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WELCOME TO AMERICA John Hansen
(extreme left) 17-year-old exchange student
from Denmark, was given a rousing welcome
upon his arrival at the Medford airport Mon
day by the H. D. Christensen family. John
Denmark Exchange
Student Arrives Here
John Hansen, 17-year-old ex
change student from Copenhag
en, Denmark, says he thinks
American people are very
friendly and he expects to be
right at home among them as
h attends Medford Senior High
school in the coming year.
John arrived in Medford by
plan at 4:40 p.m. Monday, and
was greeted by a throng of his
new American friends. Among
them were the family with whom
h will reside, Mr. and Mrs. H.
D. Christensen, 29 Richmond
ave; their three children, Dan,
Judy and Jill; Jimmy Dunlevy,
manager of radio station KYJC;
and a host of Medford Rotarians,
including C. Weldon Kline, pres
ident of the organization.
Left Aug. S
Arriving at the airport with
John was Elizabeth Cellier, an
18-year-old exchange student
from Cannes, France. Elizabeth
will attend Grants Pass High
school. The two left Europe by
boat Aug. 5 and arrived in Port
land Sunday.
The exchangees agreed their
entire trip had been pleasant
and neither became seasick or
airsick.
John, whose father is a baker
in Copenhagen, is Medford's first
foreign exchange student. He
was brought here through the
American Field Service and is
being sponsored locally by the
Rotary Club.
Long Process
Kline said the Rotarians ap
plied for an exchange student
about a year ago and have been
working on the project ever
since. The American Field Ser
vice carefully screens prospec
tive exchangees as to their schol
astic ability, character, person
ality and similar qualities. Their
entire life histories are studied
. and taken into consideration.
Meanwhile, representatives of
the American Field Service in
vestigate the prospective foster
homes. Kline explained foster
parents must meet rigid qualifi
cations before an exchange stu
dent is placed with them. After
the student and his foster fam
ily are selected, the service en
courages them to exchange pho
tographs and correspondence.
This, he explained, gives each
party a better idea of what to
expect from the other and tends
to make adjustments easier.
The American Field Service
takes complete responsibility for
the students," Kline said. "If
things don't work out harmoni
ously in the homes, the service
moves them elsewhere." Ap
proximately 800 foreign youths
were placed in' American homes
this year. Kline advises those
wanting exchange students in
their homes next year to apply
immediately. Individuals as well
as organizations may sponsor ex
changees, he said.
Rotary Project
Since John's arrival here k a
Rotary project, the organization
decided to place him in the home
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were selected because Christen
sen is a member and the family
met all of the strict qualifica
tions. Mrs. Christensen said t h e fa
mily had a choice of three stu
dents. "W chose John mostly
because we already have two
girls and wanted a boy as a com
panion for our son." Dan is 17
year old, Judy 15 and Jill 7',i.
All have been eagerly anticipat
ing John's arrival, Mrs. Christ
ensen said.
Serious Conversation
Before John was permanently
released to his new foster par
ents, he was taken aside briefly
for a serious conversation with
an American Field Service rep
resentative. He then posed for
more pictures and gave a radio
interview. He speaks English
fluently.
All wished him luck and said
they knew he would be happy
among his new friends. Jill
Christensen expressed her best
wishes in a slightly different
manner. "I know you'll be happy
here when you get home and see
our puppy," she said.
Weather
rOREC AST: Afternoon and eve
nine thunderstorms, otherwise
fair throtiRh Wednesday. Low
tonight S3, high Wednesday
92.
Hi chest yesterdav 94
Lowest this morning ,55
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise ,
, 5:25 a.m.
Sunset
7:04 D.m.
.woonrise t:ao p.m.
Last Quarter .... .. Aug.
M ARS, in the southeast at mid
night, has a more eccentric orbit
around the Sun than that of the
Earth. Last September, in Aph
elion, it was about 154 million
miles from the Sun; todav. in
Perihelion, it Is only 128 million
miles from the Sun.
