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thundershowers over moun
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sloudv and a little cooler
Monday. High today 95; low
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Temp.
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Lowest yesterday 60
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orse,
Level Charges At
Chairman of FPC
Washington (U.P.) Two Sen
ate Democrats Saturday accused
Chairman Jerome K. Kuyken
dall of the Federal Power Com
mission of fostering "deception'
in the Hells Canyon, Idaho, pow
er case. They also charged him
with suppressing data in the con
troversial Dixon-Yates power
contract.
California Studies
New Highway Over
Oregon Mountain
The possibility of a new high
(5ay over Oregon mountain, the
(lkigh grade on the Redwood high
way just south of the Oregon
line, is being studied by Calif
ornia highway authorities, it was
reported Saturday.
State Rep. E. A. Littrell, Med-
ford, said that California State
Sen. Randolph Collier, Yreka,
representing Siskiyou and Del
Norte counties, who is chairman
of the California legislative high
way committee, is interested in
Jhe possibility of improving the
route. Representative Littrell is
member of the state legislative
interim highway committee.
Go Over Route
Representative Littrell, Sena
tor Collier and State Rep. Lloyd
(Rosie) Haynes, Grants Pass,
looked over the section in detail
n Friday, Littrell said, both on
the present highway alignment
and 0)8 a proposed new route.
They visited the proposed loca
tion by jeep.
Representative Littrell said
(jhat the present highway from
near the checking station to the
head of Griffin creek, on the
other side of the mountain, is
(Spout eight miles long. He said
the proposed realignment would
be about half that distance, and
would have only five or six
curves, with a 200-foot cut at
thepsummit, and that the grade
would not exceed 5 or 6 per cent.
O Would Ease Snow Problem
Most of the new Highway
would be on a southern slope,
thus considerably easing the
problem of snow removal in the
winter, Littrell reported. He said
Qthat Senator Collier has long
been interested in the project,
and that he will ask the Calif
ornia highway department to
(Conduct studies of the possible
realignment project.
Tax Returns to
Drive on Commies
Washington U.R) The
&ouse Committee on Un-Ameri-(gan
Activities has been armed
with authority to examine in
come tax returns in a drive to
uncover "secret" angels" of the
U. S. Communist party.
An executive order issued by
President Eisenhower Friday
, granted the authority which was
requested by Chairman Francis
E. Walter (D-Pa.) two months
ago. The committee has not had
such powers since the days of
the old Dies committee.
Committee sources told the
United Press the authority would
Obe used to determine where and
how Communist front organiza
tions get their funds. In some
cases, they said, financial "An
gels" of the front groups have
no visible means of support.
U.S. Court Session
Posfponed to Tuesday
The session of United States
district court scheduled to open
here Monday morning has been
postponed until Tuesday, Aug.
9, at 10 a.m., according to word
received here from Judge James
Alger Fee.
Jurors have been called for
2 p.m. Tuesday. They will re
, port to the federal courtroom in
the Medford post office building.
Judge Fee, of the federal cir
cuit court of appeals in San
Francisco, will preside at the ses
sion. He has been serving in a
similar capacity in Klamath
Falls for the past week.
(judge Fee served as federal
district judge and frequently
heard cases in Medford before
his appointment to the court of
appeals.
Kefauver
The allegations came to light
in an exchange of letters be
tween Sens. Wayne Morse (Ore.)
and Estes Kefauver (Tenn.), both
public power partisans. Kefau
ver disclosed that Kuykendall
already has been notified he will
be called to explain his "unusual
conduct" when the Senate Anti-
Monopoly subcommittee resumes
hearings this fall.
Authorized Project
President Eisenhower cancel
led the Dixon-Yates contract
after Memphis, Tenn., said it
would build its own power plant
rather than accept Dixon-Yates
Baker (U.R) The Hells
Canyon development associa
tion Saturday appealed to the
Slate Hydroelectric commis
sion io refuse an application
by Idaho Power company lo
build three low dams on the
Snake river.
