Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1956)
WEATHER Recommended FORECAST Fog early today; increasing cloudiness with rain this evening. Rain mixed with snow Monday morning with a high today of 45; low tonight 27. Temp. Highest yesterday ' 45 IE So s J k o A itory on Red Cross rehab ilitation work appears on Page 10 of today's Mail Tribune. Lowest yesterday 27 Precip. To 1030 p.m. yesterday .08 United Press Full " Leased Wire i Full Leased Wire 50th Year 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1956 5c No. 289 President Returns To Capital After Georgia Vacation Expected to Announce Intentions Next Week "Washington (UP) Presi dent Eisenhower returned Sat urday from a rigorous 11-day golfing and hunting holiday in Georgia that may have helped him make up his mind about running for a second term. " After Mr. Eisenhower arrived at the White House, reporters asked Press Secretary James C. Hagerty for an "on the record" statement whether the President ad made his second term deci 'sion. Hagerty smiled and said his answer was the same as that in Georgia "I don't know." He also repeated what he had said previously "if I - did know I wouldn't tell you." Belief that the President will say "yes" to a second term was strengthened by the apparently good health and high spirits in which he ended his vacation. He had planned the holiday deliber-J ately as an arduous pnysicai icst of his recovery from his Sept. 24 heart attack. His physician, Maj. Gen. How ard Mcc. Snyer, said Mr. Eisen hower was in "very good shape" after three rounds of golf and several day long quail hunting expeditions at, Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey's Milestone Plantation near Thomasville, Ga. He is expected to announce his decision next week, possibly at a news conference tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, i Re publican leaders here are now all-but-certain that he will con sent to seek re-election. Maul Transferred " To Salem Office : Ted Maul, district warden for the state department of forestry, has been promoted and will be assigned to forestry headquar ters in Salem next week, it was revealed Friday night. L. L. Simpson, secretary-manager of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm as sociation, reported the change at the Friday evening meeting of the association. It has not yet been formally announced by the state denartment of forestry. Maul has been head of the southwest forest district, with headquarters on Table Rock rd., . ! TIT1 V. for neariy six years. " came here he succeeded Frank Hamilton, who also went to Sa Ism in an executive capacity. Details of his new assignment have not been announced, nor has Maul's successor been named. -: He and his wife and two sons ahnnt the middle of the week. Roundtable Group to Discuss Fluoridation Vera Shangle, president of Natural Foods association of Ore gon," will discuss con arguments concerning fluoridation of water at the Jackson County Chamber f Commerce roundtable lunch- &n tomorrow noon at the Jack- ton hotel. ? The second in the series will iv held a week from tomorrow, when roundtable officials plan to schedule a speaker to dis cuss pro arguments on fluori dation. ... Roundtable officials pointed out that anyone is invited, whether a chamber member or not Chamber officials said the chamber has not taken a stand for or against fluoridation. - Sports Bulletins Accurate, long range shoot ing and control under the bas ket gave the Medford High Tornado a 67-54 victory over the Grants Pass Cavemen last night. Bob Tisdell was high for Medford with 20 points. Crater . High school edged - Phoenix 55-54 at Central Point - lat night to win the district j basketball 6A2 southern divi sion championship. ; Illinois Valley won third place in the tournament by ' beating Eagle Point 59-53. while Tom Bernet tallied 28 for the Cavemen. California 63, Washington 20. Washington State 69, Stan ford 67. Oregon Stata 69, Idaho 59. Tornadoes Strike Mid-West Towns Belleville, 111. OJ.R) Torn adoes in the midwest, dust storms in the southwest and violent windstorms in the Ohio valley killed at least 12 persons Saturday. Hardest hit spot in the nation was Summerfield, 111., A com munity of 500 population, where three persons were killed by tornadoes whipping across the Mississippi river from Missouri. Oher . stricken - towns in Ill inois were Belleville, Imbs Sta tion, Centervilie, Pinkstaff, Trenton, and Ohio. The Red Cross counted 145 homes de stroyed or damage in the area. The homeless were being housed and fed in a school at Summer field. Score Injured More than a score of persons were injured in the tornadoes and damage ran into millions of dollars. Two Oklahomans lost their Bosworlh Elected Medford Mayor for Elk's 5GD Program David Bosworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Bosworth, 2425 East Main st., wag "elected" mayor of Medford Wednesday after a "heated political cam paign" at Medford high school. The election was part of the Medford Elks Student Govern ment "Day program March 5 and 6, and students "elected" or ap pointed to city and county of fies will fill the positions March 6. .. :. " ... Councilman Elected : Miss Mira Frohnmayer and Miss