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Newspaper Page Text(SOT, fo) M n WW V 52nd Year its L -H,-'---.i.'w.t .-. ,rs rtri.-- 14 Pa o 0 n Price 10 Cents Tribune A, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1958 No. 257 FLOATING ICE FLOES New York's waterfront shows the impact of the cold wave gripping the eastern seaboard. It re sembles the Bering sea more than upper New York harbor. World's famous skyline is in background. (See weather story on page 3.) (International soundphoto) Students Take Over Offices in County, City Wednesday Students from seven Jack son county high schools will take over city and county of fices Wednesday and Thurs day in the Medford Elks' club annual Student Government Day program. The event will start at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Elks lodge, with registration. Stu dents will take oaths of office at .2:30 p.m. and then will tour radio stations KYJC and KMED. Both stations will pre sent a special radio program featuring student officials. A television program on KBES-TV at 4:30 p.m. will feature several students. A get-acquainted meeting will be held for the group at 6 p.m in the Elks temple followed by the annual banquet. Dr. Arthur Kreisman, professor at Southern Oregon college, will speak. Meetings Scheduled Students holding city offices will meet in the council cham bers at 8:30 a.m. Thursday and students holding county offices will meet in the court house auditorium at 9 a.m. Students will then report to work at the office of . their official counterpart. ' A luncheon is scheduled at the Elks' building followed by tours of city and county departments. Students will conduct a city council meet ing Thursday night. Under the plan, Medford and St. Mary's High school students assume city offices while students from Crater, Phoenix', Eagle Point, Jack sonville. Prospect, and Butte Falls assume county offices All elective offices and most appointive offices will be fin ed with students. The major city officers in elude Frank Albert, mayor; Gladys Beddoe, city manager; Tom Hamlin. Cony a Lea, Bob nee. Pat Rushton, Curtis Cook, John Jones, Henry Courtney and Kathy Metz, commissioners; Sue Knight, recorder-treasurer; Dick Du rante, director of public works; Dick Sorenson, police chief; Jerry Kerr, fire chief; Steve Morris, city attorney; Tom Alley, municipal judge; Judy Hout, school superin tendent; and Gail Prentice, planning commission chair man. , .Major county officers in clude Stan Zwan, county judge; Allen Barnes and Bill Turner, county commission ers; Jerry Kime and Charles Swingle, circuit judges; Joe Teeter, district judge; Jim Estramado, county assessor; Sandra Guss, county treas urer; Lyle Bigham, county agent; Sharon Coffman, girls 4-H club agent; Cody Rambo, boys 4-H club agent; Dick Schauble, school superintend ent; 'Hudson Branson, dis trict attorney; John Winning ham, engineer-surveyor; Rich ard Robinson, sheriff; Joyce Moore, county health officer; and Deborah Dunlap, horticul ture agent. Heart Sunday Drive Scheduled in Area A door-to-door campaign for the Heart Fund will be held in Medford, Central Point and Phoenix Sunday, Feb. 23, according to Mrs. Manville Heisel, Heart Sun day chairman. About $1,000 already has been collected during the first half of the month-long drive, officials said. About 150 vol unteers will take part in the door-to-door campaign, Mrs. Heisel said. Each volunteer will wear an identification tag and car ry a contribution envelope. The money will be used by the Oregon Heart association to carry, on research, educa tion and community service against heart diseases, Mrs. Heisel noted. English Girl Still Pancake Champion Liberal, Kan. (If) De fending champion Sandra Sib ley, 19, Olnty, England, re-j tained her crown today in the ! great international Shrove Tuesday pancake race against the girls from Liberal, Kan. Miss Sibley dashed from the Olney market place to the church door in one minute 10.8 seconds for the English challenge time. A few hours later, nine girls at Liberal tried to break that mark but fell short. The best time turned in at Liberal was one minute 12 seconds by Miss Mary Colling- wood, 25, a high school gym teacher. Bids Called on Construction of Wilson School Bids will be opened at 7:30 p.m. March 5 in the Medford school administration build ing for construction