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Newspaper Page TextPrice 10c Subscribers Recommended To report Improper or non-daltr-ry of the MaU Tribune phone 3-6141 before 8:45 pjn. telly and 10 JO ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrival ahort ly after you call please notify office thua Hmtwttwg epectal measenfer wrvlc. MEDFORD m am"1 C (it 1RIBUNE Feature ur1i th Mall Tnbune'i circulation dt pirt ment and a National Safety nun fit stndv of Mdford't traf fte prorm appear on pa It f today a MaJi Tribunt. United Preii Full Itatet) Wira United Prs Full Leased Win 32 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1956 No. 151 51st Year J" j ftp " a! 5. ' .1 I- ' - ; , --if' ; J LAST M-T TREASURE QUIZ Mrs. Edward Collins receives her award of a one-year subscribtion to the Mail Tribune from Mrs. Leatha Collingwood, who has been delivering the Mail Tribune by car for the past seven years. The Collinses have been living In Medford for the past 10 years. Collins is with the Mt. Pitt company and Mrs. Collins, ton David and daughter Barbara are at home. The current series of quizes has been conducted by the Mail Tribune to call attention to the Bargain Days event, which will close Monday, Sept. 17. In order to accommodate subscribers who have not yet taken advantage of the Bargain Days price, the office will remain open until 10 p.m. Monday. (Landis-Shangle photo) Annual Bargain Days Will End Tomorrow The Mail Tribune's annual Bargain Days will end at 10 p.m. tomorrow. The business of iice at 27 North Fir St. will stay open to that time. It has long been the news paper's custom to conduct the bargain event in September to provide its subscribers with an easy and inexpensive way of j subscribing to the paper Mr a full year. In addition to" -on- iderable savings ($3 this yrt'r), such annual subscriptions elim inate the need for monthly pay ments to carrier boys or motor Toute carriers. Contest Conducted This year the Mail Tribune conducted a quiz contest to call attention to Bargain Days, the third year it has done so. More than 1.000 persons entered the contest this year, more than ever before. More than half the entries came in one day, which the Judges conceded was the "earliest" of the series of quizes. The series of quizes, with one year full subscriptions as prizes, was based on features regularly appearing in the Mail Tribune, and, as one contestant said, "I never read the paper as hard before and I never realized how many different things there are in the paper." Originality Noted Some of the incorrect answers submitted showed originality if not an intimate acquaintance with the paper. Here are a few of the "clues," together with the correct an swer (in parentheses) and some of the incorrect answers submit ted: "The Long and Short of It" (Mutt and Jeff) Vote Nat or Yes: Cut and Dried. Secret Briefings Declined Kefauver Washington (U.R) The White House Saturday turned a cold shoulder to Sen. Estes Fefauver's request that he be given secret intelligence briefings on foreign affairs during the election cam paign. Such briefings are being sup plied to Adlai E. Stevenson, the democratic presidential cand idate, but not to Kefauver, his vice presidential mate. Kefauver pointed out Friday that Vice President Richard M. Nixon also has access to secret intelligence reports. He protest ed that this left him in an unfair position as the only major cand idate of either party who doesn't have the benefit of inside infor mation as a guide to his cam paign speaking. Washington ii-P- "Presi dent Eisenhower said Saturday Americans who intend to vote for him this fall also should support Republican candidates for congress. Sports Bulletin Portland U.R The. Port land Beavers ara one up on tha Hollywood Stars in their pres ent series aftar defeating tha California!! 7-5 Saturday nlghi. 1 1 3 V - r V 4. "Policies and Opinions" (Edi torial Page) Male and Female. "The Judge's Decision" (Court Records) Harry Ran Free. "A FIouri.h of Trumpets" (Fanfare) Funnies, Manhunt, Funeral, Contest, To-nite, Ran som! "A Beloved Bungler" (Dag wood Bumstead) Mail Tribune Type. Three Killed in California Crash ' Eureka U.R) Three per sons, including a four-month-old baby, were killed Friday night and a fourth injured when a car plunged 250 feet into a canyon after missing a hairpin turn 30 miles east of here. Dead were Mrs.' "Gertrude Taylor, 64, driver of the car; Mrs. Myra Dean. McAbier,' 19, and her infant son Rickey, all of Anderson, Calif., in Shasta county. Earl Taylor, 63, husband of the driver, was taken to Trinity hospital in Arcadia with severe injuries. The accident brought to eight the number of persons killed in Humboldt county highway ac cidents in the past six days and raised the total to the year to 33. Grants Pass Man Pinned Inside Truck Glendale (U.R) John Trip lctt of Grants Pass was pinned inside his truck cab for more than two hours Saturday after the fuel truck and trailer he was driving left the highway and overturned 31 