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O . ' Y " g9 " ; 1 House Commiilee Approves Treasury, Other Money Bills First In Series For Agency Appropriations Washington (U.R) The House Appropriation Committee today approved a $3,618,699,000 money bill to run the Treasury, Post Of fice and Tax Court in the 12 months starting July 1. The Democratic controlled committee ground out the first of a series of appropriations for the agencies involved and with out substantial reductions. Presidennt Eisenhower - had asked for $3,649,872,000 for the three agencies. The cut, as rec ommended by the appropriations group, was only $31,173,000. The committee in the past frequently has made, or at least claimed, much bigger savings. The post office department gets che bulk of the money, $2,- .9,73,900.000 as against $3,000,' 000,000 sought by Mr. Eisenhow er, a reduction of $26,000,000 in thp red, and said postal rates should be raised to make up the loss. ... 'Jpme action must be taken to get postal rates more appro priate to the costs of the service,' the group said in its report to the House. It described present rates as "woefully inadequate; . ": The committee failed to sug gest where the proposed rate boosts should be applied. Presi dent Eisenhower has said first class rates, among others, should be increased. His request has been cold-shouldered by Con gress. . ' The committee delivered some of the few mild rebukes in its - report to the Internal Revenue Service, which will get $305,' 000,000 or almost half of the treasury's total. Members expressed "g rave concern" at recent cases in which boxer Joe Louis and others have turned up with big tax payments long overdue. Louis, the committee was told, owes thegovernment $1,000,000. The Narcotics Bureau; part of treasury, got $3,250,000 every cent it requested and $155,000 more than this year. This will provide.15 extra agents. . " . Lincoln Dinner Dale Unchanged Following the example of oth er Lincoln day clubs in -the state, Mrs. Frank Bash, chair man of Jackson County Repub lican Central committee, said yesterday that the local Lincoln day observance would be held as scheduled on Feb. 7. Ex-Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado will be speaker at the dinner to be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Jackson hotel. "Governor Thornton feels that Governor Patterson would have wished us to carry , on so the Oregon schedule remains un changed by the tragedy," Mrs. Marshall E. Cornett, Republican National committeewoman for Oregon wired Mrs. Bash today. During his stay in this area Thornton will be a . luncheon guest of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce and will make a television appearance. He will meet local newspaper represen tatives at a "'meet the press" session at the Jackson hotel Tuesday at 4 p.m. ( Tickets for the dinner are now., on sale at Frake and Smith, 315 East Main st. They may be re-! served by telephoning 2-4564. - ::t - . i Y Washington U.R) Max O'Rell Truitt,' 52, son-in-law of "Tsen. .Albert W. Barkley, died her e' yesterday following a stroke. Santa Fe Submits Report On Engineer's Los Angeles (U.R) The Santa Fe Railway will submit a re port today to a coroner's in quest which, the company said substantiates the claim by an engineer that his "blackout" caused a train wreck which killed 30 persons. The inquest was scheduled to hear testimony from 32 wit nesses into the tfan. 22 .wreck, the worst rail tragedy in . Cali fornia history. The .two-car commuter train overturned on a curve while traveling 70 miles per hour. Engineer Frank Parrish, 61, has accepted full responsibility for the crash. He said he blacked out at the throttle, causing the train to pick up speed instead of slowing down to the required 15 mph Jfor the curve. Fireman Homer Smith, 42, however, blamed a mechanical failure for the wreck. He said Parrish applied emergency brakes which failed to work. .... The railway - announced last United Press Full Leased 50th Year Ask Appeals Court To Set Aside FPC Ord er On Two Dams Washington (U.R) Three groups said today they will ask the U. S. Court of Appeals Mori' day to set aside a Federal Power Commission order which approv ed the Idaho Power Co. s revised plans for two Hells Canyon dams. ' .. - Attorneys for the groups had announced they would file the petition today but at the last Wheal Growers Ask Quick Adoption Of Domestic Parity : Portland (U.R) The nation's wheat growers today called for immediate adoption of the do mestic parity support plan de spite Secretary of 'Agriculture Ezra T. Benson's request that they delay action on the proposal at least Until next year.' The National Wheat Growers Association adopted, the resolu tion of its program committee without major change at the closing session of the group's sixth annual convention here. Two-Priae System ' . The plan calls for a two-price support system, one on domestic wheat, and one on export wheat. Benson yesterday" asked the wheat growers to hold off on pushing for congressional ap proval of the domestic parity plan until 1957 and, instead, work for passage of President Eisenhower's, nine -point farm program at this session of Con gress. . . The wheatmen, however, made the domestic parity recommen dation after declaring ,that pro grams "operated" under present legislation must be unqualifiedly rejected on ground they aggra vated instead ; of alleviate the farmers' problems of declining prices and incomes,". ' The wheat growers also urged that the effective date of mod ernized parity be, postponed un til such a time" as a new formula can be developed "more accur ately to reflect the-quality of the wheat growers' purchasing power." '. DOW-JONES AVERAGES . New York Uj.