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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1957)
Teamsters Iwtei; Eomid StMDiois Bakers, Textiles : 1 j ------ ft vW & 11'" V r. ... PLAQUE PRESENTED Glen Snyder, Hills boro, member of the Oregon Public Health association awards committee, left, receives a plaque on behalf of Curtiss M. Evarts Jr., state sanitary engineer, who was unable to be pres ent. Presenting the plaque during last night's Construction Bids For SOC Buildings Due December 5 Bids will be opened at 11 a.m Dec. 5 in Portland by the Ore gon state board of higher educa tion for construction of a science-classroom building and a central heating plant at South ern Oregon college in Ashland. The buildings are part of a 20-year expansion program pro- posed by the college last year. Estimated cost of the overall program is between $2i and $3 million, college officials said. The two -story science class room building will be opposite the present library near a fac ulty parking lot, and the heat ing plant will be to the rear of the administration building. Reinforced Concrete The science building will have a partial basement for mechanical purposes, and con struction will be reinforced con crete vith concrete slabs at horizontal levels. The building will be heated from the. central system." The central heating plant will contain two low-pressure boilers, automatically oil-fired, with pro vision for addition of a third. Walk-in concrete tunnels will carry the lines to key distribu tion points on the campus from which underground distribution lines will extend to other build ings on the campus. About 1,500 feet of tunnel will be required. Eventually, all 1 buildings on the campus will be connected with the central heat ing plant, and present boilers in buildings will be adapted for stand-by status. Architect for the science building is Robert J. Keeney, Medford, and architect for the heating plant is J. Donald Kroe ker and associates, Portland. General Strike Cripples France Paris (w A 24-hour general strike by millions of workers to protest the rising cost of living crippled France today. The walkout was calm, with no incidents of violence report ed by late afternoon. But, for all its calm, it was a staggering blow to the nation's economy. ti DEDICATE TREE Medford Mayor John Snider and Dr. Ralph Victor, Seattle, representing the American Fields Service com mittee, are shown distributing dirt from Canada and Mexico around a United Nations tree at Hedrick Junior High school. The tree was rededicated in ceremonies yesterday in observ ance of United Nations day. The tree was planted in 1955, the 10th anniversary of the founding of United Nations. -Y 7XZJ2S& ft - A- -5", - , - a rat ceremonies at the Rogue Valley Country club were Dr. and Mrs. John Waterman, right. Dr. Waterman is psychiatrist with the state board of health. The plaque was presented during the association's banquet for "outstanding contribution to Oregon public health." Dr. Merkel Elected President of OPHA Dr A.. Erin Merkel, Jackson county public health officer, was named president of the Oregon Public Health association during its annual banquet last night at the Rogue Valley country club. Curtiss M. Everts Jr., state sanitary engineer for the Ore gon State Public Health associa tion's annual plaque award for the outstanding contribution to Oregon public health. Other officers named were Dr. Harold T. Osterrude, Lane coun ty public health department, vice president; Mrs. Christie Corbett, Oregon state board of health, secretary; and John Graham, Police Apprehend ish Early Today Lowell Allen Bish, 32, Med ford. who recently escaped from the Oregon state mental hospital at Salem, was taken into custody by a city police officer about 3:05 a.m. today after being stopped for a routine checks-po lice said. 1 Police said Bish was attempt ing to start an older model car stalled in the road at South Riv erside ave. and Barnett rd. when he was seen by a police officer. Bish asked the officer to help push his stalled car in an at tempt to start it. When Bish failed to produce a vehicle registration, and his driver's license was found to be illegible because of ink smears, he was ordered to place his hands on the fender of the police ve hicle where he was handcuffed and placed under arrest. Police later found the rifle used by Bish in a chase on Roxy Ann Thursday. The rifle was a .22 caliber single shot. Several rounds of ammunition were also found in the car, which had 1955 license tabs painted to look like 1958, police said. Bish is being held at the Jack son count jail pending action by the state. Chapman Planning To j Attend Special Session Coos Bay ilPi State Sen. R. F. Chapman, local Democrat who suffered a heart attack last week, has returned home from the hospital and said he planned to attend the special session of the Legislature opening next Monday. 