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Newspaper Page TextDefends Armed IForc ht in Rig New Farm Bill Measure Gets Second Chance For Signature House Gives Approval By Vote of 304 to 59 Washington (U.R) The House today completed congress ional action on a "second chance" farm bill and sent it to the White House. Republicans said President Eisenhower will sign it. The House approved "the bill by a roll call vote of 304 to 59. House action on the compro mise measure came 37 days aft er Mr. Eisenhower vetoed the first one. The long politically explosive fight ended in legis lative victory for Mr. Eisenhow er. The new bill contains the ad ministration's $1,200,000,000 soil bank plan. It was stripped of the rigid high supports in the orig inal bill which would have scut tled the administration's flexi ble farm program. Other major features cited by the President in his veto message were delet ed or drastically watered down. But Rep. W. R. Poage (D-Tex.), floor manager of the compromise measure, told the House the fight for restoration of rigid high supports had not been fruitless. He noted that Mr. Eisenhower ordered support prices for major crops boosted when he vetoed the first price boosting measure. He termed it an admission that the props set by the administra tion were "too low." Smith Sees McKay Winner Over Morse Boise (U.R) Oregon Gov. Elmo Smith said today he . ex pected Democratic Sen. Wayne Morse and Former Interior Sec retary Douglas McKay to wage a hard fought battle for votes among the 20 per cent of the state's voters "who will go either way." : He added that he expected McKay to win Morse's Senate seat with a 52 per cent majority vote. The governor quipped that he would have to be careful to not get so interested in the Senate race "that I forget Smith is run ning for governor. He won his own primary race handily last week. Smith, who was here for the 86th meeting of the Columbia Basin Interagency Committee, said polls showed Morse had a following of about 40 per cent of Oregon's voters and McKay probably could count on a like number of votes.. Therefore, he explained, the race would be decided by the independents. Ike Considering McKay's Successor Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower said today he is not ready yet to name a successor to Douglas McKay as secretary of interior. "But I cant assure you," Mr. Eisenhower told his news con ference, "There's no problem to which I am giving more atten tion." . The Cabinet post has been va cant since McKay resigned April 15 to run as Republican candi date for the Senate in his home state of Oregon. McKay won the GOP nomination last week. Salem Child Injured Salem (U.R) A two-year-old Salem girl was in "pretty good" condition here today af ter suffering a skull fracture when she tried to swing on the tongue of a pickup trailer and it fell on her head. The victim, Frances Elaine Blumenstein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blumenstein Jr. was rushed to Salem general hospital. The mishap occurred about 7:20 p.m. yesterday. Weather FORECAST: ConsiderLDle cloudi ness tonight and Thursday morning. Partial clearing Thursday afternoon with rhanre of showers over mountains. Low tonight 50. High Thursday "8. Temp. Hight Vesterdav . 9 Lowest this Morning SS Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:4 a.m. Sunset 7:34 p.m. ..7:03 p.m. Moonrise . ..may A 1 1 rt.'. m ... - tonutu. goes around the Sun everv 30 years. The orbit of Saturn is between those of Jupiter and Neptune and it is the most distant planet that can be seen without a telescope. SATl'KN. seen near me awoa MEDFORD full Leased Wire 51st Year 26 Pages LADY LUCK RODE WITH THEM The two youths shown here in the tangled wreck age of their auto are not dead. As a matter of fact they were released from the hos pital after treatment. However two girl passengers in the car are in serious condition. The driver and another girl were thrown clear but also survived. The car crashed into " some farm equipment on Route 70 in Delaware Township, N. J. Public Works Bill Includes S3 Million For Projects Mere More than ' $3,000,000 for Jackson county irrigation, recla mation and fish screening jobs was continued in the adminis tration's public works bill which was passed by the house late yesterday. The United Press said the house "shouted approval" of the bill which contained $790,748, 000 to finance public works during fiscal 1957, which starts next July 1. It still has to pass the Seri Swollen Kootenai Continues To Rise By UNITED PRESS ' The flood - swollen Kootenai river today climbed relentlessly toward its expected Friday crest and pushed - at breached and weakened dikes near Bonners Ferry. At 7 a.m. (PST) today the river reading was 35.02 feet, in dicating a rise