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o o 51st Year Price V cribetf Recommended Medford port Improper or non-deliv-the Mai) Tribune in Medford a e 2-6141. Ashland 3-1021. a 841W. before 6:43 pjn. daily 10:30 .-m. Sunday, f regular delivery arrives short after you call please notify office .us eliminating special messenger arvice. 1RIBUN A feature itorj ak.at flrar- O O ,n" rved T ml 'nteliM, MedforC buslnrisvae. appears on pace li a teyi !ail Trib une. o United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Ful' o 34 f9 MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1957 No. 27 CD O O o o, o o Nation's Reds Call For Kremlin Ties; oi Rightwing' Purge New York U The n- tion's top Conimunist called Sat- urdaff) for continued close ties between U.S Red and the Krem lanCa purae of "rightwing" party leaders who favor "Tito- ist break with Moscow. William Z. Foster, filing 75- year-old Communist party chair man, nede his demand in a speech read for him at the open ingrmession of the party's 16th National convention. Fos- was oh the platform while nis speech was read by Benjamin J. Davis, a negro for mer member of the New York Ciiy runcil, who was convicted in 1949 of conspiring against ' trt government. (SSacR Conflict "?iie chairman's remarks put q (fcirti in sharp conflict on some is ifirs ayith the party's second in ofafimand, Eugene Dennis, gen- fal secretary. Dannis, in his keynote address O Vat th convention, called for feloption of a new Communist Feyty constitution, declaring its independence from Moscow. Vnter took the opposite stand. O i mac his sharpest remarks Can what he called a "grave crisis Off leadership in the American Communist party. He said top gArty members have failed their w parity during me lasi lew cnu O t' months." Setter called for some mem Otors recruited from labor union rtmt nd fresh leaders, partic ularly among negroes, young Mnple nA women. f)oslr expressed vigorous op- OPosition to abolishing the Com munist party and making it a olitical action association. He (0i it wold be a "disastrous O ep backwards" o the Comma fist politic! association of 1944 grid 1945, which led to the ouster of Harl Browder as party chair- man. Communists distributed copies of both speeches but bar Ored reporters from the conven tion sessions. An Estimated 250 to 850 Com mAiists, most of them residents O of New York, held their conven tion in a former Russian Orth odox church on New York's low er East Side. For the last eight or nine years, the building has Aeri Steed as a dance hall. It was the only building the Commu nists could hire for their con avntion after they were turned d4wn by at least 20 midtown O hotels, including the Astor and New Yorker. QThe convention opened with ge singing of the "Star Spangl ed Banner" which was followed by a moment of silence In mem- lane" Pin School Obsess 100th Year Lgpe Pine The Lone Pine school is commemorating its lOfiih anniversary today as a registered school district. Jhe school district was regis tered on Feb. 10, 1857 and has (ty;en in continuous operation verence. Patrirk Dunn was the liSk clerk and D. Linn was the OJ!ift treasurer, according to (ajounty records. John Flinn was iti$erinteOdent of Jackson coun-f-hools as the time. &tel description of the dis it. ;gned by Flinh, was as 'School District 10 has been rmc by the division of Dis trict by a li$e running from (9 fountain bounding the val- - ley on the east and crossing the bridges over the gulch at the njpihsjest corner of the Con (jnfs' farm, thence up the gulch $ the mountain bounding the valley on the west, (leaving the mpsons' farm in district 5), and thence bounded by the kpuatain to the place of be Kinntig, including all the terri tory in the upper part of the vaey within the aforementioned O line." Washington (U.R) Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey Saturday denounced thg state depart ment's am on travel of U. S, rSt'smi to Red China. ae Weithir Fair with wmf tsvr rnifjK rloudtn, today and ra.sinc nouoinrw icnini. r( loudv with ehanrr of rain UMondav Htrh tdav 5?. low tonipht S-JO. high Monday CD 50. TiMPKR.TtRF iafhrst YMterdiT Lowest yesterday 24 0ri$ Tonight 7:15 a.m. 5:37 p.m. 4:34 a.m. (T) Sunet , Moon set Monday ORION, the constellation that Otas more hripht stars than any other f roun of stars, is now well up in the southeast at sun Tonight it will be in the toulh at .. :24 p.m. and in the southwest 10:42 p.m. ory of all the dead American