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Weather BFQRD ft o ONE FORECAST: Cloudy, occasion ally foggy with intermittent rain through Monday. Con tinued mild temperatures. Temp. Highest yesterday 44 Lowest yesterday morning ....37 Prec. To 10 ajn. yesterday 22 A story on an annexation pro posal southeast of Medford ap pears on 5je 14 of today's Mail Tribune. S 5? United Press Full Leased Wire red Press Full Leased Wir 50th Year 32 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1955 Price 5c No. 224 Recommended Me . V II II Returns Indicate Wide Victory For Menziesf Liberals Australian Election Result Of Red Spy Sydney, Australia, Sunday uj.k; Partial returns indicated today that Prime Minister Rob ert Gordon Menzies had won a .. big victory in Saturday's na tional parliamentary election. It was an election which slpmmwi riirprtiv from thp sur render of Soviet Russia's chief spy "agent to the Australian Secret Service in April, 1954. When vote counting was Sus pended at midnight Saturday until 1 Tvm. todav (10 t.m. Sat urday EST), it was indicated ifcat Menzies' Liberal party country pany cuauuuu wuuiu win at least 71 seats in me new 122-seat House of Representa tives, the dominant chamber parliament. Labor Seats. Herbert' Vere Evatt's Labor party was expected to win at least 45. Six seats were still in doubt. Returns from the election of 30 members of the 60-seat senate were not sufficient to show a definite trend. Menzies held 64 seats against Labor's 57 in the old House of Representatives and 31 against Labor's 29. in the old senate. Up to 99 per cent of the coun try's 5,200,000 eligible voters were believed to have cast Bal lots because voting is compul sory in Australia. Those who fail 3 to vote may be fined $4.50. Labor Leader Evatt, in addi tion to facing a defeat in the House, was threatened with the loss of his own seat in the Bar ton district of Sydney., With 6,000 votes still un counted, Evatt had 19,044 votes against 18,014 for Bill Arthur, a World War II artillery veteran, and 1,501 for Ian Trembath, In dependent. Second CJhoica ' 1- Under Australian' law, the voters give their first and sec ond choices on their ballots. Trembath had urged his sup porters to make Arthur their second choice. Elections for the Senate would not have been held normally un til next June, and the next House election was not due until Ausrust. 1957. But Menzies called an elec tion for both Houses because of the surrender of Vladimir Pet- rov. third secretary m the Rus- sian Embassy and &py -mei iui Australia. Petrov turned over to the Secret Service a mass of docu ments. The documents named three of Evatt's aides as having sup plied information to agents of Petrov. F e r g a n O'Sullivan, (Jvatt's Press chief, admitted that he provided a detailed re port on Australian newspaper men. Morse Acdresses Young Democra?s In Portland Portland U.R) Sen. Wayne jQbrse (D-Ore.) Friday night promised some 250 Young Dem ocratsQhere that he would "in vestigate and ferret out" alleged failure of the administration to help small business in Oregon. Morse, who cancelled an ap . pearance before Oregon wheat growers at Pendleton because of illness, rose from his sick bed to address the $oung Democrats. Sports Bulletins Eugene high's steady Axe men jumped into the lead when the contest was a minute old and stayed on top all the way to wax the Medford Black Tornado basketball team 62 to 38 here -last night an earn a series split. The Axemen had intermis sion leads of 20 to 7. 37 io 17 and 47 to 20. Charley Warren of Eugene headed the scor ing with 20 points. Bob Tisdel put in 12 for Medford. Oakridge Oakridge high cagers made it two in a row over Crater by downing the Comets here last night' 64 to 43. Warrior margins by quart ers were 17 to 11. 28 to 26 and 40 to 36. O OProspect Prospect high subdued the Canyonville hoop men 60 to 43 here last night, holding period edges of 15 to 13. 30 to 22 and 50 to 36. Phoenix Phoenix high stayed in front the wl.ole distance last night in a 57 io 44 basketball win over Yreka. Calif. Quarterly counts were 20 to 10, 30 io 25 and 46 to 33. County's Pear Crop Totaled 3,250,000 Boxes During Year Jackson County's pear crop this year totaled 3,250,000 boxes, not including pears packed in gift boxes. . Although this year's crop was the largest in the history of the industry, Cliff B. Cordy, county horticultural agent, pointed out that it was not exceptionally large and that the valley is a uniform producing area. There was a "tremendous" Meany Says Union May Orgi anize Own Political Party New York (U.R) George Meany, president of the massive CIO-AFL labor union, warned Friday that the newly merged labor force would form its own political party if it is deprived of activity in the two existing parties. Meany said the 16,000,000 member union did not want a labor party but made it clear the union would not hestiate to form one if "deprived of its rights to exercise its political voice by endorsing candidates." Political Control Meany made his remarks at the closing session of the Na tional Association . of Manufac turers, which had just heard Charles R. Sligh Jr., NAM board chairman, voice the fear that the