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HARVEST WORKERS Two Reter Fruit company employees
(upper photo) stand on the fruit line packing the endless line of
pear boxes. The two in the picture are (left) Barbara Chitwood,
route two, box 208, Central Point, and Marjorie Mee, 3585 Roberts
rd. Below, George Bradbury, Hillcrest orchards worker, begins
to strip a heavy laden limb of Bartlett pears. The three are among
4,000 persons employed In the fruit industry. (Brainerd photos.)
N eg r o B oy M u rdered
In Mississippi After
Woman Said Insulted
Greenwood, Miss. (U.R)
Local authorities today planned
an all-out murder prosecution in
the kidnap-killing of a Chicago
Negro boy who purportedly in
sulted a white woman at a rural
store.
Sheriff George Smith of Le
flore county said storekeeper
Roy Bryant and his half-brother,
J. W. Milan, definitely would be
charged with murdering 15-year-old
Emmett Till, a victim of
polio.
Bryant and Milan, both white,
admitted kidnaping the boy but
claimed they released him un
harmed. The boy's nude body,
shot in the head and weighted
with 125 pounds of metal, was
found in a river Wednesday
morning.
Immediate Angry Reaction
News of the discovery of the
body brought an immediate
angry reaction from the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and denuncia
tions of the State of Mississippi.
In New York, Roy Wilkins,
NAACP executive secretary, said
the slaying was a "lynching." In
Chicago, Henry Huff, chairman
of the NAACP Legal Redress
Committee, protested to state
and federal authorities.
Mrs. Mamie Bradley, Till'
mother, said in Chicago that she
would fight to the end to see
that justice is done," and added,
"the State of Mississippi will
have to pay for this.'
The sheriff said he had su
spected foul play as soon as he
arrested 'Bryant and Milan on
kidnap charges, and awaited
only to find the body before
prosecuting them for murder.
Body in River
Young Till's body, the head
pierced by a gunshot and bash
ed in by a heavy instrument,
wa discovered partly submerged
in the Tallahatchie river 25
miles north of here. '
Smith quoted Bryant - and
Milan as admitting adbucting
Till from the home of Moses
Wright, an uncle Till was visit
ing, after Mrs. Bryant said Till
was the one who insulted her.
But they claimed they after
ward released Till .when Mrs.
Bryant later said he was not
"the one."
Till, or someone, was said to
have directed a "wolf whistle"
at Mrs. Bryant during a visit of
several Negro boys to the store
and upon leaving said "goodbye"
in a manner - that Bryant and
Milan considered insulting.
Glen Johnson Dies
Of Blast Injuries
Funeral services for Glen Her
bert Johnson, 53, of 819 South
Central ave., who died Wednes
day will be held in the Conger
Morris chapel 11 a.m. Sept. 3
with the Rev. E. I. Hiser officia
ting. Committal will be in Hill
crest Memorial Park, Grants
Pass. '
He died of injuries suffered
from an oil drum explosion Aug.
4 at a Riverside ave. trailer
court. His wife died of burns
shortly after the accident.
Weather
FORECAST: Continued fair and
warm through Friday. Low
tonight 50. High Friday 95.
Temp.
Sflighest Yesterday . 93
Lowest this Morning ; 30
Pear Harvest In
Full Swing; May
Reach Peak Soon
The Rogue valley pear harvest
is expected to hit its peak for
the year sometime within ithe
next 10 days, and continue
heavy through September.
. Actual picking began about
Aug. 18 and will end near Oct.
15. ' ;
The 1955 crop is termed by
county horticulural agent "C. B.
Cordy close to "average," with
an estimated 4,000,000 boxes of
pears to be handled. Though it is
by no means a bumper crop, the
yield this year is highly satis
factory to orchardists who suf
fered the disastrous freeze of
1954.
Cordy said the present crop is
double the meager harvest last
year. . '
Bartleiis First v
The two month harvest will
average about 100,000 handled
boxes per day. Bartletts, the crop
mainstay, are the first variety
picked, with seckel, anjou, bosc,
cornice, and winter nelis follow
ing in that order, sometimes
overlapping.
Of the 4,000,000 lugs of pears
handled in the field, about
3,000,000 will survive culling to
be packed or canned. Since vir
tually all of the fruit is shipped
out of the valley, the 3,000,000
box-equivalent of processed fruit
will fill nearly 4,000 Southern
Pacific boxcars.
There is approximately one
worker in the field or packing
plant for .every boxcar of fruit
shipped.
