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Border Dispute
With Afghanistan
Aired at'Meeting
Dulles Outlines
American Policy
Karachi, Pakistan (U.R)
The United States and six other
SEATO nations gave full moral
support today to Pakistan in its
border dispute with Soviet-backed
Afghanistan.
.Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles, attending the South
east Asia Treaty Organization
conference, made what was be
lieved to be America's first ma
jor policy statement on the Pakistan-Afghan
issue. There was
no committment to back the
stand with" military support.
Dulles announced the U. S.
position in the border dispute
after Pakistan Finance 'Minis
ter Syed Amjad Ali told SEATO
delegates that the Soviets may
attempt to use Afghans t6 start
a war with Pakistan in the
same manner that Chinese Com
munists used North Koreans
against the Republic of Korea.
Failure in Korea
Ali pointed to American "fail
ure" to draw a defense line in
Korea prior to 1950. He said
failure to act in Pakistan now
might lead to "something like
what nappened in the Far East."
Dulles followed Ali's speech
with what was believed to be
America's first major policy
statement on the Pakistan's west
frontier province. The Pathans
want to form an independent
Qstate and are backed by Afghan
istan. "The United States has never
douSted that the sovereignty of
Pakistan extends to the Durand
line . . . We regarded this as
the international frontier at the
time we recognized Pakistan in
1947," Dulles said.
India Drew Line
"The United States regards it
as appropriate to make it quite
clear $iat the SEATO treaty
area as defined in articles four
and eight of the treaty includes,
so far as Pakistan is concern
ed, terri1ry up to the Durand
line."
The Durand line was drawn
by India in 1893 when Afghan
istan tried fo push its borders
into sparsely settled Indian ter
ritory The line at that time de
finecrthe authority of the Emir
of Afghanistan on his eastern
and southern borders.
Representatives of Australia,
Britain, Thailand, New Zea
land, France ant)the Philippines
immediately added their en
dorsement to Dulles' statements
School Districts
Approve Bond Issues
Residents in two school dis
tricts yesterday approved bond
issues totaling $150,000 to fi
nance new construction pro
jects. Voters in Lone Pine district
approved a $90,000 bond issue
for construction of six new
classrooms, a teachers' work
room, rest rooms, boiler room,
storage space and a covered out
door passageway. The vote was
81 in favor, and 54 against.
Residents of Howard school
district approved a $60,000 bond
issue for construction of two
new classrooms, lavatories, and
a combined band and general
purpose room. The vote was
116 in favor and 59 against. One
blank ballot was cast for a to
tal of 176 votes.
$1,400 Worth of Rings Are
Taken From Jewelry Store
Six county schools were brok
en into last night, a Medford
jewe&y store was burglarized
of rings valued at $1,400, and
burglars attempted to break
into the Jacksonville museum.
A plate glass window at
Schade's Jewelry, 9 South Cen
traP ave., was broken between
4 and 6:10 a.m. today and wed
ding and engagement rings with
a retail value of about $1,400
were taken from a display, ac
cording to city police. .
Broken with Hatchet
The window was broken with
a hatcnet in a paper sack, po
lice said. The hatchet was found
near the window.
The theft was discovered by
Ralph Emerson Bo wen, a jan
itor at the Fluhrer building,
when he brought trash out for
garbage collectors this morning.
A police officer made a routine
check on the building at 4 a.m.
Vandals broke into Applegate
school, Crater High school in
Central Point, and Oak Grove
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WALTER NUNLEY
Seeks Reelection
District Attorney
Announces He Will
Seek Reelection
Walter D. Nunley, Jackson
county district attorney, will be
a candidate for reelection, it was
announced today by a committee
of supporters.
Nunley, 36, is completing his
first term in office, which he
took over in January, 1953. He
is a Republican.
Nunley is the third candidate
to announce his intention to run.
George Rode and Tom Reeder,
both Medf ord attorneys, have an
nounced their candidacies, Rode
as a Republican, Reeder as a
Democrat.
