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Eisenhower Asks Five-Year Program To Fight Disease Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower asked Congress today to authorize a five-year, $250,000,000 program of federal . aid for construction of medical schools and other research in stitutions to step up the nation's "unending war against disease and disability." He said e new facilities are needed to overcome "serious shortages" of physicians, and to make possible a vastly expanded research assault on the mysteries of cancer, heart disease, mental Illness and other ailments about ' which "much remains to be diS' covered." The request was the main new feature of a five-point adminis tration program to provide the nation with a "renewed and in vigorated attack on our health problems." Mr. Eisenhower out lined the program in a 2400-word special message to Congress. Increased Research - ' The President also called for a 28 per cent increase in federal funds for medical, research, ex pansion of private health insur ance plans to provide protection against "catastrophic illness," a five-year training program for nurses and medical specialistsy and a sharp increase in federal funds for construction of hos pitals. Despite "notable advances" in ie struggle against disease, the President said, "the nation still has not summoned the resources it properly and usefully could summon to the cause of better health.", "This further effort," he said, . . should be a characteris tically American partnership, a partnership in which private and governmental enterprises are join! together to advance the national welfare." Must Match Funds "I therefore recommend that Congress enact legislation au thorizing $250,000,000 for a five year program to assist in con struction of research and teach ing facilities for schools of med icine, osteopathy, public health and dentistry and other research Institutions." Mr. Eisenhower said institu tions receiving federal ' grants "would be required to supply at least equal amounts in match ing funds" of their own. The five-year program posed by Mr. Eisenhower today is al most identical with two Demo cratic sponsored bills which the administration declined to sup port in Congress last year. In formed sources said -the policy shift can be attributed to Marion B. Folsom, who succeeded Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby as health sec retary a few months ago. The Democratic bills would provide about $60,000,000 a year, compared to Mr. Eisen r Sewer Improvement Needed in County Portland Cost of sewage system improvements needed in five Jackson county cities, not including Medford, has been es timated at $688,000 by Curtiss M. Everts, state sanitary engin eer. According to Everts, contracts for construction of sewage col lection and disposal projects awarded in Oregon in 19551 to taled more than $3,000,000, an increase of over $400,000 than in 1954. Over a 10 year period more than $40,000,000 has been expended in the state for sew age facilities. Improvements still needed in the state total .$15,013,000, with $9,719,000 needed for sanitary sewers and : $5,294,000 f or sew age treatment facilities. In Jackson county, improve ments needed were listed as Ashland, $125,000 for treatment facilities; Eagle Point, $81,000 for sewers and $70,000 for treat ment; Jacksonville, $100,000 for sewers and $60,000 for treat ment; Phoenix, $102,000 for sew- ersand $50,000 for treatment; and Table Rock, $100,000 for treatment. An unestimated am ount is needed for Medford sew ers. Council OKs Fire Station Unanimous approval was given plans for a new eastside fire station last night by the city council. The council met as- a commit tee of the whole to discuss various phases of pending coun cil business. City Manager Robert Duff an nounced that a 'tentative sched ule of action on the hew station lists a call for bids for coristruc tioiCFeb. 1, bids to be opened Feb. 17; awarding of bids, Feb. 21; start of construction March 1; and completion date for the new station, June 1. Duff said there was a need for urgency because the lease on the present eastside station expires March 1. An extension of the lease has been obtained until r hower's proposal of $50,000,000 a year, for medical schools and research construction. Improved Insurance Mr. Eisenhower said there is an urgent need for expanding voluntary health insurance cov' erage to provide more Ameri cans with protection "against the cost of lpng term or other espe cially expensive illness, which can be a financial catastrophe for many families. He said he is considering leg islation which would permit pri vate insurance companies topool their risks to "offer broader benefits and expanded coverage on reasonable terms." But he warned as he did in his budget message that if this idea doesn't work out, he will again ask Congress to enact his twice- shelved plan for federal "re insurance" of private health policies. BURTON ABBOTT Playi Pinochle Burton Abbott Calm Following Guilty Verdict , Oakland,' Calif ."fib ftj.R) Bur-1 ton W. Abbott, 2??, facing a gas chamber death, continued today to shelter his ego in the same incredible calm he has