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52nd Year HLA'XT Price 10 Recommended Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune In Med ford phone SP 3-6141 Ashland MU 3-1021. Yreka 841W before 6 AS p.m. daily and 1030 mm. Sunday. If repular drltverv arrive ahort Iv after you call pleae notify of fice thua eliminatuis apecial mea aenger aervice. Medford A story about a Mrdfnrd man who hand-tools saddles appears n Pact 12 of today Mail Trib une. United Prtu "ull Leas-d Wire Full Leased Wire '48 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1957 No. 92 I VmirJy sTx: V PTT e av. I JL.. J?d am si j 4.iM; SNOOPY This curious doe, lurking around just outside the (glow of a camp fire, gave herself away by stepping on a twig and ended up in getting herself "shot" over the Fourth of July. The picture was taken near Foster creek forest camp, jorth of Union Creek, by Mail Tribune Photographer Bob Vroman. Deer often visit campsites in search of salty morsels, ke scraps of potato chips, but usually not until after the campers have left. Girard Attorneys Ask High Court to Upset Country's Agreements Washington HP Attorneys for GI William S. Girard have asked the Supreme Court to take the far-reaching step of overturning this country's status of forces agreements with Allied nations. The attorney argue the agreements which allow fore ign governments to try U. S. servicemen for certain off-duty crimes committed in their coun tries are both unconstitutional ' and "morally wrong." To nullify the U. S. Jap anese agreement also would overturn similar U. S. agree-J monts with European allies. Ad ministration leaders have said this would endanger America's overseas bases program. No Jurisdiction The government contends that foreign nations would not allow American troops on their soil if they had no jurisdiction over such crimes as rape, robbery and murder. . One of Girard's lawyers, Day ton M. Harrington, told the Uni ted Press it was not the official concern of the attorneys as to what mieht happen to the bases if the court finds in Girard's favor. "If any nation won't have our troops on its soil except on its own terms," he said, "maybe we will bring them home." Girard's attorneys said in a brief filed with the Supreme r-ourt Friday that U. S. service men were stripped of "every vestige of constitutional right" by status of forces agreements. Girard's Answer The brief was Girard's answer to the government's demand that the GI be tried by a Japanese court on manslaughter charges for killine a Japanese woman on a military firing range. The court will hear oral arguments In the case Monday. Th case was carried to the high court by the government ftpr a federal district court or- ArrA a U. S. court martial for Girard and ruled that the mili tary's ecision to let Japan iry him was illegal. The lawyers said Congress San Jose Man Missing Southwest of Eureka Eureka, Calif. IT1 A fisher man suffering from diabetes was missing from his fishing party Saturday and believed lost in the rueced country arouna me Little Vanduzcn river 60 miles southwest of here. K. W. Sparks, 35, of San Jose, was reported missing Friday night when he failed to meet the other two members of the fishing group. Sports Bulletins Medford Cheney Studa trip ped the Seattle Cheney Studs S to 2 here last night in the opener of a two-game week end semi-pro baseball series. Jerry Droscher smacked a three-run home run for Med ford and Gene Leek socked a two run roundtripper for Seattle. Sacramento, Calif. (W Left hander Roger Bowman, normally a solon relief pitcher, gave up only four hits last night while leading Sacramen to to a 7-1 victory over Seattle la a Pacific Coast league gam. t .4. fit alone "has the power to deter mine jurisdiction in cases involv ing the military forces." They asked the court to order Girard's release from custody "forth with." Medford Man Wins Bull Dogging Even! Reno, Nev. (IP) "The World's Richest Rodeo" moved into its final 1957 performance Satur day at the Reno rodeo grounds. Just before the cowpokes begin the last day of competi tion, Washoe County Sheriff C. W. (Bud) Young will present Rod Cameron with a Nevada silver "State Trooper's Badge." Com eron stars in a television series based on a Nevada background and entitled "State Trooper." Then, the chutes will open and the various champions and all around cowboy champions of the 1957 Reno Rodeo will be determ ined. Results of Friday night's com petition included: Championship bull dogging: Earl Morgan, Medford, Ore., 5.9 seconds, and Lawson Fore, Riverside, Calif., and Homor Pettigrew, Chandler, Ariz., 8.5 seconds (tie). Nevada amateur bronc riding: Jim Lewis, Golconda, Jim Dor rance, Elko, Mickey Melindy, Fallon, and Lindsay Rogers, Yer ington. Calf Roping: Marlin Stephen son, Big Lake, Tex.; Norris Pat- ton, Austin, Tex., and Bud Cor- win, Bakersfield, Calif. Championship team roping: Dick and Kenneth Jones, Fresno, Calif., 14.2 seconds; Vern Castro, Livermore, Calif., and Bud Gin- jiochio, Antioch, Calif., and Marion Vincent, Porterville, Calif., and Jim Rodriques, Cast roville, Calif. 