In Private Practice
Nunley and his wife and three
children live on Pioneer rd.
southwest of Phoenix. He was
in private law practice for about
two years before being elected
in 1952.
Nunley's statement of candi
dacy said, in part:
"If I am nominated and elect
ed, I will during my term of of
fice continue to employ the ser
vices of the staff who are quali
fied by training, experience and
interest to perform the duties of
the office. I will continue to
perform those duties placed upon
me by law and conscience fairly,
objectively, without malice or
favor. I will continue the office
as a public service office, not as
a private enterprise."
A nStive of Ohio, he took his
early schooling in West Virginia,
later serving in the U. S. Air
Corps' during World War II, serv
ing 4VS years of which more
than three were in the South
Pacific theater.
Attended Marshall College
Later , he attended Marshall
college at Huntington, W. Va.,
and Montana State university
in Missoula, where he studied
forestry and law, graduating in
1949. He is a member of the
Bar associations of Montana and
Oregon, and has been in Medford
since 1950.
He and his family belong to
the Zion Lutheran " church.
The committee making the an
nouncement included John Del
lenback, George Flanagan, and
Al Bradford, all Medford; Dan
Krotz II, Shady Cove; Everett
Faber, Central" Point; Fred M.
Bruegger, Eagle Point, and Dr.
Glenn M. Revel, Ashland.
Murphy, Ruch, and Jacksonville
high school, but the full extent
of damage was not known to
day, according to sheriff's of
fice reports.
Attempt to Enter
bheriff s deputies, who are
investigating the entries, said
someone attempted to enter the
Jacksonville museum by break
ing a lock on an iron door, but
did not succeed in entering the
bu'lding.
Three doors were torn off the
Applegate school and desks
were ransacked. A small am
ount of change was missing
from the Crater high school,
Central Point, after entry was
made by removing two doors
and forcing another.
Not more than $1 was taken
from Oak Grove school, depu
ties said, and no vandalism was
reported. Officers were investi
gating the Ruch school burglary
today, and Josephine county of
ficers are checking the Murphy
school entry.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MARCH 7, 1956
Switch by Norblad
Stirs Candidates;
ke Petition Filed
Salem (U.R) Rep. Walter
Norblad's surprise switch in
abandoning his candidacy for
governor and filing instead for
reelection as congressman from
the first district, had candidates
of both parties reexamining their
positions today.
In a brief note to Secretary of
State Earl T. Newbry, Norblad
said:
"This is to notify you that it
is necessary that' I withdraw my
candidacy for the Republican
nomination for governor of the
state of Oregon as I am filing
for representative in congress
from the first Oregon district."
Opponent Critical
Announcement of Norblad's
change of plans brought a charge
from Jason Lee, Salem Demo
crat and himself a candidate for
his party's nomination for Con
gress, that Norblad was a "re
luctant candidate for Congress."
Lee said: The machine pres
sures that have been brought to
bear on him to change his filing
violate the true spirit of democ
racy." Howard Morgan, state Demo
cratic chairrhan, said Norblad
"was driven out ignominiously
by the Arlington Club group
whose control on the Republican
party grows tighter and tougher
every day."
Wyatt Replies
Wendell Wyatt, state GOP
chairman, replied' to Morgan by
saying "there is no bossism in
the Republican party as claimed
by Howard Morgan." He added
"Mr. Morgan reveals a guilty
conscience in accusing Republi
cans of doing what he and Mon
roe Sweetland put over last
year forcing Sen. Morse to
accept dictation from , Demo
cratic party leaders."
Norblad himself explained he
changed his mind at the request
of legislative and executive of
ficials in Washington.
Action on Amendment
To Charter
Action on a proposed charter!
amendment, to make possible
the formation of sanitary and
storm sewer assessment districts
inside the city, was continued
until Tuesday. March 13. bv the
Medford city council last night.
The proposal would allow the
cost of sanitary and storm sewer
installations to be financed with
in the district benefited. If
adopted by the council, the
amendment will be presented for
a vote of the people at a special
election Mav 1 8 th came rlato
as the primary election.
