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FLAMES CONTHOLLED Firemen, working with three trucks
with an aerial laddi r true, brought last night's fire in the Palm
building, Medford, undrr control after battling the blaze for more
than an hour. Above, an unidentified fireman on the aerial ladder
plays a stream of water onto the roof while another fireman mans
the hydraulic laddi-r control-. The fire originated in the back ol the
Tri-County Office supply on South Fir st. At one time, the flames
flared up to a hciht of 30 feci or more; firemen said.
(Mel Scott Photo).
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INSPECTS DAMAGE Fire Chief Gordon Barker, picking his
way through debris, inspect": the damage to the Palm building
and Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company trucks after last
night' fire. The root and ceiling of the building collapsed but
comparatively little damage was done to vehicles inside. The
fire, confined mostly to the loof. did not ignite any of the gasoline
tanks or tires on the vehicles. (Bob Vroman Photo).
LSW Union Discusses
Strike Against Medco
Member of Lumber and Saw
mill Workers, Local 2715, AFL,
last night discussed the strike of
about 130 woods and railroad
employees against Med ford cor
poration, and expressed dissatis
faction with Medco's position.
The strike began Monday and
was called following failure to
agree on wage and other negotia
tions which have been under
way since April. The union,
whose members approved the
strike, is Local 6-221, Interna
tional Woodworkers of Ameri
ca. AFL-CIO.
Pass Picket Lines
The Medco mill is operating
with members of the LSW who
have passed the picket lines es
tablished by striking workers.
The woods operation and rail
road are shut down.
Warren Davis, business agent
of Local 2715, LSW, said union
"employees of Medco indicated
''that they were highly- dissatis
fied with the actions of the com
pany in not granting a wage in
crease like many of the other
mills of the Willamette valley
district council have already
granted since June 1."
They further "indicated that
a strike action may be taken at
Federal
Washington '1" The House
Interior Committee formally
killed the federal Hells Canyon
Dam project today bv a vote of
16-14.
The action, anticipated for the
past three weeks, came after
sponsors of the highly controver
sial public power proposal made
brief speeches defending it. One
called it "the only legitimate de
velopment of the peoples' re
sources" in Hells Canyon.
Fourteen Ropublicans and two
southern Democrats. Reps.
James A. Haley and George A.
Shuford of North Carolina, cast
the votes that spelled final de
feat for the proposed federal
dam.
The bill would have authorized-federal
construction of a
high federal dam in ll!e Hells
a later date," Davis said.
B. L. (Bud) Nutting. Medco
manager, earlier said the com
pany feels that no cost increase
is justified in view of the pres
ent lumber market slump.
Davis said last night's meeting
of Local 2715 was well attended.
No date has been set for any pos
sible strike action, he added.
Harry Finley is president of
Local 2715.
Police Investigate
Four Burglaries
Medford police today were in
vestigating the burglaries of
four business concerns on Court
st., which took place sometime
Tuesday night.
Approximately $20 in change
and small currency was taken
from the Trowbridge and Flynn
company warehouse, they said.
Other buildings entered housed
the Westinghouse Electric com
pany, Sherwin-Williams com
pany and the Schmidt Distrib
uting company, officers said.
Similar entries were made
into the firms by breaking glass
panels, according to police.
Hells Canyon Dam
I Canyon reaches of the Snake
I river on the Idaho-Oregon bor
j der. It was opposed by the ad
j ministration. The Federal Power
; Commission has authorized the
Idaho Power Co. to build three
low dams in the canyon.
Today's vote came half an
I hour after the committee con
1 vened its regular Wednesday
meeting. Democratic supporters
of the federal project, who had
; successfully- headed off a vote at
the previous two meetings, made
no attempt to delay the action
today.
The, 14 members voting for
the project were Democrats.
In contrast to previous stormy
Hells Canyon meetings in the
I committee, the session in which
, the long-debated issue was final
I
MAN FIRE HOSE With smoke pouring out of trucks owned by the Pacific Telephone
the font entrance to the Palm building at ai.d Telerraph company. A total of 39 men,
16 Sou'h Fir st., firemen work a four-inch including 10 volunteers, answered the gen
hose into the building to get-at the flames eral alarm, which was turned in about 7:45
from below. The building housed a number p.m (Mel Scott Photo).
