Thursday, May 8, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
New Postal Curbs Threatened As Result off Money Wrangle
Washington (U.R) Th-;
Senate Appropriation commit
tee today was expected to ap
prove an only partly-restor'i
postal budget despite a new
threat of postal cuts next year
- The committee was expected
to approve restoring only $32
million of S53 million cut from
the postal budget by the Housfe.
But Postmaster General Ar
thur E. Summerfield, fresi
from a recent victorious budget
bout with lawmakers, warneo
Congress Wednesday he woul 1
need up to $90 million more
than was requested in his new
budget originally to maintain
current services.
The only alternative, he said,
would be new reductions in post
al service in fiscal 1958.
Rep. J Vaughan Gary (D-Va .
chairman of the House Appro
priations subcommittee, that
considered the postal budget, in
dicated to reporters he felt thi-5
would not be a bad idea. Gary
said Congress should look into
the possibilities of curtailing
some postal services before sub
stantially increasing post office
appropriations.
Gary said Summerfield couu
"reduce expenditures substanM
ally" by cutting down non-es
sential services such as reducing
number of Saturday business de
Arizona's Issue of Navigability
Of Colorado Water Is Surprise
San Francisco (U.R)
attorney for California has ex
pressed surprise that Arizona
raised the issue of navigabilkv
in its suit with California ove
use of Colorado river waters.
Arizona contends that statutes
Polish Primate
May Study Position
Of Soviet Members
Vatican City (U.R) Stefan
Cardinal Wyszynski may stay
i. - i Anfu
extensive Roman Catholic
church study of the position
of its members behind the Iron
Curtain, informed sources said
today
The Polish primate, who ar
rived here Wednesday night,
was expected to spend today
resting and conferring with his
five-man staff in their "quarters
at the convent of the Polish
Order of the Sisters of the Holy
Family.
Schedule in Secrecy
Although strict secrecy shroud
ed his schedule, Vatican sources
said it was not likely he would
have his first interview with
Pope Pius XII today as had
been expected. There was no
reason given.
The cardinal's arrival was a
psychological victory for Cathol
icism in its ideological battle
with Communism for the 75
million church members who
live behind the Iron and Bam
boo Curtains.
Vatican sources said the ma
jor purpose of the visit would
be a "thorough examination" of
possible ways of improving the
situation of Poland's 25 million
Catholics under the yoke of
Communism.
Ralatiom Improve)
Relations between the Roman
Catholic church and the Warsaw
government have improved slow
ly since Wladyislaw Gomulka,
a Communist who has steered
Poland somewhat out of the
Soviet orbit, rose to power in
October.
Wyszynski himself was allow
ed to resume his duties as pri
mate after three years under
arrest.
Since the cardinal is the only
charch primate to get out of an
Iron Curtain country since Com
munism swept Eastern Europe
after World War II, he can
supply invaluable guidance to
church officials here.
Anlof 1390 and 1899 prohibit diver
sion of water from a navigable
stream such as the Colorado,
from which California was tak
ing water without permissijn
until 1929.
"I am astounded that a west
ern state would raise this point"
said attorney Northcutt Ely.
"This issue is greater than any
other in this suit."
Rights Endangered
Ely said Arizona may be e.i
dangering the rights of sucn
cities as Yuma,. Ariz., for taking
water from the Colorado and
eventually the rights of othf
western cities for taking watc
from streams without permis
sion of the government.
Special Supreme Court Mas
ter Simon H. Rifkind announcii
earlier that he would make a
ruling on the point at a later
date.
Earlier Wednesday, California
continued its presentation ut
documents and other 'evidence
on the early history of the Im
perial Valley water district.
Attorney Harry W. Horton,
representing the district, pre
sented evidence he said showert
presidential intervention in
1910 to help the flooded valley
His contention was that Con
gress, by resolution, gave im
plied consent to the Imperial
Valley to take water from the
Colorado, thus protecting it from
the effects of the 1890 statute
cited by Arizona.
Taft Asked for Money
Horton's evidence showed that
President William Howard Tail
asked Congress for a one million
dollar appropriation in June,
1910, to protect the people -f
the lower Colorado 'from over
flow of the river."
Congress granted the appro
priation by resolution on thi
same day it was asked.
Arizona, in the lengthy legal j
battle, claims the right to j.huo.
000 acre feet of water annually
from the Colorado river under
contracts with the federal gov
ernment. California claims 5.363.000 an
nual acre feet by right of prior
appropriation.
There is not enough water to
fill both claims.
RED FROGS
San Francisco (U.R) On a
routine field trip to the San
Bruno hills south of here re
cently, youngsters found two red
frogs. They were turned over
to the Steinhart Aquarium for
public display. Herpetologists
believe the flashy red-orange
fellows are mutations of the
common California red-legged
frog.
Sense of Urgency
Of Winning World
To Christ Lost
Buck Hills Falls, Pa. (U.R)'
An Asian church leader said to
day Christians have lost their
"sense of urgency" about the
"unfinished task" of winning the
world to Christ.