Katherine Gott were elect ed city councilmen for Ward I; Monte Hoist and Miss-Honor Stansbury, Ward. II;.Miss Spnja Peterson arid Gary Shaffer, Ward III; and Miss Janet Jam-: ison and Miss Sheila Spence, Ward IV. Election results from St. Mary's , high school and from six other county high schools have not been announced. St. Mary's shares city offices .with Medford students and the other schools provide county officers. Regular election practices are followed in. the program. Med ford high held its primary elec tion Feb. 16i Appointive offices will be selected Tuesday by Bos worth and the council, in con junction with their adviser Mrs. Justin Smith, head of the social studies department. Elks Exalted Ruler C. Aubrey Sander announced that through cooperation of Uidted Airlines, the high school counterpart to the League of Oregon Cities past president will fly to Eugene and Salem for meetings of that org anization. Medford Girl Elected FHA Parlimentarian Corvallis (U.E The Oregon Future Homemakers of America closed out their 11th annual state convention here yesterday afternoon by naming Colleen Simper, Newport, as new state president. More than 300 high school girls from throughout the state attended the meeting. Jo McNary, Auroa, was named named as vice president and Gay Thompson, Roseburg,. and Lola Fisk, Coquille, also were chosen for vice president roles in charge of special projects. Miss Fish will handle the state projects while Miss Thompson will be in charge of public relations. -Other officers named at the meeting were: Joyce Porter, Brownsville, secretary; Kay Cor- win, Madras, treasurer; Lois Kelley, Medford, parliamentari an; Sharon Lee Miller, Scap poose, historian; and Cora Ann Swanstrom, Dallas, editor. - David Shaw Visits Medford Thursday David Shaw, Gold Beach at torney, and candidate for the Democratic nomination for rep resentative from the fourth con gressional district, spent Thurs day in Medford visiting friends, Shaw, who discussed the com ing campaign with local Demo crats, is a former instructor at the University of Oregon law school and also former counsel for the national labor relations board. : He plans to return to Med' ford several times before the May primary, according to At torney Robert Duncan. ; '"' .' lives in windstorms whipping up blinding dust, two men were drowned when high winds cap sized their houseboat near the Missouri-Arkansas state line, and to men were killed during Ohio windstorms. The midwestern tornadoes un leashed their .full fury in Ill inois and then rolled into Indi ana causing added millions - of dollars of damage as they hit Martinsville, Shelbyville, Frank lin and Bruceville. " Telephones Out ' Telephone communications in many Illinois communities were crippled by the storm and - an Illinois Bell spokesman said the cables looked like "tangled spa ghetti." . The wind picked up a build ing near Belleville and blew it through heavy telephone cables, knocking out service for more than 2,000 phones. Toll service was cut off or crippled in Col linsville, Breese, Beckmeyer, Germantown, Trenton and Avis- ton. At -Pinkstaff, 111., tornadic winds rolled a family of trailer dwellers for 60 feet without causing injury to "any member of the family. The tornadoes were born on winds reaching 80 miles an hour. Curtailed Service In Portland After Gas Company Fire Portland (U.F9 Some Port land area industries and' busi nesses Saturday faced several days of curtailed service because of a half million dollar fire which damaged the Portland Gas and COke company's Linnton plant. Friday night.; ' " : The blaze, which knocked out i4''enatorsvtT1Ke'"pIahV'sliut off the heating and cooking gas supply over wide sections of the Portland metropolitan area from Vancouver, Wash., to Salem, Ore. An estimated 60,000 -customers were reported affected by the disruption in service. Reduce Services Hospitals, restaurants, stores, and some other businesses either reduced their services or restort- ed to other types of fuel. Home owners affected by the gas shutoff were stockpiling wood and other types of fuel for use in fireplaces and for cooking. Also pressed into use were elec tric heaters and burners. The gas company's" Linnton plant about four miles northwest of Portland is the main supplier of gas to the Portland area. Com pany officials said it probably would be a week before service is entirely restored to the affect ed areas, although some service is expected to .be restored by Monday. ' There has been no definite explanation as to what caused the fire which broke out in the company's. generating plant. Firemen were hampered in con trolling the blaze by luige clouds of dense black smoke from burn ing oil spouting from severed lines. "V -. . Fifty-five Pacific Gas and Electric compayn men left San Francisco by chartered plane for Portland Saturday " to help re pair damage caused by the fire. Crater Lake Staff Submits St at istics Concerning Average Annual Snowfall, . Editor's Note: The following letter from Tom Williams, su perintendent of Crater Lake National Park is in connec tion with Eugene Burns' col umn, "Is Thai So" which" ap pears in the Mail Tribune. The column concerned" snow fall at Tamarack, Calif. "Dear