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Weather Feature atorict en a local : woman lraudinc her own house and . a . reporter's quest for a photo of white iwuu appear on Pago 12 of today's Mail Tribune. - FORECAST Continued fair - today. ' Increasing -: cloudiness tonight t and Monday. - High today 55, low tonight 25. Temp. ' Highest yesterday 49 Lowest yesterday - 20 United Press f-ull Ladsed Wire United PressFull Leased Wire 28 Pages Price 5c MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1955 49th Year No. 287 Recommended MEDFORDfTEIBniE Alrilrier With 16 Aboairdl Lost Dun LBDnzzairdl (Dveir iJew Memo Midwest Lashed by Savage Storm; 19 Reported Killed Snowslide Hits Bus; Passengers Escape Chicago U.R) A savage winter storm abated Saturday after dumping a blanket of snow on the Rockies and Great Plains, marooning scores of motorists, At least 19 persons were dead in the widespread storm area, t f t ' a i 3 c4-.. WHICH spread easiwaiu oaiui- day to the Mississippi and southward into Texas. In addition, 16 persons were missing on a ' trans world " air liner, more than 10 hours over due in snowy weather. The plane was en route from Albu auerque to Santa Fe. With dark ness having closed in, there 'ap- peared little chance that the plane's fate would be known be fore Sunday at the earliest. The plane was flying over mountain ous country. Mailman Safa A rural mailman, Charlie Ow ens, who had been missing in a mountainous section of Colora do near Craig since Friday, re ported in safe late yesterday He had been marooned at a lonely highway maintenance station, unable to send out word of his whereabouts. Fog blanketed the New Or leans area and a plane carrying three men from Indiana was down in Lawe Pontchartrain. Snowdrifts at Aspen, Colo., were so deep that skiers had to rescue a St. Bernard dog. The storm struck its most vig orous blows in Colorado and Wyoming Friday and buffeted Nebraska and South Dakota Saturday. "'' Bus -DriverjDrville ...Ramsey, and his seven passengers nar rowly escaped death on a moun tain highway between Durango and Montrose, Colo., when a snowslide hit the bus broadside and shoved it 75 feet off the road. . ' : The vehicle came to resi on a pile of rubble from an abandon- ed mine. On eitner siae oi me mine dump, 25 feet wide, there was a sheer drop of 1,500 feet to the floor of the Animas river canyon. , . Three other busses were stall ed in Colorado and Wyoming but passengers managed to stay comfortable until relief vehicles shuttled them to railroad sta tions. ' ; . Aboard one of the busses, 19 persons were stranded for more than 24 hours at the continental divide bus station on UJ5. 30 before snow plows rescued them and led them into Rawlins, Wyo. r :- Three Arrested in Jewel Theft Case " San Francisco (U.R) Fast- moving police Saturday arrested three ex-convicts on charges of committing Jfnaays $.suu,uuu 4wel robbery. One of the sus pects implicated a prominent credit dentist and a steel broker as the "fences" in the crime. Only a comparatively small amount of the stolen gems were recovered from the ex-convicts. Police believed the bulk of the mall uncut diamonds were placed in a bank safe deposit box which, because of a time lock, cannot be opened until 8 a. m. Monday. The dentist, Dr. James Brum back. 55. fainted when confront ed by police in his Market street office. Capt. of Inspectors James Eng lish said Brumback later admit ted putting a 'quantity of dia monds" from the robbery in a safe deposit box at the Bank of America. Weather Forces Delay jn Nevada Atomic Test : Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) The Atomic Energy commission remained the prisoner of the weather Saturday and was forc ed to postpone until next week all further nuclear tests in the week-old 1955 testing series, r Continued winter .winds from the north set up such a potential hazard for radiation fall - out over populated areas that the AEC called off Saturday's sched uled "Big Shot" until next Tues day, Washington's birthday. Sports Bulletins Medford's Black Tornado lashed Ashland high 82 to 57 here last night for its 10th consecutive Southern Oregon Conference basketball victory. The Tornado had period ad vantages of 21 to 12, 36 to 30 and 61 to 40. Larry Copple of Medford was top scorer of the evening with 20. Gene Parent canned 16 for Ashland. Pullman Wash. (U.R) The Washington State college Cougars squeeked by Oregon State college here last night, 68 to 66, to hand the Beavers their first loss of the 1955 Northern Division basketball season. Seattle (U.R) University of Oregon's Ducks clinched at least a tie for second place in the Northern Division basket ball race last night by defeat ing the Washington Huskies, 60 to 59. Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) UCLA's Bruins defeated Cali fornia, 84 to 76, here last night to clinch the Southern Division basketball title. The Bruins will meet Oregon State for the Pacific Coast Conference crown. Crater 54, Phoenix 42. Eagle Point, 58, Illinois Val ley, 48. Portland State 51, SOC 39. County Receives $815,047 Check in O&C Disbursement - Jackson c o u n t y treasurer's 0 f f i c e .- Saturday morning re ceived a check for $815,047.88. - .The- payment - from - the i De partment of Interior's Bureau of Land Management O and C account represented the county's share of a $5,171,623.59 dis bursement from the Oregon and : California controverted land fund. Checks were issued to .18 Oregon counties by the Treasury Department, ending a land dispute which had existed 39 years. The fund had been in dispute since 1916. Funds Not Earmarked County Commissioner L. G. Morthland stated Saturday that the payment to this county has not been earmarked for any spe- sific use. He said that t will be up to the budget committee to determine how the money will be' allocated. The committee, composed of three members of the county court and three lay members, is scheduled to con vene on or about March 15. It is expected that some of the funds will go to road construc tion and equipment for that purpose. , The check was deposited in a local bank Saturday to draw in terest at A3A per cent for six months. Payment to the counties was made under Public Law 426 pas sed last year by the 83rd Con gress. The legislation was pushed by Oregon Senator Guy Cordon and Congressman Har ris Ellsworth and was Known as the Cordon-Ellsworth contro verted lands bill. From Timber Sales The funds are from sales of timber and have been held in the treasury awaiting settlement of the dispute. Argument began when Congress declared that the Oregon and California railroad had violated terms of its land grant and title was revested in the United States under the De partment of Interior manage ment. The Forest Service under the Department of Agriculture maintained that certain of the revested lands came under its jurisdiction while Interior said they were part of the original O and C grant. The disbursement require ment brought into the distribu tion computation not ' only the 474,000 acres of O and C lands in the indemnity strip within the national forests but some 232,000 acres of other O and C lands which were not assessed as of 1915. r These lands had not been surveyed before that time. Oregon Congratulated For Oppenheimer Stand Eugene (U.R) Irving Dil liard, editor of the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, congratulated the? Oregon State Board of Higher Education Fri day for sticking to its plans to invite Dr. J. Robert Oppenheim er to speak at three Oregon col leges this spring. Searchers Called In; Have Little Hope of Survivors Plane in Distress Reported by Indians , Santa Fe, N. M. (U.R) An airliner carrying 16 persons on a 20 minute flight from Albu querque to Santa Fe disap peared in a snow storm Satur day over rugged north , central New Mexico. Searchers said last night there was little hope any of the 16 survived. Upwards of 50 planes and hundreds of men searched the area all day for some sign of the plane without success. All were called in for the night ex cept for one plane which was to search for possible flares and campfires. The temperature was expected to drop to five degrees Saturday night. Blizzard Blowing The twin-engine TransWorld Airlines Martin Skyliner took off at 7:02 a.m. MST with 13 passengers and a crew of three for the 60 mile hop to Santa Fe. At that time the tailend of a blizzard was blowing light snow over the area. Group after group of volun teers and Civil Air Patrol ground parties . streamed through Santo Domingo Indian Pueblo at sundown, shivering from freezing cold, and living evidence of the suffering from exposure any survivors of the plane would be undergoing. None of those returning re ported any sign of the plane. Indians Saw. Planes Several Indians in the area told of seeing a huge plane circ ling the area as if in distress and two told the J CAP they hear of ,a"vidlerit' explosion ''soon after seeing the plane disappear to the southwest. ; v Pete Quintana, a rancher, ob served a plane circling his home southwest of the