Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 11, 1957, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTWTLVE MEDFOBD (OREGON) President of United Press Urges Lifting of Washington iU.R) Frank H. Bartholomew, president of the United Press, urged today 'that the government remove its against travel to Red China by American correspondents. He did so in a statement pre Qsented to the genate Foreign Re4 3ations Committee, which rer 0umed a series of hearings on ban imposed by the State JJepartment. Representatives of $h American Society of News paper Editors and other organi sations also were scheduled at Sh hearing. , "3Bt Right To Nwi "The experience of a lifetime i feai deeply impressed upon me 'that the people have a right to -"the news, good and bad," said Satholomew, "that the best in- 4!t nf th npnnlp arp invari- ably served by complete access to all the news." "Efforts to cut off access news - at its source, or efforts which might be misunderstood as stem- - ming from that motivation," his : statement continued, "simply tend to replace facts in the minds of the public with un easy apprehensions and rumors detrimental to the formation of sound pudiic opinion. "Free access to the news at Its sources outweighs all other considerations in the long run." N Way To Check Bartholomew pointed out that the United Press now is "cov ering Peiping as best we can in Apparent Low Bid for Colorado River Job Largest in ; Kanab, Utah (U.R) A new York construction company to Cday aubmitteo an apparent low Ibid of 5107,955,122 for construc rtion of Glen Canyon dam, key works of the Colorado river de velopment program and the tmost expensive single reclama ; tion project in American history. The apparent low bid, submit- ' lea. oy men lit-viidiitdii . u u ; Scott Corp.. was $10,381,354 un- der those submitted by three .other contracting firms and was ;.$27,553,048 under the estimate -of 5135,608,170 made by Bureau of Reclamation engineers. 5 Bid Incomplete J The othc bids were $118,336, Z476 by Glen Canyon Construc tion Co., a 10-company combine headed by Guy F. Atkinson Co., San Francisco; and $120,178,853 -submitted by Morrison-Knudsen construction lo., noise, iaano, Jin combination with eight other I firms. '. T. Rosso Co., Prescott. Ariz., ""also lubmitted a bid on the his toric project but the bid was in complete and was not received by the Bureau of Reclamation. L. F. (Lem) Wylie, construc tion engineer for the Glenn Can yon unit, opened the bids. The bids must be reviewed by reclamation engineers, attorneys Increase yields vith Soil insects can take a big bite out of your crop dollar by destroying the ( seeds, young plants, and root systems. One application of Heptachlor, at planting time, will protect your crop from seed to harvest for only a few dollars per acre. Agricultural experiment station tests' prove that Heptachlor increases yields from 10 to 100, so play it safe! Get Heptachlor now in any of these easy to apply forms: HIPTACHLOt SPKATS-for broadcast er row treatment HIPTACHlOt lANUlIS-for row treatment MITACHlOt.riRTIUZIt MIXTURIt-do re jobs at once, save 50 of time and labor. KHJ. KXIAGf IN5ICTS LATER IN THt SEASON! Heptachlor alsa provide axcaHant control f rygus bugs, ami) worms, tnrips, grasshoppers, Aoa booHos, crkkots, cutworms, and thor foilogo insects. U.S. D A. tost provo HoptacMar troetod alfalfa does not contammato otitic! TOUt BUUK MOAT sea MOWN PTACHB.OR ... AstftSCAl UAOW4 SOM, MStCflQOt VILIIC0L CHIMICAL CORPORATION 2082 Contor Stroot, Borkoloy. California MAIL TRIBUNE Red China discharge of our responsibility, But the principal means now is by reporting what the Commu nist Chinese radio says. "In the control of our own correspondents elsewhere in the world,; including Moscow,' we can check back. We have no such means of checking reports from Red China. He rejected suggestions that the issue be compromised on a basis which would premit only a limited corps of American re porters to visit China. The ban should be removed for reporters of individual American newspa pers, radio and TV stations, as well as the news agencies. "It seems to me" Bartholo mew's statement concluded, "that the most desirable devel opment would be for the State Department to remove the ban against travel in Red China from the passports of American cor respondents." The American Newspaper Guild, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Communits newspaper the Daily Worker were among other or ganizations scheduled to testify. Stale Department Ban The hearings sprang from the State Department's refusal last year to let U.S. reporters visit Red China at the invitation of the Peiping government. Since then the Eisenhower ad ministration has stood firm on its ban, although Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and History and officials before a final con tract award is made. Wylie estimated construction could start by mid-May. The contractor will have 2,500 days, nearly seven years, to com plete .the 700-foot high, 1,500- foot wide dam. "However. I think we ll beat that date," Wylie said. The job, in addition to its cost, was a record setter in many categories. Sidewalk Around World The 5,500,000 cubic yards of concrete that must be poured for the dam and pertinent works is sufficient to form a three-foot sidewalk around the world. The