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Recommended Weather Feature stories on experi ment concerning use of wood .tor orchard heating, and on transmission line fault finders used by California Or egon Power company, appear on Page 12 of today's issue of The Mail Tribune. FORECAST Few snow show ers today, clearing and colder tonight. Rain Monday. High today 40, low tonight 20. Temp. Highest yesterday - 39 Lowest yesterdays 3S Precip. Te 10:30 pjn. yesterday .08 United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 28 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1955 Price 5c No. 293 Smmm IIBUIE list Smiis CUP OF DOG Shown above is Little Bit, who weighs only four ounces at the age of six weeks. She belongs to the Walter McMahan family, 243 Beatty st., and is one of a litter Six Fishermen Set For Return To Red China on Tuesday Manila (U.R) Six ship wrecked Chinese fishermen from Communist-held Hainan Island will be returned - Tuesday by the American Red Cross as a suggestion to Peiping -that-it;"do4 the same with the 15 American airmen it new holds. Seventh Refuses A seventh fisherman from the same gi'oup has flatly refused to be repatriated to Red China, Clark Air Force Base sources said. The seven men have been stranded at the American air base since their rescue from tiny Triton Island last summer. The American Red Cross will fly the men to Hong Kong en route to their Communist- rffuninated homeland but the seventh steadfastedly refused all offers to send him back. Rescued Last May 1 The men were rescued last Mav 16 frcm the tiny sand and coral island where they had been shipwrecked. An Air Force amphibian of the same type that rescued survivors of a shot down Cathay Pacific airliner off Hainan, spotted the ragged and hungry men waving fran tically for help. They said they were the only survivors of a crew, of 22 that set out from Hainan Island. They were flown to Clark base for hospitalization It took months before Peiping, in response to American in quiries through the British lega tion, . said they would be ac cepted. , - Expense Allowance Hit by Knowland Washington U.R) Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland warned the House Saturday, it will "jeopardize the chances" of a Congressional raise if it insists on including a $1,250 tax-free expense allow ance. Ren. Francis Walter (D-Pa.), chief House sponsor of . the pay raise indicated meanwhile that House leaders will agree to give ud the exnense allowance in fa vor of a straight increase of Congressional salaries to $24,- 000 a year. But he said the House will also demand that the Senate abandon a provision to give Congressmen five free trips home a year. Congressmen now get $15,000 a year in salary and one free trio to and from home. The House originally passed a bill to raise the salary lo $23,uuu and the Senate voted to raise it to $22,500. Earlier this week, a conference committee worked out a comoromise providing for ' a $22,500 salary, a $1,250 tax- free expense allowance, and five free triDS home. The House ac cepted this version but the Sen ate, by a vote of 62 to 7, rejected . it Friday and tossed the whole question back to a conference committee. House-Approved Tax Cut Threatens Split Of Senate Democrats Washington (U.R) The House-approved income tax cut threatens to split Senate Demo crats and to upset the - party unity so carefully cultivated over the past two years. v X The Senate" Finance"- commit tee starts to work on the tax bill Monday and : almjpst j;ertain- ly will knock, out the $20-for- everybody income tax cut while approving the tax extension pro visions backed by the adminis tration. ' Rejection Expected When the bill reaches the Sen ate floor, the odds now indicate that the Senate itself will fol low the committee and reject the personal income reduction for which House Democrats fought so hard. Some Senate Democrats are unhappy over the prospect of a party split over the politically potent tax issue. The strategy favored by Sen ate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson calls for developing issues so the Democrats can unite and win. The tax bills Bugs Cause Heavy Tree Seed Losses Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) In sects destroyed four-fifths of the douglas fir seeds and three fourths of the sugar pine seeds in national forests of northern California in 1954, the U. S. Forest Service reported Satur day. The report released by the California Forest and Range Ex periment station of the U. S. agency established for the first time the responsibility of in sects for the failure of pine and fir cones to produce seed. Some bugs eat the seeds, others de stroy the flowers or immature cones on forest trees, the