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o fffl If i..-Vf .sew'Sw"'-- i. . FIRST LANDING AT SOUTH POLE Photographed from an accompanying plane fly ing at 5U0 feet a U. S. Navy R4D Skytrain is pictured landing at the South Pole Oct 31. Seven members of the expedition, led by Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, made the q landing. The men were the first to set foot on the Pole since Captain Robert Falcon Scott of Great Britain and his party in January, 1912. Kadar Makes lew Offers To Striking Hungarians General Slrike . To Be Continued Insurgents Claim Vienna U.P Hungary's So viet sponsored Premier Janos Kadar reportedly offered ulti mate withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country and formation of a coalition government in aweeping new concessions to nti-Red insurgents today. But the defiant" rebel groups continued their general strike nd insisted it would remain in effect until all Soviet" troops actually are withdrawn. Tilo'i Charge Hsard At the same time, the govern ment controlled Radio Budaocsl broadcast Yugoslav President Tito'i charge tha the Russians were responsible for the Hun garian revolution. In a speech delivered Sunday and released Thursday Tito said the Russians promised to pull their troops out of Hungary as soon as order has been restored. These moves by the Kadar re gime apparently were still more desperate efforts to win some form of popular backing and woo rebel workers bck to their jobs. . Concession! Listed Reliable sources in Budapest said Kadar offered these conces sions in talks with the Central Workers' Council of Greater Budapest and with the leaders o the so-called "Pctoefi" or National Pe;auts party and oth er groups: 1. A three-phasel withdrawal of Soviet troops. 2. Formation of a coalition government including non-Communist parties. Under the reported withdraw al plan, the Red .Army troops would retire first to their .bar racks in Budapest, then to their normal bases in the country.- Ail reinforcements scijt from. Rus sia since ihe fighting began would return home immediately. At the same time. Kadar would begin immediate negotiations for Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw pa&t. one of the last attempted acts of the ousted gov ernment Of ex-Premier Imre Nasy before" the Soviet attack JCv. 4P - Kadar was rrported to have started his talks Thursday night with ,?he Petoe'fi leaders, repre senting a small leftist farmers group.and th Social. Democrats. Canvass of Voles . Completed, in County Canvass of votes "in the gen eral election in Jackson county was completed late Thursday aiternoon, according to election department officials. The canvass started last Fri day.' Officials" reported, "thous ands uf write-in.votes" were cast ftr wipreme coiirt justice. The position was won by -William McAllister. ' former Medford at torney. c None of the r a ce s were changed in Jackson county by the official canvass, elections de partment officials said. The of ficial canvass will be published by ttte Mail Tribune Sunday. T. 'Br' ;rt -S Graham Indicates Flood Control Plan May Be Ready in '58 Grants Pass Col. Jackson Graham. Portland district engi neer, yesterday said the Army corps of engineers will return to the Rogue river valley early in 1958 with a flood control program they will be ready to defend. Col. Graham made the state ment at the close of a public hearing on flood control of the Rogue river basin. The all-day session, at which 54 people tes tified, was held in the Joseph ine county library at Grants Pass. An estimated 250 people wece present duriog most of the hearing. The engineer commented on the diversity of opinions and de sires .expressed at the hearing He said. "We will try to develop a plan to satisfy as many of the interests as possible. He would be less than honest to claim we .can solve all your problems. It would take a' miracle to bring about some of the thines some of you have mentioned." Possible Damage Possible damage to fish and wildlife from a flood control project involving high dams was given major emphasis at the hearing, just as it was last month when a similar hearing wis held in Medford by a joint sen ate interior and public works committee. Some witnesses stated annual cost of flood damage to proper ty is considerably under the an nual income brought to the - al ley by tourists and sport fisher men. Others refuted this argu ment by