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Calls for World To work Out gency sarm . I mm OLD 'NAT COMING DOWN One of Med ford's best-known landmark buildings, the old "Natatorium," is coming down. The pic ture above shows the progress made so far by the wrecking crews. The building, known in more recent years as Merrick's Ball Room, has housed a wide variety of activities dur Neuberger To Repeal Portland (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger demanded last night that Gov. Elmo Smith call a special session of the state Legislature to repeal recently passed election laws which he charged were aimed at "keeping people from voting." "The egg is in your pocket, governor," Neuberger told the Portland Central Labor Council. The Oregon Democrat said McKay Plans All-Out Battle With Morse By UNITED PRESS Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, who has announced his resignation from the cabinet to seek a seat in the United States Senate, said in Chandler, Ariz., today that he would wage a "knock-down, drag-out battle" for the post with Sen. Wayne Morse. McKay, former Republican governor of Oregon, was to speak at the convention of the National Press Photographers association, ... '.. (.... He said Morse wanted a fed eral monopoly over power gen eration in the United States and had filibustered for it in three different political camps. "I'm opposed to monopoly," McKay said. Meanwhile, in his weekly newsletter to constituents, Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore. accused McKay of "complete subservience" to private power interests. Neuberger, who is supporting Morse's bid for reelection, said McKay supported public devel Canada Bank Holdup Try Leaves One Dead Coquitlaw, B.C. (U.R) One man was killed and two others including a policeman, were wounded in a gun battle follow ing a holdup of a branch of the Royal Bank of Canada here to day. The holdup was attempted by four men. three of whom enter ed the bank shortly after 10 a.m. They had their faces covered with masks made of stockings. The fourth bandit stayed in a get-away car parked in front of the bank. " The trio inside the bank forced two tellers to open the vault, and started scooping up money. rThe bank's burglar alarm system was touched off un- known to the bandits and two Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables arrived outside the bank just as the robbers were leaving. Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower will hold a news conference at 7:30 ajn. (PST) Wednesday. Dulles Says Arms To Israel Might Assist Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that the shipment of arms to Israel by some Western pow ers other than the United States might contribute to stability in the Middle East. No Change in Policy Dulles at the same time told a news conference that there has been no change in the U.S. policy against the sale of U.S. arms to Israel at the present time; this, despite the almost daily appeals of Israel for jet planes and other modern weapons. Administration officials said yesterday that Mr. Eisenhower last week had decided against selling arms to Israel at this time. Dulles took no isaua with this., Seeks Special Session State Election Laws that unless the new laws, which require the, voter to sign two poll books and swear that his registered address is correct, are repealed they will become the major issue in the 1956 cam paign. He said the laws were passed by the Republicans in the 1955 Legislature and that a re cent election in Lane county showed they slowed up the vote and even resulted in many turn- opment of "high cost" dams in the Upper Colorado project, which Neuberger said private utilities "wouldn't touch," but "gives the profitable Hells can yon site to the Idaho Power company." ' $20,000 Is Allotted For Flood Survey Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), said today Army engineers have notified him that $59,600 has been allocated for flood control surveys on Oregon rivers. The allocations include $20, 000 for the Rogue river, he said. Other amounts include $10,000 for the Coquille, $20,000 for the Umpqua, $4,000 for the Coos Bay area, a'nd $5,600 for the Luckiamute river and Rickre all creek. The funds are part of $400, 000 announced several weeks ago for surveys in Oregon and California. Morse said "these amounts are insufficient to complete the Coquille, Umpqua and , Rogue surveys, by $73,800," and added that he would "press for full ap propriations for all authorized Oregon surveys." Morse expressed dissatisfac tion that no funds were allo cated for the Klamath, Yamhill, Crooked, Grande Ronde and Powder rivers. Maj. Gen. E. C. Itschner, chief of civil works for the Army, said in a letter to Morse that only a small amount of addition al money would be needed to complete the Umpqua and Rogue surveys. They will have a "high priority" for any addi tional funds that become avail able, he said. Weather FORECAST: Fair through Wednesday with rising day time temperatures. Low to night 30. High tomorrow 70. Temp. Highest Yesterday 51 Lowest this Morning 28 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace in Stability In response to questions, he indi cated the situation