Sir: : "After reading Eugene Burns' column 'Is That So?' in your Feb. 13 issue, the staff of Crater Lake National Park thought you'd be interested in some sta tistics about snow that falls in their back yards. "Mr. Burns states that 'on the windward slopes of the High Sierra the greatest American snowfalls are recorded.' We don't want to argue the case and are not in a position to, but if the figures cited for Tamarack, Calif, are purported , to be the heaviest in the land, then you will be interested, and I am sure Mr. Burns would be too, to know that any time Crater Lake's sea sonal snowfall drops as low as Tamarack's average 451 inches, we . start worrying about early Solons Seek Quick Action Leading to Flood Control . Here Morse, Neuberger Ask Survey Speed Up Oregon's two senators, Rich arl L. Neuberger and Wayne L. Morse, Saturday called for , a speeding up of eforts to survey the flood damage caused in the Rogue River valley by the late December and late-February floods. In a joint letter they called upon the chairmen of the Senate interior and public works , com mittees for assistance in obtain ing quick action leading toward flood control. . The letter said: i H : Serious Floods "Twice within the last three months, the Rogue River valley in Oregon has been sujected to serious floods which ... forced people from their homes and in flicted great suffering and prop erty damage. For several years the department of , interior's bureau of reclamation and the Army corps of engineers have started and stopped various plans for flood control and other pur poses in the Rogue River valley. "The bureau of reclamation had a . basin plan known . as 'Plan A.' According to publish ed newspaper reports, the sec retary of the interior has direct ed the abandonment of 'Plan A.' The corps of engineers, accord ing to the most recent printed report of the North Pacific di vision engineer (January 1955), has had an authorized survey for the Rogue river and its trib utaries which has not been pur sued. According to that report the contemplated survey was designed primarily to supple ment the bureau of reclamation plan, t-. " . , Long Overdue , " "The time is long overdue for decisive action upon a plan for flood control in the Rogue River basin which may ; also .include other '"multi-purpose features! However, there has been no in dication from the executive de partments as to what action is contemplated, and we are con cerned lest the bureau and the corps continue their inaction in thei expectation and hope that the other agency will get under way. , "It is for these expert agencies to provide proposals for consider ation by the people of the area and the congress. We therefore urgently recommend that the in terior and public works com mittees schedule -joint hearings at which both the corps and the bureau are called upon to present their plans, if any, for meeting the flood control needs of the basin, and to work out jointly a coordinated plan as speedily as possible. "The floods in December and during this past week demon strated that nature will not wait." Peron To Be Forced Oof of Panama Hotel Washington -4U.R) The State department announced Saturday it has taken steps to force form er Argentine dictator Juan jj. Peron to leave the government- owned Hotel Washington in the Panama Canal zone. The action came after several congressmen protested against permitting the ousted Argentine president to live in the hostelry, forest fires and the Rogue Valley ranches' and fishermen are con cerned about water storage and stream runoff. . , "Crater Lake's average annual snowfall is 622 inches, or almost 52 feet, and at no time since weather records have been kept there has the annual snowfall dropped as low as Tamarack's 451 inches. "Admittedly, Tamarack has us bested for record depth their 348 inches in 1906. But then, we don't know how deep the snow got at Crater Lake in 1906. Maybe 1906 was the 'win- ter of the big snow' maybe in 1906 we had greater snow depth than our 1952 record of 218 inches or 18 feet, two inches. "Taniarack's all time record of 884 inches that fell during the winter of 1906-07 has Crater Lake's record beat by 5 inches our record year was 1932-33 when . 879 inches ' (73 feet, 3 inches) fell. "We have been unable to de termine it, but we think that our community of 17 families (48 people) is subjected to great Counties To Repair decOTi: Flood STREWN ALONG RIGHT OF WAY near Od enton, Md., are six of derailed cars in which five" were killed, 66 hospitalized, when Penn-- Pennsylvania Railroad Faces 'Endangering Public' Charges . Washington (U.R) The Penn sylvania Railroad Saturday fac ed charges" of '"endangering the public" because a broken axle caused a train wreck - Thursday night. . . : : Nine cars of the Pennsyl vania's Washington-to-New York "Embassy" passeng e,r train plummeted from the track at Severn, Md., as it rolled along at 80 miles an hour. Five per sons were killed and more than 90 injured. ' ' : V President Michael J. Quill of the Transport Workers -. Union protested to the Interstate Com merce Commission - that the Pennsylvania-:, is ' "endangering .the. public, through .foolish econ- Trimmed Forces ' ' "' Quill said the railroad