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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.