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Newspaper Page Texttesiaon To teS flallenges Free Wo M Four-Lane Highway Length of Oregon Seen for 99 Route Limited Access Highway in Plans Salem 'U.R State highway officials painted a rosy picture today of what they can expect with approval of the $32,800.- 000.000 federal highway pro gram. A border to border four-lane highway, bypassing cities and towns and with limited access throughout its length was said to be in store for U.S. 99. U.S. 30 from Portland to the eastern border of the state would be in for a similar im provement with only some stretches of sparsely populated eastern Oregon destined to re main a two-lane route. Bill Approved Senate-House conferees yester day put their approval on the compromise highway Improve ment bill. The State Highway Depart ment estimated Oregon expects to be allocated S26.000.000 a year for use on Highways 99 and 30 and $12,000,000 a year for other routes. The state would match these with 10 per cent and 40 percent, respectively. W. C. Williams, deputy state highway engineer, said that the state would start work on U.S. 99 and U.S. 30 "to the end that these two great highways will be completed within the 13- year period for which Congress has provided the funds. Divided Highway U.S. 99 will be a four-lane divided highway from state line to state line, ' Williams said, "with complete access restric tion, meaning egress and ingress will be permitted only at traffic separated interchanges. "There will be no cross traf fic at grade or any traffic signals on its entire length. It will go around cities and towns." Still to be worked out are de tails for financing the federal highway project. Bids Called For Highway 99 Work The state highway commission has called for bids to elevate Highway 99 near Savage Rapids dam. The work will include two lections of low highway which floods, highway commission offi cials said, and is designed to pre vent the highway from flooding during average floods. Bids will be received at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 12. by the com mission at its Portland meeting. Work includes 1.75 miles of trading and 2.11 miles paving in addition to excavation and fill-in work. The project is about seven miles southeast of Grants Pass near the Josephine county line and the Rogue River rd. sections of Highway 99. The highway commission will receive bids at 9 a.m. Friday. July 13, for repairing the Tor rent Creek embankment on the Pacific highway about six miles south of Ashland. Bids opened earlier on the project were all rejected. f . B. DeVoe Reappointed To Welfare Commission Salem (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith today reappointed 11 members of county . public wel fare commission! in Oregon. They include: Mrs. Ellen H. Van Winkle, Prineville; Mrs. B. A. Stover. Bend: Franklin J. Voyt, Roseburg; Charles S. Wil son, Corvallis; E. B. DeVoe, Medford: Mrs. Ruby Leno, Warm Springs; C. H. Demaray Grants Pass; Fred Peterson, Kla math Falls; Mrs. Lora F. Conn Lakeview; Elmer B. Loyd. Deer Island, and Mrs. R. E.' Myers, Condon. Valuable Documents of Revolutionary, Civil War Eras Located in Bank-Vault Chicago (U.R) A Lincoln scholar said today he has hit a million-dollar jackpot of "lost" Revolutionary and Civil War letters and documents. The forgotten historical trea sure trove, left to gather dust in a bank vault for years, in cludes letters written by George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams. Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. Substantial Sum of Monty The Lincoln scholar, Ralph G. Newman, said he acquired the collection "for a very substan ial sum of money" from Mrs. Wiley R. Reynolds of Palm Beach, Fla., widow of a former Michigan industrialist and Flor ida bank owner who died in 1948. Reynold?, in turn, had boucht the. collection in 1945 from Dr. "I Might Do A Little Experimenting With You, Too" Atomic Discovery May Aid Science To Comprehend Universe Los Alamos, N. M. (U.R) The Los Alamos scientific laboratory announced today that experi menters have proved the exist- Clear Skies, Warm Weather Ushers In Official Summer Clear skies, warm tempera tures and a desire to go swim ming ushered in the official ar rival of summer today, but rain is forecast by the weather bur eau for tomorrow evening. The forecast for Medford and vicinity is for increasing cloud iness tonight and tomorrow with showers Friday evening. Although summer officially arrived at 2:24 a.m. today, at tendance at the Hawthorne park swimming pool indicated that summer weather has been here for about two weeks. Darrel Huson, park director, said 444 persons used the pool yesterday, bringing the total to 3.003 since the pool opened June 11. The lowest attendance any one day since the pool op ened. Huson said, was 19. 