The appeal was issued by
Albert Ullman of Baker, pres
ident of the association. Appli
cations from the dams, which
would be located at the Idaho
Oregon border, were pending
before the commission."
electricity. On Thursday, over
protests of public power advo
cates, Kuykendall's commission
authorized a private firm, the
Idaho Power Co., to develop the
Hells Canyon project which had
been earmarked by Democratic
administrations for federal de
velopment. In suggesting that (Kuykendall
should be called to testify, Morse
said that "with the aid of the
Eisenhower administration, the
private utilities are attempting
to destroy the public power yard
stick."
In his reply, Kefauver said
that Kuykendall's conduct in the
Dixon-Yates case raises "serious
issues of propriety," and seems
to put "his impartiality and ob
jectivity in question." Kefauver
added:
Raises Doubts
"Mr. Kuykendall's association
with and clearance for appoint
ment as FPC chairman by Gov.
(Arthur B.) Langlie (R-Wash.),
an opponent of Hells Canyon
who, since Kuykendall's appoint
ment, has actively intervened in
the Hells Canyon case before the
FPC, also raises doubts whether
Chairman Kuykendall can pass
judgment on the Hells Canyon
case with an open and unbiased
mind."
Under the Dixon-Yates con
tract a private power combine
was to build a steam plant and
sell power to the government to
be channeled into the public
power network of the Tennessee
Valley Authority. '
In the Hells Canyon case, the
five-member Power Commission
ruled that Idaho Power should
be licensed to build three dams
on the Snake river canyon along
the Idaho-Oregon border. Public
power advocates had urged fed
eral construction of a single high
dam.
Morse contended in his letter
that Kuykendall "withheld"
from the House-Senate Atomic
Energy Committee last fall in
formation that the FPC Bureau
of Law found the Dixon-Yates
contract "questionable as a mat
ter of law and against the best
interests of the United States."
Kefauver agreed in his letter
that the information was "ap
parently suppressed."
State Treasurer to Speak
Before Jubilee Audience
Jacksonville Oregon state
treasurer Sig Unander will
speak at 2:30 p.m. today to high
light the eighth annual Jackson
ville Gold Rush jubilee, which
started yesterday.
Unander will speak on "The
History of Oregon" from the
judge's stand in front of U. S.
Hotel, jubilee headquarters.
Parades on Schedule
Also on today's schedule are
two parades the Old Fashion
parade at 12:30 p.m. and the
Grand Parade at 1 p.m. Both
will be on California st. Unan
der's address will follow a per
formance by the Novelaires quar
tet at the judge's stand at 2 p.m.
Other performances include
Ashland Kiltie band at 3 p.m.,
Colleen Hope's Dancers at 4 p.m.,
Eve Prentice Accordian band at
4:30 p.m.. Miss Pat's Dancers at
5 pjil, Mrs. Alexander's Hawai
Secretary of Navy
Pledges Inquiry in
Eugene Landy Case
Midshipman Gets
Strong Backing
Washington (U.R) Navy
Secretary Charles S. Thomas said
Saturday he personally will
make a "full and impartial" in
vestigation of the Navy's refus
al to give a reserve commission
to a U.S. Merchant Marine ac
ademy honor graduate whose
mother once was a "kaffee
klatsch" Communist.
Thomas disclosed he had tak
en charge of the case as Midship
man Eugene W. Landy, 21, sent
a telegram to the Bureau of
Navy Personnel . "respectfully"
requesting that it reconsider its
refusal.
No Formal Notification
Landy, preparing at his Brad
ley Beach, N.J., home to sail as
a seaman aboard a tanker to
morrow, said he still had not
been notified formally by the
Navy that a commission had
been denied him. All he had to
act upon, he said, was a verbal
report by one of his instructors
at the Kings Port Merchant Mar
ine academy that "your commis
sion will not be forthcoming.
The youth graduated second
in a class of 96 midshipmen from
the Merchant Marine's equival
ent of Annapolis Friday.
