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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
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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
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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.
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