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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1956)
u S A mm i - Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year 22 Paget Russia Supports Egypt In Suez Canal Dispute fkji " P Q PREPARING FOR FAIR There's lots of cleaning and repair work to be done before the annual 4-H and FFA fair gets under way Tuesday. Above Galen Clifford, left, and Jack Esp, center, spread gravel from a road McKay Says Wrong Dala Given on Salvage Timber Portland (U.R) Douglas Mc Kay, Republican candidate for U.S. Senator, today acknowl edged erroneous information con cerning recent developments In regulations for the sale of Smith river salvage timber. McKay said at Reedsport and Coos Bay earlier this week that he did not believe a Bureau of Land Management order pro vided for lifting of marketing area restrictions before loggers within the area had an oppor tunity to bid. He Was Wrong . ". : "I was wrong," McKay said. "The order of July 27.' 1956, provides that O&C marketing re quirements are waived to the ex tent that windthrown, insect damaged or fire-killed timber or other salvaged material together with such minimum amounts of Intermingled or adjacent green timber as are necessary for eco nomic operations may be manu factured in any O&C marketing area which has been established by the secretary of the interior or the director. Bureau of Land Management." Needlessly Worried McKay said, however, that BLM informed him that Coos Bay area loggers who fear this salvage regulation will be used to circumvent marketing area re strictions on green timber are needlessly worried. "There are 284 million board feet of salvage timber in the Smith river drainage," McKay said. "Initial sales will be readily accessible and will be almost 100 per cent salvage timber. Fewer Complaints Received About Mosquitoes Recently Fewer complaints about mos quitoes have been received re cently than earlier in the season, according to B. H. Hart, county sanitarian. , Hart said lower temperatures and dry soil conditions as well as effective chemical controls have been responsible for de cline in the number of mosqui toes. Crews have been using resid ual DDT to kill larvae in ponds. To combat adult mosquitoes, they have been "smoking" with DDT and oil in heat units. Smok ing is effective. Hart said, but its effects last only a few hours. Meanwhile county workers have deposited "tosseU" in irrigation ditches and small streams. Tos Mt tre ,hf-''fc eajaulee eoa- MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1956 Exhibits Expected to Arrive Sunday for County 4-H, FFA Fair Exhibits are expected to start arriving at the Jackson county fairgrounds south of Medford Sunday, and judging will start Monday in the annual 4-H Fu ture Farmers of America fair. Members of county 4-H clubs Four Appear Today In Circuit Court Jerry Edward Bandfield, 22, of Omaha, Neb., was sentenced today in circuit court to 20 years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to a district at orney's information charging rape. Bandfield was arrested several weeks ago by Medford city po lice. He was sent to the state mental hospital at Salem before the sentence was imposed. Mrs. Don (Mona Mae) McAl lister, 18, of 1167V4 North Main St., Ashland, was given a sus pended two - year penitentiary sentence after pleading guilty to a district attorney's information charging larceny in a building. Ralph Wendell Wier, 20, of route 1, box 375, Medford, en tered a plea of guilty when he appeared this morning for ar raignment on a charge of burg lary. Judge H. K. Hanna ordered him sent to the state mental hos pital for an examination. Bert C. Rostel Sr., 54, address not given, entered a plea of inno cent when he appeared for ar raignment on a charge of failure to provide for wife. Bail was set at $500. Date for the trial has not been set. taining a substances which is fa tal to mosquitoes. The capsules melt and release the poison when temperature of the water reaches the hatching point for mosquitoes. " Hart also reminded residents that rats are more able to mi grate during dry weather when streams are low.. He cautioned homeowners to make sure no food is left around uncovered. This includes chicken feed and other types of farm animal food. He explained that uncovered food attracts rats but rats will leave an area as soon as avail able food disappears. He also urged homeowners to maintain proper drainage, which is an essential element in com batting rats and insects, includ i2 isofquitoee asd flies. through one of the main shelters at the fair grounds. David Hughes supervises at right. All three boys are members of the Eagle Point High school Future Farmers of Amer ica chapter. and FFA units this week pre pared the fairgrounds for the five-day event, which will in clude the annual market live stock auction and a style review. Demonstrations Held Demonstrations in home mak ing, sewing and food preserva tion by 4-H members were held early this week at the county courthouse auditorium. Demon strations were held earlier, county agents said, to prevent confusion during