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52nd Year Recommended A ftory about a dav In the life of a lj truck driver the maji h doe so much lor the eroDotny of thi ari appeari no Pare 14 of today's Mall Tribune. PKt 1 of ffertlon 2 is de voted to pictures uken on a recent tour of the huh Mskl y to father and photograph wild flower. Price I0 Subscribers To report improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141, Ashland MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 65 p.m. daily and 1030 a m Sunday. If rejfular deliverer arrive short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. Medford HE Unitd Pre..- Full Leased Wir -Full Leased Wire 54 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1957 No. 110 Porter To Introduce Bill For Development of Rogue Measure Contains Most Provisions found in Plan A Morse Will Introduce Similar Bill in Senate By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent O Washington A bill to auth orize comprehensive develop ment of the Rogue river basin for reclamation, power and flood control has been drafted by Rep. Charles O. Porter to be intro duced in the House this coming week. The congressman said that he would divulge its detailed pro visions later but that it would carry out most provisions of Plan A for developing the basin with a series of dams. Fish Interests Object ' This would include a high dam at Lewis creek, to which fish conservation interests have objected. The bill also contains provisions for recreation devel opment. ' The bill is understood to call for cooperation between the bur eau of reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers in con structing the various projects. Sen. Wayne Morse plans to Introduce a similar bill in the Senate, Porter said. . Porter said he was Introduc ing the measure now by request of various groups and constitu ents in the Rogue river region. He said he considered the ver sion he has drafted to be a work ing start which will be subject to modification when congress ional hearings are held and local citizens and federal agencies give their views on how the basin should be developed. Reason for introducing it now, near the end of this session of Congress, is to hasten the prepar ation 'of reports by the Interior Department which will go to Congress before any hearings re held on the bill. He said the bill will also provide a point of public discussion during the coming months when he plans to tour the fourth congressional dis trict. Government Officer's Daughter Found Dead Washington W Undersec retary of State Robert Murphy found his daughter shot to death in a ' bedroom of their home Saturday night with a .22 cali ber pistol lying nearby. Police said Murphy discover ed the body of his daughter, Ka therine T. Murphy, 35, in a second-floor bedroom. She had been shot in the head. A doctor who was summoned to the house pro nounced her dead. Police said no notes were found. Sgt. Roy Schwab said he was informed by the family that Miss Murphy had been un der a doctor's care, but seemed to have Improved. Murphy, 62, is undersecretary for political affairs. Arson Squad Called in Boston Waterfront Fire Boston Mi A million dol lar fire ravaged Boston's water front Saturday and authorities unable to discover the source called in arson squads to inves tigate. The fire, one of the worst in Boston's history, injured more than 100 of the 2.000 men bat tling it and brought out 72 pieces of fire fighting equipment from Boston and nine nearby towns. Final Shakespearean Dress Rehearsals Start Tonight Ashland Sunday night marks the start of the final dress rehearsals at the Oregon Shake spearean Festival here. Each of the four principal plays will have one more full dress re hearsal prior to opening night, Aug. 1. Life Magazine will be on hand to cover both the opening night performance and the banquet that precedes it. Gov. Robert D. Holmes and other dignitaries from throughout the west will be honored guests. Ticket sales are still showing a decided increase over last year, according to Festival Gen eral Manager William W. Pat ton. Ke said that single admis sion ticket sales are bp 22.2 per cent ever last year and tales of :V jmmm FOREST MAMMOTH This huge Douglas fir log that was trucked into Kogap mill Friday from the Dead Indian area was so heavy that more than 700 pounds of bark had to be removed to bring it under legal weight limits. Above, logging contractor Ray Offord, on truck, and driver Byron Backes find that a six-foot log scale won't quite reach across the butt end. According to Clyde Lees, log manager of Kogap, the log is valued at about $800 before cutting. For a story about how a log truck driver spends an aver age day, see Page 14 of today's Mail Tribune. Truman Sees Russian Military Dictatorship As Threat To West By HARRY S. TRUMAN North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Copyright, 1957, by Harry S. Truman (Reproduction of this article whole, or in part is forbidden without wrlltea