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BISSSHi 16) if u Ml MAKES SftFIW 53rd MEDFORD 26 Pages Ike's Proposal For Higher Rate Draws Rejection SummerfieJd Sees Plans Scuttled Washington (IP) Congress appeared today likely to put Its seal of approval on a four- cent postage rate for both local and out of town letters A Senate-House conference committee rebuffed President Eisenhower Wednesday by re jecting the administration's proposal for a five-cent rate for out of town letters. Would Scuttle Program Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield issued a statement saying the penny cut in the administration pro posal "would scuttle President Eisenhower s proposed i on- lion postal modernization pro gram" that would provide jobs for thousands of workers. He said the action was "a -temporary victory for the large business users of the mails" who have benefitted by low postal rates. "The fight to stop this unconscionable raid in the treasury will con tinue," he said. The conference committee was to meet again today, to attempt to complete work on the long-delayed bill. Final Senate and House action would follow, presumably within a few days. P.ar Increase Opposed The President had opposed a pay increase of more than 6V2 per cent for the nation's 500,000 postal workers. The Senate bill provided for an average 12V per cent pay boost, based on a 7Vz per cent permanent raise plus temporary cost of living ad justments. The conferees Wed nesday agreed on a VA per cent raise plus temporary in crease on a percentage basis for the first seven classifica tions of postal workers. Soviet Boss Seen Holding Position Washington OF) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev apparently is holding fast to his desire for a summit con ference without careful prepa ration on an ambassadorial level. That interpretation was placed today on a new letter from Khrushchev to President Eisenhower which asserted Russia never will explode an other atomic weapon "unless the United States or Britain compels it to." Khrushchev's letter, which was disclosed Wednesday, was delivered to the State Depart ment late Tuesday. The letter rejected the main point of Eisenhower's April 8 letter to Khrushchev which pro posed preliminary talks on a fool-proof disarmament plan. The White House said the letter contained nothing new. S-Cein)ti Postage Israel Observes 10th Anniversary Jerusalem, Israel (IP) Israel celebrates its tenth an niversary of hazardous state hood today with a massive display of military might that could touch off a new border clash with uneasy Jordan. Both Nations Warned Jordan has accused Israel of a "serious intended breach" of the 1949 armistice agree ment by bringing in heavy armor and troops for the parade, and matched the Is raelis gun for gun and man for man. The United Nations warned both nations against any inci dent that could touch off an other of the border shooting scrapes that have threatened Year MEDFORD, -'MA PLANT TREES Jacksonville Cub Scout Pack 35 recently planted several Chinese Elm trees as part in the Cub's national theme of "Keep America Beautiful." The . Voters Pamphlets Being Processed By County Voters pamphlets have been received at the county clerk's office and addressing will be gin Friday. Mailing will start immediately and all pamph lets should be in the hands of voters by May 1. This is the first time any county has handled the service at local level. The purpose be hind the move is twofold: a substantial saving will result; and a greater percentage of Voters Pamphlets will reach the voter, according to County Clerk Bereth Hopkins. If it is successful, efforts will be made to require local addressing and mailing throughout the state Duplicate records in the sec retary of state's office have required clerical help, sup- olies. and filing - facilities which have been estimated to have cost between $35,000 and $50,000 per biennium, Mrs. Hopkins said. Most of the cost could be eliminated, she noted, if addressing and mailing were done locally. Cost of Addressing Cost of addressing of Voters Pamphlets is offset by the fact that the county clerk would no longer be required each week to send lists of cancella tions and new, or reregistra tions to the secretary of state's office where a duplicate file has always been maintained for the sole purpose of address ing Voters . Pamphlets. The cost of clerical help for main taining the duplicate record and addressing the pamphlets will be eliminated at state level. The state will reimburse the county for the cost of of Statehood many times to flare into open warfare. The Israeli sector of the divided city of Jerusalem was in a holiday mood and the winding streets were filled with thousands of tourists who turned main streets into a public carnival. Celebration continues The singing and . dancing which started Wednesday continued through the night under the starry canopy of a brilliant fireworks display. Israel proclaimed itself a state on May 14, 1948, accord ing to the western calendar. The celebration falls on Fri day but it is being celebrated today because of the Jewish sabbath. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1958 - ..5. "ir iJ ama w 5 !? 