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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
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MEDFORD, OREGO
"All Up And Down
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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,
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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
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Full Moon lt:lS p.m.
PROMINENT STARS
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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-
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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.
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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. .
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