Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 13, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text52nd Year MEDFO1 LH Wirt 26 Page Talenl Project Gels S6,041, In Appropriations House Committee Sloshes Program Washington" :IF The House Appropriations Committee slashed $r,l,8:i9.944 from Presi dent Eisenhower s public works program today to hew closely to its 7 per cent economy line. If the S814.813.023 bill is ap proved without change, the Houe will have cut S4. 042. 853, A29 from total appropriations of nearly $56 billion it has acted on so far this year. The funds are for the next fiscal year starting July 1. They were reduced more than $52 million below spending for the present fiscal year. The public works measure provided new funds for con struction, planning and mainten ance work by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Interior Depart ment's bureau of reclamation and the Bonneville, Southeast ern, and Southwestern Power Administration. Bonneville Funds Cut Also covered were Quarter master Corps cemeterial ex penses. Bonneville Power Administra tion was allotted $28 509,000, a cut of $3,263,000, but some $2 million more than was appro priated for the current year. The committee refused to allot funds for 11 engineer projects, most of them in the category of new starts or advance planning. Funds for Oregon projects during fiscal 1958 included Rogue river harbor at Gold Beach. $21,000 for planning, and Rogue river, Talent division $6,041,000. Bids Called on Bonds For Water District Bids on $54,000 worth of gen eral obligation bonds issued by the Kings Highway Water dis trict will be opened at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 26. in room 1 of the Brophy building. Bjnds are being issued to fi nance installation of water lines in an area smith of the original district which was annexed May 8. according to Mrs. Jeanette Marshall, attorney for the dis trict. Some of the funds will be used to install additional fire hydrants in the original dis trict, she aded. The board of commissioners last night called for bids for construction to be opened July 1. subject to the sale of bonds. Sam C. Watkins is engineer for the project. History Repeats As Ashland Boy Wounded by Gun Ashland IP It's just about lik history repeating itself. Young Eidman and Charles Russell Moore of Ashland were playing with a .22 pistol when Eidman pulled tha weapon out of its holster. It accidentally discharged, wounding him in tha back of tha left knee. Police said that just one year ago Eidman and Moore were playing with the umi pistol when Moore did tha same thing, wounding himself. In neither case, police said, was the wound serious. PH O 101 DC Remodeling Work to Expand Police Facilities Starts Rrmorirlinc started today at the Medford police department in the city hall on a project to expand the operation of several drpartment services. According to Police Chief Charles Champlin the work is the first phase of a program to expand department facilities in some areas and better utilize space in other areas. Preliminary work began to r3gy on removing a wall between the chief s office and the secre tarial por:ion of the department. The pr-cnt chief's office will t-r ucd to file additional crim inal records for easier access by department officials. Ch.implin said his office will t-e set up in what is now the property room. Space to store supplies will be created in a la-cor arra in the furnace room, vrvch adjbins the jail and the ciTy water department. wo rks "Dam! Dam! Ml STOCK MAKttTGAldS , jflJ on covr. Pttisiort J Mayflower II Sails Into Plymouth Harbor For Official Welcome Plymouth, Mass Mayflower II sailed mouth Harbor today, a Coast Guard tug. The Coast Guard cutter Yank ton tossed a tow line to the Pilgrim replica ship at the har bor entrance. The two vessels then started to negotiate the winding nar row channel to a mooring sit mile inside the entrance. One slight accident occurred before the mooring. The Yank ton ran alongside the historic ship off Jacquish Head to pick up the two line. At this point the Yankton's stubby mast caught in the ropes of the May flower's "sprit-sail" a square- Three Roseburg Boys Admit Starting Fire Roseburg TP Three Rose burg boys, one aged 8 and the ether two 6, today admitted setting the $75,000 warehouse fire of Tuesday afternoon The fire was Roseburg's larg est of the year and destroyed winter equipment of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com pany as well as contents of Carstcn's Furniture Co. ware house. An investigation complet ed Wednesday night turned up ! evidence that the three boys gained entrance - to the ware house through a skylight and tried to start a fire with crum pled paper on a