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22 Pages MED , otPTEMBER 6, 1957 No. 144
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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.
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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?"
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.