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Subscribers Recommended Medford To report Improper or non-delivery ot thm Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 pm. daily and 1030 a.m Sunday. Ii regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. A featura story about the 4-H rlQb demonstrations and contest ta home cronomlci appears on pac 14 of today'! MaH Tribune. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year 32 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1956 Price 5c No. 123 mJTRIBUNE i I , Vk vr GRANVIL BRITTSAN Announce! Candidacy Landis-Shangle Photo Brittsan Announces Candidacy for Post In Medford Council Third Person to Seek Ward I Position Granvil Brittsan, 42, of 1129 Niantic St., announced Saturday that petitions nominating him for councilman from Ward 1 will be filed Monday. .'He is' the third person to an- nounce-Jor that office. The oth ers are Ed Hall and Bob Mcln- tyre. Brittsan ran unsuccessfuly for the same post four years - ago against John Snider, who this' year is the only announced can didate for mayor. Brittsan is married and the father of two sons, Darrel, 21, now a senior and president of the student body at the Univer sity of Oregon, and Granvil Jr., 18. Salesman Here He is a salesman for the Broer Wholesale Grocery company. A native of Wimer, he has lived ail his life in Jackson county, and has resided in the city of Medford since 1927. The candidate has served on the city budget committee for the past four years. A veteran of the 1st Cavalry division during its South Pacific campaign dur ing World War II, Brittsan is a member of the American Legion. He also belongs to several orders of Masonry and the Shrine. He was a co-founder and first president of the annual Pear tjlossom Festival associa tion here. Seven From Area To Attend Convention Seven Jackson county resi ents have left for San Francisco to attend the Republican Nation al convention in the Cow Palace. County Judge Rodney Keat ing, official delegate, planned to leave by car early this morning. Mrs. Kathleen Bash, an alternate, and her family left by car Wed nesday and Robert Dickey, an other alternate, left late Friday afternoon. - - Mrs. Wayne Stine, vice presi dent of the Jackson county Re publican women, left Friday. She will represent the organization at the convention. Mrs. Robert Keeney, president of the Jackson county Republi can women, also has tentative plans for traveling to San Fran cisco early this week. She is re covering from an illness and may not be able to attend the conven tion, she said. Sports Bulletins Medford Cheney Studs de feated Coquille 13 to 8 her last night to run their South ern Oregon league baseball record to IS wins against sev en losses. Coquille tallied three runs in the first inning and the Studs cam back to score 13 markers before the Loggers got another counter. The Studs got six runs in the fifth inning. The two . club wind up league play with a gam at 2 p.m. today. Portland (U.R) Derald Swift of Vale ran 52 yards for touchdown in the third quar ter and Jerry Doman of On tario kicked the extra point to give the Slate squad a 7 to S nod over Merto last night in the ninth annual Shrine high school all-star football game in Multnomah stadium. Herman McKinney from Washington high skirted and with 55 sec onds left in the first half for the Metro score. Sacramento (U.R) The Hollywood Stars walloped four horn runs last night and held efi a late Saramento rally to edge tha Solon 7-6. Goal off $117,175 For United Crusade ' Goal for the 1956-57 United Medford Crusade is 5117,175, a 7V4 per cent increase over the 1955-56 goal, when S114.353.75 was collected, according to Sam Hersh, campaign chairman. General solicitations in all di visions, except for home crusade and rural, will start Sept 17, when the campaign committee will hold a dinner meeting. A training film and a speaker will be featured and campaign sup plies issued. Approved Budget Approved budget for the 1956- 57 campaign is: Albertina Kerr homes, $2,147; American Cancer society, $4;800; American Red Cross; $20,500: American Social Hygiene association, S70; Arth ritis and Rheumatism founda tion, $775: Boys' and Girls' Aid society, $2,976.50; Boy Scouts, Crater Lake area council, $13 750; Camp Fire Girls, Rogue council, $1,750; and Catholic Services for Children, $1,580. Child Guidance Clinic of Southern Oregon, $3,400; Chil dren's Farm home, $1,134; Christie Home for Girls, $293; Girl Scouts, Rogue Valley area council, $10,000; Mental Health association of Oregon, $896; Ore gon Prison association, $421.60; Our Lady of Providence Nurs ery, $963; St. Mary's Home for Boys, $453; and St. Rose Intius trial school, $793. Salvation Army White Shield home, $962.50; Salvation