Nuclear Weapons To Be Tested
From Balloon High Over Nevada
Washington U.R) The
Atomic Energy commission an
nounced today that at least two
of the bigger explosions in thi.
spring's weapons tests will be
detonated from captive balloons
high over the Nevada desert.
The explosions will yield vio
lence greater than that of 20,000
tons of TNT, the AEC said. The
bomb that destroyed Hiroshima
in August, 1945, was equivalent
to 15,000 tons of TNT.
The Nevada tests start May
15 and will continue through
the summer. The AEC said that
newsmen and about 60 civil de
fense officials will be permitted
to witness nine of the shots. No
"uncleared persons" will be per
mitted to observe the others.
Of the nine "public" explo
sions six will be under 20,000
tons of TNT in energy yield and
three will be above. All of the
Republicans Can't
Define Modern
Republicanism
Washington ,'U.R) Six of 37
prominent Republicans taking
part in a magazine poll said
they don't know what President
.Eisenhower means by "modern
Republicanism."
Two others blasted it as New
Dealism.
The party's own national
chairman, Meade Alcorn, said it
was easier to describe than to
define. His description ran
about 300 words.
The 37 Republicans were
asked to give their views in a
copyrighted article in U.S. News
& World Report, a weekly news
magazine. ,
' The definitions varied, but
most agreed that "modern Re
publicanism" was the Republi
can Party undergoing change
because of changing national
and international conditions.
Reps. Clare E. Hoffman (R
Mich.) and A. L. Miller (R-Neb.)
associated the term with New
Dealism. Hoffman called a mod
ern Republican "a New Deal in
ternationalist." Miller said "I would define a
"modern Republican' as a free
wheeling free spender who has
surrendered his constructive con
servatism to ride the current
New Deal band wagon."
McCarthy's Definition
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of
Wisconsin said he could not de
fine the term. But he said per
haps the best definition he has
heard was: "Someone who is
now in the administration but
who wasn't a Republican prior
to 1952."
Republicans interviewed who
said they couldn't define the
term included Sens. Styles
Bridges (N.H.) John W. Bricker
(Ohio), McCarthy, Barry Gold
water (Ariz.), Irving M. Ives
(N.Y.) and Reps. John Taber
(N.Y.)
Court Records
MUNICIPAL COURT
Ray Willfred Vaughn, disorderly
conduct. $23.
Mra .Imogene Leots Vaughn, diaor
derly conduct, $25.
Harry Baker Clark, drunk in pub
lic. S20.
Martha Ad ami. drunk In public,
$10.
Lawrence Jamea Manning, drunk in
public. $10.
Clarence Fredrick Farleigh, drunk
in public, $10.
Raymond Winter Fernlund, disobey
ed stop sign. $5.
Bobby Lewia Kroua. excessive
noise. $10.
Lynn Rod Johnston, excessive noise
$10.
John Pasqual Ysunza, violation of
basic rule, $10.
Bryce Leslie Phillip, violation of
basic rule. $10.
George Bunnell Wiynun, disobeyed
stop sign. $5.
John Willard Morgan, disobeyed
atop sign, $5.
William Benton Smith, violation of
basic rule. $10.
William George Werner, no tail
lights. $5.
DISTRICT COURT
Robert Leo Burton, one license
plate on motor vehicle, $6.
James Oliver Hansen, no turn sig
nal device, $10. bail forfeited.
Kenneth Luther Wilbur, failure to
stop. $10. bail forfeited .
Leonard Jack Burns, no mud
guards, $10. bail forfeited.
Myron Earl Corcoran, failure to
stop at stop sign, $10.
Helen Erickson Tweedy, violation
basic rule. $15.
Monty Louis Riddell. engaging in a
race on public highway. $30.
Joan Bordeen Read, improperly
changing lanes on a hiehway, $15.
Dallas Barrington Knowlton. no
operator's license, $6 .
William George Carter, violation
basic rule. S15.
AUy Clark Sheldon, no operator's
license. $
James Walter Trueblood, failure to
stop at stop sign. $10.
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Ashland. Ore.
Maurice Duane Cobbs. Grants Pass,
and Janice Ilean Couch, route 1, box
14A. Jacksonville.
Floyd O. McClanahan. 2304 Spring
St.. Medford, and Lila Mae Vielbig.
Butte Falls.
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THE SCHEDULE:
Tuesday: Miami Beach Clarence
Hinneant vs. Eddit DeMars and Gale
Kerwin vs Rocky Randeil: Wilkes-Barre-Rocky
Castellani vs. Ernie Dur
ando: Montreal Cherif Hamia vs.
Bobby Bell: Hollywood Ernesto Par
ra vs. Vince Delgado: Houston Roy
Harris vs. Bob Baker; Hartford
Wayne Bethea vs. Bert Whiteburst
Wednesday: Chicago Gene Full
mer vs. Ray Robinson, middleweight
championship. 15 rounds: Alubuquer
que Neal Rivers vs. Rocky Cabal
lero: Essen, Germany Archie Moore
vs. Hans Kalfell.
