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( n MB N hi f ' " ' f -., t i i - i iV an " ' if "- 'iiii i n' iif ii nrniii 11 'THE LIGHT SHALL SHINE' I.Irs. Gene Neff. Medford Mothers' March chairman, points to a porch light as the invita tion for mothers to stop at homes between 7 and 8 o'clock tonight to accept a contribution to the March of Dimes. Mrs. Lew Miles, county Mothers' March coordinator, looks on. Mothers To March In County Tonight Despi ite Weather Come what may in the way , of weather, several thousand Jackson county mothers will leave their homes en masse to night in the sixth annual Mother's March on Polio culmin ating the month-long March of Dimes campaign. Promptly at 7 o'clock the mothers will start canvassing their assigned blocks. By 8 p.m., according to Mrs. Lew Miles, county coordinator, they are ex pected to have completed their assigned areas. In Medford, those who wish to contribute but have not been contacted by a little after 8 o'clock are asked to telephone i 2-5002 and a city police car will be dispatched to pick up the donation. Means of Identification Marching Mothers in Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Phoenix and Medford will have stickers on collection cans as means of identification. In Ash land scrolls on which the donor may sign his name will serve as identification while in Butte Falls cans with "MOD" on them will identify the collector. Several members of the Crater Lions club will dress as women and, while singing a marching nni solicit contributions in a section of the city. Mrs. Gene Ncff. Medford chairman, said block workers will take their collections to lieutenants who then will turn the money over to area captains. The captains will take the money to St. Mark's Episcopal church where personnel f r am the United States National bank, under the direction of Don Mon ticth, will stay at their adding machines until the last nickel is counted. In Medford the marchers will call at every house to leave a card on which the family may keep a record of its polio vac cinations. Only at those houses Permits Not Available At Pleasant Creek Logging operator permits are not available at Pleasant Creek Guard station, as was previously announced, the state forestry department headquarters here reported today. The permits, however, can be obtained at the local headquar ters on Table Rock rd., the Grants Pass headquarters and t Cave Guard station. Cave Junction. Logging permits must He re newed for the calendar year of 1957. Duncan Among Signers of Death Penalty Salem (U.P.) A bill provid-. fective if the constitutional ing for life imprisonment instead change was approved by the peo of death for conviction of first i pie in the 1958 general election, degree murder or treason was Gov. Robert D. Holmes asked introduced in the Oregon House j for abolition of the death pen- today. Signing the bill were Reps. Robert Duncan. Medford; George Layman. Newberg: Keith Skel- ton. Eugene: Don Willner. Port- j land: and Sens. Monroe Sweet- i land. Milwaukie; and Dan Dim ick, Roseburg. Would Amend Constitution . A companion House joint res olution would amend the Oregon constitution to substitute life im prisonment for the death penal ty.. The bill would become ef- which have a lighted porch light, however, will they solicit contributions. Boundaries Described Areas to be covered by the Medford marching mothers will include the following: Foothills rd. and Hillcrest rd. beyond Barnett rd.. South Stage rd. from Voorhies crossing west including the Griffin Creek dis trict, Arnold lane to the south side of Beall lane, Beall lane to Merriman rd., Table Rock rd. to the airport rd. including the airport district and Delta Waters rd. to Foothills rd. The .bound aries will include the Grandview district. Lone Pine district, How ard district, West Side school district. Oak Grove district and Jefferson school district. Dragging Continues For Charles Howe Dragging operations for the body of Charles J. Howe, 60, of Grants Pass, continued today along the Rogue river near Miller's Gulch. Howe is believed to have drowned when the sta tion wagon he was driving went into the river Monday night. The unoccupied vehicle was pulled from the river near Miller's Gulch bridge late Tues day morning. State police said the river has been dragged several times from the accident scene downstream. but that operations have been hampered because of ice along the bank. Ray Holmes. 