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Price 10 Medford Tribune United Press FuU Leased Wire United Presa FuU Leased Wire 30 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1957 No. 138 52nd Year fflj. FOREST FIRE'fTfiftteii " DANGER TODAY fWm' S i -If- KEEP OREGON GftEEN T fg V J 1 y Y - rttr ' ?! NEW SIGN A colorful new sign board with a moveable pointer to indicate the day-today forest fire danger in this area, as re lated to humidity, was erected early this week at State department of forestry. South western district headquarters on Table Rock rd. The sign was contributed by the Keep -Oregon Green association to help make resi- . dents of this area more forest fire conscious. The forestry department recently installed a Little Work Set During Holiday Here On Monday Monday, Sept. 2, is officially titled "Labor Day" but few will do much "laboring' day. Medford businesses will close, according to Gene Orr, chair man of the retail merchant's committee. The stores, normally open on Monday evenings, will skip this week and resume their normal schedule on Sept. 9. The Mail-Tribune will not publish Monday, but will resume publishing on Tuesday. All available officers will be called by state police to serve during the three-day week end. Special patrols will operate on the highways to hold down 'ac cidents and violations. Medford city police announced they have not planned special precautions for the week end. Capt. Clyde Fichtner expects the holiday week end to be quiet because "most residents spend a quiet week end at home or will leave town." The criminal division of the sheriff's office will remain open, according to Sheriff Howard Gault. He stressed that over the holiday residents should not only be alert to prevent accl dents while driving but also while boating and fishing. Four Appear In Circuit Court Four men appeared in circuit court Wednesday afternoon be fore Judge Edward Kelly. Sentenced were James Wal lace Edwards, 59, Portland; Jo seph W. Rawhauscr, 46, St. Louis hotel, Medford: and Rob ert Gale Corbett, 516 Liberty St.. Medford. Edwards pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money "by false pretenses. He was given a five year suspended sentence to run concurrently . with proba tion he is serving on an Oregon City charge. Rawhauser pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery and was con tinued pending Federal Bureau of Investigation reports. Carl Brophy was appointed as his at torney. Corbet was sentenced to three years int he Oregon State peni tentiary on a charge of grand larceny with execution of sen tence suspended. The fourth man who appear ed in court was ordered to the state hospital for 30 days ob servation. Registration Times Set For High School Junior high and High school students of Medford are remind ed hat registration must be made from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow. This applies to those planning to attend McLoughun or Hed rick Junior high school and Med ford high school, school officials said. Student counselors will be on duty during these times, they said. Weather FORECAST: Decreasing thun derstorm activity tonic h-t. Kair Frlriav. Low tonight 46. Hich Friday 8 J. Temp. Highest yesterday Lowest this Morninf 4C Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset ...5:3J a.m. (:51 p.m. Monnset 5:1 P.n Firt Quarter - Au. 21 PROMINENT STARS Deneb. hirh overhead 1:1 p.m. Mrtebaran. rises ll:J3 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, sets ': P - Venus, sets P-m- Saturn. low ill south- west - e . Russia Offered New Disarmament Plan London Ml The West today offered Russia the prospect of an indefinite end to nuclear testine in return for full acceDt- during the!anrA of narkaP(, ripal in dis armament. The detailed . blueprint of such an "inseparable" package was handed to Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin at the London Disarmament Conference. u includes tjie JJuJIes open skies plan, East-West troop cuts, conventional weapons reduc- London (01 Russia this afternoon flatly rejected the West's package deal on dis armament. The West, formally laying down its complete proposal, of fered the Soriets the prospect of an "indefinite" end to 014 dear testing in return for full acceptance of the disarmament plan contained-in a 10-page document. ., Soviet Deputy Foreign Min ister Valerian Zorin received the plan and promptly turned it down. tions and tight limitations on the testing, and use of nuclear weapons. ' A key point was that nuclear testing may never . be . neces sary again if the Soviet Union accepts a total ban on future production of A-bomb fuel and enough inspection to guarantee it. This was not spelled out in the 10-page document presented the five-power conference after more than five months of prep aration. , Try To Sway Russia But a "guide" to it prepared by British officials said: "If the cut-off of production of fissionable material for wea pons has taken place, nuclear testing may remain suspended indefinitely." This was one of several bigj concessions offered in an at tempt to sway Russia from the advance rejection delivered earlier this week by Zorin in bitter speeches to Uie confer ence. Another offered a way around Soviet objections that the Dulles open skies plan would still leave Russia threatened by sur prise attach from bases not cov ered in the plan. This is how the western plan would take the first steps to ward disarmament: ' Military forces would be reduced in three stages, the first to be a ceiling of 2,500,000 men for the U.S. and Russia- and 750,000 for Britain and France. In two subsequent stages, the bigger powers would cut to 1,750,000 men, and Britain and France to 650,000 men, provided "there has been progress to ward the solution of political is sues such as German reunifi cation. Armaments Reduced Non nuclear armaments would be reduced in similar stages, the first calling for moth balling such items as planes, ships and artillery under inter national inspection in line with lists to be negotiated separately. Oregon Senators Introduce Resolution Washington OP Sen. Richard Neuberger (D - Ore.) Tuesday night introduced in the Senate a resolution asking President Eisenhower to proclaim 1959 as the official centennial year for Oregon. The resolution, co-sponsored by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) emphasized Oregon's historical background dating from Capt. Robert Gray and Lewis and Clark. "1 similar sign at Cave Junction guard station, and" next year others may be erected at Mc Leod, Prospect and Lincoln, according to District Warden Curtis Nesheim. Steadying the sign, above, are left, Larry Dupray and Assistant Warden Doyle Stockton, while Larry Brown throws rocks in the hole around the post. Dupray'. and Brown are stand-by firemen employed by the depart ment.. . In the latter stages, "armament i limitations will be in agreed re- lation to the armed forces" al lowed each country. In other words, there would be only as many guns as the allowed man power could use. The' powers would agree "that all future production of fissionable materials will be used at home or abroad, under international supervision, exclu sively for nonweapons purposes, including stockpiling . . ." Nuclear tests would be halted for tvo years. They would be resumed after the first year if inspection is not operat ing "to the satisfaction of each party." They could be resumed after the second year "if the cessation of production of fis sile material for weapons pur poses has not been put into effect." Separate Hearings Held On Rape Case ' Separate preliminary hear ings were granted three Med ford men held on rape charges in district court this morning by District Judge James M. Main. The three men, Leonard Eu gene Stege, 24, of 401 East 12th St.; Larry William Irvin, 26, of 215 Williamette ave.; and Darrold Lewis Johnson, 26, of 619 Palm st., were arrested by sheriff's deputies Saturday afternoon on Roxy Ann rd. The trio were arraigned in district court Monday morning and each were held in the coun ty jail on $5,000 bond. The men were represented in court by James A. Redden, A. E. Fiazza, and G. W. Kellington, local attorneys. The first hearing this morn ing was for Johnson. According to sheriff's depu ties an 18-year-old Oklahoma City, Okla., girl was assaulted in the Sterling Creek rd. area Saturday afternoon. After the girl is reported to have stopped a motorist on the Jacksonville-Phoenix highway who drove her to the Medford city police station. The' city police notified sheriff's deputies. The suspects were arrested later. Salem (IP) Secretary of State Mark Hatfield said today he would ask the State Emer gency Board for an appropria tion to cover first costs of the special session of the state legis lature. . Sports Bulletin Results in women's cham pionship flight first round matches today in the Southern Oregon Golf tournament at Rogue Valley Country club .were: Mrj. Marje Fillis. Salt Lake City, Utah. def. Susan Small. Corvallis, 4 and 2; Mrs. Helen Davies, Med ford, def. Mrs. Corrine Miller. Med ford,' 5 and 3; Sue DeVoe. Medfod, def. 