Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 22, 1957, Image 1

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., October 22, 1957, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1957)

Page of 18 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (5.1 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 18 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextI omtracts for Talent Project' Authorized Award Washington 1" Interior Sec retary Fred A. Seaton said to ay Bureau of Reclamation con tracts totaling 54,179.387 in con Section with the Talent project in southern Oregon have been Authorized for award. They are for construction of the Howard Prairie delivery canal and Little Beaver Creek federal canal, and the Keene Creek dam and Green Springs power conduit on the Talent division. Rogue River federal reclamation project in Jackson county. The Howard Prairie - Little Beaver Creek contract was au thorized for award to Cherf Brothers, Inc., and others, Ephra ta. Wash., on a low bid of $1,235,057. Other bidders were Peter Kiewit Sons' Co. of Med ford. Sl.367.630, and Hall At water Inc., and others. Seattle, Sl.513.272. Bureau of Reclama tion engineers estimated cost at SI. 127,034. W. A. Dexheimer, commis sioner of reclamation, said that the work, consisting of about 8.9 ver Creek diversion dm and miles of concrete lined canal to other earthworks and construc- transport water to Keene Creek tion of supplementary structures, reservoir, rock fill for Little Bea- should be completed in 540 days. The Keene Creek - Green tie. for 52,894,330. Other bidders Springs contract was authorized were Kemper Construction Co.. for award to the Cheney Con- Los Angeles, $2,942,889 and struction Co., and others, Seat- Floyd Shofner, La Puenta, Calif., $2. 965.708. Bureau engineers' estimate was 52,412,867. Keene Creek dam will be an earthfill structure 580 feet long and 67 feet high. Other work under the contract will include excavation and construction of concrete-lined Cascade pressure tunnel and Green Springs tun ney, two six-foot diameter pres sure tunnels, connected by about a mile of five-foot inside diame ter pressure pipe with a capacity of 128 cubic feet per second. The job is scheduled for com- pletion in 600 days. The Talent division of the Rogue River project was author ized in 1954 to provide irriga tion to 4310 acres of land and a supplemental supply to about 10,030 acres already under irri gation near Ashland. The divi sion also is intended to provide a supplemental water supply to about 14,000 acres comprising the Medford and Rogue River irrigation districts near Medford. Construction on the Talent divi sion started in Sept. of 1956. 52nd Year EDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire Price 10 Cents Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 156 MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1957 18 Pages for M G Ike Prepares for Conference With British Minister Washington V President Eisenhower laid the groundwork today for high strategy talks with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, possibly to create a close scientific alliance coping with giant Russian ad vances in space missiles. The President summoned Sec retary of State Dulles to prepare for the three-day conference with Macmillan starting Wednesday. They also will discuss the sizzling Turkey-Syria dispute brought to a boil by Russian propaganda. Congressional Demands Backgrounding the talks were new congressional demands for pooling and increasing the Free Worlds scientific brains and manpower to meet the missile borne Soviet satellite. There also was a direct de mand to the President from Sen. Mike Moroney (D-Okla.) to re store immediately 5170,000.000 "meat axed" f r o m military weapons research and develop ment. Monroney, in a letter to Eisen hower, said it was imperative he revoke a "secret" order Aug. 17 effecting the cuts. Sputnik Called a Bauble An off note came from Presi dential Assistant Clarence B. Aandall. He dismissed Russia's Sputnik as a "silly bauble." He aid the United States could have' been first in putting up a satel lite if it had mixed its Sputnik program with military missiles. While the Russian moon en 3red its 19th day of circling the mirth, there were these other de velopments: Scientists at Smithsonian .strophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., said the sat ellite and the rocket which put it into orbit would be more vis ible over the United States dur ing the next three nights than jver before. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D 'ash.) proposed an eight-point Jlan to boost the scientific man power pool of North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations. Jroposes Civil Control Sen. Mike Mansfield (D Iont.) proposed a civilian organ ization of scientists to take over the U. S. missile phogram from the military. He said the govern ment also should subsidize the scientific education of "uniquely adaptable" students. There were reports in London that Macmillan would make a plea for the United States to share its atomic and missiles se crets with Britain. President Eisenhower called for close scientific teamwork be tween the two nations in a toast last week to visiting Queen Eliz abeth II. Two Ashland Youths Arrested by Police Two Ashland youths, one 16 years old and the other 17 years old, are being held in the Jack son county jail charged with de linquency which covers burglary and petit larceny, according to the Jackson county sheriff's of fice. They were arrested by Ash land police yesterday in connec tion with breaking into and en tering a cabin Saturday on Tol man creek rd. in Ashland owned by Col. Harold R. Jordan, 558 Holly st., Ashland. Margaret Truman Plans Return To Show Business Hollywood OP Margaret Tru man will return to show business Nov. 14 to star on "NBC Mati nee Theater." the network an nounced today. Hoffa May Be Kept Out of Office Until After Trial Washington UPt A federal judge apparently is ready to keep Teamster President James R. Hoffa from taking office until a trial determines if he was elected properly. Judge F. Dickinson Letts indi cated Monday he would issue a new injunction of some kind to keep Hoffa from taking over. Union lawyers, anticipating fur ther action by the judge, were preparing a quick appeal to a higher court. The judge refused to cancel a temporary injunction barring Hoffa from office. The injunc tion expires Thursday. Instead, he proceeded with a hearing on a request by a group SAGOM "Listen I Got A Good Damages Awarded to Crescent City Man A verdict in favor of the plain tiff was returned by the jury in U.S. District court last week end concluding a three-week civil trial which started Oct. 1. William R. Ritchie Jr. of Cres cent City, Calif., was awarded damages assessed at $173,066.42 by Federal Judge William East, Portland, in a suit against Rich ard Drew Lamb of the Magnolia Motor and Logging company and Magnolia Lumber corporation. Ritchie, in a complaint filed with the U.S. District court Sep tember, 1956, asked for damages in excess of $800,000 for work, labor and services; materials furnished; logging equipment loaned; and breach of agreement UMC Reaches 60.6 Per Cent of Goal The total pledged for the United Medford Crusade has reached $74,594. or 60.6 per cent of the $123,130 goal for this year, according to reports given at yesterday's weekly UMC luncheon. Robert A. Johnson, general chairman, said he believed that by next week, the UMC would have 75 per cent of its goal. Next week's luncheon will be at the Medford Elks club. The public employees division reached 100 per cent of its goal, and Elliott Becken, division leader, said the division will continue beyond its $9,769 goal to more than $10,000 before the campaign is completed. Russ Hogue of the lumber di vision said S. V. McQueen's loggers section is $50 more than their goal, and there still is a third of the solicitations out standing. Several sections in the commercial division have com pleted solicitations. Other divisions reporting yes terday included special gifts. 83 per cent complete; professional, 71 per cent; service, 66 per cent; lumber, 62 per cent; retail 54.3 per cent; distribution, 53 per cent; commercial. 20.4 per cent, and special events, 10 per cent. of rank-and-file teamsters from New York for a preliminary in junction placing the affairs, of the giant union under court su pervision. Teamster attorney Martin F. O'Donoghue contended that Letts erred in issuing the origi nal restraining order. But the 82-year-old judge over ruled all objections. The case centers on a claim by the 13 rebel union members that the recent union convention was "rigged" to insure the election of Hoffa as president. In support of their argument, they produced records subpoenaed from the convention credentials commit tee by the Senate Rackets com-mittea. 0) 2) 1 1 Mind To Walk Out Again' with the defendants during a period from Jan. 4, 1952, and June 16, 1954. 100 Exhibits More than 100 exhibits were entered as evidence in the trial. Attorneys for the plaintiff were Frank A. Bauman, Robert B. Duncan, and Luther W. Avery. Hugh B. Collins was attorney for Lamb and the Magnolia Lumber corporation, with Paul W. Haviland attorney for Mag nolia Lumber Sales company. The corporation is incorporated in Mississippi. According to the complaint. Lamb, resident of Ashland, and associated with the Magnolia firms, hired the plaintiff in 1951 to perform certain construction and logging operations in Pec wan area, Humboldt county, Calif., on property owned by Lamb through Magnolia Lumber Sales company. According to an alleged agree ment, the records show, all costs and expenses of the plaintiff were to be paid by check upon the account of Ritchie Logging company and that defendants would either make necessary de posits to cover or arrange with the bank to meet any overdraft. Withholding