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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1958
No. 261
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PAIRING THE PEARS Tom Iorio, deputy sergeant of arms
in charge of pairing the votes in the U. S. House of Repre
sentatives, (left) was called in by Congressman Charles O.
Porter (D-Ore.) to pair some 1,100 pears from the Medford
Pear Shippers association. The fruit was distributed to each
member of the house and senate.
Arguments Planned
On Candidate Case
Arguments as to whether
the candidacy of K. C. Wern
mark. Central Point, is valid
for county judge will prob
ably be presented to the State
Local High School
Presented Award
. Medford High school is one
of three Oregon schools which
received the Valley Forge
Freedom Library award from
the -Freedoms Foundation ,-at
Valley Forge, Pa.
The awards were an
nounced by Dr. Kenneth D.
Wells, president of the found
ation, at the ninth annual
Awards program at special
Washington's birthday cere
monies at Valley Forge Satur
day. The awards are presented
for contributions in helping
to bring about a better under
standing of the American
Way of Life during 1957.
Other Oregon schodjs
which received the library
award are Monmouth Ele
mentary school, and Rich
mond Elementary school,
Salem. Englewood school,
Salem, received a distinguish
ed service scroll and the prin
cipal school award.
Henry L. Slater, Burns, re
ceived the second place
award for his essay, "Let's
Teach Americanism," and Dr.
Mark A. Talney, Portland, re
ceived a second place award
for his sermon, "The Church
anr? TJemneracrv"
Locations Given
r d i ! T -
ror Duying idg
County dog licenses may
be obtained in various parts
of the county through Fri
day, February 28, according
to county dog control offic
ials. Starting March 1- the
licenses may be purchased at
the county . courthouse in
Medford, and at the county
dog pound, 2872 Howard ave.,
also Medfor'd.
The price for the licenses
will also increase at the end
of February. Licenses will
cost $3.50 and $4.50.
Licenses through this week
friay be purchased at the
wo places in Medford, and
at the police department or
from the chief of police m
Jacksonville, Ashland, Phoe
nix, Talent, and Eagle Point,
Mrs. Kizzie Edmondson, city
recorder, Butte Falls, will sell
dog licenses there.
They may be purchased also
at Gail's Market in Gold Hill
or at the city hall in Rogue
River as well as the Rogue
Feed store.
In Shady Cove licenses
will be available at the Cove
Valley supply and at the
Dewey Hill hardware store
in Prospect.
Cincinnati, Ohio W
The Delta Queen the last of
the nation's overnight river
passenger steamboats was
saved Saturday from an un
certain fate. The Pacific Net
work, a Muzak organization
out of Los Angeles, Calif.,
made a S5.000 down payment
to Mrs. Letha Greene, owner
of the Delta Queen.
Supreme court in Salem at 10
a.m. Thursday, William
Deatherage, Medford attor
ney, said Saturday evening.
Deatherage said he had the
sheriff serve an alternative
writ of mandamus on County
Clerk Bereth Hopkins Satur
day noon while she was at
tending a luncheon of the
Medford League of Women
Voters at the Rogue Valley
Country club. The writ was
issued by the clerk of the
State Supreme Court instruc
ting Mrs. Hopkins to accept
Wernmark's filing or state the
reasons . why she -will not by
Tuesday.
Questioned Saturday eve
ning, Mrs. Hopkins replied.
"I plan to consult with the
district attorney's office be
fore making a decision."
9 Attorneys "Hired
The county clerk added she
has obtained the services of
the Medford legal firm of
Roberts, Kellington and
Branchfield to assist the dis
trict attorney's office.
Wernmark attempted to
file his candidacy for coun
ty judge on the Democratic
ticket Feb. 13 and was re
fused. In stating the reason
for her refusal to accept it,
Mrs. Hopkins quoted from an
opinion of Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton that the
term of the county judge does
not expire until 1960.
Deatherage said the State
Supreme court is anticipating
the county clerk will refuse
to accept Wernmark's filing
so has set the Thursday date
for a hearing on the case.
Justioe Hall S. Lusk of the
State Supreme court had or
dered the court to take juris
diction, Deatherege explain
ed. This means the court will
determine whether or not the
county judge had a term of
four or six years. This deci
sion will affect 12 counties
in Oregon whose county
judges do not actually serve
a judicial function. Lane and
Multnomah counties are the
only two of the 36 Oregon
counties which nave a coun
ty commission form of gov
ernment.
Deatherage had served a
petition for mandamus pro
ceeding with County Clerk
Bereth P. Hopkins on Wern
mark's behalf Thursday. The
State Supreme court acted on
the petition on receipt of the
petition Friday.
