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I Benson Defend Farm IPo Tons' m 1$ Several Candidates Scheduled to Visit In Area This Month Congressman Harrij Ells worth's visit in Jackson county this week starts a series of vis Its by candidates and politicians, including Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee, during the month. Ellsworth. Republican seeking reelection as congressman from the fourth district, spent yester day and today in the Ashland area, and is scheduled to ad dress a Southern Oregon college assembly tomorrow morning. He will be guest speaker at the Kiwanis club luncheon to morrow in Mcdford. and has scheduled a series of neighbor hood socials Friday and Satur day after visits to Central Point, Gold Hill. Rogue River, Eagle Point, and Shady Cove during afternoons. Visits Scheduled Also scheduled for Ellsworth are visits to Bear Creek orchards and the Lausmann Lumber com pany. He will confer with mem bers of the Ellsworth for Con gress committee at a dinner meeting Wednesday. Sen. Wayne Morse will be in the valley Thursday. Oct. 11 for a schedule which includes an address at Southern Oregon col lege, a television broadcast and dinner meeting of the Demo cratic Social club. The latter will be at 6:15 p.m. at the Mcd ford hotel. ; Senator Morse, who is seek ing reelection, will address a can didate's night sponsored by the Veterans Allied council at 7:30 p m. at the Labor temple, and will speak at 8:3n p.m. at the Esquire theater. He will leave for Brookings at 9:30 p.m. Thursday. Senator Morse originally was scheduled to be in the valley Wednesday, but because of Adlai Stevenson's visit to Oregon Oct. 10, the date was changed, ac cording to Robert Boyer, state Democratic chairman. Candidates' Fair Also scheduled for Thursday. Oct. 11, is a candidates' fair sponsored by the Veterans Allied council at the Labor temple. De tails of the fair will be an nounced later, according to Pat 1" $25,509 Pledged Thus Far in UMC A total of 22 per cent of the $117,175 goal of the United Med ford Crusade was reported pledged at the weekly report luncheon of division chairmen, section heads and solicitors yes terday at the Medford YMCA. Pledged to date is $25,509.71. Sam Hcrsh, general chairman, said. The weekly report luncheons are held to report progress dur ing the UMC campaign, which started laat month. Yesterday's luncheon was served by the aux iliary of the Crater Lions club. Mrs. Ray Retcr. chairman of the Home Crusade division, an nounced section chairman for the Home Crusade which will start Wednesday. Oct. 24. Mrs. Tom Culbertson Jr. is vice chair man. Colonels who will direct sol icitations in the Home Crusade are Mrs. Eugene J. DeVoe, Mrs. J. W. Barnard, Mrs. Clyde Ficht ner, Mrs. Earl Bigelow and Mrs. Glenn Linn. You Must Be Registered To Vote November 6 Registration Deadline October 6 Six Children Found Hacked To Death; Dad Kills Self After Domestic Quarrel Clinton, N.C. U.R) A ber serk white tenant fanner hacked his six children to death today, then fled into a swampy woods where he shot himself to death. The body of the father. Rufus A. Kins;. 34. was found four hours after the bodies of the children, ranging in age from 2' 2 to 12. we.e found sprawled in King's five room tenant house in the Keener community seven miles north of here. Fit of Despondency The black-bearded father ap parently killed his children in a -it of despondency, touched off by a domestic quarrel and the fact that his wife had sworn out a warrant charging him with as sault. The children were slain early today, officers said, apparently Graham, secretary of the coun cil. The candidates fair will be open to all candidates, he said. Senator Gore will be in Med ford Sunday, Oct. 14, accord ing to Larry Sheehan, chairman of the county Democratic party. Meeting times will be announced later, he said. Senator and Mrs. Richard Neubcrger will visit Jackson county the week of Oct. 15. They are scheduled to speak at South ern Oregon college Wednesday. Oct. 17, and will be in Medford Friday. Oct. 19. Details of their visit here will be announced later. Reclamation, Flood Control Hearing Slated in Medford A public hearing on Rogue river reclamation and flood con trol development will be held in Medford Oct. 19 by the Sen ate interior and public works committees. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger announced today. The hearing here will follow a session in Klamath Falls Oct. 18, where the interior commit tee, of which Senator Neuberger is a member, will review han dling of the termination of gov ernment supervision of the Klamath Indian tribe. Neuberger said Sen. .fames E. Murray of Montana, chairman of the committee, probably would preside over the hear ings. Senator Dennis Chavez (D-N.M.), chairman of the public works committee,, also is ex pected at the hearing here, Neu berger said. Problems Crucial Neuberger pointed out that the considered problems along river "are so crucial that the interior committee should study them at Medford, where local Oregon, people will have an op portunity to be heard." He said the river could pro vide water for major irrigation developments and at the same time safeguard the Rogue's