Domingo three times, each time disappearing briefly in a heavy . snow, only to return as if searching for a place . to land. He said the plane's wheels were down. - Medford Man Dies In Auto Accident Roseburg U.R) A Medford man was fatally injured Satur day afternoon when the car he was driving, , plunged over an embankment near the summit of Canyon mountain, about 30 miles south of here on Highway 89. ;. Raymond Leslie Johnson, 26, of 819 South Central ave., Med ford was found pinned under his car shortly after noon. He was rushed to the Forest Glen clinic at Canyonville where he died at 1:40 p.m. State police were unable to determine when the accident oc curred, but thought that John son had been pinned . beneath the car for some time. Officer Fred Jungwirth said it appeared that Johnson had fallen asleep The body was removed to the Ganz mortuary at Myrtle Creek. Johnson was the son of Mr and Mrs. Glenn Johnson, 819 South Central ave., according to officials at Conger-Morris Funeral home, who are in charge of local arangements. Tension High as House Me By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The House of Representatives is seldom the scene of so much nervous anxi ety, buffoonery1 and political nose counting at one time as it was this week when the law makers plunged into the ques tion of whether to raise their own salaries. They had made it. the No. 1 topic of conversation for days in the Capitol cloakrooms and restaurant, wherever two or more congressmen were on hand to ask one another how they intended voting on the pay bill and what they thought the re action v would be in the grass roots. When the big day came, they poured into the chamber to await the verdict on 'whether they would continue to draw $15,000 or $22,500 and many had even calculated how much of the raise would be soaked up by income taxes. I lit i hi HEADS DOWN U. S. sol diers huddle in their six-foot deep trench where they wit nessed an atomic detonation about 4000 vards away in first test of the 1955 series. Coty Picks Radical Socialist To Form French Government Paris (U.R) French presi dent Rene Coty Saturday asked Radical Socialist Edgar Faure, who last month challenged a leftwing newspaper editor to a duel, to attempt to form a new French government. Foure, righthand man of de- nosed premier Pierre Mendes- France is the fourth man Coty has asked to try to solve the governmental-'crisis-vhich: start ed 14 days ago wnen tne JNa tional Assembly ousted Mendes France. ' '""" Confers with Coty The Radical Socialist leader conferred with Coty for one hour and 25 minutes at the Elysee pal ace. He said he gave the presi dent his tentative acceptance of the task of premier-designate. He began immediate consulta tions to determine whether he can form a government accept able to the National Assembly. The 46-year-old Faure was premier of France for 40 days in 1952 before he fell while try ing to push the annual National budget through the assembly. Last month he felt slighted by an article in the leftist weekly Express and challenged 31-year- old editor Jean-Jacques Servan Schreiber to a duel. He was tak ing determined target practice in a local shooting gallery before Mendes-France cooled him down and the matter was settled ami cably. : Coty turned to Faure after leaders of the 11 political groups in the assembly failed in an ex traordinary session to agree on a premier-designate. Anchorage, Alaska (U.R) A two-man Air Force .Para medic team radioed Saturday night thai there were no sur vivors of the crash of a Navy Neptune bomber on Mount Susiina, 36 miles northwest of here. ."" . .'- All awaited the speech they knew was coming from Rep. Usher Burdick. (R-N.D.), the roly-poly, white-haired story teller who is unequaled in abil ity to turn the chamber into a monkey cage of knee-slapping, guffawing congressmen. c ; ; Burdick said he was tickled by the congressmen who said they lose $400 1 per ' month due to the high cost of living in Washington, D. C. and t heir present low salaries. - ' . ; "I've noticed one peculiar thing about these congressmen," said . Burdick. . "When their terms expire, they come right back striving for another term in ; which they can go still fur ther behind." -Burdick proposed that since the bill would make , the pay raise retroactive to the first of this year, that it be made retro active to 1934 when he was first elected. While some solons near ly tumbled into the aisles as Burdick flailed away, others sat 1KB Pemniocirate All Taxes Decision on Plans For Cutting