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in Out rvn WHninl M Pearson Shoo-in For Presidency Of State Senate Caucus Smooths Way for Opening Salem-dTD- Oregon Demo crats were successful in or ganizing the state House and Senate at a party caucus here Sunday. State Sen. Walter Pearson, Portland, was a shoo-in for president of the Senate and State Rep. Robert Duncan, Medford, was nominated for speaker of the House. Democrats will control the 1959 Legislature by a ma jority of 19 to 11 in the Sen ate and 33 to 27 in the House. The 31 members necessary to assure Duncan's choice as speaker were present at the caucus. He was nominated unanimously when State Rep, George Annala, Hood River, withdrew after the first ballot Present House Speaker Pat Dooley, Portland, said Demo crats should work with Re publican Gov.-elect Mark Hat field for the best interests of Oregon's citizens. "We must look to people, not polii tics," Dooley said. Flegel Makes Nomination Both Dooley1 and Pearson spoke at a pre-caucus lunch eon stressing the responsibil ity of their party to the peo ple and urging Democrats to do a good job with their eyes open for the 1960 election. The nomination of Duncan for House speaker was made by Al Flegel, Ro'seburgi who himself had been considered as a candidate. Duncan is a Medford attor ney who served in the 1957 Legislature while Pearson is a Senate veteran and former state treasurer. . The caucus apparently smoothed the way for an easy opening of the 1959 Legisla ture in contrast to the 1957 session where equally divided Republicans and Democrats in the Senate argued 11,' days before decing that Demo crat Boyd Overhulse, Madras, would serve as president. A new departure in Oregon legislative procedure will mark the 1959 session with both parties having four lead ers to direct the members of each party in legislation that the majority has endorsed. GOP Meets Too Republican senators and House members also met here Sunday and selected their of ficials, including a floor lead er. The Democratic legislators will select theirs at a later meeting, possibly on a Sunday before the session opens on Jan. 12. Sen. Anthony Yturri, On tario, was selected floor lead er of the Republicans in the Senate. Rep. Faye Bristol, Grants Pass, will be Republican floor leader in the House. Rep. Robert L. Elfstrom, Salem, will be chairman of the mi nority conference. Serving with him will be Reps. Joe Rogers, 'Independence, and George Layman, Newberg. This committee will consult the majority leadership to try to obtain committee posts suit able to the Republicans. . Rep.-elect Evelyn Nye, Med ford, who will be serving for the first time in the Legisla ture, was named secretary of the Republican House confer ence. Rep. Duncan told United Press International that a committee on committees would be appointed to help decide on appointments to various committees in the next session. He said questionaires would be sent out to House members to determine their committee preferences. . , California Official Rose Bowl Game Entry Los Aneeles - (UPD - The Pa cific Coast Conference today nleted the formality of nffiriallv voting to send Cali f ornia as its representative to the Rose Bowl against Big Ten champion Iowa. Hobbs, NJM.-ICPD-FBI agents today investigated the dyna mite bombing of Heizer Jun ior High school here Sunday night to determine u any iea eral laws had been violated. I m i..iij.iii.tm.i.liiM..,.'iWMKwa I ' 4 f ROBERT DUNCAN Medford Man Picked County Officials Back from Meet Of State Counties Jackson county officials have returned t f r o m last week's annual meeting in Portland of the Association of Oregon Counties, held last week. Local officials who attend ed the event reported excel lent attendance. County Treasurer Karl Janouch spoke to the treasurer's group meeting on whether it should be a duty of the sheriffs of fice or the county treasurer to collect taxes. He reported that the group voted to support any law that might be proposed to shift the collection of taxes, to -the treasurer's office instead of the sheriff's department, but that the organization would not sponsor any legislation it self. The county treasurers met in the director's room at the U.S. National bank. The ses sion was attended by 32 of the 36 county treasurers. Miller Attends Meetings County Judge Rodney Keat ing, Commissioners Ralph James and Chester Wendt, Judge-elect Earl Miller, and Engineer Paul Rynning also attended the meetings. James attended committee sessions concerning county government, Wendt is a mem ber of the roads and highway committee while Keating is I vitn tne puonc lanas groups, Miller sat in on several of the committees it was reported Approximately 100 of the 108 county court members in the state attended. New officers elected were Judge O. E. Effenberger, Til lamook, president, Judge Charles H. Mack, Klamath, vice-president; and Judge R. E. Renne, Yamhill. Retiring president is Judge C. W. Crad dock, Harney. Eugene-JITD-Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) left here Sun day for