'Mrs. Helen Cavilli, King City, Cali., 4 and 3: Mrs. Mary Scott, Rose City, def. Mrs. Nan Wheelock, Columbia, 1 up: Elaine Porritt, Eugene, def. Mrs. Pat Eidswick, Ashland. 9 and 7: Shirley Sieg mund, Fugene. def. June Robin son. Tillamook, 2 and - 1: Mrs. George Calderwood. Eugene, def. Betty Martin. Longview. Wash.. IS holes: Mrs. Rose Bunch. Medford, def. Mrs. Maxine Hammond, Med ford. 2 np. In the senior division tiUe flight results were: M. L. Hallmark. Roseburg, def. Larry Butler. Medford, 1 up; Ted Porterfield, Medford, won by de fault from Bob Crossman. Medford; Marvin Clark. Grants Pass, def. Charles Braden." Grants Pass. 4 and 3; Ralph l.omax, Portland, def. - R. F. Bxter. Salem, 7 and 5; Medford Ingram. Salem, def. Glen Fabrick, Medford, 2 and 1; Robert Fox, Portland, def. Dick Bourns, Coos Bay, 3 and 2; Dr. Roy Reynolds, Salem, def. Bob Henningston, As toria. 3 and 2: I. eland Clark. Med ford. def, Georca Stacey. Medford. 2 and 1. Weapons Experts Asked to Answer Before Committee Group Claims Missile Program Slowed Down Washington (IP) The ad ministration's experts on Amer ican and Russian weapons were called before a congressional committee today to answer claims that the U.S. ballistic missile program has been slow ed down. A subcommittee of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atemic Energy also wanted De fense Department and Central Intelligence Agency evaluations of Russia's claim to have tested successfully an "intercontinen tal mult-stage ballistic rocket." Claim Embarrassing The Russian claim came at an embarrassing time for the Pentagon. It was reviewing U.S. missile programs as a part of the current economy drive to see whether any savings could be realized through better man agement and efficiency -in the multi-billion dollar effort. However, Acting Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles was expected to deny the gener al contention that there has been a missile slowdown. Sen. Henry. M. Jackson (D-Wash.) has ' made that claim on the Senate floor and has been sup ported by Sen. Stuart Syming ton (D-Mo.). Quarles was expected to tell the closed door committee ses sion that the Atlas intercontin ental! ballistic missile program is on schedule and is being pushed at high priority. Slowed Program There were reports at the same time tnai tne reniagon has somevhat slowed the Titan program. The Titan is an inter continental bassistic missile de scribed as more advanced in concept that the Atlas, but about 3 year ucumu m cvcivutim. Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IB Army , Secretary. .Wtlbi ErucKer .said today the 1,500- mile grange ... Jupiter, missile, which was test-fired again here Wednesday has "encountered spectacular success." . Brucker told a news confer ence in. Miami Eeach, where he sDoke before " the Veterans of Foreign .Wars convention, that work on the intermediate range I Jupiter is "ahead of schedule." PUC Sent Letter Requesting Action A letter requesting the Public Utilities Commissioner' of Ore gon to assign a man to take action "in the interest of the public" and ' southern Oregon fruit packaging and shipping in dustry was sent Monday by Dan Hull, packaging' department manager for Pinnacle Orchards and Packing company. Fruit packing and shipping men are opposing a 15 per cenl freight rate increase requested by Railway Express Agency. .' The Interstate Commerce Commission is expected to take action on the request sometime this fall. National Safety Council Challenges Motorists Chicago OP) The National Safety. Council today challenged the nation's motorists to make the organization's traffic death estimate of 420 for the Labor Day week end "ridiculously high." 'Be Sure To Give Mine Special Attention" ECriowland May Adjoyro Tonight BRUSH FIRE Flames that could have spread easily into-a full-fledged forest fire burned more than an acre within Jackson ville city limits late yesterday afternoon. Burning in dry grasajand brush, and fanned by a steady breeze, the fire raced up the hill southeast of town and firemen had to work Forest Fire Creeps Near Summer Homes Fallen ' Leaf Lake, Calif. , m forest fire crept today along the base of 9,800-foot Mt. Tallac towards a tract of -150 summer homes. . The forest service flew in a tanker plane from ; Willows, Calif., to squelch' hot spots in 4-H Agents Travel To Act As Judges Glenn Klein and Miss Mar jorie Hatfon, Jackson county 4-H agents, left today lor Salem where they will be officials for the Oregon State Fair