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JvL r?t- V SJ - " ' " . 1 , v . i Medfor United Pri Full Leased Wire 50th Year 22 Pages 'Nuts To Neuberger' Campaign Started; Portland (U.R) A Port land high school social soror ty has started a "Nuts to Neuberger" campaign. The girls of Phi Theta Upsilon at Cleveland Hight got the idea when one of the members, Nancy Clancy saw Sen. Richard L. Neuberger's picture in the newspaper. Neuberger had just started a fund to build a fence around President Eisenhower's prac tice putting green so the de portation of squirrels from the White House lawn could be' stopped. Secret Air to Air Missile Exploded Six Miles High Las Vegas U.R) A non- atomic ' explosion, unique Atomic Energy commission ex periments, rent the skies nearly six miles above the Nevada des ert today in an apparent Air Force test of a secret air to air missile that would be tipped with a nuclear warhead in ac tual battle. A puff of smoke and a wink of light, mere dwarfs in com parison to the mighty . atomic blasts that have been shaking the Nevada Proving Grounds for five years, were seen by ground observers. A high flying B36, America's in tercontinental bomber, dropped the high explosive device above 30,000 feet over Yucca Flat and it exploded at 9 a.m. (PET amidst an intricate pattern' of smoke trails, puffs of smoke and smoke grids and some para chutes and balloons. " Vital Smok Patterns The significance of the smoke patterns was not announced. The AEC said merely they were "the vital part of the experiment." They weree laid down for the most part by six F86 Sabrejets and a B36 bomber just before the burst time. Veteran observers who have seen all or most of the test deto nations in the past speculated the smoke puffs and trails rep resented simulated "enemy" bombers and fighters measuring the effects of a theoretical nu clear explosion in their midst. The patterns of the smoke trails, as observed from the ground, and one other "clue" tended to support their specula tion that this was a mock nu clear weapon, perhaps a rocket, fired with killer effect into a flight of "aggressor" bombers. They saw eight trails of smoke laid down in a straight line, an estimated 1000 feet apart, by the invisible high fly ing smoke planting planes five minutes before blast time. Then came the "clue." From above these eight trails another smoke trail appeared, traveling earthward with rocket speed. It ended amidst the smoke trails with the puff of the explosion. There was no visible effect to he eight trails. An atomic blast would have bent and smashed the trails. Nuclear fission would have thrown out a two-mile fireball, even bigger depending on the strength of the warhead, in an all - consuming holocaust that would more than encompass those eight smoke trails. NEW SCHOOL SET Talent Talent High school students and teachers will start moving into the new high school building here next week, prob ably on Tuesday, Superintendent Roy reported this morning. Parking Expert Arrives To Problem With Local Group; Prof. Norman Kennedy, of the University of California, Berke ley, arrived in Medford today to discuss . problems of off-street parking with city officials and members of a parking commit tee appointed by Mayor Earl Miller and the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Kennedy met this morning with City Manager Robert Duff and Vern Thorpe, city director of public works. Later in the day, he was sched uled to meet with the parking committee. Members of the group Jack Crawford, chairman, and Otto Ewaldsen end Tony MEDFORD, OREGON, The idea came to Nancy and her sorority sisters to help out Oregon's junior senator. So, with the help of an under standing peanut products com pany, the girls gathered up 70 14 pounds of walnuts and stale peanuts. "We're going to ship Neu berger the nuts by express to day," said Nancy "for the squirrels." "Before we heard about the problem Neuberger was hav ing with the squirrels, we OFF Snafus Responsible In Peress Promotion, Committee Concludes Washington (U.R) Three Sen ate investigators said today that Army snafus and not subversion led to the promotion and honor able discharge of former Maj. Irving Peress. This was their conclusion as the Senate investigating sub committee neared an end to its two -week inquiry into the Army's handling of Peress, a New York dentist who refused to tell Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) whether he was a Communist. Zwicker Case Discussed The subcommittee was called to a closed meeting today to de bate making a further check on testimony in the case by one of McCarthy's old foes, Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker. Chairman John L. McClellan said the group would consider summoning C. George Anasots, a former subcommitte staff in vestigator, for questioning about a disputed telephone call he had with Zwicker about Peress. Mc Clellan said there will be one more public session on the case next we : and then the hearings will end. Newsmen asked subcommittee members what they now feel is the answer as the result of their new investigation to the ques tion McCarthy posed repeatedly French Vote Delayed On Arms for Germany Paris (U.R) A flood of sena tors wishing to speak during France's historic debate on Ger man rearmament today post poned the probable ratification date from Saturday morning to Sunday night. 