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o 52nd Year Medford United Pro full Luacd Wire 24 Pages Holmes Will" Visit Medford Armory, Discuss Industry Public Is Invited To Present Ideas Gov. Robert D. Holmes will be in Medford next Wednesday, U' conduct one of a series of meeting in the state on plan ran e for industrial development. The meeting will be at 10 a.m. at the Medford armory, and sevarel local groups, including the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, are expected to give presentations of their ideas of how new industry can be at tracted to Oregon. The public is invited and there, will be a period for those attending to give their own ideas. At 12:15 p.m., the governor will attend a public luncheon at the Jackson hotel, where there will be additional discus sion of the problems of indust rial development. At both meet ings Julius Jensen, recently appointed director of the new Oregon department of planning and development, will also speak. Reservations are necessary to attend the luncheon, and can be made by calling Don McNeil, Aianager of the local chamber, at SP 2-6293. , Ti.e governor will arrive by plan at 9 a.m., and then will inspect the armory and meet with commanders of local Na tional Guard units. He will con fer with McNeil, who made ar rangements for the meeting, be fore it opens. From here the governor and Jensen will go on to other Ore gon cities to continue the series of meetings. Fire Near Lake Tahoe Contained" . Fallen Leaf Lake, Calif. KB A crew of forest service fire fighters hoped today to have under control a fire that routed residents of a tract of 150 sum mer homes near Fallen Leaf lake. The fire fighters reported late Thursday night that the blaze was "contained." Winds were gentle all day Thursday decreasing the danger. The fire blackened 65 acres before the fire fighters could throw a line around it. Fifty persons were forced to spend Wednesday night at the Fallen Leaf lodge after fleeing their cottages. Another group was taken to the American Le gion hall at Bijou on Lake Tahoe. The fire broke out late Wednesday night in a house be tween Fallen Leaf lodge and Highway 89. More than 200 forest rangers, firemen and volunteers helped fight the blaze Thursday. Three tanker airplanes . helped by dumping chemicals. 94 Cases of Polio Reported Last Week Washington HP Ninety four new cases of paralytic polio were reported throughout the U.S. last week, the Public Health Service announced today. During the same week last year, 375 cases occurred. Total polio cases, paralytic and nonparalytic, recorded this year climbed to 3,610, compared with 8,017 at the same time last year. Sources Say U.S. Holding Lead In Missile Program Washington W Authorita tive sources said today the United States is holding its lead over Russia in development of long-range missiles. They said there is no cut in the overall sustained effort to perfect the missiles, capable of knocking out a city when armed with a hydrogen bomb warhead. Defense officials made the statements ss two Democratic senators charged the administra tion is cutting back on its missiles plans for economy rea sons at the same time that Rus sia is forging ahead in the missile field. Russia announced this week it has successfully tested an ocean-spanning rocket. MEDFORD, COURT FINAL DAYS Children frolic in the Haw thorne park swimming pool during the lat few days the pool will be open. Park officials said the attendance this year will not be as high as in the past. Cool weather was blamed. Oregon State Fair Starts 92nd Year In Salem Saturday Salem The 1957 Oregon State Fair opens here tomorrow. As is true every year, the fair's management promises the 'biggest and best event in its 92-year history. The fair grounds have been spruced up and reno vated, parking - for 21,000 cars is ready, and a line of entertain ment will enliven the displays of agriculture, mining, forestry, fishing, industry, business, schools and other Oregon inter ests. Gov. Robert Holmes says it is "the great show window for dis play of our wealth of natural, re creational and educational re sources. Goreinor's Day Saturday is "Governor's Day," Sunday is "Go To Church Day," and the other days in the eight day event have been designated as Labor Day, "Farm Organiza tion Day," "Salem and Visiting Mayors' Day," "Childrens Day," Oregon Pioneers Day," and 'Oregon Day." Among the features of the fair this year will be a rodeo and horse show each day; horse rac ing daily except Sunday; free band concerts twice daily; an en tertainment review headlining the Ames Brothers each