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SPLICING WIRES Splicer Albert (Mitch)
Mitchell is shown above sorting, identifying,
and splicing together more than 2,000 wires
in a cable in a manhole at the intc'section
of West Eighth st. and Oakdale ave. This is
Telephone
More Calls
Several years of work and
planning by Pacific Telephone to
expand and improve service in
the greater Medford area will
bear fruit Saturday night.
Beginning at 11 p.m., April
27, telephone users in the area
will be able to dial more tele
phones without paying long dis
tance charges.
Medford residents. Manager
Jack 'Creager pointed out, will
be able to dial directly to almost
23,000 telephones in Medford,
Ashland,- Central Point, Gold
Hill, Jacksonville, Phoenix-Talent
and White City.
Direct Dialing
The direct dialing areas of
Ashland, Central Point, Gold
Hill, Jacksonville and Phoenix
Talent, will also be expanded.
New telephone numbers will
go into effect in Medford, Ash
land, Gold Hill, Jacksonville and
Phoenix-Talent at 11 p.m. Sat
urday also.
The new Phoenix-Talent ex
change, is-tbe 86th in . Oregon
served by Pacific Telephone.
At the time the improvements
go into effect, telephone rates
for Ashland, Gold Hill, Jackson
ville and Phoenix-Talent will
rhange to conform with the
Medford rates.
The new telephone numbers
CP Post Office
Observes 85th Year
Central Point The Central
Point post office today observed
Its 85th anniversary as an estab
lished post office. Postmaster
George Adams reported.
Constant Magruder was first
(postmaster at the Central Point
office, which was established
April 25, 1872. The office at that
time was in a building near the
lew extinct Manzanita school,
Adams said.
The present post office is at
341 Pine st., Central Point, in a
building which Adams says "is
probably the only pink post of
fice in the country."
Weather
FORECAST: PrUr rlood.v
through Frtdav. Low tonight
35. High Friday 64.
Temp.
Richest Yesterday sn
Lowest this Morning 32
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise .VI 5 a.m.
Sunset 7:04 p.m.
Moonrise Friday 3:24 a.m.
New Moon April 2S
PROMINENT STARS
Stria. iet. .... S:1J p.m.
Recnlas, high In south
west 9:4 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Saturn, rises 1:31 p.m.
Mar?, sets 1:3S p.m.
Jupiter, high tn south
west 1135 p.m.
Sky-Gazers Convinced That
Streak of Liqht Was Comet
A long streak of dim. hazy
light was visible low in the
northwestern sky from this area
last night, and amateur sky
gazers are convinced it was the
unpredictable comet n.amed
Arend-Roland.
Plainly Visible
Arend-Roland, discovered last
November by two Belgian as
tronomers, has been due in the
early-evening skies for several
days,' but clouds have prevented
good observation. Last night,
however, was clear. The light in
the sky last night covered an
estimated 15 to 20 degrees of
arc. and was sighted between
8:30 and 10 or 10:30 p.m.
If it was, indeed, the comet, it
exceeded earlier predictions as
to size and visibility. While dim,
the nearly vertical light streak
was plainly visible except when
obscured by city lights.
The United Press reported the
comet was visible in North Da
kota last night, and quoted as
one of many jobs performed to improve
1 and expand telephone service in the greater
Medford area, which will go into effect at
11 p.m. Saturday.
Users Will Be Making
Without Charge
composed of a prefix with two
letters and a numeral followed
by four other numerals are
listed in - telephone directories
being delivered this week.
In using the numbers, Creager
stated, it is important to dial the
two capital letters and numeral
of the prefix and the other four
numerals. Prefixes for new
Medford numbers are SPring 2
or SPring 3.
Porter Asked To
Postpone Rogue
Flood Control Bill
Grants Pass U.R) Rep.
Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) was
asked Wednesday to delay in
troduction of a Rogue valley
flood control bill until Army
engineers have, completed a , sur
vey of th'e valley and recom
mended the most feasible flood
control plan.
Porter told a large group rep
resenting the Rogue Basin Flood
Control and Water Resources
association of intentions of in
troducing a bill for Rogue valley
flood control at the present ses
sion of Congress.
