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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.
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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
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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.
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- The Management
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Extra 5 1,
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Only Sale Items and Only
This Week
Sale Starts Saturday, July 11th
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