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Atomic Energy
Commission Dealt
Financial Blow
Ike's Private Power
Proposals Hit Hard
Washington (U.R) The House
Appropriations Committee today
denied President Eisenhower's
request for ' $6,500,000 for the
Dixon-Yates project. It allotted
the money instead to a new pow
er plant for the Tennessee Valley
Authority.
It dealt this sharp rebuff to
the President's controversial pri
vate power proposal in recom
mending to the House a $1,276,-
216,242 money bill to finance
federal power, flood control, and
. rivers and harbors projects, plus
the Atomic Energy Commission,
in the 12 months starting July
1. The Atomic Energy Com
mission was hard hit by cuts in
the bill.
The total was $512,948,758 less
than the President requested, a
cut of about 28 per cent. This
was the sharpest reduction ap
plied so far this year by the ap
propriations group against any
presidential money request.
Unspent Funds Available
One of the deepest cuts was
made in operating funds for the
Atomic Energy Commission. The
committee' allowed 'the AEC
$618,000,000 for making - A
bombs and H-bombs and other
activities, a cut of $427,000,000
below Mr. Eisenhower's budget
requests.
. The committee noted that with
unspent funds still available, the
AEC will have on hand for the
year a total of $1,358,847,000,
compared to the $1,525,251,000
contemplated in the President's
budget. The lawmakers said they
did not question the importance
of the AEC's work but felt that
"economies can be effected" to
make up the cut.
Other cuts were applied to
TVA, Bonneville Power Admin
istration, the Reclamation Bu
reau, and the civil functions (riv
ers and harbors and flood con
trol) of the Army Engineers.
Southwestern Power adminis
tration got a $450,000 cut in its
operating and maintenance funds
but picked up $6,000,000 extra
in a continuing fund for financ
ing its contracts with co-operatives.
Southeastern Power Ad
ministration got by without any
cut.
Floor Fight Looms
The bill, loaded with contro
versy, comes up in the House
next week, probably Wednes
day. Republicans promised a
fight on two main provisions:
Elimination of the Dixon-Yates
funds and the extra allotment
for the Southwestern Power Ad
ministration.
The committee action on Dix
on-Yates was hailed by TVA sup
porters as a grievous and pos
sible fatal blow to the Dixon
Yates plan. Under the plan a pri
vate power plant would be built
at West Memphis, Ark., to re
plenish 1VA power supplies
drained by atomic plants at Oak
Ridge, Tenn., and Paducah, Ky,
In other sections of the bill,
the committee allowed $21,100,-
000 for the Bonneville Power Ad
ministration, a cut of $903,000
from the President's request. The
Reclamation Bureau got $145,
090,442, a cut of $34,525,558.
(See story on Page 9)
DIXON
Legislative Members Said Encroaching
Upon State Administrative Functions
Salem U.R) Members of
the Oregon Legislature are in
creasingly encroaching upon ad
ministrative functions of the
state. Secretary of State Earl
T. Newbry said today, and in
his opinion they are doing so
illegally.
He told the State Speed .Con
trol Board here that he felt, for
instance, that the law granting
the State Emergency Board to
give final approval to building
contracts is unconstitutional. He
said:
Three Branches of Government
"The constitution very clearly
sets up three branches of state
government executive, legis
lative and judicial. And nothing
in the constitution grants power
to members of the legislature to
direct executives of the state un
MEDFORD, OREGON,
-YATES FUNDS TUk,D BOOT
Yolks
Fiimafl " IrtloiLnirs
Detroit (U.R) General
Motors and the CIO United Auto
Workers started a final drive to
day toward a new agreement by
Sunday's midnight strike dead
line with 60,000 workers already
idle because of wildcat strikes.
Wage talks went into the
White Murder Case
Reset for July 11;
Plan Examination
A circuit court trial for mur
der, in which Bernice Hampton
(Tex) White. 37, of 228 Hartley
rd., Medford, is defendant, has
been postponed until July 11, it
was reported today.
