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Vice President
Polls Resounding
Vole of Confidence
Kefauver Gets All
12 Delegate Votes
Manchester, N. H. U.PJ
Vice-President Richard M. Nix
on polled a resounding vote of
confidence in New Hampshire's
first-in-the-nation primary Tues
day that Republican leaders call
ed a "mandate" to retain him
as President Eisenhower's 1956
running mate.
Sen. Estes Kefauver won in
the Democratic balloting with
comfortable leads in all 12 dele
gate races. His supporters hail
ed the results as a "great vic
tory" over Adlai E. Stevenson.
Nixon's support came from a
spontaneous write-in movement.
His write-in votes for vice-president
lagged only slightly behind
the marked ballots cast for
President Eisenhower.
Support Called 'Amazing'
The Nixon showing was con
sidered especially significant in
view of reports that the vice
president might be dumped
from the 1956 Republican tick
et . as an unpopular and unde
sirable running mate for a pres
idential candidate who recent
ly suffered and recovered from
a serious heart attack.
Republican Gov. Lane Dwin
ell called Nixon's write-in sup
port "amazing." He said the vote
could be interpreted as a man
date to the Republican conven
tion to renominate Nixon for
vice-president.
Nixon supporters throughout
the nation echoed the senti
ments expressed by the gover
nor and said the voting might
well be interpreted as a public
expression of confidence and
support for the vice-president.
Has 21,157 Votes
With all but 13 of the state's
297 towns reporting, Nixon had
21,157 votes, Gov. Christian A.
Herter of Massachusetts 2,631,
and Sen. Styles Bridges of, New
Hampshire 1,847 on the write
in Republican ballot.
Inothe Republican popularity
poll, President Eisenhower re
ceived 53,551 votes. He was un
opposed. Kefauver, unopposed
in the Democratic preferential
poll, received 20,343 votes.
Stevenson got 3,802 votes in
a Democratic write-in.
Auto Paris Dealers
Protest Park Use
Two local auto parts dealers
appeared before tie city coun
cil$ast night to protest use of the
city park by the General Motors
sponsored Parade1 of Progress
March 24 to 27.
Mr. and Mrs. William I. Pad
gett, owners of Padgett Auto
Parts and Equipment, 345 North
Central ave., strongly protested
use of the park by the exhibit
of modern science which they
claimed was unfair advertising
competition.
"If you wish to avoid litiga
tion," Padgett said, "I suggest
you withdraw permission for use
of the park."
Mayor Earl Miller and coun
cilmen expressed the opinion
that the exhibit was of an edu
cational nature and approved by
schools. The park committee gave
permission for use of Hawthorne
park by the Parade of Progress
about two months ago.
After debating the question
with Padgett the city council
voted approval of the park com
mitteajj Oction.
Kieth Babcock, Thrift Auto
Supply, 409 North Riverside ave.,
also protested use of the park
for the exhibit.
Morse Accuses Wyatt
Of Twisting Arms
Washington (U.P.) Sen
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), today ac-
cused Wendell Wyatt, Oregon
Republican chairman, of trying
to "twist the arms" or Oregon
radio stations to discontinue his
weekly broadcasts on legisla
tion.
"Republicans seek to apply
one rule for their candidates
and another for opponents,
Morse said.
He said Wyatt demanded pub
licly that his weekly broadcasts
be cancelled or eaual time given
the Republican party. He term
ed the demand "at odds" with
the GOP stand that President
Eisenhower's radio-TV an
nouncement that he would run
for another term was a non
political program."
Morse, a candidate for reelec
tion, said he has notified Ore
gon stations that he would keep
campaign statements separate
from the weekly broadcasts he
has made for two years. He said
his political statements would
be carried on separate paia
broadcasts.
50th Year
In Cyprus Riot;
Nicosia, Cyprus U.R) Cy
priot extremists shot and killed
an English police sergeant and
seriously wounded a Turkish
constable and a Cypriot civilian
today in the first fatal violence
since the deportation of Arch
bishop Makarios.
British authorities immedi
ately launched a massive search
with dogs for the assassins and
U. 5. Has Agreed
To Examine Nuclear
Disarmament Soon
London (U.R) The United
States, in what appeared to be
a major switch in policy, has
agreed to "examine" nuclear dis
armament here next week with
her Western allies and Russia,
official sources said today.
In the past the United States
with its allies has declined to
discuss nuclear disarmament
with the Soviets until the prob
lems of inspection and controls
are satisfactorily resolved.
