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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.
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.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
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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