of more than two and one-half feet in the past 24 hours. The big river was ap proaching the level it held when it burst through dikes in three places and poured water over 6,000 acres' of low farmland Monday and Tuesday. Level Lowered The spreading out of the flood waters had lowered the river Too Many Voters Pamphlets Said Printed Salem (U.R) State Printer Charles Unruh said today the state printed some 133,000 more voters pamphlets than the num ber of registered voters on the rolls. A tabulation by the printer showed 913,850 pamphlets were printed at a cost to the state of $69,350. Secretary of state's records show 785,285 registered voters a difference in voters and books of 133,255. . State Elections Chief Dave O'Hara said he was at a loss to explain the surplus. Sfafe Fair Chairman's Wife Dies in Roseburg Roseburg (U.R) Mrs. Pearl Elizabeth Stewart, 70, wife of Oregon State Fair Chairman Dr. E. B. Stewr; L. died at her home here last night, apparently of a heart attack. She had not been ill. Mrs. Stewart was a long-time resident of Roseburg. Prior to her marriage to Dr. Stewart in 1921 she had served as an Army nurse in World War I. Funeral services will be Friday. Mamie Eisenhower 'Citizen of Year1 Washington U.R) Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower, a well known Washington resident with a home in Pennsylvania, today was named the "Outstanding Colorado Citizen" for 1956. The honor was bestowed on the first lady by the Sertoma Club of Pueblo, Colo., during a White House ceremony. Goes To White Mouse MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1956 ate, and presumably will go to a House-Senate conference com mittee to iron out differences between the two versions, be fore being repassed by both houses and sent to the President. Provisions in Bill The bill as approved by the house will provide $2,400,000 for the Talent project, 8208,000 for. placing fish screens at Sav age ' Rapids dam on the Rogue river at the- Jackson-Josephine county line, and about a half- level to between 32 and 33 feet. Flood officials said remaining dikes were holding, "but every inch the river comes up is that much more pressure against them." The river was expected to crest at 36 feet Friday. The town of JBonners Ferry itself was considered safe be hind dikes which would protect it until the river reached 37 feet. Troops and volunteers were stacking sand bags on the dikes to beef up the battered levees. Many Leave Homes About 250 residents of low lying areas of the town had left their homes and were staying with relatives and friends on higher ground. . . Meanwhile, the Columbia riv er spilled into undiked farmland and continued its rise in its lower reaches. At Vancouver, Wash., it was 22 feet, seven inches over the 15-foot flood stage, today. The weather bu reau said little change to slight rise was expected in the next two to three days while tribu taries east of the Cascades would rise. Lale News Briefs MUST PRESERVE REMEDIES Salem (U.R) The Oregon Su preme Court said today that remedies provided by habeas corpus proceedings must be pre served despite what justices call ed a "disgraceful abuse" of hab eas corpus by- convicts. - MORE CASH FOR LABOR Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) La bor will want more cash next year, in the view of manage ment and labor spokesmen re viewing the shape of the com ing bargaining season, the Insti tute of Industrial Relations was told today. GOLDWATER ACCUSED Washington (U.R) Derno, cratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler has accused Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.) of "dis torting" union ' leaders' state ments to try to prove workers were forced to contribute to po litical parties. EXPLOSION KILLS SIX Hiroshima, Japan (U.R) Six fishermen dismantling an artil lery shell on the beach at Hiro shima were killed when the shell exploded today. United million dollars for rehabilitation work on the canal and distribu tion systems of the Rogue River Valley ; and Medf ord irrigation systems. The rehabilitation money is contained in a lump-sum appro priation for the bureau of -reclamation. The total approved was $27, 743, OOOjess than President Eis enhower requested, but it was $3,305,000 more than the House appropriations committee rec ommended. The fund for the fish screens,' long sought by local sportsmen's groups, was not budgeted, but was added by the committee at the request of Con gressman Harris Ellsworth. Flood Control Work, The bill allocates $582,811, 000 to the Army engineers, for rivers and harbors, and flood control work, $434,000 more than the administration budget request. But the bureau of reclama tion's request was cut by $28, 177,000, to $167,612,000. Among the items for the bureau receiv ing approval