Fire Damages Palm
Building; Cause Is
Yet Undetermined
Telephone Service
Trucks in Building
Fire last night extensively
damaged the Palm building, 16
South Fir St., which housed the
Tri-County Office supply and
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company's service truck storage.
A total of 39 men, including
10 volunteers, fought the fire
about two hours. Three trucks
and the aerial ladder truck an
swered the general alarm.
Originates in Storeroom
Firemen said the blaze origin
ated in a small storeroom back
of the Tri-County Office supply
space and about mid-way of the
building on the north side. Cause
of the fire had not been de
termined late this morning, they
added.
When the alarm was turned
in at 7:47 p.m., flames and
smoke were streaming from the
roof, firemen said.. The alarm
was turned in from the Labor
temple, which is across the street
from the Palm building.
Flames extended through a
false ceiling in the northeast
corner, a sheet metal ceiling
and through asphalt arid paper
covered wood roof over the
front part of the building, fire
men said.
Nina Lines Used
Firemen fought the blaze from
the aerial ladder truck, the
ground and rooftops of nearby
buildings. Nine lines were used
in controlling the fire, and one
in mopping up operations, fire
men said.
At its height, flames and
smoke were visible for several
miles. Several hundred specta
tors watched as firemen con
trolled the blaze.
Firemen said there was no
extensive fire damage to con
tents of building, but water and
heat damage was extensive. Jack
Creager, local manager of PT&T,
estimated damage to trucks be
tween $2,500 and $3,000, but
pointed out it was a "rough
estimate."
Power Wagon Damaged
He said a power wagon for
transporting personnel was ex
tensively damaged, and glass in
three service trucks was broken,
paint was scorched and ladders
charred. Little damage was
done when the roof fell in, he
said.
Four trucks were removed
with minor damage, Creager
added. All the damage to trucks
is repairable, he said.
The first fire truck returned
to the central fire station at 9:01
p.m., and the last truck left the
scene about 9:49 p.m.", firemen
said.
Klamath Falls W "Mrs.
Richard M. Smith of Klamath
Falls has bee nappoiited to the
Klamath County Welfare com
mission. ly settled was quiet.
Reps. Al Ullman (D-Ore.) and
Gracie Pfost (D-Idaho) made
Mountain Sheep, Pleasant Valley
Washington (W A Fed
eral Power Commission examin
er Tuesday recommended a 50
year license to Pacific Northwest
Power Co., Portland, Ore., to
build two dams on the Snake
river in Idaho and Oregon.
, The dams, Mountain Sheep
and Pleasant Valley, would have
a combined installed capacity of
1.002,000 kilowatts of power in
itially, with an ultimate installa
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Alley Closure Adds
Emphasis to Slump
In Lumber Market
A higher than average level
of unemployment and a fairly
wide closure of small mills in
southern Oregon were indicated
today in a survey of lumber of
ficials and the Oregon state em
ployment service.
Emphasis to the situation was
added this week with announce
ment that the 150-employee Al
ley Brothers mill at Phoenix
will close Aug. 2.
R. H. Alley, president, said
the large plant is expected to
shut . down after a two-week
period to prepare for ending the
operation. Alley and his brother,
Frank (Bob) lley Jr. Los
Angeles, began operation of the
mill about 1940.
Unable to Compete
The president, who is in Los
Angeles to study the firm's re
manufacturing plant there, was
quoted as saying the local clos
ure resulted because "it has
Injunctive Powers
01 Civil Rights
Bill Voted Out
Washington W The Sen
ate today killed a provision of
the civil rights bill that would
have given the attorney general
sweeping injunctive powers.
The action was by a roll call
vote of 52 to 38 for the amend
ment knocking out the injunc
tion provision.
The action cut out of the bill
what some supporters of the
civil rights bill called the
"heart" of the measure.
Defeat for Eisenhower
The vote was a major defeat
for President Eisenhower.
It left the bill primarily a
voting rights measure.
