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Newspaper Page TextM G A Till II Washington (U.PJ Lawyers preme Court today that Southern states seek an "interminable continuation of racial segregation" in public schools They made the statement in briefs as the high tribunal opened hearings on how and when separate school systems for white and Negro children should be abolished. The court ordered the argu ments last year when it ruled that segregated schools are unconstitutional. Attorneys general for the border states of Kansas and Delaware led off today's oral arguments tegration has progressed in their states. No Positive Plan To Carry Out Decision Attorneys for the National of Colored People, representing Negro parents in four of the five original segregation cases, contended that none of the states has come up with any positive plan to The arguments, the NAACP ending racial segregation in our gation within a reasonable time.' Representatives of Southern states will present their oral argu ments tomorrow and Wednesday. ''immediate integration might produce violence Attorneys for Negro groups, shift is the best way to solve the Court Musi Decide Method of Operation The Supreme Court first scheduled the arguments, expect ed to last about three days, when it struck down last May the doc trine that "separate but equal" school facilities for whites and Negroes are constitutional. The court now must determine how its historic decision should be carried out. Kansas, first of 10 states to be heard, said that as far as it is concerned there is no need for further Supreme Court action. Almost all schools in the state now admit children regardless of race, Atty. Gen. Harold R. Fat zer told the court. Delaware reported that inte gration has worked out smooth ly in the northern section of the state. But it said that southern counties, where there is strong pro - segregation sentiment, should be allowed time for "a gradual transition program." Other Recommendations Due The positions of the state were set forth in briefs that are fol lowed closely by attorneys argu ing before the high tribunal. The District of Columbia, Vir ginia and South Carolina, the other parties to the original seg regation suits, will present their recommendations Tuesday They will be followed by the Justice Department, represent ing the administration, and Flori da, North Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Maryland and Texas. Each side is allotted one hour. The District of Columbia, where integration already is tak ing place, reported in its brief that no further court action is needed in its case. South Wants Unlimited Time But all of the southern states joined in asking for unlimited time to lower school color bars. Immediate integration would not work, they assert, and might wreck the existing public school structure because of public op position. The administration asked the justices to allow lower federal courts to handle the integration problem and to order that it be accomplished as rapidly as pos sible. However, the Justice De partment added that considera tion should be given to the prob lems of southern states in setting any deadline for compliance. Planning Commission To Talk Annexation The Medford city planning commission will hear reports on .annexation of five or six sub divisions at its regular meeting scheduled for 7:30 p.m. today. The meeting will be held in the council chambers of the city hall. Up for final approval at to night's meeting will be a plat of an extension to Siskiyou Heights subdivision. Other items on the agenda will include a public hearing on a change of zone, from multiple dwelling to heavy industry, on Clark st. 300 to 350 Persons Expected to Attend 67th Annual Episcopal Convention Here An estimated 300 to 350 dele gates are expected here next Monday and Tuesday for the 67th annual convention of the diocese of Oregon of the Protest ant Episcopal church. The convention, which will have St. Mark's Episcopal church as host parish, will hold sessions at the church, the church annex, at Blackoaks, the Rogue River estate recently given the diocese, and at the Elks temple where the annual banquet will be held Monday evening. The diocese includes all of Oregon west of the cascades. The Rt. Rev. Benjamin D. Dagwell is bishop, and the Rev. George R. V. Bolster is rector of the for Negro groups told the Su with optimistic reports on how in Association for the Advancement carry out the court's decision said, "seem to be directed against time, rather than toward desegre They generally maintain that however, contend that an abrupt problem. Mrs. Myrtle Lee, Museum Curator at Jacksonville, Dies Mrs. Myrtle Pearl Lee, 54, curator of the Southern Oregon Historical museum at Jackson ville since July 1950, died in a local hospital early Sunday mor ning. She had been in ill health for some time. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Perl Funeral home. The Rev. N. K. Tully will officiate. Pri vate Cremation services will be held at the Siskiyou cremator ium. Born in Jacksonville Mrs. L.ee, an autnority on early Indian folklore and his tory of Southern Oregon, was born Oct. 6, 1900, in Jackson- ville. She left Jacksonville as a teen-ager to reside in the Wil lamette valley, and returned to Jacksonville from Portland in 1948 to make her home. Prior to taking the museum post, she was employed at Mann's De partment store here about two years. ." Mrs. Lee received her educa tion at Jacksonville High school and LaSalle university. She was a member of the Jacksonville Order of Eastern Star, Rebekah Lodge, The Zonta Service club, business and Professional Wo men's organization, and the Sons and Daughters of the Oregon pioneers. Granddaughter of Judge She was a granddaughter of Silas J. Day, pioneer Jackson county judge. Day was the first assessor in the gold rush years at Jacksonville. Surviving relatives include a daughter, Mrs. James (Audrey L.) Mitcheltree, and three grand children, Robert, Susan and Thomas Mitcheltree, all of Port land. Adarel Chapter 3, Order of Eastern Star of Jacksonville will participate in the funeral ser vices. Hearings on School District Budgets Set Budget hearings for individ ual school districts will be held Tuesday by the Jackson county rural school board, it was an nounced today. The hearings are scheduled to start at 9 a.m. in the county schools office in the courthouse. Four districts already have re quested hearings, and others de siring them are requested to con tact the county schools office as soon as possible. Twenty dis tricts are served by the rural board. Eugene (U.R) Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer will discuss "The Constitution of Matter" at the University of Oregon April 19 and 21 as this year's Condon lec turer of the state system of higher education. host church. The convention will open at 9 a.m. Monday with a service of holy communion at the church. Bishop Dagwell will give his annual report at this ser vice, which will be . for dele gates, women's auxiliary mem bers and visitors. A buffet lun cheon will be held at Black Oaks at noon Monday for cler ical and lay delegates. Business sessions will begin at 2 pjn. Monday, and continue , through Tuesday. Convention business sessions will be in the recently- acquired church annex, and the women's auxiliary, of which Mrs. Blaine B. Coles of Portland is presi dent, will meet in St. Mark's Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th -Year 14 Pages Corsi Turns Down Substitute Post Offered by Dulles Administration Faces Loss of Support Washington U.R) Edward J. Corsi, ousted as State Depart ment immigration adviser, today rejected a substitute post offered him by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. A spokesman for Corsi said he notified Dulles of his decision by letter today. The spokesman is sued this brief statement: "Mr. Corsi has notified the secretary by letter this morning that he regrets his inability to accept the secretary's offer. He has no further comment at this time." To See GOP Chairman Corsi planned to see Leonard W. Hall, chairman of the Repub lican National committee, during the day. The firing of the Italian born New York Republican has provoked a storm of protests from Republican groups and some Democrats. Corsi was appointed Jan. 10 as Dulles' special assistant on rem gee and immigration problems, He was told last week that the post was a temporary 90-day job and that Dulles could not con tinue him in it because his secu- rity investigation had not been completed. However, he was told there was no question about his security status. Survey Job Offered However, Dulles offered Corsi a job surveying immigration possibilities in Latin America and other underdeveloped areas. Corsi's family said today that at present he has no future plans. Corsi said last week he was amazed and shocked when told his job was a. temporary 90-day one. He said he was fired for his previously expressed opposition to the McCarran-Walter immi gration act The Corsi-Hall conference was disclosed on the heels of a warn ing from the Columbia Repub lican league of New York that the administration faces the loss of support of 1,400,000 Ital ian - Americans in New York state because of the Corsi ouster The Group's Executive com m'ittee telegraphed President Eisenhower urging him to over rule Dulles. The telegram said "the Corsi fiasco, after the high est praise by Dulles only three months ago, shakes to the very core the confidence of our people." . ' Museum Closing All Day Wednedsay Jacksonville The Southern Oregon Historical Society an nounced today that the Jackson ville Museum will be closed all day Wednesday, April 13, out of respect to the curator, Mrs. Myrtle P. Lee, who died Sunday. Funeral services for Mrs. Lee are to be held Wednesday at the Perl funeral home. The society, which adminis ters the museum, also announced that Miss Mary Hanley of Jack sonville, who was appointed as sistant curator at a meeting of the board of directors on April 5, has been placed in charge of the museum, effective today. Miss Hanley, daughter of a pioneer southern Oregon family, has long been active in the so ciety and in helping to develop and maintain the Jacksonville Museum. church. The convention will fill va cancies on the diocesan stand ing committee