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Rain Lnits Thundersfonn m Medpord United Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year 22 Pages Stassen May Dclose New U.S. Plan for Disarmament Proposal To Ban Further H-Bomb Tests Expected Plan To Go Beyond 'Open Skies' Proposal Washington (U.R The Unit ed States had in the works to day a "brand new" plan for breaking the East-West disarma ment plan. Presidential disarmament ad visor Harold E. Stassen may an nounce it as a news conference late this afternoon. Observers speculated it may include a proposal to ban fur ther H-bomb tests. High admin istration sources said the "brand new" plan will "go even be yond" President Eisenhower's 1955 open skies inspection pro posals. , Would Limit Tests At the United Nations, U. S. Ambassador James J. Wads- worth said the United States would agree to atomic test lim itations if all countries could agree on a "safeguarded" pro gram. He also called for an ef fort of statecraft" to limit nu clear weapons themselves. Wadsworth said this country and Britain give public notice of the start and location of nu clear tests and apply safeguards. Alluding to Soviet tests, he said "this shows more concern for the general safety than the un heralded method of setting off -blasts in the midst of the Eura sian' land mass." Soviet Proposals Russia, meanwhile, muddied the picture with: 1 1. A U.N. move lo "accept" Western proposals for ceilings on armed forces. The Soviet move was coupled with a pro- cosed ban on manufacture, stockpiling, testing, and use of nuclear weapons. Although pur porting to be an acceptance of Western proposals, the Soviet plan would sharply limit west German forces leagued with NATO. 2. A proposal for a European atoms for peace agency with the United States participating. Rus sia already is committed to much larger undertaking to or ganize 87 countries into an international ' organization for peaceful development of tne atom. Fewer Mosquitoes Reported This Year The county health department has received fewer reports of mosquitoes this season than a year ago at this time, Dr. A. Erin Merkle. public health phy sician, reported today. He attributed the decrease in mosquitoes this year to the rela tively cool spring. For the past month crews have been spraying the worst mos quito areas of the county, in cluding the Jackson County Posse grounds, with fogging type chemicals, he said. Spray ing is done by two men using ground equipment. Coast Guard Credited With Saving Five Lives Newport, Ore. - (U.R) Five men from Salem credited the Coast Guard today with saving them from possible death after their boat capsized in a heavy sea. Operating the cruiser was Rob ert Blegel. With him were ms fellow Salemites Jim Stilson, Bert Iverson, Dean Hagerdon and Royce Linhart. Friday the 13th; Last One in Year This is Friday, July 13. It is the third time this year that Friday has fallen on the 13th days of the month, which some consider to be an omen of bad luck, and which others ignore as "just another day." The combination will not occur again this year. Chicago tU.R) The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has denied 'the charge that there are 150 Com munists in the union's New York MEDFORD, v Highway Commission OKs Supplemental Construction Program Portland U.R) Oregon's highway system received a $2,- SO&iOOO- boost- -yesterday - when the State Highway commission approved a supplemental pro gram of construction to be fi nanced by the new federal high way program. The funds represented the dif ference between House and Sen ate versions of the federal aid program. The commission's con struction plans had been based on a House-approved bill that was $2,500,000 lower than the Senate authorization. Immediate Contracting W. C. Williams, deputy chief highway engineer, said the in creased appropriation would permit immediate contracting for projects that had been Bolt Levels $12,000 Residence at Harper Harper, Ore. (U.R) A two- story $12,000 home was destroy ed here last night when it was struck by a bolt of lightning and exploded. There were no injuries. Three witnesses said the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Chastain looked as though a bomb had gone off inside. They reported that the bolt hit a power line, followed it into the cove of the house and, then blew it up in a cloud of dust. The building then burned to the ground in a matter of minutes. ' The Chastains had left home about 30 minutes earlier. They saved only clothing and furni ture that was blown outside by the force of the blast. Harper is near Ontario, Ore. Governor Takes First Day Off in Six Months Salem (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith was back at his desk to day after talking his, first "un official" day off in six months. The governor arrived at the state capitol yesterday morning to find no appointments and no visiting delegations were sched uled for the first time in his gubernatorial career. So he de cided