cost of $107,955,122, as indicated by the apparent low bid compares with the $49 mil lion for Trinity Dam in Calif ornia, previously the most ex pensive single reclamation unit, and the 548 million that Hoover Dam, 300 miles downstream on the Colorado river, cost when constructed a quarter of a cen tury ago. William Denny, executive vice president in charge of construc tion for Merritt-Chapman and Scott, said his company would be "ready to kick off as soon as we get the okay from the Bureau of Reclamation." Thuriday, April 11, 1957 Travel Ban President Eisenhower both indi cated recently they were recon sidering the issue. However, Robert D. Murphy, deputy undersecretary of state, told the committee at hearings on the issue last week the State Department has no intention of permitting U.S. newsmen to vis it Red China as long as Ameri ans are held prisoner there. "To do so might well destroy their (the prisoners') last chance for freedom and would most cer tainly be giving in to a form of blackmail," Murphy said. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Min.) called Murphy's stand "a nonsensical argument that cannot be' validated." Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) said "it seems a little like biting our nose to spite our face." Catholic Priest Building Nursery For Slum Kiddies Valencia (U.R) A Catholic priest with a flair for the unus ual is well on his way to building a nursery for slum children in this Spanish city with the pro ceeds of a used bottle business. Father Joaquin Sanco, "padre" of the humble parish of Canter eria believes he can put up the building capable of caring for 80 children under six by col lecting and selling 100,000 empty bottles. Figuring an average of two pesetas (five cents) a bottle, that would give him 200,000 pesetas (55,000 dollars) with which to work. Since Christmas, when he tim idly initiated his drive to collect bottles, Father Sancho and a city full of volunteer assistants have gathered about 20,000 resaleable empties. Since this is wine-producing and wine-drinking Spain, most of the bottles are one-liter containers. The campaign to turn the drained bottles into a public ben efit was started officially with a six-line ad in local newspapers. It asked that readers "Please save your empty bottles this hol iday season, and then ex plained why. - Volunteer Collect Father Sancho backed up the ads with short announcements over the radio. He asked that people with empties call his number. Results were spectacu lar. From all parts of this seaport city came offers of bottles. News papers took it up and labelled it "The campaign of the bottles.'' The local "youth front" turned over a truck for collections. Father Sancho's phones was swamped with offers of private cars to help collections. Befor long, cars sporting placards ad vertising the drive were seen on the streets. In some sections of town citi zen groups were going from house to house explaining the campaign and asking for bottles. One week end about 400 boys, students at religious schools here and members of the Boy Scouts, formed a voluntary army to push the drive. Father Sancho, who at first doubted the campaign would be a success, now is confi dent it will reach, and perhaps surpass, the 100,000 pesetas mark. "By spring, he predicted, our humble quarter, with its 2,000 inhabitants, will have its nurs ery, thanks to this campaign of the bottles." New Container Offers Temperature Control Chicago U.R) A Chicago box manufacturer has come out with a new aluminum foil-laminated corrugated container which, the maker claims, offers "effective, no-ice iemperature control and slashes costs for re frigerated shipment of cut-up, fresh, tray-pack chickens." The new dry-pack corrugated box is designed to replace ice packed, wire-bound wood crates. "Our new containers give more uniform protection than the old type of box," said an officer of the Stone Container Corp. of Chicago. "They also eliminate the extra expense of the wire-bound crates, as well as cut down on the weight and volume of ice, which typically amounted to 25 pounds per 45 to 50 pounds of poultry." Besides its insulation value, the new container has the ad vantage of ' chilling contents more rapidly than other boxes, permitting economies in refrig eration, the company claimed. The new box is of one - piece construction, with a tuck-in lid. It is quickly set up by folding. No staples or other fastener's are needed. ENTERS GUILTY PLEA Corvallis U.R) Phil Sha doin, former basketball player at Oregon State college, Wednes day pleaded guilty in District Court to a charge of issuing j worthless checks. Sentencing ! Ad Valorem Tax On Motor Vehicles For Hire Debated Salem '(U.R) Proponents of a House resolution which would amend the constitution so that motor vehicles engaged in trans porting persons or property for hire on public highways could be taxed on a basis similar to rail, air and water carriers, had their day in court here Wednesday. Sen. Dan Dimmick, Roseburg Democrat, told the House Taxa tion Committee he felt the state was "at the crossroads" as far as its ad valorem tax system was concerned. He said the state might have to start taxing trucks for hire, other commercial trucks and possibly even passenger cars to support local government and school operations. Should Contribute Share Dimmick said he felt that truckers as well as other inter ests would havt to contribute their fair share of ad valorem taxes. F. L. Phipps of the Association of Oregon Counties, said his or ganization supported the resolu tion. He said he was not pre judiced against any carrier but thought all should be taxed alike for local purposes. Judge Guy Boyington, Astoria, said that in 1955 trucks paid taxes in Oregon of 5165,000 while other transporation media paid more than S6 million, of which about $5 million was paid by railroads alone. 