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52nd Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers Recommended BF0RB To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1230 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. RIBUNE A feature on dangerous in tersection! In Medford ap pears on page It of today's Mail Tribune. Read what elty officials arc doing about them. United Press full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 68 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBR"' 1958 No. 255 Me v WwT. -in L.-... - PRODUCE TRUCK A Hi-ton truck, load ed with produce, driven by John Stanley Wilford, 50, of Medford, wrapped around a power pole on Highway 99 near the Alley Mill rd. Friday afternoon after v it was involved with two other trucks and a passenger car in a fatal accident. -Oranges spilled over the highway in the collision. . (Birchfield photos. ... J TELEPHONE TRUCK John Edwin Smith, 30, of Portland, died of injuries . suffered ' wlierV the Pacific Telephone company, truck he was driving (above) was involved in an accident about 2:40 p.m. Friday on High way 99 south of Medford. He died in a local hospital about 6 p.m. Friday. It was the first fatality r in Jackson county "this year. N Phone Company Man Dies In Four-Vehicle Crash Friday John Edwin Smith, 30, of Portland, died about 6 p.m. Friday in Rogue Valley hospi tal of injuries received in an aeeident involving three trucks and a car on Highway 99 near the Alley mill rd. earlier Friday afternoon. It was the first traffic fa tality in Jackson county this year. At this time last year, two persons had been killed in traffic accidents in the county. Smith was driver of a Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph company pickup truck. He was here relieveing regular garage personnel working at the construction site of a micro-wave station near Hyatt lake. Other vehicles involved were a loaded log truck oper- 33, of route 1, box 403A Tal ent; a passenger car operated by Ruth Kathryne Gilman, 40, of 4230 Hillsmger rd.j Med ford; and a Hi-ton truck, loaded with produce, opera ted by John Stanley Wilford, 50, of route 3, box 234, Med ford. Wilford was taken to Sa cred Heart hospital. He suf fered broken legs, rib frac tures, facial cuts and possible internal injuries, according to state police. Mrs. Gilman was treated at Sacred Heart hospital for shock and releas ed, police said. Accident vic tims were taken to hospitals by Medford Ambulance ser vice. - -Highways Slippery The accident happened on a straight section of Highway 99. It was raining lightly, po- ated by Bernie George Helms, I lice noted, and the four-lane Engineer's Week Planned With Many Activities Several activities have been planned by the Rogue Valley chapter of Professional Engi neers of Oregon in observance of national Engineers Week this week. About 75 guests from 15 schools in Jackson, Josephine, Douglas and Klamath coun ties are expected to attend a meeting of the Professional Engineers of Oregon and the "American Institute of Electri cal Engineers at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Medford hotel. The students were selected from senior classes and will be given an opportunity to BASKETBALL PREPS Klamath Falls 70. Ashland 37 . COLLEGE Sacramento St 60. Chico St. 53 California 80. Southern California 62 Oregon 87, Washington 83. (overtime). Nevada 56, Humboldt Si. S3 Utah 69, Montana 60 Brigham Young 69. Utah St. 66 Colorado St. U. 58. Denver 53 meet and discuss with engi neers professions in which they are interested. ' ' Professor R. L. Richardson of the general engineering school at the University of Oregon, will speak on the preparation necessary for an engineering career : and the benefits realized from such a career. A 15-minute television pro gram is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, over KBES TV. Bob Scherzinger, ' struc tural engineer, Walter Mar quess, civil and structural engineer, and Larry Horton, electrical engineer with the California Oregon Power com pany, will discuss some of the engineering work current ly being done in southern Oregon. A 15-minpte radio broad cast on radio station KMED at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, will include a student visiting en gineering projects of the In ternational Geophysical year. School area schools have scheduled special assemblies during the week. At Crater High school in Central Point, Horton and -Dr. Elliott Mc Cracken, electrical engineer and professor of mathematics at Southern Oregon college. will speak to a group interes ted in engineering. highway was wet and. slip pery. ;. State ' police gave the fol lowing account of the acci dent: Helms truck was travel ing north on the outside, or right lane; the Smith vehicle also was going north on the inside lane, as if Smith had just passed the logging truck. Wilford was driving south on the inside lane, attempting to make a left turn into a