Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 25, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text52nd Year Recommended A feature story on the an niversary of the National Park service, and the two national parka In southern Orcion, ap pears on pane 1 of today's Mall Tribune. Price 10 Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune In Med ford phone SP 2-6141, Ashland MU 3-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m daily and 1030 a.m Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. Medford 1RIBUNE U"itd Pri ull Leased Wir United Press Full Leased Wire 64 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1957 No. 134 V . " iV -,- - '" i 1 f 1! tfJ 12 Hl JV 4 :J v 1 r , , I r.v $ & 1 if o w ;VA J 3 V. V - . .. , TAKEN FROM MEDFORD ARRESTS Med ford City Patrolman Gene DePay points out a few of the many weapons taken during ar rests made in Medford over the past few Town Country Show Goes Into The first annual Town and Country Holiday shows swings into its final day of activities to day when the doors of the new Medford Armory open at noon Booths exhibiting products. displays of hobbies, all types of food, free samples, a stage show arfd several other activities are included in the show. Eddie Peabody, "King of the Banjo," heads the list of enter tainers featured in two shows this afternoon. Local amateur entertainers will wind' up their competition for . a . chance to compete at the Oregon State fair. . Crowd Estimated Russ Jamison, the holiday show's program chairman, esti mates the opening night crowd at 1,250 and Friday evening's attendance at 1,500. He, praised the "community participation" that the show has brought .the Rogue Valley area. Only people in the Medford area are running the show and taking part in it, he added. A portion of the area in front of the armory contains a num ber of new cars, trucks, farm equipment and other displays too large to house in the Ar mory proper. The show, -which Kiwanis club members, hope will be- Mismanagement Is Admitted by U. S. Washington HJI The defense department Saturday admitted wholesale mismangement and waste of supplies at Harmon Air Rorce base in Newfoundland. Chairman John L. .McClellan of of the Senate Investigating subcommittee said he will hold hearings on the case despite yes terday's frank public admissions by Assistant Secretary of De fense Perkins McGuire.. McClellan said the hearings would go into handling of mil lions of dollars worth of sup plies at bases in Greenland, Lab sador and Newfoundland. Sports Bulletins Portland itn The Metro politan All-stars upset a fav ored Stat squad 28-7 in the 10th annual Shrine Oregon All-star football gam in Mult nomah stadium her last night. Metro wasted littl time in scoring as they look the open ing kickoif and traveled 70 yards in 12 plays to push over the first touchdown with 6 minutes. 33 seconds left in the period. Medford's Dick Copple, end. kicked th conversion after Stats's Gary Grill of Albany scored their only points in th first quarter. Seattle HP Th Port land Beavers cam up with a singl run in th top of th tenth inning to edge Seattle. 3-2. in a Pacific Coast league series' opener here last night. Sacramento Itn Veter an first baseman Frank Kel-2-rt slammed out two homers for three runs last night to lead San rancisco to a smoth ering 10-4 win over Sacra mento in a Pacific t Coast League gam. Final Day come an annual event to help raise funds for the organiza tion's charitable programs, was held in conjunction with . the Jackson county 4-H and Future Farmers of America fair. The fair, which started Tuesday, ended yesterday at the fair ground adjacent to the new Armory grounds. Land Exchange Is Near Completion- The exchange of land between the water department and the Mont Crest Development' com pany for location of a 450,000 gallon water standpipe is now in final stages, according to Rob ert L. Lee, city water, superin tendent. All work on the city section of the agreement is 'complete and the only remaining thing is signing deeds by the develop ment company. The land involv ed is a 130 by 180 foot section on Black Oak dr. and Neito way owned by the city and a 'section 90 by 150 feet owned by the company. ....... Date of construction , of the standpipe will be ruled 'by'the starting date for Rogue Valley manor, a proposed .retirement home. The pipe must be com plete before manor construction can start, according .to Lee. A booster pump will be used to get water to the big SO foot diameter by 30 foot high stand pipe on the crest of Barneburg hill. Development Plans For PI Area Told Portland IP Pl,ans .for de velopment of the Pacific Inter national Livestock Exposition building and 54 surrounding acres into a "wonderland of ex hibits for Oregon's 1959 centen nial were announced Saturday." Anthony Brandenthaier; chair man of the governor's nine-man centennial commission,- said the