fish erics and wildlife. - A hearing on flood control along the Rogue will be held by the Army corps of engineers in Grants Pass Oct. 25.. The Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources association, which was organized by valley residents after last winter's floods, has urged hearings by the corps of engineers concern ing flood control. Neuberger said time would be limited at the Medford hear ing, and urged residents who wish to be heard to contact Wil liam H. Coburn, committee counsel, at the Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., as soon as possible. Safe Recovered from Apptegate River Monday A safe reported stolen Sept. 27 from Medford Feed and Seed company was recovered Mon day afternoon, from the Apple gate river near Ruch, Sheriff Howard Gault reported today. Harlan Cantrall, Hamilton rd., Jacksonville, reported the dis covery to sheriff's deputies. Gault said the safe had been chiselled open. When recovered from the river it was empty ex cept for a few papers. The com pany previously repotted to the sheriff that the safe contained only a few cents. Charlotte, N. C. (U.R) Na thaniel Pooie thinks friendship can be carried just so far. He told police a $100 diamond ring disappeared from his finger dur ing a round of handshaking at a chance meeting with friends at a cafe. by their father. King, who had driven his wife from home after beating her Monday, was heard to leave the house early today, then return some time later in a car driven at high speed. Deputies who went to the house about 8 a.m. to serve a warrant charging King with as saulting his wife found the bat tered and bloody bodies. Qun Apparently Used A funeral home here said sev eral of the children apparently also suffered gunshot wounds. The stocky, 190-pound King was carrying a .410 gauge shot gun. The broken stock of the rifle was found in the blood spattered tenant house. Officers said King apparently used it in beating the children to death. The children were identified Administration Of Truman Blamed For Peron's Rise 'Principal Factor' Cited by Dulles Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles charged today that Truman ad ministration interference in Ar gentina was a principal factor in dictator Juan Peron's rise to power. He told his news conference Peron won Lis power as a result of the resentment of the Argen tine people over attempts by foreigners to interfere in their internal affairs. Response io Questions Dulles fired the charge in re sponse to questions on the state ment of Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, publisher of the famed Buenos Aires newspaper La Prensa, that both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations had been unduly friendly to the Peron regime. The whole controversy over this country's policies toward the deposed Argentina dictator was kicked off last week by Democratic presidential candi date Adlai E. Stevenson. He charged the Eisenhower admin istration with appeasing the Pe ron administration and said that Milton Eisenhower, the Presi dent's brother, had assumed a "special . . . responsibility'' for U.S. policy toward Argentina. Refuses To Give Details Dulles refused twice to say when or how the Truman admin istration had intervened in Ar gentine affairs. He dismissed the questions with the comment that the answers were well known. The secretary did not say the Eisenhower administration was directly responsible for Peron's eventual ouster but he said it did allow natural force to work toward this end. Dulles commented that some people have argued that U.S. intervention might have speeded the process of Peron's downfall. But he said that the Truman administration had tried an in tervention policy and it had bad results. - - -----i One of Stevenson's charges was that ths Eisenhower admin istration had made loans to Peron and that he in turn "piled up balances of more than $100 million in Switzerland" for his personal use. Records of the Export-Import bank show that the Eisenhower administration did agree to lend the Argentine government, or Argentine businesses. $62.5 mil lion but that none of the money actually was delivered while Peron was in Dower. Money From Democrats The records also show that the Truman administration agreed to loan $130 million to Peron or Argentine firms and that $101,700,000 actually was de livered. Dulles' blast against the Tru man administration was prompt ed by Questions based on a New York Herald Tribune dispatch signed by Dr. Gainza Paz. pub lisher of La Prensa. the news paper seized by the Peron gov ernment and recently returned to the original owners. Weather FORECAST: A few clouds with a chance f Huht showrrs over the mountain, otherwise fair through Wednesday. Low o nisht 45, high Wednesday 13-78. Tent. Hishet Yes(evtay Lowest Yesterday 4J Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:09 a.m. Sunset - 5:52 p.m. Moonrise Wednesday . 5:43 a.m. New Moon Wednesday night PROMINENT STAR Regtilu!!. rises 3:07 a.m. The planet, Venus, moving east ward around the Sun, now ap pears a little above Regulus. Next week Venus will be seen between Regulus and Jupiter. as Grace 12. Sonny 11, Melvin 10, Ruth 5, Jerry 4, and Susan, 24 years old. Neighbors said that King was "never known to drink" and had a reputation as a quiet, peaceful man. 