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r 0 iCs Feraera IUI fills Canyon lain mi Steelworkers Aim At Small Companies Effort To Break Management Front Seen in Maneuver Attempt Will Fail, Observers Declare New York i'U.R; The United Steelworkers union, armed with a strike authorization, aimed its big guns against some of the steel industry's smaller com panies in an effort to break a solid management front. Unfbn negotiators began bar training individually with some 11 companies this afternoon in an effort to score a break through on what appears to be solid management front for a long-term contract. So far the union has negoti ated with the "big three" steel producers but these talks have bogged down on key contract is sues. The union now hopes to score a breakthrough with one of eight other companies. . Two Offers Today Both Inland Steel and Youngs- town Sheet and Tube are known to be prepared to submit to the union today contract proposals similar to those offered by the "big three." Industry observers, said the union's effort to breech the in dustry's united front will fail. The battle lines between union and industry negotiators seek ing to write a new contract for 650.000 basic steelworkers have been drawn up and neither side showed any inclination to yield. The companies have offered the union a five-year no-strike contract calling for a package increase of more than 65 cents an hour. The industry said its offer was "substantial, fair and defensive." The union termed the pro posal "shockingly inadequate." Industry Strife Possible Both sides have issued ulti matums which could snag the ne gotiations and prevent the writ ing of a new contract before the present one expires at midnight on June 30. If this happens the nation could be paralyzed by a crip pling steel strike costing billions of dollars. The union's wage policy com mittee Monday accused the in dustry's "big three" U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel of not bargaining in good faith and authorized a strike if a satisfactory contract is not ne gotiated. Medford Firm Only Ashland Job Bidder Portland (U.R) Bessonette and Graff of Medford today sub mitted the only bid for construc tion of a new physical education building on the campus of South ern Oregon college at Ashland. The firm's offer was for $344, 011. It was the second bid open ing on the Ashland project by H. A. Bork, comptroller of the State System of Higher Educa tion. Previously, all bids had been rejected as too high. Bork said today that the latest ."ds were also above estimates put that a decision on the pro ject would not be made for about two weeks. Apparent low of five bids for mechanical work on the build ing was from Modern Plumbing and Sheet Metal, Medford, $89.- 800. Apparent low of three bids for electrical work was Electron ic Service of Medford, $31,916. Paris UPJ The French Communist party has finally joined Moscow's anti-Stalin line but coupled it with criticism of the present Kremlin bosses. Voters Reelect Branchfield to School Board; Askwith Wins in District 6C Voters in the Medford school district yesterday reelected Ed ward Branchfield to the board of directors with 103 votes. . Branchfield, who has been serving as chairman of the board was running unopposed. James Dunlevy. manager of radio sta tion KYJC, received one write in vote. In district 6C, which includes Sams Valley. Gold Hill and Cen tral Point. William Askwith re ceived 106 votes to defeat Don Patterson, incumbent, who re ceived 92 votes. lack Hoffbuhr, lone candidate for tht school board vacancy at OBSERVER HONORED Mrs. Lyle McCallister (left) presents a gift of appreciation on behalf of the Medford Ground Observer corps to Mrs. Lucille Brock, chief observer for the local post for more than two years. Mrs. Brock, who is retiring from the position for health reasons, will be replaced by Mrs. John Dickson. A letter of appreciation for Mrs. Brock's work from the detachment com mander at the Sacramento, Calif., filter center was also read at last night's GOC meeting. Members of GOC Here Honor Chief Observer For 2 Years Service Mrs. Lucille Brock, chief ob server for the Medford Ground Observer Corps for more than two years, was honored last night by members of the GOC at a meeting in the courthouse auditorium. Airs. Brock, who is retiring as chief observer, was presented a navy blue handbag and match ing gloves by members of the post. Mrs. Lyle McCallister made the presentation. . -- MSgt. Clifford C. Poulson, local Air Force representative for the GOC, read a letter of appreciation for Mrs. Brock's work from Capt. Virgil D. Es worthy. detachment commander at the Sacramento, Calif., filter center. Mrs. Brock will be replaced as chief observer by Mrs. John Dickson. Special awards were present ed to 38 other observers during the meeting. Receive