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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21,-1956
No. 1S1
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FLOOD CONTROL HEARING
works committee hearing on Rogue river flood control drew a
large crowd of spectators and a parade of witnesses Friday in
the federal courtroom of the Medford post office building. Above,
a witness (in front of table) testifies before the committee. Left
Flood Control vs. Fish, Wild Life Issue
At Senate Hearing on Rogue River Basin
Flood control vs. preservation
of fish and wild life was the
issue Friday afternoon during
closing hours of he senate in
terior and public works sub
committees' hearing on flood
control in the Rogue river basin
The all-day hearing in the
federal courtroom of the Med
ford post office building drew
a near-capacity crowd of local
residents as well as witnesses
' Presents Brief
Rodney Keating. Jackson
county judge, presented a brief
on behalf of he . county court.
' urging completion of studies on
flood control and subsequent de
velopment of a program with
respect to flood control and
preservation of fish and wild
life. The brief listed six major
, hazards facing Jackson county
- until a flood control program
is adopted.
They included the danger to
human lives, overall financial
losses to the county, lowering
effect on the county's tax base,
damage to land and property,
unfavorable effect of floods on
growth of the county, and the
threatened loss of valuable bot
tom land.
U.S. Sen. Richard L. Neuberg
er (D-Ore.), who presided, asked
Judge Keating the probable re
action of the court if it were
found that an adequate flood
control program would result in
loss of fish and wild life in the
area. The judge replied, "Flood
control is our primary object."
Extensive Damage
A similar brief was presented
on behalf of the Josephine coun
ty court by Ben Hilton, Grants
Pass. sHiltnn briefy described ex
tensive damage in Josephine
county from the flood last De
cember. He added that Civil
Defense boatmen performed a
major rescue job and indicated
their work was largely respon
sible for the absance of fatalities
during the flood.
Hilton's statement wan, later
contradicted by Paul H. Wetl
and, vice president of the Ore
gon division, Izaak Walton
League, and president of the
Jackson county Izaak Walton
League chapter. "No boatmen
got out on the river during the
flood." he declared. In response
to his statement, several in the
audience shouted, "That's a lie!"
Senator Neuberger had to rap
for order several times and verb
ablly reprimand the crowd.
Weiland. revising his original
comment, then said. don't think
there was anyone fool enough
enough to go out." He was shown
a photograph of a man sitting
on the roof of a building during
the flood and was told the man
rescued by boat. "He was foolish
to stay with the building as
long as" he did," the witness said.
He added that he felt reports
of the seriousness of last winter's
flood damage were exaggerated.
Falsa Impressions
Weiland also said, "Many
people have the false impression
that spring Chinook salmon and
summer steclhead runs can be
maintained by hatchery meth
cds. The fish biologists have
not been able to successfully
propagate the spring chir.ook
salmon or the summer steclhead
cm the Rogue. Theie fish, that
are impressible to reproduce by
hatchery methods, are far more
vluable as sport .fish than the
fall run Chinook and the winter
run steehead. A dam as far
down as Lewis creek would
virtually do away with these
two famous f'sh runs in the
Rogue, since most of the spawn
ing takes place above this point."
He added, "This year Congress
The senate interior and public
appropriated $208,000 for screen
ing of the turbine intake at
Savage Rapids dam in order to
help perpetuate salmon and
steclhead runs. Any oneof our
county's representatives or sen
ators could have objected to
this insertion in the appropria
tion bill on a point of order and
the entry would have been re
moved. This appropriation, how
ever, was not secured by local
effort, but by the insistence of
the lovers of outdoors of the
entire 48 states."
Another witness, Joe Shaw,
representing the Rogue Rod and
Gun club, drew a round of ap
plause when he said, "All the
fishing and hunting in this area
is not worth one human life."
Suggests Hatcheries
Shaw recommended develop
ment of hatcheries U supply
streams with fish and added
that protection of life and prop
el ty should be the first consider
ation for the a area.
Some argument arose during
the hearing as to whether or not
the supply of fish in the Rogue
river and its tributaries is suf
ficient to justify consideration
in a flood control program.
Walter Kasworm, who repre
sented the Jackson County Farm
Bureau and Rogue River Berry
Growers, said, "Figuring time at
$1 per hour, it costs about $100
to get one fish. Anyone who
spends a lot of time fishing in
this area must either be shift
less or plain lazy."
