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C W O t- 9. t? J CO O J MEDFORD&JTRIBl" Wealher Recommended FORECAST Generally fair today and Monday with high thin cloudiness at times. High today 65; low tonight 32; high Monday 68. v Temp. Highest yesterday 60 Lowest yesterday 41 Precip. To 10:30 p.m. yesterday .OS A future ftory about a 10 year improvement program la national parki appearg on pafe 12 of today'! MaU Tribune. United Pros Full Leased Wire 51st Year 30 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1956 Trice No. 15 j - x United Pre! e I ,, SIZE AND LOCATION OF DISTRICTS j ; ' IN PROPOSED C0NS0LI D ATI0N m I J Siet. I , J lone Fita tHst. 18 Oak Gror Blatjty J fc ' : -A KeAfi 'Sehsoi. -!5ist, !t9 .::,;: ;;, I j ;; "j :--;hJ.;SVi A L'. '. ' ...V ' j CONSOLIDATION VOTE MONDAY Residents of Medford, Oak Grove and West Side school districts (outlined above) will vote Monday, April 9, to determine whether the three will consolidate. Polls will be open from 2 to 8 p.m. in the Medford district in the girls gymnasium, Medford High school; Oak Grove in the Oak Grove school; and West Side at the West Side school. Consideration of consolidation resulted w oter Ample water supplies for Irri gation this season, and a heavy run-off, were predicted in two forecasts made here Friday. Water supplies in the Rogue and Umpqua river basins should b well above average for the April through September Irriga tion season, W. T. (Jack) Frost, now survey supervisor for the Soil Conservation service, an nounced at the annual water forecast meeting here. The meeting was jointly spon sored by the Rogue and Sam's Valley-Beagle soil conservation districts. Heavy Snowpacki ' Heavy snowpacks on the two watersheds, coupled with excep tionally wet soils, are expected Portland (U.R) Storage in Ten major Northwest power reservoirs at the end of March was far above that of the 10-year average from 1944 to 1953, it was reported Satur day. Hollis M. Orem, engineer in charge of the geological record -center here, said storage was about 4,052,000 acre feet more than last year and about 3,515, 000 feet more than the 10-year erage. to boost summer streamflow about one-fourth above average, Frost reported. Farmers are now looking for light rains to wet surface soil dried by an unusually dry March. But deeper soil was reported in excellent condition and should help maintain irrigation sup plies at above average flow into late summer. Water content of the snow cover on Rogue river watersheds Is 82 per cent greater than last year and 53 per cent higher than the 15-year average from 1938 to 1952. The Bear Creek-Little Group Urging Oil Industry To Donate Blood This Week Representatives of the oil in dustry from southern Oregon are being urged to donate blood when the Red Cross bloodmobile visits Jackson county next Tues day and Wednesday. Norm Buvick, chairman of the Medford Oil Information com mittee, and Lloyd Leonhardt, chairman of the southern Ore gon OIC, said employees and representatives of oil companies and independent dealers are being contacted. The drive for blood donors will include heat ing oil distributors, they said. The bloodmobile will be in Medford between 1 and 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, and in Ash land Wednesday, April 11. Butte snowcourse measures two thirds above normal and nearly double the 1955 water content. Applegate, Illinois Snow cover on headwaters of the Applegate and Illinois rivers are more than double last year's pack. The Applegate is 83 per cent above average and the Illi nois is well over twice the 15 year average. The Rogue river, as metered above Prospect, is forecast to dis charge a total of 400,000 acre feet from April through Septem ber, 26 per cent higher than average. Streamflow of the Rogue below South Fork was forecast at 835,000 a.f., and the flow at Grants Pass is expected to hit 1,100,000 a.f. for the six month period, about 30 per cent over average. Applegate streamflow near Copper is forecast for 220,000 al., 90 per cent more than aver age. Flow of Illinois river at Kerby is expected to be 315,000 a.f., 75 per cent above normal. Storage reservoirs for the re gion are nearly full or expected to fill. Present storage in Hyatt reservoir is 7,200 acre feet and should near its 16,000 capacity Stevenson Challenges Estes to Oregon Race By UNITED PRESS Adlai E. Stevenson Saturday challenged Sen. Estes Kefauver to slug it out in the Oregon primary, but Kefauver spurned the challenge. Kefauver in turn suggested that he and Stevenson meet in a head-on fight in South Dakota. The