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Democratic Motion
To Override Fails
To Win Support
Proposal Falls
74 Votes Short
Washington (U.R) The
..House today upheld President
Eisenhower's veto of the farm
bill.
The controversial measure
was killed when a Democratic
motion to override the veto
failed, as expected, to win two
thirds approval of the House. It
takes a two-thirds vote of both
the Senate and House to over
ride a veto. Since the House
failed to override, no Senate ac
tion was necessary.
211 Against Override
The roll call vote on the mo
tion to override was 211 against
overriding and 202 for overrid
ing. This was 74 votes short of
the necessary two-thirds to over
ride.
Thus the motion to override
failed to get even a majority
vote, much less a two-thirds
margin.
Last Wednesday the bill had
won House approval 237 to 181.
But some of the 48 Republicans
who voted for it then decided
today on the final showdown to
back the President.
The action left In doubt what
kind of new farm bill, if any
Democrats would try to put
through Congress.
Speaker Sam Rayburn told
newsmen "something may be
done." He declined to elabo
rate. Says Soil Bank Dead
But Chairman Harold D.
Cooley of the House Agricul
ture committee said President
Eisenhower's renewed request
for a billion dollar soil bank
hasn't "a Chinaman's chance" of
being enacted at this session of
Congress.
It was included in the vetoed
bill, which had called for restor
ing rigid high supports and other
administration opposed price
boosting features.
The Democrats, confident that
the price-boosting measure is
popular with many farm voters,
wanted to show they did every
thing possible to enact it and
that Republicans joined with the
President in killing it.
Senate Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas
told reporters that President
Eisenhower's new soil bank pro
posal amounts to an offer of pre
election "advance payments" to
farmers.
Election Bonus
"I shudder to think what
charges Republicans would have
made had a Democratic Presi
dent offered to make an ad
vance payment, ahead of elec
tion time, for services to be per
formed later," Johnson said.
Democrats conceded they
would lose in their attempt to
override the farm bill veto. But
they were confident of making
some election year hay in the
-iarm belt, anyway.
Yeather
FORECAST: Clear through
Thursdav. Low tonight 38.
Hifh Thursday 80.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 12
Lowest litis Morning 36
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Medford Council Asks for
Creation of Church Zone
The Medford city council last
night directed the city legal de
partment to prepare an ordin
ance creating a zone for
churches.
The action followed a public
hearing in which objections
were expressed to change of
zone from single family (class
LA) to multiple family (class II)
in Siskiyou Heights extension.
The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, had requested the
change.
Objections centered not on the
church itself, but on disposition
of property in the future. Sev
eral residents expressed concern
that should some of the property
eventually ,b sold, the zone
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Bills 2)
Top Soviet Leaders
Bn London for Tour
London U.R) Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Commu
nist party boss Nikita Khrushchev arrived in London today to be
gin a 10,-day tour of Britain.
Anti-Communist Britons demonstrated in the city as the spe
cial train bearing the Soviet leaders reached Victoria station.
The Russians reached here from Portsmouth, the south coast
port where they stepped ashore stiff and unsmiling to a coldly
formal welcome.
A Soviet cruiser brought them to Britain.
Protest demonstrations broke out even before they stepped
ashore. These tended to mar the double-barreled "peace offensive"
launched yesterday by Moscow with announcements of support
for a U.N. settlement of the Palestine dispute and dissolution of
the Cominform.
Carpenter Submits
Resignation as
Welfare Chairman
Alfred S. V. Carpenter, Old
Stage rd., has submitted to Gov.
Elmo Smith his resignation as
chairman and as a member of the
Jackson county public welfare
commission.
He has been a member of the
commission since it was estab
lished in February, 1933, and
was named chairman two months
after that, a position he has held
since. At one time during the
depression when personnel was
short, he also served as secretary,
he said.
Reasons Listed v
Carpenter said this morning
he had two reasons for resigning.
One is the fact that he is away
from the county for extended
periods from time to time, and
the other is that he is not in
sympathy with the present pol
icies of the state public welfare
commission, which limit the
freedom of action and authority
of the local commissions.
The chairman indicated that
the recent discharge of Mrs.
Blanche Lyman, long-time ad
ministrator of the local depart
ment, happened during one of
his trips. He previously has in
dicated his support of other mem
bers of the county commission
in their protesting Mrs. Lyman's
summary discharge.
A successor to Carpenter on
the commission will be appointed
by the governor.
Plywood Firm Sale
Is Announced Here
Sale of Empire Plywood com
pany. White City, to Carolina
Pacific Plywood, Inc., was an
nounced today by the company
owners, Leonard G. and Vern
C. Engwall.
They said Carolina Pacific
will take over late this week or
early next week, with B. D.
