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Would Be a
Fourteen Students
To Participate in
YMCA Program
Fourteen Medford students
will leave tomorrow for the
annual YMCA Youth and
Government program in
Salem.
Sponsored by the Pacific
Northwest Area Council of
YMCA's, Youth and Govern-
Paratroopers Die
In Windy Jump
' Ft. Campbell, Ky. (IP)
Five paratroopers were killed
and an unknown number in
jured today during a mass
paradrop in high winds, of
ficials said.
The public information of
fice said most -of the- deaths ,
apparently were caused by
Vio winH Hracrcrint trip nara-
w -00 O " c
troopers along the ground
after they landed. .
"I personally saw no mal
functions of parachutes," said
Maj. L. A. Breault, informa
tion officer.
Breault was in the drop
zone.
The mass drop involved
about 1,300 men and tons of
equipment. It was part of op
eration "Eagle Wing," a prac
tice war . game in which the
101st Airborne Division is
taking part.
Officials said the wind was
"within allowable safety reg
ulations" when the drop be
gan. Officials said an "unknown
number" of paratroopers
were injured. The drop zone
was being searched to see if
there were any other casual
ties. The men jumped from C119
planes, Breault said.
The whole operation in
volved 86 carrier aircraft.
lake Road May Be
Open by May 15
Probable date for opening
the Lake V the Woods rd.
will be May 15, Klamath
county officials told the
Jackson county court yester
day afternoon.
The lake is now covered
with three feet of ice and the
area has 42 inches of snow,
the Klamath county officials
reported.
Salem (IP) The Oregon
Supreme Court has affirmed
a Multnomah County Circuit
Court decree restraining the
American Newspaper Guild
from forcing the Oregon
Journal to break its dealer
ship contracts.
Deported Finn Free To Return To
U.S. Unless Hold Orders Received
Helsinki (IP) The U.S.
Embassy here said today Wil
liam Heikkila, Finnish-born
draftsman deported from the
U. S. for past Communist ac
tivities, was free to fly home
Thursday unless Washington
specifically orders his return
held up.
To Catch Flight
A consular official said
Heikkila couTd leave without
waiting for specific instruc
tions from the U.S. govern
ment. "He can leave unless we
get orders from Washington
to hold him back," the official
said.
The step was taken to let
Heikkila catch an early morn
ing Finn-air flight to London
Tragic Mistake"
J7i i . n ""ry
ment provides Oregon boys
and girls with an opportunity
to learn processes of govern
ment by actual participation.
The delegation from Med
ford will represent three
YMCA clubs. They are Kappa
Tri Hi-Y, Theata Rho Iota
Tri Hi-Y and Rogue Hi-Y.
Four members will assume
duties as offioers at the legisl
ative sessions. They are Miss
Joyce Gilinky, senate read
ing .clerk; Miss Joan Laurila,
reporter; Larry Anderson,
legislative committee chair
man, and Miss Dwanda Win
chell, legislative committee
chairman.
Other Delegates
Other delegates are Miss
Caron Leffler, Miss Sandra
Mason Miss Sylvia Baker,
Dale Foresee, Harold Sexton.
Ronnie Miller, Miss Barbara
Risner, Miss , Karen Sloniger,
Miss Barbara Stamper, and
Miss Marion Elkins.
The purpose of the Youth
and Government program is
to acquaint youth with the
methods by which public
policy is determined.
The Medford clubs will be
participating with other
Y and Tri Hi-Y clubs, from
throughout Oregon. Each club
has submitted a bill and will
process it through the regular
legislative "channels."
Lodging In Homes
All delegates- will be given
lodging in homes of Salem
citizens. The sessions will be
held all day Friday and Satur
day. One of the highlights of
the program is the Governors
ball Friday night with a queen
and king coronation.
All funds for the event
have been raised by the clubs
through fund raising projects.
Housewives Join
Boycott of Fresh
Meats in Portland
Portland rP) Effec
tive Thursday morning,
Portland housewives will
join their southern Califor
nia sisters in an organized
boycott of fresh meats un
til the prices drop.