3 Clerk postage and local mail permit, she added. In addition to a saving to the tax payer, voters are as sured of getting the pamphlets if they have maintained a cur rent address on their registra tion record- Late registrant and reregistrant cards could not be processed in time to allow corrections or additions to the state file in former years, thus making it impos sible to furnish pamphlets to those several thousand voters. Mrs. Hopkins said she be came interested in working toward legislation to require local ' addressing and mailing of Voters Pamphlets in 1950 and 1952 when a survey dis closed that 13,400 pamphlets had been destroyed at Jackson county post offices because of wrong addresses in one elec tion year. Since that time, ' every ef fort has been made by the clerk's office to correct rec ords and maintain current addresses. - Present legislation . is only permissive and Jackson county and one eastern Oregon coun ty are the only ones in the state giving this service, she said. Fred Meyer Ordered To Cover Drug Signs Portland P The State Board of Pharmacy has order ed Fred Meyer, Inc., to cover up or dismantle its signs which advertise the firm's drug outlets, as long as phar macists are on strike and drugs cannot be sold. Some of. the signs are big, outdoor displays but the company compiled with the order by striking the "D" from the word drugs. Ike Submits Plan For Defense Merger Washington (IP) Presi dent Eisenhower sent Con gress today a plan to merge the Office of Defense Mobili zation and the Civil Defense Administration into a new of fice of defense and civilian mobilization. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York IIP) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 453.42, up 3.31; 20 railroads 111.00, up 1.34; 15 utilities 77.13. up .54, and 65 stocks 156. 81, up 128. Sales today were about 2.870,000 shares compared with 2,720,000 shares Wednesday. Tribune trees were planted near the Jacksonville elementary school. The job was supervised by Cubmaster Ed Hinkle and several Den Mothers. Air Force Quits Search for Nose Cone of Missile Cape Canaveral Fla. (IP) The Air Force today called off its search for a' new ICBM nose cone fired far out over the Atlantic last night on the tip of a combined Thor-Vanguard rocket. An official statement re leased at . Patrick Air . Force Base said "the Air Force con firmed reports that efforts to recover the nose cone of the missile launched Wednesday night from Cape Canaveral, Fla., have been discontinued." No Comment on Failure There was no comment con cerning reasons behind the failure to recover the small hemisphere designed to pre vent missiles from burning up on re-entry into the atmos phere. Earlier in the day, Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, Air Force missile chief, told the House Space Committe in Washington he doubted if the nose cone would ever be found. " Schreiver said it would be a couple of days before there is a complete evaluation of the combined Thor-Vanguard missile test firing but that "as of now we have not recovered the nose cone and doubt that we will." Fired Wednesday Night The Air Force blasted the towering forerunner of its moon rocket into the sky here Wednesday night, primarily to try out a new idea for get ting a nose cone back through the atmosphere from space. Preliminary unofficial esti mates were that the rocket, aimed at a target area in the ocean 6,300 miles (statute miles) may have gone only about 3,600 miles. Lendinara, Italy HP) Mimi Rossetto, aged queen of one of Europe's wealthiest gypsy tribes, died today. WEATHER FORECAST: Clear to partly cloudy through Friday with a few afternoon showers in mountains. Low tonight 32. High Friday 62. Temp. Highest Yesterday 53 Lowest this Morning 34 Free, to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:17 a.m. Sunset 7:03 p.m. Moonset Friday 12:11 a.m. First Quarter April 26 PROMINENT STARS The Twins, high above the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, In the south- east 9:02 p.m. Saturn, rises 11:33 p.m. Mars, rises 3:20 a.m. Venus, rises. 3:57 a.m. Price 10 Cents No. 29 Vesfern Allies Call on Russia To Speed Planning Joint Talks With Big Three Urged London (IP) The West ern Allies called on the Sov iets again today to speed up preparations for a summit conference by holding joint talks with the U.S., British and French ambassadors in Moscow. In a new three-power note handed over to the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow this afternoon, the West: Surprise Expressed Expressed "surprise" that Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko had refused to meet with the three western ambassadors together. Voiced "hope- that the. Kremlin would agree after all to joint meetings. - Reiterated the earlier stand that Moscow diplomatic talks should deal not only with the time, place, agenda and composition of a pre-sum-mit foreign ministers' confer ence, but also should go into the substance tif the main East-West - issues ' likely to come up at a summit parley. Challenge To Soviets Officials interpreted the latest note as a challenge to the Soviets to state squarely whether they still want pre paratory talks on a summit meeting. "The three governments, the joint note said, "wish to express their hope that the Soviet government will feel able to give favorable consid eration to the above proposal as offering a prospect of early progress by means of a simple and straightforward proce dure." Poor Judgment in Deportation Voiced Washington . (IP) Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) told immigration officials today they showed poor judgment in their hasty deportation last week of William Heikkila, Finnish-born ex-Communist. Walter, chairman of the House Immigration Subcom mittee and also head of the committee on Un-American activities, said Heikkila 's abrupt deportation gave "aid and comfort" to people try ing to "embarrass" the gov