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o o 52ndYea' TVAXT . MEDFORDJet X Recommended Price 10e Subscribers To report improper flr fe rrv of th Mil Tnburr in M af ford phone SP 2-6141. Afciaa MU 2-1021, Yrrka R41W before p.m. daily and 1030 a.r. Sunday. If regular delivery nrrtves ly after you call please notify d f'ice thu eliminating special ffieggi sender service. RIBUNE 'r ! vt tfc initial phi i ww t i i irrifinnn, pnurr f-tj 10 ml todav i Mall T -Host o O United Press Full Leased Wire vv maau. )..r r - ' 1 United Pre Full Leased Wir. f- ' - . . f- 72 Pjjm MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY ty g -o Committee Ends Work on 1957-58 Medford Budget Public Hearing Scheduled July 5 The Medford budgrt commit tee Friday night completed work on the city budget for 1957-58, and gave it its approval. Work on the budget by the f imnuttee, which includes the eight city councilmen and eight appointed citizens, has been un derway since the tentative budg et, totaling S721.9C5. was pre sentii to the group April 18. Changes include those necessi tated by the annexation of the Berrydale district, and some other revisions in planned expen ditures, few of them of a major nature. The overall total of the ap proved budget is $755,984, and it is in balance. It is within the 6 per cent limitation on increas es, so no election will be nec essary. It will be published in full in the Mail Tribune prior to a public hearing on it, set by the budget committee Friday for July 5, or 10 days in advance of ! the deadline for completing budgets. Receipts $402,699 Total estimated receipts will amount to $402,899. Both the receipts and expenditures esti mated are larger than in the tentative budget. The increase in both is largely the result of the approval of the annexation of the Berrydale district. A tax levy of $300,920 will be needed to balance the budgei. according to Robert Duff, city manager and budget officer. The total estimated spending. $755,984. compares with a total budget of $618,158 for the cur rent year. Increases included ad ditional outlays resulting from the Berrydale. Grandview and Kenwood annexation; increased costs, and some salary increases. Russia Wants Peace, Finland Assured Helsinki npi Communist Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev Sat urday assured Finland, second victim of Soviet invasion in World War II. that all Russia wants now is peace unless its neighbors engage in "imperialist aggression." Khrushchev's statement, in the first speech he has made during his current tour of neu tral Finland, was regarded as the equivalent, for Finnish con sumption, of the threats of H homb annihilation that Premier N. A. Rulgsnin has been hurling at U.S. Allies elsewhere in Eur ope. "Pussia is opposed to tension In il parts of the world, and hopes for peace in all of north ern Europe." Khrushchev told the Soviet-Finnish friendship so ciety. "We hope that all these borders ran be friendly. "But Russia cannot, of course, rlose heP eyes when her neigh bors are drawn into imperialistic rggressinn. We must warn against that." School Official Sits During Graduation Modesto. Cailf. in" Vice Principal Ed Jalli of Huyhion High school added an unsched uled bit of color Saturday night to the senior graduating exercises. Jalli'i trousers split as he bent oyer to pick up a S10 bill lying in front of the grand stand, and he spent the re mainder of the evening seated, lisieaine; to someoae else speaV Thirty County Youths Attending Annual Beaver Boys State; Nominate Candidate Thirty Jackson county high school delgtates will attend the Feaver Boys State June 9 to 14 at Oregon State college in Cor vallis. They were to leave Med ford by chartered bus at 8 a m. today. Last week the delegates met j at the home of Robert Dames. Medford attorney, to discuss rielrcaton activities at the cop vfntion. Dames is one of their rn'visors. Also speaking to the delegates 'wre Col. W. H- Paine, rre of the founders of the Boys State in Oregon, and Alex Mc Donald. Medford High school dean of boys. At thr convention the dclega t;cn join other high school groups from throughout the s'.ate and hold student govern ment sessions on f'ne city and nate levels Dennis Cairei, Jacksonville "Coast To Coast Without Seeing A Stop Light Or Anything Else" Premier and Cabinet Quit Posts in Iraq Baghdad. Iraq V Premier Nouri El Said and his cabinet resigned Saturday. Political observers predicted that King Fcisal will ask Nouri to form a new cabinet, including most of his present ministers. The only notable change is ex pected to he the inclusion of ex-Premier Tewfik EI Sauweidi in the new regime. These observers said the re organization is not expected to make any important difference in Iraq's foreign or domestic policies. Nouri went to the royal pal ace to present the cabinet's formal resignation to the king after conferring with other mem bers of the government at a meeting earlier in the day. Tewfick was cabled to the palace for a 30-minute confer ence with the king after Nouri h?d left. Action Delayed by Crisis Reports circulating here said Nouri