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t Work instffe Adenauer Strategy erlin Blockade Berlin (U.R) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will fly to Berlin later this month to plan strategy to crack the Comnunists "little blockade," the West German government announced today. West Berlin Mayor Otto Suhr appealed directly to Adenauer to intervene as the Communists stepped up their war of nerves against the free part of the city. U. S. High Commissioner James B. Conant arrived in Berlin today by train from the West German capital in Bonn for a three-day visit. He planned to discuss the threatening Berlin situ ation with U. S. officials although his visit was planned before the blockade began. Suhr already had conferred with Conant before calling on Adenauer today. Visit Expected April 26 to 28 Government officials said Ad enauer probably "would visit Berlin from April 26 to 28 with some cabinent members to dis cuss with members of the city government ways of lifting the Red blockade. He must be back in Bonn by April 29 for a meet ing with French Foreign Minis ter Antoine Pinay. While Suhr was working to relieve the economic pressure against free Berlin, the East German Communists said work' ers throughout the surrounding Soviet zone were demanding stronger . "security measures against the "West Berlin terror and sabotage center." Alleged Demands ine alleged demands were bannerlined in the official East German Communist party news paper Neues Deutschland (New Germany). The prominence given the de mands, combined with a Com munist press and radio cam paign against West Berlin, was seen here as a sign the Reds were planning new steps to interfere with traffic between free sec tions of the city and the West. "Workers in Berlin and the German Democratic. Republic de mand security measures," Neues Deutschland said. "The workers completely ap prove the opinion of the govern ment of the German Democratic Republic and of the Democratic (Communist east) sector of Ber lin from underground activity carried out from the West Ber lin provocation center against the German Democratic Repub lic." Mercy Plane Back From Mexican Trip Dr. Raymond Smith, 1015 Rtddy St., became the 340th pa tient carried by a Mercy Flights plane yesterday, when he was returned to his home from Maza tlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, in a hour trip. Dr. and Mrs. Smith were va cationing in Mexico whn the dentist suffered a stroke on Feb 2. He was hospitalized at Mazat lan until yesterday. Pilot George Milligan and Co pilot Grant Bourquin left here at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, arriving in the Mexican coastal city it 8:30 p.m. They left yesterday morning at 7:30 a.m., arriving home a few minutes before mid night. The only delays en route were due to customs and border inspections, and other on-the-ground difficulties with official and service personnel. Miss Hazel Swayne, R.N., at tended Dr. Smith on the flight home. He stood the trip nicely, it was reported. Mrs. 6mith also was aboard the plane. The round trip of 3,500 miles is the longest patient flight made by planes of the non-profit am bulance corporation since it was organized nearly 5Vi years ago, and is the first across an inter national border. Medford Schools Slated To Fund Distribution; Money The Medford public schools will get $215,617.62. or almost one-third of the $685,859.07 in controverted O&C money to be divided among the county's 23 school districts. Payments of the funds to the school districts was authorized this week by the county budget committee and the county court. Distribution will be based on the 1P54 school census, taken last fall. The money comes from the county's share of a $5,171,623.03 disbursement from the Oregon and California controverted lands fund. The county's share was $815,047.88, and the balance of that .total has been absorbed by other budget requirements. First Class Districts ."' The county's .three first class school districts, Msdford, . Ash laud, ancT- District" 6C, will get more than half of. the funds to bu distributed, Ashland's total To Plan Against County's Doctors Endorse Vaccine Program for Polio New York (U.P: The National Foundation of Infan tile Paralysis announced to day that it would follow the two-shot anti-polio vaccine method recommended by Dr. Jonas E. Salk for the year 1955. Under the plan, the first two inoculations of the Salk anti-polio vaccine would be separated by an interval of two to four weeks. The third and final shot in the series would be given not earlier than seven months later but before the 1956 polio season. The Jackson County Medical society last night went on record as endorsing the Salk polio vac cination program which will start here next week. The society also voted to ad vise the Jackson county health department that the member doctors are willing to donate their time to aid the administra tion of the free vaccine in the schools of the county. They pointed out that the vaccine is being paid for by donations to the March of Dimes. In the same resolution, the