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o K C c a o 2 re o t- 8 o Veather FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness tonight with chance of a few rain showers. Par tial clearing and windy late tonight and Friday. Cooler Friday. Low tonight 38. High Friday 55. Highest Yesterday 66 Lowest this Morning 47 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today. Trace. Jaho Power Signs Contracts for Two Hells Canyon Dams Boise (U.R) Idaho Power Company yesterday signed a contract with Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., for construction of $87,000,000 Brownlee and Ox bow projects on the Snake river, the first two units of Idaho Pow er's controversial three-dam de velopment of awesome Hells Canyon. " The action capped a bitter eight-year fight between public and private interests for rights to develop the deepest river Opponents Shout 'Foul' as Pacts Announced by IPC By UNITED PRESS Die-hard opponents of private development of Hells Canyon shouted "foul" today as Idaho Power Company signed with Morrison-Knudsen Company for construction of the first two units of the utility company's three-dam project on the Snake river. Neuberger Haps Pacts "On the day that Idaho Power Company takes over Hells Can yon, it will be digging the grave yard of full regional develop ment of public power in the Pa cific Northwest," said Sen. Rich ard Neuberger (D - Ore.), a I cstaunch supporter of a single, "high" dam in the canyon. "Secretary of Interior Doug las McKay will answer to his- j. J ; ... w f " lory iuf suixeiiueiiug jlxcixd can yon to the Idaho Power Com pany,"' j the senator, snid .when cootact3d by United Press in Portland. ' .JV cry of blull ' came irom Mrs. Evelyn Cooper, chief coun sel for the National Hells Can yon association, a public power group. Sees Political Purpose Interviewed in Washington, Mrs. Cooper called the contract signing an effort by Idaho Power to "make the best possible show it can during the period of liti gation' for public relations and political purposes. Mrs. . Cooper said New York underwriting firms were not go- ing to provide the kind of financ ing the company would need during the "litigation," which she predicted would take two years. The Hells Canyon association has said it will appeal the FPC ruling to the courts but- so far has filed no legal action. Wolf May Undergo Psychiatric Exam Portland (U.R) Attorneys for Victor Laurence Wolf indicated today they may seek a psychia trie examination of the 45-year- old electrician who has confess ed the bomb-slaying of attorney Kermit Smith last April. Charles E. Raymond and Nich olas Granet, court appointed at torneys, said a request for ap pointment of a psychiatrist to examine Wolf wae drawn up ready for filing. Raymond said such a test might lead to a re quest for permission to with draw Wolfs guilty plea. , A jury in McMinnville last week found Mrs. Marjorie Smith innocent of any part in the slay ing of her husband. Fired Red Architect 'Happy' To Go Home New York (U.R) Alexand er V. eVlasov, Soviet architect said today he was "happy" to " be returning home so he might " learn details of his dismissal as president of the Soviet Academy ; of Agriculture. Vlasov, a member of a 10-man Soviet housing delegation which came here Oct. 2 as part of a Soviet-American exchange plan, spoke Wltn reporters uiruugu an interpreter shortly betore board ing the Queen tnzaDem ior me group's return to Moscow. The stocky, red-faced Russian and another top Soviet architect A. M. Chechulin, were dismissed from their posts in a decree by Communist Party officials who . demanded an end of wasteful ness, inefficiency and ugliness - in the nation's building pro gram. MEDFORDjr United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 26 Pages gorge on the North American continent. The fight reached its climax last Aug. 4 when the Federal Power Commission li censed the private utility's plan. To Start Soon T. E. Roach, Idaho Power Company president who signed the contract with the world's greatest dam building firm, an nounced the award just five days after FPC approval of design plans for Brownlee and Oxbow last Friday. "Work will commence immed iately," Roach said. "The con tractor and the company will begin moving men, materials and machinery nto the project area as rapidly as possible . . . Brownlee, to be 395 feet in height and the largest of the three dams and Oxbow, the "baby" at 