Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 27, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textin fo)o)(g Stassen Delivers Disarmament Plan To Western Allies Slow Unfolding Of Proposal Seen London HP United States delegate Harold Stassen de livered secret American dis armament proposals to the west ern allies today before plunging into the most hopeful round of East-West arms cutting talks since World War II. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis ter Valerian Zorin, fresh from 10 days of consultations in the Kremlin, had another plan of his own ready for the resuming London Disarmament Con ference. Stassen flew here from Wash ington this morning bringing a blueprint for "small, measured steps' toward the disarmament. He checked on the outcome of President Eisenhower's disarma ment discussion with West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer at Gettysburg Sunday and then conferred with the British, French and Canadian delegates. Will Unfold Slowly The western huddle came just three and one-half hours before the conference resumed. Stassen met British Minister of State Allan Noble, France's Jules Moch and Canadian Ambassa dor David Johnson at the For eign Office. It became apparent during the morning there would be no sud den, dramatic plunge toward agreement. Stassen said on ar riving the American proposals "will unfold in the succeeding days of the negotiations." Officials explained he in tends to deal with one point at a time in touch bargaining rather than flourish all the cards at one time. This means it will be several weeks at least before the full impact of the American plan is established. House Republican Leaders Agree To Seek Defense Fund Washington HP) House Re-i publican leaders agreed today to fight for restoration of about $300 million of a $2,587,000,000 cut in President Eisenhower's de fense funds. In so doing they conceded they have no chance of restoring the $1,200,000,000 Eisenhower has said he must have. "We've got to face reality," said GOP Leader Joseph W. Mar tin Jr. of Massachusetts. Main Fight in Senate The decision was reached at a 90-minute closed session of the House Republican Policy committee, a 30-man group 'com prising GOP leaders and key Republican members from all re gions. In effect, it meant the admin istration will have to make its main fight in the Senate to head off what the President believes to be crippling cuts in his $36 billion defense request. The House Appropriations committee recommended a $33, 541,000,000 appropriation to run the Army, Navy and Air Force in the 12 months starting July 1. This was $2,587,000,000 less than the President wanted. Police Enforcing New Meter Hours City police today began en forcement of hte revised "work ing hours' of Medford's park ing meters, which total about 800. according to Chief Charles Champlin. Motorists must now feed the meters from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., in stead of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. as pre viously required. Champlin said the new meter hours were not enforced last week in order to give motorists a chance to ad just to the revised times. The change is the result of a new parking meter ordinance recently adopted by the city council. Morse Denies Statements Allegedly Made in Detroit, on Floor of Senate Washington (IP Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.), reported Sun day night he can see no differ ence in principle in "Dave Beck putting his hands in the pockets of his union" and "the Eisen hower administration putting its hands in the taxpayers' pock ets." But Morse denied he said in a Detroit speech May 18 and repeated last Wednesday on the Senate floor that Beck and Pres ident Eisenhower were "the Torrential Rains; Batter Texas Area; Evacuees Returning x Dallas, Tex iOT Torren tial rains battered south and southwest Texas with up to jtearly eight inches of rain to day as about a fourth of the 6.000 eracuees in flood-battered Fort Worth and Dallas re turned to their homes with a wary eye on new thunder heads. Flash flooding struck scores of towns west and south of San Antonio and all the way to Corpus Chriiti. New cloud bursts deluged the Nueces riv er watershed. ' Ike, Adenauer Open Talks on World Problems Washington (in President Eisenhower and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer opened formal talks today on pressing world problems with fast-breaking disarmament de velopments topping the list.. The doughty chancellor and his foreign minister, Heinrich von Brentano, headed for a meeting first with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Adenauer then planned to at tend a luncheon gathering with Eisenhower at which he appar ently will spell out in further detail Germany's position on the five-power disarmament nego: tiations resuming today in Lon don. Met Informally Sunday The two leaders had a chance to "stake out The terrain" of their talks at an informal meet ing Sunday amid the .rolling green acres of the President's farm in Gettysburg, Pa. The two were1 to take up to day where they left off Sun day after three hours of private discussion. Besides disarmament