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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1956
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alifornia Primary Vote
Los Angeles (U.R) Adlai Ste
venson's all-out attack on Sen.
Estes Kefauver today turned
the California Democratic presi
dential primary into the nation's
hottest political battlefront.
Stevenson carried his fight for
California's 68 delegates to the
Democratic National Convention
to both ends of the state today
on the heels of his free-swinging
assault on the Tennessee senator.
Stevenson scheduled a news con
ference this afternoon and TV
and street rally appearances in
Los Angeles before leaving by
plane for San Francisco.
Importance Underscored
The importance of victory in
the California primary for Ste
venson's presidential hopes, hit
hard by his upset loss to Kefau
ver in the Minnesota primary,
was underscored by his attack
"Wednesday night on the senator.
Stevenson charged Kefauver's
campaigning tactics are hurting
the Democratic Party and help
ing the Republicans.
He said in a local address that
Kefauver falsely had pictured
Stevenso.i backers in Minnesota
and CiOifornia as "sinister politi
cal bosses who are trying to dic
tate the people's choice."
"It is entirely improper for a
responsible leader of the Demo
cratic party to characterize other
Democratic leaders as bosses for
no other apparent reason than
they dirt not endorse him," he
said later.
Kefauer's attacks, Stevenson
said, are "an old device to win
popular sympathy as the under
dog." "More important even than
this effort to injure me and win
support by confusing endorse
ment with dictation is that by
discrediting the leaders of the
Democratic Party . . . the senator
and his spokesmen can only
GOP Asks Court to
NameMrs.Jennings
A unanimous vote asking the
county court to name Mrs. Elva
Jennings Jackson county- asses
sor was cast last night at a meet
ing of the Jackson County Re
publican Central committee.
The court had requested that
the committee recommend some
one to fill the office left vacant
by the death last week of Robert
G. Fowler, a Republican.
Mrs. Jennings, of 1026 West
10th st., has been employed in
the assessor's office for 28V
years and has served as chief
deputy since 1951.
Hers was the only application
and nomination for the office
presented at the meeting. It was
expected that the court would
make the appointment later
today.
The appointee will hold the
post until an assessor named in
the fall election takes office Jan.
1, 1957.
About 46. committee members
from 94 county precincts attend-
ed the meeting.
Candidates who have filed for
the office are Andrew Hawver
and Ray J. Schumacher, Demo
crats, and Allen D. Curry and
John H. Tizzeker, Republicans.
Congressmen Prepare
For Easter Holiday
Washington (U.R) Congress
cleaned up odds and ends today
before recessing for an Easter
holiday.
The Senate-House Conference
Committee on the farm bill con
tinued trying to mould a com
promise version of that legisla
tion. This was the major activity
of the day.
Many congressmen already
had left. Some merely marked
time while others cleared up
minor items before taking off
for the holiday which ends
April 9.
Although things were slow to
day, Senate Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas
said this has not been character
istic of the entire session. He
said the Senate has met oftener
and passed more legislation so
far this year than it did in the
same period last year.
Talent Project,
Funds Sought
Washington (U.R) Rep.
Harris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) sought
more than $12,300,000 from the
House Appropriations Commit
tee yesterday for public works
projects.
Requests included S3,000,000
for the Talent irrigation pro
ject; $2,900,000 for Hills Creek
dam; $500,000 for planning
Green Peter dam; $2,450,000 for
Cougar dam; $370,000 for Wil
lamette river bank protection
and maintenance; $100,000 for
weaken and divide the party and
thereby help the Republicans,"
Stevenson said.
But while the "new" Steven
son was showing a willingness to
club Kefauver, he was also pro
fessing to be "just plain mad"
about suggestions that he spend
more time shaking hands and
less discussing issues.