231 Enrolled Huson said 231 have enrolled in the first swimming classes which are held each morning. The last starting date for swim ming classes is July 9. he said. A wading pool is free for chil dren under 8 years old. and playground supervisors are on duty each afternoon and eve ning. The wading pool is closed one hour each afternoon for a story-hour and planned enter tainment. Summer started following a total of 33.40 inches of rain since Sept. 1, or 15.78 inches above normal. Thus far this month, there has been .8 inch of rain, .05 above normal, according to weather bureau figures. Record Timber Cut Seen In Forests of Northwest Portland U.R) A record timber cut on national forests in the Pacific Northwest was pre dicted by Forest Service offic ials here today after scanning reports for the first three quar ters of the current fiscal year. Regional Forester J. Herbert Stone said the cut in the first three quarters totaled 2,100,- 000,000 board fefft, worth S36.- 463,022. It was sold for nearly $54,000,000. EUworth Eliot Jr., New York physician and surgeon. Eliot had spent 50 years gathering the collection, but his fellow col lectors never guessed its value, Newman said. Died Too Soon Reynolds became ill and died before he could examine the collection. It stayed in bank vaults until Newman got a chance to see it early this year. He said the collection "rivals" some of the major institutional collections" and, with "some material I have which supple ments it," has a retail value of "possibly a million dollars." "They're all here a fabu lous cast." Newman said. "Over 50 George Washington letters, 30 by John Adams, a large col lection by Lincoln, letters by Lee, Grant, Stonewall Jackson, ence of a "vanishingly small" particle in the heart of the atom which may help scientists to com prehend the universe. The particle is called a free neutrino. It has "vanishingly small mass" and carries no elec tric charge, the laboratory said. Twenty years ago, Nobel Prize winners Enrico Fermi and Wolf gang Pauli theorized the exist ence of the free neutrino to ac count for the disappearance of energy during a radioactive pro cess called beta-decay. The Los Alamos laboratory, operated for the Atomic Energy Commission by the University of California, said an experimental team under Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan Jr. recently was able to observe the free neutrino for the first time. First Direct Reversal This discovery marks the first time that man has knowingly caused a direct reversal of the radioactive process called beta decay," the announcement said. "Nuclear scientists may accept with some confidence the further theories which have been devel oped involving the neutrino." The announcement said the discovery may help1 scientists "in the understanding of the atomic nucleus and the constitution of the universe." Eisenhower Walks To Ward Corridor Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower walked out of his hospital room today for the first time since his operation. A medical bulletin issued by attending physicians at Walter Reed Army Hospital at 1 p.m. (EDT) disclosed that the con valescing chief executive walk ed without support from his bed room to a ward corridor after breakfast today. He sat at a desk chair and chatted with his doctors for about 20 minutes, and then walked back to his room. The round trip was about 80 feet. Mr. Eisenhower has been tak ing short "walking exercises" in his bedroom since the first day after his operation, but this was the first tirrle he had ventured into the "outside world." STEEL FIRMS ACCUSED New York (U.R) The United Steelworkers Union accused the steel industry today of entering into "a conspiracy", to force the union to accept a five-year contract. Benjamin ' Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, John Hancock, Alexander Ham ilton, Generals Sherman, and Sheridan, LaFayette." Items in the collection of more than 2000 documents in clude: A letter from Thomas Paine to Washington accusing him of "connivale at my imprison ment" in a French prison. Ordinal Surrendei Menage The original message telling how Gen. Ulysses S. Grant should conduct surrender nego tiations with Gen. Robert . E. Lee at the close of the Civil War. The message is signed by Sec retary of War Edwin M. Stan ton, but "was actually written by Abraham Lincoln who ob viously dictated the entire terms," Newman said. Medford United Preu Full Leeied Win 51st Year 28 Pages Twining Hopes To Fly in Russian Planes on Visit Air Force Chief Leaves for Moscow Washington -OJ.R) Gen. Na than F. Twining left for Moscow today with the "hope" that he will get to fly in some new Rus sian airplanes during his visit. The Air Force chief of staff and a roster of six general offi cers left the Washington Nation al Airport in an Air Force DC6 transport. They