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XTEHSI0E3 Medford forecasts: steruitm shower activitiy tonifht, be coming partly cloudy with widely scattered showen Wednesday. Low tonight 47. High Wednesday 75. Temp. High Yesterday K Lowest this Morning 56 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today 07 United Preaa Full LcaMd Wir. Ased Wire No. 85 50th Year 20 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1955 Weather F0UI OIF i t!IIOIMl ItJ DRAFT 0 fl! Exploration for Oil Moves Nearer; Group Presents Lease Plan Samt Valley Exploration for oil in Sarm Valley, Beagle, Ramsey Canyon and Meadows districts in northern Jackson county came closer to reality last night after a Landowners committee reported the findings of a five-month investigation. Ralph James, chairman of the committee, told a group of about 100 property owners the com: mittee had reached the most feasible plan if the area is to be developed. James said the committee Big Steel Keeps Solid Front in New Wage Offers Pittsburgh U.R) The steel industry, faced with a crippling strike threatened for midnight Thursday, kept a solid front to day in offering the CIO United Steelworkers wage increases averaging 10 cents an hour. Bethlehem Steel Corp., the na tion's No. 2 producer, and Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. proposed wage increases virtually identi cal to the U.S. Steel Corp. and Inland Steel offers, already de nounced by the union. A Bethlehem Steel spokesman said its offer was turned down by USW President David J. Mc Donald and his negotiators in bargaining sessions this morning. The JAL proposal also was re jected. The industry's top producers met in simultaneous bargaining sessions with union negotiators in a ' down-the-stretch drive to head off a strike threatened among 600,000 steelworkers. Preparing for the worst, the major producers ordered their mills to begin banking furnaces and cooling coke ovens to put steel production facilities on a standby basis by Thursday night. A series of company-union bargaining sessions began this morning after McDonald held an emergency session with his nego tiating teams. Paper Box Blast Reported Sunday A newspaper box in front of 1650 Grand ave., Medford, was blown off its post early Sun day morning, sheriff's officers reported today. Officers said Mrs. Ethel Mc Graw, who lives at 1650 Grand ave., told them she heard an ex plosion and saw a flash of light about 2 a.m. Sunday, but did not investigate immediately. She told officers she found the box blown off the post, the front of it about 20 feet away. A hole was blown in the bottom and the box showed signs of a blast inside, sheriff's officers said. Officers said they received an earlier report that someone had been exploding dynamite in the area Friday and Saturday nights, and in each case, a car would drive away. Officers are continuing their SSwestigation. One of Missing Fliers Located Yokosuka, Japan, Wednesday (U.R) One of two missing U.S. Marine Corps fliers drifting on a fog-covered sea since their fighter-bomber crashed four days ago was sighted today by rescue aircraft. A U.S. Air Force spokesman said a SA16 "Dumbo" plane sighted the missing Marine 13 miles southeast of Mikurajima, an island about 110 miles south of Tokyo. The second Marine has not been found. An Air Force RB50 hovered over the Marine awaiting a heli copter or naval ship to pluck the flier from his little inflated raft. The Marine Corps press office in Washington identified the missing Marines as Capt. Hodgen P. Montague of Jackson, Miss., and 2nd Lt. David Winter Bell of Minneapolis. Baseball AMERICAN Kansas City 5 14 2 Cleveland 7 6 0 Ditmar, Ceccarelli (5), Sain (8) and Asxroth. W. Shants W. Garcia, Narleski (6) and He gan. Home runs: Doby, Cleve land; Simpson, Kansas City. worked with the Natural Re sources association of San Jose, Calif., in surveying the area The committee, he said, reached an agreement with the broker age association to have leases for 12,000 acres of land deposit ed for safe keeping until an oil company interested in drilling in the area is contacted. James pointed out the leases will be placed in a safe deposit box in a Medford bank, and will be removed only when three committee members and an as sociation representative are pres ent . From the date of the lease, he said, the association will have 18 months to contact an oil com pany financially secure, and have that company commence drilling. If at the end of 18 months, no company has obtain ed the leases, they will be re moved from the safe deposit box and destroyed, he said. However, if an oil company desires, and obtains, the leases and has not started drilling with in the 18 months after the lease date, the company may be re quired to rent rights in lieu of drilling for $25 per acre per year. . The leases are for five years, he said, and added that they will not be recorded in the Jackson county "recorder's office until they are obtained by a company Committe to Decide James said the association will contact oil companies after leases for 12,000 acres are avail able. He pointed out the commit tee will have the power to de cide .which company it deems fi nancially secure to develop