Senators, congressmen and the
mayor of Bradley Beach inter
ceded in Landy's behalf and tele
grams and telephone calls pour
ed into his widowed mother's
home.
All the messages supported
him 100 per cent," he said.
Upon sending off his wire to
the Navy department Landy said
that "as it stands now, I might
receive notification of my com
mission before I receive notifi
cation of the refusal."
Thomas, in undertaking a re
view of the case, said he had no
advance opinions and that he
would -wait until he had heard
"both sides" before reaching any
decision. He said Landy's de
cision to appeal had no bearing
on the review, that he would
have studied the case anyway.
Officials have said the Navy did
not question Landy's own per
sonal loyalty.
Landy, described as one of the
brightest students ever to at
tend the academy, received sev
eral awards, including one from
the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Hurricane Aims
Af US Mainland
Miami U.R) Hurricane
"Connie" by - passed Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands Sat
urday night and pointed the fury
of its 125 mile-an-hour winds at
the U.S. mainland 980 -miles
away.
Top winds reported from the
Virgin Islands where a large
movie company, including acad
emy award winner William Hol
den, scurried for cover were 70
miles-an-hour gusts during the
afternoon, the weather bureau
said.
The Miami hurricane forecast
ing center- spotted the huge
whirlwind's center 175 miles due
north of San Juan at 11 p.m.
(EST). This was 980 miles east
southeast of Miami.
Tokyo (U.R) President Syng
man Rhee's new threats to
break the Korean armistice were
heavily discounted by American
officers of the United Nations
command here and in Seoul Sat
urday. ian Band at 5:30 p.m., Forest
Chapman Guitar studio at 7:30
p.m. and Jim Pierce's Modern
dance band at 8 p.m.
An Old Fiddler's contest will
start at 3:30 p.m. at the judge's
stand, and an amateur hour will
start at 6 p.m.
Religious Services
Dr. Jouett P. Bray will con
duct an Old Fashioned Gospel
service at the Pioneer Methodist
church starting at 7 p.m. Catho
lic mass will be held at St. Jo
seph's Catholic church at 11 a.m.
In addition to scheduled ev
ents, there will be an art exhibit
sponsored by the Southern Ore
gon Society of Artists at the city
hall, and a flower exhibit spon
sored by the Jacksonville Garden
club at the IOOF hall.
Jim Pierce will furnish music
for modern dances at the com
munity hall between 9 p.m. and
1 a.m.
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HELPING HAND Major William H. Baumer (center) of Lewis
burg, Pa., is helped from plane at Tachikawa Air Base near Tokyo
after arrival in Japan from the Philippines. Baumer and 10 other
UiS. Air Force men were recently released from Red China af
ter spending 2Vi years in Communist prisons. Major Baumer was
wounded when his B-29 was shot down over North Korea during
the Korean war. At lef is Far East Logistical Commander Maj.
Gen. P. E. Ruestow. Man at right is unidentified.
Mrs. Schmidt Fine in
Hiding: Places Phone
Call to Freed Airman
v Nevada City, Ca0iL-' itBU
Mrs. Una Schmidt Fine hid Sat
urday behind the carefully
phrased statements of an attor
ney who shielded her from "the
bright glare of publicity"
aroused by her marriage to a
young logger while her husband
languished in a Red China
prison.
(Dispatches from Tokyo re
ported that Mrs. Schmidt Fine
Fire Conditions in
Forests of Region
At Critical Stage
Fire conditions in Jackson and
Josephine county forests reach
ed the "critical" stage Saturday.
Timberlands were hot and dry
as afternoon humidities fell to
the 15 per cent mark.
Both Rogue River National
Friday's 102 degree temp
erature was the hottest of the
year for Medford. The. weath
er bureau said the next high
est marks were1 101 on June
8, and 99 on both July 13 and
14. Saturday's high was 101
degrees.
forest and Oregon State Forestry
department district offices warn-
against extremely high fire
danger.
Two fires in this area were
being mopped up at week's end.
