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Newspaper Page Textsly Sabiiceol Budget . Lv V A 1 w .... K .y,4W.., -wmmwi" i r. PHOMOTE PROJECT Members of Girl for several months. Members (from left to Scout Troop 198, Griffin Creek, have been right) are Maureen McNeil, Carole Leon, planting bulbs and "beautifying" the area Shirley Romanchuk, Karen Hugdahl (with near Kennedy's Union Service Station on shovel), Pamela Hampton, Lorraine Le South Riverside ave. as their part of the Faive, Sharon Hugdahl, Chris Killmgsworth "Make Medford Beautiful" program. The and Teresa Merritt. Standing at left is the troop has been busy working on the plots troop leader, Mrs. Richard Foy. . . Mikoyan in Angry Verbal Exchange on Issues of Cold War Washington (DPD Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan's sweetness-and-light visit to the United States blew up today in an angry exchange of cold war charges with the government. Mikoyan declared in a Na tional Press Club speech that the U. S. is completely rigid In its "cold war .position." "We all realize that the cold war is the prelude-or may be the prelude to a hot war," he said. Angry Exchange The Kremlin's second in command made the- state ments following an angry ex change with the State De partment. Mikoyan said after a 45 minute meeting with C. Doug las Dillon, undersecretary ;of state for economic affairs that the State Department is con ducting a "cold war" that af fects world trade." The department immediate ly issued an equally angry retort that Mikoyan was abusing U. S. hospitality by making "fatuous" remarks about the government. Mikoyan broadened his charges in his Press club speech. He said the U. S., with the apparent backing of its allies, remains unwilling to reach agreement with the Soviet Union on cold war jssues. Americans Want Peace The Soviet leader said on the eve of his return to Mos cow that talks with Ameri cans generally led him to be lieve the country wants peace. But, he said, the gov ernment "still remains on the old cold war position." He said his talks with Presi dent Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other U. S. officials were "pleasant, friendly - and use ful exchanges." But "when it came to con crete, specific matters, it was Indicated that the bipartisan policy, shared by the allies, remains unchanged," Mikoy an said. State March Attack Made Portland-Donald Ostensoe, state March of Dimes chair man, answered an attack on the National Foundation by a local weekly , labor publica tion as "completely opposite to the national AFL-CIO en dorsement of the organiza tion, based on falsehoods and nartial information and de liberately planned during January to hurt the March of Dimes." , ' He answered the editorial appearing in the Oregon La bor Press, an independent publication serving the Mult nomah AFL-CIO, saying, "This assumes serious pro portions in that it jeopardizes the total program of the Foun dation in this state and was deliberately planted for this purpose." . - Opportunity Welcomed George Meany, president of AFL-CIO wrote all affiliates last November, , "The AFL CIO again welcomes the op portunity to endorse the 1959 March of Dimes campaign. We are happy that we have been able to participate in a program which has resulted in such decided victories over a crippling disease that trou bled mankind through the ages. The March of Dimes has not only made available polio protection for our nation's school children; it has pro vided and continues to pro-, " "Let us hope," he said, "and those who believe in God pray, that neither our country nor your country will suffer from a new war that would be more terrible than anything in history." Mikoyan obviously was up set by the refusal of Dillon to offer' concessions on the issue of U. S.-Soviet trade, which Mikoyan wants to in crease. He emerged from Dillon's office and told newsmen that "the cold war in the State Department is still going on and it affects foreign trade. Aufo Fire Believed Caused by Gas Thief An automobile was de stroyed by fire Saturday night on Dead Indian rd. 'ap proximately one half mile from Highway 66 after a thief apparently tried , to siphon gasoline from the car's gas tank, state police report. , The car was operated by Mrs. Alonzo E. Alexander, 33 Front St., Medford, when the vehicle stalled. She walked to the house of a friend to sum mon help and upon returning discovered the car in flames. Police said that a five-gallon gas can and remains of a piece of garden hose . were found near the vehicle. The fire apparently broke out while the gas was being taken and the thief fled, they theo rized. Also reported discov ered in the area was a fresh cigar wrapper. The burning car was first reported to Ashland city po lice by Richard Freese, 19, of Roseburg, who was visiting a friend at Southern Oregon college. Ashland police noti fied state police officers. Washington - (UPB -The General Service Administra tion has signed a deed trans ferring the Yamhill lock and surrounding property to Yam hill county, Ore.', for recrea tional purposes. of Dimes Head Answers by Oregon vide millions of dollars in pa tient care to union members and their families stricken with polio." Ostensoe said, "Certainly, no informe dperson'could call the polio threat 'conquered' with more than 40 million