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United Washinrton OP! A U.S scientist disclosed today this country is speeding work on a device expected to set off controlled H-bomb reactions at temperatures twice those in the center of the sun. His report was made in con nection with release of Ameri can and British government reports which said recent re search encourages hope that the H-bomb's thermo-nuclear forces eventually can be har nessed for peaceful use. The scientist. Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr., of Princeton uni versity, said he expects the device, a giant 'magnetic bot tle." to go into operation in early I960 and produce tem peratures of 50 million de grees centigrade. That is 20 to 30 million de- Keating Ponders Congress Office, Merrifield Says Jackson County Rodney Keatfng is seriously consider ing running for the Republi can nomination for congress from the Fouth District, ac- cording to John Merrifield, Portland, chairman of the state Republican candidate as sistance committee. He was quoted in the Port land Orcgonian as saying Keating is one of three per sons considering the move. The others are State Sen. War ren Gill, Lebanon, and former State Sen. Paul Geddes, Rose burg. Judge Keating, whose term of office ends in 1960, accord ing to a recent ruling of the state attorney general, has long considered the move, ac cording to widespread rumors, j but when questioned he has been non-committal. Incumbent Congressman Incumbent congressman is Charles O. Porter of Eugene, a Democrat, who is not ex pected to have opposition in the primary election. He will complete his first two-year term this year. He defeated longtime Republican Con gressman Harris Ellsworth, Roseburg, now chairman of the U.S. Civil Service com mission, at the last election. In another political devel opment in the county this week. County Clerk Bereth Hopkins today announced her candidacy for renomination. She is the third candidate to formally announce their candidacies for non-judicial posts. Previously, Joe Walsh, now chief -deputy sheriff, a Republican, and Raymond R. Koch, formerly associated with a detective agency, a Democrat, are seeking nomi nations for sheriff. Filing Deadline Deadline for filing candida cies is March 7, six weeks away. There are many rumors in military . induction. Federal going to run for what office, but none is so far confirmed. Elections this year will be held for state senator and two state representatives, county commissioner, county clerk, sheriff, coroner, two circuit judgeships and the district judgeship. Judge Edward C Kelly will run for election to the circuit judgeship he now holds, and District Judge rTames M. Main will seek the Jfjiher vacancy. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP! Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 450.66. up 2.73; 20 railroads 107.63. up 0.94; IS utilities 71.93. up 0.57. and 65 stocks 153.15. up 1.07. Sales today were about 2,830.000 shares com pared with 1.910,000 shares Thursday. Mothers Complete Plans Against Polio Approximately 1,200 Med ford mothers have completed plans to march against polio for one hour on Thursday, Jan. 30. It will be the annual Mothers' March, set from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mrs. Harold Gilbert, 209 Eastwood dr., chairman, said the entire city, including sev eral of the surrounding rural - areas, has been broken down into sections with a captain assigned to each section. Cap tains, in turn, have assigned mothers to cover each block in the area during the ap pointed hour. The Mothers' March will be by invitation only, Mrs. Gil bert pointed out, with a burn ing porch light or a candle in the window indicating the occupant wishes to contribute to the fight against polio. No calls will be made where the States grees higher than tempera tures in the sun's thermonu clear firebox and 10 to 20 mil lion degrees higher than those necessary to sustain one kind of H-bomb reaction under study as a possible power source. The only way man can hope to contain such reactions is by using electrical and mag netic fields to confine the hot charged gases within invisible walls. Laboratory research devices employing such fields are called "magnetic bottles." Both British and American officials cautioned against ex pecting economic hydrogen power in the foreseeable fu ture. AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss would not describe results to date as "a major breakthrough." Commissioner 4 MRS. BERETH HOPKINS Announces Candidacy . Jackson County Clerk Announces Her Candidacy Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, route 2, box 428, Medford, an nounced her candidacy for the Jackson county clerk today. The incumbent candidate was appointed county clerk in August, 1953, and in 1954 was elected to serve a four year term. "Since taking office I have made a number of changes in the county clerk's office in an attempt to modernize it," she said. "Modern machines and bookkeeping methods have been adapted for the election office. Also, the clerk's office has been reorganized into four divisions, those of aud itor, legal, recording and elec tion departments. All records from 1949 on have been mic rofilmed for safe keeping. Earlier records are now being put through this process." Taught School Mrs. Hopkins is a graduate of Montana State Normal