ernment. Heikkila was picked up by immigration agents last Fri day as he left his draftsman's job in San Francisco and was flown to Canada without a hat or coat or a chance to tele phone his wife. He was then put on a plane and sent back to Finland. . Heikkila today left Helsinki by plane for return to San Francisco at government ex pense. Orchards Heated Last Two Nights Orchards in the valley were heated for a short period ''"both Tuesday and Wednesday nights, according . to Clifford B. Cordy, county agent for horticulture. He reported that a cloud layer moved in shortly after firing started. Cordy reported that . minor hail damage was reported in some orchards during a storm Tuesday. He said the majority of the damage to fruit would result mainly in surface blemishes. Boy, 6, Confesses Killing Texas Infant Kingsville, Tex. (IP) Police Chief B. D. Condron said today that a 6-year-old boy had confessed taking 5-week-old Sandra Rose Car rick out of her crib and kicking her to death. Condron refused to give the boy's name and said the. boy did not know Sandra Ann was dead: IBasebaOD AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 4 8 1 Cleveland 6 9 0 Wilson. Rudolph (3). Fis cher (4). Moore (7). and Battey; Tomanek. Mossi (5), Slaley (5) and Nixon. $ l 10 IO IS vpj CANDIDATE VISITS State Treasurer Sig Unander (with glasses, in center) chats with people attending a coffee hour in his honor at the Jackson hotel .yesterday after Polling Places in County Will Be in Public Schools Polling places for the pri mary election May 16 have been designated by County Clerk Bereth P. Hopkins un der a new law passed by the 1957 Legislature, which pro vides that "wherever practic able" the clerk "may desig nate as a polling place any public building, including any school house owned or leased by the state, or any political subdivision thereof, and such building may be used without expense to the county." Polling places will be con centrated in public schools throughout the county, Mrs. Hopkins said. Election boards for each precinct have been appointed. Counting boards for precincts will be assigned separate rooms in the build ings and will begin counting as soon as school is dismissed. Mrs. Hopkins pointed out that by using the schools, each precinct is assured a known location, with ade quate parking areas, well lighted, properly heated rooms for voting and count ing, and that proper toilet fa cilities and telephones are available. Noon lunch will be served in most school cafe terias to board members. Cost Less Mrs. Hopkins noted that the cost of equipping the polling places would be considerably less sihee the schools would furnish all of the chairs and most of the tables needed. The delivery problem would be less costly since the num ber of locations to which poll booths and supplies must be transferred will be cut by two thirds. Anyone who by reason of distance to a polling place, 15 miles or more, occupations such as truck drivers, rail road men, traveling salesmen and the like, bed-ridden or handicapped individuals who anticipate . a transportation problem on election day may apply for and vote by ab sentee ballot. 'Information on absentee voting may be secured by tele phoning SPring 3-6211, ex tensions 200, 208 or 217. "Think We'll Ever Get Up To 1958 Recession Levels?" 1. jadfeairafi?:-.--? noon. Unander campaign for for governor. Recession Offset Is Top Problem, Sig Unander Says State Treasurer Sig Unand er, candidate for the Repub lican nomination for governor was in Grants Pass today, following a full day of cam paigning in Jackson county yesterday. Unander spoke at Southern Oregon college, attended a coffee hour in his honor yest erday afternoon, spoke on television, and visited friends and supporters in Medf ord and Ashland. ' Petroleum Storage Facilities on Fire Newport News, Va. (IP) A raging fire swept through a mile-long Standard , Oil Co. petroleum storage farm early today, exploding six. 15,000- barrel gasoline tanks like fire' crackers and threatening 15 others. The 60 -foot-high, tanks, lined up along this port city's waterfront, collapsed in flames one by one between 11 p.m. (EDT), Wednesday and 2 a.m today. The flames were still out of control hours after the first explosion. The Newport News fire de partment said no deaths or injuries had been reported and no one was missing. Business Session Set by New Club Officers and committee chairmen of the newly-formed "50 Plus" club will meet at 2 p.m. Friday in the Red Cross building on Hawthorne st. for a business session, ac cording to Dr. Frank Roberts, president. Other members of the club wishing to attend will be wel come, Dr. Roberts said, but he pointed out it would be a business meeting, not a party meeting. , Organizational problems of the new club, formed of peo ple aged 50 years or more, will be discussed, he added. Salem (IP) The State Highway Commission will re ceive bids on 23 projects to taling about $4,600,000 in Portland May 8 and 9. facilities i -r was here as part of his the Republican nomination (Kenn Knackstedt photo.) He said Oregon's No. 1 problem at present is to stim ulate business activity, to off set the recission trend in the state. To do so, he said, will require a number of activities in which the state govern ment can play a role. As examples, he cited the need for a higher allowable cut for timber, to bring down stumpage prices, and give Oregon's top industry a more favorable price structure. Unander said that the first steps in insuring more con struction during the coming year have been taken, in mak ing