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52nd Year Price 10 Subscribers . To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail iribune In Med ford phone SP 2-6)41. Ashland MU 2-1021. Vreka 641W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10 JO a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. Recommended Medford RIBUNE A feature itory about dedica tion ceremonies and the history of the new Camp White athle. tir stadium appeari on page 14 of today's Mail Tribune. United Press Full Leasd Wire United Press Full Leased Win 60 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1957 No. 56 Ike Commits U.S To Proposals for Easing War Threat Stassen Ordered To Return To Conference Washington (W President Eisenhower committed the Unit ed States Saturday to a series of concrete proposals for easing the threat of atomic war. He ordered disarmament ne gotiator Harold E. Stassen to re turn to London Sunday with "flexible" offers to lay before Russia, Britain, France and Can ada in arms reduction talks re suming Monday. The proposals were not offic ially revealed but guarded state ments by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other sources after a final White House meet they included: Worldwide Agreement A bid for voluntary world wide agreement to limit posses sion of atomic weapons to the three present "nuclear powers" the United States, U.S.S.R. and Britain. Eisenhower's "open skies" aerial inspection plan, over as large areas of Soviet, U.S. and allied territory as Russian will accept, and on an equitable basis. Reduction of present weap ons stockpiles by padlocking of equal amounts of Soviet, U.S. and other nations' munitions in depots controlled by internation al inspectors. Dulles said the proposals "will safeguard the vital interests of the United States." Opportunity for Progress "On the other hand," he add ed, "they should afford a rea sonable opportunity for substan tial progress to be made in the way of establishing safeguards against sudden armed attack and in moving in the direction of lim itations of armament, both nu clear and conventional." He said it was "implicit" in his guarded announcement that the United States would press for international agreement to "restrict the spread of these (nu clear) weapons where they are now." Dulles refused to specify what areas the United States would propose for inclusion in the U!S. Soviet aerial inspections to guard against surprise attacks. Previously, however, he has in dicated willingness to start the plan on a test basis with Soviet flights over Alaska and part of Canada and U.S. flights over eastern Siberia. Dynamite Blast Heard in Medford A full ton of dynamite, amounting to about 40 cases, was discharged- Friday about 3 p.m. at a granite pit north of Jacksonville. It was reported that the blast was heard in downtown Medford. The charge was set off by Virgil O. Anderson construction company to loosen an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 yards of decom posed granite for use in road and fill work. Cost- of the dy namite used in the blast was in the neighborhood of ?o00, ac cording to Anderson. Another $400 was spent in drilling the three six-inch holes for the charge, which varied in depth from 35 to 50 feet, he said. Israel Security Forces Kill 4 Arab Marauders Jerusalem, Israel IIP) . Is raeli security forces killed four Arab marauders in the Negev desert Saturday, the Israeli ar my announced. Army spokesman Col. Nehem- iah Brosh said an Israeli patrol flushed the Arabs from a river bed. west of Meeri settlement near the Gaza strip, and opened fire on them when they ignored challenges and attempted to flee. Nationalist China Cabinet Offers To Quit as Gesture ""aipeh, Formosa HP The Nationalist Chinese government was reported to have offered to resign Saturday as an apologetic gesture to the United States in the wake of anti-American riots which swept Taipeh. But the proffered resignation was re jected bv President Chiang Kai Shek. A few hours later, a midnight to 5 a.m. curfew was imposed. Traffic was brought to a stand still and the deserted streets gave Taipeh a - war-like atmos phere with troops at every inter section. The suddeness of the move also brought confusion, with many Chinese cars and buses halted in the first hour for inspection. Chiang returned to Taipeh "How Dare You The Way About 3,000 Hear Governor Dedicate New Guard Armory A crowd estimated at some 3,000 persons last night heard Gov. Robert. D. Holmes dedicate Medford's new National Guard armory to the "widest possible use" for military and civic ac tivities over the years to come. The near-capacity audience, seated on the floor and balconies of the gleaming new $376,930 structure, which was. completed only last vsecu, also toured the classrooms and other facilities