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o O I A r & lJ -lit f I'll flPl y - I f " s CRITICAL COMMENTS ARE RIFE in Russia's newspapers these days over lavishness of new Leningrad subway. Glamorous lamps are among objectionable features architects are defending from charges of extravagance hurled by advocates of economy. (International) Faure May Old French Force Early Paris (U.R) Premier Edgar Faure decided tentatively today to dissolve the French National assembly a move tat would provoke France's worst politi cal crisis since 1877. The assembly voted no con fidence in Faure Tuesday by a vote of 318 to 218. But instead of resigning automatically the stubborn premier dumfounded Parliament by announcing he would send it home instead and call for new elections. Constitutional Clause He can do this under a seldom-invoked clause in the con stitution providing new elections if two governments are voted out of office within 18 months. Faure took office only last Feb ruary. The final decision was expect ed sometime today when Faure meets with his cabinet and pres ident Rene Coty. Coty was re ported dead-set against dissolv ing the assembly. But in a stormy cabinet session early to day the government decided to go ahead and "fire" parliament. The vote was 19 to five with two abstentions. Postal Minister Edouard Bonnefous stalked out of the meeting in protest against dissolution. i Assembly Outfoxes Itself ' The capricious National As sembly which has voted 21 pre miers out of office since World War II outfoxed itself in Tues day's vote. Ironically it was ousting Faure because he want ed early elections. The vote was so overwhelming that it enabled him to invoke the dissolution clause, and that means elections must be held within. 20 to 30 days. Faure was not out of the wood If he dissolves Parliament he would remain as premier. But Parliament could first pass a vote of censure against him and he. too. would be out. In that case Pierre Schneiter, the presi dent of the assembly, would be come acting premier. President Appeals For Safe Driving Gettysburg, Pa. U.R) Pres ident Eisenhower today ap pealed to all Americans to drive safely, especially tomorrow which has been designed Safe Driving Day. "The need is obvious and ur gent," Mr. Eisenhower said in a statement. Last year, he said, "an Ameri can man, woman or child was in traffic every 15 min Y?3. Someone was injured every 25 seconds. And, this year, the record is worse: More people are dying; more are injured and crippled." The President said Safe Driv ing Day is "a gat national ef fort to save lives." 'The immediate objective of S-D Day is to have 24 hours without a single traffic accident. The long range,-and more im portant objective is to impress upon all of us the necessity of safe riving and safe waScing every day of the year." Christmas Parade Will Open Holiday Season The annual Christmas parade will officially open the holiday season at 6:30 p.m. tonight. Floats and marching units will form on South Ivy st. at West Main st. and travel east on Main st. to Bartlett st., turn north on Bartlett st. to Sixth St., and west on Sixth st. to North Fir st. Santa Claus' first visit to Med ford will be a main feature of the parade. A cash prize will be awarded the winning float. Downtown stores will remain open until 9 p.m. following the parade. i 's ' T Invoke Law To Voting The last time such a consti tutional crisis arose was in 1877, when the deputies adopted a mo tion blaming the government for being "anti-Republican." Monarchist President. Marshal Marie-Edme - Patrick de Mac Mahon kicked out the deputies and decreed new elections. The move backfired. The elec tions returned 327 Republicans and only 28 Monarchists. De Mac-Mahon's appointed cabin et was forced to resign and the president himself was deprived of political powers. Since then French presidents have held only token power. Central Point Boy Taken To Eugene As Polio Patient A 5-year-old Central Point boy was taken to the polio treatment center at Sacred Heart hospital in Eugene by the Medford Ambulance service last night, according to his attend ing physician. The boy had been taken to a local hospital with weakness in both legs and one arm, and later developed respiratory dif ficulty, the doctor said. The trip to Eugene was made as a precautionary measure. The Eu gene polio treatment center is the only one in this area equip ped to handle polio respiratory cases. The case is the seventh re ported in Jackson county this year, but is the fifth involving a county resident. Others were non-residents hospitalized here. The trip was made by ground ambulance because no Mercy Flignts planes were immediately available. The single engine tinson air ambulance is not equipped for nighttime, bad weather flying and the twin-en gine Cessna was grounded over night awaiting arrival of nec essary replacement parts. The two new Beechcraft planes recently obtained from the government were grounded by Civil Aeronautics administra tion regulations because their temporary registration ' certifi