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HONOHS WAR DEAD Mrs. Ben Allison,
senior vice president of the Medford post of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary, is
,hovn laying a wreath of flowers at the foot
of the flag pole in Hawthorne park in mem
ory of American soldiers killed and disabled
in war. "Laying of the .wreath" was part of a
Memorial day program Thursday. Mrs. Alli
Drownings, Auto
Accidents Claim
lour in Oregon
V Br tJIITED PRESS
Four persons died in Oregon
accidents over the Memorial Day
holiday, tw by drowning and
two in traffic.
Harold E. Ellickson. 54, Eu
gene, was killed Thursday after
noon when his truck overturned
about Twlf a mile aorth of Sixes
on Highway 101 in southwest
Oregon. Ellickson suffered a
crushed chest and a broken back
and was pronounced dead on ar
rival at a Gold Beach hospital.
Cindy Meyers, 2, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Meyers of Eu
gene, drowned Thursday in the
mjllrace which runs near the
0 liiversity of Ore (Jon campus.
The child's mother said she
ted been loading a pickup truck
and tht tha family-was prepar-'
in to rrcive to another house.
She fold Coroner Fred Buell she
had brought Cindy and the girl's
thre-and-cme-nali-year-old broth-ft-
'back from the edge of the
jgnfllraee once and had return
jtft J9 loading tba truck. The boy
AAuxned minutes later to say
that Cittd? was "in the water."
Seach?s found t'he girl's body
SO yards downstream.
Max H. Eefartfng, 24, Portland,
vice president of the Zehrung
.Chemical Company, drowned
Thursday evening in the Colum
bia slough on the north edge
of Portland.
Seach for Zehrung's body con
tinued today.
The young executive was wa
ter skiing near Tomahawk island
when a steering cable on the
boat towing him broke and he
was thrown into the water.
The first death of the week
end occurred shortly after the
holiday period opened Wednes
day evening. Frankie Lee Clubb
17, Boring, was killed near
Gresham when a freight train
struck a car.
Testimony Taken in
Plywood fraud Trial
Portland (UP) The gov
rnment today began taking tes
timony in the trial of seven per
sons accused of violations in
connection with promotion of
the Mount Hood Hardboard and
P-wod Cooperative.
James A. Snyder, a Corvallis
service station operator, testi
fied he was sold a S1000 mem
bership in the co-op in January
of 1335 by Roland Montgomery
of Hood River, a former state
policeman. He said he was told
that of $550,000 which 550
members were to invest all of
the money was to be kept in
the co-op except 10 per cent for
organizational expenses.
Filming of Motion Picture
Scene to Start Here Soon
Preliminary arrangements for
filming the scene of a motion pic
ture are underway in the Med
ford area by Regal Films of Hol
lywood. About 20 to 25 persons and
a truckload of equipment are
here, according to Robert Cor
bin. local manager for Oregon
Gnlifomia theaters.
Scenes Described
The picture. "The Violent
Road," is a story of the govern
ment njoving Ft. Knox gold.
Local shots will be taken at the
Tolo overpass near highway 99
and in a barn near Hollywood
orchards.
Leon Chaoluk, producer, is in
charge of arrangements. Local
scenes "are to include hi-jacking
6 trainload of gold, in which
actor .drop onto the train from
Traffic Death Toll
Under Predictions
By UNITED PRESS
The nation's Memorial Day
traffic toll dropped sharply be
low predictions.
A United Press survey showed
93 traffic deaths during the
period when the National Safety
Council expected 120.
The Memorial Day toll ran
slightly higher than the non
holiday average of 75 for a simi
lar period.
Safety Council President NedJboosted the accidental death toll
H. Dearborn said drivers deserve
a "pat on the back" for their
Memorial Day care and courtesy.
"Let's keep it up over the
week end," he pleaded. '
SOC Calls Bids
On Brilt Property
Jacksonville Bids for pur
chase of the historic Britt house
and nearby property in Jack
sonville have been called by
Southern Oregon college recip
ients of property willed by the
late Amalia Britt.
The college, as residuary leg
attee, became heir to the house
and city lots and a larger tim
bered area after the property
was not accepted by the South
ern Oregon Historical society.
Bids for the house and lots
were rejected in a similar sale
offer last fall when the college
decided prices offered were too
low. according to Donald Lewis,
SOC business manager.
