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hi is Throu gh Postal Official Believes Congress Will Give Money Summerfield Said Not Bluffing on Cut Washington U.R) Postmas ter General Arthur E. Summer field feels "very confident" that Congress will meet his demands for an extra S47 million to head off drastic cuts in postal serv ices. He said he is "not bluffing" about his order sent to post of fices across the country to begin cutting down on mail deliveries and to keep their windows closed on Saturdays, beginning April 13. Summerfield said he has been assured that if the House acts . on his request this week, the Senate Appropriations commit tee and the full Senate are set to move swiftly on it. anti Full Amount The postal chief said that he ould not settle for any less than his full request for $47 iillion. He threatened the cuts after O House Appropriations subcom ittee last week cut his request tO $17. But he postponed them 3jr a week they were to have 00ne into effect last Saturday Otfter the full committee agreed OO take up the matter next Fri &y. ,'Sailed to Act on Tim Summerfield said the present crisis was brought on because o&ie appropriations committee foiled to act in time. He said he (bad told Congress in January Ohat his department needed $53 jpillion to tide it over until July ' & because of mounting mail de mands. He was reminded that the QJudget bureau did not pass along his request until mid ilarch. He replied that the bu reau had a "little too much toope" that postal expenses would drop and that it delayed ipnger than he wanted. egatfa Visitor "Dies in Motel Here A 26-year-old Brookuigs, man, who was to participate in the Western Speedboat association regatta at Emigrant lake Sun flay, died in a local motel Sat urday night, according to city (police. Death of Donald Lee Vaughn, proprietor of the Highway mar ket, Brookings, was apparently ft-om natural causes, according to County Coroner Carlos JJorris. Vaughn's death was reported to city police about 12:40 a.m. Sunday by Thomas Ralph Dent, Brookings, who was staying with him at Pulver's motel, 1237 North Riverside ave., Medford. Both were in Medford to parti cipate in the regatta, police said. Dent told police Vaughn went to bed earlier Saturday evening after complaining of feeling sick, officers reported. Vaughn's body is being taken to Crescent City, Calif., today by Conger Morris funeral home for services and interment. Douglas McKay Visits Oregon State Senate Salem U.R) Former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay re turned to the state Senate for a visit todaj. McKay, who was a state sena tor before he became governor of Oregon, walked with a cane. He had been using crutches for several weeks following a feroken kneecap suffered in a jjill at his home while carrying luggage from his car. Washington U.R Secre tary of Irtrior Fred A. Seaton is reported "progressing satis factorily" at the Ar-ny's Walter Reed Medical Center. Neuberger Defends Ike's Helicopter Transportation Washington (U.R) A Demo cratic senator has sprung to the defense of President Eisenhower for planning to use helicopter transportation. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) scolded critics who have complained about the cost of helicopters, automobiles and other White House expenses. He labelled such complaints "mere demagoguery." Protests Received ' Neuberger, who previously has twitted Eisenhower about high speed presidential motor cades and for trying to shoo squirrels from his putting green on the White House lawn, said he has been receiving protests about the President's transporta tion to his golf club. "Do people expect Mr. Eisen hower to take a trolley car when - r4yMij yliiiinxiiiWrTiw i-f JUDGE RAWLES MOORE Held Post Since 1950 District Judge Rawles Moore Dies Here After Stroke District Judge R les Moore, 69, Old Stage rd.. Central Point, died at Rogue Valley hospital early today after a sudden ill ness. Judge Moore, who has held that position since its establish ment in 1950, suffered a stroke at his home about 9:15 a.m. Sun day. Born Jan. 2, 1888 in Dyers bury county, Tennessee, he studied law at George Washing ton university in Washington, D. C. He grew up in Princeton, Ky., and was married there on June 28, 1913. He and his wife, Harvey Amoss Moore, came to Jackson county in 1917. Judge Moore established a pri vate law practice in Medford after his arrival here and was elected Jackson county district attorney in 1921. He held that office until 1923, then returned to private law practice. He was elected district judge in 1950 and started his term on Jan. 2, 1951. He was reelected without op ition in the 1956 general election. In Organizations Judge Moore was a member of the Oregon and Jackson County Bar associations, the Democratic party, the Medford Elks lodge and the Rogue Valley Country club. While attending George Washington university, he was affiliated with Delta Tau Delta social fraternity. Survivors include his wife; one son, David A. Moore, a pe troleum geologist living at Casper. Wyo.; and two daugh ters, Mrs. Kenneth R. Beebe, Table Rock rd., Medford, and Mrs. Harvey D. Field Jr., 1525 Terrace drive, Medford. Funeral arrangements at the Chapel Mortuary are pending ar rival of his son. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, those desiring to do so send con tributions to the heart society. Reminder Issued On Tree Planting Residents planting trees were reminded today to plant them at least five feet from the water service line running under ground from the street to the house. Robert Lee. city water super intendent, said roots of trees planted too close to water lines eventually block or otherwise damage the lines. The Medford city council re cently adopted an ordinance al lowing trees to be planted in some sections of Medford. Plant ing of trees is still prohibited in most areas of the city. Lee also said the Hawk water line, running on Wabash ave. from Stevens to Spring sts., will be turned off between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday. Water serv ice will be discontinued tempor arily while fire hydrants are in stalled on Wabash ave. and Spring st., he said. he decides to play a round of golf?" he asked in a weekly newsletter to constituents. Neuberger blamed "irresponsi ble political statements about the $72 billion budget" for com plaints he has been receiving about Eisenhower's personal ex penses. Not Used for Golf These complaints, he said, are "tantamount to some hard press ed British taxpayer grumbling over the royal family. If the throne were totally abolished, taxes in England still would be astronomically high." Eisenhower has never gone to Burning Tree Golf Course by helicopter and became visibly angry when a reporter recently asked him about it. He denied that two recently secured $60, 000 helicopters were procured for that purpose. Dulles Would Make Foreign Aid Part Of Defense Budge Revolving Fund for Economic Aid Loans Washington (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles proposed today that foreign mil itary aid be made a part of the defense budget in the future. Dulles also recommended that a $750 million revolving fund be set up to handle foreign ec onomic aid on a loan basis. The secretary, in testimony, before a special Senate Foreign Aid committee, proposed further that so-called "defense support" indirect military aid be au thorized on a continuing basis. Congress would appropriate money for it annually as it does with other continuing programs. Administration's Answer Dulles' recommendations were viewed as the administration's answer to warnings that the for eign aid program is in real trou ble among congressmen unless the administration comes up with a new approach. The proposed switch of mili tary aid to the defense budget would reduce the size of the foreign assistance bill. But the cut would be added to defense appropriations. The special Senate committee is making an overall long range study of U. S. aid programs over seas. President Eisenhower has not yet formally submitted this year's $4,400,000,000 aid pro gram to Congress. He is expect ed to do so later this month. Long Range Fund Dulles recommended that a long range economic develop ment fund be set up after the fiscal year starting July 1. He said it "might come to reach $750 million a year." The secretary of state oppos ed, however, suggestions that the foreign aid program be re moved from the International Cooperation Administration and placed under the State Depart ment. He said good administra tion "does not require throwing into the Department of State heavy operating responsibil ities." Unless there is a change in the "international climate," Dul les said, direct military aid spending will "need to continue for some years at a" level close to the present." Military aid now runs close to $3 billion a year. Cardinal Segura, Noted Spanish Prelate, Dies Madrid (U.R) Pedro Cardi nal Segura, Spain's most con troversial prelate, died early Monday at the age of 76. He had warred alike on Protestants and politicians but he died "forgiv ing everybody and asking for giveness of everybody." Segura's long and tumultuous clerical life was marked by open clashes with Generalissimo Fran cisco Franco whom he constant ly snubbed, and by differences with others of Catholic church until he dropped from public life in 1954. Heart Weakened The cardinal, Archbishop of Sevilla,- had been suffering for months from a kidney ailment, but his heart and blood circula tion system also were weaken ed. Death had been expected for the past 48 hours and he received the last sacraments on Saturday morning and took communion Sunday. During his career Pedro Car dinal Segura y Saenz, arch bishop Cardinal of Segura, gain ed an international reputation as a bitter enemy of protestantism in Spain where Catholicism is the state religion, and as an equally bitter opponent of Franco's regime. His clashes with the Spanish chief of state were numerous, and he extended his opposition to international accords which he felt would strengthen Franco's position in Spain. Spain's 1953 agreement to provide military bases for the United States drew his fire because he said it would propogate the spread of protes tantism. Youthful Pedestrian Succumbs to Injuries Redmond, Ore. (U.R) Her man Palmer, 15, Warm Springs, died in a local hospital Monday from injuries suffered last Fri day night when struck by a car near Madras. Police said the boy had been at a grocery store and darted across the highway into the path of a car driven by Dorothy Helen Tuckett, Madras. Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower will hold a news conference Wednesday at '7:30 a.m. 52nd Yp- 50 Tornado U.S. Offers To Mothball Weapons In Disarming Step Major Powers Would Follow Under Plan London (U.R) The United States conditionally offered to day to join the other major powers in mothballing 25 per cent of conventional weapons as a first big step towsrd world dis armament. The condition is that a trial cut of 10 per cent in armaments and additional reductions in military manpower first prove in practice that international dis armament will work. Put Before Subcommittee U.S. Delegate Harold Stassen put the new proposal before the United Nations five-power dis armament subcommittee at its 99th session in four years of, work. Stassen already had proposed last month th?t Russia, the United States, Britain, France and Canada start the ball rolling toward disarmament by agree ing to put 10 per cent of all non nuclear weapons in mothballs at "disarmament depots" which U.N. observers would guard. The condition is that a trial cut of 10 per cent in .armaments and additional reductions in military manpower first prove in practice that international dis armament will work.- J. ' " At the same time, according to this first step, the United States and Russia would trim their mili tary manpower to 2.5 million men apiece, with Britain and France cutting to a maximum figure of 750,000 men. Stassen added the new pro posal today that if this test stage works out, another 15, per cent of weapons be put in mothballs under international control. This would add up to an over all cutback of 25 per cent. More Homemade Bombs Reported Discovery of three more home made bombs was reported by Medford residents Sunday, bringing the total to five such bombs found in Medford since last Tuesday, according to Med ford police. Dorothy L. Brown, 1007 Reddy st., Medford, reported to officers Sunday s imeone had thrown a burning homemade bomb into her back yard. The object was made of red plastic and wrapped in black friction tape and white heavy string, police said. Two of the bombs, made out of empty shot-gun shells and wrapped in black friction tape, were found in the street near 315 Haven st., by Robert Dorig, 10, Of 308 Haven st., Medford, according to police. Officers said the bombs were filled with white powder and had six-inch fuses. Police Chief Charles Champ lin said the bombs discovered Sunday were not dangerous. They are believed to be the work of several small boys, Champlin said. He urged resi dents to immediately report any other such instances to the police department. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 479.04, up 1.43; 20 rail roads 145.17, off 0.27: 15 utilities 71.29, off 0.32. and 65 stocks 169.05, up 0.06. Sales Monday were about 1,950,000 shares eompared with 1,830,000 shares Friday. Weather FORECAST: Fair throuth Tues day. Low tonight 38. High Tuesday 70. TEMPERATURE Hi:het yesterday K7 Lowest this morning 3S Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:43 a.m. Sunset 6:45 p.m. Moonset Tuesday 2:28 a.m. Full Moon April 14 PROMINENT STARS The Twins, well north of the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Mercury, sets 7:49 p.m. Mars, sets 10:54 p.m. Jupiter, hieh in south. 10:43 p.m. Saturn, rises l11:4B p.m. Heavy n MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1957 Hits Rural Mississippi; Snow Falls in Plains Area "Really, Cinderella! We're Not Made of Money!" UDooley's Income Tax Plans Gain Support Salem U.R) Gov. Robert D. Holmes today backed up a tax program advocated by House Speaker Pat Dooley. 'But the governor said there would likely be some changes made by the legislature in the program. Dooley, a Democrat, last week said he favored increasing taxes on incomes of about $4,000 to $10,000 to finance a budget of 265 million and at the same time make up for removal of the 45 per cent surtax on incomes. The governor, at a news con ference, also announced that it would be up to the newly-appointed ' State Fair commission what to do about the courtesy resignation submitted last week by Fair Director Leo Spitzbart. Spitzbart told Chairman John H. Travis, Hood River, that he would be glad to remain as di rector until April 15. Commenting on the progress of his legislative program, the First Orchard Heating Necessary Low temperatures Sunday morning forced most Rogue val ley fruit growers to heat their orchards for the first time this season. Temperatures dropped to about 25 degrees in some areas, according to C. B. Cordy, county horticulture