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9 r3 to I. 51st Year Etcemmended Subscribers To report Improper or non-deliv cry of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone 2-6141. Ashland 2-1021 Yreka 841W before 6:45 djo. dally and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. FORD 1RIBU A feature story aboot brant and bH libraries In Jackson county appears on pags 12 of today's Mall Tribune. United Press Full Leased Win United iVire 34 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1957 No. 311 Med Split Develops in Offer by U. S. to Join Baghdad Pact Ivuia, Igypt Are Reported Irate London (U.K A three-way Cfplit developed Saturday over trio Unite States' offer to join cft Bhxndad pact a a military cUtrrber in tit "common cause" OPlaUisk Communism. Xwfun and Igypt were irate. ft8& upset. The Western (P&mrt. particularly the pact Mfts'Ars, are all for it. $ntd 9uree in New Del hi m ie) the. Mutralist govern m9 of Prim Minister Jawa harfeal Nhru i "disturbed" and will sk 'ashingt8B for clarifi (tiMi at the move. tahru conferred informally wil the cabinet on the Ameri ca iecision. Indian officials Hgif th American action will -ntra Pakistan, a pact mem be, ia its dispute with India ov er Kashmir. Ttea United States, however, hj asprcssly limited its pact maalrship to military defense are and not to "intra-area" malVR uch s th Kashmir qufl. t,mti IM Miarow. diplomats said the 4iMt attitude wai one of anger. Vint reaction was expected. Ta Soviet Tass News agency report decision only brief-lj- &im indication of Soviet de ne;erirs to come was includ M is Saturday's issue of the fveemrnt newspaper Izvestia. It iritoued the conference of rrint Eisenhower and Brit ish reign Minister Harold HljWIin t Bermuda and charm that the "Baghdad mili tary 1 was dictated only by Anzla-Anrrican desire to weak en trm generally or destroy the National Liberation movement (of the - Arabs) in the Middle East." The Pakistan foreign office SelcomaS the pact membership of the United States, and added that it "would have been still better if the United States had become g full-fledged member." The other pact nations, Brit ain, Iraq. Iran and Turkey, were equally jubilant. Elections Group cAyrees to Change Salem U.R The Senate Flections committee headed by Sen. Lee Ohmart, Salem Repub lican, agreed Friday to change the basis for increasing the membership of the Senate to 31 and the membership of the House to 61. Previously, the proposal was to create a new Douglas-Jackson county joint district for both House and Senate. Under the new proposal, the new Senate and House district would be bas ed on population as shown in the 1960 federal census. The measure is still in com mittee. Should it be passed by Senate and House, it would be referred to the people at the 1958 general election because it would involve a change in the state constitution. 9he purpose of adding a mem ber to each House, is to prevent a recurrence of such a deadlock as hd the Senate split 15 Re publicans to 15 Democrats for the firt srveral days of this ses sion over election of the Senate presictont. 4 Itn for four-yeaf terms for ?gt xBKwemtatives was tabled by km t tee. Morse Says School legislation Vital "Washington U.R) Sen. tTayn L. Morse (D-Ore.) said lut hint that the United States "ca&fiflt etford to fall behind the (Communist world in science ta4 1& Industrial techniques." JI aid in his weekly radio re port tor Oregxm stations that r"tiaue) tn close of the Second Wortd War. Russia has instituted fpecdup in the training of sci entists tnd engineers to the ex- (Knt tHor the Soviet Union is ' technological progress 1t ttitajtrifs our own in many " O iit wt S it should be a warn-ir- xb tho United States must do to expand educational faciDCr "b passage without de lay tr n acVquate school con strue! t bill." Mora said the legislation is vital Wilt "the utilization of Amerun brainpower is an es sential aspect of our national security." Evidence Shows Beck Took $270,000 From Treasury of His Union Washington (U.R) Chair man John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) of the senate rackets investigat ing committee said Saturday that $270,000 which Teamster Union Dave Beck "took" from his union's treasury was neither a loan nor a gift. But McClellan declined, un der questioning by reporters, to say just how Beck's transaction should be characterized. McClellan was asked whether he suspects that misappapropri ation of funds was involved and if so, whether Washington State laws on larceny might apply to it. The Washington statute was read at the committee's hearings last week. Engages Interest McClellan replied that such a possibility "engages the interest and attention of the committee." As to a legal inquiry, he noted that "theft, misappropriation or embezzlement" is a felony un der the laws of most states. Committee counsel Robert F Kennedy said the committee has "evidence to show" that Beck took the $270,000 even if Beck refuses to produce his personal financial records when he testi fies at a hearing Tuesday. Beck is due here from Seattle tonight. He has stated that he "borrowed" and repaid without interest some $300,000 to $400. 