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 447.74, up 4.04; 20 rail roads 159.22, up 0.75; 15 utilities 64.67, up 0.32, and 65 stocks 169.55, up 1.16. Sales today were abouf2,110,000 shares compared with 1,900,000 yesterday. Radio Highlights An address by Adlai Sle venson. Democratic presiden tial candidate, will be broad cast over radio station KMED from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Feb. 4. 'Blackout' night its investigation had dis closed that Parrish was capable of "blacking out" and that the brakes were "in perfect working order." Santa Fe said doctors had made an electro-encephalo-graph examination of Parrish which "reflected a condition in dicating he. was capable of 'blacking out' as he stated after the accident." . ; The railway said Parrish's condition "could not be deter mined in advance in the course of the regular company physical examination.'' Meanwhile, five children who were orphaned by the deaths of their parents, William Albert Fenn, 50; and his wife, Marcia, 36, of San Diego, Calif., filed suit for $1,000,000 damages against Santa Fe. Parrish and Smith also were named as defendants in the suit, which charged the railway "neg ligently; entrusted" operation of the train to them. Wire 22 Pages' minute postponed the action un til Monday. Signing the petition were the National Hells Canyon ' Associa tion, the public utility districts ot tne state of Washington, and the National Rural Electric Co operative. The petition charged that the Nov. 3 order is defective because it was issued without giving the groups opportunity for a hear ing, inis constitutes denial of due process," the petition stated. Ou Aug. 4, 1955, the FPC is sued a license to Idaho Power to go ahead with its proposed Brownlee Oxbow and low Hells Canyon power projects on the Snake river between Idaho and Oregon. The company's revised plans were then approved by the Nov. 3 order. FPC Powerless The public power groups said the order did not become effec tive until a week after an appeal had been filed on the basic licens ing plan. Therefore, they con tended,, the FPC was nowerless to take any action to implement tne licensing order. The later order approving the revised plans ""could not and did not be come effective," ; the groups charged. Y A grant of the petition would strip Idaho Power of authority to proceed with its Hells Canyon prejects. The ' public " power' groups said they have opposed Idaho Power s plans from the beginning. Hells Canyon is the deeDest gorge on the continent and one of the outstanding dam sites in the Columbia .'river ; basin. Whether the government or pri vate interests should develop power there has been a heated controversial issue for more than 15 years. Bill Introduced For Wafer Plan Washington (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.)yes-terday introduced a bill "to authorize the 20,000-acre Crook ed river, irrigation project in central Oregon. The $6,339,000 project to be partly financed with excess pow er revenues from The Dalles dam would consist of a dam and storage reservoir near Prine ville, diversion dam and canal below the reservoir; and pump ing plants, canals and other facilities. ' Financing the project party from revenues from the sale of power over and above, the amounts needed to amortize the power investment at The. Dalles dam, Neuberger said, ."under scores a major advantage of federal river development.". He said "only through the federal program for the multiple purpose use of water is if pos sible to apply the benefits of power production to expansion of farming opportunities. Boundary Location To Be Considered Salem (U.R) Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton today said he will confer in Portland tomorrow with Idaho's attorney general, Graydon W. Smith, on legal problems concerning loca tion of the Snake river boundary between the two states. Thornton said he was particu larly interested in the boundary near the proposed Hells Canyon, Brownlee and Oxbow dam sites. "I am also checking to deter mine if the rights of the state of Oregon have been violated by the Idaho Power Company in allegedly commencing construc tion of those dam projects before receiving a license to do so from the Oregon Hydro-electric Com mission," Thornton said.