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' ' ' i'I -r i ri i , mjm mm, mm. if; -"-r.'tl ' ttCR'- -'Usr' tf&w&l. ft&; dp- - M in iiinrniMHumii, imiii iii .1 .Li ill i hi i urn II ar ADMINISTERS OATH Captain Sebastiano J. Fagone, commanding officer of Headquar ters company, first battalion, 186th infantry, of the Oregon National Guard, administers oath of enlistment to six men recently. From '" left to right, those pictured are Capt. Fagone, Michael Smith, Raymond Cox, Bruce Kelling ton, Robert Rawstern, Daniel Kellington and Wilcey Winchell. The six brought the com pany to the authorized reduced strength of Coty May Summon French Assembly In Emergency Paris (U.R) President Rene Coty may call France's newly-elected National Assem bly into emergency session to deal with the urgent problems facing the nation, informed sources said today. The assembly is not sched . uled to meet until Jan. 19, but Coty was reported to have dis cussed the possibilities of an earlier session with Emile B. Lamont, assembly permanent ecretary-general. The French constitution calls for an assembly to convene the third Thursday after its election but legal experts said there was room for a "wider interpreta tion" of the article. There still was no hard and fast indication of which party would furnish France's next premier. JrhrewereSQm.e,jBrl dications the premier would be from tbj Socialist Party which controls93 seats. The Socialists have urged an early meeting to deal with Al geria , and other top problems. Hope faded that Pierre Men-des-lVance and Premier Edgar Faure would patch up their dif ferences and form a broad na tional front of all the center parties to meet the extremist threat Socialist leader Guy Mollet practically killed it when he gave Faure a firm "no" on the idea after Mollet had met with Mendes-France. Oregon Traffic Death Toll in 1955 Said 400 . Salem U.R) Oregon's 1955 trafic death toll was set tenta tively at 400 today, a decline of 21 from the 1954 total. Secretary of State Earl T. O Newbry said the decrease places Oregon among the comparative ly few states managing to turn their traffic death counts down ward in 1955. The nation as a whole suffered about a six per cent increase, inormation from the National Safety Council in dicated. The year's worst traffic-killing months in Oregon were July with 45 dead, August with 42 and October with 48. . The.S-D day campaign Nov. 21 through Dec. 11 saw Oregon traffic fatalities compared with 34 during the same period in 1954. Dulles Sets Pakistan Meeting on March 2 Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will fly to Karachi, Pakistan, for a March 2 meeting of Manila pact nations to devise new strategy against Communist moves in the Far East, the State Department announced today. The meeting, scheduled for March 6 will be thet second held by foreign ministers of member nations of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Americans' Personal Income Reaches History's Highest Washington (U.R) The per sonal income of Americans climbed by $1,750,000,000 in No vember, boosting the income rate for the first 11 months of 1955 to the highest Jevel in his tory. The Commerce Department said today if income in Decem ber continued at the November level, the 1955 total will reach a record $311,400,000,000. The Securities & Exchange Commission meantime reported Membership Told in Communist Cell of NY News Employees Washington (U.R) Alden Whitman, New York newspaper man, told Senate investigators today he once belonged to a Communist cell composed 6f New York Herald Tribune em ployees. . .Whitman, now a copyreader on the New York Times, named the Herald Tribune cell reluct antly and after a long argument about identifying the group. , He said , he has not been a party member during his em ployment on the Times, which he joined 4Vfc years ago. Whitman freely admitted he had been a Communist from 1935 to 1948 or possibly early 1949. But he refused to name others he knew in the party. Ashland Girl Dies Of Severe Burns jGlenda Joan Nelson, 5, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Nel son of 1551 Webster st., Ashland, died of burns here yesterday. She was severely burned yes terday morning when her dress caught fire while she was play ing with matches, according to firemen. She was treated at Ash land General hospital for sec ond and third degree burns over 70 per cent of her body. Later yesterday, she was trans ferred to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead on ar rival. She was the daughter of an assistant football coach at South ern Oregon college in Ashland. Born in Ashland Oct. 1, 1950, she is survived by her parents, a brother, William R. (Randy) Nel son; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Axtell, Trail, William Nelson, Salem, and Mrs. Al Rich ards, Burbank, Calif. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Litwiller Mt. View chapel, with the Rev. John Thompson officiating. In terment will follow in Mt. View cemetery. With All This Rain A Grass Fire Yet Salem (U.R) With all this rain, a grass fire yet. It stopped raining in Sub limity east of here yesterday and Sublimity firemen rushed, lo their first grass fire of the year. "It's hard to believe," As sistant Chief Delbert Diiter said, "but a roaring fire got started in a. patch of dead grass that had been rained on all week." Diiter said thai the blaze burned over an area 75 by 200 feet. He blamed a strong wind for stirring up the fire. Cause was undetermined. Six fire men put out the unseasonable blaze. that the net working capital of U.S. corporations rose to a new peak of $1,700,000,0'00 in the third quarter of 1955. Their as sets, it said, increased by $8, 800,000,000 during the same period. The Commerce Department said the bulk of the October-November rise in personal income was in private industry wage and salary payments. All other sources of income remained the same or rose moderately. 81 men. The unit has submitted a request for authorization for full strength of 99 enlisted men. Enlistments are being accepted, Capt. Fagone said, and applicants may contact the unit at the armory, 410 North Bartlett st., Medford. Cox and Daniel Kellington are stu dents at Southern Oregon college in Ashland, and the other fqur are students at Medford Senior High school, where Bruce Kellington is student body president. Earlier, Robert Shelton, New York, Times copy editor for the last year and a half, refused to say whether he is now or ever has been a Communist, Whitman said he had "never to my knowledge taken part in any conspiracy" during his 13 years of party membership He refused to name his party associates, even after , Subcom mittee Chairman James O. East land (D-Miss.) ordered him to do so. He contended that the subcommittee's authority to in quire into the beliefs and associa tions of private citizens is "lim ited." "I feel I cannot answer un authorized questions that would cause others harm and embar rassment," Whitman said Shelton was asked by subcom mittee1; counsel : J. Gsgowwine whether he is a Communist. Shelton refused to answer. He did not invoke the Fifth Amend ment. " Instead, Shelton read a long statement which said he is a loyal American but added: "This subcommittee is nudging the end of my copy pencil, it is peeking over my shoulder as I work. "This subcommittee is engen dering the fear that soon it will be looking into news rooms all over the country," he said. In refusing to state whether he is a Communist, Shelton in voked the First Amendment, which guarantees press freedom, and challenged the authority of the subcommittee to question him. Subcommittee Chairman James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) overruled Shelton's objections and ordered him to answer under the threat of a contempt of Congress cita tion. Shelton still refused. Election In Phoenix School District Soon Phoenix An election to make Phoenix school district 4 a first class district, instead of a rural school district, will be held Mon day, Jan. 16, between 2 and 8 p.m. Poll will be in the grade school gym. Under state law, districts reaching a population of 1,000 or more persons between ages 4 and 20, remain in the rural district unless changed by elec tion. Phoenix schools have an en rollment of 750 students and a census of 1;005 this year, accord ing to E. R. James, superintend ent. Voters registered 30 days prior to the date, who have resided in the district six months, are eligible to vote. Roseburg Holds Boys On Explosive Charge Roseburg (U.R) Douglas county sheriff's deputies last night arrested four teenagers in Roseburg for illegal possession of explosives. Sheriff Ira Byrd said the ar rests cleared up the mystery of a ' series of explosives in Doug las county the past few months. Deputies recovered four boxes of stolen dynamite, 18,000 dyna mite caps, 13,000 electric deton ating caps and a detonating de vice. Byrd said two groups of teen agers were involved in the ex plosions that have occurred fre quently since one blast rocked a 20-mile area in early Decem ber. One of the blasts near the Roseburg airport was caused by 35 sticks of dysamite. . : W T MT?TVl?fYDTV JlJpL United Press Full Leased Wire S' 50th Year 22 Pages PresidentBenson Virtually Complete New Farm Program Session Lasts Nearly Two Hours Key West, Fla. U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower and his agricul ture secretary today put into "virtually final form" the ad ministration's new farm pro gram which includes a "soil bank" plan for alleviating the problem of farm surpluses. The nation's chief executive met for approximately two hours at his vacation headquar ters here with Agriculture Sec retary Ezra T. Benson who flew down from Washington last night. Hague at Session Also attending the closed ses sion were Economic Adviser Gabriel Hague, Undersecretary of Agriculture True Morse and Presidential Aide Fred Seaton. The President's special farm message goes to Congress Mon day on the heels of his State of the Union message which de scribed the nation's economy as flourishing but acknowledged that the farmers are suffering. To End Vacation White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said after to day's conference that the farm message was "put into virtually final form" and it will be read to Congress Monday. Hagerty said the President plans to end this Key West vaca tion probably Sunday afternoon. Later, the President and Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, command er of NATO, chipped golf balls on the baseball diamond across the street from the President's quarters. This afternoon, the