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Newspaper Page TextTO C C SO ft Weather & O NE FORECAST Fair Sunday and Monday. Slightly cooler. Hir Sunday 75, low 35. High Mon day 72. Temp. . Highest yesterday 77 Lowest yesterday 46 A itory on the foreman foreit fir. tiihtinf school held here appears on pate 12 of today's Mail Tribune. ss Full Leased Wire 51st Year 30 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1956 Price 5c No. 27 xnecte Recommended' -r, T4tv Vrr g 5 1 United Press Full Leased Wire Xfc Tn'Y Crowd E 3-IWiur To Hear 1 Mrs. Roo One of the largest dinner record in southern crowds on Oregon is expected tomorrow night to hear an address by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. Roosevelt, widow of the late President, will speak on the United "Nations, to which she has been a United States delegate in several capacities. The Monday event is the sixth annual Roose velt Memorial dinner, honoring her husband. May Reach 1.000 ' More than 700 firm reserva- tions forihe dinner have already been made, and the total. may go over 1,000 by tomorrow night, according to Mrs. Edward C, Kelly, dinner chairman. The event will be in the gymnasium of the E. H. Hedrick Junior High school. Mrs. Roosevelt will arrive from San Francisco at the Med- ford airport at 5:35 p.m., to be greeted by local Democrats and by Robert Holmes, Astoria, Democratic candidate for gov ernor of Oregon, who will intro- duct the speaker, pinch-hitting for Sen. Wayne Morse, who was detained in Washington The party will stop briefly at the television station where Mrs. Roosevelt will be invited to broadcast a brief greeting to TV viewers and then will proceed to Mrs. Kelly's home. Cafeteria Style Doors at the junior high school will open at 6 p.m., and those attending will be admitted and served, cafeteria style, immed iately. The program will start promptly at 7 p.m. . Robert Boyer, Democratic cen tral committee chairman, will be master of ceremonies, and will Introduce guests, including top state Democratic candidates. Robert Duncan will read mes sages from Senator, Morse, Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, and James Roosevelt, and L. Peers Wilmenth, Ashland, will present Mrs. Roosevelt with a gift from the local group. There will be no speeches other than Mrs. Roosevelt's. She will answer questions for 15 min utes after her talk. Those with questions are asked to submit them briefly in writing. County Delegations Delegations plan to attend the dinner from Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Douglas, Lane, Wash ington and Multnomah county, and others, Mrs. Kelly said. Mrs. Roosevelt will hold a half-hour press conference at the Kelly home at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday before appearing at a meeting of. United Nations association mem bers at 9:30 a.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. Rease Braley, Body of Eureka Man Found .By Searchers Eureka, Calif. (U.R) The body of Albert J. Irene, 49, of Eureka, was found Friday not far from where he abandoned his truck last Dec. 31 when caught in a snowstorm. Three men driving cattle on the Tooby-Prior ranch in the Fort Seward area found the body. A $2,000 reward had been posted for information on Irene after he disappeared while en route to Fort Seward to repair a tractor. County Court Of Building Saturday; Decision Tuesday Members of the Jackson coun ty court will decide Tuesday whether or not the courthouse will close Saturdays. The court decided to defer action on the proposed closure at an executive session Friday afternoon after public hearing. At the start of the hearing Judge Rodney Keating read a petition signed by 116 courthouse personnel. They asked that the building remain open only Mon day through Friday in keeping with the practice- established in most other Oregon counties. Letters to Others The judge said letters had been sent to the 35 other coun ties in Oregon and replies indi cated Harney county's court house is the only one in the state now open on Saturdays. A recently passed Oregon law provides a courthouse may may close Saturdays if a public hear ing indicates the majority of resident ui ki favor. Talk By osevelt Valleyview dr. and Capitol ave. S"e wiu leave y air at 11:35 a.m. for San Francisco, where she has two other talks billed that day. Monday's dinner is under the joint sponsorship- of the local Democratic party and the United Nations group. Kefauyer lashes McKay in Portland Speech Saturday ' Portland (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) said Satur day that "the fat cats and big mules of the predatory interests" will pour money into Oregon this fall in an effort to defeat Sen. Wayne Morse for re-elec tion. In a speech prepared for the Oregon Young Democratic club convention, Kefuaver lashed out at former Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay who resigned his cabinet post to seek Morse's seat. Kefauver, who is campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, said McKay "per sonifies" the Eisenhower admin istration which, he said, "lias put a ceiling on the progress of the west ... by its failure