Budget Beiton Warns Group Against Quick Vote Salem (U.R) Sen. How ard Beiton (R-Canby), co-chairman of the joint Ways and Means committee of the Ore gon senate, Saturday deferred until Monday a vote on a budget- slashing plan proposed by Sen. Gene . Brown, (R-Grants Pass). Brown proposed that the joint committee and its subcom mittees adopt as their policy on budget requests cuts equivalent to 10 per cent of the governor's budget to achieve a savings of $20,000,000. Laden With Dynamite Though the plan, which Bel- ton considered too laden with dynamite to vote on without a second thought, would not solve the problem of an anticipated $45,000,000 deficit, it would re lieve the mounting pressure on Oregon's long vacation from a state property tax. Sen. John Merrifield (R-Port- land- moved to amend Brown's proposal to make it an arbitrary, across-xne-ooara cut or. 10 per cent on all budgets drawing from the general fund. Both the original motion and Merrif ield's amendment were laid on the table until Monday morning, when Beiton warned this is a very serious step you are proposing and it's something you r? gjing to, h,ave..to,live, with ior tne next two ; years." Might Ba Perilous ; Brown conceded that approv al of his policy might be politi cally perilous for committee members but he said he believ ed it was an economy step the voters would ultimately appre ciate. Brown objected strenuously to Merrifield's amendment. He said an arbitrary cut, across the board, would reduce the Ways and Means committee's work to a stenographic job of retrying the budget with no deliberate process to temper economy with justice. -The aim of the motion was to furnish a goal that might not be achieved, but would fur nish a working policy, he said, SEATO Defense Treaty Ratified at Manila Manila (U.R) The SEATO nations ratified: their collective defense , treaty of Sept. 8, 1954, in a simple 23-minute ceremony Saturday. . - 1 r : Carlos P. Garcia, vice-presi dent and foreign secretary, be gan receiving the instruments of ratification from diplomatic representatives in, the main hall of the new Department of For eign Affairs building at 11 a.m The powers presented , their documents of ratification in al phabetical order Australia France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, . Thailand, Un ited Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Unit ed States. stone sober as though chilled at the thought of Burdick's words being used as campaign ammun ition by their future challengers for Congress. -.- Louisiana's Rep. George Long, brother of the late Huey, matched Burdick from the op posite point of view, by suggest ing that all those who opposed the pay bill should (1) not accept the increase if it goes through, and (2) go back-home and help elect better men to Congress in their home districts if they don't' think themselves worth the pay increase. ' In the end, as predicted, two of every three congressmen vo ted for the increase, which has long been advocated by inder pendent authorities in order to avoid a growing., condition in which the only persons who can afford to run for Congress are the well-to-do and the dishonest. Two of Oregon's solons re fused, to go along with the pay bill, both of them relative new Delays SPIPf IPDot Drive To Cut fEffiTecftSve Jamiiuiairy t Man Observes Funeral Anniversary in Jail Tenafly, N. J. (U.R) James Scully observed the first anniversary of his ' own funeral a year ago in j a i 1 Saturday. A body in a New York City lodging house fire was identi fied as that of Scully by mem bers of his family last year, and the funeral was in pro gress when he turned up last Feb. 18. Friday night he was arrest ed for drunk and disorderly, conduct and was sentenced to 60 days in jail. Nine Local Groups Aiding in Sunday Heart Fund Drive Heart Sunday volunteers from nine women's organizations will seek donations to the Heart fund at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It is estimated that most Medford families will be contacted for their contributions , to the local and national crusade against heart disease by 4 p.m. Miss Laura York, Heart Sun day chairman, has expressed confidence that the extensive twO hour, house-to-house collec tion will exceed Heart fund con tributions from the Medford area in previous years. This will be the community's first Heart Sun day campaign. Start at 2 P.M. Each worker has been assign ed to call on between 15 and' 25 families, and members of the volunteer group will start ring ing doorbells at 2 p.m. Each, volunteer will identify herself and present a brown manila envelope, in which contribution may be enclosed and sealed by the donor before returning it to the worker.. It will not be necessary to disclose the amount contributed unless the donor desires a receipt for income -tax deduction purposes. If requested by the donor, this information will be included on the "thank you" slip which is left by the volunteer.