'Ideal' Tenant Mrs. Ed Hines of Clinton, own er of the farm on which King lived as a tenant, said King had been "an ideal" tenant for the past seven years. Neighbors said King apparent ly was a devoted father and ap peared affectionate. They knew of no recent domestic troubles between King and his wife, Christine Tyndall King, 30, un til Monday. But relatives said that in a jealous rage "about 13 years ago" King had beaten his wife. 51st Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 24 Pages Ike Raps Test Ban Adlai Confused, President Charges In Kentucky Talk Democrats Blamed for Lack of School Funds Lexington. Ky !U.R Presi dent Eisenhower, again using stronger words than he probably ever employed since the 1952 campaign, directly attacked the Democrats Monday night over federal aid to education. His staff said this was "only the beginning." The President charged that Adlai Stevenson is apparently confused about education. 'Back To Old Road' He said the Democrats want to lead the nation "back to the old road the zig-zag direction less road of trial and error." He characterized the Democratic Party as being comprised of ad vocates of "drifting war and racing inflation." Mr. Eisenhower repeatedly slugged at the Democrats in a speech to more than 16,000 per sons in the University of Ken tucky Coliseum. Then he got back into his personal plane, the Columbine III, and returned to Washington less than 36 hours after leaving the capital. Attacks Democrats Earlier Monday, the Presi dent attacked the Democrats in a speech at Cleveland for toler ating "the thievery of inflation." - As the President spoke at Lex ington, Stevenson issued a state ment in Washington accusing the administration of "incapacity or unwillingness" to meet the na tion's educational "crisis." The Democratic presidential nominee charged the adminis tration has "utterly failed to de velop a comprehensive national policy on education." And he said the President "sat by" while 96 GOP congressmen voted against his "weak" school con struction bill. Mr. Eisenhower told his Ken tucky audience and listeners from coast to coast that expand ing school facilities is the "most urgent" domestic problem facing the nation. Says Shortage Reduced The Chief Executive said the serious schoolroom shortage had been reduced somewhat under his administration, but not enough. And he blamed the Democrats in Congress tor not providing sufficient funds for school improvement. Mr. Eisenhower recalled that in the last and Democratic-con trolled Congress he asked for a $2 billion program of federal grants and other aids for school construction during a five-year period. The President also pointed out that he insisted that the federal aid be distributed to states on the basis of need and that the states, themselves, match the federal funds. Congress, how ever, turned down the Presi dent's suggestion. Trial of Grants Pass Man Starts Today Trial of Frank Close, 44, Grants Pass, charged with grand larceny, got ' under way this morning in circuit court. Close, who previously pleaded innocent of the charge, is ac cused of taking a power lawn mower and a garden cart from the Harry Neil residence south of Grants Pass, during the flood last winter, Neil is now a resi dent of Redding. Calif. Repre senting Close is O. H. Bengtson, Medford attorney. Building Permits Show Increase Last Month Building permits issired in September totaled S263.342. compared with $207,355 for Sep tember last year, O. R. McNeel. Medford building inspector, an nounced today. Amonp permits for May were 16 new homes. S159.500; 14 homes remodeled, S17.235; two new apartments. $36,000; one new business establishment. $30,000: three business estab lishments remodeled. $10,000; and eight new garages, $3,048. Salem U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith has designated Oct. 7-13 as Fire Prevention Week in Oregon. ' MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1956 Foes on Education; Leader Said Needed "The New Doesn't j TT ! JSme CALLS Saturday Is Final Day for Registering Jackson county residents this morning continued to file into the county clerk's office to reg ister to vote'fn the Nov. .6 gen eral election, but figures on the total number of registrations to date were not available at noon today. Residents who wish to vote Nov. 6 must be registered by 8 p. m. Saturday, Oct. 6. The county clerk's office and fire halls in Medford will be open until that time for late registra tions. Election department officials said anyone inside the doors at 8 p.m. would be allowed to reg ister, but doors would close at that time. Residents may register in sev eral places throughout the coun ty. The registration locations are listed on page 14 of today's Mail Tribune. Those Who Register In order to vote Nov. 6, those who must register are: 1. Those who have never be fore been registered. Late News Briefs EMPLOYERS WARNED Salem (U.R) State Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen said today that many Oregon employers who have been hiring minors under 18 without work permits from the labor