Americans under 40 years of age still not having had a sin gle shot of the Salk vaccine. There have been nowhere near enough people vaccinat ed to prevent recurrence of such epidemics as that in De troit last year." Ostensoe pointed out that virtually all the independent health agencies, with the ex ception of heart and cancer, came to the National Founda tion asking help with their campaigns and organization. Nationally the State Gover nors in convention passed a unanimous resolution appeal ing to The National Founda tion not to disband its chapter organization of hundreds of thousands of volunteers, but rather attack other major un met health needs for the total health and welfare of the na tion. Prolonged Survey "Rather than jump off into a new program based upon emotional consideration, the Foundation conducted a pro longed survey and study in depth to determine whether to continue or disband. Two i mi iiiEmiiiirMiimifflimillirw" Annual Meeting Of YMCA Planned Tuesday Evening Dr. Robert F. Anderson, Sa lem, chairman of the North west Pacific YMCA area board, will be speaker at the annual meeting of the Med ford YMCA tomorrow eve ning. The meeting, including elec tion of directors, will start at 7:30 p.m. with a dessert and social period. The business meeting will start at 8 p.m. with Carl Brophy presiding. Dr. Anderson served pnvari- ous area YMCA committees and in 1954 was a delegate international assembly in Paris? France. 1 - At the meeting Tuesday rec ognition will be given volun teers who have given out standing service to the YMCA. Plaques will be awarded them. . Mrs. Scott Wickersham, sec retary of the YMCA board, is in charge of arrangements. - More than 500 persons at tended the YMCA's open house Sunday, according to R. L. Jones, secretary of the lo cal association. Visitors tour ed the building and watched activities of various Y pro grams. - Music was provided during the afternoon by students of Mrs. Darell Huson and the junior high school music de partment. Dr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson were in charge of the social arrangements. Clifford McGinty is chairman of Y week activities. Light Snow Falling In Several Areas Salem-TOPD-The State High way Department today re ported light snow falling in several areas with heavy snow at Willamette . pass .'and at Meacham between Pendleton and LaGrande. Willamette pass had six inches of new snow and Meacham one. Portland (DPD Army en gineers said a main generating unit at The Dalles dam with an installed capacity of 78, 000 kilowatts has been placed in service. Labor Press major "nationwide studies were made in 1953 and 1954 by the American Institute of Public Opinion at Princeton and the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia university," Ostensoe said. : "The further the studies progressed, the more appar ent became the demand that the National Foundation turn its full strength to patient aid, medical - scientific research and professional education in the fields most closely related to their background, experi ence and personnel. Expansion Announced - "As a result we announced the expansion of our program to include arthritis and rheu matism and birth defects. As the scope , of this problem is known to the public, the pres ent neglect. and the possibili ties through the March of Dimes, I am certain that the public's mandate will be re flected by greater than ever support of the March of Dimes." - Ostensoe reported receiv ing many calls from March of Dimes volunteers, supporters and contributors as well as union people, denouncing the labor paper's statements and emphasizing their continued support of the March of Dimes and its new expanded program. More Thaim By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - President Ei senhower's proposed annual budget for the fiscal year starting next July 1 contains $2,747,788 for continued con struction of irrigation works in the Talent division, Rogue river basin project. This amount will make the project 86 per cent complete, the bureau of reclamation re ported. Reservoirs and collection and delivery canal facilities in the higher eastern portion of t Price 10 Cents Medford 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY .19, 1959 No. 258 Truman Cautions Against decent Crop off Tourists By HARRY S. TRUMAN North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Copyright, 1959, -By Harry S. Truman (Reproduction of this article in whole or in part is forbidden without written authorization.) I hope that the recent crop of diplomatic tourists does not get us into more complications at a time when the free world is trying to find how to deal with the Communist world. Those of our own people whether they travel to Mos cow or whether they have been hosts to Mikoyan here in this country-must ; under stand that they have no re sponsibility for the shaping of American foreign policy. I am particularly disturbed by the eagerness displayed by some of our leading indus trialists and financiers . to shower the visiting Soviet deputy prime minister with solicitous attention and social glamour resulting in pressure on the White House. Considerable Difference There is considerable differ ence between negotiations by governments and the probing by individuals for some kind of a deal. I am all in favor of negotiations-no