1 Premier Edgar Faure's im plied resignation threat im pressed the senators and helped chances of ratification while a two-pronged Soviet diplomatic offensive passed almost un noticed. Russia, after warning France in recent weeks against the con sequences of German rearma ment, suddenly offered to con clude a peace treaty with Aus tria after delaying it for years and offered a "soft" line on dis armament. CAVES RESERVATIONS UP Oregon Caves National Monu ment Management of the Ore gon Caves resort here reported this week that its reservations for accomodations at the resort this year are about double the number made at the- same time last year. Advance reservations at the caves often has proved to be a good indication of the amount of tourist travel which can be expected during' the fol lowing season. Manno, appointed by the cham ber, and Dwight Houghton, John Snider, and D. L. Flynn, named by Mayor Miller. Kennedy was scheduled to spend the day studying the city's parking situation. The commit tee is seeking information con cerning development, operation and financing of off-street park ing from Kennedy, who is a research engineer for the Uni versity of California Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering. Another parking authority, Ralph Kadderly, Portland, who operates garages there, is ex FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1955 were going to collect a barrel of soap for the Koreans," Nancy said. She said the sorority still planned to collect the soap. The girls said their prin cipal told them they were supposed to do something for the good of mankind. So the soap will be gathered toward that end. The nuts, one of the girls said, "will be for the good of the squirrels." Washington (U.R) The White House came clean today i last year: "Who promoted Per ess?" Army Red Tape "It turns out to be Army red tape instead of some red-caped Communist," said Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R.-S.D.). I don t believe I can name any person," said McClellan "The system was very faulty." "It was a compounding of ad ministrative errors, said Sen. Stuart Symington (D.-Mo.). "There was no sign of subver sion ... it is unfortunate the Army did not lay the facts on the table in the first place." Macomber Renews Bid for. Freedom Klamath Falls (U.R) Gerald T. Macomber, who is serving a life term in the Oregon state penitentiary for the wounding of a state policeman near Medford, has made another bid for free dom. . Macomber, who acts as his own attorney, filed a petition with Circuit Judge David R. Vendenberg of Klamath Falls asking that judgment against him in a habeas corpus action be set aside. Judge Vandenberg had ruled that Macomber was being legally held in prison. Macomber claimed the deci sion should be set aside since the state Supreme Court recently ruled the change of judge law was unconstitutional. Judge Vandenberg had taken the case under the law which allowed judges to move from one Circuit Court to another. Macomber was originally con victed of assault following a gun battle in the outskirts of Med ford. He later escaped from the Oregon state penitentiary and was the object of a widespread hunt in the Applegate and Illi nois valley areas before being recaptured after a gun battle in which he was seriously wounded. He has made a number of legal attempts to free himself from prison, none of which have been successful. IBuDDetin Washington (U.R) The Senate today approved a 10 per cent salary increase for 50,000 postal workers despite the threat of a presidential veto The legislation was approv ed by a vote of 72 to 21. It goes lo the House which also appears bent on approving an increase beyond the 7.6 per cent limit set by President Eisenhower. Discuss City Others Slated pected here next week to give a different aspect to the study being conducted on the prob lem here. A third man recognized as an expert on the problem may visit here later in the spring. Committee representatives have indicated that the biggest problem in making plans for off-street parking development has been in the field of finance. The discussions with these au thorities are being held to deter mine how other communities of similar size have solved the problem, and how their resolu tions are working out. C. i RIBUNE United Press Full Leasgd Wire Price 5c No. 4. Three Squirrels Trapped on the trapping of squirrels who had been damaging Pres ident Eisenhower's putting green. Three squirrels were "harm lessly trapped" on the White House grounds and removed. Two were released in Rock Creek Park, which runs through northwest Washing ton, and the other in Virginia. "No other squirrels were removed and there has been no other trapping since Thurs day of last week," Press Sec retary James C. Hagerty said. 175 Local People Get Chest X-Rays UnderNewProgram A total of 175 Jackson county people received chest x-rays this week, under the cooperative pro gram originated by the Jack son County Public Health asso ciation. At Sacred Heart hospital yes terday, during the first of week ly outpatient x-ray clinics, 101 persons were x-rayed. A num ber of them were employees of the Big-Y market. Employees of Quality , market have already been x-rayed, at Community hospital. The Health association is putting emphasis on the importance of food handlers having the chest x-rays for the protection of customers. The management of both mar kets paid the film cost, $1.75 per person. 