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Mm MM fair lutein m 7 TAYLOR TAKES OVER Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (left), World War II paratroop commander and a Korean war leader, is congratulated by Army Secy. Robert Stevens (right) after he was sworn in at the Pentagon as Army chief of staff. Retiring chief of staff, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway looks on. CooD, taip Jiily4tii Week End IFossBMe; (Extra Camiiaoiii Urged A cool and possibly damp In dependence Day week end is in store for southern Oregon, the weather bureau reported this morning. The long week end, which starts this evening and continues through Monday, July 4, is. ex- Racing Commission Declines Commen) On Dog Race Plan The state racing commission has not received an application for a license for dog racing in Jackson county, the United Press reported today. A spokesman for the commis sion said the commissioners have declined to comment on an issue not formally before them. The commission, however, has written the Jackson county court that it has received a copy of the court's recommendation against dog racing, and that it would be given consideration if and when an application from racing interests in Jackson coun ty is received. Recommends Against The court earlier this week sent the commission a strongly worded letter, refusing approval for any such license, and asking the commission to refuse one If any is requested. The dog racing proposal was made earlier in June by a group of five Medford and Ashland " men, and suggested the site of the Ashland Riding association track for a dog track, with pari mutuel betting. The court con ducted a public hearing last week, at which sentiment was predominantly opposed to such a project. -V - 187,59TPeopTe Visit SinceMuseumOpened Jacksonville A total of 187, 597 people have visited the his toric Jacksonville museum since its opening on Aug. 10, 1950, ac cording to Miss Mary Hanley, curator. The museum, a Southern Ore gon landmark long before it was turned into a historical monu ment, has been visited by peo ple from every state in" the union, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, - and many foreign countries. In June the museum was vis ited by 3,156 people from 37 dif ferent states, England, Denmark, Canada, Alaska, Germany, and Hawaii, Miss Hanley said. So far - this year 14,642 people have taken the free tour. The average ms&feer $rcag" & maseant ia a year is 37,519. The museum is supported by a small county tax and is main tained by the Southern Oregon Historical Society. " Tree Assessment Meet Scheduled for Salem The Jackson county board of equalization will meet with the State Tax commission in Salem next Friday, July 8, to discuss problems in assessing orchard and shade trees. The commission recently ordered the board to assess trees and have them placed on tax rolls prior to Aug. is: : ' - !'--. - The board met Wednesday and discussed the - problem. It- ad journed until next Friday. ?S? & l- pected to attract city dwellers to the mountains and beaches, and police authorities joined to warn drivers of the hazards of holiday highway driving.. Asks Courtesy "A large part of safe driving is being courteous," Medford Po lice Chief Charles Champlin said. "People have 1 tendency to be come careless during vacations and holidays,", he added. He pointed out that last year during the three-day week end, Medford only had two minor accidents, both of them caused by ; im patience and poor courtesy. "Just because there are good highways1 to drive on doesn't mean there are good drivers on them," he added. f No celebrations in the Med ford area have' been announced for Independence day, but Ash land has scheduled a day-long program, featuring among other things a parade and a speech at 1 p.m., by Sen. Wayne Morse. Poor Wealhar Possible - Drivers leaving town may run into poor weather, particularly in the mountains, reports indi cated. The forecast is for partly cloudy weather with a few scat tered showers in the mountains. The five-day forecast is for simi lar weather, with below-normal temperatures. It was snowing steadily on the newly-reopened . north entrance to Crater Lake National park this morning, and the highway was icy, according to reports to state police. ' Most offices and stores in Med ford will be "closed up tight Monday. The Mail Tribune will not publish that day. Group May Release More Salk Vaccine . Washington U.R) The gov ernment s polio vaccine commit tee met today in a secret session that could lead to the release of several million Salk shots for immediate inoculations. Officials announced that the amount of vaccine up for deci sion is "considerable." Insiders said it actually runs "well over' 3,000,000 doses, i If approved, these shots would be the first released by the government in