the fair and to prevent conflicts in judging schedules since many of the members enter exhibits in live stock divisions. ' Among events in connection with the fair will be the 4-H Horse club horse show starting at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19, at the fairgrounds. Club mem bers will compete in a judging contest, a horsemanship contest, and will show how horses can be used either as trail or stock horses. Bob Fisher of Medford and Vic Stewart of Ashland are lead ers of the two clubs competing. Judging Exhibits Judging of home economics exhibits will start at 9 a.m. Mon day, and exhibits must be in place Sunday to be considered in class competition. . Tuesday judging will include home economics exhibits, style review judging, clothing judg ing contest, rabbit judging and contest, poultry judging and contest, food and food preserva tion judging contests, and show manship contest in poultry and rabbits. Wednesday events include crops and forestry judging con tests, livestock judging contest market, and beef fitting and showmanship. . Swine and sheep judging and showmanship and beef judging will be held Thursday, and dairy judging and the livestock auc tion will be held Friday. Saturday, the last day of the fair, there will be dairy show manship, agriculture demonstra tions, the tractor driving contest at 2:30 p.m., sheep shearing con test at 2:30 p.m., and at 7:30 p.m. the style review and special awards program is scheduled. SEEK HOUSING Houses and apartments to rent are being sought for new teach ers, according to Medford school district officials. Many teachers will begin to arrive in the next two weeks. Officials noted that moderately priced housing for them has often been a problem in the past. Individuals having housing available are asked to call the school office, telephone 3-3653. ' , Tribune United Press Full Leased Win Price 5c No. 127 Shepilov Defends Nasser's Seizure Of Vital Waterway Pineau Proposes World Recognition London (U.R) Russia threw its weight behind Egypt in .the Suez canal dispute today, charg ing that the old Suez canal com pany was a "stronghold of colo nialism in Egypt." Soviet Foreign Minister Dmi tri Shepilov defended the legal ity of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's seizure of ' the canal and renewed his demand that a new parley be organized, with Egypt included. Shepilov addressed the 22-na-tion Suez conference after For eign Minister Christian Pineau of France 1 proposed that the world recognize Egyptian own ership of the canal and eventual ly turn all profits from its oper ation over to Egypt in return for international control. Wants Commission The French offer went consid erably further than did Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles in his opening speech Thursday but it still refused to accept Nas ser's stand that Egypt alone would control the vital water way. Shepilov suggested appoint ment of a six-nation commis sion to organize the new Suez parley. He said it should be composed of Egypt, India, United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union, three from each' camp. Nasser, in rejecting Egypts invitation to the present confer ence, also had demanded a larg er conference, and Russia earlier had proposed that the confer ence be enlarged to 46 nations. with a preponderance on the side of Egypt. Meanwhile, the Egyptian gov ernment stepped up the pace of its preparedness to defend its seizure of the canal by force if necessary. Egypt Gels Arms ' It permitted publication of the fact that two Russian ships loaded with arms for Egypt ar rived in Alexandria Wednesday. It also was revealed for the first time that two other arms ships had arrived a week ago from Czechoslovakia. There was no information about the quantity or type of arms involved. Huckleberry Picking Said To Be Below Par Portland (U.R) The United States forest service said today that huckleberry picking will be below par this year, in nearby national forests, due to the se vere winter. Buttons' Banners Bandages Adhesive Tape" Eisenhower-Nixon Victory Predicted By GOP Official Net Gain Also Seen For Seats in Senate San Francisco (U.R) Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel, chairman of the GOP Senatorial Campaign committee, said today there is "no doubt in my mind" that President Eisenhower again wants Richard M. Nixon as his vice presidential running mate. The Kansas Republican told a news conference that he feels Mr. Eisenhower has "been awful ly forthright" in incidating his preference for Nixon. He said he thought the Eisenhower Nixon ticket would be renomin ated without question and would win again in November. Schoeppel also predicted a "net gain'" of four or five Sen ate seats for the Republicans in the November balloting. But he conceded that some of the seats they now hold, notably Ohio, are in danger. Staesen Heads West Meantime, Harold E. Stassen headed west for thjs GOP con vention city today to take over his headquarters aimed at dump ing Nixon in favor of - Gov. Christian A. Herter of Massa chusetts. Although Stassen ap peared undaunted before