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13 r for ! BRiTlSH R DEMAND 1 MIDD London-J.R) Rapidly mobi liziraj, rebels in Prime Minister Anthony Eden's own Conserva thlg) party today demanded a British crackdown in the Middle East and an end to "appease men' Eden took personal command of -British foreign policy in an effcrP to prevent threatening war in the Middle East and to quell the growing rebellion that confronted him with a possible serious political crisis. Even without trying to over throw his government, the reb els could apply pressure to force a toughening of the attitude to ward anti-British moves by Arab nations. And the demands came from a number of Conserva tives. Glubb Report Due The Prime Minister pla'nned to repor)to the House of Com mons this afternoon on the oust er of Lt. Gen. John Glubb from Jordan where-he built the Arab Legion. He also was to say what Britain intends to do about it. The same group of 40-odd Con servative members of Parlia ment who threatened to stop last year's Bmish retreat .from the Suez Canal Zone stormed into action todayoprotesting the Jordanian affront. Parliamentary sources said 'Urgent exchanges" were taking place between London and Washington over the Mid-East crisis, but Julian Amery, anoth i er of the rebels, said that Anglo American consultation was no substitute for policy. . Bond Issue Planned At Howard School Patrons of the Howard school district will vote tomorrow on a $60,000 bond issue to con struct new rooms at the school, according to Superintendent Howard Boner. Voters of the district have all been notified of the election by mail, he said. The voting poll will be open from 2 to 8 p.m. Plans call for the construc tion of two new classrooms, lavatories, and a combined band and general-purpose room, Boner said. He pointed out that the school added two new classrooms last year without the necessity of is suing bonds to pay for them, but that the growth of the district has made the bonding for the new rooms a necessity. The school has grown 300 per cent in the eight years since 1948, Btner pointed out, going from five rooms at that time to a proposed 16 rooms by next year. More than 00 students now attend the Howard school. PatrcSs of Lone Pine school (3) distric also will vote tomorrow, between 2 and 8 p.m., on a bond issue for the construction of six new classrooms, a teach erssjwork room, rest rooms, boiler room, storage space and covered outdoor passageway. The proposala calls for issu ing 590,000 in bonds for the destruction. Medford Plays Beaverton In Firsf Tourney Game Medford high school's basket ball gteam, representatives of district six in the A-l state tour nament at Eugene next week, will play Beaverton in its first game at 3 p.m. March 14, it was announced today. Winner of the district six A-2 playoff, to' be decided Wednes day night between Crater and Coquille, will play its first game against the winner of the Molalla tournament at 3:45 pjn. (larch 12. Dulles Arrives Of Conference Karachi, Pakistan (U.R) Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles arrived here today for an eight-nation conference called to shore up the free world's fight against the new Communist of fensive in Southeast Asia. He immediately plunged into a round of talks with U. S. and Far Eastern officials in prepara tion for the three-day Southeast Asia Treaty Organization confer ence which starts tomorrow. Lloyd, Pineau Due SEATO representatives of Pakistan, Australia, New Zea land, Thailand and the Philip pines already were here." British Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau were expected to arrive a few hours LS ACTION LE EAST "Britain should be prepared to act for herself and give a lead to her allies," he said. Eden ordered a fleet of trans port airplanes, to Cyprus to air lift as many as 2000 British paratroopers to any trouble spot and to evacuate British and American civilians from Jordan if necessary. He faced an angry Parliament with members critical of the ab sence of both Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd and U.S. Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles in Karachi, Pakistan, at an SEATO meeting at a time of emergency. Sir Robert Boothby, a mem ber of Eden's own Conservative party, cited Lloyd's absence from Britain as one of the "les sons to be learned" from Glubb's dismissal. "It is a mistake for Foreign Secretaries to spend half of their time cavorting all over the world," Boothby said. "The proper place for Mr. Selwyn Lloyd and this goes also for Mr. Dulles is at his desk." Rhee Turns Down Parly Nomination For Third Term . Seoul, Korea (U.R) Aging President Syngman Rhee unex pectedly turned down his party's nomination for a third term today and then hedged on the decision when his support ers begged him to accept it. The 80-year-old Rhee sent his rejection