private driveway. The trucks operated by Smith and Wil ford collided. The Smith truck then went into the southbound lane of traffic where it-struck a car driven by Mrs. - Gilman, knocking it off the edge of the highway. Wilford's truck and the logging truck collided. The logging truck veered into a nearby field. Wilford's truck continued to the edge of the highway and wrapped around a power pole. Oranges in the Wilford truck spilled over -the high way and the impact knocked the engine from the truck, police said. Both the telephone com pany and Wilford trucks were demolished. Police said Mrs. Gilman's car was damaged on the left side, and the logging truck sustained heavy damage to the front end. Police indicated that char ges may be filed in connec tion with the case. An inves tigation continued yesterday, they said. j Anti-Red r Take Gove do Padank, Sumatra (W Anti - Communist Indonesia rebels Saturday night pro claimed a revolutionary gov ernment exercising "full sov ereignty" over Indonesia. But they promised to step aside if President Sukarno named a new government free of reds. The rebel proclamation which risked plunging the island republic into bloody civil war, also demanded that Rogue Will Hold At Flood Levels, Forecasters Say A 6 p.m. Saturday weather advisory report Issued by the Medford Weather bureau at the airport said the Rogue river had reached crest stage and would hold at those levels until this morning. An advisory bulletin is scheduled for issue this morn ing, according to officials. A letup in the rain in the upper Rogue river region caused the lower - than - expected crest stage, they said. The Rogue river was hold ing at about 16 feet at Grants Pass, flood stage is 22, last night. Dodge bridge was about six and one-half feet and Gold Ray dam was about 10, the bu reau reported. Heavier rams were expected to start early this morning, officials said. No rise in the river level is expected until early morning when the ad visory will be issued, weather bureau officials explained. They reported 1.52 inches of rain since the rain started late Thursday evening in Med ford. The rain has been al most steady since first start ing, they reported. Jackson county sheriffs and Medford city police reported no roads or streets covered with water. They said they expected no trouble unless the rains increase1 within tne next day or so. By United Press 'A msijor snow storm" swept up the east coast from the Carolinas Saturday adding perils of ice and drifts in the seaboard states to effects of sub-zero weather besetting the nation's midland states. . A new cold wave, possibly thi bitterest of the winter, meanwhile bore into the cen tral plains from Canada, threatening some sections with temperatures as 10 as 35 degress below zero. Deaths Clomb The nation's toll of weather caused deaths clombed to 169 a United Press count showed The weather bureau in Washington in a 10 p.m. EST bulletin warned of hazardous driving from 12 to 14 inches of snowfall in the northeast as the eastern storm raced toward New England, leaving behind a snow-blanketed south. The bulletin warned that this storm, centered off the Virginia coast, was growing worse and cautioned motor ists of the danger of becoming snowbound in the freezing weather. Reports showed New York had 26 deaths, Oklahoma 19, New England 16, Ohio 14, Texas 12, Indiana 10, Illinois eight, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina seven each, Michigan and Mississip pi six apiece, South Carolina and Tennessee five each, Col orado, Missouri and Iowa four each, Minnesota three, Maryland two, and one each in Alabama, South Dakota. Wisconsin, and Georga. Su repudiate his con cept'of "guided democracy' admitting Communists to the government. The rebels announced the swearing in of Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, a fo r m e r president of "the Bank of In donesia, as premier and nam ed Bukittinggi in Central Sumatra as the new seat of government. Sukarno, whose Jakarta regime, rejected . a five-day rebel ultimatum on Monday to rid itself of Communists was flying home from "headth" vacation in Japan. Would Step Aside The rebel forces said they step aside if and when as sured Sukarno will return to a constitutional position and name a new Djakarta govern ment under anti-communist former vice president Moham med Hatta. ' Forty thousand persons wit nessed the swearing in of Sjafruddin and his. cabinet outside the broad-columned porch of the government man sion in Padang. In Singapore, a spokesman for the revolutionary forces charged that Abdul Haris Nasution, chief of staff for the Jakarta regime, wants war and warned that the rev olutionaries "will meet force with force." Crowd Roars Approval The crowd roared approval at Lt. Col. Ahmad Hussein read the proclamation of new government. Sjafruddin was greeted with loud ap plause as he appeared on the verandah'. 