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Recommended 1EJUT Weather FORECAST: Fair Sunday and Monday with variable high cloudiness. High Sunday 75; low Sunday night 40. High Monday 78. Temp. Highest Yesterday 77 Lowest Yesterday Morning 43 Prec. To 11 p.m. Yesterday a A feature story on activity la art, crafts and hobbiea of mem bers at Camp White appear oa Page 12 of today's twee of The Mall Tribune. 1 United Press rull Ladsed Wire - . " : ' " United Press Full Leased Wire I ' 50th Year '. 30 PAGES -" MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, M Price 5c No. 41 r " ' 1 3 jS 58 i7 eSST Jountlr Polio VJeeinotiOi Eleclion ' - lime ''Plans' Jostponed I 1 . r. P) 7 I committee rropoies r '"'' ' All Increased Tax Base MEDFORD STUDENTS AT CAPITOL The Medford High school orchestra, under the direction of John Drysdale, presented a half hour impromptu concert in the rotunda of the State Capitol Tuesday. The picture above, taken by Oregon Statesman Photographer John Ericksen, was taken from a tiny window high in the capitol dome, and shows the or chestra during the . concert, .which drew the) Eden, Attfee Open in British Election London (U.PJ Prime Minister Anthony Eden and Laborite leader Clement i Attlee ! kicked off the formal campaign for this month's general election Satur day night with parallel calls for early Big Four talks, preferably at "the highest level." ' Attlee told a political meeting in the provincial Tozn of Blay doc that early negotiations are necessary because "America and Russia are afraid of each other," and because the world is in dan ger of atomic war. Says Government Slow "We think the present govern ment has been slow in getting together with Russia," the oppo sition leader said. "In this dan gerous world, we must have talks at the highest level as soon as possible ... - "Foreign policy today is over shadowed by the development of scientific weapons. We have to face the fact that this country and our whole , civilization is -(sic) 'in danger from these 'in dentions." Eden, in a nationwide radio speech, said Britain hopes Big Four talks with Russia "will begin within a month or two . . . at any level." Eden said he wants to make a "supreme effort to see whether we can make progress, with the main differences between East and West. Plans are afoot to make a meeting possible. "We are anxious to meet at any level the heads of govern ments or foreign secretaries," he said. "I expect they will both be needed." 'Russian Roulette' Kills Portland Boy Portland (U.R) A 14-year-old boy died instantly Saturday afternoon when he shot himself in the chest while demonstrating "Russian roulette" to a school mate. Dead is William R. Woolridge of Portland. The accident occurred at the home of a schoolmate, David Schruck, 13. Schrock told police the boys found the .38-calibre pistol in a dresser drawer. He said Woolridge put a cartridge in the chamber, pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger. "See, nothing happened. What's there to be afraid of?" Schrock said the boy then pointed the gun at his own chest and pulled the trigger. The pistol went off and be died instantly. Formal Campaign attention of both nouses of the legislature, the governor, and several hundred statehouse em ployees. The orchestra was on a. trip to Wil lamette university, and arrangements for the Capitol concert were made by Mrs. Al Littrell, wife of Rep. Littrell. The 63-piece orchestra included a few junior high school instrument . alists, and also played a one-hour concert at .Willamette. (Engraving courtesy of Oregon Statesman.) - - ... ... -J . Dry Summer Forecast In Pacific Washington (U.R) The Geo logical , Survey said Saturday that reports indicate a dry sum mer for. the Pacific Northwest and . continued drought in the southwestern states. William Su Eisenhower Jr., of the water resources division, said this did not mean ' the -survey was predicting a critical situa tion in the Pacific Northwest. But he said those states would have, less water than they have had in recent years. Sharp Earthquakes Hit Lakeport Area Lakeport, Calif . (U.R) Three sharp, rolling earthquakes and at least nine aftershocks rocked Lake county resort towns early Saturday. ; The shocks, felt within a 6V6 hour period, cracked plaster walls and ceilings; broke open brick chimneys and threw can ned goods and glassware from store shelves in. .communities fronting on . 