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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 . $
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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
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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.
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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.