effected since his ' arrest last July - for the kidnap-murder of Stephanie Bryan, 14, a Berkeley school girl. This calm was broken only momentarily yesterday when the jury of seven men and five women brought in their ' death verdict. Obviously shaken by the verdict, Abbott quickly re sumed his impassive pose. - "He doesn't seem worried a bit," said one of the deputies at the Alameda jail where the prisoner is held'. "He slept all through the night. He didn't say anything about the verdict to anybody, and apparently doesn't even care about it." ' -Condemned by Lies - Abbott played pinochle with fellow prisoners last night be fore retiring. The prisoners look ed with amazement upon Ab bott's apparent lack of emotion which - Prosecutor J. Frank Coakley once branded as "psych opathic ego," so great that Ab bott could believe his own lies. And it was Abbot's "white lies" which condemned him, one of the jurors revealed today. The juror said Abbott's testimony was weighed against that of oth er witnesses and the evidence for six days. On the seventh day, five ballots were taken, three .in the morning and two in the afternoon.' On the first ballot, the vote was 11 to 1 to determine Ab bott's simple guilt or innocence. The holdout juror listened care fully to arguments -by the jury foreman and fellow jurors. The second ballot, taken shortly be fore lunch, was unanimously for guilt. Death was agreed upon in the afternoon, a verdict , which shook Abbott for the first time since his arrest. June 1. .The new station, on Highland dr. near South Siskiyou blvd. will be of cement block construc tion, will house two fire trucks and . provide potential living quarters for eight men. Duff stated that the station could be enlarged if the growth of Med ford requires it. The station will be similar in construction to the westside fire hall, having a dormitory type sleeping room, a kitchen, bath, living room and storage space. Estimated cost of construction is $24,500. Roseburg U.R) Del McKay, program manager of radio sta tion KRXL, has been named as Roseburg' citizen of the year. W " L,'AV .l&kiSfci . Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year Timber Values Said Not Figured In Sarena Decision Verdict Said Made As Required by Law Washington (U.R) Undersec- Iretary of Interior Clarence A. Davis told congressional investi gators today that timber values had nothing to do with his decis; ion to give Al Sarena Mines, Inc., full rights to some 300 acres of rich national forest land. The controversial decision, Davis said, was made as required by law on the basis of one ques tion: Was there a valid discov ery of minerals on the land? Democrats investigating the grant have claimed Al Sarena re ceived title to the land under the guise of mining it but actu ally is "mining" . timber. The right to remove timber is part of a mining claim grant. Takes Responsibility Davis outlined his position in the controversy in testimony be fore a joint Senate-House sub committee. He said he alone was responsible , for the decision be cause such power is vested in the undersecretary, who also is de partment solicitor. Interior Secretary Douglas McKay had no knowledge of the case, he added, until after the grant had been rnade. The Truman administration had refused to grant the claim on grounds the land did not con tain enough minerals to make mining worthwhile. Davis, an Eisenhower administration ap pointee, granted them on the basis of new mineral assays con ducted by a private firm from Mobile, Ala., hometown of the principal stockholder in Al Sa rena.. Davis said that at the time the mining claims were filed, the timber was of little value. Democrats have charged that Davis was so eager to "give away" the timber, land that he did not wait until the assay re ports reached Washington before granting the mining patents. But Davis told the subcom mittee he had all the informa tion before he made his decision. Entitled lo Patent V ... a miner who stakes out his claim on public lands and files on it, spends $500 in the development of it, and proves that he has a valid discovery of minerals, is entitled to a pat ent," Davis said. . When he took over his job, Davis said there were 278 land appeals cases pending in his of fice. The Al Sarena mines was just another case, he said. Shortly after he took office, Davis said, two members of the McDonald family of Mobile, Ala., which owns the mining company, came to him and vio lently protested that they had been shabbily treated. Davis said the McDonalds said their case had been pending for five years, that a lot of evidence they had filed was not of record, and that more evidence had not been sent to Washington from field offices. Case Was Reviewed After a review of the case, Davis said,, he found some of the allegations made by the McDon-' aids to be true. He said Reps. Frank Bolkin (D-Ala.) and Harris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) had urged him to avoid further delays. "There had been a constant complaint about de lay and a constant pressure for action ..." Davis, said. ' Neuberger Speaks Out Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D. Ore.) criticized Davis for a sen tence in, a letter he wrote about the case to the Bureau of Mines. In it Davis said he wanted "to approve the patent .for them if the assays afford us the well established legal basis therefor." Davis said that although he signed it he hadn't actually writ ten the letter. He said he took responsibility for it. Guy Mollet Selected As New French Premier Paris (U.R) President Rene Coty called on Socialist party leader Guy Mollet tonight to be come France's 22nd Premier since the end of World War n. The President summoned the 51-year-old former English teach er after two days of consulta tions with politicians in his ef forts to decide who should try to form a new government. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York TJ.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 466.82 off 3.89, 20 rails 155.80 'off 0.79, 15 utilities 63.35 off 0.7, and 65 stocks 165.86 off 1.16. Sales today were about 1,840,000 shares compared with 1,950,000 yesterday. 22 Pages Inieaw .iV0 mm " RICHARD HENSELMAN Receives Jaycee Award Henselman Given Junior Chamber Service Award Richard L. Henselman, 26, of 333 Ardmore ave., has won Med ford's Distinguished Service Award for 1955. The annual award is made by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce. Henselman was born Jan. 9, 1930, in Seattle, Wash., and has! lived in Medford since he was one year old. He has been affili ated with the Goldy and Hen selman Insurance agency here for five years. While at Oregon State college, where he majored , in business, he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He was special events chair man of the United Medford Cru sade a,nd served on. the UMC board of -directors two years.' He currently is second vice-president for UMC. Henselman has taken an active part in comple tion, of a new Sunday school building at" the Congregational church. He recently was elected to a three-year term on the board of trustees. He is vice-president of the Medford Professional Insurance Agents association, and a mem ber of the board of directors. He is , married and has two boys, ages 2 and 4. The award consists of a plaque, certificate and pin, which will be presented by Ron James, president of 'Medford Jaycees. Tentative Budget Drawn Up By CPRFPD Central Point Central Point Rural Fire Protection district budget committeeman have drawn up a tentative 1956-1957 budget of $31,758.62. A public hearing on the pro posed outlay has been set for the evening of Feb. "21 at the rural fire hall here. Fire Chief; Richard Krupp said that a good turnout at the hearing is desired, and brought out that the meeting will be the time and place for persons with questions to have, them answered.' ' 1 The tentative budget exceeds the current one of ' $30,370 by $1,388.62. Over-All Development Plan Shelved; Individual Projects Under Consideration "The plan for the over-all de velopment of the Rogue River basin has been , set aside and is ho longer under any considera tion, it was learned here this week. ' The plan, originally known as the Rogue River Basin Project, in its later stages was known also as "Plan A," and was the subject of considerable contro versy in southern Oregon. ' Because of local opposition to it in 1950, the plan was shelved pending further studies and in vestigations with-regard to fish, wildlife and recreational as pects, and was never revived as a serious proposal, although some interested groups main tained an interest in it as a pos sibility for the future. Talent Project Support The main outgrowth of the project was the concentration of support on the Talent project, originally a part of the over-all Rogue Basin plan, but one which was relatively non-controversial The Talent division project since 1950 has been authorized by congress, planning has been com pleted, and 52,400,000 for con struction is in the 1957 budget, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY,. JANUARY 26, 1956 . studying ..yanin's Appeal Need for Continued Talks Said Stressed Washington' U.R) President Eisenhower and his top advisers today urgently studied a new appeal by Soviet Premier Niko lai Bulganin for a revival of the "Geneva spirit" of friendship. The appeal was contained in a personal letter from Bulganin to Mr. Eisenhower, the contents of which neither the White House nor the Russians would disclose.' More Talks Stressed Informed sources told United Press, however, that Bulganin's message stressed the need for continued East-West . talks to ease world tensions. The source said the Russian premier specif ically proposed renewed negotia tions on European security, Ger man unity, disarmament and the lowering of East-West barriers. These were the topics which the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, Great Bri tain and France failed to agree on at a meeting last fall. They had been ordered to try to work out solutions to them by Mr. Eisenhower, Bulganin, British Prime Minister' Anthony Eden and former French Premier Ed gar Faure at their July "sum mit" conference at Geneva, Switzerland. New Suggestions Bulganin was ". reported to have some new suggestions in his letter on.,, how -the '. deadlocks might ; W "br.bken.r. -But it was