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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1957
No. 282
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STEERING COMMITTEE Student mem
bers of the Student Government day program
steering committee, are shown above left to
right, (seated) Dennis King, Beverly Frazier,
Jay Walker (chairman), Pat Leek and Josette
Area Students To Take Oaths
Monday for City, County Jobs
Students of Jackson county
high schools will have first-hand
opportunity to learn how county
and Medford city governmental
bodies are operated Monday and
Tuesday during the annual Stu
dent Government day program.
sponsored By the Bieatoro mks
lodge.
They will work during the day
witn regular officials and will
also tour city and county spots
of interest including the county
shops, airport, disposal plant,
city hall, county courthouse and
fire station. They will also hold
a separate 'fcity council session
Tuesday night.
Begin Monday
Studt Government day ac
tivities will begin at. 1:15 p.m.,
Monday, when students will reg
ister in the basement lounge of
the Elks temple. At 2:30 p.m.,
oaths of office will be administ
ered. Stud&it leaders will be featur
ed from 3:30 to 4 p.m. in pro
grams at radio stations KMED
and KYJC. Greg Milnes of Med
ford High school will serve as
moderator. They will appear
from 5 to 5:30 p.m. on station
KBES-TV.
A "get acquainted" mseting
for students, their parents, city
and county officials and distin
guished guests will be held in
the Elks-lub basement party
lounge at 6 p.m.
At 6:30 p.m., the young lead
ers will be honored at a dinner
3n the Elks temple. Master of
ceremonies will be Jimmy Dun
levy, city councilman and man
ager of radio station KYJC.
Banquet Program
The banquet program will in
clude pledge to the flag, invoca
tion by the Rev. John Ilg of Sa
cred Heart Catholic church; and
organ music by Abby Green of
the Rogue Valley Country club.
At 7:30 p.m., Dick Woodcock,
exalted ruler of the Elks lodge,
will introduce distinguished
guests.
At 8:30 p.m., Mrs. Edith S.
Green, congresswontan of Ore
gon's third district, will give the
main address. Benediction by the
Rev. "Mr. Ilg will be given at
8:30 p.m.
Tuesday's schedule will begin
at 9 a.m., when students will re
port to offices of the officials
with whom ehey will work for
the day.
Guests at Lunch
Officials and their student
counterparts will be guests at a
lunch in the Elks club party
lounge- and from 2 to 5 p.m.,
students w.illour city and coun
ty interest spots. The students
Mock Bombing Raid Staged
Qn Medford by Two B-29s
Hamilton Air Force Base.
Calif. (U.R) Two B-29 bomb
ers executed a mock bombing
run against Medford, Ore., Sat
urday and finally were inter-
cepted about 100 miles from
here with te aid of civilian sky
watche, the Air Force an
nounced. The maneuver starterf at 9:30
a.m. (PST) when the two Super
Fortresses took off from Hamu
li n Air Force Base, headed out
to sea to avoid radar installa
tions nd made a "sneak pene
tration'' at Cape Blanco on the
southern Coast of Oregon.
After making their run over
Medford. the planes flew at a
low altitude along the coastal
mountains and evaded radar j
will also attend a regular city
council meeting in the city hall.
and will hold their own council
meeting immediately afterwards.
Members of the student steer
ing committee for the program
are Jay Walker, chairman, Den
nis King, Beverley Frazier, Pat
Leek, Josette Harris, Brenda
Barrell, Connie Caton, Barbara
Cox, Phil Mongrain, Eldon Fran
cis and Art Putney.
Youth activities committee
members of the Elks lodge, spon
sors of the program, include El
liott Becken, chairman, Dr. Au
gust Glutch, Charles Meyer,
Oregon Legislature
Winds Up 5th Week
Salem (U.R) The Oregon
Legislature has wound up its
fifth work week with 768 bills
in the hopper and the Joint Ways
and Means committee cons'ider
ihg appropriations bills totaling
S311 million.
Former Gov. Elmo Smith's
budget totaled $260 million.
Latest appropriation to pass
ways and means was 599,800 for
the Oregon Historical Society
which will have a hand in the
1959 Oregon centennial celebra
tion. The budget passed over the
protest of Rep. Robert Duncan,
Medford.
Committee action late Friday
saw the House Fish and Game
committee conduct a hearing on
a bill to permit emergency open
Fire Protection
System Installed
A new automatic fire protec
tion system, financed by the
Ford Foundation, was recently
installed and has been in opera
tion since Jan. 30 at Sacred
Heart hospital.