top issues on the agenda are German reunification, . Soviet policies and developments in Eastern Europe including a pos sible satellite swing away. from Moscow. The President undoubtedly will assure Adenauer that thej United States will not agree tol any "neutralization" of Germany as a price for an East-West dis armament accord. Negotiations Start With Two Unions Medford Corporation officials are negotiating locally on new contracts with the International Woodworkers of America, CIO, woods and railroad union and the AFL plant workers union. The current contracts expire on Friday, May 31.' B. L. Nutting, manager of Medford corporation, said a meeting was held recently with the IWA-CIO. A 15-cent general wage increase is being sought by woods and railroad workers, in addition to a pension plan, a third week of vacation for all employees with five or more years of seniority, and other changes. A meeting will be held soon with representatives of the AFL union, it was indicated. That contract will be open for negotiations on industry-wide costs, including wages, fringe benefits relative to health and welfare, vacation improvements, holiday pay, pensions, supple mentary unemployment com pensation and others, Nutting said. Weather FORECAST: Clearing fonifht.' Partly cloud r Tuesday with afternoons and evening thun derstorms mainly over moun tains south and east. Low to night JO. High Tuesday gS. Temp. Hlrhi-st Yesterday 2 Lowest this Morning 4S Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:411 a.m. 7:3p.m. 4:6S a.m. Sunset Moonrise Tuesday . New Moon May 2S Arcturus, Spica and Jupiter now form a triangle in the southern sky after sniwet. Arr turus is the highest of the three, Spira the lowest and Jupiter the brightest. same kind of immoralists." The former Republican " turn ed Democrat was questioned on the ABC television program "The Mike Wallace Interview." Several GOP senators critic ized Morse for his comparison of Eisenhower and Beck, and the senator challenged them to censure him for it. Morse charged that Eisenhow er took money out of the tax money out of the taxpayers' 52nd Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 24 Pages ?-v:jTwr - ' W ' M it ARMORY DEDICATED About 3,000 persons heard Gov. , T County Judge Rodney Keating, and State Reps. Robert Dun Robert D. holmes speak at the "dedication f,pr?fflonY nf Mpri. ... can and Al Littrell. Music was furnished by Portland's 234'" ford's newly-completed armory the dedication was Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Rilea, commander of; the Oregon National Guard and adjutant general of the Ore gon military department, as well as other state and local dig nitaries.. Speakers at. the ceremony included General Rilea, Oregon Drownings By UNITED PRESS Six persons drowned in Ore gon over the week end and a seventh victim perished in the water in southwest Washington. Barbara K i m m e 1, 2Vi, drowned Sunday near Cottage Grove when she fell in a milt pond. , James Donald Alexander, 34, Huntington, drowned Saturday when his fishing boat overturn ed in the Snake river about four miles from Huntington. David Iverson, 10, Corvallis, Japan Names Judges To Try American Tokyo OPI A Japanese Dis trict Court today named three judges for the manslaughter trial of United States Arms Special ist 3C William S. Girard, 32, Ot tawa, 111., in a move that showed Japanese determination to over ride any American opposition to a Japanese trial. At the same time the U. S. Embassy refused to help Josiah Bixler.La Grange, 111., an Ameri can civilian who appealed for "immediate asylum" from U. S. military authorities. The Army is holding him prisoner on charges of car selling irregulari ties and Boxler demanded a trial by a Japanese court. Girard became the storm cen ter of a U.S.-Japanese contro versy when he fired an empty cartridge shell into a group . of Japanese on the Camp Weir fir ing range Jan. 30 and killed a Japanese woman, Mrs. Naka Sakai. She was one of a group of Japanese- picking up empty cartridges on the range. pockets by giving a fast tax writeoff to the Idaho Power Co. for the construction of power dams on the Snake river between Idaho and Oregon. He said in the television pro gram he doubted "very much" that , the President realizes that the tax amortization bill was not passed to help big business. He said "it is an interesting thing" that Eisenhower's favoritism "has proved beneficial to big business." , MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1957 Saturday night. Present at I drowned Saturday when he ' trietA in ' tum -ficliinfT nrtm. panion who had fallen into the Mary's river. The companion managed to get to safety. Walter L. Potts, 22, an Air Force man,, drowned in Thirty Rogue River Man's Body Recovered Sunday Morning The body of Darrell Edwin Winters, 25, route 1, box 174A, Rogue River, was recovered from the Rogue river near Sav age Rapids dam about 8:30 a.m. Sunday. State police said Winters ap parently fell into the water while riding an aqua plane on the river, about a mile east of the Josephine county line, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. His body, fully - clothed except for shoes, was found near the place where he fell. - Dragging operations were started about 7:30 p.m. Satur day by state police from both the Medford and Grants Pass headquarters, Rogue river guides sportsmen from the Grants Pass Rogue River area and others. Operations were suspended at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday and resumed Sunday morning about a half-hour before the body was found. Two river guides, Press and Sydney Pyle of Grants Pass and two Grants Pass state police of ficers. Bill Allen and Bob Sny der, discovered the body. They were riding in two boats about 10 feet apart. Winters' body was taken to Conger-Morris Funeral home, where funeral services will be held at . 