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Newspaper Page TextProtest Soinfeoir Flights TO McafiD Clhyir 'Peg' Hutchinson Given Honor as Religious Writer Writer in New York To Accept Awards The Mail Tribune last night was presented with an "award of merit" for distinguished coverage of religious news during'1957. The award was one of three presented. The others went to the Detroit (Mich.) Free Press, and the United Press associa tions. The award was presented at the Riverside church in New York City, and was ac cepted by Miss Peggyann Hutchinson, church news edi tor for the Mail Tribune, who herself was cited for "her extremely fair, accurate and complete reports of religious activities in the Medford dis trict," which have "won for her the confidence of minis ters and all church people in the Mail Tribune's circula tion area." Cassels Receives Award The awards were present ed by the National Religious Publicity council at the 29th annual convention of the As sociation of Professional Reli gious Public Relations and Publicity Personnel. Receiv ing the award for the United Press was Louis Cassels of Washington (whose by - line has frequently appeared in the Mail Tribune), and for the Free Press, the award was received by Adrian Full er, religion editor. The Mail Tribune's citation said: "The Medford Mail Tribune is known for its high stand ards of professional journal ism not only throughout its home state of Oregon but throughout the nation. In 1934 it received a Pulitzer award 'for the most disinterested and meritorious public serv ice rendered by any Ameri can newspaper during the year 1933.' It has always maintained the high caliber of reporting and editorializing which won for it that most respected of journalism awards. Shown by Reports "Part of the public service rendered by the Mail Tribune is the unfailing attention it pays to news of the activities and interests of all religious organizations in Jackson coun ty. This is shown by its full reports on through-the-week events in the life of the coun ty's 80 churches, the consid erable space given each Fri day to stories and photographs concerning local religious ac tivities, and the regular re porting of the wider state and national affiliations of Jack son county church men and women. "Because the Medford Mail Tribune has an established policy of portraying reverent ly and completely the prin cipal religious festivals and events important in the life of its community, without neglecting the wider national and world setting of these events, the National Religious Publicity Council presents to it this Award of Merit. Dedicated Worker Miss Hutchinson's award said: "Miss Peggyann Hutchin son combines, to an unusual degree, the qualifications making for a superior type of religious news writer. She is, first of all, a dedicated church worker, a Sunday school teacher and a faithful member of her congregation. As a devoted Christian she brings to her journalistic tasks the insight, sympathy and understanding which gives an added dimension to her news stories. "Her wide experience as a (Continued on page 12) WEATHER FORECAST: Increasing cloudi. ness tonight with occasional light rain. Showers Saturday, clearing by evening. Low to night 33. High Saturday 63. Temp. Highest Yesterday 63 Lowest this Morning 35 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today .01 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:27 a.m. Sunset 6:56 p.m. New Moon 7:Z3 p.m. The path of the annular phase of the eclipse of the Sun at this New Moon begins in the In dian Ocean, crosses the north, em part of the Malay Peninsu la, Siam and Indo-China, most of Hainan, northern Formosa, and ends in the North Pacific Ocean. Tribyoue dh (Mews cam-- JSGstVSnr ' " , i '..' j W f , ' ST ';' J""-- 1 ' RECEIVES HIGH AWARD Miss Peggyann Hutchinson, religious news editor of the Medford Mail Tribune, last night received an award for distinguished coverage of religious news during 1957, presented to the Mail Tribune. She was also honored with a citation for her part in earning the award, and was made a Fellow of the National Religious Publicity Council. The award was presented in ceremonies at Riverside church in New York City. The United Press asso ciations and the Detroit (Mich.) Free Press were the only other award winners. Miss Hutchinson is shown above at her Mail Tribune news desk. Most Mills Work Increases; Olson-Ross Starts Most mills in the area now are operating and other em ployment sources are picking up, officials of the state em ployment service said today. A general improvement is noted in the employment pic ture, they added. Figures for unemployment under insured employers were as high as 15.9 per cent the first part of March, but dropped, to 12.4 per cent by April 3. Orders Ordinance For Closed T.V. City Attorney E. R. Bashaw last night was instructed by the Medford city council to prepare an ordinance to au thorize a system for closed circuit viewing of two Port land television stations. City Manager Robert Duff reported to the council the proposed franchise ordinance apparently met city require ments. The system, Trimble Television Inc., would bring Portland television to Med ford homes