-: Idaho Power already has a Federal Power Commission li cense for the dams and has an nounced start of construction at the Brownlee and Oxbow sites. S r-i iiiSi t-; sJ MEDFORD, OREG' Amended Budget For National Park Sent To Congress $381,500 Improvement Program Scheduled, . President Eisenhower is send ing .to congress a $381,500 im provement program for Crater Lake National park, according to word received here today from Congressman Harris . Ellsworth. - The program is included in an amendment to the National Park Service budget. : . Biggest item in the program calls for $220,000 for new em ployee housing and utilities at park headquarters. Other items are $88,800 for construction of roads, trails and walks within the park; and $72,700 for im provement of camp ground fa cilities at Annie Springs. Y . New Trail Crater. Lake National Park Supervisor Thomas Williams said today he 'believes the proposed appropriations would be used to start a preliminary expansion program outlined by the local park service. The expansion would include start of a new employee housing project, construction of a : new camp ground at Annie Springs about one quarter mils from the present camp site, and construc tion if a new, safer and wider trail from the rim down to the lake. . Under this program, the. $220, 000 would be used to begin con struction of a new all-weather residential- area at park head-J quarters, Williams said. " . He pointed out that present quarters for about 30 employee families were ' designed for summer . use only and that the development of the .park requires resident crews to remain there all winter. The plans call for copstruction of one four family dwelling unit designed for cold weather and easy, economical maintenance, and for extension of water, elec tric and sewage facilities, he said. Above Snow Level ' Living quarters in the new unit would be on the second floor in order , to be above, the snow level, which averages more than seven feet deep for eight months of the year. Car garages, heating plants and a utility room would be on the first floor. The dwelling will cost an estimated $115,000. Extension of: utilities would cost about $28,000, Wil liams said. The new camp ground at Annie Springs will be located at the old CCC. camp, where there was a -temporary camp last summer, Williams said. It will contain parking space, ta bles, fireplaces, restrooms and space for .tents and trailer houses. Construction of a new camp is necessary,' Williams pointed out, because road realignment last summer encroached on the present "camp site, reducing its facilities by about 50 per cent. Roads and trails . around the new camp will cost about $25,000.. Roads leading to the proposed housing development will cost an estimated $13,800 and the ' remainder of the $88,800 designated for roads and trails might be used to construct a new trail from the rim to the surface of the lake, Williams said. , ' " ' Y The new trail would be about 1 miles long and cost around $50,000. It v would be on an easier grade and wide enough so people" could travel up or down it side by side, instead of single file. Williams pointed out that the cost of construction was due to the steepness of the terrain, the rock formation, and the necessity of screening the trail behind vegetation so that it will not mar the landscape. It was believed by Williams that the proposed appropriation may be part of the National Park Service Mission 66. Mission 66 is a program designed to bring the national parks of the nation up to accepted standards by 1956, the 50th anniversary of the park service.- Williams pointed out that while visitors to national parks have more . than doubled since before World War II, there have been few increases in appropria tions for park expansion and maintenance.. 5 a SRUARY 3, 1956 " mf i u n k . - in v m m mm m i m w . a m u k a c -irA-iasr, .,v3w y YYYtssi ROLLING OUT OF HANGAR, giant C-133A turboprop cargo plane is presented to public for first time at Douglas Long Beach plant. Carrying twice the payload of largest military transports. Air Force expects it to set new performance standards. (International) ain Funeral Held or Paul Patterson Salem U.R) Oregonians were in mourning today orfi cially and unofficially for the late Gov. Paul L. Patterson whose plain funeral service was held in the House of Representa tives here at 2 p.m. Flags flew at half staff state wide and all. city, county and state offices were closed in re spect to the late governor. Pub lie schools, too, ' were closed along with many . private schools. ' ' . ;,pU.though Gov. Elmo Smith, RV Hospital Drive Collects $801,767; Three Days Remain A balance of $48,233 still must be raised by . Monday night in order to assure construction . of the Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital official campaign head quarters announced today. Total contributions pledged to the hospital fund drive amount ed to $801,767. this morning.; Campaign Ends A dinner to end the campaign will be held Monday evening at the Elks club, and it is hoped that by that, time . the, total of $850,000 being sought will be in hand or