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Weather Recommended A feature story on nursing nomes In Jackson coonty ap pears on Pare 12 of today's Issue of The Mail Tribune. -FORECAST Fair with variable high cloudiness today and Monday. High temperature today 58, low tonight 25 to 3. Temp. Highest yesterday 57 Lowest yesterday 20 United Press rull Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year Price 5c SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1955 28 Pages No. 299 MEDFOED RIBUNE Cooperative Plan To Increase Rain Slated for County North American To Handle Program A cooperative program to seek increased rainfall for Jack son county during the next 3Vt months was outlined here Fri day night at a meeting held in the county courthouse audi torium. Friday night's meeting was the third in a series on the sub ject held during the past few days. Purpose of the Friday "meeting was to explain the pro posed project to members of the Jackson County Stockmen's as sociation and dry land farmers. Handles Copco Project The weather modification and cloud seeding program will be conducted by North American Weather Consultants, a firm which has operated a similar program for California Oregon Power company for the past four winters. The Copco program has operated in northern Jackson county and southern Douglas county. Taking part will be the Med ford, Rogue River Valley, and Talent Irrigation districts, Cop co, and members of the Traffic association, Jackson County Fruitgrowers league and the Stockmen's association, and dry land farmers. Jackson county and the city of Medford also are studying the program. Individual Backing The Traffic association, Fruit growers league, and Stockmen's association have not backed the new program as organizations. However, they have presented the plans for the program to their members, who will decide for themselves concerning sup port of the project. Dealing with North American Weather Consultants concerning the program will be an organiza tion known as the Jackson Coun ty Moisture Increase committee, which will be made up of repre sentatives of those organizations whose members are taking part. The cloud seeding and weath er modification program will be underwritten by the three irri gation districts, who will get money back from those partici pating, according to Jack Hoff buhr, manager of the Medford Irrigation district. Speakers at riaay s meeung siaiea mai Copco will put up a large part of the funds. Nine of those attending Fri day's meeting pledged that they would put up $508 to help cover costs of the program. Roland Bollay and W. L. Scott, who represented North Amer ican Weather Consultants at the meeting, stated that a survey of 30 projects conducted by their firm has shown an average pre cipitation increase of 39 per cent. However, they warned that they cannot guarantee a rainfall increase, and added that they must have cloud formations on which to work. Location Tested Generators . for the county wide program will be located about 15 miles apart, and will be set up at Trail, Wolf Creek, Mer lin, Murphy, near Holland, Hap py camp, Hamburg, Calif., on the g Klamath river, Pinehurst, Ash land, Meaiora, uoia nm, ana near Diamond Lake. It was ex plained that the outer group of generators would be used under ordinary conditions, and that all generators would be used when air conditions are turbulent. The generators send silver iodide crystals into the air over a wide area, which Bollay and Scott said is a more effective method of seeding clouds than any other. The new program will start as soon as possible, and will be concluded on June 15. It was pointed out that this area re ceives few clouds after that date. Also, it was noted that rainfall through June 15 would cause little damage to crops. Admitted Slayer Held In Klamath County Jail Klamath Falls (U.R) A 45-year-old Bakersfield, Calif., man who says he killed a woman in 1952, was being held in Klam ath county" jail Saturday for authorities from the California city. Oscar Hood turned himself in ir Sheriff Murray Britton Fri-d-v night and in a written statement to District Attorney Frank Aiderson said that in 1P52 he killed a woman he iden tified as Mollie Ford, 36, dur ing a drinking party in a Bakers- field tavern. He said he dragged to body to a car and drove to a dump yard where he buried the body. Trike, Car Collide; Police Study Report City police yesterday were scratching their heads over what to do about this one: Two vehicles were involved in an accident " at the inter section of 11th si. and Oakdale ave. yesterday, shortly before noon. A 1951 sedan, operated by Ernest Blsar, 1226 Dakota ave., was bumped by a tricy cle operated by Larry Patrick White. 