report said. It said douglas fir cone pro duction was light in northern California forests with the re sult that poor natural regenera tion could be expected. Al though sugar pines had some what better cone production, in certain areas it was "essentially a failure." Controversial Tax Leg islation Slated for Hearing Next Week Salem U.R) Two highly controversial pieces of tax leg islation are scheduled for House Tax committee hearings next week. The first is a resolution for a constitutional amendment to permit attachment of the emer gency clause to tax measures and thus block use of the referend um on them. The second is the sales tax bill. The constitutional amendment of four. She is by far the smallest of the litter. Her parents are normal-size small breed dogs, one a chihuahua and the other a manchester.' (See story on Page 12) threatens to put them in a spot where they will divide and lose. Senate Not Consulted All available evidence indi cates that Speaker Sam Rayburn and his associates in the House co'hsuTte'd rid "one in "the Senate before, launching "the move a week ago to .provide a $20-a- year reduction for all income taxpayers and dependents. Chairman Harry F. Byrd (D- Va.), who consistently opposes tax relief while the budget is in the red, declared his opposition before the bill reached, the Sen ate. Other Senate Democratic leaders were non-commital. Sen. Walter F. George (D Va.), who is counted as an op ponent of the proposed tax cut, suggested that House and Senate Democratic leaders should get together to search for a "prac tical solution." Glendale Youths Die in Accident Glendale, Ore. (U.R) Three Glendale, Ore., youths were fatally injured after their car collided with a truck during a heavy snowstorm early Satur day about five miles north of Glendale Junction on highway 99. Douglas County Coroner L. L. (Jim), Powers . 'said William Leroy Burke and Cecil Dowdy, 16, were killed outright. Robert Harris, 15, died shortly after in a Canyonville hospital. An other youth, Paul Sossamon, 17, also of Glendale, was reported in fair condition. Powers said the youths were traveling south when their car was involved in a collision with a Plywood truck owned by Nordic Plywood Company, of Sutherlin.- The' driver, Robert Bratton, was not reported in jured. , Powers said it was snowing hard at the time of the accident. about 3:30 a.m.- ; - ; ; . The dead boys were the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burke. Mr.- and Mrs: Sam Dowdy, and Mr., and Mrs. A. E. Harris, all of Glendale. resolution passed the Senate 23 to 7, and 33 of 60 House mem bers have signed the measure, indicating their support. Much debate is expected, however, be fore the people finally receive the proposal. Opponents have expressed fears that the proposal will weaken Oregon's historic inia-tive-referendum policy. Hearing on the amendment is set for 1 p.m. Monday. On Wednesday the House tax Nationalist I''nes Sink Two Red Ships Near Wuchiu Island Craft Said Massing For Sneak Attack' Taipeh, Sunday (U.R) Chinese Nationalist warplanes sank two Communist ships and damaged a third last night northwest of Wuchiu island, apparently the next target for Red attack off the China coast, it was announc ed today. A Nationalist communique said wave after wave of planes were thrown against ships mass ing for a "sneak attack" similar to the one which an earlier an nouncement said was repulsed by the .Wuchiu garrison Friday night. Sights Large Vessels A patrol bomber sighted a "fleet of large wooden vessels escorted by a torpedo boat" near the threatened island and attack ed, damaging the torpedo boat, the communique said. Two more ships of undescrib ed type were destroyed by later attacks. These losses apparently were in addition to the two ships that the earlier announcement said were destroyed by shore batter ies in the Friday battle. Hope To Repeat Nationalist sources said that by attacking Wuchiu, which lies between the northern National ist outpost of Matsu and the main island, of Formosa, the Reds apparently hope to repeat the "encirclement" tactics that forced the evacuation of the Nanchi and Tachen islands earl ier this year. y.:.j..,---: t-"-- The Communist radio said to day . Red troops have occupied Nanchi, evacuated by the Na tionalists late last week. Japanese Voters Expected To Return Pro-West Officials Tokyo, Sunday (U.R) The Japanese people voted today in their sixth post-war general elec tion, which was expected to re turn to office a conservative, pro-Western government. All the major parties pre dicted victory for themselves before electioneering stopped at midnight Saturday, after one of the dullest political campaigns in Japanese history. The polls opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 6 p.m. 37.000,000 Votes Predicted An estimated 37,000,000 vot ers were expected to flock to 43,000 polling places through out the nation to elect 467 mem bers of the lower house of the diet (parliament). There were more than 1,000 candidates, the smallest number of any post-war election. The major battle was between Fremier Ichiro Hatoyama's Dem ocrats and former Premier Shigeru Yoshida's Liberals for control of the House of Repre sentatives and the right to form the new government. Hatoyama predicted his party would win 200 seats. Taketora Ogata, who succeeded Yoshida as head of the Liberals, pre dicted 180 seats for his party. The left and right wing Social ists predicted they would win a combined total of 175 seats. Washington (U.R) Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) said Saturday he is satisfied that turnabout government witness Harvey Matusow is "just a stooge." committee will take up the sales tax measure sponsored by Rep. Earl Hill, Cushman Republican. It has gained a good deal of lo cal support because it gives all proceeds to school districts, but congressional experts agree it faces an uncertain future. Legislators, for one thing, ap pear reluctant to go through a sales tax battle when, even if the bill were passed, it would do nothing directly to relieve the $45,000,000 deficit which now faces - the ' state government. ooon BMo0ites (Planus (loir Aotfeiope Area Mm Rogue River Valley Irrigation district has made application for a permit for use of salvage wa ter and to construct a dam on Dry creek in the Antelope area, it was announced yesterday. Those "active in planning -the project estimate that it could provide irrigation water for land not now irrigated in excess of 1,000 acres. Request Survey The district has asked the Avalanche Threat Reported at Park; More Snow Forecast Avalanche conditions existed on Crater Lake National park ski slopes yesterday. The park ranger's office re ported weather at the lake was rough." Snow was falling heav ily in midafternoon and a fall of 21. inches in the. previous 24 i- . ,kL t .1 -1 - ; x.j..i -J Al liums uiuu&ni. uie luiai uepui at the park to 84 inches. Travel to the park was not advised while the storm lasted and the road from Annie Spring to the lake rim was closed tem porarily yesterday. Good Skiing Expected . New snow was a light, deep powder resulting in the ava lanche conditions. Rangers said that, if the lake area is accessible today and skiing is permitted, it will be allowed on the trails only. Good to excellent skiing was foreseen if the storm ; has let up. The 84 Inches total depth compared to 108 a year ago. Heavy snowfall at Union Creek was reported at noon yes terday. There was six inches of new powdery snow, and a total depth of 36 inches. Packed snow was on the highway. More Local Snow Light snow fell in parts of the Rogue valley yesterday, and more was predicted for this morning. The weather bureau indicated that some of this morning's fall was expected to remain on the ground, at least for a few hours. Heavy snowfall was reported in all southern Oregon moun tainous areas. Snow fell all day yesterday on the Siskiyous and Greensprings, and chams were mandatory for all vehicles using these two highway routes. It was snowing hard late, yes terday at Prospect, and freezing conditions were reported. State police said chains would be needed for vehicles going be yond Prospect. Faure Places Cabinet On Emergency Schedule Paris (U.R) Premier Edgar Faure. put his cabinet on an emergency seven-day week Sat urday with fast action on the German rearmament pacts the first order of business. Faure, taking a leaf out of the notebook of former Premier Pierre Mendes-France, asked the ministers to forego weekends in the country and stay on the scene in Paris for a two-month action period. The ministers agreed. Informed sources said Foreign Minister Antone Pinay will spearhead the government's ef fort to get the Paris accords on rearmament through the French Senate as quickly as possible. MINOR ACCIDENT, At least one minor accident occurred yesterday as a result of snow conditions on the Sis kiyous, according to state police. A passenger car was reported to have slid into a Trailways bus. causing minor damages. No in juries were reported. No other details were available late last night. FD edges Bureau of Reclamation to inves tigate the engineering feasibil ity of constructing an earth-fill dam 55 feet high. Such a dam would have a storage capacity of 4,800 acre feet. , It is believed that it probably will take about a year before the permits are received by the district. The dam would act as an eq ualizing reservoir, to use water presently