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o I , FlLU -'Sill AGROUND Angry waves batter the Italian freighter E tntsco at Lighthouse Point, Scituate, Mass., as curious sightseers line the beach to view the stricken vessel. Thirty crewmen were rescued via breeches buoy by the Coast Guard after the ship was driven aground during a blizzard. Ashland Residents to Vote on Fluoridation Of Water Supply; Citizens Discuss Issue Ashland Residents of Ash land will vote May 18 on wheth er or not to adopt water fluorid ation. Mayor Richard L. Neill decided Tuesday nightfollowing a public hearing on the issue. Neill decided whether or not there would be a vote after a roll call in which the council was split, 3 to 3 on the matter. Greeted with Applause The mayor's decision was greeted with applause from the crowded chamber. The last half of the lVfc-hour hearing was largely devoted to whether the citizens should decide the issue or leave the matter up to the city council. A panel of ten physicians and dentists answered questions from the floor concerning fluor- idation ODeninS the disnussinn was I Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president " i of Southern Oregon college. He stressed his opinion that since (ghildren of today will eventu ally be called upon to provide security for their parents, they deserve any measure such as fluoridation their parents could provide to reduce pain and tooth decay. He also commented that fluoridation of the water supply would provide protection for everyone regardless of economic status He added that while fluoridation pills might accomp lish a similar function in reduc- CPRFD Residents Approve Tax Levy Central Point Residents of Central Point Rural Fire Pro tection district yesterday ap proved a tax levy totaling $31v 647.48 for fiscal year 1956-57 The vote was 122 in favor, and 95 against. The actual tax levy exceeds the 6 per cent limitation by $6, 972.80. The total budget for next fiscal year is 31,758.62, com' pared to the $30,370 budget for the present year. The actual tax levy for fiscal year 1956-57 is $259.52 less than the $31,907 levy for the present year. The district maintains stations just south of Central Point and at White City, seven pieces of equipment, three paid employees and crews of volunteers. District Fire Chief Richard Krupp said the budget commit tee limited expenditures to es sentials and planned no improve ments or additions during fiscal year 1956-57 because it felt the tax burden in the county was such that an increase should be avoided. SW Forest District Sets Budget Hearing A member of the state board of forestry will hold a hearing Thursday on a proposed $220,- 000 budget for southwest forest district in the fiscal year 1956- 1957. The hearing will be at 2 p.m. at the state forest patrol head quarters on Table Rock rd. 497 Students Register At SOC First Day Ashland A total of 497 stu dents enrolled in Southern Ore- college Monday for the spring term, Mrs. Mabel Win ston, registrar, has announced. The figure is 29 more than en rolled on the first day last year. Of the total, 295 are male stu dents, and 202 female. Thirty students were lost from last np:tr because of academic suspension, Mrs. Winston said. ing tooth decay, such pills would be available only to those who could afford them. 'Unscientific' The first citizen to dispute Dr. Stevenson's comments said that fluoridation is "unscientif ic, doesn't prevent decay and accumulates poison in addition to having an unfavorable influ ence on heart trouble." He also pointed out that fluoridation had been approved in some McKay Sees As Leading By UNITED PRESS Secretary of Interior Douglas I McKav nlanned todav to flv to rroar.rJtn ni-n-n;-,n vio vit-feir fcv uicauuc uia LauikjaiKii for the U.S. Senate while Phii Hitchcock, one .of his primary opponents, stumped through eastern Oregon. Meanwhile, Oregon Republi cans were informed that Vice President Richard Nixon would not speak at the Young Repub lican state federation convention in Eugene April 13-15. Nixon was said to have planned to come to Oregon but that he would have to attend a pre-cbn- vention planning session in Washington, D.C. McKay To Tell Date McKay said in Washington, D.C, yesterday that he would announce his resignation date Monday. He plans to resign earlier than the May 1 date he gave reporters last week and might attend the Eugene Y-R meeting. McKay told reporters yester day that he expects most of his opposition to come from Hitch cock. Two others, Elmer Deetz, a dairy farmer, and George Alt vater, Portland civil engineer, also seek the nomination. Hitchcock spoke fn Milton- Freewater last night and urged the U.S, to spend as much to wage peace as it does to prepare for war. He told the annual meeting of the Oregon Council of Churches that "We need to Run Away Attempt Stopped by Police Three Medford boys, two aged 14 and one 16, were detained by Medford and Ashland police ear ly this morning after an attempt to