4, of 1036 Winchester St. Neither "driver" reported damage, no injuries occurred and no citations were issued. The sedan was traveling about five to 10 miles an hour when struck by the tricycle. Speed of the trike was not reported. County's February Employment Work Said Best in Years "Last month was the best Feb ruary in many years as far as employment in Jackson county is concerned, according to the Medford office of the state em ployment service. The number of jobless at the end of February was estimated at 1,920 persons. This total is 9 per cent below the month pre vious, and 36 per cent below the same date a year ago. No Claims Increase The number of unemployment claims filed during February was about the same as in Jan uary, instead of increasing as is usually the case, the office's monthly report said. "Local employment apparent ly hit bottom for this year dur ing the first half of February," the report said. "Work began to increase noticably after the middle of the month. This steady increase was interrupted temp orarily by a storm in the last days of the month which inter rupted operations for some log gers who were working at high er elevations. "The increase in employment was not jconfined to any. one Sn-' dustry, ' but was scattered throughout the local area," it added. "Good weather helped outside work to keep going and business generally was reported to be better than usual for the time of year. Ample Labor Supply There is now an ample labor supply for almost all kinds of work, the report said, with no prospect of any labor shortage in the next 90 days. Orchard pruning is nearing completion, and some orchards have started spraying. It forecast a light de mand for agricultural labor for the next 60 days.. The office reported it is now completing its annual aptitude testing program with high school seniors, which will pro vide lists of young people with demonstrated abilities in many lines. It urged employers to make use of this valuable sources of new employees. President Sets Up New Security Rules Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower Saturday laid down seven new rules to govern the Federal Security program uni formly and to "protect both the National Security and the rights" of federal employees. Two were aimed at avoiding in the future the furor and inter governmental dispute which oc curred in the recent Wolf Lade- jinsky security case. One might be interpreted as directed at Secretary of Agricul ture Ezra T. Benson, who dis missed Ladejinsky on secruity grounds although he had been cleared for the State Depart ment. Ttie Russian-born land reform expert then, was hired by another government agency. Kilauea Erupts for Sixth Straight Day; Evacuation of Small Beach Town Ordered Hilo, Hawaii (U.R) National Guard trucks were sent speeding to three east Hawaii coastal towns late Sat urday as new quakes shook the area and experts said everything pointed to new and perhaps bigger eruptions of Kilauea volcano. .. Hilo, Hawaii U.R) Kilauea volcano . erupted for the sixth straight day Saturday sending a muddy river of molten lava flowing toward the beach town of Pohoiki where authorities ordered the evacuation of all residents. Further inland Kapoho was virtually sealed off from civili zation . as fingers of steaming rock oozed past both sides of the Dulles Sets Report On Asiatic Plans To Pound Red China Nation To Hear Tuesday Address Washington (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles returns from the Far East today to report on American - led strategy to pound Red China on three fronts, perhaps with atomic weapons, if the Commun ists commit outright aggression in Asia. Dulles also will report on the chances of war or peace in the Formosa crisis. He conferred on Formosa with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at the end of his seven-nation swing. Reports To Vary Dulles' reports to President Eisenhower, congressional com mittees, and the American peo ple will vary, depending on his audience. In his nationwide television and radio address Tuesday night, he is expected to appeal to both Nationalist and Red China to renounce the use of force in the Formosa off shore island area. He will match this appeal to rea son with a warning to Red China against risking American retaliation against mainland target areas if Formosa and the Pescadores are attacked. Informants said Dulles will be unable to report his tour has ended a British-American split over policy towards the Quemoy and Matsu Islands off the China Coast. Britain has been press ing for the transfer of these islands from Nationalist to Com munist control. To Discuss Strategy In Dulles' private talks with the President and Congressional committees, he is expected to go deeply into the latest develop ments in administration strategy to retaliate op three fronts against Red China if it commits, aggression' in the Asian-Pacific afea:"'"r'- . The triple front strategy calls for hitting the Chinese Reds primarily from Korea, Formosa, and Southeast Asia. Chairman Walter F. : George (D-Ga.) said Dulles will be asked to meet with the Senate Foreign Relations committee Tuesday if it is convenient for the Secretary. If not, George said, a date later in the week will be set. France Told Saar German Territory Bonn, Germany (U.R) West Germany bluntly told France Saturday that the disputed coal-and-steel-rich Saar is German territory. It insisted the 960,000 German speaking inhabitants would have to right to agitate for return to Germany after the German French Saar agreement goes into effect. ' The West German Bundestag ratified the Saar Treaty last week after bitter debate. The treaty also has been approved by the French National Assembly and is now awaiting ratification by the French Senate. The Bonn government re newed its claim to the territory in a demarche (official notifica tion of a change of policy) to the French Foreign Office delivered by West German Envoy Wilhalm Hausenstein in Paris. QUAKE HITS EUREKA Eureka - (U.R) Eureka, the center of a damaging earthquake last December, experienced an other light after shock at 12:07 a.m. Saturday but there was no