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Salance 3ll,UJjl JLi II M i i 1. j. CRASH CAUSE SOUGHT The mock-up of scene of the crash, near Bolivia, N.C., to the National Airlines DC-6B begins to take seek the cause of the disaster. The section shape at Wilmington, N.C., as civil arec- shown here is near the center of the air- nautics board officials piece together the craft where the passengers were seated, various sections of the fuselage found at the (UPI Telephoto) Congress mhe Gas Washington -(ITU- Lawmak era agreed today that Con gress won't raise gasoline taxes, boost postage rates or approve some of the spending cutbacks requested by Presi dent Eisenhower in his new budget. But Republicans and some Democrats said the President had handed the GOP a good campaign issue by making the unpopular proposals that Congress won't accept in an election year. Refusal of the legislators to approve Eisenhower's re More Than 2 Million German Soldiers Said Still Munich, Germany - (LTD - For millions of Germans, the most terrible war in history is still going on nearly 15 years after it supposedly end ed. These are the parents, wives and children of more thai! 2,000,000 German soldiers who vanished without trace during the war. The soldiers were not re ported dead. They were not reported missing in action. They simply disappeared. The German Red Cross has the names and descriptions of 1,000.219 soldiers who failed to return home at war's end. More than 1,000,000 others remain anonymous, men sim ply reported missing. Thousands of Letters The Red Cross receives thousands of letters a year from relatives who still live In hope that their loved ones will come back. But officials say there ' is little hope that more than a few of them are even alive. Many relatives, the Red Cross says, accept the grim probability that -their loved ones are dead, but they want to know at least how they died. The majority of the sol diers. Red Cross officials in Munich think, disappeared during the bitter fighting on the Russian front in 1944 and 1943. In the battle of Stalingrad alone, they point out, the Ger man Sixth Army lost an esti mated 700,000 men - 200,000 killed, 500,000 captured. Many of the dead were never identified and most of those taken prisoner were Garden of the Angels 1 At Hillcrest Memorial Park we. have designed the Garden of the Angels for only infant burials. This garden is perpetually cared for to insure year around lLLrjESTPABK J of Military Power inn Hot Expected To Taxes, MaoD Kates quests would melt away much of the $4,200,000,000 surplus he envisioned for the fiscal year starting July 1. As a result, the Republicans probably will be accusing the Democratic - controlled Con gress next fall of wrecking chances for the 1961 tax cut for which the President held out hope. Democrats, of course, are hoping to make political hay of their refusal to go along with Eisenhower's recommen dations to pare some federal spending on housing, veter- Missing shipped to labor camps in the Soviet. Union, never to be heard from again. Between 1953 and 1955, Russia released over 20,000 former German soldiers under various repatriation agree ments. At that time, Germany claimed the Soviet Union still held up to 500,000 more. The Red Cross believes to day, though, there is no hope that large numbers of Ger mans will return from Rus sia. Officials say there is no evidence to indicate that very many of the still-missing sol diers are alive in Russia. The only survivors, the Red Cross believes, may be a few who married Russian women after the war or some who hid from the Russians and later adopted Soviet citizenship. Thousands more of the vanished soldiers are thought to have died during the fierce fighting in Normandy in 1944. The Red Cross operates a special tracing service in Munich. When returnees come back - they are still trickling in - they are asked to study the service files to see if they have any knowl edge of the missing soldiers. Several thousand German wives of missing servicemen have since remarried and it still happens occasionally that a soldier returns to find his wife wed to someone else. These cases are rare, ac cording to the Red Cross. But German law provides for this problem. The woman may de cides if she would rather live with her first husband or her second. ans, water pollution, farm conservation, Hospital con struction, and aid to schools near military installations. But some Democrats fear the President's budget will help the Republicans. "We'll have all the special interests demanding that we reject the Eisenhower budget proposals that hurt them," One Democrat said. "Then, when we do, we'll have members of their groups criticizing us for spending the surplus." "Politically, the new bud get is excellent," one Repub lican said privately. "It holds out hope for a tax cut next year if if the Democratic Congress does a lot of things we know it's not going to do. The recommended boost in gasoline taxes and postage rates won't hurt Republicans because it won't happen. Be sides, Republicans running for office don't have to en dorse it." - i See No Postal Boost Simply by taking no action at all on Eisenhower's plea for a penny boost in the cost of mailing a letter and for cancellation of scheduled re ductions in telephone and travel taxes, Congress would eliminate $1,100,000,000 of the projected budget surplus; Legislators agreed that postal rates would not be boosted and many members said it was doubtful that Con gress would rescind the sched uled July 1 cuts in communi cations and transportation levies. Eisenhower's tax program also called for extension for another year of the higher taxes levied