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MEDFORD WINS AWARD The city of
Medford. because it went through the year
1954 without a pedestrian fatality, has been
awarded a citation by the American Auto
mobile association and the Oregon State
Motor association. A plaque commemorating
the citation was presented to the city re
cently by Herb Grey, Medford, a member of
directors of the OSMA. Shown above, left
to right, during the presentation ceremonies
are Charles Champlin, Medford chief of
Brownell Said Aware of Talbott
Dealing With Defense Contractor
Washington (U.R) Senate in
vestigators were told today that
Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr.
knew that Air Secretary Harold
E. Talbott's private firm sought
a business deal with a defense
contractor.
Air Force General Council
John A. Johnson testified at a
public hearing of the Senate In
vestigating Subcommittee that
Brownell "expressed no dis
agreement" with the idea that
Talbott was acting legally in
pursuing the deal. But he said
Brownell suggested delaying ac
E. Germans Call for
Reunification Talks
Berlin (U.R) The East Ger
man Communists called today
for immediate talks on German
reunification between the East
and West German governments.
Such talks were first proposed
by the two top Russian leaders
now visiting the Soviet Zone.
The appeal for East-West Ger
man talks was made in the Com
munist Party newspaper Neues
Deutschland which said the two
governments must negotiate now
to prepare for German participa
tion in the October Big Four
foreign ministers conference at
Geneva.
Rally Scheduled
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul
ganin and Nikita S. Khruschev,
Soviet Communist Party leader,
have repeatedly said that Ger
mans must take part in any de
liberations on Germany.
The Communists scheduled a
rally for today for the two visit-
Courthouse Annex
Connection Starts
Construction of a connection
between the present recorder
and clerk's office in the Jack
son county courthouse and the
new annex has started. County
Judge Rodney Keating said today
some quarters in the annex will
be occupied "presumably some
time in August."
The west wall in the record
er's office has been knocked out
to provide a connection between
the present office and one on
the second floor of the annex.
Keating said he was not sure
when construction of the annex
would be completed, but that
construction was progressing
well.
The sc h o o 1 superintendent's
office, the agricultural stabiliza
tion and conservation committee
office, county watermaster, en
gineer, and surveyor's offices
will occupy the first floor of
the three-story annex.
The third floor will be unoc
cupied at the present. Alterations
will be made in the present court
house to provide additional office
space.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Hotter Than Medford
(Editor's Note: The high tem
perature recorded here yester
day was 81 degrees, according
to the weather bureau.)
Fairbanks. Alaska (U.R)
Interior and Arctic Alaska
sweltered in record high tem
peratures for July 25.
The mercury soared lo 93
degrees, sending hundreds of
Fairbanks residents to lakes
and walerfilled quarries for a
cooling swim.
police; Mayor Earl Miller, who accepted the
plaque on behalf of the city; Grey, and
Kenneth Berrey, manager of the Medford
office of the OSMA. Medford was one of
the 500 other cities in the same population
group, which had an average of three deaths
per 100,000 population. The year 1954 was
the first in three decades where the number
of pedestrian fatalities fell below the 8-000-mark.
The high point was in 1937 when
15,500 pedestrians died.
tion on the deal..
Meanwhile, Talbott's attorney
said the Air Force secretary
wants to return for more testi
mony before the subcommittee,
which is conducting an inquiry
into his acivities on behalf of
Paul B. Mulligan & Co., a man
agement engineering firm in
which he is a partner.
Chairman John L. McClellan
(D-Ark) said the group would
meet later today to consider
which witnesses to call in its in
vestigation. The subcommtitee investigat-
ing leaders who will be the main
speakers.
"The call for negotiation be
tween the governments of the
German democratic republic
(Communists) and the federal re
public now must be raised with
doubled emphasis," the Neues
Deutschland said.
"All-German talks on a gov
ernment level should be borne
by a powerful movement in all
Germany for the bringing to
gether of both parts of Germany
and agreement of the German
people.
