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CChir y Supreme Soviet Summoned To Meet On February 5 . Way Claimed Paved For Possible Shakeup London (U.R) Russia's parli ament, the Supreme Sovieti was summoned today to meet Feb. 5 The announcement coincided with authoritative reports that Nikita Khrushchev may be shitt ed from his job as head of the Soviet Communist party to that of Soviet Premier. Such Cabinet changes usually are announced before the Su preme Soviet. An official an nouncement carried by the So viet news a;cncy Tass said a de cree summoning the parliament was published in Moscow today He Confirmation There was no confirmation or authoritative comment from Moscow yet on strong reports from WarMW Dnlrl w-, Khrushchev is considering tak ing over as premier. These reports said Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, who is visiting Warsaw after con ferences in Moscow, gave the wiormation to Polish Commu nist leader Wladvslaw Gomulka ! A series of closed meetings wunin the Kremlin hierarchy al ready has paved the way for a possible shakeup. Promotion for MltnVn ' Authoritative reports reaching here from one Eastern European capital said the shakeup, if it comes, probably would include a uig piumuuon ior ex-rremier Georgi Malenkov. The reports said that Khrush chev rnniiilt! uitK esfalHu leaders on the switch during re cent conferences. Mercy Flights, Inc. Takes 611th Patient ; A Mercy Flights. Inc., air am bulance plane this morning flew the 611th patient carried by the non-profit service since it began operating seven years ago this week. '. The patient was Paul Hoffard. 507 South Oakdale ave., who was taken to a Portland hospit al for surgery. , The air ambulance service, j organized In late 1949 and atarted with funds donated by people of Jackson county, has been operating continuously aince the middle of January, 1950. It began service with one aircraft, and now operates three, all twin-engine planes equipped with stretchers, and radios and instruments which enable them to fly in all but the worst weather. The service is financed by flight charges to non-subscribers, and by pre-paid subscrip tions held iy more than 5.000 county residents. Three Sentenced In Circuit Court Three men received sentences in circuit court Friday from Judge H. K. Hanna. ' Sentenced to three years in the Oregon State penitentiary was David Walker Laflin, 1032 Cherry St., and sentenced to three years probation was Jack Taylor Stallsworth, 106 Lincoln at., Medford. Both men were charged with grand larceny Nov. 26. 1956, at Cubby's Drive In Nov. 19, 1956. Also sentenced to two and a half years in the state peniten tiary at Salem was LeRoy Julius Jones, Suncrest rd.. Talent, for robbery of an Ashland taxi cab driver on Dec. 19, 1956. He was charged with assault and rob bery while not armed with a dangerous weapon. "I'm Not Leaving" sllichev i HUMPHREY BOGART Funeral To Be Thursday Humphrey Bogart Dies of Cancer at Hollywood Home Hollywood (U.R) Actor Humphrey Bogart, 57, veteran movie tough guy and one of Hollywood's most colorful char acters, died at home of cancer today with his wife, Lauren Ba- call. at his bedside. The Academy-Award winning actor, who had been operated upon a year ago for throat can cer, succumbed 'during a coma at 2:10 a.m. (PST), Dr. Maynard Bransma said. Funeral Thursday A spokesman for the family said funeral services will be con ducted Thursday. His sole immediate survivor is his sister, Frances Rose Bo gart. "Bogart was still talking to everybody Saturday night." Dr. Brandsma said. "Sunday morn ing he went into a coma. He went to sleep and just didn't wake up." "Early this morning he look a deep breath and died." The doctor said Bogart was a victim specifically of Carcinoma, a general spread of the original cancer. "Bogev." as the actor was nicknamed, had turned 57 last Christmas Day. In Pain Recently The end for the lovable. Acad emy Award-winning actor came at his Holmby Hills home where he had been recuperating from a hospital stay he took last month in an effort to alleviate pain from scar tissue formed aft er an operation for throat can cer a year ago. His doctor said he had been "in some pain for the last few weeks." His actress-wife said she pre ferred that no flowers be sent to the funeral but that contribu tions be made to the American Cancer Society instead. Planning Commission To Meet This Evening The Medford planning com mission will reconsider several zoning proposals for the south east Medford area at 7:30 p.m. today in the city hall. The