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Politicians Keep Eye on Primary In Wisconsin as Strength Test Washington U.R) Political observers watched the Wisconsin primar today to see how much strength Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) shows against Presi dent Eisenhower in that normally Republican state. The results also will be close ly analyzed to determine wheth er Wisconsin farmers register major discontent with adminis tration farm policies by voting heavily Democratic. No Opposition Kefauver has no opposition in the Democratic column, and Mr. Eisenhower has only token oppo sition from an Ashland, Wis., editor. The President and Ke fauver are pitted in something of a "popularity" contest since the primary is "open and voters are not required to vote with the party they normally support. In the 1952 presidential pri mary, 76.3 of those casting bal lots in Wisconsin voted Republi can and 23.7 Democratic. In the presidential election itself the contest between Mr. Eisenhower nd Adlai E. Stevenson 61 per Sloan Retires as General Motors Head New York (U.R) Alfred P. Sloan Jr. retired yesterday as chairman of the board of General Motors Corporation which he built into the nation's greatest manufacturing enterprise. The 80-year-old industrial gen ius joined General Motors as a vice-president in 1918. Under his guidance GM be came the first company in the history of the world last year to make a net profit of more than $1,000,000,000. Albert Bradley, chairman of the firm"s key Financial Policy Committee and a member of its Board of Directors, will succeed Sloan as chairman. cent voted Republican and 39 per cent Democratic. Kefauver in Florida Other political developments: Kefauver, assured of picking up Wisconsin's 28 Democratic na tional convention votes without contest, headed today for Flor ida where he will meet Steven son in a head-on contest in the state's May 29 primary. In an Orlando, Fla., speech last night Kefauver made two main points: He believes he will be an acceptable candidate to Florida and the entire South de spite his view that the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling must be carried out, and he should not be penalized at the Democratic national convention because he is from the South. More than 500 Democratic committeemen in Stevenson's home state of Illinois hailed Stevenson at a Springfield rally as the "real workhorse" of the Democratic party. Stevenson is unopposed in Illi nois' April 10 primary, but Ke fauver supporters button-holed party leaders at the Springfield rally seeking write-in support for the Tennessee senator. The Kefauver camp admitted it won no significant new support, how ever. Stevenson Supported In a speech to the rally, Stev enson again attacked Kefauver for raising a charge of "bossism" against Stevenson supporters. "Sen. Kefauver goes to great pains to say 'I could never say an unkind word about my friend Governor Stevenson,' and then he goes on to criticize my friends." Stevenson said. In Washington, Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.), Stevenson's 1952 vice-presidential running mate, predicted Stevenson will top Kefauver in Florida but said the Tennesseean is likely to pick up some of the state's 28 dele- 'gate votes. Sparkman said Stev enson still has considerable sup port among Southern Democrats. On the Republican side, Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, Preident Eisenhower's physician, predicted in Philadelphia that the President will make a formal report to the country on his health just before the GOP na tional convention in August. Snyder also said Mr. Eisenhower will be able to "actively cam paign within his own discretion" in his bid for a second term. Second Victim of Jeep Plunge Found Yreka The body of the sec ond victim of a fatal jeep plunge Feb. 20 into the Klamath river was recovered Saturday by a Siskiyou county road de partment employee. The body of Paula Lee Lin derman, 10, was found near the scene of the accident. She was one of four people riding in the jeep that went over the bank and into the river near Horse Creek store. The body of her father, Paul D. Linderman, 47, a Happy Camp logger, was recovered by Highway patrol officers Feb. 27. Linderman's body was recover ed six miles from, the scene of the accident. He was driving the jeep at the time. Still unrecovered are bodies of Linderman's wife, Jenny, and Robert Allan Erwin, 18-month-old grandson of the couple. Early recovery of the victims was delayed by winter flood conditions. It was first believed that Lin derman had suffered a heart at tack just prior to the accident. Later. investigation showed, however, that his death was caused by drowning. Position of IWL 9s Clarified Regarding sin Flood Control Oregon division directors of the Izaak Walton League of America did not bind their or ganization to accept or endorse any of the findings or plans de veloped when they passed a resolution recently asking the Oregon Water Resources board to conduct a survey of the Rogue river basin for flood control and ether purposes. The position of the division was brought out in a letter from Rollin E. Bowles, Portland, state IWL president to Col. Paul Wei- land, Medford, a state director It contradicts a report issued last week following a meeting here of the board of directors of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources association. The report of the local meet ing quoted J. E. Bartlett, Grants Pass, a state IWL director like Weiland, as saying that the Wal ton division would approve whatever measures a basin-wide survey should find necessary for flood control on the Rogue. Want Flood Control On the contrary, Bowles wrote Weiland, "... I am certain that it was not the intention of the c!irectors, in their meeting at Eugene ... to give blanket en- dorsement to any plan that might be devised by the Corps of Engineers or any other agency ... "We asked that a complete and comprehensive survey be made of flood control problems and how they might be met in conjunction with the Water Re sources board and related state agencies and we certainly didn't give any blanket endorsement to any plan," Bowles continued . . . "We want flood control, it is true, and think that it should be provided, but we are con- V1 CH0. 