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CAMERA SHY Monica Seaton, seven-year-old daughter of White House Administrative
Off lcai-j Fred Seaton, becomes camera shy as photographers snap her picture with Vice
President and Mrs. Nixon at the Horace Mann School in Washington. In observance of
American Education Week, the Nixons attended open house at their children's school.
National Party
ity, State
By UNITED PRESS
Voters turned out today for
hundreds of state and city elec
tions which offered the last
large-scale test of political senti
ment before the 1956 presiden
tial campaign.
Although state and local is
sues were dominant in virtually
all cases, national party manag
ers watched the balloting for
clues to what may happen in the
big show next year. They were
particularly interested in these
contests:
1. The Kentucky guberna
torial race in which former Gov.
and former Sen. A. B. (Happy)
Chandler was trying for a poli
tical comeback against Edwin
RDenney, the Republican nom
inee. The GOP hoped that bit
terness growing out of the Demo
cratic primary campaign would
help Republicans win the gover
norship and improve their
chances of carrying normally
Democratic Kentucky next year.
Indiana Forecasts Nation
2. Indiana municipal elections
which have sometimes foreshad
owed the results of future na
tional election.
3. 'The Philadelphia mayoralty
election in which Richardson
Dilworth is the candidate of the
Democratic reformers who
ousted a long-established GOP
machine four years ago. His op
ponent is a GOP reform nomi
nee, W. Thacher Longstreth. The
outcome can affect the 1956 out
look in the critical state of
Pennsylvania, where Democrats
elected a governor in 1954 for
the first time in 20 years.
4. The New Jersey contest for
control of the legislature. The
Democrats, who put Gov. Robert
B. Meyner in office last year,
were trying to finish the job by
wresting control of the legisla
ture from the -GOP.
Today elections provided no
clear test of sentiment among
farm voters, whose sagging in
come is supposed to be threaten
ing trouble for the Eisenhower
administration and its GOP sup
porters in 1956. However, muni
cial elections in small towns may
eive some indirect indications
0of how the farmers feel.
Along with Kentucky, Mis
Two Fires Reporled
In MedfordCP Area
Medford fire department was
called to a house fire at the res
idence of Oscar Phipps, 852 West
Second St., about 9:05 a.m. to
day. Fire consisted of a blaze burn
ing around a flue which caught
the wall and ceiling afire. Two
pumper trucks and nine men re
sponded to the call. Some smoke
damage was listed.
The Central Point Rural Fire
Protection district was called to
the home of Jack Jones, route
2, box 646C, on Upton rd. north
of Kirkland rd. about 4:35 a.m.
today when a storage building
was destroyed by fire.
Several items of furniture
were destroyed in the fire, but
there was no damage to other
buildings in the vicinity.
Articles Filed for
Retirement Home
Articles of incorporation were
filed in Salem today for Rogue
Valley Retirement Home, Inc.,
according to United Press.
The articles were signed by
George C. Flanagan, Kirkland
West, Meredith Groves, L. L.
Clark, Ross Knotts, and Ray
mond Balcomb.
Rogue Valley Retirement
Home. Inc., was formed recently
to construct a retirement home
for the aged in the Medford
Ashland area. The home will be
known as Rogue VaUey Manor.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair tonight.
Fetches of mornins fog. In-c-e-isins
3 h i g h cloudiness
" einesda-v . Low tonight 35,
::h Wednesday 65.
Temp.
Ki;-iest Yesterday .. 67
Lowest this Morning 33
Voting F
sissippi also was electing a gov
ernor today. Attorney- General
J. P. Coleman, the Democratic
nominee, was unopposed.
Virginia, Kentucky and Mis
sissippi, all Democratic states,
were electing members of the
legislatures, as well as New Jer
sey. Besides Philadelphia, major
cities holding elections today in
ore Polio
Malheur Bring Rush
For Gamma Globulin
Nyssa (U.R) Idahoans liv
ing across the Snake river from
this polio-infested area visited
their family doctors in Nyssa and
nearby Oregon communities for
gamma globulin shots today fol
lowing reports of two more Mal
heur tounty polio cases.
The cases were the county's
40th ad 41st of the year in an
epidemic which has taken the
lives of three teen-age girls. The
latest cases involved a three-
year-old Ontario girl and a one-
year-old Nyssa girl. The latter
was the 30th victim of the Nyssa
area so far in 1S55.
