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52nd Year Recommended Price 10 Subscribers To report improper or non-delivery ol the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141 Ashland MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m daily and 10 JO a -in Sunday. If regular delivery arrive short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service- , Medford FRIBT A story on progress f con strucUon of the new Rofut Valley Memorial hospital at the corner of Barnett and Mur phy rds. appears on pace 12 of todays Mall Tribune. United Press Full Leased Wiro -eased Wira 54 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1957 No. 104 Strike May Start Against Medford Corp. Monday Authorized by Union Members Thursday A direct strike of woods and railroad employees against Med ford Corporation will start at 7 a.m. Monday, it appeared late Saturday. In a letter addressed to Medco, delivered Friday, Bruce McDon ald, president of Local 6-221, In ternational Woodworkers of Am erica, AFL-CIO, which repre sents Medco's woods and rail road employees, said the strike was authorized by a vote of the local union Thursday evening, , and would become effective Monday morning unless a set tlement can be reached before then. It did not appear Saturday that any settlement would be reached. Members of the union have been off the job since June 25 as a result of another strike, where three truckers picketed the log- King operation of Austin King, Medford, who had been hauling logs for Medco. The Medco em ployees would not cross the pick et line, thus closing down Med co's operation in the woods. This strike arose out of disagreements involved In the rental of truck ing equipment. McDonald said there is no con "nection between the two strikes. He said the strike called for Monday Is due to failure to ar rive at an agreement in wage ne gotiations which have been in progress since last April. McDonald reported the union has demanded a 15 cents per hour wage increase, a third week of vacation after 10 years of em ployment, and other benefits In cluding a pension plan. B. L. (Bud) Nutting, manager of Medco, says the company takes the position that no cost Increase is warranted at this time because of the condition of the lumber market, which has been in a slump since last year. Medco's mill operation in Med ford has been operating, largely with logs purchased on the open market, since the woods employ ees first went out. Mill workers are represented by a different union, the Lumber and Sawmill Workers, AFL. It is not anticipated the ex pected strike would have any ef fect on the mill operation. About 150 men in all some 130 union members, and about 20 non-union and supervisory personnel will be affected by a strike. Most of them are em ployed in the Butte Falls area, although some of the railroad workers live in Medford. (Additional details .on Pag ??.) Surplus Higher Than Estimated at First Salem IW A budget surplus 16 million dollars higher than esti mated at the first of the year was reported Saturday by Secretary of State Mark Hatfield. But this docs not mean that the entire general fund surplus of $48,639,325 will be immedi ately available for spending. It will remain in the fund for the next Legislature to use. Hatfield said that on Jan. 1, the State Tax commission esti mated a 32 million dollar sur plus. Most of the extra money comes from $17,700,000 more income tax revenue than was anticipat ed. Scouts Leaving Camp Site at Valley Forge Valley Forge. Pa. 0B The last contingents of the 52,500 scouts who attended the fourth national jamboree last -week were scheduled to leave by to day, but some 100 boys wiil re main behind for a time for con tinued hospital treatment. Doctors at the Valley Forge Army hospital said none of the patients was considered serious ly ill. Most of them are running a high fever, brought on by an upper respiratory infection which physicians said seemed to be prevalent among the troops that came in from the West Coast before the official start of the jamboree. Dr. Eugene Green, chief med ical officer of the jffmboree. said the rate of hospitalization at the encampment was ex tremely low for such a large community of boys. Willemstad, Cuacao Of) Two severe earth tremors were felt here early Saturday. There were no reports of deaths, injuries or property damage. Clouded Soviet Drydock Goes Into Mediterranean Istanbul, Turkey API A huge Soviet floating drydock passed into the Mediterranean from the Black Seat Saturday, apparently as part of a Soviet Mediterranean naval buildup. It was the second big Soviet drydock to be sent down the Turkish Straits to the Mediter ranean in a month and coincided with the passage of a number of naval Vessels, including a mod ern cruiser and three destroyers. from the relatively secluded Black Sea to the strategic Medi terranean. Go to Albania Destination of the drydock was believed to be Albania. Observers said it was towed by two tugs and seemed to be large enough to accomodate ves sels up to 3,000 tons. The Russians are reported to have a major submarine base at Saseno, an island off the Al banian coast. Tiny Albania is the only So viet satellite on the Mediterranean.