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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.