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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. ..
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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"
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