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SWEDEN PROPOSES MORAT M OH NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS 51st Year Price 10c Medford United Prn- -FuL) ueasea Wire Tribune ;;r"' -sm? -p -J-uiJ Leasee Wir Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1957 No. 259 J v a:. -I WAVE OF GREETING Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower wave a greet was inaugurated as the 43rd elected president of the United Sta Oregon To End 126th Ballot Shows Pearson and Gill Still Deadlocked Salem (U.R) The Oregon Sen ate took up today where it left off on the eve of the 1957 ses sion getting nowhere on its choice for president. Some observers had hoped that the senators, evenly divided at IS Republicans and 15 Demo crats, would get together in formally over the week end after recessing Saturday afternoon, and reach a compromise agree ment on committeiistribution that would pave the way for a break in the choice for president. Bolton on Rostrum But when the Senate convened shortly after 10 a.m. today, with Sen. Howard Belton of Canby still on the rostrum as tempor ary chairman, the vote was 14-14-1 14 for Sen. Walter J. Pearson, Portland Democrat; 14 for Sen. Warren Gill, Lebanon Republican, and one vote cast by Gill for Sen. Belton. Sen. G. D. Gleason, Portland Democrat was absent. He phoned that he was on his way along the ice-slippery highway, and on motion of Sen. Monroe Sweet land, Milwaukie Democrat, the Senate recessed until 10:30 a.m. following the pattern today that has characterized the week's deadlock in the Senate-tie vote, recess, tie vote, recess. Formula Sought During each recess, negotia tors for each party have tried to arrive at the committee dis tribution formula that would break the deadlock and make possible election of president. After casting the 126th ballot in the longest voting for leader ship in the history of the Oregon Senate, the upper House recessed shortly after 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. Young Gunman Takes Slate Policeman's Car Roseburg (U.R) Authorities converged on the small town of Riddle this afternoon in search of a young man who held a state police officer at gunpoint, then fled in the officer's car this morning. The stolen police car was found abandoned at Pruner bridge near Riddle shortly after noon today. Patrolman Warren DeMytt said he had stopped a jeep pick up bearing , California license plates this morning to check it out as a possible stolen vehicle. He said the driver, described as about 16 years old, pulled a gun on him and kept him cov ered while he got into the police car and sped away. Russian Nuclear Explosion Told by Atomic Commission Washington (U.R) Russia has exploded another nuclear weapon, the Atomic Energy Commission announced Sunday. The remainder of Soviet power came only two days after three U.S. B52 H-bombers circled the world non-stop in a demonstration of American strength. The AEC said Russia exploded the nuclear weapon Saturday. Senate Again Fails Leadership Problem Curry County Leads State Population Rise Portland (U.R) Oregon's population since 1950 has in creased 14 per cent, "according to figures released today by the State Board of Health. The rate of increase represents a substan tial deceleration from the 1940s when the state's poulation in creased by half-a-million per sons. The estimate of population in the state set the figure at 1. 734.650 as of July 1, 1956. The health board set the natural in crease at- 147,996 persons and a gain through migration of 65. 304. A total gain of 213,300 since 1950 was seen. Curry county topped the rate of increase, more than doubling in population in the six years Free Vaccine Program Enlers Second Week The Jackson County Medical Society's free Salk anti-polio vaccine program went into its second week today. Children re ceived the first in the three shot series at Talent grade school. Shady Cove school. Cra ter high school at Central Point, VACCINE SCHEDULE Tuesday, Jan. 22, 9 a.m. to noon Talent high school. Washington grade school. Med ford: Sams Valley school. Southern Oregon college, Ash land. Shots may be obtained at the health department in the courthouse from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jefferson grade school in Med ford and Ashland Senior high school. With last week's total nearly 3.600 in the first week of the program, it is the hope of health authorities that at least 7,000 children under 20 years of age will have received the vaccine by the end of this week. Second shots will be given in the schools starting Monday, Feb. 11, and will follow the same schedule as the first shots. Pre-school children may be taken to the school nearest their home for the shots and those out of. school but not yet 20 years old may also receive shots at the school nearest their home. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 475.90, off 1.56; 20 railroads 149.45, off 1.68: 15 utilities 69.37, up 0.15. and 65 stocks 168.76, off 0.67. Sales to day were about 2.740.000 shares compared with 2.400,000 shares Friday. The terse announcement gave no indication whether the test involved an atomic or hydrogen weapon or its size. The blast apparently was the fifth in Russia's current test series that Russia announced it had completed. The series start ed in August. The announcement brought to 17 the number of times the United States has reported a So viet nuclear test. ing to crowds during a presidential procession. Mr. Eisenhower tes during a gala celebration in the nation's capita1! today. since 1950. The board set the present population of the coun ty at 12.270, or 102 per cent above 1950. Wasco County Increases Wasco county, site of The Dalles dam and the proposed Harvey Aluminum company plant, was second in rate of in. crease, showing a gain of 54.9 per cent and a population of 24,- onn. The metropolitan Portland area reflected the trend to sub urban living with Washington, Clackamas a n d- " Multnomah counties, outside 'of Portland, showing large gains. Clackamas county was up 19 per cent with a population of 103.190: Washington county up 32.9 per cent with a popula tion of 81.450 and Multnomah county outside Portland up 22.3 per cent and a population of 119,720. Seven Lose Residents - Portland's population increas ed only 9.6 per cent during the six years and was set at 409, 420. The only counties in the state not showing gains in population were Columbia, down .7 per cent; Deschutes, down 3.3 per cent: Klamath, down .7 per cent; Morrow, down .9 per cent; Polk, down 9.3 per cent; Wheeler, down 15.5 per cent, and Yam hill, down 8.2 per cent. Sherman county, while regis tering an increase of 8.5 per cent, remained as the state's least populated county with a population in 1956 of 2,460. Other counties showing large gains during the period includ ed: Coos, up 33.36; Douglas, up 37.7; Jackson, up 21.1: Jeffer son, up 31.3: Lane, up 20.1; and Josephine up 20 per cent. Linn was ud 6.9 per , cent. Union county was up .09, Clatsop .8. Powers Logger Held in Shooting Incident Coquille; U.R1 A" 25-year-old Powers, Ore., logger was to De arraigned this afternoon on a charge that he shot at the Pow ers chief of police last night. John Ed'.vard, father of three children, .was slated to appear in Justice Court for arraign ment. Officers said details of the shooting were not ' immediately clear; but. that Police Chief George Hurst was not harmed in the altercation. Lloyd White, an officer in the sheriff's office, made the arrest after the alleged shooting and lodsed Edward in the city jail here. . . Interim Committee Man To Speak This Evening Kenneth Tolenaar, executive secretary of the legislative in terim committee on local gov ernment, will speak at 7:30 p.m. today at Howard school, accord ing to Nick Gier. chairman of the Berrydale Sanitation com mittee. Tolcnaar will talk on legis lation available for fringe areas with sanitary problems, Gier said. The committee he serves hss completed a two-year study of similar problems through out Orrcon. Robert Duff. Med- for ly manager, will discuss taxes and construction costs at the meeting. Gomulka Appears As Overwhelming Winner in Poland Warsaw (U.R) Communist Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomul- ko, fortified by his victory in Sunday's national elections, is expected today to waste little time in sweeping out the last of the die-hard Stalinists from party ranks. . Official results of the parlia mentary elections will not be known until Tuesday. But all indications pointed to an over whelming popular vote of con fidence in the rebellious Com munist leader who severed Po land's tightly-knit dependency on Moscow. There was a surprisingly heavy turnout of voters for the crucial elections. Gomulka had warned a defeat for his candidates would "cross out the independence of our country, and cross out Po land from themap of Europe." Unofficial results showed from 91 to 96 per cent of the 17.5 mil lion eligible voters cast ballots, apparently spurred by Gomul- ka's warnings and the get-out-and-vote drive by the Roman Catholic church. Incomplete unofficial returns gave Gomulka 99.5 per cent of the valid ballots. Second with 98.4 per cent was independent" Jerzy Hrynie- wiecki, third with 98.3 per cent was Jerzy Zawieyski, a Catholic Activist who ran with the prob able support of Roman Catholic Primate Stefan Cardinal Wys- zinsky. Austria To Protest Hungary 'Invasion' Vienna (U.R) The Aus trian government was reported drafting today a strong protest against the "invasion" by armed Communist Hungarian border guards in pursuit , of refugees from their Soviet dominated homeland. At least 30 Hungarian guards crossed about 200 feet into Aus tria Sunday and opened fire on 20 men, women and children who had slipped through the Iron Curtain. All but one were herded at gun-point back into Hungary. The one Hungarian to escape reached freedom with a Commu nist bullet in his back. He ideni fied himself as a former Hun garian soldier who fought against Soviet tanks and troops in the battle of Budapest. "Here's What We Want" to jlFcuriifi Highlights a i inaugural m Washington iU.R) Highlight quotations from President Eisen hower's second inaugural address, "The Price of Peace." "We declare our firm and fixed purpose the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails. "The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it. we must be aware of its full meaning and ready to pay its full price." "We recognize' and accept our own deep involvement in tho destiny of men everywhere ... "No people can live to itself alone. "To counter the threat of those who seek to rule by force, we must pay the costs of our own needed military strength, and help to build the security of others." "We live in a land of plenty, but rarely has this earth known such peril as today. . . . This is no time to ease or rest. "In too much of the earth there is want, discord and danger. "From the deserts of North Africa to the islands of the South Pacific one-third Of all mankind has entered upon an historic strug gle for a new freedom: Freedom from grinding poverty ... Gar many still stands tragically divided. So