000 of union funds. During, his news conference Saturday McClellan also dis closed: That the committee has re ceived a number of protests from rank and file trades union mem bers alleging mismanagement and misuse o funds in various unions. Study Needed Laws That he has ordered the committee's legal staff to study what legislation "will be neces sary or "desirable" to insure "democratic processes" and to prevent "dissipation, misappro priation or any improper use" of UJiion dues. That the committee has no plans to talk with Beck before his scheduled appearance Tues day. He said he has heard noth ing from Beck since the teamster president confirmed he would appear with the records. At that time. Beck failed to specify whether he would turn the rec ords over to the committee. . He hinted he might take refuge in the fifth amendment depending on how the records were used. Testimony by a committee ac countant disclosed Friday that Beck repaid the $270,000 from union funds in three installments in 1954 when federal tax agents were on his trail. The account ant. Carmine S. Bellino, said there was no record in the un ion books that a loan ever had been made to Beck. Principal Wilnesi McClellan commented that Frank W. Brewster, president of the Western conference of team sters, was the principal commit tee witness at the session which heard the testimony on the $270, 000. . Brewster, McClellan said, was then the secretary-treasurer of Support Mounts for Atoms-for-PeacePlan Washington (U.R) Support mounted Saturday for a move to have President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace program consid ered jointly by the Senate For eign Relations committee and Senate members of the House Senate atomic energy committee. The plan, criginally advanced in 1953. has been approved by 80 nations, including Soviet Russia. Senate ratification is necessary because of its treaty aspects. Sen. Bounce B Hickenlooper (R-Ia ). ranking senator on the joint atomic energy group, said he thought be hearings should be held jointly. Weather FORECAST Thickening cloudiness thin morning. Rain beginning about noon, contin uing through this evening, in termittent rain and cooler Mon dav. Gusty southerly winds to riav. Mich tndav 45. low tonight 3 V hirh Mmdav 48. TEMPERA Tt'RFS Highest Yesterda 57 Lowest Yesterday 32 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:09 a.m. 4:? p.m. 3:03 a.m. Sunset Moon rise Monday. SATU RN rises 12:40 a.m. and is now about 894 million miles from the Earth. Tonight this ringed planet begins a slw westward m At ion among the uar that will continue until August. the conference "whose duty or responsibility it was to know if any loan was made." But Brew ster, McClellan addod, said he did not know of the transactions until the money was repaid. A telegram from 502 teamster members in Portland, Ore., focal point of the committee's four week hearings, expressing "full accord" with the investigation and urging removal from office of teamster officials found guilty of "racketeering ' or misuse of union funds." Jacksonville Girl Wounded Friday In Gun Accident A 19-year-old baby sitter, Joy Dahl, route 1, box 48C, Jackson ville, was reported in "critical" condition at Rogue Valley hos pital Saturday as the result of a gunshot wound. Police said she apparently suf fered the wound while dusting furniture in a bedroom at the Joseph A. Dccnin residence, 415 Edwards St., Medford, Friday afternoon. City police were dispatched to the Dccnin residence at 3:45 p.m. Friday, after a telephone operator reported an unidenti fied woman said she had been shot and asked for help. Officers found the girl suffer ing from an abdominal wound apparently inflicted by a 30-30 caliber rifle, which was lying nearby. Police administered first aid while awaiting arrival of the Mcdord Ambulance service. OXCiccrs quoted. Miss. Da 111 as saying she was attempting to move the gun from a stand in a corner of the bedroom when the weapon discharged. She said she then crawled to the tele phone and asked for help. Mr. and Mrs. Dccnin were not home at the time the shot was fired and their two children were watching television in another room. The children said they did not hear the shot. The Dcenins told police the girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dahl, has been working for them since last July and had been staying in their home for the past two weeks. Dccnin said he believed the gun had been left unloaded since he went deer hunting last season. Police said the bullet entered Miss Dahl's body through the left side of her abdomen and de flected through her back. She underwent surgery for about two hours and reportedly spent a "bad night" Friday. Officers are continuing the investigation. Whittaker May Take His Oath Monday Washington U.R) Feder al Judge Charles Evans Whittak er of Kansas City, Mo., expects to take his oath as an' associate justice of the supreme court Monday if his presidential com mission is delivered by then. Whittaker, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the eighth circuit, was named to the su preme court by President Eisen hower March 2. He succeeds Stanley F. Reed who retired last month. Whittaker, a Republican, mak es the new high court political lineup five Democrats and four