the area, and will have control of leases until obtained by a com pany. James said it is doubtful if the association would "go to the ex pense it has if it did not think there was something here." He said the plan the commit tee accepted is the most feasible, and that to place leases in es crow would not be practicable. Before any company can drill, James said, a state permit is re quired, and once drilling has started, a state inspector will be present. Soil tests will be taken during drilling operations, he said, which would be analyzed by state engineers. Property owners who desire leases may have them notarized at the Sams Valley Grange be tween 4 and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday by James, who is a no tary public. Harry Eskridge also will be at the Grange during those hours, James said, to type land descriptions. Besides James, other commit tee members are C. W. Mc Donough, C. W. Duggan, Earl Peffley and R. H. Southard. The committee has been investigat ing oil development possibili ties since late January this year. Midwest Tornadoes Kill Four Persons Br UNITED PRESS A four-state rampage of tor nadic winds and lethal thunder storms last night and early today killed at least four persons, in jured almost 100, and caused more than half a million dollars' damage. The storms did their worst at the small housing addition of Hilldredge near Scottsbluff, Neb. A veering twister hit it dead center late yesterday, killing two persons, injuring 85, and smash ing 28 homes. Disaster crews turned out at dawn today to search for more victims and the homeless were housed in emergency shelters. Forced Routing of Railroad Shipments Receives Study Salem (U.R) Forced routing of railroad freight shipments was studied here yesterday when the governor's emergency transportation committee held its first meeing to find a solution to Oregon's current boxcar shortage. Chairman Stan E. Sherwood, Coquille, said the group sought not only a solution of this year's shortage but a means of pre venting a recurrence of the an nual shipping dilemma. Consider PUC Ruling The committee also considered the possibility of a PUC ruling requiring the loading of each boxcar to full visual capacity and a further opening of the Portland gateway to permit use of rolling stock from other roads on Southern Pacific lines. Sherwood said the committee had asked the PUC to tend field , v . sT 'ft K o A 0 k DESCRIBES ATTACK Navy Airman J. F. Romp, Walden, Mass., radarman aboard Navy bomber shot down by two Russian fighters, shows other members of the crew how the planes came in from behind the bomber. (Left to right): Lt (jg) D. M. Lockhart, co-pilot, Alameda, CaL, Lt R. H. Fischer, pilot Del Rey Oaks, Cal.; Rump; Lt (jg) G. T. Sloan, co-pilot, Oakland, CaL; the men are shown at Kodiak, Alaska. Dulles Plane Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to day deplored "trigger-happy" Soviet action in shooting down an American Navy plane last week. But he said he neverthe less hopes next month's Geneva "summit" conference with the Russians can begin "on the as sumption that all of the four participants genuinely desire a secure peace." He said in a news conference statement thatt he United States Adenauer Warning of War Dangers Arouses German Lower House Bonn, Germany (U.R) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told a tumultuous Parliament to day that West Germany must rearm because the East German Communists were preparing an armed force of 150,000 men "for civil war against us." Defends Program Adenauer rose to defend his rearmament program after op position Socialist leader Erich Ollenhauer accused his govern- Price of Haircuts Going Up 25 Cents The price of haircuts will in crease 25 cents on July 1, it was announced today by Al Bradford, secretary of Local 269 Journeymen Barber's union. The cost for adults will be $1.50 and for children $1.25 in union barbershops in Medford and surrounding towns, Brad ford said. He said the increase is the first raise in price for children since 1946 and for ad ults since 1951. . Medford is the last major city in southern and southwestern Oregon to increase the fees, Bradford said, and higher fees are in effect almost everywhere else in the state, he added. The new -price scale was approved at a meeting of shop owners yes terday. Seventy per cent of the increase will go for employee's salaries, which have averaged below $65 weekly, Bradford stat ed. The new working agreement, drawn up by a joint employer employee committee, will run for two years. men to Washington and Calif ornia to check the actual car sup ply in those states. He said it was believed the shortage was more acute in Oregon than in the neighboring states. The Interstate Commerce Commission was asked in a wire to put into effect its 1953. regu lation which would compel rail roads to distribute cars from competitive points after holding them for not more than one day. Ask Quota Study The committee asked the PUC to determine if percentake quo tas . of cars furnished by the Southern Pacific to the various districts of Oregon could be published daily or weekly. Notification of shippers of their car quotas was also requested. Sherwood said