Mitchell, president, as general
manager.
About 40 men are employed
by the firm, but the Engwalls
said the new owners expect to
enlarge the plant and manufac
ture sanded plywood. Sheathing
plywood is now produced at the
plant, which began operation
last August.
Vern Engwall and his family,
who reside at 7 Eastwood dr.,
plan to move to Portland. The
Leonard Engwall family will re
main in Medford at 2146 Hill
crest rd. for the present. All
formerly lived in Eugene.
Amount involved in the sale
was not disclosed, but it is know
to be substantial.
would remain multiple family in
a residential area.
Church officials assured the
council that if parcels of land
were sold, a stipulation of the
sale would be that the property
be used only for single family
residence.
The council agreed that some
type of zone for church proper
ties should be established to pro
vide for church expansion and
remodeling.
Churches are allowed only
under the multiple family zone,
and the First Church of Christ,
Scientists, is now non-conforming,
which prevents reconstruc
tion in case of fire or other im
provements. (See Stories oa Pa? 15 and IB)
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A 19-gun salute from the Brit
ish aircraft carrier bulwark
roared a greeting, but the Soviet
leaders were stiff and formal
and the squat Khrushchev even
looked bored.
They set off from Russia in
hopes of repeating the propa
ganda victory they won in their
recent tour of Southeast Asia.
But the most rigid security
precautions seen in peacetime
Britain made it certain there
would be no repeat of that hand
shaking tour when Bulganin and
Khrushchev repeatedly de
nounced the West.
The bearded Bulganin, look
ing every inch the old world
diplomat, was the first to step
down the gangplank. Khrush
chev, a round figure in black
overcoat and fedora with up
turned brim, closely followed.
Neither Warmed Up
Neither warmed up as they
were presented to a waiting
group of Britons and Russians
though Bulganin gave an oc
casional brief but formal smile.
Khrushchev looked bored
throughout the proceedings.
Bulganin was the front man
and it was he who was presented
first to the welcoming digni
taries. A tight security guard sealed
off the entire dockyard area
even the cross channel ferry was
suspended. It was a foretaste of
the precautions in store through
out their stay and a reflection
of British fears of an assassina
tion attempt.
But as the welcoming cere
monies were proceeding in
Portsmouth a small group of
Britons in London the League
of Empire Loyalists staged a
protest march to 10 Downing st.
They carried a 10-foot spoon
for Prime Minister Anthony
Eden for "he who sups with the
devil should use a long spoon."
Roseburg Students
Wear Bermuda Shorts
Roseburg (U.R) Balmy
temperatures at Roseburg this
week have Roseburg high
school students both boys
and girls adopting the mod
ernistic Bermuda shorts as
school attire.
School officials say they
have no objections if the
students are not too drastic.
The girls, not to be outdone
by their male counterparts,
are appearing at class in gaudy
colored Bermuda skirts and
the long-stocking accessory.
Medford Man Injured
In Basic Training
Pvt. Keith Thompson, 10 Port
land ave., Medford, suffered
critical gunshot wounds during
Armv basic training at Camp
Carson, Colo., yesterday, accord
ing to information receivea nere.
Pvt. Thompson, who entered
the service Jan. 26, was hit by
machine gun fire while on
bivouac, and suffered stomach,
liver wounds, and a leg fracture.
He was reported in better con
dition early today.
His wife, and mother, Mrs.
Dorothy Thompson, 410 Rose st.,
Phoenix, left today for Camp
Carson. Mrs. Keith Thompson
works in the laboratories of
Community hospital.
Pvt. Thompson is a graduate
of Phoenix High school and
worked for Alley Brothers mill
in Talent before entering the
service.
DOW-JONES AVERAGE
New York U.R) Dow-Jorfes
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 506.55, off 1.40; 20 rail
roads 172.61, up 0.04; 15 utili
ties 66.17; off 0.06, and 65 stocks
179.86, off 0.28. Sales today
were about 2,470,000 shares
compared with 2,330,000 yesterday.
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Price 5c
No. 24
President Outlines
8-Point Program
For GOP 'Crusade'
General Terms for
Party Platform
Washington " (U.R) The Re
publican Party went before the
country today with an eight
point platform proposed by
President Eisenhower to key
note the GOP "crusade" of 1956.