Army, Medford citadel, $15,700; United Service Organizations, $2,018.60, Volunteer's of America Mothers and Childrens home, $363; Wav erly Baby home, $877; YMCA, youth and government program, $48; YMCA. Medford, $18,500; reserve to cover uncollectable pledges. $3,500: and campaign and administrative expenses, 58,500. -Training Meetings Hersh said recruitment of workers for divisions, with the exception of the home crusade and rural divisioa,.may. be com--, pleted by Sept. 1: At least one training meeting for each divi sion is planned between Sept. 1 and 15. Division chairmen will meet each week from Sept. 24 through Oct. 29, or until the Judge Latourette Dies in Hospital Portland (U.R) Oregon Supreme Court Judge Earl C. Latourette died in a' Portland hospital Saturday at the age of 67.. ,. . " Judge Latourette had been a member of the state supreme court since his appointment in 1950. He served as Chief Justice from 1952 to 1954. '" He was born in Oregon City in 1889 and the family still maintained their home there. In 1931 he was appointed to the Circuit Counrt in Clackamas county!-' Judge Latourette was hospi talized earlier this year but re turned to the bench several months ago and kept his place there until about two weeks ago. Edwin Roberts Named Circulation Manager San Francisco (U.R) Charles Thieriot, editor and publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, announced the appointment Fri day of Edwin H. Roberts as cir culation director of the news paper. Roberts fills the post left' va cant by the death of F. M. Thier iot last month in the collision between the liners Andrea Doria and Stockholm. Thieriot and his wife were aboard the Andrea Doria which sank after the col lision. Roberts was a native of Mackay, Idaho. He grew up in Portland, and following his graduation from Portland uni versity, joined the staff of the Portland Oregonian where he became assistant city circulation manager. He joined the" Chronicle in 1955 and was appointed East Bay circulation manager last February. Neuberger Criticizes Project Statements Washington U.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (Dem.-O.) Saturday criticized statements charging that addition of the Yaquina Bay Harbor project to the omnibus public works bill in the Senate was instrumental in causing President Eisenhow er s veto of the bilL campaign is complete. Recruit ment for the home crusade and rural division will begin about Oct. 1, according to Hersh. . Solicitations for the home crusade and rural divisions will begin about Nov. 1, Hersh said. Work in the divisions, he ad ded, may conclude in one week. If the solicitation in' other divi sions is concluded early, he said, work of residential solicitation may start earlier. NEW ASSISTANT Gilbert J. Gutjahr, 27. of 135 North Colum bus ave assumed his duties Wednesday as administrative assistant to City Manager Rob ert Duff. He previously has been doing graduate work at the Uni versity of Oregon. (Brainerd Photo). Taft Man Drowns In Boat Mishap Taft, Ore. (U.R) One man was drownedand two other per sons were presumed drowned yesterday afternoon when two private fishing boats capsized as the approached the Siletz bar at Taft on' an ebb tide. Roy Smith, about 45, of Cutler City, was drowned. His teen age son, Ron Smith, and Wendell Kuhlman, about 40, of Delake, were both still missing and pre sumed to be drowned. Two other members of the fishing party were saved, wit nesses said, through the efforts of Russ Bailey, the. owner of a boat moorage at Taft. The accident occurred about 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Mrs. Letha Davidson, owner of the Taft cafe, watched the two boats as they approached the bar and capsized. Bids for Bear Creek Work Are Invited Bids for construction of bank protection work along the left bank of Bear creek will be opened in the Portland office of the Army corps of engineers at 2 p.m., Aug. 28, according lo district engineer, Colonel Jack son Graham. Bids "were originally asked July 16, and were opened Aug. 1. Failure to obtain right of way caused delay in awarding the contract, and bids were can celled. The work calls for 5.620 cubic yards of excavation, 500 cubic yards of embankment from gravel borrow and 4,020 cubic yards of dumped stone revet ment. 14 Killed, 37 Injured In Manila Accident Manila (U.R) Fourteen persons were killed Friday and 37 injured, most of them seri ously, when a bus racing with two others ran off the road and overturned in a ditch south of Manila. Most of the passengers were students on their way to classes in Manila. Weather FORECAST: Variable cloudiness today and tomorrow with like lihood of afternoon or eve ning thnnderuorm activity hoth days. Hi eh today 90-92, low tonight 55, high Monday 85-90. Temp. Htehert Yesterday 92 Lowest Yesterday 54 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . 5:22 a.m. 7.0? a.m. 5:56 p.m. Sunset The Moon rises .. Sets Monday 4:43 a.m. and w ill he Full Tuesday a.m, MBRCt'RY, setting soon after sunset. Is now making a brief appearance as an evening star. In October it will be seen as a morning star with Venus and Jupiter. '' ; ... hm"- . ! .c i . Dulles Reported to Have Compromise Plan for Dispute 'Merges' Conflicting Proposals at London London U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was reported last night to have com pleted a compromise '"break" plan for solving the Suez canal dispute. The plan has been sent to the (21. other conference deleg ates for immediate considera tion, according to informed sources who said it "merges" conflicting proposals made by Western and Soviet delegates earlier during the first three days of the conference. The sources did not give de tails of the plan nor say how Dulles hoped to bridge the gap over who will control the day-to-day operations of the inter national waterway. . Meets Soviets He met with the Soviet del egate before Saturday's session and with the French and Brit ish delegates before and after it. Saturday Britain rejected a Soviet bid for an expanded Suez canal conterence and served notice it will hold its position in the dispute "regardless of the odds." ' . -. ; Dulles hoped he would get answers to his new proposal when the conference resumes Monday. . The sources said the plan was a "draft resolution" framed pre sumably for adoption by the conference and transmission to Egypt. It was said to follow the four main principles laid down in Dulles' opening speech Thursday. This would include an inter national board to operate the canal the key of the dispute with Egypt. Ambush-Connected With Riesel Attack New York U.R1 A beer truck driver with a police record was killed Saturday in an am bush which police said might be an aftermath to the acid attack on labor columnist Victor Riesel. Police feared the ambush slaying of Fred Mischner, 26, may have been another move by the same underworld figures who last robnth murdered the hoodlum' who . threw, acid in Riesel's . face' blinding him last April 5. ' Mischner was shot four times by a gunman waiting in the hall way of the tenement where he lived. , ' Abraham Telvi, 21, a petty hoodlum named by the FBI as Riesel's assailant, was found sprawled in the gutter, a bullet in his ' head, only six blocks away, on July 28. Medford Father, Son Get Holes-ln-One In Same Round Thursday Mill Valley. Calif (U.R) A father and son golf twosome both made a hole-in-one during the same round Thursday at the Mill Valley golf course, a sporty redwood empire lay out. Roy Gilbertson. principal ef the Lincoln elementary school at Madford, Ore., got his ace on the 250-yard first hole with a No. 2 wood shot. His 11-year-old son. John Paul, holed out in one with a No. 3 wood shot on tha 134-yeard eighth hole. Both aces were witnessed by a threesoma behind the Gilbert- Hansen Takes Minnesota Position Clifford Hansen, executive of the Crater Lake Area council of Boy Scouts for the past 8V4 years, has accepted a position in Minne sota, it was announced Saturday by Council President George Flanagan. Hansen will become deputy re gional director for Region 10 of the Boy Scouts, with headquart ers at St. Paul. During the sum mer months he will be director of a "canoe base" in the lakes dis trict of Minnesota, Flanagan said, where explorer scouts and leaders train for a day, then take eight-day canoe camping trips through the lakes. Each year some 1.800 boys and 200 leaders participate. Hansen will assume his new duties by the middle of Septem ber. Flanagan said no successor can be named until a council meeting late this month. Hansen, who with his wife. Nixon. .Seeking Open Convention f is -Week Stevenson Returns To Farm for Rest; Plans Campaign Attends Libertyville Celebration Saturday Libertyville, III. U.R Adlai E. Stevenson, bone-weary after his triumphs at the Democratic National Convention, returned to his farm here last night for a hometown victory celebration and weekend of rest. The ' democratic presidential candidate planned to spend at Stories on the Democratic convention in Chicago appear on pages 2 and 16 of today's Mail Tribune. least a day or two resting up at his farm home outside Liberty ville. before swinging into his campaign for the White House. He spent most of Saturday in nearby Chicago, scene of his convention victory, before mot oring to Libertyville. Before he could start relaxing, however, there was one last celebration to attend a hometown wel come :from his Libertyville neighbors in the center of town. Although Stevenson hopes