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Newspaper Page Textn n frf? mm m Citizens for Ike Urged To Fight for Republican Victory ' Energetic Campaign Intentions Revealed . Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower told cheering GOP campaign workers today that he is feeling fine and intends to campaign for reelection "as cheerfully, energetically and en thusiastically as it is possible to do so." Ke said he feels so good -that he wouldn't even know he had a heart attack last fall except that "the doctors keep remind ing me of it." ' Mr. Eisenhower told leaders of the recently-reorganized Citizens for Elsenhower movement that ''I am perfectly ready to go for ward." He urged them to go out and fight, not only for his own re election, but also for a Republi can Congress. 'CleanGovernment' Campaign His voice rose noticeably as he told a group of 500 citizens leaders he will campaign for "clean government, good gov ernment, progressive govern ment and government that knows its place and does not interfere with me as I go about my daily business." . He followed this with a quick explanation that his use of the word "me" was generic and re ferred to "all of us." "You know, I was ill last fall," he said with a broad grin. "The only way I know about it now is that the doctors keep remind ing me of it." That brought thunderous cheers from the leaders from 40 states assembled here for a three-day campaign conference. Warning against a campaign complacency, the President said, "it has no place in my vocabu lary." He called for a tremendous get-out-the-vote campaign, say ing that when an American citi zen votes, "the form of self gov ernment justifies itself." He said the goal of the cam paign is to make sure "that this great middle-of-the-road phil osophy of government can con tinue." "We are carrying a torch, car rying a fire and we are not carrying ashes." he said. Urging the Citizens for Eisen hower to devote themselves as energetically to the election of a Republican Congress as to re taining him in the White House, he said that if the voters elected him again "to carry the burdens I have for the last four years," he thought the people who run with him should be bound to him by "party loyalty as well as personal and official loyalty." Late News Briefs DOPE BILL PASSED Washington (U.R) The Senate today approved a tough narcot ics control bill calling for death penalties tc help stamp out illi cit drug peddling. The measure would let juries in federal courts hand down a death sentence for a third con viction for the sale or smuggling of narcotics. It also would permit juries to mete out the supreme penalty for sale of narcotics to persons under 18. U.S. SAID DRIFTING Monterey. Calif. i'J.R) Navy Secretary Charles Thomas said today the United States was drifting toward a trend of "paralysis by numbers" by over estimating "the importance of quantity in military building. COULD DESTROY FORCE New York OJ.R) Author Wil liam Faulkner said today that this nation's failure to achieve Negro and white equality could destroy the one potent force against communism in the world today, the "simple belief of man that he can be free." 97 Persons Pay With Lives In Memorial D UNITED PRESS Motorists turned in a safer Memorial Day than the National Safety Council had predicted, but the final death count was more than 20 above that of a normal Wednesday in May. 97 Traffic Deaths A United Press count from 6 p.m. Tuesday until midnight Wednesday night showed 97 traffic deaths across the coun try. Warm weather contributed to 31 drownings. There were four deaths in plane crashes and 22 in miscellaneous accidents. The holiday death total was 154. Illinois had the worst record during the one-day holiday, post ing 16 traffic deaths. There were 13 in California, seven in Penn sylvania, five each in Washing- Seaton's Voting Record Shows Liberal Tendency By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Fred A. Seaton, newly appointed Interior Secre tary, can best be described as an Eisenhower Republican, tending to be more liberal than his party as a whole. This is the indication from his voting record during the year he served in the Senate, as well as his political affiliations down through the years when he was in the more liberal faction of Nebraska politics. More Liberal Than Ike' But the voting record of Sea ton1 indicates that on two big issues he was even more liberal than President Eisenhower. He voted for Alaska statehood, which the President docs not support, and he opposed giving the tidelands to the coastal states, contrary to the position of the President. Curiously both are topics that fall within the domain of the Interior Department, although the tidelands question has been settled legislatively. As far as statehood for Alaska is concern ed, Seaton is expected to find himself acceding to the chief executive's wishes on this ques tion. But most observers expect Seaton to be more aggressive than was his predecessor, Doug las McKay,, in trying to win White House support for his ideas. This could possibly lead to a. reappraisal of the statehood issue by the President. Seaton's record in the Senate shows that he has a streak of