Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 28, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textlira Ii la iliHDStS ecltioin nam Strauss In Democrats Building Election Issue Out Of Military Washington (U.R) Demo crats today were building up an election issue out of the feud be tween the military services. Democratic National Chair man Paul M. Butler sounded the theme of the attack Sunday dur ing a nationally televised de bate with Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall. Americans Concerned Butler said "the American people are concerned" over "the constant squabbling among the military sections of our Defense Department." He accused Presi dent Eisenhower of failing to exercise proper "control or sup ervision" over the military. He "also charged there has been "a total failure" on the part of the President to live up to the 1952 Republican plat form promise to strip the De fense Department "clean of con flict." . r Hall took sharp issue with these statements. He retorted that in military matters the peo ple trust "former General" Eis enhower more than they do "gen eral Butler or general Syming ton." Sen Stuart Symington (D Mo.), was secretary of the Air Force in the Truman adminis tration and is now chairman of a Senate Armed Services com mittee which will investigate the inter-service row. Basic Questions Involred The feud involves basic ques tions to what roles each of the services will play in future wars which will be fought with radically advanced weapons. One phase of the row is the Army's contention that the Air Force is getting too much of the budg et dollar and that too much re liance is being put on air pow er and nuclear bombs. There are other disputes over whether the Army Nike or Air Force Talos missile is best for anti-aircraft defense, over wheth er the Army should have its own arm, over the value of the Navy's super-carriers and over the validity of the Navy's claim Memorial Day Traffic Toll Figured at 110 Chicago U.R) The National Safety Council predicted today that 110 persons will die in traf fic accidents during the one-day Memorial Day holiday Wednes day. ' The 110 toll would be about 40 above the average of 70 traf fic deaths for a mid-week day, the council said. Council Presi dent H. Dearborn said the motor ists could "save 40 with a speed under 60." Swiss Mountaineers Ascend Twice in Week; First Double Khatmandu, Nepal (U.R) A band of Swiss mountaineers 'climbed to the top of Mount Everest twice last week for the first double conquest of the world's highest mountain, a mes sage to the Swiss legation here reported. Second Ascent Thursday One pair hauled themselves atop the 29,028 -foot peak Wednesday and a second made it Thursday despite the early onset of the monsoon rainy sea son. The historic double conquest was announced by the Swiss le gation here just one day short of three years after Sa Edmuad The Wind Dispute that its carrier-borne planes can carry H-bombs to the heart of an enemy nation as well as Air Force planes can.. Hall said he agreed with Mr. Eisenhower that some "argu ment" among the . military is healthy. He also recalled there was a Pentagon feud between the Navy and Air Force. Mrs. A. Sparrow, Well-Known Civic Leader Dies Here Mrs. Alex (Ruth) Sparrow, long-time resident of Jackson county and well-known civic leader", died Saturday at the family home on Kirtland road, north of Central Point. Mrs. Sparrow was the widow of "Alex Sparrow, a former county judge in whose honor Sparrow Memor ial clinic of Jackson County Public Health department is named. Funeral services for Mrs. Spar row will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Conger-Morris chapel with the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, officiating. Committal will be in the Jack sonville cemetery and will be private. Friends who desire may make a donation to Sparrow clinic in lieu of sending flowers. Honorary pall-bearers will be Leonard Carpenter of Carmel, Calif., Alfred S. V. Carpenter, Donald S. Clark, Edward Bur gess, Gain Robinson and Her man Lind, Portland. Mrs. Sparrow was a long-time member and worker in Jackson County Public Health associa tion, and for years served as treasurer at a time when the duties of this office were of. great importance. She also rep resented the county on the board of the Oregon Tuberculosis and Health association for a number of years. She was a member and past treasurer of the Colony club and was an active member of Central Point grange for many years. During World War II Mrs. Spar row served as a member of the OPA ration board. She -was a member' of St. Mark's Episcopal church. Mrs. Sparrow was born March 20, 1881, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lee Withington, and came to Oregon in 1917. Sur vivors include two daughters, Mrs. Clinton