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Newspaper Page Text"Hello, Are THiat'g trw" Weir Tim! tea Oregonians. Express warai; IFraferamc Rural School Budget Election Set Monday Residents of areas included in the Jackson county rural school district will go to the polls be tween 2 and 8 p.m. Monday to vote on a $1,786,719.92 budget for operation of schools in the district during the 1956-57 school year. The proposed budget calls for a total levy of $1,404,257.38. This is $1,061,325.50 in excess of the 6 'per cent limitation. Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent, explained that the total anticipated receipts Lenin 'Disowned' Stalin, Russian People Informed Moscow (U.R) The Soviet gov ernment revealed to the Soviet people for the first time today that V. I. Lenin on his death bed disowned Josef Stalin. The Soviet youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda ripped .away a 34-year-old veil of se crecy and disclosed to the people of this country the story other peoples had known, but which Stalin had stifled within the So viet Union. It was that the dying Lenin warned that Stalin was a "rude" power-seeker ruled by hastiness, impulsiveness and resentment. Charges Mada in Letters Lenin made his charges in two harsh last letters which have be come known in published form abroad as Lenin's "political testement." These last letters even pro posed that a way be found to remove Stalin from the position of Communist party secretary and to appoint a man more pa tient, more loyal, more polite, more attentive to comrades and less capricious. The Komsomolskaya Pravda article told Soviet readers today for the first time that Lenin had found Stalin guilty of "rude ness," lack of respect for his comrades, capriciousness and an inclination toward abuse of power." Stripping Secrecy Seal The youth newspaper's word ing so nearly accorded with ver sions of the Lenin "Testament" published in other countries that it was plain the present leader ship headed by Nikita Khru shchev and Nikolai Bulganin was now stripping the secrecy seal from the document. Lenin's hard words seemed calculated to fall with major im pact on the Soviet people, who thus far were ignorant of them. It seemed another step in the present government's campaign to build up Lenin's importance and lower that of Stalin. Portland (U.R) The trial of Joyce Keller has been adjourn ed until Monday in Circuit Court in Portland as attorneys contin ued their arguments over admiss ibility of evidence in the Meier & Frank bombing case. Boy Scouts To Site Saturday About 300 Boy Scouts and their leaders will gather Satur day near the mouth of Little Butte creek on Agate rd. for their annual spring Camp-o-Ree. Boys from the Big Pines district of the Crater Lake area council will start arriving at the camp site at 10 a.m. Saturday and camp is scheduled to break up by 3:30 p.m. Sunday. A full schedule of events, campsite judging, games, Sunday church service, a big bonfire and other activities are planned for the week-end. Awards will be prrsented to troops having the bast camps with judging to con- tinue throughout the two days. Boys will prepare their own food with the exception of a sack lunch on Saturday. from other sources than the levy are in the amount of $686,- 062.54. This leaves a total to tax for all districts of $1,100,657.38. To this total is added the rural operating and emergency fund in the amount of $53,150 plus the non-high tuition, transporta tion, operating and emergency funds in the amount of $250,450. This leaves a grand total of $1, 404,257.38 to be taxed within the rural school district. The superintendent explained that the tax base within the 6 per cent limitation is $342, 931.88. This amount represents 24.4 per cent of the total amount 'to be levied and is the full amount that the rural board can levy without a vote of the people. The excess of $1,061, 325.50 must be authorized by a vote of the people. The total proposed net levy represents an increase of $113, 071.94, or approximately 6.8 per cent, over the levy for the current year. Operational Millage Total operational millage on the current assessed valuation is 55.4. Ten districts have suffi cient balance in sinking funds from assistance granted by the county so that no debt service levy will be necessary for 1956 57. Mekvold said. Voting Monday will be resi dents of Jacksonville, Griffin Creek, Ruch, Eagle Point, Lone Pine, Talent, Rogue River, Ap plegate, Elk - Trail, Prospect, Evans Valley Oak Grove, Shady Cove, Butte Falls, Pinehurst, West Side and Howard. Polling places will be the school buildings in these affect ed areas. . . Fourth Rose Festival Princess Selected Portland (U.R). Ardys Elaine Urbigkeit, 17, was chosen today at Lincoln high school's Rose Festival princess. She is the fourth to be named. Yester day. Cleveland high school pick ed 17-year-old Roberta