Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 01, 1958, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextfUl Jl H2, 53rd Year Medford 14 PAGES fe SQUARE DANCERS More than 500 square dancers from Oregon northern California participated in the first annual Southern Oregon Square Up at Hedrick Junior High school gymnasium Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. About 64 squares, some of them shown above,, almost filled the floor Saturday night. The two-day jamboree was ' sponsored by the Rogue Valley Square Dance Callers asso-' Meier Fine Boxes Said Satisfactory The use of meter fine col lection boxes is working out satisfactorily, according to Derell Huson, city treasurer. He said there has been lit tle trouble in switching from mailing parking meter fine citations to depositing them in the boxes. Meter tickets still can be mailed, but must have a three-cent stamp on them, he added. There are 20 boxes install ed. They are so arranged in the downtown area that no car is more than a halblock from a fine box, he said. He said the city is considering adding to the present num ber of boxes. Collection of tickets from the boxes is made by the reg ular meter collector. Huson noted the boxes would soon be paid for through savings from the postage due envel opes formerly used. Fines remain the same. Fifty cents is assessed if the meter ticket is paid within 24 hours, the charge is $1 if paid within seven days, and the violator is charged the cost of a warrant plus SI if the fine is not paid within the seven-day period, he added. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York W Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 445.47. off 1.29; 20 railroads 103.26. off 0.62.- 15 utilities 74.1S. up 0.16 and 65 stocks 151. 80. off 0.37. Sales today were about 2.070,000 shares compared with 2.050.000 shares Monday. Highway Engineer Buried In Slide North of LA. Los Angeles OP) The body of a California Division of Highways superintendent was recovered today from under a giant landslide that roared down on the Pacific Coast Highway from the rain-soaked, crumbly cliffs of the Pa cific Palisades. Vaughn O. Sheff, 58, was buried beneath more than 100 feet of earth late Monday when an estimated 600,000 tons of rock and dirt cascaded down on the route north of Santa Monica, burying the highway for a quarter of a mile. lsyedl MEDFORD, OREGON, Tombstones Fixed By Three Much of the repair work in the Jacksonville Pioneer cemetery was done last Sat urday by the three juveniles responsible for the damage, according to Robert Swan, superintendent of the county juvenile detention home. Swan said the three boys, all 16 years of age and from Central Point, were able to replace the smaller graveyard monuments disturbed earlier this month. Other stones which had not been broken were swung into place by an "A" frame and block and tackle operated by Roger Westerfield of the Oregon Granite company, Medford. "Of course the boys couldn't do the work requiring a stonemason to piece the brok en bits of grave-stpnes to gether," Swan said. Seem Remorseful , Swan said the trio seemed "very- remorseful" after the full day's work Saturday. The work party had been ordered by Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly, Swan said. It was su- Eisenhower Signs New Housing Bill Washington IIP) President Eisenhower today signed into law a $1,850,000,000 anti recession housing bill de signed to speed the building of 200,000 or more new homes this year and create thou sands of jobs. The Democratic-sponsored measure was the first major anti-recession measure to speed through Congress. As workmen recovered Sheff's body, new cracks ap peared in the Palisades' cliffs west of an older slide on which the engineer was direct ing the clean-up. Authorities feared a heavy rain would cause more earth to crash down on the highway. Crews, including trucks, bulldozers and skiploaders, were tossed around like tooth picks as the new chunk of wet earth spilled from the tower ing cliffs along the ocean. Some of the workers rode their heavy equipment almost to the breakers. Ms TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1958 ciation, and included guest callers from Oregon and north ern California. Following the Saturday night dance, most of the dancers attended an "after party" in the Jackson hotel. Activities also included a no-host breakfast Sunday morning in the Pioneer room for square dancers. Several spectators attended both sessions. ...... Juveniles pervised by Larry Tweedy, juvenile counselor, and Swan. Hearings on the vandalism in the graveyard have yet to be scheduled before Circuit Judge Kelly, Swan said. Tweedy is scheduled to meet with a committee for the graveyard Thursday to con sider