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i Past Crisis. ludgrt::ehief ri 52nd Year Medford Unittd Press Full Lused Wir 26 Pages NORMAia- CB i Eastland, Jenner 'Say Information Confirmed by FBI Transcript Cleared For Publication Washington (UP.) The Demo cratic chairman and a Republi can member of the Senate Inter nal Security Subcommittee said today that the State Department had checked with the FBI and "corroborated the truth" of sub committee information linking a Canadian diplomat with Com munism. They asserted also that the State . Depaitment "cleared for publication" the transcript of a hearing last month at which old subcommittee charges were re vived and aired again. Phoned To Press The statement was made by Sens. James O. Eastland (D Miss.), chairman of the subcom mittee, and William E. Jenner (R-Ind.). It was telephoned this morning to press associations by a subcommittee staff member, Later, the subcommittee ask ed that the statement be with drawn but one of the press as sociations tnot the United Press) already had sent it out on its wires and refused to withdraw it Eastland gave this explanation of wanting the statement pulled back: He saidthatjt was. originally prepared weanesaay ior release Wednesday night but that in the meantime President Eisenhower commented on the Norman case, at his weekly news .conference. Eisenhower said that it was 'hoped that the thing can now be dropped." "He (Eisenhower) said it ought to be dropped and we killed it (the statement)," Eastland told the United Press. FBI Remains Silent The State Department had no immediate comment but said it would issue a statement later, The FBI declined comment. The diplomat, E. Herbert Nor man, committed suicide last, Thursday in Cairo where he was serving as Canadian ambassador to Egypt. Canadians attributed his act in part to the subcom mittee's action in publishing charges which the Canadian gov ernment said it had disproved in 1951. ' Angry Canadian reaction to the incident Reached a climax Wednesday. The Canadian gov ernment said in a note that it no longer will supt-ly security information to the U.S. govern ment unless it receives a guar antee the information will not v be given to congressional com mittees without Canada's ad vance consent. President Eisenhower at his news conference and Acting Sec retary of State Christian A. Her ter in a formal note to Canada disclaimed responsibility for the subcommittee's publication of the controversial transcript. Blame State Department Today, however, in the state ment which they tried to with draw, Eastland and Jenner re torted in a joint statement that "the State Department did not and - could not disclaim" the Senate group's -rtion. - The Canadian note angrily de mandec. guarantees that any se curity information supplied to this government be kept out of congressional hands without Canada's consent. Company Formed To Explore Josephine Nickel Deposits Cave Junction (U.R) John H. White Jr., president of Chemi cal Metallurgical Inc., Salt Lake City, announced Wednesday for mation of the Nickel Corporation of America for the purpose of exploring and developing nickel deposits in Josephine county. The Salt Lake firm has been joined in the enterprise by New Delhi Ltd., Toronto, Canada. Lionel Simard, of the Canadian firm of Simard & Knight, will be in charge of exploring and drilling operations to be started in the mountain area adjacent MEDFORD, ORF' mm mm Chlorine Fumes Rout Over 1.000 Ellwood City, Pa-. (U.R) A chlorine tank car parked at a phemical plant in nearby Frisco sprang a leak early today send ing green clouds of deadly gas billowing over a mile-square area. Thirty nine persons were treated for gas poisoning at Ell wood City hospital. A score of other residents jammed Ellwood City physicans' offices. More than 1,000 persons were routed from their homes until the choking fumes were dispers ed. The leak in the railroad tanker, parked on a siding at President Requests New Airways Board Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower asked Congress today for a new, independent "airways modernization board" to solve the growing menace of air collisions. The plan promptly collided with a Democratic charge that it does not go far enough. Eisenhower called for estab lishment of a three-man board which would coordinate all civil and military research on the na tion's air traffic control prob lem. It would .be .composed of i two representatives from the De- Checks Received For Flood Damage The Jackson county court to day received two checks, total ing $28,186.62, from the Oregon Civil Defense agency as pay ment for damages to the county roads and bridges in the Decem ber, 1955 flood. . The checks represent 75 per cent payment toward total esti mates made in two surveys here by Civil Defense officials. One check for $25,417.62 is payment toward the $33,890.17 estimate of damages made in a survey designated as project 16. The other check for $2,769.11 is payment toward the $3,692.15 estimate of damages made in a survey designated as project 61 and 62-A. The payments were author ized by the Federal Civil De fense agency on April 14, 1956, and August 31, 1956. Final pay ments will be made at a later date, members of the county court said. The court had originally esti mated flood damage to county