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One-Month lelay in Me on Annexation Seen as Possibility Possibility of postponing for 80 days a special annexation election in South Medford was discussed at a meeting of resi dents and city officials at radio station KYJC last night. The election is set for July 5. State Sen. Philip Lowry ask ed if the Medford city council would "be interested in receiv ing a delegation to see what they can do" in considering post ponement of the election until after residents of the area have more time to register to vote. Mayor Earl Miller said "the Fulbright Hails McCarthy Defeat On Big 4 Proposal Washington (U.R) J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark), said today the Senate's overwhelming rejection of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's Big Four resolution was "furth er confirmation" of its vote last December to condemn McCar thy's conduct. Fulbright compared the 67-to-22 vote against McCarthy last Dec. 2 with the 77-to-4 margin by which the Senate slapped down his latest foreign policy move yesterday. "He's down to four votes," said Fulbright, a perennial Mc Carthy foe. Solidly Against Joe The issue which lined the Sen ate almost solidly against Mc Carthy was a resolution which would have required the admin istration to get a promise that the Russians would discuss their satellite nations before Presi dent Eisenhower could attend the Big Four meeting in Geneva July 18. The Senate beat down all at tempts by McCarthy and Sen. William E. Jenner (R-Ind.), to make the proposal more palat able, or to withdraw it in the face of certain defeat. Then un der united leadership of both party chieftains, it rejected the McCarthy plan on a roll-call vote. Would Tie Ike's Hands ,, .', Senate leaders claimed the res olution would tie the President's hands at Geneva. The Senate Foreign Relations committee earlier unanimously had recommended its defeat. McCarthy told newsmen that the Senate "made a great mis take." He said the Republicans had a chance to carry out part of their 1952 platform which pledged the liberation of enslav ed nations "and they flunked their test very badly." Governor Approves Adjustment in Pay Salem (U.R) Gov Paul L Patterson today approved the civil service commission s new pay adjustment plan under which the great majority of state employees, both in classi fied and unclassified service will receive pay increases. Last week the plan won the unanimous approval of the state emergency board and under the law approval of the governor was required before the plan could not be put into effect. About one-third of all state employees in two categories, those now paid below the new minimum pay schedule and those who had received the maximum pay under the old schedule for more than a year, will receive isunediate adjustments. Workers in these classes will get the new pay rates July 1 and reflected in the nay. checks issued in August. CP. Fire Vote Continues to 8 p.m. Central Point The voting poll at the Central Point Rural Fire Prevention district station south of here on Highway 99 will remain open until 8 p.m today in a district budget elec tion. In addition to all residents of the district who are registered voters, two other groups are eli gible to cast "ballots. These in clude authorized representatives of Oregon corporations which own property in the district, and those who own property in the district, even though they do not live there, provided they are registered to vote in Ore gon. The question to be decided is approval or disapproval of the 1955-56 budget of $30,370. The budget is $1,762.62 higher than the one for the current year, and is $5,629 over the 6 per cent limitation. In an election on May 31 the budget was disapproved, but has been submitted for a second election. ' council is always glad to see them." No Personal Objection "I cannot speak for the coun cil," Mayor Miller added, "but I have no personal objection to continuing it for 30 days, and perhaps the council would go along." He said: "We do not want to force anything on the people of the area," but pointed out that he knew of no case in which a special election had been post poned because residents were not registered. City Manager Robert Duff said he did not believe the election could be postponed because of ficial publications have started, and the election has been organ ized. He said- it would cost be tween $100 and $200 to re-publish notices. Meeting June 30 Mayor Miller pointed out the next meeting of the council will be at noon June 30, the close of fiscal year 1954-55, and dele gations could appear at that time. - . Of about 50 residents at last night's meeting, four indicated they were not registered to vote. The meeting, the second of its kind, was attended by about 50 people. It was sponsored by the Jackson County Public Health association to help point out bad sanitary conditions in fringe areas of Medford. Another meet ing may be scheduled in the western section of the proposed annexation area, but arrange ments are incomplete. During an orderly question and answer period, Duff and Mayor Miller reviewed many questions which were asked in a meeting at the Jackson county courthouse auditorium last week. The majority of ques tions last night concerned im provements in the area, registra tion of voters, and agricultural aspects should annexation be ap proved. Among new . questions was whether or not the area, if an nexed, would be