run away from home aboard a Southern Pacific lumber car.' Officers waited at the Ashland SP yard about 2 a.m. for arrival of a freight carrying two of the youngsters from Medford after a third youth was picked up by Medford police along the Med ford tracks. , The lone youngster told police he was on his way to California with the other two when he mis understood an order from one of the others and inadvertently jumped off the moving train. He told officers the others were en route to Ashland. It was a short time afterward that po lice took the two from atop a lumber load in the Ashland yard. The trip was turned over to juvenile authorities who notified parents of the boys. Weather FORECAST: Cloudy and mild tonight and Thursday with chance of occasional - light showers. Low tonight 38. High Thursday 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday 57 Lowest this Morning i 33 cities and later voted out. f Mrs. Ernestine Hartley men tioned that instructions with a particular brand of toothpaste claiming to contain fluoride specify that the toothpaste should not be used by children because it would result in bad effects to tooth enamel. Mrs. Hartley also claimed that fluor ide can have fatal effects upon a diabetes or cancer patient. Dr. Daniel Engle, Ashland Hitchcock Opponent approach the building up of the world with more realism." Smith to Campaign " Gov. Elmo Smith spoke in Newport last night and said he planned to wage a "grass roots" campaign in his drive to be elected governor. He said the Re publican party was determined to publicize its "tremendous job" of performance to the "Working class. "The Republican party has done a tremendous job of performance, and a tremen dous poor job of making that known to the working man," he said. In another development, Pat Roden of Salem resigned from the position of chairman of the state Young Republican "first voter" program. Roden said he acted after the state central committee granted the state Y-R group $1000 in response to presentation of a budget calling for $16,000. Laurelhurst Water Lines Being Flushed Residents of the recently an nexed Laurelhurst addition should have full city water serv ice by April 1, according to George Plumb, office engineer of the city water department. A chlorine solution was pumped into installed main lines today and will be flushed out tomorrow after a 24-hour sterili zation period, Plumb said. When the main tests are free of bacteria, service lines will be connected. The area includes land be tween Crater Lake ave. and Ore gon Terrace and from Saling st. to Stevens st. Preliminary Budget Meeting Here Tonight A preliminary city budget meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in the city hall, ac cording to Medford City Mana ger Robert Duff. Members of the city council and eight other citizens form the committee. Members are GranviL Britt san, chairman; Mrs. Marina Gates, secretary; Raymond Sor enson, Floyd Watkins, Stanley Stark, Jack Creager, Russell Brown and Darrell Miller. The committee will discuss problems preliminary to form ing the 1956-57 budget, Duff said. - Man Taken to Hospital After Electrical Shock Ken Clark, 1215 West 10th st., was taken to Sacred Heart hos pital about noon today by Med ford Ambulance Service after he received electrical shock while using equipment to repair a truck, according to a report of the incident. He was at 319 East McAridrews rd., at Jhe time of the accident. , dentist, protested the charge. He quoted a Medical Journal article which compared statistics con cerning extent of tooth decay, overall death rates, cancer rates, and heart disease rates in two cities, one having water fluori dation and the other not having it. He pointed out that a marked decrease in tooth decay was indicated in the city having fluoridation; comparative ly little difference was evident in the overall death rates; a slight decrease was noted in cancer rates for the city having fluoridation and little difference was noted in heart disease rates. Publicity Programs He also stated 'his' belief that in cities where fluoridation was thrown out the publicity against the program exceeded in volume the publicity in favor of it. Dr. Engle added that fluoride is dangerous in. a ... concentrated form. He said that 25 mgm of fluoride would produce nausea. He said, however, that the av erage daily dose in fluoridated water is only 1 mgm and has no such effect. He said a child could become ill from eating a tube o fluoridate toothpaste be cause of the severe dosage. vThe question of a referendum was a point of controversy. Some claimed the citizens' trust was placed with the councilmen when they were elected to of fice, and the council should de cide the issue. Others said that fluoridation was a more person al matter than normally con fronted the council and a de cision was beyond the duty of the councilmen and the trust which hacj been placed with members. Urge Adoption Toward the end of the hear ing a