Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 07, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text.O C o o ' o ..." 14,-i' ' V I I '4 " I if ' LgSOOE; " r :-' f-J.-f t.. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER Landslide for Second Term Reeder, James Lead For- County Offices With only one exception. Jack son county residents yesterday elected 'Semocrats to coniestcd local oflices. The oflices of district attor ney. ass(ior. countj commis sioner and tre-i.surcr all went to Democratic contender on the basis of unofficial and all-buf-eomplctc returns, compilad shortly before noon today. Tom rteedrr. young Demo cratic attorney in Medford. was successful in his challenge to Republican District Attorney Walter Nfcnlry. With only in of the rounty's 04 precincts still unreported, the totals were 13. 609 for Rccder. 11,167 for Nnn- ley. - Jamrt Leading , Ralph James. Sams Valley farmer, was leading the Republi can incumbent, L. G. (Shy) M(hland. by less 'thatr 300 votes baed on s"ne tally. Thetount: James 1I.313. Jlorth laT'12.0H. Karl Janouch, IVmocratic f'easVirer. was assured of b.einR returned to his offir e over the Republican challonscr. Jlrs. Anna Scott of ' the .'Applesate. The count: Janouch 14.085, Mrs. SlU 10.464. R.ty Schuma&Iicf , Medford real esiate man and appraiser, a Democra. defealed the Republi can aspirant. rfillrVi Curry, for countv asseor. The count: Schu macher l,f,130. Currv 11.215. Pa'il Rynnine, the Rcptibli ean surveyor, was returned to office without oppoiifon. . -Legislature Seats In the race for Jackson coun ty's two seats in the legislature. Al J,ittrcll waf th? only Rcpub licali to ;b( successful on the counri level. buthre. too. he trailed Democrat "Bob Duncan. Bob Boyer, Democratic state chairman, and Ed Mapn. Repub lican an three-term veteran in the legislature, trajled.. The count: Duncan. 12.983; Littrell, 12.072: Boycr. ll,701Tand Mann. 10.827. Paradoxically while Jackson county voted for' local Demo crats with onf" exception, thr'y voted for f Republicans in thf state and ruitional races agatn with one exception. Here is hoJhey cast Ihcir Eisenhowet-Predicfed 400ilectoral .Votes Washington .(U.PJ The White House disclosed today that President Eisenhower figured all along he would wiri more than J 400 electoral, votes. j He even put the prediction dow n on paper about tour days ago. Press Secretary- Jarfnes C. Hag-. erty gave out tljis much in'tor mation on the President's expec tations. But he declined to' tell reporters the exaet number of electoral votes the President pre dicted he would get. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower's personal secretaryp Ann ..Whit man.g won "a5 little .guessing j3me"mongaVVhite ifouse aides Na ho tried to forecast JMr. Eisen hower's majority. She predicted 470 electoral vots: the President actually got 47. Iigert said his own predic tion was 432 electoral vote. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York UP.' Dow-Jones final stijek averages: 30 indus trials 491t5.3off 4 22; 20 rad roads 159.92. off 1.54; 15 utlrties 67.56. ufl 0.32. an 65 stoeks 173.60. cf 108' Sales today jvere bouP 2.6SO.00O shares Compared wih 2.830.000 shares Moncw-. 'v'- 'Si . f votes, with only 10 precincts un reported: For President: Eisenhower 14, 8'44. Stevenson 10.734. For Senator: McKay, 12.372, Morse 12.576. For Congress, 4lh district: Ellsworth 13.4M, Porter 11,768. F.or Governor: Smith 13,993. Holmes 11.338. For .Secretary of State: Hat field, 13.736. Swretland 11.176. For State Treasurer: Unander 15.273, Smith 9.620. For Attorney General: Thorn Ton' 13.379. Francis 11.177. This was the only state race in which the county voted Democratic. .Hungarian Rebels Continue Baffle Vienna U.Ri Hungarian reb els fought on today, but reports rpacliing Vienna said the over whelming might of the Soviet army had forced them to resort to hit-run partisan warfare tac tic?. The Soviet forces appeared to be crushing organized resistance with a- greater force than that sent against North Africa by the Allies in 1942. But reports reaching Vienna said the die-hard freedom