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tevensoh Visits Ira lets Pled man 1 HARRIMAH for NATIONAL f2 MV HEADQUARTERS , ?Jg INSISTING HE CAN WIN, New York Gov. Averell Harri man opens headquarters in Chicago despite indications Adlai Stevenson has enough delegates to get Democratic presidential nomination on first ballot. (International) Annual Rogue River Roundup Opens Today A horse parade at 5 p.m. to day will open the 14th Annual Rogue River Roundup, spon sored by the Jackson county Mounted Sheriff's posse. The pa rade will start at Ivy and Sixth sts. and go east on Main st. to Bartlelt St., nofth to sixth, then west on Sixth to Ivy st. Tonight will be "family night" at the rodeo with children ad mitted for half price. The per formance will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Posse grounds on Sage rd. Saturday at 2 p.m. will be the major parade following the same route at the horse parade. Rodeo Event Rodeo events will start with saddle bronc riding, then bull dogging, bareback riding, calf roping, and bull riding. There will be several sections to each performance. Scheduled between the main events will be Posse drills, races, games and trick riding by Lynn and Jimmy Merri of Red . Bluff, Calif. As of noon Friday, 63 local and out of town entries had reg istered at Roundup headquar ters, 7 South Riverside ave. . A purse of $1,000, plus the entry fees, will be divided among the winners of the five Boyer To Altend Demo Convention Robert Boyer, chairman of the Democratic State Central com mittee, and two other Jackson county people will attend the Democratic National convention in Chicago which starts Monday. Boyer, who also heads the county Democratic committee, will leave for Portland by car this evening, and will spend Sat urday in the state Democratic of fices, conferring with other party officials. He will leave that eve ning by air for Chicago where he will serve as an alternate dele sate to Sen. Richard L. Neu berger. Alex Hamilton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Moore Hamilton. Med ford. also will be in Chicago, driving there from Washington, D. C, where he is attending school. Richard Lamb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Drew Lamb. Ash land, left by car Thursday eve ning. He will serve as a page at the convention. First Non-Partisan "Candidates Fair" Scheduled at McLoughlin October 27 Candidates for national, state and county offices have been invited to attend the first non partisan "Candidates Fair" at McLoughlin Junior High school auditorium Oct. 27. The fair is being sponsored by the Medford League of Wom en Voters, and is patterned after a similar fair in Eugene in 1954. Mrs. I. S. Thomas, voters service chairman of the league, said several candidates already have accepted invitations. Among them are Douglas Mc Kay, Republican candidate for the senate, and Democrat Sen. Wayne Morse, who is seeking re election. Others who have said they plan to attend include Charles O. Porter, Eugene, candidate for congress from the fourth dis trict; Harris Ellsworth of Rose- bue. who is seeking reelection to the same "ff'; Sig Unmdexand introductions at booths oftpast two years. 1 President events. The Gibson Saddlery in Medford is awarding a Gibson contest style roping saddle val ued at $250 to the "best all around cowboy." The saddle will be lettered with "Rogue River Roundup 1956." The "all-around cowboy" is the contestant who averages the highest number of points for the three day rodeo. Each event is judged on basis of 100 points, with 40 for first, 30 second, 20 third, and 10 points for fourth place. The Roundup queen. Miss Verna Hickman of Eagle Point, will reign over week end fes tivities. Her court includes Miss Tessie Fisher and Miss Juanita James, Medford, Miss Maxine Peile, Eagle Point, and Miss Marcia Woodward, Butte Falls, Mac Barbour is show produ cer, Joe Holmes will be the an nouncer, with Teddy Billings the clown and bull fighter. Barbour also is furnishing stock. Festival Broadcast Set for Saturday Ashland The sixth annual coast-to-coast broadcast of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival will originate from the Ashland stage at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11. The broadcast production will be open to the public. Directing the National Broad casting company's program again this year will be Andrew C. Love of Hollywood, Calif. Love originated the series in 1951. and has directed the program at Ashland since. Scenes from the 1956 season history play, "Richard III," will be heard on the 30-minute broadcast. Until last year, the program was "live," but since the net work weekend "Monitor" pro gram was scheduled last year, the network requested tape recordings, which are sent to Hollywood and released on week-day evening basis. In addition to the 30-minute program, three five minute in terviews with Festival directors will be recorded and carried coast-to-coast on "monitor." The radio adaptation was done by William Dawkins, and tech nical facilities are furnished