Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 12, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textock m Attacks:- Put 'Nation t T mm Medford United presi Full Leased Wire 22 Pages MEDFORD, LOCAL is-' fcAjSTIN L.KING ft 1 r - 7--yrx!F I ' PICKET LINE Above is Page Stauffer, Butte Falls, one of three independent truck ers strik.'ng against Austin L. King, Medford trucking contractor, who has been hauling logs for Medco from the woods to the firm's reload point above Butte Falls. Stauffer, along with two other truckers, John Zimmer- No Settlement Signs Reported in Strike Against Austin King No signs of settlement were jand he wanted them to use his reported today in the strike i equipment which has been against Austin L. King, Medford standing idle. He said they re trucking contractor, by local fused his job offer unless he 6-221, International Woodwork-Irented their trucks, crs of America, AFL-CIO. Both Medford Corporation The strike has caused the shut iand King have filed unfair labor down of woods and railroad (practice charges with the.Na operations of Medford Corpora-j tional Labor Relations board. tiun and approximately Hit em-1 pioyees 01 Meaco are on me jod. King has been hauling logs for Medco from the woods to the firm's railroad reload above Butte Falls. King said today that the strike started as a result of a dispute over rehiring equipment of three truckers. King said they have previously used their own equip ment which they rented to him. Camp White Man Faces Grand Jury Martin Dave Wilkinson, 56, of Camp White, was bound over to the grand jury yesterday after appearing in district court on a charge of assault with a danger ous weapon. Wilkinson is accused of stab bing Roger Walter Moreland, 56, of 520 North Front St., on Thurs day. Moreland was released from a local hospital after treatment for his injuries yesterday. Wilkinson is being held on $2,500 bail. Fred T. Johnson, Los Angeles, Calif., was bound over to the grand jury today on a charge of emblczzlcment by employee., He is accused of taking cotton seed cattle feed frum his employer, Henry Pingle, and selling it on Dec. 7, 1956. Bail for Johnston has been set at $1,500. School Conference Scheduled at Eugene Salem HP A combined con ference of the Oregon Associa tion of School Administrators and a curriculum study confer ence for school superintendents will be held in Eugene starting Siuiday. The study conference is set for Julv 14-19 and the association meets July 18-19. Congress Moving Toward Mild Study of Girard Case Washington (IB Congress Iments issue were proposed, appeared today to be moving One by Rep. Kenneth B. Keat toward a mild study of the con- jing (R-N.Y.) calls for setting up troversial Girard case instead a special committee to study the of drastic action to scrap this j entire question of trying U.S. nation's status - of - forces agree-: mcnts with allies. Calculated Risk In the House, leaders said they have a "good chance'' to defeat attempts to revoke the agreements which govern whether the United States or a foreign government tries GIs for crimes committed abroad. They have decided to take a cal culated risk on rounding up enough votes to kill such at tempts. At the same time, two major! investigations of the Girard case and the status-of-forces agree-1 OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 12, V . Vf i. 5IWA-L0CALO22! .'J "! Khrushchev Proposes Mutual Existence Prague, Czechoslovakia HP Soviet party leader Nikita Khru shchev likened co-existence Thursday night to a "marriage of convenience" between the capitalist and Communist worlds and said there is "no other way." "There are many cases of peo ple not in love marrying and after they get married they build happy lives," he said at a gala reception while looking straight at the Western diplo mats present. "Let us do it. Let us compete and see which sys tem is superior." "We know you don't like our system," he said. "We were not born with bells ringing but under gunshots. We are con vinced we will win. Let us try. Let us stop seeing each other as enemies. I believe there is no other way. Grand Jury Selects New Foreman Today Members of the Jackson county grand jury went into ses sion this morning without the foreman who was originally selected. The grand jury session was to have started yesterday but was postponed when it was learned the jury foreman was out of town. Today, however, a new foreman was selected. Term for the current grand jury ends Monday, July 15, and it was indicated there were too many items for the group to con sider to allow further delay of the session. Salem