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c: C3 O Weather Recommended K O IViEDFORD FORECAST Partly cloudy through Monday, with patches of morning valley fog. Con tinued cool. High today, 44; Low Monday morning, 28 to 30. Temp. Highest yesterday 43 Lowest yesterday 34 A story on the history and planned improvements appears on Pace 12 of today's Mail Tribune. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 26 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUAR y A. Price 5c No. 265 ami tot U ii Fribune 1 II imm Fsace ram Moloiov Comments On Ike's Refusal Of Offered Treaty Soviet Minister At Red NATO' Meeting Prague, Czechoslovakia U.R) Soviet Foreign Minister Vya cheslav M. Molotov said last ' night of President Eisenhower's rejection of a Russian-proposed "friendship treaty," "I cannot understand how anyone can re fuse a treaty of friendship." "Any contact between the two countries is likely to improve the situation," Molotov told a group of Western correspond ents. . . He made the statement at a gala reception given by Presi dent Antonin Zatpotocky of Czechoslovakia after signing of the joint declaration of the War saw treaty powers. Not Read Text Molotov said he had not read the text of Mr. Eisenhower's let ter to Bulganin but appeared to know the gist of it. Most . Communist leaders at tending the reception said they had not heard of the American President's letter. But East Ger many Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht said it was "a blow to peace." "If the Soviet Union and the United States could agree, the entire ' questions of peace and security in the world would be solved," Ulbricht said. "Nobody certainly not (West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer) could interfere." . . Polish Premier Josef Cyran kiewicz, discussing the general international . situation,... said ."I am certain that we are heading for rapprochement and peace." Supply Atomic Weapons Earlier Molotov hinted at the closing session of the Warsaw pact nations that satellite armies bolstered by 125,000 East Ger mans may be supplied with So viet atomic weapons. The eight-nation "Red NA TO" military alliance under So viet command voted East Ger many into full membership at the consultative committee ses sion. ' Emergency Fund Budget Presented Members of the Jackson Coun ty rural district budget board have proposed an " operating emergency fund budget of $53 195 for the rural school district. Although the amount avail able for the current year total' ed $68,050, board members de cided after review of the budget, cash balances, and emergency requests to date that a reduc tion in the emergency fund from $60,000 to $45,000 would be a feasible. The emergency fund is car ried by the rural board to take care of needs which "cannot be reasonably forseen" when the budge" is made, according to Alf Mekvold, county school super- a intendent and secretary of the " board. Operating expenses include part of the superintendent's sal ary, that of a school supervisor, and various supplies, traveling expenses and other items.. The proposed budget will be posted for 20 days. A public hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. March 3 in the courthouse an nex. When adopted it will be submitted to the rural school board along with other district '"budgets. SchoolAidBifHits Mounting Resistance Washington (U.R) The $1,600,000,000 school aid bill ran into mounting resistance in the House Saturday although its backers were confident it .will be passed. . Under a revised timetable re flecting the increased contro versy, a House vote on the mea sure has been delayed at least a week. Bitter debate is in pros pect. Although the measure's only purpose is to help states build badly-needed public schopls, it is caught up in a cross-fire of pressures on such controversial issues as racial segregation, states rights and "prevailing wages" for construction work men. . Hold Up Man Leaves Two Without Money Oakland, Calif. 0J.R) A holdup man took $14 from service station attendant Ches ter Fischer, 26, leaving him without even a dime io call police. Fischer went next door to a liquor store to make the re port, but again its was delay ed. The same robber was in the process of relieving Clerk . Greg Rockett, 36, of all his . money $106.19. Abandonment Of Klamath, Calif., Being Considered Abandonment of - Klamath, Calif., apparently is being con sidered after about 90 per cent of the town at the mouth of the Klamath river was destroy ed in the late ' December flood, according to a letter from a Klamath resident to Medford friends. The letter states that Klam ath Glen, about four miles east of Klamath on the river, was completely washed out during the flood, when water rose to 49 feet in town. Three Feet Sand ' The Klamath resident said his house was on "the highest ground in town," and "water was 30 inches deep" in the house. He said there was about "three feet of sand in the yard." The family stayed at Orick, about 20 miles south of Klamath on Highway 101, about 10 days be fore they could get back . to their home. The letter stated "Klamath is 90 per cent gone,, most of the buildings gone down the river, and a lot of them wrecked. Water was 15 feet deep over tne top of the highway and very swift. Altogther 192 homes were lost or destroyed here, not to mention business houses." 