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RUSS TROOPS TO
STAY IN POLAND
Warsaw (UP) Street fighting broke out in
Warsaw tonight. Security police were called out to
stop a march on the Russian Embassy.
Fighting and demonstrations broke out when
thousands of Poles gathered outside the Hungarian
Embassy to shout their support for the rioters battling
Soviet and Hungarian troops in Budapest. Communist
Party workers tried to disperse the crowd with clubs
and brawls started.
Warsaw, Poland tU.R) Po
land's new Communist Party
leader, Wladyslaw Gomulka,
said today Soviet troops will re
main on Polish, soil "as long as
militarists are to the fore in
Western Germany."
But both he and Premier
Josef Cyrankiewicz insisted the
Russian soldiers would be under
the control of the Warsaw Pact
authorities and would not be
used for internal security.
"Their stay in Poland is close
ly bound up with the Warsaw
Treaty," Gomulka said. "The
presence of Soviet troops is es
sential and in harmony with Po
land's State interest."
Triumphant Return
Gomulka, triumphantly instal
led as first secretary of the
United Workers (Communist)
Party last week after having
been previously disgraced and
jailed as "Titoist," spoke to a
rheering crowd in downtown
Warsaw.
He sdid Soviet Communist
Chief Nikita S. Khrushchev had
promised him Soviet troops
would not intervene in the up
heaval. Both he and Cryankiewicz.
who addressed the Sejm (Parlia
ment), said Polish leaders have
exclusive control of Poland.
Gomulka said Poland is lined
"by unbreakable bonds" to the
countries of the Soviet Union
and the Communist bloc.
Thousands Cheer
The mass meeting which Gom
ulka addressed in a square in
front of the 30-story Palace of
Culture a gift from Russia
was the biggest ever seen in the
city.
Half a million Poles packed
streets for blocks on all sides
of the square to hear his speech,
relayed over loudspeakers.
The cheers for Gomulka were
defeaning. But when Cyran
kiewicz spoke to the crowd lat
er, after his speech in Parlia
ment, he was booed mildly.
They spoke against a back
rrnund of reduced tension inside
Poland.
(See story on page 6)
Non-Paralytic Polio
Case Reported Here
A 27-year-old Medford man
was stricken with non-paralytic
polio last week, according to
Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public
health physician.
He was admitted to Rogue Val
ev hospital Oct. 19 and spent
about two days there. Dr. Mcr-v-M
aid. He is now home and
completely recovered. Dr. Mer
kel said.
Thirty-one other communic
able diseases were reported to
the Jackson county health de
partment for the week ending
Oct. 19.
Cases reported included chick
en px four- scarlet fever two,
impetigo two. infectious hepa
titis seven, influenza six. septic
sore throat six. measles one. ep
idemic pleurodynia one. sale
monella one. and pneumonia
one.
Seattle lU.R) James Lumpe
was given a 20-day jail sentence
or. a disorderly conduct charge
.av after he stole a political
button, priced at SI. from the
Stevenson for President neaa
.3rpr here and attempted to
peddle it for 52 at the Eisenhow
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESD
Democrats Enjoy
37,000 Margin in
State Registration
Salem (U.R) Democrats
will have a registration lead of
37.000 when Oregonians go to
the polls in the general election
Nov. 6.
Complete unofficial registra
tion figures compiled today
showed Democratic registra
tion at 450,122 compared to the
Republicans' 413,220.
The total was a record-break
ing 876.392 voters.
The Democrats increased their
lead of about 13.000 in the May
18 primary to the 37,000 figure.
Republicans led in the 1952 pres
idential election 404,694 to 402,
283. David O'Hara. state elections
chief, said that the Democrats
had piled up leads in three of
the state's four congressional
districts with only the first re
maining in the Republican col
umn.
Biggest bulge for the Demo
crats was in Multnomah county,
(third district) where they held
a 156,433 to 126,709 advantage.
Marion, Polk, Benton and
Yamhill counties produced the
Republicans' only edge in the
first district 127,663 to 114.123,
although in Polk and Yamhill,
leads were reduced to just over
1.000 registrants each.
Seven counties shifted to the
Democratic column. They were
Clackamas, Clatsop, Curry,
Lane, Lincoln, Wasco and Wheel
er. Wallowa county swung into
the Republican camp.
Berkeley UR) A strong
earthquake located 3,000 miles
southeast of Berkeley, probably
near Costa Rica, was recorded
on the -University of California
seismograph.
Portland (U.R) Portland
ranked 13th in the nation and
third on the Pacific Coast in total
waterborne commerce in 1955.
