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US. M fooim ,ye T "Folk se f Aor m Copti fives "YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD" An elderly candidate for Baptism is immersed in a pool in New York City during "Triumphant Kingdom" assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses. "Witnesses" say that 1,379 persons were immersed during he session. Turncoats Enjoy Stay In Hawaii; To Reach San Francisco Friday Honolulu !U.R) Three ex GI t u r n c o a ts, described by clergyman as the ' most mixed up children I have ever seen,' sailed today for San Francisco. The three, William Cowart 23. Dalton. Ga.: Otho G. Bell 24. Hillsboro. Miss., and Lewis Griggs, 22, Neches Tex., said they had a "grand time" in Honolulu, where they spent 14 carefree hours. "I lost every inch of the ten sion in my body," said Cowart. "They offered us everything in the book. We saw all the beauti ful sights in Hawaii and they will live in our memory." The three resumed their journey back to the United last night aboard lhe SS Presi dent Cleveland, which is due in San Francisco Friday. During their voyage from Japan the turncoats have been befriended by two clergymen, the Rev. Henry Bruinooge, a Christian Reformed Church mis sionary from Grand Rapids, Mich., and the Rev. Philip Wil liams of the Evangelical Reform ed church. Future Vague Asked what were his impres sions of the three men who chose to remain with their Chi nese Communist captors after the Korean war, Bruinooge re plied: "They are the most mixed up children I have ever seen. 1 have no more idea of what their future will be than these men have themselves." Bell and Griggs spent the day sightseeing with the mission aries and their families. After ward they saw a baseball game on television. After that, they went swimming. Earlier yesterday. Bell tele phoned his sobbing wife in Olympia, Wash., and got her to promise that she and their 4-year-old daughter, Paula, whom he never has been, will meet him Friday in San Francisco. Cowart got a call through to his mother, Mrs. Chester Green, Monticello. Ark. "We didn't have much to say," he said. "All we did was just blubber." All three said they expected to have a good night's sleep "if we can get the butterflies out of our stomachs." Press Conference Held When the Cleveland docked yesterday, the three turncoats met hordes of reporters and photographers in a press confer ence aboard snip. Durine the conference. Co wart said a speech by President More Than 100 View Demonstrations Here During Annual Fruit Growers Field Day The annual fruit growers field day here drew more than 100 persons last Friday, it was re ported this morning. The event, which was not held last year due to an orchard dam age caused by an early freeze, is sponsored by the Southern Oregon Fruit Growers league in cooperation with the State Hor ticultural society, the extension service, and the Southern Oregon experiment station. Displays at the Talent Experi ment Station included a new hybrid pear, the result of cross ing red bartlett and Cornice var ieties. It is bright red. Examples of P 18 blight resistant trunk stock becoming incompatible with French Root were shown. These incompatible root stock combinations are present in a number of cases where nine and ten year-old pear trees are dying for no apparent reason, Berry said. Dr. John Higdon. horticultur ist, pointed out that sodium fer Eisenhower in May was "one of the things which speeded my at tempts to come home." He said the President's plea for peaceful development of atomic power, which he heard on a contraband radio, 'was very good and made much sense." Bell indicated that Chinese Communist brutality toward an other fellow soldier who re fused repatriation had much to do with their decision to return home. He said the soldier, Rufus O. Douglas, San Angelo, Tex., "died horribly," because the Reds refused to admit him to a hospital. "They kept pulling him out of bed, saying, 'We have some thing more important for you,' Bell said. "All of us felt the Chinese had killed him," Bell said. "We all liked Douglas ... he said many times he wanted to go home." New Home Is Lost In Morning Blaze Mr. and Mrs. Joe Robertson, Blackwell Hill, lost their new home and all the contents, in cluding about $200 in cash, by fire early Sunday morning, ac cording to Mrs. Robertson's mother, Mrs. Leona Huffman, 5010 Crater Lake highway. The Robertsons, who have a 2-year-old son, were building the house themselves and had the structure nearly completed, Mrs. Huffman reported. Insurance on the home had recently been allowed to lapse, the mother reported. The Robertsons awoke about 4 a.m., to find the kitchen ablaze and were unable to put out the flames with the garden hose, Mrs. Huffman said. Because the fire spread so rapidly, they were unable to re-enter the house to bring out clothing and the money, she said. Mrs. Huffman was seeking help for the family this noon, and added that friends or any one interested in aiding them could take donations to her Cra ter Lake highway address. Rob ertson is employed at a plywood plant in Medford, and Mrs. Rob ertson