two leading Democratic presidential contenders suggest- Jackson county's quota this visit is 250 pints, and Mrs. J. A. Burba, chairman of the Red Cross blood bank committee, said he hopes residents will again 'top the quota, At the February visit, more than 300 pints were collected. An average of 125 pints is used monthly in Jackson county, Mrs. Burba noted, which means that the reserve is almost gone. Appointments may be made for Tuesday by calling the blood bank office, 3-3813, and for Wednesday by contacting Mrs. H. S. Ingle in. Ashland, 7221. The bloodmobile will be at the Elks temple in both cities be tween 1 and 6 p.m. from the belief of many authorities that the mutual economic and educational interests could best be served by the change, school officials said. The Dewey and Kenwood districts will be merged with the Medford district in June by the county boundary board. Oak Grove and West Side would not be included in the Medford budget until the 1957-58 school year. for adequate supplies to the Tal ent Irrigation district. Net inflow to the reservoir for the next six months was forecast at 8,800 a.f., 47 per cent over average. Emigrant reservoir, which holds about 8,000 a.f., is now practically full. The Fourmile and Fish lake reservoirs serving the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irriga tion districts are also expected to fill. Jack Hoffbuhr, manager of the Medford Irrigation district, reported Fourmile now storing 6,400 of its 16,000 a.f. capacity. Frost forecast the Fourmile lake net inflow for the next six months at 10,400 ai., about 50 per cent higher than average. Fish Lake Reservoir Fish lake reservoir is now holding 5,155 a.f., only 3,000 short of capacity, with an expect ed inflow of 22,000 during the next six months. Hoffburh is hopeful that good stream flows and soil moisture will delay drawing from the res ervoirs until mid-June. Last year Fourmile and Fish lakes were tapped in mid-May and ended the irrigation season with no useable supplies. ed the broadened battle lines as they threw off their kid gloves in an increasingly bitter fight for the presidential nomination. Stevenson, the 1952 Demo cratic presidential candidate, an nounced in Chicago that he will challenge the Tennessee senator in a bid for write-in votes in the Oregon presidential preferemv primary May 18. He made the announcement after kicking off a weekend meeting of Steven-son-for-President groups from 22 states. No Oregon Contest Kefauver, campaigning in New Jersey, replied that he had decided "not to make a contest" in Oregon. The senator said he would not object to friends cam paigning for him in the state but said he will make no official efforts for write-in votes. Kefauver fired back that it would be "interesting" if he and Stevenson should meet in the South Dakota primary. This was not a challenge, Kefauver said, just a suggestion that Stevenson was welcome to meet him in the primary of "a good farm state." The campaign between Ste venson arjd Kefauver was devel oping into donnybrook, with each man accusing the other of "fouls" in their fight for the nomination. Am pie It may be possible this year to end the season with carryovers of 2,000 a.f. in Fish lake and 8,000 in Fourmile, it was indi cated. March precipitation averaged about 60 per cent of normal in southwestern' Oregon, breaking the long sequence of wetter-than-normal months, according to the forecast by R. D. Church, meteor ologist in charge at the U.S. Weather Bureau here. Forecasts Lowered Although runoff forecasts have been lowered slightly, Church said, they still call for maximum flows. Key April "through September flow forecasts, in thousands of acre feet and per cent of the 15-year average in clude Rogue river below South Fork, 1,030,000 or 151 per cent, and Upper Klamath lake inflow, 1,050,000 or 200 per cent. Church said that high flow vol umes will likely cause flooding Lat vulnerable points in the Klam ath and interior basins during the runoff period. West of the Cascades in the lower reaches of the Rogue and Umpqua rivers, flooding will not occur unless the snow-melt is accompanied by heavy rain, he predicted. The only time in 50 years of record that the Rogue river has exceeded bankfull capacity at Gold Ray dam between April and September, Church said, was April 13, 1937, when the river rose to 10.7 feet after about three inches of rainfall in the headwaters. Gromyko Blames West For Arms Cuts Holdup Copenhagen, Denmark U.R) Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis ter Andrei Gromyko said Satur day the world is "not nearer