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herrv'IFong taw Court ction ffleversfeo By 52nd Year MEDF( &'.ed Pre Pull Leased Wlr. Q Pages ERICAS LEAGUE ALL-STARS Ulf OVER NATIONALS, Error in Ninth fesing Provides f Unearned Runs UOe-Game Rally fwik fr Nationals Vt. Louis IP) The American League, taking advantage of a ninth inning error that led to two unearned runs, beat the National League 6-5 today in the 24th re newal of the All-Star game. The American Leaguers had to beat down a ninth inning rally by the National League before they won out. Trailing 2-6 going into the Qfinal inning, the National Leaguers came up with three runs and had the potential tying run on second base when Gil lodges, a pinch hitter, lined out to left lielder Minnie Minoso to end the game. It as the American League's second victory in the last eight years, and for Casey Stengel, manager of the American League $a(i, it was his second triumph In sevn tries in the mid-summer classic. Iri&!i Consul To Afed Festival Jomes McDonald, consul for Great Britain at Portland, will represent the British govern ment at the Oregon Shakespear ean festival next month, it was reported today. He has been designated by Lord Nicholas Charles Gordon Lennox, British ambassador to the United States, and will at tend opening festivities Aug. 1. McDonald's presence at the festival is an outgrowth of a movement to invite Queen Eliza beth II to attend during her visit to the United States this year. However, that visit has now been scheduled for October, and will be confined to the east coast. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, who discussed the matter with the U.S. state department at the suggestion of Franklin Girard, 1070 Emma Ashland, wrote Girard last weelt that McDonald will repreent the government of Great Britain as a result of his Inquiries. Arrangements were made through the chief of protocol for the state depart ment and the British embassy. Klamath Forest Fire Burns Over 800 Acres Weed, Calif. 0B Firefighters expected to bring under control today an 800-acre forest blaze on Whaleback mountain in Klam ath National forest. Lee Morford of the U.S. For est serv ice said the blaze started Monday afternoon on the west side of the mountain near rail road tracks and burned a strip half a mile wide over the top of the mountain Monday night. He estimated it had destroyed some 800.000 board feet of tim ber. A total of 122 men battled the blaze, located about 15 or 20 miles east of Highway 97 and north of Weed. Residents Urged to Check Non-Essential Water Use Medford residents using wa ter have been asked to turn off lawn sprinklers and other non essential water uses whenever they hear a fire siren sound. Robert Lee, city water super intendent, said residents should keep non-essential water uses down to a minimum until such time as an emergency can be considered over. Lee. noting that unnecessary wastage of water should be avoided during summer months, said water regulations prohibit open hoses running unattended, which decrease pressure from other water outlets. The water superintendent ad vised resident! they could savs ECC2U0 iuvtsn MEDFORD, "Thar She Resources Join Area Chambers Rogue Basin Flood Control ! and Water Resources association directors voted unanimously last night to take out a memberhip for the association in both the Josephine and Jackson County Chambers of Commerce. William Jess, association presi dent, will represent the group in the Jackson county chamber. Ben Hilton will be the Josephine county representative. Work With Committees The directors desired that the association work with chamber committees on problems in volved in Rogue river basin flood control. Some clarification was made at last night's meeting, held in the county court room in the courthouse, of the position of the local group with relation to work being done by the state water resources board. The state board was directed by the last legislature to make 10-Year-Old Bicycle Rider Is Injured A 10-year-old bicycle rider suffered a fractured pelvis, a possible wrist fracture and bruises and abras'ons Monday when struck by a car as he was riding in front of his house, ac cording to city police. Injured was Ed Earl Coss, 10-year-old son of Mrs. Earl R. Coss, 855 East Ninth St., Med ford. He was taken by Medford ambulance ervicce to Rogue Valley ..hospital, where hospitals attendants this morning said his condition was "good." Operator of the car striking the boy was Mrs. Clara Mae Smith, 115 Florence ave., Med ford, officers reported. Accord ing to police records Mrs. Smith said the bicycle suddenly dart ed out from the curb giving her insufficient time to apply the brakes. No citations were issued, pol lice said. money by not allowing water to run to waste down sidewalks and by repairing plumbing leaks and closing