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1 L i v wm m h n n AST FEA T 0) Art 10) ll U , P UflM UVU CM Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year 16 Pages CONSTRUCTION STARTS Ground was broken this morning for construction of the $2,000,000 Rogue Valley Memorial hospital. In the picture above. Alfred S. V. Carpenter, . on of the major donors for the hospital, is shown turning the first shoveful of sod, watched by Mrs. Carpenter and the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Dagwell, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Oregon and head of the hospital Rogue Valley Memorial Construction Formally Several hundred persons gath red at the corner of Barnett st. nd Murphy rd. at 7:30 a.m. to day for the ground breaking ceremonies of the new Rogue Valley Memorial hospital. The Rt. Rev. Benjamin D. Dagwell, president of the board of directors for the hospittal, and Mr. and Mrs. A. S. V. Car penter, directors and one of the early supporters of the hospital, turned the first shovelfuls of dirt which started the formal con struction. Band Play , Music was played by the Med ford Senior High school band di rected by John Drysdale and the Rev. Nicholas Deis, Sacred Heart church, gave the invoca tion. James J. Dunlevy. master of ceremonies, introduced Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter; Dr. L. D. In skeep. state board of health; Dr. Russell Barnes, hospital chief of staff; Dr. Edward Durno, past chief of staff; Miss B. J. Larsen, hospital administrator; Miss Ma ble Coffeen, founder of Medford Community Hospital association: Otto Frohnmayer, chairman of the fund raising campaign; Glenn Jackson, hospital board member and one of those instru mental in planning for the hos pital; George Flanagan, build ing committee; James Rowan, president of founders service group; Mrs. Shelby Tuttle. hos Where The MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1956 pital guild president; Dal Har vey, constulting engineer for Rodgers and Butler, architects; A. V. Peterson, general con tractor; the Honorable Earl Mil ler, mayor; L. G. Morthland and Chester Wendt, county commis sioners. Following the ground break First Steel Trek Back Pittsburgh CU.R) The ad vance guard of 650,000 United Steelworkers union members trooped back today to the na tion's steel mills, idle since July 1. With the end of the $2,000, 000,000 strike, steel consumers awaited word of the increase they will have to pay as their share of the settlement cost. Steel price announcements are expected, early this week. Iron Age magazine predicted boosts would be about $12 to $13 a ton. The average price now is $130 a ton. The five-week steel shutdown came to an end Sunday night as the last of the big 12 pro ducers signed contracts with the USW. The strike was the cost liest in the industry's history and it interrupted a record produc- Water Is Hot Copyright, 195S. The Pulitzer Publishing Co., St. Loui Poet-Dispatch (Heibtak is ob VacAtiaoJ board. Gathered on the platform in the rear are city and county dignitaries and members of the Founders organization of the hospital, which is composed of many of the volunteer workers who raised more than 8800,000 in cash and pledges for the project. Jimmy Dun levey, standing at microphone, was master of ceremonies. (Brainerd photo) Hospital Under Way ing the Rev. John Bright,. St. Mark's Episcopal church, gave the benediction. The new structure is estimated to cost $2,000,000 which has been raised through the federal Hill-Burton fund, a Ford founda tion grant, and individual con tributions. Workers To Mills tion boom. , Industry sources believe there is only a remote chance of equalling last year's production record of 117,000,000 ingot tons despite a record first half 62, 500,000 tons. Full capacity oper ations will not be resumed for about three weeks. Maintenance crews worked at top speeds during the week end to get the mills ready for re turning workers. U. S. Steel Corp., the nation's largest producer, began cooking coke Sunday as a prelude to steel-making. Steel will be pour ed from the giant open hearths late today or Tuesday. A U.S. Steel spokesman said the firm would reach 75 per cent of capacity next Saturday and the 90 per cent level in two weeks. He said the climb back to full capacity after the second week would be "relatively slow." Three Years of Peace The millworkers will be called back on the job as production re turns to normal. Many of the workers felt they would "make up" for five weeks lost pay in the industry's rush to catch up with orders. Industry sources have indicated steel consumer demands would keep production at full or near capacity for the remainder of the year. Under the new contracts, the nation's steel producers and mill workers were assured of three years labor peace. The no-strike ageements provide no wage re openers as those included in past