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0 at 4vv 1 yfws&BR HST Only Sorry He Didn't Fire MacArthur EVDiicli Sooner INSPECT CORN W. B. Tucker, left, Jackson county extension agent, and W. W. White, superintendent of Southern Oregon Experiment station, inspect one of about 25 varieties of field corn which will be observed by growers at a special corn and alfalfa field day tomorrow; Tours of the experimental farm will start at 9:30 a.m. at the farm, one-half mile west of Talent junction on Highway 99. John Yungen, agronomist; Superintendent White and county agents from Jackson and Josephine counties will be available to explain various experiments dealing with corn and alfalfa and to discuss problems growers may have relative to these crops. (Brainerd photo) Chicago (U.R Former Pres ident Truman says the only "re pentance" he has over firing Gen. Douglas MacArthur is "that I didn't do it two years sooner." ' He made his comment in a question and answer period fol lowing a speech to the Execu tives Club of Chicago Friday in which he accused the adminis tration of "crippling national de fense" in order to cut taxes in time for the 1956 election. Mr. Truman, asked why Uni ted Nations forces in Korea did not drive through to the Yalu River "as MacArthur said they could" instead of halting at the 38th Parallel, replied: Wasn't Ordered To Stop "MacArthur never was or dered to stop at the 38th Paral lel. There were a million and a half Chinese Communists and he couldn't get there." Mr. Truman fired MacArthur April 11, 1951, charging the general was "unable to give wholehearted support" to the policies of the U.N. and the Tru man administration in conduct ing the Korean conflict. Mr. Truman departed from his prepared text to level the charge of "crippling national defense" at the Eisenhower administra tion. He said the administration was trvini? to halation thA hnriopt 'and reduce spending for politi- Hurricanes Get Blame for Fouling Up 'Rain Making1 Washineton (U.R) Hurri- O canes Connie and Diane were partly responsible for fouling up this year's experiments to "make rain" by cloud-seeding, an offi cial of the U.S. Advisory Com mittee on Weather Control said Saturday. Charles Gardner Jr., executive secretary of the committee, said last ADril that cloud - seeding experiments probably would be carried out over a larger area this year than ever before. Interest Didn't Develop But Saturday he said interest f in Western states did not de velope as anticipated, and earlier interest shown in Southern states was drowned out with Connie and Diane. Hurricane Gladys also brought heavy rains to some areas of Texas. Gardner explained that com petent meteorologists don't claim to make rain, but attempt to in crease the amount by seeding potential rain clouds. Among other activities, the committee this year has been at tempting to determine the ef fectiveness of seeding clouds with dry Ice and silver iodine. One of the big answers the ittp hones to Bet from ex periments being conducted by private organizations is wnemer a heavy rainfall following a cloud-seeding operation occurred $ because of the cloud-seeding or was an historical variation in rainfall which would have oc curred anyway. Report Postponed Last spring, the Advisory Committee on Weather Control said it Tioped to have some an swers by June 30. Gardner said Saturday the committee has post poned this anticipated report untS November. Although the amount of acre age seeded so far this year is less than the record year from July r, 1951, to June 30, 1952, Gard ner said more than 10 per cent of the nation's- area was covered by cloud-seeding experiments. The committee does not con duct cloud-seeding experiments itself, but requires all firms con ducting rain-making or rain-increasing experiments to make reports for evaluation purposes'. Los Angeles Heat Wave Comes fo End Los Angeles (U.R) Cooling sea breezes were credited Satur day for snapping Southern Cal ifornia's worst heat wave in his tory which caused 107 deaths, scores of heat prostration cases and heavy losses to farmers. The "killer" hot spell broke Friday on the 10th day of high temperatures when the steadily dropping mercury settled for a high of 88 degrees.. Saturday's high was expected to be 83 slightly above normal for this time of the year, The temperature hit 100 or higher for eight straight day including an all-time high of 110 before it sank to 96 Thurs day. The hot spell also set a new record for sustained 100-degree or better heat. Southern California's , heat weary millions found little re lief to make the weather uncom fortable. The humidity ranged up to 35 per cent at midday Fri day. Preliminary estimates of agri cultural damage ranged to $25,- 000,000 for the heat spell, cal purposes, that is, to influence voters in next year's presiden tial elections. Too Great A Sacrifice "It's too great a sacrifice to State Fair Ends; Attendance Down Salem - U.R) The 90th an nual Oregon State Fair entered its eighth and final day Satur day with attendance down less than expected in view of the 100 degree Sunday and near 100 degree Labor' Day. Attendance Friday was 29,345 compared with' 23,540 for Fri day a year ago. Total attendance through Friday was 283,473 com pared with 312,440 through Fri day in 1954. While attendance has been lower, more money has been spent on the midway and pari mutuel betting at the Lone Oak horse racing meet, officials said. Mrs. John Schweizer