independence. Taking all of the record votes in which he partici pated in 1952, Seaton voted with the majority of the GOP in the Senate only 69 per cent of the time. In addition to breaking with his party on tidelands and state hood, Seaton voted against var ious GOP attempts to cut the budget of the Corps of Engineers. Seaton bucked his party on Niagara power development, vo ting to give the engineers funds to study its feasibility. Ironically, Billy Nunn Pleads Innocent to Charge Billy Junior Nunn, 28, of Klamath Falls, pleaded innocent to charges of first degree mur der in Jackson county circuit court today. He is charged with the murder of Alvin William Eaciet, 14, also of Klamath Falls, at Tub Springs State park off Highway 66 be tween Ashland and Klamath Falls last April 19. Eacret's body was found about a week later by two girls. Judge H. K. Hanna set July 17 at the date for trial. Sam Harbison, court-appointed attorney who is representing Nunn, said he asked the trial date be set so far in advance to give time for a phychiatric ex amination for Nunn. He indicat ed to the court he would explore legal possibilities of pleading in sanity when the trial js held. ' Nunn was, arrested m Alturas, Calif., three days after Eacret's body was found. Portland University To Honor Lawrence Welk Portland (U.R) The Uni versity of Portland will confer an honorary doctor of fine arts degree on bandleader Lawrence Welk at the school's commence ment exercises here June 3. Father Waldschmidt, vice president of the Catholic insti tution, said the degree would be given Welk "for his contribution to wholesome entertainment." Welk currently has a top-rated television network ABC show. Day Traffic ton, and four each in Louisiana, Michigan, Texas and Ohio. A Fourteen states, including Ne vada, Oregon and Utah, reported perfect records. The National Safety Council congratulated the nation's driv ers, but warned they are still heading for the bloodiest year on the highways on record. Ail-Time Mark The April traffic toll was 2.960. an all-time high for the month, the council said. The death count of 11,550 for the first four months of 1956 is also an all time record, and at this rate, a shameful' record of 42, 000 deaths will be set by the end of the year, the council said. The council had predicted 110 Memorial Day traffic deaths. J FRED A. SEATON Eisenhower Republican he was absent when a string of votes were taken on the Inter ior Department money bill. . Coming from the public pow er state of Nebraska, he is not adverse to using public funds Election Friday On Medford School District Budget A poll will be open between 2 and 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Medford High school giris' gym nasium for school district 49 res idents to vote on a propos ed budget of $1,992,437.11 for the 1956-57 school year opera tions. . - Those eligible to vote are res idents of the district who have lived in the district for six months and who have been reg istered to vote at least since May 1. Increased Expenditures - . The proposed budget calls for increased expenditures totaling $200,203.76, .resulting from in creased enrollments, higher sal aries and other increased costs of operation, according to Leon ard Mayfield, school superin tendent. ' Some of the changes in the budget structure were required by the addition of Dewey and Kenwood districts, which will become part of the Medford dis trict July 1, 1956. Residents of the Dewey and Kenwood districts and residents of the Oak Grove and West side districts will not be eligible to vote in tomorrow's election. The districts will become a part of the Medford district this year but will operate under separate budgets for one more year. Lawsuit Questions Governor's Directive Portland (U.R) District At torney William Langley today filed a suit in Circuit Court ques tioning validity of Gov. Elmo Smith's recent directive giving Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton exclusive control of the Multnomah ," county grand jury. Langley seeks a declaratory judgment clarifying his right to present to the grand jury routine criminal matters. The governor's directive specifically ex'cluded Langley from handling any mat ters connected with the attor ney general's investigation into alleged vice conditions here. Langley also asked for an or der during pendency of the suit restraining Thornton from pre venting him.;' from presenting matters to the grand jury. A hearing on the restraining order was scheduled for next Monday. Retail Milk Price Expected fo Go Up The retail price of milk" is ex pected to go up 1 cent a quart in Medford tomorrow, sources close to the industry reported today. The price increase is the same as that recently put into effect in most Willamette valley towns. It was made necessary, the re port said, by increased costs of processing milk, including labor costs. A portion of the increased price is expected to go to pro ducers. - Prices of bread and ice cream are going up in Portland, ac cording to reports in. the press there, and similar increases lo cally can also be expected, indus try sources indicated. for electrical energy develop ment. But he agrees with the current "partnership" power policy under which local utilit ies are aided in supplying their own power requirements. Seaton worked hard to help win support from his own party on Capitol' Hill for the adminis' tration's Upper Colorado recla mation project, a $760,000,000 federal development involving four Rocky Mountain states. ' Some say he was largely re sponsible for drafting the presi dent's soil bank plan, which has won wide support in Congress and now has been signed into law. ' Seaton comes by the label "Eisenhower Republican" hon estly, from the standpoint of in tra party loyalties. He was a sup porter of Eisenhower morjths be fore the Chicago convention in which Eisenhower defeated Sen. Robert A. Taft for the nomina tion. Te do this, Seaton had to go against the prevailing senti ments of his -conservative home state and his senior colleague, the late Sen. Hugh Butler, who backed Taft. Served for Siassen Prior to this political affilia tion, Seaton served Harold E. Stassen as a campaign secretary and earlier, in 1936, was secre tary to Alf Landon, the GOP presidential candidate that year. If Seaton had a small hand in making possible President Eisen hower's initial success in poli tics, it can be said that the Sea ton family even had a hand in launching the five-star general's career. Fred Seaton's father was the assistant to Sen. Joseph L. Bristow (R-Kan.). ' Bristow served only one term, 1909-1915, during which he at least made one historic decision he appointed to West Point a Kansas farm boy named Dwight David Eisenhower. Open House Set at East Side Station " An open house from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday will "dedicate" the city of Medford's new east side fire station, Fire Chief Gordon Barker announced today. Mayor Earl Miller, city coun cilman and City Manager Robert Duff will be present. Eugene Amann, Oakland, Calif., Med ford's first fire chief, will be special guest. There wiil, how ever, be no formal ceremonies, Barker said. The chief invited all residents interested to make a Sunday afternoon tour of inspection of the station. Refreshments will be served by firemen. The station at 530 Highland dr. was placed in service Tues day. Equipment and personnel were moved from the temporary fire hall at 147 South Keene Way dr. Myron Corcoran Construction company was builder of the new station. It received the contract in February on a low bid of $20,990. Tallahassee Negroes Plan Bus Boycott Tallahasse, Fla. VJ.R) Ne groes vowed an all-out boycott of local buses today in a carbon copy of the Montgomery strike but the spirit appeared lacking so ar to make it half so effec tive. Many Negroes walked or rode in car pools to work to back up demands for first come, first served seating arrangements and "more courtesy" from drivers. The boycott appeared to be about 50 per cent effective in the morning v'ush hours, but Ne gro leaders said that was partly because many of the city's 14.000 Negroes hadn't heard yet about the free car poolsv The boycott emerged from the Saturday arrest of two Florida A&M University coeds who sat in the White section of a segre gated bus. Ike Looks Healthy, Hitchcock Declares Portland !U.R) Philip S. Hitchcock, who returned here from an eastern trip and a visit 'to the White House, said today President Eisenhower '"looks the picture of health." Hitchcock, who lost to Doue- las McKay in the May 18 Dri- mary for the Republican nomina tion to the U. S. Senate, stopped in Washington, D.C. -on his way home from a . Presbyterian church meeting in Philadelphia. ihe President looked good. He was sharp and alert and com pletely relaxed." Hitchcock said. lo me he appeared the picture oi health. UN Command in Korea Orders Members Chased Flagrant Violation Of Armistice Charged Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) The United Nations Command today ordered the neutral truce super vision teams expelled from the Republic of Korea for flagrant Communist violations of the armistice and perversion of the truce teams role. The U.N. Command gave the teams one week to leave the Re public of Korea where the Pol ish and v Czech members have been denounced by President Syngman Rhee as spies. There was no criticism of the Swiss and Swedish members. 8th Army To Take Action U.S. Maj. Gen. R. G. Gard, head of the delegation which ousted the truce teams, told newsmen the U.S. 8th Army will "take necessary action" if the inspectors do not leave. He did not elaborate. In response to a question he said U.N. military forces in South Korea "are always on the alert for attack." At the same time an official U.N. Command spokesman in Tokyo said U.N. forces were ready to meet any Communist attack if the Reds resume war fare because of the expulsion order, and presumably with atomic weapons that would be flown in from Tokyo. Temporary Suspension The U.N. Command told the Communists the expulsions amounted to temporary suspen sion of some of the armistice regulations until the Reds cor rect their violations. The major violation was the illegal building up of a North Korean air force. U.N. sources said the Reds had brought between 400 and 500 planes into North Korea, about half of them jet fighters and bombers, since