"Now, From San Francisco A Milder, Cooler,
Smoother Performance, Especially Prepared "
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will live with them while attending Medford
Senior High school this year. Greeting the
new member of their household are, left to
right, Christensen, daughter Jill, Mrs. Chris
tensen, daughter Judy and son Dan.
Judging Begins
Al 4-H, FFA Fair
The Jackson county 4-H and
Future Farmers of America fair
was going ahead on schedule
this morning with all home eco
nomics exhibits in and livestock
exhibits coming into the fair
grounds. Miss Marjorie Hattan, agent
for the county 4-H clubs, said
this morning that last night's
storm blew some roofing off,
knocked flags down, and whisk
ed some dirt and rain on ex
hibits. But, she added, 4-H lead
ers worked all morning and
had the home economics build
ing in "good shape."
A total of 231 home-ec ex
hibits were on display and being
judged today. These included
130 food, 156 clothing, and 35
miscellaneous.
Miss Hattan reported that in
addition to the home economics
displays, woodworking, elec
tricity, and forestry projects
were also being exhibited along
with several hobby displays.
Schedule for this afternoon
included rabbit judging and
contest, poultry judging and con
test, food and food preservation
judging and contest, showman
ship contest, poultry and rab
bits.
This is tomorrow's lineup of
events: 9 a.m., crops and for
estry judging contests; 10:30
a.m., livestock judging contest
market; 1 p.m., beef fitting; 1:45
p.m., beef showmanship; 7 p.m.,
beef showmanship champions.
Portland (U.R) Two law en
forcement officers from New
York have arrived to question
Edward Eckwerth, 29, about the
disappearance last June of Rose
mary Spezzo, 24, Yonkers, N. Y.
school teacher.
Strong Wind Gusts
Cause Pear Drop
In Local Orchards
Lightning Starts
Small Forest Blazes
Wind, fire sirens and thunder
roared simultaneously through
southern Oregon for nearly two
hours last night, and Rogue val
ley fruit growers reported a "se
rious" loss of pears from wind
drop in the area's second con
secutive night storm.
Telephone c o m m u n ications
were interrupted, power service
was cut off in many areas, and
fires were caused by lightning
strikes both in the forests and
elsewhere throughout the val
ley. Crop Damaged
. C. B. Cordy, county horticul
ture agent, estimated about 8
to 10 per cent of the pear crop
was destroyed as wind gusts
reached a peak of 63 miles an
hour. Damage was considered
heavy all over the area, he said,
with areas east of Phoenix and
all of the west side getting the
brunt of the storm. Least seri
ously hit were northeast, south
east and Table Rock areas, Cor
dy said.
Most of the damage occurred
in D'Anjou orchards. Cornice
were also heavily damaged as
were Seckles, a small, high
quality variety which is not too
commonly grown here. Cordy
said Boscs were barely dam
aged and Bartletts sustained
"surprisingly little" damage.
Fires Started
Foresters were attempting to
day to obtain an accurate count
of fires started by lightning
strikes. The forest service said
approximately 26 fires are now
burning and more are being
spotted. Several are located in
the Applegate area, about five
in the Ashland district and eight
or nine in the Union Creek area.
No count was available on the
number of blazes now under
control, though none was con
sidered large.
The state forest patrol said
last night's storm caused 35 rel
atively small fires in Jackson
county . and . 12 ,.in . Josephine
county, with more showing up
all the time. A total of 39 blazes
occurred in Sunday night's
storm, all of which are now con
trolled. A forest patrol plane
was sent up this morning to
look for "sleepers." Rain accom
panying the storm, aided fire
fighters to a considerable ex
tent. Hardest hit were the Lin
coln, Soda Mountain, Chimney
Rock, Prospect, Applegate and
Kirby Peak areas.
50 Alarms
City firemen spent a "memor
able evening" with more than
50 alarms sounding within the
36 minutes between 6:05 and
6:41 p.m. Fourteen on-duty men,
reinforced by 15 off-duty men
and five volunteers, responded
to alarms in 14 separate loca
tions. Two to six--'" trucks were
out continuously for one hour
and six minutes.
