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Newspaper Page Textiiiillfl ItflfSfS in 20 Mores Obtained Mi araett Mew -Hospital ' Completion of a transaction for a 20-acre site for Medford's proposed new $1,700,000 hospital was announced here this morn' ing. . ; . ' The site is located north of Barnett rd. and west of Murphy lane, almost exactly south of Rogue Valley Country club. Fifteen acres cf the tract were purchased from Dr. Ira D. Phipps, longtime . Medford den tist, who donated the remaining five acres for the hospital site Details of the transaction were not announced.' - . Receives Approval : The location has the approval of George M. Shiffer, director of the hospital planning and con struction division of the Oregon State Board of Health. Shiffer also serves as engineer for the Hill Burton fund, which provides aid ior the construction of new hospitals. - -y . - The property was the No. choice of the architectural firm of Rogers and Butler, New York, N. Y., which has been retained to design the proposed structure. It also was favored by A. D. Har vey, of the Medford engineering firm of Harvey and TVatkins. Harvey has been selected as en- cgineermg association and local representative of the architec tural firm- The site is approximately 933 feet square. A projected sewer line will run near the rear of the site, and it is expected that a water main will be extended to the property from the west. The site is outside the present Med ford city limits. . ' Handled By Directors Purchase of the -site was han dled by the board of directors of the, Medford Hospital association, , which operates Community hos pital for the Episcopal diocese of Oregon, owner of the institution. The new hospital is planned as a larger replacement for Com munity hospital. . ..'. ' ,. A survey of hospital needs and Zhukov Warns Moscow (U.R) Soviet Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov told a Russian audience tonight that Russia's "peaceful policy has found "no favorable echoes" in the West. The erstwhile friend of Presi dent Eisenhower warned the West that Russia is ready and able to retaliate against any attack. "':: - - - . Marshal Zhukov, making his appearance on the eve of Red Army Day, was flanked on his right by Russia's new Premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin and by the Communist party secre tary, Nikita Khruschev. ; ; Zhukov stressed Russia's peace ful intentions. .1 "The Pacific policy- of the USSR has not raised any favor able echoes on the part of the capitalistic countries," he said, "notably in the United States which 1 is carrying on a policy cf preparation for war and propaganda." In his warning to the West, the defense minister said: "We are ready to reply to all attacks. Those who do not take the lessons of . history into : ac count, like Hitler, and who at tempt to adopt a position of force against the USSR should remember his fate." Great Plains Another Blizzard By UNITED PRESS Another big blizzard and cold wave bore down today, on the storm-battered Great Plains and Mountain States. Blizzard condition warnings were issued for Montana, Kansas and Nebraska. Cold wave and livestock warnings were issued for eastern portions of Wyom ing and Colorado. . A frigid air mass from Can ada was due to send . tempera tures down to 10 below in much of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. ' - ' ' Snow and winds up to 35 miles. V per hour; were;. forecast for much of the area, which still was digging out from last week's big blow. . "' ; Weather FORECAST: Clearlnr and colder tonif ht . Partly cloudy. ' Wednsday. Low . tonight 25, high Wednesday about 46. . v - . i - Temp. Highest Yesterday 60 Lowest this Morning ... 30 Rd.- for Site possibilities in the Medford area was conducted last fall by the Stanford Research Institute for the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and many private cit izens have interested themselves in the project. The hospital is to be financed through private con tributions, and several substan tial gifts toward the project al ready nave been made or pledged. Ike's Influence Expected Against Tax Cut Proposal Washington (U.R) The House Ways and Means Com miltee stamped fcrmal ap proval today on an adminis tration tax bill amended by the committee's Democratic majority 1 to include a $20 a person income lax cut. . The vote was 16 to 9, with . all 15 Democrats and one Re publican, Rep. Howard H. Baker of . Tennessee, voting aye. The other nine Republi cans voted