- which always has been considered a Western naval pre- jerve. Thera is no way to pre vent the Soviets from maneuv ering on the Mediterranean, however, since it is international water. Soviet naval activity in the Mediterranean intensified last month just as the U.S. 6th Fleet and naval elements of other Western nations began NATO maneuvers. A Soviet cruiser and three destroyers came in from the Black Sea, apparently from the Soviet base at Sevastopol. The cruiser was identified as the Mikhail Kuzutov, a brand new vessel. It is not listed in the 1957 edition of the authoritative naval almanac, Jane's Fighting Ships. Three Soviet Submarines, two Dulles to Speak on TV, Radio Monday Washington HPi Secretary of Slate John Foster Dulles is expected in his nationwide speech Monday night to give a "favorable report", on the cur rent London disarmament talks and urge that negotiations be continued, informed sources said Saturday. ... Dulles will speak on both radio and television. The state department said Friday that he would set forth the U.S. position on disarmament. Officials said Saturday they believe Dulles wants "to clear the air" on the issue and give the American people a lucid and objective picture of the enor m o u s 1 y complicated disarma situation. He will try to do so in simple terms everyone can understand. New Delhi, India W A would-be bomber blew himself up Saturday while trying to des troy a United Nations office. 4- Weather FORFCAST: Fair thrnnch Mnn dav. A f w late and wetting thund"rhowe,r v t r thp mountains. Hirh hnth days 90 and low tonight 65. Tmi. Hi chest Yesterday 92 Lowest Yesterday 53 Our Skies Tonight - . Sunrise 4:53 a.m. Sunset 7:42 p.m. Moon rise Mondav 12:36 a.m. PROMINENT STARS The Pleiades, north of the Moon. Rising earlier ,earh night, this beautiful little croup of ilars will be seen In the even ing sky in the Fall and Winter. Crystal UT e-'MttW tJ V2Tm of them long-range models and one a smaller coastal sub, enter ed the Mediterranean via the straits of Gibraltar early this summer. At least two were turned over to Egypt, and there have been reports that even these still are manned by Rus sian crews. Congress Warned Of U.S. Agreements Washington (in President Eisenhower warned Saturday that congress "would gravely threaten our security, alienate our friends and give aid" to our enemies by forbidding trials in foreign courts of U.S. service men sationed overseas. "I can think of no recent leg islative proposal which would so threaten the essential security of the United States," he said in a letter to House Republican Lead er Joseph W. Martin Jr. The White House, in making the letter public, said Martin had requested a special plea from the president against congressional proposals to overturn "status of forces agreements." These agree ments recognize the right of for eign courts to try U.S. troops overseas for off-duty and excep tional on-duty offenses. The president' said the "ulti mate effect" of such legislation would be to force the United States to pull back to this coun try all of its troops now sta tioned abroad. AEC Blast Postponed Until Monday Morning Las Vegas, Nev. II?) The Atomic Energey Commission Saturday postponed until 6:30 a.m. Monday firing of the ninth shot of the current test series in the Nevada desert. The shot, dubbed "Owens," originally was scheduled to be fired at 6:30 a.m. today. AEC officials said the delay was or dered because unfavorable wind conditions which have prevailed for the past few days failed to change. The officials announced that the tenth shot, named "Kepler," is scheduled for firing at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. They said details of the "Kepler" shot 'will be made public at a press confer ence at- 10:30 a.m. Monday. Political Skirmishes May Return With McKay By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington President Eisen hower's appointment of Douglas McKay to the International Joint commission promises a return of the political and oratorical skirmishes that were so common between McKay and Northwest Democrats in Congress during Eisenhower's first term when McKay was in the cabinet. During the year McKay has been absent from Washington, l.is successor. Interior Secretary Fred A. Sealon, managed to pour enough oil on the troubled wat ers of power and resource de velopment policy to make for much smoother sailing for the Eisenhower administration. All But Died Out The old cry of "giveaway" so often used by the Democrats to attack McKay and his policies had all but died out in connec tion with Seaton's administra tion of essentially the same con troversial policies. McKay, as chairman of the Rebel Forces Said To Have Control 01 Oil-Rich Land Uprising Centered In Nizwa Section London OP) Rebel forces were reported Saturday to have won "temporary control" of part of the oil-rich domain of the British-backed Sultan of Muscat and Oman in southeast Arabia. Official reports reaching Lon don said the uprising is centered in Nizwa, a fortress town about 200 miles inland from the Oman capital of Muscat near the Per sian gulf. "The situation is very con fused at the moment," a British foreign office spokesman said. "We have not heard from our Consul General since last night.' Britain is bound by treaty to aid the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and is under obligation to protect his territory against ex ternal intervention. No British Forces There are no British-controlled forces in the area, but reports reaching the big British oil cen ter of Behrein in the Persian gulf said British-officered native troops of