nearly a month. They also would pro vide a big life for the limping inoculation program of the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The government announced that the vaccine committee would meet most of today and possibly part of Saturday at the Public Health Service's National Institutes of Health. - Plans to Prevent Depletion Supplies in Area Discussed Flans to prevent depletion of timber in Jackson and, Josephine counties were discussed at a meeting of county courts and representatives' of government and private organizations con cerned with Southern Oregon forest areas this week.. -. The discussion brought out that timber cutting on privately owned lands could not continue. at its present rate too long. Pos sibilities of releasing more fed eral lands for timber cutting were discussed. - " The present allowable sus Medford United Praia fan Um4 Wire 50th Year 20 Pages Rep. Powell Asks House To Defy Ike On Service Measure Seeks Approval For Amendment By UNITED PRESS Rep. A dm. Clayton Powell (D N.V.) asked House members to defy the White House,- the Pen tagon, and their own leaders today and approve his anti-segregation amendment to the com pulsory military service bill. Powell addressed the House as it opened debate on a compro mise reserve bill replacing a pre vious measure which was stalled after members approved the New York Negro's original anti segregation amendment. Despite Powell's plea, House leaders predicted that the cham ber would pass the new bill to day with no race' clause. Segregated Guard Powell's proposed amendment would bar assignment of reser vists to National Guard units which maintain racial segrega tion. President Eisenhower had pleaded with him to drop the issue this time. He argued that it was extraneous. . Powell rejected the plea. He called on members to resist what he called "tremendous pressure" from the White House, the Pen tagon, the House leaders and to support his amendment. He said the Russians at this month's Big Four conference in Geneva "will laugh" at the President "if he comes , waving a flag of a free world when they know he is being backed up by a Jim-crow Army, whose core is a Jim-crow National Guard." Other congressional news: Public Works: The Senate Ap propriations Committee ap proved a public works bill pro viding $1,876,864,000 for the Atomic Energy Commission, Bu reau of Reclamation, and Rivers and Harbors projects. Housing: The House Rules Committee refused on a 6-6 vote to clear President Eisenhower's public housing program for floor action. Democrats on the 12 -member committee voted 6-2 for clearing the measure, but all the Republican members voted against it Bases: The Senate passed a bill to authorize expenditure of $2,357,317,300 for military bases at home and abroad. The mea sure goes to a House Senate conference committee for adjust ment of differences in the House and Senate versions. Schools: A House Labor Sub committee approved a bill to authorize federal grants of $1, 600,000,000 to states for school construction oyer the next four years. "v '. ' California Boy Polio Patient at Hospital .A four-year-old Ukiah, Calif., boy is reported as "much better" in a local hospital where he is being treated for non-paralytic poliomyelitis, Dr. A. Erin Mer kel, Jackson county health offi cer, said today. The youth appar ently contacted polio prior to coming to Jackson county to visit relatives, Dr. Merkel said. The case is the first reported in the county this year. Dr. Mer kel said the boy, who was too young to receive Salk anti-polio vaccine shots, had not been asso ciated with children who re ceived shots, as far as he could determine. " tained-yield from federal lands in the two counties is about 250,000,000 board feet per year, but some members of the 'group said they believed that at least three times that . amount was cut in the two counties last year. Replanting timber and re forestration of logged areas also was discussed. The group expressed concern that . many big mill .operators do not own timber land, and that in the future it will be almost impossible for mills to find pri vately owned or county owned MEDFORD, OREGON, COHTRACT MED -BY - IRE Eight Portuguese Pilots Killed as Jets Ram Mountain American-Built Planes In Air Force Day Show Lisbon, Portugal (U.R) The Portuguese Air Force announced today that eight American-built F84 Thunderjets of the Portu guese Air Force in two stacked waves crashed follow-the-leader fashion into a fog shrouded mountain peak. All eight pilots were kitted in the multiple crash which forced cancellation of the na tion's observance of Air Force Day. Earlier reports from the scene had said the eight'planes collided together in air during maneu vers. Later reports had been given Portugal as U.S. aid to a mem ber nation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) failed