commission will also rnnsl drr further study of sub division regulations and rezon ing the corner of Highland ave. and Siskiyou blva. lor a gro cery store. Salem 'UP.) The Oregon Commission on Interstate Co operation said it would recom mend that the 1957 Legislature act to define the boundary be tween Washington and Oregon. Eisenhower Tours Drought-Stricken Area of Southwest Talks To Farmers In Western Texas En Route with Eisenhower (U.R) President Eisenhower, who is seeing for himself what one of the greatest droughts in his tory has done to the Southwest, went into the barren West Texas countryside today to talk to farmers who haven't had a de cent crop in seven years. Mr. Eisenhower is on a plane and automobile tour that will cover some 4.500 miles of drought stricken land in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Ari zona, Colorado and Kansas. San Angelo, Tex., was the first ,stop. Briefing From Leaders After spending the night at Goodfellow Air Force Base at San Angelo, Mr. Eisenhower got an off the record briefing from 40 agricultural leaders at break fast. Then he climbed into an automobile for a 22.6-mile drive through the dusty farmland southeast of San Angelo. D. W. Williams, vice chancel lor of the Texas A&M College system, and County Agent Ed S. Hyman of Tom Green county rode with him to introduce farmers and ranchers to the President and to explain their plight. It has been 1950 since farms Mr. Eisenhower saw have pro duced a decent crop and 1949 since they produced a good crop. The rainfall last year was 7.41 inches, compared with a 50-year average of more than 20 inches. Polio Vaccination Gets Under Way At County Schools Free inoculations with Salk anti-polio vaccine got under way in schools of Jackson county to day and will continue for the next two weeks, with second shots in the three-shot program to be given during the last two weeks of February. Members of the Jackson Coun ty Medical Society are donating their services to give the free in- Vaccine Schedule Tuesday, Jan. IS, 9 a.m. until noon. Gold Hill school. Rogue River school; Phoenix high school. Medford Senior high school. Jackson County courthouse (health depart ment). 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. jections. The program was set up by the Jackson County riealtn Department with cooperation by the county chapter ot the .na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Persons suffering from acute illness, running fever or recover ing from, recent surgery are ad vised by" doctors to wait until fully recovered before receiving the shots. The vaccine for the local pro gram was obtained from the fed eral government, which, had pur chased it with a congressional appropriation for immunization of children of underprivileged families. These families have not taken advantage of the free vac cine and since it must be used before a specified time or be dis carded, the government has made it available free to coun ties for free vaccination of those 19 years old or younger. J Persons who are out of school but are still under 20 years of age may go to the school nearest their home to receive the vac cine or may receive it at the health department at the county courthouse. Parents of pre-school children may follow the same schedule. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrial 489.29, off 4.52; 20 rail roads 155.68, off 1.65; 15 util ities 69.56, off 0.06, and 65 stocks 173.09, off 1.38. Sales to day were about 2.350,000 shares compared with 2,40,000 shares Friday. Weather FORECAST: Snow shower in mountains and rain showers in valievs throuch Tuesday. Low tonight 35. Hib Tuts day 43. Temp. BiCht yesterday Si Lowest this morning 36 Our Skies Tonight Stuirfie 7:29 a.m. Sunset 5:03 p.m. 3: p.m. S:M a.m. MnonrHe M nnntl Tiiffv Full Moon Tuesday night VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, low in west 11:13 p.m. Saturn, rises . 