to the Liberal Party convention only a few hours af ter it had endorsed his nomin ation unanimously. "I have decided not to run this year," he said. Refuses To Believe The party refused to believe it and immediately sent a 50 man delegation to the presiden tial mansion 4o persuade Rhee to change his mind. He told them to go out and "collect public opinion" on the choice of a candidate. "I would like to retire and have some other more energet ic and younger person than I take over the presidency," he told the party. No Successor If the decision is final it would throw the Republic of Korea's political scene into a turmoil. No figure of Rhee's sta ture' has risen' in either of the two major political parties. His message did not mention his choice of a successor. It did not even refer to National As sembly Speaker Lee Ki Poong 'whom the party has nominated for vice-president. The Liberal Party met this morning for a one-day session to nominate Rhee and choose his running mate. The delegates had intended to adjourn this afternoon, but the new party crisis was likely to extend the session. Road Conditions Highway 99, north Chains required north of Grants Pass. Highway 99, Siskiyous Chains required. Eight inches of new snow. Highway 62, Prospect Chains required. Eight inches of new snow. Highway 66, Green Springs C h a i n s required. Eight inches of new snow. Highway 227 Chains re quired on Tiller - Trail high way. Highway 199, Crescent City Chains required on Oregon mountain. in Pakistan for Start To Bolster Asia Defense after Dulles. In a statement at the airport after he landed, Dulles said SEATO "stands guard over the independence and safety of its members by pledging all to stand ready to help each other against aggression ... I am sure in this atmosphere freedom and great good will come." . Briefed by Envoy He drove directly to the resi dence of U. S. Ambassador Horace Hildreth for a quick briefing. Then, only two hours after he landed, he went into a conference with Pakistani .Gov. Gen. Iskander Mirza and Premier Chaudri Mohamad Ali on rela tions between the U. S. and Pakistan. Mirza was elected president Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 14 Pages sraeliD, Tension Increased As Anti-Baghdad States Wait Talks Syrian Gunners Kill Policemen Jerusalem (U.R) Israeli and Egyptian forces engaged in an hour and a half of gunfire near Kissufim along the Gaza Strip border in the latest flareup in the tension ridden Middle East today. Israeli sources said Egyptian forces opened fire on an Israeli patrol near Kissufim. They said the Israeli patrol returned the fire, with the exchange continu ing for about IVi hours. No casualties were reported. Plane Gun Target Earlier, an Egyptian 'military spokesman said that Egyptian anti-aircraft guns fired on an Israeli plane which 1 flew over the Gaza Strip this morning. Yesterday, Syrian gunners blasted an Israeli police boat on the Sea of Galilee and killed at least three policemen. The Syrians handed over the bodies of two of the policemen and the captured boat last night. The body of a third policeman was handed over today, the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced. A fourth policeman is still missing. Syrian President Greeted . Meanwhile, Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser warmly greeted Syrian President Shukry El Kuwatly when he arrived in Cairo this morning for an Arab conference of anti-Baghdad pact states. Well informed Arab sources said King Saud of Saudi Arabia would arrive in Cairo to morrow for sessions among the Egyptian - Syrian - Saudi Arabian heads of state in what amounts to a "council of war." New clashes between Israel and Syria increased the threat of war, and there were open pre dictions in London that Jordan's ouster of British, Lt. Gen. John Glubb made war "almost inevit able." Diplomats feared the firing of Glubb as head of Jordan would again ally itself with Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia against Israel. Demonstration Reported Demonstrations by anti-British Arab Legionnaires were report ed in Amman, the Jordan capi tal, and several persons were re ported injured as jubilant citi zens fired into the air to cele brate the reported removal of a fourth British officer. In the last retaliatory raid by Israel on Dec. 11, 56 Syrians and six Israelis were killed in an action that almost touched off open warfare and brought United Nations censure of Israel. Portland Motorists Find Higher Gas Prices - Portland 'U.R) Many Port land motorists found an added two-cents-per-gallon tacked on to their gas bills today as about 100 independent operator-owned sta tions and stations handling non advertised brands put a two-cent-per-gallon raise on their gasoline. The hike went into effect at mid night last night. A spokesman for the inde pendent stations said the move was