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Newspaper Page Texto McKay Tells W e Inferior Secretary Again By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington If President Ei senhower wants him, Douglas McKay is willing to spend another four years as secretary of the Interior. That's assuming the American people want the President to serve another term in the White House and McKay is confident they will. Candidacy Brushed Aside The ex-Governor of Oregon had expressed a personal desire in recent months to retire to pri vate life. Last month, when Gov. Paul Patterson died, McKay brushed aside all pleas that he consider running in Patterson's place as a candidate for the U.S. Senate against Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.). , But in the wake of Eisen hower's decision to stand for re election, McKay said this week, "I've got no plans. If the Presi dent wants me to stay, I'll stay." The secretary said that assum ing the President is reelected, he jatends to submit his resig nation just in case Eisenhower wants to make a change. "Maybe a few new faces in the cabinet wouldn't be a bad idea," said McKay jokingly. "Anything he wants me to do is alright with me." As for the President's decision, McKay said, "I think it is won derful." He said he thought Eisenhower would win, after "a dirty campaign," but that Re Registrar's Failure To Pass 24 White Voter Applicants Rapped Minden, La. (U.R) A woman registrar disclosed today that her compliance with white Citizens Council demands for strict en forcement of voter qualification laws has flunked 24 white appli cants. Mrs. Winnice P. Clement, 56-year-old widow, said the two dozen white applicants for vote Three Sentenced In Circuit Court David Daniel Henderson, 42, Portland, received a three-year suspended sentence in circuit court today on a charge of at tempting to obtain narcotic drugs unlawfully. Henderson returned to Med ford on his own recognizance, according to District Attorney Walter Nunley. Robert Lee Smith, 37, of 308 Chestnut st., was sentenced yesterday to oneQ year, six months in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty last month to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. q He was arrested by Central Point police. The case involv ed checks. Leland B. Peters, 26, Prine- ville, was given a year's sus pended sentence on a non-support charge. The case of D. J. Stoke, 34, 330 North Holly st., who pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses involving checks, was continued for a probation offic er report. Portland Meatcutters Vote To Go on Strike Portland (U.R) The meat s' cutters union in Portland has votad to go on strike at inde pendent and chain meat markets March 16. Amos R. Buck, secretary-treas-. urer of the union, said members voted "by more than 20 to 1" to go on strike unles a settlement is reached before March 16. Water-Flow Forecasts Hit Record Highs Above average precipitation last month pushed all water flow foreasts in southwestern and southcentral Oregon to new record highs, according to the March 1 forecast of the Medford weather bureau. For the fourth consecutive month, precipitation was well above average. During Decem ber, January and February, southwestern Oregon had twice the average amount for the per iod. South central Oregon, for the same period, had 2V to 3 times the average. February precipitation in Weather FORECAST: Considerable clou diness with a chance of a few scattered light showers to night. Patches of valley fog early Friday morning. Partly clou'dv during day. Low to night"32. High Friday 50. Temp. ILighest Yesterday - 41 Kwest this Morning 35 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace illingness To publicans should run scared. McKay said he thought Eisen hower at the head of the ticket would have a decidedly favor able affect upon the prospects of Republican candidates this fall. McKay's own willingness to continue in office is expected to quell speculation that had been going the rounds that if he step ped out he would be succeeded by Washington Gov. Arthur B Langlie, or Idaho's ex-Gov. Len Jordan or Undersecretary Clar ence A. Davis of Nebraska. As for his own campaign ef forts, McKay said he is at the DOUGLAS McKAY Willing if Wanied registration were unable to in terpret the U. S. Constitution as required by state law. The rise in Negro voting pow er to some 2,000, against 12, 000 white voters in Webster Parish (county) recently made Mrs. Clement the target of pro tests by pro-segregation Citizens Councils. Mrs. Clement said she had pre viously followed the custom of passing all seemingly literate ap plicants without test. .. "But now that I'm enforcing I the law maybe they'll be satis fied," she said. Louisiana's voting laws, like those of other states which once tried to secede from the Union, are based upon a historical de termination to prevent Negroes from voting. Mrs. Clement, registrar