no. ' ; Washington U.R). Republi can congressional leaders hint ed today that President Eisen hower will throw his influence against the Democratic proposal for a $20 a person tax cut. They discussed the tax meas ure with the chief executive at their regular weekly White House meeting. ; , , ' Knowland, Opposed -X Senate - Republican Leader William P. Knowland and Rep. Leslie-' Arends (R-Ill.) . told re porters they are both opposed to the Democratic proposition. Arends said it "smacks of poli tics, 100 per cent.". - . , - : They : declined to Quote v Mr. Eisenhower's views. But Know- land ..said he expects . the JPresi dent "will make his views known very clearly at the proper time." Mr. Eisenhower said in his Budget Message to Congress last year that he "hoped", to, be able to recom mend tax cuts next year but said .none were warranted this year. Loss of Revenue Knowland and Arends said they oppose the cut at this time because of the loss of revenue. Arends said he believes the issue should be taken to the voters with emphasis on what the tax cut would mean in re ducing federal-receipts. His suggestion brought up the possibility, which neither would confirm, that Mr. .Eisenhower might make a national radio- television speech . against a tax cut. ''; v '". The cuts proposed by the Democrats would ; be effective next Jan. 1. '.'' '.- Body Removed From Disabled Sub San Francisco U.R) A Navy work party wearing gas masks forced its way" into the control room ' of the : submarine . PbmO' don today and removed the body of :Torpedoman's Mate 3C Charles Mattson, Pablo, Mont.- Still: trapped and - presumed dead in the forward battery com partment were two men identi fied as Lt. (j.g.) John Joseph Gackett, 23, San Diego, and Chief Electrician's Mate Darl Donald Parckhoff, 23, National City, Calif. - , , ,. The bodies of Sonar man Wil liam J; Woods, 19, St. Louis, and TM 3C Charles B. Bowman, 20, of Atlantic City,,. N.-J., were re moved yesterday. Morse Will Oppose i Congressional Pay Hike Washington (0.R) Sen, Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said yes terday he plans to oppose the move for a congressional! pay raise. . Sen. Morse, speaking on the floor of. the Senate,' said sena tors "now are well paid they are paid more, than they're worth." He said he would try to force a series '. of roll' call votes on the proposal. The senator said that he plans to provide an amendment to the proposal that would permit in creased personnel 'and office al lowances in lieu of the pay raise. Portland (U.R) Funeral services r will be held here to morrow for Arthur Edgar Tul- ley, former assistant - dairy and food commissioner for Oregon, who died yesterday at age 75. Eisenhower Urges Congress Approve Highway Program Present Network Said Inadequate Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower urged Congress to day to approve a 10-year, $101, 000,000,000 highway improve ment program. He said the na tion's prerent road network is inadequate and unsafe, and would breed "deadly congestion" in event of atomic attack. In an 1800-word special mes sage to the House and Senate, Mr. Eisenhower underscored the urgency of highway improve ments with an estimate that 81,000,000 vehicles will travel a total of 814,000,000,000 miles over America's roads in 1SJ65. He said present traffic jams "only faintly foreshadow those of 10 years hence." Fulls No Punches Mr. Eisenhower also warned that at present rates of develop ment, it will be . the year 2005 before the nation has an inter state highway network of "even a reasonable level of extent and efficiency." Although he pulled no punches in stressing the need for heavy federal, state, and local outlays on highways, Mr. Eisenhower left it up to Congress to work out such controversial details as how to finance the huge pro gram. Mr. Eisenhower said he was 'inclined" to favor financing the proposed $31,225,000,000 federal share of the program by special bond ' issues to be paid off with revenues from gas and diesel oil taxes and in some in stances by highway tolls. But in the face of sharp Dem ocratic opposition :' to bond fi nancing, he did not insist on this method of footing the bills.: Committee Recommendations Mr. Eisenhower forwarded to Congress, along with- his own comparatively brief message, the previously published recommen dations of his special Highway Advisory Committee headed by Gen. Lucius D. Clay. This committee recommended ' a 10-year $101,OOOl00O,00QfJjjj. way building program with the federal government