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e NATO Editor's note: Thti h the first of a series of articles by Charles Corddry. I'nited Press military affairs writer, who has spent the past month in Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa sizing up the free world's Western defenses. By CHARLES CORDDRY United Press Correspondent Paris (U 'There ain't gonna be no war." That was the way British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan put it two years ago, when he was foreign recretary. ItQstill looks like a good prediction to many experts. Touring Western defense areas in Europe and the Mediter ranean and talking with officials, military men and plain people, you find the odds are on continued Communist trouble-making by all methods short of armed hostilities. There are too many uncertainties, of course, for military lead ers to put themselves on record with any flat forecast that war will be averted. There always is a chance, with giant forces facing each other, that an accidental spark could touch off a conflagra tion. There is the possibility of East German uprisings with West Germans trying to help and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces becoming involved. There is what Allied headquarters here calls a new "threat" in the appearance of Russian ships and sub marines in the Mediterranean. There still are gaps in NATO deterrent power, holes in the Ets3t UMfcrjfa ATTENDS CIRCUS Earl Baldwin, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. "Red" Baldwin, Medford, was a special guest at the Shrine cir cus Friday. Earl, who was crippled in. a fall from a horse sev eral months ago, has been taking treatment at the Shrine hospi tal in Portland and will return for more treatments within the next few weeks. Above, Earl is being given a stuffed monkey' by Past Potentate L. C. "Les" Taylor, Medford, general chair man of the circus, while circus clowns, Kokomo and Teto, look on. Johnson Says Nixon Leading Campaign for Civil Rights Vetd Washington IIP! Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson asserted today,.that Vice President Richard M. Nix on Is leading a "concerted pro paganda campaign" of veto threat against the Senate version of the civil right bill. "This talk about the Senate refusal to waive the right of trial by jury being a dilution of the bill is political propagan da" Johnson told reporters. ' Concerted Campaign He was asked about the week end report from high sources that President Eisenhower would veto the bill if it should reach the White House in the form evolved by the Senate, s "It looks like a concerted propaganda campaign headed by the vice president, who heard very little of the discussion on the bill," Johnson replied. He cited the vice president's comment that it was a "sad day" when the jury trial amendment was attached to the right to vote provision last week. 5 "It's a rather rare thing for si vice president to start lectur ing the Senate, particularly Well-Rounded For City, According To New The city of Medford is well on way to having a well-rounded accident prevention program, ac cording to an analysis of 1956 traffic safety activities received today. James R. Banks, executive secretary of the Oregon Traffic Safety Commission, Salem, and Charles Boyce, assistant man ager, discussed the analysis to day with city and school offi cials and representatives of news media and the Medford Safety council. The analysis, prepared by the National Safety council on the basis of reports submitted by local officials, covers seven ma jor functions in accident preven tion work accident records, traffic engineering, police traf fic supervision, traffic courts, school traffic safety education, public safety education and safe ty organization. Considerable Improvement Medford showed "considerable improvement over 1955 with the program and death and injury record meeting 66 per cent of national standards," the report saii. It met 58.5 per cent in 1955. The national standard used in safety council work is based on the best safety activities in the nation and not on an average among cities, it was explained. Medford is well above avareage, Boyce said. Banks told officials that im provements were noted in five areas of study. Based on the reports, the na Leaders See No Major War when he was not here to hear much of the discussion," John son said. m The Senate has finished am ending the bill. Johnson hoped the final vote passing it could be taken Wednesday or Thurs day. Bill Goes To House The bill then will go back to the House, which earlier in the year passed a bill which the administration likes. There then is likely to be a big battle in the House over whether to accept the Senate version or to seek a compromise with the Sen ate. The administration would back the latter course, but it involve the risk of a deadlock from which no bill at all would emerge. Eisenhower was represented as insisting that at -the very least the Senate's jury trial am endment should be revised so that it would apply only to crim inal contempt cases involving voting rights. As adopted by the Senate, jury trial would be granted in all criminal contempt of court cases arising under all federal laws. Safety Program Forseen tional safety group made reconv mendations for further improve ments. Concerning accident records, it recommended spending more time on processing accident rec ords, maintaining an accident lo cation