damage reported. . - village en route to the sea. A mile-long fissure poured lava the texture of heavy mud in an ever-widening arc over nearly flat tropical forest land on the eastern tip of the island. Unofficial estimates set the losses to sugar cane fields and papaya groves at more than $1, 000,000. The world's two largest groves of papayas, an. oblong melon-like fruit, were virtually wiped out at a loss of $130,000. Until the eruption the area known as the Puna coast had been considered to have a bright future both agriculturally and as a tourist mecca. Now there was talk that most residents will never return to their homes. A United Press reporter flew INsgf i iiMi J r i'i -i intern j-. -r t v j SUB REFUELS PLANE AT SEA A twin-engine P5M Martm Marlin patrol seaplane out of Norfolk, Va. is refueled in the Caribbean by the submarine-oiler USS Guavina. The test was part of two-week operation conducted by Commander Submarine Force Atlantic Fleet Mew Violence Erupts Dn Tense MA&fe East Gaza, Egyptian-Israeli Fron tier (U.R) Arab-Israeli tension which has threatened the peace of the Middle East, erupted Sat urday in new violence on the Israeli-Jordanian frontier. Jordan charged before the mixed armistice commission in Jerusalem, the five. Jordanian Beduins were murdered by Is raeli troops Friday night. Israel charged Syria with a less serious frontier violation near the Hagovrim settlement where, it is said, shots were fired from Syrian positions wounding one of two workmen on a waterworks project in up per Galilee. Israeli reinforce ments returned and silenced the Syrian fire, the Israeli complaint said. The commission already . is considering Egypt's charges that an Israeli army unit h last Monday night staged a sneak at tack on an Egyptian military post in this Egyptian frontier area, killing 42 . Egyptians and wounding 29. The situation h e r e was so danger-packed Saturday that families of -the- United Nations truce Jeamincluding one. Am erican woman -were evacuated Cut in Payments To Vets Studied Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower Saturday appointed a s e v e n-member commission, headed by Gen. Omar N. Brad ley, to see whether payments to veterans can be reduced. He asked the commission to submit a report by Nov. on which he can base recommend ations to Congress for "modern izing" laws under which the government spends $2,800,000, 000 a year for pensions, disa bility compensation and related non-medical benefits for veter ans and their dependents. Noting that the nation now has 21,000,000 veterans, "and the number is increasing rapidly," the President said the. cost is likely to double over the next few decades. The politically-explosive ques tion he handed the commission is whether future generations, including veterans themselves an dtheir survivors, can afford the snowballing financial bur den of such payments. Roseburg Boy Dies In Bike-Car Crash Roseburg (U.R) A 13-year-old Boy Scout, out on a bicycle hike, was fatally injured Satur day when he was struck by a car driven by Ralph Milton Church. 29. of Winchester on Highway 99 near here. The boy, David Steven Har der, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harder of Roseburg, was rushed to Community hospital here where he died at 12:55 p.m. of a skull fracture. His bike-riding companion was uninjured. over the lava field in an open cockpit crop-duster plane at 200 feet and reported he and Pilot Wally Waterhouse could feel the heat of the eruptions on their face. Black slugs of cinders struck the plane. They said the lava mass was about a half mile from the sea, moving about 100 feet an hour, At that rate it wouldn't reach the water before nightfall. Hundreds of impatient tour ists scrambled for preferable seats on airplanes making half hour excursion flights from Hilo to the volcano. Sightseers sought to get seats on the left side of the plane be cause all aircraft were required to fly in a counter clockwise traffic pattern over the volcano, from the Gaza area. Egypt charged that Israeli ar tillery opened fire during the night on a second Egyptian mil itary outpost, but inflicted no casualties. The evacuation of U. N. fam ilies was ordered as a precau tion against their becoming in volved and pos sibly being wounded or killed in such clashes. U. N. officials identifed the American who was evacuated as Mrs. Pierre Duhet, formerly of Geneva, 111. She is the wife of Belgian civilian radio opera tor. Israel, which has denied the Egyptian charge of responsibil ity for the bloody Gaza battle, also countered the Jordanian charge of an unprovoked attack in Jordan territory on the op posite side of Israel. Camp White Man Fatally Injured ar The second fatal accident of the year for Jackson county occurred last night when a pedestrian was struck by a car while crossing Highway 62 at the main entrance to Camp White. The first fatal accident also involved a pedestrian Medford. in unaries Roudebush, 62, a member of the domiciliary cen ter, died en route to a hospital in Medford, according to Gor don C. Hays, deputy county coroner. Roudebush received head and leg injuries in the ac cident, Hays said. State palice said the man was struck at about 8 p.m. by a car operated by Glenne Worth Hue Albert, 31, of 319 Laurel st. Albert was accompanied by his wife and two children, none of whom was injured, police said. In reconstructing the acci dent, police said Roudebush had been at the White