The system was installed by
the National Automatic Sprink
ler company, who contracted
the job for S24.500. The system
was inspected by the Oregon
Rating bureau and was placed
in operation immediately after
wards. A new call-light system is cur
rently being installed at the
hospital by Trowbridge and
Flynn Electrical contractors. The
new system is expected to be in
operation in a few weeks, hos
pital officials stated.
networks at several locations.
However, members of the
Civilian Ground Observer Corps
relayed enough information to
the radar sites so that four F-80
jet fighters from Hamilton were
able to intercept the bombers
over Point Arena.
Brig. Gen. Monro MacClosk
ey, commander of the 28th Air
Division, said the raid was con
ducted to test effectiveness of
the Ground Observers Corps.
Sam Price, radio station an
nouncer in Medford, and Sgt.
Clifford Paulson, Air Force rep
resentative with the Medford
Ground Observer Corps, accom
panied, the flight Saturday. They
are expected to return to Med-
ford today.
Harris, and (standing) Brenda Barrell, Connie
Caton, Barbara Cox and Phil Mongrain. Not
pictured are committee members Eldon Francis
and Art Putney.
Jack Thompson and William My
ers. Student Governmnt day orig
inated in the Medford Elks juris
dictional area several years ago,
and since has received national
recognition.
New to the program this year
are observers in both city and
county governments. Observers
in county government are from
city schools, and observers of
city government are from coun
ty high schools.
A complete list of students
participating in Student Govern
ment day appears on page 11 of
today's Mail Tribune.
season on game animals who are
damaging agricultural land.'
Grange Backs Measure
The bill has the backing of
the Grange and the Oregon Farm
Bureau Federation.
Game commission officials
testified before Chairman W. H
Holmstrom, Gearhart, that the,
commission would like flexible
authority to set up controlled lo
cal hunts to deal with specific
area problems. They said the
deer and elk damage problem
existed in every county in the
state except Multnomah.
Further study will be given to
the problem before the bill is
passed out.
Fish Bill Discussed
Also discussed was a bill
which would do away with the
necessity of re-establishing fish
commission regulations every
year where the regulations in
volved agreements with Wash
ington state.
Major legislative action Fri
day saw nine constitutional
amendments repealing obsolete
material in the Oregon constitu-
tion introduced in the Senate by
Sen. Rudie Wilhelm Jr., and Rep.
Shirley Field, Portland.
Under one of Wilhelm's pro
posed amendments, the Legisla
ture would have the powers of
a constitutional convention to
make major changes in the con
stitution. Two thirds of the Leg
islature could revise all or part
of the constitution and then sub
mit the changes to the people for
a vote.
Youngster Killed in
Parking Lot Mishap
Albany U.R) A three-year-old
boy was injured fatal
ly Saturday when struck by a
backing car in a food store park
ing lot here.
Police identified the victim
as Stephen Lee Farmer.
Carlton Eastburn, - Albany,
told police he backed his car
from its parking place when he
"felt a bump." The boy died
shortly after he was admitted
to a local hospital.
Eisenhower Accepts
McCardle's Resignation
Thomasville. Ga. U.R)
President Eisenhower last night
accepted the resignation of Carl
W. McCardle as assistant secre
tary of State for Public Affairs.
McCardle was Washington
bureau chief for the Evening
Bulletin of Phildelphia before
he joined the State Department
Jan. 30, 1953.
Stumbling Block
To Settlement of
Strike Removed
Union Members Agree
On United Front
New York (U.R) The chief
stumbling block to settlement, of
the five-day Atlantic Coast dock
strike was removed Saturday
when the striking union's squab
bling members voted to forget
their differences and try to
seek a settlement restoring the
nation's vital overseas com
merce.
A total of 45.000 members of
the Independent International
Longshoremen's a s s o c i a tion
went on strike Tuesday on the
expiration of an 80-day Taft
Hartley injunction that inter
rupted a nine-day strike last
November.
Tie Up Ports
Ihe longshoremen tied up
every port from Maine to Vir
ginia. The strike, combined with
a walkout by 4,000 tugboat wor
kers in the port of New York,
forced ships to dock without
tugs and unload passengers
without stevedores.
The New Dutch passenger lin
er Statendam arrived here on
her maiden journey to a gala
welcome by fireboats, but. the
usual bevy of tugs was absent.
The jhip docked in Hoboken,
N.J., unaided and her 877 pass
engers carried their own lug
gage ashore.
- Negotiations between the
Longshore Union and the New
York Shipping association, rep
resenting 178 of the nation's ma
jor shippers, broke down Fri
day when an intra-union battle
broke out.
The fighting between mem
bers came at a time when the
union and management negoi-
ators were nearing agreement.
