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"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.
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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
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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.