has trimed its maintenance and safe ty forces below "minimum safe ty standards." He said .the Severn wreck proved it. ' ' J. A. Schwab," the Pennsyl vania's Cheaspeakeregionalman ager said Friday -a straight, break near the end of the. axle on one of the "Embassy's" pas senger cars dropped the car to the raiis and automatically ap plied the train's ah . brakes. A dining car smashed into a steel girder and eight other cars were derailed, three toppling part way down an embankment. Schwab said there was no evi dence of a "h6t box", a mechani cal mishap caused by lack of lubrication. He said the roller bearing end where the axle broke was inspected for oil level and lubrication in Sunnyside Yard, New York, on Feb. 19, four days before the accident Berline Train Crash ; " Berlin-r-OJ.R) A, double-engin- ed freight train slammed into a passenger train in Communist East Germany Saturday killing 35 persons and seriously injur ing 40 others in the worst East German rail disaster since the war. ' " " ' ' ' ' " The East German radio said a freight with two engines slam med into the side of a passenger express, smashing one passenger Wficfi tof as ? er snowfall than any occupied community, in the United States. "As a matter of interest, snow fall on Mt.1 Olympus in Olympic National Park, Wash., probably exceeds any or all United States snowfalls. No records are avail able, but water run-off records indicate somewhere in the neigh borhood of 250 feet of precipi tation falls there yearly, and most of it in the form of snow. It is safe- to say Mt. Olympus gets more than : 100 feet of snow annually probably nearer 200 feet! - ' ' "Mr. Burns' says Yellowstone National Park is snowbound longer than any other place (ex-, eluding mountain . peaks), hav ing snow on the ground fully half of the year. We aren't bragging about it in fact, we are ready at times to complain but our snows usually start in October and we have to put snow plows on double shift to get roads and campgrounds open by July 4th! . , - i "Having gone this far with Mr. Burns' article,: we may as well jump on another statement. He says that during this month sylvania Railroad's Embassy, crack Washing ton to New York passenger train, jumped . tracks when brakes were applied. (Intl.) car and derailing several others near the Bornitz railroad station in Saxony. Doctors from nearby hospitals, Communist ; peoples police and railroad officials rushed to the Hearing on Urban Area uled ; A public hearing for- Jack son and Josephine county resi dents , on ""urban'' and suburban area problems ' will be held at 7:30 ' p.m. Thursday, March 1 1, at Hedrick Junior High school, The hearing -is one- of a series beirig held by the Oregon legis lative interim committee on local government" ; and' urban ; area problems to obtain direct in formation concerning problems and possible solutions. - v' Invite Governing Units : ; Ormond R. Bean, chairmanof the committee,' said the group has, invited all governing bodies to participate so the committee may obtain "viewpoints and sug gestions about any problem which organisations face in con nection with governmental con trols or public services," , , The committee has asked that written statements be submitted prior to the hearing, "to facili tate record keeping and to as sure, that there is no misinter pretation.". Among questions which will be discussed are: ; " ' ! 1. Methods by which services such as sewage disposal, water, fire and police protection, pub lic transportation, parks and rec reation, road construction and maintenance fan best T be pro vided and financed in unincor porated urban areas and in new or growing cities. - 2. Annexation and incorpora tion laws and procedures. - V 3 . Local '.."government struc ture, and services - of 7 different 622 Inches (February), the seasonal peak of snpw pack is ' reached in . most places. Not so at Crater Lake. In 21 years; of weather record ing, the, seasonal peak has oc curred once-in1 January, thrice in February; five times in April and 12 times in March. ; "And to bring the picture up to date, total snowfall at Crater Lake this winter adds up to 476 inches (39 feet," eight; inches), which ; exceeds Tamarack's . an nual ' average and .we have 2 or 3 months of snow yet to come. As of Friday morning the snow pack at Park Headquarters was 172 inches or 14 feet, four inches, which is SNOW in .any one's country, and summer wa ter .'in the bank' for the Rogue and Klamath valleys. ,' i'T am sending Mr.. Burns a copy of this letter to assure him that we hold no grudge for having been i n a d v e r t e n t- ly omitted from his interesting and educational column: we read it regularly and enjoy it. ..-. - "Sincerely . yours, " : "THOMAS J. WILLIAMS, - "Superintendent 'if federal li scene to begin salvage opera tions, the broadcast said. The radio said the two engines of the freight and the locomotive of the passenger train turned over. Su burba li, Problems Thursday local . government . organizations which serve expanding urban areas. - : .' 4.' Functions and- powers of county and5 city government in relationship to the neeeds of un incorporated urban areas. 5. Methods of . financing the costs of -, public services in un incorporatedurba n areas. . 