Employment in the valley pear
industry is split nearly in half,
with about 2,000 persons work
ing in the orchards, and the
same number in the packing
plants.
Neuberger Leading
Eisenhower Supporter
Washington U.R) Rich
ard L. Neuberger led Oregon
congressmen in supporting Pres
ident Eisenhower during the
recent congressional session, ac
cording to recorded votes.
Neuberger, a Democrat and
sharply critical of the Presi
dent's administration, voted 62
per cent of the time in favor
of presidential policies. Right
behind him was Republican
Rep. Walter Norblad, with a 61
per cent mark.
The remainder of the Oregon
delegation was tied at 56 per
cent. That mark was made by
Sen. Wayne Morse and Rep.
Edith Green, Democrats, and
Reps. Harris Ellsworth and Sam
Coon, Republicans.
Morse opposed the President
on 40 per cent of voting oc
casions, which made him a lead
ing opponent of the administra
tion. ' .
Ike Will Breakfast
With State Chairmen
Denver (U.R) The White
House announced today that
President Eisenhower will have
breakfast here Sept. 10 with the
Republican state chairmen of all
48 states as part of a GOP cam
paign clinic.
The 48 GOP leaders and Re
publican National - Chairman
Leonard W. Hall will fly here
by chartered airliner from Wash
ington for the Saturday morning
breakfast Session next week.
The GOP leaders will be at
tending a campaign clinic and
training school- in Washington
next week and will return to
the capital after the brtokfast.
Chrysler,. Or
Employees Granted
Same Guaranteed
Wage as Ford, GM
Settlement Comes Six
Hours After Deadline
Detroit (U.R) Chrysler Corp.
and the CIO United Auto Work
ers union agreed today on a new
three-year contract giving 139,
000 striking employees the same
guaranteed wage benefits that
Ford and General Motors grant
ed earlier this summer.,
The settlement came a little
more than six hours after a mid
night strike deadline sent work
ers streaming out of 61 Chrysler
plants in seven states.
The union said the settlement
automatically signalled the end
of the first major Chrysler strike
since its plants were shut down
by a 100-day walkout in 1950.
Emil Mazey, UAW secretary
treasurer who has been pinch
hitting for CIO President Walter
Reuther as head of the union's
bargaining team, said the union
would do everything possible to
"get the workers back on the
job as quickly as we can."
Settlement of two key issues
paved the way for agreement on
the new three-year Chrysler con
tract, a union demand that
white collar workers be included
in the jobless pay3 plan and the
question of the effective datevof
the contract.
- The union . scored a victory
when the company agreed dur
ing the post-deadline to include
8000 office workc in the "guar
anteed semi-annual wage" plan.
Both sides gave in on the effec
tive date problem. They agreed
that the effective date would be
Sept. 1, 1955, but yearly pay in
creases would be moved up to
April 1 next year and to June 1
in 1957.
Contract Like Others
Chrysler plant workers under
the new contract won the same
guaranteed wage benefits as
Ford and GM workers. The plan
guarantees laid off workers up
to 65 per cent of their normal
take-home pay during a half
year of unemployment.
The Chrysler workers also
won six-Cent hourly pay in
creases 'for each of the next
three years, inproved pension,
medical and insurance plans,
and an additional eight-cent
hourly increase for skilled
workers.
Today's settlement brought
the last of the auto industry's.
"Big Three" producers into the
guaranteed wage fold. Still re
maining were the "Little Three,"
American Motors, Studebaker
Packard and Kaiser-Willys.
Polio Incidence
Increases in State
Portland (U.R) An in
crease in the statewide incidence
of polio was noted yesterday by
the State Public Health Depart
ment as Oregon entered the "po
lio season."
Total number of cases in Ore
gon so far this year was 154,
with 18 of the cases reported
last week. There were 131 cases
a year ago, and health officers
said the average for the same
period was 121.
Six new cases were reported
in Portland, and four in the rest
of Multnomah county. Portland
has had 34 cases to date this
year, compared to 15 for . the
same period of 1954, while Mult
nomah county had 16 cases to
date.
' Eleven of the state's polio cas
es reported last week were para
lytic. Coos County Unable To
Enforce Timber Tax Lien
Salem (U.R) Coos county
will be unable to enforce a tax
lien against timber which has re
verted to the ownership of the
United States, in the opinion of
Attorney General Robert ' Y.
Thornton.