is right where it has been for months. He said the United States has not made any affirmative deci sion on the arms request nor has it been turned down finally. Would Ask for Troops Dulles said that if it ever be comes apparent it would be ad visable to use American troops to help keep peace in the Mid die East the President would first seek congressional approval, providing there was sufficient time. ; . In making that statement, the secretary emphasized that he does not know now of any pend ing emergency which would re quire sending U.S. troops to the ing its long history, including grand opera, swimming, shooting in a basement range, box ing and wrestling, plays, and dances. Tenta tive plans are being made for construction of a 40-unit downtown motel, with restaurant and swimming pool, on the site, which is a block north of Main st. on Riverside ave. (Brainerd photo) mg away from the polls after long waits in line. If the governor fails to call a special session, Neuberger said, "the major issue in 1956 is not going to be the Al Serena min ing case, or the 'give-away' pro gram or the Sales tax. It's going to be this issue . . . "he said. Bill Way, president of the labor council, said his group will start a movement to bring about repeal of the measure. Speaks on Serena Case Neuberger, home for the East er holidays, also had a few words to say on the Al Serena case. He charged that "an Alabama mining corporation got millions of board feet of national forest timber free, while qualified Ore gon lumber mill operators must pay high competitive prices for similar timber." He criticized In terior Secretary Douglas McKay for his handling of the case. Neuberger referred to Phil Hitchcock, a candidate for the GOP senatorial nomination along with McKay, as "Doug McKay Jr." Keith D. Skelton, Eugene at torney and Democratic, candidate for the House, also demanded Gov. Smith call a special session of the Legislature. Skelton said dire emergency had arisen regarding the election laws in the Board of Education, which could not wait until the 1957 session. The Eugenean pointed out that revision of the laws in election procedures and in registration procedures are needed. He sought repeal of the double signature on poll books and for clarifica tion on the 30-day requirement for voter registration. Skelton also said more money is needed for Oregon's higher institutions of learning. He said teachers are leaving' Oregon uni versities in droves for other states and pointed out that the University of Oregon, with a normal faculty of 280, has lost over 60 faculty people since October. Communist Party Refuses Payment New York (U.R) The Com munist Party refused Monday night to pay the Internal Reve nue Service $1,500 for the re turn of Red property seized here last week for non-payment of income taxes. Communist officials said the federal agency had failed in a financial agreement to return copies of the party's national budget, fund drive plans and plans for future party enter prises. - . . A spokesman for the tax agency denied any knowledge of the four missing items. Earlier, the tax service was reported to have negotiated an agreement with the U.S. Com munist Party in which Commu nist headquarters in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and San Francisco would have been per mitted to reopen for cash pay cents totaling $2,100. Navy Equips Planes With Guided Missile Washington (U.R) The Navy announced today that it now is equipping some of its patrol planes with a new guided mis sile which automatically searches out and destroys enemy ships at long ranges. The announcement came only hours after informed sources dis closed that the Air Force's Snark, a winged pilotless bomber, had recently ' made a 2000-mile, rec ord making flight over the Carib bean Sea. The new Navy missile, known as the Petrel, is designed to be launched by patrol planes well cut of range of the anti-aircraft batteri of enemy ships. MEDFORD 51st Year 22 Pages ISRAEL DITCH Phv jT COULD START WAR On the Israel-Syrian Border U.P.) Gangs of tough, yoig Is raeli engineers engaged on a project to divert the River Jordan are inching closer to a triangular wedge of "forbidden territory" where a bulldozer's backfire could start a war. The wedge is a seven and one-half square mile demilitarized zone due south of Lake Huleh where Israel plans to tap the Jor dan's winter flood waters to irrigate the Negev desert. Both Syria and Egypt have warned that the first trickle of wa ter through the partially completed sluice gates, now dominated by Syrian machine gun posts, will mean war. The threats have held vp work in the demilitarized zone where the sluice gates are located for two and one-half years. All attempts at negotiation, including mediation by President Eisenhower's spe cial ambassador, Eric Johnson, have failed and now Israeli pa tience is running short. Israel Premier David Ben Gurion said recently: "We will give other nations a little time to decide whether to negotiate, and then we will begin work whatever the conse quences." The engineers are ready to start tomorrow. Already their County's 20 Office Seekers Expected At Rally Tonight All of the county's 20 candi dates in the May primary