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Ml (Sir in n MedfoRd United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year ' 24 Pages '50 Brinks U'dbhei oSved; FBI Claims : Washington (U.R) The Justice Department today an , nounced that the six-year-old million dollar Brinks robbery at Boston has been solved. It sard FBI agents today ar retted six members of the gang responsible for the rohbery. . It said the FBI is still hunting two more members. Two In Prison The Justice Department said two more members of the gang Plans Announced For College Union Building at SOC Ashland Plans which tenta tively call for a three-floor build ing, with basement, main and second floors, to serve as a Col lege Union building were dis cussed recently by . a student faculty group at Southern Ore gon college. ' ; Present plans of the' building, wnicn will cosx an esumaieu $250,000, provide space in the basement for a ceramics room, five classrooms, a meeting room, an exhibit room, and a barber shop. Space also is provided for a bookstore storage room, kitchen storage, heating plant, and of fices of the campus yearbook, The Raider; the newspaper, The Siskiyou; and various faculty members. Student Lounge The main floor will house the student lounge, a snack bar, kit chen, faculty lounge, jjowder room, men's lobby, a checkroom, the offices of the student body, the bookstore manager, the alumni secretary, the College union manager, a mailroom, h riwiri bookstore, two class- rooms, a conference room, and additional acuity offices. A large covered terrace is' planned. Second floor plans include a 76 feet by 81 feet ballroom with ,stage and extra storage space, powder room, coat-check room, men's lobby, and two dressing rooms adjoining the stage. According to Dr. Elmo Steven son, college president, final plans will be completed this March, with remodeling work on the old Memorial Court building scheduled to begin this summer. (See Artists's sketch page 12) Alilee Bows Out Of Front Ranks London (U.R) Socialist Clement Attlee, now an earl, bows formally out of Britain's political front ranks tonight, leaving to younger blood the re surgent labor attack against T;mA TVTin ictor Anthnn-ir Eden's f iUUiiiJ.v , government. Eden appeared to be weather ing the storm, but Britain's lat est Gallup Poll published today in the liberal News Chronicle said his popularity had declined in the past three months. It said he now has the support of 60 per cent of the general public and had the support of 70 per cent in September. Attleee returns tonight to the East London district he has rep resented in the House of Com mons since 1950. His mission is to thank the voters and say fare well. By the end of the month he will be established in the House of Lords as an elder statesman. - Oregon Milk Producers Urged Federal Action : Eugene (U.R) Oregon milk producers today recommended that the federal government take steps to see that the aver age American family is better fed. Q . The dairy farmers attending the 62nd annual Oregon Dairy men's 'Association convention here expressed a desire for more promotional work aimed at in creasing consumers for milk products and for less govern ment regulation. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indust rials 481.80 up 3.38; 20 railroads 160,11 up 0.40; 15 utilities 63.92 up 0.34, and 65 stocks 170.36 Up 0.92. Sales today were about 2,330,000 compared with 2,310, 000 yesterday. t MEDFOftD, OREGC ft already are in prison on other charges and one is dead. The total amount reported lost in the robbery was 51,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders and other securities. The department said the FBI is still seeking James Ignatius Faherty and Thomas Francis Richardson as members of the masked gang which robbed the Brinks' building on the evening of Jan. 17, 1950. The six arrested today were identified as Vincent James Costa, 41; Michael Vincent Gea gan, 47; Adolph Maffie, 44; Jos eph F. McGinnis, 52; Anthony Pino, 48, and Henry Haker, 49. All six live in the Boston area. No Loot Recovered The two gang members now in prison were identified as Stan ley Albert Gusciora and Joseph James O'Keefe. . , . The dead member was Joseph Sylvester Banfield. A Justice Department spokes man said none of the loot has been recovered. . . , Some 3000 police and FBI agents at one time sought the Halloween-masked gang of nine which broke into the main vault of Brink's Inc. and fled with 17 canvas bags of money. The gang missed another $1, 000,000 in cash in the vault in their hurry to get away. The entire robbery took only 20 min utes. Brink's is an armored trucking seryice which hauls money to banks, stores and other institu tions. A- number of Brinks' em ployees were questioned at one time-because of the ' esse -with' which the holdup was staged. They all were released. Ike To Be Entered In New Hampshire Portsmouth, N." H. (U.R) Gov. Lane Dwinell said today he will enter President Eisen hower's name in the New Hamp shire presidential primary and he expects "official sanction from Washington. . Dwinell added that "as of this moment" he had no "approval from Washington to enter Mr. Eisenhower's name in 'the state's "first in the nation" primary March 13. He said, however, that the necessary 100 signatures on a nomination petition would be compiled over the week end and that Monday "would appear to be an