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Senator Knowland
Reiterates Belief
Tax Cuts To Lose
Prediction Follows
Breakfast With Ike
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Washington (U.R) Senate
Republican Leader William T.
Knowland reiterated his belief
today that the Senate will de
feat a Democratic compromise
income tax cut plan.
The Californian repeated his
forecast after breakfast at the
White House with President Ei
senhower. The breakfasts have
become a weekly, early morning
date between the two men.
Routine Discussion
Knowland described the meet
ing as devoted to a routine dis
cussion of legislative problems,
including the upcoming tax bill.
and various phases of the foreign
situation.
Democrats and Republicans
laid down a new barrage of argu
ments for and against the com
promise income tax proposal.
Secretary of the Treasury
George M. Huniphrey issued a
r- special statement denouncing the
. Democratic compromise plan for
a S20-S10 tax cut as "unwise
political tinkering" that would
hurt the "little people" the
Democrats "talk so much about"
by damaging the nation's busi
ness economy.
Irresponsibility Charged
,Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey CD
Minn.) accused the Eisenhower
administration of "irresponsibil
ity" in tax legislation a charge
both Humphrey and President
Eisenhower previously had
lobbed at the Democrats.
The Minnesota senator also
said Congress has to choose .be
tween "the American people or
big business corporations."
Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-I1L),
sional Economic committee, said
the majority comment in the
committee s annual report could
be interpreted as specific en
dorsement of the income tax cut
compromise. The report was
released today.
FFA Leaders Here
For State Conclave
Members of the state execu
tive committee of the Oregon
association of Future Farmers of
America were arriving in Cen
tral Point this morning, to pre
pare for the four-day state con
vention which will start tomor
row. Meetings of the committee
were scheduled for this morn
ing, ths afternoon and tomor
row morning, to set up details
of the .program for the rest of
the week. The opening meeting
of the convention itself is sched
uled for 7:30 D.m. Tuesday with
a public speaking and talent
contest. Registration will begin
tomorrow at 3 p.m..
The first business session will
be at Crater High school at 8:30
a.m. Wednesday. Delegates from
all parts of the state will attend.
Death of Nepal King
Brings Fear of Crisis
Zurich, Switzerland (U.R)
The death of King Tribhubana of
Nepal brought fears today of a
new political crisis in his little
Himalayan kingdom which
shares a 1.000-mile border with
Communist-held Tibet.
The 48-year-old King died Sat
urday night in a hospital here
where he had been under treat
ment for heart disease. An
nouncement of the death was de
layed here so authorities could
announce it first in his capital at
Katmandu and in New Delhi.
The Nepalese throne now goes
in his son. Crown Prince Mahen-
tra Bir Bikram, 34, who con
ferred with the King only last
month at Nice on a cabinet crisis
in the nation of 9,000,000 people.
Brother and Sister Winners
Of Easter Basket Contest
The brother-and-sister team of
Ernest and Jeanette Jones, son
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Norville Jones, 1019 West Sec
ond st., won first and second
prizes in the easter basket con
test conducted here Saturday.
Both are students at Jackson
school. Ernest's winning basket
which won him a prize of $25,
was displayed at Mann's De
partment store, and his sister's,
which won $15, was at Ad-
rienne's. . j.,.
The contest was conducted by
the Medford Retail Merchants
association as part of the pro
motion for the spring opening.
Third-place winner was Pen
ny Sampert, Oak Grove school,
whose basket was displayed at
Acme hardware. She won $10.
The $5 fourth place winner was
Darelyn Huson, Roosevelt school,
whose basket was in the window
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I
STATE WINNER Mildred Ann
Gail, daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
C. N. Gail. Gold Hill, a student
at Crater High school, has been
named state winner of the Elks
youth leadership and activities
competition, the Elks lodge here
was advised this morning. Miss
Gail herself was notified last
week. She will, be presented a
$50 defense bond as local win
ner during May day ceremonies
here April 28 and will receive a
S50 bond as state prize in June
She is now entered in the nation
wide contest, results of which
will be announced in late April
or early May, according to Elks
officials. In local judging, Frank
Bash, Medford High school, was
the other top winner. In the con
test, leadership counted 40 per
cent, citizenship appreciation 20
per cent and sense of honor 20
per cent.