to take the day to himself. School Milk Program Moves Step Nearer Washington (U.R)- Congress today moved a step nearer pass age of legislation to extend the school milk program to child care centers and nonprofit nur sery schools. The bill, already passed by the House, was approved by the Senate Agriculture Committee for action by the Senate. ' Salem -U.R Major problem facing Oregon civil defense workers during "operation alert" exercises July 20-21 will be radioactive fallout, thestate CD agency said today. - -0 c JULY 13, 1956 planned for next year. The commission, at its regular monthly -meeting h erer also granted "one extra hour per day for use of highways by log trucks but declined to add a half-day to the log hauling week. The commission learned that a 20 per cent increase in engineer ing staff would be required by the federal highway aid pro gram. Williams said 170 engi neers would be needed to handle the job. The commission will have $50,000,000 to spend on construction next year, $38,000, 000 of it in federal funds. Highway 99 Work Slated . The increased building1 pro gram for next month would in clude: Two Illinois river bridges on Redwood highway in Josephine county, $325,000. The commission yesterday re ceived low bids for more than $400,000 worth of construction on Highway 99 near Grants Pass. Fred H. Slate and E. C Hall of Portland bid $258,593 for 1.75 .miles of grading and 2.11 miles of paving seven miles southeast of Grants Pass. C. R. O'Neill, Creswell, bid $170,311 for grading and paving- .38 mile 13 miles north of Grants Pass. Bids received today included: Phoenix Sand & Gravel Co., Medford, repair embankment on Highway 99 six miles south of Ashland, $10,420; R & M Con struction Co., Central Point, build bridges over Willow, Kane, Snider and Dry creeks in Jack son county, $55,532. Water Available in Elk City District Residents in the Elk City wat er district may now obtain serv ices from the water main re cently completed in the area by contacting the Medford water department, according to Robert Lee, water superintendent. Construction of the water main was started last February The water main consists of five miles of pipe from four to 20 inches in size. Weather FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness with scattered thunderstorms mostly over mountains this evening. Most ly cloudy tonight and early -Saturday, becoming nartly cioudv Saturday afternoon. Low tonight 58. High Satur day 85. Temp. Highest Yesterday 93 Lowest this Morning SO Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today. 91 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:4fi a.m. Sunset . 7:48 p.m. Moonset m10:54 p.m. First Quarter Saturday VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, sets 9:19 p.m. Saturn, in the south west 11:23 p.m. Mars, in the southeast 1:32 a.m. Venus, rises 3:23 a.m. ind now begins an eastward movement among the stars that continue until January, 1958. T xRIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wirif Price 5c No. 97 President Confers With Dulles on Foreign Policy Nixon Appointment Moved To Saturday Gettysburg, Pa. U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower tackled a series of foreign policy problems today in a conference with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Vice President Richard M. Nixon had planned to report to Mr. Eisenhower on his recent Far Eastern tour. But the meet ing was cancelled at the last minute when he was advised a storm here ruled out flying. Nixon Due Saturday Dulles and Presidential Assist ant Sherman Adams flew here before the storm, landing at the grassy Gettysburg airport in a heavy rain. At an important news confer ence at the airport, White House Press Secretary James C. Hager ty said Nixon would see the President Saturday. Nixon has just returned from an 11-day, 27,000-mile trip, to the Far East. Hagerty said Dulles was dis cussing "entire State department business" with the President and would have no comment upon leaving Gettysburg. Republican National Chair man Leonard W. Hall said after a meeting with Mr. Eisenhower Thursday that he believed the Republican ticket would be Eis enhower and Nixon. Returning lo While House Asked if Mr. Eisenhower had made it clear he would still be "pleased" to have Nixon as his running mate, Hall declared: "Absolutely." The big news at Gettysburg Thursday, however, was that Mr. Eiesnhower will be returning to the White House very soon for the first time since his June 8 illness". " White Hou'se" Press 'Sec retary James C. Hagerty said the President plans "to return early ne.