Up for sale besides the histor
ical home, which was severely
damaged by fire on April 29,
are an old brewery building and
lot, an old garage and two lots,
and two other vacant lots. The
approximately 65 acres of tim
bered land are not lor sale,
Lewis said.
Specifications and bid forms
are available in the college busi
ness office and bids will be op
ened at 3 p.m. July 5. -
The college received $125,000
in securities from the estate, in
addition to the property.
Two Lightning Fires
Reported in Old Burn
Two lightning fires in an old
barn in the Summit prairie area
between Prospect and Butte
Falls were reported to the state
forestry department yesterday.
Patrolmen found one and ex
tinguished it and a crew was
looking for the other this morn
ing. No trouble from the fire
was expected since the light
ning storm was accompanied by
rain in the area.
the overpass. Corbin said gas
will be shot into the guards'
car, the train will be pulled onto
a spur and a door blown open
to remove the gold into a mov
ing van with a crane.
Rain Needed
Shots are to be made at night
in a light rain, according to
Corbin. and if no rain falls with
in the next few days, the studio'
will "make'' it with sprinklers.
Medford was picked because
of Lippert's association with this
area and because the rail line
has little use. He is executive
producer of Regal Films, as well
as major owner of the theater
chain.
Corbin said the public will
be welcome to watch when ac
tion gets under way.
son was accompanied by two other members
of the VFW auxiliary. Another portion of the
program at Hawthorne park included a talk
by Sam Harbison, Medford attorney. A Me
morial day parade Thursday morning pre
ceded the Hawthorne park ceremonies.
(Kenn Knackstedt photo).
The United Press count of fa
talities between 6 p.m. Wednes
day and midnight Thursday
showed 95 persons killed in traf
fic, 6 dead in plane wrecks, 32
drownings, and 15 deaths in mis
cellaneous mishaps for a total
of 146.
Illinois had the worst traffic
record with 1 1 deaths. Pennsyl
vania and California came next,
each with 10 highway fatalities
Two spectacular plane crashes
as millions paid nomage to tne
-nation's war dead.
In Minneapolis, two navy jets
collided during an aerial salute
at a cemetery, killing one pilot
and injuring 11 persons. A
father and his two young daugh
ters were killed in a Nebraska
plane crash.1
Whaal Flies Off
A wheel flew off a speeding
race car at Shippenville, Pa., be
fore some 4,000 fans, killing two
children as it sliced into the
crowded stands and . injuring
three other persons
"Although most of the nation
enjoyed pleasant weather Thurs
day, tornadoes and severe thun
derstorms broke out in sections
of the West.
Twisters hit Iowa, causing
minor damage, and about six
tornado funnels were spotted
near Dallas, Tex. Heavy rains ac
companying the storm threat
ened to touch off new floods in
the Fort Worth. Tex., area.
MHS Baccalaureate
Service Set Sunday
The Rev. Thomas McCamant
of the Congregational church
will deliver the sermon at the
Medford High school baccalau
reate service Sunday at 8 p.m.
in tlie Hedrick Junior High
school auditorium.
Invocation and benediction
will be by the Rev. Richard M.
Jones, pastor of Eastwood Bap
tist church.
Two anthems will be sung by
the Medford High school choir.
They include "The Last Words
of David" and "The Creation."
The high school graduation
exercises scheduled for Thurs
day, June 6. at 8 p.m. will also
be held at Hedrick Junior High
school. Cliff Robinson, director
of secondary education from the
Oregon state department of ed
ucation, Salem, will be speaker.
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Klamath Youth Hurt
In Motorcycle Mishap
Klamath Falls (W James
Roark, 15, Klamath Falls, was
in critical condition in a hospital
here today after he was hurled
40 feet from a careening motor
cycle shortly before noon.
Police said the youth , was
taken to the hospital unconscious
and with multiple leg fractures
and possible head injuries. Offi
cers said the cycle failed to ne
gotiate a curve on Homedale
road about 6 miles southeast of
Klamath Falls. It ripped out 20
feet of guardrail, plunged
through a wire fence and came
to rest in a pasture.
Holmes Plans Statement
On Tax Commissioners
Salem W Gov. Robert D.
Holmes said today he would
make an announcement early
next week in connection with
terms of two state tax commis
sioners whose terms expire Tues
day. The commissioners are Samuel
Stewart and Ray Smith.