1 Three communiques by the regime promised protection to foreigners and their invest ments. It proclaimed the foreign assets of the govern ment were frozen. And it said it- would not be responsible for . contracts made by the Sukarno government under Premier Djuanda after Feb 15. No arms bought by Jakar ta will be paid for, the rebels said. Later, the government is sued a list of 11 cabinet min isters which included the premier as finance minister. The rebels, most of them young colonels, were report ed buying arms in Singapore. A battalion was organized in Central Sumatra under - four captains. A rebel spokesman said any civil war would be fought by "economic and administra tive methods" rather than with guns. Top Priority Requested For School Construction Washington 'OP) : Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-N.J.) called on congressional leaders Sat urday to give priority to fed eral aid for school construc tion in any. public works pro gram to cope with. the busi ness recession. Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D La.) disagreed and urged pri ority for resources develop ment. He specifically recom mended this line of action in preference to the post office modernization and building program put forward by Presi dent Eisenhower this week. Case issued a statement not ing some Democratic congres sional leaders were surveying public works programs in search for projects to meet problems created by rising un employment. , Case is an Eisenhower Re publican who was disappoint ed because the administration abandoned its long - stymied program of federal aid for building 'public schools when it asked for a program to en courage science education. . Meantime, Rep. Robert L. Sikes (D-Fla.) urged President Eisenhower to cancel pro posed cuts in military and civilian defense personnel as a step to ease "economic dis tress." He said these people, when released, "are finding it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to find jobs." Sixth ICBM Fails In Last' Minute Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IP) The Air Force failed in an at tempt to launch a sixth inter continental Atlas today be cause of last-second "techni-car-difficulties." The trouble may have been failure of one of the big bird's engines to ignite properly. From distant beaches fire ap peared to belch from only one side of the Atlas when the fir ing button was pushed. The 100-ton missile appar ently was undamaged. It still sat on its launching pad, gleaming impressively in the sun, after the smoke and steam from the aborted launching at tempt drifted away. The Air Force said only that the flight test was post- p o n e d "after encountering technical difficulties immedi ately prior to launch. Just when the next launch ing atempt will be made prob ably will not be announced. Bad weather may have held up for a time Saturday s test of the 5,500-mile range Atlas, which has flown twice success fully before today and run into trouble on its other three flights. .Berlin (IP) The East German Communists Satur day demanded the purge of Gina Lollobngida. She is cut ting into farm production. g Planned 01 Woods Road Developm't County Men To Meet With Forestry Man A meeting on the Lake of the Woods road development will be held in Portland Fri day, it was reported Saturday. The meeting has been called for representatives of this area to meet with Regional Forester Herb Stone accord ing to Carroll Brown, super visor of the Rogue National forest. Expected to meet with Stone are Glenn Jackson and Chester Hubbard of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce roads committee; Car roll Brown, members of the Jackson county court and Paul Rynning, county engine er. Representatives of Klam ath county are also expected to attend. Aim of the meeting will be to discuss the possibility of getting the Lake of the Woods road improvement in cluded in the forest roads program, it was explained. . According to the proposal a 16 mile stretch from Little Butte crek, just above Lake creek, to Lake of the Woods would be graded and paved. This would provide a through connection with the Crater Lake highway and the Lake of the Woods-Klamath Falls highway, it was explained. Improvement of this road would open access to valuable timber tracts and open up a large recreation area around Fish lake and Lake of the Woods, Rynning said. Inclusion in the Forest roads program would require approval of the State High way commission, Forest Serv ice and the Bureau of Public Roads. The State Highway commission " and the Forest Service have already indicat ed their approval, according to a local source. This- connection is not con sidered more direct than al ternative Green Springs high way route, but it would be more economical to build and maintain since it does not have excessive grade, accord mg to a local spokesman construction ol the pro posed ' connection would be financed from forest highway funds and would be maintain ed by state highway funds, Rynning