When Mrs. George Ad
ams learned of the fresh
meat boycott in southern
California she immediately
launched a campaign of her
own by telephone and re
ports 'that the movement is
snowballing. Each house
wife contacted agrees to
tell her friends and urge
that no fresh meats be pur
chased until the slacken
ing demand . forces the
prices down.
to connect with a Pan-American
Polar flight leaving
Thursday direct to San Fran
cisco. He was expected to ar
rive in San Francisco at 10:30
a.m. Friday.
The consulate had not re
ceived official instructions as
to what help it could give him
but it expected authorization
to advance him $11 a day for
expenses until his return.
Still Finnish Citizen
Heikkila was followed by
newsmen and photographers
from his hotel to the Finnish
police passport office and
after that ' to the consulate.
He still holds Finnish citizen
ship. Heikkila, 52, was over
joyed when he was told U.S.
authorities have decided they
Cost of Living
Reaches Another
All-Time Record
Food Prices Push
Cost Index Ahead
Washington (IP) Living
costs hit another all-time high
in March, the government je-
portea today.
The Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics reported that record
high food prices pushed liv
ing costs ahead by seven-
tenths of 1 per cent during
March.
The bureau said it was the
largest monthly advance in
the consumer price index
since July,' 1956.
Soaring costs of fresh fruits,
vegetables, meats and eggs
San Francisco (IP) West
Coast housewives found
food prices at a new all
time high during March, it
was announced today by
the U. S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
Increases ranged from 1.6
per cent for March over
February in Los Angeles to
' 1.4 per cent in Seattle and
1 per cent in Portland.
The rises were caused by
higher prices for meats and
fresh produce, the bureau
said.
pushed the indent to 123.3 (the
1947-49 average equals 1.00).
That was 3.7 per cent higher
than a year ago.
Wages To Be Increased
More than a million work
ers whose wages are tied by
contract to the government
index will receive pay boosts
up to 4 cents an hour.
About 750,000 railroad
workers will receive increases
of 4 cents an hour. Another
150,000 employees in General
Electric and Sylvania plants
will get increases of IV2 per
cent. Other workers will re
ceive 2 to 3 cents more an
hour raises in the chemical,
metal working and transit in
dustries.
Recession Worse
The index hit a new record
in the very month that the
business recession got worse,
with unemployment reaching
the highest level since World
War II.
Ewan Clague, commissioner
of labor . statistics, said food
prices should begin levelling
off in May and June.
. Government officials con
tended it's not unprecedented
for prices to go up while the
economy is on the skids. They
pointed out food prices are
governed - largely by supply
and demand. When crops are
ruined by storms and freezes
it costs more to visit the super-market.
Roofing Contract
Let by County
A contract for roofing the
extension to the county shops
was awarded - Ace Roofing
company, Medford, at a bid
price of $644 his morning, the
Jackson county court re
ported. .
Ace Roofing company was
low bidder. Ekerson Roofing
and Paint store, Medford, was
the only other bidder at $728.
In other business, the
county court signed an order
taking three . roads in the
Parkview subdivision into the
county road system. The
roads, located west of Central
Point, are Carlton ave., Sun
land ave., and Tulane ave.
They have been graded,
drained and surfaced at the
expense of abutting property
owners under the county en
gineer's specifications, County
Commissioner Chester Wendt
said. They will be maintained
by the county roads depart
ment. were wrong to deport him so
swiftly because of his past
Communist associations.
"This is the most wonder
ful thing that ever, happened
to me in my life," he said.
Arrives Without Baggage
The deported Finn arrived
here by air Tuesday night,
hatless, coatless and without
baggage in freezing weather.
He checked in at a hotel while
he pondered his future in a
strange country whose lan
guage he does not speak. He
was born in Finland but left
the country at the age of 10
weeks.
In San Francisco his wife,
Phyllis, 38, said she was
"elated" at news her husband
would be returned to San
Francisco.
