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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
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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.
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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.