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IB fflHI 1I?MF fPfoKIOWPflfSir - . r I Baa:: "v. v ., .. . ,.: in ; : ' , , , GET FLU SHOTS H o s p i t a 1 staff members in this area were first on the priority list to get shots against Asian flu, so nor mal operation of the hospitals will not be impaired in case of an apidemic here. This particu Talent Irrigation District Ends '57 Watering Season The irrigation season in the Talent Irrigation district ended yesterday, and seasons in other districts probably will end later this month or early in October. Walter Hoffbuhr, secretary- manager of the Talent district, said patrons used about 20,000 acre feet during the "above average" season, which started with both Hiatt and Emigrant lakes at capacity. Gets Early Start He noted that the season started earlier, and there has been only a trace of rain in the past three months, but Hiatt lake still has 6,000 acre feet left. There are 144 acre feet in Emigrant lake, where bureau of reclamation engineers are drill ing test holes. " - Harold Sexton, secretary-man-agor of Rogue River Valley Irri gation district, said water will be cut off in the east sections of the district Sept. 29 in order that contractors may start work in the Bradshaw drop area. Sexton reminded water users of the district there would be no stock water in some areas from the time the district stops service and fall rains start. ' He noted there would be some water left when the season is completed, possibly the first week next month. He said the district had an adequate water supply and will have a good holdover for next year. Indications were that service in the Medford Irrigation dis trict would stop about Sept. 30 Phone Installers Conclude Strike New York (W A contract agreement ended today a four day strike of telephone equip ment installers that partially dis rupted long-distance telephone service across the nation. Federal mediator Walter Mag All telephone installation workers affected by the recent Western Electric company strike in the Medford .area were reported back to work" this morning. The company, a manufactur ing firm of Bell Telephone system, established several picket lines here. A few of the telephone company em ployees refused to cross the picket lines. Jack H. Creager, manager of the local office, said today. Except for installations, business continued as usual in Medford during the strike. giolo announced the settlement climaxing two days of marathon negotiations. Most of the 23,800 striking in stallers were expected to return to their jobs today. The install ers, members of the Communica tions Workers of America, are employed by the Western Elec tric Co., the manufacturing arm of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. They install tele phone equipment in telephone exchanges in all states with the exception of Maine, New Hamp shire, Vermont and Montana. The new contract, for two years, provides a 6 to 12-cent hourly pay increase; a . 25-cent-a-day increase in transfer allow ances and eliminates overnight travel whenever possible. In ad dition, the pact provides for a reopening clause after one year for discussions on wages and travel allowance. lar flu is a comparatively mild disease, and 'hospitalization of those afflicted is seldom neces sary, according to rounty health officer, Dr. Erin Merkle. Above, Dr. E. R. Durno administers a shot to Mrs. William H. Warren at Rogue Valley hospital, while Dean Asks Industry To Re-examine Rules Compulsory retirement rules based on age alone, without re gard to individual fitness, were assailed by Dean David E. Snod grass of the University of Calif ornia's Hastings College of Law, in an address prepared for the 34rd annual meeting of the Ore gon State Bar here today. The 63-year-old dean urged in dustry, "in the interest of the common good," to re-examine ar bitrary and inflexible retirement rules. "Chronological age," he stated, "is not the test of when a per son should be retired. Biological age should be the determining factor. One man is too old to do effective work at 55 or 60. Another, has not even reached his peak at 65." Cites Own College Dean Snodgrass cited his own i college of law, where the fac ulty includes 11 law professors discharged because of compul sory retirement rules at other schools and whose average age is now 72. They are members of the famed "65 Club" of the col lege. ' Snodgrass' address was pre pared for delivery at a conven tion luncheon meeting at Rogue Valley Country club, honoring Oregon judges. Otto J. Frohn- mayer, Medford attorney, was toastmaster. Members of the bar wound up the third business session of the convention this morning, reces sing about 11 a.m. The registra tion desk at the Medford hotel estimated today that about 300 lawyers . were registered last night, and the number may reach 400 by the meeting's end. Present at Luncheon Present for the luncheon to day were Chief Justice William C. Perry, of the Oregon supreme court, "and Mrs. Perry; and P. K. Hammond, president of the Ore gon circuit judges association. Tonight, lawyers will hear A. Cecil