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M M i v ZJ U vryvru u ToDDohissee ISecoird-'S Parade Postponed By Unusual Snow At New Orleans California Rivers Above Flood Stage By Uniled Press Record snows in Florida and a two-inch snowfall in New Orleans today capped a week-long winter's bitterest weather. More than 110 persons have died in weather-caused mis haps since a mammoth cold air mass slammed into the eastern two-thirds of the na tion last Thursday. A record three-inch snow fall coated Tallahassee, Fla., Wednesday night. Delighted youngsters and their parents promptly started snowball fights and put up snowmen in their yards. Parade Postponed An inch or more of snow pelted all of Northwest Flor ida and along the Western Gulf Coast into Louisiana. One inch of snow fell in cen tral New Orleans, postponing a Mardi Gras season parade Wednesday, and a snow squall at Burwood deep in the Lou isiana bayous was so heavy it cut visibility to a quarter of a mile I A United Press count since the start of the cold wave showed at least 121 persons killed by exposure, overexer tion, fires or weather-caused traffic wrecks. A rash of fires Wednesday claimed at least 18 lives, in cluding a father and seven children-at Alliance, Ohio; four small children at Fayette, N.C.; a mother and two sons at Worcester, Mass., and three young brothers at Flint, Mich. Most of the fires were blamed on defective or over taxed heating units. Farmlands Flooded In California, weathermen predicted fair skies for today but more rain Friday as the Eel river crested about six feet above flood stage and flooded farmlands at Fern bridge. The Weather Bureau at Eureka advised residents to prepare for 24 hours of high water. ' Ranchers at Red Bluff in the Upper Sacramento Valley were warned to get their cat tle out of the lowlands in ad vance of threatened Sacra mento river floods. The Feather river was re ported 22 feet above normal at ,Las Plumas and minor flooding was reported along the Russian river at Hopland. Legion Tables . TV Resolution American Legion Post 15 this week tabled a resolution presented the post by the Disabled American Veterans Opposing paid television in tms area. The action was taken after the resolution was discussed, and Legion members deter mined that there was not suf ficient evidence that the reso lution directly affected any veteran's organization, nor seemed likely to do so, ac cording to Keegan Townsend, post commander. ' Legion members generally felt that the Legion should concentrate on affairs pertin ent to veterans and not be come involved in an issue which "apparently is misun derstood by a great number of people." Townsend said. , He added that tne Legion has no intention of trying to explain the facts because it would only take time that could be devoted to more worthy subjects. Townsned, who also is presi dent of the Veterans Allied Council, said the recent ac ceptance of the council of the resolution was not indicative that Legion Post 15 was in, favor, since the resolution had never been presented to the post prior to the council meeting. MEDFORD MEN FILE Salem OPi James M. Main. . Medford, today filed for Circuit judge, 1st district, position No. 1. Edward C. Kelly, Medford, filed for Cir cuit judge, 1st judicial district position No. 3. HAROLD JAFFREY Receives Promotion Harold Jaffrey Promoted, Moved To Denver Post Harold Jaffrey, assistant manager of the Camp1 White Domiciliary, has been pro moted and will be transferred to the Veterans administra tion hospital at Denver, Colo., as assitant. manager, ' E. K. Ricker, manager of the Domi ciliary, announced today. Banks I. Paul, special assist jant at the VA hospital, Pitts- bur-" . Pa., has been appointed assistant manager of the Do miciliary, Ricker also an nounced. Effective dates for the trans fers have not been announced. Jaffrey has been assistant manager of the Domiciliary for. 2 '-2 y.ears, and previously was associated with the VA in the central office as a reg istrar specialist in hospital ad ministration. He has been with the VA since 1946 and has had experience in medical and hos pital administration in VA fa cilities in San Antonio, Tex., Houston, Tex., and Albuquer que, N.M. He has been active in the United Medford Crusade, Medford Rotary club, Eagle Point Parent Teacher associa tion, and is chairman of the Jackson county Great Deci sions program this year. He is in the Air Force reserve. He is a member of the Central Point American Legion post, American Hospital association, Oregon State Hospital asso ciation and Southern Oregon Hospital council and theCen tral Point AF&AM lodge. Paul served in the Marines, and received his nurse's de gree at St. Joseph school of nursing, Houston, Tex., and a bachelor of science degree from the University of Hous- ton. He received a master's degree from Columbia univer sity's school of public health. Forestry Department To Adopt Uniform The state forestry depart ment will adopt a standard field uniform effective March 1, the department has re ported. The uniform, which is planned to standardize dnd improve the general appear ance of department employ ees, will consist of a suntan shirt, cotton suntan or wooled forest green trousers, woolen forest green jacket, and a plain dark-green four-in-hand tie. The jacket can be either cruiser or short style, depart ment officials said. The field uniform will be worn whenever contact with the public is anticipated. Busi ness suits and sport suits may always be substituted for use of the uniform, officials said. Seasonal forest wardens will be expected to wear the uni form, but not suppression crew members, cooks and road crew members. 