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. To wind up the late-afternoon
excitement, an alarm came in
from the Hale Wheeler home at
307 Genessee st., two blocks
from the earlier lightning strike,
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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
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Hospital Attendant
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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." .
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