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Price in- subscribers Recommended A feature itorT aHat an lea breaker'a trip into Wcdtfell Sea, at the South Pole, written t a Med ford man aboard the 18 Rtaten 1 1 land, appear on pa It of todT Mail Tribune. Medford jort Improper or non-deliv-.he Mall Tribune to Medford 3-6141. Ashland 3-1021 841W before 6:45 c-m. daily 0:30 .m. Sunday, regular delivery arrives ahort ter vou call please notify office , eliminating special messenger Ice. 1RIBUN 2 United Press Full Luted Wire United Press Full I CO 36 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1957 No. 300 51st Year Waler Outlook for Stale Not Improved During Past Month Snow Cover Lowest In Past 10 Years Portland 01 R Oregon's water supply outlook has not im proved over that reported last month, according to a report re leased Saturday by soil conserva tion service and Oregon agricul tural experiment station. With only one month remain ing for any appreciable increase in the below normal snowpack to occur, there is little doubt that many areas in Oregon depend ent upon natural stream flow tjrill experience water shortages, 4hf report stated, (geservior Storage Above average reservoir stor- (J and generally well-wetted aVountain soils will moderate the ajpected below normal stream flow, however. On a statewide basis, 1937 snowcover is the lowest in the st 10 years. The only area with normal to near-normal snowcov er is in the central part of north A stern Oregon. Elsewhere, snowcover ranges from 76 per cent normal in the Powder river watershed to 25 per cent normal in Goose Lake basin. Statewide snowcover av erages 67 per cent of normal. Stored Water Stored water in 21 important reservoirs is 137 per cent of the 1938-52 nverage. Only McKay and Cold Springs reservoirs hold less than 100 per cent of their average. Winter precipitation according to the U.S. Weather bureau in Portland has been 79 per cent of the 15-year average. Below average runoff for April through September is anticipated except for the Upper Klamath Lake basin where normal amounts are forecasted, the re port said. Motion to Dismiss Indictment Continued Sacramento (U.R) Federal Judge Sherill Halbert Saturday continued until March 15 a mo tion to dismiss a grand jury in dictment against R. Drew Lamb, Ashland, Ore., man charged with stealing government timber. Larrtfc was indiated by the grand jury here alter making the trip from his home to sur render. TQ indictment charged Lamb, who owns a strip of land in Humbolt county adjacent to gov ernment land, with "wilfully" removing logs from the govern ment property. Federal spokesmen said the major problem in the case now was to determine "when a tree becomes a lr," and if logs are considered timber under state law. Arguing the- dismissal mo tion tgr Lamb was Sidney Ains worth, i ttornty from Med ford. Judge Halbert took the mat ter und& conisdtration. He was expected to issue hit ruling on the motion on the date set Saturday. 1 Remains of Six Fliers Found in New Guinea Washington (U.R) Remains of six American fliers lost in the Pacific War 14 years ago have been found by natives in the wilds of New Guinea, the Army announced Saturday. The remains will be taken to Honolulu for examination and burial. The six, members of the war time Army Corps, perished when their B-25 bomber crashed dur- i J ing a scouting mission against - 1 u T-tninAO Th. A T-mv hart , IMC U OpHIIL.-L. - ' ' ' ' " f A listed the six, plus a seventh crew member whose remains apparently were not discovered, as missing in action and "pre sumed dead." The tale told by the Army revealed that New Guinea na tives came upon the plane wreckage about a month ago in a jungle area of the Owen Stan ley mountains. Weather FORF.rT: Tarty rlondv ihrouth MnndiT. with a tw haw.er SundiT mrninr. Hish Simdav low toniehl :K. tilth Mnndav At. TEMP. Hichrst Yeterdr y loweu Yesterday Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 3? a.m. Sunset (Ll? p.m. .... 3:11 a-m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, set in at 1 t -1 f n t now in the TmtMiv Jupiter, ristn-c at . constellation, .. . 7 :0 p.m. ITS" Saturn, rising at 1.35 a.m. is m Ohpmrhqv "My Dear Fellow, Why 1m FBI Declines to Make Lie Test for Schrunk Washington (U.R) -The Sen ate Labor Rackets committee subpenacd officials of the Bak ery Workers' union Saturday to look into charges the president dipped into union funds. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy also disclosed that the FBI had declined to make a liedetector test of Portland, Ore., Mayor-Terry D. Schrunk's denial that he accepted a $500 bribe from a gambler. He said he would try to arrange for the Secret Service to administer the test, possibly Monday. News Conference Kennedy told a news confer ence the committee has tape re cordings of conversations in the Portland case which contain so much obscenity that they cannot be played in public hearings Kennedy said the committee : will play the "less obscene" sec-1 tions in hearings on the Port- land case which resume Tues- j day. If there is any question about facts contained in the dirtier portions they will be played in a closed meeting of the committee, he said. Though it has made no an nouncement