57, of Rogue River, who fell in the river while at the scene Monday night, was reported in "fair condition at Sacred Heart hos pital. He suffered head and oth er injuries, police said. Three Appear in Circuit Court Today " Francis Elmer DuPuis, 33, Ashland, was given a suspended two year penitentiary sentence Wednesday when he appeared in circuit court after pleading guilty to a charge of writing checks without sufficient funds. Kenneth Edwin Douglas, 51, Richmond. Calif., pleaded guilty to a charge" of obtaining money by false pretenses. His case was continued pending arrival of records from the FBI. Joseph George Mattey, 52. of 503 East McAndrews rd., Med ford. was arraigned in circuit court on an indictment charging grand larceny and will enter his plea Friday. To Life Term alty as "uncivilized" in his in augural address. The bill would further pro vide for a 25-year sentence in stead of life for second degree murder. Must Serve IS Years A person convicted of first degree murder would be inelig ible for parole until he had served 15 years instead of the present seven years. He would also hsve to have the unanimous Major Disaster Area Declared in Kentucky Floods Two Other States Appeal for Help By UNITED PRESS President Eisenhower declar ed Kentucky floodlands a major disaster area today and two oth er states appealed for federal aid in the "devastating" floods that have killed 11 persons and left thousands homeless. Gov. Thomas B. Stanley of Virginia asked the President to declare six southwest Virginia counties a major disaster area. A similar plea want to the Pres ident earlier from Gov. Cecil Underwood of West Virginia. Adds To Miseries As the appeals for help were voiced, cold, snow and more rain added to the miseries of the flood sufferers in four states. Stanley acted after receiving reports that the floods drove 2,000 persons from their Virgin ia homes, left 18.000 unemploy ed and severely damaged many homes and businesses. Stanley called the floods "dev astating." Eligible for Loans Damage in the four-state area mounted to more than $15 mil lion. The Small Business Ad ministration designated 23 counties in Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia as disast er areas under its program of relief activity, making persons whose homes or businesses were damaged eligible for 3 per cent loans. Manv Towns Isolated Many towns were still isolat ed today and not even helicopt ers could land with desperately needed food and medicine. An emereency traffic route was opened to the stranded com munity of Grundy, Va., clearing the way for food and medicine supplies for the town's 2,000 residents who had appealed for help by radio Wednesday nignt. Shady Cove Boys Admit Ransacking Four Shady Cove boys, ages 14 and 15, have been turned over to iuvenile authorities in rnnnpetion with a break and nnlrv renorted Nov. 16 at an unoccupied house near snaay Cove owned by John L. Leaden. Sheriff Howard Gault reported today. Leaden is a patient at the Vet erans' hospital in Vancouver, Wash. The break and entry was discovered and reported by two friends of Leaden who had been left in charge of the property during the owner's absence. Investigation showed pictures had been taken from walls, household items broken, and scattered and drawers ransack ed and their contents strewn over the house. Three of the youths admitted ransacking the house after en tering it through a window. They said they had entered the building on more than one oc casion, but had damaged con tents of the house only once. They also admitted taking sev eral items from the house, in cluding a cane, necKiace ana ear phones. The three were charged with malicious destruction of property. The fourth boy, who admitted entprins the house but denied rnrtirinatint in destruction . of its contents, was charged with trespassing. t Chamber Roundup Buifet Slated at YMCA Today Dr. Frank O. Mclntyre, direc tor of nublic relations for the California Teachers association will speak on "How To Build a Better Mousetrap" at the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce Roundup Buffet tonight. The program will start 7 p.m. in the upstairs of YMCA building. at the Bill Changing in Oregon consent of the parole board after a public hearing on his case. The death sentence could only be enforced for first degree mur der committed while a person was under sentence of life im prisonment. Three Awaiting Death Three men James Norman ! Jensen, George Sack and Billy Junior Nunn are currently under death sentence at the state penitentiary. Gov. Holmes has not yet announced if he has any plans in their cases. Jensen and Nunn were con victed in Jackson county and Sack was convicted in Multno mah county. Proposal Would Provide Haven for Fleeing Persons Need for Emergency Legislation Outlined Washington (U.P.) President Eisenhower asked Congress to day for new immigration legis lation that would grant a haven in the United States to persons who "flee from Communist per secution and tyranny." In a special message to Con gress, the President also re