to clear a 3000-foot peak in the fog-shrouded Carvalho Mountains. A third group of four planes skimmed over the hidden moun tain top and returned safely to Ota Air Base, 30 milesxputside Ibon.;:"?'1' ITie 12 planes had taken off a short time earlier from Ota Air Base for a flying salute to the . separate Portuguese Air Force which was created three years ago, on July 1, 1952. In Three Formations The planes .were flying in three tightly grouped formations of four planes each, the Air Force said. - ; ' Portugal's President Craveiro Lopes was among' the spectators who had thronged to the Ota Air Base to see the flying dem onstration. An air force spokesman said each of the 12 jetfighters that swept into the air this morning carried one man. Judge Raps Stand By Fong Jurors Portland (U.R) Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dobson said today denunciation by 11 members of the jury of his decision to upset the first-degree murder convic tion of Wey Him and Sherry Fong "is something that should not be countenanced." The judge said he would con sult with other judges. "What should be done remains to be seen," he said. Judge Dobson Wednesday set aside the conviction of the Fongs for the slaying of 16-year-old Diane Hank and ordered a new trial Eleven members of . the jury, met at the home of one of the members and issued a state ment as an answer to Judge Dob son's criticism of their verdict. They said they were well able to consider the evidence in three hours. ' Oaxaca, Mexico . (U.R) Eighteen persons were injured Thursday when a bus struck a burro on the Pan-American Highway near here and plunged down a ravine. of Timber at Meeting timber to augment what may be purchased from federal agencies. Besides the Jackson and .Jose phine county courts, others who attended the meeting included H. C. Obye, Grants Pass, super visor of the Siskiyou National Forest; Jack Wood, Medford, supervisor of Rogue River Na tional forest; Glenn Jackson, Medford business man; Eugene K. Peterson, district forester, bu reau of land management. Med ford; and ex-Sen. Guy Cordon, who recently was retained as special counsel for 18 O and C Land Grant counties. a. FRIDAY, JUL ;v of diaOu-mt y7? J if" I LT. ALAN McANENY Dies in Crash Body of Missing Marine Pilot Found On Volcanic Island Tokyo (U.R) Japanese police today found the body of a miss' teg.;g3torjniabt';the; wreckage, of his plane on a vol canic island where he died, in the search for two. other Leather neck fliers lost at sea. ' "V The U. S. Navy said a search party of Navy men had "posi tively identified" the wreckage as that of the FJ2 ' Fury jet fighter-bomber flown by 1st Lt. Alan Murdock McAneny, 27, of Yonkers, N. Y. McAneny vanished hr the mists over smoking Mount Mi hara while flying over Oshima Island in the search for the two other missing fliers.' Residents of the island 60 miles south of lokyo led the wavy party to the scene. A Japanese tourist visiting the island spotted the plane-wreckage this morning and police in Oshima sent a search party toil ing up the steep slopes. They found the wreckage was new and the body of the pilot. still there. The widespread search over 16,000 square miles of the Pa cific went on for the other two missing fliers, Capt. Hodgen P. Montague, 26, of Jackson, Miss., and 2nd Lt. David Bell, 24, of Wayzata, Minn. Their flying buddies said "We'll never give up hope" of finding one or both of the men believed floating in a rubber life raft somewhere off the coast of Japan. The two crashed Sun day night while on a radar train ing maneuver, -i :. . 'Two-Rule Closure' In Effect in Forest The Forest Service's "two rule closures" in the forests be comes effective today, the Rogue River national forest has an nounced. At the same time, the forest office reported that, for the first time this year, campfire permits will not be required on national forest lands. Permits for debris burning are still required, how ever. The "two-rule closure" bans smoking while traveling, except on paved or surfaced highways, and requires those entering na tional forest lands to camp to have an axe, a shovel and a wa ter cbntainer. The rule does not apply to posted forest camps. Sports Bulletin Portland (U.R) PWl Catch all of Medford and , George Becchlar of Ontario grabbed the lead at the halfway mark today - of. the 36-hole semi finals of the Oregon Golf As sociation championships here. M i mm av .BUM United fnm fun Leased Wire Price 5c No. 88 Step Taken After Memphis Decision To Build Own Plant Demos Ask Congress To Reconsider Backing Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower has ordered a re survey to determine whether the Dixon-Yates contract should be continued or cancelled. The step was taken in view of the decision of the city of Mem phis, Tenn., to build its own power plant. . Democrats in Congress this