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Newspaper Page TextSubscribers Recommended A ftnr t'f v inout rehabil itation irlf'tmn ttiff m Cr To report improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 am Sunday. If regular delivery arrivea ahort ly after you call please notify office thui eliminating special messenger service. U.t.j P-s Full Leased Wire Leased Wire 51st Year Price 5c MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1956 No. 110 MEDFOEDfefiyTRIB E EGYPT SEIZES SUEZ CANAL The first onooy of ships to move through the Suez Onol since the Egyptian seizure of the wator y makes its way slowly from Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea to Suez. Egypt's Presi Retaliatory Step Sf Britain Follows Fench Move Friday Washington Calls Egypt's Ambassador London !UP' Britain block ed $308 million in Egyptian gov ernment currency Saturday as er first retaliatory steo against Ijjypt's seizure of he Suez Ciena 1. Is Cairo, President Gonial &feil Nasser rode the crest of hpro's welcome and promised io enpet "aggression with aggres .tvoi and injury with injury." gypt announced it would in Slitute action in the Internation al CcOirt of Justice at The Hague, gPoliand, against blocking of its jcerti funds in Britain. Brit 11,0 and France already were ctthuXii ing international court mrtion against Egypt's seizure of ?os anal. f9'arl Franc 8ritain followed France in fak ir, economic sanctions against Nas.ibr. who promised to permit free access to the canal pro vided he met no Western "inter ference " Two statutory "instruments" Issued by the British treasury Saturday froze Egypt's S308 mil lion pound sterling balance which Egypt used for payment of deb'- incurred in other coun tries as veil as Britain. Another instrument froze the assets in Britain of the British and French controlled Suez Canal company, a freeze similar to one announced in France Friday. In addition, the British or ders cut off private Egyptian bank balances in Britain run nine; Into "millions of pounds." Washington Acting Sesretarv of State Herbert Hoo- n- Ar palled Ffrvnt's amhassa-. ftrir to bio office Saturday and i old him in blunt terms that' the L'p.ite-1 States is fed up with j Egyptian Pre.-ident Nasser's "in temperate'' insults. The ambassador. Ahmed llus-; aein, replied that he "could not accept" the protest. j Hoover told the ambassador i the l.'mted States was "shocked ' by the many intemperate, inac curate s:id misleading state ments" marie about this country by Nasser "durinfi the past few days." He referred specifically to a speech Nasser delivered in Alexandria. Egypt, last Thurs day. ; In that speech. Nasser an-; pounced seizure of the Suez! Canal and delivered a blistering t attack against the United States! and Britain for refusing to help 1 Egypt finance the- proposed As wan dam. Mine Kills Truce Observer in Gaza Jerusalem. (Israeli Sector (U f) An exploding mine killed a United Nations Truce observer near the Gaza strip Saturday, Is raeli military authorities report ed. A spokesman said Svend Ras- nuissen. about 30. a Danish LN j civilian emplnve. was killed by the mine m the jcinitv of Nahal j 07. near the Gra border. Three other UN truce observ er were wounded earlier this ' week, one by a mire n?ar Jeru-j salem and the other two by Jor danian rifle fire along the Israe li border. Washington L3 A special , Scr.aie committee- has mapped ; the first steps of a study to find I out if changes in Russian cold war tactics warrant a shift in V. S. foreign aid policies. i .. ' County Ends Fiscal Year With $2,908,778 Jackson county finished the fiscal year 1955-56 with a credit balance of $2 903,779.43, accord ing to the annual county treasur er s report submitted to the county court by Treasurer Karl J. Jap.ouch. The report shows the county received .$12,540,612.08 between July 1, 1955. and June 30, 1956. It paid out S9. 631, 832. 65. The 1955-56 receipts included S3,302,064.63 which was left ov er from the fiscal year 1954-55. Tax Collection! The treasurer reported that tax collections for the county for the year totaled S601.176.06, or 85.9 per cent of the total levied. Delinquent taxes amounting to 6.8 per cent of the total collected would bring the amount to S64', 205.59. Miscellaneous funds received for county government were $2. 