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Highest Yesterday 47 Lowest this -Morning 24 United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1955 Price 5c No. 279 Special Election On Oregon Budget Being Discussed Increased Services, Buildings Problem SalenvMU.R) The four legis lative committees charged with balancing Oregon's budget met in joint session today amidst in creasing talk of a special elec tion that would .out the. state's financial dilemma in the laps or tne people. e Oregon must find $65,000,000 m new revenue if it is to main tain increased services and pro vide the new buildings asked for by state institutions. Sen fcRudie Wilhelm Jr., (R-Portland) v told the Senate and House Joint " Ways and Means Committee and the Senate and House Taxation ' Committees it was his opinion a tax program of such magnitude could not be built without re ferring it to the people. People Should Decide 7 Sen. Francis Ziegler (R-Cor- vallis) said the people should decide at a special election how many state services they want and then be asked to vote the increased revenue measures ne cessary, to pay for them. Other wise, he said, the Legislature faces the . chance that it will have its decisions for raising -new money overturned by a jpublic challenge at the polls. But Rep. 'Alfred Corbett (D- Portland) said he thought a re- ferral to the people was an abro gation of the Legislature's re sponsibility. 11. uri.i f 1. Sen. Gene Brown (R-Grants - A - , .1, .'11 1. . iasa; tuiu me commiuees inai Oregon is simply not wealthy enough to support the nation's best schools, top welfare sup port payments, and the best in stitutional, and public health care. Oregon, he said, will have to. be content with some second , rate services for awhile if it is to balance its books. ; : ; r ' ; - Meanwhile, there were more 0 Indications of greater pressures dividual legislators ,rwould cost the state in excess of $11,000, 000 above the budget requests o if they are passed by the Legis lature. And Rep. Ed Cone (R Eugene) said he had learned that o it would cost some five million dollars a year to implement the Barrington report on state sal aries, instead of the $345,000 estimated by Barrington asso- V ciates. ': :. -'' - (See story on Page 14) Price of Coffee iiupvni ricuiuiu 0 Coffee prices in some Med- ford stores went down this week, in conformity : with a general downward trend throughout the nation. .. , : Safeway,, here - as elsewhere in the state, led the price drop, and its three brands went down to 89, 84 and 82 cents, or a half- cent less for coffee purchased in two-DOund lots. The decreases were as much as .18 cents. Other cbrands were unchanged. Some stores reported no changes, and one supermarket lowered the price only on bagged coffee which . is ground at the time of purchase. Another big market reported its brands down lb ana 10 cents per pound, With other brands, not too well known, down 10 cents. They are takins a loss on cof eee . retail sales, they said. V - . Other coffee price changes may be made in the near future, several grocers reported. : Salem U.R) The application of . a Forest Grove taxicab serv ice operator to acquire a permit for passenger bus service be tween ' McMinnvilie ' and Forest Grove has been denied ' by the State Public Utilities Commis sion. Fraternity Brothers 'Terribly Sorry1 Emblem Painted on Panties of Co-Ed Denver (U.R) Members of Kappa Sigma fraternity at Den ver university said they were "terribly sorry" they stood a sor ority girl on her head and sten ciled their fraternity emblem on her panties. ' : "It was all in the nature of good fun," one Kappa - Sigma member said. He described the incident as "spontaneous" and said there wasn't any real rough stuff. ' Girl Unidentified The coed with Kappa Sigma's crescent and star emblazoned on her panties wasn't identified. But Kappa Sigma members agreed to pay for her damaged clothing. " vi ; . , Allwyn . (Skid) Pirtle, second vice-president of the fraternity, EVACUATION OF TACHEN ISLAND GETS UNDERWAY Landing craft of various types and a clutter of small craft (foreground), crowd the harbor of Tachen Island as full-scale evacuation of the besieged Nationalist Chinese outpost gets underway. The evacuation of North Tachen took just short of 14 hours. The Navy estimated that North Tachen contained approximately one-third of the civilians who will be taken off the islands. lOMclhiy laches! SitaaSiioDii Near ; CSemraovaB AboaoiComnipSete Evacuation Said 'Days Ahead' of Original Schedule Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Na tionalist Chinese troops poured into Formosa today from the abandoned and demilitarized Tachen Islands at a clip that promised an endto the -touchy, U. S. protected