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MEDF0RDJaB -1 RIBUIE United Press Pull Leased Wire 'Vg- , United Press; Full Leased Wire 50th Year 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, 13 s. 6 - Price 5c No. 250 ' ' - ' : , m mm ia nmxbvwrjn wv i m- mw mm -mm MERCY M1SS50N Light plane parachutes emergency food and medical supplies to the flood-isolated mountain ranch of Mr. and Mrs. Joe McAlister near Eureka, Cal. Word of the family's plight reached Red Cross disaster j. headquarters in a letter Mrs. McAlister posted after a two ; day trip on horseback. The air drop was made onto an open field marked with an "S" made, with twisted bed sheets (bottom). - High Tides Plague Eastern Seaboard; Texas Has Drouqhf By UNITED PRESS3 , A giant Atlantic storm bat tered the New Jersey coast with roadblocking tides today, but relented a little on shivering Florida. The massive storm center, hovering off the Virginia coast for the last three days, spawned freakish weather as far west as the Mississippi iiver. .. .. The normal -west-east flow of weather was reversed. Gale force winds arid high tides pounded the eastern seaboard, midwest highways were coated with ice, and Florida farmers plowed under more than $10, 000,000 worth of frost-shriveled crops. Ironically, the storm's winds and rain coincided with the worst drought in memory in many parts of Texas. Gov. Allan Shivers announced that three fourths of Texas was in the drought's grip and the state's 1,430,000 Baptists were called on to pray for rain on Saturday, Feb. 11. Act of God Dr. Forrest C. Feezor, execu tive secretary of the state's Bap tist General convention, said "I believe that God has brought Consolidation of Two Area School Districts Studied A study of the possibilities of consolidation of the two school districts will be undertaken by the school boards of districts 49, Medford and 69, Oak Grove, it was decided last night. The Medford school board, at the request of the Oak Grove board, voted to undertake a joint study of the possible advantages and disadvantages of the pro posal to both districts. The study fivill take into consideration school0and total populations, as sessed valuations, bonded . in debtedness, transportation prob lems, basic school support fund distribution, and other factors which bear on the proposal. Undertaking the study places neither school district under any obligation, it was pointed out, but it was felt important to have facts regarding possible consola tion or annexation at hand. A vote oOthe residents of both districts would be required be fore the districts could be joined. Total enrollment in the Med ford district this year is ,4,721, and in the Oak Grove district it is 186. But high school stu dents in the Oak Grove district attend school in Medford, and are included in the Medford total. The Medford school board also authorized transfer of ownership of South Holly st. and Homes ave. to the city of Medford, and approved eventual transfer of other, district-owned streets to city ownership. The board heard a report n the proposed establishment of a new sanitary district in the Grandview area, which might af fect the site a possible fu ture school building. Other business at the meeting was routine except for the nam ing of two new teachers, Mrs. this drought upon us to turn our attention unto Him, and when we learn the lesson that He wants us to know, then He will break the drought." It was a far different story on the eastern seaboard, where a combination of gale winds and high tides covered scores of New Jersey coastal roads with water. Highways were closed to traf fic from Raritan- bay to Cape May and the main access to At lantic City, N.J., was blocked for three hours. The tides were three to four feet above normal but no serious flooding was ex pected. Too Many Heaters At chilly Miami, Fa., officials of overtaxed power, oil and na tural gas companies hoped the slight warmup would prompt residents to turn off their heat ers. The Miamians, whose homes aren't geared for wintery weath er, plugged in so many electric heaterss that television receiv ers in the area went dim. The Florida Power & Light Co. had to buy 40,000 extra kilowatts, and radio and TV announcers begged their listeners to turn off their sets. , Eleanor Jones, to replace Mrs. Erma White, who . resigned as music, art and penmanship teach er at Jackson school and who is moving to New Mexico; and Byron Backes,' who comes here from Redding, Calif., to instruct geography and science at Macr Loughlin Junior High school in the mornings and American problems of government at Med ford High school in the after noon. Registration Shows Increase at SOC Ashland An increased en rollment of 41 students at South ern Oregon college registered through Monday, according to Mrs. Mabel Winston, registrar. Final enrollment figures will be computed early next week There were 743 students en rolled for winter term Monday, compared to 702 on the same date late year. Of the total, 212 registered are veterans, compar ed to 164 last year. Mrs. Winston sad the increase in veterans is largely due to the Korean con flict. There were 475 male students enrolled as of Monday, compar ed to 430 a year ago, while reg istration of women students dropped from 299 last year to 268 this year. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trial 478.82, up 2.30; 20 .rail roads 159.71, up 2.03; 15 util ities 63.58, up 0.13, , and 65 stocks 169.44, up 1.14. Sales to day were about 2,310,000 shares compared with 2,640,000 yesterday. Dulles Turns Down Suggestions To Ban Tesis on H-Bombs Believes US Leading Nuclear Weapons Race Washington U.P.) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles today rejected suggestions by Russia and India that the Unit ed States suspend future H bomb tests. , , . Dulles also said he believes the United States is ahead of Russia in development of nuclear weapons. Dulles told a news conference that the United States believes it is imperative to keep in the forefront of scientific and other knowledge in the nuclear field, pending development of a safe disarmament system. : Concern Expressed But Dulles expressed concern about the East-West competition over economic aid for underde veloped countries. He said he and President Eisenhower gen erally agree with a recent state ment by the U.S. delegation to the United Nations which said America must wake up to the seriousness of the competition and realize that defeat "could be as disastrous as defeat in the armaments races." U.S. Plans Test Moscow leaders have pro posed stopping H-bomb : tests. India's U.N. delegate, V. K. Krishna Menon, only yesterday appealed for the United States and Russia to ban experimental H-blasts. The United States, however, has been reported planning to set off a super H blast in the Pacific this year. Dulles also: 1. Said that United States and other allied strategy would have involved use of any appropriate weapons against Red China if it openly entered the Indochina war in 1954. 2. Said there has been no de cision on Israel's request for arms aid. He said the United States will give the Israeli re quest a new look after the U.N. Security council acts on the Israeli-Syrian dispute, but not be fore then. Flood Damage In National Forest Listed as $62, Flood damage to Rogue River National forest installations were estimated today by forest service officials at $62,000. About $49,000 damage was to roads and telephone lines. Dam age 'to 10 forest service bridges was ' estimated about $6,000; damage to trails, $5,000; and to camp grounds and recreational facilities, $2,000. In addition, about 2,000,000 board feet of timber was blown down in the Daley creek area. The downed timber will be sold in special sale. The forest service is making emergency repairs as rapidly as possible, H. Langdon, forest en gineer, said. Work is being con-; centrated on opening roads where people live, but much of the repair work will be delayed until after snow melts in the spring, Langdon said. The Dead Indian-Soda Springs road along the south fork of Little Butte creek suffered about $16,000 damage. The road j was washed out in many places and in at least one spot a full half mile of the road was washed away, he said. Two small bridges, at Jim Creek and Ginko Creek, were washed out. Approaches were washed away or damaged on the Woodruff access road bridge across Rogue river; the Rogue river bridge near Kiter creek; the Mt. Stella bridge across Rogue river; and Abbot creek, Sink creek, Woodruff creek, Palmer creek, Middlefork and Kiter creek bridges, Langdon said. A Sno-Cat was used by the forest service to make a survey of damage at higher elevations as well as men on skis and snowshoes. An aerial, flight Was made to determine the amount of timber blown down. A more complete estimate of damage will be available after snow melts in the spring, Langdon said. US MossDiiiioiroes Believed Guayaquil, Ecuador (U.R) The United States and Ecuador threw planes and helicopters into an intensive search of the Ecuadorean jungle today for pos sible survivors of an Indian massacre of American mission aries. ; The group's plane was found destroyed by Auca Indians on a sand bar on the Olgan river on the edge of Auca territory in remote Eastern Ecuador. One body with a spear in it was sighted near the wreckage. Indians Believed Friends Jay McCully, 25, brother of Missionary T. Edward McCully, 28, feared slain by the savages, said in Wauwatosa, Wis., that the American party thought it had made friends with the In dians. McCully identified the other men aboard the small plane which the party used for its trav Washington (U.R) Sen. W. Kerr Scott (D-N.C.) said today that congressional investigators will call Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay for questioning about the granting of 15 dis puted mining claims in the Rogue River National Forest in Oregon. Scott's announcement brought an immediate retort from Rep. Clare Hoffman (R-Mich.) that McKay is being summoned "only after he has been smeared all over the place." Joint Committee . Scott is chairman and Hoff man a member of a joint con gressional committee investigat ing the Interior Department's award of the claims to AI Sarena Mkies, Inc., last year. The firm got full title to the government lands, which had about $70,000 worth of timber standing. The two committee members had tangled earlier over the in-' vestigation. Between political clashes, com mittee members questioned M. E. Volin, former Bureau of Mines director for the Pacific North west area, about ore samples taken on the claims and a subse quent assay of the minerals by the A. W. Williams Inspection Co., Mobile, Ala. Mobile is the home town of H. P. McDonald, head of the Al Sarena firm. Volin, now research director for the Michigan School of Mines and Technology, said he received instructions from the Interior Department's solicitor in 1953 that the assayer of the minerals was to be acceptable to both him and an Al Sarena company representative. , The witness said he would have sent the samples to a West Coast assaying firm, rather than to the Alabama company, if he had not received instructions from the solicitor's office that the assayer should be mutually acceptable. Volin said he sug gested names of two West Coast assay firms, but the Al Sarena representative objected to them. The Sarena firm's first effort to file mining claims on the Rogue . River Forest lands was rejected by the Interior Depart- 4-H Agent Assumes New Duties Here Miss Marjorie Ann Hatten, new county 4-H aent, arrived yesterday to assume duties in the county agent's office here. She was county extension agent in an Idaho county pre viously and was an Internation al Farm Youth Exchange dele gate to Norway in 1952. A graduate of the University of Idaho, Miss Hattan fills a va cancy left by Miss N. Jean Brooks. Her appointment is sub ject to approval by the state board of high education. She will be in charge of the 4-H home economics program in the county while 4-H Agent Glenn Klein has charge of 4-H agriculture-. els as pilot Nate Saint.v Fuller ton, Calif.; Roger Youdarin, Bill ings, Mont; Peter Fleming, Seat tle; and James Elliott, Portland. The Americans apparently were heard from Sunday after noon at 4 p.m. When searchers went looking for them, all they sighted from the air was the wreckage of the missionaries' plane, : one body and several boatloads of Indians headed downstream. Hope Held for Survivors Some hope was held out that there were survivors when the Rev. Henry L- Woll, Phila delphia, reported he had talked by amateur short wave radio with another amateur in Quito, Ecuador. The Quito amateur said he was informed that a column of smoke was seen not far from the downed plane. He said Ec uadorean officials hoped the fire had been kindled by survivors. ment four years ago on the grounds, that assays made at that time showed insufficient miner als in the tract to justify releas ing them to private interests un deV the mining claims law. Scott read a letter fr,om the General : Services Administration about performance of the A. W. Williams Inspection Co. of Mo bile, Ala., on ores bought by the government. The Williams laboratory re State Supreme Court Upholds Ordinance on Water Fluoridation Salem '(U.R) The Oregon Su preme court today upheld the validity of an ordinance adopt ed by the city council of Bend, providing for addition of fluo ride chemicals to the city water supply. William J. Baer, a resident and taxpayer of Bend, brought suit in the Deschutes county cir cuit court of Judge E. H. How ell, seeking to restrain the city and its officials from proceeding with the fluoridation plan. Suit Dismissed The circuit court sustained a demurrer to his complaint and dismissed his suit. On his appeal, Baer contend that the legislation was uncon stitutional as depriving him of liberty under the due process clause and as an encroachment of his freedorm of religion. The high court, in an opinion by Justice Hall S. Lusk, found that the legislation was adopt ed by the city in pursuance of its authorized police power to secure the "peace, health and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants," and that gen eral dental health of the citizens is a proper field for the exercise of such power. The court noted that scienti fic findings indicate that use of fluorides effects a reduction of dental decay among children up to the age of 12 or 14 by some 60 or 65 per cent. It also noted that it was not alleged nor con tended that the consumption of water so treated is harmful, and stated that every court of last resort in the country which has had occasion to consider the subject, has sustained similar legislation as a valid exercise of police power. Subject to Restraints Upon the religious freedom issue, the court said that liber ties protected by the constitu tion are not held absolutely but Weather FORECAST: Variable cloudiness through Thursday with chance of a lew light showers. Fog : Thursday morning. Low to night 36-3S. High Thursday 50. TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterday . 47 Lowest This Morning 36 PRECIPITATION To 4:30 a.m. Today Trace Efforts were being made to reach the scene by Ecuadorean and American authorities. A disassembled helicopter left Albrook Air Force base in the Panama Canal Zone aboard two Air Force C47s early today to help in the search.. The planes were to refuel in Guayaquil, then proceed to Shell Mera, which had been the mis sionaries' base, where the heli copter was to be reassembled and start its work tomorrow. Amphibian Helps in Hunt ' An amphibian of the 26th Air Rescue squadron, which started the search yesterday and first reported finding the missionar ies' plane, is helping in the hunt from Shell Mera. Authorities hoped to drop food and a portable radio trans mitter receiver in the area where the smoke column was reported. sults were "quite divergent" and "erratic" in analysis of bauxite shipments, the letter said. It added that the company used "insufficient and inexperienced samplers on a chrome shipment with the result that nine car loads had to be retested. r-'-J. A. McDahiel, -. a ' Williams' employee, who made the "Al Sa rena assays, said he did not know of any criticism of the firm's work for the government. only subject to reasonable re straints imposed for the general welfare. It concluded that the measure bears only remotely, if at all, upon the religious prac tices of any individual or the authority of parents to rear their children; that it was adopt ed for the accomplishment of an end, conceded legitimate, and is therefore a valid exercise of police power. i ' So. Oregon To Get Bulk of Flood Relief Portland (U.R) Flood suf ferers in Oregon will get $200, 000 to $250,000 out of the $8, 000,000 the American Red Cross has allocated for flood relief in the western states. ' ' Cecil Davis, western director of Red Cross disaster relief op erations, said here today that about 60 per 'cent of the funds earmarked for Oregon would go to the area between Grants Pass and Medford. He pointed out that Red Cross aid was not a loan but an outright gift with no strings attached from the American peo ple with the Red Cross as agent. Davis said basic living needs would be met first and that as sistance in reestablishing pre flood standards of living would come later. He emphasized that the Red Cross could not attempt to replace flood losses. He estimated that about 400 of the 1350 families affected by Christmas week floods would ap ply for Red Cross aid. City Police Act As Customs Officers City policemen acted the part of customs officials about 9 p.m. yesterday when a plane, en route from Vancouver, B.C., to San Francisco, was forced by strong headwinds to stop here for re fueling. Police were called to Medford Municipal . Airport by Air Traf fic Controller George E. Milli gan who asked police to act as customs officers. Police collect ed baggage declaration slips from the passengers and stood by while the plane, owned by Indus trial Indemnity company of San Francisoa, refueled. . In describing the events lead ing up to the apparent massacre, Young McCully said at Wiscon sin home that his brother's wife, Marilou, 26,'; had remained at the base camp when the men made their last trip. "All of the wives were togeth er at a contact station at Shell Mera, Ecuador,"1' McCully said. He said the missionaries had been flying over the territory "for several months." Last Word on Sunday "The last word heard of them was Sunday afternoon," McCully said. "They radioed the contact station that everything was ok ay and that they would call back at 4 o'clock- ; "They called back at 4 and said another band of Indians was approaching which they had never seen before," he said. "That was the last heard from them." DR. LLOYD L. SANDERS . Dentist Dies Here Dr. Sanders Dies Of Heart Attack Dr. Lloyd L. Sanders, well known Medford dentist for sev eral years, died unexpectedly about 12:10 p.m. today of a heart attack while undergoing a phys ical examination in the office of his physician. Dr. Sanders, who lived at 6 South Groveland ave., had been receiving treatment for a heart ailment. He reportedly had ask ed the Kiwanis club for an at tendance excuse today, stating he was not feeling well this morning. " The