the armistice. The armistice provided that forces should be frozen at end of the fighting. The neutral ob servation teams were formed to check for violations, North Korean Coy. Lo In Hi, who attended today's meeting in the unexplained absence of the senior Red delegate, Maj. Gen. Jung Kuk Rok, said "if the United Nations side takes in any unilateral action it will have to bear all consequences." Two Ships Collide Off Thames Estuary Margate, England U.R) Two ships collided off the Thames estuary in the North Sea today. One reported it was taking water and needed immediate as sistance. There was no immed iate word on the other's fate. Radio messages from the .5671 ton Liberian steamer Centauraus said it and the Japanese 9300 ton freighter Philippine Maru collided two miles off Sandiettie lightship. The Centaurus said it was tak ing water and needed help. A British Coast Guard cutter put out from Ramsgate, and the French salvage tug Jeanbart moved to the scene from the French shore. The Centaurus radioed about a half hour after the crash that visibility was very bad and asked that all other ships keep clear of the area to avoid con gestion. Rainfall Reducing. Food Value of Hay Current rainfall is reducing food value of hay which has-al ready been cut and is delaying harvfi-t of the remainder of the croD. W. B. (Ben) Tucker, Jack son county agent, reported today. Tucker said some farmers are conserving their cut hay for feed purposes by converting it into silage. He added that uncut hay is beco'mins over-ripe in the fields and protein content "Will be re duced if the rain continues and harvest is delayed much longer. Weather FORECAST: Showers this ve iling. Parllv cloudy tonight, becoming cloudy Friday morn ing. Partial clearing Friday afternoon with widely scat tered showers. Temp. Highest Yesterday " Lowest this Morning . 52 Prec. to 4:30 a-m. Today 12 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:3 a.m. Sunset - P-m. Moonrise Friday 12:11 a.m. Last Quarter Friday MARS, seen near the Moon to night, is now about 76.000.000 miles from the Earth. It has be come noticeably brighter than any star in the sky. 51st Year Medford 24 Pages MEDFORD, Columbia Inches Toward One of Highest Crests Situation Said Not Critical Portland (U.R) The Colum bia river inched slowly upward toward one of its biggest crests in history today but so far no critical situation was reported despite some sandboils and seep age and one breached private dike. The Columbia was 24.7 feet at 8:30 a:m. today at-Vancouver, Wash. River Forecaster Elmer Fisher predicted a stage by next Monday of 25.4 feet. Flood stage at Vancouver is 15 feet. There was no assurance the final crest would be reached Monday. Fourth Highest 25-4-foot reading at Vancou ver would be the, fourth highest on record there, exceeded or equalled only in 1894, 1928 and 1948. However, the stream was still some six feet below the 1948 crest with no indication it would approach that level this year. Army, engineers . said some seepage in dikes had been re ported along the Columbia but that no real danger spots have appeared. A private dike in the Batchelor island area northwest of Vancouver, Wash., was breached yesterday, flooding fields and pastureland. Farmers moved cattle to higher ground. Would Restrict Ships The Willamette river in Port land was expected to reach the 25-foot level Monday. At that stage all ships and boat traffic will be restricted to speeds of eight miles an hour upstream and six miles an hour down stream to prevent swells from damaging shoreside installations. There was momentary excite ment -early -yesterday when-civil- defense crews were working on a boil behind a dike in the north Portland area under floodlights. Some employees of the Portland Meadows race track concluded the dike was breaking and blew the flood alarm. Some trainers moved their horses and a number of trailer residents moved out before they learned there was no emergency. Yesterday was the eighth anni versary of the 1948 Vanport flood. Bonners Ferry, Ida. (U.R) The Kootenai river flowed at four feet above flood stage at Bonners Ferry this morning, still soaking up the dirt of dikes still intact in the north Idaho area. The upper Snake river, too, poured water over low areas along its banks in Jefferson county and about 2,000 acres of farm land in the Heise-Roberta area were inundated. Frost Forecasters Returning fo Pomona William Rogers, frost fore caster for the U.S. weather bu reau, will leave Medford early Friday morning for Pomona, Calif., where he is regularly stationed. Rogers has been broadcasting frost warnings each night as a service to fruit growers since April 9. He made his lqst broad cast Friday. The forecaster said plans are under way for a critical tem perature report program to be published regularly in local newspapers next year as a sup plement to' the frost warning radio broadcasts. Knife-Bearina w Aboard Excursion Boat on Buffalo, N.Y. (U.R) Knife bearing teen-age gang members seized control of . an excursion boat crossing Lake Erie Wednes day night and terrorized its pas sengers to climax a day-long Me morial Day race riot. Buffalo police met the boat, the Canadiana, when it docked