operation by to morrow or Saturday. Red China has not interfered. - American and Chinese Nation alist transports were 6huttling between this Nationalist island fortress 'and - Chiang Kai-shek'6 vulnerable northern outpost on a, schedule that was "days ahead" off original estimates. One U. S. transport and three Chinese ' LSTs arrived at'- Kee lung today and three more U. S. transports were due in tonight. Troops To Be Moved . ; Chinese Nationalist authori ties said today that as soon as the , evacuation of the Tachens and, nearby islands is completed, the even more dangerous rede ployment of the troops to Que moy, Matsu and Nanchi islands will begin. That operation, which pre sumably will be carried out by the ' Nationalists alone, will re quire transports to move to with in a few thousand yards of the heavily defended Red-held main land. United Press Staff Correspond ent Al Kaff, aboard the USS Yorktown, reported today' that the Reds are trigger-ready for any approach to their territorial waters. . ; ' . Pilots Warned Away '- Communist gunners on islands north of the Tachen Islands hurt ed flak into the skies early to day, Kaff said, to warn away American pilots protecting ,the Tachen evacuation. ' '' . .. Night fighters from the car rier Essex said they encountered sporadic flak from several posi tions north of , the Tachens. No U. S. planes were hit. Washington . (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Pulles will deliver a major, foreign pol icy speech before the Foreign Policy association in New York next Wednesday. said the panty incident occurred because someone had stolen the Kappa Sigma's symbol and a memorial plaque. He said the missing symbol was becoming a campus joke and "it was important to us to get it back." Girls' Lured to House Fraternity members . heard that Alpha . Chi Omega ' sorority members knew something about the missing items. They lured 10 girls from the sorority house to the Sigma Kappa fraternity house with serenades and order ed them to standjtrial; before a kangaroo court. ; The girls, according to Pirtle, were "convicted" and sentenced to Ijave the stolen symbol paint ed on -their foreheads. Senate Of Formosa Treaty Renews Red Warning Washington U.R) The Senate's overwhelming approval of a defense treaty between the United States and the National ist Chinese 'gave "Red China re newed warning today that this country will fight to defend Formosa. - The treaty with Chiang Kai shek's government cleared the Senate. Wednesday night by ,a whopping 64 1 to ' 6 bipartisan vote, far Jnore than the required two-thirds majority, and . was sent to President Eisenhower for his signature. : Narrower in Scope - The treaty is , narrower in scope than the special authority for Formosa's defense voted by both houses of Congress to Pres ident Eisenhower earlier. That action authorized the President to 'defend not only Formosa and the Pescadores Is- Lincoln Day Holiday Observance Spotty , Only' state agencies and the county courthouse will observe Lincoln's birthday this Saturday as a holiday, it was reported today. . - While it is a "legal holiday" in the state, federal offices are not affected, and the city's three banks will be open. Schools will have special ob servances late in the week in honor of the 16th president. State offices, including the Medf or d liquor store, will be a closed all day. . Estimated 6,095,000 Visit Oregon Parks Salem (U.R) An estimated 6,095,000 persons visited Ore gon's state parks in 1954, Parks Superintendent; C. H. Armstrong reported today.' . i This figure is nearly 1,000,000 more than the number of visi tors who checked into the state's 156 parks during 1953. "It was all in the nature of good fun," he said, "and the girls weren't complaining when the kangaroo court found them guilty." , But after several of the girls had the symbol painted on their foreheads, he said, the sentenc ing got out of hand when the unidentified co-ed was stood on her head and the symbol painted on her panties. ' . Fraternity Restricted "Then all hell broke loose," Pirtle said. . :- :; ; v-, The f girls left the fraternity house unescorted. The inter-fraternity council ruled Kappa Sig ma used inexcusable "bad taste" and put the fraternity under strenuous restrictions for K the remainder of the school year. Ratification lands, both of which are covered in the treaty, but also any other Nationalist-held islands off the coast of Red China he deems vital .to Formosa's defense. . Treaty Permanent But the treaty is permanent while the earlier resolution is a temporary measure to specifical ly meet the present Formosa crisis. The resolution expires when; the President - feels the Formosa situation has stablized sufficiently. - ; The six senators voting against the treaty were Dennis Chavez (D-N.M.), Albert Gore, (D-Tenn.), , Estes Kefauver, (D Tenn.), Herbert H. Lehman, (D N.Y.), William Langer, (R-S.D.), and Wayne Morse, (Irid.