Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 21, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texton Railroad Schedule . raied lke,tiacmillan Discuss Problems Of Middle East Atomic Discussion. " Scheduled Friday Tucker'i Town. Bermuda "U.R Prudent Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dis cussed immediate and long range problems in thP .Middle East at the start of their Anglo-American talks today. The President and Prime Min ister omct for t o" hours in a mornin section. An ftrnoon session was schectild fer Ute today after tajif exjrts wort out technical aspect of questions referred to them. Mr. Sianhout lunched with Macmillan in the British Pre mier's nt at the Mid-Ocean club, f of the conference which railed to help heal the breach in L.S.-British relations caused ba tha Suez crisis. They were joinad by Secretary of State Jolia fostar Dulles and Foreign iartiry Seiwyn Lloyd. A.'aTT tfia oprninf meeting, in which ch $ouitry has 12 per sons in tia conference chamber, it wa? d:aclod that a group of top level American atomic ex perts will com here Friday. They will help in the discussion of atomic weapons and guided smissiles, a subject on the agenda for Friday. peter Hope, spokesman for the British Foreign Office who is with Macmillan, said the morn ing meeti'iK was largely con cerned with "several urgent questions on the Mid-East. II response to a barrage of questions from newsmen about what progress had been achieved. Hope s.-id it was hoped the Middle East discussion would be cleared up today. , i . i- . n e n correspondents ex pressed surprise that the ques tion could be settled in one day. the British spokesman said "covered rather than settled' was a better way to express it. Sheriff Requests Arson Squad Help Jackson county sheriff's dep uties have requested assistance from the state police arson squad in Salem in investigating a Sat urday morning fire which de stroyed a log truck, crawler tractor, other garage equipment and a wood frame barn in Ash land. According to deputies, the fire wassailed to their attention by Mr. and Mrs. Don Miller, 1080 Clay St., Ashland, owners of the barn and equipment. Mrs. Miller said the fire was reported at 4:30 a.m. Saturday by an elderly couple who ob served the flames from the road. The Ashland fire department was called, but did not respond irfc-e the fire was outside the City limits. Mrs. Miller told deputies there was reason to believe the fire was started by a person or per sons attempting to steal gasolines from equipment inside the barn. Central Point Man Is Fined In District Court Carl Alfred Fodse, 34. route S, box 578B, Central Point, was fined $255 and his drivers li cense was suspended for P0 days after he pleaded guilty in district court yesterday to a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Fodge also received a sus pended 30-day jail sentence. He was arrested Monday by state police on the Crater Lake highway. Well, We Certainly Botched This Job. What'll We Stamp It 'Secret or Top Secret'?" Weather FORFCST: Pari4 f el-arfng tnnlzht with frot In ti1Iv. PartlT rloudv Friday and lichtlY irmr. Low tonight 2S. High Friday AO. Htrhrt tmrAT 44 l.met thu Mnrntnr 31 Prec. to 4:3 a.m. Today A 2 Our Skies Tonight ftunme :H a.m. "unwt . p m. Th Monti rise Friday a.m. and rlrtr low. I.at Quarter . ... Fridar night PROMINENT TR Vfta. low In northeast 10:59 p.m. VISIB1.F. PI.A.NKTS Mars, in the wel g ift p m. Jupiter, hifh in oulh at mid night. Saturn, due south - 1:03 a.m. Dr. O.M.Wilson To Speak at UMC Dinner Tonight Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, presi dent of the University of Oregon, will speak on "The Advantage of Joining Hands'' at the fourth annual United Mcdford Crusade dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. to day at the Hedrick Junior High school cafctorium. During the business session, a report of last year's UMC operation will be given, and new directors will be elected. Awards will be presented to several campaign workers. John R. Dellenback will serve as master of ceremonies. Dr. Merle R. Foland is chairman of the dinner committee. Education Dr. Wilson received his bache lor degree at Brigham Young university in 1934, and did grad uate work at the University of Heidelberg and the University of London. He received his doc tor of philosophy degree from the University of California in 1943. His teaching experience in cludes positions at Brigham Young, the University of Utah, where he later was appointed dean, and at the University of