Amendment Provision
The lawmaker suggested the
advisability of offering the bill
now, with provision for amend
ments when the report of Army
engineers is forthcoming, prob
ably next spring.
William Jess, chairman of the
association, told Porter that the
Rogue valley is more nearly
united than ever before in the
respect to need for flood con
trol. New Discord Flared
Other association members
expressed fear that Porter's pro
posed bill based on Reclamation
Bureau plans and calling for a
high multi-purpose dam on the
main channel of the Rogue at
Lewis creek would cause new
discord in the valley. Porter said
he would not attempt to have
enacted any legislation which
did not have overwhelming sup
port of Rogue valley residents.
Sportsmen's group oppose a
high dam at Lewis creek be
cause of possible damage to fish
runs.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 492.29. off 1.37; 20 rail
roads 147.49, up 0.94; 15 utilities
72.95. up 0.22; and 65 stocks
173.13, up 0.08. ales today were
about 2.640,000 shares compared
with 2,990,000 shares Wednes
day. tronomers as saying it is sched
uled to become visible shortly
after sunset, setting before mid
night, in northern latitudes this
week before gradually fading
and becoming invisible without
telescopes about June 1.
Hindered by Weather
Adverse weather conditions
over much of the northern part
of the nation have prevented
general observation of the phe
nomenon. But airport control
tower operators in Medford re
ported today that the light has
been seen occasionally through
broken clouds for several nights,
and that last night it shone clear
and relatively bright in cloudless
skies.
Aircraft pilots told the tower
operators it was clearly visible
from their planes as far south as
Sacramento and north to Port
land. The comet is the brightest to
appear since Haleys comet in
1910.
Information on how to dial
the numbers is printed in the
front section of new directories.
Also printed there are a chart
and a map showing the new ex
panded local calling areas which
can be dialed directly.
No Formal Ceremonies
Creager indicated that no for
mal ceremonies have been plan
ned in connection , with the in
troduction of the service im
provements and expansion. He
said that at 11 p.m. Rollie P. Rog
ers Jr., supervising wire chief
for the Medford area, will tele
phone to technicians in the cen
tral offices in the towns in
volved. On Rogers' command some of
the men will push "cutover
switches," others will pull block
ing devices from new equipment
and it will become effective.
Others will put old equipment
out of service. .
The improvements in service
cost $675,000, Creager said.
School Population Not
Effected by Change
County school officials today
explained no residences or
school population would be
changed by the recent transfer
of two sections of property from
the Medford school district to
the Lone Pine district.
One section of land involves
about 35 acres between Spring
book rd., Crater Lake ave..
Buckshot Hill rd., and Roberts
rd. The other section consists of
63A acres between Roberts rd.,
Crater Lake highway, Whittle
ave. and Crater Lake ave.
The Jackson county district
boundary board ordered the
changes at a meeting Tuesday.
Hearing Called on
Property Zone Change
A public hearing on property
rezoning will be held at the
next meeting of the Medford
planning commission Monday,
May 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the
city hall.
The hearing, was called
Wednesday afternoon at a spe
cial meeting of the commission.
The hearing will be on rezon
ing property in Rogue Valley
Heights area from single family
(Class 1A) to light industrial
(Class V) and establishing 35
feet of property adjacent to
Crater Lake highway as park
ing area (Class VII).
Applications Received
For Farm Superintendent
The county court has received
38 applications so far for posi
tions of county farm superin
tendent of the county farm
home.
Two people will be selected
within the next 10 days for the
positions which will be vacated
about July 1 when Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford Maust retire.
Nearly all the applications
have come from married couples
according to Commissioner
Ralph James. Ten have been
from people in Jackson county,
one from the state of Washing
ton and others from residents
elsewhere in the state of Oregon.
Wachsmuth Receives
Life Term for Murder
Eugene '(U.R) A life sentence
for second degree murder was
imposed here today on Albert
Lewis Wachsmuth, 65, convicted
of the Feb. 22 slaying of State
Police Officer Charles Sanders.
Klamath Falls -(U.R) Plans
are moving ahead for the Mer
chants Bus company to provide
a new bus service to Klamath
Falls and suburbs with a target
date of April 30. .... '
Independence of
Jordan Threatened,
Spokesman Asserts
Eisenhower Doctrine
May Get First Test
Washington (U.R) The
United States said today that
Jordan's "independence and in
tegrity" is being threatened by
"international Communism."