merged union might attempt to "seize political con trol of the country." The CIO-AFL president, who had just finished a conciliatory speech before the NAM conven tion, voiced his warning in a heated exchange with Sligh. The exchange took place in a corner of the nearly"va'canf "hotel' "ball- i room where the meeting had taken place. Meany hotly disputed Sligh's expressed fear that the merged labor movement might influence politics to such an extent as to become a "ghost government." Attempts to ban political ac tivity by unions could have an opposite efect, Meany warned. "If the politics of the NAM prevail we would be disenfran chised because we are members of unions," he said. "The answer is obvious we do not want a Labor party but if we can't en dorse candidates because we are members of unions then ob viously we will do it legally by starting a Labor party." Parlies Join For Campaign Finances Washington U.R) Republi cans and Democrats, Harassed by soaring costs of political campaigns, have joined forces to ask for small contributions from the mass of average voters. They are planning a public service advertising campaign. Both parties bought the idea first proposed by Philip Gra ham, publisher of the Washing ton Post and Times Herald, in a speech at the University of Chicago. Democratic National Chair man Paul M. Butler disclosed at a Beverly Hills, Calif., news conference Friday that a bi partisan appeal for contribu tions is in the works. He cited a public opinion poll indicating many voters were willing to make small campaign contribu tions but didn't know how. While plans are still tentative, these additional details were learned here Saturday. Graham contacted Butler and Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall, who brought party aides to two meetings with the publisher. Agreement was reached on a statement of principles which said in effect that citizen partici pation in politics is desirable and that financial support is one of the desirable ways to partici pate. An eight member committee, four representing each party, is being set up to work with Gra ham in launching the campaign, Poce Arraign 100 After Demonstration Montreal (U.R) Police ar raigned more than, 100 demon strators Saturday after student rioters damaged 236 streetcars and buses m protesting a fare inoreas. crop of Bartletts this year, Cordy said. A total of 1,300,000 boxes were .produced with 900, boxes sold on the fresh fruit market and 10,000 tons of fruit going to canneries. The entire Bartlett crop has been sold. Below Normal Production of winter pears was slightly below normal. The Bosc crop was large with 715, 000 boxes, but not the largest on record because the acreage planted to Bosc have been, re duced. A moderate crop of D'Anjous produced 935,000 boxes. Other varieties including Cornice, Winter Nellis, Sickles Howells, P. Barry and Red Bartletts pro duced about 300,000 boxes. Jackson county, which pro duces 10 percent of the nations pear crop, has always been a leader in quality, Cordy said. He stated that this was a matter of record, substantiated by the fact that valley pears bring better prices than fruit grown in com peting districts. Satisfactory Prices Prices this year were termed "very satisfactory." Part of the high price received for pears, in spite of a large crop, has been attributed to a greatly accel erated advertising program. Under the direction of the Oregon, Washington and Cal ifornia Pear Bureau, pears have been advertised on a national and international basis. Growers contributed four cents a box for advertising fresh fruit and 40 cents per ton for cannery pears. The results were "very gratifying," Cordy said. In a new effort to further in crease the quality of Medford pears, 1,250,000 boxes were packed this year in poly-ethelene bags. Pears packed in the plas tic bags retain a high moisture content and stand up better in storage, he said. Red..-3ailti-:Sold,-:.'.,.',-: - Also for the "first time this year, quantity of the Red Bartlett- variety was sold. A com paratively new' variety, Red Bartletts combine a bright color with the accepted quality of regular Bartletts. The valley area seems to be particularly well suited to grow ing the red pears, Cordy said, as growers to the north fail to produce quality while Califor nia growers fail to obtain color. Lee Resigns CAA; Lowen Named Head Washington U.R) Fred erick B. Lee resigned Saturday as Civil Aeronautics administra tor. He said he was asked to quit by Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks because of a "lack of satisfactory working relations" with Weeks' office. President Eisenhower accept ed Lee's resignation and ap pointed Charles J. Lowen Jr. of Denver, Colo., to succeed him. Lowen had been Deputy CAA administrator. Lee was appoint ed administrator two and a half years ago by Mr. Eisenhower. Lee, in a letter to the Presi dent, said that Weeks had asked him to resign because of a "lack of satisfactory working rela tions between his office and me. Lee told- the President that Weeks "did not advise me of any particular instance of this nor did he indicate any instance when I failed to administer the CAA in a sound, competent and