his committee would meet weekly in Salem as long as its services were needed. Doubts Attack on Shows Huss Policy "doubts that the shooting down of the plane represents a con sidered policy on the part of the Soviet Union." -Notes Russian Regret He noted that Russia has at least made an expression of re gret. He believed this was the first of Its kind ever made to the United States by Russia. Dulles said the United States thinks -it knows exactly where Soviet MIG fighters shot down the Navy Neptune bomber last ment of endangering the young West German democracy with "hurry-up" legislation. The 79-year-old chancellor's scornful ' reply to Ollenhauer's charges touched off pandemon ium' in the Bundestag (lower house). It took acting Bundestag President Carlo Schmid, a soc ialist himself, minutes to restore order. Two-Day Debate The angry exchange came on the opening day of two-day de bate on the Volunteers Law, a bill that would give the govern ment temporary authority to en list 6000 volunteers as the nu cleus for the new West German armed forces. West Germany's 12-division contribution to NATO possibly hung in the balance in the de bate in the angry and divided house. It was the first full-dress par liamentary debate on rearma ment since West Germany be came a sovereign state and re ceived the right to rearm last May 5. The label of "monstrosity" was hung on the Volunteers Law by Ollenhauer. He charged that if the bill became law, it would set up a military and bureaucrat tic alliance against parliament ary control. Mining Claim Labor Affidavits Due July 1 Mining claim affidavits of la bor must be filed in the Jackson county recorder's office prior to 12 noon July 1. The affidavits must list $100 worth of im provements made to claims dur ing the past year. Recorder's office officials said if new location claims have been filed since July 1 last year, affidavits of labor are not nec essary this year. Mfleion Washington, D.C. The Senate subcommit tee on reclamation has recommended an appro priation of $500,000 be made, for the Talent project in Jackson coun ty, Oregon, reliable sources reported today. The recommendation will go to the full Sen ate committee on appro priations. The House approved appropriation bill included $150,000 for the project. Wednesday over the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Soviet Union. He conceded there is always a possibility of slight error, but the United States is as certain as humanly possible that the American plane was not over Soviet territory as the Russians claimed. Ike To Confer On Geneva Dulles said he believed the attack occurred over interna tional waters about 25 miles from U.S. territory. President Eisenhower dis- closed meanwhile that he plans to confer with congressional leaders of both parties before next month's summit meeting. The President discussed the plan at his weekly White House conference with Republican leg islative leaders. . No date was set for the bi-par tisan, foreign.-.-, policy meeting, But House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., (Mass.) said it would be "as near as pos sible to the hour" of the Presi dent's departure for Geneva. Anti-Annexation Meeting Set Today A committee of residents op posed to "mass annexation" of property to the city of Medford, is sponsoring a meeting at 8 p.m. today to discuss questions con cerning annexation. The public has been invited. The meeting will be held in the circuit court chambers of the courthouse, rather than in the auditorium as at first plan ned. Charles Bennett, Marshall ave., is chairman. The group is represented by Attorney's Frank Van Dyke and John Dellenbeck. Other members of the committee are Linna Dunivent, Peach st.; M. C. Borough, Meyers lane; Car ol Hays, Kings highway; Joe Swartsley, Jane rd.; Lee Hobbs, West Main st., and George Fraz ier, Murphy rd. The group is opposing a plan submitted to residents in areas east, south and west of Medford that about 3,000 acres be annex ed to Medford. The election will be held July 5, when the resi dents of the area will vote on the proposal. - ' . Salem (U.R) Contractor Ross Hammond told the State Board of Control today the new $1,800, 000 wing of the Oregon State mental hospital will be com pleted by Oct. 15. Second Trans - New York-(U.R) Soviet For eign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov ended his second trans continental tour of the United States in two weeks today with his return to New York on the last lap of his trip home. 40 Minutes Late Molotov rolled into New York 40 minutes late on the New York Central's Commodore Van derbilt. A small army of New York and railroad police escort ed the Russian and his party to three automobiles which sped them up Park Avenue behind motorcycle' escort to the head quarters of the Soviet United Nations delegation. He made two train trips across the United States as he jour neyed to and from the 10th an niversary meeting of the United Nations at. San Francisco. He got a good look at Ameri cans and Americans got a good Foreign Aid Bill Comes Under Fire From Republicans Amendment To Clip Request Sought Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower's $3,285,000, 000 foreign aid bill