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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
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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."
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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
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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.