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iffs Mm Em urn l nni in t wwiviwmwmvMmn, i ''Jm)mniwtim$ii,itivMiimmi) iii im turn Liimmuunnuipw ! - , - ' ' 5 ' - , I , ' : pillilllliiiilil ' ' 1 ' " " ' ' JlX tf-. . -j " "'" r ; ii ,,;, ' ,l ' x' ' ft i IlllllliiiPl OPERATION SNOWBIRD Trooper? of the 503rd Airborne Regimental Combat Team begin a cross-country-march (bottom) on snowshoes following mass parachute drop (top) atTalkeetn?; Alaska, which opened Phase Two of the Joint Army-Air Force maneuver, "Exercise Snowbird." - - Death and I Eleporfed in Two deaths, injuries from burns, and a possible suicide were reported in Medford today. One man died after a fall, an Eagle Point woman was criti cally burned, a Medford baby died, ; apparently from natural causes, after attempts at resus citation failed; and a 16-year-old Medford girl was admitted , to a local hospital for treatment of an overdose of sleeping pills after what may , have been a suicide . attempt. . ' . ; . Edward J. Condon. 53.' a for mer member at the Camp-White4 veterans home, died at a local hospital this morning. He was hospitalized by Medford Am bulance attendants after being found near a boxcar, on the sid ine at the Southern Pacific sta tion. He apparently had. fallen from the car, police said, after his foot slipped on an icy sur face, striking his head and in flicting injuries which proved fatal. Survivors include a daugh ter in Colorado Springs, Colo. Baby Diet Harold Sliger Jr., the 2-jnonths-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sliger, 766 Agate st., died yesterday, and his attend ing physician said the cause ap parently was due to a heart ail ment. A post mortem examina tion to determine the exact cause is to be performed today. The baby had been dead sev eral hours when he was found, the jshysician said. Police offi cers and ambulance attendants worked for some time with arti ficial respiration end a resusci tator until the physician arrived Montgomery Ward Wins Damage Suit in Portland I- Portland (U.R) Montgomery .Ward & Company yesterday was awarded $10,750 damages . against six railroads and 28 mo tor truck carriers. :- The suit was filed tn Portland " Federal Court Dec. 3, 1942, and originally claimed . actual . and punitive damages in excess, of three million dollars. Damages were sought because carriers re fused to cross picket lines dur ing a Ward employes strike here between December, 1940, and July, 1941. Mayor Issues Piea To CitfsDog Owners ' Medford's Mayor Earl Mil ler last night issued a public plea for dog owners of the city to "act on their honor" to keep their animals off neighbors' properly during the planting , season. r He reported he received nu merous telephone caUs last week from garden cwners. that dogs were hampering their work. : ' ,r': " ? The mayor added that, even though there is no city law re- quiring dog confinement dur ing the planting and growing season, he was "sure that dog owners would take the matter in hand and police thtir own situations to avoid neighbor hood : conflicts." v : Prosecution in "exirem situations" can be made under the city's nuisance ordinance, when a complaint is made, he poinied out. - n j iiries Medford and pronounced the baby dead. ; The 16-year-old girl is in good condition ; this morning, after being admitted to a hospital for treatment of a sleeping pill overdose- last nightr Sheriff's depu ties have not listed it as an at tempted suicide, but they said the girl recently ran away from home after 'an argument with her family. Investigation is con tinuing, they said. Refugees Evacuated '': Taipeh, ' ; Formosa - (U.R)-An American .- destroyer ; escorted a shipload of, 538 war refugees from Tachen Island to a For mosa port today after National ist warships beat off four Red Chinese heavy gunboats.' The X refugees, who reported the gun battle between Nation alist and Communist warships, said other ships were on their, way " to Formosa from Tachen carrying the first heavy- equips ment to be evacuated from the bomb and shell-torn islands. The pullout of heavy equip ment could' not be " confirmed officially here but the evacuees said the Nationalist troops were dismantling their1 pre-f abricated barracks and vital heavy mili tary equipment for shipment to Formosa. City Building Permit Values Up in January, ' Valuation of building permits issued in Medford during Janu ary totaled $161,910.63, city of ficials, said today, continuing a strong upward building trend in the city. - ' . The total was down from the figure for January of last year, but it was pointed out that was the month when a permit for the new First National bank build ing totaling $325,219, was taken out. Less the bank permit, valu ations in January of 1954 totaled $39,885 less than last month's. - The new total was consider ably higher than that -for Janu ary, 1953, which was only $45,724and for December, 1954, which was $94,935. . Oregon Resolution Would Support Ike Salem (U.R) A joint reso lution to put the Oregon legis l:ture on record giving "unequi vocal backing", to President Eis enhower and Congress on the Formosa resolution was intro duced by. GOP leaders today. State Sens. Mark Hatfield and Gene Brown said they were seeking bi-partisan support for the proposal. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 407.11 off 2.59; 20 railroads 142.97 , off 0.69; 15 utilities 62.23 up 0.14; and 65 stocks 149.82 off 0.66. Sales to day were about 3,210,000 shares compared with 3,320,000 shares traded yesterday. Salem (U.R) A bill to in crease the tax on beer in Oregon has been introduced in the Ore gon House. The proposal would raise some $1,250,000 a year in additional revenue. Federallnconie i Tax Offset Seen To Be 'Dead Duck' Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson's proposal to elim inate the federal tax offset pro vision in the Oregon; income tax law "is a dead duck,"Sen. Ru die Wilhelm Jr., . (R-Portland), chairman of the Senate commit tee on taxation, said today. He made the observation in commenting ; on a four - point revenue raising .. program pro posed by the Democratic state legislative .f .policy 1 committee headed by Sen. Robert "Holmes of; Gearbart;----'-' Surtax Meets Approval The Democratic tax program, including a ' surtax on state in come taxes instead of removal of the federal tax offset and a boost in liquor prices, met with the approval in general of Rep. Loran I. Stewart of Cottage Grove, House Speaker Edward A. Geary of Klamath Falls, Sen ate President Elmo E. Smith of John Day, and Sen. Wilhelm Republicans all.; They were un animous in preferring, the sur tax, proposal as more realistic than removal of the federal tax offset. Oppose Property Tax - The Democrats expressed op position to a state tax on real property "because local demands already impose a heavy burden upon property, and because far mers and ranchers in particular, with sagging earnings, must not be asked to take on the addition al .burden which a state levy would impose." - ' f The committee also opposed a sales tax on grounds that it "is an unfair tax .". . discriminatory against the people in the low income brackets."- ' - l.The surtax would range from $5 on an income of $3000 a year to $586 on an income of $50,000. A person with one dependent would pay: on $3000 income, present tax of $18, plus surtax cf $5; with $5000 income, $67 present tax plus $21 surtax: and with $10,000 income, $246 pres ent tax plus $74 surtax; with $50,000 income, $1954 present tax plus $586 surtax. , ;: 1 Weather FORECAST: Clearing and colder tonight with low near 24. Considerable f or Thursday morning. Fair and a little warmer daring afternoon with high 45. Temp. Highest Yesterday .J 40 Lowest this Morning 31- Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today .02 . ; 1 Groundhog Sees Shadow; More Winter Due Punxsutawney, Pa. - (U.R) The Punxsutawney groundhog poked out of his burrow through six inches of new snow today, gave a snort of disgust and scoot ed underground again to sleep out six more' weeks of winter. The old fellow made only a brief appearance and "was lucky to see his shadow at all," Sam Light,, president of the Punxsu tawney Groundhog club report ed. . . .. .; .. : Up- until almost the very mo ment the fabled phenomenon oc curred at 8:51. a.m., it was still snowing " atop nearby Canoe ridga where th "Old Seer of MEDFGRD&tTRIBUNE united fress Full Leased Wire 49th Year 16 Pages Hospital Site Sale Being Considered By City Councilmen Highland Drive ? Area Proposed Proposed sale of city-owned property on Highland dr. to the Medford Hospital association for a new hospital site was referred for study and a report , at the next meeting by city council men last night. The . site, totaling 21 acres, is adjacent to. the IOOF cemetery and Bear Creek. It is now leas ed to City Sanitary service for vehicle storage. ... Maypr Earl Miller told repre sentatives of the association that the area was originally set aside f for future park purposes, and that this has to be considered to gether with the need for a new hospital. Needs Cited The Rev. George R. V. Bol ster was the hospital group spokesman. He described the need for expanded hospital fa cilities, the desirability of the proposed site. He termed the site ;"ideal" from the hospital stand point. :. -;' - Attorney Otto Frohnmayer added that the site complies with the basic factors of accessibility, and sewer and -water availabil ity. He added that "even with a reasonable amount of speed in construction, it would take from two to three years to erect a new hospital." He said the associa tion has close to $300,000 in funds, and a public campaign for more would open in late spring. ; ; " r ; Planners Recommend Site The city planning commission submitted a letter to the coun cil recommending that the council negotiate' for. sale of the property. ''7': ' '- -' The Rev. Mr , Bolster discus sed fKe 'growth of "medical needs in the Medford area; stating that adequate hospital facilities " are "drastically" lacking. He de