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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. .
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1956
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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
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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.