bearing about 30 per cent of the cost. Most of the federal outlay, $25,- 000,000,000, would go to expand and improve the 40,000-mile in terstate highway system that links most of the nation's prin cipal cities. Mr. Eisenhower said "compre hensive, quick and forward looking action is needed" to pro vide the kind of highway system America needs to handle its pres ent heavy motor traffic and the estimated jam of 81,000,000 ve hicles that will be on the roads by 1965. ( House, Senate Mark Washington Birthday . Washington (U.R) , The House and Senate celebrated George" ' Washington's birthday by hearing a reading of the first President's , most famous politi cal testament his farewell ad dress; : The address, which never was delivered orally, to the public or the Congress," was read in the Senate by Sen. Prescott Bush (R-Coan.), and in the House by Rep. William' C. Cramer (R-Fla.) In his address, Washington warned this .country becoming too' involved in foreign affairs and against the machinations of political parties which he said could have "baneful effects" on the operations of the American government." fVlatusow Says She Wanted " Washington (U.R) Turn about witness Harvey Matusow swore today that ex-Communist Elizabeth Bentley once told him she was broke and "had to keep finding things to testify about.". Testifying for the. second day before the Senate Internal Se curity subcommittee, he renew ed his charge that Miss Bentley, a frequent witness before con gressional committees . and the the courts, told him she had given false testimony. Offered Candidates Material . ; Matusow, ' who had "called himself a "perpetual and hab itual liar" but now says he is telling the truth, ' also testified today that -he offered to . give candidates for Congress last year "material" which would help them meet attacks by Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.). Subcommittee counsel Jay ,G. Sourwine pressed Matusow for details of his conversation with Miss Bentley, who has said she was a courier for a Communist MEDFORDftJlil. United .Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 14 Pages Nationalist Planes Sink Red Chinese Gunboat, Junks Communist Fleet Caught on Maneuvers Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) The Chinese Nationalist Air Force today claimed to have sunk a 700-ton Red Chinese gunboat and five armed junks in a heavy attack on 200 Communist war craft overtaken in waters 120 miles north of Formosa. An official announcement said two other warships and two gun boats were ' damaged and an unspecified number of the fleet of motorized junks were put out of action. . . Attack Continues The daylong attack, centering in waters between Communist held Peichi and Nationalist-held Nanchi islands still was con tinuing at 4 p.m. Formosa time, the announcement said. Earlier another large fleet of Chinese vessels spotted in the vicinity of Nanchi had touched off an invasion scare here. But a Nationalist spokesman later identified the .vessels as either part of a training ' exercise or a fleet of fishing vessels. Flee to Coast Pilots who first sounded the alarm on sighting the fleet of between 50 and 100 vessels, later reported the craft were on a training mission. ; Nationalist naval units and bombers who were alerted to re pel the invasion withheld their fire. And the spokesman said freTStrTc-sight.SI strong Nationalist force, fled back to the mainland coast. "Pilots, could V tell by their maneuvers that the Communists were practicing sea movements," the spokesman said. $850 Collected for Heart Fund Campaign A total of $850.30 was col lected Sunday for the Heart Fund by volunteer workers from nine Medford women's brganiza tions, it was' announced today. The Heart Sunday drive was the first door-to-door campaign conducted in Medford for the Heart Fund. , The total does not include money sent by mail by people who were not contacted Sun day, as mail donations could not be obtained today from the post office, which is closed because of the Washington's birthday holiday. . Work on the ' special gifts phase of the Heart Fund drive is slated to get underway during the next few days. This part of the drive will be headed by Ray mond Wise, special gifts chair man. Raymond ; Reter is Heart Fund chairman. Salem tU.R) The State High way Commission said; bids on projects totaling an estimated $3,000,000 would be .opened at its meeting in Portland March 2-3: ;- - ' r':' :i ; Miss Bentley SPER Things To Testify spy ring in government in the 