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.