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Public vs Private Power Fight Brews Anew in Washington Washington (U.R) A new public - versus - private power fight brewed in Congress Mon day as the result of a blistering attack on Eisenhower adminis tration power policies by a Denv ocratic controlled House sub committee. A still-secret report prepared by th staff of a House Govern ment Operations subcommittee demands that President Eisen hower fire Interior Undersecre tary Clarence A. Davis and As sistant Secretary - Fred G. Aan- dahl, the United Press learned The report charges that they fa vor private utilities in the sale of federal power rather than giving priority to cooperatives and public power groups as re quired by law. Administration Charged The report also charges that the administration has been "co ercing" electric cooperatives into accepting unfavorable mer gers with private utilities. If the plan is carried out fully, it said the result will be "one gigantic private monopoly The report is based on stormy hearings held by the subcommit tee across the country last year, Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R. Mich.) accused the subcommit tee of unfair tactics aimed at nromotine Dolitical issues for the Democrats in the election S, ampaign this year. The Democratic "majority on the subcommittee, headed by Rep. Earl Chudoff (D.-Pa.) ap proved the report, with few changes, last week. The Repub lican members plan a strong re port of their own in protest. The subcommittee is sched- Graham Elected DAV Commander Pat Graham, Medford, was elected district commander of the Disabled American Veterans at a district meeting in Grants Pass yesterday. About 90 delegates and mem bers of the auxiliary attended from Klamath Falls, Medford, Grants Pass, Roseburg, Oakland and Coquille chapters. Other new officers include A. V. Wallis, Grants Pass, vice commander; Miss Irene Poteet, Klamath Falls, district auxiliary commander; Mrs. Beulah Mc Cuen, Grants Pass, vice-commander, and Ruth Elliott, Med ford, adjutant. The officers will be installed June 16 during the annual state DAV convention in Salem. Business sessions of the dis trict meeting were followed by a banquet at the VFW hall in Grants Pass. Ohio Woman Flier Dies in Cuba Crash Havana, Cuba (U.R) An Ohio woman flier who piloted her plane to 14th place in a Can ada to Cuba air race was killed Sunday night when her plane overshot a runway and plunged over a cliff while making a short pleasure trip. The victim was Marjorie Mil ler of Reynoldsburg, O. Her companion and co-pilot, Bonnie Butler of Zanesville, O., was injured critically. They had finished 14th in the seventh annual 1,500-mile Inter national Women's Air Race from Hamilton, Ont., to Varadero Beach, Cuba, Saturday. They took off for a pleasure tripe to Havana Sunday but overshot the Santa Fe airport Havana by 20 miles. They at tempted to land at the Ariel Na val Air Base, but the plane roll ed past the end of the runway and toppled over a cliff. INTRIGUE Thomas L, Black, .an American chemist who recently is said to have confessed to the Senate In ternal Security Subcommit tee in secret session that he stole U. S. industrial secrets for a Russian spy ring from 1933 to 1940, is shown as he appeared recently in public session of the subcommittee. uled to make the report public on June 6 after approval by a majority of the full Government Operations committee. Power Laws Cited The report accused Davis Aandahl, and former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, of a "brazen attempt" to get around power laws passed by Congress in an effort to favor private power companies. "The secretarial triumvirate of the Department of Interior apparently follows the edicts of private power companies as those of a sort of a supreme leg islature with authority to re verse any action of Congress which does not maintain their monopoly in the field of private power," it said. The report called for a full- scale House-Senate investigation of the "organized effort of the private power companies to in fluence the federal administra tion, the Congress, the govern ments of the states and the poli tical life of the nation." Several Injured In Car Accidents Oyer Weekend Two people were hospitalized and six others received minor injuries over the weekend m two separate auto accidents state police reported. Cars involved in a collision Saturday were operated by Larry Roy Walker, 18, of 10 Portland st., Medford, and Gor don B. Bowman, 60, of 2402 Table Rock rd., state officers said. Cards Collide Reports stated both cars were traveling south on Table Rock rd., when Bowman started to turn onto Kirtland rd. and Walk er's vehicle struck his from be hind. Both cars skidded about 137 feet, state police said. Dam age to the vehicles was reported extensive. The accident occurred at about 4:58 p.m. Taken to Sacred Heart hospi tal by-Medford Ambulance were Walker, his five passengers, Gor don Mueller, 20, of 227 Cottage st., Medford, Lee Perkins, 18, and Neil McCaffree, 18, both stationed in California with the Navy; Claud Newman, 15, of 1716 East Main st., Medford, and Rex Malson, 21, of 708 West 6th st, Medford, and Bowman's only passenger, Mrs. Anna B. Bowman, 61, of 2402. Table Rock. rd. Mrs. Bowman, who suffered leg injuries, was reported ' in good condition at the hospital today. The others were released after treatment Saturday. Bow man was not injured, state po lice reported. In Hocpiial In Community hospital with undetermined injuries today is Melvin Klaus, 25, Prospect, who was injured when the pick-up in which he was riding left the road and went over a bank on the east side of Highway 66, eight miles south of Prospect at about 6 p.m. Sunday. Driver of the pick-up, William Porter Wheeler, 48, Prospect, reportedly told state police he was driving north on the high way when he apparently went to sleep. Wheeler was unin jured. Klaus was taken to the hospital by Leo Hoag, a resi dent near the scene of the acci dent. The pick-up was owned by Burr ill Lumber company. Dallas Man Held In Shooting of Wife