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(Ml fee Bulganm It nronms IHlecivy tote TaOks Scheduled On Reorganization ' Public meetings are planned for Butte Falls, Prospect and Elk-Trail school districts to discuss possible reorganiza tion and consolidation of those districts with the Shady Cove district, a member of the county reorganization board said this mornine. A meeting is scheduled for 8 p.m. today in the Prospect school district lor the hign school cafeteria. Butte Falls is scheduled to hold its public meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Elk-Trail school district plans to hold a meeting sponsored by tne Parent - Teacher association there March 7 to discuss school district reorganization and the proposal to build a high school for the four school districts in Shady Cove. Shady Cove will not 3lda meetine at this time -school official said. School officials there said they will await the outcome of the other public meetings in the other school districts. ; All four school district boards are to meet later to discuss the opinions of voters in their districts on the pos sible reorganization, it was explained. School oinciais De lieve a broader curriculum could be obtained through the suggested consolidation, ac cording to Douglas D. Finch, Butte Falls, a member of the county reorganization board. First Meeting Held The four school boards held their first of a series of meet ings Monday, Feb. 10. A name for the proposed union high school was among the many things discussed, a school of ficial said. If the plan is piit.ihtb oper ation the-Rfgh school would be under one board, a govern ing body of seven men. This board would include repre sentatives from Butte Falls, Prospect, Shady Cove and Elk Trail districts. Grade school would remain the same in their own districts. The indi vidual high school buildings would be utilized, it was ex plained. Butte Falls high school now has about 40 pupils .and Prospect approximately 75 pupils, it was reported. Shady Cove and Elk-Trail districts now send their pupils to Eagle Point high school. "Under the Reorganization Act passed by the recent state legislature it is possible to use existing procedure for consolidating districts provid ed it meets the approval of the county school reorganization committee. The committee must be satisfied that such changes will fit into the total Wilford Reported In Fair Condition John Stanley Wilford. 50, of route 3, box 234, Medford, was reported still in fair con dition at Sacred Heart hos pital this morning. Wilford was injured in the four ve hicle accident Friday on High way 99 when John Edwin Smith. 30, Portland, was fatally injured. Wilford, driver of a pro duce truck, and Ruth Kath ryne Gilman 40, of 4230 Hill singer rd., Medford, were taken to Sacred Heart hos pital following the accident. Mrs. Gilman was treated for shock and released, according ..to state police. Airman on Simulated Space Journey Would Like San Antonio, Tex. UP) Space doctors and scien tists today studied reams of technical data obtained frm successful test "spaceman" Donald G. Farrell, who says he would like to follow up his simulated seven-day flight to the moon with a real one. Farrell stepped out of the three by five foot steel shell seven days to the minute from the time he was her metically sealed in. Ready for Another Month With a grin he said he was ready to go back in for an other month of solitude if necessary. However, Farrell said one major factor was left unan swered in his experiment at Snow off Emergeinicv Dlan which has to be drawn up to put all areas in the county into administration dis tricts, each of which are to furnish education for grades 1 through 12," according to Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent. - FRANK CHRISTIAN Files Candidacy Christian Files His Candidacy For Commissioner Frank Christian, Talent mayor and retired building contractor, who last week an nounced., his candidacy for county commissioner on the Democratic ticketf has " filed with the elections department of the- county clerk's office. Christian was born in Cen tral Idaho where he attended school and later moved to Alberta, Canada. He worked as a cowboy and certified public accountant in Alberta, where he was mar ried. During the 1930s he moved to Forks, Wash., where he worked for a logging com pany and later purchased a service station. The family moved to Myrtle Creek in 1945 where he was stockholder in the. Fir Manufacturing company. Aft er the company was destroy ed by fire he invested in a plywood plant that was built on the former company's site. After selling his stock in the plywood plant he turned to subdivision development in the Myrtle Creek area and came to Talent in 1950. Since that time he has subdivided part of the land he owns in the Talent area and has built several duplexes. He lives at 314 West Main st.. Talent. He has been mayor of Tal ent for two years. His term expires in November of this year He is on the board of the Camp Fire Girls, Ashland Elks lodge, and is a member of the Jackson County Sher iff's Posse. New Numbers Given For Sacred Heart Sacred Heart hospital now has two telephone numbers since the completion of a new switchboard last week, hospit al officials have reported. During the daytime the