headed for an air base in Europe en route to Moscow. To Arrive Saturday Twining said the party will spend 24 hours at the undesig nated base and arrive in the Russian capital at about 4 p.m. local time Saturday. The Twin ing plane will be accompanied from Berlin by a Russian navi gator and radio operator. Twining, who is going to Mos cow on Russian invitation to see the June 24 air show, said that the Russians provided him with an "interesting" itinerary Wed nesday night. The general said it was "Clear in the itinerary that we will get out of the Moscow area. Twining was asked whether he expected to learn something he did not previously know about Russian air power. He said "probably." Big Display Expected Some top airmen here expect the Russians to go all out in an effort to impress the American generals. And Russian-born Maj. Alexander de Seversky, long time exponent of strategic air power, is out with a prediction that the Soviets will show enough to "scare the free world out of its wits." .. . . In - contrast with - -previous years, the Russians showed little new stuff at their May Day dis plays this year, and it may be that they held back for the June 24 show. Way Cleared To Pass Highway Measure Washington U.R) A Senate- House conference committee cleared the way for speedy final passage of the $32,900,000,000 highway bill today by agreeing to put the road building pro gram on a pay as you ride basis. House conferees agreed to ac cept a Senate provision under which any one year's spending on the proposed 41,000-milf in terstate network of superhigh ways would be limited to the amount of money available in a special fund set up to finance the program. The fund would be built up out of highway user taxes, some of which are to be increased under the legislation. If tax receipts lag behind expectations, the effect of the "pay as you ride" restriction might be to stretch out the build ing program over a somewhat longer period than the presently planned 13 years. Neuberger Comes To Aid of Goats Washington (U.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger ID Ore.), friend of the White House squirrels, now has come to the aid of goats. Neuber ger demanded Wednesday that Secretary of defense CharlM E. Wilson in vestigate "shocking" reports thArmy is shooting goats. His statement was touched off by a news dispatch quot ing Cspt. Carolyn Taylor of the Army Medical Corps as saying goats were shot with high-powered rifles at Fort Sam Houston. Tex., to give doctors battlefield experience. Injured Boy Scouts Improving at Hospital Two Boy Scouts injured in a hiking accident June 10 are re ported in good condition at Com munity hospital today. Both boys had a good night last night. Tom Turpin, 14. son of Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Turpin, 3533 Jacksonville hwy., and Bruce Blachly, 13, son of Mrs. Ben Blachly, 1121 Spring St., were taken to the hospital last week after falling down a river bluff on an expedition with Troop 9 in the Silver creek region of the lower Illinois river. ' MEDFORD, ORr Lr V In flight Over At Least Three Killed in Crash Over Beacon Hill Witness Says One Trying To Land Seattle (U.R) Two light planes, circling to land, collid ed 1000 feet above thickly popu lated Beacon Hill residential dis trict here today and police said at least three persons were killed. The planes crashed in a deep gully 100 yards behind the home of Mrs. Delia Caldirola and burning debris showered out of the sky into her backyard, bare ly missing three small children. Could See It Coming Joe Daniels, a private pilot, saw the planes before they col lided. "I could see it coming, he said. Daniels said one of the planes was trying to land and the other 'cut right into the traffic pat tern." "The right wing of the Beech- craft Bonanza caught the Cessna 140's left wing," Daniels said. Two bodies were found near the wreckage and a third victim was found about 200 yards away an hour later. "I think we've got them all now," said Coroner John P. Brill Jr. Near Boeing Field The crash scene was about one-.mile, northeast of Boeing field, where the planes were at tempting to land. The Cessna 140 was identified as belonging to the Forrest Tay lor Academy of Frying. A spokesman at the flying school said he believed two persons were aboard. He identified them as Cal Boyle, a pilot instructor, and Ellis Clark, a student, both of Seattle. The Civil Aeronautics Admin istration said the Beechcraft was an out of state plane, and there was no record of it listed here. Search Continues For Missing Plane Lebanon, Ore. (U.R) Search continued today for Dr. Ralph T. Johnston, Lebanon dentist, and Hartwick Hanson, singing evan gelist from Salem, who disap peared in a light plane in a flight over the Cascades a week ago. Delmar Clem, one of the vol unteers directing the