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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