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u Medford united fresi full Leased wire 50th Year 20 Pages Dke U.S. Not To Talk Behind Back of -Chiang Kai-shek President Agrees With Dulles Reaction Washington OJ.PJ Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland today bluntly chal lenged President Eisenhower's expressed willingness to nego tiate with the Chinese Com munists. Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower, asserting that peace chances seem on the upswing aid todav the United States would be glad to talk with Red China about a Formosa cease tire and anything else not affecting Nationalist China's own affairs Mr. Eisenhower, at his news conference, was in an obviously optimistic mood .about peace chances. The President . also declared that the United States would not talk behind the back of Nation alist China. Mr. Eisenhower acknowledged that the State Department's ini tial reaction last Saturday to an offer by Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai to negotiate Far East problems might have been too harsh and perhaps over stated. Agrees With Dulles The President said he fully agreed with the more liberal re action given yesterday to Chou's offer'by Secretary of State John Foster Dulies. The State Department had aid Saturday that the United States would "insist" that Na tionalist China be present at any talks with Red China and it called on the Reds to give evi dence of good faith. That statement was issued by the State Department after Act ing Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. had cleared it by tel ephone with Mr. Eisenhower, who was spending the week end at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm. Direct Conversations Mr. Eisenhower said today the United States would be glad to test the Chinese Reds' offer. He aid if they want to talk about a cease fire in the Formosa Straits, the United States would be glad to talk so long. as Nationalist China's interests are not involv ed. This supported the Dulles idea that the United States could talk directly with Red China, ii necessary, without Nationalist China's attendance. Mr. Eisenhower was asked if he saw signs of a tapering off in East-West tensions in recent days. With minor qualifications, the President said he confessed that he had the feeling things -are on the upswing. He noted the break in the Far Eastern im passe and Russia's statement that it is ready to conclude an Austrian treaty. Washington U.R) . The na tion's record breaking stock of surplus wheat may ( be whittled down slightly in the marketing year beginning July 1, the Agri culture Department said. Pittsburgh U.R) The CIO United Steelworkers has served notice on the basic steel indus try to start negotiations for new wage contracts within 30 days. Portlander, 20, Confesses Threat of Bomb Explosion Portland U.R) Police today reported their first major break in the bomb-hoaxes that have plagued the area recently with arrest of a 20-year-old youth yes terday afternoon who officers said admitted one threat. Edward E. Henson, a shipping clerk at Dahnken, Inc., was held under $10,000 bail on a charge of threatening to commit a felony by mailing a threatening note to his firm last week. The letter warned a bomb would explode at the wholesale house yesterday but police uncovered no bomb, v Henson denied any part in any other threats. Henson told police he just in tended v'a practical joke." "At . z -tim did .X-ooataov MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1955 jpftDmrDDsftoc mi Ike's Farm Program Gives Opportunity To Low-Income Families Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower today sent Congress a new poor man's farm program, designed to "open the doors of opportunity" to 1,500,000 low income families on small farms. "In this wealthiest of nations, where per capita income is the highest in the world, more than one-fourtji of the families who live on American - farms still have cash incomes of less than $1,000 a year," the President said in a special message to Con gress. He proposed expanded pro- grams of education, guidance and credit to help some earn more on small farms. Others Manufacturing Firm Slates Construction On Gang Saw Plant : Gold Hill Construction of an industrial type building is ex pected to start this week to house the Jeddeloh Brothers Sweed Mills company to manu facture of gang saws for the lumber industry. The Jeddeloh Brothers plant, which will cover 5,760 feet, will be located south of the South- em. Eacific railroad bracks be tween Fifth and Seventh ' sts. The . railroad : has . approved a lease for the land, the Jeddeloh brothers said. Production Slated Production of gang saw and other allied equipment and ma chinery is expected to start in about 60 days, they said, and added that they expect to start operations by manufacturing 28- by-24-inch machines. The bro thers will also design and con struct machines larger and smaller -than the 28-by-24-inch equipment, thev said. Fred and Otto Jeddeloh said the enterprise is expected to ex pand to a quarter million dollar industry with employment com mensurate to its growth. The building will be construct ed or. a concrete slab foundation with heavy timber and a metal roof. An overhead crane will be constructed inside. Lease Two Mills The brothers have leased two saw mills and s planing mill in Gall's creek to the Stage Coach Lumber company. They . have been operating the saw mill ope ration in Gall's creek since 1946, after coming here from the mid-west where they were en gaged in machinist work. Offices for the company are located at 635 Second ave. in Gold Hill. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee .. .9 12 0 New York ! 8 7 1 Conley and Crandall; Go mes. Corwin (2). Wilhelm (7), McCall (9) and Katt. Chicago 1 4 I Pittsburgh 4 13 0 Minner. Andre (4). Cohen (5), Amor (8) and Chiti; Pur key and Shepard. plate setting off a bomb, since I haven't the knowledge to do so," the youth said. ' Portland U.R) Another bomb threat call was reported here today this one . at Roose velt high school. A woman : secretary said a young male voice called at 11:30 a.m. that a bomb would go off in the . building within half an hour. The school was vacated while police ' made the usual search. Last night the wife of the prin cipal at Oregon City junior high school, Mrs. Milo Cameron, said a caller who apparently was a young boy, said a bomb would explode in the school library. No bomb was found. - - united rrt would be trained for business and industrial jobs and en couraged to move off land so poor that farming is "an almost hopeless struggle." Farms Concentrated Low-income farms are concen trated in about one-third of the nation's 3,000 farming counties, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson reported. They lie large ly in a southern and eastern belt stretching from eastern Texas to Pennsylvania. ' Farmers in these areas are up against "lack of enough good land, lack of equipment, lack of credit facilities and often lack of . . . management information and skill," the agriculture secre tary's report said. The proposed solutions are "those which the people most concerned have chosen, as shown by their economic and social be havior," the report asserted. Key Proposals Key proposals included: 1. Expand cooperative federal-state agricultural extensioh work and adapt it to the needs of low-income families. In pilot counties. Benson said at least 50 families a year should be given a complete farm production and living guidance service. These families would serve as an v. ample to their neiehbors. Thev might be encouraged to save money oy buvine and ellinr cooperatively, Benson suggested. 1 . -E.AUCUIU researcn on tn operation of small farms, pos sibly setting up several experi mental farms to study new com binations .of crops. . .. 3. . Provide information on town and city job prospects to farmers in areas that should not be cropped. Benson said this might be coupled with state ac tion to bar farming m some areas by zoning laws. Poor land now in farms could be sold for forestry use, the secretary sug gested. New Industry 4. Expand state and local uro grams designed to bring new in dustry to rural areas. Federal agencies should help in locating defense industry in , sections heavily populated by low-in come farmers. ,' 5. Authorize the farmers home administration to recognize part time farmers. FHA should also be given 30 million dollars for five-to-seven year loans to low- income farmers, and banks should be encouraged to make more loans of this type. 6. Encourase Drivate farm. business and other leadership to unite in community develop ment projects to make the most of "agriculture's human re sources." Lowry Cifes Work on Comic Book Measure Salem (U.R) The Senate Ju diciary Committee' last nisht gave approval to a series of bills designed to force objectionable ccmic books and paperbound books with racy covers off Ore gon newsstands. Sen. Phil Lowrv fR-Medford said it was the committee's in tention to turn out "effective, workable" j legislation in the comic book field and he said he believed the amended bills would meet the test of constitu tionality. He added that there was nothing in the series of bills that could be construed as en couragement of book burning. , 6C School Bond Vote Thursday, 2 fo 8 p.m. Central Point - Voters in School District 6C, including the areas around Central Point and Gold Hill, will vote on a $350, 000 school bond issue tomorrow. Polls will be open from 2 to 8 p.m. in the Gold Hill elemen tary school and the Central Point Junior high school. The bend authorization is be ing sought by the district for fi nancing construction of two new elementary schools, one in each city. School authorities say that they are necessary to accommo date next year's, students .and to eliminate certain sub-standard room bow in us.