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Newspaper Page Text51st Year Price 10c Medford Tribune f 1 4 If A Si) United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased vAta 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1956 No. 144 ' at-' 3 IN-SERVICE TRAINING Language arta and aocial studies prosrams in Jackson county schools were among panel dis cussion topics at the in-service training program for non-high school districts Thursday at Griffin Creek school. Similar meetings were held in Medford. Ashland, Rogue River. Cen tral Point and Talent schools during the week. Panel par ticipants pictured above are. ncht, Boyd Gibson, prin cipal. Ruch school; Mrs. Myrna Frink, principal. Griffin Creek Shortage of Pear Harvesters May Occur in September A shortage of pear harvesters Is anticipated here in mid-Sep tember, despite a large number of Mexican nationals employed to supplement local crews, ac cording to John J. Patton, man ager of the employment service office In Medford. Patton said the large pear crop quickly absorbed available local labor supplies and Mexi man citizens were brought in under a contract between gov ernments of the United States and Mexico. Mexican nationals represent 15 to 20 per cent of the labor force in local orchards. he said. Shifts Laid Off . Two lumber mills in this area laid off night shifts during August and other plants reduced work weeks as dropping lumDer prices became a concern. So far this has caused no increase in unemployment, Patton said, but has largely eliminated the short age of sawmill help usually ex perienced at this time of year. Hiring generally continued at a liveiy pace last month, mostly because of seasonal activity. Non-agricultural job placements were the highest of any month in 1956, Patton said. These placements were widely dis tributed through all local in dustries. Drop Continues Unemployment continued a. it month as it has to for several months and Patton ex pects the annual low point to occur in September. Of people .inin unemployment lnsur- ,. Henefits during August, 47 per cent were over 45 years of age. Patton said scarcity of young- r neoole among unemployment claimants indicates they are in high labor demand at the pres ent time. Comparative reluct ance of employers to hire older workers is developing into one of the more serious problems in -ii ,,t. of the country, he added. a. thm end of August, unem ployment in the county was esti mated at 235. including 75 wom- This was 48 per cent below last month and 28 per cent below the same time a year ago. ciinn reoorted there are number of available jobs at the rnt time for qualllietl appli cants including stenographers. sales people and bookkeepers. Morse Cofs for Rise In Forest Budgets . Portland URv Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore today called for increased budgets for forest man- a t-nment nroiccts so that Con gress no longer "be required to make appropriations for forest purposes in excess of budget estimates." Weather FORFCST: Tr tonirht tnd Salnrdav with afternoon .inri. nr mountain. Low tomxht 50. Hith Saturday. Temp. 91 Hltnrt Ytrdar Lowekt this Morning . . 49 Our Skies Tonight Sunr!e Stinsrt J:3 . 6:M p.m. Mtionsrt ,.SK p.m. i Ottxrter nxl iueiaj PROMINENT STXRS Antarrs, low in loulh- e - - "'" "" ldrhsmn. rK ....10:37 P-m. VIslllLt PLANETS S.ittirn. srn P-m- Mar, in witneasl .... p-- Vrnui, rit 2.19 a.m. In-Service Training Features Talks, Panels Approximately 80 teachers and administrators from non high district schools of Jackson county were in the second and final day of their 1957-57 in service training program at Grif fin Creek school today. Schools represented are Ruch. Griffin Creek, Lone Pine, Apple gale. Elk-Trail. Evans Valley, Pinehurst and Howard. Speeches Today Today's meeting was to fea ture a talk on "A New Look in Spelling" by Hobart Jackson representing the Webster Pub lishing company. Dr. Harry Danielson, southern Oregon dis trict psychiatrist, was to speak on "Mental Health of the School Child." Scheduled for the afternoon were Karl. Hayes speaking on "Remedial Reading," and Miss Betty Lou Dunlop., instructor at Southern Oregon college, talk ing on "The Place of English in the Curriculum." Panel Discussion Mrs. Myrna Frink, principal of Griffin Creek school, opened the program yesterday morning with a welcoming address. Miss Irene Hallberg, elementary school supervisor for the state department of education, set the theme of the meeting with her talk on "Relating the Language Arts and Social Studies Pro grams." A panel discussion fol