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of Hartford, Conn., home when raging torrent traps occu
pants. Thousands are homeless in 7-state area.f International)
Eisenhower To Fly
Over Flooded States
On Inspection Trip
Denver (U.R) President
Eisenhower will fly East tonight
for a firsthand look at flood dam
age in six Eastern states and
meet with governors of the af
fected areas at Hartford, Conn.,
tomorrow morning.
The President will leave by
a?r about 8 p.m. (PST) tonight
for an overnight flight East,
swooping over the six affected
states before landing at Hartford
about 4:30 a.m. .(PST) tomor
row. He invited governors of all
flood-stricken states to meet him
ere or send representatives.
Appeals for Money
Mr. Eisenhower will fly to
Washington .from Hartford, ar
riving tomorrow afternoon.
The President coupled his dra
rnatic announcement with a na
tionally televised plea for the
American people to contribute
to the Red Cross special flood
Ssaster fund.
"The heart of America is not
going to stand still while other
Americans are in distress and
in need of help," the chief exec
$ive said. , .
Mr. Eisenhower made the an
nouncement at his summer White
jfouse headquarters at Lowry
Air Forcbase.
O He previously had planned to
take off tomorrow morning for
Washington for a scheduled
speech Wednesday before the
American Bar association con
jntion at Philadelphia.
The President will fly over
the states of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, New York, Massachu
setts, Rhode Island and Connec
ticut. Park Pool To Close
for Season Sept. 5
O Hawthorne park swimming
jol will be closed for the year
on Labor day, Sept. 5, accord
ing to Park Director Darell Hu
son. The pool has been open from
lto 9 p.m. seven days a week
suice it was opened on June 10.
ffle second largest attendance
on record was noted July 13,
when 901 people, including 78
adults, used the pool. The all
tSne high of 915 was set on July
1952.
A total of 365 persons were
taugit to swim this year during
the summer swimming instruc
tion program at the Hawthorns
nark dooL
The President's plans for the
Philadelphia speech and his re
turn to, Denver Wednesday night
were not changed.
Federal Help Ready
In his television talk, Mr. Eis
enhower said he hoped that pub
lic response to the Red Cross
appeal would be sufficient to
meet the goal by tomorrow night.
He made the plea in response
to a request from E. Roland Har
riman, president of the American
Red Cross, who said, that the
$2,000,000 already earmarked by
the organization is not nearly
enough.
At the same time, the Presi
dent gave Civil Defense Admin
istrator Val Peterson a virtual
blank check in determining how
much federal money should be
dumped into states designated
as major disaster areas by the
White House.,
The White House also an
nounced that the Small Business
administration is setting up em
ergency branch offices in the six
flood-stricken states to speed the
work of disaster loans.
OSC Coeds' River
Trip Seen at End
Salem (U.R) The father
of a water-logged Oregon State
college coed said today he doubt
ed that his daughter and her
four companions would complete
their proposed trip from Corval
lis to Portland down the Wil
lamette river in innertubes.
The five started their journey
early Saturday at Corvallis.
Louise Hartmand and Jerri
Keene got as far as Independ
ence before their innertubes
sprang leaks. Dorothy Gather
coal, Lyn Hemingway, and Kath
ryn McFadden were fished out
of the chilly waters at 11 p.m.
by a government tug.
Dorothy's father, James Ga
thercoal, said he believed the
girls had discovered their stunt
was not worth the . discomfort
and would abandon their plan
to float to the mouth of the Wil
lamette. Weather
FORECAST: Fair throujth Tues
day. Low tonight 47. High
Tuesday 92.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 93
Lowest this Morning 49
Two People Hurt
In Jackson County
Auto Accidents
Two persons were injured yes
terday in a flurry of minor mo
tor vehicle accident in Jackson
county.
Walter Lee Clary, 48, of Jack
sonville, was reported "resting
comfortably" this morning after
receiving minor injuries in a one
car accident on Little Applegate
rd. State police were called to
the scene at about 5:30 p.m. They
said Lee's vehicle had skidded
into the bank on a curve when
the steering gear locked.
Medford Ambulance service
took the injured man to Commu
nity hospital.
Woman Injured
Nora K. Casey, 62, of Prine
ville, was hurt when the car she
was riding in collided with an
other vehicle on Highway 62
six miles 'above Trail yesterday.