opportune time", to file the President's name in the pri mary. Mr, Eisenhower has 10 days after the filing of his nominating petition to refuse to have his name on the ballot. Carelessly-Dropped Lamp Ignites Ferry; 65 Perish Samchonpo, Korea (U.R A carelessly dropped kerosene lamp turned the coastwise ferry. Taeshin-O into a waterborne torch near here today, killing nearly, half of its 147 Korean crewmen and passengers. There were no foreigners aboard. Sixty-five persons, 38 men, 20 women and seven children, were fatally burned or trampled, or drowned in the icy waters of Samchonpo harbor when the 135-ton vessel caught fire soon after leaving here on a trip from Pusan to Yosu. Japan Maps Tourist Attraction Program Tokyo (U.R) The Japan trans portation ministry is drawing up an ambitious program aimed at attracting 800,000 more tour ists to Japan during the next five years, the newspaper Maini chi said today. The ministry reported that 106,000 tourists visited Japan last year, an increase of 22 per cent over 1954, and spent about 549,000. It is estimated that 800,000 tourists would spend at least $371,000,000. Salem U.R) The State High way Commission will receive bids on road projects estimated to total $3,000,000 when it meets in Portland Jan. 26 and 27. Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Patterson has proclaimed the week of Jan. 14-21 as "Jaycee" week in Oregon. kY 12, 1956 ASSuiVif.b tiuuLb Miss Marjorie Ann Hatten (left), new county 4-H agent, is shown with Mrs. Joanne Weatherford, county home demonstration agent, as she assumes duties here. Miss Hatten came here from Idaho and was an International . Farm Youth Exchange delegate to Norway in 1952. Mrs. Wea therford replaced Miss Eula Wintermote, who is on leave of absence. Benson Urges Quick Congressional OK , Of Soil Bank Plan Washington (U.R) Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson said today the administration's proposed "soil bank" program can be put into effect this year if congress acts quickly. A month or two of "avoidable delay," he told the Senate Agri culture Committee "might cause us a year's time in getting the program launched." Key Feature of Program The soil bank plan is the key feature of the administration's farm program which President Eisenhower sent to Congress Monday. It would provide for overall payments, both in cash and kind, totaling about $1,000, .000,000. annually to ,farmers.Un return, participating"-, farm ei r s would agtee to cut corn, wheat, cotton, rice and other : plantings by 40 to 55 million acres. Benson cautioned that, the in ducement offered to farmers to participate in the soil bank plan would have to be generous. Be fore farmers would comply, he said, they would have to feel that their .net incomes would be at least as high as if they planted their allotted acres. ' First Witness He also said broad participa tion would be necessary to in sure the program's success. , The secretary was the first administration witness at com mittee hearings on problems of Hospital Suite for Ike atSF Denied Washington (U.R) The White House said today it made "absc lutelv no" reauest that a San Francisco military hospital pre pare a suite for President Eisen hower's possible use during the Republican Convention in Au gust. President Press Secretary James C." Hagerty angrily denied a statement to that effect yester day by Sen. Robert S. Kerr. (D-Okla.). Kerr had said that Republi cans are "so alarmed about their own low political reserve they plan to bring Ike to the GOP convention, even if he has to stay in Letterman General hos pital which reportedly is pre paring a suite for him." Wifsonville Hospital Site Selection Urged Salem (U.R) Selection of a 400-acre tract adjacent to the Salem-Portland freeway . near Wilsonville for the proposed $14,000,000 Portland area men tal hospital was urged by State Sen. J. O. Johnson of Tigard before the State Board of Con trol here today. The site is the first choice of a special advisory site commit tee, provided Beckman road can be closed and power lines on the tract are removed. French Helicopter Explodes in Flight Pau, France (U.R) France's record-breaking turbohelicopter "Alouette II" exploded during an endurance test flight and crashed and burned near here Wednesday. The pilot escaped by parachute but his engineer died in the blazing wreckage. The aircraft held the world's altitude record for helicopters, 24,780 feet, and the helicopter speed record, 156.5 MPH. United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 251 declining farm income, huge surpluses, and overproduction. : Benson told the committee that because of the big cotton crop in 1955, heavy loan opera tions probably will make neces sary a further increase in the borrowing power of the , Com modity Credit Corp. The CCC, which handles price support operations, now'has a borrowing authority of $12,000,000,000. Before Benson appeared, Com mittee Chairman Allen J. El lender (D-Ga.) told newsmen that administration insistence on drafting an "Eisenhower farm 'bill" threatens hope for bi partisan action' to help the na tion's farmers. To Discuss Floods Rogue River Efforts to ob tain permanent flood relief in the Rogue basin will be discuss ed at a public meeting at 8 p.m. Friday in the Rogue River -VFW hall, Dr. Edward Chance, Rogue River, has announced. Dr. Chance was among resi dents whose homes were destroy