2m Medford Council Defers Action on Rezoning Rezoning of 28.3 acres of land at the corner of Jackson st. and Biddle rd. from single family to limited commercial was debated pro and con Friday night. The Medford city council, af ter an hour-long public hearing on a request for the zone change, deferred action until the next regular meeting, July 18, on a suggestion by Councilman Stanley Jones. He said that a decision should be made as soon as possible, but the council should first consider arguments presented at the hearing. The change of zone was re quested for a proposed SIVi mil lion shopping center on prop erty now owned by Dr. I. D. Phipps. The center would in clude a Sears, Roebuck and com pany store, Safeway store and other establishments. The land has been optioned to J. E. Mc Clellan, of Buttress and Mc Clcllan. Los Angeles, and assoc iates McClellan is developing the shopping center. Attorney Robert Duncan, rep resenting several downtown bus inessmen opposed to the zone change, stressed that business men he represented did not op pose Sears, Roebuck and comp any coming into Medford, but did oppose rezoning the 28 acres. Duncan pointed out that by recent legislation, cities of Med Filipinos Led By Manila Mayor Stage Big Demonstration Demand Return of American Sailor Manila HP) Angry Filipi nos led by the mayor of Manila staged an anti-American demon stration Saturday over the Phili ppine counterpart of Japan's cel ebrated Girard case. The demonstrators demanded the return and trial of a former U. S. sailor who was sent back to America and discharged after auto accident charges were lodg ed against him here. Student Demonstrations About 2,000 demonstrators most of them students, gathered in downtown Manila plaza, a mile from the U.S. embassy, for an orderly rally that at times sounded more like an all-out Philippine political meeting than an anti-American protest. Manila Mayor Arsenio H. Lac- son is running for president of the Philippines in the November elections. He was the chief speaker at the rally, and he turned his oratorical guns as much on President Carlos P. Garcia as on the U. S. The reason for the rally, how ever, was the case of George E Roe of Clio, Mich. While serv ing as a sailor at the Sangley Point Naval Station near Manila, Roe was charged with injuring Filipino woman in a traffic accident on Jan. 1, 1956. Roe Sent Home In a note of protest to the U. S. last Sunday, the Philippine government complained that the Navy sent Roe back to the U.S. and gave him a discharge des pite the fact he had been in dicted. The Roe case has gained new prominence here since the ar rest in Tokyo of Specialist 1c William S. Girard of Ottawa, 111., on a charge of killing a Japanese woman while she searched fori empty shells on a U.S. firing range. The F 1 1 1 p ino demonstrators want Roe returned for trial be fore a Manila court for injuries caused to Roman Ortiz through tlleged "reckless imprudence." Segment of Storm Sewer Plan Approved The first segment of Medford's six-year storm sewer program, approved by voters in laet No vember's election, was author ized by the city council Friday night. The council approved an agreement with Southern Pa cific Railroad for an easement to construct and operate a 42-inch storm sewer under the 10th St. crossing. City Manager Robert Duff recommended approval of the agreement because the city an ticipated that the cross-town storm sewer system will be ready for contract in the near future- The sewer will be the first of several segments planned in the $95,000 program. Voters ap proved issuing general obliga tion bonds for the storm sew ers. The first segment planned is from Lincoln St. to Bear creek on 10th st. ford's size can condemn land to rehabilitate downtown areas subject to deterioration. He noted that "there is enough deteriorated property in the downtown area to provide enough land" for Sears, Roebuck and company. Duncan added that under the urban renewal program, federal funds are av ailable. The attorney mentioned sec tions along Front St., Riverside ave., and Jackson st. among those locations in which enough land could be made available for a Sears store. "The council can rebuild de teriorating areas," Duncan said, "by condemnation before some downtown areas become blight areas." A business center in the Phipps property area woujd re sult in competition which 'would destroy" either the downtown business area or the proposed shopping center, Dun can said. "We need to preserve our downtown areas," he said. The businessmen he represented would like to see Sears build downtown, "where it would be an asset," he added. He also pointed out that with the anticipated population growth in Medford, Hawthorne park should be expanded to pro vide facilities for additional peo Lightning Boh Kills 7 7 Registered Cows Bellefoniaine. Ohio 101 A bolt of lightning coursed down a tree on the Joe Buck farm near here Friday and struck a herd of 20 registered Holstein cows, killing II of them. An eyewitness said the en tire herd was knocked flat by the bolt. Russia Says U. S. Threatening Peace With Korean Arms Moscow W Russia last