quested liberalization of the McCarran - Walter immigration act, -basic immigration law of the land. At the outset of his message the President outlined the need for emergency legislation to help Hungarian and other refugees. He said the eyes of the world have been fixed on Hungary where thousands of men, women and children have fled to seek asylum abroad. Must Grant Asylum "Our position of world lead ership demands that, in partner ship with other nations of the Free World, we be in a position to grant that asylum," Mr. Eisen hower said. He called for two basic steps to help anyone, not Hungarians alone, fleeing from Communism: "First, I recommend that the Congress' enact legislation giv ing the President power to au thorize the attorney general to parole into the United States temporarily under such condi tions as he may prescribe es capees, selected by the secretary of state who have fled or in the future flee from Communist per secution and tyranny," the Pres ident said. He said the number who should be granted temporary admission on a parole basis in any one year should not exceed the average of aliens who have been permitted to enter the rnnntrv over the past eight years by special acts of Congress out side the Da SIC mumnnuxu system. Permanent Residents Second, I urge the Congress promptly to enact legislation giving the necessary discretion ary power to the attorney gen eral to permit aliens paroled into the United States, to remain as permananet residents,"' he said. . . The President said this legis lation "would effectively suivc the problem of the Hungarian escapees who have already ar rived." Furthermore, he said, it would provide "a means for cop ing with the cases ot ceridi i Korean orphans, adopted chil dren and other aliens who have been granted emergency admis sion to this country and now re main here in an inaenm status." Senate Committee To 'Help Organized Labor' Washinetnn U.R) Sen. Irv- Hns M. Ives said today the new Senate Labor Racketeering oum- mittee will "help organized la bor clean house." Ives, who is expected to be vice chairman of the eight-man bipartisan committee set up by the Senate Wednesday, told newsmen that with the backing of responsible labor leaders the group can do a real job. Saud's Support Sought To Keep Mid-East Free Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to day sought the support of King Saud of Saudi Arabia in the U.S. Arabia in the U.S. drive to keep the Middle East free of Russian penetration. Dulles took over the delicate diplomacy which President Eis enhower initiated during taiKs with the visiting Arabian mon arch at the White House Wed nesday afternoon. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.P.) Dow -Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 479.16. off 1.37; 20 rail roads 148.79. off 0.80: 15 utilities 70.93. off 0.12. and 65 stocks 169.91. off 0.54. Sales today were about 1.920.000 shares compared with 1.950.000 shares Wednes day. Eugene iU.P.) Cal Young, 85 son of pioneer parents who were among the first settlers in the Willamette valley, died in a Eu gene hospital Wednesday. 51st Year Medford . United Preu Full ueased Wire 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY Strike Threatened By Grocery Clerks Over New Contract Harold E. Carlson, Portland, secretary of the Oregon Inde pendent Grocers association, said today grocery clerks in Medford, Grants Pass and Ash land have threatened to strike because of a deadlock has re sulted in negotiations to renew a contract. Carlson . and E. R. Johnson, Portland labor consultant for Safeway Stores, Inc., left Med ford this morning after local grocery store operators and un ion representatives met last night. Carlson said negotiations "ap parently be."3Tne deadlocked." Representat5-- -s of grocery store operators indicated the deadlock was over expiration date of the proposed contract. Negotiations have been going on for about three weeks, Carlson, said. The contract between gro cery store operators and the clerks union, which is represent ed by the local Teamsters union expired Jan. 15. Terms of the proposed con tract. Carlson said, include s reduction in hours for both male and female clerks at the same salary- schedule,; and - improve ments on vacation and premium rates, which are in effect after 7 p.m. The proposed contract also provides for an additional reduction in hours for male em ployees to a 40-hour week starting in 1958. Union representatives could not be reached immediately forJ comment on the situation. Thornton Ruling on Surtax Repeal Asked Salem U.P.) Two Republi can members oi me uiegun House said today they have asked Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton whether the 45 per cent surtax on incomes can be repealed