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Newspaper Page TextKamath Boy u 1 CIii HI HEW FARM BILL WINS APPROVAL OF HOUSE GROUP Washington (U.R) The House Agriculture Committee today approved a new farm bill containing the administration' sponsored $1,200,000,000 soil bank plan. The catch-all measure was ap proved unanimously after the committee rejected on a straight party-line vote of 19 to 15 a Republican attempt to provide for "pre-payments under the soil bank. Committee Chairman Harold D. Coo ley (D-N.C.) said an amendment including the admin istration - backed "pre - payment feature" would no doubt be of fered on the House floor. He said it might be offered by a Democrat. One key Democrat said this indicated that Demo crats might abandon their fight against the controversial pro vision, if a check of House senti ment convinced them they would lose anyway. Debate Seen Tuesday Cooley expressed hope the bill could be cleared for floor de bate starting tomorrow. But House Democratic Whip Carl Al bert (Okla.) said the House prob ably would not take up the measure until next week. President Eisenhower had re quested the pre-payment provis ion under which farmers could be paid up to $500,000,000 this year for promising to curtail plantings next year. Democrats oppose the pre-pay ment provision. They called it a "political gimmick" that would raise farm income this year only to depress it next year. The new bill was approved exactly as introduced by Cooley. The tommittee beat down by voice vote half a dozen other attempts to change it. Abandons Rigid Supports The measure abandons the Democratic fight to restore price supports to rigid 90 per cent of parity, the chief reason for Mr. Eisenhower's "veto" of'the orig inal farm bill. The committee rejected an ad ministration - opposed proposal by Rep. W. R. Poage (D-Tex.) to raise price supports for 11 farm Eisenhower Summons Top Policy Experts . Washington :il.R) President Eisenhower called top-ranking Democratic and Republican Con gressional foreign policy experts to a White House conference to day, presumably to discuss the administration's foreign aid pro gram. Invited were Chairman Wal ter F. George (Ga.) and Sen. H. Alexander Smith (N.J.), ranking Republican member of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Commit tee; and their Opposite numbers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Chairman James P. Richards (S.C.) and Rep. Robert Chipperfield, (R-Ill.). Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles and Wilton B. Persons, deputy assistant to the Presi dent, also will participate in the meeting. The White House said only that the President called the meeting "to discuss matters af fecting the foreign policy of the United States." LeMay Questioned on Jet Bomber Program Washington (U.R) A Sen ate subcommittee on air power today called Gen. Curtis E. Le May, head of the Strategic Air Command, for close questioning abc-it The administration's jet bonder program. Democrats hoped the general would furnish them ammunition for an attack on the administra tion program but observers noted that he may be bound by Defense Department security regulations and his sense of duty to his civilian superiors. Freight Car Outlook Said Bit Brighter; Supply Held Washington The freight car outlook was a bit brighter this week, as the Association of American Railroads reported the supply of available cars is now 23,550 greater than it was a year ago. William T. Faricy, AAR presi dent, said that in the past three months the railroad industry has momentarily reversed the trend toward fewer cars which in re cent years has been caused by more cars being scrapped than were built. For the first quarter of 1956 railroads added 14,650 new oars commodities to 90 per cent of parity through compensatory payments. Also rejected were moves by Rep. E. C. Gathings (D-Ark.) to write in an administration-opposed two-price plan for rice which was included in the vetoed original farm bill. The committee also shouted down a move by Rep. Thomas G. Abernethy (D-Miss.) to raise price supports for 1956-crop cot ton to 84 per cent of parity from the 82.5 per cent level fixed by the administration. Six Meet Death In Oregon Mishaps During Week-End By UNITED PRESS At least six persons met death in week end accidents in Ore gon and a seventh person died of injuries suffered in a traffic mishap earlier. Three of the victims drowned. The body of Roy Wood of Portland, manager and princi pal stockholder of the Wood Tractor Co., was recovered from the Metolius river five miles north of Camp Sherman in cen tral Oregon yesterday. Jefferson County Coroner Ed Mason said Wood apparently slipped and fell into the swift stream Satur day afternoon near Wizard Falls while fishing. Tten-Ageri Killed . foreign-made car failed to negotiate a sharp turn in south west Portland yesterday after noon and two teen-agers were killed. They were Gloria Schiller, 17, Portland, and Lieb Lockman, 17, Seattle. Ella Sanders, 38, Portland, drowned yesterday evening j when a car backed into the Columbia river near