for a monthly charge of 'about $5 after an installation fee of about 50. (See other council stories on Page 12) IBaseba.D NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 4 4 0 Pittsburgh 1 8 1 Purkey.. Jeffcoat (9) and Bailey; Kline, Witt (4). Ray don (6), Gross (8) and Foiles. AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 1 5 0 New York 3 8 0 Loes, Zozerink (7) and Triandos; Ford and Berra. Three Scientists Believed Way To Creating Life in San Francisco (IP) Man may be well on the way to creating life in a test tube if he has not done so already. Three scientists from Flor ida State University reported on experiments that have led to the production of a sub stance "perhaps almost iden tical with the first or early materials of this type to ap pear on earth." Called 'Proleinoid The scientists called it "pro- teinoid," which they said was "suggestive" of the proteins found in living cells. But they refused to call it protein out right. The researchers were Sid Operate, Log shortages, particularly because of snow in the higher logging regions, were respon sible for many of the mill closures. Olson-Ross Lumber mill, Camp White, will start two shifts Monday, April 21, ac cording to Frank Martin, of fice manager. About 75 men will go back to work there. The company's Prospect mill, which resumed operations Monday,, also employs about 75 men. Except for the planing mill, the company operations closed down April '1, because con tract loggers were unable to get in to the woods. The plan ing mill hires about 100 men. Total pay roll for the Olson- Ross company is 1V4 million dollars, the spokesman added. He asked that all employees who have not been notified to report back to work on their regular shifts. 70 More Days of School Recommended Salem (IP! Increasing the minimum number of school days for Oregon students from 170 to-180 was recommended here today by a professional committee for the study of school standards. The group recommended the 10-day increase over whelmingly despite objections from educators in areas where crop harvesting requires stu dent help. Indonesia Loyalists Say Padang Captured Singapore IIP) The Jakar ta government today an nounced capture of the rebel metropolis of Padang in an amphibious attack and indi cated its land forces were closing in on the rebel capi tal of Bukittinggi. ney w. iox, Kaoro Harada and Allen Vegotsky. Their re port was presented Thursday to the American Chemical Society. They are careful not to claim they had created life in a test tube. They said they be lieved they had "duplicated the chemical steps that led to the creation of the first living matter." Significant Clue Their work may give a sig nificant clue as to how life was evolved on earth eons ago. In making proteinoid, the researchers went about their task much as may have hap Clefts Cascade Tunnel Poked Through For Talent Job Emigrant Dam Work To Start in Summer The Cascade divide tunnel, one of the features of the Greensprings power plant conduit, was "holed through" at 6:45 a.m. today, according to F. J. O'Connor, office en gineer of the Bureau of Rec lamation office at Camp White. Work started on the. tunnel Dec. 30, 1957 as part of the Talent division, Rogue River basin power and irrigation project, O'Connor said. The conduit will carry water to the Green Springs power plant and to Emigrant lake for irrigation purposes. The tunnel will be six-foot in diameter and 2100 feet long, when completed. It passes under the Cascade di vide where Highway 66 to Klamath Falls crosses the mountain, according to O'Con nor. Contractor for the work is Cheney-Cherf and associates, Seattle, Wash. Sub-contract ors, doing the actual work, is A. J. Cheff Construction com pany, Seattle. The work is being handled for the Bureau of Reclamation by J. A. Callan, construction engineer, Medford. Work is continuing on num erous other ieamres oi xne Talent division project such as the Howard Prairie deliv ery canal, Howard Prairie dam and the Green Springs power plant, O'Connor said. Work will start early this summer on Emigrant dam, the extension of the Ashland lat eral and collection canals, tributary to Howard Prairie reservoir, he added. 50 at Breakfast For Warren Gill About 50 persons attended a no-host breakfast today at the Jackson hotel at which Sen. Warren ' Gill, Lebanon, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor was speaker. Senator Gill spoke mainly on his tax program proposal which favors a sales tax to offset direct property tax. He pointed out that he believes property taxes discourage and penalize private ownership of property, which he explained, is the foundation of our form of government. Ownership of property is the principal difference be tween our system of govern ment and that of Russia. Senator Gill also pointed up the rate of increase in state expenses in 10 years and said the only way reyenue can be secured to continue the normal increase will be either through increase in in come taxes or property taxes He also said an economy pro gram in the state government could not cut costs enough to allow for tax reductions, Senator Gill left at noon to day. He was accompanied by Mrs. Gill. Washington