Additional
Political activity in Jackson
county approached a climax to
day, with the visit of several
candidates and announcement of
additional plans for others to
visit the area later this week.
Activity will be highlighted
by Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's visit Friday, and the
Candidates Fair sponsored by
the Medford League, of Women
Voters and the two major par
ties Saturday night.
Governor Elmo Smith plans to
fly to Medford Friday to wel
come Nixon and his wife, who
will arrive for a major address
at 5:30 p.m. by chartered plane.
Other Republican leaders ex
pected to attend the Friday night
talk by Nixon at Hedrick Junior
High school include former Sec
retary of Interior Douglas Mc
K a y, national committeeman
Robert Mautz of Portland, and
state central committee chair
man Wendell W'yatt of Astoria.
Speaks at 8:15 p.m.
Nixon will speak at 8:15 p.m.
in his last appearance in the
northwest campaign swing. Gov
ernor Smith will talk briefly
and Nixon will be introduced by
McKay, candidate for the U.S.
cenate.
"One Thing About The Campaign It's
Getting The Kids To Bed Earlier"
McAllister's Name on
Gold Beach Ballots
Halts Distribution
Gold Beach (U.R) Sample
ballots marked in favor of two
candidates here resulted today
in at least a temporary halt in
their distribution.
The delay was requested by
District Attorney Ed Ackley
after sample ballots were found
to have been marked in favor of
Supreme Court Justice William
M. McAllister and County Clerk
Olcta A. Walker.
McAllister's name had been
rubber-stamped on some sample
ballots and a red penciled check
mark was beside the name of Mrs.
Walker. McAllister is a write
in candidate for the Supreme
Court and is opposed by Circuit
Judge David Vandenberg of
Klamath Falls and Peter Welch.
Multnomah county surveyor.
Herbert Dewart, Gold Beach,
Stewart Ave. Crossing
Opens fo Traffic
Stewart ave., closed last week
while Southern Pacific crews
repaired the railroad crossing
there, was opened yesterday af
ternoon. The south half of Mainst., at
the railroad crossing will be
closed until Friday this week
while SP crews relay tracks and
repair the crossing.
Plans Announced for Candidates
The Nixon party, including
about 20 newsmen, will remain
overnight at Medford hotel. The
party will leave early Saturday
for Santa Rosa, Calif.
The Democratic Social club of
Jackson county, meanwhile, an
nounced that a Democratic Can
didates dinner will be held at
the Medford hotel Saturday
night prior to the Candidates
Fair at McLoughlin Junior High
school.
Clyde Fichtner, club presi
dent, said the dinner will start
at 6 p.m., and Robert Holmes,
candidate for governor, will be
principal speaker. Other candi
date, he said, will be given an
opportunity to give brief mes
sages at the dinner.
Expected to attend the dinner
are Senator Wayne Morse, who
is seeking reelection. Charles O.
Porter, candidate for congress
from the fourth district: Monroe
Sweetland, candidate for secre
tary of state: Robert Boyer, state
party chairman and candidate
for the state legislature; Robert
Duncan, candidate for state
legislature; Ray Schumaoher,
candidate for county assessor;
Ralph James, candidate for
county commisioner; and Karl
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chairman of McAllister's com
mittee in the area, took respon
sibility for McAllister's name be
ing on the ballots. Mrs. Walker
said she did not know who put
the red pencil check marks op
posite her name. Both said they
assumed the practice was legal.
Inquiries were sent to the sec
retary of state's office to see
what steps could be taken to cor
rect the ballots.
Weather
FORECAST!: Cloudy with rain
and Jtustv southerly windf to
night. Partly cloudy with
scattered showers Thursday.
Low tonight 40. High Thurs
day 48.
Temp.
Hi the st Veiterdar 4R
Lowest thii Morning 33
Prec. to 4 JO a.m. Today 08
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
6:35
Sunset
Moon rise
Last Quarter
PROMINENT STARS
Den eh, high overhead
Slrtus, due south
VISIBLE PLANETS
Saturn, sets
Mars, in the southeast
Venus and Jupiter,
rise
5:16 P-r
9:34 p.n
. Oct. 3
6:38 p c
4:3 a.n
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6:28 p.?
Janouch, candidate for county
treasurer.
Those wishing to make reser
vations may telephone Demo
cratic headquarters in the Es
quire theater, 3-4467, before Sat
urday, according to Mrs. Dor.na
Straus, Social club secretary.
Larry Sheehan, chairman of
the county Democratic central
committee, said a full schedule
has been arranged for Holmes.
