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Newspaper Page TextIE GAULLE TAKE W PREPAR0B96 WEB Indications Show Congress Ready To Cut Excise Tax Ike May Not Veto .Modest Reductions Washington (UPD Congress appeared in a mood todty to take the bit in its letth end cut some federal tfeit sales taxes despite ?teident Eisenhower's new JtOl)i-line stand. divert were intimations Xrtaft high administration vtmtxeti the President would Qt veto some modest excise i&t reductions. House Speaker Sam Ray- feurit (Texas), and Chairman Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.), of tht tax-writing House Ways fnfi Means committee sched uled a news conference today 9iey were expected to throw th House Democratic leader ship's support behind Eisen hower's plea to continue pres tnt excise and corporation tei another year. The White House an nounced late Monday the Cftief Executive had "no pres tut intention" of recommend iam any tax reductions this 91a r other than its previous proposed tax relief for small business. The President decided against tax reduction this yeex primarily because he nd his chief advisers thought it would seriously cut feder- fl Income and increase the nttional debt without con tributing materially to eco nomic improvement. The extent of disagreement tt pinpointed in reaction of to prominent senators. lwla Gives Opinion Sn. Paul H. Douglas (D jtt.), the senate's leading tax Cv advocate, said the Presi dent made a "very bad mis take." He said a tax cut of bout 6 billion dollars is xaeded to release purchasing power and "start the economy up again." But Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), chairman of the sen ate finance committee which will handle the tax bill when it comes from the house, con curred with the administra tion stand. He said there is; already certain to be a 10 billion dollar federal deficit In the fiscal year beginning July 1 and "the project is for fevy deficit spending, infla ipa and increases in the pub 1 debt." Meanwhile, Republican leaders, with President Eisen JAwer's backing, agreed to 47 to try to beat down any emate attempts to liberalize lha administration's unem ployment pay bill. Some senators from both )prlies however, were ready arith amendments that would broaden the measure. There Eat a possibility the senate f euld complete debate on the measure and take a final vote TAH afternoon. The bill would permit states to borrow from the federal government to finance SO per cent extension in the somber of weeks jobless wor kers may draw unemployment compensation. It already has Cleared the house and been tpproved by the Senate Fi nance committee. Russia Gives fact Proposals Moscow (UPD Russia to 47 handed the western allies its detailed proposals for a 25 jeer nonaggression pact be tween East and West. Copies of the text were Jnded to ambassadors of the 'orth Atlantic Treaty Organ iition nations by officials of b Soviet Foreign Ministry. Russia called for the agree jnent at the same time it an jkovjnced it was withdrawing ,1 if troops from Romania as H ftoot of its "peaceiui policy . The double-Darreiea move ctme in a communique issued fcy the eight Communist na tion! of the Warsaw Pact after their meeting in Moscow last week. The Warsaw Pact is the Communist bloc's coun terpart of NATO. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy through Wednesday. Chance of afternoon thunderstorms In mountains. Low tonight 48. High tomorrow 84. Temp. Highest Yesterday 88 Lowest this Morning 50 Our Skies Tonight The Sun rises 4:40 a.m. 7:38 p.m. and sets Che unseen stars in its back ground are now those of Tau us. Bloonset Wednesday l:o2 a.m. fall Moon June 1 TISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, due south 9:1 p.m. Saturn, low in south ed 10:09 p.m. Mars, rises 2:0S a.m. Venus, low in east 4:01 a.m. DRESS REHEARSAL Interment of the Unknown Soldier of World War II and Korea is rehearsed at Arlington Nation al cemetery by the service men who wilV participate in the ceremony on Memorial day. Empty caskets were used to rep resent the Korean Unknown (left) and the World War II Unknown (right). In the background is the Tomb of Un known Soldier of World War I. Destroyer Carries Unknown Soldiers Washington (UPI) The destroyer Blandy nosed up the Potomac river today with the flag-draped caskets of two un known soliders on their last long ride to hallowed burial in Arlington National cemetery. The soldiers an unidenti fied World War II veteran and one from the Korean War await ceremonial burial on Friday, Memorial Day, beside the "Unknown Solider" of Lumber Workers Approve Strike 'If