number will be SPring 3-6611 with the number during the hours from 10 p.m. until 7 a.m., SPring 2-5113. To Take Real the School of Aviation Medi cine here to determine man's ability to face the monotony and boredome of outer space. At no time, Farrell said, did he feel as if he were truly in space. In front of the chair he sat in was a panic button. A push on it would have caused the scientists watch ing from outside the chamber to open the door and release him. No Panic Button A man soaring into outer space would have no panic button to push if terror shoud overcome him. Farrell, after a 30-minute conference and an impromptu speech by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, was hustled off to a hospital ' a IBriimgs Indiana Reports 18-Foot Drifts; Boston Buried Gulf Coast Receives Two To Three Inches Boston (IP) The East Coast blizzard centered over northern New England today with sharpened i n t e n s i ty. Sub-freezing winds blew over its white wake on tha hurri cane path from Alabama to Boston. The death toll for the 10 day cold wave that began Feb. 6 rose to 223. It was a numbing Monday from the Gulf Coast, where two to three inches of snow fell in the week end storm, to the Northeast where official depths of 42 . inches were blown into towering drifts on gale force winds. The worst snow in the na tion,, however, was outside the sweeping storm path in the northwestern corner of Indiana where a Lake Michi gan squall dumped four to i five feet of snow. Drifts blew to 18 feet. Michigan City, Ind., was virtually isolated in zero temperatures, and a full state of emergency was de clared with aid summoned from as far away as Chicago. Boston Buried Boston was buried under 18 inches of snow, a 24-hour fall that broke a 37-year rec ord by l'2 inches. Up to 27 inches fell in suburban areas. Accompanying high tides forced 50 families from their homes in Quincy. In Washington, blanketed with 14 inches of snow, its heaviest fall in 22 years, all bfit the most essential govern ment officials were asked to take a day's leave to reduce the ice-packed traffic snarl. The thermometer was down to 8 degrees and not expect ed to top freezing today. All schools were closed in the capital and its surrounding Virginia and Maryland su burbs. Commuter travel was ham pered into virtually every Eastern seaboard city. Bus schedules were abandoned in some hard-hit areas. In the Southeast, a new cold wave moved into northern and -central Florida after a two-day respite, bringing the 10th freeze of a bitter winter to its fruit and vegetable growers. Damage Reported To Medford Home Medford police report about $200 worth of damage to a new home under con struction at 440 Lynwood ave has been cleared with the questioning of two Medford children. Police said the children, aged 5 and 3 year old, poured glue on the walls and floors of the front room, drove nails into the woodwork and dam aged the wall plaster. The damage was discovered about 7:45 a.m. today when con tractors arrived at the build' ing. Clayton A. ' Morrison, the building contractor, told po lice the damage apparently took place during Sunday. The children were released to their parents after question ing. Pendleton IIP) The fifth annual convention of the Pacific Northwest City Man agers association opened here today. Moon Trip from 72 hours of tests, after which he will be flown to New York. When he stepped out of the chamber, the airman was ask ed by a doctor if he was "wob bly." "Slightly, Sir," the six foot, 181-pounder replied. Missed Cigarettes Farrell said he missed cig arettes more than anything else, The atmosphere in the cabin was equal to that at 18,000 feet, forcing him to use oxygen and therefore give up smoking because of the fire h?zard. He lost four pounds, de spite increasing his caloric in take in the chamber from 2,500 to 3,400. This puzzled the doctors, who had predict ed Farrell would gain. PAUL GEDDES 'Much Left Undone' Paul Geddes To Seek Nomination As Porter Foe Roseburg (IP Paul Geddes, Roseburg attorney and former' state senator, to day announced that he would seek the Republican, nomina tion for a chance to unseat Democratic C o n g r e s sman Charles Porter in the Fourth Congressional District. Geddes explained in his an nouncement, "I had intended to retire from any active participation 'in the political field, but I have been pre vailed upon to become a can didate by many people in both parties who are interested in good government and who be lieve that this area should have adequate and favorable representation in Congress. . Geddes, who is 51, has served as deputy district at torney for Douglas county. Roseburg city attorney, presi dent of the Douglas county bar association, member of the state Board of Bar exam iners, member of the Board of Governors and president of the Oregon State Bar. He asserted that "much has been left undone to overcome and eliminate the many dis advantages such as adverse freight rates, lack of defense industries, lack of flood con trol, lack of encouragement for mineral development and poor markets," by the present representative in Congress. Porter defeated Harris Ells worth, another Roseburg Re publican, in the 1956 elections and is the first Democrat to represent the district. Students To Take Public