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OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1957
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Estimated Damage in
Fire About $70,000
The early Sunday morning
fire, which destroyed the Bruce
Bauer Lumber company, 765
South Riverside ave., Medford,
and damaged the S-W Floor
Cover shop, did an estimated
$70,000 damage, owners of the
firms said today.
The fire was reported about
12:40 a.m. Sunday, and firemen
were on the scene until 4 a.m.
Paul Bauer of the lumber
company estimated damage to
the firm's building and stock
about ' $60,000. Stock included
lumber, plywood, roofing mater
ials, paint and hardware among
all types of building material, he
said.
Corered by Insurance
Bauer said the loss was com
pletely covered by insurance,
and he conferred with insurance
adjustors today. He said the
company intends to rebuild as
soon as possible.
Cause of the fire has not been
determined, Bauer said, and
added he found no indications it
started from a trash fire. Insur
ance adjustors and company offi
cials continued to try to deter
mine the cause today, he said.
Fire Chief Gordon Barker yes
terday said reports to him had
indicated a trash fire may have
been the cause.
River Section of New
Freeway Has Priority
.Grants Pass The Grants
Pass-Gold Hill section of new
Highway 99 will have a con
struction priority over other
new sections In southern Ore
gon, Chamber of Commerce of
ficials here have been advised.
L. C. Hansen, chamber man
ager, has been advised the freeway-type
highway, to run along
the east side of the Rogue river,
and through the town of Rogue
River, will be built before the
freeway by-pass of the Medford
business district. He said For
rest Cooper, assistant state high
way engineer, made the state
ment during a talk at a session
of the Oregon Chamber Execu
tives organization.
Hansen said also the commis
sion expects to let a contract for
construction of a bridge across
the Rogue river at Seventh st.
in Grants Pass within a year.
Texas Rainfall To
Dwindle To Showers
By UNITED PRESS
Texas skies pumped new trans
fusions of heavy rain into al
ready overflowing rivers and
streams early today, but the
weather forecast indicated they
would dwindle into showers.
Both Southeastern Texas and
the Southwestern Louisiana
coast got heavy rainfall amounts.
Nearly 3 inches fell at Beau
mont. Tex., since Monday night,
and Houston received 3.77 inches.
Teamsters7 Attorney To Ask
Court To Set
Washington HP Teamsters
Union attorneys prepared today
to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals
to let James R. Hoffa take of
fice as union president.
Hoffa To Be Arraigned
The union's lawyers want the
court to set aside a temporary
federal district court in injunc
tion preventing Hoffa from tak
ing over command of the na
tion's largest union for 10 days.
The 44-year-old Hoffa, who
was planning to take over from
Dave Beck possibly today, also
was to be arraigned today in
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! partner in the S-W Floor Cover
shop, estimated damage to the
shop and stock between 510.000
and 515,000. He said it would be
a couple of days before a definite
figure is established, and added
that an inventory is now under
way.
Rear of Building
Damage to the floor covering
firm was limited to the rear of
the building. Linoleum rugs, tile,
asphalt and asbestos tile, carpets
and rug padding were among
supplies damaged, he said.
Waters said the fire will not
interfere with operation of the
business with the exception of a
few orders which were dam
aged. Those will be filled as
soon as possible, he said.
He commended the fire de
partment for its action in ex
tinguishing the fire in the floor
covering shop.
Sputnik Reported
Seen Over Portland
Portland W The Russian
rocket which launched Sputnik,
the earth satellite, was reported
seen over Portland at 5:16 a.m.
today.
Robert Boardwell of the Grout
school moonwatchers reported
seeing the third-stage rocket
which he said was ''brighter
than the north star." He said
that he did not see the Sputnik,
which is about three minutes
behind the rocket.
Boardwell said the rocket
traveled in a northwest to south
west direction and was visible
for about a minute. He said
a check with binoculars was
needed to help identify it. '"It
looked a lot like an airplane," he
said.
Boardwell said that he talked
to the Smithsonian Institute by
telephone this morning and that
his sighting had been confirmed.
The satellite rocket also was
reported seen at Depoe Bay at
5:15 a.m. by Ashton Roberts, a
Naval reserve pilot. He said it
was visible for about five min
utes and that it traveled toward
the southeast.
Man Pleads Innocent
To Mail Fraud Charge
Portland IF William S. In
gram, Oakland. Calif., today be
came the seventh person to
plead innocent to mail fraud
charges here in connection with
the Bailey Lumber company of
Eugene, now bankrupt.