fight ers were girding for partisan tac tics of sniping and sabotage to keep the battle-torn country in constant ferment. Hiis would- pin down indefi nitely an estimated 15 Soviet di visions perhaps the full strength of the 200.000 Red army troops and 4.600 tanks sent into Hungary against the revolu tionaries. (Continued on Page 3) U. N. To Consider -Soyief Intervention United Nations, N. Y. (U.R The U. N. General Assembly meets today to consider the ques tion of Soviet armed intervention in Hungary. The meeting was called while reports . trickling through the Iron Curtain told of continued fighting between Hungarian na tionalists and Soviet tanks and troops. Early Sunday, the assembly by a vote of 50 to 8 adopted a U.S. resolution condemning the Soviet use of force and calling on both Russia and Hungary to permit U. N. observers to investigate the situation. Washington UP; Sen. Estes Ketfauvcr said in defeat today the future belongs to the Demo cratic party in the "cause of true liberalism." ROBERT HOLMES Holding Narrow' Lead 1 m. - 51st Year Medford United Press ull ueased Wire 22 Pages MEDFORD,, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1956 No. 196 Snider Elected Mayor; Fluoridation Defeated Off-Sfreet Parking Being Defeated by Narrow Margin Storm, Sanitary Sewers Approved Medford voters turned down fluoridation and off-street park ing yesterday, but approved four other city measures, it appeared virtually certain this afternoon. With only five precincts in Medford still missing out of a total of 30, the count on fluori dation was yes 3.492. no 4.261. The measure was bitterly con tested, with doctors, dentists,' public health authorities favor ing the addition of sodium fluor ide to the city water as a public health measure, and opponents arguing that it was not suffic iently tested to be safe, or was an invasion of rights. The off-street parking mea sure, one of four proposals com prising the so-called "capital im provement program," was being defeated by a narrow margin. The count was yes 3.609, no 3.935'. The other capital improv ent measures carried by sub stantial majorities. Here is the count: Arterial streets yes 4.001. no 3.068: storm sewers yes 5.240. no 1,945, and sanitary sewers ves 4.932, no 2.042. A three-block "island" in east Medford was annexed to the city by a vote of city residents, yes 5.147. no 1.480. In the other two annexation proposals, one was approved, the other was defeated soundly. Re turns here are complete. In Berrydale, where the an nexation issue was a hot one, the yes vote was 240. the no vote 487. In Kenwood-Grandview. how ever, the yes vo.te was 342. the no vote 283. This is subject to later approval by Medford vot ers before the annexation be comes effective. Portland Boy Dies In Bicycle Accident Portland OJ.R) A 10-year-old Portland boy died in a local hospital this morning, the re sult of a traffic accident yester day when he rode his bicycle into the side of a car in the city. Police identified the youth as Richard L. Carney. The death boosted the city's 1956 traffic toll to 33. San Francisco .'U.PJ Mem bers of California breeding as sociations said the State Cattle men's Association were honored today at the Grand National Livestock Exposition. Horse Show and Championship Rodeo. Shaky Cease Fire Rules Middle East London 0J.R A shaky cease fire ruled in the Middle East today, bui it was clouded by uncertainties which could bring war fare again at any time. Prime Minister Anthony Eden said there was "some shooting" in Port Said today, but no oraaniied fighting. British and French froops were in control and had taken up "defensive positions" along the canal from Port Said to south of Ismailia. (Continued on Page 3) ROBERT Y. THORNTON Reelection Assured Miami" i in 1 1 ii - ' ; VC i ' i william McAllister Holds Margin of 20.000 McAllister Voted Term on Bench Portland (U.Rl Medford Attorney William McAllister to day appeared assured of a term on the Oregon Supreme Court bench in his own right. McAllister won a wide margin of more than 20.000 voles al though his name did not appear on the ballot. His campaign for