ed. His office also was exten sively damaged : by the pre-. Christmas flood. The meeting, he said, is de signed to further local efforts in obtaining permanent flood re lief for the Rogue basin. Dr. Chance was elected temporary chairman of the program at a meeting of Rogue River flood sufferers Monday at the city hall. ' Those attending the meeting made plans to invite residents of all communities along the Rogue to attend the Friday meeting. Dr. Chance pointed out that the meeting is not only for those whose homes and businesses were directly affected, but also for those whose livelihood de pends upon economic prosperity of the area. Umpqua Highway Only Route Remaining Closed . Salem (U.R) The Umpqua highway was the only route re ported closed today by the State Highway Department. It re mained closed by a slide at mile point one. ( No new snow was reported overnight, but chains were re quired at Timberline and advis ed at Government camp. Ike Said Prepared To Authorize Use Of Atomic Weapons In Three War Scares Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower was prepared to au thorize use of tactical atomic weapons against Red China if the Communists had reoponed the Korean war or had intervened openly in the Indochina war. The President's decisions to take such bold action were re ported in a Life magazine article based on an interview with Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles. Walked io Brink of War Dulles was quoted as saying that the Eisenhower administra tion had "walked to the brink" of war three times in its first three years, had "looked it ip the face," and had taken "strong action" which avoided war. The interview-article combi nation, expected to stir up con Weather FORECAST: Considerable cloud' iness tonight and Friday with scattered showers and valley fog Friday morning. Low to night 38. High Friday 32. TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterday 53 Lowest This Morning 36 PRECIPITATION To 4:30 a.m. Today .Trace Guided Missile V Program Expansion Aired by Wilson More Advanced Arms Listed in Fiscal Plan Washington (U.R) Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson to day disclosed a vastly expanded guided missile ship construc tion program as one means of increasing U. S combat power. He told the Senate Armed Services Committee that more money will be spent in the com ing fiscal year on guided missiles and other "newer and more ad vanced weapons." j For example, he said, the Navy's shipbuilding program will be "heavily concentrated on new types" of ships, including six more atomic submarines, the first atomic - powered surface ship, and 18 warships capable of firing deadly guided missiles. More 'Air Power The program, he said, includes construction of 12 guided missile destroyers and frigates and the conversion of five light cruisers and a submarine as guided mis sile ships. . ' The "design and advance pro curement" of an atom plant for a supercarrier also is . planned, he said, as well as construction of a sixth Forrestal class carrier with conventional power. In the air, he said, the empha sis will be on the B52 intercon tinental jet bomber ' and-supersonic fighters such as " the Air Force F101, F102 and F104 and the. Navy's FBU and F3H. With the increasing modern ization of the Navy and other services, Wilson- aidr -'.the.- over all co'nbat power of our force will Continue to . grow 'during fiscal year 1957." ; . ' v Closed Door Meeting Fundamentally, he said, the defense program in the coming fiscal year remains unchanged. j "Nothing has occurred in the international situation . during the past year which would in dicate the . necessity . for any major change in these policies and concepts," he said. , Wilson testified at a closed door committee . meeting but copies of his prepared statement were distributed to reporters. ' At no point did he discuss in his statement U. S.- progress ', in developing ballistic missiles, a source of concern among some Democrats who fear the United States may be slipping behind Russia in the race to develop the new weapons. Detroit Newspaper Walkout Settled Detroit- U.R) Publishers of Detroit's three strikebound news papers today announced "com plete agreement" has been reached with three unions whose walkout has left the city without daily newspapers service since last Dec. 1. The News, Free Press and Times said in a joint statement they expected to resume publi cation "as soon as possible." No date was specified, however. . The Detroit Newspaper Pub lishers Association, which repre sents the three strikebound dailies, still is negotiating with three other union groups. The other unions had agreed on new contract terms previously. troversy, brought no immediate comment from Chairman Walter F. George (D-Ga.)'of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and other committee members. They wanted to read the article first. Near-War Crises Listed The three near-war crises list ed by Dulles were the possible expansion of the Korean war in 1953, possible retaliation against Red China if it had -entered the Indochina fight openly in 1954, and the early 1955 crisis with Red China over Formosa. James Shepley, Washington Time-Life bureau chief, quoted Dulles as saying: "You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war in Korea, Indochina and Five Year Plan To Provide Needed Rooms Proposed States