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GRADUATES Medford High school seniors who received
diplomas at commencement exercises at Hedrick Junior High
school last night are shown on the stage of the auditorium.
Frank B. Bennett, extreme right, president of Eastern Oregon
Columbia Utilities
Installing Direct
Distance Service
Direct long distance dialing
by subscribers of the Columbia
Utilities company's Jackson
county telephone exchanges will
be Inaugurated in the near fu
ture. according to D. O. Hood,
president of the company.
Four installers are . now in
operation at the company's
White City exchange, where
master equipment for the new
service is being installed. Hood
said installation and testing
should be completed about July
15.
Nw Servic
The new service will permit
subscribers in Butte Falls, Eagle
Point. Prospect, Shady Cove
and White City exchanges to
dial each other directly. Direct
dialing also will be available to
Medford and Central Point sub
scribers of the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph company with
out the assistance of an operator,
Hood said.
Long distance dialing will be
accomplished by the subscriber
dialing his own number first for
identification, then an access
digit to connect with automatic
toll dialing equipment, followed
by a code" digit for connection
to the distant exchange, and the
telephone number of the party
called.
"Electric brain" equipment
establishes the connection.
, counts the minutes talked, com
putes the charges which art reg
istered on a magnetic tape, and
fed into an electric typewriter
at the White City office, where a
completed typed toll ticket is
recorded. Hood said the process
is done without the assistance of
an operator.
Exchange Prefixes
Installation of the service will
require the addition of exchange
prefixes to present four-digit
numbers in Butte Falls. Prospect
and Shady Cove. The prefix
system was established at Eagle
Point and White City exchanges
in 1954.
Prefixes selected for ex
changes are for Butte-- Falls,
TOwnsend 5: Prospect. UNion
9; and Shady Cove. TRinity 8
After PT and T-exchanges are
converted to full prefix opera
Commission Rejects
Bids for County Work
Portland The Oregon State
Highway commission has re
jected as too high bids for oiling
and paving projects on highways
in Jackson county and three
other counties.
The commission rejected bids
for oiling projects on highway
near Pinehurst, Ashland, Med
ford, Grants Pass, Canyonville
and Union Creek. The project
called for 33.63 miles of road
way oiling and 4.78 miles of
shoulder oiling.
Bids for Torrent Creek em
bankment repair project on Pa
cific highway about six miles
south of Ashland also was re
jected as too high. .
The commission awarded a
bid to the Steeck Electric com
pany, Roseburg, of S7.840, for
illumination of the Ashland in
terchange section. The project
involves installation of 21 mercury-vapor
luminaires on 13
stetl poles. Completion date is
October 31, 1956, for th project.
tion In the Rogue valley early
next year, Columbia Utilities
subscribers will be able to ex
tend direct dialing to Ashland.
Grants Pass, Jacksonville, Gold
Hill, Rogue River and the new
Phoenix-Talent exchange, Hood
explained.
Columbia Utilities equipment
has been designed for ultimate
integration with the nation-wide
direct long distance dialing sys
tem of Bell telephone and other
independent companies. Sub
scribers will be able to dial station-to-station
direct to almost
every station in the United States
and Canada. Hood said. - .
Bids To Be Invited
For Rehabilitation
Project on Canal -
Bids will be invited about
June 26 for one canal rehabili
tation job in the Rogue River
basin project and are scheduled
to be invited on two other proj
ects later this summer, the bu
reau of reclamation "has an
nounced. Bids will be for work about
25 miles from Medford on the
main canal between Browns-
boro. Lake Creek and Bradshow
Drop. Work on the canal in
cludes constructing a 60 inch
buried monolithic concrete pipe
siphon 325 feet long at Wyant
Wash, and a 54 inch buried mon
olithic concrete pipe siphon 1,-
100 feet long at Osborne Wash.
Other Work
Other work on the canal
eludes removing five wood-heat
metal flumes and constructing
two 5!'2 by 5li foot reinforced
concrete bench flumes and a
cantilever retaining wall and
spillway. Completion date will
be 230 days.
July and August planning
schedules list several jobs on
which bids will be invited.
They include construction of
10.3 miles of open canal includ
ing a half mile of concrete pipe
siphon, a small diversion dam
and other work, 15 miles east of
Ashland, and. constructing a 60
men concrete culvert pipe si
phon about 375 feet long and re
placing a 48 inch wooden siphon
with a 57 inch cylinder or 60
inch concrete siphon about 1,
970 long in the Medford canal
near Medford.
