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o n h Liked Minnesota Voters Choosing Between Adlai, Kefauver Sunny Skies Boost Hope for Big Vote Minneapolis OJ.R) Bright, sunny kies boosted hopes of a large vote today when Adlai E. Stevenson and Sen. Estes Kefauver clash in their first head-on test of strength in the Minnesota presidential primary. Voting got off to a fairly good start around the state when polls opened at 7 a.m. By mid morning early reports indicated that voting was running average to good over most of the state, with some places reporting "lag ging" and others reporting "up to one-third more than by the same time in 1952." Kefauver Sees Upset Keffgjver said he would be satisfied with 55 per cent of the vote and would consider a 60 per cent vote decisive. Kefauver predicted he would get more than 30 per cent of the vote and might score a major upset. It is the first time the two rivals of the Democratic presi dential nomination have met in a primary, although Kefauver scored an impressive victory over a slate of delegates favor able to Stevenson in New Hamp shire last week. Heavy Turnout Expected A heavy turnout of between 450,000 and 525,000 Democrats is expected to vote. No major trend ,in the returns is expected until late tonight. Republicans hoped for a hefty vote of confidence for President Eisenhower on the GOP side of the primary. He is running against the token opposition of a slate of delegates pledged to Sen. William F. Knowland of California. Knowland has said he would have withdrawn his name after the President enter ed the race if Minnesota law permitted. No Change Reported In Boy's Condition No change was reported to day in the condition of 8-month-old John Skyrman who was se riously injured in an auto acci dent Friday which took the lives of his parents and older sister. ffte baby's doctors reported that the child doesn't seem criti cal and that he is out of danger at present. His condition was described as fair. The baby was injured in a collision near Susanville, Calif., which occurred when his par ents were en route here from Reno, Nev., to visit relatives. The child was flown from Su sanville to Community hospital here by air ambulance. Obitu aries on the boy's parents and sister appear on page 13 of to day's Mail Tribune. Communist Boats Repelled at Matsu Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Five large Communist gunboats were repelled in an attempt to invade the Matsu Islands to night, the Nationalist Defense Ministry announced. A communique said the Reds q were repulsed by Nationalist gunners after a fierce one-hour artilery duel. The announcement said Red gigis at Huangchi fired 114 rounds at Matsu during the en gagement. Earlier this morning, Matsu underwent a one-hour air alert as four unidentified planes ap proached the offshore island. . Meanwhile, Red guns on AlTioy fired 45 rounds tonight at Quemoy Island to the south. Thermometer Testing Will Start Here This Wednesday R. Roy Simpson, official frost forecaster for the U.S. Weather Bureau, and Jackson county agents will begin testing about 400 orchard thermometers Wed nesday in the office of Cliff . Cordy, county agent for horti culture. Simpson said the thermometer testing is being done in prepara tion for the fruit, frost warning program slated to start March 26 unless conditions warrant start ing earlier. Accuracy Tested Accuracy of each thermometer will be tested in a' sub-freezing brine solution. Testing of the first 400 ther mometers is-expected to be com plete by Thursday afternoon. Simpson said, however, that a few orchardists have not as yet brought in their thermometers for testing and more will be tested next week. He urged fruit growers who have not al ready brought in thermometers STALIN By UNITED PRESS The Communist drive to re duce the myth of the late Josef Stalin from the status of Red saint to human tyrant surged forward unabated today. The drive was set off by a speech by Soviet Communist party secretary Nikita Khrush chev to the recent 20th party Congress in Moscow. In it he is reported to have assailed the Stalin legend of one-man rule and to have emphasized the new Soviet policy of collective lead ership. This new line promptly was endorsed by other Communist leaders, although it left the So Turkish Cypriots Shout Revenge Against Greeks Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Hun dreds of flag-waving Turkish Cypriots swarmed through the streets of Nicosia today smash ing Greek shop windows and shouting for revenge against Greek Cypriots. They ran head-on into a tear gas barrage by British security forces trying to avert bloody island - wide clashes between Turkish and Greek residents. The mob, shouting "We want revenge," was stirred up by eye witness reports of a clash be tween Turkish and Greek Cypri ots in the northern coastal town of Vassilia yesterday. The reports said 38 persons were injured, many of them Turkish women and children beaten by Greek villagers in re taliation for a Turkish stone throwing barrage. Violence today erupted in Me taxas Square after the Turks had marched to the Greek sec tion