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EE o) IM LT Lt. uv Truman Dangers i Russian By HARRY S. TRUMAN North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Copyright, 1951, By Harry S. Truman (Reproduction of thii article in whole or in part is forbidden without written authorization). The United States, Great Britain and France should lose no time in telling the Soviet Union that Khrushchev's propo sals to compel the West to abandon West Berlin will not work and will be resisted. The attempt of Russia to dispose of our rights in Berlin is an act of mockery and cynicism and a move fraught with danger. Whether Khrushchev's ultimatum to force the West to accept repudiation of the Four Power agreement by the trick proposal of a "free city" of West Berlin is a maneuver to force recognition of East Germany or another in a series of provocative acts to harass us, we cannot permit them to get away with it. Russians May Go Too Far There is a peaceful solution to the German problem as there is a peaceful solution to every international problem, if the Russians will abandon their relentless tactics of keeping the world in turmoil and probing how far they can bully us while yet escaping war. The real danger is that one of these days the Russians may go too far. I, for one, see no valid reason to fear a united Germany iiow. I think Germany has learned her lesson after two cata strophic experiences and should take her place in the con structive and peaceful ways of other hations in mutual coop eration and development. The immense talents of the German people and German science should be of great help in the development and improvement of the lot of people all over the world. This is where Russia could be of much help to hasten the betterment of the lot of all mankind if only she would apply her energies and new industrial development to the ways of peace. Stepping Slone for Invasion But, as matters stand, we all have reason to fear a Russia now resuming the tough line of Stalinism and more menacing ly so because of her recent successes in the field of military science. East Germany under Russian domination is not a buf fer state for peace but is, in fact, a stepping stone for Russian invasion westward. A Germany united could be a bulwark for peace in Europe. What Russia really is after, I believe, is a division of Germany, with East Germany, and all of Berlin as a permanent part of the Russian cluster of satellite states. The Russian move to isolate East Berlin-to emphasize East Germany's ability to govern itself-is an act of diplomatic buffoonery, because Russia continues to occupy East Ger many with an enormous army of over 450,000 soldiers and will not allow the people of East Germany to elect a govern ment of their own choosing. Communist Russia continues to violate the agreements at Potsdam by which, Poland, HunT gary, Rumania and Bulgaria were to be allowed to choose their own forms of government in free elections. It is now 13 years since the Russians made this agreement with us in Potsdam, and the people of these countries remain under Russian total domination and guns. I read that Khrushchev has repeated some old suggestions to recent travelers to Russia that the two German states West Germany and East Germany-should be left to negotiate their union without the participation of the United States, Great Britain, France and Russia. This is a design to expose West Germany to Communist conquest. (Continued on Page 6A) 1 Water, Fire District Voters Casting Ballots Voters in live water tus- tricts and three rural fire pro tection districts will go to tne polls today to elect one or more directors in each. . Water district elections, in clude the Charlotte Anne dis trict, where voters will cast their ballots at Camp U-Rest, Errant Chauffeur, Auto Keys Missing Harold Raymond Benson, 1911 Hazel St., told Medford police he gave his car keys to an acquaintance who had agreed to drive him home Friday night. But the ac quaintance, and the car, dis appeared. Police discovered the veh lclev early this morning, park ed on North Riverside ave. at Sixth st. near the spot whence it had been taken. The keys were missing, the policeman who discovered it reported. And so was the errant chauf feur. Gregg Sherwood Fined $100 on Drunk Charge Los Angeles (UPD Mrs. Gregg Sherwood Dodge, 34, former showgirl and wife of automotive heir Horace Dodge II, was fined $100 to day on a plain drunk convic tion. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable cloud iness and mild with a- few light showers through Tues day. Low tonight 40. High Tuesday 50. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 48 Lowest thii Morning - 38 To 10 am. Today .04 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:40 D.