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1 0 uo Some 120,000 Cast Tribune EDFORD Ballots in First United Pr Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Msm, M Primary Election Seek Clue to Hopes Of Richard Nixon Manchester, N.H. (U.R) 50th Year 22 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1956 Price 5c No. 303 , Greek Ambassador To Ask for General Assembly Debate No Plan To See Security Council United Rations, N. Y. (U.R) Greece today sought United Nations intervention in its cris is with Britain over the Medit erranean island of Cyprus. Greek Ambassador Christian X. Palamas announced he would see Secretary General Dag Hammarskhold today and ask that the General Assembly debate Cyprus at its next ses sion. Definite Possibility Palamas said there was no plan to seek Security Council action at this time but that this was a definite possibility. ' Greece threatened to seek Se curity Council action last Fri day when the crisis came to a head with the British expul sion of Archbishop Makarios, leader of the "union with Greece" movement in the Brit ish colony. ' The Greek ambassador to the United Nations said he would submit an item calling for Gen eral Assembly discussion at its fall term and that the "explan atory memorandum" necessary to such action would be submit ted within ten days. Refused Last Year The National Assembly refus ed last year to consider the Cy prus question. This was a sharp rebuff to Greece at the time but the Assembly said only it would not debate the issue "at this time." Greece indicated Monday it would welcome United States intervention in the Cyprus de bate. Greek Premier Constan tine Karamanlis told American newsmen the . United States should "intervene decisively," or risk loss of Greece from NATO. Group Approves Military Building Washington (U.R) The House Armed Services Committee today stamped final approval on a $2.1 billion military construction bill. It provides only $18.5 million less than the Pentagon re quested. The bill, which the committee approved 32 to 0, simply author izes the construction outlays. Ac tual funds must be voted later Oin separate appropriations bills. The largest share, $1.1 billion, goes to th Air Force. The Army would get $304 mil lion and the Navy $407 million. The bill also authorizes $30 million for emergency construc tion, $300,000 to house the chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and $150 million more for over seas housing to be financed through the sale of surplus farm commodities. The measure in cludes an extra $131.7 million for increased costs of various Air Force projects. Only last minute change made y in the bill by the committee was restoration' of $4 million re quested by the Navy for a jet air craft field at Annapolis, Md. Ashland Council To Consider Tax Hike j Ashland The Ashland city council will hold a special meet ing at 7:30 p.m. today to con sider asking Ashland voters to approve a higher property tax rate for city purposes. City Superintendent Elmer Biegel has stated that the pres ent city tax base "just won't stretch far enough" to cover the city's needs. The council is con sidering asking approval of a new tax base, rather than ap proval for exceeding the 6 per cent limitation for one year. Biegel pointed out that Ash land now has the second-lowest millage rate of any city in the county. He said about $10,000 per year more than at present is needed to maintain and in crease city ' services. If the council decides to sub mit the proposal to the voters, it would be at a special elec tion at the same time as the primary election May 18. c arlson's an for or Senate Debate Washington (U.R) Eight farm belt senators said they have a good' chance of winning Senate approval today for a 1 two-price plan for wheat. Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan.) called up for two hours of de bate and a vote a proposal to enact the two-price plan. The proposal was offered as an am endment to the farm bill calling for creation of a $1,100,000,000 soil bank program. Bill Explained The Carlson plan would guar antee farmers full parity- for that portion of their wheat crop consumed by human beings in this country. That sold for ex- FPC Criticized for Granting License To Idaho Company Washington (U.R) Ten public power groups have ac cused the Federal Power com mission of "administrative law lessness" in approving a license for a private power project in the Hells Canyon area. The power groups, in a brief filed with the U.S. Court of Ap peals yesterday, criticized the FPC's license awarded to the Idaho Power company, for pow er development on the . Snake River on the Idaho-Oregon bord er. Criticized Plans The brief also criticized ap proval of revised plans for the projects. Revised plans for a third dam still must be approv ed by the FPC. The brief was filed by the National Hells Canyon associa tion, eight public utility districts of the state of Washington, and the National Rural Electric Co operative