but farther" from agreement on disarmament. Malenkov Surprises Newsmen With Visit Twinet Airliner; Asks for Increased Trade With Britain London U.R) Former Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov Satur day waved aside Russian and British security guards and escorted western newsmen on a surprise tour of Russia's new TU-104 twinjet airliner before flying home to Russia. The pudgy Communist put in a final plug for increased trade between 'Russia and Britain in a farewell statement. He also again expressed his appreciation for the warmth of his reception by the British people during his three-week tour. Malenkov told reporters he would "have much, to tell" Pre Couple's Engagement Raises Party Bars Washington (U.R) Bi partisan Social Note: Robert D. Bradshaw, clerk in the office of Democratic House Speaker Sam Rayburn, and Nancy Lefevre, assistant secretary in the office of House minority leader Joseph W. Martin Jr., are engaged to be married Aug. 25. Benson Indicates He Will Ask Ike To Veto Farm Bill 'Legislation Not Acceptable' Is Claim Washington U.R) Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben son indicated Saturday after a conference with President Ei senhower that he will ask him to veto the election-year farm bill unless it is revised. "The legislation is not accept able to me," Benson told White House reporters. "There will have to be some changes to make it a good bill." It was the third time in less than 24 hours that Benson had gone to the White House to dis cuss with Mr. Eisenhower - and his advisers what the adminis tration should do about the po litically-explosive bill. Objectionable Features The measure, approved Friday by a Senate-House conference committee, contains many fea tures objectionable to the admin istration. It would set aside the administration's flexible farm program with a one-year restora tion rigid high support prices for basic crops and would boost 1956 supports for half a dozen other farm products above levels already fixed by Benson. But it also would authorize the administration-sponsored $1.2 billion soil bank. In his brief encounter with newsmen Benson shed no light on what kind of price support compromise " the" dhlinfstratiori would propose in an 11th hour move to revamp the bill when it comes to a'showdown vote in the House and Senate next week. Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty indicated this will be decided Monday when the President meets again with Benson and with congressional Republican leaders. M-T Women's Section Receives OPW Award The women's section of the Medford Mail-Tribune received a first and two second place honors Saturday by the Oregon Press Women meeting in Eu gene. Mrs. Olive Starcher, Mail- Tribune women's editor, report ed from Eugene Saturday night that the Sunday women's section of the paper was judged best of its kind in the state. The daily women's section of the Mail Tribune was rated second and Mrs. Starcher's Sunday column, Potpourri, also took second place honors. The Oregon Press Women's group is comprised of newspaper women throughout the state. The spring conference, which opened Saturday and will conclude this morning, is being held on tne University of Oregon campus. Winter Blows Back Into Western States Chicago U.R) Winter blew back -into the midwest Saturday to cap a weird week of weather that included summery breezes, killer tornadoes, dust storms, drenching showers and snow flurries. Residents of parts of Wiscon sin and Minnesota were pelted with up to three inches of snow today, while rain covered the middle Mississippi valley to the east coast. mier JNiKoiai iiuiganin ana Soviet Party Chief Nikita S. Khrushchev when he arrived in Moscow. "And what I have to say is all good," he added. Most British circles believed Malenkov's visit was in the na ture of an "ice-breaking expedi tion." They felt the affable min ister of power was sent here to pave the way for the visit April 18 by the Soviet leaders. The TU-104 airliner, whicb western experts said is a civilian adaptation of Russia's major twinjet atom bomber, the "Bad ger," made the flight from Lon don to the Vnukovo airport out- Dag Hammarskjold Confers With Aides About Middle East Receives Support From British in Brief Stop Rome United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold arrived here last night and im mediately huddled with "aids on the explosive Middle East crisis. Hammarskjold flew in from London where he paused briefly to receive assurances of British support on his urgent mission to prevent all-out war in the Middle