which begins Saturday, Aug. 31. Klein will be in charge of the 4-H dormitory at the fair grounds, and serve on the poul try and the internatienal night program committees. Miss Hat ton is superintendent of the judging contest, co-ordinator of the style review, and chairman of the health interview com mittee. The majority of the local 4-H and FFA members attending will leave 'for Salem Friday, and will return to. the county after their activity, has been judged. The agents will remain until Sunday, Sept. 8. Exhibits or contests will be entered by 127 county 4-H mem bers, Miss Hattan said, which will include some 172 exhibits or contests. She. reported that several hundred ' . relatives and friends of the exhibitors, and leaders will also attend the fair from the county. No figures were available on the FFA mem bers and exhibits that would be entered. ! the wall of flame that was mov- ing : slowly towards the new Spring Creek tract in which the homes were located. ... Jhe-or.est.service said -there was no danger to populated areas and a fire line isolating the blaze was expected to be completed- by noon. About 60 acres had burned. ' The manager of Fallen Leaf Lodge, Mrs. H. T. Craven, said 50 persons spent the night in the lodge - after being evacuated from their summer homes in the area where the fire started from a stove explosion in a cabin above the road. Residents Evacuated Spring Creek tract residents were evacuated to the American Legion Hall at Bijou along the shore of Lake Tahoe, Mrs. Crav en said. Mrs. Craven said the fire wen', a distance up the moun- tainside and was well under control on the most heavily populated side of the lake, a popular vacation spot, south west of Lake Tahoe. The fire broke out late Wed nesday night in a two-story house between Fallen Leaf Lodge and Highway 99. The house is located in a tract in the Anita Baldwin area above the lodge on the northwest side of Fallen Leaf Lodge. Two boys, Peter Stern and Billy . Means, both 13, ran through the area, shouting the alarm to residents. In the first hour, the fire burned over five acres of timber , and destroyed at least three cot tages. A half-hour later, it had raged to within a half-mile of the lodge. . However, the wind died down shortly after and the blaze turned toward Mt. Tallac. Lightning Strikes Possible For Area State forestry department and federal forest service personnel were alerted by the weather bu reau today for the- possibility of lightning strikes in mountain areas east and south ol tne valley. Thunderstorms were building un and were expected early this afternoon. But the possibility of precipitation with them some what eased iire . danger, it s hailing, snowing and raining all at the same time at t-raier lake," the weather bureau re ported this morning. Thunderstorm threat was greater- today than for several days, since clouds began build ing up earlier. Decreasing thun derstorm activity is the predic tion for tonight. Water Resources Development Corporation was operating silver iodide ground generators in an attempt to prevent hail, which damages the fruit crop. They are under contract to the Medford Pear Shippers association . ays fast to get water out ahead of it. Several frame houses along Stage rd. were endan gered as well as others further up the hill. Above, fireman Bruce Matheny, Jackson; ville resident, stands in a grove of fire-blackened trees and plays a stream of water on a section of wooden fence still smouldering. Volunteers Battle Threatening Fire In Jacksonville Flames that could have spread into a full-fledged forest fire and possibly wiped out a number of homes within the city limits of Jacksonville, were brought under control yesterday fternoon by firemen and number of the town's citizens wielding gunny sacks. Burning in dry grass and brush, and fanned by a steady breeze, the fire raced up the hill southeast of town and fire men were barely able to get ahead of it with fire hoses. If the alarm had been turned in a few minutes later and the fire had spread into a timbered area not far away it could have be come a holocaust according to, Jacksonville Police Chief Frank Carter. The fire originated in dry grass behind one of the resi dences on Stage road, within the city limits of Jacksonville, and spread quickly into a brushy area 'nearby. One truck and four- firemen from the Medford fire depart ment were sent' to the scene when the Jacksonville fire de partment asked for help in con trolling the blaze. The fire burned over more than an acre of the brushy tract and