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7 Khrushch Sftieirges as 91 US NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV Funii'i New Dictator? VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV Has He Bean Arreiied? Hearing on Change Of Zone for Center Scheduled Tonight The Medford city council will hold a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. today on rezoning about 28 acres of laad at the corner of Jackson st. ami Biddle rd., from single family to limited commercial. Planned for the area is a $1V4 million shopping center which will include Sears, Roebuck and company, Safeway and other es tablishments. Construction of the center is planned for this fall with completion early next summer. Old Phippi Farm The property is a portion of the old Phipps farm, optioned re cently to J. E. McClellan, of Buttress and McClellan, and as sociates. McClellan Is develop ing the shopping center. In making its decision, the council will have before it a re port on the proposal, prepared by Charles B. Bennett and As sociates, Los Angeles planning consultant firm, which was re tained to prepare a report on the proposed shopping center. The report, copies of which were given councilmen this week, disapproves the rezoning of the full 28.3 acres of land, and suggests instead that only 12 or 15 acres be rezoned. The report said the firm did not feel that a "regional" shop ping center of the contemplated size is justified, but that Med fcrd should have no fears that a smaller center, including Sears and "a supermarket and chain drug store on the same site," would seriously affect downtown merchants. Critical of City The report was critical of the city for not providing more off street parking area in the down town section. The council also will hold a hearing on paving Marie st. from Saling ave. to Jackson st. Several other items are on the council's agenda, including con sideration of diversion of a por tion of sewer service charges from the Camp White Sewer sinking fund to sewage treat ment plant operation, and a pro posed amendment to the fire code. Washington HP The Labor Department is investigating charges of wage scale violations by General Electric ai its Han ford. Wash., atomic energy plant. Higher Scores Local Students Students in the Medford school system averaged higher in scores for the New Standard Vocabu lary Test than students through out the nation who participated in the testing program, it was reported today. The program involved three tests, designated as Form A. Form B and Form C. The three forms varied as to material cov ered and range of difficulty. Stu dents took the tests last fall. In Form A, 115 Medford seventh grade students averaged '5.2 as compared with the na '.Dnal average of 51.4; 132 eighth .raders averaged 64.9, national average 59.4: 120 tenth graders averaged 83.0. national average 73.3: 88 eleventh graders aver aged 80.8. national average 78.6: and 74 twelfth graders averaged ft HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL CLIMBING By UNITED PRESS Traffic victims died one at a time or two, three and four at a clip on the Fourth of July, and alarmed safety councillors ap pealed today to drivers to get their travel under control. Carelessness also took a heavy toll at beaches and in vacation areas. But spurting traffic fatal- 6 Persons Drown, Cycle Accident Fatal in Oregon By UNITED PRESS Six persons drowned and an other died in a motorcycle acci dent in Oregon on the Fourth of July. Three of the drowning vic tims were in one accident. The motorcycle victim was John Malo, about 60, a railroad section hand from Troutdale. He was killed and three other men riding on the motorcycle were injured when it struck a concrete abutment about three miles east of Troutdale on Highway 30. Airmen Drown Two young airmen and a 19-year-old Portland girl drowned off Marshall's beach on Sauvies island Thursday afternoon. The victims were Joseph Bradley, 20, airman 2C, St. Louis, Mo.; James Goodrich, 19, and airman 3C, Phenix City, Ala., and Rosemary Brown, Portland. The airmen were stationed at Portland Air Force Base. Lawrence Patrick Johnson, 19, a Baker county resident on a 30-day furlough from the Army, drowned while swimming in a small reservoir above Rock Creek powerhouse about 11 miles west of Baker Thursday afternoon. His bpdy was re covered. Lester Keith. 