challenging value of tourist income, quoting flood damage cost figures and appeal ing to the engineers to consider human safety above the fishing sport. A great deal of testimony also was devoted to advisability or desirability of a dam at Lewis creek as proposed by .the bu reau of reclamation. Some wit nesses said a hi?h dam there would pay for itself by income from sale of power and would benefit irrigation and flood con trol interests. Others claimed a high dam at that site would dis place many families, benefit only a small part of the valley and be detrimental to fish runs. Previous Hearing As in the previous hearing, testimony from one side indi cated there are "not enough fish in the Rogue river to bother about," while witnesses on the other side indicated the river is "nationally famous" for its sport .fishing potentiality. It was suggested, in lieu of a hi?h dam. that tributary stor- ase reservoirs be established as long as they meet minimum flow requirements during the fish MUSIC MART FIRE Medford fire department was called to the Music Mart, 111 West Main St., about 1:37 p.m. Today.. Three pieces of equip ment, including the ladder truck, responded. Extent of the fire was not immediately known. ". HJ. ' migration, spawning and rear ing periods. A suggestion was also made that riverside properly annually subject to floods be condemned and used for public park jaur poscs. Among witnesses were sev eral representatives from the Izaak Walton League, state fish commission, U. S. Fish and Wildlife service, soil conserva tion districts, water associations, private resources organiza tions and county and city gov ernmental agencies. In his opening statement. Colonel Graham outlined past studies of Rogue river flood con trol, pointing out that much in formation obtained previously is too obsolete. He said no evidence would be taken after the hear ing unless it is new material and adequate reasons are given as to why it could not have been pre sented at the public hearing. With Colonel Graham, who presided over the session, were Fred C. Ingram, Ross Hatch, Ed ward Harvey and Felix Garret, all affiliated with the corps of engineers. i (See Story on Page 5) Trail Woman Hurt When Struck by Car Clara Maude Arant, 75, of Trail, suffered a sprained right leg and abrasions on her hands yesterday when she was struck by a car operated by Mrs. Cath erine Alice Lasher, 2810 Elliott st., Medford. at the North Front st. entrance to the First National bank parking lot between Sixth and East Main sts., according to Medford police. She was taken to Rogue Val ley hospital by Medford ambul ance service. Hospital attend ants this morning said her con dition was "good." The accident happened, offi cers said, when the car operated by Mrs. Lasher rolled a short distance backward while wait ing in line at the bank drive way for the drive-up window. The car struck the women while she was crossing the side walk, police said. No citations were issued, police reported. New York Woman Calls City; Wrong Number S. T. (Terry) Moore. 1416 West 10th St.. was called to She telephone early Thursday morning. He answered, and a wom an's voice inquired if this were so-and-so in Utica. N. Y. Moore replied that no. this was S. T. Moore in Medford, Ore. It developed that the woman who was calling from another upstate New York City, was using the new direct distance dialing equipment now being used in many cities, and had simply dialed a "wrong num ber" across the continent. Ike Asked To Order National Emergency In View of Losses East, Gulf Coast Ports.Shut Down New York (U.R) Some 50, 000 longshoremen struck East and Gulf coasts ports in a New York contract dispute today, idling more than 200 merchant ships from Portland, Maine to Houston, Tex. The New York Board of Trade asked President Eisenhow er to declare a national emer- Washington U.R) In formed sources said today the administration will not take any immediate steps to get a Taft-Hartley national emer ency injunction to halt the East and Gulf coast dock workers' strike. These sources said the ad ministration will hold off at least until next week and perhaps longer. gency and invoke the Taft-Hartley law to end the strike which it said is costing the nation $20 million a day. Negotiations Under Way Representatives of the strik ing Independent International Longshoremen's Association, the New York Shipping Association and federal mediators went into a meeting at City Hall with Mayor Robert F. Wagner in an effort to end the two-coast shut down. After a 90-minute meeting, the mayor announced that "all sides agreed negotiations can come to a satisfactory end. The issues can be solved." Formal bargaining sessions were to resume. Many Ships Idle Sixty-two ships lav idle in New York harbor. 