conciliation Service "would make a real contribution to industrial peace: in the state." ' A measure calling for the crea tion of such a service has been introduced into the Oregon leg islature. ' , Nilsen was principal speaker here before some 200 delegates attending the AFL Building Trades two-day conclave. - Nilsen praised the lack of labor strife in Oregon since the end of World War n. Funds for Talent Project May Be Added To Federal Budget, Patterson Believes Portland U.R) Gov. Paul Patterson, who returned from a conference with White House and Bureau of the Budget offi cials in Washington, D.C., last night, said he believed funds for I Talent project would ; be iJded to the budget.' Patterson said funds were net included in the federal bud get for the Talent reclamation project in southern Oregon be cause reclamation estimates had air pollution control, and treat ment of juvenile delinquency. No Price Tags Included r ' Mr. Eisenhower's 2500 - word message, read to - the House by clerks, did not carry price tags on the various health programs. But his previously : . submitted budget for fiscal 1956 showed the appropriations - earmarked for the projects. They totaled $71,750,000 over existing health programs. Proposed Non-High Budget for 1955-56 Totals $336, A total budget of $336,200 for 1055-56 was DroDOsed Saturday by the Jackson County Non-High bcnool District board. This was an increase of $38,450 over that for the current school year, ac cording to County. School Supt. Alf Mekvold. v He explained that an increase oi vu siuaents is estimated for the next school year over the actual enrollment at the present time. "This is about 14 ner cent over the present enrollment, which increased this year over last by .under 6 per cent, he added. Hearing March 4 i A hearing date on the budget has been set for 11 a.m., March 4. The. budget for the Jackson County Rural School board will be heard at 10 a.m. the same day. jThe county school's office es timates that the ' non-high dis tricts will have 713 students next year for the 13 districts. Of the total proposed budget, $306,000 is for tuition, which is up $36,000 over the current year, and $24,000 for transporta tion, up by $2,800. The board does not anticinate any cash balances at the end of the present year. The estimated basic support - fund. . from- the state is $53,000, leaving $283,200 to De raised on the local level. Committee Officers ----- Budget committee officers named by the committee were G..- W. Ragsdale, chairman, and V. A. Turpin, secretary. .In the afternoon, the rural board , met and accepted ' the resignation of Carl Quackenbush from the non-high board. Dun bar Carpenter was named to fill the vacancy until the next an nual school election. The . rural board considered special transportation problems in connection- with non-high stu dents, attending Ashland schools from Pinehurst; Elk-Train stu dents : attending Eagle Point schools, and Evans Valley stu dents going to Grants Pass and Rogue River. Coquille Teenagers", Killed in Aulo Upset North Bend, Ore. U.R) Two Coquille teenagers were killed early Sunday when their car plunged off highway 101, two miles north of North Bend, and rolled over. Two other youths, including the driver, were injured. - Dead were Clinton Ellsworth Martindale, 19, and James Brad ford, 17. Lowell i Max Miller, 19, who told police he was driving, suf fered cuts and bruises and Charles . Edward Reed, 18, was taken to a North Bend hospital with a fractured leg. Officer Ed Gammon of the North Bend police said Miller told him the car was doing about 70 miles an hour when he swung out to pass another car and struck a soft shoulder. The car plunged off the road and over turned. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New ' York (U.PJ Dow- Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 408.83 . up 4.15, 20 railroads 144.34 up 0.14; 15 util ities 62.02 up 0.14, and 65 stocks 150.49 up 0.91. Sales today were about 3,500,000 shares, com pared with ; 3,290,000 shares traded Friday. been based on old figures, But he said he. was "extreme ly hopeful" that the budget sup plement would be made. The governor, who left for Washington last Tuesday, said he also believed funds for the start of planning on the John Day dam would be available early this spring. . Money for John Day planning was included in President Eisen hower's budget . message but MEDFORD&JTRIfiUIE United Win Full incased Wire 49th Year 12 Pages Boxing, Legitimate Theaters Refused Lav Exemption Anti-Trust Laws Applied by Court Washington (U.R) The Su preme Court held today that pro fessional boxing and' the legiti mate theater are subject to the anti-trust laws. . It refused to extend to them the exemption from monopoly prosecution which it has granted organized baseball. - - la two separate rulings, .