the damage further. This group is composed of men from the five graveyard sections, which are Jewish, Redman's lodge, city, Masonic and Catholic. Swan said a large work party of men from the Jack sonville Masonic lodge and the Catholic church which maintains sections in the graveyard was also at work Saturday. Counties Will Be Billed for Tests . Salem (IPl County courts will be billed- $200 from now on for each person they send to the State hospital for phy chiatric examination. The , Board of Control de cided on the move today in line with a 1953 law requir ing the payment. Gov. Robert D. Holmes and Secretary of State Mark Hat field, said it appeared past boards had been negligent in enforcing the payment. State Treasurer Sig Unan der favored billing the coun ties for all cases since 1953. Board members were in formed that the number of cases handled by the State hospital here had been snow balling. Wartime Desertion Law Unconstitutional Washington OP! A sharply split Supreme Court Monday struck down as un constitutional a law revoking the U. S. citizenship of Amer ican servicemen convicted of desertion in wartime. It was the first time since 1946 that the Supreme Court had held that any section of the federal law was unconsti tutional. It was estimated the ruling would restore the citizenship of at least 7,000 soldiers and airmen convicted of desertion by courtsmartial in World War II and given dishonor able discharges. Mm iro Shop &e ot Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 9 Conservatives Win in Canada Montreal OPi Prime Min ister John Diefenbakers Pro gressive Conservative govern ment won 209 of the 265 seats in the House of Commons, wiping out one party com pletely and decimating two others, in Monday's elections. The successful Diefenbaker campaign was based on a billion-dollar public works pro gram to ease recession, cre ate jobs and develop Canada's natural resources. The conservatives entered the election with 113 seats, not enough to form a major ity government. They came out with 209. The Liberal party came out of the fray with 47 seats, a loss of 59. The Socialist party, or Co operative Commonwealth fed eration, which was formed in western Canada during - the 30s and always drew good support, from the farmers and working class, had its repre sentation cut by two-thirds to eight. Included in the cas ualties was party leader M. J. Coldwell. The Social Credit, another party which gained, its strength in western Canada, lost all 19 members. Cuban Congress Rules Emergency Havana (IPl Congress has proclaimed a national emerr gency, giving President Ful eencio Batista "extraordinary powers" for the next 45 days to meet a rebel threat of ' total war." At a special session Monday night, tlie Senate ignoring opposition charges that it was setting up a "complete dicta torship" granted the govern ment's request for emergency powers by a vote of 33 to 7. The vote in the House was 95 to 1. During the period of the emergency. Batista may rule by decree subject to the ad vice of a special, 24-member joint congressional committee and eventual ratification oy the entire legislature. Salem OP) The Board of Control has authorized the State Tuberculosis hospital to work with the Portland City Health Department to divert Portland patients to the TB facility at The Dalles. U.S. CONTINUES NUCLEAR TESTS Washington (IP Secre tary of State John Foster Dul les disclosed today that the United States recently decided against halting nuclear tests so it could perfect develop ment of small "clean" nu clear weapons. He said the decision was made at a meeting of Presi dent Eisenhower and his top advisors 10 days ago. Dulles, at his weekly news conference, also denounced as pure propaganda Russia's an nouncement that it is halting nuclear testing on its own without an international agreement providing for in spection. Dulles said the U. S. fore saw that Russia would make such announcement immedi atly after concluding its most recent intencive series of nu clear tests. He said Russia naturally would have had to halt her testing temporarily anyway before she could em bark on a new series. Decided To Continue Dulles said the President and his principle advisors sur veyed the situation. He said the question was whether the U. S. should try to steal the march from the Russians by announcing that the U. S. was temporarily suspending tests on her own. He said the President and his advisors weighed all the facts and decided it would be basically unsound not to go ahead with American testing. Dulles said the group decided the administration could not live up to its responsibilities to the American people and perhaps humanity itself and halt a program, which it be lieves to be sound, merely to wage propaganda. Dulles said the U. S. always has been willing to halt test ing as part , of a . program which' would lead to elimi nation, of nuclear weapons from the arsenals of all na tions. But no cheat-proof a greement on this has been reached. So the U.