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1 m 1 mm mm uu v& Medford United Pri Full Leased Wire 50th Year 18 Pages No Pressure Seen For Sen. Knowland To Quit Leadership Republicans Unhappy, Sampling Discloses Washington (U.R) Evidence from the right, left and center of the Republican minority in - the Senate indicated today there is no significant pressure on GOP Floor Leader William F. Knowland to give up his job. Knowland last week set off peculation that he might quit when he vigorously criticized President Eisenhower's an nounced willingness to negotiate with the Chinese Reds on the tense Formosa Straits issue with out Chinese Nationalist partici pation in the talks. He told news men Saturday, however, that he had "no present intention" to re sign. . - Midwest Speeches He then set off for the. Mid west where he repeated his ob jections to bilateral negotiations in speeches yesterday in Wiscon in and Illinois. A sampling of opinion among Senate Republicans showed ample evidence that staunch ad ministration backers are unhap py about Knowland's criticism of the President's course. How ever, there was no evidence of any serious demand for him to retire. One senator, closely connect ed with the administration, said he not only hoped Knowland would keep the floor leadership but that he believed the Senate GOP Conference would not ac - cept a resignation if it should be offered. This same senator feverently hoped there would be no complete break. Declaration of Support In an obvious response, to " Knowland's critltismri2 Repub lican senators joined Saturday night in a declaration of support for Mr. Eisenhower. They said they were confident the Presi dent would carry on any nego t ions without sacrificing this na tion's obligations. Six Youths Jailed On Liquor Charges Six youths were arrested and lodged in Jackson county jail Saturday night on charges of il legal possession of alcoholic bev erages. Joseph William Lucas, 18, box 92, Eagle Point, was 'arrested in Eagle Point about 1:30 a.m. Sun day morning, and five Southern Oregon college students were ar rested and jailed late Saturday night. The five are Charles Leonard Crandall, 18, Coos Bay; Ronald Lyman Owings, 20, Klamath Falls; William David Seymour, 19, 1098 Siskiyou blvd., Ash land; Allen Mamoru Kimura, 18. Waipahu, O a h u, T. H., and Thomas Lee Jacobson, 18, Coos Bay. Extra Funds Voted For Fishing Grounds Washington (U.R) The House voted today to let the govern ment have an extra $135,000 to replace Indian fishing grounds submerged or otherwise destroy ed by the Bonneville Dam. It passed and sent to the Sen ate a bill to increase from $50, 000 to 8785,000 the amount the government is authorized to spend in acquiring land and building necessary facilities. The House Public Works Com mittee said the increase is need ed to cover increased land costs and for access roads, clearing and grading, and partial filling of two substitute sites. Interior Department Money Bill OKd by Senate Group Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Appropriations Committee to day approved a $327,987,088 money bill to finance the Interior Department and a number of re lated agencies in the year begin ning July 1. , In a departure from the prac tice La previous years the bill did not include funds to finance the programs of the Reclamation Bureau, the Southeastern and Southwestern power administra tions and the Bonneville Power Administration. Those activities will be included in a public works bill. X MEDFORD, OREGON, VACCINE ARRIVES Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer and chairman of the medical advisory committee of the Jackson county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis, is shown above accepting, the Salic vaccine from Capt. Leon ard Hipps of West Coast Airlines at Medford airport yesterday morning. Harry Chipman. chapter chairman, looks on from the left while Mrs. Moore Hamilton, chapter secretary, watches from behind Dr. Merkel. Vaccination of all first and second grade school children in Jackson county, whose parents have signed consent slips, is scheduled to start on Monday, May 9. (L. E. McMurray photo) Oregon Anti-Polio Vaccine Distributed; Shots Slated May 9 Portland (U.R) Enough Salk anti-polio vaccine was in the hands of Oregon county health departments today to vaccinate more than 80,000 first and second grade