association. Hell's Canyon is the deepest gorge on the continent and one of the outstanding dam sites in the Columbia River basin. The question of whether the govern ment or private interests should de-elop it has been a contro versial issue for more than 15 years. The power groups said a pro posed federal high dam project in the . rea would serve "vastly greater public purposes" , than the three-dam proposal by Ida ho Power. Dulles Arrives in Thailand for Visit Bangkok," Thailand (U.R) Secretary of State John -Foster Dulles arrived here today from Djakarta, Indonesia, for a one day visit in Thailand. All of Thailand's high offic- ials were on hand to greet him including Premier Pibul Song gram and Prince Wan Waithaya kon, the foreign minister. - Songgram, who arrived three minutes late, placed a garland .pf flowers around Dulles' neck while Lady Laiad Pibul Song- gram pinned orchids on Mrs. Dulles and gave her a bouquet, Before leaving Djakarta, Dulles told a news conference he had invited President Sukarno of Indonesia to visit the United States. " Dulles said the invitation was extended on behalf of President Eisenhower, but that no date was set pending the arrange ment of further details. Council To Discuss Charter Amendment A .possible amendment to the charter of Medford to provide assessment districts for con struction of storm and sanitary sewer facilities will be discus sed at a meeting of the city council at 7:30 p.m. tonight. The regular council meeting March 6 was continued until to night in order that councilmen could study the amendment and act on it so it could be voted on at the time of the primary elections, May 18. 2-Price Whea 'port would go for the market price, ihe government would pay farmers the difference be- twAfari tho marlrpt nrira anH 1 ftft per cent of parity for that part of their crops earmarked for do mestic, human consumption. The two-price program would go into effect for next year's wheat crop, if a majority of far mers voted for it in a referen dum. There were indications that administration forces would of fer little, if any, opposition to the wheat plan. In the past, Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson has strongly opposed it. But Sen. George D. Aiken, (R Vt.), leader of administration farm forces in the Senate, said he personally wouldn't fight it now. Meanwhile, Republican con gressional leaders told President Eisenhower at a meeting at the White House that they hope to use a parliamentary maneuver to speed final action on the big farm bill. Eliminate Hearings , .- They said they will try to substitute the Senate measure, now expected to be passed by the end of the week, for the pre viously approved House farm bill. This would eliminate the n -ed for holding new committee hearings in the House. The Senate yesterday voted 78-11 to put a $25,000 ceiling on individual acreage reserve pay ments in the proposed soil bank and a $100,000 limit on annual price support loans to one far mer or farming company. Backers of 90 per cent rice supports lost another effort to get such a provision in the bill. The Senate voted down, 56-36, an amendment that would have provided 90 per cent supports to farmers whose support loans didn't exceed $5,000 a year on corn, cotton, peanuts, rice and wheat. Chief Engineer to Testify in Sinking Seattle (U.R) Earl Bostick, chief engineer of the freighter Washington Mail which broke in two and went down in the Gulf of Alaska March 3, was to testify today at a Coast Guard hearing on the incident. All 60 persons aboard the ship were saved by the Navy trans port Gen. H. B. Freeman which arrived at the scene and picked up the survivors in two lifeboats. Yesterday, two witnesses said they heard a sharp explosion just before the ship broke in two. Willard K. Baker, 53, Port land, Ore., ' purser, said he smelled cordite because he had once worked as a powder mon key in Missouri mines. Ordinary Seaman James Un ger, 24, Portland, Ore., who was standing the wheel watch on the bridge said "there was horrible noise, sharp and loud, and then a crack appeared just aft of No. 3 hatch." Unger ' said the explosion seemed to come "deep in the bowls of the ship." DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York '(U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 499.33, off 0.91; 20 rail roads 167.18, up 0.34; 15 utilities 67.36, off 0.11, and 65 stocks 177.40, off 0.12. Sales today were about 2,790,000 shares compared with 3,110,000 yesterday. Explorer Scouts Slate Annual Winter Survival Trip Forty explorer scouts and six leaders from the Boy Scouts' Crater Lake area council will leave early Wednesday on the fourth annual adventure trip, "Operation Icicle," to Camp Mc Laughlin, the Scout camp at Lake of the Woods. The camp is now snow-bound, and -winter survival training will be the main feature of the trip. Bob Cotton, Grants Pass, will be in charge. At an earlier meeting the boys were divided into four-man crews. Each is responsible for its Eisenhower, Nixon Hold