Benson Optimistic
Over Office Term
Washington (IP) Two
close associates of Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben
son said Saturday Benson is
convinced he will not be
"bumped" by President Eis
enhower as an election-year
political liability.-
These sources also told the
United Press Benson firmly
believes his embattled "flex
ible" price supports policy
actually is good political med
icine for both the country and
the Republican party.
Benson was said to feel that
his resignation under pressure
by nervous farm state GOP
congressmen would be a po
litical disaster for his party
as well as a death blow to
the Eisenhower-Benson farm
program,
Study Scheduled
On Lake Of Woods
Road Project
County Delegation
Told Of Possibility
A study on further develop
ment of the Lake of the
Woods road will be made "as
soon as possible,? officials of
the Bureau of Public Roads
and the Forest Highway sys
tem said Friday.
The statement was made to
representatives of Klamath
and Jackson counties during
a meeting with Regional For
ester Herb Stone, said Jack
son County Commissioner
Chester Wendt, who attended
th meeting.
"The Bureau and the Forest
Highway system people are
still much interested in this
program and are going to
make a study of the road in
regards to traffic on. the old
road," Wendt said.
Funds Explained
. The improvement would in
elude 9 and six-tenths miles
in ackson county and 5 and
four-tenths miles in Klamath
county, Wendt explained. The
project would be paid for out
of forest highway funds with
$416,000 allocated to Klamath
county and $836,000 to Jack
son county. Decision on the
proposed improvement will
be made by the Bureau of
Public Roads, Wendt said he
understood. It would take at
least three years to complete
the project due to lack of
funds in any one year, the
delegation was told.
According to the proposal
the stretch of road from Little
Butte creek, 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 ,traets and open up a
large recreation area around
Fish lake and Lake of the
Woods, County Engineer Paul
Rynning had stated.
Access To Lumber
Approximately 35 million
board feet of lumber would
be brought in over this road,
according to U. S. Forestry
Service estimates, Wendt
said.
The road improvement was
considered in 1948 but was
placed on a low priority list
since it wasn't felt at that
time the road was necessary,
Wendt said the group was
told. First request for the im
provement came in 1956, how
ever, but nothing came of it
since not enough public inter
est was shown, the delegation
was told.
"Now the Bureau and For
est Highway people feel this
would be an important link in
the highway system," Wendt
said. "The whole thing de
pends on whether an appro
priation can be obtained."
It would cost as much to re
build the Green Springs
Mountain highway as it would
if the entire Lake of the
Woods rd. should be con
structed, Wendt said he was
told.
Members of the Jackson
and Klamath counties! courts,
engineers from both counties
and Chester Hubbard, of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce and Klamath
County Chamber of Com
merce representatives were
among those attending the
meeting Friday.
Guatemala Head
Tc Arrive Today
Washineton (IP) Gen. Mi-
sruel Ydizoras Fuentes. Presi
dent-elect of Guatemala, ar
rives today for a three-day
state visit that will include
meetings with President Eis
enhower and Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles.
The United States is try
ing, through Ydigoras' visit,
to strengthen anti-Communist
leadership in Guatemala. A
pro-Communist regime gain
ed control of Guatemala but
was thrown out in a revolu
tion in 1954.
The President-elect, accom
panied by his wife and other
Guatemalan officials, will fly
to Washington from Houston,
Tex. Dulles will greet Ydigor
as at Washington National
airport at 6 p.m. (EST).
Sacramento (IP) A pro- j
posal to exempt new ships
from personal property taxes
will be the subject of a joint
legislative committee hearing
March 5 here. ,
HELICOPTERS A crowd gathered at Medford airport
Friday afternoon to view Army helicopters which were
scheduled to remain overnight and refuel on their way to
Fort Lewis,, Wash. Five of a contingent of 19 helicopters
arrived here, but the other 14 were delayed overnight
in Chico and Red Bluff, Calif., because of bad weather.
Sports Bulletins
Ashland Ashland walk
ed away from the Medford
Black Tornado basketball
team Saturday, 56 to 43.
High point men were Ash
land's Bill Maurer with 19
and Albert Hartwell with
15 and Medford's Larry
Brown with 11. Half time
score of the contest was 23
to 16, Ashland.
Ashland Southern Ore
gon college made a second
half comeback here Satur
day night and scored a 57
to 45 win over Northwest
Nazarene college of Nampa,
Idaho, in a Saturday night
basketball clash. NW Naz
arene led at the half, 29 io
26.