"The first common goal: End
the cold war on German soil."
The authoritative newspaper,
like the Soviets, coupled the de
mand for talks with the demand
for a European security pact
which it said must take prece
dence over unity.
General Dean's Questioner
Arrested by CIC in Seoul
Seoul, Korea U.R) The Re
public of Korea Counter Intelli
gence Corps announced today it
had arrested a South Korean
Communist who interrogated
Maj. Gen. William Dean during
the Korean war.
The man was identified as Lee
Chang Kwang, 25. He was
charged with questioning the
former commander of the U.S.
24th Division after Dean was
captured by the Reds during the
early days of the war.
The CIC announcement said
Lee was preparing to go to the
United -States as a student "to
conduct higher espionage activi
ties under Communist party or-
Nine Forest Areas
Closed for Entry
Nine areas of the Rogue Riv
er National forest have been
closed to entry without special
permits, it was announced this
week. The closures are because
of high fire hazard in the areas.
Permits are issued at ranger sta
tions only to those having legiti
mate business in the areas.
The largest closure is the Ash
land watershed, but the Ashland
Loop road through it will remain
open for travel.
All other closures are in rela
tively small timber sale areas,
and include the Prairie Creek,
Woodruff, Sunshine and Huckle
berry mountain areas west of
Crater lake; Bessie Creek and
Rustler peak, near Butte Falls;
Big Elk, south of Fish lake, and
Joe Creek, in northern Califor
nia. Portland (U.R) A two-alarm
fire early today resulted in an
estimated $2000 damage to a
one-story concrete building oc
cupied by the Evergreen Equip
ment Company.
j! -'
ing the propriety of Talbott's
continued association with the
Mulligan firm, which has been
employed by a number of big
defense contractors as well as
other large corporations. Pre
vious testimony showed that
Talbott has received $132,032 in
profits from the firm since he
became Air Force secretary. The
subcommittee also has obtained
copies of letters which Talbott
wrote from his Pentagon office
on Air Force stationery seeking
to drum up business for the firm
Johnson was called to the wit
ness stand today for question
ing about Talbott's efforts to
land a contract for the Mulligan
firm with Radio Corporation of
America, a major defense con
tractor. The senators specifically
wanted to know if Johnson, as
government salaried official law
yer for the Air Force, had acted
as Talbott's private attorney in
talks with RCA officials who
questioned the propriety of a
defense contractor doing busi
ness with Talbott's firm.
RCA Not Satisfied
Johnson told the subcommit
tee he did not act "as Talbott's
private attorney in the RCA
contracts last January. He said
he simply prepared a memo
randum for Talbott stating that
Talbott's membership in the Mul
ligan firm did not violate the
conflict of interest laws.
Johnson said that Loftus E.
Becker, a Washington attorney
for RCA, informed him last Jan.
5 that RCA would not be sat
isfied with this, but wanted ap
proval from the attorney gen
eral.
ders" when he was arrested in
Seoul and that he had gone
through all necessary formali
ties and "was just awaiting the
departure date."
Injured Climber
Rests in Hospital
Salem U.R) Frank Gillette,
Salem mountain climber, rested
in a hospital here today after a
spectaculer ground-air rescue
from 10,094-foot North Sister
peak.
Dr. Ronald Finley of Eugene,
who accompanied the rescue
party, said Gillette suffered a
fractured left ankle and a hand
injury.
Yesterday, a coast guard heli
copter picked up the injured
man on a 7000-foot snowfield
after a ground rescue party had
brought him down from the 10,-000-foot
level of North Sister
mountain.
Gillette said he was just about
50 feet short of the summit Sun
day when a boulder he grabbed
came loose in his hand and roll
ed over him, starting a small
avalanche. Four other climbers
directly behind him jumped
aside and escaped; injury.