efficient manner." Lee told the United Press that published reports that he had been under pressure to quit "probably weren't too far off. I don t want to be question ing the President's decision," he said. "I certainly accept it. What is back of it is sort of "past his tory." Vatican City Of Vision of Christ During Illness Last. Winter Vatican City (U.R) The Vatican City newspaper Ob serbatore Romano Saturday published Pope Pius XII's ac count of the vision of Christ which came to him during his near-fatal illness last Winter. It was the first mention of the vision made in the news paper, which is regarded as the unofficial voice of the Vatican. The newspaper's account of the vision was based on notes made by "one of the few very devout aides who saw the Pope daily" and only four hours af ter the vision was said to have appeared Deo. 2, 1954. Identical Twins Have Identical Operations Robert Williams and Wil liam Williams, identical 168-year-old twins, are at Osteo pathic hospital where both are convalescing from emer gency appendectomies. They are sons of Mrs. Muriel Wil liams, 435 North Central ave. Robert was admitted to the hospital Dec. 2 and under went surgery at 1:15 p.m., thai day. His brother; William, was admitted just one week later, on Dec. 9, and he had his surgery that day at 2:15 p.m. Both young men work as bus boys, Robert at Henry's Drivein and William at Mon Desir dining inn. Central Point. Both formerly attended Crater high school. The family has lived in this area for about 12 years. Two American Gl's Released By Reds; Arrested Thursday Berlin U.R) The Soviets last night released two Ameri can soldiers whose case had be come a major issue in a mount ing controversy over Commun ist East German claims to sov ereignty. East German propagandists. claiming that recent announced agreements with Russia super-1 ceded four-power control over the divided city of Berlin, had demanded that the two Ameri cans be tried in an East Berlin court to prove the sovereignty of East Germany. The U. S. Army identified the Gl's as Pvt. Willi J. Holden, 19, of Poplarville, Mo., and Pvt. Richard L. Calbert, 22, of Kan sas City, Mo. The Communists announced their arrest last Wednesday on charges of attacking a cabaret actor in East Berlin. Demand Release . .,. .. ,. The Soviets released the Am ericans yesterday afternoon af ter U. S. authorities handed the Communists a written demand for their immediate release. Col. O. M. Barsanti, army chief of staff in Berlin, follow ed up the written demand with a visit to Soviet headquarters to see Col. Ivan A. Kotsiuba, Ber lin's deputy soviet commandant, Shortly thereafter, the Ameri can soldiers were handed over to Lt. Col. Vernon Hammonde, army provost marshal here. "The men appeared to be in good physical condition, but they were admitted to the U.S. Army hospital for a routine phy sical examination," an Army an nouncement said. "U. S. Army authorities will make a .thorough investigation of the circumstances in ' which they were detained," the nouncement added. American officials sent the written note after the Reds hint ed they might try the soldiers in an East Germany court. Such a trial would be a violation of four-power agreements in Ber lin. The American authorities put the demand in writing after three previous demands, all made by phone, were ignored by the Soviets. The letter ask ed for information about the alleged incident involving the soldiers, the identity of the Gl's and their immediate re lease. Grand Jury Returns Five Indictments Here Indictments against five men for six offenses were returned by the grand jury Friday, ac cording to District Attorney Walter Nunley. Kenneth A. Sheldon, Central Point, was indicted on charges of rape and sodomy. The other four are "John Doe" indictments. Newspaper Publishes Pope's The notes revealed that the first thing Pope Pius said when the aide entered his sickroom on Dec. 2 was, "this morning I saw the Lord!" Describes Circumstances The pontiff then described the circumstances of the vision, which the aide jotted down. The aide put the notes in an envelope marked "to be opened after my death," Observatore said. But when the news of the vision became public, the aide took the notes tothe Pope who told him "their content was cor rect." What the Fops told the aide Security Council Fails To Break UN Member Deadlock State-by-State Vote Proposed By Soviets . United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) The United Nations Security Council in five and a half hours of debate Saturday failed to find a means, of breaking the five- year deadlock on membership The Soviet Union demanded fool-proof assurances against "surprises or accidents" in the Security Council or General Assembly blocking the entry of any of 18 nations on a "package deal" to the U. N. The Western countries in the 11-nation Security Council in turn asked what assurance the Soviets could give that all 13 Western - sponsored and five Communist countries would re ceive approval as U. N. mem bers. Soviet Proposition The Soviets proposed that the Security Council and 60-nation General Assembly sit concur rently to give state by state ap proval to the 18 