Terms Agreed To
On Missile Bases
Washington (1PI The
United States and Britain
agreed Saturday on terms for
basing 60 U.S.-built' 1,500
mile nuclear missiles in Eng
land and Scotland.
At the British governments
request, authorities tried to
impose a 48-hour secrecy
blackout on the agreement
so that it could be announced
to the house of commons Mon
day by prime minister Har
old Macmillan.
They include what amounts
to a veto power by both Brit
ain and the United States
over actual launching of the
missiles in a war.
Preliminary negotiations
on a similar agreement with
France already have begun.
Four bases are planned
One in Scotland and three on
the English east coast. From
them, Thor and Jupiter inter
mediate range ballistic mis
siles (IRBM's) could strike
deep into Russia.
BASKETBALL
PREP.S
St. Mary's 54, Jacksonville
48
Butie Falls 49, Prospect 34
Klamath Falls 79, Grants
Pass 58.
COLLEGE
Stanford 69, Southern Cali
fornia SI '
Oregon State 77, UCLA 61
Idaho st. 71. Seattle 68 (ov
ertime) California 59, Washington
St. 48.
Idaho 85, Washington 63.
Chico St. 62, San Francisco
St. 58.
Humboldt Si. 51, Cal Aggies
32.
College of Pacific 57, Loy
ola 53.
Sacramento St. 75, Nevada
70.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Mostly clondy
today and Monday, show
ers today with rain this
eveninr and continuing
Monday, hizh today 58,
low tonight 45, high Mon
day 55.
TEMP.
Richest Yesterday 52
Lowest this Morning . 11
PRECIP.
To 18 pm. Yesterday .12
Our Skies Tonight
Snnda. Feb. 23
The Sun rises 6:57 a.m.
and sets 5:54 p.m.
The unseen stars in its back
ground are now those or the
constellation. Aquarius.
The Moons sets .... 11:03 p.m.
The dim stars in its bark
ground tonight are in the
constellation, Aries.
AW
Joint Mediation Planned
For French-Tunisian Strife
London (IP) U. S. and
British diplomatic trouble
shooters agreed Saturday to
maj a joint mediation plan
before asking France and Tu
nisia to settle their explosive
dispute in direct negotiations.
U. S. deputy under secre
tary of state Robert Murphy
flew here from Washington
and promptly started confer
Arab Republic Announced
After Nasser's Election -
Cairo : (IP) Col. Gamal
Abdel Nasser Saturday an
nounced foundation of the
United Arab Republic linking
Egypt and Syria and pledged
its Soviet-equipped armies to
defend it against the "common
enemy" which was turned
back at Port Said. Russia was
first to recognize the new
state. '
Simultaneously, Syrian Pre
mier Sabri Assali cabled his
resignation and that of his
cabinet from Damascus, thus
formally acknowledging Sy
ria's subservience to Cairo.
The 40 - year - old Nasser,
whose merger of Syria and
Egypt with himself as presi
dent won 99.9 per cent ap
Operation Muster
Set By Guard Unit
"Operation Muster", a re
cruiting drive by Medford Na
tional Guardsmen, and a re
union of former members of
the National Guard in Med
ford is being held from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. today in the Medford
Armory.
Guard officials said all
former members of A com
pany of the 186th infantry
and headquarters' company of
the first battalion of the 186th
infantry are invited to attend
a reunion at the Armory be
tween 2 and 4 p.m. According
to Ray Shoemaker, former
Medford Guardsman, about
100 former members live in
the area.
"Operation Muster" will
feature an open house for the
public. The building, kitchen,
units' equipment and supply
rooms will be open for inspec
tion, according to the units'
commanders. Info r m a t i o n
about enlistments in the Na
tional Guard is also available
at the open house, they said."
The all-day duty is a re
quired drill for members of
the units, officials said. The
men will be organized into
teams and contact local peo
ple regarding enlistment in
formation, they added.
Churchill Recovers
From Pneumonia Bout
Roquebrune, Cap Martin,
France W Sir Winston
Churchill was all but out of
danger Saturday in his bout
with pneumonia and pluerisy.
Physicians permitted him to
resume his usual after-dinner
cigars, brandy and conversa
tion.
A brief medical bulletin
said: "The temperature has
fallen and his grogress is sat
isfactory."
Oil
f.n i-
tSCwt- rv .AO H
They were scheduled to fly to Medford Saturday morning
for refueling before proceeding to Ft. Lewis. Bad weather
in Medford Friday delayed the contingent's departure
since the planes are not equiped for instrument flying.
Four planes collided and crashed near Red Bluff yester
day, killing six persons, the Sixth Army said.
ences with British foreign of
fice assistant secretary of
state Harold Beely.