in the field of (natural) resource. Kefauver praised both Morse and Sen. Richard E. Neubeger, Oregon's other Democratic sen ator, as fighters "for a decent, liberal, prosperous America and a peaceful world." He said Morse, a former Re publican, "has often stood like the boy with his finger in the hole in the dike, keeping the land from being inudated by the galloping giveaways. "No wonder the Republicans hate him. No wonder the fat cats and big mules of the pred atory interests will be pouring money into this state this fall in an unending stream" he said. "No wonder the Republican party's propaganda experts will be as numerous in Oregon this fsll as fleas on a lazy dog." U.S. Investigates Russian UN Delegate Washington (U.R) The United States has been quietly investigating Arkady A. Sobo lev, Russia's chief delegate to the United Nations, to decide whether his conduct warrants expelling him from this country. Sworn testimony before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee-has indicated that Sobolev may have been the key figure in luring five fugitive Russian sailors back to the So viet Union two weeks ago. The State department brushed aside inquiries about Sobolev with the reply that the case was "under study." An official said he could not say when a decision would be reached. Monterey, Calif. (U.R) John B. Vichols, an aircraft executive warned Saturday that Russia is outdistancing the United States in producing technical manpow er. Defers Action Among those voicing protests were a timber cruiser and the wife of another timber cruiser. They claimed it was necessary for them to transact business at the courthouse on Saturdays and they would be obliged to take time off work if the building were closed that day. A Gold Hill farmer inquired if the five-day courthouse week would necessitate hiring added added personnel and result in increased taxes. He stated he had no objection to the Saturday closure if it would not increase taxes. It was indicated that no personnel increases would be necessary. A large delegation of court hovse employees were present. Alro advocating the closure was a representative of the local Business and Professional Wo men's organization, Oregon bar association members and some local businessmen. Mrs. Nellie W. Burns, Ashland justic of tfl peaeo, wat also present. f V Ft r ivK 'V . iff1 $ r; cpfr , r I II ill. IVIIWII III I II hi T 11111-11 UllHli M llil.li, till lliin. to & DENTAL SURVEY Dr. G. H. Price examines the teeth of third grader Opal Williams at Lincoln school. Waiting her turn is Karen Boyd, also in the third grade. Looking on are Mrs. Earl W. Hall, PTA volunteer assist ant, and Mrs. DeLores Rabjohn, school nurse. President Attend Hearing in KVSe Donald Russell, president of the Southern Pacific railroad, has been invited to attend next Thursday's hearing on SP south ern Oregon passenger service in Medford, it was reported Satur day. John Pletsch, former presi dent of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and chairman of a temporary com mittee which is endeavoring to obtain full representation at the hearing, wired Russell Saturday morning. Population Cited , He said, "residents of southern Oregon will voice their opinions on lack of passenger service to this important segment of SP's service area and its 200,000 peo ple," at the hearing. The wire continued, "As a former Jacksonville resident, we feel you would have a vital in terest in our p r o b 1 e m's . We would welcome your attend ance." The hearing, to be held in the federal courtroom in the MeH-1 ford post office starting at 10 a.m. Thursday, will be conduct ed by Clifford W. Ferguson, rail transportation division head for the state public utilities commis sioner. Order Disregarded The hearing was called by the PUC after the SP last year dis regarded a PUC order to con tinue service. The SP contended the PUC order was' ineffective until after a hearing was held. A similar hearing will be held in Roseburg Tuesday. A group of men met here Fri day night to discuss ways and means of emphasizing to the public of Jackson county the im portance of attending the hear ing, if the SP is to be forced to resume passenger service be tween Eugene and Ashland. The two-hour meeting was held in the office of State Sen. Philip B. Lowry, who, with two other state senators, has institut ed legal action seeking to force the SP to resume passenger ser vice. 'Systematic Murder' Many people do not realize just how the SP has discrimin ated against southern Oregon, On Closure It was also suggested that another hearing on the matter be held on a Saturday to ac commodate those unable to at tend the Friday hearing because of work or other obligations. 