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Recommended raatura itoriei on model ihlpi mado by a Camp Whit mem ber, and tho 180th annlrenary of Warren Lode No. 18. AF4AM, appear on Pat II of today's lira of Tho Mall Tribune. WEATHER FORECAST: Partial clearing Sunday forenoon; partly cloudy Sunday afternoon and evening. Scattered showers presisting over mountains Sunday. Increasing cloudiness Monday. Warming trend both davs with high Sunday 58-60. Low Sunday night 30. High Mondav 68. Highest Yesterday SI Lowest yesterday 40 To 10:30 p.m. Yesterday .03 Inch -rr-rr -rr -r-rx -r-rr- United Press rull Lapsed Wire United Presa Full Leased Wire 50th Year 30 Pages SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1955 Price 5c No. 47 rvi .o EET mm rope's Communist states m Warsaw. From left: Soviet Marshal Koniev; Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov; Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin; Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov. (International) Vote Set Monday on $1,599,895 Budget For Rural Schools A 'vote on a rural school budget calling for a levy of $1, 599,895.53 is scheduled tomorrow in Jackson county's 20 second and third class districts. ( ) The question to be decided by the election will be that of ex ceeding the 6 per cent limitation on budgetary increases by a total Of $1,276,374.89. The election Is necessary, ac cording to Henry Padgham Jr., rural board chairman, because the rural school district levy base is only $323,520.64. The budget is up $377,078.29 from last year. Operational expenditures list ed in the budget are $2,023,896. 26. This total, minus estimated receipts of $775,250.73, equals $1,248,654.53 for the 20 districts served by the rural board. Added are $68,050 for rural operating and emergency coasts, and $283,200 for non-high dis tricts' tuition, transportation, op erating and emergency costs, making the total levy of $1,599, 895.53. Unless the budget is aproved by the voters at tomorrow's elec tion, it will be possible to levy only the $323,520.64 which is in cluded in the tax base. This amount is only about 20 per cent of the estimated costs of opera tion. In the event voters turned down the proosal, anything above that amount still would have to be levied in the individual dis tricts. Notices of time and places of election have been posted in each of the 20 second and third class districts. Non-White Housing Problem Reported Portland (U.R) A parade of witnesses Saturday testified that non-whites were finding it difficult to obtain housing on an equal basis with whites in Port land. The city commission on inter- group relations also heard rep resentatives of realtors and home builders testify that discrimina tion in sales of houses was not based on "anything personal" but was due to economic factors. Edwin C. Berry, executive secretary of the Urban League, charged that "racial segregation In Portland is growing worse." Several church leaders deplored the practice of segregation. However, John J. La Porte of the Home Builders association said realtors and builders would face economic ruin if they were to sell to Negroes homes in tracts of houses built for whites. Another meeting of the com mission was scheduled for Wed nesday in an attempt to work out a solution to the problem. No Orchard Heafing Predicted for Area A cloud cover which thick ened and settled over the Rogue valley last night kept tempera tures high enough to keep or chards warm enough without lighting. The official tempera ture reading at Medford munici pal airport was 39, but tempera tures as low as 35 were reported in some orchards. The forecast calls for a warm ing trend both today and to morrow with a high tomorrow about 68. The low tonight is expected to be about 30. Sports Bulletins Portland U.R) Bill Verle gave up 11 hits but staved off a ninth inning rally lo lead the Portland Beavers lo a 5-4 win over the Oak land Oaks in a Pacific Coast league baseball game here Sat urday night. tesSans, SateDBStes Sign 20-Year Treaty Warsaw, Poland (U.R) Rus sia and seven east European nations Saturday signed a 20 year military-political treaty creating a giant unified army. They named Soviet Marshal Ivan Koniev as supreme com mander. Koniev, Soviet Deputy De fense Minister under Marshal G. K. Zhukov, will make his supreme headquarters in Mos cow. Chinese Pledge Support Peng Teh Huai, Communist Chinese defense minister attend ing as an observer, hailed the signing of the treaty and pledged his nation's support of the new alliance, designed to counteract the West's North At lantic Treaty Organization and West German rearmament. Aside from the Soviet Union, Entertainment Set For Observance of Armed Forces Day Military aircraft and arma ments, free movies, speakers, displays of various kinds, and a bagpipe band from San Fran cisco will be featured as Med ford celebrates Armed Forces day next Sunday. Activities will be concen centrated at the Medford munici pal airport between 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Principal speaker at the event will be Maj. Gen. William T. Hefley, commanding general of the Sacramento air materials area. Theme "Power for Peace" Army, Navy, Air Force, Na tional Guard units, as well as various