-t week Monday or Tues day." ild Storms Rake Grants Pass Area Grants Pass '(U.R) An area north and west of Grants Pass was raked by wild electrical storms last night and 125 power transformers were knocked out as well as the California Oregon Power company substation at Merlin. The storms covered an area from Glendale, 25 miles north of here, to Galice, 15 miles west of Grants Pass. In addition to power disrup tions, the storms caused 13 snag fires but they were quickly con trolled. Recording instruments at the Grants Pass water plant were damaged when lightning hit a transformer near the plant, causing a power outage of about 45 minutes. W. J. Moyer, Copco manager here, said the substation at Mer lin would have to be replaced. It served the Bates Plywood Co. there and the firm was forced to close until power can be re stored. Prescotf Park Bi Rejected by Slate Portland (U.R) The State Highway Commission yesterday rejected a Medford proposal that the commission accept the city's Prescott Park on Roxy Ann Butte for state park use. Parks Superintendent Chet Armstrong said cost of improve ments would be $110,000, which he considered excessive in view of the fact that visitors would total about 40,000 persons . an nually. Simulated Air For Sunday at Col. Kenneth Jordan and his staff, from the U.S. Air Force base in Portland, and Maj. Wal ter Lamb, Air Force-Civil' Air Patrol liason officer in Portland, will arrive at the Medford air port about 3 p.m. Saturday. They will stay over Sunday to observe the Civil Air Patrol's operation SARCAP, a simulated air rescue. The mock rescue search will begin with registration of planes at 7 a.m. at the airport. Pilots and ground men will be briefed at 9 a.m. and the search will start Immediately afterwards. Air Force men will have placed a search target somewhere within a 25 mile radius of the INSIDE TODAY Women's news appears en page 2, section 1, of today's Mail Tribune. Sports are on pages 8 .9, 10 and 11 of section I and locals and personals are on page 13 of section 1. Comics and radio and televi sion logs are found on page 2 of section 2. HOT DOG.' Ingred Goude (Miss Sweden) is introduced to the American hot dog as she stops over with other European Miss Universe contestants at Palisades Park, N. J. She is on her way to Long Beach; Calif., where the Miss Universe Pageant will be held July 20. Petition Filed to Transfer Case to Federal Court Here Petition to move a damage suit by Vivian Milson, Eagle Point, and her six minor chil dren vs. Medford Corporation and Fred Kincaid from circuit court has been filed in circuit court here. Mrs. Milson is the widow of Jack A. Milson. emnlovep of .Medford Corporation, who was the victim of a fatal logging ac cident June 14, 1954. Charges Negligence She has charged Medford Cor poration and Kincaid, an em ployee of Medford Corporation, with carelessness, recklessness and negligence in 18 particulars in connection with Milson's death. Mrs. Milson has asked for $484 to cover funeral expenses and $20,000 on behalf of her six children and $100,484 plus costs and disbursements or $20,000 plus costs and disbursements. The petition, addressed to Claude C. McCulloch, Gus K. Solomon and William East, judges of the U.S. district court for the district of Oregon, asks removal of the case from circuit court for the following reasons: 1. The suit is of a civil nature involving more than $3,000. Different Slates 2. It is-between citizens of dif ferent states. Medford Corpora tion is a Delaware corporation and the plaintiffs are Oregon residents. 3. Kincaid is improperly join ed as a party defendant because the first two counts are brought solely under the employer's lia bility act of Oregon and a serv ant cannot be joined as a defend ant thereinunder. 4. The third count is brought under the wrdrigful death statute and can not lie where an action under the employer's liability act has been brought. Mrs. Milson is being repre sented by DeForest and Hansen and McAllister, Duncan and Bro phy law firms. Representing Medford Corporation are Philip B. Lowry and John C. Beatty Jr. Salem (U.R) James R. Banks, assistant director of the motor vehicle department's traffic safety division for the past seven years, has been advanced to di rector. Rescue Set Airport Here airport. It is the job of the search ers to find it. The public has been invited to view operations from the airport. Officer in charge is Lt. Robert McCorckle of the Medford squad ron. McCorckle attended an Air Force school on such maneuvers in Portland this February. - Communications will be han dled by Warrant Officer L. C. Cass, also of the local squadron. Approximately 25 planes will participate. Arrangements have also been made to use the Jack son county disaster car to act as a mobile hospital unit once the target has been spotted. Lea Motors is donating two trucks and a staff car far the day.