NORBLAD DIRECTED HITCHCOCK MAILING; UNAWARE OF LAW
Salem mU. S. Rep. Wal
ter Norblad has telegraphed
his headquarters here that he
directed the mailing of cam
paign material that drew pro
tests from his GOP opponent,
Phil Hitchcock of Oswego.
The Marion county district
attorney's office said it was
investigating Hit ch co ck's
Local Candidate
Seeks Opinion on
Weather Forecast
Carlos Morris, local morti
cian and candidate for county
coroner, is awaiting an opin
ion on whether or not his
weather forecast program on
KBES-TV can be considered
a political broadcast, he said
this morning.
He was notified by the tele
vision station that the Feder
al Communications' commis
sion has ruled his program is
a political broadcast. The FCC
regulation states that when
ever a political candidate ap
pears before a microphone
that broadcast constitutes a
political broadcast. . .
Limited Expenses
Morris explained that he is
limited to $250 in campaign
expenditures by state law.
That means that he must drop
his daily program, costing
about $60 a night, if a broad
er interpretation cannot be
applied.
Through County Clerk Ber-
eth P. Hopkins, he has re
quested ,the elections divis
ion of the secretary of state's
office in Salem to look into
the matter. The secretary of
state's office will probably
request a ruling from the
state attorney general's office,
Mrs. Hopkins explained this
morning.
Morris said this morning
that he has had the program
for four years so doesn't see
how it would be a political
broadcast. No political cam
paigning is done on it. The
weather broadcast is a public
service, he added.
Mrs. Slaferi Given
Until May 2 to Plead
Mrs. Rosemary Slaten, 33,
Gold Hill, has been given un
til May 2 to enter her plea
to charges of larceny by em
bezzlement, according to the
Jackson county district at
torney's office.
Her attorney, A. E. Piazza,
had requested more time in
which to make his investiga
tion into the charges. Mrs.
Slaten appeared in circuit
court this morning.
The Gold Hill woman is
charged with embezzling
$12,000 allegedly taken from
the Rogue Valley Physician's
service. '
She had been granted more
time previously in which to
enter her plea. She was re
leased ' earlier this month
from Sacred Heart hospital
where she had been taken
after being found unconscious
in her home April 2.
Pumice Hopes High
On Indian Land
Klamath Falls (IP) A rich
source of new income may
have been discovered for the
Klamath Indians on the reser
vation north of here.
The Cascade Block com
pany of Grants Pass submit
ted a firm bid of 10 cents per
cubic yard for pumice, depos
its on the reservation. Geolo
gists estimated roughly that
at that rate the Indian pumice
beds would be worth about
$600 million.
A recent appraisal of In
dian resources by the Federal
government did not take min
eral deposits into considera
tion. A spokesman for manage
ment specialists said that if
mining of pumice should
prove commercially feasible
it could have a - significant
effect on present termination
proceedings before Congress.
24 Rescued As
Fishing Boat Sinks
New Orleans (IP) The
Coast Guard said a 123-foot
fishing vessel sank today,, in
choppy gulf of Mexico waters.
All 24 fishermen aboard were
rescued in two separate opera
tions. DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York TO Dow
Jones final stock averages:
30 industrials 450.11. up
0.56; 20 railroads 109.66, off
1.10; 15 utilities 76.59, up
0.16, and 65 stocks 155.53,
off 0.11. Sales today were
about 2,720,000 shares com
pared with 2,440,000 shares
Tuesday.
complaint to see if there was
any ground for legal action.
Hitchcock protested to Sec
retary of State Mark Hatfield
Tuesday that "anonymous
mailings" unfavorable to his
candidacy in the 1st congres
sional district were being
mailed to Marion county
Republican workers.
53rd Year
Medford.
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Cooler Weather
Eases Threat
1
Near Pendleton
By UNITED PRESS
Cooler temperatures eased
the flood danger on ; McKay
creek near Pendleton today
but at the same time brought
a return to winter-like condi
tions in parts of Oregon.
The inflow at McKay dam,
about five miles south of
Pendleton, dropped consider
ably due to less melting snow.
