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Ike Requested To Take Personal Look at Defense Program To Be Sure Enough Done Fast Enough Washington (U.R) Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson has called on President Eisenhower to take a personal look at the defense program to be sure "we are doing enough, fast enough." Johnson said that whatever course Russia follows in the near future it will affect the U.S. defense program and that he is asking the Defense Department whether that program has enough flexibility to permit necessary adjustments. Democrats in Congress have been increasingly critical of the administration's defense budget and have been asking whether it is big enough. Russia 'Smoke Screen' Seen The Texas senator told news men he believes Russia is "throwing up a smoke screen" to hide its real intentions. On one hand, he said, the Russians are "cooing like doves" with disarmament proposals, "in spired rumors" about a peace settlement and completion of an Austrian treaty. On the other hand, he said, they are "rattling sabers" by allowing glimpses of new weapons and demanding Formosa and the rest of Viet Nam for the Communists. "I personally believe that much of the recent information we have on Communist strength has been given us deliberately," Johnson said. "Nevertheless, even though we cannot guess Soviet intentions, it is obvious that any move they make is bound to have an effect on our preparedness program. Could Force Changes Johnson said the Russians might continue their "hard" pol icy of the past few years or launch a "peace offensive to split us from our allies." Either course, he said, could force changes in the U.S. defense pro gram. "I am deeply disturbed," he saidr "by the feeling that there may not be sufficient flexibility in the appropriations to permit us to make the necessary ad justments to the different world strategic situation which may re sult from the Big Tour confer ence. Kence, he said, he will ask the Defense Department wheth er there will be the flexibility he believes is needed in the mili tary budget. Johnson said he knows no way that Congress can force the exe cutive branch to spend more i than it thinks should be spent on defense. Personal Look Urged . He said Congress could g& on record but that it could not force the executive branch to spend more than it wishes "I do think,' he said, "that President Eisenhower would be well advised to take a personal and careful look at the situation and be sure that he is satisfied on the basis of his own military experience that we are doing enough, fast enough to maintain the security of the country. "I hope his sound military judgment will not be overridden by other considerations. Vaccine Production Go-Ahead Gives Hope Of New Confidence Washington (U.R) Govern ment officials have voiced hope that the go-ahead in the produc tion 01 poiio vaccine wiu give doctors and parents new confi dence in Salk shots. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele is drafting a report for President Eisenhower which is aimed at dispelling any linger ing fears about the vaccine's safety and effectiveness. -Confusion Shakes Confidence Officials frankly admit the confusion of the last 46 days shook the confidence of parents and doctors in the mass inocula- Logging Operation I ! I manges imcusseu Grants Pass Frank Hamil ton, assistant state forester, and Ted Maul, southwest district warden for the state forest pa trol, reviewed recent changes in legislation governing logging operations at a meeting of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association here last night. Hamilton, former Southwest district warden, pointed out changes in pumping equipment requirements for stationary equipment and for commercial vehicles. Maul noted a marked reduc tion in logging fires in the south west district. He said the reduc tion is from protective programs of loggers, more rigid inspec tions and weather favorable to preventing fires. The meeting was one of sev eral scheduled to familiarize logging personnel with recent changes in legislation governing operations in Oregon's forested areas. Warning Issued On Polifl Booklet Portland The Portland Bet ter Business Bureau has issued a warning against a "scare" pamphlet-attacking the Salk polio vaccine which is now being mail ed to people in the Middle West and may be soon distributed here. Published by Polio Prevention Inc., of Coral Gables, Fla., the pamphlet attacks Dr. Jonas Salk, the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis and calls upon the U. S. Congress to prevent the vaccine from being licensed. The propaganda of Polio Pre vention Inc., and its founder, long-time food faddist, Duon H. Miller, was repudiated and dis credited a year ago when Miller faced criminal charges in Miami for sending "libelous, scurrilous and defamatory material" in the mails, according to Lyle L. Janz, General Manager of the Port land Better Business Bureau. The attack on the Salk pro gram also ties in as an "auth ority" Dr. Harry Hoxsey, ident ified in the material as a "world famous cancer specialist." Jant says material in the Better Bus iness Bureau files identifies Dr. Harry Hoxey as a "quack" who operates an alleged cancer clinic near Dallas, Tex., whose mater ials may not be snipped in inter state commerce under an injunc tion issued by a U. S. Circuit court in New Orleans. Hoxey has long defied medical and governmental authorities in his operations and in one of his fake clinics in Illinois, newspap ers headlined reports of a death a - day. The American Medical association thoroughly investi gated Hoxsey and in conclusion in its Journal made the follow ing editorial comments con cerning him: "Of, all the ghouls who feed on the bodies of the dying, the cancer quacks are the most vicious and most