big search, said that "we have every reason to believe that the two men are on this side of the Cascades. Ground parties searched the Craig lake area near Maxwell butte, east of Lebanon, "on a hunch." according to Clem. An other search will be made of the Sheep creek area near Iron mountain along Highway 20. Clem said Dr. Johnston was capable of administering to in juries and that there was a pos sibility the two men might be alive in some remote section of the mountains. He said the men had sufficient food to keep them alive if used sparingly. President Accepts McLeaish Resignation Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower today accepted the resignation of Robert McLeaish as farmers home adminstrator in a friendly letter which praised his "valuable assistance" and wished him "health and happi ness." McLeaish resigned under fire Tuesday in the midst of a con gressional invest igation of charges that he drank heavily on the job. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty had previous ly announced that McLeaish's resignation would be accepted. A spokesman for the Senate Civil Service Subcommittee in vestigating the Farmers Home Administration said meanwhile that the Justice Department will be asked to examine testimony about heavy, drinking and po litical activities by agency officials. JUNE 21, 1956 lanes Collide Cf ij fa CORDIAL WELCOME is given Soviet Foreign Minister Shepilov (left), by Egyptian Premier Nasser as they meet in Pyramid House, Cairo. (International Soundphoto) Rehearsals Start for Shakespearean Event; Season Opens Aug. 1 Ashland Casting for the 1956 Oregon Shakespearean Festival was completed this morning, and rehearsals began this afternoon. The season opens with "Richard III" Aug. 1 and continues through Sept. 1 . Don Gunderson, Chicago, was given, the sought-alter jole of Richard in the play 'by ' that name, and 8lso will play the title role in "Titus Andronicus."J Gunderson, who played Antony in "Antony and Cleopatra" and Orlando in "As You Like It" -in 1950. is with the Goodman in stitute, associated with the Art Institute of Chicago, as an actor and director. Romeo, Juliet The title roles of Romeo and Juliet went to Ted van Griethuy- sen, student at the University of Texas, and Rosalyn Newport, Wichita, Kan., student at Carne gie Institute of Technology. ' B. Iden Payne will play the role of Friar Lawrence in "Romeo end Juliet." Former di- Wife Held in Death Of Man Near Bend Bend U.R Bobby Blake Balzhiser, 37, was shot and killed yesterday as he stood out side his estranged wife's home at Deschutes Junction seven miles north of here. Police ar rested Mrs. Jennie Bonita Bal zhiser, 40, in connection with the shooting. - Deputy Sheriff Earl Living ston said he and Balzhiser had gone to the Balzhiser home to inspect property involved in a pre-divorce settlement. Believ ing no one home Balzhiser had peered in a window and was shot by a .38 calibre revolver from inside the house. Mrs. Bal zhiser was arrested by Living ston as she ran out of the build ing. She was first lodged in Deschutes county jail and then removed to St. Charles Memor ial hospital. ' Baseball AMERICAN Boston .. 0 '4 0 Cleveland 8 8 0 Brewer, Nixon (5), Kiely (8) and White: Wynn and Hegan. Home run: Woodling. Cleve land. Baltimore ; '. 0 11 Chicago 111 Johnson, Zuverlnk (8) and Smith; Harshman and Moss. NATIONAL Milwaukee 7 13 0 Pittsburgh 2 8 3 Buhl and Rice, Kline. Mun ger (6), McMahon (8) and Foiles. Home run: Bruton, Milwaukee, Sacramento (U.R) Califor nia Treasurer Charles G. John son has charged Gov. Goodwin J. Knight with forcing him to pay off political debts to bank ers by depositing huge sums of state money in their banks. r Tribune United Prew Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 79 Seattle rector of the Shakespeare Me morial theater at Stratford-on Avon in England, professor of drama at the University of Texas and a former director, of the Shakespearean theater at San Diego, Payne is directing "Cym beline" this year. Bill Oyler, Sacramento, Calif., wa? given Aaron in "Titus" and eiottW.ln "Cymbeline." "Richard Graham.Feslival actor for'many seasons, is ill at present and was unable .to appear at try- outs. It is expected he will be cast in small roles and will con tinue as program director. (See story page 15) Ashland Hospital Directors to Meet Ashland The board of direct ors of the Southern Oregon Hos pital association will hold an organizational meeting Monday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ash land Chamber of Commerce of fice. Members of the board" Tues day night heard a report from Ben Lombard that articles of in corporation for the non-profit association have been approved by the state corporation commis sioner. . Monday's meeting will be to elect officers. Purpose of the corporation is to ascertain