- it cleared the way for the Justice Department to press anti-trust suits against the International Boxing Clubs of New York and Chicago and against the far-flung Shubert Theater interests. The court did not find either of these groups guilty of violat ing the anti-trust laws. It simply held that the government may prosecute them on such charges. Narrow Interpretation Both, decisions had the effect of placing a strict and narrow interpretation on the court's 1953 ruling that organized baseball is a sport, not a business sub ject to anti-trust laws.' This ruling . had been claimed as a precedent foe exempting both boxing and the booking of stage plays and . musicals . from, anti trust prosecution. - - ; ? In a 6-2 decision on the boxing case, ' with Chief - Justice .Earl Warren speaking for the majority,- the court rejected the argu ment that the baseball decision immunized all "businesses that involve exhibitions of an athletic nature." The majority noted that baseball was first exempted from the anti-trust laws by a 1922 Supreme Court decision. What the court did in 1953 was to hold that Congress, by failing to pass legislation specifically bringing baseball under the laws, had in dicated ..4n the 31-year interim that it waiitaseba& exempt Congress Most Do- It ? No such situation prevailed for boxing and if ; it . is to be ex empted, Congress must do it by law,' the majority said. The ; th&ter ; decision permits civil prosecution of Jacob J. Shu bert and Marcus Herman of New York and three corporations con trolled by them which, the gov ernment - contends, operate or snare operation oi 40 legitimate theaters in eight states! . ' Today's session was the court's first after: a xecess ; of several weeks. ?'-,"- Gen. Ridgway Silent -On Manpower Cuts WashingtonT-4U.R) Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway declined today to say: publicly whether the Joint Chiefs of Staff approved manpower cuts ordered . for the armed forces by President Eis enhower. - The Army chiefs reluctance to speak out followed an accu sation by Chairman Carl Vinson of ' the Houses Armed Services committee that the administra tion had flouted the will of Con gress by cutting Army strength by 70,000 men during the cur rent fiscal' year: : When Ridgway told the. com mittee he would prefer to an swer tne question about Joint Chiefs' approval of the manpow er cuts in a closed session, , com mittee members protested. Rep.: W..; Sterling Cole (R.- N.Y.) said "the pubUc is entitled to know" whether Ridgway and the other top military men ap proved the cuts. Mosier Rancher Pleads Innocent in Shooting The Dalles (U.R) Joseph Warren Ferguson, 39ear-old Mosier rancher, - cnarged witn manslaughter' in the death of his brother-in-law, Charles Ed win Eaton, entered a plea of in nocent in Wasco county circuit court Saturday. , - would not be available until this summer when approved by Con gress. But Patterson said funds not used on other reclamation proj ects would' probably be used for John Day planning, and also for the Cougar and Green Peter projects in the .upper .Willam ette basin. - - Patterson said he believed the administration w o u 1 d request these funds from Congress at an early date, ' . . " MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1955 U5 f ft :'Z ; rl Cw zzz!zi.zz. d( .'vp"1 life " 4 w' " f'-i PL ANN IN 6 TONIGHT'S M OTHER S : MARCH Five of i the approximately 1,200 Medford mothers who will march between 7 and 8 o'clock tonight in the annual Mothers' March on Polio, are shown above going over last minute plans. Left to right, they are Mrs. -Lew Miles, city chairman,' Mrs. William Hurt; OslbsrSi m v Medford has a chance to go over" the top" in ' the March of Dimes campaign ' if the citizens of Medford give generously i to night, Mrs. Lew Miles, city chair man of the Mothers' : March on Polio, said today. Mothers .will, call at houses from 7 to 8 p. m. for . a con tribution ' to the fight- against infantile - paralysis. Mrs. . Miles reminded that the-block work ers will call only at ; houses where a lighted porch light or; a candle or other light in the win dow signals the invitation. A handkerchief or a shoe tied to a door knob will be the apartment or hotel room: invitation. The grand : march, in which some 1,200 mothers will take part in Medford alone is the cli max to the month-long March of Dimes drive Mrs. Miles explained that all authorized workers will carry a scroll for those wishing to sign with their donation. ; It also will serve as identification . for their authority to make the collection, While every effort is being made tOTiave every block in the Morse Sees Danger In Far East Situation v Denver U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind.-Ore.) warned Sunday the Far Eastern situation is '"ap proaching the breaking point," adding "the probability of a war on the- Red Chinese mainland becomes more frightening by the hour." . . Morse,- one of three ; senators who refused to .ratify the presi dent's resolution to defend Na tionalist Formosa and -island put posts, renewed -, his charges the decision "could: lead the Ameri can people into a preventive war against Red China. , He bitterly attacked proposed use of U. S. armed forces to de fend Quemoy and Matsu in the Formosan straits off the main land "where we have- no sover ign or legal right to intervene." Oregon House Passes Two Minor Measures Salem &J.R)--"The House to day passed - two minor measures at . a late morning session and then went into a new schedule to allow more time for consid eration of bills in committee. Unanimous : approval - was given : to bills to permit expan sion and consolidation of high way and street lighting districts and to allow the State Forester to regulate construction of elec tric a transmission lines over state lands. - . , , . , tMa Ufa A Ca W H M 91 united mpaicjn city : covered "like a blanket," Mrs. Miles said that persons who have not : been called upon by 8:30 p. m. may telephone 2-5002 and a car will be dispatched to pick up then donation. ; i Those having dogs are asked to keep them tethered -until the marching mother, lias , called. : Boundaries of the area , to -:be covered follow:- ' ; Aid Being Planned For Phoenix Family s Phoenix Residents of Phoe nix started ' plans : yesterday to aid Mr. and Mxs. Robert W. Stanley, young couple, who lost their possessions in a fire Sat urday. . ; , : . - , The - Stanleys are especially in need of bedroom furnishings and bedding it was said, as well as dishes and . other , essential household ; equipment. . Lumber or building ruoplies . would be welcomed, it' was - said, since the Stanleys would like to re build. . , Mr., and Mrs. Stanley lived in a small apartment near the home of Mrs.: Stanley's parents, Mr. and' Mrs. J. W. Brannon. A recent dMth . in the f amilv and other adversities have beset the Brannons and their children m recent 'months. ; it is reDorted. and all are temporarily unem ployed. . . , , , ; ; Mr. anr! Mrs. dirt Fisher and their daughter, Miss Kay Fish er, 308 Second st., Phoenix, will arrpnt rnnfrihutifins for the dis tressed ; family, and further in formation may be obtained by telephoning 3-1191, the Fisher home; . - Stevens ' Urges Approval -Of Combat-Ready Units ' Washington (U.R) Army Secretary. Robert v T. Stevens urged Congress today! to approve plans - for development of "com bat ready""reserves to offset the "time advantage" Soviet Russia would have in any future war. ' He said this is Vimperative'?, because "a sizable portion of our active forces'' 'will ,: have to be kept overseas "for the long pun ..... was part our commitment to preserve international peace." BLAZE CONTROLLED Firemen were dispatched to 802 Beekman st. about 1:30 p m. today tor extinguish a shed fire. The blaze .; was under control within a short time .but : detail were not available by pms time. i'reu full leased Wire Price 5c . No. 270 W Mml ' : . ....... ' r ' ' ' .... who will assist in the Howard school area; Mrs. R. W. Hugdahl, one of the captains in the Orchard Home dr. district; Mrs. M. . R. North, also of the Howard schcol area,'vand v Mrs. Don Vincent, 'Who -will, assist', in the. Barnett.rd..-area.,l , . - - v " ' . -r-(L. E. McMurray photo) Topper Hoped - Pacific -highway north to Beall lane, Merriman rd. to Table Rock rd., to the airport rd. and Biddle rd. to the Crater Lake highway, Ros? lane to KMED and back on sage v rd. ..to MCAndrews rd., Cherry '. st., Lozier lane, : Oak- grove rd., Casino rd., Perrydale ave., and roads -vithin that area between Bellinger rd. and Jack sonville highway, the area 'be tween -v.