of Wil son Elementary school on Corona ave. The school is one of two new elementary schools planned under the two-year $1,786,000 building program in the Medford district. Other projects in the program in clude a new Hoover Elemen tary school on Siskiyou blvd., a warehouse and school bus shop, an addition to Medford high school and renovation and remodeling in other schools. Wilson school will be an open corridor, single - story building with about 28.000 square leet. iweive class rooms, with an alternate for three more, is planned. Other Space Other space will include administrative area, gymna sium with dressing, shower and locker- facilities, kitchen, library, music room, toilets, boiler and janitorial space. Colored masonry block will be used along with glued laminated beams except in the cafeteria, where a glued laminated support will hold one-inch sheathing. Artificial light willl be fluorescent except in the gym and corridor where it will be incandescent. Plans are available from Wayne Struble, Medford ar chitect in- the James L. Payne office. They also are on file at the Cal-Ore Builders Ex change, 246 South Central ave., Medford. GOP Chiefs Veto Hyvimig Prosperity Washington (ffl The ad-1 and the need to hold the fed ministration's legislative and eral debt line, economic high command to- The administration, Know- day ruled out attempts to buy land said, feels the economy prosperity with a federal "spending orgy." It also said no to anti-recession tax cuts now, banking in stead on expectations of a bus iness upswing in midyear and on economy - bolstering pro grams already started. Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland said af ter a White House breakfast meeting that "merely going on a spending orgy is not the solution to our economic prob lems." He said a tax(cut would not be ."advisable, feasible, or wise at this time" because of heavy government obligations will pick up by the middle of the year. If it doesn t, the sit uation will be reviewed before Congress adjourns. Republican legislative lead ers discussed the recession with administration economic leaders over bacon and eggs at a White House conference in President Eisenhower's ab sence. The President, who us ually presides at the weekly legislative meetings, is vaca tioning in Georgia. Meeting . with . Knowland and the other legislative lead ers were Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Com merce Secretary Sinclair Gale Warnings Up On Oregon Coast Salem (IP) The State Wage, and Hour Commission will hold a public meeting here Thursday. Medford Churches Set Ash Wednesday Services Several Medford churches have announced special Ash Wednesday services Feb. 19. Roman Catholics may at tend mass at 6:30 and 8 a.m. or 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, ac cording to Sacred Heart Cath olic church officials. The tra ditional blessing of ashes will be held prior to the 8 a.m. mass with the distribution of Ashes will also be distributed Ashes wil lalso be distributed at the evening mass, it was reported. Publish Papal Decree Last week Pope Pius XII published a papal decree which granted permission for the blessing of ashes during the evening mass on Ash Wednesday. Prior to this year the blessing had to be per formed only in the morning before high mass. Sacred Heart parish spokesman said the blessing of ashes would be held only once Wednesday. St. Mark's episcopal church will hold their penitential service followed by holy com munion at 10:30 a.m. Wednes day. During the Lenten period a many will be held at 11 a.m. each Friday followed by holy communion and a Lenten meditation. They will be con ducted by the Rev. John S. Power. Wednesday evening, Ash Wednesday service of holy communion will be held at 8 p.m. at Zion Lutheran church, Fourth st. and Oakdale ave. The Rev. G. Herbert Hiller- man, pastor, will speak on "The Opening of the Door." Services Wednesday Services .with sermon and holy communion will be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran church, 1020 East Main st., according to the Rev. Ken neth F. Korby, pastor. Lenten services at Ascen sion Lutheran church, 2501 Barnett ( rd., will be held Thursday, Feb. 20, at 8:15 p. m. immediately following choir practice. The Rev. Elvin S. Tollefson, pastor, will speak on "The Cross, A Syrn bol of Grace." Lenten