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Washington (IP)- Presi
dent Eisenhower sent to Con
gresi today a sweeping de
fense reorganization plan that
would give the defense secre
tary full control over all mil
itary operations and defense
money.
The President's plan was
aimed at greater unification
of the armed services to pre
pare them better for fighting
a modern war, he said.
'Gone Forever'
"Separate ground, sea, and
air warfare is gone forever,"
the President said in a 7,000
word message.
"Strategic and tactical plan
ning must be completely uni
fied, combat forces organized
into unified commands, each
equipped with the most effi
cient weapons systems that
science can develop, singly
led and prepared to fight as
one, regardless of service."
The President asked Con
gress to approve changes in
the law which would give De
fense Secretary Neil H. Mc-
Elroy undisputed authority to
carry out these responsibili
ties.
Present System Cumbersome
Oders to unified military
field commands would go di
rectly from the President, as
commander-in-chief, and the
defense secretary. The secre
taries and chiefs of the indi
vidual services would be by
passed in operational control
of the nation's armed forces.
The President said the pres
ent chain of command through
the individual services was
"cumbersome and unreliable
In time of peace and not usa
ble in time of war."
He asked for repeal of all
provisions of the present de
fense law which "vest respon
sibility for military operations
in any official other than the
secretary of defense."
He also asked for greater
authority for the chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The President did not, how
ever, ask for elimination of
the joint chiefs system and
substitution of a general staff
system with only one chief.
He did recommend that the
Bids Called For
Couplet Lighting
Deadline for bids on equip
ment and installation of
traffic control signals on the
Eighth st. couplet will be
April 17 at 10 a.m. in the of
fice of the state highway com
mission, Portland.
The project calls for 40
steel poles, 12 controllers, 37
nedestrian signals, 29 signs
and several thousand feet of
wire, according to bid specifi
cations. The contract on the
' project will be awarded at
the May 8 meeting of the
commission.
Installation will cover the
portion of Eighth and Sev
enth sts., from Riverside ave.
to Hamilton st.. according to
Vernon Thorpe, city public
works director.
He said the city is furnish
ing 25 per cent of the cost
for the one-way couplet
which includes the signal
costs. City share of the pro
ject is $56,000 which was de
posited with the highway
commission last fall.
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ubmitted
j chairman of the joint chiefs
be given authority to assign
tasks of the present joint
staff.
Administrative Duties
He recommended that the
service members of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff the chiefs. of
Army, Navy, Air Force and
Marines be relieved of the
major part of their adminis
trative duties as to their indi
vidual services.
The President said that he
had ordered that the Joint
Chiefs of Staff "advise and as
sist the secretary of defense
in respect to their duties and
not to perform any of their
duties independently of the
secretary's direction."
North, South Air
Service Expanded
By United Airlines
Air service between Med
ford and both Portland and
San Francisco will be ex
panded by United Air lines
on April 27, by two daily
flights, K. W. Cook, station
ground services manager here,
announced today.
The spring schedules will
bring to four the number of
daily round trip flights be
tween Medford and Portland,
and to three those to and
from San Francisco.
Flights to Portland will de
part at 6:20 and 8:05 a.m.,
and 3:15 and 7:05 p.m. Return
flights will leave Portland at
6:45 and 10:15 a.m., and 3:45
and 6:10 p.m.
Same-Day Service
Flights to San Francisco,
including same-day commuter
service, will leave Municipal
airport at 9:05 a.m., and 12:30
and 6:10 p.m. Returning,
United service will -depart
from the Bay City at 7 a.m.,
and 1:15 and 6 p.m.
Also on April 27, new re
turn daylight service from
Chicago and all the East, the
fastest ever offered, will re
duce flight time from the Mid
west to Medford by almost
two hours. Connections can
be made at Portland from an
inbound nonstop DC-7 flight
from Chicago to a Convair
trip department from Port
land at 3:45 p.m. for arrival
here at 5:54 p.m.
Travelers leaving Medford
at 8:05 a.m. on a Convair
flight to Portland will be
able to connect at Portland
with DC-7 Custom Coach
service departing at 10:35
a.m. for Chicago, New York
and Boston.
