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.
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ilitation work appears on Page
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Lowest yesterday 27
Precip.
To 1030 p.m.
yesterday .08
United Press Full " Leased Wire
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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.-
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