205 feet, are the two upstream units in the company's development of the 100-mile stretch of the Snake along the Oregon-Idaho line. The canyon, flanked by the perpetual snow mountains of Oregon's rugged Wallowas and the Seven Devils mountains of Idaho, is one of the last major undeveloped pow er sites in the nation. Third Dam Waits Design plans for Hells Canyon dam, the third unit, in the heart of the 7,000-foot chasm have not yet been approved by the FPC. But the company is not antici pating any difficulty in securing the authorization since its li cense covers total development of the area. I Federal power advocates sought a single, so-called "high" dam in Hells Canyon to develop the same "00-mile stretch of the river known, as - Hells Canyon reach. , - . ' . When complete, the three-dam project will supply 783,400 kilo watts of installed capacity to Idaho Power's service area with provision for additional genera tors bringing ultimate capacity of the dams to 1,175,000 KW. Parade Tomorrow Starting at 11 a.m. The Veterans day parade will start at about 11 a.m., from the Library park, and will go east on Main st. Other observances of the day will include breakfasts at the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars buildings. Mostly, however, business will continue as usual with some ex ceptions. Governmental offices, includ ing the Public library and the liquor store will be closed. There will be no mail deliver ies. Most retailers will remain open, but lumber and millwork retail firms and barbershops will close. Log hauling will be permitted Friday although earlier it was banned by the state highway commission, which late this mor ning reversed its decision. All offices in the Medford Labor Temple will be closed both Fri day and Saturday, except La borers' Local 1400 which will be open Saturday morning. HURT IN ACCIDENT Earl Dilrea, 16, Phoenix, a student, suffered chest and other injuries in an accident this aft ernoon. Incomplete " reports of the accident said that it oc curred at the corner of Barnett and Hillcrest-Phoenix roads, and that several persons were in the car. Other details were unavail able at press time. : Progress Reported on New CP. Rural Fire Station Central Point Construction of the Central Point Rural Fire district's station at White City is progressing- Fire Chief Rich ard Krupp indicated today. The building, being erected at the corner of Agate rd. and Ave nue G, is scheduled for comple tion in mid-December, Krupp stated. He reported that the roof is on the structure and that ex terior siding is expected to be on bv the end of this. week. "A 1955 Ford 1.000-gallon tank truck was recently brought from Concord, (Jaiif., wnere it was fabricated. It will -go to the (Camp wnite station wnen trie MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1955 .' . . ? '.- ; . . : y - " : ' " v:: iW -i:: : W?Z::i::it$& :, IS -v - . Rife''' - . - 1 v" ' -- SAN FRANCISCO GOES mind a little fog now and Francisco skyline that's a visible at this point. Smoggy Heat Wave Hits Bay Region For Fourth Day By UNITED PRESS A smelly, smog-ridden heat wave broiled California for the fourth straight day today. No cool weather was expected until tomorrow at the earliest and eye-stinging smog plagued San Francisco. Meanwhile,, a cold wave was expected to drop temperatures 50 degrees to zero levels in Mon tana and heavy rains pounded Central and Northern Florida. Sets New Record The Indian summer heat set a record for the third straight day at San Francisco when the tem perature went to 78 yesterday. Chamber of Commerce boasts that , San Francisco .is,the .."air conditioned city" took a beat ing when smog drifted over the bay area, cutting visibility to a half mile or less. Street lights were only a dim yellow gleam ihrough the murk and a dis agreeable smell penetrated al most every corner of the city. The weather wasn't much kinder to the vacationland of Florida, where a disturbance in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico sent torrential rains sweeping inland. Heavy Rainfall Both Daytona Beach and Or lando reported more than an inch and a half of rain in a six hour period. The East Coast also reported some of the coldest temperatures of the day. The mercury stood in the 20s or below in Pennsyl vania and, at Mt. Washington, N.H., the temperature was 18 above and eight inches of snow was on th ground. Four Rescued After Pacific Air Crash Honolulu (U.R) Two