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.KM k I? IM IM iaaiaaaiiiiMtHM - mAIA rife RUSHING WATER Southern Pacific rail- the rails are road bridge sags under pressure of debris Workers in forced against it by the rain-swollen San spot where Joaquin river near Stockton, Calif. Only levee. 53rd Year Medford 16 Pages MEDFORD, Officials Trade Accusations After Welfare IRaids in linn Albany, Ore. (IP) Officials . of two state agencies traded accusations here today fol lowing week end raids on sev en Linn county homes where state welfare aid is received. The so-called welfare raids were staged in the early morning hours at Sweet Home and resulted in two charges of fraud and five charges of misuse of welfare money intended for support of children. Roy Terry, administrator of j the recovery division of the state Justice Department, charged that local welfare au thorities work on an eight-to-five schedule and trust any one who applies for welfare aid. Mrs. Lucille McBride, Linn county public welfare admin istrator, denied Terry's charge and asserted "It's a matter of his interpretations versus the State public Welfare Commis- Slate Demo Head Will Speak Here Dave Epps, Sweet Home, state Democratic chairman, will speak at a meeting of the Jackson County Demo cratic Central committee Wed nesday, at 8 p.m., at the Rogue River Grange hall, according to Jim Redden, Jackson coun ty Democratic Central com mittee chairman. y Democratic candidates for local offices will attend. Red den said. He added that it is planned to have a voter regis trar in attendance at the meeting. Bob Boyer, Medford attor ney and former state Demo cratic committee chairman, will introduce Epps. Liaison Officer Here To Talk Civil Defense Major W. A. Greer, .Port land, United States Air Force liaison officer for the Ore gon wing of the Civil Air Pa trol, and Lane County Com missioner Ralph Peterson, Eugene, met Monday with the Jackson county court and Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, Jack son County Civil Defense di rector. They discussed the CAP in relation to the civil defense program, according to County Commissioner Ralph James. Ay res Receives Life Term In State Penitentiary Robert Lee Ayres, 31, was sentenced to a maximum term of life imprisonment this morning on charges of second degree murder. Ayres, a Navy chief petty officer from San Diego, Calif., pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly to the gunshot slaying March 18 of Wayne Wilbur Dailey, 48, , Ashland motel operator. The Navy man was indicted by a grand jury March 24. Dailey, who is survived by a wife and three sons, was shot the night of March 18 in an argument over payment for gas. Ayres was arrested shortly afterwards by state police. They had received a 'Hjff' -v-' ' OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1958 No. 15 sion's interpretations." The raids on the homes of persons receiving state aid for dependent children were staged by Terry's gents. Linn county sheriff's officers and Sweet Home police. Terry charged afterward that county welfare workers were lax in investigating per Judging of Set Before Judging of Pear Blossom Festival parade entries will be done at 10 a.m. Saturday at the assembly point, according to Fred Beck, president, of the festival association. The decision was made dur ing the festival association meeting this morning. Beck explained members felt great er public interest would be achieved by displaying the winners in the parade Satur day. Also, the Central Point Jay cettes have substituted Kath leen Lacy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Lacy, Central Point, as their festival queen candidate. The former candi date, Marlics Gorden, is re ported to be sick, according to Mrs. Murray Gardiner, secretary-treasurer of the festival Discussion Set On Job Survey The Jackson county em ployees job classification sur vey will be discussed by the county court and representa tives of the state civil service commission Monday, April 14, it was announced today. The county court said today that civil service representa tives are expected here next Monday to discuss the survey, which will be presented to the county budget committee within 10 days. Job descriptions of the 290 county employees and elected officials are included in the survey. The study was under taken as an analysis of duties and responsibilities in order to develop a job classification plan and a basis for a sound employment system and for fair compensation standards, the county court said earlier. call from Jack Spaulding, Ash land cafe operator, an eye witness to the shooting. A state police officer ar rested Ayres on Highway 99 in Central Point a short time after receiving Spaulding's description of the car he was seen driving away from Dailey's Motel and Cafe, 5100 Highway 99 South, in Ashland. Spaulding, who operates the Toy Deer cafe near Dailey's Motel, said he would not