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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
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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.