State police said her husband,
Jack Casey, was operating the
car when it was involved in a
sideswipe collision with a vehi
cle operated by Donald Walter
Harmer, 24, of Roseburg, about
3 p.m. yesterday.
The extent of Mrs. Casey's
injuries was unknown. She was
taken away by private car. Har
mer was charged with failure to
operate on the right side of the
highway.
Four Cars Damaged
A two-car collision on High
way 99 yesterday resulted in
damage to four vehicles and a
nearby gas pump. State police
said a car driven by Raymond
Harold McCoy, 23, of Los Ange
les, was attempting to make a
left turn heading south when it
was involved in a collision with
a vehicle operated by Celo Val
entine Harkey, 53, of Ashland,
traveling north.
The Harkey auto continued
out of control after the impact,
knocking over a gasoline pump
at Graber's Union station and
ramming two parked cars. There
were no injuries.
At 4:17 a.m. Sunday, Richard
Wayne Imhausen, 22, of route
3, box 180, Medford, was driving
his car north on Highway 99
when he fell asleep at the wheel
and ran into a concrete curb at
Kim's restaurant, police said.
Johnny Kezer, 18, of 1103
West 10th st., was a passenger
in the vehicle. No one was in
jured.
UMC 'Kick-Off
Dinner Slated;
Goal $109,000
An official dinner at the
YMCA Sept. 19, will open the
1956 United Medford Crusade
campaign. M. M. Huggins, UMC
chairman, announced the ''kick
off" dinner today and declared
the crusade goal has been set
at $109,000.
Huggins will be assisted in
the '56 drive by Ken McDonald
and Boyd Budge, associate chair
men. Division Heads
Division heads appointed by
Huggins include: Frank Benesh,
William Prentice, Ray Johnson,
Tom Shepard, Dick House, El
liot Becken, Robert Duncan,
Richard Henselman, Foster Hib
bard and Lloyd Evans.
The $109,000 goal, $8,000 over
the 1955 quota, was determined
by the Admittance, Budget and
Quota committee, taking into
consideration population trends,
business conditions, and the
needs of the agencies served.
The aim of the United Med
ford Crusade, Huggins stated, is
to "give the best possible assis
tance to its agencies. This it must
do through an informed public
which assumes its responsibility
with gratitude for the services
and facilities extended by its
community." - .
Klamath Falls, Ore (U.R)
The 20th annual Rotary club
sponsored Klamath Junior Fall
fair opened yesterday at Kla
math county fairgrounds and
will oontinue through Tuesday
Eight-State Death
Toll Reaches 211;
More Expected
Many Factories
May Never Reopen
New York (U.R) Disea
threatened flood devastated
northeastern towns today.
Mud, debris and shattered
transportation, communication
and utility lines were immed
iate problems in hundreds of
communities digging out under
a bright August sun. Dead still
lay beneath the receding waters,
and it was feared the death toll
may reach 300.
Sanitation Problem Faced
The toll stood at 211 in eight
states at midmorning, 110 in
Pennslvania's northeastern cor
ner of industrial towns and va
cation camps; 68 in the factory
stilled river valleys of Connecti
cut; 19 in Massachusetts; six in
New Jersey; four in New York;
two in Virginia, one each in
Delaware and Rhode Island.
Health authorities faced with
a massive sanitation problem
sped disinfectants to towns
where sewers had run with riv
ers through the streets. Water
purification pills were dropped
from helicopters to still-island
towns. . Typhoid inoculations
were ordered for all survivors.
Factories Vanish
And as they counted their dead
and spread mud-soaked bedding
to dry, the homeless and bereav
ed "are wondering where their
money is going to come from
to eat," one Connecticut resi
dent said.
Whole towns in Connecticut's
heavily industrialized river val
leys watched their means of
livelihood swept to destruction
with their homes. There were
fears that some factories would
never rebuild.
State and federal agencies
moved, however, to alleviate
the distress as quickly as pos
sible. And the hardest hit were
sparing of tears.
"I have 13 people living in
my house," said a Torrington
department store clerk. "I don't
know most of them and they
don't know me, or at least they
didn't before this flood. "We're
having a fine timcj together, es
pecially at our nightly cook-outs.
That's the only time we can for
get for a while."
Fantastic Scene
At Winsted, Conn., the town's
biggest wedding of the summer
came off almost as scheduled,
in the midst of almost total de
struction. But the reception's
baked meats were given to an
emergency feeding center.