President planned to watch a . baseball game : between Secret Service agents and members of y the White House press corps. Funeral Held Today Fori. C. Ferguson Private funeral services were held this afternoon for E. C. Fer guson, 64, managing editor of the Mail Tribune for the past 27 years. ' Mr. Ferguson died at a Medford hospital yesterday after an illness of more than seven months. Committal services, also pri vate, followed, with Perl fu neral home in, charge. The Rev. George R. V. Bolster, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, of ficiated. It is the wish of the family that those desiring to honor Mr. Ferguson's m e m o r y do so through contributions to the Southern Oregon Historical So ciety, Inc. He was one of the or ganizers of the society and served on its board of directors for years. Contributions may be sent to the society in care of the Jacksonville Museum. Utah Governor To Miss Tax Payment Chicago (U.R) Gov. J. Back en Lee of Utah, who is fighting a personal battle against federal taxation to support foreign aid measures, said today he will file his income tax return next week without an accompanying pay ment. The Republican governor also said he has written Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humph rey requestning a full statement of all expenses, incurred by the government under the foreign aid program "since they start ed the giveaway program." "Whether I'll get it is another question," he said. Lee, who admitted he has been tax-delinquent since he failed to file an estimate on his 1955 earn ings, said he would welcome a court test of his contention that it is illegal to tax persons for aid to foreign nations. Brazil President Sees No Coup by Communists Washington (U.R) Presi dent-elect Juscelino Kubitschek of Brazil said today he sees little danger of a Communist coup in his homeland. He said in a National Press Club speech that Brazilians for generations have been raised "in the shadow of the cross" and the Communists would find it "ex tremely difficult to remold our country into a stronghold of materialism.'' MEDFORD, OREGON, Oregon Delegation On State of Union Washington (U.R) Ore gon's congressional delegation generally split along party lines o v e r President Eisenhower's State of the Union message but one Democrat had some praise for it. Rep.-Edith Green said there 'are a lot of good things in the speech, and they were just as good when they were proposed by the previous Democratic ad ministration." She said that if the President "can just get some cooperation from Republicans, the Democrats will help pass a large part of the program." . Neuberger Takes Stand Mrs. Green said she was re ferring to the appeal for aid-to-education, extension of minimum wage coverage, broadening so cial security, continued - public housing, highway aid and over seas technical aid. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) criticized the Presi dent's stand on power and nat- Talent Sawmill Destroyed by Fire; $225,000 Damage Talent Fire, fanned by 15 mile -an -hour winds, destroyed the mill at Talent Saw Mills, Inc., early today. John Hamacher, owner of the mill, listed damage totaling about $225,000 to the mill and equipment destroyed, according to state police officers who wit nessed the fire. -,3 he . i ir started ,, about ...1 -a jn. near an air compressor machine on the west side of the log pond in the main section of the mill, police said. The fire burned un til after daylight, but danger of spreading was controlled by about 6 a.m. Southerly Wind A southerly wind assisted fire fighters in keeping the blaze from spreading to the com pany's office and the lumber yard nearby. Talent city and rural fire de partments answered the call, and a truck from Ashland was dispatched through the valley's mutual aid agreement. Talent requested aid from Medford, which forwarded the request to Ashland. The company night watch man, Nute Earl Tycksen, and the millright, ' James Richard Copeland, first noticed smoke and attempted to extinguish the fire, but attempts were futile. They then broke into the office and called the fire department. Electricity Off Fire fighting equipment in the mill could not be used because electricity went off, police said. Equipment destroyed includ ed several pieces which were installed recently when the firm expanded. Among machinery de stroyed were two head rigs, a resaw, complete conveyor belt system, air compressor machin ery, saw tools and. green chain equipment. George Zickefoose is superin tendent of the sawmill. Hearing Set on Bus Schedule Changes A public hearing wil be held at 10 a.m. Jan. 19 in the council chambers of the city hall on pro posed changes in the Evergreen Bus lines schedule. The hearing, which will be conducted by the public utilities commission, will deal with a company proposal to cancel Sun day and holiday service between Ashland and Medford and to cancel the trip departing from Medford at 9:45 p.m. and arriv ing at Ashland at 11 p.m. The new schedule which was to have become effective Jan. 1, was suspended by the PUC pend ing ah investigation and hear ing. Weather FORECAST Cloudy with oc casional showers through Saturday. Low tonight 33-38. High Saturday 45. Highest Yesterday ..54 .48 Lowest This Morning FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1956 