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Newspaper Page Texto ii 1 IT tUcl Paralyzed by 0 J- emirs uoieciion To Stalin Expected As Eext Soviet Move Washington (U.R) The Soviet government's next move in trying to convince Russians that Stalin was a heel probably will be to point out that Len in didn't want Stalin as his suc cessor. Soviet experts said such a move was likely as soon as pro Stalin sentiment begins to abate in Russia, especially in the late dictator's home province of Georgia. Reports leaking out of Rus sia said there had been demon strations in Georgia protesting efforts by Communist leaders to discredit Stalin. But observers here doubted the demonstra tions were of any great signifi cance. Resentment Natural These experts high-level government scholars of Com munist theory and tactics said it was natural for Georgians to resent the attack on their most famous native. They pointed out that under Stalin, Georgia re ceived more favors than any other Soviet province. But the experts said that re sentment in Georgia gradually would disappear under the pounding of Communist party propagandists preaching the new doctrine that Stalin was guilty of major "errors of judgment." As soon as the pro-Stalin sen timent abates, the experts said, th; Central committee of the Communist party probably' will release "Lenin's "last testa ment" and other documents de signed to tear down the aura of infallibility that surrounded Stalin. . According to the version pub lished in the West but never made available to the Russian people, Lenin still the infall ible deity of Communism did not want Stalin as his successor. . Moscow .(U.R) Official sources today maintained an ab glute silence on the unpublish ed speech by Soviet Communist party secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev on the late Premier Josef Stalin. .,.' The speech was made known Class for 'Sitters' Given at Schools Two courses in baby sitting are now In progress at Medford junior high schools and a third is planned at the high school. The courses, sponsored jointly y the Medford Council of Par ent Teacher associations and the Medford schools, are designed to train students in baby care and produce qualified baby sitters for local families, according to Elliott Becken, assistant school superintendent. Medford Police Service Sgt. Cjde Fichtner will discuss baby sitting in relation to police work today at the second session of the bab'y sitting school at Hed rick Junior High school. At the first meeting of the class, which was attended by more than 60 students, Miss Dor othy Collard, county health de partment supervisor of nurses, spoke and gave demonstrations of baby care. Miss Collard will speak again today on a similar subject at the first meeting of the baby sitting class at Mc Loughlin Junior High school. Baby sitters will receive first aid instruction at a third class followed by a talk "by a local mother on what parents and sit ters can expect of each other. The final class will meet for summation and examinations on material covered. Parents who wish to hire cer tified baby sitters may call the dean of girls at any of the schools, Becken said. United States Plan for Limitation on Nuclear Weapons ; London (U.R) The world's five major atomic powers opened disarmament talks here today with the United States pressing a hurry-up plan for limitations on nuclear weapons now. The delegates from the United States. Great Britain, France, Canada and the Soviet Union met to discuss the world's big gest problem in the most opti mistic atmosphere since the end of World War II. Appeal To Stop Arguing British host delegate Anthony Nutting opened the session with an appeal to East and West to "stop arguing and start acting" on disarmament. . But even the West was in dis agreement on the best plan for world disarmament. The U. S. delegation found it wholly with to wide sections of the party and non-party members and has been thoroughly discussed throughout the country. The East German Communist leader Walter Ulbricht in a sim ilar speech made yesterday de nounced Stalin as a ruthless er ring dictator who used Secret Police terror against his own party comrades. He said Stalin, by setting him self up over the Communist party's top councils, fostered a "fuehrer cult." Ulbricht said his attack was based on disclosures made at last month's Soviet Communist party Congress in Moscow when Khrushchev was reported to have made the speech Feb. 25. Morse To Request Additional Funds For Talent Project Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) is seeking an increase in the amount of money allocated to the Talent project, he reported this morning. The budget as presented to Congress calls for $2,400,000 for construction work during fiscal year 1957. Senator Morse report ed he is asking that this be in creased to $3,000,000. The senator said in a wire he was planning to appear today before the House appropriations subcommittee on public works. He declared the bureau of recla mation has told him the increas ed amount could profitably be used during the fiscal year. The Talent project, authorized two years ago, is now fully planned. This year's budget con tains the first funds for con struction, and initial bids are due to be called in April or May. The total cost will be more than $19,000,000 when com pleted, or some $22,000,000 if the cost of rehabilitation of two other irrigation districts is in cluded in the total. Senator Morse also reported he will ask the subcommittee for $41,700 for work by the Army engineers for flood control ex amination' and surveys on the Rogue River and' its tributaries. He said he would emphasize that maximum progress on flood con trol is vital to Oregon. McKay's Views Seen As Campaign Issue Washington (U.