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o Ifasigyard iissile Carrying U.S. Satellite To He Fire nosday 0 0 World O (Herblock Is Recommendations Get Little Opposition at Resources Meeting Little opposition wai voiced last night to recommendations for Rogue River basin water re sources development, presented publicly by subcommittees of the county water resources com mittee. About 100 persons attended the meeting at the courthouse auditorium! held to give the pub lic information about the studies made by eight subcommittees for the overall committee. Considerable discussion evolv ed around the report made by Francis Krouse, Applegate, the chairman of the flood control subcommittee. Some criticized the report for exaggerating the amount of flood damage caused by the Rogue river. One farm er pointed out it is difficult to .set a value on the land washed away by flood waters? '"Should you place the dollars and cents on the land according to what has been raised on it or what future crops might have been raised on it?" the farmer asked. O Questions Figures Col. Paul Weiland, Hedford, questioned some of the figures obtained from the bureau of rec lamation. However, Bill Jess, Eagle Point, water resources committee chairman, explained the flood stage gauge has been changed. Another member of the aud ience pointed out that consider able valuable timber and agri cultural land would have to be put under water if a large flood control dam were built. Jess pointed out that the committee's job was not to point out how flood control should be achiev ed; its job is just to point out the need. Another member of the aud ience pointed out that a dam on Lewis creek would put approx imately 150 dwelling units under water, plus some business estab lishments. Outlines Report Outlining his report on domes tic and municipal use of water, Robert Lee, Medford water sup erintendent, and chairman of the subcommittee, recommend ed that laws be established (guaranteeing to cities an ade quate supply of water from the county water sheds according to future estimated population needs. By the year 2007 he said municipal water systems will serve about 122,400 people and net annual water requirement in acre feet will be 31,215. . The committee report also rec ommended statutes be changed to allow industrial use of Rogue river water thus taking the burden off municipal water sup plies now serving industry. In answer to a question from the audience, Lee said that it is estimated at least 50 per cent of the present underground domes tic water supplies are unsatis factory. This is due to lack of quantity, pollution from surface water or hard or saline water, he explained. Phoenix, he said, has the only adequate under ground source. In making his report, Frank DeVoss, chairman of the fish and wildlife water use subcommittee, estimated wildlife returns a value estimated at S95 per acre a year. The figure from the bu reau of reclamation is based on the amount of money spent in . pursuit of wildlife by the hunter and the value of the meat taken, he said. The subcommittee report as made by DeVoss recommended Left Behind Copyrlht. 11S1 rhe Pulltw "'MIsMng Co.. St. Lcuis Post-Dispitch on Vacation) that a minimum flow of 1,800 cubic feet per second be main tained on the Rogue river to safe guard fish and wildlife. DeVoss also pointed out the esthetic values such as "the beauty of the country" around the Rogue river and the world wide reputation of the Rogue river as a fishing stream. Speaking for the supcommittee on industrial, mining and power use, Jerry Latham, Medford, stated that "the Rogue river and its tributaries represents the most important undeveloped re source in this area. It is the key to a planned and orderly eco nomic development of the basin," Latham stated. "A continued freeze uncJer present laws and regulations leaves the future to happenstance." Frozen Water Use The subcommittee recommend mended that present laws and regulation s be kept in force, which means water use would be frozen at its present level. It would be changed when forced to change by population, he said. The subcommittee also recom mended that present laws and regulations be relaxed to allow use by certain resource-oriented industries such as pulp and pa per manufacturing. However, Latham pointed out, certain safe guards would have to be estab lished to protect the river and its tributaries from pollution. Full development should start first with irrigation and recla mation of tillable land. This would stimulate population growth with the resulting de velopment of diversified indus try, it was pointed out in the re port. Speaking for the agriculture users subcommittee, Walter Hoffbuhr, said additional irriga tion is needed for land not cov- ered by present irrigation sys tems and the Talent irrigation project. By bringing such land under water and