more members of a five man crew which bailed out of a crippled C19 over the storm tossed Pac ific were rescued today by the seaplane tender Floyds Bay to boost to four the number saved by the ship. The two men were plucked from the wind-lashed waters at 6:18 a.m. (HST). There were no other, details of their rescue im mediately available. The skipper of the Floyds Bay in his radio message to search headquarters , at . Hickam Air Force base here,, identified the two as the plane's pilot, 1st Lt. D. O. Nelson, and the co-pilot, 1st Lt. D. N. Hubbard, both as signed to ' the 1739th Ferry Squadron, Amarillo, Texas, Air Force base. Search for the fifth crewman was continuing. building is finished. A 1,000-gal-lon pumper truck is being built in Elmira. N.Y. and is due to be shipped the second week in January. Construction of the S21.000 White City station is being fi nanced by the White City Realty company, which also bought the property for the district. James H. Henson, Central Point, is the general contractor. . Krupp was in San Francisco on Wednesday to take delivery of a 19o6 Ford one-half ton pick up truck for the district. It will (replace a truck which is being j sola. BEHIND SMOG CURTAIN Motorists on the freeway don't then, but when SMOG cuts off their imposing view of the San different story. Signs point to landmarks that are usually Adlai May Candidacy efauver Washington. (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson is expected to an nounce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomina tion next Tuesday and friends say Sen. Estes Kefauver will throw his hat in the ring in about three weeks. Chicago Announcement Stevenson's Chicago head quarters announced Wednesday night that the former Illinois New Wonder Drugs May Be Dangerous, Heart Doctor Says Treatment of heart failure with newly developed wonder drugs may have worse effects than no treatment at all, Dr. Albert Kattus Jr. told about 60 doctors at a meeting of the Jack son County Heart association in the Medford hotel last night. Dr. Kattus, who spoke on hy pertension and congestive heart failure, stressed that no single drug has been , developed as a cure for heart trouble and that the drugs must not be used indis criminately. Kattus is associate professor of medicine at the Uni versity of California at Los An geles. Dr. Gilbert Blount, associate professor of medicine at the Uni versity of Colorado, spoke on coronary artery disease. He dis cussed the pathology of the coro nary disease and its correlation with symptoms. Doctors from Jackson, Jose phine and Douglas counties at tended the meeting. Vandalism Reported To Police, Sheriff State police and sheriff's dep uties today are investigating sev eral cases of apparently delib erate vandalism, they reported. Two mail boxes in the Cole man creek area near Phoenix were knocked over early today, it was reported. Flashing lights on the high way traffic island at the en trance to Bear Creek orchards were also torn down, and other traffic signs were taken from elsewhere and moved to that lo cation, officers said. If investigation furnishes a lead to the mail box vandalism, the case will be turned over to federal authorities, state police stated. Turncoats Consider Filing Damage Suit San Francisco (U.R) Three ex-GI turncoats considered today filing a damage suit against the Army for jailing them on charges they collaborated with the Communists while prisoners of war in Korea. The three men, Otho Bell. 24, of Hills Boro, Miss., William Cowart, 22, of Dalton, Ga., and Lewis Griggs, 22, of Jackson ville, Tex., were released Tues day after the U.S - Supreme Court ruled the Army could not try civilians for offenses com mitted in the service. The turncoats conferred yes terday with their lawyer, George T. Davis, about their future plans "to get what's coming -to us," as Cowart put it 1 NE United press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 198 Announce Tuesday; Waiting: governor will make his inten tions known Tuesday instead of the following Saturday as prev iously scheduled. Stevenson arrived here at 11:35 a.m. today en route to a speaking date in Charlottesville, Va. There was speculation he might confer with Kefauver who was an unsuccessful aspir ant for the 1952 nomination won by Stevenson. The reoorts encouraged dis cussion of a possible Stevenson- Kefauver ticket. However, Stevenson said on his arrival here that he had no plans .to sea