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Arab By PETER WEBB (Jniied Press Correspondent Amman, Jordan '.U.R; While the Western powers strive to Svert the threatening Mid-East war there are nearly a million dispossessed Arabs secretly long ing for the first shot to be fired. They hope it will restore them to their lost homes. These Arab refugees were driven from their Palestine homelands in the 1943-49 Arab Jewish conflict and they are liv Consolidation Approved by Three School Districts Residents of Medford, Oak Grove and West Side school dis tricts yesterday voted over whemingly for consolidation into one district. The vote in Medford was 252 to 61 in favor, Oak Grove resi dents favored consolidation 163 to 23, and West Side patrons - voted 93 to 1 in favor. Votes will be canvassed by the Jackson County Boundary board, which will notify districts of the effective date of consolidation. County School Superintendent Alf B. Mekvold said he prob ably would call a meeting of the board later this week. Tentative Date Tentative effective date Is July 1, start of the new fiscal year, Mekvold said. During fiscal year 1956-57, three separate budgets will be drawn up and voted on by the Individ' tal districts. The budgets will be administered from the Medford school district. The following year, one budg et will be drawn up for the entire district, according to Leonard Mayfield, city school superintendent. Consideration of consolidation resulted from the belief that the mutual economic and education al interests could best be served by the change, school officials said. Mew District Name The new district will be known as Medford, No. 549C-1, when the consolidation is com pleted. If and when later con solidations are approved, the last digit will be changed to show the number of the consolidation. Portions of Kenwood and Dewey districts; -which- have been inoperative for some time, will also be joined to the Med ford district at the same time. Red Cross Appeals For Blood Donors Red Cross workers this morn ing appealed for "drop-in" blood donors at the Elks temple on North Central ave., where the bloodmobile will be stationed to day until 6 p.m. Mrs. J. A. Burba, blood bank chairman, reported this morning the donor appointment schedule was far from filled. She said Jackson county would fall seri ously' short of its 250 pint quota unless there is a significant num ber of "drop-in" donors this aft ernoon. The bloodmobile will be in Ashland Wednesday at the Elks temple there, also from 1 to 6 p.m. An average of 125 pints of blood is used monthly in Jackson county, the chairman said, and the reserve is nearly gone. Resi dents donated more than 300 pints in the February bloodmo bile visit. , Several donors representing the oil industry in Jackson county have made appointments through the efforts of the Oil Information committee here. Annexation Discussion Scheduled for Tonight Advantages and disadvantages of annexation will be discussed at a meeting of residents of the Grandview-Kenwood district and Medford city officials. The dis cussion will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Medford city hall. It will be the second of three meetings planned by the resi dents, the first having been with county sanitarians. A third meeting will follow at which residents are to decide what to do concerning annexation or formation of a sanitary district. DOW -JONES AVERAGES Ne York U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 510.04, off 8.48; 20 rail roads 168.54. off 2.36; 16 utili ties 66.68, off 0.39, and 65 stocks 179.46, off 2.51. Sales today were about 2.590,000 compared with 2,760,000 yesterday. Weather FORECAST: Considerable clou diness, becoming partly cloudy Wednesday. . Scattered rain showers tonight. Low to night 40. High tomorrow 60-65. Temp. Highest Yesterday 56 Lowest this Morning 45 Refugees ing today on dreams of hatred and revenge. In terms of human tragedy they are an indelible stain on the world's conscience. More than half of them al most 500,000 live in the tiny Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, packed like cattle into sprawl ing mudbrick camps which en circle the main towns in signs of sullen menace. Their one idea is just to go home. But home is today's modern Yesterday's vote makes the Medford district the fifth largest in the state. On the basis of 1954 school census figures, they are, in order, Portland, 87,094; Salem, 15,937; Eugene, 15,283; Springfield, 8,160, and Medford 6,754. The sixth and seventh largest are Roseburg with 6,752, and Coos Bay, 6,362. On the basis of the 1955 school census, the number of pupils in the consolidated area is esti mated at about 6,964. National Guard to Hold Demonstration Of Firepower Here Medford National Guard Com pany A will hold a public night firepower demonstration at the Camp White rifle range Satur day for two hours, starting at 6:30 p.m. The exhibition, said to be the largest show of its kind in southern Oregon, will feature firing of live ammunition, trac ers, smoke grenades, flares and other pyrotechnics. Also included in the exercise will be a battle mission, featur ing a mock attack on an enemy position with blank ammunition and pyrotechnics. Members of the unit will fire the Sniper scope at the conclusion of the demonstration. This weapon al lows riflemen to deliver accu rately aimed fire in total dark ness. - In issuing an invitation to the public - to . view the- demonstra-n tion, guard