elec tion are expected at the old fashioned political rally and torchlight parade tonight at the Eagle Point Grange. The candidates, their support ers, Grange members and others interested in taking part in the parade are to meet at the Grange, next to the high school, at 7:30 p.m. They will march down Main st and back to the Grange hall for a rally program, accord ing to general chairman C. C. Hoover. Special Features Among special features of the 8 p.m. program will be a three myvute speech by each candi date, timed with an alarm clock, Hoover said. Three members at the county's first football team, William von der Hellen, Med ford, and Karl von der Hellen and Deacon Brown, Eagle Point, will also be introduced. Holly Swingle, former cow boy, who helped in the roundup of wild horses in Eastern Ore gon, will greet those attending. Others supervising the event, be sides Hoover, are Earle Jossy, parade chairman, and James Dunlevy. A queen contest and a variety of humorous skits are scheduled. Hoover stressed that the pub lic is invited to take part in the parade and program, as well as to attend Grange meeting which follows. Candidates and many others attending are expected to be in costume of the 1890's or "farmer dress." City Council to Hold Two Hearings Tonight Two public hearings on changes of zone will be held at the Medford city council meet ing at 7:30 p.m. today. One pro posed change is from commer cial (class III) to light indust rial (class V) in a section of Cot tage addition, and the other is from single family (class I-A) to multiple family (class II) in Sis kiyou Heights extension. Also on the agenda is consid eration of ordinances authoriz ing plans and specifications for paving on Boardman st. from Ohio st. to McAndrews rd.; on Modoc ave. from East Main st. to the old city limits, and for a sanitary sewer in block four of Highcroft addition. ' The council will 'consider ad opting plans and specifications for sanitary sewers' on Capital ave.-Valley View area; on South Ivy st., from Holmes ave., to Garfield st., and on Whitman ave. from Holmes ave. to Gar field st. , Dakota Hard Hit By Snow and Wind . Sioux Falls, S. A raging snow, D. (U.R) ' wind and i storm struck wide areas of the Dakotas today and at least 42 South Dakota communities were cut off from all except short-wave radio communica tion. 1 Pierre, capitol of South Dako ta, was the largest of the isolat ed communities. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. reported that repair crews dispatched to the worst storm area had to turn back. A bus en route from Rapid City to Pierre was literally blown off the road 12 miles west of Pierre, but there were no in juries or damage. The bus driv er borrowed a car from a far mer and took the 12 passengers into Pierre. r MEDFC Own vmi ODD Board Votes To Ask Teacher Pay Increase Board members of Medford School District 49 Monday after noon voted to recommend to the budget committee salary in creases totaling approximately $77,764 for teachers now on the system's payroll. The board reached its decision after studies had been made on salary standards in 17 of Ore gon's largest school districts out side of Portland. Superintendent Leonard May field said the proposed incre ment plan would bring Medford teachers' salaries in line with schedules approved by school directors in Klamath Falls. and Grants Pass. v 1 The proposed schedule, based on experience up to 15 years, calls for a minimum annual sal ary of $3,430 and a maximum of $4,830 for teachers with three years of college; minimum of $3,700 and maximum of $5,400 for those with bachelors' de grees; minimum of $3,970 and maximum of $5,770 for those with five years of college, and minimum of $4,100 and maxi mum of $6,000 for those with masters' degrees. Mayfield said the minimum maximum plan is basically the same as' those proposed in both Klamath Falls and Grants Pass. The formula outline for plac ing present Medford teachers on the new schedule would provide for $300 annual increments for teachers with one year of expe rience. Other teachers would re ceive $300 plus $10 for each year of experience up to $440 for those with 15 years of ex perience. The superintendent explained that new teachers coming into the system would not be placed on salary schedules above those now teaching in Medford. He added that the $77,764 figure es- Flap Trouble Seen In Ditching of Plane Seattle U.R) An unsym- metrical flap position" probably caused the ditching of a North west Airlines Stratocruiser with the loss of at least four, and pos sibly five, lives yesterday, a company vice-president said to day. Frank C. Judd, vice-president in charge of operations and en gineering said: "We think it was flap trouble. That's what ., the pilot radioed the control tower just before he went down. The . engines and propellers were okay and doing everything that could be ex pected." Flaps are attached to the trail ing edges of the wings and can be lowered to provide more lift for take-offs and landings. Creswell Farmer Due Saturday With Orphans Portland (U.R) Ha rry Holt of Creswell, Ore., is due to arrive here at 12:35 a.m. Saturday with 13 more mixed-blood Korean orphans for adoption by Ameri can