General Motors,
UAWEye Demand
For Annual Wage
Detroit U.R) General Mo
tors met with the CIO United
Auto Workers union today to set
up the agenda for handling the
union's demand for an unprece
dented guaranteed annual wage.
The demand poses a threat to
the labor peace of the last five
years in the automobile indus
try. The talks were the first to
be held since the union announc
ed it wanted the guaranteed
wage written into its new con
tract.
Contract Expires May 29
The General Motors contract
with the union expires May 29.
Unless the annual wage demand
is resolved, the union may cati
a strike idling hundreds of thous
ands at either General Motors or
Ford. The Ford contract runs
out June 1."
Ford will meet with the union
Wednesday.
Ford and General Motors em
ploy 500,000 UAW workers and
turn out three-fourths of all
cars made and sold in the United
States. The contracts between
the union and Chrysler corpo
ration and the three smaller
producers don't expire until la
ter.
Contracts Reopened Once
The talks scheduled this week
will be the first major contract
negotiations in the industry
since the precedent - shattering
five-year contracts were signed
in 1950. The five-year contracts
were reopened once by mutual
agreement to freeze part of the
cost of living bonus into the pay
of the auto workers.
But the talks will be the first
full scale negotiations since
1950. Because of the union de
mand for the guaranteed annual
wage they vyll be the most sig
nificant in history.
Snow, Sunshine Mark
Week-Bet ore-Spring "
Snow flurries and brilliant
sunshine alternated in the
Medford area this morning,
one week before the advent
of spring.
Partly cloudy weather is
forecast for tonight and to
morrow. Not enough snow fell at the
weather bureau - to be meas
ured. of Trowbridge and Flynn.
Other winners, who received
$1 each, and their schools and
where the baskets were shown,
were Alma Jean Nessecar, Elk
Trail school, Medford Flower
shop; Donald Huntemann, Roose
velt, East Side market; Melba
Graham, J. C. Penney Co.; Pam
Watson and Teresa Thomas
(joint entry), Oak Grove, J. J.
Newberry Co.; Doyle Ann Stral-
ton, Roosevelt, Leonard Elec
tric; David Elgin, Washington,
Hubbard Bros.; Linda Lou Gar
ber, Central Point, Weeks- and
Orr; Nicki Lynn Mears, Roose
velt, Ginn's Flower shop; Nancy
Picard and Judy Kerr (joint
entry), Oak Grove, Modern
Beauty shop.
The baskets are still on dis
play in the store windows, ac
cording to the chamber of com
merce.
Medford
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Morse Opposes
Attempt To Stop
Finnish Tanker
US Has No Right
Senator Declares
Minneapolis (U.R) Sen.
Wayne Morse said the United
States has no legal right to ord
er the Seventh Fleet to stop a
Finnish tanker bound for Red
China with a cargo of kerosene
suitable for jet fuel.
Such an interception would
amount to imposing a blockade
on Communist China, the Ore
gon Democrat said. He added"
that he deplored the shipment
of the fuel, but was opposed to
aggressive action which could
lead to an act of war.
Addresses Conference
Morsei made the remarks at a
news conference prior to an
address to more than 300 dele
gates to the North Central Re
gional conference of The United
Jewish Appeal last night.
Interception of the Finnish
tanker has .been suggested by
Senate Republican Leader JVil-
liam F. Knowland of California.
"The only hope of overcom
ing the threat of Communism
is to build up economic produc
tive power in the areas of the
world where standards of liv
ing are now subnormal and
where human dignity and the
value of individual life now suf
fers," Morse told his audience.
