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XSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1955
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ASSUMES COMMAND First. Lt. Oran Chastain (left) assumes
command of company A, 186th infantry, Oregon National Guard,
replacing Captain Roy L. Huson of Medford. Capt. Huson has
O been appointed adjutant for the first battalion. Lt. Chastain served
as commanding officer of Headquarters company here until he
retired to the inactive guard in 1951. (See story page 5).
e (Birchfield photo.)
Stevenson Bids for
Labor Support With
Taft-Hartley Blast
New York (U.R) Adlai E.
Stevenson, unsuccessful cham
pion of labor in the 1952 presi
dential elections, made another
bid for its support today with a
blast against the Taft-Hartley
Act and the so-called right-to-work
laws effective in IV states.
Stevenson, an announced cari
didateCJor the Democratic presi
dential nomination again in 1956,
touched on all aspects of the
Eisenhower administration that
have become the whipping posts
of labor in a speech to the in
augural convention of the
merged AFL-CIO.
He said the so called state
right-to-work laws, which pro
hibit the union shop, were not
of air "To the workers,, to the
employer and to the public."
Law 'Unworkable'
"And there has long been
.agreement that many of the pro
visions of the Taft-Hartley Act
are inequitable or unworkable,"
he said. "They must be changed
Oor removed."
Stevenson told the delegates
represerrtiny the 16,000,000 mem
bers of the new labor organiza
tion that he had not planned t6
make a political speech but pro
posed, "nevertheless, to speak
bluntly against what appears to
be a design to play the ugly pol
itics of group hatred."
He made it plain thathe farm
policy would be an issue in 1956
when he accused Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Benson of "an
attempt to blame the farmer's
current depression on the city
worker's wage."
For More Social Work
He called for expanded pro
grams in housing, schools, medi
cal care and Social Security and
he said that "unemployment
compensation must be extended
and its benefits made more real
istic." o
Stevenson was the second
Democrat of national stature to
. address the convention. The con
vention gave enthusiastic sup
port earlier to New York Gov.
Averell Harriman when h e
blasted the Eisenhower adminis
tration Tuesday for policies
, which he said were designed to
"crush labor.
Resolutions Criticize Policy
The AFL-CIO indicated possi
ble support for the Democrats in
1956 Wednesday when it adopted
a number of resolutions criti-
Bloodmobile at Elks
- Temple This Afternoon
O Only 105 persons had made
appointments up to mid-morn
ing today for the regular Blood-
mobile visit, Red Cross officials
said.
The Bloodmobile will be at
the Elks temple until 5 p.m.
The quota for thft visit is 240
pints, and officials urged Jack
son county residents to volun
teer. No appointment is neces
sary, they pointed out.
e Two months ago 122 pints
were collected, and since then
about 250 pints have been used
in Jackson county.
Weaihef
FORECAST: Cloudy with fre
quent showers tonight be
coming partly cloudy with
widely scattered showers Fri
day. Low tonight 40. High -.
Friday 45-48.
Temp.
HigheJTi Yesterday 43
Lowest-'this Morning ' 36
cizing administration policy.
One accused the administra
tion of. making only "grudging,
piece-meal and belated efforts"
to correct abuses in the security
program.
Another urged the United
States, Great Britain and France
to enable Israel to obtain arms
and other materials.
The new union went far to
ward eliminating discord within
its ranks Wednesday in the for
mation of the 700,000 member
Industrial Union Division with
Walter P. Reuther at its head.
Walter F. Britlan
Of Medford Dies
Walter Fawcett Brittan, 72,
Table Rock estates, died this
morning at a Medford hospital.
Mr. Brittan, who had lived
in the Medford area for about
five years, was retired. His ac
tive years were spent in a
variety of enterprises including
the oil business and in wheat op
erations. He was at one time af
filiated with the National Re
publican committee, and was a
party fund - raiser, traveling
throughout the nation in- this
work.
