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if. Subscribers Yeather To report Improper or noo-Jelr-ery of too Kail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 pjn. dally and 10:30 sun. Sunday If regular delivery arrfeea ahort 17 after you call pleas notify of- FORECAST: Partly etoney may-' day moraine beeenUnc nsest ly clear in after neon. Fair Sunday night and Monday; ' rising dayttnie trmaerataree; high Sunday T2: low Innday nlfht 42; niffc Monday T8. Highest .Yesterday . ...."Hz Lowest Yesterday Morning.. H PFORB mc uua eiiminatm special eoeer eervie. i United Presa ruil Uused Wirt 50th Year 20 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, J' Me -Sy . O . .. United Press Full Leased Wka t Price 5c No. 89 if- 1 iirifelni Proposal 10: E Okayed London U.R) Prime Min ister Anthony Eden Saturday approved British plans for a three-point "package" cold war settlement to be proposed in the high-stake negotiations with the Russians at Geneva. Informed sources said the three-point plan provides for German unification, linked with PAUL K. BOWSER On Antarctic Expedition Medford Youth in Group Scheduled For Antarctic Trip ni tar I x ; :. -. .- : :- . -.. :v I ' ' i t and Mr.-Kerrrreth BWRellrdtitet U box 68, Central Point, Has been accepted as a member of the unit which will accompany Adm. Richard E. Byrd on his forthcoming expedition to the Antarctic, it was disclosed nere last- week. ' nnwVpr who observed his 1 1 " 20th birthday June 29, volun- ; I teered to Join the group. He has been in the Navy air service ; since August, 1953, when he en- ij ' ' listed. ; ' S Bowker is a Naw airman in '! radar electronics. He attended - Crater High school, i Ta Receive Instruction . Airman Bowker left Med ford bv nlane June 25 after, vis- He returned to his station- at Patuxeot River Navy air .sta tion, Md., near Washington, D. C. There he will receive logis- j.. tical instruction preparatory xor the expedition." The unit first will go in Aug ust to Greenland for prelimin- arv training and in November the expedition proper will move to the Antarctic. Airman Bowker received bas ic training at San Diego, Calif., and he also has been based at Norman, Okla., Memphis, Tenn. and Chincoteague, Va. NO PAPER MONDAY In order to permit Its employees to enjoy the Independence Day holiday. The Mail Tribune will not publish Monday. tyystery of Burrowing Garden Hose Poses Weird Problem; Continues To Disappear Downey, Calif. (U.R) An . amateur prospector tried with a Geiger Counter Saturday to solve the mystery of the dis appearing garden hose which has stumped geologists by burrowing 17 feet straight down into the earth in a Downey front yard. Construction electrician . Glenn Saunders of -nearby Azusa took his scintillator to . the home of Truckdriver 'George Di Peso, poked it into a two-foot diameter hole dug in lawn -where the hose is dis appearing and immediately, ,got a reading. However, his belief that ; gome unknown metal of radio- activity might have caused the -apparent phenomenon proved "unfounded. Saunders sadly re ported the reading "was just ithat of the brass nozzle on the tend of the plastic hose." Di Peso reported the hose 'is going down in the earth at about the rate of "an inch an . hour." . ' tid Gold- -War IrEden arrangement for disarmament by phases and Locarno-type guarantees against aggression on Germany or Russia. To Leave Today Eden discussed final ar rangements with Foreign Sec retary Harold MacMillan in his country residence at Chequers before MacMillan's departure to day for the Council of Europe session in Strasbourg. Informed sources said the British blueprint centers around German re-unification as the first and most essential step to ward ending the cold war. , Failing this, it envisions a limited disarmament settle ment with the Russians, - the sources said. The British proposals will be concerted with American and French plans by a Big Three coordinating experts group in Paris next week. To Study Master Plan Foreign ministers of the Un ited States, Britain and France will put their final seal to the master plan in Paris July 15 just before the Geneva summit parley three days later, offic ials said. On July 16. they will inform NATO members at the council of ministers .meeting in Paris of their over-all plan for, the talks with Soviet Premier Nik olai Bulganin and Foreign Min ister V. M. Molotov. Y On July 17, President Eis enhower, Eden and French Pre mier Faure were expected to go over their joint plans at a Gen eva informal meeting' on the eve of the start of the summit talks. . , .High, atiniftmMir-wfflriTf --em-) pbasized today there can be no effective security arrangement so long as the German problem remains unsolved. Utile Girl Astride Pony Carried Mile By Roaring Twister . : Bowdle. S.D (U.P.) Nine-year-old Sharon Weron said Saturday she thought she ,'was dead" as she was being whirled a mile through the air astride her pony when a tornado struck near her home Friday. The twister, struck south west and North of Bowdle. causing extensive crop and building damage. . .. Sharon was riding her pony home from a visit at the . Frank Grismer home six miles away. Her mother, Mrs. Joe Weron, and three other chil dren returned home in the car. Mrs. Weron said she had Just put the car in the garage when the storm struck. Sharon was still about 100 yards down the road. Mrs. Weron said the winds picked up Sharon and the pony, swirled them through the air about six feet off the ground, and dropped them on a high hill about a mile away. The mother hopped into the car and followed. She said she could see Sharon only by .the child's blue blouse and that the gray pony looked like a "roil of barbed wire." 