52nd Year
MEDFO1
LH Wirt
26 Page
Talenl Project
Gels S6,041,
In Appropriations
House Committee
Sloshes Program
Washington" :IF The House
Appropriations Committee
slashed $r,l,8:i9.944 from Presi
dent Eisenhower s public works
program today to hew closely to
its 7 per cent economy line.
If the S814.813.023 bill is ap
proved without change, the
Houe will have cut S4. 042. 853,
A29 from total appropriations of
nearly $56 billion it has acted on
so far this year.
The funds are for the next
fiscal year starting July 1. They
were reduced more than $52
million below spending for the
present fiscal year.
The public works measure
provided new funds for con
struction, planning and mainten
ance work by the Army Corps of
Engineers, the Interior Depart
ment's bureau of reclamation
and the Bonneville, Southeast
ern, and Southwestern Power
Administration.
Bonneville Funds Cut
Also covered were Quarter
master Corps cemeterial ex
penses. Bonneville Power Administra
tion was allotted $28 509,000, a
cut of $3,263,000, but some $2
million more than was appro
priated for the current year.
The committee refused to allot
funds for 11 engineer projects,
most of them in the category of
new starts or advance planning.
Funds for Oregon projects
during fiscal 1958 included
Rogue river harbor at Gold
Beach. $21,000 for planning,
and Rogue river, Talent division
$6,041,000.
Bids Called on Bonds
For Water District
Bids on $54,000 worth of gen
eral obligation bonds issued by
the Kings Highway Water dis
trict will be opened at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, June 26. in room 1
of the Brophy building.
Bjnds are being issued to fi
nance installation of water lines
in an area smith of the original
district which was annexed May
8. according to Mrs. Jeanette
Marshall, attorney for the dis
trict. Some of the funds will be
used to install additional fire
hydrants in the original dis
trict, she aded.
The board of commissioners
last night called for bids for
construction to be opened July
1. subject to the sale of bonds.
Sam C. Watkins is engineer for
the project.
History Repeats
As Ashland Boy
Wounded by Gun
Ashland IP It's just about
lik history repeating itself.
Young Eidman and Charles
Russell Moore of Ashland
were playing with a .22 pistol
when Eidman pulled tha
weapon out of its holster.
It accidentally discharged,
wounding him in tha back of
tha left knee.
Police said that just one
year ago Eidman and Moore
were playing with the umi
pistol when Moore did tha
same thing, wounding himself.
In neither case, police said,
was the wound serious.
PH O
101 DC
Remodeling Work to Expand
Police Facilities Starts
Rrmorirlinc started today at
the Medford police department
in the city hall on a project to
expand the operation of several
drpartment services.
According to Police Chief
Charles Champlin the work is
the first phase of a program to
expand department facilities in
some areas and better utilize
space in other areas.
Preliminary work began to
r3gy on removing a wall between
the chief s office and the secre
tarial por:ion of the department.
The pr-cnt chief's office will
t-r ucd to file additional crim
inal records for easier access
by department officials.
Ch.implin said his office will
t-e set up in what is now the
property room. Space to store
supplies will be created in a
la-cor arra in the furnace room,
vrvch adjbins the jail and the
ciTy water department.
wo rks
"Dam! Dam!
Ml STOCK MAKttTGAldS ,
jflJ on covr. Pttisiort J
Mayflower II Sails
Into Plymouth Harbor
For Official Welcome
Plymouth, Mass
Mayflower II sailed
mouth Harbor today,
a Coast Guard tug.
The Coast Guard cutter Yank
ton tossed a tow line to the
Pilgrim replica ship at the har
bor entrance.
The two vessels then started
to negotiate the winding nar
row channel to a mooring sit
mile inside the entrance.
One slight accident occurred
before the mooring. The Yank
ton ran alongside the historic
ship off Jacquish Head to pick
up the two line. At this point
the Yankton's stubby mast
caught in the ropes of the May
flower's "sprit-sail" a square-
Three Roseburg Boys
Admit Starting Fire
Roseburg TP Three Rose
burg boys, one aged 8 and the
ether two 6, today admitted
setting the $75,000 warehouse
fire of Tuesday afternoon
The fire was Roseburg's larg
est of the year and destroyed
winter equipment of Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany as well as contents of
Carstcn's Furniture Co. ware
house. An investigation complet
ed Wednesday night turned up
! evidence that the three boys
gained entrance - to the ware
house through a skylight and
tried to start a fire with crum
pled paper on a mattress.
Investigating officers said the
youngsters first tried to use a
magnifying glass to ignite the
paper but later resorted to
matches. The two younger boys
tried to put out the fire but it
spread too fast and all three
fled to safety where they watch
ed the fire department battle
tne blaze.
