Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 03, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMark 1 0 c 52nd Year ice 10c "Yes, You Were Saying MEDFORD r'nlt. Prm Full IMM4 WIT - Full Uutd Wire 13 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1957 No. 63 is Sets Attifur of mi m OOBIIS Motorcycle Riders Taunt California Town; Three Killed Angels Camp, Calif. W This historic mother lode town set tled down to its quiet ways again today with the departure of more than 3,500 m'HorcyclisU who staged a carnival of noi.e and death during th week end. Three persons died . the re A'. of motorcycle crash and another 20 or an were hurt. Twenty-three persons eri to appear in court on drunk and disorderly charges. Residents Star Ham It took nearly 80 peace of firers to bring some semblance of order in this town of 1.250. Bonneville Act Change Proposed By Sen. Neuberger Washington M Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) to day proposed a change an the Bonneville project act to "au thorize a higher priority for in dustrial power users and main tain fair and equitable distribu tion" of federal power through nut the Columbia Basin. Amtndmatt t Clauaa In a speech prepared for de livery in the Senate. Neuberger introduced an amendment to the act s preference clause which, he said, would result in a '"re turn to progressive and con structive Bonneville power poli cies" The senator called for adop tion of two new marketing cri teria as "policy guide posts" in the distribution of basin power. Separata Schedule Neuberger said his proposal would make "specific provision" for the administrator of the act to establish a separate schedule of priorities for industrial use of low -cost Bonneville power "where it will make the great est contribution to the diversi fied economic growth of the basin states." He said the amended prefer ence clause also would "recog nize the desirability of having diversified industrial and eco nomic development distributed widely an equitably throughout the several states." Real Contributioa "My purpose u to establish definitely and beyond doubt the discretion of the administrator to channel low-cost power gen erated at federal projects into industries which will make a teal contribution towards di versifying the economies of the states," Neuberger said. Missing Instrument Found Sunday Night A thermograph, stolen some time last week from a U. S. Wea ther Bureau shack at Bear Creek orchards property on Old Stage rd , was recovered Sunday night ""according to sheriff's deputies. The termograph. valued be tween SI 00 and $230. was used by Meteorologist William Rog ers for recording temperatures. The instrument was turned over to authorities by Phillip J. MiCormtck. 1800 Myers lane, after it was recovered on a dead end road in the Bear Creek or rhard property by your young p'ple returning from bacca laureate services Sunday eve ning. One of the young people. Miss Mary Kay McCormick, told her father about finding the in strument in the middle of the road. Weather rnRH"ST: Fair through Tuta with variable hiah ctrmdi pf Low tonight 52. High. Tuea- AV BO TFMPFR ,Tl RK H'ffb? Yfstfrr.v H4 Lowest Oiis Morning 34 Our Skies Tonight Sunn; -37 am Stinei 7 43 p m. i fl(Miuet 11.48 pm. Kirt V'lurtrr June 4 PROMINENT STAR RTiin n'-ar The Moon VISIBLE PLANETS nti. pis S 18 pm. Mar ,et o 7 d Saturn. dt vmi'H at n-"nirt t-ffr. nw in 1 .i a m. Mcrcur. fses 4.02 a.rrv The residents stayed In their homes for moit of the week end. It was worth their lives simply to cross the street. The trouble began Friday night when cyclists from Cali fornia. Oregon. Washington and Nevada began arriving for the annual "Gypsy Tour" of the American Motorcycle Associa tion. The principal events were to be a motorcycle parade down the main street of Angels Camp on Saturday night and a race pro gram Sunday at the "Frog Town fair Grounds," scene of the an nual jumping frog contest. The program attracted some 1,200 registered members of the association, who were absolved from blame in what subsequent ly happened. The others were members of "outlaw groups" bearing such names as Vampires, Scavengers and Hell's Angels. Police Chief Joe Spinelli said. "Some of these fellows started using the main street for a drag race. That s when I called for help." TaTerns Shut Down Spinelli swore in six extra of ficers, bringing his force to eight. The Calaveras county sheriff's office sent 14 men and the California Highway Patrol sent another 40. Sixteen private patrolmen came from Stockton, Three of the four taverns in Angels Camp shut down as the officers tried to halt the wild racing through the streets. The unruly cyclists gunned their ma chaines up and down main streets in wild drag rares. litter ing the sidewalk with beer cans and bottles. Khrushchev Ups Western Hopes London OP) Russian boss Nikila Khrushchev's