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"
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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
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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&
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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,
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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.
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