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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBR"'
1958
No. 255
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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.
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