Communists, On the platform there was an American flag and on the walls hung posters attacking Wall Street, pleading for full employ ment for negroes and declaring "welfare not warfare." The Communists' chief theme, as it emerged from the conven tion's activities as relayed to the press, which was excluded, ap peared to be renewed efforts to win members among negroes and laboring people. Russian Budget Calls for More Consumer Goods Moscow i'U.P.) The Supreme Soviet (Parliament) Saturday unanimously adopted the 1957 budget and an economic plan calling for more consumer goods and public housing. The Chamber of Nationalities (lower house) and the Soviet of the Union (upper house) approv ed both measures at separate meetings and then adjourned un til Monday. The budget, introduced last Tuesday at the opening session and approved with minor chang es, prdvided for a six per cent cut in military expenditures amounting to six-billion rubles ($1.5 billion at the artificial rate of exchange.) Accept Budget The Supreme Soviet, running behind on its -eight-point agenda since it convened last Tuesday, accepted a budget of $154,289, 000,000 in estimated revenue and $151,145,250,000 in estimat ed expenditures. The expected surplus amounted to $3,143,750, 000 at the rate of four Rubles to the dollar. Mikhail Pervukbin, deputy chairman of the Soviet council of ministers and new trouble- shooter for the Soviet industrial program, told 'he Soviet of Na tionalities that an additional $271,500,000 would be allotted for consumer gdods this year. Additional funds will be pro vided for construction of schools. hospitals, and dwellings through out the Soviet Union, he said. As a result of a plea before the supreme Soviet by health Minister Maria Kovrigina on Thursday for more aid to tuber culosis patients, it was announc ed that roughly $112,000,000 would be set aside for this pur pose. At Saturday s session, the So viet of Nationalities also voted to transfer to the 15 Soviet Re publics the right to draw up their own civil, criminal and procedural legal codes. The republics held this right until 1936 when the "Stalin Con stitution" made legal codes a central government matter. Sen. Morse Attacks Department Decision Washington (UP.) An Agri culture department decision to slice some 53,000 acres off the Three Sisters wilderness area in Oregon's central Cascade moun tains came under bitter attack from Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Saturday. Morse said he will ask Con gress to overrule the decision. "I shall propose that the de partment's action be cancelled by the Senate Committee on In terior and Insular Affairs by the incorporation of appropriate lan guage in the Anderson bill which will set up a national out door recreation commission, the senator said. Sen. Richard Neuberger ID- Ore.) and Rep. Charles Porter (D-Ore.) also criticized the action of the Agriculture department Friday in opening the tract to road building and timber cut ting. Along with the action on the area the department established three new wilderness areas in the state. Besides the Three Sist ers area. Mount Washington and Diamond Peak wilderness areas were established. Morse Opposed to Inclusion of Project Washington U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said Sat urday he was "vigorously op posed" to inclusion of the Bruce's Eddy project in the om nibus rivers and harbors bill. In a letter to the Senate Pub lic Works committee, Morse said Bruce's Eddy "is not the next logical multi-purpose dam start in the Columbia river basin." 150,000 Israelis Display Solidarity In Demonstrations Support Government's Refusal to Withdraw Jerusalem, Israeli Sector OI.P.) More than 150,000 Is raelis demonstrated in major cit ies Saturday in a display of sol idarity behind the government's refusal to withdarw from Egypt ian soil. Banners protested against the United Nations demand for re moval of Israeli forces from the Gaza strip and the southern Si nai desert. Only France, of all the world's powers, drew ap plause at rallies, because France supports Israel in the dispute. The government itself through interior minister Israel Ben Yehuda, denounced the new U.S.