To Mr. Eisenhower the cam
paign was already on. He said
the Republican campaign should
be based on people and prin
ciples equal rights for all peo
ple and no retreat from prin
ciple to compromise with exped
iency. Spells Out Ideas
The President spelled out his
platform ideas last night at a
dinner closing a two-day Repub
lican campaign strategy confer
ence attended by 800 party lead
ers and members of Congress.
While avoiding such specifics
as the farm issue and foreign
policy, he presented in general
terms the eight ideas which he
predicted would provide the sub
stance of the party platform to
be adopted next August.
"The Republican platform will
be a program of principle around
which all Americans, Republi
cans, Independents and sound
thinking Democrats, can rally,"
he said. "We welcome them all."
Must Set Up No Walls
By his invitation to independ
ents and Democrats"to' ' join' tr?
GOP in "an organized crusade, '
Mr. Eisenhower again sounded
like the GOP standard bearer of
1952.
When he spoke of a campaign
based on people, he said the
GOP must set up "no walls of
birth or creed or party."
" In visualizing the party plat
form, the President said in part:
1. "The individual is of su
preme importance . . . every
American of every race and
creed should enjoy equally the
rights and privileges of free citi
zens in a free nation."
2. "The spirit of our people is
the strength of our nation."
3. "America does not prosper
unless all Americans prosper."
Must Have Heart i
4. "Government must have a
heart as well as a head . . . gov
ernment should increase and
strengthen1 personal and family
security without impairing the
self-respect, the initiative and
the incentive of the individual
to provide for his own."
5. "Courage in principle, co
operation in practice, makes
freedom positive."
6. "The purpose of govern
ment is to serve, never to dom
inate." 7. "To stay free, we must stay
strong."
8. "Under God, we espouse the
cause of freedom and justice and
peace for all peoples."
Government Sued
In Polio Cases
Boise, Ida (U.R Two Eastern
Idaho families today filed dam
age suits against the govern
ment for alleged negligence
which led to death and crippling
of their children in last year's
mass polio vaccination program
in Idaho.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester V. Pierce,
Pocatello, filed suit in U.S. Dist
rict Court here for $150,000.
They charged that their daugh
ter, Susan Diane Pierce, died of
polio April 27, 1955, nine days
after she was inoculated with
Salk vaccine from Cutter Lab
oratories. Kenneth Turner, American
Falls, asked $250,000 damages
from the government in another
action. He charged that his five-year-old
son, Terry, was crippled
by polio in both legs after close
association with his brother,
Melvin, who had been inoculat-j
ed with the Cutter Salk vaccine
April 19, 1955.
Both suits charged that gov
ernment agencies were negli
gent in issuing licenses to Cut
ter Laboratories of Berekley,
Calif., for production of the vac
cine. The suits charged the Cut
ter vaccine was "contaminated,
live virus laden, defective, dan
gerous and unsafe.
WETO
Democrat Assured
Of Lone Delegate
For Convention
Governor Wins
Popularity Contest
Newark, N.J. (U.R) Gov.
Robert B. .Meyner won a near
shutout victory over Sen. Estes
Kefauver in the New Jersey pri
mary race for 36 Democratic na
tional convention votes, almost
complete returns showed today.
With more than three-fourths
of the votes counted, Kefauver
was assured only of one dele
gate with a half vote at the De
mocratic National convention
next August in Chicago. He hed
hoped to win eight to 10 votes.
Kefauver showed early
strength in South Jersey in the
paper ballot counties but it was
Berkeley, Calif. '(U.R) Sen.
Estes Kefauver conceded to
day that his showing in the
New Jersey primary "didn't
help my campaign any" but
the Democratic presidential
hopeful said he was going io
continue to campaign "as hard
as I can."
Kefauver told a press con
ference here that he had "no
excuses, no alibis" for his de
feat at the. hands of New Jer
sey Gov. Robert B. Meyner.
"I take them as they come,"
he said.
not sufficient to offset the or
ganizational turnout in populous
Camden county. His supporters
conceded their entire eight-vote
slate of pledged delegates about
midnight.
In the presidential preference
voting, Kefauver ran without
opposition on the Democratic
ballot and polled 104,474 votes,
with 3830 of the state's 4160 el
ection districts reported. Adlai
E. Stevenson got 2850 write-in
votes.
President Eisenhower, who
defeated the late Sen. Robert A.
