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Attacks on Stalin Could Result in Removal of Body EdlUip nn: Thm follow in f dtipatrk euulrrinr the Khruhrhv iturk on alin wi written Henry Bp(r. United Pri bureau manager In Mnwow who H now m vacation in tht country. It reflect hi Intimate knowledge f ?nv1t affairs And th thinking of diplomats both. In Russian and tht United States. Br HENRY SHAPIRO United Pint Correspondent Washington (U.PJ The downgrading of Stalin has gone so far that Moscow diplomatic circles speculate his body eventually may be removed from the great mausoleum in Red Square. The possibility of the removal of Stalin's body from its resting place beside Lenin was strengthened by American release of Com munist party boss Nikita Khrushchev's attack on the dead Premier. The gist of Khrushchev's attack on Stalin was known. But the strength of the attack was not. The American released summary can not be confirmed from Soviet sources. But it appears to bear the stamp of authenticity. It is in line with all the charges published against the late Soviet Premier in the Soviet and Com' munist press since March. It jibes with versions of Khrush chev's statement heard by this correspondent from reliable Sov iet sources in Moscow. Russian sources said Khrush chev's speech during the 20th Communist Party Congress last February was intended as a pure ly private intra-party affair. Even the top Communist leaders who attended all other sessions of the congress were excluded from the private meeting. Details of Khrushchev's attack spread like wildfire. Within a few days it was common know ledge in Russia, touching off a flood of discussion unparalleled since the Russian revolution. Propositions Clarified The summary released by the State Department appears to clarify and confirm a number of propositions advanced in Moscow diplomatic circles: The new Soviet history being prepared at Khrushchev's direc tion will not entirely erase Stal in's glory. He will be treated as an originally good man who per formed valuable services for the revolution until 1934 when he became drunk with absolute pow er. Leon TrotsKy and other oppo sition leaders will not be rehab ' ilitated posthumously but their early contributions to the revolu tion will be given full credit. Hero worship of individual leaders will no longer be toler ated. The Kremlin, it was said, expects the complete liquidation of vestiges of Stalinism to take about 10 years. . , (See Story en Pag 6) Appointments to be Accepted for Blood Blood donor appointments will be accepted starting Wed nesday for the June 13 visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile, scheduled to be in Medford be tween 1 and 5 p.m.. Red Cross officials have announced. , Appointments may be made by calling 3-3813. Medforri's quota for this visit will be 200 pints. Red Cross of ficials pointed out that 1B2 pints of blood were used in Medford last month. During the last Bloodmobile visit, April 10, resi dents donated only 19ft pints of blood to supply local needs for a two-month period. ' Donations during the April 10 Bloodmobile visit were consid erably under the quota for Med ford. In order to reach the 200 pint quota on June 13 at least 150 donors will be needed, of ficials said. Canvass Expected to Be Completed Today Canvass of returns for the Jackson county primary election is expected to-be completed this afternoon, election department officials said this morning. The project, which started about three weeks ago, has been delayed considerably, they said, by the large number of write-in votes. "Let' Be Alert To The Big Thing, Men" WERE rue I ir-rtr ' ' M kj I , i f t H. A. WORK Receives Award R.A. Work Receives Superior Service Award from Benson Washington, DC. R. A. (Arch) Work. Beaverton, today received the department of agriculture s superior service award from Sec retary Ezra Benson in recogni tion of Work's Soil Conservation service snow survey program in 17 western states and Alaska. Work built and heads the pro gram. Between 1931 and 1939 Work was superintendent of the irri gation experiment station at Medford, where he began to study the relationship of stream flow and seasonal water supplies to snowfall and runoff from its melt. He transferred to soil conser vation service in 1939, centering his chief interest in hydrologic engineering. He advanced 1953 to the present assignment as head of the water supply fore casting section with headquar ters in Portland. In 1948 Work received the American Geophysical Union award for the best scientific paper in hydrology for his pio neer work conducted at Crater Lake on snowmelt. In 1951 he was senior author, with Dr. H. G. Wilm. assistant dean of for estry. New York State college, and M. W. Nelson, snow survey supervisor. Columbia basin, soil conservation service, of a paper describing for the long - range forecasting procedures for Co