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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
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morning. Partial clearing
Thursday afternoon with
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mountains. Low tonight 50.
High Thursday "8.
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Hight Vesterdav . 9
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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
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' 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
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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.