petition was presented to the council bearing signatures of about 660 people urging adoption of fluoridation. A member of. the council moved that an ordinance in favor of fluoridation be pre pared. A roll call vote indicated approval of the move, but two councilmen later changed their votes to "no." The council was divided on a roll call vote on a motion that the issue be refer red to the people. Mayor Neill said, "I don't have the right to impose my will on the people. I would be in favor of having the people decide." Appointments Authorize Plans for Sanitary Sewer Appointments to fill vacancies on the citizen's budget commit tee and the plumbing examining board were approved by the Medford city council last night. Russell I. Brown, 106 Ash land ave., was appointed to fill a vacancy on the budget com mittee, and Paul Larson and Paul Harris were appointed to the plumbing examining board. The council authorized pre paration of plans and specifica tions for construction of a sani tary sewer to serve four lots in Capital Hill addition, and refer red to the city engineer for con sideration two petitions request ing street paving. Paving Petitions Petitions requesting paving are for Boardman st. from Ohio st. to McAndrews rd., and on Modoc ave. from East Main st. to the old city limits. Both pe titions were signed by more than 60 per cent of the property own ers bordering streets to be paved. . . An ordinance was passed call 50th Year Medford 22 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1956 Carolina Governor Proposes Sending Negroes To Oregon Columbia, S.C. U.R) South Carolina Gov. George Bell Tim merman Jr., today called for federal transportation of all Negroes seeking integration to Oregon so that "peace and good will would be restored." Timmerman told the state Democratic convention he selected Oregon because "both United States senators from Oregon have been loudest in proclaiming the virtues of racial mixing and I as sume they reflect the views of their people." The governor said the program could be carried out at a cost of "only a fraction" of the federal government's foreign aid pro gram. "It would enable the Negroes who want to mix to be settled in the cities and communities of Oregon and other states where the people want to mix with them," Timmerman said. "It would en able those Negroes in the South who do not want to mix to live in peace and good will in the South. It would make the South happy. It would make the Negroes who want to mix happy. Peace and good will would be restored. Division and dissension would be abolished. And once again we would have the respect of other nations." rOTOD ISOlii Washington (U.P.) Presi dent Eisenhower denounced the Senate approved farm bill today as an unworkable measure that would do farmers more harm than good. Mr. Eisenhower strongly im plied at his news conference that he would veto the bill if it President Appeals For Mediation of Middle East Crisis Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today appealed for mediation of the Middle East crisis to avoid the world tragedy of a war in that tense area. - The President told his news conference that any major out break of hostilities in the Mid dle East would be a tragedy for the whole world. Major U.S. Effort He said the major U.S. effort at the moment is to find some way to help Middle Eastern countries see that their best in terests lie in mediation. Mr. Eisenhower underlined his serious concern over the Mid dle Eastern crisis and other for eign policy affairs by saying he will meet briefly tonight with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Dulles was to return from a 10-nation Asian tour late this afternoon ( The President said he and Dulles will meet at the White House tomorrow morning with Democratic and Republican con gressional leaders. The group will discuss foreign affairs, in cluding Dulles' trip. Silent on Proposal To UN Mr. Eisenhower refused at his news conference to comment on whether the administration later might seek congressional author ity to act in the Middle East. All his comments emphasized that U. S. policy at the moment is based on that of the United Na tions and on American-British-French cooperation in the area. In his review of the Middle East crisis, the President refused to say what the . United States plans to propose in the United Nations. Details of the Ameri can plan, he said, will be made public later. Are Approved by Council; ing for a public hearing on a change of zone from class IB (two family) to class II (multiple family) of property south of Clark st., west of Broad st., north of Jackson st., and east of Summit ave., and block four in Mary's Place addition. The change was recommended by the planning commission. Resolution of Assurance The council passed a resolu tion of assurance to the Army corps of engineers to begin con struction of a dropped stone re vetment about 1,200 feet long on 1 Bear creek ,extending up stream from the McAndrews