1 WHEN YOU SHOP FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS AT OK MARKET. NOT ONLY THE MOST CONSISTANT LOW PRICES, BUT SILVER BIG ADDED SAVINGS! PORK ROAST PORK CENTER CUT PORK Pot ROAST Swift's Sliced BACON Rolled Rump ROAST Ground BEEF Pork SAUSAGE RECIPE ON THE PACKAGE STEAK CHOPS MMtMMM IHii.-XaMltM IP CHOCOLATE FLAVOR 39 Russians Facing Investment Loss Moscow (U.PJ Any Russian over 30 who holds a government bond has little likelihood of ev er being able to cash it in. That was the inference drawn today from a speech made re cently to farmers at an agricul tural conference at Gorky, and made public Wednesday in the Moscow press. In it party-secretary Nikita Khruschev proposed a freezing of all payment matur ing on state loans for around 40 years. If Khrushchev's plan is adopt ed, and western observers said it probably will be, it most prob ably will be around 40. years before any current Soviet bond holders are able to withdraw their money. v Few persons aged 40 or more now can expect to live that long, and they thus face the prospect of losing their money altogether. Khrushchev frankly admitted in the speech that the Soviet government can not afford to repay the loan raised by sale of the bonds. It needs funds for improving Russian living stan dards, building more schools and hospitals and other develop ment projects. According to the party chief, "tens of thousands of workers immediately and enthusiastical ly" accepted this sacrifice, which in many cases means a lifetimes savings, and in almost all cases equals a month's wages. mi mi 79 59' lb. 8Sc.b. EVAPORATED MHO. DC 3c.43 3,b,$100 3fc.b. Save NESTLE'S SEMI-SWEET MORSELS for Home Made 3 P,gt $100 FUDGE i NestlIs Quif GIVES MILK THAT E&MflUS WCflt Mb. c.i Holmes Signs Bill Increasing Amount Of Loans To Vets Salem (U.R) A bill carry ing substantial increases in amounts of loans veterans may get from the State Department of Veterans Affairs for building homes or buying farms was sign ed into law Wednesday by Gov. Robert D. Eolmes. 1 Veterans may begin im mediaately contracting for loans up to $13,500 for homes and up to $30,000 for farms, the gover nor said. r Raising the maximum loan limits is expected to accelerate particularly home building and purchasing among eligible resi dents in Oregon. Decline Recorded Some decline in building and real estate activity had been re corded in Oregon with the blame being assessed to the so-called "tight money" policies of lend ing agencies, the governor added. A companion bill to raise the amount of money for loan pur poses from four to six per cent of the state's assessed valuation is still in the Legislature. It would increase the bonding capacity for loan purposes to ap proximately $122 million. The present limitation is $81 million of which about 75 per cent is cur rently out on loans. The new law wUl permit vet erans to borrow from the state up to 85 per cent of the apraised value of homes and farms. WITH COUPON On pg. 5, Sec. 2 Hillbilly Syrup 32-- $oc Bottles B lb Instant NONFAT DRY MILK Makes tt U 4Qfc. Silver Dollar Stamps ROYAL GELATIN (8 Flavors) 3Pkgs: Spokane Teamsters Spokane (U.R) A group of members of the Spokane Team sters Local 690 filed suit in Su perior Court here Wednesday, asking for recognition -and for control of the union's records and funds. Superior Court Judge Hugh Evans deferred until today the signing of an order to turn the books of the local over to a cus todian for safekeeping pending trial of the suit. Earlier, he is sued a temporary restraining or der preventing Dave Beck, pres ident of the Western Conference of Teamsters, from interfering with affairs of. the local pending trial of the case. 'ATERFILL RAZIER 3) KENTUCKY BOURBON since lb e'56 WATEtf III AND FIAZ1EI DiSIlllEtT C0UAMT. IAIDST0WH, KENTUCKT DOLLAR TRADING STAMPS FOR LOCAL RHUBARB 5' lb. Jumbo Arizona LETTUCE 2 for 29' All Green Tender ASPARAGUS 3 lbs. 39 Fancy Green Newtown APPLES 5 lbs. 49' Sweet Sunkist Havel Oranges 49c Doz. Sweet Large Texas GRAPEFRUIT 3 for 29' Bulk Pack Klamath POTATOES 10 lbs. 29' AH. 1 'MARKET I Home of SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS I I OPEN 8:00 A.M. UNTIL J 1 1 I MIDNIGHT A V 7 DAYS A WEEK 7 h p EASY PARKING , A ,tEAS Demand Records The suit charges funds have been used for personal loans and have been mismanaged or wrongfully appropriated. Youngster Accidentally Hangs Self at Empire Coos Bay U.R) Terry Lee Frederickson, 3, accidentally hanged himself at his home in Empire Wednesday, the coro ner's office reported. The little boy apparently loop ed a belt about his neck and was hanged when it caught on a clothes hook on a closet door. He was rushed to a North Bend hospital where efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. OF IU ai WAM 4JL was scheduled for Friday.