eve ning; and the traditional dis plays of all sorts, an art show and garden and flower show, and many other attractions. An additional 100 picnic ta bles have been, added this year for the convenience of those wishing to bring their own lunches. Portland (If) Fourteen in dictments returned by vice prob ing grand juries were dismissed today by Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding. The dismissals were asked by Arthur Higgs, as sistant attorney general. Sen. Henry M. Jackson CD Wash.), chairman of an atomic energy subcommittee checking on missiles progress, said "there has been a cutback in the num bers planned for future produc tion per month" for the Inter continental Ballistics Missile (ICBM) and the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM). Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D Wyo.) a member of the commit tee, declared that "we are rapid ly becoming second best under the narrow policies of the Treas ury Department, which has dominated the government and which seems to be more con cerned about profits for bankers than about the adequacy of our defense." Adjourns OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST RETURNS ORDINANCE AEC Scientists Fire 'Baby- Atomic Device , Atop-Angels',Peak, Nev. Of) jthe sequence timer.. Six Army, Atomic Enerev commission sci- two Navy and " 16 Air Force enlists early today unleashed . JjtawaOflBKLJnto the... test "baby" nuclear blast believed to be part of a safety test of materials to protect human eyes from flash blindness. The small nuclear device was detonated at 5:40 a.m. It was the 14th atomic explosion of the 20-shot summer "plumb bob" se ries at the Nevada proving grounds. The device, called "Frank lin Prime,," was triggered from a plastic balloon 750 feet over the test site. The balloon was anchored to the desert floor. - There were 19 experiments on Two Seattle Men Arrested This Noon Two Seattle men were arrest ed by state police about noon today after they were stopped for a traffic violation, tben jumped the officer and attempt ed to run away. Police said this afternoon they expected to charge the men with possession of marijuana. A patrolman stopped the pair's car on highway -99 north of Medford about 11:40 a.m. The car had only one license plate, no registration, and the men had no operators' licenses, police said. They "jumped" the officer, one of them grabbed a bag in he car, and they started running across a field. The officer caught one, and the other was appre- Tiendd later, officers said. The men gave their names as William Jack Lessman, 27, and Henry A. Foster, alias "Lucky" Foster , and "Larry Lynch," 25, both of Seattle, po lice said. One gave his occupa tion as plumber, the other as waiter, they said. Police said both men would be placed in the county jail on charges of possessing marijuana. Roseburg Officer Killed in Crash Seoul iff) U.S. Army offi cials today identified an officer killed in a helicopter crash Tuesday as Col. Terrance C. Fitzgerald, of Roseburg, Ore. The 39 - year - old Fitzgerald was killed when the helicopter, piloted by Robert A. Jones, of Glendale, Calif., crashed near Ascom City, 20 miles east of here. Cause of the accident is still under investigation, 8th Army officials said. Fitzgerald is survived by his wife, Thelma, and two children, who live in Roseburg, and his mother, Mrs. Blanche Melchert of Tarrington, Wyo. Hfl Tribune 30, 1957 Thi: pool will be open for the final time this " year on Monday, Sept. 2. It will be drained and cleaned for the winter during the next few weeks. training maneuver. The planes also contained delicate instru ments to register radioactive material. ' 8,000 Tons of TNT Despite its small size, clear skies resulted in the blast being seen in Las Vegas and Los An geles. Buildings in Hollywood also were lighted by the blast. It was estimated that the shot uncorked a power equal to about 8,000 tons of TNT. The fireball appeared in the sky for, about 30 seconds. It displayed a vivid d color and then faded to orange. The experiment was closed to reporters, so newsmen wit nessed the shot from here, about 55 miles from ground zero. The familiar mushroom cloud puffed up to about 20,000 feet a minute after the shot, was detonated. The top of -the cloud was like a ball of cotton. Youth Hospitalized Following Mishap Seventeen-year-old Terry Lee Tull, route 2, Box 6, Ashland, is in -Ashland General . hospital today being treated for a severe cut . on his neck and possible broken shoulder resulting from a one-car accident yesterday on Billings hill near Ashland, ac cording to' state police. Tull was reported travelling south on Highway 99 when his car hit a slick spot, spun off the highway and rolled over in a ditch on the west side of the highway State police reported another accident occured earlier yester day when cars driven by Evelyn Ruth Shefler,. 