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Price 10 M EDFORD Pages Eastern Seaboard Gets Heavy Snow And Bitter Cold Weather Blamed for At Least 20 Deaths By UNITED PRESS Snow piled a foot deep In New England and swirled into Central Florida today in the bitterest storm of the season. Deep cold settled over the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf states as high winds from the first onslaught abated. Florida growers feared addi tional damage to their fruit and vegetable crops. 20 Deaths Caused Across the nation, at least 20 deaths were attributed to the weather in the past 24 hours. Among the victims were four persons in the New York area who died of apparent heart attacks while shoveling snow or trying to free stalled cars. The Eastern storm, which began Tuesday afternoon, buried coastal sections as far south as Virginia with nearly a foot of snow and dumped 4 to 12 inches of snow across Northern New England. Other weather victims in cluded four persons killed in traffic in New England, two In New York State and one in Pennsylvania; six persons, five of them children, killed In fires in a Midwest cold belt, and one killed when an Army Stratotanker crashed during a rainstorm in Florida. Ice was blamed for deaths in Iowa and Wisconsin. Deep Drifts in N.Y. The weather situation by sections included: New York: City hit by aver age five-inch snow accumula tion but winds piled drifts several feet deep. Driving haz ardous on roads into the city from Long Island, Westchest er and Connecticut. Planes operating but delayed. New Jersey: Eleven - inch snowfall at Atlantic City breaks 30-year record. New ark digs out from more than four-inch snow accumulation. Schools Closed New England: Four to 12 inches of snow in northern regions, stalling traffic. Sev eral schools in Central Massa chusetts closed. Virginia: Up to 11 inches of snow along the Virginia coast. Zero temperatures in the western mountain regions, in the 20s elsewhere. Southeast: First snow on ground this winter at Birming ham, Ala., and other Northern Alabama spots. Freezing tem peratures overnight from Northern Florida across Gulf States into Texas. Midwest: Sub - zero cold wave on heels of snowstorm which closed many Northern Michigan schools and blocked roads. i- Johnny Dio Receives 15-30 Year Sentence New York flP Labor racketeer John (Johnny Dio) DioGuardi received a 15-30 year prison sentence today for extortion in a "labor peace" racket. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight, becoming cloudy with rain Thursday. Patchy valley fojt early Thursday. Low tonight 30. High Thursday 45. Temp. Highest Yesterday 34 Lowest this Morninj .... 29 Prec. to 4 a. m. Today.. Tr. Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:41a.m. Sunset 4:56 p. m. The Moon rises 8:53 p.m. and is in Perigee. Last Quarter Sunday PROMINENT STARS Regulus. near the Moon. Altair, low in the west .. 6:12 p.m. Slrius. rises 7:10 p.m. Capella. high overhead 10:14 p. m Eisenhower's $2,000 From Washington W Presi dent Eisenhower's Gettysburg, Pa., farm has been paid about $2,000 during the past two years for taking wheat and corn acreage out of produc tion, it was disclosed today. Paid for Idle Land The payments were made under the Eisenhower ad ministration's soil bank pro gram of paying farmers for letting land lie idle to cut sur plus production. Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson an nounced Tuesday the admini stration will ask Congress to scrap the program after this year. G'en Miller, office manager of the Adams County, Pa., Cents MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958 i y A t"t fl fit ; I ;1 & v S s. j JOE WALSH Files for Nomination Walsh Files for Nomination as County Sheriff Joseph D. (Joe) Walsh, now chief criminal deputy in the Jackson county sheriff's of fice, today announced his candidacy for sheriff. Walsh is 31 years old, lives at route 2, box 816B, Central Point and is a Republican. He has been chief criminal depu ty here since April, 1956, and has worked in the sheriff's office since July, 1955. He served with the Medford Po lice department in 1953. The candidate came here from Bridgeport, Conn., and had been on the police fqree there since 1949. From 1946 through 1949 he attended dental school in Philadelphia, Pa. Previous to that he spent four years in the U.S. Navy, between 1942 and 1946, ob taining the rank of boat swain's mate. His overseas duty was in the Philippines. Born in Bridgeport He was born in Bridgeport and wentrintolhe' Navy' from' high school. He is married and has