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Recommended Price 10 Cents" Subscribers IVIEDFORD RIBOTE To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1230 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Do yon understand the finances of your county school system? How a bud get functions? Read the ex planation on page 14 of to day's Mail Tribune. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 68 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1958 No. 25 53rd Year i i Buoddeir in-Pres. IHIver Conference IHSalt CDaimeti Ued Aim London (IP) British For eign Minister Selwyn Lloyd charged Saturday that the Soviet Union's action in drag ging the United States before the U.N. Security council in dicates it is blocking prepara tions for an East-West Summit conference. The Security Council has been called to meet Monday jmm SIG UNANDER To Campaign Here Unander Plans Tuesday Visit And Meetings States Treasurer ' S i g Un ander will arrive in Medford Tuesday evening for a series of public meetings and ap pearances in his campaign for Republican nomination for governor, Unander's first public ap pearance . in Jackson county will be on a television panel show at lOp.m. Tuesday with Dr. Ray Casterline, Medford; Bruce Merrill, Grants Pass and Mrs. Al Littrell, Medford. A public meeting will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday at the Plaza cafe. Unander will meet with Southern Ore gon college students and fac ulty members at 11 a.m. He will be the guest of Re publican women at a public coffee hour from 3 to 4 p.m at the Jackson hotel Pioneer room. A press conference is to be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday. He wilf visit the Medford Ki wanis club as a guest of Dr. Paul T. Walker at noon and tour the Camp White dom iciliary Wednesday from 2 to 3 p m. Unander will attend the Eagle Point Future Farmers of America banquet to be held at Eagle Point school Wednes day evening to climax his visit here, those in charge reported. The candidate will visit Grants Pass and Roseburg be fore returning to Salem next week end. Ashland Men Save Drowning Driver Ashland A Hayward, . Calif, truck driver, Jimmy Lee was saved from drowning last Tuesday morning by two Ashland men, Chell L. Stod dard and Elwell Hakes, it was reported Friday, ' The two rescued Libby from Shasta lake's icy waters after the truck he was driving struck a bridge railing, veered across the highway and through a guard rail into the lake. " Julian K. Bliss, Hayward, a passenger and owner of the truck, was reported drowned. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable clouds to day with a few light showers in the mountains, cloudy with a little light rain Monday, high today 65, low tonight 40, high Monday 0. TEMP. Highest Yesterday : 66 Lowest this Morning 48 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset .. 5:24 a.m. 6:58 p.m. Moonset 8:45 p.m. The cluster of faint stars above the Moon tonight is the Pleiades South of the Pleiades is Alde baran and in the southwest shines Slrius, the brightest star. .:A & '...'ft.-ySr I'.UVi.'.'.. V K' on Soviet H-bombers peace. charges that U.S endanger world The Soviet charges followed the publication of a dispatch by United Press President Frank H. Bartholomen detail ing defensive measures prac ticed by the U.S. Strategic Air command. Lloyd branded the Krem lin's action as "disappointing" and said it was "not a very happy augury" for a Summit conference. lie maae ms statement in a speech to a conservative party meeting at Ellesmore Port, in Cheshire, near Liver pool. He also disclosed that Rus sia "has taken the extraordin ary step" of refusing to meet with all three Western am bassadors in Moscow at the same time to discuss prepara tions for a Summit meeting. Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko met with the U.S., British and French am bassadors in Moscow separ ately Thursday and Friday, and t.loyd said Grompko re fused to see all three together. I cannot imagine how they expect business to be done in this way," said Lloyd. Now Discussing Step He said the three Western powers now are discussing their next step. v Lloyd did not deal with the substance of the Soviet H bomber charges against the United States. He said this would be done in the Security council. However, informed British sources said they could "hard- j ly imagine" that Britain would notsupport the United States. Lloyd noted that the H bomber charges were leveled by the Soviets "at that. pre-' cise moment" the West hoped pre-summit negotiations would start in Moscow. "I do not believe that it will be generally considered to throw a favorable light on the willingness to make pro gress with preparations for a conference," he said. ,. In other capitals'" there was heavy condemnation of the Soviet charges and consider able speculation on the tim ing of them. Some Western experts on Soviet affairs saw the Soviet move as an indication Nikita S. Khrushchev might be fac ing trouble at home. These observers recalled