FOTrflTEEW MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday. November 17, 1S55
Action Would
Impose Choice
On Delegates
Chicago (U.R) The Demo
cratic National Committee today
wji expected to adopt a com-1
promise "loyalty" pledge impos
ing the choice of the party's 1956
presidential convention on all
delegates.
The proposal had the backing
of Democratic National Chair
man Paul M. Butler, who said
he would recommend its appro
val when the committee opens
a one-day meeting today.
Butler predicted the commit
tee would approve the proposal,
which is designed to settle a ma
jor dispute between Northern
and Southern Democrats.
Under the plan, the seating of
a convention delegate would
"constitute a pledge by the
party's leaders of that state that
the convention nominee will be
placed on the ballot."
Signed Statement Urged
Some Democrats had pressed
for a signed statement binding
delegates to support the man
chosen to run for president at
next year's convention. Others
had wanted no loyally pledge at
all.
The new proposal was regard
ed as a compromise between the
two points of view and was
drawn up by a special commit
tee headed by Stephen A. Mitch
ell, former national chairman. '
The loyalty issue caused a ma
jor party split in 1948, when
"Dixiecrat" states refused to
place Harry S. Truman on their
ballots. In 1952, some Southern
states dodged a rule that dele
gates are obliged to support a
nominee they voted for. They
simply didn't vote.
Butler conceded that the new
plan depends on the "good
faith" of state party leaders.
Thre Vice-Chairmen
The chairman was also sched
uled to recommend the appoint
ment of three vice-chairmen to
represent Democrat state gover
nors, senatprs, and representa
tives on the national committee.
It was reported that Butler
would recommend Gov. Robert
W. Meyner of New Jersey, Sen.
Mike Mansfield of Montana, and
Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana.
All three men are regarded as
backers of Adlai E. Stevenson.
Stevenson, the party's 1952
candidate, will climax the cur
rent Democratic meeting Satur
day when he addresses a huge
$100-a-plate fund-raising ban
quet. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten
nessee and Gov. Averell Harri
nan of New York, both regarded
as possible candidates, also will
speak.
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ing beauties, circle the one you think should be named Tournament of Roses Queen
and six others to be named her princesses at Pasadena, Cal. Save the clipping and see
how you compared when the winners are named. Here the girls are still known only
as numbers to the judges until the final round is over.
Wyoming Expects Legal Trouble
As Uranium Prospectors Gather
Gillette, Wyo. (U.R) More
than 300 half-frozen uranium
prospectors huddled around fires
early today on the borders of the
desolate Pumpkin Buttes area
to begin a land rush which could
erupt into frontier days violence.
By federal decree, 46,440 acres
of public land around Pumpkin
Buttes was to be open for staking
mining claims today.
Beyond that, the legal picture
is badly snarled.
Wyoming authorities feared
that claim-jumping disputes
might be settled on the spot with
fists or guns.
Highway Patrol Capt. R. O.
Galloway had eight patrol cars
in the area to reinforce Camp
bell County Sheriff Ted Holder
man. Both were frankly worried
that the prospectors would prove
too much for the officers.
Ranchers in the area, who
hold grazing leases on 38.620
acres of the land, threatened to
protect their interests with rifles
last spring. So the land rush was
postponed until today, when the
range is snow-swept and barren
of grass.
Low Temperatures
The temperature dropped be
low zero during the night, but
between 300 and 400 prospectors
braved the cold in sleeping bags
and the shelter of pickup trucks
I to be ready for the rush.
wnetner mere is any appre
ciable amount of uranium in the
Pumpkin Buttes country is not
known. Some experts have said
the land has "fabulous" poten
tial value. Others said it was
"worthless."
About 200 persons in the area
organized a mining district, em
bracing all the land being opened
in Campbell county. This dis
trict has a special recorder for
Dr. William Thompson
Named to Committee
Dr. William Thompson, Med
ford, has been named to a four
year term on the executive com
mittee of the Governor's Com
mittee on Children and Youth,
it was reported here today.
Dr. Thompson, chairman of
the Jackson county Committee
on Children and Youth, was
named at a reorganizational
meeting held this week in Salem.
Also elected at the Salem
meeting were Mrs. William Klet
zer, Portland, chairman; Dr.
Harold J. Noyes, Portland, vice
chairman, and Andrew Juras,
Portland, recording secretary.
Mrs. Kletzer succeeds Mrs.
Sadie Orr Dunbar, Portland.
4-H Club
Central Point Cooking Club
New 4-H Cooking club held its
first meeting Nov. 10 at 3:30
p.m. at the Junior High school in
Central Point.
We elected as officers: presi
dent, Alison Pinkham, vice-president,
Marsh Watson; secretary
treasurer, Charlete Meyer; re
porter, Bobby Jane Darras;
games chairman, Shirley Savage
and song leader, Kathey Fred-
drinks.
Plans were made for the com
ing year. Next meeting will be
Dec. 5 at 3:30 p.m. We will name
our club.
Joan Dobrat is our leader and
Mrs. Ivan Skyrman is co-leader.
Bobbie Jane Darras,
Reporter.
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Civil Service
Exams Announced
Civil Service examinations
have been announced for medi
cal biology technician and for
dietetic intern. Salaries for the
medical biology technician posts
are $2,960 to $4,525 per year,
and for the dietetic intern,
$2,000 a year.
Further information and ap
plication forms may be obtained
from 'Chester W. Silliman, Civil
Service commission representa
tive, at his office in the Med
ford post office building.
