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I MILL M MA S PREPARE TO BA 01 Medford United PrM Full LuMd Wir 51$t Ytar 24 Paget - Eisenhower To To Celebration Vice-President Will Represent American People Envoy Will Observe Independence Day Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower today named Vic President Richard M. Nixon to be hU "personal representative" at the Philippine Independence Day celebration in Manila July 4. The action was interpreted as a move to dramatize before the world this country's interest in the freedom of all nations. It was just 10 years ago next month that the United States gave the Philippines its inde pendence. Hagarry's Announcement White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced Nixon's assognment as Mr. Ei senhower began his third week in the hospital in "good spir its" and hopeful he will be able to leave in another week. A 7:40 a.m. (EDT) medical bulletin reported Mr. Eisenhow er's "satisfactory progress" from his intestinal operation two weeks ago. But the Presi dent passed up a chance to tell a Republican meeting here whether He still intends to run for another term. Interest in Philippine Hagerty strongly emphasized that Nixon is going to Manila not only as vice president but as the representative of the President and the American peo ple. He said Mr. Eisenhower has a great "personal interest in the Philippines" because of his early Army duty there and because of the country's role as a "great ally." Hagerty disclosed toward mid day that Mr. Eisenhower con ferred with Presidential Assist ant Sherman Adams and other staff members this morning while sitting up for 45 minutes in an easy chair. This was the longest sitting up period for the President since he entered the hospital June 8.' The president signed 11 bills, signed an atomic energy agree ment with Cuba, and dispatched "quite a few" personal letters and telegrams, Hagerty said. Accepts Resignation The White House also an nounced the resignation of De troit banker Joseph M. Dodge as the President's special as sistant for foreign economic policy, and made public a rou tine exchange of letters between the President and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. As further indication of the President's steady recovery, Hagerty said he will stop issuing a midday medical bulletin. 'Furniture Familiar; Home Stripped Bare . The Dalles -JU-PJ As the Jesse Smith family was driv ing toward their home at The Dalles yesterday they noticed a car passing them in the opposite direction loaded with furniture they thought they recognized. When they reached home they found that thieves had not only stripped the house of much of their furnishings but had removed the doors and windows as well. $1,200 Worth Slated For July 4 Display About $1,200 worth of fire works will be set off at the Medford High school stadium Julv 4 at a display sponsored by the YMCA. The display, approved by city and state fire marshals, is being given for the first time this year to raise money for the YMCA summer camp. Clifford McGinty. chairman of the display committee, stress ed that the majority of the dis ' plays will be ground displays, although some aeria'. bombs will be set off between iirings. The majority of tie work has been done by the Y Men's club, according to McGinty, wfco Mid 4 MEDFORD, OREGO "All Up And Down Sadly I M SI fjjrj PGE Official Raps Neuberger's Bill Affecting Pelton Dam Washington ' (U.R) An Ore gon utility executive said today a "new low in public morals"' would be reached if a license for private construction of Pelton dam in Oregon is revoked. Thomas W. Delzell, chairman of the board of the 'Portland General Electric Co., made the statement in opposing a bill by Red China Sends Japanese to Jail Tokyo (U.R) Communist China announced today it had sentenced 17 Japanese to long prison terms as war criminals, nearly 11 years after the end of the war. The delayed act shocked the Japanese nation and was expect ed to wreck recent overtures by Red China to win Japanese friendship and trade through ex change of goodwill private mis sions. Observers said the Peiping ac tion also would be a severe blow to the Socialist party which has advocated -quick normalization of diplomatic relations with Japan. The convicted men included three former lieutenant generals in the Imperial Japanese army and two major generals. They were accused of such crimes as using poison gas, cultivating germs for germ warfare and for brutality. Peiping Radio which an nounced the sentences said the trials were held between June 9 and Z0. Atmosphere Eases; Hagerty Plays Golf Washington (U.R) There was concrete proof today of the more relaxed atmosphere at Walter Reed hospital where President Eisenhower is recup erating. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty took off for a game of golf. of Fireworks local men will fire displays. Mrs. Henry Kammann did the orig inal art work from which the displays were fashioned. Included in the evening's show will be Niagara Falls, a witch on a broom, a swimming fish, the battle of Guam, in addition to several displays of animals and other topics. Prior to the display there will be a demonstration by the Med ford fire department and a tug of-war between the fire and police departments. Tickets are now on sale at the YMCA and several bussinees lofiTions, PJTribune XfTl f d'?.-'-' 1956 - .5 i a. . xon Manila De Whole Creation, Roam" Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, to suspend federal hydroelectric licenses which do not have state approval. He told the Senate Interior Committee, however, he does not oppose another bill which would require that future hydroelec tric projects comply with state laws. Neuberger told Delzell he was saying he liked the bill as long as it didn't apply to his com pany. State agencies failed to ap prove the Pelton project, Neu berger said, because it would block off the steelhead trout run on the Deschutes river. The company, however, obtained a Federal Power Commission li cense which was upheld by the Supreme Court. Neuberger introduced his bill as an amendment to another be fore the committee, by Sen. Frank A. Barrett (R-Wyo.), which requires state agencies to comply with state law in use of water in Western states. Compliance Technicality . A number of projects might be affected but, Neuberger said, compliance would be merely a technicality for most. He told the committee he sees "no reason in fairness or logic" why the Barrett bill should be passed without affecting the Pel- ton project, which he said was the "nub" of the state water rights controversy, 'Delzell said the company has in effect a 50-year contract with the power commission which it would be "wrong in law and equity" to revoke. He said the bill would cause a 3V4 year de lay and cost the company $5.- 000,000. The delay, he said, would be fatal. Under questioning by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.), Delzell said the company has a rapid tax writeoff permit from the Office of Defense Mobiliza tion. Anderson suggested the company feared delay because it might lose the permit. Delzell said, however, he believed the company would go ahead with the project without it if nec essary. Weather FORECAST: Considerate. hifh cloudiness through Saturday; low tonight 48, high Saturday near M. Temo. Rtgnett Veslerdar Lowest this Morning 4C Our Skies Tonight SunriM Sunset Moon rite . 4:34 a m. . 7:52 pjn. ..7:52 pjn. Full Moon lt:lS p.m. PROMINENT STARS Regulus. In the West... 9:18 p.m. Vega, high overhead 12:49 a.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, moving nearer Regains. Saturn. In the south s:4S p.m. Mars, rises 12:02 JR- United Prcu rull Leutd wir Price 5c No. 80 Russian Atomic Aircraft Predicted 'In Near Future' Twining May View Top Installations Moscow U.R) The Soviet Army newspaper Red Star pre dicted today the Soviet Union would have its first atomic air craft " in the near future." -"Atomic installations in air craft are now possible as result of the immense success of nu clear physics, radio-chemistry and electronics," Red Star said. "Doubtless the near future will witness the first atomic air craft." Red Star reported on progress of the Soviet aircraft industry on the eve of the arrival of Gen. Nathan F. Twining, U.S. Air Force chief of staff. Informed sources said Twi ning would get a close look at some of Russia's top secret in stallations never before seen by non-Communist foreigners. Red Star reported the Soviet aircraft industry was building an improved jet passenger ver sion of the TU104 with a capa city ' of 170 passengers. The TU104, reported t o be the only aircraft of its kind, astonished Britons last March when it land ed in London with Gen. Ivan Serov, the Soviet security chief, and later with Vice Premier Georgi Malenkov. Red Star said the TU104 was now being produced steadily and already was in use on internal Soviet airlines. It indicated the improved version would be available before long but did not specify the date. For a somewhat later future Red Star promised jet planes with a speed of 935 miles to 1242 miles an hour. inq Home Fire Claims 3 Victims Princeton, N. J. (U.R) Three women patients died today in a $100,000 fire at a nursing home cottage "that went tip like an ammunition dump." Police said the victims were trapped in a cottage containing eight other women at the Ten acre Foundation Nursing Home for Christian