expressed readiness to take "some small step'" toward disarmament bol stered Western hopes today for an agreement of sorts in the five nation disarmament talks now underway in London. Khrushchev said in an inter view broadcast over a U.S. tele vision and radio network Sun day that the Soviet Union would be agreeable to a gradual ap proach to world disarmament similar to the plan reportedly brought here by Harold E. Stas sen. Stassen. disarmament adviser to President Eisenhower, goes before the U.N. Disarmament subcommittee today with the NATO-approved plan he hopes will break the years-long dead Jock on disarmament. Suggests Troop Withdrawal Khrushchev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist party, hinted that such a first step might be the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Western Europe and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe a sugges tion almost certain to be reject ed by the NATO powers. But British observers said the tone of Khrushchev's speech ap peared to indicate a broad meas ure of agree.vent between West and East on th. question of con vention disarmament. Bloodmobile Due Here Next Week The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be stationed at the Elks temple in Medford Wednesday. June 12, from 1 to S p.m. Quota for this bloodmobile vis it is 290 pints, for which 350 : donors will be needed, it was ex plained. Officials said donors may start making appointments Wednesday. June 5. by telephon ing bloodmobile headquarters. SP 3-3313. Several weeks ago Red Cross workers held a meeting at which advisability of discontinuing bloodmobile visits here was dis cussed. It was explained that the relatively small amount of blood collected in the past did not just ify expense of bringing the bloodmobile here. Officials said they later decided to continue the program for a while "in hopes t'at th number of dona tions will increase.'' r, . x-K tiff A " ; "vv rA fft ! f ?1 y- t . "y df 4..-- ft Li.iil,. T . . NOT SO CRAZY This two-weck-old pet rac coon, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Stuart, 1010 South Grape St., Medford, has his own method of beating the hot weather. He sleeps all day, only waking up long enough to get his ration of milk and egg formula out of a bottle. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart have named him "Jesse James," but so far he hasn't showed enough spunk to get out of bed by himself, let alone rob the larder. Jesse is one of a litter of Three People Hurt As Car Plunges Into Cascade Gorge Two women and a three-year-old boy were hospitalized yes terday with injuries received when the car in which they were riding went out of control on Highway 62, traveled over a steep embankment about 350 feet into the Cascade gorge. The accident occurred about 1 p.m. Sunday a quarter-mile south of the Cascade Gorge set tlement. Injured were Gladys Shultz, 21, Chico, Calif., driver of the car. and her two passen gers, Daniel Steven Shultz, 3, Chico, Calif., and Shirley Ann Phillips, 18. Grandview, Wash. State police said the two wo men are reported suffering from leg cuts, possible pelvis fractures and back injuries. The boy was reported suffering from a leg fracture and possible concussion. All three were listed in "good" condition this morning at Rogue Valley hospital. According to police, the car was traveling south on the high way when it went out of con trol. It went onto the right shoulder, hit a bank, veered to the left, crossed the highway and plunged 350 to 400 feet in to the gorge. Occupants Thrown Police said the vehicle rolled over several times and struck several large boulders, a tree and a log. The boy was thrown from the car 70 to 80 feet above the place where the car landed. The two women were thrown from the car at the time it came to rest. An unidentified man who wit nessed the accident reportedly told police no other cars came to il.2 scene until abcut an hour after the acident. A Shady Cove physician was summoned and treated the victims before they were moved to the hospital. The boy was taken to the hospital by a private car. The women were taken to the hospital by Medford Ambulance service. Coos Bay "Pi Vern Moore of Klamath Falls has been elect ed as president of Oregon Elks at their annual convention here. Po. Uand (IP An urgent plea for strawberry pickers has been ade by Willamette valley grow ers. Birdwatchers Memorial Day A group of 14 bird watchers made a count of birds in various parts of Jackson county on Mem orial Day and came up with a total of 84 species. Areas covered included the vicinity of Medford and Ash land, mountain areas on Dead Indian road out of Ashland, the Applegate valley and adjacent hills. Little Butte creek. Hoover Lakes and Gold Ray dam. Highest in Count fhe birds rating highest in tile count of individuals were in the blaekbird family: Brewer's blackbird. 