Administration forces, fearful
that the provision would be kill
ed otherwise, had tried unsuc
cessfully trying to soften it so
that part of its provisions would
be retained.'
Dixie foes of the legislation
had made the injunctive provis
ions of Part III one of their main
targets. The other was a failure
to provide for 'a jury trial for
persons held in contempt for dis
regarding civil . rights injunc
tions of federal courts.
Project
short speeches before the com-
mittee voted. . '
Ullman said that the campaign
tion of 1,240,000 kilowatts. Esti
mated cost of the project ranges
from about $167 to $172 million.
The application to build the
two dams was opposed by the
National Hells Canyon Associa
tion and other public power
groups which also opposed build
ing of the three Hells Canyon
dams by the Idaho Power Co.
They wanted a high' federal
dam at Ncz Perce instead of the
...vi.cri t 3- -
come to the point where log-buying
mills are unable to com
pete." Hunter and Best Mills,
Applegate, shut down May 13
affecting more than 100 workers
in the industry.
Other industry spokesmen
confirmed Alley's explanation
that the cost of logs and the cost
of preparing them for market
exceeds the marketing price.
One mill operator estimated
that less than half of the 70
mills enploying between 10 and
30 men which were operating
in southern Oregon last year
are now in business.
He said the effects of the clos
ures reach thousands of workers
locally. Larger mills with large
holdings of cheap stumpage are
able to continue operation, he
maintained.
Unemployment Doubles
John J. Patton, manager of
the Medford office of the Ore
gon state employment service,
said unemployment for July
while still not serious is about
double that of last year.
At the end of June, the coun
ty had an estimated 1.150 unem
ployed compared with 505 last
year.
Although a large number of
those seeking work are experi
enced in logging and lumber oc
cupations, Patton said most of
the unemployed represented a
general lack of work which
might be related to the lumber
shutdowns.
Speaking of the Alley mill
closure, the firm's president said
every effort will be made to re
locate workers who become job
less. Patton said the number of un
employed, while lower than past
years, is not alarming. Employ
ment has just failed to rise as
high as it usually does when
seasonal work is at its peak In
the valley he stated.
Fish Screen Bid
Opening Postponed
Bidj for constructing a fish
screen structure at Savage Rap
ids dam have been postponed
from 10 a.m. July 25, to 10 a.m.
Aug. 14, according to the bureau
of reclamation.
Figures will be received In
the office of the bureau at Camp
White.
Officially
for the Hells Canyon dam was
"one of the most sincere grass
roots fights ever waged on be-
two proposed dams by Pacific
I Northwest. But Examiner Ed
I ward B. Marsh, who handed
down the decision, said further
development of this reach of
the Snake river "should not be
undertaken by the United States
itself."
Marsh said none of the altern
ative projects considered in the
proceeding have -ever been rec
ommended for federal construc-
i tion by U. S. responsible agency.
TPUCKS SAVED Although covered with a
mass of charred lumber and tin roofing
materia! a number of trucks belonging to
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company
were only moderately damaged when the
roof of the Palm building collapsed during
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY
Sailor Takes First
Flight in Plane
Stolen in Medford
Sheriffs deputies at Ukiah,
Calif., are holding a 17-year-old
Navy seaman for the theft last
night of a 1957 Cessna single en
gine light plane from the Med
ford airport.
Ukjah officials said that
Charles Wheeler Highsmith,
who is AWOL from Hunters
Point in San Francisco, had
never flown an airplane before.
The plane clipped the tops off
two trees while landing at Ukiah
airport, they said.
Medford police were notified,
by Ira G. Parish, control tower
operator, of a plane flying low
over the city shortly after 10
p.m. yesterday.
Investigation Conducted
An investigation which fol
lowed at the airport showed the
$10,000 Cessna 170, owned by
the Rogue Flying Service, Inc.,
had been removei. from a han
gar, officers reported.
Entrance was made after a
window pane had been broken
on a locked hanger door, police
said. -Officers were told that a
sailor had been seen around the
airport during the afternoon.
The plane had enough gas for
about four hours' flight, the fly
ing service told police, and
landed at Ukiah with the fuel in
dicator registering "empty," re
ports from there said.
