Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 12, 1955, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textif 0)5 Air vv emu Medford TJnltod Pnw-run L ed Wire 50th- Year 22 Pages ISussIa Bo Invited T log No Prospect Seen Thai Ike Would Consent To Idea Switzerland Seen As Possible Site Washington (U.R) Russia is likely to demand that Red China be invited to the proposed top level Big Four meeting, admin istration officials said today. They said there is no pros pect, however, that President Ei senhower would sit down at a Big Five conference with Pre mier Chou En-lai, chief of the Chinese Red regime. The United States does not recognize the Prospects Csum Cqncarn ; Prospects of this demand have caused some concern. But experts do not believe the Russians ' would insist on. Red China's par ticipation as a condition for at tending tha conference. In fact, diplomats are confi dent the Russians will agree to a top-level Big Four meeting, prob ably in July. Meanwhile, it was disclosed the United States has expressed some interest in having the pro posed meeting at Lugano, Swit zerland. It would be attended t hy Mr. Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Sir : Anthony Eden, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, and French. Premier Edgar Faure. Oiher Sites Considered Stockholm, Sweden, also was reported under consideration along-with Geneva and Vienna. Mr. Eisenhower indicated Wednesday at his news confer ence that a recent round of let ters between him and Soviet De fense Minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov had influenced his de cision to agree to a heads of gov ernment meeting. The President said only that ' correspondence was among the factors. He did not elaborate. Mr. Eisenhower said he is ready to attend an international con ference in a neutral country to test Russia's avowed willingness to reduce international tensions. He expressed the opinion that the heads of government in three days could outline areas of ten sion which would be tackled later by diplomats. No major de cisions or final agreements would be expected from the top-level meeting. May Have Encouraged Reds There is some feeling the President unwittingly may have encouraged the Russians to try to get Red China into the top- Mr. Eisenhower told reporters that the four powers might agree to limit their talks to certain areas world tension. Asked if Far Eastern questions might come up, the President said he g believed the general conversa , tion would tend to go around the world. This virtually assured dis cussion of the Formosa crisis and other Far Eastern problems of vi tal interest to Red China. Coastal Residents Eye Strange Sea Animal Charleston, Ore. (U.R) Residents of this - coastal com munity are pondering the identi ty of a 25-foot sea animal whose remains were washed onto Bas tendorff beach Tuesday. , Baseball Chicago (U.R) Sam Jones, stxingbean right-hander dis carded by the Cleveland In dians last winter, today threw the first no-hit, no-run game of the 1955 season, sparking the Chicago Cubs to a 4-0 triumph over the Pittsburgh Pirates. NATIONAL Pittsburgh ... 0 0 4 15 Chicago King, Law (3) and Aiwell; Jones and McCullough. AMERICAN Kansas City 7 .1 Boston 12 15 0 Raschi. Boytr (3) and As txoth; Delock, Hardy (7) and While - sJlF ; Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, May Eiirotairgo odd Vaccinae May !e Eiui(M Soodq; Mrs. Washington U.R) The Pub lic Health Service expects to re lease - the first batch, df , em bargoed Salk vaccine today and resume the nation's polio vacci nation program after a six-day halt. ' Informed sources said they ex pect, a favorable report before nightfall from a team of federal experts who have been checkmg vaccine produced 1 by .Parke- Davis and Co. in Detroit. Barring , a last minute hitch, the Health Service hopes to notify all health luthorities late today that "several batches" of Parke-Davis vaccine have been doublechecked and are approved for immediate use . in inocula tions. Informants said the batches to be cleared probably represent several hundred thousand doses of the vaccine. These doses al ready are in the hands of the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis, local health offi cials, and private physicians. Urges Caution This means that inoculations in some areas could resume to morrow. Michigan, of course, re fused to- halt - its immunization program on the grounds it had complete confidence in its vac cine supplies, mostly Parke- Davis. Meantime, Rep. A. D. Miller (R-Neb.) a physician, cautioned the 'house against "abrupt ac tion" in the vaccine matter that might prove . ill , advised. " He urged a moratorium on attacks on U. S. Surgeon General Leo nard A. Scheele and Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby. Miller's remarks apparently were made in answer to de mands by .two Democratic House members that President Eisen hower order Mrs. Hobby to answer congressional charges that she approved the vaccina tion program "without adequate testing" of the vaccine. They urged the House Bank ing committee to request Presi dent Eisenhower to direct the secretary of. health, education and welfare to appear and "an swer all pertinent questions" about the temporarily-stalled vaccination program. Turned Down Invitations The request was contained in a resolution drafted by Rep.