1930s. , ; : . Matusow said he could not quote Miss Bentley directly but that she said 'in substance" that she was broke, out of work and wanted to be paid for future tes timony. ,."She cried quite a bit," Matu sow related. "She said she was out of work. She was a teacher, and wanted a' j ob,' but : nobody would employ her. She had used up the money from her book . she didn't want to talk to the government. She was sick of being used." " l f '1 Questioned on Calls Sourwine questioned Matusow about telephone calls he made sometime last spring. Matusow said he called three persons in Washington, Jack" Anderson, a reporter for - columnist ' Drew Pearson;, columnist Joseph Al sop; and James J. Sullivan, ad ministrative assistant to Sen. Mite Mancfiolrl mJVTont.). Ma- tusow testified - that -he falsely MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY' .2,-1955 FREE AFTER 6 TEARS imprisonment In Communist Poland, Hermann Field, Cleveland, 6., architect, gives warm greeting to wife and two sons,' Alan, 9 and Hugh, 11, at London airport where he landed after flight from Switzerland.' (International) iHS Receives Auards t - -- For 1 Today' is a big day for Med ford high schools students in two ways the armouncement of a principal school award from Freedoms ' Foundations and the beginning of the seventh annual student government program in conjunction with, other county The awards given for achieve ments by Medford students for citizenship projects, was the only such award for an Oregon high school and one of the 28 in. the national for the high school di vision. It was based on the student-participation in city gov ernment, wheh started', seven years ago in a cooperative effort between the youth, officials and the Elks lodge for better citi zenship. The students documen ted the whole project; and the album was sent to the Freedoms Foundation library at Valley Forge,: Penn. Faculty adviser is Mrs. Jo Anne Smith, head of the department of social studies. Includes Library - The award will include the "Valley Forge Freedom Li brary" which consists of pic tures, books, recordings and films that school .administrators will be allowed to select, ; the George Washington honor medal for the school's trophy case and a "Valley Forge Pilgrimage" trip for student and teacher. The latter provision has not yet been determined as to time and. par ticipants. : '; ' The announcement of the na tional awards by the foundation was made at a special. George Washington I birthday ceremony at Valley Forge today. A dis tinguished awards jury picked the recipients on the basis of "the Credo of the American Way of Life, which defines the free system' as being based on a ' fun damental belief in God, consti tutional government, designed Told Him accused Mansfield of. Being stooge for Communists during the 1952 campaign. He said he , called Anderson about "material I had, which I would put at . the disposal . of members of Congress who were up for reelection who were go ing to be attacked by Sen.' Mc Carthy." He said Anderson was "a friend of mine", and might know persons who could use the "material." r : Dealt With Activities : " Matusow said his "material" dealt with his own activities in the J 952 campaign, when he spoke against Mansfield and Sen;. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.). " . Matusow said he also had ma terial given to him by Don Sur ine, an aide to McCarthy, includ ing 1944 . House hearings : on Communism in the armed ser vices with passages underlined by McCarthy "showing the way he planned to attack the Army back in-1952.,, Government Day United Ti to serve and not to rule the Am erican people, and an indivisible bundle of political and econom ic' rights" -according to founda tion off icials. ; ; . J '"; Student Government . ' , ; In . carrying on" its project; of student participation, in govern ment, ; 39 h'igh schbc:; students will join with 39 other county schools and four from St. Mary's of Medford this afternoon for a program which ? will, continue through tomorrow, j. ' " ; The student officials,: headed by Mayor Don Robinson: and County Judge Harvey Hueners, took their oath of office at 2:30 p.m. today. Following afternoon excursions to radio and televis in stations, the students will at tend a 6:30 p.m. banquet in the Elks temple. ,..:', ' r. , " - Wednesday's activities will in clude "working" with each reg ular adult I official V during his "day on the job". Afternoon vis its ' will be made to ; city , and county points of interest. . Stu