"The scene here is so fantastic
that most of us even now can't
believe it's happened," Thomas
A. Haggerty, 81, editor of the
Winsted Citizen, said.
"Winsted's main street, Hag
gerty said, is a 10-foot deep gully
for onet-hird of a mile. It
looks as if someone fought a
war here."
At Torrington, where 75 per
cent of the town's industry was
crippled, the American Brass
Company asked its workers to
come back as quickly as possible,
and please bring shovels.
Federal funds for rebuilding
will be available under the dis
aster decree of President Eisen
hower. Money for Jobless
Connecticut's Gov. Abraham
Ribicoff moved to alleviate im
mediate distress. He ordered the
Labor Department to cut red
tape so the jobless may begin
drawing unemployment insur
ance immediately. And he' put a
hold order on some $34,176,000
of scheduled state construction
so that it will not compete with
flood reconstruction projects.
Massachusetts estimated dam
age to its roads and highways
alone at nearly $20,000,000.
Morse Asks New
Video Regulations
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) called on
the Federal Communications
Commission today to speed new
regulations that will give small
communities the same television
service that large cities already
have.
Morse said new regulations
are needed to allow small com
by short range booster stations,
munities to receive TV signals
"It is the responsibility of the
commission to make television
service available to everyone,
and the citizens of small com
munities should not be penalized
because of the slowness of the
commission in formulating a set
of regulations," Morse said in a
statement.
BuDDetin
Umatilla, Ore. (U.R)
Three men held up the Bank
of Umatilla here at noon to
day, state police reported. The
men escaped with an undis
closed amount of cash.
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834 Estimated Dead
In Morocco Uprising
Algiers (U.R) The commander-in-chief
of all French
forces in rebellion wracked
French Morocco, was killed to
day in an airplane crash in the
midst of French military efforts
to put down Nationalist upris
ings throughout the French
North African empire.
The French commander, Gen
eral of the Army Raymond Du
val, lost his life while directing
French forces who today began
a series of military campaigns in
Morocco and Algeria to stamp
out the massacres, riots and other
disorders which gave all North
Africa a bloodbath over the
weekend.
French troops in Algeria de
stroyed nine Arab villages de
scribed as centers of the Nation
alist uprising.
Minimum 834 Dead
French authorities set .the ten
tative death toll in the weekend
massacres, riots and disorders at
a minimum of 834. They said
584 were known dead in Algeria,
249 in Morocco and one in Tu
nisia. The destroyed villages were
evacuated of all women and chil
dren before the French blasted
them to bits with shells and ap
plied the torch.
Fears were expressed that the
death toll would rise well above
1,000.
Some French newspapers
placed the toll as high as 1,341
and officials admitted that sev
ered telephone and other com
munications had obscured the
fate of many communities.
Seek End To Fight
Urgent talks were' begun at
Aix-les-Bains, in France, be
tween Premier Edgar Faure and
native leaders in an effort to halt
the carnage in North Africa.
A government communique is
sued in Algiers, capital of Al
geria, said the nine native set
tlements destroyed today had
furnished most of the men for
Nationalist raids on 14 points
near Constantine in the surprise
rebel offensive of last Saturday.
$1,500,000 Blaze
Destroys Lumber
Mill at Rainier
Rainier, Ore. (U.R) Fire
swept through the Van Vleet
lumber company mill here yes
terday reducing the town's only
major industry to ashes and
causing $1,500,000 damage.
Four fire departments fought
the blaze. It apparently started
from a spark from a welder's
torch and quickly spread to
piles of lumber awaiting ship
ment by water.
Firemen from Rainier, Kelso
Longview and Weyerhaeuser
fire departments were able to
save the mill's lumber planer,
a cargo dock along the Columbia
river and 2,500,000 board feet
of lumber valued at $200,000.
Some Stacked Lumber Saved
General manager H. W. Her
miston said the entire mill was
aflame 15 minutes after the fire
started at 8:15 a.m. He valued
the whole Rainier operation at
$2,500,000.
Part of "the stacked lumber
was saved, Hermiston said, be
cause there was no breeze and
because mill hands and firemen
pitched in to haul thousands of
feet of lumber out of the path
of the flames.
State police from.Kelso, Wash,
crossed the river to aid their
Oregon neighbors. They said 10
firemen sustained minor burns
before they had the flames under
control at 10:40 a.m.
The mill employed 150 men.