Snyder, chief justice of the supreme court of Puerto Rico. Snyder will speak at the annual dinner meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. in the National Guard armoiy. George Roberts, Med ford attorney, will be master of ceremonies. Members of the bar voted in their second business session yesterday afternoon to support an amendment to article VII of the state constitution. The amendment . has been approved by the legislature and will come before the electorate of Oregon on the 1958 ballot. It would allow the legislature to empower the supreme court to: (1) appoint retired judges of the supreme court or judges of Oregon City (IP) Mrs. Vida Robertson, of Molalla, will be recommended to the Clackamas county court as representative to the state Legislature in Sa lem. She would fill the vacancy left by the death of Herman Chindgren, also of Molalla. Council Adopts Amendment Which Allows The city council last night adopted an amendment to the bicycle ordinance which gives the municipal judge authority to impound bicycles for viola tions of traffic laws. The ordinance permits the judge to impound a bicycle for a period not to exceed seven days when a rider is found guilty of a violation of the ordinance. The amendment was adopted so police could maintain stricter enforcement of the ordinance. In the past fines not to exceed $10 have been imposed, but city cfficials pointed out that en Mrs. Allen King fills hypodermic needles to inoculate the rest of a long line of hospital staff mem bers. Out of about 120 employ ees of the hospital, 114 have re ceived shots. Several Medford physicians donated their time to administer the shots. courts inferior to the supreme court as temporary members of the supreme court; (2) appoint members of the bar as judges pro tempore of courts inferior to the supreme court; and (3)- assign judges of courts inferior to the supreme court to serve tempor arily outside the district for which they were elected. Relieve Crowded Conditions The amendment was proposed with the idea of relieving the crowded court dockets in Oregon by providing a means of appoint ing temporary judges. The bar also agreed to pre pare drafts of bills for introduc tion at the 1959 legislative ses sion on subjects referred to in the amendment, and submit these drafts for approval at the annual meeting of the bar in 1958. Action on these matters came during the report of the bar committee on judicial adminis tration. Bar members voted in support of proposed legislation which would bar payment to any claims against the estate of a de ceased person which are not filed within six months after the date of first publication of notice to creditors. A recommendation from the committee on habeus corpus was referred back to the committee. The committee had recommend ed that Senate Bill 472, concern ing post conviction procedure be ire-submitted to the state legisla ture in 1959. Gets Opposition The only report that evoked opposition this morning was given by the committee on mini mum fee schedules. The group assembled in the high school auditorium voted to refer back to the committee for. further study a recommendation on minimum fees for establishing guardians. The proposed basic minimum fee was $125. Several members on the floor stated they thought the figure was excessive and would cause bad public rela tions. The convention will conclude tomorrow. Law school alumni breakfasts and the annual break fast of the- Queen's Bench of Oregon will begin at 8 a.m., fol lowed by the fourth business session at 9:30 a.m. The committee on resolutions will offer its report at the con clusion of the business session. At the board of governors lunch eon at 12:15 p.m., new state of ficers and new members of the board will be introduced. Bar members will spend the rest of the day in recreation, with a softball game, social hour, inland clambake barbecue dinfier and tent show at the Elks picnic grounds on the Rogue river. The Jackson county Bar asso ciation is host for the conven tion. G. W. Kellington is presi dent for the local group. Impoundinq forcement of the fines would be meaningless or oppressive to children of bicycle age because there is no sanction to enforce the fine. Other past practices of en forcement has been the suspen sion of the bicycle's license. This would be impractical, since keep ing track of bicycles under sus pension would almost be impos sible, police said. Police Chief Charles P. Champlin said that by impound ing bicycles, riders would be more careful in riding. Police are attempting to "clamp down" on violators, he added. Bonnie Heaped bd Omitted' Gromyko Disclaims Russian Intention To Enter Affairs Nuclear Weapons Test Suspension Proposed United Nations, N.Y. (W Russia blamed the United States today for the crisis in Syria and the Middle East and disclaimed any intention by the Kremlin to meddle in internal affairs there. Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko, in a policy speech to the U.N. General As sembly, also: Proposed a suspension of nuclear weapons tests for two to three years. Would Outlaw Atomic Arms Proposed outlawing use of atomic and hydrogen arms for at least five years. Called for a "peaceful coex istence" agreement ' amons , all countries. Demanded that the U.N. end its concern with the situation in Hungary. Urged strengthening of the U.N. by dissolving "various blocs and military alliances." Declared that the authority of the U.N. is being undermined by the exclusion of Communist China. Russia's Security Gromyko, as grim and grumpy as when he won his diplomatic spurs as Russia's original "no man" in the U.N., fired back angrily at Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' demand Thursday that Russia cease med dling in the Middle East. "The Soviet Union," Gromyko said, "cannot place itself in the position of an impassive ob server while the Near and Mid dle East, an area close to the frontiers of the Soviet .Union, is being turned into a permanent hotbed of military conflicts. Their organizers should recog nize that the Soviet Union can not watch impassively over a situation which bears on its own security." Syria Provides Proof Syria, Gromyko said, hes been chosen "to be the object of im perialist aggression." "... If any further proof were needed that the Eisenhower-Dulles doctrine is completely hostile to the interest of the peo ple of the Near East, then the American action in regard to Syria provides that proof," he said. 11-Year-0ld Boy Killed in Bath Tub William Lee Greene, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey M. Fry, post office box 161, Hilts, Calif., was electrocuted in the bath tub at his home Thursday evening. Mrs. Fry had gone to the store while the boy took a bath, Siskiyou county sheriff's offi cers reported. When she return ed 10 minutes later she found the radio on and the boy dead. The boy was taken to the Ash land General hospital but at tempts to revive him failed. The boy was born Oct. 27, 1945, in Hurlong, Larsen coun ty, Calif. He is survived by his parents; a brother, David, 17-months; grandmother, Mrs. Nina Cecca relli and uncle, George Kane, both of Reno, Nev.; and an aunt, Mrs. Jack Madero, Susanville, Calif. " Funeral services will be held in the Hilts Community church Saturday, Sept. 21, at 10 a.m. with Litwiller Funeral home, Ashland, in charge. Interment will be in Reno, Nev. Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1957 for V : '.yy.y.-:-:-.-.-. ..: :x-::-:w:xv:-::-:-:-:-:v.v.' - . .... : - - GRADING UNDERWAY Work on the new Sears Roebuck and company building site, at the corner of Biddle rd. and East Jackson st. started this week as bulldozers and heavy earth mov ing equipment tore up the Traffic Signals Authorized for Three School Areas . Traffic signals at three school crossings in Medford were ap proved by the city council last night. Lights will be installed at East Main st. and Keene Way, at East Jackson st. and Academy place, and at West Jackson and Holly sts. Cost of installation has been estimated at $1,410. Several con trollers purchased from Army surplus at Camp White will be used, according to Vernon Thome, nublic works director. The signal at Jackson and Holly sts. will be a "T" type signal. Overhead lights will con trol traffic moving both direc tions on Jackson st. and one direction on Holly st. Thorpe said the unit will operate on a fixed time basis with a caution light flashing when school is not in session. Walk-wait lights will be on both streets, he added. Fixed operation is planned for the signal at East Jackson st. and Academy place. Walk-wait signals will be installed on both streets. The installation and the Jackson and Holly sts. light will utilize surplus controllers.- The East Main st. and Keene Wav sienal will be operated by a push button. A caution light will flash for East Mam st. irai fic until the button is pushed tn nnerate the red-green cycle. The installation will be for two overhead signals and two walk wait tvrje. -one to be installed on each side of Main st. Weather FORECAST: Fair with little temperature change over week end. Low tonight 45. High Saturday 82. Sunday near 80. Temp. Hiehest Yesterday .'5. Lowest this Morning ' ' 41 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . 5:5S a.m. Sunset ; 6:13 p.m. The moon rises Satur day 3:24 a.m. in the constellation, Leo. Sew Moon Sept. 23 PROMINENT STAR Reulus. near the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets 7:17 p.m. Saturn, low in south west 7:51 p.m. Mercury, low In east 4:59 a.m. United ynaim Crisis ground on the 28-acre tract. The first task is to level the area prior to filling with creek run gravel' to create a four-way slope. Above, Bud Wampler, of Ashland, grading . foreman for Butress and McClellan, general contractors, holds his hand at Contract for Work on Storm Sewer Awarded Coast Construction company, Eugene, was awarded a contract by the city council last night for the first segment of the six year storm sewer improvement program. The company bid $47,794.75, which was about 16 per cent more than the engineer's esti mate of $40,631.50. City Man ager Robert Duff recommended the bid be accepted. Duff said the city saved about $6,992.01 by