file and preparing com parison studies relating accident experience to enforcement. It recommended that above 57 per cent of one man's time be spent on traffic engineering du ties, along with a study of the feasibility of using vehicle actu ated type traffic signals at iso lated intersections and use of parking meter revenue to pro vide for off-street parking facili ties. Administrative Training ' It also was suggested, under "police traffic supervision", that the city provide funds for super visory personnel to receive at least two weeks administrative training from a traffic training school and devote more hours to in-service training for officers. The council recommended that the municipal judge and prose cutor be afforded an opportunity to attend regional traffic court conferences. School traffic safety education suggestions relative to public schools included the provision of additional student safety proj ects and continued driver edu cation expansion. For non-public schools, the council recommend ed establishment of driver edu cation courses, along with sum maries and analyses of student accident data. ground force shield on the Central European front. But in 6.000 miles of travel in nine countries, from London to Istanbul and from America's big base in Libya to the barbed wire at the Czech border, this reporter found no official or military leader who thought Russia would deliberately start a war now. The overriding reason is simple. An attack on NATO on the 4,000 mile line from Norway to Turkey andor on North Amer icacould mean the death of the Soviet Union at the hands of air retaliatory forces with nuclear power beyond measure. The Russians know that. There is no profit, just suicide, for them in a global war and no assurance that a little war would stay little. Gen. Lauris Norstad, supreme Allied commander in Europe, says the West's retaliatory power is "absolute" and can be kept that way regardless of the size of Russian military formations. He says the free world now has so many air bases that it is a prac tical "impossibility" for Russia to destroy them all simultaneously. "Regardless of what destruction they can do us," he told the U.S. Congress last month, "they also are going to be destroyed," if they start a war. Norstad tells questioners at his headquarters here that the ad vent of long-range ballistic missiles will not change present deter rent concepts. The West will be in the "same relative position" as Porte 52nd Year M EDF0RD United Press Full Leased Wire 16 Pages Oregon Car Crashes Fatal To 7 Persons By UNITED PRESS Seven persons died as the re sult of week end traffic acci dents in Oregon, three in one crash near Oregon City. The deaths brought the state's August toll to 12 so far. A two-car collision Saturday afternoon about nine n.iies south of Arlington claimed the lives of Mr.' and Mrs. Harvey Wil liams, Cosmopolis, Wash. Wil liams, 78, died Saturday night in a hospital at The Dalles and his wife, Grace, died this morn ing. Driver 01 tne otner car, Neil Charles Reiling, Donald, Ore., was not seriously hurt. A head-on crash three miles south of Oregon City late Satur day-killed a Corvallis couple and a young Portland man. The victims were Homer Clyde Beach, 62; his wife,- Ernestine, 60, and Robert A; Waldron, 22, Portland. Mrs. Alice Lenox, 20, Lemon Grove, Calif., was killed bun- Bulletin Mrs. Henry E. Johnson, 49, was found burned to death in bed in her home on route 2. Medford, this morning, sher iff's officers reported at noon. Her husband. Henry E. John son, proprietor of Johnson's bakery in Medford, had left his home about midnight last night, sheriff's officers were told. When he returned at 11 a.m. he found the house "bad ly smoked up" and his wife fatally burned in bed. Stale police and sheriff's of ficers are investigating with the county coroner, but by noon today, had not learned the cause.. Johhnson is reported under a doctor's care and being treat ed for shock. - . Analysis Under "public safety educa tion" the analysis suggested that the area "adapt a program more specifically to local needs based on continuing analysis of acci dent records, assign more time to planning and carrying out the program, and erect a traffic scoreboard to keep the public in formed of the current accident situation." The council said that the Med ford Safety council is "well qualified and effective in build ing public support for official activities," but suggested that the inventory analysis should be used for program planning if that is not now the case. One of Slate's Best Banks told officials that the Medford program is one of the best in the state. "The inventory, however, is intended to show of ficials and the public wiat areas deserve additional attention and study in order to continue mak ing in-roads on the traffic prob lems," he said. Those meeting with the two commission officials included El liott Becken, representing the Medford school system; Father Ilg, St. Mary's school; Vernon Thorpe, public works director, city of Medford; Miss Noreen Kelly, municipal judge; Roy Bashaw, city attorney; Robert Lindstrom, television; Tom Mc Leod, Frank Pinnock and Clar ence Williams, radio; Miss Jose phine Swayne, Medford Safety council; and a number of city police representatives. 