heartless." tion program for the nation's children. Many communities called off their programs because .of doubts about the vaccine safety. Across the nation, some parents withdrew their permission for injections. In New York City Friday, school inoculations dropped to only 64 per cent of the number of children for whom vaccine had been requested. It was the lowest daily rate since the pro gram started. Officials said they hope the trend will change now that the government plans to start re leasing vaccine again under stiff new safety standards put ito ef fect Friday. Dr. Scheele said some shots will be released this up rapidly thereafter, week and that the flow will pick Industry sources said, how ever, that they expect the de mand for vaccine to be some what less than estimated earlier in view of these factors: 1. Despite government assur ances, there are some parents who now appear to be unwilling to go ahead with shots for their children. 2. Schools are letting out shortly and many children will scatter on summer vacations and out of the reach of clinics before they can be inoculated. In some communities it may be impos sible to keep the mass program going after schools let out. 3. Many doctors are advising inoculations particularly first injections during the coming seasonal upswing in polio be cause of the known fact that shots of any kind at that time sometimes trigger paralysis where polio already has been incubating. One doctor here tel ephoned parents here and ad vised against any injectios until iate fall. 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The 'Jeep' Station Wagon is now available with power brakes. 4 WHEEL DRIVE statm wuea WILLYS... wrlfs lirjest ukiis if 4-vkiil tin irtidtt Ask for a demonstration t STEVENS AUTO SALES "Your Friendly Willys Dealer" 505 North Central O Mcdford O Phone 3-3655 New Campsites Due At Detroit Lake , Salem (U.R) Fifty new camping sites will be added to the Lakeshore forest camp on the rim of Detroit lake behind the Detroit dam on the North Santiam river, according to the state parks division of the State Highway department. The state has assumed admin istration of both Lakeshore camp and the Mongold boat-launching area at request of the National Forest Service, C. H. Armstrong, superintendent of the state parks division, said. Armstrong said each of the 50 new camp sites will include a car stall, outdoor stove, seven-by-five foot table and space for a tent. Some tent areas will be oversize to accommodate house trailers. Other new facilities will in clude electricity, piped water, a waste-water disposal system, and, eventually, flush toilets. A roped off swimming area is being considered. A nightly fee of 75 cents per camp site, same as in other state parks, will be charged, Arm strong said. The state will spend $30,000 developing Lakeshore camp and Mongold this summer. . :y- N "'mt- a' AUTOMATIC COW Grandma had to milk the cow, but automa tion makes it easy for Faye Zier, Medford, and Jane. Gilcrist, Eugene, who were first in line to try out the first automatic milk dispensing machine installed in Jackson county. The girls, both Southern Oregon students, are in the SOC student union building. Another machine was recently installed at Elk Lumber company, Medford, and the Milk Producers League plans to put more around the county. Barley Storage Plan Comes Under Attack Washington n'U.R) Oregon's two senators and its congress woman have attacked a proposed transfer of storage of surplus barley from Tillamook, Ore., to California warehouses as a "wasteful expenditure of feder al money." Sens. Wayne Morse and Rich ard L. Neuberger and Rep. Edith Green, all Democrats, said the shift would cost about $1,300, 000. They said they were as sured three weeks ago that the transfer would not be made, but now are informed that the Port land ' office of the Commodity Credit Corp. has been advised to withhold storage at Tillamook. .The grain now is located in Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington and Oregon and S5.35 will be saved on each ton if it is stored at Tillamook rather than in California. Burns Radar Station Acceptance Scheduled Spokane (U.R) A new air Force radar station at Burns, Ore., will have its acceptance inspection June 7 and 8, Col. H. O. Morgan, executive officer for the Ninth Air. Division at Geiger Air Force Base, said today. He said the station's crew of 90 officers and enlisted men was being trained at Geiger. The station is the sixth and most southerly in the Ninth's com mand area which includes East ern Washington and Oregon, Id aho, and Northwestern Montana. Indianapolis (U.R) Police man Herman Higgs handed out a ticket to a jaywalker. The vio lator's name John Law. Eagle Point Home, Jacksonville Topics Two articles of. interest to southern Oregon readers appear in the June issue of Sunset mag azine, now on sale" at local news stands. A photo of a pass-through serving counter in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Winton, Lone Mountain rd., Eagle Point, along with a short descriptive article, appears in the magazine. The photo was taken by George Braun, Sunset staff photograph er, and the article was prepared by a Sunset staff writer. "Jacksonville, Oregon: Not Yet a Ghost Town" is the title of the other short article. Notes for the article were prepared by Harry Chipman, 155 High land dr., Medford, from the staff writers prepared the article. It is accompanied by a photo of the historic Methodist church, one of the first Protestant churches west of the Rocky Mountains. The photo was taken by L E. McMurray, 440 FairmounJ St., Medford. Sunday. May IS, I9S5 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Air Force Plans To Seek $300,000,000 For H-Jet Bombers Washington (U.R) The Air Force plans to ask Congress soon for more than $300,000,000 in extra funds to carry out its an nounced speed-up in production of B-52 hydrogen jet bombers, it was learned yesterday. In the face of growing Russian air power, it also was reported the strategic air command may beef up its heavy bomber wings by assigning more planes to each outfit. Heavy wings, currently flying B-36 superbombers, now have 30 planes each. They may have considerably more when new B-52s go into units starting next month. To Step Up Production Air Secretary Harold E. Tal bott announced on Thursday, after an all-day session with the Senate Armed Services commit tee, that the B-52 production rate will be stepped up 35 per cent. He said that would enable the Air Force to replace B-36s "well ahead of the present schedule." Unofficial estimates were that a year might be shaved from the earlier schedule for producing a B-52 force of about 500 planes. Disney Productions Reports Profits Hollywood (U.R) Walt Disney Productions, which in troduced the extremely success ful "Disneyland" weekly tele vision program this year, gross ed $9,876,175 in income for the six month period ending April 2, 1955. In a letter to stockholders, President Roy O. Disney report ed the figure was more than double the S4,33 1,827 grossed for the same period last year. Net profits for the 1955 period to talled $430,048, Disney said. Lowry Predicted Senate President Portland (U.R) The 1955 Oregon Legislature "did darned I well considering that it was us ing horse and buggy methods in the "atomic age," according to C. C. Chapman, editor of the Oregon Voter. Chapman, in his biennial legis lative report to the Portland City Club, said legislative pro cedures of the state have varied little since the days of Henry VIII, when they had their be ginning. However, he said a new pat tern was emerging that of a commission form of government. The emergency board. Chapman said, needed only a little more power to rule the state. The outspoken editor said the Democrats "misbehaved" by partisan actions during the ses sion, but he also said the only ones who misbehaved more in this respect were the Republi cans. Chapman predicted that State Sen. Phil Lowry (R-Medford), who showed "far more promise" than other freshman legislators, would be Senate President in 1957. That would mean America would have the fleet by 1958. The step is considered urgent by senators and airmen in light of recent emergence of Russian all-weather jet interceptors and at least small formations of bombers comparable to the B-52. The B-52, an $8,000,000 craft, flies 650 miles an hour and has about a 6,000-mile range which can be increased by in-flight re fueling from jet tankers now on order. The B-36, designed during World War II, is a 435-mile-per-hour plane with 10,000-mile range. Support Assured Talbott and Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Chief of Staff, re ceived assurance from Chairman Ruchard B. Russell (D-Ga.) of the Senate Armed Services com mittee during Thursday's secret meeting that they would be sup ported in requests for additional funds if needed. . The more than $300,000,000 will be requested, it was learned, because bombers now will come more quickly from Boeing Air plane Company's Seattle, Wash., and Wichita, Kan. plants. They will have to be paid for sooner than planned under old sched ules. The money request will go to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee studying next year's Air Force budget. V-''::':-f OBTAINING final divorce from husband No. 13, Mrs. Raymona J. O'Malley announces she ii ready to wed Gabriel Avery, 44, who will be No. 14, in Los Angeles. (International) ! ELECTRONIC LAUGH Iowa City (U.R) Prof. E. F. Iowa's college of education and some colleagues in the engineer ing college were a little startled when their electronic test scor ing machine scrambled names from lest papers in a shakedown test. But they were more sur prised moments later when it spelled out "Haw, Haw, Haw." BUYS RAILROAD Chicago (U.R) The Atchi son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway announced yesterday it has bought control of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad for $9,963,000 WINDOW SCREENS at really moderate cost Come in or phone for new illustrated folder. At AiWsei FREE ESTIMATES... Guaranteed low-cost installation A HUNDRED SIZES IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE INSTALLATION Glass & Millwork Co. 1309 Court Street Phone 3-4545 Manslaughter Charge Dropped at Portland Portland (U.R) The Mult nomah countv grand iurv did an about face Friday and cleared j Ethels Edwards of a manslaugh ter charge for the March 31 gun shot slaying of Gerald E. Holt, 39, at a local rooming house. District Attorney William Langley and his chief criminal deputy, Howard Lonergan, said that new evidence was uncover ed which supported the woman's claim she shot Holt in self-de fense while he was beating her. Library of Congress Gets 10 Millionth Book Washington (U.R) The Library of Congress, largest li brary in the world, acquired its 10 millionth book last year, but the event went unheralded and nobody knows which book mark ed the milestone. The unknown book is now one of 10,155,000 books and pamphlets stored in the vast chambers. There are 33,153,000 items in all, including films, pieces of music, newspapers and other types of material. Visit Your Cemeteries Today HIGHLAND DRIVE. SSKIYOU MEMORIAL N lvRK Tho' they are no longer with us their memory lives in the hearts of those who knew them ... flowers are an act (vow) of love. 1 ft RIVERSIDE AVE. - 1 W . i ts;'V" " .'' '. . a' sill. Sitkiyou Memorial Park Is a place of beauty each Memorial Day. Like a corsage proudly worn on a dress of green lawn the flowers symbolize by end remembrance. Siskiyou Memorial Park invites you to drive through the grounds Memorial Day
