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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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, -