US Atomic Arsenal Stockpiling (Don-feat Versions of
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Washington 'U P.: Combst i rials from both domestic and for
versions of the Eikini super-H J eign sources.
bombs have been pouring into
the U.S. atomic arsenal for the
past six months.
This was disclosed by the At
omic Energy Commission today
in a report which also noted
jubilantly new strides toward
an atomic airplane and "the
swift advance of the atoms for
peace program around the
world."
In its 13t'n semi-annual ac
counting to Congress, the AEC
reported new high record pro
duction of nuclear explosives and
fuels, and of atomic raw mate-
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ROUNDUP QUEEN AND COURT The
Rogue River Roundup queen and her court
are shown here at the posse grounds on Sage
rd. in Medford. where the 13th annual round
up begins at 7:30 p.m. today. Left to right,
they are Glenda Foreman, Medford; Tessie
Ragsdale, Eagle Point; Marie Ross, Talent,
Republicans Could
Slay on 'Forever
Eisenhower Claims
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower told a group
of Republican House and Sen
ate members today that a strong
ly unified Republican party
could remain in control of the
national administration "for
ever." Mr. Eisenhower was honor
guest at a "get together" break
last given by GOP National
Chairman Leonard W. Hail for
Republican members of Congress
as they prepared to adjourn and
return to their home district?
and states.
Urges Positive Approach
The President urged Republi
cans in Congress to return home
with a positive, not a negative
approach to national and inter
national problems and GOP
plans for meeting them.
He stressed the importance of
unifying the Republican party
behind a set of principles which
would be accepted with trust
and confidence by the people of
the country.
He said a true Republican was
a man or woman who best repre
sented the basic principles of
the nation and the party and
did not run for office simply
as a member of a political or
ganization. Week End At Farm
Properly united, he said, the
GOP could "stay here forever."
The President planned to leave
Washington in the early after
noon for a week end at his Get
tysburg, Pa., farm.
Mr. Eisenhower made no di
rect reference to his own politi
cal future, but he did point out
that from the days when he be
gan to weaken in his concept
that an old soldier had no busi
ness in politics, his primary in
terest had been to do what
ever possible for unifying the
Republicans.
Well Explosion Hurts
Man; Condition 'Fair'
Everett Michael, route 2. box
112, Central Point, was reported
in "fair" condition in Commu
nity hospital today.
He was hospitalized Wednes
day after an explosion blew him
out of a 20-foot well. He suffered
severe burns over most of his
body, including third degree
burns on his face and hands,
but Mrs. Michael said today it
is believed he has not lost his
eyesight.
Michael, a timber faller for
McGrew Bros., was down in the
well attempting to start a gaso
line engine, his wife said. The
explosion apparently was caused
when a spark ignited gasoline
and fumes.
The Michaels have three sons,
Jerry. Larry and Tommy.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair with variable
hish cloudiness tonight and
Saturdav. A little warmer.
Low tonight 53. High Satur
day 90.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday M
Lowest this Mornins 49
It revealed that science may
be on the track of chemical sub
stances which could minimize
the threat of genetic doom posed
by the possibility of atomic war.
And it reported or hinted at
scientific breakthrough which
will hasten the nation"s progress
"into a nuclear power economy."
"The commission's program of
developing reactors for industrial
and military power and for naval
and aircraft propulsion made
greater strides during the first
six months of 1955," the AEC
said, "than in any earlier half
Roundup Starts Today
With Parade, Evening
Show at Posse Ground
, A 4 p.m. parade through down
town Medford today starts the
13th annual Rogue River Round
up, sponsored by the Jackson
County Mounted Sheriff's posse.
Some 200 riders will be hi the
parade. At 7:30 p.m. the first of
the three rodeo shows wiH be
staged at the Posse grounds on
Sage rd. The event will begin
with the grand entry, and will
feature "the wildest rodeo, sec
tion" ever, sponsors say, as well
as mounted drills and other
events.
The rodeo is an open show,
and both professional and ama
teur broc-busters are competing,
according to Leonard Ward, gen
eral chairman.
Breakfasts Set
Saturday events will begin
with a "buckaroo breakfast" at
the Posse grounds at 7 a.m., last
ing until 11 a.m. A similar break
fast will be served Sunday.
A 2 p.m. parade Saturday will
feature horsemen, commercial
and organizational floats, sports
cars, and other entries including
the matched palominos, "Golden
Linda" and "Country Wheat," of
Keith and Clarice Moon, Klam
ath Falls, who will also ride in
today's parade.