through city streets. " Windows of at least two Greek owned shops were smashed. Oth er Greek shopowners, obviously anticipating the violence, had their windows shuttered. Photographer Beaten The mob spotted a Greek photographer taking pictures of the demonstration. They beat him to the ground and smashed his camera. Two Greek reporters were chased into a cafe where they barricaded themselvs. The mob then turned toward the Turkish consulate but Brit ish troops armed with Sten guns blocked the way and turned it back. As the demonstration started, British officials reported that an 18-year-old Greek Cypriot was shot and seriously wounded by security forces when he failed to answer a challenge during the night at Stroumburi village. Fluoridation Hearing In Ashland Tonight Ashland The Ashland city council will hold a public hear ing at 7:30 p.m. today on wheth er or not fluorides should be added to the city water supply. The hearing was called after the council discussed advantages of fluoridation, and public de bate and controversy which have arisen in some places where it has been proposed. The council was asked by a committee of 10 Ashland doctors and dentists to add fluorides to the water as a public health measure. They said it has been shown to be entirely safe, and to result in a reduction in the number of tooth cavities of up to 70 per cent. Washington (U.R) The Sen ate has confirmed without de bate the nomination of Stanley N. Barnes, Los Angeles,' as a federal circuit judge for the Ninth Circuit on the West Coast. to do so as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Simpson and coun ty agents are setting up about 10 temperature survey stations in orchards at various locations in the valley. Temperatures at the stations will be reported reg ularly and the information will be used in the frost warning pro gram. All stations are expected to be established by Thursday or Friday. Broadcast Warnings Simpson will broadcast the frost - warnings, either by tape recording or direct broadcast, from the office of W. B. Tucker, chief county agent. This is Simpson's first assign ment in Jackson county. He is regularly stationed in Pomona, Calif., and will be replaced April 15 by Earl Rogers. Roy Rogers, who worked in this area for several years as forecaster, recently suffered a heart attack and retired from the weather bureau. Earl Rogers is currently forecasting elsewhere. ATTACK viet peoples confused and re portedly resulted in violent pro test demonstrations in Stalin's home state of Georgia. Thousands of propagandists went into action to convince the Soviet peoples that the new con cept was the right one. There were some dissents from Com munist mouthpieces outside the Soviet Union. However, Georgi Malenkov, chosen successor to the late So viet dictator, was not among the dissenters. He jumped on the anti-Stalin bandwagon in a question and answer appearance at a Labor party banquet in London last night. Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 20 Pages Debate To Expand Milk lor Schools Delayed in House Washington (U.R) House leaders decided today to put off until tomorrow an expected par tisan fight over expanding fed eral subsidies to provide milk for school children. The announced reason for the delay was today's president ial primary in Minnesota, a big milk producing state. The House probably will meet early tomorrow to consider the milk bill. The bill has become mixed up in farm politics. Partisan Jockeying The once non-controversial legislation, which already has twice passed the Senate and House in differing forms, has since become enmeshed in par tisan jockeying for position in the fight over the omnibus farm bill. Democrats hoped to persuade the House today to approve and send to the President emergency legislation to expand the milk subsidies through June 30, 1956. The legislation was put on an emergency basis because some states will have run out of fed eral milk funds by April 1. GOP Seeks Defeat But Republicans sought to de feat the emergency legislation. They hoped then to persuade the. House instead to send the White House legislation to ex pand milk subsidies for an ad ditional two years to June 30, 1958. Both forms of the legislation already have won approval of the Senate, which went through the same partisan wrangling last week. Democrats accused House Republicans of trying to steal credit for the long range expansion in the milk program. Council To Consider Two Paving Petitions The Medford. city council will consider petitions for two pav ing and one sewer projects ' at its 7:30 p.m. meeting today. Petitions have been submitted for paving of Boardman st. from Ohio st. to McAndrews rd., and of Modoc st. from East. Main st. south to the old city limits line. A petition requesting a sewer in Capital Hill addition also will be considered. The council will consider an ordinance to prepare plans and specifications for a sanitary sew er in Capital Hill, a resolution of assurance to the Army corps of engineers sponsoring bank protection work at Bear creek, and a resolution authorizing fil ing of application for flood dam age