2 miles south of here. The truck driver was extri cated from the cab by workers using hack saws, chisels and hammers. He was taken to Grants Pass hospital suffering possible back and leg injuries. Triplctt was returning to Grants Pass after delivering a load of asphalt road oil to a Glen dale lumber company. He is em ployed by the R. D. Copeland Fuel company of Grants Pass. Health Board $2,120,000 From State Portland (U.R) A $2,120, 000 budget from state funds was authorized by the State Board of Health Friday for the 1957-59 bi ennium. The board also gave its ap proval on applications for $1, 143.518 in federal Hill-Burton act funds for hospital, public health center and nursing home con struction in 10 Oreeon cities dur ing the present fiscal year. Before submission to the 1957 session of the Legislature, the new budget goes to the governor and the State Department of Fi nance and Administration for fi nal review. The budget is about S354.000 over the amount auth orized for the operation of pub lic health programs in Oregon during tha present bienninm. New Disarmament j Program Is Being Designed by U.S. Hope to Break Use Of 'Paper Agreements' Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States is working on a new disarmament program designed to break Russia's strategy of using only "paper agreements" to curb troops and weapons. Administration officials ex pressed hope Saturday that the plan would be ready this fall for presentation in the United Nations, probably before the U. N. Disarmament was wheted anew when Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin stressed the subject in a letter to President Eisenhower Friday. The letter was made public by both the Kremlin and the White House. To most officials, Bulganin's letter sounded just like previous messages he has sent to the President. It blamed failure for reaching a disarmament agree ment on the United States. Bul ganin also rejected again Mr. Eisenhower's 'open skies" pro posal made at the Geneva sum mit meeting more than a year ago. Basic Difference. Experts said the Bulganin let ter only emphasized a basic dif fers nee between the United States and Russia on the dis armament problem. They said the message disclosed again that Moscow is still Insisting on far-ranging "paper agreements" on disarmaments without adequ ate inspection guarantees. The basic U.S. policy still is to seek a step-by-step approach of dis armament, they said. The new American disarm ament plan is under careful study by key government agen cies. No details were given. But authorities took the position that the plan, when unfolded, would more than answer Bul ganin's note to tha President. Bulganin said In the r"T that the "evil" in the wor'd stems from those nations who base their policy on a "position of strength." He made clear he meant the United States. Investigation Made Into Jordan Attack Jerusalem U.R United Nations truce investigators re ported Saturday that an Israeli force of "battalion strength" 1,000 men was involved in the raid Thursday night which wiped out Jordan's Arab Legion post at Gharandel. UN spokesman Albert Grand said the on-the-spot report by the UN truce team was immediately radioed to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in New York. Grand said the truce team learned that Jordan suffered 10 dead and four wounded in the attack. Earlier Jordanian reports estimated the toll at about 40. The Gharandel desert post of the Arab Legion was reduced to rubble in the attack. Grand said. He also confirmed Jordanian charges that a nearby school building was destroyed. He said the 10 Jordanian dead included eight soldiers, one civ ilian man and one woman. The wounded included three soldiers and one woman. Mapleton Woman Killed In Missouri Accident Marble Hill, Mo., (U.R) Ju anita Lucille Brennecke, 24, of Mapleton, Ore., was killed Fri day when her car went out of control and skidded head-on into a truck near Scopus, Mo. The truck was driven by Dan iel T. Tinsley, 22, of Frederick town. Mo. He escaped serious enjury. Authorizes AoDroval of the Hill -Burton act funds will probably set off the second largest medical facil ity construction boom in Ore gon's history, topped only by the S4.500.000 worth of projects during 1950. Two dollars of local money must be provided for every dol lar of federal money. Ihis wiu bring the total cost -of the new projects td about S3.4JU.oo4. Previously the grants had been recommended by the state advis ory council on hospital and med ical facilities survey and con struction. Recommendations for grants include hospital facilities in Al bany, Corvallis. North Bend, Eu gene, Portland, Bend, Salem, Bums, ML Angel and Lebanon. Expected Departures List Includes Whale Durban. South Africa (U.R) Tha harbormaster's ofiica lift ad a whal on it. "expected departure " schedule Satur day Tha whale, with a newly born calf swimming at her side, poked har 65 tons into Durban harbor Friday. Police launches tried to head har away from tha docks, but