Necessary' Portland (UPI) The 80,- 000 members AFL-CIO Lum ber and Sawmill workers Un ion has authorized a strike if necessarv to back ud de mands for a 31-cent hourly package pay boost, it was an nounced today. Earl Hartley, executive sec retary of the LSW's western council, said union members voted three to one in favor of the strike. The union said, however, it was ready and willing to sub mit to arbitration to avoid a strike. Hartlev said the vote, taken by secret ballot, gave the ex ecutive committee of the un ion power to "initiate eco nomic action where and when it is determined neces sary ... The union has members in nine western states. Three .'large employer groups are to meet with the union tomorrow. They in clude the Lumbermens Indus trail Relations Committee, the Willamette Valley Oper ators, and the Plywood and Door Manufacturers associa tion. Governors Wield Much Power Salem (UPI) When the governors of the 48 states are unanimous on an issue they can wield considerable power, Gov. Robert D. Holmes told a press conference here to day. The governor, just return ed from the National Govern or's Conference in Miami Beach, Fla., pointed to pres sure the governors put on the Army not to decrease the National Guard program. Gov. Holmes said he felt this pressure was almost sole ly responsible for the Army's decision not to weaken the guard at this time. The governor said he thought the guard was most useful in times of state disas ter. He has called the Oregon guard out twice for use in con trolling floods. A good deal of controversy over federal unemployment aid was reported by Gov. Holmes at the conference. The governor himself supports a bill by Sen. John Ken nedy (D-Mass.) which calls for a 13-week extension of unem ployment benefits to be paid for by the federal govern ment. Everett, Was h. (U.P.I.) The Sylvania state bank, 15 miles north-of here was held up today by two men who es caped with an undetermined amount of money. jLJ'- World War I with President Eisenhower leading the na tion in tribute. Behind them 33 miles at sea off the Virginia capes the slate green waves wash restlessly over the ocean grave of an equally honored com rade, also known but to God." He was the "unchosen un known" of World War II whose number didn't come up when the Navy Hospital Corpsman lc William R. Char ette, a Korean war hero, made the final choice between the caskets of a World War II veteran from the European theater and one from the Pa cific. The 26-year-old Charette didn't know which was which. And neither did anyone else after the military's complicate ed mixing maneuvers to make identification impossible. So it was two for the land and one for the sea. The Navy buried the "unchosen" with all the honors it could master in solemn burial rites from the guided missile cruiser Canberra. The sleek gray Blandy, with the trim white Coast Guard cutter Ingham as escort, was due at the naval gun factory here this afternoon. The honored bodies will re main aboard until Wednes day morning when a delega tion of government oficials headed by Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy and Treasury Secretary Robert B. Ander son will formally meet the Blandy. Then the bodies will be taken in identical hearses with honor guard escorts to the rotunda of the U.C. Capi tol building where they will lie in state on black-topped catafalques until Friday. On Friday afternoon the caskets will be placed on horse-drawn artillery caissons. These will proceed at funeral pace, past the city's great monuments, to Arlington cemetery across the Potomac for the solemn last ceremony. There the President will make an address and place congres sional medals of honor on both caskets. Plane Trip Set For DAV Delegates A chartered plane flight over the Rogue valley and Crater lake will be a feature of the department convention of Disabled American Veter ans in Medford June 11-14. George W. Simmons, Med ford, retiring commander and newly elected department ex ecutive committeeman from Jackson county, said that any one wishing to register for the flight should get in touch with him. He is in charge of the flight. At a recent meeting of the Jackson county DAV chap ter, Lester P. Mathes, Central Point, was elected commander, succeeding. Simmons.