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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. -
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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.
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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 . '
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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
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