D. Kendall, Kirt land rd., and Mrs. James S. Firth, Sacramento, Calif., and six grandchildren. Hillary, a New Zealand bee keeper and Tensing Norkay, his native Nepalese Sherpa guide, first reached the top of Everest while part of a British expedi tion led by Co. Henry C. J. Hunt. The Swiss feat was made all the more dramatic by a footnote to the victory message received here from the Swiss base camp. Two Master Lhotse This said that on May 18, six days before the Everest climb, two of the Swiss mountaineers had mastered Lhotse and then the expedition turned its full ef forts on Everest, a target of Swiss mountaineers since it first was discovered. Supreme Court Upholds Firing On Non-Unionists Freedom of Religion Said Not Violated Washington (U.R) The Supreme Court today left stand ing a lower court decision that workers with religious scruples against joining a labor union may be fired under union shop contracts. The case was appealed by two Los Angeles railroad workers who are members of the Ply mouth Brethren religious sect. They claimed that their consti tutional freedom of religion was violated by the union shop con tracts permitted under the Rail way Labor act. Under these con tracts, a worker is required to become a union member in order to hold his job. The two workers refused to join rail unions, citing rules of their sect based on the Biblical injunction, "be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers ..." When they were fired they sought court intervention. But lower federal courts upheld the firings, and the Supreme Court today dismissed their appeal. Segregation Ruling' " In other action today, the high court: 1. Left standing a Dec. 15 decision by a three-judge New Orleans federal court which in effect struck down new laws en acted by the Louisiana, legisla ture in an effort to maintain school segregation. The laws, passed in 1954, provide for sep arate white and Negro schools under the state's power to pro tect "public health and morals." 2. Ruled 5 to 4 that privately operated housing , projects on military bases are subject to lo cal taxation. Such projects have been built at 92 bases on fed eral land leased to the builders. The court majority rejected the argument that the projects came under the general immunity of federal property from local tax es. Non-Communist Affidavits 3. Accepted for review a case which raises the question wheth er a union forfeits its bargaining rights- under the- Taft-Hartley law if one of its officers files a false non-Communist affidav it. A lower court held that the guilty officer is subject to crim inal penalties but the union it self is not affected. 4. Refused to reconsider its April 9 ruling, which barred New York City from summarily firing school teachers who in voke the fifth amendment when asked about ; Communist ties. New York authorities had ask ed the court to reconsider the decision, which came in a case involving the dismissal of Harry Slochower as a Brooklyn col lege professor. Fruit Fly Spray Application Advised Spray should be" applied to all sweet, sour and seedling cherry trees by next Saturday, accord ing to Cliff B. Cordy, county agent for horticulture. Cordy said that the cherry fruit fly emerged last Saturday and that farmers have about a week to spray 'before the flies will start . to deposit eggs into the cherries. He said that the spraying, should be continued for about six weeks. According to Cordy, the trees should be sprayed with three pounds of methoxychlor to a 100 gallons of water. To get thorough coverage a power sprayer should be used, he added. - To spray small trees, Cordy said, two heaping table spoons to three gallons of water with a hand sprayer will be adequate. Cordy stated that unless the spraying is completed by next Saturday, it will be too late to prevent the flies from deposit ing the eggs. Mt. Everest Conquest Expedition leader Schmidt and Z. Marmet clambered to the top of Everest on May 23. Reist, quickly recovered from the Lhotse climb, and H. Rudoej followed in their tracks to the top the next day. No Information ea Findings The first message from the climbers gave no information on what they found. Hillary and Tensing planted the British flag atop Everest after their 1953 coronation year climb.! But the Swiss mountaineers are "proud and happy," the mes sage said. This apparently meant they. had made it up and back Uwithout casualties. MEDF0RD Umtea Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year U Pages Steelworkers Open Negotiations Union Demanding 'Fair Share' of Record Profits 23 Proposals Listed For New Contract Pittsburgh (U.P.f The AFL CIO United Steelworkers and the nation's biggest steel pro ducers opened negotiations to day on contract demands cover ing 650,000 workers in the basic steel industry. The