scribed the area as having a "very great medical center po tential, but: lacking in . treat ment facilities." (See story on Page 10) Court, Jury View Alleged Crime Scene - The re-trial of LeRoy Starkey, 20, was in its second day to day. Curt officials, : attorneys and the jury viewe'd the premis es of the. alleged crime in Jack sonville . this morning, and op ening arguments were expected to follow in circuit court, 'ac cording to the district attorney's office. - .. Starkey, "jot Eagle Point, is charged with assault and rob bery while armed with a dang erous weapon. The charge in volves the stabbing of .John Philip Henselman last April at the latter's studio-home. 7 At the first trial, Starkey was , oonvicted and sentenced to a1 period not to 'exceed 10 years in the state . prison, but a re-trial was granted. Judge James Bain, Portland, is presiding. - Demos Seek Repeal of Flexible Farm Program ' Washington--XU.R) Democratic farm leaders in the House today launched their promised attempt to repeal the Eisenhower admin istration's flexible farm program and'restdre rigid high price sup ports for five basic crops. ; It looked like an uphill fight. There was little prospect the bill could be pushed through Con gress before next year,- if; then. Moreover, supporters conceded in advanced it. couldn't muster enough votes to override a pos sible presidential veto, v " Gobbler's home. '. Knob" makes his If there are any ground; hogs in or around Medford,; and if they came out of their holes early this morning, ihey didn't see their shadows. . And if there's any truth to the old superstition about ground hogs, .this, means there, will not be six more weeks of winter. If anyone believes the " su perstition,' there was a little sunshine this" morning, but not until about 10 o'clock, if thai makes any difference. - Light, a. prominent district MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1955 Tests of Nuclear Weopons At Nevada Proving Ground Washington U.R) Nine thousand officers and men of all the military services will partici-. pate in tests of "new and improved nuclear . weapons'Vstarting at. the Nevada Proving ground this month. The tests, originally announced by the Atom ic Energy commission last September, will be designated Operation Teapot, a Def ense"depart-; ment announcement said. A highlight will be an assault by helicopter borne Marines on an "enemy" position following an atomic explosion. . . Air Force planes flying from both United States and overseas bases, and Navy and Marine Corps aircraft will participate in the test series. The department gave no indication, howeyer, raiser 9 roductloii bi -Rfledfbnl Area Plans for a big new ' green veneer operation with the third similar venture to be announced within ' the 1 past two months, were made known today. -- - A new corporation, Oregon Veneer company, is being form- 'Phone Installation AtCP,erla - C?ntr jaoiT..The Pacific Telephone and,"Telegraph . ' com pany began installing dial , tele phones in the Central Point area this weekl The j6b is expected to be completed by the end of March. r " . . 1 The new dial telephone office here is to begin operation April 2. Some 1,200 new telephones are being 1 installed, - about - 400 of them for residents now with out service, and some "600 for present subscribers,' whose manual-type 'phones will remain hooked up until the change to dial operation. . ' -: Jack Creager, company man ager, said some 200 subscribers now served by the Medford of fice, rwill be ' switched to the Central Point exchange. They will not need new telephones, but new telephone numbers will be assigned to them." ' The installation work is . be ing handled by a seven-member crew under Supervising Wire Chief R. P. Rogers, with Fore man Bill Williams and Earl De Lisle in charge. Appointments To Give Blood Being Accepted Appointments to . give blood during next week's visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile are now being accepted, it was announc ed today. They can be made by tele phoning .3-3813. The donation period wili be from 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. "8. As usual, lit will be at the Elks temple. . Some 300 or more donors are being sought at this time. The bloodmobile , visits here every other month,; and 300 - pints would be just enough to fill the local blood needs of 100 to 150 pints monthly. . "Portland (U.RX Directors -of the Oregon A Grade Producers Association have approved a pro posed state milk law establishing minimum prices of grade A milk. coal operator who receives the annual reading v from the na tion's; most "prominent weather f orecaster, reported "the .unex pected happened. A spot of sun shine broke through the ' clouds and almost scared the bid boy to death." ' ' : " i As everyone well knows, ; if there had been no shadow, ah early' spring would 'nave been assured. , Light "wore long . underwear under his swallow-tail coat. Ear muffs protruded from beneath his traditional high silk -hat as the" club 'made