Would Match Government Money , Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower asked Congress- to day to provide a total of $1,250, 000,000 in federal grants over the next five years to help build badly needed school rooms. He said in a special message to Congress that the grants, at the rate of $250,000,000 a year, should be matched with state funds to supplement local con struction in the "neediest" school districts. Four Point Program The request was the chief feature of a four-point federal aid program which Mr. Eisen hower' said "should overcome the nation's critical classroom shortage within five years." . The shortage now is estimated at 203,000 classrooms. ' The total program proposed by Mr. Eisenhower would amount to at least $2,020,000,000 in federal aid to public schools over five years. . Incentive lo States For the federal grants, Mr. Eisenhower proposed a formula which states "noticeably lag ging" behind their ability to support public schools , would get less federal aid. He said. this feature "should act as an incen: tive ' f6r . the lagging states to increase their effort." He proposed that federal funds be distributed "according to relative need.". , " ' Mr. . Eisenhower also called for:- 1. $750,000,000 over' five years for federal purchase of local school construction bonds when school districts cannot sell them in private markets at rea sonable interest rates. 2. Federal backing to help pro vide reserves for bonds issued by state school financing agencies. The President put no price tag on this feature of the five-year program. He said, .these " bonds would finance Jocal construction of schools to be rented and event ually owned by local school sys tems. "- : -: '-"' 3. $20,000,000 in matching grants to the states over . five years for planning ways to over come obstacles to financing school construction. The President also asked for a "major" but unspecified increase in: funds for the office of edu cational research. He said "this has been ' a sorely neglected field." ; : v ; Help Essential , He asked Congress to continue providing federal - funds " for' school ' construction in districts near federal bases arid other gov 'ernment installations where school enrollments have increas ed sharply. The present law aid ing such districts expires, next June. . ' . Although states and local com munities are "substantially in creasing their classroom con struction," the President said, many communities "simply do not have available locally the resources needed to cope both -with .the legacy of shortages from past years and with future needs." "Unless these communities get help, they simply cannot provide enough good schools," he said. He noted that the recent White House conference on education concluded that federal aid is nec essary, along with more effort by local and state governments, to increase the rate of classroom construction. ' "The facts support this con clusion," he said. ' Salem (U.R) Robert C. Baum, Corvallis, has been ap pointed by Gov. Paul Patterson as executive secretary of the committee on natural resources. Formosa. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge with out getting into war is the neces sary art." ' Would Fight To Win The article said the President decided to make "all honorable efforts to bring a truce . out of the negotiations then in prog ress . . . but if the Communists would not permit this . . . the U.S. would this time fight to win-. This meant carrying the air attack to Manchuria." - The President, it added, "decided on the tactical use of atomic arms should hostilities be renewed." This decision later was passed on by Dulles to Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who informed the 'Red Chinese. This was followed by the truce ac aremia Gas MI aid -Rich ffeiro Off 'Bickering' Washington (U.R) - A con gressional investigation digging into the administration's grant of 15 Oregon mining claims has struck a rich' vein of political bickering. Democrats have charged the grants are being used for "min ing" timber. Sen. W Kerr Scott (D-NC), Wednesday recessed the hearings until Tuesday with a declara- Polls Open Monday On Annexation in Southeast Section City officials today reminded residents in more than 1,100 acres southeast of Medford that annexation elections will be held between 1 and 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16. One'' election will be held in an "island" of about three and a half blocks in Siskiyou Heights extension just ijorth: of Verde Hills subdivision. . The other will be in an extensive area just southeast of present city limits. Boundaries Listed o The larger area generally ex tends from the southwest corner of Hillcrest rd. and Foothill rd. south, east to the west side of Murphy rd., then south along the western edge of Murphy rd. to Barnett rd. The proposed boundary continues in a south erly direction to include Barne- burg hill, . where a subdivision is planned, then following prop erty lines to, the east side of Ellendale . dr. to just . south of Barnett ; rd. " The boundary fol lows Bear creek to the present city limits. - . . . . . Polling place in the county "island" will be at the . home of Mrs. Elizabeth Barker, 601 Keene dr. Polling place in the larger area is at the home of Mrs. Blanche Powell, 1920 Bar nett rd. The Medford city council call ed the election after petitions were submitted