civic organizations such as civil defense and Red Cross, will take part. The purpose is to acquaint the public with the div isions of the armed forces. The theme of the event is "Power for Peace." General chairman is Col. Wil liam H. Bartlett. Assistant chair man is Mayor Earl M. Miller of Medford. Other chairmen are Jennings Pierce Sr., publicity; Col. Wil liam H. Prentice, program; the Rev. G. H. Hillerman, minister ial; Pat Graham, transportation; Ralph E. Pierce, parking and exhibits; Capt. Jay M. Hamilton, Capt. Donald P. Hemingway, Maj. Oliver J. Blanchard, and Lt. Levi G. Monroe, military; and Jennings Pierce Jr., refreshments. Phoenix Sewer (Sound Phoenix Residents of Phoe nix tomorrow will vote on two proposals to provide the city with adequate sewer facilities, including sewage disposal and city sewer system. The city council has submit ted to a vote proposals to issue $40,000 in general obligation bonds to provide for sewage dis posal, and to arrange installa tion of a city sewer system which will be financed by assessments against property. At City Hall The election will be held at the city hall in Phoenix between 12 noon and 8 p.m. tomorrow. The $40,000, if approved, will be used to connect the Phoenix system with the city of Medford disposal plant through South Bear Creek limits and Phoenix city limits. The city council estimated the average annual interest and principal payment of $2,960 would require a 7.4 mill tax levy. The figure is based on an assessed valuation of $400,000. Mayor Dan Adams said the council believed that by using $35,000 in bond funds for con nations signing the treaty were Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, East - Germany, Poland, Ru mania and Czechoslovakia. The protocols leave until later decisions on whether East Ger many will contribute troops. East Germany now has no for mal army. Unified Command The agreement sets up a NATO-like unified command, under Koniev, of forces to be contributed by all the other member nations. It will be based in the treaty area "in accord ance with the demands of mu tual defense agreement of these states," the Military Protocol said. The eight Communist powers pledged to quickly come to the aid of each other in case of an attack. Koneiv's deputies in the new joint command will be the De fense Ministers of the partici pating nations or anyone they designate. His staff will include military leaders from all eight nations. ...... Troops Seal Off Saigon Europeans Saigon, Indochina (U.R) French troops sealed off Saigon's European sector Saturday and warned all its residents to stay indoors during anti-colonial dem onstrations called for today by South Viet Nam's revolutionary junta. Gen. Paul Ely, commander of French experitionary corps, or dered his 40,000 battle-tested troops to smash any attempt at anti-European violence during the demonstration. The French force will be backed by 400 tanks and armored cars. Blaring sound trucks circu lated through Saigon and the suburb of Cholon calling on the capital's 2,000,000 residents to converge on the market place at 9 a.m., today. They asked the population to demonstrate its "hatred of the Colonialists" and of absentee Chief of State Bao Dai, who is living on the French Riviera. The sound trucks bore insigna showing they had been provided under U.S. air funds. London (U.R) American evangelist Billy Graham will stay at Queen Elizabeth's official Scottish residence when he re turns to Scotland for a brief visit the end of the month, it was learned Saturday . necting with 'the Medford sys tem, the city of Phoenix would save at least $50,000 on an in vestment of a treatment plant of its own. Cost Estimated The city sewer system, if ap proved in tomorrow's election, would be financed by assess ments against property served by the sewer. Estimates put the assessment about $3.65 per front foot, Adams said, and may be paid in cash or in 20 semi-annual installments if under the Ban croft Act. Users would be charged slightly more than $2 per month per connection for conveying and treating sewage if the sys tem is approved. The City of Medford proposes to charge $2 for conveying and treating sew age, and the city of Phoenix will charge between 15 and 25 cents additional to cover collection ex penses, Adams said. The total charge, Adams pointed out, would be between $2.15 and $2.25 per month per connection. Connections to individual houses would be up to the prop erty owners, who will pay for Parke-Davis Polio Vaccine in State Released for Use Jackson County Ready To Start on May 23 Portland (U.R) All Parke Davis polio vaccine in the hands of health authorities in Oregon 80,370 doses has been re leased for use by the U. S. Public Health Service. A spokesman for the state board of health said Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, Organization of a polio vac cination program is completed and ready to function starting May 23, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health of ficer. Ample supplies of Salk polio vaccine are on hand for a first series of shots for those first and second graders in the county who have consent slips from their parents, he said. A schedule has been set up and is ready to go as soon as he has been officially