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i ? i : ; i i - MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wtdiiasday, July 8, 1959 Lyndon Johnson Plans To Seek New Housing Bill Washington -OB- Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson indicated today he will press for passage of a new housing bill whether Congress tries to override President Eisenhower's veto or not. The Texas Democrat told newsmen he and appropriate committee members are ex ploring "what we can do to get houses built." "I think that's what the people want," he said. Sparkman Aski Action ,-: Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.) who directed the Sen ate fight for the vetoed bill, ' called for Senate action to override. He predicted that a vote would be close. Chances oi winning ap- : peared dim in the Senate and much dimmer in the House. A two-thirds vote is needed in both chambers to enact a bill disapproved by the President. Eisenhower sent his veto of the $1,375,000,000 housing bill to the Senate Tuesday and et off a political debate. He said the measure was extrav- " agant, inflationary, would substitute government spend ing for private investment, put needless restrictions on . the Federal Housing Adminis- t r a t i o n and discriminated against some cities. The President urged Con gress to enact a housing bill based on six recommendations he submitted last winter. Deplores Aitirud Johnson deplored what he called the President's "all or nothing attitude" and said Congress was being told it must accept the administra tion program without change. Both he and Sparkman said Congress had gone a long way . to meet administration - de mands on housing. The Senate passed the final version of the housing bill by a 58-31 vote. Unless the Senate upsets the veto, no House action will be needed. The House passed the bill by a 241-177 vote, far short of a two-thirds majority. Chamber Division To Meet July 9 The special prospects di vision of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" pro gram will start its work at a 7:30 ajn. breakfast kickoff meeting tomorrow at the Jack son hotel. About 40 local busi ness leaders are expected to attend and to receive those assignments that they may choose to take. The assignments are part of the expansion program to re- vitalize and refinance the chamber of commerce. The series of classified busi ness group conferences were scheduled to conclude at 3 p.m. today with a meeting of the diversified group. Bob. Taylor, general chah man, said the group meetings have been "exceedingly well attended." Interest has been manifested in plans for the future of the area, he said, and a great deal of construc tive comment has been heard. All those attending the meetings have been asked to forward their written sugges tions to the chamber so that they may be incorporated in the final drafting of the pro gram to keep pace -with to morrow. assy r. 3 Timts Faster Ralitf Ctrtidtd laboratory tots prow BELL-ANS tak tcts Murrains J tints as audi stsnata acidity in em minute as aany Icadini digestrre taiitts. . 6 it BELL-ANS today fer the fastest known relief. 35 at droit ists. Send postal to BELL ANS, Oramtura, N. Y. far liberal free tan si a. July 10 J(r " xii (fiftm-Mmmmmmmmm m i im f'Lliil LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU This firefighter, trying to put down the forest fire near Sierraville, Calif., is unaware that even his shovel handle is ablaze. The fire, which destroyed more than 10,000 acres of prime timber, is believed to be just about , under control. Powder Puffers Continue To Land Spokane, Wash.-. filPD -More pilots in the 13th annual Powder Puff derby were ex pected to land here today to join 27 others who have com pleted the grueling flight from Lawrence, Mass. Twenty-three of the pilots landed Tuesday alter cover ing the 2,470 miles of the all woman transcontinental air derby that began Saturday. A, purse of $2,500 for the pilots logging the best time against a personal handicap will be distributed .Thursday after all planes have landed and computations made. Derby officials said 35 planes had not yet arrived. The Federai Aviation Agency said 14 of them were in Helena, Mont., the last stop before the 275-air-mile dash to the finish line here. . A 250-horsepower Beach- craft Bonanza K35,' plane 4, piloted by Margaret Ray Ring- enberg, . and co-piloted by Lois M. Laymonn, both from Fort Wayne, Ind., was the first to land at the finish Sun day morning. . . - Not long after dawn Mon day, three more powder puff ers landed the last to