Taxes The complaint further states that in 1953 representatives from the collector of internal revenue informed Ritchie of approximate ly $25,000 unpaid withholding taxes. In March, 1954, the bu reau of internal revenue seized several items of equipment at the logging camp, including per sonal property of Ritchie, and was later sold by the govern ment. The complaint said that the defendants were informed of the delinquent taxes and had as sured plaintiff that they would be paid. It further states that following the equipment sale Lamb agreed to assume the amount owing the bank on them. In September, 1954, Ritchie terminated his services with Lamb. The defendants alleged that thev loaned to the plaintiff $323,342.43 during 1952 through 1954 and claimed that $145,883. 41 remains unpaid. Missile Test-Fired; Vanguard Postponed Cape Canaveral, Fla. ttP) The Air Force fired a small, fast missile today but delayed the long awaited test of the satellite launching Vanguard rocket. Observers at the scene said the missile that streaked out over the Atlantic ocean toward the downrange tracking stations was either a Bomarc or a Snark. The Bomarc is a jet-propelled surface-to-air anti-aircraft mis sile and the Snark is a sub-sonic pilotless plane. The missile left a vapor trail in the sky despite 30-mile an hour winds that pounded the coast and apparently further de layed the launching of the Van guard missile. .tf estimation Turkey, Israel Must Do Likewise, Leader Declares United Nations, N.Y. (IB A powerful Syrian leader pledged today that Syria would admit a United Nations War Investi gation Commission to its terri tory if Turkey and Israel would do the same. The promise was made in Damascus by Syrian Speaker of Parliament Akram Hourani as the General Assembly here pre pared to open debate on charges by Syria and Russia that the United States is prodding Tur key into attacking Syria. Syria has proposed that the United Nations send an inves tigating committee to Turkey to look into an alleged buildup of forces on the Syrian border. However, the suggestion had not been put into the form of a resolution in advance of today's session. Wants Impartial Chairman Hourani told United Press Staff Correspondent Peter Webb that U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold should head up any such investigating commit tee because he "is impartial." He said if Turkey and Israel would let such a committee onto their soil, "Syria will give ac cess to any place in Syria." The immediacy of the Middle East crisis took the spotlight from the disarmament debate which resumed in the main poli tical committee. Jules Moch, France's disarmament expert, was the only speaker listed. Syrian Foreign Minister Salah El Bitar, who has been in close consultation with other Arab leaders and members of the So viet bloc, was expected to lead off the Middle East debate. Teachers Institute Slated Tomorrow Schools in Jackson county will be closed tomorrow for the annual Jackson County Teach ers institute "at Medford High school. Classes in all schools will resume Thursday, Oct. 24. The institute will start at 8 a.m. with registration. The Cra ter High school band, under the direction of Norman Carothers, and McLoughlin Junior High school mixed chorus, directed by Ray Lewjs, will participate in the program. John Houser will discuss "Ed ucating the Pupil for Today's World" at 9:15 a.m., and Lee Ragsdale will talk on "Teachers Credit Union" at 10:20 a.m. Other morning speakers will be David Frohnmayer, who will discuss his experiences while living with a European family last summer and Frank Jenkins, publisher of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, will talk on "How to Read a Newspaper." Starting at 1:30 p.m.. C. C. Seavey will talk on the "Power ! from Cosmic Space," and G. R. Durham will discuss "The Three Illusions." The institute is scheduled to close about 3 p.m. Salem (IP) Harold Johnson, Astoria, is the new chairman of the Oregon Fish Commission. WEATHER FORECAST: General cloudinfM tonight and Wednesday, few lizht showers. Rain in valleys, rain changing to snow in mountains . Low tonight 40; high Wednesday 58. Temp. Highest Yesterdar S7 Lowest this Morning 38 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:33 a.m. Sunset 5:19 p.m. New Moon 8:43 p.m. And at that time a total eclipse of the Sun will he taking place that will be visible in the Wed dell Sea off Bruce Coast in Antarctica. (The next total eclipse of the Sun visible in the United States will occur Oct. 2, 1959). innnfrw nn (g (gn V Z LZ3 LZs I Pledg es '.UKtNormtte' i 4 0 ' CYPRUS Tr. UTAKIA tv ' ., .......... - .:.- I ,i II -' . . x b me w w-m m m w I . . . . . .;.'..: . . . " A x . A 4- ' 4 4 ' ft 4 HAM ISRAELI mm. 9-1 v- - uhia .r rtrtittriktru - -v ! r . .. . ,. . ... . flMM 1' 1J0RPAN SWIRLING WAR CLOUDS' hover over Turkish port of 1s kenderun, once part of Syria. Units of U. S. Sixth Fleet are off shore as United Nations prepare to deb&te.