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Regional Edition Me United Press International Full Leased Wir .:16 Pages READERS CONFER President Eisenhower The two leaders renewed their pledge to and West German Chancellor Konrad Ade- continue efforts for peaceful reunification auer are shown as they discussed reunifica- of the divided country, tion of Germany at the White House today. (UPI Telephoto) jjfte, Adenauer Reaffirm ledge To Reunite - Washington (UPI President Eteenhower and West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade- lBuer reaffirmed today their pledge to reunite Germany in freedom and peace. They also agreed that any future decision on Germany must provide for "the preser vation of the freedom of the people of West Berlin, and their right el self-determina tion." Cwsique Issued 4 joint communique was is sued by the White House after th Chancellor and President, flaatod by their top policy aiviwrs, conferred for almost tve lours on Berlin, Ger miny, disarmament and strat g? tbp the East-West summit ntinf in May. 3inuer told newsmen Harvard that he was "high ly satisfied" with the talks. H replied with an unquali fied "je" when asked if he flt the western allies would sttnd firm on Berlin. Cil- Pac Requests Stock Sale Permit Salem - (UPD - California Pacific Utilities company has made applications with the state for permission to issue and sell 40,000 shares of $5 par value common stock to assist in financing its 1960 construction program. Cal - Pac, which provides electric, gas and telephone service to eastern and south ern Oregon, originally filed with the California Public Utility commission. Approval also is being sought from Idaho, Wyoming, Utah and Arizona. ':. Shares offered to the public would go at about $20 each, fhecompany said. Democratic Women fo Form Organization ""Democratic party women of the Rogue valley have been invited to attend a "koffee kiatch" at the home of Mrs. Robert Duncan, 1500 Terrace dc Medford, at 8 p.m. Wednesday. 'Purpose of the meeting is to form a Democratic women's organization. Registrars will bepresent and those who are not registered are encouraged to. do so. Republican Party Offers More Serious rThe Republican party, too, is exceedingly concerned with getting as many voters regis tered as possible," Joseph D. Walsh, chairman of the Jack son county Republican Cen tral committee," said today. -"However, we of the Re publican party do not believe maximum voter registration can! best be achieved by en gaging in peanut throwing parties," he added. Walsh said the Jackson county Republicans make a serious challenge to the Jack son County Democratic Cen tral committee and Jackson county Democrats, generally, to produce a larger percentage of registered voters on pri mary election day, May 20. "Such a contest, we believe, 54th Year DFOKD -'" ' -; " -'"; '' u zS ' 1 The communique said Ade nauer and the President "had a pleasant and fruitful ex change of views on a number of subjects of mutual inter est." These included current Human Rights Group To Meet Thursday The Medford Human Riehts Council will meet at 8:30 D.m. Thursday. March 17. at the First Methodist church. Main and Laurel sts.. Medford. it was announced today. The council, which was formed last summer bv inter ested persons from the valley to promote understanding and fight discrimination un der Oregon's civil rights laws, nas the backing of many groups and organizations in this area. Current Drohlems. as well as future aims, will be discussed at the meeting. Representa tives of interested church groups and service organiza tions, as well as individuals who would like to become ac quainted with the Human Rights Council and its pur poses, are invited to attend. Fines, Bail To Be Increased in Medford Persons arrested under Medford's laws and ordi nances will have their fines or bail increased by $1, effec tive April 1. The increase was ordered by Municipal Judge Alan B. Holmes, who said the increased fine will help cover court costs of each case. He ordered the increase af ter an opinion from City At torney Joel Reeder which said court costs are legal under the city charter. All fines, except those levied for parking meter violations, will automatically increase. Registrars To Be of Public Library Residents may register to vote at the Public Library of Medford and Jackson county Mondays and Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., accord ing to Omar Bacon, librarian. The registration will be done by both Republicans and Democrats, it was explained. Challenge will best produce the desired results of political activity and the prize will be the satis factory reward of a good job well done," Walsh said. The Republican chairman said he made the statement to answer a letter by K. C. (Swede) Wernmark. Central Point, in which he challenged the Republicans to a registra tion contest with