Breall. Late News Briefs TANK SHIPMENT BLOCKED Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States earlier this week block ed an unauthorized shipment of 21 surplus Army vehicles bought by Israel, the State Department said today. FRANCO MOVES . Madrid, Spain (U.R) General issimo Francisco Franco moved to overhaul the "fundamental laws" to strengthen the Spanish state against internal troubles indicated by recent student and industrial unrest. SLOT MACHINES SEIZED Portland (U.R) Multnomah county police last night seized some 30 slot machines and some wire and tape recordings after they battered down the door of a home on Southeast Main st. in Portland. Gather at Agate Road for Annual Lawson Scott will be in charge of troop registration, starting at 10 a.m. Saturday. During the re mainder of the day troops will set up their camps, with a camp fire, in charge of Jack Holmes, set for 8 p.m. Boys from Explor er Squadron 14, post 8, will set up a model camp and will assist throughout the Camp-o-Ree. Each troop will present a skit during the campfire ceremony. Sunday's activities will open with church services at 9 a.m., conducted by the Rev. John Reynolds, assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Camp-o-Ree events, to be con ducted by Jim Grigsby, will fol low, starting at 9:45 a.m. Fol lowing lunch at noon, the boys will ctart dismantling their Vigorous Campaign For Write-in Votes Comes To Climax Republicans Ponder Opposition for Morse Portland U.R) Oregon Democrats today expressed their preference between Adlai Ste venson and Sen. Estes Kefauver for president while Republicans decided upon a senatorial candi date to oppose Sen. Wayne Morse this fall. Although no presidential can didate was listed on the Demo cratic ballot, both Stevenson and Kefauver campaigned vig orously for write-in votes. They seek support of the 16 delegates to the Democratic national con vention. Vote Total Predicted Dave O'Hara, chief of the state elections division, predict ed about half of the state's 780,' 595 eligible voters would turn out in the primary. He forecast a turnout of 55 per cent of the Republicans and 50 per cent of the Democrats. Warm, sunny weather greeted early voters. A check of three Portland precincts at 10:30 a.m. showed 70 out of 363 voting at one, 53 out of 243 at another and 62 out of 224 at a third. Polls opened at 8 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. President Eisenhower is un opposed on the Republican tick et and is assured the 18 GOP convention delegates. Support Pledged Oregon delegates to the na tional nominating conventions are pledged to support the can didate getting the highest num ber of votes in the primary. Intense interest also has been generated in the battle between former Interior Secretary Doug las McKay and Philip Hitchcock for the GOP senatorial nomin ation. 'McKay resigned his cab inet post to enter the campaign to oppose Morse in November. When he left Washington he had the blessing of President Eisen hower. Hitchcock, a former state sen ator and prominent church lay man, and McKay both campaign ed on the theme that Morse had to be defeated. The only differ ence in their appeals to the voters was which had the better chance. Altwater, Deeli on Ballot George Altwater, Portland en gineer, and Elmer Deetz, dairy man, also were on the GOP sen atorial ballot. Morse, the Republican turned Democrat, is running for the first time on the Democratic slate. He is opposed by Woody Smith, -a garage operator mak ing his first bid for public of fice. Charles Porter and David Shaw bid for the Democratic nomination in Harris Ellsworth's congressional district. Gov. Elmo Smith was opposed by Earl Dickson, a grocer and political unknown, on the GOP ballot. Robert Holmes, radio sta tion executive, was unopposed for the Democratic gubernator ial nomination. Steel Talks To Open In Pittsburgh May 28 PittsburghU.R) The United Steelworkers Union and the na tion's top three basic steel pro ducers open steel talks in Pitts burgh May 28. Union President David J. Mc Donald said U.S. Steel Corp., the nation's largest producer, second ranking Bethlehem Steel and'. Republic Steel Corp., the country's No. 3 steel firm will be the first to hear the USW's contract demands. Camp - o - Ree camps at 1 p.m. with assembly, parade of units and awards set for 3 p.m. Troops will be dis missed at 3:30 p.m. R. D. Church and Harry Barneburg will be in charge of cooking at the camp headquar ters while Sherrill Doty will be in charge of camp judging. N. H. Gladfelter will instruct the Green Bars. John Henson will be in charge of tagging trees and shrubs in the camp area for identification purposes and Barneburg and John Patton will post limitation signs, beyond which no troop will be allowed to camp. Harry Chipman is gen eral Camp-o-Ree chairman. Water for the entire camp will be furnished by a tank truck from the Medford water department. ... Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year 24 Pages Mbcomiratiee Approves Tolemitfc Full Committee to Consider Request Of $2,400,000 Soon Group Also Approves Rehabilitation Work By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington, D.C. Approval of $2,400,000 to start construc tion on the Talent division has been given by the public works subcommittee of the House ap propriations committee, it was learned today. The group also gave approval to an appropriation of $585,000 to continue rehabilitation work on the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation districts' canal and distribution systems. Both items were in the budget submitted to congress this year by President Eisenhower. Closed Session Formal approval of these items was given in a closed ses sion of the subcommittee this week. The full appropriations committee is scheduled to act on the public works bill, in which they are included, next week. After that ' the" bill "will go to the floor of the House for action, and when approved there, on to the Senate. Generally, the Pacific North west fared well in the public works bill, which contains money for the bureau of recla mation, corps of engineers and Bonneville power administra tion. The subcommittee report edly approved all budget re quests made by these agencies and made increases in several projects. The Talent division, the only part of the Rogue River Irriga tion and reclamation project other than the rehabilitation work which has been authorized by congress, will cost, according to 1954 estimates,- $19,894,000 when completed four or five years from now. Projects Included It includes a dam at Howard Prairie, canals, a tunnel and power house at Green Springs summit, an increase in the size of Emigrant reservoir, and dis tribution facilities on the valley floor. It will increase by several thousand acres the total of irri gated land in the Rogue valley. The rehabilitation jobs now under way in the two irrigation districts will have cost an esti mated $1,712,000 when complet ed. The cost will be repaid by the districts through contracts with the bureau of reclamation. Cost of the Talent project also will be repaid, and an election in the Talent Irrigation district for approval of the repayment contract will be held within the next few months. All-Out Fight on Foreign Aid Seen Washington U.R) Admin istration leaders today promised an all out fight to beat down a congressional move to deny for eign aid to any U.S. Allies ship ping strategic goods to Iron Cur tain countries. Informed sources said Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles, Foreign Aid Chief John B. Hol- lister, and top Pentagon officials all feel such an action would hamper U.S.-Allied relations and possibly endanger the free world's defense system. These officials plan to put the heat on Republicans to defeat the proposal in the Senate, if not in the House. Insiders said President Eisenhower might even step in if the going gets rough. The House Foreign Affairs committee Thursday voted for the aid restriction during its point by point consideration of Mr. Eisenhower's proposed $4, 900,000,000 foreign aid program. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRJDAY, MAY 18, 1956 Division Fun ends 3rd Route Studied; Hearing Postponed A hearing scheduled for next Thursday on two proposed free way routes in this area has been postponed until detailed infor mation about a possible third route can be compiled. R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, late yesterday in formed State Rep. E. A. Littrell that the highway department will prepare information about a possible freeway route on the west side of the valley. It will do so, he said, because of strong opposition voiced in. Medford to both the other proposed routest and because of queries about the west side proposal. May Be Six Weeks The hearing had been sched uled for Thursday, May 24, at 10 a.m. in the courthouse audi torium. It will be rescheduled when information on the west side route is compiled, probably in about six weeks. The two routes which the high way commission has had under Heat Lightning Seen In Parts of Oregon By UNITED PRESS Heat lightning cracked across the skies over many parts of Oregon last night on the heels of more torrid temperatures. Downtown Portland recorded 94 degrees yesterday afternoon, highest for any May 17 on rec ord. In 1939, however, the mer cury rose to 96 on May 13. The Portland airport had an official reading of 89. The weather bureau said more thunderstorms were likely to day with the heat expected to cool off only slightly. But a cooling sea breeze was expected to move in to the Willamette valley this evening. The Dalles had 97 and Rose burg 95 yesterday. The hot weather caused a rapid melting of snow east of the mountains and substantial rises were