Wi Normal W. Hydcr, Madras, has been appointed to the Oregon Potato Commission. servicemen and their dependents for crimes committed overseas. Joint Investigation The other by Rep. William H. Ay res (R-Ohio) calls for a joint House-Senate investigation of the Girard case. He said the public is entitled to know all about handling of the jurisdic tional squabble. The Supreme Court Tuesday unanimously upheld the admini stration's decision to surrender Army Specialist 3-c William S Girard to Japan for manslaugh- Iter trial on charges of fatally shooting a Japanese woman. Tribune United Press Full Lcaud Wire 1957 No. 97 JS 'f pi Vvi x lee, Eagle Point, and Norm Caldwell, White City, have established a picket line at the re load point, which about 130 Medco employ ees, members of Local 6-221, International Woodworkers of America, AFL-CIO, have re fused to cross. The strike began over rental of equipment of the three truckers. Eisenhower Signs $1,990,000,000 Housing Program Washington HP! President Eisenhower signed the $1,990, 000,000 housing bill today even though he said it has "a number of serious defects." The new law permits the Fed eral Housing Administration to slash to an all-time low the mini mum down . payment require ments on new and old homes under its mortgage insurance program. More Mortgage Money It also authorizes $1,900,000, 000 in additional mortgage money, federal loans for college housing, and federal grants for urban renewal and slum clear ance. The President said he is 'most concerned" that the act authorizes more home building aids than he requested. He said "painstaking efforts" had been made by the adminis tration to balance the needs of federal programs while keeping over-all spending to a minimum. The $1,990,000,000 in new obli gational authority authorized in the bill, he said, more than doubles his request. He said he has instructed fed eral agencies to limit use of the new authority to "amounts con sistent with the over-all budget program." Since there is no re quirement to obligate the amounts in this fiscal year, he said, there would be "no serious setback" to budget efforts and he thus could sign the bill. Navy Attack Plane Crashes in Mountains Alameda, Calif. (HI A Navy AD7 attack carrier today crashel and burned in the rugged mountains of the Feather River's Middle Fork Canyon, an Ala meda Naval Air Station spokes man reported. The fate of the pilot was unknown. Paramedics from the air sta tion were flown to the area and jumped to the edge of a brush fire at 1 p.m. The Navy said the plane, ac companied by at least two others of a similar type, was on a routine navigational training flight and not participating in today's mock civil defense atomic attack. Forest rangers in lookout towers reported they saw the craft crash about 30 air miles southwest of Quincy. btffi3tikq'irMyfift,,ilJ" iiiiiuli imsisa sew rwi ijfTii TITa LEAVING SHIPYARD at Newport News, Va., Carrier Ranger starts on sea trialsovRh civilian crew of 1,500 eneeriiis experts. She is 1,046 feet in length. ilnterruuional) Missi1"' Hong Kong Wl Donald Jackson Blackwood, 24, whose disappearance two months ago became a cold war mystery, said today he went into Red China out of "curiosity" but was "dis appointed" with what he saw. Blackwood, of Cincinnati, O., returned by ferry boat to Hong Kong this morning with his North Korean-born wife and small child. Air Force to Build Radar Station on King Mountain Site An Air Force communication and radar tower are scheduled for construction at Placer Air Force station, located on King Mountain on the Josephine- Jackson county line. lhe project is called a gap filler facility and is believed to be the first Air Force radar in stallation to be built in southern Oregon. Date of construction has not been established, according to Gilbert R. Bean, technical liai son officer, Seattle district corps of Army engineers. Bid opening was previously sched uled for July 26, but the project has been deferred for construc tion and bid opening indefinitely postponed. Facilities Explained Bean explained gap filler fa cilities are part of the nation's chain of defense. They are placed at intermediate locations between Air Force stations which are a great distance apart. The fillers are generally un manned and information picked up is automatically relayed to the- stations. The communication building will have approximately 1.240 square feet of floors pace, con crete foundation and iioor slab, concrete block, walls, open web steel roof joists and metal deck with insulated and built up roof. Also included in the project will be