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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.