notified of the plans of the state board of health. Dr. Merkel reported. A question remaining is the second series of shots. Dr. Mer kel said, which would have to come after school is dismiss ed for summer vacation. It is hoped this ' problem can be solved during the coming week before the first series of shots start, the health officer indi cated. had been assured by regional of fice of the public health service in San Francisco that Oregon's vaccine had been cleared. The spokesman said, however, that Oregon's inoculation pro gram could not: get underway before May 23, and possibly not that early. To Seek Assurances He said the state health office would seek immediate assuran ces from the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis that sufficient vaccine for a second shot for Oregon's some 73,000 eligible children would be avail able. In the absence of such as surance, a modified program would be recommended, making a two-shot series available to a smaller number of children. A decision on the type of pro gram and when it would begin is expected to follow a meeting Tuesday between Dr. Erickson and the public health committee of the Oregon state medical so ciety. Washington (U.R) The government's long-awaited vol untary plan for assuring fair distribution of Salk polio vac cine will be made public Mon day, the White House announced Saturday. The disclosure came as federal experts predicted rapid clear ance of millions of Salk shots now that 1,000,000 doses of Parke Davis vaccine have been released for immediate inocula tions. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, sec retary of Health .Education and Welfare, will submit the vaccine control blueprint to President Eisenhower, early Monday. The White House said it will be made public about two hours later. Vote Set having the connection done un der license from the city. Several local organizations, in cluding the school board of Dis trict 4, are supporting the in stallation of a sewer system and the proposed disposal of sew age. E. R. James, superintendent of Phoenix schools, said the board is "convinced that the proposal to be voted on is the most econ omical and effective means for the protection of the health of our children and our commun ity." The board pointed out that the sewage problem at Phoenix grade school has become a ser ious one. "It has become evi dent that if the means of sewage disposal is not adopted soon the situation will become a definite health hazard to the children of the district," the board said, and added that the drain field has been added until the school grounds are saturated, and sep tic tanks need frequent atten tion. The school board urged "resi dents to support" the proposal submitted by the city council. Soviet 6Uissim9 To BdferadoSaid Limited to Parlay Washington (U.R) Senate Republican Leader William F. j Knowland Saturday viewed Rus sia's "Peace Mission" to Yugo slavia as a move to strengthen Russia's bargaining hand in Big Four talks. Chairman Walter F. George (D-Ga.) of the 6enate Foreign Relations committee, said he thought the move was primarily part of Russia's "intense ef forts" to persuade newly-free West Germany not to rearm and to remain neutral. Peace Meeting Planned The Californian and the Geor gian were commenting on the Moscow announcement that Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai A. Police Investigate Reported Threat to Foots Creek Family State police Saturday were attempting to run down reports that a family living in the Foots creek area had been threatened and told to leave. A man by the name of Lopez, reportedly an American citizen of Philippine ancestry, told State Police Officer Charles Of fenbacher yesterday that a Rogue River man called on him last week and told him that certain Rogue River people might burn down his cabin, and "might mistake him for a deer," if he were not off the property by Sunday. Officers were attempting to contact the man who allegedly had reported this threat to Lo ez. Spent Night in Woods According to the story Lopez told Offenbacher, he and his wife and three children, ranging in age from 8 to 12 years, re cently purchased a 160-acre farm, along Foots creek, and the chil dren have been attending school in Rogue River. After being told of the threat, Lopez and his fam ily Friday night spent the night out in the woods, afraid to use their home. Saturday they came to Med ford, seeking help. They con tacted a Medford real estate man, who reportedly got in touch with several individuals in their be half. Finally the state police of fice was called, and Off icerv Of fenbacher talked to Lopez. Concerned for Family Lopez told him that he had no fears for himself, but was con cerned for his family. Finally he decided to take them back to the Foots creek place for Satur day night. He said he has been an American citizen for 28 years, and sailed in the U. S. merchant marine for 20 years. He said he has a monthly income of $125, and bought the place to help stretch his income for the care of his family. District Attorney Walter Nun ley said his office had also been contacted in regard to the' case, and had asked the sheriff's of fice to look in to the matter. Further investigation is planned, Nunley said. He