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Newspaper Page TextI: . - o Recommended tT A ! edfordK Tribune s A detailed deicripUon of Sen ate EiU 43. introduced br Jackson County state Sen. rnilip B. Lowry, designed to authorize formation of so-called sanitary districts" !n fringe ?h" ?P'ars on aga 12 of today'g MaU Tribune. United Press-ruM tsed Wire -yy United Press-FuM Leased Wire ' 1 -50th Year 28 Pa9es MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAt, 27, 1955 : PTfc No 5 : I Audmeir Crashes iff Cos" ffS 19 Pulled From Sea By Navy Transport; Taken to Seattle Injured Receiving Medical Attention Portland J.R) A Pan- American luxury Stratocruiser with 23 persons aboard ditched in the Pacific ocean off the southern Oregon coast Saturday and a Navy transport plucked 19 survivors from the sea. Four persons were killed. The Navy said the most seriously injured of the passengers was Pat Lacy of Seattle, who suf fered a broken leg. Won't Discuss Crash However, Lt. (jg) Michael Por- osky of the USS Bayfield, the rescue ship, said none of the surviving passengers could come San Francisco (UJ.) Pan American World Airways Saturday released the following names of pas sengers and crew members who -were aboard the Stratocruiser that ditched in the ocean off the Oregon Coast: Boarded at Seattle Dr. J. Ed ward Clark and Mrs. Dorothy Clark, Seattle; Pat Lucy and Alary Marsh all. Seattle; Mrs. Moine Miller, Seattle; Gail Dillingham and Mary Harrison. Honolulu; John Peterson and Emma S. Peterson. Seattle; Del mer Stone. Seattle: Theodore S'cvnczak, Seattle; David Harrow and Mrs. Josephine Harrow. Auburn, Wash. Boarded at Portland Claude Hoi- Thoiisanrls nf ancrv "Roman lister and norenev-Hetttttett erH8 can embassy, Djakarta, Indonesia. Crew Members Capt. Herman Joslin, Co-Pilots Michael F. Ker wick and Angus G. Hendrick. Pur ler Natalie Parker, Stewardess Elizabeth Thompson, and Steward James D. Peppin, aU of Seattle, and Flight Engineers D. R. Fowler. Los Alto, Calif., and Stewart Bachman, Kaneone, Oahu, Hawaii. to the ship-to-shore telephone because of "shock and injuries.1 The plane's crew members said they would not discuss the crash until the Bayiieia aocKea ai Seattle. The dead were identified as Donald R. Fowler, flight en gineer, Los Angeles; passengers John D. Peterson, 2455 W. 5th ave., Seattle, and David E. Dar row, Auburn, Wash., and first officer A. G. Hendrick, 16215 Mablewild ave., Seattle. Engine Torn Loose The double-decker plane went down at 10:40 a.m. (PST) short ly after the pilot radioed one of the four engines had torn loose fri its mounting. The passengers and crew members scrambled into life rafts. One of the dead died from injuries, the Coast Guard said-. It was not known whether the others died on impact or from injuries. Eleven women were aboard, including a purser and steward vness. The Coast Guard said that, fortunately, the sea was calm and the weather warm and over cast. This made the landing and transfer of passengers and crew to the life rafts more successful than if the water had been rough the Coast Guard said. Floated Four Hours The survivors and the dead floated around the scene of the crash in three life rafts for near ly four hours before the final person was lifted aboard the Navy transport Bayfield. The transport was headed toward Seattle and was due to arrive there at 3 a.m. (PST) Monday. The ship carried a doctor and was equipped with a sick bay. The Coast Guard said that some of the injured required immed iate medical attention. The plane was on a flight from the U. S. mainland to Ha waii The flight originated at Seattle. Wash., and departed from Portland at 10:15 a.m. (PItT was the first time in 20 vears that a Pan-Am plane had ditched on the U.S. Hawaii flight, and the first fatal Pan Am accident since the end of World War II. . Five ships that were in the area sped to the scene and five Coast Guard and private planes flew overhead as the Bayfield lowered Doau emu h survivors. Coast ouara stations along the boats coast the also were dispatched to scene. ei (Sea Story on Pas 6) iui4heirini :?f-rf-:- MISS NATALIE PARKER . Survives Airline Crash Belgian Catholics Battle Police in School Aid Protest Brussels, ' Belgium (U.P.) Catholicsbattied 10,000 city and federal police with fists, stones and clubs in the streets of Brus sels Saturday during a violent protest against the government's cut in aid to parochial schools. A Red Cross spokesman said at least 80 of the estimated 30, 000 demonstrators were injured, many of them seriously when massed police forces broke up their parade with truncheons, tear gas, fire hoses, and dull edged sabres. Armored Trucks Used Police finally drove the dem onstrators back from the center of the city in a series of cavalry