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I Divided Berlin Has Different May Day Demonstrations Berlin - (CPO - Divided Ber lin held rival May Day demonstrations today. Goose-stepping Communist troops paraded in East Berlin at a rally held to demand the Western allies leave the city. A mile away in West Ber lin hundreds of thousands of West Berliners gathered at the Platz Der Republic to show their determination to remain free. They heard an American pledge to stand by them. Contrast Shown The two rallies showed the contrast between East and West Berlin. One was a peace ful demonstration by people who attended voluntarily. The Communist rally was a mili tary display which East Ger mans were forced to attend. The appearance of the well disciplined Communist soldiers was seen as a sign of the danger West Berlin would face if the Soviet plan is adopted to make West Berlin a so-called demilitarized "free city." Such a move would place West Berlin at the mercy of ' these 110,000 troops, and th i 300,000 Soviet troops in sur rounding territory, Western officials said. Guns in Parade Communist infantry, air men and sailors marched for 30 minutes past a reviewing stand holding Chinese Communist Defense Minister Peng Te-huai and East Ger man Communist leader Walter Ulbricht. Mobile anti-tank guns, amphibious vehicles, armed cars and mobile anti aircraft guns were in the pa rade. A Communist announcer said the ' anti-tank guns "will protect our air space against encroachments." The United States and Russia are now embroiled in a dispute over high-level U.S. flights to Ber lin. Said Flagrant Violation Western officials denounc ed the parade as a flagrant violation of four-power laws banning such military demon strations in Berlin. Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers Union, told the people of West Berlin the American people stand firmly with them in de fense of "our common free dom." Reuther, in a German lan guage speech, said Berlin was the testing ground for free dom of all peoples being chal lenged by Soviet tyranny. LESSON FOR AMATEURS Chatham, England (UPD - A do-it-yourself tenant in a pub lic housing project figured he'd save quite a bit by sweep ing his own chimney. It cost him $14.60 - the wages of four men required to retrieve the brush he lost in the flue. CAE 218 Stf. Central BUSINESS MACHINES Mtdford, Oregon TRADE-IN SALE MIMEOGRAPHS PHOTOCOPY SPIRIT DUPLICATORS CASH REGISTERS Many Other Items All Pr:csd to Go Reconditioned and Guaranteed Come In and Look Them Over or Call SP 3-4895. Priced Extra Low April 27 Thru May 9 6 MAIL TRIBUNL Madforf, Or. Friday, May 1, 1959 Egg Producers Caught in Worst Plight Since 1937 Washington --(UPD- American consumers are enjoying cheap eggs. But egg producers are caught in their worst depres sion since the 1930s. . Some poultrymen are so desperate they have come to Washington to demand gov ernment action to boost egg prices and save them from bankruptcy. Lowest Since 1937 A price report issued at the Agriculture Department Thursday gave these statis tics: Farmers in mid-April averaged 28.1 cents a dozen for eggs. That's a drop of 10.4 cents, or 27 per cent, from a year ago. Measured against feed costs, egg prices were the lowest on record for April except in 1937. What this means, in human problems-was related by poul try farmers to a House Agri culture subcommittee Thurs day at the start of a two-day inquiry into depressed broil er and egg prices. Almost 200 poultry farmers, mostly from New Jersey, showed up to testify and listen. The farmers' proposals in cluded (1) expanded govern ment buying of eggs: (2) gov ernment purchase and slaugh ter of hens to reduce produc tion; and (3) government pro duction controls with a guar anteed fair price. Little Hope for Action They got little hope for drastic government action from Hermon I. Miller, Agri culture Department poultry chief. Some farmers groaned at his testimony and applaud ed needling "questions asked by Democrats. , Miller said outlets for gov ernment purchases of eggs were limited. The government already has bought 36 million dozen in dried form since Oc tober and is still buying. Government purchase and slaughter of 15 million hens wouldn't even cut production to last year's level, he said, and what would the govfarn- ment do with the poultry meat? DISDAINS ROCKING CHAIR Montreal - (DTD - D. A. (Bud) Raymond, 66, retired after 47 years with a telegraph com pany and said he can hardly wait to get back to the hobby he abandoned several years ago because he was too busy. It's mountain climbing. THE P(G) I?IEIPILE . :. . At JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL, the most important people are their SUCCESSFUL SAVERS. In fact that's why Jackson County Federal's savers ARE successful savers. The. Jackson County Federal people give them the service and attention their investment deserves. From the time you first open your account when, a saving spe cialist helps. you decide which saving plan will help you reach your saving goal fastest . . . you get the special attention that makes the difference between an ordinary savings account . . . and one of Jackson County Federal's SUCCESSFUL savings accounts. IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHERE YbU SAVE! IAT10N SAVINGS 1 126 East Main LOAN ASSOC I10 Medford Eft tSXj I IN PARIS Secretary of State Christian Herter waves on his arrival in Paris to confer with President de Gaulle in advance of the meeting with Russia at Geneva. Herter said he is confident that the Western powers will go