He and his wife, will arrive
at 10:25 a.m. Saturday at the
airport. He will confer with lo
cal officials and travel to Ash
land for a coffee hour at South
ern Oregon college. He will re
turn to Medford for conferences
with radio and newspaper repre
sentatives. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes will stay
overnight in Medford, and leave
early Sunday morning.
Two candidates are in the val
ley today.
Speaks at SOC
Porter spoke at a Southern
Oregon college assembly late
this morning, and will visit at
Democratic headquarters this af
ternoon after a talk at the local
Townsend club. He will appear
on television at 10 p.m. and at
Inside Today
Section On
Women's Newt 2
Editorial 4
Sports 10, 11, 12, 13
Locals, Market! 15
Section Two
Radio, TV 6
Cornice : 6
Classified Adt 8, 9
Nation Must Know
Safety From War,
President Declares
Development History
Traced in Memoranda
Washington U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower is ready not
only to stop H-bomb tests, but
"to put all nuclear weapons
aside permanently" as soon as
"one basic requirement is met."
"This requirement is that we,
as a nation, and all peoples,
know safety from attack."
But until "properly safeguard
ed international agreements can
be reached," this country must
continue to develop "the most
advanced weapons for the sake
of our own national safety, for
the sake of all free nations, for
the sake of- peace itself."
The President thus capsuled
his H-bomb policy late Tuesday
in releasing from the White
House two long official memo
randa detailing the history of
U.S. nuclear developments and
the history of U.S. efforts to con
trol the atom for peace since
1945.
The President's statement and
the two documents which he
called "a full and explicit re
view" of American nuclear poli
cies and actions dealt at length
with Adlai E. Stevenson's propo
sals for banning H-bomb tests.
The documents also disclosed
that Mr. Eisenhower twice in
late June, 1954, and again in
June 1955 approved inter-agency
recommendations that the
United States should not agree
to a "test moratorium" in the
absence of a disarmament agree
ment. The first action followed a test
ban recommendation by Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of
India on April 2, 1954. Nehru's
proposal was echoed by the
Communist world peace council.
The second followed a Soviet
proposal for prohibition of tests,
"without provision of sale
guards," and a report by presi
dential disarmament adviser
Harold E. Stassen stressing "the
absolute necessity of effective
inspection in any agreement"
with Russia.
Stevenson has said a simple
test ban agreement with the
Russians is sufficient because if
they cheat and explode an H
bomb "we would immediately
detect it."
President Eisenhower: It is im
possible "to have positive assur
ance of such detection except in
the case of the largest weapons.
Nor is it possible to -state, im
mediately following the long-
range detection of a test, its size
and character.
a Candidates Fair in Ashland.
Mark Hatfield, Republican
candidate for secretary of stats,
visited in Jackson county yester
day and today.
He spoke at the Medford Rot
ary club luncheon yesterday,
and visited Bear Creek orchards
during the afternoon. He was
guest on the GOP television
show. People and Principles,
yesterday.
Hatfield spoke at the Kiwanis
club at noon today, and spoke
to an assembly at Southern Ore
gon college this morning. This
afternoon he was at Legion hall
in Central Point, and will parti
ciptate in a Candidates Fair at
Ashland at 8 p.m. today.
The fair, which will follow a
parade at 7:30 p.m., will be held
in the Ashland junior high
school.
Thursday, Hatfield will be in
Grants Pass, and Friday he will
be in Eugene and Roseburg.
Because of prior commit
ments, Hatfield said he would
be unable to bejn Medford for
Nixon's visit and the Candidates
Fair Saturday night.
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Fighting Passes
Two Ultimatums
For Cease Fire
Russian Tanks, MIGs
Fought in Streets '
Vienna (U.R) Hungarians
htttled Russian troops and tanks
and Soviet-built Mig jets in a
civil war in the streets of Buda
pest today for their freedom.
Fighting raged on past two Hun
garian government cease fire
ultimatums.
Radio Budapest reported that
"heavy fighting is still going
cn." It said rioters were attack
ing the Robert Karolyi Army
Barracks in the 13th District of
Budapest.
Eyewitness reports said at
lerst 350 persons had been killed
in the fighting which erupted
last night. Radio Budapest
broadcast appeals for help in
bringing wounded to hospitals.
It admitted government forces
were on the "defensive."
Titoist Appointed
Not even the emergency ap
pointment of popular "Titoist"
Irnre Nagy as Premier this morn
ing replacing Stalinist Andras
Hegcdues could stop the in
flamed people.
There were indications that
elements of the Hungarian
Army were fighting on the side
ol the rebels.
Travelers returning from the
embattled city said that in the
early phases of the fighting
many police and Hungarian
soldiers stood by and cheered
the rebels.