its annual trek into the foothills of the Alle gheny mountains. that any of these The Defense ate the effects weapons and to n7- ed for the purpose. Signing the articles of. incorporation will be George Flanagan, vice-president and general manager of Elk Lumber company; Loren Haug en, president of Medford Veneer and Plywood Corp., and Attorn ey John Dellenback. Two . Firms Hold Stock Stock in the new firm will be held by Elk Lumber company and Medford Veneer and Ply wood Corp., -be announcement said. Elk will undertake to sup ply 'the hew company with1 log supplies,? while the veneer 1 f : will purchase veneer production from the. new company. . . Original capitalization will be $100,000.. The plant will cost an estimated $300,000 to build, and '' will be located on a site in the vicinity of Medord.' Pro duction figures are estimated to be about 12,000,000 square feet of 1-12 . inch veneer per month. The newest and most efficient veneer ; equipment will be ord ered soon, the incorporators said.' About 60 men will be em ployed, operating on two shifts, with an annual payroll of some $300,000. - : ?X In Late Summer It is planned to be ready to begin operations by late this summer. Flanagan will be pres ident of the new corporation, and Haugen7 will. be vice-president and general manager.-" The other major plywood or veneer plants announced recent ly include thqse planned by Fir Ply Co., which has a new plant under construction in the White City area, and another .. group of unidentified lumbermen which announced plans for a $1,500,000 mill late in Decemb er.1' No further announcement of plans has been made as yet by the second group. Congressman: Seeks? Plan for Scientists ! ' Washington U.R) -Rep. Carl Hinshaw (R-Calif.), appealed to day for a new plan to prevent the armed services from drafting badly needed scientists and tech: nicians and putting them to work "peeling potatoes." r Hinshaw planned to press his idea before the House Armed Services Committee' in hearings on the administration's request for a four year extension of the draft. He said the -services have "hundreds of Ph.D.'s peeling po tatoes and doing other -time-wasting jobs." . Comptroller Nomination Attacked by Democrats -: ; Washington (U.R) De mocrats fired heavily today at President Eisenhower's nomin ation of Joseph - Campbell as comptroller general, the "watch dog" over all government ex penditures. ' ' They got an assist from a Re publican, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, who complain ed that Mr. Eisenhower did not consult Congress about the ap-pointment.-.' ' ' Salem (U.R) Rep. G. D. Gleason (D-Portland) told the Oregon House that a "terrible disaster" has struck Multnomah county where he said 3,000 per sons receiving state welfare as sistance "are, going hungry." United Preu i'uil ceased Wire - Price 5c No. 272 ScfiecFuecJ This Month planes will drop atomic weap ons. Indications are that most o tne snots will be from high steel towers. v department said its participation in Operation. Teapot will be designed 4 to evalu of new and improved nuclear ascertain factual information re quired for the maintenance of up "to date plans vital to the security and defense of our nation." Only by such tests, the announcement said, can military, men be sure ''that their plans are based on proven facts rather than theoretical concepts." . V The announcement emphasized that "much progress" has been made in developing military organizations and tactics for nuclear warfare. School Buildings Shanties Leveled In Mississippi Tunica, Miss. (U.R) Torna does left at least 30 dead today in the ruins of school buildings and share croppers' - shanties that tumbled , down in the storm's rampage across ; three southern states. ;.. ' . Officials feared the death toll would rise as National Guards men searched splintered cabins and flattened schools on Missis sippi plantations for more bodies. More than half those found were children. . . Hospitals Jammed . The black funnel jammed hos pitals with - 125 mangled- or stunned victims and drove more than 500 persons . from their homes' before -blowing " out in aoama. : Several frightened Negro school - children saw the big twister ' approaching a ' cotton plantation at Robinsville, Miss., and crawled to safety in the hol low trunk of an "old tree" that long had been dead. : Bodies Everywhere ; . Highway. - Patrolmen . , Don Spencer and Harold Kidd were among ' the first to ' reach the Robinsonville Ecehe. -t s . "Bodies were - scattered all over the place," Spencer said. "Two cars had been blown from in front of the school into fields several hundred yards away." At Least 35 Dead Expected . Chief investigating officer L. C. Hicks of the Mississippi High way Patrol said it appeared the fatality list would rise to "at least 35 or more." The tornadoes ? broke down power lines as they, bore down on two Arkansas plantations, leaped the Mississippi river and lashed six more plantations in Mississippi' There were no cas ualties in Arkansas' but