The statement was made by
the State Department after the
U. S. Sixth Fleet had been or
dered into Eastern Mediterran
ean waters in the vicinity of
crisis-ridden Jordan.
State Department Press Offi
cer Lincoln 'White declined to
pinpoint the threat to Jordan by
international Communism. But
he:
Indicated that the U. S. be
lieves internal riots in Jordan
are Communist inspired.
Said Soviet arms shipments
have been made to Syria-within
the last three months.
Shipment of Arms
He also noted receipt of re
ports over a considerable period
of time that Communist arms are
being delivered to Egypt.
Both Syria and Egypt have
supported leftist elements in Jor
dan who are opposing pro-Western
King Hussein.
White said "No, sir." when
asked whether President Eisen
hower has "invoked the Middle
East doctrine" in the present
emergency. He said the doctrine
is "operating" in the Middle
Eastern area in the sense that
Ambassador James P. Richard
is explaining it to certain Middle
East countries. Then he remind
ed newsmen that the doctrine
provides help only when such
help is requested.
Aid Not Requested
Asked whether Jordan had re
quested aid of U. S." forces,
White said, "not to my knowl
edge."
White refused to tie the re
turn of the Sixth Fleet to Eastern
Mediterranean waters with the
Jordanian problem. But he left
no doubt this was the purpose
of the sudden fleet movement. .
It would be the first to be
ordered into action should Amer
ican forces be called upon to in
tervene in Jordan under the
Eisenhower doctrine. .'''
Three Roads Reported
Open to Fish Lake
Forest service officials today..
reported that roads into Fish
lake are open, but many of them
are rough, and the only access to
Lake of the Woods is through
Klamath Falls.
Officials reported that roads
into Fish lake from Butte Falls
and McAllister Soda springs are
rough, and snow and mud still
keep the road between Fish lake
and Lake of the Woods closed.
The road to Imnaha Guard
station, they reported, is open,
dui only passaoie, ana cnams
should be carried because of
snow near the station.
From Deadwood junction, the
Big Elk road to Fish lake is
open, and is probably the best of
the three routes. The road from
Deadwood junction to Lake of
the Woods is closed, officials
said.
The Diamond Lake highway is
expected to be open before May
17, the state highway commis
sion has reported. Snow plows
are to start clearing the road
Monday.
Portland (U.R) The State
Board of Aeronautics reported
today that M. S. Hart, a Chicago
flying salesman, reported miss
ing Wednesday on a flight. from
Boise to Pendleton,' had been
located at Seattle.
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Medford
United Pncas Full xaiM Wire
36 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL
CHARLES O. PORTER
Master of Ceremonies
Orchard Heating
May Be Necessary
In Valley Tonight
Most Jackson county fruit
growers heated their orchards
last night and many might again
be required to do so tonight,
according to C. B. Cordy, county
horticulture agent. . '
Firing started about 11 p.m.
last night and continue through
the early morning hours. Tem
perature dropped to 27 "degrees
in some of the coldest areas.
Early weather forecasts today
indicated orchard heating would
start about 3 a.m. Friday. A tem
perature of 29 degrees was pre
dicted for the coldest areas.
Fifth Time in Season
Last night was the fifth time
this season orchard heating has
been necessary, Cordy said. Or
chardists roughly estimated loss
from the April 7 freeze at 1 'per
cent of the total crop. This loss
occurred in area's where orchard
ists did not light heating equip
ment. The April 15 freeze resulted
in some marked fruit, Cordy
added. He also reported a recent
heavy dropping of blossoms on
some trees. Exact cause of the
blossom drop was not known
but Cordy indicated it could
have resulted from cold weather.
Extent of crop damage from
last night's freeze had not beeri
determined today. Cordy said
growers who did not heat their
orchards would probably report
some crop loss.- However, - he
stated the valley's overall fruit
crop would not be seriously af
fected by frosts so far this sea
son. County Court Schedules
Tour of Area Roads
The Jackson county court will
go on a inspection tour of county
roads all day tomorrow, the
county court reported today.
The tour will begin in. the
Evans Creek area. Members of
the court said they also plan to
visit roads in' the Butte ""Falls
area if time permits. They will
observe general condition of the
roads.