Stevenson accused Kefauver of
trying to "injure me." He said
Kefauver did this by labeling
party leaders backing Stevenson
ICC Order Wouldurt
Lumber Economy in
State, Morse Claims
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore.) led off an organ
ized protest by small lumber
men from Oregon Thursday by
telling a Senate committee that
a recent freight car order of the
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion would "cut the economic
guts but of the small lumber in
dustry of my state."
Morse was to be followed in
testifying before an interstate
commerce sub-committee by
Aaron Jones and Russ Fry berg
Construction of
Armory Assured;
Bids Are Opened
Construction of the new Med
ford armory is assured, it was
learned here today following
opening of bids for the building
in Salem yesterday afternoon.
S. Ferche, Roseburg, submit
ted the combined low bid, but
the contract may not be award
ed to that firm due to techni
cal deficiencies in the bid form,
it was reported. McLaughlin
and Wiley Co., Ashland, sub
mitted the second-low bid,' and
presumably will receive the
contract if the Ferche offer is
rejected.
Referred to Bureau
The bids, which were not . an
nounced in Salem, have been re
ferred to the National Guard
bureau in Washington, D. C.
for decision. But those attend
ing the bid opening said the
bids were in. the range which
will permit the construction to
proceed This is the second time
bids have been made on the
armory. The first time all were
rejected as too high.
The low combined bids were
in the $385,000 to $400,000
range, with the amount of the
contract to depend on a numb
er of alternates which were in
the bid specifications, and which
will be compiled and figured
by the architects and the gov
ernmental organizations involv
ed. The new armory, to house
Medford's two National Guard
companies, is a joint city-county-state-federal
project, and will
include features other than
those of a purely military na
ture. The building will be built
on the fairgrounds, and will re
place the old army building
largely destroyed by fire several
years ago.
Petitions To Seek
Lower Voting Age
Portland (U.R) Petitions
will be circulated soon for a
constitutional amendment to low
er the voting age in Oregon to 18.
Sponsors of the move are Dem
ocrat Monroe Sweetland and Re
publican Mark Hatfield, both of
whom are candidates for nomi
nation as secretary of state. A
total of 40,093 signatures is
needed to get it on the Novem
ber ballot.
Chicago '.U.Rfc The United
States faces a serious labor
shortage in the next two decades
and the only way to meet it is by
full use of automation, Gwilym
A. Price, chairman and presi
dent of Westinghouse Electric
Corporation said today.
Savage Dam
by Ellsworth
Amazon creek flood control;
$208,000 for Savage Rapids dam
fish screens; $400,000 for Rogue,
Umpqua and Coquille rivers
flood control.
An unstated amount for Gold
Beach harbor planning; $439,000
for Charleston harbor and chan
nel; $130,000 for Umpqua port
maintenance; $40,000 for Ban
don port maintenance; $1,200,-
000 for Coos Bay port mainten
ance and $206,000 for Chetco
river at the mouth. .
as "sinister political bosses."
But Kefauver would not reply
to Stevenson's charge. He said
that he did not "intend to say
anything disparaging about Mr.
Stevenson" and had "asked my
supporters not to join in any
criticism of him."
Kefauver, who has just fin
ished a week's tour of California
campaigned in Arizona Wednes
day. He scheduled stops today at
Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M.,
en route back to Washington.
of Eugene, Dana McBarron of
Rogue River, W. O. Kelsay of
Roseburg, and Leonard Netzorg,
Portland counsel for the Western
Forest Industries association.
The hearing was called to hear
witnesses on the box car short
age, which Sen. Shoeppel (R
Kan.), acting chairman, said
"will be worse this year than
last year," and also to take testi
mony on a bill requested by the
ICC that would empower it to
impose heavy fines on railroads
that delay movement of cars dur
ing car shortage periods.
"The ICC has a lot to answer
for and the American railroads
have a lot to answer for," de
clared Morse. "I intend to press
this matter (of the causes of the
shortage) with all the power I
have as a United States senator.
The ICC has let the American
railroads get away with eco
nomic murder in my state."
