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RE&CUE OPERATIONS Fireman at Sala
manaca, N. Y., ferries food to families ma
rooned by the rampaging Allegheny river.
More showers were forecast for the Ohio
McKay-HI
One Of H
Salem (U.P.) Interior Secre
tary Douglas McKay filed Fri
day for the Republican senat
orial nomination in the Oregon
May primary to try to unseat
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) in
the November general election.
The surprise move touched off
what possibly will become one
of the hottest senatorial contests
in the state's history. Morse has
been sharply critical of McKay's
policies in the Interior Depart
ment. Morse is a former Republican
and was a staunch supporter of
President Eisenhower early in
his campaign in 1952. However,
Morse became a severe critic of
the President and later changed
his registration to Democrat. He
was elected to the Senate in
1950 as a Republican.
Ike Lauds Action
In Washington, the White
House released a letter from
, -President Eisenhower commend"
irg McKay's decision to run.
The President said McKay
would add a "great deal" to
the administration's working
strength in the Senate. The let
ter was dated March 8.
McKay earlier released a
statement in Portland announc
ing hp would seek the uut"
senatorial nomination. He said
if ho were nominated he would
his cabinet post about
-Tiinp 1.
He said he still had a lot of
wt-k to finish up in Washing
inn.
WKen he arrived at the capitol
building McKay was greeted by
a crowd of old friends who ioi-
lowed him to the State Elections
-R,, where he entered his
formal filiijg.
Onnosilion jjeen
It atmeared McKay would
oDrjosition for the
nomination.
One nreviously announced
..QnHirlate Lamar Tooze. Port
land attorney and close friend
of McKay's, said he was with
drawing from the race. Three
others, however, still had given
no sien they would withdraw.
They are Phil Hitchcock of Port
land, a former state senator
Rimer Deetz. a Canby dairy
farmer and state legislator, and
George Altvater of Portland
political unknown.
MnTCav oredicted the cam-
aeainst Morse, should
MrKav win the nomination
would be "a tough one.
He said he would camgaign
"o any issue." But he said he
was not "familiar with some of
the issues.
He said he was running be
cause President Eisenhower
needed surmort in the Senate
for his administration.
Detroit (U.R) - A d la 1 E
Stevenson said last night the
conditions which President Eis
enhower set down for running
for president again sound more
like rules for governing
kingdom or a corporation" than
a democracy.
Sports Bulletins
(Class B Basketball
Championship)
Malin 0, Elgin 57
(Class B Tournament Third
Place)
Napa 78, Elgin 57. Pudgy
Hunt scored 43 points for
Napa to set a new Class B
single game record and a new
tournament record tor tnree
games with 96 points.
Oregon State 59, Oregon 49
UCLA 97. University of
Southern Cal 84.
Idaho 78, Wash. State 71.
river valley area, but the weather bureau
said there was no danger from devastating
effects of flooding along the Allegheny as
there was from last week's storms.
orse Race
ottest in
McKay said, however, if he
lost the nomination, he would
support anyone who won the
nomination. "I'm no prima
donna," he said.
The Interior secretary said he
talked with President Eisen
hower Thursday in Washington
but the president had not urged
Reactions to May's
Decision Are mixed
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Republicans
expressed mixed reaction here
Saturday to the overnight decis
ion of Secretary of Interior
Douglas McKay to quit the cabi
net -and--run , forthe -Senate-f
gainst Sen. Wayne Morse (D-
Ore.)
But Democrats were jubilant,
feeling McKay will be a more
vulnerable opponent for Morse
than any of the prospective GOP
contenders who had previously
announced their intent to chal
lenge Morse.
Apart in Analysis
Republicans here are wide
apart in their analysis of the po
litical effect of the 11th hour de
velopment designed to pit Mc
Kay against Morse. Some are
just as pleased as others are dis
pleased.