You Where The Fire Is"
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MENNEN WILLIAMS
Dinner Speaker.
Governor Will Make
First 1957 Visit in Area
Gov. and Mrs. Robert
Holmes will make their first
appearance in southern Oregon
since he was elected last No
vember when they attend the
Pear Blossom Festival parade
and the annual Roosevelt Me
morial dinner here Saturday.
Governor Holmes will act as
grand marshal for the Festival
parade which starts at 1 p.m.
Saturday from the city library
park.
He will introduce Michigan's
Governor, G. Mennen Williams,
who will speak at the dinner,
which starts at 6 p.m. at Mc
Loughlin Junior High school.
Governor Williams will speak
later in the evening.
Master of Ceremonies
Congressman Charles O. Por
ter will serve as master of cere
monies for the event. Congress
man 'Porter is scheduled to ar
rive in . Medford at 10:45 a.m.
Saturday, and Governor Wil
liams is expected here at 11:05
a.m.
Governor Williams will be
met by a reception committee
which will include Medford
Mayor John Snider and city
councilmen, and representatives
of the Democratic party here.
Bob' Boyer, state Democratic
party, chairman, will interview
the congressman and two gov
ernors on a. television program
Bids Opened Today
For Delivery Canal
Camp White Bids for con
struction of the first 10 miles of
the Howard Prairie Delivery ca
nal were opened today by the
bureau of reclamation at its
Camp White office.
Cherf brothers and Sandkay
and Birch and Sons submitted a
joint, bid of $1,636,739.14 for
the work which is part of- the
Talent project.
Other bids were received from
Peter Kiewit Sons, $1,666,153;
and Mountain States Construc
tion, company, Denver, $1,953,
583. Engineer's estimates for the
job were $1,267,685.
Bids were forwarded to the
chief .engineer in Denver for
consideration and possible
awarding.
Bids on the Howard Prairie
delivery canal were opened last
fall, but were rejected as being
too high.
Dr. Chisholm Will
Speak Here Tonight
Dr. Brock Chisholm, former
director-general of the world
health organization of the Unit
e'. Nations, will be interviewed
on KBES-TV at 5:30 p.m. today
on world health problems.
Alva Graham, member of the
Southern Oregon Child Guid
ance Clinic association, will in
troduce Dr. Chisholm.
Dr. Chisholm will discuss
"Growing Up in a New Kind of
World," at the fourth annual
dinner meeting of the associa
tion at 7:45 p.m. today at Hed
rick Junior High school.
. Friday morning he will meet
with the clinic staff to discuss
child guidance clinic work.
Salem (U.R) Gov. Robert D.
Holmes has appointed Portland
Attorney Roll in E. Bowes to the
State Board of Water Resources.
Tribune
-Full uauo Wir
25, 1957
ROBERT D. HOLMES
Parade's Marshal
starting at 3:40 p.m. Saturday
over station KBES-TV.
Congressman Porter has
scheduled a meeting at 11:30
a.m. with directors of the Rogue
Valley Flood Control and Water
Resources association,' and rep
resentatives of others interested
in flood ' control in the county
court room. '
Informal Lunch
He will have an informal
lunch with friends, participate
in the Pear Blossom Festival
parade, and has made, several
appointments during the after
noon. Governor Williams recently
was .listed by Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt as one of five top
flight Democrats qualified for
the presidency. Mrs. Roosevelt
was speaker at last year's Roose
velt Memorial dinner here.'
Neuberger Replies
To Swigerl Charge
Portland a'U.R) Sen. Richard
L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said today
that "bitter personal insults are
more an indictment of the author
of such abuse than of its tar
get." Neuberger, in a statement,
said he was referring to remarks
made in Syracuse, N.Y. earlier
this week by Ernest Swigert of
Portland, president of the Na
tional Association of Manufac
turers. Swigert was quoted as
saying the two U.S. senators
from Oregon are a "disgjace
to the nation."
Said Neuberger: "I regret
that Mr. Swigert evidently1 feels
it necessary to apply such
abusive and intemperate lan
guage to Senator Morse and me,
simply because we do not follow
the political line of the NAM."