11 a.m. Wednesday. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Winters, with whom he lived. Firemen Inspect 364 Residences for Hazards Medford city firemen last week inspected 364 residences and made 282 recommendations for correction of hazards. They noted no fire hazards in 205 dwellings. Firemen stopped at 719 homes. There was no one home at 306. Offer of inspection was declined at 39 residences. Fwe Oregon National Guard band dedication. Open house at the new armory was held prior to the ceremony, to allow the public to view the classrooms and other features of the building. Claim 6 Mile creek near Condon Satur day while swimming. Darrell Winters, Rogue River, drowned Saturday when he fell into the Rogue river from an aquaplane near Savage Rapids dam. . . Another victim was Patrick Lee Schuman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alden Schuman, of Here ford, Ore. The southwest Washington victim was Charles McBroom, 7, Orchards, who drowned Sun day in Lacamas lake near Camas when a boat in which he was riding was swamped by waves from another boat. Sen. Phil Lowry to Talk To Republicans Tonight State Sen. Phil Lowry will speak this evening at the meet ing of the Republican Central committee of Jackson county. The meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in the Medford High school cafeteria. A business session will be held prior to the talk. Reports will be given, and general discussion and a social hour wilj follow the talk. , . 'Mr. Stassen Will Now aft Astouico Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 57 for a dance which followed the Commission Sets Public Hearings ' The .Medford planning com mission tonight will hold a pub lic hearing on rezoning of 28.3 acres of land north of Jackson st and east of Biddle rd., pro posed as the site for a new Sears Roebuck and company store. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the city hall. The property, owned by Dr. I. D. Phipps, is proposed . to be rezoned . from single family (Class 1A) to limited commer cial (class 111 A), to permit con struction of the store. Earlier this month the city council called a public hearing for June 6 on annexation to Medford a 12.6-acre portion of the property now outside- the city. According to city officials the entire area would be used for the proposed new store. Another public hearing will be held tonight to consider chang ing the city zoning ordinance to provide for the construction of churches in single family zones. At present churches can only be constructed in multiple family (class IB) zones. Explain Our Position' Six Business Firms Destroyed In Conflagration Stores Lose Stocks To Nighttime Inferno Astoria (IP) Fire caused an estimated $500,000 damage and destroyed six business firms here early Sunday. The blaze started only about 100 feet from the spot where a fire started 32 years ago which virtually wiped out the city. The blaze left not much more than the walls standing of the E. P. Burke building at 11th and Commercial streets here. The building was constructed a year after the December, 1922, blaze which swept through 32 blocks of Astoria and caused some 12 million dollars damage. Firemen Overcome Three firemen were overcome by smoke as companies from Warrenton, Tongue Point, Gear hart, Hammond, Svenson, Knap pa and Seaside joined Astoria firemen in battling the flames. The fire wiped out stocks of two jewelry stores, a children's store, a book store, an insurance office and a beauty parlor. The blaze was discovered at about 1:30 a.m., and wasn't brought under control until aft er 5 a.m. Fire Chief Wayne Os terby, a veteran of the 1922 fire, said cause of the blaze had not been determined. It apparently started in the basement near the furnace. Firemen Arrive Quickly The fire was discovered by a passerby who saw smoke com ing from the building. He called firemen who arrived three min utes later. Two jewelry stores wiped out in Sunday's fire, Shanef's amd Bell Brothers, were . wiped out in the 1922 blaze as was Utzinger book store. the Rogue River Study Will Cost $70,800 Washington, D.C. Funds' to taling $70,800 will be used in study, of the. Rogue river and tributaries, according to the Corps of Engineers. Congress man Charles O. Porter said the engineers have informed him that $44,000 will be required for completion of the study after fiscal year 1957. Earlier, $23,300 was made available and these funds were augmented by a recent allotment of $3,500, according to Brig. Gen. J. L. Pearson