Among those contending Chi
nook runs are showing an in
crease here was C. J. Campbell
o'f the Oregon Game commis
sion. Campbell also stated, "We
are aware of the desirability of
flood reduction and of summer
flow maintenance In the Rogue
river system. We believe and
hope these ends can be accom
plished in a way that will aid
rather than injure the valuable
fishery resource. As in the past,
our position is that high main
stem dams across the migration
route of the salmon and steel
head would cause irreparable
damage to those runs, and that
other methods can and will be
found that would more nearly
serve all interests in the basin."
Valuabl Resources
William B. Morse, field rep
resentative for the wildlife man
agement institute endorsed
Campbell's statement. He said
fish and wildlife resources are
valuable to the area and repre
ent an annual investment of
about $10,000,000. He added,
"Construction agencies should be
prepared to make restitution for
fish damage resulting from
dams."
Among those testifying on be
half of conservation districts was
Don Minear, member of the
Rogue Soil Conservation district
board of supervisors. He said
the south and west sections of
Jackson county comprise about
766.260 acres. Of this total,
412.300 acres are agriculture
land and there are some 2,500
operating farm units.
He listed five needs in the in
terest of soil conservation: con
trol of stream bank erosion, pre
vention of silting farm lands, re
duction of flood hazards to lands
in annual crops, prevention of
loss of bridges and irrigation
devices, and control of water
losses in dry seasons. '
Recommend Studs
He said the conservation dis
tricts recommend a comprehens
ive study of a flood control pro
gram as well as watershed im
provements and tributary stor
ages. Robert Duff, Medford cty
. to right, committee members are
public works committee; Sen.
member of both committees: T. W. Snead, public works committee
staff member; Sen. Roman L. Hruska (R-Neb.), public works com
mittee; and Sen. Frank R. Barrett
mittee.
manager, read a city council res
olution recommending a flood
control program. The resolution
pointed out that Bear creek is
capable of causing extensive
damage in the city and that last
winter Medford was on the
brink of a disastrous flood condi
tion from the rising creek. Hugh
McKinley, Grants Pass city man
ager, also testified in support of
a flood control program on be
half of that city.
D. H. Barber, Trail, represent
ing the Preserve the Rogue asso
ciation, took a strong stand
against construction of a dam at
Lewis creek. He also said partial
flood control is dangerous be
cause people won't remember
the limitations. He said people
place false confidence in dams.
and go beyond the limits of safe
ty in constructing buildings. .
Lengthy Reports , ,
Submitting lengthy reports of
studies to the committee during
the morning were Arthur M. Pi?
per, U. S. Geological Survey
staff scientist and chairman of
the Rogue river task force sur
vey group; O. M. Browne, re
gional project development en
gineer for the bureau of recla
mation; Doren E. Woodward, re
gional supervisor of river basin
studies in the fish and wildlife
services of the department of in-
terior; W. H. Stewart, corps of
engineers; Victor Boehl, repre
senting the eight organized irri
gation districts in the Rogue Riv
er basin and irrigation commit
tees in proposed new irrigated
areas; and William L. Jess, rep
One-Party
Past in Oregon, Neuberger Says
"Oregon will never again re
vert to the one-party monopoly
that dominated it for 40 years,"
U. S. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
said here Friday.
The Democratic senator spoke
to about 40 people at a no-host
dinner at the Medford hotel
sponsored by the Jackson coun
ty democratic central commit
tee. He pointed out he is the first
Democratic senator from Ore
gon since 1914.
Hera For Hearings
He was in Medford Friday for
hearings of the senate interior
and public works committee on
flood control in the Rogue Riv
er basin. The Senator and his
wife, Maurine, left Friday eve
ning for the northern part of
the state.
Neuberger said that "mono
lithic control" by either party
m a state is an , unhealthy
thing. But of the two parties,
the Democratic parfy is the one
of "responsibility," He said, and
if it had not been for a Dem
ocratic congress, there "could
have been no Eisenhower for
eign policy."
The Republicans, according to
Neuberger, are essentially a
party of "isolationists." Eisen
hower, he claimed, initiated no
new foreign policy of his own.
but relied on the policies of
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Har
ry S. Truman.
Refers to Quarterly
According to the Congression
al Quarterly, the senator declar
ed, Harris Ellsworth. Republi
can representative from the
fourth district seeking reelection
supported Eisnhower on foreign
policy only 60 per cent of the
time.