The 'eighth person charged in
a 27-count indictment, Alfred
Bailey of Menlo Park, Calif.,
pleaded guilty and was sen
tenced to three years on proba
tion. Others scheduled for trial in
clude Richard G. Bailey, 36,
one-time president of the Eugene
firm. The eight were accused of
using false lumber sales invoices
as collateral for bank loans.
Aside Hoffa Injunction
New York on federal wiretap-
conspiracy and perjury charges.
His lawyers are seeking a post
ponement of trial on grounds
disclosures by the Senate Rack
ets Committee prejudiced
case against Hoffa.
Beck Staying In
Federal District Judge F.
Dickinson Letts signed the tem
porary injunction Monday con
tinuing Beck in office. Beck has
agreed to step down before his
term expires Dec. 1.
Letts held there was a chance
Hoffa would "consolidate un -
Eisenhower Given
Frank Evaluation
Of Research Vork
Scientists Meet
With President
Washington H? A group of
America's top scientists today
gave President Eisenhower a
frank evaluation of basic feder
al research in a multitude of
scientific fields.
The scientists were members
of the Science Advisory commit
tee. They apparently were under
strict orders not to discuss their
45-minute conference with the
chief executive.
Dulles Arrives
As the scientists filed out of
the west basement entrance of
the White House, Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles arriv
ed by limousine and went into
conference with the President.
Eisenhower's meeting with his
13-member science advisory
committee came against a back
drop of strong new demands
from two Democratic senators
for a speedup in the U. S. inter
continental ballistic missile pro
gram. The session with the scientists
was scheduled before the Rus
sians popped an artificial moon
into a globe-girdling orbit Oct.
4. But White House Press Sec
retary James C. Hagcrty said
missiles and satellites were on
the agenda.
Former Defense Secretary
Charles E. Wilson said Monday
he thinks this country has. kept
pace with Russia in military
strength in the past five years.
But he said it was a "matter
of opinion involving many fac
tors" whether America is strong
er than Russia now.
Symington States Disagreement
A far different view came
from Sen. Stuart Symington (D
Mo.). He declared Russia will
be able to bombard the United
States with ICBMs within two
or three years. He said it is
ahead of the United States.
Symington, a former Air
Force secretary and a member
of the Senate Armed Services
Committee said the administra
tion cutbacks, had slowed the
missiles programs. He renewed
his demand for a special session
of Congress Monday at a press
conference, asserting a "great
deal more" money can be used
profitably to speed up the pro-grain.
Krishna Menon Urges
Disarmament Plan
United Nations. N.Y. HP
Indian Defense Minister V. K.
Krishna Menon pressed the
United States and the Soviet
Union in secret talks today to
work out a compromise plan on
disarmament.
The 60-year-old Indian diplo
mat had been scheduled to be
the main speaker in today's dis
armament debate in the main
political committee. But he post
poned his appearance until Wed
nesday in hopes today's behind-the-scenes
talks would bear
fruit.
Krishna Menon talked Mon
day with U. S. Ambassador Hen
ry Cabot Lodge and UN Secre
tary General Dag Hammar
skjold. He was understood to have a
dinner engagement tonight with
Harold E. Stassen, President Eis
enhower's disarmament expert,
and Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko.
Three Youngsters Hurt
As Bus Goes Into Ditch
Salem HP Three teen-agers
buffered minor injuries Monday
when a Salem school district bus
slid into a ditch about a mile
east of Brooks.
Only five students were on the
bus at the time of the accident
which occurred when a soft
shoulder gave way. Injured were
Linda Morley, 16; her sister, Di
anna, 14, and Louella Smith, 15.
Honolulu OP Local military
sources speculate that Britain
was preparing for new hydrogen
bomb tests following a Royal
Air Force order requesting all
U.S. aircraft to bypass the area
surrounding Christmas Island.
Appeals
lawfully acquired power" if al
lowed to take office with a slate
of handpicked vice presidents.
Letts ordered the union to
show cause next Monday why
the-Uhe election and other businesses
at the- Teamsters' recent Miami
Beach convention should not be
nullified. Hoffa was victorious
by a 3-to-l margin.
Election Allegedly 'Rigged'
The judge acted on a plea by
13 rank-and-file Teamsters who
charged that the election was
'rigged" so that Hoffa could not
'lose.
