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ion Man Believes Settlement Near in Steel Wage Dispute Pittsburgh (U.R) The CIO Steelworkers Executive Board and Wage Policy Com mittee have scheduled a meet ing for tonight, apparently to consider a wage offer by the industry. If the offer is ac cepted it would avert a strike by some 600,000 steelworkers scheduled to start at midnight. Pittsburgh (U.R) A top union official said today he "hoped" to be able to report set- Closures Slated Independence Day; Ashland Fete Set The Medford post office, along with most other city, county, sfcjte, and federal government oJices, will remain, closed Mon day for the July 4 holiday. Only emergency services will remain open. Stores, except a few drug and grocery stores, will close. The Medford Public library will ob serve the week end as a double holiday. It will close at 6 p.m. Saturday, remain closed all day Sunday and Monday, and will reopen at 9 a.m. Tuesday. No Fourth of July celebrations have been announced for Med ford. Celebration in Ashland Ashland will hold a day-long celebration from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., under sponsorship of the Lions club. The festivities will include logging contests (bucking, log rolling and others) in the Lithia Park, a parade at 11 a.m., a mu sical program, and an address by Sen. Wayne Morse at 1 p.m., a baseball game and tennis matches, an exhibition of fancy and trick diving at Twin Plunges, and a special band con cert by the Ashland city band. The Medford Mail Tribune, in order to enable its employees to enjoy the holiday, will not pub lish Monday. City Council Holds Year - End Meeting The Medford city council this noon adopted ordinances adjust ing interdepartmental budget items. The adjourning meeting was held to close department budgets for the fiscal year 1954 55. J. C. Compton's bid for $7, 700 for paving Capital ave., be tween Sunrise ave. and Valley View dr., was rejected after 82 per cent of the property owners indicated they did not wish to pay additional costs. The bid was about $2,000 over estimates. The council delayed action on a contract between the city and South Bear Creek Sanitary dis trict until after the special an nexation election July 5. The area involved in the contract is within the area proposed to be annexed. The council agreed to proceed with paving East Jackson st. be tween Bear Creek bridge and Genessee st. following a recom mendation by City Attorney Frank Farrell. Lundeberg Offers Two Alternative Proposals San Francisco (U.R) Harry Lundeberg, head of the AFL Seafarers International Union, today offered Pacific Maritime Association two alternative agreements, one eliminating overtime pay at sea. The union, representing 6,000 unlicensed seamen, began nego tiations with the PMA from which two major members, American President Lines and Pacific Far East Lines, have withdrawn. Lundeberg's first proposal would put some sailors on a 56 hour work week at sea and elim inate penalty pay in return for a $148 monthly wage increase. The other proposal was to continue the present 40-hour work week at sea for all hands with a $35 monthly across the board pay raise. In addition, PMA was asked to bring present wages and overtime rates in the stewards department up to the level of those paid sailors and firemen. Three Men Missing On Prospecting Trip Kalispell, Mont.-U.PJ Three Tacoma, Wash., men were re ported missing on an uranium prospecting flight in their small Stinson plane over the rugged country northeast of here yes terday. Montana Aeronautics Admin istration officials said the men, Phil Myers, Clarence Hebbel and Harvey Prezler, have been missing since Tuesday. tlement in the steel industry wage negotiations by 8 p.m. only four hours before 600,000 steelworkers are set to begin a nationwide strike. I. W. Abel, secretary-treasurer of the CIO United Steelwork ers, said USW President David J. McDonald hoped to make a "more definite" report on the progress of negotiations with U.S. Steel corp. by late this afternoon. Abel made the announcement to a group of union negotiators who assembled to hear McDon ald report on his talks with John A. Stephens, "Big Steel" vice-president and chief negia tor. McDonald was unable to at tend the meeting as scheduled because he was in "continual" meetings with Stephens. Radio Time Reserved The union also announced that McDonald had reserved tenta tive time on the American Broadcasting Network to go on the air at 5:30 p.m. if he does not have a new wage agreement with the steel industry by then. McDonald planned to report the union's side of the negotiations and explain why the USW be lieved it necessary to call a walk out. The session of some 150 nego tiators, representing locals hav ing contracts with the "Big Six" producers' group, broke up on a "stand by" basis after Abel made his report. The steel industry's hopes of averting a walkout rode on the size of a new proposal by U.S. Steel to sweeten the 10 cents an hour proposal rejected by the USW as "shameful" in earlier negotiations. Seek 16-Cent Boost Abel's announcement buoyed hopes the