com- mimion ivil' hr srrvcri at the Gold Hill Youths Arrested by Police Three Gold Hill juveniles, ages 14, 15 and 17, were ar rested by state police and sheriffs deputies yesterday in connection with the burglary of Pippin Lumber company on Galls Creek rd. near Gold Hill. Police said the youths led them to $725 worth of prop erty which they had hid in on old barn in the area. Marvin James Pippin, Grants Pass, notified police yesterday morning of the break-in at the lumber com pany. Property missing in cluded a calculator, h.: said. Police indicated the youths may be connected with other burglaries in this area. The two older boys were lodged in the county jail and the 14-year-old was lodged in the county detention home, pending action by juvenile authorities. Russia Asked To Show Sincerity in Meeting Washington (in ine United States has put it srmarelv UD to Russia to show the world whether it sincerely wants a fruitful cummit meeting or just a propaganda tug of war, U. S officials said today. That was the interpretation placed on Monday's caustical ly-worded note from Presi dent Eisenhower to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York ilP Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 442.71, up 0.44; 20 railroads 106.01, off 0.03; 15 utilities 71.96. off 0.16 and 65 stocks 151.33. up 0.02. Sales today were about 1.680.000 -shares com- By UNITED PRESS Gale warnings were up on the southern Oregon . and northern California coasts to day but the weather man said some letup' was expected in heavy rains which have brought slides and flooding to widespread areas. Warm temperatures accom panied more heavy rain Mon day with Roseburg in Doug las county reported a high of 70 and many points petting readings in- the 60s; The Ore gon coast got the heaviest rainfall with North Bend mea suring 1.24 inches, Brookings, 1.21, Newport 1.17 and As toria 1.16. Some partial clearing was forecast tonight and Wednes- Rhode Island Red Lays Green Egg The Dick Kosmacka fam ily of route 2. Central Point, is still puzzling how a Rhode Island Red hen could lay a green egg. The parents thought it must have been something one of their boys ate when he reported at breakfast that he had dreamed one of their hens laid a green egg. But when Kosmacka went out to gather the eggs later, that morning, sure enough there was a green egg be neath one of the hens. "It was a sea-mist green color." Mrs. Kosmacka said. Eat it? Oh, no. we're going to save it!" Injunction Denied In Klamath Case Portland IIP) A federal judge today denied an injunc tion sought by a Klamath In dian woman seeking to set aside a part of the Klamath reservation termination act which gives the government authority to administer tim berlands for its wards. In her petition, Mrs. Cora- lie Crawford Nelson of Palo Alto, Calif., claimed the 1954 termination act gave her the right to dispose of her exten sive timber holdings on the reservation "just like any other citizen." Judge William East in de nying her petition, however, agreed to consider asking for mation of a three-judge Fede ral court to hear the matter further. WEATHER Forecast Cloudy with rain tonight. Showers and par tial clearing Wednesday. Low tonight 48. High Wednesday 58. TEMP. Highest 63 Lowest this Morning 57 PRECIPITATION To 10 a.m. Today T Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset Moonset 7:04 a.m. 5:47 p.m. 6:16 p.m. pared with 1,700,000 shares church the following Sunday. Monday. First Quarter Feb. 26. PROMINENT STAR Capella. high overhead 7:32 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, rises 11:17p.m. Saturn, rises 3:44 a.m. Mars, rises 5:05 a.m. Vrnos. in the southeast at sunrise. day although showers will persist, the weatherman said. Slide Closes 101 In northern California, a huge slide closed U. S. Highway 10L south of Garb erville near the Humboldt Mendocino county line. The slide blocked a- 200-foot sec tion of the highway a .half mile north of another slide which had blocked the high way since last Thursday. The Coast Guard cutter Av oyel stood by a tug and tank er in heavy seas off the Hum boldt ' county ' c6"ast. It " pre pared - to place food, water and butane gas aboard the tug sometime this morning. The tug Tillamook left Port land Feb. 5 with the tanker Mission Santa Ana for San Francisco but ran into heavy seas and strong