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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE - .Wednesday, February 2. 1955 o REJECTING sdvIET PROPOSAL that Communist China be seated in place of Nationalist dele gation, UN Security Council adopts U. S. motion to shelve plan. A. A. Sobolev (left), Soviet dele gate, is not voting. Britain's Dixon and U. & Delegate Lodge (r). vote against Reds (International) Council Approves 24-Hour Use Of Traffic Lights in Medford , Medford's city council last night approved operation of city Stop lights 24 hours a day. ' In the past, the lights have worked on a flashing or warning basis oniy, from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., and the walk-wait, signals have been inoperative during the night period. The change will allow the walk-wait. to operate Tday and night. .' ' ' , City Manager Robert Duff recommended the fulltime opera tion after a study by Traffic En gineer Vern Thorpe and Police Chief Charles Champlin. ,.- Duff added that the change is partial ly due to a recent pedestrian fa tality, at Front and Main sts after jthe , walk-wait cycles had gone off for the night. Two Exceptions i The . only two exceptions to the7new..plan will be school crossing lights at " Main and Lindley sts. and Jackson st. and Summit ave. They will operate as previously. sr ' In other traffic matters, an overhead turning signal will be installed at Sixth st. and Cen tral ave., replacing the present wooden post on the street level. ;The ncrright-turn rule on Cen tral ave. will be enfoced only at peak pedestrian and traffic load f"times, officials said : ... 3 Mayor Earl Miller reminded council members of the; coming two-day session of student gov ernment day, on. Feb. 22-23. The annual; banquet in the Elks club will- be sponsored the first eve ning and an ' adjourned council meeting will be held the second night: . ; Legislative Committee : 'A legislative committee, to re view and segregate state legis lature bills p retaining to the city, was named by the mayor. City I Attorney ; Frank Farrell will serve as chairman. Other members are Couricilmen Stan ley Jones Jr." and Donald Han sen. ' . ;. ' T . . Councilman Harold Frye read a report by R. S. Daniels, the city's representative on the arm ory building committee It 'con cerned a meeting on Jan. 28 at which numerous details were gene over with : Lt. Col. Paul Kliever, Salem, . including the proposed sewer connection. It was decided that, provided the South . Bear Creek sanitary sewer would be ready for-use by the time . the armory ', is v com pleted, the armory would con nect with it and contribute to the cost of both the trunk, line and to the lateral. . -Revised 'Milk-Bill A revised , milk ordiriarneeis being prepared by the city at torney for submission to the council at a later meeting, it was reported by a special milk com mittee. - - Two paving assessment ordi- a. nances were approved including nine areas on Keene dr., from Keene Way to Eastwood dr., with a $5,795.60 total, and 17 on South ' Grape st., from end of pavement to Melrose ave.j $18, 089.25. total. A package store liquor . li cesse for the Oakdale market was approved for transfer from the former owners, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Link, to the new owner, Oakdale Market, Inc. Attorney Kenneth Denrnan appeared .before the council representing George Porter and Mr. and Mrs. Justin Smith, owners ... of nine lots between Central ave. and the railroad tracks. The owners are asking that the lots be vacated along Front st. (formerly D'Anjou st.) The matter was referred to the planning commisison. Transfer Referred A; transfer of a Class A' dis penser's license to the pur- Chasers of Bud and Lucille's restaurant was referred to. the planning commission. A total of $33,600 was trans ferred from the general bond fund to the water bond sinking fund, making a total balance of $4Q,000 in the water bond fund. tSee stories on Page 1) 'Boom Town' Idea Growing As Dixon-Yates Pact Aired Memphis Tenn. (U.R) The controversial Dixon-Yates power plan is giving nearby West Mem phis, Ark., "boom town" ideas .even while the controversy over the proposal still rages. -L. ' Under the Dixon-Yates plan, a $107,000,000 "power, plant would be built near West Memphis to send : power into Tennessee Val ley Authority lines to replace power TVA sends the Atomic Energy Commission. , The plan has - made headline news, with a storm of contro versy blowing up in Congress. Residents of the