were $26.1 million for Bonneville power adminis tration. The administration's request for $8 million to start construc tion on the big Colorado Basin project was cut by the house, but part of it was restored, bringing the amount in' the final version of the bill up to about $6 million. Actor Gregory Peck, . Wife Expecting Child Hollywood (U.R) Actor Gregory Peck and his wife, the former French journalist Veron ique Passani, disclosed Tuesday they expect their first child in October. . The lanky actor married the 23-year-old French beauty last New Year's Eve, just 19 hours after his divorce from his first wife became final. Peck, 39, has three boys from his previous marriage to the former Greta Konen. Mendes-France Postpones Decision To Quit Cabinet Paris (U.R) Radical leader Pierre Mendes-France told Pre mier Guy Mollet today he want ed to resign from the French Cabinet. But both Mollett and President Rene Coty urged him to remain in the government. He agreed to postpone his decision temporarily. In Disagreement A Cabinet spokesman told re porters after a hectic four and a half hour meeting that Mendes-France told Mollet he want ed to resign because he dis agreed with Mollet's handling of the Algerian rebellion. The spokesman said Mendes France agreed to postpone his final decision until the Cabinet meets formally later today. Earlier, tit had been reported that . Mendes-France resigned from the government as an indi vidual, rather than pulling the Tribune Presi Full Leaied Wire Price 5c No. 54 Bodyguard for Duke Increased By Death Rumors Scotland Yard Acts' On Cyprus Reports London (U.R) Three plainclothesmen, of Scotland Yard's secret Special Branch have taken over the Duke of Edinburgh's regular bodyguard to protect him against a rumor ed assissination plot by the Cy priot underground, it was learn ed today. Authoritative sources said the top special agents were assigned to guard the husband of the Queen late last week during an overall shakeup of security plans. Accompanied on Tour They accompanied the Duke on a tour of British naval sta tions late last week and are now in charge of security at Balmoral Castle, Scotland where Queen Elizabeth and their two children are vacationing. Previously, the Duke had a personal plainclothes bodyguard from the London Metropolitan police. At the same time, customs in spectors at airports here im posed an unannounced crack down on freight and baggage. A similar step was taken in Cy prus after an airliner was blown up. -These visible precautions sug gested Scotland Yard's Special Branch was taking quiet steps of its own as well. It was the Special Branch that guarded the Soviet leaders on their visit here last month, fil tering agents . into crowds and posting crack shots at vantage points. - Reports Supported ' The official crackdown lent negative support to persistent but still unconfirmed reports that Cypriot triggermen were feared plotting attacks on Cab inet ministers or the royal fam ily. The reports had been current in London for a week. Scotland Yard confirmed Saturday it had issued arms to traditionally un armed police because of "recent events in Cyprus." A New York newspaper. Daily News, said today the Duke's bodyguard had been tripled be cause of an assissination plot. It recalled protests in Greece against the Greek-descended Duke's association with British control of Cyprus. MARRIES 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL Mobile, Ala. (U.R) Lincoln Smoke, 32, was held under $1,000 bond today charged with marry ing a 12-year-old girl without her parents' consent. Smoke,- of Whistler, Ala., was accused of marrying the child before a jus tice of the peace in Leakesville, Miss. Her name was withheld. Baseball AMERICAN Boston 3 8 1 Cleveland 8 13 0 Sullivan. ' Kiely (7) and White; Score and Hegan. Baltimore 2 7 0 Chicago 3 0 0 Schmiti, Moore (4) and Smith; Harshman and Lollai. other Radical party ministers with him. However, his decision to hold off temporarily . was made after much persuasion. Mendes- France was a minister without portfolio, having no spe cific duties, so Mollet is under no immediate pressure to re place him. Most morning newspapers here had predicted he was about to quit. At Odds With Premier The Radical leader has been at odds with the premier ever since the government was form ed early this year, when Mollet refused to give Mendes-France the job he wanted. His ostensible reason for quit ting was disagreement oyer Al gerian policy, the newspaper said, but they speculated he al so expects the government to fall and wanted to get out while the getting it good. Forceful Debate Said Best Way To Protect Country Too Much Pessimism Said Being Expressed Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today defended the right of the