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by Saopre 1 1 O ore MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 14 Pages Accad e Traffic Mishaps Account for Four During Week End 14-Year-Old Boy Victim of Gunshot By UNITED PRESS Nine persons met accidental death in Oregon during the week rnd. Four died in traffic, three drowned, a 14-year-old boy was " accidentally shot to death and a man died from burns. The gunshot death occurred yesterday about 6 p.m. Coroner L. L. (Jim) Powers said the vic tim, Marland Theiss, was shot by his 16-year-old brother, Ro land, as the older boy was prac ticing drawing his .22 - caliber pistol. ' Marland died about 10 min utes after the accident in Forest Glenn hospital. The boys were sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Theiss of Canyonville. 1 Drowning claimed the life of three-year-old John Avery O'Conner 20 miles north of Lake- view Saturday as the tot walked into a stream to recover a toy he had dropped. He was not missed for about an hour. Jack Quinn, 17, Creswell, was presumed drowned yesterday in the Willamette river about five miles southwest of Creswell when his horse stumbled and threw him into the water. Another drowning victim was James Brace Adams, 42, Idanha. His body was recovered from Detroit lake yesterday after his car plunged off North Santiam highway late Saturday or early yesterday. A head-on collision seven miles east of Oakridge early yes terday killed Ralph L. Baker, 23, Westfir, who was flung from his automobile by the impact. Four others were injured, three of them seriously. A 37-year-old Crescent City, Calif., man, Lee Abyta, was in jured fatally early Saturday when his car skidded into a bridge abutment south of Cave Junction on the Redwood high way. " ' - - " ' Victor Miller, Spokane, Wash., was fatally injured 20 miles 0 south of Bend Saturday when his car ran off the road and over turned. Peter Paris Threlkel, 61, Mar ion, died en route to a Salem hospital Friday night after his car plunged from. Cloverdale road into a creek near Marion. E. H. Spoo, 67, Mitchell, died Saturday several hours after he was burned in a fire at an auto court caused 'by a heating unit explosion. Shasta River Water Not For Domestic Use Yreka The city of Yreka received a set-back last week in its search for new and addition al supplies of municipal water. The city received a report from the state bureau of sani tary engineering which indicat ed that water from the Shasta r.-er "is not satisfactory for do mestic use during summer and tffall months unless extensive treatment is provided." Use of Shasta river water has been suggested as a supple mental to well water now used in Yreka which in recent years has proven insufficient for the demand during summer months. Stewardesses Credited With Calming Fears of Children on Crippled Plane Hilo, Hawaii (U.R) Two stewardesses were credited today with keeping nearly a dozen scared children calm while their plane limped overwater for 300 miles with two of its four en gines feathered. The stewardesses, Barbara Ba jott of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Bobby Vineyard of Alameda, Calif., were aboard a California Eastern Airlines DC4 that lost its No. 1 and No. 2 engines yes terday. Military Dependents . The plane landed safely. It carried 55 passengers and six crewmen. Five of the passengers were women, 11 were children and the other 39 were service men. The women and children were military dependents. The plans was flying from MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 19 emit TALENT PROJECT CONSTRUCTION FUNDS MAY BE SOUGHT BY IKE By A- ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The prospect that President Eisenhower will ask Congress in January for funds to start construction of the Talent division irrigation project is considered good by informed administration offi cials. Congress last year approved planning funds for the project, but construction funds fell by the wayside in the midst of a verbal slugging match between Rep. Harris Ellsworth and Sen. Richard L. Neuberger over who was to blame for it. Outlook Favorable Interior department officials who have been involved in prep arations of the annual budget that goes to Congress in January say the outlook for new projects is very favorable, despite the concerted effort in many quar ters to reduce federal spending and balance the budget. Last January's budget submit ted to Congress by the President did not contain a request for construction funds for Talent Medford Trucker Injured in Crash Robert Glen Cosier, 33, of 808 Broad st., Medford, was injured when the truck he was driving was involved in an accident about a mile south of Gazelle, Calif.,. on.Highw.ay 99 Saturday. Ira Thompson, 51, of Mt. Shasta, Calif., driver of the car, was killed almost instantly in the Willow creek bridge acci dent. Cosier was admitted to Mt. Shasta hospital with hand and arm fractures and possible in ternal injuries. His condition Saturday was listed as critical. He was transferred to Sacred Heart hospital here late Satur day. " California police said the vehicles collided