lowed on the same topic. Members of the panel were Miss Halberg. Mrs. Elizabeth Americans To Spend $8 Billion on Roads Washington (U.R) The Bu reau of Public Roads estimated today that highway conscious Americans will spend a record $8.2 billion on highways and streets this year. Republicans in Democrats by Republicans in Jackson county outnumber Democrats by 2.598. a tally of voter registrations showed today. A total of 30.477 voters have registered to date, with Republi cans totaling 16.264, Democrats 13.666 and miscellaneous 547. Prior to the November elec tion in 1952 there were a total of 36.067 registered voters in Jackson county, including 19.636 Republican, 15.555 Democrats and 876 miscellaneous. Two years later the total number had dropped to only 31.811 regis tered voters with 17.686 Re publicans. 13.445 Democrats and 608 miscellaneous. Deadline for registering to vote in the Nov. 6 general elec tion is Oct. 6 at 8 p.m., Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county clerk, reminded residents. Absentee Ballots Deadline for mailing absentee ballots is Oct. 26. These ab sentee ballots must be received in the county clerk's office not later than Oct. 31. The absentee ballots will be sent to the print ers today, Mrs. Hopkins said, and the inmailing will start im mediately upon their return. Mrs. Hopkins reported that the Medford Fire department will register any resident of Jackson county this year. Reg istrars will be at the department until 10 p.m. daily through Oct. r ! Registration Places Other places for voter rcgis- itration in the county and the riames of the registrars listed by school: Mrs. Ruth Dunn, Howard school; Mrs. Elizabeth Ra der, elementary school supervisor, state department of educa tion; Dr. Lucille Hill, Portland public schools; Ken Miller, Evans Valley school; Lynn Jenkins, Griffin Creek school; Miss Irene Hallberg, elementary school supervisor, state de partment of education; Mrs. Inez Clapp, Portland public schools; and Mrs. Betty Daniclson, Howard schooL Rader, also of the state depart ment of education; Mrs. Inez Clapp, Portland public schools; Dr. Lucille Hill, Portland public schools; Mrs. Frink, and Boyd Gibson, principal of Ruch school. Teachers of the various grades spent the afternoon in sectional meetings discussing school prob lems. Bargain Days Event To Start Saturday At Mail Tribune The Mail Tribune's annual Bar gain Days will begin tomorrow, and will continue through Mon day. Sept. 17. During this period, annual sub scriptions to the newspaper are available at a price considerably less than at other times during the year, and at S3 less than the regular monthly rate- "Bargain Days," an annual practice at The Mail Tribune for many years, has the double merit of eliminating monthly billing of subscribers and providing the paper at a smaller cost. Postage-paid, addressed en velopes have been supplied to all subscribers of The Mail Tribune, and may be mailed with a check for a year's subscription, to eliminate the necessity of call ing at the office. Mail subscrip tions will be processed rapidly. Cost of a full year's subscrip tion to The Mail Tribune during Bargain Days is only SI 5 by car rier (compared to SI 8 at other times of the year at $1.50 by the month). Mail delivery at the special Bargain Days rate is S12 for a year outside of carrier zones. Jackson County Outnumber 2,598, County the county clerk's office include Central Point Fire station, Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Grisham, pre cincts 26A, 69, 71, and 71A; Democrat Headquarters, Lona M.. Dameron. Elsie M. Verner, Mary Greiner Kelly, and Donna V. Straus: Republican Head quarters. Katherine N. Bash, Ruth E. Kc nedy. Clair Rickard, and Marge Findly; Albert R.' Seiber. Farmers Market, Talent, precincts 14. 62, 63. Roger F. Rath, 1450 Siskiyou blvd., Real Estate office, pre cincts 1 through 17; Mrs. Ella Adkins, Corner Central Point Jacksonville highway. Ross lane, precincts 65, 67, 69: Margaret J. Truax. Truax grocery (formerly Randall's), Phoenix; Budford J. Christianson, Drug store,' Jack sonville; Mrs. LaDene Chiamu lera. Feed store. Rogue River, precincts 74 through 80; Barbara Feinstein, 343 East Main, office Singmastcr and Jones, Ashland, precincts 1 through 13; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boothby, Boothby Sporting Goods, Prospect. Others Listed William C. Hum. Post Office bldg.. Domiciliary Center, Camp White: Mrs. Letsie Miller, Gold Hill, third house on left side north of Foote Creek: Dale S. Collins, Post Office, Gold Hill, precincts 78, 79; and Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Stalker, Cove Drug. Shady Cove. Registrars for the Applegate. Eagle Point. Butte Falls and Griffin Creek areas will be ap- proved later, according to Mrs Hopkins. 