The cooler temperatures also
held down the swollen Uma
tilla river.
Acting Mayor Jack Howard
of Pendleton said 44 families
who evacuated their homes
in the Moritee addition area
near Pendleton were advised
not to return until McKay
creek dropped further.
Mercury Goes Down
Temperatures tipped below
freezing in eastern Oregon
during the night. Bend had a
low of 16, Redmond 22, Klam
ath Falls and Burns 26 and
Baker 32. No frost was re
. posted west -of. -the r)Cascades
in Oregon although some tem
peratures near freezing may
have occurred' in agricultural
sections at ground level, the
weather bureau said.
A cold air mass which
moved into Oregon from the
interior of western Canada
dropped the freezing level at
Salem -early today to 2,600
feet and at Medford at 3,500
feet. Continued cold tempera
tures are in prospect for Ore
gon through next Monday,
with lighter precipitation than
during the past few days fore
cast. '
Power Poles Burn
Lightning Tuesday evening
struck the Keeler-Tillamook
substation and knocked out
power service for more than
half an hour in the Vernonia-Timber-Elsie
area, Bonneville
Power Administration report
ed. The lightning strike set
fire to three wooden poles and
severed the 115,000-volt line
about IV2 miles from Tilla
mook. , "
The Santiam river at Jei
ferson had dropped half
foot from its Tuesday crest
near flood stage while the
Willamette was up slightly,
but still far under the flood
mark in the valley. The Co
lumbia river at Vancouver,
Wash., -was nearing its 15
foot flood stage with a 14.6
reading today. '
Major Crime in 1
Portland Increases
Washington P The
United States Justice Depart
ment reported today that the
number of major crimes in
Portland increased by 8.5 per
cent in 1957. The national in
crease average was 9.1 per
cent.
J. Edgar Hoover, director
of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, said 11,637 major
crimes were "known to po
lice" in Portland last year.
Across the Columbia river in
Vancouver, Wash., there were
607 major crimes, a decrease
of nine from the previous
year.
Portland had a 100 per cent
increase in the number of
murders, from 10 to 20.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Clear to partly
cloudy tonight and Thursday.
Continued cool. Low tonight 32.
High Thursday 60.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 52
Lowest this Morning 35
Precip. To 10 a.m. Today, .02
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunset
5:19 a.m.
7:02 p.m.
Moonset
.11:25 p.m.
The Moon rides high tonight
and is seen between Betel
geuse and Elnath. It is a little
near Betelgeuse, the brighter of
the two stars.
Hatfield said Oregon elec
tion law prohibits anonymous
mailings and forwarded Hit
chcock's protest to-District At
tory Hattie Bratzel for in
vestigation. Norblad said he did not
know of the requirement that
material should contain the
name and address of the send
MEDFORD, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1958
1 .
KILLS COUGARS L. N. Maurer, Illinois
Valley rancher who hunts as a hobby, is
shown with two cougars he killed last Fri
day in the Althouse creek area near Cave
Junction. Both animals, which weighed be
56 Students Are
Enrolled at 50C
Ashland As of today,
956 students have enrolled
for spring term in Southern
Oregon college, according to
Mrs. C. H. Winston, registrar.
This is a 17 per cent increase
over last spring term.
Men students number 620
and 336 women are enrolled.
There are 57 new students,
and 11 entering from high
schools for the first time.
Freshmen total 310; sopho
mores 250, juniors 170, sen
iors 111, and graduate and
other students 115. The ma
jority is in education, 342 in
elementary and 216 in sec
ondary. Indo Loyalists
Report Successes
Singapore (IP) The Indone
sian government reported ma
jor successes against the reb
els in five areas today and
said there were widespread
rebel defections and surren
ders. Lt. Col. Rudy Pirngadie,
the Jakarta army spokesman,
said none loyal column was
moving up an island road
from the south toward Solok,
the new rebel military head
quarters 12 miles inland from
Padang.
