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Newspaper Page TextTV1" Yalta loMigirt DFORDt RIBUNE v-.ited Kress hull Cudsed Wire Unitwl Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 22 Page MEDr KEGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1955 Price 5c No. 309 Me j 4 J ) Ainmeirkoini IFoirces Dim IqyDpped With Atomic Explosives Will Be Used in War, Nixon Declares Formosa Situation Said To Be Serious Chicago (U.P.) Vice-Presi-I'dent Richard M. Nixon said to day that U.S. forces in the Pa cific "are now equipped with atomic explosives which can be and will be used on military targets with precision and effec tiveness in case of war. Nixon told a luncheon meet ing of the Executives Club, "the weapons which were used dur ing the Korean war and World War II are obsolete." "Our artillery and our tacti cal air force in the Pacific are now equipped with atomic ex plosives which can be and will be used on military targets with precision and effectiveness," he said. Situation Said Serious Nixon warned that "no one should underestimate the seri ousness of the situation in the Formosa area. "If the Communists act like reasonable men," he said "there will be no war." "But dictatorial leaders of rev olutionary movements are al ways unpredictable. They some times do unreasonable things. That is why we must be pre pared for the worst, even though our policy is designed only to resist aggression, not to initiate he had said at an air port news conference that the present foreign policy is the "only one we can follow" to avoid war and preserve honor. Cold Continuing; Rogers Arrives For the third day in a row, the minimum temperature today broke the previous record low for this date. The low tempera ture today was 22, and the pre vious record low for March IT was 23 in 1951. Record high for March 17 was 82 degrees, in 1947. Yesterday's high was 58 degrees, and the mean was 40, or 7 degrees be low normal. The frost warning service for Rogue valley orchardists is scheduled to start early this week, according to Don Berry, county agent for horticulture. Roy Rogers, who has been in charge of the annual spring frost warning service in this area since 1931, arrived in Med ford yesterday, and has set up his office in the county court house. Local orchards are about 10 to 15 days behind normal de velopment for this time of year, according to Berry. The county agent predicted that it will be about 10 days more before coun ty orchards will have to be heat ed if temperatures reach a low danger point. Sports Bulletin Eugene (U.R) Baker and Milwaukie advanced to the semi-finals of the consolation bracket in the Oregon Class A high school basketball tourna ment here today. Baker pour ed on the steam in the fourth quarter to lick Astoria 58 to 44 and Milwaukie had a breeze in downing Dallas by a score of 67 to 33. Committee Classifies All Of County's Forest Lands tvio .Tarkson County Forest Land Classification committee has classified all forest lands in Jackson county, according to A. A. Lausmann, Medford, chair man. The committee conducted a public hearing on classification of lands this week. The classifi cation puts 160,000 acres in the grazing category and 547,000 acres in the timber class. Lausmann said the timber classification would pay the reg ular forest patrol assessments, while the grazing lands would come under the five cents per acre rate. He added that the forest pa BACKYARD VOLCANO Gobs of lava hurtle through the earth 50 feet from the home of Katsuto Hayashi near the lava, burned down within twenty minutes. Poor Meal Dumped In Medford Area, Tracy Crum Says Salem (U.R) Southern Ore gon has become a dumping ornnnfl fnp mpaslv California meat anr! i' in nartirnlar need for rnmrinlsorv state mefl spection. That was the testimony given here last night by Tracy Crum, Medford, representing the ooutnern uregon meat jracsers association. ' Crum told' a ways and means subcommittee studying a propos ed meat inspection law that southern Oregon's proximity to California, which already has such a law, has made it a profit able market for meat animals rejected by California inspectors. Sen. Charles Bingner (R- La Grande), chairman of the sub committee, said most of the com plaints about sales of unfit meat had come from Medford, Ash land and Grants Pass . Service Seen Costly The meat inspection bill has been approved by the House Livestock committee but was re ferred to the joint committee on ways and means for a solution of the financing problem. The State Department of Ag riculture has estimated the in spection service would cost near ly $900,000 per biennium. Some witnesses last night questioned that figure as too high, and oth ers, including members of the meat packing industry, suggest ed that an increased license fee on the packefs themselves could take care of part of the cost. They admitted, however, that the fee would probably be pass ed on to