works in the fountain at the Big Y. Beverly Hills, Calif. (U.R) Columnist Walter Winchell's daughter, Walda, 28, will be mar ried Friday to Hyatt Von Dehn, 40, hotel chain owner. tilizers such as sodium nitrate should not be used in this area. Dr. Louis Gentner, horticult urist, showed growers a number of mite plots at the Medford ex periment station. Dimite and Aramite were doing an excel lent job of mite control in Dr. Gentner's plots, he said. The tour stopped at three val ley orchards in the morning. Dr. Higdon, at the Steve Nye orch ard, showed growers that iron chelated material, applied last year to pear trees which show ed lime induced chlorosis, had significantly increased the crop this year. Fertilization demonstrations were given at the Mel Younger orchard. At the Medford station growers observed a plot where one half of the trees had been pulled out in order to give the remaining half more room. Thirty five- tree- per- acre plot yields. Dr. Higdon pointed out pear hand thinning plots. Where only small fruit on Bartlett pear Ambassadors To Meet at Geneva On August 1 Other Matters Also Will Be Discussed Washington U.R) The Un ited States and Red China have agreed to a meeting of their ambassadors in Geneva Aug. 1 to discuss return of 51 Ameri cans held by Red China and "certain other practical matters now at issue between both sides." The State Department an nounced the plans today. It said the agreement was arranged through Britain, which has dip lomatic relations with Red China. India and Burma in recent se cret talks with the United States were understood to have sug gested talks between the United States and Red China on a high er level than ambassador. George Requests Meeting Chairman Walter F. George (D-Ga.), of the Senate Foreign Relations committee yesterday also called for a meeting be tween the United States and Red China on the foreign ministers level to discuss the Formosa problem and other fundamental causes of Far East tension. The State Department recalled that Red Chinese Premier Chou En Lai had suggested, at the Bandung conference of African and Asian nations in April, that he was willing to have direct talks with the United States. Since that time, the department said, several governments have acted as intermediaries to ex plore the possibility of such talks. State Department Press Offic er Henry Suydam cautioned re porters against suggesting that the new Geneva talks would get into the question of Formosa or other matters affecting Na tionalist China. He similarly' in dicated the question of a cease fire between Nationalist China and Red China would not be raised at Geneva. Recent Demands Made Recent U.S. demands for re lease of the fliers and civilians were made in Geneva on June 23 and July 15 by U.S. Consul General Franklin C. Gowen. The last effort was just, three days before the Big Four conference opened. Talking to Red Chinese Con sul Shen Ping, Gowen was said to have insisted again on release of the Americans from "unwar ranted" detention in Red China. Inquiry also was made about the welfare of the Americans. They include 25 in jail, three under house arrest, 12 who are unable to get departure permits and the 11 fliers. Gowen also asked about the fate of 11 additional U. S. Navy and Coast Guard personnel whose planes went down off Swatow, China, several years ago. (See Story on Pag 16) Twin Daughters Bring Family's Total to 6 , Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cut right, rout 2, box 668D, Cen tral Point, the parents of four daughters. Saturday became lhe parents of twins, both girls, for a new total of six daughters. The babies were born at Community hospital, and weighed 7 pounds, and 3 pounds 1 ounce. They have been named Dona Kay and Dena Fay. Cutright is a mill employee. trees were removed, increases up to 200 pounds per tree were obtained over non-thinned and space-thinned trees. More than 120 persons at tended a picnic luncheon at Tou Velle park following the morn ing demonstrations. Later, the group viewed latest models of orchard equipment. A special tour observed the effects of bee polinization in Mo doc orchard. One tree had bees caged and bartlett blossoms put in during blossom time. A second had bees caged in without the blossoms, and a third had all bees and other insects caged out. Cages were made of heavy mus lin, practically impenetrable by wind. All three trees showed an ex cellent set of fruit and growers were unable to distinguish which had been kept free of insects. It was noted, however, that the insect-free tree produced mostly seedless fruit. Medford United Presi Full Leased Wire 50th Year 16 Pages United Germany Must Wait Pact Bulganin Claims Soviet Viewpoint At Geneva Repeated Berlin (U.R) Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin made it clear today that German reunification must await conclusion of a Euro pean security pact a viewpoint that deadlocked the Geneva con ference. Bulganin and Soviet Commu nist Party Chief Nikita S. Khru schev stopped off in Berlin for "several days" of talks with East German Communist leaders. For eign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov and other members of the summit delegation flew on to Moscow. Bulganin, in a brief speech at Schoenefeld Airfield, repeat ed the Soviet viewpoint express ed at Geneva and said "there is no doubt" the Soviet govern ment "will follow this line stead fastly" in future discussions of the German question. His firm insistence on a se curity pact that would include both East and West Germany as members indicated there would be no change in the Soviet position when the Big Four For eign ministers try to solve the impasse next October. Bulganin, visiting East Ger many at the invitation of Soviet Zone Premier Otto Grotewohl, hailed the results of the Geneva talks as he had before leaving the Swiss city. He said the talks had "positive results" and would have a "favorable effect" on in ternational relations. But in speeches here , and in Geneva he said all problems were not solved, especially the key question of Germany. He based his objections to Western plans on West German member ship in NATO and said this made it impossible to unify Germany on a "peaceful and democratic basis." Truck, Trailer Go Off Siskiyou Road A truck and utility trailer plunged over the bank of High way 99 at Bear Canyon in the Siskiyou mountains late Satur day night. Air brakes on the truck failed and the driver jumped from the cab as the vehicles went through the guard rail and down the gorge, state police reported. Officers were called to the scene, 1.2 miles from Siskiyou summit, at about 11:30 p.m. Sat urday. They reported that the truck was operated by Dwight Adams Flenniken, 28, Pico, Calif., and was owned by R. K. Davies, Montibello, Calif. Flen niken escaped without injury. Officers said the trailer broke loose from the truck about 300 feet down the slope, dumping the load, and the truck finally halted some 200 feet further, lodged against trees. Former Myrtle Point Police Chief Jailed Coquille, Ore. (U.R) Rich ard E. Vines, former Myrtle Point police chief, was bound over to a grand jury today on charges of conversion of public funds. Vines was arrested Saturday by state and county law enforce ment officers as he returned from a two-weeks vacation. Vines, 37, waived a prelimin ary hearing today on the larceny charge, and was held in the Coos county jail here in lieu of $5000 bond. He was expected to waive a grand jury indictment and ap pear in Circuit Court tomorrow before Judge Dal King. The former police chief, who was fired from his job following his arrest, is specifically charg ed with conversion to his own use of S39 in bail money. Baseball HALL OF FAME GAME Boston (A) - 4 13 1 Milwaukee (N) 2 9 1 Brodowski and Daley; Nich ols, Jolly (6). Buhl (8), and Crandall, Rice (9). Home runs: Williams, Boston; Burton, Mil waukee; Lepcio, Boston. MEDFORD, OREGON, MO Rescuers Descending North Sister With Badly Injured Salem Climber McKenzie Bridge, Ore. (U.R) Rescuers inched their way down treacherous North Sister peak to day with a badly injured climber who spent the night in freezing temperatures near the top of the 10.094-foot mountain. The injured climber was iden tified as Frank Gillette of Sa lem. Ed Anderson, forest ranger here, said Gillette suffered from a broken leg, a broken arm, shock and possible other in juries. Struck by Falling Rock Gillette was reported injured yesterday when struck by falling rock while climbing the moun tain with two other men. Anderson said he had talked by radio to the rescue party and that Gillette was "doing pretty well"' after the night on the windy mountain. A helicop Building Congress Told of Portland Hotel Construction Frank Nash, Portland attorney representing Leo F. Corrigan iyho plans a $12,000,000 hotel in Portland, said Saturday obstacles holding up construction may be cleared in 60 to 90 days. Nash spoke at a meeting of the Oregon Building congress, held here in connection with the State Federation of Labor's 53rd annual convention. Nash said Corrigan has direct ed his attorneys to submit to the securities exchange commission financial information which will make possible construction of the hotel. He also has asked his Dallas, Tex., architects to push plans for the project. The building trades council warned that it would have "a terrific battle" in reelecting Senator Wayne Morse, who will have no Republican support in the next campaign. Morse now lists himself a Democrat. C. Al Green of San Francisco, regional director of Labor's League for Political Education, told the council the hope of labor lies in recruiting efforts of wo men in a campaign if Morse is to be reelected. The stimulation of construc tion contracts by "builders of tomorrow" was related by Otto E. Never, president of the West ern Conference of Building Trades. The "builders of tomor row" is a joint organization of management and labor in five western states. Adenauer To Visit Moscow Before Fall Muerren, Switzerland U.R) West German Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer announced today he will go to Moscow to confer with Soviet leaders some time before the October meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers. Adenauer said