steel industry and union negotiators had at last reached a "general area of agree ment" on new wage provisions in current contracts. A rank-and-file member of a union negotiating group outside the immediate circle of top level talks said he looked for a settle ment totaling about 16 cents an hour including a 12V-cent-per- hour flat incrcease plus 3V& cents in job classification increases. He said the men he represented ai-a Pittsburgh area mill would oppose a settlement as low as the 13-cents an hour range. McDonald and Stephens mean while were "in-and-out" of face-to- face discussions, conferring frequently with statisticians from both sides. Medford Man Killed When Hit by Tree Donald A. Phillips, 32, of 2717 Howard ave., was killed yester day when he was struck by a tree while working south of Grants Pass. Mr. Phillips was employed by the Riley-Stephens Co., which was working on a line-building contract with the California Ore gon Power company along the Redwood highway. The crew was felling trees along the right of way when the accident oc curred. Mr. Phillips was a former em ployee of Copco here for 2V6 years. A veteran of World War II, he is survived by his wife, Bernice, and an 8-year-old son, Danny. Military funeral services have tentatively, been arranged for Tuesday morning, with Chapel mortuary in charge. Navy Patrol Flights Declared Continuing Washington -U.PJ The De fense Department today denied a published report that Navy pa trol flights have been halted in the Bering Straits because of last week's clash with Russian fighters. A report published today in the New York Times said that flights had been temporarily halted while Russian intentions in the area were studied and consideration was given to es corting future patrol flights. Free Viet Nam Forces Smash Rebels Giving Diem Control By UNITED PRESS Free Viet Nam government forces sent the last rebel war lord troops reeling into neigh boring Cambodia today in a smashing 'civil war victory that won firm control over the coun try for Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. The anti-Communist Premier became the unchallenged master of the tiny country after govern ment troops assaulted the last rebel Hoa Hao positions and drove the insurgents out of the country. His prestige soared at home and abroad. Congress Approves Measure Providing Funds for Military Marine Corps Total Tops Ike's Request By UNITED PRESS Congress approved and sent to the White House today a bill pro viding $31,882,815,726 to run the military establishment for a year, starting tomorrow. The bill contains 46 millions which President Eisenhower did not ask and does not want to maintain Marine Corps strength at 215,000. The President, who plans to cut the Corps to 193,000 by mid-1956, does not have to use the extra money. Compromise Version The measure is a compromise of Senate and House versions. A conference committee agreed .on it yesterday and both houses gave it their final okay today. It contains $7,329,956,000 for the Army, $9,118,179,556 for the Navy, $14,739,763,170 for the Air Force, $12,760,000 for the defense secretary and $682,350, 000 for interservice activities. As passed the bill provides slightly less than the $32,438, 815,000 total asked by Mr. Eisen hower. It does, however, contain $206,000,000 he asked for boost ing production of B52 interconti nental jet H-bombers. Other congressional news: Dome: The House Appropria tions Committee voted $5,000, 000 to start work on a project to prop up the Capital dome. Former President Truman used to say the dome was in danger of falling down. Bases: The Senate Armed Ser vices Committee approved a bill to authorize expenditure of $2, 357,317,300 on military bases at home and abroad. Conference: President Eisen hower invited Democratic and Republican congressional lead ers to a conference July 12 to discuss the forthcoming Big Four "summit" meeting in Geneva. Dixon-Yates: Sen. Estes Ke fauver (D-Tenn.) summoned Bud get Director Rowland R. Hughes to an unusual night meeting to testify on the Dixon-Yates power contract. General Motors: Chairman Harley M. Kilgore (D-WVa.) said General Motors Corp. officials have refused to testify before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee studying anti-trust laws. Air Debate: The House moved toward a final vote on' the big foreign aid program. Leaders predicted no drastic changes. Muggy Heat Covers East Half of U.S. By UNITED PRESS Muggy heat covered much of nation's East today, but tem peratures were dropping as much as 32 degrees in the West. Temperatures climbed into the 80s and 90s practically every where east of the Continental Divide late yesterday. Cool air had reached the Western Da kotas by early today, but most of the nation could hope for lit tle relief. At Detroit, the city's water supply was pushed to the limits in meeting what may have been a record water demand in the Motor City yesterday. Tempera tures were expected to go still higher in Detroit today and the Weather Bureau said the humid ity would get worse. Other highs late yesterday included 99 at Rapid City, S.D , 104 at Presidio, Tex., 