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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
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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. -