Neuberger said another Re
publican congressman, Sam
Coon, whom he called the "coat
tail rider of the purple sage,"
supported Eisenhower on for
eign policy Just 20 per cent of
Sen. Thomas A. Woffard (D-S.C),
Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.),
(R-Wyo.), senate interior com-
resenting Rogue Basin Flood
Control and Water Resources as
sociation. Stewart said, "Until the study
of current conditions has prog
ressed to its final stages, taking
into account the needs and de
sires of all concerned, the corps
of engineers will maintain an op
en .mind on all matters concern
ing improvements in the Rogue
River basin." He said a public
hearing will be held in Grants
Pass some time in November or
December to ascertain current
needs, views and desires of the
people. When studies have been
completed, he said, a second pub
lic hearing will be held to pre
sent the results of the survey and
obtain views of those concerned
On any plan that may be devised.
'More than 30 other coufnty and
local organizations also -submit
ted reports for the record. Sena
tor Neuberger announced that
the record would remain open 15
days from the date of the hear
ing, and organizations having
written testimony they desire
entered in the record may send
it the public works committee or
it to the public works committee
at the senate office building,
Washington, D.C.
Other officials present at the
hearing included Sen. Roman L.
Hruska (R-Neb.) and Sen. Thom
as A. Wofford (D-SC), public
works committee members, and
Sen. Frank R. Barrett (R-Wyo),
senate interior committee mem
ber. Neuberger is a member of
both committees.
Monopoly Is
the time, while he (Neuberger,
backed the administration on 87
per cent of the foreign policy
votes. The only part of the "Eis
enhower anatomy" . Republicans
like, he added, are his "coat
tails." Senator Neuberger cited as an
example the "failure" of the
Oregon legislature, which, he
said, has been dominated by Re
publicans, was its refusal to
support the Eisenhower-backed
bill to continue the reciprocal
trade program for three more
years.
He added that State Represen
tatives E. H. Mann and E. A.
Littrell supported a resolution
which the legislature sent to
congress urging the termination
of the bill. It was this same bill,
Neuberger declared, which
caused Eisenhower to say, "if
we fail in this, we fail in all."
Political Capital
"As a Democrat," he said, "I
could have made political cap
ital over the reciprocal trade
bill, but I voted for it. Demo
crats traditionally are not fet
tered by partisanship," he said.
Neuberger lashed out at the
GOP charge that Democrats are
the "war party," stating, "the
Korean war was no more the
Truman war than the civil war
was the Lincoln war." Had it
not been for the Korean war,
he said, the United States
would not have one small un
committed ally to its name. "And
Eisenhower knows it," he said.
Republicans .in this state, he
charged, have had the idea for
the last 40 years, that they were
"born to the cloth." But, he add
ed, that Oregon voters are begin
ning to realize that the "divine
right" of the GOP in this state
should end, as "Republicans
have not kept up with the
times."
The Senator again endorsed
the Democratic governor for
Wins
Officials Launch
Investigation into
Fatal College Fire
State Police Ordered
To Idaho Campus
Moscow, Idaho (U.R) State
and local officials launched an
extensive investigation Saturday
of the University of Idaho dorm
itory fire which killed three
men students. All agreed the
tragic blaze was the work of
an arsonist.
State Law Eenforcement Com
missioner Earl Koehler was sent
to the university by Governor
Robert E. Smylie, who also ord
ered state police assigned to
the campus. '
University President D. R
Theophilus said "every feasible
measure" was being taken to
prevent further outbreaks of
fire at the school where three
other blazes, all ' the work of a
firebug were discovered within
a week.
Theophilus said, Army, Navy
ai.d Air Force ROTC units were
supplying security guards for
women's dormitories and sor
ority houses. Men's living groups
were asked to poot iheir. own
ffnards
ann Tlot Working . ;
.j.Tfte ;.ire it liautv ,iaii. was
discovered about 2 ajn. Friday.
Two students tried to turnin -
fire alarms, but they were not
working. Howard Hunker, i.auit
Hall proctor, said the alarm
system was in working condi
tion when it was checked two
days earlier.
The flames started in the sec
ond floor lounge and flashed
up the stairwells and along the
corridors on the fourth floor
where the victims were trapped.
Fire Chief Carl Smith said
arson was indicated by the flash
nature of the fire and the ter
rific heat it generated. He said
the fire "must have had a pe
troleum base."
Thing of
governor. State Sen. KODen
Holmes. He said the only mem
ber of the state senate who vot
ed against supporting the Unit
ed Nations was Elmo Smith.
Neuberger declared the dif
ferences between Morse and
McKay seem to be symbolized
by the fact Morse was "con
cerned enough with southern
Oregon problems" to send a rep
resentative to the Friday hear
ings on flood control in the
Rogue river basin while McKay
did not.
