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Hospital Campaign
Workers Schedule
School, Dinner
A school of instruction and
dinner for volunteers in the
Rogue Valley Memorial hospi
tal fund raising campaign will
be held starting at 6:30 p.m.
tomorrow at the Jackson hotel.
A general campaign to raise
$714,000 toward the proposed
$1,900,000 hospital will start in
December. The advance gifts
committee has been working for
contributions from those who
are in a position to donate lar
ger amounts and memorials.
The proposed hospital will be
a 78-bed structure at the corner
of Barrier and Murphy rds. Of
the estimated Sl.900,000 for con
struction, some $600,000 already
has been contributed, and an
other S586,000 is available from
Hill-Burton federal funds.
The hospital, which will re
place Medford community hos
pital, has been endorsed by the
Medford Ministerial association.
In an official statement signed
by Thomas McCamant, presi
dent of the association, and the
Rev. Nicholas Dies, pastor of
Sacred Heart church, the asso
ciation said the hospital "will
be an asset to the people of
Jackson county and the sur
rounding territory."
The association urged resi
dents to support the hospital
program.
'Open-Door Press Policy by
McKay Remains Still Unchanged
Ex-Turncoats Are
Billed Evangelists
In Portland Temple
Portland (U.R) Three ex-
turncoat Americans, fresh out of
military prison, gained confi
dence here Friday night in their
second appearance as evangelists
extolling the ways of God over
Communism.
Otho Bell, William A. Cow
art and Lewie Griggs, former
GIs who once spurned chances
to return home for a life in
Communist China only to repent
and shout the virtues of Ameri
canism, are currently billed at
the Wings of Healing Temple
here.
Bell, who said he will make
his home at Olympia, Wash., was
most popular with a crowd of
400 persons at the temple Friday
night when he described how
he had once vanquished 20 Com
munist police in Peking. He
said he had spent the day criti
cizing Communism and the po
lice sought to arrest him but
that he incited a Chinese mob
against the police. He did not
say whether he spoke Chinese.
Audience Weeps
Members of the audience wept
when Bell said "blood ran down
my chest." On the platform with
him were the other two former
turncoats and Bell's wife and
daughter.
Cowart told the audience that
many Chinese "are just like you
and me. They love God and
want peace."
Griggs reported how he had
suffered a mental breakdown
under Chinese psychological
pressures.
"They told me I had a mind
like a child," he said.'
The three escaped prosecution
as enemy collaborators when the
United States Supreme Court
ruled they could not be prose
cuted by the military for crimes
committed before their discharge.
They came to Portland under
the auspices of Thomas Wyatt,
head of the Wings of Healing
Temple. He said they would ap
pear Sunday but that their fu
ture plans were indefinite.
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Nearly three
years in office marked by almost
constant controversy have not
caused Secretary of Interior
Douglas McKay to retreat from
his open-door press policy or
seek refuge from the din of
dispute.
Now, as when he entered the
cabinet. McKay will grant inter
views to accredited newspaper
reporters and answer their
questions on any subject, no
holds barred. A favorite McKay
admonition is, "There are three
people you never want to pick
a fight with a traffic cop, your
wife and a newspaper."
For his frankness and accessi
bility, McKay is admired and
well liked by reporters who
cover the Department of Interior
and have the job of digging out
what is going on within its many
bureaus.
Won't Be Presented
This side of the picture ap
pears to have no chance of be
ing presented in the congres
sional investigation that got
underway this past week into
the information policies of the
Eisenhower administration. The
inquiry began with testimony
from leading editors and repor
ters who've charged that the
public's right to information has
been infringed upon by many
government officials who have
clamped down on the flow of
information to the press.
The committee, which has just
published a document showing
McKay to be the only cabinet
official who held no news con
ferences this past year, is now
getting the administration's side
of the story from various de
partment heads. But the commit
tee said it has no plan for call-
ine Interior Department offi
cials.
One Formal Conference
McKay has held but one for
mal press conference since en
tering office. That was in 1953
when he announced he would
not intervene against Idaho
Power Co. in the Federal Power
Commission hearings on Hells
Canyon. But what McKay does
that not all cabinet officers have
OILING CONTRACT
Salem (U.R) The State
Highway commission has award
ed a Lake county surfacing and
oiling contract to Allum Bros
of Eugene on low bid of $92,336.