forecast for tributary streams. Committee Indicates Ho Salary Change The Jackson county budget committee indicated at its all day meeting Thursday that sal aries for courthouse personnel and elected officials will remain unchanged with few exceptions. The committee's decisions on the salary issue appeared to be final until shortly before the end of the meeting, when they agreed to declare the action ten tative. They declined to release figures for the tentative salary changes. Members stated they would withhold further action on sal aries until other phases of the hi id opt. were comDlete. If - any money is left over and a levy is unnecessary they indicated xney would reconsider salary figures. Thp committee hones to con clude the budget dicussions at a 2 p.m. meeting Wednesday, May 23. Among other major items they hope to finish then is the budget for the county road de partment. Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Saturday with risk of scattered thunderstorms over mountains Saurday after noon. Cooler Saturday. Low tonicht SO. High Saturday 80-82. Temp. Hichest Yesterday Lowest this Morning SO Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Stincpt 4.47 a.m. 7:Z9 p.m. Moonset Saturday 1:50 a.m. Full Moon next Thursday PROMINENT STAR Antares, low in south east - 9:23 pm. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, in the west at sunset. Jupiter, high in south west 7:41 PJ. Saturn, rises 7 30 p.m. Mars, in southeast 3:03 a.m. consideration are the Hillcrest line, east of the city limits, and the Genessee line in east Med ford. The commission earlier had reported it had abandoned consideration of any west side location for cost reasons, after studies conducted several years ago. But Baldock told Littrell the department has only preliminary and overall cost and alignment data on the west sided route, and because of the interest shown in Jackson county, will work them up in detail. Subject to Criticism . The commission has been sub jected to considerable criticism in Jackson county in recent weeks for not having provided detailed information on the Hill- crest and Genessee route, well as the west side route. Some of the criticism was voiced at a Medford planning commission hearing last Monday, and the commission itself, in a split-vote decision favoring the Genessee st. route, pointed out its decision was made on the basis of incom plete information. Baldock told Littrell, who is a member of the legislative in terim committee on highways, that the final selection of a route will be made by the commission on the basis of cost, the dislo cation of properties, the con servation of agricultural land, and other similar factors.. Littrell was unsure whether or not the action was an indica tion that the commission would reconsider the feasibility of a west side route, or whether the compilation of detailed informa tion on the , location would be made to support the earlier de cision eliminating such a route from consideration. Senate Votes Down Cotton Proposal - Washington (U.R) The Sen ate dealt the administration a setback today by voting down a proposal to eliminate a cot ton export provision from a new farm bill. The vote was 71 to 13. The provision would require that government-held surplus cotton be sold for export at world market prices. Both the Agriculture and State depart ments opposed it. The Senate modified the pro vision slightly to permit accept ance of prices higher than 25.5 cents a pound if any such bids are received for surplus cotton offered for export. James Lattie Gets Ingalls Award at OSC Corvalli U.R) Tamison Hampton Moore of Corvallis, managing editor of the student news paper Barometer, was named the outstanding male journalist graduate of Oregon State college and received the national Sigma Delta Chi award. James . Lattie of Medford received the Claudie' E. Ingalls memorial award, made annually to the senior student who has contributed the most to the wel fare of OSC student publicans. Lattie is editor of the Barometer. The Ingalls award was named for the late editor of the Corval lis Gazette-Times. Truman Gets Rousing Welcome in Rome . Rome U.R Former Presi dent Harry S. Truman was given a rousing welcome in Rome to day. A crowd of some 400 gathered at the railroad station to wel come Mr. and Mrs. Truman on their arrival from Paris. Shouts of "We Want Harry" and "Viva Truman" greeted the former President as he started to step from the train. Tribune United Pre Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 50 REVIEW PARADE Major Gen eral R. V. Rickard, above, chair man of local activities for Armed Forces day, . and Major General J. H. Hicks, Jackson county civil defense director, will review the Armed FoDes Day .parade here tomorrow. The parade; starts at 11 a.m. at the Library park and will proceed east on Main st. to Hawthorne park where brief ceremonies will be held. Also at Hawthorne park will be displays by various military and reserve units here. Cash Missing From Roseburg Hotel Safe Roseburg U.R) State police disclosed here today that approx imately $5000 in cash, belonging to guests and employees of the Grand Hotel, had been stolen from the hotel safe. A John Doe warrant was is sued for the arrest of a suspect, a man who had been employed at the hotel for about three weeks, police said.