Both parades will go east on
Main st. to Riverside ave., north
to Sixth st. and west to Holly st.
to disband.
Saturday's rodeo also will be
gin at 7:30 p.m., and the final
show will be at 2 p.m. Sunday,
when cowbodys will have their
final chance to roll up points for
the best all-around cowboy's tro
phy, a handmade saddle donated
to Evert Gibson, Gibson's Sad
dlery, Medford, one of the best
known saddle makers on the Pa
cific coast.
Many Events
The events will include bronc
riding. calf roping, bull riding,
bareback riding, bulldogging and
saddled steer riding. Prizes total
ing more than S700 will be given,
with first, second, third and
fourth places receiving prize
money on a 40, 30, 20 and 10
Salem (U.R) Motor vehicles
in Oregon traveled an estimated
645.000.000 miles during' June,
an all time high for that month,
according to Secretary of State
Earl Newbry.
3,000,000-Box Crop of Pears
Said Progressing Normally
Jackson county's estimated
3.000.000-box pear crop is pro
gressing as it should for this
time of the year, according to
Don Berry, county horticultural
agent.
Normal growth of the fruit,
Berry said, is expected to in
crease from now until harvest,
which will start about Aug. 22.
During the past two or three
weeks, fruit have been growing
at a rate of about two-tenths of
an inch every five days, Barry
said.
He noted that moderately
warm weather, which has pre
vailed in the Rogua Valley re
year.
In particular, "the promise of
nuclear powered flight consider
ably brightened." Although the
commission did not say so, there
is reason to believe an atomic air
craft engine will be built in 1957
and that the world's first atom
Medford
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Roundup Queen; Verna HickmanfEagle Point,
and Maxine Walsh, Lake Creek. The girls
will ride in parades this afternoon and Satur
day, and appear in events at the posse grounds
tonight, Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon.
per cent basis.
The Jackson, Siskiyou and
Douglas county posses, specialty
acts and a calf-riding event for
youngsters will also be featured
during the three rodeo shows.
Three quarter-mile stockhorse
races will be held Sunday after
noon, for cowboys, cowgirls and
junior riders.
"Mowcow," a noted bucking
mule, -will be 'one of the items
of rodeo stock brought here by
Don Miller, French Glenn, who is
again furnishing stock. Miller
has the "best stock to be found
anywhere," possemen report.
Mayor Vetoes Bill
For Controversial
Paving Proposal
Mayor Earl Miller yesterday
vetoed two ordinances for pav
ing Kenwood ave. between West
Second and Humphrey sts.
The ordinances were intro
duced at the council meeting
July 19 after a public hearing on
the proposal. A petition opposing
paving Kenwood ave. and a let
ter from Mrs. Mariam Rose Mc
Caskey, 410 Kenwood ave., were
submitted. The letter asked that
her name be withdrawn from
any petition for paving.
City Would Be Liable
Mayor Miller, in a veto mes
sage, said "It has been the pol
icy of the council in the past to
accept a letter of withdrawal of
the signature of a petition sign
er. This particular letter . . .
would drop the percentage of the
petition from 53.8 per cent to 49
per cent, bringing the petition
below the necessary 50 per cent,
denying the city legal right to
levy the necessary assessments
against the benefitted property
owners, and if ordered in by the
council, the city would be liable
for the amount of the improve
ment." "I can well understand the de
sires of those people on Kenwood
avenue who have tried so many
times to acquire the necessary
percentage to get their street
paved," the mayor said, adding
he hopes they will be able to do
so in the future.
cently, is the "best growing wea
ther for pears. He pointed out
also" that pears generally grow
best immediately after an irri
gation. Packing houses' in the valley
have started preparations for the
harvest, which start about two
weeks later this year because of
adverse weather conditions ear
lier this year.
About 10,000 acres in Jackson
county are devoted to pears,
Berry said.
This year's peach crop will be
between two-thirds and three
fourths as large as a normal her
vest, Berry noted.
driven plane will get into the air
in 1958.
It was the Bikini test bomb of
March 1, 1954, the so-called fission-fusion-fission
bomb, that con
vinced the world's leaders that
a global nuclear war could wipe
MEDFORD, OREGON
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Labor Group Condemns SP's
Ending Passenger Service
ConventionUphoIds
Action of Board;
Horse Race Slated
Railroad To Give
'Break To Riders
In a surprise move yesterday,
the executive board of the State
Federation of Labor formally
condemned the Southern Pa
cific's planned termination of
passenger service between Ash
land and Portland.
