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PL ft ASKS IfifflfER rat ran uwo rile for Circuit Judge Posts in Area Two Jackson county men today announced their candi dacies for nomination for circuit judge positions here. James M. Maine, 41, of 543 Haven st., Medford, district court judge, filed for position No. 1, and Circuit Judge Ed ward C. Kelly, 53, of 906 West Fourth st., Medford, filed for position No. 3. All three judgeships are for the first judicial district, ..Jackson and Josephine coun ties. Position No. 1 must be filled by a resident of Jack son county, and position No. 3 by a resident of either Jack son or Josephine county. The latter position was created by the legislature at the last reg ular session. Position No. 2 must be filled by a Josephine county resident. It is now held by Orville Millard, Grants Pass. Present Judge Main is seeking the posi tion held for many years by Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna, who has announced he will not seek reelection. Judge Kelly was appointed to the new judgeship, position No. 3, last June. Main was born in Water- ville, Maine, and was gradu ated from Northwestern col lege of law in 1949. He was law clerk to James Alger Fee, United States district court judge, from Aug. 7, 1949. to Sept. 2, 1950, when he be came affiliated with the Jack son County Title company. He was associated with the law firm McAllister, Duncan and Brophy , from March, 1952, to February, 1953, and was in private practice with Stanley C. Jones Jr., from 1953 until April 12, 1957, when he was appointed dist rict court judge to succeed the late Rawles Moore. Committee Member Main is a member of the legislative interim committee on judicial administration, and is chairman of the trial court procedure subcommit tee. He was vice president of the Municipal Judges associa tion while he was Medford Municipal judge between Au gust, 1954, and January, 1957. Prior to assuming the non partisan post, Main worked in the Democratic party, and be- Normal Rainfall Is Seen Next 30 Days Near or slightly above nor mal temperatures are antici pated in southwestern Ore gon and northern California from now until the middle of next month, according to the 30-day outlook of the weather bureau. The mid-January to mid February outlook also is for normal precipitation. Medford station of the wea ther bureau reported that nor mal high temperatures for the period are 45 degrees and nor mal lows 30. Normal precipi tation is 2.5 inches. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York UP Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 445.23, up 0.03; 20 railroads 104.13, up 1.12; 15 utilities 71.36. unchanged, and 65 stocks 150.82. up 0.31. Sales today were about 3,950.000 shares compared with 2.080.000 shares Wednesday. New Ranger District Is Created in Rogue Forest A new Ranger district with headquarters at Prospect has been established in the Rogue River National forest. Super visor Carroll E. Brown an nounced today. The new district was creat ed from ; the Butte Falls and Union Creek districts, Brown said. The district was formed because the work load in the Union Creek district has in creased over the past few years to a point where ade quate supervision could not be given all activities. An increase in timber man agement, including a stepped- up program for timber sales, and "Operation Out doors," which provides for re habilitation of existing camp grounds and construction of new campground facilities, are included in the increased work load. f ' - "11 f fe- r? Eft Jiflll H yjr py EDWARD C. KELLY Seeks Renomination 1 ' r; l Ik' if! JAMES M. MAIN Seeks Judgeship longs to the Masonic lodge and the Elks club. Judge Kelly, who was born in Blackfoot, Ida.,, started practicing law with his fa ther, the late E. E. Kelly, in 1927. He is a graduate of Med ford High school, the Univer sity of Oregon and the Ore gon law school. He received bachelor of arts and doctor of jurisprudence degrees. Served in Legislature He served in Oregon legis lature during the regular and special sessions. in 1933, and was connected with the Pub lic Works administration in Washington. D.C., between 1933 and 1935. From 1935 un til 1939, he was regional at torney for the PWA in Port land. In 1940 he became affiliat ed with the department of justice and was doing interior department work in Alaska, and was assistant general counsel of the Bonneville Power administration in Port land from 1940 until Pearl Harbor. Kelly returned here in 1942 and has practiced, law here since. During World War II, he was captain in the Army serving in the European thea ter handling civil affairs and military government. In 1942 he ran for congress when the fourth congressional district was organized. Prior to his appointment on the non-partisan judgeship, he worked in the Democratic party. He was affiliated with the Kelly law firm here be fore becoming judge. His son, Bernard, and daughter, No reen, still are practicing law from the firm's office. An other son, James, works at Harry and David's. Construction Plans Plans call for construction of necessary buildings just north of Prospect inside the national forest boundaries, Browr said. Until the facil ities are ready, temporary housing and office space will be provided from rentals and use of trailers as needed. Personnel for the new dist rict will be selected early in February, Brown said. The new district will en able the forest service to provide more timber sales in this area to maintain the al lowable annual cut and pro vide more service to the pub lic in recreational uses and other activities. The district is a combina tion of part of the Union Creek district and the north ern section of the Butte Falls district. 