Scientists in near by Princeton Township. The eight other women escaped. Authorities identified the dead as: Mrs. Ellen Huggett, 81, New Orleans; Miss Eleanor Sampson, 49, Boston; Mrs. Bessie Meyer, 77, of Texas. . - J. Burwell Harrison, superin tendent at the home, said the fire apparently was sparked by a woman patient smoking a cig arette against nursing home rules. Langlie Will Make GOP Keynote Speech Washington (U.R) Gov. Ar thur B. Langlie of Washington was chosen today to deliver the keynote speech at the GOP Na tional convention in August. The choice was made by the Republican Convention Arrange ments committee, meeting here to name convention officials. House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massa chusetts was understood to be in line for the permanent con vention chairmanship and Sen ate Republican Leader William F. Knowland a likely choice for temporary chairman. Langlie is retiring as govern or this year to seek the Senate seat now held by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, a Democrat. Merlin Girl Critically Burned in Kerosene Fire Grants Pass (U.R) Virginia Stephens, eight-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. David Stephens of Merlin, Ore., was critically burned last night in the yard of her home when a blow torch ignited a can of kero sene. The torch was being used by the child's father when it touched off the kerosene -which exploded, showering the girl with flames. The attending physician said the girl suffered 90 per cent second and third degree burns and her condition was extremely critical. Her father suffered minor bums on a leg and hands and both were hospitalized at Jose- pbjna General hospital Mi Committee Debates Division of Funds Under Sales Tax Sen. Lowry Favors Highway Fund Check Salem (U.R) Drafting of a constitutional amendment clear ly stating what funds derived from a proposed sales tax would go into the general fund and what would be allocated to the state highway fund was request ed by the Legislative Interim Tax Study committee today. Committee members express ed belief that any tax collected on sales of automobiles should go into the general fund rather than the highway fund. But the majority of the members fav ored continuing the present dis tribution of funds for highway purposes. Lowry Favors Check However, State Sen. Phil Lowry of Medford favored a check on the entire highway financial picture in view of im pending passage of a new high way bill which would contain large federal grants for Oregon. Lowry made it clear he was not opposing the construction of an adequate highway system in Oregon. But he thought perhaps that highway receipts might be greater than the commission's ability to utilize them. In that case, he said, surplus funds should go into the general fund. The research staff of the com mittee was instructed to obtain figures on future finances and needs from the highway depart ment. The majority of the com mittee, which already expressed favor of a three per cent sales tax for submission to the 1957 legislature, today began a sec tion-by-section study of a sales tax bill. Special Election Discussed However, before starting the study the committee devoted some time o discussion of a date for a special election in event the legislature passed and re ferred a sales tax bill to voters. State Sen. Rudie Wilhelm Jr., chairman, said he favored an election day set prior to the ad journment of the 1957 legisla ture"," if that was possible. He also said that if Senate joint resolution No. 4 allowing use of the emergency clause on tax measures is approved by voters in November he felt any sales tax measure passed by the legis lature would not be referred. , Fire Destroys Tank, Small Pump House A gasoline fire destroyed a storage tank and a small pump house at the Merlin Fjarli resi dence, 224 Arnold lane, about 8:30 p.m. yesterday. The Medford fire department sent a ruraj pumper to the scene. The department reported that Fjarli was filling the gas tank of a log truck and at the same time using a welding torch on the trailer mounted on the truck. Sparks from the torch ignited the gasoline. A storage tank with 500 gal lons of gas and a small pump house, both about 30 feet from the Fjarli home, were destroyed The truck, which had been pull ed into the road when the pump er arrived, was extensively damaged in the cab and two tires. The residence was undam aged. Important Iceland Vote Slated Sunday Reykjavik, Iceland (U.R) Candidates for Parliament end ed one of the bitterest campaigns in Iceland's history today for an election that will decide the fate of strategic American bases on this North Atlantic island. The final party rallies were held ' today. Saturday party workers