East. The UN diplomat received an informal briefing from Henri Vigier of France, political ad viser to Palestine Truce Chief Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, and Henry Labouisse of the United States, chief of the U.N. Pales tine Relief and Works Agency. Declines Comment ' Hammarskjold declined com ment on reports he might see Pope Pius XII. Vatican sources said they so far have received no request from the UN diplomat for an audience. Sources said British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd urged a strengthing of the UN Pales tine truce supervisor force and giving supervisors the use of helicopters. Neither Hammarsk jold nor Lloyd would comment on what was said in their hour long talks before Hammarskjold continued his journey. The secretary-general is sched uled to meet in Rome today with Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada, chief of the Palestine truce commission, before going on to the Mideast itself in mid week. At London airport, Hammarsk- iold said his first stop after Rome will be Beirut, Lebanon, and from there he will go to Cairo. .He refused to say when he would visit Israel or other Arab "capitals on his 30-day mis sion ordered by the UN Security Council. French Battle With Rebels in Algeria Algiers, Algeria U.R) French security forces battled diehard "Army of Allah" rebels in strife-worn Algeria Saturday while riots and extremist vio lence harassed Tunisia and Mo rocco. While violence wracked the two big territories in northwest Africa, Spain was granting in dependence to its protectorate in Morocco. A joint declaration ending the 44-year protectorate was signed in Madrid today. The bloody months-long rebel lion in the big French overseas territory of Algeria was the main topic of discussion at a meeting -of the Arab League Po litical committee in Cairo, Egypt. At a two-hour session, the com mittee set up a subcommission to study "ways and means of supporting the Algerians." French troops and Algerian rebels fought a deadly game of "hide and seek" amid the rocks, ravines and wooded heights of eastern Algeria. It was the third day of a big running battle in which both sices were reported suffering heavy losses. Activity Increasing For Averell Harriman Washington (U.R) Demo cratic pipelines carried reports Saturday of a gradual stepup in organized activity aimed at winning the presidential nomina tion for Gov. Averell Harriman of New York. This activity was understood to call for quiet efforts to line up potential convention support for the New Yorker and for a series of public endorsements from state and party officials around the country. side Moscow in three hours and 55 minutes. , Except for a few British au thorities, the newsmen were the first westerners permitted to in spect the interior of the plane at the London airport. The reporters found a strange interior: There were oxygen tubes at each seat indicating the plane lacked the cabin pressur ization which is virtually stand ard in western commercial air liners. There were four private lounges indicating the plane was reserved for very important passengers. In the main cabin S- i;u.;.,;.t;;j;M',jH;j;;;, B9rs. -E.A. Faber Killed in Grasli In Salem Area "' mm i ii i mm . - ; : i' ,"v' MRS. EVERETT FABER Dies in Auto Collision Senate Committee Censures Attorneys In Gas Bill Case Washington (U.R) Senate investigators Saturday censured Superior Oil company attorneys John M. Neff and Elmer Patman for "galloping irresponsibility" in allegedly trying to sway the vote of Sen. Francis Case (R S.D.) on the natural gas bill. But they said that "there was neither'a bribe nor an- attempt to bribe" involved. The blue- ribbon committee added in its final report on the sensational incident that Superior Oil Presi dent Howard B. Keck must share whatever blame attches to his two employees because he was "remarkably lax" in direct ing their activities. Issuance of the report ended one phase of the turmoil which began during Senate debate on the gas bill when Case disclosed he had rejected a $2,500 cam paign gift from Neff. The Senate passed the bill, 53 to 38, and set up the committee to investi gate. Measure Vetoed 1 But President Eisenhower ve toed the measure with a blast at "arrogant" tactics of lobby ists supporting it. The Senate then set up another eight-man committee to conduct a broader lobbying inquiry. The gas bill affair will be its first business The report said Neff, lobby ing "in an inept fashion" for the bill, clearly, made the 52,500 campaign contribution offer for Case "for the purpose of mflu encing