represented on the city council. Duff said resi dents may seek council offices. and pointed out the council had power to create new wards. Duff and Mayor Miller both said the area probably would be extensions of present city wards. Duff said no actual field sur vey of the proposed boundary has been made, in reply to a question by Senator Lowry, and added that it would cost between $1,000 and $1,500 for such a survey. He said he did not be lieve the expense was warrant ed until after the area decided whether or not it should be an nexed. He said he believed the legal description of the area prepared by Medford's engineering de partment was sufficient. Senator Lowry also asked if residents, should annexation be approved, have any recourse if the planning commission should rezone areas in a manner which residents believe arbitrary. Mark Goldy, a member of the Medford planning commission, said the people do have recourse in court action. He cited a case in Portland recently in which the court overruled rezoning de cisions by the Portland planning commission and city council. (Other stories concerning the annexation controversy appear on Pages 8 and 9 of today's Mail Tribune). Main-Central Traffic Lights Readjusted Traffic lights on the intersec tion of Main st. and Central ave. were out of commission about half of today while the signal system was being changed to a new coordinated interconnecting plan by state highway depart ment workers and Trowbridge and Flynn, contractors, accord ing to Vernon Thorpe, city pub lic works director. City policemen directed traf fic while the light, one of a se ries of six being set up on state highways through Medford, was readjusted. The completed sys tem will begin operating within a week, Thorpe said. Blinding Dust Storm Strikes Eastern Washington; Winds Cause' Plane Crash By UNITED PRESS A blinding dust storm which struck eastern Washington last night caused one plane crash, closed highways, blew down power lines, caused several fires and cut visibility to zero in some places. Winds up to 60 miles per hour at Ephrata and 48 miles per hour at Spokane were reported. Two Men Hurt Two men were injured in the plane crash at Lamont, 46 miles southwest of Spokane. Dale Hol liday, Benge, a passenger, was listed in critical condition at Sa cred Heart hospital in Spokane today. The pilot, D. R. Nelson, Senate Committee Postpones Action On Hells Canyon Millikin Wants Bill Delayed Until 1956 Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Interior committee today postponed for at least a week and possibly for the year action on a bill to authorize the contro versial Hells Canyon project. Acting Chairman Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.), said a date for a next meeting on the bill will be set by Chairman James E. Murray, (D-Mont.), when he returns here July 1. Much Discussion Anderson said there was a "great deal of discussion" at to day's meeting that action on the bill "might be premature." The discussion concerned the fact that the Federal Power commis sion is considering an applica tion for private utility dams in the canyon, and recent Supreme Court decisions on water rights. He indicated that Sen. Eugene D. Milikin (R-Colo.), led a group holding that the bill should be put off until next year. Sponsors have sought Millikin's vote for immediate approval of, the bill. a he committee adopted one amendment intended to "bol ster" the rights of Idaho water users upstream from the pro posed dam, Anderson said. Committee members also dis cussed the effect on the pro ject of the so-called "1st Iowa" decision of the Supreme Court, he said. The decision, he said, apparently holds that utilities holding FPC licenses may not be required to follow state law in use of water. Idaho groups have contended that the federal government, in operating a dam, could force upstream users to release water for its operation. They have ar gued that a private utility would not have the same power. Dog Racing Hearing Tomorrow Morning; Pro-Con Views Told Licensing of dog racing in Jackson county will be discussed in an open hearing before the county court at 11 a.m. tomor row in the court chambers. The issue arose . when five Medford and Ashland men ap peared before the court request ing approval of a license appli cation for dog racing in the Ash land Riding association grounds, east of Highway 99 near Ash land. Since that time, considerable feeling has been shown, both favoring and opposing the licens ing. Merchants of both Medford and Ashland have expressed un favorable opinions. The court itself has received a number of letters on the matter, and petitions pro and con have been circulating in . both Med ford and Ashland. The court's decision while not deciding the issue, will be sent as a recommendation to the State Racing Commission. Final action will come from there. Further' county business will be a conference on orchard tree tax assessments in the court chambers later in the day. Discussing the issue will be Attorney William McAllister, representing the Jackson County Fruit Growers League, County Assessor R. G. Fowler, State Tax Commissioner Sam Stewart, and Judge Rodney Keating, Ralph Cook and Arnold Bohnert, mem bers of the county board of equal ization. OSES Plans Early Hour Opening, Starts Monday A special early opening hour will be observed by the Medford office of the Oregon State Em ployment, service during the fruit thinning and haying sea son, starting