16-Year-Oa GrJ Arrested by Police Medford ponce arrested a 16-year-old Medford. girl on charges of shoplifting from 1 the J. C. Penney store, 106 North Central ave., Wednes day afternoon. The girl told police in a signed statement that she had taken several items from another store during the day. She was lodged in the Jack son county jail pending action by juvenile authorities, police said. efts 4 Central Point Man Plans to File for County Judgeship Wernmark Acts With Party Approval K. C. (Swede) Wernmark, 54, Central Point, planned to file his candidacy for county judge about 2 p.m. today, he said today. His action will again bring up the question of the length of the term of Oregon's coun ty judges. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton- and the elections division 6f the sec retary of state's office have both ruled recently such terms are for six years. Other legal authorities claim coun ty judges, being non-judicial officers, should serve four- year terms. The supreme court will have to resolve the question, and Wernmark said he will seek such a clarification Held by Republican . The position is now held by Rodney Keating, a Repub lican. Wernmark said he is seeking the Democratic nom ination, and is doing so with the approval of the Jackson County Democratic Central committee, which voted to support him at a meeting this week. James A. Redden, central committee chairman, said a Democratic policy of having candidates for all offices will be followed this year. , A press release from the Democratic committee, an nouncing Wernmark's plan, declared that "no really final opinion'Uoa ;; lh- judgeship nas been given. It added that it is expected the filing will be rejected by the county clerk, based on the attorney general's ruling, and that then legal steps will be taken to get an opinion before the bal lots are printed. Filing dead line is March 7.. Represent Wernmark Bill Deatherage and Red den will represent Wernmark as his attorneys in any legal action required, the commit tee chairman said. Redden had said a few weeks ago the Democrats had no plans at that time to challenge Keat ing s term of office. Wernmark, who is married, lives at 140 North Eighth st., Central Point. He has lived in Jackson county since 1947. He became a naturalized citi zen in 1928. He is a member of the Masonic lodge at Cen tral Point, Scottish Rite in Medford, Hillah temple in Ashland, the Elks lodge in Medford. wernmarK was born on Oct. 9, 1903 in Stockholm, Sweden. He came to Oregon in 1914, attended high school in The Dalles and graduated from Oregon State college with a bachelor of science de gree in engineering. He is an engineer and contractor. Red Cross Work Following his graduation in 1927" he worked for; the American Red Cross in San Diego, Calif., as director of first aid, life saving and acci dent prevention and indus trial safety for San Diego and Imperial counties. Other positions included Consolidated Gas and Elec trie company, Consolidated Aircraft company, bureau of aeronautics, Coronado, Calif., Naval air station. During World War II he was with Boeing Aircraft company, Seattle division, as aeronautical engineer in field service as trouble shooter on B-17 and B-29 airplanes. No Bids Received on Myron Root Building jno dios were made on the Myron Root company building on the Eighth st. right-of-way at bouth Fir st. at a state high way department public auc tion sale this week, according to Dale Hill, Salem, of the de partment's purchasing depart ment. " , - The building, which had been leased to Sloan Electric company, will now be adver tised at a minimum price of S200 by the department, Hill reported. He added that a S500 performance bond or cash deposit to insure clean up will also be required. The buyer will have 45 days in which to raze the building and clear the area, he explained. Tunisia Tightens Screws on France; Tension Mounts Troop Removal Demands Renewed Tunis (IP) The Tunisian government, backed by world opinion, tightened the screws on France today. Tension mounted hour by hour and there was doubt friendly Franco-Tunisian re lations could be restored be fore major trouble erupts be tween angry Tunisians and restive French troops block aded in their bases. ' 1 President Habib Bourguiba stepped up his diplomatic of fensive against France, re newed his demands that France remove the 20,000 to 25,000 troops still in Tunisia, and began applying pressure against the 80,000 French ci vilians in Tunisia. Tunisian authorities wel comed an American offer to mediate the Franco-Tunisian dispute but went ahead with plans to lodge an official pro test with the United Nations Security Council over French bombing of the village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef. Anger against France broke out -in anti-French demonstra tions in Tunis Wednesday and in the big naval base town of Bizerte Wednesday night. Major demonstrations are ex pected Friday when memorial services are held for the Sakiet