- Ab raham J. Multer (D-N.Y.). He said he would call for a vote on it at a secret committee meeting today because Mrs. Hobby ' has turned down three invitations to testify. Rep. Charles A. Vanik (D-O.), whose daughter already has re ceived her first Salk vaccine shot, said he would support Mut ter's resolution. , ' "Mrs. ' Hobby licensed the vaccine without adequate test ing and should be brought be fore the committee to explain ner actions,- vanifc told a re porter. Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, U.S. surgeon general, has agreed to appear before the committee for questioning at a public hearing. He is head of the Public Health Service, an agency of Mrs. Hob by's department. , , . Democrats critical, of the Board of Equalization Continuing Sessions as Many Taxpayers Seek Information on Higher The Jackson county board of equalization, which opened ses sions here Monday, had met saaXBdx? oi XpiBunxoaddB tniM through this morning. Appointments for interviews are full through Monday after noon, and appointments are being taken for next week. ' The board, composed of Coun ty Judge Rodney Keating, Ar nold Bohnert, and Ralph Cook, will make no decisions on re quested changes in valuations until the interviews are com pleted. At that time, they will THURSD ( 12, 1955 'Red OVETA CULP HOBBY Comes Under Attack handling' of the program center ed their, f ire" on Mrs.": Hobby: They questioned her contention that compulsory j controls j are not. needed: to .assure fair-distri bution, of the vaccine as well as whether; adequate safety con trols .were established in advance of the mass inoculation. (- Sen. .Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), said ; President - ; Eisenhower should "get on the job" of pro tecting jpublic health.. ."The peo ple can expect nothing from Mrs. Hobby in view of her pow der puff program to date," he said. : . r t Vaccine supplies, received by the Jackson county health de partment for inoculation, of all first' and second ' grade school children in the county came from the -Parke-Davis Laboratories in Detroit, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer. The anti-polio vaccination pro gram is set. to. proceed here, as soon as . the vaccine is cleared and. the state health department gives the go-ahead, it was stated. Solon Raps Use Of Private Airplane ; Washington (U R) Rep. Robert H. Mollohan said today Gen. Joseph M. Swing's personal C-47 plane symbolizes what the country can expect if President Eisenhower continues to name1 retired generals and ' admirals to top government jobs. Swing, a West Point classmate of Mr. Eisenhower's,- is commis sioner of Immigration and Na turalization, and wants two oth er retired generals, Maj. Gen. Frank H. Partridge and Brig. Gen. Edwin B. Howard, as as sistant commissioners. Mollohan said Swing has a C-47 ' for his personal . use on ''so-called inspection trips" at a cost of 49 cents a mile to the tax payers. All previous commission ers used commercial transporta tion, Mollohan said. check tax assessments on com parable properties. The board is empowered to change assessments on real prop erty, where such changes are re quired to bring about equaliza tion. . ' The number of taxpayers re questing interviews before the board is larger than usual this year because of a combination of factors which have resulted in increased assessments on many pieces of property.' Foremost among these is the fact that, because-of a lack of adequate manpower, the asses sors' offiots in most Oregon coun Four CMky tapped! e x. liL U i United Press Full Lamed Wir Price 5c No. 45 tliia Former American Captives in Korea Face Court Martial Murder Charged To One of Pair New York (U.R) Two for mer American prisoners of war in Korea faced court martial to day on charges of collaborating with the enemy. One of them was accused of murdering a number of his prison camp col leagues. The First Army identified the men as Sgt. James C. Gallagher, 23, and Cpl. Harold M. Dunn, 26, both of Brooklyn. Gallagher, it charged, "committed murder without premeditation