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52nd Year 10' Recommended A feature story about m boat trip Mtdford residents took In the Vancouver iiland area this summer appears on pace 1? of today s Mall Tribune. ice Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141, Ashland MU 2-1P21. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 ajn Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short- I ....11 nlM mti f . M Trip If DFORD f'ice thus eliminating special mes senger service. Uniiad Pre Pull Leased Wir- v i Full Leased Wire 43 PAGES MEDFORD OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1957 No. 140 ME Senators Charge Congress Majority With Too Little Ike Says Record Is Disappointing Patella is yiraft Washington OP) Five Ei senhower Republicans in the senate charged the Democratic majority in congress Saturday with writing a 1957 legislative record of "too little, too late or not-at-all." They also called on the GOP to unite behind President Eisen hower and tell the country the consequences of divided ; party responsibility in Washington a Republican administration and a Democratic-controlled con gress. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said Saturday the president also will have something to say about congress' accomplishments, probably at a Tuesday news conference. Accomplishments Disappointing He said Eisenhower has been "looking over the so-called ac complishments" which he prev iously labelled "disappointing The "modern Republicans" who signed the statement were Sens. Gordon Allott (Colo.), Clif ford P. Case (N.J.), Irving M, Ives (N.Y.), Jacob K. Javits (N.Y.), and Frank Carlson (Kan.). Their's was another in the se ries of post mortemi on the rec ord of the 1957 session which adjourned Friday to next Jan. 7. Democrats boasted that they had made a constructive record and given the Eisenhower pro gram however much consider ation it deserved. Republicans replied too much of that pro gram was ignored, watered down, or left as unfinished bus iness for next year. i Stinging Defeat The statement from the five senators said their party had suffered a "stinging political de feat" in this week's special Wis consin senatorial election, in which Democrat William E." Proxmire defeated former Re publican Gov. Walter J. Kohler. They said that contest proved that the GOP had been unable to show clearly "the results of divided authority between the executive and legislative branch es." Tht Republicans said "few truly constructive pieces of leg islation" were enacted on the heels of Eisenhower's landslide reelection last year. They blamed the result on "the inability of a deeply divided Democratic party to act responsibly without resort to political jockeying for partisan advantage." Seattle Men Appear In District Court William Jack Lesman, 27, and Henry A. Foster. 25, both of Seattle, appeared in district court Fridav afternoon on charges of unlawful possession of narcotics- The arraignment was contin ued until 9 a.m. Tuesday for them to obtain counsel. Bail was set at $5,000 each. Lessman end Foster were ar rested by late police Friday after they "jumped" an officer who arrested thenfonjthe high way for a traffic violation. Portland RP Portland re corded its 25th traffic fatality of the year Friday afternoon when Frank Brock, 81, Portland, died of Injuries suffered when he was struck by a car Aug. 18. Blue Skies Greet Fair As Governor Cuts Ribbon Salem XPi Sunny skies greet ed the first visitors to Oregon's 92nd State Fair here Saturday as Gov. Robert D. Holmes cut the ribbon which officially open ed the eight-day event. On hand at the 8 a.m. opening were a bevy of new fair officials including Fair Board Chairman John H. Travis, member. Mrs. Elmer Berg, Ursel C Narver, Del Milne, V. A. Roush and Fair Manager Howard Maple. Even as the gates opened there were some winners. Sweepstakes prize in the invitational art divi sion was taken hy Frederick Hei del. Portland State college art instructor, for his modernistic "Eugene Landscape." Royal Bradbury, San Francis co, took first prize in the pho tography salon where more than 250 prints were hung. Eest of the fair award in the national crochet contest went to Mrs. George Maynard, Grants Pass, for a tablecloth. Champion pen of poultry among Future Farmers was tx- SAFETY DEVICE, Eagle Point School Superintendent Glen Hale explains the opera tion of a new" loud speaker system installed on one of the system's new school buses. The system pipes sound inside , and outside the bus, enabling the driver to speak to students School Buses Carry 6,000 Students Daily When Jackson county's schools start opening right after the Labor Day holiday, many of the children will travel on buses. Last year, the 75 buses in the county traveled about 800,000 miles carrying 6,000 students daily. District 6C, which includes Central Point, Gold Hill and Sam's Valley