pledged. - . If it is, this will 'assure com pletion of the $2,000,000 struc ture, which will be constructed at the corner of Barhett road and Murphy lane. More than 200 workers have been soliciting funds for. the hospital for the past month. Y . In addition to funds; subscrib ed, the hospital will, be built with some $563,000 of federal funds and more than $600,000 which has already been ' given by several major donors. Subscriptions Only; ' It was pointed out ly cam paign headquarters this morn ing that workers are only solicit ing subscriptions and that no money should be paid until no tice is received from the hospi tal treasurer. If anyone solicits cash for the hospital, they are not regular campaign workers. Subscribers since yesterday for . memorials or memberships include Mt. Pitt Rebekah lodge number 167;' Prospect Lions club: Medford KiwanianDames; Westside Home Extension unit; McLoughlin and Hedrick Junior high school student bodies; and Roosevelt, Lincoln, . Jefferson, Jackson and Washington ele mentary school student bodies. Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital Will Be Built With Your Help. If you have, not been -visited by one of the 220 volunteer workers and you wish to make a pledge to the community Me morial Hospital, sign this blank and mail it or phone Campaign Headquarters. A worker will visit you. . V ' , Name Street or R.F.D- City Mail Request' Headquarters, 28 So. Bartlerr, Medford, or Phone 3-4579 Price 5c who took office Tuesday just 12 hours after Patterson's death in Portland, had not intended that city and county offices should close, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton ruled late yester- All city, slate and county - offices in Medford were closed - today in observance of a day of mourning for the late Gov- " ern'or Paul L. Patterson. All schools in the . county were closed." Early informa tion yesterday indicated that 7schoolwould'.i nof : clos&, but as the' day was proclaimed a legal holiday by - Gov. Elmo Smith, the attorney general ruled that 4hey would have to close.' " . In closing, city and county offices followed the example of other communities through out the state. day that they . must not stay open on a legal holiday. Labor, leaders said organized labor was not generally affected by the holiday.. Rev. Julian Keiser, pastor of the Salem First Congregational church,, officiated at the Salem funeral service. Six long -time friends carried Patterson' flag draped casket. There was an honor guard from the Hillsboro American Legion post. Honorary pallbearers includ ed justices of the State Supreme court, other state officials,' ex governors of Oregon and gover nors of other states. ; Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, Serfi Wayne Morse and Reps. Edith Green and Walter Norblad of Oregon attended the service. ' Bernard KM go re To Speak At Conference Eugene ' (U.R) The Univer sity of Oregon School of, Journal ism said today that Bernard Kil gore, president of the Wall Street Journal, would deliver the 10th annual Eric.W. Allen memorial lecture here Feb. 18.' v The lecture is part of the 37th annual Oregon Press Conference to be. held Feb.. 17-18.. Speaker at the dinner' meeting Feb. 17 will be Mrs, Charlotte Paul. Gro shell, copublisher with her hus band of the Snoqualmie, Wash., Valley Record. She is also author of the book, "Minding Our Own Business." - ' . " Washington U.R) The UDited States today banned American travel - to Communist Hungary except with special permission of the U. S. government. Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital Campaign United Press Full Leased Wire No. 270 Senator Offered $2,500 For Vote Against Gas Bill -' Washington (U.R) Sen.. Fran cis Case (R-S.D.), charged today that an attorney offered $2500 for his reelection campaign in the belief that he was going to vote for passage, of the natural gas bill, v Case said in a Senate speech that he would vote against the bill. He did not name the attorney in his prepared text, but he said he had determined '. .that : the lawyer : was . "interested in pas- sage.,of the . pending ..bilUi- - ;. Case said ' the overwhelming sentiment of the mail from his state favored passage of the bill and he had thought earlier' that he would, vote for it.' ' Y . But, he said, "the creation of a class in this country who can seek to affect the choice of many states' representation in the Con gress is a. far greater danger "to the, country than a temporary shortage of gas." " Case said he had a telephone call, about a week ago from, a friend in South Dakota who" re lated that a caller had left . an envelope - with him containing $2500 in $100 bills as a contribu tion for Case's campaign. Senate debate on the contro versial natural gas bill reached a temporary lull today while backstage lobbies on both sides attempted to sway uncommitted senators for Monday's crucial vote. - : ' - : . - ; Senators have been - talking about the bill to exempt natural gas producers from direct fed eral regulation for 14 days. - Eugene U.R) Fletcher C. England, 72," of Walker, south of Cottage Grove, was shot and killed yesterday afternoon when a shotgun in the hands of a a friend accidentally discharged. Weather F.ORECAST: Variable high cloudiness through Saturday. Slowly rising temperatures. Low tonight 26. High Satur day SS. - . Temp. Highest Yesterday .....;. 