- Will Leave Envelopes At homes- where-, occupants are away, envelopes will be left so that contributions, may be mailed to the postmaster, and these in turn will be forwarded to the Heart association. At the present time, Medford Heart association leads the state since it already has received $520 in campaign contributions. Of this amount; $100 was given from the Elizabeth McGlone me morial fund ;by. her ? husband, John Camarata, " Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Camarata suffered a heart attack in Medford and later died after returning to her Georgia home. Three other local contri butions in memory of Mrs. Cam arata totaled $70. . Washington- (U.R) The Fed eral Housing Administration an nounced Saturday that all build ers applying f or FHA-insured loans henceforth must - fill out two forms designed to flush those who allegedly have made-illegal "windfall" profits in the past . comers: Reps. Sam Coon, Baker Republican, ?.. and Edith ; Green; Portland Democrat. Rep: Watler Norblad voted for it Rep. Har ris Ellsworth was out' of town, Coon said he probably would have taken a different .: attitude if the pay increase had been less and if it had not been retroac tive. He: said he couldn't "in eood conscience" vote to in crease his own salary just three months after being elected, when at the time of the election it wasthought the pay? would be $15,000. Mrs. Green said she would have preferred a more moder ate increase in salary plus an expense account, which she said West Coast congressmen needed more badly than others. She opposed the amount of the in crease in the bill as passed, but said she hoped the Senate would make the changes she favored This is a position similar to. that taken by Sen. Wayna Morse d Oun Pay Hike 21 RED $20 Slash for Each Taxpayer Included In Surprise Plans Added Reduction Seen For Each Dependent Washington (U.R) Speaker Sam Rayburn announced Satur day that House Democrats will launch a drive Monday to cut everyone's income taxes, effect ive next Jan. 1. ' He said the Democrats, now in majority - control of " congress, will back legislation to provide each taxpayer with a cut of at least $20, with an additional $20 reduction for each dependent. Jumps Gun on Ike ' The surprise announcement jumped the gun on President Ei senhower on the tax relief ques tion which is bound to be a main . Washington (U.R) Here is how the tax cut proposed by House Democrats would work: The cut would be the same amount of dollars for all classes of taxpayers, regardless of size of income. Percentagewise, it would be equal "to a 100 per cent cut in the lowest bracket (those whose tax now is no greater than the amount of the cut), ranging down to a reduction of less than one per cent in the highest bracket. Taxpayer with no depend ants $20. Married couple $40. Married couple, one " child $60. Married ' coupler two children $80. Married couple, three children $100. Married couple, four children $120. issue in 1956 election year poli tics. Mr. Eisenhower said in his budget, message earlier this year that no tax cuts are warranted this year but he "hoped"to be able to recommend some next year. Secretary of 1 the Treasury George M. Humphrey, restated the . administration stand in a Chicago speech Saturday. He said the administration favors tax relief in "the long run" but not this year." , . Rayburn made his announce ment after meeting privately with democratic members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. It represent ed a sudden switch in democratic strategy. Only last week key Democrats told reporters they had about given up hope for early, tax cuts because of the Formosa crisis. j .:-: Planned as Amendment Rayburn said the democratic plan for across-the-board income tax cuts will be offered as an amendment to administration requested legislation extending for one year the corporation and excise (sales) taxes due to drop April 1. The committee will begin hear ings on this bill Monday. The tax : relief proposed by the Democrats would cost the government about $1,400,000,000 a year. . Rayburn pointed out, however, that -if the cuts take