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 7:22 ajn. 10:00 p.m. Moonrise tonight . Dec. 3 Highlights oi tne pncnomru in the skies above this month will be the continued prominence of Mars, now the only planet in the evening sky; and the ap pearance of the Moon at Christ- AftedhfonirSfiores WolD i Warns n Moves &ouui racinc mgnway; cis. City district, at the El Rancho motel, 3838 North Pacific highway, and the Jacksonville Highway Water district, with voting at the Oak Grove school. Also the Maple Park Water district with Dolling place at 1205 Sage rd. and Kings High way district where ballots will be cast at the Wayne Troxell residence, 1833 South Peach st. Votes may be cast until 8 o'clock tonight. Two directors and a propos al for annexation of a piece of oronerty in the White City area will be voted on by elig ible voters in the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district. The election will be held at the main fire hall on Highway 99 just south of Cen tral Point. Medford Rural Fire district noliinz Dlace will be the Oak Grove school while the voters in the Shadv Cove-Trail Fire Protection district will vote in the fire station. Caustic Remarks Against Medford Results in Punch One resident of an area recently annexed to Med ford remark ed in a bar here earlv Sundav mornina L that he preferred Reno, Nev. lo this fair city. A stranger, according to the police report, promptly knocked him through the doorway of the bar. The loquacious resident picked himself up tnd ap peared shortly afterward at the Medford police station. But after being told the necessary procedure for fil ing complaints, he appar ently simmered down. "I better go home and keep my mouth shut," ha said. 20 Pages Oregon Holiday Accident Toll Stands at 10 Traffic Accounts For Four Deaths By United Press International Oregon's four-day Thanks giving week end death toll stood at 10 today. Traffic acci dents claimed four lives, three persons drowned and three died in other mishaps. The holiday accident count extended from 6 p.m. Wednes day to midnight Sunday. William Melrose, 60, Port land, died Sunday in a headon collision about five miles east of the Cannon Beach junction. His wife, Mabel, 65, was in serious condition. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bryant and their daughter, Vicki, 10, of War renton, also were hospitalized. Martha Minkler, 14, Oak ridge, was killed in a two-car collision on Highway 58 about 16 miles southeast of Eugene Saturday night. Five other persons were hurt. -Mrs. Elzora Aldrich, 58, Gresham, died in a Portland hospital Sunday from injuries suffered-when struck by a car Saturday night. Frank C. Learning, 51, Cen tral Point, was killed late Saturday in a two-car mishap at Eagle Point junction. Two other persons were in jured fatally in Oregon traffic mishaps just before the 6 p.m. starting time Wednesday. They were Mary Ross, 52, Coos Bay, and Kenneth Cruickshank, 21, Bend. A man and his son drowned in the Columbia river Satur day while hunting when high waves capsized their boat. Drowned were Otis E. John ston, 46, and his son Wayne, 16, of Portland. Another son, Lloyd, 19, and a .friend John Bergeson, 17, managed to make it safely to shore. The accident occurred near Trout dale. Ira McCullough, about 45, of Everett, Wash., was pre sumed drowned in the Colum bia slough while working on a log boom in Portland. A hunting accident near Seaside cost the life of 17-year-old Harry Keller of Gales Creek. Keller was shot while on an elk hunting trip. Perry Lee Andrews, 57, War renton, told police he shot into the brush when he saw something move, thinking it was an elk. Eugene Wayne Mowden, 19, Wilderville, was killed when a car he was working on slipped off the jack and crush ed him. Carbon monoxide fumes took the life of Harry Val Alst, 22, Portland, while he was working on his car. Office Burglarized In Central Point Central Point - Thieves en tered the Howard Cooper company offices, at Central Point, Sunday night and took a check for $88.53 and about $50 in change, Central Point Police Chief C. P. Bowen re ported today. The burglars entered the offices at 419 North Pacific highway, Central Point, by prying open a window in the rear with a pinch-bar, Bowen said. The check was from the Howard Cooper corporation, Portland, and made out and endorsed by Wayne Robert son, local manager. Woman Bruised When Hit by Automobile Mrs. Mary Evelyn Janes, 1020 North Central ave., suf fered bruises yesterday after noon when struck by an uni dentified vehicle while cross ing Holly st. between Haven and West Jackson sts., Med ford police reported. Mrs. Jones told police the driver, who