OP) Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.), has announced today that Oregon will receive $1,165,000 out of a new Forestry department allocation of $5,000,914 for timber access road construe tion. Well on Test Tube pened on earth. They took simple organic chemicals and made amino acids, the so called building blocks of na ture. Next, they combined amino acids into complex organic compounds called peptides. And finally, they exposed peptides under a blanket of carbon dioxide gas to heats ranging from 80 to 200 de grees centigrade. The result was proteinoid. The next step, presumably, is to see if they can produce even more complex forms of life in the laboratory. The re searchers refused to even guess at 'their chances. White House Says Russian Charge Has No Truth President Discusses Cha rge With Cabinet Washington OP) The Stale Department today reassured the world that U.S. H-bombers are sent aloft under a "foolproof system which "could not possibly be the accidental cause of war." Washington (IP) The White House today branded . as "not true" a Russian charge that U.S. H-bbmber flights are provocative and endanger world peace.. The charge was made by Soviet Foreign Min ister Andrei Gromyko. In reply, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty told reporters simply: Mr. Gromyko's statements are not true and there will be a statement shortly on this from the State Department." Discussed by Cabinet Hagerty did not elaborate. He said President Eisen hower discussed the Gromyko charge with acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles at this morning's cabinet session. Hagerty said the President also talked for about 20 min utes privately this morning with Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Hagerty said he did not' know whether their dis cussion dealt with the Gro myko statement or other mat ters. Not Justified Earlier, Assistant Defense Secretary Murray Snyder said the facts do not justify Gro myko's charge about the Stra tegic Air Command's alert system. Snyder said the system was "accurately and correctly" de scribed by President Frank H. Bartholomew of the United Press in a dispatch April 7. Thedispatch was cleared witS the Defense Department, Sny der said. Gromyko cited Bartholo mew's dispatch as the basis for his protest. Snyder said, "any news story on which such a protest is based was not based on our briefing as given to . Mr, Bartholomew and as reported by him." Hatfield Chances Liked by Smith Portland OPI Former Gov. Elmo Smith said today Sec retary of State Mark Hatfield has "the best chance for vic tory in the November general election" among the six can didates for the - Republican nomination for governor. Smith spoke at a luncheon of Portland businessmen. "Republicans who hope to vote for the next governor of Oregon had better take a realistic view of the lead ing candidates for that posi tion on the Republican pri mary ballot," he said. "Mark Hatfield has the greatest ar ray of qualifications for this office." ' Smith said he had served in government with all the candidates who have govern ment experience and has known them personally for many years. He said that, be yond differences in campaign commitments, they are all friends of his. However, Hat field has an aggressive appeal that will carry a Republican ticket to victory, he said. Voters Forum Set For Church Here The third Voters' Forum has been planned by Medford Congregational church for Monday, April 21, at ' the church, 300 Oakwood drive, at 8 p.m. Candidates for coun ty offices and those for the non-partisan office of circuit judge have been invited to speak briefly. i Mrs.; Ivan Burton will act as moderator, and those in the audience will be given, an opportunity to question the candidates. The public is invited to at tend. DOW -JONES AVERAGES New York W Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 . industrials 449.31, up 4:22; 20 rails 11.18. up 0.63; 15 utilities 76.36. up 0.35; 65 stocks 155.41. up 1.20. Sales today were about 2, 700,000 compared with 2. 500,000 Thuriday. 53rd Year Medford 22 Pages MEDFORD, Lumbermen Said Diverting Shipments To Protest Yreka, Calif. OP) Angry lumbermen were reported Thursday to be boycotting the Southern Pacific Railroad over a change in freight rates. Michael J. Hennessy, Secre tary of the Siskiyou County Lumber Manufacturers asso ciation at Yreka, said he un derstood individual operators were diverting shipments to other railroads. . The protest was said to have started at Areata two !H Brings Queries A brilliant white light in the sky near Roxy Ann butte about 8:30 p.m. yestreday at tracted the attention of many valley residents and caused a flurry of inquiring telephone calls to the Medford airport tower, according to Tower Op erator George Johnson. Some believed it Was a burning earth satellite, an, in vading space ship or a meteor. However, the light turned out to be a common magnesium flare which wasxbeing tested by a Mercy Flights airplane. The light hung in the sky for about five minutes, ac cording to eyewitnesses, and was so bright that the trees on Roxy Ann and houses be low were plainly defined. The flare, which was from the original pack that came with one of the Mercy