installations at $250,000. It was learned later that much of this damage did not come under Ci vil defense aid requirements. Weather FORECAST Cloudy tonight, Showers Friday. Outlook for Saturday showery. Low to night 45. High Friday 60. Highest Yesterday 59 Lowest This Morning 42 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:38 a.m. Sunset :48 p.m. The Moon rises well before sunset and sets Friday 4:18 a.m. In Perigee, it is 226.100 miles from the Earth tonight. Mercury, low in west in the evening twilight is about 93 million miles from the Earth tonight. to the Illinois river valley in southwest Josephine county near here. White said his company had assays of more than 1,000 sam ples of ore and that they have all been satisfactory. The pres ent exploration, which will take three to four months, will de termine the future of a process ing plant which might be in stalled later. "If the final test proves as we hope, the installation in the Illinois valley will be equal to these of the Hanna Co., at Rid dle," White said. 1957 CLARED to releas the Ellwood City Chemical Co., was discovered after a man and wife, ill from the fumes, stum bled into police headquarters. Firemen, wearing masks to protect them from the World War I type gas, went to the scene. They went from house to house waking residents. In some cases they were forced to break down doors. Daniel Pelloni, one of the owners of the plant, dashed in to a concentration of the gas, climbed to the top of the car, and closed a faulty valve with a pipe wrench. He suffered a severe hand burn. fense and Commerce depart ments and headed by a chair man appointed by the President. But Sen. A. S. Mike Monron ey (D-Okla.), said such a board "invites delay, dissension and compromise." "The emergency is too great and requires immediate action,"' Monroney said. "I doubt the wis dom of a three-man board as proposed by the President." Monroney, whose Senate In terstate Commerce Subcommit tee will hold hearings on the proposal, said he fears the board organization as proposed by the White Hous? lacks sufficient au thority. "Its scientific goals are ad mirable," Monroney added, "but such a board must be given the power to order civil and mili tary aviation officials to put its recommendations into effect. It should be run by one man, not three. The three-man set-up just invites delay, dissension and compromise " Eisenhower's plan went to Capital Hill in the form, of a special interim report by Ed ward P. Curtis, chief of the President's aviation facilities planning group established in March, 1956 Around May 1, Curtis will issue a comprehensive blueprint for overhauling the present air traffic control system. His inter im report contained only one specific recommendation the airways modernization board. Education Conclave In Final Session San Francisco (U.R) The Western Regional Conference on Education moved intd its final session today as western educa tors, governors and laymen made plans for a tremendous influx of college students during the next decade. Tracy E. Strevey, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California, told the group . that in dealing with stu dents, "We are dealing with our most important resource. "It is our youth the oncom ing generations of young people who are currently progressing through our schools who in their day will determine the destiny of r.ur country and prob ably that of the world," he said President O. Meredith Wilson of the University of Oregon was scheduled to speak later in the day, and Utah Gov. George D. Clyde will deliver the closing address tonight. Air Force Calls for Bids at Camp Adair Portland (U.R) The Air Force has announced it will re ceive bids May 2 for construc tion of a sage defense facility at Camp Adaii, near Albany. Plans have been issued to six selected contractors. Tne project win include a four-story central building and a two-story powerhouse. Both buildings will be reinforced con crete with insulated built-up roofs. ' Other facilities will include paved access roads, fencing, tow ers, tanks, boilers, generators and accessory utilities and simi lar work. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 18 Witnesses Testify Langley Failed To Stop Gambling ' District Attorney at Fund-Raising Party Portland iU.R) Portland racketeer James B. (Big Jim) Elkins testified today that Multnomah County District Attorney William Langley took a share of the proceeds from a private gambling party at a Portland nightclub Feb. 25, 1955. Under direct examination, Elkins said Langley had pro tested that his share of the gambling proceeds was "a pid dling amount." ' Portland (U.R) The state called more witnesses today to back up its charges that District Attorney William Langley fail ed to prosecut gambling at a 1955 fund-raising party. . " The state called nine witness es Wednesday at Langley's trial on the misdemeanor charge and indicated it may rest its case to day. Special Presecutor Elliott Cummins told the jury of six men and six women that Lang ley saw illegal gambling going on at a party of the Portland Paint, Lacquer and Varnish Dealers Association. He said the district attorney, who also is un der indictment on several other counts, failed to move to prevent it or prosecute any of the opera tors. Defense Attorneys K. C. Tan ner