an attempt to stabilize prices. of Pakistan today after "nomina tions closed at noon yesterday with no other names submitted. He will assume office March 23, the date Pakistan officially changes from a dominion to a republic in the British Common wealth. Principal Task Evident But it was evident that the principal task of the eight na tions would be to give high-level approval to measures to counter Communist Chinese claims that SEATO is a "paper tiger.". Philippines Vice - President Carlos Garcia gave weight to this on his arrival last night when he said the "ultimate" goal of SEATO should be a standing military force against Communism. perni MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1956 unfore DISCUSS COUNTY OFFICES Students from Jacksonville, Eagle Point, Crater and Phoenix discuss county offices in which they will work tomorrow as part of Student Gov ernment Day, which starts today. Jacksonville High school students are Gary Hueners, coun ty commissioner, and Jean Smith, chief depu Sfudenf Governrne nt Way Student Government Day got under way this afternoon. Students from city and county high schools, elected and appoint ed as officials for a day in city and county government, took the oath of office. Students registered at the Elks' temple basement, and were sworn in at 2 p.m. by County Clerk Bereth Hopkins and Med ford's Mayor Earl Miller. Day Proclaimed The mayor and county court issued proclamations today, of ficially naming March 6 as Student Government Day, when students will act in the place of the ' regularly elected and ap pointed officers. The program, sponsored by the Elks' club, has been adopted on a national basis as a project for other Elks' clubs. It coin cides with studies of local gov-, ernment in Medford high school ! and with a stury of county gov Adenauer Gains in Sunday's Election Stuttgart, Germany (U.R) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats emerged stronger tha never today from elections in the large state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. But the party's control of both the state government and the upper house (Bundesrat) of the federal government was threat ened by the possibility of an op position coalition. The Christian Democrats won 56 of the 120 seats in the state Parliament in yesterday's elec tion, six more than before. The Free Democrats took 21 and the Socialists 36, a loss of two for each. . . The voters gave the Commu nists a resounding defeat, taking away all four seats they held in the last Parliament. Two Business Buildings Destroyed in Drain Fire Drain, Ore. (U.R) A fire in Drain last night destroyed two business buildings the Wesley cafe and Thatcher's cleaning es tablishment. The Douglas coun ty sheriff's office described the loss at total. There was no esti mate of damage and cause of the blaze was not learned im mediately. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 491.68 up 2.84; 20 railroads 164.85, up 2.06; 15 ut ilities 66.71, up 0.81, and 65 stocks 174.91, up 1.53. Sales to day were about 3,090,000 shares compared with 2,860,000 Friday. mi Youngsters Hold ernment in high schools outside Medford in the Elk's jurisdiction. The Elks greeting committee, under the chairmanship of Ex Mayor Diamond Flynn, will greet students, parents, city and county officials and other guests at a "get-together" meeting prior to the annual banquet tonight. Banquet Slated A banquet at the Elks' temple will start ' at 6:30 p.m. today. State Sen. Phillip Lowry of Med- pr PAUL B. RYNNING . Candidate for Surveyor Rynning Announces Surveyor Candidacy County- Engineer Paul B. Ryn ning today filed for reelection to the office of county surveyor, a position he has held for over 31 years. He is seeking the Re publican nomination. The appointive post of en gineer has been held in the past by the elected surveyor, al though it was only this year that the county court reset the ap pointment to run concurrently with that of surveyor. Rynning, a graduate in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin, began work for Jackson county in January,'1925. At that time, the county had $200,000 outstanding road war rants and undertook most of the road work with horse teams,' a few T-Model Fords, and a vary ing number of crews. - The county road department now employs 140 men the year around. Rynning is to leave tomorrow for Pullman, Wsh., where he has been asked to participate in the seventh annual Road Builders' clinic March 7-9 at Washington State college. Imnrn i nr BCWiM. ii nfi i Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 296 wees loirdleir ty county clerk. Eagle Point students are Lois Farlow, girls 4-H agent, and Gary Foran, dis trict attorney. Crater students are Ron Harri son, county commissioner, and Irma Penwell, sanitarian. Students from Phoenix are Sandra Owens, district judge and Jim