A government column
pushing east . from Padang
split into two forces. One cap
tured a bridge a few miles
from Solok and the other
pushed north toward the reb
el capital of Bukittinggi.
He said 44 rebels had sur
rendered in these operations
with machine guns, mortars,
Sten guns and 15 Bren car
riers. Pleven Considers
New Government
Paris (IP) Moderate ex
Premier Rene Pleven arrived
by air today to consider pick
ing up the job of forming a
new government where right
ist ex-Premier Georges . Bi
dault dropped it Tuesday
night.
President Rene Coty sent
his personal plane to north
western France to pick up
Pleven, who had been cam
paigning in local elections in
his home district of Dinan.
Pleven is a member of the
small UDSR Party.
It was not immediately cer
tain that Pleven, 57, will ac
cept Coty's invitation to try
for a new term as Premier,
but it appeared likely that he
will take part at least in pre
liminary negotiations.
er. He said he had directed
that all future mailings com
ply with the requirement.
Hatfield expressed regret
over the incident and remind
ed candidates of the law's
requirement.
The material Norblad mail
led to Marion county Repub
lican women with the request
Nunn's Execution
Put Off At Least
Another 60 Days
Salem (IP) Execution date uled to die March 28. On Feb.
for convicted slayer Billy
Junior Nunn was put off at
least another 60 days by Gov.
Robert D. Holmes today be
cause the case "is still, in ef
fect, in -the courts."
Parents of Nunn's victim,
14-year-old Alvin Eaeret, Kla
math Falls, were plaintiffs in
a court action to bar the gov
ernor from commuting the
sentence. Their action was dis
missed by Marion County Cir
cuit Court, but Eacret's par
ents have threatened to bring
the matter to the State Su
preme Court.
Guilt Upheld
The high court has upheld
the guilt of Nunn, but has
not ruled on the question of
the governor's power to com
mute sentences.
"It would be improper
either to permit the execution
to go as scheduled or to com
mute Nunn's sentence while
the case is still, in effect, in
the courts," the governor
said.
He granted Nunn a reprieve
until June 27. Nunn had been
scheduled to die in the state
prison gas chamber April 28.
Nunn was originally sched-
Budget Committee
Sets Tentative Date
The first meeting of the
Jackson county budget com
mittee has been tentatively
scheduled at 9 a.m. next Tues
day, the county court an
nounced yesterday.
Court members said at that
time they would consider
some of the county budgets
which are now complete. The
compensation section of the
recently conducted job classi
fication survey should be
ready by May 25, court mem
bers said. County office budg
ets are being held up pend
ing possible readjustment of
pay scales based on this sec
tion of the survey, it was
explained.
A report on the various job
classifications has been sub
mitted to the' county court
and letters sent to county
employees.
Washington (IP) The
House defeated i overwhelm
ingly today an attempt to in
clude an antisegregation rider
to legislation continuing fed
eral aid to schools crowded
by children of miMtary and
government workers.
that they mail it to other per
sons consisted of reprints of
an editorial from the Sandy
Post and an article from the
Oregon Voter.
Hitchcock's complaint was
lodged with Hatfield through
Thomas Brand, Salem, chair
man of the Marion County
Committee for Hitchcock.
Price 10 Cents
Tribune
No. 28
tween 75 and 80 pounds, were treed by
dogs and killed within one hour. During his
17 years of hunting in the Illinois Valley
area, Maurer has killed 31 cougars.
24, Eacret's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Eaeret, were grant
ed temporary injunction by
Jackson County Circuit Court
Judge H. K. Hanna barring
the governor from using or at
tempting to use the- constitu
tional powers of executive
clemency.
Order Modified
The case was heard by Cir
cuit Judge Val D. Sloper of
Marion county who modified
this order on March 1 to per
mit a one-month reprieve dur
ing finaj determinations.
Later Sloper dismissed the
Eacrets' action and upheld
the right of executive clemen
cy by the governor. '
Gov. Holmes favors aboli
tion of capital punishment..
