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tot MroronD (oucsoh) mail thibuke Monday July 11. IMS OMnse Opartnient Chiefs Senate Committee Hears Arguments Bonus Plan Washington (U.R) The De " fens Department! top military and civilian chiefs pleaded With senators today not to pull the compulsory service provision out of President Eisenhower': military reserve bill.y Adm. Arthur W. Radford . chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, Gen. Maxwell . D. Taylor, Army chief of staff, and other leaders directed their pleas to the Senate Armed Services committee. RusmII's Plan Favored There is strong sentiment in the committee ' in favor of plan by its chairman, Sen. Rich ard B. Russell (D-Ga.) to scrap compulsory features of the ad ministration s reserve program in favor of a voluntary, system under which veterans would be offered a $400 bonus as an in centive to sign up in the ready reserves. Radford told the committee that there is no evidence from ' past experience that any volun tary system can bring enough skilled men for the reserves. If the compulsory, features are dropped" he warned, "there will have to be a complete re view and reorientation of our Against defense plans." . Argument Challenged Wilson, in a statement, said the compulsory authority "must be granted" to insure an effec tive reserve force. . Taylor, while supporting the bid for compulsory authority over reservists, challenged the mAmirimirmirr'm rtfiimnt that a well organized reserve will make possible cuts in regular Army manpower. The new chief of staff said that the Army wil- need more, not fewer, men under the re serve program because it will have, to train the -reservists. Washington Delays Interstate Olympia (U.R) The Wash ington Supreme Court has de layed, until it gets more evi dence, issuance of bonds to pay for the second interstate bridge across the Columbia river at Vancouver. After five judges of the court held, a department hearing on the proposition last, week, they decided Clark county should be made a defendant in the legal action testing the validity of the bond issue. The court called for a new hearing before the entire court sometime in September. The hearing was expected to revolve around two issues: - 1. Whether the Supreme Court can issue a ruling which could be enforced against the state of Oregon. 2. If it cannot issue an en forceable ruling, should it issue a ruling anyway.' - Until these issues are decided, bonds for the $11,000,000 new bridge, cannot be issued, nor can . a $3,000,000 remodeling job on . the existing bridge be started. ; The 1955 Washington legislature : authorized the project,- but the . state wanted the law tested be , fore construction of the new : bridge was started. Under terms of the law, Ore ' gon engineers would build the new bridge and remodel the bid structure. . Washington state would collect tolls to pay for the bond issue and cover main tenance costs. TIMBER! Boston (U.R) When the basketball teams of St. Michael's College of Vermont and Stone- hill College played their first half at Boston Garden there was much confusion. Both r teams wore white uniforms. St. Mich ael's players in the second half wore green' jerseys' lettered "Marcus Lumber Co." St. Mich ael's won, - 93-53. . . Bridge SKIM SUFFERERS QUKX PAlUATtV! tBMf fnm ITCMNG, BURNING SKM With FAST ACTING COLUSA ui ai lira . i JUDGE RESULTS! - Try COLUSA assl Mt haw ajwckfjr yatj mtf obtain aa tmot jiMt paSSati rtCef htm mmn af ftcl or ben ski. W tawfowaafcef lattas fnm ski. vMtrtnpnnk 04wk CcJasa hat MM thoau-A, fc, mStnS t.Z m a. si tioa IULUjA Umm . Tat&xs - ASK US .( CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Mate aaJ Caatral r II - s CALLING AT WHITE HOUSE, A. Z. Baker (right), Rotary International president, invites President Eisenhower to at? tend annual convention at Philadelphia in 19o6.(IUnutional) Memphis Mayor, Browned To Air Dixon-Yates Pact Washington (U.R) Mayor Frank Tobey of Memphis, Tenh., scheduled - a ' conference today with Atty. Gen. Herbert Brown ell Jr. that may settle the fate of the Dixon-Yates power con tract. President Eisenhower, who has ordered a restudy of the contro versial contract, has said he will cancel it if Memphis' can and will build its own power plant. "The meeting with the attor ney general is an attempt to get it all settled once and for all," Tobey said. Hope Held He held out hope that he and his power board chairman, Mai Thomas H. Allen who. flew here with him, will convince Wash ington officials of the practica bility of their plans. Tobey said it was possible that he - might accompany Brownell to the White House to see Presi dent Eisenhower after his confer ence with Brownell Tobey said he flew here last night at the invitation of Brig. Gen. Herbert D. Vogel, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Author ity. - Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) said that Vogel insisted in a tele gram to Tobey : that Memphis take three steps toward build ing its plant: Buy a site for the plant; award contracts for equip ment and materials, and pass a resolution to assume sole respon sibility for its power supply. Right of Dictation Sought uore said he telegraphed Vo gel asking "by what right" he or the TVA Board of Directors 'undertakes to dictate" the nur- chase and contract terms to the city. Meanwhile. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-NJU.) said the con gressional Atomic Energy Com mittee will move back into the dispute Wednesday if the power contract has not been canceled by them. Anderson is chairman of the committee. liquor Stores Sell Legal Torn Likker Creedmore. N. C. (U.R) North Carolina officials hope to put moonshiners out of business by fighting firewater with fire water. The State Alcoholic Control Board, disclosed it is not only selling "White Lightning" in its state-controlled stores, but . is doing the bootleggers one better. It is selling the legal "Corn Lik ker" at -100 proof, stronger and purer than moonshine, for $4.40 a quart, only slightly more than the illegal liquor costs. Court Records POLtCB COtJRT Bert Arthur Nson. failure to atan at red light, $5 bail. Jerry Lee Neitzel. excessive noise, $10 fine, 5 warrant. . Anion uerwicn, violation of basic rule. $10 bail. Ivan Neal Fannin excessive miu. $10 fine, $5 warrant. . The largest living starfish is the sunflower - starfish which reaches -a diameter of two feet or -more along, the North Pacific coast. mm i LOOK erf this HAND! a ax t Mi if h rP lb K1 Handcuffed Swimmer Destroys Myth of Non-Escapable Alcatraz San Francisco (U.R) A manacled museleman laid claim today to blasting the legend of "The Rock." He was Jack. LaLanne, a for mer Mr. America who swam yes- Russian Baptists Want Billy Graham To Visit Country London U.R)--Soviet church men announced today that they want American evangelist Billy Graham to visit Russia. They said they also hope for a visit by the Archbishop ot Canterbury. . The unofficial invitation to Graham to carry his "Crusade for Christ" behind the Iron Cur tain came from a delegation of Soviet churchmen now touring Britain. Graham has said repeatedly that he would carry his evan gelistic campaign into the Com munist world, if invited to do so. Formal Invitation Sean The bead of Russia's Baptists said: "it is quite possible" that a Baptist delegation en route here for this week's World Baptist Congress "will bring 'a formal invitation to Dr. Billy Graham to visit our country (Russia)." And the Metropolitan of Minsk said: "We would be happy if the head of the Anglican - Church (the Archbishop of Canterbury) himself visited our Country." ' The Rev. J. I. Zhidkov, presi dent of the All Union Council of Evangelican Christian Bap tists in Russia, said an invita tion to visit Russia definitely will be extended to a group of American Baptist leaders during the London- World Conference of Baptists, which opens Saturday- Watershed Timber Sold; Price Bid Yost Brothers and Trovillo Logging company purchased for $25,420 some 1,200,000 board feet of timber on Big Butte Springs watershed at a public auction in the city hall this morning. V ; Assistant Water Commissioner Bob Lee said the price was $14, 000 over the appraised value of $11,340. The U.S.. Forest ser vice, which owns land surround ing city property' at Big Butte Springs, made the appraisal and conducted the auction. - The Forest service manages city owned land at Big Butte Springs. The sale include 800,000 board feet of douglas fir and pine, and 400,000 board feet of white pine and other varieties over a 160 a ere tract just north of Big Butte-Springs. ' The land was logged once in the late 1920's, Lee said. . Proceeds from the sale will aid tree farming expenses and part will be placed in the water system construction fund for new water services. , Other bidders included Wayne Ash, $25,400; Lithia Lumber company, $25,000, and. James Vanderlip, $21,260. Uranium Companies Announce Merger . Los Angeles (U.R)--Rimrock Uranium Corp. of Provo, Utah, has merged with the Red Hill Co. of San Francisco, Red Hill President Jack Turner announced today. . Turner said the two companies merged Saturday following a vote of stockholders.' He said former Rimrock President Leon FrazieT was named vice presi dent of the expanded uranium mining corporation, . Doubles Appraisal RECEPTION IS GIVEN by Red China's President Mao Tse ; tung (left), for President Ho Chi Minh, of Communist North ' Viet Nam at Peiping during meetings on Asia. (Internatiowil) terday from Alcatraz Island to a point near Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. Wearing handcuffs, LaLanne had to battle a strong ebb tide in San Francisco Bay. He covered the two-mile distance in 56 min utes. When he emerged from the icy waters, he did 30 pushups just to show he "wasn't tired." ' LaLanne's