Tornadoes Batter
Wichita Fails, Texas
Wichita Falls, Tex. P
Twin fornadoes "bouncing up
and down like yo-yo's in slow
motion" rammed through
Wichita Falls and a nearby vil
lage late Wednesday, killing
one mand and injuring a doz
en. The two tornadoes rumbled
along the Wichita River, tak
ing 15 minutes to traverse
their course and missed the
downtown section, packed at
the rush hour, by three blocks.
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Morse Sees Need
For Tax Cuts To
Fight Recession
Neuberger Favors
Expanded Program
Washington (IP) Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said
Wednesday a tax cut is need
ed as soon as possible to stim
ulate the economy. He warned
the nation to "beware the
prophets who gleam and
beam." ,
But Oregon's other Demo
cratic senator, Richard L.
Neuberger, lined up on the
side of an expanded public
works program, rather than
tax cuts, as a means of com
batting the recession.
The two senators issued
statements on the issue as
President Eisenhower raised
a go-slow warning on tax cut
proposals and big federal
spending programs at his news
conference.
Morse said critics of the
administration's "reckless eco
nomic dogmatism" have been
branded as "prophets of gloom
and doom." .
But under this "gleam and
beam" leadership, he said,
"we are scraping the rocks
and heading for the economic
reefs." He said a tax cut
would be "the most effective
single means of stemming, the
present economic slump."
Neuberger noted that the
Canadian Conservative party,
which advocated expanded
public works, won a recent
landslide victory over the
Liberal party, which advo
cated a tax cut. He said this
"holds significance for us in
this country."
Permits Issued
For New Schools
Two building permits for
the Medford school district
were issed this morning, for
a total of $689,174 for con
struction of two new elemen
tary schools.
A permit for $372,000 was
issued for construction of Wil
son school, Corona and Grand
aves., and a permit for $317,
174 issued for construction of
the Hoover school at 2323 Sis
kiyou blvd. School officials
hope for completion of both
units by October.
Preparation for foundations
began this morning at the Wil
son school site while work be
gan on the Hoover school sev
eral days ago, officials said.
Hampton Piatt Construc
tion company, Salem, is gen
eral contractor for the Wilson
school and Loren Ritchie com
pany of Medford for the Hoov
er school.
Mrs. Slafen Said
Still Unconscious
Mrs. Rosemary Slaten, 33,
of Gold Hill, was reported
still unconscious at Sacred
Heart hospital this morning
and in noor condition, accord
ing to Jackson county sheriff's
deputies.
Mrs. Slaten is under indict
ment by the Jackson county
grand jury on a charge of
embezzling $12,000 from the
Rogue Valley Physicians
service.
She was found collapsed
early Wednesday morning at
her home by sheriffs deputies
when they attempted to serve
a warrant for her arrest.
Authorities reported that
samples of the contents of a
cup of coffee near her when
she was found and the con
tents of her stomach have
been sent to the state crime
laboratory for analysis.
Federal Reserve Board
Asks New Legisiati in
Washington (IP) The
Federal Reserve Board asked
Congress today to enact new
credit - easing legislation. It
would release about $2 billion
of reserves held by member
banks of the Federal Reserve
System.
PLEADS GUILTY
Donald Glen Robertson, 33,
Phoenix, pleaded guilty in
circuit court this morning to
a charge of grand larceny be
fore Judge H. K. Hanna. Sen
tencing wa9 continued pend
ing completion of a pre-sentencing
report. -
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1958
Highway
CDeors !Hy
Rapid Approval
Predicted During
Senate Session
Anti-Billboard
Provision Included
Washington (TP) Con
gress completed action to
day on a $5,500,000,000 an-li-recession
highway pro-'
gram after a predicted
House battle over billboard
control fizzled.
The Senate approved the
final version of the bill by
voice vote and senl it to the
White House soon after the'3
House passed it by a roll
call vote of 300 to 28.
Washington (IP) The
House today passed a compro
mise $5,500,000,000 anti-recession
highway bill contain
ing a controversial anti-billboard
provision.