lumbia river floods. The soil conservation service recognizes that snow in the mountains determines the avail able water in streams in the summer. Work and his staff of technicians have made syste matic and precise measurements of snow depth, water content of snow, and the water holding capacity of the soil under the snow in isolated and almost in accessible mountain watersheds. Work, a native of Texas, with 27 years of government service, started in the USDA in 1929. He studied civil engineering at the University of Southern Call fornia and received a bachelor of science degree from Univer sity of California. COMPLACENT A&OUT THE ELECTION .CAMPAIGN MEDFORDfeA f United Press Full Leased 5 1st Year California Vote Light as Weather Favors Turnout Fate of Hopefuls Hinges on Outcome San Francisco (U.PJ Cal ifornia Democrats went to the polls in balmy weather today to make the choice that could de cide the ultimate fate of the presidential ambitions of Adlai E. Stevenson and Estes Kefau- ver. Resort-like weather covered most of the state, except for some overcast coastal areas. Sample tests of the voter turn out two hours after polls opened at 7 a.m. indicated the balloting was light in Northern California but heavier in the southern part of the state. Benjamin S. Hite, registrar of voters at Los Angeles, said 5.9 per cent of the eligible voters there had marked their ballots by 8:30 a.m., compared to 4.29 per cent at the same hour in 1954 and 5.54 per cent in 1952. Reports on Voting San Francisco Registrar of voters Thomas A.' Toomey said his office still had not made an official canvass of the voting, but he added "so far it's been very light." An unofficially estimated 7 per cent of the voters had turned out at San Diego within two hours after the polls opened, but farther north, at Fresno only 6 per cent had balloted, about 1 per cent less for that area at the same hour in 1952 and 1954. Stevenson and Kefauver were staking their presidential ambi tions on this all-important Cal ifornia primary. Most Important Test More than 3.000,000 Demo crats were eligible to vote in the nation's last and most important popularity test between the two ranking contenders for the right to challenge President Eisen hower. Only Democrats were eligible to choose between Kefauver and Stevenson. The winner of the primary sews up 68 votes to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next August. The loser gets nothing. And unless there is only a hair-line differ ence in the popular vote as there was last week in the Flori da primary the defeated can didate faces virtual elimination from the presidential derby. Officers Reelected To Historical Group Jacksonville Miss Claire Hanley was reelected president of the Southern Oregon Histori cal society at the annual dinner meeting in the Masonic hall here last night. Other officers reelected in cluded Ralph Billings, Ashland, vice-president: Edith Gifford, secretary, and Frank DeSouza, treasurer. Directors reelected included L. G. (Shy) Morthland, E. H. Hedrick, A. G. VanGalder, Edward Kubli, Dr. Arthur M. Taylor and Glenn Simpson. New directors elected includ ed Raymond Reter, Medford, Harry Barneburg, Medford, and L. C. Taylor, Medford. Following the dinner, which was given by the Ladies of the Eastern Star, the group toured the museum. Guests included Circuit Judge and Mrs. James Allen of Siski you county; Walter B. Pollock Jr., president of the Siskiyou County Historical society, and his mother, Mrs. Hazel Pollock; Frank Hersog, curator of the Yreka, Calif., museum; Mr. and Mrs. George Shrader of ML Shasta, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sutton of Grants Pass. Late News Briefs SAAR TO GERMANY Luxembourg (U.R) French Premier Guy Mollet and West German Chancellor Konrad Ad enauer today hammered out final agreement on a plan to restore the Saar to Germany by Jan. 1, ending decades of bickering over the coal-and-steel rich territory. FRENCH PUSH REBELS Algiers (U.R) French secur ity forces today pushed an inten sified campaign against rebels in the cities, mountains and desert wastelands of Algeria. LEADERS SUMMONED Washington (U.PJ President Eisenhower today summoned Democratic and Republican House leaders to a White House meeting in an eleventh hour at tempt to save his foreign aid program from heavy ciit& Wire 20 Pages Co Hi Fingers Crossed As Stream Pounds Softened Dikes New Threat Posed . By High Tides Portland (U.R) Flood fight ers along the lower Columbia river kept their fingers crossed today as the stream levelled off but continued to pound relent lessly at water-softened dikes protecting towns, homes and farmland. Army engineers said this morning that major dikes were holding firm. But even as the weather bureau predicted slight drop in the stream a new threat arose from high tides Engineers said that tides during the next six days would be high er than usual and