by NBC's affiliate station here, KMED. wno is seeKmg reelection as state treasurer: Monroe Sweet land. Democratic candidate for secretary of state; Mark Hatfield, Republican candidate for secre tary of state;, and Robert D. Holmes, candidate for governor. Assisting in planning will be members of the two parties and representatives of various local service groups. Mrs. Kathleen Bash and Mrs. Rosemary Keeney are the Republican party chair man on the planning committee, and Robert Boyer and Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Norton will repre sent the Democratic party. Mrs. Thomas said any service clubs interested in cooperating with planning the fair should contact her by telephoning 3-5889. Candidates will not be sched uled to. speak at the fair, but will be available for greetings Doubt Expressed Soviets To Attend Canal Conference Note of Acceptance Causes Confusion London (U.R) British sources accused Russia today of trying to turn next Thursday's Suez Canal conference into an international circus and expressed doubt the Soviets would even attend. Western Big Three diplomats consulted on tactics to quash the Russian move to bring in Com munist China with eight other Communist nations and the Arab world and prepared to reject Soviet moves to postpone the conference or move it to Cairo. ' British diplomats studied the 18-page Soviet note of "accept ance" all night and said it was so vaguely worded they weren't sure what it meant. Russia said it would send a representative, but the Kremlin attached a whole series of reservations and counter-proposals. Not Causes Confusion The West was thrown into con fusion by Moscow's failure to say whether attendance depended on acceptance of its proposals. They said any move to turn the 24-nation conference into a 46 nation meeting would auto matically turn the conference into a three-ring circus. They said such an unwieldy meeting might drag on for months while Egypt consolidated its hold on the Suez Canal. In Washington American of ficials were heartened today by Russia's decision to attend the London conference on the Suez Canal crisis. Series of Complaints They dismissed as primarily propaganda a series of qualifica tions and complaints about the conference attached to the Rus sian . acceptance. The United States had expected as much from the Soviets. Authorities predicted the Lon don meeting to which 24 na tions have been invited will take place next Thursday as scheduled, even though the Rus sians suggested postponing it un til the end of the month, They also predicted rejection of Russia's proposal that the con ference be enlarged to include Red satellites, Arab nations and Red China. French Against Delay French spokesmen in Paris said Russia's bid to invite 22 more nations to the conference would get short shrift. The French also said they would re fuse to delay the conference. French commentators appear ed unhappy but not surprised at the long Russian note but said "the Russian answer gives some idea of the position the Russians will take at the conference.' Spain officially accepted an in vitation to the Thursday confer ence. That left only Egypt and Greece as nations which have not replied to the invitation. Greece earlier this week suggested the conference be enlarged and post poned but did not give a yes or no answer. Bloodmobile Exceeds Quota of 240 Pints The Bloodmobile quota of 240 pints of blood was exceeded by three pints during the Wednes day visit of the Bloodmobile here. It was the second time in more than two years the quota has been exceeded, Red Cross officials said. Yesterday's Mail Tribune list ed the quota as 250 pinti. A total of 306 donors reported, six more than the quota for donors set by Red Cross officials. There were 87 "drop-ins," and 83 pints of blood were designated as re placements. tables in the auditorium. Other activities, including demonstra tions and exhibits, also are plan ned. Mrs. Thomas said. The League of Women Voters reminded residents that Oct. 6 is the deadline for registering to vote in the Nov. 6 general elec tion. Anyone who has not regis tered 30 days prior to an elec tion is ineligible to vote. To qualify to vote, a person must be 21 or more, a citizen of the United States, and have been a resident of Oregon for six months immediately preceding the election. Registration also is required. Residents must register if they have not previously registered, if they have moved to new ad dress, if their name has been changed through court action or marriage, or if they have not voted in an election within the Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year 24 Pages SMALL BUSINESS AID RECOMMENDED Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower's Small Business Ad visory Committee has recom mended a 14-point program de signed to aid small businesses. The program includes tax cuts. The committee, set up last April, is headed by Dr. Arthur F. Burns, chairman of the Presi dential Council of Economic Advisers. It made the recom mendations in an interim report