officers explained all safety precautions are being taken. Chairs are being provid ed for the public. Lt. Jack Phillips, who is in charge of the operation, explain ed that the demonstration is part of the week end training which guardsmen receive each spring. The range is located approxi mately two miles east of White City on the first major road to the right off Antelope road. Burton Lowry Dies In Portland Today Burton G. Lowry, 43, Portland engineer and member of a well known Medford family, died at his home this morning, accord ing to information received here by relatives. Lowry's wife, the former Barbara Wall of Med ford, said her husband left the house on his way to work but collapsed and died before start ing the car. Two of Mr. Lowry's br6thers' Fhilip Lowry, Medford attorney, and David Lowry, valley or chardist, went to Portland this morning to make arrangements to have the body brought here for funeral services and inter ment. Mr. Lowry was born in Med ford, Nov. 24, 1913, and was graduated from Medford schools. Later he attended Oregon State college and in the early 1940's went to Portland. In recent years he had worked for a Portland shipbuilding firm as an engineer. Survivors include his wife, four children, Linda, Bonnie Ann, Douglas and Burton; his father, Burton B. Lowry, Fern Valley road, Phoenix; three brothers, Philip and David, Med ford, and Wallace, on the faculty of Virginia Polytechnical insti tute, Blacksburg, Va.; a sister, Mrs. Neill Vosburgh, Fairbanks, Alaska. A younger brother, Wayne, died a few years ago. Mrs. Lowry's mother, Mrs. Alonia M. Wall, lives at 1064 Ellendale dr., Medford. Roger H, Flagg Joins Medford Police Force The addition of Roger H. Flagg, Jacksonville, as a patrol man with the Medford Police de partment was announced today by Chief Charles Champlin. Flagg, a 1953 graduate of Medford High school, serves with the first platoon from 12 midnight to 8 a.m. The force now has 20 patrolmen, Chief Champlin said. Salem (U.PJ Carleton J. Mc Leod, Brooks, has been elected president of the Oregon Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Association. tly ecre Israel, already overcrowded with Jewish immigrants tilling the soil and cultivating orange groves which once belonged to Arab owners. And Israel has no intention of giving up. In Jordan the refugees are concentrated mainly in the west bank territory of the former Pal estine which was annexed by Jordan's King Abdullah after the 1949 armistice. They can look out in many instances across the twisting demarcation Hammarskjold in Israel on Mission To Prevent War New Clashes Imperil Diplomat's Purpose Jerusalem, Israeli Sector U.R) U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold arrived to day in Israel to try to prevent war in the Middle East. But a new series of clashes between Egypt and Israel imperiled his urgent mission. An Israeli army spokesman announced that one Arab com mando was killed and another wounded and captured today in an engagement near the Jordan border and that Egyptian com mandos dynamited the water works in five Israeli villages near the Gaza strip. The attacks by the Arab Feda- yen or suicide squads have in flamed Israel even more than re cent border fighting, and Israel labeled them premeditated ag gression. Cairo radio said the raids were in retaliation for Is raeli shelling of Arab refugee settlements. Met By Burns Hammarskjold flew to Lydda airport outsid Tel Aviv from Beirut, Lebanon, where he ar rived shortly after midnight. He was met by Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, the U.N. truce supervisor for Palestine, and briefed. Ham marskjold flies to Cairo later to day. The two men talked 30 min utes in the Lydda airport restau rant and then drove into Tel Aviv for lunch. Burns, who cau tioned Egypt that further Feda- yen attacks might cause it to be labeled an aggressor, planned to fly to Cairo too. Albert Grand, U.N. truce com mission spokesman, said no re ply "had been1 received from! Egyptian Premier Abdel Gamal Nasser in reply to Burns' re quest for an immediate halt to the commando raids. Ten of the commandos have been killed deep inside Israel since Satur day. Declines to Talk Hammarskjold declined to talk with newsmen on his arri val. Two British members of Parliament who were waiting for a plane to London also fail ed to talk to the secretary gen eral. They were told he would talk only with Burns. Hammarskjold flew here as western diplomats in Jerusalem warned that a delay of even a day or two in his mission might be too late to prevent war. Their warning was heightened by to day's clash, 10 miles northeast of Beersheba, near the Israeli Jordan border. Russia Holding Out On Disarmament Plan London U.P.) ""The United States, Britain and France were reported near agreement on dis armament plans today, but Rus sia was said to be holding out for major changes in the emerg ing Western blueprint. The four powers reconvened with Canada to consider "dis armament secretary" Harold E. Stassen's warning that U.S. armed forces will be held at their present levels for at least a year, if not increased, unless Russia agrees quickly to join in a cutback to 2,500,000 men. The United States now has about 2,900,000 men under arms, compared to an estimated 4, 000,000 in Russia, 5,000,000 in Red China, and some 1,000,000 in the European satellite states. Princeton, N.Y. (U.R) ince- to University resident Harold W. Dodds said he would not inter fere with