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r i i I A .;- 7' -"-L-': i i- n .... ' H ;.' '., . .. -mm 'CHin'ese ''Attitude ftirmglllg To U.S. Bangkok, Thailand (U.R) Repeated belligerent statements by Communist China and its ag gressive pushing "appear to be swinging Britain toward the American viewpoint on Formosa Informed sources said today. ' The sources made the state ment following private confer ences on Formosa between Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden on opening day of the historic Southeast Asia Treaty Nations Conference. Dulles was reported to have told a closed session of the con ference today that "American military forces in this part of the world are adequate to cope with any foreseeable situation." Threat of War Dulles and Eden took time out from the conference to study the , increasingly critical situation f - created by continued Communist thrusts toward Nationalist-held : Formosa, threats that could i plunge Red China and the United i States into war. 9 , Reliable sources said Dulles asked for clarification of Brit ain's position regarding Formosa, especially the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. e, Eden, in a talk during lunch, was reported to have confirmed that Britain feels the offshore islands belong to the Peiping regime but strongly disapproves of the Chinese Reds using them as bases for aggressive action. Communist Aggression - xne sources saia aen ex pressed hope the Communists would not ignite the powder keg by trying to take the offshore islands at this time by force. : The sources said the British admit the Chinese Communists seem determined to get them selves branded as aggressors again, just as was the case in Korea. . The private Dulles-Eden talks were an extension of the discus sion on the Asian situation which began in a closed morning session. During the initial secret hieeting Dulles outlined the situ ation in Asia as seen by the United States. - Informants said Dulles put em phasis on hard-hitting mobile American power which has atomic capability to hit any tar- get of its own choosing and in-f dicated he saw no immediate need to set up a permanent land force for SEATO. Dulles told the delegates there was no reason to doubt Ameri can intentions to fight to the end to protect its Allies in Asia. Proposes Advisory Group Informants said The Philip pines delegate, Carlos P. Garcia, urged creation of a permanent . and continuing military advisory group and that Dulles supported the suggestion. ' - . Australia's Minister of Exter- nal Affairs R. G. Casey pre dicted a South Viet Nam election victory over the Communists "if Congress Pay Raise Clears First Hurdle Washington U.R) A bill to give members of Congress a 50 per cent raise cleared its first Senate test today. By an 80 to 3 vote, the Senate defeated an amendment by Sen Prescott Bush (R.-Conn.) to elim inate congressional raises from the bill which also proves pay raises for federal judges. Only Bush and Sens. Olin D Johnston (D.-S.C.) and Wayne L. Morse (D.-Ore.) voted for the amendment. Democratic strategists predict ed passage before nightfall of the politically touchy bill to hike congressional pay. It would boost the salaries of senators and congressmen from $15,000 to $22,500 and give proportion ate raises to federal judges. Weather FORECAST: Considerable high cloudiness and not so cold to night. Mostly cloudy Thurs day. Occasional rain by after noon or evening. Low tonight about 32. High Thursday about 47. Temp. Highest Yesterday 49 Lowest this Morning 25 Great Britain Of Nationalist London U.R) Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today . that Britain will not become involved in the defense of Nationalist held offshore islands against Communist attack. Written Guarantee , ; Churchill's formal statements was submitted in the form of a written answer to Socialist Hector Hughes who had asked for a comprehensive statement on Britain's position. It made it clear that Britain -would not go to the aid of the United States if the latter be came involved in a war with Britain Viewpoint improvement in the situation continues at the present rate He said Premier Ngo Dinh Diem was gaining in popularity in divided Indochina, the future of which is to be decided by elec tions. Dulles began today's meeting with a declaration that U.S. for eign policy is based on libertv not only for Americans but all otners as well. The United States cannot be assured of its own liberty unless other nations are free, Dulles said. Knowland Calls For Appraisal Of United Nations New York U.R) Senate Re publican leader William F, Knowland last night criticized the United Nations as an "effec tive instrument of collective se curity" and called for a "realis tic appraisal" of the organiza tion.