2,800 Immunized
The new cases, reported yes
terday, followed a -mass gamma
globulin inoculation program
that immunized 2,800 persons
against the disease in the Nyssa
school district last week.
Dr. Grant B. Hughes, Malheur
county health director, said nei
ther of the latest victims had re
ceived either gamma globulin
shots? which give almost posi
tive polio immunity for a short
period, or injections of the Salk
anti-polio vaccine.
Two other cases one in Nys
sa and another in nearby Adrian
Oregon State Blind
Workshop Closed
Portland (U.R) The work
shop of the Oregon State Blind
Commission here was closed in
definitely today. An official said
it was closed because of a ruling
by Attorney General Robert Y
Thornton that 21 of the workers
are not state employees and must
provide their own industrial ac
cident insurance.
Clifford Stocker, commission
administrator, termed the ruling
a "gross injustice." He said
workers in the shop have been
covered for the last six years
by State Industrial Accident in
surance. Coverage, he said, was
based on a legal opinion by the
State Industrial Accident Com
mission.
An insurance agent said pri-
yate insurance would cost each
of the blind persons from S20
to $30 a month. Average earn
ings range from $140 to $240 a
month.
UN General Assembly
Balloting Postponed
United Nations, N.Y (U.R)
The United Nations General as
sembly after a record 21 ballots
today postponed for two weeks
the deadlocked Security Coun
cil election between U.S.-backed
Philippines and Yugoslavia.
The Assembly cast nine bal
lots this morning but failed to
break the deadlock.
However, U. S. Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., speak
ing in favor of the postpone
ment, told the Assembly that, "a
new idea" had been put forward
for consideration which made it
advisable to suspend the voting,
Richland, Wash. (U.R) Sen
Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.!
has predicted reelection of Sen.
Warren G. Magnuson of Wash
ington because "Magnuson has
been a leader in the fight to
retain our water-power re
sources for the people rather
than for . private industry."
anagers Scan
or Clues
cluded San Francisco, Boston, in
dianapolis. Ind., Memphis, Tenn.,
Columbus, O., and Hartford,
Conn.
In Michigan, both Republi
cans and Democrats in the 15th
congressional district held pri
maries to nominate a successor
to the late Rep. John D. Dingell,
a Democrat, who died last
summer.
Cases in
were reported last week mid
way through the five-day inocu
lation program.
Dr. Hughes said it was impos
sible to determine how many
Idahoans were coming across the
state line to receive injections
here but it was believed the
number was substantial.
Idaho Sends Supply
Idaho board of health officials
in Boise said 1,970 cubic centi
meters of the precious gamma
globulin had been shipped to
Malheur county to supply Ida
hoans receiving injections ther;.
Shipment' 'would provide 137
persons with 10-cc shots.
Shots were being adminis
tered by physicians at their of
fices since the mass inoculation
facilities at Nyssa high school
were dismantled Saturday night.
Stores To Remain
Open November 11
Medford -merchants will re
main open on Veterans Day, Fri
day, Nov. 11. Banks, the city hall
and courthouse offices will be
closed. . . . .
Medford retail merchants vot
ed at their last meeting to fol
low the lead of Portland, Salem,
Eugene, and Klamath Falls in
relation to closing for the holi
day. Since retail stores in those
cities were planning to remain
open it was decided to follow
suit.
State liquor stores and agen
cies will be closed. Licensees of
the Oregon liquor control com
mission, however, need not close
unless they wish to do so, ac
cording to an OLCC report.
Private clubs which have mas
ter locker permits may not sell
bottled liquor containing more
than 14 per cent alcohol by vol
ume on Friday, but other sales
and services allowed by their
license will be permitted.
Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R)
Songwriter Hoagy Carmichael,
55, was divorced today by his
wife, Ruth. 41, on charges he
was "cold and indifferent" dur
ing their past three years of
marriage.
Problem of Door to Door Magazine Sales
Is Stickler for Police, Chamber Chiefs
Someone from ' one out of
every two groups of door to
door magazine salesmen coming
to Medford is arrested, Sgt. Lyle
C. Perkins, city police, declared
Monday.
Sergeant Perkins was one of
about 15 persons who discussed
the problem of door to door
salesmen and possible corrective
legislation at the weekly Cham
ber of Commerce Roundtable
luncheon at the Jackson hotel.