terms had been accepted for a two-year lease for the PI- build ing which would give the com mission rent-free use' of the 400,000 square-foot building. The use will be in return for major interior and exterior' renovation planned by the commission to adapt the building to centennial use. - - Major construction- n the PI building and improvement of surrounding areas .will . start shortly after next Jan. 1. Oregon's centennial exposi tion and international trade fair is planned to run from June 10 to October 10, 1959. It is hoped that some five million persons will attend. Coqu7e Bride Killed 4 In Accident Friday Coquille tP Mrs. Charles Edward Reed, 18,' Coquille, a bride of three weeks, was kill ed Friday afternoon when a car in which she was riding struck a bridge and she was thrown into the Coquille river, striking her head on a rock. ' . Mrs. Reed was a passenger in a convertible driven by Clare raont . Matthew Hannevold. There were three other passeng ers in the car, Reed; Darvin Teper and Mrs. Hannevold. years. The police booth is one. of several at the annual Town and Country Holiday show at the National Guard armory. Today is the last day of the show which will open at noon. Petitions Filed Seeking Change in Ordinance Proposal Petitions filed with the coun ty court riday brought to 266 the number of -names on peti tions requesting revision of the proposed county subdivision ordinance. Two petitions bearing a total of 210 names were given the court Friday. A previous peti tion with 56 names was filed Aug. 15. , .,; Pe-ifeonerj. .ak. Jliat the pro- posed ordinance be changed to permit small land owners t6T"uel"Vuu8e- DUt " ne ""P00 sell land or develop it for build ing. They ask: . - , ,. Deletion of sections requiring subdividers to complete and pay for all improvement work and requiring filing of performance bonds for cost of improvements. Modifications of sections de fipihg "minor subdivision" to exclude landowners dealing with fewer than four parcels of less than five acres each. Revision of requirements for maps for subdivisions to mini mize the' expense of obtaining planning commission approval prior to sale or development. The petitions claim that the proposed regulations are "un necessarily restrictive of build ing development and oppressive and discriminatory to owners of small 'and medium sized tracts of land and small businesssien." President Flies Plane To Gettysburg Farm Gettysburg, Pa. IW Pres ident Eisenhower took the con trols and piloted his light plane Saturday' during a flight from Washington to his Pennsylvania farm. He is believed to be the first president to do so. , Eisenhower qualified as a pilot about 20 years ago when he was an army officer station ed in the Philippines, but he has not flown a plane for years. ' Jerusalem, Israel (ffl Jordanian marauders shot and killed two Israeli civilian watchmen , Friday night at a settlement 20 miles southwest of Jerusalem, it was announced last night. Truman Says Middle By HARRY North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Cfpyricht, 1957, by Harry g. Truman (Reproduction of this -article in whole or in part is forbidden without written authorization.) . The new crisis in the Middle East brought on by what is happening now in Syria was clearly foreseeable, and therefore shocking and disturbing, because stop it The events in Syria, together with the second rearming of Egypt by Russia, threaten the security of our friends and Allies, and, consequently, our own security is endangered. - Itis my opinion that all this Communist subversion in that strategic area could have been stopped if the United States had taken the necessary action, and it should have been stopped. There is still time to check this Russian threat to the free world, if we act vigoriusly with full understanding of the many factors involved and in close coordination with our Allies. A policy of "wait and see" in the conduct of foreign affairs, where survival may be at stake, is perilous. Nothing Mora Misleading There can be nothing more misleading than reliance upon a "Doctrine" behind which there is hestitancy to invoke leadership until help is requested by the victim. Events may move so swiftly that the victim is likely to be turned into a satellite through sub version or by a sudden coup. A doctrine can be effective only as the leadership behind it is decisive and ready to back up w hen the Monroe Doctrine was knew that the Doctrine would have been hollow indeed if it had not been for the assurance of British naval support to make it 1 immediately eifectiv. Southern Senators Abandon Filibuster Threat on Rights Clears Way for Bill Sometime This Week Washington iff! Southern senators abandoned filibuster threats Saturday, clearing - the way for enactment this week of the first civil rights bill in 82 years, The decision virtually assured early adjournment of Congress, probably some time