the consumer. Unfavorable Winds Cancel Atomic Test Las Vegas (U.R) The Atomic Energy Commission after a wea ther briefing today again post poned the sixth nuclear explo sion in the 1955 test series be- caue of unfavorable wind pat terns. The test had been sched uled for tomorrow. AEC spokesmen said another weather evaluation will be held tomorrow to determine whether the shot can be detonated be fore dawn Saturday. trol, supported by the assess ments, is the cheapest "insur ance" that a landowner can get on lands which carry forest growth, grass or other inflam mable material. The new rates will become effective on the July, 1955, tax rolls of the coun ty. Landowners may request changes in classification at any time, and the committee will re view them after a field examina tion by the forest patrol. Other members of the com mittee are James C. Miller, Med ford, G. Edward Dunn. Ashland, J. C. Moore, Corvallis, and Homer G. Lyon, Salem. Generally Renort Made on Suppression Program A generally optimistic report on the hail suppression cloud- yjj4Qg, program-conducted-nere last summer has been received here. The report was prepared for the Water - Resources Develop ment Corporation, Denver, Colo., which conducted the cloud-seeding job for the Rogue River Valley Traffic association, which is composed of pear growers and shippers. The report was done by the American Institute of Aerological Research, the re search subsidiary of the cloud seeding firm of which Dr.Irving Krick is the head. Conclusive evaluation of a hail suppression program is difficult to make, the report points out, since data are few and hail storms are largely local in ef fect. However, it stated that "probably the best testimony to the efficacy of cloud seeding operations is the fact that, ex cept for one minor case, no damaging hail has occurred to date. . . in any one of the Water Grand Jury Meets; Studies Indictment The Jackson county grand jury was called into session this morning to consider several mat ters, including a possible mur der indictment against Bernice H. (Tex) White, 37, of 227 Hart ley rd., Medford. A previous indictment against White, charging him with first degree murder, was dismissed in circuit court Saturday on a mo tion by District Attorney Walter Nunley after two errors were dis covered in the indictment. The first degree charge in volved the . death March 4 of Eugene Raymond Birk, 32, Phoe nix, who died in an Ashland hos- pital following an altercation with White in which the Phoe nix man was struck over the head with a two-by-four piece of lumber. Butler Hopeful for Tax Cut Agreement Portland (U.R) The Demo crats have not given up yet m their fight for an income tax re duction, Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler said today. - Butler, on a cross - country tour, said he was hopeful that some agreement for a tax re duction would come out of con ference committee discussion on the question. He predicted that President Eisenhower's opposition to the tx cut reduction plan has in sured victory for the Democrats in the 1956 presidential election. IPcscoffoc air from a volcanic cone that town of Pahoa, Hawaii The Optimistic Resources Development Cor poration's hail - suppression tar-get-areas,-4i--spite t the many occasions when air-mass char acteristics showed the hail threat to be severe." It added, "On the theoretical side, there is now a large mea sure of certainty that however high the silver iodide concentra tion, there can be no question of decreasing precipitation, due to the enormously high moisture content of the clouds in which hail forms." Changes Recommended Other conclusions involved recommend technical changes in the operational plan and im provement in electronic fore casting equipment, to improve the efficiency of the operation in the future. The report lists in detail, in text and charts, the entire opera tion, showing locations of silver iodide ground generators and hail observers, describing equip ment used in the project, and showing how the personnel func tions. One section is devoted to the storm of Aug. 13 and 14, when an extreme hail threat was en countered, accompanied by all the factors conductive to the production of damaging hai. And yet, the report said, no damage was received inside the target area. The report's summary says: Summary Given "A study of the frequency of occurrence of weather types pro ducing hail prior to 1954 and also in . 