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Is United Pi United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Ye MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1955 Price 5c No. 153 Hur it; ward ZJ u NEW STUDENTS. NEW SCHOOL The new Jefferson grade school south of Stewart ave. also opened for the first time today, and the picture above shows a typical registration scene. In the background are Mrs. William L. Mason. 1947 Kings Highway, and Mrs. Ray Mnn, 3600 O'Gara ave., helping to register their chil dren with Mrs. Marion Beeson (right) a veteran teacher in the Medford system who at one' time taught Mrs. Mason. The young sters are, left to right, Douglas Mann, Janise Lynn Mason, who is starting the first grade, little David Mann, and Bobby Mann, anoth er first grader. Jefferson school will be. dedicated at ceremonies later thii year. Brainerd photo) School Enrollment Up 13.3 Per Cent Medford's elementary and jun ior high schools reopened for the 1955-56 school year today, and preliminary registration figures .twnrAil a tuhnnninff 13 3 nor PAnt more students this year than last. The total number of elemen tary students registering this year -was -2,603,.. compared. I to 2,393 last year, an increase of 210 students or 8.8 per cent.' Junior High Up Junior high totals were 1,170, compared to 936 last year, up 234 or 25 per cent. McLoughlin Junior High had 936 students compared to 721 last year; Hed rick Junior High had 44 stu dents. . Tha overall increase of 444 students was more than school authorities had expected, al though they had known the total would -increase - They pointed - out one significant figure the number of sixth, graders last year was 354, compared to 509 first graders this year, resulting in an increase of 163 grade stu dents due to this difference alone. The 163 new students rep resents the equivalent of six classrooms, they pointed out. By Schools By schools, here s the regis tration picture: Jackson school, 575 students, compared to 535 last year. Some transfers are planned t ease ' crowding in this school. Jefferson school, 274 students. This will be increased .through transfers from othar schools. The new Jefferson school can handle about 75 more pupils. Lincoln school, 351 students compared to 369 last year. Roosevelt school, 807 students (including those in the annex at Hedrick Junior High school), J ? J A. nA 1 X 1 cumrea to it last year, an ur Mississippi Opens 'Wolf Whistle' Trial Sumner, Miss. (U.R) The trial of two white men for the "wolf-whistle' murder, of a 14-year-old Negro boy opened to day in a tense -and crowded courtroom of this quiet Missis sippi farming community. The defendants, J W. Milam, 36, and his half-brother, Roy Bryant, 24, appeared confident in the face of charges that could mean death in the Mississippi gas chamber. They were charged with the kidnap-slaying of Em- mett Till, of Chicago, because the boy allegedly insulted Mi lan's wife with a "wolf-whistle. Defense attorney C. Sidney Carlton said Milam and Bryant were "in very good spirits. District Attorney Gerald Cha tham was iassisted in the prose cution by former FBI Agent Robert B. Smith, appointed by Gov. Hugh White because "the people of Mississippi are anxious that justice be done.": crease of 11.5 per cent. Not in cluding the annex, there are 586 students. The annex has eight elementary classrooms with 221 fifth and sixth grad- s. Washineton school. 596 this vear comDared to 765 last year. The decreascis accounted for by the new Jefferson school, s Percentage Changes Percentage changes in the ele mentary grades are. first grade, up 13.1 per cent; second grade, no increase; third grade, up 18 per cent; fourth grade, up 29 per cent; fifth grade, down 1.3 per cent, and sixth grade, down 3 per cent. These first-day figures are pre liminary, and will be adjusted as time goes on and as more students register during the early days of the year. They compare, ;however, to first-day figures last year. Engineers Slate Meeting Tonight . Eric J. Hayf ord of the North west Lift. Slab Company, Inc., will speak on lift slab construc tion at a meeting of the Rogue Valley section of the Profession al Engineers of Oregon at 7 p.m. tonight at the Jackson hotel. , .The lift slab process involves pouring concrete roofs and floors on ground level and raising them into place by hydraulic jacks. The process is' relatively new in construction work. Members also probably will discuss a resolution asking the congressman from this district to submit legislation to enable re-surveys of land throughout the country. Bob Lee, assistant Medford