spot fires, caused from burning material being carried by the wind, broke out in sev eral places. These smaller fires were being searched out by volunteers, including several youngsters, with . wet gunny sacks. By being able to get the fire hoses ahead of the flames a said. Jacksonville fire, depart ment only recently purchased an additional 200 feet of fire hose. Without it there might not have been enough hose to reach. The area was checked atout 1 1 p.m. yesterday to be sure that the fire would not break out again. Carter said. Morse Says Neuberger Was 'Sucked' In on Portland Of) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), said today that Sen. Richard Neuberger "was one of the Democratic liberals sucked in on the civil rights bill." Morse, who passed through here early today en route to his daughter's wedding in Eugene Saturday, called the civil rights bill a "hoax and a sham" and said Dixiecrat senators were "laughing up their sleeves" . at the strategy they had engineer ed. ' He said Democratic liberals in the Senate had been "sucked in" by the trial by jury compro mise on the civil rights bill. But he labeled reports of a "feud" between himself and Neuberger as "a lot of nonsense." Filibuster Against Civil Rights Bill Staged by Senator Knowland Prediction Comes at Conference Washington OPl Senate Re publican Leader William T. Knowland predicted today that Congress may be able to finish up its work and adjourn tonight. Knowland made the predic tion to President Eisenhower during a conference at the White House. It was based on a belief by Knowland 'that the one - man filibuster in the Senate by Sen. Strom Thurmond (D - S. C.) against the compromise civil rights bill would peter out and that other southerners would not join in the talkathon. Starts Wednesday Night Thurmond took the Senate floor at 8:45 Wednesday night Thurmond obviously was tir ing as he passed the 15-hour mark. His voice sank to little more than a loud whisper most of the time. He rocked slowly from side to side as he rested his hands on a lectern on his desk and read from a book. At intervals, he put a lozenge in his -nouth. He was still talking after 18 hours. Thurmond was able to visit the rest room once during his lonj ordeal when Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), interrupt ed. Technically, . under Senate rules, a speaker cannot leave his place if he wants to hold the floor. But no- one called the rule "book on Thurmond.- Not Uninterrupted . His speech .was not an unin terrupted one, however, so he was not setting a filibuster rec- ah j , , " . .... u .i i. viic gallic during the afternoon when he yielded the floor four minutes to permit the swearing in of William E. Proxmire, new Dem ocratic Senator from Wiscon sin. ." ' , Knowland's prediction also assumed that Seyte and House would . give quick approval to the compromise foreign aid bill, the only piece of major legisla tion besides civil rights still blocking adjournment. The House already had passed the compromise civil rights bill and had been expected to act on the aid bill today. But at 1:25 p.m. Speaker Sam Rayburn re cessed the House subject to call. Although, no explanation was offered, it was apparent this was strategy to keep a quorum of members in town by holding up action on a piece of major legislation. The aid bill it ap peared, was being ' delayed for possible strategic use in the , civil rights battle. Adjournment fever was run ning high. Congressmen were buying tickets for home and for Paris, Rome, and the Orient. A boom year for congressional junketing appeared in prospect. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 4 9 2 Cleveland . 13 13 1 O'Dell, Zuverink (2), Cec carelli (8) and Triandos.Zupo 8); Carcia and Hegan. Home runs: Hegan, Cleveland; Cola vito. Cleveland: Smith. Clava- i land; Weriz, Cleveland. Rights Bill It just so happens that there is a great chasm between Dick Neuberger and myself on civil rights and foreign aid," he said. He said he wanted to ma'te it clear that his vote against the civil rights bill would be re corded even though he was not in Washington. Morse's daughter, Judy, will marry the Rev. Wade Eaton, a young 'Episcopalian rector, on Saturday. ' Morse, touching on other mat ters, denied that Hells Canyon was dead as a federal project. "Hells Canyon is not dead," be said. "The Morse bil.'. still is alive in the House of Represen tatives and if we can get it to a floor vote next February it will carry by a substantial ma jority." The bill passed the Sen ate. 1