40-Hour Week Commissioner Chester Wendt reported that most counties in which courthouses are closed Saturdays have established a 40-hour work week. This would necessitate opening the court at 8 a.m. instead of 8:30 a.m., the hour it now opens. If the proposed closure is ap proved, special provisions would be made to open the assessor's office on Saturday during the tax period and to open the elec toins department when the last day of voter registration falls on a Saturday. The jail and legal department and county agent's office would remain open regardless of "the court's decision. The resident circuit judge would also remain oa Saturday morning. of SP Invite because the railroad has done a systematic job, for 30 years, of murdering passenger service," Ron Gandee told the group. He pointed out that ever since the Natron cutoff was completed in the mid-1920's, taking the SP's main line east of the mountains, the railroad has deliberately and systematically reduced and de emphasized passenger service. As a result, he said, most of the many relative newcomers to Medford, Ashland and their en virons, simply don't have any way of realizing how they5 have been deprived of service ' to which they are entitled. Because of this, many of them don't care, Gandee stated. 'Good' Service Aim The whole point of the at tempts to force the SP to give service is to require "good" ser vice, and not the totally inade quate service provided by the "Nightcrawler," or "Rogue Riv er Rocket," as the last, single passenger trains were called, those attending declared. Senator Lowry also stated that there is a broader issue at stake here than simply a public utility failing to perform its obliga tions. This, he said, is the ques tion of whether the people can assure their own rights against the whims of a monopoly util ity. "None of them behave much better than the people make them behave," the senator said. "It is a question of whether a utility is going to dictate the ex tent of our economic develop ment.' They can be beaten, but only if the people show an in terest in retaining their own rights." Senator Lowry emphasized the importance of individual Miss Krisfa Baker Is Sweepstakes Winner Miss Krista Baker, a 1955 Pear Festival princess, was grand sweepstakes winner for the best float design in Satur day's Pear Blossom Festival parade with her "Blossom from Pear-a-dise" float. She was the center of a large pear "blossom" pulled in a small float by Tommy Vickoren. Best Theme The "Pear of Blossoms" float by the Medford Lady Lions won the grand sweepstakes for best theme portrayal and originality with Nancy Tomjack and Sherry Jewett forming blossoms in the float. Medford Jaycetteg entry of Little Black Sambo, portrayed by theiri young sons and daugh ters, won the sweepstakes award as the best comic float. All sweepstakes winners received $50. More than 100. floats were entered, depicting all phases of the pear industry from the blos som, to heating pots, to the "fin ished product." Hundreds of spectators lined the Main st. route of the parade and attended ceremonies in Haw thorne park. . Leads Parade Queen Connie Jean Hanscom, 3. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Hanscom, Central Point, led the parade, accompanied by Prin cesses Sherry Lynn Graves, Jan et Kent, Barbara Urie, Raenne Lynn Baum and Greta Kathleen LLund. The examinations were held at Lincoln Fri day as part of the dental health survey com pleted last week in Medford and Ashland schools. Results of the Medford survey will be announced early next week. (Brainerd's photo). d to dford participation in the hearing, and said he hopes anyone who feels the SP is, in fact, deciding things for southwestern Oregon which it has no right to decide, will appear at the hearing to give a statement. The hearing is expected to be informal, he said. Those attending, including representatives from the Med ford Central Labor council, and the Ashland and Jackson County Chambers of Commerce, laid plans ' to reach the. largest pos sible number of. people . before Thursday to invite their partici pation in the hearing. Groups to Join Am'ong groups which are ex pected to be represented are in dustry, the fruit packers, Camp White veterans, the bakers of the area, mortuaries, and others who need and would use adequate rail transportation. The Shakes pearean Festival has an interest in it, i'; was pointed out, as do other organizations catering to the touirst trade. Senator Lowry, who has in vestigated other cases of rail passenger abandonment in re cent years, said this one is the only instance where a vast econ omic area, with a population of some 200,000, has been left without a vestige of such service. Participation in the hearing is only part of the campaign to force SP to provide modern pas senger service, it was pointed out. The federal government is also interested in the legal impli cations involved in early rail road land grants which subsidiz ed the SP and its predecessor, and the fact that stipulations in the grants required perpetual service to the area. Taking part in the park pro gram wese Medford Mayor Earl Miller, Otto Ewaldsen, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and Gene Ferrell, president of the Festival associa tion. Crater High school band pre sented a concert preceding prize awarding and the queen's tro phy. Winners Listed Parade winners included: Commercial float division Eve Prentice accordion band, first prize, $25; Jackson County Fed eral Savings and Loan, second, SI 5; and Big Y Market, third, $10. Organizational floats Gold Hill grange, first, $25; Pack