bureau face stern penalties under the law. SILVERTON MAN JAILED Salem tU.R) Norval Eugene Jackson, 23, Silverton, was in jail here today charged with rape and contributing to the de linquency of a minor. He was one of at least three persons se cretly indicted yesterday by a special grand jury investigating Silverton "sex parties." SENTENCED TO PRISON Portland U.R Orval Mit chell, 32, a former Sweet Home chief of police, today was sen tenced to nine months in prison by Federal Judge William East for trying to manufacture Su bills. Archie Mishler of Clackamas. Mitchell's co-defendant, and fa ther of seven children, was giv en three years probation. - DEALERS TO PLEAD Salem U.R) Two Salem magazine dealers charged with selling indecent literature will enter pleas next Monday in Cir cuit court here. The men. Jack St. Clair and Claude Cummings. had sought to have charges dismissed on grounds that the obscene litera ture law was unconstitutional due to vagueness. Salem U.R) Plans have been announced here for a proposed new $100,000 headquarters building to house the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation and the Oregon Farm Bureau Insurance Company. Sound Any Better" 2. Those who failed to vote in either the primary or general election in 1954 and whose reg istrations were therefore can celled. 3. Anyone who has moved to a new address since last regis tering. , 4. Anyone who has changed his or her name, either by mar riage or by court action. At least six months residence in Oregon is required before a person becomes eligible to vote in the state. Voters who will be absent on election day, or who are unable to travel to the polls, may obtain absentee ballots from the county clerk's office. The absentee ballots must be turned in at least five days be fore the Nov. 6 election date. Veterans Hear McKay Disagree on Pension Portland (U.R) Douglas McKay stood up to a veterans' group in Portland last night and said he did not support their pension program. GOP candidate for the U. S. Senate, McKay, spoke briefly to a meeting of the Veterans of World War I and said "pensions for veterans should not be a matter of charity. They should be expected as a matter of right." McKay then, was asked from the floor if he supported the groups' program for $100 "across the board" benefits for Warld War I veterans. McKay said he supported the program outlined by the American Legion and that he did not support the VWWI program. "I don't think it's necessary," he said. "There are many men who have good incomes and do not need such money. I don't feel an 'across-the-board' pro gram is correct." - Council to Consider Annexations Tonight The Medford city council will consider calling for elections in the Berrydale and Grandview Kenwood districts on annexing the areas to Medford at 7:30 p.m. today. The city planning commission recommended last Monday that the two districts north and northeast of Medford be an nexed. The commission indicat ed favorable action by the coun cil should be made so the an nexation may be included on the Nov. 6 ballot. The council will also hold a public hearing on paving Mur ray st. from the end of the exist ing pavement to Columbus ave. Tile council also will consider adopting plans and specifica tions for paving Murray ave.. calling for bids on the project, and establishing a southeast Medford trunk sewer fund. Price 10c RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wi No. 165 World's Powers Claimed Ready To End Nuclear Tests Step Would Be Safe, Candidate Declares En Roule with Stevenson ;U.R Adlai E. Stevenson said to day he believes the world's ma jor powers are ready to halt H bomb tests "if there is leadership in this direction." Setting off on a campaign trip through New Jersey, the Demo cratic presidential candidate re newed his appeal for action by Portland (U.R) Adlai Ste venson, Democratic presiden tial nominee, will make his only scheduled Oregon appear ance of the campaign her next week and will spend about eight hours in Portland, Democratic state headquarters said today. Stevenson will make a ma jor address at the auditorium ' at 7:30 p.m. I this country to bring about a "moratorium" on tests of nu clear weapons. "The renunciation of H-bomb tests is a step which I think the great powers are now willing to take if there is leadership in this direction, Stevenson said. A Safe Step "It is a step thai can be safe ly taken, for no one can explode a hydrogen bomb in secret and each would know whether the others were acting in good faith. It would be a step along a new path toward peace." "I regret," he said, that the Eisenhower administration "has not pressed forward along this path to peace as so many have urged Catholic and Protestant religious leaders, distinguished scientists, prominent educators, yes, and serious politicians." "I regret also, that it seems to have ignored what appears to be an increasing desire to close the gap between East and West on such subjects as mutual inspec tion and limitation of armed forces. Atk Proposal Exploration "Surely we should carefully explore these proposals to see whether they were made in good faith and whether they will meet our security require ments." Stevenson's