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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-
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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.
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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,
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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.
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