Dallas, Ore. (U.R) Police today held Bayliss Gilbert Fan ning, 57, in connection with the fatal shooting late Sunday of his wife, Mrs. Margaret Alice Fanning. Deputy Sheriff R. G. LeFors of Polk county said Mrs. Fan ning was shot four times with a .38-caliber revolver. Fanning's son, Milton, who lives next door to his father's ranch, told sheriffs deputies his wife heard the shots and call ed him. He said he found Mrs. Fanning's body on the back porch. The Fannings were married about four years ago. Both have children by previous marriages. MANY SEE PARADE Portland (U.R) Some 30, 000 Portlanders lined the down town streets Saturday - as the armed forces publically flexed their military muscles in an ob servance of Armed Forces day. OK 1 MARKET 1202 North Riverside OPEN EVERY NIGHT TIL MIDNIGHT ' V. & " THERE'S THAT CLOUD AGAIN Scientists aboard HMS Narvik (foreground) of the British Royal Navy's atomic task force observe a familiar cloud loom on the horizon in the wake of Britain's first atomic explosion of 1956 series. Said to be a trigger for later hydrogen bomb tests, this A-bomb 'vas fired from a tower on Montebello Island off Australia's west coast. Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) Johnny Carson comes out of mothballs to start a new daytime TV show . May 28 but PT-teW he's one comic rVS?"-. ffla mhn's not hit ter that his night time pro- y g r a m didn t i last. Carson was launched on television last fall as CBS' AUneMosby answer to George Gobel -already a strike against him. He won favorable audience re action to his offbeat, pixie hu mor. But after 39 weeks, the spon sor, who like all sponsors, sits up nights reading the ratings, cancelled. Now CBS is trying Johnny on a five-day-a-week half-hour com edy music program. To many a comedian this might seem like being banished to Siberia. But the affable Car son is just as happy to tempo rarily leave the frantic, ulcer- growing life of a night TV show. I m disappointed but not bit ter about my Thursday show ending," Carson confessed. "And I'm happy to be working days Doing one show a night is much more of a mental strain than do ing five a week in the daytime. "A daytime show is more per sonal. I won't be on the pan as a 'Bright, young' comic, at which if I don't bowl them over with hysterics they say I'm not fun ny." Carson also accuses night time viewers with being fickle. Day time viewers, he figures, are much more "loyal." "If a night time performer seems to be slipping, viewers drop him like a cold potato," he said. "Look at how loyal God frey viewers are. He started on day time and he could shoot somebody on his show and the viewers would agree the victim deserved it." On Carson's final Thursday night stint he auctioned off the sets and finally had . himself sealed in a plastic bag and show ered with mothballs. This bit and many of his other amus ing shows brought stacks of fan letters protesting the cancell ation. Johnny has numerous rea sons for the unspectacular rat ing. Many good new shows, he reasons, are hindered if they buck a top show on another net work, or if they aren't surround ed by top shows. 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Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) candidate for the Democratic presidential n o m i n a t ion, de manded that Mr. Eisenhower settle the "bickering" before it becomes a "national scandal." Wilson Accused And Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) accused Mr. Eisen hower's defense chief, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, of failing to provite strong leader ship in supervising the three military services. The squabble involved Army claims that the Air Force is try ing to hog the lion's share of de fense funds. But two other ' congressmen considered the fued a healthy development. Chairman George P. Mahon (D-Tex.) of the House Military Appropriations Sub committee, said that since the "interservice warfare" has broken into the open "all may have a part"' in deciding the out come. . Mahon said a "great debate" on the Army-Air Forces rivalry would be a "healthy thing." He stopped short of calling for a congressional investigation at this time, however. Sen. Francis E. Case (R-S.D.) commented that the "little flareup" of interservice rivalry was a "very healthful thing," providing 'competition and keep ing the armed services "from getting sloppy." Mobilgas R does it! This entirely new grade of gasoline that sells at the price of regular gives 7 out of 10 pre-1955 Fords smooth, knock-free power long mileage. Why? Formula MC4 added to higher octane Mobilgas R helps keep your engine clean and peppy. n on ULl(o)lo)DLI(ol(oS Cm poiutio Monday. May 21, 1958 Strategy The feud erupted into a pub lic controversy over the week end after there vas a "leak" of supposedly secret papers in which Army planners accused the Air ' Force of demanding "more money, more money, more money." Air Force leaders countered that the Army was . attacking the "established national policy" of relying mainly on air-atomic power to deter aggression. " The exchange prompted Wil son to rebuke both sides Satur day for arguing their cases "in the public and in the press on a propaganda basis." He said "this is not the right way to solve our problems." Air Force Issues Condemnation of Kike Air Missile New York (U.R) The Air Force has issued a blanket con demnation of the Nike anti-aircraft missile with which the Army has ringed 18 cities re garded as prime targets in the event of an enemy air attack, the New York Times reported today. The Times said in a Washing ton dispatch the Air Force had five major objections to the pride of the Army's anti-aircraft defenses: 1. "Comparatively few tests of the Nike have been held and these were not thorough. Even so, the weapon did not do well." Once Rejected 2. "The Air Force rejected this weapon in 1945 when the "OP Jumpy? Rough? Erratic? Peppy! Alert ! Smooth ! An entirely new grade sold at Air Force was still part of the Army and it sees no reason to change its judgment" 3. 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