will concentrate on get ting the 93,000 voters to the polls Sunday. If the leftists win, American military personnel, and perhaps the bases themselves, will have to go. But no neutral observers would predict the outcome. Foreign Minister Kristinn Gudmundsson, a member of the Progressive party which has split away from the coalition government for the election, said the bases might be allowed to stay if NATO felt they were needed, but not U. S. troops. Washington (U.R) A House Public Works Subcommittee has approved a proposal for feder al contribution of flood control costs toward construction of the multiple purpose Oroville Dam on the Feather river in Califor nia. "New York (U.R) In typical "show must go on" fashion, ac tress Kim Novak rehearsed to day for a television show Sunday despite a "walloping attack" f ptomaine poisoning. Lower-Than-Usual Labor Force Seen For Pear Harvest A good pear crop and a lower- than-usual supply of migrant workers indicates Rogue valley fruit growers will employ sev eral hundred Mexican nationals for the 1956 harvest. This was the general opinion of members of the Fruit Grow ers league, representatives of the local office of the Oregon state employment service, the farm placement supervisor for the state employment service. and the regional farm placement representative of the U. S. de partment of labor when they met here yesterday afternoon. Howard Bush, president, and Robert Norris represented the Fruit Growers' league. Joe D. Wilson, state farm placement supervisor, and Joe Beeson of the regional federal farm place ment service, were also nresent with two members of the Jack son county welfare commission and several men from the local office of the employment ser vice. 4.500 Workers Needed Wilson, presiding, said the pear harvest will need close to 4,500 workers this year, count ing field and packing house em ployees. Unemployment in -this area, like that in the state, is down. Also migrant laborers are not so plentiful as in past years. The state man estimated that several hundred Mexican na tionals would be needed to com plete the nine weeks of harvest. Last year the same situation arose and 460 nationals were employed. Wilson emphasized that foreign laborers do not re place domestic workers, but sup plement the local 'work force. If local people are available they must be used, if qualified, be fore nationals are employed, he said. First of Harvest Norris explained that during the first three weeks of harvest, beginning about half way through August, Bartlett pears are picked. These grow on low trees and much of the work can be done by women and younger people. The next six weeks. however, the picking is of pears which grow on higher trees and pickers need ladders to reach them. These are also the periods when local help declines, and during the last few weeks of the season, students are return ing to school, further reducing the labor supply. The growers try to estimate when the local workers will be dropping off and fill in with Mexican nationals, he said. Radio Highlights Dick Applegate, f o r m X Medford newspaperman now a National Broadcasting com pany correspondent, will be heard briefly on the NBC week and show. Monitor, at 6:24 p.m. Saturday, discuss ing his experiences as a pris oner of the Chinese Commu nist. The program is heard lo cally en radio station KMED. Marilyn Monroe Confirms Plans To Wed Playwright; Honeymoon Plans Up in Air New York (U.R) Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller made arrangements today for a "simple" wedding but their honeymoon plans were in the hands of the State Department. Miller, 40 -year -old Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Death of a Salesman," announced the forthcoming marriage Thursday in Washington where he appear ed before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Miss Monroe confirmed the announce ment to a crowd of reporters who had been waiting two hours in the lobby of her New York apartment. The blonde actress said she would marry Miller sometime in the next three weeks. The wed ding will be "just something simple," she said. Leaves Soon for London She leaves July 13 for London where she will make a picture with Sir Laurence Olivier and said she hoped Miller could go along on a European honeymoon. ' But that's where the State De partment comes in. Miller, who told the committee Thursday that he once sympathized with Communism, failed to get a re quested passport in 1953 when he refused to fill out an affi davit "concerning past or pres ent membership in the Commu nist Party." State Department press officer Joseph W. Reap said in Washing ton that Miller made another passport application five or six weeks ago but that the