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mm! :- '' i w ii era Mir No Polio Shots Pone ScDdooD (IMdren ddo State Moire May 23 Portland (U.R) No Salk polio Inoculations will be given in Oregon before May 23. Dr. Harold M- Erickson, state health officer, made that an nouncement following a series of week end meetings of the State Board of Health and the Oregon State Medical society. Dr. Erickson said he had re ceived word from Dr. Richard Boyd, regional medical direc tor of the public health service in San Francisco, that Parke Davis company vaccine sched uled for use in Oregon would be among the first batches tested by public health authorities in their re-evaluation of the vac cine. The health officer said he did not want to raise "false hopes," but "assuming that our vaccine is among the first reviewed, we can hope to begin our inocula tion program again the week of May 23." Anxious To Start Even assuming clearance of the Oregon vaccine within the next several' days it would still take until May 23 to reorganize the program for vaccination of more than 70,000 Oregon school children, Dr. Erickson said. "We are most anxious to get our program underway and as soon as we get the go-ahead from the federal government, we shall start the wheels turning," he said. An emergency meeting' of the State Board of Health Sat urday recommended postpone ments of the shots in line with a request from the U. S. Surgeon General. The council of the Ore gon State Medical society went along with the board's recom mendation, stating that the fate of the anti-polio program should be left up to public health of ficials. Private doctors expressed their eagerness to help restart the program when evaluation of the vaccine should be com pleted. Confusion Reported The board of health voted for postponement because .. of con fusion in the public mind ,re- Release of Airmen -Held by China Seen Tokyo (U.R) Indian diplo mat V. K. Krishna Menon said today he believed Communist China would release the Ameri can airmen it is holding on "spy" charges but said he had not been asked by the United States to take up that problem with Peiping. Krishna Menon, Indian rep resentative to the United Na tions and close adviser to Prime Minister Jawharlal Nehru, land ed here today when bad weather at Hong Kong forced an 1,800 mile detour. He was to have be gun talks with Red Premier Chou En-lai today. He told 20 newsmen in the Indian chancellery he was. not going to Peiping to discuss any "particular prescription" for easing world tensions. It was generally believed his mission might bring about release of the fliers and set up U.S.-Commun-ist talks on Formosa. Coon Says John Day Dam Foes Playing Politics Corvallis (U.R1 Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) today charged op ponents of his bill for John Day dam on he Columbia river with wanting to "keep away" any new power projects from Oregon to build up a political isue in 1956. Coon, speaking at the annual convention of the Oregon Cattle men's Association here, said his bill pointed the way to the so lution of the Northwest's ap proaching power shortage. Russians Risk If Agreement Washington U.R) Russia is risking trouble in Hungary and perhaps other Iron Curtain satel lites if it agrees to an Austrian treaty, American officials said today. They pointed out that the Kremlin's signature on an Aus trian treaty would: 1. Give Hungary a border or "window" on the free world for the first time in 10 years of Red rule7 Boost Satellite Hopes - 2. Lengthen Czechoslovakia's border with the free world. 3. Constitute a rollback of the Iron Curtain when Red troops pull out-Of Austria. 4. Boost hopes of satellite peo ple everywhere that they may see Red rule dwindle or disap- garding the inoculations, because of doubt as to the availability of serum for a second dose, and because of the surgeon general's request. Members said they were con cerned at the calculated risk of withholding shots and hoped there would be no lengthy de lay while the national institute of health conducts its check of each batch of vaccine. ' State Epidemiologist Dr. Sam uel B. Osgood said, "the confu sion is an important- item. If we started the program now there would be too many parents who wouldn't know what to do." Public Hearing on County's Budget Set for June 10 Friday, June 10, today was set as the date for a public hearing on a proposed $3,622,003 20 Jackson county budget for the coming fiscal year. Final approval of the fiscal program was given this morning at a meeting of the county court and members of the county bud get committee. The court includes Judge Rod ney Keating and Commissioners L. G. Morthland and Chester Wendt. The budget committee is made up of Arnold Bohnert,Tom Wray and Roger Rath. Publication Dates Dates for publication also were also set at this morning's meet ing. The complete budget will be published in The Mail Tri bune on May 20 and May 27. The tentative budget will not be adopted formally until after the public hearing. As approved by the court and the budget committee, the bud get calls for a levy of $695,094. 