to catch up on his sleep this week end, he was also expected to start laying plans for his presi dential campaign. Hints of Strategy He gave few hints of his strategy," except to indicate' he will try to make President Eisen hower personally responsible for what his administration has done. An aide said Stevenson will travel widely through the coun try and make heavy use of tele vision. Fund-raisers already are at work lining up money for TV time. Stevenson Aide William Blair, said the candidate may spend up to a week or 10 days on his farm, and commute to his t-hi- cago law office to lay the ground work for his campaign. Sig Unander To Be Acting Governor Salim rit P State Treas urer Sip Unander will probably be acting governor of Oregon next week while uov. njrno Smith attends the Republican na tional convention in fan Francis co. Speaker of the house Edward Rearv. Klamath Falls, ordinarily would be first in line to take over Smith's duties, but he was expected to be in California on business next week. Secretary of State Earl T. New bry will also be a delegate to the GOP convention. Under Oregon law, the first to succeed the governor in event of his Heath or absence is the presi dent of the Senate. However, Oregon has been without a Sen ate president since Elmo Smith wac elnvatpH from that SDOt to governor after the death of Paul Patterson. Second in line is the "speaker of the House. The secretary of state is third and the treasurer fourth. " Esther,' and two sons, aged 13 and 2V4. has made his home at CLIFFORD HANSEN Exaculira la Leara w rwl "Well, They Said I Bartlett Harvest May Be Bumper Crop This Year, Officials Say What promises to be a bumper pear harvest is well under way in Rogue valley with the Bartlett crop about 20 per cent picked, representatives of the industry said Saturday. Industry representatives said that both for quality and quanity this year's crop will be ousland ing. ' .- Better quality has been a de termining factor in increased sales to canners and processors this year, they said. The percent age of Bartletts which will be removed from the fresh fruit market for procesors is estimated to be as high as 50 per cent, ac cording to members of the Rogue River Valley Traffic association. Good Prices Quality of Medford pears al so is commanding good prices this year for top sizes and qual ity fruit, they said. The labor supply, they said, is ample in orchards, packing hous es and cold storage plants with the harvest progressing in good order. Estimated date of comple tion for the Bartlett harvest is Sept. 3. . D'Anjous and other winter va rieties will be harvested later. ' One of the major problems in past years has been eleminated this year by new packing plants in operation. Newy plants include Crystal Springs 'and Pinnacle, Back of Chicago's . Poo Outbreak Broken Chicago (U.R) Chicago health authorities Saturday said the back of the city's record breaking polio outbreak has been broken. But Board of Health Presi dent Herman N. Bundesen warned parents that they must keep bringing their children to the' clinics and hospitals for Salk vaccine shots. ' ' " 538 West. 10th St., has been in charge of the scouting movement of the area council, including troops from Jackson and Jose phine counties in - Oregon and Siskiyou county in California. r When he arrived her in" March, 1948, there were 1,746 boys in the scouting movement, in 63 units. There were two profes sionals, and about 300 boys at tended summer camp. Now. there are 3,770 boys in. 137 units, four professionals -and 800 different boys attending camping sessions. The principal growth has been in the'Cub scout units. Hansen, a native of Montana, attended schools in North Dakota- and Minnesota. He came here from Pendleton, Ore., where he was assistant scout executive. He has been active in Rotary club activities, is a member of Zion Lutheran church, and has work ed in the United Medford Crusade. Couldn't Win In 48" which replaced plants lost in fir es. Available space for cold stor age, including new plants, is esti mated to hold 2,400.000 boxes. Pear industry officials ' said earlier estimates of the valley's crop, which was set at more than 3 million boxes, appear to be un changed. They added, however, that a partial survey of the crop indicates that this year's harvest may exceed. that of last year. Sfumbo Claim May Be Court Problem Roseburg ftJ.R) The Stumbo claim to a narrow strip of high way 99 south here may be a problem for the courts for some time, observers said Saturday. But now the situation isn't limited to a squabble between the Stumbo boys and the state over the 16 foot section of high way they claim to own. Ray Bruce, a Glendale ac countant representing Earbee and Pickett Logging company of