pointed out that threaten ing to commit a felony is, itself a felony. Son of Scientists Admits Fatal Shot Raleigh, N.C. (U.R) A bril liant son of scientist parents stolidly refused to say Saturday how he happened to kill a wo man with a marksman's pistol but his lawyer called it "an ac cident a case of an unloaded gun." Richard Kluckhohn, 21, was charged with the murder of a 43- year- old government em ployee, Miss Bernice Seawell. She was shot to death from a hotel window Friday as she stood in the rain in a parking lot across the street. "I shot from the window," was all young Kluckhohn would tell police. But his mother, a member of the Harvard faculty, and recognized authority on hu man behavior, . also insisted, "it was aa accident." Bulganin and Community Party Secretary Nikita S. Khruschev will head a "Peace Mission" to Yugoslavia late this month. In separate talks with news men, both agreed that one pur pose of the scheduled "Peace Mission" is to get assurances from Tito that he will remain neutral in the East-West cold war. "We can't lose sight of the fact," Knowland said, "that if the Soviets come to what they feel are satisfactory agreements with Austria and Yugoslavia, they will free some of their divi sions to use some other place." May Aid Red Position He said this would confront the Western Allies with "greater force on a narrower front" and put Russia in a stronger bargain ing position at Big Four confer ences. George warned that the Uni ted States may have to "re-evaluate" its aid program to Com munist Yugoslavia if Marshal Tito resumes more friendly re lations with Moscow. Belgrade, Yugoslavia (U.R) Yugoslavia may be persuaded to become a neutral "buffer-state" between the East and West dur ing the coming visit to Belgrade of top ranking Soviet govern ment and Communist party of ficials, informed sources said Saturday. Well-informed foreign and Yugoslav sources said that Yugo slavia will not rejoin the East European Communist bloc or ditch its Western friends at the urging of the Russians. But, the sources said, the Bel grade conference later this month will, hinge on how far the Russian leaders will go to help the Yugoslavs solve the problems of President Tito and his government. Morse Introduces Measure on Polio Washington (U.R) Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.), has introduced legislation providing that the federal government pay all hospital and medical ex penses, of children contracting polio after taking. Salk vaccine shots. The federal government, said Morse, has a moral duty to put the vaccine to "every possible test" for the purity and then give the necessary shots free to every child. The Oregon senator also said in a senate speech he has in formation that the government let some of the vaccine be re leased without checking it. He charged that Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, secretary of health, education and welfare, and other administration officials "fumbled miserably" and showed "gross negligence" in the vaccine program. He said Mrs. Hobby has "even misled" President Eisenhower. Second Presbyterian Church Plan for City Formation of a second Presby terian church in Medford is be ing studied, it was reported here Saturday. Discussion of the plan was conducted here recently during a visit of Dr. Henry Green, Port land, synod executive and mem ber of the long range planning committee of the Presbyterian church in Oregon. While here he consulted with the Rev. Harold Roberts, . Medford, synod chair man of national missions for the church, and Dr. D. Kirkland West, Chairman of the national missions for the Southwest Ore gon Presbytery. Expect Further Growth It was pointed out that the re cent church census shows 17 per cent of those in the Medford area having a preference for the Pres byterian denomination. Since the poulation of Medford is expect ed to reach 30,000 by 1975, it is felt that another church should be started in order to provide for the normal growth of the de nomination here. The First Presbyterian church here can comfortably seat about 450 persons, while present faiTt1i f y lV VICTIM OF REDS -Gene Symonds (above), United Press correspondent covering Communist-inspired strike in Singapore, was dragged from a taxi by strikers and Chinese students and beaten with sticks and stones. He lay un conscious for half hour be fore police rushed him to a hospital. He died of his in iuries. Singapore Police Said Unable To Aid Slain UP Official Singapore (U.R) A govern ment report said Saturday that police at a nearby roadblock and in a passing patrol car had other emergency duties and were unable to aid United Press Correspondent Gene Symonds when he was fatally beaten by rioters Thursday. The Chinese-owned Singapore Standard said that Symonds, UP manager for southeast Asia, met his death because Singapore po lice were "ordered to take kid- glove methods to deal . with a bloodthirsty mob. Armed British Hussars, Royal Air Force patrolmen and Gurk ha troops patrolled the city of Singapore Saturday to prevent further riots by .strikers and Chinese students. The rioters have caused the deaths of four persons, including Symonds, since Thursday. The ' government statement said that Symonds passed through two