13, compared to a levy of $356. 918.14 last year. However, Coun ty Assessor R. G. Fowler has in dicated that a new assessed val uation for the county;' expected around June 15, may mean a de crease in individual taxes. Two New Hems Items appearing in the budget for the first time include $65, 000 for construction of a juve nile detention facility and $7, 500 to be used in conjunction with a similar sum to be put up by the city of Medford to employ a planning officer or to set up a planning commission. For the second year, the bud get contains $60,000 to be used as the county's share of funds for construction of the proposed ar mory building at the county fair grounds. None of the money bud geted for that purpose last year was used. This year's appropria tion is included in a building fund. 16-Year-Old Injured In Bike-Car Mishap Charles Albert Langston, 16, of 263 Beatty st., Medford, suf fered slight , injuries when the bicycle he was riding was struck by a car driven by Craig Law rence Gilbert, 2510 Lyman ave., Medford, on South Central ave. near Boyd st. about 4:20 p.m. yesterday. Langston was treated by a pri vate physician for a foot injury and other bruises. Medford police said Gilbert was cited for failure to leave in formation at the scene of the accident. In another accident over the week end, a vehicle operated by Osa Edward Waggoner, box 155, Phoenix, struck a fence on prop erty owned by the Cal-Ore Ma chinery company, 944 South Central ave. No citations were issued. Trouble in Satellites Made on Austrian Treaty pear in their homelands.' Diplomats know Russia will not sign an Austrian treaty as a great humanitarian gesture. They believe the Russians want to set up a neutral -Austria as a pattern for Germany the big prize in the East-West conflict in Europe. Russians Taking Chance In chess terms, the Russians are detected trying to give up a pawn to capture a queen. But high-ranking American officials say the , Russians are taking a long chance. The main topic of interest is the trouble the Communists al ready are having in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It is hope fully "predicted that an Austrian pact will increase Red troubles Medford United Press Full Leased Wlr 50th Year 16 Pages US Said Opposed To Use of Force By Chiang on China Aggressiveness Would Lack Backing Asilomar, Calif. (U.R) The United States is opposed to the use of force by the Nationalists to retake the China mainland. This was made clear yesterday by Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, who told the ninth annual Northern Califor nia World Affairs 'council con ference: "The United States will not support the aggressive use of force in any effort of the Chin ese Nationalists to return to the mainland." Eisenhower's Stand "This stand was plainly taken by President Eisenhower during a press conference sometime ago," he said. "In fact, the Unit ed States renounces the use of force to bring about any re-unification." Allen is in charge of Eastern and South Asian and African affairs of the State Department. He was asked at a round table panel at the conference what the U. S. policy was regarding the return of. Red China to the Nationalist government of Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Statement. Surprises . Allen's forthright statement came as a complete 'surprise to T. K. Chang, consul general of the Republic of Free' China in San Francisco. "It has never been expressed so flatly before," Chang said. "That is the first time I've ever heard a United States gov ernment official make a policy statement on the subject," Chang said. Chang would not comment further on Allen's statement, but' earlier he" told the council that Communist China is" "ded icated to world revolution." Hope for Free China "So long as Red Chinese dom inate China, there will be trou ble," he said. "Our objective is to go back and establish a free China on the mainland. We hope no one will sabotage these plans." " The round table discussion concluded three days of confer ence here, called to discuss the question of coexistence between free and Communist countries. Adm. Stump Arrives For Talk With Chiang Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Adm. Felix B. Stump, U.S. naval com mander in the Pacific, arrived unexpectedly today and sched uled a meeting with Generalis simo Chiang Kai-shek. Stump held long talks imme diately after his arrival with American Ambassador Karl Ran kin and Vice-Adm. Alfred M. Pride, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, on the explosive situation in Formosa Strait. Pride Saturday paid a six-hour visit to Quemoy island which came under sharp Communist artillery fire last week. He in spected the defenses and con ferred with Gen. Liu Lien-chi, the garrison commander. Official quarters refused to comment on the reasons