'And every once in a while the hose shakes like something is tugging on the other end," Di Peso said. "It's real weird." He is reluctant to permit drilling or digging to discover what is causing the hose to dis appear because "it would ruin my lawn." The hose, of the ordinary half-inch plastic garden va riety, began its strange descent into the ground two days ago at the Di Peso's home. . Stuck in Ground Mrs. Ruth Di Peso said her 12-year-old daughter, Suzanne, was sent- into the front yard of the modest suburban home to sprinkle the lawn, but came rushing back inside the house shouting, "Momrnie, I can't sprinkle ... the hose is stuck in the ground." v Mrs. Di Peso went outside and tried to pull the hose out of the ground, but without suc cess. . Neighbors also tried the feat to no avail. Di Peso tied Holiday Traffic Death Toll Mounts At Record Pace Total Far Ahead Of 1954 Record Chicago (U.F9 Traffie deaths mounted at a record pact Satur day night as a searing heat wave, broken by tornadoes in some Salem (U.R) Five per sons were killed in the open ing hours of the long Inde pendence day weekend in Ore gon. Four of them died in traffic mishaps and the fifth in a house fire at Bend. areas, lured millions of holiday motorists to the nation's high ways. s , A United Press count 30 hours after the hpliday began at 6 p.m. Friday showed 112 traffic deaths, 24 drownings, two dead in plane crashes, .36 miscellaneous mis haps for a total of 174. Far Ahead of 1954 - The National Safety Council which predicted 380 deaths, said the toll was running far ahead of last year when only 100 deaths had been reported early Sun day. A total of 324 persons were killed on the highways last year and a record 356 for a three-day July 4th holiday in 1952. . Temperatures in the 90s or higher smothered the eastern two-thirds of the nation, boost ing the number of ' cars on the road. i But a string of tornadoes, or the, same funnel bumping along the ground, slammed into the Walcott, N. D., area.. One person was killed, -nine injured and two were reported missing.. Two others were re ported trapped in a farm home six miles south of Walcott. -Contact Established Communications lines were torn down but contact established . me neaviest damage wasn l done by nature, however, but by man behind the wheel of his auto. Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Safety Council, expressed "alarm" at the rising death toll and urged "every driver, to re double bis alertness." Rising Daytime Temperature Seen Rising daytime temperatures are in prospect for the Rogue Valley today and tomorrow, af ter new records were establish ed at the Medford weather1 bur eau station here Friday and Sat urday.; ' Friday's . high temperature of 67 was the lowest July 1 max imum recorded in the 44-year history of record keeping at the local station, and yesterday's high of 62 also established a new record. Previous low maxi mums on those dates were 70 in 1913 and 1916, and 67 in 1916, July 1 and 2, respectively. , The forecast calls for rising temperatures with a maximum near 72 today and near 78 Mon day under fair skies. State police reported yester day that snow fell at Crater Lake, and the road to the north rim was impassable without chains. It was - snowing there Saturday noon, they said. of the hose to the bumper of his car, put the auto in low gear and pulled away. The result: the hose broke about five feet from the bumper and another 18 inches disappeared into the ground. Pino Starts to Bend Di Peso looped the end of the hose around a steel faucet and drew it tight Thenext morning the hose was still being sucked into the ground and the steel pipe was starting to bend. .