matter how trying to our patience-with anyone currently in power in Russia, be he Khrushchev, his deputy, or anyone else. We have had many long and exhausting talks with Stalin, Molotov, Gromyko, Bulganin, . Zhukov, Khrush chev and others, but up to now these talks have been futile as far as reaching even a working basis, much less a peaceful accord, with the Two Men Injured In Aufo Accident Two men seriously injured in a traffic, accident near Phoenix Saturday night were reported in good and fair con dition in Rogue Valley hos pital this morning. Injured in the two-vehicle accident were Robert Nail, Camp-U-Rest, Phoenix, and Gary Leroy Straus, box 362, Talent. Nail was reported in fair condition by the attend ing physican. He is suffering from a crushed chest, several broken ribs, a punctured lung, scalp wound and concussion. Straus has a broken arm, multiple cuts and bruises and concussion, the doctor said. State police said Nail was apparently attempting to enter the South Pacific high way to head south when he pulled in front of the car driven by Straus. Straus hit Nail's pickup truck broadside, officers said. Force of the col lision threw Nail into a ditch on the west side of the road. The pavement was slippery from the rain, officers added. Both cars were damaged be yond repair and had to be towed away. A car driven by George Walter Moore, 22 of . 129 Wightman st., Ashland, had halted at the scene of the ac cident as . directed by state police when his car was struck from behind by Charles Lee Skeeters, 62, of Prospect. Skeeters was cited for viola tion of basic rule. the project will be completed. The 16,000 kilowatt Green Springs power plant will be completed and first supple mental irrigation water de livery will begin early in fiscal year 1960, presumably in mid-or late summer of this year. Nearly half of this budget request is to continue con struction on Emigrant dam and related saddle dikes, and to complete relocation of prop erties in its reservoir basin. Active construction of irri gation distribution works will changing figures in the Kremlin. The Kremlin has used all these talks to feed its propaganda- mills. - , Complicating Matters . The situation with regard to the establishment of peace is, in reality, very simple. But the Russians and the Chinese insist on making matters com plicated.: And I must say that our diplomatic tourists and some of our industrial leaders have been of little help in clearing the air. Diplomacy by press interviews, special audiences or fishing " expeditions " can only compound an already complicated situation. (Continued on Page 16) Centennial Events Open in County With Dinner Held First of the county's Ore gon centennial ' celebrations was held at Upper Applegate Grange hall Saturday night. The dinner and dance, plan ned by the Applegate Centen nial committee with the help of seven Applegate valley or ganizations and schools at tracted about 200 persons, in cluding many from Medford and other parts of the county. A group of native sons and daughters attended as honor ed guests. Oldest of these was Caloris (Val) Haskins, 88, who was born near the Applegate in 1871, son of a pioneer couple who crossed the plains in' 1852 by wagon train. Among others honored were his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Clute, Mrs. Mattie Buck, Wal lace Haskins, Medford; Ernest McKee, Jim Winningham, Earl Bostwick, . Leonard Mc Kee, Mrs. Luella McKee Dun nington, Mrs. Floyd MeKee, Mrs. J. W. Bates, Medford, Ray Offenbacher and Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Smith. Robert Sorber, chairman of the Applegate Centennial committee, served tas master of ceremonies and introduced the honored guests. Groups cooperating with the commit tee on the event, and their representatives, were Upper Applegate Extension unit, Mrs. Edna Sawyer; Lower Ap plegate Extension unit, Mrs. Chester Kubli; Applegate Grange, Mrs. Lance Offen bacher ;Ruch school.a Boyd Gibson; Applegate school and Applegate Parent-Teacher as sociation, Mrs. Elizabeth Hen derson; Ruch Parent-Teacher association, Harlan Cantrall. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy with scattered snow flurries in moun tains tonight and Tuesday. Cold er. Low tonight 25. High Tues day 38-40. TEMP. Highest Yesterday . 54 Lowest This Morning 31 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 02 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:08 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:36 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 3.54 a.m. Full Moon Jan. 24 PROMINENT STAR Aldebaran, near the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets 6:02 p.m. Mars, high in southeast . 