1i I If 'If i fill I If tizJ& Multnomah county public health department, treasurer. Glen Snyder, Hillsboro, and member of the OSPHA awards committee, received the plaque in place of Everts, who was un able to be present. The presen tation was made jointly by Dr. and Mrs. John Waterman. Dr. Waterman is psychiatrist on the Oregon state board of health. Both were winners of the pre vious year's award. During the presentation Dr. Waterman related the accom plishments of Everts for which he was awarded the plaque. He was instrumental in setting up the State Sanitary Authority, air pollution authority, develop ing the division of sanitation and engineering, certification of wa ter and sewage plant operators. He developed the present food sanitation program in the state board of health, shellfish certifi cation. He has also influenced enactment of such state laws pertaining to public health as: fringe area sewage disposal, new sanitary district laws, shellfish certification and sanitarians, reg istration act. "His . reputation in the field of public health engineering and environmental sanitation is nation-wide," Dr. Waterman con tinued. He is chairman of the pollution control council of the Pacific Northwest. He served as head of the nation's new $500 million water pollution control program during its organization al phases. Continuing, Dr. Waterman said. "This morning Dr. Blank enship (Dr. Charles F. Blanken ship, western regional medical director, U. S. public health service) gave the keynote ad dress. Also, after our scholarly and most informative discussions on the atom and its relation to health it should be apparent to all who listened that the world can no longer be ruled by one man." Well-Defined Goals The need for well-defined goals in public health and the em ployment of principles to reach these goals outlined .by Dr. Blankenship was never more urgent. Dr. Waterman said. "In this newand complicated atomic age, health, its presenta tion, its principles and philoso phies are everybody's business and responsibility," he continued. "No one health officer, sanitar ian, nurse, social worker or health educator can afford to ignore the techniques so clearly emphasized by Dr. Blankenship." These, Dr. Waterman enumer ated, are incorporation of help and advice of all people, accept ance oi the responsibility to in terpret scientific aspects and needs of public - health in language everyone can under stand, adoption of an attitude of humility and the frank and soul searching realization that as a professional . worker in public health, he is truly a servant of the people. Committee Congratulated "The awards committee i to be congratulated for its selection of a recipient of this year's OPHA award who closely exem plifies these ideals," Dr. Water man concluded. This morning's general session of the association included a talk by Curtiss M. Everts on "New Developments in Water Pollu tion Control." "A Legislator Looks at Public Health" by State Senator Carl Francis, Dayton; and a panel on "Single Greatest Obstacle or Problem to Over come in the Next Five Years Except Money," and a discussion entitled. "Leveling Public Health." The session was scheduled to adjourn at 3 p.m. following sec tion meetings during lunch and a fourth general session which included a conference summary by Dr. Blankenship, and a busi ness meeting. Ike, Macmillan Set To Seek Free World Alliance Science Fold Would Include 40 Nations Washington (U1 Presi dent Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced today the forging of a U.S.-Brilish brainpower alliance for the rocket era. Ending-three days of "sum mit" conferences, they issued a communique which outlined plans for closer Anglo-American pooling of resources and sharing of defense tasks. Washington OP) Presi dent Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Mac millan were reported ready to day to seek a scientific alliance of 40 or more Free World na tions to counter Russia's new challenge. Outlines of the big two "grand concept" were ixpected to be revealed, at least in part, in the final communique slated for issuance at the close of the Ei-senhower-Macmillan talks late today. The President and Prime Minister were slated to hold the last of their three-day sessions at the White House this after noon. Their communique will con tain an "extensive report" on "measures to increase Anglo- American scientific-military co operation, officials said. It also will condemn Russian sabre rattling in the Mid-East and urge new steps toward peace in the explosive Bible lands. May Sound Optimistic The communique was almost certain to sound an optimistic note on U.S. and Allied scienti fic and weapons developments. The President and Prime Minister held their fourth meet ing Thursday night an in formal supper and conference at the White House. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd were present. Committees Created The President and Macmillan have already set in motion plans to step up cooperation in nuclear and military fields. Two top level committees composed of senior officials of both countires were created Thursday to study and make recommendations one in the nuclear fields and the other in the military field with emphasis on "missiles and rocketry." Informed sources said today the Anglo-American partners are considering spreading the bud ding new scientific entente in some degree to nations belong ing to the 15-nation North At lantic Treaty Organization, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza tion, the Baghdad Pact, the Western Hemisphere Treaty and ether defense arrangements. Managi er Denies Bats In Hospital Rooms Glenn Keyes, general man ager of Sacred Heart hospital, emphatically denied this morn ing that bads had ever flitted through any hospital rooms there. "There were bats in the attic and some had entered the chapel," he explained. "At no time, however, did