House passage came on a
roll call vote of 299 to 28.
Opposition to the bill col
lapsed after members reject
ed, 222 to 109, a motion to
send the measure back to a
House-Senate conference com
mittee for further study.
Came as Surprise.
The lopsided vote on this
crucial test came as a surprise
because Democratic and Re
publican leaders had passed
the word that they were not
pleased with the bill.
They had expected the bill
to be recommitted.
- House passage sent the com
promise bill back to the Sen
ate where it was expected to
win fast approval, clearing
the way for 'members to de
part of a 10-day Easter recess.
House Democratic leaders
who had been pushing for
fast action on the anti-recession
measure, lost their ardor
for it when Senate-House ne
gotiators unexpectedly in
serted the controversial anti
billboard provision.
. Republican leaders opposed
the measure's big spending
features. But rank and file
members of the House, many
of them with their bags al
ready packed, apparently de
cided it wouldn't look good
to the voters back: home to
block passage of the measure
just before starting then
Easter vacation.
The controversial section
would give states an extra
one-half of 1 per cent in fed
eral funds if they agreed to
accept federal standards for
restricting billboards on the
new interstate highway sys
tem. The standards will be
set later by the secretary of
commerce.
Water Forecast Set
For Friday Night
W. T. (Jack) Frost, state
snow survey supervisor for
the Soil Conservation service,
will oresent the water supply
forecast for southern Oregon
at a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Fri
day in the Jackson county
courthouse auditorium.
Irrigation district manag
ers, engineers and others hav
ing information concerning
the stream flow and reservoir
storage supplies, snow pack
and other factors that may
contribute to a forecast are
urged to attend.
Water supply forecasts
for the Rogue and Umpqua
watersheds will be given.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Partial clearing to
night. Cloudy with occasional
showrrs Friday. Low tonight
34. High Friday 53.
Temp.
Hichest Yesterday 53
Lowest this Morning 34
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise'
. 5:52 a.m.
6:39 p.m.
6:35 p.m.
Sunset
IIC 1UWJI ..J-J
h. dill 7:45 n.m.
IIIU w .
This is the largest Full Moon
we will see in 1958 as the
Moon is also in Perigee and
onlv 221800 miles from the
Earth today, the nearest it
will he this year.
WHEELLESS CAR This sketch shows the "Glideair," a
new wheelless vehicle developed by the Ford Motor Co.,
which is expected to be capable of speeds from 200 to 500
miles per hour. Unlike conventional autos, the Glideair
uses wheels only for starting. Once it is moving, it rides on
"levipads," devices that lift it off a rail and support the
car on streams of , air.
Hearing Held Today
On Building Road
A hearing was held in thel
Jackson county court this
morning by members of the
county court, and representa
tives from the bureau of Rec
lamation and bureau of land
management regarding road
construction into the Howard-Prairie
recreational site.
The county and bureau of
reclamation agreed to build
IV2 miles of a 3V4 mile sec
tion of the highway to be
constructed from Dead Indian
rd. to the Howard Prairie
recreational site.
According to County Judge
Rodney' Keating, construction
on the IV2 mile segment
would begin immediately.
This segment will replace that
part of the present road that
will be covered by water
when the dam is completed.
Judge Keating reported the
project will cost an estimated
$75,000. It is slated to be com-
Public Hearing on
Zone Change Today
A public hearing on a re
quest for a change of zone
from class IA, single family,
to class IIIA, limited commer
cial, for the Grandview mar
ket will be held by the Med
ford city council at 7:30
o'clock tonight.
The property is now non
conforming, and the market
has requested thehange to
make improvements.
Also on the agenda is con
sideration of an emergency
fund transfer to replace a fire
truck which was damaged in
an accident recently,- an
amendment to the fire code to
remove conflicts with the
building code, and authoriza
tion of plans and specifica
tions for paving Eastwood dr.
from East Main st. to Keene
Way dr.
