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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.