Morse had a breakfast confer
ence with the group of Oregon
lumbermen, who are scheduled
to appear later in the two-day
hearing. The group is interested
in protesting order 910 issued
last week by the ICC. Morse said
he and Sen. Richard L. Neu-
berger would request the ICC to
withdraw the order until hear
ings can be held on its effects.
Circuitous Routing Target
The order, explained ICC Com
missioner Owen Clarke as a lead
off witness, "attempts to elim
inate circuitous routing of ship
ments or what we consider to
be a waste of car-days by a use
of freight cars of warehouses."
Clarke told the committee that
the ICC wants greater authority
to clamp down on such practices
by the railroads, which it be
lieves is one major reason for
the shortage of cars needed by
other shippers.
"The ICC is just cutting the
economic guts out of the small
lumber industry of my state,"
Morse charged. "What they
ought to do is go out to Oregon
and put on some overalls and
see what our problems are."
Good Friday Services
Scheduled Tomorrow
Three Good Friday services,
sponsored by the Medford Minis
terial association, will be held
tomorrow.
The principal three-hour serv
ice will be held at the First
Methodist church, West Main
and Laurel sts; between noon
and 3 p.m. Two services will
start at 2:15 p.m. tomorrow at
the Eastwood Baptist church,
Waverly st. and Ridgeway dr.,
and at the Church of the Nazar-
ene, 520 North Holly st.
Students in public schools are
invited to attend services near
est the school which they at
tend, the Rev. Thomas McCam-
ant, president of the association,
said. Children will be excused
from school upon presentation of
a signed note from a parent or
guardian.
Services also will be held at
St. Peter's Lutheran church,
1020 East Main st., between
noon and 3 p.m. with the Rev.
Kenneth Korby speaking on
"The Seven Words of Christ
from the Cross." Final Lenten
service will start at 8 p.m. at
St. Peter's Lutheran church.
President Accepts
McKay's Resignation
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower has accepted "with
profound personal regrets" the
resignation of Interior Secretary
Douglas McKay. It is effective
April 15.
McKay is quitting the Cabinet
to seek the Senate seat of Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.).
The Oregon primary is May
18.
Asked if the White House
would wait until April 15 to an
nounce a successor to McKay,
Press Secretary James C. Hag-
erty said he "would think so.'
But then he changed his answer
to say the President may "signify
his intention to nominate" some
one for the job. - . ,
Israel's Bid for
American Arms
Getting Attention
Hammarskjold Trip
Delayed by Arabs
United .Nations, N.Y. flJ.R)
The United States is giving urg
ent attention to Israel's bid for
American arms despite United
Nations moves to ease the Mid
dle East crisis, administration
sources reported in Washington
today.
The Arab nations still were
delaying American efforts to
send Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold on a peace mis
sion to Palestine, but the admin
istration officials said this was
not stalling U.S. action on Is
rael's $64,000,000 arms request.
Troops Exchange Fire
The U.N. and Washington
moves coincided with these Mid
east developments:
1. An Israeli army spokesman
said Egyptian and Israeli patrols
exchanged fire for half an hour
in the Israel-held Mitzana area
Wednesday night. No casualties
were reported.
2. Israel announced it was re
turning 35 Syrian "war prison
ers" today including six infiltra
tors who had completed prison
terms. Syria announced it was
returning four Israeli soldiers
and one civilian.
3. A pro-government ' Cairo
newspaper said the Soviet had
offered uranium to Egypt for use
in an "atoms-for-peace" atomic
plant in Egypt.
Action Postponed
Security Council action on the
U. S. request was postponed at
least until next Tuesday and
probably later. The United
States promised to make a full
explanation of the purpose of
the mission then although the
Arabs accepted the mission "in
principle."