five children. The oldest is 10 and the youngest a year old. Walsh holds memberships in the Elks lodge, Medford Junior Chamber of Com merce and the Southern Ore gon Peace Officers' associa tion, of which he is president. Walsh said he plans to file his notice of candidacy at the courthouse within a few days. Raymond Richard Koch, Central Point, and owner manager of a local detective agency, filed for sheriff as a Democratic candidate last August, according to records at the Jackson county clerk's office. He made no announce ment at the time. Deadline for filing is 5 p.m., March 7, for the pri mary election May 16. Two Men Are Bound Over to Grand Jury Stanley Carlton Schoen and David Lee Wade, both of Med ford, were bound over to the grand jury yesterday on charges of assault and robbery while not armed with a dangerous weapon, according to 'the district court clerk's office. Both waived preliminary hearing. They are being held in the Jackson county jail on $1,500 bail each. They are charged with as saulting Earl Elton Jones of Trail, yesterday in back of the 90 and 9 tavern, 1234 South Riverside ave., accord ing to Medford police. City police said Jones was knocked down and robbed of the contents of his popkets. He was treated and released at the Rogue Valley hospital for lip cuts, officers said. Farm Paid Soil Bank Agriculture Stabilization Com mittee, said he did not know the exact amount of payments made to the President's farm but it was "about 52,000." Miller said the payments were not made directly to the President but "the signature of either retired Brig. Gen. Arthur S. Nevins or George E. Allen was good enough for us." Associated in Farm Allen and Nevins are neigh bors of the President and as sociated with him in the op eration of his farm.. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty told re porters he knew nothing about the payments. NATO Looks for Mutual Approach To Russia's Bid Summit Parley To Be Discussed Friday Paris (IP) The North At lantic Treaty Organization Council met today to seek a a common approach to Rus- sia's latest call for a new sum mit conference. But the re cent British surprise plan for a non-aggression pact with Moscow forced the council to delay its decision. The 15 permanent NATO ambassadors discussed East- West problems for 90 minutes of a three and a half hour meeting this morning at the group's Palais de Chaillot headquarters. To Meet Friday They decided to meet again Friday afternoon for a fur ther discussion on the propos al for another summit parley made in December by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. The United States is known not to be in favor of such a parley at this time. But itsj jiiieij' iLiUiupt-rici Bines at least want to explore Soviet intentions. However, the U. S. draft re ply, to the latest Kremlin overture was not debated at this morning's session. Leaves Door Open President Eisenhower's an swer is expected to be cool to Bulganin's proposal. It will, however, leave the -oor open for such talks if Russia shows its willingness to ne gotiate in good faith. Informed NATO sources said the council discussed British Prime Minister Har old Macmillan's call for a non aggression pact as part of an overall, cold war settement. Macmillan made his pro posal without consulting the NATO allies. And today's meeting was the first time the NATO council had a chance to discuss it. OSC Professor to Be Honored Here The American Pomological society will honor Henry Hartman, professor of horti culture at Oregon State col lege since 1919, with its Wild er medal at a meeting of pear growers in Medford Jan. 27. Hartman will be honored for his development of a spe cial rot prevention wrap for pears and new shipping tech niques which placed Oregon pears in eastern fruit markets in the 1930s. The award goes annually to individuals and institu tions "rendering outstanding service in horticulture." Hartman is credited with speeding the development of the Oregon pear industry from a $4 million enterprise, in 1930 to $20 million in 1957. He has been with OSC since 1919 and has continued on full-time teaching research duties since he reached retire ment age in 1955. Besides the special wraps, Hartman developed paraffin liners for pear boxes that re duced costly friction bruises in cross-country shipment. He also worked out proper har vest time for various pear va rieties and the length of time different varieties of pears could be kept in cold storage. Fourth Atlas Test Launching Delayed Cape Canaveral, Fla. (iP) he awesome Atlas, ocean spanning giant of