-Ore.). Restrictions Defeated The treaty was approved after the , Senate defeated efforts to tack on formal restrictions to specifically exclude the islands of Quemoy and Matsu from the territory covered 1 and turned down a proposal to specify that the treaty does not involve the question of , Formosa's legal sovereignty, which was left in doubt by postwar treaties. Churchill Would Meet With Bulganin London' U.R) Prime Min ister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that he. is willing to' meet Russia's new Premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin in a four-power con ference, but only after full rati fication of the German arms agreements. Those 'are- the same condi tions under which the British Prime Minister said he would be willing to;, join in a confer ence with the toppled Russian Premier Georgi Malenkov. He-stated. his .position in ans wer to Laborite demands that he seek: an ; immediate meeting with Bulganin in an attempt to ease world tensions. Roils Triplet Boys Now Ail at Home - The triplet sons of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Rolls, 512 Summit ave.. are all home from the hospital now. They were born Dec. 29, but were kept at Sacred Heart hospital, at first in incubators and later in the nursery, until they gained enough , weight to be taken home. ,.: -:. -x- . The , last tjne ' io ' go home was the first one born Rob ert Jonathan. His birth weight was 3 pounds 13 ounces, and when he went home Tuesday evening he weighed 6 pounds 13 ounces. The third one born, William David, went home last Sun day. He weighed 4 pounds 8 ounces at birth, and 6 pounds 14Vi ounces when taken home. James Thomas, the middle" baby, went home last week. " ;' ' - v 1 Red China Reveals Compulsory Plan Of Military Duty Tokyo (U.R) Red China has announced it is putting mili tary service on a "compulsory basis" to help build up "a mod ern army." Peiping Radio last night broadcast new regulations abandoning "voluntary" mili tary duty for a draft and adopt ing a system of ranks for of ficers."' - .: .' .V .; T ,'' American military experts id the volunteers-label "oh army service was a fraud any way. The decision to give it up and form a regular army based -on systematic laws may have re sulted from experience with the "volunteer" army in Korea, they said. Discontent Produced Red China's patchwork of press-gang methods to persuade troops to "volunteer" produced discontent with the regime at home and desertions by the thousands at the front, it was re ported during the war. American observers attached particular significance to the de cision to create an officer corps. Copco Hearing Halted By Court of Appeals Sacramento '(U.R) A move to ; force the California Oregon Power ; Co., to cease causing fluctuations in the level of the Klamath river was halted today by the Third ' District Court of Appeals pending federal action. The court ruled unanimously all power installation on the river are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Pow er Commission and said the state was not "entitled" to bring to trial its action in the Siskiyou County Superior Court under proceedings before the FPC are concluded. - . The FPC initiated its action No. 27, 1951 and after hearings from June 30 to July 3, 1952 left the matter "pending and , unde cided." ' : .- ',-':) Vrafffc' Kiafllar PescriibedwfieinnieDtisfiiraliedl ' Radar is not a thing of magic and it does not answer all the evils, but it is an effective ' and useful tool ; in : traffic 5 control, Lt. Clarence Raines of the. Eu gene police department said yes terday.:.. V; . , : ,.' I .' ' Lieutenant Raines, who is in charge; of the Eugene police traffic detail, was , in Medford yesterday to demonstrate radar equipment to .-Medford Safety council members, city police and others interested. He gave a dem onstration on East Main st. near Willamette ave. following the noon Kiwanis club luncheon, at which he spoke. The officer also addressed -Medford Lions club last - night, - and again 1 demon strated the radar on Main st. downtown. . , " . Tells Effects . ' ; In his talks ; the policeman brought out educational and psy chological effects of radar on drivers - in' making them speed conscious Lieutenant Raines stated that radar eliminates, for police the 'hazards of pursuing AFL Executives Approve Merger Of Labor Unions CIO Man Will Be Organizing Director Miami Beach Fla.' . (U.R) The AFL Executive Council un animously approved today the historic merger . with the CIO aimed at ending 20 years of la bor squabbling and "helping the millions of unorganized workers." The policy making council of the AFL voiced no opposition to the merger pact signed yes terday by AFL President George Meany and CIO President Walt er Reulher and 18 other leaders of the Joint Unity Committee. Dave Beck Absent . - Dave Beck, president of the 1,300,000 member" AFL Team sters union, did not attend the ratifying session of the council but Meany said Beck telephoned him from Washington "and told me, to tell the council he has no objections." ? : Reuther and Meany agreed yesterday that a CIO man would be named as organizing direc tor of the new federation. 