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JUNE 5, 1957
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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
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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.
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