White House Conference Today Subject Not Revealed; Possibly About Future Washington (U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon conferred privately with Pres ident Eisenhower today, possib ly about Nixon's political fu ture. Nixon and other GOP con gressional leaders met with the President on legislative matters. Then Nixon stayed behind for a separate, half-hour discussion with Mr. Eisenhower. The subject of their talk was not disclosed. But there was im mediate speculation that it in volved the question of Nixon's future role. Chart Own Course Mr. Eisenhower, who will hold a news conference tomor row, said last week he has told Nixon that he must chart his own political course. He again expressed admiration for Nix on, but refused to be pushed into "corners" as to whether he wanted Nixon for his 1956 run ning mate. Leonard W. Hall, GOP nation al chairman, said yesterday "ev erybody is concerned about the vice - presidency except Dick Nixon." Hall told newsmen after con ferring with President Eisen hower that Nixon believes the President is "exactly right" in keeping silent about his choice of 1956 running mate. However, Hall said he still assumes Nixon will be - on the GOP ticket this year. He said he has predicted an Eisenhower- Nixon ticket all along. Hall said he conferred with the President about the nation al political situation, not the vice-presidency. SOC Building Bids Over Ready Funds Portland (U.R) Plans for a new physical education building at Southern Oregon College of Education in Ashland ran into a snag today when bids were high er than available funds. The State Board of Higher Education opened bids this morn ing and reported they were more than $100,000 over funds avail able. Although the board has 30 days in which to accept or re ject bids, it was indicated that unless non-state funds were made available from some source the bids would be rejected and plans redrawn. It was indicated the board would not seek funds from the State Emergency Board. In all there were seven gen eral contract bids, seven me chanical contract bids and six electrical bids. The low base bid for general onstruction was $430,738. Low base bid for me chanical work was $108,850 and the low on electric work was $40,300. Accident Victim Said Klamath Falls Man A pedestrian killed when struck by a car Saturday morn ing on Highway 99 near Talent has been identified as Edgar St. Clair James, 35, of Klamath Falls, the county coroner's of fice has announced. Identification was made by John Fenning, 57 Church st., Ashland, who said Mr. James has been employed 'oy a track crew of the Southern Pacific rail road working out of Hilt, Calif. No identification was found on the body at the time of the acci dent. own transportation. The groups will meet at the Boy Scout of fice on East Main st. at 6 a.m. Wednesday. "The scouts will leave their cars at Pelican guard station and begin the nine-mile trip into Camp McLaughlin on skis and snow shoes. A night in the snow will be the high point of "Operation Icicle.'.' After spending two nights at camp, the explorers and' leaders will spend a day and night in the field. They will re turn to Medford Sunday morning. : ENCLOSED IN FLAMES, Shadowbrook, famed Jesuit novitiate near Lenox, Mass., is destroyed in million dollar fire. Three priests and a lay Washington (U.R) The House! voted overwhelmingly today to postpone for another year be yond April 1 a scheduled drop m taxes on corporations and on such consumer products as beer, whisky and cigarettes. Passage was by a roll cail vote of 366 to 4. The measure was brought up under a procedure which barred amendments and required a two thirds vote for passage. Goes to Senate The measure, which now goes to the Senate, would continue at 52 per cent the present tax on corporation income which otherwise would drop to 47 per cent April 1. The one-year extension was requested by President Eisen hower. It would postpone for one year, to April 1, 1957, tax re ductions scheduled under pres ent law would cost the..govern ment " $3,200,000,000 a year in revenue. Simultaneously, a House Ways and Means subcommittee recom mended levying new taxes on tape and wire recorders, record players, tubeless tires and gas operated garbage disposal units. The subcommittee also pro posed that parochial and non profit schools be granted exemp tion from payment of most ex cise taxes. The recommendations were included in a report call ing for numerous changes in ex cise tax law. The tax' extension bill is as sured prompt action in the Senate. Unless it is enacted before April 1, excise taxes on liquor, cigarettes, gasoline and automo Kefauver To Start Minnesota Campaign - Minneapolis (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver arrived in Minnesota today to begin his final campaign in this state's presidential pri mary. He was confident he had already won in New Hampshire. The Tennessee Democrat said he was confident he will win a majority of delegates in New Hampshire, which