students. MFirst,jmass . inpeyjat jqns with the vaccine will take place May 9. Dr. Harold Erickson, state health officer, said the vaccine Washington (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), urged Congress today to act "im mediately" to impose compul sory federal controls on distri bution of Salk polio vaccine. was flown to 30 counties yes terday, while Multnomah and ad joining counties picked up their supplies by truck in Portland. Four Civil Air Patrol planes were used to deliver the vaccine to 11 counties not served by com mercial airlines. The planes stopped at Gold Beach, Condon, John Day, Burns, Hood River, Radford, Robertson To Report on Trip Washington (U.R) ; Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Assistant Secretary of State Wal ter Robertson prepared top-level reports today on their estimates of prospects for war or peace in the Formosa Straits. Radford and Robertson return ed here Sunday, night after spending Sunday at Robertson's Richmond, Vt., home. They have been to Formosa where they con ferred with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Robertson said on arrival at Richmond that he and Radford would report to President Ei senhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Secre tary of Defense Charles E. Wil son. - They probably will submit their report to the President be fore he meets at the White House Tuesday with top Democratic and Republican congressional leaders. As sent to the Senate, the com mittee bill was $30,061,542 larger than the measure ap proved by the House. It was $13, 454,032 larger than the Presi dent's budget for the various agencies concerned. The bill includes $12,690,500 for the Fish and Wildlife Ser vice, S45,380,700 for the Na tional Park Service, $21,932,498 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and $15,800,000 for the Bureau of Land management. It also car ried $93,826,690 for the Agricul ture Department's Forest Ser NDAY, MAY 2, 1955 Lakeview, Newport, Lexington, Tillamook and The Dalles. West Coast and United Air lines shipped the vaccine to their regular stops in Oregon. The state's first shipment of the Salk vaccine .arrived Friday night and was "packaged Satur day. Medical Society Approves Approval of the inoculation program was given by the Ore gon Medical Society and the board of health, after the recent controversy Over supplies manu factured by-Cutter Laboratories, of Berkeley, Calif., raised doubts about its use. Oregon's supply was shipped from Parke-Davis Laboratories of Detroit. By UNITED PRESS A second child died of infan tile paralysis after receiving a shot of Salk anti-polio vaccine but the majority of the nation appeared to be unshaken today by the number of polio cases. Mass inoculations of first and second graders across the nation continued even though 35 young sters have come down with polio after receiving shots. . President Eisenhower's Polio Advisory committee held its first meeting today to draft quotas and priorities for distri bution of the precious vaccine. Idaho Girl Dies The latest Salk-inoculated child to die was a seven-year-old Idaho girl who was taken to a Spokane hospital after she be came ill. The government placed a ban on vaccine manufactured by Cut ter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., after 16 children inoc ulated with Cutter vaccine came down with polio. The ban was taken as a precautionary mea sure to allow time for -tests to determine if the vaccine was re sponsible. Pleated by Reaction Leonard A. Scheele, U.S. Surgeon-General, said he was "very pleased'"at the way parents have reacted to withdrawal of Cut ter vaccine. However, Scheele appealed to limit inoculations to children be tween one and nine years who "run the greatest risk of getting polio." Sscheele's appeal and the ad visory committee meeting in Washington came as demands in creased for strict regulation of the vaccine's distribution. Baseball AMERICAN Boston 2 6 0 Cleveland ... 