that Russia several times has countered serious internal problems by rallying the peo ple against foreign "threats." to Soviet security. They said other manifesta tions of this were a resurgence of criticism in the Sovfet press against the Molotov "anti party" group, the retirement of Soviet war hero Marshal Georgi Zhukov, new Soviet blasts at Yugoslavia's forms of communism and the "friendship" trips of Soviet leaders to Poland and Hun gary. In Rome, an Italian govern ment spokesman charged that Russia was "using the U.N. Security council for alarmistic maneuvers" while refusing to discuss disarmament under U.N. auspices. Japan had mixed feelings. While welcoming any move that would end the H-bomb threat, government sources in Tokyo said the Soviet action appeared to be more for prop aganda rather than humani tarian purposes. DeLorme Pleads To Liquor Charge Charles Darrow DeLorme, 19, of 1800 Stratford ave., pleaded innocent in district court Thursday to a charge of falsely representing his age. Judge James Main set trail for April 30. Sherif s deputies arrested the youth Thursday afternoon on a complaint signed by Ray Huson, Medford. Huson is a member of the board of the Veterans club, 42 North Front st- DeLorme was released on $25 bail. The complaint charg ed he represented his age as over 21 to secure alcoholic beverage. . Condition Noted As 'Very Good'; Resting Quietly To Be In Hospital About Two Weeks New York (IP) Former President Herbert Hoover, 83, had his gall bladder removed in a 75-minute operation Sat urday. His condition was des cribed as "very good." A medical bulletin issued at Harkness Pavilion of Co lumbia-Presbyterian Medical Center at 3:55 p.m. est, nearly seven hours after, the oper ation, said: "Mr. Hoover has fully re acted. The immediate post operative response is satis factory. His vital signs are stable: puse, 66; blood pres sure, 13570; temperature, 99, and respiration, 20. He is resting quietly. A hospital spokesrrfan said the statement indicated "his general condition is very good." One of his doctors said he probably would be in the' hospital two weeks. The spokesman said one of Hoover's doctors explained that the statement saying he had "fully reacted" meant that he was now wide awake and aware of, everything that was going on. Hoover, who will be 84 in August, entered Harkness Paavilion Thursday for tests and underwent surgery by a team of doctors from 8 to 9:15 a.m. est Saturday. The former president, who had suffered from gall blad der trouble for a numher of. years, tola his doctors just before he went to the oper ating room that he had never had an anesthetic before in his life. Hoover's sons, Herbert Hoo ver jr. and Allan Hoover were at the hospital during flew here from his Pasadena, Calif., home. Allan Hoover lives n Greenwich, Conn. "The doctors couldn't be more pleased," Herbert Jr. said after, seeing his father. "They said my father's reac tion was as if he were a man 20 years old." Said Amazing "He certainly is amazing," the younger Hoover said. "A f ewN weeks ago he had read proofs of five different books back from the printers and he was working on them be fore he went to the hospital." Allan Hoover said the op eration had not been an emer gency and his father had not had an attack just before go ing to the hospital. "He and his doctors just decided that this was a good time to attend to it, and they did," he said. "I have talked to the doc tors, and they say that ev erything is as it should be. I imagine that with this par ticular group of doctorsit's a routine operation. "His gall bladder has been bothering him for many years but he has never had an op eration, and on the advice of his doctors, they decided this time to terminate this condi tion." Young GOP Club Plans Meeting A meeting of the Jackson County Young Republican club will be held Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Lincoln school gym, 608 North Bartlett st. Committees are to be ap pointed. Anyone interested in join ing the group is invited, ac cording to Jack Foster, board member. The purpose of the Young Republican movement, Fos ter said, is "to provide a ve hicle through which young people who are interested in good government under Re publican principles and can didates, will be informed citi zens, and which will provide a training ground for future political leadership." Aden (IP) Two British sailors from a visiting ship were seriously injured when a bomb was thrown at them in the main shopping area of Aden Saturday night. SEN. WAYNE MORSE To Address Democrats Morse Coming For Dinner Here Saturday, May 3 Senator Wayne L. Morse has accepted an invitation from the local Democratic committee to be guest speak er at the eighth annual Roose velt Memorial dinner to be held Saturday evening, May 3, at McLoughlin Junior High school, according to General Chairman Robert A. Boyer. Senator Morse said he would "gladly pinch hit for Gov. Robert D. Holmes," the originally scheduled speaker. A staff member had previous ly committed Gov. Holmes