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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1955)
Wednesday, February 16, 1955 Jackson- County Get SS 3.5,047.88 In &G payment TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Treasury Checks End 39-Year-Old Oregon Dispute Washington (U.R) Eighteen Oregon counties prepared today to diwy up more than $5,000, 000 after Interior Secretary Douglas McKay said the treas ury has issued checks , .to end a land dispute which has existed for 39 years. The payment, totaling $5,171, 623.59 was the long awaited dis bursement of the Oregon and California land fund which has been in dispute since 1916. -Distribution Listed The distribution to the 18 counties was: s Benton,"" $147,391.27; Clacka mas, ' $292,196.73; Columbia, S81.711.65; Curry, $157,217.36; tCoos, $307,711.60;' Douglas, $1, 311,523.74; Jackson, $815,047.88; Josephine, $630,938.08; Klamath, $124,118.97; Lane, $794,878.55; Lincoln, $18,617.84; Linn, $137,- 048.03; Marion,' $76,540.03; Mult nomah,' $64,645.30; Polk, $112, 741.39; Tillamook, $29,478.25; Washington, $32,581.23; and Yamhill, $37,235.69. Authority for the payment was provided in a bill passed last year. The funds represent sales of umber, xne money nas been held n the treasury, awaiting settlement of the dispute. The dispute began when Con gress declared, that the Oregon and California railroad had vio lated the terms of its land grant and ! title to the lands was re vested in the United States under Interior Department man agement. Jurisdiction Disputed The forest service under the Agriculture department claimea that the revested lands came under its jurisdiction when they were returned to government ownership, while Interior con tended they were part of the original Oregon and California grant. . . Under law only 25 per cent of the proceeds from sale of for est service timber is distributed to counties where the timber is located. Under the' Oregon California programs the counties get 5 per cent. The 1954 law settled the distribution of funds according to the larger- Oregon and California percentage. State's Oldest Attorney Succumbs in Portland - . Portland . - CUR) .William York Masters, 92, who was Ore gon's oldest "practicing attorney before he retired recently, died here; yesterday. Masters,, who studied law in the office of a, private law firm, practiced from 1884 until his retirement in 1950. He was the founder of Alpha Sigma chapter of Alpha Tau Omega, the first college fraterni ty on the Pacific Coast. Dead line Sunday - Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. . Monday for Monday: ether days 5:30 previous day. SMOKE RISES FROM INSTALLATIONS on one of Tachen Islands as Nationalist Chinese demo lition teams destroy gun emplacements and ammunition supplies before completely evacuating area. U. S. Navy men are watching progress of work to be completed this week-end- (International) Electronic Wall Across Alaska Would Be No Pushover for Enemy Editor's note: This i tha second in a series of two dispatches describ ing how the Air Force protects America from atojiic- attack over our Alaskan approaches. By GLENN STACKHOUSE . United Press Correspondent Elmendorf Air Force, Alaska (U.R) The U. S. Air Force is building an electronic wall across Alaska, the first line of defense against atomic attack from the back door of Soviet Russia. The all-important DEW (Dis tant Early Warning) radar chain forming the outer perimeter of the defense wall is not com pleted. A top Air Force officer told me the gaps are being filled "to the best of our abil ity," but it takes three or four years to build a radar site on an Arctic mountain top." The Army speaks wistfully of a proposed ring of Nike rocket anti-aircraft defenses for Alas ka. This is "being considered," Army spokesmen say, but it has not been built due to "lack of funds." " The military needs more anti aircraft installations of all types in the Arctic. The Air Force men tions, "homing missiles" that would take the guess-work out of interception, but these are still laboratory weapons. Defense No Pushover As of now the Alaskan Com mand has all the air, bases it needs, but it wants more disper sal strips to "keep us from losing everything in one shot" as oc curred atsPearI Harbor. With all its flaws, the Alaskan defense wall as it stands torlav would be no pushover for ai As for defense aeainst an in itial attack, all-weather inter ceptors which climb at an ear- popping 100 feet per second and Diast tne enemy out of the sky with . electronic precision, are stationed there. Paradoxically, these planes carry no guns and their pilots never fire a shot. The pilot may never see the enemy" he is de stroying. The Scorpions carry "Mighty Mouse" rockets in huge torpedo shaped pods under each wirig. The rockets are fired by an elec tron brain that takes over once the pilot and his radar-observer have brought the plane into con tact with the enemy. What would happen if a Soviet Republicans Air Coming Convention - Washington (U.R)' The Republican high command met today to pick a time and place for launching their party's 1956 presidential campaign and to consider ways to pay for it. A seven-man subcommittee on sites, headed by GOP Nation al Chairman Leonard W. Hall, discussed the invitations