'Job Inventory' To Start Monday In Jackson County A "job inventory" of Jackson county will be started here next Monday, it was announced today by the Medford office of the Ore gon state employment service. John Patton, manager of the office, said all employers in the county will be sent simple ques tionnaires and requested to list on them the job classifications in their employ and the number of workers in each. Benefits 'Noted The inventory Job will be of considerable benefit to both em ployers and prospective em ployees, Patton pointed out, in providing information on which to base training advice, worker placement and anticipating work er shortages or surpluses. Questionnaires will be kept confidential, Patton said. The inventory is the second of its kind in both the state and nation. The first was conducted last spring in central Oregon, and both are "pilot" projects, partly financed by the U.S. de- partment-rjf laborrTf ttieyart-'wr productive and helpful as ex pected, the inventory plan will be extended throughout the state and ultimately possibly the na tion. It furnishes information on job needs available from no other source. Cooperation Asked Patton is asking the coopera tion of each of the 3.500 or so employers in the county. The first mailing, to go out Monday, will be to the 1,247 employers in industries covered by the state employment law, and to others soon thereafter, excluding only agricultural and domestic employers-Gordon L. DeCoss. of the Salem office of the OSES, is here to work with Patton in conduct ing the inventory. Shows Today Some of the changes in the absentee voter's law pertains to several sections of the "service voter" act. A service voter is any citizen of Oregon who is serving with the Armed Forces or Merchant Marine. This also includes civilian em ployees of the government work ing outside the United States, members of religious groups or welfare agencies assisting mem bers of the Armed Forces and the spouse and dependents of any service voter residing with him. All of these persons are eligible to vote by absent voter's ballot in any election held in Oregon. Military Voters The service officer in charge of voter information at the mili tary installations will supply Form 76 cards to eligible voters. The service voter, by mailing this card, will automatically reg ister himself and make applica tion for an absentee ballot which will be air mailed immediately, it was explained. AH applications must be signed by the voter before a qualified officer. If the signa ture on the envelope containing a service voter's ballot and the signature on the request or per manent registration card vary, due to substitution of initials in stead of the first or middle names, the ballot will still be considered valid. As long as the surname and the handwriting are the same the vote will be counted. Attorneys Plead Innocent to Charge 01 Attempted Bribe Case Developed From Natural Gas Bill Washington (U.R) Two oil company attorneys pleaded inno cent today to charges that they tried to bribe Sen. Francis Case (R-SD) to vote for the natural gas bill. John M. Neff and Elmer Pat man, attorneys for the Superior Oir Co., entered the plea before Chief Judge Bolitha Laws in U.S. District Court. Laws fixed bond at $500 for each and set Nov. 19 as the tentative trial date. Neff, Lexington, Neb., and Patman, Austin, Tex., were speci fically accused in a six-count in dictment with conspiracy to vio late the lobbying law and with offering a $2,500 bribe to Case during debate on the gas bill last February. Neff subsequently testified be fore Senate investigators that he offered the money as a campaign contribution from funds al legedly supplied by Patman. One count of the indictment charges that the money was part of the personal funds of Howard B. Keck, president of Superior Oil, another key figure in the probe. Case disclosed in a Senate speech that the money had been offered him. The disclosure touched off a Senate investiga tion into the whole subject of lobbying. The measure passed the Sen ate, but Case voted against it. It was later vetoed by President Eisenhower, who said in his veto message that he deplored the "arrogant" lobbying tactics used on behalf of the legislation. Judge Laws gave defense at torneys until Oct. 5 to file mo tions in the case- Justice Depart ment Attorney J. Frank Cun ningham, who