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Farm Bill Blasted By House Democrat Washington (U.R) The new farm bill passed Friday night by the Senate came under imme diate attack Saturday by a House Democratic farm leader. Weary senators shouted pas age of the bill after two days ol debate and returned it to the House. The action was both a victory and a defeat for Presi dent iisenhower. The bill a modified version of one passed by the House contained the President's $1.2 billion soil bank. But it did not contain his plan to make ad vance payments this year to farmers who promise to take part in the soil bank program next year. Blasts Provision The Texas Congressman, No. 2 Democrat on the House Agricul ture Committee, centered his fire on a provision that would leave it up to Secretary of Agri culture Ezra T. Benson when the soil bank goes into effect. "If it is left discretionary, po litically doubtful states will get soil bank payments this year and others won't," Poage told a reporter. Other maior features of the Senate bill included a compro mise boost in feed grain prices, Roach Resigns as Convention Chairman Chicago (U.R) Willian Neal Roach Friday night admitted he has resigned as convention man ager for the Democratic National Committee. He said he quit the position two weeks ago after organizing Democratic conventions in 1948 and 1952. At the time of his resignation, Roach had prepara tions well underway for the August convention in Chicago. Roach, 43, of Bethesda, Md., refused to explain the reason for his resignation. He also de clined to say why he was in Chicago, but said he would re turn to Bethesda today. In Washington, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee said Roach resigned for "strictly personal reason." He said everyone on the commit tee was happy with Roach's work. It would be up to Roach, he said, to say what the "person al reasons" were. a discretionary two-price plan for rice, and an increase in the corn acreage allotment from 43 million to 51 million acres. Cotton acreage would be in creased by 100,000 acres to 17.5 million acres for the next two years with the increase going to small farmers. In any changes in state allotments, a state's allot ment could not be cut more than one per cent a year. Additional Half Billion Another S500 million a year would be authorized to support prices of perishable farm com modities and additional funds also would be authorized for distribution of surplus foodstuffs to needy persons abroad. Parity prices for corn, wheat and peanuts would be frozen at present levels for another year. As passed by the Senate, the bill had only one major feature to which the administration ob jected strongly. It would require export sales of surplus cotton at world market prices. The administration had soft ened its objections to some other provisions and accepted com promises. . Reservoir Dam Gives Way;. Damages Farms Baker 0J.R Officials Satur day were investigating means of repairing Goodrich reservoir dam, the source of Baker's water supply. The dam gave way Fri day afternoon, spilling tons of water down the mountainside, seriously damaging farm lands and 2 washing out three county roads. - City officials said the break let loose about two-thirds of the water in the reservoir and if the break isn't repaired soon, the city might face a water shortage later this summer. There was no immediate ex planation for the break. But city officials said there could have been a small leak in the dam which widened under pressure of the water back of the dam. Also, officials said, a heavy snow melt in recent days could have added water to the reser voir to force the dam to give way. City officials said there was no estimate of amount of dam age done by the cascading water. Work crews were scheduled to Parade, Displays Mark Armed Forces Day Observance A 'half -hour parade in the downtown area, an exhibit of military equipment and a de fense exercise at Hawthorne park highlighted the Armed Forces Day celebration in Med ford Saturday. . A fair sized crowd of residents witnessed the 11 a.m. parade, which featured military march ing and mobilized units, bands, fire engines, Cub Scout packs, the Ground Observer corps, Vet erans of Foreign Wars, Civil Air patrol, the Jackson county Disas ter Car and promoters of the Phoenix May festival. Bands participating in the pa rade were from Medford Senior High school and McLoughlin and Hedrick Junior . High schools. Fire departments represented were from Central Point, Elk Lumber company and Medford. Equipment Display After the parade, the crowd moved to Hawthorne park to see the equipment display and