he felt it would be "impolite to wait" until after the foreign ministers' meeting. The Soviets invited Adenauer several weeks ago to visit Mos cow to discuss establishment of normal relations with Russia. The Chanceller postponed a decision on the trip until after certain related questions had been answered in conferences be tween the West German and Soviet ambassadors in Paris. Police Officers Wear Western Roundup Garb Medford police officers are wearing cowboy attire this week in observance of the 13ih annual Rogue River Roundup 'this week end, ac cording to Sgt. Clyde Fichx ner. Officers in colorful cowboy style shirts and pants are get ling a "big bang" out of the department's participation, Fichtner said. He added that the Roundun is an event that the entire department looks forward to. MONDAY, JULY 25, 1955 TO ter was being flown from Seattle to help in the rescue. Anderson said it was hoped that after Gillette was brought down 2000 feet or so the helicopter could pick him up and take him to a doctor. This would save five to six hours time, he said. An ice ax was used as a splint for the man's broken leg. Another Climber Hurt Another climber, Ross Petrie of Portland, had a narrow brush with death during the rescue operation yesterday. He was in a group behind the Gillette party and slipped in soft snow and fell while climbers were taking Gillette across a 45-de-gree slope to a less exposed place. Petrie was badly shaken up and bruised when he slid about 200 feet against some rocks. Powerful Committee Hit By Labor Chief As Convention Opens J. D. McDonald, president of the Oregon State Federation of Labor, asked more than 400 delegates to its 53rd convention here to "work for the elimina tion of the joint ways and means committee of the state legisla ture, and to eliminate "control in all committees." McDonald, in his opening ad dress, charged that "a few peo ple on committees often run the affairs of the State and prevent good legislation from reaching the floor." Can Lay on Table The most powerful committee, he said, is the joint ways and means committee. If a sub-committee of the joint ways and means committee "is opposed to the bill they lay it on the table and in most cases it stays on the table," McDonald said. McDonald's speech followed short welcoming addresses by Medford Mayor Earl Miller, Chief of Police Charles Champ lin, and Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce President John Pletsch. Sheriff Howard Gault, who also was scheduled to talk briefly, was unable to attend. The state federation president said, "The result of this all powerful committee (joint ways and means) control means that the affairs of the State of Ore gon are often controlled by a small group and not by the 90 people elected to do the job." Urges Morse Reelection He also urged delegates to actively campaign to retain Sen. Wayne Morse in office and "elect liberals to congress from all four districts." He added that "we need at least four new lib eral house members and six new liberal senators" in the state legislature. McDonald said the federation has "political strength just as long as we remain non-partisan, and support or oppose candi dates upon their record" and not party affiliation. "Labor has the balance of power in the po litical field if we forget partisan politics and vote a 'labor tick et'," he said. He praised the importance of "wives, daughters, mothers and sisters" of union members for their active support which re sulted in political successes in 1954. He said Women's divisions in central labor councils will be organized soon. 'Opponents Never Rest McDonald said the federation actively entered the political field because "our opponents never rest in their efforts to scuttle our social legislation." He said labor has made sub stantial gains, not only for or ganized workers, but for "all workers coming under industrial accident, unemployment compen sation, safety codes and other Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 107 Petrie spent the night at Sun shine Shelter at about 6500 f set. It was when he was hurt that climbers decided they didn't have enough men and equipment to bring Gillette off the moun tain last night. Ranger Tom Scott, who was with the second climbing party, brought word here of the mishap and the big rescue operation began. About 35 or 40 men were on the mountain this morning. Twists Ankle North Sister is one of the Three Sisters peaks located some 80 miles east of Eugene near the McKenzie river highway. Another climber, identified as Jim Jeppson, was reported to have twisted an ankle on the peak yesterday. He walked out about 9 or 10 p.m. yesterday, ac cording to Anderson. social legislation." He noted oth er improvements made in public education, welfare of public em ployees, and "improvements in our governmental structure." With growth of local unions, he said, came a greater respon sibility for the state federation of labor. "We have taken a key place in the fields of education, taxes, social welfare, economics, and legislation, at both the state and community levels," McDon old said. . 