dead. The fact the government did not halt the demonstra tions was taken as further confirmation that it would not back down on its demands for a total pullout by French military forces who have re mained since Tunisia achieved independence two years ago. Many of the 80,000 French civilians in Tunisia feel that withdrawal of their troops would leave them without protection. Thegoyernment meanwhile ordered m o r e - than - 400 French citizens to leave their homes, mostly in territories along the nations Algerian frontier. Jean-Pierre Benard, French charge d'affaires, protested the orders to ho avail. He also protested a Tunisian gov ernment order to shut down five of the seven French con sulates in Tunisia. Franchise Terms Accepted by Firm Robert Corbin, local "man ager for the Robert L. Lip- pert theater chain, today for mally accepted terms of the two-year franchise for closed circuit television granted the firm in a recent city ordi nance. ' Corbin said "Home-Theater TV" plans would be formu lated by the company within the two-year period specified in the franchise. At present, only the general outlines of the plan are known, he said. Under the system contem plated by the Lippert group, Corbin explained, the system would not use the airwaves, but probably special lines car rying television impulses to the homes of subscribers. Showing of top quality motion pictures simultaneously in the theaters here and in homes of subscribers is planned, in addition to other special shows not ordinarily broadcast on commercial TV channels. Corbin indicated details of the operation would be dis closed as soon as they are formulated. Washington OP) Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) has picked Rep. Al Ullman (ID- Ore.) to give the traditional reading of Washington's fare well address before the House next Thursday. Washington HP) President Eisenhower has appointed Frank E. McCaslin of Port land, Ore., to be a member of the Alaska International Rail and Highway Commission. British Conservative Party Suffers 'Shattering1 London OP) The Con servative Party suffered a major defeat in Wednesday's parliamentary by-election in Rochdale. Even party news papers described the loss to day as a "shattering" one. The Conservative seat in the House of Commons was won by Laborite Jack Mc- Cann, a 47-year-old diesel en gine fitter. The Conservative candidate could do no better 52nd Year My Unander Suggests TV Appearance With Hatfield Proposal Replies To Opponent's Plan ' Portland (IP) State Treasurer Sig Unander sug gested today that perhaps he and Secretary of State1 Mark Hatfield could make a joint television appearance during their campaigns for the Re publican nomination for gov ernor. Unander issued a state ment here in reply to a suggestion-made by Hatfield on Tuesday that the two tour the state together and ap pear before interested groups. His statement did not refer to Hatfield by name. Appears Impracticable "Offhand," Unander said, "it appears impracticable and virtually impossible for candidates to plan mutually agreeable schedules. To avoid this difficulty and to reaf firm my willingness to share the campaign pisiform, before as large an audience as "pos sible, perhaps a television ap pearance could be arranged." Unander said this would "af ford many thousand more vo ters an opportunity to see and hear the candidates ' than would be possible on such tours as have been suggest ed." He said such a forum could be arranged on more than one television station so that coverage would be state wide. , Unander said his only knowledge of any. such forthcoming invitation was through press coverage of Tuesday's talk. He said if such an invitation was ex tended he would refer it to his campaign chairman, ex- Gov. Charles A. Sprague of Salem. Full Schedule Arranged Unander said a full sched ule has been arranged for him with commitments made as far in advance as May. "I am sure that my opponent's chairman has an equally full schedule arranged and is aware of the mechanical dif ficulties v in planning joint campaign tours such as he has suggested." Unander said his official duties as state treasurer have first call upon his time "and unquestionably - there would be insurmountable conflicts in trying to set up a schedule that would coincide with my opponent's." WEATHER FORECAST:.. Partly., cloudy tonight and early Friday with partial valley fog. In creasing cloudiness Friday with occasional light rain. Low tonight 32. High Fri day 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday 53 Lowest this Morning 40 Prec. to 4 a.m. Today 20 Our Skies Toniqht Sunrise 7:12 a.m. Sunset 5:40 p.m. Moonrise Friday 4:22 a.m. New Moon Feb. IS Mars is the planet seen near the Moon tonight. Next month Mars will be as bright as Antares. in July it will be as bright as Vega, and in November it will outshine Sirius, brighest of all the stars. Defeat in By than third behind the Liberal Party. The Socialists immediately set up their usual clamor for immediate general elections in which they believe Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would be voted out of power. The results saw Laborite McCann polling 22,133 votes and Kennedy 17,603. Con servative J. E. Schofield, a real estate agent, won only memrfc "I Hear We're in a Puff Puff Breathing Spell" Neuberger's Timber Mining Bill Opposed By Montana Senator . Washington OP) Senator James E. Murray (D-Mont.) I u.