water superintendent and president of the local pro fessional engineers group, said lands have not -been surveyed in this area since between 1850 and 1890, and many sections are uneven. Officers for next year will be nominated tonight. ' Election of officers will be next meeting. Two Forest Areas Reopened to Entry , , ' Forest closures in the : Dead Indian-Greensprings and Butte Falls-Prospect areas have been lifted, Ted Maul, district warden for the state, department of for estry, said today. . i ' The areas now may be entered without permit Entry by per mit only has been allowed dur ing the past two months. " Portland . (U.R) Madame Helene Granitsch, 79, once known as "The Angel of Austria" told police today a man robbed her of $800 in jewels and $10 in currency-at her second-story apartment last night. SCHOOL DEDICATED A crowd estimated at more than ; 1,000 persons yesterday viewed the new E. H. Hedrick Junior High school. A ceremony of dedication was held at 2 p.m. The view above, looking toward the northwest, shows the building and many of the cars of patrons who inspected the school. Some details of the" building are unfinished, but every thing necessary to conduct classes has been done, and the school opened for the first time this morning. The remainder of the work, such as grading, planting and installing some equipment,will be completed within the next few days. The wing at the right of the picture will house fifth and sixth graders from nearby Roosevelt school, and will be known as the Roosevelt Annex. The main section of the building is to the left, , and the roof of the big gymnasium-auditorium can. - be seen at the rear. (Brainerd photo) Veteran School Head Honored at Opening Of New Junior High E. H. Hedrick, long -time sup erintendent of Medford schools who retired this summer, was given a stading ovation during ceremonies Sunday when the new junior high school named for him was dedicated. The bright new school was in spected by a crowd' estimated to be in excess of 1,000 before and after the formal program. Teachers and administrative per sonnel were on hand to answer questions and to show off the building. Tributes Given Tribute to Hedrick, who com pleted 30 years as head of the Medford school system in Aug ust, were given by a number of the speakers during the hour long program. , Dr. Rex Putnam, Salem, state superintendent of public instruc tion, was the main speaker, and declared that Hedrick is "un ique" in Oregon education for both the length and quality of his service to the schools and the community. The common schools of the United States are the only ones of their kind'in""tne" world,' Pu't- nam pointed out, and he said the school system is one of Ameri ca's greatest contributions to progress and civilization. Edward Branchfield, chairman of the school board, presided and music was provided by the Med ford High school band. The invo cation and benediction were pronounced by the Rev. Thomas McCamant, . president of the Medford Ministerial association. Guests Introduced Among the guests introduced were ' present "and former mem bers of the Medford school board, representatives of the American Legion and auxiliary, which presented the U.S. and Oregon flags to the school, and members of the city schools' ad ministrative staff, including Vincent P. Bevis, principal of the new school. In brief remarks, Bevis point ed out that Oregon's schools re cently were listed as the "best in the nation." Medford's schools, he declared, are about the best in Oregon which "makes us the best in the United States and we intend to 'stay that way." 1 Frank Bash of the school board made the official "pre sentation" " of the building to Bevis, giving some of the his tory of the school system herei its growth, and the plans which culminated in the new building. Assembly Rises When Hedrick was introduced by Otto Ewaidsen, another school board member, the entire assembly spontaneously arose for a long, standing tribute to the retired superintendent. Hed rick responded by praising the citizens who over the years have given time and effort in serv ing on the school board. Branchfield acknowledged the gift of new electric scoreboards for the school from Fluhrer's Russia Gives Up ' Finland Naval Base Miscow (U.R) Russia official ly surrendered control - of its Porkkala Naval Base in Finland today, a move that led to a Soviet suggestion the United States give up its oversea bases. The Soviets also signed a 20 year treaty with Finland, pledg ing friendship and mutual aid. Salem (U.R) Mrs. Ruth Hal ley, widow of Eugene Halley, former deputy warden at