have witnessed the shoot ing had he not gone outside to turn off his cafe light. He told police he heard a gun shot and looked up the highway to see Dailey fall to the ground. holding the span in place, foreground are sandbagging the roadbed cuts through Price 10 Cents Tribune sons applying for state assist ance. "We don't trust anybody and they trust everybody," he said. Terry added, "These recipi ents may think this welfare money is a gift from heaven; but it's not. It's the taxpayers' blood." Entries Parade association. The festival king and queen will be selected and crowned at the Lincoln school in Med ford Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Seventeen contestants, ten girls and seven boys, will com pete to represent this area's chief a gricultural commodity. All those attending the cere monies will be asked to par ticipate in the preliminary se lection of finalfcts, but final judging will be handled by representatives of all incorpor rated cities in Jackson county. Queen Linda Estremado, Gold Hill, and King Hal Ellis, Medford, last year's winners, will be on hand to crown their successors. Jim Dunlevv. manager of Rogue Valley. Country club, will be master of ceremonies. Entertainment features will include selections by the Med ford high school string ensem ble, and dance features by the Thurston Dancing school and Colleen Hope's Dance studio. Those planning to enter the Pear Blossom parade, Satur day, April 12, will meet Thurs day evening to hear details concerning parade rules and reeulations. and advice on float decorations, according to Art Wood and Die Walsh of the parade and floats com' mittee. Beck reported that the may ors of all near-by cities have been invited to attend the Wednesday program. Other events which are being held, concurrently with the Rogue Valley Pear Blos som Festival are the Crater Lions club's Boat and Sports show, and the wheelchair pa rade Sunday at the Camp White Domiciliary. A sched uled event of (he Job's Daugh ters convention in Medford, which concludes on Saturday, April 12, is an exhibition by precision drill teams at Hed rick Junior High school. The show will be conducted imme diately following conclusion of the Pear Blossom parade. Talent High Paper Gets Feature Award Eugene (Special) Talent high s c h o o l's newspaper, "Talent Hi-Life," has been chosen for a first place award in the annual Oregon Schol astic Press "feature page ex cellence contest." The award was announced by Charles T. Duncan, dean of the school of journalism at the university and director of OSP. Talent won the Portland Oregonian's Scott Award for medimn size high schools. Editor this year is Allen King and feature editor is Char main Tipsword. Adviser is Mrs. Mary L. Offutt. Dulles Discloses Request for Arms By Indo Loyalists Soviet Bloc's Deal Sharply Criticized Washington W Secretary of State John Foster Dulles disclosed today that Indo nesia asked for American arms during the last few days. He said it is still the policy of the United States not to supply arms to either the In donesia government or rebel forces during the present cri sis. He said the rebels have not asked for American arms. Dulles also sharply criti cized the Soviet bloc's deal with Indonesia as not sound or healthy in a situation where arms may be used for offensive operations inside a country. Additional Request He told his news conference that the recent arms request from the Indonesian govern ment is in addition to the Indonesian request last July for between $600 million and $700 million in arms from the United States. This govern ment decided against supply ing arms to Indonesia follow ing the July request, and has not yet acted upon the new request. Dulles said it did not seem wise for the United States to supply arms to either side in the Indonesia dispute. He said this is still United States pol icy. Dulles took a similar view toward the situation in Cuba. Congress Report Planned By Porter Congressman Charles O. Porter will report on this ses sion of congress at a public meeting at 7 p.m. Friday in the Medford hotel, it was an nounced today. Anyone interested in hear ing his report is welcome. Res ervations may be made by telephoning William Deather age, president of the sponsor ing Democratic Social club, at SPring 3-4498. Porter will speak on con gressional action on a num ber of subjects important lo cally, and will answer ques tions. Other Democratic can didates will attend the meet ing. The congressman will ar rive here Friday . afternoon, and visit his Southern Oregon office in the law office of Kelly and Kelly from 3 to 5 p.m. Arrangements for an ap pointment to see him may be made through Bernard Kelly or James Redden. Saturday morning Porter plans to tour Camp White and visit the Tucker Sno-Cat Corp. before returning to his home city of Eugene for oth er meetings. Members of the Eagle Point Grange plan to accompany Porter besides representatives