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.
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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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Eisenhower Blamed
For Army-Air Force
Fued Over
Washington U.R) Demo
crats today blamed President
Eisenhower for letting an Army
Air Force fued over defense
strategy become a public con
troversy. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D
Wyo.) charged that if Mr. Eisen
hower "had been working on
the job daily," the feud never
would have developed.
Sen. 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."
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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."
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2. "The Air Force rejected
this weapon in 1945 when the
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Army and it sees no reason to
change its judgment"
3. "There is a question wheth
er the Nike can intercept cur
rent high speed, high, altitude
bombers before they drop their
bombs."
4. "Guided bombs now in use
can be pointed at their targets
and released well beyond the
range of the Nike."
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