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1 o)M m u A 52nd Year Medforp United Pre Full Leased Wire 22 Pages MED , otPTEMBER 6, 1957 No. 144 4 P " I READY FOR SCHOOL H. P. Jewett, center with hat, superintendent of school district 6C, and Charles Meyers, principal at Central Point ele mentary and junior high schools, talk with the district's mechanics, left to right, D. R. Hendric)c- coveinigeirs Cyrt Told Council Rejects Bids Submitted for Sform Sewer Work Nine bids submitted for con struction of the proposed Eighth and 10th st. storm sewers were rejected byt the city council as all being too high. The project, part of an over all six year plan, will be re advertised with the city furnish ing the concrete pipe necessary for installation. City officials noted that the lowest bid was 20.2 per cent more than the engineer's estim ate. Bids were opened . in late August. Bids were submitted by W. H. Conrad company, $82,141.25; Riverside C o n s t r uction com pany, $86,388; Salem Sand and Gravel company, $90,265.50; Everett Den Herder, $89,522.45; E and W Construction company, $92,771; M. C. Lininger and sons, $94,944; Keith Brothers Construction c o m p a ny, $100, 490; F. L. Somers, $108,825; and Fhoenix-Matthews, Inc., $124, 416. Engineer's estimate for the work was $68,319.25. City Man ager Robert Duff ' pointed out that the estimate may have been low, but city officials felt prices submitted were high. The proposed storm sewer will extend from Eighth and Hamil ton sts. toward Laurel st., then to Wall St., and to 10th st. It will follow 10th st. east to Bear creek. Monej to finance con struction of the sewer was ap proved by Medford voters last November in a bond election. (See Story on Page 7.) David C. Shaw Dies ai Eugene Eugene, Ore. HP David C. Shaw, professor of law at the University of Oregon and once an unsuccessful candidate for Congress from the Fourth Con gressional District, died here today, apparently of a heart attack. He was 49. Shaw, a lifelong Democrat, had been a member of the University faculty for about one year. He was a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law school. In 1954 Shaw was the Demo cratic nominee for Congress and made an unsuccessful effort to unseat incumbent Harris Ells worth of Rosebmurg. In 1956 he sought the nomination against Krp. Charles Porter of Eugene, who subsequently defeated Ellsworth. ftem Tk Medford Schools Will Start Classes Monday All Medford public schools open for the 1957-58 year Mon day, Sept. 9. - Medford High school and Hed rick and McLoughlin junior high schools will operate a full day Monday, with the cafeterias ppen for hot lunches. Students at Jackson, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt elemen tary schools will begin school Monday at 8:30 a.m., and follow ing registration and securing of books, will be dismissed until 1 p.m. At that time they will be placed in homerooms and ar rangements will be made for a regular full day of school Tues day. Milk Available The cafeteria will not operate at these schools Monday. Chil dren transported by school bus can bring sack lunches and re main at school, officials said. Milk will be available at the schooi. Working parents who cannot care for children during the period from initial registra tion to 1 p.m. can also send chil dren with sack lunches. The day begins at 8:30 a.m. at Oak Grove and West Side ele mentary schools, and cafeterias will serve hot lunches there. All elementary schools will be dismissed between 2 and 2:30 p.m. Students at both junior high schools will arrive at 8:30 a.m. each day. The formal school day ends at 3:20 p.m. at which time a 45-minute activity period be 'What About The Proteins Of Inner Space?" v ie wajmwi son, head mechanic, and Joe Morgan, assistant me chanic. The picture was taken recently after an inspection tour by school district officials. District 6C, which includes Central'Point, Sams Valley and Gold Hill schools, operates 17 buses for the six gins. School will be dismissed at During the'ear, students at Hedrick Junior high will spend one and one-half hours in the first class period, the first half hour a homeroom period for ori entation and announcements. Homeroom period at McLough lin is scheduled either before or after the noon lunch period, de pending on the grade level, of ficials said Two additional one hour per iods round out the morning, fol lowed by three class periods in the afternoon after lunch. There will be no study hall periods as such, officials pointed out. En tire classes will be periodically scheduled for the library. The 45-minute activity period enables interested students to take addi tional instruction in classes not I individually scheduled during the regular six penoa aay. aucn activities include band, orches tra, vocal music, intramural ath letics, woodshop, homemaking, conversational