night accused the United States of threatening peace in the Far East by its decision to bring modern arms and planes into South Korea. , Government statement de nounced the decision of the Unit ed Nations command in Korea last montn to scrap the ban on importing new weapons to Ko rea. Decide to Build Up The U. N. command said it de cided to build up its armed forces because the North Ko reans and Chinese Communists had illegally brought new weap ons into North Korea in viola tion of the 1953 armistice. In Washington, state depart ment officials said the statement was obviously propaganda. They said the Russians apparently were stung by repeated American-Allied charges that the Com munists long ago violated Ko rean truce terms by sending modern weapons into North Ko rea. The Soviet statement asked what situation would arise if the Communist side "on its part also started ' to introduce into northern Korea new types of armaments. No Doubt Seen 'There can be no doubt that as a result of a situation fraught with most dangerous consequen ces could be created," the state ment said- The statement denied western charges of a Red build up in North Korea. It charged that the United States military authorities "have been systematically pursuing a policy of undermiing the armi stice in Korea." The stateirent reviewed the U. N. command decision to can cel paragraph 13-D of the armi stice agreement under which both sides agreed not to increase or modernize their armaments in the divided country. Heat Wave Sweeps European Countries London (IP) A furnace-like heat wave swept over Europe Saturday, sending the mercury shooting to 116 degrees in parts of Italy. Weathermen blamed it on a mass of African air that moved northward over the Mediterran ean. They saw no relief in sight for today. In Austria temperatures shot up to 104 in the shade, and Vienna city authorities said they recorded 133 inside city street cars. A polar bear in Bologne, Ger many, suffered a heat stroke when the temperature hit 100. He fell into his pond and drowned. ple, and the most logical expan sion would be in the direction of the proposefd shopping center. He noted that the area could be used for development of a new civic center, including per haps a new city hall. Duncan asked the council to consider also the location of the proposed Highway 99 freeway in deciding rezoning. He said the location has not fully been de cided. Another factor which the council should consider, he said, was that Safeway stores joined in plans for a shopping center on a tract south of Medford early in 1955, when it was indi cated the center would be com pleted in late 1955 or early 1956. The center has not been devel oped, he noted. W. P. Sullivan, Pacific north west zone manager for Sears, said the company "envisions a ereater Medford than some res idents here," and that the firm would not consider building here if it did not think it a good idea. The proposed location, he said, would be an extension of the downtown area. A Sears store in the proposed center would help downtown business, Sulli van declared, because it would draw shoppers from as far south ai Dunsmuir and from the Below Normal Rise In Traffic Deaths Noted Third Day May Not Reach 535 Predicted by NSC " By UNITED PRESS Safety experts noted the be low normal rise in traffic fatal ities as the third day of the Fourth of July celebration near ed its end across the country Saturday and looked hopefully toward a continuation of the trend. A spokesman for the National Safety council said the highway deaths thus far were "running well behind" the rate required to fulfill the council's predic tion of 535 by midnight Sun day. Mixed With Caution The council's hopes were mix ed with caution, however, and it warned that added caution would be required of drivers in the homeward rush Sunday. At 11 p.m. (EDT) the United Press registered 270 deaths on the nation's roads. Added to them were 153 deaths by drown ing, two caused by fireworks, nine in plane crashes and 42 in miscellaneous accidents to boost the total fatality count to 476. California counted 24 high way dead, the worst figure in the tally by states. New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio had 20 traffic, deaths apiece, Texas 18, Michigan 15, Oklahoma 13, Il linois 11 and Indiana 10. Non-Holiday Toll "The toll still is running at approximately the rate of a non- holiday toll for the same number of hours at this time of year," Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Safety Council, said. A normal four-day period at this time of year, the council said, would account for about 465 traffic deaths. For the first 60 hours of the period, a coun cil spokesman said, about 250 persons would have lost their lives in the nation's roads. Worst highway disaster for the Independ2nce Day holiday oc curred near Copemish, Mich., wh-re seven persons were killed and three. others injured in an auto-truck collision. Search Continues For Audrey Victims Lake Charles, La. J (W Wor kers carried on their search for the dead under a scorching sun Saturday in Cameron parish, where 311 bodies have