the nation's missile arsenal, was due for its fourth test launching to day, but technicians appar ently ran into difficulty pre paring for the shot. The tedious, step by step countdown toward triggering of the Atlas began long be fore dawn and the missile was expected to get off at mid-day. By shortly before noon (e.s.t.) however, the red warning bell at the cape had gone up only for a few min utes, then been taken down. There were -signs of activ ity around the Atlas service tower, but the missile had not been taken out. Weather early in the day seemed favorable for the scheduled launching, but more clouds swept over the area later in the morning and winds picked up slightly. Unless the missile is "scrubbed" however, due to weather or some other diffi culty, the Atlas still was ex pected to be fire before the day is over. Tribune FLOOD RESCUE National Guardsmen re move family from motor boat following their evacuation from inundated area of First Forecasts on Water Show More Than Norma! Supply The first of the winter's water forecasts were issued today by the weather bureau and the soil conservation service. Both forecasts indi cate a good supply with above normal streamflows. Wate- runoff in southwest ern Oregon is forecast to be 'above to well above the 1938- 1952 average" because of high carryover and precipitation to date, according to, the weather bureau Rogue river streamflow be low South Fork is forecast at 1,460,000 acre feet, or 110 per cent of the water year flow from Sept. 1 through Aug. 31. Residual flow for the period from Jan. 1 through Sept. 30 on the Rogue is forecast at 1,- 090,000 acre feet, or 104 per cent of the average. The water year flow on the Umpqua below Lake Creek is forecast at 339,000 acre feet, or 113 per cent of the 15-year average, the bureau said. . . ' Upper Klamath Take net in flow is forecast at 2,000,000 acre feet, or 164 per cent of the water year flow, and 1, 540,000 acre feet, or 168 per cent of the residual flow. The weather, bureau said fall precipitation throughout southwestern Oregon was near 110 per cent of average. Sep tember was well above aver age, October near average and November was slightly below average. December, the bureau noted, was deficient during the first half of the month, but heavy precipita- Officials Discuss Warning Signals City officials and represen tatives fromt he Public Util ities commissioner and. South ern Pacific railroad met in an all-day meeting Tuesday to discuss warning signal cir cuits on railroads. A tentative schedule of sig nalization was developed by the group, according to City Manager Robert A. Duff. It will be reviewed by South ern Pacific and the public ut ilities commissioner. Duff said discussion included all train crossings within the Medford city limits. Here for the meeting were C. E. Jacqua, PUC engineer, Salem; George M. Joyce, trainmaster for SP, Medford; W. O. Dalen, signal superin tendent; A. C. Jacobson, assist ant signal engineer; James In gerson, attorney for SP; E. A. Kendrew, assistant engineer for SP, and Bruce Crandall, state highway traffic engin eer, baiem. Representing Medford in ad dition to Duff were Vernon Thorpe, city engineer, and Roy Bashaw, city attorney.. The meeting was called by PUC, Duff said, on the com missioner s order regarding speed of trains. . Bids on Bonds to Be Opened Jan. 9 Bids on $600,000 worth of bonds for construction in the Medford school system will be opened at noon Thursday, Jan. 9, in the school adminis tration office. Bonds totaling $1,786,000 were authorized by school district voters in a special election late last year. Only S600.000 worth are now being sold to finance the first phase of construction in .the two- year building program. The 5600,000 is for two new elementary school units, and an addition to Medford High school. 52nd Year Nc. 222 lion fell in southwestern Ore gon the latter half with amounts averaging 150 per cent of normal for the month. Snow Accumulation Although a good portion of the excess precipitation ran off as streamflow, colder tem peratures during the latter part of the month caused the accumulation of snow at high er elevations. The snow depth at Crater Lake National park measured 97 inches about Jan. 1, compared to 25 inches last year and 86 inches in 1956. Precipitation in south-cen tral Oregon also was more than normal, and streamflow in that area is forecast to be slightly above the 1938-52 average, the weather bureau said. Average water supplies can be expected this spring and summer in the- Rogue and Umpqua watersheds if normal weather