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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
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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.
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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.