of the fact, the com mittee has been barring chil dren from its hearings where the witnesses have included call house madams and the testi mony has been replete with evi dence of prostitution. In the Bakery Workers case, Kennedy said subpenas were issued today for President James G. Cross of the Bakery and Confectionary Workers' un ion; Curtis R. Sims, secretary treasurer of the union until he was suspended Friday; and George R. Stuart, vice president and organizing director. Portland Case In the Portland case Kennedy said the committee will drive to wind up its hearings this week with the testimony of Clyde C. Crosby, Teamsters Un ion organizer for Oregon; Wil liam M. Langley, Teamsters backed District Attorney for Multnomah county, and Frank W. Brewster, a vice president of the Teamsters union and presi dent of its powerful 11-state Western conference. Kennedy said the committee has about 70 hours of tape re cordings made by James B. El kins, Portland racketeer, gam bler and bootlegger. He said the group will play some tapes which purportedly recorded con versations between District At- Slight Improvement Evident in Market Continued signs of a slight im provement in the lumber market continued to be evident last week, according to two lumber industry news services. Random Lengths, a Eugene market news letter, said that while demand is "still spotty," and the slight flurry of two weeks ago has subsided, a slight improvement has been noted the past few weeks. Crow's lumber market news service. Portland, said "a notice able pickup in the volume of western lumber being sold over the nation was reported." The change in demand was not re flected much in prices, it added, but it said it is probable that mills "are less inclined to listen to low-priced offers than they were." The two services agreed that the "traditional spring buying upsurge" has so far failed to I materialize. Don't You Rai.e Money?" torney Langley and Joseph P. McLaughlin and Thomas E. Ma loney. McLaughlin and Maloney, bulky men who have invoked the Fifth Amendment rather answer committee questions, were identified by Elkins as Se attle gamblers and close friends of Brewster. He said Brewster sent them to Portland to organ ize the city's vice and gambling after the Teamsters back Lang ley's election. U.S. io Reject Red Proposal This Week Washington OJ-R) The Unit- Off tatnc in an imnanal mnira catllrri,v ',,lM in ,.,;Hrfi nations it nlans to rei-t Moscow's month-old call for a Big f-our policy declaration the critical Mideast Along with Britain and France, the United States this week will turn down the Soviet Union's Feb. 11 proposal as a propagan da move in direct conflict with Russian efforts to stir up trou ble in the Middle East. The Stale Department sum moned diplomats representing Is rael, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Su dan, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq Saturday to be inform ed of contents of the U.S. note. The Middle East diplomats met separately with Stewart Rock well, acting director of the State Department office of Near East ern affairs. Among other things, Russia urged that the four powers pledge non-interference in af fairs of Middle Eastern nations, agree to liquidate foreign bases in the region, refuse to supply arms to Middle Eastern coun tries', and declare that Mideast problems should b e settled peacefully through negotiation Washington Passes Bill Jo Study Toll Bridge Olympia (U.R) The Washing ton House unanimously passed a bill Friday to allot $150,000 for a feasibility study of a toll bridge across the Columbia river near Biggs Rapids. Sent to the Senate, the bill would authorize the issue of revenue bonds and imposition of tolls for the project as well as repayment of study funds to the state. Hakodate, Japan (U.R) Seven persons were killed and an un determined number of other in jured Saturday when an aval anche buried a crowded miners hut at the Imai mines near here Utilities Commissioner Supports Three Bills for More Power Over Railroads Howard Morgan, state public utilities commissioner, supports three bills now under considera tion by the state legislature which would give his office a greater regulatory power over railroads, he said Saturday. They are Senate Bills 274 and 275. introduced by State Sen. Philip B. Lowry and State Rep. E. A. Littrell, both Medford. and others. Gov. Robert D. Holmes reported earlier that he support ed them in principle, and would give his support to the specific bills if they had the approval of Commissioner Morgan. Morgan told the Mail Tribune, "1 am very much, in favor of Western Proposal To Split Tolls is Rejected by Egypt Notice Served That Country Gets Money Cairo (U.R) Egypt reject ed a western plan for splitting Suez Canal tolls with the Inter national bank Saturday and served notice that all nations must pay their full dues to the Egyptian government. Egyptian information director Abdel-Kader Hattem implied strongly that Egypt will bar pas sage to all ships failing to pay the full tolls to its Suez Canal authority. Ships May Ba Bared The statement, ,as heard In London over Cairo radio, also hinted strongly that Israeli ships will be barred from the 101-mile waterway. The Egyptian statement