4:57 a.m. Jupiter, high in SW K:35 a.m. Venus, rises 6:37 a.m. 51st Year Medford United Press Kull Leased Wire 14 Pages MEDFORD, ' - i f '" - ; j y yvf K -H ::,rjf X) fp BICYCLE SAFETY Becoming bicycle own ers for the first time at Christmas many chil dien in the Medford schools lack instruction in bicycle safety. A prograrn to. familiarize them with basic safety rules was begun this week at Washington school by Medford Police Sgt. Clyde Fichtncr. After a lecture by Ser geant Fichtncr, Mrs. John Hartsook, president of the Washington school PTA, gave new bi cycle owners pieces of reflective tape to place 1 i i at SARAH B. WING Native Oregonian Sarah Bleyins Wing Dies at Ashland At Age of 103 Ashland Mrs. Sarah Ble- vins Wing, 103. one of the oldest native Oregonians, died here yesterday. Mrs. Wing was born March 10, 1853, in the Tualatin valley, the child of pioneer parents who had traveled from Missouri in 1943 with the Applegate wagon train. She had lived in Ashland since 1901. Mrs. Wing, who was six years old before Oregon became a state, had vivid memories of those pioneer days. She often related interesting stories con cerning Indians and pioneer settlers. With her husband, the late C. C. Wing, the pioneer woman lived on a ranch in northern California in the 1870s. After her husband's death in 1916, Mrs. Wing lived with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McGee, in Ashland. Attended Phoenix Church The century-old woman was active until recently. She attend ed Phoenix Church of Christ for many years when her grandson, the Rev. Everett McGee, was pastor -there; Last March when the family celebrated her 103rd birthday, five generations attended the Dartv. At that time, in addition to her son and daughter, her family consisted of four grand sons, 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Lijwiller funeral home here. nlvmnia (U.R) Gov. Art hur B. Langlie will leave for the east in 10 days to take a posi tion in private industry. 10 OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1957 No. 253 Dui(es Makes Plea for iddle East Washington (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles said today there is no evidence "we know of" that Russia is planning "direct aggression in the Middle East." But he warn ed that the Communists "will take every risk that they dare'! to win the oil-rich area. He also said there is already evidence on the "advance of Communism" in the area. And if the Russians do move with di rect aggression, he added, "I doubt that we would get any ad vance notice." The secretary went before a combined session of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees with a new plea for approval of the "Eisenhower doctrine" for the Middle East. He ran into critical questioning and faced still more later today and possibly Tues day. Rep. Clement J. Zablocki (D- Wis.) introduced two resolutions to split the President's military and ecnoomic proposals to help the Middle East. Zablocki acted without the endorsement of his Democratic colleagues. Dulles said the power struggle for the Middle East "could well Annual Student Government Scheduled in Plans for the ninth annual Student Government Day pro gram, in which eight county and city schools will participate, have been announced by Exalt ed Ruler Dick Woodcock of the Medford Elks lodge. The project which is conduct ed in conjunction with city and county high schools in the Elks jurisdictional area, has received national recognition. ; Schools Participating County schools which will participate include Crater High school in Central Point, Jack sonville High, Phoenix High, Eagle Point High, Butte Falls High, and Prospect High. Med ford High and St. Mary's High, of Medford, also will participate. About 125 seniors and upper di vision high school students par ticipate in the program, accord ing to Woodcock. During the two-day period. Feb. 18 and 19, students elected or appointed to city and county offices learn the jobs of their counterpart officials. Also in cluded in the activities are tours of county and city installations, such as the airport, disposal plant, county shops, and other departments. omite Price 10c Tribune United Press Full leasea Wir on their bikes. Demonstrating how to apply the tape, above, is PTA safety chairman, Mrs. Glen Grubaugh. Sergeant Fichtner and stu dents Pamela Wyatt, Jim Travis and Don Stewart, look on. Fichtner encouraged use of hand signals. He discouraged riding double on bicycles, riding on sidewalks, zig-zagging and jumping curbs. He recommended that riders carry flashlight if they must be on the road at night. Doctrine be the decisive test in the struggle between Communism and freedom." If the Soviets win it. he said, "international Communism will have gained a great and decisive victory." Both the House and Senate are considering Mr. Eisenhower's resquest for standby authority to use U.S. armed forces if necessary to aid any Middle East nation threatened by Commu nism. Sen. Lowry Arrives In Salem Without Cash Albany (U.R) Sal Sen. Philip B. Lowry of Medford arrived at Salem for the legis lative session without his money. Lowry told state police he left his wallet and an un determined amount of cash