Dorris Drug Store
Destroyed by Fire
Dorris,' Calif (U.R) Fire Sat
urday completely destroyed the
Drader Rexall drug store here
despite the efforts of firemen
who fought the blaze for two
hours.
Dr. C. R. Drader, the store's
proprietor and the town's only
physician, said the loss was 100
per cent. Firemen said they
thought defective wiring was
the cause.
The only injury was fireman
Alvin May who suffered minor
cuts.
Ma
MEDFORD, OREGON,
Thornton Charges Gov. Patterson
Not Telling Whole Bribery Story
Salem, Ore. KU.R) Attorney
General Robert Y. Thornton yes
terday charged that Gov. Paul
Patterson had not told the whole
story of a bribery investigation
he ordered into the Oregon
Liquor Control commission.
"The governor says there are
no secret documents in the hands
of himself or Attorney Robert
Maguire, who conducted the
probe," Thornton said. "I do not
Lowry .Requests
Federal MioH
Against SIP Line
State Sen. Philip Lowry of
Medford today charged South
ern Pacific railroad violated an
1866 Act of Congress by discon
tinuing its "Rogue River" pas
senger line, and asked Attorney
General Herbert Brownell Jr.,
to initiate court action against
the company.
The state senator said he had
written the Attorney General
making the request, charging
that failure of the SP to con
tinue its pasesnger service was
"a deliberate open, flagrant and
continuing violation of this Act
of Congress.
Lowry also declared that al
leged losses sustained by South
ern Pacific on the line, given as
the reason for the discontinu
ance, "would appear to be abso
lutely immaterial."
Residents Protest
Passenger service on the line
was discontinued Aug. 7, after a
storm of protest from residents
of the areas served by the train,
dubbed the "night crawler" by
its critics. Southern Oregon resi
dents also staged a horse race
with the train between Eugene
and Roseburg, to point up the
line's inefficiency, but lost the
contest.
In his letter to Brownell,
Lowry pointed out that he and
State Senator Paul Geddes of
Roseburg and Gene Brown of
Grants Pass had protested the
SP action to the State fublic
Utilities commissioner.
"As of this date," he added,
"the Southern Pacific has suc
cessfully challenged the right of
the state of Oregon to regulate
the railroad's operations with re
spect to ordering resumption of
intra-state service until r. full
hearing was conducted."
Appeal Due
The challenge was upheld by
a Marion County Circuit court
decision, which PUC Commis
sioner Charles Heltzel has said
he will appeal to the State Su
preme court.
Lowry also cited a federal dis
trict court case of a decade ago
in which the government sought
to compel through service along
the Siskiyou line of the railroad
south of Ashland. The action
was dismissed without prejudice
by Presiding Judge James Alger
Fee, but Lowry pointed out that
Airport Paving
Work Under Way
Repaving of taxiways at Med
ford Municipal airport started
today. ,
City Manager Robert Duff said
flights between 6 p.m. Wednes
day and 8 a.m. Thursday have
been cancelled by three airlines
serving Medford so paving of the
intersection may be done. He
said that was the most conven
ient arrangement which could
be made between parties con
cerned for paving the intersec
tion. Paving of the main north
south runway will start when
taxiways and the intersection is
complete, but flights are not ex
pected to be interrupted. United
Airlines, Southwest and West
Coast Airliner, planes will use
the east-west: runway during
paving.
J. C. Cpmpton company of
Medford is paving taxiways and
the runway with two inches of
asphaltic concrete. The taxiway
is 1,764 feet long and the run
way is 3,580 feet. Medford's
share of repaving will be $35,
271, and the federal government
will contribute $45,000 to the
project.
MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1955
see how he can make that state
ment." Thornton charged that no one
had been permitted to see more
than a couple of sworn deposi
tions from the report and that
he and Multnomah county dis
trict attorney William Langley
had only received a "general
ized" report of the investigation.
Saturday the Governor criti
cized Thornton for "usurping"
the judge, commenting from the
bench, indicated that the suit had
been poorly handled by the fed
eral prosecutor.
The 1866 law cited by the
state senator was concerned with
filing of land grants and the
operation of services and fran
chises. HEADS MOD Jerry Lausmann,
above, of Medford , has been
named by the Medford Lions
club as chairman of the March
of Dimes in Jackson county. The
fund raising effort of the Nation
al Foundation for Infantile Par
alysis will take place in January.
The Medford Lions club replaces
the Active club as the sponsoring
organization in the the county.