Wings Receiving wings were Lyle McCallister. Roy Baker, Cerine Baker, Faith Wallace and Paul Dimick; 100 hour merit awards. Brian Shoop, Madge Chez, Mrs. L. E. Ferg. L. E. Ferg,- Terry Krinok, Lyle Bjork, Melvin Col bert, Mike Farrier, Mildred Hart, George Rasor, Kay Sutton, Darrell Sutton, Frances Moffatt, Willard Harwood. W. A. Townes, Mae Moore, Willetta Sims, Joan Sharp, Madeline Weber, N. R. Deaver, Diane Griffith. J. D. Conner, R. E. Hein. Clarence Late News Briefs SUCCESSOR NOMINATED Louisville, Ky. U.R Ken tucky's Democratic State Cen tral Executive Committee today nominated former Gov. Lawr ence W. Wetherby for the four- year unexpired Senate term of the late Sen. Alben W. Barkley, DULLES TO SPEAK Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will deliver a foreign policy address Thursday before the Kiwanis In ternational meeting in San Francisco. LOWER DEBT LIMIT Washington (U.R) Members predicted that the House Ways and Means committee would vote overwhelmingly today to lower the current legal limit on the national debt by S3.000.000.000. Phoenix, was elected with 18 votes. In the Ashland district, Carroll W. Smith was elected to the board with 213 votes, defeat ing Robert V. Hardy, 156: Ralph W. Sikes. 145: Dr. Christian P. Hald, 111; and Charles Coffin, 35. In zone J. Lone Pine and How ard areas. Clifford M. McGinty, who received 25 votes, defeated Tom E. Popham, who received 15 votes, for the single school board vacancy. Paul Gasparotti. lone candidate for rural school board director, received 38 votes. Voters in the Lone Pine district approved a $12,000 tax levy Jor tha purchase of a school Pfnister, Esther Dorms, Jim Rob erts, Lee Verne DePlace, Lorene Babock and C. Fogelquist; 250 hour bars, Phil Morgan, Post Supervisor Karl Knutron and R. E. Hein; and 500 bar, Mrs. John Dickson Following the meeting Ser geant Poulson showed a film on recent atomic tests entitled, "Let Us Face It." Knutson said the Medford post is in need of more ground observers, espe cially for late night hours. Stale AFL-CIO Join in Merger Portland iU.R) The AFL and CIO ended a 20-year split in the ranks of organized labor in Ore gon today and joined in a merger. Some 700 delegates at the founding convention here voted unanimously to form the new Oregon State Labor council.. Named top officers,in the new organization were J. D.. McDon ald, president; Jess Bell, first vice president; James T. Marr, executive secretary, and George Brown, political director. McDonald, after .taking his oath of office, said that labor must now assume "greater re sponsibility to our members, to business, to the farmers and to the general public" in view of its increased economic and poli tical strength arising from the unity. "I predict this merger opens a new era of better understand ing in labor-management rela tions . . ." he said. But he said the merger would "not solve all our problems." "We are bound to have differ ences but the merger does pro vide the needed machinery with which to settle our differences." Rose Bushes Damaged When Car Jumps Walk Rose bushes and lilies on the library lawn at Main st. and Oakdale ave., were damaged early this morning when a car driven by Claudette Lea McKin ney, 1112 East Main St., went out of control and jumped the curb. The car also broke off one limb of a tree near the sidewalk and slightly damaged the lawn, according to police. She was cited by police for failure to report an accident. Police said she left the car at the scene. bus with 30 yes votes and 11 no. Glenn W. Smith, running un opposed, was elected to the board in zone 4, Ruch, Applegate, Jack sonville and Griffin Creek, with 49 votes. In zone 5, Talent and Pine hurst, John Spangler, running unopposed, was elected to the board, and voters also approved a 214 mill levy for improve ments to Talent High school. Figures of the election were un available. No reports were available at press time today on elections in zone 2, Trail and Shad Cove, and the Rogue River area. Jackson Predicts Good Chance for Senate Passage House Committee Fails To Take Vote Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Interior Committee approved a bill today to authorize con struction of a controversial fed eral dam in Hells Canyon. The action was disclosed by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) who left ' a closed committee meeting before it was adjourned. Jackson said the approval, op posed by the administration which favors private develop ment of the site, came on a voice vote. However, he said he and several other members had them selves recorded formally as favoring the bill. Good Chance Seen He told reporters he believes the bill "stands a good chance" of being passed by the Senate. He said he has no idea of when it will be brought - up on the Senate floor, but said he as sumed it - will be after other