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Newspaper Page Textmm Medford united fress full leaseo wire 49th Year 18 Pages Moscow (U.R) Prof. Bruno Pontecorvo, the British atomic scientist who visited U. S. and Canadian atomic stations before he vanished in 1950, has been working in Russia for several years, the newspapers Izvestia M and Pravda reported today. A signed article by the 42-year-old Italian-born atomic gen ius appealed to his former col leagues in the' United States, Canada, Britain, Italy and France to demand a world ban on atomic weapons, and to work for peace ful uses of the atom. Working on Research It said he had been working on atomic energy research for the Soviet Union because of his hatred for atomic warfare born with the "bloody and base ex periment of Hiroshima." Pontecorvo, in the first indi cation he definitely was in Russia, said his wife and three children Israeli Troops Attack Egyptians In Fierce Battle Cairo, Egypt-U.R) The U. N. Mixed Armistice Commission said today Israeli troops made a "violent attack" last night against Egyptian troops in the Gaza area. An official Egyptian casualty report listed 38 persons killed, including 36 soldiers and two civilians, and 31 wounded, in cluding 29 troops and two civilians. The blazing battle created the most serious threat to the peace of the tense area since the end of the Palestine war. Egyptian military sources said a large armed force had been ordered to deploy all along the border with Israel "to safeguard the national security." Foreign Minister Mahmoud F a w z i summoned representa tives of members of the U. N Security Council, including U. S Ambassador-designate Henry By- roade. An official source said he notified them Egypt will call for an extraordinary council session to consider the Gaza clash. A report issued by the Mixed Armistice Commission after an inspection at the scene said the attack centered on 10 Egyptian military positions near the Gaza railway station. It said a large quantity of explosives, plus "Molotov cock tails" (bottles of gasoline) gre nades, mortars and automatic weapons were used in the at tack. Bob Duff Elected to Managers' Group Post Robert A. Duff, Medford, Ore gon's newest city manager, was elected to the board of directors .. cf the Northwest City Managers' ir association at the conclusion of the second annual convention of the group in Astoria Monday, according to a United Press re port. Duff was named Medford city manager effective last Jan. 1. Cecil C. Wyatt, city manager of Victoria, B. C, was named president. Oregon men named to office beside Duff were Rob ert L. Brunton, Milton-Free- water, vice-president, and David Kester, Baker, director. Elks Leadership, Activities Contest Winners Announced Mildred Gail, Crater High school student, and Frank Bash, of Medford High school, have been named winners of the Med ford Elks lodge Youth Leader ship and Activities contest, it was announced today by Frank Hussong. exalted ruler. Miss Gail is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Gail, Gold Hill, and Frank Bash is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Bash, 1325 Bund st., Medford. Both winners will receive $50 bonds. Judging Basis Told The annual contest is based on leadership, 40 per cent; citizen ship appreciation, 20 per cent; perserverance, 20 per cent and sense of honor, 20 per cent. Those eligible for considera MEDFORD, OREGON, were with him and that they had been granted political asylum. He denied he had been kid naped by Soviet agents. Observers here said he prob ably was not in Moscow but more likely at some Russian equiva lent of Britain's atomic research plant at Harwell, where he once worked as one of Britain's top scientists. Had Important Information A government spokesman in London told the House of Com mons soon after his disappear ance he had "no doubt" Ponte corvo, one-time colleague of German-born traitor Klaus Fuchs, had gone to Russia and that he had "important information" he may have given to Moscow. Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years in prison for giving atomic se crets to the Russians. The article, signed "Professor and Stalin Prize Winner Bruno Neubergers good About Happenings in By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The Neuberger legislative team began publish ing this week a news column called "Washington Report" which offered a famous bean soup recipe, tidbits about boy scouting, comment on pending legislation mixed liberally with criticism of the Eisenhower ad ministration. A joint effort of U.S. Senator Richard L. Neuberger and his wife, State Rep. Maurine Neu berger, the column appears under a joint byline with pic tures of -both lawmakers linked by a photo of the nation's cap- itol building. Combination of Reports With both the U.S. Senate and the Oregon state House in session, the news column was a combination of reports from Washington, D. C, and Salem. "With the exception of the Subdivision Study Due Before Council Medford's city council at a reeular meet in e at 7:30 p.m. to- Hav will hpar nlannine commis sion reports relative to approval of two subdivisions adjacent 10 the city, according to Vernon Thorpe, director of public works. Thev are the Wilson tract south of Stewart ave., near