The top GOP strategy behind
the move to get McKay into the
senatorial race was explained
to this reporter by a prominent
Republican close to McKay and
the Eisenhower administration
as follows:
Morse's main political pitch in
the upcoming campaign, no mat
ter who the GOP candidate
might be, will be to brand the
Secretary of Interior as "Give-
Away McKay" and charge that
his natural resource policies
have hurt Oregon and the na
tion. Any Republican candidate
for the Senate would necessarily
have to defend McKay and his
policies. McKay can do that
Part better than anyone else.
Moreover, now every time
Morse opens his mouth about.
"Give-Away McKay" he will
serve to build up his opponent.
Some other -Republicans
thought this strategy was faulty
and said privately they thought
McKay would be a much weak
er candidate because he would
draw opposition from various
groups that opposed his policies.
Democrats, including those in
the camp of Sen. Morse, were
universally cheered by McKay's
entry into the race. One top
Democrat had become convince
Hitchcock, with a wisely con-
Hitcncock, wtih a wisely con-
Election at Wimer Tuesday
On Joining Soil District
A total of 298 ballots have
been mailed to landowners in
the Evans Creek area in prepar
ation for the referendum elec
tion Tuesday, March 13, to de
termine if the area will join the
Rogue Soil Conservation dis
trict. The election will be held in
the Enterprise Grange hall at
Wimer, between 1 and 8 p.m.
Ballots may be taken to the
Grange during those hours : or
may be mailed to James Martin,
superintendent of election, ac
cording to County Agent W. B.
Tucker.
About 168,840 acres of land
in the northwestern part of the
May Be
History
him to run. He said he had been
asked to make the race by the
GOP National Committee al
though he said GOP Chairman
Leonard Hall had not "directly"
urged him to run.
"I'm looking forward to ac
tive participation in the cam
paign," he said.
ducted campaign, could give
Morse a stronger race even than
had been counted on from the
late Gov. Paul Patterson. Demo
cracts all agreed that McKay
figure;, to be a more vulnerable
candidate than either Patterson,
Hitchcoekc- arT6b;rpiaerr.wrra5pfea "in "1954
Portland attorney who with
drew his filing. Democrats ex
pect Republicans to succeed in
persuading Hitchcock to pull out
before the Monday deadline for
withdrawing, in order to give
McKay a clear field in the May
primary.
Most observers here who are
wise in the ways of Washington
politics believe that McKay, af
ter stoutly refusing to consider
running for the Senate, was sud
denly thrust into the race by
White House endorsement of
the idea in a manner which
made it virtually impossible for
McKay to say "No."
The first word flashed to
Washington Friday from Port
land after McKay arrived there
by plane was that he told re
porters the situation was con
fused and he was uncertain
whether he was going to run.
The White House, fully pre
pared to announce his resigna
tion from the Cabinet, got on
the long distance telephone to
see about eliminating the con
fusion. Calling McKay and
Ralph Cake, Oregon Republican
leader, at the Multnomah hotel
were Assistant to the President
Sherman Adams and GOP Na
tional Chairman Leonard Hall.
Confusion Explained
The confusion, it was explain
ed, was caused by the fact that
Hitchcock had been unwilling
immediately to withdraw from
the senatorial race, which meant
McKay would have a primary
contest that he hoped to avoid
Although Hitchcock continued
his resistance, the big develop
ment of the day went off on
schedule McKay annouriced
his intent to file simultaneously
with the release here by the
White . House at the regular
p.m. press briefing of the Eisen
hower letter-to McKay and the
explanation that McKay was
leaving the cabinet in order to
challenge Morse
county, are affected by the elec
tion. It is the only county land
not already in a soil conserva
tion district.
Two petitions from residents
in the area were sent to the state
soil conservation committee, one
asking that the land be included
in the Rogue district and the
other in the Sams Valley-Beagle
district.
A vote favoring the Rogue dis
trict resulted from hearings
held Feb. 3 at the Grange and
the election date was set by the
state committee.