House Delays Action
On John Day Dam
Washington (U.R) A
House public works subcommit
tee took testimony from backers
of a bill for "partnership" con
struction of John Day dam on
the Columbia river and then
postponed action on it until the
next congressional session.
Chairman Clifford Davis (D
Tenn.), said he was surprised
at the amount of opposition to
the bill, and added that "lengthy
hearings" would be required on
it next year.
Medford
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Portland (U.R) A Port
land cab driver and amateur
archeologist thinks he has the
answer today to a 12,000-year-old
mystery.
Jack Benson has been fascin
ated by a huge slab of basaltic
rock in Portland city hall court
yard since he first saw it 35
years ago when he was a lad of
SP's Request for
Heltzel Restrainer
Denied by Judge
Marion County Circuit Judge
Val Sloper this morning denied
an application by the Southern
Pacific company for a writ pro
hibiting Public Utilities Com
missioner Charles Heltzel from
interfering with the end of pas
senger service between Portland
and Ashland.
The SP yesterday asked the
circuit court to stop Heltzel from
ordering the SP to continue serv
ice after Aug. 6, the announced
date for the end of the nightly
"Rogue River" passenger trains.
But Judge Sloper today said
the application was untimely,
and the SP must wait until Helt
zel issues his order.
Delay Order Planned
The railroad announced July
6 that it would terminate the
passenger service, but last week,
after protests and a formal com
plaint from three state senators
were filed with him, Heltzel said
he would order a delay in the
end of service, pending a public
hearing.
Word of Judge Sloper's action
was telephoned to State Sen.
Philip B. Lowry, Medford, one
of the three legislators filing the
complaint.
In filing the circuity court ac-.
tion, the SP said it was done to
clarify a rule requiring the rail
road to give the PUC 30 days
advance notice of timetable
changes. Bernal S. Quayle, Port
land, general passenger agent,
said the service to southern Ore
gon is causing a loss to SP of
about $1,250 each day.
Quayle was quoted as saying,
"Under the law as we interpret
it, we have the right to take off
the train, after which the com
missioner, based on . his investi
gations, may sustain or overrule
our action." Judge Sloper's. tell
ing the railroad it must wait is
interpreted as a setback to the
SP in its intention of ending the
service.
Heltzel's plan to order a delay
in the end of passenger service
was based on a complaint filed
with him last week by Senator
Lowry and Senators Gene
Brown, Grants Pass, and Paul
Geddes, Roseburg, in which the
legislators not only protested the
end of passenger service, but
also claimed that the area served
by the SP in southern Oregon is
entitled to "reasonably ade
quate" passenger service which
it has not been getting.
The complaint asked the com
missioner to order the SP to pro
vide such service.
The number of protests to SP's
plan was increased Saturday
through the action of the Jack
son County Pomona Grange,
which went on record as being
opposed to the SP's proposed
abandonment of passenger serv
ice. 470 Soldiers Said
Missing in Korea
Washington 4U.R) The De
fense Department said today
that 470 members of the U. S.
armed forces in the Korean war
remain unaccounted for and
some of them may be held pris
oners by the Communists.
In reply to a request by Sen
ate GOP Leader. Sen. William F.
Knowland, the Defense Depart
ment said in a letter that the
Reds failed to account for 944
Americans after the Korean
truce.
The department said that it
never believed all the un
accounted for were alive and
held prisoners by the Reds. The
demand on the Reds to account
for them was an attempt to
force them to live up to an ar
mistice provision that each side
should give a "full accounting"
for all prisoners.
Hollywood U.R) Actress
Betty Hutton has disclosed that
she and her husband, Alan Liv
ingston, are expecting a baby
in January.
MEDFORD, OREGON,
Believed
5. And off and on he has been
trying to decipher the hiero
glyphics which cover its surface.
The rock markings were gen
erally thought to be the work
of early day Indians along the
Columbia river between Wallula
and the Oregon border. The
rock was found there in 1910.