mattress. Investigating officers said the youngsters first tried to use a magnifying glass to ignite the paper but later resorted to matches. The two younger boys tried to put out the fire but it spread too fast and all three fled to safety where they watch ed the fire department battle tne blaze. Salem W Gov. and Mrs. Robert D. Holmes will spend Fathers day at a family gather ing at Gearhart where the gov ernor will attend the annual Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association convention. The work is heing done by Don Jacobs, Medford contractor. Fstimated cost is $1,500 for this phase of the program, according to City Manager Robert Duff The work is to be completed by July. Evcntuallv, Champlin noted. the dark room will be removed and its space utilized for an additional officer's squad room and shower facilities. Other dans include remodeling the! present woman's ward into two two interrogation rooms, he said. Later, the chief added, two new rooms will be created in an area" between the furnace room and the jail. The dark room, woman's ward and new hallway will be located in that space, he said. The two rooms will be partitioned off from the jail by a reinforced concrete wall. c n 30N, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1957 Triple Dam!" rigged sail under her bow. Crewmen from both ships clambered into the rigging and pulled the- ropes free. After that it was smooth going. Capt. Alan Villiers unfurled the tiny brig's full canvas for the tricky trip into Plymouth Harbor. Thousands of sightseers and an official welcoming com mittee awaited her on the 54th day of her voyage. Some of the edge was taken off the Plymou'h reception at Provincetown Wednesday. The square-rigged galleon halted there to reenact the signing of the Mayflower Compact, just as the founding fathers did 336 years ago. and was virtually commandeered by eager tour ists. Towed To Port Coast Guard cutters circling the 92-foot craft were unable to pry away an excursion boat hugging the side of the official committee launch next to the Mayflower II. The Mayflower II, exact repli ca of the original, lurched into Providencetown at the end of a 50-yard tow line from the Coast Guard cutter Yankton. Fifteen to 20-foot swells pitched the tiny craft. "It bothered me a little," Vil liers said, "to come in on a tow line. But it would have bother ed me more to be out there bat tling those winds." Villiers was high in praise for his 32-man crew. He said: "The Lord was with us dur ing the trip and the ship hand led very well." (Sea Story on Page 4) Brewster Resignation Approval Shouted San Francisco ilfi San Fran cisco Teamsters today sparked a movement for the ouster of Frank Brewster as president of the Western Conference of Team sters. Two locals demanded that Brewster efther quit or be fired. He is now facing a contempt of Congress indictment for refus ing to produce union records. Members of the Building Ma terial Drivers Local 218 Wed nesday shouted approval of a resolution calling for Brewster's resignation or dismissal. Earlier Wednesday, an anti Brewster resolution was adopted by the Newspaper and Periodi cal Drivers Local 921, headed by Jack Goldberger, president of the San Francisco Labor Council. Weather FORFC AST: Partly cloudy with a lw llcht showers through Frttfar. Low tonight 48. High Friday "8. Tmp. Hichrct Ynterdav 74 LnwfU thi Mornmc -'t0 Prec. to IB a.m. Today 02 Our Skies Tonight Sunrie 4;.H a.m. Siintft 7:49 p.m. Moonrie . 8 p.m. Last Quarter ... .. . June 20 PROMINENT STARS The Big Dipper, in the north west at moonrise. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, high in SW ... 8:23 p.m. Venus. "t 8 :3? p.m. Mar. teu .. t:.m p.m. Saturn, due aonth 11:17 p.m. y Fuails Girard Claims Army Exerting Pressure For Trial in Japan Washington W American soldier William S. Girard said in an interview in Japan today U. S. military authorities have put pressure on him to stand trial in a Japanese court for slaying a Japanese woman on an Army firing range. But Girard flatly denied re- 321 Pints of Blood Collected During Bloodmobile Visit A total of 321 pints of blood, 31 pints more than the quota, were donated Wednesday after noon during the Bloodmobile visit to Medford. Bloodmobile officials said there were 60 re jects and 128 drop-in donors. Red Cross personnel reported that a large number of the don ors replaced blood for persons who had needed it, while 22 members of Ross Lumber com pany donated in memory of the late Fred V. Wooldridge. gener al manager of the company, who died Tuesday. A good showing from other firms also was reported. Red Cross officials said they appreciated the 303 appoint ments that were made for the Bloodmobile visit and the pa tience showed by donors