to hold the" Republican National Convention in San Francisco, Philadelphia or Chicago. All three cities have offered almost the same financial inducement, $250,000. ; The subcommittee also had the job of recommending a date. The GOP favors a late convention. However some state laws requiring certification of nominees well in advance of the November election raise a question as to how late this may be. The GOP's full Finance com mittee met at the same time the site subcommittee was holding its session. The . party ,. budget and ways of paying for the Na tional Convention, and : presiden tial campaign were the main topics.. - bomber should suddenly dart into Alaskan territory? An Electronic 'Killer' First, the unidentified target would be picked up on the early warning radar screen, appearing as a sharp, bright fast-moving "blip" on the scope. The altitude, speed and course of the enemy plane would be relayed to the combat control radar installa tions in the interior and to the filter center at air division head quarters. Within a few minutes, possi bly only seconds, the ready room pilots would have their planes in the air and once aloft, the inter ceptor pilot takes his orders from the combat control center, whose radar men set his inter ception course. About 30 miles from contact, the target appears on the Scor pion's own radar screen and the radar-observer in the plane guides the pilot to a broadside run at the enemy plane. Then - the electronic brain takes control from, the pilot, ac tually flying the aircraft, aiming the rocket pods and , triggering the salvo that hits the enemy with' the force of 104 howitzer shells exploding all at once. As one officer put it: "We paid the Russians $7,200,000 for Alaska. Today it would cost them more than that just to try to fly over it." . Portland Symphony Conductor Selected Portland (U.R) The con ductor of the Portland symph ony for the coming season will be Theodore Bloomfield 32-year- old native of Cleveland, O., : it was announced today by direc tors of the Portland Symphony society. - ' The season s'tarts Oct. 17. i bi r i I rv ii . - u jm i i . Distillers of the ivories finest bourbon for 160 years Worthy of Your Trust for 160 Years... Beam old fash ioned Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is distilled and aged under a formula passed on from generation to generation for over 160 years. Only Beam tastes like Beam . . . only Beam tastes so good. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY II PROOF JAMES t. REAM DISTILLING CO.. CLERMONT. KENTUCKY 1 MI I 11 r FIFTH ' ;r terrl 11 1 J ill $85 jrljt ..M ' ,. ; pint 3 tmr ; ' '.... -ni MVP dur WHISKEY VV ' SHAH Third Survivor Of Canadian Air Crash Rescued Winnipeg-(U.R) Capt. Thom as L. Pittman, 34, the third sur vivor of the crash of an Ameri can B47 jet bomber in Northern Saskachewan, . is under treat ment for a broken leg and se vere frostbite at Deer Lodge hospital here. Th body of Maj. Robert Dow dy, 31, the lone fatality in the crash, was at the RCAF base here on its way home to Calif ornia for burial. Helpless for Three Days . , Pittman was brought out of the barren wasteland yesterday where he lay helpless for more than three days in sub-zero tem peratures. During that time more than two inches of snow fell. - Medical authorities have not yet allowed Pittman to discuss his experience. However, it was reported a new type expos ure suit may account for his survival. Wearing New Suit Lt. - Col. Kenneth McGrew and Capt. Lester E. Epton, who were rescued earlier from the crash scene after bailing out at 35,000 feet, said Pittman was wearing the new exposure suit on test when the plane explod ed. Pittman was the fourth man aboard the B47 that normally carries a crew of three. The body of Dowdy was found in the plane's wreckage by the first ground party to reach the area Monday. The B47 exploded Saturday on a round-trip flight from March Field, Calif. McGrew and Epton parachuted to safety. : Sen. Langer Raps Dixon-Yates Pact Atlantic City, N.J. (U.R) President Eisenhower received a sharp blast; from within his own Republican party yesterday when Sen. William Langer (R N.D.), scored the r Dixon-Yates contract. Langer, chairman of the Sen ate subcommittee which investi gated the. ' contract, said the President would be "hallowed in the , Bankers . Club of New York as the most generous Presi dent in history" if he continued his role of "willing handmaiden of the power monopoly." Langer, speaking at the con vention of the National Rural Electric Cooperative association demanded an immediate, "full fledged investigation of the power industry and- the private monopolies of the utilities." He said the President has the full responsibility for his "so- called partnership policy, which means a partnership between the government and big bus iness at the expense of the far mer and the consumer." Anti-Picketing Law Drawn Info Debate Salem (U.R) The House labor and industries committee yesterday held its first hearings on Rep. Alfred Corbett's bill to set up a state conciliation service and the 1953 anti-organizational picketing law was .,- repeatedly drawn into the discussion- A bill to repeal the contro versial 1953 law also is before the committee and appeared to be a companion measure to Cor bett's bill. The Portland Demo crat said his bill was a construc tive alternative to the so-called anti-picketing .bill, still known as House bill 663. James Marr, executive secretary of the state AFL organization, said the con ciliation bill was of little or no value so long as 683 was still on the books. - William Kimsey, who for. 12 years . was state labor commis sioner,, told the committee that Corbett's bill was the most im portant piece of legislation in its field to be considered' here since 1919. MOTORIST NOT HELPFUL Portland . (U.R) Janice E. Faust told police yesterday a young man grabbed her " purse. She screamed for help as a mo torist drove ; by. - The motorist drove by. The motorist stopped, picked up the thief and - drove off. .