applicants. New members need seven out of 11 votes in the council and a two- thirds majority in the assembly . New Zealand and Brazil put forward a joint resolution cal ling for state-by-state approval in the council of the 18 nations with a recommendation to the General Assembly that all the group be approved. Soviet Delegate Arkady A, Sobolev sounded his . country's lack of faith in western promises and threatened to vote against a call for priority for the Wes tern proposal and to veto the resolulion itself. "Can anything guarantee that after a decision is taken here in the Security Council that in the General Assembly each of the 18 nations would receive the required two-thirds majority," Sobolev demanded of the Wes torn mpmhers of the pouncil . i He pointed ou that not all of the nations who voted 52 to with .5. abstentions in the Gen eral Assembly Thursday had publicly announced they would give their approval to all 18 applicants. Iran's Proposal Iran's Ambassador Nasrollah Entezam proposed the Western resolution be given priority and classified the Soviet suggestion as "not entriely practical." Britain and Peru also spoke in favor of the New Zealand resolution while Belgium de clared itself in favor of any ac tion that would give quick approval to the 18 nations. The procedural debate which, if the West wins approval of the New Zealand resolution, can be the first step toward membership for all 18 states filled two session Saturday. The council met yesterday morning for three hours, broke for lunch and continued for two hours and 10 minutes again Sat urday afternoon. Distilleries Found In Portland Basement Portland (U.R) Two stain less steel liquor distilleries were found in the basement 'of a Port land home Saturday but the man who has lived in the house since last June said they did not belong to him. Don L. Bitney, 45, was taken into custody for questioning in connection with the stills found in his home. He said "this outfit is not mine, but some people think it is." Agents of the State Liquor commission and the Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax divi sion confiscated 350 pounds of sugar, six 50-gallon and six 10 gallon oak mash barrels, 13 gal lons of "moonshine" and other DaraDhenalia common to the manufacture of whiskey. was identical with the version published in the weekly1 Obser vatore Delia Domenica, a sister publication of Observatore Ro mano. The weekly's version was made available to News men Nov. 27, nine days after the weekly magazine Oggi first published a report of the vision. The Pope's vision, as describ ed by Observatore Romano, oc curred as follows: 1. On Dec. 1, the Pope heard a very clear voice announce "a vision will come." 2. At dawn on Dec. 2, as the Pope was repeating the invoca tion "in hore mortis meat voca hould HONORED M. M. Huggins, general campaign chairman of the United Medford crusade, (above, John Dellenback, UMC board member and past president, honor ing his effective work-in this year's successful campaign, Looking on is Harry Hurst, district sales manager of the General Petroleum corporation, and a business associate of Huggins, who came from Portland for the event. (Brainerd photo) uiva C Exceeds Goal; ejects Avictory dinner, at which col- lection of" $110,210.82 in the United Medford Crusade . announced was held Friday night at the Jackson hotel. The event also honored M. M. Huggins, chairman of the campaign. The announced total did not include approximately $2,000 expected to be collected in the near future, and put the cam paign over the goal of $109,000. according to Harold Cook, ex ecutive secretary. Harry Hurst, district sales manager of the General Petrol eum corporation, Portland, Two Youths Injured In Bicycle Mishaps Two boys, struck by cars while riding bicycles, were taken to Community hospital last night. John Bernard Wigen, 13, of 16 Knowellcrest dr., Ashland, received a fractured left leg and possible skull fractures at 4:15 p.m. when the bicycle he was riding was struck by a car two miles east of Ashland on Highway 66. Operator of the car, Willard Dale Rollins, route 1, box 435, Ashland, was cited by state police for de fective brakes. In a second accident, David Peter Serry, 11, of 1125 West Second st., was riding a bicycle at the intersection of North Oakdale ave., and West Sec ond st. when he was struck by a car driven by Orville Em erson Houghton, 46 South Sev enth st.,' Central Point, about 6:53 p.m. according to city po lice. The extent of ' the boy's in juries were not known but he was reported in good condi tion at Community hospital. Account me (in the nour oi my aeam, call me) from the prayer "ani ma Christi." the Lord "came .and stood beside ' him." 3. Pope Pius immediately thought of the sentence from the Gospel St. John "Magister Adest et vocat te" (the Master is here and calls you) and added the line from the same prayer, "et jib" me venire ad te" (and or der me to come unto three.) . The aide's notes said the Pope described the circumstances surrounding the vision with ad mirable clarity and presence of spirit Obesrvatore Romano said. Soy Hose center) is presented a plaque by a 10,2 10 , spoke to the group. He offered