Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 28, 1955, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextrOXJRTEEM MEDFORD (OREGON) .MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. July 28. 195S No Hells Canyon Action Scheduled Washington (U.R) Chair man Claire Engle (D-Calif.) said today no meeting of the House Interior Committee to act on a bill for Federal development of Hells Canyon is "scheduled or contemplated." The bill authorizing the con troversial dam on the Snake river was approved by the recla mation subcommittee yesterday, putting it before the full com mittee. Engle indicated no meeting is in prospect. Asked the signifi cance of the subcommittee ac tion, he said it meant only that the bill "moved one step for ward." A Senate bill to authorise the project is in a parallel position. It has subcommittee approval but reportedly is a vote short of the full committee endorsement. Meanwhile, an author of the house legislation called the House subcommittee action a "signal victory" for public power advocates seeking to block plans of a private power company to develop the canyon. The Idaho Power Company is seeking Federal Power Com mission licenses for three dams on the river. Rep. Don Magnuson (D-Wash.) said the subcommittee action "certainly should cause the com mission to delay a decision until Congress acts on the project." Turncoat's Wife Awaits Arrival Olympia, Wash. (U.R) With a vow to 'stick by him" the wife of turncoat soldier Otho Bell and the couple's four-year-old daughter Paula, awaited their departure tonight for San Francisco and tomorrow's re union with "daddy." Jewel Bell was scheduled to leave from the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, according to United Air Lines, and will arrive in San Francisco tomorrow at 4:05 a.m. She will be met in San Fran cisco by her brother, an airman at the Parks Air Force Base. Then she will go to the port to await Bell's arrival. He and two other turncoats are aboard the President Cleveland. Tonight's trip will be Mrs. Bell's first plane ride and she is a little nervous about that. An other first will be the meeting of Paula and her father. The girl was born after Bell went over seas. He and 21 other American sol diers defected after their cap ture by the Communists during the Korean fighting. Bell, along with William Cowart and Lewis Griggs, face court martial. The three decided the American way of life was better than life in Communist China even in the face of possi ble prison terms. Safely, Effectiveness Of Salk Vaccine Hit Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) A polio expert said Wednesday night there is no clear cut evi dence that Salk polio vaccine is both safe and effective. The expert, Dr. David Rut stein, of the Harvard Medical school, said he was in complete agreement with British expert Dr. Graham S. Wilson regarding Salk vaccine. Wilson recently cancelled the Salk polio inoculation program in England. He was quoted as saying he did not believe there is any way to make Salk vaccine safe. Rutstein gave his views in an interview by Joseph A. Del Por to, chairman of the Boston Uni versity School of Journalism. "There is no clear cut evi dence at this date that you can consistently produce polio vac cine by the Salk method that is both safe and effective," Rut stein said. Klamath Potato Crop Recovered From Setbacks Klamath Falls (U.R) The i county extension service here: reported today that the Klamath i Basin potato crop has greatly recovered from setbacks caused : by last month's unseasonal! frosts. ! Area potato crops were delay-, ed three weeks by the weather, the service said. However, most potato farmers in the basin felt. that with favorable weather i through mid-September, the crop would equal last year's. FIRM OPENING Peck Bros., a large auto accessory warehousing and distributing firm, this week opens its branch in Medford. An open house is being held at the new building from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. both Friday and Saturday, with prizes, favors, balloons and refreshments. Demonstrations of tire recapping will be given in what the firm says is "the newest and most modern recapping plant on the Pacific coast." Members of the board of directors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce lunched there yesterday, and city and county officials inspected the plant earlier in the week. Above, left to right, are Harold Gregory, Medford manager; L. D. Wagner, Portland manager of the firm; Mayor Earl Miller, John Pletsch, president of the chamber; County Judge Rodney Keating, and E. W. Peck, president of the firm. Shown are the first tires out of the new recapping molds. The building, at 2850 Crater Lake highway, is shown below. Former Paratrooper and Father of Two, Now Becomes Bride of Los Angeles Man in Reno Woman, Ceremony Sacramento (U.R) The mar riage of a former paratrooper, who claimed he had become a woman through sex surgery, to a movie make-up man was dis closed today. The Tnde was Tamara Edel Rees, 31, who, as a man, fathered two children and made four jumps behind enemy lines as a paratrooper in World War II. Tamara claimed that an opera tion in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1954 changed her into a woman. The bride, now making a se ries of "psychological" lectures in California, confirmed the marriage and identified the bridegroom as J. E. Courtland, III. The marriage took place Sat urday in Reno, she said. Not Love at First Sight "It was not a case of love at first sight," the former twice decorated GI explained. In taking out a marriage li cense in Reno, Courtland gave his age as 29 and his home as Charlotte, N.C. He said he had been married previously but that his wife was dead. Tamara listed Los Angeles as her home and said she had not been married previously. Washoe