physician, whose office is adjacent to Dr. Sanders', at 832 East Main st., said Dr. Sanders came to his office late this mor ning, for an examination and soon thereafter suffered the heart attack. Dr- Sanders was a member of the Masonic lodge here. He prac ticed dentistry in Salem for a few years before returning to Medford. Survivors include his wife, Zenda A. Sanders, and two sons, Phillip Reno, Nev., and Steven, in the Navy. Perl Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. Business Firms In Medford Show 23 Per Cent Increase There are 12 per cent more business firms in Medford today than there were seven years ago, according to figures in the 1956 reference book of Dun and Brad street, Inc. J. .Harry White, district man ager of the Portland office of Dun and Bradstreet, noted that in 1948 there were 577 busi nesses listed by the firm. Today there are 710. ' The reference book lists only manufacturers, wholesalers,1 re tailers, and some service com panies, such as laundries and gasoline service stations. White pointed out that the total num ber of businesses in Medford and Jackson county is actually high er than figures quoted. About 1,500 requests for fi nancial, statements of Jackson county firms were sent out by Dun and Bradstreet, White said. About 3,000,000 requests are sent each year by the company, h said. Electrocardiogram Fails To Uncover Sign of Weakness Key West Vacation Declared Beneficial Washington U.R Three of President Eisenhower's physic ians examined him this morning and found his "physical condi tion is excellent." White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the Presi dent, underwent an electrocard iogram test and a blood test. He said the doctors reported that the "President's recovery continues to progress satisfact orily." ,' . Benefits From Trip "His physical condition is ex cellent and he benefited greatly from' the exercise and relaxa tion during his recent visit to Key West," the doctors said. Mr. Eisenhower resumed a full White House work schedule Monday after returning from his vacation at Key West, Fla. His physicians plan to keep a close watch to see how he stands up under the stress of a full work load. They have said that about six weeks of a full work schedule fill be necessary to show whether his recovery from his Sept. 24 heart attack has been sufficient to make him physical ly able to seek a second term in the White House. The President's personal phy sician, Dr. Thomas W. Matting ly, chief cardiologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Dr. Byron E. Pollock, chief card iologist at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital at Denver( conducted the examination. Pollock was in charge of the President's : care during his hospitalization at Denver. " Dr. Paul Dudley White, famed Boston heart specialist who is chief consultant on the case, did not take part in today's check. White will supervise the show down tests, probably in mid February, on the President's fit ness for a reelection campaign. Police Assist In Prisoner Transfer City police were called to Jackson county jail early this morning to assist the sheriff's department to transfer Lendel Carl Buttram, 18, Shady Cove, to solitary confinement. Buttram, who had been con fined in a cell with other prison ers while ' awaiting transfer to the Oregon State penitentiary, was creating a disturbance and defied officers to remove him from the cell, according to a police report. Additional sher iff's deputies were . not im mediately available to help. " Buttram was sentenced recent ly to a three year prison term on a charge of parole violation. Buttram was married to the former Miss Janet Stuart, 18,. in the county jail Monday after noon in what is believed the first marriage ceremony in jail here. . Corvallis (U.R) Dr. Joseph S. Butts, head of the agricultural chemistry department at Oregon State College, has been named to head a five-man United States nutrition survey team to Iran. During 1955, White said, 486 changes were made in reference book listings of Medford busi nesses. The changes resulted from adding names of new firms and deleting names of discon tinued firms, as' well as owner ship and credit rating changes. The firm's reference book listed a 100 per cent increase in businesses in Trail during 1955 from 11 in 1948 to 22 in Novem ber, 1955. Ashland had a 1 per cent increase from 194 in 1948 to 196 last year; Central Point showed a 46 per cent increase from 48 seven years ago to 70 last year; Jacksonville had a 41 per cent increase from 17 to 24; arid Rogue River had a 16 per cent increase from 31 in 1948 to 36 in 1955. The reference book listing is a condensed summary of infor mation contained in the Dun and-r- Bradstreet credit report, which includes the history, de scription and a financial record of the business.