25 Years Ago McDonald reminisced that it had been 25 years since the an nual convention was held in Medford, and that 11 delegates present today who attended the conference in 1930, two of them were officers. They are Charles T. Crane of Portland and Carl Pruitt of Astoria. Referring to executive secre tary J. T. Marr's report, McDon ald noted an increase of 20,000 members in the past three years, and a 90 per cent gain in the past 10 years. A $9,200 decrease in assets, he said, was due to spending some $13,000 for legis lative and political activities. In addition to McDonald's re port, a report also was given by Austin J. Haughey on activities of the label committee of the state federation. The report con cerned increased use in use of labels on union made products. Honor Member Delegates recognized the 'late J. Scott Milne of Portland, presi dent of the International Broth erhood of Electrical workers with a minute of silent prayer. Milne died last week. The convention continued this afternoon with talks by Samuel M. Bowe, representing the Amer ican Legion; Norman Nilsen, labor commissioner; George Brown, representing the CIO; James M. Umber, president of the Montana federation, and Harry H. Lewis, of the federal mediation and conciliation serv ice. The sessions, at the Craterian theater, are open to the public. Tomorrow's meeting opens at 9:30 a.m. Washington (U.R) Three Oregon postmaster nominations have been sent to the Senate by President Eisenhower. They in cluded Lyle B. Dannen at Hal sey; George H. Carl at Oswego and Wayne E. Dexter at Scap poose. Radio-TV Highlights A report on the Geneva Conference by President Eis enhower will be heard over radio station KMED (1440 kc) and KBES-TV at 6:30 p.m. to day. - SiEBETS Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy through Tuesday. Mild tem peratures. Low- tonight SS. High Tuesday 80. Temp. Highest yesterday 83 Lowest this morning 56 Congress Receives 'Hopeful' Report On Conference No Private Papers Initialed, Ike Says Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles gave congressional leaders a "very hopeful" report today on the Ge neva summit meeting and as surances that there were "no secret agreements of any kind." They told the Democratic and Republican leaders that while they are hopeful about results of the Big Four conference, they have not "discounted" the prob lems ahead. Soviets Friendly A White House statement is sued after the congressional briefing said that President Eis enhower had said that he thought the outstanding feature of the Geneva meeting was "the apparently sincere desire ex pressed by the Soviet delegation to discuss world problems in the future in . an atmosphere of friendliness and willingness to sit down together to work out differences." The statement said the Presi dent added that "this of course is a hopeful development but quite naturally does not of itself warrant any relaxation of the mutual security measures we and our allies of the free world are now pursuing." No Private Papers Signed It said the President assured the legislative leaders that "no secret agreement has been made nor had any private papers been initialed" at the conference. Press Secretary James C. Hag gerty read the statement to re porters. Asked if there was any discussion of Red China at the congressional briefing, Hagerty said it was discussed but only in the light of the State Depart ment's announcement about the ambassadors' meeting at Geneva Aug. 1. He said Red China was not discussed in relation to Sen. George's proposal for a meeting at the foreign minister's level. Atmosphere Better The statement from the White House said that after the Presi dent had discussed the confer ence in Geneva, Dulles then gave a detailed presentation of day to day discussions at Geneva and an analysis of the final agreed directive." Congressional leaders who heard Mr. Eisenhower's report reacted optimistically. They said the situation as reported by the President is "very hopeful" and they felt that, on the basis of the report, that the international "atmosphere" is better. (See Stories on Pag 7) ' Talbott's Partner Tells of Income Washington -(U.R) Harold E. Talbott's New York business partner testified today that the air secretary made $12,032 from their partnership in the first two years after he came into the gov ernment post. Dapper Paul B. Mulligan, Tal bott's associate in a management firm told the Senate Investigat ing Subcommittee, Talbot made only $1,417 from the firm in 1947, the firm's first year. But Talbott's income from the partnership increased rapidly, both before and after he entered government, Mulligan said. And in the 12 months ended last Jan. 31 the Air Force secretary made $66,653. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said the increase in bus iness was "not significant." "It was a new business, just starting," McClellan aid. "I don't see any unusual increase in busi ness." Talbott became Air Force sec retary Feb. 4, 1953. Portland (U.R) AFL machin ists employed at the Iron Fire man plant here have been grant ed an across-the-board wage increase of 5-cents an hour, the company has announced.