winds. The Coast Guard in San Francisco said none of the 17 men on board the tug or the 7 on the tanker was in any dang er. High water and the threat of slides remained in Ore-! gon. Coquille River Up The Coquille river remain ed up and three plywood mills were closed because of water, Deputy Coos County Civil De fense Director Eugene Fields reported. aoutnern facmc crews worked to remove two slides covering ' tracks on the Eu gene to Coos Bay line. Central Oregon also got somt high water. Small streams' in the Prineville area were out of their banks and covered some lowlands. Water covered Highway 26 about 17 miles east of Prine ville but traffic was' not halt ed. - Near Vale in eastern Ore gon a break was reported in an irrigation canal and heavy rams sent tne jviaineur riv er's south fork and Bully and Cottonwood creeks up. Route Reopened Highway 101 between Co quille and Bandon was reop ened to normal traffic at 7:35 a.m. today after high water had closed it Monday and forced rerouting over second' ary roads. The Eastside secondary highway near Corvallis was open to one-way controlled traffic this morning and was expected to be open to two- way traffic by noon. Oregon Highway 87 from Baker to Homestead was clos ed from Robinette to mile point 63 by high water. The Frenchglen secondary high way was open to one-way traffic only at mile point 24.3. Weeks, and Secretary of La bor James P. Mitchell. As the Republicans con ferred, congressional Demo crats were calling for. in creased federal spending on public works to pull business out of its slump. The administration already has proposed a $2 billion post office building program spread over five years. Knowland said anti-recession programs already projected will have a "beneficial chain reaction ef fect throughout the economy." Increased Spending Knowland cited stepped up spending on the federal-state highway program and in creased defense expenditures in addition to the proposed post office construction pro gram as steps that would ben efit the economy. - The GOP leader also said that private housing starts showed an upturn in January and would total $1,100,000 if continued at the January rate. Weeks reported that $2, 100,000,000 will be spent on the highway program in 1958 compared with $750 million in 1956. Knowland said Mitchell re ported that unemployment is expected to decline in April, when the figures for March are released by the govern ment. Unemployment was 4, 500,000 in January, and Weeks has predicted it will climb to five million this month. It Looks as If Somebody Had Pay TV" it mm North Korea Rejects Demand for Return Of Hijacked Plane Tunisia Keeps World Guessing on Charges By UNITED PRESS - Tunisia kept the world guessing , today whether it would press its charges of "aggression" against France in the U. N. Security Council: Britain, France and the United States feared they had lost their battle to prevent open U.N. discussion of the Tunisian and Algerian crises. They said open debate would wreck Anglo-American ef- j forts to settle the dispute I quietly. , Arrests in Yreka. Clear Burglaries Apprehension of two Ash land residents in Yreka on charges of burglary cleared up four attempted burglaries in the Ashland area recently, Sgt. Paul Bettiol of the Jack son county sheriff's office, said this morning. Following questioning' by Yreka authorities, Jack Sid ney Wilcox, 18, and Samuel Gene Bell, both of Ashland, admitted to attempted burgla ries in the Ideal Supermar ket, the Market Basket, Ideal drug store and a vacant building. Bettiol said he and Ashland Police Chief Herbert Hays went to Yreka yesterday to question the youths. Plans have not yet been made to bring the pair back. The youths are charged with ransacking McNeil's Drive and Save market south of Yreka for two cases of assort ed liquor Saturday. The two were apprehended by Yreka police after , they were sighted during a routine patrol. Gill Challenges 'Money Bag' Groups Lebanon (Ut Sen. Warren Gill, a Lebanon attorney seek ing the Republican nomina tion for governor, today is sued a curbside challenge in front of his campaign office here to what he called the "cliques of money bags in Portland" who, he said, have been calling the tune in Ore gon politics too long. j Gill said that a Portland newspaper had intimated "you have to have a pot full of money