Originally the trial was sched
uled to begin June 14, but the
continuance was requested by
Defense Attorney Robert Dun
can, and stipulated by District
Attorney Walter Nunley. The
delay was granted by Circuit
Judge H. K. Hanna to permit ex
aminations of White relative to
his sanity. ' '
Unusual Order
Judge Hanna's order, which
Nunley believes is the only time
such an order has been entered
in an Oregon court, provides
that all written and recorded
statements taken from the de
fendant since his arrest early in
March be turned over to Dr.
James C. Luce, Medford neurolo
surgeon, to assist him in diag
oses of the mental condition of
White at the time of the alleged
commission of the crime.
Dr. Luce is instructed not to
communicate any of these mat
ters to anyone except the de
fendant. Crime Accused
The first degree murder indict
ment accuses. White of killing
Eugene Raymond Birk, ' 32,
Phoenix, with a two-by-four
piece of lumber during an alter
cation at a Phoenix Mill March
4.
. White was indicted by the
grand jury, and later reindicted
when the first indictment was
found to contain errors. He has
pleaded innocent.
City Council Approves
Hearing on Paving Plan
The city council, at a special
meeting yesterday afternoon,
adopted ordinances calling for a
public hearing June 21 and ac
cepting plans and specifications
for paving East Jackson st. be
tween the bridge over Bear
creek and Genessee st.
A petition for paving EasJ
Jackson st. between Hawthorne
and Genessee sts. was tabled at
Tuesday night's council meeting,
and a petition for paving the
street between the bridge and
Genessee st. was prepared.
The meeting was called to
consider the new petition so
work could proceed as soon as
possible.
less such directions are contain
ed in legislation passed by the
legislature and approved by the
governor."
; Newbry expressed belief that
if emergency board action on
contracts called for by the Board
of Control or Board of Higher
Education should be challenged
in the courts, such procedure
would be held unconstitutional.
He said:
Becoming Habit
"It is rapidly becoming a habit
of members of interim commit
tees to attempt to direct state
executives in matters that are
purely administrative."
And, Newbry said, it has be
come the habit of the emergency
board," made up of members of
the Legislature, to "promulgate
conditions in regards to contracts
V
FRIDAY, .
final 72 hours masked under a
self-imposed "news blackout."
But negotiators appeared con
fident a new agreement would
be worked out and a major
strike prevented.
20 Plants Shut Down
"Impatience" strikes earlier
this week forced General Motors
to shut down 20 plants employ
ing nearly 60,000 workers today
because of parts shortages.
The last of the wildcat strikes
came to an end today when 5000
voted to return to work. They
removed their picket lines and
workers returned to their regu
lar shifts.
Meanwhile, contract talks ap
peared headed into the same
kind of stretch drive that pro
duced the union's first guaran
teed wage pact with Ford Motor
Company earlier this week.
CIO President Walter Reuther
recalled that the Ford talks went
to the limit before an agreement
was reached guaranteeing Ford
workers between ,60 and 65 per
cent of their normal take-home
pay during 26 weeks of layoff.
Prepared To Go Limit
"We're prepared to go to the
limit with General Motors too,"
Reuther said. "Where there's
life there's hope and there's a
lot of life here."
Reuther voiced his optimistic
outlook after a long bargaining
session that broke up shortly be
fore midnight. The UAW sched
uled morning meetings to take
up "local issues" today before
meeting with the company in a
formal session this afternoon.
Roundup Here Set
For July 29,30
The 13th annual Rogue River
Roundup, sponsored by the
Jackson County Sheriff's posse,
will be held Friday and Satur
day, July 29 and 30, at posse
grounds west of Medford.
Leonard Ward, former world
champion bronc rider, is chair
man of the committee in charge
of the show, which will run a
third day, July 31, if arrange
ments can be made.
Stock will be furnished by
Don Miller, stock contractor
from French Glen, Ore. Five
main events are listed in the
show, which is open to all per
sons wishing to enter.
Medford's saddle maker, Evert
Gibson, will again furnish a
hand carved saddle to the best
all around cowboy.