areas, maintains the largest fleet of buses. The 17 buses transport about 1,400 students more than 1,000 miles per day. The second largest transporting district is Eagle Point, which operated nine buses a total of 76,000 miles a year carrying some 600 stu dents daily. Most all oth'er districts in the county operate and maintain at least one bus, many of them more than that. Routing Determined Routing and schedules for the buses are determined by school administrators. Routing is giv en considerable attention to pro vide the most convenient trans portation to the majority of pupils. Several buses travel two, sometimes three different routes duing the day. Various routes and schedules are changed during the school year to offer more economical and efficient means of student transportation, and administra tors welcome any suggestion that may further this end, coun ty school officials pointed out. Buses operated within the county are regularly inspected to insure safe operation under all weather conditions and are kept in top mechanical order. They are subject to qualifica tions of structure and safety set forth by the secretary of state. Minimum safety requirements include emergency exits, first aid kits, fire extinguishers, and signal flags or flares. In purchasing buses, primary consideration is given to safety. Other factors are efficient and economical operation, reason able unit cost to the purchaser, and uniformity of construction. There are administrative hibited by Larry Parrl Dayton, with other FFA prizes going to Jack Bigeu, Canby: Allen Bene dict. Dayton, and Gary Mulette, St. Paul. Early judging was set today on foods exhibits, halter class racing horses and honey bees. Grand opening of the expand ed garden and floral show was at 11 a.m. with Superintendent Eunice Brandt reportinng her area overflowing with exhibits. A new pool and lagoon set off displays and 12 awards were given for landscape designs. Monte Brooks' band scheduled concerts at 1 and 5 p.m. and horse racing was set for 1:15 p.m. Free midway shows are at 3 p.m., 6 p.m., and 10 pm. The combined horse show and rodeo and the night stage revue fea turing the Ames Brothers both go on at p.m. Exhibitors at the fair include 17 Oregon counties. Two other counties were turned away for lack of space. problems in providing school transportation. The state board of education has published a booklet available to the public which covers many of these problems and clarifies the re sponsiblity of school officials to provide transportation to pupils. - Items included in the publi cations are rules governing the transportation of prive or paro chial school students, provision of board and room for pupils in lieu of transportation, and pay ment, to parents .for transport ing their own pupils. Ike To Vacation At Newport, R.I. Washington (IP) President Eisenhower will follow congress out of town Wednesday for his delayed vacation at Newport, R.I., the White House announced Saturday. The President and Mrs. Eisen hower are scheduled to board the .Columbine III here at 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday for a lVz hour flight to the Quonset, R.I., naval base. They will take the presidential yacht "Barbara Anne" for the short voyage to their vacaton retreat. On advice of her doctors, Mrs. Eisenhower "reluctantly" will skip a civic reception to welcome the chief executive to historic Newport, White House News Secretary James C. Hagerty said. . Instead, the. "Barbara Anne" will drop the first lady ' off at Coaster's Harbor island naval base, where the Eisenhowers will spend their vacation, and the president will proceed alone to Newport for a drive through the town and the reception at Colony House. The president will hold a news conference Tuesday morning, Hagerty said. Eisenhower will be prepared then he said, to as: sess the legislative record of the first session of the 85th congress. Preliminary Hearing Adjourned Friday A preliminary hearing for Leonard Eugene Steege, 24, of 401 East 12th st., was adjourned at 3:20 p.m. in district court Friday until 9:30 a.m. Wednes day. Steege is charged with rape. He was arrested by sheriff's deputies with two other men af ter an 18-year-old Oklahoma City, Okla., girl entered an as sault complaint. Business Offices, Stores Closed Monday Most business and offices in Medford will close and the Mail Tribune will not publish tomorrow in observance of Labor Day. Labor Day has its begin nings in 1882 when the Knights of Labor, an Ameri can worker's organization, de cided to call the first Monday in September by that name. State legislatures were asked to make the day a legal holi day, and Oregon was the first to do so in 1887. All other 'slates now ob serve Labor Day. crossing the road. Also pictured are (left to right) Don Ashpole, Ernie Redington, and A. E. (Spike) Mallory, all veteran Eagle Point bus drivers. Redington also serves