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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.