the Qregon state penitentiary, died here Sunday after a long illness. She was 62. Bakeries, which will be installed soon. He pointed out that some work remains to be done to com plete the ' school, although it opens today with all essentials in readmess. The new building is located on on O-acre plot of ground on East Jackson st. When complet ed, it will have cost more than $1,000,000. . It will serve some 700 or more students, including those in the junior high grades. of seven through nme, as well a fifth and sixth graders from nearby Roosevelt school, which has - more students than it can handle. . School patrons are welcome to visit the new building, and any others in the system, . at any time, school officials have pointed out. ited Fund Drive Opens Today With Kick-p(f: Dinner A dinner meeting to . "kick off" the 1955 United Medford Crusade campaign will be held at the Medford YMCA at 6 p.m. today. The campaign will con tinue until Nov. 7. . Mayor Earl .Miller has pro claimed, the period "United Med ford Crusade Time" in the city, and appealed to residents to de vote time, energy and money to assure the success of the Cru sade. . ' . Mayor Miller pointed out the UMC represents -the-largest an nual voluntary effort for . the support of health, welfare and recreation services in Medford, and that 24 agencies receive fi nancial support through the campaign. Asks No Conflict The mayor asked that other appeals or drives not be under taken during the period which would conflict with or detract from "the paramount impor tance of a successful Crusade." Tonight's "kick - off" dinner will be held in the YMCA's so cial hall. Report luncheons, and their sponsors, include Sept. 26. Rot ary club; Oct. 3, Crater Lions club; Oct. 10, Medford Lions club, and Oct. 17, Kiwanis club. The final report meeting will be held Oct. 24 with the Elks lodge sponsoring the luncheon. Soviet's Holt Incident Version Turned Down Washington (U.R) The State department today rejected as "unsatisfactory" a Russian version of a recent Moscow inci dent in which Rep. Joe Holt (R Calif.), was threatened at gun point by a Soviet Army lieuten ant. v - Department spokesman Lin coln White said the Soviet reply' to a U.S. protest of Sept. 1 "gives an unsatisfactory version of the incident." He declined to give details of the Soviet version. The State department is now considering its' next step. Planning Commission Schedules Meeting The Medford Planning com mission at a special meeting at 5 p.m. today will hear a com mittee report on possible vaca tion of Evergreen st. The Albers Milling company requested permission - to en croach on Evergreen st. to con struct a loading platform. Del Harvey and Allan Perry were appointed a committee to study the proposal. ' i Frorrtiigs Morehead City, N. C. (U.R) Hurricane : lone, ' a' rampaging tempest with winds up to 120 miles an hour, rammed the East ern Seaboard today and bored north toward Norfolk and New York. - Just before it swept up the coast near this vacation resort, the awesome howler tore the Diamond Shoals lightship from her moorings off lonely Cape Hatteras,' endangering her crew of 15 men. They were ordered to, "hold your position" at all costs. A. private weather expert warned that the New Jersey, New York City and Long Island area was in for "a. rdugh and stormy night," nerhaDS the worst in its history. . ; No deaths or injuries were re ported in the first hours of Ione's assault on the seaboard, which already had absorbed the fury oi two hurricanes this year. But failure of communications facili ties made accurate checks impos sible. ' Lightship Small The lightship measures only 128 feet. "That's like a canoe out there today," the Coast Guard spokes man said., A United Press reporter at New Bern, 40. miles from here, said "the worst flooding condi tions in modern history" were in prospect there. The Washington Weather Bu reau issued a special bulletin warning that gales from lone probably will howl as far north as New England by tonight. Mexico Also Hit The huge Navy and commer cial shipping center of Norfolk lay only 140 miles to the north northwest, the direction in which the storm-was plowing. The Weather Bureau noted, however, that lone had taken on teai-' '-'erratic'-'. movement which could . alter . the" course ; during the day. . As that hurricane, ninth tropical storm of the year, raked the Eastern Seaboard, its sister, Hilda hit the Mexican coast near Tampico today with full force after a journey across the Carib bean Sea. Tampico Hard Hit ' Winds hit Tampico, an oil re fining and port city 150 miles south of the Texas border, with a force of up to 120 miles an hour. At least one nearby town was reported leveled. But Hilda broke her back on the mountains of Mexico and forecasters warned of torrential rains in Northern Mexico and the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. 