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OM Ml tl 52nd Year Price 10c PACT TO FOREVER prohibit use ira WAR SAID 'IVIUST' Tribune EDFC bn::a '.- ufl Lw Win United Press Full Leased Wira 18 Page JUNE 5, 1957 M Infill -I r t ;'h 'k itvtxn c ion yJ irst Balloon-Suspended uclear One of Smallest Ever Exploded by Atomic Commission 45 Experiments Made By Science Laboratory Lsj Vegas, Nev. If An Atomic Energy commission de vice was fired at 4.46 a m. to day from a platform suspended fr'.m a captive balloon flround anchored 500 feet above Yucca Flat in the Nevada desert. The shot was a devise of the Livermore (Calif ) scientific lab oratory with 45 experiment taken in connection with its fir ing, including the use of a num ber of rabbits to determine sen sitivity of eyes to the blast. Fint Balloon Blast It was the first time the A EC ever had detonated one of lU family of nuclear weapons from a balloon. Veteran atomic ob servers riracribed it as on of the smallest ever esplofled with a probable yield of only one kiloton or lesa. The fireball via visible for lees titan on minut in the half overcast elties Jut before dawn broke the AF.Ca testing jn-nunds acme TS miles northeast of here Dr. JtJerald Johnson, lent di rector, said the detonation w "quite? Successful from the tech nical viewpoint." After the brief fle.h and a muffled report a small cloud rose above the skyline to Home d.nno iert and drifted slowly north and e5t of the site. The AFC tad; it anticipated no re port of fallout. Cloudi Traced: The ACC hd announced that fallout Has evnected to be very small nd radar ClOud-trncking experiment swung into action to trai.e tile movement of any radiation-laden cloud. Only onre previously has a device of such flight force been exploded Today s blast, equal to approximately l.OCO ton of TNT. wa aiout lJfiib the aire cf tlie A bornlis dropped on Japan during World War U. In connection with today's test iw 18 military effects ex periment were carried out, in clude 2 ' no new field radio logical safety equipment involv ing small numbers of military personnrl. Closed-circuit television cam eras monitored the blast closeup for the A EC. keepin scientists informed as to the rxart position of the balloon at all 3imes as it swung at its moorings. Portland IP The Oregon of fice of the Bureau of Land Man agement has proposed to with draw 116 acres of public lands from entry in the Steens moun tains in southeast Harney countv. 34 Phoenix High Graduates Receive Diplomas Tuesday Thoenix Thirty-four Fhoe nix high school graduates re c ived diplomas last night, from Curtis Barnes, member of the Phoenix school board. Dr. Ar thur Kreisman of Southern Ore gon college addressed the class. Charlotte Stovall. valedictor ian, was awarded tuition schol arships from Oregon State col leg and Southern Oregon col lege. Miss Petty Medford. salu- tatorian, was also honored. Gets Honors Jim James received an Elk Lumber company scholarship to Willamette university, a part tuition scholarship to Southern Oregon college, and an honors for leadership certificate from the University of Oregon. Doro'by Bran was awarded a sTto scholarship fr.om nurses "--irvr bv the women's auxili ;rv of the Jackson County Medi r! sorlc'y and was presented v :t'i the Fiioenix Lions club scholarship of S100 to be used t the college of her choice. Larry Glidden received a car tificate of merit from the Na tional Merit Scholarship corpor ation for placing among the top nne-ha!f of one percent of high rhool students in th nation Device Tested "Notice How We've Woman on Stand in Plywood Fraud Case Portland A Portland stenographer today testified in the trial of seven defendants ac cused of fraud in the sale of Mount Hood Hardboard and Ply wood cooperative membership and told how she once walked around with $34,000 in cash on her person. Mrs. Freda Piatt said she was secretary to Edgar Robert Er rion, the Portland and Seattle promoter who has pleaded guilty to two counts of an indictment against him. To Prevent Attachment She said she once converted $34,000 of Errion's cashier's checks into cash and carried it about with her to prevent the money from possible attachment Bicycle Rider Hurt In. Accident Tuesday William Gail Roberts, 16. of 114 Chestnut, was injured Tues day morning when his bicycle hit an automobile on North Columbus ave. between Main and Bryant sts , according to city police. Roberts fell from his bicycle when it hit a hole in the pave ment, police said, and was thrown against a car driven by Jim Richard Westcnsee, 19, of 300 South Columbus ave. Roberts received a bump on the forehead and several bruises, police reports showed. No citations were issued. taking the national scholarship Qualifying test and college en trance