Taipeh, Formosa (U.R)
Nationalist newspapers demand
ed today the Finnish tanker Ar
uba be sunk if the navy is un
able to seize it, before it can
deliver 13,000 tons of jet plane
fuel to Red China.
The pro-government United
Daily News urged seizure "even
if it may cost us something,"
but demanded the tanker be
sunk if the Communists pro
tected it with military force.
Escort Said Possible "
Nationalist quarters had rais
ed the possibility the Commun
ists might escort the ship
through the Nationalist blockade
with planes and submarines, but
military quarters thought such
protection would prove ineffec
tive.
One high American naval
source said it would be virtu
ally impossible for the Aruba
to slip throligh the blockade to
Red China if serious efforts were
made to intercept it.
'Theater in Polities'
Disturbs Neuberger
Delaware, O. '(U.R) Oregon's
Democratic Sen. Richard Neu
berger said here today that he
was ':disturbed" by the intro
duction of -"theatrical tech
niques in politics.
Neuberger particularly aimed
a salvo at candidates who go be
fore television audiences loaded
with makeup.
"If a politician won't let the
people see what he really looks
like, he won't tell them what
he really thinks," declared Neu
berger. As for the administration s
proposed program to aid the na
tion's crowded schools, the Ore
gon senator said it reminded him
of a remark once made by Presi
dent Abraham Lincoln:
'.'It is soup made of the shadow
of a piglDn that has startved to
death." .
Committee Sets Hearing
On Legitimate Children
Salem (U.R) The House
Judiciary Committee will hold
a public hearing tomorrow on a
bill which would make all chil
dren legitimate.
The measure, introuced by
Rep. Jean Lewis (D-Portland),
would give legal status and the
same rights to all children re
gardless1 of whether their par
ents are married.
Companion bills would re
move the word "illegitimate"
from all Oregon laws.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York 4U.R) Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 industri
als 391.36 off 9.72; 20 railroads
142.52 off 4.27; 15 utilities 62.17
off 1.06; and 65 stocks 146.59 off
3.65. Sales today were about
4,220,000 shares compared with
3,040,000 shares Friday.
Seattle (U.R) A damage
suit totalling about $200,000 has
been filed in Federal Court here
as an aftermath of the fatal col
lision between a Navy LST and
the fishing boat Santa Maria
last Thursday.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY.
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LIGHTNING HITS INDIANA CITY Looking like the victim of an air raid, this square
block of downtown buildings in Union City was consumed by fire after oemg hit by
lightning stroke during a tornado. Loss .caused by the tornado is expeaed to exceed a
million dollars.
Budget Preparation
In Final Stages;
To Meet Deadlines
Budgets for the city, county
and the Medford school district
are in the final stages of prep
aration for submission to budget
committees, a check showed today;-
--
Today is the deadline for com
pletion of county departmental
budget estimates. Most of the 38
estimates to be prepared had
been turned in at the county
clerk's office this morning.
County budget meetings ten
tatively have been set for March
23, April 5, and April 12.
Now Being Processed
All city of Medford depart
mental estimates have been com
pleted and are now being proc
essed. It is expected they will
be ready for the city budget
committee within the next 10
days, according to City, Manager
Robert Duff.
The Medford school district
budget is slated to be ready for
work by the budget committee
about the middle of April, E. H.
Hedrick, city superintendent of
schools, said this morning.
Nixon Schedules
Report To Nat i
Los Angeles (U.R) Vice
President Richard M. Nixon will
t
report to the nation at 6:30 p.m.
(PST) tonight on his recent good
will trip to Latin America.
His speech before the local
World . Affairs council will be
broadcast and televised nation
ally. It will climax a week end
visit of the vice-president and
his wife, Patricia, to his native
Southern California.
Nixon's pre-speech activities
were to include the dedication
ial hospital and a talk at 1 p.m.
of a new wing at White Memor
before some 2500 California Re
publicans at the Ambassador
hotel..
