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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."
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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
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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
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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.-
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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
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Highest Yesterday
Lowest this Morning 27
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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
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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
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