said. What brings this question up at this time, Rogue Nation al Forest Supervisor Brown said is the proposed change in formula for distribution of forest highway funds. If the change goes through Oregon will probably receive a cut and the Lake of the Woods road connection would prob ably be shunted aside. "Up until this time the for mula for allocations of forest highway funds has been based on 50 per cent for the area and 50 per cent for the value of the national forest land within the state," Brown ex plained. "The proposed change sets up a formula with 75 per cent based on the area and 25 per cent on the value of timber. Under that formula Oregon would receive much less in allocation. This change would benefit such regions as the t Rocky mountain states since there is a lot of low value timber there in a large area." France To U. lives Oomsui) IIODD "Rett Assured We'll Proceed Full Speed Ahead" Ousted Council May Explain TV Charges Washington (W Chair man Oren Harris said Satur day his house subcommittee would give its ousted counsel a chance Monday to explain his charge . that a "White Sports Bulletins Grants Pass Grants, Pass topped the Crater Comets here Saturday night by a 54 to 43 count. Caveman Jim Smith was high man with 16 counters. Wayne Allen led the Comets with 11. The half time count was 23 to 18, Grants Pass. Grants Pass Medford's Jim Funston won the heavy weight wrestling champion ship here Saturday in the district tourney. Juveniles Apprehended When Police Raid Home Medford police late Satur day night took into custody 25 juveniles charged with possession of liquor. Officers raided a party in progress in a home on Euclid st. The juveniles were re leased tothe custody of their parents. Their ages range from 16 to 19 years. Police said they had re ceived complaints on "noisy parties" from people in the neighborhood. Stassen Resigns; President Happy, Bids Fond Goodby Thomasville, Ga. (IP) President Eisenhower enthu siastically accepted Saturday the resignation of his disarma ment adviser, Harold E. Stas sen who plans to run for gov ernor of Pennsylvania on the Republican ticket. The President did not fire Stassen, but the chief execu tive certainly bade the former governor of Minnesota a defi nite farewell. Stassen has been on the po litical firing line for some months. He has been building his political fences in Pennsyl vania, trying to line up sup port for the forthcoming Penn sylvania primary. Stassen telephoned the Pres ident here Friday, reaching Eisenhower,' at the Piney Woods plantation of former treasury secretary George M. Humphrey. Agrees On Departure The President and Stassen agreed that Stassen should leave the White House staff if the balding former governor is to pursue his political am bitions. The President, in accepting Stassen's resignation effective immediately, was full of praise for Stassen., The President, however, stopped short of en dorsing him for governor. Stassen bucked the , Eisen hower "team" in 1956 by vo cally advocating the nomina tion, of Christian A. Herter, now the undersecretary oi State, for vice president over the current number two in cumbent, Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon. The former Minnesota gov ernor, now transplanted to Pennsylvania, withstood some of the chopping techniques of the administration and lasted out a relatively long career as an Eisenhower adviser. House clique" influenced de cisions of some independent federal regulatory agencies. The Arkansas Democrat told reporters that hearings by his subcommittee next week would be devoted main ly to the charges by the ex dealing with the award of television channel 10 at Mi ami, Fla. But he also indi cated that the question of "improper White House in fluence" raised by Schwartz may be "aired when the 34- year-oia law professor re turns to the witness stand on Monday. Schwartz testified Thurs day that federal communica tions commissioner Richard A Mack accepted $2,650 from a 'lawyer connected with the firm which got channel 10. Mack denied anything im proper. Harris said that when Schwartz is recalled, he will be asked a few "clean-un questions" about the Miami case and then the sub-com mittee will delve into other matters. Will Get Chance Harris said Schwartz would have a chance to present anv evidence he may have to back up a charge of White House influence,, which he made in an angry press statement on Tuesday after the subcommit tee fired him. . ; Schwartz said he had plan ned to "brine to light the ma chinations of the White House clique in controlling deci sions" of the agencies, which are supposed, to be quasi-judicial. As alleged members of this "clique" he named presiden tial assistant Sherman Adams, White House aide Gerald Mor gan, commerce secretary Sin clair Weeks, former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and Col." George Gor don Moore, brother-in-law of Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower. Harris said the 14-member subcommittee staff was work ing into tonight and would be busy tomorrow getting set for the week-long hearings on the Miami TV case. Two FBI agents also were at work in the subcommittee offices. Attorney general Wil liam P. Rogers ordered the FBI to look into the charges against Mack Thursday night. 