effect next Jan. 1 the revenue loss ' during the current 1956 fiscal year would be only half that much, or about $700,000, 000. The fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30. ' West Skeptical of Red Atomic Plans United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) The United States and Britain re ceived with t skepticism Satur day" Russia's latest proposal for destruction of nuciear weapons, but nonetheless decided to send in a top team of negotiators to meet the Reds at next week s dis armament conference. .; ; j Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the United. Nations and Anthony Nutting for Britain will have a chance to review the Russian proposal . with : Russia.'s Andrei Gromyko when they meet in London next Friday. - - The surprise stature of the Russian delegate was a factor in the decision to have the United States' and Britain send top rep resentatives to sit in on the Lon don conference. , . . nn A PS Convoy Carrying Chinese Troops Hit Near Invasion Base 41 Craft Destroyed , In Two-Day Period r Taipeh, Formosa U.R Nationalist bombers sank or damaged 20 ' more Communist ships Saturday, trapping a Red troop convoy for the second time in 24 hours near the invasion buildup base of Tai island. Many of the 20 ships hit Sat urday were heavily loaded with troops as were the 21Red war- ships and a submarine sunk or damaged Friday in an air-sea battle off Taishan,' 120 miles north of Formosa. Claims 41 Ships Hit, V, The Nationalist Air : Force now claims a total of 41 ships sunk or damaged in Friday's air-sea battle and Saturday's uuuiuuig ana suauug. iuc Force also claims to have bombed and sunk a Commun ist submarine off Taishan Fri day.'. The air force communique Saturday said only three of 23 Red warcraf t caught near Taish an escaped into ; the open sea.: The other 20 were bombed and riddled with machinegun , and cannon fire in the attempt to put new Red troops on Taishan. Little Tai island lies between Nanchi and Matsu islands, two of Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek's island outposts and there are growing indications that the ' Reds' next strike will be against' one of these two islands. 21 Planes Destroyed . Nationalist air and sea forces "n. : j . l a m. rriuay aesuroyea zl xiea war craft in a daylong battle off Tai shan. The air force claimed it Domoea and macmnegunned a enKm nflnA writ nV -w. Va-vta Uamm Russian, but ;the Defense . Min istry would not confirm or deny the report - urday was on its way from the port of Foochow on the Red-held mainland to Taishan from which: the Reds would have to mount their invasion of either Nanchi or Matsu, military sources said. The Reds apparently have) been able to push through rein forcements t6 Taishan despite the Nationalist . attacks. Two weeks ago the Communist gar rison was estimated at 600 men, today Nationalist sources said there were some 2,000 Red troops on the little island. Victory Predicted For Tariff Cuts Washington (U.R) S e n. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) Satur day; predicted victory in the Senate for President Eisenhow er's tariff -cutting foreign trade, program which has been ap proved by the House. The veteran senator, who has steered several trade measures, through the 1 Senate in past Salem U.R) Tha Oregon v Senate voted 20 to 10 Friday in favor of a memorial urging Congress not to pass a reso- . lution ;. authorizing President Eisenhower trX reduce tariffs. years, conceded there would be a sharp fight to restrict the pro gram. However, he anticipated final approval without changes. "I don't think it will be as. hard fought as it was in the House," George told a reporter. . - George - now - is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. : Formerly, he was chairman of the Finance com- mittee which handles such re ciprocal trade legislation. The House voted 295 to 110 to approve the overall admini--stration program. However, the key test on -the controversial measure came on a 206-199 vote by which the House rejected a strong bid by protectionist minded congressmen to trim the . president's tariff -cutting powers. Wire-Tap Arrests " Mnrlo In New Yerlr New York (U.R) Three men., were .charged.; Saturday with setting up an elaborate telephone tapping service on: Manhattan's swank east side, home of kings of industry, ft nance and society. . - --. Police said they knew of only that the three had, the equip-; 35 lines that were tapped but ment and' organization to listen: in on thousands of conversa tions., - -