in time for this year's tax payments. Reps. Wavne Giesy and Mon- roe ana fayeue unsiui w. Grants Pass inquired of Thorn ton whether an emergency clause may be attached to the surtax repealer. Oregon consti tution forbids such a clause on tax measures but the two law makers point out it says nothing about repealers. If legal, Giesy and Bristol I said, "It would be possible for the legislature to stop the collec tion on the 1956 surtax which is due in April, 1957." Senate Revision on Mid-East Doctrine Seen Washington (U.PJ Over whelming House approval put President Eisenhower's "fight if we must" Middle East doctrine before the Senate today where it faced almost certain revision. But in the end, informed Sen ale sources said, a modified ver sion of the President's Middle East resolution still acceptable to the administration will pass the Senate also. A DOG WAS NOT THE GOAT Detroit U.PJ A suburban Troy woman called police and told them a dog was chewing up her shrubbery. Skeptical offic ers went to her house and cap tured a goat which was cropping the foliage. Weather FORECAST: Generally cloud.r with a few showers and milder temperatures toniRht and Friday. Low tonight 32 35. High Friday 45. Temp. Highest Yesterday -iO Lowest this Mornlnr 30 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:27 a.m. 5:34 p.m. 6:39 p.m. Sunset The Moon sets and is in Apocee. First Quarter Feb. 7 At midnight tonight the Milky Way will be seen in the west, stretching across the sky from Cassiopeia to Canis Major. It pas&es through Perseus above Alcol. "Are You Sure You're Getting The Whole Picture Here?" House Committee To Vote Friday on Sales Tax for State Salem CU.P.) The House Taxation Committee will vote I it j . .1 i.i,i I three per cent sales tax bill rec- ommended by the Interim Tax , Study Committee. The bill is expected to be de feated by the Democratic-controlled committee. Final recommendation on the bill was scheduled after a hear ing yesterday at which labor and farm leaders ' expressed opposi tion to the bill. It was defended by Sen. Rudie Wilhelm Jr., chairman of the Interim Tax study committee, and Rep. Rep. Wayne Giesy, Monroe Re publican. Demo Program Due Soon Committee Chairman Clar ence Barton. Coquille Democrat, said in response to Giesey's sug gestion to defer action on the sales tax bill until Gov. Robert Holmes' budget requirements were known, that the Democrat ic tax program would be ready soon and that committee mem bers would "recognize it when they saw it." Tom Scanlon of the Oregon Central Labor Council, Elmer McClure of the Oregon State Three FAS Highways Approved for County Three federal aid system highway projects, totaling $230, 000, 'have been approved by the state highway commission for Jackson county between now and 1959, according to W. C. Williams, state highway en gineer. Federal aid projects planned here include regrading, surfac ing and paving 1.5 miles of the Gregory rd.-Central Point rd. section of FAS Highway 273 at a cost of $70,000 in 1957-53 funds; 2.4 miles of the Jacksonville-North section of FAS High way 274 at a cost of $100,000 in 1958 funds; and 1.5 miles of the Table Rock-Crater Lake highway section of FAS High way 274 at a cost of $60,000 in 1959 funds. The projects are among 21 approved for nine Oregon coun ties at total cost of $1,807,000, Williams pointed out. He said most of the money would come from the 1958-59 federal aid al locations, although part of the total will come from unobli gated 1957 funds available under the federal aid program. Ontario U.P.) Death of 71-year-old Arthur Morilon near here Wednesday night has been attributed to near-zero tempera tures by Malheur County Cor oner George C. Beechlr. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full leased Wira 31, 1957 No. 268 Grange and Harley Libby of the Oregon Farmers Union all said their groups opposed a 6ales tax, nipsv estimated that Gov. budget, including $40 Holmes' I million to increase basic school support, would run from $318 to $325-million. He said that even if the 45 per cent surtax was re tained, the state would still have to find an additional $58 million to meet the Holmes budget Boyd Named Head Of Budget Committee Howard Boyd, 431 Haven st., Medford, manager of Wool worth's store here, was elected chairman of the Medford budget committee at an organizational meeting in the city hall last night. Boyd was appointed to the committee earlier this month. Mrs. Marina Gates was re elected secretary for the fifth consecutive term. The budget committee is made up of the eight council men and eight citizens appoint ed by the mayor and council. City Manager Robert Duff, who also is city budget director, outlined the budget program. City departments are preparing estimates