- Tribune -full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 32 Temperatures Drop To Record Lows; Fruit Damage Minor Some Orchards May Suffer Partial Loss . Temperatures dropped to a record seasonal low in the Rogue valley this morning, and orchard heating was fairly general. Limited damage will probably result in a few of the orchards in the colder parts of the valley where there was no heating, ac cording to Don Berry, county agent for horticulture. He said that the total amount probably would be insignificant in the overall crop picture. The temperature dropped to 27 degrees at the airport weath er bureau, chalking up a new record low for this date, and also a record low for this late in the season. The previous rerord low was last May 1, when tem peratures dropped to 28 degrees and caused heavy commercial damage to last year's fruit crop. The temperature in the coldest spots was 23 degrees, Berry said. He said that in some orchards which are in or approaching full bloom, and in cold, unheated spots, some damage will result. It may cause some seedless or rough pears, he believes. Presto-Logs Used Some of the valley's orchards heated with Presto-Logs, as part of continuing experiments in the use of wood waste products, and less," heaters were1 used . in the fruit growers' program of con verting to heaters which throw out less smudge smoke. While heating was fairly gen eral,' it was heaviest in the south ern portion of the valley, where clear skies resulted in a more rapid drop in temperatures. In the north, cloud cover made it possible for heating pots to be lighted later and put out earlier. West Debates Big 4 Conference London U.R) The Western Big Three debated today whether a Big Four foreign ministers con ference or a meeting of the chiefs of state stood the best chance of winning a cold war settlement from Russia. American, British and French diplomats met, to work out con crete plans for a four-power meeting the level of the con ference, the subjects to be dis cussed and whether to hold it in early summer or in the fall. Their meeting at No. 10 Carl ton House Terrace, with West German Ambassador Herbert Blankenhorn sitting in on Ger man problems, marked the start of a Western diplomatic summer offensive that could end with a four-power meeting"at the sum mits The talks were expected to last until May 8 when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Brit-, ish Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay meet in Paris for a session of the North Atlantic Treaty Council. City, County Budget Committees To Meet Jackson county and Medford budget committees will meet to morrow to further consider budgets for fiscal year 1955-56. -The Jackson county commit tee will meet in the county court's office for its final sched uled meeting before a public hearing on the budget is called. The Medford Budget commit tee will meet at 7:30 p.m. to morrow in the city hall. The budget was submitted to the committee by City Manager Robert Duff last week. Salem (U.R) Maj. Gilbert H. Charters, assistant professor of air science at Willamette Univer sityi received orders this week to report to Parks Air Force base, Calif., Aug. 1. Sandv (U.R) Walker A. Proc tor. 90. president of the Clacka mas County Bank at Sandy for the last 37 years, died yesterday. Minority Attempt To Kill Proposal Draws Rejection Package Scheduled On Thursday Agenda Salem (U.R) The Oregon House today voted 33 to 26 in favor, of sending a sales tax proposal to the voters next No vember, s The vote came on an attempt by the Democratic minority of the House Taxation Committee to kill the sales tax bill before it reached the calendar. After turning back the minority move, the House moved to pace the full sales tax package of bills on special order of business' to morrow. Rep. Pat Dooey (D-Portland) led the attack against the sales tax, claiming that it would put the burden of taxation on the low income groups to the bene fit of upper income brackets. He said the Republican majority was attempting to "fool the peo ple" with "lures" such as re duced income taxes, reduced property taxes, and aid to dis tressed school districts. Speaks in Favor Rep. Loran Stewart (R-Cottage Grave), .chairman of the tax committee, denied there was an attempt to "sugar coat" the sales tax. He said that only by com bining a sales tax with an in come tax, after the California plan, was it possible to make the plan sound. Stewart told the House that the combined forms of taxation would give the state, a balanced tax plan that would meet in creasing needs over the long range and comply with both the benefit and ability to pay theo ries of taxations, ed, would be avoided by provid- Extravagances, Stewart assert ing that any surplus from such a tax would go for debt retire ment. ' Pearson Claims Paint Job Rep. Walter Pearson (D-Port-land) claimed, that a bad finan cial picture had been deliberate ly. jaintepV by the Republican majority to make a sales tax appear necessary. Rep. C. Al len Tom (Ruf us) replied - that Pearson "was only making a speech" and that he either had not listened to state financial reports in the taxation commit tee or did not mean what he said. Before opening debate on the sales tax, the House approved and sent to the governor the Senate changes in the income tax measure. The sales tax, if finally approved, would go to the