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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.
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MEDFC
Own
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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