sha settled down beside an empty pier and refused io ba disturb id. Harbor . police said they would try io shoo mama whala and her baby out to sea Saturday. Hearing on SP's Passenger Service To Resume Tuesday Company Recessed Case in August Southern Pacific's side of the hearing on abandonment of rail passenger service on the Siskiyou line between Eugene and Ash land will resume at 10 a.m. Tu esday in the federal courtroom of the postoffice building in Med ford. The company began its case supporting discontinuance of the service Aug. 7. After four days, in which a series of company ex perts and other witnesses testi fied on SP's behalf, the hearing was recessed. The "people's side" of the case, favoring restoration of rail pas senger service In southern Ore gon, was presented at hearings in Roseburg and Medford last April. SP abandoned the Eugene Portland passenger run in Au gust, 1955. listing financial loss es as the reason. Complaintants are Sen. Phil ip B. Lowry. Medford, Sen. Paul E. Geddes, Roseburg, and Sen. Gene L. Brown, Grants Pass, all attorneys. In a complaint against Southern Pacific, filed with the Public Utilities Commission a month before abandonment of the service, they charged SP with failure to provide adequate facilities, thus discouraging local patronage. In addition to restoration 01 the service, the complaintants are asking that comfortable, mo dern equipment, reliable sched ules, reasonably speedy service and reasonably good connections with other transportation sched ules be maintained on the line.. Thev also claim discontinu ance of rail passenger service is causing economic hardships to southern Oregon. The defendants have been ord ered by PUC Examiner Clifford W. Ferguson to bring to the hear ing records proving financial loss or written explanations for fail ure to produce the records. Representing Southern Pacific ?.t the hearings are Ogelsby H. Young and F. C. McCulloch of Koerner, Young. McCulloch and Dezendirf, Portland, and Wil liam McAllister, Medford SP at torney. When the hearing was re cessed last month SP's attorneys indicated testimony of remaining witnesses would require approx imately five days. Stevenson Says GOP Pilloried Innocent Washington (U.R) Adlai E Stevenson asserted last night that the Eisenhower administration "has pilloried innocent men and women under the pretense of conducting loyalty and security investigations.' The Democratic presidential candidate said the lives of "de cent and devoted government servants" have been wrecked "for partisan political purposes inthe administration's effort to make a show of weeding suber sives out of the government. Stevenson lambasted what he called the "shameless political trickery" of the administration's loyalty - security program in a speech prepared for a barbecue rally on behalf, of a Democratic congressional candidate Warren D. Quenstedt. High Schools, New Grade School to Open Senior high schools in Med ford and Phoenix and the new H. P. Jewett primary school at Central Point will begin ses sions Monday morning. These are the last schools to open in Jackson county. Most others convened for the first time this year last Monday. Opening of the Jewett school, originally scheduled for last Monday, was postponed because of delay in arrival of materials with which to complete the building. Nasser Charges That Association Is Declaring War Says Egypt' Would Fight for Ownership Cairo TU.R) President Ga mal Abdel Nasser charged to day that the Western Big Three proposal for a Suez Canal Users Association actually is an or ganization "for declaring war" on Egypt to wrest back control of the waterway. In a speech which heralded the first day of full Egyptian operation of the waterway, Nasser reiterated his warning that Egypt would fight any at tackers "to the last drop of our blood" to keep its sovereign ownership of the canal. Guerrilla War "We shall fight an organized as well as a guerrilla war," Nas ser said in an address to 46 grad uating air force cadets. "Any country that wages war on Egypt will be waging war on all Arab nations. Any foreigner who enters Egypt against our will will never leave alive." "Today they (the Big Three) are speaking of a new associa tion whose main objective would be to rob Egypt of the canal and deprive her of her rightful canal dues. "The association which they call an association for users . . . is in truth one for declaring war." As he spoke, Soviet - built Ilyushin bombers and MIG fighters thundered overhead, symbols of Egyptian power and also Russian friendship. Vaccine Scores Victory in Stale Portland (U.R) The Salk vac cine apparently has scored a smashing victory over paralytic polio in Oregon, the State Board of Health has announced. The polio rate among unvac cinated persons in Oregon during the past 17 months is three and a half times larger than the rate for persons who have received even one shot of the protective serum. