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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.
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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
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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.