30-mile-lorig Clear lake. The .sheriff's .office here re ported no injuries resulted from the tremors but that the third and strongest shock sent resi dents of Clear Lake Highland and Lower Lake running to the streets. The shocks centered about 100 miles almost due north of San Francisco and 200 miles south east of Eureka, Calif., where last fall an earthquake killed one person and did thousands of dol lars of damage. Lillard Calls Off Women's Wrestling Match After DA Clarifies Law Status . A women's wrestling match scheduled in Medford last night was called off yesterday after noon by Promoter Mack Lillard, after he had been contacted by Medford Police Chief Charles Champlin. ' . . ' Had Planned to go Ahead , On Friday, . Lillard stated he would go ahead with the match, featuring Gerry Hunter and Bon nie Bartlett, despite the passage and signing of a legislative bill prohibiting women from wrest ling. He said that the match had been arranged, the principals were here, and that he felt he had a commitment to them to continue. Northwest He said the Geological Sur vey's summary was based on re ports made available - by state and Canadian water, resource groups. " Shortage Seen The survey said the supply outlook for irrigation, power and other uses is good for the north ern rivers of the Columbia Basin, but "critical shortages are de veloping" in the southern half. In California "the water sup ply during the remainder of this year will be lowest since 1947." Other ; areas which may be hardest hit, Eisenhower said, are the Arkansas and Rio Grande river basins where water will be short and the Colorado River basin where streamflow - and snow accumulations are below normal. The Geological Survey sum mary was based on streamflow and ground-water levels for the six months ended last March 31. CAVES - RESORT TO OPEN . Oregon Caves The resort at the Oregon Caves National monuirfent will open .its facilities on May 14, according to Manager Richard Sabin. The coffee shop, dining room and overnight ac comodations will open that day. Guide service is provided the year around. Los Angeles U.R) An Air Pollution expert Saturday predicted there would be no ap preciable reduction in smog in the Los Angeles basin this year or even in 1956. '. . Status of the law was in doubt Friday and - Saturday, but Dis trict Attorney Walter, Nunley telephoned the office of Gov. Paul Patterson, and was assured that the bill did carry the emer gency clause which placed it in immediate effect, that it had been signed by the governor, and that it should be enforced. Would Stop Match Saturday- morning Nunley ad vised Champlin - of this and in structed him to have the match stopped. If it proceeded, Nunley said, arrests should be . made. ,,: Later Saturday, Champlin got in touch by telephone with Lil lard in Klamath Falls. After a The city council will hold a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. to morrow to consider calling a special election to change the city's general fund tax base. The citizen's budget commit tee recommended the increased tax base to provide an addition $65,000 for general fund pur poses for fiscal year 1955-56 and for each succeeding year. The recommendation followed a meeting of the budget com mittee late last week. The committee said a new, tax base is necessary "in order to continue presently existing serv ices for the people of the City of Medford, and in order to de velop programs deemed neces sary for the progress of the city." The recommendation, submit ted by committee chairman Stan ley L. Stark, said, "Such in crease is necessary in order to continue the existing services now rendered by the city of Medford, and for the following additional expenditures, some of which will be continuing: re model city jail; codification of city ordinances; provide funds for the operation of the plan ning commission; establish addi tional traffic signals; establish employees' life insurance plan; provide additional personnel for the engineering department, in anticipation of extra work re quired in future annexations." A preliminary general fund budget of $590,442, an increase of $23,962 over last year,-was submitted to the budget com mittee last month for study. The proposed budget is $31,750 over tte -amount " allowed ny -xne six per cent limitation on increases. The proposed budget as sub mitted by City Manager Robert Duff was "prepared on the basis of continuing the minimum serv ice commensurate with the growth of the city and services requested by its citizens have necessarily been delted." Duff said in presenting the budged. Duff listed several ways of balancing the budget, but point ed out that "a further reduction in the proposed budget' might seriously impair the efficiency of some of the departments." Among the ways of balancing the budget he suggested were a special ' election to vote addi tional funds to make up the deficit,-or an election to establish a .new tax base. : ' Postal Pay Boost Reported Assured ..Washington (U.R) The na tion's 500,000 postal workers were assured Saturday they will get a pay raise this year although the amount is still in doubt. Chairman Tom Murray (D Tenn.) of the House Post Office committee, told a reporter that if President Eisenhower vetoes the pending 8.8 per cent increase bill he will introduce a 7.6 per cent scale acceptable to the White House. This would add $151,000,000 to the annual post office , payroll. Murray, said a measure with the lower figure undoubtedly could be rushed through the House and Senate. The Presi dent already is pledged to sign it. The House is scheduled to act Monday on the 8.8 per cent com promise worked by Senate-House conferees after the two chambers passed differing , versions. The House had proposed 8.2 per cent and 'the Senate 10 per cent. discussion, Champlin said, Lil lard assured him the match would- not be held. ; Test Status Unknown .... Whether Lillard will go ahead with the promotion of a women's wrestling match in the future, with the thought of testing the constitutionality of the law, was not known here Saturday. Viola tion of the new law can be, pun ished with up to a year in jail, a fine of up to $500, or both. Information received here Sat urday indicated that women par ticipated in a wrestling match in Klamath Falls Friday eve ning, with no arrests being made. U.S. Health Service Calls for Temporary Halt for Hew Checks Washington U.R) The U.S. Public Health service Saturday called for a temporary halt in the nationwide polio inoculation program. Informed sources said the service wants to, "double check" the safety of all existing Salk vaccine supplies. There were indications the halt would be shortlived. Inform ed sources said the Health Ser vice was hopeful of being able to give the go-ahead for resump tion of the inoculation program in about a week. Days Request Order Permitting Change To Innocent Pleas Motions and affidavits have been filed in circuit court for Claude Richard i Day, 23, and Jack LeRoy Day, 18, Portland brothers, asking for an : order permitting -them .- .to withdraw pleas of guilty and to 'substitute pleas of, innocent to charges of failure to stop at the scene of an accident. Pleaded Wednesday The Days, extradicted from California, entered guilty pleas in circuit court Wednesday and their cases were continued, for sentencing. The charges were the out growth of an accident on April 14, in which, Mrs. Ruby May Bartley, 55, Talent, a pedestrian, was struck by an auto and ser iously injured. The accident hap pened on Highway 99 near Tal ent. The Days were arrested in Los Angeles in connection with the case. Attorney Robert Dickey, Med ford, filed the motions and affi davits Friday for the brothers. Counter affidavits by District Attorney Walter Nunley and Guy Hughes, one of the deputies who returned the Days from California, were filed yesterday by Nunley. Claim No Advice In their affidavits the Days claimed that they had no op portunity to confer , with an at torney and had no advice from an attorney other than the dis trict attorney. They . added that if they had known they . could have had counsel, they would not have entered guilty , pleas. They maintained that the dis trict attorney assured them they would get suspended sentences but that they learned the judge may have a different idea. Counter affidavits maintain that the Days were advised that they could have counsel, that they had opportunity to obtain it, that whether they would get probation depended on the court's evaluation, and that quite possibly they would have to "do time." . :; Fishermen Drowned ' , In Willamette River Oregon" City OI.R) Two Portland fishermen, a father and son, drowned in the Wilamette river near here Saturday when their boat turned over, spilling them into the river. The body of Fred Miner,' 58, was recovered near where the boat turned over- by the north entrance to the U. S. Locks at West Linn. - Dragging operations were con tinuing for his son, 31-year-old Raymond Miner, and Coast Guard frogmen were reported joining the search. ; ; - '- Several hundred boats were on the river at the time of the accident and ; the Coast Guard frogmen were participating in a water fete celebrating the dedi cation of the new Oregon City municipal elevator. Scores of fishermen . and ob servers along , the shore wit nessed the accident In the meantime, the Health Service will recommend a thor ough recheck of all vaccine stocks now on hand. This could be a time-consuming process that would slow down the flow of the vaccine supply. One possibility is that, the Health Service will recommend that the vaccine be subjected to a rechecking similar to that use in the field tests conducted last