been re covered in the wake of Hurri cane Audrey. The June 27 hurricane killed nine more in the Texas area and four in Vermilion parish, Loui siana. But the grand total of 324 is expected to rise because 110 persons are unaccounted for in Cameron parish. However, J 12 bodies are still unidentified and many of these may be included in the missing list. Some estimates placed the missing total at more than 400. Sheriff Henry Reid of Lake Charles and Sheriff O. B. Car ter of Cameron sent helicopters and "marsh buggies" intot he Sacred Heart church cemetery at Creole, La., where 20 auto mobiles smashed tombstones. Grants Pass area. He said the property Sears ob tained, between Central and Riv erside aves., near 10th st. be came too small between 1947, when it was purchased, and 1955, when another survey was made. By 1955, he said, surveys showed the Medford area had grown to a point where previous surveys by the company were out of line. McClellan said after needs were resurveyed, the company increased the size of the propos ed building here from 60,000 square feet to 74,000 square feet. Sullivan said Sears does not favor condemnation. McClellan commented that "to the individ ual concerned, it (condemnation) appears that something is taken away from him." Sullivan said that "sometimes local opinion has not had the experience we have in areas where business is moved from the downtown area." It does not have an adverse effect, he said, "it helps." McClellan said the proposed shopping center "will enhance business downtown." He com mented that he knew of property outside the city which would be available for such a center, but "we want to be in the city lim its." Councilman Donald Hansen tfirusf jv Denounces All Ousted Stalinists "How Do We Put Down Thii Upri.ing?" Seven Persons Drown, Three Others Killed In Traffic Accidents By UNITED PRESS Seven persons .were drowned in Oregon waters during the In dependence Day week end as thousands sought relief from a heat wave that flared briefly. Three persons died in traffic for a total of 10 holiday deaths through noon Saturday. Latest victim was 13-year-old Vernon Womack of Wallowa. He was drowned Friday in swift wa ters at the confluence of the Mi nam and Grande Ronde rivers in Wallowa county.'He had been on a fishing trip about 30 miles northeast of La Grande and was attempting to wade to shore from a small island when he slipped. Body Recovered Robert Berry, a companion, also 13. tried twice to reach the Womack boy but the water was too swift. The body was recover ed. The holiday also saw a triple tragedy on the Fourth when Rosemary Brown, James Good rich and Joseph Bradley were drowned in the Columbia river off Sauvies isl-nd- Lawrence Patrick Johnson of Alaska, visiting in Oregon while on leave from Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan, was drowned Thursday above Rock creek powerhouse west of Ba ker. Anthony Markowski drown ed in the Pacific off Cannon beach and Lester Keith of Rid dle was drowned in the South Umpqua river near Canybnville. Traffic accidents claimed the life of Mrs. Gerald 3enton, Se attle, who was killed in a three car crash on Highway 30 cast of Baker. Her husband and two Phipps Property asked if rezoning about 12 acres of the property would help the company. Sullivan said the com pany would like it all rezoned. "We're positive that the area would be a business area in a few years, anyway," he said. McClellan said if the area is rezoned, development of the cen ter would start within 30 days. Attorney Edward Branchfield, speaking as a citizen and repre senting no one, said the area is no further from downtown than the new center in Salem where Meier and Frank built. "If you don't look forward," he said, "these centers will go outside the city." He said the urban renewal program would take too long, and as a citizen he would like to see the property taxes go to the city rather than some other area. "If it goes in, it will help meet the tax problem in Med ford." The council, he said,' should look ahead many years in the future, not just a few. Branchfield requested that Councilman Fred Robinson ab stain from voting on the rezon ing, since Robinson was repre sented by Duncan as one of the downtown businessmen opposing rezoning. Mayor John Snider said that could not be done, because as a citizen. Councilman Robinson children were hurt. Swan Dahlin 71. Klamath Falls, was killed Friday night when he was struck by a car. Police said he was walking in the center of the road. John Malo, 60, of Troutdale was killed in a motorcycle mis hap on Highway 30 east of Troutdale. Nine-Year-Old Girl Reported 'Doing Fine' Cynda Lou Kesler, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kesler, 5054 South Pacific highway, was reported "doing fine" at Ashland General hos pital Saturday. Cynda was accidentally shot through the stomach Friday morning by a bullet from a .22 caliber rifle. State police and sheriff's deputies said the girl's 12-year-old brother, Stephen, picked up the gun and, not know ing it was loaded, fired at her. Weather FORECAST: Fair and warm through Sunday with rusty