conditions prevail, according to'the Soil Conser vation service and Oregon Ag ricultural experiment station. Greater Stored-Waler The SCS. report noted that most of the snow courses measured this month had greater than normal stored- water. The average was 124 Der cent of normal. Water content of snow -is about six times greater than at this time last year, the report noted. At Diamond lake, 11.4 in ches of water were measured in the snow compared to 5.3 inches last year and a normal of 8.7 inches. Emigrant Gap and Fish lake reservoirs are slightly more than half full, better than usual, the SCS said. Hyatt lake is almost half full, which is 188 per cent of normal. The last available report on Four mile lake shows it to be about 40 per cent of capacity, the service reported. Flow of the Rogue river at Gold Ray during December was 125 per cent of normal. Since Oct. 1, it has been 117 per cent normal. Radio Highlights President E i s e nhower'i State of the Union message will be heard oyer station KYJC (1230 kc) at 9:30 a. m. Thursday. A speech by Lester Pear son, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize and for mer foreign minister of Canada, will be heard over the same station at 9 p. m. today. "You Were DEMOCRATS WILL BACK SPEHPIHC FOB DEFENSE ! Edinburgh, Tex., as torrential rains hit the lower Rio Grande valley. Dulles' Foreign Policy Challenged In Stassen Report . New York (IT) Presiden tial disarmament adviser Harold E. Stassen has chal lenged "almost the whole fab ric of Dulles' foreign policy" in a report he made recently to the National Security coun cil, according to Newsweek magazine. However, the challenge ap parently has been in vain so far. . Informed sources in Wash ington reported Tuesday that although Stassen was urging a more flexible policy toward Russia,-especially on disarm- jament, the council sided with Secretary of State John Fost er Dulles and approyedia re jection of Soviet proposals for a new summit meeting and a U. Sr. - Soviet non-aggression pact Newsweek said Stassen fears that Dulles' attitude to Russia "was sustaining world tensions and thereby making a workable disarmament sys tem impossible." The , report to the NSC was tie only. way Stassen would make his view known because "Dulles no longer consults him," the magazine reported. According to Newsweek, Stassen proposed bilateral disarmament talks with the Russians to test their sincer ity, consideration of suspen sion of nuclear weapons tests backed by a ground inspec tion system, and the possible reunification of Germany along the lines of the Aus trian settlement. Company's Appeal Denied in Court Washington (IP) An appeal by Crater Lake Ma chinery company from a $56,867 claim for additional income taxes , for the years 1951-52 was denied today by the United States Tax Court. The claim arose after the firm purchased assets of Reed Tractor and Equipment com pany. In computing its own excess profits tax credits the Crater Lake firm sought to use all of that concern's base period income. The tax collector eliminat ed as a duplication a part of the base period earnings of the purchased business.. The question before the court was whether he erred in so do ing. The court held that Cra ter Lake had failed to show that the tax collector had er red "to any extent or that the regulations are inapplicable or improper." Saying - ?" Demos Challenge (eating to File For Renomination The Jackson county Demo cratic party organization to day challenged County Judge Rodney Keating to file for renomination this year in an effort to clarify the length of his term of office. If he does not, County Democratic Party Chairman James A. Redden Jr., and Party Counsel William V. Deatherage suggested they would "take the necessary steps to obtain a final deci sion." Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton last month in an opinion stated Keating's term was for six years instead of four. The opinion was request ed by District Attorney Tom Reeder after a dispute as to the term of office arose. ' The Democratic party's challenge and suggestion was contained in a letter sent to Keating. Issues Statement Keating, referring to the letter, this morning said: "In reply to a recent letter re garding my term of office, it was my belief that I was elected for a six-year term ending in December, 1960. The attorney general's recent ruling on this matter has sub stantiated by opinion. If the law is not clear, my sugges tion to any parties who are not satisfied with this opinion take the matter to the court or the next legislature." In