charges and by driving armored trucks into the milling crowd. By evening the government announced that upward of 1, 500 demonstrators had been ar rested while attempting to march to the parliament build ing. Actual casualties were be lieved much higher than an nounced. Many of the injured were said to have refused treat ment for fear of arrest. Planes Radio Moves Government planes hovered overhead radioing the moves of the rioters to police commanders on the ground. Not since the violent rioting that dethroned King Leopold five years ago have such dis orders raged in the Belgian capi tal. The Catholic marchers poured into Brussels Satuday in bold defiance of the Socialist govern ment ban on their promised demonstration and the 10,000 police massed here to preserve order. They came by bus, train, automobile and on foot from cities and provinces throughout the country. Water District Okays Bond Issue, 104 fo 0 One hundred four voters in the Grandview Water district unanimously approved issuance of up to $85,000 worth of bonds for construction of water facil ities at an election Friday. An estimated 300 to 350 voters were eligible to vote. The election was remarkable in that more voters turned out for a bond election than usual in this area, and- because all those that voted cast their ballots for the bonds and none against. Governor of Hawaii Requests Federal Aid Honolulu (U.R) Gov. Samuel Wilder King of Hawaii has asked President Eisenhower for $1,000,000 in federal funds to aid the island of Hawaii's volcano ravaged Puna district. King declared Puna a major disaster area, which qualifies it for federal assistance. cegim; Doe Natalie Parker, Ex-Local Woman, Among Survivors Was Purser Aboard Hawaii-Bound Craft Miss Natalie Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carold J. Park er, 610 South Central ave.. was one of t' survivors; of a force ed water-landing by a Pan Am erican plane off the Oregon coast yesterday morning. Miss Parker was purser on the big four-engined plane, en route from Seattle and Portland to Honolulu. For hours after the crash it was unknown whether or not Miss Parker was among the sur vivors. The word was telephon ed to her parents from Seattle at about 5:35 p.m. yesterday. ending a long, anxious wait for news. 1944 MHS Graduated Miss Parker was a 1944 grad uate of Medford High school, and attended Reed college in Portland for two years after that. She took nurse's training at John's Hopkins hospital, and returned to Portland for a year as nurse at Reed college. She has been with Pan Amer ican World Airways for nearly four years, flying out of Seattle. The first news that their daughter was aboard the ill-fated , Stratocruiser'came., tov the Parkers through a telephone call from one of Miss Parker's friends in Seattle. Cordell Hull in Critical Condition Washington (U.R) Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull suffered a stroke Saturday and was in a critical condition at Bethesda, Md., Naval hospital. The 83-year-old statesman, former congressman and father of the present reciprocal trade program, was in a coma. Physicians said he suffered "a cerebral accident" apparently a brain hemorrhage of some type at 3 a. m. EST. Hull at that time was at the Sheraton Park hotel, where he has been living with his niece, Mrs. Katherine Edthridge of San Antonio, Tex., since his wife died a year ago. Hull was taken to the hospital at 11:50 a. m. EST. At 12:15 p. m. EST "he was put on the critical list." Bloodmobile Visit Slated for April 6 The next visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile will be on Wednes day, April 6, from 1 to 6 p. m., it was announced by Red Cross officials Saturday. The unit will be at the Med ford YMCA building, rather than the Elks club, as usual, which previously had been comitted to other uses that day. Appointments to give blood can be made by telephoning 3-3813. gt-"-v .,,,VMbtWVW)!lr.. ')t.!!'.''!!i llMMifiy"- If Li-11I I ' ' NEW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH Shown above is an architect's sketch of the new Christian Science church building which the Medford congregation is planning to build at the intersection of Windsor ave. and Oakwood dr. on a 3V2 acre tract recently purchased. Ben H. Todd is the architect. Members of the church expect that ground will be broken for construc tion in the near future, with completion scheduled for late Sports Bulletin Denver (U.R) Jim Walsh hit a 45-foot field goal in lh final second ' Saturday night lo defeat the fiercely deter mined Colorado University Cripples, 66-64, and win for the powerful Phillips Oilers their ninth National AAU basketball championship. Light Plane Crash Takes Lives ot Two Prineville Youths Prineville (U.R) Two Prine ville, Ore., youths