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Newspaper Page Texti IT Mebfqriw i JfikJT Weather Subscribers FORECAST: Fair through Wed nesday, with slowly rising temperatures. Low tonight 25; high Wednesday 55. Temp. Highest Vesterdar 44 Lowest this Morning 19 Prec. to 4:39 a.m. Today OJ RIBUNE To report improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 pjtl daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives rhort ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. U-.ited Press f-ull Ldsed Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 16 Pages ME' TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1955 Price 5c No. 307 7 kxKxaBsms110 , " """ " in urn iim illiliiiiiiliTlr INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Under President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace program. 31 students from 19 foreign nations will take seven-month course in school at Argonne National Laboratory of AEC at Lemont, 111. In group above are (left to right): Allan Wil son, Australia; Marcel Poskin and Pierre Jean Marien, Belgium; Ambassador More head Patterson. U. S. representative for international atomic energy negotiations; Dr. Kenneth Davis and Dr. Norman Hilberry, associate directors of new schooL Part of Annexation Plan for City Due At Council Session Parts of an overall annexation plan for the city of Medford and its fringe areas will be presented to the city council this evening by Mayor Earl Miller, he said this morning. The program he . will outline will have particular reference to south and southwest Medford, the mayor said. Annexation also was a subject of discussion last night at a reg ular meeting of the city planning commission. Items on the agenda at that meeting included a letter re questing annexation of Douglas addition, at the west end of Mt. Pitt and Columbus aves. ' The planning commission recom mended to the city council that Douglas addition be annexed subject to regulations set forth by the city. Tentative Approval The commission also gave ten tative approval to a plat for Pio neer subdivision, addition No. 1, which is west of Oak Grove school and north of Perrydale ave. The plat was presented for commission approval by William von der Hellen. The final plat of Wilson Park subdivision, south of Stewart ave., also was submitted to the commission, which approved it. In other action, the commis sion recommended to the city council that vacation of D'Anjou st., from Spruce st. to Cherry st., be denied. This move was made after several protests to the va cation were heard. Other business scheduled to come before the city council to night includes consideration of leases at the airport, sale of sur plus city police department equipment, several requests for paving, and other minor items. School Vacations Slated This Week Medford public schools and those in four other districts will close their doors Thursday and Friday for spring vacation, ac cording to the county school su perintendent's office. Thirteen other districts started spring vacation yesterday, and Talent's spring vacation will start tomorrow. Classes will be held as usual in all districts starting Monday morning. Spring vacation for Howard arid Elk-Trail schools is held in April. Man 'Loans' Heart, Lungs To Give Girl Normal Life Minneapolis, Minn. (U.R) Penny Rae Raymond, a playful seven-year-old girl, "borrowed" the heart and lungs of a 41-year-old man today in a rare opera tion to give her a normal life. Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and a team of surgeons at the Univer sity of Minnesota were to sew up two small holes in the little Waukesha, Wis., girl's heart. Congestion Caused The holes failed to close when Penny Rae was born and blood rushed through her heart into the main blood stream, causing congestion. A friend of Penny Rae's fam ily, Ted Goodman of Waukesha, lay on a nearby operating table as the operation began. He was placed under an anes thetic and his circulatory sys tem was connected with Penny Rae's through, thin plastic tubes. Valley's Cooperative Rain-Increasing Plan Nov; Under Way Here The rain-increase program re cently announced for the valley has started, it was reported to day. . North American Weather Con sultants, the Altadena, Calif., firm which has been retained by the California Oregon Power company during the winter to increase watershed snowfall, has moved 11 more ground gener ators into the area in an attempt to increase general valley-wide precipitation. Cooperative Committee The company, after April 1 and until June 15, will continue this operation on behalf of the Jackson County Rain Increase Committee, a cooperative or ganization supported by the three, local irrigation districts, by Copco, and by members of fruit growers and shippers groups, cattlemen, and dry land farmers. Until March 31, it will be an expansion of Copco's win ter operation. The seeding is being done by silver iodide ground generators, and according to the legal no tice published by the company, the area involved is bounded by a line starting at Butte Falls, going east to Pelican Butte, then south through Pinehurst to an in tersection of the Oregon-California state line, west along the line to an