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era n n ii ul IlSSl TALENT RECALL VOTE PETITIONS ARE FILED Talent Petitions bearing 108 signatures and asking for a re call election against the mayor of Talent and three city coun cilmen were filed with the Tal ent city recorder this morning, according to Bob Lowe, treas urer of the recall committee. Syria Opens Fire On Fishing Boat, Israel Declares Jerusalem (Israeli Sector) (U.R) Israel charged today that Syrians opened fire on an Israeli fishing boat on the Sea of Gali lee, the scene earlier this year of a major clash between Israeli and Syrian troops. The charges, made by Israeli military spokesman Col. Ne hemia Brosh, came as U.N. Sec retary General Dag Hammar skjold arrived in the Syrian cap ital of Damascus on his visit to Mid-East capitals in search of permanent peace. No Casualties Brosh said the Syrians opened fire Sunday on an Israeli boat but that no casualties were suf fered. Reliable Israeli sources said Israel had informed Hammar skjold of Israel's willingness to make two concessions to the Syrians to refrain from fish ing close to the northeastern shores of the sea and to permit Syrian farmers to use waters of the sea. The sea is completely within Israel territory and the Syrian border is 10 yards from the lake shore. Israeli Premier Ben-Gurion, in a speech to the Knesset Parlia ment on Sunday, said the dan ger of war had increased great ly in recent days but that new opportunities had arisen lately for reducing tension. Arab Plans Said Not Halter Ben-Gurion said the agree ment with Egypt did nothing to halt long-ranee Arab plans to wipe Israel off the face of the map though the border was not reported quiet. .' He said "the only way of averting war is the immediate dispatch of arms to this coun try" and warned that "external military intervention" by Brit ain and the United States would entail "a grave danger to world peace." Four Whites Held For Killing Negro Huntsville, Ala. (U.R) Po lice today held four white men accused of killing a 79-year-old Negro man as they drpve along a highway in a convertible ston ing Negroes. Officers were investigating a report that the men threw a ten pound rock at Negro L. C. Bald win as they drove by in their car. The rock smashed Bald win's leg and the Negro was ap parently killed as he fell and hit his head on the highway. Highway patrolman H. E. Holder said two Negro boys reportec. the white men had been "throwing rocks at all Ne groes" as they rode down a high way in an open convertible. Baldwin was leading a cow alongside the highway at the time. Eisenhower Signs Bill Raising Trainees' Pay Washington OJ.R) President Eisenhower signed legislation to day raising the pay of six-month trainees jn the armed forces from $50 to S78 a month. This raise will bring the pay of these short-term trainees in line with that of National Guardsmen on active duty. Salem (U.R! Gov. Elmo Smith has designated April 29 to May 5 as mental health week. Governor Orders Attorney General To Conduct Probe of Portland Vice Salem CU.R) Gov. Elmo Smith called on Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton today to head an investigation of al leged vice in Portland and Thornton appointed Francis Wade to aid him in the probe. Police Probe Called Off ! At the same time the governor called off a state police investi gation of the charges. In a letter received by Thorn ton today, the governor said: "The grand jury of Multnomah county has been convened to in vestigate allegations contained in recent newspaper articles re lating to law violations in Mult nomah county. "Inasmuch as some of the al legations contain references to Targets of the recall move ment are Mayor Keith Thoreson, and Councilmen R. C. Bradford, William Cooper and James Hen ry. The demand for the election arose from their action in dis charging former city marshal John Baldwin in what the recall leaders rescribed as an arbitrary and illegal action. Reception "Good" Lowe said reception of the recall petitions has been "very good," and that there was no difficulty in obtaining the signa tures. He said law requires about 84 signatures from voters in pre cincts 62 and 63. The total ob tained is more than the necessary number, and all are from resi dents of the city,, he reported. The petitions were accom panied by documents showing expenses cf the recall committee, he said. The next step is for the city recorder to have the signa tures checked for validity by the county clerk, and then to set a date for the recall election. Sample ballots, containing the arguments of the recall commit tee and answers by the mayor and councilmen, will be pre pared before the election, Lowe said. All Lost Boaters Believed Located Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) Weary Coast Guard officials early today believed they have accounted for 80 persons aboard 40 outboard motor boats missing for hours in a race across fog bound Catalina channel. The 40 boats