L Cub Scouts, second, $15; and Griffin Creek grange, third, $10. Individual floats Sandra Joyce, Cheryl Hall, Vicki Hall and Tommy Kerr, first, $25; Debbie and Glennie Rader, sec ond, $15; and Scott McDonald, third, $10. Costumed walking groups John Pierce, first. $10; Griffin Creek Brownies Troop 37, sec ond, $5; and Brownie TrooD No. 149, third, $2.50. Best decorated bicycles or similar vehicles Terry Ches ney, Sherry Fellows, and Candy Chesney, first; $10; Lee Nelson, Andrew Christianson, Dale and Dennis Carson, Jay Chilcot and Paul Branchfield, second, $5; Judy Cnastain, third, $2.50. PACT S1D President Defends Foreign Policy in Offf-The-Cuffff Talk Takes Challenge of Stevenson on Question Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower, defending his ad ministration's foreign policy against a slashing attack by Adlai E. Stevenson, asserted last night that the "facts" of recent history show that America is winning the cold war. ' In an impromptu and .often emotional speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Mr. Eisenhower cited the recent shift in Russian tac tics as the latest and best evi dence that U. S. policy during the past three years has been successful. After Prepared Speech " Mr. Eisenhower spoke to the editors . for 15 minutes off the cuff, after a prepared 30-minute foreign policy address. Although he did not mention Stevenson by name Mr. Eisen hower was clearly replying to his 1952 Democratic opponent who had spoken before a lunch meeting of the ASNE only 10 hours earlier. Stevenson asserted that the United States is "dangerously close" to losing its world leader ship because the Eisenhower ad ministration has "clung stub bornly" to a "rigid" unimagin ative foreign policy that is no match for Russia's new tactics. - Stevenson -challenged Mr. Eisenhower to answer the ques tion: . , ' i "Do you think we are winning or losing ground in the competi tion with the Communist world?" . Takes Challenge Taking up the challenge, Mr Eisenhower told the editors that "many people here at home say we are losing the cold war." . "Many take the opposite view point," he said with rising emo tion. "They can point to facts rather than allegations." Mr. Eisenhower then licked off what he contended were vic tories, at least in part, for the free world during his admini stration. He cited Russia's chan ging policies as the prime and most recent evidence of the suc cess of his policies. Bill Repealing Surtax Planned Salem (U.R) The state le gislature's interim committee on taxation Saturday ordered Sam Haley, legislative counsel, to draft a bill repealing the 45 per cent surtax on incomes. The tax study committee will present a proposed sales tax m. asure to the next session of the state legislature but what type of sales tax will be recom mended has not been decided by the group yet. Some members indicated that several features of the 1955 sales tax measure, which was passed by the House and then defeated in the Senate, would be incor porated in the new proposed legislation. The 1955 (bill called for a 3-cent levy. The 45 per cent surtax on in comes passed by the last legisla ture, has come in for consider able criticism from taxpayers. The bill was retroactive to in clude 1955 incomes. Morgan Replys to Hitchcock Statement Portland (U.R) Democratic State Chairman Howard Morgan issued a scornful reply Saturday to Phil Hitchcock's statement that the Republican senatorial hopeful had been responsible for ! Sen. Wayne L. Morse cancelling a scheduled visit to Oregon this week. "The record will show, Mor gan said, "that as a Republican, Independent and as a Democrat, Wayne Morse had never hesitat ed . to cancel engagements in Oregon or elsewhere when im portant legislation is scheduled for debate on the Senate floor." Morgan said "this is not the first time" that Hitchcock "has deliberately sought to misinform the voteji." Poppy Seeds Dropped In Memory of Pyle Fort Buckner, Okinawa (U.R) A U. S. Army plane Saturday dipped its wing in salute and showered poppy seeds over iht tiny island ef Ie-Shima. where famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed II years ago. The poppy seeds were a gift from G.I.'s assigned to the Korean Military Advisory Group in Taegu as a memorial io the news correspondent who wrote about the G.I.'s of World War II. Two Egyptian Jets Force U.S. Plane To Land Near Suez Cario (U.R) Two Egyptian jet fighter planes forced an Amer ican military transport plane to land last week, the U. S. embas sy said Saturday. The Egyptians thought the transport was flying over a secret military base. However, an embassy spokes man said the Dakota transport, en route from Tehran, Iran, to Cairo, was delayed only 45 min utes. He said no protest had been lodged with the Egyptian gov ernment. Happened April 14 The spokesman said the inci dent took place April 14. He said the plane was carrying 17 passengers, members of the .American military mission to Ir an, and their relatives, and a crew of four. The American plane was shad owed by five Egyptian jets as it flew along the Israeli coast, the spokesman said. Just south of Port Said in the Suez Canal zone, two