The West's discussions will be
limited to methods and goals and
will not - involve - commitments
on future atomic weapons "at this
stage, the sources said.
Officials said Harold E. Stas-
sen, disarmament representative
for President Eisenhower, had
agreed with his allies to discUss
the scope and goals of nuclear
disarmament and previous dis
armament plans simultaneously.
Stassen is currently aligning
American disarmament plans
with those of Britain, France
and Canada, in private talks in
London.' '
New Round of Talks
On Monday the four Western
powers have scheduled a new
round of disarmament negotia
tions with the Soviets here with
in the framework of the United
Nations Disarmament Subcom
mittee. -
Official Western quarters said
there was "more optimism" now
about prospects for the forth
coming talks than at any, pre
vious time.
The United States was report
ed guardedly encouraged be
cause of Russia's admission it
no longer regards war as inevit
able and by Moscow's realization
of the prohibitive horrors of a
surprise nuclear attack.
Voters Decide Against
Joining Soil District .
Landowners in the Evans
Creek area yesterday turned
down a proposal to join the
Rogue Soil Conservation district.
The vote was 42 in favor of
joining the district and 24
against, but a two-thirds major
ity was necessary to pass the
proposal.
About 168,840 acres in the
northwestern part of the county,
the only part of the county not
now in a soil conservation dis
trict, was affected by the elec
tion.
Panama (U.R) An earth
quake of medium intensity
shook the city of Panama and
the Canal Zone Tuesday.
Scientists on
Research Balloon Equipment
Iowa City, Iowa - U.R)
Anxious scientists kept their
fingers crossed" today and hoped
that someone would be able to
find valuable cosmic ray re
search equipment dumped in
Western New York by a way
ward balloon.
The scientists chased the huge
"skyhook" balloon more than
700 miles across the northern
United States yesterday only to
find that the equipment had
been released in the midst of
falling snow and overcast skies.
A tracking airplane lost con
tact with the parachuting equip
ment about 7,500 feet over
Mount Morris, N. Y. It presum
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imposed a strict curfew on the
center of the city to help stem
expected new attacks.
The British victim was the
first to be killed of a group of
London bobbies and small town
officers brought to Cyprus to
help control anti-British riots,
bombings and shootings.
He was the 17th Briton to be
killed in the battle against the
Cypriot underground organiza
tion.
Sir John Harding, British gov
ernor for Cyprus, imposed the
curfew as riot squads invaded
houses in the Greek quarter of
the city where the shooting
occurred.
Half-Dressed Persons
They herded half-dressed per
sons into trucks and drove them
out of the sealed-off section. Ma
karios and three other deported
Greek Cypriot leaders arrived
at Mahe, Sychelles Islands, to
day aboard a British frigate to
begin their exile.
The black-bearded archbishop
still wore his flowing robes of
office as he was put ashore in a
launch and whisked off in a po
lice van with the bishop of
Kyrenia and the two other aides
The two policemen and the
civilian were cut down with
Sten guns a few feet from the
spot where two British soldiers
were shot and wounded last
December.
Authrities said it was an obvi
ous retaliation for Britain's sud
den deportation last week of
Archbishop Makarios, religious
and ethnic leader of the Unity-With-Greece
movement.
Four Sentenced
In Circuit Court
' Three men were sentenced to
Oregon state penitentiary, a
fourth to county jail and two
more were given until Wednes
day to enter pleas, in circut
court this morning.
Sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary was Robert Lee El
lis, 22, Seattle, on a charge of
burglary not in a dwelling. Phil
lip Eugene Boutwell, 23, Mont-
pelier, Vt., was sentenced to two
years on a similar charge.
James Seth Cunningham, 22
of 542 Mae st., Medford,' who
pleaded guilty March 3 to dis-
t r i c t attorney's information
charging entering a motor ' ve
hicle with intent to steal, was
sentenced this morning to two
years in the penitentiary.
D. J. Stoke, 24, of 330 North
Holly st., pleaded guilty on dis
trict attorney's information to
obtaining money under false
pretenses. He was sentenced to
six months in county jail.
Paul Leon Jacks, 21, Gold Hill,
charged with burglary not in a
dwelling, and Frank Close
Grants Pass, charged with grand
larceny, were given until
Wednesday to enter pleas.
Radar Installation
Given Go Ahead
Pendleton U.P.) Officials
here received word from Sen.
Wayne Morse yesterday that the
Air Force has decided to go
ahead with its proposed big
radar installation here. The pro
ject will require a staff of about
550 men, 82 of them civilians,
Morse said.