890.182.82, an increase of SU8, 008.03 over the year before. County government revenues were derived from these sources during 1955-56: state of Oregon, 18.5 per cent: federal govern ment. 52.5 per cent; local and miscellaneous, 10.3 per cent; tax es. 18.7 per cent. In the preface to his report, the treasurer said the work load in his office has grown approxi mately 80 per cent during the last four years. This was deter mined from an enumeration of units of work done and from the amount of cash handled. Volume Work The report continued: "In spite of this volume of work the bud get requested and approved for 1956-57 (outside of higher salary) is less than it has been during the past two years. "The expense of operating the county treasurer s office may have to be increased in the fu ture, on account of the greater responsibilities and work, higher cost of materials, machine re pairs, etc." The treasurer's office serves 51 tax bodies and 3 organizations plus the county government, the report stated. Consolidations of school dis tricts have left fewer districts but have increased the amount of treasurer's work because of the necessity of keeping separate records for the districts for prop proper distribution of delinquent taxes collected, Janouch explain ed. Interest on Cash During the 1955-56 fiscal year, (lie treasurer pointed out, the county earned S33.114.80 from interest on cash handled. This was done through "The interest earning program of this office . . . unique among the county treasurers of the state." The report includes an e.pa nation of how such interest can be earned and county business still conducted normally. by analyzing past years in- ! comes and disbursements, the re port stated, the average per cent Weather FORFCAST Flr today th'onth Monrtav. Htth tndav S. low 4: hith Mondjv :-? WtcB iu,.Hv IT nftt pt?rdv 1 1 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise - 5:00 a.m. Sunset 7:35 p.m. The Moon rises 10:35 p.m. in the constellation, Aries. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, sets 8:24 p.m. Mars, rises - 10:14 p.m. Saturn, in the south west 1'? p ra. Venus, rtse 2.3 a.m. dent Gamal Abdel Nasser said he would resist any interference by the United Nations, or any other country, in his seizure move. Both France and England have refused to recognize his authority. (NEA) of annual budgets expended each month is determined. Also, sourc es of income are determined and expected receipts for each month estimated. "The problem involved is to 'put' as much as possible interest earning accounts for the longest time possible and have no more nor no less cash on hand than is currently needed. "This explanation should in dicate that interest earnings are not necessarily made possible on ly by surplus funds or excessive levies." Funds Allotted for Rogue Flood Survey Washington, D.C. UP' Con gress Friday night approved compromise legislation authoriz ing 108 navigation and flood con trol projects costing a total of Sl.617.692.000. The Senate approved the meas ure by voice vote of 130 to 31. It now goes to the President for his signature. It was drafted earlier Saturday by a Senate-House committee as signed to reconcile differences between bills passed previously by House and Senate. Except for some changes in language, the conferees accepted the Senate version which called for 23 more projects than the House bill, thereby adding S274 million to the total authoriza tion. Northwest projects included in Ihe legislation are: Flood control for the Colum bia river basin, including the Willamette river basin, S112 million. Yaquina bay and harbor in Oregon, S19.800.000. An unspecified amount for Rogue River, Oregon, "compre hensive'' flood control survey. Port Townsend, Wash., harbor, navigation project, S387.000. Columbia river basin. Idaho, to start Bruces Eddy, S25 mil lion. Sanimamish river basin. Wash ington, flood control, S825.0U0. Medford Stores Plan Night Openings Soon Retail stores in downtown Medford will remain open until 9 p.m. beginning Wed nesday. Aug. 1. it was decid ed at a Retail Merchants com mittea meeting recently. Night openings at this time will Jake advantage of the increased shopping activity which continues through the holidsys in December, accord ing to Cliff Lovejoy. chair man of the committee. Thieriots Among Ship's Missing New York (U.R) Ferdin and M. Thieriot. circulation man ager of the San Francisco Chron icle, and his wife. Frances, were listed by ihe Italian line last night as ''missine" and presum ed riFaH" in thf sinking of .the Anri-ea Pinna The Thieno'j' 4-;-ear-old ion. Peter. wa re-cued nd was be ing cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thieriot on Long Island, N.Y. The Thieriots occupied a first class stateroom on the Italian luxury liner that survivors said was filled with water shortly after the impact. They were in their cabin when the Stockholm struck the Andrea Congress Adjourns; Social Security, Other Bills Pass Starting Date for Next Session Set Washington 'U.Ri Mem bers of the adjourned 84th Con gress began an exodus to their home states Saturday to prepare for next month's national politi cal conventions and their own battles for