in a service station at the edge of Albany on Saturday. Officers contacted the serv ice station operator and learn ed he had mistakenly given the wallet to the driver of a southbound car with Illinois license plates. State police still were try ing io locate the car today. Jackson County Next Month The steering committee this year includes County Judge Rodney Keating, County Com missioners Ralph James and Chester N. Wendt, . Medford Mayor John Snider, Medford Councilman James Dunlevy, Mrs. Dorothy Snedden, the may or's secretary, Mrs. JoAnne Smith of Medford High school, the Rev. John Ilg of St. Mary's High school, Bruce Hitt of the county schoolsuperintendent's office, and Franklin Van Pelt, Dr. August W. Glutsch, Jack Thompson, Charles Meyers, and Elliott Becken, all of the Med ford Elks lodge. Student officials last year were headed by David Bosworth of Medford High school, who was mayor of Medford, and Ron ald Hanson of Eagle Point who was county judge. Campaigns Slated Students from the eight par ticipating high schools will hold political campaigns within their schools to secure nominations and elections to those county and city offices apportioned the schools by the steering commit' tee. Officials practices relating to regular primary and general elections will be followed. Student officials willke the Holmes Pledges forward look' At Government Salem '(U.R) Robert D. Holmes was inaugurated 28th gover nor of Oregon shortly after 2:30 p.m. today in solemn and color, ful ceremonies at the state capitol. Salem U.R) Gov. Robert D. new, forward look" at Oregon state government, minutes after he was inaugurated. The new Democratic governor 49th State Legislature that certain ernment were neeaed to fulfill his program. He said he would start selecting new key personnel "within 24 hours." Holmes was sworn in 22 years to the day after the last previous Democratic governor, Charles H. Martin, took the oath of office. The ceremonies were broadcast and televised. Basic to a program Gov. Holmes dubbed a "bold, imagina tive, vigorous course" for the state was his tax program. He turned thumbs down on a sales tax as unjust and called for repeal of the 45 per cent surtax and restoration of personal ex emption and dependency deduc tions from S500 to S600. A tax system must be geared to the concept of ability to pay. In final analysis, net income is the best measure of ability, and that - fact alone provides suf ficient justification for the use of net income taxation as the core of our state tax structure," the governor declared. 'Fair' Tax Asked The governor said most of the money to balance the budget must come from "Oregon's tradi tionally fair income tax struc ture" combined with "realistic withholding." This, he said, would be a just, direct and con venient tax system. Also advocated was revision of the corporation excise tax law, repeal of the personal prop erty tax offset and repeal of the differential rate between util ities and other business corpora tions. Gov. Holmes said he was op posed to a state levy on real property as particularly hard on farmers. For education. Holmes recom mended raising basic school sup port trom BU to 51 20 per census child, ' raising public school teacher salaries, a change in the method of distributing basic school aid, re-organization of school districts and a fund of $5 million to be used for building relief in distressed districts. Legislators, were urged to fol low recommendations of the State Board of Higher Education for new salary schedules to re tain and recruit ' high quality faculty and for $14 million in building construction. John Day Dam Urged Power policies of private util ities aided by a Republican ad ministration were castigated by Holmes for delaying needed con struction four years. He urged immediate construction of John Day dam. the Hells Canyon stor age project and small dams such as Green Peter, Cougar and Hills Creek in the Willamette basin. He did not specifically men tion federal construction of John Day or Hells Canyon, but sug gested that the state withdraw from the Northwest Governors' Power Policy committee and cease working for an interstate compact because they were not sympathetic to policies he fa vored. The governor called for these changes in government struc ture: A constitutional amendment to provide for a lieutenant gov ernor; abolition of the Board of Control and formation of the office of director of Institutions; annual sessions of the state legis lature; a full-time liquor admin istrator appointed by the gov ernor; a full