Taft in a bitterly contested New
Jersey presidential primary four
years ago, was uncontested on
the GOP ticket. He polled 310,
382 votes, with 3830 election
districts, reported-
In the statewide race for con
vention delegates, Meyner's un
committee slate defeated Ke
fauver by a vote of 162,166 to
68,517, with 3147 districts re
ported. '
Popularity Contest
Regular organization Demo
crats termed the outcome a set
back for Kefauver, who had
campaigned strenuously in what
added up to a popularity contest
between him and Meyner. '
He had accused the Democrat
ic organization of seeking a so
called blank check from the vot
ers with its unpledged delega
tion. Private Services For
E. W. Carlton Set
Private funeral services for
Edward Wallace Carlton, 80, Old
Stage rd., who died in 'a local
hospital Tuesday, will be held
Thursday morning with the Rev.
George R. V. Bolster of St.
Mark's Episcopal church officia
ting. The family has requested that
flowers be omitted at services.
Perl Funeral home is in charge
of arrangements.
Mr. Carlton, who lived in
Medford since 1910, was born in
Elizabeth, N.J., Sept. 8, 1875.
He was graduated from Yale
university in 1897.
Survivors include two sisters,
Mary Newcomb Carlton and
Helen J. Carlton, Old Stage rd.,
a nephew, Winslow Carlton,
New York City; and three great
nieces, Mary Carlton, Anne Carl
ton and Rhona Carlton. A sister,
Mildred Carlton, and a brother,
Newcomb Carlton, preceded him
in death.
Mr. and Mrs. Winslow Carlton
will attend services here.
Steady Line Keeps
Registrars Busy Here
Hundreds of county residents
filed into the elections depart
ment in the courthouse yester
day to register to vote in the
May 18 primary before last
night's deadline.
Department workers said there
were never less than 50 persons
waiting in line from 5 p.m. until
closing, and that voters
streamed in to register all during
the day.
When the courthouse doors
were finally locked at 8 p.m., the
line extended down the stairs
from the second floor to the
main entrance.
Total registrations will not
be known until early next week.
Last week the total registration
reached 26,655, far below the
32,882 registered for the 1952
primary.
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Wed in Civil
THEY MURMUR 'OUI' Grace Kelly became a princess today
when she took her civil vows of marriage to Prince Rainier III of
Monaco in a ceremony in a castle overlooking the Mediterranean.
Election for Recall
Of Talent Off icials
Appears As
Talent An election - for" the
recall of Talent Mayor Keith
Thoreson and Councilmen R. C.
Bradford, William Cooper and
James Henry appeared certain
today with the reported signing
of a recall petition by more than
100 persons.
Fred Morris, one of the four
leaders of the recall movement,
said he understood that over' 100
persons had signed. City Attor
ney Ben Lombard reported that
the state elections department
has set the required number of
signatures at 84.
Hire New Marshal
The Talent city council last
night hired the third city mar
shal in several weeks, M. W.
Young, after marshal John Sey
mour, resigned to move to Calif
ornia. Talent's troubles with mar
shals has kept the community
stirred up since the recerjt dis
missal of former marshal John
Baldwin by the mayor and coun
cil. His removal was followed
by demands for Thoreson's re
call, along' with those of 'the
councilmen. '
Those circulating : the peti
tions, headed by F. C. Learning,
Ray Garland, Fred Morris and
Bob Lowe, claim the coijncil
acted illegally and without re
gard for the good of the city.
Governor Endorses
Red Hat Program
Salem U.R) Gov. Elmo
Smith today endorsed the con
tinued; sportsmanship program
of the governor's Red Hat day
committee by reappointing all
members of last year's commit
te and adding two new members.
Present members of- the com
mittee reappointed were L. C.
Binford, Ben Suisman, Walter A.
Holt and Bert Thomas of Port
land, and John Amacher of Win
chester. New members named
were William Benz of Portland
and Gerald W. Detering of Har
risburg. . ; ' ;
Foreman Fire Fighting School Starts
Tomorrow; First of Kind in This Area
The-first fire fighting school
for foremen in southern Ore
gon will be held Thursday, and
Friday, April 19 and 20, at the
state forest patrol headquarters
on Table Rock rd.
The two one-day sessions will
include four courses, two dem
onstrations and training films
provided by the forest service
and state.
About 104 men representing
about 30 lumber industry com
panies, forest patrol and forest
service will participate.'
Instructors will be from in
dustry, the state forestry depart
ment, federal forest service and
the bureau of land management.
The school was organized
Certainty
It is expected that' the petition
will be filed with the county
soon and that signatures will
then be verified. '
Pierce Resigns as
Airport Manager
The resignation of Ralph
Pierce as manager of the Med
ford airport was announced last
night by City Manager Robert
Duff. Pierce will devote his time
to private business enterprises,
Duff said.