non-Communist affidavit has mot been received. tr Bush noted that for particu lar jobs, such as cold storage work and swamping (loading boxes of pears onto trucks), local people cannot be found. These are often filled by Mexi can laborers. Wilson's office will soon send an estimate of the number of Mexicans needed to the Wash ington, D. C. headquarters, of the U. S. employment service. If it is approved, a ceiling will be set and the state service is allowed to authorize growers to contract foreign laborers with in the limits of that ceiling. Medical Corps, Admits Wounding Goats in Training , San Antonio, Tex. (U.R) The Army medical corps admitted today that it wounded goats at Brooke Army medical center to teach medical officers how to treat battle casualties, but said the goats were "completely anes thetized." Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D - Ore.) demanded . yesterday that Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson investigate "shocking" reports that the Army is shooting goats with high-powered rifles. Physicians Untrained The medical corps at Brooke Army Medical Center explained that most young physicians in the Army don't know anything about treating wounds caused by high velocity bullets. Most of the gunshot wounds they see in civilian practice are made by such low velocity mis siles as pistol bullets. The goats are used to teach them modern techniques of treating wounds caused by high velocity bullets. A statement said that three or four goats were taken to Camp Bullis and wounded with rifles. It also said that the tech niques Army doctors had learned resulted in 97 per cent recovery of men wounded by high velocity bullets in Korea. Prime Coating To Be Completed This Week Crews will complete dust oil ing and prime coating on many Jackson county roads this week and asphalt is expected to be applied next week, Paul Ryn ning, county engineer, reported today. Rynning added this has been a "tough year" for road work because of interruptions caused by rain. Workmen are now building a detour bridge across Carberry creek west of Copper in pre paration for replacing the exist ing bridge with a new one. The new 108-foot span will be built of steel on a concrete founda tion, Rynning explained. a- , 7 ' &1 1' MARILYN State ruiMliajil Merchants Report Gradual Tightening Of Purse Strings Committees Draw Up Picketing Schedules New York (U.P The na tion's steel centers prepared to day to bank their furnaces in the event the grave threat of a steel strike becomes a paralyzing reality. United Steelworkers locals formed strike committees and drew up picketing schedules in counter measures should the union and "big three" industry negotiators fail to reach contract agreement by the June 30 dead line. Credit Restricted Merchants in the mill towns surrounding Pittsburgh report ed steelworkers were gradually tightening their purse strings. In Gary, Ind the merchants de clared a moratorium on credit buying. Abnormal jumps in savings accounts were reported through out the steel producing areas of Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio. Workers stockpiled food and stopped buying high priced items. - Local relief agencies made long range plans to care for hardship cases. The joint negotiations which began between the union and the '!Big Three" U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel in Pittsburgh last month have become hopelessly dead locked. "We are miles apart on basic contract issues," a management spokesman told the United Press. Strike or Concessions "There'll be a strike unless the steel companies retreat from their demand for a five-year contract," a union official warned. The union Thursday sent in structions to all its locals for an "orderly and peaceful" strike in the event a new agreement has not been reached by the June 30 strike deadline. The industry has offered the union a five-year no strike agreement calling for a package!- uff er of more than 65 cents an hour. Offer Defended, Denounced In newspaper advertisements and letters to the employees, the industry has defended this offer as "final, fair, substantial and defensible." The union has denounced the offer as "shockingly inadequate" and has said it will never accept a five-year pact. Ridder" s Condition Remains Unchanged London (U.R) Walter Ridder. Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, said today there was "no appar ent change" in the condition of his father who was injured in an. automobile accident Satur day. ' Victor F. Ridder, 70 vice presi dent of the Journal of Com merce, was hospitalized at the London Clinic. He suffered a chipped hip bone and a fracture of the left leg above the knee. . . v.; A i ,s. MONROE May Iaattts