will prosecute, had urged that the trial be set for the earliest possible date. A federal grand jury after months of investigation indicted Neff, Patman and Superior Oil July 25 for conspiracy and bribery. The jury also indicted Patman and Neff on four counts of failing to register as lobbyists. Opening of New Schools Postponed Central Point Opening of new primary schools at Central Point and Gold Hill has been de layed, H. P. Jewett, superinten dent of school district 6C, an nounced today. The H. P. Jewett primary school at Central Point will open Monday, Sept. 1,7, instead of Mon day, Sept. 10, as originally scheduled. The Gold Hill pri mary school will open Wednes day, Sept 12, instead of Monday, Sept. 10. The superintendent said delay in arrival of materials to com plete the two structures made it necessary to postpone the openings- Both schools will house first and second grades. Jewett added that the cafeteria at the Central Point primary school will not be open during the first week. NY Negro Leaders Veto Adlai Visit New York (U.R) New York City Negro leaders have vetoed a suggestion that Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson make a Harlem ap pearance during his visit here next week. Negro Democrats were report ed to have said that Stevenson's appearance at this time, when awareness of his so-called "mod erate" stand on civil rights and the mild Democratic platform plank are combined with racial disorders in the South, might do his candidacy more harm than help. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee 0 7 0 Chicago 5 10 1 Buhl. Phillips (6), Trow bridge (7) and Rice. Crandall (7); Jones and Landrith. Negro Pupils Stay Home From Sturgis High School Today By UNITED PRESS Negro pupils stayed home from a newly integrated high school in Sturgis, Ky., today al though national guardsmen stood ready to force their way into class again. The state troops with drawn bayonets pushed through a crowd at the school Thursday to get nine Negroes safely into their classrooms. All were ab sent today but the parents of one child sent word they would be back Monday. A crowd of 500, determined to keep Sturgis High school seg regated if possible, assembled on the school grounds before school opened this morning. Troops Stand Guard National guardsmen, bayonets removed, stood guard along with state troopers whose 20 cars were parked bumper to bumper at the school. The National Guard force at Clinton, Tenn., was lowered to i about 200 today as the tense situation there eased. Twelve Negro pupils are in Clinton high. A new segregation develop ment occurred in Georgia today where a white teacher, Mrs. Col leen Marie 'Wiggins, said she faces ousting from her job be cause she refused to sign a statement that she does not be lieve in racial integration. Boycott Growing While mob violence had van ished at most other points along the integration front stretching from Texas to Maryland, a boy cott movement against class room integration appeared to be growing. At Clinton, Tenn., where guardsmen were called In ear lier to squelch dangerous dem onstrations, more than half of the mixed high school's 800 white students remained away from classes. At Mataoka, W. Va., officials Attorney To Appeal Driver's Conviction A written notice of appeal to the circuit court has been filed for Marion Dale Blair, 48, Port land, who was convicted by a district court jury of driving while under the Influence of in toxicating liquor. O. H. Bengtson, attorney for Blair, filed the notice in the county clerk's office Tuesday. Blair was on trial in district court last Thursday and Friday. Judge Rawles Moore fined the defendant $250 plus $5 costs, gave him a 30-day suspended jail sentence, and suspended his operator's license for 90 days. Blair was originally arrested by state police on Coleman creek rd. in June, lodged in the county jail on charges of being intoxi cated on a public highway, and later charged with driving while under the influence of intoxicat ing liquor. October 6 Last Day For Voter Registration Deadline for registering to vote in the Nov. 6 general elec tion is Oct. 8 at 8 p.m.. accord ing to Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, county clerk. Deadline for mailing absentee ballots is October 26. These ab sentee ballots must be received in the county clerk's office not later than Oct. 31. The absentee ballots will be sent to the print ers tomorrow, according to Mrs. Hopkins, and the mailing of these ballots will start imme diately upon their return. Total number of Jackson county registered voters in the 