write-in votes -swamped that of David R. Vandcnbcrg, even though' the Klamath county cir cuit judge had the endorsement of organized labor in the slate. McAllister was appointed jus tice on the death of Earl C. Latourette. Peter W. Welch, who is not an attorney, was an "also ran" in the write-in race. President Summons Congress Leaders Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today sum moned Republicans and Demo cratic congressional leaders to a conference here Friday on the crisis in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He issued the summons for bi partisan cooperation only hours after his landslide election vic tory over Democrat Adlai E. Ste venson. Stevenson had pledged his full cooperation in meeting the Presi dent's weighty problems on the inlernational front. The White House said the con ference docs not involve plans to call a special session of Con gress to consider the use of U. S. troops, "under present circum stances." MARK HATFIELD Ahead of Swetlland -' """-i- 1 l.imiiiriii 1 ' Price 10c RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wir All But Five City Precincts Report Election Results . Mrs. Gates, Dunlevy, Hall, Bradford Lead Medford voters yesterday elected John Snider mayor for a two-year term. In doing so, they defeated Paul Selby in his bid for elec tion. The vote, with 5 precincts missing, was Snider 4370, Selby 3077. Both Selby and Snider are experienced councilmcn. Selby served on the council, and as council president, for a number of years up until tw-o years ago when he was defeated in another bid for mayor by Earl Miller, whose term expires next Jan. 1. Snider has been council presi dent for the past two years, and has served on the airport, police, land and parks committees. He is co-owner and operator of Sni der's dairy, and is perhaps best known in Medford as the author of the "Little Daisy" advertising feature which appears daily in the Mail Tribune. He is married and the father of three school age children. Snider has been on the coun cil since 1950. Al 38. Snider is one of the youngest, perhaps the youngest, chief executive Medford has had. In the race for the council from Ward I. Ed Hall. 712 East Jackson St., led the other two candidates. Hall is owner-manager of the Central Drug store at Central ave. and Main st. It is his first try at elective office. Oher candidates were Granvil Brittsan and Bob Mclntyre. The vote was Hall 546, Mclntyre 460, and Brittsan 341. In Ward II. Al Bradford, 36, of 1023 Mt. Pitt ave., a barber, civic worker and barber's union official, was elected by an al most two-to-one vote over A. R. (Tony) Manno, proprietor of Acme Hardware store. The vote was Bradford 1630, Manno 934. Mrs. Gates Leads In Ward III, Mrs. Marina Gates appeared to be elected in the closest council race. She is believed by city hall workers to be the first woman member of the Medford city counciL She has served for several years on the citizens budget committee for the city. Mrs. Gates, who led R. L. Van Sickle by a margin of 752 to 716, is secretary to Glenn Jackson, vice president of the California Oregon Power com pany. In Ward IV, Jimmy Dunlevy, manager of radio station KYJC, won easily over Jack Fitzgerald, who has served on the council for one four-year term. The vote was 1096 for Dunlevy, 506 for Fitzgerald. Terms for all councilmen is four years, for mayor two years. Hold-over councilmen are Don Hansen, Paul Meyers, Stanley Jones and Fred Robinson. This is the first election in which no condidates were run ning for the posts of treasurer or recorder. Two years ago the po sitions were made appointive and removed from election race, at the same time the city adopted the city manager form of govern ment. SIS UNANDER Slill Stait Treasurer Probable Control Of Senate Seen For Democrats Biggest Republican Victory in History Washington (u.R! Ballot splitting Americans gave Presi dent Eisenhower a landslide sec ond term victory today but kept Democrats in control of the House and probably the Senate. The Democrats elected 220 House members and were lead ing in 13 other Taces for an indi cated