74. at Community .... ' Seventy-four persons were x-rayed at Community hospital Wednesday. A small group of community and civic leaders were luncheon guests of the Health association at Sacred Heart hospital yester day, when they were told about the program, and later received x-rays. A recording of their comments will be broadcast over radio station KYJC at 6:15 p.m. today. The x-ray clinic hours at Sacred Heart are 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday, and at Community hospital they are 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday. Magazine Salesman Advises Bad Checks A Medford bank today re ported that some unidentified itinerant magazine salesman, working in this area earlier this month, succeeded in pursuading at least three local residents to write checks to pay for maga zine subscriptions, even though they did not have bank accounts. A bank spokesman said ap parently the salesman convinced the local people that they could make deposits after writing the checks. One of the individuals came in .to the bank to make the check good, it was reported, but two other checks had to be returned marked "no account." Plight of Farmers Said Steadily Worsening Washington (U.R) The House Appropriations Commit tee said today the plight of the farmer is getting steadily worse. It blasted Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. ; Benson for doing too little to help. The committee- assailed Ben son "and others about him" in a report to the House accompany ing a recommended appropria tion of $878,625,391 to run the Agriculture Department not in cluding its price support pro gram in the 12 months starting July 1. Morse May Attend Hells Canyon Hearing Lewiston, Ida. (U.R) ' Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) may at tend a hearing by a Senate sub committee on the proposed Hells Canyon dam here April 4, Herb Howe, Lieston Orchards, was in formed today by the National Hells Canyon Association in Washington, D.C. Bend (U.R) The Air De fense Command at Colorado Springs, Colo., has appoved con struction plans for.thei air filter station here, clearing' the way for the start of the project. BLAST Weather FORECAST: Partlv cloudy to night and Saturday with a few showers Saturday. Cooler tonight. Low tonight near 36. High Saturday 58. Temp. Highest Yesterday 57 Lowest this Morning 46 Prec. to 4:3 a.m. Today. Trace "There will be none in the future." The squirrel subject had stirred up protests among squirrel lovers and led Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) to start a fund for erection of a fence which would protect the putting green and make it unnecessary to deport the rodents. Hagerty admitted the trap ing was undertaken after Mr. Eisenhower noticed that squir rels had been digging into the smooth surface of his putting green. Three Plead Guilty To Felony Charges In Circuit Court Three men pleaded guilty to felony charges this morning in Jackson county circuit court be fore Judge H. K. Hanna. They were Robert Greene, 35, Sacramento, ' Calif.; Robert Ed ward Ross, 22, Eugene, and Peter Allen Key, 32, Bakers field, Calif., All waived counsel and indictment by the grand jury, and each of the three cases pending receipt of FBI records. Crimes Listed Greene pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary in a dwell ing. The charge involved items taken Feb. 12 from the home of Ira D. Zimmerman, 346 South Holly st. Greene was. extradited here from Portales, N. M. Ross pleaded guilty to taking $96 from the Greyhound Post House early Wednesday morn ing. He was returned here from Roseburg to face the charge. Under questioning by city police, Ross has admitted 17 burglaries in Eugene and Corvallis, a strong arm robbery in Eugene, and ap proximately 10 'car thefts in sev eral states. Key pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The charge involved a $15 check given to the Plaza cafe at Ashland. Three1 Others Arrested Three men were arrested and lodged in the county jail yes terday. They were Carl Hogan Blair, 39, who lives in a local hotel; Paul Eugene Peck, 19, Madera, Calif., and a 17-year-old Ashland boy. Blair is charged with assault and battery against Wendell Sipes. About two years ago, Blair was the victim of what was described at' the time as a stabbing, in a Front st. tavern. He has a previous criminal rec ord in Jackson county including a conviction and two-year sus pended sentence in December, 1952, on a non-support charge; a one-year probation violation sentence in the county jail in February, 1953 from which he was released on May 11, 1953, on a circuit court order, and a one-year term in the state prison starting in August, 1953, on a larceny charge. Peck was arrested and jailed by state