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MA lsss gold n Ji nIfI rvn iirii EXPLAINS MAP Jack Nichols of the bureau of reclama tion office at Camp White, explains a map of the Talent proj ect to Hameed A. Alhashmi, professor of electrical engineer ing, Aligarh university, Aligarh, India. The professor is vis iting in this country under the foreign specialist program of the International Education Exchange Service, department of state. He toured the Talent project today. Education, Hoover Dam Impress India Educator in Nation ' Close association between students and instructor in American colleges, and Hoov er dam, were two of the things which have impressed an Indian University profes sor most while visiting this country. Hameed A. Alhashmi, of Aligarh university of India, said he was impressed by how closely instructors at Calif ornia Institute of Technology work with their students. Only about 10 students to a , class makes considerable dif ference, Alhashmi said. Fifty to 60 students is average for classes at the university in Aligarh, India, the professor said. : There the professor of elec tric engineering must lecture in five different languages during a period. Since the uni versity includes students from many foreign countries, representative languages of those countries plus some of the languages of Indian are spoken. A synopsis of the next lec ture is given each student. If a pupil misses one day he is lost, so attendance is well over 95 per cent, the profes sor said. Alhashmi is vlting the Jack son county area for four days under the foreign specialists program of the International Education Exchange Service of the department of state. His specific assignment here is to make a study of how American schools bring the general humanities into their over-all programs. Al hashmi hopes to take some of our educational ideas back to Indian where courses in the constitution, history and eco nomics would be added to the curriculum. Schools of higher education in India are set up for two main categories of students. They are those wanting di plomas and those wanting de grees. Those who get diplo mas take four years of high school and four years college The diploma course is pri marily for such people as overseers while the degree course is for doctors, engin eers and scientists. Doctors and masters degrees are not given in Indian, Prof. Alhash mi said. The diploma course consists of three years in school and one in the field. "We are a little better off than you in our schools since more science and mathemat ics are taught," Alhashmi said. "We also go further than you do in your colleges. It is not enough that an en gineer learn only the duties of his profession. He must also know-fiuch trades as brick laying and electrical repair work. For instance an engin eer is working on a building project and a brick falls out of a wall. He must know how to put that brick back in." An instructor in India's colleges and universities is on call 24 hours a day, the pro cessor said. A student may contact his instructor at his club, at home or in the class room to get help. All students and professors live on the campus. Students are re Father Gives Up Freedom To Little Daughter Dying Washington (IK Robert Backover, 28, came home to day to trade his freedom for a few moments with his dy ing daughter. The father came out of hid ing to face arrest on grand larceny charges in order to answer the prayers of Paula Ann, 6, suffering from leu kemia. Surrender Arranged He walked into his home at 8:45 a.m. (e.s.t.) after a train trip from thhe West Coast. He called Police Chief Silas Den nis Jr. of suburban Hyat tsville, Md., and arranged rto give himself up this after quired to. However, students and their instructors don't mix, Alhashmi said. Asked about his opinion on education for women, Alhash mi said he thought men should have a priority. Men need more education in order to make a good living and support their families, he explained. More highly edu cated men are needed for the progress of .India, the Indfa university professor said. He thought higher education is good for women pursuing ca reers. However, they soon marry, so perhaps courses in homemaking would be more practical for the majority, Alhashmi said. The professor said he was impressed by the Hoover dam. The fact the government controls the transmission fa cilities and two private com panies sell the power inter ested nim. in maia every thing including life insurance companies are government owned and operated, he ex plained. A dam such as the Hoover dam would be owned and operated by the govern ment of Indian and the man ufacture of heavy machinery used to generate power. His secondary interest while visiting this country is to see what hydroelectric power projects can be devel oped by the free enterprise system. Government owner ship in India is necessary to maintain its planned economy he said. Otherwise, India would have a much harder time achieving goals set up on a series of five-year plans. The first five-year plan ended in 1955 and boosted the standard of living up 17 per cent. The second five-year plan will end in 1960. It is hoped the standard of living will be raised by 24 per cent by then, he said. Asked if a country or coun tries in Asia would be the coming world powers, the In dian professor said it was "entirely possible." India alone has made tremendous progress. Some of the other countries in Asia