- - c- Tr,J illdil man ui uig ociiaic a terior Committee, is strongly opposed to a move to put new restrictions on mining in na tional forests, it was learned today. ' Murray has made no public statement on the proposal by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) but he voiced vigor ous objections , in a strongly worded letter to Neuberger. Neuberger had asked Mur ray to be one of the sponsors Geddes Speaks at Lincoln Dinner "Republicans should be more vocal in contradicting implied facts about the party, such as 'party for the wealthy' and 'being anti-labor'," ac cording to Paul Geddes, Rose burg attorney and former state senator, who spoke at the annual County Lincoln Day club dinner Wednesday evening at the Jackson hotel. He continued that Republi- cans have been too quiet. When non-factual statements have been made about . the party, they have only remain ed quiet. He urged for a better pub lic relations program for the 1958 election which would present the party's activities to the public. Geddes, who was accom panied to Medford by Mrs. Geddes, was introduced by Ed Singmaster, Ashland, chair man of the dinner. More than 110 persons attended. Present for the occasion and introduced were Ed Boen ke, Eugene, former state chairman of the Republican central committee, and Don Stathos, chairman of the Jack son -ounty central committee. - Election 9,827 votes. The post was va cated by the death of Con servative William Schofield. The by-election was the 16th since 1957. In almost every one the Conservative vote dropped by a heavy per centage whether the Con servatives won or not. The Laborites won the last prev ious by-election and reduced the Conservative margin in Commoni to 55. JON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1958 Tells If i a end Wt of the legislation The chair- man refused. Contents of the letter were not released. But it was learn ed Murray said the Neuberger bill would work a "consider able hardship" on thealready ailing mining industry. Murray, whose committee would have to act on the bill before it is sent on to the Senate, said the proposal would give the advantage to the lumber industry. Under the Neuberger bill, introduced last Thursday, mining claimants in the for ests would be permitted to use surface land only "to the extent essential to actual min ing." Title to the surface itself would remain with the Unit ed States. -Neuberger said the propos al was an outgrowth of viola tions of mining patents issued four years ago In the Rogue River National Forest. He said the U.S. Forest Service has reported nearly three million board feet of timber has been logged from the claims but no mining has been carried on there. Tn orMifinn in his nrnnosals ,or tiphtenine un restrictions 0n mining titles. Neuberger asked that similar "protective provisions ' now applying to the Prescott, Mt. Hood, Lin coln, Coronada, Conconino, and Kaibab National Forests be extended to "all national forest land." Joining Neuberger in spon soring the bill were Demo cratic Sens. Wayne Morse (Ore.), Mike Mansfield (Minn.), Paul H. Douglas (111.), Joseph S. Clark (Pa.) and Wil liam Proxmire (Wis.) and Re publican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (Me.). Murray was understood to feel Neuberger's program goes too far and that an earlier solution proposed by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.) is "sufficient." Republican Club to Elect New Officers New officers will be elected and plans for the year will be made at a meeting Monday, Feb-. 17, of the Jackson County Young Republican club at 7:30 p.m. in the Medford hotel. People between 18 and 36 interested in joining the group are asked to attend, according to Donald L. Stathos, tempor ary chairman. He said the ob jectives of the group are to provide a practical means by which Republicans may con tribute to the betterment of the country and party. Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 253 FCC Investigators Told 'Thousands' Paid by Attorney Sherman Adams' Name Among Files Washington (IP) Bernard Schwartz testified today that Federal Communications Com munications Commis s i o n e r Richard A. Mack had "ac knowledged" receiving sever al thousand dollars from an attorney for the firm to which Mack afterward voted to award a Miami TV channel. Schwartz- said Mack claim ed when questioned that the money was a loan and that "some" of it had been repaid in cash. However, he said the commissioner, "when press ed," finally conceded he could not specifically recall ever making any repayments. Schwartz made the state ment under oath to the special House investigating subcom mittee which fired him Mon day as chief counsel. ' He identified the attorney who made the payments as T. A. Whiteside; a close friend of Mack. He said that Whiteside was employed by a law firm to help obtain award of channel 10 at Miami for Public Serv ice Television, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of National Airlines. White House Influence The subcommittee, created to investigate six federal regu latory agencies including the FCC, fired Schwartz Monday after he accused a majority of the group of wanting to whitewash the inquiry. He said the majority fired him despite