The queen will be chosen from
four princesses of last year. A
new princess will be selected
when the queen is chosen.
Radio Highlights
The President of the United
States and a former President
will be heard in addresses over
radio station KYJC (1230 kc)
Saturday.
- President Eisenhower will
speak at 1 p.m. and former
President Harry Truman's talk
from Portland will be carried
at 10:15 p.m.
that are not contained in the
authorizing legislation and
which are the sole responsibility
of the elected officials of the
state.
"I concede that the Legesla
ture while in session has the
power to enact laws governing
state departments, but I serious
ly question the right of members
of the Legislature to attempt to
dictate policies d urine the in
terim between sessions."
Operation of the state's busi
ness is seriously handicapped,
he said, by "this crowing tenden
cy on the part of members of
the legislature to interfere with
administrative affairs. . .
He expressed hope that court
action might be initiated in the
near future to settle the ques
tion.
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Spectacular Storm
Causes Nine Fires;
Weather Is Cooler
Crews Dispatched
To Combat Blazes
Cooler weather today followed
on the heels of a spectacular
lightning storm that touched off
at least nine forest fires in this
area last night.
The storm, which started short
ly after dusk yesterday, rose to
a pitch at about 9 p.m., when
the eastern horizon was lighted
almost continuously by light
ning.
Eight storm-caused fires were
spotted on state forest patrol pro
tected land, and patrolmen said
that more might be found by
aerial searches being conducted
over this region. Two-man crews
were being dispatched to all of
the blazes.
The largest reported fire,
about an acre in size, was in the
Thompson Creek area. Another
was reported on Dead Indian
creek, near Lake O' Woods road,
and six others were in the Elk
creek drainage, where Elk Lum
ber company crews took care of
a seventh fire last night.
Rogue River National forest
officials reported one fire at Sut
ton ridge in the Applegate dis
trict, and one man was sent out
to handle it.
Meanwhile, this morning
cloudy skies and breezy weather
brought a welcome drop in Med
ford area temperatures. The wea
ther bureau here predicted a
high of 84 for today after four
days of 95-degree plus tempera
tures. "
The maximum temperature
yesterday was 98, equalling a
June 9 record set in 1918. Only
a breeze kept the temperature
from climbing to a new record
of 102 which had been forecast
by the weather bureau.
Despite cloudiness, which
caused a brilliant sunset last eve
ning, orly a small amount of rain
fell in scattered areas. This, cou
pled with expected thunderstorm
activity again tonight, increased
forest fire danger over the week
end. Portland (U.R) A return to
seasonable, 'springlike weather
was forecast for Oregon by the
weather bureau today and the
weatherman promised that tem
peratures for the state's biggest
show, the Portland Rose Festival
grand floral parade, would be a
balmy 76.
The low pressure trough
blamed for a two-day record heat
wave has moved inland, leaving
space for cool, marine air but
still sunny skies for most of the
state.
At least one death was blamed
on the hot weather
At Reedsport on" the Oregon
Coast, temperatures in the high
90's apparently brought about
the death of Andrew Knudson,
43-year-old logger. He collapsed
Wednesday while at a logging
operation.
Motion for New Trial
In Poirier Case Denied
District Court Judge Rawles
Moore has denied a motion for
a new trial. in the case of Lee
Poirier, Jacksonville, who last
week was found guilty of prac
ticing dentistry without a state
license.
Judge Moore set Monday at 2
p.m. for sentencing. .
O. H. Bengston, Porier's at
torney, filed the new trial mo
tion recently and Judge Moore
took the motion under advise
ment, ruling on it yesterday.
District Attorney Walter Nunley
represented the state. '
Spark Beats Firemen
To Prevention Task
Central Point Central
Point rural firemen planned
to burn off grass in the White
City area this week end be
cause they realised a spark
from a mill burner might
start a blase when no one was
around to control blase.
However, the spark beat
them to it yesterday after
noon. A rural . department
truck just happened to be in
the area on an inspection trip
at the time. It . was at the
scene and in use on the fire
before an alarm was turned
in.