Special Consideration
City Attornev Frank Farrell
stated that in view of the im
portance of the amendment, he
felt the 'council should give it
special consideration rather than
acting on it last night. He pointed
out that a special election would
be necessary because the citv
has no primary ballot.
The regular council meetine
last night was held in conjunc
tion with a council composed of
Medford High school students
participating in Student Govern
ment Day. Students at the reg
ular meeting read ordinances
and reports and were questioned
concerning problems considered
for. action.
Hearing Dates Set
April 3 was set as the date for
two public hearings, on zone
changes, one from commercial
to light industrial of property on
Boardman st., and from single
family to multiple family for
Christian Science church prop
erty in Siskiyou Heights exten
sion. The council accepted for con
sideration a petition signed by
12 property owners on Barnett
rd. asking for drainage control
in the Barnett rd.-Ellendale dr.
area. The petition stated that an
irrigation ditch in the area floods
during heavy rains and causes
extensive property damage.
An ordinance was passed
adopting a change of zone from
single family to single and two
family of five blocks in the
Laurelhurst addition following a
public hearing on the change.
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Petitions placing the name of
President Eisenhower on Ore
gon's May primary ballot were
filed in Salem today.
The petitions, containing about
5000 signatures, were handed to
Dave O'Hara, elections chief,
by Paul Kerrigan, chairman of
the Eisenhower - for - President
committee. Looking on were
Gov. Elmo Smith, State Treasur
er Sig Unander, GOP National
Committeeman Jess Gard and
other Republican officials.
In Most of Counties
The petitions were circulated
in most of the state's 36 coun
ties. Kerrigan said other names
were in the process of being col
lected and would be mailed to
President Eisenhower next
week. '
Leaders of a move to place
Adlai Stevenson's name on the
ballot said that only a request
by Stevenson himself would pre
vent filing of petitions Friday to
put his name on the Democratic
side of the presidential primary.
Neither Stevenson nor Sen.
Estes Kefauver has yet declared
intention to campaign for the
Oregon spring ballot contest.
Adlai's Decision Due
James Finnegan, Stevenson's
campaign manager, said in Chi
cago today he expects a decision
by tomorrow on whether he will
enter the Oregon primary. He
said he would confer with Ste
venson about the primary on
Stevenson's return from a Min
nesota campaign trip late-today:
Finnegan said some difficulties
as to timing were being encoun
tered since the Oregon primary
comes between primaries in
Florida and California.
Republican Sig Unander said
he would be a candidate for re
election as state treasurer, end
ing .any speculation that he
might seek another post such
as the U.S. Senate.
Continued
Bank Protection - V
City Manager Robert Duff re
ported that word has been re
ceived from the Army corps of
engineers that they would pro
vide aid for bank protection
work on Bear creek designed to
protect the city's Camp White
trunk sewer line. A portion of
the line was washed out during
December floods.
Duff was authorized to make
an extra expenditure of $721 for
filling and draining the site of
the East Side Fire station. He
said that an unstable soil condi
tion had been found on the site,
making the work necessary.
The council also established
a special fund for Laurelhurst
water main construction and ap
proved a request of Pacific Tel
ephone and Telegraph company
to locate a fuel oil storage tank
in an alley.
Road Conditions
Highway 99, north One
way traffic two miles south
of Wolf Creek because of
slide; some icy spots on Sex
ton and Canyon mts.
Highway 99, Siskiyous
Spots of ice, no new snow."
Highway 6B, Green Springs
Packed snow, plows operat
ing; carrying chains advised..
Highway 62, Prospect
Spots of ice, no new snow.
Highway 199 Chains re
quired from Patrick's Creek to
Oregon state line.
California Highways open
icy spots between Weed and
state line; carrying chains ad
vised. Weather
FORECAST: Cloudy with oc
casional light rain or rain and
snow mixed in valleys, snow in
mountains tonight. Showers or
snow flurries and periods of
partial clearing Thursday. Low
tonight 32-35. High. Thursday
48-50.