a heating and ventilating system, perimeter chain link fence, concrete walks, reinforced concrete tower foundation and tower erection. Areas of National Forest Are Closed A few small areas in the Rogue River National forest having unusually high fire haz ards have been closed to entry by Governor's proclamation. Forest Supervisor Carroll E. Brown, announced today. The closure, effective at mid night last night, prohibits entry except under permit, and per mits will be issued only to per sons having business in the areas'. Ashland canyon is closed each year as a special protective mea sure for the city watersHed. The other areas are where timber is being cut near Big Elk, Sevenmile Creek, Three mile Creek, Crater-W i z a r d Creek, Ginko Creek, Huckle berry Mountain, Thousand Springs, Needle Creek Ridge and Woodruff Creek. None have any special recreation attractions and it is not believed that forest users will be inconvenienced, Brown said. Weather FORECAST: Variable fetch cloudiness, otherwise fair through Saturday. Low to night 55. High Saturday S5-88. Temo. Hirhest Yesterday SS Lowest this Morning 54 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:45 Sunset , .... Moon rise . Last Quarter PROMINENT STARS Spica. in the southwest R-eeulus. sets VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, between Spica Reeulus Venus, sets Saturn, due south 7:4)1 p.m. S:n4 p.m. . July 19 X:S3 p.m. 9:11 p.m. 8:45 p.m. 9:16 p-m. American After or Red China The Chinese Communists ex pelled them Thursday across the border into the Portuguese colony of Macao. "I was curious to see China and learn all about it," Black wood told newsmen. "Now that I've made the trip I am disap pointed and sorry." He called the trip an "irresponsible ges ture on my part" and admitted quietly he had disobeyed a State Department man on travel to Red China. "Although I made the trip I consider myself a loyal Ameri can," he said. "I am sorry I went and I am sorry I disobeyed the State Department ruling." Blackwood, a former enlisted man in the Air Force, said he met his wife while in the serv ice. He married her after he returned from the United States in the spring of 1955 as a civilian. He said she strongly op posed the trip to Red China. Asked how he entered China without a visa he replied, "A rickshaw boy, a sampan man and 100 U.S. dollars. He said he was ferried to the Chinese shore opposite Macao in the early hours of April 28. He said the Chinese read him a statement charging him with illegal entry and "we then left within five minutes." But he said if it hadn't been for the expulsion order he would have stayed longer, "I was planning to see Peiping, Shanghai and North Korea." "My personal desire to see China was stronger than my will to abide by the State De partment ruling," he said. Blackwood said he planned to return to the United States and work for his father, a drive in restaurant owner who flew to Hong Kong to search for his missing son. But he wasn't sure when he would return because ef "State Department techni calities." Local Resources Group Is Planned Two representatives of the Oregon Water Resources board from Salem will be in Jackson county Monday to attend a meet ing with the county court con cerning formation of a local water resources committee. The representatives are Don Lane and Quentin Bowman. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. in the county courtroom and interested individuals are invited to attend, members of the court said. Members of the local commit tee will study unappropriated water in the valley to aid the state board in formulating a water usage program. Local committee members will include representatives of various water control and use interests such as domestic, municipal, irriga tion, power development, indus trial, mining, recreation, wild life and fish life uses, as well as pollution abatement. The state board will provide the local group with available basic vater resource informa tion. Selection of Jackson county committee members will be made in the near future, accord ing to the county court. There will be 10 subcommittees in ad dition to the general committee. William Tugman Out Of North Bend Hospital Reedsport (If) William Tug- man, publisher of the Port Ump- qua Courier here who was hos pitalized at North Bend follow ing a heart attack last month has returned to his home here. Portland OB F. L. Somers of Medford will construct two rubble-mound jetties at. the mouth of the Chetco river near Brookings on the southern Ore gon coast starting Monday. The river bar will be closed until Nov. 1. Cost of the