who had to be delayed. They noted that 125 were first-time donors in Medford. Public Hearing on CPRFPD Budget Today Central Point Central Point Rural Fire Protection district is holding a public hearing at the fire hall this evening to discuss the budget for 1957-1958 fiscal year. The hearing will start at 8 p.m. At a regular meeting of the board of directors of the district Tuesday, the resignation of Allen Bohannon from the board was accepted. B. Sam Taylor was named to serve on the board until December when the post will be filled by election. Bohannon resides in the Berrydale area recently annexed to the city of Medford. His resi dence was formerly in the Cen tral Point rural district. Railroads, Union Reach Contract Agreement Chicago iIPi The nation's railroads and the Order of Rail way Conductors and Brakemen have reached a contract, agree ment amounting to'26'.i cents hourly over three years, it was announced Wednesday night. Leverett Edwards, member of the National Railway Mediation Board, said the package settle ment follows a pattern agreed upon earlier by unions represent ing about 94 per cent of all rail wav workers. RESTING IN LAUNCHER, three of Army's new Hawk guided missiles are unveiled in Washington. Hawk is 16 feet long, 16 inches in diameter. It has radar that detects and tracks low-flying planes in blind zone of conventional radar, will complement nation's defense against high altitude A-bomb attack. (International Soundpkote) Tribune IPaiired! ports from Washington and his I home town of Ottawa, 111., that he said his personal Army coun- sel in Japan also had argued that I trial in a Japanese court would be an easy way out. Girard, 21, a specialist 3-c, is i accused of killing Mrs. Naka Sakai while guarding a military firing range near Tokyo. She was struck in the back by an empty cartridge fired from a grenade launcher on Girard's rifle. Girard Claims Accident The Japanese have charged that Girard enticed Mrs. Sakai, who was trying to pick up empty shells to sell for scrap, to within firing distance and then fired the fatal shot. Girard claimed her death was accidental. An agreement to turn Girard over to a Japanese court for trial on manslaughter charges touched off an international con troversy and his lawyers worked long past midnight in Washing ton today in an attempt to bring him back to the United States for a review of this case. Reports that Girard claimed the Army and Maj. Stanley F. Levin, his Army adviser were putting pressure on him were made in Washington by a spokes man for his attorney. Earl Car roll, and in Ottawa by the sol dier's brother,, Louis. "Bill Girard told his brother he had been advised by his Army-appointed adviser, Major Levin, that he should go before a Japanese court because if he didn't he. would get a very stiff sentence from the United States under an Army court-martial." John Griffin. Carroll's spokes man, said in Washington. Makes Taps Recording Louis Girard said he talked to his bother by telephone Wednes day and that the soldier dis tinctly answere "yes" to a ques tion about whether Levin was attempting to persuade him to face a Japanese court. Furthermore, Louis Girard said, he made a 'tape recording of the transpacific telephone con versation to prove the state ments. But Girard later told the United Press in Japan that Le vin had not tried to lure him into a Japanese court. (See story on Page 1. Section 2 1,833 Use Hawthorne Park Pool This Week About 1.833 swimmers have used the Hawthorne park swim ming pool so far this year, ac cording to Darell Huson, city treasurer. Sunday, opening day, the turn out was 414, Monday 547, Tues day 503, and Wednesday 379, Huson said. , Yesterday 80 non-swimmers registered for swimming instruc tion, according to Ed Knapp, pool manager. Swimming classes will start Monday, June 17. The classes, open to children eight years of age and older as well as adults, will include 10 lessons during a two-week period. Price 10s United Pre? Full Leawi Wire No. 72 HERB PARTRIDGE New Program Director New Youth Program Director Named at Medford YMCA Herb Partridge, who graduat ed from Whitworth college, Spo kane, Wash., will assume duties June 18 as new youth program director of the Medford YMCA, according to Carl Brophy, YMCA personnel chairman. His responsibilities wilf in elude organization of club work for boys and girls in the high school age program. He will di rect the work with the Hi-Y and Tri-Y clubs. In the younger age groups he will work with committees in the organization of Father and Son "Y" Indian guides and Gray "Y" clubs. This summer he will operate day camping and be as sistant camp director of the YMCA camp at Diamond lake. During his undergraduate work. Partridge was employed