doctors went on record as urging all member physicians to adopt the nominal fee of $10 for ad ministration, of the vaccine ; to their private patients, in the series of three shots recom mended by Dr. Jonas Salk, de veloper of the vaccine, as soon as it becomes available for pri vate distribution. Pharmaceutical c o m p a n ies have previously announced that the vaccine would sell for $6 for enough for the series of shots. The additional $4 would repre sent the charge by the doctors for administering the three shots in series. Poison Death Plan Of Fong Prosecution Portland U.R) Prosecutor Howard Lonergan told the jury today the state would attempt to show that Diane Hank, 16, died of poison given her at the home of Wey Him and Sherry Fong. The Fongs are on trial here for first degree murder. Lonergan said that during the evening of Jan. 6, 1954 the last day the Hank girl was seen alive, she . paid a visit to the Fong home. During the evening, he said, Diane in a telephone call to her mother said Sherry Fong had given her a bottle of vitamin pills. A bottle contain ing two kinds of vitamin pills was found in the fold of her jumper when Diane's body was found near Washougal, Wash., the next month, he said. "By this bottle was Diane poi soned, and the labels changed to tell a different story," Lonergan told the jury. Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L Patterson has declared " : week of May 1-7 as "Conservation Week" in Oregon. will be $109,807.69. while 6C. which includes Central Point, Gold Hill and Sams Valley grade schools and Crater high school, will get $84,027.73. The three first class districts, which have a total combined census of 10,959 of the county's 18,357, will receive $409,453.04, and the second class distri.ts, with a combined census of 7, 393, will get $276,406.03. Phoenix Payment " Top payment to a second class district will go to Phoenix, which will receive $36,241.39. Eagls Point will get $29,859.81, and Rogue River's payment will be $20,250.35. Payments to other districts with high schools in clude Talent, $22,492.08, Jack sonville, $18,942.67, Prospect, ."514,048.21, and Butte Falls, $7, 771.35. Payments to other second class districts will be: Griffin Creek, $15,953.69; Ruch, ,$7,- MEDFORD United Presj Full Leased Wir 50th Year 24 Pages Rebel Buddhist Troops Attack Indochina City ' Assault Breaks Tinderbox Truce Saigon, Indochina (U.R) Re bellious warlord troops aided by Communist deserters attacked a government-held city 58 miles southwest of Saigon with mor tars at dawn today. The early morning assault by troops of the dissident Hoa Hao Buddhist sect broke the tinder- box truce in free Viet Nam and threatened a new outbreak of the in-and-out civil war. 20 Persons Wounded The Buddhist warriors lobbed mortars into the city of Sadeck, wounding at least 20 persons, some of them gravely, in the first major breach of an Easter truce, The high command said the regular South Viet Nam army immediately launched a cleanup drive against the rebel troops led by Gen. Ba Cut whose mortars shelled Sadeck s central district. The wounded were evacuated to Saigon aboard a South Viet Namese Red Cross plane. Collins Delays Trip The U.S. Embassy said Presi dent Eisenhower's special envoy, Gen. J. Lawton Collins, post poned indefinitely his planned April 20 departure for Washing ton. , " Collins helped win the uneasy truce between American-backed Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and the religious, sects who oppose him be cause' of their own political ambitions. Russell DeForest Resigns as Deputy In DA's Office- Russell W. DeForest has re signed as deputy district attor ney for Jackson county, District Attorney Walter Nunley an nounced today. , DeForest, a member of the firm of DeForest and Hansen, has served as a half-time mem ber of the district attorney's staff since last November, with the salary for the position ' be ing, paid by the state. Prior to his temporary appointment the post had been vacant for sever al months. Salary $3,000 Salary for the job is $3,000 a year. "Even new law graduates would not work full time for that small salary," Nunley said. "DeForest agreed to help me out on a part-time basis until I could find a full-time man, and this I have not been able to do for that salary," the district at torney stated. ' DeForest said that he was re signing in order that he might devote more time to his own practice. - Appear at Hearing Nunley and County Judge Rodney Keating recently ap peared before the Joint Ways and Means committee of the state legislature to request that Jackson county be given two deputies at a salary of $4,200 each per year. Nunley noted at that time that Jackson county has had only one deputy for the past 20 years, and during that time, the "populations of the county has increased by about 63 per cent. Receive $215,617 in O&C To Pay Off Indebtedness 696.63; Lone Pine, $13,263.60; Dewey, S4.221.94; Applegate, $4, 707.65; Elk - Trail, $7,733.99, Evans Valley, $7,733.98; Oak Grove, $12,478.99; Shady Cove, $,826.28; Pinehurst, $971.42; West