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Newspaper Page TextB9 IS 31 SM FOUND MM i Mm Bulganin Calls For Coexistence; Khrushchev Tough London UR) Soviet Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin called to day for "peaceful coexistence" between East and West. His words were notably softer than those used by Nikita Khrushchev yesterday in warning the West not to try to get tough with Moscow. Khrushchev warned Britain and the West yesterday not to try to "exert pressure'' on the Soviet Union because "it will J?et you nowhere." Some Letup Bulganin. in a speech at a Mansion House lunch given in honor of the Soviet leaders by the city of London, was more conciliatory. He noted that there have been some recent relaxa tions of cold war tensions. Khrushchev had warned at a 'Soviet Embassy lunch that "We have no intention of trying to persuade you to accept our sys tem and to give up the capitalist system." "Nor it is worth your while wasting time in trying to per suade us to give up our Socialist system," the party chieftain said. "And I think that it is also quite plain to you that if you try to exert pressure on us, to demand the impossible from us, that will get you nowhere. There is only one way out peaceful coexistence. There is no other way out. Disputed ques tions cannot be settled by war. Khrushchev accompanied this with accents of speedy jets, bal listic missiles and hydrogen bombs. Not so Bulganin. "We believe that an improv ment of relations and the de velopment of ties and contacts must be gradual and carried out only step by step," Bulganin said. "Time is needed for this. China Problem Is DecjsbnsJubjecL Great Decisions study groups in the valley will discuss the problem, "How should the U.S. deal with China?" during the fifth week of the program. Seniors of Medford High school are participating in the program through the interna tional relations unit of the American Problems, in Govern ment clas sof Mrs. Justin Smith. The eight topics, which began four weeks ago, were "related specifically to material covered in the class," she said. Radio and television time will be devoted to discussions of Communist China, the National ist Chinese on Formosa, and their relation to U.S. foreign policy. A condensation of background material will appear in Sunday's issue of the Mail Tribune. Broad- casas are scheduled for KYJC at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. KMED 9 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday; KWIN, Ashland, 8 to 8:30 p.m. Monday; and KBES-TV, 2:30 to 2.45 p.m., Tuesday. All those interested in study ing and taking part in Ameri can foreign policy are encour aged to read and discuss each week's topic, according to Attor ney Don Hansen, chairman. Week End Weather Outlook Held Good By UNITED PRESS The weather outlook for the week-end in Oregon is good. A high pressure ridge in the htah levels over the Pacific Knthwest and southwest Canada is blocking the eastward move ment of Pacific storms. Mostly sunny weather with some cool ine is expected Saturday. Oregon had tempreatures in the 80 s yesterday with Medford recording 84. The Dalles 83 and Portland and Salem 80. It was far short of a record, however. On Aril 20, 1934, it got up to 90 in Portland. Meanwhile, rivers continued to rise, and weather forecasters were hopeful the snow runoff would help alleviate flood dan ger later. However, no decrease in the expected crest of 25.5 to 28.5 feet in the Portland area has been forecast. Man Is Fined on Driving Charge Here Alfred Joseph Hardy, 36, of 1122 Sunset dr., Medford, was fined $255 and given a 30-day suspended jail sentence in dist rict court this morning after he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while under the influ ence of liquor. His right to apply for a motor vehicle operator's license was re voked for 90 days. Hardy was arrested by sheriff's deputies Thursday. But we hope that our visit here will lay a good beginning for friendship and cooperation based on the great principle of peace ful co-existence." Little Summit The Bulganin plea came after a morning session at No. 10 Downing st. between the Soviet leaders and British officials headed by Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden. The conference was the second formal meeting of the "Little Summit Talks" being held during the 10-day So viet visit. When the morning session ended Bulganin and Khrushchev were whisked off in convoy to the Mansion House for lunch as guests of the city of London. There was not a single cheer as they left Downing- St., and they were met with a silent, undem onstrative crowd at the Mansion House. Following the lunch, the Brit ish' and Soviet government chiefs returned to Downing st. for their third formal meeting. Report of Ashland Survey Shows Need Of Denial Care Ashland school children be tween the ages of 6 and 12 need as much more dental care as they have already received, ac cording to Dr. David Witter, di rector of dental health for the state board of health. Dr. Witter recently completed a dental survey among Ashland and Medford school children in the first, third, fifth and seventh grades. Medford survey results are expected to hes announced soon. Among Ashland 6-year-olds Dr. Witter said there is a total of 587 decayed, missing or filled teeth' per 100 children'. ' Of this total, 247 are decayed, 40 need extracting and 300 have been filled. 