Monday, it was announced today. The office, at 119 North Oak- dale ave., will open at 6 a.m. daily, to give better service to both employers and job . appli cants. The closing hour of 5 p.m. will remain unchanged. A special farm labor office will be opened about the middle of August for employment clear ance during the fruit harvest season, it was also announced. Benge, was listed in favorable condition at Colfax hospital. The Taylorcraft plane in which the two men were flying ripped out about 50 feet of tele phone lines when it plunged into poles along the highway in the thick dust. Six-Car Accident ' The state patrol reported a six-car accident three miles east of Reardan on highway 2. The cars piled up during a period of zero visibility, but no injuries were reported. Highway 10 between Ritzville and Moses Lake and highway 395 between Ritzville and Pasco wera doted for two and oat-half I TalemfcF MEDFORf United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 24 Pages Top Polio Experts Endorse Safety of Salk Inoculations Reject Recommendation Of Three Authorities Washington U.R) A panel of top polio scientists endorsed 8 to 3 today the safety of the Salk vaccine and recommended that the nationwide inoculation pro gram continue. The vote was taken before a House Commerce Subcommittee. , Regularly scheduled second shots of Salk anti polio vac cine in Jackson county ter minate today. Washington, Roosevelt, Phoenix, and Tal ent children received theirs this afternoon. Response at Jackson and Lincoln schools yesterday was "very good," acording to Dr. Merkel, county health officer. It is hoped final figures for the overall program will be available late next week. Make up shots will be giv en July 12. . Thus, a majority of the nation's top polio experts rejected the recommendation of three prom inent authorities that production and use of Salk vaccine be halt ed until it can be made "safer." Include NIH Official The eight experts voting in favor of the vaccine included Dr. James A. Shannon of the National Institute of Health who represented the Public Health Service at the unique roundtable congressional hearing. In the final voting, four scien tists on the panel abstained. One of these was Dr. Jonas E. Salk whose enthusiasm for the vac cine he developed is no secret. The recommendation of the three- seientists4ate yesterday whipped up new clouds of con fusion just as .. the program seemed headed for clear sailing after two months of uncertainty and stop and go decisions. No Change Seen Bui government officials said the Public Health Service is not now considering a change in its basic position that vaccine re leased under rigid new federal standards is safe for public use. The service has known for some time about the doubts of some experts. But it has felt the "great preponderance" of scien tific opinion supports the deci sion to go ahead with the pro gram. Summer Band Slates Concert Tomorrow The first outdoor concert by Medford's summer city band will be held tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the old city park. - I. A. Mirick is band director. The 90-piece group is part of the summer school music program. The free public concert will mark the end of the first ses sion of the band school. The second session will begin July 18. Concerts are planned for the last week in July by the city, junior high, high school, and grade school bands. The Friday night concert will feature light numbers such as popular operetta tunes, polkas, and marches. . The orchestra program, under the direction of John Drysdale, will close July 7 with a recital at the high school. Washington U.P.) Deputy Defense Secretary Robert B. Anderson will resign in "a a few months,"1 Defense Sec retary Charles E. Wilson an nounced today. hours by drifting dust At Spokane, sections of the city and the Spokane valley were without lights for more than an hour, and several telephone poles and dozens of trees were toppled by the winds. No serious damage was reported. Fire Started Broken lines started a fire at the Ephrata airport. The blaze was controlled quickly, although flames spread to a few old build ings at the port. The storm also was blamed for three grass fires in the Odessa area The weather bureau predicted winds of not more than 15 miles per hour for today. oiDiri i' A, RUSS HONOR NEHRU Premier Nikolai Bulganln (left) and India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru acknowledge cheers of 100,000 persons packing Dynamo Stadium , in Moscow to honor Nehru, who is winding up a two-week visit to Russia. Nehru announced that Bulganin had ac cepted an invitation to visit India. Bulganin, addressing the huge crowd, declared the Soviet Union will strive to reduce international tension and consolidate confidence among nations at the Big Four "summit" conference in Geneva next month. Nehru, Bulganin Seek Surrender of Formosa To Red China Control Moscow U.R) Soviet Pre - - mier Nikolai Bulganin and In dian Prime' Minister Jawaharlal Nehru called today for the sur render of Formosa to the Chi nese Communists and the admis sion of Communist China to the Life Underwriters Conclave To Open The Oregon State Life Under writers association's annual con ference will start at the Rogue Valley Country club tomorrow. The Rogue Valley Association of Life Underwriters is the host group. Speakers during the two-day event will include Robert B. Taylor, state insurance commis sioner; Robert E. Shay, director of agencies, Bankers Life com pany, Des Moines, Iowa; Dr. Ed win G. Ebbighausen, associate professor of physics at the Uni versity of Oregon; R. Edwin Wood, associate manager of Phoenix Mutual Life company, San Francisco; and Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, president of South ern Oregon college at Ashland. W. M. Caldwell of Medford is state association coordinating chairman for the conference, and A. E. 