Side, $3,885.68; Howard, $22,155.82, and Kenwood, $16, 140.50. The budget committee has specified that use of the funds vill be limited to the payment of existing school construction bonded indebtedness. -Problem To Be Solved One problem which remains to be solved, however, is the fact that four of the districts, Dewey, Evans Valley, Pinehurst, and Kenwood, have no bonded in debtedness. Members of - the county court indicated this morning that they are attempt ing to find some method by which the four districts will be given the money. Another problem is the fact MEDFORD,, OREGON, Oregon ail on SUICIDE FOILED Andre Tremblay, Mon treal grocery boy who threatened to kill himself- because of a shortage of $20 in his col lections, is lowered down girder of bridge by rescuers into hands of the police. He had Meat Inspection Appears .-.Dead Britain Will Invite America To Share In Atomic London (U.R) Britain soon will invite the United State's to share some British atomic secrets and to send scientists to observe British nuclear tests for the first time since the war, informed sources said today. British officials warmly wel comed President Eisenhower's approval Wednesday of an agree ment to share atomic informa tion with members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. To Conclude Agreement The sources said an agreement among the United , States, Brit ain and Canada permitting ex changes of certain atomic infor mation will also be concluded "in the near future." The agree ment which is now being nego tiated will provide "lots of scope," the sources said.. The plans for Britain to hand over some of her most closely guarded secrets to the United States is described in London as the first fruit of the amendment of the U.S. McMahon act last year. The 1946 law prohibited the U.S. government from giving much atomic information to other nations. Sharing Permitted The. pact signed by Mr. Eisen hower Wednesday permits shar ing -of information- on atomic DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow- Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 422.46 up 0.89;- 20 rail roads 156.87 off 0.68; '15 -utilities 64.68, off 0.18, and 65 stocks 153.10 off 0.09. Sales todav were about 2.890.000 shares compared with 2,820,000 shares yesterday that two of the districts,. Dewey and Kenwood, do . not operate schools and under present stats law will have to be consolidated with another district or districts. School bond payments due during the coming year in Jack son county amount to $393,500, and interest . will be approxi mately $142,934.59, or a total of $536,434.59. . Most ' recent figures on total bonded -indebtedness for the county's school districts show these figures: ; Jacksonville, $160,000; Griffin Creek, $76,000; Ruch, $65,000; Phoenix, $216, 000; Ashland, $1,050,000; 6C, $631,000; Eagle Point, $236,000; Lone Pine, $46,000; Talent, $215,000; Rogue River, $102, 500; Applegate, $18,500; Elk Trail, $38,500. Medford, $2,366,000; Prospect, $188,000; Shady Cove, $62,500; Butte Falls, $21,000; West Side, $65,000, and Howard, $39,000. THURSDAY, APRIL Gongre, Military Secrets weapons but not the transfer of the actual weapons or data on how to manufacture them. The United States cut off its flow, of atomic information to Britain following the arrest and conviction of British scientists Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May for giving atomic secrets to Soviet Russia. Corsi Invited To Air Grievances Washington (U.R) A Senate subcommittee summoned ousted immigration expert Edward J. Corsi today to air his griev ances against his old friend John Foster Dulles and the adminis tration's refugee program. The refugee subcommittee got off to a fast start Wednesday with quick closed-door question ing of State Department Secur ity Chief R. W. Scott McLeod. It continued the pace today by call ing Corsi to back up his charge that McLeod "sabotaged"' the refugee law. McLeod has denied the accusation. Chairman William Langer (R- N.D.) said the inquiry probably will move into public hearings Friday. He said the subcommit tee will try "desperately" to end the investigation this week. Russia, Austria Conclude Agreement Moscow (U.R) Austria and the Soviet Union concluded an agreement on conditions for an Austrian state treaty today. Both governments prepared to issue an immediate call for a five-power conference to selj it to the West. It was one of the : most sig nificant breaks in the diplomatic log jam of the cold war. But the Western powers, which must agree before any Austrian treaty is signed, wait ed cautiously for a. look at the small print before - hoping for, a final agreement. The five powers envisioned at the possible conference" on an Austrian state treaty would be the United States, Russia, Brit ain, France and Austria. Explosion From '. Tower : Scheduled by AEC Friday Las Vegas (U.R) The At omic Energy commission today scheduled firing of a nuclear de vice from a 400-foot tower at Frenchman's Flat tomorrow.' A weather evaluation this morning showed present wind and cloud conditions favorable for the test, the AEC said. The test was scheduled for 9 a.m. (PST) "or later.'