understood he did "not propose: a new meeting with Mr. Eisen hower and British and French leaders. Negotiations in the first stage at least, . presumably would be carried on through correspond ence and diplomatic channels. Lions Auction Nets $6,020 for MOD Sales and pledges totaled $6, 020 on the March of Dimes auc tion over station KBES-TV last night, members of the sponsor ing Crater Lions club said to day. An announcement was made during the program of the criti cal blood shortage hi Jackson county and an additional $750 was pledged to the March of Dimes if county citizens will con tribute 250 pints of blood when the bloodmobile visits here on Feb. 8. The amount is not includ ed in the overall auction total. : Items which were purchased during the auction may be pick ed up at John Lusk's Piano store at 333 South Riverside Ave., it was stated. Pledges also may be brought or mailed . to the Lusk store. Lions club of ficials . today urged that the transactions becompleted in the next few days. Checks should be made payable to the March of Dimes. with the possibility that a spe cial , allocation of funds will permit construction to begin be fore fiscal 1957 starts next July 1. Its cost will total some $22, 000,000. . The permanent : shelving of the Basin project was made known in - a memorandum . to various divisions of the depart ment of the interior last April. It was signed by Interior Secre tary Douglas McKay. In a 'telephone ; call to the Mail Tribune yesterday after noon, he said opposition to the project continues, making fur ther consideration of the pro ject undesirable. He pointed out, however, that this ; action does not preclude .flood control sur veys by the Army engineers, or flood control dams if they are found necessary or desirable. Multi-Purpose Project. .. His . action", however, does set the proposal aside as an over all, basin-wide, integrated and multi-purpose project. 1 Original costs, based on price levels of January, 1949, would have totaled $78,443,000. The Talent project, .which has been consid erably revised since taken up DD SUBCOMMITTEE GETS TOP TESTIMONY The House military appropriations subcommittee summoned Defense Secy. Charles E. Wilson to a closed-door hearing in Washington as they began checking whether President Eisenhower's 35-billion-dollar military budget will keep the United States stronger than Russia. Here, Chairman George H. Mahon, Texas Democrat (right), greets Wilson as he arrives to testify. Statement Issued On Computing Tax The county assessor's office to day disclaimed any error in com puting tax rates this year. as was alleged by State Tax Commis sioner Sam Stewart in; a talk here last Saturday. . In a long statement issued by the office with the knowledge and approval of Assessor Robert G., Fowler, the office indicated that no error was made, but that the taxes . were collected in a manner prescribed by the state commission, and that they do not result in unfair or over-assessments. . -Statement Paraphrased In a Mail Tribune story Sun day, Stewart's statement was paraphrased as follows: ". . .Real property in Jackson county has 'true cash value' fig ured at 100 per cent of market value, as the result of what ap parently was an innocent com puting error in the county asses sors office. In other counties, true cash value' is figured at 70 per cent of market value, under regulations of the state tax com mission." . Today's statement said that only two communications from the commission relative to ratios are on file in the assessor's of fice. The first discusses them only in general terms, it said. The other ; discussed, ratios in specific figures,, giving a for mula for determining the ratio on . a basis of a "normal condi tions" factor of 80 per cent of market value as true cash value. It was, this formula which was followed in Jackson county. Thus a "normal conditions" of Rogue River Basin Is as a separate project, incorpor ates a number of the features originally proposed for other seg ments of the over-all basin plan. The Talent project, Secretary McKay points out in his depart mental memorandum, was sub mitted as a " substitute plan by the, Rogue 'River, Valley. Irriga tion association, and included the non-controversial features of the proposals of the bureau of reclamation. The secretary ' indicated that the basin proposal had been pushed unduly by the bureau of reclamation in the past, without the full concurrence of other divisions of the .department, but said, "Our machinery for co ordinated department-wide plan ning for river basin development has been, improved greatly dur ing the past few years ..." Memorandum Addressed ' The memorandum was ad dressed to the bureau of recla mation, the national park ser vice, the fish and wildlife ser vice, the bureau of mines, the geological survey and the bureau of land management. ; Published copies of the final report on the Rogue Basin pro- f Price 5c fin factor of 80 per cent is , in use here on the instructions of the state tax 'commission, as opposed to a 70 per cent factor in other counties, the statement indi cated. Reappraisal Program . ' - The statement also made in direct reference to Stewart's statement about the reappraisal program in the county to the ef fect that it had been conducted in the county by both state and county appraisers The statement quoted the agreement under which the pro gram was originated, which spe cified that full responsibility for supervision and completion of the job was assumed by the state commission. '"..