faucets when they are not actually being used. Wa ter costs as much to deliver as it docs to use. Lee said. - He added that the use of wa ter through a hose for sprin kling streets is prohibited by the city. Water for air conditioners of the evaporative type should be carefully controlled, according to Lee. Maximum efficiency from an evaporative type air conditioner is obtained when the entire, area of pads is kept damp, Lee said. Any water al lowed to run off from the con ditioner is wasted, he said. SKSC1.3 c io n OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY Blows" Group To a study of the Rogue basin and present a program for the most beneficial water uses to the 1959 legislature. It was pointed out at last night's meeting that the county court was supposed to appoint local committees to gather in formation about the basin. This information will be given the state water resources board. To Fulfill a Purpose Jess said the Rogue associa tion was "agreed we are here to fulfill a purpose ... to continue to work for flood control." He added that the association would cooperate with the state board and committees appointed by the county court in "any way possible." Mrs. Kathryn Heffernan re ported on the May meeting of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington D. C. She said she spoke before the congress, and that organization endorsed fully a Rogue basin flood control project. Number Three Rating The project was given a num ber three rating by the congress, a high priority spot. Mrs. Heffer nan represented the local groups asking the United States con gress for $50,000 to complete a study being made of the basin by the Army Corps of Engineers. The Rivers and Harbors Con gress endorsed the study and supported the bid for funds. Next meeting of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources association will be held Aug. 12 in the Live Oak Grange hall in Rogue River. Matches Blamed for Death of Young Boy Corvallis W) Matches in the pocket of a young boy were blamed today for the death of the youngster near his home about two miles south of Philo math Monday afternoon. Billy D. Wilson, 7, son of Mrs. Bryant Wilson, was playing with his brother, Roger, 5, about 150 feet from his home when the matches somehow caught fire, Coroner J. B. McHenry reported. The youngster ran toward the house but was unable to get across a fence, which also kept his mother from reaching him at once. A neighbor woman was able to get to the boy and pulled off his clothing. The parents rushed the boy to a Corvalllis hospital where he died from burns about five hours later. Natural Gas Price Bill Passes Committee Washington HP) The House Commerce committee today ap-, proved a bill to relax federal controls ive: producer prices for natural gas. Members emerging from the closed meeting reported the vote' was 15 to 13 in favor of the bill. Tribune 9, 1957 6 TO 5 Request To Annex Denied by Medford Planning Group Major Difficulties In Servicing Area A request that 47 acres of property west of South Peach st. and south of Stewart ave. be annexed to the city of Med ford was denied at last night's meeting of the city planning commission. The commission voted unani mously to deny the request after hearing reports from City Man ager Robert Duff, Water Super intendent Robert L. Lee, Public Works Director Verne Thorpe, Fire Chief Gordon Barker, and Police Chief Charles Champlin. Six-Page Report The combined six-page report showed several major difficul ties that would face the city in developing and servicing the area. One of the major problems from the water department and1 public works department view point would be that only one side of South Peach st. would be in the city and the east por tion would remain in the county. This would pose problems in assessing the cost of improve ments and leave the watermain in the Kings Highway water dis trict. This, in turn, would create problems in servicing and meter ing, it was pointed out. Street Layout Duff noted that the existing street layout in the district is poor with narrow rights of way which dead end. A master plan of the whole district with proper arterial layout would probably assure the continuation of some of these streets to other feeder streets, Duff stated. The area includes 13 resi dences, one court with three dwelling units and cne church constructed in the area. Esti mated population there is 56 peo ple. Most of the houses are on South Peach st., with the excep tion of five houses on Jones rd., a public road not accepted by the county. (See Story Page 6) Planners, Water Commission To Meet Members of the city planning commission and the city water commission will hold a joint luncheon meeting Wednesday, July 17, at the Medford hotel. The meeting will be an in formal one, at which members of both commissions will dis cuss