for Stump's unannounced and com pletely unexpected visit. Salem (U.R) Bernard Mainwaring, publisher of the Salem Capital Journal, has been appointed as a member of the State Board of Higher Educa tion by Gov. Paul L. Patterson. in those countries Hungary recently has had a top-level political upheaval Moscow style. Its 23-month "new economic course" has been junk ed as a "rightist deviation." Its leaders are in disgrace.. Economy Suffering Hungarian agriculture, indus try, labor, housing and other as pects of the Red economy are said to be suffering. Communism has never been popular in Czechoslovakia and experts see it losing ground be cause of difficulties in industry and agriculture. Indifference of workers is said to be plaguing Red ' production goals. Severe shortages of raw materials such as cotton, hides and iron ore hav been reported. MEDFORD, OREGON, LHloyse Margin of Votes More Than Needed To Override Veto Senate Approval ' Expected Wednesday Washington (U.R) The House today ignored the threat of a presidential veto and approved a compromise bill to boost pay of 500,000 postal workers an average of 8.8 per cent. The measure was approved by a vote of 328 to 66, or 65 votes more than would be necessary to override a presidential veto". Senate Approval Expected The Senate is expected to ap prove the measure Wednesday and send it to the White House. It represents a compromise be tween an 8.2 per cent increase voted earlier by the House and 10 per cent approved earlier by the Senate. The White House opposed a raise of more than 7.6 per cent. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield said in a letter to House Republican Leader Jo seph W. Martin Jr. last' night that he would ask the President to veto the compromise measure. Democratic Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts charged that Summerfield is "not only undertaking to dictate to Congree, but to dictate to the President of the United States." McCormack said Mr. Eisen hower had "clearly indicated" at a news conference last week that he had not yet made up his mind whether to veto the 8.8 per cent increase. Missing Youngster Found by Officers Ashland " Ten-year-old Ron nie Wilson was found hiking along Wagner Creek rd. west of here at about 2 a.m. Sunday, almost 12 hours after a search had been organized for him. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wilson, Ashland, was reported missing at about 2 p.m. Saturday after he became sep arated from his father while the two were hiking in the area at the head of Wagner creek. i A party of law enforcement officers, members of the state forest patrol, and Ashland resi dents took part in the search. The boy, accompanied by his small black dog, was found by two . sheriff's deputies. He was hiking down the road toward Talent when the officers located him. Robert Mitehum Sues Magt azine for Article Hollywood (U.R) Actor Rob ert Mitehum sued Confidential magazine for one million dollars today, claiming he was ridiculed and defamed in an article which said he attended a masquerade party as a hamburger in the raw and with catsup smeared over his body. The action was filed by his at- tnrnpv Trrir flip.cler. in' nearbVM Santa Monica Superior Court. I The Dalles (U.R) Lanny Oaks, 4, son of Mrs. Joyce Oaks of The Dalles, drowned in Mill creek south of here yesterday when he fell into the stream fx-om a footbridge. Yakima Firing Center, Wash. (U.R) The Army's "Exercise Applejack" ended officially late yesterday when the 2nd infantry division captured the last of its objectives. i.TTCfi IN LOS ANGELES HOSPITAL. Anthonv Warren. 6, is undergoing treatment after being stricken with polio following inoculation wjth vaccine from Cutter Laboratories, Berkeley. School , parse gent him frame after left arm becaja paralyaad 7 day liter inoculation. jlnUnativul) A. MONls y, AAAY 9, 1955 CCs WINNING HONORS as nation's outstanding 1955 truck driver, Floyd J. Pemberton, Detroit, is presented special award by Pres ident' Eisenhower, pen inscribed "I shot par with Eisenhower," at White House ceremony. Pemberton. risked life to save two women trapped in flaming auto, drove 500,000 miles with but one accident His wife, Bonnie, is in center. ' (International) Plane Crash Hoax Leads Man To Jail Klamath Falls (U.R) Ed-, ward Patterson, 39, Merrill, was being held in the Klamath coun ty jail today as a suspect in the airplane crash hoax which set off a two-state search April 23. Patterson was arrested early Sunday on a drunk charge by Merrill Chief of Police Dal Reed. The police chief said Pat terson had lold him of the plane hoax. Reed quoted Patterson as saying he ihought he "'would have a little fun. Avheh. he gave he false information to trfe Civil Aeronautics Administration in Klamath Falls. Patterson retracted his state ment when he learned that Reed was a police officer. The report of the plane crash Sewell Avery Quits As Ward Chairman ' Chicago (U.R) Sewell L., Avery today resigned