were killed instantly late Saturday when their light plane crashed on a farm about a mile north of here. Dead were Ralph Loveland and Ronald Rounds, one in his teens and the other in his early twenties. Went Into Spin According to the eyewitness report of a rancher, Roy Harris, the light plane went into a spin at about 800 feet. Harris said the plane's motor went dead and then started again just before the craft hit the ground. The plane crashed in a field adjoining Harris' farm. He jumped in his pickup truck and was at tne scene within two jnin .utes,'ut je bqyt were Flying From Prineville Jtne two had been pleasure flying after taking off from Prineville airport about 5:30 p. m., according to Hal Newhouse of the Mid-Columbia radio sta tion. Harris, who watched from a hay stack, said he thought the youths were going to land, but the plane spun down three times and hit the ground. Cause of the crash has not yet been determ ined, state police reported. VA Gets Funds for Work on Hospitals Washington U.R) The House Appropriations commit tee voted the Veterans adminis tration an extra $16,885,000 Saturday to modernize its old hospitals, some described as fire traps. The funds were in addition to 811,500,000 requested by the budget for the VA's hospital modernization program in the 1956 fiscal year beginning July 1. A committee staff official said the VA will determine which hospitals are to be modernized on the basis of a current survey. Some old one-floor military hos pitals will be rebuilt, including the one at Downey, 111. The committee approved the money in recommending $5, 845,595,375 to operate the VA and more than a dozen other independent government agen cies in fiscal 1956. Of the total, about 80 per cent, or $4,463, 126,000 went to the Veterans administration. Detention Home Not On 1 955-56 Budget; Funds To Be Levied Money Expected To Be Available This Fall Funds for construction and operation of a Jackson county juvenile detention home are not included in the 1955-1956 county budget, according to Tom Wray, chairman of the budget commit tee. Wray said that funds for the detention home, approved by county voters last fall by a mar gin of 13,957 to 5,161, will have to be collected during the 1955 1956 fiscal year. Funds Available in Fall The money will then become available this fall, and construc tion of detention facilities prob ably could start next year. He stated that funds for the building would not be budgeted until the 1956-1957 fiscal year. The measure passed by the voters last year calls for levying of taxes not to exceed $65,000 during the 1955-1956 tax year to provide a juvenile home in Jack son county, and not to exceed $12,500 each year for eight years thereafter to operate it. The funds would be outside the six per cent limitation. The budget committee chair man said that there is a ques tion of legality about borrowing the money for the detention home from another fund and re paying it after the detention home levy had been collected. 39 Submit Requests A total of 39 county depart ments and division have sub mitted budget requests amount ing to $3,161,794.29 for the com ing fiscal year. This is $315, 950.45 more than the approved budget last year, which was $230,604.85 higher than that for the year before, which in turn was $344,666.97 higher than that for the previous fiscal year. If the entire budget is ap proved as equested, the county fiscal progam for 1955-1956 would still be within the six per cent constitutional limitation on budgetary increases. The six per cent limitation ap plies over a three year period, with a county allowed to in crease its levy by six per cent over the highest levy during the preceding three years. If Jackson county is to save its present tax base, which was set up in 1952-1953, the levy would be $615,459.13, compared with $342,908.14 levied during the past fiscal year. Unless the county goes up to the 1952-1953 levy of $580, 621.82, plus six per cent, or $34, 837.31, the levy for the 1956 1957 fiscal year will drop back to the 1954-1955 levy of $342, 908.14, plus six per cent, or a total of $393,482.63, or to this year's levy plus six per cent, whichever is the highest. The levy is the difference be tween the final approved bud get and the county's cash on hand and estimated receipts for the coming year. The county probably would be able to keep within the six per cent limitation on a smaller tax base, unless unusual circum stances arose. Then, if it became necessary to exceed the limita tion on the smaller tax base, it would be necessary to take the increase to a vote of the people. Hollywood (U.R) Theda Bara, silent screen star who won fame for her vamp roles, slipped closer to death Saturday in a coma from which doctors doubt she will ever