Washington, D.C., with his wife and four children. W $ Television Film of Jacksonville Held Possible at Town Meeting Jacksonville-First of a pos sible series of old-fashioned town meetings was held in the Jacksonville city hall Sun day to discuss making the city a Centennial attraction. Ideas presented included possibility of featuring Jack sonville in a television film entitled, "Living Ghost Town," rehabilitation of the Britt home and grounds, re storing the Beekman bank, and the U. S. hotel and con struction of a stage depot and trading post. Guest Moderator Mrs. Virginia Card, writer for Frontier Times and True West magazine, acted as guest moderator for the meeting which filled the city hall to near capacity with an esti mated .75 persons present. Mrs. Card mentioned the pos sibility of a motion picture company filming one program of a new television series in Jacksonville during the Cen tennial year. Fess Parker is being considered for the lead ing role in "Living Ghost Town." This is a story writ ten by Mrs. Card which will appear in the April-May issue of True West, a factual publi Two Unions Strike Eastern Air Lines; TWA Remains Idled United Press International Two unions went on strike against Eastern Air Lines to day and within a few hours the line, the nation's largest domestic air carrier, was ex pected to join Trans World Airlines in idleness. American Airlines faced a threat of walkout Tuesday. Capital Air Lines went back to work. The Flight Engineers Union called the first strike against Eastern, and just before the 10 a.m. strike deadline, the International Association of Machinists called a strike. A union official said that the mechanics' action was separ ate from that of the engineers. Geared For Winter Traffic Eastern was gearing for the start of the usual winter traf fic to Florida., Last year East- Ashland Festival Fund Tops $32,045 Ashland-The Ashland divis ion of the Shakespearean Fes tival fund raising campaign has gone over 60 per cent to ward the $50,000 goal, accord ing to Archie C. Fries, presi dent of the Shakespearean Festival association. A report made at a cam paign meeting in Ashland this noon showed $32,045 has been collected toward the money needed to reconstruct the Fes tival theatre in Lithia park there. The report brings to more than $87,000 the amount raised in the $275,000 cam paign in the first two weeks of fund-raising. The meeting was held in the fund-raising campaign of fice in Ashland at 33 East Main st., Ashland. The Med ford division will hold its meeting tomorrow noon in the YMCA building. Longshoreman Dies Of Accident Injuries Portland - (UPD Richard Fenton, 55-year-old longshore man, died here early today as a result of injuries suf fered in a loading accident last Saturday. Fenton was working on the ship Hawaiian Planter when a load of lumber fell on him. SuflDefin Salem-OiPD-Hugh D'Auire mont, 54, today won a pa role from the state peniten tiary where he has served 31 years for the 1923 dyna miting of a mail train in Oregon's Siskiyou moun tains . in which four men were killed. cation carrying the endorse ment of Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, president of the Ameri can Historical association. This article is expected to draw hundreds of people to the town and pointed up the desirability' of Jacksonville's preparations for the Centen nial. Jacksonville's newly formed planning commission has submitted several recom mendations for cleaning up the city to the city council, it was reported during the meeting. Once Area Showplace Mrs. Janice Houghton, of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation, told of the work planned for the Britt house and gardens on First st. in Jacksonville. This pioneer home was once the showploce of the area, she pointed out. The grounds planned on a European style included small flag-stone walks and the old fashioned round bee-hives. All this could be restored, she said. Mayor John Keaveny said he had been corresponding with various bankers in the state on restoration of the Beekman bank. However, tnis era carried about 8,700,000 passengers, more than any other U. S. airline. A comp any spokesman said that the line had no choice but to "dis continue all services in the interests of public safety," and said the line would be shut down within a few hours. Planes were expected to run out regular flights to their destinations before they were grounded. A strike against TWA en tered its fourth day with no progress reported in efforts to settle the walkout. American Airlines was fac ed with a scheduled strike of its 1,500 pilots Tuesday night in a dispute over wages. Stewardesses on Lake Cen tral Airlines, a feeder airline, went on strike early today in the first walkout of steward esses in airline history. A spokesman for the line's 32 stewardesses said she had expected the pilots to refuse to cross the all -girl picket lines. However, at least one flight this morning landed in Indianapolis and took off on schedule. The company said the walkout would not cur tail service. Meanwhile, Capital