intersection due south of Applegate, then north to Ap plegate, then through Gold Hill to an intersection due west of Butte Falls, then east to the starting point. Important This Year It is hoped that the silver iodide seeding will increase nat ural precipitation during the spring. This is particularly vital this year, those involved feel, be cause of the lack of rain and snow during the past winter, which has left a gloomy outlook for irrigation water during the summer. Seeding is performed when cloud conditions provide a rain potential. Weather control attempts of one sort or another have been practically continuous in the Rogue valley since they, were first started-here in 1949. The first was anti-hail cloud seeding, using airplanes, with the objec tive of protecting tender pears during their development. ' Other Projects ' " This program, sponsored by The doctors then planned to tie of the little girl's heart and send Goodman's red, purified blood coursing through Penny Rae's arteries. The little girl's lungs were collapsed, but a sim ple mechanical pump kept the blood moving. Manwhile, Penny Rae's dark, venous blood was carried into Goodman's body for purification in his lungs and other organs. Thus, Penny Rae used Good man's heart and lungs to stay alive while surgeons did the re pair work on her own bloodless, still beating heart. Penny Rae has always realiz ed she wasn't as well as other little girls, her mother said. "Penny Rae knows the story," she said. "We told her she had to have the operation to be able to play with her friends and ride a bike. She has very much faith and no fear." fruit growers and shippers here, drew criticism from some dry land farmers who felt it had an adverse effect on rainfall. Later two other projects were tried, the Copco wintertime project to in crease snowfall on areas from which the utility gets its hydro electric water supplies, and the ground generator seeding during the summer for hail prevention. The latter has been done by Water Resources Development Corporation, Denver, Colo. An evaluation . of last summer's cloud-seeding by this firm is ex pected this week. In legal advertising, this com pany has given notice of its in tention of resuming the anti-hail project this summer. It is reported that the two op erations are being coordinated so that the best results for each type of program will be obtained. Cuts in Oregon Budget Approved By Joint Group Salem (U.R) Budget cuts amounting to slightly less than a million dollars were approved today by the Joint Ways and Means committee, subject to re vision if the current legislature passes measures affecting the departments involved that might call for more expenditures. In most instances the cuts came after agreements were reached between ways and means subcommittees and de partment heads. Cut Brings Debate But a decrease of only $7944 recommended by a subcommit tee in the budget of the valua tion division of the State Tax commission brought the greatest amount of debate. This budget request to carry the state by the tax commission on the reappraisal program in was $1,033,169. This amount was reduced in the governor's budget to $894,494. The sub committee headed by Sen. Fran cis W. Ziegler (R-Corvallis) re duced the budget to $886,905. New Leasing Plan The greatest part of $388,176 cut made in the several divisions of the secretary of state's de partment were made ' possible through a new plan of leasing, instead of buying cars, Sen. Hounsell said. Under this plan cars are leased for $30 a month, of which the employee pays $15, with the car treated as the employee's personal vehicle. Total of $104,500 was cut from the Eastern Oregon state hospital budget of $3,823,969 and $25,000 from the Eastern Oregon Tuberculosis hospital budget of $1,111,685. 19-Degree Temperature Record Low for March 15 The temperature dipped to 19 degrees this morning, making it the coldest reading for this date since 1923, when a low of 22 was recorded. The forecast is for fair wea ther with slowly rising temperatures. f jes Conspiracy iu End Probe of Peress Ike's Blackout Order in Effect Washington (U.R) Sen. Jos eph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.), re newing an old feud that sparked last year's Army-McCarthy hear ings, charged today that high administration officials "success fully conspired" to stop his in vestigation of former Army Maj. Irving Peress. He also asserted that Presi dent Eisenhower signed a "black out" order" forbidding adminis tration officials to talk about a Jan. .21, 1954, meeting. At the meeting, McCarthy said, repre sentatives of the White House, the Army and the Justice De partment mapped plans to block hearings on the Peress case and "start an investigation of McCar thy." New Investigation of Case McCarthy's charges came at the start of a new, Democratic controlled investigation of the Army's handling of the Peress case. He urged the Senate In vestigating Subcommittee to question the administration offi cials present at the Jan. 21, 1954, meeting which figured prom inently . in the Army-McCarthy hearings. The now celebrated meeting took place at the Justice Depart ment. Present were Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr., his