30-foot Hole The writer said his sister-in- law in Klamath Glen lost a store and three houses, and "all that was left was a hole 30 feet feet deep." The family is now stay ing in Klamath with the letter writer. "Some of these poor people were completely wiped out of their entire life savings," the letter added. The letter concluded: "Some of the stores are fixing up temporarily for business, but there is talk of abandoning the town and building elsewhere." Doubts If Pearson Called To Testify Washington (U.R) There appeared to be little likelihood Saturday that Columnist Drew Pearson would be called to testify regarding a letter he claimed 'linked President Eisen hower with the Al Sarena min ing claims case. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.), acting chairman of the in terior subcommittee investigat ing the case, refused Friday "to put .the motion of Sen. Barry (aoiawater (tt-Ariz.) to call Pear son to back up his published statements. Pearson said in his syndicated column that Lew Wallace, Port land insurance man and promi nent Oregon Democrat, had writ ten the President in behalf of the Al Sarena claims in southern Oregon. Pearson said the presi dent had forwarded the letter to Interior Secretary Douglas Mc Kay and that the letter was in the subcommittee files. vvaiiace saia ne had "no re collection" of writing the letter and both the White House and the subcommittee staff have denied that such a letter exists. William H. Stimson Dies Of Heart Attack William H. Stimson, an em ployee of California Oregon .Power company for many years, died about 7:15 pjn. last night. Mr. Stimson was at his home in Fall Creek, Calif., when he was stricken by a heart attack, a, company official said. He was brought to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Mr. Stimson was formerly Copco division superintendent at Roseburg before he was trans ferred to Fall Creek following an earlier attack. Political Rumpus Result Of Letter By Sen. Neuberger. Suggests Use Of Drugs In Election Campaign Washington (U.R) The Democrats were on notice Sat urday that Republicans can get "very bitter" at any renewal of suggestions that "panicky poli ticians" might use drugs to get President Eisenhower through another election campaign. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, freshman Oregon Democrat, started the rumpus by making the. suggestion in a recent week ly newsletter to his constituents. In angry Senate debate Friday, Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Calif.), a possible presidential candidate himself, said Neuberger had "cast reflec tions" on Mr. Eisenhower's phy sicians and the White House staff. "I hope there is no repetition of this type of statement in the heat of the campaign," he said. Could Get Bitter Sen. Barry M.- Goldwater (R Ariz.), chairman of the Republi can Senatorial Campaign com mittee, said the Republicans could get "very bitter" if there is. - - Neuberger, who is convinced the president will not seek a sec ond term, defended the newslet ter as "friendly" in' tone, . and said he sent Mr. Eisenhower a copy to "express my good wish es regarding his health." The newsletter said a second- term bid by the president would make his health an ' over-riding campaign issue, and added: "There even exists the danger that panicky politicians . . . might try to have him propped up unwisely with drugs and oth er such aids so that he could fulfill speaking and TV commit ments to the permanent detri ment of his well-being, just to get by election day." Benson Shoulders Blame For Letter Washington' U.R) Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben son's self-confessed "boner" in endorsing1 a Harper's magazine attack on farmers brought angry demands Saturday for his resignation and some defense of his "manly" action. It appeared unlikely he would relinquish his post under fire, however. Key Republican law makers said privately that they were sure . President Eisenhow er would not pressure Benson to resign, particularly, in view of his apology and frank accep tance of responsibility for the endorsement