Republicans. Repealing Withholding Salem (U.R) The House tax ation commniee Friday consider ed the rever-e side of the state withholding tax picture in dis cussing a bill to repeal with holding of stte income taxes. Previously the committee con sidered two hills for more com plete withholding on taxes. No action on any of the meas ures has been taken. Rep. Robert Bennett, Portland Republican ?nd a,sponsor of the repealer bill, said he felt every citizen should have the right to use his tax money until it was due rather than have it withheld from his pay check. Reduce Cost Rep. Fayette Bristol. Grants Pass Republican who also spon sored the. b'll said he felt it would reduce the cost of govern ment because when citizens saw what they were actually paying in taxes they would demand few er services fr-.m government. Bennett told the committee Overall Results of Bermuda Meeting Said 'Gratifying' President, Macmillan Meet in Final Session Tucker's Town, Bermuda .U.R) President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan tackled dis agree ments over how best to defend Europe at the final sessions of their summit conference here Saturday. . British sources at the secret nree-day meetings said the Chief -Executives were cordial but did not see completely eye to eye on joint defense of Europe against Soviet aggression, particularly on methods of withdrawing Brit ish troops from Germany for rea sons of economy. However, the White House em phasized the cverall "gratifying" results of the conference. A fin al communique was being draft ed for Mr. Eisenhower and Mac millan to approve after a fare well dinner last night. The Presi dent will be host at the dinner in the mid ocean club. Distance Apart As the two chief executives went into their last intermittent sessions Saturday, British sourc es reported them still some dist ance apart on the most effective method of defending Europe. Britain has been swinging to a complete nuclear defense ap proach. Against NATO advice, placing reliability less on man power and almost entirely on nu clear weapons and guided mis siles. It was reported that the final communique being thrashed out by Secretary of State John Fost er Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Sclwyn Lloyd was de layed because of the argument. Defense officials, including U. S Secretary Donald A. Quarlcs attended a separate defense ses sion which continued over from Friday. Dulles and Lloyds also attended, but the President and the Prime Minister did not. Com plete secrecy was maintained at the defense discussion. Search lor Plane In Sea Continues Johnson Air Force Base, Ja pan (U.R) One of the biggest air-sea searches in history enter ed its third day today for a U.S. C-97 military transport plane which went down in the Pacific Friday with 67 Americans aboard. Hope rapidly diminished that any of the plane's 57 passengers and 10 crew members would be fould alive, but an air force spok esman said the search will con tinue "until every scrap of infor mation has been checked out." More than ' 60 planes were scheduled to hunt th" Pacific area southeast of Japan today for any trace of the wreckage or sur vivors. Sixty-seven aircraft par ticipated in the search yesterday. Four planes criss-cro .ed over the ocean throughout the night, and five Japanese coast guard patrol boats also kept a close watch below. Philippine Government Changes Hand Smoothly Manila U.R) The young Republic of the Philippines changes presidents for the third time in its 10-year history last week. It made the change sadly but smoothly. The nation of 22 million was grief-stricken at the loss of its popular 49-year-old President Ramon Magsaysay, killed in an air crash last Sunday and buried in a state funeral Friday. money would be saved by re ducing the number of tax em ployees working on withholding. Bert Scags of the Oregon Education association said his organization opposed the bill be cause it would force teachers to make large l':mp-sum payments of taxes. "Some teachers are having to borrow S150 to $200 a year to pay their .tate taxes now," Scaggs said He said he wanted more adequ.v.e withholding rath er than less. Rep Wayne Giesy, Monroe Re publican, observed that some people preferred withholding because it was easy, but that making things easy wasn't neces sarily producing better citizens. However, Rep. Vernon Cook, Gresham Democrat, said he felt saving money in order to pay taxes was not necessarily the way to build moral character. Also Considered Also considered by the com Egypt to Propose Users Association For Suez Canal Nasser Outlines Plan to Hammerskjold Cairo (U.R) Egypt will propose a Suez canal "users as sociation" composed of interest ed private firms instead of west ern governments to help plan the development of the strate gic waterway, informed sources said Saturday. The sources said Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser outlined the detailed plan -for operating the canal to United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold at their meeting yesterday. The sources said Egypt is not willing to accept a "users' asso ciation" of governments as pro posed by the West during canal talks last fall. The Western "Suez canal users association" has 14 