the Sultan's private ar my were fighting the rebels. There has been no movement into Muscat of British ground forces," the foreign office spokesman noted, declining to say whether air or naval forces might be used in carrying out Britain s treaty obligations. Intelligence reports reaching Beirut, Lebanon, and relayed here said the uprising was led by Sheikh Talib Bin-Ali, brother of Sheikh Ghalib Bin-Ali who was forced into exile from Nizwa two years ago by Sultan Said Bin Taimur. At that time, Ghalib was Iman or Moslem religious leader of Oman. Some of the tribes in the central part of the 82,000-square-mile state had a limited amount of autonomy under the Sultan, who exercised nominal control. But when "some of the tribal leaders, with Ghalib's backing, attempted to break away com pletely from his rule, the Sul tan crushed them. Manor Completing Property Purchase Rogue Valley Manor is com pleting purchase of the 15 acres on top of Barneburg hill iri southwest Medford, it has been announced by M. N. Hogan, pres ident of the non-profit organiza tion. Hogan said the final payments on the site are being made to the former owners, Claude Mc Intyre and associates, and title will soon pass to Rogue Valley Manor. The hilltop will be the loca tion of the $5 million retirement home, construction and opera tion of which are the sole aims of the corporation. It is spon sored by the Episcopal, Meth odist and Presbyterian churches in Oregon, although there is no direct affiliation with these church organizations. Arrangements to complete the purchase were approved at a meeting of the board of trustees held here recently. Hogan reported that lifetime occupancy rights in a substantial number of apartments in the re tirement manor have already been sold, and that more are being sold all the time. Walter Higgins, executive director of the manor, has an office in the First Methodist church building in Medford. U.S. section of the IJC, will offer the Democrats a well known tarket for a resumption of at tacks on the "partnership" pow er policy of the administration. The IJC deals with Canada on all water problems involving both countries, and the main dis putes of recent years have per tained to power projects such as Libby dam. But is unlikely that McKay will be directly involved in the most critical negotiations with Canada looking toward a settle ment of differences which have arisen over power development of the Columbia river. For Eisen hower and the Canadian govern ment agreed to take this out of the hands of the IJC and turn it over to the diplomats of the two countries. No Compromise Seen This came about because Len Jordan, who is stepping out as U.S. chairman of the IJC, and Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton. Can ada's top man on the IJC, be came locked with no prospect of Senate Ma' Jury Trial Peru's Gladys lender Permitted to Keep Title Long Beach, Calif. API Peru's lovely Gladys Zendcr last night was permitted to keep her title as Miss Universe of 1958 despite a heated, last in i n u t e controversy over whether she is 17 or 18 years of age, contest officials an nounced after a special meet ing. Pageant executive producer Oscar Meinhardt said that Miss Zender, though not yet 18 by a matter of three months, was not under age according to the birth laws of her native Peru. Preliminary Contest Earlier, a family spokesman said that in Peru preliminary contests to select a represent ative to compete in the Miss Universe pageant here are open to girls 16 to 24 years of Rackets Committee To Start NY Probe Washington OP) The Senate Rackets committee plans to open a full-scale investigation of the Teamsters Union's New York operations that may link Team ster's1 Vice President James R. Hoffa to a well-known labor racketeer, it was learned Satur day. Informed sources said the New York racketeer was John Dio guardi, better known under his alias as Johnny Dio. The investigation, to be started as soon as the committee com pletes its present textiles union investigation, would look into paper locals or dummy locals allegedly set up to help Hoffa-backed teamsters candi dates win a union election. Paper Locals Reported The paper locals were report ed to consist of only officers, and no actual members. The committee, it was learn ed, plans to question about 100 witnesses in its investigation of the New York operation of the Teamsters Union, subpenaes al ready are being prepared. Dio is under indictment on charges of conspiracy in the acid-blinding of labor reporter columnist Victor Riesel. His trail has been postponed indefinitely because two gangsters already convicted and in prison refuse to talk. There were some indications that the committee would call Hoffa to testify, something he has not yet done. Meanwhile, Republican mem bers of the committee prepared a series of questions for AFL CIO President George Meany. They want to know" whether the big labor organization's ethical practices code protects the pub lic or just union treasuries. Question Meany Monday The questions are to be fired at Meany Monday when the labor leader is scheduled to make his first appearance be fore the committee on' improper practices in labor and manage ment. The committee has been holding hearings on reports that officials of the United Textile Workers Union misused union funds. It has been told that Anthony Valente, president of the union compromise on