muuiorlzauon.) I do not think we should al low our hopes and determined pursuit of peace to be influenced by the grim alternatives which seem now to confront the Rus sian people a choice of evils military or political dictatorship. We of the West must be care ful not to encourage, by word or action, the Russian people to assume that a military dictator could be any more helpful to them, or to peace, than any of the other personal rivals for Stal in's mantle. People Must Awaken Until the Russian people themselves awaken to the fact that they and they alone ought to have direct power and con trol over their government, the world will continue to be dis trustful of any Russian govern ment. In the present phase of the continuing struggle for power in the Kremlin, there are the be ginnings, it seems to me, of a dominant role of the military in shaping Russian policy. For the first time since the Bolshevik Sports Bulletin Memoral Stadium, Camp White The Erv Lind Flor ists girls' Softball team eked out a 3 to 1 victory over the Rogue Valley Dairy Maids here last night before an over flowing - crowd. The Florists racked up two runs in the sixth inning for the victory. The Portlanders collected three hits and committed three errors while the Dairy Maids hit safely six times and made two errors. Sharon Day, pitching her first game for the Dairy Maids, hurled a no-hitter in the second game of the doub le bill, turning back Orland, Calif., 4 to 1. The Maids col lected seven hits off the Cal ifornians. memberships have climbed 15.7 per cent above last year at this time. He reminded festival patrons that the deadline for purchasing memberships is July 31, with orders for memberships post marked by midnight of that date and accompanied with payment being accepted. Dress rehearsals are closed to the public, but association mem bers and their out-of-state guests can attend the final round of rehearsals. The 1957 season opens with "As You Like It" on Aug. 1, to be followed by "Oth ello," "Two Gentlemen of Ve ronia." and "Henry VIII," all rotating throughout the month. "Pericles" will be staged Aug. 23 and 29 only. revolution, a professional mili tary leader is having a decisive voice. Khrushchev, having sur vived as the leading figure, had to call on the aid of Marshal Zhukov in order to purge Mol otov, Malenkov and Kaganovich. What is more revealing is the fact thaf Marshal Zhukov, a pro fessional soldier, undertook to make a statement of high policy, presuming to speak in the name of all the Russian people and the Communist Party. I think we should watch close ly political developments in Russia following this last erup tion, as this may very well be the beginning of an historic trend. Whenever political dic tatorships become involved in in ternal struggles for power, mil itary dictatorships inevitably re sult. This pattern runs through out history from Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Na poleon Bonaparte after the French Revolution, as well as Hitler and Mussolini. Whether or not Marshal Zhukov eventually assumes con trol of Russia, or shares power with Khrushchev, the man he saved, the fact is that any dic tatorship, whether by one man or a clique, in uniform or out, is government imposed from the top Instead of a government of the people. World Peace Dependent The free world has to go on dealing with the Russians as best it can, for the peace of the world depends up on it. By our standards any dictatorship is ab horrent. And I would be against any attempt to be taken in by a military figure, especially one who only recently was associ ated with the savage repression of a bid for freedom in Hun gary and Poland. We are so anxious for peace that I can understand some of our statesmen being tempted to grasp at straws. But we ought not to be deluded into prema ture or unwarranted compro mise. Our strong position should be maintained. With patience and firmness I believe that we can maintain world peace and, in time, re duce the burden of armaments. But I would remind our states men of the broken promises and exasperating behavior of the Kremlin. We have tried and should keep on trying every reasonable approach to get the Russians to cooperate in the shaping of a peaceful world. Dealing With Cliques But what makes the prospects of cooperation so difficult is that we have to deeal with a clique and not a people, a clique that docs not elicve in 'honoring its contracts. And this clique in the Kremlin no matter how often it may change faces is concerned primarily with per petuating itself as masters of Russia while seeking to be mas ters of the world. Only a government which in sists that it alone knows what is best for the people and that it must, therefore, impose its will from the top can cause as much trouble and anxiety as the Kremlin is doing. (Continued on Pag 10) Teamsters, Beer Distributors To Talk Wage Boost Meeting Monday To Consider Proposals Representatives of Teamsters Local 962 of Medford are sched uled to meet with