governments as members and maintains a headquarters in London. Private Interests The users' association favored by Egypt must be composed of private interests such as ship ping companies and oil firms who use he canal, the sources said. Egypt'would pledge in writing to set aside a certain percentage of tolls for developing the ca nal," the sources addod. Disclosure of : the Egyptian plan came as the Egyptian Suez Canal Authority announced that ships up to 2,500 tons could use the waterway starting today. The previous limit was 2,000 tons. The canal is scheduled to be cleared to all traffic in about three weeks. At the same time, informed sources said Egypt is planning to dredge another channel in the canal to permit two-way traffic under an expansion plan, nearly completed. The sources said however, that "insulating" the canal does not mean allowing Israeli ships to pass through it. Nasser has al ready indicated that Egypt is still in a state of war with Is rael and therefore will not per mit such transit of Israeli ship ping. Egypt Charges Israel Changed Gaza Border Gaza (U.R) An Egyptian gov ernment representative charged Saturday that Israel shifted its frontier line as much as ZOU yards into the Gaza Strip during the three-month Israeli occupa tion of the territory. The accusation was made by Maj. Maher Osmen, Egypt's rep resentative on the mixed armis tice commission that considers border violations affecting the two countries. Osman said Israeli occupation troops had pushed Egyptian Israeli demarcation line between 100 and 200 yards inside the Gaza sector, changing its former course. The line fs marked by a deep furrow, dug by a tractor on the northern and eastern sides of the Gaza Strip. Discussed mittee was House bill 481 which advances three months the dates of budgeting, levying and paying of property taxes to aid the fin ancial administration of the counties, school districts and other local taxing districts. Wayne La Farge, Clackamas county treasurer, said the treas urers favored the bill because as the tax collection system now operates, cojnties are often forced to boTow money to op erate on between July 1 when the fiscal year starts and Nov. 15 when property taxes are due. The bill opposed by the Association c f Oregon counties because they believe it would not provide time enough to get out assessment rolls and assess property in an orderly fashion. Numerous changes in Oregon statutes would have to be made in order to bring about the change. It would mean that property taxes would be due Aug. 15 instead of Nov. 15. "Grandma, What Big a Roosevelt Memorial Dinner Vill Be Held At McLoughiin School The seventh annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner, S a tu r day, April 27, with Michigan Gov. G. Mcnnen Williams as guest speaker, will be held at Mc Loushlin Junior Migh school in stead of Hedrick Junior High school as previously announced. The changfi in plans was nec essary because of prior commit ment to another organization for use of Hedrick kitchen facilities that date, according to Dem ocratic Chauman Larry Shee han. Gov. Robert D Holmes, whose personal invitation to the Mich igan governor is responsible for his being scheduled here as Roosevelt Memorial dinner guest speaker, will be on hand to in troduce Gov. Williams. He will be accompanied here by Mrs. Holmes and other prominent state and party leaders. Special Invitation Rep. Char-es O. Porter, who will be in Medford attending a federal hearing the same week, has been sent a special invitation to attend th dinner, Sheehan said. Memorial committee chairmen and -ochairrren have been asked by Sheehan to meet at the Ed ward C. Kelly home, 906 West Industry Workers Strike in England London (U.R) One million engineering industry workers went on strike Saturday and un ion officials threatened to pull another two million off their jobs unless wage demands are met. The engineering walkout which affected Britain's key air craft industry occurred as hopes were raised for a speedy settle ment of a week-old strike by 200.000 shipyard workers. The threat of a railroad strike by the 400,000-member Union of Railwaymen was averted Friday night when the nationalized British Transport commission agreed to a five per cent wage hike. Both 'engineering and ship yard workers have demanded a 10 per cent wage increase. A break in the shipyard stalemate was reached Friday night and both sides were believed closer to a settlement. Talks will be resumed Monday. 