col lege. She taught school in Montana for five years. She has also served as service club director for the 91st di vision at Camp White for two years. Her other business ex perience includes that of bookkeeper and credit man ager. Her husband, Curt, is in the insurance business in Med ford. Her son and only child is a major in the Strategic Air Ccmmand and is stationed at Rapid City, S.D. Mrs. Hopkins has three grandchildren. Washington OPi Harold Sexton has been nominated by President Eisenhower for reappointment as U C. Mar shal for Oregon. Next Thursday Night lit 'HI i - 1 MRS. HAROLD GILBERT Heads Marching Mothers Speeds Willard F. Libby told news men he would call them "a major step forward" but not a breakthrough comparable to that achieved Dec. 2, 1942, when the first atomic fisson chain reaction was estab lished. London dispatches, quoting anonymous sources, said Strauss wanted to delay pub lication until American lab oratories could match the 52nd M EDF0RD 20 PAGES Need for Higher Postage Rates Told Committee Washington (IP) Postmas ter General Arthur E. Sum merfield told Congress today that refusal to raise out of town letter postage to five cents would be "unthinkable." He said increased postal rates, including the new five cent stamp, is one of the most "urgent" items in the adminis tration's budget message to Congress. Failure to act, he said, could force another in crease in the national debt. Several congressmen have said- they would fight the nickel stamp proposal. . Summerfield appealed for support of 'the administra tion's postal rate plans in tes timony before the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Com mittee. He sought a five-cent charge on out of town letters, four cents on local letters and other rate increases. He spelled out the warning President Eisenhower out lined in his budget message last week, that the post office will run nearly $700 million in the red and next fiscal year unless the postage in creases are approved. And even with these increases there will be a deficit if pend ing wage raises for postal workers are granted, the ad ministration says. Meunier Picked Up By Immigration Men Confidence - man Robert Meunipr, 33, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, who was serving a 30-day city jail sen tence after pleading guilty to charges of defrauding an inn keeper, was picked up by U.S. Immigration authorities Thursday afternoon for return to Canada. Meunier, who was arrested Jan. 13 by city police, ad mitted to police that he had fooled a number of Medford residents into believing he was a doctor of medicine, boy's town official or youth worker. Reports showed he was re leased from the British Co lumbia, Canada, prison on Dec. 13, police said. Chamber Banquet Is Planned Tonight Dr. Clifford E. Maser, dean of the business college at Ore gon State college, will speak at the annual Jackson County Chamber of Commerce dinner meeting at 7:30 p.m. today at the Rogue Valley Country club. New members of the board of directors, who were elected late last year, will be intro duced, as will new committee members. Robert Taylor is chairman of the banquet. Portland (IP) The final link of the Banfield freeway on Portland's east side was dedicated today. To March invitation is not extended, Mrs. Gilbert said. Captains who have been ap pointed include Mrs. C. H. Herman Jr., Mrs. Tom Reames, Mrs. Gordon Hud son, Mrs. H. L. Root, Mrs. Earl Knight, Mrs. Joe Hosick, Mrs. Thomas Cox, Mrs. Wil liam Breeden, Mrs. P. H. Blood, Mrs. R. J. Knight, Mrs. John Dickson, Mrs. H. G. Wing, Mrs. Lyle Heidemann and Mrs. H. C. Coppedge. Mrs. Gilbert stressed that block workers are needed and persons wishing to volunteeV may call SP 2-4980 or SP 2-2052 evenings. The chairman said she was confident the people of Med ford would not let the moth ers down and said she felt their nortions of the month- Wong fund-raising campaign j would pass previous marks. Work on temperatures achieved at Britain's Harwell. Strauss said that when he and Sir Edwin Plowien, chief of the British atomic energy project, agreed on the Jan. 24 date for simultaneous publica tion of the scientific papers, he did not know just what point the British had reached. Typical quotes from today's official papers: United Kingdom Atomic Year MEDFORD, OP1 ids Called for Construction of Crater Addition Central Point Bids on con struction of an eight -classroom addition to Crater High school will be opened at 8 p.m. Feb. 18 at Crater High school, H. P. Jewett, superin tendent, has announced. The addition will be at the east end of the present build ing and will form a wing parallel to the wings air the south end of the structure. A $160,000 bond issue was approved by district last Oct. 7 to construct and equip the addition. The addition was deemed necessary by the school board because of an in creased enrollment in the pres ent building. Enrollment this year reached 650. Reinforced Concrete The addition will include a corridor and connecting pass age to the present building. Construction will be of rein forced concrete with brick veneer on concrete slab. In terior walls will be plastered, and acoustical and asphalt tile will be tised on ceilings and floors. Architects are of the firm Hayslip, Tuft, Hewlett and Jamison,' Portland. The firm was in charge of the original building which was first used in September, 