50 Lowest this Morning 25 - Norway Believes Russian Violations Near ing End Aaslund. Norway (U.R) For eign Minister Halvard M. Lange called in .Ambassador. S. M. Ar kadyev today at Oslo, to protest repeated Russian violations of Norway's four-mile limit. The Norwegian navy has seized 16 Soviet fishing boats and about 1,000 crewmen in the past four days. - - " . " In a statement issued after the meeting, Lange did not say specifically that Russia has prom ised to respect Norway's rights, but he did say he has "reason to hope"' Soviet fish poaching is at an end. . Nearly 100 Russian fishing ves sels were lying sof Aalesund to day, just outside the four-mile limit,, but there was no imme-j diate indication that they intend to try any new raids. Police here continued then? questioning of the captured cap tains, trying to determine just how many fish their boats caught , Bulganin's Letter Calls For 20-Year Friendship Treaty Similar Pacts Offered Great Britain, France Washington U.R) The Unit ed States, Britain and" France will reject Russia's latest plea for separate 20-year friendship pacts with the three allies, dip lomats predicted today... This was the quick and offi- " cial reaction to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's second ap peal, made in a new 3,000-word letter to. President Eisenhower, for a non-aggression pact with this country. Buuganin told the President Russia was willing to sign similar pact with Britain and France.' Mr. Eisenhower, Secretarv of ' State John Foster Dulles and other Allied leaders will confer on the Bulganin proposal before the American reply is sent to Moscow. But there was every as surance the answer would be a polite "no," patterned after Mr. Eisenhower's previous rejection of the Soviet idea Jan. 28. ' Allies Act Together Diplomats said Britain anrl France would follow the U.S. lead. Diplomats recalled that Eden and other western leaders hailed Mr. Eisenhower's earlier rejec tion ot a friendship pact with Russia. The President said then such a pact, in effect, already . exists m the United Nations charter. He called on Russia to prove its friendship by deeds by agreeing to the reunification of Germany, adopting his "open skies pre - disarmament plan, taking steps to free Soviet satel lites and removine the Iron : Curtain. Russft's offer to sign pacts . with Britain and France was something of a surprise. Moscow " only last year broke non-aggression pacts with the two nations, , charging they had joined "ag-, gressive blocs" in bringing are-. armed Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty system. New Propaganda, Move ' U.S. officials! concluded that Bulganin's latest message was' another propaganda move. They complained about its "familiar, cold war ring" despite some friendly words. Y " - Y Bulganin told Mr. Eisenhower a U.S.-Russian pact "between the two strongest powers in the world would contribute enor- ' mously to a healthier interna tional situation." Then he mentioned the offer to sign similar pacts with Brit ain and France and threw in the oft-rejected proposal for a 26-nation pact between NATO nations . and the Communist members of the Warsaw defense organization. Bulganin also had something to say about , the soecific deeds of friendship urged on them by Mr. Eisenhower, in his earlier letter. But officials said the re plies were "negative." Tentative Site Set For Air Force Base Salem U.R) The Air Force has tentatively selected a site near Woodburn for relocation of its jet interceptor base now at , the Portland airport, the State Board of Aeronautics reported today. However, Aeronautics Direc tor Earl Snyder cautioned that the Air Force was only tenta tively interested in the Wood burn site and might make final decision on another location, later. The site under consideration is seven miles west of Wood burn and two miles northeast of Grand Island. It is near the Wil lamette river and close to Fair field. before they . were herded into harbor here by naval patrol craft. . '- The long-drawn-out question ing exhausted all the interpreters available here, and reinforce ments were sent in from Oslo 1 Thursday. The Russians are understand ably reluctant to give any infor mation about their catch, which will be a factor in determining the size of the fines to be as sessed against their boats. Another consideration will be the resistance which forced pa trol boats to open fire in some cases to force the captured ves sels into port. No casualties were reported on either side. ' The captives are scheduled' to appear in court Saturday, and a speedy conviction is expected. If the Russians pay up immedi ately, or if the embassy in Oslo posts bail, they probably will be released in a day or two. .