All persons owning more than
10 acres of land in the area are
eligible to vote.
McClellan Elected
Chairman of Group
To Study Lobbying
Deadlock Between GOP,
Democrats Broken
Washington U.R) Sen. John
L. McClellan (D-Ark.) Saturday
was unanimously elected chair
man of the Senate's special com
mittee to investigate lobbying
and campaign contributions.
His election broke a 10-day
deadlock between Republican
and Democratic members of the
special eight-man committee
over rules for the investigation.
Way Is Cleared
Immediately following Mc-
Clellan's election, the commit
tee agreed unanimously on a set
of rules. The way is now appar
ently clear to launch the stalled
inquiry.
Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N. H.)
was elected vice chairman of the
committee on which Republi
cans and Democrats are equally
represented.
The rules were adopted at a
closed meeting. They represent
a compromise in the partisan
wrangle that had stymied or
ganization of the investigation.
Insure Control
The Republicans had demand
ed rules that would insure bi
partisan control over such key
functions as issuing subpenas
and calling witnesses. Sen. Al
bert Gore (D-Tenn.), ' who had
been in line for the chairman
ship when the committee was
first set up. had insisted he have
the usual powers granted Senate
committee chairmen, including
control over subpenas.
The compromise provides that
subpenas will be issued by the
chairman "with prior notice to
the vice chairman." Any dispute
over subpenas will be "promp
tly" referred to the full com
mittee to be settled by majority
vote.
, ,
In other re
generally follow those in force
in the Senate permanent invest!
gating committee, which McClel-
1t, olcn ho e TVi.t ommi'OA'
when Democratic members re
belled against the "one-man
rule" of then-committee chair
man Joseph R. McCarthy (R-
Wis).
Senate Heads For
Price Showdown
Washington (U.R) The Sen
ate, racked by hairbreath battles
over the politically explosive
farm bill, headed Saturday for
showdowns on two-price
plans for rice and wheat.
Some Democrats threatened
another fight to restore rigid
price supports to try and upset
President Eisenhower's skin-thin
victory.
But an administration spokes-
man, sen. ueorge u. Aiken (H-
Vt.), said "rigid support pro
ponents reached their highwater
mark" Friday night when only
Vice President M. Nixon's tie-
breaking vote defeated high sup
ports on millable wheat.
Nixon's .'crucial vote was dis-
jjuvcu uj ov-.v-iai mw.o
cause it was cast after the wneat
amendent vote was announced
and another motion had been
voted on.
Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.)
said he would study Senate
records over the weekend for
precedents on Nixon's action. If
there are none, he said, he might
ask the Senate
wheat vote.
reconsider the
Four Possible McKay
Successors Listed
Washington (U.R) Western
congressmen Saturday . speculat
ed that four men are high on
the list of possible successors to
Secretary of the Interior Doug
las McKay.
Trip fnnr- TTnderserretarv of
Interior Clarence A. Davis, Un-
dersecretary of Commerce Wal-
ter Williams, Former Gov. Len
Jordan of Idaho and former Gov,
Dan Thornton of Colorado
McKay will leave the cabinet
about June 1 to run for the
GOP senatorial nomination in
his native Oregon. The Oregon
GOP nominee will face Demo
cratic Sen. Wayne Morse in No
vember. '
The Secretary filed for the
nomination Friday.
Tiririnnrt. Conn. (U.P.)
Georgia Poulos, 18, was accused
Saturday of stealing the $50 m Doaruea nli AOi
bathing suit she wore in the don. He will represent the Unit-ivr,-
rnnnpr-tiVnt v.Pantv contest ed States in a new round of dis-
booked on a theft charge and
ordered held in $100 bond.
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JOHN TIZEKKER
Seeks Assessor's Office
Fourth Candidate
Files for County
Assessor's Post
A fourth candidate, John Hen-
ry Tizekker, filed Friday for the
Republican nomination for coun-'
ty assessor. He will opose Allen
D. Curry, Medford, in the pri-
marv.