were part of a fleet of 209 small craft which departed here Saturday in an annual 21-mile race to Catalina Island. Most of the boats either came back to port or made the crossing safely but a number ran out of gas and drifted helplessly in the murky, thick fog. A search for the missing boats developed into one of the largest local sea-air searches in history. Sixteen Coast Guard vessels fought blanketing visibility to comb the surging waters for the boats. By yesterday afternoon the weather had cleared enough to permit two Coast Guard planes, two blimps and dozens of pri vate planes to scan the channel for the boats. Most of the boats found were towed to Catalina Island where their owners were ordered "to stay put" until they could be escorted back to the mainland. The Coast Guard last night said it believed all boats had been found although some own ers who returned to port had failed to check in. Benson Sees GOP Prestige 'Enhanced' Washington (U.R) Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben son said yesterday President Ei senhower's veto of the farm bill has "enhanced" Republican pres tige. He said that "The American people generally admire the President for taking this cour ageous stand, and I believe they agree that it was a wise stands it was best for agriculture." - Benson is expected to come under close questioning on the farm situation at a news confer ence today. Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan.), who had urged Mr. Eisenhower to sign the bill, said the Presi dent did a "masterful thing" in coupling his veto with an in crease in support prices. Benson, asked whether he would stay on as agriculture sec retary after November if the GOP wins the elction, said: "That is on thing I am not worry ing about ... I didn't want the job. It's a difficult job." the district attorney for Mult nomah county your office should act in the manner provided by law." Thornton takes over the probe from William M. Langley, the Multnomah county district at torney Langley also asked Thornton to take over the case. Directed to Appear The investigation follows a series of copyrighted articles in the Oregonian. The governor directed Thorn ton to "appear in person, or by one of your assistants, before such grand jury in Multnomah county, for the purpose of man aging and conducting before such gand jury a complete in vestigajioa of such allegations." MEDFORD 51st Year 16 Pages Time Has Come To Advance NATO, Secretary Says Greater Economic Cooperation Seen New York U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today the United States is ready to join Western European de mocracies in "exploring the pos sibilities" of converting the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion into a closer union of free nations. In a major policy address, Dulles said "The time has come to advance NATO" from its in itial phase as a mutual defense pact "into the totality of its meaning." Detail Not Disclosed Dulles did not spell out in de tail his ideas of a closer union. But he indicated that he was thinking in terms of greater economic and political coopera tion. He made clear, however, that the United States does not en vision complete federation of the NATO powers, but rather a system in which each nation would preserve a considerable measure of independence in for eign affairs as well as in its do mestic affairs. "The historic weakness of the West has been its disunity," Dulles asserted in his speech be fore the annual Associated Press luncheon held .in connection with the American Newspaper Publishers association meeting. More Yet To Be Done "A major task of postwar statesmanship was to find ways whereby the West can maintain its solidarity. Much has been done. But more can still be done . . . "The peoples who make up the Atlantic community ought, in increased unity, to resume their greatness. "The North Atlantic Treaty already serves as an indispen sable and vital instrument of the Atlantic community. But the time has come to consider whether its organization does not need to be further develop ed, if it is adequately to serve the needs of this and coming generations. "If that be the common de sire of the NATO member na tions, the United States will join eagerly in exploring the possibilities which now are beckoning us forward." Recalls Marshall Plan Dulles' invitation to European allies to more "advanced" col aboration recalled former Sec retary of State Gorge C. Mar shall's Harvard speech inviting Europe to get together on a co operative plan for postwar eco nomic reconstruction with U.S. aid. The upshot of that speech was the Marshall plan. There seemed little doubt that Western Europe would greet Dulles' proposal with keen, in terest. Many Western European nations have already been press ing for action to encourage more economic, political and cultural collaboration as well as purely military cooperation in NATO. CIRCUIT JUDGE HERE Circuit Judge E. H. Howell, Canyon City, is in