Medford area beer distributors Monday to con sider a possible hourly wage in crease, it was reported Friday. During Monday morning s meeting in the Industry Council of Southern Oregon office here the two groups will consider both the Teamsters' proposal and the distributors' counter pro posal. The Teamsters are asking for 19 cents an hour to be included in the contract which would run from June 1, 1957, to June 1, 1958. Distributors have pro posed a two-year agreement of fering 12 V4 cents per hour the first year and an additional 6'i cents per hour for the second year. In 'Fluid Stag Fred Morlan of the Industry Council office here emphasized that the proposals are still in the "fluid" stage. The parties signatory to the agreement received notice from the union within the specified 60 day period May 1 through June 1 that the contract is open for negotiation. "Although some representa tives of the industry have been approached already Monday will be actually the first time both parties have been able to sit down and discuss their relative positions," Morlan said Friday, Similar contracts are open in Eugene, Portland and Salem areas. Teamsters struck against beer distributors in the Coos Bay area about a week ago, Mor lan said. Coos Bay (IT) If a settl ment is not reached soon with southwest Oregon beer distribu tors, the truckers' strike which broke out here July- 1 5 may spread-' throughout the state, a Teamsters official warned here Saturday. Ed Mattox, business agent for Teamsters local 689, said bars have been kept supplied because tavern operators have hired trucks and brought beer in from other areas, delaying a settle ment. . . The beer truckers want 19 cents more an hour, and a $3 boost in overnight subsistence raising it to $12. A wage in crease of 12V4 cents an hour has been offered by the seven dis tributors that service the area from Florence to Brookings. Program Outlined To Fight Asiatic Flu rhiraon (IB The American Medican association Saturday outlined a four-point nationwide nrnin-aiTi to fitrht anv outbreaks of Asiatic flu in the United States. AM A nresident Dr. David B. Allman, stressed that there was no immediate cause for alarm. He said the AMA merely wants Mrt hau. rtrnrtirintf rthvsicians mobilized and alerted in case an outbreak does occur. The AMA plan centers around a nationwide preparedness pro gram, and is closely co-ordinated with the work of surgeon spnpral T.erov E. Burnev and the U.S. public health service in Washington. AdlaiSees Russian Desire To Half Race Bonn, Germany Wl Adlai Stevenson said Saturday he sees some evidence" the Russians want to halt the arms race. His statement coincided with announcement that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is fly ing to London1 for a "personal review and judgment" on the current disarmament -talks. Stevenson, here on a three- day private visit, said he be lieves the Soviet Union has a sincere desire" to end the race for supremacy in nuclear wea pons. 'I am delighted that my gov ernment has at last made some proposals in that direction," he said. Accident Reported On Pleasure Craft A pleasure boat accident is reported to have occurred near Chuck and Monty's boat landing on the Rogue river Saturday night. Although state police reported unidentified passengers may pos sibly have ben injured no fur ther . information was available before press time. Guatemala Pr ;nt Murdered By Guard in Hanway of Palace Dulles Ordered To London To Study Disarmament Talks Secretary To Make 'Personal Review' Washington (IPl President Eisenhower Saturday ordered Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to fy to London Sunday night and find out whether the disarmament talks can be saved from threatened deadlock or col lapse. A White House announcement echoef" by state department spokesmen, said Dulles unex pected trip does not mean either a breakthrough" or a "break down" is near in the long search for a disarmament formula. Dulles will make a "personal review and judgment" of the big disagreements between Rus sia and the West and the lesser issues among the Western Allies on how to make "first step" to ward checking the arms race, administration spokesmen said Early Hopes Being Destroyed nowever, intormed sources added that it was increasingly apparent that early hopes of agreement with Russia are being destroyed by Russia's refusal to link a proposed nuclear test su spension with more fundamental and complicated first-step dis armament moves. The West refuses to stop test ing atomic weapons without as surance that Russia will join in a broader and workable system of controlled and inspected dis armament. Russia insists that to tie in nuclear stockpile controls, missile control, conventional arms reductions, open-skies in spection plans, and other com plex steps will mean a long de lay in starting the temporary ban on bomb tests. The U.N. Disarmament sub committee must report to its parent body next week on pro gress of the London talks. The talks could