depu ty, William P. Rogers; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., ambassador to the United Nations and parttime White House advisor; President ial Assistant Sherman Adams; White House aide Gerald P. Mor gan and Army counsellor John G. Adams. Army Officers Called First witness before the sub committee was Maj. Floyd E. Van Sickle Jr., Army officer who first handled Peress' appli cation for a commission, Seated beside Van Sickle -were" Wilbur 1 M. Brucker, Defense Department general counsel, and three other lawyers from the Defense De partment and. the Army. Before questioning of Van Sickle could begin, McCarthy demanded to know from Bruck er whether the lips of Army wit nesses before the subcommittee have been- "unsealed" or whether the President's order is still in effect. Order in Effect Brucker bristled. He told Mc Carthy his question was "load ed." He asserted that "no curtain has been lowered." Then Brucker told McCarthy the President's order is "still in full force and effect." Witnes ses, he said, however, have been urged to be "very frank." The hearing opened on an other familiar echo of the Army McCarthy battle during which Army Secretary Robert T. Ste vens was accused of withholding a pertinent document. This time it was Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) instead of McCarthy who accused Stevens of less than full cooperation in disclosing all about the Army career of Peress. McClellan declared in an opening statement that he felt the subcommittee is entitled to the inspector general's report on Peress. Aside from that, he said, the Army and the Defense Depart ment had been cooperative in meeting other requests and mak ing witnesses available. Demurrer Overruled; Poirier Plea Slated A demurrer in the case of Lee Poirier, Jacksonville, charged with practicing dentistry with out a license, has been overruled by District Judge Rawles Moore, accoding to District Attorney Walter Nunley. Poirier has been ordered to appear personally or through his attorney at 10 a.m. Saturday in district court to enter a plea to the charge. The demurrer was overruled by Judge Moore yesterday after Poirier's attoney, O. H. Bengt son, failed to enter a brief on the demurrer prior to a deadline set by the court, court resources said. IBuDDetin Washington (U.R) The Senate today rejected the Democratic compromise plan to reduce income taxes next year for low bracket taxpay ers. The vote was 50 to 44 against the tax cut. Mc EkaflDes Use off Higher Income Tax Seen for Oregon In Committee Plan Withholding Schedule Would Be Graduated Salem U.R) Personal income taxes will be higher in Oregon and they'll be collected in a dif ferent manner beginning next January, if a plan tentatively ap proved in the House Tax Com mittee becomes law. Employers in Oregon, now withhold one per cent of an em ployee's wage for the state in come tax, regardless of how much that employee earns. The committee has approved a plan whereby a graduated withhold ing schedule would be adopted. As earnings go up, the withhold ing percentage would go up, thus leaving a smaller balance that the taxpayer would have to pay in cash on April 15. The committee rejected the federal plan of requiring esti mates of anticipated income for all wage earners over $5,000. They agreed that persons who get all their income in wages or salary should file returns only for the past year's earnings. Farm Workers Included Rep. Loran Stewart (R-Cottage Grove) ordered a bill drafted along the lines of one proposed by Rep. Walter J. Pearson (D Portland) which would raise the minimum withholding tax from one to two per cent and include farm workers. There will be more significant changes in the way cc-poration taxes are col lected. Under the committee's plan, corporations " would pay their taxes in two, instead of the present four payments. Dead lines for these installments would fall in March and June so they would not conflict with federal tax deadlines. No esti mates of anticipated revenue would be required for corpora tions. Another revision in the tenta tive tax program to make up Oregon's looming money deficit was the change from a planned tobacco tax to a straight cigar ette tax. Members agreed yester day that a tax on tobacco other than cigarettes would be nearly impossible to enforce and col lect. Abandoning the tobacco tax idea meant a lower expected revenue of $6,700,000 per bien nium from a two-cent tax on cigarettes as compared to $7,000, 000 from all types of tobacco. Bonus Up Today Topping the House calendar today was House joint resolution five, the measure introduced by Rep. Maurine Neuberger to pay a state bonus to veterans of the Korean conflict. The Joint Ways and Means Committee reported the bill to the floor with a recom mendation that it be defeated. It would cost the state about $11,000,000. Also to be considered today was a bill relaxing present libel laws so that newspapers and radio sta tions which make inadvertent but libelous mistakes could be sued only for actual damages, and not punitive damages. The bill was held over from yester day. The Senate had several bills up for final action today, includ ing a House joint memorial ask ing the legislatures of Washing ton, California, British Colum bia and Alaska to join Oregon in conferring on a treaty draft regulating salmon fishing. An accompanying House joint reso lutipn also up for final action today calls for an interim com mittee to co-operate with Wash ington, California, British Co lumbia and Alaska m drafting such a treaty to regulate salmon fishing. (See story on Page 14) Grand Jury Called For Thursday Morning The Jackson county, grand jury has been summoned for 10 a.m.