WEATHER
Recommended
roiicni:
cloudiness Sunday forenoon.
Partly cloady Sunday after
noon with scattered afternoon
showers in tne mountain sec
tions; partly cloady Monday.
A varmint trend in tempera
tures with hlh Sunday 77;
low Sunday nif ht , ; Ugh
Monday S3.
Highest Yesterday jf
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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1955
No. 83
Me
Vigorous Acti
Hoover's Import
Washington (U.R) The
Citizen's committee for the
Hoover report disclosed Satur
day that President Eisenhower
has ordered "early and vigorous"
action to carry out most of the
Hoover commission recommend
ations for improving the govern
ment. The commission has said its
recommendations would save the
taxpayers at least $2,000,000,000
ifthey were all put into effect.
So far there has been little
action.
Call For Encouragement
The committee called for the
"active encouragement of unbi
ased citizens of both parties" to
help put the proposals into effect
Steel workers Ask
Hefly Increase in
U.S. Steel Offer
; Pittsburgh (U.R) The CIO
United Steelworkers told giant
U.S. Steel Corp. Saturday it
must make a hefty increase in
its original wage settlement of
fer to head off a possible indus
try strike of 600,000 workers
next week.
John A. Stephens, vice-president
and chief negotiator for the
nation's top steel producer, was
understood to have stood firm
on a proposal booed down by
union negotiators two days ago.
The company offered wage
boosts averaging more than 10
cents an "hour
Talk Secretly
Stephens and USW President
David J. McDonald talked sec
retly for two hours Saturday in
their first face-to-face discus
sion since Thursday night when
the company offered a flat
across-the-board wage increase
of cents an hour. The re
jected offer also provided for
Vi-cent increases in 32 job classi
fication rates giving the proposal
a top range of 22 cents an hour.
The meeting between McDon
ald and . Stephens marked the
opening of a down-the-stretch
drive to meet the midnight June
30 deadline for new wage agree
ments in USW contracts with
96 basic steel and iron ore pro
ducers. U. S. Steel, which employs
150,000 of the USW members
affected by the wage talks, again
was carrying the ball for the en
tire industry.
McDonald ordered the Union's
key 170-man wage policy com
mittee, which has final say on
all contract agreements, to meet
here at 10 a.m. (EDT) Monday.
He hoped to have a super
charged proposal by U.S. Steel
for the committee to consider
at that time.
Wheat Marketing
Quotas Approved
-Chicago U.R) The nation's
wneat farmers apparently ap
proved marketing quotas on the
1956 crops in a nation-wide ref
erendum Saturday. Farmers
from big wheat-producing states
made the difference.
Returns from 23 of the 36
states in which farmers voted,
showed 96,481 votes for con
trols with 42,698 against. That
was 69 plus per cent in favor
with 66.6 of those voting nec
essary for approval.
Big wheat-producing states
piled up heavy margins for quo
tas and the higher price support
controls would bring.
Kansas, the nation's largest
producer, voted 39,035 for the
quotas while Texas, another
large producer voted 86.7 per
cent for quotas and Minnesota's
margin was -96 per cent. North
Dakota's early count showed 94
per cent for controls.
Three Jackson county wheat
growers cast ballots in yester
day's nation-wide election for
wheat controls.
T. D. Sehorn, secretary for the
local Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation committee,
said two votes were against con
trols and one for controls. He
said between 20 and 30 votes
were expected, and that yester
day's turnout was the smallest
number ever to vote on such a
proposal in Jackson county.
Oil
and thus give the nation "a
better government at a better
price."
Clarence Francis, committee
chairman, said he has been as
sured that "relatively few"
Hoover recommendations "will
be considered contrary to the
administration's program."
He reported that Mr. Eisen
hower stressed the need for
positive administration action at
a meeting June 8 with the
commission's chairman, former
President Herbert C. Hoover.
The Budget bureau, he said, is
expected to make the first report
on progress with various depart
ments early next month.