total of 233. The 218 seats fell to them at 8:15 a.m. (PST). Republicans elected 189 mem bers tnd were leading in 13 races for an indicated total of 202. In the Senate races still in doubt, two incumbent Demo crats were ahead: Sen. Earle C. Clements leading Thurston B. Morton in Kentucky and Sen. Alan Bible over GOP Rep. Clif ton Young in Nevada, and, in the hottest contest of all. Sen. Wayne Morse defeated former Interior Secretary McKay in Oregon. Democrat Kenneth Ho lum held a narrowing lead over Sen. Francis Case in a potential upset in South Dakota. GOP Gains Three Seats Republicans had elected 15 senators and were leading in one race. With 30 holdovers their indicated total was 46, one short of their strength now. The GOP had gained three Senate seats held by Democrats, in New York, West Virginia and Kentucky. Republican Jacob K. Javits defealed Democrat Robert F. Wagner for the New York seat vacated by Sen. Herbert H. Leh man (D-N.Y.) Former Sen. W. Chapman Revercomb (R-W. Va.) beat Democratic Gov. William C. Marland for a seat vacated by Sen. William R. Laird III (D W. Va.). who was serving temp orarily by appointment. And former Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky), Won a Democratic-held seat in Kentucky. Mr. Eisenhower's personal vic tory over Adlai E. Stevenson was mounting toward the third greatest electoral college land slide in U S. history. It was the biggest Republican presidential victory in history. At 9:20 a.m. (PST) a United Press count gave Mr. Eisenhow er 30.809.862 votes and Steven son 22.495,333. The President had 57.8 per cent of the major party vote compared with 55 per cent in 1952. He had won 41 slates with 457 electoral votes. He needed only 266. Stevenson had won six stales, Alabama, Georgia. Mississippi. Missouri, North Carolina and South Carolina, with 66 elector al votes and was leading irt one (Arkansas) with eight for a pro jected total of 74. The presidential race had been all over except for the de tailed totaling up since 10:20 p.m. (PST) Tuesday when Stev enson walked into a jammed Chicago hotel room and conced ed defeat with a plea for nation al unity in a time of peril. (See Stories on Page 10) Weather FORECAST: VarUble Hffh cloudiness ahov foj In val lrvs tonight and Thursday morninc. Foe breaking Thurs day afternoon. Low tonight 40.' High Thursday 50. Temp. HUhest Yesterday 4' Lowest this Morning 40 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise :5S Sunset - 4:57 ."Moon set ! 9:15 First Quarter Nov PROMINENT STARS a.m. p.m. p.m. . 10 J1MM. UI(U III west - p.m. a.m. Reculus, high in south- 5:2 VISIBLE PLANETS :21 p.m. a.m. and Venus, low in east -lupiter. between Regulus. . 4:10 Venus CHARLES PORTER v .em ' n Jump Into Li id . o o . ooO o o o c Q o o o o o o o e O O 11 l n.WIl.i,,,t,.wi,!l.jp f ' f . . t v.. f o f v V. Q V . v - , ' JT v 1 - v . o V .A V- I -"!t f- "1 i-, Jo .taihi'iiitiaii-iiiwtiirt SEN. WAYKE MORSE Wins Going Away in Hot Congest Sen. Morse Dashes Doug McKay's Hopes0 Portland (UP) Robert D. Holrries,0 the Sfete senator from Gearhart, forged ahead of3 Gov. Elmo Smith by almost 3,000 votes in early afternoon raurns0 in a come-from-behihd drive for the goverrprship of O Oregon. " Al Ullman, defeated in 1954 by Rep.Sam CoonQ in eastern Oregon, held on to a slinvjead over his Re publican rival. Coon sent a message to Ullman, covj gratulating him on his apparent victory o And in southern Oregon,late return aveharjeji O. Porter about a 1000-vote edge over Rpulfclui Rep. Harris Ellsworth. G o o Portland (U.