dent councilman and the mayor will open council session at 7:30 p.m. at . which the annual list f recommendations to the reg ular council will-be offered. Faure Will Request ! Premier Confirmation Paris (U.R) Radical Soc ialist Edgar Faure , decided to day .to go before the National assembly tomorrow morning to ask confirmation , as Premier. ; An assembly spokesman; said the balky chamber was summon ed to meet tomorrow.! when Faure will submit-his program for a full-dress, debate; The 46-year-old finance ex pert who was . premier , for , 40 days in 1952 decided to try to form' a government tb, end the 18 day; ; crisis after consulting his party's steering committee.' , His party.last to fall in line behind Faure", gave him the sup port of "a majority of rightwing and center " parties. Observers said he would be, confirmed if this support held together until the decsive vote tomorrpw. City Manager To Attend Cenference in Astoria . City Manager Robert . Duff will: leave Friday morning , to attend' a . Northwest City Man agres association conference at Astoria on Feb. 26 through 28. v He will, deliver a paper to the conference -on "Elements bf a Sound Personnel Program." This will be Duffs first at tendance as a iCgular city man ager. :He . has attended previous conferences as city superintend ent; v His "wife wUl accompany him:to Astoria. - Salem U.R) Inspections of fresh fruits and vegetables in Oregon during January totaled 3816 cars, the State Department of Agriculture said. Salem U.R) Gov. Paul L Patterson has designated March 4 as President'i day. RIBUNE is full Leased Wire Price 5c V No. '289 Guided Missile Warhead Model Blast Indicated Bomb Gives None Of Previous Noises -- , Angel's Peak, Nev. 0I.R) The Atomic Energy commission celebrated Washington's Birth day with an atomic blast that a witnessing U.S.i Senator indicat ed could be the model of a war head of a guided missile for -use against 4'invading forces." Sen. Russell Long (D-Ala.), who saw this second shot in the 1955 nuclear test series from an official observation post 10 miles away, said after the blast it was a "baby A-bomb." : Possibilities Foreseen ',; '. . He said it enabled him and 16 other observing congressmen , to "foresee ' the defensive possibil ities of these small size nuclear weapons, launched from either the ground or aircraft against invading forces, yet:' small enough to minimize danger to our own people." ' ; ; - The congressional party wit nessed the explosion from the concrete control point c block house inside the Nevada Prov ing Grounds and were briefed thoroughly by the AEC on what was happening, before, during and after the explosion. Variety of Missiles Use of the word launched" by the senator in' an official statement after the' blast -indi cated the device could have tip ped the; nose of ..any : of ..the guided missiles' known to be in the U. S. -arsenal, including ground to ground, ground to air, air to ground, or air to air. . The blast spread a panoramic "flash-blub" V light - across an 800-mile area, and was un officially-estimated to be .the equivalent of some 15,000 tons of TNT, actually in the medium size range for Nevada' firing. . Strangely, the blast gave forth none of the noise level of previous detonations of that, in tensity. It was heard not at all at. this vantage point, '8900 feet above the desert and 45 ' miles from the Yucca Flat detonation site.-- ''--: ; .':-. -,.:'-:-v 'Whispering' Bomb Unofficial observers dubbed it a "whispering" bomb when only a low rumble was heard in Las -Vegas, 75 miles distant where former explosions have been heard as . sharp thunder like claps. , . .- --.o The possibility for explosion of a "big one" tomorrow at the proving" grounds . remained "slight," the AEC said,' because adverse weather, conditions pos ed the threat of an undue radia tion fallout ' over populated areas. Pear Blossom Festival Date Set for April 23 The tentative date of April 23 was set this morning for the .sec ond annual Peaf: Blossom fes tival, according to D. L. Flynn, committee chairman;- - 1 was also decided at a break fast session of the general committee- to i mail . out notices ? as soon as possible to local organ izations to participate in the festival. . . . . . Reports were made on 'the judging and photography plan ned for the festival contest on selecting a queen; - - " The committee plans another meeting next week. Twelve per sons attended today's session. United States Again Wins Pancake Race , Liberal. Kan. -(U.R) The