this week. Only a House-Senate com promise on the size of the for eign aid appropriation and a possible 11th hour drive for a bill protecting the secrecy of FBI files stand between Con gress and a holiday. President Eisenhower's talk of calling a special session this fall to increase the foreign aid appropriation was being taken with little seriousness on Cap itol Hill. Twelve southern senators, headed by Sen. Fiichard B. Rus sell, (D-Ga.) met behind closed doors this morning and apparent ly conceded defeat in their bat tle against passage of any civil rights legislation. They -already had won major changes in the original adminis tration bill. Russell told newsmen after the meeting that while the Dixie senators remained "unalterably opposed to the so-called leader- sip compromise on the heavily amended bill, there was no col lective agreement ... to talk this -proposition to death. He referred to a Democratic- Republican agreement reached by the two parties' leaders Fri day on a compromise jury trail provision, it guarantees a jury trial to defendants in major criminal contempt of court cases arising out of violation of court injunctions to protect voting rights, Minor contempt cases dealing with denial of voting rights could be tried with or without f- Jry ; ue. aiscreuon ol . a a penalty higher than 45 days in jail or a $300 fine, the de fendant 'could demand a new trial, this time with a jury. In a jury trial, his penalty- could be as severe as six months in jail and -a $1,000 fine. , Russell said the southern bloc considers this compromise pro vision clearly unconstitutional." He predicted it would be fought out in the courts if it became law. Transport limps ; Back to San Diego San Diego, Calif. 0ft The Navy transport U.S.S. Wantuck, which lost "a man in a collision with another transport while maneuvering in a convoy early Friday, limped into the harbor with the aid of a Navy tug last night. The collision occurred during the maneuvering in a convoy which was bound for Pearl Har bor. Three men were injured, not seriously. " ; The missing man, presumed lost at sea, was identified as machinist's mate fireman L. D. Tenniston, of Argyle, Wise. The Wantuck made the 180- mile trip here partially under its own power. The Navy said the collision occurred when the U.S.S. Lenawee struck the Wan tuck, cutting a laige hole- in the latter, which resulted in flooding of her forward engine room. The Lenawee received a 10-foot gash in her starboard bow. S. TRUMAN nothing effective was done to. the doctrine with adequate force. enunciated, President Monroe State Attempt to Troubleshooter Is Sent to Turkey; Discussing Syria Henderson May Confer With Other Nations Istanbul, Turkey OR U.S. Diplomatic troubleshooter Loy Henderson Saturday began con ferring with Syria s worried neighbors on ways to counter the Syrian drift into the Soviet orbit.- Henderson, a Middle Eastern affairs expert and former U.S. ambassador to Iran, rushed di rectly from his plan to meetings with Turkish officials. He also was expected to confer here with Kings Feisal of Iraq and Hussein of Jordan both of whom preceded him to Turkey. Turkish sources said Hender son's discussions with Turkish leaders also would be concerned with how far developments in Syria could be expected to go and what .threat they posed to Middle Eastern security. Russia Reports Meeting Radio Moscow, in an Arabic language broadcast heard in Lon don, reported another confer ence in the making. It said pro western king Saud of Saudi Ar abia has invited Egyptian Pres ident Gamal Abdel Nasser and Syrian President Shukri El Ku watly to his capital at Riyadh to "discuss the Syrian situation." A United Press dispatch from Cairo said authoritative Egyp tian sources said no such meet ing was anticipated for the near future. The sources said the Mos cow radio report would not even be published in Egyptian news papers today. In Washington, officials said the United States is counting on Syria's neighbors to take the lead in any joint action to dis courage Syria from becoming a Red satellite. One possibility would be banding together the Arab . nations around Syria to impose a political quarantine. No Specific Plan However, Henderson, a deputy undersecretary of state, did not bring any specific plan of action to Turkey. Turkey, a NATO and Baghdad pact member already flanked by Russia and Red Bulgaria feared it would be -enclosed on three sides by potentially hostile na tions if, the Communist coup in the Syrian army extended to the Syrian political system. More Russians were flying to Damascus, the Syrian capital, where press dispatches Friday said thousands of Soviet techni cians had been pouring into the country during the last eight months. Twenty-seven Russian civilians including wives and children, stopped over in Athens Saturday en route to Damascus from Sof ia, Bulgaria. The Athens press described the