going to waste as un usable stream flow. It would cause no summertime depletion of stream flow in ' the three streams which would be involv ed. Water would come primarily from Dry creek and Antelope creek,' with water from Little Butte creek available during an extremely dry year. Dry creek is an intermittent stream above Rogue River Valley Irrigation district's Hopkins canal. Under the present system of bringing water down from the district's Fish lake reservoir by way of Little Butte creek almost to Lake creek, and diverting it into a canal operated jointly by the Rogue River and Medf ord Irrigation - districts, - it . takes about two days for water to reach the lower portion of the system. Thus, the water supply cannot be closely coordinated to actual demand. Could be Regulated With the proposed dam in op eration, water from Fish lake reservoir would be picked up and held , in Dry creek equaliz ing reservoir during "the irriga tion season. From there, it could be closely regulated, according to need for irrigation water, and would allow the district to pro vide adequate water during per iods of peak demand. Construction of the dam would afford major benefits from an operating viewpoint to both the Rogue , River Valley and Medford Irrigation districts according to those interested in the project. They state it would allow both districts to improve deliveries during peak demand periods, and to use more ef ficiently the present water sup ply. It is planned - for the Oregon State Game commission to make maximum use of the reservoir area for wild fowl resting and shooting areas. Rogue River Val ley district officials emphasiz-l ed that the reservoir area would be open to the public. Atomic Explosion Postponed Again Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) The next atomic explosion in the 1955 test series Saturday was postponed by the Atomic Energy Commission until next week, possibly until Tuesday, due to forecasts of bad weather. At a weather evaluation meet ing Saturday morning, it was determined that adverse winds probably would continue through Monday. Worst Floods in History of Australia Leave 14 Dead ; Sydney, Australia 1I.R) The worst floods in Australia's history rampaged in new South Wales Saturday, routing thous ands from their homes, killing herds of livestock and carrying haystacks out to sea. . Officials said they had counted 14 bodies and feared the death count might reach 40. Rescuers Killed Among those killed were two soldiers' and a policeman who were electrocuted when .'. the aerial of a flood . rescue boat struck overhead high tension power lines. Two other men in the boat were injured. The officers were crossing a muddy Maitland river to rescue 100 persons stranded on a rail road bridge when the tragedy- Daily Worker Gets Details of Reds' Atomic Proposals Western Officials Critical of Plan London U.R) The Russians violated the secrecy rule of the London disarmament conference Saturday by "leaking" details of their latest atomic proposal to the Communist Daily Worker, Tass, the official Soviet news agency, and Moscow radio. Western diplomats said the Red move, apparently for prop aganda purposes, may be a body blow to chances for an early agreement at the five-power session on atomic controls. Western Leaders Furious The Western representatives, who had been carefully obser ving the secrecy rule to the let ter, were furious about the leak. They also were highly critical of the Soviet proposal itself, for it had been broadcast by Mos cow radio Feb. 18. But no one outside the conference partici pants knew it had been present ed formally by Russia Friday night until the Daily Worker was published early yesterday. The Daily Worker reported that Andrei Y. Gromyko, So viet ambassador, to London and Russian delegate to the confer. ence. had advanced "'' a three- point plan The Worker said it called for: Three Proposals , 1. The destruction of all atom ic and hydrogen bomb stocks. 2. The dedication of all atomic materials to peaceful uses. 3. The freezing of all the world's armed forces at the Jan. 1, li55 levels. The newspaper added that the Russians also proposed that the "S o v i e t foreign minister establish international controls to see that these things are car ried out." After the Daily Worker pub lished these details, Tass sent out the story, quoting "informed London circles." Moscow radio then picked up the Tass dispatch and broadcast it widely. - Sports Bulletins Klamath Falls Medford high school ended its regular season last night with 12 con ference victories against no defeats when they walloped Klamath Falls, 76 to 59. It was the Tornado's 20th straight win for the season. Larry Copple was the big gun in the attack with 34 