either increasing or starting in production more money would be brought into the county, Hoffbuhr said. This would apply particularly to the county taxes. The tax base would be broadened since higher assessments are made on irri gated land, he noted. Rochester, N.Y. OP Frank E. Gannett, who rose from a farm boy to a position of great prom inence in the newspaper world, died at his home here today. He was 81. Lew Wallace Plans To Seek Demo Governor Nomination Portland OPi Veteran Dem ocratic campaigner Lew Wallace said today he would seek . his paVty's nomination for governor in the 1958 May primary. Wallace, who was on the pri mary ballot in 1956 but threw his support to Gov. Robert D. Holmes, made known his plans in a telegram to Carl Gilson of La Grande, a long-time associate in election campaigns. Although he announced his withdrawal in 1956, Wallace polled a large number of votes and was a close second to Holmes in the primary. Urged by Many In his telegram to Gilson, Wallace said "many sound-minded Democrats have urged me to enter the coming primaries as a candidate for governor." "The confidence expressed by 52nd Year Medford United Pre Full Leased Wire 16 PAGES Hammarskjold in Isreal To Confer On Jordan Clashes Secretary-General Non-Committal Jerusalem, Israel IW A smiling but non-committal Dag Hammarskjold entered Israel to day for talks with this nation's leaders and ran into new charg es that Jordan had turned areas around Mount Scopus into an "armed fortress." . At the same time a Jordan spokesman said in Amman that an Israeli civilian who penetrat ed some 200 yards into Jordan Sunday was believed wounded by rifle fire as he fled back across the border. This was the latest report - in a recent series of border clashes which brought new Middle East tension. Seeks To Prevent War Hammarskjold came to the Middle East to try to prevent a series of Jordanian and Israeli clashes from flaring into war. A Jordanian blockade of the Is raeli enclave on Mount Scopus in Jordanian territory appeared to be the major stumbling block. The UN Secretary General talked for two days with King Hussein of Jordan, Premier Ib rahim Hashim and Foreign Min ister Samir Rifai Sunday and Monday but a joint communique gave no indication of major pro gress in the latest Mid-East trouble. f Wants Cooperation The communique said the Jor dan government wished to main tain fullest cooperation with the UN Truce Supervision organiza tion but it left unanswered the question whether Hammarskjold had bowed to a Jordan demand he oust truce supervisor Byron Leary, a U. S. Marine colonel, on charge he was "partial" to Israel. The communique said the dis cussions also covered the diffi culties recently arisen in respect to the Israeli convoy to Mount Scopus but it added that with the Jordanian views clarified Hammarskjold will not under take further steps intended to resolve the problem. Results of ASC Election Announced Results of the mail election of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation community c o m mitteemen last month have been announced by Harold Martin, manager of the local ASC office. Elected chairmen or their al ternates will meet Thursday, Dec. 12, to elect the county committee for 1958. This com mittee, Martin said, consists of a chairman, vice chairman, reg ular member and two alternates. Committeemen elected include: Applegate, Lance Offenbacher, chairman, Fred West, vicechair man, Clarence Buck, regular mmeber Ashland, Joe Duggan, chairman, Don Nichols, vice chairman, Jewel Lowe, regular member Central Point, Ray Vo gel, chairman, Edwin Gebhard, vicechairman, Lloyd Hammond, regular member; Eagle Point, Charles Stanley, chairman, Mer ton ' Bradshaw, vicechairman, John Ousterhout, regular mem ber; JacksonvilleMedford, Ar chie Ferns, chairman, Ralph Swingle, vicechairman, Charles Hockersmith, regular member; Rogue River, Glenn Chase, chair man, Glenn Birdseye, vicechair man, Charles White, regular member and Sams Valley, Al bert Straus, chairman, Earl Peff ley, vicechairman, and Burle Burreson, regular member. so many has prompted my de cision to become a candidate. My platform will be economy in government, reduction of taxes, backed by a strong program of sound administration and intel ligent leadership." Contributions Welcome He said he had a "modest sum" to spend for campaign ex penses. "Small contributions will be appreciated. I do not propose to buy the office of governor, but you realize a vigorius cam paign is costly." Wallace entered the 1956 pri mary but withdrew after he be came ill. However his name ap peared on the ballot and he car ried 23 of 36 counties. Holmes polled a big lead in Multnomah county to overcome Wallace's upstate strength. MEDFORD, MORE DEFEGSSE, FOREIGN AID SPENDING PROPOSED Ike, Advisers Lay Plans Before Congress Leaders Nuclear Secret Exchanges Included Washington (IP) President Eisenhower and his advisers laid before congressional leaders to day proposals for higher defense and foreign aid spending and exchanging nuclear weapons secrets with U.S. allies. The congressional leaders were told at a five-hour White House conference that the ad ministration wants to boost de fense spending next year by about $2 billion to about $40 billion and foreign aid spending by about a half billion to S31, 940,000,000 to meet Russia's space-age military challenge. President Eisenhower presid ed over the meeting for a total of about 2Vi hours. Vice Presi dent Richad M. Nixon presided the rest of the time. President Looks Well Conferees agreed that the President looked well despite the mild stroke he suffered Nov. 25. One conferee, Rep. James Van Zant (R-Pa.) said the congres sional leaders were told the ad ministration will ask for $4 bil lion defense budget next year. He said an accelerated -missile and other programs would cost "two billion dollars plus" over this year's defense budget of $38 billion. Chairman Harry S. Byrd (D-Va.) of the tax-writing Senate Finance committee, said there was no discussion of taxes and no firm discussion of possible increases in the $275 billion debt ceiling. Chairman Richard B. Russell (D.Ga.) of the Senate Armed Services committee said Chair man Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy commission out lined three proposed changes in the atomic energy act to permit greater sharing of some technical secrets with western allies. As for chances in Congress for the changes, Russell would not speculate "until I get more in formation than we got in there." Military Pay Increase Congressional leaders said aft er the meeting that these other proposals were put forward: An extension for five years of the reciprocal trade program which expires June 30. A military pay increase aim ed chiefly at keeping men skilled in science and technology in the armed forces. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson pledged that the administration's 1958 pro gram will be "promptly and seri ously considered" by Congress. He said the administration's five hour briefing was "very thor ough and comprehensive." Senate Republican leader Wil liam F. Knowland said there was a full and frank discussion of foreign policy, NATO, an other matters. Adlai E. Stevenson sat in on the first 90 minutes of the con ference which dealt, among oth er things, with plans the U.S. will put forward for strengthen ing the Atlantic-alliance at the NATO Summit meeting in Paris Dec. 16-18. The White House announced after the meeting that President Eisenhower had invited Steven son to go to the Paris meeting as a member of the U.S. dele gation. Stevenson said he was deferring his decision for a week to 10 days. There still was no decision on whether the President himself will go to Paris. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS HELP FIGHT TBI OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, .1957 FORESTERS MEET At a special meeting of forest service personnel in the Federal building today, plans were made to step up the sale of national forest timber in an effort to relieve local unemployment and to help get the industry on its feet. Additional funds appropriated to the Rogue River national for est recently will make it possible to sell the Benson To Stay; Plans To Continue Best Possible Job Washington-Jin Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson reaf firmed today that he is not going to resign and that he will con tinue "to do the best possible job" for farmers. Benson read a restatement of principles at a crowded news conference which had been bill ed in advance as "important." "Let me say right here that what I am about to say is a statement not of resignation but of resolution," Benson said. "You have heard. I have heard much speculation in re cent weeks on whether the sec retary of agriculture is a politi cal asset or liability," Benson continued. "I have been told this: 'What you say may be true, but then you don't have to be elected.' I have heard it said that 'Benson is basically right on the farm facts, but dead wrong po litically'." Benson said his personal plans are to continue as secretary of agriculture. "In September the President asked me to stay on," Benson said. "I agreed to dp so. Nothing that I know of has come up to change this understanding." Benson said his statement had not been cleared with President Eisenhower or Presidential As sistant Sherman Adams. "I cleared this with no one it is my statement," Benson said. "I did not discuss it with the White House." Benson was askedif he told the Cabinet about the statement at a -meeting Monday. "I did not," he said. Director Reelected In Water District Donald L. Bryan, incumbent director, was reelected for a five year term to the board of direc tors for Kings highway Water