the letter, they noted that "you will agree that your term of office is not clearly set forth by law due to legis lation passed in 1949. Prior to 1949, there was no ques tion that the term for the of fice of county judge was. six years. "However, the 1949 legis lation removed all judicial functions from the office of county judge in Jackson coun ty, as well as other counties, and since that time the title of your office has actually been a misnomer, as the of fice has no judicial function." Title of Office , They go on to explain that the title of the office also is misleading to many who be lieve the county judge pre sides over a judicial court. Continued use of the title, the letters continues,, misleads "the voting public who may believe that a candidate for your office must possess legal qualifications when in fact no legal experience is re quired." "The attorney general clearly realized this ambig uity when he relied upon Ar ticle VII of the Oregon Con stitution, as amended, in hold ing that your term of office was six years, although Ar ticle VII is only concerned with offices exercising judi cial power of the state, a pow er which was removed from your office in 1949. As you know, the attorney general's opinion is not a final decision, but only one lawyer's opin ion, which may or may not be upheld in the courts, which have the power of final decis ions on matters of constitu tional ad statutory interpre tation." Redden and Deatherage said they believed Keating was interested in solving the problem, which exists not only in Jackson county, but throughout the state. "It is not, and should not be a prob lem of partisan politics. It af fects both Republicans and Democrats holding like posi tions in other counties," they noted. Procedure Simple "The procedure in which a final and legal decision can be obtained is extremely speedy, simple and inexpen sive. WTe suggest, first, that you file your declaration of candidacy for the nomination of county judge. In the event the county clerk refuses to accept your declaration (which refusal you can ex pect, due to the ruling of the attorney general) you may then petition the Supreme Court for an alternative writ of mandamus directing the courtty clerk to accept your declaration or show cause why she will not. Aftei the answer of the county clerk in re sponse to the writ, the court would then render a final de cision on the term of office. The above suggestion neces sarily presumes your desire to seek renomination to the office. "The problem is one of great importance, and a final and binding decision will be obtained. Inasmuch as you now hold the office, you should have the first oppor tunity to take the necessary steps to solve the problem which will belie any claim of partisanship. "We know that you appre ciate the importance of this matter and wish a final deter mination of the issue. In the event you do not desire to solve this problem as suggest ed above, will you please con tact the undersigned in order that we may take the neces sary steps to obtain a final decision." Wartime Housing Project Will Be Liquidated Soon The "temporary" wartime housing project near the Jack son school will be liquidated this year, it was announced today by Mark A. Goldy, ex ecutive director. Letters notifying the occu pants of the 77 apartments still in use that the project will be closed no later than July 1 went into the mail yes terday, he said. Between 250 and 275 people will be re quired to find new housing. Goldy, pointed out that the apartments, constructed dur ing the war as a temporary housing project, are of sub standard construction, and originallywere designed for occupancy lasting no longer than the duration of World War II. However, they were used after the war because of the housing shortage, and since. Goldy said, however, that age and obsolesence has reduced the apartments to the point where they are no longer suited for dwelling purposes. He said extensive repairs would be required for continued occupancy, and that this would be both im practical and prohibitively costly. Other Factors Goldy explained that sev eral other factors have caused the housing authority of Jack son county to decide the time has come to terminate the housing project. One is the availability of rental housing elsewhere in Medford at present. He point ed out that there are a num ber of rental vacancies, and cited a recent resolution of the Medford Realty board calling for the end of the war born project. He said the Realty board will be called upon to offer its services in relocating