-Rl Sen. Wayne Morse successfully rode out a big Eisenhower landslide to wih going away from former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay . in Oregon's hotly contested Senate race to hand the former Oregon governor his first major election defeat. Three closely-contested races, that for governor and two con gresional battles, still were un resolved with Republicans ahead in two and a Democrat in the other. Oregon voters handed Pres ident Eisenhower a whopping majority aver Democratic candi date Adlai Stevenson -but the President's popularity failed to carry McKay to victory in a race the Republicans wanted, badly to win. Governor Race Close The three close races saw Gov. Elmo Smith, the incumbent Re publican, hold a diminishing lead over Democrat Robert Holmes of Gearhart, and Democrats' were predicting a Holmes tri umph. At 11 a.m. Smith held slightly better than a 5000 vote margin. Rep. Sam Coon, who defeated Al Ullman in 1954, was trailing the same opponent today. Wijh Navy Prisoners Object of Search San Francisco (U.R) Armed Marines searched woods, base ments and abandoned buildings on Yerba Buena Island today for three Navy prisoners wIto overpowered their guard Tues day and fled. : The three were identified as Marine Pvt. Thomas E. Cunning ham, 19. Klamath Falls, Ore.; Navy Seaman Recruit John Le roy Fitzgerald, 18, Fall City, Ore., and Navy Fireman David M. Goodin, 19, Chowchilla, Calif. The three prisoners were on a work detail from the Navy brig at Treasure Island Navy base in San Francisco Bay. They had been working on the island adjoining the base which forms the center section of the Oakland-San Francisco. Bay Bridge when they overpowered their guard and another prisoner and escaped with the guard's shot gun. Klamath Falls Voters ' Reject Fluoridation Klamath Fall; (U.R) The voters of Klamath Falls turned down a proposal to fluoridate the city's -water supply in the general election yesterday. Un official returns showed 2749 yes votes to 3069 votes opposing the measure. , French Youths Storm Commie Headquarters Paris (U.Ri Shooting French youths stormed the headquarters of France's Communist party to night and set the .massive build ing on lire. o o 346 "out of 439o precinfts in the eastern Oregon second district reporting, yilman, public power advocate, led Coon by slightly njofe thai 15(6) voi. Harris Ellswo'tth, in(P the fourth district's representative in Congress," edo Charles O. Porter, a Eugene attor'j, by a scant margin. Ellsworth defeat 'O ed Porter in 1954. Iforblad - Green Win o O Rep. Walter Sorblad. a E Q publican, gnd Ifep. Ecih Gnn. q C a Democrat, wjireejcction. Nor- t blad remained ahea'd all the way ngaiiiit Oenjocrgt Jasoa Efee andO Q Mrs. Green pulled steadily in front d Republican Phil Rot5)o Portland. State Sen. Mark Batfie!. thi, 34-year-olcfc Republican fror, Sa lem, maintained his lead oveV asP other state senajr. Democrat Monroe Sweetland, in lOrPrace for secretary of stale0His mar gin, however, had decreased irom 26,000 early in the dy to about 15,0(K) at 10 ajn. However, with that of GOP State Treas urer Wile Smith, igouid give the Republicans a majority on the powerful Slate Board of. Control. Attorney GencgJ Rober? Y Thornton, a Democrat, emed-. well on the way to $notherter with a 35.000-vote lead over State Sen. Carl Francis, a Jy ton Republican. Emergency Tax Lo;s O OO Voters" spoke decisively in dumping a cigarette tax and in refusing to permit the legislature to placa an emergency clause fax measure. The emergency clause referendum measure was soufldMy, trounced by th biggest margin of any of the seven on the ballot. o A ban on cernmercial fishing in coastsl streams souui of the Columbia was approved, as -is a.'mca'sure pernfitting the state to accept-gifts of stocks in pri vate corporations. A proposal Q double the salarjesf sta- legis- O latures was goieg down to defeat. (See. Story on Page 3) I Corvallk Monf'n In DistrictCourt Charles William Jennies, Cor vallis, was fined $25 in district court Wednesday morning by Judge Rawles Moore $n charges of driving while under the influ ence of intoxicating liquor. .Jennings, who was confined to county jail, also was giverPa 30 days jail sentence to bj; sus pended upon payment of (tie fine and had his operator's li cence suspended for 90 days. PLAYERS TO KLAMATtt A Trans-Ocean airlines plane which was to have taken South ern Oregon college football players from Medford to Oak land, Calif., this morning, was unable to land here beea9se of fog and the squad was trans ported by bus to Klamath Falls to board the plane. Ejogi (ftik land the players were to fly to Honolulu, T. H. They will meet University of H.vaii Friday niSht- r.