common problems. Water Superintendent Robert L. Lee extended the invitation to the meeting to the planning commission last night. He ex-, plained the next regular meet ing of the water commission has been set for that date. Possibilities of holding such a joint session have been under discussion for about a month. At a planning commission meeting last month it was pointed out that the two agencies should work together more closely on annexations, zoning and other issues for mutual benefit. Western Disarmament Delegates Take Recess London HPi Western dele gates to the London Disarma ment Conference today post poned an emergency session called to discuss the exact mean ing of Russia's rejection of a nuclear test ban. The session was postponed un til Wednesday because French delegate Jules Moch flew home to Paris to consult with his gov ernment on the implications of the "no" to the western proposed nuclear test ban voiced Monday by Soviet chief delegate Valerian Zorin. Supreme Court Takes Girard Case Under Study Washington (W Eight Su preme Court justices sat down today to weight the fate of. Gl William S. Girard, whom the United States wants to deliver to Japan for a manslaughter triaL Price 10c United Press Full Leased Wire No. 94 Soviet Communist Leaders Arrive In Czechoslovakia First Hand Report On Purge To Be Made Prague, Czechoslovakia tin Soviet Communist party boss Nikila Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin crossed the border uito Czechoslovakia to day to give a first hand report on the Kremlin purge to Czech Communist leaders. Top Leaders in Party Reports from the Czech border station of Cerna-On-Tisa said the train passed through from the Ukraine, at 8:30 a.m. With Khrushchev and Bulganin were Soviet Security Chief Gen. Ivan Serov and a delegation of top leaders. Czech news agency dispatches from the border city at the east ern end of Czechoslovakia said the Russians were met by a group of leading Czech Commu nists. It appeared that prelim inary party talks would be held on the train ride from Cerna to Prague. Welcoming Committee The welcoming group includ ed Czech Politburo and Central Committee members Karol Ba cilek, Rudol F. Barak, Vaclav Kopecky and Antonin Novotny, who is secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party. Official reports in Prague Monday night said Czech Presi dent Antonin Zapotocky led the welcoming group, but Czech agency dispatches from the bor der today made no mention of him. First Trip Since Purge Bulganin and Khrushchev flew from Moscow Monday to the, Ukraine and changed to a train for the remainder of the jour ney, the first out of Russia since the purge of former Premiers Vyacheslav Molotov and Georgi Malenkov and a number of their associates from the Communist Party presidium. Wilsonvilie Hospital Bids To Be Requested Salem (IP The State Board of Control today authorized im mediate advertising for bids for preliminary work this summer on the F. H. Dammasch state hospital at Wilsonvilie. Architect Glen Stanton, Port land, told the board the work will include roads, sewers, wa ter lines and other service projects. Final working drawings for the first unit of the new hospital are expected to be completed by April 1, 1958. The board also voted to inves tigate the possibility of use of Tillamook air base camp for boys now housed at MacLaren school near Woodburn. Secretary of State Mark Hat field said the site was ideal for up to 50 boys and that the town of Tillamook was favorably in clined toward use of the site. Russia Holds Public 'Indignation' Meetings Moscow UP! Nationwide pub lic "indignation" meetings and a mounting press campaign hint ed today that the way was being prepared to toss the discredited former Soviet leaders out of the Communist party. V. M. Molotov, Georgi Malen kov, L'azard Kaganovich and Dmitri Shepilov already have been ousted from their posts in the government and the party's ruling group, but they still hold positions as ordinary party mem bers. GRAND JURY TO CONVENE The Jackson county grand jury will convene Thursday morning, July 11. in the county courthouse, according to District Attorney Thomas Reeder. This is a regularly scheduled grand jury session. Weather FORECAST: Fair and warm through Wednesday. Low to night 53. high tomorrow 92. Temp. Hiehest Vstirday 90 Lowest this Morning iZ Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:43 a.m. Sunset 7:50 p.m. The Moon rides low and sets Wednesday 3:46 a.m. Full Moon July 11 VISIBLE PLANETS Venus sets; at '8:45 p.m. and is now quite close to Mars and many times, brighter than the latter. Saturn, due south .... p.m. Jupiter, low in west 10:27 p.m. t . Jr& t !f3S? yvXVx 1 Jssi BAAA! Little Jimmy Babcock is a little over zealous m his affection for "Scratch Me," one of the pet lambs now on exhibit at the Solano County Fair in