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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
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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.
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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.