Firemen said an auxiliary
power plant was put into opera
tion to provide power for lights
and radio transmitter at the city
police station. Because of power
iauure, tne transmitter at the
fire station was not operating
and a radio car was used to dis
patch equipment on alarms. All
fire station phones remained in
operation throughout the storm.
Only appreciable fire damage
in the storm occurred at a fence
in the 900 block of North River
side ave., firemen reported.
Power Outages
Frank Benesh, district man
ager of Copco, said a great num
ber of trees and large limbs fall
ing on wires caused a "tre
mendous number" of power out
age all through Jackson county.
He said approximately 500 cus
tomers were still out of power
by noon today. At least 75 local
crewmen are now repairing
damage and the company has
called for assistance from two
crews in Yreka. Calif. Two regu
lar transmission construction
crews are also working here.
The district manager said all
but about two major circuits
were in operation by 2 a.m. to
day, though crews are still work
ing on a couple more.
Copco officials have asked
that customers whose electricity
is not restored by this evening
get in touch with the company.
Power line damage was re
garded as general through the
county and a considerable
amount of trouble occurred be
tween Medford and Grants Pass.
A pole near the Savage Rapids
dam between Medford and
Grants Pass was broken when
a tree fell on it.
Phones Out
Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph officials said 500 custom
ers were without phone service
at one time last night. A total
of 200 phones were out this
morning, but company officials
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GOP Platform Pledges
To Seek Tan deductions
San Francisco U.R) Repub
lican policy makers today gave
President Eisenhower a "peace
and prosperity" campaign plat
form pledging the party to work
for tax reductions.
The 1956 platform set a goal
of cutting taxes "with particu
lar consideration" for low and
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TIMBERf Scenes such as this were common
all over Jackson county last night as trees
" and branches yielded to the force of wind in
the area's second consecutive nocturnal
storm. Above photo shows an oak tree behind
the Prentice apartments. South Oakdale and
Dakota ave., which split in half, knocking
down power and telephone lines .but only
slightly damaging car in background. The car
is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Kline, who
Irrigation District
Vote Wednesday
Landowners in the' Talent Ir
rigation District will vote to
morrow to accept or reject a re
payment contract between their
district and the federal govern
ment. The contract provides that
the district repay $5,800,000 to
the government over a period
of up to 60 years. This repre
sents a little more than one
quarter of the total cost of the
Talent reclamation project now
underway.
The polls will be open from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the TID of
fice in Talent.
Congress has authorized the
Talent project and has allocated
initial appropriations of $2,400,
000 for this fiscal year. The proj
ect includes reclamation, irriga
tion, power, flood control and
recreation provisions and will
bring more irrigation water to
about 10,000 acres of district
land.
The district, if it okays the
contract, will be repaying the
government for only the irriga
tion work. Power revenues will
pay for the rest. The total cost
of the project is estimated at
near $20,000,000.
West's Suez Plan
Wins Clear Majority
London (U.R) The West
won a clear majority for an
American sponsored plan for in
ternational control of the Suez
Canal today but India and the
Soviet Union rejected it out
right. After 10 of the 22 nations at
the Suez conference announced
their backing of the Big Three
plan, Soviet Foreign Minister
Dmitri Shepilov and Indian Am
bassador V. K. Krishna Menon
lined up against it.
Republicans Lambaste
San Francisco (U.R) Re
publicans turned today to their
favorite sport, lambasting Demo
crats.
Delegates to the GOP's 1956
National Convention still must
go through the routine of adopt
ing their campaign platform to
day and renominating President
Eisenhower and Vice President
Richard M. Nixon Wednesday.
Decided in Advance
But they have made up their
minds in advance to do both with
little if any fuss. So there was
nothing much left to think about
except attacking Democrats and
revving up a jubilant reception
for "Ike."
Mr. Eisenhower is due here be
tween 5 and 5:30 p.m. (PST).
Only he could pump life into the
corpse of Harold E. Stassen s
drive to dump Nixon and his
aides say he won't.