289. tri-colored black bird. 205: reri-winjed blackbird. 87 and rreadowlark, 186. Other birds seen in large numbers GfVl, DuPont Ruled Illegally Linked in Restraint of Trade Washington-dP The Supreme Court ruled today that two of the nation's industrial giants General Motors and the DuPont corporation have combined in an illegal restraint of trade. The court sent the case back to Federal District Judge Walter J. Labuy in Chicago for more proceedings and the "relief neces sary and appropriate" to eliminate the effects of violations of law. Justice William J. Brennan Jr., wrote the tribunal's 4 to 2 majority opinion. Justice Harold H. Burton wrote a 47-page dissent, in which Justice Felix Frankfurter joined. Justices Tom C. Clark, John M. Harlan and Charles E. Whit taker did not participate. Police, Firemen Free Porcupine From Water Heater at Residence Medford firemen and police, the city's jacks of all trades, were called on another xion firefighting mission Sunday morning. Their help wai enlisted in removal of a porcupine from behind the hot water heater on the back porch of Mrs. Claudia Lowd's residence. 703 Sherman st. Just when the prickly ro dent crawled behind the heat er wasn't known but Mrs. Lowd said she thought the "visitor" had been on the pofch two or three days. The animal was retrieyed alive and taken away in a box by Police Sgi. Raymond Seely. who "disposed" of the rodent. He said he did not col lect the bounty. Eisenhower Promises Support for Backers Washington W President Ei senhiwer told Republican House members today he stands 100 per cent on the 1958 GOP platform. He promised support for all those who join him in such a stand. The President, speaking brief ly at a "unity" lunch in the House Caucus Room, discounted talk on a rift in the Grand Old Party. He said he doesn't believe this talk. Among those to shake the President's hand was Rep. H. R. Gross, Iowa, who had said in ad vance he would be there only if his presence was not needed in the House. Count 84 Species During Tour of Jackson County were mourning dove. 194. and house finch. 127. These birds might not be more numerous than other species, but only more easily seen, it was pointed out. The tri-coloed blackbirds were all in one flock feeding along Foothill rd. They are like the led-winged blackbird except the red shoulder patch is edged with white instead of yellow. Unusual Birds Among the more unusual birds observed were a calliope hum mingbird, smallest bird found in the United States, which was seen near Dead Indian rd. A pair pf the graceful, long neck ed we-tern grebe were found cn one of the Hoover lakes. raccoons orphaned when their mother was killed by dogs owned by a Medford hunter. According to Mrs. Stuart, raccoons make fine pets but she is apprehensive of what will hap pen when he first comes face to face with a neighborhood cat. Jesse, now only about eight inches long from his nose to the tip of his ringed tail, gets a violent case of hiccups after every meal. Scaled-Down Version The case that reached the Su preme Court was a scaled-down version of the huge civil anti trust suit largest ever brought in this country initiated by the government in mid-1949. Originally, 186 DuPonts figured as defendants, many of them mi nors. The government charged that E. I. du Pont De Nemours & Co. bought stock in General Motors in 1917 with the idea of obtain ing a sure market for Du Portt paints, varnish and other prod ucts. It also sought to exploit GM chemical discoveries, the com plaint said. DuPont has at all times owned at least 23 per cent of GM's stock. Holdings now are carried at a book "value of $700 mil lion. Many Board Members In addition many individuals over the years have been board members of both corporation si multaneously. Earlier, Labuy had found that the government failed to make a case. But Brennan said the test of illegality is "whether at the time of suit there is a reasonable probability that the acquisition is likely to result in the con demned restraints." "The conclusion upon this rec ord is inescapable that such like lihood was proved as to his ac quisition," Brennan said. Wheeling, W. Va. in Vice President Richard M. Nixon said Sunday the Eisenhower adminis tration must oppose union offic ials who "depend upon trickery" but does not want to penalize "good" labor organizations. This is the first time any of these observers had found this species in the county. Black tern were also seen in the same area. Among the brighter and more attractive birds found were numerous Bullock's ori oie. black headed grosbeaks, western tanagers and 36 of the dainty little Lazuli Buntings. Observers taking part in the count included Ralph Browning, Mrs. Howard Bush, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. J. H. Hicks, Betty Jo Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hub