Hamilton st., and Vista Heights subdivisian on Highland dr. ine latter received final planning commission aDDroval at a spec ial meeting. The Wilson tract in volves the construction of about 43 homes in one tract. A hearing is also set on pav ing of East Jackson st., from Lindley ave. to Berkeley Way. Other matters include consid eration of renewal of a franchise with California-Pacific Utilities company, leases at the airport, and bids submitted for sale of two lots at Valley View dr. and Ruhl Way, which was abandon ed as a fires tation site. Portland (U.R) Mayor Fred Peterson said the city ap parently had completed its first traffic fatality - free February in at least 16 years. tion in the contest include all senior students in high schools within the jurisdictional area of the Medford Elks lodge. The schools include Medford, Jack- ville, Phoenix, Eagle Point, Pros pect, Butte Falls, and Crater of Central Point. Honorable Mention Honorable mention in the lo cal contest went to Sue DeVoe, Medford High school; Kay Marie Fisher, Phoenix High school and Donn Johnson, Crater High school. The records of the two first place winners will be forwarded to the Oregon State Elks associa tion for state judging, and state winners' records will go to the National Elks Foundation for Judging on a national level. TUF' 55 DOT) ddDSSOO Pontecorvo, appeared both in the official Communist organ Prav da and the official government newspaper Izvestia. "In 1950 the atmosphere was such that I could no longer breathe," he said. "The question that the police state asked of me made me realize that I could no longer preserve my person ality where I was." Not Surprising Pontecorvo did not specify where he was working in the Soviet Union, but observers not ed that since he stated he was working on atomic energy re search the lack of pin-pointing his location was not surprising. He thanked the Soviet gov ernment for the car and atten tion given to his family and said "my place of work is excellent. The technical equipment is re markable and research is con Write News Column great question of war and peace, the educational problem remains the No. 1 issue before the Con gress," Neuberger opened his first report to the voters. "The opening days of testi mony before the Senate Labor and Education Committee made it obvious that the administra tion's program is completely in adequate. The National Educa tion Association, our largest or ganization of teachers, . said a crisis looms if the president has no better suggestions to offer. Forty out of the 48 states, ac cording to the association of school administrations, are not content with the administration proposals, ' Neuberger continued. Favors Direct Aid Suggesting the administra tion's proposal of guaranteeing bond issues was for bankers and not for school children, Neu berger said he favored bills to give $500,000,000 in direct aid to the states for new construc tion of schools. Switching the subject to food, Neuberger said several Oregon housewives bed written for the recipe of bean soup served in the Senate restaurant. He of fered copies to all bean soup lovers, and added that the recipes for cream of corn, beef broth with barley and split-pea soups were also available. Mrs. Neuberger, he reported, was still Appeal on Local Case Set by Supreme Court The case of Walter Pirkey, 42, Central Point, will be argued before the Oregon supreme court in Salem tomorrow by District Attorney Walter Nunley and Medford Attorney Edward C. Kelly. The case involves constitu tionality of the state law con cerning bank checks drawn on insufficient fund accounts. Pir key was indicted on the check charge on July 6, 1953. The pharge involved a $120 check payable to Cooksey Motor com pany. A ruling by Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna declared that the law is unconstitutional. Nunley ap pealed the case to the state supreme court on April 15, 1954. Voters' Names Taken Off Registration List More than 3,240 names have been tentatively removed from the list of registered voters in Jackson county courthouse be cause of failure to vote, death, or for other similar reasons, Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county clerk, said today. Those whose names have been removed and who still live in Jackson county are being noti fied, and have 90 days in which to become reinstated as a regis tered voter. Those who do not become reinstated must reregis ter before they will be eligible to vote. Revision of the voter list is less than half completed, Mrs. Hopkins said. Portland (U.R) The Port land school board has approved a $5,500,000 building program for 1955 and 1956. JBUNE fress Full Leased wire Price 5c No. 295 ducted on a large front and high level. "Following world events with attention, I have become con vinced that the imperialists of such countries as the United States and Britain have, despite ihe hopes of the peoples, entirely subordinated the discovery of at omic energy to the interest of preparing another war with the use of atomic and thermonuclear weapons and to achieve world domination. Confirmed by Decisions "The decisions adopted by the NATO bloc in December, 1954 to rearm a free West Germany once again confirmed it. "The peace-loving proposals of the Soviet government meet