A few hours before Mr. Eisen
hower's trzival t high adiJUpjtit
middle Income families and
small business.
But the platform supported
Mr. Eisenhower's program of
putting first a balanced budget
and gradual reduction of the na
tional debt.
The Democratic convention in
Chicago, last week promised a
Hydroelectric Plant
Construction Begins
Work is under way at the
Ideal Cement company hydro
electric plant near the Sams
Valley highway in the Gold Hill
area for the installation of a
series of louvre-type fish screens
and widening of the canal. The
construction is being done by
the Southern Oregon Construc
tion company of Grants Pass.
Estimated to cost more than
$150,000, the new construction
will improve the facilities at the
plant for faster movement of the
fish. -
The work which started last
week, will be completed in a
maximum of 90 days and is
hoped to be finished within 60
days.
The power plant has been shut
off, the canal .drained and a
coffer dam has been built across
the canal. The widening of the
canal will necessitate the blast
ing of solid rock before con
crete can be poured. The work
men are currently working six
feet below the level of the river.
A new automatic conveyor
belt will be installed which will
carry off the trash that lodges
against the fish screens over the
turbines. Up to now this trash
had to be removed by hand.
During the early days of the
coffer dam construction the
water in the Gold Hill area be
came muddy. The water was
cleared within two days accord
ing to company officials.
The reinforced concrete and
steel screens will be built in a
V shape. Officials explained that
the wide part of the V will face
upstream with the fish swim
ming to the bottom of the V
through a 48-inch concrete pipe.
By traveling through the pipe
they will by-pass the plant on
their way to the river. The pipe
is to be buried 12 feet below the
water level and will start under
tration figure told the United
Press some news that the Repub
licans will receive with joy.
A top administration figure
said that the chief executive had
returned to a physical peak
which would permit him to en
dertake a fully active reelection
campaign.
No Physical Excuse
"We are happy to know that
there is no physical excuse for
Mr. Eisenhower not doing in a
campaign what he would have
done prior to his September,
1955, heart attack. The only lim
itation on his campaign activity
will be a matter of taste and
preserving the dignity of the
presidency," the official said.
It was Rep. Joseph W. Martin
Jr., veteran House Republican
leader, who kicked off the day's
"kick Democrats" activities.
Martin took his fifth tour of
duty as permanent chairman of
$5 billion tax reduction by in
creasing the personal income
tax exemption from $600 to
$800.
The 1,323 delegates at the
GOP convention were set to
unanimously whoop through
their 13,500-word platform,
which was fashioned on the
arrived for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Harry
R. Prentice at 6:20 p.m., just 10 minutes be
fore the tree split. This particular tree
marked a corner of a 160-acre section before
construction began in Medford's southwest
residential section. Looking at damage are,
left to right, Dave Cardwell, Prentice, Barney
Deffley and Mrs. Prentice. Cardwell and
Deffley are employees of the city street department.
the bottom step of the fish
ladder.
The project has been approved
by the fish and game commission
and the federal department of
wild life, according to company
officials.
This project and the installing
of fish screens at Savage Rapids
dam have been felt necessary by
sportsmen in th area. Both have
been blamed for considerable
destruction of fish life in the
Rogue river.
An appropriation of $208,000
has been approved by the Sen
ate in the public works bill for
the construction of .screens and
canals at the Savage Rapids dam.
Wind Damages
Grants Pass Area
Grants Pass (U.R) Violent
winds ranging up to 70 miles an
hour overnight tore roofs off
some homes in the Grants Pass
area, heavily damaged fruit
crops and knocked out phone
service.
Orchards reported losses as
high as 50 per cent in the 40
minute blow that averaged 40
miles an hour with gusts to 70
miles. The wind average in this
area is a gentle 3.3 miles an hour.
The big blow accompanied
thundershowers and lightning
which started several forest fires
in southern Oregon and northern
California.
A total of 268 phones were re
ported out in Grants Pass and
207 in the community of Rogue
River. Uprooted trees briefly
blocked the Pacific highway and
Redwood highway south of here.
