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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1956
No. 110
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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
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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"