feasa bility of construction of a new hospital in Ashland, financed through contributions. The non-profit, community or ganization was proposed and ap proved at a town meeting last winter when more than 250 resi dents from Ashland and Talent Miss Monroe Confirms Plans for Wedding New York (U.R) Marilyn Monroe confirmed today that she plans to marry playwright Arthur Miller before July 13, when she sails for England. New Park at Camp White Laid Out Near Camp White A new park, to serve members of this Vet erans Administration domicil iary, is being laid out adjacent to the center under the aus pices of the VA Voluntary Ser vices. The eight-acre site is next to the Crater Lake highway, just to the east of the domiciliary and next to the baseball field. Water pipes have already been installed, and ground is now be ing prepared for landscaping. Many trees, shrubs, and bushes have already been donated by individuals and organizations. Planning for the park has been under way for some time. Completion of the project will depend on additional donations, including lumber, concrete and electrical equipment needed for the kitchen area and other phases of the work. Among features of the park will be a barbecue, fof which American Legion Poet IS has Kiwanis Delegates Hear Secretary Blast Communism Khrushchev's Speech 'Damning Indictment' San Francisco (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles challenged Soviet leaders today to permit free elections in Russia and Eastern Europe if they real ly believe Communism can win on its own merits. "Violence is the classic and natural tactic of Soviet Commu nism" as taught not only by Stalin but also by Lenin, Dulles said in a speech prepared for the 41st annual convention of Ki wanis International. The Soviets "would surely be tempted" to revent to violence if the free world let down its guard, Dulles warned. Why Not Give Chance? "If Communism is so good that, as its leaders say, others will freely accept it on its merits, why not give the first chance to those who know it best?" Dulles asked. Until free elections are per mitted in Russia and Eastern Eu rope, Dulles said, he free peo ples are entitled to presume that there is "something basically wrong" with the Communist system. Dulles called Communist party bos Nikita Khrushchev's speech denouncing Stalin "the most damning indictment of despotism ever made by a des pot." He said Khrushchev's speech "should of itself be sufficient to make all free peoples shun that type of despotism as they would shun a plague." Almost Traitor In Khrushchev's speech, Dulles said. Stalin emerges as a "deviationist" from Marxist doc trine, "Almost a traitor ... a man so brutal and sadistic in character as to rival one of the most evil of the Roman emper ors, Caligula." The main point In Khrush chev's speech, Dulles said, is that he exposed "the inability of the Soviet Communist system to liquidate its own evil leader ship, because it was the evil leader who had the supreme power to liquidate others." President Chosen The Kiwanis delegates chose a Salt Lake City wool grower. Reed C. Culp, to be their new president, effective Aug. 1. Culp defeated Vice-President W. Don ald Dubail, a St. Louis lawyer, in an election. The vote was not disclosed. W. H. Driver of Euclid, Ohio, and Kenneth B. Loheed of Tor onto, Ont., were named vice presidents. H. Park Arnold, Glendale, Calif., businessman, was named treasurer. At a "recognition breakfast," Claude E. Taggart, Rialto, Calif., was honored for being the 259, 000th man to join Kiwanis. Weather FORECAST: Tncmsinr cloudi ness tonight and Friday with occasional light rain hy eve lng Friday. Outlook for Sat urday, widely scattered hw ers. Low tonight 48, high 'Fri day near SO. Temp. Highest Yesterday . 73 Lowest thli Morning 44 Our Skies Tonight The Sun rises and Sets . 4:34 a.m. . 7:52 p.m. Riding high, it will be 71 de grees above the horizon at Noon. The Moon rises $;4fi.p.m. Riding low. It will be Z6 de grees above the horizon when In the south tonight. Full Moon Friday night Domiciliary donated $500, and a sundiaL donated by the Veterans of For eign Wars. In addition, it is planned to have picnic facilit ies, a drinking fountain, seats, a play area, lawns, a pond, and walkways. Two sequoia trees will be planted, one near each end of the 600 by 150 foot park plot A parking lot will be ad jacent. Mrs. Fred Lawrence is chair man of the VAVS committee which is coordinating planning for thepark. She is being assist ed By George Perry, Grants Pass, and other members of the committee include Mrs. Leo Wil liams. Mrs. Myrtle Cogcins, Mrs. Harry Birch and Mrs. Ivan Lusk. . Plans for the park have re ceived the approval of the VA in Washington, and the engin eering department of the dom iciliary is cooperating in formu lating the plans and laying out the park.