is holding its primary today. He also predicted the Midwest would be in the Democratic col umn in November. EC Vote on Joining Soil District Today Polls will remain open until 8 p.m. today at the Enterprise Grange hall at Wimer to enable landowners of the Evans Creek area to vote on joining the Rogue Soil Conservation dis trict. About 168,840 acres in the northwestern part of the coun ty will be affected by the elec tion. This is the only county land that is not now in a soil conservation district. Washington (U.R) The De fense Department today issued a call for 12,000 Army draftees in May. Vincent Swinney, airman sec ond class, of Medford will dem onstrate construction of snow shelters and other cold-weather techniques. Swinney, an Eagle Scout and ' former Camp Mc Loughlin staff member, is now an instructor in survival tech niques for the bomber crews of the Strategic Air Command. He has been granted temporary duty by the Air Force to train the explorers in winter survival. Making the trip from the Medford area will be Larry Hammond and Wilson Gilinsky, brother are feared dead, six are injured but 115 others escape blaze that sweeps through the building. (International Soundphoto). biles, trucks and other automo- tive equipment will be reduced automatically. There was little debate and no controversy as the House passed the measure. The corporation and ' excise taxes scheduled to drop to lower GOP Party Treat Him As 'Poor Relation1 Canby, Ore. (U.R) Elmer Deetz, Canby dairyman and can didate for the Republican nom ination for U. S. Senator, to day let loose a double-barreled barrage aimed at the press and Oregon GOP leaders for the treatment he says his candidacy has received. "I, up to now, appear to have been running a lone campaign in the primary race in which the press and the party are sup posed to be neutral, but such has not been the case," Deetz said. Mollet lo Declare Algeria Emergency Paris (U.R) Premier Guy Mollet is preparing to declare a state of emergency in Algeria as first step in ending the $1,500, 000 a day rebellion, informed sources reported today. Mollet could take the drastic step under wide powers voted him early today by the National Assembly, the widest decree powers given to any French gov ernment since the end of World War II. Mollet; received his "blank check" when the Assembly gave him four overwhelming votes of confidence on his social powers bill. The Communists deserted their traditional "anti-colonialism" stand to vote for Mollet in hopes of forcing him into a "pop ular front" government. The votes were by margins of 463-32, 451-72, 465-49 and 455 75. The fourth was on the bill as a whole. The votes gave the . govern ment permission to take "all ex ceptional measures demanded by the circumstances" by decree without reference back to Par-J liament. They also authorized a series of reforms to pacify both the French and Moslem residents of Algeria. . ' The "state of emergency" would give the government pow ers close to a declaration of mar tial law censorship, forbidding of public gatherings, the right of search and seizure. Pasadena, Caif. (U.R) A ma jor earthquake at 5:21.13 a.m. PST, today was reported in the Galapagos Islands area off Peru by seismologists at the California Institute of Technology. . assistant operation advisers; Charles Robinson, Wayne Breeze, Bob Glover, Chuck Finch,( Bob Frazier, Bob Young, Milton Smith, Mike Bauer, and Pat Connolly, Post 8, Medford; Dick Clark, John Layden, Dick Sayburn, Dick Corum, Mike Forbes, Bryan Schroeder, Henry Scott, James Boyd and Eddie Al bright, Air Scout Squadron 14, Medford; , Richard Hammersly, Richard Bickel, Sam Collins and Willard Waterhouse, Troop- 43, Gold Hill; John Jones, Troop 9 and Dick Swinney, Troop 3. v levels on April 1 were levied as a temporary measure during the Korean War and have been con tinued since then. Mr. Eisen hower warned Congress they must be continued for another year to avoid throwing His bud get out of balance. aims rress, "I was the first man- who had the gumption to file for the U.S. Senate seat against Sen. Wayne Morse, i did not have to wait to see which way the ball would bounce so that I could be sure of catching it and yet the me-too-er's who came ' in"' latef are getting good press lots of it, and I am noticeable by my absence." Poor Relation Deetz's remarks were not lim ited to criticizing the press. The party leaders have treat ed him like "a poor relation from the country," he said Big wig Republicans don't consider me a credit to their party. be cause my language is a bit earthy, maybe," he added. . Deetz said that he had no in tention of withdrawing from the race. "I can see no reason why I should withdraw from the sen atorial race for party harmony and unity when I haven't been accepted into the party, or had the consideration of non-partisan treatment in this primary campaign thus far," he said. "In-as-much as I have the cold shoulder from the party big wigs '11 continue to run even though I'll