-Saudi Arabia arms agree ment as being as dangerous to Israeli security as the Commu nist arms deal with Egypt. Denounces Arab Stales The Israeli interior minister de nounced all the Arab states as "Fascist." Ben Yehuda also denounced Russia on grounds that it sup ported Israel in the 1949 Pales tine war only to get even with Britain and now supports the "Arab Fascists" to settle ac counts with the United States. The Israeli government stood firm on its refusal to consider appeals from President Eisen hower for withdrawal of troops from Egypt. Israelis charged that the Unit ed Nations is engaged in a "stran gulation policy" against Israel. March With Banners Some 120,000 demonstrators turned out in Tel Aviv to march down Allenby street, past crowds of other Israelis, with banners defying the U.N. reso lutions for withdrawal. Another 15,000 gathered in Haifa to hear Mayor Abba Hushi and interior minister Ben Ye huda denounced the resolutions. An estimated 5,000 demon strated in the Israeli sector " of divided Jerusalem with banners describing the call for evacu ation of the Gaza strip as a sur render to Arab oil interests. Hew Attempt Made In Tugboat Strike New York (U.R) Federal mediators made a new attempt Saturday to get contract talks going again in a nine-day strike or 4,000 tugboat and harbor wor kers that has cut off 70 per cent of the city's fuel supply and threatened a critical fuel shortage. Federal Mediators Harry Win ning and Thomas Dougherty re ported at a three-hour meeting with Mayor Robert Wagner and top city officials that both sides have been invited to resume ne gotiations at a 2 p.m. Monday meeting. The mediators said both sides are still "very far apart" and that only "limited progress" has come out of the many meetings held. Charles Preusse, emergency fuel oil coordinator, told the Mayor that although there was no crisis yet, the situation could easily take a turn for the worse by the middle of next week. FUR SEALS PROTECTED Washington (U.R) The United States, Canada, Russia, and Japan Saturday signed a new convention to protect North Pacific fur seals from indis criminate slaughter. The convention, subject to ratification by the four powers, was initialled after 14 months of negotiations. It replaces those in force since 1911 and will be effective for six years. Legislators Salem IU.R Pressing build ing needs of Oregon schools were down under discussion in the Oregon Legislature Satur day as the House Taxation com mittee started consideration of two bills designed to increase the bonding capacity of school districts. Chairman Clarence Barton, Co quille, said it would be up to his committee to set policy on bond ed indebtedness after studying the entire picture of school needs and the state's total bonded in debtedness. He said it would then be up to the Education com mittee to come up with a speci fic recommendation on bonding limits. Cecil Posey, Oregon Educa tion association representative, told the Tax committee Friday that the bonded indebtedness of w n I REP. EDITH S. GREEN To Speak at Banquet Mrs. Edith Green To Speak at SGD Banquet Feb. 18 Rep. Edith S. Green, Oregon congresswoman from the third district, Multnomah county, will be guest speaker at the Student Government Day banquet Mon day, Feb. 18, at the Elks club in Medford, according to Dick Woodcock, exalted ruler of Med ford Elks Lodge 1168. The Student Government Day project, which is Elk sponsored, involves 125 upper division stu dents from eight high schools in the jurisdictional area of the Medford lodge. This annual event is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 18 and 19. Activity Highlight The Monday evening banquet is the highlight of the two-day activity, Woodcock said. At the dinner, parents of participating students, as well as city and county officials and high school faculty advisers, are guests of the Elks lodge. The second day is devoted to student officials working with their official coun terparts and participating in tours of government installations in this area. Mrs. Green has long been ac tive in state events, Woodcock pointed out. She is a graduate of Salem schools and has '.her de gree from the University of Ore gon. She also attended Willa mette university and did gradu ate work at Stanford university. She is married to Arthur M. Green and has two sons. Mrs. Green taught in Salem public schools for 11 years. Her record includes service as legislative chairman of the Oregon PTA Congress, program director of the American Cancer society in Multnomah county and former director of public relations of the Oregon Education association. She is a member of the League of Women Voters, AAUW, Ur ban League of Portland, United Nations association and the BPW. She was elected to the 84th Congress