10. Riddle, drowned in the South Umpqua river at Canyonville state park about 30 miles south of Rose burg. His body vas recovered in eight feet of water. Anthony Markowski, 20, Port land, drowned in the surf at Canon Beach. He was swimming with two companions at the north end of the beach when he apparently became exhausted. His body was recovered. New Aerial Inspection Plan Agreed Upon London (IP The western powers have agreed to test the Soviet Union's newly proclaimed call for peace by asking the Kremlin to open all Soviet Eu ropean territories from Poland to the Ural Mountains for aerial inspection, informed sources said today. In return, members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion would open all of Europe sources said. In the five-power Disarmament Conference today the United States offered to out-match Russia in converting atomic bomb fuel to peaceful uses in an attempt to end the nuclear weapons race. Informed sources said U. S. delegate Harold E. Stassen said the U. S. was willing to transfer 53 units of fissionable material to - international stockpiles for every 47 contributed by the Soviet Union. The Soviets said they would study the proposal. Truman Library Dedication Saturday Independence, Mo. (IT) Workmen who wielded paint brushes through the Fourth of July holiday appeared today to have won a race for virtual com pletion of the Harry S. Truman Library ahead of its dedication, scheduled for Saturday. Noted For on Tests 92.0, national average 86.7. Results of Form B showed 118 seventh graders averaged 55.4, national average 49.8; 128 eighth graders averaged 62.6. national average 58.5; 157 ninth graders averaged 70.0, national average 65.8: 123 tenth graders averaged 77.2. national average 73.4; 84 eleventh graders averaged 86.2. national average 81.5: 77 twelfth graders averaged 91.3, national average 87.1. In Form C. 120 seventh grad ers averaged 51.7, national aver age 47.6; 129 eighth graders av eraged 59.9, national average 55.4; 152 ninth graders averaged 66.1, national average 63.6; 122 tenth graders averaged 71.3, na tional average 67.6; 70 eleventh graders 76.9. national average 75.4; 73 twelfth graders aver aged 83.0, national average 81.4. ity lists took most of the atten tion of the National Safety coun cil. A United Press tally at 7 a.m. (p.s.t.) showed 161 motorists dead in highway accidents since the holiday began at 6 p.m Wednesday. Drownings killed 94, plane accidents 6, miscella neous mishaps 14, and the total was 275. Ohio had 16 traffic deaths, Pennsylvania 15, Texas 13, Ok lahoma 12, New York 10, and California 8. Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety council, is sued a warning during the early morning hours that the toll will come near the pre-holiday esti mates of 535 persons killed un less the rate slowed. Instead, the rate mounted as reports came in. "We appeal to the drivers to help traffic enforcement agen cies in bringing the toll back under control," said Dearborn "It is increasing at an alarming rate. The rate was running ahead of that in the same period of elapsed time in the last previous four-day holiday of the year, New Year's. One of the nation's worst trag edies occurred near Leesville, La., Thursday when six persons were drowned in a chain of dis astrous rescue attempts. Authorities, said the six, rang ing in age from 8 to 20, were fishing when one of the young sters fell overboard. One by one the others jumped into the wa ter in futile efforts to save their companions. Girl Accidentally Shot in Stomach A nine-year-old girl was acci dentally shot through the stom ach with a .22 caliber gun this morning, but was reported in good condition at Ashland Gen eral hospital. The girl is Cynda Lou Kesler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kesler, 5054 South Pacific high way. State police said they were called to the Kesler home about 9:53 a.m. today. An officer es corted the Kesler car which took the girl to the Ashland hospital. Later state police transported a pint of blood for her from the Rogue valley hospital here to Ashland. Police said apparently Cynda and her brother, Stephen, 12, were playing with cap pistols when they went into the milk house on the Kesler property. There the boy picked up a gun, .22 caliber, and not knowing it was loaded, fired at his sister. The bullet struck the girl in the abdomen and came out her back. The doctor who attended the child said-no vital organs ap peared to be hurt. Family Reports Rock Throwing Attack A Jackson county family which had stopped by a roadside last night was reportedly at tacked by a rock-throwing group of young men. Judd Doty, route 3, box 275, Medford, called state police at 10:50 p.m. He said he and his family had