winds in the lat afternoon. Partlv rloudy. High today X0, low today 52, high Monday 92. TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterday 5 Lowest Yesterday 54 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:41 a.m. Sunset 7:51 p.m. Moon set Monday 2:04 a.m. PROMINENT CONSTELLATION Scorpio, follows the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars & Venus, set 11:45 p.m. Saturn, due south 9:36 p.m. Jupiter, low in west 10:34 p.m. had as much right to counsel as anyone else. Roy Wilkes, 1863 Crater Lake ave., Medford, who was one of the several residents favoring re zoning, said "the way the coun cil handles this matter will in dicate whether the city wants to expand or not." He said he had heard that some citizens are opposed to establishment of new industry or business in Med ford. Donald Herried, 108 Black Oak dr., said "if we don't re zone for Sears, we may lose them." McClellan indicated, however, that Sears would build in the Rogue valley whether the area is rezoned or not. If it i3 jiot rezoned, he indicated, a shopping center would be built outside the city limits. McClellan noted that the pro posed center would employ a minimum of between 250 and 300 persons. Sullivan pointed out that "business will be there (in the area of the Phipps prop erty) whether it is planned or sporadic." Some concern was expressed that the proposed shopping cen ter would further divide the city. Some businessmen noted the city already is divided by the Southern Pacific tracks and Bear Creek, and the shopping center would further divide it. (See Story Pag 7) Party Chief Says XunningSchemers' Opposed Progress Claim They Hampered Kremlin Peace Moves Moscow IW Soviet Com munist Party Chief Nikita Khru shchev Saturday accused former premier Georgi Malenkov of be ing a "chief organizer" of a 1949 criminal conspiracy and de nounced all the ousted Stalin ists as "cunning schemers" op posed to Soviet progress. In his first public speech on the disgraced party and govern ment officials, Khrushchev char ged that they refused even to be lieve that Russia could overtake the United States in farm pro duction. He and Premier Nikolla A. Bulganin told an audience in Leningrad celebrating the 250th anniversary of the city that Mal enkov, Vyacheslav Molotov, La- zar Kaganovich and Dmitri T. Shepilov hampered the Kremlin in its campaign for peace, eat ing of international tensions and domestic improvements. Fiarea Atiackt - Khrushchev accused them of fierce" attacks on the party and singled out "Malenkov at being one of the chief organizers of the so-called Leningrad case" who was "afraid to come to you here in Leningrad." His words and those of Bulga nin were echoed with rising fer rocity in the Soviet Press and in resolutions by Soviet organi zations which accused the Molo tov group of "criminal methods." However, Radio Moscow la broadcasts beamed for home at well as foreign consumption de nied that the disgraced Stalin ists were under arrest. It said they had been seen "walking in Moscow" and had attended a party meeting Friday in the cap ital where they were denounced. It appeared, however, that they faced further punishment of loss of party membership if not trial. Principal Organization Khrushchev accused Malenkov of being the principal organizer of the 1949 "Leningrad case, one of the scandals of the Stalin era in which many party members were executed. The case included the trial and execution in 1954 of former se curity minister V. S. Abakumov for "criminal conspiracy." A number of party and government workers were falsely arrested and, accused of anti-state crimes. Khrushchev dealt at length with the conspiracy in his original denunciation of Stalinism in February, 1956. As for former foreign minister Shepilov, he proved to be a "most shamless, ' double-dealing individual." Molotov, who had served ' as foreign minister during the Stal in era, "impeded in every way the carrying out of measures of easing world tension and streng thening peace throughout the world." Khrushchev said the Stalin ist group "wanted to lay its hands on the key positions in the party and the state in order to change the political line of the party." Three Men Bound Over to Grand Jury Three men;accused of robbing Grady Allen Conner, 724 Vic tory st., Medford, of cash, a wal let, ring and watch at Talent Monday night were bound over to the grand jury Friday after noon in district court. They are William Lloyd Johnston, 32, Huron, Calif., Glen Eugene Johnson, 36. Live Oak, Calif., and Willie Wood- row Wolfe, 31, Fresno, Calif. Johnson and Wolfe were bound over to the grand jury after ap pearing for preliminary hear ings at 1:30 p.m- Friday. John ston, who was returned to Jack son county from Crescent City, Calif. Wednesday, was arraigned at 2:50 p.m He waived counsel and preliminary hearing. The trio, charged with assault and robbery while not armed with a' dangerous weapon, are being held in the county jail on $5,000 bail each. Algiers HP) A French in fantry patrol crushed a band of rebels just outside of Dublineau Saturday, killing 22 in a brief clash under a blazing sun.