certain pen alties for the losers. Leaders of the Jackson county Demo crats will eat peanuts thrown to them by Republicans if they fail to register more par ty members than the Republi cans, Wernmark had offered. If the Democrats do register more, then the Republicans will do the eating. The losers were also to host the winners at a public steak dinner. MEDFORD, Germany disarmament negotiations in Geneva, problems of Ger many, including Berlin, and "East-West relations in gen eral," the communique said. Freedom First "The President and the Chancellor," it said "reaffirm ed their determination to con tinue their efforts to achieve the reunification of Germany in peace and freedom. "They further agreed that the preservation of the free dom of the people of West Berlin, and their right of self determination, must underlie any future agreement affect ing the city." Hope Running Out For Trapped Miners Logan, W. Va. (UPD Hope virtually ran out today for 18 coal miners trapped seven days in the fire-swept tunnels of Holden No." 22 mine of Island Creek Coal Co. Heroic rescue teams, .bat tling around the clock against fumes and debris, met bitter disappointment this morning when they fought their way into two areas where engi neers believed the missing men may have barricaded themselves against the fire, heat and killing carbon mon oxide. They found no trace of the victims, except four abandon ed lunch pails. Panhandle Area Due Snow Storm By United Press International A hesitating snow storm switched signals in the South west today. As a result, harried fore casters cancelled heavy snow warnings for the lower Mis souri and lower Ohio valleys and hoisted them for the Okla homa Panhandle and much of Kansas. The Weather Bureau at Chicago said the storm would dump four inches or more of snow on the Central Plains during the next 24 hours. Residents of the hard - hit Blue Ridge Mountain section of southwestern Virginia were warned to brace for a new five-inch snowfall by tonight. $345,000 Released For Work at Adair Washington -(UPD-Air Force headquarters today released $345,000 for construction of facilities at its Camp Adair, Ore., facility, Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) said. The money is for construc tion of an airmen's dormitory, a dining hall and utilities. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable clou diness tonight. Partly cloudy Wednesday. Low tonight 28-30. High Wednesday near 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday S3 Lowest this Morning 33 Free, to 10 a.m. Today 03 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 0:18 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:22 a.m. Moonrise tonight 9:15 p.m. Last Quarter March 19 VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, rises 2:38 a.m. Saturn, rises 3:41 a.m. Mars, rises 5:26 a.m. Venus, rises 5:51 a.m. (Jupiter and Saturn ire now nearly stationary among the stars) YS? 0i tf MY fCyXX fl OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1960 Wor Proposed by U Body Would Be Within UN Framework Proposal Made at Disarmament Talks Geneva-(UPD - The United States called today for estab lishing of an international po lice force within the United Nations framework to pre serve world peace after na tional arms and armies are slashed. Frederick M. Eaton, U. S. delegation chief, made the proposal at the opening ses sion of a 10-nation disarma ment conference. The controlled Soviet press rejected as "dim" and "in comprehensible" a bold, cheat-proof arms plan offered by five western nations. To Supplement Plan The American proposal was designed to supplement this three-stage disarmament plan, presented earlier to the East West nations meeting for the first time in nearly three years to break a 15-year dis armament deadlock. "There must come into be ing, as national armaments diminish, an international force within the framework of the United Nations to pre serve the peace," Eaton said. He said it must be "a force to ensure that the seeds of conflict do not mature to the point where small nations less enr' wed with the elements of national power, or even large nations, would be threat ened by a more powerful and more highly organized state." Viewpoint Emphasized Eaton once more emhasized the western viewpoint that "there shall be no disarma ment without commensurate inspection." Eaton outlined the western three-stage plan and empha sized that arms money saved could be used for underde veloped nations. But he warn ed that the U. S. will main tain its strength until an East-West arms pact goes into effect. Gradual Scrapping The program called for gradual scrapping not only of national armies and conven tional weapons but also of outer space satellites, nuclear rockets and other terrifying modern means of mass de struction. It set no time limit on this. It countered the Soviet plan for complete worldwide