AEC Schedules Atomic
Explosion Tomorrow
Las Vegas (U.R) The At
omic Energy commission announced-
today it has planned a
500-foot towe,r nuclear detona
tion tomorrow morning, subject
to favorable weather conditions.
If carried out, it will be the
sixth shot of the 1955 series.
A final weather evaluation was
planned for tonight.
The AEC said 500 troops will
be entrenched 3500 yards from
ground zero and that about 100
aircraft will take part in the
exercise. The blast.-was sched
uled for 5:15 a.m. (PST).
Corvallis (U.R) The Pacific
Northwest Library Association
has received a S60,000 grant
from the Ford Foundation to
study library needs in Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana and
British Columbia.
, 14, 1955
Terrorist
United States Talks
Pacific Defense Plan
With Aussie Delegate
Washington (U.R) The, Western Pacific as well. Austra
United States and Australia be- lia is, tied to this country by a
pan Wfiitn Tinnc taiw tnHnv nn
Allied strategy , to .guard .Farr
mosa, Southeast" Asia and -the
Western Pacific against Com
munist aggression. .
The talks between President
Eisenhower and Australian
Prime Minister Robert G. Men
zies were expected to take up
in detail the touchy question of
the Quemoy and Matsu islands
off the Red China coast. Top
defense "and diplomatic aides to
both men were to sit in on the
meeting and also attend a White
House lunch.
Favors Stout Defense
Menzies made it clear in ad
vance that Australia believes
Formosa should be kept out of
Communist hands. He also came
out for a stout Allied defense
system in the Asian. - Pacific
area, and for the free world to
hang on to its atomic superior
ity over the Soviet Union.
But the prime minister has
let it be known Australia would
hate to see the Quemoy and
Matsu islands, coveted by the
Reds and held by the National
ists, be the cause of war. in the
Far East. The implication is
that the islands are not worth
such a price.
During, his three - day state
visit, Menzies will get a first
hand briefing on American pol
icy toward the islands.
Menzies will press the Pres
ident and his advisers for. a de
cision on what the United States
plans to do in event of aggres
sion in Southeast Asia and the
Grand Jury Not Yet
Called on Reindictment
The Jackson county grand
jury has not yet been called to
consider reindictment of Bernice
H. (Tex) White, 37, of 228 Hart
ley rdM according to District At
torney Walter Nunley.
A first degree murder indict
ment, returned against White
last week, was dismissed in cir
cuit court Saturday morning on
a motion by the district attorney.
He indicated that the matter
would be resubmitted to the
grand jury this week.
The first degree murder in
dictment involved the death on
March 2 of Eugene Raymond
Birk, 32, Phoenix. Birk died of
head injuries after being struck
over the head by a two-by-four
piece of lumber while at work
at Talent Sawmill, where both
men were employed.
Portland (U.R) Multnomah
Circuit Judge James W. Craw
ford has overruled defense ob
jections as to the validity of first
degree murder indictments
against Wey Him and Sherry
Fong, accused of the death of
Diane Hank more than a year
ago.
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overnor
i tnree-way treaty, which
in
cludes New Zealand, and also
y, t.i.ghtower . Southeast
Asian pact.
The United States may not be
able to give all the answers at
this time.
Menzies also is expe6ted to
raise the question of gaining
some more American know-how
in the field of civilian uses of
atomic energy.
Tax Classification
Hearing Set Tomorrow
A public hearing on fire tax
assessments on various types of
land will be conducted tomor
row by the Jackson County Land
Classification committee.
The hearing will" convene at
10 a.m. in the offices of the
Jackson county court in the
courthouse, and will continue
until all protests have been
heard, according to W. B. Tuck
er, county agent. . '
The classifications set up as
the result of the hearings and
the spot surveys by the commit
tee or its representatives, will
be certified to the county asses
sor for assessment work in the
coming tax year. ,
A. A. Lausmann, Medford, is
chairman of the Land Classifi
cation committee.
