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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