But some union members op
posed reconsideration of what
the shippers called their "final
offer," while leaders favored re
consideration. :' 'AT.ii
Saturday the union voted to
reconsider the "final offer and
present a solid front to manage
ment.
Union and management rep
resentatives then returned to
joint negotiations supervised by
the Federal Mediation and Con
ciliation service.
In the National Maritime Un
ion's tugboat strike, which has
been under way since Jan. 31,
both sides met once again under
the watchful eyes of federal me
diators. The tug workers want
a is cent waae increase over
their present $1.76 to $2.80 and
other contract changes.
AF Abandons Base
At Woodburn, Ore.
Washington (U.R) The Air
Force has abandoned plans to
build a $40 million base at
WnnHhnrn (Irf.. ReD. Walter
NnrblaH (R-Ore.) said Saturday.
.Norblad said Air Force becre-
arv nnnalrt A. Ouarles inform
ed him the Woodburn base was
being called in favor of a ten
tative plan to spend $5 million
to improve facilities at Portland.
Norblad said Quarles told him
it was possible the Air Force
mioht rpronsider Woodburn
again later, but for the present
it felt Portland would De - ade
quate" with some improve
ments. Norblad said he was informed
the decision was in line with
an Air Fnrpp nollcv not to build
new bases. He said Quarles cited
the cancellation oi proposed oas
es at Kalkaska, Mich., and near
Pittsburgh, Pa., as other ex
amples of this policy.
Tho Kaw'i nnsitinn in licht
of the Air Force's change in
plans was not immediately
known. The Navy had earlier
abandoned nlans for a reserve
training facility at Hillsboro in
favor of joining with the Air
Force in its woodburn area Dase.
Rabat, Morocco (U.R) The
official newspaper "Al Alam"
said Saturday U. S. vice-presi
dent Richard M. Nixon will vis
it Morocco at the end of the
month.
Weather
'ORFCAST; Clear today, vari
able cloudiness tonight and
Monday. High today fi. low
tonight 36. high Monday 65.
TigheU Yesterday 7
Lowest y e ste r d ay : 3 0
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunset
The Moon rises..
7:06 im.
5:46 p.m.
10:02 p.m.
The stars in its background are
now those of Virgo. Another
prominent constellation, Ursa
Major, is seen in the north
east at moon rise. Its" brighter
stars form the Big Dipper.
Affection Displayed by Queen, Duke in
mm M
Lisbon; Start Their 'Second Honeymoon'
Lisbon (U.R) Queen Eliz
abeth and the Duke of Edin
burgh began their "second
honeymoon" Saturday with an
unprecedented public display of
affection that belied the rumors
of a royal rift.
The radiant Queen flew to
Montijo Military airport at Lis
bon for the reunion with her
blond husband after a four
month separation that was the
longest since their marriage in
1947.
They had two minutes alone
together behind the drawn blinds
of the Queen's special turboprop
Viscount Airliner. Then they ap
peared on the gangway, all
smiles. The Queen lightly strok
ed the arm of her husband, de
spite the British royal tradition
that the monarch never display
personal feelings in public.
Both appeared eager to get
Carl W. McMillan
Found Guilty by
Circuit Court Jury
A circuit court jury yesterday
afternoon returned a verdict of
guilty against Carl Wallace Mc
Millan. 50, Central Point, charg
ed with driving while under the
influence of intoxicating liquor
McMillan was arrested July
21 after the car he was driving
collided with a jeep, operated by
Arthur Hanshew, 305 North Fir
st., Medford, on Highway 99
near the Mason Ehrmann rd
Hanshew's eight-week -old son,
Michael, was killed in the acci
dent and Mrs. Hanshew serious
ly injured.
McMillan was-found guilty of
the charge last August by a dis
trict, court jury. McMillan's at
torney, Edward Kelly, appealed
the case to circuit court and tne
appeal was granted. The circuit
court trial began Wednesday.
Testimony was given by four
state's witnesses and about 20
defense witnesses, including the
defendant.
Rebuttal Witnesses
District Attorney Thomas
Reeder called State Police Offic
er Robert Wieveseik and Han
shew as rebuttal witnesses.
Attorney's closing arguments
concluded about noon Saturday
and the jury began deliberating
about 1:10 p.m. The verdict was
announced at 3:50 p.m.
Circuit Judge Orval Millard
of Josephine county, who pre
sided at the trial, will pronounce
sentence at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Feb.
26. McMillan's bail was ordered
continued until that time. Kelly
said he was undecided as to
whether or not he would fight
the case further.
McMillan was indicted by a
Jackson county grand jury last
fall on a charge of manslaughter
and is scheduled ot face that
charge later.