Bids for construction of the
Deadwood tunnel will be opened
July 2, and bids for the Bear
Creek siphon July 10. Bids will
be opened at bureau of reclama
tion offices in Medford.
Weather
FORECAST: Partlr cloudy to
night and Saturday. Chance .
of llht showers Saturday
afternoon. Low tonight 4S.
High Saturday 75-16.
Terap.
Highest Yesterday 77
Lowest this Morning 4
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunset .
4:3 a.m.
7:7 p.m.
. 1:29 p.m.
New Moon
A total eclipse of the Sun wiU
he occurring at this time and it
will he Tisthle Bier an area in
the South Pacific Ocean. The
last eclipse of this series, in
May. 1st, was total also and
seen over the Souttt Atlantic
Oeeea.
college, LaGrande, was principal speaker. Ceremonies were
held at Hedrick because of unsettled weather recently. School
officials considered holding exercises at Medford High school
stadium. A total of 270 seniors received diplomas.
( Brainerd photo)
Diplomas Presented
Graduating Seniors
At Medford High
Diplomas were presented 270
graduating seniors from Med
ford High school at the 63rd an
nual commencement ceremony
at Hedrick Junior High school
auditorium last night.
Frank B. Bennett, president of
Eastern Oregon college, La
Grande, was principal speaker,
and Edward Branchfield, chair
man of the Medford school
board, presented diplomas. Ben
nett was introduced by Superin
tendent of Schools Leonard B.
Mayfield.
Exercises were held at Hed
rick Junior High school because
of unsettled weather conditions
th past week". School officials
originally considered holding
the ceremony in the Medford
High school stadium.
Presents Awards
Lester D. Harris, high school
principal, presented scholastic
and "other honors.
Meredith Foote received the
valedictorian award and John
Van Dyke the salutatorian
award. Carol Denman was nam
ed outstanding senior girl and
Monte Hoist outstanding senior
boy.
Senior class officers last year
included Sandra Robinson Coo
per, president; John Bellack,
vice-president; David Drum
mond, secretary; Ed Retaking,
treasurer, and Robert Durante,
student council representative.
Advisors have been Mrs. Alice
Kovenz and DeVere Taylor.
Medford Man Injured
In Accident at Elk
Alva Reed, 34. of 1357 Lawn
ridge dr., suffered serious chest
and head injuries this morning
while working at Elk Lumber
company, according to a report
from Sacred Heart hospital. He
was taken to the hospital by
Medford ambulance attendants.
According to reports, a loaded
lumber carrier fell over injuring
Reed.
Portland (U.R) J. E. Parker
of Corvallis won the top award
of the American Rose Society's
1956 show In the Portland Audi
torium. Twenty-nine
Will Participate in Beaver
Twenty nine delegates from
Jackson county will participate
in the 20th annual Beaver Boys
state at Oregon State college
starting Sunday, June 10.
Beavers Boys state is sponsor
ed by the American Legion to
train boys in citizenship, and
boys attending are sponsored by
local service and community
groups.
Elections Scheduled
Elections wijl be held to de
termine city, county and state
officials with each boy holding
an office. The boy elected gov
ernor and one other representa
tive will attend Boys Nation in
Washington, D.C., later this sum
mer as Oregon's delegates.
The boy's met at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dames re
cently to receive instructions.
Alex McDonald of Medford
High school was elected as sen
ior counselor to accompany the
boys to Corvallis. He is the first
senior counselor from southern
Oregon.
Handling arrangements for the
ediofd boys were Darnel, CoL
Late News Briefs
AL SARENA REPORT
Washington U.R The Demo
cratic majority, of a House gov
ernment operations subcommit
tee was disclosed today to have
approved a report calling for
cancellation of the controversial
Al Sarena mining claim rights
in Oregon.
The report still must be ap
proved by the full House Gov
ernment Operations committee
and a Senate subcommittee
which made a joint investigation.
NEW RECORD SET
Salem (U.R) Wages paid by
nearly 19.000 Oregon employers
covered by unemployment com
pensation last year reached a
new record of Sl.390,065, the
State Unemployment Compen
sation ..Commission reported to
day.-- -. - -, - -
20 Donors Sign for
Bloodmobile Visit
About 20 appointments have
been made to donate blood June
13 when the Bloodmobile will be
at the Elks club between 1 and
5 p.m., Red Cross officials an
nounced today.