Lookout for
ably landed in the densely popu
lated area around the town, but
so far no one had reported it.
Prof. James Van Allen, head
of the University of Iowa Phy
sics Department which is con
ducting the tests, announced.
meanwhile, that he expected to
launch a second "skyhook" bal
loon either tomorrow or Friday,
weather permitting.
The wayward balloon, about
the size of a football field, was
launched from Iowa City early
Tuesday. It was supposed to
wander across the "Mississippi
river and dump its equipment
by parachute somewhere in east
ern Illinois or Indiana.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1956
Council Abandons
Proposal To Form
Assessment Areas
Start of SE Sewer
Line Set July 1
A proposal to adopt a charter
amendment allowing the crea
tion of assessment districts with
in the city, was abandoned by
the city council last night.
The proposal was dropped
after City Attorney Frank Far
rell expressed the opinion that
a charter amendment would not
be necessary to allow the city
to assess property benefited by
trunk sewer lines even when the
property was not immediately
adjacent to the line.
The amendment was formerly
believed necessary in order to
avoid paying for trunk sewer
construction at the general ex
pense of the city rather than in
the area benelited.
Hospital Sewer
The council met last night in
an adjourned meeting to speed
action on construction of a
trunk sewer line in the newly
annexed south east Medford
area. Construction of the line,
which wijl serve the new Rogue
Valley Memorial hospital, must
be started by, July 1 in order for
the hospital to be eligible to re
ceive federal Hill-Burton funds.
The council also last night ap
proved extension of the South
Bear Creek Sanitary district
boundary to include the Phoe
nix High school. A written re
quest for the inclusion was re
ceived from the high school
board and representatives of the
sanitary district submitted an
oral request.
A letter from the county
health officer, Dr. A. E. Merkel,
stated that sanitary conditions at
the school were "deplorable"
because of a septic tank prob
lem. City Manager Robert Duff
told the council that the city
budget will be ,ready for con
sideration next week, and
Mayor Earl Miller, in response
to a question from the council,
indicated he would submit an
appointment to fill out the citi
zens' budget committee by the
next meeting. The elected coun
cilmen and appointed commit
tee members form the over-all
budget committee.
In answers to questions, Duff
reported that he had not notified
certain city employees pending
changes in personnel because re
placements have not yet been
found. He also said he has not
yet filled the post of finance of
fice, but planned to do so as soon
as the budget is completed. The
position of finance officer will
supersede those of treasurer and
recorder. It was provided for in
the same charter amendment
which set up the city manager
ship, and which became effec
tive Jan! 1, 1955.
The council gave permission
to the Junior Chamber of Com
merce to operate two concession
booths in the city park; during
the General Motors, sponsored
Parade of Progress March 24
through 27.
A junior chamber spokesman
said that proceeds from the
booths, which would sell hot
dogs and soft drinks, would be
used for the Salvation Army
summer camp.
Engineers Warn of
Spring Flood Danger
Portland U.R) Another
warning of the big spring flood
potential came today.
Army engineers warned that
the potential this year is equal
to or greater, than that which
existed in 1948 when Vanport
was destroyed.
Officers said the crest would
depend on a number of factors
including temperatures and
amounts of precipitation falling
in the Columbia Basin between
now and the peak flow.
The forecast called for a crest
of 25 to 28 feet in Portland and
Vancouver. The crest that fin
ished Vanport was 27.5 feet. Res
ervoirs not in use in 1948 will be
some help in checking high water
this year. r
Army engineer personnel al
ready have started operations to
fight the expected spring crests.
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Eugene 51, Pendleton 49.
Franklin 65, South Salem
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SUPER-CARRIER ASSIGNED TO MEDITER
RANEAN The super-carrier Forrestal, cur
rently undergoing jet plane training exercises
Senators Consid
Washington '(U.R) Senators
squared off today for the final
two rounds in the battle over a
new farm program.
They still had to decide
whether to continue the dual
parity formula and whether to
increase dairy price supports.
Other major issues had been
settled.
Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.),
leader of the administration
farm forces in the Senate, said
he would call up today his
amendment to knock out of the
farm bill a provision to continue
the dual parity formula. He pre
dicted he would win by three or
four votes.
The dual parity plan .provides
a cnoice between a modernized
parity formula and an old for
mula based on the relation in
1909-14 between prices paid to
and paid by farmers. Whichever
is higher determines the price
support levels.
Under present law, parity
formulas either would be mod
ernized or shift this year to a
transitional level between the
old and new. In most cases, the
change would mean lower price
supports dollarwise than the old
formula based on the 1909-14
period. Continuing the dual for
mula would give farmers the
benefit of the higher of the two,
the modern or the old.
