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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.
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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.
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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.