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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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