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Newspaper Page Text52ni Year Price 10" Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141. Ashland MXJ 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjiL daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If reeular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service.. Medford Ur.itJ Pres. Full Leased Wir- United Press Full Leased Wire 64 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1957 No. 122 Recommended A tory about Medford Am bulance rric. and th ,. ifc'lity H may hav. to discon tinue bulnw,, appcari an a,e 1 of today, Mag Tribun. rnnnorafinn II wvvpwiUIIUII UIUCU To Pass Senale's Civil Rights Bill Democratic Leader Calls on President Washington (W House Demo cratic Leader John W. McCor mack called on President Eisen hower and Republican congress men Saturday to cooperate with northern and western Democrats to pass the senate's civil rights bill. But house Republican leaders held firm in their demand for major compromises that would put more teeth in the heavily amended measure. GOP leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.) demanded conference committee compromises to make it a "proper" guarantee of civil rights. He said he will be willing to stay in session "until Christ mas" to accomplish this. Would Be Risk McCormack said this course would risk failure to pass any bill. He said the only practical way to get any rights legislation passed now is to follow the course urged by Speaker Sam Rayburn to have the house ac cept the senate's version, with or without a change in its jury trial amendment. Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (N.Y.) Republican civil rights floor leader, rejected a Demo cratic compromise, offered Fri day night by fellow New Yorker Emanuel Celler, to limit he sen ate' controversial jury trial amendment to voting rights cases in lower courts. Caller Compromise The Celler compromise, he said, is virtually the same jury trial amendment the house re jected by a 93-vote margin when it was considering the rights bill. Keating conceded that it would eliminate what he called some "ridiculous"features of the senate bill, but said that so far as the house is concerned it would be no compromise but a complete surrender an the, jury trial issue. Senators from both parties predicted the, house will come around to a compromise close to the senate's bill a measure lim ited to protection of Negro vot ing rights through federal government-sought court injunc tions, plus investigation of other rights violations. i Agents Dig Info Tax Returns of Holla Washineton 0P1 Federal agents are digging into the in come tax returns of midwestern teamsters union leader James R. Hgffa and New York mobster Johnny Dio, it was learned Sat urday. The Internal Revenue Service withheld official comment but it was disclosed elsewhere that inquiry is under way. Both men are central figures in the Senate Rackets Commit tee's investigation of corruption in labor unions and pay-off tie in between Dio's "paper" unions in New York and some employ ers. Sports Bulletin Vancouver, B.C. m The San Francisco Seals last night won the opening game of a crucial six-game Pacific Coast league series with the Van couver Mounties by a score of 8 to 3 in a wild contest before a crowd of 7,782 '. "Think The U. N. Will Do Anything About Hungary?" Streak of Light Friday May Have Been New Comet A strange streak of light in the northwestern sky just after dusk Friday, which brought many calls of inquiry to the U.S. weather bureau, may have been a newly-discovered comet, it was believed Saturday. Meteorologist Bob Baumin reported the light was first spotted at about 9 p.m.. 8 to 10 degrees above the horizon, below the "pointing" stars of the Big Dipper. A bright moon somewhat impaired its visibility. . ' He said it was moving fairly rapidly in the sky, and dis appeared below the horizan in about half an hour. In ap pearance it was somewhat similar to the comet Arend-Roland visible here earlier this year. News stories from New York last week reported thel dis covery of a new comet, discovered Aug. 2 by a Czechoslova kian astronomer named Mrkos, so it was named Comet Mrkos 1957d. The 1957d refers to the year with the "d" signifying that it was the fourth comet discovered this year. Dr. Franklin Branley, associate astronomer at the Hayden planetarium, said, the comet has been reported to the Har vard observatory, and has been-visible just before sundown, beneath the pointers of the Big Dipper. He reported