- Also named to offices were Treav- ell M. Turpin, Medford, senior vice commander; Eugene J. Baucom, Medford, junior vice commander; Karl J.'Xnutson, Medford, treasurer; James R. Lillie, Medford, cliaplain; Frank Clayton, Camp White, sergeant-at-arms. William A. Eiden, Jacksonville, and F. Edgar Nelson and George H. Tucker, both Medford, were elected executive committeemen. Cardinal Stritch Dies in Rome; Services Thursday First U.S. Born Priest to Join Curia Rome (U.P.I.) Archbishop Samuel Cardinal Stritch of Chicago, stricken at the mo ment of his greatest honor in the Roman Catholic Church, died peacefully early today clutching an image of the cru cified Christ he loved. The 70-year-pld Cardinal, first American-born priest ever summoned to Rome to become a member of the Church's governing Curia, ap parently knew when the final moment had come. He raised the crucifix in his left hand, blessed those around his . bedside with it and then died. His right arm was amputated a month ago. A church spokesman said the Cardinal's funeral would be held in the Church of St. Ignatius Thursday morning. The body will lie in state at the North American col lege, Rome, until the funeral and will be returned to Chica go for burial after the fu neral, the spokesman said. Cardinal Stritch had made a valiant four-week struggle against circulatory blockages that caused the amputation of his right arm, a cerebral stroke and then a weakening of the heart. He arrived in Rome April 25, summoned by the Pope to become pro-prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. This body has charge of the church's world-wide mission ary work and he was expected to assume the major burden of the work from the prefect, Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Bi ondi, who is 85, partially blind and ailing. Cardinal Stritch was or dained a priest in Rome 48 years ago at the age of 22. He rose rapidly in the church hierarchy. He became assistant pastor at St. Pat ricks' church in Memphis, Tenn. In 1916 he became sec retary of the bishop of Nash ville and the following year was named chancellor of the" Nashville Diocese. - When he. was only 34, in August, 1921, he was made bishop of Toledo, Ohio, the youngest member of the hi erarchy in the United States. At the age of 43, he was en throned as archbishop of Mil waukee, Wis., and in January, 1940, was installed as arch bishop of Chicago. He was nominated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Pius XII in December, 1945, and went to Rome two months later to receive his red hat. Senate Group Aids Railroads Washington (UPI) The Senate Commerce committee Monday approved an eight point bill which would treat the ills of the nation's rail roads with a variety of reme dies including guaranteed loans and tax deferrals. Before approving the meas ure the committee made some changes in the subcommittee bill. Redrafted was a section designed-to let the Interstate Commerce commission set railroad rates on the basis of railroad costs without mak ing allowances for competing carriers. Other recomme ndations would repeal excise taxes on passenger travel 10 per cent and freight shipments three per cent, institute a 20-year depreciation period for rail road equipment, and modern ize the Post Office depart ment's regulations for mail haulage. . Vancouver, Wash. (UPI) Several small lightning-set fires were reported today in southwest Washington for est lands. Board Submits List of State Building Needs Totalling About $58,325,000 Salem (UPI) The state board of control today sub mitted to the state finance de partment a tentative list of its institutional building needs amounting to $58,325, for the next 10 years. , . .The total asked for the next biennium is $19,538,000. ' The board asked the 1957 legislature for $10 million for construction needs and got just under $5 million. Estimates of needs for the 1959-61 biennium include $7, 904,000 for completing phases one and two of construction at the F. H. Dammasch state hospital near Wilsonville and $3 million for the third phase Medford 20 Pages DfaDy's Ms Gain Voting Strength Rome (UPD The pro western Christian Democrats, Italy's largest political party, registered gains in this week's election but failed to win un disputed control of . either house in the new parliament. Mounting returns showed gains for the Communists and other extreme leftists that Kiwanis Club to Sponsor County Fair in August A late-August county fair, sponsored by the Medford Ki wanis club, will be held in Medford this year, according to Col. Arthur M. Savard, gen eral chairman. Final action confirming the expansion of last year's Town and Country Holiday into a county fair came at a recent meeting"' of the Kiwanis board of directors. A survey by members of the fair planning committee showed considerable interest from exhibitors, rural groups and the . public, according to Russ Jamison, Medford pub lic relations man and director of the fair. Dates