on Nov. 4, 1954, and was reelected at the last general election. Mrs. Green is a member of the house educa tion committee and insular committee. She has received an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Alaska. Forest Service Plan Upheld by Peterson Washington (U.R) Assist ant Agriculture Secretary Ervin L. Peterson Saturday upheld a forest service plans to sell sub alpine type timber from nation al forests in the Crescent lake area of Oregon. Sub-alpine timber includes western hemlock, true fires and other low-grade and minor types. Peterson said these trees were considered unusable a few years ago, buj the lumber in dustry has developed new uses for them. The original forest service de cision to sell the trees had been protested by the Bend, Ore., Chamber of Commerce, acting also for other central Oregon groups, Peterson said. Discuss School Needs school districts now runs to S92 million. He estimated that ele mentary and high school build ing costs would run to $155 mil lion in the next eight years. Districts Seen Distressed Rep. Allen Tom, Rufus, said that if the limit -raLing bills were not passed, there would be more than 70 distressed school districts unable to meet building requirements. He said that num ber could be reduced to about 30 under the proposed bonding bills. Tom said the study of whether or not the bonded indebtedness limits should be raised was re lated to what th- Legislature does about doubling basic school support and providing S7 million for relief of distressed school dis tricts. Both bills are up for consideration. New Warning Being Prepared to Israel To Withdraw Troops 'Risk of War' May Be Increased in Area Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower and his diplo matic advisers are considering a stern new warning to Israel to withdraw her troops from the Gaza Strip and the Gulf of Aq aba, it was learned Saturday. Failure of the Israelis to with draw "very soon," administra tion officials said, could bring on a new explosion in the Mid dle East. They said the "risk of war" would be increased dan gerously, particularly if the Un ited Nations votes sanctions against Israel. Clearing May Halt They also said clearing of the Suez Canal might be halted. High level U.S. efforts are underway on several fronts to persuade Israel to withdraw. From his vacation retreat at Thomasville, Ga., Mr. Eisenhow er took time out Friday night and again Saturday to discuss the growing Middle East crisis by telephone with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Dulles himself conferred at his home throughout the day with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Murphy, Wil liam M. Roundtree, Assistant Secretary of State for Middle Eastern affairs and other offic ials. Matters To Head Informants said Mr. Eisenhow er and Dulles believe Israel's refusal to quit territory gained by her attack on Egypt, is bringing matters "to a head pret ty sharply." They predicted the adminis tration will make some new move over the week end to con vince Israel her own best long term interests lie in obeying the overwhelming United Nations recommendation that she with draw her troops. Aside from the danger that force might be used again in the area, the administration be lieves that no more than one third of the members of the Un ited Nations would oppose sanc tions asainst Israel if a vote is taken. The United States wants a "solution" of the problem ra ther than see sanctions invoked. Second Round ol Shots to Start The second round of Salk anti-polio shots will begin at .Jack son county schools Monday morning, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health phys ician. The round of shots is the sec ond phase of the county-wide nnlin immunization nrogram started last month. About 7,700 youths under the age of 19 re ceived the first shots at that time. rr Merkel said vaccine sta tions will be in operation be tween 9 and 11 a.m. Monday at Phoenix elementary school, Butte Falls school, Jewett pri mary school at Central Point and McLoughlin Junior High school in Medford. Phvsieians and nurses are con- ti-ihiitinir their services in sup port of the current Salk vaccine program. , QUEEN AMUSED T.nnHon U.R) Oueen Eliz abeth was amused Saturday at reports of a rift between her and the Duke of Edinburgh. A member of the Royal court said she shrugged off the rumor and gave the impression that her rpuninn with the dashing Duke in Portugal this week after the longest separation