John C. Anicker, deputy dis
trict attorney, assisted with the
state's case and Miss Noreen Kel
ly assisted with the defense case.
Sports Bulletins
Klamath Falls Klamath
Falls defeated Medford here
las Inight 59-53 in overtime in
a Southern Oregon conference
game. Medford's Tom Hamlin
scored two last second free
throws to lie ihe game. 51-51.
The score also was tied at half
time, 24-24. Dick Copple of
Medford was high scorer with
22 points.
Aihland Ashland High
school evened a two - game
series with Crater 48-34, here
last night in a Southern Ore
gon conference basketball
game. Halftime score favored
Ashland 48-34.
- Glendale Phoenix High
school defeated Glendale here
last nigh. 52-47, in a Rogue
League basketball game. Score
at halftime was 32-19. for
Phoenix.
Rogue River Talent High
school defeated Rogue River,
39 to 26, here last night, and
St. Mary's of Medford edged
Butte Falls, 59 to, 57, in a
sudden death overtime. High
scorers in the first game were
Phil Combs, who scored 16
for Talent, and Bob Bigmn.
who got nine for Rogue River.
Jerry Flakus scored 25 points ,
for St. Mary's, which was
trailing 39-19 at halftime. Don
Ellis tallied 26 for Butte Falls.
The score was tied 53-53 at
the end of the regular game,
and 57-57 at the and of the
first overtime.
CUMINS
through the formalities of wel
come and. drive off to the Royal
Yacht "Britannia," anchored 20
miles away in picturesque Set
ubal harbor for two days alone
together. On Monday, they will
begin their formal royal tour
of Portugal.
The Queen left five minutes
early from London airport for
the three hour, 50 minute flight
to Lisbon. She left Prince
Charles and Princess Anne be
hind at Buckingham palace.
They did not see her off at the
airport because they have colds.
The Duke, who had arrived at
Lisbon earlier after his 125-day
world cruise aboard the Brit
annia, paced up and down, im
patiently awaiting the arrival of
his wile, who flew in Saturday
for the reunion, two days ahead
of the official schedule for the
four-day state visit.
23 Youths Arrested
For Burglary, Thefts
Central Point Twenty-three
Medford and Central Point boys,
aged 15 to 17, were arrested
here early Saturday morning in
connection with two burglary
charges and 33 thefts during the
last h years in Jackson county
cities including Camp White and
Pinehurst, according to Police
Chief Wallace Bowen, of Cen
tral Point.
Bowen said the arrests were
made after three boys were
questioned in connection with
Russia Returns to
Stalinist Line
London (U.R) Russia opened
a new divide-the-West campaign
Saturday in an apparent return
to the Stalinist line.
Simultaneously, the Kremlin
took the unusual step of inform
ing the Russian people them
selves that there was nothing
wrong with the work done by
Dmitri T. Shepilov during his
brief term as foreign minister.
Observers here took this to
mean that Shepilov, supplanted
Friday by old-line career diplo
mat Andrei Gromyko, had been
under fire at home.
Evidence of the return to hard
Stalinist thinking in foreign
affairs was the revival Saturday
of the old Soviet effort to split
the Western allies.
Radio Moscow for the first
time in months stopped denounc
ing Britain and told Britons
theirs is the "most important
country of Europe." It invited
close Anglo-Russian friendship.
Kenwood-Grandview
Residents to Meet
Residents of the recently-annexed
Kenwood-Grandview area
will meet at 7:30 p.m.. Thursday,
Feb. 21, in the council room of
the city hall to determine the
specific area within the district
for which sewers will be re
quested. The meeting has been called
by Roy Wilkes, leader in the an
nexation effort for the district.
Robert Duff, city manager,
Vernon Thorpe, public works di
rector, and Roy Bashaw, city at
torney, will explain the topo
graphic picture of the area, indi
cate possible locations for trunk
sewers and help answer ques
tions concerning the forthcoming
project.
Doubt Raised About
CSC Chairmanship
Washington (UJ) ' The
question of who will be named
to chairmanship of the Federal
Civil Service Commission was
raised here Saturday with some
representatives doubting that
Harris Ellsworth, former Oregon
congressman, would get the job.
Some members of the House
Post Office and Civil Service
Committee were quoted as
believing the nod might go to
Christopher H. Phillips, of Mas
sachusetts instead.
Ellsworth was named to one'
of the three places on the com
mission. Constantine, Algeria ?U.R)
A rebel grenade killed one per
son and wounded 12 others
Saturday in a crowded shopping
district of Constantine.