agent. Some fruit growers heated their orchards Monday morning, but heating was not as general as on Sunday morning. The county agent said a few dead buds resulted from low temperatures Sunday. Majority of the dead buds were in apricot and peach trees, he said. Cordy stressed that this damage would not be sufficient to reduce the overall crop. 136 Blood Donors Make Appointments By Jjoon today, 136 appoint ments? has been made for the Tuesday visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile in Medford, of ficials reported. Officials said 350 donors will be needed in order to meet the city's 290 pint blood quota. The Bloodmobile unit will be at the Elks club in Medford from 1 to 6.pjn. - Appoinmcnts to donate 'blood may be made by telephoning the Bloodmobile office, Medford 3-3813. Red Cross officials stressed that drop-in donors will be accepted 'tomorrow at the '31oodmobile. Washington U.R The Su preme Court has upheld a $50, 400 damage award made to a Panamanian ship operators by a federal court under Oregon law on grounds of illegal picketing by American union members in Portland. governor said he was well satis fied with Joint Ways and Means committee action on a proposed state development commission. The committee last Friday rec ommended a budget of $286,900 to set up a state department of planning and development to re place the Oregon Development commission. Safe Reported Stolen From Firm . A safe containing a small amount of money, a $30 check made out to cash, and several books of blank checks were re ported stolen some time between Thursday and, 11:30 a.m. Satur day from Skeeters and Skeeters garage, Talent. Eldred R. Colver, an employee of the firm, notified state police of the theft. It was previously re ported that $600 worth of Series E savings bonds and a large check were in the safe, but they were later found by garage em ployees. According to sheriff's depu ties, who were called into the case by state police, the blank checks were personalized checks on the Skeeters and Skeeters garage account. Owners of the firm are Charles L. and R. O. Skeeters, both of Talent. Queen Elizabeth Arrives in Paris Paris (U.R) Queen Eliza beth arrived today to begin an April in Paris visit that inspired the warmest welcome the French have given any royal figure since they guillotined their own Queen Marie Antoinette. The Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, flew in from Lon don, and they found all Paris decked in Britain's national colors. A huge Union Jack flew from the Eiffel Tower, dominating the sunlit city. Smaller British flags fluttered from every city bus, and bunting in .'the British col ors festooned lampposts and store fronts. Elizabeth is the first reigning British Queen who has visited France in 102 years. Klamath Falls Airman Killed in Arizona Phoenix, Ariz. !U.R) Richard Crawford, an 18-year-old airman from Klamath Falls, Ore., was killed Saturday when his auto-mobil- crashed off t' e highway about 30 miles north of Williams Air Force Base where he was stationed. Pendleton U.R) Oregon Parent - Teachers Associations will hold their annual four-day convention here starting tomor row. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 15 Many Ohio Schools Forced To Close Because of Snow Denver Records Lowest Temperature By UNITED PRESS A twister ripped a .rural Mis sissippi community in Dixie's "tornado alley" Monday and storm clouds dumped heavy, wet snow on the Midwest and East. The tornado cut a swath four miles long and a quarter of a mile wide near Tupelo, Miss. It tiestroyed one home, on barn and a machine shop and damaged other homes. Most residents had taken refuge in storm cellars and no one was reported injured. Many Schools Closed A belt of heavy snow fell from Illinois to New York state, and the storm forced many schools to close in Northern Ohio. The snow piled 10 inches deep in Toledo, Ohio, and there was eight inches at Goshen, Irid., six inches in Central Illinois and three inches at Erie, Pa. The Rockies and Western plains states dug out from under as much as a foot of snow left by the third spring snowstorm to hit the area in as many weeks. Weather Cold Winter refused to give ground to spring. The mercury fell to seven' degrees blow zero at F .gle, Colo., and Denver ther mometers registered a frigid nine above, a all time record low for April 8. It was 5 above at Cheyene, Wyo., equalling , a low set in 1875. Freezing temperatures were predicted as far south as Ten nessee tonigljt. The storm swept into Kansas and the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles during the night aft er dumping an average of one foot of new snow in much of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebras ka. Leadville, Colo., with 36 inches of . snow on the . ground, had the heaviest accumulation. Gusts up to 50 miles per hour whipped the snow into giant drifts at Liberal and Jetmore, Kan. The strong winds ripped dust clouds across southeastern New Mexico. Oregon State Fair Budget Gets Approval Salem (U.R) The Oregon Senate