Minnie C. Simonds
Services Planned
Graveside service will be held
Tuseday, Nov. 15 at 2:30 p.m.,
at Siskiyou Memorial park for
Mrs. Minnie C. Simonds, 86,
who died Nov. 11 at San Pablo,
Calif. She was a former resident
of Medford and Eagle Point, and
the widow of William Simonds.
Mrs. Simonds left here about
10 years ago. McCune Funeral
home of Vacaville, Calif., is in
charge of arrangements.
She is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Pearl Robinson, Four-Mile
Ore., and two sons, Howard Sim
onds, Vacaville , and Charles
Simonds of Alaska, and Law
rence Phelps, Four-Mile, also
survive.
been willing or able to do is to
grant private interviews with re
porters who requested them.
This open-door press policy
permits reporters to ask McKay
questions when they are most
timely, rather than when the
secretary may choose to call a
press conference. The press con
ference is a device for handling
many reporters at one time an
indispensable device for the
president and other top officials
who would be swamped with re
quests for personal press inter
views if they granted them.
McKay's press policy was ad
vised by Larry Smyth, his infor
mation director until he re
turned last spring to his Port
land newspaper job. It has con
tinued without change under
Smyth's successor, William C.
Strand, former city editor of
the Washington Times Herald
and ex-editor of the Fairbanks
Daily News-Miner.
Meet Press Squarely
Within the experience of this
reporter, McKay's assistant sec
retaries and the heads of the
various agencies under the In
terior Department have met the
press squarely and without re
fuge to the familiar words, '"no
comment."
Secretary of State Dulles must
necessarily rely upon the press
conference, for several hundred
American and foreign corres
pondents cover his department.
He usually holds one each week
he is in Washington. He held 20
the past year.
Labor Secretary Mitchell holds
one every other week. He held
25 last year. Defense Secretary
Wilson and Agriculture Secre
tary Benson each had 18, while
Attorney General Brownell
had 7.
Only a few cabinet officials
have done as McKay does, seeing
reporters for interviews as they
request. They include Treasury
Secretary Humphrey, whose of
fice said he also held about 30
press conferences in the past
three years; Commerce Secre
tary Weeks, who had three or
four press conferences; and Post
master ' General Summerf ield,
whose office had no exact record
but guessed he had "about 15."
earing on Timber
oiicies This Week
Portland Evacuation
Interests Directors
Salem (U.R) Widespread
interest in Portland's recent
evacuation test was shown at a
meeting of the National Associa
tion of State Civil Defense Di
rectors in Washington, D. C,
Nov. 3-4, Oregon Civil Defense
Director Arthur M. Sheets said
Saturday.
"Every state, director at the
meeting expressed keen interest
in the evacuation," Sheets said.
"However, many of them
thought it was incredible that
the Portland test had received
the co-operation of all segments
of business, utilities and trans
portation. I believe Portland's
experience will give many of
the directors the confidence to
hold similar exercises in their
target areas."
A one-day Congressional hear
ing on federal timber policies
will begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 16, in the Pioneer room of
the Jackson hotel.
The hearing is one of a series
to be held in the next two weeks
by the joint Congressional com
mittee on federal timber. It is
expected the hearing will last
until late in the afternoon.
The series opens Monday in
Redding, Calif., and will move
to Klamath Falls Tuesday, Med
f o r d Wednesday, Roseburg
Thursday, and Eugene Friday.
Nov. 21, 22 and 23 hearings will
be held in Portland, on Nov. 28
in Aberdeen, Wash., on Nov. 29
and 30 in Seattle, and on Dec.
1 in Spokane.
To Study Management
Rep. Earl Chudoff (D-Penn.)
is chairman of the joint com
mittee. He has said the objective
of the hearings is to study man
agement and administration of
government forests on the west
coast.
As the hearings approached,
charges are being made that they
are being used for partisan po
litical purposes.
The United Press quoted Rep.
Clare E. Hoffman (R-Mich.), a
member of the committee, as
saying that the purpose of the
hearings is "to discredit the
Eisenhower administration and
contribute to the reelection" of
Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.).