Thursday. Mr. Eisenhower assured the group he would give the recom mendations "the prompt and favorable consideration they de serve both in preparing for executive action and in drawing up the administration's legisla River, Information Said Incomplete on Many Projects Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today vetoed a $1,600,000,000 rivers and har bors bill on grounds that Con gress acted on "incomplete in formation" about many of the measure's projects. In an unusual election year action, the President withheld approval from the bill which covered 99 projects and 14 river basin improvements scattered virtually all over the United States. Veto Regretted The President said he regrets having to veto the bill. But he noted that .the bill only author ized projects and that the next Congress would have had to de cide - whether to provide the money for them. So he said his veto need "cause no delay" in starting many worthwhile proj ects in the bill. Mr., Eisenhower said some projects in the bill involved too little local participation. He said the "best test yet devised" for insuring that a project is sound is the willingness of local peo ple to invest their own money. No Reports Made But his major complaint was that Congress acted on too many of the projects without getting complete reports on them from the Corps of Engineers. He said Congress failed to get a review from the Army Engi neers or an opinion from affect ed states for 32 projects in the bill. These projects involved more than $530,000,000. "Without such x review the Congress must necessarily have acted on the basis of incomplete information," the President said. He said the chief of engineers has not studied or reported on some of the projects and in a few cases field studies' have not yet been received. Urges Further Study Mr Eisenhower said that in the weeks before Congress next meets a "careful, orderly re view" will be undertaken of the projects in the bill which have not been fully studied or re viewed to date. He said this should enable the Congress to base its action on a full knowl edge of all the facts involved. Son Too Small to Weigh Born at Local Hospital A tiny son was born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Welburn, 127 North Front St., Talent, at Sacred Heart hospital. The baby was so small at birth it will not be weighed for sev eral days, according to hospital officials. The baby is the first child for the couple. Welburn is unem ployed. Weather FORECAST: Considerable hijth cloudiness through Saturday. Mild temperatures. Low to night 50. High Saturday near 90. ' Temp. Hirhest Yesterday 9fl Lowest this Morning 50 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:13 a.m. Sunset 7:20 p.m. 9:27 p.m. Moonset First Quarter Aug. 13 FHUMINfiM ST AltS Sptra, near the Moon. Arcturus, high aoovc Spit. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, rises 9:30 p.m. Saturn, in the south west . - 9:32 p.m. Venus, rises 2:20 p.m. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1956 tive program for the new con gress." Nine of the committee's 14 recommendations require legis lative action. The others can be carried out by the various de partments concerned, a White House official said. The first recommendation and the one containing "the greatest punch," the official said, would reduce the basic corporate tax from 30 per cent to 20 per cent on net income under $25,000. The tax rate on net income over that amount is now 52 per cent. The basic rate will drop to 25 per cent next April unless Congress extends the present law. Harbor Bill Vetoed Hearing Recesses Until September The hearing on Southern Pa cific's abandonment of passenger service between Eugene .and Ashland was recessed shortly after 11 a.m. today and SP will continue its side of the story at a "recessed hearing" tenta tively scheduled for late Sep tember. Final witnesses this morning were R. E. Plummer, introduced as assistant to the SP president, and Charles B. Nines, engineer in SP's bureau of transporta tion research. Both are from San Francisco and had previously testified at the hearing. Plummer Questioned Complainants questioned Plummer regarding SP stock, reasons for discontinuance of rail passenger service in south ern Oregon, and whether or not he was representing SP Presi dent D. J. Russell at the hear ing. Plummer repeated his earl ier testimony that he was not acquainted with reasons for the passenger service discontinu ance. Examiner Clifford Ferguson also questioned him as to wheth er of not he and Russell - had participated in any discussion concerning the abandonment be fore the hearing. Plummer de nied that any such subject had been discussed by him and the company president. Substantial discussion sur rounded the capacity in which Plummer was testifying. A writ ten statement introduced into the record as part of Plummer's testimony Thursday stated he was representing the president. Today, however, he testified un der oath that he was not repre senting Russell. He also said he is one of several assistants