bard, the Rev. and Mrs. Thomas McCamant. Dr. John Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Richardson, Dr. Elmo Stevenson and Tom Turpin. Air Force Captain Keeps Peak Height For About 2 Hours Breakdown Forces Flier To Descend Minneapolis IW An Air Force captain soared a record 18 miles into space in a balloon flight Sunday. He remained at that height for nearly two hours. Capt. Joe Kittinger, 28. of Holloman Air Force base, N.M., said he could see the eastern shore of Lake Michigan more than 300 miles away when he hit the record altitude for a bal loon ascension. The red-haired pilot ascended to more than 96.000 feet and remained aloft until he was or dered down because of a break down in radio communications. He had been scheduled to stay at that height for about six hours. Tops Old Mark The previous record balloon altitude was 76.000 feet, set last Nov. 8 in a launching near Rapid City, S.D. Kittingers record was about 30.000 feet short of the highest altitude man has ever reached. The altitude record for manned aircraft is 126,000 feet, set by the Air Force rocket plane X2. Kittinger made the ascent sealed in a three-by-eight-foot capsule-type gondola. "The ascension was so smooth I hardly knew I was airborne," Kittinger told newsmen Sunday night after undergoing a medi cal clieckup. Doctors said the pilot's physical condition was "every bit as good" as when he left the ground. Drops in Creek Oxygen for the flight was sup plied by a liquid oxygen con verter, and carbon dioxide was removed by a chemical air re generation system, enabling Kit tinger to breath in the rarified atmosphere. The balloon came down In a creek near Weaver. Minn., about 70 miles southeast of Min neapolis. The gondola skimmed tree tops and utility lines in landing but Kittinger was unharmed. All told, Kittinger was in the air for six hours and 34 minutes Purpose of the flight was to gather scientific data and to conduct medical and psycholog ical experiments for eventual manned rocket tests. Animals Examined After Atomic Blast Las Vegas, Nev. W Sci entists today examined scores of mice, pigs and monkeys exposed to radiation in the Atomic En ergy Commission's latest A-test at the Nevada proving grounds. They hoped their study would lead to the development of a practical shield to protect hu mans from the "prompt" radia tion which flares out when a nu clear device is detonated. The animals were anesthetized and placed at varying distances behind various types of shields before Sunday's test of a "small" nuclear device blasted off atop a 300-feet steel tower. "Dosimeters" were surgically inserted into the bodies of some of the animals to count internal as well as external dosages of radiation. Traffic Death Toll Below Estimates By UNITED PRESS The nation's motorists and law enforcement agencies won plau dits from safety leaders today for combining to hold the Memo rial Day holiday traffic death toll "well below" estimates. Safety officials had feared the four-day holiday death count on the highways would hit 450, but it appeared the final toll would fall far short of that mark. A United Pres count at 12 noon (e.d.t.) showed at least 411 persons were killed in traffic ac cidents from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday. Plane crash es killed 21 persons, 139 drown ed and 94 died in a variety of other accidents for a weekend to tal of 665 deaths. Jury Trial Guarantee In Civil Rights Bill Washington W The Sen ate Judiciary Committee today wrote a guarantee of jury trials into the controversial civil rights bill. The vote was 7 to 3. It was interpreted as a victor for southerners who have argu ed that the proposed bill would violate the right of trial by jury. Washington OPI The Su preme Court has ruled that fed feral courts may compel em ployers to comply with arbitra tion clauses in collective bar eaiping sereemcnts, regardles3 cf state law. Top Sclent ists Asfi End of Atomic Tests Pasadena, Calif. W Two thousand scientists, including the nation's top geneticists and the Nobel Prize winner who dis covered that penetrating radia tion affects animals offspring, appealed today for a halt in nuclear bomb testing. A statement prepared bv Dr. Li lus Pauling, Nobe' Prize-win ning chemist, and signed, by U. S. biologists, chemists and physicists, warned that each nu clear bomb test spreads an added burden of radioactive elements School Budge) Election Tuesday Residents of the Medford school district will vote tomor row on the proposed budget of $2.3;9.763.89 for operation of schools in the district in 1957-58 The election will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. in the girls' gymnasium at Medford school. The general operating High fund budget is $2,129,439.01. Amount for bond interest and sinking fund is $200,326.88. Estimated receipts for the next year total $709,229 for the general