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), predicted today that the "curi ously contradictory" views of Interior Secretary Douglas Mc Kay will be a major issue in the Oregon elections this fall. McKay will seek the GOP senatorial nomination in Ore gon. If successful he will chal lenge Sen. Wayne Morse (D Ore.), in the November election. Neuberger said McKay told Oregonians in 1954 the mount ing federal debt prevented con struction of the $308,000,000 Hells Canyon dam. Now, he said, McKay is "pushing to se cure final congressional enact ment of the $800,000,000 upper Colorado project. Neuberger said the people of Oregon will be "told the reasons for the secretary's Jekyll-and-Hyde attitude." "The utilities want the Hells Canyon site for their own par tial development," he said, "but wouldn't touch the high-cost up per Colorado sites with a 300 mile transmission line." Presses for Hurry-Up on a long range plan for disarma ment sponsored jointly by Brit ain and France. Even though the Anglo-French plan incorporated U. S. ideas like President Eisenhower's "open skies" proposal, chief American delegates Harold E. Stassen disclosed yesterday that the United States had its own specific proposals. Stassen re fused to disclose details of the plan before the meeting but it was understood to be aimed at making a start toward disarma ment quickly. Gradual Approach The Anglo - French proposals were reported to take a more gradual approach on the issue. The Soviet unexpectedly sent Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to represent it at the conference, raising hope that Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 14 Pages Program Tailored To Meet Russia's Policy Departures Must Continue Aid To Free Nations Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower submitted to Congress today a $4,859,975,000 foreign aid program tailored to meet Russia's "new departures in foreign policy." It included authority for long term U.S. aid commitments to underdeveloped countries. Mr. Eisenhower warned in a 3500-word special message to the House and Senate that "we cannot now falter in our quest for peace." Although the Communists seem to have "put aside, at least temporarily," the strategy of "aggression through force," he said, there is no reason to be lieve they have abandoned their "sinister objectives" of world domination. He said the United States must continue military aid to free na tions because the huge and still growing Soviet armed forces "still cast an ominous shadow over the world." And thus it must have a "flexible" econom ic aid program to counter the Soviet Union's new program of "ceaseless probing for opportu nities to exploit political and economic weaknesses." Represents Increase Mr. Eisenhower asked a total aid appropriation of $4,859,975, 000 for the 1957 fiscal year starting July 1. This represents an increase of about $2,200,000, 000 over the appropriations re quested for the current 1956 fis cal year. Mr. Eisenhower said this was necessary because un spent balances from prior years, which had covered part of the 1956 program, are not available for fiscal 1957. Actual aid spending in the 1957 fiscal year is expected to run $4,300,000,000 or about $100,000,000 more than actual spending in the current fiscal year. In his message, Mr. Eisenhow er did not discuss actual spend ing, but outlined his program in terms of how the $4,859,975,000 appropriation would be allocat ed among various purposes. Largest Share for Military The largest share of this, $2, 295,000,000, was earmarked for military aid. Other major items included $1,130,700,000 for "de fense supporting" economic aid to military allies; $170,000,000 for "development assistance" in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America; $175,500,000 for technical (point four) aid; $100, 000,000 for a special fund for economic development in Asia; and $100,000,000 for a fund to be used by the President to meet emergency or special situations anywhere in the world. , The military aid program in cluded $1,640,000,000 for Asia and the Middle East where, Mr. Eisenhower said "serious risk of aggression still exists." He asked Congress for author ity to make commitments up to 10 years in length for U.S. as sistance to the underdeveloped countries in long term non-mili tary