have, too, he added. India now has two large oil refineries. Alhashmi rated his country's progress in atomic research ahead of France. India has many untapped re sources, he added. Jndia has projects similar to those under the Tennessee Valley authority in this coun try. There, 31 dams are used for the -multiple purposes of navigation, flood control and power generation. One dam is 140 feet higher than the Hoover dam and each of the 10 generators produces 90,000 kilowatts of power. Today Alhashmi plans to tour the Green Springs power plant, Deadwood tunnel, Cas cade division, Green Springs tunnel, Immigrant dam, King creek dam sites and the vari ous delivery canals which are part of the Talent project under construction. This is the first time he has had a chance to examine reclamation proj ects under construction, he said. noon after he visits Paula Ann at Children's Hospital. The police chief agreed to the plan.. Assistance Offered Meanwhile, a Miami rest aurant owner has offered to pay $1,000 of the $2,300 Back over is accused of stealing to win for the father the privil ege of staying by his daugh ter's bedside in the last days of her illness. Backover disappeared from his job in a Hyattsville bowl ing alley two weeks before Christmas. H i s employers charged him with the theft of $2,300 in cash. French Premier Seeks Formula To Quash Protests Tunisia Bombing Deplored by U.S. Washington (W Secre tary of Stat John, Foster Dulles said today that the United Slates deplores the French bombing Saturday of a Tunisian village. Dulles also told a news conference that this gov ernment is looking into the question of whether the French Forces used American-made arms in the bomb ing attack. . By UNITED PRESS French Premier Felix Gail lard met with his cabinet into the early hours today in search of a formula to lull the world-wide storm of pro tests against the . French bombing a Tunisian village last Saturday. But the protests multiplied and there were growing indications there would be a United National Security Council showdown which could damage the entire West ern position in North Africa and split the NATO allies. There were strong hints in Washington the United States would not back France in the action that "the U.N. cannot have one rule for small ag gressors and another for the large ones." There were demands by Al gerian nationalists at U.N. headquarters in New York that the entire question of American bases in Africa should come under "reap praisal" because the French were reported to have used U.S. planes in the attack. Congressional leaders in Washington voiced new con cern over the Franco-Tunisian crisis which already had brought an admission that President Eisenhower was "profoundly disturbed" at the incident which took 75 Tuni sian lives. Dangerous Inaction Sen. John F. Kennedy CD- Mass.) accused the administra tion of daT.gerous inaction in North Africa and called for U.N. and NATO "to assert jurisdiction over this threat to world peace." He express ed fear all North Africa would fall "to our enemies" if the French-Arab conflict were not settled. The man on the spot was the French premier. He faced angry allies, new trouble in North Africa, growing h6stili ty in the Arab world and a nation sharply divided over the bombing. There were an gry demands in the National Assembly for an explanation today. Public Hearings Slated by Planners Two public hearings on zone changes were set for March 10 by the Medford planning commission at its meeting last night. ' One request was for South Grape st., between Melrose and O'Gara sts., from class 1A, single family, to class VI, heavy industrial. The other weuld permit a change from class 1A, single family, to class IIIA, limited commercial, for the Grandview Market, 2330 Crater Lake ave. A committee reported on .the improvement of Elk st., a non-dedicated street. The com mission recommended to the city council dedication be at cepted with a width of 45 feet. The commission also recom mended to the council the city manager be authorized to pro ceed in the extension of Mel rose st. A preliminary plat on the Roxy View plat subdivi sion was received by the com mission. The city manager was ordered to prepare a re port of all city departments on the plat for consideration at the next meeting. To Return of Leukemia At that time the little girl was ill at home with what was thought to be a virus. Later doctors said she had leu kemia, a fatal cancer of the blood. They gave her only a month or more to live. Wants Father Near Her . Jack Leonard of Miami read about Backover's deci sion to return home. The res taurant owner said Monday he would pay $1,000 to the bowl ing alley owners if they would not press charges while Paula Ann lives. "I want that little girl to have her father by her side," Leonard said. 52nd Year Medford 16 Pages TO SPEAK HERE Moham mad Mehdi, director of the Arab Information center in San Francisco, will speak on "Conditions of Peace in the Middle East" Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Girls Com munity club. Mehdi's appear ance here is sponsored by Medford chapter, Oregon United Nations association, and the public has been in vited. Bohnerl, Barnes Named to County Budget Group Arnold Bohnert, Central Point, was reappointed and Curtis Barnes of Fern Valley was appointed . to terms on the Jackson county budget committee . today, County Judge Rodney Keating an nounced. Bohnert's term is for