89 at Chi cago and even 90 at New York City. Four Refuse Answers At LA Red Hearing Los Angeles (U.R) More witnesses were called before the House Subcommittee on Un American Activities today fol lowing a stormy session on a youth' village allegedly -under Communist influence. Four persons were questioned about their association with the Ormby Village for couth in nearby Topanga Canyon, but each refused to answer, citing the First and Fifth amendments. The four also refused to state whether they had ever been members of the Communist party. It was the bloodiest battle in Indochina since the Communist siege of Dien Bien Phu, and a government announcement said staggering losses were inflicted on the fiery Buddhist warriors who numbered 25,000 only last April. Peron-Church Agreement Other international develop ments: Rome: Premier-designate An tonio Segni's deadline for form ing a cabinet expired; political circles predicted failure. Buenos Aires Santiago Luis Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 30 PAGES IDENTIFIED Betty McKloski, above, whose identity was be ing sought by Chicago police af ter she was found an apparent victim of amnesia, has been iden tified by Mrs. Blanch LaFleur, Central Point, a friend of the family. Amnesia Victim, Pictured in M-T, Identified Here An attractive young woman recently found by Chicago po lice, an apparent victim of am nesia, has been identified by a Central Point woman who is a close friend of the family, Med ford police reported today. Mrs. Blanch LaFleur, 319 West Pine st., Central Point, saw the woman's picture in Wednesday's Mail Tribune. "I knew her even before I read the caption," Mrs. LaFleur said. The woman had in her purse a telegram addressed to Betty Mc Koski of Stockton, Calif., as her only identification. She was un able to talk. Mrs. LaFleur con firmed that she is Betty McKoski, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKoski, Taylorsville, Plumas county, Calif. Information Sent City police today teletyped this information to officers in Chicago. Mrs. LaFleur explained that she has known the McKoski fam ily for 10 years, and is a close friend of Betty's younger sister. She thinks the woman may have gone to Chicago because her mother lived there at one time. Lt. C. W. Lacy of the Medford police expressed the depart ment's appreciation for Mrs. La Fleur's help. "It is an instance of when information given by the public, even though it may be slight in some cases, has en abled police to complete a case which otherwise might never be solved," he said. Eagle Point Youth Suffers Eye Loss Eagle Point Robert Hayes, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hayes, route 1, box 87, Eagle Point, was dismissed from Sacred Heart hos pital yesterday after being treat ed for the loss of his left eye. He was injured Monday while shooting his cross bow, accord ing to his family. He was exper imenting with a new type of ar row he had made when the ac cident occurred. Last September the youth was awarded a $100 prize by the Ford Foundation industrial arts and crafts department for a cross bow he made. He used his award money for materials for an out board motor, boat he made and which he has used on the Rogue river. He learned to make arch ery equipment and the boat in classes at Eagle Point high school where he will be a junior this falL Portland (U.R) The body of Arthur H. Weber, 48, was recov ered from the Willamette river by Portland harbor police yes terday. Cardinal Copello resumed con trol of the Catholic hierarchy in Argentina; observers believed a cabinet shakeup portended an early end of the church-state feud. . Bonn:- The United States en tered into an agreement with West Germany to train and equip the West German army under a "blank' check" treaty. Jerusalem, Israel: Prime Min ister Moshe Sharett won parlia mentary approval of a new three party coalition from which he bad purged the Geranl Zionists. MEDFORD, OREGON Adenauer Decline Russian Invitation To Visit Moscow Agrees To Discuss Restoring Normalcy Bonn', Germany (U.R) West German Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer today turned down Rus sia's invitation to visit at this time to discuss Soviet-German relations. But he agreed, in a note handed to the Soviet embassy in Paris, to discuss restoring nor mal relations between West Ger many and Russia. The chancellor's rejection of the invitation to visit Moscow came as a surprise. All previous indications had been that he would travel to the Soviet capi tal for a conference with heads of the Russian government. Instead, Adenauer said a num ber of issues must be "clarified" in preliminary talks between the West German and Soviet ambas sadors in Paris before he could consider a Moscow trip. If ' these issue are settled to the Chancellor's satisfaction, a government spokesman said, he will agree to go to Moscow, probably in September. Adenauer's reply did not spell out the issues he feels must be clarified. DA May Appeal In Hank Case Portland (U.R) District At torney William' Langley said to day his office was considering a possible appeal to the State Su preme Court of an order yester- daywhich gave Wey Him and Sherry Fong a new trial and up set their conviction of the first degree murder of 16-year-old Di ane Hank. . Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dob- son issued the new trial order, suggesting the jury failed to give mature consideration to the case. He also found the case against the Fongs was not con vincing. Deputy' District Attorney Howard Lonergan asked for a hearing on a motion for recon sideration. This was set for 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. Meanwhile, an impromptu meeting of 11 of the Fong mur der trial jurors was held last night which attorneys said may be unprecedented in Oregon le gal annals. The jury met to protest rever sal of their conviction of the Fongs. Reporter Tells of Party Membership Washington (U.R) Charles Grutzner, veteran reporter for the New York Times, testified today that he was a member of the Communist Party from 1937 to 1940 while working for the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Daily Eagle. Grutzner told the Senate In ternal Security subcommittee he was not a very active member and that his fellow Communists in the Daily Eagle unit com plained because he did not at tend meetings regularly. "I finally just stayed away for good" in 1940, he said. Grutz ner has been a Times reporter since 1941. The Times reporter took , the stand after Victor Weingarten, former reporter for the Eagle, refused to testify about whether he was a Communist prior to 1940 or to give information about his associates. Low Bids on Highway Proecfs Announced Portland (U.R) A Creswell firm, C. R. O'Neil, today was apparent low bidder at $278,899 for a Josephine county highway project when the State High way commission opened bids. The job calls for grading 3.14 miles of new four-lane route for the Pacific highway near Mer lin hill from about half a mile north of Grants Pass to Louse creek, also for building frontage roads. Other projects and low bid ders included: Jackson and Douglas: Apply pavement sealing to 56.5 miles of Pacific, Crater Lake and West Diamond Lake highways; D-H Paving Co., Vancourver, Wash., $63,770. Oeoiigtr tar 1955 JAPAN -'30, " o Mm off Pun he 1 IItoIcySII ' I jL 1. FIGHTER-BOMBER, S , , : ; : : : -AssaJ two ABOARD, GOES S V;j DOWN OFF TOKYO 1 SEARCH PLANE, g BAY. WHERE AIRMEN WENT DOWN Newsmap locates (1) area where fighter-bomber with two Marine airmen aboard crashed off mouth of Tokyo Bay Sunday, June 26. Volcanic Oshima Island (2) over which pilot of a search plane was last heard from. Area where rescue helicopter went down , (3) with almost certain loss of one man of three-man crew, when returning to mother ship after flight to investigate sighting of a life raft (4) on fog-shrouded seas. MISSING Marine 2nd Lt. David Winton Bell, Wayzata, Minn., is believed to be one of two' jet pilots downed in a fog blanketed sea south of Tokyo. An air-sea rescue armada of 50 planes and seven ships is comb ing water off Shima where the two Marines went down. Military Construction Bill Gets Approval Washington U.R) The Sen ate Armed Services Committee today approved a bill author izing $2,357,317,300 in construc tion of military bases within the United State and around the world. In keeping with the emphasis on air power, more than half the authorized construction, $1,205, 170,000, will be for Air Force bases. The Navy would receive ,$571,620,300 and the Army, $527,027,000. . The bill, which will probably come up for Senate approval to morrow, would only authorize construction of the bases. Sepa rate legislation is needed to pro vide the actual money. County Non-High and Rural School Boards Jackson County non-high and rural school boards met' yester day to canvass board elections and appoint officers for the com ing year. Dunbar Carpenter, the incum bent and only candidate filing for office, received 67 votes and will serve another five-year board term from Zone 5. He rep resents Pinehurst and Lone Pine districts. A. E. Brockway, Medford, was unanimously reelected chairman of the board for 1955-56. Car penter was named vice-chairman. Agreement Approved In other business, the board approved an " agreement with Ashland District 5 on transpor tation of non-high students from Pinehurst District 94 to Ashland. Jacksonville, Central Point, and Eagle Point districts received approval lor advance! of -non- Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 87 Search for Missing Airmen Fruitless; Signals Continue Tokyo (U.R) Rescue planes returned to Jonnson Air Force base tonight after a fruitless search; 'often dangerously close to the ocean's surface for three missing U. S. Marine airmen" who may have heard the motors of the planes from rubber life rafts. - Pilots of the 36th search and rescue squadron told the United Press that they had to take their four-ngined planes down to 500 feet above the churning heavy seas to duck under low clouds. Some of the pilots, who had re mained as long as seven and a half hours in the air, said vis ibility was "fair today." Search to Continue The rescue pilots said they would be ready to take off