TVA area and many Democrats heartily . de nounce the proposal, while most Republicans contend it wut.save the ' government and the : tax payers money. In West Memphis, just across the Mississippi River from here, they're not even, waiting for a final decision. j Multi-million dollar commer cial and residential plans have been announced, the city wants to expand and annex nearby Hulbert, Ark., and civic leaders talk rosily of what the plant will do for the East Arkansas area.: Head Two Firms And behind it all are two men, virtually unknown to the gen eral' public until they put their names together. Dixon-Yates ; is a combination of last names of Edgar H. Dixon and Eugene A. Yates. Dixon is president of Middle South Utilities: Yates is chair man of the board of the South ern Company. Those two firms control a total of eight private power companies in the South. The Dixon-Yates combined name is used to describe the pro posal by Middle South and the Southern Company to build a power plant under, contract to the AEC. : . Dixon just turned 50 in De cember. He's been a top power officialfor 10 years, and his story could bacalled a typical American success story. He nev er went to college," but he's risen from a $75-a-month junior clerk to a $75,000-a-year presi dent. The first job Dixon had was with Electric Bond and Share Co. of New York. He did a little bit of everything, from sweep ing out the office on up. He moved ahead fast. In 1935, he be came secretary and treasurer of Electric Power and Light Corp., and nine years, later was presi dent of the firm. When Middle South Utilities was formed in 1944, Dixon be came president, a job he still holds. ..... . ;. v' .' Yates College Man Sinatra, Daughter Return To States Hollywood (U.R) Crooner Frank Sinatra and his 14-year-old daughter Nancy, returned by plane : last night from Aus tralia where the singer recently completed ? a personal appear ance tour. " The: singer's former wife, Nancy, met the couple at the airport. She talked with Sinatra for a few moments, then led their daughter away. . Sinatra denied reports of a budding romance between his daughter and crooner Bing Cros by's 16-year-old son, Lindsay, saying such talk was "ridicu lous." - 'They're only kids," Sinatra said. "There isn't anything to it." JCs'DSA Award Given Last Night ToOttoEwaldsen Otto Eweldsen, manager of Swem's, was presented with the 1954 distinguished service award of the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce at a dinner meet ing at the Jackson hotel last nieht. - ; The award was in recognition of his services as a member of the school board, Army reserves, business and civic organizations, and for church work. He was given a certificate" and key by Dick Bowers, president of the Javcees. who was master . of ceremonies. . . Among guests present was John Dellenback, . Medford at torney, who was winner of last year's DS A award. Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, was the speaker, and discussed the value of man, giving criteria for judging that value. Man himself is unimportant, Dr. Stevenson said, but what is important is what a man gives to society. Millionaires are not remem bered for the millions they make but for ! what they do with the money, he said, and he likened Ewaldsen . to the type of man who gives of himself, ; of his t i'm e .and services, without thought of material reward. The -Rev.-G.- H. Hillerman, pastor of Zion Lutheran church, gave the invocation. Radio Announcer Plugs March of Dimes Dixon is a chubby man, with ( - Corvallis U.R) A local radio ifljk I f - Yw'ltimproY any reap , BJWMUf, KITCHEN -i WU: CRAFT .J- . -r i 'Mgn mm Pre-fluffed through silk for lighter baking a receding hair line Ah athlete in his younger days, he now makes woodworking and garden ing his hobbies. He has a com plete woodworking shop in his Tenafly, N. J., home, and often makes repairs around his house. Dixon, like Yates, is a Repub lican and believes the . Dixon- Yates proposal is a good thing for both government and taxpayers. Yates is 74, went to a private school and took an engineering degree at. R u t g e r s. He- then worked as an engineer on con struction. " The construction work" led him into the power field. He was in charge of construction of Ala bama Power Company's first hydro-electric plant .in 1912. Eight years later, the firm called Yates and made him vice-president and general manager. He later became vice president of Southeastern Power and Light, then' had the same title