selected are August 21 to 24 and "every attempt will be made to plan displays and events which will coin cide with the long-established annual Jackson county 4-H and FFA youth fair scheduled for Aug. 19-23," he said. Rental of booth space will begin next week under Jami son's supervision, allowing ex hibitors ample time to plan exhibitsan"d",arrange details. Emphasis on Exhibits Special emphasis will be placed on exhibits of locally grown products, area indus tries and farm or forest organ izations, with sections devoted to hobbies, crafts and sciences. Suppliers of products for farm, ranch and home will be ' invited . to display and demonstrate. .Plans also call, for a full scale carnival, along with pro fessional and local amateur talent in stage shows. -Savard said this marks the first attempt in many years at producing a county fair and he invited anyone with sug gestions to write to Kiwanis County Fair, 11 Almond st. v The fair has been encour aged by members of the coun ty court. Meetings are sched uled later with . the county fair board to discuss ways official agencies may assist. Costs of producing the event will be underwritten by the Medford Kiwanis club, sup ported by rentals and ad- Youth Fails To Give Reason for Derailment Birmingham, Ala (U.P.I.) Junior J. D.. Moore, 18, under $1,500 bond here for trying without success to derail a train, gave officers no reason for the action except that he had never seen a train wreck. (Bulletin Washington (UPI) President Eisenhower sign ed - the bill to raise postal ' rates and wages today, say ing its "public interest" futures outweighed its ob jectionable provisions. of the new correctional insti tution near here. Women's Prison Talked Also on the tentative 1959 61 list is $1,183,000 for, a new penal institution for women. Preliminary studies for such an institution will be finished by October of this year. Some other new structures suggested for the next two years were a food service building and five inmate cot tages at Oregon Fairview home to house an additional 600 children. The old gymnasium at Mac Laren school for boys near Woodburn would be convert ed into an "all faith" chapel MEDFORD, OREGON, threatened the stability of strategic Italy, the U. S. de fense partner that dominates the central Mediterranean. The Communists and the left-wing Socialists were lead ing the Christian Democrats, 39.2 per cent to 39.1, in incom plete, returns from the cham ber of deputies election. ; Final returns from the sen ate election showed the leftists trailing by about 5 per cent, 41.2 to 35.9. In the last general election, five years ago, the Christian Democrats polled 41 per cent of the popular vote to 33 for the extreme left. The Christian Democrats gained 12 seats in the Senate to 16 for the leftists, making their respective totals 122 and 951. A majority of the 253 member upper house is 127. Prospects Shaky The prospects confronting Italy during the - next five years appeared to be that of a French-type ' succession of shaky moderate coalition gov ernments, continuously at odds with strong left-wing op position. The Christian Democrats and the Communists were run ning close to the percentages they polled in 1953. The big gainers in the new election were the left-wing Socialists, who . drew strength from small moderate parties. It appeared certain that the Reds would redouble their ef forts to revive their long-time alliance with the Socialist left, which broke down as a result of Soviet repression of the Hungarian revolt. s Pose New Threat - i Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Seventeen French warships with the power that : might enable French Algerian rebels to make good their boast that they "soon shall march to gether up the Champs Ely? sees", either already were at anchor in Algerian ports to day or reported on their way. But whether they were there on normal call, as the government of French Pre mier Pierre Pflimlin insisted, or to join the forces rallying around the standard of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, as the rebels hoped, remained an un answered question. A spokesman for supreme Algerian commander G e n: Raoul Salan refused to say flatly whether the navy ships had come to join the cause of the, rebel French Algerians and generals whose coup has spread to Corsica and is reach ing out toward the mainland of France. But he said significantly: "In the navy, ships go along with the man who commands them, just as our soldiers fol- low their officers. Wedding Dale Set For Hatfield Portland (UPI) Secre tary of State Mark Hatfield and his fiance, Miss Antoin ette