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M n v Vh7 1M H fed WW 52nd Year MEDFOP 14 Pages Heart Attack Claims Former Bank Executive President Cancels Plans for Dinner Kansas City, Mo. OP) Ar thur Eisenhower, the Presi dent's eldest brother and fore runner for a subsequent pat tern of family success, died Sunday night of a heart at tack at 71. The former banking execu tive had been in failing health for almost a year, but his death was unexpected. He had not complained of being ill when, shortly after 7:30 p.m. (e.s.t.) he collapsed in the bathroom of his suburban home. Friends said Eisenhow er had planned to fly to New York today. A family spokesman said funeral arrangements would not be completed until late to day. In Washington, Presi dent Eisenhower learned of his boyhood model's death at the White House and can celled plans for a dinner Thursday night. It was ex pected here that the Presi dent would fly to Kansas City some time today. Dr. Joseph Welker, Arthur Eisenhower's physician, said the thin-haired businessman had suffered from "an insuf ficient heart for a long while." Eisenhower, who rose from a S5 a week messenger boy's job to the vice presidency of the Commerce Trust com pany, Kansas City, had come here when 18 from his fam ily's home at Abilene, Kan. He resigned the post and from the firm's board of di rectors about a year ago be cause of poor health. Though without college training, a fact he sometimes lamented, Eisenhower had served as a director of sev eral prominent organizations, including Trans World Air lines. Eisenhower is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Katherine Roueche, Amagan sett. N.Y., and a grandson, Arthur Bradford Roueche. Kadar Resigns as Hungarian Premier Budapest LP Hungarian Communist leader Janos Ka dar resigned today as premier and turned over the reigns of government to Deputy Pre mier Ference Muennich. But Kadar retained his post as head of the Hungarian Com munist party. Kadar, announcing a major government reshuffle, told Parliament he was stepping down from the premiership because of the weight of his party duties. He said he would be a minister of state in the revamped government. In a speech to Parliament, Kadar said there would be an amnesty for Hungarians who did not take active part in the revolt of October, 1956. But he declared that the re volt leader, Gen. Pal Malester, and other leading figures would face trial. Work Now Started On Eighth Street Work on the Eighth and Main sts. one-way couplet- project has been started, ac cording to Jack McCormick, state highway department of ficial. He said construction crews are working on the extension of the new Eighth and 10th sts. storm sewer in the area, on which completion is nec essary before grading work can start. The cost of the addi tional section of the storm sewer will be added to the final costs of the street con struction on which the city is to pay 25 per cent, occord ing to the city manager's of fice. Right-of-way for the proj ect is still being negotiated but will not affect present construction work, McCor mick said. Vehicle traffic on ... $ BROTHER IDES ALL TOGETHER The five Eisenhower party. From left to right, they are Milton, brothers are shown above in a picture taken Earl, the President, Arthur and Edgar, at the time Dwight was nominated as a Arthur died Sunday night, presidential candidate by the Republican Camp White Plan Told fln Phoenix A resolution urging hospital beds for all Veterans' admin istration domiciliaries which do not have connecting hos pital facilities was passed dur ing the recent meeting on vet erans' rehabilitation programs in Phoenix, Ariz., it was re ported today. Eugene Orr, Medford mer chant and member of the ex ecutive committee of the Na tional Rehabilitation commis sion for the American Legion, returned last night from the Phoenix meeting. This meet ing included representatives of 11 -western states met on Jan. 23-25 with Veterans' ad- Stone Fruit Men To Meel Here The Stone Fruit Growers will meet Tuesday, Jan. 28, at 1 p.m. in the court house auditorium, according to Don Berry, county extension agent. The program will start at 1:15 with Iain MacSwan, plant pathologist of Oregon State college, explaining new spray materials. His talk will be followed by that of L. G. Gentner, entomologist at the Southern Oregon Branch ex periment station, who will speak on peach silver mite and aphis. Berry will discuss the 1958 peach spray program and Henry H a r t m a, n, horticul turist, Oregon State college, will talk on peach pruning as it relates to split pits, color, and size. Prior lo the close of the ses sion a panel discussion will be held on the future of our peach marketing. Panel mem bers will include Roland Gro der, Oregon State college marketing specialist; Don Korth', Phoenix, Art Wilson, Medford, and Frank Tammey, Ashland, all grower-shippers in the county. Cilford B. Cordy will moderate the panel. Coffee hour will be held at 4 p.m. Berry said all growers and others interested