had intended to resign for some time. These reports King Saud Appeals For Israel Pressure Cairo W King Saud of Saudi Arabia was reported Sat urday to have appealed to Pres ident Eisenhower to put pressure on Israel to halt its "provoca tions" in the contested Gulf of Aaaba. The report, printed by the In dependent Egyptian Newspaper Al Ahram. coincided with a warning by Syrian Premier Sa bri Assali that the Arab world has taken "sufficent" measures to keep Israeli ships from using the Suez canal. Al Ahram said in a Washing ton dispatch that Saud told Ei senhowed in a message he was worried about Israeli "provoca tions" which he charged threat ened the security of Moslem pil grims on their way to the Holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The newspaper said Saud handed the message to the U.S. ambassador in Saudi Arabia and forwarded a copy to the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washing ton. The reported move followed a Saudi Arabian protest in the United Nations Security Council Wedneseday that Israeli war ships have bombarded its coast and imperiled Moslem pilgrimag es by land and sea routes in the Aqaba gulf. High student body president, was elected by the delegation to rep resent them as their nominee for student governor. Among those attending the convention from Medford High school will be Don Cordier, spon sored by the Elks lodge: Ken- neth B. Baker, sponsored by Dr. Earl Lawson; Henrv Courtnev. Conger-Morris Funeral home: Lynn Hales. Mann's department store; Harold Friend. Neff Frohnmayer and Lowry law firm: and Ted Lawson, Rotary club. Also on the delegation from Medford High school are Clar ence Comstock. Barker's cloth ing store: Robert Allen. White law Candy store; Harold Sexton. Weeks and Orr company; John L. Connolly. Kiwanians club: Dale Forsee. sponsored by Col onel Faine; Stephen Hoag, Elk Lumber eompany; Clark Barker, SEid he deferred action because of the crisis that boi! d up in the Middle East early this year. Nouri had been premier con tinuously since August. 1954. giving him an unusually long tenure for the chief of an Arab government. The cabinet that resigned with him was set up in its current form in December, 1955. State, Federal Lookouts Manned Several lookout stations of both the U.S. and state forestry departments were named last week as continued dry weather created a potential forest fire danger. Two lightning fires have al ready occurred within the Rogue River national forest, ac cording to ranger Vernon Taylor. Squaw peak, Tallowbox, Cin nefaar and Robinson butte were among the U.S. forest service lookouts already manned. It is possible others in the lower altitudes will have to be man ned this week unless rain falls in the area, forest service of ficials said. Usually only a few of the lookouts have to be occupied before fire training, which is held May 19. 20 and 21. The U.S. forest service has 17 look out stations and 32 fire guard stations in this area. All 11 of the slate forestry de partment lookouts will be man ned by June 11, according to de partment officials. Those already manned are Anderson butte, Battle mountain. Burnt peak, White point. Fredenburg, Chim ney rock, Round Table, Soda mountain and Table mountain. Buck rock and Mount Isabelle will be the last to be manned. All 15 of the state fire guard stations will be manned by Mon day. Fire supression crews will be on duty about June 17. cleaning trails, roads and camps, accord ing to state forestry department officials. Modesto, Calif. itPi Ralph W. Kuhl, Modesto, was drowned in Modesto reservoir Saturday when he was catapulted from his motorboat while making a sharp turn to rescue a fallen water skier. Medford Lions; and Dave Hav lick. Home Appliance company. Other attending will be Roger Johnson, sponsored by Nye Naumes Packing company; Kent Sherfy. Medford Concrete com pany; Frank Peterson, Fluhrer bakery; Bob Pond, sponsored by Robert Dames: Tom Perkey. Medford chapter of the Amer ican legion: Robert L. Steele. Robinson Brothers clothing store; and Bill Young, Medford Mail Tribune. Students from county hjgh schools attending will be Ronald Daugherty, sponsored by the Phoenix Lions; James Bunker. Eagle Point Lions: Rodney Col lins. Shady Cove; Richard Rob inson. Prospect Lions: Allen King. Talent Lions; Jerry Kerr. St. Marys Parent club; Rick Colver. Knights of Columbus: and Caird, Jacksonville High schooL Anti-Red Slain in On Eve of Voting Beirut, Lebanon, w Red gunmen Saturday assassinated an anti-Communist political lead er on the eve of crucial elec tions that will decide whether Lebanon continues its pro-Western policies or ikies up with "neutralist" Syria and Egypt. Police said Toros Tcheftdjian, leader of the Tashnik anti-Communist Armenian party, was shot to death by two Commu nists when he opened a window of his apartment here. Underground Blamed Authorities blamed an Ar- Meeting Called To Air Discrepancies In CP. Budget Central Point A special meet ing of the Central Point budget committee and city council has been called for Monday night to study discrepancies which occurred in the city budget pub lished last week in a weekly paper. Don Patterson, chairman of the budget committee, said that some of the figures listed are not those which the committee un derstood were to go in the bud get. The resulting change in the tctal estimated expenditures which appeared in the published document would have resulted in a rise in the millage rate from lfi 9 mills last year to 22.7 mills for the coming fiscal year. Patterson said the committee did not yet know where the figures originated.