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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
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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
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MONls y, AAAY 9, 1955
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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,
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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. .
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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.
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