However, Thornton said in an
opinion requested by District At
torney John J. Pickett, Coos
county may request federal of
ficials to honor the lien, and if
the lien is rejected the only re
sort to enforce the lien for taxes
would be to the courts of the
United States.
Several New
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
State Fair, opening Saturday for
an eight-day run, will have sev
eral new features. i
One will be the showing for
the first time in the Pacific
Northwest of the Aberdeen An
gus breeders' futurity. The event
is bringing 150 of the top Aber
deen Angus cattle from 10 west
ern states. The futurity entries
50th Year
MEDFORD
26 Pages MEDFORD,
Driest Year On
Record Here Ends;
Rain Totals 8.89
Talent District Ends
Irrigation Season
The driest agricultural year
on record for the Medford vicin
ity ended at midnight last night
following a rainless August.
Medford station of the U. S.
weather bureau reported that a
meager 8.89 inches of precipita
tion fell during the "growers
year" which began on Sept. 1,
1954 and ended Aug. 31, 1955.
The total was 9.26 inches below
the normal of 18.15 for this area.
Previous Dry Year
Previous driest year was 1923
1924 when precipitation, totalled
10.58 which was 1.69 inches more
than fell in the year just ended.
The past year's skimpy rain
fall contrasts to 29.28 inches in
1942-1943, Medford's wettest
year on record.
jTwo comparatively wet years
preceded the all-time driest one.
Precipitation amounted to 22.52
in 1952-1953 and 22.33 in 1953
1954. This year has been a hard one
on farmers depending on irriga
tion. Irrigation EiQls
Today marked the end of e
irrigation season in the Talent
Irrigation district. All irrigation
water from district sources was
to be turned off today.
Officials of Rogue River Val
ley Irrigation district said this
morning that they expect to get
through the season all right with
careful allotment of remaining
water supplies. However, they
warned that, in the event of an
extremely dry fall, the situation
would become very critical by
the end of this month.
Medford Irrigation district of
ficials were out of town today
and could not be contacted con
cerning the situation in their dis
trict. ' ' ' Q ,
Teacher Housing
Lists Requested
Medford city schools officials
today renewed requests that
housing available for teachers be
listed with the city schools of
fice as soon as possible.
They noted that the present
listings include plenty of rooms,
but added that furnished and
unfurnished apartments and
houses are urgently needed. List
ings are running far behind
those for previous years.
All teachers must be in Med
ford by Sept. 13 for start of in
service training, and housing
is needed well in advance of
that date.
Schools officials also" request
ed that those who have listed
housing which since has been
rented gotify the schools office
so the listings of available quar
ters can be changed. The city
schools telephone , number is
3-3683.
Hunnicut Burned in
Gas Tank Explosion
Robert Hunnicut, Jacksonville,
was badly burned this morning
when the gas tank of a car on
which he was working exploded.
Hunnicut was cutting the car
body with a blowtorch in the
Forest creek area about 9 a.m.
today. Gas fumes from the auto's
tank ignited and exploded.
Hunnicut managed to climb
into his own car and drive to
Legg's Shell service in- Jackson
ville. Archie Legg, station man
ager, rushed the injured man to
Sacred Heart hospital.
Umatilla (U.R) The last
bucket of concrete for the 286
bucket of concrete for the $286,
000,000 McNary dam was poured
this week.
Features Due
will be housed in the fair's new
beef barn adjacent to the live
stock pavilion.
The land products show has
been enlarged. Big pumpkins,
corn and sunflowers will be fea
tured along with other land prod
ucts to compete for more than
500 cash prizes.
The garden and flower show,
which has proved one of the
OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER i; 1955 No. 139
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Israeli Jets Down
2 Egyptian Planes
Tel Aviv, Israel "(U.R) Israel today announced its jet Air Force
shot down two Egyptian jet fighters over Israel territory, and
Egypt in a surprise move returned to the U.N. border confer
ence with Israel in an urgent attempt to avoid open warfare.
Egypt had walked out of the talks 10 days ago.
The air battle, which Israel said occurred deep lside Israeli
territory, was the second of two major warlike incidents within
12 hours. '
In Cairo, Egypt made no mention of the air battle, but did
announce that two of its fighter planes "crashed near Gaza after
colliding in midair."
Earlier the Israeli Foreign Office announced that Israeli troops
stabbed into Egyptian-held Gaza during the night to wipe out an
Egyptian army headquarters. Israel said the raid wm in retaliation
for a similar invasion of her territory by Egyptianiorces. Unoffi
cial Sources said the Israelis "left at least 14 Egyptian dead and
scores wounded" in the raid.