52nd Year M 24 PAGES Air Equipment Obsolete in USSR Said Being Bought Conventional Craft Said Being Neglected Washington HP Roy T. riuriey, an airplane engine manufacturer, told Senate in vestigators today that the Air Force still is buying equip ment that was considered ob solete by Russian standards three years ago. Hurley, president and board chairman of Curtiss-Wright, testified before the Senate preparedness subcommittee in its investigation of this coun try's defense strength as com pared with Russia's. Another witness was Thom as G. Lanphier Jr., vice presi dent of Convair, an aircraft and missile manufacturer. He said conventional bombers will be needed "for many years to come" but are being neglected because of "over- optimism" about ballistic mis siles. On the other side of Con gress, the House Armed Serv ices Committee, conducting a similar defence inquiry, ques tioned Deputy Defense Secre tary Donald A. Quarles be hind closed doors. Quarles told reporters be fore his committee appear ance tnat tne Pentagon is working a lot of "new imagi native" programs for the space age. They include study of space ships, he said Both a high Navy official and Dr. Alan T. Waterman, director of the National Sci ence Foundation, protested meanwhile that the adminis tration "had slashed their re search fund requests.. Waterman told a House gov ernment operations subcom mittee that the Budget Bu reau cut the foundation's basic research funds by 50 per cent this year and knocked 20 per cent off the amount asked for the next fiscal year. Assistant Navy Secretary Garrison Norton, in censored testimony released by the Senate preparedness subcom mittee, said the Navy didn't get all the research and de velopment funds it should have in the President's 1959 budget. Teamsters Local Expelled from County Council The Jackson County Labor Council, "with extreme re luctance," expelled the Team sters Local 962 "in compli ance with its constitution and by-laws and that of the AFL CIO" at a meeting this week. The Council said it would "continue to extend all cour tesies and support to the Teamsters even though they are no longer an affiliate." In a letter to AFL-CIO pres ident, George Meany, the Council pointed out "the ex emplary manner in which the local teamsters union and the local bakers union have con ducted their affairs under their present leadership." Letter Continues The letter continued the lo cal Council hoped "that a way will be sought and a means found to speedily bring back into local and national affilia tion the thousands of mem bers of these two organiza tions who are not guilty of wrong doing and that the pro cedures arrived at will single out those-who are guilty, and that action, legal or otherwise, as deemed necessary and ad visable, will only penalize the wrongdoers." The Council compiled with the directive of the AFL-CIO allowing the bakers union to remain affiliated with the Council for a period of 60 days on their indication that they are desirous of affiliating with the new American Bak ery and Confectionery Work ers International union. Officers elected at this week's meeting include Wil bur Ward, president; George Beltz, vice president; Pauline La Plane, financial secretary; J. Vernon Marshall, recording secretary; Jess Wagner, ser geant at arms; and Merle Mer riman, William Hoxie, Forrest Liddell and George ouns berry,. trustees. EDFORT DULL President To 3 Remaining Years in Capital Washington (IP President Eisenhower has come through the worst of his early winter chores confident he is up to the burdens and the tensions Of his three remaining years in the White House He would like however, to get away from the bleak, damp chill of Washington for a few days of sun and golf, He was expected to do this at the first opportunity and not later than some time early next month The Chief Executive's three- top priority messages to Con gress have been completed, The State of the Union mes sage and the budget have gone to Congress. His annual economic message is finished and will go to the House and Senate Monday. A major farm message was Storm Sewer Tops Blown Off During Explosion of Gas An explosion early today in the new Eighth st. storm sewer blew sewer covers off, flipped others like pancakes, broke at least one window and worried many Medford residents. City officials blamed the blast on an accumulation of domestic gas in the sewer line, which they said appar ently was ignited. by a passing vehicle or construction warn ing flare. No injuries were reported. The blast, which took place about 3:20 a.m., apparently was centered near 10th st., between King and Laurel sts. Following the blast, a series of smaller explosions on 10th and