as bus mechanic. Two Red Leaders Assigned to Jobs Away from Moscow Moscow (IP) The Kremlin rid itself of Lazar Kaganovich, the third of the ousted "anti party" Soviet leaders, by assign ing him to run a cement factory in the remote Ural mountains, it was learned Saturday. Word of banishment for for mer first deputy premier to the Ural industrial center of Asbest followed the announcement Fri day night that former foreign minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov had been ordered to take over as ambassador to the Soviet-recognized republic on Mongolia. A minor post that was a far cry from his old preeminence as di rector of all Soviet foreign af fairs. Former premier Georgi Mal enkov already had been assign ed to a post as head of a power station in isolated Kazakhstan, on the fringe of Siberia. No Announcement There has been no official announcement as yet concern ing Kaganovich who, with Molo tov, Malenkov and former for eign minister Dmitri T. Shepilov, Molotov's successor, was ousted from the party's presidium and lost his government job as well last June. Soviet party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev capped a campaign of accusations against the four some by charging that Malenkov had been "a weapon in the hands of" executed secret police chief Lavrenti Beria who was shot for treason in 1953. Malenkov's exact whereabouts were not known. - It was believed that both Mol otov and Kaganovich were still in the capital, preparing to leave for the jobs which will isolate them from Moscow, the heart of the Soviet Union by about 3,000 miles. A government spokesman said Molotov would leave accord ing to his own plans. The spokesman refused to comment on the Kaganovich ap pointment. But it was to be an nounced formally on back pages of Soviet newspapers. 17th Season of Shakespearean Festival Ends With Ceremony, Attendance, Record Ashland The 17th season of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival closed - last night with the traditional ceremony and a new attendance record. Following the play, "Othello," the Festival singers sang "Green sleeves," and Richard Graham presented the "Our revels now are ended" speech from "The Tempest." The entire company circled the audience with light ed candles, singing the final chorus of "Greensleeves." New lyrics were ' written for the song by . Ellen Kay, a mem ber of the 1957 company. Today, company members will assemble at the theater to assist in packing and storing equip ment for the winter months. William Patton, Festival gen eral manager, said a total of 24, 472 attended the five plays pre sented during August. The fig ure represents an increase of 24 per cent over tht number last Nuclear Blast Spreads Clouds. Over Pour States Pen-TomicTorce ' Starts Maneuver ; Atomic Test Site, Nev. MW The second most potent nuclear blast ever triggered in the United States shot a hellish glow over western states before dawn Sat urday and spun out four radio active clouds at different alti tudes across four of those states. . It also set in motion an armed forces nuclear-age maneuver in which 1,000 soldiers and airmen were lifted byv helicpoter in a "pen-tomic" task force attack on a theoretical invading force line that had been punched open by the monster nuclear "battlefield" detonation. Seizure Reported The task force command re ported seizure, mop-up and con trol of the mock objective was accomplished in "startlingly" short time within two hours, well short of the time originally scheduled for the operation. It took . a delicate balancing of the weather reports by the AEC, plus a half-hour postpone ment of the scheduled trigger ing, to bring about the firing of what the Atomic Energy com mission said was a "most sensi tive" nuclear device. A frightful incandescense that lit the skies of California, Ne vada, Arizona, and Utah healded the powerful detonation at 5:30 a.m. (PDT). The blast disinter grated the 700-foot tower atop which the device was cradled in a metal cab. It was the highest tower ever used for a continent al atomic experiment. This was the 15"th such test for the spring summer series that originally was scheduled to include 20 shots. Kick Calculated It was calculated to have a kick equal to 50,000 tons of TNT. A rocking shock wave socked the telephone booths on news IS oh where newsmen witnessing the "public" test were telephon ing their stories. The noise of the blast was heard 150 miles distant. The AEC said firing of an atomic device with the equival ent of 10,000 tons of TNT has been scheduled at the Nevada proving grounds shortly before dawn Tuesday. AEC officials said the device, named "Galileo," would be the 16th full-scale shot of the cur rent series and would be fired atop a 500-fool: high steel tower. Exact time for the firing was not set. Strike Settlement Helps Lumber Market Settlement of a building trades strike in southern Cali