At least 250 donors will be
needed to meet Medford's quota
Wednesday. They pointed out
that a total of 162 pints of blood
were used in Jackson county
during May. At the April Blood
mobile visit, residents donated
198 pints to supply needs over
a two-month period .
' Donors may make appoint
ments at the Red Cross office in
the basement of the county
courthouse or by telephoning
3-3813, Bloodmobile hours will
be extended another hour, to 6
p.m., if appointments are re
ceived. Red Cross workers said they
recently received a report that
someone did not. want to give
blood because he had heard the
blood is sent to Portland and he
did not approve of "all that
blood going out of the county."
It was explained that it is ne
cessary to send the blood to Port
land because it must be pro
cessed before it can be used,
and the nearest laboratory is lo
cated in Portland. As blood is
needed to replenish the Jackson
county supply it is sent back
Jackson County Delegates
W. H. Paine and Carl Olson.
Emil Kroeger made arrange
ments for Ashland American
Legion post, and Jerry Blanconi
made arrangements for Central
Point.
Boys sponsored by the Ash
land Post, and individual spon
sors are Jim Sinko, Elks lodge;
and Jim Busch, American
Legion.
Central Point Delegates
Central Point boys, and their
sponsors, include Warren Strang,
Legion post 129; Allen Kinney,
Cheney Studs; Randy Campbell,
Panter and Jim Glen; John Neal,
Central Point Merchants associa
tion; and Gerald Kime, Central
Point Lions.
Delegates from Medford and
their sponsors include:
Dick Puhl, route 2, box 254,
Medford Lions club; Tom King,
box 267, Jacksonville, Jackson
ville Lions; Bryan Schroeder,
413 North Columbus ave., Crater
Lions; Errol Tresham, box 716,
Eagle Point, Eagle Point Lions;
Charles Swingle, route 3. box
233A, Medial d. Phoenix Linns;
28 Pages
Medford
51st Year
MEDFORD,
Seaton Takes Oath
Washington U.R) Fred A.
Seaton took the oath of office
today as the nation's 37th secre
tary of interior.
Chief Justice Earl Warren ad
ministered the oath to Seaton at
the White House.
Seaton, who was serving as
deputy presidential assistant,
succeeded former Secretary of
Interior Douglas McKay.
Niagara Gorge Wall Falls
Smashing Big Power Plant
Workman Swept to
Death as Gigantic
Boulders Tumble
Niagara Falls, N.Y. (U.R)
The wall of the lower Niagara
gorge tore loose late Thursday,
thundering hundreds of tons of
rocks down on a huge hydro
electric plant and shearing two
thirds of the building from the
face of the cliff into the Niagara
river.
One workman was swept to
his death in the rapids when he
was trapped in the roaring rock
slide. However, 39 other work
men scrambled to safety as gi
gantic boulders crashed down on
the Schoellkopf Hydroelectric
company, a quarter mile below
the cataract along the Ameri
can shore.
The missing workman was
tentatively identified, as. Richard
Draper of Lewiston.fl.Y. He and
the others had been repairing
water seepage in a -canal-tunnel
which funnels water to the sta
tion's dynamos from above the
falls. The men were warned of
the coming slide when windows
in the plant started cracking
like rifle shots.
Escape in Elevator
' Those who escaped fled to a
safe section of the plant and
ascended to the top of the 220
foot precipice in an elevator. A
few scrambled up the cliff. Sev
eral were struck by rocks but
none was seriously hurt.
Two of the men said they saw
the missing man being trapped
by the rock slide but were pow
erless to help him.
Another man cut off from the
elevator by the slide was hoisted
up the face of the cliff by rescue
workers using ropes.
Hundreds of sightseers on the
rainbow bridge on the Canadian
side of the falls opposite the
power plant saw the cliff give
way. Two more rock slides fol
lowed at five-minute intervals.
Largest Stat Plant
The plant was the largest of
more than 80 hydroelectric pow
er plants in the state. Six gener
ators with a combined capacity
of more than 250,000 kilowatts
were wrecked in the slide. All
electrical power iq the city of
Niagara Falls, N.Y., was cut off.
Power was partially restored
later.
Damage by the rock slide
was said to be approximately
$100,000,000.