with huge Commonwealth and South ern. Nodding Acquaintance He was elected president of the Southern Company in 1947 and chairman of the board in 1950. Dixon and Yates had only what has been described as a "nodding acquaintance" before getting together on the Dixon- Yates proposal. Yates first sought to interest TVA in letting his firm build a plant to sell TVA power but was turned down. He was told to try the AEC. - . ; Then a' friend suggested that a plant be built in the Memphis area, where power was needed, and that Dixon's firm might be interested in joining such a deal. And that's how Dixon and Yates became Dixon-Yates. Ex-Cordon Employee On Ellsworth's Staff Washington U.R) Rep. Har ris Ellsworth. (R-Ore.) said tdf day Mrs. 'Mary Greenlee Pope of Portland, a former member of the staff of Sen. Guy Cordon, would work for him as a secre tary. Mrs. Pope replaces Mrs Virginia Nichols Mitchell, also of Portland, on Ellsworth's staff. Mrs. Mitchell recently joined the staff of Rep. Howard Smith (D.-Va.). - ; announcer today completed 40 hours, and 10 minutes of contin uous plugging for the March of Dimes in a marathon effort that raised $324.48 Hal Wehmeier, announced for radio station KRUL here ended his stint at 1:10 a jn. after start ing at 9 a.m. Monday. His broad cast was carried on in the win dow of a downtown store. Lis teners contributed to the cause. At the . 36-hour , mark Weh meier showed the small effect the ordeal had on him by going to the high school to broadcast the Corvallis-North Salem bas ketball game. Then he returned to the window to finish up. 4-H Club News Griffin Creek Dairy Club -. The Griffin Creek Dairy Club met Jan. 26. During the meeting a motion was put forth for a ski ing party. It was passed and set for Feb. 6. We also discussed the 4-H amateur contest Bonnie Brantly volunteered to have a report for next meeting and Carole Brantly and Jeanette Robertson are to have a demon stration. The meeting was ad' journed and refreshments were served. - - . " Jeanette Robertson ; c : Reporter : Upper Rogu Club ' The regular meeting of Upper Rogue - Swine : and Beef club which were scheduled for the first Tuesday of every month are being changed to the second Tuesday. Next meeting ' will be Tues day, Feb: 8, at the home of Vel- ma and Robert Peile, at the regular time, 7:30 p.m. V : Nancy Darrohn, - Abortion Charge Brings 5 Years in Pen Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Mrs. Martha M. Jackson, Vancou ver, Wash- was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for aiding and abetting an abortion, . Mrs. Jackson was arrested Sat urday with Arthur H. Sawyer, who is charged with performing an illegal operation. He was held m the city jail here pending f ur ther investigation. SAFEVJAY STORE RENT A N PIANO or ORGAN On A Rental-Sales Plan You may rent a new Baldwin or Wurlitzer Piano or a Hammond Chord or Spinet Organ for at long at six months and have the rental. apply on. the purchase of the instrument if you to desire, v PURUCKER PIANO HOUSE Dean of Journalism Will Speak H ere Next ay Mond for Club Gordon A. Sabine, dean 'of the school of journalism at the University of : Oregon, Eugene, will be theJ speaker at the meet ing of the Rogue Valley Knife and Fork club Monday evening. Club members dinner reser vations must be in the hands of the club secretary, Mrs. - O. A. Eden, 211 Gennessee . st.,'. not later than Saturday. The .meet ing will be at the Rogue Valley Country club. U - " '1 K Dean Sabine, who began his newspaper career as a cub re porter" at the ' age of : 15, has been a writer for newspapers and magazines ever since, but also taught at .the Universities of Kansas, Minnesota and Ore gon. He came to Oregon in i948. He holds bachelor of arts, mas ter of arts and doctor of philos ophy degrees. . Title of his talk is "Of A11 That Human Hearts Endure." t Dean Sabine has won a repu tation in the field of communica tions, serving on nationwide pro fessional groups and societies in journalism, .radio, advertising and education.' - - He is the president of the American Association of Schools Search for Plane Indefinitely Ended Denver U.R) An air arid ground search for a light plane, missing since Thursday with two men aboard, has been suspended indefinitely, the 44th Air Res cue squadron.