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Newspaper Page TextRecommended teriM ob ttt Medford eity Budget, thi ist National Cat fUh derbjr, and. an expanded advertitlnf campaign being ttodied oy Rocuo valley fruit men appear on Page 14 of to day'! lira of The Mall Tribune. 50th Year Ford Rejects Union Plan To Arbitrate; Prepare For Strike Detroit (U.R) Ford Motor company Saturday rejected a un ion proposal to arbitrate the me thod of disbursing a $55,000,000 job security fund even though it said it realized its action increas ed the possibility it would be hit by a company-wide strike "some -No Fire Hazards Found in 1,644 City Residences No hazards were found in 1,664 of the 2,843 Medford homes inspected by city fire de partment crews during a month long program which ended Fri day. For the 1,179 residences in which hazards were seen, 1,745 recommendations were issued for correction of the conditions, Fire Chief Gordon Barker re ported. He said that defective wiring was the most prevalent fire danger found. Firemen stopped at 5,314 homes, all the single, duplex and triplex dwellings in Medford. No one was home at 2,236 of the residences and occupants of 235 others turned down the offer of inspection. The fire department has re ceived 27 call-backs to inspect houses where people were not at home. Barker said that it is assumed that residents not call ing back do not wish inspection. However, he said that residential calls will be made at any time they are requested. He brought out that home inspections are a service and are not being forced upon anyone. . . ' Other leading hazards found were stovepipes not properly installed, f lamable liquids not properly stored, and stoves or heating appliances improperly installed, in that order. Some stovepipes were found too close to a wall or ceiling. Barker reported that many resi dents had gasoline for power mowers stored in glass contain ers. This is dangerous, he point ed out, since glass is easily bro ken. Metal containers should be used, he said. Where heating ap pliances were hazards, they were usually too close to combustible materials, walls, partitions or furniture. Fire department crews began their calls on May 2. They have completed the regular home in spection for the year. A detailed fireman will make the call-backs this week. Guatemalan Consul Killed by Woman Heppner (U.R) Dellmore Lessard, 57, Portland attorney ' and Guatemalan consul in Port land was shot and killed instant ly here Saturday night by a woman identified as the wife of one of his clients. Held on an open charge in connection with the killing was Mrs. Anna Perkins Avent of Heppner. According to Morrow County Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman, Lessard had gone to Heppner with Fred Avent, divorced husband of the woman, to pick up their 13-year-old son and take him to Port land. The former Mrs. Avent, who was tending bar in a cocktail lounge when her former hus band and the lawyer entered, ap parently "blew up" and grabbed a .38 calibre revolver. Lessard. who was just recent ly named Guatemalan consul, was shot, in the head and killed instantly. Sports Bulletin Th Medford Cheney Studs rallied with four runs in the sixth inning to defeat Grants Pass Elks. S to 4. i Grants Pass last night. Howard Mor ris homered in the second and Bill McClain in the sixth for the Studs and Mel Friend homered for the Elks in the fourth. Portland (U.R) A four run ninth inning gave the Hollywood Stars a comfort eble 9-4 victory over the Port land Beavers in a Pacific Coast league baseball gam tore Saturday aigM. Me United Press r-ull LuMd 30. Pages time after midnight Sunday." "We ar immediately making all necessary plans so that on our part, if a strike occurs it may be as orderly as possible," said John S. Bugas, Ford vice-presi-dnt of industrial relations. Cannot Arbitrate "We think that Mr. Reuther's (CIO president Walter Reuther) demands are unreasonable both as to benefit levels and as to du ration of benefits. We are quite willing to discuss this issue across the bargaining table, but it is an important matter of sub stance and we can not submit it to arbitration," Bugas said. Ford and the union had agreed that the company should set up the multi-million-dollar trust fund to supplement unemploy ment benefits during layoffs. But the union and company have been unable to agree how the money should be spent. Offered Supplement The union said the money would be enough to guarantee workers payments big enough to give them 80 per cent of normal take home pay for as long as 52 weeks. Ford had offered to sup plement unemployment pay for 26 weeks, giving workers 60 to 65 per cent of normal during that period. , Apparently neither side found much to talk about at the night session. They .broke up the ses sion after one and a half hours. Negotiators for both sides ap peared short - tempered when they left the bargaining room. But they agreed to meet again at 10 a.m. (EST) today. Reu ther wouldn't comment on the talks. Ken Bannon, director of the National Ford department of the union, just shook his head forlornly when asked if the two sides had found any ' basis for perhaps