7 The merger, which would give labor a powerful voice in the 1956 elections, is' subject to the AFL and CIO executive units, conventions of both bodies and finally by , a . joint convention late this year. : United Labor Movement Meany said he expected the AFL Executive Council will quickly approve the, pact and predicted "we will go into 1956 with a united labor movement." The CIO Executive Board meets to ratify the merger Feb. 24.. ., v , :s : - - men! Slated In Circuil Court Arraignment of, John Arthur Showalter, 29, Porterville, Calif., was expected sometime today in circuit court, District Attorney Walter Nunley said this morn ing. ; - Showalter, who uses the alias John Arthur Dane," was arrest ed here early; Tuesday on a grand larceny charge involving theft of an automobile from an Ashland man. Showalter was wounded in the leg while attempting tcf evade city police officers in a chase that was . highlighted by the stolen car going out of con trol and crashing into the lounge of the Jackson hotel. ; Nunley said Showalter has asked to be taken directly into circuit court. Showalter was re moved from " a local " hospital Tuesday afternoon and report edly was not feeling up to an appearance in court yesterday. He is on parole from 1 Wen atchee, Wash., under the Dane alias on another car theft charge. r DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indust rials 412.89 up 2.57; 20 rail roads 146.02 up 1.83; 15 utilit ies 63.30 up 0.35, and 65 stocks 152.34 up, 1.22. Sales today were about 3,460,000 shares compared with 3,360,000 shares traded yesterday. speeders, is highly accurate and is simple to operate. Few drivers clocked s. by the radar device A decision as to.- whether Medford Safety council will helo finance the city in pur chase of radar equipment for traffic control will -be made : during a noon luncheon meet : ing of the council Friday, Feb. 11, at the Jackson hotel, offi cers said today. If the decision is made io help . finance . the project, ways of raising the money will be discussed. have any argument, according to the officer. . The majority of drivers sup port the elimination of speeding traffic because it results in more safety, Raines 1 maintained.1 He said, that . speeders total . only about .4 percent of the drivers with the, other 99.6 per ' cent driving reasonably and - pru dently. - . , ' Citing the nsed for radar, the Arraign LINCOLN DAY S P E A K E R State Sen.; Elmo Smith, above, president of the Oregon senate, will be the speaker at the an nual banquet of the Jackson County Lincoln v club Friday. The meeting will be in the Elks club at Ashland, starting at 7 p.m. It is the 41st annual session of the organization. Senate Pres ident Smith is publisher of a weekly newspaper in John Day, Ore. . ' .. r Bill forBuilding Of Alaska Hospital Washington (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said today he is sponsoring legisla tion; to end what he called the "shocking" .-; practice of , haying mental patients from Alaska sent to a- Portland, ' Ore.,; hos pital. ; ti -v vrtr ,;..:.;.;; - The legislation' could author ize construction of a modern hospital in Alaska. It also would "improve and modernize", meth ods of committing insane per sons in Alaska. -f a "i Private Institution X J - Neuberger said that for some 50 .. years Alaskans committed for mental illness have been hospitalized at Portland. He said in4 a statement r that in recent years they have, been cared for at Mo'rping-side hospital, which he saiql is "a private institution, run for . private profit." "It is particularly cruel and archaic," he said, "to transport American" citizens who are men tally.; ill-, into confinement sev eral thousand miles from their loved ones." .'