as chair man of the board of Montgomery Ward & Co. Avery, 82-year-old executive who directed the huge mail or der firm since 1931, stepped down at a special meeting of the Ward's Board of Directors. John A. Barr, vice-president and secretary of the 'company, was named his successor, effec tive immediately. .. Avery two weeks ago fought against financier Louis E. Wolf son for control of the firm and won their proxy battle by re taining control of 'the Board of Directors. There were widespread re ports at the time, however, that he would relinquish his post as chairman. LIGHT ORCHARD HEATING ' Light orchard heating in scat tered parts of the Medford area accurred early today, according to Don Berry, county agent for horticulture. A few orchards lit heaters after 3 a.m. for a short period, Berry said. Washington U.R The Su preme Court has refused to award damages to Mrs. Evelyn Rice, a Korean war widow whose American Indian husband was denied burial in an "all white" cemetery at Sioux City, la.-:- . fRIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 42 started a search by scores of men and a half dozen planes in the Devil's Garden area near Al turas, Calif. After a futile hunt, authorities announced the report was a hoax. Series of Minor Crimes Reported Burglars escaped with about $34 in. quarters and half dollars from an ice house on North . Fir st. between 9 and 11 p.m. Sat urday night. The ice house is owned by the Valley Fuel com pany, 26 West Main st.- Police said entrance was gain ed by prying the east door open. The money was taken from three small coin boxes inside the house. The theft of two newspaper racks from in front of 42 South Central ave. sometime last night was reported to police early to day. Eugene Darrell Wheeler, 611 South Riverside ave., who reported the theff, told police about $19 was in coin b at on the racks.. Last of Yucca Flats Bomb Explosions Delayed Las Vegas 4J.R) The Atomic Energy commission today post poned the 14th and final nuclear detonation of its spring tests at least until Wednesday because of unfavorable weather conditions. The 500-foot tower shot, equiv alent to 30,000 tons of TNT, had been scheduled tentatively for tomorrow morning. It originally was set for last Friday. Eugene Man Slays Roomer; Takes Own Life Eugene (U.R) Robert Black, 57-year-old Southern Pacific- em ployee, shot a fellow roomer to death here Saturday night and then took his own life, accord ing to police. ; Black's victim was Damon L. Soric, 40, a construction worker here. He was shot six times in the body and head with a Smith and Wesson .38 special. Black then went to his own room and shot himself, police said. Washington U.R) Nine vol unteers have started a two to three months diet of radiation treated food at the Army Nutri tion Laboratory in Denver. . ' 'a i ' 2s smz& I , 'J Weather FORECAST: Fair with variable ni(h cloudiness tonight and Tuesday. Little temperature chance. Low tonight near 38. High Tuesday 72. Temp. Highest yesterday 70 Lowest this morning 37 Lost McMinnville Youngster Found By Search Teams Child Wanders About Four Miles McMinnville, Ore. U.R) A two-year-old boy, missing over night in chilly weather in the Coast range foothills, was found alive today, the sheriff's office reported. The boy, Jess Davis, was being taken to a McMinnville hospital to be checked for shock and ex posure. First reports said he-wandered onto a farm about four miles from his grandparents' place from where he disappeared yes terday afternoon. , -He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Davis, Dallas. Search parties and blood hounds spent yesterday after noon and up until one o'clock this morning hunting through fields, farmland and brushv hill sides for the boy. A trout stream was dragged. Lightly Clad The boy, who was lightly clad, disappeared from the homo of his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Fagan, where his parents had taken their fam ily lor Mother's dav. He ras missed within a few minutes hut when his parents and relatives couldn't find him the sheriffs office was called in. The Fagan's farm is about 14 miles southwest of here. The nighttime temperature in ine area was about 35 degrees. Eagle Point Slates $150,000 Bond Vote Eagle Point An election on a $150,000 bond issue to finance construction of a multi-purpose building and vocational agricul ture building in Eagle Point School district 9 will be held at the high school gymnasium here between 2 and 8 p.m. Wednes day. . The multi-purpose building for elementary grades will be used as a cafeteria, playroom, gymna sium' and auditorium. The voca tional agriculture building will be for the high school. ' The buildings were approved by the directors of the school board recently after several civic groups recomemnded a multi purpose building - and Eagle Point and Lake Creek Granses urged a vocational building. Equalization Board Holds First Session The Jackson county board of equalization this morning