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York If EWapin victim TOW tip jfiiti LOSING PANTS during Minneapolis doll buggy parade, Susan Baron expresses pain, shock and annoyance when ubiquitous photographer gets busy. (International) Twining To Report On Soviet Air Power In Visit With Ike Gettysburg. Pa. iU.P.) Gen. Nathan F. Twining laid today after conferring with President Eisenhower - that 'the United States is "out in front" of Russia in air power. "There's no question about it." said Twining, who returned Wednesday from an eight-day visit to Moscow. Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower summoned Gen. Nathan F. Twining here" today for a report on Soviet air power that may have vital influence on future U.S. military policy. The Air Force chief of staff was prepared to tell Mr. Eisen hower that, his just-concluded Russian tour reinforced earlier intelligence on the rising Soviet air challenge. He was as convinced as ever, informants said, that Russia has a bigger air force, is closing the quality gap, can produce heavy jet bombers in quantity and is on a rapid march in science and technology. Returning Wednesday from an eight-day tour of Russian avia tion facilities. Twining and his staff prepared a detailed "evalu ation" for the meeting with the convalescent President in the first-floor den of Mr. Eisenhow er's farm home three miles from here. ' Defense Officials Included The air chler was accompanied by Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilsort, who is-under Democratic fire on the air power issue. Air Secretary Donald A. Quarles, joint chiefs of staff Chairman Adm. Arthur W. Radford and presidential assistants Sherman Adams and Wilton B. Persons. Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said that was a normal group to sit in on such an important military confer ence. It may also have been intend ed as a show of unity among top Defense Department and Air Force officials at a time when Congress has received grave warnings from air commanders about Soviet air power strides Wilson has insisted that the Unit ed States is ahead and will stay that way. Trip Called "Worthwhile Twining, arriving at the Wash ington National Ajrport Wednes day, said his trip to Russia was "worthwhile" but "did not come up to our expectations." His party had hoped to see more than the air field, engine and aircraft plants, engineering acad emy, atomic power station and aircraft fly-by shown them. Parrying questions pending his report to the President, the general said his view of relative Russian and American air strength was' "just about the same' as before he left home. He had not changed his views i about Soviet heavy bomber out put. He would stand on what he had told Congress about Russian progress. He has repeatedly warned that the Russians are ahead in numbers of aircraft and are moving up fast in the race for quality. Salem iU.PJ Commercial fishing in all Oregon streams south of' the Columbia river would be banned if voters ap prove a ballot measure submit ted to the Secretary of State. Girl Survives Or Water in Salt Lake City (U.R) A pretty 18-year-old girl who lay semi-conscious for nine days without food or water in the concealed wreckage of an auto mobile today began a slow re covery from her ordeal. Recovery Expected Doctors said only her "re markable constitution" and sev eral other factors enabled Jean Margetts to survive the auto wreck that killed her fiance. She still was in a semi-coma to day but doctors said they be lieved she would recover. The 110-pound Sunnyvale, Calif., girl was found Tuesday night beneath the fender of a wrecked car only 300 feet from busy U. S. Highway 40. The car could not be seen from the high Park Service Calls Bids on Campsite Invitations to bid on the first construction work of the 10-year "Mission '66" improvement pro gram planned for Crater Lake Park have been issued by the park superintendent, Thomas J. Williams. The work is the development of a new campground at Annie Spring. The work consists of approxi mately 1.2 miles of campground road plus 70 campsite parking spurs; about 8,700 feet of water lines ranging from four to one quarter inches; and four rein forced concrete septic tanks. Bids will be opened July 24 at Crater Lake National Park. and work must be completed within 90 days after contracts are awarded. Plans, specifica tions .and .bid . forms . covering construction are available to in terested bidders at the offices of the superintendent in the park, or room 307 of the Med- ford post office building. "Mission '66" is the program now before Congress which would appropriate $4,328,000 for improvement of facilities at national parks during the next 10 years. Value of Building Permits Here Rises Building permits with the highest estimated value for any month since 1950 were issued by the city building department last month, Oliver R. McNeel, Medford building inspector, has announced. June permits totalled $579, 772, more than double the $234, 616.85 for June in 1955. Among last month's permits were one new public building, $333,547; 13 new homes, $162, 