Hank's moorage at Sauvie island. Irv ing Caby, 39, Vancouver, was injured. Sheriff's deputies said the occupants were thrown from the car and occupants of a boat pulled the pair from the water but efforts to revive the woman failed. Lakeview Man Killed James Richard Brooks, 43, Lakeview, was killed when the car in which he was riding left tne highway about 50 miles north of Lakeview and over turned. Ellis E. Joscelyn, 23, Oregon City, drowned Saturday while fishing in Abernathy creek a mile east of Oregon City. Witnesses said he had caught his line on a tree and apparent ly stepped into a hole while try ing to free it. Mrs. Eleanor Temple, Pendle ton, died in a Hermiston hospit al Saturday from injuries suf fered in an auto accident Tues day near Boardman. Portland Packing Plant Destroyed Portland (U.R) The block square building of Northwest Packing Company's No. 1 plant and general offices was de stroyed by fire yesterday after noon and loss was placed at around 51,000,000. Firemen fought the blaze for more than two hours before bringing it under control. It's cause was not determined im mediately. No injuries were re ported. ' The firm packs dog food, beans and strawberries. The loss in cluded an estimated' S500,000 worth of dog food. Officials indicated they plan to resume operations as soon as possible to replace equipment. . . Greater Than and scrapped only 11,450, Faricy said. "Depending upon the avail ability of steel and other ma terials," he said, "it is expected that the coming months will see gains both in total ownership and in the number of service able cars available for the use of shippers." But Faricy told the annual meeting of the AAR board of directors that it was apparent there would not be sufficient cars available to handle peak shipping demands this summer and fall. He said he hoped "that shortages will be no great Stevenson Accuses Administration of Halting Expansion Water Power Should Benefit All People Portland (U.R) Adlai Ste venson today accused the Eisen hower administration of halting expansion of water power de velopment and said our great river systems should be de veloped "for the benefit of all the people and not just for the favored few." Stevenson, campaigning for write-in votes for Oregon's May 18 primary election, spoke to some 200 persons at a breakfast meeting at St. Helens. Must Continue Expansion The Democratic presidential hopeful said "we must continue the great expansion of our water power development which was started under the Roosevelt and Truman administrations and which is indispensible to indus trial development and more jobs in Oregon." "This expansion was stopped in 1953 by the Eisenhower ad ministration and they haven't even gone ahead with any of their proposed partnership de velopments." Stevenson, opening a two-day tour of Oregon, said he favored a single high dam at Hell's Canyon. He also called for the re-election of Sen. Wayne Morse (D Ore.) whom he called "one of Oregon's greatest natural re sources that the Republicans would like very much to give away because he not only is a senator from Oregon, but a sen ator at large for the cause of liberalism." Income of Aged 'Shocking In a speech in Astoria at noon, Stevenson called for changes in the social security act. He said he was "shocked" to learn that among the 14,000,000 people in this country over 65 years of age today, the average income for a man and hfs wife "is only $1500," Earlier, Stevenson said he doesn't know how much longer he can compete with Sen. Estes Kefauver for the title of under dog in the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomina tion. Recalling that he did poorly in Minnesota but made a better showing in Illinois, Pennsylva nia, New Jersey and Massachu setts, Stevenson said: j it usea to be said that a man's best friend was his dog. Nowadays, a voter's best friend is his underdog." Taxable Value Cards Mailed by Assessor Postcards telling the taxable value of personal property have been mailed to all personal property owners in the county, according to Andrew Hawyer, deputy county assessor in charge of the property department. The taxable, or assessed, value of the property is often con fused with ! collectable taxes, Hawver said, and he pointed out the total listed is the amount on which taxes are based. He said the card takes the place of duplicate copies of tax values now held by tax payers. Mailing of the cards is not re quired by law, Hawver stated, but that .the office feels that tax payers should know the value established for their personal property in order to determine that the value is correct before the board of equalization con venes. ' Northwest Streams Due To Fall Slowly Portland -OJ.R; The weather bureau said today that North west streams should fall slowly during the next two to four days. The Columbia river at Van couver was down to 19.9 feet at 8:30 a.m., which is 4.9 feet over flood stage. The Willamette at Portland was 19.8 feet. 1.8 feet over' the ' flood ' level. " Both streams were down .4 of a foot from yesterday morning. a Year Ago er this year and that they "might be reduced below the October, 1955, figure." The railroad executive said one important reason for the in crease in available cars now is the success the carriers have had recently in reducing the number of their bad order cars. "With only 4.1 per cent of freight cars awaiting or under going repairs, the railroads are now within 1700 cars of bring ing the ratio of bad order cars down to the goal of 4 per cent of ownership," he said. He add ed that this is the lowest per centage since Jan. 1, 1948. Met 51st Year U Warh Ocean-Spanning Washington (U.R) The United States disclosed Sunday it has perfected a hydrogen bomb warhead for use on the ocean spanning intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) now under de velopment. The Air Force said that it will be only a matter of time how much it did not specify before the ICBM is ready for use. It said no new inventions are needed to make construction of the dreaded missile possible but conceded a vast amount of engineering work must be done. The city-wrecking missile is sometimes called the "ultimate weapon." Officials have said it could span the ocean and come crashing down on an unsuspecting city at several times the speed of sound. Russian Claims of Missile Discounted Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev said in London re cently that Russia soon will have a missile equipped with an H-bomb warhead which would be capable of hitting any target in the world. But U.S. officials discounted this, saying it will be five to 10 years before the ICBM is perfected. Efew $S e O villi FLYING CHAIRS FEATURE RIOT at Paris meeting called by committee advocating end of fighting in Algeria. Faction favoring continuation of force to put down revolt is at left, having driven peace advocates under balcony. (International Soundphoto) Blaze Destroys Home Of Jacksonville Family Jacksonville Fire of unde termined origin destroyed the single-story frame home occu pied by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Porter, 703 North Oregon- st., starting at about 12:30 a.m., Sunday, the Jacksonville fire de partment reported. Fire Chief Lewis Applebaker said power failure in the volun teer department's three phase siren system prevented calls to firemen until the house was nearly burned to the ground. The Porters and their four chil dren were not at home when the blaze occurred. Called Sheriff Sheriff Howard Gault said Mrs. Porter had called his office at about 9 p.m. Saturday re questing help in ending a "fam ily row." A deputy and Frank Khrushchev Wants Belter US Relations Moscow (U.R) Soviet Com munist .Party Leader Nikita Khrushchev said today he will "do everything" possible to es tablish improved relations be tween this country and the Uni ted States . He also made what observers considered another veiled re quest for an invitation to visit the United States, similar to the 10-day trip to Britain just com pleted by him and Premier Nikolai Bulganin. In an airport speech following their return to Moscow from London, "Khrushchev made an apparently bold bid for direct talks- between American and Soviet leaders. He called the British trip "very useful," but strongly indi cated that he wanted to extend Russia's ties with the West to Washington. Sunday Dinner Leads Firemen on Chase The dinner of ai least one Medford family had a burned taste Sunday evening. A house fire alarm was turned in to the city fire de partment Sunday at 7:50 p.m. from the . Lodge motel, 945 South Riverside ave. Two pumpers were dispatched and firemen traced the smoke to one of the motel units where a burned roast was found in the oven. Toll: one meat roast and some smoke damage., rrt o &0 rj$2 ' : : Effected for Use on Carter, Jacksonville police chief, questioned Porter about an hour liter. Mrs. Porter and the chil dren had left the house by the time the officers arrived, the sheriff explained.- Porter told the authorities he had left for Medford at 11 p.m. and returned to find the house on fire at 12:30 a.m. The family had no insurance. Officers are still investigating cause of the blaze, E. A. Ryder, owner of the house, is away' in California. Staying With Friends Mrs. Porter and children are now staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lillye, 4 East Clark st, Medford. Friends are soliciting clothing and house hold articles for the family, who were able to salvage nothing after the fire. The children are Judy, 18, who wears size 12 clothing; Jim my, 8, size 10 trousers and size 8 shirts; June, 6, size 6, and Johnny, 2, size 2. Mrs. Porter wears size 12 clothing. Arncies ior tne family mav be taken to the Lillye home telephone 3-5658, or the Walter Mooring home, 407 East Calif ornia st., Jacksonville, phone Jacksonville 9-8325. Hammarskjold Nearing Agreement With Egypt Jerusalem (U.R) U. N. Sec retary General Dag Hammar skjold was reported near agree ment today with 'Egypt on new Arab-Israeli peace measures de spite a new series of incidents in the troubled Middle East. Hammarskjold met in Cairo twice Sunday with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi and scheduled another meeting today after talking with Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser was believed to have raised objections to some points in the draft agreement. Salem U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith has called attention to the period from May 6 to 13 as 33rd annual national music week. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued fair to night and Tuesday. Little change. Low tonight 36. High Sunday 73. Temp. Highest Yesterday 66 Lowest this Morning 34 MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1956 Ballistic The Air Force disclosed U.S. development of an H-bomb war head light and handy enough to fit on an ICBM in secret testimony March 6 before a House appropriations subcommittee. The heavily censored testimony was made public Sunday. Maj. Gen. S. R. Brentnall, Assistant Air Force Chief of Staff for Guided Missiles, told the House subcommittee "the advent of lightweight, high-yield warheads made ballistic missiles attractive because it simplified . . . many problems and insured that thermo nuclear weapons would be light and handy enough to be carried by long-range missiles of reasonable sizes." , No Inventions Required for Ballasiic Missile Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, commander of the Western Development Division of the Air Research and Development Com mand, told the subcommittee' "there are no inventions required" to attain an intercontinental ballistic missile. He conceded that building the missile involves "a systems engineering job of great magnitude and testing." But, he said, "We see no reason why we cannot do it on the schedule we have set up." Four Major Office Candidates Slate Visils in Medford . At least four candidates for major office plan to visit Med ford within the next two weeks, according to campaign an nouncements. . ' ' Elmer Deetz, Canby dairyman who is seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. senator, was in Medford today on a "hand shaking" visit on the city's streets. No meetings w e r e planned. (See story elsewhere on this page.) Stevenson Tomorrow Adlai Stevenson, candidate for the Democratic nomination for president," is due here tomor row, arriving at 10:25 a.m. at the Medford airport, where he will be greeted by Mayor Earl Miller and officers of the Democratic party. He will go to Ashland by auto caravan for a talk in the Plaza there, returning to Med ford for an informal talk from the courthouse steps at 12:10 p.m. He will be introduced by Bob Duncan. Democratic candi- date for the legislature. At 1 p.m. Stevenson will speak at a luncheon at the Med ford hotel, where Bob Boyer, the other Democratic legislative candidate, will preside. Steven son will leave in the afternoon by plane for Klamath Falls. He will be accompanied by A Cor bett, Portland, his Oregon chair man. Luncheon reservations can be obtained from Mrs. Bob Duncan, 2-4070; Mrs. Boyer, 3-5169: or Mrs. Moore Hamilton, 2-2801. Hitchcock, Kefauver Phil Hitchcock, Portland, an other Republican candidate for senator, plans to be in Medford May 8 or 9. Details of his itine rary have not yet been an nounced. Sen. Estes Kefauver, who is contesting with Stevenson for Democratic write-in votes for President 'in the May' 18 pri- mary election, plans a stop at , the Medford airport on May 15 j or 16. Cold Temperatures Require Fruit Heating Temperatures which dropped j to as low as 28 degrees m the colder places required the heat ing of some orchards last night, according to & B. Cordy, county horticultural agent. No damage to fruit was re ported, he said, and heating was not required in most orchards. I Tribune Price 5c No. 34 Missile C.W. Lacy Resigns From Police Force; Will Open Agency Cliff W. Lacy, 30, Medford police department lieutenant for almost two years, today sub mitted his resignation effective May 15 to accept private em ployment.' He said he will open a Med ford office of the Burns De tective agency, a nation-wide organization offering protective services to businesses. The firm already has a number of Med ford clients, he said. Since 1948 Lacy joined the department as a patrolman in 1948, rising to sergeant about three years later, and being named lieuten ant in August, 1954. He has been in charge of the night shift at the department. ,. ... . His letter of resignation, ad dressed to Police Chief Charles Champlin, said: "Due to the fact that I am accepting another posi tion in the very near future, I hereby submit my resignation from the department effective May 15, 1956.- It is with deep regret that I submit this resig nation and I want you to know that I have enjoyed working for you and with you the" past seven years." Navy Veteran Lacy and his wife and three children live at 1376 Biddle rd. A native of Montana, he served in the Navy and drove for Grey hound lines before coming here. He said he has several days of accrued vacation time com ing, so his last day of work will be Wednesday. He hopes to open the Burns office late this week. Cuban Revolt Ends With II Rebels Dead Havana (U.R) The Cuban government announced today it had crushed a revolutionary out break in Matanzas, a seaport town 60 miles east of here, and that 11 rebels had been killed. The government suspended con stitutional guarantees to choke off further revolutionary threats and arrested former President Carlos Prio Socaras on charges he instigated the uprising. Troops were posted at stra tegic points in Havana and pub lic buildings were under heavy guard. President Gen. Fulgencio Batista was at his Camp" Colum bia military headquarters. 