plans for a speech by convicted perjurer Alger Hiss here April 26. Ike Sets Major Speech Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower, deeply con cerned by tinder-box conditions in the Middle East, today sched uled a major foreign policy speech to the nation from Wash ington April 21. The President will speak to an evening banquet of the Amer ican Society of Newspaper Edi tors at the Statler Hotel. One Draft Finished Mr. Eisenhower has finished one draft of the speech and a new draft worked over by his foreign policy and speech advisers in Washington was scheduled to reach here today by special aerial for line and see the farms and hous es they once occupied in the hands of Israeli settlers. Foods arid shelter for the refu gees is provided by the United Nations Relief and Works agen cy which distributes basic ra tions and tries to resettle and re habilitate the refugees. Its an nual budget for Jordan is $14, 000,000, of which $12,000,000 goes for food. That provides each refugee with nine cents worth of food a M EDF0RD 51st Year 20 Pages Air Force Tells Plans To Speed Atomic Airplane Washington (U.R) The Air Force today announced a' new move to speed development of an atomic-powered airplane. It said a $7,500,000 reactor will be built at the Air Force's Wright Air Development Center at Dayton, O. It is expected to be completed by the first of 1958. The announcement came a day after the Air Force reported it has given Lockheed Aircraft and Convair contracts calling for "further development" of an atomic plane. Actual Construction Seen , The announcements-, seemed to indicate that the big atomic plane program has progressed to the point where actual construc tion of an atom airplane is about to start. The Atomic Energy commis sion and its contractors have been working for years on a nu clear power plant capable of driving airplanes of the. future indefinitely in supersonicf.Ught. Building the planes is Vnet( big step forward; -' - The Air Force said the new reactor at Dayton will be a 10 megawatt model. It will be used to test aircraft materials, com ponents and systems being de veloped for nuclear-powered planes. Water-Cooled Reactor The Air Force said the chief feature of the facility will be a water-moaerated and water-cooled reactor similar to the mater ials testing reactor the Atomic Energy commission has at Ida ho Falls, Ida. The Air Force said that the Army Engineers' Louisville, Ky., district has supervision over de sign and construction and has contracted with Ralph M. Par sons Co.. Los Aneeles. to carrv out all work except construction of the reactor itself. A contract for design, fabrication and in stallation of the reactor will be awarded under competitive bids after the basic facility is design ed. Harry Dorman Joins Bonneville Power Portland (U.R) Harry S. Dorman, former Oregon direc tor of finance and administra tion, today was appointed assist ant to the administrator of the Bonneville Power Administra tion, effective immediately.. Administrator William A. Pearl said Dorman's primary re sponsibilities would be to assist the administrator in working out improved procurement, contract and management programs. Dr. Pearl said His long ex perience with the budget and fi nance problems of the state of Oregon and his other accomp lishments eminently qualify him to assist us." Salem (U.R) The State Board of Control has postponed decision on construction of a medium security facility for 90 boys at MacLaren school. courier. He will work on refine- ments of the text during his golfing vacation at the Augusta National Golf course. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said "It will be a major address on foreign policy." Rare ly does Hagerty use the word "major" in advance description of a presidential utterance. Presumably the President's ASNE speech will be carried transcontinental by television and radio and overseas by short wave radio outlets. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower discussed the outlines of the speech over last week and with First day. Its 1500 calorie content equals the lowest rations ever distributed to conquered Ger mans at the end of World War II. It is an exercise in border line starvation. For those who are undernour ished, and there are thousands, there are "supplementary feed ing tents" inside the camps A medical certificate permits one to get a hot meal there. I saw one being served in Jordan's largest camp, outside Jordan, MEDFORD, ORt " HONEYMOONER'S SPECIAL A group of Chinese Cana dians pose happily aboard the American President Liner President Wilson in San Francisco after arriving from Hong Kong with their brides. In center are the latest of the newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Yipp of Saskatoon. Chinese who have lived in Canada for five years or more are allowed to return to China to bring a wife home. Planners Consider 2 Freeway Routes Here A letter from the State High way commission describing the two proposed routes for High way 99 through Medford was considered last night by the Medford city planning commis sion. The letter had been forward ed from the city council with the request that the planning commission make a recommen dation as to which route would be most suitable. The highway commission has proposed the new freeway take either a Hill crest road or Genessee st. route. Members of the planning com mission decided to study the letter because a decision at this time would be "too premature." A public hearing on the two pro posed routes will be held in Bedford next month, according to the highway commission. Recommend Garage The planning commission also made a recommendation to the council that space adjacent to tie new East Side fire hall be provided for a garage for the Jackson County Disaster car. A recommendation was made that the council make the pro posed change of the city zoning ordinance to include an agricul tural zone. Members also rec ommended that the north and south alley in Edwards place ad- Two Are Fined on Driving Charges Here Two drivers were fined 255 apiece, given suspended 30-day jail sentences and lost their op erators licenses for 90 days in district court Monday. The two, Harley Leonal Wat son, 22, of Grants Pass, and John Edward Southwell, 54, post of fice box 705, Ashland, pleaded guilty to charges of driving while under the influence of intoxicat ing liquor. ' April 21 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Dulles and the President teamed up Monday in a new warning to the war-troubled Middle East that the United States, within constitutional lim its and the findings of the United Nations, will oppose "any ag gression in the area." To Dominate Report Because the Middle East is the current international powder keg, the situation around the shores of the Mediterranean was certain to dominate the Presi dent's report to the editors and to the nation. in where 40,000 refugees are gath ered four times the population of Jericho itself. Outside the door of the mud walled, cane-roofed dining room stood a group of ragged children holding tin plates pathetically in their hands, waiting for scraps that might be left. But there was nothing left. A toothless old woman burned almost black by the 140-degree sun clawed at the camp superintendent's arm ask ing to be put on the undernour 1956 ditibn near Medford Bowling lanes be vacated. Approval was given the final plat of Country Club Manor sub division presented by Robert Mclntyre. .Recommendation was made that 55 feet of Marshall ave., through Garfield subdivision be vacated to provide a footpath to Jefferson school. Laborers Picket CP School Project Central Point - A picket line was established at the site of the new Central Point elementary school by laborers yesterday. It was reported pickets were placed at the site in a dispute over fringe benefits for laborers between the contractors associa tion and the local laborer's un ion. Robert Peebles, secretary and business agent of the Construc tion and General Laborers Lo cal 1400, said today he had no comment on the picketing. H. P. Jewett, superintendent of District 6C schools, said he did not know what effect the work stoppage would have ' on constructing the building, which is scheduled to be ready for use next fall. The Central Point school was apparently the only one affected by pickets. An elementary school being built in Gold Hill appar ently was not affected, although work is being done by the same contractor constructing the Cen tral Point school. Solon Sees Evidence Ike Is Not President 'Washington XU.R) Rep. Ush er L. Burdick (R.-N.D.) said to day he has often wondered if President Eisenhower actually is President. He said '"there is strong evidence" in the farm fight that he is not. Burdick said he found this evi dence in a published report that Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson "will not accept" the pending farm bill. "I guess that settles it," Bur dick said in a news letter. "There is no use trying to see the President, which I was tempted to do ... I hope some one . . . will go down and see Mr. Eisenhower and suggest to him in a roundabout way that he, Mr. Eisenhower, is the President, and not Mr. Benson." ml A -East ished list. "I have to turn her down ev ery time," the superintendent said. "There's only so much food and so many mouths to feed. There are others who need it more." The food and medical supplies given -by the United Nations keep the refugees going but has no effect, on their attitude to ward their lost lands. Listen to 65-year-old Ramadan Abdel Ha di, who once owned two orange xlIBUNE Price 5c No. 17 Stevenson Faces KefauYer Write-in On Illinois Ballot Chicago (U.R) Voters in the Illinois presidential primary de cide today whether to start Ad lai E. Stevenson's band wagon rolling again with a big vote of confidence. The alternative would be a sizeable write-in vote for Sen. Estes Kefauver in Stevenson's native Illinois. Stevenson, Illinois' former governor, is officially unop posed on the Democratic ballot. But in a last-minute appeal for votes he called the Illinois pri mary "the most important ref erendum" he will enter in his campaign for the presidential nomination. Two Million Voters About 2,000,000 voters, about half of those eligible, were ex pected to cast ballots. Fifty con vention delegates will be elected in both parties, but the presi dential primary results are not binding upon them. The polls were to open at 7 a.m (EST) and close at 6 p.m. Results may not become definite until late tonight, particularly if a hard to count write-in surge develops. Cool, cloudy weather, with a chance of rain or snow, was forecast. There was little doubt about the outcome of the Republican contest. President Eisenhower faces, token opposition from Sen. William ' Knowland (R-Calf.), who would have got out of the race if he had the chance, and perennial campaigner Lar Daly. State Level Fight On