project will be $332,000, according to the Army engineers. . Prayer Portland, Klamath Receive Simulated Warning of Bombers Salem (IP) Portland was theoretically struck by two atomic bombs at 10:22 a.m. (PST) today at the climax of the nation-wide civil defense exercise Operation Alert 1957. Salem HP Operation Alert 1957, the nation-wide civil de fense exercise, was progressing satisfactorily at mid-morning to day, according to Oregon civil defense officials. Both Portland and Klamath Falls received simulated warn ings of the approach of enemy bombers at 8:02 a.m. Portland started a mock evac uation at 8:25 a.m. and Klamath Falls at 8:10 a.m. Enemy bomb ers were theoretically over Portland at 10:02 a.m. but it was not to be known until later whether any nuclear "bombs" were dropped in Oregon. Declares Emergency Gov. Robert D. Holmes signed a proclamation giving himself emergency powers at 9:07 a.m. and then told county CD leaders on a special radio hookup: "As a part of operation alert I have just signed a proclamation de claring a general emergency in the stale of Oregon and desig nating the entire state as an emergency disaster area." The governor went on to com mend counties of the state for their effort and interest in de veloping a sound civil defense program. Fallout in Southern Oregon Col. Arthur Sheets, state CD director, said that should nu clear weapons be "detonated" at Portland or Klamath Falls to day the state would be relative ly free of radioactive fallout. Sheets added, however, that southern Oregon might receive some fallout from a nuclear ex plosion at San Francisco should one be planned as part of the exercise. The general public did not participate directly. . Recording Fees to Be Increased in County Fees for recording documents in the county clerk's office, will be increased after Saturday, July 20. it was .reported today. The increase was authorized at the last session of the state legislature. Fees will increase from $1 to $1.50 for the first page and from 75 cents to $1 for each succeeding page. Re cording fees for other types of papers and certificates will be increased correspondingly. Dinard, France HB Holly wood movie actor Tony Curtis was hit in the eye by an arrow today during the filming of a scene for the film "The Vikings.". County Civil Defense Units In Nation-Wide 'Operation Civil Defense authorities in Jackson county participated this morning in nation-wide "Opera tion Alert" scheduled today, to morrow and Sunday. The county civil defense agency will emphasize radio active fallout monitoring and communications during the three-day practice period. Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, county civil defense director, said radio active fallout monitoring teams are covering the perimeter of the valley to check for simulated fallout. The teams are from Rogue River, Central Point, Shady Cove, Medford and Ash land. Communications teams are to run a test with Salem. Monitor ing teams also report their find ings by radio or telephone to the Civil Defense control center near Rug km- 1 lpj iS mmMi "''Vmm Crescent City Man Injured in Crash Gerald Louis Hamman, 20, of Crescent City, Calif., was crit ically injured early last night when the logging truck he was operating went out of control and into a creek bed about five miles east of Ashland on the Dead Indian rd., according to state police. Hamman. who was pinned the cab of the truck for several hours, was transferred from Ash land General hospital to Sacred Heart hospital in Medford. -His condition was listed as critical by hospital officials this morn ing. Police said the truck's brakes apparently failed on a sharp curve. The truck went down a 10-foot bank into the creek bed and turned over. The logs slid over the cab, pinning the driver in, police said. Blood was taken to the scene by police from Rogue Valley hospital, and an Ashland doctor, called to the scene, administered the blood to keep Hamman alive, according to officers. Logs had to be removed from the cab be fore the driver was removed, police said. Dave Beck Indicted For Grand Larceny Seattle OPl Teamsters Presi dent Dave Beck today was in dicted by the King County Grand Jury on one count of grand larceny. The amount of money involved in the indictment was not imme diately available. Beck was booked by Sheriff Tim McCullough and released after posting $3,000 bond. Beck told newsmen he had no immediate comments to make on the indictment but would hold a news conference in his office here at 4 p.m. (p.s.t.) Salem Voters Approve Tax Levy of $330,000 Salem (lfl Salem voters, going to the polls in "fairly heavy numbers," Thursday ap proved a $180,000 tax levy to repair two city swimming pools and a $150,000 bond issue to im prove city parks. t Camp White. Radios are manned Rogue Valley and Sacred Heart hospitals. On duty at the control center is Dwight J. Albright, civil de fense communications chief, and Lt. Col. Arthur M. Savard, chief of the Red Cross mass care sec tion. , When a fire siren at Central Point gives eight to 10 blasts to announce lhe alert. Civil De fense groups there will hold a- full-scale mobilization. A police car will patrol the streets warning motorists and pedestrians via a pubic address system to get off the streets and seek shelter. "We want the people to get inside nearby buildings where, in case of real emergency, they would be protected from radio active fallout," E. R. Yocum, Central Point civil defense di- Civil Defense Organizations Called To Crisis Eisenhower Whisked Out of Washington Emergency News Center, Op eration Alert (IB The nation underwent a mock nuclear at tack today with government and civil defense organizations de ploying their forces to meet the imaginary crisis. President Eisenhower was whisked out of Washington by helicopter as more than 100 American cities were subject to a theoretical nuclear pummeling in Operation Alert 1957. The simulated attack kicked off the second phase of the alert designed to test the ability of civilian defense workers to cope with the havoc that would be caused by nuclear bombings. Government Operations Moved The training exercise also gave government agencies experience in manning emergency centers to evaluate "plans for the mo bilization and allocation of man power and material resources in a post-attack situation." Government departments were relocated at sites in a wide radius away from Washington. The White House said Eisenhow er's flight this afternoon was not directly connected with the alert but only to test helicopter travel and White House emergency communication. First Phase Ends The first phase of Operation Alert ended this morning. That phase began more than a month ago with the assumption of a "heightened international ten sion and deteriorating interna tional relations." The Emergency News Head quarters from which this is writ ten will not come into being of ficially until the imaginary nu clear attack begins on the con tinental United States. Many government workers have flocked to this secret relocation center to test communications and transportation facilities. After the hypothetical attack, news will flow into this center from affected areas, simulating a reporting system as it would actually be used in an emer gency, t ' Hearing on Budget Scheduled Tonight a nnhlir hearincf on a gen eral fund budget of $810,912 for fiscal year 1957-58 for Medford .fin ka hM hv the citv council at 7:30 p.m. today in the council chambers. Thu hnH0pf is within the 6 per cent allowable increase. Esti mated receipts are $453,699, ana the estimated balance is $52,365. The amount allowable under the 6 per cent limitation is $304, 848. Also on the agenda tonight I miblir hearing on change of zone from single family to light industrial for four lots on North Pacific highway. The property is nwnort hv T.arrv Juniner. 1020 South Peach St., who requested the change. Count Commissioner Gets Locked in Jail County Comisiioner Chester Wendt spent a short time in the county jail today but it was all by accident. . According to reports, Wendt (who it courthouse building superintendent) and a group of plumbers went to the jail to examine a water leak. When they prepared to leave the detention .quarters, they discovered they had been locked in. After a brief delay, the jailer appeared on the scene to . ulock the heavy door. Wendt and his companions were happy to be free, and generally none-the-worse for their experience. Taking Part Alert7 Today at Central Point, Shady Cove, rector, said. Besides monitoring teams. Central Point will also mobilize first aid and transportation teams. All groups will meet at the fire hall. All clear signal will be a one minute blast of the fire siren. Portland and Klamath Falls have been named as Oregon's targets during the theoretical nuclear attack. This is due to military installations built or be ing built, population and in dustrial factors. On the state level, problems connected with the alert include hypothetical evacuation of Port land, feeding and housing of the hypothetical evacuees, police, security and traffic control, emergency medical services, communications, emergency in formation services, fire, en gineering and rescue services.