. . .. -Fun Leased Wire 5c No. 21 ,n Flooded With Training climbed high on the Jacques Cartier bridge, which spans the St. Lawrence river, and was rescued by his friend, Deni Mailloux, a truck driver (plaid shirt). ' (NEO photo) Joint Committee Refuses To Vote Moiity for Plan Salem (U.R) A state meat In spection program appeared to have been dealt a death blow here today when the Joint Ways and Means Committee refused to appropriate money for the plan. The committee defeated by a 7-? to 7 vote a move by Sen. George Ulett (R-Coquille) to table the bill. It then rejected a motion by Rep. Alfred Corbett (D-Portland) to appropriate $100,000 to set up a limited pilot program of meat inspection on the state level. . Sent Back to House Final vote on the bill sent it back to the House floor with the recommendation that it be re ferred back to the House Live stock Committee. Without funds, however, there was little the House committee would be able to dp with the bill. Sen. Ulett said he opposed the full program because 75 per cent of all meat sold in Oregon is al ready inspected, either federally or by cities. He asserted that there were few places in Oregon where inspected meat could not be bought if the consumers want ed it. New Budget Request Seen He said even a limited pilot program would result in a new request for a large budget to put the full plan into operation in two years. j Members of the meat packing industry had volunteered to sub mit to doubled license fees to finance state compulsory meat inspection but Ulett said even that would fall short of the full cost. - Col. W. H. Paine Taken III, Is Hospitalized Col. W. H. Paine. 84. of . 56 North Orange st., collapsed and was taken to Community .hospi tal yesterday evening, and is now under treatment for an acute respiratory condition, it was reported this morning. His doctor said his condition today is "satisfactory," and that he is responding well to treat ment. Colonel Paine, a retired Army officer, was active throughout yesterday, and his illness was unexpected. He is one of tne area s best-known citizens. It was announced today that a meeting of the United Spanish War Veterans and auxiliary, scheduled for Saturday at 1 p.m. in honor of departmental offic ers, has been cancelled'"because of Colonel Paine's illness. Portland (U.R) The 1955 March of Dimes campaign in Oregon set a new all-time high of $680,000, John J. Gurian. state chairman, said today. The 1954 figure was $653,000. Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Friday. Cooler with local frost tonight. Low to night 30. Warmer Friday. High 60. Temp. 53 Highest Yesterday Lowest this Morning -37 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace. Delegation Split On General Issue; Ellsworth Silent Coon, Edith Green To Vote Against By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Oregon con gressmen are getting hundreds of letters from voters in the state on the question of univer sal military training one of the most controversial issues in Congress in recent years as the forces on both sides of this question rally for a showdown vote. As of now the Oregon delega tion is split on the general is sue, with two members opposed to UMT outright, one in favor of it and a fourth not publicly committed. Spearheaded by Legion Spearheaded by the American Legion and its ladies auxiliary, those who favor UMT or na tional security training as the Legion prefers to call it have been burying congressional of fices under an avalanche of let ters and postal cards urging the lawmakers to vote for it. Some offices report they are also -getting considerable mail against UMT, some from church groups, While others indicate they are getting only a trickle from those who want the solons to defeat any such conscription plan. ' Rep. Sam Coon, (ROre, and Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), are determined to vote against UMT. Coon Opposed "As of now I am against it, Coon declared. "I just don't see any real need for it. That doesn't mean that at some future time I might not feel, there is & need for it, but right now I'm oppos ed." "In an extended compulsory reserve and universal military training program," Mrs. Green explained, "I see the blueprint for a garrison state." : The only Oregon representa tive on the other side of the fence is Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.), who is on the House Armed Services Committee which has been wrestling with various reserve training schemes for some weeks. Just prior to the Easter recess they argeed on a plan which would give young men the choice of being drafted for two years or enlisting in the new training program for six months of active training duty plus 7 J2 years of reserve train ing, in which he would be sub ject to call to active duty at any time. Ellsworth Silent Oregon's fourth representa tive, Rep. Harris Ellsworth (R- Ore.), has not expressed his view on the issue as yet. The arguments expressed by Oregon voters in their ppeals fcr support or opposition follow a