I
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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high Wednesday 58.
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Lowest this Morning 38
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Sunset 5:19 p.m.
New Moon 8:43 p.m.
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of the Sun will he taking place
that will be visible in the Wed
dell Sea off Bruce Coast in
Antarctica. (The next total
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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
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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)