on the bridge, and Thompson's car. sheared off a' bridge railing and landed on the hood of the truck where it caught fire. Nine States Reach Trucking Agreement Salem (U.R) Eight Western states and Kansas reached an agreement over the' week-end under which transport trucks will pay pro-rated license fees charged to trucks of such states, but based on the mileage trav eled by the out-of-state trucks Secretary of State Earl-T. New- bry said today.5 At present these states oper ate under reciprocity agreements which permit the trucks to travel through the states without pay ment of motor vehicle fees. Newbry said Orgeon had pio neered the plan in. 1949 but had not been successful up to now in getting it adopted. He pre dicted the plan would become nationwide in scope within the next year or two. The states entering into the agreement include Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Kansas. Travis Air Force Base about 50 miles northeast of San Francisco to Hicam Field, Hawaii, under charter to the - Military Air Transport Service. Engines Feathered Pilot Alfred Ladoo of Hay ward, Calif., said the plane was about 300 miles from Hilo when he had to feather the No. 1 en gine because of a fuel leak. A few minutes later, he had to feather the No. 2 engine. "We went down to 6000 feet when we lost the No. 2 engine," Ladoo said. "I thought for a while we'd have to ditch." Some of the children began crying. The stewardesses began singing songs and otherwise try ing to distract their attention. When the plane was about one R d A -r " o I r ; -3-- Vx T " TTTVTT7 W " Uni O 3 ed Wire -l - The project was authorized in 1954 under legislation spon sored by Congressman Ellsworth and the then Sen. Guy Cordon. Sen. Neuberger, who unseated Cordon last year, charged that failure of the GOP administra tion to ask for money for Talent showed that it had been used "as a campaign device to drum up Republican votes" before the election but that after Cordon's defeat the administration "evi dently abandoned interest in the project." , Ellsworth called this a "smear like attack" and pointed out that the administration had asked MolotoY Expected To Present New German Proposals Geneva U.R) Big Four con ference sources predicted today Soviet Foreign Minister Vya cheslav M. Molotov. would re turn from Moscow with new pro posals that could break the current deadlock on German unity. Molotov took advantage of a three-day conference recess to fly home to Moscow for consul tations with the other Kremlin leaders. All three Western for eign ministers also were absent from .Geneva., - - - i New Russian Proposals The unofficial reports said Molotov was expected to return. with new proposals on German unity and all-German elections that would go at least part way toward meeting the West. The Western Big Three and West Germany proposed Friday that free all-German elections be held in September, 1956. The reports here said Molotov may accept the idea of free all German elections sometime in the near future without agreeing to the September, 1956, deadline proposed by the West. W e s t e rin diplomats believed such a "concession" if it should come, would be designed to put the West on the spot with de mands for similar "concessions" on its side rather than with any real intention of reaching a cold war peace settlement in Geneva. Two Developments Diplomats saw two develop ments hich cast cold water on any rose-colored outlook, how ever: 1. The East German Commu nist observer delegation in Ge neva already has turned down the West's proposals for all-German elections and said they were unacceptable as long as West Germany remains a member of the Western Alliance. 2. Soviet Vice Premier Lazar Kaganovich in a speech in Mos cow Sunday made it clear that Moscow's aim still is to swallow up all Germany into the Com munist system as ell as to smash the Western alliance. Portland (U.R) Robert D Maxwell of Redmond, Oregon's only living World War II holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor, will lead the Portland Veterans' Day parade Friday as grand marshal. hour from Hilo, the stewardesses told the passengers: "Now is the time to say our prayers and hope we get to Hilo." Then they divided the chil dren among the adults to hold in case the plane had to ditch. Plane Intercepted Meanwhile, a Coast Guard P4Y intercepted the stricken plane and escorted it into Hilo All ships along the flight path were ordered to stand by in case the plane had to ditch. Ladoo said he had 50 gallons of fuel left when he landed at Hilo at 6:42 p.m., HST, or enough to fly another half-hour Three tires blew when the plane landed. 