and board of trus tees, on Portland's Good Sam arian hospital board of trustees, St. Helen's hall board of trus tees, and other diocesan organi zations. Eight deputies, four clerical and four lay, will be elected to attend the 58th triennial general convention of the Episcopal church to be held in Honolulu Sept. 4 through 15. The women's auxiliary will elect a president, first vice-president, recording secretary and educational secretary, as well as delegates to the triennial wo men,' mooting in Honolulu. MEDFORD, OREGON, Saik Prepares Report Showing Anti-Polio Vaccine Successful Francis Findings On Mass Testing Scheduled Tuesday Reports Expected To . Reveal Effectiveness Ann Arbor, Mich.' (U.R) Dr. Jonas E. Salk has prepared a scientific report which shows that his anti-polio vaccine is a success in the vast majority of cases, it was learned today. The New York scientist will read his report tomorrow at the same scientific meeting at which A closed circuit telecast for the medical profession on the Francis evaluation of the Salk polio vaccine will be held at station KBES - TV tomorrow from 3 to 4 p.m., it was an nounced today. Members of the profession from the Na tion's coverage area are invit ed, the announcement said. Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. will de liver his long awaited report on last spring's mass testing of the vaccine in 1,800,000 children. Based on Testing Dr. Salk's report is based on the doctor's testing of his vac cine among more than 8,000 chil dren and adults in the Pittsburgh area. It was prepared without knowledge of the contents of the Francis Report. It is reported that the two re ports will bear . out generally held belief that the Salk vaccine is. effective in most instances, ' In the minds of the involved scientists there hasn't been any doubt of the worth of . the vac cine for over a year, when Salk's long and detailed series of exper iments, first in monkeys, then in human beings, demonstrated that it could and did protect against all of the three polio virus types To Prove Effectiveness The big purpose of the mass testing with so many children was to prove the effectiveness of the vaccine on such a large scale and so dramatically that "we i-uumu i uc me bugmest, doubt about it and no one any where could fail to know that means of wiping out polio was eventually at hand and was both cheap and easy to use. And so Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. the resultl of the mass testing will be disclosed by Dr. Francis. Scientific 'Stars' Attend The National Association for Infantile Paralysis, which has spent $10,000,000 for the vac cine and the mass testing, assem bled an audience of some 500 scientists from all over the coun try to hear the triumphant cul mination of its long fight to con quer the crippling disease. The program itself at which both Dr. Francis and Dr. Salk will read reports, was star-studded scien tifically speaking. Meanwhile, Dr. Francis was putting the last touches to his re port. It will go to an offset printer, today for duplicating in large numbers, and it was under stood private guards will be in side and outside the printers to see to it that no one gets a pre mature look. New Reporter Starts Work at Mail Tribune Earl H. Adams today started work as a reporter for the Mail Tribune, replacing Harry Nord wick, who is now employed at Madera, Calif. Adams arrived in Medford last Friday from Columbus, Mo., where he was employed at the Columbia Daily Tribune. He and his wife, Virginia, re side at 800 Oakdale ave. here. Year's Biggest Timber Sale Held at Roseburg Roseburg (U.R) The bureau of land management staged the biggest timber sale of the year last week in Roseburg. Timber totaling 22,700,000 board feet was sold for $855,- 384. This was 225 per cent above the appraised price of $379,148. Highest bid price for Douglas fir came in the sale of timber 12 miles east of Roseburg. Western Battery Separator Company of Roseburg paid $225,453 for 5,- 096,000 feet of green timber ap praised at $103,263.20. MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1955 POLIO VACCINE REPORT Dr. Jonas E. Salk of the Uni versity of Pittsburgh explains how his poliomyelitis vac cine is produced. Ten Uranium Claims Filed i n T r By Central Ten uranium claims have been filed in the Trail area by E. L. Frederick, route 2, box 141, Cen tral Point .according to records on file in the office of the Jack son county clerk. Five claims, in a unit called the Morning Star group, are lo cated approximately four miles from Trail on the Board Moun tain trail, . according to , Fred erick's filing. The other five, in the Rainbow group, are located west-' of the Morning Star group. Locations Shown Maps in the county assessor's office show that the section in which the Morning Star group is located includes land owned by the federal government un der O&C, by Timber Products company, and by a private own er. " The segtion in which the Rain bow group is located is all own ed by Elk Lumber company, the maps indicate. ' The filings ' were the ' second in Jackson county since the start of the year. Earlier claims were filed in the Evans Valley