in the pro duction of stone ruits are invited to attend the meeting. Couplet the street will not be blocked during the construction pe riod, but some one-way traffic rwill be necessary, he added. Several Port Orford cedar trees in a section of the city's library park must be removed to allow construction, city of ficials said. They said the trees, too large to move suc cessfully, will likely be re placed elsewhere in the park, with the city being assessed 25 per cent of the cost. They said plans first called for moving the trees, which are said to be quite valuable, but in talking with experts it was learned the trees were too large and too old for success ful transplanting. The trees must be removed before grad ing of the project can start. Officials hope the grading can start in about a month. Y, JANUARY 27, 1958 ministration officials on re habilitation programs, Orr ex plained. Orr represents Ore gon and the other western states. Orr said he proposed the resolution, which specifically refers to domiciliaries in Georgia, Iowa and Medford "Oregon is the only state in the union which has no more Veterans administration hospital beds now than it did before World War II," Orr commented. The resolution will be brought up again during a na tional rehabilitation meeting in February when Orr and other Legion representatives will meet with the director of veteran affairs in Washing ton, D.C. Orr said today his talk with the western area medical of ficer for the Veterans Admin istration made him feel opti mistic about chances of get ting the requested hospital beds here. If hospital beds are provided here, Orr said he did not know how many there would be. Orr said he had included the other domiciliaries in his resolution since he felt it had a better chance of passing if made national in scope. Thursday the board of di rectors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce re quested the Veterans admin istration convert the perman ent facilities at Camp White into a veteran's hospital pro viding 400 beds. In a letter to Sumner G. Whittier, administrator of vet eran's affairs, the Chamber said it "has become vitally interested in the development of a veteran's hospital in con nection with the veteran's domiciliary at Camp White." A number of farm and civic croups have gone on record favoring the Camp White pro posal. One of the most recent is the Machinist Local 1468 which voted unanimously in favor of reactivating the hos pital facilities at Camp White for a permanent veterans nos- pital. , Japanese Marine Toll Reaches 224 Wakayama, Japan OP! The toll of dead and missing climbed to 224 today in a series of marine disasters in a violent winter storm that sank a ferry boat with all aboard near the Devils Whirl pools of Naruto. Revised figures by the Jap anese coast guard said 168 persons were aboard the 500 ton inter island ferry which was thought to have capsized near the mouth of the fast running Naruto Straits Sun day night. No bodies were re covered. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 448.46, off 2.20; 20 railroads 107.74, up 0.11; 15 utilities 72.27. up 0.34, and 65 stocks 152.86, off 0.29. Sales today were about 2,320,000 shares com pared with 2,830,000 shares Friday. Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 238 Dulles, Baghdad Talks Marred by Bomb Attacks Ankara, Turkey (IP) Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles met today with the five Baghdad Pact nations in a conference marred by bomb attacks on the U.S. embassy here and new propaganda blasts by the Soviet Union. . Informed sources said Dulles would open the door for further U.S. aid to the four Moslem members of the pact Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Pakistan but would make "no dramatic or flamboyant plans" during the 3 V& "day- session. . ' The Dromised U.S. aid is likelv to be smaller than that asked by the Moslem nations which with Britain form the anti-Communist pact. The aid is needed for building com munications, especially high ways, between the nations and rerouting imperiled oil pipe lines. Strong Appeal Planned The rjact members indicat ed they would make a strong appeal to the United States to join the pact but Dulles was unwilling to join in full. He is here as an "observer," with the United States sub scribing only to the military, economic and anti-subversive cGmmittees of the pact. One of the two bomb at tacks came shortly before midnight when unknown terrorists threw a bomb wnicn damaged a warehouse on the pmbassv erounds. The second came shortly after midnight when a bomb was tossed at a Turkish bookstore which sells American books near the em bassy, and is often mistaken for the nearby U.S. Informa tion Service (USIS) bookstore. No injuries were reported. Only Two Cases Noted In Quiet Weekend Here Medford citv nolice rerjort- ed tw$ cases between 12:01 a.m. Sunday and 8:30 a.m. Monday morning. Officials said the city was quiet during the wek end and the lack of cases was possibly a record. 