30, 1239 Spring St., Medford. a'nd Heinrich Tee ter Thiesen, 66, route 1, Gold Hill, collided on Highway .99 near the Rogue River junction. State police reported no in juries resulted and only minor damage to "the two cars. Thiesen was'cite'd for having a defective signaling device . and Evelyn Shefler for violation of basic rule. . Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to nleht and Saturday. Low to night 48 High Frida 85. TKDip. Hirhrst Yesterday 81 Lowest this Morning 48 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:34 a.m. Sunset ; S:4S p.m. Moonset 10:00 pjm. First Quarter .... SaturCaj night PROMINENT STARS The Square of Pegasus, seen in the east at moonrise. will be hieh in south 1:0 a.m. Alpheratz U the Brightest of the four stars that make up this figure. Price 10' United P TuU Laid Win No. 13? Planners Asked To Revise Proposed Subdivision Bill Keating Says Court,. Commission to Meet The Jackson county court unanimously voted today to re turn the proposed county subdi vision ordinance to the Jackson county planning commission for further study and revision, Judge Rodney Keating said to day. V The decision was made in regular session today, Keating Eta ted,- after due deliberation and considerable study was made by the court of the pro posed subdivision ordinance. The court, he added, will prob ably meet with the planning commission at a later date. The ordinance, which was ap proved by the planning commis sion and referred to the county court at the July meeting of the commission, would make it un- lawful for anyone to sell or contract to sell any subdivision until all the requirements list ed in- the ordinance are com plied with. Three petitions have been filed with the county court re questing revision of the proposed ordinance. The petitions contain ed some 266 names. The peti tions asked that the proposed ordinance be changed to permit small land owners to sell land or. develop it for building. Stassen Returns FronfConference Washington iff) Disarma ment negotiator Harold E. Stas sen said today that he still belfeves the Russians are nego tiating seriously despite their scornful replies to the western first step disarmament proposals. Stassen "flew here from Lon don today to report to President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the disarmament talks. They were scheduled to confer at the White House. Key issues still separating East and West on disarmament, Stassen said, are very difficult problems. But he told .newsmen at Washington National airport that he believes the Russians are still negotiating seriously, and that the two sides are closer to a first step arms agreement than at any time in the last 12 yerts. Soviet disarmament delegate Valerian Zorin denounced the latest package disarmament plan Thursday. : Beck Posts Bail With U. 5. Marshal Seattle (ID Teamsters Union President Dave Beck, . indicted Wednesday by a Federal Grand Jury for income tax evasion, posted $25,000 bail with the U.S. marshal here late Thursday. Beck was indicted Wednesday for the second time in less than four months by the grand jury in Tacoma. He was charged in a seven-count indictment with evading payment of $184,000 federal income tax on $254,000 the government said was unre ported income in the years 1951, 1952 and 1953. - Beck posted his bail shortly after his arrival from Los An geles where he had attended a three-day meeting of the Team sters Union Executive Board. Portland Bank Held Up This Morning J Portland (IB A robber-held up the First National bank at Sixth and Morrison in down town Portland shortly before 10:30 a.m. today and escaped with an estimated $3,800. Mrs. Alice Oppertshauser, a teller, told police the bandit ap proached her window and dis played a gun tucked in the waistband of his trousers. He handed her a note, got the mon ey and fled. Dean Quinlan, assistant cash ier, said estimate of the loss was "preliminary Compromise Aid Bill Is Included In Final Minutes Senate Adjourns Early This Afternoon Washington (W The weary 85th Congress adjourned its history-making first session to day, one month behind schedule. Adjournment until next Jan. 7 came after a final burst of legislating and oratory that was as speedy and at times as hectic as any of the eight-month ses sion. The House quit at 12:57 p.m. (p.d.t.) and