- Scattered Hail, Power Failures Reported in Valley Similar Conditions Exist in Area Today A thunderstorm late yesterday brought lightning accompanied by enough rain to limit fire dam age, heavy rain in Rogue valley, and scattered hail, but no ex tensive damage had been report ed to noon today. The weather bureau at the airport recorded .91 inch of rain after 6 p.m. to 12:47 a.m. today. Precipitation totalled .74 of an inch in 45 minutes after 6:15 p.m. The state department of for estry on Table Rock rd. report ed about 1.90 inches and the Southern Oregon experiment station on Highway 99 reported about one . inch during the storm. The weather bureau said up per air was more stable today but that "similar conditions" ex ist. Some thunderstorm activity was expected this afternoon. Forest Fires Eight forest fires were report ed by this morning on Rogue River National forest lands, ac cording to the supervisor's of fice. Six fires were in the Union creek area and two in the Butte Falls district. All were "two or three man" lightning strikes, and were controlled by forest service crews. Rain accompanying the storm was credited with keeping fires in check. The state department of for estry district office sent crews out on five small lightning fires today. One was in the Thompson creek area, one in the Wagner creek area, and one near Grizzly peak. Josephine county had one on Dutcher creek, and another on New Hope rd. Plan Goes Up Crews were out on all five fires but no reports had been received from them by the office late this morning. A forest pa trol plane went up about 11 a.m. to check for further fires. Forest ..patrol officials. said, a low fog cut visibility to about 500 feet in nine of the 15 look outs. Other fires were expected to be spotted when the fog cleared. California Oregon Power com pany was troubled by wide spread fuse outages during the storm, a service department spokesman said. Damage, was mostly to line and transformer fuses and little to lines and poles according to the company. No Major Outage There was no major outage in Medford itself. The largest con centrations of blown fuses were on Crater Lake highway be tween Medford- and Camp White, on Table Rock rd., and in the Sams Valley area. All outages reported were re paired by this morning. At Medford airport, ' two planes changed flight plane be cause of the storm. A United Airlines plane sched uled to leave here at 6:20 p.m. was delayed by bad weather un til 8:20 p.m. The plane carried 44 passengers north. A Navy Pri vateer advised to land because of the storm, landed about 8:20 p.m. . . ' The airport also reported that all navigational aids were tem porarily cut off last night, but had been restored. Scattered Trouble .Pacific Telephone and Tele graph received only "some scat tered cable trouble" with no se vere structural damage, a spokesman said. Inadequate drainage facilities in the Ashland Shakespearean festival theater allowed water to flow from the back of the house into the theater building. The technical crew diverted water before serious damage was done. Farmers looked upon the storm with varying sentiments, county extension agents report ed. While the rain helped alfal fa which is in the growing stage and seed lying .on the ' ground considerable damage to cut hay was noted. Grain Knocked Down Earle Jossy, county agent for agriculture, said some grain was probably knocked down but most seed crops were not far enough along to be seriously damaged. C. B. Cordy, county agent for horticulture, said fruit growers in general were pretty lucky'! and only minor damage was re ported. He added that consider able damage to fruit could have resulted from scattered hail. A few small turkeys in the area were reported dead this morning as the result of the storm. Growers explained that loud noises frighten the turkeys, causing them to stampede and suffocate. Fire Calls . Medford and Central Point rural fire department crews ex tinguished grass fires during POLIO M ROW AVAIL UP TO AGE Salem (U.R) The State Board of Health meeting here today raised the age limit of eligibil ity for Salk anti-polio vaccine to "30 years and launched a six month vaccination campaign to cut the polio rate in the state in half. Previously, vaccine supplies in commercial channels had been limited to persons through 19 years of age. The board said supplies were now ade quate to permit inoculations of persons through 29 years and of pregnant women ' regardless of age. Could Drop Limit Again The board said that if sup plies increased, the age limit might be moved upward or re moved entirely. Conversely, if supplies again become critical, the limit could be dropped again to 19. Steel Negotiators Fail in New Effort To Reach Settlement Pittsburgh (U.R) Top nego tiators for the steel industry and the United Steelworkers met for two and a half hours today in another try at reaching a peace formula for ending the 13-day strike of 650,000 basic steel workers. Both sides agreed to meet again Monday. Immediately after the joint conference recessed, the nego tiators for the industry's big three, U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic, went into a huddle Knowland, Humphrey Nominated To UN Jobs Gettysburg, Pa. (U.RX Presi dent Eisenhower today nomin ated two frequent critics of his foreign policy, Senate Republi can Leader William F. Know- land and Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.). as U. S. representa tives to the U. N. General Assembly. They were among five repre sentatives and five alternates nominated to speak for the United States at the assembly meeting . scheduled to open in New York about Nov. 12. All must be confirmed by the Senate. Among those nominated to be an Assembly representative was former foreign aid chief Paul G. Hoffman. Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy (R-Wis.) has said he would fight Hoffman's nomina tion. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said the administration was aware of Mc Carthy's threat before the choice was made. Local Firm Submits Low Bid on PT&T Job H. Barnhart Construction com pany, Medford, was low bidder on construction of a one-story, concrete block long distance equipment building at Rogue River for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. The bid was $6,600. Only other bid was by Armin Richter and Associates, also of Medford, $7,736. Work on' the 14 by 19-foot structure is scheduled to start July 23, according to Jack Crea- ger, local telephone manager, and be completed Oct. 1. Dougas Planning Boat Trip on Salmon River La Grande (U.R) Supreme Court Justice William O. Doug las, recently released from a Portland hospital, left here to day for Boise where he will em- Ijark on a boat trip down the middle fork of the Salmon river. yesterday evening's electrical Medford firemen were sum moned about 6:40 p.m. when lightning ignited grass along Barnett rd. at North Phoenix rd. A hay field blaze on Elliott ave. in Elk City district was con trolled by Central Point rural crews despite high wind about 5:45 p.m. The blaze covered about one-fourth acre but flames threatened a couple of houses. Firemen said an unattended trash fire was the cause. Lightning struck a pole at the White City station of the Cen tral Point rural fire protection j . t !.:. -,..4 . ' tion't electrical supply. . J a 30 Gov. Elmo Smith gave the anti-polio campaign his official endorsement today, pointing out that it may be possible to cut cases of paralytic polio by as much as one half if the cam paign is successful. Oregon last year had 449 cases of polio, the third largest total in its history. Roughly half the total number of polio cases in Oregon during the past five years have occur red in August, September and October. Agencies Commended . Gov. Smith said "As Governor of Oregon, and as the father of two children, I commend the agencies that are attempting to increase polio vaccination in Oregon during the next six weeks since at least five weeks are required to take two shots recommended for minimum pro tection." with federal mediators. USW President David J. Mc Donald went into a closed door conference with his union aides. McDonald said as he emerged from the joint talks that "There . is absolutely no change in. the situation." "The union hag a firm desire i to negotiate a " labor contract with the companies and we will devote ourselves wholeheartedly toward that end," he said. Federal Mediation Chief Jo seph F. Finnegan and two of his aides joined the union and man agement negotiators for about the last 20 minutes of the joint conference. They were called fat by the companies. Second Session Today's session was the sec ond to be held since the steel contract talks broke up in dis agreement in New York June 30, six hours before the start of the strike. Both sides were brought together by the media tors Thursday afternoon and conferred for two hours. McDonald said before Thurs day's talks, when he refused to pose for photographers with the industry officials, that he didn't want anyone to get any false illusions about this." Road Paving Near Butte Falls Starts The county road department Tuesday began a five-mile pav ing project in the Butte Falls area, according to County En gineer Paul Rynning. Rynning said the paving crew will remain there for at least two weeks. Crews have also been doing adds and ends" of paving on Taylor rd. and Beal lane west of Central Point and part of Midway rd. Workers have also finished laying piers for a 106-foot bridge across Carberry creek in Ap plegate valley. Steel workers will start bridge construction in the near future, Rynning said. Crews are still straightening out curves and widening parts of the Wimer-Evans Creek rd. Cave Junction Man Gets Prison Sentence San Francisco (U.R) Two men described by Federal Judge Edward P. Murphy as "small time" operators in the gold black market today received short sentences in federal prisons. The men are Elbert S. Osburn, 50, Cave Junction, Ore., sales man, given eight months, and Guy William Pye, 59, Auburn, Calif., miner, sentenced to six months. Salem (U.R) William C. Mc Graw of Sherwood has been ap pointed as a member of the Ore gon State Library Board of Trus tees. BASEBALL AMERICAN Chicago 4 6 0 Boston 5 7 3 Wilson. Staley (8). Donovan (8) and Lollar; Brewer, De lock (7) and White. NATIONAL Pittsburgh 6 12 0 Chicago 7 15 1 Friend. Aranjo (9) and Shepard; Hacker, Lown (7) and ChitL local. 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