today passed and sent to the governor. House bill 45, pro viding a budget of $976,000 in the next biennium for the Ore gon State Fair. Sen. Daniel A. Thiele, Astoria Democrat, said 1 a ways and means subcommittee had exam ined the budget thoroughly and found it sound and said the State Fair has more than paid its way for years under excellent man agement. Leo Spitzhart is man ager of the state fair. Sen. Walter J. Pearson, Port land Democrat, said he thought the Ways and Means Committee should pare the budgets of all so-called self-sustaining agencies, including the State Fair, as close ly as possible and put the rest of the money in the general fund as one step toward solving the state's over-all tax problem. The bill passed with only six dissent ing votes. 3,000 Metal Tradesmen Go On Strike in Portland Area Portland (U.R) Three thousand metal trades workers went on -strike today after wage negotiations broke down. A. E. Bird, secretary of the Metal Trades Council, said boilermakers, machinists, elec tricians, laborers, operating en gineers, painters, warehousemen and automotive engineers were called off the job. Bird said the two-year general contract expired next year and that the dispute was over wages on which talks reopened this year. The union sought a 10-per cent across the board increase as well as a one-year wage agreement Vessel To Sail Despite Warning Of Destruction Salvage Ships Remove Last Canal Obstacle By UNITED PRESS Israeli officials said today they would go ahead with plans to send a test ship through the Suez Canal despite a Cairo warning that any such ship would be "destroyed on the spot." The Egyptian warning was printed in the Cairo weekly Akh bar Elyom and was directed at Israeli ships seeking to use either the Suez Canal or the Gulf of Aqaba. Last Obstacle Removed United Nations salvage vessels removed the Egyptian frigate Abukir, the last obstacle block ing the Suez Canal, from the har bor at Port Suez Monday and started towing it northward to ward the Great Bitter Lakes. Israel still was celebrating the arrival of an American tanker at Eilat this week end, the first American vessel to sail through the Strait of Tiran since Egypt imposed a blockade in 1948. Cargo of Oil The tanker, the 10,000-ton Kern Hills with 16,000 tons of oil, passed through the straits ' without incident and began un loading its oil at Israel's new port of Eilat while the nation celebrated. The Cairo French language newspaper La Bourse Egyptienne warned the United States and Britain that such moves as bring ing in tankers for Israel could endanger their oil supplies. It said the U.S. tanker deal could not have been concluded without Washington's knowledge and that Washington was "thus engaging in a policy whose con sequences can easily be pre dicted." It said the oil for Israel could have come only from Iran or other Persian Gulf Arab states and that the two western powers had "better reckon with the views of the oil producing coun tries of the Middle East." Isrhel Demands Rights Israeli officials expressed cautious hope the passage of the tanker would lead the Arabs to relax their economic boycott but they proceeded with plans to de velop the port city and to build a pipeline to bypass the Suez Canal. Gideon Rafael, Foreign Minis try counsellor and recently special adviser to the U.N. dele gation, confirmed that Israel "would of course send a ship through" the canal. He said it was Israel's right which would be used as a matter of course. Planning Group To Meet Tonight The Medford plannine com mission tonight will consider an amendment to the city zoning ordinance that would permit churches to be constructed in single family (class IA) and two family (class IB) districts. The commission also will con sider a request to rezone prop erty on the east side of Crater Lake highway from Stevens st. to Buckshot Hill rd., and a re quest from the First Church of God, Medford, to rezone 6V4 acres east of Crater Lake ave. and south of Roberts rd. Other commission business will include a request to annex to Medford property located east of Ingrid st. The property is owned by Gilbert Johnson. Dynamite Explosion Breaks School Windows Eugene (U.R) Police Mon day were checking out leads in a dynamite explosion which shat tered 52 windows in the Dunne School here early Sunday. The blast, which police said was reported about 2 a.m., blew a hole five inches deep and about two feet wide in a gravel park ing lot adjacent to the school. Authorities said the explosion was believed the work of prank sters. in place of the two-year wage pact which expired April 1. Bird said the wage hike asked would range from 20 to 30 cents an hour, depending upon job classi fication. Last week some 1800 metal workers struck in Seattle in a similar dispute. Ready for Long Strike Bird said if the strike is a long one ". . . and we figured it might be we are ready." An employer spokesman said employers would meet this after noon to discuss developments. "We may have an important an nouncement following our meet ing," be said.