PLANNERS TO MEET
The . Medford city planning
commission will meet at 7:30
p.m. today in the council cham
bers of the city hall. Items on
the agenda include a discussion
of the vacation of d'Anjou from
Spruce st. to Cherry st. The sec
tion involved is not used for
street purposes at the present
time. '
Young Ex-Convict Sought for Beating
Of Lebanon Man Over Welfare Charges
Lebanon (U.R) A state
wide search was on today for
Dale I. Hetland, a young ex-convict
who is suspected of beating
a'Lebanon, Ore., man and
threatening his wife for her 'ex
posure of alleged illegal receipt
of welfare checks.
' Hetland, 22, is wanted for as
sault on E. A. Gall, 65. Gall was
beaten after his wife was threat
ened for letters she had publish
ed in a local newspaper claiming
many persons were receiving
welfare checks illegally.
Photo Identified
Police reported that Gall pick
ed out. a photo of Hetland and
identified him as his attacker. A
warrant was issued for his ar
rest and the statewide search
followed reports that Hatfield
had purchased a car in Salem
late Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Ways and
Means Committee of the state
legislature was. expected to ask
Weather
FORECAST: Partly cloudy to
night and Tuesday. Low to
night 25-28. High Tuesday
48-50. ,
Temp.
Highest yesterday 47
Lowest this morning 30
Prec.
To 4:30 a.m. today 01
eseaines
'Attact
Rigid Security
Regulations Set
On Religious Sect
Powerful Time Bomb
Explodes Under Auto
Saigon, Indochina (U.R)
Gov. Tran Van lam of South
Viet Nam narrowly escaped
death in a terrorist bomb at
tack today and the government
immediately clamped rigid new
security controls on rebellious
religious sects. '
High Viet Namese sources said
the attack on Tran was a "last
warning" from the dissident sects
to Premier Ngo Dinh Diem to
drop his plans to establish a
Western-type' democracy and
take away from the sects their
many privileges.
Bomb Explodes Under Car
A powerful time bomb ex
ploded under Tran Van Lam's
car as he opened the door of the
vehicle standing in front of his
villa. The car was destroved
but Tran and his driver were
not injured.
The attack occurred as the
American-backed Premier was
putting finishing touches to
plans for sweenine reforms
which would end the rampant
nepotism and bribery in free
Viet Nam and increase the
regime's popularity before the
1956 all-Viet Namese elections.
24 Seamen Feared
Drowned Oil Italy
Taranto, Italy-U.R) Twenty-
four seamen were feared drown
ed today in a double disaster in
which a Greek trawler sank off
southern Italy and a British life
boat capsized while pulling sur
vivors from the sea.
Italian officials said the 448
ton Greek trawler Iason carry
ing a crew of 20 sank last night.
The British Peninsular and
Orient Lines steamer Stratheden
picked up her SOS. It raced to
the scene and launched a life
boast into the stormy sea.
The lifeboat from the 23,732
ton Stratheden picked up a
heavy load of floating men and
fought back almost to the side
of its mother ship. Then it cap
sized in the heavy seas.
A spokesman for the P. and O.
Lines said eight members of the
Stratheden's crew drowned
when the lifeboat flipped over.
The Iason's captain reported
that 11 of his crew were known
drownc1 and five others feared
lost.
Chiloquin Youth's Body
Found in Sprague River
Klamath Falls (U.R) The
body of 19-year-old Joseph El
wood Wright of Chiloquin was
found floating in the Sprague
river yesterday afternoon near
Chiloquin. State police said the
youth apparently had drowned.
His body was discovered by
Eddie Cole of Chiloquin who told
police he had seen Wright alive
about 4 p.m. Saturday when he
was fishing at the dam on the
river. Cole said Wright's cloth
ing had become snagged on a
log.
Mrs. Gall to testify on her claims
of illegal check receipt.
