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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. " ;'
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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.