12-Year-Olds Among 12-year-olds, a total of 936 teeth are decayed, missing or filled per 100 children. Of these, 721 are decayed, 114 have been extracted or need extract ing and 100 are filled. There are almost 12 decayed, missing or filled teeth per child. In Aurora, 111., where water contains natural fluoride, Dr. Witter said 336 teeth are de fective per 100 children in the 6-year-old group. In the Aurora 12-year-old group, 295 teeth are decayed, missing or filled per 100 chil dren. A total of 73 per cent of the children have decayed, miss ing or filled teeth and 27 per cent are free of decay. Among 12-year-old Oregon children, only about 3 per cent are free of decay. The Aurora dental health situ ation has been established as a goal for Ore'gon, he said. Decayed Teeth Of all 661 Ashland children examined. Dr. Witter said 63 per cent have decayed perman ent teeth needing filling; 30 per cent have filled teeth and 7 per cent have teeth needing extrac tion. A total of 5,155 teeth were affected. Of . this total, 3,954 were ' decayed and received no dental attention, 363 permanent and primary teeth needed ex traction; 1,704 permanent and primary teeth had been filled and 134 permanent teeth needed extraction. Dr. Witter commented that in Ashland oral hygene appears to be slightly above the state aver age. He also said there were some indications in Ashland that children in isolated instances are now benefiting from some form of fluoride. Purpose of the survey is to determine the extent of the dental health problem in the Ashland and Medford areas and the amount of dental care chil dren are receiving. Cooperating in the program are Jackson county health depatment, Ore gon state board of health, Ash land and Medford schools, Ash l?nd and Medford dentists and the Jackson county public health j association. Portland Fluoridation Ordinance Submitted Portland (U.R) City Attorney Alexander Brown today filed with the city auditor an ord inance to fluoridate Portland's water supply. City council mem bers, who will decide after a hearing June 13 whether to put the issue on the November bal lot, requested fea ordinance. Multnomah DA Orders Grand Jury Probe of Charges Gambling Uproar Target of Hearing Portland (U.R) Multno mah County District Attorney William Langley today struck at the roots of Portland's vice and gambling uproar and ordered a sweeping grand jury investiga tion of ail the charges, counter charges and denials that have touched the city's officialdom the past two days. Langley said the probe was aimed ac halting the "guilt by association" nature of the furor. He said "We're going to clear the air on this whole thing." The Portland Oregonian yesterday published the first of a series of copyrighted stories based on the newspaper's investigation of lo cal conditions. E-R Member Resigns One of the first results of the series was the resignation last night of Clyde Crosby as a mem ber of the Exposition-Recreation commission. He admitted pub lished reports that he had con cealed a criminal record in his past while accepting the appoint ment and in applying for a per mit to carry firearms. He said he was only 14 years old when convicted on a burglary count in Arizona. Crosby, who is the chief offi cial of the Teamsters Union in Oregor, vigorously denied pub lished charges of James B. Elk ins, Portland nightlife figure, that Crosby had engineered a series of property options on the site Crosby favored for location of the $8,000,000 exposition recreation center. Langley Tells Capability Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton had asked permission of Gov. Elmo Smith to intervene in the Portland investigations but Langlej said he was capable of conducting the probe with out outside intereference. Gov. Smith conferred with Langley for four hours yester day and then issued this state mentOur investigation. is . not complete. I shall take appropri ate action when the investiga tion has developed sufficient facts to establish a proper course." The governor said that state police had been investigating for "some time" reports that out-of-state "mobsters" were trying to get a foothold for vice and gam bling in Multnomah county. Assistant Manager Named at Bank Alan F. Eames has been ap pointed assistant manager of the Medford branch, First National Bank of Portland, replacing Ray Sorenson, Elwood Hedberg, vice president and manager, an nounced today. Sorenson plans to become associated with the Oregon Veneer company, 'Med