before and after the formal cere monies, and many of them stay ed for dancing later in the even ing. Concert, military and . dance music was furnished by Fort- land's 234 Oregon National , Guard band. Colorful military ceremonies, commanded by officers in full dress blue and gold uniforms featured the hour-long program. An honor guard of members of the two Medford National Guard companies, Company A and Headquarters company, both of the 1st battalion, 186th Infantry regiment, lined one aisle. Guests and dignitaries were escorted to their reserved seats in the front part of the spacious auditorium. Governor Holmes, in his ded icatory address, emphasized the varied purposes of the National Guard, both in wartime and in peacetime emergency service, citing their assistance to the people of eastern Oregon only last January during floods. Distinguished military service Sports Bulletins Portland Both Eagle Point High athletes competing here in the stale AAU meet at Lincoln High's athletic field placed in high school division events. Wayne Christian took third place in the javelin with a throw of 184-feet, two inches, and Jack Greb won the toss to decide second place in the high jump after tieing three others. His jump was 5-feet, 10-inches. Sacramento, Calif. (in The Sacramento Solons won two games in a row for the first lime this year Saturday night when they defeated the Hollywood Stan 6-4 in a Pacific Coast League baseball game. Seattle Wl Vancouver moved into the Pacific Coast League lead Saturday night by defeating Seattle 4-1 in the Rainieri' stadium. from his Sun Moon lake country retreat to take personal com mand of the situation which put one of the worst strains to date on Chinese-American relations. He kept Taipeh under the con trol of martial law with an esti mated 30,000 troops patrolling the city to maintain order in the wake of Friday's wild orgy of rioting against American indi viduals and property,. including the U.S. Embassy, where the flag was ripped into shreds. But he apparently felt things now were sufficiently under control so that he did not have to accept the proffered resigna tions of Premier O. K. Yui and his 17-member cabinet, whose move to quit was considered an apology to the United Statei. Treat Americans We Do?" of the guard during most of the nation's history is supplemented by peacetime service which adds to the people's "safety, security, and the state's own ability to cope with any emergency," the governor declared. He discussed recent attempts to federalize the guard, and how they have been resisted by the states, including Oregon. The governor, as did other speakers, paid tribute to the "magnificent cooperation and teamwork" which went into the construction of the multi-purpose armory. He reviewed the history of the building; from the time the old Medford armory burned in September, 1951, through early attempts to get a new one started, sparked by the late Diamond Flynn, then mayor of Medford, and on to the contribu tions of the city, , county, state and federal governments. "This building," Governor Holmes stated, "is a living ex ample of what teamwork and a will to succeed can accomplish." Jimmy Dunlevy of the Rogue Valley Country club was master of ceremonies, and introduced guard officers, dignitaries, guests, and their wives. He re counted the roles many of them had played in thj efforts to ob tain authorization of the armory. Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Rilea, "dean" of the Oregon National Guard and adjutant general of the Oregon military department. presented a framed copy of "I Am the Guard," an anonymous statement of the history and purposes of the guard, to Lt. Col. Francis Ayres, senior guard officer in this area, and presi dent of the armory board. General Rilea also introduced Governor Holmes with the tra ditional military honors due the commander in chief of the Na tional Guard. In his remarks General Rilea pointed out that the building is the 24th Nation al Gurad armory constructed in Oregon since the close of World War II. Also appearing briefly on the program were State Represent atives Robert Duncan and Al Littrell, recently returned from the Oregon legislature which ad journed last Tuesday, County Judge Rodney Keating, and Med ford City Council President Stanley Jones Jr., acting mayor in the absence of Mayor John Snider. Chaplain Glenn Wade offered the invocation and bene diction. Refreshments were served during the evening by the Civic Auditorium association and the American Legion auxiliary. Dis plays of military equipment were on view both in and out side of the new building. Guards men and city and state police assisted in directing the heavy traffic created by the dedica tion ceremonies. Timberline Lodge Coach To Instruct Ski Team Timberline Lodge, Ore.' (OT Pepi Gabl