Charles O. Porter, Democratic
candidate for congress from the
fourth district, also speaking at
the no-host dinner, declared his
opponent, Harris Ellsworth, has
an "uninformed and shallow"
outlook towards foreign policy.
Referring to the Al Sarena
dispute,. Porter declared that
anybody who would say the gov
ernment was forced by law to
issue the mining patents must
not be informed of the fact that
Secretary of the Interior Fred
Seaton has changed certain min
ing regulations and stated that
"there will be no more Al Sar
enas." .
Registration Mentioned
Porter said that according to
recent Democratic registration in
the fourth district he is running
about 10.000 votes ahead of Ells
worth. He was in Medford Fri
day and Saturday for a series
of coffee hours.
Neuberger was also a guest
speaker later Friday night at a
meeting of the Southern Ore
gon Salesmen's club at the Med
ford hotel. Discussing the econ
omic conditions of the state, he
said the most logical way to en
courage industry and business
in Oregon is through the use of
its "largest natural resource
water power with cheap power
rates."' -
-ippoi
Poland
"We've Got Something
Final Appearances of
Candidates Will Be
At League
Final aamuaign appearances
in southern Oregon will be made
by candidates for national, state
and local offices at the Candi-
jd
ates Fair at McLoughlin Junior
High school . boys gymnasium
Saturday, Oct. 27, according to
Mrs. Helen Thomas, chairman.
. The Candidates Fair is being
sponsored by the Medford
League, of Women Voters, the
Democratic and Republican par
ties and other organizations. The
Fair will start at 8 p.m., and con
tinue until about 11 p.m.
Accept Invitations
Candidates who have accept
ed invitations from the League
include Douglas McKay, Repub
lican candidate for U. S. sena
tor; Wayne Morse, Democratic
senator seeking reelection; Har
ris Ellsworth, Republican con
gressman see king reelection:
Charles O. Porter, Democratic
candidate for congressman from
the fourth district; Governor El
mo Smith; Robert Holmes, Dem
ocratic candidate for governor;
Mark Hatfield, Republican cand
idate for secretary of state;
Monroe Sweetland, Democratic
candidate for secretary of state;
and Sig Unander, Republican,
seeking reelection as state trea
surer. Mrs. Thomas said that Rob
ert Y. Thornton, attorney gener
al, who previously had accepted
an invitation, will be unable to
attend the Fair because of the
coming Multnomah county vice
trials which will be getting un
der way this week.
The only other candidates who
do not plan to attend are Carl
J. Francis, Republican candidate
for attorney general, who was
unable to include the Fair in his
campaign schedule; and Wiley
Smith, Democratic candidate for
state treasurer, Mrs. Thomas
said. Smith did not respond to
invitations either from the Med
during a candidates Fair there,
ford League or the Eugene
League during a candidates Fair
there. i
Loeai Candidates
Mrs. Thomas said all local
candidates plan to attend the
fair.
The Eugene League of Women
Voters is planning a similar
Weather
FORECAST: Clearing this atter
noon. Clear and cooler to
. nieht. Increasing cloudiness
ivlth rhance of showers Mon- .
dav. High todav SO. Low to
nifht 30. High Monday s.
Temp.
Hithest yesterday fit
Lowest yesterday 32
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunset
6:51 a.m.
S:20 p.m.
Moonrfse 6:39 p.m.
MORNING STARS are now Ve
nus and Jupiter, in the order of
their rising. In less than a, week
their positions will be reversed
and we will see Jupiter above
Venus. -
For Everybody, Too"
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Fair Here
Candidates Fair there Oct. 26.
Both fairstfiSve been organized
with-the policy that if the candi
date is unable to attend, there
will be no representative accept,
ed for that candidate.
Mrs. Thomas explained that
the policy was adopted because
the fair was set up with no politi
cal speeches and emphasis has
been placed on meeting and
talking with the actual candi
date himself. The candidates will
be at tables decorated by the
two political parties.
A special gift will be awarded
the political party having the
largest number of voters repre
sented at the fair. The gift will
be presented by the Medford
Mail Tribune, and will be accept
ed by the county central commit
tee chairman on behalf of the
political party.
A similar presentation is made
at the Eugene Fair by the Eu
gene Register-Guard. In 1954 the
gift was won by the Republican
party in Eugene.
Plans for Nixon's
Visit Announced
Vice President Richard Nixon
will speak in Medford Friday,
Oct. 26, in the last appear
ance of his campaign swing
through the northwest.