of Tilla mook was named queen of the kitchen Friday by gathering 153 points on 53 food items entered at the fair. This was only 11 more points than her closest com petitor Mrs. O. W. Olson of Silverton, who has been queen of the kitchen at three former State Fairs. make on the political altar," Mr. Truman said. Such a policy, he said, would hold "grave dan ger to our safety here at home and be disastrous to our allies abroad." In his prepared speech, the 71-year-old ex-President warned that the nation is losing its "margin of leadership" in .arms supremacy over Russia and cau tioned U.S. leaders to be wary of current "sweet talks" from the Soviets. In an earlier press conference, Mr. Tinman reaffirmed his sup port of Adlai E. Stevenson for the 1956 Democratic presiden tial nomination and said he be lieved falling farm- prices would be a decisive campaign issue. South Dakota Residents Worry Over Inverted Flag Pierre, S. D. (U.R) Res ident wondered if the state was in distress as they passed the state house one day recently. On the flagpole was the Stars and Stripes flying upside down. That is the universal signal for indicating distress or extreme emergency. An alert capitol em ployee finally reported the error and the flag was hauled down and hoisted again this time right side up. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday: other day 5:30 Drevious day Sunday, September II, 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTJN NINE Second Eugene Burglar Caught; First Takes Life Eugene - (U.R) The second half of a two-man burglary team, who worked for the Southern Pacific railroad by day and bur glarized Eugene business estab lishments by night, was captured by police late Friday night. Robert Sebastian Pfau, 27, Eu gene, was taken into custody after hiding out in a garage attic since early yesterday when police engaged in a gun battle with his partner, William Donald Beattie, 22. Took Own Life Beattie took his own life as police were closing in on' him. The pair were spotted by a patrolman in the Pierce Manu facturing Company plant. When they were flushed, Beattie open ed fire with a pistol. In the ensu ing battle, Pfau ran and hid in the garage nearby. Beattie, after firing several shots at police, turned his pistol on himself. Pfau told police he and Beattie had gone on several night forays, breaking into business houses and stealing whatever took their fancy. By day they were rail road workers. Pfau was arraigned Saturday in District Court and bail was set at $5,000. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair Sun day except fog near coast night and morning; little change in temperature; northwes terly winds 12-25 mph near coast. DOUGH Springfield, Mass. (U.R) Police received a report that "Kids are throwing dough away on Longhill street," and a crui ser sped to the scene. It proved to be discarded baker's dough. NEW LOWER FEED PRICES AT SAMSON'S Whole Corn ewt. $4.05 Cracked Corn -ewt. 4.15 Wheat .. ewt. 4.10 Hen Scratch . ewt. 4.10 Ground Barley ewt. 3.00 Rolled Barley . ..70 lb. 2.25 Ground Oats & Barley.. ....ewt. 3.15 Whole Oats ...ewt. 3.25 Rolled Oats . ....a 70 lb. 2.40 COVER CROP SEED CARLOAD to arrivo about September 15th. Call us now for Vetch, Grey Oats, Rye, Aus trian Peas or other seed. Samson Feed fir Seed Co. Poultry and Dairy Feed Hay Fertilizer' 4TH & FRONT MEDFORD Phone 2-5295 Sen. Morse Attacks Support of Low Dams Beaverton U.R Sen. Wayne Morse Friday night attacked Gov. Paul Patterson's support of an Idaho Power Company pro posal for three low dams in the Hells Canyon stretch of the Snake river. Morse, at a Democratic din ner here, said he was confident "that the people of Oregon will not be fooled again by the Ore gon Republican office holders who play the private utility game as they did in the 1952 and 1954 elections. Other speakers on the pro gram were Sen. Richard L. Neu- berger and Rep. Edith Green. Neuberger predicted that Re publicans "in 1956 as in 1954" were going to rely on "character assassination and avoid issues." Mrs. Green said Morse's leader Sship was responsible for "his . toric" appropriations for deep ening of the Columbia Channel, planning for John Day and Green Peter dams and funds to tart Ice Harbor Dam. SOMEBODY'S WAY OFF Topeka, Kan. (U.R) Kansas' 1955 legislature appropriated 135,000 to renovate the state Kouse electrical system. A To peka contractor offered to do the job for just $49,664. Negotiations for BPA Line in Final Stages Portland (U.R) A plan to run Bonneville Power Adminis tration hydroelectric power to a proposed $65,000,000 Harvey Aluminum Company reduction plant at The Dalles was reported in the final negotiation stage Saturday. , A federal supplemental appro priation of $2,038,000 to con struct transmission lines to the plant has been defeated twice in Congress, but a 20-year appro priation of BPA power has been authorized. Details of the latest plan were not revealed by BPA or other Department of Interior agencies concerned. However, it was in dicated the plan might conform to a policy followed by the For est Service, which allows timber operators "credit" for access roads built into federal lands. Harvey Aluminum is a sub sidiary of Harvey Machine Com pany of Torrence, Calif. Lambs reach market weight sooner on pelleted feed than on the same feed fed separately and loose, according to Agriculture Department research at Belts- ville, Md. 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