with no response on the part of the governments of a number of capitalistic countries: They are not being presented to broad public opinion," he said. Capitals trying to decide whether the recipe for brownies she received from a Medford housewife or that for "wonderfully-light rolls from a housewife in Madras' was the prize recipe she had re ceived during last fall's election The senator moved on to tell how he and Gov. Patterson had agreed that a provision in the administration's highway aid plan would work against Ore gon, for it would give states special credit for construction of loll roads and thereby be ad vantageous to the more pop ulous eastern states where toll roads are economically feasible During Bey Scout Week, Neu berger said he was visited by 13 explorer scouts, including Rob bie Langley of Milton -Free- w.ter, who had won the trip to Washington. After treating them to fried chicken, the senator- author auctioned off an auto graphed copy of his book, "The Lewis and 'Clark Expedition' to the boy who could guess closest to the date on which the explorers arrived at the mouth of the Columbia river with the American flag: Nov. 7, 1805. A Denver scout won. Reporting from Salem at the tag end of the column, Mrs. Neuberger said "taxes continue to be the main topic of conten tion in Salern." After explain ing varying proposals to raise additional income for the state, she said she was studying them ail "with an open mind." "My one firm opinion at pres ent is that I am definitely against a sales tax," said the lady representative. "This is an 'upside-down' tax, for it falls on those least able to pay." Northwest Checks Damage by Storm Portland (U.R) Pacific Northwest residents were esti mating the damage caused by a fierce storm yesterday that buf feted Oregon and Washington. Effects of the storm were still being felt today, as tele phone communications in cen tral and southeast Oregon were disrupted and repairmen hurried to patch lines. Wind gusts as high as 76 miles an hour struck Portland and the Oregon coast. The weather bureau said the blow would have qualified as a hurricane if the winds had been persistent. The blustery winds also swept into eastern Oregon later in the day. At Pendleton, gusts up to 70 miles an hour were recorded. And in central Oregon, 75 miles an hour winds lifted clouds of dust at Hennner and Lexington and wracked power lines and TV antennas. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York U.P.) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indust rials 413.71, up 1.84; 20 railroads 150.84, up 1.38; 15 utUities bi.n up 0.36, and 65 stocks 154.47 up 9.93. Sales today were about 2,830,000 shares, compared with 2,620,000 shares traded yester day. ' . V Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower will hold a news conference at 7:30 ajn. (PST) tomoirow. Weather FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with a few scattered showers to night and Wednesday. Low near 33; high Wednesday 46. Temp. Highest Yesterday 49 Lowest this Morning 40 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today. Trace Stratojet Bomber Rams Into Homes; Five Persons Die Explosion Follows Crash During Fog Lake Charles, La. (U.R) A ciippled B47 Stratojet bomber, on a radar guided emergency approached to its fogged-in base, crashed and exploded into five houses and several trailer homes late last night. Five oersons, the plane's three man crew and a young couple in the one house which burned, perished in the fiery crash. A man who was in a trailer which was destroyed was badly burned. Struck Power Line The six jet bomber, with one jet dead, struck power and com munication lines, cut a swath through the top of a pine forest, crashed to earth at the .edge of a line of trees and skidded about 60 yards before exploding. The initial explosion and a series of lesser blasts from ap parent live ammunition scat tered the fiery wreckage over the residential area. The scene was four and one half miles northwest of the Lake Charles Base. Other Home3 Damaged In addition to the house and trailer destroyed, four other houses and two trailers were heavily damaged. Albert Morgan, 24, and his wife, 20, were burned to death in their home which was near est the exploding plane. A neighbor, Cole Olen, dashed across the street and kicked in the front door to the Morgan home. He said he went into the front, bedroom and did not find anyone there. He tried to enter, the second bedroom but flames drove- him back. - The bodies of the Morgan ccuple were found later in their bathroom. Dead Crewmen Identified The airbase identified the dead crewmen as Capt. Clarence Wilson, 34, of California, Pa., pilot and commander of the plane; Mark Veck, 35, Downie- ville, Calif., co-pilot, and Capt., Elwyn McBee, 33, Fort Worth, Tex., observer. T.Sgt. James C. Sapp, who was in the trailer which was destroyed, was taken to the base hospital with second and third degree burns. His wife, who also was in the trailer, was not injured. Alex Hamilton Gets Senate Page Job Alex Hamilton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Moore Hamilton, 43 Rose ave., has been appointed by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore) to serve as a page in the senate office building in Washington, D. C, according