during the Kor ean war on corporation prof its, liquor ahd cigarettes. But Congress is certain to go along with him on that. Oregon Demos Laud Budgeted Funds for Green Peter Dam Washington-(DPD-Three Ore gon Democrats today praised with reservations, the admin istration's decision to request $1,400,000 to start construc tion of the proposed Green Peter dam in fiscal 1961. Senate Group -Reviews Nation's Defense Posture Washington - (UPD - Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. told Congress today that the "clear balance" of military power is "heavily in our fa vor" despite a Soviet edge in long-range missiles. "There is no deterrent gap," Gates said in testimony pre pared for delivery behind closed doors before the Senate Armed Services Committee. A non-secret version of his pre pared statement was made available by the committee. With the secretary's appear ance, the Senate committee launched its annual review of the nation's defense posture. As he testified in the Senate, a House appropriation sub committee made public a cen sored version of testimony given last week by Gates and Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Says Attack Unlikely Some of the secretary's comments before the two com mittees were identical. They included Gates' blunt assur ance that "the impression in some quarters that the Soviet Union has overtaken or even outdistanced the United States in military power is simply not supported by the facts." "It is the conclusion of those who have analyzed this mat ter that even a surprise attack by all the missiles the Soviet could muster would not suf fice to destroy enough of our retaliatory striking forces to make a rational decision to attack," Gates said in his tes timony before both groups. Stronger Forces in Korea In a related development, Army Secretary Wilber M. Snicker said the U.S. may strengthen its forces in South Korea in line with a long list of needs set forth by Gen. Carter B. Magruder, U.S. com mander there. Returning from a three week tour of the Far East, Brucker also reaffirmed his denial of any change in U.S. nolicv for defense of the Chi- " ., . T-l J- f nese JNauonaiisi ismuua Quemoy and Matsu. Expect Conflicting Testimony Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D Wash.) proposed when the Senate hearing opened that Congress seek the critical views of Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, retired Army chief of staff. Jackson, a Washington Democrat, is a member of 4"ie Senate Armed Services Com mittee which began an in quiry into the defense and space policies of the Eisen hower administration. Testimony was certain to be the subject of conflicting stands in the forthcoming presidential campaign. OCEAN DEPTH San Francisco-The average depth of the Pacific ocean is about 15,180 feet. Its total area is computed to be in ex cess of 70 million square miles. "Constant hammering away by the Oregon delegation and state interests has finally done some good," Sen. Richard L. Neuberger said. Inclusion of the item in the budget was an "important vic tory in the seven-year fight to crack the administration's embargo on new starts in the Northwest," he added. Said Inadequate Sen. Wayne Morse said he was pleased that "during an election year the Eisenhower administration has at long last recognized, though inade ly, the importance of this highly meritorious project." Rep. Charles O. Porter said it was "about time the admin istration recognized the great economic importance of start ing this dam." But in addition to citing the Oregon Democrats' efforts on behalf of Green Peter, Porter also credited the state's Re publican governor, Mark Hat field, with an assist. Salem-fflPB-Gov. Mark Hat field said today he was pleased that President Eisenhower had requested $1,400,000 to start Green Peter dam in Ore gon. The request was contained in the president's budget mes sage. Hatfield said that while each Oregon project for which money was recommended was important "perhaps none ex ceeds the start for Green Peter as a sharp realization by the national administration that this is an investment in Ore gon's future." u.s. MEDFORD Rogue Valley Edition Industrials Stock Market Lower New York-OiPD-Blue chip industrials pulled the stock market into lower ground again today. The list has declined in 10 of the 12 trading sessions of the new year. A number of issues outside those used in the averages showed some good gains. Coca-Cola jumped more than 5 points in response to the news of a dividend increase. North American Aviation and Haveg both tacked on around 2, while Brunswick-Balke and American Machine & Foun dry rose 2 and 1, respectively. DuPont was the big factor in the decline in the indus trial average. It fell more than 6 points. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (UP - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 645.07, off 8.79; 20 railroads 155.06, off 1.60; 15 utilities 86.43, off 0.22, and 65 stocks 212.26, off 2.32. Sales today were about 3,100.000 shares com pared wilh 3,020,000 shares Monday. Today's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical .... 109 Alum. Co. Am 96 American Can (xd) 4314 American Motors . 86 Va AT&T 823a Anaconda Copper 64, Armco Steel 69 Bendix Aviation 69 Bethlehem Steel 52 4 Boeing Air 30 3,e Caterpillar Corp. 31 Chrysler Corp 62' Continental Can .. 43 g Crown -Zelllerbach 50 Curtiss Wright 28 'g Dow Chemical 93 ',a Du Pont , ..243 Eastman Kodak 10034 Firestone . .. 13534 General Electric . .. 90U General Foods - 102 ?4 General Motors 50 ?a Georgia Pacific . 48 ' Graham Paige .. 31, Greyhound 2l Gulf Oil il 33 i Homes take Mining . . 