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4 Senate Subcommittee Votes To Keep Civil Rights Commission Alive Until Jan., 1961 Washington- (UPD -A Senate subcommittee voted today to keep the Civil Rights Com mission alive at least through Jan. 31, 1961. During the same session, the subcommittee on constitu tional rights killed an already watered-down civil rights bill which would have allowed federal aid grants to com munities whose schools were being integrated. The action followed weeks of controversy and delays caused by the absence of members. . , , Legislation Expected Approval of the Rights Commission extension was seen as assurance that some kind of civil rights legislation will come out of the sub committee during this session. Des Moines Polio Outbreak Spreads; Vaccine Use Low Des Moines, Iowa (UPD i pensed vaccine in the last few Health officials feared today that Des Moines' polio epide mic, the first in the nation ( this year, would spread throughout the state because of public apathy toward in oculation. Des Moines, Iowa's capital city, and surrounding Polk county have had 69 polio cases this year. Three of the patients have died. One hundred chapters of the National Foundation in Iowa were alerted to battle the disease and Salk polio vac cine was shipped to all but three of the state'' s 99 counties. Not Responding Doctors pleaded with resi . dents to get inoculations but said people in general, and teen-agers- in particular, were not responding well. Dr. James F. Speers, the city-county health director here, said he "wouldn't be a bit surprised if the epidemic sweeps across the state." . - "Iowa has a very poor vac cination record," he said. , Speers said Des Moines, with about one-tenth of the , state's population, has used half the public health-dis- Festival Tickets Available Here And in Ashland Branch ticket agencies in 20 Oregon cities and San Francisco have been estab lished for the Ashland Shakespearean Festival, ac cording to General Manager William Patton-Medford resi dents may purchase tickets at Mann's Department store or at the festival's central box office in Ashland. Centennial visitors and in terest in the new stage have resulted in a 63 per cent in crease in advance ticket sales, Patton said. Tickets for two of this sea son's added attractions are also available through the branch agencies. Folk song artist Richard Dyer - Bennet will appear on Aug. 4, 6,' and 7 at the Varsity theatre. The Ballet Celeste of San Francisco will make its sec ond Ashland appearance from Aug. 8 through 15. Two dif ferent programs, alternating daily, will be presented at the Ashland junior high school The 40-night season will open July 28 with "Twelfth Night" and its prologue "Masque of the New World." Following will be "King John," "Measure for Meas ure," and "Antony and Cleo patra." - - ' The four programs will ro tate nightly through Sept. 5. MADRID PUPULATION UP Madrid - (UPD - Metropolitan Madrid officially has moved past the two million mark in population, making it the sixth largest city in Europe. Officials Wednesday cel ebrated the event by heaping awards and honors on five-day-old Ana Isabel Sainz de Cueto y Torres, who, after a careful check of records, was named the capital city's two millionth citizen. i FREE PARKING years. Health officials Tuesday of ficially termed the outbreak an epidemic, and the U.S. Public Health Service's com municable diseases laboratory at Atlanta, Ga., said the epi demic here was the first "real outbreak" in the nation this year. Special Nurses Asked Fifteen iron lungs were sent to the city by the National Foundation. The organization asked the Red Cross to pro vide 16. special nurses to handle the patients in the crowded polio wards. Thursday a National Guard truck, converted into a "hos pital on wheels," sped a Des Moines patient confined to an iron lung to Iowa City under police escort. Officials said university hospitals in Iowa City had better facilities to care for the patient, Mrs. Betty Wesley, 27. The spread of the disease slackened this week, but Speers said "it's too early to predict that we may have hit our peak.' "Polio sometimes eases and then flares up again," he said. Sen. Thomas C. Hennings Jr., chairman of the group, told newsmen he planned an ef fort to tack other provisions onto the extension measure. The vote on extension was 4-3. The federal grant mea sure sponsored by Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-I1L) was voted down by the same margin. The subcommittee already had stripped the Douglas measure of a section that would have allowed the at torney general to seek court orders to protect individual rights. Other congressional news: Contracts: Adm. Arthur W. Radford (ret.), former chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that if there is in fluence peddling by former military officers now in de fense work it is "very small." Radford appeared before a House armed services subcom mittee studying complaints that too many retired military men and former government officials . now are employed by defense contractors. "Influence as influence is very small, but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist," Radford said. Retired officers have far less influence than is generally thought, he added. Food for peace: Sen. Stuart Symington (D-MoJ spoke up again in support of a "food for peace" plan that would allow sale of surplus Ameri can commodities abroad. He