But Benson is now convinced
eoree
Talks Will 'Die
Convention Speaker
Sees Double-Talk'
On Elections of '56
"We're going to run across
more double-talking candidates
in 1956 than ever before." Ed
Weston, president of the Wash
ington Federation of Labor,
warned Oregon labor delegates
here this morning.
Weston addressed union rep
resentatives attending the 53rd
Oregon State Federation of La
bor convention now in its second
day.
The Washington labor leader
said his state should follow Ore
gon's lead in efforts to eliminate
strong committees in state legis
latures. He noted that in this
year's legislative session, labor
was not too successful in obtain
ing its wishes in the northern
State.
Weston congratulated Oregon
labor organizations for sending
to Washington, D. C. Sen. Rich
ard Neuberger and Congress
woman Edith Green.
Farmers' Plight
In the second of three major
addresses, Harley Libby, presi
dent of the state Farmers' Union,
told delegates of the farmers'
plight. He said they are faced
with sinking prices and rising
costs. His union, Libby declared,
believes in and supports the
"family farm." In closing, he
asked, "above all," for the peo
ple's understanding.
The number of industrial
worker fatalities has decreased
but injuries have increased this
year, William A. Callahan, chair
man of the State Industrial Acci
dent commission, told the assem
bly. The first six months of 1955
compared to 1954 have seen an
increase of 8.71 per cent in in
juries reported, and a decrease
of 10.16 per cent in deaths due
to on-the-job accidents.
Callahan noted that 21.29 per
cent more workmen are now
employed under, the workmen's
compensation act than last year.
The commission chairman
stated that logging was Oregon's
most hazardous industry, but
that frequency of accidents in
2 Oregon Men Die
In Bus-Auto Crash
North Bend, Ore. (U.R)
Two men were killed and four
others were injured today in a
collision between a station wag
on and a Greyhound bus about
one mile north of the Coos
county line on Highway 101,
state police reported.
Dead were Calvin Forrest
Crass, 43, Empire, and Vern
Maurice Fleck, 51, Coos Bay.
They were riding in the station
wagon along with three other
men, who also were injured.
The bus driver, Clarence
Bankhead, 30, suffered face cuts
and bruises and was treated at
the scene. None of the seven
passengers, on the bus was re
ported injured.
Brought to Keizer hospital
here were Edward Clark, 19,
Woodrow Matson, 35, and Walter
Olson, 40. Matson suffered a
head injury, Clark a broken left
arm and facial cuts and Olson a
broken leg.
Education Board
Names Secretary
Portland (U.R) Dr. Earl M.
Pallett today was named secre
tary of the State Board of Higher
Education. The position has been
filled for the past two years by
Dr. John P. Richards, now chan
cellor of the state system of high
er education.
ATT
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1955
12,000 Years Old
the writing is Mayan. He thinks
it tells the story of the sinking
of the mother land and the com
ing of colonists to the West Coast
of North America.
From his Mayan studies, Ben
son has placed the age of the
writing at about 12,000 years. He
thinks he can recognize a picture
of the Mayan priest Itazmna
Feels
r
that field has lessened consider
ably. Between speeches, 22 resolu
tions were read and referred to
various committees, bringing the
convention total to 47. Deadline
for filing resolutions is 5 p.m.
today.
Others addressing delegates
this morning included Joe
Clark, vice-president of the
Painters and Paper Hangers In
ternational Union; Kenny Davis,
of the Brotherhood of Carpen
ters; William Becker, area rep
resentative of the Jewish Labor
Commission, and Terry Shrunk
Multnomah county sheriff.
(See sloryon Page 6)
Merrill Logger
Dies in Accident
Lowell Snapp, 25, Merrill,
Ore., was killed almost instantly
late yesterday afternoon in a
logging accident at McDonough
Brother's Logging company
camp on Glade creek in the
south part of the county.