work at Roxy Ann rd. Bad Oregon Winter Officially Chased By UNITED PRESS -One of Oregon's worst win ters ended officially at 7:21 a.m. today and the weather bureau said temperatures for at least the next few days should seem like spring. But there may not be an over abundance of sunshine at the start of the new season. Temperatures in Oregon for the next five days were ex pected to reach highs of 65 to 70 degrees. Bui some below freezing readings can be ex pected in parts of eastern Ore gon, the weather bureau said. Oregon was reported in the path of a series of weak storms from the Pacific with rain ranging from Vi to two inches in western Oregon and .10 to .50 east of the Cascades during the five-day period, forecasts said. SURGES; One of these at the dinner said Malenkov told the group the important thing in the So viet Union now was that "they have established the right to dis sent outside the collective lead ership without being branded a traitor to the leadership, the party or the people." The pudgy ex-Premier said the new leadership now has cleaned up the Soviet, stopped dicatorship and "all the wicked things," and that there no long er was any need to worry. Censorship Tighter In Moscow, a new Soviet film has been completed which will show that Stalin was something MEDFORD, OREGON, Pari STOPPED COLD! This is an early morning scene in Boston as commuters took to their walking shoes in 4an effort to get- to work. Busses, cars and trucks here are stalled and no traffic was moving due to severe northeast blizzard which swept over New England. Many passengers slept overnight in the busses pictured above. astern Storm Toll New York (U.R) . The death toll rose today to at least 156 persons killed in two week end storms which swept across the Northeastern states. The death toll from the first, which rolled in from the Mid west Friday was 88. New England states reported 24 deaths in the second storm which blew up . along a hurri cane path from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod, paralyzing parts of seven states under one to two feet of snow. Twenty seven died in New Jersey, nine in Pennsylvania, eight in New Changes Suggested in Highway Legislation Only minor changes were rec ommended in three areas of pos sible highway legislation dis cussed at a state legislative high way interim committee hearing at the courthouse annex this morning. Topics considered were a pro pose! to take state parks out of the jurisdiction of the highway department and create a special park commission; change farm vehicle license registration, and transfer highway truck weigh ing from the highway depart ment to state police. Park Recommendation L. L. (Doc) Simpson of Med ford, recommended to the com mittee that state parks be left under highway department jur isdiction as he felt that the parks were being satisfactorily im proved and maintained. Simpson stated he would ap prove the formation of an advis ory state park committee pro viding that it was non-political and acted in an advisory capac ity only. David Blair, Jackson county president of the American Farm Bureau federation, advocated that farm truck licenses be sur-, rendered when a vehicle is sold, and that steps be taken to elim inate the possibility of abuse of farm licensing privileges. Reduced Rates Trucks licensed for farm use now receive reduced license rates, are not required to have PUC permits, and receive some insurance exemptions. Ted Wharton, Oregon Log and Lumber Truckers, advised that less than the great military ge nius he has long been acclaimed by the Reds. The Voice of American em phasized in broadcasts to the Russians and the world that the Soviet leaders now denouncing Stalin are the same ones who once carried out his "policies and purges with efficiency and apparently with enthusiasm." These developments brought an unmistakable tightening of censorship over dispatches from Moscow by Western correspond ents. But they seemed to have little effect on the "smiles" cam paign of the Soviets in their dealings with the West. Prime Minister Anthony TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1956 I York, for a total of 68. The storm swirled out to sea today, cutting communications with outlying islands, raising dangerous tides along the Massachusetts coast and tossing 11 fishermen into a close brush with death. Schools were closed through out much of the. stricken area. Business limped back to nor mal after a Monday estimated to have run at less than half the area's normal rate. The Commerce and Industry estimated the snow had already cost New York City businesses weighmaster stations be left under the jurisdiction . of the highway department rather than changed to the state police. Wharton said he felt the highway department was doing a thorough job of controlling truck traffic and that since state police would not be able to weigh as often it would be more difficult for truckers to adjust to the scales. About 30 people attended the hearings here. The committee was to hold a hearing at noon today in Klamath Falls and an other this afternoon at Lake view. Committee members are State Sen. Warren A. McMinimee, chairman; Robert Elfstrom, vice chairman; State Sen. Walter Leth, and State Reps. Fred Meek, Portland and Al Littrell, Med ford. Election on CP Fire District Budget Today Central Point A poll will be open until 8 p.m. today at the Central Point Rural Fire Pro tection district station just south of here for residents to vote on a special tax levy of $6,972.80 for the district's 1956-57 budget. The levy is almost $2,000 less than the levy asked last year, but is outside the 6 per cent and 4 mill limitations. The overall budget shows a drop of $259.92 from 1955. Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower will hold a news conference at 7:30 a.m. (PST) tomorrow. o)5 0)H MALENKOV Eden went before Parliament in London to give full details of next month's visit to Britain by Khrushchev and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin.' And, while informed sources said Eden is convinced Soviety policy has not changed, he is reported ready to take advantage of any good will that may come out of the visit by proposing new "sum mit" talks. Red China's Position Only in East Berlin was there any open dissent from the gen eral Red line that Stalin falsified history for his own glory. The East German Communist party newspaper Neues Duetschland denied that anti - government TRIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 309 $150,000,000. Many firms clos ed or operated only a few hours Monday. Only slightly better conditions were predicted for today. Some 33 ' per cent of New York workers who commute to their jobs from scores of sub urbs were unable to fight their way through snowdrifts or find adequate transportation. Nearly every ' school in the affected east coast area was closed. All New York and New Jersey schools in the snowbelt were ordered closed until fur ther notice. The effects of the storm the worst in eight years reach ed into the lives of nearly every one of the 30,000,000 persons in the stricken area. City streets and highways in the heavily populated areas of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and lower New Hampshire were almost de serted except for the workers who struggled to clear driving and walking lanes. Thousands of cars were bog ged down in huge drifts along the eastern network of road ways. Many of them had been deserted when they stalled Sun day or Monday on the slick snow covered surfaces. County Fair, FFA Fair Slated August 21-25 Jackson county's 1956 4-H and FFA fair will be held Aug. 21 25. The date was decided Mon day night when the fair board met with members of the home economics and agriculture com mittees of the Jackson County 4-H Leaders association. Exhibits must be in place by 10 p.m. Aug. 19, county agents report, and much of the judging will be done before the fair be gins. Judges have not yet been an nounced. Driving Charge Nets $100 City Court Fine Clarence Thomas Wunderlich, 47, route 1, Gold Hill, was fined $100 in city court yesterday on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influ ence of intoxicating liquor He was arrested Saturday night while operating a coupe on North Fir st., and will be re leased from jail on payment of the fine, city police said. JOINS IfJ demonstrations had occurred in Tiflis, capital city of Soviet Georgia. Western observers, m e a n while, watched with close inter est to see Communist China's reaction to the Stalin purge. Red Chinese Premier Mao Tse-tung was considered Stalin's friend. His message to the recent Mos cow party congress was out of step with the new anti-Stalin line since it praised the late dic tator. Hence a visit today by Marshal Chu Teh, Mao's chief deputy, to Bulganin in Moscow because he is considered more in step with Khruschev than Mao. (See Story on Page 9) Weather FORECAST: Cloudy with light rain tonight and Wednesday morning. Showers Wednesday afternoon. Occasional gusty southerly winds this evening. Continued mild with low to night 38, high Wednesday 55. Highest Yesterday 51 Lowest this Morning 30 Knowland Claims Modification by Committee Needed Washington (U.R) Senate Re publican Leader William F. Knowland of California predict ed after a White House confer ence today that President Eisen hower will veto the Senate pass ed farm bill unless it is "modi fied" by a Senate-House Ponfer ence Committee. Knowland and other GOP leg islative leaders discussed the f arm bill with Mr. Eisenhower at their weekly legislative con ference today. Senate Democrats meanwhile boasted that they had won a "back door" victory over the administration in the fight over, high price supports in the farm measure. Administration forces until last night had been successful in beating back Democratic efforts to replace flexible price supports with high . rigid supports. But Democrats at the last minute pushed through an amendment designed to lift sharply the pres ent support price floor of 75 per cent of parity for corn, cotton and wheat. Urge Modifications The Senate then went on to pass, 93 to 2, the catch-all farm bill . that would increase farm ers' election year income by hundreds of millions of dollars. The bill