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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. -
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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
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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.
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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..
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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. .