Jackson county sheriff's depu
ties said Snapp was helping load
logs onto a truck. As logs were
being raised by a hoist, one log
broke loose and fell on him.
A standard metal safety hat
which Snapp was wearing was
crushed in the accident, deputies
said.
Other workers at the scene of
the Ashland company's operation
went to his assistance, but sher
iffs deputies said Snapp died
within a few minutes after being
struck.
Carlos Morris, county coron
er, was at the scene when sher
iff's officers arrived.
Ashland Mortuary is in charge
of funeral arrangements.
Final Tribute
Paid Cordeil Hull
Washington U.R) National
leaders and diplomats from ev
ery part of the world paid final
tribute to former Secretary of
State Cordeil Hull today at
funeral services in Washington
Cathedral.
Rites for the 83-year-old states
man were conducted by the
Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr.,
dean of the cathedral, at the
main altar of the high vaulted
Gothic church on Mount St.
Albans.
The simple, austere service
followed the traditional Protes
tant Episcopal service for the
dead from the ancient Book of
Common Prayer. There was no
eulogy.
Hull was buried following the
service in the crypt of the ca
thedral, by the side of his wife,
Rose, and near the tomb of
former President Woodrow Wilson.
Midwest Scorched; Floods
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A sizzling heat wave returned
to the Midwest today with 100
plus temperatures and wilting
humidity.
Summer weather belted other
parts of the c&untry with
drenching rainfalls and flash
floods.
At Columbus, Ga., three cloud
bursts in less than 24 hours piled
up more than four inches of
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from a jaguar, which was the
symbol of the tribe from which
the priest came. Also on the
rock is the floor plan of a temple
which he believes was built in
east or central Oregon.
Benson has taken photographs
of the stone markings and plans
to send them to an expert for
confirmation.
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Air1
Communist China
Proposes Debate
On UN Admission
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Walter F. George (D-Ga.), said
today that next week's diplomat
ic talks with Communist China
may help "clear the air" to set
up a two-nation foreign ministers
conference on the Far East.
He told reporters he believes
any such conference of foreign
ministers should start as bilat
eral discussions between the
United States and Red China.
Communist China proposed in
an editorial broadcast by Peip
ing radio, that Geneva-like ne
gotiations be held on Formosa,
Indochina, and Peiping's admis
sion to the United Nations.
"No one can deny that the
tension in Asia and the Far East,
particularly the Formosan situ
ation and the obstacles in the
way of the implementation of
the Geneva agreements on In
dochina, has aroused serious
concern and unrest among the
people," the editorial said.
The broadcast, which praised
the Geneva conference, refrain
ed from the usual bitter attacks
on the United States.
Senate Republican Leader
William F. Knowland insisted
that there should be no discus
sions involving the "sover
eignty" of Nationalist China
without the Nationalists present
Dulles To Be Questioned
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles was expected to be ques
tioned closely at his afternoon
news conference on the talks
with Red . China beginning in
Geneva Aug. 1 as well as on
George's proposal that the two
nation's foreign ministers meet.
George, chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations commit
tee, suggested Sunday night that
there should be a foreign minis
ters meeting with the Chinese
Communists within six months,
lest there be a new flare-up over
Formosa. The United States is
committed to defend that island
against attack. It is the base of
the Chinese Nationalists.
The State Department an
nounced Monday that U. Alexis
Johnston, U.S. ambassador to
Czechoslovakia, will fly to
Geneva this week end for the
Red Chinese talks after a hur
ried trip here for instructions.
Coof Weather, Possible
Rain Forecast Locally
Continued cool July temper
atures and possible rain have
been forecast by the weather
bureau here. The outlook for
tonight is for a minimum temp
erature of 50 degrees, about the
same as that this morning.
Occasional light rain is predict
ed this evening, and in the moun
tains tomorrow. The weather
bureau said it was raining at
Brookings this morning, and that
.14 of an inch had fallen there
in the six-hour period up to 10
a.m.