collective bargaining agree ments. Funeral Tuesday for Collision Victims Klamath Falls (U.R Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Mr. and Mrs. Verbie E. Grise, of Dairy, who were two of five persons killed last Thurs day evening in a two-car colli sion on the Green Springs high way. Washington (U.R) A bill au thorizing construction of the Crooked River project near Prineville. Ore. . has been signed by President Eisenhower. Tribune United Press Full Leased Wim Price 5c No. 117 Hall Is Candidate For Council Post From First Ward Deadline for Filing For Candidacy Aug. 1 Frank Edward (Ed) Hall, 712 East Jackson st., filed his can didacy this morning for city councilman from the first ward. Hall, owner-manager of the Central Drug store at Central ave., and Main st., has been an active worker with the Unit ed Medford Crusade and the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital campaign. He seeks the position now held by John Snider. Sni der, whose term expires this year, has not yet declared his intentions to file for reelection. Resident Since 1942 Hall was born in Eugene in 1917 and has been a resident of Medford since June 1, 1942. He was graduated from Grants Pass High school and has been in the drug store business since 1936. He worked with Harold Wainscott's Pharmacy from 1942 until 1944. Between 1944 and 1946 he was a pharmacist's mate at Oak Knoll hospital, Oakland, while serving in the Navy. Hall rejoined Wainscott's in 1946 and in 1949 was elected president of the Central Drug-Wainscott's corporation. Married and the father of three children. Hall is a Mason, a Rotarian and a member of the American Legion. He has had no previous experience in public office. Deadline Aug. 31 Deadline for candidates filing for mayor and four council posi tions in Medford is Aug. 31. Terms expiring this year are now held by Mayor Earl Miller; Snider; Jack Fitzgerald, council man from Ward IV; and a ward II position left vacant when Dick Woodcock resigned because he moved from the ward. Candidates may file for the various positions with the city recorder in the Medford city hall. Wednesday, 1-5 p.m. At Elks Temple 67 Blood Donors MakeAppointments Appointments to donate blood have been made by 67 people according to the local Red Cross office. They will donate blood when the Bloodmobile arrives Wednesday, Aug. 8, at the Elks temple in Medford between 1 and 5 p.m. Those making recent appoint ments are Geraldine Myers, Charlene Gray, Mrs. R. P. Hyl- ton, Mrs. Robert Kulbe, Robert Ashenberner, Genevieve Ashen berner, Rolland Kruggel, Mary Vandenberg, Tony Gerwick, Ar thur Keith, Mrs. A. M. Farfan, Morris Jimenez, Ella Applegate, Virginia Cox, Dora Hanner, Verla Santo, Beulah Wobbe, Neva Howell, Woodrow Howell, Edward Conner Jr., and Alice Zwan. Appointments to donate blood may be made by telephoning 3-3813. Neuberger Urges Pea Virus Study Washington (U.R) Senator Richard L. Neuberger, in a let ter to Ezra Taft Benson, the sec retary of agriculture, has urged expansion of facilities for study ing the pea virus problems ana other pea diseases threatening the quarter million acres planted in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Weather FORECAST Fair and miW throuch Ttiesdav. Low tonight Si. High Tuesday 88. Temp. Lowest this morning 52 Highest yesterday 82 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:09 a.m. 7:25 p.m. 7:20 p.m. . Auj. 13 Sunset . Moonsct First Quarter . ..- PROMINENT STARS: AnUrfs. low in south west 11:02 p.m. Can!la. riM - 11:08 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS: Saturn, in the southwest 9:47 p.m Mars, in the southeast 12:18 x.m. Venus. ries 2:25 a.m. Nasser Summons Cabinet Meeting; Decision Waited Egyptian President Holds Consultations Cairo, Egypt (U.R) Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser called an extraordinary meeting of his Cabinet tonight at which it was expected a decision would be made on whether to attend the Suez conference in London Aug. 16. The Cabinet meeting was ad vanced 24 hours to deal with the conference issue. Informed sources said it would be the "crucial culmination" of Nas ser's talks with his ministers and foreign diplomatic envoys in the last few days. Those talks included, it was said, consultations with Russia on military plans to counter what Egyptians termed British and French "warlike" reactions to nationalization of the Suez Canal. Egypt mobilized student mili tary trainees and National Guard reserve officers and vol unteers began emergency mili tary training at National Guard camps throughout the country. Nasser met three times over the week end with Soviet Am bassador Evgueney Kisselev and with Maj. Gen. Abdel Hakim Amer, commander of the joined armed forces of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Yemen. Military Discussion Seen Informed sources took it for granted they talked about the