apparently did not give his name, stopped and offered to help her. She said he drove her to her destination, the Free Metho dist church, 1216 South Peach st. 53rd Year Medford Advisory Group To Inform Voters On Parking Proposal An advisory committee of civic leaders is seeking to in form Medford voters of the merits of the charter amend ment for off-street parking to be voted on Dec. 10. "Many people have mistak enly confused , the charter amendment with ' a general tax measure," Dr. D. Kirk land West, committee chair man, has stated, "and it will be the job of the 50 or more volunteer civic leaders, who comprise the committee - at large, to correct these misun derstandings." Dr. West pointed out that the ballot measure is enabling legislation and does not con stitute a general tax levy. He said it is only the first step in providing legal author ity for a solution of the park ing problem. He said the next steps depend on voter appro val of the charter amendment. Two Schools Back On Regular Basis Roosevelt and Wilson ele mentary schools will operate on a full-time basis tomorrow, according to Medford school district officials. Students as signed to the . new Wilson school have been double-shifting at Roosevelt. Both schools will open at the regular time of 9 a.m., it was reported. Roosevelt school cafeteria will be in operation tomorrow, but the Wilson school - cafe teria will not be ready for service for some time yet, a school district official said. Wilson school pupils should bring sack lunches, it was sug gested. Milk and ice cream can be obtained at the cafe teria. Both schools have been op erating on a part-time basis since school opened this fall. Work is still being done on the cafeteria and gym section of the Wilson school. However the classroom section and the principal's office .are com pleted. Slash Burning Spreads to Five Acres A slash burning operation near Tallow, Box lookout in the Star gulch area broke' out of its boundaries and spread over about five acres Satur- dav. the southwest district of fice of the state department of forestry reported. The "Dost-season" blaze brought the number "of fires in the district for this year to 272. Some small timber in a reproduction area was damag ed. State patrolmen wonted at the scene Saturday evening and Sunday morning. . Portland - (UPD - University of Portland has dedicated a new $425,000 library. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1958 These subsequent steps would include hearings and ordinances to establish the downtown special assessment district, to issue bonds for con struction of off-street parking facilities and to provide for the facilities' operation, he ex plained, i "Our advisory committee is confident," Dr. West said, "that the already existing le gal safeguards will insure or derly procedures. And public control over such items as bond issuances, downtown property assessment district hearings and guarantee of service to the public is al ready a matter of established law and record. "It would be unfortunate for city progress if side issues which are not pertinent and which are already under pub lic control were to be intro duced at this time. It might tend to confuse the issue, the basic consideration of the charter amendment." The charter amendment proposal is a pledge of the city's full faith and credit be hind the issuance of general obligation bonds up to $500, 000. Such bonds, to be used for financing the off-street parking program, can only be issued with voter approval. The bonds themselves would be paid off by revenue from the new facilities, up to 25 per cent of parking meter revenue and assessments from the property which the facili ties would benefit. Dr. West, in a prepared statement, told voters that general obligation bonds would be the only type of is sue that could find a ready sale. He said study and con sultation with experts in the fields of parking and bonding had led to this conclusion. Compares Procedure He compared the procedure to methods used to establish certain water or sewer dis tricts' financing, where, he said, general obligation bonds are issued to guarantee sala bility but only the benefited district pays the assessment. According to his statement, those downtown property owners contacted regarding the measure have indicated they support it and are will ing to assume an equitable levy based on benefit when ever the necessary downtown assessment district is formed. Discussions of the program and ballot measure have been scheduled for the Medford Lions club, the Rotary club, the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable and other civic forums, the state ment reported. One speaker has already addressed . the Crater Lions