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Work
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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
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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 .
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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.
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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. ...
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