reelection. They closed the books on the 84th session Friday night with the passage of four major bills foreign aid, social security, hous ing and flood insurance. The House adjourned sine die at 11:56 p.m. EDT and the Sen ate at midnight, Jan. 7 was fixed as the starting date of the next session. In the final day of its session, Congress sent to President Eisen hower a social security bill far more liberal than he had sought. It would speed benefits to more than one million persons by low ering the retirement age to 62 for women and to 50 for the to tally disabled. It would increase social security taxes. Congress also passed a foreign aid measure much lower than the President asked but a housing and flood insurance legislation more closely tailored to his wish es. The foreign aid bill appropriat ed S33.77 billion, compared with S4.9 originally asked by Mr. Ei senhower. The housing bill authorized construction of 70,000 new pub lic housing units over the next two years. The flood bill approv ed a S5 billion federal insurance program and a S2.5 billion loan program for flood victims. Although he did not get every thing he wanted from Congress, Mr. Eisenhower thanked leaders of both parties for the "coopera tion" he received. The 84th Congress was under the control of Democrats but passed much of President Eisen hower's legislative program. Re publicans said it didn't approve enough; Drnmcrats claimed a high record of accomplishment despite "weak" White House leadership. ( See Story Page 8) Boyer Accuses Wyatt 01 'Throwing Mud' Portland U.R) Robert Boy er of Medford, newly elected Democratic party state chairman, Saturday accused Wendell Wy att, his counterpart in the Re publican party machinery, of "throwing mud at American La bor." He said Wyatt is obviously "a very desperate man," in making reference to Wyatt's assertion last week that eastern labor bos ses were setting the tone of Wayne Morse's campaign for re lection to the U.S. Senate. "Wyatt is so desperate he is throwing mud at American La bor at tiie very time some of his candidates are hystei'cally woo ing labor like love-sick swains," Boyer said. Four Polish Pilots Land Planes in West Vienna l)P: Four Polish Air Force pilots flew over the Iron Curtain to freedom in the West in two planes within hours of each other Saturday. Two Poles landed their single engined training plane in a mead ow near Krems, 40 miles north west of Vienna, shortly after 9 a.m. The two others crashlanded I their twin-engined Soviet plane in a woods near the town of Kirchberg Am Wechsel, 50 miles ! south of Vienna, several hours ! later. 1 One of the occupants of the second plane was injured slight ly, police said. Doria. Mr. and Mrs. Thieoriot of Bur lingame. Calif., spent several summers at a home on the Rogue river between Shady Cove and Trail. Mrs. Nir,n Tucker, owner; of the Chrome!?, and Thieriots; aunt, ?ad The Lnromctes New York office confirmed the re port Friday. Mrs. Tucker and her daughter. Mrs. Nan Tucker McEvoy of Washington, D.C, have been at the summer home about 10 days. They said they first heard about the collision late Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Thieriot and their s"n had been visiting Mrs. Thie riot parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ju- Senator Morse Sets Visit to Medford, Other Communities Breakfast, Luncheon Scheduled August 4 Sen. Wayne Morse will carry his campaign for reelection to southern Oregon with an all day visit to Medford and outlying communities Aug. 4. Senator Morse is the Demo cratic incumbent seeking his WAYNE MORSE Sets Medford Visit third six-year term against Re publican nominee Douglas Mc Kay. Senator Morse will begin the day with a breakfast meeting with the local Independent Ser vice operators at the Medford hotel at 7:30 a m. Floyd Barnes is in charge of arrangements for ihe breakfast. Mo-Host Luncheon At noon. Morse will be guest at a no-host luncheon at the Medford hotel. The public has been invited. Mrs. Albert Straus. Sams Valley. Democratic con gressional committeewoman from the county, is in charge. Between the breakfast and luncheon, county Democrats are planning to have the candidate visit communities in the valley to talk with interested groups. In the afternoon, from about 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Morse will be in Jacksonville for the an nual Gold Rush Jubilee. A special "Morse" booth will be set up there with campaign lit erature and movies. Mark Mc Kenzie. county Democratic con gressional committeeman is di recting the senator's appear ance at the jubilee. During his stay in Medford. Senator Morse will be a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Kelly, 906 Fourth st. Mrs. Kelly is a past county chairman of the