( Profit Out of Date - Allowing a profit to- be made from' the care of the insane, he said, is far out of date and "harks back to the English poor laws." : .. . Neuberger said he is not criti cizing the operators of the hos pitals He said he has "no doubt of their competence and' their personal devotion to ; the pa tients under their care." ' He said he understands that some Oregon members of Con gress have opposed abandoning the present system because ' it might mean closing the hospital. He is informed, he said, the hos pital has no other patients. Salem ' :(U.R)"- The' Oregon Legislature will Vmeet in joint session at 10 a.m. tomorrow for the observance of L i n c 6 ln's birthday anniversary, . Eugene pff icer said that law en forcement is faced with an ever increasing problem, in traffic control. Objective of such work, he stated, is moving the great est volume of traffic as fast, as safety .will permit. He listed the three 'E's" of traffic control as engineering, education and , en forcement;: Neither engineering nor education can overcome the human element, Raines said, adding that enforcement is 1 the onlyj means ofi taking ;; care of their failures. . , - , r,ii-- ? The policeman spoke of the speeding driver as the . greatest headache to a traffic off icer. The speeder, he . said, causes the most serious accidents and , is the hardest violator to catch.- It is; hazardous to pace and 'catch a speeding jcar, and for an offi cer -' to 'io Jso 1 means- two cars traveling at unsafe speed.- Equipment Discussed : ' . " '' Radar equipment brought by Lieutenant Raines consisted of a transmitter, which sends a coni cal ' beam across a section of Neuberge Pierre Pflimlin Appointed To Seek Solution To Crisis Chances Not Good To Form Cabinet Paris (U.R) President Rene Coty has named Pierre Pflimlin of the Popular Repub lican Party (MRP) as premier designate of France In a second attempt " to end the six-day-old government crisis, reliable sources said, today. ; Businessman Antoine Pinay, a former . premier, earlier noti fied Coty that he was unable to line up enough support to form ' France's 21st government since the end of World War IL Chances Not Good The chances of the 49-year-old Pflimlin to win the post made vacant ; when Pierre Mendes France resigned last weekend were not considered good. The sources said, in fact, that Pflimlin might not even accept Cotey's invitation to attempt to form a Cabinet. ; Therefore, an early end to the crisis was not in sight.: " ' v 1 . Pinay failed . largely because of the opposition offered by Pflimlin's own MRP. The next -step, in line with French parlia mentary custom would be to give the MRP a chance to fill the premiership since it consti tuted , the, ; chief , non-Communist opposition to the Mendes-France government'. . . . . Voted for European Union , Pflimlin was the only mem ber of his party who voted for the expanded Western Euro pean union, and thus .was con sidered most acceptable to both the right wing , and the Social ists. ' ' largely responsible, for toppling Mendes-France and for Pinav's failure. The MRP also caused Pinay's fall in 1952 after a term that made him the most popular postwar premier until Mendes France came along. Other names put forward by political observers were Social ist Christian Pineau, 50, and Edgard Faure, 46, a member of Mendes-France's Radical Social ist party who became foreign minister shortly before the cab inet felL -. , Patterson Tackles Rail Car Shortage Salem U.R) Gov. Paul Pat terson today announced a two pronged attack on an-impending . rail car .shortage in the state. " The governor v said, after a meeting with Public ; Utilities Commissioner Charles Heltzel, that a spot check would be made of , cars now , available in the state and ' that the interstate" commerce commission would be contacted. ."Additional men will be em ployed, if necessary, to assist in the , policing of distribution of ral cars," Gov. Patterson said. Heltzel announced that "if the situation warrants, this office will issue an emergency order of . the, type we had to prepare in the summer of 1 953 " a Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Pat terson has signed Senate bill 1, thus making Portland State Col lege a four-year, degree-granting institution. street or highway, a meter-like device, and a permanent speed recording device. Speed, of objects moving through the beam," even persons walking or. running, is indicated by a needle on the meter and the officer , manning the equip ment determines by this wheth er a motorist is exceeding , the speed limit. The speed ; is per manently recorded on a graph for possible use in police court Error. Tolerance Small ! iV' ; Tolerance of radar for error is very small and for all practical purposes can' be disregarded, Raines said. Concerning reports that traffic control radar can be jammed, the officer ' mentioned that the" only effective means is to have another transmitter om the same frequency. This would be expensive, he declared; say ing that cost of the equipment . would be about $1,500 and that such operation is against Federal -Communications commission, regulations.