Hetland was previously con
victed on grand larceny Snd ob
taining money under false pre
tenses. Salem (U.R) Mrs. Goldie
Gall, whose husband was beaten
by an unknown assailant in their
Lebannon home after she had
made disclosures about abuses
by public welfare recipients in
Linn county, conferred with At
torney General Bobert Y. Thorn
ton in his -office here today.
Testimony Scheduled
She will appear before a Ways
and Means - Sub-committee
studying the welfare budget
Wednesday, Sen.' George Ulett
(R-Coquille), chairman of the
sub-committee, announced.
Mrs. Gall told Thornton that
the majority, of cases she dis
closed were aid to dependent
children in cases where the
July Proposal To
Kremlin Suspended
'For Time Being'
Russia Said Friendly
To British Proposition
London (U.R) Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill disclos
ed today he approached the
Kremlin last July to arrange a
top level Anglo-Russia" meeting
without the United States and
found the Soviet reply "friend
ly and encouraging."
Churchill said he hoped the
proposed Anglo-Russian meet
ing might be the prelude to a
wider meeting.
But he later suspended the
proposal "for the time being,"
he said, because "we must on
no account let our earnest de
sire to bring about a top level
conference of great powers ex
pose us to a charge of having
thrown doubt and disarray into
the ranks of NATO."
The Prime Minister made his
disclosure while rallying sup
port to -defeat a Socialist mo
tion censuring his government .
for what the opposition termed
a delay in arranging the Big
Three talks on controlling the
H-bomb. .
Major Factor
Churchill made it clear that
American dislike for the idea
was a major factor in the Brit
ish decision to suspend the plan
for the two-power meeting which
he had envisioned "at some half
way house such as Bern, Vienna
or Stockholm." .
Churchill recalled efforts
made at the mid-1 52 Washing
ton conference for a top level
four-power meeting.' He said
this was turned down.
"The United States and
France could only be brought
to agree on a foreign ministers
meeting on German elections,
reunification and the Austrian
treaty," he said.
Sanitation Study"
Group Will Meet
Second meeting of a public
health committee considering
the sanitation and sewage dis
posal problem in Jackson county
will be held Thursday evening.
it was announced this morning.
Mrs. Janet Guches, president
of the Jackson County Public
Health association, and Mrs. A.
C. Uridel, chairman of the sani
tation committee, said it will be
in the health department office
in the courthouse at 8 p. m.,
March 17.
City Manager Robert Duff end
other Medford officials will dis
cuss the problem from the city's
standpoint, and will answer oups-
tions about a study of the prob
lem recently made by the city
in regard to. possible annexation
of affected areas.
A discussion of the formation
of sanitation districts as an aid
in working toward a solution
also will be conducted.
One Hurt in Shooting
At British Embassy
Moscow (U.R) A well
dressed young Soviet citizen shot
his way into the British Em
bassy last night and wounded a
Moscow militiaman before being
disarmed by British officials and
turned over to reinforced Soviet
police.
British officials said the fur
capped Soviet citizen, wearing
better than average dark clothes,
pulled a gun and opened fire
when two Soviet militiamen
tried to' prevent him from sprint
ing into the Embassy courtyard.
One of the militiamen was
wounded in the chest.
The gunman then dashed into1
the Embassy Building past a
surprised British guard at the re
ception desk and bolted up the
staircase leading to the apart
ments of Ambassador Sir Wil
liam Hayter and his wife.
fathers were capable of support
ing the children.
Thornton said abuse of aid to
dependent children is the big
gest leak in the public welfare
system, and his interest in the
Gall case confirms this opinion.
The attorney general said he
was willing and ready to be of
aid to Courtney Johns, Linn
county district attorney, if the
latter desires his assistance.
Would Be Prosecuted
Any . legal action to recover
wrongful payments from the
public welfare fund taken by the
Public Welfare C o m m i s s ion
would be prosecuted by the at
torney general's office, Thornton
said. However, the district at
torney can on his own initiative
begin proceedings.
Mrs. Gall said she is certain
that the man who beat up her
husband was involved in one of
the welfare cases which she reported.