Korth, assessor. (Landis-Shangle photo) D a U n d e r Offices ford will be principal ; speaker. John Dellenbach will be master of ceremonies. Students were being conducted this ! afternoon on tours of the Medford fire department, police departments, court house, county shops, airport and the sewage treatment plant. " The elected student ' council men and mayor will conduct the Medford .city council meeting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. -. The proclamation by Mayor Miller, said, . in part, that SGD youth activity does a great deal toward educating our future citi zens in the field of local' govern ment and gives them a true pic ture arid an inside look at city officials on the job. . Reds Put Price Tag On American Captives Geneva (U.R) The latest Communist Chinese, blast at the United States apparently dashed any chances that all 13 Ameri cans still imprisoned behind the Bamboo- Curtain would be re leased this year, diplomatic sources said today. . The sources said the state ment issued yesterday by the Red China Foreign Ministry ap peared to put a definite price of a - foreign ministers conference between the ; two countries for the release of the 13. It did not specifically men tion the 13 civilian prisoners, but it said a Sino-American for eign ministers conference "must be held in order to realize the desire for a peaceful settlement of disputes between China and the United States without re sorting to force." - Talks between the United States and Communist Chinese ambassadors now are in their eighth month with no visible signs of progress. Safe Burglary Attempt Reported by Market An attempted safe burglary Saturday- night at the new Piggly Wiggly market on Stew art ave. as being investigated by sheriff's deputies today. The safe was moved out of the building through a door which was removed from its hinges, officers said. An officer on routine patrol about 9:30 p.m. found the safe on its side in a lot at the rear of the build ing. It had not been opened, po lice said. - . ' ' . A stamp vending machine in side the building had been broken but 55 cents . still re mained inside. Weather FORECAST: Partial clearing to night and Tuesday with snow showers becoming more wide ly scattered. Continued cool. . Low tonight 2(1-23. High Tues day 45-47. Highest yesterday .... 44 Lowest this morning 23 Prec. To 4:30 a.m. today 1 in. Record Snowfall Closes Schools, Snarls Traffic 23 Degree Cold Causes Icy Highways A record breaking March snowfall that blanketed Medford last night caused traffic to slow to a near standstill, at least five schools to close and power out ages. The more than six inches of snow coupled with 23 degree weather made this area the worst of Oregon's weather trouble spots today. Cars Stalled on Hill Traffic throughout western Oregon was in a snarl this morn ing with at least 20 cars stalled A snowfall of 6.1 inches since 4 p.m. Sunday was re ported by the weather bureau station here late this morn ing. The amount exceeded to tal for the entire month of March in any previous year on record. Previous heaviest snowfall for the month was 4.7 inches in 1951. A fall of 4.1 inches ihat same year was also the previous record for a 24-hour period in March. Greatest snow depth for the current storm was 6 inches at 4:30 a.m. today. Most of the snow fell between 4 p.m. yesterday and 4 a.m. today, the weather bureau reported. Snow showers are expect ed to become more widely scattered tonight and Tues day. Snow depth at Crater Lake National park this morning was 200 inches. The park had 23 inches of new snow. on Granite hill about six miles north of Grants Pass. Chains were required in all mountain passes - with eight inches of snow in mountain areas. - A 10 minute power outage in Medford Sunday evening was caused by snow loading the lines in the Prospect area, California Oregon Power company officials said today. Service was restored through other circuits. West Side, Lone Pine, Evans Valley, Rogue River and Apple gate schools were closed because of transportation difficulties, ac cording to the county school su perintendent's office. Temperatures Fall Last night's snowfall varied from a trace to Medford's heavy fall. Temperatures fell to a little below freezing at most places west of the Cascades in Oregon and Washington. It was 32 at Portland, 30 at Salem, and 29 at Eugene and Roseburg. The coldest spot in the northwest was Ellensburg with a low of 13 de grees. The weather bureau said the low pressure trough associated with Saturday's storm was still located along the Oregon coast but was beginning to move in land. Forecasters predicted that it would cause more snow flur ries over the state today and Tuesday with precipitation end ing west of the Cascades during the night. Another Pacific storm is now located in the eastern Aleutians but weathermen said it should not