'Gallon Jug' 'Poor Man's' Vote Campaign Elmer Deetz, the Canby dairy man who won nation-wide fame for his part in the repeal of Ore gon's milk control law two years ago, carried his election campaign to Medford today. ' He is seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. senator in a "poor man's" campaign. Driving his own car and traveling alone, he is touring the streets seeking support for his candidacy. He ; came nere from tne coast, ana reports he finds a surprising number of people who are familiar with him end his recoad. Criticizes Candidates This morning he criticized the other GOP candidates, Douglas McKay and Phil Hitchcock, for campaigning against Sen. Wayne Morse, the Democratic candi date, rather than against each other. "It would be better to have a vacant seat in the Senate than the one we have now," he said, but he also declared that there are important decisions to be made in the primary election Youngster's Body Discovered Sunday; Autopsy Scheduled Sex Deviate Seen Possible Murderer The bruised body of 14-year-old Alvin William Eacret, Klam ath Falls, was found near Tub Springs State park at about 2 p.m. Sunday. He apparently had been murdered, authorities said. State police officers said the boy had been dead from two to five days. The body was nude. and his clothes were found about 100 feet away near a log. A piece of cloth was stuffed in his mouth, and a small belt was found around his neck, officer! said. Autopsy Set Cause of death was not im mediately learned, but it was believed to have been strangu lation. An autopsy was to have been performed at 1 .p.m. today by Dr. James Lium, Portland pathologist. Two 14-year-old girls who were visiting at the park dis covered the body about 300 yards off the Green Spring high way off a trail leading into the woods. They called the author ities. State' police, sheriff's deputies, and the district attor ney's office began their investi gation. Sex Motive Seen ' Walter Nunley, Jackson coun ty district attorney, said a pre liminary examination indicated the boy may have been the vic tim of a sex deviate. The body was brought to the county cor oner's office yesterday after noon from the park, about 23 miles east of Ashland. Nunley said it was possible the slaying might have occurred somewhere else, and the body taken to the location where it was found. - The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Eacret, Klamath Falls, who identified his body last night. He had been missing from his home since April 19. Fire Permit Rule Lisled at C. P. Central Point Central Point Fire Rural Protection district will issue no permit for burning until the proposed burn area has been inspected by a representa tive of the district, Fire Chief Richard Krupp said today. The fire season within the district begins tomorrow. Per mits are required for all burn ing except that in approved in cinerators. Krupp said that application for permits may be made at any time by telephoning the district office at Central Point, NOrmandy 4-2244. Inspections will be made and permits issued in the early afternoon Monday through Friday. The chief ad vised residents of the district wishing to do burning on week ends to telephone the office- not later than Friday morning. Burning of dry grass near buildings will , not be allowed since such fires are a common cause of serious blazes. District officials, said that areas close to buildings should be cleared by an early date when the grass is short and the ground workable. La Grande Youth Dies Of Accidental Gunshot LaGrande (U.R) Tommy Heater, 16, died in a local hos pital Saturday following an emergency operation. He was wounded April 7 when he was accidentally shot in the stomach, by a .22 caliber rifle held by a friend. Candidate on when the Republican candidate is nominated. Deetz, a member of the state house of representatives, de clared that what the country needs is not more laws, but a revision of some of those now on the books, to cut taxes and expenses, to develop regional power, to give more federal aid to schools, and to curb the power of the lobbyists. Cites Farm Decline He said he is concerned about the decline in farm income dur ing a period when non-farm in come has increased. His wife is operating their Canby dairy farm while he is away, he said. He added he has no campaign funds except what he himself is putting up "may be $1,000" and that he can't afford high-priced advertising and television appearances. Deetz planned to call on sev eral Medford residents who have written him in the past months, and to meet as many people a he oan.