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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1957)
o ore ,v abaki DO El MSA fl)g mm o o n o Flood Oonditioms Highway 101 South of Coquille Said Under Water families Evacuate Coquill Lowlands Coquille Wi Flood con ditions eased in Oregon today but Highway 101 was under water six miles south of here OO CKt&, State Police reported the O CWfte still closed. Traffic was (defoured from Charleston to JJandon over Seven Devil's rd. S-'ate Police Sgt. James Joy (reported that Highway 42 east to'Roseburg was open and free of water Sunday, 101 to the north was open, and traffic on T T : u o r . -r- i 4. normal. Coquille Falling Slowly The Coquille river Sunday af ternoon was at 21.8 feet, less Qhan a foot below flood stage, but falling slowly. Lowlands ad jacent to the river were flooded with up to nine feet of water in some areas. About five families, 22 persons in all, were evacuat- Qed at their own request from farms in the Arago district on the south side of the Coquille river over the week end. At Newport, State Police re ported the Coast highway clear Bus and truck traffic on the Cape creek bridge 12 miles north of Florence, weakened by a Friday slide when a large tree tore out a pillar, resumed Sun day, although the heavier veh icles were crossing one at a time. State highway crews work ed to have the bridge complete ly shored up by tonight. Coast Guard and state police rescue teams along the coast remained on call for possible flood relief duty, if new storms should break out. Willamette Crest Waited In Portland, the U. S. Weath er bureau said Sunday the Wil lamette was expected to crest near 12 feet tonight, six feet below flood stage. O OThe Willamette river was down to 17.1 at Corvallis this morning after passing the 20 foot flood mark during the week end. The river dropped 4.1 feet in 24 hours at Corvallis and 1.2 feet during the same period at Albany where it was .2 under the flood mark this morning. The Santiam at Jefferson was, at 11.1 feet, a drop of three feet from Sunday morning. The, weather bureau said that most rivers would continue with a slow to moderate fall for the next one to two days. Jhree-Year-Old Falls From Car Near Provolt Three-year-old Joseph Elmore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles El more, Applegate, was hospital ized at Osteopathic hospital Sun day with multiple cuts and bruises on the head and face and fractured left arm after he fell from the family car near Provolt, according to reports. The boy is under observation at the hospital and was report ed "greatly improved" this mor ning. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS HELP FIGHT TB Hatfield Answers Demo Administration Critics Salem OP Secretary of State Mark Hatfield replied today to two critics in the Democratic administration, Tax Commission Secretary Richard Eymann and Agriculture Director Robert Steward. Hatfield had been criticized by Eymann for pressing for return of S600 Eymann owed the state for an advance on his 1958 leg islative salary. Eymann has paid the money and ex-Rep. Robert Klemsen has made a down pay ment on his S600 debt. Hatfield objected to Eymann's letter which said it was a "per sonal matter" between the sec retary of state's office and him self. Hatfield claimed "it is not a personal matter in any sense AAedfeirdl S 52nd Year Medford United Press full Leased WIr 14 Pages Jacksonville Man Killed in Crash At Bybee Corner One person was killed and another injured in two traffic accidents in Jackson county on icy highways over the week end. Several minor mishaps hampered traffic in and out of the Rogue valley Saturday and Sunday, state police reported. . Ted Low Hewlett, 35, of 701 South Third st. Jacksonville was killed early today when .the car he was driving overturned on the Jacksonville highway, ac cording to investigating officers. It was Jackson county's 26th traffic fatality this year. An accident on Highway 99 south of Ashland hospitalized Mrs. Bessie B. Nunn, 71, of Wheeler. She suffered a broken en collar bone and cuts and bruises when a car driven by her husband, Gilman Barry Nunn, 73, Wheeler, slid on icy pavement and overturned, po lice said. Hewlett, an employee of Tim ber Products, was driving alone toward Medford shortly after 12:30 a.m., according to officers, when the car left the icy high way near Bybee corner. It was foggy at the time, police said. Survivors include his wife, Jean, Jacksonville city record er, and a daughter, Holly, about lVfc years old. Funeral arrange ments will be announced by Conger-Morris funeral home. Most Children Get Third Polio Shot The majority of Jackson coun ty school