he left Washington, top GOP strate gists here were virtually unani mous in predicting Nixon's easy renomination. They considered generally that Herter's statement taking himself out of any consideration for the vice presidency virtually sewed up Nixon's position. . Schoeppel told the press con ference that the nomination of Adlai E. Stevenson by the Demo crats in. Chicago was "good news" because "they nominated a loser. We beat him once and well beat him again." Nixon Due Saturday ' Nixon was flying to Los An geles today to visit his ailing father and will arrive here by air Saturday. A huge demon stration has been planned, with a motorcade from International Airport to the Mark Hopkins hotel, across the street from the GOP convention headquarters. Three Timber Tracts Offered for Sale Three tract of timber killed or damaged, in the Sykes creek fire, totalling 4,900,000 board feet of Douglas fir and pine, are being advertised for sale by the bureau of land management. The sale will be Aug. 30 in the Medford BLM office. The three tracts are the last of the timber damaged by fires last September. The other fire killed timber totalling about 15 million board feet has been sold and removed or is being re moved. All three tracts are classified as salvage and consequently may be manufactured in any O and C marketing area in accordance with the BLM ruling last month. The largest sale consists most ly of timber on land that until the O and C-Forest service land exchange last June was under the jurisdiction of Rogue River National forest. The purchaser of the timber will be required to reforest the burn area with ponderosa pine seedlings. A - "-f iff THE DEMOCRATS' TEAM Sen. Estes Kefauver, left, is shown chatting with Adlai Stevenson shortly before Kefauver was named to be Stevenson's running mate on the Democratic presi dential ticket in November. Kefauver -was named on the second ballot after a lively session at the party's Chicago convention today. Negotiations Start Between Commission, Brothers for Title Two representatives of the state highway commission met here for about one hour yester day with Robert Stumbo, one of four brothers claiming own ership of a portion of U.S. High way 99, and his attorneys, Frank VanDyke and Jim McGoodwin of Medford. , VanDyke said . this morning that negotiations have started toward obtaining a clear title to the highway strip for the com mission. . The brothers blocked 18V4 feet of Highway 99 in Douglas county north of Glendale last Sunday. They claimed the prop erty was purchased by their fa ther about 40 years ago. and the state failed to make settlement with the heirs when the high way construction began in 1947. The attorney said it was a "friendly meeting" but said any further report of what tran spired at the session would be violation of his client's confi dence.' Grants Authority Portland (U.R) The state highway commission has grant ed its legal department author ity to condemn, if necessary, BLM Forester Takes Michigan Position Wayne W. Gaskins, assistant district forester with the Med ford offfice of the bureau of land management, has resigned to accept an assistant professor position at Michigan State uni versity. The resignation became effective Aug. 10. Gaskins, in the new position, will be assigned to the National university at -Medellin, Colum bia, where he will be forestry education advisor, and lecturer and watershed management ad visor to the ministry of Kagri culture. The activities were arranged by an agreement sponsored by the foreign operations adminis tration of the state department between the university and Columbia. While here, Gaskins was re sponsible for the forest inven tory and long range planning activities of O and C and public domain lands in this area. He also was the newly elected chairman of the Siskiyou chap ter of the Society of American Foresters. He had been with the local office for the past 114 years. Weather FORECAST: Fair through Sat urday. Low tonight S3. Hlje Saturday 92. . Temp. Highest Yeterday ' Lowest this Morning 4 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise ' 536 ajn. . 7:10 p.m. Sunset . Moonset Saturday -2: aum.. Full Moon : Tueiday Venus rlsei 2:15 a.m. nd If now mo vim aear'Al hena, third brightest star of the constellation, Gemini. - In October we will see Venus near Regulus, brightest star of Leo. I the 16-foot fragment of U.S. claimed Highway 99 recently by the Stumbos. Robert May, assistant legal counsel for the commission, said the claim of the Stumbos arose from a lane that crossed the re located Pacific highway in Douglas county. . . - ' May said: "It was concluded, erroneously : perhaps, that no right of way negotiations -were necessary." The Stumbos have asked the Douglas county court that their strip of the north-south arterial be declared a toll road. Langley Seeks Jury Indictment Dismissal Portland U.R Multnomah County District Attorney Wil liam M. Langley filed motions late yesterday to set aside indict ments returned against him by the grand, jury, which recently completed its investigation of vice charges here. ,' Langley was . indicted on charges of malfeasance in office and conspiracy to commit a fel ony. Langley based his motions, filed with the county clerk, on these points: 1. The bills of indictment were not submitted to the grand jury, as required by Oregon law, be fore the final indictments were returned. He contends that the grand jury heard a multitude of evidence before specific charges were formulated into indict ments. 