is the whole continent di vided. And so. too, is all the world." "The world of international Communism has itself been shaken by a fierce and mighty force: The readiness of men who love free dom to pledge their lives to that love. Budapest is no longer merely the name of a city. Henceforth it is a new and shining symbol of men's yearning to be free ... . "We can never turn our back to them." "We honor . . . the people of do we welcome, their progress in them success in their demands for er security . . . fuller emjoyment For as such things come to pass, the more certain will be the com ing of that day when our peoples may freely meet in friendship." "We seek, upon our common Almighty God ..." "May we pursue the right without self-righteousness. "May we know unity without conformity. "May we grow in strength without pride of self. "May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ei speak truth and serve justice ... "May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly until at last the darkness is no more." Ashland Student's Gun Wounds Youth Ashland A 15-year-old Ash land High school student was wounded by a bullet, another teen-ager was arrested, and guns were taken from two others as a group of Ashland students were boarding a school bus at Klam ath Falls Saturday, according to police reports. The wounded boy was identi fied as Jerry Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mitchell, route 1, box 131, Ashland. Taking Out Shells Stanley Jobe, Ashland High school principal, said another 15-year-old boy was attempting to take some shells out of the .38 caliber revolver when Jerry grabbed the gun barrel and the weapon discharged, apparently by accident. Jobe said one of the shells was believed to be defective and prevented the ac cident from being more serious. The bullet entered the palm of Jerry's right hand and came out about four inches above his wrist, police said. After leaving his arm, the bullet also struck "But Not Very Much" of Ike's IS 01 essage Russia. We do not dread, rather education and industry. We wish more intellectual freedom, great for the rewards of their toil. labor as a nation, the favot of a rib on his right side, but did not enter his body, Treated at Hospital The injured bay was taken to Klamath Falls hospital for treatment, but was not held here. His companion was arrest ed on a charge of discharging firearms in the city, and was released in Jobe's custody. Police said a check of the oth er teen-age passengers on tne school bus revealed that two others also were carrying pis tols. One was a .22 caliber pis tol and the other was a 3Z.u caliber pistol. : The youths were in Klam3th Falls for a high school basket ball game. The accident occur red about 10:30 a.m. Not 'Delinquent Type' .Tobe said no legal action is heinff contemplated at this time against the boy whose gun fired. He said none of tne youms wnu had the guns were the "delin quent type" and all are good students. The principal added that several of them are rifle club members, but there appear ed to be no motive in their hav- ine euns on the bus. Jobe said he was still discus- in.r the matter with tne stu dents this morning and had not decided upon the extent of dis ciplinary action school officials would take. He saio, noweyer, that thev would be banned from rirtio in "rooter's buses" in the future and would be required in make a formal apology to the A.hianrl Hieh school student body. Weather FORECAST Partly clond through Tuesday with a If icatttrrd snow narrie over mountains. Low tonight Z5 High Tuesday 48. TEMPERATURE Hinhest Yesterday Lowest This Mornlnic 3' PRECIPITATION To 4:30 a.m. Today U Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:35 a.m. 5:11 p.m. 3:21 a.m. Sunset Mnnnrit. TnesdaV Last Quarter Tuesday p.m PROMINENT STAR Spica, close to the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, hith in south at sunset. Jupiter, low in east ..10:3S P-m. Saturn, rises 4:32 a.m. Venus, low In southeast at sunrise. Thousands Hear Eloquent Second Inaugural Address Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today pledged America's might and wealth to help "heal this divided world" and bring it peace with justice under law. To achieve this goal "will be hard" and "we must be . . . ready to pay its full price," the President said. "High will be its cost," he said, "in toil patiently sustain ed, in help honorably given, in sacrifice calmly borne." Mr. . Eisenhower proclaimed this nation's "deep involvement in the destiny of men every where" in an eloquent second inaugural address before thou sands massed in front of the Capitol building at the country's 43rd inauguration of an elected president. A few moments before in a solemn and prayerful ceremony he and Vice President Richard M. Nixon repeated the oaths of office they had taken Sunday in the privacy of the White House President Leads Parade The capitol ceremony and the President's brief 2,000-word ad dress were followed by a mam moth parade led by the Presi dent up Constitution ave: from the Capitol to the White House. . In the parade were awesome weaDons symbolizing U. S. mill tary power. It was "the most spectacular event of the three day inauguration ceremonies which brought thousands of Am ericans to their capital city. The festivities which started Satur day afternoon will reach tneir jubilant climax at four inaug ural balls starting tonignt ana continuing into Tuesday's early hours.' But the President's address was solemn, ana ne aia ni emphasize military might. The tone was in sharp contrast to me gaiety of other phases