A i r -lines resumed limited flights Sunday after a 37-day strike by 2,600 mechanics and other ground personnel. The line hoped to resume full opera tions by Tuesday. Morse Says Hells Canyon 'Not Dead' Portland -(UPD Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), told the Na tional Hells Canyon Associa tion here Saturday that the Hells Canyon project "has been pronounced dead by its critics time and again. But it will stay alive as long as it remains superior to the Idaho Power company dams in terms of multipurpose de velopment." He called for new studies and a new effort to obtain full, multi-purpose develop ment of Hells Canyon. "The actual expenditure made by the Idaho Power Company must be ascertain ed," he said, "and I have ask ed the Federal Power Com mission for these figures." WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy with inter mittent rain tonight and Tues day. Low tonight 36. High Tues day 46. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 44 Lowest This Morning 40 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:43 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:14 a.m. Moonrise today 4:02 p.m. Moonset tomorrow 6:24 a.m. Full Moon Nov. 26 EVENING STAR Mars, near the Moon. This planet's distance from the Earth is now increasing and its brilli ance Is slowly decreasing. may not be open during the Centennial year, he said. Jim Foster, owner of the Jacksonville pharmacy, stressed the need for a busi ness in every building on California st. to accommodate the large influx of visitors ex pected. These would include restaurants and various gift shops, he said. Librarian Gives Plans The Jacksonville branch li brarian told of plans to paper the interior of the library branch and of adding old pieces of furniture. The li brary is located on Oregon st., across from the city hall. E. L. Garland explained the proposed route for the horse drawn surreys and stage coaches. Ernie Hood, Jackson county coordinator for the Centennial suggested several civic clubs could cooperate to build a stage depot and trad ing post for souvenirs, "Want ed Dead or Alive" posters, and other pioneer items. Some of the people attend ing yesterday's meeting said they were interested in con tacting people who might aid in financing restoration of the U. S. hotel on California st. 53rd Year Medford 26 PAGES Group Appointed To Evaluate Economic Aid Military Program Also Considered Augusta, Ga. -(UPD Presi dent Eisenhower set up today a high-level committee to evaluate the relative merits of military assistance and for eign economic aid prepara tory to submission of a new Mutual Security Program to Congress next year. The committee, which will begin submitting recommen dations to the President some time in March, will be headed by the boss of the post-war Berlin airlift, William H. Dra per Jr. He conferred this morning with Eisenhower at theeAugusta National Golf club where the President is vacationing. Eight prominent Americans, most of them former generals or top federal officials of re cent years, were named to serve with Draper. Economic Aim Draper, Robert E. Merriam, deputy assistant to' the Presi dent for Governmental Af fairs, and Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American National Red Cross and a member of the new committee, flew back to Washington immediately aft er the meeting in the Presi dent's tiny office over the golf shop. Mirriam confirmed that one of the principal chores of the study group will be, in this administration season of the stringest economy, to balance the relative financial needs of military versus strictly eco nomic aid overseas. The foreign aid spending budget this fiscal year runs about $3,700,000,000, includ ing $2,200,000,000 for military assistance, $800,000,000 for defense support and " about $70,000,000 for economic aid. Named To Board Named to serve with Dra per: Dillon S. Anderson, for mer White. House specialist on national security matters now practicing law in Hous ton, Tex.; Gruenther; John J. McCloy, former high commis sioner to Germany and now board chairman, Chase Man hattan Bank; George C. Mc Ghee, head of a Dallas, Tex., oil development firm and for mer Ambassador to Turkey; Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, one of the top Army generals of World War II and now living in La Jolla, Calif.; Adm. Ar thur W. Radford (ret.), form er chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and James E. Webb, budget director during the administration of former President Truman and now assistant to the president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc., Oklahoma City. Also named on the commit tee was Marx Leva, Washing ton, D.C., attorney who was an Assistant Secretary of De fense in the Truman adminis tration. Tracy Voorhees, former Undersecretary of the Army and more recently, Chairman of Eisenhower's Committee on Hungarian Refugees, was named committee counsel. In charge of study coordination was Col. George A. Lincoln, professor of social sciences at the U. S. Military