disarmament within four years. The West has criticized this as unrealistically rapid and lacking in necessary step-by-step controls. Sacramento, Calif - (UPD -Former middleweight boxing champion Carl (Bobo) Olson has been banned indefinitely from boxing in California be cause he failed to appear for a San Francisco fight. "Tomorrow Morning, Sunny Praise Fidel With Rain In Afternoon Damn Those Americans " . I . I l m - t-v Tribune 4 rote Jobs Increase To February Record Washington-(UPD-The number of Americans holding jobs last month increased to a February record of 64,520,000 while unemployment dipped slightly below four million, the government announced today. Employment jumped by an even 500,000 to reach a new monthly peak more than one million above the previous February high reached in 1957. Reversing the usual Febru ary trend, unemployment de clined by 218,000 to 3,931,000 last month. The gain in employment exceeded the drop in jobless ness because many newcom ers entered the labor force in February. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, announcing the new figures, said the nation's job picture showed continued improvement last month. Lowest Figure The decline in unemploy ment pushed the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate down to 4.8 per cent the lowest figure since October, 1957, before the 1957-1958 re cession began. It was the first time, except for May, 7959, that this key figure has been below 5 per cent since the prerecession days. Phoenix District Sets Election May 2 The new Phoenix adminis trative school district which includes the former Wagner Creek, Talent and Phoenix districts, will hold an election May 2 for seven district direc tors, it was decided during last night's school board meeting. The new administrative unit becomes effective July 1. Of the seven, school board members to be elected, three directors will represent the three zones of Talent and Wagner Creek and four from Phoenix zones, according to School Superintendent Ernest James. Directors will serve terms according to the number of votes received, with the per son receiving the highest number of votes serving a five-year term. The next will serve four years, next two board members, three years, one member two years and the remaining two will serve one year, James explained. Vaey Shade Company Broken Into Last Night Burglers broke into the Valley Shade company, 307 North Bartlett st., last night, according to Medford police, and took a "small" amount of money. Police said entry was gained through a rear door, which was opened by breaking a window and unlatching it from the inside. It is not yet known if anything besides money was taken, police said. Price United Press International Full Leased Wire Fre Ashland School Board Accepts Resignations Ashland The Ashland school board last night accept ed resignations of four teach ers, approved contracts for two new teachers and approv ed issuance of contracts for three others. Resignations include that of Brooks Carpenter, Lincoln Elementary school principal, who has accepted a position with the department of edu cation at the University of Idaho. Others resigning were John Grubb, sixth grade teacher at Bellview school; Mrs. Carroll Maurer, second grade at Walker school, and Mrs. Ruth Wood, fourth grade at Walker. Contracts were approved for Juan Swendener, who will teach Spanish at the new jun ior high school next year, and Mrs. Lois Kamberg, who will instruct seventh grade lan guage arts at the new school. The board agreed to issue contracts for Mrs. Marie Die bel, special education; Mrs. Judith Paulsen, second grade at Walker, and Mrs. Ida Burns, ninth grade typing at the new junior high. ' Four more teachers are needed for the new school, Superintendent Stanley Jobe said today. Instructors are needed for ninth grade Eng lish, home economics, indus trial arts and ninth grade algebra. Dag Polls UN on French Test Debate United Nations, N.Y.-flJPD-Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold began polling the 82 members of the United Na tions today on a request by Afro-Asian countries for a General Assembly debate on the French nuclear test pro gram. Twenty-two of the 20 Afro Asian countries asked for the General Assembly session. If Hammarskjold finds that a simple majority of the U.N. membership 42 nations fa vors the move, the Assembly will meet by April 28 to hold the debate. Veteran diplomats doubted the additional 20 votes could be picked up. They noted that neither east nor west is inter ested in bringing up such is sues so close to the summit meeting. Ike Plans To Ask Sugar Authority Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower plans to ask Con gress for discretionary author ity under which he could change sugar import quotas, including sugar from Cuba, Republican congress ional leaders reported at the White House today. Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirkson of Illinois said the new authority for the Presi dent would not be aimed at any particular country but be designed primarily to assure the nation of adequate sugar supplies. The President has made it plain in the past that he would not favor economic re prisals against Cuba despite Premier Fidel Castro's anti American outbursts. Washington-(UPD-The Eisen hower administration has re newed its plea to Congress to eliminate the interest ceiling on government bonds. 3n 10 Cents No. 302 Postal Inspectors Murdered; Mail Thieves Sought Undercover Men Killed in Chicago ' Chicago - (UPD - Police and government agents conducted separate investigations today into the killing of two under cover postal inspectors by a gang of mail thieves. Three suspects were seized shortly after the shooting Monday night but witnesses were unable to identify them as the three men who killed John McAuliffe, 36, and Ben Spizzirri, 42, the inspectors. Gang Arrested McAullife and Spizzirri were shot to death as they arrested the gang for stealing five bags of government mail from a nearby freight house. The inspectors, dressed as laborers, had been working on odd jobs around railroad freight yards while keeping a watch for mail thieves. Lid of Secrecy The government immediate ly clamped a lid of secrecy on the shooting. "We'll handle this our selves," Jerome Williamson, chief postal inspector for the Chicago area, told city police. Williamson said he had been ordered by Washington to con duct an independent investi gation and give Chicago police no information. For their part, Chicago po lice theorized the gang was familiar with local mail op erations and, in fact, might have been Post Office Depart ment employees stealing the mail they were paid to de liver. Nez Perce Dam Permit Sought Seattle-(UPD-Application for a licence to build the Nez Perce power and flood control project on-the Middle Snake river will be filed this week with the Federal Power Com' mission by the Washington Public Power Supply System. The system is a joint operat ing agency of 13 Washington public utility districts. Its board of directors met here Monday and instructed Owen Hurd, Kennewick, man aging director, to submit the application. The Nez Perce site is three miles downstream from the proposed Mountain Sheep project of the Pacific North west Power Co., a combine of four private power compa nies. FPC hearings on the Mountain Sheep application open March 21. House Defeats Civil Rights Move Washington-(UPD-The House today defeated 138-95 an at tempt to cut out the key fea ture of the administration's plan for federal referees to protect Negro voting rights. The action was the first House vote on an amendment to its pending civil rights bill. The main change in the de feated proposal was the elimination of a provision in the administration plan al lowing courts to determine if there was a "pattern" of dis crimination against Negros in voting. - Washington (UPD Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) has accused the Soviet Union of touching off the recent world wide wave of anti-Semitic incidents. Only GOP Candidates for Oregon Motional Committeeman Withdraw Salem-fUPD-The names of the only two candidates for Oregon Republican national committeeman were with drawn Monday in an unusual move. Both Wendell Wyatt, As toria attorney, and John Mer rifield, Portland businessman, dropped out of the race, leav ing no one up for the post in the May 20 primary. Elected at Primary National committeemen and national committeewomen are elected to four-year terms in the primary rather than the general elections. A state party spokesman here said Wyatt and Merri field had not meant to oppose one another, and filed in the rail mk Appointed 1 Snate Salem - (UPD - Hall Stoner Lusk, 76, an Oregon Supreme Court justice for 23 years and a lifelong Democrat, today was named to fill the unex pired Senate term of the late Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.). Gov. Mark Hatfield, in naming the veteran jurist, ended last minute speculation that he might reverse himself and pick the senator's widow, Mrs. Maurine Neuberger, who is the major Democratic can didate for election to the Sen ate. Pressure Admitted The governor admitted he had been under "considerable pressure" to name a Republi can despite a 1953 law which required him to pick a Demo crat. The law still has not been tested in the courts. Lusk, who said he felt in good health despite recent hospital treatment for a skin ailment, plans to leave for Washington, D.C., next week. He will serve until the No vember election. Hatfield said last week that he would not appoint anyone who was an active candidate. But Monday he said he was re-evaluating the situation. The governor said the ap pointment made the primary and general elections a "fair play" affair since all the