since 1940, said that since the custom was to register whites without tests she permitted Negroes to register similarly. The Citizens Councils bom barded Gov. Robert Kennon with protests about Mrs. Clem ent. The Webster Parish Police Jury (administrative body) sent Kennon a resolution asking that she be "investigated." When the registration books were reopened on Feb. 23, she Timber Bid Opening Postponed by Snow Opening of bids on 2,600,000 board feet of timber in the Wil low creek area in the Rogue River National forest has been postponed until April 23, forest service officials announced to day. Bids were scheduled to be opened at the forest service of fice here at 2 p.m., Monday, March 12. The forest service said the bid opening was postponed because unusually heavy snow has pre vented prospective purchasers from looking over the timber. The sale will be readvertised, they said. in SW Oregon southwestern Oregon was 200 per cent, and in the south cen tral area, 160 per cent of normal. 200 Per Cent Forecasts of water-year flow in the Klamath, Williamson, Sprague and Chewaucan basins are near 200 per cent of the 1938-1952 average, the weatheT bureau reported. Key water-year and residual flow forecasts, as of March 1, are: Umpqua below Lake Creek, 425,000 acre feet, (142 per cent); and Rogue below South Fork, 2,060,000 acre feet, (197 per cent). In the Klamath area, Upper Klamath Lake net inflow, 2,360,- 000 acre feet, (193 per cent); Wil liamson below Sprague river, 1,410,000 acre feet, (197 per cent); Sprague near Chiloquin, 827,000 acre feet, (195 per cent); and Chewaucan near Paisley, 220,000 acre feet (202 per cent). 1 3 . $ - y , A service of his party. . "If they ak me, sure I'll cam paign," he explained. "But I'm not going to volunteer. I'm con troversial too, so we'll let the local people decide what's best for the party." 'I think it (Eisenhower's deci sion) will make Wayne Morse sick," declared McKay ' when asked what affect it would have upon Oregon contests. "The issue is going to be, 'Do you like Eisenhower or do you like Wayne Morse? You can't like them both, because nobody has been a worse critic of the President than Morse'," McKay went on. To Duck Oregon Primary McKay said he planned to stay strictly out of the Oregon primary this spring, rather than take sides for GOP candidates seeking the nomination for gov ernor or senator. He recalled that in the 1954 primary both Earl Newbry and the late Gov. Patterson were "mad at me" when they were campaigning against one an other for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. McKay that year went into Oregon for. one major speech on the administration's power policy, which Newbry had criticized in his campaign. While this displeased the Newbry forces, McKay's un willingness' to campaign directly for Patterson made the late gov ernor unhappy with him, he said. said, she adopted a policy of strict compliance with the law, which meant asking each appli cant to interpret a section of the U.S. Constitution. "They want the Negroes to interpret the Constitution," she said. "That's all right and it's the law. But if the Negroes have to do it so do the white people. That's only being fair." She said the two dozen white men and women who have ap plied since then failed the test. She said there have been only two Negro applicants and she incidentally funked both of them, but for other reasons. SP Discontinuance Hearing Postponed The public utilities commis sioner's hearing on discontinu ance of Southern Pacific's pas senger service to this area,' or iginally scheduled for March 15 has been postponed to April 26, it was reported .today. State Sen. Philip B. Lowry, one of three -legislators who have protested the end of SP passenger service between Eu gene and Ashland, said the PUC office delayed the hearing which will be held in the federal court room of the Post . Office buil ding. Lowry said there will be three phases to the hearings, first the presentation of testi mony by members of the public and groups having an interest; second a 1 technical review of rates, schedules and allied mat ters, and third, a rebuttal period for both the SP and those op posing the end of passenger ser vice. - Senator Lowry this morning asked the board of directors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce to be represented at the hearing, and representation is being sought from other or ganizations. Lowry said he is anxious to learn of public opin ion on the matter. .The one daily passenger train operated here by the SP was discontinued last year. The ac tion was followed by a number of protests and legal matters which have culminated in the public hearings to be held in April. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: industrials 492.36 up 1.10; 20 rails 164.24 up 0.93; 15 utilities 66.73 up 0.01; and 65 stocks 174.87 up 0.50. Sales today were about 2,500,000 shares compared with 2,380,000 yesterday. Road Conditions Highway 99, Siskiyous Spots of ice, no new snow. Highway 99, north Open, pavement bare. - Highway 66, Green Springs Packed snow, sanded; traffic moving without chains; trace of new snow. Highway 62, Prospect Pave ment bare, no new snow. California highways High way 99, carrying chains ad vised; Highway 97, spots c-f ice. Pressure Mounts ForMoreFirm Mid-East Policy Paper Says Move Would Bring Respect London U.R) Pressure mounted today against Prime Minister Anthony Eden for Brit ain to assert itself in the Middle East as one means of preventing an Arab-Jewish war. If Britain did assert itself, the Daily Mail commented, "it would surprise not only her enemies but would startle her friends into treating us with a little more respect." Press comment, even by pro Conservative newspapers like the Daily Mail, was increasingly critical of Eden's apparent in decision and his dependence on the United States for guidance. Eden won a vote of confi dence in the House of Commons Wednesday night on his Mideast policy, but he was greeted by a storm of jeering from the Labor ite opposition and repeated cries of "resign!" Outburst Recalled Munich The outburst against Eden was one of the noisiest and most hostile against a prime minister since Neville Chamberlain came under attack for his Munich agreements more than 16 years ago. The vote on 'the censure measure was a straight party line victory, 312 to 252, with the 40 or more "Suez rebels" in the Conservative Party supporting Eden as promised, i Eden took his strongest stand against Egypt and said, "If the Egyptians ' want friendly rela tions with the Western powers, these can be got, but not at any price." , Baghdad Pact Upheld He reaffirmed his belief in the Baghdad Pact and declared that Britain would stand by her obligations in the Middle East and "pursue them, whatever the consequences, until the end of the road." Eden also declared Britain would uphold the 1950 declara tion by Britain, France and the United States guaranteeing the Arab-Israeli armistice despite "all its possible ominous con sequences for the people of this country.""" - - - - - w-.j-,.-.-- . - But - when pressed by Con servatives and Laborites alike to set forth a firm new Middle East policy Eden , would only say: "To attempt to do so now with such information as we have would not only be prema ture but probably dangerous to our own interests and rather more, perhaps, to those 6f Jor dan." Mercy Flights Pilot Drops Food To Group Grants Pass '(U.R) An air drop of food was made today to six persons stranded by heavy snow at a coal mine in Del Norte county, Calif., 32 miles south west of O'Brien, Ore. Stranded at the Azalea Coal Mine without communication with the outside world since Feb. 13 were Walter Freeman, Grants Pass, operator of the coal mill at the mine; Mr. and Mrs. James Perry, Seaside, mine own ers, and three miners, Lou Live ly, "Pop" Miller and Larry Lee. all of Cave Junction. Last word from them was brought out Feb. 13 by Lee's wife who said they were all right then. A plane from Mercy Flights of Medford took off at 12:45 p.m. today to drop 150 pounds of food to the stranded party. Pilot ing the plane was George Milli gan of Medford. Accompanying him were Orville Looper, Cave Junction, a Forest Service smoke jumper, and Dean Axtell, Grants Pass. Johns-Mansville Buys Klamath Tract Portland (U.R) The Bureau of Indian Affairs today announc ed that Johns-Manville Corpora ti6n had purchased 131 acres of allotted land on the Klamath Indian reservation to assure ac cess to its proposed hardboard plant. The tract was purchased for $25,000 from Nicholas Rossi, a Klamath Indian who had bought the trust allotment several years ago. Sale was arranged through the Bureau of Indian Affairs office here. Johns-Manville representatives have said they would manufac ture hardboard from lodgepole pine, the species which has proved of no commercial value in the psst but which covers mil lions of acres in the Klamath basin. Portland U.R) City Com missioner Ormond R. Bean has withdrawn as a candidate for mayor of Portland. Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year, 26 Pages Flexible Price ! Supports Expected To Be Continued Senate Leaders See Necessary Votes Washington (U.R) Sen ate leaders indicated today that the administration forces ap parently have the votes to con tinue flexible farm price sup ports in the showdown vote scheduled this afternoon. Republican Leader William F. Knowland flatly predicted that "rigid price supports will be eliminated" from the farm bill. Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson wouldn't dispute the claim that the flexible support forces would win by a few votes. Earlier today, only a few hours before the scheduled start of the big farm vote, the admin istration made a major move to muster additional support for continuing flexible farm sup ports. It formally offered to support cotton prices this year at about 86 or 87 per cent of parity. Secretary of Agriculture Ez ra T. Benson made the offer in a letter to Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.). Aiken made the letter public a few hours before the Senate was scheduled to start voting on' the farm bill. Benson also said he would be willing i to forego a scheduled cut in cotton acreage next year if Congress votes for ' continu ance of the'adrnihistration-back-ed flexible .- supports ranging from 75 to 90- per cent of parity. The pending Democratic farm bill calls for restoring rigid price supports at 90 per cent of parity on basic farm crops. It also "would provide for the administration- backed $1,100, 000,000 soil bank. Aiken said the administration also " ' will hot "oppose a move to increase the ." allotted "corn acreage from about 43,000,000 acres to about 56,000,000 acres if flexible price . supports are continued. Aiken, leader of ad ministration farm forces in the Senate, said he will support the proposal of corn belt senators for incrceased acreage. Ralph James Files For Nomination as Commissioner Here Ralph A. James, route 2, Gold Hill, filed his candidacy today for the Democratic nomination for county commissioner. He is the only Democrat seeking the office, so far. - Republicans seeking nomina tion are the incumbent, L. G. (Shy) Morthland,- and Melvin J. Lattie. Mr. and Mrs. James have lived in the Sams Valley district more than 15 years. He helped organ ize the first soil conservation dis trict in the county; is chairman of the Sams Valley Beagle land owners committee holding oil leases for drilling and explora tion work, and has been active in Grange and other community or ganizations. . i '. A candidate for commissioner in 1954, James said his interest is in "substantial construction, with monies spent wisely." His was one of two names sub mitted to the county court for ap pointment to fill the office of the late Ralph Sweeney. He was school clerk in the county for several years and had nine years office experience before com ing to Oregon. He is a member of the Gospel church. RALPH JAMES Seek Commisuoner Post MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1956 DISCUSS WAR POSSIBILITY Arabia's King Saud (center) and Syria's President! Shukry El Kuwatly (right) meet with Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser (left) at Koubah Palace in Cairo for strategy conference that could determine whether there is ' to be peace or war in the Middle East. A series of clashes involving Israeli have height- enec was possibilities. Pakistan Receives Formal Protection By SEATO Nations Karachi, Pakistan (U.R) The Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza tion today gave Pakistan formal protection against Afghanistan's Soviet-backed claims to part of Pakistan's northern border ter ritory. The decision was announced in the official conference com munique which wound up three days of meetings of SEATO's Council of Ministers. Dulles Tells U S Plans ,..Lj.The.i communique -was . issued shortly after Secretary of State Jtfhn Foster Dulles told the con ference that a strong strategic striking force was the basis of America's new Asian defense plans. The communique covered a number of points which ranged from military preparedness to economic improvement of mem ber nations as deterrents to possi ble aggression. The council said it hoped the use of force would continue to be avoided in settlement of in ternational disputes. But it added that it recognized the necessity of creating and maintaining powerful deterrents against ag gression. Philosophy Summed Up In essence, the communique summed up the philosophy of the SEATO treaty group this way: "While convinced of the neces sity of adequate defense pro grams and cooperation to pre serve national independence and cultural traditions of their coun tries, they are equally deter mined to press forward with na tional and international programs to raise the standards of living in the treaty area."' Funds Said Released For Tillamook Project Washington (U.R) Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.), said to day the budget bureau had re leased $200,000 for work on Tillamook bay and bar project in Oregon. He said this cleared the way for Army engineers to start on the project. ". 