Upon hearing the board's
statement, delegates to the 53rd
annual convention unanimously
voiced the federation's support
for the board's action.
Executive Secretary James T.
Marr read the statement, which
placed, the board on record as
urging "the public utility au
thorities having jurisdiction in
this matter to deny the Southern
Pacific's request for discontin
uance of this vital passenger
service to the people of south
ern Oregon, or should the com
pany in any other way attempt
to or actually discontinue this
service, that these same author
ities order it to immediately re
instate such service."
Race Organized
Roseburg (U.R) Southern
Pacific railroad officials said to
day they would give "every
break" to horses to be used late
Saturday night in a 75-mile race
between SP's "Rogue River"
passenger run and relays of
horsemen.
General Passenger Agent Ber
nal S. Quayle said the train
would adhere to its regular
schedule over the proposed race
route, between Eugene and
Roseburg, in order to insure a
fair race.
"In fact," Quayle said, "if the
train . weren't losing almost a
half million dollars a year we
v.'ould be inclined to supply the
two and four-footed participants
with coffee and oats."
55 Riders
Pitted against the passenger
tun will be some 55 riders from
mounted sheriff's poses in Doug
las and Lane counties, and sad
dle clubs from Cottage Grove,
Yoncalla, Sutherlin and Myrtle
Creek. They will race in relays.
A large crowd is expected to
gather in Roseburg for the end
of the race, which will be about
3 a.m. Sunday. A midnight wa
termelon feed and a street dance
is scheduled to entertain spec
tators at Roseburg.
Nationwide publicity for the
event is assured, according to
the Roseburg Chamber of Com
merce. A number of radio news
commentators have expressed an
interest, and it may be filmed
for television. .
Invite Residents
. The chamber has invited all
residents of southern Oregon to
attend the festivities, which will
include a turtle race.
The chamber said its objec
tive is to point out the need for
adequate rail passenger service
between Dunsmuir and Portland
and not just the present "inad
equate" run to Ashland.
Southern Pacific is seeking to
halt its passenger run between
Portland -and Ashland, contend
ing it is steadily losing money
cn the run. The State Public
Utilities Commission has order
ed the run continued.
"Washington 4U.R) The Sen
ate has pased a House bill au
thorizing 8100,000,000 in in
terest - free federal loans for
water projects undertaken by lo
cal public agencies throughout
tht country.
out civilization.
In addition to city-killing blast
and heat, the super bomb sowed
deadly radioactivity over a 7000
square mile area. This fallout
menace helped shape the views
of avoidance of war which were
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Labor Convention's
Adjournment Hears;
Ways-Means Slapped
Delegates to the 53rd an
nual convention of the State
Federation of Labor over
whelmingly voted Eugene as
the site of next year's conven
tion, and adjourned this after
noon. J. D. McDonald and James
T. Marr, both of Portland,
were' unanimous choices to
continue . in their offices of
president and executive secre
tary of the federation. McDon
ald is an incumbent of 11
years, Marr of 9 years.
Sen. Morse Being
'Crucified' Labor
League Head Says
"Wayne Morse is being cruci
fied because he voted for you
and me," C. Al Green told a
group of labor men and women
here last night. Green is region
al director of the Labor League
for Political Education.
He warned more than 200
persons gathered at the Labor
Temple fof the annual Oregon
LLPE meeting that the 1956 po
litical campaign is going to be
the 'toughest' ever.
He praised workers for elect
ing Sen. Richard Neuberger in
1954. Because the Democrats
won a majority in Congress.
Green declared, two goals were
accomplished:
"McCarthy was muzzled, and
the change in chairmanships of
committees stopped the 'givea
way' program."
"But don't let anybody lull
you to sleep in the next cam
paign," the director continued.
If Governor Patterson runs,
Green cautioned, he has 180,000
"habitual votes" already.
The League leader said the
125,000 voters who are not
committed to either party form
the target for labor's political
work.
Green stated that the Ameri
can Federation of Labor got in
to politics in 1946, not because
it wanted to, but because it was
forced to by the Taft - Hartley
act. As for party ties, he de
clared the organization in com
pletely non - partisan. Although
admitting more Democrats than
Republicans are endorsed, he
added, "When the Republicans
show us a liberal, we endorse
him."
Reiterates Philosophy
Green reiterated the "Reward
your friends, defeat your ene
mies" philosophy of AFL found
er Samuel Gompers. In a final
plea, he asked that Oregon
"Send Morse back to Washing
ton." Business conducted at the
meeting included unanimous
adoption of six amendments to
the OLLPE constitution, each
changing wording to allow wom
en's division to work with each
local league.