area by two Grants Pass men. Reports also have been receiv- Red Installations r On Amoy Damaged Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) The Chinese Nationalists said today inflicted heavy damage on Com munist installations on Amoy Is land in an eight-hour bombard ment by Nationalist- guns on Quemoy. An official dispatch from Que moy said Nationalist guns knock ed out two Communist radar stations, two artillery positions and one arsenal depot. - The Nationalists said Red guns on Amoy Island fired about 50 rounds' against Quemoy in the afternoon but that no damage was done to Nationalist installa tions. The shelling was reported as Lt. Gen. R. H. Pepper, U. S. Marine commander in the Pa cific, arrived here for a three-day inspection of Chinese Marines and conferences with high U.S. and Chinese officials. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 5 6 0 Washington ...,---12 10 2 : Kretlow, Miller (6), Johnson (6) , Ferraresee (7). Alexander (7) and Smith, Moss (98); Por terfield and Edwvds, Oldii (7) TRIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 18 a i I Area Point Man ed that a group of men. are plan ning to file claims east of Ash land on property owned by Wey erhaeuser Timber company if clearance can be obtained from the company. Last in Sanitation Study Series Set; Bill Report Slated The last in a series of meet ings held to study the problems of sanitation and sewage dispos al in Jackon county will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, it was an nounced today by Mrs. Chester Guches, president of the Jack son County Public Health as sociation. The association has sponsored the meetings of the special com mittee which has conducted the study. Consideration will . be . given Wednesday to county planning and zoning as they effect sani tation, and a guest speaker will be Victor Morgan, sanitarian for Lane county, the only county in the state which has county zon ing. He. will tell how it has af fected the sanitation problem. Report on Hearing ... :.. There will also be a report on a legislative hearing on Senate Bill 434, introduced by State Sen. Philip B. Lowry and others, to authorize the organization of large sanitary districts in coun ties where they are needed. - The hearing will be held in Room 301 of the State Capitol at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, and a number of local people, includ ing Mrs. Guches, county health officer Dr. A. E. Merkel and others, probably . will attend to present local views on the meas ure - . The study committee recently went on record as supporting the senate bill. Other aspects of the study have included considera tion of city annexation and for mation of additional sanitation districts. Jacksonville Man Held As Embezzlement Suspect James Roy Rowden, 23, of route 1, box 80, Jacksonville, has been jailed by deputy sheriffs on an embezzlement charge, accord ing to county jail records. Rowden is charged with em bezzlement of approximately $80 from Fortune Service sta tion, Sheriff Howard Gault said. Rowden is being held under $2,500 bail. Weather FORECAST: Generally cloudy with occasional light rain through Tuesday. Contin ued cool. Low tonight 35. High Tuesday 55. TEMP. Highest yesterday 55 Lowest this morning 40 Prec. To 4:30 a.m. today trace. Raab Receives Warm Welcome on Moscow Arrival Colorful Reception Staged by Russians Moscow U.R) Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab received a gala welcome when he flew here from Vienna today to nego tiate with Soviet leaders for his country's freedom. The Soviets staged one of the most colorful ceremonies ever given a visiting foreign states man when the two Russian air liners carrying Raab and his par ty of 10 landed at Moscow's Cen tral airport in a snow storm. A host of top Soviet diplomats led by Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and a 60-piece brass band met Raab. The foreign dip lomatic corps, including U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, also was on hand. Negotiations Tuesday Molotov and Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan greeted Raab warmly. Molotov suggested in a short airport speech that they begin negotiations tomorrow, Raab agreed. One of the main purposes of his four-day visit at invitation of Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov is to arrange new four power talks on an Austrian state treaty that will end 10 years of occupa tion. Newsmen Invited Foreign newsmen in the So viet capital were invited to the Central airport, usually reserved for top Soviet government offi cials and high foreign statesmen, to see the Austrian party arrive. The tentative program fixed for Raab's visit included a prob able meeting with Premier Niko lai Bulganin at a reception Thursday night. Before leaving Vienna Raab said, "If our '-talks at Moscow lead to new four power discus sions on Austria, then the goal of our . mission will have been accomplished." Plans Being Made For Guard 'Alert' Plans for a . National Guard "alert," to be called without advance notice some time during April, are being made by Med ford's two Guard companies. Cooperation of employers of National Guard personnel was asked by Guard officers today. They explained that the practice alert will be to test the mobili zation readiness of all Oregon Guard units, and men will be called to duty with no advance notice. The alert was announced re cently by Gov. Paul Patterson and by Maj Gen. Thomas A. Ri- lea, adjutant general of the Ore gon military department. The alert will last for four hours, and reports will be sent hourly to the adjutant general on the stat us of the units' mobilization ac tivity. . If the alert should come dur ing business hours, employers are asked to release their Guard employees immediately, to as sure; success of the program. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 418.77 off 0.57; 20 rail roads 155.03 up 0.61; 15 utilities 64.13 up 0.35, and 65 stocks 156.59 up 0.44. Sales today were about 2,680,000 shares. Operator of Resort Dies; Rites Tuesday Funeral services for William Emerson (Bill) Fox, 48, Ash land, operator of the Diamond Lake resort, who died in a Med ford hospital Friday, will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Moun tain View chapel in Ashland, with " the . Rev. Wendell Herbi son, of the Christian church, of ficiating. Burial will follow in Mountin View cemetery. Mr. Fox suffered a heart at tack a little more than a week ago, and had been hospitalized since. He had been operator of the Diamond Lake resort, one of Oregon's best-known, for the past six seasons. Prior to that time he was associated with a Portland automotive firm for more than 10 years. Mr. Fox was born at Coburg, Ore., on Aug. 22, 1906, and at tended schools at SrowocviU. Three Distress Messages Heard; Search Started Declared Possible Ditching in Water Hong Kong (U.R) An In dian airliner carrying nine mem bers of the Chmese Communist delegation to the African-Asian conference at Bandung, Indone sia, was overdue today and fear ed crashed on a flight from Hons Kong to Djakarta. Airline officials said the plane left Hong Kong at 8:31 p.m. (PST) last night, and was due to arrive in the Indonesian capital at 3:50 p.m. (PST) today. R. N. Kaul, manager in Singa pore for Air India International, said that he was unable to con firm that the chartered aircraft from Hong Kong had ditched east of Singapore. Confirmation Sought He said the plane was over due, but he was trying to obtain confirmation from Djakarta and other points on the whereabouts of the craft. He said the last report he re ceived came about 1:30 a.m. (PST), but he was unable to pin point the position of the plane at that time although he said it probably had passed Saigon, In dochina, by then. Three distress messages from the plane were reported picked up at Kuching, the capital of Sarawak. It was not immediately clear whether other passengers were aboard the plane with the Red delegates to the conference. The number of crew members aboad was not known immedi ately. Flying Boat Searches A British Royal Air Force fly ing boat was reported to have taken off from the naval base at Singapore to search the South China Seas and the numerous is lands in the area for signs of possible survivors. The SOS report raised specula tion here that the plane may have been ditched in water rather than have crashed, and therefore survivors may be a . float in rubber life rafts. - - In Los Angeles, a spokesman for Lockheed Aircraft said that Air India Airlines has advised them that a Constellation trans port, manuf acutred by Lockheed, was "down in the South China Sea." May Sessions Seen For State Legilature Salem (U.R) Some Ore gon legislators who predicted a week ago the current session would adjourn April 28 have changed their minds. They felt the session might continue into May. ' Biggest hurdle was the delay in adopting or rejecting the House tax program which may not be reported on for a week. House Speaker Edward Geary said he hoped the Legislature could be through by April 28, but added that he would insist on completion of all important legislation. Twenty-three bills were on the House calendar for today. seven of them originating in the Senate. The Senate had 16 bills slated, 13 of them originating in the House. Most of the House bills con cerned appropriations reported out by the joint ways and means committee. Radio Highlights A speech by Adlai Steven son, in which he is expected to state his stand on the Formosa crisis, will be carried over radio stations KYJC (1230 kc) and KMED (1440 kc) at 10:30 p.m. today. Diamond Lake He later moved to California, and was in the ' service station and parking lot business at Long Beach for 20 years. He returned to Oregon 12 years ago, and has made his home in Ashland -for eight years. He leaves his widow, the for mer Miss Thelma Beckett, and a daughter, Toby Kay Fox. He was a member of the Christian church and the Elks lodge. Othe rrelatives include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Fox, Tangent; four brothers, Ray, Tampa Fla.; Gene, Albany; James, Lynchburg, Va.; and Robert, Monterrey, Mexico; four sisters, Mrs. Lorena Schoinp, San Francisco; Mrs. Thelma Sherrill, Tampa, Fla.; Mrs. Myr tle Owen, Bellflower, Calif., and Mrs. Irene Newport, Tangent.