projects. Russia might now be ready to allow agreement after 10 years of fruitless bargaining. The Western optimism was re flected in the Soviet press. It quoted a recent statement by French Foreign Minister Chris tian Pineau that France s new disarmament plan "combines the previous American and Soviet proposals tending to reconcile the views of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union." Friendly Attitude The West also based its opti mism on what appeared to be a new and friendly Russian attitude towards disarment which had its beginnings at the Geneva "summit" conference and continued through the 20th party congress and the Eisenhow-er-BuIganin letter exchanges. . Ike As Foir IF TV! MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1956 OLreflotrn RECEIVING FIRST SHEET of 1956 Easter Seals, President Eisenhower gives' Clara Jo Proudfoot, 4, Miami, Fla., $5, then rummaged through desk and presented 1956 Easter Seal child with silver dollar, British shilling, ball-point pen, rubber band and pen knife. (International Soundphoto) Scouts lake 'Rescue' On Operation Icicle Almost 40 Explorer Scouts catching wild animals. The from the Crater Lake Area coun cil returned to their homes yes terday evening after successful completion of "Operation Ici cle." Nineteen of the group were from Medford and the remain der from Grants Pass, Happy Camp and O'Brien. The group, led by Bob Cotton, advisor of Explorer post 22, Grants Pass, hiked nine miles into Boy Scout Camp McLaugh lin at Lake of the Woods Wednes day. Arriving at the site about 2:30 p.m., after a four-hour hike with 40 - pound packs through five feet of snow, the tired Scouts set up camp and readied their bed rolls, according to Assistant Scout Executive Dick Lamb who returned ahead of the group. Rescue Team Thursday marning the group got a realistic taste of winter rescue work when A2c Art Yates of Stead air force base, Reno, staggered across the froz en lake seeking help. He told the group that he was a member of an air force experimental team, that he and another airman had become lost, and that the other airman had suffered a broken leg. Not knowing that Yates and A2c Vince Swinney and older Scouts Larry Hammond and Wilson Gilinsky of Medford had set up camp earlier near by, the group immediately organized a rescue operation and within 20 minutes had reached Yate's camp. Hammond and Gilinsky watched, the operation from a distance, and Hammond report ed today that although an num ber of the scouts began to sus pect the situation, the group suc cessfully carried out an authen tic rescue and gave first aid to the "injured" Swinney. Survival Plants Yates and Swinney, who were granted leave from the air force in order to take part in the op eration, talked to the scouts con cerning camping and rescue and explained air force search meth ods in comparison with the ones just completed by the scouts. Thursday afternoon the Ex plorers began constructiong snow shelters under supervision of the air men and in the eve ning heard a discussion on sur vival plant foods" by Yates and Swinney. The outdoor shelters were completed Friday and the group spent Friday night alongside the lake, cooking their meals in the snow. Returning to camp Saturday noon, the airmen demonstrated emergency traps and snares for eSSDOOT) Aid m scouts built snares during the afternoon after they practiced realistic mountaineering on the snow-covered roof of Elk lodge. Hammond said the group learned use of ice axes and climbing on the steep roof of the lodge. Saturday night the expedition enjoyed a baked ham dinner pre pared by Scoutmaster John Grubbs, O'Brien, who served as chief cook for the outing when a back ailment kept his other ac tivities to a minimum, Hammand said. Operation Icicle badges were awarded the scouts at a cere mony conducted by Cotton late Saturday. The group made the hike back to the cars at Pelican ranger sta tion Sunday morning after the area was cleaned and the build ings were closed against the rugged weather. A touch of humor was added to the outing after one of the group innocently tried to pet a coyote, thinking it was a Ger- man shepherd brought along by one of the scoutmasters. "Operation Icicle" has become an annual project of Crater Lake area council, making., possible winter training not available in the valley. Skyrman Baby Reported In 'Fair" Condition Eight-month-old John Skyr man was reported in fair condi tion today at Community hos pital where -he is undergoing treatment of injuries received in an auto accident Friday night. The baby suffered undeter mined injuries in a collision near Susanville, Calif., which took the life of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Skyrman, and a two-year-old sister. The child was brought from Susanville by Mercy . Flights Inc., air ambu lance service. Man Fined Following 700 Mph Race in Town William Harris Smith, 22, Hilt, Calif., who pleaded guilty in district court this morning to a charge of reckless driving, was fined $80 and his operators license was suspended for 30 days. Smith was arrested by state police at 12:55 a.m. Sunday on Highway 99 near the big Y. Of ficers reported Smith was rac ing with another car at a speed in excess of 100 miles per hour. Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 308 OOuDS 1 Think I Can Win' Hitchcock Declares In Medford Speech Broader Approach To Issues Is Seen Phil Hitchcock, Republican candidate for nomination for the United States Senate, said "I am running because I think I can win nr a speech prepared for a luncheon meeting of the Jackson County Republican Women today. More than 125 women and a number of men were expected at the meeting at the Jackson hotel. Hitchcock said he believes he is the man to unseat Wayne Morse because "I can keep the issues on the broader aspects of the Eisenhower program: On prosperity, foreign policy, school and highway improvements and advancements in civil rights." He added that he intends to "focus attention on Morse's atti tude toward the entire Eisen hower program and Eisenhower as a person." He cited recent political polls showing a "hard core of opposi tion to Morse," which he said is running "almost neck and neck with an equally hard core of support." Republicans must put'up can didates who appeal to the unde cided middle group in order to win, Hitchcock declared. "The undecided are generally people" who' regard themselves as independent voters," Hitch cock said. "I believe I can appeal to these people because I have always taken what Eisenhower calls 'the middle way' in my political philosophy." In an obvious reference - to the Al Sarena mining case which Democrats have indicated they hope to make a political issue this year, he said, "Under the leadership of Ben Day, I made strong efforts to protect the peo ple of Oregon, from the practice of allowing valuable timber lands to be acquired with min ing claims." Hitchcock said the bill he sup ported was declared unconstitu tional "because it was an attempt at the state level to step in where the national Congress has the only ' real authority." He blamed the problem on the ne glect of preceding Democratic Congresses to take action on the issue. Referring to the Eisenhower philosophy of "humanitarian lib eralism and financial responsi bility," Hitchcock detailed 'legis lation he has supported in the Oregon Senate. ' "In the area of human lib erty," he said, "I have sponsored Civil Rights and Fair Employ ment Practices legislation, il have worked for improvements in our penal system and better systems of workmen's and unem ployment compensation. "In the area of financial re sponsibility, I have -supported the budgets brought out by the Ways and Means Committee against attempts to increase them from the floor. I have worked for a better and more simplified tax structure. "As chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, I partici pated in overhauling Oregon's forestry laws to strengthen ad ministration and protect our timber wealth. Our committee also developed a conservation bill that will guard Oregon's potential oil and gas resources." Corvallis High School Student Paper Winner New York (U.R) Corvallis high school was named as first place winner here Saturday in the student newspaper advertis ing awards made by the Colum bia scholastic press association. Some 4,500 students represent ing 500 high schools in 35 states attended the meeting. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 509.76, up 2.16,-20 rail roads 168.87, off 0.17; 15 util ities 67.14, off 0.33, and 65 stocks 179.81, up 0.20. Sales today were about 2,570,000 shares com pared with 3,120,000 Friday. Weather FORECAST Mostly cloudy through Tuesday. Showers Tuesday night and Wednes day morning. Continued mild. Low tonight 37. High Tues day 60. Temp. Highest yesterday 63 Lowest this morning ..40 ROBERT G. FOWLER County Assessor Dies Robert G. Fowler, County Assessor, Taken by Death Robert G. Fowler, Jackson county assessor since 1953 and before that Jackson county agri cultural agent for many years, died at a local hospital last night. He had been ill for sev eral months. Mr. Fowler, 74, was born in Ontario, Canada, on Jan. 2, 1882. He moved to Oregon in 1907, and graduated from Ore gon State college (then Oregon Agricultural college) in 1915. He was married the same year, to the former Mary Peterson, who survives. They moved . to Medford in 1921, where he became club agent. A few years later he be came county agent, a position he held until he retired in 1947 He then was farm advisor for the First National bank for three years, and was associated with the Herried real estate offices for a year before running for election to the county assessor's office in the election of 1952 His memberships included the Medford Rotary club. In addition to Mrs. Fowler, survivors include a son, Robert G. Fowler Jr., San Mateo, Calif., an associate editor of the Farm Journal; a daughter, Mrs. Rob ert W. Root, Medford, and four grandchildren. Private funeral services, for family members only, will be held Tuesday afternoon. Those wishing to pay their last re