Boys State
David Spangler, route 1, box 364,
Talent, Talent Lions; Larry Al
bright, 1654 Orchard Home dr.,
Kiwanis club; Walter Humphrey,
route 2, box 417, Rotary club;
James Corum, 30 Willamette
ave.. Elks lodge; Charles Robert
son, 1023 West Ninth St., Med
ford Legion post; David Espey,
619 Park st., St. Mary's Parents
association.
Gordon Fleming. 706 South
Holly st., Medford Mail Tribune;
Wayne Breeze, 921 Murray St.,
Weeks and Orr Furniture; David
Gifford, 2216 Ruhl Way, Fluhrer
bakery; David Frohnmayer,
1656 Spring St., Barker's cloth
ing; Bob Glover, 1162 James rd.,
Elk Lumber company; Stewart
Schroeder, 39 North Columbus
ave., Mann's Department store;
Maurice Corcoran, 449 Fair
mount, St., Conger-Morris mor
tuary; Ken Kumasawa, 220 Cot
tage St., Whitelaw Candy com
pany; Dick Corum, 30 Wil
lamette ave.. Dean and Taylor
Pontiac; Bob Young, 727 Alder
St., " Otto Frohnmayer; and
Charles Finch, 794 Waverijr at,,
CoL W. H- Paine,
OREGON, FRlUAir
McKay resigned in the spring
to run as the GOP candidate
against ,Sen. Wayne Morse (D.
Ore.) in the November elections.
Mr. Eisenhower nominated
Seaton to head the Interior de
partment last week. The Senate
confirmed his nomination by
voice vote Wednesday less
than 24 hours after it sailed
"Look At It This Way
Russia Challenges US
To Cut in Manpower
Washington (U.R) Soviet Pre
mier Nikolai Bulganin challenged
the United States in his latest
letter to President Eisenhower
to match Russia's 1,200, 000-man
military slash, diplomatic circles
reported today.
President Eisenhower and U.S.
military officials already have
made clear they have no inten
tion of matching the Soviet man
power cut.
Soviet Ambassador Georgi Za
roubin delivered Bulganin's two
page letter and an accompany
ing 16-page document to Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
Thursday.
Neither the State Department
or the Soviet Embassy would
disclose the message's subject
matter. The text was expected
to be made public late today or
Saturday.
Contains New Proposals
However, diplomatic circles
reported the message contained
new disarmament proposals in
cluding the manpower-cut chal
lenge. Diplomatic sources said Bul
ganin told the President that an
equal manpower slash in U.S.
forces would boost trust and
confidence between the Soviet
bloc bnd the free world.
There has been speculation
here and abroad for weeks that
Russia would make the proposal.
Russia fias beat its propaganda
drums loudly about its cut ever
since announcing it last month.
Architect Submits
Detention Home Plans
William Siebert, Medford
architect, Wednesday submitted
to the county court his first
drawings of the proposed $65,
000 juvenile detention home to
be built on a two-acre site at the
county fairgrounds.
The architect also submitted
sketches of the proposed ad
ministration wing of the build
ing provided for in the 1956-57
county budget.
Also viewing the plans were
juvenile department personnel
and members of the advisory
committee.
Members of the county court,
who recently visited juvenile
facilities in California, plan trips
soon to Salem and Woodburn to
see Oregon state juvenile
jjarilitiM.
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Price 5c
rRIBUNE
1956
No. 68
through the Senate Interior
committee.
The 46-year-old new cabinet
member is a Nebraska newspa
per publisher. He served in the
Senate in 1952, serving out the
unexpired term of the late Ken
neth S. Wherry (R.-Neb.).
He acted as a top presidential
adviser in his former White
House post.
It's Great To Be Alive"
But U.S. officials have eon
tended that manpower is not the
key to effective disarmament in
the atomic age.
Keep Present Level
Dulles said the Soviet cut
might even increase Russia's
war-making potential by freeing
men for industry. Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson said
flatly the United States will
maintain its armed forces at the
present 2.850,000-man level for
the indefinite future.
Some officials pointed out
that Russia merely appeared to
be following the American "new
look" program of cutting down
and streamlining its armed
forces.
Stocks Dip on
Ike's Illness
New York U.R) A new sel
ing drive hit the stock market
in the early afternoon trading
today when the White House an
nounced President Eisenhower
was taken to Walter Reed hos
pital as a "precautionary meas
ure." In this drive prices were forc
ed down 52 to S5 a share, their
worst decline since May 22. The
year's lows were being threat
ened. At the bottom of the decline
the market showed a loss of
more than $3,000,000,000 in
value of all listed issues. The
industrial average at 1 p.m.