the comet has completed its trip around the sun, and is now heading back into outer space. Employment in Area Experiences Normal Increase During July Employment in Jackson coun- ty experienced the normal sea- sonsal increase during July and the rise in unemployment ex pected earlier failed to take place, according to John J. Pat- ton, Medford manager of the Oregon state employment serv ice. - Numerous small layoffs early in July, plus a labor dispute at Butte Falls, had indicated a probable large increase in un employment. However, em ployment increased to a suf ficient extent to offset any slump, Patton reported. Agricultural work dropped slightly from June totals, he indicated, due to completion of fruit thinning. Few Changes Except for the labor dispute which closed the Medford cor poration logging operation . at Butte Falltha lumber industry operated through the month with few changes, Patton said. Construction also continued at a good pace, with Medford's building permits totaling $5,- 213,589 for the year ending June 30. Hiring activity appeared slow, but employment continued to climb. New claims for unem ployment compensation dropped 17 . per cent from the previous month, while ob placements were up by tho same amount, he noted. An estimated 800 workers were unemployed in Jackson county the end of July, a drop of 43 per cent from those unem ployed in June, Patton said. Number Higher The number, however, was 56 per cent higher than the unem ployed a year ago. Patton ex plained that last year was a record business year and that this year's 800 unemployed is less than 3 per cent of the coun ty's labor force. "The figure is not an unusual ly high figure for this time of year when there is no peak ac tivity in this area," Patton ex plained. "In four of the 10 pre vious years July unemployment has equalled or exceeded this amount." Concerning job outlook, the pear harvest is expected to be under way fully this week and will require a large amount of field labor. A small surplus of help is expected during the first few days but a shortage is ex pected later on. The employment service maintains a special labor office at 1665 South Pacific highway during the fruit season, making services available to all em ployers and job seekers without charge, according to the man ager. Bertha Leaves Rain In Texas; Chicago Flooded in Storm, By UNITED PRESS The tail of tropical " storm "Bertha" lashed Texas with tor rential rains Saturday, and Chi cagoans bailed out flooded base ments for the third time in 'as many weeks. , r The-gulf- -stornr-dymped-rrrore than 10 inches of rain on Liv ingston, Tex., , before it started wearing itself out in rain and Wind squalls along the Texas Louisiana border. Creeks Full The downpour sent creeks running brimful near Livingston and flooded Texas Highway 59 near Choates creek. Other Texas towns also re ported heavy rains. Riverside got 3.80 inches, Evadale 2.43 inches and Liberty more than 214 inches.' Thousands of persons who fled the Louisiana and Texas coastal lowlands were returning to their homes Saturday. Red Cross workers at Cameron, La., set up tents which were toppled by the near-hurricane winds Fri day night. More than two inches of rain soaked the Chicago area Friday night and early Saturday. The suburban- Berwyn and Bellwood police stations were flooded, high waters blocked city . buses at 16 viaducts and hundreds of basements Were flooded. , The new rain brought Chi cago's official ' measurement for the year to 33.21 inches, nearly 13 inches in excess of normal. Isolated thunderstorms hit Jamestown, N.D., and Miami, Fla., Saturday, and showers sprinkled parts of the Pacific Northwest and the east coast from New England to Washing ton, D.C. Rogue Water Group To Meet Monday, Ros Hatch of the Army Corps of engineers will discuss po tential water storage sites on tributaries of the Rogue river at a meeting of the Rogue River Flood Control' and Water Re sources association at 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 12, in the Live Oak Grange hall in Rogue River. Hatch has been gathering in formation on potential water storage sites for the corps of engineers. The meeting will be open to the public. William Jess of Eagle Point, who recently was appointed chairman of the Jackson County Water Resources committee, is president of the association. Investigation Ordered In Newsman's Beating Guatemala City UP The gov ernment Saturday ordered, the Army to investigate a beating administered to a Time maga zine correspondent by four 'uni dentified men Friday night. The American newsman, Rob ert Rosenhouse, was assaulted as he left a reception in a home near his residence. The attack ers hit him with clubs and in flicted a head injury. Government Will Prosecute Abel in Soviet Spy Case Bill Is Urged to Protect FBI Files New York (W The gov ernment vowed Saturday to prosecute alleged Soviet master spy Col. Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to the hilt, with or without dis closure of FBI secrets. ' "I have no intention of drop ping this case," assistant U.S. Attorney General William F Tomkins said. In Washington, House Repub lican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. urged immedate passage of a bill to protect FBI files and quiet fears that a recent su preme court decision might force abandonment of the Abel case. ' "Unless we get action next week," .Martin said, "we will have failed the country in a crisis." The "crisis" was brought above by a U.S. Supreme Court decision last June 3 compeling the government to let defend ants in criminal cases see FBI reports of prosecution witnesses. Some Washintgon sources said the FBI would rather have Abel set free to return to his-native Russia than disclose vital in formation on Soviet espionage in its files and identify its in formants. ' Tompkins, in charge of prose cuting what may be the biggest U.S. spy ring uncovered since Julius and Ethel Roseberg were convicted of atomic espionage in 1950, made it clear that the investigation of the case would continue at full speed. The FBI cooperated ' in the investigation despite the "dan ger" to its files. It sent out 30 agent to try ferret, out Abel's alleged accomplices and spin a net in which to trap them. Among those i being sought was a mystefious "Gladys," who sent Abel a cryptic message on the back of a picture postcard, .1. A -federal grand- Jurya-indicW ment Teturned' last"' Wednesday charged Abel ran a Kremlin-di rected spy rin that stole atomic and military secrets, tried to enlist GI's to spy against their cpuntry and drew blueprints for sabotage in the event of a war between the U.S. and Russia. Abel was described as the highest Soviet official ever ac cused of spying in the U.S. He was arrested in McAllen, Tex., where he was being held for de portation for violating immigra tion regulations. 1 Bloodmobile Needs 308 More Donors At least 308 .more blood don ors will.be needed . if the Red Cross Bloodmobile is to meet its quota this week, the Red Cross said Saturday. The Bloodmobile will be at the Elks temple from 1 to 6 Tuesday. Appointments to give blood may be made by tele phoning SP 3-3813. i Medford's quota for this visit is 290 pints, and about 350 don ors will be necessary to fulfill it, because a number usually are rejected for various reasons. The blood goes into the north west blood bank for emergency and surgical use, with much of it being retained for use in Med ford. On many occasions in re cent years Jackson county resi dents have required more blood than has been donated here. . The Bloodmobile will be "at the Elks club in Ashland from 1 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, and ap pointments may be made by call ing the club. The Ashland quota is 200 pints; with 250 donors needed. v Veteran Rescuers Reach Summit of Mountain With Four Trapped Climbers Grindelwald, Switzerland !W Veteran mountain rescuers crawled to the summit of "Death Mountain" Saturday, and lower ed an Alpinist to a point within 100 feet of four trapped climb ers. Three of them were clinging to a sheer wall, the fourth was dangling by a rope over a two-mile-deep chasm. A radio report from the ad vance rescue camp atop treach erous 13.038-foot Mt. Eiger said Robert Seiger of Switzerland was lowered down the face of the ice-coated north wall but swung too far to the east of the men, who have been there since Wednesday.' Receives No Reply "He saw one o fthe men at a distance of SO to 100 feet and uomerence uommsttee approves Funds for Talent Project Friday SMOKING RESTAURANT Smoke engulfed Damage to roof and ceiling was estimated at part of a fire department qrew . battling ' $2,000, according to reports. A' neon connec flames from the roof of Kim's restaurant at tion is said tp have ignited a ceiling joist and . 