Thousands of demonstrators
faced the blazing guns of the
Russians and the government
controlled Hungarian army to
scream "Go home, Russians."
An Austrian just returned
from Budapest told United Press
that "at least 350 persons have
been killed so far in the Buda
pest uprising."
Nagy, ousted in April, 1955,
as a "Titoist" and called in now
to lead the way to a new, Polish-
fpe regime in Hungary, de
clared martial law and linany
called in Russian troops, tanks
and armored cars.
Jets Strafe Crowds
Five hours after a declaration
of martial law five unidentified
jet fighters' machine - gunned
"counter-revolutionaries" in the
streets of Budapest.
The capital was sealed off
from the rest of the world but
Budapest Radio, interspersing
its pleas for peace with opera
music and with the sound of
gunfire clearly audible in the
background, was telling the
story of the first full-scale revolt
in the Soviet Union's Eastern
European empire.
At mid-afternoon the radio
admitted the rebellion had
spread beyond the city..
It said "rioters vainly tried to
take over the magnesium mines
of Tatbany and Salgotarjan,"
northwest of Budapest.
Anti-Communist Revolt
What had started as an intra
Communist struggle for power
now was raging as a revolt
against the government, with
anti-Communists apparently ris
ing against both Red Hungarian
rule and Russian influence.
Budapest Radio described the
rebels variously as "Fascists,"
"counter-revolutionaries" and
"misguided workers.
But the radio, although be
sieged for a time by the rebels,
was solidly in government hands
and it was telling the govern
ment side of the story.
At 2 p.m. (5 a.m. PST), a sur
render deadline was ignored by
the rebels, and then was extend
ed another four hours.
The Ministry of the Interior
clamped a dusk to dawn curfew
on Budapest.
Bird Causes Shortage
Of Power in Valley
A large bird, believed to be
a variety of duck, caused an
electric shortage in Ashland,
Talent and southern lections
of Medford about 11:30 p.m.
yesterday. Power was off be
tween 40 minutes io an hour.
California Oregon Power
company officials said the
bird flew into a 66.000-volt
transmission line about a mile
south of Ashland, causing the
wires io arc and burn in half.
It was killed almost instantly.
Television Highlight
A 15-minuie program io ex
plain the four-part capital im
provement program on which
Medford voters will decide
Nov. 6 will be seen on KBES
TV at 10:05 p.m. today. Mayor
Earl Miller, City Manager
Robert Duff, and several
others will discuss the arterial
street, off-street parking, and
sanitary and- storm sewer pro
grams. ,
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Tax Information
Published; Code
Area Levies Told
The county assessor's office
has compiled and published two
property tax documents for the
county, the "Summary and As
sessment Roll" and the list of
coded areas and levies for each.
Taxpayers wishing copies may
obtain them at the office.
In recent years the county has
been divided into "code areas."
Each section is determined by
the combination of taxing units
in which it lies. There are 86
code areas in the county.
Lowest Levy
Lowest combined levy is in
code area "49-16," where the
only taxes are for School District
49, which levies 43.7 mills, and
the county, .4 of a mill, for a to
tal of 44.1 mills.
Highest levy is in code area
1-1, Jacksonville. Here the com
bined levy is 85.6 mills. This in
cludes 26.2 for the city, 54.7 for
the rural school levy, 4.3 for
school district No. 1, and .4 for
the county.
Here are the combined levies
Invitation of Bid
Notices Issued (or
Crater Lake Work
Advance notice for invitation
of bids on employee apartment
buildings and utilities at Crater
Lake National park has been
issued by the national park
service.
" The buildings, part of the
service's "Mission 66 program.
will be a two-story -building
about 27-by-81 feet, and a three-
story structure about 27-by-81
feet. The two-story building will
have the first floor of masonry
block and the first two stories
of the other structure will be
masonry block.
The top floors and roofs will
be of frame construction.
Other Work Listed
Other work includes installa
tion of a septic tank with sewer
connections to each new build
ing, an overhead power line
from the building site' to the
existing power plant, and new
water main from the new struc
tures to the existing system.
Preliminary plans for the two
proposed buildings may be ex
amined at the office of Superin
tendent Tom Williams, in the
Medford postoffice building.
The advance notice was given
to permit interested bidders to
inspect the proposed construc
tion site prior to closure by
now. Normally no work can be
undertaken at the site between
Oct. 15 and June 1 because of
heavy snowfall.
The park service intends to
remove snow from the site as
early as practicable next spring.
Bids for the proposed con
struction will be called about
Feb. 1, 1957, park officials said.