Preliminary Budget
Meeting Held by Board
The first in a series of prelim
inary meetings on the proposed
budget for the Medford school
district was held by the school
board and administrative offic
ials last night.
Regular budget committee
meetings will be held starting
next Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in
the administration office near
Medford High school.
No. 30
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Kiwanis Committee Named
To Study Magazine Problem
Attorney Paul Haviland has
been named chairman of a Med
ford Kiwanis club committee
which will look into the problem
of sale of "obscene, immoral and
indecent" magazines on news
stands to determine what can be
done about the matter.
General Meeting Considered
He said that the group will
meet early next week. Haviland
also reported that the committee
will consider calling a general
meeting of civic and fraternal
group and parent-teacher associ
ation representatives for discus
sion of the problem.
Others named to the commit
tee were Jack Moreland, Jack
Walker, E. Ronald Rice, Tom
Anderson, Bill Singler, Dr. Billy
Blackstone and Dr. Abner Clark.
Kiwanis club members di
rected the club's board of direc
tors to appoint a committee to
Carrier Forrestal
With Jets Aboard
Leads Procession
Washington Declares
Move 'Precautionary
By UNITED PRESS
The powerful United States
Sixth Fleet moved into the war
threatened Eastern Mediterran
ean today on urgent pre-dawn
orders from Washington.
The super-carrier Forrestal,
with the latest jet aircraft
aboard, headed the fleet units
which upped anchor in French
and Italian ports so suddenly
that some men on shore leave
were left behind.
'Precautionary Mot
Washington diplomatic'
sources described the move as
"precautionary" but they left no
doubt of the gravity with which
officials regarded the power
struggle raging inside Jordan
and the possibility it could en
gulf the whole Middle East in'
war. .
As young King Hussein strug
gled to preserve his government
against a leftish led revolt, here
were the day's major develop
ments:
Premier Hussein Khalidi, a
moderate, bowed to leftist
threats and violence and re
signed. .
King Hussein called on for-
Jerusalem, Israel '.U.R) All
Americans, including diplo
matic personnel,' were evacu
ated from the Jordan section
of Jerusalem today in a sign
that serious trouble was ex
pected there.
mer Premier Ibrahim Hashem, a
firm friend of the West, to form
a new government.
Hussein ordered his army to
take over Jordan's towns and
cities, declared martial law, im
posed a strict curfew, and madp
an appeal to his people for
peace and order. He also was re
ported to have ordered Syrian
troops out of the country imme
diately or be forced out by his
Iraqu allies.
Troops from Saudi Arabia
and Iraq were reported to hava
taken up positions shielding the
Jordanian capital of Amman
from the pro-Communist Pales
tine section of the country on
the west and from pro-Communist
Syria in the north.
Britain Consulting Others
The British Foreign Office
announced in London it consid
ers Jordan's stability "essentiii"
to Middle Eastern peace and
that it is consulting "other na
tions" on the new crisis.
The ultra-nationalist Herut
party in Jerusalem demanded
that Israeli Premier David Ben
Gurion recall Parliament from
vacation to consider the Jordan
situation.
The orders commanding the
U.S. fleet units to put to sea
were received at 3 a.m. and told
them to leave at noon. With the
Forrestal and its complement of
3,500 men were 11 destroyers
and two cruisers.
. There were no indications that
French and British units also in
the area had received similar or
ders nor was there any indica
tion that the 22-year-old King
Hussein had or would ask for
intervention.
Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Mrs
Mamie Eisenhower spent a part
of Tuesday and all .Wednesday
"resting in bed" at the vacation
White House here but she was
up and about today.
investigate the matter alter near-
ing a talk by Haviland two
weeks ago on "What Our Young
People Are Reading Today."
Haviland termed indecent lit
erature "the' most cancerous
thing in our society today." He
displayed covers and tear sheets
as samples of what can be found
on newsstands saying that they
were "picked up at places where
your kids hang out."
Show Committee Named
Names of committeemen for
the home and sport show, which
the Kiwanis club will sponsor as
first event in the new Medford
armory, have been announced by
Clark, Kiwanis president Ap
pointed to assist Victor Milnes,
who was previously named chair
man, were Paul Selby, Rice,
John Dellenback, Darrell Miller,
Ray Johnson and Eugene Ferrell.