- at Lowry Air Force base announced today.: Planes and' ground parties searched a widespread area of southern Wyoming and northern Colorado yesterday until poor visibility forced a halt at noon. Officials said it was snowing in the area today and that visi bility .. was poor. "The search will be resumed only if we get a new. lead," officials said. .. The plane, a Cessna 180, car rying T. W. : Masters, the pilot, and Clarence Milligan, both , of Chico, Calif.,- disappeared Thurs day shortly after leaving the air port at Laramie, Wyo. 5 ; and Departments of Journalism In 1951 he spent several weeks at the editorial offices of Time magazine as a "prof essor in resi dence," and in 1953 was award ed a Carnegie Corporation fel lowship for travel and study in educational administration. Ike Stands by Order For Army Reduction Washington ,(U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower, said today he stands by, his ordered -reduction in Army strength , despite 1 the objections , of Gen. Mathew B. Ridgway, Armyxhief of staff. Ridgway told the House Arm ed Services committee earlier this week that the cuts will "jeopardize U.S." security to. a degree." ,., . Present Army strength of 1, 300,000 wiH be reduced to 1,100, 000 by June- 30- and-to 1,025,000 by June 30, 1956, -under the ad ministration's manpower- reduc tion plans. . . . ; - At : his news conference, Mr. Eisenhower rejected a report "that Ridgway's objection to; the Army manpower cut was based on' his belief. that it would be necessary to use ground forces to defend the islands of Quemoy and Matsu's off the China coast as part -of; the defense of For mosa.': " ' " ' Fad Finders Will Resume Rail Dispute Chicago U.R) An emergency fact finding board will resume gearings Feb.. 14 in a wage dis pute between the' Order-of : Rair way Conductors and Brakemen and most of the nation's , rail-; roads, officials said today. The board was created last Nov. 23 to avert a threatened strike by the. union, which has demanded, a graduated basis of pay depending on the' weight of locomotives with the present pay serving as a minimum. ;r President Eisenhower Monday extended to March- the deadline for the board's report. It was the second extension of the "cooling off" period. New Montgomery Ward Officer A r rives Here D. F. Corderman arrivea m Medford this week after 'being transferred from Ferndale, Wash., by Montgomery Ward and company. He will work, out of the Medford store as' a district supervisor . for the ' customer service department of the ; com pany. " His transfer here results from the reduction' of west coast dis trict ' offices of " the ;, company from five to four. . . Mr. and Mrs. Corderman and their son, Larry, 12, have moved to 128 South Keeneway dr. Ike Not To Withdraw Dixon-Yates Contract " Washington r U.R) - President Eisenhower; declared today he has no plans to withdraw the controversial. Dixoh-Yates power contract. v ; : The Democratic controlled Senate-House, r Atomic Energy Committee asked the administra tion by a 10-8 vote last week to cancel the contract.; '; V -: Mr.'!, Eisenhower said . at - his weekly news .conference today that he does not plan. to do that. He added that the congressional committee ; vote.: . was strictly along party ltoes. . . ; A The Dixon-Yatfes contract, ap proved and signed while the Re publicans were still m . control of Congress, is bitterly opposed by Democrats . on the Joint Atomic Committee. - V'r-v;:; Boy Scouts; Troop 8 held ns. regular meet ing Tuesday. We: discussed what we were going to have in our window at Western 'Oil' (Burher for Scout Week. The. patrols will work on the project.; y -7 . Our snow trip '"will be not earlier .than Feb. 22. 'The 27th is the date set if the weather is right. . . r;:!' '' " ' " ; We talked- sonie.: about-Scout camp and that "Scouts -should start saving their; '.money .'. for registration for camp.'. : . Gene Harvey,' Scribe.. Cars Collide at Y ; Junction, No One Hurt Two cars collided at ihe Big Y junction north-of Medford at about 5:20 'p.m.- yesterday, state police said, but no-one -was in jured and damage was reported as relatively minor. - -. . ; . Drivers were Samuel Lovejoy Stevens, 40,, route 3, box: 72, Medford, driving a car owned by Hubbard Wray Co., afad. -C-.ie Arthur Christopher --Mogan, 54, Charleston,,;N.C; .Both drivers told the investigating officer they thought they had a green light." ' - . j No citations were issued. ' V STARICS 2 for 1 Revolving' FLOOR POLISHER win 1IDED AT HO EXTRA COST! .... .. huw one 01 When these KIRBY .aeuum . cleaners. Sec your tlo 1 r f tor FAMOUS USED 9f I p ry VACUUM IvIKD I CLEANERS $)(p)95 ; 2 ONLY FULLY GUARANTEED! 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