- In a speech before the Sons of the American Revolution, the California senator said that the United Nations has "allowed it self to become seriously compro mised" through its action in the Far East. Time for Appraisal It is time, Knowland said, for a "realistic appraisal of just what part the United Nations is qualified to play and to stop kidding ourselves into believing it is something it is not and, in my judgment, cannot be. While Knowland did not pro pose abolishing the United Na tions or U.S. withdrawal from it, he said we should realize its shortcomings as a peace-enforce ment agency. Must Show Communists He said the Communists must be shown "that there will be no further retreats or the abandon ment f free people into Com munist hands." It would be a "far Eastern Munich," Knowland said to transfer the Nationalist held islands of Quemoy and the Mat su group to Communist China. This would b- another de feat for the free world and throughout all of Asia looked upon as another victory for the Communists," he said. Opening Performance Of Kapers Scheduled .. The seventh annual Kiwanis Kapers, featuring prominent local residents in an evening of music, skits and gags, opens to night at the senior high school auditorium. " It will be kid's night with a special price for students. Cur' tain time is 7:30 p.m. Medford Kiwanis club will repeat the show, "Tel-A-Version," at 8:15 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.' The Kiwanians give versions of various popular television shows. Second act will be a tele cast review in the Fred Waring style and members of the service club and their wives will make up the chorus. Kiwanis projects of medical, dental and other aids to under privilege youngsters will benefit from the show as will other boys and girls activities conducted or helped by the club. - (See picture on Page 11) Big Atomic Blast Again Postponed Las Vegas, Nev. U.R) Bad weather returned to the at omic proving .area today and postponed once again the firing of a big atomic blast. The Atomic Energy commis sion scheduled a weather evalu ation test for today to determine if the "granddaddy" explosion of the 1955 testing series can be fired Thursday. Not To Aid in - Held Offshore Islands Red China over . the coastal islands. "There is a great difference between the coastal islands of China and the island of Formo sa," Churchill's reply said. Suggestion Rejected Churchill also rejected a So cialist suggestion that he should send Foreign Minister Anthony Eden to Peiping for a conference with Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai on Formosa. Eden at present is in Bang kok, Thailand, attending a meet ing of Southeast5 Asia Treaty Organization where the Formo san crisis is the chief topic of MEDFOBDiTRIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire " V 49th Year 1 8 Pages Faure Receives Overwhelming Vote As New Premier Pinay, Schuman Get Cabinet Posts Paris (U.R) Radical Social ist Edgar Faure won over whelming National Assembly approval today as the 21st post war Premier of France, ending an 18-day government crisis. The bespectacled, thin-haired financial expert, thus becomes successor as head of the French government to Pierre Mendes- France. The Assembly brought "the humiliating government crisis to an end by voting its confidence in Faure and the right of center Cabinet he has formed. Rightist Independent Antoine Pinay, 63, is Faure's foreign minister and the man who has the job of pushing ratification of German rearmament and the new West Eurpean Union through the French Senate where it has been stalled since the crisis began. Schuman Appointed Robert Schuman, 68, the Catholic Popular Republican, is Faure's minister of justice. Mendes-France did not join he new government. Faure was the youngest French Premier of the century when he held office briefly in 1952. He was thrown out for trying to ram through a stiff tax reform program that trod on too many toes. Silverton Ambush Suspect Arraigned Salem (U.R) Casper A. (Cap) Oveross, 44, Silverton area carpenter and part time farmer, was arrainged in District Court here today on a charge of first degree murder for the slaying of his one-time neighbor, Ervin Kaser, last Thursday night. Marion county, and state;, police, arrested Oveross last night at the home of a niece in Silverton. He spent the night at state po lice headquarters here. Oveross, who was questioned at length following the slaying, refused to comment on the po lice action other than to say he wanted to see his attorney Bruce Williams, of Salem. Kaser, member of a promin ent Silverton hop-growing fam ily, was slain by rifle fire as he droye his automobile into the driveway of his home. Police said the slayer had been con cealed 75 yards away. US To Participate in Afoms-for-Peace Talk Washington-OJ.R) The Unit ed States announced today it has accepted an invitation to participate in an atoms for peace conference at Geneva next summer along with 10 So viet bloc nations . and 73 other countries. The international conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy, first of its kind and scope in history, will be held in the Swiss city Aug. 8-20 under auspices of the United Nations. It is an outgrowth of the world atoms for peace plan launched by President Eisenhower Dec. 8, 1953. The Atomic Energy Commis sion will plan and prepare U. S. participation, which will in clude many scientific papers and a technical exhibit to which more than . 60 American firms and institutions will contribute. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indust rials 411.48 up 0.20; 20 railroads 149.58 up 1.47; 15 utilities 63.80 off 0.13 and 65 stocks 153.36 up 0.44. Sales today were about 3,030,000 shares, compared with 3,010,000 shares traded . Mon day. Defense discussion even though it is out side the treaty area. Churchill pointed out that the Red Chinese already had turned down one chance to get their views before the U.N. Security council. U.S. Must 'Go It Alone' The Conservative government was urged by the executive com mittee of the British Labor party today to tell the United States she will have to "go it alone" so far as Britain is concerned, if fighting develops for Nationalist held offshore islands in the For mosa Strait. te US Said Ready To Go Ail-Out . On Disarmament Iron-Clad Guarantees Wanted From Nations Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower said today the United States is ready to go as far as anyone else on world dis armament once iron-clad guar antees are found to make sure all nations are acting on good faith. Pending such guarantees," the President made clear at his news conference that he does not fa vor recent proposals from abroad to ban H-bomb tests. He said he sees little need to take what he called little bits of items and deal with them separately in the field of disarmament. No Reason for Optimism He acknowleged that past his tory did not give the United States any reason to hold trem endous optimism on disarma ment prospects. But once the United States could have faith in disarmament guarantees, the President said, it would put everything in the pot and go just as far as anybody else. The President discussed a wide range of foreign affairs prob lems including: Formosa: The United States is on record as seeking by every possible means to arrange a cease fire with justice in the Formosa region. He said he had discussed the whole problem with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles before Dulles left for the Bangkok conference. Dulles planned clearly and def initely, he added, to discuss th? Formosa crisis atBangkok with British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden. " The - President would not comment on the pos sible outcome of these talks or disclose whether any new plans are underway. . Fliers: The President said the United States is doing every thing possible to try to free Am erican fliers jailed by Red China. He said efforts included the Un ited Nations and the use of third parties. The United States must insist on a just settlement he said. But he said there had been no recent developments which would permit him to say wheth er chances for the fliers' free dom was better or worse. West Germany: Mr. Eisenhow er said he is putting his full strength behind the West Ger man rearmament agreements be ing debated now in European parliaments. - United Nations: Mr. Eisenhow er took issue with Sen. William F. Knowland's statement that that United Nations is no long er an effective instrument of col lective security. The President declared he is not going to give up on the United Nations so long as it is a place where nations can get together and talk even if some used the world agency for propaganda. Further Argument Allowed by Court Attorneys in the case involv ing Lee Poirier, Jacksonville, were allowed further argument Monday on a defense demurrer to the complamt, according to district court officials. Following oral arguments by the attorneys, more time was allowed to file briefs on the con stitutionality of the state law in question, they added. The complaint alleges that Poirier violated state law on one case in his business, which concerns repair of false teeth in Jacksonville. He is represented by Attorney O. H. Behgtson. Deputy District Attorney Gene Piazza represents the state. Tidy Thief Fills Half Empty Bottle A tidy thief was reported at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Owen Cox, 210 Elm st. Monday, according to city po lice. The thief entered the home through an unlocked back door and ransacked the dres sers in the bedroom, taking $13.50 in currency. The thief then tidied up the room again. Then he (or she) went io the icebox and took out a bot tle of pop, drank part ef it, refilled it with water, replaced the lid. put it back in the re frigerator and lefL MEDFORD, CIEGON, 'Sim . v u.,.... . ATOM SUN RISES Brilliant flash from first major atomic blast of the 1955 spring series rises behind the bright lights of the Sahara ; hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., 75 miles from , Student Officials Run City, County; Eighty-two student officials took over the city and county government business today in the seventh annual Elks lodge sponsored student government day. Headed by student Mayor Don Robinson and student . County Judge Harvey Kueners, Jackson ville, the group represents elect ed and appointed officials from eight county high schools includ ing Medford, Jacksonville, Pros- f pect, Butte Falls; Central -Point, Phoenix, Eagle Point ; and . bt. Mary's of Medford. Students to Run Council The officials will work with the regular counterparts during the day, which will be climaxed by the annual student-run. city council meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the city hall. The meeting is adjourned from the regular council meeting of Feb. 15. ', The highlight of yesterday's program for . the students was the annual banquet in the Elks temple. More than 300 officials, students, parents and guests fill ed the banquet room, according to lodge officials. The principal speaker, State Sen. Mark Hatfield, Salem, call ed the student participation in local government "a great con tribution to the thing we call Democracy ... It is indeed re freshing to see such a tribute paid to local government, espec ially in the light of 20 years of concentration on the national level." ' , . .; , : ; He traced public education in totalitarian states as opposed to education in America. He said that the youth' of many Euro pean states were "so ground un der the heel of tyrants that they had lost even the inherent per spective of youth humor.":; The U. S. two-party system with its cross-section of the ec onomy in membership was op posed to . the one-party, small percentage groups that are the controllers of certain democrac ies.' : -Spiritual Recognition Hatfield continued that there was a "deep spiritual recognition undergirding the American poli tical scene," and that the great est bulwark against Communism is Christianity. 1 ' Prior to Hatfield's talk, May or Earl Miller officially welconv ed the guests asdid Exalted Ru ler , Frank T. Hussong of the Elks lodge. A number of special guests were introduced. Special awards were given to the two student advisers, Mrs. Una ; B. Inch, assistant county school su perintenent, and Mrs. Jo' Anne Smith, head of the social studies department Medford high. The invocation was delivered by the Rev. D. Kirkland West. D. L. Flynn, president of the League of Oregon cities, acted as master of ceremonies. . . . i i It was announced that Frank Bash Jr., would be given a spec ial airplane trip to the state legislature on United Airlines today. He will view the opera tion of government on the state level. Hatfield's speech to the ban quet will be re-broadcasted over radio station KYJC from 9:55 to 10:20 p.m. today. ,, FEBRUARY 23, 1955 Sanitation Problems Object of Bill To Go Before Leg By ERIC ALLEN JR. Mail Tribune City Editor Salem The growing number of cess pools and septic tanks in the low-lying areas of the Rogue valley, from Talent to Central Point, and including the area as far west as Jacksonville, consti tute a problem which is of in creasing concern to Jackson county health authorities.' A bill now being prepared for introduction to the Oregon legis lature has the objective of doing something to solve this problem Draft Completed : State Sen. Phil Lowry, Med ford, working closely with an attorney of the Legislative Coun cil's staff, has completed a "rough draft" of the bill, which runs to 30 pages, and is now go ing over it in detail, smoothing the rough spots and eliminating the "bugs." . , , ; Basically, the bill puts into legislative form a proposal first voiced last year by Medford Engineer A. D. .(Del) Harvey for what he called a "Metropolitan district," which would have au thority to set up and maintain sewage disposal facilities for that area of Jackson county where the problem is the worst. There is no present authority granted by Oregon laws for a large district of this type, which would include cities as well as unincorporated areas. In his researches on the prob lem, Senator Lowry discovered. that it would be necessary xo venture into what is a virtually untouched field of legislation creating, in effect, a form of governmental unit which is neither municipal nor county; which is fairly extensive in scope, though limited in objec tives. ' s , Wide Application ; . : The measure, while designed specifically; to meet the prob lems found in Jackson county, is by its very nature bound to have application in the state's other 35 counties, for many of them, growing as Jackson coun ty has grown, have nearly iden tical problems. ', What the bill would do is to permit the formation, on a vol untary basis and -following an election, of county sanitary au thorities,, including those por tions of any county which have sanitation problems too big for existing means' of . solution. In structure, it would be .simi lar to existing . water and sani tation districts, with a board of five members elected by resi dents of the area. It would have authority to issue bonds, to levy taxes, to construct sewage sys tems and sewage disposal plants. It would permit large : areas to "get together" for the mutual solution of mutual sewage prob lems. Study Authority One of the things now being studied by Senator Lowry and his associates, including -Raymond Coulder,- former, Grants Pass attorney and state repre sentative who is now legal coun sel for the: League of Oregon Cities, is whether or not the au thority of such an . agency should be broadened to incorpo rate other related services, such as drainage systems, or garbage disposal. It will probably be some days ground zero. Two hundred military observ ers witnessesd. the test from trenches . A000 yards from the detonation. isla tu re yet before the measure is ready for introduction to the legisla ture, now in its seventh week. Senator . Lowry would be. glad to hear from Jackson county residents as to' their views on the proposal, he said today. ers Warned of Curfew About 40 teenagers between 14 and 17 years of age were rounded up this week in' an early-morning raid by law en forcement officers and were sent home after a curfew law warn ing, according to Sheriff Howard Gault. ' The youths were warned by officers that if found again dur ing late hours they would be ar rested for violation of the state law. This prohibits children under 18 years from being