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o o o e o o 52nd Year Med UniUd Pre. Full Leased Wir- 23 Pages j' s MX L 'fO&C s- Ok. - . ik,riu54L. ADDING FINAL DECORATIONS Frank Kennedy adds final bunting to his booth before the opening of the annual Town and Country Show this evening. The show will open at a special ribbon cutting at 5:30 p.m. today. The show will open at 5:30 p.m. Friday and at noon on Saturday and Sunday. No Opposition Heard On Proposed, Rates No opposition to gas rate in creases requested by California- Pacific Utilities company was heard at a short hearing held before an examiner of the Pub lic Utilities Commission here last evening. Arthur Wilson, hydraulic and gas engineer for the commission, was examiner. Three hearings were to be held in the state on a request ed rate increase of about 10 per cent on low pressure main gas service to southern Oregon. California-Pacific petitioned for the rate rise April 29. Hearings were held yesterday in Roseburg and Medford. The last was scheduled for Klamath Falls this morning. California-Pacific attorney, Ed win L. Graham, briefly review ed direct testimony taken from company officials at the Rose burg hearing. " Graham said the ' company" '3e-' sires higher rates on main gas service to general commercial, general residential, and special industrial customers. The rates would not affect "tank" or bot tled" gas. Customers affected are in Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, Med ford, Klamath Falls, Grants Pass and Roseburg. If approved by the PUC, monthly gas bills will be up about 9 per cent for the av erage general residential, 10 per cent for the average commer cial, and 11 per cent for the average special industrial cus tomer. A total of 6,088 customers are involved. In the Medford-Phoe- nix area, that includes 1,547 res idential, 372 commercial and 5 industrial. , Graham said "increases in gen eral operating expenses," both known and anticipated, motivate the desire for higher rates. The company is paying, or ex pects to pay more for gas at the source of supply, higher freight charges, labor costs, taxes, and insurance rates, Graham stated. "To compete in the money markets with unregulated indus tries and other utilities," and to expand services to increased pop ulations in southern Oregon, Cal ifornia-Pacific figures it will need a 6.6 per cent rate of re turn, or profit, on invested cap ital. Local Woman Recovers from Crash Mrs. Gilbert Copenhaver, 906 South Peach st., Medford. is convalescing at the Portland Sanitarium and hospital, 932 Southeast 60th ave., from injur ies received in a three-car acci dent in Portland Aug. 14. Mrs. Copenhaver, who is re ported in good condition, suf fered an injured right wrist and a broken left arm in the acci dent. , Gilbert Copenhaver is em ployed wiih the Bureau of Rec lamation at Camp White. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 2 9 1 ..New York 610 3.. Droit Anderson (5). Pohol sky (7). and Neeman: Crone. Constable (8(, qissom. (8) and Thomas. Home runs: Mays. New York; Sauer, New York. AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 11 14 1 3 8 1 Cleveland Fornieles and Daley: Wynn. Daley (6), Tomanek (9) and Nixon. Home run: Jensen, Boloru FORD In the past few years of "in flation," Graham stated, the rate of return has slipped to 4.4 per cent. If proposed rates are approved the company will add $123,166 annually to operating revenue. At yesterday's Medford hear ing, Wilson briefly cross-examined D. J. Ley, vice-president and treasurer, and L. E. Cooper, vice-president, of California-Pacific. An accounting report of the southern Oregon division of the company, prepared by the PUC for the period March 1, 1956 to March 1, 1957, was to be given at the hearing in Klamath Falls today. , Accompanying Wilson in the three hearings are Robert Un ruh, commission auditor, and John Cain, reporter. Living CosirRisr To All-Time High, Bureau Reports Washington (IP) The cost of living rose to an all-time high in July, the bureau of labor sta tistics reported today.' This was the 11th consecutive monthly increase. The July advance was one-half of 1 per cent. ' The bureau said substantial advances in food prices and in the "other goods and services" group were the principal causes of the rise. All major groups ex cept housing and apparel ad vanced. Food Priees 1 Food prices rose 1 per cent during the month, reaching a new all-time high. Food prices now are seven-tenths of 1 per cent above the previous record peak of August 1952, and 2.3 per cent above the level a year ago. The living cost increase means that about 1,300,000 workers un der labor contracts containing es calator clauses will get wage in creases ranging from one cent to six cents and hour. These in creases are based on the cost of living index. The bureau said the bluk of the workers will get in creases of about three cents an hour. Wage increases will go to the workers in the automobile in dustry, farm equipment, electric al appliances, particularly West inghouse, local transit, metal work, and trucking, the bureau said. borne