ford. Eames was assistant manager of the bank's Coos Bay branch. He has 20 years experience in branches in Oregon, Hedberg said. Eames was treasurer of the North Bend Kiwanis club last year and is a rinember of the Coos Bay Pirates, the Coos County Realty board, the Cham ber of Commerce, Parent-Teachers association and is a Boy Scout troop advisor. He began his banking career with First National in La Grande in 1936. He was appointed op erations officer in 1943. After military service and work with the bank in Salem and Sweet Home, he was named general loan officer and assist ant manager of the North Bend branch. T-Men Crack Down on By UNITED PRESS Federal agents said oday they will make more arrests in a na tionwide crackdown on a vast gamblers' "lay-off" network. Raids on bookie joints and gamblers in five cities Thursday gave the agents valuable infor mation on how local horse par lors are linked through thousands of long-distance telephone calls, officials said. Federal tax agents paid sur prise visits to gamblers in Pitts burgh, the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, the Boston suburb of Revere, Fort Worth, Tex., and Newport, Ky. Arraignments Scheduled They made at least 16 arrests, most of them on charges of fail ure to buy the required $50 fed eral gambling stamp or of fail ure to pay the lOper eent tax on beta. Anaignmerii wer M United Press Jfull ly 51st Year 32 Pa- AFTER CEREMONY Prince from balcony after their civil Morse Cancels Two Appointments; To Remain in Capital Senator Wayne Morse noti fied local Democrats late yes terday that he has cancelled all engagements in Oregon for April 20 to 28, including his planned introduction of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the annual Roose velt dinner Monday night. Robert Holmes, Astoria, Dem ocratic .candidate for governor, will introduce.Mr. -Roosevelt. Morse said when he accepted the engagements, "it' was not expected any major legislation would be voted in the senate during that period of time. He added that "we are far ahead of schedule" and that he would remain in Washington for the senate appropriations com mittee report on the interior department bill Monday. "This is one of the most important pieces of legislation to be con sidered by the senate this session and is of vital concern to Ore gon," he wrote. The senator's announcement forced cancellation of a meeting of the Rogue Basin Water Re sources and Flood Control asso ciation for Tuesday morning at the Rogue River grange. However, Morse's administra tive assistant, Bill ' Berg, will . attend the regular association meeting Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Josephine county court house, Grants Pass. Senator Morse is anxious that Berg assemble as much informa tion as he can get concerning flood control while he is in Ore gon, a local spokesman said. The senator advised that Berg "will meet with any group you have arranged to confer with me on senate business. (See Story on Page 2 See 2) .. Val Peterson Hinted As McKay Successor Washington (U.R) Speculation was prevalent today that Civil Defense' Administrator Val Peterson may be a possible suc cessor to former Interior Secre tary Douglas McKay. Undersecretary of Interior Clarence A. Davis is considered to have the inside track for the post. scheduled in most of the cities today. Pittsburgh was the T-men's prime target and the center of the "lay-off network, fedesal agents said. In gambling parlance, "lay off" bets are. those which are transferred from one bookie to another when he has received more bets on a particular race or event than he wishes to han dle alone. At Ice Cream Store D. Malcolm Anderson, U. S. attorney at Pittsburgh, said the core of the network was an ice cream parlor known as "Mamie's Grill and Ice Cream Store" at nearby New Kensington. Mamie's grill handled 3.836 telephone calls from points throughout the country and Can ada during a three month period, Anderson said. .The bookie joints wfcleb we raided in other cities St Rainier and Grace Kelly wave wedding in Monaco. The happy Con nie H anscorri Named Queen of Pear Festival; Tours Suggested Three-year-old Connie Jean Hanscom, daughter' of Mr. and Mrs. Don Hanscom, Central Point, has been selected queen of the third ' annual Rogue Val ley Pear Blossom festival to reign over Saturday's festivities. She is sponsored by Gold Hill grange. Princesses are Barbara Urie, 5, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Rob ert Urie, 330 Hillhouse aye., sponsored by Medford Lady Li ons; RaearmeX.y-nn. Baum,' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam H. Baum, Central Point, Central Point American Legion; Janet Kent, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kent, 922 South Oakdale eve., Woman's Society of Christian Service; Greta Kath leen Lund, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Lund, Prospect, Prospect Lions auxiliary; and Sherry Lynn Graves, 4, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Graves, Central Point, Women of Moose. Special Events Several special events are scheduled for the festival. They Peddicord Given 20-Year Sentence Portland U.R) Clarence Peddicord, blind 38 -year -old chemist who confessed last year's bombing of the Meier & Frank department store here, today was sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary. Sentence was pronounced by Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dobson. Peddicord had admitted touch ing off 12 sticks of dynamite in a rest room of the store in a fu tile attempt to extort $50,000. He implicated his sister-in-law, Joyce Keller, 28, who is scheduled to be tried at a later date on a charge that she helped him. Judge Dobson turned down a plea for probation by Nicholas Granet, Peddicord's attorney who told the judge the crime stemmed from Peddicord's fail ure to adjust himself after hav ing been stricken blind at the age of 19 while he was repairing a refrigerator. ' Gambling all laid off bets with Pittsburgh gamblers, He said. Internal Revenue officials hinted that more raids are plan ned and Anderson said the four Pittsburgh raids Thursday turned up evidence which can be used in later arrests. He will also ask a grand jury investigation of the Pittsburgh network after all arrests are com pleted, Anderson said. Three in Pittburgh The T-men arrested only three suspects in Pittsburgh and made their biggest haul in Des Plaines, where eight men were picked up. The Des Plaines gamblers had apparently been . forewarned. They were busy burning gam bling records when the 20 T men turned up at the crowded wire room located above an au tomotive supplies company. -N, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1956 jj couple was wed in a religious book romance. (See story on page CONNIE JEAN HANSCOM Chosen Festival Queen include a parade at 1 p.m., start ing at the Library park and proceeding east on Main st. to Hawthorne park, where the Queen will be crowned. Parade attractions will include a variety of floats and bands from Mc Loughlin, Talent and E. H. Hed rick schools, Bliss Heine's Jun iors and the Eve Prentice accor dion band. During the week end many residents and visitors plan to drive to the country to see ar- House Group OK's Propaganda Funds Washington U.P.) the House Appropriations Committee voted today to put up a record $101, 000,000 to finance America's propaganda battle against Com munism. The funds were included in a $598,000,000 appropriation to run the State and Justice Depart ments and the Federal judiciary for the year starting July 1. , They represent a $22,000,000 increase over last year .but are $25,000,000 short of President Eisenhower's request. The funds were earmarked for President the U.S. Information Service, which operates the Voice of America, over seas libraries, America's participation in trade fairs, . student , exchanges, , and touring orchestras and sports teams. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 2 7 0 Baltimore . .'. 3 ' 7 ' 2 Brodoviki and Courtney; Wilson and Triandos. Horns runs: Courtney, Wash ington; Triandos, Baltimore. NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn 5 7 0 Pittsburgh - 0 4 2 Craig and Campanella; Hall, Donoso (7), King (9) and Ait well, Kravit (7). Home run: Gilliam, Brooklyn. Salem - (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith has called for observance of May 1 as Loyalty day. i Tribune United Presa f ull Ceased Wira Price 5c No. 26 ceremony to complete the story- 3, second section) t rays of blossoms in the area's thousands of orchard acres. Sightseers may follow many routes to see the blossoms. One short route starts at Main st. in Medford, east to the corner of Hillcrest orchard, and north on Foothills rd. to the 401 Orchard. At a rise in the road, sightseers can look down on about 1,000 acres of orchard. 30-Mile Tour A tour of about 30 miles starts on the Jacksonville highway to Jacksonville, then left to ' the Stage Coach orchard, and along South Stage road and Kings high way. Just south of the last slight jog in the road is the area's oldest pear planting," set out in 1885. The site marks the beginning of the largest solid planting in the county, ' about 5,000 acres. The tour continues to the Voorhies crossing, turns right, and keeps west of the railroad tracks to Talent. It then follows the new highway about two blocks toward - Ashland, and turns east across Bear creek northward. The Suncrest area of about 1,000 acres starts on the east side of Bear creek. The tour brings ' motorists through Fern Valley. It ap proaches Phoenix on the Fern Valley road, turns . north just east of Bear creek and proceeds to the Medford Pear company orchard on the left.' After t a curve in the road is the largest solid planting of Bosc in ' the world in the Crystal Springs or chard. In the same orchard is a 100-year-old Bartlett tree, the oldest of its kind in the