assistant chief of engineers for Civil Works, Porter said. While the administration's budget would provide no funds for this study. Congressman Por ter has been joined by the en tire Oregon Democratic delega tion in seeking the additional $44,000, which the engineers in dicate could be used in 1958 for this purpose. Holmes Sees No Purge Attempt by Democrats Salem Wl Gov. Robert D. Holmes said at his news confer ence today that no attempt would be made by the Democra tic party to "purge" members who failed to go along with the party in the recent session of the Legislature: - The governor said that voters eventually would take care of legislators who cons' jtently vote against the party program. He said that in most instances the votes were due to strong person al convictions. Holmes said that at the last two elections the Democrats learned how to "pull together." The governor said that Repub licans in Oregon and in the na tion's capital apparently are split wide open and are pulling in opposite directions.' Supreme Court Refuses To Reconsider Hells Canyon Washington. (IP A new at tempt by public power interests to block. development of Hells Canyon on the Snake river by the Idaho Power company was rejected by the United States Supreme Court today. -The high tribunal refused in a brief order April 1 to get into the long-standing controversy on petition of the National Hells Canyon association. Today it turned down a plea for reconsid eration. The hassle over Hells Canyon, featuring advocates of public and private power devel opment, has rocked the West for Many Offices May Have To Close, Summerfield Says $140 Million Needed To Keep Mails Going Washington (IP) Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield confronted Congress today with new threats of a massive shut down of postal services unless it meets his demands for more -funds. Summerfield said that if Con gress does not provide $140 mil lion in additional funds "we'll probably have to close hundreds if not thousands of small post offices throughout the country" as well as cut back other mail services. Budget Whacked The Senate and House knock ed $58 million out of the Post Office Department's budget for next fiscal year to show they "meant business" in the economy drive. But the postal chief said that far from accepting such a cut, his department will need $140 million more just to maintain present services. Summerfield said Sunday that he would request the sum "in a few days.' He warned at the time the cuts were made that he would have to curtail postal services July 1 unless the reductions were restored and another $70 million to $90 million appropriated. Wouldn't Be Enough Even if Congress restored the $58 million, he said Sunday; it "will not be enough for us to maintain present mail service in 1958." Summerfield also said if the funds, are not forthcoming, "it will probably mean the elimina tion of all Saturday deliveries completely." ... He blamed the need for extra appropriation on the growth of the nation's economy and the in creases in the use of maiL Three Boys Hurt In Accident Sunday Three Medford youths were in jured at 6:50 a.m. Sunday, when an axle broke in the pick-up truck in which they were riding on the- Hillcrest-Phoenix high way, according to state police. Taken to Sacred Heart Hos pital by Medford Ambulance service were Edward Ray Bee son, 15, of 3524 South Pacific highway, operator of the vehicle, and his two passengers, Ted Spurlock, 16, route 3, box 370, Medford, and Fred Beeson, 14, of 3524 South Pacific highway. Police said the boys were traveling north on the highway, south of the Barnett rd. intersec tion, when the back axle of the truck broke, causing the left rear wheel to lock. The vehicle then struck a power pole. Although the truck did not overturn, officers said the driver was pinned underneath it. He is reported to be suffering from possible broken ribs and bruises. Attendants at the hospital said this morning that the Beesons are "getting along nicely." The Spurlock boy was released after treatment for injuries at the hos pital Sunday. The vehicle was de molished, state police said. Residents Reminded To Get Fire Petmits Central Point Officials of the Central Point Rural Fire depart ment ' today reminded residents that permits will be required for all burning within the district limits starting June 1. Permits may be obtained at the. fire station, south of Central Point on Highway 99, and infor mation may be obtained by call ing the office NO 4,2244. Portland Wi Selection of a jury in the trial of eight per sons in connection with a ply wood co-operative fraud charge was scheduled to start this after noon. ' . several years. The April 1 action made final a ruling by the U. S. Court of Appeals upholding the Federal Power commission's handling of the issue in, 1955. The com mission authorized construction by the Idaho Power company of three dams across the Snake riv er at the Idaho-Oregon border. Public power advocates want a single high dam built by the federal government. The matler is still before Congress, which has refused to endorse the pro ject up to now. Meantime, Idaho power is going ahead. 5.