arrive before the swarm of 23 land ed. Bob Hope Planning . Golf in Scotland Londbn-(UPD-Comedian Bob Hope arrived in London by air from New York City to day en route to the Scottish highlands. "I am hitting the highlands for a couple of weeks to get down to some serious golf," he said at London Airport. jRJP USING TROWEL wielded by George Washington when first cornerstone of Capitol was laid in 1793, President Eisenhower spreads mortar for new cornerstone at East front of Capitol, now being extensively remodeled. "My Secret Life for the FBI by Joseph Poskonka - .. For 15 years this Union worker and his family were abused by former friends and neighbors because he was an active Communist. Now he reveals his true role as a spy for the U.S. Gov ernment. Don't miss his exciting story starting in the 12 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE far- arg Castro Will Fight Land Reform Foes With Death Penalty Havana -UPD- Premier Fidel Castro's revolutionary regime was armed with the death pen alty today for a major on slaught against opposition to his land reforn program. Revolutionary tribu nals, which have condemned hundreds of Cubans to firing squads since Jan. 1, were re ported ready to resume their work in Pinar Del Rio prov ince. Governors To Discuss Water Sacramento,. Calif. OIPD Three western governors meet here Thursday to discuss a way to provide more water and power fo. Calif onia. The discussions will be among' Govs. Albert Rosellini of Washington, Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Edmund G. Brown of California. They will take up proposals to transmit low cost power from the federally owned Bon neville Power Administration in the Northwest and receive it in California, possibly through Shasta Dam. . California has appropriated $70,000 for a study of the three-state common carrier ar rangement. The system appar ently would eliminate a pro posed contract between the Bonne v i 1 1 e Administration and the Pacific Gas and Elec tric Co. Pinar Del Rio, at the ex treme western end of the is land, is a hotbed of opposition to Castro's campaign to slice up large farms and dole out acreage to the peasants. Armed bands have been re ported building up strength in the Organ Mountains of the province to overthrow Castro The Castro regime Tuesday decreed the death penalty for "crimes which damage the na tional economy or the public treasury," and for treason, subversion and wartime es pionage. . "Counter - revolutionary ac tivities" such as armed revolt or the "commission of crimes on behalf of the Batista dicta torship" already were punish able by death. Fundamental Law Castro has proclaimed the land reform as the "fundamen tal law" of his revolution and has defied every effort to slow it down or modify it. Conservative members of his cabinet who tried it were ousted. At least 11 '.'counter-revolu tionaries," one of them a wom an, await trial in Pinar Del Rio. Whether the new death penalty decree would still the opposition or goad it into vio lent reaction remained to be seen. Pinar De Rio tobacco farmers have vowed to battle to the death for their holdings Woman Hurt When Vehicle Turns Over Pauline Nora LaPlane, sec retary to the Central Labor council here, was injured ear ly this morning when her car rolled over in front of Harry and David's Bear Creek or chards on the South Pacific highway, state police re ported. . , The 48-year-old woman re fused aid from the Medford Ambulance Service or medi cal attention and was taken to her home at 2326 Sunny view lane, Medford, police said. She suffered a severe bump on her forehead, it was reported. Mrs. LaPlane told officers that she was driving south on South Pacific highway and could -have fallen asleep at the wheel. She remembered her car swerving over on the lawn in front of Harry arid David's. She was unconscious when found by a passing or chardist who called the state police. Tropical Storm Found in Atlantic Miami -(DPD-Tropical storm Cindy, tracked by Navy hurri cane hunter planes and herald ed by storm warnings on the Carolina coast, churned with growing strength through the Atlantic today. Weathermen said it might become a hurri cane during the day. Cindy, third tropical storm of the hurricane season, cen tered about 180 miles east of Charleston, S.C., and packed winds of 60 to 70 miles per hour. , t The U.S. Weather Bureau here warned that "a slow in crease in intensity is indicated, probably reaching hurricane force (above 75 m.pJi.) during Wednesday." , The storm was discovered late Tuesday about 150 miles east of