'Gravengaard, Port land, is president of the associa tion and will preside during the convention. Not Polities, Ike : Says s of Travels Rutland. Vt. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today "wanted no political motives attached. to his tour of New England, but Republican state and local' lead ers were turning out in droves to cheer him on. The President actually prefer red fewer speeches than he found himself making on his trip and so told his staff, but the pressure of local leaders was great and repeatedly Mr. Eisen hower had to "say a few words." He'll say more than a few words today with speeches sched uled before the Vermont wo men representatives of the dairy and agricultural industry in Rut land; later on the steps of the New Hampshire Capitol in Con cord, and finally, brief remarks at a Loconia, N.H., picnic to night sponsored by farm organ izations of the area. Weather FORECAST: Decreasing shower activity tonight. Partly cloudy Friday. Low tonight 46. High Friday 75. Temp. Hirhrtt Vesterdav '0 Lowest IMS Morning 48 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace til THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1955 United ffations. The two premiers, in a decla ration of solidarity issued at the end of Nehru's history-making 15-day visit to Russia, proposed a ban on the manufacture of atomic and hydrogen bombs and an end to experiments with the bombs and called for world dis armament. They reaffirmed the friend ship between the two nations under Nehru's five principles of peaceful co-existence which in clude , non-aggression and non interference in the internal af fairs of other nations and outlined a program of further cooperation between . the two nations. Legitimate Rights - On the Formosan question they-said "it is the earnest hope of both prime ministers that it will be possible by peaceful "means to satisfy the legitimate rights of the Chinese . peoples republic in regard to Taiwan Formosa." - The declaration was signed in the Kremlin Wednesday night after a lavish reception and was released this morning shortly before Nehru took , off for War saw on a European tour that will end in London July 8 when he confers with British Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Bulganin will return Nehru's visit, probably before the Indian national holiday in January. County Development Discussion Scheduled Plans and ideas for develop ment of Jackson county will be discussed -at a meeting starting at 7:30. p.m.' in the Medford hotel tpday. . ,. ; : ; The meeting is sponsored by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and representatives of most of the county's commun ities have been invited to participate. Threat to Molotov Thought Crank's Work; Guard Posted San Francisco (U.R) Police armed with rifles patrolled roof tops near the War Memorial Opera House today after an un identified man warned Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov would be shot." Telephone Call The information was received yesterday in a telephone call. The man refused to give his name. He said only that he had been talking with another man who said he would shoot the Russian. - Rifles were immediately rush ed from the arsenal at the Hall of Justice, whose police head quarters are located, and placed in the hands of many of the of ficers guarding the United Na-l approve Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 81 France To Remain In NATO, Foreign Minister-Pledges Statement in Answer To 'Peace Offensive' San Francisco U.R) French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay answered a' Russian "peace of fensive" today with a pledge Special telecasts of the UN anniversary meeting in San Francisco are being aired each afternoon by Station KBES TV as part of the "Face the Nation" series. Friday at 2 p.m. Secre tary Dulles' speech will be car ried, and Saturday at 2:30 p.m. a talk by Soviet Foreign Min ister Molotov. that France will remain a mem ber in good standing of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion. 1 Eagerly Awaited Pinay gave this pledge in a speech prepared for delivery at the 10th anniversary meeting of the United Nations. His appear ance was awaited with eager in terest by a world wondering how the Big Four planned to cope with. Russia's latest diplo matic maneuver. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov launched the Russian peace offensive yesterday :- on schedule. In a 48-minute speech. he scolded the West for building up arms, establishing military bases in foreign lands and taking other "belligerent' moves. Heard It Before He challenged the West to "make the next move" in ending the arms race and urged adop tion of Soviet disarmament pro posals made in London last Pinay said immediately after hearing Molotov's speech, have heard the same speech at least 10 times. It is always the 'same thing.. We are the bad ones and they are the good ones. We' want war and Russia wants peace." Today, he was more diploma tic, He said in essence that re gional security arrangements, such as NATO, were vitally ne cessary as a defense against aggression in a world that has not disarmed. 