USW, demanding a "fair share" of record profits being reported by the industry, has drawn up a list of 23 proposals for new contracts to replace present two-year agreements ex piring June 30. The union's principal goals are a "substantial" wage in crease, 52-weeks of supplemental unemployment pay, premium pay week end work, and an expanded health insurance pro gram wholly financed by em ployers. In its traditional role as lead off man in the industry-wide talks, U.S. Steel Corp. was ..the first to sit down with USW President David J. McDonald and his top negotiators. Afternoon Talks Scheduled The union was to begin its contract presentation to Bethle hem and Republic.Steel Corpora tions, the second and third rank ing firms in the industry, this afternoon. Four other leading firms will meet the USW in separate ses sions Tuesday. They include Jones & Laughlin, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Inland Steel and Great Lakes Steel. The union, placed no price on its contract "package" and unofficial estimates of tne proD able cost of its four key de mands range for 30 to more than 60 cents an hour per man. McDonald said he considered the USW coals "reasonable" especially in view of the pros perous state of the industry and hoped for an early settle ment ahead of the July 1 strike deadline. A Possible Strike But USW insistence on extra pay for work performed on Sat urday and Sunday shifts was the issue considered most likely to carry the bargaining right down to the wire, and a posssible strike. Industry spokesmen say the cost of oayinsr the time-and-one- half or double time for Saturday and Sunday shifts would be "ex orbitant" but the union says the price would be negligible witn more efficient management. Union sources feel that some sort of unemployment pay bene fits is a certainty although it may not be the full 52-week plan the USW negotiated last August with major can com nanips who contribute 5 cents an hour to its costs. The only other maior union with an in dustry wide "guaranteed annual wage" is the United Auto Work ers which won a 26-week cov erage plan in 1955. Late News Briefs 'FAST DEFENSE SEEN Paris U.R) The 15 North At lantic Treaty countries would defend themselves "fast" against a Russian surprise attack with out waiting for the unanimous permission of their governments, NATO Secretary-General Lord Ismay said today. NEW BORDER INCIDENT United Nations. N. Y. (U.R) Maj. Gen. E. L. Burns, United Nations truct chief m Palestine, flew to New York today and was greeted with reports of a new border incident between Egypt and Israel. Col. Nehemia Brosh, the Is raeli military spokesman, an nounced in Jerusalem that an Egyptian position opened fire with automatic weapons Sunday night on an Israel patrol in the Nitzana demilitarized zone. HIGHWAY BILL SPEEDED Washington (U.R) The Sen ate met two hours earlier than usual today in a full-steam drive to complete action on the vast highway construction bill by Tuesday night.. The main issue to be thrashed out is how the federal funds are ta be shared among the states. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1956 ngrTTvTw ? -p 1 CYPRIOTS TAKE TO TOSSING BOMBS A British soldier checks the bleeding leg of his comrade in Nicosia, Cyprus, after he was hit with flying bomb fragments. The bomb, the same that killed an 18-year-old British soldier, was thrown by a Greek Cy priot in the confusion that followed a schoolgirl demonstration. Appointment of McKay Successor Meets Election-Year Problems By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The White House has run into a network of election-year problems in se lecting a new Secretary of Inte rior to succeed D o u glas Mc Kay, . who an n o u nice d his r e s 1 g nation nearly three f months ago. , To date, aft er a series of high level con ferences on A. Robt. Smith J.""g -"" inet vacancy, the situation ap pears to be as fluid and .mud dled as it could possibly be. It has been two weeks since Presi dent Eisenhower said he. hoped to announce his choice "in a matter of days" and the ap pointment seems as far away as ever. ; ... . . From all reports, Undersecre tary Clarence A. D.avis has been all but written off as a possibil ity, despite the fact that he was way out in front for the nomi nation in the minds of most ob servers for weeks after McKay departed. Informed sources, however, say that Attorney General Her bert Brownell has counseled against the appointment of Da vis, who is identified with most of the decisions and policies of the Interior department which are the target of Democrats in their charge of a "give-away" of natural resources. Based on Policy Difference But BrownelFs stated objec tion to Davis is based on a policy difference they have had for many months over the issue of federal vs. state authority over