The Industrial Forestry asso
ciation, Portland, an organization
of lumber companies which op
erate tree farms on a sustained
yield basis, issued a policy state
ment regarding the hearings,
which said the association "rec
ognizes, with regret, that these
hearings could be used by un
scrupulous persons as both
framework and cover for parti
san political activity."
Personnel Listed ,
Advance information on the
Chiloquin (U.R) The post
office at Modoc Point will be dis
continued Nov. 30.
hearings indicates that Congress
men Chudoff and Hoffman, and
Reps. John E. Moss Jr. (D-Calif.),
and possibly Robert H. Mollo
han (D-W.Va.) will represent the
House of Representatives, and
that Senators W. Kerr Scott (D
N. C), Richard L. Neuberger
(D-Ore.) and George W. Malone
(R-Nev.) will represent the Sen
ate. Senator Scott, the senior of
the Senators, may have to leave
for Alaska after the first few
days,, and whether he will be
here for the Medford hearing
was not known. Senator Neu
berger is expected to be the pre
siding Senator after Senator
Scott leaves.
A list of forest industry repre
sentatives scheduled to testify
at the Medford hearing was not
immediately available, although
a number of local people have
made application for time be
fore the committee.
Timber management prac
tices, marketing areas, access
roads, and other problems of
federal timber ownership are ex
pected to be brought up during
the hearing.
Young Republicans
Meeting in Portland
Portland (U.R) Oregon
Young Republicans Friday op
ened a three-day annual con
vention, which was expected
to be highlighted by selection
of a national committeeman and
committeewoman.
Committeewomen candidates
were Jane Arthur and Marjorie
Wooton, both of Portland, while
Kenneth K. Maher and David
Belch, both of Portland, were
seeking the committeeman post
Gov. Paul Patterson was
scheduled to address the con
vention's banquet last night,
which followed the first bus
iness session of the meeting.
Wyant Herd Tops
JCDHIA Records
During October
The top five dairy herds in
Jackson county for the month
of October have been announced
by the Jackson County Dairy
Herd Improvement association.
Top producing herd for the
month is owned by R. L. and
Blanche Wyant. Twenty-seven
cows in the herd produced an
average of 44.1 pounds of butter
fat and 721 pounds of milk each.
Other Leaders
The other four top herds were
the Lewis and Ruth Clark herd,
with 26 cows producing an aver
erage of 37.1 pounds of butter
fat and 804 pounds of milk; the
James and Neala Edge herd, 26
cows producing an average of
36.3 pounds of butterfat and 900
pounds of milk; the P. K. Nelson
herd, 24 cows, 36.1 pounds of
butterfat and 710 pounds of
milk; and the Clarence and
Sadie Williams herd with 33
cows producing an average of
35.9 pounds of butterfat and 730
pounds of milk.
Top cow for the month was
Dottie, owned by Victor and
Nita Birdseye. She produced an
average of 88.3 pounds of but
terfat and 1104 pounds of milk.
Other top cows were owned
by Straus Brothers, W. C. Higen
botham, Carter Boggs, R. L. and
Blanch Wyant, Clarence and
Sadie Williams, J. E. Parsons
and Gilman's Dairy Farm.
Sunday, November 13, 1953
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE N IMS
Farm Bureau Hears
County Commissioner
Talent County Commission
er Chester Wendt was the fea
tured speaker here this week at
a meeting of the Talent center
of the Farm Bureau.
Wendt discussed the county's
road problems, and noted that
there are 1,100 miles of roads in
the 2,800 square miles of Jack
son county. Agriculture, he
pointed out, is the second most
important industry using these
roads, with lumber being first.
Other speakers included Stan
Tiegs and Robert Lytle. The pro
gram was arranged by Mrs. Cloe
Small, center chairman. Refresh
ments were served by Lois
Struve and Mrs. LeRoy Williams.
San Diego County in Califor
nia has 4,258 square miles, about
the same area as Connecticut. It
extends 70 miles up the Pacific
Coast from Mexico.
Tavern Operators
ATTENTION!
Watch for this announcement on
next Wednesday Nov. 16th in the
Mail Tribune. We have been given
an exclusive assignment to put on
the market one of the best money
making taverns in the Medford
area. Owner retiring. On Sale li
cense. Lease nearly six years to go.
Further details Nov. 16th.
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