board examinations. Plaque P-eienled A plaque was presented by Neil Gearin. student body presi dent, to Donald Korth. retiring school hoard chairman, in recog-' traffic pubic relations manager nition of his service. iIO SP, said the railroad applied Students receiving diplomas 10r the same increase between were Alicia Gale Abbott. Doro-! California points and that this thy Irene Bean. Barbara Annihas neen granted. He said the Blankenship. Larrv William i Interstate Commerce Commis- Bluni. Fred Peter Bohm, Janice Marie Bohm. Glen Wayne Brad ley, David Delmar Carr, William Clark. Robert Louis Clower. Pa tricia K. Cotton. Vanita Louise Cummings. David Ardian Dahl. Delford B. Dean. NpU Andrew Gearin. Lawrence Frank Glid den and Marilyn Rae Grennan. Carolyn Kay Haight. Reba Sue Hensley, Richard Ernest .lames. Charlotte Marilyn Keene. Gavle Ann Larson. Don ald Ray McCarty, Betty Ann Medford. Truman Lee Milton. Lydia Catherine Plummer. Per ry Sneed. Charlotte Levoyce Stovall. Rodney Joel Strahm, Richard Rollin Shatto, Marva Louise Suit. Archie Gilbert Trott. Elvie Julia Watkins. Llewellyn William Witte. Got Them Isolated" IShe said she had heard that cash- ier's checks could be attached. One of the defendants is Mrs. Helen Davenport, -77-year-old Portland socialite and head of the Davenport Corporation. Mrs. Piatt said Mrs. Davenport gave her authority to write checks on the corporation bank account. And she testified that Errion us ed the account of the Davenport Corporation as his own, making deposits and paying out. Paid Percentage According to Mrs. Piatt, Mrs. Daverrport's firm had a con tract with the Mt. Hood Cooper ative to be paid 10 per cent of the membership sold to inves tors. That would have meant 5.55.000 for the Davenport cor poration. A Christian Science practi tioner. Arthur D. Howard, told the court how Errion came to him several times for profes sional services and had per suaded him to sign a letter that was to have obtained heavy fi nancing for a plywood plant to be built by the co-op. Howard said he later burned the letter but the government said it was first used to make prospective investors think the co-op had genuine financial backing. SP Seeks Higher Fare On Shasta Daylight Salem W The Public Utili ties Commission said today a public hearing will be held here at 10 a.m. June 17 on applica tion by Southern Pacific rail road for an increase in parlor car fares on its Shasta Daylight passenger train. The railroad filed an applica tion last August with the PUC for permission to boost both parlor car and coach fares on the- Shasta Daylight about 10 per cent between Oregon points. A hearing on the coach application will be held later. B e r n a 1 Quayle, passenger sion also approved the increase. Swimming Classes To Start on June 17 Swimming classes are sched uled to start Monday. June 17, at the public swimming pool at Hawthorne park, according to city officials. The pool will open Sunday. June 9. Registration for the classes, which are held by the city each year, will begin Thursday, June 13. at the pool. When the pool opens Sunday it will have a new coat of aqua color paint. Portland W The Agricul ture Department said that prices received by Oregon farmers dropped one per cent during the month ending May 15. Guinea Pig Role For Daye Beck Jr. Seen By McClellan Test Seen on Use Of Fifth Amendment Washington Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) predicted today the Senate will make Dave Beck Jr. a guinea pig in a con tempt of Congress test case for frivolously an capriciously" in voking the Fifth Amendment. Young Beck invoked the Fifth Amendment 130 times in 40 min utes Tuesday under questioning by the Senate Rackets Com mittee. Committee Chairman McClel lan said the committee will act in about 10 days on a contempt recommendation against the 36-year-old son of the Teamster union president. The committee also ordered contempt ' proceedings against Joseph McEvoy, a nephew of the elder Beck by marriage. Mc Evoy, the alleged bodyguard of the 6-foot, 200-pound Beck Jr., invoked the fifth 90 times. Both men refused to answer nearly all questions put to them by the committee, including their connection with the Teamsters Union and its payroll. If the Senate approves the contempt citations, the cases will be sent to the Justice department for prosecution. Maximum pen alty on conviction is one year in prison and a S1.000 fine. McClellan's ire seemed to fo cus on two angles of young Dave's performance: The Team ster president's son refused even to say whether he "honestly be lieved" his answers would tend to incriminate him; and he re fused to say whether he knew his father or to state where he got the name "Dave Beck Jr." The chairman said he doubted the