18 Candidates In Primary; Filing Deadline A total of 18 Jackson county ! residents are candidates for nom ination for county and state of fices in the May 18 primary elec tion. Filing deadline for- candi dates is 5 p.m. tomorrow. Candidates who, .'have an nounced thus far include: State representative Incum bents E. H. Mann and E. A. Littrell, Republicans; and Rob ert Duncan and Robert Boyer, Democrats. Commissioner Candidates County commissioner In cumbent L. G. (Shy) Morthland, Melvin Lattie, Republicans; and Ralph A. James, Democrat. Assessor Allen D. Curry, Re publican; Ray J. Schumacher and Andrew Hawver, Demo crats. Treasurer Mrs. Anna Scott, Republican; Karl Janouch, Dem ocrat. ' District attorney Incumbent Walter . Nunley, and . George Rode, Republicans; and Thomas fi$raTMBUNE Arab 'Big Three' Adopt Combative Attitude on West Cairo (U.R) The Arab "big three" Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia adopted a more combat ive attitude toward the Western powers today. The heads of state of the three nations met to study possible of fensive action ' to . be taken against countries that provide Israel with: weapons and .Jewish recruits.. Xl;''' .. France especially came under fire because of reports, that na- Fluoride Hearing Slated in Ashland Ashland' The- Ashland city council this, week called a public hearing on the question of add ing fluorides to the city water supply. It ... will be Tuesday, March 20, at 8 p.m. The action was taken after a discussion by councilmen of the advantages of fluoridation of municipal, water, and of public debate and controversy which have arisen in some places where it has been proposed. -. The council was asked by a committee of ten Ashland doc tors and dentists to add fluorides to the water as a public health measure. In a letter to the coun cil they said: "Numerous studies have dem onstrated a large decrease in the amount of dental decay associ ated with the presence of fluor ide occurring naturally in drink ing water. Additional studies hav,e demonstrated .that similar benefits are provided when flu orides are added to fluoride-deficient . water supplies. These studies provide convincing evi dence of the safety, and health benefits of this procedure."' They added that most medical, dental and public ..health agen cies are on record approving the proposal. Listed for Nomination J. Reeder, Democrat. Surveyor Incumbent Paul Rynning, Republican. Non-partisan offices Incum bent ' Rawles Moore, district court judge; and. Incumbent Alf B. Mekvold, county school sup erintendent. Voters Registered . ' The election department has reported that as of : March 1, some 24,988 . county residents were registered voters. Of tl;e total, some 13,903 were regis tered' as Republicans, 10,568 as Democrats, and 517 miscellan eous and independent. Mrs. Helen . Thomas, voter's service chairman for the League of Women's voters, noted that there were 36,067 registered voters in the last general elec tion, which leaves more than 11,000 unregistered voters. She urged potential voters to register as soon as possible. The deadline for registering for the May -18 primary it April IT. United Press Full Leased Wir Price 5c No. 299 tion was about to sell 12 Mystery jet fighter planes to the Israeli air force.. Relations between the Arab world and France recent ly had improved because of France's more responsive policy toward North African independ ence and French criticism of the Baghdad Pact. Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser .pi EgyptEresident-Shukrba.- Kuwatly of Syria and King Saud of Saudi Arabia also de cided to invite King Hussein of Jordan' to a broadened Arab state meeting. Other nations may be invited later to form a unified Arab front. The three leaders met for three hours last night with their foreign ministers to discuss their hardened attitude toward nations supplying Israel and adjourned until today. A spokesman said they studied effective measures to support Jordan against any foreign pres sure or aggression. It was under stood this included the question of supplying Jordan with finan cial aid to replace the British $25,200,000 annual subsidy. Would Be Aggression The Arab nations in a meeting yesterday decided that any Israeli diversion of the River Jordan would constitute aggres sion and bring immediate retalia tion. All three nations are bound together in mutual defense pacts. Israel has been reported plan ning to divert the water of the Jordan river for irrigation and land reclamation projects. Heltzel Orders Express Rate Tariffs Suspended - Salem (U.R) Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Helt zel today ordered suspension of tariffs filed by the railway ex press agency to increase Oregon intrastate rates by seven per cent.i Tomorrow Residents, she pointed out, must register if they have not voted in one election in the past two years, if the person has moved within the precinct or to another precinct; if a person desires a change of party, or if a person's name has been changed through marriage. Voters must be 21 years old, citizens of the United States, and must have lived in Oregon six months preceding the elec tion. In order to vote in the May 18 primary, voters must be reg istered either as a Republican or Democrat. In the general elec tion next November, registered voters may cast ballots for any candidate in any party, Mrs. Thomas pointed out, and need not be registered in the major parties. Potential voters may register at the elections department in the courthouse or at one of 37 sites - throughout the county designated for segistefkig.