Eighth sts. was reported by city police. Offi cials said the smaller blasts were most likely caused by sewer covers . blowing off from the expanding gas. Four Blown Off At least four lids were blown completely off, several others disturbed and others flipped over in mid-air, com ing to rest upside down, city police reported. An inspection of the line showed no damage to the new sanitary sewer, of ficials said. The sewer has not been placed in operation yet, they added. City firemen, called to the scene, reported no . evidence of fire along the explosion route which extended west on West Eighth st., between Hamilton and Lincoln sts. Of ficials indicated compressed air, rather than gas, caused the sewer covers a distance from the main blast to be disturbed. Gas company officials re ported this morning they started checking all points along the sewer line where the company's line crosses. No leaks were found during yiis morning's check of sev eral possible .points, they said. Several city police, in a patrol car near the area, and firemen in the West side sta tion reported seeing a flash accompany the explosion. City officials said the gas, which is heavier than air, apparently built up in the sewer until it reacnea tne covers where it was ignited. They termed the explosion 'not serious" but said city crews in addition to the gas company crews would con tinue checking the line for possible leaks and damage. Chances for another explo sion are very remote, officials said. Checks are being made on the line and covers have been removed to -ventilate the system, they added, v GIVES CONDITION FOR PARLEY WITH RUSSIA Feels Up dispatched to Capital Hill to- i day. State Dinners Planned Thus the most time-consuin- ing tasks ahead of the Presi dent for the immediate future involved the six state dinners of the 1958 White House so cial season which begin to night with the vice president and cabinet as honor guests and will continue through Feb. 11. Eisenhower was on clase-at-hand display before an audi ence of 270 reporters Wednes day at his Oct. 30 and the first since his Nov. 25 mild stroke. In this meeting he made it plain he has given no thought to resigning because of his past medical record and intends to continue the conduct of the presidency un til his term expires Jan. 20, 1961. ."I feel very well indeed,' he told reporters, "but . . no one can tell what the phy sical future is. "I am optimistic enough to say this that as long as am able, I am going to carry on just exactly as I have in the past, and with no thought of it. From there on, it is in the lap of the gods and that's that. Newsmen Peer Closely With reporters peering close ly at every move of his hands, every slightest change of fa cial expression and listening as human stethoscopes to every tone and inflection of his voice, the President brush ed aside suggestions from some quarters that he resign because of his health. He said he had not consid ered resignation in connec tion with his November ill ness because the. doctors told him he had suffered no dam age "to whatever intellectual facilities I "have." Any time that I believe or any group oi doctors eminent doctors would say that I am not really up to doing my job, then I would personally, feeling as I do . . . I would have no recourse ex cept to resign." Berrydale Sewer on Council's Agenda An ordinance authorizing a contract for preparation of plans and specifications for a sanitary sewer system in the Berrydale area will be consid ered by the Medford city council at its 7:30 p.m. meet ing today. The Berrydale area was an nexed to the city last year. Also on the agenda is an ordinance authorizing plans and specifications for a sani tary sewer on Siskiyou blvd., the authorization to call for bids on a storm sewer lateral system between Fir and Ivy sts. on 11th and 12th sts. The council also will con sider calling a public hearing on installation of an eight- inch water main on Siskiyou blvd. east of Modoc ave. WEATHER FORECAST: Low overcast or foe in valleys tonight. Otherwise variable cloudi ness through Friday with a few light showers likely Friday. Low tonight 40. High Friday 48. Hish Yesterday 48 Lowest this Morning 40 Prec- to 4 a.m. Today 04 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise '. 7:38 a.m. Sunset 5:05 p.m. The Moon rises Fri day . 5:37 a.m. and rides low. New Moon Jan. 19 BRIGHTEST STAR Sirius. rises 6:37 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus', sets 6:26 p.m. Jupiter, rises 1:21 a.m. Mars, rises 5:32 a.m. Saturn, between Mars and the Moon. -GON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, Could Result in 'Fatal Disaster Secretary Claims Sputnik May Become Boomerang Washington (W Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles said today the United States wants a summit meet ing with Russia, but only on condition it would not "in tensify the cold war and make more likely that it would turn into a hot war." In a major foreign policy address, Dulles warned that an improperly prepared East- West meeting could result in a "fatal disaster" if people be lieve that tensions can be re moved "by a stroke of a pen at the summit." Such a belief, he said, would be "folly." Dulles also said