fr'amers of the U. S. Consti tution "ever conceived that such flagrant abuse would be made" of the Fifth Amendment, which states that a witness cannot be compelled to testify against him self. New Amendment Seen McClellan told newsmen that if young Beck and McEvoy are not convicted of contempt of Congress "will have to do some thing else" to prevent such use of the Fifth Amendment. A reporter asked if McClellan meant Congress might propose a constitutional amendment. "If it takes that, yes," said McClellan. "The alternative would be a law and order break down. You couldn't convict any criminals" if they and other wit nesses could take the Fifth Am endment capriciously in all at tempts to investigate them. Russian Super Bomb Explosion Delected Washington HP Nuclear physicist Ralph E. Lapp report ed evidence today that the Rus sians have exploded five radio actively "dirty" super bombs similar to the giant H-bomb test ed bv the United States March 1, 1954. Lapp told a congressional Atomic Energy Subcommittee investigating radiation that Ja panese scientists have found evi dence in fallout from Soviet tests that the Russians have achi eved the so-called fission-fusion-fission bomb He said the Japan ese told him Soviet tests account for 70 per cent of fallout on Ja pan, U.S. tests for 30 per cent. City Firemen Make 101 Home Inspections City firemen made 101 home inspections yesterday and made PI recommendations for correc tion of hazards. No hazards were noted at 51 residences. Weather FORECAST: Considerable rloud ines tnniEht with low 52. Parlly rloudv Thursdav with rhinrf of afternoon lhunnr tnrmt in mountains. High Thursday v TFMPERATl RE fligh'M st. M Lnt tht Mnrninr . 5T TR EC iFITATiOV Our Skies Tonight unric 4'.T a.m. Sunset ... 7 44 p.m. Moonsrt Thursday ....12:51 i.m. Full Moon June 12 EVENING STARS Saturn, low in south east R44 p m. Venus st . 8:44 p.m. Mam (above Venus) ts . 9-ti p.m. 'nitr. not-fit tt th M"b. PRESIDENT There Would Have New School Budget Wins by Big Margin A budget of 52,329,765.89 for Medford school district 549C next year, yesterday was ap proved by a 9 to 1 margin by voters of the district. A total of 741 voters turned out, w hich represents one of the largest voter turn-outs here in many years. There were 666 "yes" votes. 74 "no" votes and one invalid ballot. Leonard Mayfield, superin tendent of the district, said yes terday's turnout was believed the largest percentage turnout for any budget election in any of Oregon's larger school dis tricts this year. Last year, a total of 751 voted in the Medferd school district budget election. That was the largest turn-out on record. May field said. There were 601 "yes" votes and 151 "no" votes that year. The 9 to 1 ratio iri favor of the 1957-58 budget was the largest net "yes" vote here in the last several years, according -to May field. Last year's ratio was 4 to 1 in favor of the budget and in 1955, the ratio was 6.8 to 1. Berrydale Area Officially Annexed The secretary of state's office in Salem Tuesday afternoon no tified city officials that annexa tion of the Berrydale area to Medford became effective June 3. The letter acknowledged re ceipt of a transcript of votes in the May 22 Berrydale election. City Manager Robert Duff filed the transcript of votes with the state office May 23. The election was held May 22 in which 410 votes were cast. In the official canvass of votes 219 Berrydale residents approved the annexation proposal and 191 were opposed. AMA Probing Use of Stimulants by Athletes New York HP) The Ameri can Medical association today launched an investigation of "shocking" use of stimulant drugs by athletes, including school children, to improve their performance. gates, governing body of the powerful organization, instruct ed the AMA Board of Trustees to determine the extent of "in discriminate" use of stiumulants that can produce "antisocial be havior" and cause serious phyi cal and mental changes. Blown Fuse Causes Brief Power Outage A transformer fuse blew out near the Craterian theater early Tuesday afternoon, causing a j30-minute power outage for a number of downtown custo mers, according to the Califor nia Oregon Power company. The outage affected buildings in the block bounded by Cen tral ave.. Bartlett St., Main st. and Eighth st. The company was notified of the blown fuse at 1:25 p m.. and restored the power at 1:55 p m. Basebal NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee 9 9 1 New York 8 IS 0 Pizzarro. Johnson (2) and Crandall: Burnside. Davis (8). Miller (8) and Thomas. Katt (). EISENHOWER To Be An Agreement General operating fund budg et for 1957-58 is $2,129,429.01. Amount for bond interest and sinking fund is S200.326.88. Esti mated receipts for the next year total S709.229 for the general fund and S140.665.90 for bonds and interest and sinking fund, or a total of .