TEMPERATURE
Highest Yesterday 40
lowest This Morning 26
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ALLEN CURRY
Seeks Assessor's Office
Curry Seeks GOP .
Nomination for
County Assessor
Allen D. Curry, 505 Benson
st., filed his candidacy yesterday
for the Republican nomination
as county assessor. . '
Curry is the first Republican
to file for 'nomination to the
office. Democrats Ray Schumach
er and Andrew Hawver are oth
er candidates. The office is now
held by Robert G. Fowler who
has announced he will not seek
reelection.
"I feel well qualified for the
office," Curry said, "having been
deputy assessor in Kansas before
coming to Medford in 1926."
Employed by City
He was employed by the city
of Medford in the, treasurer and
recorder's office in 1928 and
worked continuously for the city
until his retirement March 1,
1955 at the age of 66. In 1938 he
was transferred to the water de
partment where Ke served as of
fice manager and accountant un
til his retirement.
He was a deputy in the tax de
partment of the county sheriff's
office for IVz years.
Curry is the father of five chil
dren. His wife died in 1939.
"If I am elected as assessor,"
Curry said, "I will endeavor to
uphold the integrity of the of
fice and administer justice to
all."
Advisory Group
Approves Site
Representatives of the Jack
son county juvenile advisory
committee this morning approv
ed the county court's selection
of a two-acre site on the county
fairgrounds for construction of
the county juvenile detention
home.
Attorney James McGoodwin,
Juvenile Officer Mrs. Kay Cro
well, and Joseph Spangler,
western district consultant for
the National Probation and Par
ole association, discussed the
home this morning with the
county court.
They examined plans for be
ginning construction, and dis
cussed possibilities of including
juvenile department offices now
housed in the courthouse.
Spangler said he will soon
make available to the county a
study on design and construc
tion, of detention homes com
piled by the NPPA.
Judge Rodney Keating said
construction will begin as soon
as possible. Voters approved
$65,000 'ior the home in the
1954 general election.
Lew Wallace Plans
To Seek Governorship
Portland (U,R) Lew Wal
lace, twice-defeated Democratic
nominee for governor, said to
day he would try again because
"I want to be governor and
know I can render a great ser
vice to the state."
The Portland insurance man
discounted his earlier defeats.
He said they were suffered at
a time when Oregon was pre
dominately Republican. "Times
and registration have changed,"
he said. '
He added, "Now, when the
Democrats are going to win, I
feel I am entitled to lead the
party again."
Jordan Kingdom
Wavering Between
Rival Alliances
Friendship Toward
Britain Said True
Jerusalem (U.R) The tiny
Arab kingdom of Jordan waver
ed today between two rival Mid
dle East alliances competing for
its allegiance as heightened
Arab-Israel border tension kept i
the Middle East on the edge of I
war. I
King Hussein of Jordan told
the United Press in an interview
his friendship toward Great
Britain remained true despite
the dismissal of British Lt. Gen.
John Glubb Pasha as head of
the Arab Legion. And his chief
adviser said the neighboring
Arab states did not influence
the decision.
But in Cairo, the heads of
state of Egypt, Saudi Arabia
and Syria continued their own
"summit" conference called at
first to plot war strategy but
amended to seek ways and
means of winning Jofdan away
from all British influence.
Britain still hopea to bring
Jordan into the Baghdad pact
with the help of American in
fluence but the three Arab na
tions meeting in Cairo were pre
pared to more than match the
$20 to $25,000,000 Britain has
poured into Jordan annually
for many years.
The tension was reflected in
the Western capitals. In Lon
don, Prime Minister Anthony
Eden went before the House of
Commons to explain Britain's
position in light of the Glubb
dismissal. In Washington Con
gress was concerned at reports
France was5 sending jet planes
to Israel. ,
Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles, British Foreign Sec
retary Selwyn Lloyd and
French Foreign Minister An
toine Pineau were reported con
ferring in Karachi, Pakistan.
