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Medford Irrigation District Meetings On Vote Scheduled A series of three meetings, to acquaint water-users of the Med ford Irrigation district of the issues in the Julv 15 election. will be held next week, it was announced today by Jack mou buhr. manager of the district. The election will be held to authorize the district to enter into a renavment contract with the federal government for re habilitation work planned on the canal system 01 tne aistrici. Funds to start the work are in a hill now before congress, and bids on the first phases of the work have already been re ceived. The meetings will all be held at 8 p.m. and are; . For Precinct 1, including all the district north of Barnett rd. at Roxv Ann Grange. July 6: . For Precinct 2, all area in the district south of Barnett rd. and east of Kings highway, at Phoe nix Grade school gymnasium and For Precinct 3, all area west of Kings highway, at Oak Grove school. The board of directors of the district will attend all meetings to explain the details of the pro posal and to answer any ques tions district voters may nave on the proposal. Plywood Workers Walk Off Job at Mill in Eureka Eureka U.R) Workers at the M &' M Plywood Co., plant here walked off the job at mid night when their contract ex pired and they demanded its simple renewal "with no higher wages or fringe benefits oi any kind." The plant employs 404 work ers. The walkout started when 90 men of the night shift refused to go on working without a contract The strike came as a surprise since it has been the custom for years in Humboldt County for all sawmills to close down the week end of July 4th for a 10- day vacation period during which only skeleton crews are maintained. Negotiations were being held today between the company and the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, Local 2931. v ,. Joseph Stockwell, union busi ness agent, said the strike did not involve wages. - "We are only asking for the old contract to be renewed," he said. "No higher wages, no fringe benefits of any kind. The men simply will not work with out a contract." Portland Haircut Prices Increased Portland (U.R) The price of haircuts goes , up "two-bits" in Portland today. The new price will be $1.50, because of a new agreement be tween barbershop owners and AFL barbers'. CIO shops also will raise their prices to S1.50. Charles T. Crane, AFL bar bers union secretary, said Port land was the last large city on the Pacific Coast to keep the price of haircuts at $1.25 for such a long time. Children's haircuts will cost $1.50 on Saturdays only. REFUSING to give details An gela Clarke, character actress,' admits to Bouse probers in Los Angeles she once was member of Communist partyInternational) Final Witnesses Called in Hearing On Red Activities Los Angeles (U.R) The House Un-A merican Activities Sub committee today called the last witnesses in its week-long probe of Communism in the Los An geles area. The subcommittee, after ques tioning "unfriendly" . witnesses during the first three days of its investigation, yesterday heard extensive testimony from a police officer who served as an under-cover member of the Com munist party for 11 years. Reported To Folic The witness, William Kimple, said that during his membership from 1928 to 1939 he had access to secret membership lists, and had made reports on them at that time to the Police Department. He named six persons as card carrying Communists. Three of the six. Max Apple- man, Max Natapoff, and Mrs. Tassia Freed, were called to the stand following Kimple's testi mony and pleaded the First and Fifth Amendments in refusing to answer questions on their affil iation with the Communist party. The three others, Ann Pollock, James Burford and Frank Davis, were called for today's session. Kimple testified the Commun ist party did its best to gain con trol of youth organizations, and formed the Young Pioneers to combat the influence of the Boy and Girl scouts. In Hollywoqd, he said, the party was virtually organized for battle, being split up into street units for possible use in event of a revolutionary upheaval. Clashes With. Chairman Another witness was William B. Elconin, an organizer for the United Electrical, Radio and Ma chine Workers of America. He clashed with subcommittee chair man( Rep. Doyle (D-Calif.) re peatedly and at one point told the committee the best thing it could do was "to pack up and go home." Asked is he was a Communist, Elconin said he had taken a Taft Hartley oath'as a union official. He refused to tell the committee whether he was a Communist daring World War II, declaring a Supreme Court ruling backed up his stand. Hoover Ends Mwgw Roy Smith Chairman Of Tax Commission . Salem 0J.PJ Ray Smith yes terday was elected to be chair man of the Oregon State Tax Commission for the next year. Smith .has been a member for about six years. Carl Chambers was elected secretary. rnorw'hd... (DommDSSDoni Studies By NEIL MacNEIL United Press Correspondent Washington U.RJ Former President Herbert Hoover today closed out anbther careerrgov ernment reorganizer and stood ready ,at 80, for new calls to duty from his country. The elder statesman stepped down from his post as chairman of the Commission on Organiza tion of the Executive Branch of the Government, generally known as "The Hoover Com mission." But Mr. Hoover had no . in tention of counting himself out for further service to the gov ernment. Can't Retire "I can't retire," he told a fare well news conference Thursday. "Any man who is physically able has no right to refuse serv ice to his government in times of crisis as this country is now in." . . Mr. Hoover pronounced the words solemnly. In the course of four decades, he had been called to serve many times. He never refused. In 1914, he was chairman of the American Relief Committee which helped