Medford to day to assist Judge H. K. Hanna with circuit court duties here. "With your assumption of authority for this investigation, I am rescinding my order of April 20 directing the Oregon state police to go into Multno mah county to conduct an in vestigation," the governor con tinued. Resources at Disposal "You are assured that all the resources of the state at the dis posal of the governor will be made available to aid and assist in your investigation. Vade, Thornton's 59-year-old assistant in the probe, is a for mer assistant district attorney of Multnomah county. Wade has been assigned as counsel for the State Liquor jControl commission. Dulles Says US Read off Western i MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1956 am 4 fm t M , , , $ frit Wr5lC5 w" Concerted Effort To Inform Residents on S P H ea ri n g A concerted effort to inform residents of southern Oregon about their rights to appear at a public hearing Thursday on Southern Pacific railroad pas senger service began today.. The hearing has been called by Oregon's public utilities com missioner, and will start at 10 a.m. in the federal court room in the post office building. John Pletsch, former presi dent of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, is chair man of a temporary committee which is trying to bring out the largest possible number of per sons to appear at the hearing. He said today that personal contacts are being used, as well as press, radio and television, to call attention to the hearing. The Southern Pacific, which used t. run its main line through Medford and Ashland, shifted its principal trains to the route east of the Cascades following completion of that line. Since then, passenger ser vice has been increasingly cur tailed until last year the last pas- Drownings, Auto Crash Fatal To Three By UNTED PRESS A little boy drowned, a fisher man was feared drowned and a younth died in an auto crash in Oregon week end accidents. Melvin Frost, 7, of Beatty in Klamath county, drowned Sun day evening when he tumbled from his bicycle and down a 15 foot embankment into Spring Creek. The bicycle hit a rock. Luther Allen Jessup, about 47, Cottage Grove, was feared drowned in the Umpqua river about five miles downstream from Scottsburg. An outboard motor skiff which he had been using was found overturned. Dennis Harvey Ducharme, 19, Grande Ronde, was killed early Sunday when his car cracked up near the bridge across the Yam hill river between Fort Hill and Valley Junction in Polk county. Instruction Schools Set for Election Board Schools of instruction for all election board members will be held this week and one day next week, Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county clerk, announced today. First session is slated for Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Ash land high school gymnasium. Election board members attend ing this class will be from pre cincts 1 through 18, as well as precincts 62 and 63. For those unable to attend the afternoon class, another will be held at 7:30 p.m., also in the Ashland high school gymnasium. in CI urope U n d e r senger train was taken off. The PUC ordered SP to re- sume service, but the railroad contended it did not have to do so because no hearing had been held prior to the PUC order a position upheld by the Marion county circuit court. As a result, the PUC ordered the Thursday hearing in Med ford to see if there is a demand and need for passenger service in the area. A similar hearing is being held in Roseburg to morrow. Two Jump as Truck Plunges Over Bank Frank L. Thrasher and H. M. Smith, both of 1075 West Mc Andrews rd., Medford, escaped injury at 2:22 p.m. Sunday, when they jumped from their loaded lumber truck and trail er just before it plunged from Highway 99, 129 feet down a slope near the Siskiyou summit, and burst into flames. The two reported to state po lice that the brakes of their truck failed as they were round ing a curve about a mile south of the summit. They abandoned the. vehicle just before it went over the cliff, they told police. The truck, trailer and entire lumber load and about a quarter acre of brush were burned. Thrasher was said to be driving the truck when the accident oc curred. The pair hitchhiked into Med ford and reported the incident to state police. Trouble Faces Greek Government Athens. Greece (U.R) Greek Foreign Minister Spiros Theo tokis today offered his resigna tion because of a government controversy over his Cyprus policy. Theotokis handed his resigna tion to Prime Minister Constan tine Karamanlis, but Karamanlis was reported undecided whether to accept or reject it. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 industri als 507.28. up 0.08; 20 rails 175. 