4 4 0 Kemmerer, Brown, (5). Hurd (7) and White; Wynn and He gan. NATIONAL St. Louis 17 1 Pittsburgh 5 14 2 Haddix, Smith (7). Arroyo (8) and Hie Sarni (7); Purkey and Shepaxd. RIBUNE United Prtsi Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 36 Trail Man Killed In Auto Accident; Four Persons Hurt Allen Darnell Dies When Thrown From Car t One man was killed and four other persons were injured early Sunday in a two-car collision on Crater Lake highway near Eagle Point, according to state police. Dead was Allen R. Darnell, 26, Tiller. Investigating officers said Darnell died at the scene of the accident. He was thrown from his car as it rolled over several times. Wife Injured The injured included Darn ell's wife, Carolyn, 22; Leonard Lilya, 27, Trail; Henry Diriskell, 25, Canyonville, and Hazel Neff, 14, Tiller. Their injuries were believed to be minor police said. The accident occurred at about 3 a.m. Sunday at the intersec tion of Crater Lake highway and Alta Vista rd. Police quoted eyewitnesses as saying Darnell's car, which was northbound, suddenly swerved, crashing into a car operated by Mildren Viola Knudsen, 31, of Box 679, Eagle Point. The Knud sen car was on Alta Vista rd., at the intersection, where it was stopped waiting for traffic to clear, they said. Darnell's car struck the right front fender of the Knudsen veh icle, according to reports. The Darnell vehicle went over an embankment on the right side of the road, slipped sideways for about 30 feet down a ditch, and then flipped over several times, throwing both Darnell and his wife from the car. Both vehicle? were towed away. No citations were listed. Second Accident Two .people were injured Sun day evening in a second acci dent. They were Charlene Vir ginia Heath, 28, of 513V Palm st., and her husband, Milton Gar field Heath, 37. The accident oc curred at about 7:20 p.m. on Hamerick rd., when the car driv en by Mrs. Heath failed to make a sharp turn in front of Lining- er Gravel company. The car rolled, ending up on its top. Both Mr. and Mrs. Heath were taken by Medford Ambu lance service to Community hos pital, where they were treated and released. Tuesday Adjournment Of Legislature Eyed Salem (U.R) The Senate voted today to make the sales tax package of four bills the first order of business for final vote tomorrow, as talk grew concern ing closing the 1955 session to morrow night. While several lawmakers doubted that the session could end that soon. Sen. Rudie Wil- helm (R-Portland)), chairman of the Senate Tax Committee op posed a motion by Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D-Milwaukie) to put final action on the sales tax bills over until Wednesday. Sen. Wil helm said he though the session could end tomorrow night if the sales tax package is passed upon tomorrow morning. Senate President Elmo E. Smith (R-John Day) also said he hoped the issue would be voted upon tomorrow because there would then be a good chance of winding up the session and ad journing tomorrow night. Sen. Holmes Eyes Senate Presidency . Salem-J(U.R) Sen. Robert D. Holmes, Gearhart Democrat, to day became the first senator to announce his . candidacy for president of the 1957 Oregon Senate. At the same time Rep. Pat Dooley, Portland Democrat, an nounced his candidacy for the speaker of the 1957 House. Sen. Holmes said he felt there was a strong probability that the House would go Democratic next session, and a good possibility that the Senate would go Demo cratic. "Afteribserving four sessions of the legislature with the Re publicans in control," Sen. Holmes said, "I am convinced that the Democratic trend which elected a U.S. senator and a con gresswoman from Oregon will continue." Weather FORECAST Partly e 1 n t y through Tuesday. Chance of a few scattered ihower tonight and Tuesday afternoon. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 36-38. High Tuesday 2. Temp. Highest yesterday 59 Lowest this morning 34 Practice Parachute Jump Made North of City Near Camp White A parachute jump, one of the first in the Medford area in many years, was made shortly before noon today north of the Camp White area. Jim Wright, who has served as a "smokejumper" for the U.S. forest service out of Cave Junction, made the jump from Rogue Flying service Cessna 170 plane flown from the Medford municipal airport by Don George. Wright, practicing "on his own," bailed out to try a free fall jump, or delayed para chute opening. He left the fly ing service plane at about 3. 