emerge. summer. The building, which faces Windsor ave. on the east, is of contemporary design, and will cost in the neighborhood of $70,000. Financing is now in process, through contributions from church members and others interested. Weekly meetings of the church are now being held in the IOOF hall ori Sixth st. The former church, on North Oakdale ave., was recently sold to St. Mark's Episcopal church. Reds Reject U. itrengibfArmy London U.R) British Minister of State Anthony Nutting disclosed today that the United States offered to cut its armed forces by 2,000,00.0 men in a disarmament plan Russia has re jected. Under the same plan France would have trimmed 300,000 men from its armed forces and Britain would have reduced its armed forces by 250,000 men. Russia balked, Nutting said, because the west's disarmament proposal submitted to the disarmament conference now in ses sion here would have asked Russia and Red China to cut their armed forces to between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 men each. That is the same figure proposed for the United States. French-Led Troops March Into Saigon To Protect Whites Saigon (U.R) Two full divisions of seasoned French led infantry, supported by tanks, marched into Saigon Saturday night to protect the lives of 20, 000 white residents if free Viet Nam's political crisis explodes into civil war. The ultimatum presented to U.S.-supported Premier Ngo Dinh Diem by his armed "reli gious" opponents expired at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, and an op position communique said Diem must assume responsibility for "whatever happens." Violence Reported Minor outbreaks of violence were reported Saturday night from the teeming Chinese sub urb of Cholon, but no large- scale fighting is known to have taken Dlace. Unconfirmed re ports said the opposition plans an armed "protest march" on Diem's official residence here today. Paratroopers and fierce tribal militiamen loyal to Diem stood guard around government build ings and other vital installations here, while the private armies of the opposition fortified their strong points with trenches, barbed wire, machineguns and mortars. Protect U.S. Centers Tanks and armored cars of the French-led "neutral'" force rumbled through the streets, and battle-tested riflemen took up positions protecting centers of U.S. and European activity here. The Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and Binh Xuyen sects turned against Diem when he made it clear he intended to disband their pri vate armies and strip their lead ers of their feudal privileges. No one could say immediately which side would be favored by Free Viet Nam's sprawling 220,-000-man regular army, many of whose leaders were antagonized by Diem when he forced Gen. Nguyen Van Hinh into "exile" in France last year. San Francisco (U.R) Lt. John K. Penniman, 34, Los Gatos, ditched his disabled Gruman Guardian fighter plane in the Pacific off Pidgeon Point mid way between here and Half Moon bay Saturday. A Coast Guard helicopter plucked him from the ocean. Russia Counters With Proposal Russia countered with what the United States has described as "a pig in the poke" plan for a one-third cut of all forces across the board. But Russia has refused to say what her present armed strength is. Thus it would be impossible for the West to make better than an educated guess how many men under arms would be left the Soviets under the Moscow plan. France made such an educat ed guess Friday and said the Russian plan probably would leave the Soviets upward of 3,500,000 men after "dis armament." That would be twice as many as any single western power would have and slightly more than the combined forces of the western Big Three. Outlines Plan Nutting gave a press confer ence the first full details of the Western Disarmament Plan. He made the detailed figures available after the United States, Britain, and France had joined in denouncing Russia for her "shocking breach of faith" in publicizing a "distorted" Soviet account of the Russian proposals in violation of conference secrecy agreements. Kiwanians Slate Easter Egg Hunt Medford Kiwanis club will stage its annual Easter egg hunt hunt at 9 a. m. on Saturday, April 9, at Hawthorne park. Chairman L. C. McLaughlin reported that more eggs will be placed in the park this year and that all youngsters are assured of getting some. Several thous and eggs have been scattered over the park in past years. There will be prizes for boys and girls finding lucky eggs. Residents of the Medford com munity are invited to bring their youngsters to participate in the event. Boys and girls will hunt in three age groups, 1 to 3, 4 to 6 and 7 to 9, McLaughlin said. Power Development Commission Proposed Salem (U.R) Establishment of a three-man Oregon Power Development commission to build and operate multi-purpose dams is called for in House Bill 546 introduced Saturday in Salem by Rep. Kay Meriweather, Portland Democrat. The bill is similar to House Bill 468, introduced by Walter Pearson, also a Portland Demo crat. Both bills provide for genera tion and distribution of electric energy by the state and authorize issuing bonds to finance the op erations. Bridges Warns Against 'Bluff and Retreat Washington (U.R) Sen. Styles Bridges said Saturday the United States must not "bluff and retreat" in the face of a Red Chinese attack on .the Matsu Islands which he believes may come in two months. The New Hampshire Republi can described the Far East sit uation as "very serious." He told the United Press a Red smash against the Matsus would be the "opening gun" in a campaign for Chinese Nationalist Formosa. Bridges' call for "no retreat" is reflected in a stiffening atti tude toward the Reds by Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles and U.S. military leaders. The latter have warned that the Red Chinese may spark a major Asian conflict by mid-April. Historic Voting Hailed as Major Defeat for Russia Adenauer, Dulles Praise French Action Paris, Sunday (U.R) The French Senate approved the re armament of West Germany to day in a series of historic votes hailed as a major defeat for Russia. The action cleared the last major stumbling block from placing 500,000 German soldiers into a Western Defense force against any possible Communist aggression in Europe. Ends Five-Year Stall Approval by the Senate, or council of the Republic, ended nearly five years of French stalling on the issue of the re armament of her ancient enemy, Germany. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany described the Moscow (U.R) Soviet Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin Satur day endorsed President Eisen hower's proposal for. a big power conference, probably at the foreign ministers' level. French vote as a "decisive step." He said the first cadres of the new German Army now may be formed by next fall. - In Washington, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said the French action provides a "firm base . . . for progress toward the development of greater unity in the Atlantic community." Great Significance Dulles said French ratification of the agreements "is an . event of great significance for the free world." The French Senators approved the most important part of the four-pact "package" establish ment of the Western European union by a simple show of hands after several delaying amend ments were defeated or with drawn. They later confirmed the action by a recorded vote of 184 to 110. The pacts now go to Pres ident Rene Coty for signature. Premier Edgar Faure de clared after the final vote was taken that "I plan to continue conversations with our Allies expecting that they will be favorably received in Washing ton and London in order to pre pare for talks with the East. Adenauer also suggested nego tiations with Russia in his state ment, which was obtained by the Columbia broadcasting system. Propose Meeting Both President Eisenhower and the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill have pro posed the holding of a Big Four meeting as soon as the German rearmament treaties are ratified by all the countries concerned. The four-pact "package" al ready has been approved by Britain, West Germany and Italy. The approval of Holland, Bel gium and Luxembourg was ex pected to come quickly now as a result of the French action. Voting in the early hours of the morning, the French Senate swept aside a series of amend ments which would have thrown the ratification debate back into the chamber of deputies, which approved the rearmament agree ments, Dec. 30. 'Granddaddy' Atomic Blast Rescheduled Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) The Atomic Energy Commission an nounced Saturday that because of a sudden shift in winds it had decided to re-schedule the "granddaddy" blast for this morning. The "granddaddy" shot, which was postponed since March 14 because of unfavorable weather, was to be a major nuclear ex plosion and was scheduled to be fired at 5 a. m. (PST) from atop a 500-foot tower at Yucca Flat. The AEC said the small atomic air-burst shot, which it substi tuted earlier for the larger blast, had been cancelled until further notice. The substitution was an nounced yesterday morning be cause of weather conditions. Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) Ne gotiators in a jurisdictional dis pute over unloading of the coast wise freighter Pacificus have agreed to submit their labor dis pute to the Coast Labor commit tee for arbitration, it was re ported Saturday.