Mrs. Zee Wilson, president of
the Multnomah county women's
division of the OLLPE, report
ed on progress made in her or
ganization and methods used to
get the program under way. She
stated that the constitution
drawn up by the Portland group
has been adopted for the most
part as a national model.
manifest at the Big Four heads of
government meeting in Geneva.
The commission's report on su
per bomb stockpiling was brief,
blunt, and packed with disclos
ures. It revealed existence of a
"family" of giant weapons.
Immediately after the 1954 Pa-
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The 53rd anual convention of
the Oregon Federation of Labor
was expected to adjourn early
this afternoon, after nominating
officers and selecting a meeting
site for next year.
The convention decided to
stay in session through the noon
hour to wind up its business,
after passing a strongly-worded
reslution condemning the joint
ways and means committee of
the Oregon legislature.
The resolution was in line
with the slap at the ways and
means group, delivered by Fed
eration President J. D. McDon
ald on the opening day of the
session Monday.
'Abuse of Authority'
The resolution "officially
recognizes the abuse of the au
thority vested in the legislature
by a few members thereof," and
charges that the committee "cir
cumvents" the intention of the
state constitution.
It also placed the AFL on rec
ord as opposed to all joint legis
lative committees (those com
posed of both House and Senate
members) except for conference
committees, and condemned the
committees' power to kill a bill
by simply not bringing it to a
floor vote.
It instructed officers of the
AFL to seek changes in the leg
islative rules to eliminate these
features of the committee sys
tem. Pass UCC Measure
The convention, including
more than 400 delegates repre
senting some 180,000 members
of AFL unions in Oregon, yester
day passed without debate a
measure requesting the governor
to replace the present chairman
of the unemployment compensa
tion commission, T. Morris
Dunne.
Gov. Paul L. Patterson told
the convention Wednesday he
would not remove any of the
commissioners.
Labor men charge Dunne with
bias and lack of sympathy with
workmen's problems. Dunne is
the employers' representative on
the three man commission.
The same resolution also
asked that the state unemploy
ment law and the industrial ac
cident law be separated.
Condemn Sales Tax
The convention unanimously
condemned a sales tax and Sen
ate Joint resolution 4 , to be
voted on in the November, 1956,
election. The measure would
permit the legislature to attach
an emergency clause to tax
measures, thus allowing tax leg
islation of future legislatures to
become effective immediately.
Hells Canyon dam received
support in two measures. The
first asked Oregon congressmen
to support bills for a high pub
lic dam at Hells Canyon. The
other reiterated the federation's
support of an all-purpose gov
ernment project at the site.
Between resolutions yesterday,
delegates passed the hat and col
lected $428 ,for the support of
Lumber and Sawmill Workers
local 2752 in St. Helens. The
union is in its 17th week of a
strike against the Fir-Tex Insu
lating Board company there. It
was immediately voted that the
federation as a whole match the
$428.
The adult committee reported
a gain of 26 local unions for the
federation in the past ' year,
bringing the total membership
to 504.
cific tests, the AEC said, it began
to develop "weapons whose de
sign was based on results of those
tests."
"During the first six months
of 1955," it added, "weapons pro
duced in accordance with the
President's directive included
types incorporating such de
signs." Because of the big bomb's un
precedented power to broadcast
radioactive poison over vast
areas, scientists havebeen warn
ing that it carries a genetic
threat to survival of the race
apart from its capacity to inflict
sudden death and destruction.
HARRY BRIDGES
Wins Deportation Fight
Government Loses
Attempt To Deport
Harry Bridges
San Francisco (U.R) The
government today lost its 16-year-old
fight to deport longshore
boss Harry Bridges.
The ruling-by Federal Judge
Louis E. Goodman that Bridges
was not and had never been a
Communist at the time of his
naturalization dashed the gov
enment's hopes to strip him of
his U.S. citizenship and deport
him to his native Australia.
Charges Not Proven
The judge held the govern
ment had failed to prove its
charges Bridges had frauduent
ly obtained his citizenship oy
falsely swearing about his al
leged Communist affiliations.
Goodman's decision was made
seven days after he had taken
the civil suit under submission.
Goodman, who heard the case
without a jury, decided the fate
of the International Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's Un
ion president on the sole issue
of whether he was or had ever
been a full party member at the
time he was granted his citizen
ship in 1945. ,
Struggle At End
The decision meant the long
legal struggle was at an end.