cates had lapsed due to delays in working out and obtaining gov ernment approval from a con tract between Mercy Flights, which is to operate them, and the Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital, which is the technical owner. Two Prisoners Escape From Washington Prison Walla Walla (U.R) Two prisoners escaped from the Wash ington State Prison here early today by scaling a 22-foot wall with two short ladders they had wired together, Warden Law rence Delmore Jr., reported. Delmore identified the escapees as John .Russell, 25, who was serving a five-year sen tence from Yakima for first de gree forgery, and Edward Lin coln Burkholder, 23, who had 20 more months to serve for a grand larceny conviction from King county. Furnaces Fired Up At Riddle Nickel Plant Riddle, Ore. (U.R) Furn aces were fired up for the first time in five days late yesterday at the labor-troubled Hanna Nickel company as union and management annouced settle ment of a wildcat strike. Terms of the agreement, reached after an all-day meet ing, provide that 50 Hanna mine and smelter workers and more than 200 workers of Bechtel con struction company will return to work immediately on their reg ular shifts. Five Are Injured In Three Accidents !n Jackson County Five persons were injured in traffic accidents in Jackson county yesterday and today. Frank L. Lengele, Medford policeman, suffered a knee in jury and the patrolcar he was operating was demolished early this morning in a collision at Main and Front sts. with a Los Angeles and Seattle Motor Ex press company truck. Driver of the truck, Robert G. Whitestone, and a passenger, Clyde M. Black, both of Seattle, were treated for minor cuts at Community hospital. Whitestone was later released. Responding to Call Police said Lengele, who was responding to. a call for assist ance from another officer, was traveling west on Main st., with his siren and red light on, when he collided with the truck which was going south on Front st. Roy Lee Braley, 55, San Ber nardino, Calif., suffered severe facial lacerations when the car in which he was riding crashed into the rear of a log truck on Highway 99 near Ko gap Lumber company about 12:30 p.m. yesterday. He was in good condition today at Com munity hospital, where he was taken by Medford ambulance.. v The driver of the car, Curtis Lesley Hammons, 43, of 447 North Fir st., Medford, who was not injured, was lodged in Jackson county jail. He will be charged with driving while un der the influence of intoxicat ing liquor. Skids Into Truck State police said the Ham mons vehicle, which apparently was traveling at a high rate of speed, skidded into the rear of a log truck drjven by Arthur Frederick Hotho, 30, Eagle Point. Doris Herbison, 38, of 355 B st., Ashland, received minor cuts and bruises, was treated at Ashland General hospital and re leased late yesterday following an accident on Billings hill near Ashland. State police said she was " a passenger in a vehicle operated by Elmer Erwin Newton, 64, of 1375 Iowa st., Ashland. He was not injured. The Newton veh icle and one operated by Jay B. Cochran, 30, of 494 Fairview st., Ashland, collided as Coch ran's pickup truck was being moved onto the highway. Cochran received a broken leg and forehead cuts. He was taken to Ashland General hos pital. Bloodmobile Slates December 8 Visit The Bloodmobile will make its regular visit to Medford be tween 1 and 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8. It will be at the Elks club, 202 North Central ave. Blood bank officials urged res idents to make appointments by calling Medford 3-3813 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. anytime after Thursday, Dec. 1. The quota this time will be 240 pints of blood. Officials pointed out ' that about 250 pints of blood have been used locally since the last Bloodmobile visit about two months ago, when only 122 pints were collected.' They noted they were borrowing from the blood bank instead of adding to it. Weather FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with occasional light rain showers tonight. A few showers Thurs day with periods of partial clearing. Low tonight 40. High Thursday 45. Temp. Highest Yesterday . 51 Lowest This Morning 44 Prec. To 10 a.m. Today 11 M EDF0RD United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 24 Pages Neuberger Sees Little Change in Foreign Policy Senator Differs With Truman View Seattle (U.R) The man who gave Democrats control of the United States Senate last year differed today with Former President Harry Truman that President Eise nhower had changed foreign policy much from what it was under Mr. Tru man. Sen. Richard Neuberger (D Ore.) whose election last year gave the Democrats their mar gin of control in the Senate, told a news conference: "President Eisenhower's pol icy on foreign affairs hasn't changed much from the days of Presidents Roosevelt and Tru man." Sees Little Change "If Adlai Stevenson is elected president," he said, "I don't think foreign policy will change much from what it is now." Former President