time parole board and a complete reevaluation and regrouping of all - the state's Day Program oath of office the afternoon of Monday, Feb. 18. Oaths will be administered by Medford Mayor John Snider and County Clerk Bereth Hopkins, Tuesday, Feb. 19, will be spent in various city and county offices to which the students were elected, with stu dent city councilmen conducting the regularly scheduled council meeting that night. Banquet Planned The annual Student Govern ment Day banquet will be held in the Medford Elks Lodge at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18. Dun- levy will serve as master of ceremonies. The principal speak er for the banquet has not yet been named. Woodcock said, A principal award was pre sented by the Freedoms Founda tions organization to Medford High school in 1955 for its par ticipation in the program. As; a result Mrs. JoAnne Smith, head of the social studies department, and Mrs. Carol Denman Hoist, also of the high school, visited Valley Forge and Washington, D.C. under the auspices of the foundation. In addition, the school received the Valley Forge Freedom Library award and the George Washington honor medal. Holmes pledged today a "fresh. told the first joint session of the structural changes in state gov boards and commissions. Other Points Listed Other recommendations in cluded: Economic development: Get ting ' solid consumer industries instead of being "content to department: Terminating the present Oregon Development commission and forming a development depart ment in the state government directly responsible to the gov ernor. AgTicultiire: Investigate the farmers' lot, including his prop erty tax burden, by having the State Tax Commission conduct hearings throughout the state on every agricultural commodity. forestry: txpand research and development in forest products and try to secure more federal funds. Labor: Improve and modern ize workmen's compensation laws, unemployment compensa tion and minimum waee stand ards on a state level. Also estab lish a realistic mediation and conciliation service and reDeal the 1953 anti-picketing bill. General welfare: No general recommendations yet except re peal of the relative responsibility law. Favors adding an adoptive service io tne public welfare commission. Capital punishment: Should be abolished. Portland Democrat Named Temporary Senate Chairman Salem (U.R) The Senate pulled an O'Henry switch in plot at 4:15 a.m. today and un animously elected Democratic Sen. Jean Lewis of Portland, the only woman member of the Sen ate, as its temporary chairman lo preside at the inauguration of Democrat Robert D. Holmes as governor this afternoon. After the inaugural cere monies, Mrs. Lewis will turn the temporary chairmanship bock to Sen. Howard Belton, Canby Republican and himself a past president of the Senate. He will continue to preside at the re sumed caucus until a permanent president for the 1957 Legisla ture is elected. Gill Versus Pearson Until Sen. Harry Boivin, Klamath Falls Democrat, arose to make the surprise nomination of Sen. Lewis, the only thing the evenly divided senators could agree upon were to dis agree right down the line 15 Republicans to 15 Democrats, until Sen. Stuart Chase, Eugene Republican, became ill in the s aall hours and was excused. Then it was 14 Republicans to . 15 Democrats. It takes 16 votes to carry. The battle for the presidency is between sen. warren LfIii, Lebanon Republican, and Sen. Walter J. Pearson, Portland Democrat. Housa Organized Quickly During the course of the long est Senate caucus session in re cent years, 38 ballots were taken with no decisive result. While the Senate was holding its long caucus, the House was holding its shortest. In just 16 minutes the representatives elected Rep. Pat Dooley, Port land Democrat, as speaker, and organized for the session. Marine Plane Falls In Industrial Area Long Beach, Calif. (U.R) A two-place propeller-driven Marine photo reconnaissance plane fell into an iron works and a book bindery today kill ing one airman and at least two civilians in fiery destruction. Police listed three dead and two others, both employed in the bindery, as missing alter the single-engined craft apparently had motor failure and nosed into the industrial section, narrowly missing a grade school filled with, school children. - Mrs. Margaret Willock, 58, Long Beach, an employee of the bindery, was burned over her entire body and not expected to live. The Marine Corps announced the dead airman was the pilot, 1st Lt. Dale Fortine, 26, Costa Mesa, Calif. ,