children have received the third shot of Salk poliomyeli tis vaccine, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, health officer. The last of the third shots were given to Griffin Creek school children Wednesday, "he said, for a total number of 4,467 that have received the third shot of the tax vaccine. The third round of the shots was started in the schools Nov. 18 with the schools scheduled throughout the month. Dr. Merkel stressed that this number does not include all chil dren who have received the se ries of shots. Many families had their private physicians adminis ter the vaccine, he said. He added that there is still tax vaccine available to persons up to 20 years of age. The shots will be given at the health clinic all day Tuesdays and Friday afternoon. The doctor said that those who have not taken advantage of the program should start immedi ately so that the third shot may be administered prior to the summer months. Berkeley Mother, Child Leave for Home Sunday Mrs. James Chan, Berkeley, Calif., and her week-old daugh ter left Medford Sunday eve ning for their home. Mrs. Chan was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Medford am bulance from the airport during an unscheduled stop of an United Air Lines plane in Medford Dec. 16. Mrs. Chan was a passenger on the plane. of the word. Steward objected because Hat field blamed the Board of Agri culture for not providing leader ship in the mouse infestation problem in southeast Oregon. "While there may be no express law to direct you to go out and kill mice, it would seem that there is clearly a responsibility that lies with the Department of Agriculture to provide lead ership and coordination in help ing farmers cope with a major agricultural problem," Hatfield wrote Steward. Steward said rodent control was the burden of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service and County Extension Service rather than the Agriculture Department. Ease; MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 429, 1957 ! 1 PATHFINDER The icebreaker USS Glacier plows through the ice at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, making a path for supply ships.' The vessels bring in needed materials for members of Operation Deep Freeze EI. ristmas Be Judged Tonight in Medford, Other Towns Entries for the Christmas decorating contests in Central Point and Eagle Point will be judged tonight, according to sponsoring groups, the Central Point Junior Chamber of' Com merce and the Eagle Point Lions club. Homeowners may register un til 5 p.m., with judging begin- Homes entered in the Med ford Junior Chamber of Com merce Christmas lighting con test will be judged tonight, ac cording lo Jim Anicker, chair man. More than $300 in prizes will be awarded for the best eight entries. The top winner will be entered in the National General Electric contest with prizes totalling $5,000. Forty homes had registered by noon, Anicker said. ning at 6 p.m. Homes should be lighted until 11 p.m., those in charge said. More than $200 in prizes, with a $75 cash first prize, will be awarded the 12 best entries in Central Point. Top winner will enter the National General Electric contest. The Eagle Point Lions club is offering $25 in prizes to the four top winners. Judges Listed Judges in Central Point are Bob Bailey, Donald Lacy and Bill Colley. Eagle Point judges will be Mrs. Olive Floyd, presi dent of the Oregon Federation of Garden clubs; Mrs. A. C. Lewis, district flower show chairman; and Mrs. I. D. Fitz- DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IPI Dow-Jones final slock averages: 30 indus trials 428.08, up 0.88; 20 rail roads 96.00, off 0.92; 15 utili ties 67.93, off 0.02, and 65 stocks 143.60. off 0.07. Sales today were about 2,790.000 shares compared with 2,500, 000 shares Friday. WEATHER FORECAST: Generally cloudy with occasional light showers of rain or rain and snow mix ed in valley, snow showers in mountains tonight and Tues day. Patches of valley fog. Low tonight 30. High Tuesday 45. Temp. Highest Yesterday 41 . Lowest This Morning 29 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 10 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:38 a.m. Sunset 4:43 p.m. Moonset 7:39 p.m. First Quarter Dec. 28 VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in southwest 6:03 p.m. Jupiter, in the southeast 5:05 a.m. Mars, rises 5:41 a.m. and this week will be seen . moving among the stars of the constel lationi Scorpio. tores WolD e peon Until 9 o'clock Tosnnglhift Rivers United Lights to gerald, district director of Sis- kiyou Garden club. Mrs. Otto Nagel, assistant district director of the Siskiyou club, will assist in case of absence. . Central