Xefauuer .before the Democratic National committee meeting next week at Chicago, where both are scheduled to speak. Still Discussing Plans The Tennessean's friends of fered their private but informed appraisal of his plans scarcely more than a day after the Sen ator said it is "too early" to re veal them. Kefauver told a Pro vidence, R. I., radio audience Tuesday night that he still is discussing his plans with party members around the nation. But close associates said Ke fauver has made his decision. They said the senator hopes to complete certain unfinished con gressional business before tak ing on the partisan apnearance of an avowed candidate. Premier Sets Vote On Elections Plan Paris (U.R) Premier Edgar Faure today gambled his gov ernment on a vote of confidence for the fifth time in five weeks in a bid for national elections next month in a crucial hour of French history. Faure, weary after hours of wrangling with the balky Na tional Assembly, set a vote of confidence on his elections bill for next Saturday (9 a.m. EST). To get a vote on a new Na tional Assembly next month, Faure gambled on falling from power and plunging the nation into its 21st postwar cabinet cris is, which would leave France with a lame-duck foreign minis ter at the Geneva conference. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U,R) , Dow Jones closing stock averages: 30 industrials .4,72.52 off 1.38; 20 railroads 156.08 off .0.11; 15 ut ilities 64.31 'up 0.04, and 65 stocks 167.51, off 0.28. Sales to day approximated 2,550,000 shares, compared with 2,580,000 yesterday. Klamath County Court Objects to Costs Of Proposed Lake of the Woods Highway Because of high maintenance and construction costs, the Klamath county court is not in sympathy with state-proposed plans for financing a Medford Klamath Falls highway via Lake of the Woods, Chester Wendt, county commissioner, said today. Wendt,, County Commissioner L. G. (Shy) Morthland, and County Engineer Paul Rynning discussed road plans with Klam ath court members yesterday at Klamath Falls. The Klamath tourt. feel -that Increased Pressure Placed on Israel, Arab States by US President Kicks Off New 'Peace Push' Washington U.R) The United States today increased pressure on Israel and the Arab states to cease fighting and co operate on both short-range and lang-range Middle East peace plans. President Eisenhower kicked off the new U. S. peace push in a special statement designed to New York (U.R) Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett said today that the shipment of Communist arms to Egypt had plunged Israel into "an hour of supreme emergency." The United Na tions armistice commission, he said, is "the only barrier to resumption of hostilities." emphasize American interest in "friendship for all of the peoples of the area" both Jews and Arabs. - For the short-range, the Presi dent firmly supported United Nations plans to gain a cease fire between Israel and Egypt. . For the more distant future, the President again threw his support behind Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' plan to arrange boundary guarantees which would be supported by the United States and other U.N. members.' No Formal Reply Israel has given a conditional acceptance of the American plan.. But the Arab states have not given a formal reply although they have complained that it was one-sided in favor of the Israelis. Mr. Eisenhower voiced his i new . hopes for a Middle East settlement in a statement read to reporters at Denver by Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoov er Jr. The President said the United States would not contribute to an arms race but is "willing to consider requests for arms need ed for legitimate self - de fense ..." ...... "' This further cleared the way for delivery of some defensive weapons to Israel if the United States decides such action is necessary to offset Communist bloc arms to Egypt. Lehman Urges Pact Other developments: 1. The State Department told Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D-NY) that his plan for easing Middle East tensions "most certainly deserves detailed study." Leh man had proposed that the United States negotiate "a secur ity pact with Israel, guarantee ing that country against aggres sion, with parallel guarantees extended to Egypt and other neighbors of Israel." 