Democratic organization. It is uncertain whether or not Mrs. Morse will accompany the senator during his visit. Mitchell Residents Ask Highway Hearing Mitchell U.R) One hun dred residents of this flood damaged central Oregon town have signed a petition asking the State Highway Commission to grant them a hearing before proceeding with repairs to High way 26, the route wiped out by a flash flood earlier this month. The Highway Department has proposed to rebuild the high way exactly as it was hpfore the flood. Mitchell residents contend that highway and bridge risign in the area fun nelled the waters of Bridge creek into a narrow channel and contributed to the flood's dam age. aninto Figueras in Biarritz on the French Riviera. Peter was rescued and Vrought to New York aboard the French linpr Hp de France. Camille M. Cianfarra and daughter. Joan, g. friend; of Mrs. Tucker, were reported among the known dead in the collision. Mrs. Cianfarra was injured and arrived in New York Thursday night aboard the He de France. The Cianfarras and Thieriots both had staterooms in the sec tion of the liner which was first struck by the Swedish liner, Mrs. Tucker said. Cianfarra was correspondent for the New York Times in Madrid. I HllnilMUIlllilll HI IHWIIII ll I Known Dead Rases To 25 in Collision New York lU.Ri At least 25 persons were killed in the col lision of the liners Stockholm and Andrea Doria. authorities announced last night. An ad ditional 70 Andrea Doria pas sengers are unaccounted for, the Italian line said. The number of known dead aboard the sunken luxury liner Andea Doria rose to 20 pas sengers, at least eight of them Americans, with the new Italian line announcement. A spokesman said all hut two Guards Bolstered Around Nehru Afler Death Threatened New Delhi, India (U.R) Police have bolstered the guards around 1 Premier Jawaharla Nehru and two of his cabinet ministers as the result of anony mous death-threat letters, it was disclosed Saturday. Leading New Delhi newspap ers said the letters threatened assassination unless the central government gives up control of the city of Bombay. The press reports indicated the letters were sent by the Ma harastrians, of central India, who want full control of the city. It w;as a Maharastrian, Na thuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Ghandi in 1948. Attempt Last Year Another Maharastrian tried to kill Nehru last year near the Nagpur airport in Madhya Pra desh. He was caught and sen tenced to seven years in jail. Besides Nehru, Home Minist er Govind Ballabh Pant and Education Minister Abul Kalam Azad received recent threaten ing letters, the reports said. Nehru, Pant and Azad are the "big three" of the ruling Con gress party and were trusted Lieutenants of Ghandi. Defense May Call Puller in Trial Parris Island, S. C. (U.R) The defense goes to bat Monday in the court martial of SSgt. Matthew C. McKeon with an early witness expected to be Lt. Gen. Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller, famed supporter of rough-tough training for marines. Puller, who has often said a good marine should be able to walk 20 miles, run five and then go into battle and win, is now retired and lives at Saluda, Va. Civilian Defense Attorney Emile Zola Berman is seeking to establish that McKeon was fol lowing accepted and expected drill instructor practices last April 8 when he took his "lag gard" recruit platoon on a night march in Ribbon creek to teach the men discipline. Six of the platoon's 74 men were drowned when the recruits panicked. McKeon is charged with oppresion of recruits, man slaughter, and two counts of drinking in a recruit barracks. Sports Bulletins Bend The Medford Cheney Studs rallied for five runs in ihe ninth inning last night lo come from behind to defeat Bend 12-8, and sweep a twin bill from tht Loggers. Terry Maddox and Bill Martell hit home runs in the ninth to provide the winning margin. Seattle (U.R) Behind th four-hit pitching of Lewis Arroyo Hollywood defeated Seattle 6-0 last night. The loss put the second-place Rainiers four game behind league-leading Lo Angeles. Sucramtnto U Poger Osenbaugh pitched Sacrarr.en it into a tie for fifth place in the Pacific Ccast league last night as he struck out 11 and twirled a three-hit 4-2 decision over the Vancouver Mounlies. Pittsburgh U.R) Laur ence Leahy, of Wenatchee, Wash., was elected Grand Worthy President of the Frater nal Order of Eagles here Sat urday st the group's 53th Inter national! convention. m are presumed to have gone down with the ship when she sank Thursday morning. 