Chicago, where he served as assistant dean. Dr. Wilson is a member of several educational committees, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Historical Society, and the American Acad emy of Political and Social sci ences. All UMC contributors, cam paign workers, member agency personnel, and others interested have been invited to the dinner, Dr. Foland said. Chains Required on Green Springs Today State police this morning said chains were required on the Green Springs, where three inches of new snow was re ported, and state highway de partment ciews were sanding. Prosoect reported 2 inches of new snow and carrying chains was recommended for travel north of Prospect, police said. Crater Lake National park had 7'. i inches of new snow, bringing the total on the ground to 127 inches, compared to 162 inches last year on this date, and 89 inches in 1955. Highway 62 through the park was open, but chains were advised. The road from Annie Springs to the rim was expected to be open by noon today. Sidewalk Being Built On Fourth Street A sidewalk on the south side of Fourth st., between Fir and Front sts., is now under con struction. Construction of the sidewalk was requested by the city coun cil last fall of the Southern Pa cific railroad, which owns the property. Dag Hammarskjold Faces Severe Tesl In Talks in Egypt Pessimism Voiced By Diplomatic Sources By UNITED PRESS UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold today began five days of crucial talks in Cairo that may determine the fate of the Suez Canal and the question of war or peace in the Middle East. Even as he conferred with President Gamal Abdel Nasser and other Egyptian officials a new crisis struck. Syria was re ported in political turmoil with the army purging pro-Soviet strongman Col. Abdel Hamid Scrraj, one of the nation's three dictators. Diplomats Pessimistic Western diplomatic sources in Cairo were pessimistic over Hammarskjold's chances of suc cess and said the canal situa tion was right back where it was last October when Britain, France and Israel invaded Egypt. Israeli officials in Jerusalem predicted failure of the Hammar skjold mission and said Ham marskjold could not get Nasser to renounce Egypt's state of bel ligerency , with Israel. And un less he renounces belligerency there can be no more compro mise with Israel's security, the sources said. Biggest Tt After a brief rest in a palatial suite at the Seramis hotel over looking the Nile, Hammarskjold met Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi to start officially this big gest test of his diplomatic abil ity. He tested that ability twice before and won a trip to Red China two years ago for the re lease of American fliers and a trip to the Mid East last spring for a brief-lived respite from the threat of an immediate war between Israel and its Arab neighbors. This time diplomats said the cards were stacked against Ham marskjold that there is not even a basis for negotiation on handling of the Suez Canal. Egypt demands all tolls be paid to it and said they must be paid in the currency of Egypt's own choice no British pounds, no French francs. Dental Program To Start Monday A dental program for children in greater Medford area schools whose parents cannot afford ade quate dental care will start at Lincoln school Monday, repre sentatives of the Southern Ore gon Dental association have an nounced. The program is being spon sored by the association, the Medford school system, Kiwanis. Rotary, Crater and Medford Lions clubs, and the Jackson County Public Health associa tion. ' Need for such a program was brought to the attention of the Dental association recently, and a mobile dental unit is scheduled to be at Lincoln school when the program starts Monday, asso ciation officials said. The unit, which is being moved here from Hillsboro. will be in the Medford area for three months. Dentists participating in the program will donate a half a day per month, association officials said. School nurses will check children needing dental care and refer them to the clinic, they said. Review of Front St. Policy Suggested City Councilman S t a n 1 e y Jones suggested at Tuesday night's city council meeting that sometime this spring the coun cil review its policy on "Front st." Jones referred to the street as an "eye-sore" and said the vol ume of complaints from resi dents on the tavern-lined street about its condition is increasing. The councilman said at one time a "Front street area" in Medford was considered a "nec essary evil." But, he said, since it is now located in the center of Mediord's business district and may affect pedestrians, both shoppers and other residents, improvement of conditions on the street should be reconsid ered. He added "the street" should be considered early in the year while the council still is not pressed with other matters. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U P.) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 474.02. up 0.09; 20 railroads 143.59. up 0.94: 15 utilities 70.63, off 0.30; and 63 stocks 167.31, up 0.12. Sales today were about 1.630.000 shares compared with 1,830,000 shares Wednesday. 51st Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 24 Pages UTILITIES Washington U.PJ A Demo cratic controlled House commit tee endorsed today a contro versial report accusing private utilities of trying to "brainwash" Interior Department officials into opposing public power. The report charged that a group of Rocky Mountain power companies gave interior officials a pamphlet of "professional pri vate power propaganda" in the guise of "factual information." The House Government Oper ations Committee endorsed the H,or JAnVlfP PL fV V - ... -'at'jle.'t i tit H iimm- ii-'-n until m"nKhr-n-f - liwmni'iri mf--atei IJ'ltSJlls!! FOREIGN STUDENTS The four young women pictured above were among a group of 29 foreign students from the University of Oregon who visited Medford yesterday. Follow ing a potluck dinner and a panel discussion at the YMCA, Dr. G. A. Dierdorff, who was in charge of the program, presented them with orchids. They are, left to right, Kiran Foreign Students In Ashland After Visiting Medford Twenty - nine University of Oregon foreign students left for Ashland this morning after vis iting in Medford all day yester day. They are visiting southern Oregon cities through plans ar ranged by the University For eign Student Friendship founda tion. The Medford visit was made through arrangements of the university and the Medford YMCA. The students were guests at the "Y" at a public meeting and potluck dinner last night, when a panel of students discussed various aspects of their native countries, and compared dress, and other activities with those in the United States. Visit High School Yesterday afternoon the group visited Medford High school un der sponsorship of the school's International Relations league. Countries represented includ ed Pakistan. India, Iraq, Korea, British Guinea. The Netherlands, Formosa, Nepal, Indonesia, Aus tria and Malaya. Many of the students were dressed in cos tumes native in their own coun try. Other cities visited in southern Oregon besides Medford and Ashland include Roseburg, Grants Pass and Klamath Falls. The students were guests of the Medford Kiwanis club yest erday noon at the Rogue Valley Country club. Five of the students spoke to Kiwanians and answered ques tions. They were Chandra Kiran, Nepal; Kiran Caleb, India; Ther esa Hsu, Hong Kong; George Ba koss, Iraq, and Win Garretsen, The Netherlands. Rene Ohan, Egypt, was moderator. INJURED Mrs. Sam Cook. 1691 Tarker st., Ashland, suffered shoulder and rib injuries and a head cut, about 1 p.m. today in a car truck accident at 10th and Front sts., according to reports from city police and Osteopathic hos pital. She was taken to the hospital by Medford Ambulance service. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1957 ACCUSED IN report, which was approved by a subcommittee Feb. 27 over vigorous Republican objections. GOP members issued a minor ity report accusing the Demo crats of descending to "insult and vilification" and of trying to "make something of nothing" to discredit private power com panies and boost public power programs. The controversy concerned a booklet prepared by five Rocky Mountain utilities in collabora tion with Ebasco Services, Inc., ! : : Rackets Committee Subpoenaes Records Of Frank Brewster Washington (U.P.) The Sen ate Labor Rackets Committee today subpoenaed all personal records of West Coast teamsters boss Frank W. Brewster. Brew ster agreed to furnish them. Will Give All Committee Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) handed Brewster a subpoena as the gray haired Western teamsters czar sat in the witness chair. Brewster conferred with his lawyers and one of them. John K. Pickens, said, "we will give you all you ask for." The subpoena calls for all Brewster's personal records from Jan. 1, 1949, to Dec.. 31, 1956, covering his relations with vari ous units of the Teamsters Un ion, his horse-racing interests, and other