Democrats who filed before
the Friday deadline were Ray
J. Schumacher, Medford realtor,
and Andrew (Andy) Hawver, de-
puty assessor.
reared in Pennsylvania, attend-
ZX.Z
nA Pnunni ;n
oui .u v,
constructiorrwoTK for 15'"' years'
before coming to Medford in
1945.
Worked in Office
He worked in the county as-
ses's office in 1946-47 and 48,
and presently is in charge of the
Medford agency for Western De
tectives.
The family home is at 2116
East Main st., and the Tizekkers
have three children. Tizekker is
a member of the William Penn
order, Patriot Sons of America,
Elks and the Exchange club.
He ran for assesor in 1952. His
campaign slogan this year is
"Efficiency, integrity, and a just
tax for all," he said.
A complete list of candidates
for county and state offices, and
precinct committeemen appears
on page 3 of todays' Mail Trib-
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Yt mnTQOneQ Ul flElS
Reached by Sno-Cat
A sno-cat operated by Jim
bmith of Ashland reached six
marnnno3 minore in nnrthprn
California's Del Norte county at
ii:au n.m. uridav
11:30 n.m. Fridav and found
n i. u
them allve and wel1 but short
on I0d-
Smith, who piloted the over-
snow craft owned by California-
Oregon Power company over
deep snow drifts for 10 hours
to reach Azalea mine, said 'the
six persons were in good condi-
tion but happy to get food sup-
Pues- .
The sno-cat made the return
trip at 12:40 a.m. Saturday
bringing out Walter Freeman,
mine foreman from Grants Pass.
Remaining at the snowbound
mine were Mr. and Mrs. James
Perry of Seaside, owners of the
chome mine; and Larry Lee, Lou
Lively and a "Pop" Miller, all
of Cave Junction.
Previous attempts to reach the
party by air and ground had
been thwarted by bad weather.
x 1 1 f I
progress nopeiui in
Disarmament Talks
Washington (U.R) Harold
E. Stassen said Saturday he is
hopeful "some progress can be
made" on atomic disarmament
at East-West talks in London
starting March 19.
Stassen. President Eisenhow
er's chief disarmament adviser,
made the statement in an inter-
view with the United Press as
armament negotiations with
Russia, Britain, France and Can-
ada.
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In
Pedestrian Killed
When Struck by
Car Near Talent
No Identification
Carried by Victim
A man. tentatively identified
by Coroner Carlos Morris as
Frank or Ed James, about 38,
was killed almost instantly
about 1 a.m. Saturday when
struck by a car on Highway 99
near the Talent junction.
The driver of the car, Robert
Charles Cresap, 29, of 1115 West
Second st., Medford, told state
police he did not see the pedes
trian in the middle of the high
way until it was too late to stop.
He told police he first saw the
man standing on the center
stripe between the two south
bound lanes.
The pedestrian then walked
into the center of the right hand
lane and into the path of the
oncoming car, police said Cresap
told them.
No Identification
The victim carried no identifi
cation except a ring bearing the
initials "F.J. police said. They
added that persons at the scene
had heard the man identified as
Ed James.
The body is at the Ashland
mortuary pending investigation
by police and the coroner's of-
fice.
Passengers in Cresap s car
were Beverly Jean Christian-
son, zu, or. u iara St., mea-
ford, who suffered a minor hand
cut, and Claude Owsley 18, ot
the same address, police said.
Another man was hospitalized
and one treated for injuries from
other accidents yesterday.
Harry Smeader, 43, Prospect,
was reported in iair condition
at Community hospital where he
was taken about 3:25 a.m: yester
day after his car rolled over
near Flounce Rock ranch on
Crater Lake highway.