rd. bridge. The revetment will pro tect the city's Camp White trunk sewer line, a portion of which was washed out during the De cember, 1955 floods. Another resolution author ized the city to request emerg ency Civil Defense relief for re pair of the road to and -around Roxy Ann park. The road was extensively damaged during heavy rains and an emergency feaches him in anything like its present form. He expressed hope that a Senate-House Conference Committee will change it enough to make it acceptable. Said Not Workable The President said bluntly that he does not think the Sen ate passed a good bill. The measure is not workable, he said, and would bury farmers under crop surpluses which, in turn, would cause further skids in prices. He said the Senate bill started out pretty well but got into quite a jam at the end. This was an obvious reference to the fact that the Senate in its initial votes upheld the adminis tration's flexible price support policies but , later approved Democratic amendments intend ed to jack up supports on basic crops. Mr. Eisenhower said continua tion of rigid high price supports would create problems the na tion can't possibly solve by pil ing up completely unmanage able surpluses. Chairman Harold D.' Cooley of the House Agriculture Commit tee believed the Senate would accept a compromise calling for a one-year restoration of 90 per cent price supports. Mr. Eisen hower would not. like than. Negotiators To Meet The North Carolina Democrat will head a group of House nego tiators who will meet with a similar group from the Senate to work out differences between the two chambers over farm leg islation. Cooley said a one-year restor ation of 90 per cent supports might be the answer to their major difference. The House farm bill, passed last year, called for unlimited restoration of 90 per cent supports. The Senate bill, approved Monday night, re tained flexible supports in prin ciple, but through other provis ions would boost supports to 85 per cent of parity for corn and wheat and 90 per cent for cot ton. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 507.92, off 4.70; 20 railroads 168.85, off 0.27; 15 utilities 67.29, up 0.13, and . 65 stocks 179.53, off 0.91. Sales to day were about 2,930,000 shares compared with 2,960,000 yester day. . radio installation on the peak was believed justification for federal expenditures for road repair. Sanitary Sewer City . Manager Robert Duff re ported to the council that if rights of way for construction of a sanitary sewer in two blocks of the Highcroft addition are not obtained by April 3, he will recommend condemnation of the project. One property owner has refused to give the city an easement through his property, Duff said. ' Duff also reported that plans and specifications for construc tion of the Capital ave.-Valley View sanitary sewer would be presented to the council at the next meeting, April 3. The assignment of a private hangar lease at Medford airport from E. L. Bartholomew to Milo V. Kubalek was approved. A request for adjustment of airport terminal building rental was re ferred to the airport committee. Price 5c Tribune No. 310 PliliiJlI wmmmmmm ESTES KEFAUVER Tide in His Favor State Demos Have Mixed Reactions On Kefauver Win By UNITED PRESS Oregon Democrats had mixed reactions today on the victory of Sen. Estes Kefauver over Adlai Stevenson in the Minnesota pri mary election. , Alfred Corbett, co-chairman of the Oregon Stevenson-for-Presi-dent committee, blamed his can didate's defeat' on the Republi cans. He said the high Demo cratic primary vote showed a protest against the Eisenhower farm program, a strong Demo cratic spirit and "a heavy Re publican cross-over vote." ' Difficult To Judge Corbett said "It is difficult to judge the significance of this switch voting because Kefau- ver's campaign unfortunately in cluded an attack upon the lead ership of the Democratic Farm Labor party which favored Stev enson. Republicans were quick to seize upon this because a vote for Kefauver became a vote against the DFL party leader ship ..." Howard Morgan, state Demo cratic chairman, said "I never make any judgments about a Democratic primary election un til I know how many Republi cans had an opportunity to vote in that primary ..." Kefauver Seen 'The Man' Lillian Burton, national com mittewoman, said she was "ex tremely happy." She said she was certain that Kefauver would "be the man" in the August con vention. Monroe Sweetland, Democrat ic national committeeman, said "the massive upsurge of Demo cratic strength in pivotal Min nesota, which the Republicans carried in 1952, is a sharp re buke to Republican policies which have seriously damaged that state's economy. Workers Returning At Westinghouse Washington (U.R) Some 44, 000 workers started back to their jobs at 30 Westinghouse Elec tric Corp. plants today after the longest major strike in at least 20 years. The bitter dispute was settled in its 156th day Tuesday night when negotiators