can didates would be in the state. Ex-Gov. Elmo Smith, publish er of the Albany Democrat Herald, is the top Republican candidate for the May 20 pri mary. Straub Critical Mrs. Neuberger said Hat field made a "good choice." But Democratic State Chair man Robert Straub, Spring field, said "it is truly a disappointment that the gov ernor would make his appoint ment on the basis of political advantage rather than give Maurine Neuberger the honor she deserves." Democrats last week had proposed Mrs. Neuberger for the position. Hatfield will now name a new Supreme Court justice. "The work of the Senate of Korea Police Fire On Riotous Mobs Seoul, Korea (UPD Police fired on riotous mobs protest ing in Masan against the presidential elections which are certain to return Presi dent Syngman Rhee to office for another four years, ac cording to press reports to day. First unofficial reports said at least one person was shot and killed and another seri ously injured. National police headquarters refused to com nu it immediately on the re ports. The rioting erupted in Ma san, about 25 miles from Pu san, a few hours after the polls closed. Ben-Gurion Plans To Continue Talks New York-flJPD-Prime Min ister David Ben-Gurion of Is rael planned to continue a se ries of private, closed meet ings today, but took time off to pursue his hobby of book collecting. Tonight Ben-Gurion was scheduled to meet with lead ers of Bonds for Israel and the United Jewish Appeal. LUNCHEON SPEAKER Ashland Roy Smith of the bureau of labor was schedul ed to address the noon lun cheon meeting of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce at Omar's today. His subject was to have been the bureau's fair employment practices de partment. deadline hours Friday, una ware that both were filing. The action occurred after former Gov. Elmo Smith with drew as a national committee man candidate to file for the U. S. Senate. Write-in Voiei Jackson Thompson, elections director, said the law pro vides that there will be spaces for write-in candidates and that any person may be duly elected if he receives a ma jority of the write-in votes cast. If there are no write-in votes, the state GOP central committee may appoint some one to serve until May, 1964, Thompson said. Robert Mautz, Portland, HALL S. LUSK Gets Unexpired Term (UPI TelepkaU) the United States," Hatfield said, "is essentially law-mak ing. Justice Lusk has devoted 50 years to the law. He it fondly and respectfully called Mr. Wisdom' by those with whom he has worked. He vili be promptly welcomed to th Senate's innermost c l r c 1 where much of the agremen( is hammered out." Can Devote Tiir Hatfield said Lusk's "mint and actions can be dyot4 100 per cent to Senate reijM sibilities during these momei tous times without diversion to campaigning." The gover nor said he hoped Lusk might be in Washington "and t qualified in time to cast tn historic vote on behalf of th civil rights legislation no pending. Neuberger, who was elecUft to the Senate in 1954, di4 last Wednesday after sufftr-o ing a cerebral hemorrhig following recovery from can cer. 0 (Continued oi ?bm Smith 'Approves' Of lusk Choice Albany -(UPD Ex-Gov. EIm Smith, leading Republican candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Sen ate from Oregon, said today he "heartily approved" selec tion of Supreme Court Justice Hall S. Lusk to the interim Senate term. Smith, publisher of the Al bany Democrat - Herald, said "throughout my career of pub lic services in Oregon I have found Judge Lusk to be an outstanding citizen and great jurist. He has well earned the honor of appointment to th United States Senate and I am sure his service will, , always, reflect to the goqd of the state of Oregon." Russian Sailors Reach U. S. Soil- San Francisco - (UPD - Jour Russian sailors who spent 49 days on a disabled landing craft in the Pacific arrived in the United States today and were greeted by a smiling Russian diplomat who planted hearty kisses on each man' cheek. A helicopter lifted the four to San Francisco's Marina Green from the deck of the aircraft carrier Kearsarge, which found the young men adrift on March 6. Anatole Kardashev, second secretary of the Russian Embassy in Washington, said his govern ment was proud of the sail ors and the ordeal they sur- vived. Each man had lost about 30 pounds. present GOP national com mitteeman, has announced his retirement. His term expires the day of the primary. Others Listed Other withdrawals includ ed: Mrs. Maurine Neuberger, Portland, Democratic nation al convention delegate; Byron D. McBride, Beaverton, state senator, (10th district), Dem ocrat; Ed Ackley, Brookings, GOP national convention del egate; Ronald E. Barnick, Salem, GOP conveition del egate; Robert F. Smith, Burns, GOP state . representative, (28th district), and Lorna Johnson Marple, Portland, Democratic state representa tive (7th district).