Syrian Ambassador Ahmed
Shukairy, deputy director of the
Arab League, told the council
the American initiative in want
ing Hammarskjold to investigate
compliance with armistice agree
ments and previous U.N. direc
tives was "worthy of praise and
appreciation." - - -
But Shukairy made it clear
the Arabs want no general re
opening of the issues of the Pal
estine conflict and want a full
voice in framing the directives
for Hammarskjold's mission. He
insisted the Arabs were not in
the wrong and did not fear the
mission.
Jaycees Designate
May Safety Month
May has been designated as
Safety Month by the Oregon
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
and plans are under way to
launch a state-wide safety cam
paign during the month, Thomas
J. Reeder, Medford attorney and
state Jaycee safety chairman,
has announced.
Reeder said the 58 Jaycee
clubs in Oregon will participate.
The campaign is being con
ducted to point out that observ
ing safety rules will result in a
reduction of needless death and
injury.
The Safety Month campaign
will not be limited to traffic
safety. Reeder said, but will in
clude home and industrial safety
as well.
Among projects bein& planned
is the annual Teen Age Roadeo
contest, part of a nation-wide
Jaycee project. Another is the
"Lite a bumper" program, in
which Jaycees will place reflec
tive tape on bumpers for a small
fee. A state-wide project also
will be "operation safety belt"
to encourage the use of the de
vices by automobile drivers.
In addition, local Jaycee
groups throughout Oregon will
initiate local programs to make
the public more safety conscious.
All Aboard Sunken
Mexican Ship Saved
Campeche, Mexico (U.R)
All persons aboard a Mexican
motorship which burned and
sank in the Bay of Campeche
off the Yucatan peninsula were
reported safe today.
American and Mexican Coast
Guard craft sped to aid the 35
to 38 survivors of the Matul,
which burned and sank yester
day morning after an engine
room expiosion.
The last radio report from
the doomed vessel said the pas
sengers and crew members were
taking to lifeboats and rafts.
There were no .known fatalities,
but two passengers were report
ed slightly injured.
Salem (U.R) Polk county
has been recommended for des
ignation as a disaster area by
Gov. Elmo Smith at the request
of dairy and livestock men.
HERALDING IN SPRING French dancers, Groupe Folklorique Francais, of San
Francisco present "La Bouree aux Batons" as part of the nation's first Spring Wine
Festival at Paul Masson vineyards in California's Santa Cruz Mountains near Sara
toga. The event was patterned after famous festivals of Europe with colorfully garbed
Italian, Austrian, Greek, Swiss and Portugese, as well as the French, taking part.
Portal to the winery behind them was recovered from the earthquake and fire ruins
of St. Joseph's Church in San Jose, April 18, 1906, the same quake that destroyed
San Francisco.
Algeria Outlaws
Targets of Bloody
Fight Near Collo
Algiers U.R The French
Navy turned its big guns on
Arab outlaws in Algeria yester
day in a "triphibious invasion"
that developed into one of the
bloodiest battles of the hit and
run guerrilla war, it was an
nounced today.
The six-inch guns of the crui
ser Georges Leygues pounded
guerrilla infested hills near
Collo, 200 miles east of here and
fighter planes strafed suspected
outlaw hideouts while Marines
swarmed, ashore from landing
craft. Inland, tough Senegalese
troops massed to cut off the
Arab's retreat.
The Collo battle accounted for
64 of the 111 persons reported
killed in Algeria yesterday, four
Frenchmen and at . least 60
Arabs. Another seven French
soldiers were slain in a guerrilla
ambush 40 miles east of Con
stantine, and 40 other persons
were slain in scattered clashes.
French authorities identified
one recent victim of Arab ban
ditry as an American citizen,
identified only as Ben Ali Zend
jabil, who was murdered appar
ently because he refused to give
money to the guarrillas.
Zendjabil, whose American
address was unavailable in Al
giers, had been living with his
family here for about a year.
Sanitary Problems
Topic of Discussion
Residents of the Grandview
Kenwood district northeast of
Medford are invited to attend a
meeting at 8 p.m. today to dis
cuss the problem of sanitation
in that area.