End Work Thursday
The Hoover commission,
which goes out of business next
Thursday, has issued 13 reports
and 228 recommendations this
year on how to rid the govern
ment of waste and inefficiency.
Four other reports now being
completed will be made public
shortly.
The commission held its final
meeting here Friday night. It
marked the end of two years
work and the chairman and one
time president received a warm
pat on the back for his "able,
fair and patient leadership."
James A. Farley, former post
master general and a commission
member, presented the resolu
tion of praise. "I know of no
American alive who could have
made the same contribution as
Mr. Hoover has," he said.
In a message to citizen com
mittee members, Francis noted
that many Americans wondered
why there has been "so much
news" and "so little" action on
the commission's work. But he
said he now foresees definite
progress.
Can Take Action
In the case of 99 proposals, he
said the administration can take
action without legislation. He
predicted a "great majority" of
these will be put into effect. But
with the others, he said legisla
tion will be required so that
"vigorous teamwork will be1
needed."
Francis said 31 bills have been
introduced in Congress the last
four weeks to carry out various
proposals. But no hearings have
been started on any of them and
observers doubt there will be
any action this year.'
Underwriters Elect
Officers for Year
Oregon Life Underwriters as
sociation elected John J. Howe
of The Dalles, president suc
ceeding A. E. Gravengaard of
Portland at the final convention
session at the Rogue Valley
Country club Saturday.
Other officers elected included
Ralph Schwab, Albany, vice
president; and Robert Rau,
Portland, secretary-treasurer.
The association voted to hold
next year's convention at Eu
gene. Almost 100 life under
writers attended the two-day
conference here.
Three Means of Assessing Trees Before
Three possible methods of as
sessing orchard and shade trees
before Aug. 15 were discussed
by the Jackson County Board of
Equalization and State Tax com
mission representatives here Fri
day afternoon.
Set New Deadline
The conference was called aft
er the tax commission gave the
equalization board a new dead
line of Aug. 15 to equalize taxes
on trees and place them on the
tax rolls.
Earlier, the commission had
ordered the board to assess trees
no later than June 15, but the
board of equalization notified
the commission it was impossible
to carry out such an order. The
meeting Friday was to discuss
a feasible method to appraise
and place tree assessments on the
tax rolls.
County Judge Rodney Keat
ing, chairman of the board of
equalization, said the board was
"in a dilemna as to how this or
der could be complied with in
view of our interpretation. A
true cash value will take time
and money because no two or
chards are comparable."
Samuel B. Stewart, state tax
10 Americans Held
By Reds Named by
Released Ausfrians
Russians May Hold
20 U.S. Citizens
Vienna U.R) Austrians
returning from Russia's slave
camps Saturday disclosed the
names of 10 more imprisoned
Americans who sent pleas for
help from U.S. authorities.
Other recently returned Aus
trians have mentioned half a
dozen other Americans who are
being held prisoners. It is be
lieved the Russians may be hold'
ing more than 20 U. S. citi
zens.
Many Kidnaped
Reports on the additional 10
were brought here by 141 'men
and 45 women who returned to
freedom here. Many of them
had been kidnaped from Soviet-
surrounded Vienna after World
War II and thrown into the
slave labor camps.
Some of the Americans they
named are soldiers or civilian
officials who were kidnaped in
Germany or elsewhere. Others
were seized by Russians who
refused to recognize their U. S.
citizenship.
Saturday's returnees told stor
ies of ruthless massacres of pris
oners who rebeled agamst inhu
man Soviet slave labor camp
conditions.
"When prisoners refused to
work at Camp Vladimir (180
miles southeast of Moscow) in
1954, the Russian guards lined
up everyone in the camp," one
Austrian said.
, "They shot the first man in
the line, then after a pause
they shot the second, then the
third. The strike ended quickly."
On other occasions, the Aus
trians said, armed guards simp
ly fired blind into the ranks
of strikers.
Among ten Americans identi
fied was W. Freeman.