of Timberline Lodge was named coach of the U. S. women's ski team and Robert Johnstone of Denver, Colo., was reelected president as national association delegates closed their 28th annual convention here Saturday. Gabl will serve with three oth er nationally known teachers in coaching American teams for the world ski championships next winter. Beck Not To Seek Reelection as Teamster Chief Pressure Expected To Force Resignation Washington (IB Teamsters President Dave Beck, accused of using his union position to en rich himself and his family, an nounced Saturday night he. will not run for reelection at the un ion's convention this September. The 62-year-old Beck already is under heavy fire within the union to resign as president. The move led to speculation that by not running for reelection he hopes to keep his post until Sep tember. To Call Meeting Beck also disclosed he will call a meeting of the Team ster's executive board sometime next month. Informed sources have predicted heavy pressure will be put on him at the next board meeting to resign. There have been reports that a majority of the board will try to force his resignation if he re fuses. Teamsters vice president James R. Hoffa, one of the un ion's strongest leaders, may be a front-runner in the scramble for Beck's post. Face Indictments He was regarded as Beck's logical successor until recently. But he now has two federal in dictments hanging over him one for alleged bribery in con nection with the senate investi gation of labor racketeering and the other for alleged wire-tapping at Detroit. Another Teamsters vice presi dent, John T. O'Brien of Chi cago, is the only announced can didate for the top post so far. He has the support of Teamsters secretary-treasurer John F. Eng lish, who this week received the blessing of the AFL-CIO leader ship for a Teamsters "clean-up" campaign. "Einar Mohn, executive vice president under Beck, also has been talked about as a possi ble candidate by his associates. Ike and Adenauer To Talk Disarmament Washington (IP) President Eisenhower and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will begin discussions today on the role of the federal repub lic in new western disarma ment plans. The two leaders will start three days of formal talks in Washington next week after a Sunday luncheon at the presi dent's Gettysburg farm. Aden auer arrived in New York Fri day. He is spending the week end with friends in Connecti cut. Adenauer is eager to obtain renewed assurances that the United States will. not go be yond a "first step" disarmament plan, without insisting that some progress be made toward Ger man unification. In addition the Chancellor hopes that some of Eisenhow er's election "maeic" will rub off on him. He faces a stiff fight with the Social Democrats for control of the German parlia ment in the Sept. 15 elections. He will be trying for all the po litical mileage he can get from his talks here. Atomic Test Blast Postponed 11th Time Las Veeas. Nev. Wl Un favorable winds which would distribute radioactive fallout on t populated areas resulted in the 11th consecutive postpone ment Saturday of firing of the first atomic device of the 1957 test series by the atomic energy commission on the southern Ne vada desert. Actually, the AEC scientists have two devices ready for test ing and will fire whichever one can be safely detonated at the first opportunity. One was the equivalent violence of 10,000 tons of TNT and the other is con siderably smaller. Weather FORECAST: Fair through Mon day. Hieh today and Monday 811 ss. low tonight, SO. Hithfst Yesterday 2 Lowest Yesterday : 44 Temp. Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . 4:41 a.m. 7:37 p.m. Sunset ... Moonrise Monday 3:27 a-m. PROMINENT STAR Arcturus, high in south 10:06 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets g:03 p.m. Saturn, rises :21 p.m. Jupiter, high in southwest 9:30 p.m. Mars, sett :59 p.m. S,00 iepoihted homeless As Floods Hit IFooi: Worth CHECK THE OIL? All kinds of vehicles take advantage of roadside service stations these days even helicopters. Leonard Howe, of Standard Stations, Inc., 2291 South Pacific highway, polishes the windshield of this Aircopter Transport Inc. craft, which ran short of fuel Thursday night and made an emergency landing in a field north of the station. The helicopter was en route from Search Continued For Body of Man In Rogue River . Dragging operations were continuing late last night in an effort to recover the body of Darrel Winter, route 1, box 174A, Rogue River, who drown ed in the Rogue river Saturday evening when he fell into the water while water skiing, ac cording to state police. Officers reported the man was-water skiing on the Rogue near Chuck and Monty's boat dock, about a mile south of the Josephine county line,"when he