major legislation is passed. Earlier, the House Interior Committee failed to take ached uled vote on a similar Hells Canyon bill when a committee quorum did not appear. Democratic members charged that Republicans deliberately boycotted the meeting to avoid action on the bill. One threat ened retaliation against bills sponsored by Republicans. Majority Needed The bill, to authorize a $350, 000,000 dam on Snake river, had been scheduled a week ago as the first order of business for today's meeting. But only 14 members, one short of a quorum, were in the committee room when Chairman Clair Engle (D-Calif.) called the meeting to order. Under House rules, a committee may vote on bills only when a majority of its members, constituting a quorum, are present. Among those present were two Republicans, Reps. Hamer Budge of Idaho; an opponent of the bill, and J. Edgar Chenoweth of Colorado, who has announced he will cooperate to get it out of the committee. Budge raised a point of "no quorum," and Engle announced the bill would be scheduled for action again for next Tuesday. Mrs. Bash Elected GOP Chairman Here Mrs. Frank C. Bash was re elected chairman of the Jackson County Republican Central com mittee at a reorganization meet ing Monday night. Mrs. Stephen G. Nye was named alternate chairman. Ben Lombard was elected vice chairman, and Otto A. Ewaldsen, alternate vice chairman. Mrs. Kenneth Denman was re elected secretary, and A. E. (Gene) Piazza was elected treas urer. Mrs. E. F. Bolt was named congressional committeewoman and Harold Barber, congression al committeeman. - Wendell Wyatt, state Republi can Central committee chair man, discussed precinct organi zation and leadership and com mended Jackson county Repub licans for the voter turnout in the May 18 primary election. Wyatt noted that 70.2 per cent of the registered Republicans in the county voted, compared to 65.5 per cent throughout the state. Plywood Association Reelects H. B. Garrison Gearhart U.R) Howard B Garrison, former vice president and general manager of Evans Products Company, Coos Bay, today was reelected president of the Douglas Fir Plywood Asso ciation at the group s 20th an nual convention here. Salem (U.R) The theme of the gardens and floral show at the Oregon State Fair in Sa lem this fall will be "Westward Ho!" Weather FORECAST: Partly rloudy this evrninc becoming cloudy rlv WdnMday. then partly sunnv dnsdav afternoon. Low tonight 45. Hijh Wednes day 75-37. Temp. Hirheit Yesterday 71 Lowest this Morninj 53 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today -45 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise , 4:34 an Sunset : - 1:52 p. r Moomet Wednesday - 2:38 a.n Full Moon June 2 PROMINENT STARS Spira. fn southwest 10:24 p.n Fomalhant, rises . 1:54 a.i VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, follow the Moon. Jupiter, rn the west 9:15 p i Mars, rise 12:ltaji MEP 51st Year 13 Humphrey More Demo SteK To Cut Foreign Aid Military Spending Seen as Target Washington (U.R) Sen. Hu bert Humphrey predicted today that some Democrats will pro pose further cuts in military aid when the $4,500,000,000 for eign aid bill comes up for Sen ate debate. However, the Minnesota Dem ocrat told reporters, he does not think there will be heavy sup port in his party for cuts that are "too drastic," such as the 31,000,000,000 military aid slash voted by the House. Approved by 13-2 Vote The $4,500,000,000 foreign aid bill was approved late Monday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The vote was 13-2 with Sens. William Langer (R-N.D.) and Russell B. Long (D-La casting the only two opposing votes. The rounded total figure of $4,500,000,000 compares with $3,800,000,000 voted by the House and $4,900,000,000 asked by President Eisenhower. The administration today open ed its latest drive for the full amount sought by the President when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Director John B. Hollister of the International Cooperation Administration ap peared at a closed-door hearing before the Senate Appropria tions Committee. The bill approved by the For eign Relations Committee mere ly authorizes the foreign aid program. The appropriations committee was considering legis lation- which- would actually put I up the money to finance the program. Commute Money Restored The Foreign Relations voted 9-5 last week to restore $600 000,000 of the $1,000,000 House cut in military aid. But before its final 'ote Monday, the com mittee rejected two Democratic moves to trim the restoration to $400,000,000. The Senate bill authorizes roughly $2,700,000,000 in mili tary aid and SI, 800, 000. 