6:09 p.m. Jupiter, low in southeast Saturn, rises .1 4:51 a.m. 6:17 a.m. $2 TFolleirfl'fi Work proceed on the diversion struc ture for Phoenix canal, re placement of distribution sys tem structures, enlargement of the existing Ashland and East laterals, and construction of a siphon on the West lat eral. Construction of the Talent lateral and of various sub laterals will be initiated in the spring of next year. This year's budget, the President told Congress, con tains no funds to start new projects. He said it contains funds totaling $1.1 billion-an 53rd Year Tribune Bills Introduced For Payment of Jobless Checks Salem (DPD Both the . Oregon House and Senate, acting with record speed, today passed unanimously and sent lo the governor an emergency bill providing stopgap action so the state can pay unemployment and welfare checks. Salem (DPI Two bills were' introduced in the Ore gon House arid Senate today to provide stopgap action so the state can pay unemploy ment checks and other bills. The emergency action was needed until the state Su preme Court decides whether Howard Appling Jr. or Dave O'Hara is the proper secre tary of state. Arguments in the case were set for 2 p.m. today before the court. - . ' ' ' House Speaker Robert Duncan, Medford, said he thought the simplest bill was the one suggested by State Treasurer Sig Unander and Fred' Paulus, deputy state treasurer.' Could Pay Money It was introduced in the House at the request of the Committee on State and Fed eral Affairs and provides that the state treasurer, with legi slative approval, may make advances to the State Public Welfare Commission and the State Unemployment Com pensation Commission to The Medford Salvation Army has offered lo give, assistance to area families who are directly affected by the lack of unemploy ment checks, Capl.' Wil liam Ricken, commanding officer, reported today. Capl. Ricken said that, the local Corps would as sist in the purchase of groceries and in some cases the payment of rent and utilities. He said that the Salvation Army will con tinue aiding these families until compensation checks are mailed by the slate. meet emergency welfare claims and pay unemploy ment checks. There have been no unem ployment checks issued since last Friday morning, the first time such checks have stop ped in the 22-year history of the Commission. Rules Suspended Introduced in the Senate was a bill by Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D-Milwaukie) and Reps. Ed Whelan and Ed Benedict (D-Portland) to pro vide unemployment pay and state employee checks pend ing the secretary of state de cision. The rules were suspended on both emergency bills and they were placed on second reading. Sweetland got together with the House committee on State and Federal Affairs this morning and amended the Unander-Paulus bill so it would run - until March 1 rather than Feb. 1. Washington -(DPD Presi dent Eisenhower said he in tends to ask Congress to au thorize the sale of the federally-owned long-1 ine com munications system in Alaska. Mil all-time high-for reclamation and Army Engineers projects. Over $80 million is listed for dams on the Colba, Snake and Willamette rivers. Bureau of land manage ment access road construction will continue with $5,200,000, most of it for roads on the O&C timberlands. Crater Lake National park roads and trails will be im proved with $91,200. Those of Oregon Caves National monument will be improved with $36,500. Development of the new Fort Clatsop park will start with $105,000. "Anything Special You Recreation Areas On Reservoir Tops Would Prove Costly The large, concrete-covered reservoir on Capital Hill could be used for recreational pur poses if the city was willing to finance proper surfacing, City .Water Superintendent Robert Lee said today. But, he said, it would be impractical to provide con crete lids for the two smaller reservoirs to be covered this spring. Lee announced last week that bids would . be opened Feb. 3 for covering the small er reservoirs with timber frame and aluminum roofing structures. Estimated cost, he said, was $95,000. The covers are being pro vided on a recommendation from the state board of health, Lee said last week. They would assure protection from pollution or such other haz ards as the chrome bombs thrown in one reservoir last spring. They would also stop growth of algae, and reduce the maintenance costs arising from the scrubbing now re quired to keep the reservoirs clean, he explained. They would eliminate as well the future need for replacement of the reservoir lining, which would cost $30,000, Lee added. Too Costly "We considered recreation possibilities of course," Lee said today. But it would cost about $140,000 to provide the two reservoirs with concrete cov ers, he said. He explained that since they were not built with heavy covers in mind, they would have to be reinforced throughout ' before concrete lids could be placed on them. The large reservoir, he said Fire Discovered in , McLoughlin School A fire which started in the furnace room at McLoughlin Junior High school sometime during the week end was still burning in the ceiling when firemen arrived shortly after 6:30 a.m. today. Firemen said that the fire apparently had started in the sawdust hopper. It burned eight 'feet of conveyor belt, extended through the plaster covered ceiling and damaged the joists above in a 6 by 10 foot area. The heating plant was un damaged, according to fire men, who said a janitor dis covered that the fire had occurred. DDU In addition to construction funds for Rogue river recla mation, the budget lists $200,- 000 for rehabilitation and bet terment of existing works, and $78,000 for operation and maintenance. Continued work on improv ing Gold Beach harbor at the mouth of the Rogue will be done with $1,500,000. Funds for forest service roads and trails in national forests were cut $2 million to $24 million. This will mean a reduction from 900 miles of roads