to successfully run for office in Oregon, and that sine: I don't have it, my ef forts to be elected governor are futile." He asserted that "the real squawk that paper has is that it wasn't consulted as to whether or not I could run for office." Referring to . his "fight, to lower taxes and help the old people in this state," Gill re fused to clear it with "the eastern-owned Portland news paper." "Thank God," he said, "we can depend on the news serv ices and our own home-owned local newspapers and radio stations throughout the state to tell us the truth as they see it unshaded by prejudice and unaffected by slights to a big shot complex." Panmunjom, Korea (IP) Communist North Korea to day rejected a United Nations demand for return of a hi jacked South Korean airlin er. It seemed certain the Reds planned to use the 34 persons aboard as blackmail for rec ognition of the Red regime. Two Americans and two Germans were aboard the plane which disappeared into North Korea Sunday. Red Cross Help Asked The Republic of Korea Red Cross cabled the ' Internation al Red Cross in Geneva ask ing help in effecting return of the plane's occupants after the Communists rejected the UN demand. U. S. Navy Capt. George W. Kehl, of. Kittery Point, Maine, presented the U N Command demand for return of the plane at a meeting of the joint UN-Communst Sec retariat here in the neutral zone dividing the two seg ments of Korea. North Korean Col. Kim Choon Kyung bluntly rejected it. Kim claimed the two-engined DC-3 of the Korean Na tional Airlines entered North Korea "voluntarily" in a righteous action to escape the war policy of the American imperialists and the puppet Syngman Rhee clique." Therefore, he said, return of the aircraft was not a mat ter for the military armistice commission to discuss and it should be taken care of In "direct" negotiations between the South and North Korean governments. Recognition R" ":sed North Korea has tried un successfully for years to pro mote direct contact between the North and South govern ments. South Korea's Pr- : dent Rhee had stonily re fused to recognize either the armistice or the Communist "illegal puppet government in Pyongyang." The missing plane was pi loted by Willis P. Hobbs, 36, of Vallejo, Calif. It's co-pilot was Lt. Col. Howard W. Mc Clellan of Buchanan, Mich., an Air Force officer 'aboard to get in some flying time. 'Land Grab' By Nasser Decried By British Press Officials Discuss Tense Situation By UNITED PRESS Egypt curtly demanded today that the Sudan with draw its forces from two key areas on the Sudan side of the Egypt-Sudan border. Sources in Khartoum said the Sudan would fight rath er than yield to Cairo. Services Slated For W. H. Jordan TV Applicant Said least Qualified' Washington OP) A Fed eral Communications Com mission examiner said today that the FCC picked the "least qualified" of four ap plicants when it awarded a Miami television channel sub sidiary of National Airlines. The examiner, Herbert Sharfman, testified before a House investigating subcom mittee which has heard charges that FCC Commis sioner Richard A. Mack re ceived money from an attorn ey for the successful appli cant Public Service Televis ion, Inc. Mack, who has denied any wrongdoing, has been prom ised an early hearing. The subcommittee also had heard allegations that Col. George Gordon Moore, Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower's brother-in-law, was a "key influence" in the FCC decision. OBTAINING release on $14, 000 bond, Mrs. Priscilla Rose, 22, held as material witness in slaying of husband, is awaiting summons by grand jury at Long Beach, N. Y. to testify. Funeral services for Wil liam Henry Jordan, 98, of 1014 West 10th. St., Medford who died in a local conva lescent home Monday, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Perl Funeral home. Services will be read by a Christian Scientist. Interment will be in Pleasant Valley cemetery in Grants Pass. Mr. Jordan was one of the few remaining southern Ore gon residents who drove a stage coach as a young man. He was born March 17, 1860, at the family home on Whis key gulch, which was then a part of Jackson county. He was the son of James Jordan and the former Mary Louisa Fidler. ' He drove a mail and pas senger stage between Grants Pass and Waldo, a town be tween Grants Pass and Cres cent City which no longer exists, and later was a driver for the Idaho Stage line. He was married to the for mer Emma Jane Thompson, daughter of a pioneer Grants Pass family, and for a while they operated the Pioneer ho tel in Merlin. Mr. Jordan ran a livery stable, and drove a freight wagon from Merlin to Galice. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Winnie Bogle, San Francisco, Calif., Evan geline Pittock, Medford, and Mrs. Irma Campbell, Kansas City, Mo., 11 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. By UNITED PRESS Egypt and the Sudan rushed troops, political commissars and armed police to a disputed border area today in a new Middle East incident denounc ed by the British press as a land grab" by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. A statement issued in Khar toum, capital of the two-year old Sudanese Republic, ac cused Egypt of trying to brine the mineral-rich border areas into the new Syrian-Egyptian Republic and settle by force Egypt's claim to ; a lareer share of the waters of the Nile. 'Flagrant Violation' A communique issued to day in Cairo said Sudanese forces had moved into an Egyptian border area in "fla grant violation "of an 1899 treaty and of Egyptian sov ereignly. 11 asKeri lor a peaceful settlement, called for withdrawal of the troops and denied Sudanese charges Egypt wanted the valuable mineral resources. Rival elections on both sides of the border brought to a firy head the long-standing border dispute. Sudan is hold ing general elections on Feb. 27. Egypt is holding a plebi scite Feb. 21 on setting up the United Arab Republic with Syria. . The dispute was so serious Sudanese Premier Abdullah Khalil dispatched Foreign Minister Mohammed Mah goub to Cairo, 1,000 miles away, today to try to reach a settlement. Khalil tried to reach Nasser by telephone Monday, but was told he was busy. Sudden Meeting ' Mahgoub arrived in Cairo and met immediately with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, Minister of Interior Zakarta Mohieddin and Sudanese Ambassador Yussef El Teni. Fawzi and Mohieddin had conferred on the situation earlier. The Khartoum dispatch said so far there had been no fighting in the disputed area. The British press, mindful of Britain's remaining inter ests in the Sudan, said Nasser was out to "grab" all Sudan ese territory north of the 22nd parallel in. defiance of frontier agreements. Some newspapers said Egypt was trying to "occupy" the areas. Resigning Lawmakers May Retain Salary saiem m Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said today that a legislator who resigns after Jan. 1 of this year may still keep his $600 1957 salary. The opimon was asked by ex-Rep. Keith Skelton who resigned to devote more time to his Eugene law practice. - Portland flP) The Board Directors of Cascades Ply wood Corporation have de clared the regular 25 cents per share dividend on com mon stock payable March 10 to stockholders of record on Feb. 27. . ; Coquille Man Jailed for Attack on Police Officer Coquille OPT Phillip Arnold Johnson, 21-year-old Pori Orford fisherman, was in Coos county jail under $1, 000 bail today on drunken driving and assault charges after a tussle with a state po liceman which resulted in the officer losing his right eye. Eye Badly Cut Doctors at McAuley hospit al in Coos Bay removed the right eye of State Police Pvt. Marvin Achison of Coquille Sunday. The eye had been badly cut in the struggle with Johnson after his arrest on the drunk driving count. Achison and fellow officer Ernest D. Walden of Coquille had stopped - Johnscn's car early Sunday when they no ticed the vehiclewas traveling in an arratic manner about eight miles south of Bandon on Highway 101. . The officers said Johnson became belligerent and they put handcuffs on him. He was put in the patrol car with Achison while Walden drove Johnson's car to a nearby ser vice station. Achison said that Johhnson struck him across the face with his manacled hands, shattering the right lense of his glasses. Taken To Coos Bay Achison was treated by a Bandon doctor and taken by ambulance to the Coos Bay hospital. Doctors said, the iris and pupil of the officer's eye had been severely cut. Johnson was arraigned in District Court here Monday on the drunk driving charge and pleaded innocent. He wat scheduled for arraignment to day on the assault count.