2. "Private prosecutors" were not named as such on the in dictments. Langley charged that some of the witnesses appeared to demand prosecution and oth ers appeared as voluntary wit nesses. 3. All witnesses were not list ed on the indictments. Oregon law requires that all persons list ed as witnesses involved in spe cific indictments shall be named on the indictments. Nicosia, Cyprus U:R) Brit ish officials today' accepted a "peace" offer by the EOKA un derground with reservations. But they prepared to reopen negotiations on Cyprus' future if the offer proved genuine. Morse Says Rivers-Harbors Bill Veto 'Unjustified' Tillamook, Ore. (U.R) Sen, Wayne More (D-Ore.) said today that President Eisenhower's veto of a bill containing the $20,000, 000 Yaquina Bay harbor im provement project was "unjusti fied." -, Morse, carrying his campaign for reelection to the Oregon coast, said the proposed im provement had been thoroughly investigated by Army engineers and approved by the Board of Review, for Rivers and Harbors. Morse said "despite the Presi dent's politically conceived re mark that his veto would not delay any seeded projects, I tin Victory Comes On Second Ballot As Votes Switched Second Round Ended -With Kennedy Ahead Chicago U.R) The Demo crats today nominated Sen. Es tes Kefauver of Tennessee to be Adlai E. Stevenson's running mate In the 1956 presidential campaign against the Republi cans. Kefauver won the nod on the second ballot in the first open- . The text of Adlai Steven ion's speech throwing the Democratic vie presidential nomination open, along with other Democratic convention news, will be found on page 11. convention selection of a vice . presidential candidate in the his tory of modern politiccs. Kefauver s victory resulted from a tide of vote switches aft er the second roll call had end ed with Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts in the lead but lacking a majority. In the vote switching that fol lowed Kefauver's home state of Tennessee, which had disowned him previously in this conven tion, made it all up to him. It changed its 32 votes from Sen. Albert Gore, also a Tennessean, to Kefauver at Gore's request. Kefauver had led on the first ballot but the 483V4 votes he got then were far. short of the 686V4 needed to nominate. In the second ballot Kennedy jumped into the lead. He held it for a while in the early switches, but Kefauver soon got it back. Stevenson last night smashed precedent by refusing to hand pick his running mate. Kefauver, who used to be candidate for the presidential nomination - and made a long and hard fight in state primaries, had the biggest organization set- up for the vice, presidential ruckus. Kefauver piled up the great est number of votes on the first ballot, but his 483 'i was far short of the 686V4 necessary to nominate. The first ballot gave these votes: Kefauver 483 VS: Sen. John F. Kennedy (Mass.) 304; Sen. Hu bert Humphrey (Minn.) 134V4; Sen. Albert Gore (Tenn.) 178; Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York 162VS; Gov. LeRoy Collins of Florida 1V4; Gov. Frank G. Clement of Tennessee 13 V4, oth ers 91 V4, not voting 3. Six-Month Traffic Accidents Said 29,699 Salem (U.R) More than 29,- 000 traffic accidents occurred on Oregon streets and highways during the first six months of 1956, the State Motor Vehicle Department reported today. The exact count was 29,600, comparing with 29,587 for the same period last year. The final six month figure will undoubt edly be higher, officials said. when late-arriving accident re ports from outlying areasa are tallied. A total of 7,315 persons have been injured in traffic crashes so far this year, slightly fewer than for the same period last year. Man Fined, Sentenced In District Court Joseph Martin Smith, 44, 2425 Table Rock rd., was fined $225, his right to apply for a driver's license was suspended for 90 days and he. was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail when he pleaded guilty in district court Thursday to driving while under the influence of liquor. Smith's jail sentence was or dered suspended upon payment of the fine. He was arrested Wed nesday by state police. tell the people of Lincoln coun ty that the Yaquina bay im provement will be held up for at least a year by the veto." He said he would work in the Senate next year to get repassage of the improvement. Morse also said that "only through the efforts of Senator Neuberger and myself' was the project passed . by Congress. "The full story of Yaquina Bay is an illuminating example of how Oregonians are being let down by their Republican office holders, who later congratulate themselves publicly for ac complishments with which they had little to do."