Charges and counter-charges
by Israel and its Arab neighbors
filled the air and both sides
:hastened to .put their viewpoint
-before the UN Security "Council
in New York.
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
Alf B. Mekvold, Jackson county
school superintendent, filed his
candidacy late' yesterday for, re
election to the . non-partisan of
fice to which he was appointed
in May, 1951. Mekvold was pre
viously superintendent of schools
at Rogue River. His wife, Hazel,
teaches at Roosevelt school, and
their son, Gordon, is a student at
Oregon Technical institute,
Klamath Falls.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York !U.R) Dow - Jones
final stock averages: 30 ' indus
trials 491.26, off . 0.15: . 20 rail
roads 163.31, off 0.79; 15 utilities
66.72, up 0.08, and ' 65 stocks
174.37, off 0.24. Sales today were
about 2,380,000 shares compared
with 2,770,000 yesterday.
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Federal Committee Reviews
Copco Cloud
Five members of a federal ad
visory committee making a na
tionwide investigation of artifi
cial weather control possibilities
recently reviewed California
Oregon Power company cloud
seeding operations in this area.
Copco has engaged North
American Weather consultants,
who are now in the fifth year of
experiments attempting to in
crease the snow pack on the
west slope of the Cascade moun
tains. Members of the federal fact
finding board spent two days in
the Medford area studying
weather conditions and attempts
mao!e to control' weather.
Use Ground Burners
Weather consultants use nine
ground burners producing mi
nute silver iodide crystals,
which are carried up into cloud
formations toy wind currents
j where they cause water droplets
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ROBERT BOYER .
Representative Candidate
Boyer Announces
House Candidacy
On Demo Ballot
Robert A. Boyer, chairman of
the Jackson county Democratic
Central committee, today an
nounced he is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the
state house of representatives
from Jackson county.
Two Democrats and two Re
publicans have now announced
they will be candidates. Robert
B. Duncan yesterday announced
his candidacy for the Democrat
ic nomination. The incumbent
Republican representatives, E.
H. Mann and E. A. Littrell, both
will be candidates.
Born in Idaho
Boyer was born in Idaho in
1929. He moved to Medford in
1936 and attended public schools
here'. He studied pre-law at
Southern Oregon college in Ash
land and is a graduate of the
University of Oregon school of
law. He is a practicing attorney
in Medford.
He is active as a member of
the Junior Chamber of Com
merce and a member of the
YMCA board of directors. He is
a member of the executive com
mittee of the state Democratic
Central Committee as well as
chairman of the local committee.
Boyer entered the Army as an
enlisted man with the infantry
in 1945. He was commissioned as
an officer and served with the
military government in Korea
for two years.
He is married to the former
Miss Marjorie Ann Messenger of
Ashland. They have one child,
Sharon Marie, age four months.
Lions Club Endorses
Water Fluoridaton
: Fluoridation of the municip
al water supply was unanimous
ly endorsed by the Crater Lions
club yesterday. The action re
affirms approval of the measure
made two ' years ago by the
club.
' Dr. June Byers and Dn. Mal
colm Byers discussed fluorida
tion and presented a picture on
fluoridation provided by the
United States Public Health ser
vice and distributed by the Ore
gon Public Health service.
Dr. June Byers pointed out
that "fluoridation of municipal
water supplies is ' urged by
every single substantial medi
cal, dental and public health
organization in the United
States.'" '
She noted -'that fluoridated
water is tasteless, colorless, and
odorless, and that the estimat
ed cost in Medford would be
about 4 cents per capita per
year or 13 cents per family.
Washington (U.R) - Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson
has called for bipartisan efforts
to solve the farm problem lest
American agriculture "be sacri
ficed on the altar of partisan
politics."
Seeding Here
to form, producing rain or snow.
Cloud seeding is done only
when wind is blowing toward
the east side of the valley and
when rain or snow would not
fall naturally in large quantities.