told a Senate foreign relations subcommittee studying the plan: "It seems incredible that we have $9 billion worth of surplus food stored all over the United States and yet 80 per cent of the people in the world go to bed hungry." The "Food for peace" measure is sponsored by Symington and Sen. Hubert p. Humphrey (D-Minn.;. Gasoline tax: The House Ways and Means Committee called in administration of ficials to outline the needs veto. of the interstate highway pro gram. Some congressional leaders apparently have soft ened their attitude toward President Eisenhower's re quest for a lVfc-cent boost in gasoline taxes to finance road construction. Democratic leaders emphat ically rejected this proposal. But in recent weeks some highly-placed Democrats have been pushing a compromise which would raise the gas tax one-half cent a gallon until July 1, 1960, and divert into the highway trust fund, from which the superhighway net work is financed, taxes on highway users which now go to the Treasury. Administration o f f i c i als have taken a dim view of this compromise. GOP congress ional leaders said earlier this week that the administration was considering several al ternatives to Eisenhower's pro posed tax hike. Rackets: The Senate Rackets Committee questions a colored truck driver about charges that Teamsters President James R. Hoffa tried to block him and other Negroes from getting long-distance hauling jobs. The committee also called trucking company ex ecutives to look into allega tions that Hoffa made secret, cut-rate wage pacts for his union members with favored firms.. . Housing: The AFL-CIO urged Congress today to over ride President Eisenhower's veto of the housing bill. In identical letters to every sen ator, AFL-CIO President George Meany described the President's action as "ill-con ceived and ill-advised." He said the scaled-down, compro mise . bill was "modest and moderate." Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson conceded that Democrats could not rally enough votes in the House to nullify the Body of Woman Found in Auto; Mate Questioned Fresno, Calif. (UPD Police today questioned the husband of a mother of two children whose decomposed body was found stuffed in the trunk of the family car. The body of Mrs. Mary Jean Prestridge, 27, clad only in a brassiere, was found late Thursday in the car parked in Inglewood, Calif., in Los Angeles county, 200 miles south of here. Her sweater and red capri pants were found in the front of the car. Police said it appeared she had been beaten on the head, but they said the body was so badly decomposed that it was not possible immediately to determine cause of death. It was estimated her body was in the trunk since July 4. Thought Visiting The victim's husband, John, 33, a truck driver, told Ingle wood police who came here to question him that his. wife left the family home July 3, He said he did not report her missing because he believed she was staying with relatives in Southern California. Officers said gasoline credit card receipts found in the car and dated July 3 were signed "John Prestridge" but did not match the husband's hand writing. - Fresno detectives said Mrs. Prestridge was seen talking to a young' man last Friday nigh't in her grandfather's bar on the outskirts of the city. Gas station attendants on the highway to Southern Cali fornia were to be interviewed to see if they could describe the man who signed rthe receipts. The United States consum ed 212,073,384 gallons of dis tilled spirits during 1957, a decrease of 1.5 per cent from 1956 SIDEWALK BABY FINE New York-(UPD-Mrs. Betty Kasmin, 30, and the 6Vi-pound daughter born to her on the sidewalk in front of her home were reported in fine condi-1 tion today at Columbus Hos pita. Mrs. Kasmin was return ing from a visit to her obste trician and about to enter her home when she became aware that the birth was im minent. Her cry was heard by a public health nurse, Mar ion Klaus, who assisted in de livering the healthy infant. Ashland Boy Injured In Incident Thursday Ashland-Mark Pittman, 4, of 897iHillview dr., was re ported in satisfactory condi tion today at Ashland General hospital after being struck by a car yesterday afternoon. Young Pittman, according to Ashland police, was struck by a car operated, by Morris Crawford Berry, 66, of Rose burg on Highway 99 about a mile south of the Highway 66 junction. Berry was not cited, police said. According to the report, Pittman and his 7-year-old brother Ridge Lee Pittman started across the highway on their way to a store. The younger boy ran ahead, police recounted, and was struck by Berry's car. The boy suffered a frac tured left leg and minor cuts and bruises, according to the report. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medferd, Or. Friday, July 10, 1959 3 ELDERLY COUPLE MARRY Memphis, Tenn.-(UPD-Willie D. Jeffries, 65, and Mrs. Fran ces Pilcher, 74, who met while patients in Shelby County Hospital, were married here Wednesday. "What's so un usual about getting married at 65," demanded Jeffries. "We can get around just as well as anybody else." Jeff ries entered the hospital in October, 1956, and Mrs. Pil cher arrived in August, 1957. UNBELIEVABLE BARGAINS STOKE .'WIDE!! . Sale Tables Located on 1st Floor Balcony 2nd Floor Doors Open 9 a.m. Daily No Lay-Aways "Come Early Get First Choice We believe a sale shouid have genuine bargains. 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