- S. decided to go ahead and develop "clean" small weapons that could be used for tactical pur-' poses without the mass de struction of huge "dirty" H bombs. ; He stressed that the U. S. prefers the elimination of nu clear weapons through an in ternational agreement. In London, Prime Minister Aerial Photography Of Area Completed A three-man crew from Pa cific Air Industries, Long Beach, Calif., finished aerial photography of the Medford vicinity yesterday. A map will be prepared for the city of Medford from the photographs. About 13,000 acres is to be mapped from 25 square miles filmed. The map, which will take several months to complete, will be used in connection with the city's urban plan ning renewal program. It will be utilized in planning loca tions of streets, water and sewer lines, parks and other municipal projects. The map will show contours, buildings, streets, sidewalks, trees, poles, fencerows and other struc tures. 'Or To Take Trouble pi 1 Lunai Harold Macmillan called on Russia to discuss at a new summit conference its offer to halt nuclear tests. He noted that the West has long sought a disarmament agreement, in cluding suspension of nuclear tests with proper safeguards. Urge UN Meeting To Talk Alleged Israeli Seizure By UNITED-. PRESS The United Arab Republic today requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to take up what it called Israeli attempts to "seize" Syrian territory. The U.A.R. acted after two days of fighting along the Israeli-Syrian border includ ing a tank battle Monday, the first such battle since 1951. Artillery also was used. Working on Project x The dispute centers around a land reclamation project on the shores of Lake Huleh near the Sea of Galilee. Israeli la borers and technicians have been working on an irrigation project there despite ' Syrian claims to the land. In Cairo the press urged U.A.R. forces to crush any Israeli aggression with the "full might" of the Republic's forces. They said Israeli "ag-. gressions" were designed to show the world that Israel was not afraid of the Syrian Egyptian merger." A Jerusalem dispatch reported 2,000 infantrymen marching from Jerusalem to Beersheba on the first stage of a four-day route march maneuvers. Dwelling Destroyed By Fire Early Today A small, vacant dwelling at Flower way and Waverly ave.. owned by Mrs. Pearl Adams, burned early this morning, city firemen said. They reported: thaf the dwelling was completely in volved in flames before they arrived and the structure and its contents were a complete loss. Firemen were unable to determine the cause. They said that Mrs. Adams is in San Francisco. Two alarms were turned in by neighbors about 2:50 a.m. and two trucks were dis patched to the blaze. .. Porter Says Arms To Cuba Halted Washington (IP) The State Department informed Reps. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) Monday that it has halted a shipment of rifles to Cuba "to allow us the opportunity of consulting further with the appropriate Cuban officials." Porter has repeatedly called for a halt in the shipment of U.S. arms to Cuba while the revolution there is in prog ress. He read to the House the communication from the De partment, which he hailed as a sign of a ' "new and better Latin American foreign policy." Against a Sea of Arms AtVJV -nm wmm.tm pmt 6 if eopi Norwegian Liner Ravaged by Blaze In Indian Ocean Passengers Crowd Into Lifeboats Aden (IP) A dramatic dou ble transfer at sea today saved the lives of almost 1,200 pas sengers and crewmen of an immigrant liner which burned in the Indian Ocean late Mon day night. An unconfirmed radio re port listed only one death in the swift rescue. Other re ports said there were no casu alties at all. , ' The Italian passenger ship Roma was steaming slowly to ward Aden today, carrying all 1076 passengers and about 100 crewmen from the fire rayaged Norwegian transport ship Skaubryn. She was ex pected to arrive Thursday. The Skaubryn, carrying Eu ropean migrants to Australia, was engulfed in flames which started in the engine room and spread to the oil bunkers when she was about 300 miles southeast of Socotra Island, off the African coast. Her passengers and crew men took to lifeboats and pulled away from the leap ing flames on the ship which lit the warm sea for hundreds of yards around. Freighter To Rescue One of the vessels answer ing distress calls broadcast before the Skaubryn was abandoned was the British freighter City of Sydney. She was first on the scene of the near-disaster