County Clerk Harry K. Brown said that as far as he could ascertain, the marriage was fully legal. "We never heard of anything like this before," Brown de clared. "As long as they come in with a dress on, we figure they're women and issue them a marriage license if they want one." No Specific Law Nevada has no specific stat utes covering the subject al though it does have a law say ing marriages can be annulled if they are not consummated. The minister who performed the ceremony declared "We had no inkling there was anything irregular with the marriage." "But from my point of view as a minister, I would not marry anyone who had undergone sex experimentation. I would not have done it." The minister added he knew of no church regulations that would have any effect upon the marriage since it had been per formed in regular fashion. Courtland, who is accompany ing his bride on the lecture tour as business manager, was not immediately available for com ment. Prominent Family A former roommate of the bridegroom's in Los Angeles identified him as a make-up man and hair stylist who until three weeks ago had worked for 20th Century Fox in Hollywood. The roommate said Courtland was a naval reservist and was expected to be recalled to active duty in September. He said Courtland was a member of a socially prominent family in Charlotte, N.C. "My family has been told of the marriage and are very happy for me." Tamara said. "Jim's father is dead, and his mother doesn't know of the wedding yet." Tamara said she met Court land at a house party given by mutual friends in Los Angeles last January. She left her par ents' home here and moved to Los Angeles about 18 months ago, shortly after her sex trans ition, charging she had become the target of "malicious pub licity." In Los Angeles, Courtland's former roommate, who asked that his identity be withheld, said he introduced the couple and was "quite surprised" to hear of their marriage. Cam for Permanent The roommate, a student worker at a beauty school, said he introduced Courtland to Ta mara. He met her, he said, when she came to the school to get a permanent. The former GI and Courtland were married in the Reno par sonage of the Rev. Stephen Thomas, a Methodist minister. Tamara, as Robert Rees, was married to a North Carolina girl from whom he was divorced in 1946. They had two children. During her theater appear ances here, Tamara has adver tised her lectures as "for women only." During her tour through Northern California in recent months, she spoke to separate groups of men and women. She describes her subject as "straight psychology." Civil .Defense Head Wants Military Help In H-Bomb Attack Washington U.R) Civil De fense Administrator Val Peter son said today he would like to have military help in .event of H-bomb attack. In an interview on the decis ion of several other nations to turn civil defense responsibility over to the military, Peterson expressed a desire that: 1. All draftees be trained in civil defense work. 2. Military reservists serve in civil defense. Time spent in civil defense would count toward re tirement from the reserves. Wants Guard Aid 3. National Guard ground ele ments be keDt under state juris diction for "a few weeks" after an emergency to help with civil defense ODerations. After the im mediate mergency they would be transferred to combat duty. 4. Some units of the regular military establishment be made available for civil defense work If atomic or hydrogen attack wipes out most of a city's popu lation, Peterson said, it also will wipe out most of the civil de fense workers. This would make it necessary to move in trained fire fighters and first aid and rescue teams as soon as possible. Portland Traction Loses.. In Plan To Cut Service Salem iU.PJ Public Utilities Commissioner Charles Heltzel yesterday signed an order which directed the Portland Traction Company to abandon a proposal to reduce passenger service on interurban runs until an investi gation is completed. The company had proposed to reduce service August 14 be tween Portland and Oregon City. Heltzel said a hearing dale would be set later. "Assuming there is a nuclear attack on the United States," he said, "we must use all the tools at hand to meet the situation." Peterson said he and his aides are carefully studying programs in Great Britain, Norway, Swe den and Denmark where the military is being given civil de fense responsibility. Youths Conscripted The Scandinavian countries conscript youths into their civil defense organizations. Great Britain is creating 48 battalions of 600 men each for a "Mobile Defense Corps," trained and equipped to move into the destruction and chaos of a city blasted by an H-bomb. Peterson said a lot of ap proaches are under consideration here. Virtually all of them re quire special training, he said. He described his remarks about military help as "expressing desires." Thieves Only Losers In Jewelry Store Theft Detroit U.R) Two thieves had an almost foolproof plan for j stealing watches from a jewelry store Wednesday one was to distract the jeweler by having his watch repaired while the other filled his pockets with new watches from, the show case. But the jeweler's wife inter rupted the man who was pilfer ing the showcase, police said, and both thieves fled leaving the loot and their own watch as well. JAPAN VOLCANO SHAKES j Kumamoto, Japan (U.R) j Volcanic Mt. Aso rumbled and i shook for 36 minutes today, ! throwing up a pillar of rock, : dust and smoke. Ashes covered i the entire area and officials ' closed the mountainside roads. , Stassen Sees Geneva Talks 'Hopeful Step' Cleveland (U.R) Harold E. Stassen, President Eisenhower's peace secretary, Wednesday night called the Geneva summit 1 conference a "hopeful step towards world peace -and dis armament." 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