Peron Followers
Told To Shoot To
Keep Him in Power
Buenos Aires (U.R) The fol
lowers of President Juan D.
Peron today were under orders
to engage in a campaign of vio
lence, to keep him in power.
Peron, who yesterday offered
to resign in the interest of po
litical peace, withdrew the offer
last night in response to (in
spired . demonstrations of pro
test. And he told his Peronistas
they were authorized to kill any
one who hereafter "takes part
in any anti-demonstration.
Said Contrived Scheme
Political observers and Argen
tine refugees in Montevideo said
the proffered contrived scheme
designed to whip up new en
thusiasm among ; his followers
and reinforce ' his waning hold
on thnation. Some sources sug'
gested he had emerged from the
dramatic maneuver "stronger
than ever". ..
A general strike called by the
6,000,000 member General Con
federation of Labor (CGT) to
protest his resignation was call
ed off today and Argentina be
gan returning to normal. Strong
police reinforcements guarded
key points but no trouble was
reported.
Freak Train Accident
The only casualties were
seven persons killed and 31 in
jured, victims of a freak train
accident aP the village of Tu
cuman. The victims, railroad workers
en route to Buenos Aires to at
tend the mass rally for Peron at
the Plaza de Mayo, were sitting
on the roof of an overcrowded
train. The high tension wires
of a trolley line decapitated
some of the victims when the
train passed underneath it and
flung others against big adver
tising posters lining the track.
Los Angeles Mercury
Reaches 110
Degrees
Los Angeles (U.R) The all
time heat record for Los Angeles
was smashed today when the
mercury shot up to 110 degrees
at 1:30 p.m.
The record of 109 was set 64
years ago on July 25, 1891.
The heat wave started sud
denly yesterday when a 101
was recorded. So far one death
was attributed in part to the
heat.
The area got an unexpected
break, however, when an early
low inversion was dissipated by
winds and almost complete re
lief from smog was reported.
San Pedro reported an unoffi
cial high of 109.5 degrees at
noon.
(See Story on Page. 14)
NO PAPER MONDAY
In order to allow Us em
ployee to enjoy the Labor day
holiday. The Mail Tribune will
not publish on Monday, Sept.
5.
at State Fair
most popular attractions of the
fair, will occupy some 50 per
cent more space this year.
Major departments at the live-
stock end of the fairgrounds will
include dairy cattle, dual pur
pose, beef, draft horses, sheep,
goats, swine and poultry. Future
Farmers and 4-H youths will con
tribute to the competition as well
as adult farmers.
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In London, Britain said she
has warned both Egypt and Is
rael for a second time against
"the dangers of a policy of re
taliation." A British spokesman
said the United States, Britain
and France have been "in con
tact" on the explosive situation
in the Gaza area. He said the
contacts were continuing.
Today's meeting of Egyptian
and Israeli representatives was
held in a tin hut in the Gaza
border area.
It was in this area that Israel
made it powerful "retaliatory"
raid last night.
The air encounter and the Is
raeli thrust into Egyptian terri
tory came on the heels of a U.N.
effort to arrange a cease fire in
the Gaza area. Egypt agreed, but
Israel insisted she could not ac
cept the U. N. arrangement un
less Egypt first assumed all
responsibility for recent inci
dents and gave a separate pledge
not to engage in further aggres
sive acts.
Successful Season
For Festival Plays
The final performance last
night of "A Midsummer Night's
Dream," brought to a close the
1955 and 20th annual Oregon
Shakespearean festival. Manager
Bill" Patton said this morning
that in every respect this season
has been the most successful and
that attendance rose above 20,
000 for the first time in history.
Attendance at the open-air
theater this . year was stimulat
ed by fair weather which pre
vailed every day throughout the
month-long season.
Closing Ceremony
Last night's audience, number
ing about 900, warmly applaud
ed the players and the tradition
al closing ceremony. In this the
entire cast, bearing lighted
candles, circled the audience
while the old English folk song,
"Greensleeves," is sung and the
final speech of "The Tempest"
which begins "Our Revels now
are ended" were spoken by H.
Paul Kliss, festival director-actor,
to close the season.
Post-festival . work including
'striking the set . last night and
today by technicians and men
of the company and today will
see many company members de
parting for their homes in all
parts of the nation.