would more than offset any expected drop in the river downstream from here. Dike Reinforced Critical areas were described as near Clatskanie and at Puget Island, off Cathlamet. Wash. where there is rich farmland. Engineers said dikes were being reinforced in those areas today Some 1500 persons, mostly en gaged in agriculture, live on Puget Island. Dikes at Clatskanie protect farmlands and about a dozen homes. There was a bad scare at Van couver, Wash., early today when police received reports that the Fruit Valley dike protecting a residential section at the north west corner of the city was giv ing way. But Col. John Rodman, Clark county civil defense direc tor, reported the dike was hold ing; Deputy regional Civil Defense Director J. H. McLendon of Santa Rosa. Calif., arrived in Vancouver today and began an air tour of the flooded area. River Forecaster Elmer Fish er stuck to his earlier prediction of a tenth of a foot per day drop in the Columbia at Vancouver, Wash., where the level remained at 26.8 feet today. This was 11.8 feet over flood stage. Clark county. Wash., yester day was declared a disaster area by county commissioners who said some 30,000 acres of farm land was under water. Up stream, mayors of Camas and Washougal declared a state of emergency as water poured across some streets and into some homes. Several hundred persons were reported to have moved out of the Peninsula drainage district No. 2 north of here has a precau tionary measure, but most of the population was remaining. Of ficials estimated that 75 families have evacuated from the Rainier drainage district downstream and another 44 from the Camas and Washougal areas. Highway 30 Closed Another critical spot was Ka- lama, Wash., where tides added to the worries of workers fight ing to keep a dike holding on the waterfront. High water last night forced closure of Highway- 30 between Portland and Astoria at two place s Westport and Clat skanie. Water from a broken dike on Sauvie island poured over more farmland yesterday. Dikes were reported softened and weakened by the long, agon izing climb of the Columbia. Seepage was one of the big prob lems faced by flood fighters. The Willamette river in Port land remained at the 26.4 level today. It, too, was expected to drop along with the lower Col umbia. Upstream, the Columbia dropped .2 of a foot at Umatilla and the Snake was down .4 of a foot at Lewiston. Bids for Highway Work In Area Opened Today Portland Bids were opened by. the state highway commis sion today for repairing Torrent creek embankment on Pacific highway six miles south of Ash land, and for 33.62 miles of oil work and 4.78 miles of shoulder work on seven highways near Pinehurst, Ashland. Medford, Grants Pass, Canyonville and Union Creek. T. W. Thomas. Portland, sub mitted a bid of $13,700 for the Torrent creek embankment re pair -work, and J. C. Compton, McMinnville, submitted a bid of S56.054 for the other highway projects. Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower, went to the Burning Tree Club after lunch today lor a round of golf. MEDFORD, OREC Baseball NATIONAL Pittsburgh 3 7 0 Chicago 7 9 0 Friend, McMahan (4), Ar royo (6). Munger (8) and Foiles, Kravitz (5); Hacker and Landriih. Home run: Thomas, Pittsburgh. Seven Fined After Ashland Card Game Broken Up Saturday One 'man was fined $155, another $105 and five others were fined S30 in district court Monday as the result of an ille gal poker game broken up Ashland Saturday night by Jack son county sheriff's deputies and Ashland city police. Fined $155 for permitting gambling on the premises was i.ugene Watson Seitz, 727 Siski you blvd., Ashland, owner of the Log Cabin Tavern in Ashland, where the illegal game reported ly took place. Buck Ray Misen- nimer, 234 Seventh ave.. Ash land, was fined $105 for dealing a forbidden game. Fined $30 for participating m an illegal game were John S. Os borne, 162 Fifth st.; Walter Gar win, 125 Third st.; James H. Helen, 304 West Main St.; and John Cadzow, 112 Pine St., all of Ashland: and Herman A. Taylor, Jackson Hot Springs, Talent. rrt-d Joe James, 417 Palm St., Ashland, another player, is scheduled to appear in district tuuri ai 4 p.m. rnaay. District Attorney Walter Nun- ley said he had been informed that gambling was taking place at the Log Cabin Tavern on week ends and notified the sher iffs office at 3 p.m. Saturday. Chief Deputy Joe Walsh and Deputy Dean Coe arrived at the establishment at 6:20 p. i dressed in plain clothes. At 7:40 p.m. a game started in a cur tained off section at the rear of the tavern, according to the dep uties' report. Admitted lo Game Walsh and Coe were admitted to the game and purchased poker chips with ten one-dollar bills and one $10 bill, the serial num bers of which had previously been recorded for identification purposes. At 8:23 p.m., the deputies re port stated, the game was halted by Deputies Walsh, Coe