morning followed up the presi dent's order by urging that Con gress reconsider any endorse ment it has given the controver sial power plant project. - The privately-financed Dixon Yates plant was to be built in Arkansas just across the Miss issippi River from Memphis, and transmit power into the government-owned Tennessee Valley Authority. The Dixon - Yates power would be used in the Memphis area, thus eliminating the need for a proposed new TV A plant. me city of Memphis, an op ponent of. the Dixon-Yates plant, has since said it would discon tinue taking power from TV A when its" present contract ex pires in June, 1958. It also said it would build its own power plant. , Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D Wyo.) predicted that in view of the President's order the Senate Appropriations Committee to day would delete from a money bill it is considering $6,500,000 requested ;- for a transmission line to link TV A with the Dixon Yates plant. ' ' Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said that "if the President can take another look at the Dixon-Yates project, certainly the Congress can and should take another look." Hopes for Cancellation Johnson said "it does not seem , to be very prudent to ap propriate funds for a project that is unwanted and unneeded." He said he hopes the President's order "is the preliminary to can cellation" ; of the- Dixon-Yates contract. ; The House already, has ap proved funds for the'TVA Dixon-Yates link-up transmission line. Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Armed Services Committee yesterday approved an appro priation of $2,042,000 for: the Klamath Falls, - Ore., - airport which will be used as an Air Force Base. ids is U Nu Walks Out on Benson; Secretary Makes Apologies Washington ' U.R) Agricul ture Secretary Ezra T. Benson hoped to make amends today for an, appointment snafu that caused Burmese Prime Minister U Nu to stalk out of the Agri culture Department Thursday. . Benson invited the Burmese official to return for an early morning conference. U Nu, in this country for a good will visit, went to Benson's office Thursday afternoon to keep an appointment with the agriculture secretary. " Waited Five Minutes But Benson ; "had someone else in his office." After waiting five minutes, Nu and his party walked out. A Benson aide hasti ly said the prime minister had been expected a' half hour earlier.--" That threw the State Depart ment officials into a diplomatic dither. One of them, obviously thinking of Burma's importance. in the struggle with Commu nism in Asia, called it "a very delicate matter." There was no nnmirtrmTlt Weather fORECAST: rmr claatr -right and Saturday. Few acat tered thewera in mountain. A little warmer Saturday. Lew tenlaht . Ufa Saturday 75. Temp. Blfhnt Yesterday Lowest tali Morulas dak AgreementReached Less Than 12 Hours After Shut Downs Steelworkers Accept U. S. Steel's Offer Pittsburgh U.R) The CIO United Steelworkers and U. S. Steel Corp. peached . a . strike endine agreement today on a wage offer averaging more than 15 cents an hour. The agreement came less than 12 hours after 6000,000 USW members shut down the nation's steel mills. -t The offer included an HVfe cent-an-hour across the board in crease, plus one-hall cent in creases on increments for 32 job classifications. The new wage scales were made effective as of today. Means Price Boost Other companies in the indus try were virtually certain to write similar agreements with the union, and the industry was sure to announce price increases on its products m a few days, U. S. Steel President Clifford Hood directed the mills of. his company, the largest steel pro ducer in the country, to begin preparations at once to get back into full. production. Hood said both sides made concessions to reach the agree ment. Steelworkers across the , na tion dosed down the mills last midnight. But the less than half- day, shoutdown cost the steel companies, who had been run ning at near capacity, millions of dollarslir lost-production. 7 Basis For Other Firms USW President David J. Mc Donald said he believed the agreement with U.S. Steel "will provide a basis for concluding mutually " satisfactory " agree ments between the USW and the basic steel companies." 