Continued cool weather, with
temperatures "averaging much
below normal," are forecast for
the five-day period ending Sun
day. ram., Flood waters pourea
through streets and dozens of
homes, .1000 telephones were
knocked out, and radio and tele
vision stations went off the air.
Across the country in Arizona,
the heaviest rainfall in 44 years
doused the state's central low
land area. Flood waters three
and a half feet deep washed
through Florence, Ariz., caus
ing extensive damage, and sever
Geneva Meeting
Results Good,
Newsmen Told
Both Sides Must Give,
Ike Tells Nation
Washington U.R) Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
said today the danger of war
has receded as a result of the
Geneva summit conference.
Dulles told a news conferenca
that the Geneva conference pro
duced good results.
At the head of the list of
accomplishments, he said the
meeting transformed American
and Soviet relations so that they
became less brittle, thus making
it possible to conduct diplomatic
negotiations without fear of ig
niting a war.
He said this means the danger
of an East-West war has re
ceded. Dulles' assessment of the Gen
eva accomplishments followed
President Eisenhower's report to
the nation last night.
The President said both the
United States and Russia must
do "some giving" at next Octo
ber's foreign ministers' meeting
if the "generalities" of Geneva
are to be moulded into peaceful
settlements. Mr. Eisenhower said
that conference will provide the
"acid test."
Dulles also disclosed at his
news conference that the United
States, in talks with Red China
at Geneva starting next Monday,
hopes to find out if the Reds
will accept the principle of a
cease fire in the Formosa Straits.
Washington and Peiping an
nounced yesterday that the talks
on prisoners and other practical
matters between the two coun
tries would be held at the am
bassador level.
Dulles recalled that on April
26 he had said the first thing in
any talks with Red China was
to find out whether there was
a possibility of a cease fire in
the Formosa Straits.
He also recalled his previous
remarks that it was important
first to fijid out whether the
United States must prepare for
war or peace in the Far East.
And he repeated that the United
States does not -negotiate with a. .
pistol aimed at its head.
Today, however, Dulles spoke
in more conciliatory tones about
Red China and events since April
26.
. Dulles described Mr. Eisen
hower's mutual military inspec
tion proposal as the most sober
and serious proposal that history
records in the disarmament field.
He - said it was not discussed
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff or
Congressional leaders prior to
Geneva.
Private Discussions
As for Geneva accomplish
ments, Dulles said German reuni
fication now is in the air and
Western unity emerged stronger
than ever.
In private talks with Soviet
leaders, the United States em
phasized its concern over the
Iron Curtain satellites and the
subversive role of International
Communism even though the
Reds gave no assurances in re
turn. Mr. Eisenhower mentioned
these points in his radio-television
report.
He said the Bfg Four meeting
made the world realize even
more "that the United States
will go to any length consistent
with out concepts of decency and
justice and right to attain peace."
Must Demonstrate Willingness
But, he indicated, Russia must
demonstrate its willingness to do
the same when Dulles meets with
the other Big Four foreign min
isters in Geneva next fall.
While the President did not
"belittle the obstacles lying
ahead," he expressed hope that
the "longing of mankind" for
peace will continue to pressure
world leaders "to advance con
structively, not merely to re
enact the dreary performances
. . . of the past."
That pressure for peace was
felt at Geneva, he said.
Weather
FORECAST: Cloudy with occa
sional light rain tonight.
' Partly cloudy with scattered
showers in mountains
Wednesday, and mild temper
atures. Low tonight SO; high
Wednesday 75-78.
Highest Yesterday 81
Lowest this Morning 50
Bring Damage
al main highways were closed
yesterday.
Temperatures zoomed into the
100s in South Dakota and Kan
sas late yesterday, including 102
at Pierre, S. D., and 101 at Hill
City, Kan.
The heat wave was followed
up early today with a thunder
storm and winds up to 75 mile
per hour at Bismarck, N.D.