33 at Phila delphia, 31 at Baltimore, 26 at New Orleans, 23 at Houston and Galveston, Tex., and 10 at Bos ton. Only military cargoes were Being worked at Army and Navv clocks'. " --' Christmas merchandise re mained aboard the Italian liner Saturnia after she docked this morning with 1,033 passengers, who wrestled their own luggage with the help of the line's of fice workers. The Cunard liner Franconia. making its last sailing from New York late today before retire ment from service, will sail light. Only 594 of her 2,200 tons of freight had been loaded before midnight. Other Unions Lend Support Other maritime unions lined up behind the ILA in its first strike in several years over a purely labor-management dis pute. Members of the National Maritime Union jumped the gun to halt sailing of two Grace Line ships, the Santa Clara and the Santa Rosa, before midnight Thursday. Harry Bridges' West Coast longshore union, like the ILA an outlaw from the unified labor movement but for differ ent reasons, announced, it would support the East Coast union from which it split more than 20 years ago. Porter Names Eugene Man Administrative Aide Eugene U.R) Congressman elect Charles O. Porter today named R. H. Schillios of Eu gene as his administartive aide concerned with field work and research on administrative and legislative problems. The 36-year-old Eugene free lance writer and photographer served on Porter's campaign committee. He moved to Eugene in 1947 from Seattle. UMC Reaches 87 Per Cent Of Goal; Directors Named Sam Hersh, general chairman of the United Medford Crusade, announced last night that 87 per cent of the $117,175 goal has been reached. He added that divisions of the campaign would continue working until the goal is reached. A party will be held Rogue Valley Country club tomorrow night to salute volunteer work ers in the campaign. Hersh said entertainment and refreshments will be furnished without charge for the party. Hersh, Robert A. Johnson, chairman of the commercial divi sion of the campaign, and Mrs. Raymond Reter, chairman of the Home Crusade, were named to the board of directors by William Prentice, UMC president, last night. Committee Appointments Committee appointments also were made at last night's board meeting. They included Hersh. Robert Cunningham and Edward 51st Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 26 Pages Egyptian Mines Declared Laid in Alexandria Harbor Developments Threat To Uneasy Cease Fire London (U.R) Saboteurs struck at the water supply for Anglo-French troops in Port Said and Mines were reported laid by Egypt in Alexandria har bor today to threaten the uneasy cease fire in the Middle East. These developments came as U.N. Secretary-general Dag Ham marskjold flew to Egypt for talks with President Gamal Ab del Nasser on the worsening diplomatic tensions which could set off another round of war. Rides With Police Force Hammarskjold rode a plane from Naples. Italy, to Abu Su weir Air Base with one con tingent of the U.N. police force set up to supervise the Egyptian cease fire. He inspected the units there briefly, and then went on by plane to Cairo and his critical discussions with Nasser. In London, the British govern ment said that saboteurs in Egyptian-held territory had breached the walls of the Sweet water Canal, Port Said's only fresh water source, during the jht in an apparent attempt to blackade Anglo-French troops occupying the city. Breach of Agreement The sabotage disclosure was followed shortly afterwards by a separate announcement from the British Admiralty here that "information has been received that Egvptian authorities have laid mines in the approaches to Alexandria." Both London statements coin cided with another Anglo-French announcement in Port Said that a joint command is being formed to reopen the Suez Canal, appar ently from both ends. Only the north end of the 101-rmle water way is now in Allied hands. Official sources said the sabo tage action may be considered a violation of the cease fire agreement. Water Level Drops Foreign Office