The overall farm bill would
provide for a non-controversial,
administration-back $1,100,000,-
000 soil bank, an 8,000,000 acre
increase in corn acreage, and
High Court Reverses
Klamath County Case
Salem (U.R) The State
Supreme Court, in an opinion
by Justice George Rossman, to
day reversed a Klamath county
decision which had reduced the
true cash value of the Consum
ers' Heating Company from
$240,000 " established by the
State Tax commission to $137,
000. The company claimed it had
purchased its property in 1946
in a voluntary transaction for
$53,344, although the predeces
sor company carried that plant
on its books at a depreciated
value of $117,650.
Act Authorizing Circuit Judges To Sit
In High Court Declared Unconstitutional
Salem U.P.) The State Su
preme court today declared un
constitutional an act of the 1955
Legislature authorizing the Su
preme Court to designate circuit
judges to sititemporarily as mem
bers of the court when deemed
necessary to relieve a congestion
of cases.
In an opinion by Justice Wal
ter L. Tooze, the high court
said that while the legislature
may create judgeships, it has no
constitutional authority to ap
point judges to fill those posi
tions, nor may it delegate such
authority.
Must Be Elected
Supreme Court judges must
be elected by the voters and
vacancies can be filled only by
the governor by, interim appoint
ment, the opinion continued.
Price 5c
er
two-price systems for rice and
wheat. Price supports would be
left flexible, ranging from 75 to
90 per cent for four of the six
basic corps.
The Senate yesterday voted
54-39 for a two-price plan for
ns Filed for
Petitions for consolidation of
Oak Grove, West Side and Med
ford school districts are now on
file at the county school super
intendent's ' office, it was an
nounced at a Medford district
49 school board meeting last
night. .
The petitions will now be sub
mitted to the county boundary
board for approval after which
the date will be set Ifor an elec
tion in the three districts on the
Goldwater Predicts
No Al Sarena Report
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), pre
dicted today that a joint Senate
House subcommittee will make
no report on its investigation of
the Al Sarena mining claims
case.
Goldwater called the investi
gation a "useless attempt to
smear," Secretary of Interior
Douglas McKay.
"Many days have passed since
the curtain came down on this
sad play," he told the Senate.
"No report has been made as
yet, and I doubt there will be
one."
The joint subcommittee con
cluded an investigation last
month of the granting of disput
ed mining claims in an Oregon
national forest to Al Sarena
Mines, Inc.
Salem (U.R) Oregon's . State
Highway Commission yesterday
awarded a $28,458 contract to
Glen Ousley, Eugene, for work
at the Mussel creek slide cor
rection project on the Oregon
Coast highway, some 14 miles
south of Port Orford.
The case arose when the court,
acting under the 1955 law
named Circuit Judge James W.
Crawford of Portland to sit as
the first appointee.
Judge Crawford was assigned
to sit upon a group of appeals
including one involving John R.
Madden. Madden then filed a
proceeding challenging'the right
of the judge to serve and assert
ing the legislative act was un
constitutional.. '
Madden's main reason for the
unconstitutionality of the sta
tute was that the constitution re
quires that judges of the Supreme
Court be elected by the legal
voters of the state at large.
Said the court: "Nowhere in
the Constitution do we find any
authority vested in the legisla
ture to provide for temporary
members of the Supreme Court,
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off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will sail for the
Mediterranean early next year to join the
U.S. Sixth Fleet.
New Farm
Panties
wheat sponsored by Sen. Frank
Carlson (R-Kan.). But later it
voted 57 to 33 . against a two-
price plan for cotton proposed
by Sen. Richard B. Russell (D
Ga.), who had supported the
Carlson plan.
Consolidation
issue.
Meetings have been held re
cently in the districts to discuss
the possibility of consolidation.
The petitions requesting con
solidation had a total of 397 sig
natures, 260 from Medford, 117
from Oak Grove and 20 from
West Side district.
Medford school board also last
night approved a resolution to
deed all streets and roadways
owned by the district adjacent
to Jefferson school to the city of
Medford.
The board set the date for
1956 commencement exercises
as June 7. Commencement will
be held at 8 p.m. in the Senior
High school stadium.
Superintendent Leonard May
field announced that all teach
ers were recommended for re
hiring next year except two who
had indicated they did not wish
to return to the district. A sal
ary study report for teachers
has not yet been completed,
Mayfield said.