Cook Finds Himself
Deep In Real Stew
Princeton, N. J. (U.R)
Paul Miller, 52, a cook, found
himself in a real stew Wednes
day night.
Miller faces charges of
drunken driving, leaving the
scene of an accident, driving
on a permit without a licensed
driver accompanying him,
driving on an expired permit,
not having a driver's license,
not wearing corrective glasses
and going the wrong way on
a one-way street.
mining claims, and a "code of
ethics" as well as a set of rules
and regulations for filing claims.
The code of ethics demands
that all prospectors check their
guns at a ranch house near
Pumpkin Buttes. But it isn't
likely that many will heed this
part of the code.
Legal Question
The legal status of the mining
district is also in question.
Some prospectors may decide to
file notice claims with the
county clerk.
This could produce a flood of
law suits, since two claims might
be filed on the same land with
different authorities.
A single claim is limited to 20
acres, by federal law. A prospec
tor must erect a "stake" usu
ally a rock pile in uranium coun
try and affix to the stake a
claim notice, describing the phys
ical features and boundaries of
the 20 acres.
Then the prospector must go
to the uproper agency and file a
notice of location.
Prospectors are riot limited to
one claim. But federal law re
quires that they work the prop
erty and use it for mining, with
due care for the rights of ranch
ers who have grazing leases.
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday.
Mayflower Replica Under
Construction in England
Washington Hewn from
stout English 'oak, a new May
flower is slowly taking shape
in a British shipyard.
Devonshire shipwrights in the
little Channel port of Brixham
east of Plymouth, turning their
craftsmanship back three and
a half centuries, are reproduc
ing the historic vessel of the
Pilgrims. In July they laid her
oaken keel.
Next July, if all goes well,
the second Mayflower will sail
on a two-month crossing to the
"stern and rock-bound coast" of
New England. It's crew and pas
sengers, many of them Mayflow
er descendants, will land in garb
of the Puritans of 1620.
Gesture of Friendship
Gesture of friendship to the
United States, the project is
financed entirely by voluntary
contributions in Britain. Long
research by historians on both
sides of the Atlantic guides the
work.
Little is known of one of the
most famous shins ever to sail
the Atlantic. No precise records,
specifications, or descriptions
survive, nor any known paint
ing or sketch of the "fine ship,"
as Puritan deacon Robert Cush
man described the Mayflower.
Christopher Jones was her
master, a native of Rotherhithe
beside London's Thames. She
was likely a 180-ton vessel, fair
size for her day, broad-waisted,
with high superstructures or
"castles" fore and aft.
Yet for the poverty-bound
Puritans in Holland exile to
have afforded her, the May
flower in 1620 must have been
a somewhat decrepit and or
dinary old merchantman. She
bore an ordinary name; there
were some 20 Mayflowers in
Admiralty registry about that
time.
The ship now building at Brix
ham is patterned on the most
careful models of ships of May
flower's type and tonnage. Nav
al historians assume that Chris
topher Jone's vessel was stout
and chunky, 90 feet in over-all
length, 26 feet in beam, 11 feet
in depth of hold, with three
masts to have been called a
"ship," two of them square
rigged. She was jammed to overflow
ing with her 102 Pilgrims (the
new Mayflower will take only
50, plus a crew of 21). William
Bradford's journal tells that the
voyage was rough, cold, and
stormv. There was much sea
sickness, ?but only one passen
eer died, young William But-
ten.
This remarkable record points
to the probability that the May
flower was a "sweet" ship, her
bilges well disinfected by leak
age from wine kegs during years
of trading with Bordeaux and
La Rochelle. There must have
been traces about her, too, of
the fish, tar, turpentine, and
other smelly cargoes she had
carried.
Unknown End
What finally happened to the
first Mayflower is unknown.
She returned to England and
in late lozi was uniuauuig
French salt at London. Captain
Jones died in 1622. Two years
later, the last Admiralty record
of his ship and had her lying
in poor condition at Rother
hithe, with "one suit of worn
sails," valued all told at less
than $750.
One marine scholar attempt
ed to prove that Mayflower
beams are part of an " existing
barn in the village of Jordans,
Buckinghamshire, but the the-
ory is challenged. Whatever her
fate, in late 1955 the ship of
the Pilgrims is coming back
to life in England.
POLIO POSTER BOY Tom
my Woodward, 5, of Balti
more, McL, has been chosen
Poster Boy for the 1956
March of Dimes (Jan. 3-31).
With his mother, Tommy will
tour the country to seek con
tributions for the care of the
nation's polio victims. '
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EARTHQUAKE REPORTED
New York (U.R) The Rev,
Joseph Lynch, director of the j sixth children to die in Western
Two" Children Die
In Washington Fire
Annapolis, Wash. U.R)
Two children died yesterday
when a fire broke out in their
bedroom and destroyed their
five-room frame home here.
The children, Reinhold James
Crave, 9, and June Carol Crave.
2, were left in the care of their"
12-year-old sister Mary Ann
while their mother went to the
Post Office.
The victims were the fifth and
Fordham University Seismologi-
cal observatory, reported today
that two "fairly sharp" quakes
shook an undetermined area
some 4500 miles from New York
at 2:04, and 2:13 a.m. (EST). He
said the tremors had an inten
sity rating of five on a scale of
10.
Washington fires yesterday. Four
children of Donald R. Evans, a
Tacoma fireman, died in a, fire
earlier In the day.
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