of the quadrennial celebration. The title he gave nis aaaress was The Price of Peace." Speaks To World 'We live in a land of plenty," he said, "but rarely has this earth known such peril as to day . . . This is no time of ease or rest ... In too much of the earth there is want, discord, danger." The force dividing tne im periled world is "international Communism" which, the Presi dent said "strives to seal forever the fate of those it has enslaved" and to sunder "the ties that united the free. The President addressed him self not only to his countrymen but to the Hungarian freedom fighters and captive peoples everywhere, to the troubled men and women of the Middle East, to North Africans, to the Russian peoples themselves. He assured those who seek U.S. help that "we no more seek to buy their sovereignty than we would sell our own." Of the captive Red satellites who long for freedom, he said "We seek neithertheir military alliance nor any artificial imita tion of our society." To the Russians he voiced hope for "the coming of that day when our peoples -may freely meet in friendship. Take Oaths of Office ' Mr. Eisenhower spoke from a huge columned platform facing a throng gathered in the plaza on the east side of the Capitol: Rain which fell in the night turned to a drizzle shortly before dawn, and ended long before the cere mony. The U.S. Marine band signaled the seating of the President with "Hail to The Chief." Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, pastor of the Na tional Presbyterian church where the President worships, gave the invocation. ... . After "The Star Spangled Ban ner" by Marian Anderson, Negro soprano, the vice president took his oath, administered as it was Sunday by his fellow Californ- lan. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland. Prayer by Archbishop. Then followed a prayer by Archbishop Michael of New York, head of the Greek Ortho dox church in North and South America. The Marine Band Standstill Would Give Time To Get Radiation Report Advance Registration Asked in Resolution United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) Sweden today proposed a two year moratorium on nuclear weapons tests. Swedish delegate Richard Sandler asked the U.N. Main Po litical committee to consider a standstill in explosion of atomic and hydrogen weapons until the General Assembly's Scientific committee, collecting data on ra diation effects, reports in 1958. Ample Reason Seen "In my view," Sandler said, there exists- ample reason to ask for a standstill, a morato rium, in the testing of nuclear weapons, until that committee has reported its findings and the assembly has acted upon them. 'From the genetic point of view, there is unanimity among scientists that every increase in the sum of radiation is harmful, and it is the sum that counts. The most important thing we know now is that we do not know. And, indeed, we know all too little about those genetic consequences. But at a time when we know more, in what way could we undo the harm possibly done today?" Advance Registration Norwegian Assistant Foreign Secretary Dag Bryn and Japa nese delegate Renzo Sawada for mally presented, in cosponsor- ship with Canada, a resolution calling for advance registration with the United Nations of all nuclear tests. Bryn said the registration resolution was designed as an opening step toward outlawing nuclear weapons. County Gels Three Checks From Stale Three checks totaling $138, 530.94 have been received by the county treasurer from the secretary of state's office, accord ing to Karl L.-Janouch, treas urer. The checks, which represent the county's share of motor ve hicle and other licenses fees, taxes on amusement devices. and taxes on alcoholic bever ages, total $6,226.28 more than those received for the same pe riod last year. The checks are mailed quarterly Januoch stated. The largest check, for $127,- 693.40, will go into the county general road fund, with the other two checks being added to the county relief fund. Jackson county treasury re ceived $130,304.66 from these three checks last year Janouch said. OLCC Hearings To Start Tuesday An Oregon Liquor Contra commission officer is scheduled to hold public hearings in the Jackson county courthouse audi torium starting at 9 a.m. tomor row. They are to determine if ac tion is warranted against 21 county tavern owners on charges of violating state laws banning political contributions by OLCC licensees Bruce Williams, Salem, for mer chairman of the OLCC, said reports of alleged violations con nected with the general election campaign in Jackson county, had been made to the commis sion. As nearly as could be deter mined there this morning, no change in the scheduled hear ings resulted from the appoint ment of a new liquor commis sion by Gov. Robert Holmes last week. Planning Commission To Consider Hearing The Medford planning com mission will consider calling a public hearing on rezoning of seven acres in southeast Med ford when it meets at 7:30 p.m. today in the city hallj Planners will consider rezon ing five acres south of Barnett rd. and east of Black Oak drive and two acres south of Barnett rd. west of Black Oak drive from single family to commercial. played "America The Beautiful" and Brian Sullivan sang "Amer ica." After a prayer by Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, the President took his oath. It was administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren who had performed the same service Sunday. A fourth prayer, following the President's address, concluded ed the half-hour ceremony. &