Army records list a missing
soldier named Willis M- Free
man, of Seattle, but it is not cer
tain he " is the "W. Freeman"
mentioned by the Austrians.
Not only is there a conflict
in home addresses between the
two men, but the Seattle Free
man has been missing only since
Feb. 23, when he was listed as
AWOL. Returning Austrians re
ported seeing a Connecticut
Freeman in the Vorkuta horror
camp as long ago as 1952.
Teenagers Toss
Cherry Bombs Into
Molotov Estate
Hillsborough, Calif (U.R)
Hillsborough police strength
ened security measures around
V. M. Molotov's U.N. head
quarters Saturday after six
teenage youths created a mild
uproar by tossing half a dosen
cherry bombs into the patio
of the estate occupied by the
Russians.
The youths introduced the
Russian foreign minister to
their own version of the
Fourth of July by tossing the
cherry bombs - noise - makers
enclosed in plastic balls over
a fence from a neighboring
estate.
The resulting flashes and
explosions brought 15 Rus
sians secret police rushing
from the mansion with drawn
guns and probing flashlights.
Hillsborough Police Chief
Walter Wisnom, who was on
the scene, aided in the capture
of the youths.
commissioner, had outlined
three possible methods of ap
praising trees in a letter to
Keating. These were:
1. Assessments based on fig
ures by the commission, which
Stewart said were computed by
commission appraisers from
aerial photographs and by field
trips.
2. Assessments based on fig
ures furnished by orchardists
themselves concerning number
of trees, types, condition and to
tal acreage.
3. Assessments determined by
the county assessor, who is ex
perienced in agricultural fields
and who is acquainted with
Jackson county orchards enough
to determine a fair value.
Keating said the tax commis
sion's figures of $225 and $300
an acre for orchard trees did
not represent a "true cash val
ue" because it does not consider
age, size, soil conditions and
other factors connected with
orchards.
"We have pieces of property
that no appraiser could under
stand from looking at the sur
face," Keating said.
Stewart said the figures may
reds
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HAIL, THE NEW CHIEF Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (right)
arriving m Washington from Tokyo is greeted by Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway (left), whom he will succeed as Army
Chief of Staff, looking on (center) is Army Secy. Robert
Stevens, whose resignation was announced June 22. The
little fellow is Matty Ridgway, 6, son of the retiring general.
lice Makes
On Future
New Hampshire Talk
Parmachenee Lake, Me. U.R)
President Eisenhower ended
a three-day visit to New Hamp
shire Saturday with a promise
to return again "as soon as he
leaves the White House but
he did not say when that would
be.
The president sent that mes
sage to the residents of New
Hampshire and then drove into
the rugged Maine woods for a
week end of fishing and relax
ation.
Keeps People Guessing
Mr. Eisenhower has been
keeping people guessing for
some time about his future pol
itical plans. On Thursday, in
Report Scheduled
On Oil Findings
Sams Valley Findings of a
committee investigating possi
bilities of oil exploration and
development in the Sams Val
ley, Beagle, Ramsey Canyon and
Meadows districts will be re
ported at an 8 p.m. meeting to
morrow at Sams Valley Grange.
A Sams Valley-Beagle Land
owners committee was organiz
ed more than six months ago to
investigate proposed oil leases
in the area. ;
Oil and mineral lease propos
als probably will be discussed
at tomorrow's meeting.
Earlier reports indicated two
major oil companies in addition
to a promotional group were
interested in exploration of the
area, which may involve some
15,000 acres.
not be entirely correct, "but it is
the best we can determine."
Market Values
The commissioner said assess
ments may be determined by
market values of land. "The as
sessment should reflect what the
willing buyer and willing seller
will deal with" in a business
transaction, Stewart said. A
value reflecting sale values may
be determined "fairly easy", he
said.
Stewart pointed out that or
chard values may be plus or
minus; that is, if orchards are
old and detrimental to property
their value would be minus.
Arnold Bohnert of Central
Point, a member of the board of
equalization, said value of sev
eral orchards are determined by
management, and value varies
from time to time.