now goes to the House, which may send it to a joint conference committee for further rewriting. - Knowland said that "every one, including the President" ex pressed hope at the White House meeting that the conference committee "may modify the bill." "It is unworkable in its pres ent form," said Knowland. "I don't see how, if the bill was left in its present form, the President could sign it." Hop Referendum Vote Expected To Be Heavier Salem (U.R) Voting was ex pected to be heavier today in Oregon's three-day hop referen dum to . determine whether growers want a commodity or ganization for their product. Yesterday's vote was very light. -' Top growers can vote from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Wed nesday in County agents' offices at Grants Pass, Albany, Dallas, Salem, Oregon , City, McMinn ville, Pendleton, Ontario, St. Paul and Independence. v Washington -(U.R) James T. Pyle, a former Navy pilot and commercial airline executive has been named deputy adminis trator of the Civil Aeronautics authority. Hitchcock Carries Bid for Nomination To Hood River Hood River (U.R) Phil Hitchcock moved his campaign for the Republican senatorial nomination through the Colum bia Gorge today, stopping at noon to tell the Hood River Lions club that "we must always stand ready to carry on essential services involving public health and common welfare . . ." But the former state senator said "we must never permit government assistance to destroy individual initiative and self re spect." Hitchcock, who hopes to win the primary nomination away from Interior Secretary Douglas Reception by U. Russians Said Favorable Some Features Still Objectionable London (U.R) Both the Unit ed States and Soviet Union were reported today to have eiven favorable reception to an Anglo- french disarmament plan. Informed sources said the Americans were "quite favor able" to the plan which is re ported to call for immediate cuts in the size of "conventional" arms and armies. Andrei Gromvko. the Soviet representative, was pictured as pleased at the anele of the tilan calling for immediate cuts in the size of armies and wearjons. Delegates Study Plan The delegates attending the U.N. Subcommittee on Disarma ment took time off today to study the proposals which were submitted at yesterday's session. Informed sources said the United States still obiected to some features of the plan and differs on "many questions of a far-reaching nature." The plan was earned to Washington for study. Gromyko, in one of his most cordial moods in vears. went over the blueprint intently while European diplomats hoped for the first break in the disarmament deadlock since the end of the war in 1945. Other Plans To Come Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union have submit ted their own plans to the sub committee meeting attended bv the United States, Britain, France, Canada and Russia. They were expected to do so be fore the group is much further along in the five or six weeks meeting. Governor Seeking Heroic Youngster Salem (U.R) Some Oregon boy or girl who performed an outstanding act of bravery or service in 1955 can receive na tional recognition from the Young American Medals Com mittee of the U.S. Justice De partment, Gov. Elmo Smith said today. - - Two medals for bravery and two for service may be awarded to any citizen under 19 years of age under an act of Congress which was intended to recognize outstanding valor and achieve ment. Gov. Smith requested that anyone in Oregon with a nom-: inees to suggest may write to the executive office here. The governor must make the nomina tions. Names will be received until June 30. An Oregon youth, Howard Fitzgerald of Dallas, received one of the awards for courage in 1953. He saved the lives of two brothers when fire destroy ed their home at Valsetz. Sewer Installation Hearing Completion Installation of storm sewers in the Laurelhurst addition is nearing completion, except for a few catch basins, according to Vernon Thorpe, Medford's direc tor of public works. The project, which began Jan. 3, is expected to cost the city approximately $8,000. It will provide drainage for the area between Hillcrest rd. and the north city limits as far east as Valley View drive and south to the outlet at Mary st., Thorpe said. Some 1,188 feet of 30-inch pipe was installed; 1,272 feet of 18-inch pipe; 72 feet of 12-inch pipe; 87 feet of 10-inch; and 50 feet of 8-inch. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 512.62, up 2.86; 20 rail roads 169.12, up 0.25; 15 utilities 67.16, up 0.02, and 65 stocks 180.44, up 0.63. Sales today were about 2,960,000 shares compared with 2,570,000 yesterday. McKay and go on to face Sen. Wayne Morse in the November election, warned against de pendence on government to pro tect civil liberties. "The only real defense for our rights and our liberties is in an enlightened public opinion," he said. Hitchcock is scheduled to ad dress the annual meeting of the Oregon Council of Churches to night at Milton-Freewater. He is immediate past president of the council and is now a member of the staff of Lewis & Clark col lege in Portland.