Five or six acres of grass
wen burned. -
Eisenhower Signs
Postal Pay Boost
Of Eight Per Cent
Measure Said To Be
Great Step Forward
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower today signed into
law a bill giving the Post Office
Department's 500,000 field
workers an average eight per
cent increase in pay.
The boost, which will add
$160,000 to the department's an
nual payroll, is retroactive to
March 1.
Under the terms of the new
law, each postal worker will re
ceive at least a six per cent pay
boost. A reclassification feature
in the measure will give the
average worker an extra two per
cent. .
Two-Year Struggle Ends
Mr. Eisenhower's action ended
a two-year struggle between
Congress and the White House
on the question of postal pay
raises.
In signing the measure, Mr.
Eisenhower stated that the bill
provides "a fair pay increase"
to every employee and "reprer
sents the greatest step forward
for our postal employees in more
than a century."
"The new law will bring
about the elimination of in
equities in the postal field serv
ice which for years have vio
lated the principle pay for equal
work and discourage employees
from seeking advancement," the
President said in a statement.
Two Measures Vetoed
During the course of the con
gressional - presidential contro
versy over postal pay Mr. Eisen
hower twice succesfully vetoed
pay boot measures, a five per
cent increase bill last year and
an average 8.8 per cent last
month.
The Senate and House promnt-
ly rushed through a compromise
eight per cent measure after the
8.8 per cent bill was killed. Both
houses sent the revised measure
to the White House earlier this
week.
Hearing on Budget
Complete Today
The Jackson county budget
committee planned an executive
session early this afternoon . to
give final approval to the coun
ty budget for 1955-56.
A public hearing on the bud
get was held this morning with
only about a dozen people, most
of them county officials, in the
audience.
During the hearing, four
changes were requested by de
partment heads.
Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county
clerk, requested that the com
mittee reconsider three items
which had ben disallowed. Su
perintendent of Schools All Mek
vold asked that salaries be in
creased for two employees in his
office.
A petition from the Jackson
County Bar association was pre
sented, recommending that the
county supplement the salary of
the district attorney, 'increasing
it to $7,500 a year, and that he
have a first deputy, to be paid
$5,000 a year, and a second dep
uty, to be paid $4,000 a year. At
the present time, the district at
torney receives $5,000 a year,
and his first deputy receives $4,
200 a year paid by the county.
The petition of a second deputy
for which the salary is only
$3,000 a year, is unfilled.
Sheriff Howard Gault asked
for additional equipment.
Truckers Voting on
Pact Ratification
Los Angeles (U.R) AFL
Teamster members and trucking
operators were scheduled to
vote today on an agreement to
end the more than three-week-
old trucking strike which crip
pled long-distance hauling in u
Western states.
Federal Conciliator John Fen
ton indicated the strike was at
last at an end late last night
when he announced that repre
sentatives of the union and the
trucking industry finally had
reached an agreement.
Fenton said both sides had
reached "a basis of settlement
with mutual satisfaction," sub
ject to ratification by both the
union membership and trucking
operators. Ratification meetings
were scheduled for today
throughout the Western states.
Weather
FORECAST: Considerable
cloudiness with thunderstorm
activity tonight. Partly cloudy
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FOOTLIGHTERS MOVING The building at the fairgrounds
which for the past several years has housed the theater of the
Footlighters little theater group here is undergoing a radical
change, as is shown in the pictures above. The top picture shows it
at its old location, with most of the underpart cut away. The
lower shot shows it with the underpinning removed and in the
process of moving some 2,000 feet almost due east, to a spot where
a new foundation will be prepared for it. Major inside and outside
renovations will change the theater, also. Other buildings are be
ing moved in preparation for the erection of the new city-county-National
Guard armory-auditorium building going in in the area.
(Brainerd photos.)
Medlford Armory
ids ver
Mew IPDan
Salem (U.R) Architects will
draw new plans for the proposed
Medford armory because six bids
submitted on plans already
drawn exceeded the money avail
able by 20 per cent or more, Lt.