Survivors include Mrs. Brit
tan and a step-daughter.
Funeral services have been
tentatively arranged for 10:30
a.m. Saturday at Perl funeral
hoirfe. The family requests flow
ers be omitted. Further details
will be announced tomorrow,
friends of the family said.
Jackson Among 18
Oregon Disaster Areas
Washington (U.R) The Small
Business Administration today
designated 18 counties in Ore
gon as disaster areas as a result
of a damaging freeze Nov. 11-14,
that caused Josses to the nursery
industry.
The declaration makes it pos
sible for nurserymen and other
business suffering damage in the
freeze to obtain low-interest dis
aster loans from the small bus
iness administration.
The following counties were
included:
Clatsop, Columbus, Tillamook,
Washington, Multnomah, Yam
hill, Clackamas, Lincoln, Polk,
Marion, Benton, Linn, Lane,
Douglas, Coos, Curry, Josephine
and Jackson.
Abbott Defense Prepares
For Cross-Examination
Oakland, Calif. U.R) "De
fense attorneys prepared today
to cross-examine the crime ex
pert who in effect placed Burton
W. Abbott at the graveside of
Stephanie Bryan.
The expert Paul L. Kirk of
the University of California,
took the stand yesterday in an
attempt to prove through science
that Abbott kidnaped and mur
dered the teen-age Berkeley
school girl.
His testimony appeared so
conclusive that defense attorneys
Stanley Whitney and Harold
Hove asked Superior Judge
Charles Wade Snook to recess
the trial until Monday.
Portland (U.R) The State
Board of Higher Education will
meet here next Monday and
Tuesday.
Ike, Advisers To
Consider Delay in
Making Tax Cuts
Hold-off Until Spring
Believed Necessary
Thurmont, Md. (U.R)
President Eisenhower met with
his top money men today to con
sider delaying any recommend
ations for tax cuts . until " mid-
spring.
Mr. Eisenhower drove here
from his Gettysburg, Pa., farm
for a private talk with Secre
tary of the Treasury George M.
Humphrey and Budget Director
Rowland R. Hughes in advance
of the weekly meeting of the
national Security council.
.Informed sources said Humph
rey and Hughes came to the
meeting prepared to urge that
Mr. Eisenhower omit any pro
posals for tax relief from his
messages to Congress in Jan
uary. Seek Delay in Cut
The two officials were said
to believe that the administra
tion should hold off tax cut pro
posals until spring, at least, to
make sure that a balanced budg
et is in sight for the new fiscal
year starting next July 1.
Mr. Eisenhower arrived at his
mountain retreat here at 8:45
a.m. (EST) and went into im
mediate conference with Hum
phrey and Hughes.
Secretary of State John Fost
er Dulles and Defense .Secre
tary Charles E. Wilson, whose
departments handle the foreign
aid and military program that
account for the biggest share of
the budget, and Presidential As
sistant Sherman Adams, sat in
on the tax talk, which lasted for
about an hour.
Cold War Problem
After the discussion on tax
es, the President turned to cold
war problems at a meeting of
the National Security council.
A priority topic for discussion
at the secret session was likely
to be the' new war of nerves in
Berlin.
Any delay in administration
requests for a tax cut could be
expected to set off a sharp pol
itical debate. Both parties want
quick action on a tax cut as a
politically strategic move with
the voters for the 1956 presi-J
uemiai campaign.
Tungsten Swindle
Charges Studied
San Francisco (U.R) The
U.S. district attorneys office
studied charges today that un
scrupulous tungsten dealers
have swindled the government
out of millions of dollars.
The swindle was disclosed
yesterday by officials of the
General Services Administra
tion in San Francisco. The local
GSA office has bought about
two-thirds of the tungsten sold
to the government in the past
three years.
According to Robert Bradford,
regional chief of the GSA, the
racket worked like this:
A number of sellers of tung
sten swore falsely that the
Mexican tungsten they sold the
government under the price
support program was mined in
the United States.