(EDT) showed a loss of 9.91
points, its widest loss since Oct.
10.
Paris U.R) Reports of Presi
dent Eisenhowers illness today
caused the black market rate for
the dollar to drop 10 per cent.
London (U.R) President Eis-
enhower's health was bannerline
news in London afternoon news
papers today.
"Eisenhower 111 Again," head
lined the Evening Standard.
"Doctor With Him Since 2 a.m.'
Court Buys Drapes,
Rugs for New Room
The Jackson county ; court
Wednesday purchased drapes
and a rug for the new circuit
court room in the courthouse an
nex and a carpet for the jwige's
rhurnhfai.
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Doctors Summoned
For Possibility
Of Operation
Heart Condition
Declared Unchanged
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower has a "partial ob
struction" of the small intestina
and surgeons have been sum
moned to see if surgery k nec
essary. A team of physicians reported
that an electrocardiogram
showed no change in the Presi
dent's heart. As a "precaution," '
however, they summoned famed
cardiologist Dr. Paul Dudley
White from Boston for consul
tation. This news on the President's
condition as of 3:30 p.m. (EDT)
was issued at Walter Reed Army
Hospital, where the President
was taken by ambulance early
this afternoon.
Mr. Eisenhower had become
ill at the White House during
the night.
Confirm Diagnosis
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder, the
President's physician, earlier
had diagnosed Mr. Eisenhower's
ailment as ileitis, an inflamma
tion of the small intestine.
Following examinations at
Walter Reed, Synder and the
hospital's commander issued a
communique confirming this
diagnosis. But they added that
they also had found "a partial
obstruction in the terminal por
tion of the small intestine."
This presumably was caused
by the intestinal inflammation.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty, who made
public the medical report, said a
group of civilian surgeons is
being called in to determine
whether the situation requires
surgery.
Dr. White said in Boston ther
is a "possibility" that surgery
may be necessary. He said he is
leaving for Washington as soon
as possible because the doctors
"want me there."
Whether surgery will b
needed. Hagerty said, could not
be determined at this time.
"Is his condition critical?" a
reported asked.
"Certainly none of the doctors
used such an adjective to me,"
Hagerty replied.
Doctor Intercepted
Hagerty said the three sur
geons being called in as a "pre
cautionary measure" are Drs.
John H. Lyons, Washington,
D.C.; Brian Blades, professor of
surgery at George Washington
University here; and Isador Rav
din, professor of surgery at the
Pennsylvania Medical School,
Philadelphia.
Dr. Thomas Mattingly, Walter
Reed cardiologist who has been
a consultant in the President's
case from the beginning, was
intercepted by police in South
Carolina after the Secret Serv
ice had sent out an alert. He
hurried to Columbia, S.C., to fly
to the President's bedside.
The attack occurred about X
a.m. (EDT). Mrs. Eisenhower
summoned Dr. Snyder.
On his advice the President
was taken to the hospital. He
rode on a stretcher in an olive
drab Army ambulance. The am
bulance left the White House
at 1:30 p.m. with sirens whining.
The trip to the tiospital in the
extreme northern part of Wash
ington took 10 minutes.
Carried on Stretcher
Four hospital corpsmen, flank
ed by two doctors, carried the
President on the stretcher into
the hospital. The President was
bareheaded and clad in tan
pajamas.
Mrs. Eisenhower had arrived
at the hospital a few minutes
earlier with their son, Maj. John
S. Eisenhower. She managed a
faint smile for newsmen and
then hurried into the spacious
presidential suite on 'the third
floor of the hospital.
The intestinal upset created
worldwide concern. The New
York Stock Exchange had its
worst break of the year.
The White House notified
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
even before it first announced
the President's upset, but in
series of bulletins it emphasized
its belief that the ailment was
"no cause for alarm."
Portland Woman Dies
In Wreck Near G. Pass
Grants Pass (U.R) Miss Mil
dred Broun, 67-year-old retired
Portland school teacher, died in
a hospital here today from injur
ies suffered in an auto accident
yesterday afternoon.
Miss was a passenger in a car
driven by her brother, Wilbur
Broun, who mistook a truck
er's left turn signal as an indica
tion that the road was clear for
passing. Police said Broun took
to a ditch to avoid collision. The
accident occurred on Highway
99 at the Merlin road junction
aiwut 5 miles north of here. .