Americans stranded in Europe get home. In 1915, he took over the Belgian relief program and fed that starving people. In 1917. he became U.S. food adminis trator. Four years later, he was made secretary of commerce and served under Presidents Hard ing and Coolidge, quitting in 1929 to become president him self. In 1946, President Truman called him back to service as coordinator of the European food program and again in 1947 to feed Allied-occupied Germany. In 1948, again at President Truman's call, Mr. Hoover un dertook the mammoth task of over hauling the executive branch of the government. The recommendations of the first Hoover commission on reorgani zation were estimated to save $4,000,000,000 a year. In 1953, another reorganizar t-ion commission was created and President Eisenhower called on Mr. Hoover to head it. At his news conference, Mr. Hoover said the recommenda tions of the second commission if carried out would wipe out this year's S3,500,000,000 de ficit and save enough to allow perhaps a $2,000,000,000 cut in taxes. Business Machine Men Select New President Denver (U.R) David C. Sil vers, president of American Business Machines, Inc., of New York, took over today as presi dent of the National Office Ma chine Dealers Association. Silvers was elected to the of fice at the close of the associa tion's 30th annual convention here Thursday. Delegates to the meeting chose Houston, Tex., as the site for their 1956 conven tion on July 8-11. Graham Sees Religion As Force To End War Rotterdam, Holland (U.R) American evangelist Billy Gra ham today proposed religion as the "third force" that could pre vent war and said he will pray for world peace on the eve of the Big Four summit talks in Geneva. Graham is scheduled to con duct a crusade meeting in Ge neva on the eve of the July 18 conference of the chiefs of state of the United States, France, Great Britain and Soviet Russia. Human Cell Use for Vaccine Possible Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Three University of California scien tists have disclosed that polio viruses for the Salk vaccine can noyip be propagated in large numbers in healthy, human body cells. - the scientists, Elga M. Zitcer, Jorgen Fogh ;and Thelma H. Dunneback, reported the new process in "Scieiice," official publication of the American A.sr sociation for the Advancement of Science i Kidney cells of monkeys now are used to propagate the vir uses. By substituting human body cells a possible harmful "side effect" of the Salk vaccine would be eliminated and it would be cheaper and easier to make. Instead of using monkey cells, the scientists reported that they have successfully grown polio viruses on the tissue cultures taken from the afterbirth of the human infant. ' Friday. July 1. 1955 MEDFORD. (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Army Jang DEneers EBacCt Lower Me. Bay Mm fair (DoOmnnmlboa Portland U.R) Army engi neers said today .they have rec ommended modification of the authorized plan 'for John Day dam on the Columbia river to provide for a lower dam. The report, prepared by the Portland district engineer, rec ommends a lower dam with a maximum pool level of about 265 feet elevation rather than an elevation of 292 feet. Col. L. H. Foote, North Pacific Division engineer, said he concurred in the plan. Hearing Held on 1953 Col. Foote said the report was pursuant to a resolution adopted in 1953 by the Senate . Public Works Committee regarding ad- Guard Jet Planes Infer Trophy Race v Ontario, Calif .(U.R) Twenty- two jet fighters representing Air National Guard units and wings in 21 states compete tomorrow in the second annual Ricks Me morial Trophy race from here to Wayne Major Airport in Rom ulus, Mich. ... Distance of the race is 1945 miles. Last year's winner. Lt. Charles J. Young Jr., of New Jersey, who flew the distance in 3 hours. 37 : minutes and 13 seconds is among the entrants scheduled to take off at 7 a.m. PST tomorrow.. visability of modifying the plan for John -Day dam near Arling ton, Ore., as authorized by the 1950 flood control act A public hearing was held in Arlington on Sept. 23, 1953. The authorized plan provides for a dam including use of two million acre-feet of storage space between normal pool elevation 255 and elevation 292 feet, mean sea level, for flood control. The modified plan would provide for a normal operating pool level of about 262 feet, but not to exceed 265 feet. About 500,000 acre-feet of storage would be obtained be low elevation 265 feet in the in terest of power generation arid flood control. Report Submitted ' The report has been submitted to the chief of Army engineers and to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors. If ap proved, the report will go to the Secretary of the Army and fi nally to Congress. Col. Foote said interested par ties may present their views on the report to the Board of En gineers for Rivers and Harbors in Washington, D.C., either orally or in writing, prior to July 29, 1955. Dates should be arranged in advance of that date for oral hearings before the board, he said. 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Hotpoint designers, engineers and craftsmen have, through the years, continued to build better products to free homemakers from slow, ted ious drugery . . . to provide added hours of free time . . . to make those tasks that are necessary easier and pleasanter. Hotpoint was FIRST to extend scientific kitchen planning guidance, FIRST to build an all-white range, FIRST to stage a cooking school . . . FIRST in many ether fields. And because HOTPOINT is FIRST, 5,000,000 Hotpoint electric ranges and 2,000,000 Hotpoint electric water heaters have been sold to American homemakers 15,000,000 major appli ances designed and engineered to make American housework easier and the home a better place to live! 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