of fellow American prisoners of war." Two Years of Probe 1 Their arrest and incarcera tion in turreted Castle Williams at Ft. Jay here followed almost two years of intensive investiga tion, Lt. Gen. Thomas W; Her ren, First Army commander, re ported. During that time appar ently neither knew" that his life as a war prisoner was under scrutiny. At least, after the two were released in Operation Big Switch in Korea in 1953, there was no public inkling that they speci fically were suspected of Jturn coat activities while they were prisoners. " "' ' " r Prosecution Witness Dunn even testified as a pros ecution witness last Sept. .1. at the court martial of Cpl. Claude Batchelor at San Antonio, Tex. Batchelor, one of a group of American prisoners who at first turned down repatriation, but later agreed to go home, got a 20-year sentence for collabora tion. Jacksonville Lodge Marking 100 Years . Jacksonville One hundred years of Masonry will be -celebrated by, members of the War ren AF and AM" lodge Saturday, May 14. , The Jacksonville temple will be open for inspection beginning at 10 a.m., and all members of the organizations affiliated with the AF and AM lodge are invit ed to attend with their families and their houseguests. In addition to the open house, dinner will i be served from 3 p.m., Saturday,' through the din ner hour at the Jacksonville High school cafeteria. The lodge session will open at the Jack sonville temple at 8 p.m. Dr. Roy - McNeal, 'Ashland, grand master of the lodge, will be the main speaker and other grand officers from throughout the state will attend. Delegates from lodges as far north as Rose burg, .and southeast to Klamath Falls, as well as Yreka, Calif., are expected. The history of the lodge will be told and music is planned for the program. Washington (U.R) The House, after a hot fight, today endorsed President Eisenhow er's scheduled manpower cuts in the Army. - , ties have been unable to conduct proper appraisals each year. This has forced them to operate under appraisals many of which were years old. Another is the fact that the counties, including Jackson county, have been operating on the basis of 1930 replacement costs. ; Both of these problems have been solved through a county wide reappraisal program, com pleted about two months ago. This has allowed the county to assess all property on the basis of on modern appraisal, to Raesfjng TOP ROADEO DRIVERS The three boys shown above were picked as the most skillful high school age drivers in the Rogue Valley at -the finals of the Teenage Roadeo last Saturday, held under the sponsorship of the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce. Secretary of State Earl Newbry, left, presented them with their trophies at a dinner last Saturday evening. They are, from left, Robert Bobbett, 1740 North HEfflS'PUBUS Eagle Point Voters Approve Bond Issue For 2 New Buildings Eagle Point Voters ' of the Eagle Point school district yes terday approved a $150,000 bond issue by a margin of 121 to 42. The bond money will be used to finance construction of an elementary school multi-purpose building and a high school vo cational agriculture building. . , 4-The !.; multi-purpose - . building Drive-In Banking Window Now Open At U. S. National New drive-in banking facili ties at the Medford branch of the U. S. National bank are in opera tion and are proving highly satis factory, according to -Allan F. Perry, manager. , ; New " late-hour windows are also open. Both were provided in a major remodeling project. The drive-in window is located off the alley just west of the bank, and is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. The en trance is from the ajley in the middle of the block "on Central ave., between Sixth and Main sts. The exit is on Main st. The late hour windows open on to Main st. from within an enclosed lobby. They are open from 3 to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and from noon to 3 p.m. Satur days. The new facilities are in the space formally occupied by the Singer Sewing Machine com pany. Ben H. Todd was architect on the project, and H. C. Goldsmith was the contractor. A few de tails remain to be completed, but both services are in full operation, Perry said. - Grants Pass Man Takes Position at Pendleton Pendleton (U.R) Appoint ment of Don Hitchman, 28, as new "city , recorder here was an nounced today by City Manager Raymond Botch. Hitchman, as sistant city recorder at Grants Pass, succeeds Olinto .Ricci, who has accepted a position as chief finance afficer and assistant city manager at El Centro, Calif. Assessments change to a 1952 replacement cost basis, and to set a flat ratio of 25 per cent for all real prop erty. Because of the