11 hours after being rammed in a pea soup fog. Five members of the Stock holm's crew, all pantry boys whose living quarters were in the crushed bow. also were kill ed. None of the Andea Doria's 572-man crew was known to have died, the Italian line said. The company said it was pos sible some, if not all, the 70 persons unaccounted for were safe but had left rescue vessels when they reached New York without giving their names to authorities. Some were believed to be in New York hospitals. No General Warning The operators of the last $29 million Italian ship announced their latest casualty list only a few hours after the vessel's cap tain said no general warning to passengers was sounded im mediately after the ship was rammed fatally at 11:20 p.m. EDT Wednesday, because "I didn't want to cause alarm." Union Negotiates To Prevent Strike New York (U.R) The Unit ed Steel Workers of America met Saturday with representatives of the steel and aluminum indust ries in an effort to end one strike and avoid another. Union negotiators met separ ately with major steel and iron ore companies to write the fin ishing touches to the three-year pacthat was signed Friday. The 28-day steel strike rfourth longest and costliest in the na tion's history involving 650,000 steel workers in 27 states will not end until formal contracts are signed, which may not be for several days. At the same time, the union re sumed negotiations with the Aluminum Company of Ameri ca and the Reynolds Metals Co., the two biggest aluminum pro ducers, on a new contract to re place those which expire at mid night Tuesday. Runoff Seen Likely For Texas Governor Dallas, Tex (U.R) Returns from the governor's race in the Texas Democratic primary last night looked like a runoff in four weeks between U.S. Sen. Price Daniel and Ralph Yarborough, former district judge from Aus tin. There were enough votes out for the race to go almost anyway, theoretically, but since the count ing first started by the Texas election bureau, the results had Daniel No. 1, Yarborough No. 2 and W. Lee O'Daniel No. 3 . The distance between Yarbor ough and O'Daniel was much closer than it was between Yar borough and Daniel. .The three other candidates -J. Evetts Ha ley, a Canyon, Tex., rancher and historian; J. . Holmes, an Austin contractor, and former legisla tor Reuben Senterfitt were far behind. "Sorry Formal Support Is Expressed by GOP Members of House New Blow to Campaign Started by Stassen Washington (U.R) Ninety per cent of the Republican mem bers of the House Saturday formally expressed their "full support" of Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon for renomination as President Eisenhower's run ning mate. The pro-Nixon "manifesto." signed by 180 out of 202 House Republicans, was a new blow launched by Presidential Assist ant Harold E. Stassen to bump Nixon in favor of Gov. Christ ian A. Herter of Massachusetts. Still another blow was de livered by Undersecretary of Commerce Walter Williams who served in the 1952 campaign as National Chairman of Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon. Williams made public a "Dear Dick" letter in which he told Nixon he will be "delighted" to second his nomination at the San Francisco GOP convention starting Aug. 20. Herter had previously agreed to place Nix- on s name m nomination. The statement signed by the House Republicans said there are "many leaders within the Republican party" qualified for the office of vice president. But it said Nixon has brought "un deniable prestige" to the office and deserves renomination. The statement did not men tion Stassen's maneuver nor did it replay directly to Stassen's assertion that Nixon would weaken the presidential ticket to a degree that might prove fatal to Republican chances in some closely-contested congres sional races. Gold Bullion Turned Over lo Governmenf Portland fU.R) Federal District Judge William G. East Friday declared the government owner of two bars of gold bul lion valued about $5,000. The gold has been held in the U. S. District Court clerk's office for the past two years. No one claimed it, so Judge East declared it the property of the government and ordered the U. S. marshal to turn it over to the U. S. mint in San Francisco. The bullion was seized by fed eral agents in Portland July 22, 1954. Three men were charged with illegal possession of gold. One, Woodrow Wilson Atwood, Medford taxi driver pleaded guilty and was placed on three years probation. The other two. Stephen G. Crippen. Medford businessman, and Wilbur M. Walls, former Coos Bay hotel man, pleaded innocent and were acquitted by jury trials. Hearing Scheduled For Canyon Crash Washington U.Ri A six- man panel appointed by the Civil Aeronautics Board will open hearings next week into the cause of the collision of two airliners over the Grand Can yon last month. The crash, worst in commer cial airline history, killed all 128 persons aboard the plane. Wrong Number"