club, it is under stood. Dr. West invited those in terested in more complete de tails to get in touch with him personally or to phone SPring 2-8131 to arrange for a speaker. peou 'Umrtil 9 'Clock foraglM Qypkes sk Calexico Appears Hardest Hit by Temblor Series Windows Broken, Plaster Tumbles Calexico, Calif. (UPD A series of unusually sharp earthquakes rumbled through most of Southern California and Western Arizona Sunday night, alarming thousands of residents and causing minor damage in at least three cities. Windows shattered and plaster cracked under the im pact of the successive tem blors which rocked a large pie-shaped area extending from San Diego west to Yuma, Ariz., just across the Califor nia border and north to Los Angeles. Aftershocks Continue Magnitude of two of the four earth tremors was 5.4 and 5 on the Richter scale - slight ly less than the quakes which rocked San Francisco a year and a half ago and caused widespread minor damage. Aftershocks will continue to be felt throughout the day, seismologists said. -. - Dr. Charles F. Richter, seismologist of the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, said the large shocks hit at 7:21 p.m. and 10:02 p.m. Cities reporting damage were this border town which appeared to be hardest hit, nearby El Centro to the north and Mexicali, Mexico, just across the border to the south. A large plate glass window at a chain grocery store was shattered here and a water main snapped. A number of grocery stores reported can ned goods and bottles were shaken from their shelves. Plaster Cracked Broken windows were re ported in Mexicali and crack ed plaster in homes and busi nesses were reported in El Centro. - Dr. Richter said the center of the swarm of earthquakes was in Imperial Valley, a rich agricultural section lying in land from the ocean about 100 miles and extending north from here. A series of quakes rocked this area in 1940, caus ing at least eight deaths. Trial Date Set For Flury Case Trial date for the case of the state versus Ted R. Flury, 54, of route 1, box 586, Eagle Point, was set this morning by Circuit Court Judge Ed ward C. Kelly for Jan. 14. The case will be heard by Judge James M. Main, pres ent district court judge, who was elected circuit court judge in the Nov. 4 election. Flury was arrested in Oc tober on a charge of accept i n g consideration while a public official for services rendered for a person dealing with a public body. He was specifically charged with re ceiving $4,050 from the Cali fornia Oregon Power com pany while he was secretary manager of the Eagle Point Irrigation district. DOW-JONES -AVERAGES New York (UPD Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 560.07, up 2.61; 20 railroads 156.02, up 0.34; 15 utilities 85.66, up 0.41, and 65 stocks 194.86, up 0.81. Sales today were about 3,800,000 shares com pared with 4,120,000 shares Friday. Price 10 Tribune JmJf SOVIETS TEST NUCLEAR POWERED BOMBER-A nuclear powered bomber is being flight tested in the Soviet Union according to an article in the magazine. This is an Aviation Week artist's conception of the bomber, which shows large nuclear power plants suspend ed in. pods under the delta mounted on the wing tips and radiation protection of the crew. . McElroy Doubts Russia Has Flown Atomic Airplane Washington (UPD Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy said today he is "highly skep tical" of reports that Russia has flown the world's first atom-powered plane. He conceded that the So viets may have a "slight lead" over the United States in ulti mate development of a nu clear aircraft. The magazine Aviation Week reported that the So viets recently flew success fully the first prototype atomic plane in the Moscow area. Tremendous Jolt McElroy told United Press International he does not know if the report is true or not, but added that "I am highly skeptical of it." "But if it is true," he said, "it would be a tremendous jolt to us in this country." He said the U.S. does not contemplate any change" in its program to develop and build a plane operated by nu clear power even though the Soviets may have a "slight lead." Western sources in Moscow said they had no information on Aviation Week's claim that Russian scientists have put a huge experimental atom-powered bomber in, flight. . Nothing Published They said Soviet publica tions have discussed the the oretical aspects of nuclear flight in . recent years, but nothing has been published to indicate that it has been achieved. Neither, they said, have any new planes been Cents No. 216 current issue of Aviation Week wing. Conventional turbo jets a 195-foot-long fuselage aid in spotted flying in the Moscow area. Chairman Dennis - Chavez (D-N.M.) of the