project tenants. He also cited the possibility that the government will pur chase a part of the area for a reserve armory as a factor in the decision. The Army has an option on the armory site. Tentative Plans He also reminded of the tentative plans of the city to use the rest of the area in its park and recreational pro gram. Members of the housing authority, who serve under the jurisdiction of the county court as an administrative agency for the project, in clude Robert Duff, Elwood Hedberg, R. B. Thierolf, Otto Ewaldsen, H. S. Deuel and Goldy. France Agrees To Probe Albania Airplane Report Paris (IPi The United States formally asked France today to investigate reports that Communist Albania is holding a missing U.S. Air Force plane and its pilot. A U. S. Embassy spokesman said the French government agreed. France is the only major Western power with diplomatic representation in Albania. Heard Via Radio An Albanian radio broad cast, monitored by a station in Munich, Germany, Tues day, announced that a U. S. Air Force T-33 jet trainer pi loted by a Maj. Howard Cur ran had invaded Albanian air space and been forced down. The Air Force said Curran, 39, of Tacoma, Wash., had McElroy Receives Pledge During Pentagon Parley Essential Sum To Retain Lead Urged Washington (IP) Democrat! congressional leaders told De fense Secretary Neil H. Mc Elroy today they will support whatever military spending is "essential and adequate" to keep America ahead in race for space. Their pledge was made at m breakfast meeting at the Pen tagon arranged by McElroy. It came a day after Presi dent Eisenhower sent his first defense spending request to the newly convened Congress, a call for $1,260,000,000 . in for the current fiscal year to expand missile production and improve operations of the Strategic Air Command. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. .Johnson told news men after the Pentagon meet ing that he assured McElroy that if the defense secretary would "determine what is es sential and adequate" in mili tary spending and "stick with it, the Democrats would sup port him." The administration is ex pected to ask Congress for $40 billion in defense funds for the new fiscal year starting July 1. That is $2 billion high er than the amount appropri ated for the current fiscal year. Besides Johnson, Senate Re publican leader Williah F. Knowland, Speaker Sam Ray burn. Sens. Carl Hayden (T Ariz), Mike Mansfield (D Mont.) and Carl Albert (D Okla.) attended the meeting with McElroy. Eisenhower's first military spending request of Congress meanwhile, won general en dorsement. ; Johnson said that "50,000 air planes produced a year be fore Pearl Harbor saved our necks. ... A thousand mis siles produced in the coming year may save our lives." Federal Grant to Oregon Approved A federal grant of $47,275 to the Oregon Bureau of Municipal research has been approved by urban renewal commissioner, Wash ington, D. C, according to informa tion received today from Sen ators Wayne Morse and Rich ard L. Neuberger. The grant, made available by Housing and Home Fi nance Agency, will aid in the preparation of plans for 13 Oregon cities including Med ford. The project includes studies and plans in the fields of land use, parking, park locations, population analyses, streets and highway, economic bases zoning, flood control and drainage projects scheduled for completion within '15 months. The total planning project in Medford will cost $17,150, according to City Manager Robert A. Duff. Federal gov ernment grants will pay not more than 50 per cent of the cost with the remainder paid for by state and local funds. Duff said he had not re ceived word from the Oregon Bureau of Municipal research as to the actual amount Med ford would receive. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York P Dow Jonei final stock averages:.. 3 industrials 446.61, off 1.18; -20 railroads 103.21. off 0.07j. 15 utilities 70.23, up 0.41. and 65 clocks 150.39, off 0.09. been listed as missing for more than two weeks. He dis appeared Dec. 23 while flying alone from the U. S. supply base at Chateauroux, France, to Naples,- on Italy's south western coast. Albania is on the other side of Italy and about 50 miles across the Adriatic Sea from Naples. Five-Day Search Air Force officials at Cha teauroux said Curran was on a trip related to Air Force contract work. He was last heard from when he made a routine radio position check in the vicinity of Piza on the northwest coast of Italy. American and Italian air planes made a five-day search for the missing pilot.