Egyptian Air . Force Meteor jet fighters forced the plane to land. The transport set down at Fay id Airfield in the Canal zone. Egyptian Air Force personnel questioned the American crew members and pointed out that radar showed the Dakota had flown over the restricted area of the El Arish military base. Deny Charge The Americans denied ' the charge. When the Egyptians de termined that no photographs had been taken the transport was allowed -to continue on to Cairo, the embassy said. The American spokesman quoted both" passengers and crewmen as saying they were treated courteously by the Egyp tian authorities. Reports from Tehran had quoted passengers as saying they had been "treated roughly." French Troops Wipe Out Diehard Rebels Algiers, Algeria (U.R) Vet eran French colonial troops wiped out the diehard rem nants of a strong rebel band in a wild charge up a heavily wooded hillside barely 15 miles from the big city of Constantine Saturday. French authorities reported 40 rebel bodies were found on the battlefield on the outskirts of the dusty settlement of Grarem Six French soldiers were killed and at least nine wounded. Russian Leaders Showered With Leaflets in London London (U.R) Lativian refu gees showered the touring Rus sian leaders with anti-Communist leaflets Saturday and thous ands of boisterous Oxford uni versity students lampooned them by a singing "Poor Old Joe." . Firecrackers set off by stu dents momentarily alarmed the Russians and their security guards. But for the most part, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Party Chief Nikita S. Krushchev appeared to enjoy the demonstration. Sources in London said the Russians are prepared to offer cash-hungry Britain payment in gold for shipments of exports, in cluding currently embargoed strategic goods, to Russia. Brit ain was expected to refuse on grounds that she cannot relax the ban without getting approval J El I ft Treaty Strengthens Arab Armed Forces In Tense Mid-East Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Sign Agreement Cairo, Egypt (U.R) Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign ed a three-power military pact Saturday to strengthen AraD armed forces in the tense Mid dle East. The treaty was signed at th Saudi-Arabain diplomatic cap ital of Jedda after a meeting of the three heads of govern ment. Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser signed for Egypt, King Saud for Saudi-Arabia, and Iman Ahmen for Tiny Yemen. The new Middle East, pact dovetails with a simjlar mutual defense pact drawn up last year between Egypt and Syria. 'Southern Tier Attempts have been made to get Jordan to join the network of alliances which form a "southern tier" of military de fenses. The "northern tier ' is composed of the five Baghdad, pact nations which Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia have denounc ed. Under the new agreement, Yemen probably will get Egypt ian arms and its poorly-organized forces will be trained by Egypt ians, sources said. As in the Egyptian-Syrian, pact, the new alliance is ex pected to be set up under a un ified military command. Other Developments ; The signing occurred In th midst of these other develop ments: . 1. In Beirut, Lebanan, U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham marsrakjold conferred for two hours with Lebanese Foreign MinisterSelim Lahoud. It was reported that Hammarskjold would travel to Jordan next Tuesday for further peacemak ing talks. 2. Demonstrations and strikes erupted in Syria over French, policy in Moslem Algeria. More than 15,000 parade in Damas cus, but there was no violence reported. 3. In Moscow, the Soviet gov ernment newspaper Izvestia ac cused the United States and Britain of deliberately inciting trouble in the Middle East as an excuse for "direct military in tervention." Benson, Ike Confer On Price Supports Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower conferred Saturday with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson on the admin istration's plan to provide price support for midwestern corn growers who overplant their acreage allotments. Benson told reporters after ward that he will announce "shortly" the support price that will be provided under the new program. Benson said he and the presi dent also discussed the other boosts in farm price supports ordered by Mr. Eisenhower when he vetoed the farm bill.. Benson said it touched "in only a gen- i eil way" on the administration's soil bank proposal. from the United States and other NATO allies. The Russians, who are known to want industrial . equipment, machine tools and tankers from the West, have hinted at gold payments in terms of hundreds of millions of dollars, the sources said. The singing students' parody of "Old Black Joe," kidded the Russians about the current anti Stalin line. They surrounded the Soviet leaders at every stop, and one group of them burst into "Yo Ho Heave Ho," to the tune .of the "Volga Boatman." The Soviet delegation left Ox ford after a tour of the colleges and historic sites and drove di rectly to Chequers, Prime Min ister Sir Anthony Eden's country estate, for a private week end of talks.