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4-H Community Faj rs Scheduled; First Is Shady Cove Saturday Thmctr. Mr t; itss wzdford (OREGom mail txxbtjxs irant The first in a series of six community fairs to be held be fore the annual county 4-H and FFA lair in August is scheduled for Saturday at the Edward Houston residents at Shady Cove. Taking part will be members of all 4-H clubs in the Upper Rogue area The Upper Rogue community fair is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. The program will include home economics exhibits, live stock judging, and showman ship. Purpose of the community fairs is to give youngsters prac tice in judging and showman ship. Other community fairs are scheduled at Bellview-Val FBI Use in Probe Of Dixon-Yates Dispute Rapped ' Washington (U.R) Demo crats in Congress today de nounced as "a police state Ges tapo act ... an outrage . . . utter ly ridiculous . . . terrible" the usetof the FBI to investigate the intentions of Memphis officials m the Dixon-Yates controversy. Senate Democrats demanded a full explanation from Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr., as to why he directed the top federal crim inal law enforcement agency to find out whether Memphis of ficials really intend to build a municipal steam power plant. To Request Appearance Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) said he will ask Brownell to ap pear soon before a Senate Spe cial monopoly subcommittee for questioning about "the author ity, justification and wisdom of using the FBI to investigate the intentions" of Memphis officials. The Memphis plant, in effect, would be a substitute for the pri vate Dixon -Yates installation now being built at West Mem phis, Ark, to furnish power to the Tennessee Valley Authority. This electricity would replace power supplied the Atomic Ener gy Commission elsewhere. Would Cancel Contract President Eisenhower told a news conference yesterday he would be willing to cancel the controversial Dixon-Yates con tract if -it is -certain that 4 Mem phis will build its own plant. TV A would not need replace ment power if Memphis stopped being a customer. Princess Margaret Sees Crash of Supersonic Jet Farnborough, England U.R) One of Britain's supersonic hawker Hunter -jet fighters crashed on takeoff today in full view of Princess Margaret, who was visiting Farnborough to see a display of Britain's newest and fastest aircraft. . ' . ley View, Central Point, Gold Hill, Antelope, and Applegate. Plans for the home economics phase of the county 4-H and FFA fair, scheduled for Aug. 17 through 20 at the county fair grounds, were made yesterday at a. meeting of the county fair home economics committee. Under the program set up by the committee, home economics exhibits will be due at the fair grounds on Sunday, Aug. 14, with judging scheduled for Monday, Aug. 15. Style review judging will start at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 16, and will last until noon. Also scheduled for ' Tuesday are a clothing judging contest, -to start at 10 a.m., and foods judg ing, starting at 1 p.m. The fair will be open to the public Wednesday through Sat urday. Special contests and demonstrations will be held each day starting at 1 p.m. The style review and special awards pro gram will be held Saturday night. . Members of the county fair home economics committee are Mrs. Dorothy Mallory, Ante lope, chairman; Mrs. Adah Jones, Gold Hill; Mrs. Maxine Chapman, Valley View; Mrs. Edward Johnston, Ashland, and Mrs. Fred Farlow, Eagle Point. Ashland Council Will Study Rates Ashland A special meeting of the city council will be held July 12 to receive a report by a' council committee on electric rate changes. Rate increases for the city operated electrical system went into effect last month. The old rate system provided for "140 different rates" in the business district, according to City Super intendent Elmer Biegel. When it was revised, it was found that some users were paying up to 100 per cent more than they had previously, although, the in crease was 'designed to range from 5 to IVz per cent for resi dential users, and 15 to YlVz per cent for commercial users. Protests to the rate increase were made at a council meeting this .week, and the electrical committee of -the council, with B. A. Cope as chairman, will conduct a study and report next week. - Russia Object s To Iron Radio Program Tehran, Iran (U.R) Russia objected officially today to a radio program which depicted life in an unspecified Commun ist country. -', - 1 The Soviets, in a memorandum to the foreign ministry, claimed the program was propaganda and that certain Iranian officials were trying to muddle Iranian Soviet relations at a time when Russia was trying to be friendly. 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