police on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while his driver's license was sus pended. School Theft Charged The Ashland youth has been charged with theft of $61 from the Ashland high school gym-, nasium. His case has been turned over to juvenile authorities. In a case which "has been pend ing in local courts,for about two weeks, Charles Wesley Eggert, 22, whose home is in Nebraska, and a teenage Spring Valley, girl, were arraigned in district court yesterday on Illinois fugi tive warrants charging car theft. Eggert waived counsel and hearing and is being held, for Illinois authorities. The girl has been given until tomorrow morn ing to obtain counsel and is be ing held under $2,000 bond. Compromise Sought In Vief Nam Strife' Saigon, Indochina, (U.R) Em peror Bao Dai threw his support today behind pro-American Pre mier Ngo Dinh Diem whose control of free Viet Nam is threatened by three rebellious religious sects and their private armies. - The Viet Nam chief of state, still on a visit to the French Riviera, sent urgent cables to both sides requesting modera tion and compromise. But he indicated clearly his preferences ini cable to the devout Catholic Premier: "I am in perfect agreement with you about the need to apply a program of national union." II I 8 .y.vy..,.;....:., ; . ; ..-X; .Mill-mm lj LOAFING ON THE RAILROAD While the rest of the boys are out on strike at the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Memphis, Tom, the guardian of the yard, takes a little time out from his chores using a picket's placard for a mattress. Forum on Taxes Set Here Next Thursday; Senator Will Speak State Sen. Lee Ohmart, Salem, will be the speaker at a public tax forum to be conducted here the evening of Thursday, March 31, it was announced today. The forum, non-partisan in nature and sponsored ""with no axes to grind," is being planned by the forum committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. The chamber voted to conduct the meeting in the hope of getting information and ideas on the state's tax problem spread as widely as possible. , Senator Ohmart is vice-chairman of the Senate committee on taxation, and is widely recogniz ed as one of the best-informed members of the legislature on tax . probelms. As planned, the forum will start out by a brief talk by the senator, to outline the situation being faced by the lawmakers. After his talk, Senator Oh mart will answer questions, "no holds barred," committee mem bers said. The forum will be in the audi torium of the Medford High school, starting at 8 p.m. A mod erator will be announced soon. Members of the committee on arrangements include Ray John son, chairman, and Frank J. Van Dyke, Elwood Hedberg and Bob Talks With Russia Said Up to President Washington (U.R) Sen. Alex ander Wiley (R-Wis.) reminded his colleagues today that 'the task of deciding on a big power conference with Russia belongs to President Eisenhower and not to Congress. Wiley, ranking GOP member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said members of the iegislative branch "shouldn't at tempt to outline" what the U.S. should do about getting together with other powers. "It's still the job of the chief executive to take 'the lead and our legislators should realize that," he said in an interview. Neuberger Calls for End of Name-Calling New York (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) called last night for an end to political name-calling and character as sassination. Neuberger, who spoke to near ly 1,000 railroad and business leaders at the eighth annual din ner of the Federation for Rail way Progress, proposed creation of a non-partisan tribunal to oversee political campaigns. . "We must put a stop to the name-calling and the character assassination pretty soon," he said. Rain Freezes on Columbia River Highway By UNITED PRESS ' East winds through the Co lumbia gorge brought cold air from east of the Cascades and snow and freezing rain were re ported on the Columbia river highway this morning. Sheriff's deputies said snow and ice made travel hazardous early today between Corbett and The Dalles on the water level highway. At one time', two to three inches was reported on the highway at Dodson. , Root. Senator Ohmart will describe the legislature's attempts to solve a tax problem which arises" out of the fact that the state is facing a deficit of somewhere between $43,000,000 and $68, 000,000, and must either find new tax revenues or cut state services. Proposals for raising funds include a number of minor changes in taxation, but the principal ones are for increases in income and property taxes, and a sales tax. Sponsors of t h e forum said today they hope that all view points will be represented at the meeting so that a many-sided discussion can result. Multiple Sclerosis Cure Hope of VA Washington U.R) The Veter ans administration says it is working on what it hopes will prove to be an effective ancj in expensive treatment for multi ple sclerosis. , VA medical experts reported the development in recent testi mony before a House Appropria tions subcommittee. It was one of a dozen "accomplishments" of VAV medical research program listed for the