accidentally lost his balance and fell into the water. .. . Dozens of search crews, com posed of Jackson and Josephine county sheriff's deputies, state police, volunteer fishermen and other week end sportsmen, were dragging the river in boats and along both banks in an effort to locate the body. State police said he fell into the water about 7:37 p.m. Sat urday and was not seen since. Names of his family and those who were with him yesterday were not known by police. Death of Medford Youth Brings Suit Portland (IP) Trans-World and United Airlines Friday were named defendants in a $317,000 civil damage suit in Federal Court here for the death of Stephen Bishop, 19, of Medford in the Grand Canyon mid-air collision last June. Crash of airliners of the two lines claimed 128 lives, includ ing that of the Medford youth who was an employee of TWA. The suit brought by James Ever ett Bishop, administrator of the youth's estate, claims the two lines were guilty of "concurrent negligence." Bishop, son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bishop, formerly of Jacksonville, was an office em ployee for TWA and made his home in Kansas City, Mo. He graduated . from Jacksonville High school and attended Lin coln school in Medford for sev eral years. He was born in Minnesota and moved with his family to Med ford' in 1942. The family later moved to Jacksonville. While in Medford, Bishop was active in Boy Scout work. Oxnard, Calif. (IP) Members of Local 20875, United Sugar Workers of America, will return to work Monday, ending a month-old strike at the Ameri can Crystal Sugar Co. plant. Huntington, Ore. (1PI Ore gon State police reported Sat urday that Jim Alexander, 34, Weiser, Idaho, drowned in the Snake river four miles from here while fishing. 1 Santa Ana, Calif., to Vancouver, B.C., for work in northern Canada. Pilot Ed Cronan and Mechanic Barney Akins made the land ing about 7:30 p.m. The craft continued on its journey the next morning after Howe filled the gas tank, cleaned the windshield and, no doubt checked the oil and water and emptied the ashtray. (Kenn Knackstedt photo.) Civil War in Haiti As Military Forces Battle Insurgents Port, Au Prince, Haiti (ffl Civil- war broke out in Haiti Saturday. Forces supporting Brig. Gen. Leon Contave, chief of staff of the army and head of the mili tary government, and insurgents supporting Col. Pierre Armand, former Port Au Prince police chief, staged a one-hour artil lery duel in the heart of Port au Prince at midday. The firing took place directly in front of the U.S. embassy, and at least three rifle bullets hit the embassy building. Gun Blows Up Four followers of' Armand were killed when a 75-millimeter field gun blew up during the battle. Two civilians were killed by rifle fire. . Two United Press reporters came under fire. The bloodshed climaxed a five month political crisis that began when former president Paul Magloir tried to extend his term of office last December. His ef fort was thwarted by a nation wide general strike and he fled into exile. Since . then, two provisional presidents chosen in the regular constitutional order of succes sion were forced to step down by political strikes on the grounds they were favoring one or another of the many candi dates for president in pending elections. Early in April the warring factions agreed on a 10-man council to govern until the elec tions. Three supporters of candi date Francois Duvalier . later quit, charging the election ma chinery was being rigged against him. Diamond Lake On Opening Day of High Cascade Season Diamond lake, as anticipated. was the Mecca for thousands of fishermen as trout season open ed in high Cascade lakes yester day but angling proved poor for the majority who tried their luck in the early part of the day. Congestion at Lake Heavy congestion both on the shores and on the lake was in dicated in an afternoon tele phone communique from the Diamond lake resort. An esti mated 7,000 to 10.000 people were in the Diamond lake area and guesses on the number of boats on the fishery ranged from 1,500 to 3,000. Game commission personnel estimated 1,500 to 2.000 craft and the state police figure was higher, 2,500 to 3,000. While a few limit catches were Cantave then was asked to set up a military junta. Instead, he asked the supreme court to rule on the council's legality and upheld the court's 5-to-2 opinion that the council was the legal government. However, last Mon day, when the council ordered him ousted as chief of staff, Can tave deposed it and took over the government. The battle started when a group of rebellious junior offi cers under Armand's command besieged Cantave and his fol lowers inside the army head quarters fortress at the Dessa lines barracks and demanded they surrender. Cantave made no reply to the surrender ultimatum