Days Creek, said he would file for a rebate or per-mile ' road tax. He said the per mile tax is paid for travel over public highways. He said the logging company has been hauling over the Stum bo's "private property" and therefore not a public highway. The Stumbo family, brothers Allan,, Harry ., and Robert and cousin -Clair,' started the con troversy last Sunday when they strung a rope barricade across the busy highway and announced it was private prop erty. , The barrier came down in half an hour but since that time the state highway depart ment has searched its files and found the claim apparently leg itimate. Officials have announc ed condemnation I proceedings will be instituted for the strip of land, if necessary. ' Registration Set For St. Mary's, Trie Rev. Nicolas Deis, pastpr of Sacred Heart parish, Med ford, announced Saturday that registration for grade school students at St. Mary's will start Monday, Aug. 20. Registration hours will be 9 ajn. to 12 noon during the week. Parents of children entering first grade were reminded that baptismal and birth records will be needed at the time of regis tration. Other requirements of the public schools will apply, v ; Mr. Deis .estimated thaU com bined registration of grade and high school at St. Mary's will reach 550 this year. Opening date for grades one through eight will be Monday, Sept. 10? with high school open ing set for Sept. 17. Vice President, Goodwin Knight Reach Agreement Compromise After Secret Meeting San Francisco U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon, his renomination all but nailed down, called Saturday for an "open convention" so Republi can delegates can name the "strongest possible" running mate for President Eisenhower. Nixon later reached an im portant compromise with Gov. Goodwin J. Knight that could clear the way for his unanimous endorsement by the 70-vote Cal ifornia delegation. However, the group put off any endorsement until after 10 a.m. Tuesday a delay Knight sought. The compromise came after Knight told a secret meeting of the delegation that he has been "reliably informed by the high est source that Mr. Eisenhower will make known his endorse ment of Nixon soon." Nixon Welcomed Nixon was welcomed to the convention city by a crowd of about 1,000 and rode into town behind sirens in a motorcade. Knight, who controls one third of the California delega tion and has not endorsed Nixon, won the chairmanship of the group during an all-afternoon battle behind closed doors. But the forces of Nixon and Senate Republican Leader Wil liam F. Knowland won unani mous approval of a unit rule which would bind the entire delegation to the majority's choice for a presidential and vice-presidential endorsement. Harold E.' Stassen, who is con ducting a dump Nixon campaign went to Knight's hotel suite early last night and conferred with the governor for 45 min utes. On leaving, he said elec tion of Knight to head the Cali fornia delegation is "one of the most significant things" so far in the Stassen drive to unseat Nixon. Other Activities ( On the other active front," a drafting sub-committee came up with a civil rights platform plank intended to go consider ably further in promising action than did -the Democrats in Chi cago. The plank was described as pledging the Republican party 4o carry out the Supreme Court s ruling on integration in the schools. It further promised that the party would seek congressional approval of President , Eisen hower's civil rights program which lost to a threat of fili buster when congress rushed to adjournment last month. The plank still must be ap proved by the resolutions com mittee and by the convention. There is more than race rela tions at stake in the Republican platform, however. The Demo cratic document ran 15,000 to -18,000 words and it had some thing for almost everybody. The convention, opening at the Cow Palace Monday, is a streamlined, four-day political extravaganza with a Broadway and Hollywood touch. The GOP delegates will give Mr. Eisen hower a second-term nomina tion, probably By acclamation, Wednesday afternoon. Nixon is an odds on favorite to bag renomination as the vice presidential candidate the same. day. Mr. Eisenhower arrives here Wednesday and closes out the show Thursday with his ac ceptance speech. . Senator George Plans To Attend NATO Meet Washington (U.R) ' Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) said Saturday he will' participate in North Atlantic treaty organiza tion hearings in Paris this fall with the view of strengthening" it. George, chairman of the Sen ate Foreign Relations commit tee, will attend the sessions in a dual capacity as President Eisenhower's personal represent-. ative and as a member of the' Senate committee. V