2321 South Pacific highway Friday night. flames extended into wall, firemen said. Kim's, Grand Hotel Damaged by Firep '"Fires 'which damaeed Kim's restaurant, 2321 South Pacific highway, and the Grand hotel, 202 North Front st., were extin guished by Medford firemen Fri day evening. - An estimated $2,000 damage was caused the roof and' ceiling joists at Kim's when a neon con nection in an outdoor sign ignit ed a ceiling joist and .flames ex-i tended into the iwali, firemen; reported. The restaurant will remain oDen as usual, according to Hen ry Fong, owner-manager. A general alarm about i.m. broueht firemen to the Grand hotel after storage in a back room caught fire. Spontan eous combustion was believed the cause, according to firemen. Damage resulted to a wall, they said. Plates, Silverware Taken from Grange - Burglars took cups, plates and silverware valued about $ 1 0 P 1 from the Upper Applegate Grange sometime last week, Grange officials reported yester day. : Sheriff's deputies are investi gating the theft of 40 green plas tic cups, a number of matching plates and 39 stainless steel knives, 58 forks and 56 spoons. The items were recently pur chased by the Grange. Entrance to the newly built hall was made by forcing open a door, according to Mrs. Hugh Scoville, chaplin. The new struc ture near the Little Applegate bridge replaces the old Grange; building at McKee bridge, which was destroyed by fire. shouted in his direction but re ceived no reply,'" the rescuers reported from their perch 900 feet above the four exhausted German and Italian climbers. Six . daredevil mountaineers inched to the top of the peak in the afternoon and another 24 men later reached the top to join them. All four trapped climbers are believed to be alive but exhaust ed. They have been on the sui cidal mountain for a week from the time they started out to con quer the snow and ice-capped peak. The four could be seen through .binoculars, the three men on the ledge moved occa sionally and the man hanging from the rope waved his arms feebly a few times before dark ... ..'mmJL. -hr Hearings Set ori Rate iTiirese by Utilities Company Hearings concerning a request from the California-Pacific Util ities company to raise rates in southern Oregon have been set by the Public Utility Commis sioner of Oregon, it was an nounced yesterday. The company filed its revised rates schedules v with ;the PUC April 29. , Application of the prdposed schedule would result in an in crease in operating revenues to the company of approximately $123,166 annually according to Commissioner Howard Morgan, and would mean an increase in rates to all customers receiving gas service in its southern Ore gon division Suspended Filings The commissioner, "being of the opinion that the Revisions should be suspended, pending -Investigation and hearing," issued an order May 29 which suspend ed the filings for a period not to exceed six months. Hearings are scheduled for Medford city hall Wednesday, Aug.- 21. 3 p.m.; Klamath Falls city hall, Aug. 22, 10 a.m.; and Roseburg police and fire station, Aug. 21, 8:20 a.m. Morgan announced ' that the California Pacific Utilities com pany "shall appear and bear the burden of showing that the tar- Bahrein, Persian Gulf (lf RAF bombers and jet fighters rained fragmentation bombs, cannon fire and rockets on sur- prisinglystrong rebel forces Sat urday to breathe life into a stal led British ground offensive in this steaming Arabian sultanate. ness blotted them from view. The mountaineers above them made camp for the night and planned an all-out rescue effort witht he dawn. Authorities a t Grindewald said the rescuers would have to wait for additional mountaineers bringing equipment before at tempting to remove the climbers from their perilous perch. Al pinists bringing up the rescue gear had to turn back when they were unable to clamber up a dangerous ascent. The men in the column backtracked and be gan the climb from a different direction. The plan is to lower rescuers by steel cables down the sheer rock and ice wall on the north slope of Eiger to haul up the climbers. iff proposed to be established, or increased, or cnanged, is just and reasonable, and that after such hearing the commissioner shall issue such order, or orders, as shall be justified by the faicts de termined." - . Medford Woman Dies of Injuries Mrs. Violet Zamrzla, 38, of 263 Mace rd., Medford, died Satur day afternoon in a Medford hos pital of injuries suffered Friday morning in a traffic accident at the intersection of Crater Lake highway and-Delta Waters rd., it was reported yesterday. She was the county's 18th traffic victim sinceiSJan. 