of needs for the 1957-58 fiscal year, and the pre liminary budget probably will be ready early in March, city officials indicated. Regular budget committee meetings are .tentatively sched uled to start in March, Mayor John Snider said. Quota for Bloodmobile is Increased to 290 Pints The quota for the February visit of the Red Cross Blood mobile has been increased 50 per cent because of the steady increase in the use of blood in Jackson county, Red Cross of ficials have announced. The Bloodmobile will be at the Medford Elks temple, 202 North Central ave.. Feb. 13. Hours of the visit have been in creased one hour and will be from 1 to 6 p.m. The quota is 290 pints, for which 350 donors will be re quired. Bed Cross officials noted. The number of donors exceeds the pint quota since some donors may be rejected. Additional blood has been re quested because of a steady in crease in the use of blood in the county. Red Cross officials said the increase is partly due to more accidents in winter weath Tragedy Follows Mid-Air Collision With Jet Fighter Dead and Injured Found in Wreckage Pacoima, Calif. i;U.R) An Air Force jet fighter and a four engined DC7B transport on a test run collided in filght today and the transport plunged Into a junior high school and grade school playground during a boys' outdoor gym class. Preliminary and unverified reports from the scene said at least four children were killed and 20 others taken to hospitals, some so critically injured they were not expected to live. Ploughs Through Walls The big transport sliced through high tension lines and then ploughed through two re taining walls into the school grounds, scattering debris over several acres. The scene was terrible," re ported teacher William Kelle man, 32. He said he ran from the build ing when the crash occurred. "I was the first one to come out," he said. "I saw boys strewn all over the playground. I went over to see if I could help one of my own students. There was nothing I could do for him." Parents Reach Scene Ambulance attendants worked to extricate the youngsters from the wreckage and treat them. Parents rushed to the school as reports spread like wildfire through San Fernando Valley and stood outside the fences of the school yard shouting for their children. Two men parachuted from the jet plane, which first report said was a T33 trainer. The Air Force reported that the bodies of three of the four employees of Douglas Aircraft who were handling the big trans port on its test run were recov ered from the wreckage on the school grounds. The transport was ground to small chunks In the disintegrat- ing crash. Watches Plane Fall There was no major fire In the crash of the transport, al though flames from one of the engines flared out over some of the children. Bits of smoulder ing jackets and shoes and scorch ed volley balls were littered across the playground. The schools are the combined Pacoima Junior High and Terra Bella Grade School. School custodian Cline Steich- man, 63, said the plane started falling rapidly after the jet plane apparently struck its wing. I was outside and saw it. When it started to hit things on the edge of the school yard it disinte grated like buckshot. Part of the motors went in every direc tion, covering the entire play ground. "Boys fell to the ground as though they were struck by ma chine gun bullets." Saw Planes Collide "I saw the planes collide In the air, but I didn't know it was a collision at the time," said United Press Hollywood Writer Vernon Scott. "It looked like one plane exploded." "The scene is horrible," Scott said. "The wreckage is scattered all over the school yard. The plane apparently didn't hit the school itself. But debris scatter ed over several acres. Some of the heavy pieces are buried in the macadam covering of the yard. "There are kids lying around. Others are being treated by the medics." Salem U.P.) A 23 per cent decrease in pedestrian deaths in Oregon last year has been re ported by the Oregon Traffic Safety Commission. er, and partly to replenish plasma for Civil Defense emer gency use. The National Civil Defense submitted a request to the Blood program for blood to be processed into plasma, the Red Cross said. The supply was considerably depleted last win ter in disaster relief. During the past six months. 1,324 pints of blood were used in Jackson county. During the same period, only 979 pints were collected. A training class for local nurses will be held Feb. 12 so there will be a sufficient staff during the Bloodmobile visit to process donors ' quickly, Red Cross officials stated. -Recruiting donors for the February visit will be the Ki wanis club. Members of the club have been asked to be respon sible for bringing two donors to the Bloodmobile. v