businesses he is en gaged in. It also calls for his personal checks, correspondence files, and bills. Aski Agreement Pickens asked McClellan to agree that Brewster should only be required to provide records relevant to the committee's au County Budget Group To Meet Friday The Jackson county budget committee will hold its first meeting to consider the 1957-58 county budget at 9 a.m. Friday in the county courtroom. Members of the county court said today that nearly all county departments have submitted their budget requests. Most de partments are asking for con siderable increases in their budg ets as compared with requests made last year, according to Commissioner Chester Wendt. The committee will elect a new chairman succeeding Tom Wray and a new secretary suc ceeding Roger Rath. Members of the committee are Arnold Bohnert, Rath, Wray, County Judge Rodney Keating and Com missioners Wendt and Ralph James. : : , s " mTm e 'BRAINWASHINu TRY a New York engineering service firm. The report said the utilities gave copies of the booklet in 1953 to then Secretary of Inter ior Douglas R. McKay and some of his key aides shortly after they took office. It said the booklet was in semi-anonymous form and con tained ."inaccurate, incomplete, distorted and otherwise decep tive information which could only have been calculated to mislead the officials to whom it Caleb, India; Karen Yuen, China; Theresa Hsu, China, and Chandra Kiran, Nepal. With the group was Russell Walker, right, executive secretary of the YMCA at the University of Oregon. The four students who formed the discussion panel, compared' life in America with that of .their countries and answered questions asked by the members of audience. thority to investigate improper practices of labor or manage ment. McClellan said that is all the committee wants records re lating to Brewster's union re sponsibilities and transactions. Eut he said the staff would need all the records in order to weed out the relevant docu ments. "In view of the testimony we have had here, we can hardly leave it to the witness to make the segregation," McClellan said. He said Brewster would be given enough .time to produce them. (See Story on Page 14) Demurrers Filed in Bartenders' Cases Attorney Edward Kelly has ' filed demurrers in the cases of two tavern operators and two bartenders arrested in a Friday night raid by Medford police and sheriff's deputies in con nection with alleged pinball ma chine pay-offs. The demurrers were argued in district court Wednesday afternoon, when the four men were scheduled to enter pleas to the charges. District Judge Rawles Moore said he is con sidering the arguments and ex pects to make a ruling on the demurrer ;.n the near future. The demur; rs each name three points of alleged fault in the charges. Charged with the violations are Joseph Edward Stratman, bartender at the Medford hotel lounge, charged with operating a game of chance; Lloyd Keller, operator of The Tavern, charged with possessing and operating a game of chance; Sam Prough, operator of the Talent club, charged with possessing, operat ing and displaying a game of chance; and Charles Will Gleim, bdrtender at the Talent club charged with operating a game of chance. 1 Wire 3. 309 was directed." "It was obviously designed to 'brainwash' the new Interior De partment officials and to create or strengthen in them a sense of hostility to the federal power program as it then existed," the report said. Fred C. Gardner, president of Ebasco, denied the charges in a statement in New York. He said the "information we prepared is factual, accurate and was com piled largely from published government sources." Appropriations Committee Cuts Budget Further Washington (U.P.) The House Appropriations Commit tee made another cut today in resident Eisenhower's $78.1 bil lion spending budget, but the reduction was not as big as some previous ones. The committee slashed 3.8 per cent off the $2.9 billion Mr. Eis enhower had requested to run the Labor and Health, Education and Welfare departments and related minor agencies in the new fiscal year beginning July 1. Reduction Upheld The committee's cuts on three previous appropriations bills it has acted on have averaged about 6.5 per cent. The House upheld each of those reductions. The economy drive gained new steam today when Sen. Har ry F. Byrd (D-Va.