roadblocks on the way to a riot scene Thursday night and told police he would take "full responsibility." Called for Ambulance The nearest roadblock to the scene of the attack on Symonds was about 330 yards, the govern ment statement said. Police on the roadblock were ordered to maintain the position and could not leave their posts. A radio car passed Symonds after the attack on its way to another riot and called urgently for an ambulance. However, Symonds was pick ed up by a police van and taken to the hospital before the am bulance arrived. The newsman died Friday morning from mul tiple injuries, including a frac tured skull and a broken left arm and leg. The mob beat him with clubs, bottles and stones, eyewitnesses told police. Gets Study church membership is more than 1,300, the report indicated. The church school unit was designed to accomodate 700 children, and the present enrollment is more than 1,000, with an average at tendance of about 800 in recent months. Have Option on -Site The church announcement said that an option has been taken on a six acre site one block south of East Main st. at the end of Glen Oak court. The tract is said to be adequate for all future needs of a second church, including off street parking facilities. It is the desire of the Presbytery's com mittee that, should another Pres byterian church be formed and elects to use the site, all build ings erected there would be in keeping with the surrounding residential area. A number of persons have already indicated they would like to consider being charter members of such a church. A meeting of those interested in the plan will be held at 7:30 p.m. May 31 in the fireplace room of the First Presbyterian church for discussion of the project. Top Level Sessions Expected To Start In About Six Weeks Conference To Have No Fixed Objectives Vienna (U.R) Soviet Foreign Minister V. N. Molotov has accepted an invitation from the West for a meeting of the Big Four chiefs of state to ease cold war tensions, it was an nounced today. The meeting of President Eisenhower, Soviet Premier Ni kolai Bulganin, British Prime Vienna (U.R) All Amer ican, British, Russian and French occupation troops will be out of Austria by Dec. 31 or earlier, it was disclosed Saturday with publication of the new Austrian treaty. The streamlined treaty, hitherto secret was ham mered out in eleven days of bitter East-West bargaining that reduced it from' 59 to 38 articles. Final agreement after nine years, cleared the way for this weekend's four-power foreign ministers meeting, er Foreign Ministers meeting here. Minister Anthony Eden .and French Premier Edgar Faure may begin in about six weeks, a western spokesman said. Delivers Accceptance Molotov delivered the Soviet's unofficial acceptance of the in vitation issued Tuesday by the United States, Britain and France at a meeting last night with the western foreign ministers. Western spokesmen said he ac cepted the western idea that I there would be no formal agenda or fixed objectives for the meet ing "at the summit.' He agreed also that the foreign minister should meet briefly before the high level meeting to arrange de tails and after it to delve into specific issues. In asking for the meeting, long urged by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the West told Russia the time has come for "a new effort to resolve the great problems which con front us." The meeting last night be tween Molotov, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Brit ish Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay was friendly, western spokesmen said. "General agreement on the puroses and underlying concepts of the meeting of the four chiefs of staff was reached," they said. A Soviet note formally accept ing the invitation was expected to be send to Washington, Lon don and Paris soon. No definite time or place was set for the conference but "pre cise details are being worked out," a spokesman said. Molotov was reported to have urged that the meeting be held in Vienna, while the western foreign ministers argued for a site in Switzerland. The meeting probably will take place in July or August, the sources said. Earlier in the day the foreign ministers agreed to sign today a histroic treaty restoring Austria's independence. After a formal dinner party the foreign ministers conferred privately over coffee and liquers with only their interpreters pres ent. They sent for their cars at 11:15 p.m., but then sent them back and kept talking until 11:50 p.m. (See story on Page 8) UAL Airliner Sets Cross-Country Mark San Francisco (U.R) A United Airlines DC-7 set a new commercial aviation record of 7 hours, 48 minutes Saturday in a non-stop flight from New York to California. The plane left Idlewild Inter national airport at 9:06 a.m., PST, and set down at the San Francisco International airport at 4:54 p.m., PST. Pilot of the plane, which car ried 41 passengers and a crew of five, was Capt. Douglas Wil son. The new record cuts 29 min utes off the old record of 8 hours, 17 minutes set last May, also by a United DC-7. Ground distance is 3026 miles. United officials said the record was accomplished by "pressure pattern flying" which is the pi lot's taking advantage of winds at different altitudes. i