rejecting previous bids, and furnishing pipe for the sewer. Bids opened in August all were rejected for being too high. The storm sewer will extend from Eighth and Hamilton sts., to Laurel st., then to Wall st., and follow 10th st. to Bear creek. It will be about 5,895 feet long. The storm sewer program will be financed by a general obli gation bond issue, which was ap proved by Medford voters last November. W. H. Conrad, Medford con tractor, was awarded a contract "Ezra, I Don't Know What Price 10 Cents Tribune Press Full Leased Wire 26 Pages States the approximate height of the finished surface. The entire 28 acres will be filled to an aver age depth of 3V2 feet, but the site of the Sears Roebuck build ing itself, will be filled first so that construction can get under way, according to Wampler, to construct sanitary sewer on Woodlawn ave. Conrad bid $8,425. Engineer's estimate was $8,772.50. A Woodlawn ave. sewer fund was created by the council. The council rejected bids on paving an alley in the Willeke addition. Two bids submitted for the work were more than the engineer's estimate. M. C. Lin inger's bid of $1,809.50 was about 33.5 per cent more than the estimate. Duff said residents in the area did not wish to pay the extra cost at this time, and recom mended bids be rejected. Salem OP) The State High way Commission has awarded a $256,373 contract to Birke meier Construction Company ot Miiwaukie for 26th avenue struc tures on the Harbor Drive-Washington county line section of the Pacific highway and Pacific highway west. There were eight higher bids on the federal aid interstate project. We'd Do Without You' Trio Walks Out As Judge Davies Rejects Motions Arkansas Governor Without Representation Little Rock, Ariz. OP) All three of Gov. Orval Faubus' law yers walked out of a federal courtroom today in the midst of a hearing on a petition to enjoin Faubus to integrate Central High school here. s U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davies turned down every motion that Faubus' attorneys entered. As he finally turned Newport. R.I. (IP) Presi dent Eisenhower was "deeply disappointed" today over the fact his conference with Ark ansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus last Saturday had apparently failed to produce a solution to the Little Rock integration controversy. . down two motions to dismiss the petition for an injunction, attorney Tom Harper arose. Asks To Be Excused Harper said he wanted to make a statement. He said he stood on the motions that had been denied and that in view of the denials, he and the other lawyers asked to be excused. He said they wanted no fur ther part of the proceedings. The other two lawyers are Kay Mat thews and Walter Pope of Little Rock. After they left, the court start ed taking testimony. The first witness was William G. Cooper Jr., president of the School Board, who said he knew noth ing about any impending vio lence at Central High and neither did the school board. Students Screened Faubus contended that he was not opposed to integration as such, but that he called out the National Guard at Central High to prevent violence he knew in tegration would provoke. Cooper said neither the school board nor other local authori ties had asked that the militia be called out. School Superintendent Virgil Blossom, as the second witness, sketched in the background of the plan to integrate Central High gradually. He explained how nine Negro students were carefully screened and trans ferred from their own schools to Central. No Violence Observed '"Have you learned of or ob served any racial violence?" U.S. Attorney Osro Cobb asked. Blossom, who has been school superintendent five years, said: "No." Faubus did not attend the hearing and he seemed to be without representation at the hearing after the departure of his lawyers. Therefore, it seem ed that the government had at least the technical right to ask for an injunction by default. Less than 30 minutes after court opened, Davies refused Faubus' request to step down and let another judge decide whether he should be enjoined. After a conference at his man sion with the lawyers, Faubus issued a statement that started, "Now begins the crucifixion . . and disclosed that he will appeal ' the injunction, which he as sumed to be certain. "Now begins the crucifixion, Faubus statement said. "There will be no cross-examination, no evidence for the otherside; so now, by the use of carefully se lected witnesses, the Justice De partment's case will be present ed, with the results a foregone conclusion." Fire Burns 18 Acres In Sterling Area Fire burned over 18 acres of grass and timber yesterday after noon in the Sterling area, state forestry department officials re ported. The blaze was reported about 12:45 p.m. and was controlled by 2:30 p.m., forest patrolmen said. Patrolmen were uncertain as to the cause but stated that the fire began in a grassy flat and spread to old logging slash be longing to Carl Hegler. About 14 acres of grass and four of tim ber were involved. The forest patrol had four tank trucks on the scene and Hegler had one. .