This enabled them to collect
$63 for each 20-pound unit of
ore concentrate. Actually, they
were entitled to only $33, the
world price for the metal. '
Medford Ranked 4th
In Retail Volume
Medford ranked fourth among
Oregon cities in the volume of
retail sal ; during 1954, accord
ing to figures announced by the
census of business of the depart
ment of commerce.
Sales in 1954 totaled S49.424,-
000, compared to $40,000,000 in
1948, an increase of 22.3 per
cent, according to the census.
Retail sales in Jackson county
totaled S78,081,000 last year,
compared to S60,948,000 in 1948,
an increase of 28.1 per cent.
Portland, Eugene and Salem
ranked above Medford in total
retail sales in 1954.
Mendes-F ranee Calls
For Party Conference
Paris (U.R) Pierre
Mendes-France summoned fellow-leaders
of his Radical Soc
ialist party to an urgent confer
ence today to decide what to do
about Premier Edgar Faure's
latest move to split bis follow
ers. The party leaders were faced
with the task of examining re
lations with the Left Republican
Rally (RGR) headed by Faure.
US Authorities
Seek Information
On Yank Soldiers
Refusal by Soviets
Described as Strange
Berlin (U.R) U.S. authorities
asked Russian officials again to
day for information on two
American soldiers who allegedly
were arrested in East Berlin for
attacking a Communist night
club entertainer.
The request was the second
made by the United States in 24
hours.
The two soldiers were arrest
ed yesterday by East Berlin po
lice and turned over to the So
viets Western officials feared
they might be held as hostages
in an effort, to obtain the release
of a Russian officer who fled to
the West.
Refusal Said Strange
An American spokesman de
scribed as "strange" the fact the
Soviets had refused thus far to
give any information on the
GI's.
The East German Communist
press hammered away again at
the "corrupt" WesUBerlin gov
ernment, and an official Com
munist newspaper said the
"whole regime must disappear
to make Berlin free from scan
dal and corruption."
The newest threat was ac
companied by renewed hints at
blocking passage of Berlin's
supply barges from West Ger
many unless the Bonn govern
ment knuckles under to the Red
demands it negotiate as an equal"
with the "sovereign" East Ger
man government. '
Turned Over To Russians
The two Americans were
seized Wednesday by East Ber
lin Communist police as "drun-,
ken American gangsters" and
turned over to the Soviets in ap
parent respect of a four-power
agreement covering such cases.
Western officials said their early
return would show Soviet good
faith in abiding by the four
power agreements.
Identity of the Americans was
still unknown. The Communist
party newspaper Neues Deutsch
land identified them today as
"officers," but indications were
they were enlisted men. Pic
tures of them in the Communist
press were too smudged for easy
recognition.
One day before the Ameri
cans were seized and charged
with knocking out the singing
star of an anti-American politi
cal cabaret in the Russian sec
tor a Soviet tank officer fled to
West Berlin.
Mrs. Wayne Morse
Joins Up as Democrat
Eugene (U.R) An import
ant supporter has officially
climbed aboard the Wayne Morse
bandwagon.
Last February, the Oregon
senator changed his registration
from Republican to Democratic.
This Tuesday, Mrs. Morse visited
Lane county courthouse here
and did the same thing.
Rain, Snow Enhance Irrigation Outlook
For Next Year, District Officials Say
Irrigation prospects for the
coming year look good so far,
with seasonal precipitation
above normal and 37 inches of
snow on the ground, at Fish
Lake, according to Jack Hoff
buhr, secretary and manager of
the Medford Irrigation district.
Both Four Mile and Fish
Lakes haVe less water in them
now than they did at this time
last year, but this is due to low
precipitation last winter and the
fact that the reservoirs were
completely drained during the
irrigation season, Hoffbuhr said.