that Rus sia's success in launching an earth-circling . satellite may turn out to be a "boomerang" against Soviet Communist party boss Nikita Khrush chev. America Alerted Addressing a National Press Club lunch, Dulles said the Red satellite could mark a "decisive turn" in the worldwide struggle between Communist imperialism and the Free World. "No doubt the Communist rulers gained a success," Dulles said. "They have an opportunity that they have not neglected. But Sputnik mocking the American peo ple with its 'beep-beep,' may go down in history as Mr. Khrushchev's boomerang. "It jolted . the American people and produced a re action which was healthy, the kind of reaction that has, in the, past, served freedom well. A wave of mortification, an ger and fresh determination swept the country. Out of that mood is coming a more serious appraisal of the strug gle in which we are engaged, and an increasing willing ness to make the kind of ef forts and sacrifices needed to win that struggle." Dulles, who won a resound ing vote of confidence from Presid ent Eisenhower Wednesday, devoted most of his speech to the recent ex change of letters between the President and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin on pros pects of a summit conference. Dulles examined both sides of the problem. He said "there is a place for negotia tion" with the Russians "it would be the height of folly" to say otherwise. The two major powers, he said, should not be permitted to drift so far apart "that there is increased danger that the cold war will turn into a hot one." "The truth is quite the con trary. We do want a summit meeting, provided the proper conditions were obtained. Gaillard Wins Confidence Vote Paris (IP) Premier Felix Gaillard won a confidence vote tonight on postponing veterans bonuses. The vote was 256 to 235, with 28 ab stentions. Gaillard took the Assembly by surprise Tuesday by ask ing for today's vote almost at the very moment the Assem bly met for its first 1958 ses sion. Gaillard wants to hold gov ernment spending this year to S10 billion but political ma neuvering by certain deputies threatens to send it far above that limit. They demanded no cut in pension payments to veterans and former prisoners of war; the vociferous veter ans themselves insisted on the payments, and Gaillard de manded the confidence vote. Salem (IP) State Superin tendent of Public instruction Rex Putnam today filed for reelection. Price 10 Cents 1RIBUNE 1958 Different Student Government Day Plans Are Told Plans for the 10th annual student Government Day pro gram Feb. .19 and 20 have been announced by Galen R. Knox, exalted ruler of the Medford Elks lodge, which sponsors the program. About 100 senior and upper division high school students from eight schools in the Med ford Elks jurisdictional area are expected to participate. High schools included in the program are Medford, Crater in Central Point, Jacksonville, Phoenix, Eagle Point, Butte Falls, Prospect, and St. Mary's of Medford. Political campaigns in high schools participating will be conducted next week to se cure nominations and elec tions to county and city of fice apportioned to the schools by the steering committee. National Recognition The program, which has re ceived rational recognition, gives students an opportunity to work for a day with their official counterparts in the actual operation of city and county government, and gives them practice in regular pri mary and general election procedures, Knox noted. The basic goal ol the pro gram is to give students a first hand experience with lo cal government. Theories of local government studied in classes are explored in actual operation. After nomination and elec tion, students will receive the oath of offices from Medford Mayor John Snider and Coun ty Clerk Bereth Hopkins the afternoon of Feb. 19. The annual Student Gov ernment Day banquet is scheduled Feb. 19. Other ac tivities include working with counterpart officials Feb. 20 with tours of various city and county facilities that after noon. A city council meeting, conducted by the student may or and councilmen, will be held Feb. 20 in the Medford council chambers. The steering committee in cludes County Judge Rodney Keating, County Commission ers Chester Wendt and Ralph James; Mayor Snider, his sec retary, Mrs. Dorothy Sned den; Mrs. Jo Anne Smith, Medford High school; the Rev. John Ilg, St. Mary's school; Mrs. Una B. Inch, of the coun ty school superintendent's of fice; Elliot Becken, assistant Sports Bulletin New York HP Middle weight champion Carmen Basilio and Sugar Ray Rob inson were signed today for a return title fight at Chi cago Stadium March 25. . Their 15-round bout will be televised only Jo thea ters and not to homes by the Teleprompler Corporation, No. 229 Worlds superintendent of Medford schools; Medford Police Chief Charles . Champhn; Medford City Manager Robert Duff, County Clerk Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, and Knox. The program will be coor dinated by Jennings Pierce, Dr. Lee Mellish, Hugh Shurt leff, Charles Dorrell and Wil liam Ruck, all of the Elks club. Treatment Sought For C. W. Seaver In a letter to Circuit Court Judge Edward C. Kelly re cently from the Oregon