of their mar riage would effectively squeicn further gossip. Most witnesses favored in creasing the bonding limitation based on present county tax ra tios. Thev said this would in crease the binding capacity of most Oregon school districts. Rep. Joe Rogers, Independ pnrp. chairman of the House Ed ucation committee, said the most acute building problem faced high schools which will soon be feeling the impact of babies born during World War II. House action saw a bill intro duced to abolish the Oregon De- velooment commission and es tablish a new Department of Planning and Development un der the governor. Gov. Robert D. Holmes asked in his inaugu ral address for a department to promote the growth and devel opment of the state. Price Suppw Lowered On Eight Farm Products "I Think We're Ahead' f i&s&ftt' Mm Ex-Congressmen Said In Line for Federal Appointments Soon By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington (Special) Ore gon's two Republican ex-congressmen, who were defeated in last November's election are. re portedly in line for " appoint ments to federal jobs by the Eis enhower administration. Harris Ellsworth of Roseburg, who lost out to Representative Charles O. Porter of Eugene, is slated to become a member of the Civil Service Commission, possibly its chairman. Sam Coon of Baker, who lost out to Representative Al UU- man of Baker, is in line for ap pointment as assistant adminis trator at Lima, Peru, for the International Cooperation Ad ministration, the U.S. agency which handles foreign aid. Rumored for Post Ellsworth has been rumored for the Civil Service post for weeks but there have been no vacancies. Other reports had him heading for one of the sev en posts on tne federal com munications commission. Com missioners for either agency draw $20,000, and the chairman gets $20,500. The Washington Star reported Friday that Philip Young, chair man of the Civil Service com mission, and George Moore, one of the five commissioners, plan to quit the end of the month to take other positions within the administration. . The newspaper said Ellsworth and Christopher H. Phillips, Sheriff's Office Collects $4 Million The Jackson county sheriff's office collected a grand total of $4,353,910.88 in taxes, service and miscellaneous fees during the last six months of 1956, Sher iff Howard Gault reported to day. Collections of 1956-57 taxes totaled $3,992,389.20, according to the semi-annual report. Back taxes collected for years be tween 1949 and 1956 totaled 5358,318.19. , Total of. all taxes collected during the six-month period was $4,350,707.39. ' Service and miscellaneous fees totaled $2,341.04; personal taxes, $26.55; gun permits, $123: prisoners' board, $31.90 and transportation of prisoners $681, for a total of $3,203.49. Of the grand total collected, $2,673,621.84 has been proces sed by the tax department and turned over to Treasurer Karl Janouch. The remainder will be turned over to the treasurer as soon as it can be processed, tax department officials said. Mt. Etna Erupts in Series of Explosions Catania, Siciliy Mount Et na erupted in a series of violent explosions Friday night, spew ing steam and ashes high into the air. Volcanologists reported no im mediate danger. The eruption did not produce the usual um brella-shaped cloud of dust and no molten lava appeared. 71 Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organi zation affairs, are reportedly set to move into the vacancies left respectively by Young and Moore. The Civil Service commission declined comment on the report. Coon is awaiting security clearance for liis overseas; assign ment. Saud to Gel $50 Million in Arms , Washington (U.R) King Saud of Saudi Arabia will re ceive $50 million worth of U.S. arms in return for a new five- year lease on the Dhahran air base in his country, diplomatic sources told the United Press Saturday. The Arab leader had hoped to obtain $250 million worth of mil itary equipment during his glit tering two-week state visit which ended today. But he set tled for the smaller amount with the understanding it would be over the five-year period of the lease and subject to possible changes either increases or decreases. The base is vital to Allied defense strategy. It is less than 1,000 air miles from the Soviet Union and forges a vital link in the ring of bases the United States has drawn around Rus sia to prevent an atomic attack on this country. The State Department has kept the amount of the agree ment