Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 21, 1955, Image 1

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., June 21, 1955, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1955)

Page of 20 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (4.7 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 20 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page Textfc mm Oqecbom 4 m 9 jjp " f OUTLINING CRITICAL relations between Catholic Church and government of Argentina, Msgr. Manuel Tato (left), Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General of Buenos Aires, and his assistant, Msgr. Ramon Movoa report to Pope Pius XII in Rome. Prelates are exiled from Argentina by President Peron. (International) Argentine Cabinet Shakeup Forecast; Lucero Junta Seen Buenos Aires, Argentina (U.R) A complete shakeup was pre dicted today in the Argentine cabinet. Reports of the complete shake up persisted although the navy ministry vacancy left in the cab inet by Rear Adm. Anibal OH- Two Drowned, Two Others Missing in Detroit Reservoir Salem U.R) Authorities searching for a car which dived off the highway into Detroit dam reservoir today recovered the bodies of two of the four persons who were in the vehicle. State police said the bodies of James A. Jennings, 4-year-old highway worker and his son Leo, 16, were found today. The bodies were found by officers using grappling hooks near the bank. Two Slill Missing Two others still were missing, Jennings' 14-year-old son, Rich ard, and John Wallace, 17. All were from Detroit, Ore. The car had not been located. State police said the car ap parently went through the guard rail and plunged down a cliff into some 40 feet of water. The reservoir gets much deeper a short distance offshore. Jennings and the boys were aeen last on Saturday evening when they left Detroit to go to Mill City. A highway worker found the guard rail hole yes terday. Missed Curve Police surmised they were re turning from Mill City when the car missed a curve, battered down a concrete guard rail and hurtled into' the lake. The license plate, numbered 7E667, registered to Jennings' car, and Jennings' billfold were discovered between the point where the car left the highway and the water's edge. High winds hampered search operations yesterday. LA Transit Strike May Last for Week Los Angeles (U.R) A Los An geles Transit Lines strike, which has crowded streets with extra cars by forcing about 1,000,000 riders to seek other means of transportation, appeared certain -bday to last at least for the rest oi ine wees. Officials of the AFL Transpor tation Union, which struck the company at 5 a.m. PDT yester day, said the 26,000 striking operators and maintenance men would be asked to vote Friday on the company's latest offer. Union members walked out without actually voting on whether to accept the offer, de spite recommendation tor accept ance by union officials. How ever, union heads said it was an official strike." Summer's Arrival Set This Evening Summer officially will ar- rive at 8:32 p.m. today. At that time the summer solstice will take place, mark ing the departure of spring. It is the time when the north pole is tilted more toward the sun than at any other time of the year. The day of the summer sol stice is also the longest of the year. Weather FORECAST: Fair and mild through Wednesday. Low to night 52. high Wednesday 88. Temp. Highest Yesterday 87 Lowest this Morning 51 vieri's part in the abortive revolt Thursday was quickly filled by the appointment of Rear Adm. Louis Comes. Junta Predicted Diplomatic sources in Monte video, Uruguay, said Gen. Frank lin Lucero, the minister of the army who heads the "forces of repression" appeared to be . in tending to set up a military junta to rule Argentina with- President Juan D. Peron as a figurehead. This would be similar to ev ents in Egypt in the 1953 revolt against King Farouk when Mo hammed Naguib was named as president and the military jun ta which overthrew Farouk re tained power. Person has not been attending official functions, and his name has hardly been mentioned in Buenos Aires newspapers and over the state radio which cus tomarily lists the daily presi dential activities. An Argentine general who is a personal friend of Peron's said Peron has been too busy to at tend to official acts. 'Just Busy' He is neither sick nor detain ed but just "plain busy,", the general said. - Peron- was absent yesterday, for example, when the nation celebrated Flag day. Lucero named Gen. Emilio Forcher to officiate at the ceremony. Cigarette Tax Petitions Filed Three petitions with 119 sig natures have been filed with the Jackson county recorder's office calling for a referendum vote on the recently enacted cig arette tax. Two petitions were filed by Fred W. Conrad, 304 Medford Plaza, and one by Donovan Fos ter, 12 North Riverside ave. Medford.