52nd Year
Medford
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Economic Experts
See British Action
As Doubling Trade
'Security Interests'
Declared Violated
London (W Britain's relaxing
of trade restrictions with Red
China over American protests
will double British trade with
Peiping within a year, economic
experts predicted today.
But whether the shipping of
such goods as heavy machinery
and automobiles to the Commu
nists will weaken Peiping's ties
with the Soviet Union was a mat
ter of dispute. The American
view was that nothing will come
of it.
Although relaxing the embar
go touched off a sharp Anglo
American dispute, there was no
crisis in relations such as was
caused by Britain and France's
invasion of the Suez Canal Zone.
U.S. Standing Firm
The United States charged the
move violated the world's "se
curity interests" and said it
would not relax its own embar
go, imposed shortly after start
of the Korean war. However,
Norway, Denmark and France
were expected to follow Britain's
lead.
Foreign Secretary Selwyn
Lloyd told the House pf Com
mons Thursday that Britain is
lopping 400 articles off the list
of goods which exporters may
not sell to Red China. This
brings the list in line with arti
cles sold Russia and its satellites
but still bans the sale of "stra
tegic goods."
The British decision came
about after a week's abortive ne
gotiations in Paris by "Chin
com," the committee for China
trade, involving Britain, the
United States, Japan and most
of the NATO countries.
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Soviet Bomb Said
Too Big To Test
Moscow (UP) Commu
nist Party leader Nikita
Khruschchev recently told Com
munist newsmen that Russia has
perfected an H-bomb so big that
it cannot be tested "because
neighboring countries might suf
fer,", authoritative sources re
vealed today.
"It might smash the windows
of those couutries," Krushchev
said in a conversation with visit
ing Polish reporters two weeks
ago. The text of his remarks
will be published here shortly.
A high qualified source who
heard the conversation denied
that Khrushchev made any ref
erence to the size or type of
bomb or to the possibility that
its explosion would melt the
Polar ice cap.
"We wanted to test a certain
bomb," Krhushchev said, "but
decided against it because neigh
boring countries might suffer."
Fire Destroys House,
Garage, Woodshed
Central Point .The. house,
garage and woodshed of the
James R. Butler family, Gold
Ray Dam rd., were destroyed by
fire about 4 p.m. yesterday. Cen
tral Point rural firemen re
ported. Firemen said the origin of
the blaze was not determined.
The Butlers had gone for a short
auto ride, the rural fire fighters
said they were told. The wood
shed was burned; the two-bedroom
house was about ready to
cave in and the garage was about
two-thirds destroyed when fire
men arrived with four trucks.
A car parked in the driveway
was rolled out of danger but
nothing else was saved, firemen
indicated. Butler had insurance,
it was reported.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair through Satur
day except for afternoon and
evening thunderstorms, most
ly over mountains. Low to
night 54. High Saturday S.
Temp.
KS
56
THrhest Yesterday
Lowest This Morning .
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunset
4:38 am.
7:41 p.m.
9:50 p.m.
June 4
. Moonset
First Quarter
Mars is becoming harder to
find and is now scarcely bright
er than the North Star. Tonight
it appears about half way be
tween Pollux, brightest ot the
Twins, and the Moon.
MEDFORD, OREGON,
NEARING COMPLETION Expected to be
completed by Aug. 1, the new Girls Com
munity club of Medford (above) will house 22
young employed girls and accommodate more
than 200 persons in the main club room when
put into use. Members of the board of trustees
Frank C. Clark,
Prominent Medford
Architect, Dies
Frank Chamberlain Clark, 84,
who has played a r ominent role
in the construction development
of Medford since 1905, died in a
local hospital Thursday after
noon. He was the designer of the
senior high school, the Elk's club
building, the Medford hotel, the
YMCA, and many other public
and business buildings and
schools in the area. He was also
a strong supporter of athletic
events, particularly high school
track, as he had been a track
star in his younger days in New
York. He was a former member
of the New York Athletic club.
Born in New York .
Mr. Clark, the son of Philetus
and Carrie Chamberlain Clark,
was born in Greene, N. Y., on
Dec. 27, 1872 He came to San
Francisco where he resided for
a number of years before coming
to Medford in 1 905. He was well
known here as a partner in the
firm of Clark and Keeney, archi
tects. He was also a prominent mem
ber of the Medford Elk's lodge,
of which he was a life member
and had received his 50-year pin
several years ago.