000; two business establish ments. $34,486; seven business establishments remodeled, $16, 900; 15 homes remodeled, $14, 950: and four new garages, $7,650. Fees collected during June amounted to $1,769, McNeel said. Honolulu U.R) Harry Bridges, president of the Inter national Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, reports the government has been exam ining the records of his defense fund. Corvallis U.R) Oregon State college received gifts, grants, scholarships and fellow ships totaling $879,480 during the 1955-56 school year, accord ing to President A. L. Strand. Nine Days Without Food, Wreckage of Automobile way because of dense scrub oak at the bottom of the canyon where the auto lay. Only five yards from the girl was the body of James B. Hix on, 22, of Salt Lake City. The couple had planned to marry in September and the search which finally found them got off to a slow start because it first was thought they had eloped. Skull Fracture Indicated Doctors planned to x-ray the girl today because of indications she had received a frontal skull fratfture. But she suffered no in ternal injuries or broken bones, they said and her circulation appeared to be good. ' Mrs. Lawrence R. Margetts, the girl's mother, said her five foot, four-inch daughter had al Widespread Purge On Communists in Poland Reported New Riots Feared, Travelers Indicate Berlin 'U.R) A widespread purge of "unreliable" Commu nist party members was reported gaining momentum in Red Po land today. Western travelers said the purge apparently is spurred by Red fears of new Poznan-type "food and freedom" riots. Radio Warsaw announced Po land's rejection of the U.S. offer to send free food for hungry workers and denounced the move as "propaganda." 'There Is no hunger in Po land," Warsaw asserted. But Western travelers arriv ing in Berlin today said "food is very short, not only in Poznan but throughout the country." "Workers in Poland are in great need," one reported. "They literally are hungry. Their up rising in Poznan began -with a demand for bread." He predicted the rejection of the food offer "is sure to in crease the bitterness of work ers." He said the workers al ready are "enraged over the way troops and tanks were used against them" and "furious over the wave of arrests and purges" that followed the uprising. Negative Reply The broadcast said the Polish Red Cross sent a "negative re ply" to the American offer through the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva, Switzer land, Wednesday. Poland "does not need char ity," the radio said, and added that the Red Warsaw regime is ready to buy wheat from the United States. Purge of party ranks was be ing carried out by a special joint government-Communist party commission sent to Pozin from Warsaw to investigate the up rising and punish those re sponsible. "Scores" of Communist party members were reported to have been thrown in jail, along with police and troops who sided with the rebellious workers during the bloody-demonstrations last week. (See story on page 9) Assistant Named For City Manager City Manager Robert Duff will have an administrative as sistant for the first time since Medford changed over to the city manager type government, Aug. 1. The new assistant is Gilbert Gutjahr, 26, presently working On his master's degree in public administration at the University of Oregon. According to Duff, he will re lieve Duff of some detailed du ties, do research work on prob lems of city administration, and set up a centralized city pur chasing system. Duff interviewed Gutjahr May 1. Provision for the assistant is made in the Medford city budget for 1956-57 which went into ef fect July 1. Gutjahr was born in Hosmer, S.D. He graduated from the Uni versity of South Dakota with a bachelor's degree , in govern ment. He served with the armed forces in Germany. Liquor Taxes Divided In Counties of Oregon Portland (U.R! Distribution of revenue from liquor sales, li cense fees and taxes on wine and beer totaled $14,486,306 in the past year, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission said today. Payments to the state's gen eral fund amounted to $12,361, 728. Incorporated cities got $1, 172.602. And counties received $935,822. Another $16,162 went to the state census fund. ways been athletic and "the stamina she built this way must have saved her." Doctors said the girl's remark able constitution," and her good physical condition apparently sayed her life. They said con tributing factors included the fact that she was in the shade and that she lay still. Returning From Trip The accident apparently hap pened the night of June 24 when the young couple was returning from a fishing trip. Jean's fam ily had lived in Utah until mov ing to California two years ago and the girl returned here three weeks ago to attend a church festival and prepare for her wed ding in the fall at the Latter-Day Saints Church Temple in Salt Lake City. Medford Urutea Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year 24 Pages July 4 Traffic Takes 115 Lives; Oregon Death-Free Texas and Michigan Have Worst Records Chicago U.R) The nation today tallied its traffic dead from one of the most disastrous mid-week holidays on record despite an all-out highway en forcement effort. c A United Press count for" the period from 6 p.m. Tuesday to midnight Wednesday showed 115 persons killed in traffic ac cidents. . Drownings accounted for 71 deaths, plane accidents for 3, fireworks killed one person, and miscellaneous mishaps took 31 lives, for a total holiday ac cidental death toll of 221. Texas, Michigan Worst Texas and Michigan each re ported 10 traffic deaths for the worst holiday records. South Carolina followed with nine, Georgia and Illinois with eight each, and New York and Ohio each reported seven. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia reported no traffic deaths. The 15 included: Ari-, zona, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebra ska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon,' South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia1 and Wyoming. '" By UNITED PRESS Oregon has apparently passed the safest and sanest Fourth of July holiday ia its history. Authorities around the state have reported no traffic deaths, no drownings and no deaths from accidental causes for'a holi day free of accidental or violent deaths. Police departments attributed the deathless record to highway care on the part of motorists and freedom from fireworks in Ore gon which were responsible for deaths and injuries in , some states where they were still legal. Idaho, too, reported a death free holiday but Washington had five dead, three on highways, one in a hunting accident' and one by drowning. McKay To Resume Eastern Oregon Tour Portland U.R) Douglas Mc Kay, Republican nominee for the United States Senate, said today he would resume his leisurely campaign tour through 'eastern Oregon that he started in June. McKay will leave Saturday for Bend where he will spend the week end during the Mirror Pond water pageant. He will be accompanied to Bend by Phil Hitchcock, the candidate McKay defeated in the May primary election. He will continue along to Madras and Prineville Mon day and Mitchell, Dayville, Mt. Vernon, Canyon City and John Day on Tuesday. From there he will travel to Kimberly, Spray, Fossil and Condon on Wednes day. Thursday his schedule- will take him to Morrow, Grass Val ley and Wasqo. - En route back to Portland, the former Secretary of Interior will stop at Dufur, Tygh Valley and Maupin on Friday and will at tend the Republican clambake and rally at Seaside next Sun day. Russian Disarmament Charges Refuted United Nations, N. Y. U.R) Paul Martin, acting foreign sec retary of Canada, carried the ball for the Western powers to day in refuting Russian charges they have sabotaged disarma ment efforts and sounded the "death knell" for negotiations of an arms reduction agreement. - Martin went before the full 12-nation Disarmament Commis sion to answer the charges fired by the Kremlin's Andrei A. Gromyko Tuesday. 'Nearly 10,000' Fires In Northern New Mexico Albuquerque, N.M. (U.R) The Forest Service said today "nearly 10,000" spot fires con tinued to burn in the Costilla land grant area of Northern New Mexico with no hope of control ling them until a good, solid rain drenches the area. Middle ,MP' "T c J VAI T Trr P A m ciunr ijam, iuu iuu v.nn ji lrtlXE. THE BETTER LIFE!'" General Fund Budget Approved The ' Medford city council Tuesday night approved V the 1956-57 fiscal year general fund budget totaling $618,158, calling for a levy of $464,998. ' The budget was approved after representatives of down town business and professional people objected because the bud get did not include funds for off-street parking.4 A total of $20,000 had been asked by down town business and professional people as a start toward off street parking facilities: Cliff Lovejoy, chairman of the retail merchants association of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and representative of the downtown businessmen, said he "feels the omission of the $20,000 has been a serious and costly thing to downtown Med ford." Disregard Public He said the association and other professional people feel an arterial street program is only secondary to the off-street parking problem, although both should be combined. Lovejoy said the budget com mittee disregarded a large seg ment of the public of Medford and that the budget was planned poorly accordingly. Otto Ewaldson, president of the chamber board of directors, submitted a resolution calling for an election in the fall of 1956 on a general obligation bond issue for about $2,000,000 which would finance an arterial street and off-street parking program. John Snyder, acting mayor in the absence of Earl Miller, said the council . has not turned its back on the off-street parking problem, and the action by the chamber board of directors may be the starting point for neces sary improvements in Medford's traffic situation. Parking Authority Lovejoy suggested that a park ing authority be appointed by the mayor which would operate similar to the present park and library boards. The finance committee of the council is considering means of financing an arterial street and storm sewer program. Previous ly, discussions' indicated an off street parking program would be incorporated with the over-all capital improvement program. ! The legislative committee of the Jackson County Chamber4 of Weather FORECAST: Variable cloudiness through Friday. Widely scat tered afternoon showers. Low tonight 50. High Friday 80. Temp. Highest Yesterday . 