armed services to argue forcefully among them selves on the best way to pro tect the country. But he said these arguments should not be conducted in a manner to alarm the nation. Speaking with tight-lipped in tensity, Mr. Eisenhower said any officer who fails to support the President's decision on de fense strategy is not fit for com mand. Appeals To Country The day discipline disappears from the military, he said, the pation will have no armed force worthy of mention. The President, at his news conference, appealed to the country to appraise the strength of America as a massive whole involving the economy, the farms, and the schools and not only the development of one weapon against another. The armed forces have been feuding over the merits of vari ous service ' weapons and their respective roles in any future war. Russian Army Cut Mr. Eisenhower at his news conference also: 1. (Pictured the recent Russian cut of 1,200,000 troops as a streamlining operation - design ed to get more people back into industry and to achieve a new look in the Russian military setup. 2. He said that by no means does he believe there should be a cut in taxes until a start can be made on reducing the nation al debt. This,he said, is a mat ter of financial integrity. 3. He said . he believes too much pessimism is being express ed in this country about the condition of the world today. He conceded that, in a cooperative democratic effort to achieve a unified international approach to foreign -problems, there is bound to be more disagreement than there would be under a to talitarian system. ' ' . . : Say Egypt Was Wrong ' Y , 4. He said he believes Egypt made a mistake "in recognizing Red China. But he added that a single act by another nation does not destroy this country's friendship for that nation or de ter our willingness to work co operatively. 5. He dismissed the idea that a nation with a large stock of hydrogen bombs could "win" a war in 24 hours. What would result, he said, would be a real shambles. ' . 6. Mr. Eisenhower defended the World War II Anzio beach landing in Italy as a successful military operation that tied up 28 German divisions. But he said he had already been order ed out of the Mediterranean theater command when it was planned and he did not person ally favor all details of the op eration. These remarks were ob viously meant as a reply to for mer President Truman's re mark in Italy yesterday that some "squirrel-headed general" planned the Anzio landing. Tests Successful , 7. Mr. Eisenhower said the recent H-bomb tests at Eniwetok was a success, that the studies which the Atomic Energy Com mission wanted to -make were achieved. ' 8. He voiced great doubt about the advisibility of calling South ern governors to a White House conference on school desegrega tion problems. He said it was possible such aconference might only "exacerbate" "the situation. He repeatedly drummed on the idea that the strength , of America is not in missiles and bombs, but a total thing involv ing every segment of the popu lation and the economy. Complicated Effort . Achieving national security. he said, involves a complicated effort on a tremendously broad front. He said this is not merely confined to the Pentagon and the arms plant. The President, instead of be ing pessimistic about the foreign situation, said he believes the West is making some progress, however slow, but he confessed that this country does not truly know the full meaning of . the cut in the size of the Russian armed forces nor recent Rus sian economic moves, particu larly in the Mediterranean area. WARSHIPS ARRIVE Tairjeh. Formosa U.R) A flo tilla of 12 warships from the U.S. Navy Task force 17 arrived in Keelung harbor near Tai Ei Tuesday, the Chinese Evening Press reported today. Task Force 17 is part of the U.S. Sev enth fleet patrolling tne Formo- aan Strait. "I Gtiess Pd Better Start Throwing Son Weigbt Aroand, Tee" American Citizenship Papers Awarded Today Several individuals received American citizenship papers this morning in a brief ceremony in the Jackson county circuit court room. . The new citizens took oath of allegiance from Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna. Following the oath, a welcome was extended to them from Mrs. Earl B. Bigalow, rep-" resenting Medford post 15 Amer ican Legion auxiliary, and Rich ard Woodcock, representing the Medford Elks temple. Mrs. G. R. Carter, regent of Crater chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and Mrs. Fire School Starts At Forestry Ollices A district fire school opened this morning at. the state forest patrol treadquarters here " with about 50 men and women at tending. The school will continue through Friday afternoon. It -is for lookouts and wardens. Three of the instructors, Lee Port, William