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, told the Portland meeting of the board Friday. "Our objective was to reduce paralytic polio 50 per cent this year," he said. "That objective have been reached." Only about 30 of the 350,000 persons who have received even one shot of vaccine have con tracted polio, for a case rate of less than 10 per 100,000 popu lation. Dr. Erickson told the board. He cited In contrast 480 cases reported in the last 17 months among the 1,340,000 Oregon resi dents who have received no vac cine, for a rate of more than 35 per 100,000. Senate Committee Postpones Hearing Washington (U.R) Senate investigators Saturday postpon ed until after the November elec tion their controversial hearings on the activities of Murray M. Chotiner, vice president Richard M. Nixon's 1952 campaign man ager. The announcement, which rais ed eyebrows in both political camps, was made in a statement by Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) of the Senate permanent investigating subcommittee. Th subcommittee has been looking into Chotiner's activities with government agencies on eb- half of law clients since the Ei senhower administration took of fice. Tax Increase Unless Requests Trimmed Portland (U.R) State Sen. Rudie Wilhelm Jr. has predicted that Oregon taxes would have to be raised unless some way is found to pare down drastically what he calls the surprisingly high budget requests submitted by various departments. Wilhelm is chairman of the Legislative Interim Tax Study Committee, which Saturday en tered the second day of a public hearing in the Portland state office building on proposals to amend Oregon's personal in come tax and corporation ex cise tax laws. Rep. Charles Allen Tom of Rufus said after Wilhelm's state ment he intended to rwitch his position on a proposed sales tax First Egyptian Piloted Convoys IVlove in Canal "Okay Have We Got Our Strategy Straight?" Clerk Says Opinion May Change County Registration Set-up A recent opinion by Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton may result in a major change in Jack son county's voter registration set-up, Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county clerk, reported Saturday. The opinion (No. 3441) states 'iat a registrar may not register voters at any temporary location. Obtains Carbon Copy Mrs. Hopkins said she learned of the opinion at a meeting of the legislative committee of the Oregon Clerks association Thurs day and Friday in Salem. At that time she obtained a carbon copy of the opinion, dated Aug. 6, ad dressed to State Sen. Monroe Sweetland. Sweetland had asked for an interpretation of the law governing temporary registra tion locations. David O'Hara, head of the elec tions department in the secretary of state's office, was present at the meeting and gave his inter pretation of the opinion. According to Mrs. Hopkins. O'Hara said the opinion would prohibit registration at special temporary registration booths, any political party headquarters or other "temporary" location. He said it has been held to be illegal for voter registration to be taken at any place in a county seat other than the courthouse. Mrs. Hopkins said that in the case of Medfdrd, this would elim inate the fire halls and the Labor temple. Definitions Given Thornton's opinion defines a temporary location as one lasting for a short time only, such as a few hours, a day, a week or any other short period of time. A fixed location is defined as one that is settled, established, un changing, permanent or lasting. Mrs. Hopkins pointed out that even though the opinion was handed down last month, an of ficial copy of it has never been received in her office. She said she plans no change in the pres ent set up of registration loca tions until given official notice of the ruling. She added that she knows of only two other county clerks in the state who have "officially" received the opinion. Predicted and vote against it "as a pro test." Wilhelm said preliminary re quests from state departments for money from the general fund total $280,000 million some SC5 million more than the last gen eral fund budget. State Sen. Phil Lowry of Med ford called Wilhelm's report "staegering." He said: "The people have been led to believe the 45 per cent surtax means a surplus, but that means nothing in the face of these figures." Wilhelm noted that the re quests are only preliminary and subject to revision, as he put it "like when a labor union first comes in and asks for a pay raise." The clerk emphasized that all voter registrations taken before official announcement of the rul ing arrives will be valid regard' less of where they were taken. Eisenhower Sets Nation-Wide Talk Gettysburg, Pa. U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower will report on his efforts to "win the peace in hii first televised campaign speech to the nation next Wed nesday night, the White House announced Saturday. Press Secretary James C. Hag erty said Mr. Eisenhower will speak over the Columbia Broad casting System television and radio networks from 9:30 to 10 p.m. EDT. The address tils first to the.1 electorate at large since his re nomination by the Republican national convention will be delivered from the CBS studios in Washington. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower will discuss some domestic issues but the main theme will be "the most important subject in the world today the peace of the world and the efforts the administration has been making . . . not only to keep the peace but to win the peace." Jacksonville Man Injured in Fall Herb Brown, 78, of Jackson ville, suffered a broken should er, ankle and wrist Saturday afternoon when he fell to the ground after the scaffle on which he was standing while working on a house near Ruch broke. He was taken by Medford ambulance to Rogue Valley hospital, where his condition was reported "fair" last night. The house where . he was working is owned by Fred Offenbacher, Jacksonville. Washington !U.R) The Navy Saturday finally called off its long air and sea search for 12 crewmen of a Mercator patrol plane which was shot down by the Communists off the China Coast Aug. 23. Weather FORECAST: Fatr today, pirtly cloudy tonight and Monday. Continued warm. Hteh today fix, low tonight 58, high Mon day 84. Temp. HiKhect Yffrrrir Lowest Veiterday 4i Our Skies Tonight Sunrtse . 5:. S3 a.m. Sunset . C:lft p.m. The Moon rises before unset and net Nondav a.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars. rKes p.m. and will be In the touth it midnight. Saturn, in the south west 7:14 p.m. Venus, rlsei 2:2 .m. ud In a few weeks will b seen near the r, Refulutu Attention Focused On Canal Rather Than Association Dulles to Attend London Conference London (U.R) The first all- Egyptian piloted convoys began moving through the Suez Canal Saturday in a major test of Egyp tian nationalizatoin of the water way. World attention was focused more on the canal itself" than on world-wide diplomatic efforts by the West to set up a "users as sociation" to move its own ships through the canal. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was fly ing to London Monday for 18 nation talks on the proposal. About 25 Russian pilots wera reported in Egypt to help as pi lots and technicians, but yester day's effort was almost all-Egyp tian with the aid of a handful of Greek and other Europeans. Most , of the European pilots walked off their jobs shortly before mid night. Record Sis Convoy One of Saturday's convoys was of record size-30 ships. It was moving northward from Suez. A second convoy of 13 ships moved out of Port Said southward while dozens of ether ships were stack ed up at each end of the canal awaiting transit. Fifty ships steamed througn the canal Friday, an all-time high, and an official Egyptian source accused Britain and France of deliberately increasing the number of ships to make it more difficult for Egypt to main tain canal navigation. Should Egypt succeed in keep ing canal traffic running it would strengthen its position in the Suez dispute. Western sources predicted' delas-s and possible blockage of the canal and were making arrangements to send many ships around the Cape of Good Hope. New Conference Tuesday The Western Big Three rushed plans for a conference in London Tuesday for foreign ministers representing 18 principal users of the canal the same group of nations that supported the Dulles plan for placing the canal under international control. Dulles was flying to London Monday for preliminary talks with Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd of Britain and French For eign Minister Christian Pineau. Lloyd flew to Paris Saturday for talks with Pineau. Construction Starts In Mission. 66 Plan The first construction in the National Park Service's Mission 66 program for Crater Lake Na tional Park, has been started by W. H. Conrad company of Med ford, Secretary of Interior Fred A. Seaton announced today. The contract with Conrad calls for development of camp ground roads, water and sewer systems at Annie Spring, and construction of roads at the headquarters residence area. Conrad's bid of $71,153 was the lowest of four submitted for the two initial projects. Other work which will cost an estimat ed $381,500 is scheduled for the park this year in the Crater Lake improvement plan, Mission 66. t Other construction presently under way in the park includes the Annie Spring bridge and the Goodbye creek bridge, both of which will be open to traffic next summer. Storm Breaks Ship. In Half; 50 Aboard Bodfe, Norway, (U.R) A convened World War II Liberty ship with about 50 men aboard broke in two and sank in a rag ing Arctic storm off Norway's rocky coast Saturday. ' The ship was the 7,238 ton freighter Pelagia of New York, bound from the Arctic circle port of Narvick to Ealtimore with 10.000 tons of iron ore. Watchers from shore said three lifeboats left the ship, but 12 hours later searchers said no trace of survivors had been found. Directors of the air-sea search said there was every indi cation the ship and its entire crew were lost.