of various vet erans organizations in the area. Lana Turner, Child Still Confined Hollywood (W Both voluptuous Lana Turner and her teen-age daughter Cheryl were shielded from public at tention today the movie queen under heavy sedation at home and the 14-year-old murder suspect beginning to "come out of the state of shock" at Juvenile Hall. Miss Turner was reported in "a very bad way" from the stress of. the slaying of gang land's Johnny Stompanato, 32, by her daughter. Cheryl, meanwhile, still Tvas confined to her single, stark white infirmary room, shielded from the curious stairs of thel75 girls living at the county institution. Edith Green To Study Russian School System Washington HP) Congress has designated Oregon's Rep. Edith Green as a one-woman subcommittee to go to" Russia to find out how Soviet schools are able to turn out so many Sputnik scientists. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 442.59, up 2.50: 20 railroads 101.61, up 0.94; IS utilities 74.32, up 0.20; 65 stocks 150.81. up 0.86. Sales today were about 2.190,000 shares com pared with 2,090,000 shares Monday. First Over-All Gain Since Trend Started Decline Unemployment Reaches 5,198,000 Washington (IP) Un employment slowed appreci ably in March while total employment showed the first over-all gain since the down ward trend in jobs began last year, the government report ed today. The March unemployment figure rose 25,000 to 5,198, 000. The February figure was 5,173,000. Employment increased by 323,000 from 61,988,000 in February to 62,311,000 in mid March. Highest in I6V2 Years The March unemployment total was the highest in 16Vi years, but the increase in the number of jobless was down considerably from the 700,000 jump in February and the one-million-plus in January. The 62,311,000 jobs figure for March compared with the to tal of 66 million for October and the all-time high of 67, 200,000 in July, just before the recession began. Administration of ficials took the new figures as a heartening sign in their battle against the recession, even though March normally is a month in which unem ployment decreases from 100, 000 to 200,000, rather than increasing as it did this month. Significant One significant aspect of the latest unemployment and employment figures announc ed jointly by the Commerce and Labor departments was that the number of workers on the job part-time because of slack work reached a rec ord high for the period since World War II. Manufacturing jobs were down by 1.500,000 from a year ago, but agricultural employment went up in March, as was expected, by 250,000 to a total of 5,100,000. Construction employment rose 140,000 in March, but the gain was insufficient to wipe out losses caused by bad weather in January and February. Timber Auction Held in Afternoon Approximately 9,980,000 board feet of timber was scheduled for bidding this afternoon. First of the parcels was scheduled for 1 o'clock to day and includes about 3 mil lion board feet at Rye Springs in the Ashland district, ac cording to Rogue national for est officials. The second of the series is scheduled for 2 o'clock and covers an estimated 2 and 210 million board feet in the Golden Stairs area in the Prospect district. A third parcel, in the South Castle creek area in the Un ion Creek district, totalling 1 and 410 million board feet was scheduled for sale at 3 o'clock. ' " An estimated 2 and 810 million board feet of timber in the Dry Butte area in the Klamath district was sched uled for auction at 4 o'clock. Approximately 75 people including U. S. Forestry Ser vice personnel attended the meeting this morning when Rogue River national forest timber sale plans for next year were reviewed. The meeting was scheduled from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Rangers for each of the six districts explained their part of the sales program which will cover the entire, forest and all species of timber. Sputnik II Expected To Fall on Saturday Cambridge, Mass. ilP Sci entists at Smithsonian Astro Physical Observatory said to day that Sputnik II, the dog carrying Russian satellite, should fall to earth Saturday afternoon or evening. The observatory, in an an nouncement, said that when the satellite enters the thick atmosphere near the earth it might glow like a meteor and be visible for miles. U.S. Stratotanker Shatters Etecords " This 13th Anniversary of Your Liberation " Porter Wants Halt Of Nuclear Testing Eugene 'IB Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) said Mon day night the government should halt nuclear tests. Porter, home for the Easter recess, said, "The United States doesn't need any more nuclear weapons. This na tion, Russia and England each Three Bound Over To Grand Jury Three men have been bound over to the grand jury after , waiving preliminary hearings during arraignments in district court. Another, Lester Lee Price, 32, Butte Falls, was arraigned in circuit