'Meanwhile, Back At & More Funds Foir Defense Available Washington IIP) The Eisenhower administration is ready to open the purse strings further if defense needs require it.' This was made clear Sunday night by Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, who asserted "survival is our first prior ity," and by Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles. It came in the midst of continuing demands by some Demo crats for a bigger defense budget and a call for an added $15 billion yearly arms outlay by the author of a secret Army report on U.S. security. In another defense development, the Democratic and Re publican leaders of the Senate Armed Services committee told the United Press they now favor some form of defense reorganization, but not supreme military authority for a single chief of staff. .The senators plan to give the Pentagon time expected to be about two months to come forward with its plan before putting forth their own specific ideas. Military to Decide Requirements The money for defense line was laid down by Quarles. He said the President would ask Congress for more defense funds if his new $40 billion defense budget proves inade quate. Quarles added he thinks the budget will be sufficient. Budget Director Percival F. Brundage added the chief execu tive's requests were "carefully thought out." Anderson said the Defense department will decide what is required for national defense, not the Treasury depart ment. Asked what would happen if the Pentagon says that it needs an added S3 billion or $4 billion, he replied: "I think that survival is our first priority. And if the mili tary people are able to convince the President and those who have the responsibility for our country, then I conceive it to be a part of our responsibility to as nearly as we can meet whatever those requirements are." He added he thinks the national economy "can stand more than it is doing now" for defense. More Money Sought by Some Democrats Some Democrats, dissatisfied with the administration's defense program, have indicated they will try to add about S2 billion more to the President's $40 billion defense budget for the fiscal year starting next July 1. Others have suggest ed a need for still bigger outlays. Dr. Ellis A. Johnson, director of a recent top secret report to the Army on UiS. defenses, said today the nation must pay an extra $15 billion yearly for defense "indefinitely" if it wants to survive. The report was made by the Operations Research office of Johns Hopkins university, a hush-hush study group under Army contract. Johnson, in a copyrighted dispatch in U.S. News & World Report, said U.S. defenses against Soviet attack are inade quate and growing worse. He said he thinks Russia could attack now with "several hundred" bombers and 50 or more missile-launching submarines and "more than half" would get through. Land.Exjcha: Along Rogy Washington, D. C. A land-for-land exchange can be made for timber lands owned by the U. S. Plywood corpor ation along the Rogue river, Congressman Charles O. Por ter was informed recently by Richard E. McArdle, chief of the U. S. Forest Service. Porter had asked McArdle last December if such an ar rangement couldn't be made to allow for important road side and recreational sites. The plywood corporation is building a road up the Rogue river. "We find, that 3.8 miles of the proposed road is located within the boundaries of the Siskiyou National Forest where land-for-land exchang es are authorized," McArdle wrote Porter. "In this area the corporations appears to WEATHER Forecase: Generally cloudy with occasional rain through Tuesday. Low to night 38. High Tuesday 45. Temn. Highest Yesterday 49 Lowest This Morning 34 Pee. to 4 a.m. Today 01 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:31 a.m. Sunset S:18 p.m. The Moon, at First Quarter sets Tuesday 1:14 a.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, rises 12:41 a.m. Saturn, rises1 ... 5:02 a.m. Mars, rises 5:23 a.m. and this week it moves into the constellation. Sagittarius, where it will be seen the rest of the winter. The Continent- 30 Sot iver own nine lots and a 40-acre tract, totaling 292.5 acres which the road will either traverse or which are located on or close to the river or the road," the forestry offic ial said. "It would be highly desirable that these tracts be obtained so their recreational values might be protected and preserved for use by the pub lic." "Our field representative has already contacted a repre sentative of the Plywood cor poration concerning possible land exchange negotiations," McArdle stated. "It is hoped mutually beneficial exchanges may be agreed to in the near future." Bulte Falls Youth Held For Checkup A 21-year-old Butte Falls youth is being held for a men tal examination after being arrested by Medford police on charges of : attempted rape Saturday evening. Medford police said the youth attempted to assault an 18-year-old Medford girl in her apartment about 11 p.m. The girl told police she had been talking