Kuzmanich of. Portland, have set July 8 for their wed ding date. Hatfield, who is the Repub lican nominee for governor, and Miss Kuzmanich will be married at Hinson Memorial Baptist church here on the 50th wedding anniversary of the bride-elect's parents. and $330,000 provided for a new vocational school build ing at Oregon State School for the Deaf here. " - . - . After approval by the Fi nance department, the plans must be submitted to the 1959 legislature. The long . range 1959-69 plan invisions that Dammasch state hospital would be com pleted during the 1961-63 bi ennium with ah appropriation of $6,753,000. Also tentatively scheduled for completion that biennium would be the cor rectional institution with a proposed expenditure of $2,-900,000. French Warship TUESDAYMAY 27, 1958 'Could You Just Tell Me, Is There Ever A Good Time?" Atfe fJ : Alaska Proposal Tentatively Killed Washington (UPI) Thfe House today tentatively killed the Alaska statehood bill. It voted 144 to 106 to strike the bill's enacting clause. - It was a teller vote in which 32 Men To Be at Aerial Project . Cave Junction A 32-man crew of smokejumpers will be stationed at the .forest serv; ice's, aerial project headquar ters here this season. Only 14 will be new men, with the other 18 returning, some of them for the ninth year, according to Project Supervisor- Jim Allen. The first men are expected to ar rive June 2, and will start their practice jumps June 5. : The training program for the new men will run from June 16 to July 15, covering physical fitness, survival, tree climbing, mending and pack ing parachutes, and jumping in fields and timber. Al Boucher is chief squad leader. Squad leaders will be Rod Newton, an -eight-year man, Jack Harter, six years, and Ron Price, four years. Ed Schulz, the pilot since 1949, will return. The first business of the season was last week, when two full-time employees mend ed I and packed parachutes used by firefighters on a fire near North Bend. Next week a cargo-dropping school will be held for forest service personnel from Medford and elsewhere in southwestern Oregon. Bank Debits Show Rise Oyer March Eugene April bank debits in southwestern Oregon,' in cluding Curry, .Jackson and Josephine countits, were 8.6 per cent higher than the deb its in March, but were 4.i per cent below debits in April, 1957. Total debits for April this year in southwestern Ore gon were $61,146,337. Bank debits represent the dollad value of checks drawn against deposit accounts of in dividuals and business firms, they are generally regarded as good indicators of business ac tivity, according to the Bu reau of Business Research at the University of Oregon. The figures from southwest ern Oregon were compiled from 11 reporting banks. In all Oregon, with 167 banks reporting, debits were $1,580,783,625. This is an in crease of 5.1 per cent from March, but a decrease of 2 per cent from April, 1957. Pendleton Company Gets Base Contract Seattle (UPI) McCor mack Construction company, Pendleton, today was award ed a $47,110 contract for con struction of receiver and transmitter buildings at the Air Force station near Baker. The Seattle district of Army Engineers received the bids. Tribune No. 57 members pass down the cham ber's middle aisle to be count ed for and against proposed amendment. The vote is sub ject to possible reversal Wed nesday when a roll call vote is to be taken. The amendment to strike the anacting clause was pro posed by Rep. Walter Rogers (D-Tex.).' A coalition of Republican and southern Democrats join 'ed forces against the administration-backed bill. . Among those observed vot ing against the measure were House Republican leader Jo seph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.), House Republican whip Leslie C. Arends (111.), and Rep. Charles A. Halleck (Ind.), for mer Republican floor leader. President Eisenhower was reported to have thrown, his active support behind the drive to make Alaska the 49th state. Those voting against the move to kill the bill included Speaker Sam Rayburn (D Tex.) and Democratic leader John W. McCormack, Mass. Should the roll call vote Wednesday uphold today's tentative vote, the bill would be killed. On the other hand, if the roll call vote reversed today's action, the House would continue action on the measure, and it would be sub ject to other motions to amend it. Home Inspections Campleted in City Firemen inspected 1,482 homes for fire hazards, in the three-week campaign which end today. On 805 visits, no hazards were found, and 979 recommendations were made, Fire Chief Gordon Barker re ported. Calls totaled 2,898. In