ot the increases are based on quarterly adjustments and some on six-month adjust ments. The cost of living index for July rose to 120.8 per cent of av erage 1947-49 prices. The July index was 3.2 per cent higher than for July" 1956. Federal Agencies Have Spent 10 Years, $10 Million Oh Artificial Rainmaking Washington (IP) Is artific ial rainmaking a costly boon doggle or a scientifically sound approach to the problem of in creasing water supply? Federal government agencies have spent 10 years and 10 mil lion dollars trying to answer that question. As of today, they have reached the following con clusions: " Cloud-seeding seems to pro duce significant increases in rain and snowfall over, moun tainous areas in cold weather. But there is no convincing evi dence that it does any good over flat country. Artificial rainmaking is not MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1957 Dike veoru les Peffemise Advisers In Test Contract Accepted By Wood Workers And Strike Halted Pickets Still Set On King Trucking The membership of Local un ion 6-221, Butte Falls, of In ternational Wood Workers of America, voted last night to ac cept the Medford Corporation's contract proposal, it was report ed this morning. This will extend the present contract until June 1, 1958, and ends the strike called earlier. An exception to the contract is the local's demand for a study of the woods mechanics job rates. This question is to be left open for negotiation until Sept. 23 of this year. "We still have an unfair la bor practices charge pending be fore the National .Labor Rela tions Board," B. L. (Bud) Nut ting, general manager of Medco, said this morning. "This alleges an illegal secondary boycott. Meanwhile, the Austin , L. King Trucking company is still picketed. Temporary Settlement A temporary settlement wa reached Aug. 6 in the union's strike against Medco. The agree ment came as a Federal court hearing was being conducted into charges that the union was engaging in a secondary boy cott against the local company. Federal Judge William East granted the temporary injunc-' to' remain irt effect until Fri day. If the dispute had not been settled the union was authorized to call a meeting of its member ship to determine whether fhe strike should be pursued. . The union agreed during the period of the temporary injunc tion to place not more than two pickets against King in an area agreed upon by the union and Medco. The union also -agreed not to picket King elsewhere in the Medco logging area.- A provision of the stipulation says it is understood that the union does not admit any of the allegations in the NLRB peti tion or that it committed any unfair labor practice. Work To Commence On Shopping Area Work on a 28.3 acre shopping center, on Jackson st. between Biddle rd. and Hawthorne st., will begin about Sept. 1, it was reported today. J. A. McClellan, chief develop er of the shopping center, which will include a new Sears Roe buck and company store, a Safe way store, and others, said this morning one piece of heavy equipment has arrived, two more will arrive next week, and that it is expected ground will be broken about the first of the month. . . The $114 million center may be completed next year, although McClellan said a defi nite completion date cannot be set until a couple of more leases have been sighed. But he added that the work will be pushed as rapidly as possible.. The center will be located on property formerly owned by Dr. I. D. Phipps. It recently was an nexed to the city, and rezoned to "limited commercial" to per mit construction of the center. a cure for general drought con ditions such as those now pre vailing in the Great Plains and along the Eastern Seaboard. Hot, dry areas which need rainfall most are precisely the areas in which cloud-seeding has the least effect. In the long run, cloud-seeding may prove to be more val uable for other "weather modifi cation" purposes' than for rain making. Some experiments in dicate it can be used, under the right local circumstances, to suppress hail and lightning, or to dissipate fog over airports. There is a possibility still technical that it can.be used August, Differences Have Not Handicapped Solons, Neuberger Declares BY A. ROBERT SMITH Washington (Special) Sena tor Richard L,. Neuberger said Thursday JUiat disaeemcne tween.' himseif and Senator Wayne Morse have not handi capped them in obtaining more worthwhile projects for Oregon against administration opposi tion" than an "two senators in the entire history of our state." Neuberger in a public .state ment,, confirmed that he and Morse had recent disagreement over such matters as "our per sonal attitude toward President Eisenhower and concerning var ious issues of foreign policy and civil rights." Partisan Politicians "But," he said, "certain parti san policitians in Oregon (who) are shedding crocodile tears over the fact that Senator Morse and I have disagreed recently" need only review their record in con gress to be assured that "we can disagree. . .and yet team in har ness for the benefit of Oregon." An aide to the Senator