families. The contingent of children fathered by Americans in Korea during the Korean war is the second to be rescued from star vation by the Oregon farmer. Last October he brought 12 to this country at his own expense and adopted eight of them himself. Y, APRIL 3, 1956 American built tractors, bulldozers and excavators are edging up the Jordan valley, building a concrete-lined canal which would carry the diverted waters. Today they are only a few hundred yards from the "forbidden zone." x Their base camp looks across a valley within easy artillery range of Syrian regimental headquarters situated in a clump of cypress trees. Their work sites are within a stone's throw of the Jordan as it rushes down a narrow ravine from Lake Huleh to the Sea of Galilee. With field glasses it is easy to pick out the heads of Syrian sentries in sandbagged gunpits. According to Israeli planners, the Jordan scheme would har ness only surplus winter flood waters which at present roar down the rocky gorge and empty themselves uselessly into the Sea of Galilee and eventually the Dead sea. Their plan is to divert these surplus waters by canal leaving the Jordan to pursue its normal course, and store them for sum mer droughts. They would also be used to run power plants for Israeli industries. Israeli has served notice that she intends to take action. One false move here could trigger a new war tomorrow. CCn e timated as the total increment does not include salaries for six teachers who have indicated they plan to resign at the end of this year. Board member said the new schedule would go into effect in September if it is adopted. It must first be approved by the budget committee and later by voters of the district Recommendation for salary increases is also contemplated for supervisors, administrators and special teachers, such as ath letic, music and drama instruc tors. Consideration of raises for custodians, secretaries and cafe teria personnel will follow stud ies to be made on salary pro grams in other districts. County Demos To Hear Mrs. Luther One of the nation's top women Democratic party workers will speak in Medford tomorrow night, April 4. She is Mrs. Lloyd Luther, staff assistant to Mrs. Katy Louchheim, director of the national women's division of the Democratic party. Mrs. Luther will be principal speaker at a meeting of the Jack son County Central Democratic committee at 8 p.m. in the down stairs room of the Labor temple, 241 South Grape st. Mrs. Luther's appearance here is part of a state-wide drive on the part of the Democratic party to get unregistered voters on the books prior to the mid-April deadline, according to Howard Morgan, Monmouth, Democratic state chairman. A former work er in the League of Women Vot ers in her home state, Mrs. Lu ther is considered an expert in the techniques of stimulating po litical activity. She was the public representative at the 1954 minimum wage conference and has served on the board of the Mental Health association of the District of Columbia. Accompanying Mrs. Luther to Medford will be Mrs. Edna Scales, Clackamas county, state vice:chairman of the Democratic party, and Harry J. Hogan, Hood River, director of Organization for the party in Oregon. Democrats from Klamath, Douglas and Josephine counties will also attend. Anyone interested in hearing Mrs. Luther is invited to attend, according to Robert Boyer, coun ty Democratic chairman. Peach Orchards Heated In Area This Morning Temperatures as low as 24 de grees resulted in nome peacn orchard heating in Jackson county Monday night, C. B. Cordy, county extension agent for horticulture, reported today. He said that considerable damage to the fruit would have . him of WjSConsin's 28 Dem resulted if the orchards had been j rnnvention votes, and ien unneatea. ivianyoi me piure advanced buds in unheated peach orchards in cold locations were killed last night. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 515.91, up 0.81; 20 rail roads 171.41, off 0.96; 15 utilities 67.17, off 0.24, and 65 stocks 181.69, off 0.26. Sales today were about 2,760,000 shares compared with 3,120,000 yesterday. TRIBUNE Price 5c No. 11 yD Five Perish in Oklahoma; Kansas, Missouri Also Hit Drumright, O k 1 a flJ.RD Seven persons were killed by tornadoes that swept through Oklahoma, southern Kansas and Missouri last night and today. Oklahoma had five fatalities in the city of Drumright, and Kansas had two, while scores of others were injured in the three states, i The dead at Drumright were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bevel, their daughters, Gloria, 16, and Vir ginia, 17; and Mrs. Josie Weaver, 81.. ... c; ... - - Farm Horn Demolished Ole Leek, about 45, was kill ed when a tornado demolished his farm home one mile west of Toronto, Kan., and Mrs. fithel Whited, about 70, was killed in her farm home south of Gre- nola, Kan. The injured included 35 at Miami, Okla., where 15 remain ed in hospitals and others were released; seven in hospitals at Cushing, Okla., where they were taken from Drumright; eight at Davenport, Okla.; two at Pond Creek, Okla.; one at Hopeton, Pkla., and a number at Grenola and Baxter Springs, Kan. An eight-year-old son of the Bevels, Billy' Bob, was the only