Two-Fold Problem
There was general agreement
among those present that the
problem was two-fold in that it
embraced not only the danger
of the public being defrauded
by disreputable salesmen, but
the fact that outside, high pres
sure groups take thousands of
dollars out of the city each year.
Don McNeil, chamber of com
merce manager, stated that the
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Eisenhower May
Make Two Brief
Speeches Friday
President Practices
Walking on Stairs
Denver (U.R) The White
House today announced plans
for President Eisenhower's re
turn to Washington Nov. 11. He
will arrive back in Washington
between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. (EST)
and probably make two speeches
during the day.
The chief executive, accord
ing to his Press Secretary James
C. Hagerty, probably will speak
briefly upon his departure from
Lowry Air Force Base at about
11 a.m. (EST) Friday. Hagerty
also expected the President
would have "a few words" upon
his arrival at the Military Air
Transport Service terminal in
Washington.
The forenoon medical bulletin
on Mr. Eisenhower reported
continued progress in his recov
ery from a Sept. 24 heart attack.
This morning, he walked up a
flight of 10 steps in a fire es
cape between the eighth and
ninth floors of Fitzsimons Army
hospital.
To Walk up Ramp
He covered the 10-step route
three times without stopping,
resting briefly at the top of the
stairs before starting his down
ward trip. Hagerty said that lat
er in the day Mr. Eisenhower
was expected to cover the same
stairway route three more times.
What the President and his
doctors were doing was a re
hearsal for Friday when Mr.
Eisenhower will walk up the
ramp to his plane, the Columbine
III.
The President was aware that
a civic reception in Washington
was being organized and after
checking with his physicians, he
found no medical objection to
any large street crowds awaiting
him in the nation's capital.
'Bubble Top' Car -
The President will drive
through the streets of Washing
ton to the White House in what
was described as the "bubble
top" limousine. This is a car with
a plastic covering over the rear
seat which protects the Presi
dent from the weather and still
permits the public to see him.
Mr. Eisenhower's statements at
Lowry and at Washington were
expected to be brief.
Ashland Paying
Contract Referred
Salem (U.R) The State High
way Commission said today it
had referred to the state en
gineer for final award a contract
for paving in the city of Ash
land. T. W. Thomas, Portland, was
low bidder at $118,136 when the
commission opened bids in Port
land last week. It is a federal
aid project and approval from
the Bureau of Public Roads is
required.- The project calls for
.51 mile of grading and paving
for northbound lanes of the Pa
cific highway in Ashland.
chamber receives more than 100
complaints a year from people
who have been defrauded by
salesmen or desire information
as to whether or not a particu
lar group of salesmen is rep
utable. It was pointed out that door
to door sales groups have be
come more numerous in recent
times. Perkins stated that it is
not uncommon to have three dif
ferent groups of magazine sales
men working the Medford area
at the same time and that it
would require two men full time
for the police to fingerprint,
photograph and obtain accurate
information about all door-to-door
salesmen.
Tacoma Ordinance
McNeil stated that an ordi
nance has 'been passed in Ta
coma to prohibit soliciting at
night because of the unsavory
character of some of the sales
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1955
Jack B. Welling, 67, Camp
White, was killed last. night in
one of three automobile acci
dents in Jackson county. The
fatal accident occurred at about
8:15 p.m.
Welling was walking across
Crater Lake highway at the
Camp White intersection when
he was struck by a car. It was
the third similar fatal accident
at the Camp White intersection
this year.
State police said Welling was
struck by a vehicle operated
by Gordon Lee Hayes, 32, of
Apartment 1, School apartments,
Eagle Point.
Hayes' car was eastbound at
a speed of 40 miles an hour. He
told investigating officers that
he did not see Welling in the
highway until just before., the
car hit the man. Welling evident
ly was standing in the eastbound
lane of traffic with his back
toward Hayes' oncoming car.
Killed Instantly
Welling was killed instantly,
according to Coroner Carlos
Morris. The coroner said Well
ing suffered multiple injuries,
including a broken neck, both
legs broken, a back wound, and
a possible skull fracture.
Conger-Morris funeral home
is in charge of funeral arrange
ments. Six people were injured in
another automobile accident on
Crater Lake highway; - Five - of
the injured were treated and re
leased and the sixth remained
in the hospital today. '
State police said the mishap
occurred at the Four Corners
intersection when a car operated
by Eugene D. Winningham, 18,
Prospect, collided with a ve
hicle registered to Tolbert G.