And although roofs were torn
off several houses, no one was
reported hurt.
Democrats
lion after today's session got un
der way at 2:30 p.m. (PST). His
speech for that occasion was re
leased hours before.
In it he supplied the delegates
with the raw meat they have had
to do without so far at this con
vention. He said surely not many
would "want to return this na
tion to the leadership of the past
that despoiled our heritage with
the indelibe stain of corruption
and Communism."
Another Matter
Martin also touched on a mat
ter that is getting more and more
attention here. The Republicans
think they can put over their
"Ike and Dick" ticket in Novem
ber with not too much trouble.
But they have had to live since
1954 with the galling fact that
the House and Senate are con
trolled by Democrats. Martin
summoned his party to progidies
of toil to give the President f
"new party" domestic and for
eign policies developed by the
Eisenhower administration in
the past four years.
It promised peace, prosperity
and equal rights for all Ameri
cans. A toned-down civil rights
plank pledged the GOP to carry
out the Supreme court school in-
Highlights of Gov. Ar
thur Langlie's keynote
address at the Republi
can convention, as well
as other convention
news, appears on page
5.
tegration decision "in every le
gal manner by all branches of
the federal government."
The GOP platform supported
a sound money and free enter
prise economic policy "ever
building new wealth and new
jobs for all the people."
The platform assured mainte-.
nance and improvement of
strong military forces "so long
as our security and the peace of
the world require it." It said the
nation now has "the. strongest
striking force in the world in
the air on the sea and a mag
nificent supporting land force."
It pledged aid to small busi
ness and continuation of Mr.
Eisenhower's "partnership" pro
gram for hydroelectric projects.
The platform assured a fed
eral employee security program
"to make certain that all gov
ernment workers "are of un
questioned loyalty and trust
worthiness." But federal em
ployees were promised the pro
gram would be carried out "in
conformity with constitutional
safeguards for the individual."
Postal Rate Pledge
Support was pledged to Mr.
Eisenhower's proposal to in
crease postal rates. Congress re
jected it this year.
Farmers were promised that
the GOP would work for full
parity prices for agricultural
commodities in the markets. Mr.
Eisenhower's flexible price sup
port program was supported as
the best means "to meet effec
tively the impact of rapidly
changing conditions."
The platform pledged the par
ty to "continuous, vigorous de
velopment" of atomic energy for
both military and peaceful pur
poses. It promised to "stimulate
private enterprise to go ahead"
in the development of atomic
power plants.
Promises to Veterans
On veterans affairs, the plat
form promises "first priority"
medical service for veterans with
service connected disabilities,
and treatment of those with non
service connected ailments "to
the extent that beds are avail
able."
The platform again endorsed
immediate statehood for Hawaii.
It also called for immediate state
hood for Alaska but added that
recognition should be given to
"the fact that adequate provision
for defense requirements must
be made."
The only dispute on the plat
form was ironed out in advance
when GOP policy makers agreed
Monday on a softened civil
rights plank.
Council to Study
Committee's Report
The Medford city council will
consider a report from the coun
cil finance committee on the
capital improvement program
proposing four charter -amend
ments to city ordinances at 7:30
p.m. tonight m the city hall.
The council will consider
adopting ordinances proposing
charter amendments and adopt
ing ballot titles for an arterial
street proposal, an off-street
parking facilities proposal,
storm sewer proposal and a sani
tary sewer proposal.
The council will also award
bids and create funds for paving
Greenway Circle and Greenway
dr., Ashland ave. from Ninth
st. to 11th st. and the south
east Medford trunk sanitary
sewer.
Lehman Not To Seek
Senate Reelection
New York (U.R) Sen. Her
bert Lahman, longtime Demo
cratic stalwart in New York
State and national politics, an
nounced today he would not be
candidate to succeed himself
in this fall's senatorial election.
Lehman, four times governor
of New York in the depression
years, has been a political fig
ure since his election as New
York's lieutenant governor in
1928.
Lehman threw his support for
the senatorial nomination to
New York Mayor Robert F.
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