possibility of Western military intervention and said the biggest question was whether Nasser was trying to bring Russia into his military plans to counter the Anglo-French military moves. Nasser also consulted closely with his two neutralist allies, India and Yugoslavia. He met three times with Indian Ambas sador Nawab Aly Yavar Jung, and with Yugoslavia's Josip Djerdja. Reclamation Office Expansion Slated The Medford office ,-of-the U.S. bureau of reclamation has been named administrative of fice for projects in central and western Oregon, will be expand ed in size, and moved into a building at the Camp White domiciliary, it was announced today. James A. Callan, engineer in charge of planning for the Tal ent project, will head the ex panded office, which within a year is expected to have a total personnel of between 60 and 70 persons. A number of adminis trative and engineering em ployees have been arriving in recent weeks, in anticipation of construction of the Talent proj ect, and now total about 20 persons, Callan reported. The office will be moved into Building 234, a two-story brick structure at the Veterans Ad ministration station, tomorrow, Callan said. Administrative and design functions will be con ducted there not only for the Talent project and the Savage Rapids Dam fish screening work, but also for the bureau on the Deschutes, Waupinitia and Cres cent lake projects In central Oregon. Detailed planning has been completed on many phases of the Talent project, and bids have been opened on several. It is believed that work can begin immediately after an election scheduled Aug. 22 at which time landowners of the Talent Irri gation district will pass on a repayment contract between the district and the bureau. County Court Opens Crawler Tractor Bids Bids were opened at 10 a.m. Monday by the county court for a crawler tractor of 103 horse power with dozer blade to be used by the Highway depart ment. c P " JUBILEE DRAWS CROWD The ninth annual Jacksonville Gold Rush Jubilee, which started Friday and concluded Sun day, drew the usual crowd of visitors numbering well over 1,000. A varigjy of "QQt ecoaeseiPBa, enterUipuEsnt acts, ft r x tW - & V?- 1 '- f .. I i s i . - F if 4 MORSE VISITS MUSEUM Sen. Wayne Morse, left, and Clyde Fichtner, president of the Jackson county Democrats social club, pause outside the door of the former Jackson county jail at Jacksonville, now part of the museum. Morse, who made two campaign speeches in Medford Saturday, and Robert D. Holmes, Democratic candidate for governor, spent the afternoon at the Jacksonville Gold Rush Jubilee. They visited the museum and talked with Jubilee visitors. SP to Present Case At Hearing Tuesday The Southern Pacific railroad will present its case for its aban donment of southern Oregon rail passenger service tomorrow. Officials of the railroad and its attorneys will appear at the sec ond phase of a public hearing conducted by the staff of the Ore gon Public Utilities Commission er. It will open at 10 a.m. Tues day in the federal courtroom in the post office. The case was brought before the PUC by three Oregon state senators, all attorneys, after the SP ended its last passenger serv ice to this area, a one-a-day train between Portland and Ashland. The senators are Philip B. Lowry of Medford, Gene Brown of Grants. Pass, and Paul Geddes of Roseburg. Stassen's Motive Seen by McCarthy Washington (U.R) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today ac cused Harold E. Stassen of launching his dump Nixon cam paign in an effort to become "heir apparent to President Eis enhower as the leader of the left wing of the GOP." McCarthy said Stassen, who is trying to block Vice President Richard M. Nixon's renomina tion, is "one of the most con temptible politicians of our era." The Wisconsin Republican ex pressed regret that he supported Stassen for the GOP presidential nomination in 1948. "There is.no heir apparent to President Eisenhower as the leader of the left wing of the GOP," McCarthy said in a state ment. "Stassen believes that his attack on Nixon will give him a large head start over his riv als." McCarthy predicted the GOP and the voters will dump Stas sen . "into political oblivion, which is where he has belonged for some time." : Salem (U.R) Carl E. Green of Portland has been reappointed a member of the air pollution authority of Oregon. In a complaint filed with the PUC, the senators declared the railroad, as a public utility sub ject to public control, must in fact be subject to that control through the public utilities com missioner acting on behalf of the people. They also maintain that the SP is required to proving pas senger service under the terms of its original franchise, and not only passenger service, but good passenger service. Cites Ruling Senator Lowry said today that in a recent ruling, the U. S. su preme court held that a railroad cannot look