80 up 1,56; 15 utilities 65.43, off 0.33; 65 stocks 180.67, up 0.36. Sales today were about 2,440.000 compared with 2,320,000 Friday. PLANNERS TO CONVENE Jackson county planning com mission will hold an organiza tional meeting at 7:30 p.m. to day in the circuit court room at the courthouse. The meeting is open to the publia. Tribune Price 5c No. 28 y To Join Nations oser Union FESTIVAL PARADE Festival Queen Connie Hanscom and her princesses are shown above as they appeared in the annual Pear Blossom Festival parade Saturday, which attracted thous ands to downtown Medford. At left is Krista Baker, 1955 festi val princess, who was grand sweepstakes wmner in her "Blos som From Pear-a-dise" float, pulled by Tommy Vickoren. More than 100 floats were en tered in the parade, largest in the history of the event. (Brainerd photos). Kefauver Agrees To Debate Adlai Washington (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), has agreed to debate with his chief rival for the Democratic presi dential nomination, Adlai E. Stevenson, in California and Florida prior to the presidential primaries in those states. The senator's campaign man ager, F. Joseph Donohue, said today that Kefauver has agreed to debate with Stevenson "some time between the 8th and 15th of May in California and be tween the 1st and 29th of May in Florida " The Florida preferential pres idential primary is May 29 and the California primary June 5. Donohue said that Kefauver was willing to debate with Stev enson on any day "other than Sunday." The Senator rejected a recent proposal to debate with Stever.on because it called for a Sunday meeting. . Donohue said the major broadcasting networks have made "offers of one kind or another,'' for broadcast of the debates. Final arrangements for the iebates, of course, hinges on agreement with the Stevenson camp, he said. McKay Plans Visits In Jackson County Douglas McKay, candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. senator, will be in Medford Friday and will address a noon luncheon at the Rogue Valley Country club, according to M. M. Huggins, who is handling McKay's Jackson county cam paign. Huggins said McKay, accom panied by Mrs. McKay, will visit Southern Oregon college in Ashland at 2:30 p.m. Friday and will speak at 8 p.m. in the Rogue River Veterans of Foreign Wars hall. The senatorial candidate will appear over KBES-TV in a brief program at 5:15 p.m. Saturday. McKay also plans a visit in Grants Pass and will campaign at Klamath Falls Monday. He will spend Thursday in Rose burg and North Bend. Jacksonville Man Escapes Flaming Home Jacksonvile Horace H. Far ley, route 2, box 18, Jackson ville, lost his four-room home and all his household posses sions by fire about 5 a.m., Sun day. He was awakened by his dog in time to escape the blaze, though his hair and eyebrows were singed as he went through the fire. His home was partially covered by insurance, according to the report of the incident. Farley is remaining at the place where he has stock and some acreage. He plans to rebuild. Weather FORECAST Variable li 1 g h cloudiness tonight and Tues day. Low tonight 40. High Tuesday 72. Temp. 75 43 Highest yesterday Lowest this morning t Mrs. Roosevelt Due This Afternoon For Memorial Meeting Mayor, Democrats To Greet Speaker Mayor Earl Miller and offic ers of the Democratic party will meet Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt when she arrives here by plane at 5:35 p.m. today, it was reported this morning. He will present her with a bouquet. Mrs. Roosevelt will be the speaker at the sixth annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner, held each year in honor of her hus band. It is sponsored by the Roosevelt Memorial committee, which is affiliated with the Dem ocratic party in this county. Candidate Coming Robert Holmes, Astoria, Dem ocratic candidate for governor, will also meet Mrs. Roosevelt, as will two members of the staff of Sen. Wayne Morse, Jean Lewis, Portland, and William Berg, Washington. Senator Morse was to have introduced Mrs. Roosevelt, but when he was detained in Washington, Holmes was asked to do so. The dinner will start at 6 p.m. in the gymnasium of the E. H. Hedrick Junior high school with the program at 7 p.m. Mrs. Roosevelt's talk, on the United Nations will be the only speech. Other activities will include only thn introduction of guests, and presentation of a gift to Mrs. Roosevelt. A high school string ensemble, directed by John Drysdale, will play. Other activities honoring the widow of the late President will be a brief television appearance this afternoon, a press confer ence tomorrow morning, and a meeting of the United Nations association following. She will leave by air for San Francisco before noon. Columbia Reaches: 15 Feet at Vancouver Portland (U.R) The Co lumbia river reached flood stage at Vancouver, Wash., to day and a further rise of 4.5 feet was predicted by Friday which would put the stream at its highest April level in this area. However, no immediate ser ious flood situation was seen for the lower Columbia as the rap id rise is scheduled to slack off by Saturday because of cooler weather in the Columbia basin. Flood stage at Vancouver is 15 feet. Elmer