200 feet and his chute opened about 1,000 feet above the ground. , The jump was made about two miles northeast of the Veterans administration domi ciliary and Wright drifted lit tle in the descent. George re ported. Wright carried an aux iliary chute. George said the jump went off "swell." East Nominated As District Judge To Succeed Fee Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today nomin ated William .G. East, Eugene, Ore., Republican, to be U. S. Dis trict Judge for- the District of Oregon. East, Circuit Court Judge of Lane county since 1949, would succeed James A. Fee, appoint ed to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judge East, 47, has been an attorney for 23 years. He was born in Lecompton, Kan., but moved to Salem with his family while still a bby. He graduated from University of Oregon Law School in 1932. Served in Army He served as an infantry of ficer in the Army from 1942 un til 1946, when he resumed his private law practice in Eugene. He also became city attorney and counsel of the Eugene water board the same year. In 1949, former Gov. Douglas McKay named him to the circuit bench of the 2nd judicial dis trict, composed of Lane, Douglas, Coos, Curry and Lincoln coun ties. He has held that position until the present. The judge is married to the former Louise F. Wilhelm, and has a daughter, Sara. Higher Benefits for Workers Approved Salem (U.R) The House to day approved by a vote of 51 to 8 a bill raising workers' benefits and employers' contributions un der the Unemployment Compen sation Act. The bill now goes to a conference committee for Sen ate concurrence with the. House amendments. If finally approved, the bill would raise maximum weekly benefits from the present $25 per week to $35. They would be effective Dec. 31 of this year. The law would be effective Dec. 31 of this year. . The law would effect all em ployers of two or more persons and they would make contribu tions on salaries up to $3300 in stead of the present $3600. In order to halt further drains on the idle pay fund, the bill raised employer contributions by .3 of one per cent on salaries beginning at $700 instead of the present $400. Founder of FFA Dies in Kansas City v Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) funeral services for Wilber A. Cochel, founder of the Future Farmers of America and for 20 years editor of the weekly Kan sas City Star, will be held Wed nesday. Cochel, 77, died yesterday aft ed a long illness. A noted farm journalist and educator in the Midwest, Cochel was responsible for the first ga thering of rural boys on a na tional scale. Yalhma Firing Center, Wash. (U.R) The Army's 2nd Infan try Division today threw its mo bile units against an "aggressor" force in an effort to throw the 'enemy" back across the Columbia-river her. Dai Denounces Dethronement by Military Junta Eisenhower Envoy Rushes To Saigon . Saigon, Indochina (U.R) Free Viet Nam's bloody civil war exploded again today in shell scarred Saigon with heavy fight ting between government and rebel troops. . At the same time Emperor Bao Dai denounced the military junta whith dethroned him Sat urday and said he was determin ed to return to his native land from the French Riviera. Today's fighting erupted when rebel troops opened fire on gov ernment positions and regular soldiers, loyal to Premier Ngo Dinh Diem delivered a full scale counterattack. Army Deserters The rebels launched their at tacks just after the American backed Premier announced that five battalions of their army had deserted to the government side. The sound of new shellbursts greeted President Eisenhower's spcial envoy Gen. J. Lawton Col lins, who flew here this morn ing from Washington. Collins saw Diem for half an hour this afternoon. Informed sources said Diem brought him up to date on the recent tumult uous events in the capital. Malcolm MacDonald, Britain's trouble shooting high commis sioner for Southeast Asia, arriv ed from Singapore to make an on the spot assessment of the situation at London's request. It was reported later that Col lins told Diem the United States could give no guarantees on any moves the Premier may make in the future. The Premier's office described the results of the dis cussion as "excellent." MacDonald conferred with Diem immediately afterward. Both French and Viet Namese believed he carried with him the American decision on whether to back the new "revolutionary committee" now supporting Diem. Government troops threw a counter - attack against several hundred Binh Xuyen in the out skirts of Cholon, the Chinese city an the outskirts of Saigon. Smoke rose from over, the city areas which were burned in heavy fighting last Thursday