State police said he was
brought to the hospital . by
Charles. Skeeters, Prospect, who
discovered the wreck.
Treated at Hospital
Lloyd Elmer Pitts, 42, route
2, Jacksonville, was treated at
Community hospital early Fri
day morning for a head cut re
ceived when his pickup truck
slid off the road at Ross lane
and Central Point highway, ac
cording to state police.
Pitts was apparently at the
scene for two or three hours be-
fore the accident was discov
ered. A 1949 Nash car registered
to Darrell E. Hinkle, Jackson
ville, left the Jacksonville high
way and turned over into Jack
son creek Friday night.
Police said they were notified
by a passing motorist about 2:55
a.m. Saturday and found the
abandoned car upside down in
the creek.
iWilmeth Files for
ACmAnH IlKTIfP lfln
L. Peers Wilmeth, former
Ashland city judge, Friday filed
his candidacy for the position
of justice of peace for the Ash
land district.
He will oppose Incumbent
Nelle W. Burns and Ida B
George for the non-partisan post.
Wilmeth has been with the
Southern Pacific for about 40
years and has been active
the Democratic party. He and
Mrs. Wilmeth have resided
Ashland 20 years.
He spent two years as Ash
land city judge.
Four Clergymen Killed As
Fire Sweeps Jesuit Home
Lenox, Mass. (U.R) Four
Catholic clergymen perished
and 27 others climbed and
leaped to safety Saturday as a
$1,000,000 fire swept the castle
like Shadowbrook Jesuit sem
inary, once the summer estate of
steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.
A total of 16 priests, 100 sem
inarians, and 11 lay Drotners
fled the flames. One, Brother
Richard Wolf; 20, of Rockville
Center, N. Y., fell two and one
half stories when his rope of
blankets tore. Fellow Jesuits
caught him safely in a blanket.
Some of them escaped by
jumping from windows, climb
ing down ladders and by fire
escapes.
Authorities believed the fire
was sarted by an oil explosion
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ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS
Exiled by British
Manifesto Signed
To Resist Ending.
School Segregation
Washington (U.R) The con
gressional delegations of seven
southern states have signed a
manifesto pledging to resist "by
all lawful means" attempts to
end public school segregation,
informed sources disclosed Sat
urday. Sponsors of the document pre
dicted that as many as 100 Dixie
senators and house members will
have signed it by Monday when
Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.)
is expected to present it to the
Senate. It also will be read in
the House.
Some southerners were said
to be balking at what they con
sider- "'inflammatory" language
in the proposed resolution which
denounces the Supreme Court in
"the strongest kind of language."
Actual content of the pledge
was kept a closely-guarded sec-
Lret, making last minute changes
possible. But, in addition to
pledging the use of all legal
means to resist the court's rul
ing against school segregation,
the manifesto is said to:
1. Commend states "resisting
forced integration."
2. Caution other states that
their peoples, in time, also may
be victims of "judicial enroach
ment." 3. Call on southerners not to
be provoked by "trouble-makers"
and "agitators invading our
states."
4. Urge southerners to refrain
from disorder and lawless acts.
An informed source said all
senators and house members
from Alabama, Arkansas, Geor
gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South
Carolina and Virginia have sign
ed. Some, but not all, members
of Congress from Florida, North
Carolina, Tennessee, and lexas
also have signed.'
One North Carolina Democrat,
who declined to be quoted by
name, said that at present, "I
have no intention of signing the
document."
May Reach Compromise
On Project Bill Soon
Washington (U.R) House
Senate conferees said Saturday
they hope to finish action Mon
day on a compromise version of
the Upper Colorado project bill.
The conferees met for two
hours in another effort to iron
out diffrences between the
House and Senate versions. Sen.
Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) said
they made considerable progress
and should be able to reach final
agreement Monday.
in the boiler room, i i a m e s
mushroomed up through eleva
tor shafts of the three-floor 75-
room mansion after the fire
started shortly after midnight.