Met by Sheriff
Highsmith, a native of Fort
Worth, Tex., was met by the
Mendocino county sheriff. The
Ukiah report said that High
smith hitchhiked to Medford
with a friend, who suggested
they steal a car.
When Highsmith decided a
plane would be better, the
"friend dissolved the partner
ship when he found Highsmith
would be making his first
flight," officials said.
Medford police said they did
not know if or when Highsmith
might be returned here.
Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Kansas City 5 8 2
Boston J. 6 10 1
Terry, Urban (4), Cox (7)
and Thompson; Brewer and
White. ' ,
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 2 7 0
Chicago 2 8 1
Antonelli. Grissom (8) and
Wesirum; Elston and Neeman.
Killed by
half of a peoples' project."
"Regardless of the outcome of
this morning's vote .1 am sure
Dams OK'd
The EPC staff in a brief filed -last
March recommended that
Pacific Northwest's application
be denied. It said that there was
an urgent need for flood control
storage by a high dam at Nez
Perce.
Marsh's decision is subject to
review by the commission or re
peal by the parties within 30
days. If no review is started
by then, the decision becomes
final.
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24, 1957
'Look I'll Let A Few Of You Have
Dates With Her"
Ninth Nuclear Device
Exploded in Nevada
Atomic Test Site, Nev.
"Kepler," the ninth nuclear de
vice fired by the Atomic Energy
Commission in its summer ser
ies, was triggered atop its 500
foot steel tower at 3:50 a.m.
(p.s.t.) today and the earth was
shaken from a yield estimated
at more than 10,000 tons of TNT.
Tower Disintegrated
The resulting thunderbolt dis
integrated the tower and unlock
ed new secrets of nuclear fission
for AEC scientists. Some 700
military observers got first-hand
experience in atomic warfare as
they crouched in trenches some
3,000 yards from ground zero.
The AEC had been holding up
announcement of the test pend
ing last second weather briefings
and at shot time the AEC head
quarters in Las Vegas, Nev.,
some 70 miles to the southeast
still had not been notified Kep
ler would be fired.
Reporters did not know the
test was going off until they
heard the count-down signifying
all was ready.
Observers in Los Angeles and
San Francisco saw the flash
from the explosion in the dark
Vote of
that this will go down in history
as one of the greatest battles for
full development of a public re
source," he said.
Mrs. Pfost said that in killing
the Hells Canyon dam the com
mittee was "strangling the life
blood of the Pacific Northwest."
Ullman said that killing the
federal proposal would give Ida
ho Power "an economic strangle
hold" on the Northwest.
"This is a sad day, a sad day,"
the congressman said.
Ullman and Mrs. Pfost were
sponsors of separate bills which
would have authorized the Bu
reau of Reclamation to erect a
high dam in the deepest river
gorge in North America.
Democratic supporters of the
federal project, who had sue
cesslully headed off. a vote al
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last night s fire. Above, a fireman disconnects
a hose beside one of the trucks after the fire
had be.n extinguished. All of the vehicles are
repairable, according to Jack Creager, man
ager of the telephone company.
(Bob Vroman Photo).
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sky, lighted only by a thin silver
of the new moon.
The fireball from Kepler re
sembled that of the famous dud
bomb "Diablo," which failed to
fire June 28. A group of daring
scientists scaled Diablo's tower
and removed its string. Diablo
finally was fired on July 15.
Court Discusses Park
With Civic Group
The county court met with a
civic group this morning and ap
proved plans to rehabilitate a
grove of maple trees at the fair
grounds as a public park.
The project is sponsored by
the Kiwanis club, with coopera
tion of city and county govern
ments. The county will construct a
foot grade road at the site. The
Kiwanians will now have the
trees trimmed and the ground
prepared for seeding with grass
in early fall.
The grove adjoins the exten
sion of Stewart ave. on the east
side of South Riverside ave.
Tree were planted shortly after
World War I as a memorial to
servicemen. Donated funds made
the grove possible.
16 to 14
the previous two meetings, made
no attempt to delay the action
today.
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