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Com mittee, recommended that a to tal of $6.5 billion be whacked off the President's budget. Byrd previously had been talking terms of a $5 billion cut, but he said there is a possibility of larger savings. Portland U.R) A small pisce of the battleship Oregon will be shipped here by the Jap anese firm which bought the ship for scrap. Ur Nixon Returns To Capital After 19,000-Mile Jaunt Washington (U.PJ Vice President Richard M. Nixon re turned today from a 19,000-mile African tour to a joyous reunion with his mother and two young daughters. Obviously Tired Nixon, whose plush Air Force DC6 touched down at 10;15'a.m. (PST) was obviously tired from his 23-hour flight from Tunisia. He spent 21 hours of that time in the air and two hours on the ground at the Azores while his plane was being refueled. On hand to greet him and Mrs. Nixon were their daughters I Patricia, 10, and Julie, 8. The Committee Told Of Complaints in Southern Oregon Lowry Says Bill Has Statewide Significance Salem OJ.R) Arguments for and against legislation to author ize the public utilities commis sioner to suspend DroDosed changes in rail freight services were heard for nearly four hours yesterday afternoon by the Sen ate Committee on Commerce and Utilities. Sen. Philip Lowry of Medford. one of the sponsors of Senate Bills 274 and 275, told the com mittee there had been wide spread complaints in southern Oregon after Southern Pacific dropped its passenger service be tween Eugene and Ashland. The measures also would give the commissioner authority to sus pend passenger rail schedule changes. Statewide Significance Lowry said there also had been complaints elsewhere on transportation service so that the measures now took on statewide significance. He cited the case of Portland Traction Company in curtailing its passenger service on the interurban trolleys to Ore gon City and Bcllrose from Portland. The courts in Salem and Port land have held that the public utilities commissioner under present law does not have the authority to suspend new rail service schedules. As a result. Southern Pacific did abandon its passenger service from Eugene to Ashland and Portland Trac tion did curtail its interurban passenger service. Could Go To Court Under the two bills, the com missioner could suspend a new service schedule, and if the rail road or transit company was not satisfied, it could go to court. But the suspension order wouU remain in effect until the court ruled otherwise. Also speaking in favor of thB bills were several other legis lators, including Reps. E. A. Littrell and Robert Duncan o Medford, and Sens. Dan Dimick of Roseburg and Rudie Wilhelm Jr. of Portland. And Frank J. Van Dyke of Medford, former speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, spoke for the bills on behelf of the Jack son county Chamber of Com merce. Appearing in opposition to the measures were shipper repre sentatives, including Nelson M. Hickock of Salem, Harold Holmes of Medford, R. W. Gray of Medford, S. A. Richards of Portland L. H. McReynolds of Toledo. SP Wouldn't Object Frank McColloch, Portland at torney, said the Southern Pa cific would not object to a law for regulation of passenger serv ice similar to the California law. He made the statement after mention had been made of SP's recent announcement of inten tion to curtail its Shasta day light passenger train service. The California commission or dered the company to retain the daily run In California and so the Shasta continued its daily run between Portland and Oak-, land, Calif. If the PUC had had similar authority in 1955, SP could not have abandoned its passenger service between Eugene and Ashland without first obtaining court approval to do so. Piof D:es in Crash Near Cascade Locks Cascade Locks (U P.) Lou C. Herrion, about 38, pilot of an In- and Navigation company air plane, hurtled to his death in his crippled craft on the banks of the Columbia rver near here last night. Witnesses said the plane plowed into a bluff overlooking Highway 30, glanced off and struck the earth about four feet from the edge of the highway, then bounced over utility lines and railroad tracks before final ly coming to rest on the edge of the river. two youngsters gave each of their parents a bear hug and tien reported that "the cat had three kittens in the doll car riage." Acting Not Necessary Nixon, beaming, told photo graphers snapping the happy re union that "we don't have to act this one." Nixon, who traveled a total of 18,000 miles by air and 1,100 more by automobile, was met by Acting Secretary of State Chris tian A. Herter; Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and members of the diplomatic corps.