de fense exercise. The exercise showed resistance against a sim ulated attack on the Rogue val ley with defense positions along the east side of Bear Creek in the park area. Sponsoring displays were Headquarters company and com pany A, 186th infantry division, Oregon National Guard, of Med ford and the 732nd anti-aircraft artillery guard and battalion, Ashland, and other reserve and military units. Attracting considerable atten tion at the park was an Army helicopter, which also flew over downtown Medford during the parade. ' State Prison Warden Dies of Heart Attack Soledad, Calif., U.R) Bert O. Webb, warden at the Soledad state prison since 1946 and a veteran federal prison officer, died of a heart attack Friday night. He was 55. Webb came to Soledad in July of 1946 after serving as warden at the Washington State prison at Walla Walla,, Wash. Prior to that, he was with the Federal Prison Service for 12 years. He is survived by his widow and a son. make surveys of the damage in the dam and begin repairs as soon as possible. Temperatures Drop 24 Degrees in Hour In Thunderstorm A violent thunderstorm struck the Rogue valley about 5:30 p.m. Friday. In the course of an hour the temperature dropped 24 degrees from a high of 80 at 5:30 to a low of 60 at 6:30. Winds reached a gust velocity of 53 miles per hour at the weather bureau. About IV2 inches of rain fell! most of it in a period of about 40 minutes, when .9 of an inch was recorded at the weather bureau. Orchards Lashed ' Wind-whipped rain lashed the valley's pear orchards, but C. B. Cordy, c o u n ty horticulural agent, said he had received no reports of any serious damage to the fruit. He said the tiny pears now about a half-inch in diameter may have had some leaf scarring, which could russet them as mature fruit, causing a down-grading. But he said he does not expect any serious dam age. There were no reports of hail anywhere in the valley, which would have offered a much more serious threat to the fruit. There were four fire alarms in a period of less than 40 min utes, which kept 'city firemen hopping, but caused little serious damage. The first alarm was at 6:02, when lightning struck the Max Kulbe home at 120 Genessee st. The bolt, firemen said, came down the flue and flipped the lid off the stove, but did no other damage. Short Reported At 6:15, radio station KYJC reported a short in a fluorescent lighting fixture, caused when lightning struck nearby. Dam age was confined to the fixture. At 6:20, two pumper trucks answered a mill-fire alarm at Timber Products company, after wind had' whipped a spark from the mill burner into the upper portion of a nearby building. Damage was confined to one end of the building, where a foot round hole was burned. The fire was out by the time firemen ar rived. 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See or Call Your Electrical Contractor Who will be happy to recommend the proper heater for your home where a porch- lighting fixture had shorted out possibly be cause of fluctuations of power in the lines. Power was off in portions of east Medford during part of the storm, which came in from the south and southeast,' across the Siskiyou mountains, in two waves a similar one followed by a larger squall. Attorneys Claim Error Kept Stroud In Confinement San Francisco (U.R) Attor neys for Robert F. Stroud, famed "bird man of Alcatraz," charged Friday that an error by a former U. S. attorney-general kept their client in solitary confinement il legally for the past 40 years. The attorneys, Kneeland H. Lobner and Richard N. Little, both of Sacramento, asked the U. S. District Court here to or der prison officials to place the 66-year-old convict in ordinary custody and to forbid them from ever placing him in lone confine ment again. Strouds has been in prison since 1909 when he was sentenc ed to 12 years for the slaying of a bartender in Juneau, Alaska. He was 19 years old at the time. The sentence was changed in 1918 to death by hanging for the killing of a guard in the prison mess hall. 1918 Court Order The convict's attorneys said in Friday's petitition that a 1918 court order placing Stroud in ' solitary confinement until his execution touched off his 40-year incarceration. ' After President Wilson com muted his sentence to life im prisonment in 1920, the attor neys said, the U. S. attorney gen eral, A. Mitchell Palmer, "chose to construe" the commutation to mean that Stroud had to contin ue serving his- sentence in soli tary confinement. In all, the attorneys said, Stroud has been "in isolation" j since 1916 the year he killed j the Leavenworth guard. . . He remained at Leavenworth until 1942 when he was transfer red to Alcatraz where he was again placed in solitary. Stroud, a self-taught expert, won recognition as an authority on birds while he was held at Leavenworth where he began taming sparrows and later was allowed to breed tanaries. Al though unschooled beyond the third frade, he wrote two books on bird diseases. Sunday, May 20, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Eisenhower to Have Two More Physicals . Washington OJ.R) The White House said Saturday that Presi dent Eisenhower will have one or two more medical examina tions before the end of this year. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty made the statement when asked specifical ly if Mr. Eisenhower would undergo another examination either before the Republican Convention or before the start of the presidential campaign or both. He said it is a "fair assump tion" that the examination will deal more specifically with the president's heart than the "head to toe" general physical exam- ination last week. This showed the President is in "excellent" shape generally. New Central Point Grade School Named Central Point Central Point's new primary school, scheduled to be open for classes in Septem ber, will bear the name of H. P. Jewett, superintendent of schools in district 6. . ' The district board of directors made the decision last week on recommendation of the Central Point Parent-Teacher associa tion. Mrs. Stanley Parrish and Mrs. Chester Ashton, ingoing and retiring presidents, repre sented the P-TA at the board meeting. The recommendation was made in a letter read to the directors. The board cast a unanimous vote favoring the proposed name. Jewett has a long record of service as a supervisor and educator. Khrushchev Refers To 2nd World Power i Moscow 'flJ.R) Communist Party Secretary N i k i t a S. Khrushchev Saturday referred to Soviet Russia as "the second greatest world power." j He did not name the first. I Khrushchev's remark was made in a conversation with the ! Egyptian ambassador at a recep- tion following the Franco-Soviet i talks. i "We are those who fight for liberation," Khushchev said' "People say that some people of some countries cannot govern themselves. We laugh at them. Why Russia has been able to, and has become the second greatest world power. Why can-1 not the Arabs?" I Pre-Hung EDoors Mahogany . Doors With Hardware Jambs Casing Only S20.00 . . . Inside Doors 20 to 30 1 38" (as shown) Outside Doors Prices on Request MEADOWS CABINET SHOP 2280 Orchard Home Drive Phone 3-1175 n Hospital Attendant Admits Abortion New York '(U.R) A Brooklyn hospital attendant pleaded guilty to manslaughter Friday in the Christmas Eve abortion death of pretty Jacqueline Smith because he could no longer bear the gris ly testimony or look at the girl's grieving father. Leo Pijuan, 46, the attendant, changed his plea 12 days after the beginning of the trial, admit ting his part in the fatal opera tion and hacking up and dispos ing of pieces of the body in trash cans. The admission left Miss Smith's lover, Thomas G. Daniel, 25, the sole defendant. The state charges that the abortion took place in Daniel's East Side apart ment. The guilty plea was made by Pijuan's attorney, Oscar G. Suarez. ' "The- defendant is a victim of circumstances not of his own making, and feels so repentant that he could no longer stand more hours of reliving this memory," Suarez told the court. "He also could not stand the presence in the courtroom of an aggrieved father." Suarez said the natur of the case was such that' "I could not induce myself to believe we had a chance with the jury." Chester D. Smith, of Lebanon, Pa., father of the 20-year-old textile designer, was absent Fri day when Pjuan admitted his guilt. Smith was also absent Thursday but had atended the 10 previous sessions. Annual Teachers, Parents Confab Opens San Francisco '.U.R) The 60th annual convention of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers opens here Sunday with more than 3000 delegates attending the four-day event. The theme of the convention is "The family and the community: Each shapes the other. The PTA serves both for healthy children in healthy communities." The national president, Mrs. Rollin Brown of Los Angeles, will open the convention with an address on "Variations on a theme." . ATT (KITTIES fiwc 5lm0Uw::r' in LIU LOOK tijt: Z ill "V fT"" " - Softone Walnut chet ':MM -;" - 'Z it -Ir-vT fe.srvis'X.J.-- self-lifting tray in- ! V ' " - If . - f f 'Si- !p side. Parquetry front In . , ! UJZ ZZry f panel.' Also available ,--7- " " " Sjp'r-. j j " in liger 6niihes. 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