5c No. 195 ceo for $30,000 to plan the project and $352,000 to renabilitate the Medford and Rogue River Val ley irrigation districts' facilities. Ellsworth also contended that a simple typographical error made by a government clerk had resulted in the Bureau of the Budget gaining the impression the Talent project did not have the favorable benefit-to-cost ra tio which correct figures showed it to have. Funds Turned Down When debate on the public works appropriation bill came up, the House turned down re quests for construction funds for Talent but the Senate agreed to put up $500,000 for this purpose. However, the resulting compro mise between the two houses on the bill caused the deletion of the funds for Talent construc tion. The total estimated cost of the project is $21,065,000. The proj ect would provide supplemental water for 9250 acres that pres ently are inadequately irrigated, and it would provide for 8640 acres of new land. Recommendation of funds by the president in his forthcoming budget message would very like ly end the partisan battle that began last session. Election Of Talent Director Tomorrow A director for the Talent Ir rigation -district will be' elected tomorrow. A poll will be open between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the district office in Talent. Joe H. Meyer, the incumbent, and David H. Holmes are seek ing, election as director for a three-year term starting Jan. 1, 1956. Meyer is completing his first term. He is a truck farmer, rais ing tomatoes, onions, cantaloupe and other garden produce. Holmes, president of Harry and David's Bear Creek orchards, also is a dairyman and stock raiser. . Politicians Keep Eye On Tuesday Elections Washington (U.R) Renub- lican and Democratic strategists will have their political barom eters out tomorrow when thous ands of voters go to the polls in local and statewide elections. They will be trying to de termine what bearing the local elections J based brimarilv on local issues will have on the 1956 national campaign. The voting will be the first on a.broad scale since the Demo crats recaptured control of Con gress a year ago and the first since President Eisenhower's heart attack upset calculations on 1956. Two states. Kentuckv and Mis sissippi, will elect governors, four Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia will select state legislators, and sev eral cities will elect mayors. Malheur Declared ' Farm Disaster Area Portland (U.R) President Ei senhower notified Gov. Paul L. Patterson over the week-end that the southern section of Mal heur county has been declared a major farm disaster area eli gible to receive federal aid. Winter forage in that section of the state has been damaged by prolonged dry weather and Gov. Patterson said that he and Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) had been working to obtain federal relief for southern Malheur farmers. The relief would be adminis tered by the department of agri culture. The president's wire said: "I am hopeful that the farmers of Malheur county will have an early and effective relief from their distressing situation." Salem (U.R) The fourth an nual Oregon weed conference will be held here tomorrow and Thursday, sponsored by the Ore gon State College extension division. GETTING FIRST LOOK at Hollywood motion picture studio, visiting Russian newsmen, Anatoli Sofronov, playwright (second from left), and Boris Izakov, magazine editor, (second from right) are escorted by Merle Oberon and Lex Barker, movie stars. (International) Ike Will Return To East Friday; Race Up To Him Denver (U.R) Dr. Paul Dud ley White today approved plans for President Eisenhower to fly back East Friday but said the chief executive will have to "decide for himself" whether to run again. The Boston heart specialist said, "I have no precedent on which to base either adequate advice or predictions" on whether the President 'should seek another term. Ike's Own Decision "He'll probably have to decide himseif," White told reporters at a Denver White House news conference after his final check on the President's condition at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. White said Mr. Eisenhower and the doctors agreed on plans to leave here by air Friday morn ing arriving in Washington that afternoon. On Monday, Nov. 14, the chief executive is expected to be moved by automobile to his- Gettysburg,- Penrr. farm for recuptration. - White and Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snyder, the White House phy sician, agreed that it probably will be late January or Febru ary before Mr. Eisenhower is in a position to decide whether he should seek another term. Progress Encouraging The internationally known heart specialist said he thinks the President first must resume some of the "full strain" of the presidency before deciding on his own future. White said "He got to use his own judgment." He said all the doctors can do is tell the Presi dent how fully he has recovered from the moderate coronary thrombosis which felled him Sept. 24. White gave newsmen a full, encouraging report on Mr. Eisen hower's recovery to date. Group Arrives Safely In Hawaiian Islands The 30 or so Jackson county people on the "Pears to Pine apple" good will tour to the Hawaiian islands, which left "Medford Trans Ocean and In ternational Airport" Saturday, apparently arrived safely and well. The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce office this morn ing received a seven,-word cable gram from them, which said: "Wonderful trip. Will be back by spring." Actually, the tour is due back Saturday, although a few of the members may stay on for addi tional time in the islands. .. Twin Boys Have Same Weight and Height Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Yost, route 1, box 388, Gold Hill, are parents of twin sons, their first children, born Nov. 5 at Com munity hospital. Though not identical twins, the boys ' were identical in weight and height at birth. They , each weighed 7 pounds, 0V2 ounces, and- each is 21 inches tall. Yost is employed at Elk Lum ber company. Mrs. Yost has a brother and a sister who are twins; and Yost's brother is fa ther of a set of twins. The boys have been named Upton Lee, the firstborn, and Thomas Dee. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Tues day except for morning fog in vallevs. Low tonight 40. .High Tuesday 65-68. Temp. 68 35 Highest yesterday Lowest this morning Republicans Hopeful Patterson Will Seek Ejection To Senate Portland (U.R) Wellington D Rankin, newly elected chairman of the Western Regional Confer ence of the Republican Party, won the cheers of some 650 con ference delegates here Saturday night when he declared that Re publicans everywhere "hope and pray" that Gov. Paul Patterson of Oregon will announce his candidacy for the United States Senate next year. Rankin, attorney general for Montana, made his remarks at the close of the two-day confer ence and following an address by Gov. Patterson. Rankin said "the eyes of the west, the eyes of America are on Paul L. Patterson because America needs him in the Unit ed States Senate." In his speech, Patterson did not disclose whether he would be a candidate to compete for the ;Senate seat now held by DenVoerat -Wayne Morse; But he said' Republican ideals would outlive and transcend any one man or group of men. Patterson declared that the party had brought morality back to government; had restored public confidence; had brought history's greatest tax break, and had advanced civil rights as they had never been advanced be fore. In the first of two Portland appearances, Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell told the con- Dulles-Tito Accord May Anger Kremlin Geneva '(U.R) A joint decla ration by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia that the So viet satellites should be freed may anger the Kremlin, it was believed today. . , Dulles flew to Yugoslavia and conferred with the : Yugoslav nresident for seven hours on the Adriatic island of Brioni. They issued a "common accord call ing for independence for the satellite countries. Diplomatic observers here said Tito's main idea was believed to be to have Communist states in dependent from Russia as is Yugoslavia. However neither de fined the meaning of the word "independent" and neither went into specific detail. But his statement came on the eve of the October revolution which first brought Communism to Russia and was expected to cause anger m the Soviet Union. Informed sources said the Soviet Union alwavs denied Russia was the "boss" of the satellites and would find itself in a difficult position because . of Tito's de mands. - Home Campaign of UMC JtV Porchlight Drive Women volunteer workers in the United Medford Crusade will wind up their campaign, be tween 7 and 8 p.m. today with a "porchlight" drive. Workers in the Home Crusade division will call on homes which signify a desire to give by leav ing on porch lights. Mrs. E. A Littrell and Mrs. Scott Davis are in charge of workers in the home division, which is to pro vide an opportunity for those who have not contributed else where. DOW JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones closing stocks: 30 industrials 470.58 up 3.23; 20 railroads 153.- 37, up 0.95;' 15 utilities 64.29. up 0.12; 65 stocks 166.32, up 0.98. Approximately 2,230,000 shares changed hands today, compared with. 2,430,000 Friday. ' j ference that "the American working man never had it so good." Mitchell said "There are more people at work in the United States than ever before in our history. They are making, more money. And their money buys more than ever before because prices have remained virtually steady for two years." The secretary told the banquet audience that "this is not a Big Business government; nor is it a Big Labor government. It is a government devoted to the pro motion and the development of the welfare of every single indi vidual American." Labor - management relations have reached new heights of har mony during the past two years, Mitchell said, and he attributed the peace on the labor front to the Eisenhower administration's "hands off" policy in collective bargaining.' - Two Injured Men Thrown From Auto Mrs. Marjorie Jean Ford, 21, and Debby J. Ford, 3, of 1024 North Central ave. were injur ed when they were thrown from an automobile involved in an accident at the cornei of West Tenth and South Holly sts. at 9 a.m. Sunday. Mrs. Ford, who suffered head and back injuries, was reported in good condition today at Com munity hospital.' The child was treated for cuts and bruises and released. They were taken to the hospital by Medford Ambu lance service. Drivers of the cars involved in the accident were Herbert Dean