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
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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