0F COtO ZfZZlZ I 1 Two-Tone Combinat.on. f , h a TaUe 1 Black ond Charcoal pi capped t0 preve reinforced F 1 osr J 1 tx&z Z1J Weisfields Jewelers. 122 E. Main. Medford. Oregon f V "4 ll'""".!' jT " $ Please send me the 5-pc. Bridge Set advertised at 16 88 in i 3 9 kK. 1 J I J U I I-A. i f J Beige and Brown ( ) Black and Charcoal ( ). L..1 jjmtnjtAmT i LiJimi ClV ''tIiI J I enclose S and will send $ . per month JF '"'-fccSli or S per week until the entire balance is paid. xSttfTii '.' ' 'fill NAME PHONE 3U JJMS jT ' ""- ADDRESS HOW LONG &Zjtr r-? I CITY ZONE STATE f v" I I I HOW LONG mum i .m w mini iinmo, n y WHERE EMPLOYED CREDIT REFERENCES (Firm Names and Where Locatedj 122 EAST MAIN - MEDFORD STORE HOURS: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. I vinrpf? that it ran Via rmriAaA - w without the, Lewis creek dam and any other structure which will cause substantial damage to fisheries and recreational resources. Protective Services . "The bill that has been intro duced in the house by Congress man Harris Ellsworth, is a very comprehensive piece of legisla tion in that it requires a cor ordinated survey by all interest ed agencies, state and federal, with a maximum of protection for recreational and fisheries resources. It is the first bill call ing for a flood control survey with those protective devices written into it and the people of Medford and Grants Pass should not be misled into be lieving that we have committed ourselves to agreeing to any pro gram that is going to lead to the destruction of the fish runs on the Rogue river . . ." Bowles also enclosed for Wei land's information a letter writ ten to Bartlett in which he stated that he felt that the Grants Pass man had been misquoted. The state president also said to Bart lett, ". . '. I think we should keep the record straight . . . for most certainly, any project that would jeopardize the salmon and steel head runs of the Rogue river would again meet our bitter and determined opposition, no matter who sponsored it." Attended Meeting Weiland said that he was in -attendance with another Wal tonian at the flood control asso ciation meeting last week al though a report given to the Mail Tribune on the session stated that no representative of the local chapter of the IWL was present. The Waltonian resolution ask ed the Water Resources board to study existing water resources in Jackson and Josephine coun ties, means of augmenting and conserving such resources and existing and contemplated needs and uses of water for domestic, municipal, irrigation, power de velopment, industrial, mining, recreational, wildlife and fish line uses. It asked the study for pollution abatement and related subjects, including flood control. The water resources group was asked to formulate an inte grated coordinated program for use and control of such resources in the two counties. Waltonians asked the state agency to request the Corps of Engineers to con duct a flood control survey of the Rogue basin in cooperation with other federal and state agencies. OSC Representatives To Be Guests Here Representatives of the Ore gon State college athletic de partment and the alumni assoc iation will be honored at a- lun cheon in the Jackson hotel Pio neer room at noon Thursday. The local alumni association is sponsoring the luncheon. From Oregon State college will be Slats Gill, basketball coach; Tommy Prothro, head football coach; Spec Keene, ath letic director; and Robert Knoll, alumni director. Local association members said reservations should be made no later than tomorrow by contacting the Jackson hotel. All OSC alumni and friends are invited. Tuesday. April 3. 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN" Cherry Blossom Time In Nation's Capital Washington (U.R) It's cherry blossom time. The National Cherry Blossom Festival opened today with band music, speeches, new waves of tourists and blooming pink blos soms. ' About 25 per cent of the blos soms on the famed cherry trees bloomed on schedule, ringing the tidal basin by the Jefferson Me morial and bordering the Po tomac Park drives. The National Capital Parks Department expected the warm spring air to bring the trees to full bloom by tomorrow or Thursday. 1 Tour guides happily predicted the biggest cherry blossom crowd in the festival's history. i TESTIFYING before House committee, Herbert Hoover, Jr., acting secretary of state, urges foreign aid funds to help fight Reds. ( International) Eisenhower's Health Pronounced iound , Philadelphia (U.R) Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder, President Eisen hower's physician, said yester day the chief executive has made a "sound and complete recovery" and has "just as much vitality as he had prior to his heart attack." Snyder said the President could "actively campaign within his own discretion." He said Mr. Eisenhower would make another formal report on his health to the nation prior to the Republican National Con vention in August. . . The kilts worn by the famous Evzones of Greece sometimes contain more than 40 yards of material. Hydroelectric Work Set in Washington Stevenson, Wash. U.R) Offi cials announced yesterday that the Skamania county public util ity district plans to start con struction late this year on a $4,000,000 hydroelectric project on the Little White Salmon river. The project, designed to pro vide 20,000 kilowatts of firm power, will include an earth-fill, dam 2000 feet long and 125 feet high. A lake three miles long and a mile wide will contain storage for 60,000 acre-feet of water. Clyde Riddell, PUD commis sioner, said that no objection to the construction was anticipated. Phoenix School Club To Present Two Plays Phoenix Two comedies will be presented Friday, April 6, in the Phoenix High school gymnasium by the high school Mask club, the dramatics organ ization of the school. The plays will be "Hail the Hunkering Hero," and "Ama teur Hamlet." They are direct ed by E. M. Skipworth, drama instructor. The public is invited. A small charge will be made, with pro ceeds going into the club treasury. 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