fornia has helped lumber pro ducers in southern Oregon and Northern California to some ex tent, although buying has been spasmodic, according to Crow's Lumber Marked News Service, Portland. This was one of the few bright spots in an otherwise de pressed lumber market through out the state, according to Crow's and another lumber market service, Random Lengths, of Eugene. . Sanded plywood is moving in good volume, the letter agreed, with prices firm at $68, but sheathing is moving slowly. Crow's reported the fir mark et continued to slide in the face of an increase in freight rates and scattered wage boosts, and Radom Lengths said the week featured slow demand and weakening prices. year. A total of 19,729 attended the plays in 1956, he said, and point ed out that weather was unfavor able. One performance, "Romeo and Juliet," was not staged last year because lightning struck the theater knocking out power. Rain fell on other nights last year, and cool temperatures dis couraged a large attendance, he noted. The only threat of inclement weather this year was Thursday night when it rained prior to "Pericles, Prince of Tyre." By curtain time, however, skies had cleared. Figures for the past four years show a steady increase in at tendance. In 1955, when weather was favorable for outdoor per formance. attendance totaled 20,282; in 1954, a total of 18,476 saw the plays, .and in 1953, 15, 158 attended Festival plays, Pat ton said. "Yeah, I Mentioned Your Name Governor's To Come Wednesday Fourteen persons will be in Gov. Robert Holmes party when he arrives here Wednesday for conferences on industrial devel opment for Oregon. In addition to the governor, there will be Julius Jensen, ex ecutive director of the Oregon planning and development de partment; Harry Schenck, assist ant director; Tom Wright, press aide to the governor; Ivan Bloch, Portland development firm ex ecutive and consultant to the department, and Sid Woodbury, chairman of the advisory com mittee to the department. Also in the National Guard plane which brings the governor will be two Portland newspaper men, and a radio man and a TV man, as well as Col. Carl Cover, the governor's military aide, and the three National Guard air craft crewmen. Conference Slated Most important event of his short visit will be the 10 a.m. conference at the Medford arm ory, when presentations giving ideas for attracting industry to Oregon will be given ,by the Jatikson County Chamber of Commerce, and probably by the chambers in Grants Pass and Ashland. The public is invited to attend, and individuals are also invited to present their ideas or ask questions of the planners, or of members of a panel of experts who also will be on hand. These will include Frank D. Morgan, Roseburg, divisional highway engineer; Paul T. Row ell of the division of market de velopment; Tom Current, Salem, assistant labor commissioner, and John Patton, manager of the Medford office of the state em ployment service. Pierce To Preside Names of all those attending the meeting will be obtained, ac cording to Don McNeil, manager of the chamber here, who has made arrangements for the meet ing. Jennings Pierce, former chamber president, will be mas ter of ceremonies. At 12:15 p.m., a public lunch eon will be held at the Jackson hotel, at which time the morn- As You Like It" was the most popular play with audiences this year, according to total attend ance figures for individual plays. Staged eight times, a total of 7,618 saw the play, and on four occasions there were sell-out crowds. On Aug. 17, 1,117 patrons saw "As You Like It" in the first sell-out crowd, and on Aug. 21, 1,131 saw the play. A total of 1.093 saw it Aug. 25, and 1,110 attended Friday night's perform ance, Patton said. There are 1,093 seats in the outdoor the ater. Attendance at other plays this year included 6,038 ' attending "Othello," which was staged eight times; 4,941 attending "Henry VIII," which was pre sented seven times; 4,155 attend ing "The Two Gentlemen of Ve rona," which played six times; and 1,720 at the two performanc es of "Pericles, Princ of Tyrt." Party ing's findings will be summariz ed and if possible expanded. Those attending must have res ervations, which can be obtain ed Tuesday through the chamber office, telephone SP 2-6293. Earlier, the governor will make a formal inspection of the newly completed armory on Highway 99 south of Medford He was here for its dedication. but had no opportunity for a full and formal inspection. He also will confer .with officers of Med ford's two National Guard com panies. Catholic Bishops Forbidden Rites Vienna (IP) The Communist Hungarian government has ban ished two Roman Catholic bish ops to a remote village and has forbidden them to perform their religious duties as part of, its all-out campaign to crush the church, it was learned Saturday. The banishment of Bishops Bertalan Badalik of Veszprem and