sharp ly attacking "proposals aimed at reviving the Suez canal issue," came as a new crisis threatened over whether the United Nations or Egypt will control the Gaza strip. The U. N. announced that its trouble-shooting assistant secretary-general Ralph Bunche, was flying here Sunday to inspect the explosive Gaza strip where U.N. troops have taken over from the Israelis. Thousands of Arab ref ugees there have staged demon strations demanding that Gaza return to Egypt, Hattem announced Egypt's po sition on the SueZ tolls just aft er the canal was opened to small shipping up to 500 tons. But U.N. salvage officials were still await ing an Egyptian go-ahead to pro ceed with the removal of two sunken vessels that still blocked passage for larger freighters and tankers. Comments on Plan The Egyptian statement com mented on a reported U.S., Brit ish and French plan for running the Suez canal until a final set tlement is reached. Under the proposal half of the tolls would go to Egypt and half into, an In ternational bank escrow account to pay for salvage and mainte nance. The Egyptian information chief said the plan would- vio late the 1888 Suez canal conven tion which "stipulates that these tolls should be collected without exception or discrimination from all ships under the same terms." Hail Suppression Program Planned The Water Resources Develop ment corporation has announced Intention of operating a hail sup pression program in Jackson county, starting about April 1. The program, conducted for the Medford Pear Shippers as sociation, is expected to end about Oct. 15. Equipment for the program includes ground-based generators using coke and silver iodide. The Medford Pear Shippers association has sponsored this program here for several years in an effort to protect pears from damage by hail stones. While statistical proof of bene fits from the program has not been claimed,, local pear grow ers have expressed optimism that benefits will be realized. Subcommittee Says Programs Should Stay Washington U.R) A senate foreign relations subcommittee reported Saturday that U.S. "Point Four" programs in Latin America should be continued at present levels but that the Afri can program should be stepped up considerably. The findings were included in an 11-page report by a subcom mittee on technical assistance programs headed by Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.). They were based on on-the-spot studies in the two continents. the bills to regulate the services and schedules of rail carriers, and also the bill to provide reg ulatory power over minimum rates of all carriers and I expect to do whatever I can to assist in the passage of both bills in this legislature." The proposed laws were in troduced by an outgrowth of the action of the 'Southern Pacific railroad in abandoning rail pas senger service in its line betwen Eugene and the California line in 1955. The then commissioner, Charles Heltzel, ordered them to resume service, but the courts held he had no such authority under exisitin? laws, prior to a publie hearing. Pilot Reports Fiery Object San Juan, Puerto Rico (U.RJ A fiery object hurtled toward a Pan American Air ways plane high over the At lantic ocean Saturday, forc ing him to take quick evasive action to avoid being hit, the pilot reported. Four persons required hos pitalization for shock and in juries suffered apparently be cause of the maneuver. Two of the injured were Philadel phians. Menced Transport Capt. Mat t h e w A- Van Winkle said he could riot identify the flaming object which menaced his transport at the halfway point on the flight from New York to San Juan. The unidentified pilot of a QUAKES 10,000 Homeless In Greece Alter Series of Tremors Athens, Greece U.R) A new series of tremors rocked earthquake - stricken central Greece Saturday as King Paul and Queen Frederika toured the stricken area reassuring the homeless residents. An Athens newspaper claimed some 300 casualties in the quakes which hit Thessaly Fri day and the continuing tem blors yesterday. At least 32 tremors were registered Satur day. One was felt early yester day in Athens, about 200 miles to the southeast. A communique issued by the ministry of interior said one person was killed and 71 in jured since the first shock hit Friday morning. Need of Supplies The communique reported 3,350 houses were wrecked and some 10,000 persons were home less. It said some 20,000 per sons were in desperate need of food, clothing and other sup plies. The Greek government, how ever, declined with thanks an offer of assistance from units of the U. S. Sixth Fleet, standing off the Greek coast. The offer was made by U. S. Ambassador George Allen shortly after news of the disaster was received here Friday. The king and his German-born queen sped from Athens to the hard-hit Volos area aboard a Greek destroyer early Saturday. They walked among peasants huddling in the open fields to listen to their stories and offer words of encouragement. An estimated 150,000 persons spent the cold and rainy night in the comparative safety of the open fields. Volos was one of the worst-hit areas in the earth quakes of 1953 and 1954 and local residents fled their homes In panic when the tremors hit. Israel Seeks Support In, Use of Suez Canal Washington (U.R) Israel Sat urday sought U.S. support to keep Egypt from barring Israeli ships from the Suez canal. Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban called on Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter to dis cuss Egyptian hints that it will continue to forbid Israeli ships to use the vital waterway now that it is about to be reopened. A public hearing, in two phases, subsequently was held in Medford and Grants Pass, and a final session may be held soon. Outcome of the hearing will not be known until that time. The Lowry-Littrell bills would empower the commissioner to order services and schedules maintained- at least until a pub lic hearing can be held, and also give the PUC other authority over rail services, including freight schedules. Morgan gave his views on the proposed measures after his re turn from Washington, D.C., where he was a witness at Sen ate hearings now under -way. Doctrine Trans-Caribbean plane said he saw the object and said he believed it could have been a meteor. A Pan American spokesman said other planes on the same route saw more than one object. A Pan American spokesman in New York said a report reaching there quoted the pilot as saying he saw an object with a very bright core and a fringe of green. The report said a check with the armed forces indicat ed there were no jet planes in the area at the time of the incident and that the pilots of at least seven other aircraft saw the mysterious object. No Missile A spokesman at Patrick Air Force base in Florida said the HIT TWOAREAS Wave from Aleutian Quake Wrecks Towns Honolulu (UP.) A tidal wave, kicked off by a major earth-quake in the Aleutians, washed away two small Hawa iian villages Saturday and took at least one life, but a second quake-caused crest dissipated harmlessly in' the Pacific ocean. The first wave battered the islands with nine successive swells and then subsided before it reached the California coast line where authorities had warn ed of the possibility of extensive damage. A second, and not as power ful quake, shook the Aleutians later and authorities at first fear- Russia Explodes Nuclear Test Bomb Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States announced Saturday Russia has exploded another nu clear test bomb but indicated it was not an H-bomb. A brief statement by Chair man Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy commission said the explosion took place Fri day. The announcement was the 18th by the United States dis closing various Soviet nuclear explosions since September, 1949. Many of the announcements, however, have referred to a series of explosions, rathr than individual shots. Informed sources have estimated the total probably is in the neighborhood of 40. This compares with at least 75 U.S. nuclear explosions. Great Britain has tested nine atomic weapons and soon will explode her first H-bomb in the Christ mas Island area of the Pacific 1,200 miles south of Hawaii. Termination of U.S. Control Postponed Washington (U.R) The Sen ale Friday passed by voice vote and sent to the House a bill to postpone for 18 months termi nation of federal control over the Klamath Indians in Oregon. The bill, introduced by Ore gon Democratic Sens. Richard L. Neuberger and Wayne Morse, also would authorize the United States to pay up to $1,100,000 to the Klamath tribe for ex penses incurred in the termina tion. The bill would give the tribe more time to dispose of its timber holdings so as not to flood the market all at once. It also would give the Klamaths more time to decide whether to remain in the tribe after the present 1960 termination or take cash for their share of the land. Sports Bulletins Oregon 63, Oregon State 61 Bend (U.R) Elkton defeat ed Echo high 65 io 40 here last night to claim the stale B school basketball champion ship. Jefferson edged Sisters 57 to 54 for third place and Knappa downed Mslin 48 to 39 for ccnsolaHoc honors. object "was no missile from our range." Van Winkle said his first Impression when he sighted the object was that it was a jet plane. But when it got closer, he said he noticed it was not shaped like any known jet. To avoid a collision, Van Winkle said he pulled the plane into a steep climb, ris ing some 1,000 feet in a few seconds. The sudden maneuver apparently caught those aboard unawares. Van . Winkle described the mysterious missile as a "burn ing greenish white round ob ject, unrecognizable but def initely not a meteor." ed it would trigger an even high er tidal wave. Hardly Felt However, the first impact of the second wave was hardly felt in Hawaii and the coast and geo detic survey said the danger was probably past. The first quake, which regist ered 8.0 on the Richier scale, sent a 40-foov wall of water booming into the coastline at Scotch cape in the Aleutians and started huge swells racing across the Pacific. The second temblor registered 7.0 in magnitude. The Richter scale of magni tudes is a logarithmic progres sion of intensity that has no up per limit. The most violent quake ever recorded on the scale was 8.6 which compares with 8.25 of the San Francisco quake and the 1952 temblor in Techa chapai, Calif., which recorded 7.75. Most of the damage caused by Saturday's first tidal wave was confined to the Island of Kauai, 96 miles north of Oahu. 