000 in various economic aid programs. Besides restoring $600,000,000 in military aid money, the Sen ate committee restored a $100,- 000,000 re-authorization for the President's special emergency aid fund for Asia, which the House cut out. Public Hearings on Agenda for Council Six public hearings are on the agenda for the Medford city council at its 7:30 p.m. meeting today. Hearings will be held on a proposed sanitary sewer in the Verde Hills area and on Valley View dr. from Capital ave. to the north city limits; on paving Fairmount st. and Modoc ave.; for a water main on South Fir st.; and on vacation of an alley in the Edwards place addition. The council also will consider calling bids on 10 projects, seven of them for paving city streets. Bids are expected to be called on sanitary sewers on Valley View dr. and Verde Hills area, for a water main on South Fir St., and for paving Boardman st., Broad St., East Second St., Kenwood ave., North Keene Way, Modoc ave., and Fair mount St. , - A recommendation from the Medford Planning commission that a 20-acre v tract of city owned property south of the IOOF cemetery between Bear creek and Highland dr. be dedi cated for park purposes may be considered by the council. Roseburg Voters OK Elementary School Roseburg (U.R) Funds for a new elementary school in Rose burg, plus an addition of six classrooms to an existing ele mentary school were approved by voters here yesterday. At the same election, a pro posed bond measure to acquire a site for still another elemen tary school was defeated. The construction bond measure was for $265,000 and the site acqui sition issue, defeated was for $27,000. At Dillard. south of Roseburg, voters approved a budget $317, 000 outside the six per cent limitation. r -' . .0, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1956 . ABLE TO RUN AGAIN Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower's doctors today reaffirmed their verdict that he is physically able to run for re election despite his recent oper ation. They bluntly rejected sugges tions of some medical authori ties that Mr. Eisenhower stands a good chance of getting another attack of the intestinal inflam mation or ileitis which sent him to Walter Reed hospital for emergency surgery. Dr. Isidor Ravdin, famed Phil adelphia physician who helped perform the June 9 operation on the President, told newsmen Finals - KSV I ."s Southerner Predicts Segregated Schools Will Not Get Funds Washington U.R) A South ern congressman predicted today that if the $1,600,000,000 school construction bill becomes law funds will be withheld from states that maintain segregated schools. Rep. Phil M. Landrum (D-Ga.) a foe of the bill, thinks this will happen even if Congress rejects attempts to write anti-segregation amendments into the meas ure. Landrum was one of four House members scheduled to tes tify today before the House Rules Committee in what have been billed as final hearings on the long-stalled school bill. Following the hearings, the committee may decide whether or not to send the measure to the House floor for a vote. Back ers believe they have the strengtlTto get the bill out of the f nmmittpp. Rut thev shied awav from "Waking the outright pre diction. Also scheduled to appear be fore thp rules croun were ReDS. Cleveland M. Bailey (D-W.Va.), a leading proponent of the bin; Henry A. Dixon (R-Utah), who favors the measure, and Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.), Pineau, Dulles Talk Mid-East Problems Washington (U.R) French Foreign Minister Christian Pin eau and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles turned their at tention today to North Africa and the Middle East problems in the second of their four sched uled conferences. Informed sources said Pineau hoped to win U.S. support for France's firm policy in handling the Algerian situation and try ing to keep the dispute out of the United Nations. They said, however, that Dulles probably would not agree to too strong a statement supporting the French for fear of antagonizing the Arab world. The French foreign minister also was believed eager to get agreement on a unified Western policy on arms deliveries to the Middle East. ( Salem (U.R) The State Board of Agriculture will hold its first meeting of 195 tomorrow. that he had "never seen" a re currence of ileitis, after a suc cessful surgery, in a man of Mr. Eisenhower's age. The President is 65. The President's physicians dis cussed the case with reporters after issuing a terse statement declaring they have "no inten tion" of getting into a "contro versy" with other medical au thorities on the chances of Mr. Eisenhower having another at tack of ileitis. Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Sny der, the President's personal physician, said he believed it would be better for the Presi sponsor of an amendment to the bill which would 'bar funds to stales that do not abolish racial segregation in classrooms. Landrum expressed a fear of many of his fellow southerners that the school construction bill would open the door to federal control of education and become another weapon to try to force integration in Dixie schools. The Georgian said the measure would put far too much author ity in the hands of the Health, Education and Welfare Depart ment. First Rehearsal for Plays Set Thursday Ashland The first rehearsal of the 1956 Oregon Shakespear ean Festival in Ashland will start Thursday afternoon follow ing the "traditionall" all-night casting session Wednesday. Rehearsals will be held each afternoon and evening until the plays start Aug. 1. Special work will be done in the mornings. Auditions for the plays began Monday in the outdoor theater, after actors, technicians and staff members registered with the Festival Sunday. This year's Festival begins with "Richard III" Aug. 1, and ends Sept. 1, with the final per formance of "Romeo and Ju liet." Other plays include "Love's Labour's Lost." "Cym beline" and two special per formances of the tragedy, "Titus Andronicus." 225 Students Enrolled in Summer Academic Classes A total of 225 students are enrolled in summer academic classes at McLoughlin Junior High school, according to Glenn L. Linn, summer school prin cipal. Classes started yesterday, and will be held through July 20 between 8:30 a.m. and 12 noon. Students in the elementary summer program include those who have not made passing min imums for the grade level be cause of illness, absences or oth er reasons during the past school year, and those who barely met promotion minimums. Student! in grade T through Tribune Unlud Press full Leued Wlr Price 5c No. 77 dent to convalesce at his Gettys burg, Pa., farm than at tha White House. The President, he said, should be able to get in more walking and have more recreational in terests at the farm during his stage of his recovery. Today's statement of the i President's physicians was aim- ed directly at a series of com ments by medical authorities that there is a good chance that the President will suffer more attacks of the intestinal inflam mation which prompted his sud den operation. Japanese Ship Tells Apparent Uranium Blast Tokyo (U.R) A Japanese government survey ship reported today the United States may have exploded a "super-uranium" bomb recently in the South Pacific testing grounds. The Shunkotsu Maru was sent near the test site around Bikini arid Eniwetok to test for radio activity in fish and water. It re ported that ashes found in the area indicated the bomb was ex ploded about June 13. three and a half weeks after the hydrogen bomb air drop of May 21. First Neptunium Discovery The ship reported ashes it col lected June 15 contained both uranium-237 and neptunium-239, neither commonly found in ashes of hitherto known atom or hydroEen bomb explosions. - The ship said it was the first time neptunium-239 was discov ered in ashes collected after a nucelar explosion. The report said the date of the explosion was calculated from the strength of radioactivity of the ashes. The May 21 explosion was re corded on sensitive instruments in Japan measure atmospheric pressure changes. Japanese news papers said no such atmospheric disturbance has been reported for June 13. Sen. Morse Not To Be Alternate Delegate Portland (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) said today he did not plan to be an alternate delegate to the Democratic na tional convention. . Morse said he would devote his time to his campaign for re election against Republican nominee Douglas McKay. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger and Rep. Edith Green both were elected delegates to the conven tion and had offered Morse an alternate spot. "It would be best for some one else to have this experience at a convention,"- Morse said. "Sen. Neuberger and Mrs. Green will do a good job back there and if they need any help from me, they'll get it. I don't need to be an alternate to help them." Oregon Bankers Open Convention of Bend Bend, Ore. -'U.R) Some 200 bankers on hand here yesterday for the opening session of the 51st annual convention of the Oregon Bankers Association. Fred F. Florence, president of the American Bankers Asso ciation, told the delegates that a temporary interruption of the upward movement of business may be in store. He based the prediction on the current diver gent trends in the economy and the readjustments that some sec tions are now undergoing. 12 were recommended to sum mer school to make up lost aca demic credits, and students in grades 9 through 12 are taking a new subject for credit to increase elective programs for the next school year. Linn said there are 13 studenta enrolled in the first grade. The largest class is the eighth grade, where 48 pupils are enrolled. Other grades and students in- elude second, 20; third, 17; fourth, 20; fifth. 25; sixth, 21; seventh, 21; eighth, 48: ninth, 10; 10th, 11; 11th, 13; and 12