-The petitions are being circulated state-wide by the Ore gon Tobacco Distributor's asso ciation of Portland. Petitions with more than 200,- 000 signatures of qualified reg istered voters will be necassary to have cigarette sales tax bill put on the general election bal lot in 1956. The bill, passed by the recent legislature, becomes law unless referendum petitions are in the secretary of state's of fice by August 2. The tax bill provides for a tax of three cents on each package of cigarettes. Ex-Inmate of Hospital Reportedly Discharged The state hospital in Salem has notified local police that William Luther Adams, 42, Med ford, has been discharged, and did not. escape, as reported to police last week. . ; According to officers here, Adams telephoned his wife here from Longview, Wash., Sunday. Police relayed the news of his whereabouts to the state hospi tal on the basis of a report re ceived last Thursday that Adams had escaped. The hospital wired back that Adams had been dis charged. Adam s Medford residence is 1090 Waverly ave. North Korean Training Plane To Freedom Seoul City Airport, Korea (U.R) Two North Korean airmen, one of whom said he had re ceived MIG fighter-plane grain ing in Russia, flew a Soviet-built Communist air force plane through Red and United Nations defenses to freedom here today. A U.S. Air Force spokesman said he could not explain how the plane, with huge Red stars on the fuselage, could fly across the demilitarized zone and near ly 30 milei into South Korea in Union Leaders Seek Settlement Bids by U.S. Steel Rivals Bethlehem, Republic Reply to Demands , Pittsburgh U.R) The CIO United Steelworkers, promised a still unspecified wage increase by U. S. Steel Corp., today sought competing bids for a speedy contract settlement from "Big Steel's" two biggest indus try rivals. Bethlehem and Republic Steel corporations, second and third ranking producers, returned aft er a nearly two-week bargaining recess to hand USW President David J. McDonald their reply to demands for a "substantial" pay boost. Will Reveal Proposal U. S. Steel told the 1,200,000 member union Monday it will be ready Thursday or Friday to tell exactly how much it is will ing to pay to satisfy USW con tract demands ahead of the June 30 strike deadline for 600,000 steelworkers in the industry. By then, McDonald expected to have offers from Jones and Laughlin, Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Inland Steel, sched uled to meet USW. negotiators here in separate sessions Wed nesday. That will complete the lineup of the "Big Six" producers group, which employs two thirds of the basic steelworkers involved in the industry-wide negotiations. Their contract set tlements will set the pattern for smaller , firms, whose contract wage provisions also run out in nine days. Ideas Differ McDonald expected the Steel industry's initial offers at least to match the 7V4-cent-an-hour wage increment . in the CIO United Auto Workers guaran teed annual wage settlements with Ford and General Motors. But the steel union leader was understood to be thinking in terms of a 12 to 15-cent offer as a minimum settlement be cause USW contracts bar him from making a GAW settlement a strike issue this year. : John A. Stephens, U.S.-Steel vice-president, opened the cru cial second round of wage nego tiations by stating his company would offer its employees an increase based on "consideration of their loyalty, cooperation, and increased productivity." Hobby Said Backing US Health Service Washington (U.R) Adminis tration officials said today that Health Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby is backing . the Public Health Service "to the limit" in its handling of the polio vaccine problem. They insisted she was being technical rather than critical Monday night when she told newsmen the service must bear the responsibility for operation of the government's vaccine safety program. The statement, made during a radio interview, was inter preted by some as an implied ef fort to shift criticism of the gov ernment's vaccine policies from Mrs. Hobby to Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele. But Mrs. Hobby explained later that her remarks "should not be interpreted in any way as criticism of the surgeon gen eral or the Public Health Ser vice." Second Anti-Polio Shots Continuing Salk anti-polio shots will be given at Lincoln and Jackson schools tomorrow for first and second graders who received their first shots .the week of May 23. Shots will be given at the cafeteria in Lincoln school,, and in the Jackson school gymnasi um between 9 and 10 a.m. The second series of shots will be completed Thursday at Wash ington and Roosevelt school and at Phoenix for Talent and Phoe nix children. Airmen Fly daylight without being detected. The North Koreans landed the Russian-made YAK18 training plane at this South Korean air force headquarters base shortly after 1 p.m. and surrendered to U.S. and South Korean officers. Lt. Gen. Roger M. Ramey, 5th Air Force commander, happened to be at the field and he and his intelligence officers questioned the North Koreans for more than an hour. Following - the. interrogation I Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 20 Pages Vinson Maples Combed tor US Robbers Naples, Italy (U.R) Na ples police searched water front dives and hangouts to day for four men and a wo man believed to have master minded the record $305,000 robbery of a New York bank last April 6. Flash Warning Interpol, the 38-nation in ternational police agency, flashed a warning to Naples authorities the group of five was believed to have reached Naples from France and be seeking passage to a foreign country to evade the police net. Police knew the