13-Year-Od Drowns in Sandy River Saturday Sandy (U.R) A -3-year-old youth. Gene Morris Rutledge, drowned in the Sandy river Sat urday while fishing with a broth er. Clackamas county deputy Dur wood Thomas said the boy, son of Mrs. and Mrs. Theron Rut ledge, of Sandy fell ifilo the wa ter near Revenue bridge about 2'i miles north of "here. The body was recovered. i Teeth You Have" Fourth st. at 7:30 p.m. Monday I to coordinatejglans forlhe. din ner. They include Mrs. George A. Watson and Mrs. Larry Sheehan, cochairmen or foods; James Red den and William A. Deatherage, cochairmen of ticket sales; Clyde Fichtner and Marvin Madden, cochairmen of reception and serving committee; Mrs. Moore Haimlton, chairmanof arrange ments; Mrs. Stan Zapell. pro gram chairman, and Mrs. Marvin Madden, decoration chairman. Leaders Agree to Aid for Poland Washington U.R) - Presi dent Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmil lan have agreed in Bermuda that a modest amount of economic aid should be supplied to Com munist Poland, informed sources said Saturday. A final decision on the size of American assistants may be made this week after Secretary of State John Foster Dulles re turns from Bermuda. A team of Polish negotiators now meeting with U.S. officials had asked the United States for commitments totaling $300 mil lion. This would include $200 million to finance surplus farm products, chiefly cotton and wheat, and another $100 million for coal mining and farm ma chinery. The United States wants to help Poland to keep her on a course independent of Moscow. But American officials have not been thinking of supplying any thing like $300 million. Informed sources said the total aid likely to be made available is about $50 million. Nixon Being Treated For Attack of Flu Washington U.P.) Vice president Richard M. Nixon, tir ed and ill after his 22-day Afri can tour, was being treated for influenza Saturday at Walter Reed Medical'center. He was running a tempera ture of 102 degrees when he en tered the hospital last night. But the fever had lessened consider ably yesterday, and he left the hospital although against doc tor's advice long enough to attend two official functions. The 44-year-old vice presi dent's condition was not consid ered serious. He planned to re main in the hospital today and hoped to resume his normal du ties Monday. San Francisco (U.R) Mat son Navigation company has an nounced the liner Matsonia, scheduled to enter the Pacific passenger trade in" June, will make a special Easter cruise from Seattle to Honolulu in 1953. ME Damage Expected To Reach Millions; Worst Since 1906 Temblors Taken in Stride by Residents San Francisco (U.R) San Francisco residents rode out the continuing aftershocks of their worst earthquake since 1906 Saturday with a patient calm that replaced Friday's shaky pani; sometime during the night. The aftershocks continued to rock the city for more than 24 hours and seismologists said more could be expected. Almost miraculously there were no serious injuries from the series which was capped by a 5.5 magnitude quake at 11:45 a.m. PST Friday. Property dam age was in the millions but was mostly on a minor nature and so widespread that it would be weeks before an accurate figure could be determined. Worst Since 1S0G The "big shake" Friday morn ing was the worst felt here since the 1906 quake set off a fire that levelled the city. That quake had an estimated magni tude of 8.25 on the Richter scale. San Franciscans were admit tedly scared by the big shock and by some of the more stern of the following temblors Friday afternoon. But by Saturday, -when -the total of shakes recistered on the University of. California seismo graph had pissed the 60 mark, the shocks were being taken in stride and hd become merely a topic of conversation. Dr. Perry Pyerly, head of the University ot California seism ology laboratory in Berkeley, pointed out t!?at the aftershocks were coming with less frequency than they did Friday and "prob ably will continue to taper off." The 1906 earthquake, which killed 452 and did a half billion dollars worth pf damage, started a fire that swept the city and caused much damage. Friday's big quake was follow ed by a few minor fires, all quickly extinguished, which might have been attributed to the temblor. Fi'e chief William Murray said that he knew of only one small blaze that was a direct resul of the shake, how ever. An aftershock of 4.25 magni tude at 12:15 Saturday was fol lowed by an apartment house blaze that sent 50 residents run ning into the streets in Iheir nightclolhes. Firemen had the flames, which shot 100 feet into the air, under control within 20 minutes and there were no in juries. Cause of the fire was listed as "undetermined" but police said that the timing of the blaze in dicated that it might very well have been caused by the sharp aftershock. Vienna U.R) A Commu nist Hungarian Kangaroo court has sentenced three freedom fighters to death, it was announc ed Saturday. Sports Bulletins Kansas City (U.R) North Carolina won the National NCAA championship in three overtimes last night, 54 to 53, over Kansas when Joe Quigg blocked a last second pass to Wilt Chamberlain on the post. It was the first time a na tional championship gam went into overtime, much less three extra periods. The score was tied, 48-46. at the end of the first overtime. Neither learn scored during the second overtime. Quigg scored the winning point when he hit two free throws with six seconds left in the third overtime. Then his one-hand block kept Chamber- lain from attempting a shot in the last five seconds. Dick Lopez, Medford, scored a technical knockout over sub stitute opponent Jim Corwin, Ashland, at 1:13 of the third round in the heavyweight main event of the Police Ath letic league fight card here last night. In the semi-windup Willy Ira, Portland, decision ed Larry Lewis, Medford. Den ny Moyer, Portland, won by a unanimous decision over Johnny Green, Roseburg, in the special event.