"That's why we need an ap
proximate true value," Stewart
said.
The total value of property
should be reflected in the assess
ments, Stewart pointed out, and
added that shade trees and berry
bushes may add to the total
value of any property.
"Everyone pays more for
mm pay fop
New Hints
Plans in
Concord, N.H., he made veiled
hints that he might possibly run
for a second term.
But he referred to a possible
job change Saturday in a bread-and-butter
statement to every
citizen who turned out to see
him on his tour of New Hamp
shire. He said he had been "impres
sed by the obvious hospitality
and a cordial welcome that has
touched my, heart."
And he promised to return to
New Hampshire again "as
soon as I am in another kind of
livelihood than I now enjoy."
Enthusiastic Audience
The president made his final
New Hampshire speech to an
enthusiastic audience in Berlin.
He thanked the state for the
many gifts it had heaped upon
him and jokingly observed that
only one present had been for
gotten. "They should have provided
a truck to carry them away,"
he said. '
Among the gifts presented to
the president either for himself
or for his wife were two heifers,
a fishing' rod, hip-length fishing
boots, two sport shirts, a peak
ed snow shoers cap, a chain saw,
trout flies, a spice cabinet, a pic
ture of a birch grove and a sil
ver punch bowl, a replica of
one made by Paul Revere.
Mr. Eisenhower arrived here
at 2:07 (EDT) and settled down
for some serious salmon fishing
on a remote island in this wild
erness. He traveled by outboard
motor boat from the mainland
to the island, which the Brown
company of Berlin, N.H., main
tains as a luxurious fishing
camp.
shade trees," Bohnert said, but
the board said it appraised land
on the number of buildings and
land value.
Harry Loggan, assistant to the
tax commissioner pointed out
trees "increase value, and that
should be included" in assess
ments. The board said "your person
nel did not call that to our at
tention." Final Test
Stewart said values should be
determined on the basis of
whether or not a shade tree en
hances the value of a piece of
property. "The final test," Stew
art said, "is how much the prop
erty will sell for to a willing
buyer from a willing seller.' In
such a case, he said, shade trees
would be considered.
County Assessor Robert G.
Fowler said he had "plenty to
do without going out and apprais
ing individual orchards," and
added, "Every orchard is an in
dividual problem" and a flat
rate would be unfair. If orchards
are not treated individually,
Fowler said, "I don't see how
you can get the cash value."
"We have more hazards here
U.N.
'Positive
Molotov Tells Press
San Francisco (U.R) Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
Saturday said he felt the United
Nations meeting' here this week
achieved "positive results."
Molotov, interviewd at a rare
"give and take" press conference
said, "I believe that through the
various talks and contacts that
were established the San Fran
cisco meeting achieved positive
results."
"It is difficult to say which
was the most important achieve
ment because so many fields
were covered," Molotov said.
Varied Questions
The foreign minister, looking
tired and sleepy-eyed after a hec
tic round of conferences and
appearances, answered a wide
range of questions of more than
200 reporters gathered in the
Long-Range Plans
To Build Formosa
Defenses Revealed
Taipei, Formosa (U.R) The
United States has laid down a
long-range plan designed to
make Formosa a formidable link
in the Western defense chain,
it was disclosed Saturday.
American sources said that
the plan calls for an expenditure
of about $300,000,000 a year over
a long period to keep this Na
tionalist Chinese island out of
Communist hands.
Direct military aid is expected
to total $200,000,000 a year. Ec
onomic aid will account for the
remaining $100,000,000.
Principal Points
The principal points In the
United States plan are:
1. To keep 23 Chinese Nation
alist regular army divisions at
full strength and in top combat
condition. In addition, a crack
Chinese marine division and
several reserve divisions would
receive United States support.
2. To build up a Chinese Na
tionalist air force of eight wings
of jet fighter and fighter bomb
er planes, a wing consists of
about 75 planes.