The lakes provide wateT for
both the Medford and Rogue
River Valley Irrigation districts.
Lake Capacities
Fish lake, with a capacity of
7,900 acre feet of storage, had
3,174 acre feet of water stored
yesterday compared with 4,765
feet a year ago. Four Mile lake,
with a 16,000 foot capacity, had
2-718 feet of water stored Dec.
1, compared to 8,150 feet a year
ago.
Total precipitation in the Fish
lake area, from Sept. 1, to Dec.
1, was 16.25 indies, compared
Salem Cop Has Way
To Spof Drunk Man
Salem (U.R) How do you
fell when a person is drunk?
Well, one Salem policeman
pointed to these circumstances
when filing a report on arrest
ing a man for being intoxi
cated: -
v The man was weaving and
unsteady on his feet. His
speech was thick. His eyes
were bloodshot. And his breath
had a strong suggestion of al
cohol. And besides, he was talking
to a manikin in - a Liberty si.
clothing store window.
Officials Vorried
Over Salk Apathy,
Merkel Declares
Portland (U.R) Oregon pub
lic health authorities are "ex
tremely concerned" over -public
apathy toward the Salk anti
polio vaccine program, accord
ing to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jack
son county health official.
Dr. Merkel, in Portland for
a three-day meeting of local
health officers, called for in
creased public support of the
lagging vaccine program after
conferring with both Oregon
and Washington state health of
ficers. Vaccine Demand Slow
He said a spot check of drug
stores throughout the state show
ed that demand for Sails.. vaccine
has continued slow except in "the
downtown Portland area where
there is a heavy concentration
of physicians' offices.
Dr. Merkel pointed out that
Salk vaccine now is available
at nominal cost for all children
through the age of 15 and for
pregnant women. No further
mass vaccination clinics are
planned. Eight to ten months
are required to complete the se
ries of three shots for maximum
immunity from infantile pa
ralysis. Dr. Merkel said no Oregon
child who received two or more
shots has had paralytic polio this
year. But 1955 has been the
sixth-worst polio, year in the
state's history.
Conditions Improve
On Highway Passes
Highway passes surrounding
Rogue valley were almost back
to normal today. Chains were re
quired only in Crater Lake Na
tional Park on the Annie Springs
Rim rd.
State police said pavement at
Prospect on Highway 62, over
the Green Springs on Highway
66 and the Siskiyous on High
way 99 were almost bare with
only spots -f ice reported. High
way 99 in California was report
ed normal.
Skiing at Crater Lake park
was reported fair. The present
depth of snow is 68 inches.
to 4.11 inches during the same
period of time last year. Normal
precipitation for the period is
10.84 inches.
"The season looks good so
far," Hoffbuhr said, "but it will
take an .abnormal season to
bnng the reservoir up to normal
content."
Emigrant Lake
Emigrant lake, with an 8,200
acre foot capacity, now has
1,500 acre feet stored behind the
danv considerably more than it
had last year, according to Rob
ert Kent, secretary-manager of
the Talent Irrigation district.
Hyatt reservoir, with a capacity
of 16,000 acre feet, now contains
about 1,000 feet. Snow pack at
Hyatt a few days ago was 13
inches.
All usable water was drawn
out of Hyatt this year, Kent said,
and only once in the" last 30
years when the reservoir was
drawn down to the limit was
it filled to its maximum capacity
in one winter.
Snow Pack
The snow pack at Crater Lake
measured 69 inches yesterday
Naval Bomber
Crashes at Sea
Three Survivors
Picked Up By Sub
Honolulu (U.R) A two-engined
Navy patrol bomber with
a crew of 10 crashed at sea 26
miles off the shore of Kauai
Island late last night and a sub
marine picked up three sur
vivors. An air-sea search was manned
immediately for the remaining
crewmen.
The three survivors were iden
tified as Lt. K. C. Guedel, Dover,
O., the pilot of the downed P2V;
Lt. (jg) E. F. O'Malley, and Lt.