41 ?4 Idaho Power 473; I. B. M ..,425 Int. Paper 123 3.4 Johns Manville 46 sa Kaiser Ind. ... 14 34 Katy t 6 i Kennecott Copper . .. 95 Lockheed Aircraft 2894 Montana Power Co ". 23 Montgomery Ward 49 New York Central . .. 29 3a Pao Gas & Elec . r33i Penney, J. C 117 Richfield Oil .. 77 Safeway 36 14 Sears ... 48 Shell Oil . 40 i Socony Mobil Oil . 40 ATTENT I 0WNERs ... ye Can 1 . VOJ SCHEU Favor, leffisinis , Secretary TRIBUNE Page 2 Pull Southern Co 39 7 a Southern Pacific . 22 ' Standard California 46 'i Standard Indiana 403i Standard N. J. . 47 Sun Mines 6?i Texas Co 78 Texas Gulf Sulfur 18 Tex Pac Land Trust 18 Transamerica 263i Trans World Air 185s Tri-Continental 36 Union Carbide 141 Union' Pacific .. 2934 United Aircraft 39 34 United Air Lines ... 30 U. S. Rubber 58 U. S. Steel : 93 U Youngstown S & T 125 i Giant Dikes Being Built To Divert Onrushing Kapoho, Hawaii-OJPD-Work- men began building two giant dikes early today in a grim race to keep a river of molten lava from destroying Kapoho. Giant bulldozers went to work on the eerie glow of Puna's lava fountains shortly after Gov. William Quinn de clared the district a "major disaster area" and cabled President Eiseshower for fed eral emergency funds. The dike-building was un der the supervision of Dr. Gordon MacDonakT, who di rected the valiant but futile Grants Pass Pilot Killed in Spain Torre j on, Spain-OIPD-Tlie U.S. Air r orce today an nounced that 1st Lt. Arthur F., Hewick, 29, of Grants Pass, Ore., was killed whjn his F-86 jet fighter crashed near here Monday. Fishermen Reminded Of Portland Hearing Portland - (UPD - The State Game Commission reminded fishermen today that; it will conduct a final public hearing on 1960 sports angling regu lations here Friday in its local offices starting at 10 a.m. Final regulations will be Set after the hearing. PRODUCT LOCAL AGENT - SOUTHERN OREGON SALES INC. IPIMMIE SIP 2-6244 Eisenhower Supports EM To Preserve Seashore Areas . By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special)-Presi-dent Eisenhower made an ap peal to congress Monday for legislation to preserve some of the nation's scenic shore lines within the national park system. . .. Without mentioning the Oregon dunes or any other coastal area recommended by the park service, the presi dent told congress in his an nual budget message: "Before it is too late we should take steps to preserve, for public benefit, part of the Lava effort to save nearby Warm Springs resort Monday. 20 Feet High MacDonald said he would build one earth barrier 1,500 feet long and a second barrier 1,000 feet long. They will be 20 feet high and 50 wide. The dikes will be used to divert a giant river of lava which threatens this village, beach houses at Puna, and other populated areas. Quinn made his plea to Ei senhower Monday night after a two-hour inspection tour of the stricken area. He said the lava flow, which is 30 feet deep in some sections, has covered 180 acres of farm land. "It has fanned out like pie, ahd each time it encount ers an Obstacle it sends out a finger of lava," the govern or said. "We're concerned about those fingers-off-shoots that could head toward pop ulated areas." Trees Ingited The Volcano Monday burst through 2,000-foot-long earth dikes hastily constructed to protect the Warm Springs area, site of many South Sea Movies, and molten rock ig nited trees and picnic tables neat the cluster . of warm pools. There were no reports of injuries but damage was esti mated at more than $500,000. TO by combining your orders SCHEIT PRODUCTS COMPANY Hl-IG To Medford District at F.O.B. Upland. California, prices (This Offer Good for Limited Time Only) remaining undeveloped shore. areas. I hope, therefore, that! the congress will enact during this session the legislation proposed in the last session to permit the secretary of the interior to select and acquire the national park system three areas which would be of national significance be cause of their outstanding natural and scenic features, recreational advantages and other public values." The bill Eisenhower re ferred to was introduced by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) at the request of the interior department. Neuber ger and Rep. Charles O. Por ter (D-Ore.) are sponsors of! another bill specifically au- thorizing Oregon Dunes Na- j tional seashore. Hearings on this measure were held in Oregon last fall. Government Bans Use of Pesticide Washington - (I'PD The government today banned use of a pesticide widely used on most food and some feed crops after it was found to leave residues of a poisonous chemical byproduct on the crops. The Food and Drum Admin istration forbade farmers to use the pesticide Heptachlor and a product produced through the weathering pro cess called Heptachlor - Ep oxide. The potent pesticide is used on about 34 fruits and vegetables - including apples, pears, and potatoes - and six or seven forage crops. The FDA said its action was based on new evidence that Heptachlor-Epoxide has been found on crops treated with Heptachlor. The new data also showed, according to the FDA, that residues of the ep oxide also appears in meat and milk when meat and dairy animals have been fed forage crops treated with Heptachlor. Salem - (UPD - Mrs. Elmer Berg, Salem, has filed for delegate " from the 1st -congressional district to the Dem ocratic national convention next July in Los Angeles. T.G ROWERS! will deliver ORCHARD HI EATERS IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ON HEATERS AND PARTS S COMPANY Says This was the chief execu tive's first personal appeal for creation of these new coastal parks. Sec. of Interior Fred A. 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