The. meeting will be in the
county court room in the court
house, and will be devoted to
a discussion of the sanitary prob
lem and possible methods of
solution.
Bob Hart, county sanitarian,
and Ten Gerow, sanitary en
gineer with the state board of
health, will attend to answer
questions.
Additional details can be ob
tained from Roy Wilkes, 1863
Crater Lake ave., telephone
3-5485.
Hitchcock Challenges
Sen. Morse To Debate
Portland (U.R) Phil Hitch
cock yesterday challenged Sen.
Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) to a series
of debates over 11 Oregon and
southern Washington radio sta
tions on March 29.
Hitchcock seeks the Republi
can nomination to meet Morse
in the November election.
Ilsworth Accuses
Morqan of M
Libelous
Washington (U.R) Rep. Har
ris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) yesterday
accused Howard Morgan, Oregon
Democratic chairman, of making
libelous statements about him in
a letter published in the Oregon
Journal March 18. Ellsworth
said he had no intention of pros
ecuting for the alleged libel.
Violation Charged .
The Congresman said the Mor
gan letter to the editor contained
"false statements regarding my
character and integrity," in vio-
Funeral Services for
D. LFIynn Friday
Funeral services for Diamond
L. Flynn, 59, who died unex
pectedly of heart attack yester
day morning, . will be held in
Conger-Morris chapel at 1:30
p.m. Friday. The Rev. Thomas
McCamant, of the Community
Congregational church, will of
ficiate. The Medford Elks lodge will
have charge of graveside serv
ices in Siskiyou Memorial park.
Pallbearers will include Col.
H. J. Meiring, Dwight Houghton,
Dr. Lawrence Ellis, Ralph Pierce,
Glenn Jackson, J. E. Jorgenson,
Ernest Scott, B. L. Nutting,
Roland Birkholtz, E. L. Bar
tholomew, Charles . Wakefield,
L. S. Ettinger, Paul Selby, Earl
Miller and Robert Duff.
The family of the former may
or has requested that friends
who . wish may make contribu
tions to the heart fund in lieu
of flowers.
Salem (U.R) Salem's popu
lation is an estimated '45,812 a
gain of two per cent over last
year.
Misplaced Christmas Gift Fi
Owner With
A misplaced Christmas gift
found its way back home early
this week with the assistance
of two post office employees,
Otto DeJarnett and Rees Baugh
man. On Jan. 1 Baughman found in
the post office mail drop an un
sealed envelope bearing only
the name "Jim." Inside was five
dollars and a Christmas greet
ing card inscribed, "For a cam
ellia for your office." It was
signed, "Hilde."
Put in Trust
The money was put in trust
for three months awaiting some
one who might claim it. Then
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Statements
lation of the criminal libel pro
visions of the Oregon corrupt
practices act. .Ellsworth made
public in Washington a reply he
said he was sending The Journal
branding the Morgan statements
as "falsehoods."
The Roseburg lawmaker is
seeking reelection. He said his
letter should not be construed as
a warning to the editors of the
paper but was "to alert the edi
tors with the hope that none of
them may inadevertently publish
libelous material as the cam
paign grows hotter and the
plight of our political opposition
gets more desperate."
Muzzle Said Attempted
In ' Portland, Morgan charged
that Ellsworth was attempting to
muzzle the Oregon press.
"The man knows he cannot
deny his political machinations
in Washington," Morgan said.
"This action is a clear cut ex
ample of a man in public office
who is trying to silence any criti
cism of his public acts."
Hilt Liquor Store
Robbed Yesterday
Hilt Trinca Brothers' State
Line gasoline station and liquor
store was robbed of $150 worth
of whiskey yesterday afternoon.
State officers, who are investi
gating the theft, said the build
ing was entered through the back
door while the owners were at
tending a funeral in Yreka. The
theft occurred between 2 and
3 p.m.