3. To give the Nationalist navy
two additional destroyers and a
number of landing craft and pa
trol boats. Nationalist sources
say this would bring the navy
strength to four destroyers, five
destroyer escorts, more than 30
gunboats and a fleet of auxiliary
ships.
It is planned to bring the
strength of the United States
military assistance advisory
group on Formosa to 1,700 offi
cers and men. Officers of this
group will be sent to even, the
lowest units levels to supervise
training and re-equipping of
Nationalist troops.
Under the plan, the United
States 7th fleet would continue
to guarantee Formosa against
Communist invasion for "years
to come," informants said.
August 15
than orchardists do around Hood
River," Fowler said, "and dif
ferent values should be used. I
am not arguing against the tax
on trees, but we should have
been notified before."
The first order by the commis
sion to appraise trees and put
them on tax rolls was received
by Fowler June 6, but the board
of equalization notified the com
mission the job was impossible
in the short time. The appraising
was to be done by June 15.
Keating said, "it is a tremen
dous job, and I don't see how
we can do it and do it honestly
and fairly in the length of time
we have." The assessments must
be on tax rolls by Aug. 15 under
the new order.
Stewart said he recognized the
job facing the board, but point
ed out "it is a matter of positive
action" to do the job. "All we
ask is a substantial compliance,"
Stewart said. "We are looking
for the best we can get at this
time."
Keating asked: "How should
we go about it?"
Basie Start
"We think the bask place to
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sieved
results',
conference room at the War
Memorial Veterans building,
The question covered every
thing from the Big Four "sum
mit" talks at Geneva next month
to the reunification of Germany.
Molotov was noncommittal on
what he expected would be dis
cussed at the "summit" meeting,
"The agenda will be agreed
on by the chiefs of state them
selves," he said.
How long would the talks
last?
"The question of time limit
will be determined by the needs
of the conference itself after it
begins," Molotov said.
German Unification
In answer to a question, Molo
tov said the Soviet Union be
lieves that Germany should be
unified through, "free, democrat
ic elections." He said his country
"holds the view that a united
Germany should not represent
an extension of either the (Com
munist) regime in Eastern Ger
many or the Allied) regime in
West Germany."
"It should be ieft up to the
German peole themselves to de
cide what form of government
they want," he said.
Saturday's press conference
was called after his appearance
on the CBS television program,
."Facejthe Nation," was cancelled
because Molotov refused to an-.
swer impromptu questions posed
by a panel of interviewers. He
had requested that all questions
be submitted to him first. He
apparently agreed to the press
conference because of a deluge
of criticism of his action.' -
His "give and take" remarks,
however, were broadcast by the
American Broadcasting company
locally when they broke a net
work show to put the press con
ference on the air. Harvey Sachs,
ABC news editor, said he was
negotiating with the network
to have the conference aired
over the weekend.
Molotov was asked whether
he thought the situation in the
Formosa Straits had improved
recently.
"As I see it the situation In
the area of Taiwan you call it
Formosa but I prefer to call it
Taiwan is fraught with mili
tary danger," he said. "I don't
believe the situation there has
deteriorated any but neither has
it Improved."
Sports Bulletin
Jack Cooney tripled In the
tying and winning runs in the .
ninth inning ' at ' the fair
grounds here last night to give
the Medford Cheney Studs a
6 to 5 nod over the Bend Log
gers in a Southern Oregon
League baseball game. Med
ford scored three runs in the
final frame.
Portland (U.R) The Port
land Beavers look a Pacific
Coast League -baseball game'
from the second-place Seattle
Rainiers 4-3 here Saturday
night with an 11th inning
bunt by Frankie Austin.
Discussed
start is with Information on the
cards," Stewart said. The cards
are those sent to orchardists not
ifying them of appraisals. "I
know orchardists are busy, but
government is their business" as
well as growing fruit, Stewart
said.
He said when the board ar
rives at a value, it may be dis
cussed with the party concerned
and the board may arrive at a
value agreeable to both the
board and orchardist.