and began pulling the Skaubryn's loaded lifeboats alongside, and then hauling the survivors aboard. The City of Sydney, heavily loaded and without passenger accommodations, left the still flaming Skaubryn adrift and steamed for the nearest port Aden. . The . Roma, a . passenger ship, was also racing to an swer the Skaubryn's distress calls. The two ships met in the night and their captains agreed to transfer the sur vivors to the Roma, which was far better equipped with food and accommodations. Once again, a transfer of the 1,200 persons involved was accomplished without ac cident, this time in the half light of early dawn. Emergency Aid Fund The Roma then set off for Aden followed by the City of Sydney, now relieved of her human cargo. The Intergove rnmental Committee for European Mi gration, the Geneva-headquartered organization which sponsored ' most of the mi grants aboard the Skaubryn, cabled $50,000 here today to provide emergency aid. The 9,786-ton Skaubryn was on a migrant voyage from Bremerhaven, Germany, to Australia. Her next port of call was to have been Colom bo, Ceylon. Fiscal Deficit of $2 Billion Likely Washington (IP) A federal deficit of between S2 billion and S3 billion this fiscal year was seen today by government experts as a distinct possi bility. Officials also said the Ad ministration undoubtedly will have to ask this session of Congress for another increase in the federal debt limit to accommodate ah expected ris ing deficit in fiscal 1959 which begins next July 1. In his budget message last January President Eisenhow er estimated the deficit for fiscal 1958, ending June 30, at $400 million with a pre carious surplus of $500 for fiscal 1959." Because of heavily increas ed federal spending and an expected decrease in federal receipts due to the recession, the January estimates now are out the window. WEATHER FORECAST: Clearing and cool er tonight, becoming cloudy before sunrise. Rain Wednes day. Low tonight 35. High Wednesday 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday 56 Lowest this Morning 38 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 08 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:55 a.m. Sunset . 6:37 p.m. Moonset Wednesday.. 4:47 a.m. Full Moon . April 3 Highlight of the phenomema in the skies above in April will be the increasing promi nence and brilliance of Jupiter. This planet is surrounded by 12 moons, 4 of which can be easily seen in a good telescope. r. 7.A n n n n m- n in I w i n n i jpKMpill rA I CLYDE PANGBORN Known in Rogue Valley Famed Flyer Used Medford Airport In Early Years Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Knack stedt and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Smith, Medford, were close friends of the famed early day daredevil pilot, Clyde Pangborn, who died Satur day in a New York hospital, it was learned today. Pangborn flew out of the old Medford airfield on many of his barnstorming trips in the early days and may have been the first "Mercy Flights" pilot ever to fly out of this area when he took a patient from Yreka to San Francisco for medical treatment right after World War I. Smith and Knackstedt be came acquainted with him after he had purchased a sur plus World War I Army Jenny to begin his colorful aviattion career. At that time he and Knackstedt roomed to gether and flew together out of a small field at Yreka, Calif. Flying Instructor Pangborn, who was a fly ing instructor at a Texas air base during World War I, be came known nationally as one of America's most skilled pilots and made a name for himself when he became the first ': person to . f ljr non-stop across the Pacific from Tokyo to Wenatchee, Wash., in 1931 Smith, who now lives at 1033 Reddy st., Medford, was Panghorn's chief mechanic at that time and helped him to make preparataions for -the famous flight. Smith also flew with Pangborn in the Ivan R. Gates flying circus in the east during the late 1920s and was his parachut ist for the aerial spectaculars that were the rage then. The pilot was known in the flying world as "Up-side Down Pangborn, according to Knackstedt, and was famed for his beautiful execution of "falling leaf" as well as other intricate aerial maneuvers. Suffers Attack Pangborn suffered a heart attack in December and was found to be suffering from a lung infection and pleurisy before he was admitted to the hospital. The actual cause of his death was not announced by hospital of ficials. His last visit with the Smiths and the Knackstedts here was in April last year, after he had returned from a flight to Tahiti. He became ill during the flight and he told Mr. and Mrs. Knackstedt that he' thought the strain of get ting his heavily-loaded craft aloft on takeoff was respon sible for the pains he