hours after a deadline for acceptance passed. Then the Armand forces brought up field guns in the early afternoon and opened point-blank fire on the barracks. Vofunfeers Searching For Four-Year-Old Boy Sonora, Calif. (IP) A posse of about 100 volunteers, high way patrolmen and sheriff's dep uties were searching the Tol umne river canyon Saturday night for a lost four-year-old boy. The lad, Fred Chestnut, Jr., arrived at Sleepy Hollow, Calif., about 15 miles east of here, Sat urday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chestnut of Palo Alto. He wandered off with two neighbor boys yesterday after noon. However, he tired and de cided to return alone. He has not been seen since. Jammed by reported, trout takes were re ported generally poor during the morning and early afternoon. Luck was improving by mid afternoon and numbers of the more expert anglers were said to be heading out to test the appetite of Canadian rainbow for artificial flies. Size of the trout ranged from 15 to 20 inches. Rumors Rampant Rumors concerning opening day at Diamond were running rampant in Medford yesterday and a good share of them were shown to be unfounded. Stories that the. forest service employees and state police were turning people back from the lake and not letting them put boats on the lake, just weren't true, of ficers stated. The resort was placing no restrictions on put-, Water Running Roof-Top Deep as River Leaves Banks Worst Yet To Come, Forecasters Claim Dallas, Tex. (ID New floods battered water - weary Fort Worth and Dallas Saturday night leaving 4,000 persons homeless in Fort Worth and the worst was yet to come. Water ran rooftop deep in new brick houses completed only two months ago in Fort Worth was the West and Clear forks of the Trinity river went out of their banks from cloud bursts of nearly six inches. A flood stage of 40 feet was predicted on the Trinity in Dal las for late Sunday. The Trin ity hit a crest of 39.7 feet ex actly a month ago to the day, chasing 2,500 persons from their homes and causing $6,500,000 in damages. Projects Prevent Disaster The Trinity at Dallas has been running at or near flood stage of 28 feet for more than a month of intermittent cloudbursts. Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tex.) tour ed the flooded Fort Worth area in a motor boat. Wright is a member of the House Public Works committee. Flood control projects have saved Fort Worth from a very terrible disaster," Wright said. "If we had had more dams, some of these floods would have been prevented. I'm resentful to hear of these types of projects tagged 'pork barrel.' " United Press correspondent Carl Freund said the flooded forks of the Trinity spilled out where they meet north of the courthouse at Fort Worth and had begun to spill into lowlands of the east side. 10 Feet Over Spillway Freund described the situation thus: Lake Bridgeport, high above Fort Worth, was running 10 feet over its spillway, spilling water into Eagle Mountain lake which in turn dumped 8.6 feet of water into Lake Worth which in turn was running five feet over its spillway into the West fork of the Trinity. Freund said the crest on the West fork is not expected until tomorrow. He said a house had been wash ed into the west fork and was banging against a bridge on a highway leading into Carswell Air Force base. Freund said 70 homes in the Sundown addition were under water. Other additions under flood waters were Sunset acres, Sky acres and McGee additions. In the McGee addition water was running 12 feet deep. Freund said abouf 3,400 per sons were homeless in Fort Worth proper. Some 600 more were driven out from the shores of Eagle Mountain lake and from the fashionable Richland Hills surburb, northeast of the city. Child Feared Drowned There were no reports of flood deaths or injuries in Fort Worth or Dallas, but at Weatherford where a cloudburst dumped 5.68 inches of rain, a child was re ported and feared drowned, po lice dispatcher Dick Yandell said. Yandell said two houses were under water at Weatherford. Washington ff President Eisenhower played golf at the Burning Tree club in nearby Maryland Saturday. Fishermen ting boats on the lake but did say that the congestion did make launching somewhat hard to manage. Fishermen were getting their craft into the water. Trolling was still being per mitted on the lake but was dif ficult because of the large num ber of boats. Police were checking cars for live bait, since its use is not al lowed. Accommodations Filled Campground and resort ac commodations were reported filled up yesterday.-The resort reported that it did, however, have openings for tonight. The same situation was seen likely for the campground. Fishermen were reported to be parking their cars on the summer home road. Fishing was also being done from the bank.