men as "Russian experts." Eighty Children Escape -From Burning Hospital Waltham, Mass. (IP) Eighty frightened children, some hy sterical with terror, escaped without serious injury Friday night when a fire swept through one wing of a state mental hos pital.' : r . East Crisis When, in 1947, we made it clear and Turkey against Communist penetration,' we had many divi sions in Italy, Germany and elsewhere nearby, and we kept the Mediterranean Fleet in full strength. This policy was then re ferred to as the Truman Doctrine much against my desire, since I preferred to regard it as an American doctrine, a part of the foreign policy of the United States. What did make the difference was the fact that Russia knew we were not bluffing and that, in fact, we were ready to back up our policy with force, if it became necessary. Russian Designs Slopped Russian designs on Western Europe and the Middle East thus having been stopped, the Kremlin then sought expansion in Asia by trying to conquer Korea fortise as a springboard to Japan. We knew then, as some have learned since, that we could not permit the imperia'lists of the Kremlin to get away with it. The transparent device of using Chinese satellite volunteers did not fool the free people of the world, nor deter them from their re sponsibility and duty. In unison with the United Nations we acted and we acted swiftly and at that we were almost too late. Our people, eager to return to the ways of peace, and wanting quick demobilization, had brought about a sharp reduction of our military strength. Russia, on the other hand, not having to deal, with public opinion at home, retained powerful military forces and, by deception, dis tributed part of her war machine among her satellites. , In this way Russia was able both to intimidate her satellites and, at the same ime, to employ them for purposes of imperialistic aggression, under the guise of giving support and recognition-of nationalistic aims and under-developed and neglected nations. (Continued en Fag 6) Pepcid: "A Couple Of Holes Even Relatively Cool, Dry Summer Recorded A relatively and dry summer to date has prevailed in the Rogue valley this year, bringing a few complaints from sunbath ers but mostly smiles from agri culture and forest people. A check with the U.S. weather bureau at the airport Saturday revealed that up to Friday, Aug. 23, only three days in August have -been warmer than the established "normal." July of fered the same number of warm er than normal, and six just normal. ' July's average monthly temp erature for last year was 73.2, whereas this year it was 69.3. Less Rainfall uuring July, the valley re ceived .01 of an inch less than normal rainfall for the month, and up to Friday in August it is .01 of an inch below the norm. C. B. Cordy, cdunty horticul tural agent, reports that -max imum temperatures in the 80's and low 90's have kept horti cultural crops at "about peak production capacity" for the Support Builds Up For Foreign Aid .Washington (W Support built up in the Senate Appropri ations committee Saturday for a substantial but by no means full restoration of heavy House cuts in foreign aid money. The committee is expected to act Monday on the aid measure, the last appropriations bill be fore congress, and send it to the Senate floor for action. President Eisenhower's plea for the Sentate to put back mon ey cut out by the House received a hefty boost Friday when Sen ate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) announced his support for a "substantial in crease." However, Johnson, a memoer of tne appropriations group, warned the White House that it cannot muster enough votes to restore all of the cuts. Foreseeable that we would stand by Greece meots et Money"' In The Bottom Won't Show" growing process. Partly as a result of cooler temperatures,' pear sizes are larger this year than average. Cordy described the summer as "real good growing weather.1 Since the opening of fire sea son, about April. 1, crews at the southwestern district office, state - department of forestry, have answered only 85 fire calls, eight of them lightning fires. Last year the department of fice had 80 to 90 lightning fires in the month of August alone, and 206 fires the entire season. The season closes with sufficieht fall rains, , generally between the middle of October and first of November. Fewer fires have also been re ported on national forest lands, according to the Medford office of Rogue River . National forest. Perjury Charge To Be Studied Washington lift Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), announc ed Saturday he will . ask . the Justice department to determine whether Teamster Union leader James R. Hoffa should be charged with perjury for testi fying that his memory was faulty. McClellan, chairman of. the Senate Committee investigating labor racketeering, told news men he had ordered the testi mony of