A fisherman acidentally start
ed a small but "hot" fire on
Big Butte creek near Butte Falls
in logs and driftwood late Fri
day afternoon.. A pumper and
crew from Butte Falls plus 10
men from the state iorest patrol
managed to confine damage to a
fraction of an acre along the
creek bank, according to Ted
Maul, district warden of the
state department of forestry.
A fire just over the Josephine
county line required two pump
er crews, 12 state forestry men,
and 15 men from a logging camp
to control it Friday night. The
blaze was started in an A. C.
Smith logging operation at the
head of Wolf creek, Maul re
ported. Only 35 Appointments
For Blood Donations
Only 35 persons had made
appointments to donate blood
next week up to late Saturday,
Red Cross officials reported.
Some 250 or more are needed
to fill the quota of blood from
this area. Appointments may be
made by telephoning 3-3813
Monday and Tuesday.
The bloodmobile will be here
from 1 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at
the Elki temple.
placed a : telephone , call -to ..her
first husband Saturday morning
as he prepared to return home
with 10 other released fliers. It
was not immediately learned
whether they were able to speak
to each other.)
Retain Attorney
The 20-year-old wife of both
Airman Daniel Schmidt and
lumberjack Alford Fine retained
Harold A. Berliner, Nevada City
attorney, to represent her.
Berliner refused to disclose
where Una and 21-year-old Fine
had moved their trailer home to
avoid newsmen who had
swarmed into their former Si
erra logging camp home.
"This problem concerns three
adult people and only these
people can work it out," Berlin
er said. "It's no one's business
but their own."
"The bright glare of public
ity," he said, "can do them no
possible good and could damage
the lives of all of them."
Schmidt, 22-year-old crewman
of a B-29 shot down over North
Korea, was stunned when in
formed of his "Enoch Arden"
role shortly after his release by
the Reds.
Wedding Ring Missing
He indicated he was "still all
for the childhood sweetheart
he married three years ago. But
it was noted the wedding band
he wore when he arrived in
Hong Kong was missing from
his finger when reached Tokyo.
Una, who bore Schmidt a son
he has never seen, told newsmen
earlier she had not made up her
mind which husband she would
choose.
Fine was equally disturbed by
the tangled marital status of his
wife. "All I know for sure is we
are in love," he said.
"The boy is the real problem,"
he told a reporter for the Sacra
mento Bee. "He calls me 'daddy.'
I am the only father he has
known."
Albuquerque, N. M. (U.R)
A downpour estimated as hish
as two inches sent a flash flood
rampaging over 430 square
blocks in northeast Albuquerque
Saturday night, the fourth such
inundation in 10 days.
Herbert Hoover Plans to Observe 81st
Birthday at Boyhood Home
Newberg, Ore. U.R) Ex
president Herbert Hoover will
celebrate his 81st birthday next
Wednesday at his boyhood home
here, which will be dedicated as
a national shrine.
Hoover's birthday speech,
which is expected to be based
on the life of his uncle, Dr. Hen
ry J. Minthorn, a country phy
sician with' whom he was raised,
is to be broadcast nationally.
Hoover, only living Republi
can ex-president, will be intro
PUC
Disu
s
Army Proposes Start
(Off Reserve Program
With 10,00(0 Youths
Washington (U.R) The Army
has proposed to start the new
six-month reserve training pro
gram in October with an in
itial class of about 10,000 teen
age trainees, a defense depart
ment manpower official disclos
ed. The overall plan is to train
about 100,000 of the teen-age
volunteers during the coming
year.
The six-month program is a
new type of military service in
augurated in the reserve plan
approved by the last congress.
Under the program, the youths
will be given six months active
duty training followed by 7V6
years compulsory duty in the
ready reserve.
Maj. Gen. John B. Murphy,
military assistant in the office
of assistant defense secretary
for manpower, said the army has
proposed to start the six-month
training program this fall, prob
ably in October.
The Marine Corps and Coast
Guard also have proposed to
take in six-month trainees, start
ing this fall.