voters as a proposed alterna tive to the new, higher income taxes. Promising Gas Sands Found Near Ontario Ontario, Ore. (U.R) H. K. Riddle, president of Oroco Gas Company, today said his wildcat rig had struck promising gas sands near highway 52 seven miles east of Ontario. . Riddle said the sand was struck at about the 1390-foot level. His rig by today had drill ed 40 feet into the sand, and he did not know how much thicker it was. Tests run on the well yester day gauged 200,000 cubic feet of gas per day. Commercial mini mum is said to be 50,000 per day. . The. well was the fourth sunk in this area by Riddle. He said a major oil company geologist, who inspected the well yester day, described it as "very en couraging," and perhaps capable of producing millions of cubic feet of natural gas per day. Artesian water was struck at the same hole at the 300 foot level, Riddle said. But the gas sand apparently was free of wa ter. Portland Gas Stations -Increase Retail. Price Portland U.R) Retail prices at some Portland area service stations were up to 34.3 cents a gallon for premium gasoline to day. The raise followed tank wagon price increases by most major oil companies ranging from .3 cents per gallon on regular to .9 on premium. Maximum prices to consumers were31.8 on regular and 34.3 on premium. Weather FORECAST:.. Thickenint-. and lowering cloudiness tonight. Variable cloudiness with oc casional light showers mostly 1 in mountains Thursday. Low . tonight 33-35. High Thursday . S3..- -" ' - Temp. Highest Yesterday Lowest this Morning 27 Prte. to :39 ajnl Today mil pWp HIGH WINDS HIT TEST SITE Military observers at Camp Desert Rock arise In the open air after 50 m.p.h. winds blew down 100 tents. A thousand observers were forced to sleep in the open winds when space ran out to house them. The winds forced a postponement of "Operation Cue," a nuclear detonation which had been scheduled at the Nevada test site. Assemblies of God District Convention Opens; Reports Given Nearly 850 persons attended the opening devotional rally of the 19th annual meeting of the district council of Oregon As semblies of God, according to the Rev. Wildon Colbaugh, host pas tor. The overflow crowd last night heaid the Rev. Ralph M. Riggs, Springfield, Mo., general super intendent of the general council of the Assemblies of God, speak during the services, which also featured the Christ's Ambassa dors, youth organization of the Assemblies. The convention is being held in .the Medford church, at 1108 West Main Between 250 and 300 persons had registered yp to mid morning' today, and some 4U cr more are expected roetore the convention concludes Friday. Today's activities opened at 10 a. it), with a devotional serv ice, led by the Rev. Levi Larson, pastor of Evangelistic Temple, Salem. The first business session began at 10:30 a.m. The Rev. Atwood Foster, Sa lem, superintendent of the dis trict, whose headquarters are at the Assemblies' campgrounds near Brooks, Ore., was one of the speakers. Others : included the Rev. N. D. Davidson, pastor of the First Assembly of God, Portland, secretary, and the Rev Lester Young, Erooks, treasurer. 425 Minister! The convention was told that there are now . 425 ministers in the district in the three divisions of the ministry, those ordained, those licensed, and those classed as Christian workers. There are 15 more churches in the district this year than last, the total growing from 175 to 190, and the assembly was told that 10 more are expected dur ing the coming year. Represen tation from, about three - quar- Fqng Defense Calls Ex-Laboratory Chief Portland (U.R) The defense in the murder trial of Way Him and Sherry Fong today called on a former director of the Oregon state crime laboratory tc attack the state's claim thaj Diane Hank may have died as a re sult of barbiturate poisoning. . Dr. : Howard L. Richardson, YaKima, Wash., pointed to what he said were deficiencies in re ports of examinations .made of specimens from the 16-year-old girl's decomposed body. - , . He pointed to a statement in one report of Dr. Homer Harris, present crime laboratory direc tor, which said "decomposition Drecludes -satisfactory! examina tion for less stable poisons, in cluding alkaloids.'' X)r. Richard son said barbital is an alkaloid. Dr. Richardson was crime lab oratory director from ' 1946 to 1951. Salem Hotel Gets Explosion Threat Salem (U.R) A clerk on duty at the downtown Senator hotel received a telephone call threat ening an explosion in the hotel about 5:15 p.m. yesterday. Police were notified of the anonymous call at once and moved in to evacuate the hotel's banquet rooms and lounge. More than 160 ' Dersons were turned out of one of the banquet rooms as police searched with out result for a bomb. Investigators were . convinced tht call was a prank. ters of the churches in the state is expected before the conven tion concludes.' A business session this after noon and another devotional service this evening, with : the Rev. Mr. Riggs speaking, are on the schedule, with a similar pro gram planned for Thursday. The meetings