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ERICAS LEAGUE ALL-STARS
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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.
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vised resident! they could savs
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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.
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OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY
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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
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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.
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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.