on 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
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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.
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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.
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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.