- Myers lane, ?' including King's highway, South Peach st., all of Orchard Home dr., Thomas rd. ; extending ' to Jacksonville Phoenix t highway, k Sunnyview lane and Happy Valley dr., , Bar- nettrd. to North Phoenix rd., in cluding , Ellendale . dr.,' South Modoc ave. and Murphy, lane, bpring st. to Modoc ave., includ ing .Eastover .tr. and Country Club Estates, Biddle rd. to Mor row: rd;, Corona ave., to Crater Lake highway, Delta Waters rd to Foothill rd.; Foothills rd. .to Lone: Pine- rd.,: Lone Pine rd. to Springbrook rd., Springbrook rd. from Buckshot Hill rd. to Delta Waters rd., Brookdale : rd.: to Spring st:, -and - the Grandview Market area-. - Communist Bombers Blast Tachen Islands Taipeh; Formosa-- U.R) Chi nese Communist bombers struck today1 at the "Tachen Islands where Nationalist .defenders were reported dismantling their equipment for -an early evacua tion. - ; A Nationalist ' communique said five Soviet built TU2 bomb ers hit lower Tachen Island late this afternoon- killing 16 per sons' and wounding 23. Seven dwellings were destroyed. . -' 'Lower. Tachen is' the. southern naif of the twin island of Tachen, principal Nationalist base in the group 200 miles - north of For mosa. . The Communists ' hurled fire-bombers at the islands Sun day in terrorist raids apparently directed against te civilian pop ulace. Senate Favors Shipping Of Prison Products " Salem (U.R) The Oregon Senate voted today in favor of a 'measure permitting the ship ment of products made by labor in -Oregon State prison outside the " state in time of national emergency. Sen. . Monroe c Sweetland (D Milwaukie) said the '. measure was introduced after the federal government had . twice reminded the State "of Oregon that it was one of the few states that did not have such enabling legisla- lure. - - Weather FORECAST: Cloddy throufh ' - ' Tuesday with occasional rain eelow and snow above 4,900 . feet. Patches of valley f of . Tuesday morning. Little tern-: perature chance. Low tonight 40. High Tuesday 45. " . . Temp. . Highest Yesterday . . .. Lowest this Morning .....4 , Pree. To 4:38 ajn. Today --'..93 President Hopes China Communists Will Participate Soviet Plan Demands US Troop Withdrawal ,United Nations,1 N. Y. (U.R) The U:N. Security Council began an urgent search for a Formosan cease fire today. . Council President Sir Slieslie Knox Miinro, chief delegate from New Zealand, told the council it was his'earnest hope" that Red China would participate in ' the council discussions and said he would propose , that Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold per sonally: extend the, invitation to r Moscow . (U.PJ--- Soviet For eign MinUier V. M..Molotov announced today , that he has relayed to Red China-Britain's recommendations that Peiping. accept a U.N. invitation to join in a , debate of the Formosa crisis. ..I'- i But the Soviet Foreign Min ister made it clear that Russia feels' the United States is at ' fault in Formosa. - , the Peiping regime. - Before the council as it con vened for Its -emergency consul tations were cease fire proposals both from -New Zealand and So viet Russia.' r . . The,. New - Zealand -proposal has the backing of the United States and Britain. The Russian proposal, bitterly -critical of the United States; demands the with drawal of all U.S. and Nationalist Chinese forces from the Formo san area. , ' Red China Objects Even before the meeting : be gan, Red China's official newspa per, Peoples' Daily, denounced the New , Zealand plan as "abso Hitely unacceptable." - , The New Zealand plan has not been published officially but pre sumably would recognize Nation alist China's claims to Formosa and the nearby Pescadores Islands and the U. S. treaty with China pledging U.S. support in case of an attempted Communist invasion. " As its first step the council re jected a Russian motion . which would have banned the represen tative ' of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa government, Dr. Tingf u F. Tsiang, from the debate: " Russian Motion - Defeated - : - The Russian motion, submitted by Soviet delegate Arkady A. Sobolev,'was defeated 10 to 1." Instead, the council adopted a motion by the United States' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "'not to consider any , proposition to ex clude the representative of the Republic of China or to seat rep resentatives of the Peoples - Re pulic of the, Central Government of China." : Munro asked for restraint by all parties ' Parachute pails To Cpon; Jumpor Domnnds DoWor Cno : Fort Richardson; Alaska