settling their dispute. Live Polio Virus Declared Found in Cutter Salk Sample Salt Lake City (U.R) Dr. Louis P. Gebhardt, University of Utah bacteriologist, confirmed Saturday that he isolated live polio virus in a sample of Cutter-produced Salk vaccine. The bacteriologist said the positive virus was discovered in one sarnie of one lot number of anti-polio vaccine furnished him by the Idaho State Health de partment. The vaccine was man ufactured by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., he said. Type 1 Virus Gebhardt said laboratory tests showed the virus to be of type 1. It was discovered after one of four Cynomolgus monkeys in oculated with vaccine from the sample developed paralysis and died, bp said.. He said that in view of his findings he believed "at least some" of Idaho's recent 75 polio cases might be traceable to the vaccine if the victims received "some of this vaccine that was positive." However, he emphasized that onlyjhe one sample contained positfi virus. He said that all other samples tested typed out negative. Idaho Health officials recent ly called an indefinite halt to the mass vaccination program in that state because of the recent polio outbreak. S no-Cats The Tucker Sno-Cat, manufac tured in a plant on South Pac ific highway, Medford, will get its most severe test within the next year when at least 20 freighter type vehicles are taken to Antarctica in expeditions by four organizations from as many countries. Two vehicles destined to be sent to the South Pole next fall underwent extensive tests re cently in France's Pyrenees mountains by Dr.Taul E. Victor of Paris, who is heading Exped itious Polaires Francaises. To Other Nations Two more similar vehicles have been ordered for the French expedition and three oth er nations, including the United States, have placed orders for about 19 vehicles, all for Ant arctic expeditions this fall, ac cording to company officials. Production of the large Sno Cats has started with construc DFORB Wire ' - t BalBaMBaMMMWBaM FLYERS, FAMILIES, REUNITED With swaying palm trees as a backdrop, four U. S. airmen are reunited with families in Honolulu after release from Red Chinese prisons. From left: Capt Harold Fischer with parents Mr. and Mrs. Fischer Sr.; Lt. Col. Edwin Heller and wife; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Parks with flier son Lt Roland Parks, and the lieutenant's brother Richard; Robert Cameron, Mrs. Roland Cameron and her flier son 1st Lt Lyle W. Cameron and father Holland Cameron. East Germany Puts New Restrictions On Berlin Traffic Berlin (U.R) East Germany refused to abolish its exorbitant tolls on Berlin truck traffic and suddenly announced new restric tions Saturday night on travel between the city and West Ger many. The East German radio an nounced the Communist Inter ior Ministry was ordered to limit travel "temporarily" be tween West Germany and the Soviet zone. The reason given for the order was to prevent the "epidemic" of typhoid and polio in the West from spreading to the Soviet zone. . . Flimsy Pretext West' German" officials im mediately labeled the pommun ist move a flimsy pretext for stepping up the "baby block ade." They said there have been no serious outbreaks of polio in West Germany this year and the typhoid epidemic in the Ruhr is on the wane by now. No details of the new travel restrictions were given in the Communist broadcast. It said East German Premier Otto Grotewohl ordered his in terior Ministry to impose the temporary limitation on travel between the East and West. He acted after the health minister reported the outbreaks of typhoid and polio in West Ger many. Granted Reductions The new announcement was made shortly after the Commun ists granted "insignificant" re ductions in the exorbitant tolls imposed on trucks supplying West Berlin. The West German government said the Reds refused to nego tiate on the tolls in talks be tween East and West German traffic Ministry representatives. Clifford Gee Given One-Year Sentence Clifford Quentin Gee, Harlan, Ore., entered a guilty plea in district court yesterday on a petty larceny charge and was sentenced by Judge Rawles Moore to a year in jail. The time will be served in Rocky Butte jail in Multnomah county. The case involved articles taken from the Hartford Smith home, Rogue River on Sept. 8, 1954. Previous charges of bur glary and of receiving and con cealing stolen property were dismissed. Purchased For Use tion of various parts of the veh icles, but the first machine is not expected to be completed un til about Aug. 1. The vehicles will have an ov erall length of 20 feet and weigh about 7,000 pounds apiece. The Cats with 234 horsepower Chrys ler V-8 engines, will cost about $14,000 each. The 12-passenger, freighter type vehicles will have regular enclosed bodies, except two being shipped to France. The vehicles will be winterized to withstand extreme cold. Others Ordered Between 10 and 14 will be made for American Antarctic Expeditions, four for the Trans Antarctic Expedition, Ltd., of England, and two will be made for the Australian Antarctic So ciety. Dr. Victor, who recently vis ited the Tucker plant here, rec ommended