1 The union opened negotiations June 7 with 06 basic steel and iron ore firms whose contract wage provisions ran out at mid night last night The . walkout idled 600,000 men, two-thirds of whom are em ployed by the six top producers having contracts with the USW. In addition to U.S. Steel, they include Bethlehem, Republic, Jones & Laughlin, Youngstown Steel & Tube, and Inland Steel. The negotiations covered wage rates only. All other pro visions in the current contracts, signed a year ago,, run until June 30, 1956 when the USW will . make the . guaranteed an nual wage a main contract is sue. . . ... Baseball AMERICAN Washington Naw York : - 10 2 MeDermott Cbakales (4)-Ramos (7), 8tobbs (8) and Fits Gerald, Edwards (5); Ford and Berra. . Home run: Carey, Mew York. of who called whom. But two hours after U Nu left the Agri culture Department, ' Benson went to Blair House, where the Burmese is staying; to apologize. But the prime i minister was not there when Benson and his wife arrived at Blair House. They cooled their heels for about 10 minutes until he return ed from a tea at .the home -of wuiiam j. sebald, deputy as sistant secretary of state - for Far Eastern affairs. . . U Nu Understanding When the Burmese leader re turned, he spent about five min utes with Benson. The secre tary explained. he had visitors when the prime minister arrived at the department and couldn't shoo them out too abruptly. , He said he -was sorry about the whole thing. U Nu said he understood how it was. At one point, a witness to the meeting reported, the two even chuckled over the affair. Mrs. Benson - said she was "glad the . incident happened. Otherwise I would not have met the premier." Morse, Meuberger Report Approval Of Bigger Amount Total Is Increase Over House Proposal Sen. Wayne Morse early this afternoon ad vised The Mail Tribune by telephone that he will be unable to keep his appointments in Medford and Ashland Monday and Tuesday. He said the full sen ate on Tuesday moraine; willconsider the appro : priation committee's re port for Oregon proj ects,, which include the Talent project "I have a terrific amount of work ahead of me oyer this weekend in preparation for this debate," Senator Morse said. "I deeply regret I will be unable to keep my engagements, but I am sure the people of Southern Oregon will agree with me that it is my clear duty to remain here and work on this matter which is so im portant to all of Ore gon." The Senate appropriations committee today voted to in clude $500,000 for start of con struction on the Talent project in an interior appropriations bill, according to word received this morning from Senators Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neuberger. - The figure represents a big increase from the $150,000 spe cified for the same purpose in the bill approved by the house. It is believed that the increased amount will make it possible for construction work to get under way in 1956. ...The senators, in a. joint .wire . to the Mail Tribune, said: ' . "We are very pleased to re port that today the Senate ap propriations committee voted to include $500,000 for Talent irri- . gation project President Eisen hower made no' fund request for Talent and the House set a limit of $150,000 for planning only. we are greatly gratified that our testimony and consultations with members of Senate appro-. priations committee have been so fruitful - "The following appropriation -recommendations also represent net gains over ; President's budget and house bill which in cluded no funds for these proj ects: : Coos Bay boat harbor. - $2de,uoo; Green Peter planning. $200,000; Deepening channel at mouth of Columbia, $750,000; Hills creek , construction, $290,- , 000 (in addition to $10,000 plan ning funds in budget and house bill); Tillamook bay and bar. . $200,000; Ice Harbor dam con struction funds,, $1,000,000. President requested funds for '' this Bin reported provides first construction funds for Cougar project. President requested $100,000 for planning only, and House provided that sum. Senate bill provides $250,000 for com pletion of planning and $250,000 for construction." Bi-Partisan Efforts - Bi-partisan efforts to obtain funds for the Talent project have been made since the budget was first introduced without any funds for the $22,000,000 recla- " mation and irrigation project in southern Jackson county. In the house the efforts were success ful in getting an initial amount of $150,000 inserted into the bill The action by the Senate committee today represents a second successful effort to bring the amount up to a point where . construction can be started next year.' ; . . In addition to Senators Neu berger ' and Morse, others who have worked for the increased,, appropriation- include Congress man Harris Ellsworth and Gov. Paul Patterson, who. has made two trips to Washington on be half of the project Gov. Patter-, son also indicated former Sen. Guy Cordon has been of assist- ance in presenting arguments to his former Senate colleagues. The appropriation bill has yet to be approved by the full Sen ate. If this happens, then confer- ' . ence committees will have to work out differences betwen the House and Senate versions, and ' the resulting bill will have to ' repass both houses before it goes to the White House -for signature. Timberline Lodse flJJJ Timberline Lodge reopened to the public today and was blessed with a new snowfall for benefit of skiers.