of the article en titled "The Country Slickers Take Us Again." t - Benson shouldered the blame even though he said the letter of endorsement was written by aides and sent out under his name without his knowledge. He also emphasized that the article, which claims farmers want a dole, does not reflect his views. Benson was not expected to give his aides the axe. Miller Shurtleff, the aide who signed the secretary's name without reading the letter, said he didn't expect to be disciplin ed. Washington (U.R) A show down Senate vote on the contro versial natural gas bill is ex pected next week. Supporters of the measure are hopeful the Senate will pass it in a close vote. The house approved it last year by a six-vote margin. Crater Lake National Park Had Fewer Visitors Last Year Than in 1954; Reasons Are Listed For Decline There were 7.2 per cent fewer visitors at Crater Lake National park during 1955 than' in the record travel yearfor the park in 1954, according to , Tom Wil liams, park superintendent. " The total number of cars visit ing the park last year was 96, 934, and the number of people was 343,839, compared to 102, 342 cars and 370,554 people in 1954. The 1954 total showed an increase of 11.3 per cent over 1953. Williams said several factors may have contributed to the de-i EVEN LOS ANGELES GETS FLOODED Traffic is non-exis-' tent on Flower st. in Los Angeles after the main thoroughfare is turned (into a river by the seven inches of rain, that pelted South- West Coast Cities Recovering From Snow, Rain Storms By UNITED PRESS Stormy Pacific Coast weather Saturday left Oregon's biggest city shiveredfrom . its worst snow storm in 13 years and both northern and southern California mopping up from heavy rain flood waters. Cold weather and ' icy condi tions chilled Oregon, indirectly causing at least four deaths, but California's flood dangers ap peared over barring the sudden arrival of a new rainstorm. , Deaths blamed on the snow storm included two traffic -fatalities, a man who died while try ing to start his car: which was bogged down in the snow, and a man who suffered a heart at tack while shovelling snow at his Portland- home ' In northern California, the St. John's river smashed through a weakened levee in farmlands west of Visalia Friday but the water-soaked- community was not endangered by new flooding. Water which rushed through the break was expected to be di verted back into the river. The flooded area extended northwest to' the South Pacific railroad right-of-way -along Highway 99. The Tule and Kaweah rivers have receded after rises result ing from Thursday's heavy rains. Man Goes Berserk; Kills Six In Family Parsippany-Troy Hills, N. J. (U.R) A New York state road in spector went berserk in his home Saturday and wiped out six members of his family, includ ing his invalid mother, with a .12 gauge" pump shotgun. He then committed suicide. The slayings were discovered by. a neighbor, Arthur Sinnen berg who had believed the Bauer family left their seven-room ranch home yesterday for a two week vacation in Florida and became curious when he noticed their automobile in the drive way. Parsippany Police Chief Leo D'Orsi said Bauer went berserk "for no apparent reason." The house was strewn with empty shotgun cartridges, se said. cline. Disagreeable spring weather at the park, road con struction during the summer in the " park and on main ap proaches, and smoke from Sep tember forest fires were among possible reasons for a decrease in attendance.' Attendance dropped off sharp ly during the latter few months of 1955, after showing an in crease in August. Some 31,702 cars and 112,047 people visited the park during August last year compared to 30,316 cars and 106,562 in 1954. . l ' Final Flood Damage Estimate Completed A final estimate on flood damage in Jackson county, to taling $914,495, was sent to the state and federal agencies Fri day by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hicks, county civil defenses-director.. f The report," compiled by civil defense and county Red Cross officials, will be- used in com piling an over-all damage total for the state, Hicks said. Damage Listed Damage listed in the report included Shady Cove, . where 107 families of about . 