district yesterday. .Geraldean Graham, incumbent, was reelected to board of direc tors for the Maple Park Water district for a one-year term. Oth ers elected in the Maple Park district were 'Donald Kasper, five-year term, and Dale Durbin, four-year term. Results of elections in other water and fire districts was not immediately obtainable. WEATHER FORECAST: Vallev fog through Wednesday, except partial clearing in afternoon. Above fog, variable high clouds, temperature in fog. low to night 30, high Wednesday 40. above fog, low tonight 35, high Wednesday 50. Highest Yesterday 34 Lowest this Morning 30 Prec. to 4 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:23 a.m. Sunset 4:39 p.m. The Moon sets Wednes day 4:43 a.m. At that time the constellation of Orion will be in the south west with orange-red Betel geuse high above the three stars of the Belt and bright white Rigel well below them. Full Moon Dec. 6. Tribune - Plans For Stepping Up Timber Program Discussed by Rangers Plans for stepping up the tim ber sale program of the Rogue River National Forest are being discussed in a meeting today with the five district forest rang- High School Ticket Safes Called Fraud Fraudulent season tickets to Medford high school basketball games are apparently being sold in the city, Lee Ragsdale, high school athletic director, warned today. Ragsdale said reports have reached his office that persons have been approached to pur chase the tickets, which have not been issued by the school. He pointed out that season tickets may be purchased only at the high school office and are not being offered for sale through any other channels. Holders of last season's re served seats have until Dec. 20 to renew their seats, the athletic director said. This also may be done only at the high school office, he said. Resident Landowners Must Have Deer Tags Salem (W Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said today that resident landowners are re quired to have a deer tag and hunting license when hunting deer on their own land. Thornton said the Legislature made no exception for resident landowners. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York HP) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 441.55, off 0.36; 20 rail roads 101.65, off 0.580 15 uiil lies 67.52, up 0.06, and 65 stocks 148.2, off 0.20. Sales to day were about 2,060,000 shares compared with 2,430, 000 shares Monday. Roadblock Set Young Suspect Nabs 'Dangerous' Ex-Con Roseburg OP) A "dangerous" ex-convict, wanted for question ing about the shotgun wounding of a deputy sheriff in Tacoma, was captured Monday night at a roadblock which had been set up for a teen-age auto theft suspect. ' Police also captured the auto theft suspect, but only after he crashed through the roadblock. Block Near Winchester The road block was set up near Winchester about five miles north of here to snare David Wil son, 19, of Portland, who had eluded officers in Portland early Monday in a hail of bullets after police had gone to arrest him on an auto theft charge. But caught first in the road block was Wesley LeRoy Ritchie, 29. of Tacoma. Ritchie had been sought since Price 10' United Presi Full Leased Wlra No. 192 full allowable cut at reasonable prices. Dis cussing the problem with Rogue River Na tional forest supervisor Carroll Brown (cen ter) are, left to right, District Rangers Harold (Red) Thomas, Ashland; Vern Taylor, Apple gate; Rex Ressler, Union Creek, and Ralph Wiese, Butte Falls. A total of about 16 forest service, officials attended the meeting. ers, according to C. E. Brown, forest supervisor. Additional funds to be used for getting more timber onto the market recently were appro priated to the Rogue National Forest for this fiscal year, he said. Brown added the additional funds will make it possible to sell the full allowable cut of green timber, plus additional salvage material in scattered dead timber areas. Additional funds also will en able the local national forest to contribute a volume of raw ma terial needed to suDply the local timber industry and relieve some unemployment, Brown said. This will be the major objective of the selling program, he added. Striving for More Timber He said the forest service has been striving to get additional timber offered for sale at rea sonable prices during the cur rent period of unemployment to help the timber industry back on its feet. The service has advertised slightly less than 100 million board feet of .timber for sale since July 1 this year. About 84 million board of feet of this has been sold, he said. The rest, about 15 million board feet, is in a large tract on the Sturgis Fork Chance in the Applegate district. No bids were received on the tract and it will be reappraised, reflecting the reduction in mar ket price since the first adver tising period, Brown said. Most of the sold timber was bid above