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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1957
No. 122
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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.