and Paul Bettiol, Sgt. Roy Hanson, and Patrolmen Raymond Pruitt and Bruce Hoy of the Ashland po lice department. Statements were then taken from the players, who were cited to district court. Walsh said identity of the dep uties was not questioned by the players until the game got under way. Walsh commented that aft er explaining he and Coe were from Medford , they were in vited to return often and were told the games took place every week end. The district attorney said this was the first time in several years gambling had been un covered in Jackson county. Boxcar Inspectors Added To Field Washington (U.R) The Inter state Commerce Commission said today it would put several more inspectors into the field as a step in alleviating the boxcar shortage m southern Oregon. The ICC reported to Rep. Har ris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) that, bar ring an unexpected appropria tions cut, the agency expects to be able to double its car service field force beginning July 1. Ellsworth said that when the rest of the nation suffers a 15 per cent shortage of cars, his southern Oregon district gets a 60 per cent shortage. He blamed the situation ori the Southern Pacific railroad. Weather FORECAST: Partial tlearinr to night, cloudy with showers Wednesday, mainly in the afternoon. Low tonight 43. High Wednesday 55. Temp. HI eh est Yesterdav 61 I nud this. Mnrninr . 44 .01 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today . Our Skies Tonight Sunset 7:45 p.m. 4:3A a.m. Sunrise Moonrise Wesdnesday 2:43 a.m. New Moon Fnday PROMINENT STAR A returns, high in sooth 9:27 p.m. Saturn, in southeast 7:58 p.m. .Venus, sets 9:08 pm. Jupiter., in the west 9:59 p.m. Mars, rises ' 12:43 a.m. UNE 5, 1956 Archeologisfs Discover Buried Mediterranean City Egyptian Tablets Lead To Discovery Damascus, Syria (U.R) Syri an archaeologists using clay tab lets from Egypt as their guide have discovered a buried Medi terranean seaport at least 3000 years old, it was announced today. Salim Abdul Hak, director of the Government Archaeological Department, said it is the ancient port of Semira which lies just south of the North Syrian coast al city of Tartus. Rich Treasures " First reports from the excava tion indicated rich treasures of pottery, tablets and other ar chaeological finds dating from the Phoenician, Assyrian and Greek eras in the second mil lenium before Christ. Researchers from many na tions have spent years seeking Semira since its existence was first discolsed in pottery tablets unearthed in Egyptian excava tions. Archaeological evidence indi cated it had lain buried in coast al sand dunes for about 25 centuries since the fall of the Greek empire and well before the Christian era. Old Testament Period Semira is closely tied into the period of Old Testament history. It had firm commercial rela tions with ancient Egypt and in those davs Eevntian forces often came to the city's aid" against Hittite tribesmen attack ing from the north. The city was a major base for "Assyrian and Phoenician trade in the Mediterranean. Si lent testimony on the influential role Semira played in those days was given by the finding in Egypt of tablets that led to Semira's discovery. Abdul Hak said digging was continuing on the site of the city. Agricultural Year Wettest on Record The current agricultural sea son is the wettest on 'record. according to Robert Church, meteorologist at the Medford weather bureau. Rainfall since Sept. 1, 1955, has totaled 32.4 inches, or 15.62 inches above normal. During May, 4.18 inches fell here the second wettest May on record. Second wettest year on record here was between September, 1942, and August, 1943, when 29.28 inches of rain fell. Wettest May on record was in 1945 when 4.58 inches fell. Average rainfall for a year is 18.15 inches. Continued rain and a few hail showers in Jackson county have apparently resulted in no serious damage to fruit, according to C. B Cordy, county agent for horti culture. Earle Jossy, county agent for agriculture, commented that hay appears to be the only . crop really suffering from rain. Cut hay has been taking the brunt of the damage, he indicated. Patients Carried by Mercy Flights Passes The number of patients carried by Mercy Flights. Inc., passed the 500 mark yesterday. The non-profit air ambulance corporation, which began serv ice in January, 1950, passed the milestone when it took two Camp White members, Walter Lindsay and Raymond Conlin, to Portland for emergency treat ment in the Veterans Adminis tration hospital. Lindsay, was suffering from a broken shoul der and broken pelvis, sustained in an accident, and Conlin had a leg infection. They were the 500th and 501st patients. Pilot on the trip was George Milligan, chairman and founder of the organization. Eugene Burrell was the copilot. The flight was made in one of the twin - engine Beechcraft planes acquired for use by Mercy