three years, and Barnes' term is for one-year. Bohnert was ap pointed unanimously by the court, but Commissioner Ralph James opposed Barne's appointment. Barnes' appointment was proposed by Keating with Commissioner Chester Wendt acting as temporary chair man. Keating and Wendt voted for the appointment. Commissioner James said, "M vote was not against the person named.' He is no doubt well-qualified for the position, but I feel both parties should be. represented on the budget committee. That's why I think a Democrat should be appointed." The statement was "relayed from James through Keating. Barnes is owner and oper ator of Barnes Brothers pack ing company and orchards. Keating said the budget committee would start con sidering the new fiscal year budget sometime in April. In other business today, Michael C. Loftus, route 2, box 34, Jacksonville, was ap pointed Jackson county con stable by the court. ' The appointment becomes effective March 1 and expires Dec. 31, 1960. 'Annual salary is $3,300. Loftus has a small ranch in the Jacksonville area and was formerly on the Chi cago police force. The court today awarded a contract for tire recapping to Hawkinson Tire company, which submitted the low bid Friday at $9,981.94 for about 850 tires for the county. A 2 per cent discount is allow ed. Second lowest bidder of the five submitting bids was Oregon Tire company, at $10, 020.56. Police Investigate Theft of $1,451 Ashland Ashland city po lice and Jackson county sher iffs deputies today continued an investigation into the theft of $1,451 from a safe which was reported locked in the Ashland Elk's lodge. Officers said no forcible entry was made. Nothing had been disturbed either in en tering the building or remov ing the money from the safe some time Sunday night or early Monday morning. The money was all in cur rency kept in a bottom draw er in the safe where the day's receipts usually are kept. A large amount of money, main ly in coins, was in another section of the safe but was not touched, officers said. Sheriff's deputies said they didn't receive the report until Monday afternoon since the secretary of the lodge said he didn't discover the money was missing until later in the day. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1958 Go Ministers Mot Essential Dulles' Statement Seen Major Step For Negotiations New Soviet Envoy, Ike Trade Pledges Washington (IP) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles said today that a for eign ministers' meeting with Russia is not essential as a prelude to an East-West sum mit conference. Dulles' statement was view ed as a major step toward early East-West negotiations through ambassadorial chan nels to arrange a summit con ference later this year. The United . States, until now, has placed heavy em phasis on a preliminary meet ing of foreign ministers a move the Soviets have op posed. Pledges Exchanged v Dulles made his .statement at a news conference about an hour after President Eis enhower and new Soviet Am bassador Mikhail A. Menshi kov exchanged formal pledges that the U. S. and Russia will work for peace through "ne gotiations." . Mepshikov:.! toll" . ' Reporters after calling at the White House to present his creden tials that the President also agreed on the hope that a new summit conference can be "organized." Dulles, at his news confer ence, warned that it always is difficult to negotiate with the Soviets at any level. He said negotiations take long and hard bargaining. Not Shift in Policy While negotiations with the Soviets involve hard work, Dulles said however, that this government should under take to determine whether mutually advantageous agree ments can be reached. Dulles sought to show that his statement on a foreign ministers meeting did not con stitute a shift in American policy. He said that the Presi dent had not made a foreign ministers' meeting a precondi tion to a summit meeting in his letter of Jan. 12 to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. At that time, Dulles recalled, the President said preliminary work on a summit conference should be worked on in ad vance "through diplomatic channels and byi our foreign ministers." A State Depart ment spokesman later inter preted this statement to mean that his government wanted a preliminary foreign minis ters' meeting. Three Bound Over To Grand Jury Three men were bound over to the grand jury after appear ing in district court yester day afternoon. All three waived prelimi nary hearings and right to have attorneys.. . Held in the county jail on $1,500 bail is Ronald M. Ma son, Puyallup, Wash!, charged with attempting , to obtain money under false pretenses. LeRoy Bebee, Aikin, Minn., is charged with burglary not in a dwelling, and James Tur ney Gustafson, Chicago, 111., is being held on burglary not in a dwelling. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy with oc casional rain through Wednesday. Low tonight 40. High Wednesday 55. Temp. Highest Testerday 52 Lowest this Morning 37 Our Skies Toniqht Sunrise 7:15 a.m. 5:38 p.m. Sunset . Moonrise Wednes day 2:.1 a.m. New Moon Feb. 8 PROMINENT STAR Antares, near the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, rises 11:44 p.m. Saturn, rises 4:09 a.m. Venus, rises .-. 