1 r Hilda, which drove ashore north of Tampico, Mexico, just before dawn with winds of 125 mile an hour force, dropped be low hurricane strength as she forced her way over the mountains. " " rs. ' D v' I FINAL M-T QUIZ WINNER Herbert Wing, 925 Grant st., is shown above receiving a free one-year subscription to the Mail Tribune from Dale Erickson, circulation manager. Wing accepted the award for his wife, who entered each quiz, and answered 134 questions out of a possible 141. Her score topped all other entrants. Mr. and Mrs. Wing are graduates of Southern Oregon college. He teaches at the Lincoln school and she taught for three years at the Griffin Creek school.. The quizzes have been conducted by the Mail Tribune to call attention to the Bargain Days event which closes tonight. In order to take advantage of the $2.50 savings of fered by the Mail Tribune, all subscriptions, must be received or postmarked not later than 10 o'clock this evening. , U.S. Missionary Given Release By-Red China Spy Confession Claimed Refuted Hong Kong (U.R) Commu nist China today freed an Amer ican missionary, who said he signed a fake spy confession and later refuted it, in time for a joint "birthday celebration with his wife.." Levi A. Lovegren, Seattle, Wash.,, seventh American civil ian released under the Reds' slow motion repatriation plan, crossed the border at 2:02 p.m. i He said the Reds made a spe cial effort ". to free him on his 67th birthday today. His mission ary wife, who was waiting for him near the border, celebrated her 65th birthday. The happy couple and their daughter Mil dred, who had baked a birthday cake, planned a celebration to night. Denies Charges Shouts of "happy birthday" from the party which met him at the border brought tear's to Lovegren's eyes. "Thank you all so much for remembering," he said. ' ' The Baptist missionary denied Communist charges of "espion age" on which he was imprison ed. He said he signed a "confes sion" because the Communists told him it was the only way he could get out of China but "I refuted it a year ago." "They accused me of being an agent," he said. "I was not. I am a missionary." The Communists jailed Love gren on charges of "collecting intelligence" in the Sikang area of Far Western China and - of "conducting espionage.". He had served ' four years and eight months of a five-year sentence. Three Priests Freed Hong Kdng police said no more Americans were expected at the border today. The Reds have promised to release a total of 41 U.S. civilians. The Communists yesterday freed three American priests after two years of capivity. They are the Rev. Frederick A. Gor don, Somerset, O., Joseph E. Hyde, Lowell, Mass., and James G. Joyce, Clinton Mass. All three had been under house arrest and said they lost considerable weight during their captivity. London (U.R) The Foreign Office has disclosed that missing British diplomat Donald. Mac lean "passed" to the Russian officials documents that may have included atomic secrets be fore he vanished behind the Iron Curtain four years ago. JUAN D. PERON Nine-Year Rule Ends Boys Plead Guilty To Liquor Charges After Police Raid Four youths pleaded guilty and were fined in district court today for illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. They were arrested Saturday night, when Medford police raided the Rogue Valley ballroom on South High way 99. , . . , Fined $30 were Kenneth Lee Webber, . 18, Butte . Falls star route; John Fredrick Bush, 18, Butte, Falls star route,, box 50, Eagle Point, and a 16-year-old. Another . 16-year-old was fined $20. . . -..'.. , Another boy, aged 17, pleaded innocent, , and was free on $30 bail pending , trial in district court Wednesday morning. Others Released . . . : Another 16y ear-old - who was arrested was released to his par ents pending action by juvenile authorities.- Two others were questioned . by city police and released.'; . - - . About 12 officers from the Medford police department stag ed the raid about 10:15 p.m. Sat urday. , - I . Also taken in the raid was Lee -Price, 30, of 172 North Mountain st., Ashland, who pleaded guilty and was fined $10 in police court today to be ing drunk in public- Early-Day Orchard Owner Here Passes Henry Van Hoevenberg, 76, an early-day orchardist in the Rogue valley, died yesterday in Oakland, Calif., friends reported today. - Mr. Van Hoevenberg came- to Medford in 1910, and for many years operated orchard property in the Sams Valley area. He was active in fruitgrowing organiza tions, and - was well known throughout the area. - In 1937 he moved to San Fran cisco, later to Seattle, and then to Oakland where he' spent his last years. His ' wife died' last March. He was born in Kingston, N Y., and was a graduate of Columbia university, where he was an All American football player. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ben Allen, Portland. Funeral services were to be held today in Oakland. - Morse Says People Being Plundered Washington1 U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) charged today that the American people "are being plundered of their property" by the natural re sources policies of the Eisen hower administration. Morse said these policies are the . handiwork of the Interior department, the Budget bureau and the Federal Power commis sion but have been "ratified" by President Eisenhower. Morse made his charge against the administration in a report prepared for the Senate Recla mation and Anti-Monopoly sub committees. The subcommittees, under the leadership of Sen. Jo seph C. OTHahoney " (D.-Wyo.) are scheduled to open joint hear ings tomorrow on the power pol icies of the administration. Rebel Guns Aimed At Buenos Aires Force Decision' No Choice Left For Nation's Leader o Montevideo. Uruguay (U.RV .Tuan 'TV Pprnn's ninp-vpar npr. sonal rule of . Argentina has ended. His covernment announced to day that he would resien. He tooK mat action under the guns of a Rebel fleet which stood in battle array off Buenne .Aires. ' threatening to bombard the city . unless Peron resigned. The Rebel radio at Cordoba v said Peron had sought political asylum in the Paraguayan Em-, bassy in Buenos Aires. The news that Pernn had de cided to give up in the fourth day or the Argentine Civil war was broadcast over the official Argentine radio in Buenos Aires. Gen. Franklin, Lucero, minister of war, in -announcing Peron's decision to resign, said:'.' "His SDirit of battle nromntu him to fight, but his patriotism and love of the people induce' him to renounce all personal ambition." Actually, Peron and Lucero had no choice. Buenos Aires nra in dire danger and the revolt naa spread rapidly through .the provinces. Negotiation Offered Lucero played his last card at about the time a Rebel ulti matum was due to expire. The ultimatum stipulated that "the tieet would shell Buenos Aires unless Peron quit. Lucero of fered to negotiate a cease fire, and invited the Rebel leaders to go into Buenos -Aires and confer u uu unice. ine iteoeis an nounced they would not start any parley until Peron resigned unconditionally. But thev rfirt nt. fer to send a shin into Buonns Aires, take Lucero aboard, and talk with him aboard a warship in the estuary of the Platte river. The offer to fire was made in Lucero's name and was broadcast by the official radio' in Buenos Airo Tha broadcast said. 1 "Gen. Franklin Lucero. com. mander in chief of the Force of Repression, in the name of the most excellent President of th republic and commamipr in chief of the armed forces fPemn in view of the ultimatum to Domo the city of Buenos Aires and petroleum refineries at Eva Peron and to avoid further bloodshed, myites the- com manders in action to appear at me ouice of the hieh command in the Ministry of the Army to Degin immediate negotiations to settle the conflict. He also in. vites the said commanders to cease noslilities immediately at their present positions." Cruicers Start Shelling Lucero's reauest in tha Rh. els for a cease fire was made almost at the moment that th. insurgent ultimatum expired. A radio broadcast, believprf be from the Rebel Jleet, had an nounced . that Buenos Aires would be brought under fire at i p.m. unless Peron resigned. ' The broadcast said the Rio de Julio, formerly the U.S.S. noise, already had begun shell ing the naval artillery school at Mar del Plata. Civilians Warned The ' announcement reneated previous warnings to the civilian population to leave areas around military objectives. ' ' It cites specifically the instil. lations of the state oil monopoly at Eva Peron (La Plata) and the Rio Santiago ; Naval School, which it said would be shelled. Another radio broadcast from the Rebel fleet warped civilians to evacuate a strip more than half a mile wide ' along . the Buenos waterfront. (See story on Page 8) Weather FORECAST-Continued fair and warm through Tuesday. Low tonight 42. High Tuesday 75 80. Temp. Highest yesterday 78 Lowest this morning 41