82 Lowest this Morning 57 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace. On? Skies Tonight Sunrise 1. 4:40 a.m. Sunset 7:51 p.m. Mooniise Friday 3.06-.a.m. PROMINENT STAR ; Antares, due south 8:54 p.m. Jupiter, sets 9:47 p.m. Mars, in the southeast 1:50 a.m. Venus, below the Moon. united OLY 5, 1956 Boils by Council Commerce discussed for clarifi cation purposes various items of the budget. The committee said it "felt that the city of Medford is very well run" although the group did question certain items. The- group went on record as approving coordination between the city and county planning commissions, and recommended that if $2,300 budgeted for the city planning commission was not sufficient, money should be appropriated from the emerg ency fund. Transition Steps The committee said it be lieves "the city is progressive ly working toward the realiza tion of the principles (of the city manager form government), and that they endorse the transition steps taken to date." Gerald Latham represented the legislature committee of the chamber. The council approved a change in the state street tax street construction fund. City Man ager Robert Duff said projects totaling $70,476 were not com pleted in fiscal year 1955-56, and that amount wo'uld increase the estimated balance as of June 30, 1956, to $121,232. The funds were budgeted to street construc tion for fiscal year starting July 1, 1956. The total in state street tax is $253,342. Rogue River Blast BreaksSfore Windows Rogue River An explosion at Rogue River between 10 and 11 p.m. yesterday blew out win dows and did minor damage to several town buildings. State police, sheriff's officers, Rogue River police, and postal inspectors were working on the case this afternoon. Sheriffs officers reported this morning that the explosion blew out several post office windows. They believed it was caused when someone set off a half -case of dynamite. Rogue River police thought that the dynamite had been set off next to a power pole on the sidewalk in front of the post office. . . Besides the post office, the Va riety, store the Rogue. River Times .newspaper, building, and possibly other buildings in the area were damaged slightly. No estimate of property damage has been made. Scheduled Airlines To Limit Liquor Drinks Washington J rj.fi) The na tion's domestic scheduled air lines have agreed to keep their passengers from getting higher' than their planes unless they can manage it on two drinks. The Air Transport Association; announced that airlines have agreed to standardize their pol icies on serving liquor aboard planes. The agreement" provides that no airline will promote the av ailability of drinks, that a limit of two drinks to a passenger will be adhered to, and that no drink' will contain more than 1.6 ounc es of alcoholic beverage. 4 Tribune Press Full incased Wire Price 5c No. 90 Anew Menacing Troop Concentrations On Borders Told Jordanian-Israeli Situation Tense Jerusalem (U.R) The war jittery Middle East boiled today with reports on menacing troop concentrations massing along the Arab-Israeli frontiers. The troop buildups were re ported by both Arab and Israeli spokesmen and radios. UN truce supervisors in Cairo had no con crete information on the alleged massing of troops but admitted the situation, especially along the Jordanian-Israeli frontier, was tense. A spokesman for the famed Arab Legion charged Wednesday that Israeli troops had been massed all along their common 370-mile border, particularly around Jerusalem. The Holy City is divided between Israel and Jordan. The Jordanian spokesman said "it cannot be ascertained now whether the Jordanian frontiers will be subject to an immediate or comprehensive aggression." But, he added, the 20,000-man Legion was ready to "repel ag gression." t On Standby Orders Beirut Radio of Lebanon re ported that Lebanese, Egyptian and Syrian armies were on stand by orders and prepared to march in the event of an Israeli attack on Jordan. An Israeli military spokesman would neither confirm nor deny that Israeli forces were massing on the Jordan border,.. It was pointed out, however, that Israe li armed forces generally hold field maneuvers at this time of the year. Check-Warrant Plan Authorized by City The use of a single check-war rant instrument by the city fi nance department was author ized by the Medford city council Tuesday night. The change from the present system is part of the reorganization of the treasurer- recorder department of the fi nance department. The new instrument will be considered a check as long as funds for payment are available. When funds are not available, proper notice on the face will in dicate the instrument will be used as a warrant. The