affect western Oregon weath er before tomorrow night or Wednesday. - Klamath'Falls (U.R) David Smith Troy, 55, manager of the Klamath Falls division of Weyer haeuser Timber Co., died here Saturday night of a heart attack. Farmers Union Strongly Opposes Oregon Safes Tax Salem U.R) The Oregon Farmers Union expressed em phatic opposition to adoption of a sales tax amendment in Ore gon in a statement today. "We are firmly committed to a policy of taxation based on the ability to pay," the group's statement declared. "It is quite true that the rap idly increasing cost of school taxation which falls in much too great a proportion upon real property has created a very se rious situation to farmers and home owners," the statement continued. "We are not, however, able to be convinced, or share the en thusiasm shown by some, that enactment of a general sales tax would be permanently used to Contribution Said To Hinge on Vote On Gas Measure Nothing Came of Offer, Group Told Washington (U.R) Oil lobby ist John M. Neff admitted today he had offered a campaign con tribution for Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper if the Iowa Repub lican was "in favor" of thtfcnat ural gas bill. Neff made the admission after Wendell T. Edson, Storm Lake, la., attorney, told a select com mittee Neff .offered to contribute $2500 for Hickenlooper's cam paign, or any other state GOP. fund, if Hickenlooper would vote for the natural gas bill. Neff, following Edson to the witness stand, confirmed the sub stance of Edson's testimony. But said he could not recall specifical ly that $2500 was mentioned. Neff is the Lexington, Neb., lobbyist-lawyer for Superior Oil Co. of California, who made the $2500 campaign contribution which Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) rejected during debate on the natural gas bill. Sought Correct Vote Previous testimony has indi cated that Neff made inquiries in five states, including Iowa, to determine the views of sena tors on the gas bill. But Edson's testimony was the first direct statement that Neff proposed to make a campaign contribution contingent on how a senator voted on the gas bill. Edson said nothing came of Neff's offer after he had told Neff that Hickenlooper would be"shocked" by any such ar rangement. Edson said Neff made the offer after he had told Neff he was a "casual acquaintance" of Hickenlooper. Hearings Ended Neff's testimony ended a se lect committee's nine days of public" hearings into whether an improper attempt was made to influence Case's vote on the nat ural gas bill. The committee now will prepare a report for the Sen ate on the incident, which has prompted a full scale investiga tion of lobbying activities. Neff, who had previously not told the committee about his offer to Edson, conceded $hat he had mentioned a campaign contribution in a conversation with Edson atStorm Lake Nov. 3. The conversation took place the same day that Neff had been in Sioux Falls, S.D., to in quire about Case's attitude on the natural gas bill. The Senate passed the bill but President Eisenhower ve- toed it because of what he de scribed as the "arrogant" lobby ing activities of a small segment of the oil-gas industry. Case voted against the bill, Hickenlooper for it. Goldwater Te.ils of Gift Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R Ariz.), said today he received a 1952 campaign contribution from a man named Keck who lived in Chicago. But he told reporters he did not know the contributor's first name or whether he was relat ed to California oilman How ard Keck. Nor did he knowhe amount of the contribution. Goldwater said newsmen seeking details of the contribu tion would have to go to the office of Arizona's secretary of state, and inspect official re ports on his 1952 campaign fi nances. Goldwater's statement stirred up considerable attention in view. of the fact that Goldwater is a member of the latest special Senate committee which will investigate lobbying and cam paign contributions. Goldwater was asked whether he believed the contribution might be grounds for disquali fying him as a member of the special committee to investigate lobbying and campaign contri butions. "Hell, no," he replied. lessen the burden on real prop erty." o The farmers group has been opposed to the sales tax through the years because they feel such a tax is not economically sound. . At the same time, the farmers union voiced their opposition to the 45 per cent surtax imposed by the 1955 legislature and low ered personal exemptions. The union said it favored elimina tion of the federal income tax deduction to the lowering of per sonal income tax exemptions. On school support funds, the group declared the Oregon Edu cation association and others seeking more school funds were not looking for property tax off sets, but rather for new and in creased sources of money.