The reserve bill still is await
ing President Eisenhower's sig
nature, but it is assumed the
president will approve it al
though it falls short of his org
inal recommendatoins.
Once the president has sighed
the bill and the necessary for
malities are completed t h e
army is expected to announce
a call for 10,000 volunteers for
a training course starting in Oc
tober. The calls will increase
as time goes on and the pro
gram gets rolling.
The Marine Corps is expected
to ask for 5,000 teen-age vol
unteers and the Coast Guard
1,000. The Air Force and Navy
do not plan to take in any re
US Seeks Showdow
On Student Issue
Washington (U.R) The
United States is demanding a
showdown with Red China on its
charge that "several thousand"
Chinese students in this country
have, been barred from going
home.
U. S. Ambassador U. Alexis
Johnson, who is conferring with
Red Chinese diplomats at Gen
eva, has asked the Peiping re
gime to provide a list of the
names of any students "being
detained."
Johnson acted on instructions
from the State department in
an effort to speed up negotia
tion at Geneva on getting Red
China to release 40 American
civilians.
Sports Bulletins
The Southern Oregon
league-leading Drain Black Sox
ran true lo form Saturday
night by defeating the Med
ford Studs 6-1 in a baseball
game played here. Drain
pitcher Jerry Cade struck out
16 Medford batters.
Portland (U.P.) The Los
Angeles Rams 'came from be
hind twice Saturday night to
defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers
35-24 in a professional foot
ball exhibition game before
20.942 fans in Multnomah
Stadium to mark a successful
pro debut for Coach Sid Gill
man of the Rams.
duced by Secretary of Interior
Douglas McKay. The Oregon
legislature is sponsoring the
celebration.
Before the former president
gives his address, State Highway
Commissioner M i 1 o Mclver,
Portland, will officially name
the stretch of U. S. Highway
99 W between Newberg and
Portland as "Herbert Hoover
Boulevard." .' ,
The Minthdrn residence here,
where President Hoover spent
4
rders Immediate
ntesting
(nuance of
servists under the six-month
training program.
Under the program, youths
may volunteer for the program
from 17 until reaching the draft
age of 1832. If still in high
school at 18V&, they may be de
ferred until completion of high
school.
Estimated 558 in
CounlyUnemployed
At End of July .
Only an estimated 558 per
sons, out of a total county
population of some 63,000, were
unemployed at the end of July,
according to the Medford office
of the state employment service.
The number is 19 per cent
fewer than at the end of June,
and is 44 per cent below the
number at the end of July, 1954.
While there was no major in
crease in employment in any
one industry, the office's month
ly report said that employment
remained at high level through
out July, with total employment
somewhat above last year.
Increase Scheduled
The next majors increase in
employment will pome with the
start of the fruit harvest near
the end of this month, the re
port said.
Fruit t hi n n i n g . continued
through July, and was near com
pletion, the report added. Job
openings were 20 per cent higher
than the year before, and were
not concentrated in any one in
dustry or group of occupations.
Instead, they represented a good
cross section of local employ
ment, the report said, including
office,' sales, service, skilled and
unskilled occupations.
There was a continuous flow
of job seekers from other sec
tions, in numbers well above last
year.
The office foresees a " severe
problem" in recruiting labor for
the pear harvest this year, which
is about two weeks later than
in 1954. The greatest labor de
mand is reached with the har
vest of winter pears in late Sep
tember and early October, it
was pointed out, which overlaps
the beginning of the school year.
Because the services of high
school and college students and
adults who live in other areas
and have school-age children,
will be lost, the employment ser
vice anticipates a severe shortage
of harvest labor.
Despite the fact that the "new
benefit year" in unemployment
compensation began July 1, the
number of claims decreased,
rather than increased as usual
at that time, the report said, an
other indication of a high level
of employment. Claims were
filed in July for 1,333 weeks of
unemployment, or 116 weeks
fewer than for June, and 522
fewer than in July of 1954.