September 10 was set by the
board as the starting date for the
1956-57 school year. June 7, 1957
was named as the date when the
school year would end.
Mayfield warned board mem
bers that if. Evergreen Bus lines
service should be discontinued
the district would be faced with
a transportation problem.
Weather
FOREC AS T: Clear tonight;
patches of fog Thursday
morning. Variable high clou
diness Thursday afternoon
and .night. Low 28; high 60.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 54
Lowest this Morning 26
Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace.
nor to provide for the tempor
ary appointment of any person
to perform the judicial duties of
the court.
Clearly Contemplates
"The constitution clearly con
templates that only duly and
regularly elected or constitu
tionally appointed members of
the Supreme Court, whatever
their number may perform the
functions thereof. It is manifest,
therefore, that ORS 2.060 vio
lates the constitutional mandate
as to the election and tenure of
members of the supreme court."
The high court said the decis
ion reflected in no way upon
the judicial competence of Judge
Crawford and noted that its ap
pointment of the judge to sit
with them gave evidence of t-S
court's confidence in his judicial compared with 2,790,000 yester
qualifications. ' - I day.
Reveals His Feelings
At News Conference
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower said today he would
be very happy to run for reelec
tion with Vice-President Rich
ard M. Nixon.
The President at a news con
ference gave his strongest in
dorsement to date of the vice
president. Summing up his feeling about
Nixon "in exactly the terms I
mean," the President said:
"I am very happy that Dick
Nixon is my friend. I am very
happy to have him as an asso
ciate in government. I would be
happy to be on any political
ticket in which I was a candidate
with him.
"Now, if. those words aren't
plain; then it is merely because
people can't understand the
plain, unvarnished truth.'
Heavy Vote for Nixon
Mr. Eisenhower's latest com
ments on Nixon followed on the
heels of the heavy write-in vote
received by the vice-president in
yesterday's New Hampshire pri
mary balloting.
Mr. Eisenhower's apparently
full endorsement of Nixon de
livered to the news conference
with the prior knowledge of the
vice-president. They had a half
hour meeting yesterday.
The President said last week
that if it was up to Nixon to
chart his own future political
course, then tell him what he
wanted to do. Asked if Nixon
had done this, the President said
simply that Nixon knew what
he was going to say this morning.
Nixon Like Brother
Obviously mindful of reports
that he might "dump" Nixon as
a running mate this year, the
President likened his relations
with Nixon to those of a brother.
He said anyone who attempted
to drive a wedge between Nixon
and him would have no more
success than if they attempted to
drive a wedge between the chief
executive and his brother.
The President's discussion of
Nixon was not volunteered, how
ever. It came when the chief ex
ecutive was asked how he re
acted to the heavy write-in vote
for Nixon in the New Hampshire
preferential primary yesterday.
Mr. Eisenhower said that ap
parently lots of people in New
Hampshire agreed with what he
had said in praise of Nixon last
week.
Eden Calls for
Confidence Vote
London (U.R) Prime Minister
Anthony -Eden demanded a vote
of confidence today on Britain's
policy toward Cyprus.
And as Eden went before the
House of Commons for the vote,
the flabbergasted Foreign Office
was still trying to discover
whose side the United States
was on.
Parliamentary observers said
Eden also may discuss Britain's
views on U. S. Ambassador Cav
endish Cannon's expression of
"sympathetic concern" to the
Greek government over Cyprus,
a statement that hit Britain like
a bombshell.
The Foreign Office was caught
off guard by Cannon's statement
It was embarrassed both by the
statement and by State Depart
ment Spokesman Lincoln White's
remark that negotiations with
Cypriot leaders should be re
sumed as soon as possible.
The situation was eased with
a clarifying statement later from
the State Department. This one
said the United States had never
urged the recall of Makarios to
Cyprus and it took some of the
sting away from the earlier re
marks. Grand Jury Probe Is
Halted Temporarily
Salem U.R) The grand jury
investigation of graft charges in
state institutions was temporar
ily halted today to allow time to
subpoena 15 more witnesses
from Fairview home here.
District Attorney Kenneth
Brown said the probe will re
sume tomorrow. He said the
jury hoped to finish testimony
then on Fairview home.
Charges were brought by Al
Richardson, former state prison
food manager, as he launched
his campaign for the Democratic
nomination for state treasurer.
DOWJTONES AVERAGES ,
New York (U.R) Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 503.88, up 4.55; 20 rail
roads 169.04, up 1.86; 15 utili
ties 67.34, off 0.02, and 65 stocks
178.83, up 144. Sales today
were about ' 3,140,000 . shares