- Saunders said he doubted that the disappearing hose was the work of a strong-toothed gopher because "the hose is not sinking into a hole but seems to be digging its way down into the earth." Representatives of the Downey Water Co. inspected the hose and confessed they also were stumped. They said there had been no oil wells or sump holes in the area prior to the building of the Di Peso TO Residents of Two Areas Will Ballot On Joining Medford Four Polling Places Open From 1 to 8 p.m. Registered voters in four nre- cincts adjacent to Medford will vote Tuesday in two annexation elections. One election will be held in that section of Laurelhurst addi tion which is not now within the city. The other will be held in an area east, south and west of Medford, comprising more than 3,000 acres. In Laurelhurst Polling place in the Laurel hurst addition is at the home of Ray T. Osborn, 1001 Stevens st. The boundary for Laurel hurst annexation extends from the present city limits on Crater Lake ave., north to a point 150 feet north of Stevens st., and east to Wabash st. 1 Residents of the area petition ed the Medford city council to be annexed, but because peti tions did not have 100 per -cent of the residents' signatures, an election was called South Medford Precincts The "South Medford" area will be divided into three pre cincts. They are . the area . east of. Bear Creek proposed to be annexed; the area between Bear Creek and South Peach st.; and the area west and northwest of South Peach st. . Polling places are: Precinct 1 at the home of Mrs. Blanche cinct 2. at the Southern Oregon Heating and Air Conditioning company, 2356 Highway 99, South; and Precinct 3 at the home of W. G. Warner Jr., 1798 Stewart ave. , . Boundaries of the proposed area ; are briefly described as follows: Boundaries Described From the east city limits, 200 feet north of Hillcrest rd., east to a point 200 feet east of Foot bill rd.; south, with two zig-zags to a point east of South Pacific highway; west'across the South ern Pacific railroad tracks; northwest to opposite Charlotte Ann st. From there the boundary ex tends westward 200 feet -south of Garfield st. and to a point 200 feet west of Thomas rd.; then north, to 200 feet north of Stewart ave.; . eastward to 200 feet west of Lozier lane; north to 200 feet north of West Main st.; and east to the present city limits. Polls Open 1 to 8 p.m. Polls in both the Laurelhurst addition and South Medford precincts will be open between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday. Annexation of South Medford was proposed by the city coun cil on the planning commission's recommendation. Both the coun cil and planning commission have been studying an extensive annexation program for about three years. Mayor Earl Miller said recent ly "The larger area was pro posed because it was believed that annexation should be undertaken -when the outside area is becoming urbanized and first needing city services and before it is extensively develop ed." City officials have pointed out that the South Medford area includes future developments of a shopping center, an armory, hospital, and numerous sub divisions in addition to construc tion of a school which is now underway. Additional Services Among additional services rendered by the city , should the area be annexed are additional fire protection service, police protection, zoning and planning, additional water services, street improvements, and sanitary im provements. ' Arguments both for and against the large annexation proposal have appeared in the Mail Tribune for the past sev eral weeks, in the news columns, in contributed articles, in the editorial columns, and in paid advertisements. The pro arguments center around the need, first, for sew age and sanitation improvements to protect the health standards of the area, and secondly around the need for additional city serv- lieag aad the plumed develoe- BW " BUDGET ElECTMS BE fecJ KE IP TUESM George Washington Plans Quiet Fourth Chicago (U.R) ' George and Martha Washington plan ned to spend a quiet July 4th here. . - The Washingtons, . together with John Hancock and James Madison, will join other Chi cagoans in celebrating the holi day. : Washington, a 30-year-old laborer, planned to - take his family to the soo while Martha, who is not related, planned to stay indoors because she "hates firecrackers." , John Hancock. 42-year-old Pizza restaurant owner, said, he would take his family on an auto trip to Ft. Recovery, O. - James Madison, 31, the only Chicago namesake to one of the founding fathers, will serve' as a disc jockey for the hoji day parade in suburban Evans ton. . - Madison is the great-great-great nephew of the nation's fourth president. Secretary Benson Cancels Decision In Ladejinsky Case Washington (U.R) Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson notified Congress Saturday he has cancelled his decision that land reform expert Wold Lade jinsky is a security risk. Benson, said in a letter to Sen Frank Carlson (R-Kan.) that he felt that his department's secur ity -dectoitmefr r- Ladejhwky "should not continue to be per manently effective." Therefore, -he said, "I have given instructions that the mem orandum record of the decision and the press release of Dec. 22, which announced it, both be can celled so that our records will not now show Mr. Ladejinsky as a security risk." The original decision had re sulted in Ladejinsky's removal as U. S. agriculture attache in Tokyo even though the State department had given him se curity, clearance before that. Afterwards, Ladejinsky was cleared for assignment in Viet Nam with the Foreign Opera tions administration. - Benson stirred a furor last winter by discharging the Russian-born land expert as a secur ity risk. Critics of the admini stration personnel security program cited the case as an example of conflicting policies and practices among government agencies. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), Bensons's leading Congressional critic in the case, said of Benson's latest move In other words he's saying Ladejinsky is not a security risk. This is a welcomed reversal and apology. i " v "It is very refreshing that de partments of . government . are now seeing eye to eye." Senator Johnson Has Heart Attack Washington (U.R) Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex) suffered a "moderately severe" heart attack Saturday and will be out of the Senate for the rest of the session. The Senate majority leader was visiting friends in Virginia when the heart attack occurred. He was taken to Bethasda Medi cal Center where the medical staff reported: "Senator Johnson has had a moderately severe heart attack. His condition at present is con sidered serious. He will be con fined to the hospital for an un known period of time." - The hospital staff and Sena tor Johnson himself s a i d he would not be back in the Senate for the rest of the session. ment of a rapidly growing area. The con arguments have been mostly on the basis of higher taxes, the feeling that the an nexation proposal was not thoroughly enough thought out and may cause hardship to some of the residents, and that resi dents of the area were not suf ficiently consulted - before the more was City Voten Med To Approve $66,510 Over 6 Limitation Balloting by Wards Planned 1 to 8 p.m. Medford residents ' Tuesday will vote on two proposals con nected with the city's 1955-56 general fund budget of $625,202. The proposals, both, included in the same ballot question, are: 1. Shall the city be authorized, for one year only, to adopt a general fund budget which is $66,510 in excess of the 6 per cent limitation on increases? .2. Shall the city charter be amended to increase the limit on taxes for general fund pur poses from 12 to 15 mills? Voting in Four Wards Polls will be open from 1 to 8 p.m. in the four city wards.: Registered voters in Ward I will vote at the city hall, corner of Central ave. and Fifth st.;ward n residents vote at Medford High school, South Oakdale ave.; Ward III residents vote at Med ford Junior High school, corner of North Oakdale ave. and West Second St.; and Ward IV resi dents vote at the Boy Scout building on the south side of Hawthorne park. (Ward I is that area north of Main st. and east of Southern Pacific Railroad tracks; Ward II is the area south of - Main st. and west of the tracks; Ward III is north of Main st. and west of the tracks; and Ward IV is the Larea south of-Main st. and. east of -the tracks.) ' Additions Made The general " fund budget of $625,202 includes additions to taling $34,760 over the prelimin ary budget submitted by City Manager Robert Duff. The ad ditions were made , by the Citi zens' Budget committee after several weeks of studyl. . The budget calls for a ' tax levy of $290,276, or $66,510 over the' 6 per cent limitation. The preliminary budget was "prepared on the basis of contin uing the minimum services now being, provided. Provision for maintaining adequate service commensurate with the growth of the city and services request ed by its citizens have neces sarily been deleted," Duff, said in presenting it to the commit tee. " Duff noted that revenue for the city is relatively static, while expenses continue to in crease. ' Funds Said Needed The committee, in . making additions, pointed out that ad ditional funds are necessary to "continue presently existing services for the people of the city of Medford, and-in order to develop programs deemed necessary -for the progress of the city." v General fund expenditures as approved by the Citizens' Bud get committee include: airport $36,288; building and inspection, $17,626; city hall, $14,372; en gineers $53,402; finance depart ment, recorder, $18,887, and treasurer, $11,295; transfer to fire department, $64,164; gen eral administration, administra tor, $21,533, and non-departmental, $62,809; legal, $10,581;mayor and council, . $2,400; transfer to park and swimming pool, $7,610; planning commission, $7,500; police, $159,885; sewer , depart ment, ' $58,594; sewage - treat ment, $32,508; traffic engineer ing, $35,748; and emergency fund, $10,000. - ; Revenue 'Estimated Estimated revenue for fiscal year starting July 1 totals $328, 597, with an estimated balance in the general fund of ,$23,729, leaving a total of $290,276 to be levied. ' The budget additions totaling $34,760, include the following: Airport improvements, includ ing Medford's participation with Civil Aeronautics administration police department facilities, $2,- 000; engineering department for extra: work on current improve ment projects, $2,000; fire de partment, including a new auto matic reporting switchboard, $3,300; general administration expenses including - mosquito control and a city managers sal- qr Mite, $2,W0; planning eoav Ksr?' v i 1 fi5v-.' 