credit more readily available, and added that the lumber market has nowhere to go but up. To take advantage of this, he said, more timber at more reasonable prices, . must be available. He declared that his plan for construction of more forest access roads, built through a" self-liquidat ing bonding program, would do much toward this end. He also emphasized the need for a well-balanced tax program which would not be punitive to industry, and. which would retain indust rial concerns already located here, and help attract others particularly year - around industries to offset the large ly seasonal nature of Ore gon's industry today. As an example, he cited the increased use of wood fiber, which now largely goes to waste, in the manufacture of new products. Keating Returns From O&C Meeting County Court Judge Rod ney Keating returned Wednes day from Portland where he attended a meeting of the executive committee of the O&C lands. Major item discussed and approved was the continua tion of the three-year refores tation program which is con ducted by the bureau of land management on O and C lands. The group approved $500,000 for the 1960 federal budget for this surpose. Judge Keating reported that'the reforestation costs ap proximately $27 per acre and a total of 165,000 acres in 18 counties are included in the program to be reforested. It was explained that the money for this program is tak en from the 25 per cent of to tal O and C land receipts that has been allotted by the coun ties for access road construction. Klamath Judge Indicts Policemen for Contempt Klamath Falls (IP) Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg Wednesday held three state police officers in contempt of court in conection with their arrest of unlicensed freight line truck drivers. Judge Vandenberg has is sued an order April 1 re straining the State Police and the Public Utilities Commis sion .for interferring with operations of the Pioneer Truck Rental Company of Klamath Falls. The PUC has contended that the firm violates state law by engaging in transporta tion for hire while appearing as a leasing opperation. Al Vincez of Klamath Falls, Injured Wife Left at Scene; Plane Spotted 'Copter Due To Attempt Rescue Dayville, Ore. cm A Cali fornia pilot missing since Monday in snowy country near here made his way to safety today and the wreck age of his light plane where his wife lay injured was re ported seen from the air up side down in four feet of snow. The Civil Air Patrol at Con don, Ore., about 60 miles north of here, reported that two aircraft were circling the wreckage. Long Walk Bruce Davis, 36, an or chestra leader from Fresno stumbled into the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Robert son at 6:10 a.m. after three days and nights of walking in the rugged fossil bed coun try of central Oregon. Davis said there were no provisions aboard the plane except a candy bar and a stick of gum. His wife had no weapons, but residents in the area said there was little danger from animals. Davis planned to accom pany a helicopter to the scene after getting some sleep at the Robertson home this morning. Wrapped in Blanket Davis, suffering from ex haustion and exposure, told search authorities his wife was wrapped up in a coat and blanket beside the plane. There was no immediate re port from the pilots as to whether they spotted the woman. A helicopter was dispatched from the Portland Air Force Base. The Air Force station at Condon reported it was due here about 12:05 p.m. after stopping at Hood River to pick up skis and snow shoes. A ground party also was en route to the crash scene from John Day. The plane was. reported down about 11 miles south of here. The CAP said a Beechcraft and a Cessna plane were circling the wreckage. Believed in Good Condition Davis said he believed his wife, Patricia, 35, was in good condition. "I know I can find her," he said. He said he believed she would sur vive. The gritty , pilot said his wife would not have been able to walk out of the rugged terrain which he termed as impossible." It was snowing in the search area again today. The Davises had been the objects of a search since Mon day afternoon but some of the worst weather of the year had hampered search opera tions. They were last heard from Monday on a flight from Fresno to Spokane in a single engined Cessna to visit Irv ing Davis, the pilot's father. Cooperation Plans Talked by Planners Plans were discussed Wednesday evening for fu ture cooperative planning be tween county incorporated cities and various planning commissions at a joint meet ing held at the city hall. Approximately 15 persons attended the meeting which included representatives from the county, Medf ord, and Ash land planning commissions. An invitation was extended by the group to all incorpor ated cities in the county to send representatives to the county planning commission meeting Monday, April 28, in the planning commission of fice in the county courthouse annex. The meeting will be gin at 7:30 p.m. owner of Pioneer, said his trucks carried PUC private carrier permits but had been unable to obtain operating plate's. The Pioneer drivers had been arrested for failure to carry operating plates. No Arrest Warrants Judge Vandenberg did not issue arrest warrants for the three state police officers but cited them for contempt. They were Officers Robert J. Boyle of the Baker office; David L. Witt, Albany, and Charles L. McMillan of Salem. The Judge also ordered H. G. M a i s o n, superintendent o state police", to show cause why he should not be cited for contempt. I