county. The tour ends on returning to the Hillcrest road. Israel and Jordan Hurl Accusations Jerusalem (Israeli Sector) (U.R) The crisis in the Middle East between' Israel and its Ar ab neighbors flared again today despite the peace-making efforts of U. N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Both Israel and Jordan accus ed the other of border violations I and an Israeli spokesman .said j "tension is mounting" along the border. Both sides "protested to the U. N. Mixed Armistice commis sion about an alleged incident that occurred Wednesday. To day, Col. Nehemia Brosh, Israel's chief military spokesman, re ported another incident. He said .that early Thursday Jordanian forces again opened fire from Israeli territory at an Israeli mil itary car moving along a high way north of Bet Govrin. He said the passengers returned the fire, but there were no casual ties. Veather FORECAST: Considerable high cloudiness through Saturday. Chance of a few showers In mountains Saturday after noon. Low tonight 46. High Saturday near 80. Temp. Hieneit Testerday Lowest thii Mornlcf - 45 Tappings Lead To Rescue Operation; Fourth Missing Survivors Reported In Good Condition Sunnyside, Utah (U.R) Three Utah miners, tired and hungry, came "back to life" today from the coal-walled cavern two miles inside the Kaiser No. 2 mine here where they had been trapped by a cave-in Wednesday and once "given up as dead." Luck experts said the odds were "a million to one" was with Lavell M. Golding, Lloyd A. Heath and Joseph A. Archu letta. Attendants at the hospital where they were taken after their ordeal of 38 to 42 hours said they were "okay and in good spirits." As the three survivors came out their section foreman, Joe Otterstrom, 58-year-old father of seven children, was still "miss ing." A spokesman said "We don't know yet what happened to him." Used Dynamite Searchers, however, feared that the luck that blessed Gold ing, Heath and Archuletta had "missed" Otterstrom and he had been crushed or suffocated un der the tons of rock and coal that cascaded into the mine's "left 13" entry Wednesday aft ernoon. Yesterday afternoon, rescue workers were so convinced that hope for all four was gone that they used dynamite material never employed if there is a chance someone is below the debris of a cave-in to fight their way into the clogged entry. Families Left Portals Families of the entombed men, accepting what they con sidered the final word, had left the Sunnyside tunnel portals and gone home to prepare me morial services, or await recov ery of the bodies. Last night, about 10:30 p.m., the 30-man crew blasting atop the rubble heard a faint tapping the time-honored distress sig nal of underground miners. However, word that signals had been heard was withheld pub licly by Kaiser Steel Co. officials until 1:30 a.m. today. - All work halted momentaritly until the direction of the signals was determined. . Then, with more care than ever, the rescuers mucked through rock and coal until they their replies. Survivors Identify Selves Golding, 39, father of four, identified himself. Next Archu letta, 43, father of one. Finally Heath, 36, father of three. To the call for Otterstrom, there was only silence. The Kaiser No. 2 mine, and its companion No. 1 works nearby, are "captive" mines whose output goes primarily to Henry J. Kaiser's steel works at Fontana, Calif. About 200 miners are employed in the tunnel. The scene of the cave-in was the "left 13" entry, about two miles from the tunnel entrance. Only access to the scene was on the regular mine cars that are hauled through the incline tunnel by electric locomatives. (See Story on Page 5, Sec. 2) While Cify Station Open House Saturday Central Point; Central Point Rural Fire Protection district will hold open house Saturday at its new White City station. The station at the corner of Avenue G and Agate rd. will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 pjn. for inspection by the public. Volun teer firemen will be on duty to answer questions concerning equipment and to serve refresh ments. - Equipment on display at the fire hall will be the district's recently purchased American LaFrance pumper truck. Appa ratus at the station curently in cludes a pumper, tank truck and a jeep. Fire Chief Richard Krupp has stated that the White City facil ity will serve the entire district It is the second station to be built within the district. The oth er is on Highway 99 at the south edge of Central Point. Medford Firm Given California Bridge Job Sacramento (U.R) The State Department of Public Works awarded a S7 10,276 contract to Peter Kiewit Sons' Co., Medford, Ore., for construction of a weld ed plate girder bridge across the Trinity river at Hoopa. The bridge, on Sign Route S6 in Humboldt county, replaces one totally destroyed during De cember floods. Portland (U.R) The Depart ment of Agriculture predicts that Oregon's winter wheat crop will be 16,560,000 bushels.