Reavis, Camp White, and oc
cupied by William J. Wilkin.
64, and Fred Montova, 63, both
of Camp White.
Although both vehicles involv
ed in the accident were moving
at the time of the accident,
police said, both Wilkin and
Montoya denied they were driv
ing the second car.
Girl Injured
Most seriously injured in the
accident was Patricia Sanderson,
15, Prospect, a passenger in the
car driven by Winningham. She
was taken to Sacred Heart hos
pital, where she is being treated
for face cuts and a head injury.
Lawrence L. Sanderson, 18.
and Jeanette Walls, 16, both of
Prospect and both passengers
in Winningham's car, were treat
ed and released at Sacred Heart
hospital. Winningham, Wilkin
and Montoya were treated and
released at Community hosoital,
where they were taken by Med
ford Ambulance service.
Francis Jordon Rhodes. 21,
of 1216 East Ninth st., Medford,
Salem (U.R) Highways
throughout, Oregon were re
ported fn good shape and bare of
snow or ice today by the State
Highway Department.
Salem (U.R) Next week,
Nov. 13-19, is "Truck Transpor
tation Week" in Oregon.
men.
He suggested that Medford
might adopt an ordinance simi
lar to one in force in Pendleton,
where salesmen are required to
register, apply for a license, be
fingerprinted, post a bond, give
the names of the last three towns
in which they worked, and un
dergo a 30-day waiting period.
Legislation Difficult
Frank Farrell, city attorney,
stressed the fact that legislation
to correct the problem was ex
tremely difficult to enact. He
said that such legislation must
be reasonable; that it couldn't
interfere with interstate com
merce, and must be fair to out
siders as well as resident sales
men. He expressed doubt that the
Pendleton ordinance was legal
and cited an instance of an ordi
nance prohibiting photographers
from soliciting in Medford which
kji faL y-j-y . '
was injured when the car which
he was driving crashed into a
California Oregon Power com
pany utility pole on North Cen
tral ave. at Court st. about 4
a.m. today.
He was taken by Medford
TO HAWAII Mayor Earl Miller presents Bert Pree a box of
Rogue Valley pears for the mayor of Honolulu as a good will
gesture. The pears were shipped when about S3 members ot tne
Jackson County Chamber of Commerce left "Medford Trans
Ocean and International Airport" Saturday on a "Pears to Pine
apples" tour: Standing at rear are Otto Ewaldsen (left), a Chamber
director, and R. B. Thierolf, vice-president of the Chamber.
Protective Umbrella
Over World Farmers
ay Be Withdrawn
Rome (U.R) U. S. Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson
warned today that the protective
umbrella thrown over the
world's farmers by the American
price support program may be
withdrawn.
The statement was made be-
Polls Open Until 5
For TID Election
Talent Polls will be open
until 5 p.m. today for the Talent
Irrigation district election. Poll
ing place is located at the dist
rict's office in Talent.
Residents of the district will
be electing a director for a three
year term. Candidates are Joe H.
Meyer, the incumbent, and Da
vid H. Holmes.
Meyer, who is contemplating
his first term in office, is a truck
farmer, and Holmes is president
of Harry and David's Bear Creek
orchards.
was contested and declared il
legal. Sgt. Perkins said that the po
lice department would welcome,
the enactment of an ordinance
in Medford similar to the Green
River ordinance.
The Green River ordinance
states that it is a trespass when
salesmen go on property where
a sign says "no peddlers or
agents."
Fraudulent Practices
Instances of fraudulent prac
tices among door to door sales
men mentioned by the group
where magazine salesmen and
photographers who fail to de
liver their product after selling
it; groups selling advertising in
non-existant publications; groups
selling "imported goods" that
are bought locally; and a group
that sold a roof coating in Med
ford last year which washed off
during the first rain.
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Ambulance service to Commu
nity hospital, where his condi
tion was listed as fair early
today. ,
Rhodes was operating a 1949
convertible coupe, according to
city police.
fore the biennial meeting of the
United Nations Food and Agri
cultural Organization (FAO).
Benson was unable to attend and
his statement was read by Earl
L. Butz, assistant secretary of
agriculture.
New Production Seen
"In some nations todav." Ben
son said, "many of us fear that
present trends are leading to
ward ,'quick return' attitudes,
toward single-crop rather than
balanced agricultural economies.