to a major appearance in Portland for the same date. . . Morse said, "I am honored to again be speaker at your famous dinner and to pinch hit for Gov. Robert D. Holmes." In the meantime, Governor Holmes, informed of the con flict in his schedule, wired the committee: "I hope you know how un happy I am about the decision reached relative to my being in Portland rather than at your great memorial dinner . . . Wayne is such a dynamic speaker that I am sure he 'will draw a wonderful crowd . . . I only wish I could be in two places at once. Thank you all for your kindness and under standing." .The approaching Oregon centennial celebration will be heralded at the dinner in both entertainment and . decora tions. Chairman of the Ore ,gon Centennial commission and other state ; dignitaries have been invited to the din ner by Mrs. Moore Hamilton, arrangements chairman. Tickets are ' now available at Lamports and Walt Young's stores and by mem bers of the committee, headed by Stan Zapell. The public is invited to the dinner. Woman Cyclist Dies Saturday Mrs. Avis Frances Hotch kiss, 95, of Medford, who with her daughter, was one of the 'first women to cross the United States by motorcycle, died in a local hospital Satur day morning. She and her daughter, then Miss Effie N.' Hotchkiss, Brooklyn, N. Y., drove across the American continent frorrj Brooklyn to San Francisco in a three-speed twin cylinder motorcycle and sidecar. On April 11, 1946, when 85 years old, Mrs. Hotchkiss took her first airplane ride over the Klamath Falls area. Mrs. Hotchkiss was born Feb. 6, 1863 in Providence, R. I. She was married in Brooklyn in 1880 to Fred erick Hotchkiss. He died over 58 years ago in New York. She helped, operate the Klamath River store in Keno for 20 years. She came west from Brooklyn to Adin in 1917. She lived in Klamath Falls then in Medford for 10 years. Survivors include a son, Everett Hotchkiss, Medford; two daughters, Avis Baster, Florida, and Effie Terpening, Roseburg; five grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. Medford Girl Reports Assault A 16-year-old Medford girl reported to Medford police Saturday about 6:30 p.m. an unidentified man attempted to assault her on South Cen tral ave., near Beatty st. Police said the girl told them she broke away from his grasp and ran to the po lice station. Police are investigating. Recreation Area Responsibility Given To County Wendt Says County Not Yet Advised Portland (IP) The O and C Advisory Board here Friday endorsed a proposal that the Jackson county court assume responsibility for develop ment of recreational facilities on the shores of Howard Prairie reservoir in the Tal ent project. ( Howard Prairie is about 20 miles east of Ashland. The board pointed out that Jack son county could lease the shoreline from the Bureau of Land Management at a nom inal fee and then be eligible for some $150,000 the Bureau of Reclamation has available for recreational development within the project. Ben Day, Gold Hill, a mem ber of the Board, was dele gated to discuss the proposi tion with the Jackson county court. Members of the Jackspn county court were not advised of this proposal, County Com missioner Chester Wendt, said Saturday night. Now that the offer has been made the court members will convene at an early date to discuss the pro posal, he said. No previous serious discussion has been made by court members in reference to making use of the recreational facilities on the shores of Howard Prairie reservoir, Wendt pointed out. In other business before the Board, the staff of the BLM reported that plans are being drawn for 6346 miles of tim ber access roads in a program calling for 12,623 miles of roads that would give almost complete coverage of the two million acres of O and C tim- berlands. Seek Expansion Of TV Facilities Grants Pass" Applications were forwarded to the Feder al communications commis sion last week for permission to install two television trans lators on Mt. Baldy. . They are sought by station KBES-TV to improve and ex pand service in the Grants Pass area, according to Jerry Poulos, local manager. The translators would bring two netwdrks to Grants Pass from KBES and KOTI in Klamath - Falls. Translator equipment also is planned in Medford to extend KOTI cov erage. A translator is already in operation on Eight Dollar mountain to serve Cave Junc tion and Illinois valley. Date of the installations will depend on the length of time required for FCC ap proval. Santiago, Chile (IP) The state . Statistical ' Bureau said Saturday the Chilean popula tion as of last Dec. 31 was 7,-211,331. PRECARIOUS PERCH The big Tucker Sno-Cat shown above has been purchased back by the local company from the Ant arctic expedition, for display in this coun try, it was announced today by E. M. Tuck er, president of the firm and designer of the unique over-snow vehicles, j The picture, above was taken just after the Sno-Cat had straddled a hidden crevasse and, due to the light pontoon design, stayed at the surface rather than