indi cated Neuberger was referring to Philip S Hitchcock who re cently cited reports of Morse Neuberger disagreements a s cause for alarm for the welfare of Oregon. Morse has called such reports "nonsense" but neither senator has denied the facts of the reports that Morse had ac cused Neuberger of making a "snide attack on me" 'and Neu berger said he was "disillusion ed" with Morse. Cites Achievements Neuberger cited the following achievements in which he and Morse were teamed and over came . administration opposition: Getting construction funds to start John Day, Cougar and Hills Creek dams;' planning funds for Holley, Fall Creek and Green Peter dams; funds to deepen the entrance to the Columbia river for safer navigation; funds to construct the Charleston boat harbor at Coos Bay, the Tilla mook Bay project and the Skip anon boat basin at Warrenton; 50 per cent increase in funds for Willamette river bank protec tion; plus authorization of two to break up the kind of storm that spawns tornadoes. These conclusions represent the present area of agreement between the U. S. Weather Bur eau, which is frankly skeptical about rainmaking, and President Eisenhower's Advisory commit tee on Weather Control, which is more enthusiastic about the possibilities. Officials of both agencies em phasized in interviews that man's ability to tamper with the wea ther is still very limited. There is no scientific basis at present for believing it will ever be possible to produce major chang es in climate over a large area through cloud-seeding. Tribune 1957 new irrigation projects, Crooked River and Wapanitia. "We obtained most of these urgently-needed projects under JfJ.bAaWfafiloutstan(iiivg-4ade- ship of Senator Morse," stated Neuberger. "If various Oregon political opportunists will spend their time trying to win adminis tration support for public works like these which Senator Morse and I have gained for our state, they will be better occupied than in hypocritical lamentations. The two Oregon senators are not carbon copies of each other. But when the welfare of Oregon is at stake the record speaks for it self as to our teamwork and mu tual effectiveness." Senate Group Kills Billboard Control Washington Sen. Richard L. Neuberger's bill to control billboard advertising on the fed eral superhighway system was killed by a Senate committee yesterday. In a 7 to 6 vote, the commit tee on public works decided to place no federal control at all on billboards along the 41,000 miles of freeways to be con structed over the next ten years, 90 per cent from federal funds. Supporting the bill were con servationists, motorist organiza tions and outdoor groups, and fighting it were the outdoor advertising industry and many roadside businesses. The vote climaxed a long fight in ' the Senate over the proposal. The bill which was killed, a watered-down version of the original, would have given the states a bonus in federal money for agreements to regulate bill boards along the federal sys tem. " Attendance Record Set at Festival Ashland A new attendance record was established last night at the Oregon Shakespear ean Festival here when 1,133 patrons received tickets from the box office, Bill Patton, gen eral manager, said today. The previous record, set Aug. 17, was 1,117 persons. There are 1,039 seats in the theater, Pat ton said. The play at which at tendance record was establish ed was "As You Like It." As of Wednesday, attendance showed an 18.6 per cent increase over last year, Patton said, and advance ticket sales for the re mainder of the season have in creased to 24.2 per cent more than advance sales last year. Oakridge, Ore. (IB Memo rial rites were held here today for Burley Isaacs, 44, and Rob ert V. Anderson, 34, victims of a rockslide last Thursday on Buckhorn mountain north of Westfir, Ore. Price 10 United Press Full Leased Wire No. 132 Man Offer Amounts to Calculated Gamble To Determine Hope Proposal Introduced In Talks Wednesday London (IP) President Ei senhower overruled defense ad visers and the Western allies in offering Russia a two-year halt in nuclear tests, authoritative sources said today. They said the conditional of fer, made Wednesday at the Lon don disarmament conference, amounts to a calculated Ameri can gamble to determine if there is any hope at all of a first step toward disarmament. The stakes are high two full years of the West's current nuclear advantage put up against the hope that Russia really means business in its discussions here. Introduced Wednesday The American proposal was in troduced in the London confer ence Wednesday immediately after Soviet ' Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin attack ed the old western offer. He particularly condemned the previously offered 10-month test suspension and the idea that test suspension should be linked to any other disarmament mea sures. After the new offer was made, Zorin said it was "unfortunate" that the other disarmament con ditions remain attached. But he said he was '.'gratified", that the .West WatcepiedUe.Sov.iet-. de mand' for a minimum of two years suspension