Col. . Paul Kliever, director , of
armories f orf the adjutant gen
eral, said today.
The amount of money avail
able, Col. Kliever said, was
about $364,000, including feder
al participation But the lowest
basic bid, submitted jointly by
the Wiley and McLaughlin firms
of Ashland, was $401,500. This
was in addition to architect's fees
and other costs.
New Plans Asked
Col. Kliever said R. J. Keeney
and Jack Edson, Medford archi
tects who drew the first plans,
have been asked to draw up new
specifications that would bring
the project more nearly within
the range of money available
and amounts bid.
He said he had written Jack
son County Judge Rodney Keat
ing and Mayor Earl Miller of
Medford advising them that the
new plans are being drawn.
Other basic bids were submit
ted by H. Barnhart of Medford,
$431,044; D. W. Knight of Al
bany, $469,400; H. G. Carl of
Salem, $402,901; J G. Watts of
Portland, $465,917, and Smith
Phillips Company of Portland,
$424,700.
Clearing Well Along
Work to prepare the fair
grounds for construction of the
proposed Medford armory is well
along, it was reported today by
Earle Jossy, secretary of the
county fair board.
The Footlighters building is in
the process of being moved, and
yesterday work was to begin on
the Eckerson building, being
Guard Companies Leave at
Midnight Tonight for Camp
Headquarters Company and
Company A of the Medford Na
tional Guard, 171 strong, leave
for Ft. Lewis, Wash., by special
train at midnight tonight for a
two week training camp.
A vehicle convoy advance de
tachment left Wednesday morn
ing under the command of Capt.
George T. Bennett, Ashland, as
sisted by Sgt. D. Chaney of
Headquarters company. Col.
Donald Burke, Grants Pass, is in
charge of the troop move to
camp.
Other Units - .
Other units to be picked up
on the way include Company JC
of Grants Pass, Company D and
Heavy Mortar ' company, Rose
burg, and Company B of Cot
tage Grove. All are part of the
1st battalion. 186th Infantry reg
iment, 41st division.
Training at Ft. Lewis for the
battalion commences Sunday,
June 12, with three lectures:
"Character Guidance," by the
regimental chaplain; "Supply
Economy," by Captain Bennett,
and "Uniform Code of Military
Estimate:
GecQuesteaS
moved by R. F. Vinson, Med
ford, to the 4-H area where it
will be used as a cattle barn.
Still to be moved are the two
identical wings of a building
being used by the Courtesy
Chevrolet .company, -which will
be moved to another fairgrounds
site and used as a warehouse and
garage for weed and mosquito
control equipment.
The Rogue Valley ballroom is
now on a month-to-month rental
basis, and no definiate plans
have been made until the armory
area proper is cleared. The ball
room building extends about 15
feet on to the proposed parking
area, and it is planned to move
it later. . , , . ..-..
Deadline Hearing
In School Elections
The deadline for filing peti
tions for candidates for election
to district school boards is June
12, the county schools office
said today. The last day for fil
ing acceptances is June 14.
Elections will be held in each
of the county's school districts
on Monday, June 30. This year,
each of the second and third
class districts will be electing
three directors to bring their
boards up to five members. The
change is required by a law
passed by this year's session of
the state legislature.
The deadline for filing peti
tions and acceptances for the
county non-high and rural
school boards has passed with
only one candidate for each of
the three positions up for elec
tion. In each case, the only can-
didate is the incumbent.
Justice," by Lt. S. J. Fagone.
Headquarters ' Company will
have specialists attending
schools such as intelligence,
communication,, engineer, and
chemical- biological- radioactive.
Company A will have a crew
serve weapons squads firing.
Saturday, June 18, the bat
talion will participate in a Gov
ernor's Day review for Gover
nors Patterson of Oregon and
Langlie of Washington. Another
review will honor Maj. Gen. H.