Truman, during a week-end visit here, had accused President Eisen hower of throwing foreign policy into the political arena desert ing the bi-partisan theory under President Franklin Roosevelt and himself. Neuberger said also he be lieved in "moderation" in the "espousal of the Democratic cam paign program in next year's election." Thus he came to the defense of Adlai Stevenson, who is seeking the Democratic presi dential nomination. Stevenson caused a ruckus in Democratic ranks with a speech in Chicago recently advocating "modera tion" in next year's campaign. No Such Word Mr. Truman has said he thought the best way to go at the Republicans was "hammer and tongs." Gov. Averell Harriman of New York, a potential Demo cratic candidate for president too, said "there is no such word as moderation in the Democratic party," and Gov. Mennen Wil liams of Michigan, another pres idential possibility, said, "Dem ocrats would be guilty -of craven cowardice if they allow the 1956 presidential campaign to degen erate into a spineless self-defeating formality." Neuberger said he would like to see Stevenson the Democratic nominee and Sen. Estes Kefau ver (D-Tenn.) his running mate. "In Oregon, we've got to re elect Sen. Wayne Morse," he added. Neuberger said power and farm policy would be key cam paign issues in this area next year, and he said he thought those would be the primary is sues Morse campaigns on. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 483.26 up 0.66; 20 rail roads 166.65 off 0.13; 15 utilities 65.92 up 0.21, and 65 stocks 173.54 up 0.18. Sales today were about 2,900,000 shares compared with 2,370,000 shares traded yes terday. Elections Will In 12 Districts Residents of eight Jackson county water districts, three rural fire districts and one sani tary district will elect directors and commissioners at elections Monday, Dec. 5. Voters will be asked to decide bond issues in two districts. A bond issue not to exceed $27,000 for additional water dis tribution and installation of fire hydrants will be on the ballot in Grand View water district. Residents of the South Bear Creek sanitary district will be asked to vote on a $40,000 bond issue for additional funds for construction of trunk and lat eral sewer lines. Annexation Proposal Members of Medford Rural MEDFORD, OREGON, ampaign alms Ma By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent (Second of two articles) Washington A 10-year mop ping up operation which the For est Service is launching against phony mining claim holders is being mapped with all the pre cision of a military campaign. With an estimated 200,000 mining claims some valid, some invalid to examine, the Forest Service has been given a $300,000 fund to start its cam paign. This is only a portion of the cost to the taxpayers of the disruptive practice of private in dividuals in recent years abusing the mining laws by staking out private sanctuaries in national forests for their own enjoyment or profit. Could File 'New' Claim Under the old mining law, the Forest Service could challenge a mining claimant if it thought the claim was invalid. But even if it won its case in the courts or in an administrative govern ment hearing, the claimant could go out the same day and file a "new" claim on substantially the same area by moving the boun dary markers slightly. Forest Service officials recall one cele brated case in which they won a ruling against a claimant 17 times, only to watch him go out each time and switch the corners of the claims and, for all prac tical purposes, preserve his rights to exclusive use of the government's forestland. Now, if the Forest Service wins. a. case against. a claimant, he can still use the old tactic of City Judge Wins Courtesy Driver James Main, 543 Hayden st., Medford citv iudee. identified the "Courtesy Driver of the DayN license num ber published yesterday i n Medford Safe t y council's partner in safe t y program. Judge Main received $10 prize because the previous day's number was not identified. A $5 award will be given for identifying today's "Courtesy Driver of the Day. The license number is: ES2-533 The owner may identify the number by calling 2-2441 or 3-5643 before noon Thursday. If the number is not identified, the prize for Dec. 1, Safe-Driving Day, goes to $15, with $10 added for S-D Day's courtesy driver. Ike's Activities Still Must Be Restricted Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) President Eisenhower's doctors said today he is coming along fine but that his activities still must be "restricted." The President underwent his regular weekly examination at his farm home here. Be Held Dec. 5 fire district will vote on a pro posal to annex property be tween Griffin Creek rd. and Griffin Creek, which includes Griffin Creek Grange and school. Directors and commissioners will be elected in the Jackson ville Highway, Midway, Grand View, Maple Park, Kenwood, Elk City, Kings Highway and Charlotte Anne water districts, and Medford, Central Point and Rogue River Rural fire districts. No elections will be held in the Table