subcommittee. The agency later supplied the committee with a summary of the 12 research developments. It included this statement: "In one of the VA hospitals, a new drug (Izoniazid) was used to treat patients with an incurable nervous disease, , multiple scle rosis. The earliest effects seemed to be most dramatic, and it ap peared that a wonderful new cure had been found. Applegate Girl Lone Woman in Air Force Spokane U.R) The first woman in the Air Force in more than a year and half was on duty at Geiger Air Force Base today. She is Maj. Lorna C. Kubli, Honolulu, daughter of Chester C. Kubli, of Applegate. Ore. She is the second WAF assigned to Geiger since World War II. Maj. Kubli is the personnel officer for the 530th air defense group. But she won't remain the lone woman in the Air Force among all those airmen for long. Sixty enlisted WAFS are sched uled for assignment at Geiger beginning next month. Dog's Lung Usee! To Keep Boy Alive During Surgery Mineapolis, Minn. U.R) A dog's lung kept a 13-year-old boy alive while a University of Min nesota surgeon closed three small holes in his heart. For 15 minutes the surgeon worked in the boy's "dry heart" while the dog's lungs kept his blood supplied with life-giving oxygen. The dramatic new technique, another "first" by university doctors in this type of operation, was revealed at a news confer ence Thursday night. The boy, Calvin Richmond of Pine Bluff, Ark., was reported in "good condition" early today. Injured in a truck accident Soviet Denounced For Breaking Rule Covering Secrecy Russia Wants Right To Maintain Big Army London (U.R) Russia has made an "unacceptable" demand at the London disarmament con ference for the right to main tain armed forces twice as big as those of any Western country, France disclosed today. The disclosure was made after the United States, Britain and France denounced Russia for a "gross" and "shocking" breach of faith in breaking the secrecy, rule at the five-power disarma ment talks here. They said they would release their own version. France was first. Regrettable Gesture French Delegate Jules Moch stripped some , of the secrecy from the French proposals be cause of what he called "a very regrettable gesture" by Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko in giving a lengthy propaganda "in terview" on the talks to the Rus sian Tass News Agency. Moch told a press conference. however, that Rsusia wants a 3,500,000-man force even after arms cuts under a formula that would hold the Western powers to ceilings of less than half that number. Earlier, the British Foreign Office 'accused Gromyko of giv ing "distorted" accounts of the conference which were "a gross breach of the rules of secrecy." (See story Page 15) Vaccine Report Due on April 12 Results of the Francis Evalu ation Report on the Salk anti polio vaccine will be announced on April 12, it has been learned by personnel of the Jackson, county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis. Just how good the vaccine ia to prevent paralytic polio will be disclosed by Dr. Thomas F. Francis jr., of the University o. Michigan, at a conference in Ann. Arbor. Dr. Francis has headed the team anlyzing the results of vaccine trials involving nearly 2,000,000 children. Date of the eagerly-awaited verdict coincides with the 10th anniversary of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, founder of the National Foundation who for many years was a leader la the fight against infantile pa ralysis. Dr. A. Erin Merkel, chairman of the local chapter's medical advisory committee, said plana have been completed to inocu late more than 3,00f first and second grade school children in the county, with parental con sent, if the evaluation report ia favorable. Many Flee Homes In Path of Ice Jam By UNITED PRESS Families fled from their homes today before an immense ice jam on the Niagara river and rising flood waters in Mississippi. The pounding Niagara ice jam. the worst in 46 years, and the flood crest on Mississippi's Tom bigbee river were both products of a series of spring storms which have killed 49 persons across the country. The young season also hit the West and Midwest with a new blowing snow storm. The snow combined with desert salt flats to lay a weird layer of salty mud over parts of Utah and Wyoming. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York -MU.R) Dow-Jones final stocks averages: 30 indus trials 414.77 up 0.28; 20 railroads 150.26 up 0.58; 15 utilities 64.21 off 0.06, and 65 stocks 154.43 up 0.20. Sales today were about 2,540,000 shares compared with 3,170,000 shares yesterday. last August, Calvin had been given a year to live by Univer sity of Arkansas doctors unless the holes could be closed. He was flown to the Univer sity of Minnesota last week be cause of the institution's success in "dry heart" surgery, first in "deep freeze" technique and more recently in a revolution ary cross-circulation operation. Until "dry surgery" was per fected, surgeons literally had to "work blind" in the heart, feel ing their way. With the heart free of blood, they can see what they're doing. The earlier "deep freeze" tech nique kept the heart dry only a few minutes. 4