and Richard R. Carney claimed Langley could not pros ecute under the law because the statute said violation does not apply to charity fund-raising. The state said high dice and blackjack were in operation at the party. William B. Nettleton testified he installed two dice and three "21" tables at the party and that he obtained them from racketeer James B. Elkins who he said bankrolled the opera tion. Nettleton testified he saw Langley "out in the foyer, part of the cocktail lounge, sitting at a table with a man and a lady . . . perhaps five minutes." Net tleton said he now lives at Wa pato, Wash. Other witnesses told of see ing gambling at the party. Joe Hennessy, a former as sociate of Nettleton, said he helped get the gambling tables ready. Hennessy denied he ever said he saw Langley at the par ty. Meanwhile, the county grand jury went back into session to day after taking Wednesday off. In Federal Court a hearing continued on a motion by Elk ins and Raymond Clark to sup press evidence the government plans to use against them in a case accusing them of illegal wiretapping. The hearing might last until the eve of their trial, scheduled to start at 10 a. m. next Tuesday. Woods Employees Idle at Coos Bay, Coos Bay U.R More than 400 woods employees of Weyer haeuser Timber Company re fused to go to work today after a dispute . over working hours of a nine-man boom crew. The employees work at Alle gany in Coos county and are members of local 2562 of the AFL-CIO Lumber an " Sawmill Workers Union. President Max Barber of the local said the company tried to split up the hoars .o have four men go to work at 7 a.m. and five at 11 ajn. The crew had been working with seven men going to work at 8 a.m. He said that when they, showed up this morning the company refused to let them work unless they split off. A. O. Karlen, general man ager f' the Coos Bay branch of Weyerhaeuser, said the busses took the men out and then brought them back when they refused to work. Tulsa, Okla. (U.R) W. G. Skelly, pioneer oilman and board chairman of Skelly Oil Co., died today. ' . - Saudi Arabia To Fire on Israeli Ships in Aqaba Formal Protest Against Tanker Filed By UNITED PRESS A Cairo newspaper said today King Saud of Saudi Arabia had warned Israel that Saudi artil lery will open fire on any Israeli ship trying to pass through the Gulf of Aqaba. The warn)ng was reported by the independent newspaper Al Ahram which also said Saudi Arabia and. Egypt had protested formally to the United States against passage of an American tanker through the gulf to an Israeli port. At the same time an Egyptian spokesman said Israel had re fused to withdraw troops from positions 'in. Egyptian territory covering the approaches to the Israeli port bf Eilat at head of the Gulf ) Aqaba. In Jordan, where a major po litical crisis was feared, King Hussein was reported ' arresting all known Communists in Am man and olher Jordan cities in a desperate effort to stay in power. New Cabinet Boycotted Hussein jJso was reported con sidering placing his country un der military government follow ing the resignation of pro-Soviet Premier Suleimaan Nabulsi. No outbreaks were reported, but Nabulsi has shown before he can call out mob support from among the Palestinian refugees if he needs it. A dispatch from Amman one of the few .to penetrate the heavy censorship there said King Hussein today asked for mer Foreign Minister Hussein Khalidi to torm a new cabinet. Diplomatic circles predicted ne would be unable to do so. The three major parties In Nabulsi's ' cabinet announced they would not enter the new cabinet.- Syria Would Aid Jordan A United Press dispatch from Damascus said Syrian newspap ers ' expressed fear today that Israel might "commit aggression against Jordan" if a conflict breaks out between Hussein's and Nabulsi's follower's. Political circles in Damascus affirmed that the Syrian Army was ready to aid Jordan in the event of an, Israeli attack. - American Egyptian negotia tions on operation of the Suez Canal remained stalemated, and Cairo reports said Egyptian For eign Minister Mahmoud Fawri had used 'the last meeting with U.S. , Ambassador ' Raymond Hare to protest against transit of the Gulf of Aqaba by the Am erican tanker Kern Hill with oil for Israel. Aerobee-HI Rocket Fired in New Mexico White Sands Proving Grounds, N. M. U.PJ The Navy fired an Aerobee-HI rocket 126 miles high Thursday in the first test of sensitive instruments to be carried in the earth-circling sat ellite sometime after July. Electronic devices began send ing back signals 20 seconds after launching and officials said they received 360 seconds of data be fore the rocket crashed into a rugged area of the testing ground, 17 miles from the launching site. John W. Townsend, who head ed the test for the Navy, pro nounced the first checkout of the instruments "very success ful." GAO Considering Cancelling Contract Washington U.R A House Government Operations Subcom mittee today authorized steps which could lead to cancellation of a $834,150 Army clothing contract held by the family of Robert Tripp Ross, former as sistant secretary of defense. Comptroller General Joseph Campbell notified the subcom mittee that his General Account ing Office will consider can celling the contract, provided such action' would not interfere with an investigation being con ducted by the ibeommittee. Subcommittee Chairman Chet Holifield (D - Calif.) promptly gave Campbell a go-ahead. "Any action which the Comp troller General might contem plate will not affect the com mittee's investigation," Holifield said. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final averages: 30 industrials 484.70, off 0.47; 20 railroads 147.11, off 0.27; 15 utilities 71.50, up 0.14, and 65 stocks 170.80, off 0.09. Sales Thursday were about 2,350,000 shares compared with 2,920,000 shares Wednes day- , "I Said, 'How Dare You Have Weapons Like That'!" Mm . Ilk"' Graduation Will Be Dr. Dr. Clifford Robinson, super visor of secondary education, state department of education, will speak at commencement ex ercises for Medford High school at Hedrick Junior High school June 6. Dr. Robinson formerly was principal at Ashland and Albany High schools, and has been with the state department for the past 12 years. He is vice-president of the national association of sec ondary' school principals and consultant for several national education publications. Commencement speaker was announced at a Medford school board meeting this week. Building Specialist School officials announced that Dr. Keith Goldhammer, school building specialist with the University of Oregon, will meet with local officials and the board April 17 to discuss a study and survey of high school build ing seeds and location. .- - v. Dr. Goldhammer recently com pleted a two-year course at the building and research depart ment of the school of education at Stanford university. He just returned from Little Rock, Ark.; where he studied building needs in the Little Rock school system in cooperation with Kellog Foun dation, which makes grants for studies for various phases of ed ucation. -Negotiations are under way for an elementary school site in the northwest portion of the district, school board officials said. The board recently pur chased a seven-acre site in the southeast portion of the district from Dr. Ira Phipps for an ele mentary school. The site, east of Modoc ave. at the end of Siskiyou blvd., was approved by the state depart ment of education, board mem bers said. Preliminary meeting on the proposed 1957-58 school budget will be April 24, and the full budget committee will meet May 2, board members announced. A budget committee is being ap pointed, they added. The board granted a leave of absence to Gatewood Smith, sci ence instructor at Hedrick Jun ior High. . Smith recently re ceived a scholarship from the National Science foundation for advanced 6tudy in science at Ore gon State college. The board this week completed its annual inspection of all school district buildings and sites, in cluding the West Side and Oak Grove facilities, which were con solidated with the Medford dis trict last year. Kiwanians to Name Committee to Study Problem of 'Obscene' Magazines, Books. Medford Kiwanis club mem. bers moved yesterday to have their board of directors name a committee to investigate the problem of "obscene, immoral and indecent" magazines - and books on newsstands and to see what can be done about the matter. - Their action . followed a, talk by Paul Haviland, Medford at torney, on . "What Our Young People Are Reading Today." Displaying covers and tear sheets from a number of maga zines, Haviland termed indecent literature "the most cancerous thing in our society today." He declared that such -material "needs just as much control as anything that is a blight, on our society." Material en Display Stating that the materials on display were "picked up from places - where your kids hang out," the attorney called upon Kiwanians to look at such litera ture in the eyes of young people. a 9j Speaker Robinson , Ten teacher resignations were accepted by the board, and 11 teachers were elected to serve in the district. Resignations accepted were from . Don Littman, and Mrs. Kathleen Quinowski, both of Jackson school; Mrs. Audrey Berry, Oak Grove school; Ramp ton Barlow, Hedrick Junior High; and Miss Joyce Porter, Miss Carol Stone, Mrs. Hazel Bosshard, Mrs. Jeanne Nelson, Steve Bayless and Mrs. Margaret Brown, all of McLoughlin Junior High school. Teachers elected are Mrs. Nan cy Speight, primary teacher from Portland public schools; Mrs. Charlotte Sweet, primary teacher from Medford; Mrs. Ber tha Haskins, intermediate from Medford; Miss Harriett Scrog gins, speech therapy and special education, who comes from the University of Oregon; Mrs. Fran ces Ruch, High school English. - Mrs. - Janette Dean, intermed iate, and Carlyle Dean, junior high school coach, ; both from NamrJa, Idaho; Mrs. Joanne Weatherford, homemaking a t McLoughlin Junior High, from Nampa, . Idaho; Miss Patricia Mounts, girls physical education and health at Medford High, from Elmira Union High; Wil liam Stoughton, art and social studies -at McLoughlin, from Brisco elementary school, Ash land; and Mrs. Myrna Dean. pri mary. Russian Nuclear Explosion Delected Washington iU.r!) Russia has thundered home its latest warning of atomic retaliation wit1, a new nuclear blast. The Atomic Energy Commis sion announced Wednesday night that Russia tested t nuclear weapon Wednesdays causing a blast "some what larger" than earlier ones in the current So viet test series. The AEC announcement of the Soviet test coincided with new Soviet threats to Middle East ern friends of the United States and to West Germany. Radio Moscow warned the Middle East Wednesday night that nations allowing the United States to establish atomic bases on their territory would be de stroyed in event of war. Early Thursday Radio Moscow warn ed West Germany .for the second time in a week that it faces the possibility of atomic retaliation if it equips its forces with nu clear weapons. 