Ford, and Berda Mary Downing, 1518 Mae st. The latter was cited for failure to yield the right of way to oncoming traffic. Man Fails to Break Into Klamath Jail Klamath Falls (U.R) Sheriff Murray Brition said today a man tried io break into jail here but failed. Brilton said he and Jailor Richard Hunt early Sunday chased an unidentified man clad only in a T-shirt and shorts who placed a ladder against one of the walls of the jail and tried to open a win dow leading into the women's quarters. Tipped off by telephone, Britton came to the scene and found the prowler fleeing to ward a big sawdust pile across the street from the jail. The man wasn't found. Zhukov Asks Preparedness On Revolution Anniversary Moscow (U.R) Soviet De fense Minister Georgi Zhukov called today for "vigilance" and "battle preparedness" in a Com munist Revolution anniversary celebration marked by the ap pearance over Red Square of a "mighty airborne battleship." Giant Bomber Overhead Marshal Zhukov reviewed the Soviet armed forces in a great parade on Red Square marking the 38th anniversary of the Oc tober revolution. A giant jet bomber escorted by swept-wing jet fighters streaked overhead following Zhukov's speech atop the mausoleum of Stalin and Lenin. Earlier First Vice Premier La zar Kaganovich, in a speech be fore Soviet and Communist Party Arrest of Veteran After Discharge Declared Invalid Swimming Pool, Park Segregation Ruled Out Washington (U.R) The supreme Court struck down more racial barriers today. It ruled that racial segregation in public parks, swimming pools and golf courses is unconstitu tional. The high tribunal also invali dated a section of the 1950 Mili tary Code of Justice that allows the armed forces to arrest and try a veteran after his discharge to civilian life for a serious crime committed while serving in uniform overseas. In still another major action, the court refused to review a lower court's ruling that it is unconstitutional for the govern ment to bar members of alleged subversive groups from federal low rent housing projects. Follow Earlier Ruling The court made its segrega tion rulings in two brief orders. There were no written opinions, but both actions evidently were ' based on the same reasoning as the tribunal's historic decision last year banning segregation in public schools. In one of today's cases, the justices affirmed a ruling by the fourth U. S. Circuit Court of Ap peals last March, outlawing sep aration of whites and Negroes in public parks and swimming pools operated by the state of Maryland and the city of Balti more. In the other segregation case, the Supreme Court upheld an appeal by three Negroes who were barred from the ' Bobby Jones public golf course in At lanta, Ga. The justices unani mously ordered the federal dis trict court in Atlanta to direct the city to open its golf courses to all regardless of race. Toth Wins Freedom The court's 6 to 3 decision on the Military Justice Code freed Robert W. Toth, 24-year-old Pittsburgh steelworker, from prosecution on charges-that he. murdered ' a Korean "civilian while serving as an Air Force sergeant in Korea in 1952. The Air Force arrested Toth in 1953, five months after he was discharged, and whisked him to Korea to face a court martial. A federal judge ordered him re turned to this country pending a test of the constitutionality of the Military Justice Code provis ion under whfth he was arrest ed. The decision apparently frees from Army prosecution the three turncoat GIs who returned to this country last summer from Red China. All three are now civilians, having received dishonorable discharges when they first elected to stay with Red China. O Up To Congress o The court majority does not mean there is no way of trying an ex-serviceman whose crimes go undiscovered until he is dis charged. The six justices suggest ed that Congress could provide for such cases to be tried before civilian federal district courts, with special jurisdiction. In the housing case, the Su preme Court upheld, without a written opinion, ao ruling made by the Wisconsin Supreme Court last June. State to Buy $400,000 Worth of Chevrolets Salem (U.R) The state of Oregon plans to purchase $400, 000 worth of Chevrolet vehicles next year, according to the State Department of Finance and Ad ministration. The vehicles will be suppied directly by the Chevrolet divis ion of General Motors. Prices range from $1105 ftr a business coupe to $1612 for a station wa gon. ' leaders, declared that the 20th century will see the triumph of Communism throughout the world. "Under the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin we have triumphed and will contin ue to triumph to full victory for Communism," Kaganovich said. Struggle Continues Zhukov spoke to thousands of troops and citizens massed in Red Square. He said the Soviet Union continues "undeviatingly and consistently to struggle for the cause of peace throughout the world." The goodwill shown at the Ge neva summit conference has led "to a certain relaxation in inter national tension." he added, but he warned sailors, soldiers and airmen not to relax their guard. e