Salem W Gov. and Mrs.
Robert D. Holmes will spend
Fathers day at a family gather
ing at Gearhart where the gov
ernor will attend the annual
Oregon Newspaper Publishers
Association convention.
The work is heing done by
Don Jacobs, Medford contractor.
Fstimated cost is $1,500 for this
phase of the program, according
to City Manager Robert Duff
The work is to be completed by
July.
Evcntuallv, Champlin noted.
the dark room will be removed
and its space utilized for an
additional officer's squad room
and shower facilities. Other
dans include remodeling the!
present woman's ward into two
two interrogation rooms, he
said.
Later, the chief added, two
new rooms will be created in
an area" between the furnace
room and the jail. The dark
room, woman's ward and new
hallway will be located in that
space, he said. The two rooms
will be partitioned off from the
jail by a reinforced concrete
wall.
c n 30N, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1957
Triple Dam!"
rigged sail under her bow.
Crewmen from both ships
clambered into the rigging and
pulled the- ropes free. After that
it was smooth going.
Capt. Alan Villiers unfurled
the tiny brig's full canvas for
the tricky trip into Plymouth
Harbor. Thousands of sightseers
and an official welcoming com
mittee awaited her on the 54th
day of her voyage.
Some of the edge was taken
off the Plymou'h reception at
Provincetown Wednesday. The
square-rigged galleon halted
there to reenact the signing of
the Mayflower Compact, just as
the founding fathers did 336
years ago. and was virtually
commandeered by eager tour
ists. Towed To Port
Coast Guard cutters circling
the 92-foot craft were unable
to pry away an excursion boat
hugging the side of the official
committee launch next to the
Mayflower II.
The Mayflower II, exact repli
ca of the original, lurched into
Providencetown at the end of
a 50-yard tow line from the
Coast Guard cutter Yankton.
Fifteen to 20-foot swells pitched
the tiny craft.
"It bothered me a little," Vil
liers said, "to come in on a tow
line. But it would have bother
ed me more to be out there bat
tling those winds."
Villiers was high in praise
for his 32-man crew. He said:
"The Lord was with us dur
ing the trip and the ship hand
led very well."
(Sea Story on Page 4)
Brewster Resignation
Approval Shouted
San Francisco ilfi San Fran
cisco Teamsters today sparked
a movement for the ouster of
Frank Brewster as president of
the Western Conference of Team
sters. Two locals demanded that
Brewster efther quit or be fired.
He is now facing a contempt of
Congress indictment for refus
ing to produce union records.
Members of the Building Ma
terial Drivers Local 218 Wed
nesday shouted approval of a
resolution calling for Brewster's
resignation or dismissal.
Earlier Wednesday, an anti
Brewster resolution was adopted
by the Newspaper and Periodi
cal Drivers Local 921, headed
by Jack Goldberger, president
of the San Francisco Labor
Council.
Weather
FORFC AST: Partly cloudy with
a lw llcht showers through
Frttfar. Low tonight 48. High
Friday "8.
Tmp.
Hichrct Ynterdav 74
LnwfU thi Mornmc -'t0
Prec. to IB a.m. Today 02
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrie 4;.H a.m.
Siintft 7:49 p.m.
Moonrie . 8 p.m.
Last Quarter ... .. . June 20
PROMINENT STARS
The Big Dipper, in the north
west at moonrise.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Jupiter, high in SW ... 8:23 p.m.
Venus. "t 8 :3? p.m.
Mar. teu .. t:.m p.m.
Saturn, due aonth 11:17 p.m.
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Fuails
Girard Claims Army
Exerting Pressure
For Trial in Japan
Washington W American
soldier William S. Girard said
in an interview in Japan today
U. S. military authorities have
put pressure on him to stand
trial in a Japanese court for
slaying a Japanese woman on an
Army firing range.
But Girard flatly denied re-
321 Pints of Blood
Collected During
Bloodmobile Visit
A total of 321 pints of blood,
31 pints more than the quota,
were donated Wednesday after
noon during the Bloodmobile
visit to Medford. Bloodmobile
officials said there were 60 re
jects and 128 drop-in donors.
Red Cross personnel reported
that a large number of the don
ors replaced blood for persons
who had needed it, while 22
members of Ross Lumber com
pany donated in memory of the
late Fred V. Wooldridge. gener
al manager of the company,
who died Tuesday.
A good showing from other
firms also was reported.
Red Cross officials said they
appreciated the 303 appoint
ments that were made for the
Bloodmobile visit and the pa
tience showed by donors who
had to be delayed. They noted
that 125 were first-time donors
in Medford.