will conclude Friday evening with an ordination serv ice. The public is invited to at tend the 10 a.m: and 7:30 p.m. senices. . , Rep. Coon Raps Oregon Senators Washington XU.R) Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) charged today that the two Democratic senators from his state are "playing a vic ious game" to block construction of the John Day dam. He did not mention Sens. Wayne L. Morse and Richard L. Neuberger by name but referred to them as "Oregon s keepaway senators . . . obstructionists . . . " Coon said they gave the Sen ate a "garbled and meaningless" version of his bill to authorize immediate development of . the John Day project on the Colum bia river. . ' "It is pretty obvious," he said, "that these obstructionists have been against everything so long as their first reaction to anything new is unreasoned opposition. "These politicians and pub licists, who are playing a vicious game of keepaway with the peo ple of Oregon, have apparently lost their ability to analyze and form sound judgments on any new . idea or principle." He said his only conclusion is that "they don't want John Day built at all."' NLRB Schedules Vote By Ontario Employees I Ontario (U.R) The National Labor Relations Board has set tomorrow as the, date for em ployees at Oregon Frozen Foods Company here to choose their bargaining agent. Balloting will determine whe ther the company's 430 workers want Teamsters local 900 of Pen delton to bargain for them. The union yesterday filed a denial of unfcair labor practices charges filed against it by the company. The NLRB petition by Ortgon Frozen Foods charged the union , with intimidation of employees. 'Rogue Valley Memorial1 Is Name Selected for Hospital Name of ' the new hospital to be constructed here will be the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital, it was revealed yesterday. The board of .directors of the Medford Hospital Association, Inc., the corporate entity which nnsratP Community hospital, filed supplemetary articles of in corporation - witn tne county court changing the corporate nam to Rotrue Valley Memorial Hospital. Both the institution and the corporate names win De me same. -Som $1,200,000 will be needed to build the structure, on a site near the eastern end of Barnett rd.. which; has already been acauired. A major fund- raising effort will be conducted here this summer. Considerable portions of the amount needed Baby Severely Burned as Fire Engulfs Crib Eugene (U.R) A ld-months-old baby was in critical condi tion with burns over 80 per cent of its body at Sacred Heart hos pital today after being rescued rxom its naming ctid. The fire victim was Patrick Lavery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Lavery of Springfield. The boy was pulled from his crib ,by C. A. Standridge and Larry Dilley, both of Spring field. ' . ' Fire Chief Harry Kreiger said the blaze apparently started in the crib at about 10 a.m. due to overheating from a nearby wood stove. The two. men broke into the smoke-filled kitchen and J . a . i, it i urnggea .out me .cno, oniy lo find, it empty. - ; TkAtt hiaaI Via rr n .nnnnJ 4-1 n i . .. .....4 .j - 41 i i. i : . ' aim iuuuu mc uauj ijiug va the floor on the mattress, which had dropped out of the bottom of the burning crib. A fire de partment -. resuscitator was im mediately applied. The baby . was unattended when the fire broke out. The kitchen and living room of the four-room house were scarred by the flames. - Some Cutter Vaccine Believed in Oregon Portland U.R) Dr. Harold ' M. Erickson, state health officer, ; said today Oregon had received no Salk polio vaccine for distri bution to first and second graders but that he believed a limited amount of vaccine from Cutter Laboratories had been distrib uted through commercial chan nels. Dr. Erickson said the Oregon health department had under stood it was to get its supply. from Cutter but that it was out and that it probably would come from an eastern , producer. (See ttoriM on Pag 7) Atomic Explosion Scheduled Thursday Las . Vegas, Mev. (U.R) A mid-morning weather evaluation affirmed - acceptable weather forecasts for an atomic explo sion tomorrow. The weatherman advised the Atomic Energy Com mission that the forecast is for a "'fairly stable" meteorological situation. , - If the shot goes tomorrow morning, the visitors . and the press will get a chance to see how "Survival Town" fared on Frioaj morning. have been donated or pledged al ready. , . ' - , ' " The Rt Rev. Benjamin D. Dagwell, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Oregon, is president of the renamed corporation;. Leon " O. Boomer is ' secretary, and board members are the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, John G. Crawford, Floyd A. Hart, Glenn L. Jackson, C W. Crary, Otto J. Frohnmayer and Eugene Thorn dike. The new hospital is planned to replace Community hospital, now inadequate for the county's needs. When completed, the new hospital will replace Community. The Episcopal diocese is the. owner of Community, and also will hold title to the new strue tux. - , - .. i