and promised the offer would be carefully studied by the Soviet Union. He asked for it in writing. Some ' observers interpreted Zorin's preceding speech ' as a sign the offer would be rejected. U. S. delegate Harold 2. Stassen, however, was reported to con sider that Zorin was merely re peating the party line. In any . case, no definite Rus sian reply was expected for sev eral weeks. Zorin never moves without advance instructions from the Kremlin. Eisenhower sided with dis armament delegate Harold Stas sen against top defense depart ment and Atomic Energy com mission advisers in authorizing the drastic concession to Russia, the sources said. Defense officials had publicly warned that even the old West ern offer of a 10-month truce might disperse the U.S. nuclear weapons team. They told the President that continued test ing might produce( an almost to tally "clean" hydrogen bomt one with no dangerous radioac tive fallout. Authoritative sources said that Stassen and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had to sell the proposal to Britain and France after Eisenhower decided to act at the end of a closely guarded two-month administra tion debate. Highway Department -. Gets Electronic Brain Salem (IP) Oregon's great ly expanded highway construc tion program got an assist from science today with dedication of a new electronic brain in the state highway department. The brain, built by Interna tional Business Machines, will take over much of the complex mathematical figuring involved in building new highways and repairing old ones. Senators Say May Get About $3 Billion Washington (IP) Two key senators predicted today that the Senate would approve a foreign aid appropriation of about three billion dollars. The two were Senate Repub lican Leader William F. Know land, who wants the Senate to vote more than the $2,500,000, 000 approved by the House, and Sen. Allen J. 'Ellender (D-La.), who believes the House figure is high enough. Both are members of the Sen ate Appropriations committee, which probably will not act on the House-approved bill until next Monday. Knowland told reporters he expected the Senate to accept a total "in the neighborhood of New Study Sets Eventual Total . f School Pu An eventual maximum en rollment of 1,600 students was set for Mecftord Senior High school at a special meeting of the Board of Education yester day, according to Mrs. Steve M. Nye, chairman. The figure was established after a three-week coasideration of a survey of high school fa cilities and requirements made by the Bureau of Educational Research, University of Oregon. The study, first in the state made by the newly organized university bureau, "confirmed and supplemented" previous studies made by the local board, Mrs. Nye said. To increase utilization of av ailable space, the board auth orized school officials to be gin organizing a seven-period academic day for use beginning 1958-59. Add Period A six-period day is used now. Adding a seventh period would increase utilization of space by one-sixth. The board also asked officials to study plans for providing space to meet needs in fields of science, commerce, homemak- ing, industrial arts, art and phys ical education. A contract was authorized for Freeman, Hayslip and Hewlitt, architects of Portland, to begin preliminary plans and recom mendations for "altering and renovating" the existing high school building to meet needs of anticipated enrollment by 1958-59. Other Architects Other architects are already developing plans for added el ementary school facilities. Jack A. Edson, Medford, is working on a planned grade school in southeast Medford on site at the end of Siskiyou blvd.. Wayne Struble, in charge of the Medford office, James L. Payne, architects,, is developing plans for a future grade school at a Grand ave.-Corona ave. site. The board will wait until en rollment figures for the '1957- 58 school year are in this fall, then take immediate 3teps ' to Pedestrian Fatality Is Third Death In Medford This Year James Alfred McKitrick, 84, of 819 North Riverside ave., apartment 3, was killed about 8:50 a.m. today in Medford's third traffic fatality of the year, and Jackson county's 19th. McKitrick was struck by a car while walking east on Main st. across the south intersection of Fir st. Mrs. Eunice Fisher, 73, of Stockton, Calif., wa"s driv ing the auto north on Fir st. City police said Mrs. Fisher had purchased the 1951 model car from a private party about 5 or 10 minutes before the ac cident. The victim was hit by the auto's right front fender. Wit nesses estimated the speed of the car between 5 and 10 miles per hour. t McKitrick was dead upon ar rival at a hospital. The body was taken to Conger-Morris Funeral home. Mrs. Fisher was taken by police to the home of ' Edward Zander, Central Point city policeman, where she has been staying the past few days. A Medford physician was called to treat her for shock. ' Further investigation is being made, officers said. Police said Mrs. Fisher was involved in a minor traffic ac cident in Central Point several days ago. She sold the car she