feat demolished the myth that it is impossible to escape from the Island Prison by swimming. Two prisoners, Theodore Cole, 23, and Ralph Roe, 29, disappeared from Alca traz in 1937. Guards presumed that strong tides swept them through the Golden Gate into the ocean. Alcatraz Warden Paul J. Mad igan said he was not in the slightest worried about the pos sibility of any of the convicts on the Rock getting any ideas. , "LaLanne must be in very fine condition," Madigan said. "I'm not worried that any pris oner who's been here a year or two could do it. The water is too cold." Actually, LaLanne did not L If You're Not Trading At BIG FREE PARKING LOTS evaaaaBBBaaMaaBaaamaaaaaaaaaBaaaBaBBSBaa ESTIMATE THE HOMfeCOSTl TOIL IN THE HOT KITCHEN- IF 12 oz. jar 20 oz. jar - mm 12 oz. jar ----20 oz. jar - mmm mil RASPBERRY 12-Ounce Glass r start out from Alcatraz itself. Madigan refused his permission. Instead, the manacled muscle man made if a bit harder on him self "Just so no one will call me a sissy" by starting from a point slightly beyond the is land. Forced Out of Way As the crow flies, the distance to shore is only about one mile. But LaLanne had to swim two or two and one-half miles be cause of the strong tide. - Yesterday's dip in the Bay was not the first for LaLanne. Last year he swam under water across the treacherous Golden Gate. He wore an aqualung and trailed a red balloon on the sur face so spectators could follow his progress. , LaLanne runs a physical cul ture studio and has a physical culture show on a local televis ion station. He refused to di vulge his age, but he appears to be at least in his mid-thirties. He weighs 174 pounds, and has a 48-inch chest, 27-inch waist and has neck and arm measure ments of 17 inches. ..... .. . .. 4forS1-00 2 for 75' --2for 69' 'BQXBUE - APRICOT PINEAPPLE STRAWBERRY BING CHERRY-APPLE JELLY fee H00 East Coast Heat Wave Ends as Cool Air Pushes Ahead By UNITED PRESS . The cool front which has been pushing eastward across the na tion finally Teached the scorch ed Atlantic coast today, snap ping an 11-day heat wave. Temperatures along the im mediate Atlantic coast, however, were still high. The cooler air dropped read ings between the . Great Lakes and New England about 10 de grees from yesterday, going as low as 50 in some areas. Summir Skies Reported Most of the nation reported sunny skies and temperatures be tween 70 and 80. In New England, the hot wea ther " was , broken yesterday by violent electrical storms center ed in the Boston area. About 2.01 inches of rain fell in Bos ton in 45 minutes late in the day for a total of 2.39 inches. The Coast Guard towed 17 boats to safety during the storm. Four teen-agers were snatched from an 18-foot motorboat by a tugboat minutes before the small craft capsized in 53-mile an hour winds. . , Picnickers Frightened The storm threw a fright into 24 persons on an open lobster boat in Boston harbor. The party had been on a picnic when, the storm broke. No one was. in jured, however, as a freighter came to the rescue and unloaded them. ' . . An estimated 200 homes in the Boston area were hit by lightning, which caused minor damage. At the other end of the' nation, Los Angeles authorities reported that 22 persons we-e rescued from the surf on various beaches as crowds turned out despite chilly weather. Hartford, Conn. (U.R) Trin ity Church figures in some wed- dins plans. Trinity is an 18-year-old girl who applied for a mar riage license. The Groceteria You're Paying Too Aluch! )TTVT1 Mum rails Case of 12 Case Case Case mm ASSORT AS YOU WISH COMPLETING 2 -year study of government costs, ex-President Herbert Hoover, says taxes can be cut if group's ad vice is foUowed-fxtet-itattoiiaJJ SERVING life term for mur der, James Elwood Frazier, 25, is kingpin of Washington State Prison revolt (International) HE DID Wahoo, Neb. (U.R) Sheriff Jos Divis gave chase when he saw a youth leave a dance hall here, jump into his car and speed down the road. Divis said the young man told him he was dancing with a girl when a "big guy" tapped him on the shoulder and .'suggested he . leave in a hurry.. No charges. WMMMM AVOID THE HOURS YET SPEND NO MORE! of 12 -, - - of 12 ... of 12 FRAT PIN RETURNED : Delaware, O. (U.R) Twenty-two years- ago, Ralph Burns lost his Alpha Sigma Phi frater nity pin at Ohio Wesleyan Uni versity here. The pin was re turned to him by a laundryman who had kept it in his store safe, hoping the owner would show up. Only recently, Jeck Hing, laundry owner, noticed the fine engraving on the back of the pin which gave the owner's name. v si an Via' BUY THE NEW GE AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC V Water Heater Wash a Load of , Clothes EVERY HOUR t -All Pay Long- ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN HOME APPLIANCE . 115 EAST MAIN .' Authorized Dealer . IEHEIAL Q ELECTII6 . Wotr Hotws : 82.09 S4.29 4 fm 82.59 83.90 $2,09