1954 shows that 1954 was by no means a favored year. There were many occasion when the hail threat was very grave indeed. One such was June 4, early in the season, before ope rational experience of the ef fectiveness of each generator site had been obtained. "Post-operational analysis of the June 4 storm revealed that a narrow zone running southwest-northeast across the target area was insufficiently protect; ed. . . Thereafter, another gene rator was installed ... and no further trouble was encountered. Stations Too Few "As we have noted elsewhere, hail reporting stations- are all too few. but client comments and the fact that so little com mercially damaging hail has oc- cured to date in any Water Re sources Development Corpora tion hail suppression target areas, provides valuable testi mony to the efficacy of intelli gently-conducted cloud seeding operations. "The experience gained from the research and development undertaken in 1954 lend solid substance to the statement that still better results can be looked for in 1955." The same corporation is pre? paring for the 1955 operation, which begins April l. Hail Aire Pevkes pushed its way up from the house, ablaze from the fiery Food Air Dropped To Scout Groups At Lake 0' Woods First air drops of food to Boy scouts anef Explorers, now on Operation Icicle" in the Lake O Woods area, were made yes- t?rday-F afternoon. and-, this morning. ' -1 Gene Kooser, Medford pilot, and Fred McMullin, Grants Pass scout executive, flew over the lake at about 4:30 p.m. yester day, and dropped food parcels to the group of Josephine county scouts who entered the area yes terday. The boys were in the ar ea on schedule, Kooser reported. The drop was made on the lake itself, which is frozen over about three feet thick. A second drop was made at about 6 a.m. today, and Kooser said the boys are now well pro vided with food. A shortage of parachutes has developed, and a Sno-Cat is going in today with additional supplies.. An air drop will be made at about 4 p.m. to day to the Jackson county group, which is going in via skis and snowshoes. Flights will be made each day to keep in touch with the 34 boys and four adult leaders on the trip. They will remain in the snowcovered mountain area until this week end. Difficulty in radio communi cations developed yesterday, apparently in the set on the ground used by the scouts. But the pilot is keeDine in touch with the boys by dropping notes. this is the third year of "Operation Icicle," which is a winter camping and training session for boys to familiarize them with snow conditions. They are camping at Camp Mc Loughlin, the scout camp at the lake, and in an area to the north near Mt. McLoughlin. Automobile Show Set During Pear Festival An automobile show will be held in conjunction with this year's Pear Blossom festival, it was announced today at a meet ing of the. festival general com mittee. The festival will be held in Medford on Saturday, April 23. Plans for the auto show were presented at this morning's meet ing by Floyd Courtwright and Dale Davis. Plans for selection of a queen were outlined at today's meet ing, and John Pletsch stated that Jackson County Savings and Loan association will present a savings account to each of the five finalists. The finalists will be judged, and a queen selected, on April 21. Weather FORECAST: Fair through Fri day with little change In tem perature. Low tonight 25; high Friday 35-58. Temp. Hiehest Yesterday 58 Lowest this Morning 22 423 FFA Delegates Attend Convention; Awards Night Set Central Point Men Get Honors Awards Central Point A total of 423 delegates to the third an-, nual Future Farmers of Ameri ca state convention being held here had registered up to last night, but more than 500 persons are attending most of the ses sions at Crater High school. Tonight is awards night, when the top honors to be given out during the convention will be made. Among them is the Star Farmer of Oregon award, which will be given to the most out standing of 71 boys who yester day were elected as State Far mers. The Star Farmer will re ceive a $100 cash award. Others will be Star Dairy Far mer, $100, and similar awards for soil and water management, rural electrification and farm mechanics, and a chapter safe ty award. Get Honored Awards Five adults last night were named "Honorary State Farm ers" in recognition of their ser vice to the FFA movement. Two of them, H. P. Jewett, superin tendent of School District 6C, Central Point, and Arnold Boh nert, Central Point, were honor er for their part in organizing and promoting the Crater High FFA chapter, only one in this area. Others thus honored included Charles Witty, Adrian, father of four State Farmer sons; Mar shall Dunham, Lakeview, father of the state FFA president, and George Dewey, Salem, of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federa tion. Three busloads and ten car loads of FFA delegates toured farms of the area yesterday aft ernoon, including the Bohnert properties near Central Point where grass is one of the prin cipal crops. .