year. This testing involved the inoculation of monkeys and took several weeks for each batch of vaccine. But a great deal of testing along this line has already been done. It is possible, therefore, that some vaccine could get mov ing into the distribution pipeline fairly shortly. .. " Advises Postponement Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele, in a statement issued at 4 a.m. Saturday, advised all cit ies and states to "postpone their vaccination programs" pending a formal : announcement' today on the new precautions. . Scheele acted after an all-night meeting with a committee of iriedical experts, including Dr. Jonas Salk, the vaccine's devel oper, who were called . here : to review-: the inoculation program in the light of the '44 confirmed cases of polio that have occur red among vaccinated children.; Informants said the polio ex perts decided after - thorough study that there is nothing wrong with the bas.ic Salk vac cine formula when it is prepared properly. But they agreed that existing stocks should be re-ex amined to make sure they are absolutely safe. Youngster Lost in Skyline Mine Area Ashland A party of mor e than 10 law enforcement officials and Ashland . residents late last night continued a search in the Skyline Mine district west ' of here for a 10-year-old boy miss ing since about 2 p.m. yesterday. Ronnie Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew, Bradley Wilson, 490 Strawberry lane,' Ashland, became separated from his father while the two were hiking in the" area at the head of Wagner creek. . : . A small black dog accompa nied Ronnie, Ashland police said. The boys' father,' the state for estry department, state police, and Jackson county sheriff of ficers started an organized search of the area late yesterday. ; . Number of County Jobless Below Levels of Last Year The number of Jackson coun ty people without jobs at the end of April was samller than it was last year at this time, the Med ford office of the state employ ment service said Saturday. ' The number of unemployed was estimated at 1,400, includ ing 350 women. This estimate is 17 per cent lower than at the same, time last year, and 26 per cent lower than at the end of March: The estimate does not in clude transients seeking tempor ary work. ; 1 ' ' , -r ' ' Compensation Drops ; Claims for unemployment compensation in April declined about 40 per cent from the March totals, the report said, due largely to : the resumption - of work by sawmill and logging crews.: . ,; . . , - . The report forecast" a general increase in demands for labor during the next 60 days, as sea sonal work opens up. The lumber-industry probably will net provide as many jobs this year as it did last year, the report in Decision Follows Recommendation By Surgeon General Delay Complicates Second Inoculation The program of polio vacci nations scheduled to start in Jackson county Monday morn ing for first and second graders has been postponed, it was an nounced Saturday. Dr. A. Merkel, county health officer, announced the delay. He said his decision was made with the concurrence of Dr. Fred A. Lorish, president of the Jackson County Medical society. Questions of Fact The postponement decision was made after the surgeon gen eral of the United States rec ommended a , delay, and after Portland (U.R) The Oregon Stale Board of Health, in spe cial session late Saturday, de cided there would be no Salk polio inoculations in Oregon next week. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, said that , was the boards' recommenda tion and added that many counties had already an- ' nounced ' abandonment of in oculations for the present. The board's decision w a 'tmantrtara'ahd'was unopposed' by Dr. Matthew McKirdie, Oregon Medical Society repre sentative on the Public Health ' committee, and Dr. Samuel B. - Osgood, slate epidemiologist. consultations with medical groups meeting, in Portland seemed to indicate that some questions of fact about the vac cinations should be cleared up before the program proceeds. . The postponement of the first series of shots will complicate the administration of the second series, due two weeks after the first, it was pointed out. If. teh postponement is for one week, the second series of shots would become due after, most schools have started summer vacations. If that happens, Dr. Merkel said, some arrangements will have to be made to make the shots avail able to those entitled to them. Rescheduling To Be Studied A decision on rescheduling the shots will be made after a de tailed study of the facts, Dr. Merkel indicated. A U.S. Public Health service decision on the vaccination program is scheduled for this afternoon: -: Six cases of polio have