spects to Mr. Fowler may call at Perl funeral home between noon and 1 p.m. It is the request of the family that no flowers be'sent. Swallows Return To Capistrano San Juan Capistrano, Calif. ;i).P.) The swallows came back to Capistrano today right on schedule as they have been doing for 142 years on St. Joseph's Day. This Southern California community was swelled by some 3,000 tourists, most of them with cameras, who turned out io watch the birds' return to Mission San Juan Capistrano, founded by Father Junipero Serra in 1775. The swallows, preceded yes terday by the usual "scouts," were clocked in at 6:15 a.m. Requiem Mass For Comedian New York (U.R) A requiem mass for Comedian Fred Allen, 61, will be celebrated tomorrow at St. Malachy' Roman Catho lic Church. The baggy eyed humorist succumbed of a heart attack on a New York City street Saturday night, only hours after a doctor had given him a clean bill . of health, his Fred Allen family said. Allen, who would have been 62 in May, was stricken while out for his regular evening stroll with his dog. - An autopsy per formed yesterday showed the cause of death was a heart at tack, although his doctor said his s Thousands of Cars Abandoned in City; Train Service Slow Nearly 100 Persons Dead in Two Storms New York (U.R) New York City and its three-state metropol itan area was almost paralyzed today by a pair of violent storms that blanketed the city with more than 16 inches of snow. Nearly 100 persons were dead as a result of the two storms.' Eighty-three persons died in the first blow which hit Friday with near-blizzard force across the mid-Atlantic and New England states. Ten more were reported dead in the second stage of win-ter's.-dying one-two punch. Tens of thousands abandoned autos were stalled on city streets and along the nearby highways and parkways in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. In New York Citv alone nolice said 10,000 autos were aband oned and some 300(1 nprsnnc spent all or part of the night in stranded cars. Transit Collapses Subway service collapsed to o many outlying sections of the city. Two New Jersey, commuter train lines stopped running. Other trains were delayed from a few minutes up to two hours on some long distance routes. Schools, stores and factories were closed by the hundreds. The latest snow which began lazily about church time yester day morning had piled 12 inches in the city by 8:30 a.m. today. It added to a 4.5 inch fall which stalled traffic Friday. Followed Hurricane Path The end of winter storm fol lowed a hurricane path up the Atlantic Coast on the heels of Friday. Spring is only one day off, but it seemed to be coming in on snowshoes. There was no pre diction of warmer temperatures. The snow traveled up from the mountains of .North Carolina and across Virginia and Penn sylvania and swept across New York-New Jersey and Southern New England. Radio station WOR which pro vides a coded service for officials of 860 New York and New Jer sey schools said 507 of them had reported closings today. The station said it also had reports of eight school districts csed in Pennsylvania. The figure is probably higher, a spokesman said, since its telephone lines were unable to. handle all incom ing calls. The fire department put all men on 24-hour duty. Commis sioner Edward Cavanagh issued a special warning. "Some streets are still inaccessible for fire apparatus," he said. Caught By Surprise The second storm began sOq gently it caught thousands of Sunday drivers unawares as 30 mile winds blew it into a thick and blinding fall. Long Islarl parkways were littered with skidding confusion. Trucks jack knifed across a number of high ways, blocking them to both snow plows and further traffic. Estimates from transportation and business firms indicated more than half of New York City's workday population had stayed home or got lost in a snow drift. The paralysis spread also over neighboring states. Con necticut reported the worst snow storm in 15 years. Accompany ing gale winds whipped danger ous tides along the entire New England coast. A partial emer gency was declared at Norwich, Conn., and Gov. Abraham Ribi coff urged all motorists to stay off the roads. Battle Mountain, Nev. (U.R) . Jerry Jordan, 19, Baker, Ore., was killed Sunday when an auto. overturned near here. Set Tuesday Fred Allen blood pressure and an electro cardiograph registered normal the day before. The dead comedian's wife,' Portland Hoffa, was reported to be under a physician's care. Allen and his wife were mar ried in St. Malachy's in 1922. They worshipped there every Sunday. -. The ' droll humorist's death plunged his fellow entertainers into mourning, but they followed the theatrical "show must go on" tradition by proceeding with the regular Sunday night pre sentation of "What's My Line" on CBS-TV, a show on which Allen had appeared for two years. Allen, born John - Florence Sullivan, May 31, 1894, in Cam bridge, Mass., rose to the top of the . entertainment professions, first as a juggler, then as a stage, radio and movie star.