Bm STOP
One minute after the plane
landed, the Duke sunburned and
fit, although without the spade
shaped beard he sported during
his cruise, drove up in a lim
ousine. He bounded out of the back
seat and walked up and down,
waiting impatiently for a stair
way to be rolled to the plane's
door.
. Then he strode ' briskly
aboard. Their first meeting since
"Oct. 15 was shrouded from 100
newsmen and photographers by
the blinds drawn across the win
dows of the maroon and gray
royal compartment.
Up front, in another closed
compartment. Foreign Minister
Selwyn Lloyd and other British
dignitaries waited quietly for
the royal couple to leave before
they clambered down from the
plane.
gasoline thefts from several
Central Point cars Friday. The
questioning led to the arrest of
other boys who implicated still
others, he added. All of them
have admitted the charges, he
said.
Assisted By Officers
The arrests were made by Cen
tral. Point police assisted by
Jacksonville and Medford offi
cers. Four of the juveniles have
been lodged in county jail on
charges of burglary, police said.
The other 19 were released to
their parents with instructions
to appear before county juvenile
authorities, it was reported.
Bowen said it was too early
to determine if . the juveniles
were organized, but that more
arrests are expected. Most of the
charges included thefts of gas
oline, hub caps and bottles, he
said.
The four youths being held in
county jail are charged with en
tering a Medford retail store two
months ago where $21 was taken
and breaking into a Central
Point service station in January.
Three Polling Places
Listed for Election
Central Point Eligible vot
ers in school district 6C will vote
between 2 and 8 p.m. Monday
on two bond election issues.
One issue is for $150,000 for
a classroom addition to Crater
High school and one for $85,000
for completion of the athletic
field.
Three polling places will be
open, district officials pointed
out. Legal school voters of the
regular election precincts in and
around Gold Hill will vote, at
the Gold Hill elementary school
gymnasium at Hanby school.
Legal school voters in the
former Sams Valley school dis
trict will vote at the Sams Val
ley school and. those in and
around Central Point, including
voters in the Mound precinct,
will vote at the Crater High
school music room.
Any legal voter who has re
sided in the school district for
the past six months and who has
been registered for at least 30
days preceding the election is
eligible to vote on these issues.
"What Do You
Egypt Threatens
II Israel Doesn't
Withdraw Troops
'Crucial Decision'
Expected This Week
Cairo flJ.R) Egypt may
ha't clearance of the Suez canal
in reprisal against Israel's re
fusal to evacuate the Gulf of
Aqaba area and the Gaza strip,
well-informed sources said Sat
urday. The "crucial decision" on the
matter will be made in the next
few days, these sources said.
Egypt was reported by inform
ants to have made a veiled threat
to keep the vital 103-mile-long
waterway closed to traffic if Is
rael stands firm in refusing to
withdraw troops from the two
Egyptain-claimed areas.
Hints of reprisal were made
by Egypt to the United Nations,
informants said. These sources
said the Egyptains had made it
clear to U.N. salvage officials
that in any case, clearance op
erations could not go full speed
ahead until the question of Isra
eli withdrawal had been settled.
Target Date
March 10 had been set as the
target date for reopening the
waterway to 10,000-ton vessels.
One sunken vessel, the Akka,
has been removed. Two others
are due to be hauled away as
soon as explosives can be taken
off one of them. .
Only Friday, Israel rejected
United States proposals aimed at
winning Israeli agreement to
withdraw from Aqaba and Gaza
unless Egypt promised to stay
out of the Gaza strip.
Egypt's president Gamal Ab
del Nasser told Indian legislator
Dr. Anup Singh early last week
that resumption of canal traffic
hinged on "certain conditions."
Informed sources said Egypt
had indicated to U.N. Secretary
General Dag Hamrnarskjold that
the Egyptain agreement to clear
the canal would have to be re
vised unless the Israelis got out
of Aqaba and the Gaza strip
fast.
Alabama Grand Jury
Returns Indictments
Montgomery, Ala. U.R)
The grand jury Indicted an un
disclosed number of persons for
integration violence Saturday,
saying that if dynamiters go un
punished la,w and order will col
lapse. Names of those indicted were
withheld pending their arrest.
But seven white men previous
ly had been arrested and
charged with bombing Negro
homes and churches. Police said
some of the bombings were the
work of the Ku Klux Klan.
Circuit Court Clerk John Mat
thews began processing arrest
warrants as soon as the report
from the Montgomery county
grand jury came down.
Coast Guard Seeks
Cause for Explosion
Florence U.R) The Coast
Guard Saturday began hunting
the source of an "explosion"
heard by residents over a wide
area Friday night.
A spokesman said it was pos
sible a mine had washed up on
the beach and exploded.
Make Of It?'