continue after 'the report is filed, however. Anderson To Take Treasury Job Monday Washington llPi Robert B. Anderson, 47 -year -old Texas landlubber who steered the U.S. Navy into the atomic age, be comes secretary of the treasury Monday suceeding bruised but unbowed George M. Humphrey. Humphrey, father of the Eis enhower "tight money" policy and called the most influential man in Washington after the president resigned in May to return to his Ohio-Pennsylvania industrial empire. Anderson, who has been rork ing 10 hours a day in the treas ury to learn his job, will take the oath in Eisenhower's office in the presence of family, friends and officials. Argentina To Elect Assembly Delegates Buenos Aires (IP) More than nine million Argentine men and women will vote today in a national election intended to shore up the country's demo cratic structure after the long dictatorship of Juan D. Peron. In the first summons to the polls since Peron wag over throw nearly two years ago, the voters will elect 205 dele gates to a national constituent assembly. ... This body will convene in the city of Santa Fe on Sept. 1 to pass on basic constitutional amendments proposed by the present caretaker government. It will also adopt an - electoral code to regulate presidential and congressional elections next February. Weather FORECAST: Continued fair and warm through Monday. Hirh today 90 and low tonight JS3. Temp. Highest Saturday K7 Lowest Saturday Morning 49 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . 4:59 a.m. . 7:36 a.m. . 8:21 pjn. Sunset . snri fc in Port PRO MI VENT STARS Altai r. high in south 11:32 p.m. Antares, low in south west 11:36 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, ahove the Moon. Saturn, above Antares. Jupiter, low In west 8:22 p.m. "What Do You Suppose Top Livestock Prices On Portland Market Encouraging Locally The fact that livestock brought top prices in Portland last week should be encouraging to local farmers, according to W. B. Tuc ker, county agent. Steers sold in Portland last Monday at 26 cents a pound, Tucker said.. These were heavy fat animals weighing 1100 pounds or more. Hog receipts were also tops in Portland's Monday market bringing a price as high as 24.75 cents. Fat Iambs also sold for a top price of 21.50 cents. "Farmers seem to feel that beef will bring a 2 to 3 cents higher price than last year," the county agent said. Supply Not Too Large Tucker added . that there is not too large a supply here now. Local beef is on range and is not coming in here until the last of September or the first of October. Now being offered for sale here are those animals on irrigated pasture. Tucker estimated there are 43,000 head of cattle in Jackson county including both beef and dairy animals. One explanation for the top prices is that the lower price of hay makes it possible to feed more of it thus producing a high er quality of beef. Much of the hay being used locally comes from northern California and Klamath county. Jackson coun ty produces only 30 to 40 per cent of the hay consumed in the Rogue River valley. Hay Production Up Also state-wide, 10 per cent more hay was produced this year making it cheaper. The wet spring and hot summer is re sponsible, he added. Further affecting the cattle feed picture is more acreage be ing planted to corn. This also makes it possible to feed cattle on sileage during the winter months. Over-all cost of cattle feed is lower now than it has been dur ing the last two or three years. Barley, for instance, is selling for $40 a ton. A year ago it sold for nothing less than $50 a ton. A lot of the barley used local ly is trucked in from Klamath Explosion Evidence Found On Airliner; Barstow. Calif UK A blasting cap and evidence of a possible explosion were found on an airliner from which a heav ily-insured passenger was lost in a mysterious blast, the FBI said Saturday. An insurance firm declared it would fight any immediate ef forts to collect on the dead man s flight accident policy. Body Found in Desert The body of the passenger, jeweler Saul F. Binstock, 62, was found in a desolate desert area late Friday following the blast which occurred in a flight at 10,000 feet early Thursday. It was being given painstaking ex amination to determine the cause of death and whether any traces of explosive powder could be found on it. He Means ThU Time?" county and some comes from Willamette valley. Most of the corn is shipped in from Nebras ka and other middle-west states. Little wheat is being fed here in contrast to eastern Oregon. Tucker said. "We used to feed a lot of wheat here but can't feed at the supported price,1' the county agent said. Good Prospects Tucker concluded by saying pretty good prospects exist this year for feeding lambs. Local farmers buy them from other areas and put them in the grain fields after harvest to fatten them for market. A lamb weighing 50 to 60 pounds when bought for feeder stock can be fattened up to 90 pounds in a period of 60 to 75 days. Farmers