Vallejo, Calif. The fair is featuring an animal farm for all the small fry to get to know their four-footed friends. Bids Called New Buildings at SOC Ashland The state board of higher education has called for bids on two new buildings at Southern Oregon college. Bids are due Aug. 8 in Port land. A men's dormitory and a com mons building are planned at an estimated cost of $705,000. They are to be completed for use by the fall of 1958. The dormitory will house 144 students and will be on Indiana St., east of the present girls' dormitory. It is the first of a proposed future group of men's dorms The main building will be three stories with a partial base ment. A four-story north wing and one-story south wing are included. Basement facilities in clude recreation room, laundry, storage and mechanical room. The building will have approx imately 23,808 square feet floor space The structure will be of re inforced concrete floors and walls with colored cement plas ter on the exterior. Special feature will be the coverei sun porch over the one-sto.-y wing. The commons building, to the left of Churchill hall and facing Siskiyou blvd. will include kit chen facilities to serve 500 peo ple cafeteria style. And addition al 300 , more could be served under a future expansion pro gram. Dining facilities will seat 350 people with future addition of two wings to seat 300 more. The main wing will be one story high with a partial base ment. A two-story wing will State Brucellosis Committee Meets Salem (IP) The Stale Brucel losis Advisory committee, hold ing its first meeting here Mon day, approved regulations aimed at eradication of brucellosis and certification of all Oregon coun ties by 1960 The committee was appointed recently by Gov. Robert D. Holmes to advise the State Agri culture Department on the new state brucellosis, tuberculosis and paratuberculosis program which replaces the previous county approach. The committee approved use of the ring test on dairy animals to replace a blood test long in use. New Bill Planned for High. Hells Canyon Dam Washington OP) Two Pacific Northwest Democratic congress men, in a surprise move, an nounced today they will intro duce a new bill to authorize construction of a high federal dam at Hells Canyon. The measure, offered ly Reps. Gracie Pfost of Idaho and Al Ullman of Oregon, provides that the Army Corps of Engineers build the dam on the Snake River site. Pending legislation, which appears headed for almost cer tain defeat in the House Interior Committee Wednesday, specifies that the Reclamation Bureau build the high dam. 17 -Year-Old Bound Over to Grand Jury A 17-year-old Medford boy charged with cashing eight ficti tious checks in Jackson county between June 25 and July 5 was bound over to the grand jury after appearing in district court Monday. The youth was arraigned Mon day morning and given until 4 p.m. to reappear with counsel. When he returned to court he waived counsel and preliminary hearing. for Two hold loading dock, stair and ele vator. There will be three large dining room areas and two pri vate dining rooms. Construction will be rein forced concrete floors and walls, posts and beams and colored cement plaster on the exterior. Special equipment includes a hydiaulic elevator from the basement to the first floor, stain less steel work in the kitchen and kitchen equipment. Architects are Church, New berry, Roehr and Schuette of Portland. Consulting engineers for both buildings are Cooper and Rose, structural; Thomas Taylor, mechanical, and Grant Kelley and associates, electrical. Ex-Medford Man Killed in Accident Edward H. Cowell, 23, of Napa, Calif., former Medford resident, was killed in an accident in Richmond, Calif., yesterday afternoon. . Cowell was working with a construction company building street curbing when a truck went out of control and went into a group of workmen. One other worker was killed and another was hospitalized, according to re ports here. Cowell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cowell, who moved to Napa, Calif., to live Sunday, was born in Iowa in 1934. The family moved to Medford in 1945, and lived on Lone Pine rd. Edward Cowell moved to Napa about a year ago. He is survived by his wife, the former Arlene Squires, formerly of Roseburg, and one son. Dean, besides his parents. While in southern Oregon, Ed ward Cowell worked for Home Appliance stores. Funeral services will be held in Napa. Highway Section May Be Ready in 3 Weeks The Josephine county line- Rogue River rd. section of High way 99 is expected to be com pleted in about three weeks, according to F. D. Morgan, divi sion engineer, state highway de partment, Roseburg. Morgan said the road will probably be paved and suitable for traffic by that time. He add ed, however, there is nothing definite about this date as weath er conditions and traffic prob lems may delay completion a few days. This section of highway was raised by the highway depart ment to prevent inundation of the road during high water pe riods. The section follows the Rogue river on the south side. Russell Willing To Accept Amendment on Civil Rights Wasl-ington Wl Senate foes of civil rights. legislation said tc-Jay they would "accept" a compromise jury-trial amend ment 'it would continue to fight the bill. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D- Ga.) leader of the southern Dem ocratic bloc pledged to all-out war against the administration's racial rights measure, told news men the proposed amendment was "not completely satisfactory but I am willing to accept it." Would Protect Vote Rights The administration and other supporters of the bill contend it wuld primarily protect Negro voting rights. Southern foes maintain it would permit the federal government to enforce Case Remanded To Multnomah Circuit Court , Court's Denial Of Motion Challenged Salem (in The State Su preme court today reversed the conviction of Sherry Fong and remanded the case to the Mult nomah county circuit court for further proceedings. Sherry Fong was convicted of the second degree murder of high school girl Diane Hank upon a second trial in Portland. Sherry's husband, Wey Him Fong, was acquitted of a mur der charge in connection with the case. The stale contended that Diane Hank died as a result of barbi turate poisoning administered by Mrs. Fong. On her appeal. Sherry Fong challenged the court's denial of her motion for the directed ver dict based upon alleged insuffi ciency of the evidence. Improperly Admitted The court ruled that there was sufficient evidence of a criminal act on the part of some one and that there was a ques tion for the jury as to the part of Mrs. Fong in the case. But, in an opinion by Justice Hall S. Lusk. the court said that evidence regarding alleged nar cotic dealings of the defendant and others was improperly ad mitted. The court said that when the prosecution claims that the mo tive for homicide is to silence the victim as a witness to the crime the admission of evidence of crimes .committed by third parties for which the accused is not shown to be responsible or even have knowledge of, is prejudicial error and ground for reversal. The court added that the state exceeded the bounds of legitimate proof when it at tempted to build the element of motive by collateral evidence, the effect of which could only have been to represent the de fendant as a degraded woman not entitled to the presumption of innocence which under law clothes every person accused of crime. Noting that the trial judge, Alfred P. Dobson, had called five witnesses on behalf of the court to testify in support of testimony given by two wit nesses who claimed to have seen Diane Hank after the date of her alleged murder the court said: "But we have yet to hear it suggested that a judge presiding over a criminal trial with a jury has or should have the author ity to call witnesses of his own on an ordinary fact issue: least of all that he may take sides by calling witnesses to bolster the testimony on behalf of one of the parties." - Following this incident the prosecutor challenged the judge to introduce incompetent evi dence favoring the state since he had already introduced in competent evidence favoring the defendant. The court said that for these reasons a mistrial should have been granted and failure to de clare a mistrial was also an er ror upon which the court's deci sion could have been reversed. The body of Diane Hank was found wrapped in blankets and tied with rope on a lonely hill side in the state of Washington. Accident Victim Leaves Hospital Miss Sharon Planlz. 16-year- old douehter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Plantz, 225 Lincoln rd.. Grants Pass, left Rogue Valley hospital for home today after about two months' recuperation from an auto accident. Miss Plantz was -one of six Grants Pass students injured when the car she was driving struck the rear of a cement truck on Highway 99. the north slope of Blackwell hill, north of Cen tral Point, May 17. Hospital officials said her par ents took her home this morning. school desegregation at bayonet- point. Southerners particularly ob ject to the fact that the bill does not provide jury trials for per sons accused of contempt of court for -iolating injunctions obtained under the measure. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D Wyo.), in in impassioned 54 min ite speech late Monday, propos ed an amendment to guarantee jury trial in all civil rights cases where questions of fact are in volved. He said this would rule out right-to-vote cases and would "assure the voting rights of Negroes in every part of the South." Southerners wafjt jury trials in all cases brought under the bill.