have to run on a poor man's campaign. . I do not have any backing to date. I just have to run an my poor man's campaign as Elmer Deetz, far mer, free enterpriser and obli gated to no one but good Am erican principles and govern ment," the Canby dairyman said. McKay Wants Office To Support Policies Washington (U.R) Interior Secretary Douglas McKay said yesterday he wants to be a Re publican senator from Oregon because President Eisenhower "needs a Congress that will sup port his policies." McKay said he felt he is the Republican with the best chance of defeating incumbent Demo cratic Sen. Wayne Morse. McKay said he expects to re sign by May 1 in time to cam paign before the Republican pri mary on May 18. But, he said, he would not compaign while hold ing public office. McKay said he felt his .chief opposition in the GOP primary will come' from Philip S. Hitch cock, a former state senator. Hitchcock announced yesterday he would remain in the race. Other candidates for the Republi an nomination include Elmer Deetz, a dairy farmer, and George Altvater, a Portland civil engineer. Lane Pleads Innocent , To Tax Evasion Charge Boston (U.R) Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D-Mass.) pleaded innocent today to federal income tax eva sion charges. Lane "was accused in a three count indictment of evading S38, 543 in taxes from 1949 to 1951, inclusive. Voters, some of them tramping to polling places on snowshoes over white-blanketed mountain trails, cast their ballots today in the nation's first presidential primary. The rest of the nation waited mainly for the outcome of the battle between two Democratic presidential aspirants Sen. Estes Kefauver and Adlai E. Stev enson. A clue to the political hopes of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon also was looked for. Voters turned out in the tiny logging town of Millsfield early to cast their ballots by oil lamps. The town divided its four votes between President Eisen hower and Stevenson. Light Snow Falls At Ellsworth, six voters used the original pine desks of a 100-year-old converted sqjiool house to give five votes to the President and one write-in vote each for Nixon and Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.). The road lead ing to the small mountainside community was ploughed espec ially for the election. Skies were cloudy and a light snow fell as some 120,000 vot ers went to the polls. The principal battle was be tween Kefauver and Stevenson the 1952 Democratic party stan dard bearer, for support of New Hampshire's 12-member, eight vote delegation to the National Democratic convention. Late Monday night Kefauver made an 11th hour appeal for support and said he regretted the absence of Stevenson dur ing primary, campaigning. Predicts Victory Kefauver predicted Monday that he would win more than half of the state's delegates to the national convention. Stev enson supporters said that if they won only two delegates, they would seriously damage the Tennessee senator's pres tige and probably end his hopes fori thf '-""Democratic nomination,. President Eisenhower, who won his first political victory here four years ago against the late Sen. Robert Taft, was ex pected to sweep the 14-member GOP delegation without diffi culty , Kefauver and Mr. Eisenhow er were alone in the preferent ial side of the primary which has no binding effect on dele gates. There were no candidates en tered for the vice-presidency and there was speculation that write-in votes might indicate the present popularity of Nixon. Probe Into State Institutions Starts Salem (U.R) Marion coun ty's grand jury probe into charges of graft in the state in stitutions shaped up as a long one today. Seven witnesses were heard as the investigation opened yester day and 25 more names were added to bring the total to be called to 108. District attorney Kenneth Brown called for the special in vestigation at the request of the State Boar,d of Control. He said institutions would be covered one at a time. Today the spotlight was still on Fairview home, a state-owned home for the mentally deficient southeast of here. Next on the list will be the Oregon State hospital. Charges of graft were brought by Al Richardson, former food manager at Oregon state prison, who resigned to seek the Demo cratic nomination for state treas- J'yille Superintendent Submits Resignation Jacksonville Clyde S. Suth erland, superintendent of Jack sonville schools, submitted his resignation, effective at the end of the -current school year, at a school board meeting here last night. Sutherland has been superin tendent for the past four school years. He declined to comment on the reasons for his resigna tion. His plans for the future are indefinite at present, he indi cated. Weather FORECASTS: Mostly cloudy L with light scattered showers ' this evening. Decreasing cloudiness Wednesday mom ning, becoming partly cloudy Wednesday afternoon and evening. Temp. Highest Yesterday 60 Lowest this Morning 37 Prec. to 10 s.m. Today, Trace