428 per sons were affected and house hold and . personal effects lost and damaged totaled , about $10,500. One business property was destroyed, four sustained major damage and four minor damage, for a total "of $45,000 damage. Some 12 Shady Cove homes were destroyed, .40 sustained major damage and , 46 minor damage. Five farm buildings were destroyed, five received major damage and five minor damage, for a total of $36,000 damage. Rogue River : families affect ed by the flood totaled about 170 with approximately 684 in dividuals. Household and per sonal effects lost totaled about $30,000. i Business Properties Two business properties were destroyed, 32 sastained major damage and 15 minor damage, making a total $125,000 dam age. Eight homes were reported destroyed, 41 suffered, major damage and 72 minor damage. Five farm buildings were' de stroyed, five had major dam- Sports Bulletins North Be nd handed Med ford High school's basketball team a 79 to 73 defeat here last night. Medford was lead ing 73-67, with three minutes left, but North Bend tallied 12 straight points for the win. Ashland 75, Crater High school 60. College of Pacific 68, Ne vada 59. ' Washington 83, Ore. St. 63 Southern Calif. 73, Idaho 59 But. Spotember" fieures show ed a decline of more than 2,000 cars and more than 8,000 people. During October, 1955, the num ber of cars and people visiting the park was less than the num ber visiting during October, 1954. The number visiting dur ing November ' and December was a greater per centage under the number visiting during those months in 1954. Figures On Traffic In October, 1955, 2,524 cars and 8,966 people visited the park compared to 4,739 cars and 16,- ern California. Manhole in center bubbles over with more water, Property damage was estimated at over a million dollars, .-.;.. age, with damage total about $90,000. . In the Applegate area losses included $8,600 major damage to private utilities from the Ap plegate store io the county line. Loss bf livestock, equipment, fences, crops, land due to ero sion, farm roads and bridges, and irrigation systems totaled $381,395. 247 Families Affected About 247 families of 741 in dividuals were affected. Central Point losses listed to otaled $1,200, to the sewage dis posal pipe line. Gold Hill j sewage disposal unit - sustained $2,000 damage; Medford's Camp White . trunk sewer line sustained . $10,000 damage; and the Medford water trunk line $500 damage. Jackson county costs for tem porary repair to roads, streets and culverts came to $100,900. Bridges in the county required $60,000 for labor cost and ma terials. Columbia Utilities reported $20,000 losses; Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company, $1,500; and Shady Cove school, $500. Frey Reelected Head Of News Association Portland U.R) M. J. Frey, publisher and general manager of the Oregonian, was reelected president of the Pacific North west Newspaper association Sat urday. Other officers reelected . were W. H; Cowles, publisher of the Spokane Chronicle and the Spokesman-Review first vice president; William W. Knight, publisher of the Journal, treasur er and A. G. Llewellyn, secre tary, who heads the association's headquarters, in Portland. L. B. Tackett, publisher of the Provo, Utah, Herald, ,was elected to a first term as second vice presi dent. Newspaper production and la bor relations were among the topics discussed, by some 50 pub lishers and top representatives of daily newspapers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Mon tana and British Columbia who attended the meeting. 538 people in 1954. In November, only 89 cars and 2,058 people visited. Crater Lake compared to 1,505 cars and 5,249 people in November, 1954. There were 164 cars and 519 people visiting the park last month, compared to 580 cars and 1,829 people in De cember, 1954. Records for peak travel pe riods at the park include 370, 554 during 1954, annual record; 112,898, August 1947, one-month record; and 5,981, July 4, 1954, one day record. . Paul L. Patterson Announces He Will Seek Senate Seat Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L, Patterson announced Saturday that he will enter the race to oust Senator Wayne Morse from the United States senate. Gov. Patterson said he would file his candidacy for the Re publican senatorial nomination in the May 18 primary election. Morse, the incumbent Demo crat, had said earlier that he hoped Patterson would be his opponent in November -and po litical observers predicted one of the hottest political campaigns of the year would be the result. Must Defeat Deeir The governor . must defeat State Representative ' Elmer Deetz in the primaries before going on to meet Morse in . the general election. The governor's statement said "the issues in this campaign are clear. There . are fundamental differences between my political philosophy and that of Senator Wayne Morse; . Sen. Morse, upon hearing of Patterson's entry into the race, said that he is confident he will be re-elected because a majority of Oregon voters want a senator of "honest independence free from partisan dictates." Morse said if he is nominated by the Democrats and he said he is sure that he will be he will be "delighted" to