(jg) Robert S. Smith, Montgom
ery, Ala. .
Survivors Need Attention
Two of the survivors needed
medical attention and were re
turned to Pearl Harbor.
The plane crashed while on
a routine training mission with
seven submarines. A search be
gan when it failed to report on
schedule.
An accompanying P2V sighted
flares and the submarine Bashaw
picked up the survivors shortly
after.
Other Fliers Sought
The plane was stationed at
Barbers Point Naval Air Station.
Meanwhile, a search continued
for two Marine dive bomber
pilots lost on a routine training
flight Tuesday., night- off , Oahu
Island.
One pilot was identified as
1st Lt. Todd L. AVyman, 25, of
Winchester, Mass.
The P2V crash was the eighth
military plane accident in the
Hawaiian area in the past two
weeks. All other seven were
Marine aircraft.
Ewajdsen Elected
CC Board President
Otto Ewaldsen, manager of
Swem's Gift shop, was elected
president of the board of direc
tors of the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce at a
luncheon this noon.
He succeeds John Pletsch,
and will take office Jan. 1.
Other officers elected were
Bob Root of Myron Root and
company, vice-president, and
Clarence Young of the Rogue
Valley State bank, treasurer.
All were named unanimously
by the board of directors.
Reed Students Picked
For Rhodes Tests
Portland (U.R) The Rhodes
scholarship committee announc
ed here yesterday that two Reed
college students will compete
in final competitive exams in
Spokane for the coveted award.
They are Bruce R. Voeller,
Roseburg, Ore., and Paul Rich
ards Burgess, Hyrum, Utah.
compared to 21 inches a year
ago. Total snow fall from Sept.
1 to Dec. 1 was 125.5 inches this
year, compared to 35.5 inches
during the same period in 1954.
The water content of snow
on the ground this year is much
higher than it was a year ago.
At Crater Lake, snow has a wa
ter content of 23.67 per cent.
Water content of the snow pack
at the same time last year was
only 9.9 per cent.
Total precipitation since Sept.
1, as reported by the U.S. Weath
er Bureau at the Medford air
port, is 7.14 inches, 1.31 inches
above normal.
Little Runoff
Robert Church, chief meteor
ologist at the Medford weather
bureau, pointed out that snow
last winter fell on dry, frozen
ground. When the snow melted
in the spring much of it soaked
into the ground rather than run
ning off into irrigation reser
voirs. This year snow fell on wet,
unfrozen ground, which should
contribute to greater supplies of
irrigation water in the spring.
for f ifers
ssembly Votes
roval
United Nations, N. Y. (U.R)
The United Nations General As
sembly today gave overwhelm
ing approval to a recommenda
tion that 13 non-Communist and
five Communist nations be ad
mitted. The Assembly vote was 52 to
2 with 5 abstentions. The strong
support for the admission of the
18 nations indicated by the As
sembly vote puts heavy pressure
on the 11-nation Security Coun
cil to approve the entry of the
whole group to the world body.
The Assembly vote exactly
duplicated the ballot in the Spe
cial Political Committee, which
yesterday gave preliminary ap
proval to a resolution sponsored
by Canada and 27 other coun
tries setting up the package deal.
United States Abstains
Nationalist China and Cuba
voted against the resolution.
The United States, France'Bel
gium, Greece and Israel ab
stained. South Africa, boycotting the
General Assembly because of its
8 r4ew
Eden Said Ready To
Make Many Changes
In British Cabinet
London (U.R) Prime Min
ister Anthony Eden will make
sweeping changes in his cabinet
before he goes to the United
States next month to visit Pres
ident Eisenhower, authoritative
sources said today.
The reports said the changes
probably would involve Chan
cellor of 'the Exchequer R. A.
Butler, now the No. 2 man in
the Conservative government,
and possibly Foreign Minister
Harold Macmillan.