The government conceded early
in the trial that its evidence
must be "clear, concise and un
equivical." The ruling gave
Asst. U. S. Atty. Lynn J. Gillard
and Asst. U. S. Atty. Robert
Schnacke little or no hope for
en appeal.
Tex White, 4 Others,
Taken to Penitentiary
Five persons sentenced to
terms in Oregon State penitenti
ary by Circuit court Judge H.
K. Hanna recently were trans
ported to Salem Wednesday by
Jackson county sheriff's dep
uties. They are Bernice Hampton
(Tex) White, 37, sentenced to
life imprisonment after a jury
conviction of second degree
murder in the death of Eugen
Raymond Birk of Phoenix; Ben
ton Culver MacPherson, 33, sen
tenced to five years in prison
cn sodomy charges; James E.
Sanders, 39, sentenced to an in
determinate period of six years
on rape charges; Russell E. Ah
lum, 44, sentenced to two years
and six months for obtaining
money under false pretenses;
and Floyd Earl Danno, 25, sen
tenced to two years on larceny
by bailee charge.
Mfleion
San Francisco (U.R) Three
American turncoats, who re
turned home today to "face
cut punishment," were arrest
ed at 1:37 p.m (PST) by mil
itary police and charged with
aiding the enemy and inform
ing on fellow American prisoners.
But scientists have made a
strange discovery, the AEC re
ported, in research involving
treatment of bacteria before and
after irradiation with various
protective chemicals.
This suggests the possibility
of perfecting chemical agents
which, the AEC said, will afford
protection against both the imme
diate bodily damage and the long
range genetic harm caused by
atomic radiation.
"Further studies are now un
der way," the AEC said, "to see if
these findings with bacteria can
be applied to mammals."
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'Ball' To Circle.
Earth at Height
Of 200-300 Miles
Launching Seen Two
Or Three Years Away
Washington (U.R) The Unit
ed States today announced plans
to launch small, unmanned satel
lites which will circle the earth
at an altitude of between 200
and 300 miles at a speed of
18,000 miles an hour.
President Eisenhower gave the
project his approval today.
Spokesmen for the National
Science Foundation and the Na
tional Academy of Sciences out
lined the project at the White
House.
They predicted that a satellite
about the size of a basketball
could be blasted by rocket into
an orbit around the earth some
time between July, 1957, end
December, 1958.
Speaking for the President,
Press Secretary James C. Hag
erty stressed that the project
was entirely lor scientific pur
poses and that data collected in
the experiment would be made
available to all scientists through
out the world, including the
Russians.
Equipped With Radio
The satellites, if possible, will
be equipped with measuring and
recording equipment for observ
ing cosmic and solar radiation,
air density and velocity, and
other physical attributes of the
top of the atmosphere. This in
formation will be relayed to
earth by radio.
The project will be a phase
of U. S. . participation in the
1957-58 International Geophysi
cal Year during which scientists
of the world will make the most
exhaustive study ever under
taken of the earth and radiations
affecting it.
In Brussels, according to an
exclusive United Press dispatch.
Prof. Marcel Nicolet said the
United States will provide full
information on each satellite.
Preliminary estimates placed
the cost of the initial project at
$10,000,000, exclusive of the
cost of the rockets needed to
propel the satellites beyond the
earth.
Whis Around Earth
The scientists who joined Hag
erty in explaining the project
to a crowded White House news
conference were "not definite on
the materials from which the
"bird," as the scientists referred
to the satellite, would be con
structed. Nor did they know how
many satellites would be at
tempted. Depending on the weight and
construction of the satellite, the
scientists estimated that the ob
ject would whiz around the earth
every 90 minutes for a period of
days, with an outside possibility
it would go on for some weeks.
Object of the experiment will
be to study air density at be
tween 200 and 300 miles above
the earth, explore the ionosphere
which affects radio transmis
sions, produce information on
the dangerous effects of cosmic
radiation from' the sun and pos
sibly assist the world in more
accurate long range weather
forecasting..
The scientists agreed, too, that
information gained in the experi
ment would be of definite value '
in the ultimate scientific goal
of human travel in outer space.
Sen. Merrifield May
Oppose Wayne Morse
Portland (U.R) State Sen.
John Merrifield yesterday called
on Gov. Paul Patterson for an
early announcement that he
would oppose Wayne Morse for
United States senator in 1956.
Merrifield told Multnomah
county Young Republicans that
if Patterson didn't run he might
seek the office himself.