spokesman said the water level dropped danger ously this morning at the Port Said end of the Sweetwater Canal, which carries drinking water to the arid Suez Canal Zone from the Nile river at Cairo. Prime Minister Anthony Eden was informed immediately, and London ordered an investiga tion. Experts said the Allies might be able to support their own troops by sending water aboard ships from Cyprus to Port Said. Salem (U.R) Closing of the Hunt Foods Cannery here have been confirmed by the com pany's home office in Mullerton, Calif. Branchfield, committee to nom inate a new compaign chairman; Dunbar Carpenter, Frank Ben esh and Russell Brown, plant chapter committee; and Hersh, M. Miller Huggins and Johnson, committee for awards to be made at the annual, UMC spring dinner. A financial report of UMC operations for fiscal year ending Oct. 31, was presented, and a report from Haskins and Sells, auditors, who recently completed an audit for UMC. Member agencies had received full payment of approved budg ets from the previous campaign, and a payment had been made Nov. 1 on the first quarter of the new fiscal year, it was re ported. Prentice announced that the board would meet with staff? and officers of local member agencies Dec. 6 at the Medford YMCA for a general discussion period and a social hour. AC Sabotaged 'Ah, You've Come Back to Me" UN General Assembly Refuses To Consider Seating of Red China United Nations. N. Y. (U.R) Tlie U.N. General Assembly re fused today to consider the question of seating Communist China. It also barred further debate on the question for an other year. A move by India's delegate V. K. Krishna Mcnon for full de bate on China's representation was defeated 45 to 25 with nine abstentions. Berrydale Committee Schedules Meeting The Berrydale Sanitary com mittee, formed this week follow ing the defeat of an annexation proposal in the general election, has scheduled the first in a se ries of public meetings to dis cuss problems of the area for 7:30 p.m.. Tuesday, Nov. 20, in the Howard school. Nick Gier. chairman of the group, said there will be a re view of sanitation problems of the area, and the progress made to date is solving them. Principal speakers will be Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer. Charles Clark, county sanitarian, and Alt Mekvold. county superintendent of schools, who will discuss prob lems of the school districts in volved in annexation proced ures. Dr. Merkel and Clark will go over the sanitation problem and the practical solutions available for their correction. After each talk there will be a question and answer period, with discussion welcomed from anyone attending, Gier said. Salem (U.R) About 100 del egates from 75 radio and tele vision stations are on hand for the biennial fall meeting of the Oregon State Broadcasters As sociation. Weather FORF.CAST: Cloudy tonicht and Sxturdav morninf with ocra ional lijtht rain. Snow on hiEhr mountains. Partly rlnudv with showers Satur day afternoon and eveninjt. I.nw tonight 38. High Satur da v near 50. Tree! to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Runrfe Siinspl ... Mnnnrise . 7:IM a m. .... 4:41 J.m. . 3:49 p.m. Mnnn-.ft Saturday h.zi a.m. Tomorrow nleht the Full Mn "111 paw thronch the Earths shadow and be totally eclipsed. This shadow is conical and comes to a point about 957,000 miles away. The diameter of the Moon is 2,K0 miles and the width of the Earth's shadow at the distance of the Moon is bout 4. ISA miles. "ON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1956 e h Water The assembly passed a U.S. resolution to bar further debate on the issue this session by a vote of 47 to 24, with eight ab sentions. Attack on Knowland During debate on the' China representation question, Krish na Menon accused Sen. William F. Knowland (R-Calif.) of "an affront to another member del egate." He said Knowland had done "a great disservice to the cause of international friend ship." Knowland said Thursday night he was "shocked that India- and its delegation leader, V. K. Krishna Menon. apparent ly has become the floor lead er for the Soviet drive to bring Communist China into the" Unit ed Nations." "For anybody who thinks that way, the thing to do is go see a doctor or a psychopath, or something," Krishna Menon said. No Right To Question "The U. S. delegation has no right to question the integrity of another delegation. He who says we are the mouthpiece of another power is not only mis taken but is guilty of an affront This statement is a great dis service to the cause of interna tional friendship." Krishna Menon said he de clined to accept Knowland's words as a "statement of the U.S. delegation." He called upon Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to "make a clarification of it to me, either in private or in public." 