started interviewing property owners who are protesting the amount of-assessed valuation placed on their real property, i . The board will be in'session each day between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. . for . approximately two weeks. Owners of property on which the valuation has been in creased have been notified by the board and may request to be heard. Members . of the board are County Judge Rodney Keating, Arnold Bohnert, and Ralph Cook. Surviving Brodie Twin Signs Chicago (U.R) - The world's most famous Siamese twin, three year old Rodney Dee Bro die, appeared to be fighting his way back from death today. The youngster came out of a 55 hour coma ' and seemed to recognize his parents on Moth er's day. ' But . his condition was still critical. Doctors hoped a hem orrhage in his brain has stop ped. They held out little hope for his survival if it doesn't. Brother Died ' Rodney Dee was separated from this head-joined Siamese twin brother, Roger. Lee,, in a history-making operation Dec. 17, 1952. v ' Roger Lee never recovered consciousiness after the opera tion and died 34 days later. But his brother thrived, despite 19 subsequent operations and the lack. a permanent . covering Molotov Invited To Friday Parley On Austria Treaty West Established in -Position of Strength Paris (U.R) Germanv en tered the North Atlantic Treat Organization today in an historie and moving ceremony that estab lished the West in a position of strength to negotiate with Russia. on the easing of the celd war. ine first sign of that strength came immediately when th Western Big Three formally in vited Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov to go to Vienna Fri day to sign an Austrian state treaty and authoritative sources said he had "indicated willinc- ness." Meeting Called The Western Big Three called a meeting at noon today with Canadian External Affairs Min ister Lester Pearson. French Pre mier Edgar Faure and West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer to work on a further invi tation for a formal Bit Four conference, possibly "at the sum mit." Adenauer Dledeed his "trans formed and purified" nation to fight with the West to safeguard freedom and human dignity. trermany7s resurgence as a. major power was emphasized by Adenauer's meeting with th Western leaders and in a cere--' mony at ' NATO headquarters outside Paris as Germany's flag joined those of the other 14 na tions. Nation Purified "The German people have paid harshly for the horrors which were committed in their name by blind and evil leader-' ship,? Adenauer said. "These suf ferings have transformed and purified the German nation ... Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, one of the 14 foreign min isters to welcome Germany to the Western alliance, said "We see here a demonstration of the capacity of the Atlantic people to submerge ancient differ ences." . The only hitch in the Big Four meeting was a split between the United States and Britain over whether it should be "at the summit". a meeting of the heads of state or at the foreign ministers level. ' Britain wait pressing for a meeting of gov ernment leaders in Switzerland probably around July 20. 500 Men Laid Off In Coos Bay Dispute Coos Bay (U.R) An esti mated 500 woods employees of the Coos Bay Lumber company , have been laid off by the comp- -any in the latest action in a dis mte with the AFL Plywood and ' Lumber and Sawmill Workers union. Trainmen between Powers and Coos Bay were also laid off. The action, announced today by Coos Bay general manager. A. W. Forrester, brought to 1750 the number of men idled by the dispute, which began last Tuesday. AFL workers at the comp any's Coquille plywood plant walked off their jobs over the hiring of a drying operator at that plant. The union charged another man should have been given the job. The, firm's Coos Bay opera tions were shutdown when AFL ' employers from Coquille raised picket lines, which ' CIO em ployees here refusedto pass. f - Men Trapped in Debris As Building Collapses New York U.R) Two floors of, the city's new Coliseum col lapsed while under construction today'and workmen at the scene said 25 to 50 men were trapped in a heavy tangle of steel and concrete. of Recovory I for his brain Last week, however, the little boy became sluggish. His lather, Royt Brodie, brought him from his. farm home to the University of Illinois Research and Educa tionel hospital here. Doctors performed an explor atory operation and discovered a brain hemorrhage which they could not control. Rodney Dee lapsed into a coma Friday morn ing and hope for his survival was practically given up. Condition Improves : But on Saturday night the boy's condition appeared to im prove and yesterday he regain ed consciousness. - He was still much too weak to speak; But his doctors said his color was better and he was resting more comfortably. They called the change in his condV tton heartening. mm 6 .-Sri- Ml mm :-j-'fj ml 4