Spanish and oth ers. Supervised Study Except in laboratory classes, the last half of each regular class period will be devoted to super vised study under the teacher's direction. Medford High -school begins regularly at 8:30 a.m. and ends the formal day at 3 p.m., at which time the activity period of 45-minutes begins. Tribune schools, and is the largest transporting district in the county. Last year, an average of 1,400 students were carried daily on the district's buses for a total of 1,010 miles daily. School in District 6C starts Monday, Sept. 9. hois mt Affidavils Read At Hearing for William Girard Maebashi, Japan (IP) Two Japanese scrap metal pickers testified today at the trial of U.S. Army Specialist 3C William S.' Girard that many Americans fired shell casings at them and "laughed and clapped their hands when we ran away." The statements by. Noburo Matsuzawa and Mon-ya Hoshino were among 30 affidavits filed by the prosecution at the second session of the trial that has cre ated an international contro versy. Often Fired Blanks They said U.S. soldiers often fired blanks, shell casings and phosphorous grenades at Japa nese villagers who made their living selling used shell casings they picked up on thje Camp Weir firing range north of To kyo to sell as scrap metal. Girard, of Ottawa, 111., was charged with manslaughter af ter a shell casing fired from a grenade launcher attached to his rifle struck and killed Mrs. Naka Sakai, mother of six children. Offers Compensation The U. S. Army announced it offered Mrs. Sakai's bereaved husband a solatium (compensa tion) offer of $1,748.20, but that he turned it down. "I do not want to discuss money matters at this time," he said. It has been the custom in U. S. Japan relations in the past to offer payment for a solatium to individuals or the family in the7 event of injury or death through the action of a member of the U. S. forces. The second session of the in ternationally - observed trial opened in Maebashi District Court under the direction of Judge Yuzo Kawachi and two as sociate judges, who will hand down the final decision in the case. Arkansas Police To Discuss Decision Little Rock, Ark. flP) De fiant Gov. Orval E. Faubus an nounced today that he has or dered Arkansas State Police to discuss with federal authorities "certain evidence" upon which he based his decision to use state troops to prevent integra tion in Little Rock. The governor said he has re plied to a telegram from Presi dent Eisenhower with a promise that "I shall cooperate in up holding the Constitution of Ar kansas and the nation." Price 10 United Press full Leased WIr Case of Asiatic Flu Confirmed in Jackson County One case of Asiatic flue has been reported in Jackson coun ty, Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county public health officer, said today. Dr. Merkel returned from Portland this morning from a meeting oh Asian influenza which included public health representatives, members of the state medical society, and other interested groups. The Jackson county case was one of four in the state con firmed by blood examination. These are in addition to two or three other cases recently de termined by laboratory isolation of the virus. Dr.' " Merkel commented that Asian type flue still is consid ered a mild illness with less than' one per cent in the United States infected requiring hospi talization. The Jackson county case was hospitalized here for several days. Dr. Merkel said. Purpose of Meeting Purpose of yesterday's meet ing was to discuss some prob lems which might arise in case an epidemic spread to this state, Dr. Merkel said. The problem was approached from three categories. They are disease reporting and epidemic surveillance, vaccine promotion, and community planning for im pact of the epidemic. The first item is already func tioning. Under the second cate gory, considering discussion and recommendations were made re garding priority groups to re ceive the vaccine. Dr. Merkel sad according to latest information 12 million cc's of the Asian influenza vac cine will be made available in September with three million units going to the armed forces. It is estimated that about 85 mil lion cc's will be available by the end of the year. On a nation-wide basis the vaccine will be allocated, accord ing to present plans, on a popula tion basis. Oregon represents about one per cent of the total U.S. population, and would re ceive about one per cent of the vaccine. Counties in the state would receive allocations on a similar basis. New York (UWP) Anne Par rish, 68, author of "The Peren nial Bachelor" and other best selling novels, died Thursday. Weather FORECAST: Fair and w'm through Saturday. Low to night 55. Temp. Hiehest Yesterday 93 Lowest this Morning . 55 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . 5:41 a.m. Sunset 6:38 p.m. Moonrise 5:11p.m. Moonset Saturday 4:23 a.m. Full Moon (Harvest Moon) ' Sunday night EVENING STARS Venus, sets . 7:38 p.m. Saturn, low in south west 8:42 p.m. (there are now no planets to be- seen as morning stars) About 700 Deaths Expected in State From Flu Epidemic Board of Health Maps Combat Plans Portland (IP) Oregon faces the possibility of from 300,000 to 350,000 cases of Asiatic in fluenza this coming fall and winter and the chance of from 600 to 700 deaths if national epi demic and mortality rates hold true here. Those predictions were made here Thursday at a meeting of state health and medical author ities who mapped plans for com batting the expected epidemic. Vaccine Expected Dr. Harold "M. Erickson, state health officer, told the medics that Oregon should get about 90,000 shots of newly-developed vaccine in September and about 85,000 shots by Dec. 31. The vaccine, he said, provides pro tection against the Asiatic virus in about 70 per cent of cases. There are no government con trols on use of the vaccine but the doctors were given this set of recommended priorities: 1 Persons whose services are necesary to public health such as doctors, nurses and hos pital personnel. 2 A medical risk group in which the danger of death would be high, such as those with tuberculosis and other dis eases. 3 Persons essential to public services such as firemen, police, transportation employees and others. Later Strike Expected Dr. Samuel B. Osgood, state epidemiologist, said chances were good that the epidemic would strike Oregon later than in other parts of the nation. Past flu outbreaks in the state have struck from January to March, he said, with a peak in March. Local Man's Body Found Thursday Gold Beach (IP) Kenneth W. Fast, 48, Medford, was found dead Thursday at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff at Horse sign creek about five miles upstream from Agness in isolated country in the Illinois Valley area. Prospectors reported finding the body, and Curry County Sheriff R. G. Sabin sent a party of four men into the area last night. The party was headed by Deputy Sheriff Kenneth DJetz. They brought the body to Gold Beach, after making the trip to Agness by boat. Sabin said" Fast, whose bank account indicated he was from Des Moines, Iowa, before mov- ing to Medford, apparently had been prospecting in the area and was the victim of a slide. Authorities estimated the ac cident happened late Monday or early Tuesday. There are no roads into the area, sheriff's deputies sa'id. 'Bonus Baby" Test Shot Triggered at Yucca Flat Aton Angels Peak. Nev A "bonus" baby test shot dan gling from a balloon 500 feet over Yucca Flat was triggered by the Atomic Energy commis sion early today. The detonation, code-named "Wheeler" and 17th full-scale -I.- ...n.n! nt 4 Via 107 I test series, banged sharply from the platform beneath tne b7-ioot diameter aerial carrier at 4:45 a.m. (p.s.t.). Action on Bicycle Ordinance Postponed by Action on a proposed amend ment to the bicycle ordinance to provide stricter enforcement was postponed by the city coun cil last night. Councilman Donald Hansen initiated postponing action, and suggested that an additional amendment be drawn up in con nection with the ordinance sec tion which prohibits ridipg bi cycles on sidewalks in residen tial areas. Enforcement Device The amendment considered last night would add a section to the present ordinance providing for impounding bicycles as an effec tive enforcement device. It pro vided that bicycles be impound ed, at the discretion of the muni cipal judge, for a period not to exceed seven days. fcWN M HI i mi., jojj ARTHUR M. SAVARD Named CD Director Director of Civil Defense Appointed By Medford Mayor Lt. Col. Arthur M. Savard, Army retired, was appointed civil defense and disaster direc tor for Medford by Mayor John Snider last night. The appoint ment was approved by the city council. Mayor Snider pointed out that a disaster director is as im portant as a defense director, and cited the recent explosion in Reno, Nev., in which a dis aster director would be helpful. Col. Savard is at present chairman of the Jackson County Red Cross Disaster committee. Born in Omaha He was born in Omaha, Neb., and served in the Army from May 7, 1934, until his retire ment June 30, 1955. He served with the 25th infantry division in the South Pacific during World War II, participating in the Guadalcanal and New Georgia campaigns. Col. Savard is a graduate of the advanced officers schools in field artillery and quarter master, and of the command and general staff college. Be tween 1950 and 1953, he was deputy commandant of the quar termaster school in Europe. ' He was assigned to duty with the quartermaster training com mand at Ft. Lee, Va., upon his return from Europe, and served as chief of the reserve training