6. Taxation methods, over laps and equity in sharing of tax burdens. 7. Government controls such as subdivision, building and zon ing regulation, inspection and others for suburban areas. Bean pointed out that other problems which concern resi dents will be discussed. He said the committee be lieves that finding satisfactory solutions will depend upon ex tensive . public participation in the hearing. . . In Madrid Crash '. Madrid jOJ.TJ At least three survivors have been rescued from the wreckage of a U. S. Air Force transport which crashed in the blizzard-swept Guadar rama mountains with six men aboard, U. S. Air Force officials said last night. -' J . Air F o r c e headquarters at Wiesbaden, ' Germany, said it could not identify the survivors as yet or whether they are, in jured. A para-medic team jumped to the scene of the crash in the rugged mountains 30 miles north of Madrid and is bringing out the survivors. Aboard the plane was Lt. Col. Claire Duffie, son of Mrs. Ray Bosworth, route 2, box 281, Cen tral Point. Bosworth, Duffie's step-father, said they received a war department telegram say ing Duffie was missing in flight, but had heard nothing more as of late last night. Grand View District Bids Opened Friday ; Den Herder Construction company of Medford . and Leb anon was apparent low bidder Friday night on' a job for the Grand View Water district, ac cording to Harvey and Watkins, engineers in charge of the work. "... A firm bid $9,630. Apparent second-low bid of the four sub mitted was Coast Construction company, Eugene, which offered $9,845. The bids were .taken under advisement for "checking and the contract award. ' The job involves installation of several thousand, feet of pipe, several fire' hydrants, and sev eral water connections. Most of the materials have been pur chased by the district' Jackson, Josephine Declared Disaster Areas by Governor Ask $280,000 in Funds For Relief Assistance Josephine and Jackson coun ties have made application for federal financial aid in repairing new flood damage, it was report ed Friday by County Judge Rod ney Keating. The request, second in less than three months, was made be cause of damage to public prop erties including roads caused by local flooding conditions last week.iThe judge estimated that damage from last week's high water would be as great, if not greater,, than that from the De cember floods. ' Water Over Roads Last week's damage was caused largely by local run-off water, as the Rogue river barely reached flood stage. But massive sheets of water covered hun dreds of. miles of county roads last week, and the damage will be tremendous, county sources indicated, with the worst occur ring in Josephine county. Meanwhile, Gov. Elmo Smith declared both counties disaster areas Friday, and sent a tele gram to President Eisenhower asking for $280,000 in federal funds for flood relief assistance, i The figure Was based on re ports .by state and federal civil defense agency, officials who spent Wednesday and Thursday in the area. - -, Gov. Smith's wire to President Eisenhower said: "As a result of extremely heavy 'rains Oh Feb '20-21 on top of the disaster conditions re sulting from the Dec-Jan. floods and storms in Jackson and Jo sephine counties in southern Oregon an emergency exists, cre ating a disaster area. , Hardship, Suffering "Conditions have resulted in hardship and suffering so severe to the people of these two coun ties that federal assistance is required. . . "More than 250 homes have suffered from slight . to major damage.. Damage to irrigation the damage to roads and bridges exceeds $80,000. This is to assure you that all available state, county, and local funds are or will be committed for the , pur pose. .. ' " . '' allocated to the state of Oregon from funds, available under au thority of public -law 875 to assist the state and local effort, and such additional personnel, equipment and material as is deemed ncessary." Washington U.R) President Eisenhower allocated ' $250,000 to the state of Washington today for federal assistance in flood damaged areas. - Travel Discouraged In National Park . Crater Lake National park ranger's office Saturday warned of snow, avalanche conditions in the park and discouraged travel in the area. There was a deep powdery surface snow, and the rangers said that the road from park headquarters to the lake rim would be closed today. Highway 62 from Union Creek to the park was closed yesterday. It was not known whether the route would be open tooay. Snow depth at the lake was 186 inches yesterday morning, two inches deeper, than on the same date in 1952 which was the record snow year at Crater lake. The depth compared to 76 at the same time last year.. SViinff ronHitinns wpro nrtflf yesterday because of the deep powder. The ranger's office said that skiing would not be per mitted where there are aval anche possibilities and stressed that such conditions "do exist." Garfield slope, most popular ski site in the park, was such a danger spot. Washington OJ.R) More' than a third of the Democrats in' the Senate now favor' Adali E, Stevenson for-the Democratic Presidential nomination, a Unit ed Press survey revealed Saturday.- .- -