Rock and Berrydale Sanitary districts this year. Details on candidates, polling places, hours and other issues in the elections appear in a story on page 10 of today's Mail Tribune. f Tribune NOVEMBER 30, 1955 Mgains switching corners and filing an- ether claim but it wouldn't do him much good, for his new claim would come under the new mining law passed by Congress this year which gives the Forest Service the right to manage the forests on the claim. This would -open the claim to cutting, road building, grazing or recreational use. And, as the Forest Service views it, that would be the end of another outpost of resistance to good forestry management. To start the mopping up op eration, all regional offices of the Forest Service are mapping the areas containing existing claims. From this a plan of ac tion is to be drawn. Each claim will then be described according to its location. To Seek Evidence Foresters will then move in to examine the area for evidence of persons in actual possession or engaged in working the claim. They are to note any kind of buildings, campsites or other evidence of occupancy; any as sessment and development work, pits, shafts, drifts, surface dig gings or other workings; any road construction, timber clear ing, machinery in place or other evidence of mining work. They will seek names and addresses of claimants from neighbors, lo cal merchants, town or county officials, if the claimant is not occupying the claim. With this data in hand, the Forest Service will ask the Bur eau of Land Management for a determination of surface rights on the claim, and this request ore Federal School Aid should Conference Washington U.R) The president of the Los Angeles Board of Education today assailed the idea of federal aid for the nation's sehools. The official, Ruth C. Cole, said in a statement that "neither Los Angeles nor California need or -will they receive one cent in feder alaid." Washington iU.R) An educa tor said today that; the federal government should quit "mark ing time" and give substantial aid to schools. Dr. John K. Norton, head of Revised Plans For Armory Completed Revision of plans for the pro posed new Medford armory building has been completed, it was reported today. The revision became necessary when bids submitted earlier this year for construction of the $348,000 structure were all some $60,000 or more over orig inal estimates. New plans, which delete some of the features of the building as first planned are being forwarded this week to the state military department and the federal National Guard bureau for approval. This is ex pected to take a month or two before new bids can be called. Items deleted from the plans include the -basement, including shower and team rooms, and some of the small meeting rooms. Retained in the plans are the large assembly area, kitch en, toilets, locker rooms for Na tional Guard units, unit storage rooms, ordnance vaults, offices, a classroom, rifle range, boiler room and a check room. ' The city voted $40,000 in bonds to pay for its share, and the county's contribution will be $60,000. The state's share will be about $108,000, with the fed eral government also participat ing. The new' armory will be built on a site at the fairgrounds, which recently was annexed to the city. The building will re place the old armory which was largely destroyed by fire sev eral years ago. United Press Full Leased Wlr Price 5c v No. 215 ony mine Precision would be publicized in the lo cal area. The claimant is given 150 days to file verified state ments in defense of the validity of his claim. The Forest Service expects at this point that many legitimate miners who are working claims will simply waive their surface rights rather than become in volved in a hearing in which they would have to prove that they have a valid mineral claim. A waiver would save the gov ernment and the miner the cost and time of a hearing, give the Forest Service the right to man age the timberland, while not taking away from the miner the right to use what timber he needs directly in his mining de velopment. The miner would also retain the right to use tim ber beyond the bounds of his claim if there was insufficient timber on his claim due to For est Service cutting. If the claimant doesn't want to waive his surface rights and defends his claim successfully, he would continue to have ex clusive rights to the use of the surface, including the right to post "No Trespassing" signs and keep everyone, including feder al foresters, off his claim. II the claimant defaults in filing verified statements, or if he loses his case in a Bureau of Land Management hearing, the claim would be declared invalid and the Forest Service would gain the right to use the area in accord with good forestry practices. This is what the new law is intended to accomplish 5e (jiverif Informed the Education Administration departemnt at Columbia univer sity's teachers college, told re porters the . government "has been discriminating against edu cation" by giving federal aid to "practically every kind of