branch until his retirement. Col. Savard has lived in Med ford since 1955. He is a member of the Kiwanis club, district chairman of the" Big Pines dis trict, Boy Scouts, and chairman of the Jackson county unit of the President's committee on employment of the physically handicapped. He is representative for the Equitable Life Assurance so ciety here. He and his family live at 1916 Stratford ave. Three Arraigned in Circuit Court Today Three Medford men charged rape were arraigned in Circuit cout this morning on grand, jury indictments. Scheduled to enter their pleas Monday are Leonard Eugene Steege, 24, of 401 East 12th st.; Larry William Irvin, 26, of 215 Willamette ave., and DaVrold Lewis Johnson, 26, of 619 Palm st. They are being held in the Jackson county jail in lieu of $5,000 bail. Both Steege and Irvin were bound over to the grand jury Wednesday. Johnson had been bound over previously. Council, Another Offered The ordinance now provides a fine not to exceed $10 or sus pension of the bicycle license. City officials pointed out, however, that fines are either meaningless or oppressive to children of bicycle age and there is no sanction to enforce pay ment of a fine. Suspending li censes, they pointed out, also would be ineffective, chiefly be cause of the problem of keep ig track of such suspensions and checking operation of bicycles with suspended licenses. Stricter Enforcement Police Chief Charles Cham plain . said the department is making an attempt to stricter enforcement of the ordinance, particularly toward violations which are definitely traffic hazards. Other Middle East Countries Included In Speed-Up Plan Russian Shipments To Syria Said Cause Washington OP) The United States announced officially to day that it is "expediting" de livery of arms to Jordan and some other Middle Eastern coun tries in the face of heavy Soviet arms shipments to Syria. A State Department spokes man said defensive weapons al ready are being moved but it is not known whether any actual ly have been delivered. Jordan is to receive air delivery of some anti-tank and other defen sive weapons Monday. Others Not Identified The department, would not identify countries other than Jordan receiving weapons under the speed-up plan. But it is known that Saudi Arabia and Iraq are included. Luther Reid, the department spokesman, told reporters: "We are expediting delivery of certain military items to Mid dle Eastern countries that have military assistance agreements with the U.S." Speed-Up Requested In reply to questions, he said the program got under way "some days . ago" and was un dertaken at the request of Mid dle Eastern countries. Officials said Jordan and oth er Middle Eastern countries had requested a speed-up in arms delivery because of the heavy buildup of Soviet arms in Syria. There is fear that the Russian weapons eventually will be used for aggressive purposes. Annual Bargain Days Start at M-T Bargain Days, The Mail Tribe une's annual event which allows subscribers to obtain subscrip tions at a reduced price, will be gin tomorrow and. continue through Monday, Sept. 16. During this period, annual subscriptions are available for $15 by carrier, $12 by mail, a $3 reduction from regular rates under both. Monthly billings are eliminat ed, and prices are reduced. Postage paid, addressed en velopes have been supplied to all subscribers of The Mail Trib une and may be mailed with a check for a year's subscription. Mail subscriptions will be proc essed rapidly. Girls Community Club Dedication Set Dedication of the new Girls Community club building will take place Sunday, Sept. 8, at the clubhouse. The ceremony, open to the public, will begin at 3 p.m. 1 Eugene Thorndike, member of the board of trustees for 25 years, will act as chairman and the Rev. George R. V. Bolster will give the invocation. Mayor John Snider and Leonard May- field will speak briefly. Tours of the building, located at 229 North Bartlett st., will be conducted by members of Alpha Beta chapter, Beta Sigma Phi sorority. Portland (IP) A secret feder al grand jury indictment charg ing seven men and a woman with mail fraud in a bank swin dle has been made public here. Amendment He said the department will warn children for a period of time before any other action is taken. Champlain said explana- tions of the ordinance and pur- pose of stricter enforcement will be made at school safety meet ings during the department's an nual visits to Medford schools. He said it would "be almost impossible to enforce" the ordi nance and would not be practi cal in cases where newsboys de livering papers ride bicycles on sidewalks. Riding on sidewalks is prohibited in the present ordi nance. An amendment suggested by Hansen would p'ermit bicycle riding on sidewalks in residen tial areas, but still prohibit it in the downtown or congested areas.