Offices Medford high school stu dents will assume city offices and Crater, Phoenix, Jackson ville, Eagle Point, Prospect and Butte Falls high school students will take over the county offices on the annual Student government days Wednesday and Thursday this week. ... The event is sponsored by the Medford Elks elub to bring a better understanding of city and county government to the students. All elective and most major appointive of fices will be filled by the stu dents on Thursday The group will take part in several radio and television programs during Wednesday in addition to tours of the sta tions. A banquet is slated Wednesday evening at the Elks building. Students will take over the offices on Thursday morning and tour other government of fices during the afternoon, The day will be closed with a council meeting in the city hall by students. Wiley Smith's Suit On Tax Study Tossed Out Salem (IP! Circuit Judge Val D. Sloper today tossed out of court a suit filed by Mult nomah County Assessor Wiley Smith who had sought to pre vent the state from spending $35,000 on a general survey of Oregon's tax structure. The judge refused to grant Smith an injunction on grounds there were not enough facts to warrent ac tion. WEATHER Forecast Generally cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Oc casional light rain tonight and Tuesday morning, be coming steady and heavi er Tuesdav afternoon and night. Low tonight 48. High Tuesday near SO. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 60 Lowest This Morning 50 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 02 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:06 a.m. Sunset 5:46 p.m. The Moon rises shortly be fore sunrise (Tuesday) and will be in conjunction with the Sun (New Moon) 7:38 a.m. Venus rises S:32 a.m. and today begins an east ward movement among the stars that will continue until August, 1959. 52nH v- iSam o 10 16 Crescent City Fire Ruins Sifted For More Victims Three Known Dead In Block-Long Fire Crescent City, Calif. ' (IP) Firemen poked through rain-soaked ashes today in a search for possible additional victims of a fire that killed three persons as it swept through a block of business buildings in this logging com munity. One person was listed as missing in the fire and four others were injured, two ser iously. The victims were among 14 guests at the Bay City hotel, where the fire broke out at 2:45' a.m. Sun day. Property damage was esti mated at more than $250,000. "If it hadn't been raining, the fire would have gone clear through the town," one fireman said. . Started in Hotel The fire apparently broke out in the hotel room occu pied by Stanton Moss, an ad vertising executive. Fanned by strong wind it spread rap idly through the old hotel and through a series of one-story shops and offices. .le names stopped just short of the Surf hotel, al most a block away. Twenty persons fled from that hotel because of heat and thick smoke. Tentatively identified as fa tal victims were Bobby Book er, 22, an airman at Requa Air Force Base, Klamath; El mer Wasankari, 53, of Cres cent City; and William Maug han, a logger. Missing was Mrs. Marjorie Sharp, 38, another guest in the hotel. Injured -in Leap George Schrader, 72, a sheet metal worker, was in critical condition with inter nal injuries from a second floor leap. John R. Pittman, 23, suffered a fractured leg and pelvis in jumping from the third floor. Harley Good win, 29, of Santa Rosa, was burned on the face; and Otis Bradley, 49, a logger, suffer ed an injured foot and pos sible head injury. Rogue Receding, Storm Forecast Rogue basin streams, swol len by week end rains, con tinued to recede today. The Medford station of the U.S. weather bureau pointed out, however, that any appre ciable precipitation from a storm expected Tuesday could bring streams "up into the danger area." Front of the new storm this morning was out in the Pacific ocean about 1,200 miles west of here. Streams of the area rose with 1.58 inches of rain on Friday and Saturday but be gan to fall yesterday morning. Rogue river crested below flood level between 6 and 7 ajn. in this area on Sunday. Crest was 16.85 feet at Grants Pass where flood stage is-22 feet. Highest: reading obtained at Dodge bridge was 7.09 at 6:10 a.m. yesterday. At 7:15 a.m. the measurement was 7.08. Flood stage is con sidered to be nine feet. Read ing was 12.5 at Grants Pass and 5.9 at Dodge bridge this morning. . . A weather bureau spokes man stated that soils of this area are so saturated that any considerable rainfall is re flected in the rivers shortly after the precipitation starts. Forecast for the vicinity is for only occasional light rain tonight but steady and heavier fall is predicted for Tuesday afternoon and night. Medford vicinity had only 05 of an inch of rain yester day and .02 this morning. Total for the month of 3.05 inches up to midnight last night was 1.87 more than nor mal. Tabulation for the sea son (since Sept. 1, 1957) was listed at 17.32 inches, which was 5.27 above normal. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 442.27, off 2.17; 20 railroads 107.01, off 0.69; 15 utilities . 72.12. up 0.07, and 65 stocks 151.31: off 0.61. Sales to day were about 1,700,000 shares compared with if 070,000 shuM Friday. ...