Booster Unit
Falls Off Weapon
1,000 Feet in Air
Military, Public
Officials View Test
White Sands Proving Ground,
N.M. HP The first public fir
ing of the Navy's Talos anti
aircraft missile failed today
when a booster unit fell off the
weapon at 1,000 feet.
Firing of the second Talos
missile was cancelled.
The firing was delayed until
shortly after 10 a.m. (MST) by
overcast skies.
The firing was carried out
before a large number of mili
tary and public officials and
newsmen. A B17 drone aircraft
guided by radar controls was the
target.
Can Carry Atomic Head
When the booster unit failed,
the missile was permitted to
continue into an impact area of
the range, propelled by its ram
jet engine.
Although capable of carrying
an atomic warhead at super
sonic speed hiahcr than any
known bomber can fly, the mis
sile fired today carried no ex
plosive or nuclear charge.
The drone plane was flying
at high altitude about 25 miles
away from the launching area.
A spokesman said the missile
would be tested here at least 18
more months.
Land-Based Version
Prior to the firing, the Navy
turned over the weapon to the
Army for land-based '" use. The
missile under test is a land
based version of the Navy's
Talos shipboard missile system.
If further tests warrant, the
Army plans to incorporate the
Talos into the nation's air de
fense network.
The Navy announced that the
Talos in its first test firing in
1954 reached supersonic speed
and shot down a target at 25
miles. But informed sources
have estimated its slant range
now at about 100 miles and its
speed at about 1,000 miles per
hour.
Court Reversals May
Result in New Trials
Washington HP The Justice
department said today two Com
munist leaders whose convic
tions were reversed by the Su
preme court Monday "will un
doubtedly be re-tried."
The reversals, however, will
delay for probably a year a final
ruling on the constitutionality
of the Smith act's "membership
clause." This part of the law was
challenged by the pair Claude
M. Lightfoot of Chicago and Ju
nius Irving Scales of the Caro
linas. The Scales-Lightfoot cases
were included in an avalanche
of orders announced Monday by
the court on appeals piled up
during its summer recess.
Pistol-Draw Contest
Leaves Hunter Dead
Dayton, Wash. HP A pistol
drawing contest between two
brothers was fatal to one Monday
during a hunting trip 15 miles
southeast of here. Columbia
County Sheriff E. E. Warwick
reported.
The victim was identified as
Carroll F. Edwards. 37, Everett,
who was killed when a pistol
held by his brother Duane, 28,
was discharged accidentally.
Warwick said the third mem
ber of the party, Norman Lefest,
Snohomish, told him that the
brothers had often engaged in
contests to see who was quickest
to draw a pistol from a holster.
However, he added, the guns had
never been loaded in previous
contests.
The shooting occurred while
the men were preparing break
fast in their tent on Maloney
mountain, the sheriff said.
Collapse of Building
Fatal To J I in India
Calcutta, India HP Eleven
persons were killed when a 100-year-old
two-story building col
lapsed early today. Among the
victims were six members of
one family.
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THEY'LL SOON BE ON THEIR OWN The nine Negro students attending Central
High School in Little Rock, Ark., are now escorted by only a handful of Guardsmen
in comparison to the hundred or so men who escorted them last week. The Negro
children are in their third week at the formerly all-white schooL
Treasurer's Office
Receives Quarter
Check From Stale
The Jackson county treasurer's
office received a first quarter
check for 5132,170.99 by mail
this morning as the county's
share of the state highway fund.
The payment was for the quar
ter from July 1, 1957, to Sept.
30, 1957.
The money comes from fees
received by the state for motor
vehicle and operator registration,
vehicle fuels taxes, carrier fees
anj fines. It. will be -placed- in
the county's motor license fund
and transferred to the County's
general roads fund by court or
der, a spokesman for the county
treasurer's office said.
The amount apportioned out
by the state is based on the num
ber of cars registered in the
county during the previous year.
There were 37,521 cars regis
tered in Jackson county in, 1956
on which this fiscal year's fees
are based.
The county received 5136.982.
80 for its share of the state high
way fund for the same quarter
the previous fiscal year. It was
54,812.81 more than the current
quarter's check. However, the
1956 registration of 37,521 ve
hicles, the basis used for figur
ing this year's apportionment,
is 1,073 more than the 36,448 ve
hicles registered in 1955, the ba
sis for the previous year's fund
apportionment.
Possible explanation is that
less money was received by the
state because of smaller collec
tions of fines, gas taxes, and reg
istration fees, a spokesman said.