He will speak to a Republican
rally at Hedrick Junior High
school at 8:15 p.m. Friday. He
will confine his speech largely
to campaign issues vital to the
northwest, and major national
issues.
Nixon, accompanied by Mrs.
Nixon, will arrive at 5:30 p.m.
Friday from Walla Wall, Wash.
The vice presidential party will
be met at the airport by Republi
cans from the fourth congres
sional district.
The junior high school was se
lected by the Jackson County Re
publican Central committee be
cause of its seating capacity and
parking facilities, ""he school
gymnasium will hold over 2,500.
The vice president will make
no other appearance while in
Medford. He will remain over
night at the Medford hotel and
will leave at 7:30 a.m. Saturday
for Santa Rosa, Calif. The Nixon
party, which includes some 15 or
20 newspapermen who have
toured the nation with Nixon,
and around 30 staff members,
will stay at the" Medford hotel
Friday night.
Sports Bulletin
A Jacksonville High school
touchdown and conversion
with 45 seconds left play
gava the Redskins a 14 is 13
nod over Rogue Hirer here
last night in a Jackson Coun
ty B league football game.
Ruler
Gontro
Gomulka Promises
Free Elections;
Backed by Police
Russia Moves Red
Troops into Country
Warsaw (U.P.) Moscow
opposed Wladyslaw Gomulka.
backed by special Polish secur
ity police, won apparent control
of Poland Saturday and immed
iately promised free elections.
Russia moved Red army troops
into Poland from East Germany.
There was no immediate in
dication whether Soviet-trained
Polish army units and Soviet
troops through Poland would ac
cept Gomulka's leadership.
ine i'olisn communist party
central committee acclaimed 52-
year old Gomulka as first sec
retary.
Promises Elections
His first act as nartv rhlef
was to promise elections would
be held Dec. 16 and the people
will have "not only the right
to cast votes . . . but will also
be in a position to elect."
Polish forces loyal to Gom
ulka took over the transmitter
and downtown headquarters of
Radio Warsaw, the state radio,
and broadcast the speech which
he made to the central commit
tee Friday.
The seizure occurred after
Soviet Party Chief Nikita S.
Khrushchev returned home fol
lowing a 24-hour blitz visit de
signed to slow down Poland's
de-Stalinization program.
Thousands of workers de
manded that Russia keep hands
off Poland's internal affairs and
went on strikes to enforce it.
Gomulka, jailed five years
ago for supporting the line of
Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, ob
viously emerged as a victor in
the first round of a sudden pol
itical upheaval set off the June
28 Poznan riots.
He survived a face-to-face
challenge by Krushchev and
then went before the central
committee and gave a two-hour
speech.
The speech attacked the Stal
inist mistakes of "these years
which should be foreotten for
ever."
Guard Transmitter
Internal security troops head
ed by Gen. Waclaw Kimar, who
was jailed with Gomulka in the
Titoist purges and rehabilitated
with him several months ago,
guarded the radio Warsaw trans
mitter and studios while Gom
ulka's speech was broadcast.
Wearing steel helmet jmrf
carrying rifles they surrounded
tne siauon aunng the day and
moved inside after "dark, bar
ring admission to unauthorized
persons.
Civilian volunteers .were
alerted to guard mainr farinr.
ies. Units of the Polish army
commanded by Red Army Mar
shal Konstantin Rokossovsky,
the pro-Soviet Polish defense
minister, took up positions in
and around Warsaw.
The leadership of th Polish
Communist party workers or
ganizations in Warsaw and out
lying cities, farm organizations,
Intarnal Securitv Corns and Civ
il Police in Warsaw all were
reported backing Gomulka.
Only the Army was unheard
from.
FOOTBALL SCORES
Oregon Tech 27." So. Ore. 20
College of Pacific 28,. Mar
quette 6
Stanford 21, Oregon 7
Oregon State 21, Wash. Slate 0
USC 35. Washington 7
UCLA 34. California 20
Dartmouth 7, Holy Cross 7
Pennsylvania 14, Brown 7
Columbia 26, Harvard 20
Syracuse 7. Army 0
Boston College 32, Rutgers 0
Princeton 28, Colgate 20
Yale 25. Cornell 7
Michigan 34, Northwestern 20
Michigan St. 47, Notre Dame
H
Oowa 34, Hawaii 0
Wisconsin 6. Purdue 8
Missouri 20, Kansas State 8
Oklahoma 34, Kansas 12
Indiana 19, Nebraska 14
Colorado 52, Iowa State 0
North Carolina 34, Maryland 8
Pittsburgh 27. Duke 14
Wyoming 30, Utah 20