the tsate level, Republican Gov. William G. Stratton is in a brisk fight with four opponents, led by state Treasurer Warren E. Wright. There is a two-way fight for the Democratic guber natorial nomination, but Repub lican Sen. Everett M. Dirksen and Democrat Richard Stengel are unopposed for the senatorial spots on the ballot. The Democratic presidential race is complicated by write-in drives for both Kefauver and Ohio's Gov. Frank Lausche.. The Kefauver camp denies it is mak ing an organized drive for votes, but hopes to collect 10 per cent, of the total. Benson's Son Says Democrats Stalling Portland U.R) Republican Campaigner Reed Benson, son of Agriculture Secretary. Ezra Taft Benson, today accused the Democrats in Congress of delib erately stalling President Eisen hower's soil bank legislation "to keep the farmer in hot water." Benson told party leaders at a breakfast meeting here today that it is now practically too late for the soil bank plan to bring relief to farmers this year be cause spring planting has al ready started. "The President pleaded for the soil bank, but it was six weeks before the Senate called my father to testify," he said. He charged that Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.) v delayed consideration of the farm bill by reading a 350-page speech in the Senate. Corvallis Students To Follow Custom Corvallis 'U.R) If the mid morning coffee break is good enough for adults, it's good enough for teen-agers. Thai's the opinion of Corvallis school officials who today ordered a 10-minuie observance of the American custom for high school students. But school clubs will serve fruit juice and pastries, no coffee. School officials said the practice will cease immedi ately if student abuse the . privilege Unres groves, a tractor and fertile farmland and is now living in a one-room mud hut. "The British aid to Jewish col lonization forced me to leave my home. The British were our friends and allies and we were their friends. But they betrayed us. They brought Jews and put them in our midst. But we will go back by force if necessary. If the British don't support the Jews we can deal easily with them." Mid-East Crisis Object of Talks By Congressmen Dulles, Leader Meet No Requests Made Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and 14 congressional leaders today discussed the question of con gressional authority to use Amer ican troops if necessary, to keep peace in the Middle East. But leaders emphasized that the administration did not re quest such authority at this time. They said there appears to be no immediate emergency requiring congressional action now. Dulles and the leaders dis cussed the rising tension in the Middle East at a 90-minute con ference at the State Department. Dulles called the meeting with the express approval of Presi dent Eisenhower. Aggression Warning The conference followed a formal warning by Mr. Eisen hower last night that the United States will "support and assist" any victim of aggression in the Middle East. - House Republican Leader Jo seph W. Martin Jr., of Massa chusetts, said there is "no par ticular pressing emergency that we know of at this time." But he added that such an emergen cy could come up at a time when "nations are shaking their fists at one another." Martin said Mr. Eisenhower, intends to request congressional action "if danger" arises. But, he said, there is no reason to expect such a request at this time. No Immediate Action Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.) said Dulles was "asked if he was proposing any congressional ac tion now. and the answer was no." Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland of Cali fornia likewise emphasized that "no request was made for any congressional action." In his statement from Au gusta, Ga., last night, Mr. Eis enhower said he gards the situa tion in the Middle East "with the utmost seriousness." Norblad Denies Irregularities Washington(U.R Rep. Wal ter Norblad (R-Ore.) said today there was no basis for charges of illegality in his filing for the Republican nomination for Con gress from the first Oregon dist rict. He said it was unnecessary for the Oregon Attorney Gen eral to spend his time on a ques tion that did not even exist. State Rep. Richard Groener, Milwaukie Democrat, recently requested an opinion from At torney General Robert Y. Thorn ton about the legality of trans ferring a filing fee from one candidacy to another. Norblad switched his candidacy from governor to congressman. But Norblad said in a letter to Thornton that there had been no transfer of filing fees and that the Groener charge was apparently based on misinforma tion. Norblad said he paid a new filing fee with a personal check for $100 when he abandoned his candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination and filed for reelec tion to Congress. He offered to make the can celled check available to Thorn ton's office. Winter Wheat Crop Harvest Estimated Washington 4U.R) The Agri culture Department today fore cast a winter wheat crop of 716,477,000 bushels will be har vested this year. With plantings held to the le gal floor of 55,000,000 acres for the third straight year by rigid federal controls, the crop would be up 11,105,000 bushels from the 705,372,000 produced in 1955. The estimated winter wheat crop, added to the previously estimated production of 188,. 000,000 bushels of spring wheat, would mean a total wheat crop of 804,477,000 bushels for 1956.