Respiratory Disease
In Half of Oregon
Portland (W The State
Board of Health said today that
reports from about the state in
dicate that an epidemic of res
piratory disease is now occurr
ing in about half the counties in
Oregon.
However, the board said there
was not yet enough evidence to
label it as Asan flu.
Statistics showed 2471 cases
of flu in Oregon last week, more
than any week in recent years.
Not all cases, of course, are re
ported. The board said the outbreak is
well ahead of the normal flu sea
son. The last comparable out
break was in December of 1943.
The number of confirmed
Asian flu cases in Oregon
reached 49 today.
Ike To Meet With
Southern Congressmen
Washington HP! President
Eisenhower agreed today to meet
with five Republican congress
men from the South to discuss
the possibility of withdrawing
all federal troops from Little
Rock, Ark.
The conference was requested
by the five Republicans in a
telegram to the President last
Thursday.
Sports Bulletin
Portland 'IP Tommy
Heath, ex-manager of Sacra
mento's Solons, today . was
named as new field manager
and general manager of the
Portland Beavers of the Paci
fic Coast league.
rushchev Warns
On
anger of War
By UNITED PRESS
Soviet Communist party boss
West today that the Turkish-Syrian crisis might develop into a
third world war.
The warning was contained in similarly worded letters lo the
Socialist parties of Western Eur.pe, with the governing Danish
Social Democratic party in Copenhagen the first to release the
details.
The latest move in the Moscow propaganda campaign in the
Middle Eastern situation came amid these other developments:
Well-informed diplomats in Cairo said that Egypt sent military
forces into Syria to head off the possibility of the Soviet Union
sending "volunteers" to that country.
An official spokesman for the joint Egyptian-Syrian military
command said today Egypt sent heavy armor and f oviet-built jets
to Syria primarily "to participate in any war operations with the
Syrian army."
ueen's Motorcade
Tours Ottawa, Quebec
Ottawa HP) Queen Eliza
beth put her foot on the soil
of old French Canada for the
first time during her present
tour today when she and Prince
Philip went to Hull on the Que
bec side of the Ottawa river
and signed the city's Golden
Book.
The stop in Hull was the first
of several which she made in
the course of a two-hour motor
cade through the streets of the
capital here and the Quebec
pulp and paper mill city.
The climax of the tour was
the ribbon-snipping ceremony in
which her majesty officially op
ened the new Queensway ex
pressway, a new by-pass route
intended to relieve the major
traffic congestion problem of the
Canadian capital.
Mayor .Greets Her
In the ceremonies at the Hull
City Hall Her Majesty and
Prince Philip were met at the
steps by Mayor Thomas Mon
cion and taken directly into the
Council Chamber where she
signed the city's Golden Book.
The Queen was given the same
pen for the signing ceremony
which she had used when sign
ing the book six years ago as
Princess Elizabeth. The Hull au
thorities had kept it in the city's
archives.
Some 4,000 persons crowded
into the square around the City
Hall to watch the colorful cere
mony. Houses in the district dis
played a picturesque balance of
red ensigns and white and blue
provincial flags.
Goes To U.S. Wednesday
Troops of the Hull Regiment
lined the streets along the royal
route. As Her Majesty came in
sight, the band of the Canadian
Guards played "God Save the
Queen."
Wednesday, shortly before
Weather
FORECAST: Fog in valley to
night. Clearing by mid-morning
Wednesday. Increasing
high cloudiness Wednesday
afternoon. Low tonight 38;
high Wednesday 68-70.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday x R4
Lowest this Morning 36
0jr Skies Tonight
Sunrise S:24 a.m.
Sunset 5:30 p.m.
Moonrise 10:47 p.m.
Last Quarter Wednes
day 5:44 a.m.
PROMINENT STARS
Deneb. high overhead 7:13 p.m.
Fomalhaut. due south 9:28. p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Venus and Saturn, low
in southwest 6:14 p.m.
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Nikita Khrushchev warned the
noon they will depart by plane
for Jamestown and Williams
burg, Va. first stops on a . six
day visit to the United States. If
the reception there even half
wa. matches the welcome their
Canadian realm accorded them,
one thing is sure the royal
couple can return to London
Oct. 21, tired but happy after a
whale of a party.
Architects Asked
To Submit Plans
Salem (IPi Architects were
invited by the State Board of
Control today to submit plans
for a new labor and industries
building on the Capitol Mall.
Applications should be direct
ed to John Richardson, director
of finance and administration.
The new building will be built
as soon as property in the Capitol
Mall opposite the highway de
partment building is cleared. A
church now on the property will
be vacated by January, 1959.