173 i. G-avor: MEDFORD, day in a two-car collision seven miles south of Madras. Her body floated in an irrigation ditch nearly a mile away from the scene of the collision. Police said she was thrown from the car into the ditch ,at the time of the accident. Robert Dean Sheffield, 10, Tangent, was killed in a two car collision two miles south of Albany On Highway 99 Satur day. Earlier, five persons died from early Thursday through Friday morning. Labor Should Push Political Activity, State AFl CIO Told Klamath Falls (IP) Political activity and legislative work by labor organizations should be intensified in the future, J. D. McDonald of Portland, president of the State Labor council, told the state AFL-CIO convention here today. "All anti-labor legislation was defeated in the recently conclud ed Oregon legislative session," he said. "It was the direct prod uct of effective ballot box work done during the voting of 1956." Should Take Active Role McDonald said that in most cases labor represents the larg est single organization within any given city or state and that there is no reason why labor should not take the lead and an active role in all problems af fecting the American way of life. He said that in Oregon there are 225,000 . members of the AFL-CIO and that they, along with their families, represent more than half the population of the state. Rough Winter Seen The convention opened after a gloomy prediction that the 1957-58 winter will see the worst unemployment problem in years in Oregon. George Brown, political direc tor of the State Labor council, told a pre-convention meeting Sunday that between 35,000 and 45,000 persons are out of work in Oregon at present "when tra ditionally employment is at a high peak." "You can get your bottom dol lar this winter will be one of the most severe in the state from the standpoint of unem ployment," he said. Wage Settlement Talks Postponed ' A meeting for further nego tiations between Teamsters Lo cal 962 here and beer distribut ors has been changed to Wed nesday, it was announced this morning. Fred Morlan, of the Industry Council of Southern Oregon, said the new date seems better suited to everyone's schedule. Friday, Morlan and Bob Shaw, secretary-treasurer of Local 962, indicated that an agreement should be reached by the middla of this week. Shaw said he has been wait ing for a counter-proposal other than" that made previously. Shaw also said he will have to meet first with members of the local to see how they feel once another counter-proposal is made. Negotiations "concerning wage increase. ' But Are now able to hit "where and when we choose" and "destroy any thing of real military significance" in Russia. The attitude in NATO military ranks is one of confidence and restrained optimism with heavy-emphasis on the need to keep on strengthening the defense machine until there can be a foolproof disarmament agreement. "If we continue to follow the course we are now following," Norstad says, "war in the next few years is most unlikely. I be lieve that time is playing on our side and that there is a good chance, and the chance will continue to get better, that we will maintain peace and avoid war." NATO strategy "the course we are now following" is in tended first and foremost to prevent war. That is the purpose of every military man involved, from the armored cavalryman rid ing border patrol at the Iron Curtain to the B52 hydrogen bomber commander on a U.S. air base. All are visible signs to the Reds to keep their heads down. ' NATO resolved in 1954 to base its defense on nuclear weapons and cut its previously unattainable "conventional" force goals from 90 division for the central front to 30 and from 9,000 air craft to 6,000. Strategy for deterring war is built around a double defense in Europe ground and air. It calls for: 1. A "sword" of retaliatory air forces able to strike all elements Do uly OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1957 MC AND ASSISTANT Assisting his dad as master of ceremonies of the annual Jackson County Democratic picnic held yesterday in TouVelle park, was David Duncan, 6, son of Rep. and Mrs. Robert Duncan. Guest speaker lr If WALTER F. GEORGE Funeral Late Today Tribute Paid To Sen. George " Vienna. Ga. (IPI The nation's leaders today joined friends and neighbors of former Sen. Walter F. George in mourning the death of a small-town lawyer who mounted the forums of world statesmanship. President Eisenhower said the Georgia Democrat, hailed for his bipartisanship in U. S. foreign affairs, "served his country and the free world for many years with distinction and integrity." George headed the Senate For eign Relations committee at the pinnacle of his 34-year Senate career and afterward became the President's representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion. George, 79, died at his home here early Sunday after a six week struggle with heart disease which last June ended his active role in his new international career. The body was to lie in state until about an hour before the funeral services late this after noon in the First Baptist church, where George had worshipped most of his life. - - - Keeping 1DD1DOD1 Tribune Jordan Expected To Demand Withdrawal Of Syrian Official Amman, Jordan (IP) The Jordanian government was ex pected today to demand the withdrawal of Syrian Charge d' Affaires Ahmad Rahbi for his part in he crises in Syrian Jordanian relations. The crises exploded when Da-, mascus radio broadcast a Syrian communique saying Jordan had threatened to sever diplomatic relations and to resort to "arm ed intervention" "if Syria