Public Hearing on
CPRFPD Budget Today
Central Point Central Point
Rural Fire Protection district is
holding a public hearing at the
fire hall this evening to discuss
the budget for 1957-1958 fiscal
year. The hearing will start at
8 p.m.
At a regular meeting of the
board of directors of the district
Tuesday, the resignation of
Allen Bohannon from the board
was accepted. B. Sam Taylor
was named to serve on the board
until December when the post
will be filled by election.
Bohannon resides in the
Berrydale area recently annexed
to the city of Medford. His resi
dence was formerly in the Cen
tral Point rural district.
Railroads, Union Reach
Contract Agreement
Chicago iIPi The nation's
railroads and the Order of Rail
way Conductors and Brakemen
have reached a contract, agree
ment amounting to'26'.i cents
hourly over three years, it was
announced Wednesday night.
Leverett Edwards, member of
the National Railway Mediation
Board, said the package settle
ment follows a pattern agreed
upon earlier by unions represent
ing about 94 per cent of all rail
wav workers.
RESTING IN LAUNCHER, three of Army's new Hawk
guided missiles are unveiled in Washington. Hawk is 16
feet long, 16 inches in diameter. It has radar that detects
and tracks low-flying planes in blind zone of conventional
radar, will complement nation's defense against high
altitude A-bomb attack. (International Soundpkote)
Tribune
IPaiired!
ports from Washington and his
I home town of Ottawa, 111., that
he said his personal Army coun-
sel in Japan also had argued that
I trial in a Japanese court would
be an easy way out.
Girard, 21, a specialist 3-c, is
i accused of killing Mrs. Naka
Sakai while guarding a military
firing range near Tokyo. She
was struck in the back by an
empty cartridge fired from a
grenade launcher on Girard's
rifle.
Girard Claims Accident
The Japanese have charged
that Girard enticed Mrs. Sakai,
who was trying to pick up empty
shells to sell for scrap, to within
firing distance and then fired the
fatal shot. Girard claimed her
death was accidental.
An agreement to turn Girard
over to a Japanese court for
trial on manslaughter charges
touched off an international con
troversy and his lawyers worked
long past midnight in Washing
ton today in an attempt to bring
him back to the United States
for a review of this case.
Reports that Girard claimed
the Army and Maj. Stanley F.
Levin, his Army adviser were
putting pressure on him were
made in Washington by a spokes
man for his attorney. Earl Car
roll, and in Ottawa by the sol
dier's brother,, Louis.
"Bill Girard told his brother
he had been advised by his
Army-appointed adviser, Major
Levin, that he should go before
a Japanese court because if he
didn't he. would get a very stiff
sentence from the United States
under an Army court-martial."
John Griffin. Carroll's spokes
man, said in Washington.
Makes Taps Recording
Louis Girard said he talked to
his bother by telephone Wednes
day and that the soldier dis
tinctly answere "yes" to a ques
tion about whether Levin was
attempting to persuade him to
face a Japanese court.
Furthermore, Louis Girard
said, he made a 'tape recording
of the transpacific telephone con
versation to prove the state
ments. But Girard later told the
United Press in Japan that Le
vin had not tried to lure him into
a Japanese court.
(See story on Page 1. Section 2
1,833 Use Hawthorne
Park Pool This Week
About 1.833 swimmers have
used the Hawthorne park swim
ming pool so far this year, ac
cording to Darell Huson, city
treasurer.
Sunday, opening day, the turn
out was 414, Monday 547, Tues
day 503, and Wednesday 379,
Huson said. ,
Yesterday 80 non-swimmers
registered for swimming instruc
tion, according to Ed Knapp,
pool manager. Swimming classes
will start Monday, June 17. The
classes, open to children eight
years of age and older as well
as adults, will include 10 lessons
during a two-week period.
Price 10s
United Pre? Full Leawi Wire
No. 72
HERB PARTRIDGE
New Program Director
New Youth Program
Director Named at
Medford YMCA
Herb Partridge, who graduat
ed from Whitworth college, Spo
kane, Wash., will assume duties
June 18 as new youth program
director of the Medford YMCA,
according to Carl Brophy,
YMCA personnel chairman.
His responsibilities wilf in
elude organization of club work
for boys and girls in the high
school age program. He will di
rect the work with the Hi-Y and
Tri-Y clubs.
In the younger age groups he
will work with committees in
the organization of Father and
Son "Y" Indian guides and Gray
"Y" clubs. This summer he will
operate day camping and be as
sistant camp director of the
YMCA camp at Diamond lake.