The Active club withdrew from
the project, which it has under
taken for several years, because
of a dwindling membership.
(Brainerd Photo)
Eugene Notes Coldest
August on Record
By UNITED PRESS
The 38 degrees recorded this
morning at Eugene was the cold
est August morning in the rec
ords of the weather bureau there.
Meteorologists attributed the
unseasonal cold to extremely dry
air and rapid loss of heat after
sunset. Portland had a low of 47
degreees this morning and a Sun
day high of 82.
Forecasters predicted gener
ally cooler temperatures around
the state by tomorrow with some
partial cloudiness.
Boston (U.R) Sixty-eight
new cases of polio were reported
in Massachusetts today.
Ike, Dulles May Tackle
American Prisoner Problem
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower and Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles are
expected to tackle the problem
of American prisoners in Red
China when they meet here
Tuesday to review the world
situation.
Mr. Eisenhower is interrupt
ing his Colorado vacation to
make a speech in Philadelphia
Wednesday. He will confer with
Dulles during a brief stopover
here.
Not Optimistic
American officials are hoping
Russia's decision to free three
U.S. prisoners will inspire Red
China to do the same in the case
of the 41 American civilians it
holds.
But they are not optimistic
about any quick action. The ne
gotiations with the Chinese Reds
in Geneva are still very much
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authority in the case which ho
said properly belonged to Lang
ley. Langley had announced he
was ordering a grand jury inves
tigation into charges against the
OLCC.
"The grand jury investigation
is certainly in order," Thornton
said, "but that does not go far
enough." He said the "whole af
fair" should be brought out in
the open.
North Korea Reds
Will Return Flier;
Body of Captain
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R)
Communist North Korea Tues
day will return to the United
Nations an injured American
airman and the body of an Army
captain whose plane was shot
down by Red anti-aircraft fire.
The Reds agreed at a meeting
of the military, armistice com
mission Sunday to return Air
Force 2nd Lt. Guy H. Bumpass
of Jackson, Miss., and the body
of Capt. Charles W. Brown of
West Louisville, Ky., at the vil
lage of Korisal in the Neutral
Zone.
Will Risk Artillery Fire
At the same time, U. S. Air
Force Maj. Gen. Harlan C. Parks,
senior u.W. officer, warned the
Communists that they will be
risking Allied artillery fire if
their planes cross the border
over South Korea.
The Communists told the
United Nations command that
Bumpass "appeared to have a
cracKett skull ' but was in a
good mood, conscious and has a
normal appetite."
The plane' carrying "Bumpass
and Brown, a T6 trainer, was
riddled by Communist anti-aircraft
fire as it flew over the
neutral zone between North and
South Korea last Wednesday.
The U.N. said the unarmed
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woa uii a luuune training
mission and flew over the neu
tral zone by mistake.
The Communists claimed that
Bumpass has denied this but
Parks replied that "I don't be
lieve he made such a statement."
The Red claim could mean that
Bumpass will be questioned
under President Eisenhower's
new "Code of Conduct" for pris
oners of war, which forbids giv
ing military information to the
enemy.
Pear Harvesting
Near Full Swing
Picking of Jackson county's
pear crop will go into full swing
this week, and major packing
houses are expected to be op
erating tomorrow.
Don Berry, countv horticul
tural agent, said most orchardists
will be picking their crops this
week. First pickings in some
Bartlett near orchards started
last week, and second pickings
are planned for later.
Berry said fruit size is a littli
smaller than anticipated, but
there still is a laree cron to be
harvested within a short time of
about three weeks.
Some orchardists. Berrv said.
have reported fruit dropping. He
said dropping was because fruit
matured quicker than expected
and orchardists delayed using
hormone sprays which holcL fr.iit
on trees.
deadlocked over Communist de
mands for control over Chines
students in this country.
Some'U.S. diplomats have been
discussing the idea of calling a
recess in the Geneva talks to
prod the Chinese into some ac
tion. This may be one of the is
sues taken up by Mr. Eisenhower
and Dulles.
Russia To Release Three
The State department an
nounced Saturday that Russia
has agreed to release three
Americans long held behind the
Iron Curtain. They are Army
Pvts. Wilfred C. Kumis, Ames
burg, Mass.; Murray Fields, New
York, and Frederick Charle
Hopkins, a man nobody has been
able to identify.
The Russians said the men
would be released shortly but
did not specify when. They pre
sumably will be set fre Ja
Berlin.