Thursday: Revere. Mass. Bobby
King vs. Charley Howe; Julian Vel
asanez vs. Frankie Campos.
Friday: Louisville Eddie Machen
vs. Joe Maxim: Boise Arthur Persley
vs. Richie Kid Howard.
Saturday: Hollywood Tommy
Tibhs vs. Mickev Northrup: Paterson
Stefan Redl vs. Al Rocky Milone;
Arnold. Pa. Garvin Sawyer vs. Hen
rv Hall: Johaannesburg, S.A. Jimmy
Elliott vi. Fat McAteer.
smaller weapons and one of the
larger will be exploded from
steel towers.
Although the three larger
weapons will be city-wreckers
by Hiroshima standards, the
AEC said all the explosions this
year "will be low yield detona
tions of fissions devices."
"The tests, in addition to con
tributing to the development of
weapons for the military de
fense of the United States and
the Free World, are designed to
provide important data contrib
uting to a sound and effective
system of civil defense," the
commission said.
Tunnel Use Considered
The AEC also is studying the
feasibility of detonating some
shots of this year's Nevada se
ries in tunnels dug in .the rock
under the proving ground. To
day's announcement, however,
said nothing about them, and
AEC officials have refused to
discuss the purpose of such
shots. Being completely under
ground, they presumably would
be undetectable by foreign
countries.
The two balloon shots an
nounced today will be staged,
weather and other conditions
permitting, on June 27 and July
25. Weather delays in past test
programs have run as long as
several weeks.
The balloons will be several
hundred to 2,000 feet high. The
idea is to reduce radioactive
fallout in the vicinity of the test
proving ground. Such local fall
out is intensified if the hot
atomic fireball touches the
ground and sucks up large
quantities of dust.
Other Tower Shoii
The other of the three larger
explosions will be a tower shot
Aug. 19. The other tower shots
which newsmen and civil de
fense workers may witness are
McLeod Faces Quiz
By Democrat Critics
Washington (U.R) Demo
cratic critics of Scott McLeod's
nomination as ambassador to
Ireland lined up their ammuni
tion today for a thorough ques
tioning of the State Department
security chief.
McLeod and another contro
versial nominee. Ambassador
Charles E. Bohlen, were called
to appear this morning before a
closed door meeting of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations commit
tee. Prospects were that both
will be confirmed eventually by
the Senate.
The committee also was set to
question two other nominees
radio commentator Henry J.
Taylor as ambassador to Swit
zerland and Roy R. Rubottom
as assistant secretary of state
for Latin-American affairs.
Boatman's Union
Members Vote Strike
Portland (U.R) A member
of the Inland Boatmen's union
Monday night said union mem
bers have voted to walk off their
jobs unless a satisfactory agree
ment is reached with employers.
The union has 250 members.
A strike could tie up water
fronts in Portland and Columbia
river ports.
Grant E. Williamson,- union
delegate, told the Portland Cen
tral Labor Council that the pres
ent contract expires at midnight
tonight.
Edith Green Tells
Of Reelection Plans
Portland (U.R) Rep. Edith
Green (D-Ore.) said Monday
night she plans to seek reelec
tion next year.
Mrs. Green told the Portland
Central Labor Council that Roy
Hill of the Painters Union would
again be her campaign chair
man. ,
"I suppose that could be taken
as a formal announcement of my
intention to run again," she said.
Crosby Brings Another
Suit Against Oregonian
Portland (U.R) Clyde C.
Crosby, international Teamsters
union representative for Ore
gon, Monday brought another
libel suit against the Oregonian,
seeking S510.000 damages. The
suit was based on an editorial
published last June.
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scheduled for May 15, June 25,
July 9 and 15, Aug. 8 and
Sept. 1.
The AEC did not say how
many tests there will be in all.
There were 14 in the last Neva
da test program in 1955. The
first shot of the new series will
be the 46th in Nevada.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In s thoughtful and well rea
soned discussion of Oregon's tax
and industrial problems, the
Portland Oregonian says in a
recent i.-sue:
"The central theme of business
executives who appeared before
the taxation committee of the
Oregon house of representatives
was that for the welfare of the
state's citizens as well as busi
ness taxes levied on business
should be COMPETITIVE with
those of other states particular
ly neighboring Washington and
California.
"States should compete for in
vestment capital (these business
leaders argued) just as individual
business compete for sales."
IT SO happens that in the state
of Oregon there is a peculiar
ly revealing example of what the
Oregonian is talking about.
Some years ago, the state of
Oregon had within its bound
ariesand within its TAXING
JURISDICTION somewhat
more than a dozen breweries.
These breweries provided pay
rolls for Oregon workers - and
markets for Oregon raw mat
erials, such as hops and barley.
In addition to special taxes, they
paid property taxes on their
physical e s t a blishments, thus
helping to spread out the tax
burden in the localities in which
they operated.