United States defeated Eng land in. the international pan cake race today, for the sec ond year in a row, with Mr. Binnie Dick repeating her tri umph of 1954. Her time over the 415-yard course was one minute S.1 ' seconds, r ' '-- i r : In. Olney, England, an, lee-, sheathed course held the win ner, .Mrs. . Doris Millward to one, minute 18.5 seconds. : v I In the race women flip a pancake ' . required number of times while running. The . pancake must fall back into a frying pan. Losing the pan cake means disqualification TEITEE) Mark Hatfield Predicts Event At Local Meeting County GOP Women Hear Salem Senator ; State Sen. Mark Hatfield, Sa lem, predicted at a Medford luncheon today that U. S. Sen.; Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) would be nominated for vice-president at the 1956 Democratic National' convention. Speaking before the Jackson County Republican women at the YMCA, Hatfield said "an Adlai Stevenson - Wayne Morse . ticket would give formidable foes to our Republican party, and un less we get the accomplishments of this administration to the far. corners of the nation, we shall again be the victim of a propa-, ganda mill which has branch of fices at Washington, D. C, Mon- . mouth and Milwaukie." ; .References Made:-;'"" :;'v. ;.'" ' z ,The senator from Marion coun ty said he termed them branch offices "because, no one knows where the party headquarters are currently.": His reference to Monmouth and Milwaukie indi cated the home towns of How ard Morgan and National Com mitteeman Monroe Sweetland. r ; In offering a formula for GOP success, Hatfield stated that "the only route to success in 1956 for the GOP is to do a good job in . 1955, and cursing of the opposi tion will get no votes." ' In citing the Washington birth day occasion, he compared the first President to President Eisenhower and said the latter "has molded a unity of Republi cans and Democrats in a major ity to effect a basic program." ; Greater Participation - He stressed the need for youth and greater women participation in the GOP. Speaking generally; he said that the GOP has not only failed to get new youth to' register Republican, but is losing the youth "born into Republican homes r to the Democrats. He cited current national sta tistics which revealed that of citizens between the ages of 21 and 25, they were registering as follows: 29 per cent ; GOP, 59 per cent Democrat and 12 per cent independent. . Churchill Rejects Halt To Bomb Tests London (U.R) Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill today re jected the idea of halting further atom bomb tests -while crucial East-West disarmament talks are under way. . v , , I should certainly not asso ciate myself in any way T with : such a decision at the present time," Churchill told a Socialist questioner in the House of Com mons a few: hours after the United, States exploded its, sec ond atomic device-of the 1955 series in Nevada.. . Churchill's statement was made as delegations to the five nation disarmament conference -opening here Friday mapped out preliminary plans. The "parliamentary exchange also came as Britain commis sioned an atomic age remote con trolled aircraft carrier and is sued a Navy white paper which indicated that conventional bat tleships are doomed. ' :,' McKay's Heels Said Dragged on Statehood Washington U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger. (D-Ore.) today: : charged that Secretary of Inte rior Douglas , McKay "has dragged his heels" on Alaskan statehood. V V :." ',- Oregon's , junior senator criti cized McKay in presenting two memorials' to the Senate from the Oregon' Legislature urging "early admision" of Alaska and Hawaii as states. Neuberger said the memorials should have been directed, more to McKay than Congress because "McKay has dragged his heels on Alaskan statehood, repudiat ing his one-time support. The senator said McKay had in stead proposed "a kind of twi light zone plight for Alaska- half military and half state." v ! J 7 Lot Plat Approved By City's Planners . Al 1 Hot plot for the Vista Heights subdivision on Highland dr. was approved at a special city planning commission meet ing yesterday at 5 p.m. accord ing to Edward McKinstry, com mission secretary. ' V : The commission also recom mended to the city council that the subdivision be annexed to the city, subject to certain re strictions being met, he said. -' The plat is located next to the IOOF cemetery and -west of Highland dr. Four houses al ready have been erected on the. plat. . -.