eight persons were injured in Ala bama, where the storm was dis sipated Sexy TV Star Fired After Public Protests Hollywood - (U.R) Sexy television siren Voluptua, fired after letters flooded her station and complained she was tearing down Hollywood morals, said today she "just wanted to bring lots of love" to her audience. "I can't understand why peo ple objected to me," the statues que blonde sniffled. "I just want ed to bring them lots of love and they didn't appreciate it. I though sex was here to. stay." Voluptua, ' whose real name is Gloria Pall,, was fired y ester-, day by local TV station KB AC in the wake of indignant com plaints by church groups.the Parent-Teachers association, and similar groups. , . , , . ENGINE FAILS ;; Boise, Ida. (U.R) A twin erigihed C46 .' transport . plane with 37 soldiers and a crew of four aboard returned safely to Boise early today after an en gine failed near King Hill, Ida. Miami Beach, Fla. (U.R) The AFL Executive Couiicil has ac cused Secretary of Labor James P, Mitchell of refusing to do any thing about "chiseling, wage-cutting and law-violating contrac tors" on defense projects. a - ; Portland (U.R) The USS Mathews, a combat cargo ship, is scheduled to arrive here this week , for - a ' two-months overhaul Total Surrender Of Formosa Again Demanded by Reds Chiang Wants Islands' Defense Guaranteed United Nations, N.Y. U.R) Prospects for a Formosan cease firs under U.N. auspices dimmed considerably today. ... Red China reiterated her de mands for total surrender of v Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's island bastion, and it was indi cated that if the Reds -agreed to send representatives to a' U.N. debate they would do so only in a role which would brand the United States an aggressor. In London. India's Jawahrlal nNehru " was reported actively seeking a Geneva-type confer- ' ence, outside the United Nations, to settle the Formosan crisis. Nationalist Demands On Formosa, the' Nationalist Chinese, bitterly opposed both to a cease fire and to the UJf. invitation to the Reds, were re ported placing new conditions upon American plans for evacu ation of the Tachen islands. Despite their rapidly deterior ating military position on the small. ; island chain off- Red China's mainland, the National ists were reported demanding a : public guarantee from the Unit ed States that Quemoy, Matsu and other islands wili be jointly defended. V Nehru was said to have put forward his plan, which still is nebulous, at the current meeting ; of the British Commonwealth prime ministers. . '. " , f His thought would not be to confine the conference to For mosa, but also to permit discus sion of . Korea, Germany, and other trouble spots. - : Red China Unyielding ' Red China's unyielding stand was said to have been made clear , late yesterday in a meet ing .between Nehru and Pei ping's diplomatic representative in London. - r . Reports of their meeting, re ceived from the British capital, said the Chinese diplomat, Huan . Hslang, made it clear in his con- -versatibns with Nehru that Pei ping will not agree to any "two Chinas" settlement. i , U.S.Mof To Let Reds Get Formosa - Washmgtdn--- (U.R) President Eisenhower declared today that the United States is not going to let the Communists get For mosa." - ; The President at his news con ference said at the same time that American policy in the pres ent critical situation v is to try honestly and hopefully; to pre vent a war. :-J:: .'; f But he expressed on several occasions U. S. determination to defend Formosa. 4 : He also said that use of-Ameri can ground forces in this con nection has not been considered. Mr. Eisenhower said that the purpose : of administration pol icy is to make certain that no conflict occurs through a mis take in calculation by the other side ' regarding our concern : for Formosa and our determination to defend it. North African Debate May Topple Mendes Paris - U.R) The National Assembly begins discussion to day of . France's North African troubles in a showdown debate, that may topple the government of Priemej Pierre Mendes France. ;. ., . I The critical mood of the as sembly was shown Tuesday night. .when, it voted 580 to 34 to shunt aside a minor section of Mendes-France's budget deal ing with pay raises for lesser government employees. ' The' stinging defeat was the second in two days and raised hopes among Mendes - France's political enemies they could get rid of him and his German re armament policies by the end of the week. Nixon's Caribbean Trip To Stress Importance Washington U.R) -Vice-President Richard M. Nixon aid to day President Eisenhower is sending him to Central America and the1 Caribbean to demon strate the "tremendous import-. ance" the ' United States at taches to friendly relations with Its next door neighbors. . Nixon 'conferred with Mr.' Eisenhower at a White House breakfast 'this ' morning. The meeting lasted for 70 minutes,' and most of the time was devot ed to discussing Nixon'i forth", coming trip, Nixon said