-irOKD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1958 IMYiyiE pinny; y uuiira I MO "Here, Together Under One Tent- North Korea Admits Hijacking Airliner On Routine Flight Seoul, Korea (IP) The North ; Korean propaganda radio admitted today that a Korean National Airlines plane with 32 persons aboard was hijacked in the air and forced to land in the ''Red-held north. A broadcast by Pyongyang Radio said the plane, which disappeared on a routine flight from Pusan to Seoul, arrived in North Korea at about 2 p.m.. Sunday. The DC3, owned by. the Ko rean National Airlines, was piloted by an American,, and had aboard another American and two Germans as well as a number of Koreans. The Communist broadcast did not say . where the plane landed, but U.N. radar track ing units said they, folowed the . aircraft . across the de militarized zone into North Korea, where it apparently landed at the Sunan Air Base, 20 miles north of the North Korean capital of Pyong Yang. , In describing the flight to the north, the Red-run radio said that "the people on the plane were against the oc cupation of South Korea by the U.S. imperialist aggres sive forces." It added that those aboard could no longer "put up, with the daily pressure of the Fascist Syngman Rhee gov ernment and decided to heroically escape to North Korea." It identified one of the passengers as Hwang Hae Soo and quoted him as saying he wanted to escape "imperial ist oppression." Hwang was not listed on the plane's manifest, held by airlines authorities in Seoul. But apparently he was one of several Communist agents who boarded the plane under assumed names and then forced the pilot to fly to North Korea, presumably at gunpoint. Gen. George Decker, U.N. commander in Korea, de Another Ashland Safe Burglarized Ashland The Ashland po lice department r e p o r te d about $37 was taken from an open safe during Saturday afternoon at the . Groceteria market, 300 East Main st. Police said the thief appar ently walked back to the safe, which was open, and took the money. Store officials said the theft took place dur ing a rush period and was not discovered until Saturday evening. IS) II M n -iiu-i!. TO TV manded the immediate return of the plane and its occupants. His command asked for an emergency meeting of the Military Armistice Commis sion at Panmunjom. Scouts To Assist In Promotion Of Mercy Flights Approximately 45.000 door knob "hangers" telling the story of Mercy Flights, will be distributed March 2 to 8 throughout Jackson, Jose phine and Siskiyou counties by Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Explorers of the Crater Lake council, according to Boy Scout officials. A letter from Mercy Flights will be sent to every pack, troop and Explorer unit this week and materials will be distributed at the next dis trict roundtable or by neigh borhood commissioners, ac cording to Tom Oliver, coun cil activities chairman. The material will tell how Mercy Flights operates, and will invite subscriptions to the air-ambulance Service's pre-payment plan. District activities chairman who will assist with this "good turn" for the non-profit air ambulance organization are Ed Culbertson, Big Pines; Homer Hought, . Roaring Rogue; and Phil Osborne, Sis kiyou. "We expect this good turn will do more to assure our continued service than any other group effort put forth since- our original fund drive in 1949," a Mercy Flights of ficial wrote. "At that time the children of Jackson county personally donated $1100 of the $34000 fund which pur chased the first air ambu lance." The air ambulance service has grown from the original one-plane operation carrying 13 patients the first year to the present three-plane opera tion which now carries an average of 150 patients a year. It has grown from the original coverage of only Jackson county to picking up emergency cases from air ports at Grants Pass, Cave Junction, Happy Camp, Mon tague and Mt. Shasta. "Additional subscriptions allow Mercy Flights to oper ate the best available type of aircraft for the service, which in turn benefits those' resi dents who ultimately use it," a Mercy Flights official said., mower Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 256 Schwartz Claims Kin Partner of Airline Officials 'White House Clique' Explanation Asked Washington (IP) Ber nard Schwartz, ousted coun sel for a House Investigating subcommittee, today linked Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower's brother-in-law to the success ful bidder for a hotly disputed Miami, Fla., television chan nel. Schwartz, testifying under oath, told the House Subcom mittee on Legislative Over sight that George Gordon Moore was a partner in a Dominican Republic shipyard with two officials of National Airlines. A National Airlines subsi diary, Public Service Tele vision, Inc., was awarded the controversial channel 10 sta tion in Miami by members of the Federal Communications Commission who overruled recommendations of their own field examiner. Asked to Explain Schwartz was called before the subcommittee to explain under oath his charge that, a "White House clique" had brought improper pressure on the FCC and other federal regulatory agencies to influ ence their decisions. Schwartz related Moore's alleged connections with Na tional Airlines, when Chair