Reshuffle Uncompleted
The sources said Eden has not
yet completed the projected re
shuffle but that the long-delayed
rearrangement would come
sometime i between Christmas
Judge Sets Hearing
For San Quentin Man
San Francisco (U.R) Federal
Judge Louis E. Goodman today
set Jan. 9 for a hearing pn convict-author
Caryl Chessman's
newest bid to escape death in
the San Quentin gas chamber.
Chessman, the so-called "red
light bandit" of Los Angeles,
appeared in court for his first
day outside San Quentin's death
row in ZVi years.
The convicted kidnap - rapist
who has drawn up many of the
appeals that have saved him
from execution in the past seven
years, listened intently and un
smilingly as his attorneys argued
for as much time as possible
to arrange for the hearing on
a writ of habeas corpus.
If granted, the writ would
free Chessman whereupon "he
probably would be tried again
by Los Angeles authorities.
Part of Human Leg
Found in Portland Dump
Portland (U.R) Author
ities today sought an explana
tion as to how a foot and part
of a leg of a human turned up
at a private dumping ground
here.
The remains were found yes
terday. Dr. Homer Harris, path
ologist, said they apparently
were amputated and came from
a female. Detectives said it is
the practice of hospitals to burn
amputated limbs. The remains
were found at a dump near Port
land Meadows race track.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow-Jones
closing stock averages: 30 indus
trials 487.80 up 1.45; 20 rail
roads 165.00 up 0.06; 15 utili
ties 65.99 up 0.06, and 65 stocks
173.80 up 0.33.
for Flan
tiers
debate on South African racial
segregation policies, was absent.
Applause rolled through the
Assembly hall as President Jose
Maza of Chile announced the
result of the vote.
The . Assembly's action, how
ever was little more than a "per
suader" to the Security Council
to recommend the admission of
the 18 countries.
Veto Foreseen o
Under U. N. Rules, new mem
bers are elected by a two-thirds
vote of the Assembly only after
the council has recommended
their admission. Council approv
al requires favorable votes of
seven of the 11 members and
can be blocked "hy the veto of
any of the five permanent mem
bers. Nationalist China, according
to an official announcement,
plans to veto Outer Mongolia
in the council.
Russia has announced that it
will veto the entire plan if any
of its five Communist candidates
fails to gain admission.
and New Year. The changes
have been expected since last
summer.
The most startling report, and
one not confirmed, was that
Butler may be promoted to be
come deputy premier and leader
of the House of Commons. He
has beerioreported "tired" of the
burden the treasury has impos
ed on him and since the death
of his wife recently he has been
reported anxious to make a
change.
The' difficulty in replacing
Butler as chancellor of the ex
chequer was reported behind the
delay in reshuffling the cabin
et. The post requires . expert
knowledge because of the power
ful control it exerts over Brit
ain's economy.
Macmillan Likely Candidate
The reports said Macmillan
might be considered as a pos
sible candidate to succeed But
ler. But MacMillan took over
the Foreign Office from Eden
only a few months ago and it
was feared moving him might
imply criticism of his achieve
ments as foreign secretary. He
has been criticized because con
ferences on Cyprus and the Big
Four meeting at Geneva ended
in failure.
Speculation centered on Sel-
wyn Lloyd, the present minister
of defense, as a candidate for .
the Foreign office. Lloyd has
risen fast in the Conservative
hierarchy, moving from the jun
ior post of minister of state to
a seat in the inner cabinet.
Myrtle Point Youth
Picked by Neuberger
Portland (U.R) Sen. Rich
ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore) today
announced the appointemnt of
15-year-old Keith Schroeder, of
Myrtle Point, Ore., to be a page
boy in the 1956 session of the
Congress..
The youth, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elton Schroeder, would be the
third Oregon boy tc serve as a
Senate page during the past 20
years. There are 28 pageboys in
the Senate.
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