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Given Honor as
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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)
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light rain. Showers Saturday,
clearing by evening. Low to
night 33. High Saturday 63.
Temp.
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Lowest this Morning 35
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Sunset
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New Moon 7:Z3 p.m.
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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)
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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.