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.
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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. ;
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