'Spaceman1 to Emer ge From Ship Today After Week's Simulated Trip to Moon San Antonio, Tex. (IP) "Spaceman" Donald G. Far rell shook off part of his fa tigue and boredom Saturday while the final hours of a week's simulated trip to the moon m a sealed, de-pressurized and blacked-out space cabin crept by. Farrell, 23, an airman first class from New York's Bronx, was cheered, the Air Force's top space physician said, by the knowledge of his emer gence from the three-by-five foot cabin at 9:35 tin. today. Since 9:35 a.m. last Sunday. he has lived in what space scientists call the "artificial environment" of the space cabin. His food and water and the air he breathed were hermatically sealed into the cabin with him. He hasn't heard another hu man's voice, he doesn't know what has happened outside of the cabin. He hasn't been able to see beyond the instrument paced walls of the cabin since he went in. The Air Force wanted to see whether a man's mind can stand the strain of a trip to outer space. As far as can be determined on earth, it can. "We hid previously antici pated that the third day of boredom might be critical," Dr. George H. Steinkamp, he Air Force's top space physi cian said. Dr. Steinkamp heads the department of space medicine at the school of aviation med icine, where the experiment was made in a laboratory that only scientist' may tnter. Won't Withdraw : UN Council Action Against Tunisia Pressure Relaxed On French Troops Paris (tPt France agreed Saturday to let the United States mediate its dispute with Tunisia. But it declined to withdraw its U.N. security council action against the North African country. ' Tunisia, in turn, relaxed the pressure on the 16,000 French soliders garrisoned on Tunisian soil and permitted civilian trucks to supply them. with food. Emile Claparede, secretary of state for information made it clear that France was agree ing to mediation, not arbitra tion. In Washington, U.S. of ficials quickly welcomed the announcement. They said the United States had no wish to act as arbitrator, but merely as a go-between. ' Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba previously had in dicated he would accept U.S. mediation. It appeared that American diplomats would start working on the dispute over the weekend. They al ready have been working the scenes to prevent a major conflict.. Bourguiba said Thursday he would drop his U.N. Securi ty Council action against France for the bombing last Saturday of Sakiet Sidi Yous sef if France agreed to Ameri can mediation. But France filed its. own charges Friday night, asking the Security Council to con demn Tunisia for aiding Al gerian rebels, and Claparede said it appeared that a coun cil debate Tuesday could not be avoided. The Tunis government in two military communiques Saturday said France had massed troops in Algeria near the bombed Tunisian border village. The Tunisians claim 79 were killed and 130 injured. Algeria (IP) French trooDS and Algerian rebels fought a pitched battle for the second day in a row Saturday near the Tunisian border. Casual ties were high. The French reported 102 rebels dead in the fizhtin near Duvivier, an Algerian town 50 miles from the Tu nisian border village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef which the French bombed last Saturday. French authorities' listed French losses at 11 dead and 42 wounded. Buffer Zone Plan -Gefs U. 5. Study Washington m U.S. offt. cials Saturday studied a for mal Polish proposal to creat a partially neutralized buffer zone between Communist and Western Europe. Nuclear weapons would be banned from Poland, East and West Germany and Czechoslo vakia under the plan. -The Polish government de livered a formal outline of the proposal yesterday to the United States, Russia, Britain, France and the other Euro pean governments involved. The outline appeared to meet some of the objections raised by the state depart ment since the plan was first presented in general terms by Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rappacki last October in a United Nations speech. WEATHER . FORECAST: Continued clouds with rain, moderate ' at time through Monday, ' mild temperatures, hich today 50. low tonight 45, high Monday 55. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 5J Lowest this Morning 51 PRECIP. To 10 p.m. Yesterday 81 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset . 7:07 a.m. 5:45 p.m. 6:15 a.m. Moonrise Monday CONSTELLATION ' Orion, in the southeast at sunset, will be in the south 8:01 p.m. and in the south- west 10:19 p.m. Last star of this group to set will be Betelegeuse. at 2:22 a.m. V