they enter any of the rest of the hospital the surgery or rooms. The ex terminator worked ' on them from above the laundry and powerhouse." Keyes said he had received "from 30 to 40 calls" since an article on the bat problem at the hospital appeared in last night's Mail Tribune. Prospec tive patients and relatives of prospective patients .were in quiring whether the baft had been cleared out and if it was safe to be admitted to the hos pital, the administrator said. Last night's article, from a news source believed to be re liable, related how bats had been flying through the hospital until means of access had been sealed off. The liews story also reported that the exterminator was working on a means to keep them out of the hospital. Oregon Ranks Fifth In Aged Assistance Portland (IP) Oregon now ranks in fifth place among other states and possessions of the United States in its old age as sistance rate, State Welfare Ad ministrator Jeanne Jewett said today. Salem itP) An outbreak of Asian flu at Fairview home ap- peares to have leveled off. v DFORD, oared Exact Altitude Not Yet Figured By Scientists Mission Described As Successful Washington (IP) The Air Force announced today that its Project Farside rocket apparent ly soared more than 4,000 miles straight up seven times high er than Russia's Sputnik. Exactly how high the rocket went in its record-setting leap away from the earth last Mon day has not yet been calculated. But preliminary study indicates that it "successfully" accomp lished its mission of rising 4,000 miles above the earth's surface. The project's director said. Col Eugene C. Lavier, who di rected the rocket firing Monday at Eniwetok atoll, said the rocket could have exceeded the 4.000-mile mark, but he still isn't sure. He told a news conference that scientists still are completing their exhaustive study of data collected from the rocket by radio. Signal Faded But he said Dr. Morton- Al perin; who is in charge of this effort at Los Angeles, was quoted as saying the rocket's radio signal ' faded away eight minutes after it was fired, and came back 75 minutes later. "Dr. Alperin's statement of 75 minutes indicates it would have exceeded 4,000 miles," La vier said. "... One could conclude it had completed its mission suc cessionfully. Its mission was 4,000 miles." . Asked to guess how far it could have topped that altitude, Lavier, said "a few . hundred miles perhaps." He said he expects precise figures on the rocket's perform ance "momentarily." Authorities Search For Gunman Who Robbed Local Hotel Medford police are looking for a gunman who entered the Grand hotel, 202 North Front st., about 1:55 a.m. today, took $17.50 from the cash register, and then bound and gagged the night clerk. Police said the man entered the hotel and asked the night clerk, Richard Loyd Nelson, to change a $5 bill. Nelson told po lice that when he turned to face the man after making change, the man was pointing a silver colored pistol at him. Police said Nelson was told to stand aside while the gunman scooped all the money out of the till. He was told to turn around and place his hands behind him. The gunman then bound his hands with a wire clothes hang er and attempted to gag him with a dust cloth. Forced at Gunpoint Nelson was forced at gunpomt to accompany the gunman to the door where a light-colored late model car was waiting with another man in the driver's seat, according to police. They said the man ran to the car and got in. The car then sped down Front st., Nelson told police. Nelson managed to arouse a hotel guest and the police were called. They sent teletypes to alert Cave Junction and Yreka authorities. Additional officers were called to duty and police are now investigating several leads. Nelson told police he could not identify the driver of the car but said the holdup gunman was about 5 feet 6 inches tall, about 150 or 160 pounds, had a moderate Mexican accent, dark complexion and black hair. He was wearing a brown suit with no tie or hat, police said. Salem itPi Gov. Robert D. Holmes has proclaimed Nov. 11 for the annual observance of Veterans Day in Oregon. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER Apparently to 4, NEW SWITCHBOARD Replacing more than 30. individual telephone numbers of the various offices at the Jackson county courthouse, this newly-installed PBX unit was put into use at 6 a.m. today, giving county offices their first centralized tele phone system. Operator Mrs. Gaston Floux, seated, and Mrs. Robert Beadnel, service advisor for Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company, are shown above going over details of the oper ation of the new switchboard. Mrs. Floux, who is employed by the county, will also serve as courthouse receptionist. New tele phone number for all county offices is SPring 3-6211. An emer gency number for use after hours and on Saturdays and Sun days is SPring 3-2800. rficles Filed For ew General Hospital Articles of incorporation for a general hospital in Medford were filed this week in Salem and Jackson county. Signed by 20 Jackson county residents, articles name the organization the Southern Oregon General hospital of Medford. According to Robert A. Boyer, Medford attorney and one of the incorporators, the hospital will provide facilities where any per son licensed by the state may practice either medicine or sur gery, or any other system or method of healing . that is or may be legal in the state. The corporation is non-profit, Boyer said, with all earnings devoted : exclusively for charit able, scientific or educational purposes. Income for the hospi tal will be from . donations, he added, and said that a major fund raising drive will be an nounced in the near future. No estimate of its cost has been an nounced. Incorporators Listed Incorporators include Dr. Thomas C. Anderson, Richard J. House, Alan B. Holmes, Dr. Milton R. Snow, Dr. G. Scott Jen nings III, Dr. Cleatis D. Lemley, Boyer, Armond Richter, Robert McNeil, Robert L. Jones, and Robert A. Holmes, all Medford; Richard L. DeArmond, Dr. Ced ric T. Rambo, Dr. Edward V. Chance, and David S. Blair, all Rogue River; Dr. H. M. Fergu son and Ed Strothers, Shady Parade, Dance Set For Veterans Day A veterans breakfast, parade and dance have been planned by veterans organizations in this area for Veterans Day, Nov. 11. The breakfast is scheduled at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall on Front st. between 7 and 10 a.m. All persons, whether con nected with an organization or not, have been invited. The parade, in which all or ganizations will participate, will start at 11 a.m. from the library park. It will proceed west on Main st. to Hawthorne park, where short .memorial services are scheduled. A dance is scheduled at the Central Point American Legion hall starting -at 7:30 p.m. Re freshments will be available, veterans groups said. Olympia (IP) Unemploy ment in Washington may reach 100,000 early next year, the State Employment Security De partment predicts. 25, 1957 No. 159 Miles Cove; Erie L. Klein, Ashland, and Dr. A. A. Griffin; Jackson ville. .Dr. Lemley has been serving as chairman pro tern of the group, Boyer reported. He said that several meetings are held each month and that the group had been meeting for several months to lay plans for the hos pital. Porter to Arrive In Jackson County Congressman Charles O. Porter was scheduled to arrive in Jack son county today, and to speak to members of Jackson and Jose phine county Granges at 8 p.m. at Live Oak' Grange in Rogue River. His talk will deal with various aspects of basin development plans. Earlier, the Eugene represen tative was to visit Southern Ore gon college, tour a pear-packing plant, and hold conferences with a number of his constituents. His arrival was delayed un til early afternoon by engine trouble on a morning airliner from Eugene. He plans to re turn to Eugene early tomorrow morning. This will probably be his last visit to Jackson county before he returns to Washington. "We'll Show Vote of 25 To 4 Suspends Truckers For Keeping Hoffa Beck Calls Meeting Of Executive Boad Washington (IP) The AFL- CIO Executive Council, in a get-tough mood, called two more scandal-scarred unions on the carpet today following its su spension of the mighty Team sters Union. The council prepared to deal sternly with the corruption clouded 160,000-mcmber Bakery Workers and the 40,000-member United Textile Workers. The council voted Wednesday night 25 to 4 to suspend the 1,400,000-member trucking union for failing to give the gate to President-elect James R. Hoffa and a raft of other top officials accused of corruption. Only One Way Blunt-spoken AFL-CIO Presi dent George Meany made it clear there was only one way for the Teamsters to eet back into labor's official family: Purge Hoffa and the other marked of ficials and allow an AFL-CIO committee to supervise the union's housecleaning. If they refuse, the council warned, it will urge that the union, largest in the nation, be expelled outright at the federa tion's December convention. Teamster headquarters here announced that Dave Beck, the out-going president, has called a meeting, of the union's Execu tive Board in Seattle, next Wed nesday. The members are expected to consider plans for fighting ex pulsion and tactics to be em ployed if the AFL-CIO sets up a rival truck union. Meany said there was no talk among council members of set ting up a rival truck union. But he indicated such a move could come later. - A Hope To Escape Fate The Bakery and Textile Unions hoped to escape the Teamsters fate by citing "re forms" made in line with AFL CIO demands. Textile workers Secretary-Treasurer Lloyd Klen ert resigned last week after hav ing been accused by the AFL CIO of misusing union funds. But Bakery Workers Presi dent James G. Cross has refus ed to resign despite heavy at tacks from Senate rackets in vestigators, the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee and Bakers Vice President Daniel E. Con way. The council Thursday brush ed aside a request by the Team sters for a year's delay to give the union time to conduct its own clean-up. Suspension deprives the AFL CIO of about $80,000 in Team sters' dues and roughly one tenth of its 15,000,000 members. WEATHER FORECAST: Partial clearing to night with valley fog early Saturday morning; becoming partly cloudy during day. Low tonight 45. High Satur day 63. Temp. Highest Yesterday 64 Lowest this Morning 50 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today .08 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:36 a.m. Sunset i 5:15 p.m. Moonset 7:20 p.m. First Quarter Oct. 30 Saturn, the ringed planet, is now one billion miles from the Earth and is seen near the Moon tonight. Its rings can be observed with a three-inch telescope. Thoe Fellows" -i sa I 4