5:54 a.m. Mars, between Saturn and Venus. , .ce of Foreign 'A Thousand Apologies, Gentlemen.' He's a New Man" ' V'-V-.'rtv, I f ' V . . aaataVfaV Rogue River Study Nearing Phase to Present to Public The report, on the Rogue river . study being made by the U. S. Army Corps , of Engineers will be far" enough along by the latter part of June to present, to the public at a hearing. Ross Hatch, Portland, en gineer in charge of the Rogue study, gave this estimate Mon day evening in Grants Pass at the second annual meeting of the Rogue Basin Flood Con trol and Water Resources' as sociation. He explaineed the Engin eers hope to hold several pre liminary meetings prior to the public hearing as the study progresses. The actual com pletion of the report will not be until the end of the calen dar year, he added, s Summarized Work Hatch summarized the work that has been accomplished mainly the evaluation of in formation. Also ' commenting on work done were Ted Wat son, Salem, engineer with the state water resources board, engineer assigned to the Rogue study. Six directors were elected at the meeting to serve for a three-year term. Elected were Jennings Pierce, Medford; Jackson County Commissioner Ralph James, Sams Valley; Foster Luce, Rogue RiVer; C. L. Eaker, Gold Hill; B. F. Randolph, Illinois Valley; and Conrad O. Nystrom, Merlin. In his report Hatch report er that the Engineers were considering two alteratives on the main stream of the Rogue river, a dam at Lewis creek, or a three dam system located at Lost creek, Elk creek, and Big Butte creek, downstream from McNeil creek. He added that the Lewis creek dam would pay for its cost out of power apd irrigation revenues in addition, to flood control. The three dam plan would not return as much revenue, he added. Small Part Hatch commented that the studies have found that flood contrpl is a small part of problem in the Rogue river basin. He explained that wa ter reservoir development, which would provide more water during the Jate sum mer, is more important. The engineer reported that two sites for dams were checked on Evans creek, the Meadows site and the Home stead gulch site. He reported that the second location seem ed to be the better of the two as it would be downstream from Murphy creek to control the west fork of the creek. On Little Butte creek, the Brownsboro site was not con sidered as adequate a loca Tribune j4 c-e. lo tion as Lake Creek site due to other benefits in addition to flood control. Also men tioned was an Ashland dam site on Bear creek, but Hatch reported that the possibility of such a dam was rather re mote as the benefits would be entirely from flood con trol. He explained that the areas could not depend on re servoirs being filled mainly by flood waters. Not Considered On tne Applegaie river, the Ruch site was not considered very good due to little con trol of flooding, but a dam in Copper canyon, he explain ed, would furnish additional water during late summer and. would not interfer with the fish spawning. He added that no specific problems had been brought to his attention in the Illinois Valley and Jump-Off -Joe areas" and wel comed information from those parts of the basin. He stated that also being considered in the study are the bank eroison problems and mentioned several areas along. Bear creek and other streams where retaining walls should be constructed. He added that nothing de finite could belaid about the study at the present time as there has been no balancing of costs against benefits. He said that benefits are based entirely on dollars and cents basis and would take ' intd consideration the migration of fish,, water shed protection, and power, if the reservoir is of suitable' size.- Approximately 60 person attended .the. meeting in the Josephine county courthouse. Representatives from 43 of the 74 member organizations were present. Bill Jess, presi dent of. the association, con ducted the business meeting. Progress reports were given by various committee chair man. Cowlitz River Smelt Taken by Bank Dippers ' Kelso, Wash. (IPI Smelt were still running in the Cowlitz river today and a state patrolman said bank dippers were getting from one to two dozen fish per dip at daybreak. A good run of smelt start ed in the stream Saturday, ta pered off somewhat over Sun day and then picked up again. Eugene (IT) Sidney W. Little, dean of the school of architecture and allied arts at the University of Oregon, has resigned effective July 1. Price 10 Cents No. 251 Two Aides Also Quit Posts Over Counsel Firing Subcommittee Head Excepted in Charge Washington mi Rep. Mor gan M. Moulder resigned as chairman today and two aides quit as staff members of a House subcommittee which had been investigating al leged misconduct in federal regularatory agencies. They resigned as a result of the subcommittee's action Monday night in firing its chief counsel. Dr. Bernard Schwartz. Schwartz had ac cused the subcommittee ma jority of trying to "white wash" his charges of White House "influence" on deci sions of the Federal Commu nicatiops Commission. Schwartz excepted Moulder but the Missouri Democrat told his colleagues he had found it impossible to carry on the investigation under the circumstances. . The 11-man subcommittee met in secret session to re ceive Moulder's formal resig nation and to quiz Schwartz, subpoenaed to appear and surrender all of his files. 'Kangaroo Court' Schwartz' two chief assist ants in the investigation, Paul S. Berger and Herbert M Wachtell, also resigned this morning. ' Before going before the subcommittee, ' Schwartz call ed it a "kangaroo court" that "makes a star chamber pro ceeding look like a paragon of virtue." Moulder said he would con tinue as a member of the sub committee "to secure an ob jective and thorough investi gation." Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark.) chairman of the full House Commerce Committee, assum ed the subcommittee chair manship as the secret session began. Schwartz said the subcom mittee in effect had accused him of the "'crime" of trying to conduct an "honest inves tigation." The subcommittee released a transcript of Monday's se cret subcommittee meeting at which Schwartz was fired. The transcript showed that Schwartz had accused Harris of making "scurrilous at tacks" on him. Police Arrest Boy Twice in Same Day Medford police arrested a 16-year-old Medford boy two times yesterday, the first time for violation of probation and the second 'time on charges of escaping from a police officer. The youth was taken into custody by police about 3:30 p.m. and after questioning was being transferred to the county jail when he broke loose from the police officer's grasp and ran down the streets, losing the officer after a several-block chase, police reported. . He was arrested about 11:40 p.m. after police received in formation he was at his sis ter's home. Police said he was lodged in the Jackson county jail pending action by juve nile authorities. IS Court of Honor Slated Boy Scouts Wednesday Explorers of Sea Explorer Ship 3, the Impeccable, spon sored by the Medford Lions club, will be host to, the an nual Boy Scout Week Court of Honor Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the girls gym nasium at McLoughlin Junior High school. Skipper Ken Natland, Boats wain Dave Parker, and Crew Leader Doug Kliever along with the crew of Ship 3, will set up the land ship on gym stage and open the Court of Honor. Members of the court, of which Dr. Abner O. Clark, district advancement chair man and Central Point Chief Move Counter To Federation of Syria, Egypt Action Opposed ' By United States Amman, Jordan W) Kin Feisal of Iraq flew here today to discuss a possible merger with King Hussein of Jordan that could take Iraq out of the American-sponsored Bagh dad Pact. The kings are first cousins, members of the Hashemite dynasty, and young Hussein was reported anxious for a union with oil-rich Iraq to counter the new merger of Syria and Egypt into a fed erated 1 Arab state. Hussein also was reported to have invited King Saud of Saudi Arabia to the talks, but no ' Saudi representative was present. Informed sources said Saud insisted that Iraq leave the Baghdad Pact be fore discussing any monarch ist federation. Unofficially Opposed There was no official Ameri can reaction to the contem plated Iraqi-Jordanian merg er, but unofficially the United States was opposed to . the move, especially if it would weaken the an ti - Communist Baghdad alliance. The U.S. Embassy in Am man said President Eisenhow er had sent a letter to Hus sein last Saturday, but it did not 'disclose contents of the note. The letter came after re ports that Hussein was seek ing a formal alliance with Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Informed sources said Fei sal was accompanied to Am man by Foreign Minister Burhanuddin Bashayan, elder statesman Nuri es-Said . and possibly Feisal's uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Ilah who nor mally acts as regent in the absence of the king. . J Es-Said's reaction to the proposed merger was not known. But persistent reports from Ankara during the rer cent Baghdad Pact meeting said he'was disenchanted with, the support Iraq had received from the other pact members. Property Owners Request Hearing Property owners of th Trail area whose land will be involved in highway realign ment over Trail creek have re quested a public hearing by the state highway commission, according to the Jackson county court. In a letter stating the re quest to the highway commis sion, County Judge Rodney Keating reported that the pub lic hearing would be set at the convenience of the commis sion. He reported the county court has received telephone calls from Trail residents re garding the proposed highway construction, which would straighten the existing align ment with a new bridge over Trail creek . about 500 . feet south of the existing structure. They were in favor of the change, he said. The public hearing request was made by the property owners mainly due to the lack of adequate information re-" ceived, Keating added. He ex plained the map submitted by the highway commission of the construction was so small land owners were unable to get a clear picture of how their property would be af fected by the highway change. DOW -JONES AVERAGES New York Iff) Dow Jones final stock averaget: 30 industrials. 442.35, off 3.59; 20 railroads 106.43, off 1.34; 15 utilities 72.12, off 0.28, and 65 stocks 151. 17, off 1.22. Sales today were 2,110,000 shares com-: pared with 1.900,000 shares Monday. - Wallace Bowen, the speaker, will be escorted aboard ship. Among the Units participat ing in the Court of Honor will be Ship 3, Explorer Post 6, Troop 6, Troop 3, Troop 9, Squadron 14, Troop 2, Troop 7, Troop 4, Troop 16, and Post 43. . All ranks in Scouting will be presented, including the coveted Eagle rank which will be presented to Life Scout Dennis Pugmire of Ex plorer Post 6. Eagle Scout Kelly Somers of Troop 3 will receive the Bronze Palm, awarded for earning five merit badges after receiving the Eagle rank. :