Ike Expected? To Veto
Flood Control Measure
Washington (IP) Some
congressional Repu b 1 i c a n s
said today President Eisen
hower probably will veto a
bill authorizing the spending
of $1,578,812,000 on river,
harbor and flood control pro
jects. The omnibus measure was
approved by the Senate 52 to
11 Wednesday night and sent
to the White House. It cleared
the House in the same com
promise form Monday
Salem IIP) Bids on $4 mil
lion in highway projects will
be received by the State High
way Commission here April
17.
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No. 11
pleted prior to the end of
the road building season in
1959.
. It was reported that the
surveys have been completed
and the ground cleared for
the road project, construction
will start with the completion
of slash burning, he said.
Man Sentenced to
Jail for Theft
Royal Weldon Calkins, 28,
of 130 West Main st., Med
ford, was sentenced to one
year in the county jail and
fined court costs this morning
in district court after enter
ing a plea of guilty to charges
of petty larceny.
Calkins was arrested by
Medford police about 4:05
o'clock this morning after he
was observed by an officer
loading several pieces of
scrap steel into his vehicle
at the Moore Steel company,
228 East McAndrewi rd. Po
lice said the value of the steel
was listed at about $75.
Calkins told police in a
signed statement he was tak
ing the steel in the hopes
someone would buy it from
him. Police added Calkins
said he needed money for
payment of back rent.
Two Arraigned in
District Court
Peter Sparr Johnston, 64,
of 2737 Howard ave., Med
ford, and his son, Lavern Wil
liam Johnston, 37, of 928
West Second st., Medford,
were arraigned in district
court this morning before
Judge James M. Main.
The two men requested an
attorney and the case was
continued until 4 p.m. today
Peter S. Johnston, charged
with driving while under the
influence of intoxicating bev
erages, -was lodged in county
jail with bail set at $255
Lavern W. Johnston, charged
with drunk on a public high
way, was also lodged in coun-
tv jail with bail set at $00.
The two men were arrested
by sheriffs deputies early this
morning at South Riverside
and Stewart aves. .
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (IT) Dow
Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 440.50, off
0.71; 20 railroads 101.43, off
0.76; 15 utilities 74.06, up
0.02, and 65 stocks 150.22,
off 0.35. Sales today were
about 2,130,000 shares com
pared with 2,390,000 shares
Wednesday. ,
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Knight Proclaims
Entire State
Disaster Area
New Breaks Noted
In Palisades Cliffs
San Francisco (IP A sav
age storm roared over Cali
fornia today, turning placid
streams into torrents, forcing
thousands to flee and destroy
ing homes and crops.
The storm, worst in a half
century, was blamed for at
least five deaths as it raked
the length and breadth of the
state with squalls, torrential
downpours, heavy mountain
snows and gale winds.
Gov. Goodwin J. Knight
proclaimed the whole" state a
disaster area.
Northern California had the
worst of the storm Wednesday
but the weatherman predict
ed occasional squalls today
along with heavy snow in the
mountains.
The storm buffeted South
ern California today, causing
innumerable landslides and
power failures and felling
trees throughout the area.
Three inches of rain fell dur
ing the night at Lake Hughes
near Newhall. ,
The floods routed thousands
of householders, at least 5,000
by conservative estimates, in
Stockton, Palo Alto, South
San Francisco, various parts
of Alameda, Contra Costa and
San Joaquin counties, along
the Carmel river and in the
Alviso area of Santa Clara
county.
New breaks in the rain-
soaked . cliffs of the Pacific
Palisades, near Los Angeles,
threatened expensive homes
atop the bluffs. Street crews
put up wire fences in the
threatened area and warned
sightseers to stay away.
In the Central Valley,
streams rose ominously as
the storm front passed, over
the area. Minor flooding was
expected on the Tule river
and in local areas of Merced
county, as well as the Fresno
Irrigation district. The Chow-
chilla and Fresno rivers were
expected to crest slightly be
low flood stage.
A- flash flood sent water
into parts of the city of Pat
terson during the night, forc
ing about two dozen families
to sandbag their homes.
U.S. 99 in the northern sec
tion of Modesto was closed
for several hours by water.
A thick blanket of snow
mantled the Sierra Nevada,
closing Highway 40 from Au
burn to the Nevada line and
stranding hundreds of motor
ists in lodges along the way.