-,.,.-,-:7' Washington House Votes Lower Age for Voters Olympia (U.R) The "Wash ington House adopted yesterday a proposed constitutional amend ment to lower the voting age to. 18. It also passed and sent to the Senate a bill to permit taverns and cocktail lounges to remain open until 2 a.m. Sunday : The 18-year-old vote measure was adopted, 71-28. If passed by a; two-thirds majority of the Senate it will be placed on the next general election ballot. Alaska's All-Time Record Cold Tied With Minus 76 By UNITED STATES Alaska tied its all-time cold record of 76 degrees below zero today as temperatures went into the 80s in parts of the United States. Alaska's record-tier was re ported yesterday at Umiat, 485 miles north of Fairbanks, where the temperature hasn't got warmer than 60 below for the past 10 darys. An t Air Force construction craw working on a radar proj ect turned in the report, which matched the all-tune low of 76 below registered in 1886 at Ta nana on the Yukon river. Children Marooned Meanwhile, the worst bliz zard in the history of Whittier, Alaska, marooned 72 children overnight in a school house and Army chapel. Men on snow shoes battled through 40 and 50-mile-per-hour winds to reach the children in the Alaska Army post town yes- terday. The port of Whittier was still completely immobilized to day. In the U.S., meanwhile, fresh southerly winds boosted temper atures 20 to 25 degrees into the 50s as far north as the Ohio riv er. It was a summery 83 yester day at Presidio, Tex., 72 at Ard- more, Okla., and 80 at. Los An geles, Calif . Temperatures also - soared into the 50s in Colorado and Wyoming, but a fresh blast of cold air turned Bemidji, Minn., into the nation's ice box with a one degree below zero reading. Korean Youngster Joins Elmira Family Elmira, Ore. (U.R) The Reid Garber family drove home to Elmira, Ore., yesterday, m creased in number by another adopted Korean youngster. But it's old stuff for the Ore gon couple. . Jimmy Garber, a sturdy 11-year-old, arrived in Seattle by Northwest airlines Monday night. He was met by Mr. and Mrs Garber, and 7-year-old Lee Gar ber, a Korean boy brought to America in September, 1953. With the Garbers was Army Sgt Rex Gilman, of Fort Lewis. It was Gilman, also an adopted child of the Garbers,' who re called Jimmy was supposed to return on the ship from Korea with him last fall. "But at the last minute, all the visa orders were cancelled and I had to leave him. "He. said: "You're just going to torget me.' "I didn't," Gilman said. Gilman said he met Jimmy while the youngster was "the Colonel s shoeshine boy." ce Sales Bring Record Amount Corvallis (U.R) Some 2, 800,000 board feet of spruce was sold at a recent Suislaw Nation al Forest timber auction here at a price more than double the previous high recorded for Suis law spruce sales, r The timber went at $25.45 per thousand board feet, com pared to the appraised price of $11.45, which . was itself higher than any past Siuslaw sales. C and F Logging company of Gardiner was high bidder. 1 Spirited biddine amone-the eight companies competing for me timber resulted m 135 rais es before a price was set. v In addition to the SDruce tract. 200,000 board feet of Douglas fir were sold at $20.50 per thou sand, and.100,000 board feet of Hemlock sold at" $10 per thou sand. ; RENT A New 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 as long as six months and have the. rental apply on the purchase of the instrument if you so desire. PURUCKER PIANO HOUSE 117 S. CENTRAL PHONE 2-6241 TONIGHT 5 to 9 Specials SPECIAL PRICE Reg. 1 .98 to 3.98 ' FLANNEL GOWNS y2 PRICE TONIGHT ONLY SANFORIZED COTTON FLANNELETTE IN YOKE OR FITTED - STYLES :.v WIDE SELECTION OF COLORS AND TRIMS. FULL LENGTHS AND SHORTYS. " . - J; LINGERIE DEPT. MAIN FLOOR. Reg. 3.98 to 8.98 GIRLS SPECIAL PRICE DRESSES 1. 97 TONIGHT ONLY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF STYLES, FABRICS, COLORS SIZES: 3 TO 6X, 7 TO 14 AND SUB-TEENS CHILDREN'S DEPT. MAIN FLOOR - ; SPECIAL PRICE Reg. 4.98 WOMENS CASUALS 2.97 TONIGHT ONLY LONG-WEARING SUEDE AND SMOOTH LEATHERS. MANY STYLES . - r BOTH OPEN AND CLOSED TOE. WEDGE HEELS SHOE DEPT. MAIN FLOOR Was2.29 VITALIZED OIL SPECIAL PRICE 1,38 TONIGHT ONLY 2 GALS. PREMIUM GRADE. FIGHTS SLUDGE, CARBON, ACIDS EQUALS OR SUPERIOR TO OILS SELLING FOR 40c QUART AUTO ACCESSORIES BASEMENT SPECIAL PRICE Reg. 4.95 CLOSET SEAT 3.96 TONIGHT ONLY DURABLE HARDWOOD SEAT. 4 COAT, WHITE FINISH CHROMIUM-PLATED FITTINGS INCLUDED - PLUMBING DEPT. BASEMENT 111 North Central Phone 2-5702