Hoffa sent to the de partment for study. Hoffa; in line to suceed Dave Beck as union president, spent four days in the witness chair before the committee last week before he was excused. He testi fied more than 150 times that he could not "recall", or could not "remember" when question ed about incidents in which he was allegedly involved. - . McClellan said he had been asked whether a witness could be charged with contempt of the Senate for a faulty memory. He said a witness would not be guilty of contempt "but 'if in so answering he said he could it would be perjury." . Morse Criticizes Investigators Friday Washington (IPI Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) criti cized some congressional in vestigators Friday for charging witnesses with criminal offenses before they are tried by the courts. Morse told the Senate he would proprose changes in its rules next year to protect wit nesses charged with criminal of fenses by investigating commit tees. He specifically cited the re tent acquittal of Mayor Terry D. Schunk of " Portland, Ore., on a bribery charge which was made before the Senate Labor Rackets committee before his trial. Mofse said he thought the rackets group headed by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), is performing a "very much need ed job." " " zRAcoy Governor's Action Brings Political Response in Stale Legislature Is Not Limited to Length Salem (IPI When the Oreson Legislature meets in special ses sion Oct. 28, it will find a long. waiting line of state departments hoping to get a part of the big surpluses Gov. Robert D. Holmes mentioned in his Friday news conference. While the Governor stipulated that he wanted the Legislature, to consider only tax reductions to help erase part of the surplus, he has no authority to restrict a tree-wheeling Legislature. Nei ther can the length of the special session be restricted. Many state agencies and insti- . tutions who saw their budgets slashed to the bone on the plea the state had no money, are ex pected to return to Salem in Oc tober to ask for a new look at their needs. Blames Commission Holmes blamed the tax com mission in the preceding Repub lican administration for inaccu racies in revenue predictions. He said he called the special session to rectify those errors and to give Oregon some tax relief. The call brought- quick re-' sponse from Oregon political cir cles. . TEx-Gov. Elmo Smith, a Repub lican defeated by Holmes last year, placed the blame fbr the tax situation on Holmes and his advisers. He said "Holmes ef forts to put the blame on the old tax commission places his call for a special session to straighten out the mess in the category of pressure politics. The plain truth of the matter is he now deems it politically smart to call the Leg islature back for an expensive special session to erase the mis takes his leadership helped the 1957 Legislature make during its long session last spring." Criticism from Musa The special session call also brought criticism from State Sen. Ben Musa and his Wife. Rep. Katherine Musa, both Dem ocrats, from The Dalles. In a wire to the governor; they said. During the recent session you and your advisers belittled our comment that there would be a general fund surplus of nearly 51 million dollars on June 30, 1957. Our amendments to your tax bill could have given the taxpayers of Oregon real tax re lief . ..." State Treasurer Sig Unander, a Republican who has been men tioned as a possible gubernatori al candidate next year, said the proposal for tax relief was fol lowing a line he had already proposed,. "When an increase in surplus was indicated last July," he said, '.'it was my earnest suggestion to the governor that tax refunding be explored." Cold Hard Look Mark Hatfield, Republican Secretary of , State, said, "We should not raise hopes that taxes can be reduced and services maintained at their present high level while predictions of wide spread unemployment are made right and left. The Legislature must take a cold, hard look at the surplus before spending it or obligating it in any way," he added. . State elections officials said they thought the special legisla tive session would resume with the same officers and commit tees as at the regular 1957 ses sion. Hatfield, however, said re placements will be required for four members in the House of Representatives who served in the 1957 legislative session be fore the special session con venes. Weather FORECAST: Fir today and Monday, windy Murine aitr- - noons. Hich today SS, low tonicht 48. TEMP. HichFt yeiterday M ' Lowest yesterday 48 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise -, 5:29 a.m. . Sunset 6:58 p.m. Moonset 6:51 p.m. First Qoarter Autr. 11 VIS1BLB PLANETS Jupiter, seta 7:46 p.m. Venus, seta 7:55 p.m. Saturn, iow in south west - . 9:27 p.m. '(Jupiter will leave the evening; sky next week and return as a. morning star In October)