Also closed were U.S. 50
over Echo Summit, from Pla
cerville to he foot of Meyers
Grade, and U.S. 40A, the
Feather River Highway from
Greenville Wye to Hallelujah
Junction.
Meanwhile, the Southern
Pacific pulled its crack
streamliner, the City of San
Francisco, back to Reno with
its 97 passengers after it was
stalled overnight at Norden
by a wreck.
A mail train ran into a
snowslide 38 miles east of
Colfax Wednesday, blocking
all rail traffic on the single
track east-west main-line.
The City of San Francisco,
along with three other west
bound passenger trains stalled
at Reno, were to be routed
into Oakland today over West
ern Pacific Roalroad's tracks.
In San Francisco, families
were evacuated from four
terrace apartments on the
northwest side of Mt. Sutro
as a torrent of mud gushed
down the slope.
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Good Friday Services Scheduled by
Ministerial Association Tomorrow
The annual Good Friday
services sponsored by the Med
ford Ministerial association
will be held Friday, April 4,
from noon to 3 p.m. at the
First Methodist church.
The three-hour period will
be divided into 25 minute seg
ments so people may come and
go during the different peri
ods. Each period will include
a scripture reading and a
speaker as well as music.
Clynton Crisman, pastor of
the Medford Friends church
and president of the Medford
Ministerial association will be
moderator for the entire
three-hour service.
Ministers Named
Ministers who will read the
scripture and speak will in
clude, starting at 'noon: the
Rev. Escil Hiser, scripture,
and Dr. George G. Roseberry,
who will speak on the first
word, followed by the Rev.
R. H. Mathewson, the Rev.
James W. Neely; the Rev.
Heavy Wind, Rain
Squalls in West
Oregon Reported
Portland (IP) April
showers, mixed with some J
thunderstorms and sunshine,
were on Oregon's . weather
menu today along with snow
in the mountains.
Heavy winds and rain
squalls struck western Ore-i
gon Wednesday and-one gust
knocked down a tree here
which injured a woman. Mo
torists were advised to carry
Highway 99 Open;
Snow Forecast for
in Areas
Hiehwav 99 between Weed
and Dunsmuir was open for
traffic today, but weather con
ditions in northern California
and southern Oreeon are not
expected to improve during
the next 24 hours.
The weather forecast for
northern California calls for
heavv snow in the mountains.
The snow level is expected
to be about 2,500 feet in the
northern portion, and . 4,500
feet in the extreme southern
section, the weather bureau
reported.
Winds un to 30 miles per
hour are expected in squalls.
Shower activitiy will dimimsn
Friday, the bureau forecast.
Western Oregon
Occasional showers are
forecast for western Oregon,
with brief clearing periods to
night and Friday. The local
forecast is for partial clearing
tonieht and cloudy with oc
casional showers Friday, the
weather bureau said.
Oregon state police report
erl Hishway 99 between Mt
Shasta and Yreka had icy
spots, and it was snowing this
mominff between Weed and
Dunsmuir. Chains were ad
vised on most highways, in
cluding Highway 97 south of
Klamath Falls into uainorma.
Chains also were required
on Oregon -mountain on High
way 199 this morning, police
said. Traffic was moving over
the Siskiyous and Green
without chains, but
snow was reported on both
highways. One inch oi new
reported on the
Siskiyous and five inches of
new snow on the Green
Springs. ,-
One-Way TraHic
nn several sections
of Highway 101 south of Cres
cent City was one-way only,
police said. Exact locations
of the one-way traffic were
not available.
Crater Lake National par
reported" five inches of new
the nast 24 hours,
ami" r ,
bringing the total depth on the
ground to 192 mcnes, an even
16 feet. The total compares
to 122 inches last year, and
166 inches in 1956 on this
date. "
Chains were advised on
roads leading to park head
quarters. The road to the rim
was closed, but park service
personnel expected it to be
open by noon today.
Salem (IP) Don Chapman,
Portland, has been named
chairman of the newly-formed
statewide Republican commit
tee on organization.