came under a cross fire of opposition today in advance of opening debate on the measure. Four Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Com mittee prepared 'a blast at the bill, especially its "blank check" authority for President Eisen hower to spend money overseas. Aid To Yugoslavia The four Reps. Lawrence H. Smith (Wis.), Marguerite Stitt Church (HI ), E. Ross Adair (Ind.) and Alvin M. Bentley (Mich) also called for a "stop, look and listen" policy for aid to Communist Yugoslavia. The bill called up for debate today includes $40,500,000 for indirect military aid for Yugoslavia. Smith pressed for an amend ment to clip President Eisen hower's request for $200,000,000 to spend as he sees fit for Asiatic development. Rep. John M. Vorys (R-Ohio), a key committee member, mean while, prepared a last effort to give the new foreign aid chief, Frank B. Hollister, a freer hand in firing employees of Harold E. Stassen's old Foreign Opera tions Administration. The House committee and the Senate both rejected the proposal. Demo crats claim it is a "jobs-for-Re- publicans" move to rid the-agency of holdover Democrats. Wants Loan Basis Vorys also sought to require that a large .part of economic aid in the bill be handled on a loan basis. Key members of the House Merchant Marine Committee at tacked the bill for relaxing a re quirement that at least 50 per cent of foreign aid shipments go in U.S. ships. The foreign affairs committee waived this require' ment for surplus agricultural commodities. - - Opposition also built up against $95,000,000 in economic aid for India. Two Arraigned on Hack Saw Charges Klamath Falls (U.R) Two women accused of smuggling a hackshaw blades into the Klam math County jail in an apparent jail break attempt were arraign ed in District Court here yester day. Zelda Pearson, 26, and Phyl lis Hill, 19, appeared before Judge D. E. Van Vactor. They were given until Friday morn ing to secure counsel. Jailer Fred Calfee said Mrs. Pearson visited her husband, Leon Gale Pearson, and then re turned to -the jail with a gift of a cherry pie and ice cream. Four hacksaw blades were found in the pie. The county grand jury yester day began a new probe of the charges against Pearson and Mel vin Chiloquin, who Were indicted in connection with the death of John Adruena, 25-year-old rail road worker. The case was order ed resubmitted after District Attorney-Frank Anderson said the state did not have enough evi dence to convict them of man slaughter. BRANCHFIELD APPOINTED Salem (U.R) Edward Branchfield, Medford attorney long active in, veterans affairs, has been reappointed to the ad visory committee to the director of veterans affairs, Gov. Paul Patterson announced today. cms Get Good Look Continental Tour of U.S. look at him particularly in Chi cago where he paid another tu multuous visit late Monday and heard himself called a "bum." Chieagoans Forewarned Molotov apparently intended no repetition of the confusion and traffic jams which accom panied his first stopover in the Windy City June 11. But Chieagoans, forewarned of Molotov's visit Monday, turn ed out in hundreds to stare at him, boo him, and give him a shoving around. Anguished se cret policemen from Russia saw their security precautions flying out the window as curiosity seekers clustered about the stocky diplomat. Molotov planned to spend his second Chicago visit inspecting the scientific marvels at the South Side Museum of Science and Industry. But he ran into treualmost Driver Finds Item Red Didn't Invent Chicago (U.R) Soviet For eign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov expressed interest in the air conditioning system of the Cadillac limousine in which he toured Chicago Monday. Chauffeur Myron Heyman asked "Do you have air .condi tioning in Russian cars?" "No." said Molotov. "but we will have." Housing Bill May Be Bottled Up in Rules Committee Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower's public housing pro gram faced the threat today of being bottled up in the House Rules Committee by a coalition of Southern Democrats and Re publicans. Democratic backers of federally-subsidized housing for low income families were hopeful of prying it loose eventually. May Not Clear Bill But Chairman . Howard W. Smith (D-Va.) said he didn't know whether his 12-man com mittee would clear the omnibus housing bill for floor action as long as it contains provision for more public housing. The committee of eight Demo crats and four Republicans serves as the House's traffic cop on controversial legislation drafted by other House committees. Although public housing is the only highly controversial fea ture, the bill would revamp or extend several federal housing programs. To prevent four such programs from expiring at mid night Thursday congressional leaders planned to rush enact ment of a resolution extending them for 31 days." Voiced Opposition The new housing bill ran into trouble at a' rules committee hearing Monday when Smith and another Democratic member, Rep. William M. Colmer (Miss.) voiced strong opposition to any further expansion of public housing. Rep. Abraham J. Multer (D NY) who helped draft the bill, said it could be bottled up by the rules