Fisher, river forecaster, said that the predict ed level for Friday was 19.5 feet, which is one foot above the previous record crest for April of 18.5 feet in 1904. Fisher said this morning's rise of three feet at both Trinidad and Umatilla, was the highest for 24 hours he could find in records for these points. Salem (U.R) Carolyn Bishop, 17, a South Salem high student, has been award a $200 regional prize and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., for her entry in the Christian En deavor citizenship essay contest. Boy Slays Father, Mother, Brother To Get Revenge Mansfield, Conn. (U.R) An 11-year-old boy told psychiatrists today how he killed his mother, his father and his brother with a single-shot rifle in revenge for spankings. Robert A. Curgenven, who wears glasses because of defec tive vision in his right eye, wiped out the entire farm fam ily Saturday with seven shots from a single-action .22 caliber rifle. Slept Soundly He ate a meal of frankfurters and beans and slept the night soundly before he confessed the slayings Sunday to a neighbor-L-g farmer. "I planned this deal for a week," the boy told police. "My parents had spanked ma. I plan- Party Boss Says Device Will Have H-Bomb Warhead 'We Can Compete British Group Told Birmingham, England OJ.R) Soviet Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev boasted to day that the Soviet Union is working on a guided missile with an H-bomb warhead "which can land anywhere in the world." "Great stress is being laid on guided missiles," he told an audi ence of British businessmen and civic leaders in a speech during a stopover here on the tour he and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul ganin are making of this coun try. Hydrogen Warhead "We can compete there, too," Khrushchev said, in making his reference to the guided missile development. A Soviet delega tion spokesman said the full cor rect transcription of his state ment on this point was: "I am quite sure we shall have very soon a guided missile with a hydrogen bomb warhead which could hit any point in the world." Observers recalled that Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov told the 20th Communist Party Congress in Moscow recently that the Soviet Union was working on a guided missile capable of reaching any target anywhere on earth. The race for production of long range, inter-continental missiles is one of the most criti cal in the world armaments race. with the United States and Brit ain also seeking to develop such key weapons. Close To Success Khrushchev's statement seemed to indicate that the Soviet Union believes it may be close to success. The boast by Khrushchev came after he and Bulganin flew to Birmingham from London. They were met by another series of anti-Communist demonstra tions. When they arrived, the Rus sian leaders were given another student razzing and rendition of "Poor Id Joe" to the tune of Stephen Foster's "Old Black Joe," a reference to the Soviet Union's nw policy of discrediting the late Josef Stalin. Notes Receptions In a blunt, impromptu speech, Khrushchev took note for the first time of hostile receptions given by some Britons to him and Bulganin. He said he had seen a man shaking his fist at them. Fist shaking should stop, he said, because it is not intelli gent it "requires much less brains than trading." The Soviet Communist leader told British businessmen that the western embargo on strategic goods is not preventing Soviet arms progress. "Do you really think you are ahead of us?" he asked. "If you want to discuss the hydrogen bomb, it remains a fact that we were the first to ex plode the H-bomb from a plane. The Americans are only intend ing to." MOD Collectors Missed; Telephone Calls Asked Several coin collectors used in the recent March of Dimes cam paign have inadvertantly been overlooked by persons respon sible for collections, Jerry Gas tineau, city MOD chairman, said today. Gastineau requested that any one still having one of the col lectors in his place of business to contact him at his office, tele phone 3-5148, or at his home, 3-3026. Salem 4U.R) Articles of in corporation have been filed here for the Southern Oregon Me morial Hospital Association of Ashland. They were signed by John Cotton, E. H. Singmaster, W. W. Weller, Ralph Koozer and G. H. Wenner. ned to kill them." Victims of the child's shoot ing spree were his father, Rich ard, 42, a' dairy farmer contrac tor; his mother, Beatrice, 41, a nurse, and his brother, Richard Jr., 14. Taken To Menial Hospital The boy was questioned Sun day at state police barracks at nearby Stafford Springs. He was taken to Norwich Mental Hospi tal for 30 days observation. A child under 16 cannot be tried for murder in Connecticut. Robert told police he waited until they were all in different parts of the farm, "so they wouldn't gang up on me." He said he fired the shots from the rifle, reloading each time with a supply of bullets be carried in hit teeth, -