10,486 Receipts Issued for Taxes Jackson county tax depart ment officials issued 10,486 re ceipts for personal and real property taxes paid over the counter prior to yesterday's deadline. Those who paid taxes prior to Thursday will be eligible for a 3 per cent discount. Officials emphasized .that re ceipts were issued only to those who paid their taxes at the of fice. Majority of the payments were made by mail and tax de partment personnel w'ere just beginning to open the envelopes today. Envelopes postmarked on or before Nov. 15 also will be eligible for the discount. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30' indus trials 480.67, up 0.47: 20 rail roads 156.51. off 0.22; 15 utilities 66.81, up 0.24, and. 65 stocks 170.24, up 0.16. Sales today were about 1.820.000 shares compared with 2,210,000 shares Thursday. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 204 CO Interior Declared Considering High Snake River Dam Fedferal Project Claimed in Works o Portland (U.R) The Interior Department was reported today to have under 'consideration an plan to come out for federal construction of a high dam at the Pleasant Vallev site on the Snake riveF where Drivate in. terests seek a permit for a dam. according to an Orsgonian story from Washington, D. C. The newspaper quoted authori tative sources as saying the plan was outlined at a secret hi't level conference of the Interior Department lat week attended by Fred Aandehl, assistant secre tary, and W. A. Dexheimer, commissioner of reclamation. It said an Interior Department .spokesman declined to comment on the report. Report Not Received Interior Secretary Fred Sea ton and Dexheimer are in Salt Lake City attending the Nation al Reclamation Association con vention. Asked about the re port. Seaton said a Bureau of Reclamation report which he had asked about Pleasant i'ajley had not yet been received fthough he expected to get it on his re turn to Washington next weVk. He said he would not comment on any phase of the Interior stand on. Pleasant Valley until he sees the report. Dexhaiisier also said he had not yet seen the report. " Applied for Authority0 Pacific Northwest Power 5m pany, composed of four major utility firms, has applied for Federal Power Commission au thon'ly to build dams at Pleasant Valley asd Mountain Sheep on the Snake river. o PleasaYit Valley is dowjistream from Hells Canyon. The report ed plan, according to the Ore goriian account, would eliminate the Little Hells Canyon project because the higher Pleasant Val- , ley dam would flood this Ste out. The Little Hells Canyon project is part of Idaho Power company s Three-dam plan for developing that siretch of the Snake. The Brownlee dam, ori ' which -construction has sUOted, is upstream from Little HelS Canyon and Oxbow. Shady Cove Baby Suffocates in Crib o Pa'meia Marie Gorum, slx- veek-old daughter of Mrs. Don na Lee Gorum, Shady CAj-e, as found dead 1n htr crib appar ently from suffocatibti, shortly before 6:39 a.m. today, sheriff's deputies reported. 0 Mrs. Gorum told officers sh had awakened and gone to Hho crib and discovered the iiabv was not breathing. She took tb,e child in her arms and ran fromO their house trailer to her par ents' house a few yards away. Mrs. Gorura's father went tn a neighbor's home and telephoned Dr. Howafd Ferguson of Shady Cove, deputies said. Dr. Ferguson Dronounced the O child dead .when he arrived. Sheriff's deputies, state police and the coroner were summoned. Pamela was born Oct. 1 in 0 Medford. The mother. nd fa ther. Kenneth W. Gortim, are separated". Mr?. Gorum has two o other children. Janiee Lwiise, 1, and Kcuneth Wayne Jr., 3. O Murder' Charge Reduced For Suspect at Roseburg Roseburz (U.R) -y- A charts of second degree murder against Forrest Winfi. 167? Boseburg, in connection wun tne aeath of a cardroom operator was reduce to a manslaughter clarg today Winn was charged by District Attorney Robert Stultz after the 'death of E. D. Wood folwing an altercation last Saturday nighL - o3 O o C O O o