- but hoped to complete the corrected budget Monday night and prepare it for publication. City Attorney Roy Bashaw and the city auditor. Accountant Leland Knox, will attend to morrow's meeting. The discrepancies, which were first noticed and brought to the budget committee's attention by a Mail Tribune reporter, forced a postponement of a public bud get hearing which had been set for June 28. The budgrt had originally been prepared and adopted May 23. Senate Page Boyf Swedish Girl Elope Washington W Love can't win in the case of a young senate page boy and the 16-year-old daughter of a Swedish diplomat who have been missing for a week and are believed to have eloped. The girl's father, Col. Stig Wennerstrom, holds the trump card that is certain to end his daughter's romance once she is found her passport. The girl, Christina, vanished last Sunday as her parents were packing to go home to Stock holm. Also missing was her boby friend. HUW Williams, 17, a page in the senate and son of Mrs. Donna Williams, a senate clerical employee. Mrs. Williams said the two were "madly in love." . But W'ennerstrom, military at tache at the Swedish embassy, took a cold view of the suspect ed elopment. At his request po lice in 13 states were alerted to be on the lookout for the cou ple. Bridges Exhausted; Resting in Hospital Washington W Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), 58. chairman of the Senate Republican policy committee, is suffering from "complete exhaustion" and is in a local hospital to rest "for about a week," it was revealed Satur day. "The Senator is all run-down," a member of his staff said. "He just ran out of gas because he has been working too hard all year." Weather FORECAST: Parllv rlonifv anil a little ronlrr todav and (n rallv rlfar and warmer Mon dav. Hish tndav t.S. Inw to msht .'1. hich Mondav 92. TEMPERATURE Hirhst yfU T Lowest vt. 53 PRECIPITATION Son. Sunrite 4 1 a m. Sunset T :i p m. The Moon rises well before unset, sets .Monday at 3:18 a.m. and widl he full on June 12. Venus, the first "star" visihle atler sunset, is now in the rnn stellatirnn. Gemini. 1 S 3 million miles from the Earth tonight, it sets at S:27 p.m. r f on menian Communist underground for the slaying. The shooting occurred as U.S. Ambassador Donald Heath for mally turned over the first ship ment of U.S. military aid asked for by the Lebanese govern ment. The shipment was ferried here aboard four American Air Forr-e planes. It included 37 jeeps and 12 recoillcss 106 rifles capable of being mounted on jeeps. (A Moscow radio broadcast monitored in London described the arms shipment as an Ameri can attempt to interfere with to day's elections.) The developments highlighted a day in which the Lebanese prepared to vote today in the first of four Sunday elections expected to have a decisive ef fect on the nation's foreign policy. Regarded as Plebescile Aging pro-American Prime Minister Semi Bey Solh, who recently recovered from a bron chial pneumonia attack, is putting his government on the line in what observers regard as a plebescite between West and East. Opposition forces led by for mer Prime Minister Abdullah El Yafi want to line up Lebanon witii the neutralist Arab policies of Egypt and neighboring Syria. Mining Executive Stabbed to Death Sault St. Marie, Ont. npi Wealthy mining executive John G. McCombe was stabbed to death while on a prospecting trip in a remote area of Ontario, an autopsy disclosed Saturday. He was earlier reported to have died from a heart attack. McCombe, president of Fun day Bay Copper mines and Mc Combe Mining and Exploration Ltd., died earlier this week while on an exploratory trip with his nephew, Robert McCombe, and Robert Harris. Both men were questioned by police Saturday. Police said McCombe appar ently was stabbed in a tent while his nephew was clearing up camp some 100 yards away and Harris was out prospecting. Thv said his body was covered with wounds, apparently inflicted with a razor. Russia Requested To Free German Civilians Bonn. Germany iffl The West German government ap pealed to Russia Saturday to release an estimated 80,000 to 100.000 German civilians still held in the Soviet Union. I The appeal was marie in a note delivered to the Kremlin by Dr. Wilhelm Haas. West German ambassador to Moscow. In the three-page note, Can cellor Konrad Adenauer's gov ernment called on the Soviets to conclude a full-scale repatria tion agreement similar to that signed by Russia and Poland. West German and Soviet of ficials are scheduled to open trade talks in Moscow soon. The German note urged that the repatriation issue be