Manager Patton also slated
that first plans for the 1956 sea
son have already been made at
staff and board meetings during
the past few days.
Year's Sentence For
Driving While Drunk
Jack Randolph, 36, of 1063
Court st., has ben sentenced to
one year in Jackson county jail
on drunk driving charges.
Randolph pleaded guilty to
driving while under the influ
ence of intoxicating beverages
and was sentenced ffli district
court Aug. 30.
Baseball
NATIONAL
St. Louis
6 8
Pittsburgh ...... 7 11 4
Arroya, Gettel (3), Wright
(7) and Sarni; Law, Face (8)
and Shepard.
Milwaukee . 3 11 4
Brooklyn ... 6 7 2
Crone, Johnson : (5), Jolly
6), Paine (8) and Rice; Craig
Labine (7) and Campanella.
Cincinnati . 7 10 2
New York 4 7 0
Nuxhall and Landrith;
Hearn, Wilhelm (4), Giel (6),
Monsani (8) and Kati.
Hint Vitheld
On Agreement To
Inspection Plan
Proposals Considered
As Major Issues
United Nations, N. Y. (U.R)
Russia today asked the West
to agree upon six points which
the Soviet Union considers the
major issues in the disarmament
question.
Soviet delegate Arkady A.
Sobolev broke his silence in the
U. N. Disarmament Subcommit
tee to bring up the six points.
But he gave no hint as to wheth
er the Kremlin would agree to
President Eisenhower's plan for
air, (gi-a and land inspection of
military instllations and an
American-Russian exchange of
military blueprints. e
Sobolev asked the United
States, Britain, France and Can
ada, the Western members of
the subcommittee, whether they
would agree:.
Manpoyer Limits
1. That the manpower levels
proposed by the Russians in
their disarmament proposals' of
last May 10 should be the basis
of the arms reduction program.
These levels were 1,000,000
to 1,500,000 for Russia, the Unit
ed States and China and 650,000
for Britain and France. S
2. That the mannower level
for armed forces of others coun
tries should be set at 150,000 to
200,000 men. , '
3. That a ban on atomic, hv-
drogen and other weaoons of
mass destruction should become
effective when the countries
have completed 75 per cent of
their agreed arms reduction.
4. That complete elimination
of such weaponstrom national
armaments should be achieved
when the remaining 25 per cent
oi the agreed arms reduction
goes into effect.
Nuclear Weapons
5. That there should be an
immediate ban on the use of
nuclear weapons except in de
fense against aggression,
6. That, pending agreement on
the prohibition of nuclear
weapons, there should be a ban ,
on tests of such arms.
There was little new in Sobo
lev's questions. He had outlined
this Soviet position in his open
ing speech to the subcommittee
last Monday and several of the
points were included in a British-French
working paper put
before the subcommittee inLon
don last April.
American disarmament ex
pert Harold E. Stassen stair? h.
did not expect tha Eisenhower
plan to be discussed in substance
until next week.
Red Cross Relief
Fund Over Goal
Red Cross disaster funds for
the hurricane struck northeast ,
were an estimated 35 per cent
over the goal in Jackson county
this morning.
Local chapter officials re
ported Tag Day money raising
efforts yesterday were highly
successful. Tag Day totals will
be announced later. Tag sale
funds plus private contributions
pushed the total about 35 per
cent above the set goal of $1,650.
Tag Day for the Ashland area
is being held today, with money
collected there boosting further.
the county relief fund total.
Miss Siegmund Leads
Women In SOG Here
Miss Shirley Siegmund, young
Eugene player, carded a three-
over-par 79 to take medalist hon
ors ,m today's women's qualify
ing play in the Southern Oregon
Golf tournament at Rogue Val
ley Country club.
The score gives her No. 1
seeded position in matches
which begin Saturday.
Top card for the women, how
ever, was a 75, one under par.
by Miss Sue DeVoe, the defend
ing champion. It was a practice
score. She took her automatic
No. 2 spot in the championship
bracket and was not qualifying.
Report Logging Death
In Copper Area Today
The Jackson county coroner s
office was called shortly before
noon today in connection with a
reported logging accident death
in the Copper area of southwest
Jackson county. : No further de
tails had been reported up to 2
p.m. today.
Astoria (U.R) Tommy Luke,
prominent Portland florist and
civic leader, and three guests
were rescued early today from
Duke's 33-foot cabin cruiser, the
Tyee, after the craft burst into
flames. -. , .9