Mr. Clark is survived by three
sons, two daughters, and nine
grandchildren. His sons are
Frank C. Clark Jr., Medford,
Edwin Wilson Clark, with the
U. S. Air Fcrce in Alaska, and
James Newcomb Clark, Med
ford. The daughters are Mrs.
Frances Berggran, North Holly
wood, Calif., and Mrs. Louise
Patterson. Medford.
Seryices Set
Funeral services will be con
ducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday
in Chapel Mortuary, with the
Rev. George A. Trobough, assist
ant pastor of the First Methodist
church officiating. Interment
will be in Memory Gardens Me
morial park.
Casket bearers will be mem
bers, of the Elk's lodge, Ed Borg,
R. O. Stephenson. E. F. Coleman,
S. G. Sherwood, Donald D. Davis
and Carl W. Norris.
School Budge!
Election Tuesday
Registered voters in the Med
ford school district will vote
Tuesday, June 4, on the proposed
school budget. The election will
be held in the girls gymnasium
at Medford High school between
2 and 8 p.m.
" The budget, approved by the
school district budget committee,
totals $2,329,765.89 for the next
school year. Committee members
said that with an estimated as
sessed valuation of $32,649,800
the mill levy would be 46.8, an
increase of 3.1 mills more than
this year.
The present 43.7 mill levy in
the district is among the lowest
in the county, and one of the
lowest in state for school dis
tricts of comparable size, offi
cials pointed out.
Mainwaring Scholarship
Goes To Oregon School
Eugene (UP) Dean
Charles T. Duncan of the Uni
versity of Oregon school of
journalsim said today a new
scholarship has been established
at the school in memory of Ber
nard Mainwaring, late publish
er of the Salem Capital Journ
al.
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1957
Harmless Radioactive
Cloud Passes Here
A "cloud" of radioactive materials was scheduled to pass over
south Medford this morning. It was characterized as "safe and
harmless" by Atomic Energy commission officials.
As nearly as. could be determined this morning, no. one in
this area had been contacted by the AEC with regard to the course
of the invisible cloud, which resulted from Tuesday's atomic ex
plosion at the Nevada proving grounds.
Mai. Gen J. K. Hicks, Jacuson county civil defense adminis
tration, said he had heard nothing from the AEC, but would alert
radiological monitors in the county. They will report any unusual
findings, he said.
Count Said Higher Than Normal
Ryder Berg, Medford h'.gh school science instructor and chief
of the civil defense radiological monitoring squad, had not been
informed of the occurrence He
radioactive fall-out yesterday
seemed the count was a little
j .- The. AEC said that only extremely sensitive detectors would
be able to pick up the progress
from the ground, and that i the
would be "negligible." It said the cloud was passing through the
main Pacific coast air lanes, and at an altitude where several
scheduled airlines would pass directly through it. However, the
United Press quoted AEC officials as saying "it is perfectly all
right and safe for a plane to fly
The UP said the cloud passed some 40 miles east and southeast
of Burns Thursday, with a path generally over sparsely settled
portions of the state. One report indicated it missed Klamath
Falls on its westward course. .
Local Officials Net Informed
County Commissioner Chester Wendt, president of the Jackson
county civil defense organization, weather bureau and airport
officials all said all they knew about the cloud was the press and
radio information. Robert Church, meteorologist in charge of the
weather bureau, commented that "All the clouds up there look
alike to me."
The weather bureau has no radiological monitoring equipment,
he said, and though they do have collecting sheets for fallout
measurement, they are sent elsewhere for checking.
Th AEC customarily keeps tabs on drifting clouds of radio
active materials resulting from the atomic tests in Nevada. In
the past, most of them have gone eastward. Whether this one is
being followed by planes or ether AEC mobile monitoring devices
could not be learned here this morning.
General Hicks said the AEC would have informed local author
ities if the cloud was considered dangerous. He said such fissionable
materials decay to harmlessness after 36 or 48 hours.
No federal aircraft checked in with the Medford airport
yesterday or today.