OJJO There's 'an ' old 7 saying among paratroopers , that ''if the chute doesn't open, take it back and get a new one." ' This is supposed to be a Jose, but Pvt. Stanley A. Melczak of the 11th Airborne division is se rious about it; He's going to take his back as' soon as he gets out of the hospital. ' - - Fell 1000 Feet The 20 - year - old paratrooper from Pittsburgh, Pa., fell 1000 feet into a four-foot, deep snow drift .and lived to demand a bet ter, parachute. He's in the Fort Richardson hospital with a pos sible fracture of the left shoul der and back injuries, but he'll be as good as new in a few weeks. ' . Stanley was one of some 2000 paratroopers who jumped into Party Spokesman : Raps Influence by Vancouver Lawyer East's Background Being Probed by FBI Portland 0J.R) The unlit In the ranks of Oregon's top Repub licans widened today as top of- xiciais DicKerea over - who was going to get the nine-months vacant federal judge seat in the state. . Atty. , Gen. Herbert Brownell and John C. Higgins, a Portland- Vancouver . attorney, were. blamed for blocking the appoint Holman oi Oregon City to the job. i , ; - - " Henry A. Buehner, spokes man for the GOP executive com mittee ' in Multnomah : county, : said a resolution had been sent to President Eisenhower - com plaining over the influence of Higgins in Oregon politics. , ' . Stems From Opposition ..'- "Thi nnpstinn ,n mir mnn " . said Buehner, "is whether Ore gon -Republican affairs are run. by a citizen of Vancouver or by Oregon Republican leaders." His statement stemmed from Hjggins' ' reported opposition to the Holman appointment. Hig gins, has affirmed he: does not favor Holman for. the job, but : has declined to state his rea sons publicly. Higgins is a close friend of Thomas E. Dewey, for mer New - York governor, and Brownell. - Confirmation that Holman'a appointment had been ; effect ively blocked came to light yes. terday in Eugene when it was j. JJmIamJ At. 1r'DT mme MKAkln tat the background of Circuit Judge William G. East for the job.. ' Holman Backed by Cordon Holman was backed for the' (nl. kv Miisnina wnatnir filiv' Cordon and Oregon's three na. Klamath Falls, national commit : teewoman, and Ed G. Boehnke,. . state: chairman, Eugene, both said yesterday they had joined- liUi nauonai conumuwmiiu Jess Gard in endorsing Holman.- Recently, Sen. Richard Neuberger recommended the ap pointment of Edward q. Keueyr Medford" Democrat and attor neyT- to the 'position, as a means of breaking the deadlock. ?r . . Rift Widening - ' xne mi in me ranu oi ior- : state Republicans has been wide ninr- inr Nnhfrffpr defeated Cordon last November in the'.: senatorial race. . ' J ' " In addition to the appoint" ment of a Federal judge, the' on the methods used to, raise': campaign funds. " , Multnomah county - chairman Phil Englehart recently blamed the defeat partially on the .fund!, raising activities of the Citizens , for Eisenhower committee. (farlViVj Dofrinl : dlUI IIW IT.VII To Start Tuesday The re-triaT of LfeRov Elmer ffiud) Starkey Jr 20. Eagle Point, on a charge ox assault ana , robbery while armed with a- , danserous weanon is scheduled ' to begin tomorrow morning, ac cording to the district attorneys office. Starkev. who was sentenced Sept 28 to an indeterminate period in the state prison not to exceed 10 years, after convic tion on the charge, was grantea a new trial by Judge " H. K Hanna after a motion by the de fense. Starkey, has been out on $i,000 property bond, plus $2,500 cash bail since the sentencing. ' The. charge involves the al leged robbery and stabbing - of Philio Henselman, Jacksonville artist, last April. Starkey is represented by At torney. Edward Kelly. District Attorney Walter Nunlay will represent the state.. . . t . the Alaskan wilderness in the . ' past two days in the joint Army Air Force winter maneuver Ex ercise Snowbird. He's the only one whose chute didn't open, r Things happen pretty fast in' a 1000-foot free falL He said the first inkling he had that things were not good was when the. wind blew his seat pack tip over! his face and' he saw it was still unopened. - . Things Happened Fast 'X thought I better pull my reserve chut and I gave the ring -n yank but before it popped I hit the snow. Scared? HecLc, I : ; didn't have time to get scared. ; The first thing I knew I was in a hole in the snow and tryins to get up. My back was hurting and I couldn't make it Then some guys were there and said -take it easy and well get you out of here,' " j