surviving member of the family. He was at a movie. Hit After Midnight The storm hit Miami, in ex treme northeastern Oklahoma, at 12:10 a.m. and the adjoining Kansas and Missouri areas a few minutes later. Reports of two dead at Miami proved wrong. Police said two were injured in a rural area southeast of Joplin, Mo. Gritty clouds of dust rolled across the prairie behind the surge of cold air which spawned the twisters. Evidence of Fighting Cocks Said Uncovered Oregon City (U.R) Clack amas County District Attorney Winston Bradshaw yesterday filed a complaint charging cruel ty to animals against Tom Holmes of Aumsville. Bradshaw said sheriff's offi cers had found a dead fighting cock and a pair of spurs in a barn in the Willamette area. Kefauver Hopes for Protest Vote in Wisconsin Election Milwaukee, Wis. (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver tried to roll up a significant farm protest vote against President Eisen hower today in the Wisconsin presidential primary. Kefauver and Mr. Eisenhower were matched in an almost head-on clash in today's voting. Kefauver is unopposed, assur- the president's only opposition comes from a newspaper edi tor's "Pro-American" slate. Popularity Contest The battle shaped up as a "popularity contest" between the two candidates. Kefauver backers said he would score a moral victory over the Presi dent if the Democratic primary vote goes over 25 per cent in normally Republican Wiscon sin. Republicans said the Dem Full Freeze on Nuclear Weapons Eyed in Proposal Most Detailed Plan Yet Put Forward London (U.R) The United States called today for the es tablishment of a world agency that would work step by step through conventional disarma ment to a full freeze on nuclear weapons production. The proposal was put forward by U.S. delegate Harold Stassen as the latest m a series of plans placed before current sessions of the five-power disarmament con ference. Most Detailed Plan The proposal amounted to the most detailed American plan yet put forward for nuclear disarm ament. It was a compromise between the Anglo-French plan, which aims at nuclear disarmament, and a Soviet blueprint which concentrates o n conventional arms cuts only. The new American plan pulls together in one framework many old proposals made by the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France, and then adds some new points. Only Can ada has not offered an arms cut plan yet at the conference. Form of Working Paper Stassen introduced the latest American plan in the form oi a draft working paper. He emphasized the working paper aspect of his suggestion. noting that K was subject to ne gotiation. Shortly after he returned from a week-end conference at Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther' SHAPE headquarters near Paris, Stassen conferred privately yes terday with Russia's Andrei Gromyko. Major Morris Dies Of Gunshot Wound Major McKinley Morris, 58, Shady Cove, shot and killed him self in the bedroom of his home with a .38 caliber revolver about 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sheriff How ard Gault reported today. Mrs. Morris told authorftiea she heard a shot and found his body on the bedroom floor near a dresser. Mr. Morris was born June 13, 1807 at Lebo, Kan., and was associated with the Medford Ice and Storage plant until about two years ago. Previously he served as general manager and later as president of the Ashland Ice and Storage company for several years. He was affiliated with a number of fraternal or ganizations in this area. Survivors include the widow, Lorraine (Polly) Morris; his fa ther, George W. Morris, Covina, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. Al Her manson, Medford; Mrs. Jim Lindsey, Tracyton,' Wash., and Mrs. S. M. Fisher, Silverdale, Wash.; five nieces and one nephew. Funeral arrangements are pending at Perl Funeral home in Medford. Local Couple Parents Of 12th Child Monday Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Read made it an even dozen when a daugh ter was born to the couple yes terday at Sacred Heart hospitaL The Reads already were the par ents of 11 sons and daughters, the eldest 27 years old, and have five grandchildren. Next youngest child is Tommy, IVi years old. Mrs. Read said this morning that her other daughters have been given the privilege of nam ing their new sister. The Reads live at 1320 Beatty st. and Read is a truck driver for Shell Oil company. Hollywood (U.R) Actor An thony Dexter, player of Rudolph Valentino on the screen, has been divorced by his wife, Marjorie. ocrats would have to poll more than 50 per cent before mak ing any victory claims. The possibility that farmers might desert the traditionally Republican ranks to protest ad ministration farm policies with a vote for Kefauver was consid ered equally significant - Democrats have, already claimed signs of an agriculture revolt in the Minnesota primary where large numbers of farmers voted in the Democratic col umn. Wisconsin is also a basically agricultural state and Demo crats hoped for a repeat perfor mance. Kefauver made an outright bid for a protest vote in an el ection eve telegram from the South where he is campaigning for votes in Florida's May 29 primary. si