After working out a joint
plan, Murphy will fly to Paris
and then Tunis.
A dispatch from Tunis said
Gen. F e r n a n d Gambiez,
French commander-in-chief in
Tunisia, flew Saturday to the
southern village of Remada
proval in Friday's plebiscite.,
stood on the balcony of the
National Union building in
the center of Cairo.
In Damascus, where the
Syrian cabinet met this morn
ing under President Shukri el
Kuwatly to dissolve itself, the
streets were relatively quiet
although Saturday was de
clared a national holiday in
both Syria and Egypt.
Charges Listed
Gn Administration
Washington HP) Adlai E.
Stevenson Saturday night ac
cused the Eisenhower admin
istration of deliberately con
cealing the facts of national
and international life from the
American people.
The two-time candidate for
president told nearly 3,000
Democrats at a dinner honor
ing ex-President Truman that
the Republicans have set a
"record of systematic and un
blushing misrepresentat ion,
concealment and half truths."
"And. what makes it more
offensive," Stevenson added,
"is that it has all been con
ducted in an atmosphere of
such ostentatious piety."
"I say that we have been
misled from begining to end
about our most vital concerns
about our military strength,
about the power of the Com
munists, about our broad po
sition in the world.
"The Federal Communication! Seem To Be
Terrific"
n o P ie1
ifeMtsrs tosh
which the Tunisians claimed
the French had surounded.
At the same time Jean-
Pirre Benard, French charge
d'affaires in Tunis called on
Tunisian deputy foreign min
ister Mohammed Mokkadem
Object Not Clear
The object of the two visits
was not clear but they were
oensidered here as efforts to
keep the simmering crisis
from getting any worse be
fore the United States and
Britain could enter the pic
ture." -. J
! A Tunisian communique
said an estimated 400 French
troops equipped with machine
guns and armored trucks had
assembled at Ain Dkouk, 27
miles north of Remada.
The charges suggested that
French army units in the
south of Tunisa were defying
a Tunisian order prohibiting
French troop movements
within the country.
The order was imposed af
ter the French bombing of
the twon of Sakiet Sidi Yous
sef on the Algerian border
two weeks ago.
There has been trouble
around Remada since Wednes
day when a land mine went
off at the doorstep of a French
outpost, blowing up an army
vehicle and injuring two
two .French soldiers.
In Paris, French foreign
minister Christian Pineau
told United Press that the suc
cess of American and British
intervention in the dispute
depends on the good will
of" Tunisian President Habib
Bourguiba.
TV Highlights
An address by ex-President
Harry S. Truman is scheduled
to be shown tonight over tele
vision station KBES-TV. The
film, which will begin at
11:15 p.m., will also be car
ried on two other; CBS sta
tions in Oregon, KOTI, Kla
math Falls and KOIN-TV,
Portland.
FOGGY WEATHER
BLAMED BY ARMY
The helicopters were en route to Medford for refueling
before proceeding lo Ft. Lewis. A total of 21 left Ft.
Riley, where the crewt were trained, but two were un- "
able to continue after a stop in Texas.
Five of the 19 arrived in Medford Friday afternoon...
and the other 14 stopped in Chico and Red Bluff , .Calif.. "
because of weather conditions, according to Command
ing Officer Maj. Maurice Bone, who is in Medford.
When the helicopters, which have a service ceiling of -7.000
feet, leave Medford will depend on weather eon- -ditions.
Ma. Bone said, since the planes are not equipped '
for instrument flying.
. Red Bluff, Calif. (IP) Four Army helicopters out of i
formation of seven smashed into a fog-shrouded hillsid
here Saturday, demolishing three of them and filling six
crew members.
The Sixth Army, which claimed to have no information .
until hours after the crash, said that three-man crews of"
two of the 'copters were killed and that the three men la
another helicopter were slightly injured.
The fourth whirlybird was damaged but managed to
land safely and the Sixth Army said it could be repaired
on the spot and continue to Ft. Lewis, Wash., the destination ;
of the seven.
Indonesia Planes
Bomb Key Cities
Of Rebel Chain
Padang, Sumatra HP)
U.S. - built Indonesian' Air
Force planes Saturday bomb
ed, rocketed and strafed key
rebel cities and silenced the
two rebel radios in the second
dav of aerial raids that
brought closer the threat of
all-out civil war.