to the May 11 Geneva conference with unity and firmness of purpose. At right is U.S. Ambassador to France Amory Houghton. Pensions Major Block in Talks On Rubber Strike Akron, Ohio -(DPD-v Pessi mism was the prevailing note today as negotiations contin ued in efforts to solve con tract disputes which idle 59,- 000 employees of .the B. F. Goodrich, Firestone .Tire and Rubber Co. and the U. S. Rub ber Co. Z. S. Buckmaster, president of the United Rubber Work ers Union, said that pensions are the common major block in the talks with Firestone in Cleveland, Goodrich in Can ton, Ohio, and U. S. Rubber Co. in New York. Pensions, insurance, work ing conditions and supple mental unemployment bene fits are involved in the dis cussions. Wages are a separate issue to be discussed late this summer. "A long as they (the com panies) act like, they have been acting, I can't see any settlement," said Buckmaster. "All three have indicated they, will settle on basically the same contract we signed with Goodyear. That is not accept able to us." Buckmaster explained that the URW was rejecting settle ment on the Goodyear pattern because of variations in con ditions involved with other companies. Company spokesmen report ed that inventories of tires and rubber gopds were still holding up well. Guilty Man's Kin Found in Contempt - Portland - (DPD -" An ex Marine was found in contempt of court Thursday for threat ening witnesses after a Fed eral Court jury last month re turned a guilty bank robbery verdict against his brother-in-law. : Federal Judge GUs Solomon set June 15 for sentencing John Goss Jr., and continued him on $100 bail. George Juba, assistant U. S. attorney, said witnesses heard Goss approach three women bank employees and make threatening gestures after a jury returned a verdict of guilty against Albert Clement for the holdup 0f the Hills dale branch of the Multnomah bank last December. The women testified against Cle ments. . Deep Hole in Yard Puzzles Couple Alhambra, Calif .- (UPD -Mrs. William Meyers found what she thought was a small hole in the backyard of the home Thursday where she and her husband and daughter Denise have lived for five years. She poked a stick into the hole and the stick fell away. She dropped stones into the hole, but it didn't' seem as though they ever hit bottom. A police, crew finally drop ped a fishing line with a sink er attached down the.hole'. . . 10 feet, 50feet,75feet It final ly hit bottom at 109 feet. Mrs. Meyers and her hus band say they don't have the slightest idea of what the hole was once used for but they intend to lock up the yard until they fill the hole up. SPORTSMAN DIES Mobile, Ala. - (UPD - Frank Lewis Leatherbury, 57, noted sportsman and shipping exe cutive, died Wednesday. SHOE SPECIALS Men's Dress Shoes Values to $12.95. Not all sizes but all outstanding buys $(o) (Q) pr. WOMEN'S Dress Shoes-Val. to 13.95 and a good assortment of Girls Dressy Flats mm $E00 ts pr. Buster Brown Shoe Store 15 South Central Fluhrer Building U.S. To Attempt To Retrieve Mice Sent Info Orbit Vandenberg AFB, Calif. -(UPD-A colony of black mice, specially - bred to withstand the rigors of space travel, will arrive here within two weeks for the first U.S. effort to place animals into orbit in an earth satellite and recover them alive. United Press International learned that four of the sturdy mice will be inside the Dis coverer III satellite when it is blasted into orbit'1 sometime after the middle of the month from this West Coast missile base about 170 miles north of Los Angeles. . To Snag Capsule The Air Force will attempt to recover the animals alive when they are ejected from the satellite in a space cap sule similar to the one ejected' last month by Discovered n. That capsule was never found. Attempts will be made to snag the mice-containing cap sule in midair over the Pa cific Ocean somewhere' near Hawaii by airplanes equipped with large net-like , fixtures trailing behind them. The mice will ride back to earth in a 35-pound capsule about two by three feet in dimension dangling from a parachute, and are expected to provide important informa tion on hazards man will face when he invades space.. Bred as Special Strain The mice-a dozen or more -will be flown here from Hol loman Air Force Base, N.M., where they were bred as a special strain. They have been conditioned to, withstand the tremendous forces exerted by gravity dur ing the high-speed launching of a rocket and to quickly ad just to new situations. The U.S. previously blasted into space four animals-three mice and a monkey. All perished. Roads Department Finishes Grading County roads department crews 'have completed grad ing Evans creek rd. near the junction of Meadows rd., ac cording to Paul Rynning, county engineer. He reported that grading was also com pleted on the West Evans creek rd. section near Maze creek. Some equipment has been moved to Hiatt rd. in the Howard-Prairie section, Rynn ing said, but wet weather has stopped any work in that area. A small bridge ons Reese Creek rd. over Hog creek in the Eagle Point area had been completed and work is under way on a 63-foot wooden span bridge over Yale creek off Little Applegate, the engineer explained. ' Postman's Good Deed Turns Into Trtuble Denver (UPD Warren A. Adams, a postman, tried to do a good turn Thursday., He picked up a baseball that got away from two high school boys playing catch. He threw it. The boys ducked. The ball smashed a plate glass window in George, W. Rucker's drug store. 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