1. Medford police, iwho investi gated the accident, said Mrs. Zamrzla suffered the fatal inju ries in a collision involving the car she was operating and one driven by Gerald Richard Gould, 21, of 171 Granite st., Ashland. . Survivors i n c 1 u d,e Jier hus band, Joseph L. Zamrzla. Funer al arrangements will be announc ed by Conger-Morris ' Funeral home. . Irish Nationalists Fire on Police Station Belfast, Northern Ireland (W Irish Nationalist outlaws raked a Northern Irish police station with machine gun fire Saturday and were reported to have bomb ed a border customs post in a fresh outbreak of anti-British vi olence. Extremists attacked the nolice station at Swateragh in County Londonderry and shattered win dows With machine gun slugs. Pnlire rpttirneri -the fire from be hind sand-bag defenses. The reb els fled. No casualties were re ported. Weather FORECAST: Sliihtly clondy i rool thronth Monday. High Sunday 78. Low Monday morning SO.- High Monday s. ... TEMP. , ' ffichrst Saturday 7 Lowest this Saturday 53 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:13 a.m. Sunset 7:19 p.m. Moon rise 7:35 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in west S:08 p.m. Jupiter, low In west 8:34 pjn.. Saturn, low in south west . 10:22 p.m. tonight beEini an eastward movement among the stars that will continue until next April. $6,041,000 Listed In Appropriation For Public Works Other Projects in Oregon Also Named Washineton (IP) Tht Talpnt nroiect has hppn inrlnriprf in the compromise public works appropriation bill approved by the House - Senate conference committee for western states Friday night. The conference committee listed $6,041,000 for the project in the bill for the fiscal year. The first three of the 25 seg ments of the $21 million project are now under ennstmrtinn in the Cascade mountains about 20 miles southeast of Ashland. Howard Prairie Dam Among them is the $1,074,000 Howard Prairie dam, one of the , major "project items" in the Talent project. Construction of the earthfill dam is expected to be completed this. fall. fThe structure will be 8 feet high and 1,000 feet long It the crest, -witn a concrete core, and will dam the Howard Prairie reservoir. The lake will be five mues long, 80 feet deep and 2,500 acres in area.. It will be ready for use in the summer of iaoa. The same water will flow through man-madp ranalc nn. duits and tunnels through the cascade divide to the westward slope of the Green Springs pass. Here it will plunge down into a powerhouse, where it will gen erate about 16,000 kilowatts of electricity. - Supplement Supply From -the -powerhouse,-, tha water,- supplemented by other creeks and' canals, will flow into Emigrant lake reservoir. Chan neled through the canal systems of an expanded Talent Irri district, it will provide water lor farm land. It will supple ment the water supply of two other irrication districts in th Bear Creek drainage. Other proiects lister! in Oro. Bon for the bureau of rpplama. mation. include: Crooked iiver. Sfisn nnn an Wapinitia, $400,000. Other public works Inhs Hstprl in Oregon are Amazon ' creek, $446,000: Chetco rivpr S5nn. 000; Columbia river mouth (Ore gon and Washington), $1,150, 000; Cougar reservoir, $6,570, 000; Hills creek reservoir, $4, 800,000; Lower Columbia im provement, Multnomah Drain- ' age District 1. S5nn nnn- Pnriio. ton, $400,000; Dalles dam, Ore gon and Washington, $19,000,. 000; Willamette river bank pro tection, 54DU,UUU. Senate Passes Bill On River Compact Washington (id The Senate Friday night passed a bill grant ing consent of Congress to the Klamath River Basin compact Between Oregon and California. Sens. Neuberger of Oregon and Kuchel of California joined in urging favorable action. Neuber ger said the next step was leg islation to safeguard Klamath Indian pine timber and marsh land where the Klamath river rises. He said power on the river would be developed under the compact by the California Ore gon Power company. The Oregon senator said the bill also would be useful in safe guarding waterfowl refuges in the basin. Power Production Faces Critical Stage Portland W Pacific North west power production is facing critical stream flows nearly a month earlier than usual due to early runoff in the Columbia riv er basin coupled with compara tively light summer rainfall, ac cording to William A. Pearl, Bonneville Power administrator. The only major storage proj ect where water is still going over the spillway is Grand Cou lee dam. Pearl said here Friday. "General , region - wide rains hold the key to the fall power outlook as the U. S. Columbia river power system enters the annual low water, period be tween the end of the spring run off and the usual fall rains," ha said.