Point entrants include C. W. Anhorn, Freeman rd. at Pine St.; J. W. Beacham, 3622 Table Rock rd.; Mrs. Ray. Brit ton, 239 Manzanita st.; Don Bur elson, 45 South Fifth st.; Ted Donner, 125 South Ninth st. at Oak st.; Cliff. E. Green, West Scenic ave.; Victor Van Hoy, 447 Alder st. Marion Hull, 180 Bigham dr.; Mitchell C. Hull, 930 Oak st.; Ronald Lamb, 3450 Robin lane; John L. McCoy, 3498 Oak Pine way; A. M. Setness, 733 Pine st.; Mrs. A. D. Van Horn, 154 South Fourth st .; Mrs. Nola West, 461 North Fifth st.; Mrs. Jesse D. Williams, Freeman rd. at end of Bush st.; and Mrs. Dick Wyatt, 615 Alder st. Eagle Point entries reported so far from Olsen's Confection ery are Mrs. Ted Hoffman,. Mrs. Beryl Hickson, Mr. and Mrs. Don Ashpole, Mrs. Kenneth Por ter, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hall, Mrs. Mattie Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Hopper. More entries were expected before the deadline today, a Lions spokesman said. Indian Spending Plans Approved . Washington OP) Three of four Pacific Northwest Indian tribes which shared more than $26, 800,000 in compensation from the federal government for the loss of their traditional fishing grounds have had the plans for spending the money approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, it was announced today. Commissioner of Indian Af fairs, Glenn L. Emmons in an nouncing the approval Sunday said: "All of the plans have provi sions for protecting the funds of minors until they reach their majority and for assisting mem bers of the tribes who are inca pable of handling their own af fairs to make the best use of their money." The three tribes which had their plans approved were the Yakimas, Umatillas and the Nez Perce. Radio-TV Highlights President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will report lo the na tion tonight on last ' week's NATO conference. The report will be carried over station KYJC (1230 kc) at 8 p.m. and will be on station KBES-TV at 7:30 p.m. lecliie Price 10 Cents Tribune Press Full Leased Wire No., 213 Pope Cautions Against All-Out Armaments Race Vatican City OP) Pope Pius XII Sunday cautioned against letting Communist technological advances and propaganda panic the free world blindly into an all-out arms race. The 81-year-old Pontiff, in a Christmas message broadcast throughout the world in 27 lan guages, defended, the right of free nations to band together for common defense an obvious reference to NATO. But he said the "true friends of peace" should npt be duped by short-term Soviet advantages. Needs 'Breathing Space' "Let those who observe to day's competition know how to reduce the facts to their true proportion," he said. "Let them not permit them selves to be misled by suprema cies, of very short duration, nor to be influenced by fears skill fully evoked to win the interest and support of others." He said the world needs a "breathing space" from the costs of the arms race. He said he was confident the free nations of the , world would band to gether in the event of danger. "We are certain that at the first sign of danger that link (of solidarity among free nations) would not fail to be tightened even more, as some recent events have clearly shown," the Pope said. Suffered Too Much "But now it is not so much a matter of taking emergency measures as of preventing dis turbances of order and of giving a deserved breathing spell to a world which has already suf fered too much." He said the basic trouble is that the world had made great material gains without assessing them properly spiritually. "The preponderant material progress has shattered the har monious and happy completeness of man, has somehow mutilated his appreciation, of spiritual values, giving him 'completeness only in one direction," the Pope said. He scored some scientists who "do their work as if the spirit were non-existent, and has noth ing to contribute." Eisenhower To Light Giant Christmas Tree Washington (IPI President Eisenhower was to take time off from official duties Monday to light a giant Christmas tree sym bolic of the nation's hope for peace. The President was scheduled to throw a switch at 2 p.m. (PST) illuminating the huge "na tional Christmas tree" set up in a park behind the White House as part of the capital's annual "Pageant of Peace." The Chief Executive was also scheduled to deliver a brief Christmas message to the nation and the world. The President and Mrs. Eisen hower opened Christmas week Sunday by attending church services and praying for peace. New Police Vehicles Expected Jan. 10 ' The five new police station wagons will be put into service about Jan. 10, according to city officials. They said the car dealer ex pected delivery of the vehicles about Jan. 1, but several days will be required to install red lights, radios and sirens. The company also will paint the front doors of the cars white and add the city poice signs on the side. City officials have ordered station wagons for police to pro vide an emergency vehicle. Cars will carry rescue equipment and fire extinguishers in addition to the standard first aid gear. Cairo (IP U. N. Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold flew in here today to spend Christmas with the UNEF troops in the Middle East and meet with Egyptian President Gamal Ab del Nasser. "Never Laid A Glove Where Multiple-Fatality Crashes Mar Start Of Christmas Week By UNITED PRESS An outbreak of high fatality week end traffic crashes marked a grim beginning to . Christmas week. Many of the victims were children. A United Press count showed at' least 43 persons were killed in week end multiple-fatality traffic wrecks around the coun try. One of the week end's worst collisions killed six persons on U.S. 66 near Holbrook, Ariz. The crash Sunday involved a pickup truck and a car containing four holiday travelers from Indiana. Dead Identified Lester Boyd Jones, 44; Frank E. Port, 17; Carol Mildred Port, 45, and Janet L. Port, about 14, all of Hobart, Ind., Tsosi Shirley, 45, Sanders, Ariz., and David Fix, about 40, Pine Springs Ariz., both passengers in the truck, were killed. Five persons were killed in a two-car collision Sunday near Lafayette, Ind. The dead were Keith Weaver, 26, and John Mc- $2,400 Received for. Medford Band Trip Approximately $2,400 has been received by the Medford High school Band Booster club in its drive for funds to finance a trip by the MHS band to the East-West Shrine game in San Francisco this week. Glenn L. Linn, secretary of the group, reported today that the $3,000 needed for the project is assured if all of the money promised is received by the club. He added that they would ap preciate receiving contributions prior to the first of the year. Included in the amount re ceived was $1.10 in coins sent by pupils of John Reed at Mc Loughlin Junior High school. With the money was a note ad dressed to I. A. Mirick. It stated "We the students of home room 34 at McLoughlin Junior High wish to send you the money en closed to use to send our band to San Francisco. We raised the money and hopie (sic) it will help you." The Medford band, which will participate at the Saturday foot ball game with bands from Klamath Falls and Grants Pass, plans to leave here Dec. 26, re turning to Medford Sunday, Dec. 29. Stores, Offices Will Close Christmas Day Most valley retail stores, fed eral, state and local govern ment offices will be closed Christmas Day, Wednesday. The Mail Tribune will not publish Wednesday. County commissioners said today County employees will be given time off tomorrow to do any last minute shopping. Medford stores will be open until 9 p.m. today, but plan to close at the regular closing hour Tuesday. No Teamster Local Exempt From Expulsion Washington (IP) No team sters local will- be exempted from the blanket expulsion of the Teamsters Union from the AFL-CIO, it was announced today. On Me. Am I?" By The Way, Cloud. 22. both ' of Lafavette: Jack McCloud, 24, Monitor; Mrs. Margaret Ayers, 50, Frankfort, Ind., and Mrs. Virginia Mae Rowan, 48, also of Frankfort. A mother and her three daugh ters wpw killed near Salinas. Calif., while returning Sunday from a Christmas program at church. Struck By Train Mrs. Dortha Martella. 42. and her daughters. Sallv. 10: Judy. 12, and Barbara, 15, died wnen their pickup truck was struck by a train. Thp three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Stork were killed Satur day as they returned from a Christmas shorjnine trit in Breda, Iowa, during which the boys asked Santa Claus for gifts they'll never see. The victims were Neil Stork, 8, and his brothers Eugene, 10, and Daniel, 12. Two sisters and a brother rid ing home from church at Opelou sas, La., in the back of a pickup truck Sunday were crushed to death when a trailer truck jack nifed and toppled on them. Beatrice Panillion. 14: her sis ter, Mable, 10, and a brother, Rocklyn, 12, died. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ned Papillion, and another brother, Linus, were rid ing in the cab and escaped death. Four Dersons, including a mother and her two daughters were killed Sunday wnen a pick up truck and a semi-trailer truck collided near Croydon, Utah, on a snow-covered highway. Head-on Collision Mrs. Sally Thurston Rust, 21, her two children. Max, 1, and Marie, 2, and Faye Segroves, Grand Island, Neb., driver of the trailer truck, were killed. Mrs. Mary Arelene Terill, Lau rens, Iowa, her daughter, Diane, 6, and Duane McHugh, Dunlap, Iowa, were killed Sunday in a head-on collision near Woodbine, Iowa. Another triple-fatality crash killed three Neenah, Wis., teen agers Saturday when their car careened out of control on a rural road and rammed into a tree. Killed were Judith Bau man, Marilyn Ahrens and Peter J. Kemps, all 17, of Neenah and vicinity. Mrs. Anne Thompson and her daughter, Kathleen, 6, were killed near Elkhorn, Wis., Satur day when their car crashed into a truck. ,A Christmas party hayride at San Antonio, Tex., ended in trag edy Saturday night when a car hit the back of the wagon, killing Jose Angel Martinez, 23, Deguin, Tex., and injuring 24 persons. Redding Authorities Probe Slaying of Newborn Girl Redding. Calif. (IP) Shasta county sheriff deputies today began an intensive investigation of the brutal slaying of a new born girl. The child, found Sunday with 23 stab wounds and a fractured skull, had been dead about two weeks and was about two weeks old at the time she was killed, a coroner's autopsy showed. Sheriff John Balma said Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor, Red ding, found the body in a card board box under a manzanita bush about a half mile northeast of here shortly before noon Sunday. A copy of the Dec. 4 28 Crewmen on British Freighter Believed Lost Mercy Fleet Searches Raging North Sea London (IP Hope was all but abandoned Monday for the 28 crewmen aboard the British freighter Narva which sank in a North sea. storm as it raced to the rescue of another ship in distress. An international mercy fleet searched the mountainous seas but all they found were a spreading oil slick, an over turned lifeboat and two life buoys with their flares still burning. Ironically all 14 men aboard the other ship, the 865-ton Brit ish coaster Bosworth, were Saved and the vessel taken in tow while the Narva was speed ing to its rescue. The dramatic battle against the sea took place in the North sea midway between Aberdeen, Scotland, and the southern tip of Norway. The Bosworth had radioed an SOS that it was listing danger ously. The 1,9991-ton Scottish owned Narva heeded the call of distress, shouldering through the gigantic waves in its 60-mile rescue mission. Later the Bos worth reported the list some what corrected although it was abandoned. The Bosworth, with a hole in its stern, was being towed to Aberdeen by the British trawler Faraday. The Bosworth's crew transferred to the trawler Wol verhampton Wanderer. The 6,670-ton Norwegian lin er Leda arrived on the scene in time for passengers and crew to watch the Narva's death throes from 500 yards away. They saw the freighter's crew men hanging desperately to whatever they could grab on the Narva's slippery, sloping decks. The liner dumped 17 tons of oil into the sea to calm it but it was no use. Holiday Mail Said In Good Shape Here Christmas mail at the Med ford post office is in "good shape" and going through the office "for the best year yet," ac cording to Postmaster Moore Hamilton. He said early mailing and bun dling of local and out-of-town mail by the public has been espe cially helpful. Receipts and out going correspondence appear to be about the same quantity as last year, when the holiday mail rush was aggravated by snow storms in the east. . Youngsters apparently were mailing letters to Santa Claus at a specific address, Hamilton said, because few letters have been sent for the local post of fice to forward. Glendale, Calif. (IP) Final rites are pending for Henry B. Warren, 68, editor of S e a and Pacific Yachting magazine. Road Conditions Highway 99. Siskiyoui Windy and snowing, chains mandatory from Yreka north to Oregon line. Highway 66, Green Springs Snowing, chains mandatory. Three inches of snow on road, snowing, motorists should carry chains. Heavy snow re ported at Prospect. Highway 199, Oregon moun tain Rains, pavement bare. Highway 99. Sexton moun tain Road slushy, no chains needed. State Highway 42, Myrtl Point Open to traffic with no delays in travel; several points open for one way traf fic. Highway 101, South of Co quille Open and normal. edition of the local newspaper was found in the box with the child's body. It was the second mysterious infant death in the county dur ing the past 17 months. In July, 1956 newborn twins, a boy and a girl, were found sufffocated in a pressure cooker at a county trash dump about 22 miles north of here. That killing was never solved. . Balma said there was no rea son to believe the two killings were connected. Coroner's deputies said the stabbing, mostly in the back, had been done by an ice pick or a similar instrument.