evidence he said he had of "White House influ ence" on regulatory agencies. The subcommittee had sub poenaed him to testify under oath today about cnarges ne had made in a press statement that an FCC member took a money payment in connection with the channel 10 case. On Schwartz's plea that he needed them to refresh his memory, subcommittee files were brought into the hear ing room and marked as ex hibits." One folder bore the name of Sherman Adams, assistant to President E i s enhower. Schwartz said it contained copies of Adams letters per tinent to investigation of al leged White House influence on federal agencies. Examiner Overruled Another file bore the name of Gordon Moore. It was not immediately disclosed wheth er this was George Gordon Moore, Mrs. Eisenhower's brother-in-law. In the case of the Miami TV station, Public Service was awarded the channel by a 4 to 2 vote of the FCC last February despite adverse re commendations of an FCC ex aminer. Mark voted for the award. Schwartz produced from subcommittee files checks to taling more than $2,000 which Mack had received from Whiteside, had "pledged" to vote for the airline applicant. Schwartz identified for the subcommittee six checks from Whiteside to Mack totalling 82,650, paid between Jan. 27, 1956, and June 17, 1957. . He said he does not know whether there were others. In addition, Schwartz iden tified a check from Whiteside to Mack for $1,000 and dated March 22, 1955, "just before" Mack became a member of the FCC. 265 Pints of Blood Collected Yesterday A total of 265 pints of blod were colledted at the Red Cross Bloodmobile visit at the county chapter house on Hawthorne ave. yesterday. There were 280 donors, 116 of them drop-ins, the Red Cross said. The quota for the visit was 290 pints. Demos Reluctant To Go Along With Ike's Prediction ; Statement Said 'Very Unrealistic' Washington W Demo cratic congressional leaders showed a growing belief to day they may have to order a big tax cut to spart the na tion's lagging economy. i They indicated an unwill ingness to go along with Pres ident Eisenhower's "chins up' forecast of a business upturn next month. Informants said high ad- ministration officials also were in agreement with some key Democratic lawmakers that the Federal Reserve Board must somehow be prodded into action to relax curbs on credit. Head in Clouds : "If the Federal Reserve Board won't make more funds available to the economy,' one key Democrat said, "it's likely that we'll be forced into freeing funds through tax reduction." He added that "the Federal Reserve Board still has its head in the clouds fighting inflation" and apparently be leves credit ciybs should be retained to pull down prices Sen. Robert S. Kerr (D Okla.) said the President's statement Wednesday predict ing an early economic upturn was "very unrealistic" as a review of current conditions and "quite inaccurate" as a forecast. He said it showed that Eisenhower "is still in sulated from the facts and al most immune to them." GOP Backs President Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mont.) agreed the President's appraisal was "too rosy, too glowing." He said it did not dispell the need for programs that would provide "spuds as well as Sputniks." Republicans rallied behind the President with Lincoln Day oratory denouncing ad ministration critics as "the Democratic gloom and doom brigade." Commerce Secretary Sin clair Weeks exhorted Repub licans to "slug back and "nail every reckless charge." I've never seen anything more selfish, more dangerous and more cold blooded. than delibertately .gambling with peace and prosperity solely 1 A for greedy partisan aavani age"," Weeks said. Construction of Awning Starts A $7,100 building permit A M 1 T7 1 was issued xo me riunrer building Wednesday after- noon, tu uunu & iJiaau. ing over the sidewalks near the building. Construction has 1 .' U n Hlqpti mifrl. started. Fluhrer building officials said the awning will improve the appearance of the down town section as well as give protection from the weather to store window displays and pedestrians on the sidewalks. The council first passed an ordinance to permit erection of the awning several months ago, but passed several amendments at last week's meeting which, according to building officials, permitted construction to start. Amendments, which offir cials required, -were a reduc tion of the height of the awn ing to seven feet and removal of a section of the ordinance which would permit the city manager to order its removal proved a hazard. City of ficials said the awning may be removed by condemnation action if necessary. :. Money Taken from: rater High School; Central-Point Between $2 and $5 in dimes were taken from a soft drink vending ma chine at the agriculture build ing at Crater High school early this morning, according to Central Point city police. The building was entered. police said, by breaking the glass in a window. Desks, drawers, and lockers through. out the building were ran sacked, they reported. Police added that many tools and office machines in the build ing were not bothered as the persons were apparently look ing for money. The break-in was discov ered by the agriculture teach er this morning. This is the second time within the past two months that the building has been entered, police said.