western water rights. Davis is strong for upholding state claims to supremacy . in water rights dispute.s such as the cele brated Oregon Pelton dam case which went' to the Supreme court; but Brownell has put the Justice department on the side of preserving what federal au thority the courts say the gov ernment has. As an alternative to Davis, Eisenhower has interviewed Val Peterson, former Nebraska gov ernor and now head , of Civil Defense administration. But Cal ifornia Republicans think they have sabotaged any chance of Peterson getting it. California Got. Goodwin Knight and Los Angeles Mayor Weather FORECAST: Fair through Tues day with rising temperature. Low tonight 43. ' High Tues day iZ. Temp. Highest yesterday SI Lowest this morning l....3S Our Skies Tonight The sun rises ..4:39 a m. and sets ..7:39 p.m. The unseen stars in its back ground are now those of Taurus. ' The moon rises 19:47 p.m. and is in Apogee. Last quarter June 1 VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, in southeast S:32 p.m. Venus, sets 9:47 p.m. Jupiter, in the west 10:25 p.m. Mars, rises 1:5 a.m. U ill ted t'V v . hit mrn&N!' T,-J?i O " t Norris Poulson both have object ed to Peterson because he has been a supporter of the Upper Colorado reclamation project, which Southern California inter ests bitterly fought, and because Peterson as head of Civil De fense has advocated dispersal of industry away from the populous area, which is another idea op posed by Southern California. Another former GOP govern or, Dan Thornton . of Colorado, continues to be mentioned. But the Republican high command figures he may be needed to run for the Senate this fall to hold Southern California Entry Is Received Rogue River Most distant entry to date in the fourth an nual Rogue River Rooster Crow ing contest, scheduled for.; June 19, has been received from Sah Diego, Calif., contest committee members announced today. Entries in the crowing fete will be received until 11 a.m. on the day of the contest. No charge will be made for entries, sponsors emphasized. The committee said entries are coming in from all over the country. Among out - of - state groups indicating intentions of entering the contest is a poultry man's group from Richmond. Va. The committee has-mailed more than. 3000 invitations to agriculture departments in all 48 states, chamber of commerce groups and newspapers in large cities. - : ' Cash prizes totaling $500 will be presented to outstanding "crowers" and a first prize of $250 will be awarded to the champion. ' Free hot dogs will be served and music, games and dancing are planned for the day.' Bulletin Washington (UP) President .Eisenhower to day nominated Fred A. Seaton, his deputy assist ant, as the new secretary of interior. C. C. Chapman, Founder Of Oregon Voter, Portland (U.RJC. C. Chap man, 80, founder and" retired editor of the Oregon Voter, suf fered a stroke at his home here today. He was taken to Good Samaritan hospital in critical condition. Chapman, long active in pub be affairs, ' turned over active management of the Oregon Vot er to Walter W. R. May -two years ago. - - Seoul U.R Three hundred shots of gamma globulin have been brought to Korea from Ja pan' to stave off a possible mea sles ecidemic among 160 war or phans.. . - Tribune Press Full leased Wire Price 5c No. 58 that seat fir the GOP. Sen. Eu gene D. Millikin, (R-Col.), is so crippled with arthritis that he comes to work in a wheelchair and quite possibly will not be able to seek reelection. .The Democrat wno is out to capture that Senate post is Charles Brannan, secretary of Agriculture under President Truman. Republicans consider him almost. as much. a thorn in their sideon farm policy as Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), has been on natural, resources and other issues and they want to be sure to defeat Brannan just as badly as they thirst to retire Morse. So Thornton can scarcely be spared, even for a cabinet post, just in the event he is needed to handle this more important political assignment. California Would Object Any candidate from the South west would be objectionable to California, just as most Calif ornians would be opposed by Southwest Republicans because of the long battle between these two areas for Colorado River water. A new secretary from either area would give one side of an advantage the other could not afford to permit without a fight. The only other name being mentioned in recent weeks is that of Ervin L. Peterson, assist ant secretary of Agriculture and former Oregon state director of Agriculture. But no one from the White House has mentioned it to him, he says. Neither is there any .opposition to him. Some observers think the new secretary may be from the Pa cific Northwest to give McKay and Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington a boost in their cam paigns for the Senate against Morse and Sen. Warren G. Mag nuson (D-Wash.). But as yet the right man has not come along to claim this im portant post. New Bonners Ferry Threat; Columbia, Willamette Rise Bonners Ferry, Ida. (U.R) The Kootenai river continued to drop slowly today from dikes surrounding the flood-embattled town of Bonners Ferry but Army engineers warned that warmer temperatures causing faster runoff of mountain snows posed a new threat to the north ern Idaho community. Meanwhile, the Snake, Sal mon, Clearwater and Big Wood rivers poured over their banks during the week end and washed out roads and bridges, forcing four families "to evacuate their homes. The level of the Kootenai riv er receded to 35.9 feet today, a drop of 2:5 inches since last night, at Bonners Ferry. However, Gilbert Bean, tech nician liaison officer for the Army engineers, reported that the rampaging river was causing worse damage further north near the Canadian border and had overtopped dikes in the Ny strom ami Port Hill areas. Pro-Westerners Take Heart From Early Balloting Said Too Early For Western Cheering Rome (U.R) Italy's Commu nist Party, the biggest in the free world, suffered losses today in the first returns from Italy's nation-wide local elections. Premier Antonio Segni's Chris tian Democratic Party, the pro Western group that has governed Italy through the postwar strug gle against Fascism and Com munism, took heart from the ear ly but inconclusive returns. A big turnout among the 30, 000,000 eligible men and women voting in the West's first big test of the Kremlin's "smile of fensive," encouraged democratic parties which had feared demo cratic apathy would give the lo cal posts to the Communists. Stalin Flip-Flop But apparently the Communist Party was undermined by Mos cow's flip-flop on Jo3ef Stalin, for early returns showed demo-. ' cratic gains. It was too early for any cheer ing by tMe West. Voting contin ued today and there were no re sults from the major cities' tight races. City administrations were at stake in such major cities as Rome. Turin, Genoa, Milan, Ven ice, Trieste, Bologna, Florence, Leghorn, Naples and Bari. A to tal of 7,141 communities or dis tricts in 79 provinces was in volved. Trend in Palermo The trend toward leftist losses also showed up in the first re turns from Palmero, capital city of the island of Sicily. Returns from 53 of the city's 465 districts showed gains for the Christian Democrats and losses for both the Communists and their left wing Socialist al lies. Several Hundred Witness Fire-Ama Several hundred southern Ore gon residents ignored unfavor able weather and witnessed air drop and fire-fighting demon strations of the forest industry Fire-Ama held Saturday after noon at Elk Lumber company, north of Medf ord. More than 100 units of fire fighting apparatus were lined up for public inspection during the afternoon showing. Elements of all public and private agen cies responsible for fire control and suppression in forest areas were represented in the display. In addition, most of the equip ment dealers in southern Oregon, who supply fight fighting equip ment were on hand to show the latest developments in modern fire fighting tools. A U.S. Forest service plane made a total of four drops of supplies and equipment, simu lating actual conditions of re plenishing water and food sup plies of fire crews located in re mote areas. In spite of threatening weath er, the first fighting demonstra tion was carried out as sched uled with the U.S. Forest serv ice crew giving a demonstration, of methods used in fire control, suppression and mop-up. Spokesman of the sponsoring state, .federal and industrial groups expressed gratitude to supporters of the Fire-Ama. . They said the show will be staged again next year. Washington (U.R) Clarence N. Sayen, the President of the Air Line Pilots association, has charged that the Commerce De partment has neglected the prob lems of the growing air industry. Portland (U.R) The Colum bia and Willamette rivers in the Portland area rose to new 1956 highs today and some low er level docks and plants were flooded. The forecast called for a slight rise for the next day or two fol lowed by a leveling off trend. What happens after that- de pends on the weather over the still unmelted snow in eastern mountains. The Columbia at Vancouver rose .4 of a foot overnight and was at a 24.3 foot level at 8:30 a.m. today, 9.3 feet over flood stage. The Willamette in Port land was 23.9 feet, a rise of .3 of a foot. The forecast for Mem orial day, anniversary of the 1948 Vanport flood, was 24.5 at Vancouver and'24.3 at Portland, nearly six feet below the level hof eight years ago. Workmen were called" out here yesterday to move supplies from some plants to higher levels.