During his undergraduate
work. Partridge was employed
by the Spokane YMCA where
he worked with Hi-Y and youth
camping programs. His major
studies at college were in sociol
ogy and journalism. While in
the Army he also worked with
youth clubs.
According to Brophy funds
from the United Medford Cru
sade are largely responsible for
creating the program Partridge
will direct.
Duncan Speaks at
Demo Meeting Here
The 49th state' legislature
"held expenses to a minimum
while still providing progressive
government," Representative
Robert B. Duncan told a meet
ing of the Jackson County Demo
cratic club last night.
Duncan spoke to a group of
about 75 Democrats at Kim's
restaurant. He praised the work
of Gov. Robert Holmes and the
legislature, emphasizing the tax
program which balanced the
budget without "soaking the
rich."
"If the mills are closed and
the woods shut down, there is
no income tax to pay." he de
clared. "If you are working, you
can afford to pay, and the tax
will be deducted from your pa
check."
Duncan suggested that former
Gov. Elmo Smith's budget would
have been much larger than the
present 1955-57 budget had he
budgeted for items which he
either recommended himself or
knew would have to be pro
vided. As state expenses increase,
the representative said, a sales
tax may come due to the limi
tations of the income tax.
Girls State Citizens
To Select Governor
Salem W The 246 citizens
of Girls State were to choose to
day between Judy Roth, IB, Cor
vallis, and Helen Lerback, 17,
Seaside, for governor.
The two candidates were
nominated Wednesday at a mock
convention by the Nationalist
and Federalist party respectively.
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Stassen Instructed To Take
In Disarmament Talks With
Washington W Disarma
ment Adviser Harold E. Stassen
leaves for London today with in
structions to avoid upsetting
America's allies and take it easy
on private disarmament talks
with the Russians.
Because of Allied displeasure
over some of Stassen's behind-the-scenes
talks with the Rus
sians, diplomats said the new
American disarmament plan will
not be presented at the London
disarmament conference for
many days.
On his latest visit here, Stas
sen has held a series of talks
Chinese Reds
Flex Muscles
Over Sudden!
wasningion ir tommun.j
ist Lmna today toiiowed up its
charges that U. S. planes "in
vaded" China with a warning
that "further aggression" will
be met with the full might of
the Chinese armed forces.
The U. S. Navy said Red
Chinese coastal batteries opened
up Wednesday on an American
carrier plane flying eight miles
outside the Chinese mainland.
Peiping called the incident a
planned attack aimed at pre
venting the "peaceful libera
tion" of Formosa.
The State Department declin
ed any comment pending out
come of a Navy investigation
into the incident, but it was
believed the investigation
would lead to a protest to the
Peiping government.
The Peiping Peoples daily,
official organ of the Commun
ist government, renewed and
amplified its angry charges to
day. The editorial was broadcast
by Peiping Radio, chief propa
ganda outlet for Red China.
"The Chinese people do not
threaten nor do they invade
other countries nor will they
allow their country to be threat
ened or invaded," it said. "If
the American aggressors dare to
invade China our armed forces
will deal them smashing blows."
"Yesterday's incident was
aimed at creating tension in the
Far East and preventing the
peaceful liberation of Taiwan
(Formosa). China territorial
land, sea and air are inviolable
The American aggressors will
have to face all the conse
quences of their provoctive
acts."
Claims Two Planet
In Taipeh, Rear Adm. Lu Ho
tu a Nationalist military spokes
man, said the Communists op
ened fire on Chinese planes an
hour and a half before the shot
at the American plane, but that
the Nationalist aircraft escaped
damage. Peiping claimed two
Nationalist planes shot down
and one U. S. plane damaged.
"All our planes returned un
damaged. ' Lu said.
The incident, latest in a series
of U. S. - Communist Chinese
Bids Opened for
Garage fn Talent
Thomas J. Parker. Ashland,
was apparent low bidder on a
metal 10-stall garage to ho con
structed in Talent for the bur
eau of reclamation, according to
J. A. Callan, construction engin
eer. Parker's bid was S4. 347.12.
Bids were opened today at the
Bureau s Camp While office.
Contract for the garage will be
awarded within 30 days. Callan
said. Engineer's estimate was
SB. 890.
Other bidders were Harold
W. Salter. Rogue River. $5,274:
Armin Richter and Associates,
Medford. S5.549.44; Minshall
Construction company, Jackson
ville, $6,212; Kline and White
Construction company. Grants
Pass, S6.287; E. J. Fordyce, Med
ford, S7.420.79; Wiley Construc
tion company, Ashland, $8,045;
Robertson Construction comp
any. Grants Pass, 59,645; and
Don L. Jacobs, Medford, $7,807.