1951. Present school board mem bers are Lester E. James, C. Norman Gail, C. W. Anhorn, William Askwith and Wilton White. Special Events Slated for MOD Several special events have been scheduled for the March of Dimes in the next few days, it was announced today by John Watkins, special events chairman. Saturday the Medford Ki wanis club and the Medford Lions club will compete in a wheelbarrow race starting at Eighth st. and Central ave. and concluding at Main st. and Central ave. The clubs will operate on opposite sides of the street and will move their wheelbarrows one foot for each dollar collected for the fight against polio. Offi cials, in charge of Fred Spie gelberg of , Medford Senior high school, 'will check move ment of the wheelbarrows and will determine the winner. Under rules of the contest, the loser must wheel the win ner to the United States Na tional bank where the money will be deposited. Frank Dori gan is in charge of the Ki wanis crew while Lou Martin will supervise the Lions club. Saturday will be the last day of the Eagles lodge's milk bottles of dimes in front of the First National bank. Coins may be deposited in bottles representing the state in which the donor was born. At the present time, Oregon is leading with Minnesota in second place, according to Bill Barlow, chairman of the event. The 20-30 club will conduct a Blue Crutch sale on down town streets Saturday. Lapel pins representing crutches will be sold with the receipts going to the March of Dimes, according to Don Wells, club president. All next week the Medford Bowling lanes will conduct a March of Dimes contest, Watkins said. EXPECTED TO RETURN City Manager and Mrs, Robert Duff are scheduled to return to Medford Monday. The Duffs have spent the last two weeks on a vacation in southern California and the southwest. Mi Controlled Hydrogen Energy Authority: "Control of thermonuclear reactions for electricity generation may well be a possibility for the future, though its practical application is still a long way off . . . The work must be ex pected to remain the research stage for many years yet." Strauss: "Fruitful and promising results have been achieved in the laboratories of both countries but. . .it will ?.0 O .RY r a no WW DM Gales Hamper Ocean Shipping; Traffic Halted By UNITED PRESS Winds reaching more than 100 miles per hour struck the Oregon coast Thursday, hamp ering shipping and causing a few power outages. No heavy damage was reported. The Weather Bureau said the winds were expected to abate today, though still reaching 20-30 m.p.h., .with the prospect of increasing again tonight. Columbia Closed The Mt. Hebo Radar Station near Hebo in Tillamook coun ty reported gusts of more than 100 miles an hour Thursday. The entrance to the mouth of the Columbia river was closed to shipping all day by heavy winds and seas. The Coast Guard at Newport reported winds up to 75 m.p.h. accom panied by heavy rain. High winds and swirling snow shot visibility to zero on the highways between La Grande and Baker and La Grande and North Powder. State police patrol flagmen halted traffic for more than five hours on the two routes, from 3 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. while other state police and high way department personnel cruised the closed areas and rescued stranded cars. In Western Oregon, the high winds slapping wires against each other caused brief power outage at Powers in Coos county, West Port land, Clackamas Heights and uii nun. Cannon Beach, Ore. (IP! This coastal community was without its regular water sup ply today because high winds Thursday blew a tree over the six-inch water main. Repairs were expected to be completed this afternoon. The grammar school here was closed today since it has a hot water heating system. Mayor John Snider Attending Meeting Mayor John Snider left to day for Portland where he will attend a League of Ore gon Cities board meeting Saturday and Sunday. While in Portland he will confer with Dale Patterson of The New York Times regard ing an Oregon supplement to be psblished in the news paper, Sunday, April 6. According to a letter re ceived from Patterson this week, the supplement will be designed to promote the state's progress and prosperity in business, industry and tourism. - The supplement is spon sored by the State Depart ment of Planning and Devel opment, the letter said, and will use color, including read ing matter and pictures. WEATHER FORECAST: Generally cloudy with occasional rain in valley and snow in moun tains through Saturday. Low tonight 35. High Sat urday 45. Temp. Hichest Yesterday 47 Lowest this .Mornine .. . 33 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today ."