check-warrant method el iminates one step in payment of city accounts, according to City Manager Robert Duff. The council also adopted ord inances authorizing facsimile signatures of the mayor and fi nance officer, and authorizing banks to accept city checks and warrants. (See other council story page 12) Eastern Oregon Wreck Kills Girl Pendleton, Ore. (U.R) Bar bara Morrow, 18, of Long Creek, Ore., was fatally injured early today when the car in which she was riding -failed to make a curve on U.S. highway 395 about 65 miles south of here and over turned. She was thrown from the -car. , The driver of the car, Richard E. Spath, 19, and Barbara's sis ter, Mrs. Margaret Maddox, also of Long Creek, some 45 miles south of Pendleton, were treated in a John Day hospital, which reported Mrs. Maddox was suf fering possible arm and leg frac tures and other injuries. Spath was cut and bruised. Barbara died en route to the John Day hospital, authorities reported. Anti-Trust Suit Against General Motors Washington (U.R) Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., who has not held a news confer ence in his office since last Oc tober, announced a major gov ernment anti-trust action against General Motors Wednesday night. . Brownell disclosed that the government is preparing to file suit against GM, charging it with monopolizing the manufacture of buses. Abductor Fails To Pick Up Ransom Placed by Father Child Snatched From Carriage on Patio Westbury, N.Y. U.R) The kidnaper of one-month-old Peter Weinberger had failed to pick up $2,000 in ransom money two and one-half hours after it was placed in a large tree in accord ance with his demand, police an nounced today. The child was takeij from his carriage on the patio of his wealthy family's $40,000 home shortly after 3 pan. Wednesday. His mother, Mrs. Morris 'Wein berger, found a ransom note ia the buggy when she returned after a brief trip indoors to plan dinner with the maid. "We have made no progress at all," Chief of Detectives Stuyvesant Pinnell tolds news men. "We have made no contact with the kidnaper. The ranson. money was left in a package at a place according to the instruc tions in the ransom note. It has not been picked up." Newsmen had seen a man be lieved to be the distraught fath er place a mamla enevlope be side a large tree next to a ga rage a half block from the Wein berger home at 10 a.m. He then ran back to the house. Pinnell said police had "only vague leads" so far as to the identity of the kidnaper. He said it was believed the kidnaper "must have made some plan, be cause the baby was on the patio at the usual hour. It seems likely the kidnaper knew the custom of the mother to put the baby there. She put the baby, there at 3 o'clock and it was dis covered missing at 3:20." In a "scared stiff ransom note to the baby's father, a drug supplies salesman, the kidnap per demanded that the $2,000 be left at a specified garage in the neighborhood by 10 a.m. Police did not disclose the garage address. Police believed the kidnaping was the work of an unbalanced woman. The ransom demand was modest. The note was ama teurish. Powell Amendment To School Bill Killed Washington (U.R) The House today indirectly and accidentally killed the controversial Powell amendment to the school bill. The amendment, adopted only Tuesday, would have barred aid funds to any states practicing school segregation. The action, although indirect. was conclusive. Acting Speaker Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.), ruled it could not be reversed again. The action was a parliamen tary tangle. It came when the House tentatively approved com plicated financial provisions of the bill. The amendment provides that the government wftuld refund to the states each year 1 per cent of the total federal income taxes collected in each state. This money would be used for school construction. The teller vote on the amend ment was 122 to 120. Walter, who was presiding, ruled that in adopting the am endment the House actually el iminated the entire section to which the integration amend ment had been attached. Stevenson on Tour To Study Farm Problems Des Moines, Iowa U.R Adlai E. Stevenson began a tour of Southwest Iowa's dry farmlands today and said prosperity is a "myth" if farmers "are going broke." Simultaneously, Gov. Leo. A. Hoegh embarked on an inspec tion tour. Stevenson told a news confer ence that "prosperity is a myth if the basic industry is in trouble and farmers are going broke." The Democratic presidential aspirant said he undertook his tour to talk over farm issues and get first hand information about the plight of farmers in the drought area. Stevenson called the farm problem "qwt most serious do mestic problem." Planned The attorney general denied, under questioning by newsmen, that the action has any political significance. He said the suit was not meant to be an election year answer to Democratic charges that the Eisenhower ad ministration is pro-big business. He also said that no advance notice of the suit was given to Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, a former GM president.