Charleston. Bering Strait, the western entrance to the Arctic ocean, is only 49 miles wide and less than 300 feet deep. AFS Student Writes Across Atlantic to Finland Miss Carolyn Mencke, Med- ford High school student, who is spending the summer in Finland as an American Friends Service exchange stu dent, writes to her parents that she enjoyed the trip across the Atlantic very much, is being "treated like a queen" and loves everything in Fin land "but the curdled milk." Cotton Planting Up 28 Per Cent From Last Year Washington -(UPD-The Agri culture Department reported today that farmers planted 15,890,000 acres of cotton this year, up 28 per cent from last year. The department is forbid den by law from making an estimate of cotton production until later in the season. But if yields average 400 pounds to the acre, the planted acre age would produce 12,000,000 bales. $466 Pounds Average Last year farmers produced 11,512,000 bales from 12,379, 000. acres planted. Of this, 11,849,000 acres were har vested. Yields last year averaged 466 pounds an acre. The 10 year average was 317 pounds an acre. The 1959 cotton acreage al lotments total 17,327,830 acres. Last year, about five million acres were in the acre age reserve of the soil bank. There is no acreage reserve this year. California Plantings Up In California, estimated planting for 1959 was 900,000 acres compared with 750,000 acres in 1958. For Arizona, 1959 acreage was 390,000 compared with 386,000 in 1958. Nevada had 3,500 acres in 1959 and 3,200 in 1958. In cluded in the estimates were 30,000 acres of American Egyptian cotton in Arizona, and 400 acres in California. Reno Officials Discuss Strike Reno-(UPD-Mayor Bud Ba ker and City Councilmen George A. Carr have'met with both sides in the 10-day -old American Newspaper' Guild strike againse Reno Newspa pers, Inc. . The mayor and city coun cilman got together with the Guild's negotiating commit tee Tuesday morning to hear the strikers' side of the walk out. Then, the city officials clos eted themselves with execu tives of the firm, which pub lishes the Reno Evening Ga zette and Nevada State Jour nal, during the afternoon hours. Baker made no immediate suggestions to either side al though he has offered to serve as an impartial media tor in an effort to find a com mon meeting ground for the two sides in the dispute. So far, both newspap'ers have published on schedule despite refusal by union printers to cross Guild picket lines around the downtown newspaper plant. ' Mack-Whileside Jury Reconvenes Washington -(DPD- A federal court jury resumed delibera-' tions today in the marathon Mack- Whiteside conspiracy case. The jury quit Tuesday night I because Joseph R. Carroll, 65, j one of its members whose ill-1 ness caused a long delay in j the case, was unable to work i overtime. ! Before going back into ses-! sion at 9 ajn. today the jury i had sought for a total of 12 V2 hours to reach a verdict. The government sought to prove that former Communi cations Commissioner Rich ard A. Mack and his lawyer friend, Thurman A. Whitesite, conspired to fix the television channel 10 award at Miami, Fla. 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Miss Mencke left here June 12 and sailed from New York aboard the S.S. Ziiiderkruis. In letters received, by her par ents she wrote: There are 752 kids on board -288 are going to "Germany and 57 to Finland. At meals we sit by countries and learn the names of foods, etc. The waiters are Indonesian-about five feet tall and very dark skinned. They don't speak English, so the meals are quit-j interesting. There are many "neat" ac tivities, such as various tour naments, a' choir, movies, a dance every night, costume party, talent show and com munity sings. We have two classes a day - language, and orientation plus forums on such topics as foreign policy, education and customs in the country we're going to, the Berlin crisis, integration, etc. There is one Negro on board. She is cute, very intel ligent and liked and respected by all. She had a lot of good ideas on the problem of inte gration, and one of the chap erones from Germany .told us about the inside story on the Berlin crisis. I took part in Vespers Sun- day, giving a short talk on I the chapter on love , in Corin thians. July 2, Kurikka, Finland: It was certainly exciting to dock. There was a big banner that said, "Welcome to you in Holland" and a band playing. Just about everyone was cry ing when they played "The Star Spangled Banner." i One of the first things I no ticed in Rotterdam was the cobblestone streets and