..22 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:34 a.m. Sunset 5:14 p.m. The Moon sets ....10:20 p.m. and is in Apogee. First Quarter ...... Jan. 27 SIRIUS, due south at , 10:40 p.m. and Capella, high overhead at moonset. are now the brightest stars in the eve ning sky. be a matter' of years before we will be able to build and operate commercial hydrogen reactors." Dr. Arthur E. Ruark, chief of the U. S. Thermonuclear Project: "The work should be judged in view of the promise it holds out, and not on the basis of results reported to day." Both Ruark and Strauss stressed that H-power re Tribune 24, 1958 n "Look We've Got Chamber Supports Vet's Hospital at Camp White Site The board of directors of the Jackson County-Chamber of Commerce yesterday re quested the Veterans admin istration convert the perma nent facilities at Camp White into a veteran's hospital pro viding 400 beds. A campaign to utilize facili ties at the Camp White site was emphasized recently by a committee of the Eagle Point Grange when it heard a veterans hospital was planned in the northwest. Oth er groups and veterans organ izations have actively sup ported the proposal for some time. In a letter to Sumner G. Whittier, administrator of vet eran's affairs, the Chamber said it "has become vitally interested in the development of a veteran's hospital in con nection with the veteran's domiciliary at Camp White." Waiting List The Chamber said it had been informed that thereis a waiting list for admission to veteran's hospitals in Port land and San Francisco, a situation probably caused by the great increase in popula tion along the west coast. , "There are, at present, per manent buildings now stand ing empty at Camp White, which are equipped to accom modate a 400-bed general medical and surgical hos pital," the Chamber noted. It pointed out that there is an 850-bed domiciliary with an administrative staff capable of being expanded into a com plete hospital administration. "At the present cost of hos pital construction," the letter continues, "no new, up-to-date hospital can be built at less than $20,000 a bed. In other words, it would require al most' 88,000,000 to duplicate the existing facilities at Camp White." Transportation Cost The Chamber said another factor which should be con sidered is the cost of trans porting veterans' from the domiciliary Ho other centers when they are in" need of hos pital care. Such an expense would be eliminated if a hos pital were established in con nection with the present domi ciliary, the Chamber pointed out. search has not yet reached a point comparable to the start up of the first atomic fission reactor in Chicago, Dec. 2, 1942. Said Strauss: "The con trolled thermonuclear pro gram will not interfere with the current development and construction of reactors to produce electricity from nu clear fission." Price 10 Cents No. 236 a Secret Weapon' The letter continued: "Med ford is a rapidly growing medical center in a 10-county area. In 1954, under the spon sorship of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, Stan ford Research Institute con ducted . a survey of the hos pital needs in this county. Based upon this survey, a hew hospital is now nearing com pletion which will replace the present Community hospital. "The new hospital is a mod ern, up-to-date 80-bed hospital with all of the latest X-ray equipment, surgical equip ment, and other equipment required for the proper care of the sick and injured. This hospital will be ready for oc cupancy by May of 1958 and was built at a cost in excess of 82,500,000. "Today there are 62 physi cians and surgeons practicing in Jackson county. More than half of these physicians are. certified specialists and prac tically every field of medicine is represented among them. This large and skilled staff will no doubt continue to grow and will be in a position to render service to the Vet eran's hospital at Camp White. "Medford is in the center of an area comprising more than 300,000 people within a hundred mile radius. Ore gon is among one of the five states of the Union whose vet eran population is greater to day than the original number of enlistments in the state from all wars. The need for additional veterans hospital in Oregon is clear." Copies of the letter were sent to Senators Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger, Con gress Charles O. Porter, Edith Green, Walter Norblad, and Al Ullman, Governor Robert D. Holmes, and Dr. William E. Middleton, director of medi cine, veterans administration, Washington, D.C. New Cabinet Assumes Control in Venezuela Caracas, Venezuela ilPi A new cabinet took control of this oil-rich South American nation today, hoping to re store order after three weeks of riot and revolt in which more than 200 persons were killed. Penury teta Bomb Us Fission is the splitting of heavy atoms like uranium. Do it fast and you get an A bomb, like the one that de stroyed Hiroshima. Control it and you get a power plant, like those at Calder Hall, England, and Shippingport, Pa. The thermonuclear reaction, on the other hand, is the com bining or fusing of light at oms such as hydrogen. Fast fu sion, triggered by an A-bomb, produces the H-bomb's super violence. Controlled fusion, which is what the scientists are looking for, would con vert this violence into nparp- ful power. j The thermonuclear fuel with which both the U. S. and Britain have been experi menting is deutorium, or Condemnation Suit Filed Here For Right-of-Way A condemnation complaint has been filed in Jackson county circuit court by the state highway commission against Myron Root and com pany. The property being con demned is the old Root com pany packing house at Eighth and Fir sts., which is now under lease to Don Root. The state highway commis sion. plans to take a 60-foot right of way through the property, plus two 30 foot tri angles on the east edge. This would extend Eighth st. across the tracks and make it a one-way thoroughfare or couplet connecting with Riv erside ave, part of the .city's arterial street plan. Two Accesses Two