plunging into the gulf below. The machine was pulled out of the crevasse TY 111 'We Defend Your Anti-U.S. Sweeping Paris HP) A wave of anti-American feeling swept France Saturday following reports the United States fa vors direct peace talks be tween France and the Alger ian rebels. The reports were denied by the U.S. State Department, but many Frenchmen took them as proof the Eisenhow er administration has decided to intervene directly in France's 3V2 year war in Al geria. France has always argued the Algerian "war is a strictly domestic problem. Bitter press comment Saturday' indi cated that policy will con tinue. - ' . ' - "The interference on Am erica's part ' is patent," said the Leftist - organ Combat, a consistent critic of U. S. for eign policy. The right wing Parisien Libere, an outspoken foe of the Anglo-American "good of fices" mission in the Tunisian crisis, said U. S. "interven tion" was "more brutal and Hospital To Hold Opening April 26 Formal dedication for the new Rogue Valley hospital will be held at 2 p.m. Sat urday, April 26, a spokes man said. Immediately follow i n g the - dedication, an open house will be held with conducted tours by the med ical staff members, the Rogue Valley hospital aux iliary and the founders' group. Sunday, April 27. an open house will be held through! the day with guid ed lours. backwards by tying it with cables to the three other Sno-Cats which were following behind, Tucker said. The crew of the ve hicle eased themselves out the rear hatch. The four Sno-Cats completed the entire trip across the Antarctic continent. Tucker said the machine is being shipped from Auck land, New Zealand, on April 23, and should arrive in this country about three weeks later. He said it will be on display after it arrives at the First National bank building in Medford. Honor, Madame" Feeling France more nadmissible than ever." The sole exception to the display of anti-Americanism was the Conservative Figaro, a staunch friend of the United States and the Atlantic Pact. Figaro noted acting Secre tary of State Christian Herter had denied the reports of an American policy shift. It add ed this "cuts short all rumors." In spite of Herter's declara tion, however, the reports of U.S. support for French-Algerian negotiations were gen erally believed here. J Missile Blows Up During Launching Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IP) A Thor missile of the" type that may give a U. S. rocket its first boost to the moon blew up on the launching stand Saturday in a fiery, earth-shaking explosion. Air Force officials at the guided missile test center re ported no personnel were in iured and that damage to the launching gear appeared to be "superficial." The official announcement said only that "technical difficulties" caused the explosion. Scientists now are working on a combination rocket to shoot at the moon. The plans call for using the Thor as the first stage and the Navy's Vanguard satellite - launcher as . a second stage. . However, the Thor that ex ploded Saturday was not be lieved to have been part of the moon rocket experiment tentatively planned for late summer. Streets, Get Largest Part A city of Medford preliminary budget totaling $2,004,354 for the 1958-59 fiscal year has been prepared and was pre sented to city councilmen and budget committee members last week. The biggest expenditure proposed is for street and sani tation services, totaling $823,485, or 41.1 per cent of the total. Second largest segment of the budget will go for protection to persons and property (including police and fire depart ments), totaling $493,247, or 24.6 per cent of the total. Other segments will include bond redemption and inter est, $256,776, or 12.8 per cent; general government services, $178,817, or 8.9 per cent; utilities, $132,122, or 6.6 per cent, cultural and recreational services, $115,657, or 5.8 per cent, and health services, $4,250, or .2 per cent. Less than half of the total, 43.7 per cent, will come from property and franchise taxes, a total of $875,974. Revenue from other agencies will ac count for 14.3 per cent of the budget as proposed, and the balance will come from li censes and permits, fines, rev enues from rentals, charges for services, utility income, and miscellaneous revenues. Will Be Studied The budget will be studied by the budget committee, in cluding members of the coun cil, which will make any necessary revisions before it is finally approved. No elec tion to approve the budget will be necessary, for it is within the 6 per cent limita tion on increases. . The budget is divided into nine funds, including general, which includes most of . the general operating serviced of the city, fire maintenance, state tax street fund, library fund, park and swimming pool fund, sewage treatment plant fund, bond proceeds and construction funds, bond sinking funds, and special as sessment funds. . Most of these funds are en tirely or in part self-support ing, while others received their money through trans fers from other funds. The