by the Spokane YMCA where he worked with Hi-Y and youth camping programs. His major studies at college were in sociol ogy and journalism. While in the Army he also worked with youth clubs. According to Brophy funds from the United Medford Cru sade are largely responsible for creating the program Partridge will direct. Duncan Speaks at Demo Meeting Here The 49th state' legislature "held expenses to a minimum while still providing progressive government," Representative Robert B. Duncan told a meet ing of the Jackson County Demo cratic club last night. Duncan spoke to a group of about 75 Democrats at Kim's restaurant. He praised the work of Gov. Robert Holmes and the legislature, emphasizing the tax program which balanced the budget without "soaking the rich." "If the mills are closed and the woods shut down, there is no income tax to pay." he de clared. "If you are working, you can afford to pay, and the tax will be deducted from your pa check." Duncan suggested that former Gov. Elmo Smith's budget would have been much larger than the present 1955-57 budget had he budgeted for items which he either recommended himself or knew would have to be pro vided. As state expenses increase, the representative said, a sales tax may come due to the limi tations of the income tax. Girls State Citizens To Select Governor Salem W The 246 citizens of Girls State were to choose to day between Judy Roth, IB, Cor vallis, and Helen Lerback, 17, Seaside, for governor. The two candidates were nominated Wednesday at a mock convention by the Nationalist and Federalist party respectively. v j: t Stassen Instructed To Take In Disarmament Talks With Washington W Disarma ment Adviser Harold E. Stassen leaves for London today with in structions to avoid upsetting America's allies and take it easy on private disarmament talks with the Russians. Because of Allied displeasure over some of Stassen's behind-the-scenes talks with the Rus sians, diplomats said the new American disarmament plan will not be presented at the London disarmament conference for many days. On his latest visit here, Stas sen has held a series of talks Chinese Reds Flex Muscles Over Sudden! wasningion ir tommun.j ist Lmna today toiiowed up its charges that U. S. planes "in vaded" China with a warning that "further aggression" will be met with the full might of the Chinese armed forces. The U. S. Navy said Red Chinese coastal batteries opened up Wednesday on an American carrier plane flying eight miles outside the Chinese mainland. Peiping called the incident a planned attack aimed at pre venting the "peaceful libera tion" of Formosa. The State Department declin ed any comment pending out come of a Navy investigation into the incident, but it was believed the investigation would lead to a protest to the Peiping government. The Peiping Peoples daily, official organ of the Commun ist government, renewed and amplified its angry charges to day. The editorial was broadcast by Peiping Radio, chief propa ganda outlet for Red China. "The Chinese people do not threaten nor do they invade other countries nor will they allow their country to be threat ened or invaded," it said. "If the American aggressors dare to invade China our armed forces will deal them smashing blows." "Yesterday's incident was aimed at creating tension in the Far East and preventing the peaceful liberation of Taiwan (Formosa). China territorial land, sea and air are inviolable The American aggressors will have to face all the conse quences of their provoctive acts." Claims Two Planet In Taipeh, Rear Adm. Lu Ho tu a Nationalist military spokes man, said the Communists op ened fire on Chinese planes an hour and a half before the shot at the American plane, but that the Nationalist aircraft escaped damage. Peiping claimed two Nationalist planes shot down and one U. S. plane damaged. "All our planes returned un damaged. ' Lu said. The incident, latest in a series of U. S. - Communist Chinese Bids Opened for Garage fn Talent Thomas J. Parker. Ashland, was apparent low bidder on a metal 10-stall garage to ho con structed in Talent for the bur eau of reclamation, according to J. A. Callan, construction engin eer. Parker's bid was S4. 