Flights twin-engine Beechcraft, is the kind used to light up emer gency landing strips at night, according to pilot Bill Rosen balm. The test was conduct ed to see if flares would still provide adequate light for an emergency night landing, Rosebalm said. ZhukoY Retired, Russia Declares Moscow (IP) Former So viet Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov has retired and now has no military duties, it was revealed today. A lecturer at the Polytech- nical Museum in Moscow dis closed that Zhukov "has been retired and has no military duties any more." Zhukov was ousted as de fense minister last November. Since then his occupation has been a mystery. The lecturer made the state ment- Thursday night follow ing a lecture on Soviet for eign policy in response to a question from the audience. Two Day Show Set By Welding Company A two-day show by the Indair-avan Welding company will be heid at the Industrial Air Products company on May 23 and 24. Demonstrations in welding and cutting will be made. The event will give Medford weld ing tradesmen an opportunity to see factory specialists demonstrate automatic and semi-automatic welding and cutting. Show hours have been set at 2 to 9 p.m. each day. Brilliant Light OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL SP Rates days ago after the SP an nounced a proposed revision which would equalize rates to Los Angeles from Oregon and Northern California points. Siskiyou county lumbermen returning from a meeting at Redding quoted Humboldt county operators as saying 100 cars had been rerouted in that county. x A meeting between North ern California lumbermen and SP officials was sched uled for San Francisco Satur- Portland IP) Southern Pacific railroad today filed its proposed lower lumber haul ing rates with the Interstate Commerce Commission, ask ing that they be made effect ive May 21. The lowered rates between Oregon, California and Ari zona were approved earlier by SP and would amount to about 30 per cent reductions in some areas, according . to E. C Ordway, district freight manager here. SP officials here had no comment on a protest move ment started in northern Cali fornia in opposition to the cuts. A group of northern California lumbermen said the lowered rates would bene fit Oregon shippers to the detriment of the industry in northern California. Deficit of Over $3 Billion Seen Washington OP) Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson today forecast a federal de ficit of "well over" $3 billion for the fiscal year ending in June. Anderson also saw the pos sibility of an $8 billion defi cit in the next fiscal year, be ginning July 1, if government revenues do not increase. Anderson also continued his campaign against abrupt tax reduction in a speech be fore the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Nixon Strategist For Ike's Defense Plan Washington UP) The battle for President Eisen hower's defense reorganiza tion plan has opened on Capi tal Hill with Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the role of a key strategist. Nixon, it was learned, was actively working for the plan among members of both House and Senate. Scaffered Heating Occurs in District Scattered orchard heating occurred early this morning when temperatures dropped as low as 29 degrees in the colder stops. The official low recorded at the weather bu reau was 33 degrees. Both bartlett and D'Anjou pears require heating at 30 degrees, according to County Horticultural Agent Don Berry. Seattle (IP) Boeing Air plane Co. has been awarded a $202,866,300 Air Force con tract for 130 additional KC- 135 A multi-purpose jet tank er-transport planes. Price 10 Cents Tribune 18, 1958 No. 24 Defense Planning To Build Two New Missile Bases Omaha, Spokane Sites Selected Washington OP) The De fense Department announced today plans to build two more launching bases for 5,000-mile intercontinental ballistic mis siles, near Omaha, Neb., and Spokane, Wash. Work on the launching sites will begin this summer or early fall at a cost of $25 million each. Base in Wyoming The launching sites.will be at Offut Air Force Base, Headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, in Nebraska, and at Spokane's Fairchild Air Force Base. The nation's first tactical ICBM will be at Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. In addition, the Camp Cooke, Calif., training center will be capable of launching ICBMs in wartime. The Defense Department refused to say whether Atlas or Titan ICBMs would be based at the new sites. The 100-ton Atlas, which can carry a nydrogen war-neaa o.ouu miles in 30 minutes, is sched uled to become available for combat by December of next year. Titan Due Year Later The Titan, expected to have a greater range and nuclear Davload than the Atlas, is expected to become opera tional about a year later. The Pentagon said that about 750 men will be as signed in support and to oper ate each of the two new bases. Progress Doubted in Pre-Summit Talks Moscow (IP) The first round of pre-summit ambassa dorial talks ended today with out apparent progress toward setting up an Eisenhower- Khrushchev conference. French Ambassador Mau rice Dejean met today with Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko and announced as ne lett: xne real taiKs have not begun." Dejean was the last of three Western envoys to see Gromyko. British Ambassa dor Sir Patrick Reilly met with Gromyko an hour earlier than Dejean. U.S. Ambassa dor Llewellyn Thompson saw him Thursday. Observers believed this meant the pre-summit . con sultations were not proceed ing positively since the West had suggested secret diplo matic talks without publicity. Reef, Red Robin Back To Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Following His Rescue Medford firemen rescued a robin in distress this morning. They were summoned lo 828 West Second st. about 9:35 a.m. when the bird was found with its leg caught in a string and hanging from a tree. Firemen cut the string and released the robin with no injury occurring to it other than a wounded ego. Accident Cause Unknown; Sobriety Not Officers of the California Highway Patrol at Yreka have not yet determined the cause of an auto accident near Weed, Calif., Tuesday in which Elvice Holt Snow, 19, of Central Point, was killed. Snow's sports car collided with a Consolidated Freight ways truck, driven by Thomas L. Brauner, 917 Jasper st., Medford, about six miles north of Weed on Highway 99. Trucker Denies Report In a. telephone conversa tion with the Mail Tribune today, the California Highway Patrol said its report shows that there is a curve in the highway just prior to the point of collision, which oc curred on a straight-away. A United Press report of the collision, carried in the Mail Tribune Wednesday, quoted Brauner as saying Snow's car was "weaving from one side to the other" and finally swerved into the truck's lane. Brauner today denied saying the car was Other Countries Invited To Join Against Actions Gromyko Warns Of Threat To Peace Moscow" OP) Russia an nounced today it will appeal to the United Nations Security Council against U. S. H-bomb- er flights "toward the Soviet Union." Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko announced the action at a press conference. He called for "all other countries" to join the protest against "the provocative ac tions of the American Air Force." Gromyko termed these ac tions a serious threat to in ternational peace, and said the question will therefore be submitted to the security council. Gromyko said the Soviet Government has learned of flights of American bombers carrying nuclear weapons over the Arctic toward Rus sia. 'Dangerous Game' These flights, he said, "rep resent a very dangerous game with fire." An official announcement said Russia is "firmly protest ing against actions of the American Air Force which are dangerous t o the cause of peace." The statement said Russia "demands that the practice of sending bombers carrying thermo - nuclear weapons in the direction of the U.S.S.R. frontiers should stop forth with." In introducing his state ment, Gromyko referred to a "report of the American news agency United Press" which described Strategic Air Command procedure in deal ing with suspected radar tar gets. He went on to say that the Soviet government had learned of U.S. flights over the Arctic toward Russia. The United Press dispatch was written by Frank H. Bartholomew, president of the news organization. It de scribed the striking force of the U.S. Strategic Air Com mand in event of an attack on North America. Might Make Mistake Gromyko referred to ex planations by "American gen erals" that such flights are ordered whenever American radar picks up any vague shapes which observers take for guided missiles or ballis tic rockets. In peacetime, he said, sub sequent checks have showi these radar images to be elec tronic interferences or meteor ite showers. Gromyko said it is conceiv able that on some occasion the Americans will not real ize in time that the meteor they see is not a guided missile. If the American H-bombers continue their flight and ap proach the Soviet frontier, Gromyko said, "security in terests -iDuld require instant measures on the part of the U.S.S.R. to eliminate the threat to the Soviet people." Labor Conciliator For Oregon Selected Salem (IP) The newly- created post of state labor conciliator will be filled by Paul P. Tinning, who is now with the New Jersey State Board of Mediation. The position was created by the 1957 Legislature to settle labor-management disputes. Questioned weaving and the Highway Patrol's report makes no men tion of such a statement. The CHP report quotes Brauner as saying the car came onto his side of the road and he was unable to avoid the im pact, officers said. Sobriety Not Question Officers indicated they do not question Snow's sobriety at the time of the accident. Routine sobriety tests are made in all fatal accidents, but results of the test have not yet been received from the laboratory. While officers emphasized that the cause of the crash is unknown and may never be known, they said one pos sibility is that Snow's car may have struck a soft shoul der, and that he was unable to get his car under control. Another possibility, they stat ed, is that he came around the curve too fast, moved into wrong side of the road, and was unable to get into his own lane in time to avoid the collision.