being built this year to 720 miles next year. Were Looking For?" last week, was covered with concrete at the time it was constructed, in 1946. Its surface, he explained to day, is rough with wide ex pansion, joints. It would re quire application of a smooth er surfacing before it would be suitable for recreational purposes, he explained. He added that if the addi tional money needed to con struct the concrete covers was used for recreational facilities that would be build directly on the ground, it would pay for an area times the reservoir size. Skating rinks and tennis courts are two uses of reser voir covers in other commun ities. Lee also discussed possible recreation uses for the pro posed reservoirs on Barne burg hill. These reservoirs, on the north slope of the hill, are to be "started from scratch," he said. He explained that if the original planning for these new reservoirs included using their covers for recreation, "We could get recreational facilities at a reasonable cost." DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (DPD Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 594.50, off 1.35; 20 railroads 166.57, off 0.60; 15 utilities 92.42, up 0.24, and 65 stocks 207.70, off 0.35. Sales today were about 3,840,000 shares compared with 4,300,000 Friday. Demos Pick Los Angeles As Site for Convention Los Angeles - Civic and, Committee Feb. 27 in Washv political leaders were jubi lant today over the choice of Los Angeles as the site for the 1960 Democratic National Convention. They expressed hope that the Republicans also would hold their 1960 convention here. The Republican Site Selec tion Committee began meet ings today at Des Moines, Iowa. A Los Angeles delega tion was on hand to make a bid. Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley protested the Demo crats' choice in Los Angeles. He said he would personally appear before the National Higher Gasoline Taxes, Postal Rate Boost Seen Mild Threat of Increase in Taxes Washington -(DPfi- President Eisenhower today sent Con gress a precariously balanced budget of $77,030,000,000 de manding higher federal gas oline taxes and a new hike in postal rates. He requested an increase in gasoline taxes from 3 cents to 4VS cents a gallon and a $350 million boost in postal charges, apparently by instituting a five-cent stamp for some letters. These proposals, combined with higher taxes on aviation fuel and some other tax re visions, would bring in $1, 356,000,000 of new revenue in fiscal year 1960, which starts this July. No tax cuts were proposed. On the contrary, there was a mild threat of more general tax increases, if the Presi dent's goal of achieving a $70 million surplus in the coming year should fade and the gov ernment again goes into the red. The current year's "recession-induced" deficit was estimated at $12,900,000,000. The Democrats accused Eis enhower of submitting a "po litical budget" which has little chance of being bal anced. Republicans stood sol idly behind the President's proposal. Warns of Tax Hike Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson told reporters it "might prove to be neces sary" to consider a general tax hike if the Democratic Congress should fail to give Eisenhower the legislative support he needs to balance the budget, and if business is good. Eisenhower proposed to cut spending by nearly $3,900, 000,000 below this year's fig ure. He held the defense budget at virtually the same level as this year-nearly $41 billion- and ordered big re ductions in outlays for agri culture', foreign aid and hous ing. Again and again In his budget message he called for state and local governments to shoulder more of the costs of services and lessen the bur den on Washington, and for more federal lending func tions to be put in private hands. His chances of keeping the budget balanced appeared slim, however, on the basis of Democratic attitudes in Congress. For example, if Congress failed to approve the postal rate hike alone, it would throw finances into the ' red. Paint Bright Pictures Both Eisenhower and Sec retary Anderson painted bright pictures of the econ omic outlook. "We are now entering a period of national prosperity and high employment," the President said. Anderson said the revenue estimate of $77,100,000,000 for the coming fiscal year was based on the assumption that personal income would climb from $353,500,000,000 in calendar 1958 to. $374 bil lion this year, and that cor porate profits would rise from $36,500,000,000 to $47 billion. On this basis, government income was budgeted to rise $9,100,000,000 over this year, while spending was cut. Budget Director Maurice H. Stans told newsmen the administration delib erately held down the intro duction of new programs in what the President has called "a breather in expansion." (See Stories on Page 10) ington and ask it to over-ride the subcommittee on site selection which gave Los An geles the nod. The subcommittee's choice in the past has always been followed. First in History Holding of the Democratic convention here in 1960 would be the first time in the city's history that a major political party's national con vention met in Los Angeles. Politicians saw it as a symbol of a variety of things, including the possible elec tion of Democratic Gov. Ed mund G. Brown as his party's presidential choice.