for the com pany and the AFL-CIO Interna tional Union of Electrical Work ers signed a new 5 year contract retroactive to Oct. 15. The strike cost workers al most half a year's wages about $75,000,000 and the company more than $250,000,000 in sales, according to company estimates. Other unions loaned the IUE more than $1,500,000 in aid to strikers. Highway 99 Race Brings $80 Fine, Suspension Timothy J. Hamilton, 22, route 2, box 393B, was fined $80 and both his operator's and chauffeur's licenses were sus pended for 30 days after he pleaded ' guilty in district court today to a charge of reckless driving. State police arrested Hamil ton Tuesday night for traveling at a speed in excess of 95 miles per hour. Officers, who arrested Hamilton at Billings hill on Highway 99, said he was racing with another car. Salern U.R) A judgment of $25,706 for personal injuries awarded Thomas T. Falls by Cir cuit Judge James W. Crawford in Multnomah county was af firmed today by the State Su preme court. Stevenson Loses Minnesota Vote In Surprise Turn Illinois Candidate To Remain in Race Minneapolis (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver jubilantly claimed today the Democratic tide had turned in his favor on the strength of a stunning upset victory over Adlai E. Stevenson in Minnesota's presidential pri mary. He won decisively in six of the districts and held a narrow lead in a seventh where only two late precincts remained to be report ed. Stevenson won one district and held an indecisive lead in another. e In the Third District, Kefau ver moved into a 33,890 to 33,- . 603 lead with only two Wash ington county precincts unre ported. It appeared possible the outcome in that district might have to await the report of the canvassing board.. Snowbound roads delayed the count in some Northwestern Min nesota counties and returns tra ditionally come in by canoe from some precincts in the road less wilderness area of the North east. Check on Republicans A flood of votes upset Steven son in a state where analysts said he had to score a decisive victory to remain the front-runner for the Democratic president ial nomination. Stevenson backers, including almost all the top Democratic and Farmer-Labor leaders in Minnesota, said they would go over yesterday's primary re turns precinct by precinct to see whether Republicans had cross ed party lines to vote for Ke fauver. Gov. Orville Freeman, who had feared this might happen, said the results show a move ment en masse of the Republi cans into the Democratic pri mary." Estes Well Ahead Late returns showed Kefauver leading in the statewide ballot ing and in seven of the state's nine congressional districts. The statewide sweep gave him 21 of Minnesota's 30 Democratic Na tional Convention votes,. while one vote rode on the results in each of the nine districts. With 3483 of the state's 3876 precincts reporting, Kefauver had 232,065 votes to 177,795 for Stevenson. On the Republican side, with 3429 precincts reporting, Presi dent Eisenhower had 188,411 votes to 3245 for Sen. William F. Knowland (R-Calif.). In 1952, when Mr. Eisenhower was not on the ballot, he re ceived 108,692 write-in votes to 129,076 for former Minnesota Gov. Harold E. Stassen. In the 1952 general election President Eisenhower outpolled Stevenson 763,211 to 608,458. The Democrats won the 1954 governor election 607,099 to 532,444. Victory Celebration Kefauver told a cheering vic tory celebration "I believe this primary marks the turning point in the campaign for the Demo cratic nomination." In Chicago, Stevenson sent congratulations to Kefauver and served notice that he is not backing out of the presidential race. He called an afternoon news conference, where he was ex pected to repeat his determina tion to keep fighting through the California, Florida, Penn sylvania and Illinois primaries. In Washington, however, poli tical observers said Stevenson will have to pull a political miracle to get the nomination now that he has failed in Minne sota. 'Mr. Eisenhower' avoided di rect comment on Kefauver's victory. He said, however,, that Minnesota is an important state and the vote is something to be studied. (See stories on Page 3) Borgnine, Magnani Seen Award Favorites Hollywood (U.R) Ernest Borgnine and Anna Magnani who soared to screen stardom on sin gle movies became popular fa vorites today to win Hollywood's 28th annual Oscar awards. Advance predictions indicate the top acting honors of 1955 would go to Italy's fiery Magnani for her performance as a grieving widow in "The Rose Tattoo. ' Borgnine, an American of Ital ian parentage, was favored to win the best actor's statuette for playing a lonely, homely butcher in "Marty." In the supporting actress cate gory, Joe Van Fleet appeared a cinch winner for playing Jimmy Dean's prostitute mother in "East of Eden." Predictions were even ly divided between Jack Lem mon of "Mister Roberts" and Ar thur O'Connell of "Picnic" foy the best supporting actor honora