remarks on dis armament were prepared for de livery at Fairleigh Dickinson university at Teaneck, during a motorcade through New Jersey. Stevenson flew from Washing ton to Newark, N.J., and then entered an auto for a drive through Morrislown, Paterson, Clifton, Passaic, Hackensack, Teaneck; Newark and Jersey City. Salem iU.P.) A Western re gional animal disease research laboratory to conduct research on cattle and sheep diseases has been indorsed by Gov. Elmo Smith. Portland U.R) Oregon farm ers will plant at least 61,987 acres less in wheat next year than they did this year. Thornton Denies Multnomah Charge on Trial Estimates Salem UJ.RI Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton said to day that charges by Multnomah county commissioners that he refused to give them estimates of expenditures for the Multnomah county vice investigation were "absolutely untrue." The commissioners sued Thornton yesterday in Multno mah county circuit court de manding an estimate and ques tioning some claims already sub mitted. "The law clearly slates that the expense of special investiga tions and prosecutions shall be charged to the county," Thorn ton said. However, he added that in view of the cost of the investiga tion "I plan to ask the 1957 Leg islature to reimburse Multno mah county for one-half the cost." Campaign 'Maybe' Responsible (or Heavy Itinerary Speeches Said Not . Considered Political Washington U.R) Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson announced today he is going be fore farm groups across the na tion to defend the administra- i tion's farm policies on the eve of the November election. He said lie will leave Washing ton Wednesday and make about 20 s ueeches in 18 slates from New Jersey to Washington. The tour will run until Oct. 29, just a week before the election. not Considered Political Benson told a news confer ence the speeches are sponsored Dy farm groups and consequent ly are not considered political. But he conceded the political campaign "maybe" was respon sible for the heavy itinerary. Benson will speak in Illinois, Utah, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Ne vada, California, Idaho, Mon tana, Washington, Pennsylvania. Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and New Jersey. He also will tour drought areas in New Mexico, Colorado and Nebraska as well as the Texas and the Oklahoma Panhandle. Hot Political Issue The administration's farm pro grams have been under htaw fire from Democrats who have claimed there is a "farm depres sion." A key issue is whether GOP policies have driven farm income down. Benson predicted there will h some seasonal drop in farm prices in the next two weeks. But he said he expects the de cline to be less than is usual at this time of year. He also said thp Affrimlfuro Department is putting increased empnasis on tood marketing in an attempt to "squeeze the water" out of the spread be tween prices farmers get and prices consumers pay. At his news conference Ben son also: 1. Announced that the gov ernment will begin buying lard next week to bolster hog prices. Answers Kefauver 2. Struck back at a charge by Sen. Esles Kefauver, Democratic vice presidential candidate, that the administration has been in different to the plight of drought stricken farmers in Texas. He called it "nothing short of false hood." He said the drought be gan under the Democrats and that the administration has spent millions to help farm victims. Parole, Probation Office Expands The Medford office of the state board of parole and probation yesterday moved from the Spar ta building to room 401 in the Leverette building, Robert E. Jones, deputy director, has an nounced. Joe Dispenziere, district pa role officer, will assume duties as regional director for North Bend. Roseburg, Medford and Klamath Falls Nov. 1. He will maintain his office here. The regional office ip Med ford is part of a state- wide change in the board of parole and probation which was auth orized by the last legislature au thorizing regional directors. Jones said a district parole officer will be named to succeed Dispenziere in that capacity, and a full time stenographer will be employed. The Medford office will open full time after Nov. 1, Jones said. Previously, the office was open only a few days each week. Dispenziere, before assuming his new duties, will be on leave, but Otto L. Paulsen of the Kla math Falls office will service both the Medford and Klamath Falls offices until Dispenziere returns, Jones said. The attorney general said he explained to commissioners in a three-hour conference last Au gust how much he would have to pay for experienced prosecu tors to try the 39 defendants un der indictment, but he said he had no way of knowing how long the trials would last. "1 also explained to them that under the law so long as the bills were neither excessive nor unreasonable they had no right to refuse me the tools I needed to do the job. Thereafter they publicly announced that they would approve the bills," Thorn ton said. Commissioners estimated in their suit that Thornton would submit claims of anywhere from $75,000 to $300,000, but Thorn ton said he had never mentioned any sum to them.