Moslems Slay
27 Europeans
Rabat, Morocco U.R) Infuri
ated Moslems killed 27 Euro
peans and wounded 25 more
Tuesday in Rabat in anger over
French arrest of five Algerian
leaders, it was disclosed today.
The arrest of the Algerian
leaders while they were flying
to Tunis in a Moroccan Airlines
plane brought France to one of
its biggest North African crises
in years, with trouble from all
nations involved Morocco, Tu
nisia and Algeria.
Reports here today- said the
Moslem mobs stormed through
the city's European quarter,
pulled motorists out of the cars,
hurled rocks and paving blocks
at passing pedestrians and bat
tered their way into European
homes.
Other vigilante bands set fire
to 26 farm houses 70 miles from
Rabat Tuesday night.
One french couple was chop
ped to bits with hatchets before
the eyes of their screaming
children.
The five captured Moslem
leaders were en route for a
"peace conference" in Tunis in
hopes of ending the bitter Al
gerian rebellion against French
rule.
Portland (U.R) Mayor Fred
L. Peterson said he had directed
Chief of Police Jim Purcell Jr.
to prepare a full report on Port
land's vice situation.
for the county's cities, as shown
in the summary, and how they
compare with last year:
Ashland, 66.2, down from 68.7;
Butte Falls, 67.9, up from 67.6;
Central Point, 67.4, up from
66.7; Eagle Point, 83, down from
84.1; Gold Hill, 75.4, up from
68.7; Jacksonville, 85.6, up from
76.4; Medford (those parts of
which are not included in tax
ing units other than the city, the
Medford school district, and the
county), 62.8, down from .67.4;
Phoenix, 81.1, down from 83.7;
Rogue River. 72.1, down from
74.4; and Talent, 82.1, up from
80.6.
Increased Budgets
Increases have been caused
largely by increased budgets in
the taxing areas involved; most
of the decreases reflect the fact
that the county levy this year
is .4 of a mill, down from 8.7
mills last year.
Total taxable value of prop
erty within the county, including
real and personal property as
well as utilities, is $79,040,180.
This is down from the compar
able figure of $80,658,894.05 last
year. Total assessor's value on
real and personal property is
S69,987,710, up slightly from
$69,762,564 last year. Utility
property; however, is down,
from $11,476,460.05 last year to
$10,526,804.29 this year.
One result of this will be a
tendency to shift some of the
tax burden to real and personal
property from utility property.
Total Value Up
Total value of exempted prop
erty is up slightly this year, from
$42,620,310 last year to $42,884,.
870 this year. This year this fig
ure includes $844,690 for vet
erans and ' widows exemptions
(up from $580,130 last year) and
S42,040,180 for federal, state,
county, city, school district,
church and other non-taxable
property. This is the same figure
as last year.
Total tax levy this year is
down somewhat, from $5,413,
239.45 in 1955-56, to $5,153,464.
14 this year.
More than four-fifths of the
total tax will go to, schools this
year, as usual. Total tax for
school purposes is $4,018,346.21,
including $1,404,926.80 for rural
schools, $2,278,598.32 for the
special school tax including or
ganized school districts, and
$334,821.09 for special school
bonds. ,
Freeway Hearing
Slated Tomorrow
The state highway commission
will conduct a public hearing
on a location for a new High
way 99 freeway from. Blackwell
hill to Ashland at 10 a.m. Thurs
day in the Craterian theater.
The hearing will continue to
morrow until it is completed.
The hearing was scheduled last
spring. Cut was postponed pend
ing completion of the West Side
survey requested by several resi
dents. Proposed locations include the
Hillcrest route east of the Med
ford limits; Genessee route just
east of Bear creek within the
city limits; Hawthorne park
(Bear creek) line, following Bear
creek through Medford; and the
West Side route.
Estimated cost of the Hillcrest
line is $18,343,000; Genessee
route, $18,295,000; Hawthorne
rark (Bear creek) $18,723,000;
and the West Side route, $22,
497,000.
Detailed maps of the proposed
routes are available at the Med
ford city council chamber, Jack
son county courthouse and at
the Jackson . County Chamber
of Commerce office in the D'An
jou building on South Central
ave., Medford.
Former Jacksonville
Man Killed Yesterday
Springfield Thomas Laug
head, 83, former Jacksonville
resident, was struck and killed
by a car in Springfield yester
day. Laughead lived in Jack
sonville from 1929 to 1941 when
he moved to Springfield.
He is survived by a daughter,
Louise Dunnington, of Jackson
ville, and two sons, Joe Laug
head, of Grants Pass, and .lamp.
Laughead of Creswell.
Funeral services are pend
ing. Internment will be in the
Jacksonville cemetery.
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