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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.