2. It was learned that U. S. of ficials have concluded that the 200 modern Russian jet planes to be supolied to Egypt could give Egypt military, superiority over Israel in six months to a year. Informed quarters here assumed this assessment would increase Israel's chances of get ting American jet fighters. Sweet Home Man Dies In Automobile Mishap Roseburg (U.R) William J. Watson St., 66, Sweet Home, died yesterday in an automobile accident 25 miles east of here. State police said today they were listing the death as Doug las county's 27th traffic fatality of 1955. The coroner's office said he may have suffered a heart attack. Officers said Watson's car struck the rear of a lumber truck and swerved off the high way. Oregon Income Tax Collections Higher Salem (U.R) Higher state income tax collections for the first four months of the fiscal year begun July 1 were report ed today by Ray Smith, State Tax Commission chairman. . A total of 518,700,974 had been collected through Oct. 31 compared to $14,548,159 for the first four months of the fiscal year. , the highway, which would pro vide an easy grade route be tween Medford and Klamath Falls, should be build and main tained by the state, Wendt said. The present plan, recently ap proved by the Jackson county court, provides that ' the state would furnish 40 per cent of con struction costs while the coun ties would provide 60 per cent, taken from county federal aid funds, and provide maintenailce for the road. The Klamath court believes U.S., Red China Discuss Prisoners Geneva (U.R) The United States and Communist China met for the 2Slh time today with indications Peiping might speed the release of 17 more Americans in hope of a prompt U.S. answer on its Far Eastern peace proposals. Diplomats said U. S. Am bassador U. Alexis Johnson was ready to deliver the Amer ican reply to Chinese Red Ambassador Wang Ping-Nan's call for renunciation of force in Asia and top-level talks. The two envoys met for two hours and 15 minutes behind closed doors in their 25th ses sion of the current talks. Aft erwards a spokesman issued a routine announcement say ing the next meeting would be held tomorrow morning. Doctors Say Ike Physically Ready For Airplane Trip Denver (U.R) President Ei senhower's physicians examined the chief executive today by x ray and fluoroscopy and found again that his heart well with stood increasing physical activ ity as he prepared to leave for Washington tomorrow. The White House announced that Mr. Eisenhower would take off from Denver at 9 a.m. MST and arrive in Washington about 4 p.m. EST, "or shortly there after." At 11:30 a.m., MST, Co. By ron E. Pollock, chief of the Heart Services Department at Fitzsim- ons Army Hospital where Mr. Eisenhower has been a heart pa tient since Sept. 24, issued what the White House said would be the last report on medical ex amination of the President prior to his departure from Denver. It said: In Good Shape "The President's condition continues to be satisfactory. After a good night's sleep of nearly eight hours, the President awoke feeling refreshed and cheerful, ... "He enjoyed a breakfast of prunes, a half grapefruit, beef bacon, whole wheat toast, a glass of skim -milk' and a cup of black coffee. "His physical examinations, laboratory studies and cardio gram are satisfactory. X-ray of the chest and cardiac fluroscopy are satisfactory and unchanged from his previous examina tions. . . " Till Kidnaping Suspects Freed Greenwood, Miss. ' U.R) The Emmett Till kidnap-slaying case is closed, a prosecutor said today, but the furor over "Mis sissippi justice" stirred up by the Negro boy's fate raged on. A Grand Jury of 20 white men late yesterday revealed its re fusal to indict Roy Bryant,' 24, and J. W. Milam, 36, on a charge of kidnaoing the 14-year-old Chicago boy they already had been acquitted of murdering. Leflore county authorities could ask the next Grand Jury to indict Bryant and Milam, but Dist. Atty. Stanny Sanders said, "as far as I know, the case is closed." -. The men admitted kidnaping the boy at gun point, because they thought he was "the one" who insulted Bryant's wife with an indecent proposal and a "wolf whistle." They said they freed Till unharmed after deciding he was not "the one." Egypt, Fast Germany Sign Trade Pacts Cairo, Egypt (U.R) Egypt signed two trade agreements to day with Communist East Ger many marking another mile stone in Egypt's commercial ex change with the Soviet bloc. One agreement runs for one year without a ceiling on the amount of trade. The second runs three