how the two country's can best share the benefits of the Columbia. If the United States doesn't give Canada some concessions in terms of power for the upstream water storage that can be ac complished at such sites as Mica Creek in British Columbia, Mc Naughton wants Canada to di vert part of the river away from the Northwest and send it into the Fraser river system .This would cost the Northwest power pool heavily, ultimately the equvalent of several Bonneville dams. McNaughton is now finishing a detailed engineering survey of the feasibility of his Columbia diversion scheme. An engineer and a war hero (he was sort of the Canadian MacArthur), Mc Naughton is a tough adversary. There is no sign now that Mc Kay it to take over Jordan's seat, that the replacement is any thing more than what it appears that Jordan did resign because something else became mora at Despite Age Controversy age. Thus, although, the Miss Universe rules require a con testant to be 18, officials took this international loophole to make the raven-haired Miss Zender their official title holder in a goodwill gesture to solve a predicament raised by rumors about her age. It was the second shattering explosion at the pageant in 24 hours, since only Friday Miss United States, Leona Gage, was disqualified for "fibbing" about her marital status admitting she not only was married but the mother of two young chil dren. Bombshell Dropped The announcement came after a bombshell had been dropped on the pageant with and Lloyd Klenert, its secretary treasure, used $57,000 in 1952 as down payments on plush homes in a nearby Maryland suburb, putting up their own money only when their union was seeking organizing funds from various sources, including Meany, then secretary-treasurer of the AFL. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) called Meany to testify on that specific case. Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said Meany will be asked to outline the steps he took after he got wind of some of . the Klenert and Valente transactions. Bomber With 11 Aboard Missing Venice, Italy Ml A U.S Navy Neptune patrol bomber with 11 men aboard disappeared Friday and it is presumed to have crashed on the tidal flats north of this ancient city, the Navy said Saturday. It was the second major American military plane mishap last week. An Air Force C-47 transport crashed in northern Formosa Tuesday, killing all 16 persons aboard. The twin-engine Navy bomber left Port Lyautey, North Africa, yesterday for a familiarization flight over the Mediterranean. A radio message received by the Venice airport said the Nep tune was beginning its descent to land at Treviso, 22 miles north of the city. Then there was silence. Verdict in Girard Case May' Be Reached Soon Tokyo (IP) The Maebashi district court probably will reach a verdict in the man slaughter trial of Army Special ist 3C William S. Girard in late October, Japanese justice minis try officials predicted Saturday. They said the trial, which opens Aug. 26, would last about 60 days, very fast for Japan where many trials- drag on for several months. tractive to him. There are re ports Jordan plans to re-enter Idaho politics and run for gov ernor next year. McKay and Jordan are similar in their views on power policy, both having been strong adher ents of the "partnership" policy invoked during McKay's tenure as Interior secretary. Indeed, Mc Kay made a personal trip to the annual conference of governors, according to report, to persuade Jordan to take the IJC job when his gubernatorial job at Boise expired in 1954. Ironically, it is now McKay who succeeds him in the S20.000-a-year job. Nor is there any indication that Eisenhower plans to give to McKay the authority to nego tiate which was taken away from Jordan. His new job, there fore, will involve two semi-annual meetings, one in Ottawa in the autumn, one in Washington in the spring, and periodic field inspection trips in between to view current joint undertakings like the St. Lawrence Seaway. 4 : ote Down nendmemill: the word that Miss Peru's father, wealthy manufacturer Eduardo Zender, had stated the dark-haired beauty who won the contest Friday night was 17, not 18, as contest rules require. Meinhardt called a hurried meeting of contest brass to decide whether the Peruvian socialite would have to be disqualified. After more than two hours, the announcement that she would retain the title was made. Meinhardt consulted his contest records on her, which he said stated she was born Oct. 19, 1938. Then he scur ried out to find her father and reported Zender told him that the girl was the proper age for the contest. Sheppard Case Key Figure lo Question Wedler This Week Columbus, Ohio (IB Cuya hoga county coroner Samuel R. Gerber, a key figure in the Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard murder case, said Saturday he will go to Florida this week to question a convict who says he killed Marilyn Sheppard. Gerber's decision was the first official move by Cuyahoga coun ty officials, who prosecuted Dr. Sam, since the "confession" made in Deland Fla., by .Donald Joseph wedler, 23r Gerber also called upon Gov. C. William O'Neill to permit the state to be represented when Sheppard undergoes a lie-detector test in Columbus, prob ably Tuesday. The test will be given by the unofficial court of last resort. Go With Officers The coroner indicated he will go to Florida