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Z'S '"Si LM. HALL S. LUSK To Speak Her High Court Judge Sets Medford Visit Hall S. Lusk, justice of the Oregon supreme court, will speak to a meeting of the Jack son County Bar association at noon Thursday, May 3. Justice Lusk will discuss "Modern Ju dicial Trends" with local attorneys. Justice Lusk has been a judge for 25 years and has served on the Oregon supreme court for the past 18 years. He served a term as Chief Justice of the court from January, 1949, to January, 1951, and participated In the first national conference of state chief justices in St. Louis, Mo., in 1949. Judge Lusk was admitted to the bar of the District of Colum bia in 1907 and to the Oregon State Bar in 1909. He was in pri vate practice in Portland from 1909 to 1930 except for a two- year term as assistant United States attorney for the district He is also well known for his work in civic affairs and on numerous bar committees. He is a candid; te this year for another six-year tprji on the Supreme court. Eisenhower Expected To Accept Farm Bill' Washington (U.R) Repub lican congressional leaders said after a White House conference today that President Eisenhower probably will accept a new farm bill without advance payments for the soil bank. Democrats have denounced as "a political gimmick" the ad ministration's proposal for $500, 000.000 in payments this year to farmers who promise to put acreage into the soil bank next year. Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.) member of the GOP top command in the House, was asked after the conference with the President if Mr. Eisenhower would sign a farm bill without that provision. "That would not be a jeason to veto the bill," Halleck said. Alabama, District of Columbia Voters Cast Ballots in Primary Washington (U.R) Voters in Alabama and the District of Co lumbia cast ballots in presiden tial primaries today. The district balloting provid ed a contest between delegate slates pledged to Adlai E. Ste venson and Sen. Estes Kefauver (D.-Tenn.) in the Democratic pri mary. But only six convention votes were involved. In Alabama, a state with 26 convention votes, delegates were unpledged and neither Steven son nor Kefauver's name was on the ballot. But about one half of the delegates have said they favor Stevenson. 1 Other political news: The death of Sen. Alben W. Barkley (D.-Ky.) started specu lation immediately that Gov. A. B. (tfappy) Chandler of Ken tucky might resign and take the Senate seat himself by appoint ment. Or he might appoint some one else temporarily and run for the seat at a special election in November. Democratic National Chair man Paul Butler swung at Gov. Frank Lausche of Ohio, fellow Democrat and possible dark horse presidential candidate. Butler at a news conference in Delaware, O., accused Lausche of failing to help the Democrat ic party. He said he expects President Eisenhower to carry Ohio in the November election. Butler told students at Ohio Wesleyan university his party "will not make any concessions to the South" on civil rights this year. He said: "We will support X-Ray Clinic To Be Open Wednesday The chest x-ray clinic at Sa cred Heart hospital will be open between 7 and 9 p.m. to morrow to accommodate resi dents who are unable to visit regular Thursday afternoon clin ics, according to the Jackson County Public Health associa tion. The purpose of the clinic is to discover unknown cases of tuberculosis, lung cancer, heart condition and other chest dis eases. New cases of tuberculosis in Jackson county last year cost the local taxpayers at least $225,000, according to Dr. A. E. Merkel, county health officer. He emphasized the importance of adults having a chest x-ray at least once a year. Each new case of tuberculosis represents a financial outlay of about $15,000 in tax dollars as well as much more in personal tragedy and expense. The finan cial loss could be avoided if un known cases were located and infection stopped, Dr. Merkel stated. Eight new cases of tubercu losis in the county have been re ported this year which means that many others have also been infected, he said. the integration decision of the Supreme court. Kefauver barnstormed across Florida. He said at Blountstown he never favored using federal troops to enforce the Supreme court school integration order. He called the idea - "unthink able." Stevenson campaigned in Ore gon. At Astoria, he accused the administration of falling down on extending Social Security and developing natural re sources. Fears He Is Behind Both Stevenson and Kefauver forces made cautious comments regarding the District of Colum bia primary. Kefauver said he feared he was behind. Less than 60,000 residents registered for Washington's first primary since the- Grant admin istration. Most of the 113 candidates running in the Alabama Demo cratic primary left themselves plenty of room to change even the weak endorsements some of them made. No candidate would be able to consider his chances much strengthened by the re sults of the primary. The Republicans are not in volved in the Alabama contest. They name their convention delegates at a state convention. The Republican primary in the District of Columbia is a formality. All candidates favor President Eisenhower. Senate Committee Opens Investigation Into Gas Bill Lobby Washington (U.R) Senate investigators began their widely heralded lobbying investigation today by seeking testimony from the head of a large industry group that favored the contro versial natural gas bill. Chairman John L.' McClellan (D-Ark.) called Maston Nixon, chairman of the General Gas Committee, to testify before the special eight-man investigating committee. The Corpus Chrtsti, Tex., oil man was the first witness to be heard in public session. Created in 1954 The General Gas Committee was created in 1954 to collect and circulate information favor able to the natural gas bill. It has filed reports in the Senate and House under the federal lobbying act, but asserts that its activities were not primarily de signed to influence legislation. McGlellan's investigating com mittee was established in the wake of a lobbying furor that resulted from Senate debate on the since-vetoed gas bill. The bi partisan committee voted to' make lobbying for and against the bill it's first item of business. Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) started fhe furor when he dis closed during the debate that he had turned down a $25p0 cam paign contribution from an oil lobbyist interested in the pas sage of the gas bill. Attorneys Criticized Two attorneys for the Su perior Oil Company of Califor nia were criticized for "irre sponsibility . . . run riot" by an other special committee that looked into the Case incident. The first special committee said Superior's president, Howard B. Keck, could not escape the blame McClellan said he hopes Nixon's testimony, and the rec ord of his organization which he has promised to supply, will set a "broad base" for the inquiry's future activities. McClellan said the scheduling of Nixon as first witness does not indicate any wrong doing by the organization. Governor Praises Crime Prevention Bend (U.R) Efforts in Ore gon toward juvenile crime pre vention were praised here last night by Gov. Elmo Smith in an address to the City Police Offi cers association. Pledging the interest and help of state government in combat ting the participation of juve niles in serious crime, the gover nor praised communities that have undertaken constructive programs of juvenile crime pre vention. "J. Edgar Hoover's report on the high , percentage of major crimes committed by persons un der the .age of 18 should cause us all to take serious stock of our situation," the governor said. "It has been alarming to note the greater participation of ju veniles in serious crime and it is certainly better and also cheaper to carry on activities which will reverse this trend,". he continued. Gov. Smith pointed out that city officials now are responsi ble not only for suppression of crime, apprehension of offend ers, recovery of property and so on, but they also are expected to regulate automobile use,' "cope with juvenile delinquency, de velop a crime prevention pro gram and carry on many other significant duties. New York City had 34,000 traffic mishaps in 1955. Tuesday. Mar I. 1938 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUIfS SETEN We saved for a real vacation This fortunate family's breadwinner had the foresight to save for a vacation. And the entire family agrees that this will be the best vacation ever, because there will be no money worries. It's still not too late to start saving now for a late-summer or early fall trip. Or, if you want a big trip, start saving now for next year. 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