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.
The Following
WILL CLOSE
Saturday Noon, July 2
Thru Monday, July 4
o Medford Flower Shop
o 'Leonard's Flowers
o Ginn's Flowers
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"good old days" when one of the tedious tasks of
the American Homemaker was made easier with the
introduction of a new kind of iron . . . the "iron
with the hot point." The fame of this new development
spread, and the organization known today as Hotpoint
had taken its first step on the road to success and
leadership.
.
The "hot point" of that iron became a cornerstone and
a symbol for QUALITY and the spirit of pioneering
embodied in it are inherent in every appliance bearing
the Hotpoint name today.
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
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