state hospital, Salem, the disposi tion board of .the hospital recommended that Charles W. Seaver remain there un der hospital care. Seaver, who was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investi gation agents and Medford city police Dec. 5, 1957, on a charge of attempted bank rob bery, was ordered to the hos pital for a sanity examina tion. The 57-year-old man had arrived in Medford shortly before the holdup attempt and had been a former patient in a veterans hospital in Van couver, Wash. In the letter to Judge Kelly from Dr. D. A. Tait at the hospital it was reported that Seaver showed gross mem ory loss,. especially for recent events and that he had am nesia for most of the events in the last several years. The letter continued that during his stay in the hospital, Seav er showed little improvement and little return of his memory. Peak Employment Seen On Talent Job This Year Ashland Work on the Talent project, for which an appropriation of $9,500,000 has been recommended in the national budget, will reach a peak of employment this sum mer, according to Walter Hoffbuhr, secretary-manager of the district has announced. The appropriation for the Talent project this fiscal year was 86,189,510, about SI mil lion less than had been re quested, he noted. Hoffbuhr said the $1 million cut from the present budget has been restored in the 1958 budget. Hoffbuhr indicated that employment on various phases of the project will ex ceed 400 during the construc tion months. Other Funds The budget, Hoffbuhr said, includes funds for completion Farm Program Designed To Put Farmer on Own 14-Point Program Would Reduce Role Washington (IP Presi dent Eisenhower recommend ed to Congress today a farm program designed to take the government increasingly out of agriculture and put the far mer more on his own. His proposal called for low er price supports on major crops and dairy products, and for increased authority to set acreage allotments for corn, the Midwest big cash crop. Said Outmoded The President told Con gress in a special message that the present farm program is "unrealistic" and outmoded. It is imperative, he said, that Congress draft new pol icies geared to "the technolog ical revolution in agricult ure." The President's 14 - point program, if adopted, would reduce the government's role in agriculture, a step recom mended by Secretary of Ag riculture Ezra T. Benson, and give farmers more freedom to produce. Reduced Federal Aid It would make farmers more dependent on the open, market and less dependent on government payments for their income. The President said few of the dollars spent on agricul tural programs have been of appreciable help to the small farmer. "Price supports have scant meaning to a farmer with lit tle to sell, he said. "Basic agricultural legisla tion now on the books was originally devised as an emer gency effort to cope with a depression, then changed to help fight a war, and subse quently revised again in an effort to meet the needs of peace," Eisenhower said. "It has not been adequately mod ified to deal with the effects of the technological revolu tion in agriculture. "This must be done now." Eisenhower urged Congress to widen the price support range on the basic crops of corn, cotton, wheat, rice, peanuts, and tobacco, and dairy prod ucts from 75 to 90 per cent of parity to 60 to 90 per cent of parity. (Parity is the price needed to give farmers a fair return for the things they sell in relation to the cost of things they must buy). Lower Dairy Supports He suggested that Congress permit the support rates to be set administratively, by the agriculture secretary. He said the secretary would offer sup ports on the basic crops "at levels as high as could be jus tified under the criteria speci fied under the criteria spe cified by law." The inclusion of lower sup ports for dairy products was something of a surprise. Benson recently announced that the dairy rates for the dairy marketing year begin ning in April would be at 75 per cent of parity. The an nouncement caused consider able agitation in Congress and among dairy groups. Eisenhower asked for au thority to increase acreage al lotments for cotton, wheat, rice, peanuts and tobacco. Un der the proposal, acreage al lotments for these crops could be increased up to 50 per cent above the levels determined by existing formulas. He also called for a strengthened conservation re serve program of the soil bank', and elimination of the acreage reserve program. The President had called for this in his 1959 budget message. of the dam and 64,000 acre feet storage reservoir at How ard Prairie, the Keene creek dam and reservoir, Howard Prairie delivery canal, the Green Springs power plant, and penstock and surge tank. It also means that contracts can be awarded for the start of construction on the new Emigrant lake dam. Funds from the national park service are scheduled for use in development of recreation facilities at How ard Prairie reservoir. The bureau of reclamation has estimated there will be sufficient funds so contracts can be awarded for construc tion of the Ashland diversion dam, the first section of the Ashland lateral canal and for operator's facilities at Howard Prairie.