with the youth about an hour before he at tempted to force his attentions on her. She told police a 20-minute struggle took place in which she smashed an alarm clock on his head and broke an ash tray on his forehead in ad dition to scratching his face and arms. Police said blood from the youth's wounds cov ered several articles in the apartment's two rooms. The youth was held by two of the girl's friends who ar rived and called police. Po lice said the youth is a former mental patient and further ac tion would be postponed until a psychiatric examination was held. They said the youth told the girl he had "just come out of the woods and had not seen a woman in a long time." Young Republicans Pick Portland Woman Portland HP) The excutive board of the Young Republi can Federation of Oregon Sunday named Miss Joyce Spillman of Portland as chair man to replace Jack Miller of Salem, who resigned to be come manager of Secretary Hatfield's campaign for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. "v ffo;. . Up-- ' " iTrT'VniHtlMil'itHilllUJ mm I 1 II " t jK POSE FOR BANQUET A group of men who figured promi nently at the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce Dis tinguished Service Award banquet Saturday night pose for the photographer following the event at the Rogue Valley Country club. From left: John Holmes, DSA winner; B. F. Biaggini, San Francisco, Calif., Southern Pacific railroad vice president, and Hal Gardner, Medford Jaycee president. Career Planning Urged By Career planning to achieve I success was urged by B. F. Biaggini, vice president of Southern Pacific railroad, San Francisco office, during his speed before the Distinguish ed Service Award banquet at the Rogue Valley country club Saturday night. "The accomplishments of the past and future have been and will be the result of careful planning," he said. "Planning for the future," is a task which will enable the individual to direct his ener gies into the areas where they will do the most good." In planning ahead, three main categories must be con sidered, he pointed out. They first involve the private life of the individual, his business and community life. Proper development of each of these categories and relationship to each other is clearly the most important task of everyone and for young men of Jaycee ages it presents their greatest challenge. Biaggini spoke with special regard for community plan ning. Company officials al ways want to take a measur ed look at a city before com mittingt heir new plant in a community, he said. Suit Filed Here On Hartsook Land A condemnation complaint has been filed in Jackson county circuit court by the state highway commission against Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hartsook, 1529 West Main st., Jackson County Federal Sav ings and Loan association, the city of Medford and the state of Oregon. The property being con demned is a triangle piece of land containing approximate ly 50 square feet on the cor ner of Main and Elm sts. The lane is now part of the lawn at the Hartsook residence. The property is needed for part of the widening and con struction needed in the com pletion of the one-way coup lets on Eighth and Main sts. The other parties listed as defendants, according to the complaint, were cocerned as the loan association is the holder of the mortgage on the property, the city of Medford has curbs, gutters and street improvements on the proper ty, and the state of Oregon has certain state income tax lien against the property. This is the second condem nation suit filed by the state highway department for right-of-way during . the past week. The other suit is against Myron Root and com pany for the old Root pack ing house at Eighth and Fir sts., which is now under lease to Sloan Electric company. Over Million To Improve To keep pace with indus trial and residential growth in Medford, Pacific telephone spent more than $1,000,000 in 1957, stated Manager Jack Creager. Recently compiled figures show, according to Creager, the company spent $1,030,000 on expansion and improve ment of service the past year. That brings to $2,833,000 the amount spent on construction here in the past four years. Next highest amount in the four-year period was $969,000 in 1956, the manager said. SIP Man "If a community is to at tain its maximum growth it must proceed according to a plan so it will not miss im portant opportunities in its development," the railroad of- iicial said. John Holmes, winner of the Jaycee's Distinguished Ser- mittmg their new nlant to a by Biaggini who said the title of the award, "outstanding young man" belied the nature of Holmes' efforts which were mature in effort and results. Broiler Growers Meel In Valley The Rogue Valley Broiler Growers association held its organizational meeting Fri day evening, Jan. 24, at the C. W. Holmes ranch on Dark Hollow rd. The newly-formed group represents about 20 broiler growers in Jackson and Jose phine counties, who are cur rently raising more than 100, 000 broilers