"We see new agricultural pro
duction springing up in some
countries, not because it is eco
nomically justified, but only be
cause it can creep under the umbrella-like
protectic of the
United States price support pro
gram. "Gentlemen, I must assure
you that any production based
on such hope of short-term bene
fits may sooner or later find.its
protecting umbrella with
drawn."
Benson made these other high
light points:
1. American surpluses are
"like money in the bank." The
problem is not their existence
but how to distribute them.
2. One aim of the U. S. flexi
ble price support system is to
make import controls "less and
less necessary" so the United
State can be genuinely compet
itive in world markets.
3. The time is ripe for all na
tions to join in lowering trade
barriers.
4. The challenge in agricul
ture today is not greater produc
tion but distribution.
Budget Committee
Scheduled To Meet
The Medford citizens budget
committee will hold its monthly
meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in the
council chamber.
City Manager Robert Duff said
City Attorney Frank Farrell will
be present to discuss legal ques
tions concerning financial prob
lems facing the city.
The budget committee started
monthly meetings recently on re
quest from Mayor Earl Miller
and the pity council.
Western Hopes
For New Plan
Dashed in Speech
Reality Ignored,
Molotov Declares
Geneva U.R) Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov today
flatly rejected the Western plan
for free elections to unify Ger
many and made it clear - that
Russia intends to hang on to
the Communist East Zone.
In the longest speech of the
current Big Four foneign min
isters conference, Molotov dash
Western hopes that he had
brought back a new plan for
Germany from Moscow.
He came back instead with
a bitter cold war blast against
the West's proposals for free
elections and German unifica
tion. Deadlock Tightened
'The Western plan for free
elections ignored the reality of
Germany," Molotov said in an
hour and a quarter speech that
deadlocked the conference tight
er than ever.
He said the question of free
elections is not "mature enough"
and was an "artificial plan."
Looking across the square
conference table to Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles,
Molotov said 'that Russia "can
not agree to see the workers
of the Communist German Dem
ocratic Republic in East Ger
many deprived" of their factories
and land."
Time and Patience'
He charged that the "Eden
Plan" for free elections and
unity would provoke a general
dislocation in Germany.
He said the means for re
unifying the split nation should
be found but that it would not
be simple. Then he added:
"Time and patience are re- O t
quired." ,
- A half hour before the- plenary
session opened, West German
Foreign Minister Heinrich Von
Brentano, in an airport state
ment,' said he had brought no
new proposals. He said the
West's proposals all had been
drawn up in consultation with
the Bonn Government and that
it approved of them'i in every
respect.
UMC Fund Drive
At 84 Pel. Mark
The United Medford Crusade's
fund drive climbed from 80 per
cent of its $109,000 goal last
week to 84 per cent this week,
division leaders were told at a
luncheon meeting yesterday.
The drive total now stands at
$92,000, with $17,000 to go.
M. M. Huggins, drive chairman,
said he is confident this can be
done.
Leading the divisions this
week was the King Arthur
group, with 103 per cent of its
goal. It was one of the three low
groups last week, but went oyer
its goal during the ensuing days.
As a result, Chairman Dick
House was the winner of the trip
to the OSC-California game Sat
urday, offered by Huggins.
House passed up the trip in fa
vor of Guy Hays, who headed
the real estate section of House's
division, and who did a "bang
up job," House said.
Barbara Hutton Weds
German Tennis Ace
Versailles. France U.R)
Woolworth heiress Barbara Hut
ton married German tennis star
Baron Gottfried von Cramm
here today.
The wedding ceremony took
place in secrecy at the town hall
outside the famed Versailles
Chateau. The ceremony was per
formed by Andre Mignot, Ver
sailles mayor and National As
sembly deputy.
Miss Hutton is 42, Von Cramm
46.
It was the sixth wedding for
the dime store heiress and the
second for Von Cramm who
served a period in jail in 1938
on a morals charge.
Miss Hutton divorcee? her fifth
husband, Dominican playboy
Porfirio Rubirosa, only last July.
January Draft Call
Placed at 8,000 Men
Washington (U.R) The De
fense Department today issued
a draft call for 8000 men in
January. All will be assigned to
the Army.
The Navy, which started to
draft men this month, will skip
a draft call in January and re
sume again in February.
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