out in public between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m., unless ac companied by adults. Gault said that the students were found around drive-ins and allnight restaurants about - 2:30 a.m. The unusual raid was part of a stepped-up program to curb juvenile delinquency and liquor law violations, the official said. Nationalist Forces Bomb Enemy Troops Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) The Nationalist Air, Force announc ed it had .'carried out heavy bombing -attacks against Com munist troops and invasion junk fleets in the Taishan islands for the sixth straight day today. : ' The Air , Force did not ' make immediate claims of damage to Communist vessels in its latest raids but reported hitting two "sizable" ships in pre-dawn raids and possibly sinking one of them. ; ; The reported new Nationalist assaults followed closely what newspapers here were calling "sweeping victories" over a 200-ship Red Chinese convoy in the Taishan area yesterday. County Teenag Lowry Working on New Bill To Restrict Salem A bill designed to per mit county courts to set aside areas where the shooting of fire arms' wouid be banned is being prepared for introduction to the Oregon legislature. " The bill is being drawn at the request of Sen.. Phil Lowry, Medford, . who said the recent hunting-accident death of 12-year-old Stephen Minear : near Medford caused him to have the bill prepared. Simple Measure - It's a simple measure, provid ing that the court can, after a public hearing, designate an area where the discharging . of fire arms is prohibited. The court, in making such. a decision, . must take into consideration poten tial dangers from shooting, how much the area is used by hunt ers, population areas nearby, United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 290 Demo Move Said Height of Fiscal Irresponsibility President Fears -Deficit Spending Washington U.R) President Eisenhower today denounced the proposed Democratic $20 a person income tax cut as the height oil fiscal irresponsibility. Mr. Eisenhower, in a stern and sometimes fighting mood, also told his news conference that the Democrats lacked the courage to submit their proposal on its own merits. Instead, he i said, they tacked it onto an ad ministration bill to continue for one year the present corporation and excise (sales) tax rates which are scheduled to be re duced April 1. He expressed the fear that the Democratic proposal would throw the government into more serious deficit spending, some thing he said would amount to the most insidious thing that could happen to a economy. Challenges Democrats He said the United State simply, could not have this kind of thing in a responsible gov ernment. Asked whether he would veto the tax bill in its present form. we saia ne would nave to wait and see the exact form of the measure as it reaches him. . - Repeatedly he challenged the Democrats to test their tax cut as a separate bill without pro posing it as a rider on the ad ministration measure. But House Democratic leaders pushed ahead confidently with their plan for a' $20 tax cut for every taxpayer and dependent, effective next Jan. 1. Cite Budget Message -' TJemocrats in support of this tax-cutting plan, quoted from the President's Budget Message to Congress last month. . In a majority report to the House, the Ways and . Means Committee pointed out . that the President in that message ex pressed a ."hope" of tax cuts next year, and that he said such cut should be spread "fairly among all taxpayers in a way which will be the most effective to re relieve individual tax burdens and to increase incentive for ef fort and investment." The com mittee approved the tax cut plan Monday. Mr. Eisenhower still held out the hope of tax savings in 1956 through increased savings in operation of the government and a continued rise in the state of the economy. But he said that any tax reduction next year should be arrived at only after careful, analytic planning. He stuck by his 1952 predic tion that it would be possible to balance the budget in four year through careful practices by gov ernment. Danger of Inflation Although he strongly attacked deficit f ianncing, he said this does not mean that further tax reductions must await a balanced budget. ' The President said heatedly . that he did not approach the tax situation in any partisan sense. He. said he would not be the one to be defeated by a ris ing deficit He said he was thinking primarily of the wel fare of the entire American pop ulation which would be damaged seriously by another inflation ary spiral, a prospective result, he said, of any. unwarranted tax., cut next year. Areas and other factors. ; As Senator Lowry explains it, the -bill is suggested as an an swer to another of the many complications arising out of pop ulation growth in an area which has been predominantly rural. May Exclude Shotguns Before being introduced, it may be changed to exclude shot guns from the shooting ban. The bill specifically excludes the use of -firearms in self-defense or in cases of insurrection or invasion. . While it is another limitation on unrestricted freedom of ac tion, Senator Lowry feels that a? administered by county courts it would serve as a safeguard to human life, and would, sensibly used, work no real hardship on anyone. Shooting I-