- Thursday to consider re indictment of Bernice H. (Tex) White, 37, of 228 Hartly rd., Medford,. according to District Attorney Walter Nunley. White was indicted March 4 by the grand jury on a charge of first degree murder growing out. of the death of Eugene Ray mond Birk, 32, Phoenix, and White was scheduled to enter a plea to the charge last Saturday. Woms on SmolD Nixon Says Party Can't Win Unless Ike is Candidate Los Angeles (U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon headed for Washington today after warning the Republican party that without President Eisenhower, it lacks the strength to elect a president. "The party is not strong enough to elect a president," he said. "We have to have a man who is strong enough to elect the party. That is why we won in 1952 with such a man, Dwight D.. Eisenhower." Nixon spoke off the cuff be fore a gathering of 2500 South ern California Republicans yes terday. He left last night for Washington. Three-Point Program "President Eisenhower wants to build up the party so that the party can elect the candi date," Nixon said. He outlined a three point program designed by the President to bolster the party's power. "The administration wishes to be humanitarian and liberal without being socialistic. "The government should not interfere where an individual can do the job better. "The administration is hon est and loyal and restored hon esty and loyalty to government when it took over in 1952." When questioned about his statement and its implications after the" luncheon, Nixon com mented: "Well, of course, no one can tell the President to run." And, he added, "of course, we all hope he will run." The speech immediately caus ed a furor in party ranks. The vice - president's speech defended the administration's cut in the military budget. "We have new weapons requiring less personnel and less money and that is the reason why the Pres ident has been able to cut the budget. We are right now stronger than any potential en emy," Nixon said. Washington (U.R) Repub licans split today over an as sertion by Vice-President Rich ard M. Nixon that the party can't win in 1956 without Pres ident Eisenhower. Republican leaders in Con gress generally agreed that Mr. Eisenhower would be the "strongest" candidate they could offer next year. They expressed hope he will run for reelection. But they differed on the idea that Mr. Eisenhower is the only man who could lead them to vic tory. Martin, Capehart Disagree House Republican Leader Jo seph M. Martin of Massachu setts and Sen. Homer Capehart of Indiana disagreed. Martin said he hopes Mr. Eisenhower Mail Box Vandalism Being Investigated Approximately 50 mail boxes were destroyed or damaged in the area between Medford and Jacksonville last night, accord ing to Postmaster Moore Ham ilton. Some boxes within the city also were damaged, Ham ilton said. Most of the damage occured along Stewart ave. and Bellin ger lane, but reports were re ceived throughout the area ex tending to Jacksonville. Some boxes were completely destroy ed, some were carried away and others were knocked from their post, according to Hamilton, who said it was the worst case of rural mail box -destruction ever reported to the Medford office. The postmaster said the destruc tion apparently occurred be tween 9 p.m. yesterday and 4 a.m. today. Postal authorities and sheriff's deputies were investigating to day and Hamilton stated that such vandalism is a federal of fense. The postmaster reminded boxholders that it is up to them to replace or repair the boxes and is not a post office responsibility. Ateinnik Agtos will run again. But he said the party is stronger than two years ago and can win with another candidate. Sens. Barry Goldwater of Ari zona and Frank Carlson of Kan sas agreed with Nixon. Goldwat er, head of the Senate Republi can campaign committee, said the Republican party is a minor ity party "if we base the case on the cold, hard registration figures." Republican National Head quarters declined comment. 