'Washed Away' Police at Kauai said the vil lages of Kalihiwai and Wainiha were "washed away" but did not officially report any casualties. Another report from the island, however, said one man was believed drowned in the Hanalei river as a result of the wave. As a precautionary measure several ships, including the Mat son Line's Lurline and the Ha waiian Steamship company's Leilani, were taken out of the Honolulu harbor and rode out the swells off Diamond Head. In California the state disaster office alerted law enforcement agencies along the 900-mile coast line to keep people off the beach and away from the highways bordering the Pacific ocean as a precaution against the wave. However when the tidal wave reached the coast it was barely distinguishable from any other wave. Police Apprehend Three Youths Friday City police Friday night ap prehended three Portland boys, ages 15 and 16, who escaped from two McLaren school of ficers at the Medford municipal airport. According to police, the of ficers were to meet the youths at the airport and escort them to the school at Woodburn. The boys were transported by plane from San Francisco to Medford. However, officers said the plane arrived early and the boys left the airport before they could be taken into custody. Medford police arrested the youths 1 at Court st., and Mc Andrews rd., and lodged them overnight in the county jail. Greek Cypriots Stage Anniversary Strike Nicosia, Cyprus, -UP. Greek Cypriots staged a nationwide strike Saturday to mark the first anniversary of Britain's repor tation of Archbishop Makarios from the Mediterranean island colony. .gned U.S. Prepared to Protect Countries 01 Middle East Declaration Closes Gap in Defense Ring Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower Saturday sign ed his name to an historic decla ration pledging that the United States is prepared to fight if nec essary to protect the Middle East from Communist aggression. Even as the president signed the Mid-East doctrine resolution Egypt raised the prospect of new tension in the Middle East by de nying Israeli ships passage through the Suez Canal. Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban called at the state department to pro test. The declaration, backed by congress and popularly known as the "Eisenhower Doctrine," closes the last major gap in U.S. defense commitments for terri tory surrounding Russia and Red China. The United States, through de fensive alliances or by congres sional mandate, now is commit ted to fight should either of the two major Communist powers try to expand in almost any di rection. ' The North Atlantic treaty or ganization covers Europe and Turkey; the Middle East doc trine, the stretch from Tureky to Pakistan; and the Southeast Asian treaty organization, the area from Pakistan to the Phil ippines. Formosa is covered by coss gressional resolution and treaty with the Nationalist Chinese, and there are separate defensive al liances with Japan and South Korea. Mr. Eisenhower said in a 300 word statement that the declara tion "is a further demonstration of the will of the American peo ple to preserve peace and free dom in the world." Immediate Operation In affixing his signature, the president put into immediate op eration the resolution which congress approved overwhelm ingly last week after two month of debate over the exact worst ing. Besides endorsing the fight-if- we-must declaration, congress authorized Mr. Eisenhower te spend up to $200 million' in already-appropriated funds for military and economic aid to bol ster Middle East nations against internal Communist subversion. In his statement to reporters. Mr. Eisenhower announced that James P. Richards, (D-S.C.) his ambassador and adviser, will leave for the Middle East Tues day to explain the resolution's purposes to beneficiary nations. Richards is former chairman of the house foreign afafirs com mittee. Cave Story Made Up By Area Youngsters Sheriffs deputies Friday end ed a two-day search for a cave in the Jacksonville area report ed to contain a complete skele ton when it was learned a group of youngsters made up the whole story. Officers received a report Wednesday that the skeleton, believed to be that of a human, had been found by Walter L. Couch of Jacksonville. Investi gation showed there were lots of caves on the property, located near Highway 238 and Forest Creek rd., but none contained a skeleton. According to deputies, the youths finally admitted making up the story to cause a little ex citement. Departments to Submit Request for Finances Heads of the various county departments will begin present ing requests to the county budget committee for their 1957-58 bud gets Monday morning. The department heads will meet individually with the com mittee on an appointment basis. The entire committee will then review the proposals and begin planning the new budget. The department heads and county court held a preliminary budget meeting last month when instruc tions were given concerning preparation of budget proposals. Washington (U.R) House farm leaders failed during a closed door meeting Saturday to work out a compromise farm tubsidy bill.