Hughes and Lyle Byers, are from the Salem of fice of the state department of forestry. Other instructors have been selected from among the southwest district personnel. An Air Force representative will give the instruction on air de fense. Subjects include map reading and fire mapping, lookout train ing, field location of fires, large fire organization, fire timekeep ing, fire weather, fire behavior, control of small fires, use and care of equipment, safety, dis trict policies and law enforce ment. County, City Budget Groups Meet Today The Jackson county budget committee will hold what is hoped to be the final budget ses sion of this year at 2 p.m. to day in the county court room. Only a few phases of the 1956 57 ' budget ' remain to be com pleted. The committee has indi cated there will be few, if any, salary changes for courthouse personnel. ' The Medford budget commit tee will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the council chambers to con tinue its study of the proposed $610,158 budget for fiscal year 1956-57 for Medf ord's, general fund. Minor revisions requested by the committee last week are ex pected to be prepared for the group today. Devastating Toll Seen on Highways Chicago (U.R) An aide to President Eisenhower warned to day that the nation is headed to ward its ' "most devastating" highway death toll on record this year. Howard Pyle, deputy assistant to the President, told a Midwest ern regional conference on traf fic safety that the traffic death toll is the "most critical", prob lem facing the country. Pyle said that the current death rate "in the sight of God must be nothing short of mur der." ' "We are now heading toward the most devastating year that we have ever known," he said. Pyle called on state and local officials to take the lead in at tacking the problem. Faith McCullough of Mt. Ash land chapter, DAR, also extended greetings to the group. Citizenship Instructor Mrs. McCullough and Mrs. C. Q. D'Albini, instructor of the cit izenship course here, presented the group -with American flags and certificates at the end of the ceremony. Invocation was given by the Rev. J. Thomas Dixon, assistant pastor of the Medford Methodist church. New citizens include Miss Mabel Roberts, 327 West 2nd St.; Mrs. A. G. Hansen, 863 Marshall st.; Luitzen Suierveld, route 1, box 473? Mrs. Bryan Mercer, 2191 Crestbrook rd.; Miss Anna A. Markoff, 215 Iowa st.; Mrs. J. H. Mulhollen, 925 North Cen tral ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hall, 21 Willamette ave., all of Medford; Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Sands, 736 Laurel st.. Central Point; Miss Margaret M. Niquet ta, Rogue River; and Mrs, John. S. Weaver, 831 Garden way, and Mrs. John D. McAulay, 784 Ash land st., Ashland. The group will be feted at a 7 p.m. banquet today in the Med ford hotel. Main speaker at the dinner, sponsored by Medford post 15 American Legion and auxiliary will be Robert B. Dun can, Medford attorney. Crater Lions club will assist with the banquet. . . Schpol Vacations to Start in County Soon The 1955-56 school year will end for students in two Jackson county school districts Friday, when Prospect district 59 and Applegate district 40 schools will close for the summer . Other school closure dates will be Tuesday, May 29, Griffin Creek district 2, Ashland district 5 and Elk-Trail district 45; Thursday, May 31, Rogue River district 35 and Evans Valley district 62;; Friday, June 1. Jack sonville district 1, Ruch district 3, Central Point district 6, Lone Pine district 10, Talent elemen tary district 22, Shady Cove district 89, Butte Falls district' 91, West Side district 95 and Howard district 100; Thursday, June 7, Oak Grove district 69; and Friday, June 8, Phoenix dist rict 4 and Medford district 49. Wednesday, May 30, Memorial day, will be a holiday for stu dents whose summer vacations begin after that date. Keating to Nominate Smith as Chairman County Judge Rodney Keat ing, who received the highest number of votes in the unofficial tally for fourth district delegate to the Republican national con vention, announced today he in tends to nominate Gov. Elmo Smith as chairman of the Oregon GOP delegation. - ' Governor Smith is seeking election to the office to which he succeeded after the death of Gov. Paul Patterson. Judge Keating plans to make the nomination at the delega tion's organizational meeting. which will be held in the near future. ' Election Officials Start Canvassing Votes Jackson county election of ficials have begun the task of officially canvassing returns of last Friday's primary election. The project is expected to re quire several days work and the results will be the official elec tion tabulation. Primary elec tion results previously pub lished have been unofficial.