general fund budget, totaling S792.960 is the "heart" of the budget, repre senting most of the day-to-day operations of the city, while the others generally repre sent continuing payments on obligations incurred previous ly such things as bond is sues and continuing levies for specific purposes. Property taxes to support the city will total an estl- Plan Recreation For Medford Area Members of the newly formed Medford subcommit tee on recreation were in structed to prepare a list of possible suggestions and so lutions for Medford's recrea tion program at their first meeting on Friday noon, by chairman -Dick Knight. Mayor John Snider gave the group a brief talk on what their duties would be and listed several possible improvements which have come to his office. Snider said the purpose of the committee would be to furnish the city manager and city council with possible solutions of improv ing Medford's recreation pro gram. Snider listed a junior achievement program, an ad ditional swimming pool in northwest Medford, use of the Camp Whie land owned by the city for several develop ments, improvements of Pres cott park and a suggestion by teenagers for construction of a structure which could be used for all types of outdoor events. Snideu said the recreation improvements must be made to include all ages of resi dents. The next meeting of the group will be on Tues day, April 29, at Hawthorne park, where a box lunch will be held. The group plans to look over park facilities while on the "outing," ac cording to the mayor. Meeting Scheduled For National Guard The next meeting of the Headquarters' company of the Medford National guard unit will be on Monday, April 21, at 8. p.m., according to Capt. S. J. Fagone, commander of the unit. He said a meeting would also be held on Mon day, April 28, as announced earlier. Sev, mated $820,527 for the com ing year. Segregated by spe cial funds, the property tax levies will total: General fund, $323,139; fire maintenance fund, $99, 385; Park and swimming pool', $24,846; general bond sink ing fund, $117,382; water bond sinking fund, $45,675; arterial street fund, $143,600: sanitary sewer fund, $19,000, and storm sewer fund, $47,- auu. The last three were set up as a result of the election in 1956 which approved work on these three capital improve ment projects. The general fund budget, totaling $792,960, is $36,379 smaller than last year's final budget request of $829,339, due in part to elimination of a $50,000 sum for off-street parking purposes. City Manager Robert Duff said no general increase in employee's salaries is pro posed, and with few excep tions, the budget reflects only changes under the merit sys tem of the city's compensa tion plan, . . . . - - The proposed total of the city levy is more than last year's due to an increase of $61,6129 in the general bond sinking fund, he said. The 1957-58 general bond fund levy was $55,753 compared to $117,382 in this year's pro posed levy. In 1957-58 ac cumulated surplus in the fund was utilized to reduce the levy but they do not exist this year, he explained. Proposed general fund ex penditures for the 1958-59 year, compared with the final 1957-58 budget figure, and amount of increase or de crease, are: Mayor and council, $3,690 proposed, $2,665 this year, an increase of $1,025; city court, $2,856 proposed, $2,520 this year, an increase of $336; planning commission, $10,270 proposed, $9,106 this year, an increase of $1,164; city man ager's office, $31,586 pro posed, $31,000 this year, an increase of $585; finance de partment, $27,346 proposed, $25,315 this year, an increase of. $2,031. Increase in Legal Dept. Legal department, $12,541 proposed, $12,014 this year, an increase of $527; purchas ing department, $5,305 pro posed, $2,040 this year, an in crease of $3,265; city hall. $15,064 proposed, $15,112 this year, a decrease of $48; non and inter-departmental, $70,- 639 proposed, $74,486 this year, a decrease of $3,847; li brary department, transfer, $25,964 proposed, $28,245 this year, a decrease of $2,281. : Park and swimming pool. transfer, $6,229 proposed, $2,421 this year, an increase of $3,808; building depart ment, $29,785 proposed, $30,- 722 this year, a decrease of $937; civil defense division, $3,732 proposed, $1,500 this year, an increase of $2,232; fire department, transfer, $82,391 proposed, $87,933 this year, a decrease of $5,542; police department, $240,303 proposed, $217,884 this year, an increase of $22,419. Health division, $4,250 pro posed, $4,250 this year, no change; engineering division, $85,597 proposed, $89,438 this year, a decrease of $3,841; sanitation division, $43,055 proposed, $59,798 this year, a decrease of $16,743; sewage treatment division, transfer, $23,859 proposed, $18,479 this year, an increase of $5,380. Traffic division, $38,459 proposed, $36,348 this year, an increase of $2,111; off street parking, nothing pro posed, $50,000 this year, a decrease of $50,000; airport department, $30,039'proposed, $28,063 this year, an increase of $1,976.