just left Jacksonville for Medford on the South Stage rd., when he stopped the car to check and see if a tire was flat near Bellinger lane. Doty said a car full of young men drove up, and the occupants started cussing and throwing rocks." driving the Doty family into the brush at the side of the road. Doty called from a service station near Oak Grove school. An officer was sent to investi gate but no one was appre hended. Drastic Revision of Soil Subsidies Planned Washington iw The adminis tration has quietly drafted plans drastically revising 1958 soil conservation subsidies to get more for each federal conserva tion dollar. Weather FORECAST: Fair trmicht and Saturday with rhanrc of scattered thunderstorms over mountains Saturday after noon. Low W night 58. High Saturday 92-95. Temp. Hictim Yesterdav 93 Lowest this Morning 57 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:45 a.m. Sunset 7:51 p.m. Hoonset Saturday.. 13.38 a.m. Full Moon July 11 Venus has now moved into the constellation Cancer, and it iet a little further south each itirht. Next week it will be still nearer Mars. 52nd Year 18 Pages HugeA-Bomb Tested Explosion Jars California Towns 300' Miles Away Flash 500 Times Brighter Than Sun Atomic Test Site, Nev. American scientists set off the biggest atomic device ever fired inside the United States today, a monster blast nearly four times as powerful as the A bombs which brought Japan to her knees in World War II. Yet despite the tremendous A reflection of the atomic explosion this morning at Yucca Flat. Nev., was seen in Medford. Austin Pitcher, who is visit ing at the Bob Littrell resi dence, 34 Fair Oaks dr., from Eugene, reported he saw a yellowish glow in the south ern sky about 3:43 a.m. today. violence that turned the quiet southern Nevada desert into a momentary hell, the explosion failed to injure a single man or break one pane of glass. So care fully did the scientists make their calculation that only min ute traces of radioactive fallout were recorded in nearby popu lated areas. The bomb's violence was esti mated unofficially at 75 kilo- tons, or equal to 75,000 tons of TNT. . Today's device went off at 3:40 a.m. (p.s.t.) from a platform held 1,500 feet above Yucca Flat by a giant helium-filled balloon. Coastal Cities Jarred The blinding fash illuminated the western sky before dawn and a shock wave like an earth quake jarred California coastal cities 300 miles away and was felt on the Mexican border. ' The Atomic Energy Commis sion, after more than five nours of figuring, announced only that "the yield of this morning s shot was the highest ever fired on the continental United States and was "well over" the yield of the previous high yield shot." A United Air Lines pilot fly ing to Los Angeles from Hawaii reported spotting the big blast while 800 miles off the Southern California shore. It turned night into day in Los Angeles where shock waves rattled windows and doors, awakening hundreds of sleepers who thought it was an earthquake. From all spottings over the western area, it was estimated the flash could have been seen within a million square miles. Marine Brig. Gen. Harvey C. Tschirgi, who commanded Leath ernecks in trenches almost un der the giant fireball, said he felt the deafening explosion as if an artillery piece had gone off in his ear, but he said his men learned "they could go through a nuclear blast and live to tell their buddies about it." Larger Bombs Tested As big as the blast was, much much larger A-bombs have been tested m the watery reaches ot the South Pacific, some of them in the range of 500 Kilotons, or equal to a half million tons of TNT. H-bombs have been test ed there, too, with yields run ning well into the millions of tons in terms of TNT. The highly experimental bomb sent an unbridled shock wave over 2,000 Marines crouched in trenches only 3z miles miles from the hellish fireball that brightened the sky for more than 1,500 miles. Brighter Than Sun It exploded with a blinding flash more than 500 times bright er than the sun. The flash was visible for hundreds of miles in all directions as a tremendous fireball boiled upward in a clear sky. The fireball which followed the flash was tremendous. It burned a temperature of nearly one million degrees centigrade, and at News Nob, 13 miles away, its heat felt for a moment like someone had opened the door of a giant blast furnace.