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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he would have withdrawn his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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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$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
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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.