15 Persons Injured In Bus Accident Redding U.R) A Continental Trailways bus rammed into the back of a lumber truck, then skidded through two ditches south of here early today, injur ing 15 persons, five of them seriously. Witnesses said the bus, pro ceeding north of the Sacramento to Seattle run, had passed another truck. When it pulled back into the right-hand, north bound lane of the divided high way it struck a lumber truck driven by Charles- Young, of Olinda, near Redding. One of the passengers credit ed the bus driver, Theodore Scott, of Portland, with keeping the bus from overturning. All of the injured persons were taken to. Mercy hospital in Redding, where all but five were treated for minor cuts and bruises and were released. Seriously injured were Arthur D. Ohl and his sister, Dorothy Ohl, of South Williamsport, Pa.; Mrs. Alice Siewert, 61, of Sa lem, Ore., James Tedder a serv iceman from Ft. Lewis, Wash., and Homer York, no address or age given.- tions conference area. Officers' took up positions along the rooftops overlooking the Opera courtyard, ready to guard Molotov when he arrived for the afternoon ' session at 3 p.m. ' j Remained at Mansion However, Molotov decided to remain at his rented mansion in Hillsborough after serving an elaborate lunch to delegates from Turkey, Afghanistan, Eth iopia and Greece, as well as the observer from Finland. Police finally concluded the telephone tipster was a crank; but they decided to maintain. their rooftop patrol for the re mainder of the UN meeting Justin 0 Governor Patterson Reports Committee Will Ask $61 D0.000 Construction Seen Sometime in .1956 Gov. Paul Patterson told The Mail Tribune this morning that he has been informed the Sen ate appropriations committee will increase the initial Talent project appropriation to $600, 000. A total of S150.000 was nro. vided for Talent project con struction planning in the House approved appropriation bill. The governor said the increased amount in the senate was "the next sten" in the nmmn plan ned during his recent visit to rnnk:Mi.. A . J T . . ciaim j gum iu gei ine appropria tion increased to an amount that would permit the start of rnn. struction in 1956. ' S22.000.000 Project . The S22.000.000 nrnWt was authorized by the last session of congress. It involves widespread irrigation and reclamation work in the south end of the valley. providing additional irrimtion water and electric power. The governor, in a statement telephoned to The Tribune, said that on his trip he had been suc cessful in his rnntnft with thm administration and the House appropriations committee in get ting the S150.000 inserted in th house bill. He then asked the aid of former Sen. Guy Cordon in working with senators to get the amount increased to a "sum sufficient to enable starting actual construction of the Talent project within the year " tha govenor sai. i , Aim Accomplished He was informed tndav this has been accomplished and that me. increased appropriation will be inserted in the bill when it is presented to the Senate. Gov ernor Patterson added that he will continue his efforts "with all means possible" to get a fa vorable vote on the matter by the Senate and subsequently by the full Congress. He added that he has wired Senators Wayne Morse and Rich ard - L. 'Neuberger requesting every effort on their part to see tnat the increased appropriation remains in the bill, and that it receives approval bv the senate and the conference committee. Senators Morse and Neuhorcrpp late yesterday advised Th Mail Tribune of efforts being made to obtain the increased amount. They conferred vesterdav with Seh.Carl Hayden, chairman of tne benate appropriations mm. mittee.'and Sen. Allan J. Ellen- aer, chairman of the public works appropriations subcom mittee. - In a joint statement wired yesterday to The Mail Tribune, they said they hoped to obtain an increase to $600,- uuu. Their wire continued: Claim Betrayal 'It is significant to noint out that the administration carried no funds at all for Talent until Oregon's two senators claimed this was a rank betrayal of Re publican campaign promises to the voters of southern Oregon in the 1954 campaign." They said the sum of $150,000 recommended by the House com mittee "was appreciated but was not adequate for a Droner start on the undertaking." They added mat Republicans had campaign ed on the Talent authorization in Jackson county last year, but &WVAUV; 1UUUB 1U U1V administration budget for "mak ing the authorization anything . but an empty gesture." Amount Needed "In our opinion the Talent project merits $600,000 for the coming fiscal year and certainly no less than $500,000 if any gen uine start is to be made on the irrigation works and power fa cilities for this needed develop ment in southern Oregon." Senators' Hayden and Ellen- der gave their plea for an in crease "a courteous and reassur ing audience, they said. Baseball AMERICAN Kansas City 0 so New York 4 7 0' R. Shants and W. Shantx; Turlty and Berra. Detroit 0 2 0 Boston 7 8 0 Maas. Birrer (5) and Heme- Sullivan, Foystack (8) and White. Home runs: Zauchin, Boston; Jensen, Boston; Chicago .. .. 7 11 0 Washington ..... 0 4 0 Byrd. Shea (7) and Lollar, Moss (7); PaccuaL Stebbs (),, Abernathy (8) and Fitsgerald. ' Cleveland 9 15 3 Baltimore 2 4 2 Feller, Schallock (3) and Naragon; Pillette. McDonald (1). Dorish (9) and H. Smith. GutaU .