late Wednesday night and es corted a group of sobbing white girls to safety. The clothes of many of the disheveled girls were torn. Strictly Racial Riot Both white and Negroes were injured in the rioting, which took place on the boat and 12 miles across the water at Crystal Beach, Ont. Cpl. J. E. Legate of the Ontario Provincial Police said the rioting was 'strictly ra- cial." OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 'It's Not In The MHS Baccalaureate Services Are Sunday Baccalaureate services for Medford High school graduating seniors will be held at 8 p.m. Boy Killed al Race Track in Roseburg Terry Lynn McCumber, 9- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert McCumber, Pleasanton, Calif., was killed almost instant ly yesterday afternoon at a Rose burg automobile race track. -Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Conger-Morris chapel here with the Rev. D. Kirkland West of the First Presbyterian church offi ciating. Committal will be be side his grandfather, the late John Marin, in Memory Gardens. According to reports hnre, Terry was attending auto races at Roseburg and attempted to jump on the side of a water truck. He fell under the truck's wheels, reports indicated. He was visiting his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Holteen, in Roseburg. Besides his' parents, he is sur vived by a sister, Mrs. H. R. Shambin, Santa Jose. Calif., and his grandmother, Mrs. John Marin, Medford. Bend Child Drowns In Irrigation Ditch Bend (U.R) Rita Rene Boldt, 22-month-old daughter of Mr: and Mrs. Halden W. Boldt of Bend, drowned Tuesday eve ning in an irrigation ditch here. She had been wading in the ditch with other children. Ef forts by firemen to revive her failed. Baseball AMERICAN Waihingion S 12 2 New York ... 9 12 0 Stobbs, Chakalei (6) and Courtney, Berberet (6); Grim. Larsen (5) and Howard. Home runs: Bauer, New York; Sievers, Luttrell, Wash ington. Boston 4 8 1 Baltimore 1 4 0 Porterfield and Whit: Wight, Doriih (6), Schmilx (6) and Triandos. Teen-Aae Ganas Riot Six persons went to hospitals with minor injuries and scores more were given first aid or refused treatment for cuts and bruises. Canadian police arrest ed five Negro youths and four White youth and Buffalo police arrested three more Negro youths. Police Overwhelmed Canadian police tried with lit tle success to break up the riot ing at the crowded Crystal Beach amusement park and it resumed ' completely uncon trolled aboard the boat on its return trip. Two special police aboard the boat were overwhelmed and Buffalo and Canadian police were helpless to come to the aid of the passengers. Interna tional agreements forbid either Price 5c Tribune 31, 1956 No. 61 Plane-Spotting Manual At All" .-.--.v. Sunday, June , 3, in the high school auditorium. Principal Les ter D. Harris, said today. The Rev. Raymond W. Hurn, pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene, will deliver the sermon, and the Rev. Thomas McCamant, pastor of the Med ford Congregational church, will read the invocation and bene diction. Also participating in services will be the high school choir under the direction of Allen Lehl, and the school orchestra under the direction of John Drys dale,:. r.. v : . . - , Commencement will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 7, either at the high school stadium or Hedrick Junior High school auditorium, depending on the weather, Harris said. About 275 seniors, believed to be the largest graduating class in Medford school history, are expected to receive diplomas. Students will return to school Friday, June 8, for the final session. Pope Begins Period Of Forced Rest Vatican City (U.R) Pope Pius XII today began a period of rest forced by too much worry, work and heat. The 80-year old Pontiff limited his activities to receiving only his aides from the Vatican sec retariat at state, Msgr. Angela Delacqua and Msgr. Dominico Tardini. The Pope, suffering from what his doctor described as "general fatigue" and a sore throat stem ming from nervous causes, sus pended all audiences Wednesday until further notice. Vatican source said there was no cause for concern and the audiences might be resumed by the end of the week. Chief Accountant For PUC Quits WorJq Salem- (U.R) Joseph L. Ken nedy, chief accountant for the Public Utilities Commission, has retired, it was announced today by PUC Commissioner Charles Heltzel. Kennedy, employed by the PUC since 1832, will be replaced by Gordon Hieber, assistant to Kennedy for more than three years. Lake Erie Canadian or American police from boarding the boat. Margaret Wynn, a reporter for the Buffalo Courier-Express who was on the boat for the return trip, said it was a "nightmare of flashing knives and sobbing, frightened teen-agers." She said gangs of Negro girls, wear ing jackets with embroidered names of their gangs, roamed the ship attacking white girls, maul ing them and tearing their clothes. 'Disgracing Our Race Of the boat's 1,000 passengers, about 80 per cent were Negroes but not all Negroes took part in the wanton rioting. Many of the Negro teen-agers sat quietly on deck chairs and one said of the rioters: "They are disgrac ing our race," a witness said.