expect the price on fat lambs to be three to five cents a pound higher than last year. Republicans Tighten Against Jury Trials Washington Wl Republi can lines tightened in the Senate Saturday and heightened admin istration hopes for defeating a jury trial amendment to the em battled civil rights bill. A United Press survey showed five GOP senators who deserted the administration on a major vote this week had swung over on the jury trial issue and four others were inclined to do the same. This swing was offset, in part, by the defection of two Democrats who sided with thet test. Senate Republican leader Wil liam F. Knowland, leader of the bi-partisan coalition supporting the administration bill, stuck to his prediction that jury trial amendments would be defeated. But he admitted the vote would be close. Davis, Calif. If! Professor Emeritus Harry B. Walker, 73, who revolutionized several agri cultural industries, died Satur day. Body Located The body was reported gen erally intact except for a man gled left hand with parts of it torn off. The twin engine Western Air lines Convair, with a jagged hole torn in its fuselage at the lavatory section where Binstock had been at the time, made a safe emergency landing with 12 other passengers. Blasting Cap Found John F. Malone, agent in charge of the Los Angeles FBI office, said an unexploded blast ing cap was found in the lav atory, with what appeared to be burned toilet tissue and evidence indicating "the possibility of a small explosion." He refused to speculate on the significance ef the discoveries. Assassin Commits Suicide as Other Guards Close in Documents Identify Killer as Communist Guatemala City, Guatemala IW A palace guard identified as a Communist saluted President Carlos Castillo Armas with his rifle Friday night and then shot the President dead with two bul lets fired point blank, in a dark ened palace hallway. The guard fled toward a stairs and then committed suicide with his last bullet. The 43-year-old President, who rescued Guatemala from Red rule in 1954 and gave the coun try its first really Democratic regime, fell dead at the side of his attractive wife shortly after a gay reception. One bullet pierced his heart, the other also lodged in bis chest. Provisional President At daybreak, the standing committee of congress confirmed first Vice President Luis Arturo Gonzalez-Lopez, as provisional president A 54-year-old attorney known for his anti-Communist views, he appealed for order and indicated others had been, involved in the slaying of th president. A state of seige (modified mar tial law) was declared but the country was orderly. Castillo and his wife had Just left his private apartments in one wing of the palace shortly after the reception. They Wer walking towards the dining room on one of the rare occa sions when they were to dins alone. L As they walked down a 50- yard hallway, Pvt. Romeo Vas quez Sanchcs, 20, snapped to attention and presented arms with his semi-automatic rifle. Turned Out Lights Then he reached up and turned out the lights. He raised his rifle and fired twice at such close range he could not miss. The hawk nosed, mustached President pitched to the floor. He died without uttering a word. Other members of the palaco guard heard the shots and raced to the scene. Vasquez fled to wards a stairs but he was trapped by guards running up. He raised the gun and fired one shot, killing himself. When his rifle was examined, the ammu nition clip was empty. Officials checked his papers and said documents showed him to be a long-standing member of the Guatemalan Communist par ty, the only Communist party in the Western Hemisphere which ever gained a grip on a nation. Washington (IB President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles led official Washington Saturday in mourning the death of President Carlos Castillo Armas of Guate mala as a loss "to the entire free world." Castillo Armas, staunch friend of the United States, succeeded three years ago in rescuing Guatemala from a pro-Communist regime. Eisenhower, in a statement re leased by the White House, said "the tragic death of President Carlos Castillo Armas ... is a great loss to his own nation and to the entire free world." . The President later announced he would send his son, Maj. John Eisenhower, as his personal rep resentative to the funeral. It is expected that Maj. Eisenhower will leave here Tuesday. Dulles, in a message to Guate mala's foreign minister, Jorge Skinner Klee, expressed the same sentiment. Jacksonville Men Roll Car Over Bank Roy Hambree, 39, and Dick Hamilton, 32, both of Jackson ville, were taken to Rogue Val ley Memorial hospital Saturday night following a one-car acci dent southwest of Ruch. Hospital reports stated that Hambree was being x-rayed and Hamilton appeared uninjured. The accident occurred near the Cantrell swimming hole on the Applegate river, it was re ported. The car in which the pair was riding apparently had rol led over and off the road and down th bank.