-'.. The statement issued by the assessor's office will be printed in full in tomorrow's Mail Tribune'. Road Conditions Highway 99. south Chains advised on Siskiyous; chains required between Weed and south of Dunsmuir, Calif. Highway .99, north Snow ing north of Roseburg. Highway 97 N o r 1 h of Klamath Falls, ' snowing, car rying chains advised; north of Weed, Calif., chains required. Highway 66, Green Springs Carrying chains advised, may be required later. ject, the secretary directed, were to be stamped "The pro posed developments ! by the bureau of reclamation, to which this report is directed, are no longer under consideration by the department of the interior. Refer to secretary's memoran dum attached." Another phase of the over-all development plan the Illinois Valley division still is under consideration, and a favorable preliminary report on it was completed by the bureau of rec lamation in December. - The proposed irrigation pro ject calls for a reservoir with 34,300 acre-feet of water to irri gate 16,600 acres in Josephine county. The project is estimat ed to cost about S14,260,000, ac cording to the report. . Sucker Creek Dam The dam would be built on Sucker creek with a diversion dam below the main dam. The site is located on Highway 46 east of Cave Junction near Ore gon Caves National monument Further action on the project, the - report said, would depend upon local support and cooperation. United Press Full Leased Wire No. 263 Los Angeles Gets About Six Inches; Schools Closed Central, Southern Areas Hardest Hit San Francisco - (U.R) Storm-punchy California took another, one. on the chin today as more wmd-wmpped rains flashed' across the state from one end to the other. As much as six inches of rain was dumped on some sections causing flood threats in at least two areas. 1 - Central and Southern Calif ornia got the worst of it this, time. The weatherman' said light rains would continue this after noon and tomorrow, but clear ing was expected over most of California late Friday. ' Winds as high as 69 miles an hour at 'Blue Canyon in the High Sierra and 37 mph at Pt. Reyes on the North Coast struck during the night. There was new snow in the mountains above the 3000 foot level. Eur eka reported hail. . Heavy Rainstorm Santa Margarita, at the head waters of the Salinas river, was drenched with six inches of fain. Santa Barbara got 4 and Pas adena, 3.49.' A record rain drenched the Los Angeles area for the second day, flooding some 350 persons from' their, dwellings and forc ing schools to close. Greater flooding was feared as the runoff gained momentum and poured down mountain : slopes surrounding Los Angeles . Basin. . Helicopters in Use - Helicopters- 'and .lifeguard boats were pressed into use to evacuate families trapped by flood waters which rose to sev en feet in some low-lying re gions. The, downpour broke a 16- year record for a single 24-hour period when it dumped 5.21 in ches on the International Air port in the period ending at 7 a.m. and the rains continued, with the Weather Bureau fore casting another three inches for the rest of the day. , In downtown Los Angeles, the storm brought 5.21 inches of rain by 11 a.m., only .21 inches less than the third worst storm on record, the rainfall of Sept. 24-25 in 1939. '..,- The Los Angeles school dis trict closed 16 schools "and pre pared to order others shut down. Families Evacuated In Torrance, 90 families' were forced from their homes. Anoth er 100 persons, mostly elderly, were ordered out of their homes inVenice, another Los Angeles residential, suburb. There apparently was no threat of serious flooding along the Feather and Russian rivers, which did heavy damage during the Christmas week deluge. , But residents of Tulare coun ty battled to hold back the swelling Kaweah and St. John's rivers. A state of emergency, was declared late yesterday when- the streams approached ' the danger point. Dr. Salk Honored With Gold Medal Washington U.R) Dr. Jonas E. Salk today received a gold medal from a grateful nation and praise from President Ei senhower for his "great achieve ment" in developing a vaccine against polio. In a glittering ceremony at the Health, Education and Wel fare Department, Health Secre tary Marion B. Folsom read a letter to Salk from President Ei senhower, which said: "Through dedicated and self less effort, in the test traditions of medical research, you have ; brought new hope to mankind in the continuing battle against a dread disease ... I am confi dent that the entire nation joins me in lasting gratitude and ap preciation ..." Weather FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness with, scattered showers tonight and Friday. Snow above 2500 feet. Patches of morning fog. Low tonight 32. High Friday 48. : Temp. Highest Yesterday 39 Lowest this Morning 33 Prec to 10 a.m. Today .'15 fra m i a