court today on a charge of grand larceny and was given 10 days in which to enter a plea. He was ar rested by sheriff's deputies in connection with the theft of three generators from Reter Fruit company, Medford. Donald Conrad Hansen, 21, Brookings, is held under SI, 500 bond on charges of burglary not in a dwelling involving entry of the O.K. Rubber Welders building on Highway 99 North, in Ash land, Feb. 14. He was arrest ed by sheriff's deputies. Theodore B. Crosby, 22, from Florida, is held under $1,500 bail and was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of grand larceny in volving a theft April 4 of a station wagon from Skinner's Buick-Cadillac. State police made the arrest. Carl Weiss Jr., 24, of 808 East Ninth st., was bound over to the grand jury after arraignment on charges of burglary not in a dwelling. Medford police arrested Weiss in connection with the entry of Hal "K" Appliances store, 237 East Main st. April 4. New Delhi HP) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has accepted an invitation of the Chinese Communist gov ernment to visit Tibet. WEATHER FORECAST: A few light show ers this evening with some clearing periods during the night, partly cloudy during Wednesday, low tonight 34, high Wednesday 62. Temp. Highest Yesterday 60 Lowest this Morning 34 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:43 a.m. Sunset 6:45 p.m. The Moon rises Wednes day 12:12 a.m. and rides low. Near it is Saturn. Last Quarter April 10 Venus, the bright morning star, is now at its greatest angular distance from the Sun. It will remain in the morning sky until early in the Fall. HlfrW has enough to blow up the world. So why should "we con tinue nuclear tests? He said proponents for test ing have argued that the tests are needed to develop a bomb free of radioactivity and to work out peaceful uses of atomic energy. He said this country could never be sure that in case of a nuclear war Russia would use only "clean" bombs. Development of peaceful uses for atomic energy should be under guidance of the Unit ed Nations and should not. be used as a reason for testing nuclear weapons, he said. Boy Said Missing From Ruch Home A 16-year-old boy who was staying with relatives in Ruch was reported missing today, according to investigating sheriff's deputies. Edmond Cheadle, who was said to have been staying at the Hatfield residence in Ruch while his parents were in the process of moving, fail ed to return from a walk Mon day afternoon, deputies said. He was described as almost six feet tall with blond hair and blue eyes and was wear ing a blue and white coat and blue jeans when last seen. Nine-Year-Old Boy Tips 28 Smudge Pots A nine-year-old Medford boy was arrested by sheriffs depu ties last week end alter a foreman at Hollywood or chards reported that more than 28 smudge pots contain ing 174 gallons of oil had been tipped over in the or chards. The youth was re leased to his parents, officers said. Party Planned for Senior Friday at Red Cross Chapter House Plans for possible forma tion of "50 Plus" clubs will be made at a party for senior citizens Friday, April 11, from 2 to 5 p.m., those plan ning to attend were remind ed today. The event will be in the Red Cross Chapter house on "Hawthorne st., under aus pices of the Rogue Valley Council on Aging. Dr. Frank Roberts, chairman of the rec reation committee, is in charge. In addition to a discussion of plans for the formation of such clubs, there will be a program of entertainment, and "get acquainted" activi ties, Dr. Roberts said. Frank Glonning, chairman of the cfjincil, said that mem l? Non-Refueling Trip From Tokyo Ends in Azores Jet Stream Fails To Provide Wind Lajes Field, Azores (IPI A U.S. Air Force KC135 strato- tanker set new distance and speed records for jet planes on a non-refueling flight from Tokyo to the Azores Is lands today. The plane was forced to land here at 4:25 p.m. (7:25 a.m. PST) 1,200 miles short of its planned arrival at Tone jon Air" Base, Madrid,1 Spain. It ran low on fuel because jet stream winds failed to give it the hoped-for "power push" to go all the way. But the Air Force here said the plane covered 10,233 miles in 18 hours and 48 minutes at an average speed of 550 miles an hour. Broke Jet Record The shortened flight broke the previous unrefueled jet distance record . by nearly 4,000 miles. But it was 947 miles short of the distance record held by the Navy's propeller-driven "truculent turtle" patrol bomber, set in 1956 on a hop from Australia to Ohio. Capt. George Spotswood, Air Force . spokesman at the joint Spanish-American Torre jon Air Force Base in Madrid said the giant tanker had counted on the push power of the jet stream to beat the Navy's mark. "Jet stream winds they had counted on decreased over the American West Coast and again Washington," he said. "It just didn't give enough push power to get them here. We're not very happy about it but we've