Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 28, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHungry 9u rait r rw -NX' m S ?- I v. " .v.. i - tyA. . "m -- ' -r PROPOSED FEDERAL ARMORY Above is an architect's sketch of a federal armory for use of the armed forces reserve units similar to one that may be constructed on part of the Jackson County Housing Authority site. Ne gotiations are in progress between Army engi neers and the housing authority for acquisi tion by the Army of a triangular area of about four acres southeast of McAndrews rd. Gov ernment surveys and test borings for founda tion construction and other examinations have started. If the property is acquired the armory will be built under contract through the Army engineers. Lt. Col. Frank M. Kehoe, Army reserve unit advisor here, said the training center will be constructed to permit expansion as the strength of reserve units in creases. He added training centers usually Cold Temperatures To Stay This Week No relief from the cold weather was in prospect today after temperatures dipped to record lows in several places in Oregon yesterday morning. The Medford weather bureau forecast a low of near 10 here tonight, and temperatures much below normal for the next five days. There will be a slow rising trend in temperatures during the five days. Dips to II Degrees Mercury in Medford went to 11 degrees yesterday, and this morning's 17 - degree reading equaled the all time low on Jan. 28, which was set in 1937. The January record low is 3 below, set in 1930, and the lowest tem perature ever recorded in Med ford was lQ below in December, 191S. Utner January lows were 1 above in 1950, 5 in 1949, and 9 above in 1952. The cold snap caused a serious power shortage in the Portland area, froze water pipes through out the state, and ice was re ported on the Columbia and Wil lamette rivers and other streams throughout the state. Prospect yesterday morning reported 10 below and this morn ing 2 below. It was 16 below yesterday on the Green Springs. Records were set at Eugene where 4 below was reported yes terday and at Pendleton where it was 22 below Sunday. Other Lows Other low temperatures Sun day included 25 below at Burns, 24'below at Baker and 22 below at Redmond. Lows this morning ranged from 17 below at Burns to 31 at Brookings. Bonneville Power administra tion last night cut off all inter ruptible power to 17 metals in dustries after it had used power from the Hungry Horse dam in Montana to meet firm commit ments. State police said highway con ditions had improved over the week end, although packed snow was reported at Prospect and on the Green Springs. Both high ways were well sanded, they said. The Siskiyous reported spots of ice. No new snow was reported in southern Oregon yesterday. Advise Chains National park officials ad vised chains on Highway 62 through the park, and from Annie Springs to the rim. Total snow depth at the park is 75 inches. Unstable highway conditions over the week end resulted in a basketball game series between Illinois Valley and Brookings be ing postponed. Medford Water Superintend Weather FORECAST: Clfar and fold to night and Tuesday morninj. Increasing floiidlnes Tuesday evening. Low tonight near 10. High Tuesday 35. TEMP. Highest Vesterda 32 Lowest thii Morning IT Our Skies Tonight Moon rise Tuesday SunMt . Sunnr 6:29 am. . J:20 p.m. .. 7:1ft a.m. New Mrmn Jan. 30 PROMINENT STARS RicH. due south 8:54 p.m. B?telgeuet high in south 9:34 a.m. The three brithc stars between them form a straitht line point ing up to Aide ba ran and down to Sinus. ent Robert Lee has advised Med ford residents to cover exposed water pipes on outside porches, garages and other unheated areas of the house. Lee said some water pipes split during the week end, flooding several homes. Residents should also locate shut-off water valves so they can close them in case of flood ing, he added. Cily Council Mks Position on Freeway Members of the city council, meeting informally for lunch during an inspection of the main fire station, indicated today they may take a position opposing the highway commission's decision on the location of a freeway in the Medford area. It was pointed out by mem bers that the council has never taken a stand on the location of the freeway, and it was indicat ed that considerable opposition to the Hawthorne park route has been voiced to them both before and after the highway commis sion announced its decision for that location. No official action was taken, but City Manager Robert Duff was asked to gather additional data regarding the through-town route, and Highway Engineer W. C. Williams may be invited here for a conference regarding the city's interest in the location. Safe Vaccine Shots Available Tonight Salk vaccine shots will be giv en tonight to anyone under the age of 20 who has been unable to receive the shots at the regu lar stations in the basement of the Elks club. North Central ave. and Fifth St., from 7 to 9 p.m. Second round of shots wil be gin on Monday, Feb. 11, accord ing to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, pub lic health physician. "You Fellows Aren't Going To Put It Back Just Like That, Are You?" m&Lriw --red ' v If' - J t . y o4U& have a floor space of 11,000 square feet to ac commodate offices, classrooms, supply rooms and other requirements. In addition, he said, a separate maintenance building of about 2, 600 square feet for storage and maintenance of unit vehicles, trailers and other heavy equipment probably will be provided. Such installations accommodate up to 200 reserv ists. It will be of concrete construction with brick facing and landscaped - to harmonize with local surroundings. An off-street surface parking area will be provided