again at dawn to push the hunt. The search was intensified because of distress signals heard off and on since Monday, apparently be ing' sent from rubber life rafts. Meanwhile,, a U. S. Navy spokesman at Yokosuka announ ced that the 12 searching ves sels from three nations had seen nothing during the day but are to continue the hunt throughout the night. Capt. Raymond A. Day of Gilman, 111., said that the search planes could have gone right over the fliers and missed them. Very Rough Seas "The seas are very rough," Day said, "and the rafts could have been at the bottom of a swell or a wave might have broken over them when we flew over. A weak and , garbled voice broadcasting on a distress chan nel was picked up in late after noon. Two other "Mayday" signals were heard during the day. Pick high tuition. Payment for home instruction of a handicapped child and social security cover age for the board's clerical help were also granted. Vote Canvassed The rural school board, meet ing in the afternoon, canvassed elections from Zones 2 and 5. The incumbent and sole candi date, Lyle VanScoy, received 162 votes for a three-year term representing Eagle Point, Pros pect, and Butte Falls districts. Jeannette Grove, Phoenix, also the incumbent . and only candi date filing, received 120 votes to serve another term from Pine hurst, Phoenix, and Talent dis tricts. Glen W. Smith was unani mously chosen chairman, Lyle VanScoy vice-chairman, and Alf B. Mekvold, county superinten dent of schools, secretary of the board for the next yeas. Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy through Friday.' Mild tem peratures. Low 'tonight 45. High Friday 75. Toms. Highest Yesterday ,. fS Lowest this Morning . mum Sharp Increase in Rates Advocated In Hoover Studies Says States Should Take Over Projects Details of how the recom mendations of the Hoover commission would affect Northwest hydroelectric de velopments appear ia a story by A. Robert Smith on Pago 1 of Section 2 of today's issue of The Mail Tribune. Washington u.R The Hoover Commission urged today that the government jack up sharply the prices it charges for taxpayer-subsidized federal now er. In a controversy - loaded re port to Congress on the explo sive public power issue the com mission also proposed that: 1. New government steam generating plants be banned. : 2. A special board be created to chart future federal water re sources policy. 3. Private utilities be permit ted to buy a "fair share" of pub lic power. 4. The Tennessee Valley Auth ority and similar projects be re quired to issue public securities to finance any future expan sion. On the price issue, the com mission declared that the gov ernment has been selling electri city for only about 60 per cent of what it's worth. States Could Take Over The commission said it would be desirable for .the states to take over federal projects in the great power regions. But though it : discussed" 'how it might be" done, the commission said it wag making no recommendations on this wore. The report, sure to touch off a storm in congress, said the en tire water resources program' needs overhauling. It said the present program evolved hap hazardly during a' century of changing needs- and is riddled with "competition, duplication, and waste." . " Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr., and Defense Mobilizer Ar thur S. Flemming filed partial dissents. They , voiced concern that the proposals would "im pede the government in exer cising its proper role" in water resources development. Another member, James. A.' Farley, said it- came "danger ously close to inviting an abdi cation by the federal govern ment of its responsibilities" in the water resources field. 15 Suggestions Made In all, the commission made 15 recommendations. Other ma jor proposals entailed relaxa tion of the 160-acre limit on western reclamation holdings, transfer of upstream flood con trol dams to the Army Corps of Engineers, and a special tax on commercial boats usinff-th in. land waterways. In addition to T VA, the recom mendations would drasticallv af fect the future of such big hy droelectric projects as Columbia River Basin. Central Vaiiv Hoover Dam, Missouri River Ba sin, and the Southeastern and . Southwestern Power Adminis trations. ..I".' The commission said a "desir able alternative" to its proposals would be for the states in the seven major federal power re gions to set up authorities to take over the federal projects. Would Pay Interest The commission also said federal power projects should be forced to pay interest on the government's investment plus payments on the principal. They also should pay state and local taxes and an amount equal "to the federal taxes paid by pri vate utilities," it said. While the commission did not say how much this would raise public power rates, informed sources said such a formula might involve an increase of up to 50 per cent in TV A rates and 30 to 40 per cent for other fede ral power projects.. . MOettiiGii Rom (U.R) Premier-designate Antonio Segni tonight asked and received two more days to decide whether he can form new government. . row