Academy.. "Fortissimo Pianissimo Fortissimo MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1958 SOCIETY OFFICERS New officers of the Oregon State Horticultural society are (front, left to right) J S. Smart, Salem, third vice president; Walter Leth, Salem, president; William Hazeltine, Parkdale, first vice president; and Stephen G. Nye, Med ford, second vice president. Back row (left Crushing Defeat Of Communists Seen in France Paris -(UPD- The election of the Fifth Republic's first par liament shaped up today as a victory for the moderate right and a "crushing defeat" for the Communists, who seem likely to lose two-thirds of their voting strength in the National Assembly. . The big gainer in Sunday's voting was the Union of the New Republic, a party formed only a few weeks ago by In formation Minister Jacques Soustelle. 17.6 Per Cent of Vote The UNR, which was con sidered to be the main "Gaull ist" party of the dozen or so which claimed full support for Premier Charles de Gaul le, captured 3,603,958 ballots or 17.6 per cent of the popu lar vote. The Communists remained France's largest party with a popular vote of 3,882,709 or 18.9 per cent of the vote. How ever, the Reds lost 1,572,385 of the votes they received in the 1956 general elections and were threatened with the loss of more than 100 of the 140 seats they held in the Fourth Republic's last National As sembly. The final results will not be known until after next Sunday's runoff elections. Wheat Grower League President Quits Post Pendleton-(UPD-Jack Smith, Condon, president of the Ore goa Wheat Growers League, resigned his position Satur day to take the post as direc tor, of market development of the United States Wheat League in South America. Salem-flJPD-The State Emer gency board has turned down a request by the Oregon Fish commission for $106,000 to build a new hatchery at Elk river near Port Orford. . C: to right) Ward Spatz, Medford, new trus tee; Paul J. Willard, Salem, treasurer; Or ville C. Hamilton, Central Point, new trus tee; and C. O. Rawlings, OSC extension horticulturist, secretary. The society held its 73rd annual meeting at Oregon State col lege Nov. 20-21. Western Powers Gird for Russian Moves in Germany Berlin - (UPD - The Western powers girded themselves to day for whatever new assault Russia plans against the free world's "forward position" in Europe. The Soviet press and radio suddently dropped the subject of Berlin over the week end, after the expected Russian "liquidation" of four -power rights in the divided city failed to develop. Press Continues Communist organs in Red Berlin continued attacks on Albany Pilot Returns Safely Albany, Or'e.-(UPD-George K. Elwood, 33, Albany, whose rented light plane was found in a muddy field near Sweet Home after . it crash-landed Saturday evening, 'showed up at a farm house early Sunday ending an all-night search.' Elwood received minor in juries in the crash-landing but was not hospitalized. Police pieced together this story: Elwood rented the two place Aeronca Champion at Corvallis airport and took off about 3:30 p.m. Saturday to "cruise around" the area. The plane stalled an hour later and he landed the craft in the field, damaging the plane's propellor and undercarriage. Groggy, he climbed out of the plane and made his way toward some lights in the dis tance but became exhausted. He rested and walked alter nately throughout the night and early Sunday arrived at the farm home of Vera Sum mers, a distance of two miles from the scene of the crash. Modification Of Power Act Urged Washington-(UPD-Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D.-Ore.) to day proposed modification of the traditional public prefer ence power clause. The proposal was contained in legislation to create a Columbia river development corporation. The corporation would plan, finance and con struct power facilities and market energy on a wholesale basis in the Northwest. The new bill will be con sidered at regional hearings of the Senate Public Workers Committee Dec. 8-11 in Port land, Seattle, Coeur 'de Alene, Idaho, and Kalispell, Mont. - The measure would modify the traditional concept of public preference by permit ting a location by the corpor ation of "new power supplies so. as to assure that there shall be no unreasonable geo graphic concentration of the power sold by the corpor ation." Salem -UPD- Oregon roads were generally clear today. Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 210 the Western powers, but the Red radio in Berlin has been silent since noon Saturday, when it got the word that the Kremlin's surrender of power had been postponed. Some Western diplomats believe the Russians were daunted by clear American policy " statements that inter ference with the routes over which Allied garrisons in Ber lin are supplied would not be tolerated. In Bonn, it was reported that the West Germans may propose a new Big Four con ference on the Berlin question-but there also were indi cations that that is just what the Russians want Overt Threats West German government! sources said the Western Big Three may hold a top-level conference in Berlin if the ex pected Soviet transfer of pow er to the local Communists is accompanied by overt threats to the city's security. Such a Big Three confer ence, they said, mignt be at tended by foreign ministers of the allied nations-or per haps by their chiefs of govern ment. Suit to Test Hatfield's Right Salem-(UPD-Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield said today a suit will be filed this week to test his right to appoint a successor to the office of Secretary of State. Hatfield said the suit is ex pected to be filed in Marion county Circuit Court by a group of private citizens. He said the suit will be based on the contention that he doesn't have to resign be fore taking the oath of office as governor. Gov. Robert D. Holmes has already said he will appoint David O'Hara between Hat field's resignation and oath taking. Holmes has held that Hat field must resign before tak ing the governor's powers. School Placement Law Declared Constitutional Washington -(UPD- The Su preme Court ruled today that the Alabama Pupil Placement Law as written is consti tutional. Today's brief order affirm ed a lower court ruling to this effect. An appeal had been filed by four Negro children. Constitutional Manner A three-judge federal court held last May that the Ala bama statute, on its face, pro vides the machinery for ad ministering schools "in a constitutional manner by the admission of qualified pupils upon a basis of individual merit without regard to their race or color." The opinion said the rec Decision Made Pending Moves By Soviet Union Strategy to Unfold After Note Received Washington (UPD Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles ruled out a Big Three meeting on Berlin today pend ing moves by the Soviet Union. Dulles, returning from a week at his Duck Island, Lake Ontario, vacation retreat, told newsmen he is certain any Soviet attempt to force the Allies from Berlin will be met with unity and firm ness." He said there are no basic disagreements among the Big Three Allies or West Germany on this point. Asked if he saw any need for a big three conference in Berlin, Dulles replied: 'No Clear Intention' "I wouldn't say so now. The Soviets could make one neces sary. We don't yet know what their plans are." Dulles went on to say: "We don't know yet what the Soviet's intentions are. There have been hints and suggestions, but no clear in tention one way or the other. am confident whatever the position is that is manifested will be met with unity and firmness. Dulles made it clear that the United States is waiting for delivery of a promised note from ' Russia on Soviet plans for turning over her oc cupation functions to the East German Communist regime. He indicated U. S. strategy will unfold after the note is received. Dulles was asked if he him self would go to a special conference in Berlin. 'Til do anything if it is necessary," he said. But he refused to speculate on whether such a meeting might be required. He said that would be a guess. 'Miscalculated' Chairman Theodore Francis Green (D-R.I.) of the Senate Foreign Relations committee said any Soviet attempt to force Allied occupation forces out of Berlin "can only mean that Khrushchev has miscal culated the temper of the United States and its Allies." Before Dulles' arrival, West German Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe discussed the possibil ity of some sort of U. S.-Brit-ish-French conference on Ber lin with Deputy Undersecre tary of State Robert Murphy and then flew back to Ger many. Neuberger Urges Support of Bill Portland-(UPD-Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) told a four-state conference of Na tional Education Association leaders here Sunday that local property - tax resources no longer are adequate in many states for proper support of schools. Representatives from Ore gon, Washington, Idaho and Montana heard his address at the Heathman hotel. .Sen. Neuberger urged sup port of the Murray-Metcalf bill for federal aid to either classroom construction or teachers' salaries, as individu al states may decide. He co sponsored the measure dur ing the 85th Congress. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (UPD Dow Jones closing stock aver ages: 30 industrials 544.89, off 14.68; 20 rails 150.41, off 4.58; 15 utilities 85.56, off 1.25; 65 stocks 190.13, off 4.82. Sales today were about 4,770.000 shares com pared with 3,950,000 shares Friday. ord in the case did not show the exclusion of the four Ne groes from schools of their choice to be based on any thing but a proper test. But the opinion added if the law were not properly administer ed it might be declared un constitutional in some future lawsuit. Application Deferred The case started with an application by the children in August, 1957, for transfer to white schools in Birmingham nearer their homes. They brought suit in federal court after the Birmingham Board of Education failed to act on their application within a time limit set by the school placement law,