was driving then, and had just purchased another this morning. She had been visiting rela tives in Portland and intended to return to Stockton soon, police reported. Since her Central Point mis hap, Mrs. Fisher has been stay ing at the Zander home. Foreign Aid three 'billion dollars" but that it was too early for a more def inite estimate. President Eisen hower appealed to the Senate Wednesday to "put back every cent" of the full $3,367,000,000 program. Ellender said he expected the Senate to approve no more than three billion dollars. He fore saw a final figure of about $2, 750,000,000 after the Senate ver sion had been ' reconciled with the House bill by a joint con ference committee. The President also had at least the partial support of Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.), who said he would vote some increase over the House-approved figure. pils provide whatever additional fa cilities are warranted, Mrs. Nye said. A bond issue will be prepared to finance the moves. Study Includes Included in the university bu reau's study are: enrollment trends, enrollment forcasts, ca pacity of the senior high school. patterns of enrollment in areas of the curriculum, teacher sta tions necessary to accommodate the enrollment, and conclusions and recommendations. Conclusions and recommenda tions made in the study are: 1. "It seems reasonable to as sume that the enrollment of Medford Senior High school will reach 1,200 by 1958, 1,300 by 1962, and 1,500 by 1963 or 1964. It will probably be between 1, 500 and 1,600 in 1966, if cur rent trends continue. Population Trends 1 2. "Current upward trends in population and enrollment will continue, although economic con ditions in the area are such that a levelling off is possible." 3. "It might be desirable to stimulate a larger percentage of students to take vocational and pre-vocational courses. A study of skilled occupations" in the Medford area is now being made by the department of vocational education of the state board of education. Results of this should be carefully considered in order to determine the nature of the vocational program which can reasonably be offered in the schools." EmphisU Needed , 4. "Probably additional em phasis needs to be placed upon the education of exceptional children, particularly of the gifted and the slow learners. Medford Senior High school ap pears to have a good program in remedial education. It is prob able, however, that the upper 20 per cent and the lower 20 per cent need some special cur ricular adjustments." 5. "Junior and senior science courses could reasonably have a larger percentage of enrollment than currently. It would appear to be advisable to develop some non-technical science course' be yond the sopnomore " year to provide more adequately for the science training needed by the non-college preparatory stu dents." - 6. "It would appear to be de sirable to develop senior mathe matics courses which for some would look toward the intro ductory calculus taught . in the first vear of college and which for others would be an intensive review of arithmetic fundament als and application." ' . 7. "A fully developed guid ance program has not been ef fected in the high school." An Analysis 8. "An analysis of the capac ity of the present senior high school building shows that even if no changes in enrollment were to occur, certain improvements would be desirable. Science fa cilities are not adequate, the boys' dressing rooms present a potential health hazard and are inadequate for the number of students who use them; the art room is limited in capacity and restricts the potential for de veloping the well-rounded pro gram which a school of this size warrants. - "The girls' physical education facilities are over-crowded for 1,000 students and additional teacher stations must be pro vided before an adequate pro gram can be developed. Shop facilities ' limit the enrollment and are not as inclusive as might be desired. The cafeteria is hard ly adequate for the present en rollment and additional seating space, serving windows, and food preparation areas are neces sary to accommodate an enroll ment of 1,200." 9. "Existing facilities can be used without much if any loss of effectiveness by the extension of the school day from six to seven periods and if medium project ion of enrollment holds true, ad ditional facilities (another high school) will not be required until after 1965. "As enrollment approaches 1.800 and as a total enrollment of 2,000 or more becomes a def inite reality, the district will probably find its most economi cal and efficient to operate two separate school plants." Weather FORECAST: Fair and warm tonight and Friday. Some aft ernoon cloudiness over moun tains. Low tonight 52. High Fri day 88-90. TEMPERATURE ' Highest Yesterday SO Lowest this Morning 54 Sunrise St2S a.m. Sunset 7:02 p.m. Our Skies'Tonight Moonrlse Friday 3:21 .m. New Moon Aug. 25 PROMINENT STARS Vega, high overhead 8:41 p.m. The Twins, above the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus and Jupiter, low In west 7:53 -p.m. Saturn, low tn southwest.