the senator's vote." But there was no bribe attempt. It said it had "some difficulty" in determining what Case was complaining about when he brought the incident to the Sen ate's attention. Case was "un clear" about it, the report said. But the committee said it "does not intend to cast any reflection upon Sen. Case." Mrs. Gunter's Death Ruled Self -Inflicted The death of Mrs. Jean Gunter, 30, Ashland, March 16 was due to a self-inflicted gun shot wound, District Attorney Walter Nunley said yesterday following investigation of the shooting. Nunley said authorities could find no evidence of foul play in the death of Mrs. Gunter, who was found dead in bed. Surviv ors include her husband, Jack, and three children. Abroad Red were 28 seats, in rows of two-to-a-side. They were spacious and generously upholstered in con servative beige. Malenkov gleefully pointed out that the carpet running down the middle of the cabin was green, not red. Malenkov and Soviet Ambas sador to London Jacob Malik personally guided the newsmen through the plane. But they stop ped short of the cockpit which from the outside revealed the TU-104 to be the only commer cial airliner in active service with a plexiglass bombardier's window. Salem (U.R) A promient Med ford area woman was killed and five persons injured in a flam ing, two-car collision four miles south of here on the Salem by pass Saturday morning. Dead is Mrs. Everett A. (Beulah) Faber, 49, Central Point. State police said she was struck head-on by, a car driven by E. C. McClain, Lebanon, at about 10:05 a.m. McClain, his wife, Leona. daughter, Eldona and Karen, and his mother-in-law, were all in jured in the crash and taken to Salem Memorial hospital. Ex tent of their injuries has not yet been determined. Headed North Officers said McClain was headed north and passing a string of cars when he collided head-on with Mrs. Faber, who was alone in her car. Both autos burst into flames, police said. Mrs. Faber was south-bound after visiting relatives in Port land. Survivors icnlude her husband, prominent Medford and Central Point business man and vice- president of KBES-TV; a daugh ter, Mrs. Richard Stratton, Cent ral Point; a son, Donald A. Faber, Central Point; and two grandchildren. Mrs. Faber was active in many valley civic and social groups. She was to have been installed April 14 as grand guardian of the International Order of Job's Daughters' of Oregon and was a past guardian of Central Point Bethel No. 38, which she helped organize. Other Activities -: A past worthy matron of Nevita chapter, Order of East ern Star, she 'also was a charter member of Roxy Ann court No. 20, Order of Amaranth. She was long a member of the , First Methodist church and had been serving as secretary of the Western Jurisdication of the Wesleyan Service Guild, the highest district office. Funeral services are pending. Perl Funeral home wili be in charge. U. S. Police Need Seen by Neuberger Chicago (U.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said last night the government eventual ly may have to send federal police patterend after the Royal Canadian Mounties into the south to protect the rights of Negroes. Neubeger said he already is studying the Canadian statutes which set up the famed red-coated force of the north country. He said such a force in this country "may prove to be the one way of safeguarding the Negroes of the southern states in the exercise of their inalien able American rights to vote, to be equally educated, to be re spected and not to be discrimin ated against." Neuberg, whose remarks were contained in a speech, prepared for delivery to the annual dinner of the council against discrimin ation, is author of a book about the Mounties. He said Canada never had a "wild west" compared to that of this country because of the Mounties. , Hal Passed to Buy McKay Cabinet Chair Washington U.R) Top Inter ior Department officials passed the hat Saturday to buy their re tiring boss a farewell present his black leather cabinet chair. Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay has quit his job to enter the U. S. senatorial race in Ore gon. He is seeking the seat now held by Sen. Wayne L. Morse, a Democrat. White House Press Secretary James C. Kagerty said it is cus tomary for a retiring cabinet member's staff to purchase his chair for him. The chairs each bear a plate with the official's name engraved on it. Cabinet chairs cost about $115. McKay has invited all em ployes of the department to his office next Friday to bid them farewell. He said he will fly home to Oregon qn April 15. i