suffered in his back and chest. He said that was the only flight he thought he would never complete. Pangborn did a great deal to promote flying jn the early days and was one of Ameri ca's aviation "greats." One in Five Families Subscribe to One out of every five fam ilies in Jackson county is a Mercy Flights, Inc., subscrib er, according to George Mil ligan, chairman of the board for Mercy Flights. He spoke at the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce roundtable luncheon Monday. He said the major problem of the non-profit group is contacting people to sub scribe. Very few refuse to sign up for the plan' when contacted, but do not pay much attention to mailed re minders when their subscrip tion is up, he added. Milligan said the major share of the air-ambulance's subscribers come from news stories about the service. He named the recent nation-wide article by a United Press writ er as an example of good pub licity for the project. The story was carried by the Mail Tribune on March. 2 6. n n ODD Money Would Give Reprieve On Jobless Tax Two-Thirds of State Payrolls Represented Salem (IP) Gov. Robert D. Holmes today asked the federal government for a $14 million loan to give 12,000 Oregon firms a reprieve from unemployment tax increases. The f f r m s, representing" some two-thirds of the state's payrolls, were set to start paying the maximum 2.7 per cent unemployment rates to day because the state's reserve fund for jobless pay has fall- ' en too low during the past several months. The governor said he was hopeful tlie move would ac tually increase jobs because of savings' to the companies. Serious Look Necessary He indicated that the 1959 Legislature would have to take a serious look at the un employment tax rate struc ture and revise it to prevent the fund from falling below its $31,500,000 "floor" in the future. The $14 millian comes from the Reed bill loan account ad ministered by the secretary of labor. Only the Territory of Alaska has borrowed from the fund, so far, but Unem ployment Commissioner Ce celia P. Galey said several states were considering bor rowing now. Became Eligible Monday Oregon became eligible for the non-interest loan from the $200 million federal account Monday when jobless pay to tals for the past 12 months ex ceeded the total amount re maining in the UCC's trust funds. The balance was just over $26 million and the amount paid out in benefits since April 1, 1957 totaled $37,900,000. More than $18 million of. the amount was paid out dur ing the past three months, Mrs. Galey said. The governor said he was confident the loan would be processed "without prob lems." ....... ; The governor added: "Re ceipt cf this loan does not mean that employers may not have to make up the differ ence in the future, but it does keep an estimated $6 million in their hands at a time when we need to expend every ef fort to battle recession." - - Tlie $6 million is the esti mated amount the 12,000 firms would have paid into the state fund in unemploy ment taxes over the next six month period had the maxi mum rates been in force. 14.000 Firms Unaffected The federal loan will not aid 14,000 ether employer firms which are already pay ing the highest 2.7 per cent rate, the governor explained. Some 6,000 of them are at the high level because of poor employment records, and the remaining 8,000 are there be cause they have never be come eligible under the law for any lesser rate. Receipt of the loan, how ever, will block increases ranging from .3 of a per cent to 2.1 per cent for those firms with good employment rec ords. The 12,000 firms affected are mostly medium-sized bus inesses with a few large and small businesses also. The state is eligible for a total loan of $18,270,000, but the governor and Mrs. Galey said the total amount was not. needed now. Chairman GaLiy said a study was being made of the fund at the present time, the first since 1952, in order that an accurate picture of it would be available for future planning. Flights He suggested something be done to bring injured into Medford for special treatment when all types of medical treatment are available in the area. He said many injured are now taken to Eugene or Portland. Cost of the plan is $4 per family and $2 for an individ ual. Companies can sign up their employees at half-price rates, he said. The service provides free air-ambulance service within a 400-mile ra dius of Medford. N o n - subscribers are charged up to 70 cents per mile which is near operating costs. Subscribers are being transported in a non-emergency or being returned to Medford are charged 35 cents per mile, he explained. The group has three twin engine planes, all ' stationed at the Medford airport. About 150 trips were made during 1957, he added.