The goverment in Jakarta
admitted that in its' attack
Friday on the rebel strong
hold in Central Sumatra one
bomb accidentally was drop
ped on the town of Jambi in
Southern Sumatra, which still
is loyal to the Jakarta regime
The government promised to
make restitution, but it did
not mention casualties. The
only known casualty in Sat
urday's raids was a small dog
in the Padang radio station
In the attack today, three
P-51 fighters and a B-25 bom
ber, all of World War II vint
age, bombed and strafed Pa
dang and Bukittinggi in Cen
tral Sumatra, seats of the rev-
nintinnarv smrarnmont otaK-i
lished last Saturday in opposi-tfd
tion to President Sukarno in
Jakarta.
The planes came In low
through bursts of rebel .50
caliber machine gun fire to
concentrate on the cities ra
dio stations.
The planes concentrated on
three installations1 in Padang.
Flashing silver in the sun,
they blasted the radio Padang
transmitter and two telecom
munications buildings which
included the radio station
proper about half a mile
away.
Jakarta broadcasts said the
raids had severed bridges
and road connecting central
Sumatra with the southern
part of the island.
The . attack was part of
Sukarno's announced cam
paign to "crush" the revolt.
Officials on both sides said
there was danger of a bloody
war. Until Friday, neither
side had taken military ac
tion. 'Heart' Canvass
Starts In City '
A door-to-door collection of
contributions to the Heart
fund will be conducted by 150
volunteer Medford residents
between 1 and 3 p.m. today.
Mrs. Manville Heisel is chair
man of Heart Sunday.
Each volunteer will be
identified by a circular lapel
badge and will carry official
printed envelopes in which
contributions may be sealed.
The amount of contributions
need not be revealed, Mrs.
Heisel pointed out.
If the volunteer finds no
one at home, he or she will
leave a pre-addressed mail-in
envelope in which contribu
tions may be sent to Heart
Fund headquarters.
Mrs. Heisel asked residents
to welcome Heart Sunday
vounteers, and urged resi
dents to contribue.
Colorado Springs, Colo.
(IP) Governors from .western
states and Hawaii began ar
riving today for their annual
conference on common problem.
The helicopters were in."
flight two of three flights of
seven craft each which left
Ft. Riley, Kan., for Washing
ton. ,
The Sixth Army reluctantly
disclosed that the two death
craft had burned when they"
hit the hillside. Apparently
the other crashed helicopter
had not caught fire.
The crash scene, 10 miles
southeast of Red Bluff, was in
an almost inaccessible area
and the Tehama county sher
iff's office sent a posse to the
scene.
Ran Into Fog
The Sixth Army said that
the helicopters had been fry-"
ing in fairly good weather
when they suddenly ran into
a thick bank of fog during a
rainstorm and crashed.
The giant troop-carrier heli
copters were the second sec
tion of a squadron being trans
ferred from Ft. Riley, Kan., to
Ft. Lewis, Wash. They carried
crews of three men each, but
no troops were aboard.
Sixth Army headquarters
in San Francisco confirmed
that six of the crewmen were
killed, but did not disclose
further details.
However, a check with
sheriff's officers and civilian
pilots who flew . over the
crash scene indicated crews
i two of the choDDers Derish-
when their craft exploded
into flames.
Herb Dennis,
operator of
-flying service in Chico,
Calif., south of here, flew over
the wrecked aircraft a few
hours after they ploughed into
the rugged hill country.
"Two of the helicopters ap
parently exploded when they
hit the ridge," he said. "They
were still smoking when I
flew over. The third apparent
ly made a crash landing, but
it didn't appear to be too
badly damaged."
Three Load
Dennis, said three of the
undamaged craft had made
landings nearby. A fourth
helicopter with the flight com
mander aboard was reported
to have returned to Red Bluff
although he was not avail
able, to newsemen.
Dennis said the crashed
craft were several hundred
yards apart, apparently ruling
out the possibility they had
collided in flight.
"The two that burned were
completely smeared," the
pilot said. "It appeared they
had flown full tilt into the
steep face of the ridge. The
third 'copter hit in a fairly
flat area."
The crash scene was in a
remote area about 10 miles
off the nearest road. A rescue
party under the direction of
Sheriff Lyle Williams, took
off for the area as soon as
the crash was reported, but
by late afternoon they had
not reported in by mobile ra
dio. The helicopters took off
from Chico about 10 a.m. The
crashes were reported about
50 minutes later.
"This was the second sec
tion of helicopters ,to come
through Chico," Dennis said.
"The first section of seven
came through yesterday en
route to Ft. Lewis."
The ill-fated flight was re
ported conmmanded by Capt.
Walter Jackson. Jackson re
fused to discuss the crashea
wiin anyone but his
superiors.
army
Tokyo OPI Old Soldier
Douglas, MacArthur Saturday
faded out of the "Who's Who"
of the country he conquered.