secret. It declined to con firm the $50 million figure. Of ficials said some details still must be worked out. CP Firm Guilty oi Unfair Practices Washington U.R) The How ard-Cooper corporation has been guilty of unfair labor practices at its Central Point plant near Medford, the National Labor Re lations Board ruled Friday. The ruling upheld an examin er s ruling maae earner wnicn said the firm had refused to bar gain with the AFL-CIO United Auto Workers Union. The board ordered the firm to bargain with the union and stop discouraging membership in the union. Between six and 15 men are employed at the plant, the number fluctuating seasonally. Dispute Arises Over Possession of Oil Line Reno (U.R) A dispute arose Saturday between city of ficials and the Sierra Pacific Power Co. over who should have possession of a broken sec tion of gas main taken from the scene of Tuesday's downtown blasts and fire. Fire chief Karl Evans declined to turn over the two-inch pipe to the power company saying it was to be sent to San Francisco for laboratory examinations by a city-hired firm. Cuts Designed to Curb Surpluses; Protests Are Seen Benson Uses Power Under Support Law Washington U.R) Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson Saturday lowered 1957 government price supports for eight major farm products in a move to cut down surpluses but left dairy props unchanged. Using his powers under the administration's flexible price support law, he cut the government-guaranteed "floor" price for 1957 on rye, oats, barley, sorghum grain, cotton, cotton seed, flaxseed and soybeans. He previously had announced low er supports for this year's corn crop. ' Cut Market Value The reductions for the nine crops, if fully reflected in mar ket prices, could cut their com bined market value $700 mil lion below last year if produc tion matches that of 1956. While department officials said the cuts are designed to curb surpluses now tieing up more than $8 billion in federal funds, the action appeared like ly to bring strong protests from the congressional farm bloc. These legislators, many of whom have unsuccessfully fought for higher mandatory supports, point out the cuts come when costs of farm production ' have soared to record highs. Benson set the 1957 support price for oats at 60 cents a bush el, down 5 cents from 1956; bar ley, 94 cents a bushel, down 8 cents; rye, $1.15 a bushel, down 12 cents; sorghum grain, $1.83 per hundred pounds, down 14 cents; soybeans, $2.09 a bushel, down 6 cents; flaxseed, S2.P2 a bushel, down 17 cents; and cot tonseed, $46 a ton, down $2 from last year. Down In Price While down in actual price the 1957 cotton support figure amounts to. 77 per cent of the current "fair price" parity lev el, compared with last year's 72 per cent of parity. Benson promised the support price for cotton will be increas ed before the crop is marketed if farm production and living costs rise further. Officials also held out hope the cotton props may be raised before harvest time if prospects brighten for cutting down the cotton surplus. Benson said producer prices for butter fat and mi He will I kept at present levels for the marketing year starting April 1. This appeared to rule out lower consumer prices. German Specialist Returns from Moscow Cologne, Germany (U.R) German blood specialist Dr. Hans Schulten returned from Moscow Saturday and said he still could not identify the mys terious patient he treated in the Kremlin hospital. He refused to confirm or deny that he had treated Vyacheslaw Malyshev, Soviet minister of machine building and former deputy premier. Schulten also declined to say what was wrong with the patient. a Sports Bulletins Central Point Medford made it nine rictoriet against one loss in the Southern Ore gon conference by defeating Crater High's basketball team 49 to 32 here last night. Cra ter put up an interesting bat tle in the first half but ran into a third quarter scoring drougth and the Blaek Tor nado took the opportunity to salt the game away. Dick Mc Laughlin tallied 14 points for Medford and Dick Puhl 12. John Greb was high for the Comets with seven. Phoenix Illinois Valley high nosed out Phoenix 29 to 27 here last night in a Rogue league basketball game. Free shots made the difference with IV making 19 to thePi rates' five. Dan Slanaker of the Cougars was high scorer with 10. Jim James and Jim Stout each had eight for Phoe nix. Ashland 37, Grants Past 33 OTI 110, EOC 62 Calif. 62, Ore. Stale 51