Board of Appeals
To Review Requests
The Jackson county board
of appeals on job reclassifica
tion for county employees
will review requests for
kUCUlgC ill tldbSlilCclllUIl ell llie
courthouse May 8, County
Judge Rodney Keating has an
nounced. Requests for changes in
classification of jobs must be
submitted to the board by
county employees by Friday,
April 25, he noted.
Jobs were reclassified fol
lowing a job survey by the
state civil service commission.
Members of the board are
Dr." Marshall Woodell, South
ern Oregon college; Walter G.
Garner, Medford; R. A. James,
representing the county
court; and a representative of
the state civil service commis
sion who did not participate
in the job survey.
Russia Studies Ways To
Reopen Bomber Charges
United Nations, N.Y. (IP)
The Soviet Union was consid
ering today how and when to
reopen its Security Council
charges that American nu
de a r bombers threatened
world peace by flying toward
the Soviet boundaries.
Soviet Ambasador Arkady
A. Sobolev told a news con
ference Tuesday the issue still
was before the council al
though on Monday night he
withdrew a demand for a vote
on a resolution asking the
United States to end such
Veto Decision
Withheld From
News Conference
Business Decline .
Seen Flattening
Washington ' (IPI Presi
dent Eisenhower branded as a
dole today a Democratic-sponsored
plan for benefits to un
employed workers.
But he declined to tell a
news conference whether he
would veto the measure if
Congress approved. He did
say, however, that it has grave
defects and would tend to be
destructive to the whole sys
tem of unemployment insur
ance benefits as it now ex
ists.
Calls for 16 Weeki
He said that he did not
know how the Democratic
plan could be handled admin
istratively. The Democratic plan calls
for the federal government to
give idle workers 16 weeks
of unemployment compensa
tion, whether or not the idled
workers are eligible under
state unemployment insur
ance programs.
Other news conference
highlights:
He said recent economic
statistics indicate that the rate
of the business decline is flat
tening out. But he added he
was not going to try to be a
Pollyanna and say that every
thing is lovely.
Wants Right Program
He was asked about
Democratic charges that the
administration is going too
slow and lacks courage and
boldness in combating the re
cession. He said his policy was
first to determine what was
the right thing to do and the
right way to do it. Courage
and boldness, he added, are
fine things if you know you
have the right plan. But the
U. S. economy is too compli
cated to follow the dictates
of any individual, including
the President.
Charges Disputed
He hotly disputed the
charges of congressional
critics that his defense reor
ganization plan could open the
way in the future for some in
dividual to take over abso
lute control of all the armed
forces. He made the statement
in reply to a question that
Defense Secretary Neil H. Mc
Elroy had conceded Tuesday
that the Eisenhower reorgani
zation bill could theoretically
strip an individual service
chief of command of every
thing but his aide and orderly.
(Continued on page 13)
First Class of
Driver School Set
The first of two classes of
the Medford driver improve
ment school will be held at
7:30 o'clock tonight in the
Medford city council cham
bers, according to Capt. Clyde
Fichtner, instructor.
He said the second session
will be held at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 30, in the
council chambers. Tonight's
class will be on traffic safety
in general but will contain
special instructions on the
dangers of speed.
Fichtner said several stu
dents have been assigned the
lsCh00i
by the municipal
court judge. He noted several
other drivers will attend, and
he invited any others inter
ested to take part. The pro
gram is designed to improve
driving habits to make safer
and better drivers, he added.
Portland Marchers Call
End To Nuclear Jests
Portland (IP) A delega
tion carrying banners and
placards calling for an end
to United States testing of nu
clear weapons marched in
front of city hall today.
The group represented the
Oregon Federation for Social
Action.'
flights.
Moscow radio backed up
Sobolev's statements and said
the United States and other
nations opposing the Russian
position showed that "far
from wanting to ease inter
national tension they want to
heighten it."
Sobolev said he withdrew
his demand for a vote be
cause U.S. Ambassador Henry
Cabot Lodge, Council presi
dent for April, had "gagged"
the 11 nation grouo a charge
Lodge promptly denied.
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