accesses will be al lowed on either side of the relocated Eighth st. from the Root property, he added. Root said the desired right-of-w ay would go- right through the center of the property and require removal of the building. Root said he has received a letter from an attorney rep resenting the state highway commission stating the com mission' wants possession of the building on or before Feb. 21. However, negotiations are still under way, both parties stated. Jacobs Awarded EP School Contract Eagle Point Don, L. Ja cobs Medford, has been awarded the contract for con struction of a six-classroom addition to the new Eagle Point elementary school building. The school board accepted Jacob's offer of 882,100. There were 11 other bids ranging up to S96.379. Construction is to start with in 10 days and the contract calls for completion in 120 days. Eagle Point school patrons approved a $120,000 bond is sue for construction of the ad dition, for furnishing and equipping the rooms and for purchase of required play ground property. James K. Hoey, Medford, is consultant engineer for the project. Grants Pass IP More than 250 delegates are regis tered here for the 1958 mid winter session of the Oregon State Elks Association. Construction Dental Office Construction started yes- terdav on two connected den tal office buildings at the northwest corner of East Main and Geneva sts.-in Med ford, according to Jack Ed son, Medford, supervising ar chitect. Both buildings will be of equal size and will be con nected with a covered walk way. One building will be used by Dr. Raymond Mc Nair, orthodontist, and the others by Dentists Dr. John Price and Dr. Billy Black stone. The two units total 2,000 square feet, Edson said. Construction is being done by Meyers B. Jones, Medford contractor, and should be completed in four months, he actions heavy hydrogen. It takes something like 400 million de grees of temperature to speed deuterium nuclei to velocities great enough to make them collide with sufficient forces to fuse in a self-sustaining re action and give up some of their vast elemental energy. That is why such fusion re actions are called thermonu clear. There is only enough uran ium on earth to meet man kind's power needs through fission for another century or so. But there is enough heavy hydorgen in the waters of the planet to give man, as the British report said,k"a virtu ally inexhaustible source of fuel'' if science can learn how to harness it." Transcript of Testimony Due To Be Studied Washington (IP) The Sen ate Rackets Committee sent contradictory testimony of six West Coast union officials to the Justice Department for perjury action today after two of them returned to the wit ness stand to correct previous testimony. Return appearances were made by Patrick Clancy, pres ident of San Francisco Local 3 of the Operating Engineers Union, and the local's treas urer, Porter E. Vanderwark. Principal Beneficiary Clancy, Vanderwark and three other union officials have tabbed Victor S. Swan son, the union's business man ager and a former San Fran cisco utilities commissioner, as the principal beneficiary of irregularities in the union. The 74-year-old union official denied almost all of their charges yesterday. Chairman John L. McClel lan (D-Ark.) had ordered the-"" transcript of their testimony sent to the Justice Depart ment with the comment that somebody was "perjuring himself black in the face." Return To Stand In doing so McClellan had given all the witnesses in volved Swanson, Clancy, Vandewark, business agent Ed Doran, bookkeeper E. L. Garrett and secretary Clar ence F. Matthews until the start of today's hearing to cor rect their testimony. Clancy and Vandewark stood in the back of the Sen ate caucus room and said "yes, sir" today when Mc Clellan asked at the beginning of the hearing whether any of the six wanted to take him up on the offer. Vandewark testified that he received an additional 8500 over and above what he had previously acknowledged from union funds earmarked for promoting a pension plan at the international union's 1956 convention. Quizzed About Checks Clancy was questioned about two cashiers checks tc-- talling 81,000 which were drawn from the same source on the same day, March 27, 1956. He conceded that the endorsement "looks like my signature," but. he said at least one check unearthed by the committee was clearly "forged" with his signature."- Clancy asked that a hand writing expert" look at the two 8500 cashiers checks de- cribed by chief committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy as the proceeds of the pension plan fund. He said he could not recall "receiving or cash ing" them. Springfield. Ore. (IP) Mayor Ed Hams Jr., Spring field has been chosen as the outstanding senior citizen for 1957. Starts on Buildings said. Cost was estimated at $45,000 on the city building permit. The roof will consist of a wood decking with a built up roof on top of that. Pattern glass and wooden louvres will give the dental operating rooms the required privacy, Edson said. Both horizontal and verti cal fir siding will be used, with the interior of hemlock paneling, gypsum board and acoustical tile. The floor will be of a vinyl-asbestos mate rial. Plastic laminate will be used for the counter toppings and wall surface. Architect is Paul Kirk of Seattle, Wash., with Edson as supervising architect.