Dr. D. T. Niles of Ceylon,
head of the Evangelism Depart
ment of the World Council of
Churches, warned U.S. protes
tant leaders that this is no time
for resting on their oars.
"The events of the world are
moving at a terrific pace," he
said, "and we are already see
ing the calamaties that are in
store for us if the obedience of
the church does not keep pace
with the events of history."
Evangelism Suffering
Niles spoke before the annual
meeting of the U.S. Conference
for the World Council of
Churches. Leaders of 32 major
Protestant Denominations are
attending the three-day meeting
here.
Niles said Christian evangel
ism seems to be suffering from
a lack of "conviction that any
one needs to be evangelized."
He said this can be traced to
a realization that "the perform
ance of the Christian community
in moral and religious living
shows little superiority over that
of adherents of other religions."
But he pointed out that Chris
tions are not called upon to
preach the claim that they are
better than anyone else.
"The authority of the evangel
ist lies not in what has happened
to him but in what has happened
to the world," he said. "God
has loved the world in Jesus
Christ, and Jesus has died for
the world . . . Evangelism be
comes compulsive on those who
know this truth."
Deschutes Man's
Death Investigated
San Francisco (U.R) Local
coroners were still investigating
today the death here of a former
Deschutes county, Ore., deputy
district attorney.
Thomas Boeke, 57, was found j
dead in his San Francisco apart- j
ment. May 3. It is believed he
died of natural causes.
Boeke's body was discovered ;
by Helen Lind, a landlady, who
said she had not seen the man j
for about two weeks and called ,
police. !
Police broke into the apart-!
ment after they received no re
ply and found Boeke's body lying :
face down on the floor.
Boeke, a native of Hubbard,,
Iowa, had been in San Francisco,
Calif., about six months. He was
unmarried and lived alone.
Coast Shipbuilding
Memorial Approved
Salem U.R) The Oregon
Senate voted yesterday in favor
of House joint memorial 17,
calling on Congress to award
contracts to encourage Pacific
Coast shipbuilding and repair.
Sen. Monroe Swetland, Mil
waukie Democrat, said sponsors
of the memorial, all Portland Re
publicans, were particularly in
terested in saving Portland's
shipbuilding industry. The me
morial passed with only five
dissenting votes.
GOOD DEED BACKFIRES
Benton Harbor, Mich. (U.R)
Curtis Clubereth. 27, rushed a
sick child to a hospital in his
car and was charged with reck
less driving and operating a ve
hicle with an expired license.
DUCK CALLS
Wolcott, N.Y. (U.R) A wild
duck apparently tumbled down
the chimney of the Ernest Wil
liams home. It perched on a
windowsill until Mrs. Williams
picked it up and put it outside.
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Steam Boiler Explodes
At Pennsylvania Plant
Erie, Pa. (U.R) A steam boil
er exploded and blew out part
of the Lovell Manufacturing Co.
plant in dowtown Erie Wednes
day night, killing one man. ,
. John W. Bojack, boiler room
fireman, was talking to a plant
official by telephone and report
ed an earlier minor blast when
the boiler exploded. He was kill
ed but six other persons in the
plant fled safely.
liveries and cutting out Saturday
deliveries of third class mail.
$58 Million Shared
President Eisenhower origin
ally requested $3,250,000,000 for
the Post Office department in
fiscal 1958. The House shaved
S58 million from the request ia
passing it.
Summerfield asked a Senate
appropriations subcommittee to
restore the House cuts Wedne
day. He said the funds wer
needed because of an increase
in the mail volume.
The subcommittee, however,
balked at restoring more than
$32 million at this time. Sum
merfield was told he would have
to request additional funds in a
supple mental appropriation
bill.
The postal chief said he would
be back in about 10 days with
the request. If the funds aren'
forthcoming, he said, he would
have to curtail postal services
accordingly.
Pakistani Premier
Greeted by Shouts
Karachi, Pakistan (U.R)
Crowds shouting "Annex Kash
mir" greeted Pakistani Premier
Husseyn Suhrawardy today on
his return from a two-week tour
of Japan, the Philippins and
Thailand.
Suhrawardy said his trip had
won friends for Pakistan in its
dispute with India, which al
ready has claimed annexation of
Kashmir.
Hoy Fever Said
To Have Positive
And Negative Side
Salem .U.R) Hay fever,
says Sen. Truman Chase. Eu
g e n e Republican, hat its
"positive side and its negative
tide."
"Sometimes," he told the
Senate Wednesday in explain
ing House bill 283 having to
do with that great hay fever
pest known as ragweed, "the
eyes have it and sometimes
the nose have it." '
As laughter in the Senate
subsided, he cautioned: "If
you don't vote aye on this bill
you may get it in the nose."
The motion promptly car
ried, with o-o-acho! pardon
only Sen. . Carl Francis,
Dayton Republican, voting no.
MISLAID
Holyoke.Mass. (U.R) Four
teen months after a workman
lost his pay envelope at the Na
tional Blank Book Co. plant, it
turned up at Norfolk, Va. 600
miles distant in a shipment of
notebooks from the local firm.
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