campaign against "Gov. Patterson or any other Republican." Unknown War Dead Arrive In Hawaii Pearl Harbor, T.H. (U.R) The first of America's unknown dead of the, Korean' war came home Saturday. On the after deck of the cruiser U.S.S. Manchester four flag draped caskets represented the first 50 coffins returned from Korean burial grounds. Some 850 unknown soldiers in all will eventually come to rest on the slopes of the National Me morial Cemetery of the Pacific in Punchbowl Crater. Final -homage was paid to the unknown soldiers a quarter of a mile from where the rusted hull of the battleship Arizona lay. The most solemn moment of the ceremony was the half-masting of the flag above the sunken hull which is the grave of 1,102 war dead killed in the Japanese at tack on Pearl Harbor. Chasm Threatens Houses In Arcadia Arcadia, Calif. U.R) Two property owners stared ' help lessly Saturday at a crumbling 65-foot chasm which threatened to drop their houses and garages into its depths. " A heavy deluge in southern California's rain storm gorged the storm drain behind the property and chewed away 2,500 cubic feet of earth. Proposal Advanced In Bulganin Letter Delivered Earlier Four-Point 'Hand Of Friendship' Presented . Washington lu.R) Presi dent Eisenhower Saturday offer ed Russia a four-point "hand of friendship" peace plan in turn ing down a Red offer of a 20 year U. S.-Russian pact. In friendly but unmistakable language, the president said Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulgan in's treaty proposal "might in deed work against the cause of peace." Bulganin advanced his pro posal in a letter delivered to Mr- Eisenhower Wednesday. v Mr. Eisenhower told Bulganin that the Soviet premier's treaty proposal might create "the il lusion that a stroke of a pen had achieved a result which in fact can be obtained onlv bv a change of spirit." While avoiding accerjtance of Buganin's plan, Mr. Eisenhower said a "vast change would be ef fected not only in our relations but throughout the entire world" if there were: Unify Germany 1. "Prompt measures to reuni fy Germany in freedom within the framework of security . . ." 2. Carried through "our war time pledge to respect the right of peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live ..." . 3. Mutual opening of Russia and the United States to inspec tion so that the possibilities "of surprise attack would vanish" and release of oroductive nower for betterment of mankind "if reductions ' of armament were maae practical." 4. Free exchange of news, in formation, visits and ideas be tween the two countries would clear up "the mountain of dis trust and misunderstanding" be tween the two. Bulganin in his long letter to the president proposed that the two powers sign a "treatv of friend ship and cooperation" which would last for at least 20 years after it came into force. .Buiganin s proposed four-article treaty would pledge both sides to develop friendly relations on the basis of equal rights, mutual respect for state sovereientv. and non-interference in intern al affairs." Mr. Eisenhower Deseed the heart of his reply delivered to the Kremlin today on the fact that such a treaty was really not necessary because both nations had undertaken such principles in the United Nations charter. Mr. Eisenhower wrote 'Riilsan- in that the present 'state of inter national tension, however, was not prevented by the words of the UN charter. "How can we hope that the present situation would be cur ed merely by repeating those Eisenhower asked. 'I wonder if again going through a treaty-making proce dure, and this time on a bilater al basis only, might indeed work against the cause of peace by creating the illusion that a stroke of a pen had achieved a result which in fact can be ob tained only by a change of spir it.' ." "Friendly collaboration be tween states depends not solely upon treaty promises but upon the spirit that animates the gov ernments of the states concern-- ed and upon actual perfor mance." , Hand of Frienship After statins this nation's con viction that American-Soviet re lations must be "urgently" im proved the president said: "This nation holds out the hand of friendship to all who would grasp it in sincerity. I have often said, and I now re peat, that there ( is nothing I would . not do to promote peace with justice for the world. But we know that it is deeds . and not words alone which count." The White House said that this country's allies "know of the tone" of the corresondence between Bulganin and the pres ident, i ; Mr. Eisenhowers' reply came only.three days after Bulganin' letter was delivered personally to the president by Soviet Am bassador Georgi N. Zarubin at an extraordinary White House meeting. .