(lnternational) Mollet May Be Asked To Form Government Paris (IP) The Socialist Party gave former Premier Guy Mol let , permission today to make a second attempt to form a new French government if asked by President Rene Coty. The break in the 22-day dead lock, worst in the nation's post war, history, could come later today when Mollet meets with former Independent Premier An toine Pinay. Coty asked them to bury their bitter political dif ferences for the sake of the country. Crisis Would Dissolve If they could reconcije their differences, Mollet's demands for new taxes and a price freeze and Pinay's call for no new taxes and freedom for prices, the crisis would dissolve. Their parties are the biggest outside the Communist Party and Coty desperately hoped for a, compromise that would put a strong government in power. But whether they could succeed Communists Asked To Account for Soldiers Panmunjom, Korea (IF The United Nations command de manded today that the Commu nists account for 1,084 Allied soldiers taken prisoner of war by the Communists in the Kor ean conflict. Maj. Gen. Homer L. Litzen berg, senior delegate to the UN Military Armistice Commission said the Communists thus far had only "cruelly frabricated" an accounting of 1,084 U. S. prisoners. He said the Communist must "have some knowledge of their fate." He cited the names of three American servicemen as an example of "only a few in instances in which the evidence of eyewittesses, the report of your own news services, or broadcasts of your slide showed beyond doubt that your side had information of the missing UN personnel." The Communists, led by North Korean Gen. Kook Rook, countercharged that the UN was forcibly holding" 93,742 Com munist prisoners of war. To Admit UN CorBimissioini mm i(n iflu - i .. , T 1 Irt . . . " ,. a QDAMASCUS was problematic; their political beliefs are entirely divergent. Their meeting was arranged after former Premier Robert Schuman failed in an attempt to organize a middle-of-the road government headed by his Catho lic Popular Republican party. However Schuman gave Coty a plan that he said might end the deepening financial crisis that has placed the nation on the verge of bankruptcy. Both Mollet and Pinay were studying this plan and Coty hoped they might come to agreement when they realized the nation's plight. Corvallis Tot Shot In Heck by Pistol Corvallis HP) Mary Beth Koski, 2V, was shot through the neck when she accidentally discharged a pistol in her fath er's car but suffered no serious consequences, police said today. The child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Koski of Cor vallis, had been left in the car Monday afternoon. A .22 caliber pistol' was on the car seat. The father said that when he return ed he found the child had been shot through the neck. He rushed her to a doctor who treated her and allowed her to go home. The doctor said the bullet en tered the neck just under the chin, passed through the fleshy part of the neck and emerged at the back. He said it was about as close as a bullet could come without inflicting serious in juries. Jacksonville Man Bound Over to Grand Jury Stanley McEvoy, 34, Jackson ville, was bound over to the grand jury from the district court yesterday afternoon, on charges of uttering and publish ing a false check and larceny by bailee. He is being held in the Jack son county jail on Sl,500 bail. McEvoy was arrested in Sparks, Nev., Oct. 17 on a warrent from the Jackson county sheriff's of.-fice. Eagle Point High School Closes Due To Pupil Absences Classes at Eagle Point High school were not held today be cause of the increased nunber of absences, according to Glenn Hale, superintendent of Eagle Point school district. Total nuhber absent at the close of classes yesterday after noon was 170 students out of a total enrollment of 287, he said. .The Jackson county health department reported a total of 266 cases of influensa last week, 147 of them in Ashland. Fifty-four cases were report ed in Medford, 26 in Rogue River, 20 in Shady Cove and 19 in Phoenix. Fifty other diseases, ranging from strep throat to German measles, were repored last week. Most of the absences have been from flu-like infections and colds, he added. Hale said the two-day vacation would give students time to help recover from colds. There are no classes in Jackson county schools tomorrow because of the teachers institute at Medford High school. 