Monday with one or two officers who were active in the investigation leading to Dr.. iam s conviction for the murder of his pregnant wife. Marilyn. She was beaten to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home near Cleveland on July 4, 1954. Sheppard pleaded innocent but was sentenced to life in prison for the crime. Gerber said he was "hopeless ly confused" by developments in Florida, where a lie-detector test showed Wedler thought he was telling the truth when he said he believes he beat Mrs. Sheppard to death. Should ba Represented Gerber told the governor he felt officials responsible for handling the case should be rep resented when Sheppard under goes the lie detector test. He also said the state should give Sheppard and his relatives a test, once the court completes its examination of Dr. Sam. Governor' . O'Neill said the state would be in charge when Sheppard is questioned. He said Warden Ralph W. Alvis of Ohio penitentiary would decide who, in addition to members of .the court, can sit in on the test. The governor also promised there would be no delay in mak ing results of the lie-detector test public. ilding Volume in Stale Shows Decline Tabulations for the first six Oregon's dollar volume of build ing 20 per cent behind the vol ume for the same period in 1956. A survey of 24 cities in the state made by Equitable Sav ings and Loan association's sta tistical department set the total building spending during the first half of this year at $42, 945,064. Total for the first six months of 1956 was $53,673,045. Spending for dwelling only was down 34 per cent to $11, 634,998 this year from $17,644,- 161 last year. The survey showed Medford building down 73 per cent. Total for the first six months this year was $558,932. Total for the same period last year was $2, 099,966. Spending for dwellings only in Medford was only slightly lower than 1956. Total for 1957, first half, was $920,500, and for the first half of 1956, $921,250. This was a drop of two-tenths of a per cent. Action on Civil Rights Expected , Early This Week Bill Has Been Under Debate for Two Weeks Washington IW Senate republican leader William F. Knowland predicted Saturday the senate will vote down jury trial amendments to the right-to-vote section of the adminis tration's civil rights bill. He would make no such fore cast, however, on the chances of saving the more controversial "part three" of the bill which would permit injunctions to compel racial desegregation in schools. The senate expects to vote early this week on proposed amendments to that section and then on an amendment to strike the entire provision and limit the bill largely to protection of voting rights. It has been de bating the measure, which is be ing fought by southern Demo crats, for the past two weeks. Present Indications Knowland told reporters "present indications are that there is little likelihood" of an agreement among supporters of the bill on a compromise for "part three." The bill provides for (1) a commission to investigate al leged violations of civil rights, (2) a new assistant attorney gen eral to handle civil rights cases, (3) government authority to seek injunctions against conspir acies to deprive persons of civil rights and (4) similar authority to protect voting rights. It is the fourth section " oh which the contest is expected on proposed amendment to require jury trials, at least in some cases, for persons charged with contempt of court for violation of injunctions. Constitutional Right Southern Democrats have charged that omission of a jury trial guarantee would sacrifice a basic constitutional right. Op-" ponents of jury trial amend ments have argued that the bill now follows the general practice by which federal judges protect their court orders. Knowland said the "heavily predominant sentiment" among Republicans and Democrats backing the civil rights bill was to keep the provision as it passed the House without a jury trial proviso. Residents Return to Homes Below Dam Capulin, Colo. W Engineers and law enforcement authorities approved the return of residents to their homes below Terrace Reservoir dam Saturday, but warned them to keep their ra dios on for possible new alerts. Dam caretaker Demon Phillips said the danger of the dam going out had lessened to the point where it was all right for evacu ees to return. But officials warn ed that a sudden heavy rain storm could threaten the dam anew. More than 400 persons from here were evacuated Thursday when a hole was discovered in the face of the dam, which holds back billions of gallons of water for irrigation purposes. Administration Didn't Intend to Invite Red Washington (Ifl The Eisen hower administration has "nev er intended" to invite Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov to this country as an official guest, in formed sources said Saturday. It has widely been reported that the top Russian military leaders would be invited here for talks with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson. Sports Bulletins Portland 'IP Harry Doriih allowed nine hits last night but none that could ba forged into runs as the San Fran cisco Seals blanked the Port land Beavers 3-0 in a Pacific Coast league baseball game be fore 6834 fans in Multnomah, stadium. Seattle TP) Seattle rode a five-run third inning outburst into a 7-0 victory over Sacra mento last night in a Pacific Coast LeCgue baseball game.