numerous prob lems before the reappraisal was completed, the ratio has varied from approximately 6 per cent to about 50 per cent on different pieces of property; The board of equalization will continue to meet with taxpayers until all those having complaints have been heard, providing re quests for interviews are made within a period of three weeks starting last Monday: The three week period is set by law. A will be used as a cafeteria, play- room, gymnasium, and auditor ium.' The buildings were approved by directors of the school dis trict recently after several civic groups recommended a multir purpose building, and Eagle Point and Lake Creek Granges urged construction " of the "vo cational agriculture building.. . The vocational ' building will allow Eagle Point to take part in the Smith-Hughes vocational agriculture program, which is aided by the federal govern ment. urater mgn - scnooi in Central Point is the only county school presently taking advan tage of the' Smith-Hughes pro gram. The $150,000 bond issue was the second large issue approved in the county in less than a month. Voters of District 6C re cently approved a $350,000 bond issue for construction of ele mentary school buildings at Gold Hill and Central Point. Ileuberger Accepts Coon Debate Bid Washington (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Ncuberger (D-Ore.) said today he has accepted an invita tion to debate., the administra tion's power development "part nership" policy with Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.). Coon has sponsored a bill to allow a power company or local government agencies to construct power facilities on the Columbia proposal.' The invitation came from the Pendleton, Ore., Junior Chamber of Commerce, Neuberger said. "I am happy," Neuberger wrote the group, "to accept your invitation, and I feel that Pendle ton is an ideal setting for such 'a debate because of the great stake of the people of Umatilla county in the sound development of our hydro-electric power resources." Fish Lake Ice Breaks Report Good Catches Fish lake is now open to anglers, the resort properitors, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Morris, re ported today. They said that ice covering the lake broke rapidly yesterday afternoon. The Morrises reported that the road to the lake by way of Butte Falls is in good shape. They said that the campground is clear of snow and that camping is pos sible. Six or eight cars of fishermen drove to the lake this morning. Good catches were reported with fish measuring 14 and 15 inches in length. FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Friday. Cooler to - night and a little warmer Fri day. Low -tonight 38. High Friday 2. Temp. Highert Yesterday 7 Loweft thii Morning 4S . Riverside ave., a St. Mary's school student, first place; Roger Puhl, Box 304, Phoenix, second place, and El vice Larson, Box 938, Central Point, third place. Bobbett will represent this area in the state contest in Portland -June 18. The winner of the state competition will go to Washington, D.C., in July for national compe tition. , , . , . -(Landis-Shangle photo.) EKS1I1 Civil Suit Charges Six Groups With Anti-Trust Action New York (U.R) The Depart ment of Justice today filed a civil action in federal district court charging the American Newspaper Publishers' Associa- tion and five related groups with violation of the anti-trust laws. In addition to the ANPA, de fendants named in the suit were the American Association of Ad vertising Agencies, Inc.; the ' Publishers.; Association "of" N.ew York City; the Associated Busi ness Publications, Inc.: the Periodical Publishers' Associa tion of America, and the Agri cultural Publishers Association. System Attacked : Specifically, the suit attacked the commission system used by the ' advertising agency group, The complaint said each of the defendants with ' its members combined and. conspired in un reasonable restraint of interstate trade and commerce involving national advertising. The suit said: "The combination and con spiracy among all the defendants has consisted of a continuing agreement and concert of action among them, the substantial terms of which have been and are: Uniform Standards Urged 1. 