at a single phase of its operations from a profit and loss standpoint, but must con sider the overall operating pic ture. The senator said testimony by the railroad tomorrow is apt to be somewhat technical in nature, substantiating its original claim that the passenger train was a money-losing proposition due to lack of patronage, the only rea son cited for ending the service. He added that the SP has ask ed a ruling to permit it to take take testimony from witnesses at times arid places other than at the public hearing, and have them made part of the record of the hearing a proposal to which he and his colleagues have ob jected. Other Side Given Clifford Ferguson, head of the rail transportation division of the state PUC office, will con duct the hearing, assisted by a rate specialist in his department. He is expected to rule on the SP's request. The senators' side of the mat ter presented on behalf of the public, was given at an earlier hearing in Medford. The second phase originally was to have been held in Grants Pass, but was moved to Medford when the SP asked a postponement. Senator Lowry pointed out that he expects the SP to take advantage of all legal technical ities available, in that it has a full-time staff of legal personnel, while the three state senators are handling their side of the matter as an unpaid public service. music, parades and contests attracted guests from many dis tant points. Shirley May Lilly reigned over the festivities as queen. The event was sponsored by Talent, Crater, Medford and Jac&osvilk Ljoru clubs. Iraq, Syria Backing Of Canal Seizure Arouses British Fleet Leaves Naples On Routine 'Exercise' London U.R! A second Brit ish aircraft carrier left today for the troubled Eastern Mediterran ean where Iraq's action support ing Egyptian seizure of the Suez Canal aroused fears that Western oil interests may be next on the list for nationalization. In Damascus, all Syrian news papers carried an official an nouncement by an Army spokes man that Syria has mobilized its armed forces "to face all possi bilities at the side of Egypt." The leader of Syria's Moslems an nounced simultaneously that "a holy Arab war against the West will be legal if the West attacks Egypt in the dispute over the Suez Canal." Unit of the U. S. Sixth Fleet pulled out of Naples this morn ing for "routine" exercises and a French naval force stood by at Toulon ready to leave on "eight hours notice." The 22.000-ton British Air craft carrier Bulwark sailed from Portsmouth for the Medi terranean with an air group in cluding jet-powered Seahawk fighters and helicopters. At the same timp n shine nf the U. S. Sixth Fleet, headed by me ja.BOO-ton aircraft carrier Randolph, sailed from Naples for an undisclosed drstinalinn TT s Navy spokesmen tried to mini mize movements of the Sixth Fleet, but Rome dinlnmafm iV cles presumed that the elements wmch sailed this morning were headed in the seneral direction of Suez. Soviet Fleet Moves Later, a Navv snokesman saiH the ships would be out for "sev eral days' 'on a routine exercise. The sailing from Naples coin cided with banner lines in the Kome afternoon newspaper Mo-mento-Sera over a London dis patch saying, "Soviet warfleet en route to Arabian ports while British ships go to Cyprus." Earlier, Cairo newspapers bannerlined reports from Damas cus that the Soviet Union had asked permission of the Arab governments for Soviet warships to visit their ports starting Aug. 13, the day before the scheduled opening of the Suez conference in London. The government of Iraq is sued a communiaue on th Supi situation in which it said it stands behind Egypt" in the pres ent crisis, although it added it hODed "wisdom wnillri nro,Mil The move by Iraq, a member of me pro-western Baghdad pact and considered Rrilnin'c cfivtn,- est friend in the Mideast, was considered a major blow. The action arnneori frn- iM some British quarters that the Arab states might start a move ment to nationalize the vast Western oil holdin fe in tho Twid dle East. These holdings include American as well as British in terests. , Girls Hurt Policeman After School Escape Portland (U.R) Two teen aged girls, escapees from a Port land industrial school, forced a mother and two children from their home and wounded a spe cial police officer yesterday be fore they were apprehended. The girls, armed with butcher knives, were among four who es caped from St. Rose industrial school yesterday afternoon. One is still at large. Special Officer Donald Adams was slashed on the hand by one of the girls wielding r. long butcher knife when he attempt ed to take them into custody in the attic of the Donald John son home. Mrs. Johnson and her two children were frightened from their home by the fugitive girls. Adams said one of the girls slashed slashed him with the knife and the other kicked him in the stomach. He was forced to handcuff them. 1 1 hi-. .