for market Elected president of the or ganization was Elmer Out house, Dark Hollow rd., Med ford. Vice president is Dave Robertson, Shady Cove, and secretary-treasurer is Ira Cul ver, Talent. Committee chair men include W. L. Thompson, membership; Mrs. Roy Bales, social and Gordon Logan, pro motional. The association was formed to help promote the use of home-grown products and to study methods of producing highest grade poultry for less cost. A report on the newly-organized Oregon Fryer com mission was given at the meet ing by W. H. Fleming, south ern Oregon commissioner of the group, and plans were made for a broiler barbecue to be held during the coming summer under the sponsor ship of the Broiler Growers association, to which the pub lic will be invited. Texan Arrested On Theft Charges Raymond Craighton New man, 28, Amarillo, Texas, was arrested by Oregon state police Saturday on charges of grand larceny of an automo bile and mail theft. Police said that Newman signed a statement admitting car theft in Colorado and tak ing mail in several Southwest states. The case was turned over to Federal Bureau of Investi gation agents for arraignment in federal court. Newman was lodged in county jail Saturday. Dollars Spent Locally Valley Telephone Service Topping the list of some 14 projects in Medford this year was introduction of SPring 2 and SPring 3 numbers and expansion of Medford's direct dialing area in the Rogue River valley. Also high on the list was start of construction of a new microwave radio relay sys tem to increase the number of long distance voice paths between Medford and Klam ath Falls, and other points in Oregon and California. More local and long dis tance operating units were Eisenhower Tells Plan To Maintain U.S. Leadership No Dollar Figures Cited in Message Washington (W Presi dent Eisenhower sent Con gress today an "emergency" four-year program to speed up and expand scientific edu cation and maintain Ameri can leadership. Its key provision was for 10,000 scholarships a year for "able" high school graduates who lack the financial means to get to college. To provide an adequate staff of trained college teach ers, the program calls for 5,500 graduate fellowships over the next four years. No Dollar Figures The President cited no dol lar figures in his special mes sage to Congress, but the esti mated four-year cost was placed roughly at $1,600,000, 000, about $1 billion in fed eral funds and $600 million in matching funds put up by the states and local communi ties. The President's budget called for an expenditure of $247 million in the-fiscal year starting July l, including 5225 million m new money, to get the science-weighted education program underway. the National Science Foundation would get $80 million to expand its scholar ship program, bringing to $119 million the total recom mended for the support of basic, scientific research and study. Would Supply Scientists The President said the new. five-point program would help supply "additional high ly competent scientists and engineers vitally needed by the country at this time." The heart of the President's program was the recom mended provision of 10,000 federal scholarships each year for the next four ytars. The college scholarships would" be financed by the federal government but ad ministration of them would be handled by the states. Scholarships would be al lotted among the states on a population basis. ' Not Compulsory It would not be compulsory for students to promise to study science or mathematics but the states would be en couraged to give preference to- students with "good pre paration or high aptitude" in these two fields. When the program was first announced by the White House some weeks ago, Marion B. Folsom, secretary of health, education and wel fare, estimated that the scholarships would average about $750 to $800 per stu dent each year. Krouse Elected Region 4-H Leader Francis Krouse, Applegate, was elected vice president of region 3 of the state 4-H Lead er's association, at the region al meeting of the annual 4-H leader's conference held last week in Corvallis. Krouse, who automatically becomes a member of the state executive committee of the association with his new posi tion will preside at all south ern Oregon 4-H region meet ing. Sco Man, Doctor For 64 Years, Dies Albany, Ore. (W Dr. Al bert G. Prill, 88, of Scio, who is believed to have practiced medicine in Oregon longer than any other physician, died in an Albany hospital Sunday night. Dr. Prill practiced medicine 64 years in Oregon, 58 of them in Scio, before retiring Jan. 1, 1955. added in addition to the com pany's central office at 502 North' Central ave. Five projects saw more aerial and underground cable placed in various areas throughout the Medford ex change, Creager said. "To meet the statewide de mand for more and better types of service," Creager added, "the company spent $27,000,000 in Oregon during 1957 and is planning con struction amounting to $21, 000.000 throughout the state in 1958." V