ad dition to the 1,482 homes in spected, no one was found at home at 1,256 residences, and 160 householders declined the invitation to have free in spection. Of the four most common hazards listed, excessive use of extension cords was found in 327 homes. Other high ranking hazards were improp er or dirty flues, 268; accum ulations of rubish and trash, 161 ,and careless storage of inflamable liquids, 151. Lone Negro Slated To Graduate Tonight Little Rockj Ark. (UPD More than 200 National Guardsmen and police will be on hand tonight when an 18-year-old Negro boy becomes the first of his race to receive a. diploma from heretofore segregated Central high school. Ernest Green, one of nine Negroes admitted to the school last September, will be the lone Negro receiving a diploma in commencement exercises in the high school stadium. ; . ; Portland (UPI) A painter was rescued from the Willamette river today after falling into the stream from the east end of the new Mor rison street bridge. Left-Wing Forces In Opposition; Strife Threatens Assembly To Choose Government Leader Paris (UPI) Gen. Charles de Gaulle announced today he is preparing to take over the government in a legal man ner. But left wing opposition to him mushroomed so swiftly it increased the threat of civil war. Premier Pierre Pflimlin, his authority crumbling by the hour, refused to step down and decided to let the Nation al Assembly chose tonight be- . tween him and de Gaulle. Cabinet spokesmen revealed the Premier's decision after Pflimlin held two meetings with President Rene Coty and long sessions with his own Cabinet. The Cabinet source, reveal ing Pflimlin's desperate an swer to de Gaulle's bid to take over power, said Pflimlin per sonally met with the general Monday night. But even before the an nouncement, the Communists, bitter foes of De Gaulle, acted. The Communist-led Gener al Confederation of Labor called out railroad workers at noon (4 a.m. p.d.t.) and de manded a general strike: across the nation two hours . later. , The strike fizzled before it started. It produced only mo-1 mentary delays on electric . lines and subways were un affected. Call For Demonstration The Communists then call- ed. on "the workers and all republicans of Paris and all the Parisian area" to demon- strate Wednesday afternoon, near the Bastille Square, where France's 1789 revolu tion started. Also the balky and unpre- " dictable French, national as sembly was debating Pflim- lin's sweeping bill for consti- tutional reform. The bill would make it al most impossible to overthrow a French government and it was the reported plan that Pflimlin would resign, once the bill was passed, to make way for.De (jBulle's investi-. ture in his place. . A defeat would mean Pflim lin's automatic resignation and a summons from Coty to De Gaulle. : - But under those conditions De Gaulle's chances for suc cess might also be slim. In that case, France could continue its plunge toward chaos, with what many fear would ,be" either a military government or a Communist dominated "popular front." De Gaulle warned that "every action, from whatever quarter it may come, against public order, runs the risk of having grave consequences." Agreement Reported Political sources had re ported earlier that De Gaulle and a representative of the . Pflimlin government had es tablished. "the beginnings of an agreement" under which De Gaulle . could return to , power before France plunged into civil war. , The negotiations between De Gaulle and the Pflimlin government oversh a d o w e d opening debate in the Nation Assembly on the government's constitutional reform bill. The bill, originally design-, ed to block De Gaulle's bid for power, would give the government sweeping execu tive powers. Pflimlin has stak ed the life of his government on its passage. As the assembly began its debate, the deputies crushed' 412 to 149 a Communist bid to block the reform plan which would make the gov ernment almost impossible to overthrow. Small Residence Destroyed by Fire Central Point A small residence on Willow Creek rd., owned by the state of Oregon, was destroyed by fire ' about 9 p.m. Monday. It was unoccupied. Five trucks and 12 men from the Central Point rural , fire department extinguished the blaze, which had spread to grass in the surrounding area. Firemen said an employee at the Double Dee lumber company nearby turned in the alarm. . The department also dis patched three trucks and seven men to Lotus . lane about 12:30 p.m. yesterday to extinguish a two-acre grass fire. It was believed started by small children playing with matches and a cigaret lighter.