Robert E. Cull, the Rev. Sher
man Moore; the Rev. George
Trobough, Capt. William Rick
en; Dr. D. Kirkland West, the
Rev. John Root; the Rev.
Lawrence Krause, the Rev.
John O. Reynolds, and the
Rev. Claude Miller, the Rev.
John McCamant.
Good Friday services for
Medford High school students
will be held at First Christian
church with the Rev. William
C. Piper moderator. Speaker
will be the Rev. Raymond W.
Hum.
Junior high school students
at McLaughlin will attend
services at the First Church
of the Nazarene with Lee W.
Mansveld moderator. The Rev.
Darold Jones will speak. Stu
dents at Hedrick school will
attend Good Friday services
at Eastwood Baptist church
with the Rev. Richard Jones
moderator and the Rev. Mel
vin Dixon speaker.
Services for the students
chains if they were travel
ing in the mountains.
Coast Gets Rain
More than an inch of rain .
fell Wednesday at several
coastal points with precipita
tion elsewhere relatively
light.
Mrs. Leon M. Amato, 41,
Portland, was struck by the
limb of a falling tree in the
northwest part of the city.
The tree crushed one car,
damaged another and struck
the roof of an apartment. An
other tree also fell here and
damaged a car as the wind
reached 50 miles per hour.
Snow fell heavily in the
mountains s outh of Klamath
Falls and the Southern Pac
ific Cascade, normally due at
8:15 a.m. was rescheduled due
for'an 11:45 a.m. arrival.
Buses from California were
reported arriving on time
this morning.
Routes Sanded
Mountain routes were sand
ed. Five inches of new snow
were reported at Green
Springs pass and Chemult had
three inches.
Small craft warnings were
flying on the coast and the
weather man said afternoon
thundershowers were expect
ed today.
Services Slated
In Churches Today
Moundy Thursday services
will be held tonight by many
churches in the valley. Al
though some congregations
plan special services the ma-
Ijority of the churches will ob
serve holy communion at var
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iuus Limes uuiuig inc evening.
Churches which have sched
uled services at 7:30 o'clock
include First Presbyterian,
Medford, Church of. the Breth
ren, First Christian church,
Eastwood Baptist church, and
First Methodist church.
At 8 o'clock, services will be
held at St. Peter Evangelical
Luthern church, 1020 East
Main st., Zion Lutheran
church, Ascension Lutheran
church, 2501 Barnett rd., and
Congregational church.
Ashland First Presbyterian
church will hold their service
starting at 7:45 while the First
Methodist church, Ashland,
and Grace Lutheran church,
Ashland, will observe com
munion at 7:30 p.m.
The Church of the Good
Shepherd, Prospect, will cele
brate communion at 8 o'clock
tonight. ' .
Medford Man Bids
High for Brewery
Ashland Gordon Logan,
route 1, box 421A, Dark Hol
low rd., Medford, has sub
mitted a high bid of $101.80
for the old brewery building
on the Peter Britt estate in
Jacksonville. , -
Bids were opened at South
ern Oregon college yesterday.
There were two other bid
ders. The estate was willed to
the college by the late Am-
alia Britt, daughter of Peter
Britt, pioneer photographer in
southern Oregon. The brew
ery is about 100 years old,
and is to be removed as a
safety hazard.
will be held from 2 until 3
p.m. Friday.
Other Good Friday services
scheduled in Medford include
services from noon to 3 p.m.
at St. Mark's Episcopal church
Ascension Lutheran church,
2501 Barnett rd., and St. Peter
Evangelical Lutheran church,
1020 East Main st. Zion Luth
eran church has scheduled its
service at 8 p.m. Friday.
Ashland Ministerial associa
tion will hold services from
noon until 3 p.m. at Trinity
Episcopal church there.
Community Good Friday
services in Jacksonville will
be held at the First Presbyter- -ian
church at 1 p.m. The Rev.
W. D. Turnbull, Assembly of
God church, Jacksonville, will
speak assisted by Dick Merri
man and Mrs. Robert T.
Bridge.
Prospect communify will
observe Good Friday services
at the Church of the Good
Shepherd from 7 until 10 p.m.