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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.
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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
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EDF0RD
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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,
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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.
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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.
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