the vehicles to var ious govtrnmenu and organiza MEDFORD, OREGON, Americans Dn Russian Vienna (U.R) Austrians and Germans returning from Communist captivity said Satur day there are "many" Ameri cans in Russia's slave camps, including at least four U. S. air men. Oregon State Elks 1955 Convention' Ends at Ashland Ashland The Oregon State Elks climaxed its three-day' con vention here Saturday-afternoon with a parade and buffalo barbe cue after picking Seaside as their 1956 convention site in a busi ness session yesterday morning. Participating in the parade was Marilyn Denning, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Denning, Camp White, and 1955 Pear Blossom Festival queen. Besides the parade, the grand convention ball and Cabaret dance were held last night. Yesterday the convention of ficially ended, but Elks partici pated in a registered trap shoot at the Medford Gun club today. Other events on the conven tion agenda included band con certs, a bowling tournament, a golf tournament and various en tertainment facilities. The Elks picked Seaside as the 1956 convention site by an over welming vote over Portalnd, the other applicant for the group's annual meeting. Egypt Warns Israel Against Gaza Seizure Cairo, Egypt (U.R) Egypt warned Saturday that if Israel attempts to seize the Gaza Strip it will mean a new Hobrland war. Egypt will not "be fooled by armistice or cease - fire decisions issued by New York (The United Nations) and obeyed by one side only," said a statement publish ed Saturday in all Cairo news papers and attributed to Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser. The premier's warning in creased the danger of renewed fighting between the Arabs and Israeli and was followed by an Arab League statement that all the Arab states stood with Egypt. tions planning expeditions. The recommendations were based on his experience with Sno-Cats in Greenland and Alaska during World War II and on private expeditions. Besides testing the vehicles in the Pyrenees, Dr. Victor also has compared the Tucker vehicle to other type snow vehicles, and believes the Sno-Cat will better serve expeditions to the South Pole. The French expedition prob ably will be the first to move the locally manufactured vehicles into the Antarctic. To Train Officer England's expedition will in clude a transportation officer trained at the Tucker plant here. He is expected to arrive in Med ford in the near future to study operations of the Sno-Cat. Dr. V. E. Fuchs heads the English expedition. John R. Lodwick of London SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 1955 Said MeM Prisons Dr. Hermann Dalhammer, one of the returning prisoners, said he knows the names of "several" American and British captives of the Russians, but he refused to make them public. "I am going to do everything I can to get them all released through official channels," Dal hammer said. May Have Died One prisoner who tried to smuggle out pictures of the im prisoned airmen said he fears some of them may have died since he last saw them seven years ago. The . prisoners also reported that an undetermined number of slave laborers were massa cred last month by Soviet guards at Camp Refta, 300 miles south east of Moscow, when they pro tested against intolerable work ing conditions. It was uncertain whether the dead at Camp Refta included any Americans. ' 15 Die In Riots At least 15 persons were killed in month-long "mass sex. riots" last year, when the Russians tried to segregate men and wo men at a group of camps 1,600 miles southeast of Moscow, the returning prisoners said. Seven men are belived to have been executed for starting the riots. The dead included a number of women who threw themselves under the treads of Russian tanks used to quell the disor ders. ' The ex-prisoners who reached freedom here Saturday included about 250 Austrians and "ethnic Germans" Central Europeans of German descent some of whom had been in Soviet pris ons for as long as 15 years. The Russians, who had pre viously denied holding any more prisoners of war, blandly agreed to return those still in their pris ons as part of Austria's reward for accepting "neutrality" under the terms of the recently-negotiated peace treaty. POOL OPENING UNCERTAIN City Park Director Darell Hu son has reported that the date for opening Hawthorne - park swimming pool has not definitely been set. He added, however, that the pool operation may be gin next Saturday or Sunday. Supervised playground activity is scheduled to start by the week of June 13. By Four recently visited the . Tucker plant on behalf of the Antarctic expedition to obtain technical in formation regarding fuel and lu bricants for below-zero opera tions. Lodwick is with a British petroleum company. The British expedition plans to cross the Antarctic continent, a distance of about 2,000 miles, and hauling gasoline and other supplies will be done with trail ers pulled by Sno-Cats. The Cats will not be changed from the vehicle finished at the plant here. May Buy Trailers Morris Tucker, one of three sons of Emmett Tucker, inven tor . and manufacturer of the Sno-Cat, said the English expe dition may purchase its trailers from the local company, but as yet no order has been placed. The Trans-Antarctic Expedi tion, Ltd., ordered Sno-Cats on the basis of favorable reports Menon, Dulles Set Conference on U.S. Prisoners in China June Conference jn Washington Expected Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and India's roving Ambassador, V. K. Krishna Menon, will confer this month on prospects of ob taining the release of more Americans held prisoner by Red China and the outlook for re lieving Far Eastern tension. There is some question, how ever, of when and where they will meet. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said Menon is "coming to Washing ton and has an appointment with the Secretary of State." Dulles Surprised But Dulles seemed surprised by the White House announce ment as he took off from Na tional Airport for Columbia, S. C, on the first leg of a cam paign to line up bipartisan sup port for the coming Big Four conference. Informed sources reported Saturday that the United States, Britain, and France will propose next week to Russia that the "Summit" meeting be held at Geneva, Switzerland, beginning July 18. Dulles said he expects he will see Menon, who conferred in Peiping recently with the Red Chinese leaders, at the San Francisco United Nations con ference June 20-26. "I expect I'll be seeing him he s going to be at San Fran cisco at least," Dulles said. - When the two men meet it is obvious that chief topics of their talks would be the recent re lease of four Airmen jet fighter pilots, prospects for release of all 63 Americans still believed held by the Reds, and what .- be done to avoid war in the Far East. Menon conferred recently with Chinese Premier Chou En Lai in the Red Chinese capital on the Formosa crisis and the release of, American prisoners. Following his talks, the four American pilots were released. However, the United States feels that the U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold played the major role in obtain ing release of the fliers. Deadline for School Petitions June 73 One more week remains in which petitions of nomination for candidates for election to the school board of District 49 can be filed. The election is on June 20, and petitions must be filed by June 13, which is a week from tomorrow. One candidate, William Bark er, has filed his candidacy so far. Bulletin Portland (U.R) There will be milk on Portland. Ore., doorsteps this morning. The labor dispute that stopped deliveries to homes and stores in the Portland 'area since Thursday was "sus pended" last night. Mayor Fred L. Peterson made the an nouncement after all-day ses sions with Union and manage ment leaders. Antarctic from private and military sourc es on their effectiveness. The Australian expedition will 'be headed by E. Graham Turbott of Auckland, New Zeal and. The Australian Antarctic society ordered the vehicles on the basis of previous experience with Sno-Cats. Ten vehicles have been used in the Australian mountains during the past feWj years. Most Extensive The American Antarctic ex pedition probably will be the most- extensive research pro gram. The 10 to 14 Cats for the American group were chosen on the basis of reports and obser vations of performance through out the country. The American expedition is being carried out in cooperation with the Navy and the Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Research Establishment (SIPRE) of the Army Corps of Engineers. The TONE .d Praiafull Leased Wire Price 5c Car Teeters on Edge Of Embankment Until Girl Helped to Safety Diane Orene Tuttle. 17, of Shady Cove, was assisted from a teetering automobile just before it plunged over a 20 foot embankment and was de molished "Friday afternoon, according to state police. The officers who investiga ted the accident said that Miss Tuttle, driving south from Shady Cove at a moderate rate of speed, took her eyes from the road for a moment, and the car left the pavement as it rounded a curve. The driver slammed on the brakes and the car spun, skidded and rol led over, coming to rest on its right side, balancing precar iously over the edge of the bank. A passer-by, Roy L. Colling wood, 625 Losier lane, Med ford. came to Miss Tuttle's aid. and pulled her out of the car just as it tipped and crashed down the ehibankmenx. Alone in the car at the time, the driver was reported to have suffered minor cuts and bruises, but was to be taken to a physician for a check as to possible other hurts. The car was wrecked in the plunge down the bank, police said. Greece, Turkey on Soviets' Schedule For Neutralization Vienna, Austria (U.R) Rus sia and Bulgaria Saturday night announced an agreement that in dicated Greece and Turkey may be the next targets of Soviet Communist party chief Nikita S. Khrushchev's drive to build a line of neutral nations across Europe. A communique issued in Sof ia, Bulgaria, said the accord be tween Russia and Yugoslavia reached this week should "con tribute to the amelioration" of Soviet and Bulgarian relations "with the neighboring countries of Greece and Turkey." ' Eastern Anchor Turkey and Greece form the strategic eastern anchor of