- - . Parliamentary Contest - - Highlight of last night's con vention session was the finals in the state parliamentary con test, where "teams of six boys from competing chapters vied in showing their proficiency in par liamentary procedure. First place winner was McLoughlin High school, Milton-Freewater. Sec ond to fifth places were taken by teams from Gervais High school, Tillamook High school, Halfway High school and Eddy ville High school. During the stunt night comp etition, Bob Jensen, Baker, was named first prize winner, with Bob Lazinka, Pendleton, as runner-up. Seventy-one boys representing about 2 per cent of the state wide FFA membership, yester day were named State Farmers for 1955, the highest rating FFA boys can receive on the state lev el. Judging is based 50 per cent on their supervised farming, 20 per cent on leadership, 20 per cent on the records they keep, and 10 per cent on a general in formation quiz. Four members of the Crater FFA chapter were named for the honor. They are Donn Johnson, head of the chapter, Kenneth Bingham, Paul Lofland and Leon Branson. Second Sanitation Study Meeting Today : The second in a series of meet ings to study various phases of this area's sewage and sanitation problems will be held tonight. ,The meeting, for a Public Health association committee and others interested, will be in the county health department office at 8 p.m. Mrs. A. C. Uri del is chairman of the commit tee and Mrs. Chester Guches is president of the sponsoring Jackson County . Public Health association. Tonight's meeting will be at tended by City Manager Robert Duff and other Medford offic ials, who will discuss the city's viewpoint on the over-all prob lem. A plan of annexation for many of the areas involved was presented to the city council this week. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indust rials 405.23 up 2.09; 20 rail roads 146.58 up 0.14; 15 utilities 63.26 up 0.24; and 65 stocks i51. 03 up 0.56. Sales today :vere about . 2,200,000 shares compar ed with 2,900,000 shares yester day. Dublin (U.R) Prime Minis ter John A. Costello appealed to the great nations of the world in a St Patrick's Day message today to "discharge faithfully their duties as trustees lor hu manity and civilization." lira Good leaf Washington XU.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today he expects the controversy over records of the Yalta conference which changed world history "to go on through the ages." The Yalta papers made public last night proved the Crimea conference in 1945 to be a good deal for Communist Russia. At the conference the late President Roosevelt dealt the Reds into war against Japan. The Russian armies struck in the east only five days before Japan accepted unconditional surrender. Churchill Reacts .With Annoyance A political and diplomatic storm was blowing ud around the long-supressed records of the conference, and Dulles was touched by it turning snappish at some questions about the documents. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, only survivor of the Yalta Big Three conference, reacted as the State Depart ment anticipated, with annoyance. . At the White House, Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower had not seen the papers before their public release by the State Department. He said the release was entirely a State Department matter and the President was not consulted in advance. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.), who wants the Yalta agree ment repudiated, said the documents had been "censored" by the State Department. He said there is "much missing" and he thought the whole story might never be told. Dulles' remarks on the papers were made to newsmen at. Na tional Airport as he prepared to leave on a good will visit to Canada. Expects Controversy To Go On Dulles was asked whether he ment's publication of the Yalta papers will "still the furor over them." "I expect the controversy to go on through the ages," Dulles said. Peter R. Clapper of the Columbia Broadcasting System asked him: "Mr. Secretary, why did you time?" Dulle"s, who apparently had ment about his visit to Canada, stiffened abruptly. "I'm not going to stand here at this time to make a a question like that shot at me," he snapped. Angrily, the secretary then stalked straight to his plane, leaving the bewildered Canadian Ambassador Arnold Heeney behind him. Heeney then caught up with him. -Explains Release Before Dulles cut off further questions on Yalta he was asked by reporters as he drove up to the airport why the papers were made public at this time. "We sent word to Congress that they were ready three or four days ago," he said. "The general reaction in Congress was to pub lish them rather than to hold them on a restricted basis. This was the view of both Republicans and Democrats. They were offered to Congress because they were ready." The State Department made the Yalta papers public Wednesday night in a hurry-up climax to a series of maneuvers which, like the Yalta record itself, was confusing and open to various interpreta tions. Also published were the records of the conference at Malta where the late President Roosevelt met Churchill and the two were Generalissimo Josef Stalin's guests. There are shocks and