347.12. Bids were opened today at the Bureau s Camp While office. Contract for the garage will be awarded within 30 days. Callan said. Engineer's estimate was SB. 890. Other bidders were Harold W. Salter. Rogue River. $5,274: Armin Richter and Associates, Medford. S5.549.44; Minshall Construction company, Jackson ville, $6,212; Kline and White Construction company. Grants Pass, S6.287; E. J. Fordyce, Med ford, S7.420.79; Wiley Construc tion company, Ashland, $8,045; Robertson Construction comp any. Grants Pass, 59,645; and Don L. Jacobs, Medford, $7,807. Bus Out of Control Kills Six in London London (IP A dnuhlp- decker bus veered out of con trol today and mowed down nearly a score of nersons wait ing to catch it on a busy down town street corner. Six persons were killed. At least 12 others were ininred seri ously enough to require hospi talization. Grants Pass Man Held On Charge of Murder Grants Pass W An aged man suffering from progressive cancer and heart disease was booked early today after Wyatt Ramsey Swisher, 43, died of gun shot wounds in Josephine Gen eral Hospital, William Lewis Chapin, 81, a neighbor of Swisher, was arrest ed after a quarrel that was cli maxed by a shooting at the clust er of cabins where both men liv ed on Southeast I st. here. with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. There was evidence the admin istration summoned Stassen home from London last week end to smooth out ruffled Allied feel ings over his disarmament stra tegy. France and some other allies were reported upset when they heard Stassen had given a more elaborate outline of the U.S. dis armament plan to the Russians than he gave this county's Eu ropean allies. Some officials explained Stas sen talked at length with Soviet disarmament delegate Valerin skirmishes in the Formosa str(t area, occurred early Wsdnesda morning. The Navy said Com munist anti-aircraft bstteriet hit and slightly damaged the plane, but no crew members wpre injured. The plane was on a routine training flight. It apparently wandered off course in hazy weather. But the Navy insisted it was no closer than eight miles to the Red Chinese shore. The Navy did not identify either the type of plane or its crew members. It said only the plane was based aboard the 33,- 1 00-ton aircraft carrier Hornet which is part of the U.S. 7th Fleet patrolling the Formosa straits. Move Made To Block Merger of Steel Companies New York 111 The Justice Department today stepped up its anti-trust action against "big business" by asking for a sum mary judgment in federal court to block the proposed S2.500. 000,000 merger of Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. The motion follows on the heels of last week's historic vic tory for the Justice Department in the Supreme Court ruling that E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s stock holdings in General Motors Corp. violated the anti trust laws. Strong Case Suspected Today's motion, which means in effect the department be lieves it has a strong enough case against the merger to call for a fast decision, was filed before Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld. If the motion is granted the case automatically moves to the Supreme Court. If the motion is denied a trial is the next step. Defeat of the motion would weaken the Justice Depart ment's case in a trial, legal ex perts said. The proposed merger, weld ing Bethlehem, the nation's second largest steelmaker, with Youngstown. the sixth largest, would create a giant with assets exceeding S2. 500. 000. 000 and sales well in excess of S2 billion. Holmes Signs Bill For New Judgeships Salem TO Gov. Robert D. Holmes today" signed a bill cre ating new circuit court judge ships in three southwestern Ore gon areas and said he-would an nounce the appointment of the judges to fill the posts Friday morning. The governor signed 49 bills before noon on the last, day for legally signing bills and had more set for signing in the after noon. The three new judegships are provided in House Bill 563 in troduced at the legislature by Sen. R. F. Chapman. Coos Bay, and Rep. Clarence Barton, Co quille. The bill creates a third Judge post for the first judicial district including Jackson and Josephine county; a third judge for the 21st judicial district including Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties; and re-organizes the old second judicial district into three new districts. NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee 7 12 1 Brooklyn .. 5 8 1 Brobridge and Sawatski: Drysdale. Lehman (2) Labine (8) Johnson (8) and Campa nella. Chicago 4 9 0 New York 7 10 1 Hillman. Brosnan (2) and Neeman; Burnside. Davis (4) Grissom (8) and Thomas. Cincinnati 2 8 0 Pittsburgh 3 11 0 Jeffcoat and Baileyi Friend and Rand. it Easy Russians Zorin to allay any Soviet idea that delays in the negotiations meant the United States was los ing interest. . Dulles, during several confer ences with Stassen this week, ad vised him to deal more closely with the Allies in the future and engage only in "informal" talks with the Russians without refer ring to possible inclusion of a European area in any air-groundo inspection zone. Dulles has said publicly it is up to the Euro peans to decide whether their territory should be included in a "first-step" disarmament plan.