did not halt its press campaigns against Jordan. Won't Be First Syria called it an "ultima tum." Authoritative sources in Am man said "Jordan will never be the first in any case to take action in respect to cutting off diplomatic relations with Syria or resorting to armed interven tion.; It was understood the Syrian reply to the Jordan warning would be delivered to Foreign WATER GROUP MEETS An organizational meeting of the recently formed Jackson County Water Resources com mittee will be held Tuesday, Aug. 6, at 8 p.m. in the court house auditorium. It is open to the public." Weather FORECAST: Considerable clouds through Tuesday with light showers in the mountains; oc casional sprinkles in the vaU lev. High today 14. Low Tues day 48. Temp. Highest Yesterday 75 Lowest Yesterday 49 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise ' S:7 a.m. Sunset 1 7:27 p.m. The Moon rides low and sets Tuesday 1:42 a..m. PROMINENT STAR Vega, higb overhead 9:4R p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in west J 8:18 p.m. Jupiter, low in west 8:5& p.m. Saturn. low in southwest l:4fi p.m. ........ Fingers Crossed of Russian power on short notice. Key unit is the U.S. Strategic Air Command which can hit the Soviets from any point on the compass. Other units are Britain's rapier-like bomber command and the ever-growing atomic power within Norstad's command itself. The U.S. Air Force in Europe, for example, probably have well over 400 aircraft able to carry atomic weapons and the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean now can strike a modest number of atomic targets. 2. A "shield" of conventional ground, air and sea elements pressed close to the Iron Curtain representing as many NATO nations as possible- and serving as constantly visible evidence of free-world determination to resist aggression. These forces, too, are to have limited atomic capability in the form of tactical mis siles, artillery shells and small bombs. U.S. units already are so equipped. The need for the ground force elements of the shield has be come the subject of a. big controversy in Europe and England, in view( of the immense deterrent power of the retaliatory air forces. Norstad, first air general to head Atlantic Pact forces, has found his toughest problem is explaining the need for the Army forces and he has become one of their most ardent supporters since he succeeded U.S. Army Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther last November. Next: The ground force shield in Europe. Price 10c United Press Full Leased Wire No. 117 at the affair was Robert Steward, director of the Oregon State Department of Agriculture, who spoke on the functions of the depart ment. The picnic was attended by a number of state and party officials. ' Minister Samir Rifai today by the Syrian charge d'affaires. Tension Recedes Diplomatic circles in Damas cus said the tension had receded following the denial but that the crisis was not yet over. In formed sources there said the Arab League council may be called in to try to end the state of tension. ' Abdel Khalik Hassouna, sec retary general of the Arab League,' called on Egyptian For eign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi and the Syrian ambassador Sun day to discuss the crisis. The league charter stipulates that the council must be called if a cris is arises between member states. 'What! My Administration Influenced By Money?" mm Oregonian Won't Take Personal Hand In Fostering Plan Congressman Believes Executions Ordered Washington (IB Rep. Charles Porter (D-Ore.) said Sunday night he would like to see a revolution topple Domini can" strongman Rafael Trujillo from power. . But Porter, who hag been at tacking Trujillo for months con cerning the Galindez-Murphy case, said he would take no per sonal hand in such a revolution. Porter said he has evidence that "would stand up in court" that Trujillo engineered the dis appearance and alleged murders of Jesus Galindez, a Columbia University lecturer, and Lester Murphy, an American flier from Porter's congressional district. Cold Cash Or Cold Terror "I believe Trujillo ordered the murders," Porter said. He added that the Caribbean leader works in two ways "cold cash or cold terror." , The Oregon Democrat said that the United States should distinguish between ."dictator ships and Democracies" in its foreign relations. Galindez, an outspoken foe of Trujillo, mysteriously disap peared March 12, 1956, from New York City. Murphy, who allegedly flew Galindez to the Dominican Republic, dropped from sight in December of that year. The United States has been conducting a grand jury investi gation into the matter. The State Departmen has said it has evi dence that the two disappear ances are conneced. Files To FBI The Dominican Republic is unertaking its own investigation aimed at clearing it of any com plicity in the disappearance of Galindez. The investigation "is being directed by Morris L. Ernest, prominent New York at torney, and former New York State Supreme Court Justice William M. Munson. Porter said he chainged his mind and told Ernest last week he would not give him access to his files. Porter said he had received phone calls from peo ple asking him 'not to show Ernst information they had presented to Porter. Porter said he had turned his files over to the FBI. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 7 8 New York , 2 9 I 1 Garcia and Naragon: ten and Berra. Lar-