fund and $140,665.90 for bonds and interest; ana sinning tund, or a total of $849,394.90. Total amount to be raised by taxation is $1,528,168.08 Amount within the 6 per cent limitation is $428,072.95, leaving $1,039, 091.80 in excess of the 6 per cent limitation. Proposed mill levy is 46.8, which represents an in crease of 3.1 mills over the cur rent year. School oficials explained the increase in the proposed budget is largely due to need for con struction of additional class rooms to accomodate anticipated enrollment increases. Massachusetts Hotel Fire Kills 3, Hurts 9 Worcester, Mass- tpi A pre dawn fire raced through the Ho tel Pleasant today, killing three women and injuring at least nine other persons. About 50 others were led to safety, many lovrn fire ladders. Four of ! injured were re ported in critical condition at City Hospital and at least one was not expected to survive. The dead were identified as Mrs. Sadie Mason, Mrs. Anna O'Brien, and Mrs. Mary Walton, all middle aged. Most of those staying at the 65-room hotel were permanent residents. 75 German Recruits Drown on Forced March Kempten, Germany ilfi Fif teen German Army recruits on maneuvers drowned today when ordered to wade across the swift running Iller river in a case similar to the U.S. Marine Corps death march" at Parris Island, S.C., early last year. The sergeant in charge of the Bundeswehr paratrooper unit training exercises was arrested and held for questioning in to day's incident. Japan Students March On British Embassy Tokyo W Japanese stu dents marched on the British Embassy again today to protest the, hydrogen bomb tests, and leaders threatened a "new Ta pei" unless Britian halts its Pa cific blasts. Police were alerted to pxpect an onslaught of about 5.000 stu dents but only a handful of ban ner-waving demonstrators turn ed up at the embassy compound. over the earth. They said thisjs damaging the hoJth of people around the world. Among the signers is Dr. H. J. Muller, of Indiana University, a leader among geneticists in pointing out th- dangers of fall out radiation tc .he human race. Muller's work o.' mutation hereditary changes earned him the Nobel Prize in 1956. Noted Signers Prof. L. H. Snyder of the Uni versity of Oklahoma, an author ity on human genetics and presi dent of the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science, signed the appeal as an individual scientist, and not ai a member of the AAAS. Nearly all the members of the scientific departments of Wash ington University in St. Lfcuis, Mo., 102 in all, signed the" bill as did some 200 scientists in Bethesda, Md. Pauling said the 2.000 names were collected in only 10 day and that he was sure, "If more time were taken we would have had 10,000 names." Will Appeal To Congren Pauling said his statement wag a "general appeal" and that he planned to forward it to Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.), chair man of a congressional commit tee now holding hearings on rad iation damage. The scientists warned in a statement prepared by Dr. Paul ing that each nuclear bomb test spreads an added burden of radioactive elementi over the world. "Each added amount of radia tion causes damage to the health of human beings all over the world and causes damage to the pool of human germ plasma such as to lead to an increase in the number of seriously defective children that will be born in future generations" the appeal said. Dr. Pauling and his fellow scientists called for an interna tional agreement to stop testing nuclear bombs now while only three nations of the world hold the secret, to unleashing the awe some power of the hydrogen bomb. Election Set for McCarthy Successor Madison, Wis. HPI Gov. Ver non Thomson of Wisconsin an nounced today that he will call a special election to name a suc cessor to the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy- He said he will set a date by the end of this week. Thomson ended weeks of spec ulation with his announcement He said that "conscious of the responsibility placed in me by the discretion given me by the statute, I have carefully ap praised the course which should be followed to most completely carry out the trust and confi dence placed in me by the elec torate." Former Gov. Walter Kohler, former Rep. Glenn Davis and Lt. Gov. Warren Knowles have an nounced they would run in a special election primary for the GOP nomination. Rep. Alvin O'Konski said he would be a GOP candidate if an election was held, but that he would prefer appointing McCarthy's successor. Sfiorfs, Tight Sweater Claimed Safety Hazard Boston 'IP A girl in shorti and a tight sweater was described today as just as much a safety haiard as a 'bloul.' a drunken driver or a speedster." Philip C. Wallwork, spokes man for lh Automobile Legal Association, pleaded with women to show "pity for tha easily-distracted male motor-lsl."