By dawn only ruins were left.
The beautifiul tudor-style
building flashed into a blazing
silhouette on its hillcrest in the
Berkshire mountains. Flames
belched from every arched win
dow and from the roof.
As the four died, there were
acts of heroism in saving others
Some younger priests and broth
ers risked their lives to help
older priests and brothers to
safety.
One priest was supported on
an icy ledge by a lay brother
until firemen could rescue them
1 with ladders,
Angry Greeks Riot
After Arrest Of
Cypriot Archbishop
Troops Guard Embassy
From Demonstrators
Athens, Greece (U.R) Thous
ands of enraged Greeks rioted in
Greece, Cyprus and Crete Satur
day burning the British flag and
clashing repeatedly with troops
and police called out to quell
tneir anger over Britam's exile
of Cypriot Archbishop Makar
ios. Greece filed a bitter protest
wtih the United Nations over
the fate of Makarios and other
Cypriot church dignitaries. A
1600-word letter charged that
Britian aims "by every means at
its command" to continue "arbi
trary colonial rule" of Cyprus.
bireet Brawls
Street brawls in Athens and
Salonika injured atleast 90 per
sons. British Tommies fired tear
gas to break up riots in two Cy
prus cities. A mob sacked the
British consulate at Heraklion,
Crete, and almost trapped the
consul.
Greek soldiers with subma-
chineguns took up positions '
around the U. S. Embassy in
Athens to protect it. A platoon
of Greek troops guarded the
British Embassy.
Athenian students publicly
burned the British flag. Other
rioters forced the proprietor of
the New England hotel to tear
down his sign. Anything that
smacked of Britain was in dan
ger of attack.
The entire Greek-speaking
world was in uproar over Brit
ain's banishment of the Greek
Orthodox Archbishop on
grounds that he is leader, of the
Cypriot Enosis (Union With
Greece) movement.
The Boston-educated Makar
ios, arrested Friday, was flown
to Mombasa, Kenya, where he
will sail aboard a British frigate
for the British Seychelles is
lands in the Indian ocean. Sour
ces said he would arrive there
by the middle of next week and
would remain at the British gov
ernor's plush country lodge.
The Liberal and Labor parties
in Britain raised doubts as to
the wisdom of exiling the Greek
Orthodox churchman. Labor
Leader Hugh Gaitskell, arguing
that exile makes a martyr of
Makarios, called the banish
ment order "an act of folly."
Greeks denounced it in word
and deed. Some 5000 students
swarmed around Athens univer
sity screaming "out with the
British."
They burned a Union Jack
publicly. The dean of the insti
tution praised their attitude but
pleaded for no violence. A -professor
demanded the ousting of
every British agency in Greece.
Teaching of Engilsh was sus
pended in high schools.
Infuriated mobs smashed
signs that - mentioned irngiana
or bore British emblems.
Exile Brings Dismay
From U.S. Officials
Washington (U.R) U. S.
officials were shocked and dis
mayed Saturday by Britain's
deportation of Archbishop Ma
karios from Cyprus.
Senate leaders of both parties
deplored the move. They said it
will cause a worsening of an
already-serious situation in the
Middle East.
Administration officials re
vealed that the U. S. government
had no advance knowledge of
the action. "We were in com
plete ignorance of what the
British were doing," one official
said.
It was learned that Britain
has informally apologized for
the failure to advise the State
department in advance. British
diplomats were said to have ex
plained that a "breakdown of
communications" between Lon
don and Cyprus caused a delay in
notifying Washington until after
the arrest had been carried out.
Cruiser, Destroyer
Collide In China Sea
Honolulu (U.R) The heavy
cruiser USS Columbus and the
destroyer Floyd B. Parks collid
ed in the South China Sea and
two men were missing, the Navy
here said Saturday.
The Navy said the collision
sheered the bow section off the
Parks and the two men were be
lieved drowned.