36 Go Home Yesterday morning, 134 stu dents were absent from Eagle Point High school, he said, and before the day was over, 36 more went home ill. The flu-like infec tions and colds have been most notable in upper grades, he said. In Eagle Point grade schools, there were 131 absent out of a total of 520 enrollments. Classes were held in grade and junior high schools today. . Hale said high school classes will resume Thursday, Oct. 24. In other valley schools, ab sences were more than normal, but in most of them, increased attendance was noted this week compared to last week. Medford Schools Attendance in Medford schools showed an increase over last week, school officials said. About 700 were absent yesterday, com pared to more than 900 last Fri day. Total enrollment in Med ford schools is about 5,554. In district 6C, Central Point schools, there were about 285 absent from Central Point tele mentary and junior high school and 70 out from Jewett elemen tary school today. Total enroll ment in the two schools is 1,100. Absences represent about 25 per cent of the total number of stu dents, according to school offi cials. Crater High school absences totaled about 100 today out of a total of 640 students. This is a little more than normal, of ficials said. At Phoenix High school, 30 were absent out of 206 students, while in the Phoenix grade schools, 93 were absent yester day from a total enrollment of about 553. Talent schools re ported 12 absent from high school yesterday and 58 absent from the grade schools. This compares with enrollments of 132 in the high school and about 346 in the grade schools. Giant Baking Of Taft-Hartley Violation Washington (W Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), of the Senate Rackets committee today accused the giant Continental Baking Co. of violating the Taft Hartley Act. Kennedy said Continental and W. R. Kitchin, head of the firm's Morton Frozen Foods Division, must have been aware they com mitted unfair labor practices in coercing employers not to join one union and later encouraging them to join another which sought much lower wages. The senator also charged that the company violated the Taft Hartley Act by secretly pon- Terrorists Hurl Explosives Badly Damaging Building Saigon OP) Left-wing terror ists hurled three bombs at American vehicles and installa tions in central Saigon today, wounding 19 persons including 13 U.S. Army officers and en listed men. The U.S. Information Service Building was badly damaged. The 13 soldiers were wounded ' in the explosion of two plastic bombs outside U.S. military bil lets here where the American Army is helping the government of South Viet Nam build up its strength against the Communist North. No one was reported injured in the blast which wrecked the library although the building contains apartments upstairs for U.S. Embassy employees. One bomb was hurled under an American military bus near the billets. Another exploded in a flower pot outside an Army hotel. The bombs were reported to be the same type of plastic bombs used by left-wing ele ments in outbursts of terrorism three years ago. Eight Seriously Injured Eight of the Americans were wounded so seriously they were being flown to Clark Field in Manila for hospital treatment. Five others were released after being treated at the U.S. Army dispensary. The first bomb, apparently a time bomb,- exploded at 7:25 a.m. (10:25 a.m. PST) outside Five Oceans Hotel, a U.S. mili tary billet. It injured American military men waiting for a bus. . The second bomb was hurled under a bus outside the Hotel Metropole at 7:40 a.m. The two hotels are about a mile apart. The third bomb exploded in side the U.S. Information Serv ice library at 1:05 p.m., knock ing down bookshelves and blast ing out windows. The library was closed at the time, a factor which averted casualties. Communists Suspected Some quarters believed the bombs may have been exploded by Communist elements to em barrass the Viet Nam govern ment during the current minis terial meeting at the Colombo Plan Conference. The bomb thrown at the bus from a passing automobile also injured four or five Chinese and Viet Namese on the street. An other Chinese was blown off his bicycle. He was treated at the site of the bombing. Authorities said the bomb used in the bus attack was a friction bomb in which explosion follows removal of the fuse safety cap. The bus was demolished but some passengers and the Vkt Namese driver escaped unhurt. Eyewitnesses at the Metropole Hotel said they saw' no one throw a bomb. Investigators be lieved the bomb was hurled from a passing automobile since there were few persons on the street at the time. The most seriously injured men were officers. All names were withheld pending notifica tion of next of kin. Informed sources said that no arrests were made by noon. Salem OH Wally Hunter, Portland, has been hired as pub licity director for the Republi can party in Oregon, State Sen. Lee Ohmart, Salem, announced today. Firm Accused soring what it termed a "spon taneous" committee of workers who successfully fought union organization. His charge came after witnes ses testified that employees of Chicago labor-relations consult ant Nathan W. Shefferman help ed freeze out the United Pack inghouse Workers at Morton's frozen pie plant at Webster City, Iowa. They said Shefferman then helped the Bakery Work ers Union to organize the Mor ton plant and write a "very poor" contract without consult ing the employees." (See Story on Pag t)