Flights last year from the Air Force. Many of the flights have been fairly "routine," as was the one yesterday. On the other hand, there have been hectic ones, TRIBUNE Price 5c Levels ; v '-5bV , ' ' TV, f. ' - A rA f - j v I j I 1 .. ' . J v- V ''-' ? " . - " ' ? . ' NEW SIGNAL Now in operation at the intersection of Highway 99 and Stewart ave., is a three-phase volume density traffic signal, the third of its kind to be installed in the state. Herman Steek, of Steek Electric company, Roseburg, shows the signal system control box installed by his company. Near the control box is a button pedestrians must push in order to switch on tne "walk" light. Three-Phase Traffic Signal In Operation At Riverside-Stewart A three-phase, volume density traffic signal, the third of its kind to be installed in the state, was put into operation Monday afternoon at the intersection of Highway 99 and Stewart ave. Highway commission officials said the new signal operates auto matically and is similar to an "electronic brain." Only manual part of the system, it was ex plained, is a push-button control for the pedestrian "walk" light. Pedestrian Traffic In order to switch on the ped estrian traffic signal, a button, located on a post near the light control box, must be pressed. 'Even though instructions are printed on a sign over the light button, this has been the one confusing part of the system," they explained. Two similar lights have been installed in Portland. In ' both cases, they said, pedestrians simply stood and. waited for the light to change, without realiz ing they had to press the but ton. This type of traffic signal is considered the most efficient in locations where heavy left-turn traffic as well as heavy through and cross traffic are involved, it was pointed out. -Operation Explained The signal system is operated by buried vehicle detectors un der each signal. These detectors send information to the control ler on the number of cars that have passed over them, time spacing between cars and length of time cars have waited for the red light. The controller 500 Mark where semi-conscious or dis turbed patients have caused trouble to pilots and attendants, where night landings have been made by the lights of automobile headlights, or where landings have been made on isolated, mountain-bound airstrips. The- 6V4 years of Mercy Flights service has been made possible by the gifts of Jackson county residents in the early days when the air ambulance organization was just getting started, and more recently by the pre-paid subscription plan. Under the plan, family groups for an annual .fee of $4, are en titled to free emergency air am bulance service within a 400 mile radius of Medford. - Nearly half of the flights have been made for subscribers, either for free in emergencies, or at a reduced rate for non emergencies. The longest flights have been to Oklahoma and to Mazatlan, Mexico. The most frequent trips have been to Portland. , United Press Full Leased Wire No. 65 weighs the factors and appor tions tne green light according to demands of traffic. Timing of the signals was to be adjusted during the afternoon traffic peak Monday and the morning traffic peak today. The system was installed by Steek Electric company of Roseburg, low bidder on the project. The contract was awarded Decem ber 18. Council May Urge State to Accept Park - The city council will consider a resolution urging the state highway commission to accept Prescott park as part of the state park system tonight during the council meeting in the city hall. The council will also hold public hearings on vacating parts of Marshall ave. and the water main assessment of Board man st. from McAndrews rd. to Ohio st. Public hearings will be held on paving Kenwood ave. from Humphrey st. to West Second st.. Broad st, from Clark st to Jackson st., and Boardman st from Ohio st. to McAndrews st. The council will consider a peti tion calling for construction of a water mam on South Fir st from Monroe st. to Melrose st. and a water main on Melrose st from Fir st to Grape st. PUC Authorizes Express Rate Hike Salcm-U.R The State Pub lic Utilities Commission today authorized a seven per cent in crease in express class rates and charges of the Railway Express Agency. At a hearing held by the com mission it was found that the proposed increases in revenues would be less than the actual in crease in operating costs allo cated to Oregon intrastate traffic. Revenues from the increase are estimated at $8,679. The increase became effective March 20 on interstate express traffic and on intrastate traffic in 22 other states. Authorization by the Oregon PUC will permit express class rates to be on a uniform level, the PUC said. Sports Bulletin Lends nUJ8 Archie Moore rallied le knock out Yolande Pompey of Trinidad in the 10th round and retained his world light heavy weight boxing championship tonight. on J