Three Winners Named
In Heidt Auditions
Barbara Osborne of Shady,
Dorothy Veal of 2118 Corona
rd., Medford, and Dwaine Leon
Branson, post office box 514,
Central Point, won the Horace
Heidt auditions for Medford at
radio station KYJC last night.
The three will appear on ,he
Heidt show ' at Medford High
school stadium Aug. 16.
in Newberg
his early boyhood, has been re
stored to its condition of 1844,
and will be designated a national
shrine. The project was conduct
ed by the Herbert Hoover Foun
dation, headed by his boyhood
friend Dr. Burt Brown Barker,
vice-president emeritus of the
University of Oregon.
Newberg's K a n y o n Park,
which stands across from the
ex-president's former home, will
be renamed Herbert Hoover
Park,
Railroad
Service
5P Officials Say
,Nighfcrawlerr Has
Made Final Trip
Study May Be Ready
By Early Next Week
Salem U.R) Immediata ac
tion contesting Southern Paci
fic's discontinuance of its "Rogue
River" passenger service be
tween Portland and Ashland will
be . taken by the State Public
Utilities Commission, Commis
sioner Charles H. Heltzel said
Saturday.
SP officials had announced
that the train, referred to as the
"Nightcrawler" in southern Ore
gon, would be eliminated follow
ing its run last night. The an
nouncement came in connection
with a suit filed in Marion Coun
ty Circuit Court in Salem by the
railroad Friday seeking a court
ruling on the commission's au
thority over train service.
Orders Immediate Study
Heltzel said he had directed
J. R. McCullough, commission
attorney, to conduct an imme
diate study to determine action,
his office should take to circum
vent the railroad's course of ac
tion. McCullough indicated the
study might be ready early next
week.
A suit to enjoin the railroad
from eliminating the train serv
ice in question was suggested as
a possibility, McCullough said.
The attorney also indicated
he would study the possibiljfar of
splitting passenger train service
between the Natron Cutoff route
extending from Eugene south
through Klamath Falls south,
and the Shasta route from Eu
gene through Medford and Ash
land. Southern Pacific now operates
three passenger trains on the
cut-off between Portland and-,
Klamath Falls The Cascade.
Shasta Daylight, and the Klam
ath. Operation of a lightweight
"bud" passenger train a short-
type train between PortlancD
and Ashland also will be studied,
McCullough said. 0
Should Continue Service O .
Heltzel said the PUC's posi
tion in the controversy is that
the railroad shouldocontinue its
passenger service to soiithera
Oregon pending a hearing on the
matter. He emphasized that such
a hearing would be0 held. '
Railroad attorneys have con
tended that Heltzel's order di
recting the continuance of Rogue
River train service without a
hearing is illegal, while Heltzel
has contended it is not.
McCullough's study will also
encompass statutes providing
penalties for violation of an
order by the PUC. Such fines '
range from $100 to $1000 per
day. o
Attorneys for the railroad
filed suit in Marion County Cir
cuit Court in Salem Friday to
test the power of the utilities
commissioner.
Bernal S. Quayle, general
passenger agent in Portland, said
the question to be decided was
whether the public utilities
commissioner would force the
company to undergo continuing
losses indefinitely.
Action Protested
The railroad's announcement
last month that it would discon
tinue its passenger runs from Eu
gene to Roseburg, Grants Pass,
Medford and Ashland brought a
storm of protest from Chambers
of Commerce and other civic
groups in the southern Oregon -cities.
The protests were climaxed by
the "pony express" race against
the train a week ago Saturday
night. The train won the race
from Eugene to Roseburg by 10
minutes.
Quayle said the railroad does
not challenge the right of the
commission to investigate the
matter after discontinuance of
service. He said a hearing should
be held and a valid order issued
if the railroad's decision to dis
continue service were found to
be unlawful.
The railroad said it has been
losing money for years on its
'Rogue River run. Those who
protest discontinuance of serv-
lve contena more passengers
would ride the train if service
were improved.
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