appraised prices, he added. On some of the winter logging chances, prices ran up to more than 50 per cent of the appraised and advertised price, he said. Brown added the objective is to appraise . national forest timber being offered for sale at prices that are fair so a normally effi cient operator can afford to pay under current operating condi tions and then let competitive bidding decide who buys the tract. . Up Near Winchester For late Sunday night after Deputy Sheriff Harold V. Knabel was wounded in the face by a shot gun blast when he started to get out of his patrol car to shake down a suspicious car near Ta coma. Safety glass on his car took the brunt of the blast and his in juries were minor. Spotted in Eugene Afterwards a car was stolen from the Fircrest district near Tacoma. The car was spotted in Eugene early Monday and police gave chase. The driver fled on foot after piling up the car. Police said Ritchie was hitch hiking when apprehended at the roadblock shortly after 8 p.m. Police said Ritchie took a sawed-off shotgun from under his coat and threw it out of the car in which he had hitched a Everything Said In Readiness for Historic Firing . Mechanical 'Bugs' Believed Eradicated Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IP) All is in readiness for the his toric firing Wednesday of a slen der rocket carrying America's hopes of duplicating Russia's leap into space, a Navy spokes man said today. If there have been any last minute mechanical bugs in the Navy's Vanguard missile, they have been of a minor and incon sequential nature, a source close to the firing operation said. Weather Could Interfere Only the weather could inter fere with the firing, now expect ed for 5 a.m. (pst) Wednesday. A weather front is expected to roll across the missile launch ing site sometime in the after noon but too late to interfere with the firing of it goes off at the morning hour. The Navy source said every thing in connection with th) launching of the 72-foot, three stage rocket that will attempt to orbit America's six-inch baby moon is proceeding according to plan. ' O Meeting Space Challenge Several final checkouts were being repeated, however, to aim at perfection in the all-important satellite effort. Another source said that if anything had been wrong with the Vanguard it must have been strictly of a minor nature and had been corrected because there was not change in the fir ing schedule. It requires good visibility and only moderate winds for a really successful launching. If successfully orbfted, the U. S. satellite will send back a radio signal to let the world know the challenge of Russia's two whirling satellites has been met. Fill Cases Show Decline in County A total of 101 cases of influ enza were reported to the Jack son county health department last week, a decrease of 104 cases from the previous week, Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health phy sician, has announced. The total number of cases was the lowest reported in more than a month. Early in November, in fluenza cases reached its peak when 516 cases were reported in one week. Week before last, 205 cases were reported, and the week before that there were 245 cases. Of the 101 cases, 43 were in Medford, 24 in Phoenix, 16 in Ashland, 10 in Shady Cove and 8 in Rogue River. Twenty -two other cases of communicable diseases were re ported last week, Dr. Merkel said. They included seven pneu monia, two measles, six mumps, two strep throat, two pink eye, two German measles, and one in fectious hepatitis. KF Police Survey Agreed by Council Klamath Falls (IP) The Klamath Falls city council Mon day night agreed to have the city police department surveyed and evaluated under the direction of the Berkeley, Calif., police de partment. Mayor Lawrence Slater, who is in Berkeley, wired the council that Berkeley Police Chief John Holstrom had agreed to provide a man" for the survey. The Berke ley staff has evaluated more than 50 police departments across the nation, including those Hit Med ford, Portland and Los Angeles. The Klamath Falls depart ment has been under fire by a grand jury. Salem IP) Fischer Lively, Wallowa, has been named to succeed Charles F. Litch, Enter prise, on the Wallowa county public welfare commission. ride after officers surrounded the vehicle. He had been asleep when the car was stopped. A few minutes later, police said, a car crashed through the road block. Police found the car 2V2 hours later about four miles west of Roseburg. Wilson was inside asleep. Wilson managed to get away from detectives in Portland early Monday when a bullet fired his car ricocheted into the gaso line tank of the police car. Offi cers had gone to arrest him on a charge of stealing a car in Spo kane and driving it across a state line. Ritchie was booked here pend ing return to Tacoma. Both were lodged in the Douglas coity jail.