some surprises for those at home and abroad in the Yalta documents. Germans may flinch to read of Mr. Roosevelt's "bloodthirsty" attitude toward them and the Yalta plan to dismember their nation. Feared German Opposition to Papers The State Department had delayed publication to avoid what was described as international complications. There was anxiety here and in Britain lest blunt Yalta "references to Germany, as revealed today, might strengthen German political opposition to a military alliance with the West. The papers becloud the time to enter the war against Japan. insisted that Mr. Roosevelt sold he traded the Soviet Union into the war in the East even though he knew a month before he went to Yalta that the United States would have the A-bomb by Aug. 1. But Democrats have contended that Mr. Roosevelt was acting on urgent advice of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff to obtain speedy Russian entry. The dispute goes on. , France Dealt Out in Occupation . Public opinion in France may react to the agreement of Mr. . Roosevelt and Stalin that France should have no part in post-war administration of occupied Germany although France might, per haps, have a zone of her own as a "kindness." Churchill demanded that France resume her place in post-war Europe. He said he had to think of the time when the Americans went home in "two years," FDR told him and Britain might need France again as a defense against Germany. Publication of the Yalta papers promises some lively develop ments. The overall Yalta story, the commitments and results, long have been known. But the details were secret. Much will remain so because the documents published Wednesday night admittedly were not complete, although they were certified as giving the most definitive and comprehensive picture possible at this time. The State Department said it had deleted no matter of substance. The documents cannot fail to whip again debate whether FDR was justified in making, at the expense of China, political and ter ritorial concessions to persuade the Soviet Union to join the war against Japan. They show that Mr. Roosevelt thought breaking Germany into five or seven different states would be "a good idea." FDR Wanted Gesture for Poles He was deeply concerned about Poland at the Yalta confer ence. The President told Churchill and Stalin that the Polish vote was big in the United States and he wanted at least "a gesture" to take back to the 6,000,000 Americans of Polish extraction. But Stalin and Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov finally beat down the British-American plan to have the Big Three ambassadors observe the post-war Polish elections to insure a free and honest ballot. Mr. Roosevelt backed down on that. The British protested to the last. Stalin also won on his demands for a slice of Eastern Poland. Mr. Roosevelt told Stalin he had not discussed the concession matters with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, adding that "one of the difficulties involved in speaking to the Chinese was that any thing said to them was known to the whole world in 24 hours." Stalin agreed and told the President he did not think the time had come to talk to the Chinese about the matters being discussed at Yalta. ' Stalin's War Price Not Disclosed Top revelation of the Yalta papers was the report of Averell Harriman dated Oct. 10, 1944 that he had obtained full agreement from Stalin for Russia to join all-out in the war against Japan. That, report didn't give Stalin's price for making war on Japan. The price came later in a Dec. 5 report from Harriman, then U. S. ambassador to the Soviet Union. The Yalta conferees met in that Crimean village Feb. 4-11, 1945. On Feb. 8 Stalin put his demands for concessions to Mr. Roosevelt. The British were not present. Two days later Molotov gave Harriman a detailed, written outline of the Russian price for entering the war against Japan. (See Stories on Page 10) Dick Applegafe To Marry In Chicago Next Monday New York (U.R) Richard Applegate, 42, of Medford, Ore, one of three Americans captur ed by Chinese Communists and imprisoned in Red China, and Mrs. Barbara Hoerter, will be married Monday it was announc ed today. The civil ceremony will be performed in Chicago where Ap plegate met Mrs. Hoerter, who acted as booking agent for his current lecture tour. v anticipated that the State Depart release the Yalta papers at this expected to make only a state statement about Canada and have and place when Stalin first agreed Republican spokesmen long have out China to Communism when They will be remarried July 19 in Jacksonville, Ore., on the 50th wedding anniversary of Ap plegate's parents, now living in Medford, Ore. Applegate, now on leave- of absence from the National Broadcasting' company, . was cap tured with two other Americans while cruising in his yacht in internationaL waters between Portuguese Macao and Hong Kong.