discussed at the same time with the aim of reaching an accord on condi tions for the release of German civilians. Chronic Disease Said Nation's Top Problem Chicago W Rep. James Roosevelt of California Saturday night warned that victims of chronic diseases who require prolonged hospital care repre sent the nation's "No. 1 Medical problem." "As medical science lengthens our life span and finds new ways to prevent deaths from tuber culosis and other diseases, the problem of patients with pro longed illness grows," he said. Roosevelt addressed some 1,200 midwest supporters of the American Medical center at Den ver at its 53rd anniversary din ner here. New York npi EvanEelist Billy Graham told an overflow audience in Madison Square Gar den Saturday night that psychi atrists will have to convert peo ple if tne church fails to do so. Santa Cruz. Calif.. OP Marilyn Fox, 21, of Bakersfield, Calif., was killed Saturday night and her companion seriously in jured when their sports car fail ed to make a curve south of here. EXPECTS TO GET A FAIR TRIAL Army Specialist William S. Girard (center), who is to be handed over to the Japanese authorities for trial on a manslaughter charge, holds his first conference in Camp Whittington, Japan, with his chief defense council, Itsuro Hayashi (left). At right is Major Stanley F. Levin, Girard's Army legal advisor. Girard said he likes the Japanese people and expects to get a fair trial. Girard's Attorneys Open New Attack on Decision for Trial Washington TP Attorneys for Army Specialist William S. Girard Saturday opened a new front in their attack on Presi dent Eisenhower's decision to turn the young so'.dier over to a Japanese court for manslaugh ter trial. Joseph S. Robinson, a member of Girard's defense panel, an nounced in New York that he is preparing subpoenas to call former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Sens. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.) and Styles Brid ges (R-N.H.) into federal court in Washington on the case. These three co-signers of the U.S.-Japan security treaty will be asked whether they agree that the U.S. government had the right to turn Girard over to Japan for trial on a crime "com mitted on an American military reservation." Robinson also said he would ask that former ambassador to Japan John M. Allison be sub poenaed for questioning on his "authorization" of the Status of Forces agreement governing rights of American troops based in Japan. This agreement was signed Sept. 29, 1953 while Al lison was in Tokyo. He is now ambassador to Indonesia. The subpoenas will be turned over to the US. marshal in Washington Monday. - The new move foreshadowed a major legal challenge to the agreement's clause permitting U.S. officials to waive jurisdic tion over servicemen when there is a dispute over whether a court martial or local courts should try an overseas service man. ' Subpoenas already have been issued to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Defense Secretary Charles S. Wilson and Army Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker to appear in federal district court Foreign Aid Critics Mapping Trim Efforts Washington 0PI Critics of President Eisenhower's Foreign I Aid program Saturday mapped new efforts to trim the $3,637, 000.000 authorization measure further when it comes up for Senate debate. Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.), one of three senators who voted against approving the bill in the Senate Foreign relations commit tee Friday night, was drafting a critical minority report which he said would be ready Wednes day. Morse was also expected to present a series of amendments mainly aimed at restricting the long-range aspects of military aid and economic loan programs written into the bill by the com mittee. Sports Bulletins Camp White Camp White whipped Glendale 11 to 3 here last night in a Rogue Valley league baseball game. Vancouver 'IP Five un earned runs in the ninth in ning stood up for the Port land Beavers as they defeated ihe Vancouver Mouniies 8-4 Saturday night at Capilano stadium. Sacramento, Calif. TO Rudy Regalado hit a home run in the ninth inning Sat urday night to give the San Diego Padre a 7-6 victory over the Sacramento Solons in a Pacific Coast league game before 1,764 fans. Seattle Jim Fridley's run-scoring single in the ninth inning and the seven-hit pitch ing of Tom Lasorda gave Los Angeles a 1-0 victory over Seattle her Saturday night in a Pacific Coast league contest. Tuesday and explain their waiv er of jurisdiction in the Girard case. Dulles said he would send his legal counsel. The others were expected to do likewise. A Washington attorney for Girard predicted that the Otta wa, 111., soldier would be brought home by court order and never would stand trial in a Japanese court. Government attorneys dis agreed. They avoided public statements but said they ex pected the federal court here to follow precedent and uphold the administration's decision to turn Girard over to a Japanese court for trial. Dayton M. Harrington, one of U.S. Judge Offers To Defend Girard Los Angeles W A Los Angeles municipal judge of Jap anese ancestry volunteered to defend Army Specialist 1-C Wil liam S. Girard at his Japanese trial on manslaughter charges in volving the death of a Japanese woman on an Army firing range. Judge John F. Aiso, who is a U. S. Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel, made the offer in a let ter to President Eisenhower. In World "War II, Judge Aiso was executive assistant to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's top mili' tary aide. Aiso was educated at Brown University, Harvard Law school and a Japanese univer sity, speaks Japanese and is fa miliar with Japanese law. He has practiced law here and in New York and Manchuria. The offer was made before Girard "fired" his Japanese attorney in Japan. Aiso said he could take a leave of absence from his post here if he was assigned to temporary active duly for the trial. In another development here, the Constitution party of Cali fornia said it had demanded the 'immediate return" of Girard "to the protection of the Consti tution." Loss of Technicians !s Growing Problem Washington HP The exodus of skilled technicians from the Armed Forces has become so serious that it will receive pri ority attention at a top-level meeting of high defense officials Thursday, the Army-Navy-Air Force journal said Saturday. The publication said "alarm ing" reports on manpower losses particularly in the Air Force will be aired at a conference of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force and military chieftains of each of the services. The meeting, an annual affair, will be held at the Mar ine Base at Quantico, Va. Bee Colonies For Bacterial Seventy-eight colonies of bees in Jackson county have been quarantined by the state depart ment of agriculture following discovery of the disease Ameri can foul brood. The bacterial in fection kills immature bees. A. Burr Black, apiary super visor with the departments aid that 35 of 17 colonies in the quarantined yard are diseased and that a number of hives are dead. He did not report where the colonies are located in the county. All movement wi'iin the yard must be done under direct sup ervision of a department deputy inspector in an effort to' eradi- Girard's five lawyers, told th United Press his hope was based on the fact that the soldier was on duty at the time he shot a Japanese woman on a firing range. In the past, he said. U.S. courts refused to intervene to block foreign trials of service men because their offenses were committed off duty. Girard, acting on advice of hi brother and his chief defenfc counsel, Earl J. Carroll, fir his famous Japanese defense it torney Friday. Harrington said this was done to avoid any possibility that Girard would be surrendered to the jurisdiction of the Maebashi, Japan, court before action in U.S. courts was completed. Tokyo (IP A Japanese at torney said Saturday SP3 Wil liam S. Girard. U.S. soldier fac ing trial by a Japanese court in a controversial manslaughter case, cannot arbitrarily dismiss horn from the defense staff. "Such things are just not done in Japan," said Itsuro Hayashi, "it is a matter of moral prin ciple. I am officially still Gi rard's lawyer until I resign or he files the proper papers with the Maebashi district court." Maj. Stanley Lpvin, Girard's mililary legal adviser, said the necessary papers will be filed Monday. Mayflower II Sailing Closer to America Plymouth, Mass. Oil The Mayflower II reported at mid rfternoon Saturday . she was about 300 miles south of Pro vincetown, Mass., and "all's well." The square-rigged replica of the Pilgrim ship increased her speed during the day to 5 knots (about 6Vi MPH). She is due to arrive here Tuesday, but the possibility was advanced that it might be Wednesday or later if the winds dropped off. Members of the reception com mittee here, who had figured the ship's arrival for the end of the month, were speeding up preparations to receive her. During the day it was disclos ed that the entire crew of 32 had been forbidden to discuss the six-week voyage with news men because the story of the crossing had been sold as ell as the Mayflower lis log. Helmet Radio Use Sunlight for Power Fort Monmouth, N.J. The army is developing a hlmet radio needing only exposure to sunlight for its electrical power, it was announced Saturday. Experiments at the Army 5i. n a 1 Engineering laboratoritst here have proved solar battiris, which convert sunlight te elec tricity, can power the vorlflat smallest transmitter-rsctivic, army officials said. Quarantined Infection cate the disease. Black mi4. In 30 days the colonies eji! be inspected and following a m ond 30-day period another in spection will be made. If at thtt time the colonies are found ip parently free of the disease, th department will lift the quaren tine. If not, they will be hi4 under quarantine until inspec tion shows the disease to be eratv icated. This is the first time the rto partment has imposed a qua tine for American foul broo. Officials said they felt the mo was necessary if the bee indu'.ry is to be protected. (J) ' O O Q u ;i a n iJ ;i o G O o o