$849,394.90. Total amount to be raised by taxation is S1.528. 163.08. Amount within the 6 per cent limitation is $428,072.95, leav ing SI, 039, 091. 80 in excess of the 6 per cent limitation. Mill levy for 1957-58 will be 46.8. which represents an increase of 3.1 mills over the current year. Civil Rights Bill Fight Opens in House Washington W The first round in the long-delayed con gressional fight over civil rights opened in the House today. The first matter to be settled was what restrictions should be placed on the debate. The House set aside all other business and began arguing that point shortly after it convened at noon. Rep. William M. Colmcr (D Miss), took the floor first to present a proposal made by the Rules Committee that four days be allowed for general de bate on the bill and that an tin limited number of amendments be allowed for consideration aft er that. Opponents of the controver sial bill are expected to offer about three dozen amendments next week. City Police Wear Summer Uniforms With the temperature soaring into the 90s Monday, city po lice officers went into summer uniforms for the first time in several years. The change in the uniform is the use of a light blue poplin shirt instead of the dark blue wool jacket that is part of the winter uniform. Monday the day shift made the change with the 4 p.m. to mer umorm for the8first time ,hi .vpnin. n,. mirlni.,ht tn o a.m. shift will change at a later date, officials said. Tax Department to Get New Folding Machine A folding machine to expedi ate mailing of tax statements to county residents has been ordered by the county tax de partment, according to County Commissioner Chester Wendt. The machine, which will cost $225 plus delivery charges, should improve the system for mailing the approximately 25, 000 statements, he said. Film Crews Stage 'Train Hoid-Up' at Tolo There was a "hold up" at the Tolo underpass last night but it was all make believe. Cast for' "The Violent Road," an "early west" type produc tion by Regal Films, Inc., com- pleted work on a train hold-up scene there last night and will be leaving southern Oregon this week, after filming a street scene at Jacksonville. Work Until Light R. P. Corbin. general manager of Oregon-California Theaters. said about 200 people witnessed the filming of the hold-up scene. : The cast started work about dark j and stayed until daylight Decis-IM Washington HP President Eisenhower said today he favored a total ban on testing nuclear weapons, provided such a prohibi tion is linked firmly to an international agreement backed up by inspection prohibiting forever the future use of such weapons in war. The President's news conference remarks on bomb testing stemmed from the current controversy over the effects of radio acivity generated by such tests. In a many-sided discussion with reporters of the radiation and bomb testing controversy, Eisenhower made these other points: He did not believe that this country ever again would test a hydrogen bomb the size of the largest weapon exploded in the Pacific March 1, 1954. That blast caused widespread, damaging fallout. He did not rule out further tests of smaller hydrogen wea pons, however, pointing out that the H-bomb is one of the cleanest weapons devised by the government's nuclear scientists. He accepted the findings of, the National Academy of Sci ences that current radiation re sulting from tests is not danger ous. He said that opposition to the tests now being voiced by numerous others scientists seems to have a degree of organization behind it. He expressed the opinion that many scientists now dis agreeing with the government on fallout are not geneticists or physicists and are, in fact, out of their field of competence. Eisenhower opposed halting bomb tests pending an ironclad disarmament agreement bann ing, for all time, the u.se of such weapons in war. Without such an agreement, he said it would be foolish to fall behind any other nation and this means that testing will have to con tinue. Other news conference high lights: The President Mid the pro posal of Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushcev for withdraw al of all foreign forces from Germany might be an effort to drive a wedge between the Western Allies. He noted that Khrushchev in his televised in terview Sunday said nothing bout the reunification of Ger many. He expressed the hope that Khrushchev's statment favoring a first-step agreement toward full disarmament reflected real progress t o w a rd permament peace. As for "equal time" on the Russian radio and television to answer Khrushchev, the Presi dent said that if the Soviet Union wanted