names of 21 -Item Agenda Faces Councilmen At Meeting Today Three public hearings and sev en reports by City Manager Rob ert Duff are on a 21-item agenda for the city council at its 7:30 p.m. meeting today. Hearings will be held on pav ing requests on Oak st., between Second and Jackson sts., on East Jackson st. between Bear Creek bridge and Genessee st., and on a sanitary sewer on Oregon ave. between Oregon Terrace and Keene Way drive. Reports Slated Duff will report on bid pre qualification statements of San Jose Steel company and Rogue River Paving company, on bids opened Friday on four street and airport paving projects, the South Bear Creek Sanitary Sew er district contract, and on ease ments for Copco power lines through Camp White area. . A report also will be given on a federal government grant for work during a two-year project at the municipal airport. Five reports on traffic proposals will be given, in addition to one on appraisal of a proposed east side fire station site. . Two planning commission rec ommendations will be consider ed. They are vacation of a north south blind alley in Edward Place subdivision, and rezoning property north the YMCA from multiple family use to a com mercial district. Red China in U.N. Forecast by Nehru Moscow " (U.R) India Pre mier Nawaharlal Nehru told a cheering crowd of' 100,000 at a "friendship rally" in Moscow's huge Dynamo Soccer Stadium today that "we shall soon see" Red China in the United Nations. Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, speaking after Nehru, said Russia had agreed to attend the Geneva Big Four confer ence to contribute to "relaxation of tension." "The Soviet government has agreed to take part in the four power conference," Bulganin told the rally. "We base our agreement on the assumption that the conference should con tribute to relaxation of tension. "We shall make every effort in this direction and hope that others will be prompted by the same motives." Spokane (U.R) An Atomic Energy Commission official said today that ore taken from the Daybreak Uranium, Inc., mine in Spokane county is of commer cial quality. Russian - Built at Seoul Ramey left the field, telling re porters he would say "absolutely nothing" about the incident. He did say he would report to higher headquarters. The two fliers identified them selves as Capt. Lee Woon Yong and 1st Lt. Lee Eun Sung, both 24, of the North Korean air force. They said they took off two hours earlier from the North Korean air force headquarters at Mun-su-Ri in Pyongyang, capi tal of Red Korea. MEDr the five but refused to give additional details while the chase was on. They would say only that three of the men were New Yorkers, that one man was from Manchester, England, and a 37-year-old Canadian woman was involv ed. Might Wreck Work "Publication of the names at this moment might wreck all our work," one Interpol offic ial said. . Interpol said the five per sons were believed to be the desperadoes who held up the Woodside branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank for a record Bill Barker Elected Without Opposition To City School Board William A. (Bill) Barker, 2430 Hillcrest rd., proprietor of Bark er's Men's clothing store, was elected without opposition to the board of directors of School Dis trict 49, Medford, yesterday. A total of 59 votes were cast, all of them for Barker. He will succeed Mrs. Moore Hamilton as a board member. Mrs. Hamilton, who did not run for reelection, has been chairman of the board, and a new chairman will be elected soon. In other first class districts, C. Norman Gail of Gold Hill, the Eisenhower-Signs Bill' Giving Power To Lower Tariffs Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower today signed a bill granting him the power he want ed to lower tariffs. But some Democrats said the new law actually will put him under "ter rific pressure" to raise them. It revives,' revamps and ex tends to June 30, 1958, the re ciprocal trade program launched on June 12, 1934. The program, previously renewed nine times, expired at midnight, June 12. Grants Request The new law grants the Presi dent's request for authority to lower tariffs 5 per cent a year for three years to expand world trade. But it includes provisions which will make it easier than at any any time since the 21 year program was launched for American industries to press de mands on the President ' for higher tariffs to protect them from injury. President Eisenhower did not recommend these provisions. But the White House raised -no objec tion when the Senate wrote them into the administration bill after it passed the House. Some Democrats protested that the President had yielded to "protectionists." Fire Fighters Shuffled Between Two Blazes Shuffling fire fighters from one grass fire to another, late yesterday afternoon gave volun teers of the Central Point Rural Fire district a new experience. The department was called to a five-acre grass fire west of the Burrill - Lumber company on Agate rd. in the White City In dustrial area. And a "split second" later the department was called to a grass fire totaling about 20 acres east of the Medford city dump on Table Rock rd. Department officials shuffled crews fronr one to another as the need arose, and the only damage listed was to grass, which probably could have been used for feed. " Washington (U.R) Repre sentatives of Southern and Western pine lumber industries argued today against any in crease in the. federal minimum wage. Pendleton (U.R) . Ralph Robertson, Portland, was named yesterday to be new president of the Oregon State Pharmaceuti cal association. He succeeds Or ville Corbett, Burns. 