the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation (NATO). They are allied with Yugoslavia in the Balkan mutual defense pact designed to help protect the Middle East from Soviet aggression. Obesrvers in Belgrade had spectulated that one purpose of Khrushchev's mission there might be to undermine the Bal kan pact. Khrushchev and Soviet Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin are barnstorming their way home from Yugoslavia through the capitals of the satellite coun tries. Their mission apparently is to explain Russian concessions to the, "former renegade" Mar shal Tito. Friday the Soviet leaders stop ped in Sofia. Saturday they con ferred with Hungarian and Ro manian leaders in Bucharest, Ro mania. But the joint communique on the Sofia talks was only made public last night. The Bulgarian press agency transmitted it over Sofia radio. Expeditions expedition will be made in re lays. An advance party is present ly in Antarctica, and the sec ond group will go this fall with the first Sno-Cat. To Make Adjustments The vehicles will' be winter ized by the purchasers, which also make any adjustments nec essary. For example, the French group ordered vehicles without bodies so it could fur nish cabins with combination sleeping quarters and laboratory facilities. Winterization will include weather stripping, low tempera ture lubricants and gasolines, high voltage ignitions, special hydraulic fluids, and engine pre heaters for temperatures ranging to more than 60 degrees below zero. Each organization will train its own drivers and technicians for Sno-Cat operations. Weather FORECAST: Generally fair flu day and Monday. A Uttle cooler Monday. High Sunday IS; low Sunday nifht 48; high Monday 78. Highest yesterday 8S Lowest yesterday morning 57 Pree. To 11 p.m. Yesterday No. 65 Geneva Selected as Site of Conference Starting July 18 Sen. George Warns Against 'Miracles' Washington (U.R) The Big Three western nations will invite Russia next week to hold the Big Four heads-of-state confer ence at Geneva, Switzerland, be ginning July 18, official sources reported Saturday. The U.S.-British-French pro posal represents a compromise. London (U.R) Indian "peace" envoy V. K. Krishna Menon was reported Saturday to have unfolded to British leaders a three - point Formosa cease - fire plan said to have the backing of Red China. Informed sources said the plan provided for Nationalist evacuation of the off - shore islands of Quemoy and Matiu, ' renunciation of force by both Nationalists and Communists, and a conference to settle their conflict. The western nations originally suggested Lausanne, Switzer land, and Russia wanted the meetings held in Vienna. Sees No Miracles As plans went forward for the conference, Sen. Walter F. George warned Americans to "look for no miracles'' in the conference. However, he said "we should approach the con ference with a positive attitude." The veteran Georgia Demo crat, chairman of the Senate For eign Relations committee, said -"the best we could hope for would be to find a direction that will lead to a lessening of ten sions." That is th view that P.L jdent Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles have taken of the forthcoming con ference. They see it as one of the first steps on a rocky path toward peace. George refused to be drawn into a reported difference of opinion between the State de partment and Vice-president Richard M. Nixon about the im portance of the conference. Unhappy About Remarks . Although the department offi cially declined comment on Nix on's remarks in a speech at Chi cago Thursday, it was reported unhappy about them. Nixon said the Big Four meeting may be the last chance to settle world dif ferences peacefully and avoid a disastrous war. Dulles brushed off questions about the speech Saturday. He said. "I haven't read the soeech myself...! don't like to com ment on speeches on the basis of headlines ...I don't think it's fair to comment on speeches un til you've read them." ; The West apparently does not intend to propose how long the conference, should last. Main participants will be President Eisenhower, Soviet Premier Nik olai A. Bulganin, British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, and French Premier Edgar Faure. But Mr. Eisenhower has said he favors a session of about three days. Police Investigate Explosion Reports City police, who investigated a report of two explosions at the courthouse about 4:30 a.m. yes terday, said that they were of the opinion that Elks lodge mem bers staying here in connection with the state convention at Ash land caused the detonations. Exact nature of the explosions was not determined. They were heard by prisoners in the county jail and by others in the vicinity. Irving Willian Houschild, clerk at the Medford hotel, told offi cers that he observed smoke rising from the courthouse lawn. A check of the courthouse was made to determine if the ex plosions might have been inside the building. Washington (U.R) Dave Beck, head of the AFL Team-' sters Union, said Saturday he plans to combine forces with the two rival East and Gulf Coast Longshoremen's unions . and launch a giant organizing drive mainly in the South. .