to ask an American to appear over its facilities and guaranteed that there would be no jamming, interference or counter attractions to influence j the Russian audience swfy then somebody in the Americfn government would bo glad to ac cept such an invitatiof. He advocated that big Re publican Party contributors, who are holding out now because they do not like the size of the federal budget, look up the actual facts rather than listening so much to partisan speeches. He invited these Republicans to . ponder what the budget would be today if the government had followed the plans laid down by the last Eemocratic administration. As for a pending proposal in Congress to grant a jury trial for persons cited for contempt in civil rights cases, Eisenhower said he agrees with the late Fresident William Howard Taft that an effort to put a jury trial between a court order and the enforcement of that order is an invitation to anarchy. He said that as long as the law requires it, there can be no American trade with Red China. But he thinks in the long run it may not be possible to prohibit such trade. Court of Claims Awards Money To Ute Indians Washington (Ut The Court of Claims today awarded two bands of Ute Indians about three million dollars. Specifically, it ruled they are entitled to SR79,067,17, plus in terest, from the government for 973.777 acres of land taken in 1905 as a part of the Uintah Na tional Forest in Utah. ion to do the filming last night was made suddenly, Corbin said, and most of the crowd consisted of people who saw the lights from the highway and stopped to investigate. It was originally planned lo wait for rain before "shooting" the hold-up scene, Corbin ex plained. However, in lieu of wea ther cooperation a sprinkler sys tem was used to create the de sired light rainfall effect. Cars Used A Southern Pacific company diesel, mail car and pullman ear were used in the scene. Most the action took place inside London Arms Talks Take 6-Day Recess; No Action on India London IIP The five-power disarmament conference broke up for a six-day recess to day without deciding on India s demand to enter the talks. The request from India threat ened a sudden East-West split, with Russia supporting it and Britain, France, Canada and pie United Stales opposing it. But no decision was talfn pendinf the long recess for Bi)t ain' Whitmonday week end pa tional holiday The talks resume next Tuesday. Diplomats believe U. 8. belefate Harold E. Stas sen would b ready to bna n pre senting tha. new American first step partial disermavrwnt (iaH then. Indit's wiueat to ttni 3iew gate here stemmed from th pip ley's two-month-ol invitjjtierJ (e four nation India, Kcjrwy. Japan and Yugoslavia fur nish fcntten explanations t Gift olutions on disarmament dich) they hfd plfirt lor IhfVrdtj ed Nftionj; General assSmW. All complied but India,. WiCh aikrd that it be filowed a epd a delegation to th Lonot AnpC cut talks to deliver it rxpima tion ortll. "J Soviet dIer1 "Valayigg Jaw in aupptrted the Wiues SVrw dty. The Wet , fcnoWl 4 feel that oral arajjnotts b 1 Indite delegate voild 4o little to help the tls at this, stage," ho Director Fife Nominating Petificw Central Point Nominating petitions for lo ghool board directors to succeed themtjlves have been filed in District 6C. The two a,re C. W. (Bill) An horn, whose five-year term ex pires, and Wilton White, who was eppointed Bst July by the board to fill an unexpired term until this year's election. Monday, June IT, is the date of the annual election. Anhorn is a candidate for another five year term. He is manager in Medford for Faber's Farmers supply and has four youngsters in school in Central Point. White has filed as a nomi nee to fill out the remaining two years of the term of Hal Bishop, who resigned with three years left to serve. An orchard- ist residing on Kirtland rd.. White has three boys in Crater high school. Russian Children 'Wait for Promise' Paris (UI) A cartoon by J. PruTott in today's Figaro showing a Russian peasant speaking to his ragged grand children in front of a tele vision set: Peasant: "Whal are you waiting for." Children: "For Eisenhower to come on the screen and promise us that your grand children will all be capital ists." the cars, Corbin said. Dick Gra ham and several other Shake spearian Festival players were used as "extras" for the scene. No sound was recorded during the filming. Corbin explained that the sound tract will be "dub bed in" later. Head cameraman for this film is Ernie Waller, who did the filming for "Gone With The Wind." Corbin said the title for this film, "The Violent Road," is only tentative and is likely to be changed before the production is completed. The film will be released by 20th Century Fox. O