points. Klamath's Danny Lowe hit 18. , Eagle Point Crater high school gained the right to play Medford for District 4 representation last night with a decisive 70 to 53 win over Eagle Point in the Little Six division playoffs. Crater led at periods, 18 to 8, 37 to 19 and 55 io 35. Jim Higinbotham was high for the winners with 19 points. Oregon Slate 68, Oregon 58 Idaho 80, Washington 79 occurred. The marooned crowd watched in horror as an electric charge ripped through the boat, hurling the occupants into the air. Scores Missing - Scores of persons were miss ing in the floods and an esti mated 100,000 were stranded by floods on seven : major rivers and their tributaries in rich livestock grazing areas. Offi cials hoped eventually to find most of the missing persons. The force of the flood waters ripping through Maitland tore a 6,000-ton freighter from its harbor moorings. Seamen re ported seeing furniture, hay stacks, and dead animals that had been washed as far as 30 miles out into the Pacific ocean oil Australia's East coast. Adenauer Receives Sweeping Victory; Paris Pacts Backed Explosive Soar Plan Wins Ratification Bonn, Germany, Sunday (U.R) The West German Bunde stag, in a sweeping victory for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, voted early today to raise a 500,000 man army and place it in the ranks of the free world's defense alliance against Com munism. Along with rearmament, the lower House of Parliament ap proved the Paris pacts to end the .10-year Western Allied oc cupation and make the Bonn rpmiKliA o full.. aAwwfM nation. At the same time, by a smal ler though surprisingly comfort able margin of 60, the House, voted to ratify the explosive German-French Saar agreement which has split the nation. The historic decisions were registered in a rapid fire series of votes in the second of three readings of bills for ratification of the Paris arms treaties and the Saar pact. The third and final reading; still has to be given before the ratification by the lower House becomes fmal. The last reading and vote is scheduled to begin " at noon Sunday. But the second reading votes were decisive, and set the pat tern for the final voting. They proclaimed to the world A x Tr m xnax west uermany was pre pared to rearm and raise a 12 division, 500,000 man armed force for the free world's de fense against Communism tin der the North Atlantic Treaty Organization " (NATO): - " ; v Following a bitter 36-hour de- votes, approved; (1) A bill to ratify the treaty which would end the Allied oc cupation and restore freedom to West Germany by a vote of 327 to 151. (2) The pact to permit sta tioning of Western Allied troops on West German soil after it gets its sovereignty. The vote on this was 323 to 150, with four abstentions. (3) The treaty "rearming the Bonn republic and making it a memher of NATfl anA tha Wpc . tern European Union. The vote was 315 to 153, with nine ab stentions. ' (4) A separate pact negotiated with France which would "Eur- , opeanize" the disputed coal-rich Saar territory. This . won a sur-. prising vote of 264 votes to 204, with nine abstentions. ' - Key decision was the approval . of the Saar pact, the battle over it, joined even by parties within Adenauer's coalition, threatened to upset the whole western re armament plan. ; The French, who have yet to complete ratification of the Par- s treaties, had made it a condi tion for their approval. German rejection of the Saar agreement would have meant certain r rentn rejecuon vl iub aiw pacts. . ," ' The government Free Demo crats and the Refugee party re volted against Adenauer on the issue. The majority of theix deputies joined the opposing So cialists in votmg against the pact. , . . Following the four separate reaty votes, the Socialists,, fighting a bitter last-ditch battle, introduced futile amendments to . hamstring the operation of the pacts. The government majority beat back 308 to 163, one Social ist motion which stipulated the m 1 A. X X pacts snouia not De put imu effect until new big power talks are held with the Soviets. Tuesday Deadline for Buying Dog Licenses Tuesday, March 1, is the dead line for purchase of dog licenses without a penalty charge. Licenses, may be purchased for $1.50 through Tuesday,, after which the charge will be $3.50. Licenses are required for all dogs more than eight months of age. Owners may purchase a license for a dog within 30 days after the animal becomes eight months of age for $1.50. New residents of the county may purchase a license for a dog; more than eight months of age within 30 days after moving into the county for $1.50. ; Clerks in charge of dog lieense sales said Friday that more than 2,000 license have been sold so far this year. -