the number of bicycles. I immedi ately fell in love with the city. It is one of many con trasts. The area that was bombed is all new and very modern. Then the older part is so quaint and picturesque. belter a gold mine . Your Jackson County Federal savings account is BETTER than a gold mine. Your savings account is always there -growing steadily-to pro vide you and your family with all the things that make a good life. You'll LIKE saving at Jackson County Federal. The friendly Jackson County Federal people are always ready to serve you . . . and to give you helpful tips about saving. And-of course-J ACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL pays you MORE to save. OUR CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE IS savings deposited by JULY 10 earn from JULY 1 of Trip The streets were lined with trees and usually bright flowers in, the -center. There were a lot of open markets, especially flower stands. We left Rotterdam by train, but their trains are not as nice as ours. I got about three hours sleep. At 5 a jn. we got on a beautiful ferry to get to Denmark and then took a train to Copenhagen, a ferry to Sweden, a train to Stock holm, boat to Turku, Finland and train to Helsinki, where my family met ' me with a beautiful . bunch of roses: . At each change the girls got off first, and then the boys threw the suit cases .out the windows. We carried them, usually running, to th'e, next train, where the boys tnrew the lueeaee in the windows. Then we got on and the boys sorted the luggage by passing the baes from person to per son, yelling the name, and you grab it as it goes by. Holland is just as I had imagined it, but even more quaint. Every inch of ground is under cultivation - sone plots only ten square feet. The houses are brick and have steep roofs, sometimes thatch ed. The windmills were pretty and I especially loved the churches. Denmark was much the same, the fields a little larger. All the houses are well kept, with hedges around them and with ruffled curtains and flowers in the windows. Likes Sweden The countryside in Sweden is gorgeous, the most like home I've seen. Stockholm is very much like our cities. There were lots of pastry, and candy shops, and they serve' a lot of bread: We had a day there. The ferry trip from Sweden to Finland was beautiful. The water is full of islands cov ered with evergreens, and there was bright pink light all along the horizon. It was still dusk at midnight. The sun than . . 72 sets at about 10:30 cm, andi rises at 2:30 a.m., and it never I gets really dark. We came by car from Hel-i sinki to Kurikka. The roads; are very bad, the highway about like the road used to be to Lake of the Woods. When we went through Tam pere, Marjo, my "sister" here, said, "There are many Com munists here. I don't like." I know I'm not seeing the typical Finland, as my family is very wealthy. You can see from the enclosed pictures of their home. They have a cook and a young girl who gleans. They have the latests clothes -mohair and bulky sweaters, very pointed shoes, and ex tremely short skirts with lots of petticoats. They have a '59 model car, a sports car, motor boat, cottage with sauna (steam bath) on the river and a swimming pool in their back yard. Marjo's father speaks very good English and is very nice. He's been to New York and mentioned Portland as the City of Roses. Trip By Boat ' We went in their motor boat to the cottage about a mile up the river yesterday. We swam and lay in the sun. We went to sauna and then jumped into the river three times. I loved it. We went to an American movie last night. They use Finnish sub titles. Almost all NOW OPEN The Brand New Modern PHOENIX MOTEL Phoenix, Oregon 21 UNITS AIR CONDITIONED KITCHENETTES CERAMIC TILE TUBS AND SHOWERS SOUND PROOF WALLS ' SOME ROOMS WITH PHONE Mr. and Mrs. Hans Skiaerlund, Owners and Mamg i sssisssslll per annum SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOC Sim 1404 126 East Main -Medford the music you bpar Is American. I" love Marjo and all the Luhtalas. She is tiny, real cute and so much fun., They' have treated me like a'queen. Every time I. turn around they are serving delicious food. We have tea,' coffee, sweet rolls and breads and fruit at 10:00 and 3:00 plus the three regu lar . meals. The only thing I haven't liked is the curdled milk. Most Finns are very fond of it, but Marjo admits she doesn't like it. ask for Blue -m m . IMIJUUII WUttf MALT EXTRACT ITS PURE tha added touch of perfection BEAUTIFUL VALLEY VIEWS KE 5-1555 9" l ATION I WIT EXTRACT I I j-tT ill if I