to the Oregon State College Daily Barometer. Young Hamilton is a junior at Oregon State college, where he is active in the. campus Young Democratic club. He expects to leave Medford in time to start work in Washington on April 1. While in Washington, he plans to continue his education at George Washington university. A 1952 graduate of Medford High school, Hamilton received a letter in football during his senior year. His father is post master of Medford, and his mother is a member of the Med ford school board. More Than 600 Dog Licenses Soa Monday More than 600 dogs licenses were sold yesterday in the Jack son county clerk's office," ac cording to Mrs. Bereth Hop kins, county clerk. No total number of licenses sold was available today be cause reports have not been re ceived from the Ashland office where licenses are being sold, or from Dee Jones, county dog control officer. Today is the deadline for pur chase of dog licenses at the reg ular fee of $1.50. Starting to morrow, the fee for dogs eight months of age or older, whose owners have lived in Jackson county for more than 30 days, will be $3.50. Pendleton (U.R) The first in a series of regional water fore cast meetings will be held here March 14. Final water supply forecasts for 1955 will be made at the meetings. "' 1,11 1 III i i 14 HM I T'GHTEN BELTS Chinese Reds have ringed Quemoy Island with Soviet-built artillery tnat can reach every corner of this heavily-defended island outpost. Here, in photo made early this moath, Nationalist soldiers dig trenches on Quemoy directly opposite a Red-held island only 2000 yards across open water. Congressional Salary lncreaseSent To Ike Washington (U.R) The House passed and sent to the White House today a bill to raise congressional salaries to $22,500 a year. The legislation, previously ap proved by the Senate, gives law makers a 30 per cent pay raise. Their salaries were $15,000 a year. The House voted, on a roll call forced by Rep. H. R. Gross (Re-la.), was 224 to 113. When President Eisenhower signs the legislation, the pay increase will be effective as of today. - It was the third time House members had voted on the pol itically touchy question of rais ing their own pay. The measure was twice sent to a House-Senate conference com mittee before its present provis ions were worked out.. The new version eliminated earlier pro posals for 'a $1,250 tax-free ex pense account and five free round trips home per year. Members of Congress now re ceive $12,500 a year plus a tax able $2,500 expense account and one government-paid trip home a year at the rate of 20 cents a mile. The original compromise bill was approved by the House but rejected by the Senate last Fri day. Many senators objected to the earlier provision for a tax free expense account. They said they wanted all their pay tax able to avoid disguised pay rais es. House members, irked by Sen ate rejection of the tax-free ex pense account, then objected to increasing the number of free trips home. The new salary scale, which Brown Chastizes Fellow Legislators Salem (U.R) Sen. Gene Brown (R-Grants Pass) today chastized his fellow members of the Joint Ways and Means Com mittee for "failing to keep faith" with the policy adopted by the committee a week ago to make 10 per cent cuts in the slate budget. Brown said at today's general meeting cf the committee that heads of subcommittees were operating in the same old way, making piecemeal reductions in departmental budgets without lopping off services entirely. The senator's blast came after progress reports . from " subcom mittee heads revealed they had succeeded in making only two and three per cent cuts in the budgets they had considered. Three Men Transported To State Penitentiary Three men were taken to Sa lem today by Sheriff Howard Gault to start terms in Oregon state prison. They were Frank Sylvester Jantzer, 39, Box 374, Trail; Don ald Neal Ware, 20, San Dimas, Calif., and Norman Nick Dowen, 38, Seattle, Wash. Jantzer was sentenced to two years is prison on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Ware received a one year term on a forgery charge. Dowen was arrested on a pa role violation charge, and the case was not handled through local court. - would become effective today, also provides proportionate sal ary increases for federal judg es and attorneys. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Speaker Sam Rayburn would have their salaries raised from $40,000 a year to $45,000. , Supreme Court justices would be raised from $25,000 to $35,- 000, lower court judges from $15,000 to $22,500 and higher court judges . from $17,500 to $25,500. Eugene Orr Slates Visit To President A. Eugene Orr, 210 Crater Lake ave., J.Iedford, was sched uled to call at the White House in Washington, D.C. today, to confer with President Eisenhow er on problems of disabled vet erans. Orr, a member of the Ameri can Legion commission on reha bilitation, is in Washington at tending the 32nd annual Nation al Rehabilitation conference of the Legion. He was to be one of a group of 22 Legion officials making the White House call. During the four-day confer ence, Legionnaires were to meet for discussions of the Legion's program, including vocational rehabilitation, and education, in surance, Veterans Administra