At the same time, the board
approved a general proposal
governing submitting of plans
for state institutional building.
The state finance director will
have charge of preliminary plan
ning and design, but final selec
tion of an architect will come
only after approval of the Board
of Control.
Collections in
48.9 Per Cent
The total collected in the
United Medford Crusade has
reached 561,269, or 48.9 per cent
of the goal of S123.130, accord
ing to pledges reported at yes
terday's UMC luncheon.
Robert A. Johnson, campaign
chairman, said the total now is
56,300 more than what was
pledged at this time in last
year's campaign.
The public employees division
reported it had reached 90.8 per
cent of its goal. Other division
reports were lumber, 61.4 per
cent complete: service, 56.7 per
cent: professional 53.8 per cent;
retail 42.9 per cent; distribu
tion 35.5 per cent; and commer
cial, 10.4 per cent. The special
gifts division reported 75.8 per
cent of its goal complete.
Russ Hoeue, reporting on the
lumber division, said Timber
Little Rock. Ark. HP) Maj.
Gen. Edwin Walker proceeded
slowly today to put into effect
Army Secretary Wilber M.
Brucker's order to fly half of
the Little Rock integration task
force back to Fort Campbell,
Ky.
Walker's headquarters worked
just as slowly on Brucker's order
to muster out 8,500 of the ap
proximately 10,000 Arkansas
National Guardsmen and Air
Guardsmen federalized when
1,000 troops from the 101st Air
borne Division were flown into
Little Rock, Sept. 24.
Mechanics Considerable
Capt. James E. Smith, a
spokesman for Walker, explain
ed that the mechanics of trans
lating Brucker's orders into de
tailed, specific orders for troop
movements were considerable.
The White House said today
that President Eisenhower ap
proved in advance Brucker's de
cision to cut in half the para
trooper force on duty.
The White House also said
the President hopes a solution
of the integration impasse "can
be reached and be reached as
soon as possible."
Army spokesmen refused to
discuss a report that all troops
may be withdrawn over the
week end, leaving local author
ities and federal agents with the
job of protecting nine Negroes
integrated into Central High
school.
Acted To Insure Integration
The 1.000 men from the tough
luist Airoorne Division were
flown in and the Arkansas Na
tional Guard federalized Sept.
24 by order of President Eis
enhower. The President acted then on
the advice of local authorities
who told him local police were
powerless to put down violence
and insure the integration of
Central High.
Brucker announced late Mon
day that "in recognition of the
generally orderly situation" now
prevailing in Little Rock he was
drastically cutting the military
force on integration duty.
Planners Call Special
Meeting October 28
The Medford planning com
mission will hold a special meet
ing Oct. 28 to consider calling
a hearing on a zone change and
to consider vacation of an alley
in the Consolidated addition.
The zone change request is
from class IA, single family, to
Class II, multiple family, in an
area in the Berrydale district.
A tentative plat of the West
wood subdivision extension was
approved, and action on a re
quest for an extension of Laur-sen-Gregg
subdivision was de
ferred until the county sanita
tion engineer approves a pro
posal of one septic tank per two
lots.
The commission recommended
annexation to the city to resi
dents on South Riverside ave.
seeking a sanitary sewer.
Pilot Escapes Crash
Of Plane in 5. F. Bay
San Francisco TP) A twin
engined F2H-3 Banshee jet
fighter from Alameda Naval Air
Station crash-landed in the bay
north of Treasure Island short
ly before noon today and the
pilot was immediately rescued
by a crash boat.
The pilot's name was not im
mediately revealed.
Salem (W Hugh R. Kirk
patrick, Navy veteran of World
War I, has been named by Gov.
Robert Holmes to head the an
nual Veterans Day celebration
Nov. 11 in Oregon.
UMC To fa!
of Goal
Products employees and firm
pledged 100 per cent more than
last year, and Chandler Drew,
John Porter, Arnold Kornstad
and Ralph Merton of Medford
Corporation said the firm was
100 per cent complete with gifts
totaling more than last year.
Others recognized were Ray
Mencke with the hardware sec
tion of the commercial division
near complete, Dick Henselman
with 90 per cent of the real
estate section reported, and Dean
Robertson with a large portion
of the unclassified section of the
distribution division complete.
Ed Haas introduced George
Tucker, California Oregon Pow
er company plant chapter lead
er, who noted that Copco em
ployees have contributed 56,500,
representing S700 more than was
donated at this time last year.