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Blossom Festival Committee to Meet; Parade Entries In Discussion of plans for the Pear Blossom Festival, to be held here April 23, will be discussed by the festival committee at a 7:30 a. m. breakfast meeting to morrow. Fourteen entries for the pa rade have already been filed at the chamber of commerce office, and the dealine is not until April 21, two days before the parade. A large number of small floats are expected. Committee members have pointed out that with the parade limited to small floats, pets and walking groups, which can be prepared at little cost, there is reason to believe there will be a large number of entries. Floats Inexpensive ' One sample float, constructed at a cost of less than $2, is on display at Crater Lake Motor company, at Fir and Main sts. There is no entry fee for parade floats. Votes are now being received at the chamber office, 5 South Riverside ave., for queen of the festival. Candidates' pictures were printed in last Sunday's Mail Tribune, together with a ballot form. Deadline for voting at the chamber office is 5 p. m. Thursday, April 14. The five top queen contestants will be announced Sunday. The queen will be chosen from the top five by a committee Of judges, and will be announced Thursday, April 21. MEDFORD united fr ieaea v u e Tribune united fress 'uu ieased wire Pages 1-6 MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1955 Section Two Measures in Oregon Legislature MH5 Speech Student Entered in Contest Dan Kellington, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Kellington, 87 Perry dale ave., and a Medford High school student, will enter the annual high school state public speaking tournament at Oregon State college in Corvallis Friday and Saturday. Kellington, who has taken top honors in local public speaking contests, will participate in radio speaking competition. Devere Taylor, high school speech coach, will accompany Kellington. Some 160 students from all parts of the state will participate. Salem (U.R) House com mittee action yesterday featur ed hearings on a bill to permit police officers to make arrests for drunk driving without a war rant, even if they- did not wit ness the offense, and on a bill to require banks to close their doors on ' Saturdays. Marshall N. Dana and Walter W. R. May, both speaking for the Highway Lifesavers of Ore gon, favored the bill on arrests as one that would simplify ar rest procedures without threat ening the rights of citizens. They contend the accused would still have his rights to a hearing in court and added that injured persons should have their rights protected as well as the accused. The hearing was before the House Judiciary committee that accepted an amendment from Rep. Al Loucks (R-Salem) which would make arrests without war rants possible in accidents where injury or property damage had occurred. The House Committee on Fi nancial Institutions heard testi mony on a bill that independent banks said they-needed to pro tect them from competition of a large banking chain which maintains Saturday business hours. Virgil Solso of the Citizens Bank of Oswego said small banks could not afford the ad ditional staff needed to oper ate six days a week. C. B. Ste phenson of the First National Bank of Portland, which re mains open on Saturdays, said "those who serve will survive." He told the committee that his bank considered itself a re tailer and that it should be open when the demand for banking service was greatest. Neither committee took action on the bills. Salem (U.R) A resolution proposing that each county in Oregon be given a single senator in the state Legislature, regard less of its population, has been sent back to the committee on elections and reapportionment, Salem (U.R) A resolution proposing that each county in Oregon be given a single senator in the state Legislature, regard less of its population, has been sent back to the committee on elections and reapportionment. By a vote of 33 to 25 the House accepted the arguments of Reps. Robert Jensen (R-Port-land) and Alfred Corbett (D- Portland), members of the elec tions committee who contended the bill was rushed through the committee with no chance for complete discussion or public hearing. Jensen said the bill reached the committee at a morn ing meeting and was reported out the same afternoon. Rep. E. H. Mann (R-Medford), chairman of the committee, denied the charge that the bill was forced through the commit tee and asserted there had been every opportunity for members to discuss it before reporting it out favorably. Motion for re-referral to com mittee was on majority and min- Chiang Gets Glimpse Of Chinese Mainland Taipeh, Formosa U.R) Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek vis ited shell torn Quemoy Island four miles from the Communist held mainland yesterday for his first sight of China since he fled to Formosa more than five years ago. On his first visit to the off shore island Chiang was closer to the mainland than at any time since the Chinese Communists overran China. He spent more than six hours there although Nationalist sources said the Com munists shelled Quemoy today for the third consecutive day. ority reports on the resolution. Salem (U.R) The Senate has sounded the death knell of the Battleship Oregon Commis sion by voting down a bill to ap propriate $7,500 for it. Sen. Warren McMinimee (R Tillamook) said that in 1943 the commission said an appropriation in 1945 would be the last it would ask of the Legislature. But each session of the Legislature since then has been asked to ap propriate and has appropriated money for the commission creat ed to honor veterans of the Span ish American War. Relics from the Civil War and the Spanish American War in possession of the Battleship Ore gon Commission, now housed in a dwelling in east Portland, are expected to be consolidated with those in the Oregon Historical Society. Affairs of the Battle ship Oregon commission are ex pected to be wound up in the next few months. Salem (U.R) The Joint Ways and Means committee has re ceived a recommendation from' its salary subcommittee that Su preme and Circuit Court judges get a $1000 per year pay in crease. This would give Supreme Court justices $13,000 and Cir cuit Court judges $11,000 a year. The court salary bills originally called for a boost to, $15,000 for Supreme Court justices and to $13,000 for Circuit Court judges. Salem (U.R) A bill on school textbooks which would end .the exclusive jurisdiction of school people has been introduced by Sen. Pat Lonergan at the request of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution. . The bill would partially staff the present textbook commission with laymen, instead of all pro fessional school people as at pres ent. An estimated 19.3 million Americans are able to play the piano. " f AGAINST WAR RISK Adlai E. Stevenson, former Demo cratic presidential candidate, speaks out in radio address from Chicago against risks of a third war in defense of Chinese Nationalist islands of Quemoy and Matsu. He warned the U. S. to shun lonely stand of the islands in favor of a united free world defense of Formosa. McLeod McLeod Guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Tockstein are Mrs. Neil Price and two sons and Donald McClean, all of Eureka, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Denninger have moved into the Elrod house on Crowfoot rd. and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hansel wHo used to live there have gone to Hamilton, O. Guests at Harding's Paradise are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kober- nik of Roseburg. The Hardings are parents of Mrs. Kobernik, Overnight guests April 8 of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hume were Wayne and Sonda Vaughn of Prospect. Evangelist Graham Draws Record Crowd Glosgow, Scotland (U.R) Billy Graham drew the biggest crowd of his "Tell Scotland" crusade Monday night. A record breaking 17,540 per sons jammed Kelvin hall to hear the American evangelist preach the evening services. The turn out boosted the total for the crusade here to 350,000. After the services 401 persons stepped forward to take "de cisions for Christ," increasing the total of converts to 8412. Motor Vehicle Bill Approved by House Salem (U.R) House yester day approved a bill taking the. motor vehicles division away from the secretary of state and putting it under the governor. . The measure has already been approved by the Senate and was passed by the House by a vote of 39 to 19. Graham set another record high yesterday, but it was one he wasn't too proud about. It was his golf score. Graham beat a member of his crusade staff, Lee Fisher, in the match at the famed Gleneagles course in Perth. But his score was so high, it was not disclosed. Cropland in the U.S. has re mained at about 400 million acres since 1920 while the popu lation of the U.S. has increased by at least 50 percent. TYPEWRITERS & ADDING MACHINES Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. 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