got another plane ready at Yokota Air Base. They'll try it Wednesday or next week or whenever the winds seem right." Planning Official Explains Program - Art informal meeting of the city and county planning com missions was held Monday noon to hear Lloyd Anderson, planning consultant from the University of Oregon's Bu reau of Municipal Research. Anderson told the groups about the Medford. project for urban planning, now under way. He also told the county planning commission how it could take part in an urban planning project and what funds might be available for assistance. Also attending the meeting were members of the Ashland and the Gold Hill city councils. The county planning commis sion had expressed interest in taking part in a program simi lar to Medford's. Several thousand acres of county land adjoining the city were recently mapped to al low for future city expansion, according to city officials. bers of the council commit tees on housing, health and employment are assisting Dr. Roberts and his committees to put on the party, and will act as hosts to . those attending from all parts of the county. - Dr. Roberts emphasized no invitation is necessary to at tend, and that anyone aged 50 or more, or those interest ed in the problems of older people, will be welcome. ' The welcoming committee will include Glonning, assist ed by Mrs. S. D. Earhart. Mrs. Earl Miller, Mrs. Fred Rank in, John Lunday, C. L. Wil liams, Bill Hoxie, John Grib ble and Dr. Roberts. Mrs. Joyce Fuller and Mrs. Rita Holmes will handle reg istration and the guest book. Russia Asked To Join Halt On Production Peaceful Purposes Proposed in Letter Washington (ID Presi dent Eisenhower today call ed on Russia to ioin the United States in banning pro duction of atomic weapons. He proposed that nuclear ma terials be manufactured "only for peaceful purposes." The President renewed the U. S. disarmament DroDosal in a note to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. He brushed aside Khru shchev's statements and note of last Friday proposing an immediate halt to nuclear test explosions. The President said the "timing, wording and man ner" of the Soviet declara tion "cannot but raise ques tions as to its real signifi cance." He also urged Khrushchev to accept the "open skies" diarmament- inspection pro gram, first proposed by Eis enhower in 1955, and the re cent U. S. proposal to ban space warfare. The note was delivered to the Kremlin this morning. Heart of the Matter In asking Russia to accept his "Atoms For Peace" pro posal of 1953, the President said the "heart of the nuclear problem is not the mere test ing of weapons but the wea pons themselves." He said if weapons are de pendably dealt with, "then it is natural to suspend their testing." But he said Russia "con tinues to reject the concept of an internationally super vised program to end weapons production and to reduce weapons stocks." The President said if Rus sia is as "peace-loving as it professes," it should surely want" to bring about an in ternationally supervised di version of nuclear material from "weapons purposes to peace purposes." Refers lo Letter Referring to Khrushchev's April 4 letter asking for a suspension of nuclear testing, the President said, "it seems peculiar that the Soviet Un ion, having just concluded a series of tests of unprece dented intensity, should now, in bold headlines, say that it will not test again, but add, in small type, that it may test again if the United States car ries out its already long-announced and now imminent series of tests." The United States, Eisen hower said, is trying to de velop the "defensive rather than the offensive" weapons and to learn how to "mini mize" nuclear fallout.1 Alaska Earthquake Echoes Across U. S. By UNITED PRESS One of history's most pow erful earthquakes echoed across wide sections of the United States when it rocked a desolate tundra region of Alaska. The quake Monday broke five seismographic instru ments in a Piermont, N.Y.. laboratory, 3,590 miles dis tant. At Fairbanks, about 150 miles from the quake area, light fixtures swayed and arti cles were toppled from shelves. " Its intensity on various seismographs across the coun try ranged from 7.5 to 8.5 on the Richter magnitude scale. The greatest earth quake previously recorded was a 1950 tremblor in Tibet which hit 8.6. Citizens Mrs. J. R. Seiler, assisted by Mrs. Amanda Farris and Mrs. Jack Lynch, will be in charge of. refreshments, and John Gribble and Lunday will make and serve the coffee. Mrs. Max Wimmer, presi dent of the Footlighters, is in charge of entertainment. Roscoe Roberts, Pomona Grange master, will be master of ceremonies. Groups which have already indicated they plan to attend include the Ashland 50 Plus club and their sponsors, the Soroptomist club; the Sea farers group from Rogue River, a golden age group from the Presbyterian church, and the Federal Retired Em ployees association.