pub lic service except it. Time Said Marked Norton, a delegate to the White House conference on edu cation, said that while states and local communities have increas ed their school funds in recent years, the national government has marked time Norton gave his views as the 1,800 conference delegates pre pared to consider the touchy federal aid question this after noon. Another thorny item on today's agenda was how to over come the pressing shortage 'of school teachers, It appeared that the adminis tration may be ready to recom mend more money for school construction than its current a'id bill provides. President Eisenhower sum moned Marion B. Folsom, secre tary of health, education and welfare, and Budget Director Rowland Hushes for a confer ence at his Gettysburg, Pa headauarters Thursday. One of Folsom's aides said, in response to questions, it would be "only natural" for them to discuss the health, education and welfare budget, including federal aid for school construction. Upward Revision Seen A department official said it would be a "reasonable assump tion" that the administration will revise upward its proposal for school construction grants. The three-year aid program rec ommended by the administra tion last soring called for $200 000.000 in grants to needy school districts, plus loans to others to helD them build schools. The program was criticized in Con gress for not providing enough outright federal funds. Authorities Wait Brief Daylight 0 To Probe Ruins Jet Slices Building At Alaska Air Base Eielson AFB, Alaska (U.R) Authorities awaited the brief period of Arctic daylight to re sume their search today for bodies of persons killed yester day when an eight-family apart ment was sliced by a crashing F84F Thunder jet. Authorities) feared that the final death toll might climb as high as 15. Ten bodies were taken from the ice-coated, charred oruins of the dwelling which eight enlisted airmen and their families occu pied, and three other tenants of the buildings were unaccounted for. i The dead were believed to in clude triplets ; born last year, Maj. John Orr, public informa tion officer at Eielson AFB, said. Their parents were believed to be Sgt. and Mrs. William Fimple, who survived the accident. Two other Fimple children, Timmie and Dutchie, also survived. Lucky Escape Lt. R. E. Marshall, who es caped with his family from one of the flaming buildings struck by the plane, was found wander ing about several hours later. I was just coming up from the basement when it happened," Marshall said. "Our baby was on the bed next to the wall and it was knocked onto the floor. The baby wasn't hurt. My wife was knocked over. We are the luck iest people in the world to be alive." Orr said "the death toll could go as high as 15." Six of the seven persons in jured in Tuesday's tragedy were in critical condition. A terrified young woman, Pamela Harris, 21, sobbed as she described the force of the plane's impact. o"I saw one woman with her arm torn off," Miss Harris, daughter of an enlisted couple, said. "It was horrible." The only identified victim of the tragedy was the pilot of the jet plane, Lt. Alfred E. Pound ers, 28, of Monticello, Miss. His body was recovered. Giant Bowling Ball Eyewitnesses said Pounders' plane, which had just taken off from Eielson AFB, skimmed over base headquarters and struck the housing project like a giant bowling ball. It ripped the apartment building from one end to the other before ex p 1 o d i n g and bursting into flames. The plane, after cutting through the enlisted men's quar ters, stopped only four inches from an officers' dwelling, as though conscious of rank. "The plane came over very low, right over the headquarters building where I was workine." one enlisted man said. we knew it was in trouble. You coulH tell by the way it sounded. "We saw a big puff of smoke and flame. Then the whole headquarters building shook, following a tremendous explo sion. Flames and smoke poured out of the windows and doors of the buiWnes. Wreckage was scattered all around." Human Icicles The crash occurred when chil dren were home from school shortly before 1 p.m. (AST). Firemen turned into human icicles as water from their hoses drenched them and froze. Air Force men and Army troops re lieved regular firefighters who became encased in a coating of ice. Fred A. Sorri. a civilian plumber, had just finished an in stallation in one of the build inss shattered by the plane. ' "It bounced off the roofs of two buildings, setting them afire and then plunged risht through the dwelling." he said. Orr said the pilot apparently had control failure. "He tried to avoid hitting the houses, but he couldn't get much altitude," Orr said. Orr said no official statement on the final death toll would be released for 48 hours and names of the victims would not be re leased until then. Longview.o Wash. U.R) Mrs. Calvin R. Rickard, 43-year-old Longview housewife, was found bludgeoned and near death in the yard of her home here about 1:45 a.m. today. 9 o'cloc ores emain pping 1 Open for Sho Until Tonight