G. Masion, retiring, and General
Cook, receiving command of the
division. -
Battalion Training
' The batallion as a "whole will
receive its training in the final
week, concluding with i inspec
tion by regular army inspector
teams. ,- - --
All units will leave Ft. Lewis
Friday evening, June 24. The
two Medford companies will ar
rive here Saturday, June 25, at
12:30 p.m.
Friends and relatives of the
citizen-soldiers are "welcome to
watch them leave for camp at
the railroad station at midnight
$150,000 Allocated
For Local Project;
Rehabilitation OKd
Ellsworth, Patterson,
Neuberger All Pleased
A half-million dollars for
planning and construction work
on two phases of the Talent rec
lamation project today received
the approval of the house appro
priations committee in Wash
ington. The amounts are contained in
a. $113,041,000 appropriations
bill for construction of reclama
tion projects throughout the
nation. The bill was cut by $132,
220,000 from the amount re- !
quested by the administration.
Most Significant
The smaller of the two
amounts approved for the Tal
ent project is believed here to
be the most significant. It is
$150,000 for planning construc
tion of the Talent project pro
per, which, when completed,
will provide added irrigation
water for several thousand acres
of land between Medford and
Ashland, as well as some 16,000
kilowatts of power.
The significance of the amount
lies in the fact that it was not
originally budgeted, due to an
error "somewhere along the
line" in the bureau of reclama
tion. Ellsworth Optimistic
Congressman Harris Ells
worth, who telephoned the news
of the money approval this
morning to the Mail Tribune,
said that he is "very optimistic"
about the future chances of the
Talent project, and believes that
the amount will remain in the
bill as approved by the com
mittee. ,
"Naturally, we'd like to have
had more," he said, "but $150,
000 will give us a good start on
the job. And it means that we've
got the project on an approved
status." He added that the sum
may be increased in the senate.
and that the action makes it pos
sible to request a substantial
sum for construction at the next
session of congress.
Sen.' Richard L. Neuberger
(D-Ore.) today expressed his
gratification that the Talent'
project had received the ap
proval of the house appropria
tions committee.
, In a statement telephoned
to the Mail Tribune by a mem
ber of his office staff. Senator
Neuberger said:
"It is reassuring that the
house committee has recog
nized the merits of the Talent
project and provided $150.
000 for completion of plan
ning needed to start the proj
ect "Early in January I called '
attention to the fact the ad
ministration budget had ig
nored Talent's obvious con
struction needs."
" The other $350,000 contained
in the bill for the Talent proj
ect is for the rehabilitation phase
of the job, involving a total of
$1,712,000 worth of work on the
canal and reservoir systems of
the Medford and Rogue River
Valley Irrigation districts.
Election Called '
- (An election by landowners in
the two districts to approve ne- '
gotiations on a repayment con
tract was called by directors of
the two districts this week. It
will be held July 15.)
Ellsworth told the Mail Trib
une that after the bureau of the
budget discovered that the Tal
ent project had been incorrectly
listed as having a low benefit
cost ratio, it had gone "all out"
to assist in restoration of the
$150,000 to the bill.
In Salem this morning Gov.
Paul Patterson, who local ir
rigationists declare deserves
much of the credit for restora
tion of the amount to the bill,
expressed his pleasure in the
committee's action.
"This means, the project will
go ahead. I am sure that appro
priations for construction will
follow in due course,' he said.
The governor's statement add
ed: "Even though the amount
specified in the appropriation
bill presently does not provide
sufficient money for construction
purposes, I shall continue to
exert every effort to increase the
amount to a figure where con
struction could start in the fiscal
year 1956. The present amount
is indeed a good omen."
"I have followed this project
very carefully, and have made
two trips to Washington, during
which I have urged the going
ahead with the Talent project
and its construction.
"We all know the federal bud
get -limitations in this period of
necessary high defense spend
ing, so the fact that $150,000 has :;
been appropriated for bid sped-
fications on the Talent project,
clearly places it in an advan
tageous position. As the prelimi- -nary
step is completed, I am con
fident that construction appro
priations will follow."