committee by a 6-6 tie vote, if the four Republican members vote with Smith and Colmer against it. The three Republican mem bers on hand for Monday's hear ing said in separate interviews they weren't ready to announce how they would vote. They were Reps. Leo E. Allen (HI.) who says the bill "is in trouble," Rep. Clarence J. Brown (Ohio) who foresees a "close" committee vote, and Rep. Henry J. Latham (NY). Americans Escape Terrorist Grenade Saigon, Indochina (U.R) A score of Americans attending a birthday party narrowly escaped death tonight when a terrorist grenade exploded against the wall of the United States Infor mation Office. One Frenchman was injured. The grenade was hurled at 1 a.m. at a window on the first floor of the USIS building, 100 yards from the heart of Saigon's European Quarter. ..' The grenade missed the win dow by only a yard. The Americans inside were shaken but escaped unharmed. The injured Frenchman was caught by; flying fragments of the grenade as he was passing the building. T at Molotov on immediately when a group of refugees from Baltic states greet ed him with boos and shouts of "Molotov, you aggressor, you en slaver, you bum." Paid No Attention Molotov paid no attention to the demonstrators as he pushed his way into the air-cooled Cadil lac which took him to the mu seum, along with a caravan of 100 detectives , Soviet guards, and newspapermen. At the museum, more crowds practically mobbed the digni tary. Soviet guards, their hands on pistol: butts, , were pushed aside. One goggle-eyed teenaged girl cooed: "Oo, isn't he cute." Molotov was equal to the. oc casion, however, as he went about the exhibits, asking ques tions and trying his hand at the gadgets. House Committee Also Approves New Reserve Proposal Compromise Removes Reference to Guard By PAUL SOUTHWICK United Staff Correspondent Washington (U.R) Congress today completed passage of leg islation extending the regular draft for four years and the doc tor draft foe two years. The measure now goes to the White House, for President Eisenhower's signature. T h present authority to draft doc-. iurs ana otner men is scheduled to expire Thursday. Doctor Draft Issue The comDromisp Aran tion was passed first by the House after a fight over exten sion or uie doctor draft. The roll Call VOte on final naceamt in 4h House was 388 to 5. Minutes later th Hnnu h4 acted on the bill, the Senate shouted its approval and sent the bill to the White HouseJ House nassae of th t. sion bill followed a fight against xne aoctor draft that for a while threatened the whole program. On another militarv hui th House Armed Services Commit tee approved, 29 to 1, a compro mise version of President Eisen hower's compulsory military re serve plan. This bill wa expected to come up in the House later in me weeK. The compromise nlan. a worked out by the subcommit tee, manes little change in the previous bill except to eliminate any reference to the National Guard. The previous bill, under an amendment proposed by Powell would have banned as signment of reservists to guard units still maintaining segrega tion. Provisions of New Measure The new measure ; provides that: 1. Every man who has gone into military service since July 27. 1953. must snenri a inmhinri total nf at lofief -fitTA Ymnvc An - . j iu. a w active duty and in the ready re serves. 2. A total of 250.000 nrp-draft age youths a year may enlist di rectlv in the rpwrvni onH h draft-exempt if they stay in the ready reserve until age 28. 3 Rut thov mav nnliat nnlv under regulations as prescribed by the secretary of defense. These are intended to include six months active duty 'training. Youths who take six months training, thereafter would spend IVi years in the ready reserve to complete their military obliga tion. tend 48 drills and a 17-day field training period tour each year. him to a 45-day recall to active duty under penalty of a court martial. Two Drowned, Third Missing in McKenzie . Eugene (U.R) The bodies of Milo Thomson. 62. veteran McKenzie river guiae, ana Aram Adams, 48, Bakersfield, Cam., were recovered from the Mc Kenzie river 45 miles east of here today. Still missing and believed was Earl Smith, 62, Sacramento, Calif. . : ' Thomson and the two promin ent California "automobile deal ers put into the river in their small boat yesterday at 8 a.m. from Blue River, Ore. They were due to leave the rain swollen stream at 5 p.m., miles down stream at a point known as The ' Stockade. Thev were reported missing at 9:51 p.m. yesterday by Carl Baker, head of the McKenzie river guide association. State's Nurserymen Conclude Convention The Oregon Association of Nurserymen concluded a one-day meeting here yesterday with the appointment of a committee to look in to the possible forma tion of a southern Oregon chap ter of the association. J. Vernon .Marshall, Medford, was named chairman. Other members are Elwood S t a n s field, Medford; C E. Moyer, Roseburg, and George Freeden, Grants Pass. The committee will report at the next association meeting, scheduled at Gearhart in Sep tember. Fourteen new members from this area joined the association yesterday. Some 75 persons from other areas attended, and some 60 attended last night's banquet
