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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.
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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.
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: 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.