Bohnert said "If we could
have time to work it out and put
it on the assessment roll next
year it would be better," but
Stewart said it would have to be
done this year.
Besides - Stewart and Loggan,
Larry Michaels, who is in
charge of commission appraisers,
also attended the meeting.
Ralph Cook is the third member
of the board of equalization.'
Several orchardists attended
the meeting, but did not partici
pate in the discussion. : The
board recessed until 1:30 p. m.
Wednesday, June 29.
Ml
Foreign Minister
Expresses Regrets
For June 22 Attack
a
Dulles To Confer
With Eisenhower
San Francisco J.R) Rus
sian Foreign Minister V. M. Mol-,
otov Saturday told U. S. Secre
tary of State John Foster Dul
les the Soviet government re
gretted the forcing down of a
Navy Neptune bomber over
St. Lawrence Island June 22.
and offered to pay 50 per cent
of the' damages.
In a statement released fol-
Washington (U.R) Senate
Republican Leader William F.
Knowland said Saturday he
iL. - . ...
. wunn law nuuiu attack oa
an American plane off Alaska
was deliberate and signalled
a turn from cold war into "hoc
peace."
The Californian told report
ers he did not subscribe to the
viewpoint that the shooting
over the Bering Straits on
Wednesday "Is an isolated in
cident by trigger-happy Com
munist pilots."
lowing a hurried arranged
meeting between Dulles and
Molotov late Saturday, Dulles
stated that "while he accepted
with satisfaction the Soviet gov
ernment's expression of regret,
the offer as a whole fell short
of what he had expected of the
Soviet government in light of
the information received." '..
Contacts President
Dulles immediately contacted
President Eisenhower and plan
ned to confer with the chief ex
ecutive in Washington Monday
on the matter. - .
The State department release
said that the Soviet government
asserted that the Neptune was
over Soviet waters when it was
forced down in i the Bearing
straits last Wednesday
the statement continual h
Russians admitted that atmos-
pnenc conditions "made pos
sible an error on one aide ar an.
other in regard to the exact
position of the plane at the mo
ment of the incident."
The secretanr hat) 1u fin
ished a swim at the home of
the Marquis De La Pins in Ru
therford, Calif., some 66 miles
north of here when he received
a telephone messaee that Main.
tov wanted to confer with him
The secretary returned to his
suite in the Mark Hopkins ho
tel by California highway oa-
trol squad car. He covered the
distance, with sirens blarincr in
an hour and five minutes, arriv
ing hi me notei at 4:50 p.m., ten
minutes before the meeting.
Joined by Bohlen
vvna juiucu ox IUO XlOVCl
Imperial suite by Charles X.
Bohlen, U. S. Ambassador to
Russia.
Promptly at S n.m.. Ifoloimr
and his party arrived. They
whisked oast the hotel main tw
trance and entered via the hotel
garage to minimize their con
tact with the public and took a
hotel elevator to the 17th floor
suite where the meeting was
held.
Convening in the 25 minutes
conference were Dulles. Boh
len, Molotov, Russian ambassa
dor to the U.S., Georgi Zaru
bin, and an interpreter.
The meeting adjourned at
5:25 p.m. Motoltov and his party
sped across the San Francisco
Bay bridge to Oakland where
they caught the Southern Pacif
ic streamliner the City of San
Francisco. The train, scheduled
to depart at 6 n.m.. was held
for the Soviet foreign minister's
arrival and left seven minutes
late. Molotov will iournpv to
New York and then will depart
for Moscow.
Thornton Gives Ruling
On Irrigation Voting
Salem U.R) . Attorney
General Robert Y. Thornton has
ruled that the Absent Voter Sta
tus applies to tne special elec
tion to be held in the Rogue
River Valley and Medford irri
gation districts July 15.
The boards of directors - of
these irrigation districts have or
dered a special election to deter
mine whether a contract with
the federal government for re
payment of the costs of rehabil
itation and improvement of the
two districts should be author
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