for reservists attending meetings. Since negotiations for the site have not been completed, no date has been set for. start of construction. However, Kehoe added, if negotiations progress as ex pected, the facility should be in operation by the summer of 1958. Michel Arraigned In District Court; $10,000 Bond Set Clarence Edward Michel III, 23, of Dillard, was arraigned in district court this morning on charges of assault with a dan gerous weapon. Michel waived counsel and preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury. Bond was set by Judge Rawles Moore at S10.000 on the basis of district attorney's information that Burse H. Cathey of Eagle Point still was in a serious con dition. Michel was arrested by state police late Friday night near the Eagle Point junction of Highway 62, and admitted shooting Ca they, a highway maintenance crewman, with a .22 caliber re volver, about nine miles north of Tiller on the Tiller-Trail high way, state police said. Car Overturned According to state police re ports Michel's car had over turned and Cathey and another highway department employee, Charles A. Cearley, Eagle Point, arrived at the scene with a snow plow a short time later. The highway department em ployees said Michel ordered them to pull the car back on its wheels and when they expressed reluctance, they said Michel shot Cathey. After the car was righted, Michel left the scene. Cathey was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by state police and was described as in a satis factory condition Saturday aft er a three-hour operation. Hos pital officials reported today that his condition had improved slightly. CALLED TO CRASH Medford Ambulance service liwas summoned about 1:20 p.m. today to an auto accident in front of 261 North Fourth st. in Central Point. The collision re portedly involved two cars with a man being thrown from one vehicle. 51st Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 16 Pages Egypt Said Being . Forced Into Action Against Israelis Unconditional Withdrawal Asked United Nations, N. Y. (U.P.) Egyptian government sources said today in Cairo that Egypt will be forced to "take action on its own" unless the United Nations succeeds in forcing Israel out of the Gaza Strip. The sources said unless there is an unconditional Israeli with drawal from all Egyptian terri tory Egypt will take action rang ing fraom, closure of the Suez Canal as a first resort, to a mili tary counter-offensive against Israel as a last resort. The Egyptian position was made public in Cairo shortly aft er Israel announced plans to de velop the Gaza Strip in defiance of United Nations demands it quit all territory captured from Egypt, and after Israel denounc ed Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold's approach to the situ ation. Egyptian sources said today's General Assembly debate in the U.N. on the Middle East would prove a crucial point in the worsening Middle-East crisis. Both Egypt and Israel expres sed disappointment in Hammar skjold's report which called for complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza trip and from the Sinai shore on the Gulf of Aqaba. Reacts Angrily Israeli Foreign Minstry spokes man Moshe Leshen said in Jeru salem that Hammarskjold want ed to return to "the very state of affairs which brought about the present crisis." He described Hammarskjold's view on Gulf of Aqaba navigation a "masterpiece of obscurity." Egypt reacted even more angrily. Government sources ex pressed disappointment and said Egypt is prepared to go along with the U.N. only if the U.N. is ready to restore pre-invasion conditions. Salary Measure Passes House Salem (U.P.) The Oregon House passed its first bill today, appropriating $775,000 from the general fund to pay mileage and salaries of senators and rep resentatives and general legisla tive expenses. The bill traditionally has been the first one through the House. It passed unanimously. A second bill, also passed un animously, would enable a per son buying a motor vehicle on contract to drive it across a county line without written per mission of the vendor. Dr. Freeberger Hurt When Plane Crashes Dr. Frank A. Freeburger, 312 East Main St., Medford, suffered slight cuts in the crash landing of his Piper Tri-Pacer airplane southwest of Grants Pass this morning, according to a report received here by state police. No injuries were listed for a passenger, David Buchanan, route 1, Gold Hill. The plane was damaged slightly, police here were told. The plane came down along Foothill blvd., about 4V4 miles from Grants Past about 11:40 a.m. Dr. Freeburger said the acci dent happened while they were en route to Medford from Grants Pas. The engine stalled, he said, and the plane nosed down while he was trying to avoid cattle in a field where he was landing. County Planners Will Meet Here Tonight The county planning commis sion will meet at 7:30 p.m. to day in the conference room of the county courthouse annex. County planning develop ments in general will be discus sed. John Pletsch is president of the planning commission. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock, averages: 30 industrials 474.59, off 3.75; 2(K railroads 147.58, off 1.38; 15 utilities 70.57, off 0.11, and 65 stocks 168.50, off 1.17. Sales to day were about 1.700.000 shares compared with 2,010,000 shares Friday. IV! MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1957 President Ai d Dim onDH ii jjiimiMMrMiirrWi aej' ryntM..";At- ' wmrrwflw riAitf'-irftTwtiWi-fti- WHEELBARROW RACE The Medford Kiwanis club won over the Medford Lions club in a wheelbarrow race for the March of Dimes Saturday in downtown Medford. Nick Gier, above, representing the losers, pushed Bill Singler, a member of the winning team, down Central ave. to the U.S. National bank. The two milk cans hold a total of S434.86 which the two groups collected between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. With one or ganization working on one side of the street and one on the other, they advanced. one foot for every dollar collected, cov ering about a block and a half during the course of the. race. Referees were Medford High school coaches Fred Spiegelberg and Paul Evensen. The Kiwanians woa by 21 feet. orthern, California San Francisco (U.R) : The weatherman predicted it would be a little less cold today and tonight in many areas of North ern California. Even so, he forecast tempera tures of freezing and below in inland and coastal valleys dur ing the night. He cautioned mo torists in suburban areas to watch their automobile radia tors. The frigid weather of the week end came as the result of a storm that brought with it a mass of arctic air. The storm deposited snow in many areas of Northern and Central Cali fornia. Motorists Jam Roads Snow drifts of as much as two feet were reported on Mount Di ablo in Contra Costa county and thousands of motorists in the San Francisco Bay area drove up the mountain Sunday to see it. A low of 27 was re ported at the top. Mt. Hamilton, east of San Jose, reported four inches. Icy conditions forced closing of the road half way up. The mercury fell to 16 at the 4,200-foot sum mit, the coldest of the winter there. King City, 140 miles south of San Francisco, had eight inches of snow Sunday, while snow ranged up to four inches in the hills around San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles. Coalinga on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, had al most six inches of snow, while the ridge route between Bakers field and Los Angeles was clos- Loggers Reminded To Renew Permits Loggers in Jackson and Jose phine counties have been re minded that all operating per mits, must be renewed for the calendar year 1957. Curtis Nesheim, southwest dis trict warden of the state board of forestry, said permits may be renewed by making applica tions at the district headquar ters on Table Rock rd., Medford; the Grants Pass headquarters, 761 NE 12th St.; Pleasant Creek Guard station north of Rogue River; and at the Cave Guard station, Cave Junction. Permits are required to har vest any timber for commercial purposes and to operate power driven machinery within one eighth mile of forest land, Ne sheim reminded loggers. for Central Has Snow ed by the heaviest snowfall since 1949. Nearly 4.000 autos piled up at either end before the high way was reopened four hours af ter it was ordered closed. Sierra Coldest Spot U. S. Highways 40 and 50 and other major mountain roads were open, but icy. Motorists were advised to carry tire chains. The coldest spot in California Sunday was Blue Canyon in the Sierra where it was 9 below. Other lows Sunday were San Jose, 23, Redwood City 29, Novato 18, Livermore 29, Rich mond 32, San Francisco 39, Oakland 33, Fresno 27, Stock ton 27. Sacramento 31, Red Bluff 32. Rogue Basin Group Schedules Meeting Grants Pass A. M. Browne, regional project development engineer for the bureau of rec lamation, will report on pro gress of the bureau s revised Rogue basin project at a meet ing of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources as sociation at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Josephine county courthouse annex. H. F. Norwood of Rogue Riv er said Ross Hatch of the Army engineers also will attend the meeting and discuss current studies of the Rogue by the corps of engineers. Norwood said nominations for 16 directors will be accepted by the secretary of the association, Wally Martin, post office box 307, Grants Pass, until Feb. 5. Suspected Accomplice Quizzed in Death Of Chicago Girls; Man Makes Confession Chicago (U.R) A man sought as a skid road dishwasher's sus pected accomplice in the slaying of two teen-aged sisters turned up in custody today on another charge. Police said they were already holding on a disorderly conduct charge William Willingham Jr., 26, Richmond, Va., a self styled hill billy singer and photogra pher's salesman. Man Identified Mrs. Minnie Duras, skid road restaurant proprietor, identified Willingham as the man who was with dishwasher Bennie Bed well and the Grimes sisters, Bar bara, 15, and Patricia, 13. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wlra No. 265 Program Would Provide 159,000 Needed Classrooms Congress Asked To Vote $2,220,000,000 Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower asked Congress today to vote $2,200,000,000 in federal aid over the next four years to help states overcome a "most; critical shortage' of schoolrooms. In a 2,000-word special mes sage to tl House and Senate, the chief executive appealed for quick passage of an "emergen cy" program designed to over come the nation's present "defi cit" of about 159,000 classrooms. Appeils to Congress In an effort to head off the fight over school segregation rider which blocked action on a similar school program last year, Mr. Eisenhower appealed to Congress to enact the measure "on its own merits, uncompli cated by provisions dealing with the complex problems of inte gration. The president proposed: 1. Federal grants of $325 mil lion annually for the next four years, a total of $1.3 billion, to help build public schools in "fi nancially needy" school dis tricts. The federal money would be distributed under a complex formula taking into account the number of school-age children in a state and the state's average income per school-age child. Must Match Funds 2. During the first year of the program, 1957, the federal aid would have to be matched by outlays from either state or local school district funds. After the first year, the matching funds would have to come solely from state iunds, a requirement aim ed at states which now make lit tle or no contribution to school budgets. 