27 New Citizens Take Naturalization Oaths Here Monday Twenty seven new citizens took their oath of citizenship yesterday in ceremonies .con ducted in the Jackson county circuit courtroom. The oath of citizenship was administered by Judge Pro Tern James Albert Powers, Portland. Teh of the new citizens are former residents of Canada. They include Slyvia Elise DeVoss, route 1, box 589, Talent; John Black, 1511 North Riverside ave.; Madeleine Richard Brittan, Table Rock Estates, Gold Hill; Jessie Robertson Reid Osgood, 843 Harmony lane, Medford; Charles Edward Mclntyre, Ideal Court; Cerene Charlotte Baker, 1214 West Main st., Medford; Mary Elizabeth Young, 727 Al der st., Medford; Marie Smith, route 1, box 542, Central Point; Ambrose Whitney Lloyd, 36 South Sage rd., Medford, and Katherine Hiatt, 819 South Peach st., Medford. Seven From Great Britain Seven listed their former place of residence as England or reat Britain. Included in this group are Dorothy Ray, Hill crest rd., Medford; Marjorie Irene Rushton, 283 Oak Grove dr., Medford; Patricia Mildred Schooley, 115 Ajax ave., Camp White; Lily Marie Schott, 139 White Oak dr., Medford; Cora Lillian Boyd, 1554 Biddle rd., Medford; John C. Eaton, 540 Holly st., Ashland, and Mae Laura Barnum, 1646 Spring st., Medford. Former residents of Japan are Ichitaro Nakagiri, 229 South Front st., Medford; Kishina Ishii Nakagiri, 229 South Front st, Medford; Mary Asa Fujimoto, 916 East Main st., Medford, and Asami Koyama, 520 South Cen tral ave., Medford. Two Mexicans Listed as former residents of Mexico are Guadalupe Cuestas Valencia Greene, Jacksonville highway, Medford, and Alfonso Padilla Gonzalez, 128 Chestnut st., Medford. Others in the group of new citizens, and their former home lands, are Chris Radoff, route 1, box 48, Jacksonville, Bulgaria; Erika Albertine Goff. 311 West Jackson st.. Medford, Germany; Emilia Rina Bailey, 416 Alice st., Medford, Italy; and Carsten An ker Rasmussen, 1918 Stewart ave., Medford, Norway. Jacksonville Masonic Lodge Marking 100th Anniversary Jacksonville Warren Lodge No. 10, AF and AM, one of the oldest Masonic bodies in the Pa cific Northwest, held its first meeting 100 years ago today. The lodge, which was organ ized with 14 members in Jack sonville, has been meeting con tinuously since. The Masonic temple in Jacksonville is one of the oldest in the state. 'T. McF. First Master Thomas McFadden Patton was the first master of the lodge. He was known to his contemp oraries as "T. McF.," and was here as a territorial prosecutor from the capital of the territory. (Oregon did not become a state 1 until 1859, 97 years ago.) PossobDe Red China Claimed Not Immune From Retaliatory Attack Halting Finnish Tanker Contrary To US Policy Washington U.R) Secretary of 'State John Foster Dulles served notice on would-be ag gressors today that small tacti cal atomic weapons probably would be used if the United States becomes involved in se rious military action anywhere. He coupled this with a warn ing that Red China will not be immune from retaliatory attacks on military targets on its home grounds if it adopts a policy of open war. Dulles also told a news con ference that it would be con trary to present U.S. policy to use the Seventh Fleet tot halt the Finnish tanker Aruba, now en route to Red China with 13, 000 tons of kerosene that could be used to fuel Communist jet fighter planes. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said Satur day that, if other means fail, the Seventh Fleet' should be used to stop the Aruba from reaching its destination. In his first Washington news conference in two months, the much traveled secretary covered much of the same ground as in week. Highlights included: 1. It is possible that the Chi nese Communists do not intend to abandon their aggressive in tentions until stopped by su perior resistance that could include-tactical atomic weapons. 21 If a Chinese Communist at tack on Nationalist-held Quemoy and Matsu islands just off the China coast is judged to be a preliminary to an attack on For mosa and the Pescadores, Presi dent Eisenhower probably would order U.S. reaction. So far, he said, the Communists are indi cating their operations in the Formosa Straits are designed to conquer Formosa. 3. The' United States favors renunciation of force in the For mosa problem but so far there is no evidence Red China would accept a cease fire. 4. The State Department is still study&ig when the contro versial Yalta papers should be published. In the meantime, he said the papers are available to certain congressional committees for study if they want them. Land Classification Hearing Held Today About 15 landowners were nresent this morning at the courthouse as a public hearing on fire prevention tax assess ments got under way. The hear ing is being conducted by the Jackson County Land Classifica tion committee. Following the hearing, spot snrvevs will be conducted by the committee, or its representatives, to determine' the proper ciassui cation of lands regarding which protests have been entered. , Classifications set up by the committee will be certified and ciihrmttpH to the county assessor or inclusion in the tax rolls during the coming tax-year. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final- stock averages: 30 indus trials 399.21 up 7.85; 20 railroads 14R Qrt un 3.38: 15 utilities 62.50 up 0.33; 65 stock' 149.30 up 2.71. He and his bride came to the valley on horseback, and she returned to the Willamette val ley before the historic lodge meeting. He stayed over because of "Indian troubles" (whether it was active warfare, or legal mat ters involving Indians is un known) until September. Perhaps in Home It is also unknown where the meeting was held, but it could have been in a Jacksonville res idence. The 100th anniversary of the lodge will be commemorated at a lodge session in Jacksonville May 14, when a number of high Masonic officials will visit here. Roger Westerfield is master of the lodge.