City cafe across the highway from the domiciliary center. After leav ing the cafe he was re-crossing the highway and "apparently misjudged the distance" and was struck in the southbound lane by the Albert car, which was going towards Medford, police continued. They said there was no indication that the Albert car was travelling at an excessive speed. No citations were issued. Conger-Morris Funeral home is'in charge of arrangements for the deceased. Belton Sees No Hope Of 10 Per Cent Cuts Salem (U.R) State Sen. How ard Belton of Canby said Satur day he saw no hope that the Ways and Means committee could achieve its goal of a 10 per cent cut in the general fund budget. I ' - "If anything," Beton said, "the cut will be nearer one quarter or at most one half of that." At a meeting of all sub-com mittees some time ago it was de cided to try to cut various de partmental budgets 10 per cent, or about $20,000,000, but Belton predicted the cuts will amount to $10,000,000 at most. Yest terday's Cold 20 Degrees Equals Mark Yesterday's frigid temperature of 20 in the early morning equalled the previous cold rec ord for the Rogue valley, ac cording to the U.S. weather bu reau. The previous high cold for this season of the year was the same temperature on Mar. 4, 1923. Officials added that Mar. 6, 1918 saw the mercury dip one degree more to 19 degrees. Whfcn Stick by C Murder in First Degree Indictment Returned by Jury The Jackson county grand jury Friday indicted Bernice H. (Tex) White, 37, of 228 Hart ley rd., Medford, on a charge" of first degree murder. The charge arose out of the death Wednesday of Eugene Raymond Birk, 32, Phoenix, who eyewitnesses said was struck on the head by a two-by-four board wielded by White while both were at work at the Talent Sawmill. To Obtain Counsel White appeared in circuit court Saturday morning before Judge E. H. Howell. The grand jury's indictment was read to him, and he was arraigned. The judge gave him until next Tues day to seek to obtain counsel, and if he is unable to do so by then, the possibility of appoint ing counsel will be taken up. White is being held without bail in the Jackson county jail. An autopsy performed on Birk's body after his death re vealed the cause of death was a basal skull fracture with inter ior bleeding, caused by injury to' the left side of his head. Contractor Asks 125 Water Connections Jacksonville A total of 125 water connections for a 32-acre subdivision at Bybee corner on the Medford-Jacksonville high way has been requested from the city of Jacksonville by Tom Whittle, Medford contractor. Mayor. John Keaveny told Whittle that the water commit tee would investigate the appli cation, in regard to the city's total water supply, and make a report at the next meeting. The property involved is on the south side of the highway, and Whittle . told city officials that he intends to put in paved streets and water before any building takes place. He esti mated, it would take about one year to improve the ground and install the utilities before con struction. Jacksonville purchases its water from Medford, and the connection would be on the inter-city pipeline, officials said. MENZIES IN U. S. New York (U.R) Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Men- zies arrived in New York by plane from Rome Saturday and told newsmen that the main pur pose of his visit to the United States was to have "useful talks" on Southeast Asian de fense problems. Priest Ousted From Russia Tells of Division of World Helsinki, Finland U.R) Father Georges Bissonnette, the American Roman Catholic priest ousted from Russia, said Satur day that Russian propaganda has convinced the Soviet people that "the world is divided into just two parts: The Soviet Un ion and the United States." -He told a press conference, arranged after his arrival "here from Moscow, that this strange division of the world in the So viet mind is discovered "when ever you go outside Moscow, to the provincial parts of the Sov iet Union." Will Return to U.S. The priest, whose home is at Central Falls, R.I., said he has no idea why the Russian gov ernment suddenly ordered him expelled on short notice. He said his only present plans are to return as soon as possible to the United States. Father Bissonette describ ed himself as "just a clergyman'.' with too many duties of his own to take up political speculations. But he did provide sidelights Russ araaLiUS tag off A London (U.R) Soviet Rus sia said today the United States is on the list of targets that it could and would strike with atom bombs if the need arises for "military retaliation." Friday Moscow warned Brit- am that the British Isles are particularly exposed and vulner able to Soviet H-bombs if a nu clear war begins. A Moscow radio broadcast, monitored here, said: "Under modern conditions the United States ruling circles have no ground for hope that, should they commit aggression, U. S. territory would remain outside military retaliation. "And as regards the produc tion of hydrogen weapons, the Soviet Union is well ahead of the U.S.A.," the broadcast said. The broadcast was based on an article written for the Soviet journal New Times by Maj. Gen. F. Isayev. He said the United States at one time hoped they could in flict "masked atomic blows on vital centers of the Soviet Union and the other peace-loving coun tries." Believed Invulnerable "They calculated that the U. S. would remain invulnerable," the broadcast