and Friday. Shaky Victory Diem appeared to be the shaky victor of a week end of violence and political turbulence when the fighting began again today. Bao Dai, in an interview pub lished in the mass-circulation newspaper France Soir in Paris, said he would return home as soon as the confusion in Viet Nam has ended. ; Bao Dai has been living in a pink villa on the French Riviera since April, 195, and said he stayed in France only because Diem had asked him to do so. He took sharp issue with the "revolutionary committee" which sprang up in Saigon and declared his dethronement. He called it a "plot of extremists who sought to exploit the con fusion in Saigon." Safeway Damage Suit Dismissed Portland U.R) Safeway Stores, Inc., was dismissed today as one of the defendants in a $714,000 damage suit brought by a Portland couple. The complaint was brought by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Zucker. He was jailed in 1952 after his wife wrote checks on the Oregon City Safeway store. The petition con tends he was wrongfully jailed. Remaining defendants in the federal court action are Fred Reaksecker, Clackamas county sheriff; Winston Bradshaw, county district attorney; Glen Macdonald, former chief of po lice at Oregon City, and Stanley J. Mitchell, Oregon City attor ney who represented Zucker at the time. Ambassadors Treaty Making Vienna (U.R) Delegates of the United States, Russia, France, Britain and Austria met today in Vienna's inner city to try to write an Austrian state treaty which, could change the cold war map of Europe. For an indefinite number of days they will confer in secrecy to try to write the treaty which will end 10 years of military oc cupation and make Austria a free nation for the first time since 1938 when Nazi Germany took it over anschluss. Many obstacles lay in their path, and Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab warned the Aus trians not to expect immediate agreement. . TO'Slayin Bernice Hampton (Tex) White, 37 of 228 Hartley rd., Medford, pleaded innocent in circuit court today to first degree murder charges growing out of the death of Eugene Raymond Birk, 32, of 215 Fourth st., Phoenix, last March 2. Trial for White was set for June 14. Birk died in an Ashland hospi tal March 2 of head injuries re ceived when he was struck with Waller G. Tucker Of Pioneer Family Dies at Ashland Ashland Walter Gray (Jim) Tucker, 71, a lifelong resident of this area and a member of a pioneer Jackson county family, died here Sunday. Funeral serv ices will be held Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. with Litwiller funeral home in charge of arrangements. Mr. Tucker was born June 3, 1884 at the old Wagner family re sort, now known as Soda Springs. His father, Louis Tuck er, came across the plains to Ore gon in 1851. His mother, Mary Michelson Tucker, came to Ore gon in 1862. Mr: Tucker lived for, a time at Boone ranch, where the present house was built by his uncle, and for a time at Eagle Point. He attended the old Bellview schools south of Ashland, and one of his teachers was Susanne Homes, who later was county superintendent of schools and in whose honor the women's dormi tory at Southern Oregon college Is named. A carpenter, Mr. Tucker help ed build many of the houses in Ashland. He was a longtime member of tfie Ashland Elks lodge, and was prominent in work wth the- Bellview Grange. Mr. Tucker was married to Mary Homes, who died in the early 1930s, and in 1945 he mar ried the former Mrs., Elizabeth Nichols, who survives him. Other survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Daisy Homes and Mrs. Ivy Grubb, both of Ashland, and three stepsons. Estimated Cost of Hells Dam Declines Washington (U.R) The es timated cost of controversial Hells Canyon dam has dropped by more than $3,000,000 in the past three years, a Senate Inter ior subcommittee was told to day. -' C. I. Hoisington, a Reclama tion Bureau Estimates and An alysis engineer from Denver, Colo., said that under April, 1955 prices, the structure would cost $353,740,000. A previous esti mate submitted to Congress in 1952 set the cost at $356,810,000, he said. Hoisington was one of a series of Interior Department witness es called to supply technical in formation about the dam. The subcommittee was starting a three-day hearing here, follow ing hearings last month in the Idaho-Oregon area where the