The burner nearest Medford
is on Coker Butte rd., about 1V6
miles east of the city.' Seeding
becomes effective about seven
or eight miles from the genera
tors. Others ' are located at
Steamboat, on the North Ump
qua river, at Tiller, Trail, Ash
land and at Rocky Point on Up
per Klamath lake.
The - crystals are produced
when silver iodide is dissolved
in acetone and burned, using
propane gas to pressurize it. The
temperature must be 21 de
grees or colder in order for the
crystals to react in the clouds
and there must be wind cur
rents present to . carry them
aloft.
News Conference
Statement Seen
As Green Light
Vice-President
Declines Comment
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower said today he has
asked Richard M. Nixon to "tell
me what he would like to do"
about running for vice-president
again.
Mr. Eisenhower told his news
conference he was "not going to
be pushed into corners" and an
swer a question "right now, at
this moment" as to whether he
will be content to have Nixon
as a running mate again if tb
vice-president wants to remain
on the ticket.
But the President added:
"I do say this. I have no criti
cism of Vice-President Nixon to
make, either as a man, an asso
ciate or as my' running mate cm
the ticket."
Respects Nixon
And he angrily vowed that "if
anyone ever has the effrontery to
come in and urge me to dump
somebody that I respect as I do
Vice-President Nixon, there will
be more commotion around my
office than you have noticed
yet."
Republicans interpreted the
President's remarks to mean that
Nixon can have the nomination
again if he wants it. Sen. Barry
Goldwater (R-Ariz.), a Nixon
backer, said "I'm happy because
he apparently is backing Nixon
for vice-president." Sen. H. Alex
ander Smith (R-N.J.) said the
President's statement "indicates
that Mr. Nixon would be a most
acceptable nominee."
Republican National Chairman
Leonard Hall has said all along
that it will be an Eisenhower
Nixon ticket again. Nixon him
self declined to comment today
on his future.
Nixon Must Decide
Mr. Eisenhower said he has
not "presumed to tell the vice
president what he should do with
his own future."
"I have told him this: I believe
he should be or e of the comers
in the Republican party. He is
young, vigorous, healthy, and
certainly deeply informed -on
the processes of our government.
And so far as I know, he is deep
ly dedicated to the same princi
ples of government that I am."
Other highlights of Mr. Eisen
hower's news conference:
1. He regarded as favorable
the immediate reaction of Soviet
Premier Nikolai Bulganin to his
March 1 proposal for an eventual
ban on production of nuclear
weapons. He sad this country, in
its relations with Russia, should
be alert to follow up any open
ing that looks like it might lead
to lessening of international ten
sions. 2. He said he believes the
United Nations should take ur
gent and early "action on the
tense situation in the Middle
East, with Israel and the Arab
world agreeing to abide by U.N.'
armistice terms.
3. He disclosed that Bulganin
at the Geneva summit meeting
last July- discussed one or two
moves Russia was making in the
Middle East. He added that Bul
ganin in effect described these
moves as purely commerciaL
4. A,s for the present day pros
pects of peace or war, he said he
believes the world has awakened
to the fact that global war is get
ting well nigh unthinkable and
that he believes the uneasy peace
or cold war is going to take a dif
ferent direction.
5. He agreed with Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson that
there has been too much empha
sis on this country's guided mis
sile program as far as public dis
cussion is concerned. But this,
he added, does not minimize the
dreadful importance of develop
ing a weapon that could be hurl
ed against an enemy. In this de
velopment, he said he feels that
pinpoint accuracy is more im
portant than distance.
ulletin
Rep. Harris Ellsworth said
today he has introduced a bill
which will authorize and di
rect a complete, comprehen
sive survey of the Rogue river
basin regarding flood control.
Ellsworth said the bill will
coordinate work of Army en
gineers, the bureau of reclam
ation and other agencies in
surveying the basin for flood
control, recreational develop
ment, hydroelectric power de
Telopment, and fish and game
conservation measures.
He pointed out that Army
engineers are now conducting
a survey of the basin under an
old authority, but that the au
thority is not broad enough. He
noted also that the bureau of
reclamation's survey author
ity is not broad enough.
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