The only things missing were
a number of half -gallon jugs of
whiskey, which are legal in Cali
fornia though they are not in
Oregon. The store is located one
mile south of the state line.
Assistance by
the time came to convert the
money to miscellaneous receipts.
DeJarnett, assistant postmas
ter, decided to do some research.
He got out the city directory
and the telephone book and
started searching each page for
a man whose first name was
James; or whose first initial was
J. Halway through the . H's in
the phone book he found J. K.
Hoey's name and the city direc
tory listed Hoey's wife as Hilde
garde. DeJarnett called Hoey. Sure
enough, he'd been looking for
the five dollars for three
months.
Rescuers Search
For Bodies Under
Tons of Rubble
Grain Elevator,
Silos Flattened
Philadelphia (U.R) Rescue
workers searched today for the
bodies of three
buried under tons of rubble in
an explosion which rocked two
square miles of West Philadel
phia last night.
Fire Chief William Eckles
said the three men were missimr
and presumed dead. Fifty-fix
persons, including 11 firemen,
were injured.
Many Barely Escape
Many of the injured said thev
barely escaped flvine
and stone blasted from a grain
eievator ana four silos which
were flattened by the blast.
Anthony Karnell, manager of
a restaurant in the block next
to tne explosion, said glass and
rubble showered over the 3n
patrons in his restaurant when
tne explosion occurred.
"It looked like all hell was
breaking loose, and-1 hollered
to everybody to get out in a
hurry," he said.
Knocked Down Four Times
Mrs. Margaret Connell, 40,
said she was knocked down four
times by shock waves.
"The fourth time I couldn't
get up. I just lay there stunned,"
she said. "Then a policeman was
bending over, helping me up. I
had no idea where he came from.
I don't remember being brought
to the hospital."
A. P. Tallent, -Ss.'a' 'fireman
for the Pennsylvania Railroad,
said he saw flames shoot from
the grain elevator.
"It started to mushroom like
an atomic bomb," he said. .
For a few minutes he said he
thought the explosion was an
atomic blast and feared the
mushrooming ball of fire would
engulf him.
Windows Smashed
Hundreds of windows were
smashed on the Drexel Institute
of Technology campus, only a
block from the scene, and more
than a score of night school stu
dents and faculty members were
injured, mainly by flying glass.
The thunderous explosion cav
ed in part of the lobby ceiling
and shattered a large plate glass
window in the new $5 million.
Evening Bulletin building direct
ly across the street from the
grain elevator.' Part of the ceil
ing was knocked loose in the
newspaper's fourth-floor editori
al room and newsmen were
thrown from their chairs by the
concussion.
Dozens of windows were shat
tered in the Pennsylvania Sta
tion. Missing Identified
The three men missing in the
explosion were identified as Ed
ward Johnson, 26, Philadelphia,
a new employee at the elevator,
and Bayren Weldon and Arthur
Harold, truck drivers employed
by the John Reginak Trucking
Co., Millville, N.J.
Frank Morgan and Dominick
Mallachi, employees of the Rail
way Express Agency who were
on -the police missing list all
night, were discovered unharm
ed today after they worked with
company employees through the
night.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow
Jones final stock averages: 30
industrials 511.79 up 1.54, 20
rails 171.82 up 1.47, 15 utilities
67.39 off 0.13 and 65 stocks
181.15 up 0.70.
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Post Office
Hoey said he had received
the money in an envelope with
a Christmas card. So that the
camellia funds would not be
lost amid Christmas package
debris, he put the envelope in
an inside pocket.
"Seems that a couple of. days
after Christmas I shoved some
letters to be mailed in my coat
pocket," Hoey explained. "The
five dollars and Christmas card
must have gone down the mail
chute with the letters."
He said, "I'm not going to
stop. I'm going directly to the
shop and buy that camellia be
fore I lose the money again." (