Lebanon Says Foreign
Elements To Blame
For Thursday Rioting
Br UNITED PRESS
Lebanese authorities.in Beirut
blamed Syrians, Egyptians and
Communists today for attempt
ing to overthrow the pro-Western
government in angry riots Thurs
day which killed seven persons
and injured 73.
The independent newspaper
El Beyrak said "foreign money"
was behind the riots in . which
shooting, stone-tossing mobs bat
tled for 90 minutes with police
and soldiers during a "general
strike" that failed to come off.
Lebanese authorities said the
"foreign money" came from
Egypt, Syria and Communist
agents and that the anti-government
plot resembled similar at
tempts to overthrow King Hus
sein of Jordan.
Beirut welcomed hundreds of
United States Marines last month
but Thursday one of the demon
strators hurled a stone and in
flicted minor damage on the car
of U. S. military attache Robert
C. Works.
While the Lebanon's relations
with Syria and Egypt worsened,
a new crisis appeared to be in
the making over Israeli passage
through the Gulf of Aqaba.
Jerusalem dispatches said re
ports were received there that
Egypt was reorganizing its Red
Sea fleet to renew the nine year
blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba.
Much of the fleet was destroyed
during the invasion of Egypt but
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jLe s ?yTr!3uf fs-
and directors toured the structure at 229
North Bartlett st. Wednesday and reported
progress to be continuing satisfactorily. Con
tractor Myers Jones is building the $160, 0G0
structure designed by Architect R. J. Keeney.
said he made a routine check of
with a geiger counter, and "it
higher than normal."
of the cloud o'fission"products
increase in radioactive fallout
through such a cloud.
reports received in Jerusalem
said Egypt had been supplied
four submarines and four new
minelayers by the Communists.
'Save The
Playwright Facia .
Year in Jail, Fine
For Contempt .
No Specific Dote) '
Set for Sentencing '
Washington (VP)' Play
wright Arthur Stiller -as found
guilty today of contenvt of.Cdh
gress. Federal District Judge Cha
les F. McLaughlin made the l ul;
ing in a 15-pege decision. He
found that the questions wliich
Miller refused to answer before
the House Committee on Un
American Activities last siftn
mer were "pertinent'' to the
committee's passjwjrt investiga
tion. Faces Jail. Fiaa
Miller,, husband of movie star
Marilyn Monroe, had declined
to name persons who attended
a 1947 meeting of Communist
party writers which he admit
ted attending. He said he declin
ed to name them on grounds of
"conscience." His defense be
fore McLaughlin was that the
questions were not pertinent to
the committee's investigation.
Miller faces a maximum pen
alty of $1,000 fine and one year
in jail.
No specific date was set for
the sentencing.
Miller was not present when
the verdict was disclosed.
Court Not Opanad
In a somewhat unusual move.
the judge merely filed his deci
sion with the court clerk, with
out opening the court to an
nounce his decision. No reason
waa given for the manner in
which the decision was disclos
ed.
The judge had heard the case
without a jury. The six-day trial
enaed May 23.
In his ruling, McLaughlin said
Miller's motive for refusing to
disclose the name 'of his associ
ates, "however commendable,"
could not be considered in judg
ing the case because of an ap
peals court ruling in a similar
case.
Superintendents
Selected (or Farm
Mr. and Mrs. Millard W. Hoff
man, Portland, have been hired
as superintendents of the county
farm and the farm home, it was
announced today by the county
court.
Exparianea Reported
Hoffman, who has been a
farmer and rancher, has also had
considerable experience in em
ployee supervision through oper
ation of a commercial laundry
and cafe. He is a graduate in
business administration and at
one time worked in two eastern
hospitals.
Mrs. Hoffman acquired nurses
training in New Jersey, the court
said, and is experienced in other
lines relative to managing the
home. The couple was the court's
first choice of applicants, it was
said.
Tell Appreciation
.Speaking of the Mausts re
tirement, the court said "The
county regrets their leaving and
is most grateful for their splen
did 19 years service." They are
moving to a new home in Ash
land. ,
The new farm home, which
has facilities for 54 occupanU,
was built about seven years ago
while under the Mausts' manage
ment. Great Britain Explodes
Second Hydrogen Bomb
London (ID Britain exploded
its second hydrogen bomb today,
a superweapon unofficially de
scribed as ready for delivery
against potential Communist tar
gets by presentday jet bombers.
Stove!"