'That the defendant media associations adopt substantially uniform standards for recogni tion of advertising agencies and members of said associations ad here to sych standards: 2. "That only - advertising agencies granted recognition by defendant media associations be extended' credit and allowed agency commissions by members of said associations: 3.. "That members of the de fendant media associations allow agency commissions only to those advertising agencies which agree to retain, and not rebate to or split with national adver tisers any part of agency com missions. Tasmania Agriculture Official Visits Here L. W. Miller, chief entomolo gist of the department of agri culture of Tasmania, the . island province south of Australia, vis ited in the Rogue valley Monday and Tuesday, it was reported today. ' . . . Miller, oh a tour of the United States, conferred with. Louis G. Gentner, entomologist at the Southern Oregon Experiment station, and W. B. Tucker, and Don Berry, county agents for agriculture and horticulture, during his stay here. He was chiefly interested in methods of controlling agricul tural pests, they reported. ; Final Atomic Test v. Postponed by Winds V. Las Vegas, Nev. The Atom ic ..Energy Commission announ ced this morning that unfavor able winds have, again forced postponement of the 14th and final 1 atomic explosion of the spring test series. The AEC said the earliest the test 'could be held . would be Saturday morn ing. Another weather evaluation was scheduled for tomorrow. Action Said One Of Biggest Breaks In Long Cold War Soviet Will Sign On Western Terms Vienna (U.R) The Soviet Union agreed today to sign an Austrian state treaty on West ern terms in one of the biggest breaks of the long cold war. - The East West agreement payed the way for the Big Four foreign ministers to meet in Vierlna this week end to sign the treaty and arrange a later con ference of the Big Four heads of government. . U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn E Thompson, head of the Ameri can treaty delegation, told news men at the end of today's cru cial session: "The treaty will be signed Sun day." Deadlock Broken He said a joint five - power communique would be issued later today on the successful out-' come of the parley. The aiiffrfan foroaV in th frnatv . negotiations came after 11 days of deadlock over the terms of Article 35 of the 59-article docu ment. Article 35 governs Aus tria's debts to the Soviet Union. The dispute involved Austrian oil and shipping properties, which the Russians took over as war reparations. ' The Soviets promised Austria last month that these proporties would be return ed. This was a sensational con cession, but until today Russia had refused to write lt into the treaty: The West insisted, and won its point, that the agreement be put into the treaty. U. S. Ultimatum The deadlock had threatened to break up the conference. The United States had served an ul timatum on the Soviet Union to agree upon a completed draft treaty today or call off Sunday's foreign ministers session at which the treaty was to be sign ed. - The. American stand on Aus tria was ccntiined In an utima tum from Secretary ; of State John Foster Dulles, which ac cording to an Informed source, said in effect: ."Either agree upon com pleted treaty draft or call off the meeting at which the Big Four foreign ministers are scheduled to sign the treaty this. Sunday. Red Jet Planes Din IK fV-ifi VULL U J vi an Copenhagen (U.R) Commu nist MIG-type jet fighters in vaded Danish territory and started to intercept a U.S. Air Force training plane today, but failed to open fire. : The American plane was a two-place jet trainer being de- from a U.S. base in West Ger many. The craft and its two A : - - L U..J American uccupaiiis miisiicu uie flight safely. The Americans, whose names were not released immediately. told Danish Air Force authori ties that the MIG-type fighters buzzed their plane over the Danish island of Lolland, which lies 40 miles across the Baltic Sea from Communist East'Ger- nianv. The American plane was a two-seater T33. training version of the F80 Shooting Star. An official American spokes man said later that three "MIG type" planes had been involved in the incident.. Lt. Col. H. H. Klint, informa tion officer of the staff of the Danish . supreme commander. said that investigations were , being carried out to establish, ii possime, tne nationality oi uie intruding planes. Search Pressed for Missing Youngsters Goldendale, Wash. U.R) Some 300 searchers, including virtually the entire population Ul U1C WWII Ul. XY.lll.fl.lKl i,. IUUOJ intensified their search for two three-year-old youngsters miss ing since late yesterday 20 miles west of here. .' Nets were stretched across the Klickitat river on the chance the tots tumbled into the stream while playing on the river bank. Two teams of bloodhounds from The Dalles, Ore., were turned loose1 in the area and traced a scent to the edge of the river. The children were Terry Wil liams and her playmate, Walter, Mark Greenfield, both of KTck- itat ; : Dragging operations were. started in the river and other search parties combed the nearby woods. The search was started at 5 pjtu yesterday. ;