4 He stated that persons who as sert that youngsters can read the magazines and not get some ideas from them are "crazy." Drawing from his experiences as a lawyer, state police super intendent and district attorney, Haviland took the position that indecent, filthy magazines are "not merely a symptom" but a cause, of delinquency and crime. He maintained that "sex devi ates are not born. They develop from things like this." The attorney contended that obscene magazines develop sex desire. He asked, "How are they (young people) going to release this' desire?" He warned that "your kids may be the victims" of those releasing such desire. Moral Courage Haviland brought out that laws forbidding sale of porno graphic and immoral literature are adequate but he pointed to the need for moral courage to enforce the laws or otherwise combat . the . sale of such ma Misunderstanding Of Bookkeeping System Disclosed Expected Revenue Said Reason for Delay Washington U.R President Eisenhower's budget director has admitted he helped bring on the Post Office Department's pres ent money crisis because he didn't understand part of the federal bookkeeping system. . Budget Director Perciyal F. Brundage told a House Appropri ations subcommittee recently that the post office told him as early as last July that it would run out of money this spring. But he said he kept turn ing down their request for more funds. "I just said no, no, no, no," he said. Brundage was called on' the carpet by the subcommittee March 27 to explain why he didn't pass on the Post Office Department's request sooner. His testimony was made public to day. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield told Congress last month that he needed $47 mil lion in emergency funds to keep the post office operating through July. He threatens to curtail post office services drastically beginning Saturday unless the money is forthcoming. ' The full House Appropriations Committee so far has approved only $17 million of the request. The committee is scheduled to meet again Friday to act on it. House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack (Mass.) said a deficiency appropriation bill, which will include the postal appropriation, will be taken up in the House Monday. Although the postmaster gen eral hasn't said so; members as sume that Summerfield will de lay the postal cutbacks if the committee gives him approxi mately what he wants. Expected Revenue Increas Brundage told the subcommit tee that the reason he kept re fusing the post office's request for additional funds was that he thought there would be an in crease in postal revenues of $20 million. Brundage, who was appointed budget director in April, 1956, after serving as deputy director two years, said he thought the increase would be turned in to the postal agency for its use. He admitted that a staff mem ber of the House Appropriations Committee had to explain to him that the extra revenue "would not help" - because postal reve nues are turned in to the Treas ury just as are other funds col lected by the government. Any money to operate the post office still must be appropriated by Congress. . Brundage s-id that finally his staff recommended he approve the $47 million request and he did so "reluctantly" MarcJr 12. But "I still am not entirely satisfied that they could not make some savings there," he told the subcommittee. "I just don't have time to go into it my self in detail." Brookings Girl Dies After Heart Massagea Gold Beach, Ore. (U.R) A six- year-old Brcokings girl died in a local hospital Wednesday after a physician had started her heart beating again by massaging it. The girl was Linda Nichols,'. daughter of Mrs. Lola Nichols. The girl s tonsils were re moved Wednesday morning. La ter, in her hospital . room, her heart stopped beating. She was rushed to surgery and a physi cian massaged her heart until it began eating cgain. However, she died about -4:45 p.m. in her room. Her mother said the eirl had been in ill health previously. terial. The speaker told of the need for a businessman to be. as care ful with his newsstand as he is in removing "bad apples." He expressed the belief that some merchants "don't know what they are putting out." Haviland mentioned the matter of having merchants take care of the prob lem themselves. 'They are per sonally responsible," he said. Haviland spoke of the efforts along other lines-, to meet juvenile problems and declared that the good done can be wiped out from the "poison" in obscene magazines and books. In discussion at the meeting, one Kiwanian with a back ground in handling magazines, stressed that "all . magazines aren't bad." Another, who has a newsstand, stated that it was the adults who wanted the maga zines and that to correct the problem it's the adults who must be controlled. He said he had no problem with young people.