THEN
As so often b e f o r e and
since
There came a tax pinch in
Oregon. The legislature, looking
around for new sources of rev
enue and bearing in mind the
ancient maxim that the best tax
is the one that gets the most
feathers from the goose with the
least squawking, decided to in
crease the barrelage tax on Oregon-brewed
beer.
The increase was sharp one
something like a third more than
Washington's and approximately
double California's b a r r el age
tax. . '
WHAT was the result? .
It can be told in a few
words. The bulk of Oregon's
breweries (all but one, as I re
call it) moved out of Oregon into
Washington and California.
rpHE memory of that incident
J- is peculiarly distinct down
here in Southern Oregon.
We were then negotiating with
several large breweries that
were considering establishment
of Western branch plants to
serve the growing market provid
ed by the eleven Western states.
For several reasons, we wanted
big brewery. We grow a lot of
brewing barley down here, and
it seemed a good idea to have
a large local market for it.
But that wasn't our only ob
jective. We produce a lot of
cattle in this area. We sell too
many of them off grass. We need
to furnish feed more of them.
In order to finish our cattle out,
we need a feed that will be com
petitive ' with corn or cotton
seed. The residual material from
breweries is an outstanding live
stock feed. So, it seemed to us,
a big brewery would be a splen
did asset. Not only would it pro
vide new payrolls and a local
market for a local raw material
and pay local taxes.
It would also provide us with
a new source of highly efficient
livestock feed.
IITHAT happned?
' Again the story can be
told in a few words. When the
brewery concerns with which
we' were negotiating heard of
the sharp increase in the Oergon
tax on beer, they dropped us
like a hot potato.
That was the end of our brew
ery promotion.
rpHE moral, I think, is clear.
If states want industry,
they must so tailor their tax
structures that as the Oregon
ian says the taxes they levy on
business will be COMPETITIVE
with the taxes levied on business
by NEIGHBORING states.
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First Woman Press
Secretary To Begin
Task on Wednesday
Washington (U.R) The first
woman ever to serve as associate
presidential press secretary is
"all set" to start work at the
White House Wednesday morn
ing. She is handsome, gray-haired
Mrs. Annie Wheaton, a matron
ly woman who admits she is
"over 60."
The move will bring some
changes to the previously all
male aspects of the job.
Fresh from a Florida vaca
tion, timed to coincide with the
President's sojourn in Augusta,
Ga., Mrs. Wheaton still finds it
hard to believe she will be work
ing in the White House. She has
worked many years to put Re
publican presidential candidates
in the White House, but didn't
expect to wind up there herself.
Praises From All
But after pats on the back
from everyone from Eisenhower
on down, she is prepared to "do
the very best I can" in the "chal
lenging" new job.
The presidential compliments
were contained in a note Eisen
hower sent to a recent party
honoring Mrs. Wheaton's ap
pointment. In the note, the Presi
dent also conceded that Mrs.
Wheaton's arrival will bring a
"new look" to the White House
press office. She succeeds Mur
ray Snyder, who is now assist
ant secretary of defense. At the
White House, Snyder's title was
assistant press secretary. Mrs.
Wheaton's title will be associate
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For example, would a woman
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President on stag fishing and
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On occasions when Press Sec
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Langley Sentencing
Scheduled Thursday
Portland (U.R) Sentencing
of District Attorney William
Langley, who faces removal
from office because of a neglect
of duty conviction, was postpon
ed Monday until Thursday.
Circuit Judge Frank J. Loner
gan denied Langley's motion for
a new trial. But he asked de
fense and state attorneys to
bring citations before him to ar
gue the question of whether an
appeal should stay punishment
in the case.
Langley was convjcted April
13 on a misdemeanor charge of
failing to prosecute a gambling
law violation.
Langley's attorney, K. C. Tan
ner, argued that removal from
office constitutes legal punish
ment. He said that under anoth
er more general law punishment
is stayed during the period of
appeal.
Pakistan Storm Kills
17; TOO Others Hurt
Lahore, Pakistan - U.R) A
vicious tropical storm carrying
hail stones larger than eggs kill
ed at least 17 persons and se
verely .injured about 100 others
in West Pakistan Sunday, ac
cording to reports reaching here
today.
The storm ravaged 40 villages
in the Gujerat district, killing
hundreds of birds and animals.
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Shady Cove-Trail
Plans New Playhouse
Shady Cove Plans have been
formulated by the residents of
Shady Cove-Trail for building
a new community club called
the Country Playhouse.
Land for the building , has
been leased from the Elk Lum
ber company. The site is about
7 miles up Elk Creek rd.
Officers of the project include
Oscar Hanson, president; Adolph
Larson, vice president; Mrs.
Howard Ash, secretary; and Mrs.
Hanson, treasurer.
The community club will be
used by the communities for all
group activities, according to
Mrs. Hanson. The original club
building burned in 1954.
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Monday, disrupting mail opera
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