tion medical and hospital ser vices, and the servicing of the claims of veterans and depend ents. The White House visit marks the first time the President has personally received the Legion's national rehabilitation leaders, according to American Legion headquarters in Washington. Orr, in addition to state lead ership in rehabilitation work, is a member of the executive sec tion of the Legion's national re habilitation commission. He is a member of Legion Post 15, Medford.' MOefin Washington (U.R) The Senate Finance Committee voted 9 to 6 today against a Democratic sponsored $20 a person, income tax cut. Hawaiian Volcano, Silent For 180 Years, Spews Lava Hilo, Hawaii (U.R) A stream of molten lava from a long-dormant cone near Kilauea volcano spread its fiery fingers over val uable sugar cane land today, forcing 335 villagers to flee their homes lest they be trapped in the orange-red stream. The evacuees were residents of Kapoho Village, which to gether with Pahoa and neighbor ing Kalapana villages, was de clared a disaster area by Hawaii Island government officials. 180 Years of Quiet Broken All three villages lie within seven or eight miles of . the streams of molten lava, moving slowly down a five mile gully towards the sea. The lava came from the Pul lena cinder cone, which broke 180 years of quiet yesterday with a spectacular eruption. Residents Pre-Dawn Flash Declared Visible In Six States 39 Evaluations Conducted in Test ML Charleston, Nev. (U.R) A compact atomic test device packing all the explosive punch of the obsolete and bulky wea pon that destroyed Hiroshima was detonated today during a , mock bombing attack by U. S. fighter-bombers capable of car rying it. So powerful was the device. described in advance by one At omic Energy commission source as a "baby" bomb, that its pre dawn flash was seen in a 1000 mile arc scross six states, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Californ ia and Nevada. Two hours after the blast shook the Nevada desert, the AEC officially described its po tency as identical with the Washington's birthday shot last week. That Feb. 22 explosion was never officially reported in terms of ."yield." But unofficial estimates by ob servers who have witnessed most or all of the 33 previous detonations here set it as equiv alent of 20,000 tons of TNT or better. The Hiroshima and Nag- aski bombs blasted with a force approximately 25,000 tons of TNT. The description of the weapon as a "baby" by the AEC c-Jenttst prior to the blast and the official statement later led observers to believe the source' was talking in terms of weapon bulk instead of yield. The AEC never has revealed officially the yield of its test de vices. Today's test, the third of the 1955 nuclear experimental ser ies was not only a practice bomb ing run for Air Force fighter bombers. Thirty nine other ev aluations were conducted with it. Air Force Tests Actually, the device was touched off atop a 300-foot tow er at Yucca Flats inside the huge Nevada Proving grounds. LwRut. mjrail gg Jipf ore the blast. eight FBI' Thunderstreaks, equipped to carry the modern, compacted atomic bomb on their bellies, shot across the target at near-sonic speeds in a prac tice "pass" at a theoretical "invader." From this unofficial, off-site observation post atop ML Charleston, the blast appeared at least as large as, perhaps even larger, than the two pre vious xhots. Brig. Gen. Fred W. Sladen Jr., deputy exercise director, an nounced there were no casual ties among the 600 troops, in cluding 25 Marines, dug into trenches 4000 yards from "tar get zero" beneath the tower. The AEC officially calculated the altitude of the mushroom cloud at 27,000-feet, some 20, 000 feet less than the cloud caps of previous test shots have climbed. An icecap formed as usual atop the cloud at its peak height, the AEC said. Observers in the control point blockhouse, 10 miles from the blast site, heard the blast as a "strong thump," but only a little noise was heard in Las Vegas, 75 miles scutiiwest, and in communities such as SL George, Utah, some 15C miles distant. Members of the press for the first time were permitted to fly into the atomic cloud. Fifteen minutes after the detonation, an Air force B25 carrying five newsmen took off from nearby Indian Springs Air Force Base on a mission to track the atomic cloud and measure its radiation. Flying at 10,000 feet, the B25 carried sensitive instruments to chart the radiation fallout and decay of the cloud. And news men on the five-hour flight were to get a dose of radiation, but far less than the permissible ex posure for one day. said a 2Vz mile long fissure opened at the base of the 880-foot tall cone, part of the Kilauea volcano system 25 miles away. . It first belched blue and White sulphur fumes, then boiled over with fiery lava. For most of the day yesterday, the lava remained within the fissure, but late in the afternoon, it overran the fissure, cutting off two roads leading to Kapoho. Take Shelter in School Kapoho residents took shelter in a small country school. No one was injured in the evacua tion. - The current eruption was tak ing place atop the very site of the Village of Nanawale, which, was buried by lava during the great flow of 1840, the last vol canic activity in that region.