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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
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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.
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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.