the Senate then closed up shop at 1:22 p.m. In quick succession, the House passed and sent to the White House for presidential signature a bill to safeguard the secrecy of FBI files in criminal trials and a compromise $3,434,810,000 foreign aid bill. FBI BUI The vole on the FBI bill was 315 to 0. On the foreign aid bill it was 194 to 122. The Senate had stamped its approval on both measures in the final hour of a marathon session which had ended at 12:59 a.m. today. It also had achieved an epic milestone in legislative history by passing the first civil rights bill in 82 years, and sending it on to the White House for President Eisen hower's certain signature. The Senate came back on duty at 9 a.m.. and mostly listened to speech-making. By noon the House had wrapped up all its business and was ready to call it a year. Then it also ran out of talk, so, at 12:45 p.m., Speaker Sam Ray burn recessed the chamber to wait on the talkative Senate. Last Measures. One of the last measures acted on by the House was a compro mise bill to extend until June 1, 1959, the President's authority to organize executive depart ments. The bill then went to the Senate for final congressional ac tion. . Speeches were the order .of the day in; the Senate as members prepared to go home until next Jan. 7. . . The Senate cleaned up most of its last minute business Thurs day night and early this morn ing at the tail-end of a mara thon session - marked bv . Sen. Thurmond's record 24-hour-plus filibuster against the civil rights Dill. Neuberger Takes Issue With Morse Washington (IB Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger of Oregon took issue today with Sen. Wayne L. Morse of Oregon for charging that Neuberger was "sucked in" to support the Civil Rights bill. "I do . . . regret that Sen. Morse has been quoted in the press as charging I am one of the liberal Democrats who has been 'sucked in' concerning sup port of the Civil Rights bill," Neuberger said in a statement. Neuberger said he was "dis appointed" with some features of the measure passed by the Senate Thursday night. Never the less, he said, the bill was "a forward step." Neuberger noted that on sev en "key" rollcall votes during Senate consideration of the Civil Rights legislation he voted against Southern opponents of Civil Rights. On five of those votes, he said, Morse voted with the southerners. "This bewilders me all the more concerning Sen-. Morse's claim that I have been 'sucked in by the Dixiecrats," Neuberg er said. . ; arms . conference Central Poin fjl ajcj;- n rosL urnce Be Reorganize The U.S. post office depart ment is contemplating convers ion of Central Point post office to a classified branch of the Medford post office, according to a telegram sent the Mail Tribune yesterday by Sen. Rich ard Neuberger. A saving of approximately $5,000 a year in government expenditures and more conveni ent service is expected with the proposed reorganization, accord ing to John A. Eidswick, postal inspector here. "We are planning to give Cen tral point residents city deliv ery serVice and a hook-up with air-flight mails from Medford," Millions Head Into Final Big Week End Of Summer Today By UNITED PRESS Americans by the millions headed into summer's last big fling today, the 'Labor Day week end holiday, and most states planned to leave it up to the motorists themselves to get back home safely. Encouraged by the relatively good traffic records posted dur ing the Memorial Day and Fourth of July holidays, a few states planned extra police mea sures during the long week end. However, police forces in all states were prepared to go into action at full strength if the highway toll mounted sharply. Predict 420 Deaths The National Safety Council predicted 420 traffic fatalities during the three-day week end, which begins at 6 p.m. today and runs through midnight Monday. But the council said if motor ists maintain their records of the past two holidays, the toll could be held to ' 375 or fewer, the average for a non-holiday period at this tune of year. . . The United Press counted 437 highway . fatalities during the Labor Day holiday last year. Among the states planning special - safety - measures was Pennsylvania where Gov. George M. Leader ordered state plainsclothes officers in un marked cars to supplement nor mal patrols. Leader said the order was designed to give Pennsylvania its safest Labor Day holiday in motoring history. Extra police help was assigned in Texas and Ohio, and some states were expected to use Na tional Guardsmen and aircraft to aid police in handling traffic. Urges Safe