Bus Out of Control
Kills Six in London
London (IP A dnuhlp-
decker bus veered out of con
trol today and mowed down
nearly a score of nersons wait
ing to catch it on a busy down
town street corner.
Six persons were killed. At
least 12 others were ininred seri
ously enough to require hospi
talization.
Grants Pass Man Held
On Charge of Murder
Grants Pass W An aged
man suffering from progressive
cancer and heart disease was
booked early today after Wyatt
Ramsey Swisher, 43, died of gun
shot wounds in Josephine Gen
eral Hospital,
William Lewis Chapin, 81, a
neighbor of Swisher, was arrest
ed after a quarrel that was cli
maxed by a shooting at the clust
er of cabins where both men liv
ed on Southeast I st. here.
with Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles.
There was evidence the admin
istration summoned Stassen
home from London last week end
to smooth out ruffled Allied feel
ings over his disarmament stra
tegy. France and some other allies
were reported upset when they
heard Stassen had given a more
elaborate outline of the U.S. dis
armament plan to the Russians
than he gave this county's Eu
ropean allies.
Some officials explained Stas
sen talked at length with Soviet
disarmament delegate Valerin
skirmishes in the Formosa str(t
area, occurred early Wsdnesda
morning. The Navy said Com
munist anti-aircraft bstteriet
hit and slightly damaged the
plane, but no crew members
wpre injured.
The plane was on a routine
training flight. It apparently
wandered off course in hazy
weather. But the Navy insisted
it was no closer than eight miles
to the Red Chinese shore.
The Navy did not identify
either the type of plane or its
crew members. It said only the
plane was based aboard the 33,-
1 00-ton aircraft carrier Hornet
which is part of the U.S. 7th
Fleet patrolling the Formosa
straits.
Move Made To
Block Merger of
Steel Companies
New York 111 The Justice
Department today stepped up its
anti-trust action against "big
business" by asking for a sum
mary judgment in federal court
to block the proposed S2.500.
000,000 merger of Bethlehem
Steel Corp. and Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Co.
The motion follows on the
heels of last week's historic vic
tory for the Justice Department
in the Supreme Court ruling that
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s
stock holdings in General
Motors Corp. violated the anti
trust laws.
Strong Case Suspected
Today's motion, which means
in effect the department be
lieves it has a strong enough
case against the merger to call
for a fast decision, was filed
before Federal Judge Edward
Weinfeld.
If the motion is granted the
case automatically moves to the
Supreme Court. If the motion
is denied a trial is the next
step. Defeat of the motion would
weaken the Justice Depart
ment's case in a trial, legal ex
perts said.
The proposed merger, weld
ing Bethlehem, the nation's
second largest steelmaker, with
Youngstown. the sixth largest,
would create a giant with assets
exceeding S2. 500. 000. 000 and
sales well in excess of S2 billion.
Holmes Signs Bill
For New Judgeships
Salem TO Gov. Robert D.
Holmes today" signed a bill cre
ating new circuit court judge
ships in three southwestern Ore
gon areas and said he-would an
nounce the appointment of the
judges to fill the posts Friday
morning.
The governor signed 49 bills
before noon on the last, day for
legally signing bills and had
more set for signing in the after
noon. The three new judegships are
provided in House Bill 563 in
troduced at the legislature by
Sen. R. F. Chapman. Coos Bay,
and Rep. Clarence Barton, Co
quille. The bill creates a third Judge
post for the first judicial district
including Jackson and Josephine
county; a third judge for the 21st
judicial district including Linn,
Benton and Lincoln counties;
and re-organizes the old second
judicial district into three new
districts.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee 7 12 1
Brooklyn .. 5 8 1
Brobridge and Sawatski:
Drysdale. Lehman (2) Labine
(8) Johnson (8) and Campa
nella. Chicago 4 9 0
New York 7 10 1
Hillman. Brosnan (2) and
Neeman; Burnside. Davis (4)
Grissom (8) and Thomas.
Cincinnati 2 8 0
Pittsburgh 3 11 0
Jeffcoat and Baileyi Friend
and Rand.
it Easy
Russians
Zorin to allay any Soviet idea
that delays in the negotiations
meant the United States was los
ing interest. .
Dulles, during several confer
ences with Stassen this week, ad
vised him to deal more closely
with the Allies in the future and
engage only in "informal" talks
with the Russians without refer
ring to possible inclusion of a
European area in any air-groundo
inspection zone. Dulles has said
publicly it is up to the Euro
peans to decide whether their
territory should be included in
a "first-step" disarmament plan.