dam would be located. (See Story on Page 8) Atomic Blast Delayed Till Wednesday Morning Las Vegas U.R) The Atomic Energy Commission today post poned for another 24 hours, until Wednesday morning, the sched uled big atomic blast at Yucca Flat. Heavy clouds which would pose a radiation hazard was given as the reason. Sit Down To Austria Sovereign Nation We must realize that the am bassadors face a very difficult task which will take them time," he said. "Each line of the treaty clauses must be gone over and worded with care and precision to avoid any misinterpretations," Raab pointed out. If Soviet plans are adopted, the treaty would erase four-power occupation zones and leave Austria a neutral buffer between East and West. But Western pow ers have stated f irmely that they would agree only to a free and sovereign nation, left to map its own future. Heavy security precautions surrounded the conference site with some 400 city policemen by Wit g ClNHt , a two-by-four at the Talent saw ' mill. , . hite also filed notice in writ ing that he plans to introduce evidence attempting to prove his insanity at the time of the as sault of Dirk. Claude Richard Day, 23, of 5908 Southeast Lamber st., Port land, and Jack LeRoy Day, 18, of 7925 East 60th st., Portland, were to be arraigned today in district court on charges of fail ure to stop at the scene of an ac cident involving bodily injury to a pedestrian on April 14. The Day brothers were return ed to Medford from Los Angeles Friday. Claude Day is charged with failing to immediately stop at the scene of the accident and remain until he had rendered reasonable assistance to Mrs. Ruby Bartley, 55, route 1, box 237, Talent, who suffered two broken legs, a broken wrist and serious internal injuries. Found in Ditch Mrs. Bartley was found in a ditch beside Highway 99 near the Tally Ho restaurant in Talent. Jack Day is charged as a pas senger and witness with failure to furnish the victim his nam and address. The trial for Richard Rhoten and Conley Carl Rhoten, route 1, box 74, Rogue River, was It for June 7 in circuit court to . They are charged with the theft of more than $75 worth of fir logs from the. Robert Dollar company last March. They plead ed innocent last week. Burglars Grab $800 In Property From Ranch, Two Firms s Three burglaries and the theft of a car radio, involving more than $800 worth of property, were reported to Jackson county sheriffs office yesterday Officers investigated a break in at the Inter-Mountain ranch near Prospect, where first esti mates listed about $600 worth of property missing. Thieves escaped with several dollars worth of animal halters. about 24 dog harnesses, an eight- foot steel rule, and a block plane at the Big Y Feed Store on North Highway 99, Saturday night. No estimate of the stolen property was available. Loss About $200 About $200 worth of property. including foodstuffs, was taken from Bob's Barbecue, North Highway 99. Officers said burglars ! broke glass in wondows near doors In both the Big Y Feed store and Bob's Barbecue. Investigations into both burglaries continued today. Ward Sherman, Fourth ana Pine sts., Central Point, report ed to sheriff's officers that th radio in his car, valued at about $25. was removed while the ear was parked at Fourth and Pin sts. Saturday night. Scattered Orchard Heating Reported Temneratures which went fa te the low, 30s in the Rogue val ley early this morning resulted in scattered light orchard nest ing between 1 and 4:30 p.m. Don Berry, Jackson county horticulture agent, said the heat ing was light in the valley lower areas, but by 4:30 a.m. mosi . heating had, ended. The low temperature at Med ford's municipal airport was 34 degrees this morning. Discuss State anH nlatoons of detectives sur rounding the building to hold back crowds and to keep news men from entering. The inter ior of the building was guarded by American military police who have control of the inner city. U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson, the senior diplo mat, was named conference chairman for the first day. Spokesmen of all five confer ring powers have issued formal expressions of optimism, but the brass tacks bargaining on some of the treaty clauses was expect ed to be far from smooth. Warn ings have come from Washing ton, London and Paris that the Russians may pull new tricks at the conference table. ir 4