ural resources. "Nothing was said, unfortunately, about re voking the permission just given by Secretary McKay for oil and gas .prospecting by the big pet roleum companies on old wild life refuges." On aid to educa tion, Neuberger said "It is good to know the White House has yielded slightly" on this issue. Pleased With Statements Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) said, "I'm glad he didn't come out for political razzle-dazzle election-year play of immediate tax reduction." He said he was pleased with the President's overall statements on govern ment financing. Rep. Harris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) said he was pleased with the president's en dorsement of the partnership power program. He. said he in terpreted the speech to carry an indirect endorsement of his bill for partnership construction of Cougar and Green Peter dams. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Inspection Planned Of Disater Areas By House Committees By A. ROBERT SMITH : Washington " Members of two house committees plan to fly over flood damaged sections of southwestern Oregon as far north as Eugene next week, Rep. Harris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) said today. Seven members of the public works and the interior commit tees have scheduled a five-day Inspection ' of West1 Coast areas hit by December floods. They will concentrate on northern California communities of Marysville, Santa Rosa and Eureka. Army Engineers Congressman Ellsworth said he requested that army engi neers from Portland meet the committee to brief them on the Oregon disaster and accompany them in their flying inspection of southern Oregon "to explain the nature and extent of the floods." : Ellsworth said after confer ring with the committees, he gained assurances they would take time to fly over Oregon even though time did not per mit stops on the ground. Meanwhile the farmers home administration reclared Jackson, Douglas, Coos, Curry and Jo sephine counties disaster areas whose farmer residents are now eligible for crop damage loans from FHA at 3 per cent. Review Information . Ellsworth said he had asked Sherry Fong Verdict Upheld by Judge Portland (U.R) Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dobson today upheld the second-degree mur der verdict against Sherry" Fong who was convicted recently in connection with the 1954 death of 16-year-old Diane Hank. Judge Dobson denied the mor tion of Irvin Goodman, defense attorney, to have the verdict set aside and a new trial ordered. The judge, . who once threw out a first degree murder con viction against Mrs. Fong, said that while the evidence' against the 24-year-old woman was cir cumstantial and in some respects "speculative and conjectural," there was sufficient evidence to require the court to submit the case to the jury. He said it was the jury's function to weigh, sift and evaluate the testimony under proper instructions. Patterson Proclaims March of Dimes Month Salem (U.R) Gov. Patterson today proclaimed the month of January as "March of Dimes Month" in Oregon and appealed to the "generosity and self-interest of every citizen to contribute to the March of Dimes" in the fight against polio. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow- Janes final stock averages: 30 industrials 486.68 up 7.66, 20 rails 161.13 up 0.58, 15 utilities 64.04 up 0.40, and 65 stocks 171.48 up 0.68. Sales today were about 2,570,000 shares compared with 2,110,000 yesterday. Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 246 Divided criticized the foreign and do mestic policy. He said the in terests cf the free 'world have suffered many "unnecessary setbacks" and that the message promised more , of the "same kind of fumbles by our state de partment." - Morse also attacked the tax policy, saying tax cuts in 1954 "went to large corporations and individuals earings over $5000 a year.'-' Morse Attacks Tax Policy Democrats, he said, would try to "remedy some of those , tax give-aways and substitute tax relief to low and middle income families." Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) said the message was "particularly sound" on resource development. He also said the speech showed the President "has a realization of. the farm problem." Coon is a supporter -of the soil bank proposal to 'divert price-supported crop acreage to cover crops. (See stories on Page 3) FHA to review its information concerning damage in hopes it would add Lane county to the list. Loan applications are to be filed . from Coos, Curry and Douglas counties with Adminis trator William E. Walsh at Eu gene, and from Jackson and Jo sephine counties with -William N. Young at Grants Pass. - The American Red Cross of- ficfe.;;hereinurme,d7EllsW6rth Thursday that its records show ed 8 dead, 13 injured and hospitalized in Oregon from the floods. Two Sentenced in Circuit Court Here Two men were sentenced to three years each in the state penitentiary this morning by Circuit Court Judge H. K. Hanna.' Five other cases were continued pending receipt of Federal Bureau of Investigation report. James Westcott, 56, Gold Hill, was sentenced to three years after pleading guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Lendell Carl Buttram, io, &naoy Cove, also was sent enced to three years for viola tion of parole. Buttram earlier pleaded guilty to burglary of the O. K. Rubber Welders, 1760 North Riverside ave., Oct. 4. Passage of the . sentence of James Hahn, 21, who was ex tradicted from Virginia, charged with larceny of livestock, was suspended for 2Vt years. He,was charged with stealing a calf from the Gold Hiil area. - ' Cases suspended pending FBI records involved Albert L. Wil cox, 29, of 05 South Oakdale ave.; Cecil Roy Wood, 52, Long view, Wash.; G. E. Peterson, 56, Camp White; and Edward Mc Donald, 29, of3 20 South Front st., all charged with obtaining money under false pretenses in cases involving checks; and Donna, Lou Brereton, 25, Spo kane, charged with uttering and publishing a false check. Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Pat terson has proclaimed the week of Jan. 15-21 as "printing week." Message Grace Kelly, Prince Set Public Appearance at Ball New York (U.R) Actress Grace" Kelly and Prince Rainier IH of Monaco make their first public appearance tonight as an engaged couple, but today they secluded themselves in her Fifth ave. apartment to discuss an im portant matter the wedding date. Astounded Everyone "Her Grace" and the prince astounded nearly everyone Thursday with the announce ment that they will be married sometime after Easter. They drove to Philadelphia for an an nouncement lunch and returned to Miss Kelly's New York apart ment late Thursday night. Tonight they will appear to gether at a charity ball aptly named, "A Night in Mocta Car Northwest Oregon Temperatures Dip; Threats Renewed Blustery Storm Moves In From West Canada By UNITED PRESS Winter struck again at West ern Oregon today after a one day respite as rain and snow spread southward from a destruc tive storm, again raising Sie threat of slides and high water. The weather bureau said tem peratures have dropped about 10 degrees in northwest Oregon and western Washington since yesterday with the greatest fall between 4:30 and 10:30 a.m. to day. Snow was reported in the mountains and. on higher hills and was mixed with rain at times over northwest Oregon. Rainfall was tapering off at midday north of the Columbia river and increasing to the south. For the six-hour period, ending at 10:30 a.m. Astoria had .19 inch of rain compared to a much heav ier fall earlier. During the same period Newport had .33 inches, North Bend 1.49, Portland .50, Salem .85 and Eugene .71. Portland Gets Cooler The temperature in Portland dropped to 39 degrees at 10:30 a.m. and to 40 at Salem and Eu gene while it was 58 in Medford. Pendleton reported southeast winds of 46 miles per hour with gusts to 57 ftiph. A blustery Pacific storm, which left behind a trail of dam age from - VUlULLMUlct southward, moved in off . the coast during the early morning hours. Portland, which had only a trace of rain during the 24 hours ending at 4:30 a.m, got a heavy downpour and Astoria was drenched. The weather bureau said 1.53 inches of oreciDitation foil in Astoria during a six-hour nprUri ending at 4:30 a.m., raising the ..-nour total to 2.1S inches. Some snow also was reported at Astoria. Snow fell at higher ele vations. 85 MPH Wind Reported Rain had slacked off yester day in most of western Oregon after causing damaging slides In British Columbia, 85 mile per hour winds were expected late yesterday on Vancouver Island. Seven roofs were ripped off at Campbell River and hun dreds of homes in west Vancou ver were left in darkness at the dinner hour when trees were blown down on power lines. Two men were injured when a tree crashed into a cabin at Rnms- wick Bay, on Howe Sound. In western Washington, sums schools, roads and bridges were shut down. A mud slide demol ished a new $20,000 homP at Lake City. Ten-year-old Heather Sneddon was buried when mud poured into her bedroom but was rescued by her father and a neighbor. The girl's father said she was saved by the fact she hid under the covers and thus had an air pocket to breathe while the rescue was taking place. Schools were closed in parts of King ' and Snohomish counties because roads were weakened by rain and frost. The weather man predicted cooler temperatures today and tonight and occasional showers in western Oregon. But the five- day outlook called for from 2 to 4 inches of precipitation west of the mountains. , ? Man Fined $100 On Driving Charge Lionel Joseph Hopkins, 29, of 616 East Jackson st., was fined $100 in Medford police court to day on a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxi cating liquor. Hopkins was ar rested by city police' Wednes day. ' James Thomas Weldon, 54, Klamath Falls, who was arrest ed Dec. 30, 1955, on a charge of driving while under the in fluence of intoxicating liquor forfeited $100 bail. lo." The fabulous gambling ca sino Monte Carlo is located in the half square mile principality ruled by the prince. Miss Kelly's marriage to the handsome prince probably will signal the end of her highly suc cessful movie career, but when the couple can be married de pends a lot on the movies. Two More Pictures The icy socialite star is com mitted to do two more pictures for MGM and one of them, "High Society" with Bing Cros by, will begin, production Jan. 17. After the wedding 'and honeymoon Miss Kelly will re turn to Hollywood for the sec ond picture, "Designing Wom an," with Jimmy Stewart.
