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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
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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.