Josef Petery of Vac coincid ed with fresh attacks on the pri mate of Hungary, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who has been in asylum at the U.S. legation in Budapest since the Nov. 4 Soviet bloodbath crushed the Hungar ian revolution. Imre Miklos, deputy chairman of the government's church-state office, said the two bishops were sent to the northeast Hungarian village of Hejce where "they have full freedom." Miklos said Bishop Badalik was forbidden to perform his episcopal duties "only for some weeks" as he did not "observe some warnings of the govern ment." Bishop Petery "usurped his rights" as bishop during the counter-revolutionary uprising last year," Miklos said. Unions Face Problem As Labor Day Hears Washington, IP Labor Day, traditionally a time of re joicing for the American trade union movement, this year finds the AFL-CIO facing the tough est problem in its brief exist ence. The issue is corruption in the teamsters, bakers and united textile works unions, spotlight ed by the Senate Rackets com mittee under Sen. John L. Mc- Clellan (D-Ark.). Widespread public criticism of the labor movement and de mands for new laws to curb labor's power have resulted tee's disclosures an adverse tide union leaders will try and turn aside as they speak Mon day. Neuberger Chosen to Preside Over Senate Washington (IP) Senator Richard Neuberger (D-Ore.) was chosen by majority leadership to preside over the Senate in the vice president's chair when the gavel came down on the first session of the oam congress hers Friday night. " Traffic Deaths Reach First Day Record of 105 Alarm Expressed By Safety Council By UNITED PRESS Safety officials expressed alarm Saturday at the rapid rate of traffic deaths during the first day of the Labor Day holiday and feared the toll would run above estimates unless drivers slowed down. At midnight, (e.d.t.), 30 hours after the United Press fatality count began, it showed at least 105. persons dead in traffic, ac cidents. Besides, there were nine drownings and 10 deaths in mis cellaneous mishaps for an over all toll of 124. ' California registered a sharp rise in trafic deaths by states with 18, and authorities there said they have been running at a rate of one an hour since noon. Ohio was next with nine, and New York,. Pennsylvania, Texas and Michigan registered six apiece. Exceed 1956 Rate ' Traffic deaths exceeded th rate of the 1956 Labor Day hol iday, wnen united Press counted 84 fatalities in the first 24 and 437 for the entire weekend. The National Safety Council. which predicted 420 deaths for the three-day week end, urged drivers to be ever vigilant and "step up their care 'on the high ways. "We are concerned over the rapid pace of the early toll which will exceed our estimates unless the drivers slam on the brakes," said Ned H. Dearborn, Safety Council "president. Dearborn emphasized that motorists could hold down the death count on the nation's ar teries to 375 or Jess by using "extra patience and caution." One of the worst accidents re ported in the early hours occur red near Cairo, Ohio. Four Ohio teenagers were killed when their auto ran through a red light and crashed into a truck. The car was demolished. Parks, beaches and vacation spots were crowded as millions of Americans took advantage of the final fling of summer. Air Force Plane Crashes, Five Die El Paso, Tex. (IP) An Air Force C-124 Globemaster trans port plane, lurching through the blackness of a rainstorm toward " an airport runway, crashed,, broke up and burned Saturday. Five men were killed and 10 escaped with minor injuries. The giant, four-engined plane, in flight from Hunter Air Force base, Savannah, Ga., to Interna tional Airport in El Paso, was only two miles from the safety of a runway when it slammed into the semi-desert amid the cactus and mesquite. ' Officers at Biggs AFB, El Paso, to which the $1,700,000 plane was regularly assigned, said the pilot was making an instrument approach when he crashed. They did not know whether he was lower than he thought or wind slammed the plane against' the ground. The plane broke into three sections. The shaken survivors scrambled out frantically through the breaks and fled be fore seeping gasoline from the plane's ruptured tanks burst into flame. Miami (IP) The. weather bureau predicted three tropical storms may form during Sep tember in the hurricane-span ning area of the Caribbean sea or the Gulf of Mexico. Weather FORECAST Generally fair through Monday with r rasinnal high clouds, high Sunday M. Low 47. High Monay 90. TEMP. Highest Testerday 85 Lowest this Morning 45 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:36 a.m. Sunset - 6:46 p.m. The Moon sets - 11:39 p.m. and rides low. Highlights of the phenomena in the skies above this month will be the Full Moon next Sunday night (the Harvest Moon) and the appearance of Mercury as a morning star later in the month.