to the president and his specialty is finance. Concerns ExihibiU Nines' testimony concerned the 21 exhibits on cost and revenue he had prepared and an exhibit introduced today. The new ex hibit dealt with revenue from passengers on the coastal route between San Francisco and Los Angeles from 1948 through 1955. He also explained the system of unit cost used in compiling esti mates for the company. State Sen. Philip Lowry, one of the three complainants in the case, asked that information be provided before the next hear ing on SP's volume of land acre age in Oregon, dates the land was acquired, sales particulars and leases. He also requested a copy of SP's income tax return be made available at the next hearing. , Testimony Yesterday Testifying yesterday afternoon on behalf of the passenger serv ice abandonment were the Med ford postmaster and nine ship pers from Medford, Central Point,, Ashland, Roseburg and Grants Pass. - They included Robert W. Bash ford, Roseburg, manager of Douglas County Flour mill; George C. Flanagan, Medford, vice president and general man ager. Elk Lumber company; Woodruff C. Mattson, Ashland, representing Red Blanket Lum ber company. Prospect; R. W. Rice, Grants Pass, vice president and general manager, Engler Husoncompany; Francis Cheney, Medford, Cheney Forest Prod ucts, Central Point; Hugh . R. Blackater, Grants- Pass,, presi dent and general manager, Pa cific Custom Car Loaders, iSfUiree- The committee said the tax cut and other suggested changes would have "very little impact" on the budget, costing about $600,000,000 the first year and some $740,000,000 the second year. Other taxation recommenda tions would permit business to depreciate used property pur chases up to $50,000. Such tax deductions now are limited to new machinery, buildings and equipment. It was also recom mended that smajll corporations with under 10 stockholders be allowed to be taxed as partner ships. . It recommended that the tax payer be allowed 10 years to manager, Custom Plywood; Rob ert Collins, Medford, sales man ager, Mt. Pitt company; Paul William Hanson, Medford, re tired fruit grower; and Moore Hamilton, Medford postmaster. They testified that rail freight service had improved since aban donment of passenger service in August of 1955, though they could not say whether or not the improvement was a direct result of passenger service discontinu ance. ' Mail Service Improved Hamilton testified that mail service has been "greatly im proved" since it was taken over by Pacific Motor Trucking com pany, a subsidiary of Southern Pacific. After cross examination of Hamilton was completed, he was made a complainants' witness by Sen. Lowry. Under direct exami nation Hamilton testified that the railway mail service had been unreliable and frequently late, which resulted in additional expense and poorer mail service. Southern Pacific started its defense of passenger service abandonment on the Siskiyou line Tuesday morning in the fed eral courtroom at the Medford post office building. Complain ants presented their case at hear ings last April. SP officials have indicated it will take about five more days to complete their case. The remainder of the hearing may be held in Roseburg, accord ing to Examiner Ferguson. Complainants in the case, be sides Lowry, include State Sen. Paul Geddcs, - Roseburg, and State Sen. Gene Brown, Grants Pass. More Studies Ferguson said he and his com mittee on railroads will deter mine whether or not more stu dies should be made in the pub lic interest following the forth coming recessed hearing. Follow ing that a general rebuttal hear ing will be held. It is possible, he said, that an out-of-state rail way expert will be summoned to study the case before the Public Utilities Commission makes a de cision. Present at the hearings has been Robert Clark, a PUC finance expert, who is partici pating in PUC studies of this case. Contract Discussion Set at Talent Today The proposed contract between the Talent Irrigation district and the bureau of reclamation for the repayment of part of the ir rigation costs of the Talent proj ect will be discussed at a meet ing at 8 p.m. today in the new Talent High school. Officials of the bureau of rec lamation and officers and board members of the TID will be available to answer questions concerning details of the con tract. Water users in the Talent dis trict will vote Aug. 22 on the contract, which has been nego tiated between the district and the bureau of reclamation for repayment of about half the cost which is allocated to irri gation. Overall cost of the project has been estimated at $20 million, with about $5,800,000 covered in the repayment contract over a period of 60 years, interest -i Tribune United Press Full Leased Wix Price 5c No. 121 pay estate taxes when the state consists largely of investments in closely-held business con cerns. It said payment of heavy estate taxes has been a "con tributing cause of numerous mergers." forcing the sale of small concerns. The committee urged the Pres ident to arrange for a "compre hensive review" of the govern ment buying policies with a view to permitting greater par ticipation by small business. It also urged that government con tracting officers be more sympa thetic to small business bidders who may need advances from the government in order to carry out a contract. Nixon and Stassen Visit While House Bui Do Not Meet Washington U.R Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Harold E. Stassen, the man who wants to keep him off the 1956 Republican ticket, visited the White House at the same time today but didn't run into each other. Nixon conferred about half an hour with President Eisenhower on Suez and other "internation al affairs." Did they discuss poli tics in general and perhaps Stassen's dump Nixon drive in particular? ' Nixon wouldn't say. Told that Stassen also was in the White House, the vice president just smiled and said he hadn t been aware of that. Didn't See President Stassen did not see the Presi dent. He spent about 20 minutes with Presidential Assistant Sher man Adams. Stassen refused to tell reporters the purpose of his call. Assistant White House Press Secretary Murray Snyder refused to comment on the Stas-sen-Adams meeting and said he "wouldn't know" whether it was about government- business or something else. Stassen is on leave of absence as President Eisenhower's dis armament adviser while push ing his campaign against re nomination of Nixon. Nixon, Dewey Meet Nixon and former New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey held a behind the scenes meeting Thursday night in a hoteP three blocks from the White House. Dewey said he and Nixon and others present "talked about a lot of things" including politics. He would not say whether they discussed the Stassen campaign. Today, Nixon refused to go any further than Dewey had in describing the meeting. He told reporters he had said all he is going to ' say about vice presi dential matters until the Repub lican convention starts in San Francisco Aug. 20. Salem U.R) First meeting of the ragweed control commit tee will be held here Saturday. Near the Jugular Vein Harriman Arrives To Personally Head Nomination Drive Former President To Tell Choice Saturday Chicago (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson came away empty handed from a visit with former President Truman today but in dicated that he had not sought a pledge of support for his bid for the Democratic presidential nom ination. At the same time. Gov. Aver ell Harriman arrived here to take personal charge of his cam paign to come from behind and wrest the nomination from the front running Stevenson at next week's Democratic National con vention. ' Harriman was expected to pay a call later today on Mr. Tru man, who has long been re garded as a secret supporter of his old Cabinet officer. Mr. Truman will dispel the mystery about his intentions Saturday by revealing his choice for the nomination. Under Heavy Pressure He was under heavy pressure from old political associates to throw his weight behind Harri man. Many of the early arriv ing delegates, however, believe he would endorse Stevenson be cause it would be difficult to stop the renominalion of the former Illinois governor. However, one of Mr. Tru man's oldest Washington asso ciates put it this way today: "On the basis of his past atti tude, I assume he is going to endorse Harriman. But I can't understand it. Stevenson's chances of winning on the second ballot would still look good." Stevenson spent 30 minutes this morning at Mr. Truman's hotel suite but said their discus sion did not involve the nomina tion. "We ' talked about the plat form, we talked about the con vention but we did not talk can didates." he said. Civil Rights Issue He said he thinks that he and Mr. Truman found themselves in agreement on Ihe civil fights plank of the party platform, the issue which can still divide the convention and affect Steven son's chances. Stevenson said his statement this week favoring a plan giving "unequivocal approval" of the Supreme Court decision against school segregation represented no change in his previous stand. Southern Democrats breathed a sigh of relief Thursday when Mr. Truman made no such recommendation before the Plat form committee. When Stevenson and the ex President were asked what was decided at their session, Steven son replied that they had "de cided to elect a Democratic president next November." Two Grants Pass Men Missing at Brookings Brookings, Ore. (U.R) An air and sea search was under way today for three men, including two Grants Pass dentists, report ed missing after going fishing in the Pacific ocean yesterday. Missing were Dr. J. M. Hoatson and Dr. Thomas A. Monahan of Grants Pass, and Lloyd Morri son of Harbor, owner of the boat which failed to return yesterday. Dr. Monahan is a member of the Grants Pass city council. A Coast Guard plane and two private planes were searching in the area west of here for the three men. Copyright, 1956. The Pulitzer Publishing Co.. St- Louis Post-Dispatch (iicrblock ea Vacation) V