-. The intense heat of the fire ball, which churned furiously for nearly a full minutes, set fire to the brush and yucca trees on the slopes of a small moun tain ridge several miles north of ground zero. BEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1957 FIREWORKS CROWD Part of the crowd, estimated to be between 3,700 and 4,000, is shown watching the Fourth of July fireworks display at Medford High school stadium last night. The show was sponsored by the Med Crowd Estimated About 4,000 Sees Fireworks Display A capacity crowd, estimated at between 3,700 and 4,000 per sons, watched the Fourth of July fireworks show at the Medford High school stadium last night. This was about 700 more than last year, according to Robert Jones, general secretary of the YMCA. The show was sponsored by the YMCA camp committee. Pro ceeds go to improvements at the Y's Diamond Lake camp. The fireworks show and camp ers' fees are the only funds available for maintaining the camp. Only Injury Gordon Mueller, 21. of 227 Cottage St., received the only in jury of the night with first de gree burns about his face, neck and one arm. Mueller was burn ed when a fireworks mortar was fired by improper procedure. He was taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Medford Ambulance and was to be relased this aft ernoon. The Southern Oregon Timing association, of which Mueller is a member, did the actual firing of the fireworks. The show was managed by Clifford McGinty, Howard Lage, Glenn Jennings and Jerry Lausman. Aerial, Ground Displays Fireworks included both the aerial explosion type and ground displays of a patriotic and re gional nature. City firemen stood by with two pumper trucks and the aer ial ladder vehicle from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.' at the stadium last night. They extinguished the fire in the hedge at the north end of the field which resulted from the pit explosion in which Mueller was burned. They dem onstrated the use of the ladder truck. SOTA members paraded their hot rod cars. Use of a 24-wheel-ed (12 sets of duals) truck man ufactured by Tucker Sno-Cat corporation was shown. Both front and rear sets of wheels turn on the truck which was driven sideways the length of the field. M a in fan d'To-Hawa ii" Flight Sets Record George AFB, Calif (W Four Air Force F100 Super Sabre jets set a record of five hours, 20 minutes total flying time today in a "long range cruise control mission" from the mainland to Hickman Field, Hawaii. The Air Force announced the jet fighters streaked over Hon olulu and landed at Hickam at 10:55 a.m. (p.s.t.). Bids For Crater Lake Apartment To Be Opened July 25 Bids on construction of four two - story duplex apartment houses in the Munson Valley and Annie Springs areas at Crater Lake National park will be open ed at 2 p.m. July 25 in the park office, room 307, Medford post office, according to Tom Wil liams, park superintendent. Preliminary Hearings Scheduled in Court Preliminary hearings in dis trict court were scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today for Glen Eugene Johnson. 36, Live Oak, Calif., and Willie Woodrow Wolfe, 37, Fresno, Calif. The two men, charged with assault and robbery while not armed with a dangerojs weapon, appeared without counsel for ar raignment Wednesday afternoon. They are being held in the coun ty jail on $2,000 bail each. William Lloyd Johnston, 32, address unknown, was returned to Jackson county from Crescent City, Calif., Wednesday. He is also charged with assault and robbery while not armed with a dangerous weapon and is ex pected to be arraigned soon. The three men are accused of robbing Grady Allen Conner, 724 Victory St., Medford, Mon day night in Talent. Rogue River Man Is Presumed Dead Norman Lee Bean, 22, Rogue River, was listed missing and presumed dead by the defense department in a fire aboard the aircraft carrier Lake Champlain at Marseille, France, early this week. . He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bean, Rogue River. The Beans' other son, William, also lives in Rogue River. Norman enlisted in the Navy after graduating from Rogue River High school in 1954. He was a member of the high school football team and played in the state . "B" East-West all star Shrine football game at Pendle ton in August of 1954. Pioneer Post Office Not To Be National Shrine Washington (W The Na tional Park Service ruled today that the Pioneer postoffice in downtown Portland, Ore., does pot qualify as a national historic shrine. Sen.' Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) had asked the park ser vice to look into the possibility of preserving the old building as an historic lite. .. Price 10c Tribune Unijea Press Full Leased Wir No. 91 4 ;MttVV4 i ford YMCA to raise funds for the Diamond Lake camp. The photograph was taken with light from the Niagara Falls display without the use of flash equipment. (Kenn Knackstedt photo) Buildings The apartments will give park personnel additional residential facilities, Williams said. Comple tion date for the structures is 180 days, Lower stories of the buildings will consist of masonry block and the upper stories of wood frame. Each building will be approximately 28 by 84 feet in size, and will contain six bed rooms, four baths and three garage stalls. Included in the construction will be metal windows, gypsum board, ceramic tile, insulation, builders' finish hardware, com position gravel roofing, kitchen equipment and plumbing, heat ing and electrical work. Deller Construction company of Eugene recently was awarded a $124,356 contract to construct six residential units in two buildings. The apartments are the first of 31 units contemplated at Cra ter Lake under the Mission 66 program, intended by the na tional park service to rehabili tate and expand park facilities The contract was the sixth to be awarded for developments at Crater Lake under Mission 66. Earlier projects were construc tion of campground and resi dence area roads, and camp ground water and sewer systems; two campground comfort sta tions, campground tables, water and sewer systems at headquar ters and improvement and ex pansion of two water systems. "Happy New Mystery Surrounds Whereabouts of Ousted Officials Propaganda Campaign Aimed at Deposed Trio London Wl The Soviet mili tary rallied to the support of Nikita S. Khrushchev today in his purge of the trio of Stalinist leaders ousted for their alleged "anti-party" and "anti-government" sins in Russia. Led by Soviet Defense Minis ter George Zhukov, the armed forces chiefs sparked a mount ing campaign of propaganda against the deposed Red bosses. Whereabouts Mystery Mystery still cloaked th whereabouts of V. M. Molotov, Georgi Malenkov and Lazar Ka gnovich. They apparently were enjoying a technical "freedom" in Moscow that might he short lived. Communist sources here said the three men may have to face trial for their shortcomings. If they do, the sources said, the death penalty might be invoked against them. The Intensity of the attacks against the ousted trio by the military leaders at meetings of the garrisons in Moscow, Sebas- topol and Leningrad, as well as in Red Star, official organ of the Soviet arrhed forces, showed Khrushchev had their full sup port. Undisputed Bosi The support showed Khru shchev has emerged as the un disputed boss of Russia, with Zhukov moving up right behind him in importance. But the tur moil of the past few days may be only the prelude to further upheavals. As Khrushchev consolidated his power and the fate of Molo tov and company hung in the balance, there were these other developments: The Central Committee of the Cninese Communist party gave full backing to the Soviet purge of the top Stalinist advo cates. Zhukov pledged the full might of the Soviet armed forces to the defense of the Soviet state in an address to a Moscow mass meeting. Red Star, in effect, accused Molotov and his colleagues of treachery for having "intrigued and conspired to remove the elected leaders and fill key posts with their own followers." Red Star added the name of former Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov, also purged, to the list of malefactors. Workers Hold Meetings Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganjn went ahead with their announced plans to start their postponed visit to Czechoslovakia next Monday in an apparent effort to prove that all now is well inside Russia. Mass meetings of workers ' and peasants were held through out the Soviet Union and "spon taneously" denounced Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich in increasingly bitter tones. In Washington American dip lomatic experts felt that Krush chev had immeasurably strengthened his hold on the Kremlin and that the move marked a new rise in power for the Red army. Economic Reforms Predicted Drastic reforms in Russia's economy were predicted heralded by a Soviet decree that farmers no longer will have to deliver their products to the government. It was a major concession to win support of the farmers who have chafed under the yoke of their forced de liveries. Lake Charles, La. (in A systematic search of marooned vehicles is expected to add more victims to hurricane Audrey's grim tool of 304 counted dead. Geofiscal Year" tTyij-g I