congratulations to Huggins, who is associated with General Pe- troleum, and to the other cam paign workers and the com munity. History Told He was introduced by John Dellenback, who spoge concern ing the histqry of the crusade. Dellenback said the UMC sup port has more than doubled since it began in the fall of 1953, and the speed with which the campaign has reached its goal has been faster each year. He pointed out that a number of the divisions of the 'campaign had exceeded their goals, includ ing those headed by Elliott Beck en, Tom Sheppard, Ray John son, Dick House and Mrs. Scott Davis and Mrs. E. A. Littrell. Given Plaque Huggins was presented a placque commending him for oustanding leadership. In re sponse he gave credit to volun teer workers and the people of Medford and vicinity who "have been so generous in their giving this year." Over 600 campaign workers took part in the work, and many more took part in other phases of the campaign. He commended the newspapers, and radio and television stations for their sup port. The Rev. George Johnstone, Salvation Army, led the prayers. Cost of the dinner and other expenses in connection with the meeting were borne by those attending. Methodist Church Buys Five Acres The purchase of five acres of property at the corner of Crest brook and Barnett rds., was an nounced last week by officials of the First Methodist church. The property will be used for a second congregation of the church. The present First Meth odist building on West Main and Laurel sts., is becoming over crowded and the new location also will be more convenient for many in the , congregation, it was pointed out. The land was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Gus Boen and is located on the northeast cor ner. A residence on the prop erty is not included in the pur chase, and the land bought by the Methodists borders both streets. A meeting will be called in January bv the Rev. M. O. Groves, Eugene, district super intendent of the Eugene district, and former pastor of the Med ford First Methodist church. At the meeting plans for erection of a new edmee wui be ma da. Dke Up President Shows Signs of Fatigue; Has Physical Exam Recommends Less Work For Next Eight Weeks Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower's doctors said Satur day he has been working too hard and should ease up for tha next few weeks. They said he is still making a basically good recovery from his Sept. 24 heart attack but he is showing some signs of fatigue from his increased activities. down on some of his paper work and official appointments for the next seven or eight weeks. Detailed Report A detailed medical report, which included both good and cautious news about the presi dential convalescence, was is sued at the White House after Mr. Eisenhower, underwent an intensive 90-minute physical checkup at Walter Reed Army hospital here. The report was issued by Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder, the President's personal physician, Maj. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton, commanding officer of Walter Reed, and Col. Thomas W. Mat tingly, chief of the hospitals cardiology section. The report offered no answer to the big political question: Will Mr. Eisenhower's health permit him to run for re-election next year? Wait For Decision ' - . - S " Snyder told reporters that if he were in the President's shoes, he would wait "for about two months" longer until mid-February "before reaching a de cision on another term. A main purpose of Saturday's examination, which included x-ray and fluorscopic tests, was to determine whether the Presi dent's increased activities of recent weeks have caused any enlargement of his heart. The official medical bulletin said the x-rays showed "no sig nificant evidence of enlarge ment." Asked to elaborate on this, Snyder said that in a strictly medical sense it is "possible" there has been some enlarge- ' l l i L II 31 J mem, dui at is iiartuy uexuuii strable by x-ray film." Snyder said Mr. Eisenhower's recent meetings with his cabinet and the National Security Coun cil at Camp David, Md., resulted in both physical and emotional fatigue. State of Union Message He said he definitely thought it would be unwise' for Mr. Eisenhower to attempt to de liver his State of t h e Union message to Congress in person next month. The message prob ably will be' read to the House and Senate by clerks. : Republican National Chair man Leonard W. Hall, who has repeatedly expressed optimism that Mr. Eisenhower will run for re-election, said after hearing of Snyder's report: "I have nothing to add to what I've already said." At one point, the long medical bulletin referred -to Mr. Eisen hower's Sept. 24 heart seizure as an "acute attack." When re porters leaped at this phrase, Mattingly quickly explained that this was simply a technical medical description of the sud denness of the attack, and did not refer to the degree of sever ity. Red Bluff, Calif. (U.R) Del egates representing 2400 mem bers of the California Cattle men's Assoication, today voted 8 to 1 against federal subsidies for the beef industry. Help Fight TB . 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