from residents requesting annexation and after a public hearing at which there was no opposition from city residents.. County Court Accepts Road Damage Figure The county court yesterday accepted an estimate of $121,199 damage to county roads made early this week by Lowell C. Jensen, highway engineer with the Oregon district of U.S. pub lic roads. . ' The estimate, which was reached with assistance from County Engineer Paul Rynning, covers work believed necessary to repair flood damage to county-owned roads and bridges. Ap plications for federal aid are ex pected to be filed soon. Jensen previously met with the court and Maj. Gen. Joseph Hicks, county civil defense di rector, to view and discuss flood damage. '""'" Others making the study in cluded Col. lA. M. Sheets, state director of civil defense; Charles Beals, state , civil defense en gineer;' and Jack Bartlett of the state highway department. Ernest Scott In Fair Condition at Hospital Ernest Scott, secretary and manager of thei Medford Elks lodge, is reported" in "fair" con dition today at Sacred Heart hospital. He was taken there yesterday after suffering a heart attack, according to a report from the club. He is not to have visitors, it has been re ported. He began to feel ill Saturday, it was reported. After being ex amined Wednesday by a physi cian he was taken, to the hos pital. Well-Known Portland Automotive Man Dies Portland (U.R) Edward (Brud) Fox Jr., well known in Portland automotive and petroleum trades, died yesterday at the age of 59. He had been general man ager of the Oregon Auto Dealers association for 6 years and manager of the Portland Auto Deals association since last February. tion that he would "get at the bottom" of the mining case de spite "repeated cries of politics and smears." He said he will call Secretary of Interior Doug las McKay for questioning. For Campaign Purposes Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R Mich.), accused the Democratic controlled joint committee of "bias and cowardly tactics." He said it was conducting the in quiry "for 1956 campaign pur poses." Scott said the committee will ask McKay why his department granted the claims in the Rogue River National Forest The de partment under the last Demo cratic administration refused to grant the claims. , Hoffman retorted McKay will be called "only after he has been smeared all over the place." All ' the shouting arises over about 300 acres of timberland covering the 15 claims. Patents to the land were awarded last year to Al Sarena Mines, Inc., of Mobile, Ala. Disallowed in 1948 own saia me mining nrm i claims were disallowed by the Interior Department in 1948 on the ground that the land did not contain enough minerals to justify, commercial mining. Rep. Earl Chudeff (D-Pa.) said as the hearings were recessed that the Sarena company ap pears to have ignored the low grade ore. for the more lucra tive timber. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.), said the Sarena case was a precedent for giving away the national forests. M. E. Volin, former Northwest Pacific director for the Bureau of Mines, told the committee he received instructions from the Interior Department in 1953 that the ssayer of the claims had to be mutually acceptable to him and Al Sarena. - He said he chose the A. W. Williams inspection comoanv of Mobile after Al Sarena had ve toed two West Coast assay firms. He said he received no instructions to select the Wil liams firm and was satisfied with the selection at the time. Greater Amounts Shown The 1953 Williams assav show ed greater amounts of metals on the claims than were indi cated in previous tests conduct ed both by the William firm and by the government. Hoffman accused Chudoff and a committee counsel of intima ting that a witness was Ivins because he did not give the in formation they wanted. "I'd hate to be judged bv the standards these gentlment set up for you,'. Hoffman told the witness, Richard N. Appling Jr., Bureau of Mines official from Spokane, Wash. - .. , Like Volin. ADDline testified that Al Sarena company wanted the assay made bv the Mobile. Ala., firm although they prefer red a West Coast firm.' (See Story on Page 5) Dan Thornton Slated To Speak in Medford Dan Thornton, former gov ernor of Colorado, will speak at the annual Jackson County Lincoln club dinner at the Jack son hotel, Feb. 7, according to Donald B. Whalin, club presi dent. Whalin said the dinner will be held earlier than usual 'this year to coincide with Thornton's planned tour of southern Ore gon. Lincoln Day dinners nor mally are held closer to Lincoln's Birthday, Feb. 12. Mrs. Kathleen N. Bash, coun ty Republican chairman, said an announcement will be made when- other appearances of Thornton are scheduled. Flood Relief Funds Received by Patterson Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Pat terson said today Oregon had received $150,000 from Presi dent Eisenhower's federal flood relief funds. The state was de-! clared a major diaster area be cause of late December floods. Rep. Harris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) informed the governor's office that the $150,000 is the first allotment and more funds will be made available as additional surveys disclose the need. Ore gon civil defense agency offi cials indicated the first alloca tion would be adequate for a good start in assistance toward repair and rebuilding.