said. Now, it said, the United States cannot hope that its own territory would remain outside the range of Russian atomic retaliation. "As regards the well-recog nized vulnerability of their (the United States) satellites in West ern Europe and other regions where the U. S. military bases are situated, this state of af fairs does not trouble the strate gists,? . the Isayev article said. "It would seem that these facts now are being understood in Washington." Reliance Said Vain "The U.S. and British re liance on a monopoly of nuclear weapons has long since proved vein," the article said. "The U.S.S.R. also possesses the secret of the production of atomic weapons and as regards the production of hydrogen weapons, it is well ahead of the U.S.A. Allies Invited To Atomic Tests Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States has invited representa tives of Britain and other allied nations to witness under cer tain restrictions some, of, this nation's atomic tests in Nevada. But none of the foreign repre sentatives will be given access to any secret data on design and manufacture of nuclear weapons, authoritative sources reported Saturday. This ban is laid down in U. S. law. But the visitors from some of the principal North Atlantic Pact nations will be given oppor tunity to study the effects of nu clear explosions. Sir William Penny, Great Britain's top nuclear weapons expert, will be among those who will witness one of this spring's Nevada explosions. on his two years in Russia. "When the people see a for eigner, of whatever nationality," he , said, "they immediately think of him as an American. Other nationalities just don't ex ist in their minds." Tells of Propaganda The priest said he asumed this peculiar point of view had been fostered by the over-emphasis of anti-American propaganda in the Soviet Union. In Moscow, he said, the situ ation is different. "The Soviet people are defin itely interested in the United States and in Americans," he said. "As soon as you get to gether at a dinner or some oth er occasion, they like to ask questions about America such as: ' - "How many Negroes are there in America?" . ... "When you' tell, them that there has not been a lynching in America in 19 years," he said, "they become puzzled and think that you are not talking in earnest. somb "The Washington politicians and the Pentagon strategists imagine their trump card to be in the fact that, though they have lost the monopoly in atomic weapons, they have allegedly a quantitative superior itym this weapon. . "Is su?h a condition reason ablet' the broadcast isked. "We doubt it." Ike-Churchill Meet To Patch Up Rift Forecast in London London (U.R) Highly placed British sources said Saturday night that Prime Minister Wins ton Churchill and President Dwight D. Eisenhower probably will have to meet again shortly to patch up the rift in the At lantic Alliance revealed in Churchill's H-bomb speech of . last Tuesday. These sources suggested that the 80-year-old Prime Minister may even now be contemplating "another pilgrimage to Washing ton" in an attempt to bring American and British policy back into line. Churchill on Tuesday said bluntly that Britain must build its own H-bombs because Ameri can H-bombs might not give adequate priority to the targets Britain would want bombed in event of a war. British sources accepted this shock-speech as a clear indica tion that the -Anglo-American Alliance is in a "bad state." " They blamed;: the allegedly dangerous rift in relations be tween the Atlantic partners on the current state of disjointed planning. Churchill told the House of Commons that he doubted Brit ain could exercise adequate in fluence on American thinking and actions until Britain had some nuclear power of it3 own to reinforce its position. The high - ranking British authority for the report that Churchill and . Mr. Eisenhower may meet soon 'to try to iron out such irritations is an eminent Briton who long has been a Churchill confident. Floods Threatening Along Ohio River Chicago (U.R) Tornado threats ended in Dixie late Sat urday but flood threats arose along the Ohio river and a late cold wave moved into the upper Midwest. The U.S. Weather Bureau at Memphis said that the possibil ity : of tornadoes for Western Tennessee, east-central Arkansas and northwestern Mississippi ended at 4:30 p.m., (CST). Twisters along the Kentucky- Tennesse border Friday night injured several persons and caused extensive property dam age. Sports Bulletins Medford high school basket ball team gained a state Class A tournament berth last night by drubbing Crater 77 to 43 here for its second straight win in the District 4 play off. Crater resisted stubbornly in the early moments of the contest but the Black Tornado led at the quarter 14 to 7 and ' pushed to 36 to 18 at half time. Third quarter score was 56 to 26. - ' Larry Copple of Medford headed point-getters with 18. Frank Rector scored 16 and Jerry Kalapus 12 for the Tornado and Bob Gray 10 for Crater. Klamath Falls Mai In clinched the District 5-B crown last night with its sec ond win over Talent. 44 to 40. The score resulted after a sin gle overtime, following a 38 all deadlock at the regular play's end. Corvallis (U.R) The Ore gon State College Beavers downed the UCLA Bruins 83 to 64 Saturday night with a red-hoi second half streak thai gave them two wins over the Bruins and the basketball championship of the Pacific Coast Conference,