years with a mini mum of three million Egyptian pounds (S8,640,000) for each side. The agreements call for the barter of Egptian cotton for East German manufactured goods. that maintenance costs, would be excessive' because a portion of the road would pass through an area of deep snow, Wendt said. Members, of the Jackson county court feel that the road should be closed for a' time dur ing the winter months to cut maintenance expenses. - The Klamath court believes that the higway is necessary, Wendt said, but that the cost of construction and maintenance would be more than their county could afford. Russia Calls For Nuclear Ban, Cut In Armed Forces Other Disarmament Plans To Get Study Geneva (U.R). Russia called today for reduction of armed forces and a ban on nuclear weapons, and agreed to consider President Eisenhower's "open skies" plan for aerial inspection and exchange of military blue prints. Soviet Foreign Minister V. W. Molotov offered these proposals in a plan submitted to the Big Four conference as it plunged for the first time into a debate on disarmament. He submitted the plan as a new proposal. But much of what it contained was a repetition of earlier Soviet disarmament plans put forward last May and again by Premier Nikolai Bul ganin at the Summit Conference here in July. "Consider" Plan The Molotov proposals did not accept in so many words Presi- dent Eisenhower s plan, which was put before the heads of gov ernment conference last sum mer. It merely agreed that the President's planj as well as the disarmament proposals of Great Britain and France, should be "considered" as part of the Big Four efforts to end the arma ments race. The three western foreign ministers and their ftp aides met before hand in a last-minute ef fort to patch together something like a united front on disarma ment a question on which they themselves never have attained unity. Informed western officials said they agreed to: 1. Press the Soviets for a reply to existing western disarmament plans. 2. Put forward no new west ern proposals at the present con ference. 3. Urge that the whole dis armament issue be turned back to the U.N. subcommittee which has been working on it for months. The West was tipped off that Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov planned a full-scale fili buster to force the r urrent con ference into a proldfcged discus sion of disarmament! . n-i. i i- - iiie westexxi mnJlsiers re lieved Molotov's cryptic remark in Moscow last Sunday about bringing "better baggage" back to Geneva might indicate he had a whole series of new dis armament plans ready. . But they were not optimistic ' that he had anv serious conces sions to offer on the question of disarmament, any more than he had on security and Germany. In the background was Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles' acid question, "I wonder wheth er agreements with the Soviet Union are worthwhile?" Two School Closings Slated in November There will be two periods in November when Medford schools are closed-the city school office reminded parents and student, today. Tomorrow, Nov. 11, is Veter ans day, and will be a school. holiday. On . Wednesday, Nov. 23, the annual Jasckson County Teach ers conference will be held at Medford High school, and schools will be closed as a re sult. The fallowing two days, .Nov. 24 and 25, will be the annual Thanksgiving vacation, so students will have three con secutive holidays that week, fol lowed by Saturday and Sunday, for a five-day vacation. Idaho Takes Steps To Combat Polio Boise (U.R) The State Board of Health today dispatched a health tea mto Payette county, where three cases of polio have been reported this week, in or der "not to get behind the eight ball like Oregon did. A. W. Klotz, acting secretary of the board, said Dr. Harry Hen derson, director of the board's dvision of preventive medicine, and C. J. Hammond, state sani tarian, would study health con-. ditions in the county, which is just across the Snake river from polio-ravaged Malheur county, Ore, , "We don't want to get behind the eight ball like Oregon did," Klotz said. "I don't think there's any doubt they (the Payette polio cases are a spillover from Malheur county." o United , Nations, N.Y. (U.R) The United Nations' main Politi cal Committee heard today a Sy rian demand for inviting Com munist North Korea to partici pate in the General Assembly's annual' debate- on the- Korean question. O
