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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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