Driving Salem (IB Gov. .Robert D. Holmes took the lead today in urging Oregon drivers to ob serve a safe Labor Day holiday. The governor said he hoped the state would be able to achieve a much better record than last year when four people were killed and 165 injured irl 500 accidents during the three day holiday. State police will operate at full strength during the holiday period and will be especially alert for excessive speed, driv ing while intoxicated and other accident-causing violations. Board of Control to Provide Free Vaccine Salem (IB The State Board of Control today decided to make vaccine against Asian flu available . free to employees of state institutions. - The board said it would have Dr. Harold Erickson, state health officer, consult with various in stitution heads to determine whether patients and inmates also should be inoculated against thi disease. t n ' Eidswick explained. "However, all Central Point people will keep their own addresses. The Central Point post-mark will be kept also." To Motorize Routes Under the new plan, postal routes 1 and 2 from Central Point will be motorized and ex tended to cover 65 miles each. Scattered deliveries between Medford and Central Point would be consolidated also un der the Medford Post office. People within Central Point city limits wil receive daily foot delivery, the postal inspector said. Mail from the Central Point collection box would be gather ed several times daily. Territory around Central Point vill be given street names and house numbers plus rural route num bers, Eidswick explained furth er. "The Central Point office would be a station under the Medford post office," the postal official addad. "This would mean a centralized accounting system. We are investigating also the possibility of eventual consolidation of all branches in the Rogue River valley under the Medford office accounting department." The postal inspector said con gressional approval must be giv en before reorganization can become effective. Postal of ficials here have been working out the new plan for approxi mately 40 days, he added. No body will be thrown out of work due to the reorganization, he emphasized. A vacancy now exists on Medford route 2. The county engineer is work ing on a plan, he said, to give approximately 700 Central Point area residents street num bers. One Bound Over On Rape Charges, Hparinnc HpIH Darrold Lewis ' Johnson, 26, of 619 Palm st., was bound over to the grand jury this morning in district court on charges of rape. He was lodged in Jackson county jail with bond set at $5,000. Preliminary hearing for John son started in district court Thursday morning after defense attorneys requested separate hearings for three men arrested Aug. 24 by sheriff's deputies on the rape charges. The other men being held are Leonard Eugene Sieege, 24, of 401 East 12th st., whose prelim inary hearing started this morn ing, and Larry William Irvin, 26, of 215 Willamette ave. The trio were arraigned in district court Monday and each was held in the county jail on $5,009 bond. ' The men were represented in court by James A. Redden, A. E. Piazza, and G. W. Kelling ton, local attorneys. District Atr torney Thomas Reeder is pre senting the state's case. According to sheriff's depu ties, an 18-year-old Oklahoma City, Okla., girl was assaulted in the Sterling Creek rd. area Saturday afternoon. The legal proceedings in the case this week, have been con ducted in a crowded courtroom. Several small children have been noted in the audience. Police Investigate Youth's Injuries Lewis Emil Barde, 14, is rest ing at home today following a concussion received sometime Wednesday afternoon. Lewis, who lives at 924 South Ivy, fell off of his bike in front of his home. Hearing the noise, his mother, Mrs. Jean Barde came out to find Lewis lying in the street with blood coming out of his mouth. He was taken to Rogue Valley Memorial hospital where he was found to have a concussion. He was also, treated for a black eye and swollen face and released. The Barde boy had gone bike riding with a friend and when returning home had fallen quite far behind hfi; friend. He re traced his route and found the Barde boy injured. Police are investigating the injury. Two Children Killed In Washington Blaze South Bend, Wash. (IB Flames that swept through the upper floor of the William Peter son home here today took the life of Gerald Wayne Peterson, 20 months, and his 10-month-old sister, Rochelle. . Police said the mother, a three-vear-nlH hrnthpr and a cousin escaped the blazing build ing. The fire occurred about 7:30 ajm I X 1