94 precincts as of Aug. 31 is 30, 477. A break down by party preference hows Republicans 12.264. Democrats 13,666, and miscellaneous 547. Chicago (U.R) Sen. William F. Knowland (R-Calif.) said to day the Suez Canal dispute should be placed before the United Nations. said that four out of every five white students were still play ing hooky from the recently in tegrated high school, and the boycott movement was spread ing to at least two other south west Virginia schools. Pacific Telephone Proposes Increase In Phone Rates Increases In telephone rates averaging less than IVi cents a day per telephone on a state wide basis are part of the new schedules filed in Salem today by Pacific Telephone with Charles Heltzel, Oregon public utilities commissioner, accord ing to Medford Manager J. H. Creager. Under the new schedules Med ford telephone users would pay M cents to 35 cents more a month for residence service. Business service rates would go up from 50 cents to $1.50 a month. Other Rates Rates for Ashland telephone users would increase 15 to 30 cents for residence service and 30 cents to $1.25 for business service. In Rogue River the in crease would be 20 to 30 cents for residential services and 40 cents to $1.25 for business service. In Portland, F. A. Dresslar, vice president and general man ager, said, "Our earnings on op erations within Oregon have fallen well below the Earnings of other businesses'. This has happened because wage pay ments, state and local taxes and the cost of adding new tele phones have risen over the past three years while telephone prices have remained at the same level since the 1953 rate adjustment." The company, he said, has con tinued to push its expansion and improvement program through out the state despite the higher costs. The 1956 construction pro gram, largest in the company s history, will total $30,000,000, which is 82 per cent more than was spent on telephone construc tion in 1953. Kentucky, Tennessee Record Earthquake Knoxville, Tenn. U.R! Two "moderately strong" earth tre mors rattled parts of Southeast Kentucky and East Tennessee to day. Dishes danced off breakfast tables in some homes and win dow panes were shattered. One man reported he was shaken out of bed and several school chil dren were jostled out of their seats. "Adlai Is Sure Popularizing That Hole-In-The-Shoe" 7 V Committee Meets To Try To Prevent Looming Failure Meeting Date With Nasser Not Fixed Cairo (UR) The five-power Suez committee headed by Aus tralian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies met for more than three hours today in a desperate attempt to head off looming failure of the Cairo talks. But it failed even to fix a new meeting date with Egypt'i President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Only a dramatic last minute com promise now could save the talks. Committee spokesman Noel Deschamps said "in all prob ability" the committee would decide Saturday when to meet Nasser again. There was no meeting with him today because this is the Moslem Sabbath. Attacks on Eden Deschamps added that the committee would not leave with out seeing Nasser again, "if only for courtesy's sake." Meanwhile, Egyptian newspa pers attacked British Prime Min ister Anthony Eden as a "crim inal" bent on war in a sudden surge of pessimism over the out come of the Suez Canal talks. But the Cairn nrp nmminml. ly published London riienstpho. claiming Egypt has rejected the pian proposed by becretary of- June oenn rosier uuues and broucht here vbv the Mon-rio. committee. These dispatches said me Menzies group will return to London emptyhanded. Peace or War Similar pessimism was report ed in London, where diplomatic sources said Britain has started consultations with the United States and other allies on the "next step" to take if Nasser finally rejects the Dulles plan. The London dispatches said Britain's peace or war ordera to the Suez expeditionary force in the Mediterranean will hinge on Menzies' personal report when he returns to Britain. Mass Vice Raid Staged in Klamath Klamath Falls 0J.PJ A mass vice raid in Klamath county last night resulted In the arrest of nine persons at eight establish ments and the confiscation of "several hundred" gambling de vices, according to District Attor ney Richard Beesley. Arrests were made in Klamath Falls. Chiloquin and Merrill by 14 state police officers and by several city police officers in Klamath Falls. The raid at the Mecca Tavern at Chiloquin netted 100 punch boards and seven "one-armed bandits." Beesley said the raid proved that the county had been "wide open."