'Pip5 JUST A FRIENDLY VISIT Burmese Prime Minister U Nu calls on Agriculture Secy. Ezra Taft Benson in his Wash ington office for what he described as a "friendly" visit. The prime minister walked away from a scheduled meet ing at the Agriculture Department because Benson was five minutes fete in receiving him. Here Secretary Benson shows the ininister photographs of the Benson family.. (President Moscow U.R) President Eisenhower drew unprecedent ed support Saturday from Prav- da, the official Communist party newspaper. , Pravda editorially praised Mr. Government Plans . No Immediate Vaccine Release Washington (U.R) The government said Saturday it does not expect tD announce the release of any additional Salk polio vaccine immediately. This dashed, hopes that several million shots would be cleared by the government's polio vac cine committee which met here yesterday and today.. ; No Explanation The National Institutes of Health, an arm of the Public Health Service, gave no explana tion for the new delay. The pro gram already is limping badly for lack of vaccine. ' It said merely that "no pub lic announcement concerning the release of vaccine is antici pated as an immediate outcome of this meeting." A spokesman also declined to predict how soon a statement might be expected. Dr. G. Foard McGuinnis, vac cine director for the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis, said he had no explanation for the announcement. Last Release June 6- The goverment hasn't releas ed any vaccine since June 6 when it approved 1,039,000 shots by Eli Lilly .Co. Insiders said well over 3,000,000 doses were before the, vaccine committee for approval.' mission for cooperative w or k with Jackson county, $5,500; in stallation of, traffic lights, $2, 000; radar equipment, cost shared between traffic and po lice, $1,200; payment for informa tion from-Secretary of States office, $380; sending police offi cer to FBI school, $1,200; codifi cation and modernization ; of ordinances in cooperation with the League of Oregon Cities, $3,000; and starting a life in surance plan for city employees, $1,200. Would Be Eliminated If the levy is defeated these totals will be eliminated from the budget.- If the $66,510 over the 6 per cent limitation is approved, the amendment to the city charter is necessary to raise the limitation from 12 mills to 15 nulls. Under the present charter, which- was 'adopted more than 40 years ago. the levy cannot exceed 12 miUa. (Pranse from 7." ' I ' - - ' . - Ceceoves 01 Eisenhower for his news ooa- Tnrsnnei roTarnawin saisrr wnsanreasaah day on changing the cold war into a battle for peace. At the same time a group of American Quakers - disclosed they had interested acting Sov iet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko in their own plan for world peace. ' 'Pravda's praise or the Ameri can chief executive was an over shadowing development in the Kremlin's "peace offensive" and It followed a remarkable end unusual display of objectivity by Soviet newspapers in hand, line the nresident'a newn con ference statements. All leading newspapers car-, ried more than a full column of excerpts from Mr., Eisenhower's remarks, without comment or even the usual "allegeds." . . They even included' sues statements . as . those about . the ( 1-1111 If J A.I 1 , MKU1KO ' U1U IUVU ISU 1U freedom, as well as the remark abqut the "riddle" of who acta ally runs the Soviet Union. First Time It was trie tint time such statements have been published in Soviet newspapers. This factual presentation was followed by the Pravda editor ial Saturday, which praised Mr. Eisenhower for his aim of con verting the cold- war into a bat tle for peace, his desire to "di rect problems into new chan nels," and his hope of using "peaceful, not provocative meth ods." Moar M. Wendel A, Dies at Fish Lake Moar M. Wendel, 69, 411 Ar cadia st., Medford, died sudden ly of a' heart attack shortly be- ' tore 6 n.m. Saturday at Fish lake. He had had heart trouble previously.' ; . Mr. Wendel, with his son Ray J-,, wenaie, wno is visrnng nere, . and his son-in-law, Clarence Her shiser, 1255 Sweet rd.. Medford,' was assisting in loading a boat into a oickun truck nreoerins! to return to Medford after fish-J EMflettiiGa Several people were injured at about 10 p.m. Saturday la a three-car accident oa High way 99 just south of the Med ford city, limits. Taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Med ford ambulance service were Vernon Dean. . 17, Athlandt John Lee Keeser, II, of 1103 West 10th sU and Gwendolyn Davis.' 14. of rout 2, box 175A, Central Point All re ceived heed injuries of undo