- The loss was not insured but Paul Ryan, one of the owners of the hotel, said "we will stand behind the loss" as . a moral obligation. Police said the thief left the hotel's current operating funds untouched in the safe so that the crime was not noticed for sev eral days. They said it apparent ly occurred shortly after noon on May 10. .if ii Knights of Columbus Open 48th Annual Convention The 48th annual convention of the Oregon Knights of Co lumbus opened in Carpenter's hall here this afternoon with be tween 350 and 400 delegates and visitors from throughout the state.. Registration was held this morning at Medford hotel, head quarters for the convention. On this afternoon's program were James Halford, district deputy from Roseburg; the Rev. Ed mund J. Murnane, state chap lain from Eugene; Jack Batzer, grand knight, Medford; Mayor Earl Miller, Medford; and Ed ward J. Bell, state secretary from Stayton. Supreme Knight Luki E. Hart Ideal Weather May Encourage Better Voting Late Today Republicans Turn Out In Greater Numbers . Ideal weather and a variable turnout of voters marked the early hours of the Oregon pri mary election here today. A high temperature of 80 de grees was predicted for Medford today and is expected to encour age a good voter turnout this afternoon and evening. Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county clerk, yesterday predicted an overall turnout of 68 per cent of the total registered voters in the county. Other nredictions rane. ed upward from 45 per cent. Precincts Checked Of four Medford precincts checked about noon today, vot ers turned out in thp prpafpst number at Precinct 56, in east Medford, where 123 Dersons out of a total of, 514 registered had votea Dy noon. At Precinct 40 at the court house, 66 out of a total of 304 registered voters had voted by mid-morning and at Precinct 32, Pythian building. 43 had voter! out of a total of 284 registered. A check at Precinct 34, at the city hall, indicated 33 out of a total of 149 registered had voted. Republicans were turning out In greater number than Demo crats in earlv ballot ins. Election Results The Mail Tribune and radio station KYJC will rnlla'hnrati. this evening to bring election results to valley residents. Returns will be broadcast as soon as they become available after the polls close at 8 p.m. Statewide returns will be brought in bv a special election. night wire of the United Press. The broadcasts will be made from the Mail Tribune office, where a crew will work through the evening collecting and tabu lating results for immediate broadcast. Russian Baptists Arrive in Sisiies New York (U.R) Five lead ers of the Russian Baptist church arrived here today for a month's transcontinental visit with Amer ican Baptists. The group will attend meet ings of the Baptist World Alli ance in Washington, the South ern Baptist Convention at Kansas City and the American Baptist Convention in Seattle. The church group arrived just two weeks before another dele gation of Russian clergymen. The second group will return the recent visit to Russia of a deputation of the interdenomina tional National ouncil of Church es. The second group, whose itinerary was announced today, also includes representatives of the Russian Baptist church, along with clergy of the Russian Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Lutheran churches in Russia. Farmer Squeeze Seen By Expanded Wage Law Washington (U.R) Fruit growers and feed dealers warn ed Congress today that expand ing coverage of the federal min imum wage law could tighten the squeeze on hard pressed farmers. They testified before a Senate Labor Subcommittee which is studying a number of bills that would broaden the coverage of the law. Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower went to the Burning Tree Club today for an afternoon of golf. from New Haven, Conn., spoke at an afternoon business session, and is scheduled to speak at a crab buffet in the St. Mary's school gymnasium at 8 p.m. to day. The crab dinner will fol low a social hour in the Jack son hotel Pioneer room betweerv 6 and 7:30 p.m.. The convention will continue through Saturday and end Sun day, when officers and delegates will be elected. The convention banquet will be held in St. Mary's gymnasium starting at 8 p.m. Saturday. Dan Hay, state public relations, Port land, will be principal speaker. Also on the program are Mi chael R. Hine, state deputy from Tigard, and tot Rev. Murnan.