3. The matching funds would be calculated on a formula based on the state's income. The poor est states would put up 50 cents for each $1 of federal aid, the richest states $2 for each $1 of federal aid. 4. Any state which falls below the national average in the pro portion of its income devoted to schools, or in dollar expendi tures per -pupil, would have its federal aid grant "reduced pro portionately." Would Buy Bonds 5. The federal government would spend up to $750 million over the four years to buy bonds issued by local school districts which have been unable to mar ket their bonds commercially at "reasonable" interest rates. These bonds would be purchased at an interest rate equal to the rate paid by the U.S. treasury on its own long term securities, plus one half of one per cent. 6. Federal advances of $150 million over four years to help state agencies build schools which would be turned over to local school districts on a "lease purchase" plan. It was estimated that this federal nest egg would enable such state agencies to float bond issues of their own, bringing in a total of $6 billion. Portland (U.R) Damage esti mated at $17,000 resulted today from a fire at the Lincoln House restaurant here. Bedwell has already confessed beating the sisters and tossing their nude bodies into a snowy ditch on the city's outskirts. He said he was accompanied by a man he knew as "Frank." Denies Taking Part Police said Willingham told them he knew Bedwell but de nied any part in the deaths of the Grimes girls. "I don't known anything about this and I never went out with those girls," he said. Willingham said he had not seen Bedwell since before Nov. 28, when Willingham was sen tenced 1o 30 days on a previous minor charge. Asks Schools Mishandling of Mid-East Problem Cited by Foes Pennsylvanian In Outright Demand Washington (U.R) Some Democrats were suggesting to day that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles resign for what they termed his mishandling of the Middle East problem. Freshman Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.) made an outright demand that Dulles give up his post on grounds that he has "lost the confidence of our Allies and Congress. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D- Minn.) and Sen. J. William Ful- bright (D-Ark.), both members of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations committee, hinted in directly that they also want Dulles to quit Dulles went back before the combined Senate Foreign Rela tions and Armed Services Com mittees today for more question ing this time in secret on the Eisenhower Doctrine" for pro tecting the Middle East from Communism. He was subjected to a blister ing Democratic attack on his handling of the Middle East situ ation during four days of public testimony last week. The committees also planned to act on Fulbright's demand that the Senate conduct a sweep ing review of administration for eign policy before voting on the President's request to use money and troops, if necessary, to pre lect me Middle East from Com munist aggression. Fulbnght conceded in advance of the committee session that he would lose his fight to force such a review prior to action on Mr. Eisenhower's Middle East plan. But he predicted he would succeed in getting such an in quiry later. The administration turned on the pressure to prevent the for eign policy inquiry. Senators were being told that such a re view might cause a new breach in U. S. relations with Britain and France when it touched on those nation's Suez attack and U. S. opposition to it. Clark's demand for . Dulles' resignation was the first to be heard from a senator since Sen. W. Kerr Scott (D-N.C), made a similar demand on Jan. 9.- Clark said Dulles' retirement would be a step toward clearing up U. S. policy in the Middle East. Humphrey did not flatly call for Dulles' resignation. But he said the secretary "may very well have outlived his useful ness in serving the vital inter ests of the nation." He said "a large number of congressmen" just don't have confidence in Dulles. New Councilmen Tour City Departments New members of the Med ford city council were taken on an inspection this morning of the police department, fire sta tion and other city departments in the city hall. Purpose of the tour was to give councilmen background in formation on the functions and operation of city departments. New councilmen are Jimmy Dunlevy, Al Bradford, Robert Van Sickle, and Ed Hall. City Manager Robert Duff accompa nied the councilmen. SP Worker Reports Assault to Police Candido E. Hernandez, South ern Pacific extra gang worker, reported to Medford police that he was assaulted by two men in an alley on Front st., between Seventh and Eighth sts. and rob bed of $160 Sunday. Police said Hernandez report ed the money was all he had left from an SP check he had cashed during the week end. Police ad ded Hernandez told them the only person who knew of the money was a woman he had been talking with in a Medford tavern Sunday. Police are inves tigating the theft. He said he never went under the name of Frank, and express ed a willingness to cooperate with authorities. Police awakened Bedwell from a deep sleep and showed him a photograph of Wilingham. Bed well told them it bore a "close" resemblance to "Frank," but he couldn't be sure. May Have Been Alive Authorities planned to bring the two together face to face lat er today. In his confession Bedwell in dicated the girls may have been alive when he stripped them and tossed them into the ditch be side German Church Road.