Senate's Mili tary Appropriation . Subcom mittee, promised meantime that Congress would give President Eisenhower all the money he needs to put a U.S. atom-powered plane in flight. Pinball Operators Get $150 Fines Ernest Lytle, 49 South Eighth st., Central Point, and Henry Aylmar Ditmanson, 221 Vi North Holly st., Med ford, pleaded guilty in dis trict court this morning to charges of possessing and dis playing a game of chance at Valley Billiards, Central Point. The plea was entered by their attorney, Robert Dickey. They were fined $150 each by Judge James M. Main and the court ordered the sheriff's office to destroy the pinball machine , which .was confis cated in October at the time the men were arrested. The complaint filed against the two men was signed by the Central Point city police. De Gaulle Emerges From Election as Strong Man Paris -(UPD- Premier Charles de Gaulle ruled today as France's undisputed strong man, swept to a pinnacle of power and prestige by a tidal wave of votes in run off elec tions Sunday for parliament. Communists Routed In doing so the nearly 20 million- French voters: -Blitzed and routed the once powerful, Moscow-controlled French Communist Party, turning it into a tiny, impotent group that can no longer sway French parlia mentary politics. -Ousted in a mass wave of national contempt the men of the Fourth Republic whom they blamed for dragging Agreement With Western Powers Said Non-Existent Air, Land Routes Discussed In Speech Berlin - (UPD - East German Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz today denied agreements exist giving the western powers thf right to travel to isolated Ber lin. Bolz, in a speech to an East Berlin meeting of the national council of the Communist-run Nationalist Front," went far beyond previous eastern state ments questioning western use of air and land routes through East Germany in six months when the Soviets ab- , rogate four-power occupation agreements. He said no agreements on use of the lifelines to the West ever were made and none ex ist now. Military Train Delayed Despite Bolz's statement, both the Soviets and East Ger many today indicated by their acts that they plan to respect western occupation rights at least until expiration of the six-month period given the West to accept new Soviet proposals on Berlin. A broken rail just outside West Berlin today delayed the U. S. military train from Frankfurt for 60 minutes. A U. S. Army spokesman said the East German railway crew repaired the track quick ly and efficiently so the train could continue its journey through the Soviet zone and enter West Berlin. A former Soviet com mandant of Berlin said in an interview with the Commun ist newspaper Neues Deutsch- land that four-power agree ments gave the western pow ers only a temporary right to occupy West Berlin. Maj. Gen. P. A. Dibrova, commandant of the Soviet sec tor from 1952 to 1956, said the Soviet proposal to give West Berlin the status of a free city would not only free Berliners "from sabotage, di versionist and war propa ganda centers' but also from western occupation, troops. The Communist propaganda campaign was meeting firm resistance, and the 12,000 American, British and French troops were under orders to shoot back if Soviet or East German troops invaded the western sectors of the city.' Festival Fund Hears Half Nark Ashland - The Shakespear-. ean Festival fund is now ap proaching the half-way majk, according to a fund drive of ficial following the report luncheon in Ashland today noon. Goal for the money-raising venture for reconstruction of the festival theater structure is $275,000. A total of $38, 829.09 has been collected so far, according to reports made at the report meeting in the fund raising headquarters to day. Previous total was $32,- 143.09, it was reported. Medford is to hold its re port luncheon at the Red Cross building Wednesday noon. Clarence BelL was high man in the Ashland men's di vision with $703 collected and Mrs. Harry Skerry, Ashland, was high woman in the wom an's division with $1,465 col lected. Total that the men's division has raised is $19,641. Total for the women's group is $19,188.09. France to the brink of civil war. Former premiers and cabinet ministers were dumped in wholesale lots. -Elected a parliament in which De Gaulle was ensured of a crushing majority backed by the rightwing and military elements who raised him to eminence in a near-revolution last May. This was the third straight massive confidence vote for De Gaulle in two months. He is expected to get an even bigger edge on Dec. 21 when 100,000 "grand electors" meet to name a president with greater powers than modern France has known. De Gaulle is the overwhelming favorite. i