pattern to a great extent, par ticularly those in favor of UMT, many of whom have simply signed their name to a stereo typed letter or card. Some call UMT the "best in surance lor peace ana say "an unprepared nation is a vulner able nation." Departure From Policy From the opposition come re minders that 'conscription is a departure from our basic Ameri can policy" or arguments that "larger armies are not the an swer in the atomic age" and "we must not let the military gam control of our young men." Congress has always in the past rejected UMT. In 1952 when it last, came up, the best propon ents of UMT could get through was approval of a commission to study the problem. Last year the commission recommended a lottery to determine which, boys would be drafted for two years duty and which would have six months training followed by re serve status. - i . Baseball NATIONAL Philadelphia - 4 8 Pittsburgh .......1..L.......3 6 0 3 Wehmeir and Lopata; Little field, Friend (2), King (4), Wade (8) aad AiweU. Program Formula Would Offset Income, . School Taxes Division of Funds Doubted by Rep. Hill Salem (U.R) A sales tax subcommittee went to work to- Hair n fin1 a formula that would make a 3 per cent sales tax, if approved by the voters, act as a partial offset both to personal income taxes and school taxes at the state and county level. Rep. Earl Hill (R-Cushing), fa ther of the original sales tax plan first presented at this ses sion of the Legislature, said no one had shown him how revenue from such a tax could be divid ed. His proposal had called for use of sales tax money exclu sively for school support at the county level, with none of it going to the1 general fund of the state. Members of the House Taxa tion committee, moved to ac tion by what appeared to be a friendly attitude in the Senate Taxation committee for a 50 per cent increase in personal in come taxes, went to work on a sales tax plan that would at tempt, to relieve the burden on income taxpayers. Voters Would Decide Rep. Loran Stewart (R-Cot-tage Grove), chairman of the House Taxation committee, said he had long favored a tax plan patterned after California's sys tem of a combined sales and income tax in which lower in come groups were granted an exemption from the income tax but contributed to state finan cial needs through the sales tax. Upper income groups in that state pay both taxes. " 1 A three-way split in sales tax revenues for relief of school finances on the state and coun ty level, and of income taxes on the state level is the problem facing the subcommittee headed by Rep. Ed Cardwell (R-Sweet Home) and including Rep. C Allen Tom (R-Rufus) and Rep. Ward Cook (D-Portland). . If their plan gets through the Legislature, it would the i go to tne voters, presumably at a spe cial election next fall. One sug gestion proffered . in the taxa; tiori committee would put to the voters the suggestion that a sales tax be imposed for the aid of both state and county treasuries and that the present income tax rates be left unchanged. . Oregon Education Association spokesmen here said they had received a five-to-one expression of support for a sales tax from parent-teacher groups cencerned for the long range needs of school districts faced with steadi ly growing enrollments. Numer ous school districts have already reached the limit of their bond ing capacity for new buildings. Acceptance Expected Cecil Posey, executive secre tary of the OEA, said he believed the people of Oregon would ac cept a sales tax this year if they were informed of. the desperate state of Oregon's budget. Sen. Lee Ohmart (R - Salem) told the Senate Taxation Com mittee it would have to plan to raise 35 million dollars with higher income taxes next bien nium and still impose a cigar ette tax for 10 million dollars more to meet the estimates of need shown by the budget ap propriations bills now being re ported out of the ways and means committee. The revenue program, witnout a sales tax. would still fall short of meeting the full building program that went before the ways and means committee today. (See Stories on Page 14) Keljy Asks Extension In Hile Case Appeal Medford Attorney Edward Kelly has filed a motion with the Oregon supreme court seek ing an extension of time for fil ing of briefs in the Hile murder trial, according to District Attor ney- Walter Nunley. Kelly is attorney for James Norman Jensen, 25, Larkspur, Calif., who has been sentenced to die in the state gas chamber for the April, 1954 hatchet mur der of Mrs. Fern Hile. ' Kelly has filed 'notice of ap peal to Jensen's conviction for the slaying. He has asked that the deadline for completion of briefs for the appeal be extended to May 18. - Oppenheimer Eh Route For lecture at Eugene Seattle (U.R) Dr. J. Rob ert Oppenheimer, atomic scien tist, is scheduled to arrive at Seattle-Tacoma airport at 7:40 a.m. Monday en route to Eu gene, Ore., where he will lec-' ture at the ' University of Ore gon. Dr. Henry Schmitz, president of the University of Washing ton, refused earlier this year to invite Oppenheimer to lec ture at Washington. ... v--