already been reported in Oregon so far this season, Dr. Merkel said, and he added that under nor mal conditions, Jackson county would be due for a case of in fantile paralysis to show up, al though there have been none here so far this year. There had been five here by this time last year.' .. dicated, because last year extra timber supplies were, available. Orchard operations are expect ed to require a considerable number of thinners, mostly in June, the report added. '; ? The April employment picture as a whole was "off and on," the employment service said. Rain and snow . in . the mountains caused numerous short layoffs in the lumber industry, but with the return of good weather near the end of the month crews were called back. y Work More Plentiful - ; Work generally has been more plentiful than last year, it was reported. Most layoffs during the winter were shorter in duration and involved fewer employees than in 1954. ; As usual at this time of year, a considerable number of people from over states are seeking work here, the report said, but there is little opportunity- for them. About half are not mi grant workers, but are looking for an opportunity to settle in the west - Britain Proposes Meetings of Chiefs; Dulles, Faure Talk Secretary of State Turns Down Bao Dai Paris (U.R) Britain urged the United States at the outset of Big Three talks here Satur day to agree to an early meeting of the three Western Chiefs of State with Soviet Premier Niko lai Bulganin. i At the same time, the United States and France apparently failed to reach agreement in a showdown meeting on Indo china that opened one of the Saigon (U.R) Anti-French violence flared Saturday in both Communist and Free Viet " Nam. French troops were called out to protect the Eu ropean settlement here. French Commander in Chief Gen. Paul Ely charged Premier Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam was conducting a "delib erate campaign of incitement against the French." most important series of Inter national talks since World War II. . Seek Settlement . Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles conferred with French Premier Edgar Faure shortly after his arrival here Saturday m an effort to settle a con- trovery ; over U.S. support for Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam. Authoritative sources said Dulles told Faure the United States will continue to 'support Diem, , regardless of , French criticism of the embattled Pre mier. The Secretary of State Te fused .to confer" with absentee "Emperor" Bao Dai,, who rushed here from the French Riviera to see him. . Dulles and Faure will confer again on the Indochina situation next week. ' British Foreign Secretary Haiv old , Macmillan put the British proposal for a top level Big Four meeting to Dulles Saturday aft ernoon. He then sat down with six other Western European union Foreign Ministers in an attempt to win them over also to the British idea. Set Up Organisation The seven nations Britain, France, Italy, Holland, Luxem bourg, Belgium and West Ger many were meeting to set un formally their western defense organization as called for by the Paris Pacts which brings a rearmed West Germany into the North Atlantic treaty organiza tion (NATO), j MacMillan called for the Big Four meeting "at the summit," with President Eisenhower, Sir Anthony Eden and French Pre mier Faure meeting with the Soviet Chief of States. ' MacMillan made his bid as British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, in a nationwide broadcast from London, called for a su preme effort" to eliminate major differences between East and West. "We are anxious to meet at any level the heads of govern ments or foreign secretaries," he said. "I expect they will both be needed." The United States has been steadfastly opposed to a top level meeting without a big four For eign Ministers session 7 first. Dulles was not believed to have answered MacMillan immediate ly Saturday afternoon. But in an earlier meeting with West German Chancelor Konrad Adenauer, it was reported, Dulles and the Chancellor lined up solidly in favor of a lower level meeting. ' First Fores! Fire Of Season Reported Ted Maul, district warden of 4h atate forest Datrol. has cau tioned . campers and picnickers about open tires alter tne nrsi forest fire of the season burned over about an acre( of second growth brush about four miles north of Rogue River yesterday afternoon. ' Maul said lower areas are dry ing out fast, and that campers should use caution in building fires.- rv. The fire yesterday w a a brought under control -within an hour and a half, Maul said. Six men from Rogue River and one pumper from Wimer were used in extinguishing the blaze.