No replacement has been se
lected. Duff said that under Pierce's
management revenues at the air
port have increased from $17,
547 in 1952 to an estimated $33,
000 this year. Revenue for the
next fiscal year is expected to
be $42,740
Increases were due to rentals
in the new terminal building,
airline payments, restaurant in
come, miscellaneous concessions,
and other fees.
Pierce has served since July 1,
1952, having come to Medford
from the Los Angeles area.
Duff Plans to Attend
Victoria Conference
City Manager Robert Duff
will attend the Northwest-American
Waterworks association con
ference April 21 to 28 in Vic
toria, B. C. He will be ac
companied by Mrs. Duff.
He will present a paper con
cerning force accounting vs. con
tracting for city ' works, on a
panel weighing the advantages
of cities doing their own work
compared with contracting.
Some 300 persons are expect
ed from Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and British Columbia.
through the cooperation of in
dustry, various agencies and the
Southern Oregon Conservation
and Tree Farm association. Need
for such a school developed last
September when trained fore
men were moved into this area
from other sections.
More Familiar
Lewis L. Simpson, secretary
manager of SOCTFA, said co
operating organizations recog
nized the need for trained sup
ervisors from this area because
they would be more familiar
with men fighting forest fires,
the topography, burning condi
tions and other factors affecting
fire fighting in a particular locality.-
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Rites
Vows Exchanged
In Ancient Throne
Room of Castle
Rainier Keeps
Regal Atmosphere
Monaco (U.R) Grace Kelly
murmured "oui" with teari in
her eyes today and became the
wife and princess of a monarch
so shy he gave her his kingdom
without a kiss.
In the ancient crimson Throne
Room of a castle on the cliffs
above the Mediterranean, she
sat beside Prince Rainier III
and gravely took her solemn
civil vows of marriage under
statutes of his state and tradition
of his dynasty.
She blinked her shining eyes
and clasped her hands while
Judge Marcel Portanier said to
her, "Mademoiselle Grace Pa
tricia Kelly, do you take as your
husband his serene highness, My
Lord Prince Rainier ni, here
present."
Her chiseled chin tipped up
and her murmured "oui" was a
pledge from the heart.
Bricklayer's Daughter
The judge turned then to
Rainier whose fingers fidgeted
tensely in his lap.
"May I, very respectfully, ask
your serene highness if he agrees
to take as his wife and legiti
mate spouse Mademoiselle Grace
Patricia Kelly, here present?"
"Oui," the Prince replied in a
low but steady voice.
At that moment, the brick
layer's daughter from Philadel
phia who became first lady of
Hollywood ascended to Old
World royalty with titled rank
and realm.
"I pronounce your serene
highnesses united by the bonds
of marriage," said the judge in
the first usage of Grace Kelly'a
royal title.
The newlyweds stole a shv
glance at each other from the
gilded chairs where they sat
beside each other before the
scarlet-canopied throne.
No Wedding Kiss
But Rainier did not seal It
with a kiss. This was a solemn
state occasion, a civil ceremony,
and he chose to keep a regal
atmosphere.
Tomorrow they wed under re
ligious laws of the church and
only after the cathedral cere
mony do they begin their life
together.
Tomorrow's ceremony also
may be kissless.
"It's seldom done and often
not in Catholic ceremonies,"
Grace explained tremulously
after today's formalities were
completed.
"I doubt that we'll do it to
morrow either."
She still was having (trouble
swallowing back the tears.
"I'm kind of numb," she said.
Legally, Grace said she now
could be called princess.
When she learned she had 138
titles, she gasped.
"Oh, o," she said, scanning
a list of names offered her. "I've
never seen them all in one place
before." -
She lifted her first glass of
champagne after the marriage
with United Press Correspond
ent Wilbur Landrey and two
other reporters in the living
room bar of the Prince's private
apartments.
A wedding lunch was sched
uled and tonight the royal new
lyweds were to be guests at the
opera before Rainier returns to
his bachelor villa to await to
morrow's religious ceremony.
Portland U.R) Sen. Wayne
Morse (D.-Ore.) is due here to
morrow to begin 10 days of '
campaigning for the Oregon pri
mary.
The school will start a 8 a.m.
with demonstrations of fire be
havior and use of water after
lunch.
Instructors will be George
Flanagan, vice-president and
general manager of Elk Lumber
company; Curt Nesheim, south
west district warden for the
state; Jack Wood, supervisor of
Rogue River National forest; E.
K. Peterson, district forester for
the bureau of land management;
and Lee Port Jr., of Salem.
Conducting demon strations
will be William Hughes of the
state forester's office, Salem;
Britt Ash, and Doyle Stockton,
assistant district ranger at Union
Crelc