'J JTribune united Preai Full Leased Wire jDAY, JUNE 21, 1955 Price 5c No 79 ILL HELMED haul of $305,000. They wert known to have entered Italy from France June 16. A tip from Interpol said the five were believed to be try ing to catch one of the many ships leaving here this week for Gibraltar, Greece, Turkey, Egypt and North African ports. Check Luciano Police kept a careful eye on the Naples dock area and con tinued their "as usual" close check on all doings of Charles (Lucky) Luciano, New York's one-time vice king who lives a restricted life in Naples. only candidate in School District 6C, was elected with 22 votes, and Mrs. Mabel Stemple, with 41 votes was reelected to the Ash land board. She also was an only candidate. Of 23 districts within the county, results of the annual elections in only nine were avail able this morning, including Medford, Central Point and Ash land. Second and third class districts elected three directors instead of one as in the past, to comply with recent legislation requiring five-man boards instead of three- man boards. In Jacksonville, Floyd Wyatt was elected to a three year term, Russell Mclntyre to a four-year term, and B. J. Christiansen to a five-year term. Others elected included: Results Told Phoenix J. Curtis Barnes, three years; Allen Harris, four years; and Merle Simmonds, five years. Eagle Point Leonard Brad shaw, three years; Darrel Stan ley, four years; Otto R. Tresham, five years. Lone Pine Floyd H. Baker, three years; William'-G. Under wood, four years; and Norman S. Thames, five years. Dewey Samuel Stevens, three years; Tracy Crum, four years; and Claude Hoover, five years. Oak Grove G. W. Kellington, three years; Roy C. Elmgren, four years; and Edwin A. Olsen, five years. Howard Winifred Uridel, three years; Jack R. Campbell, four years; and Marion C. Friend, five years. Dog Racing Support Voiced in Petitions Petitions supporting dog rac ing in Jackson county are being circulated in Medford. Petitions opposing the plan also are cir culating, and letters regarding the plan, most of them in opposi tion have been received by the county court. Recently five Medford and Ashland men appeared before the county court to discuss pos sibilities of approving licensing a dog racing track in Ashland. A public hearing on the pro posal will be held in the county court's office at 11 a.m. Friday. GAIL ELECTED Portland (U.R) Bud W. Gail of Medford has been elected president of the Oregon Federa tion of Post Office Clerks at the group's annual convention here. County Assessed Valuation Estimated at $80,000,000 The total assessed valuation in Jackson county has risen from about $61,000,000 last year to about $80,000,000 this year, ac cording to County Assessor Rob bert G. Fowler said yesterday. He estimated the current val uation during a talk at the week ly roundtable session of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce yesterday noon. Fowler said detailed figures on assessed valuation will not be ready until some time next week. Not until the total budget of Military Program To Receive Added Five Days of Study Plan Sent Back By 1614 Vote By UNITED PRESS A House committee rebellion against rush tactics of its chair man today stopped immediate immediate action on a military reserves program. Members of the House Armed Services Committee rejected by a 16 to 14 vote a plea by Chair man Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) for ac tion today on what critics called a watered down version of the compulsory reserve 'measure, a measure much weaker than the one President Eisenhower re quested. Vinson told the committee that house leaders wanted it to act today on the bill, which he had introduced only yesterday, so the House could take it up Thursday. But the committee decided instead to send the measure to a subcommittee for five days of study. Other congressional news: Social Security: The Eisen hower administration tried un successfully to persuade the House Ways and Means Com mittee to give a full and public airing to Democratic proposals to liberalize the social security program. Mr. Eveta Culp Hobby, secretary of Health, Education, and welfare, said the Demo cratic plan would cost more than $2,000,000,000 a year. Dixon-Yates: Gov. Frank G Clement of Tennessee asserted the Dixon-Yates private power project was promoted under "highly questionable" circum stances. He told a Senate group that Adolphe B. Wenzell, official of the First Boston Corp., which arranged Dixon-Yates financing, was a consultant to the Budget Bureau at a time when the bu reau was discussing the project. Marina corps: Democrats re lied on public opinion to back up a Senate vote for a Marine Corps larger than the adminis tration wants. The Senate decided Monday by a 40-39 vote to provide an extra $46,000,000 to keep Ma rine strength at 215,000 men for the next year. The administra tion had planned to cut the corps to 193,000 mid-1956. Pay Raise: Key senators Indi cated they would support a com promise pay raise bill of about 8 per cent for 1,073,262 govern ment white collar workers. Budget: ..Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey submitted up-to-date budget figures to the Senate Finance Committee in connection with the coming re quest for legislation to raise the ceiling on the national debt. In the figures, Humphrey sticks by his prediction of a $2,400,000,000 deficit for the fiscal year begin ning July 1. County Development Objective of Meeting Representatives of communit ies throughout Jackson county have been invited by the cham ber of commerce to bring sug gestions for future development to a meeting Thursday evening. The session, to be in the Med ford hotel, will start at 7:30 p.m., and will be open for discussion of the future of Jackson county, and any ideas anyone may have on how development and pro gress can best be obtained. Invitations to a number of rep resentative county people have been mailed out chamber spokes men said. The chamber's forum committee is making arrange ments for the meeting. the county is applied to the as sessed valuation can the millage rate be figured. Fowler also discussed the cur rent dispute over the valuation of orchard and shade trees as part of the value of land, and pointed out that a conference is being held Friday in an attempt to work out a solution. Jackson county's assessment ratio of 25 per cent is "about in the middle" compared to the ratios used by the other 35 coun ties in the state, Fowler said, t Proposals Would Let Ike Preside At First Session Less World Tension Chief Aim of Meetings San Francisco (U.R) Sov iet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo' tov apparently has agreed to proposal that would let Presi dent Eisenhower serve as chair man for the first meeting of next month's "summit conference" in Geneva, it was disclosed today. The proposal was one of sev eral submitted to' the Soviet for- eign minister yesterday by the foreign ministers of the Big Three Western powers gathered in San Francisco for the 10th. anniversary of the United Na tions. , The Big Four foreign minis ters met last night to talk it over. Sources close , to the Brit ish and American delegations said Molotov made no objection to the proposals, and indicated his government would find them acceptable. Ease World Tension According to these source. the proposals were: 1. The chief aim of the meet. e w wvv cairn lUUVF phere that would - help lessen world tensions, rather than nego tiate specific problems. 2. The Big Four chiefs of state. will preside over the sessions in rotation. President Eisenhower, will be the first chairman, fol lowed by French, British and Russian chiefs of state. 3. The meeting should last four to six days. The exact length must be decided upon ahead of time . 4. The chiefs of state should outline in their onenins state ments what they consider to be the main causes of world ten sion. 5. As the meetings progress, the chiefs of state should sug gest the procedures to follow in negotiating these problems. 6. After the Big Four chiefs of state conclude their meeting, the Big Four foreign minister should then take over and con-' tinue as long as necessary. Hear Molotov ' Views Attending the mMtin wm Molotov, Secretary of State John roster uuues, French Foreign luuuaier Aniome nnay and Brit ish Foreien Minitr MacMillan. ' Earlier vesterriav riniio. tjj ay and MacMillan drew up a list of proposals which they submit ted to Molotov. Last night's meeting was called to hear the Russian's views on them. ' A source close to M.rMJii.- said Molotov was "nerfwtlif sonable" and merely asked time io siuay tnem. However, an Am erican source quoted Molotov as saying there should be "no dif ficulty." The Biz Four forelra mini ters were in San Francis tn at tend the 10th anniversary meet ing oi me united Nations. In his formal mmti Wmtm the commemorative session Mac- ivuuan made only a brief refer ence to next month's "summit' meeting and no mention of the crucial foreign ministers talks here. "Within a few weeks the lo.rf. ers of the four great powers will be meeting together for the first time since Potsdam." the Rritioh official noted. He said although we tensions between East and Wo. 1 j .. " oi. nave uxmea unenaing ... recently there has been lift ing of the cloud." Ashland Loop Route Opened To Traffic Hie Ashland loop road, which circles Mt AMawi Wagner butte, starting near Ashland and coming out In the Applegate valley, was opened to traffic this morning. me office of the Rogue River National forest reported the loop road is being opened earlier than usual this year, be cause snow drifts have been smaller. The last remaining drift has been cleared from th road. The route is a favorite of pic nickers and others who like the spectacular mountain scenery of southern Jackson county. Cop's Word Choice Jolt's Ike's Guards San Francisco (U.R) A San Francisco policeman's choice of words jolted Secret Service men guarding Presi dent Eisenhower Monday. Just before the President stepped out of the St Francis hotel en route to the United Nations meeting, a policeman with a public address ampl fier on his car blared: "Yon ' people will have to men across the street. You can still get a good shot at the Presi dent from there."