man Oren Harris (D.Ark.) told him the subcommittee "would like - to know what Colonel Moore's interest was in this." The former counsel, who was fired in an internal row over the way he had conduct ed the inquiry, testified that Moore and two officials of the airline, were partners in a shipyard in the Dominican Republic. Guests of Official He also read parts of a sworn statement from Col. A. Frank Katzentine, an unsuc cessful bidder for the Miami station, that Moore and his wife, Mrs. Eisenhower's sister, once were "house guests" of G. T, Baker, president of the airline. Schwartz added that sub committee investigators have confirmed that the Moores have been guests of the Bak er's Florida home. In testimony last week, Schwartz swore that FCC Commissioner Richard Mack had received $2,650 from Thurman A. Whiteside, whom he described as a National Airlines attorney, in return for his "pledge" to vote for the airlines' subsidiary in the TV channel case. Mack has descri bed Schwartz's charges as "with out foundation" and demand ed an early opportunity to tell his .side. Whiteside has announced Schwartz as a liar. Tokyo (IP) Leaders of Indonesia's rebel government have launched an economic blockade of their rivals by ordering U. S. and British oil companies on Sumatra not to do business with the Jakarta regime. m of -CASE. Crusade Dinner Scheduled For Hedrick The United Medford Cru sade annual dinner has been scheduled for Thursday, March 6 at 7 p.m. at Hedrick Junior High school, according to Edward Branchtield, UMC president. Branchfield said the an nual meeting will be shorter than usual and will consist of recognition of several 1957- 1958 campaign workers, with comments by Robert A. John son, 1957-1958 campaign man ager and Dick Travis, 1958- 1959 campaign manager. The president will submit Less Publicized Contacts Seen To Break Impasse Attacks Against U.S. Policies Criticized Washington (IP) Presi dent Eisenhower told Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin to day that the U.S. and Russia seem to have come to an impasse in trying to arrange a summit conference. He suggested that it could be broken by "less formal and less publicized contacts" to determine whether such a top level meeting can profitably be held. The President said the two leaders seemed to be writing speeches to each other. He questioned "whether we shall get anywhere by continuing" the process. Critical of Attacks The President was sharply critical of Soviet attacks against' U.S. policy. He was especially critical of what he called a "rather bitter speech" by Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev in Minsk, Jan. 22. . He told Bulganin that the cumulative effect of the So- , viet Premier's last three let ters to him seeking a summit conference "is to leave con siderable puzzlement as to what you think another such meeting could contribute to a genuine settlement of our problems." "Perhaps the impasse to which we seem to have come can be broken by less formal and less publicized contacts through which we would con tinue to seek to find out whether there can be a top level meeting which, in the words of .my letter to you of Jan. 12, 1958 'would hold good hope of advancing the cause of peace and justice in the world, " Eisenhower said. The President said . ex changes of views through am bassadors or foreign ministers may serve better to determine the prospects of a productive summit meeting, than anything else. . Livestock Area Formed in County Salem The state depart ment of agriculture has issued an order declaring all of Jack son county a livestock district in which it is illegal to permit horses to run at large.' Seventeen districts exist in the county in which it is il legal to permit cattle, mules, sheep, swine and goats to run at large. The order also point out no livestock districts are al lowed on public roads pass ing through federal lands or in land subject to Oregon laws but entirely inclosed by federal land, unless otherwise provided by federal rules and regulations. A complete description of the livestock districts may be seen in the formal order at the office of . the Jackson county clerk in Medford or at the -state department of ag riculture in Salem. Smoke Damage ' HiisC. P. Home Central - Point A fire, ap parently caused by electric wiring, caused considerable smoke damage to a home in Central Point before being discovered about 11 a.m. Sun day, Central Point firemen said. " Officials said the fire .was in the ceiling wiring of the utility room of. the Victor Noel home, 231 North Second st. The Noels were on vaca tion in Mexico and the fire was not discovered until a neighbor saw smoke coming from a kitchen vent. The fire apparently had smoldered about 24 hours before being discovered, officials added. Junior High a concise summary of the year's activities. The Rev. George Bolster, Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, will speak on "A Contributor Looks at the United Funds." Several children of the local youth agencies will be guests at the meeting. Musical selections will be presented during the dinner. Tickets are available from any UMC board . member, several plant chapter leaders and the UMC office in the Leverette building. Phone SP 3-4287. Reservations must be in by Feb. 28. .. -
