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Recommended Recommended A story of "ToRsery1 Bill Isaacs, Medford sportsman and business, whose name in the early days was synonymous with steelhead fish ing, appears on page 12 of to day's Mail Tribune. 53rd Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers 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 pjn. daily and 1230 jn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. United Press rull Leased Wir United Press Full Leased Wire 52 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1958 No. 31 m in ii . II TV ii i ' f n y j it nra rw r i in n i a i ia i is -i LAKE CROWDED An estimated 5,000 persons, were on hand bright and early Saturday morning at Willow reservoir for the opening day of trout season. The array of boats in the picture, which lined the shore north of the resort was only a fraction of the total number on the water and bank. Fishermen in other sections of the lake were just as numerous. A number of limit catches were made with fish aver HEFTY STRING-A nice catch of trout taken at Fish lake Saturday is being dis played above by Joe Wolf, Medford, who, like 500 or so other anglers at the lake braved chilly early-morning wind to try their luck. Fish were biting unusually good In some spots on the lake but were slow in others. They averaged from 10 to 12 Inches in length and were taking cluster North Central Texas Gets Water Deluge Dallas, Tex. (IP) Black skies poured tons of rain and hail on Texas Saturday, send ing the Trinity river surging out of its banks as death- dealing flash floods raced through Dallas. The storm claimed at least three lives. A car driving along a service road on U.S 80 near Mesquite, a suburb of Dallas, drove into a creek that had washed across the road. The driver apparently thought it was shallow. The car submerged and Centennial Group To Meet Locally The Oregon Centennial commission will hold a dis cussion about plans for the 1959 event at the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce Roundtable meeting Monday noon in the Jackson hotel. Officials said the public is invited to attend. A public meeting is also scheduled by the commission in the Mod ford city council chamber at 9:15 a.m. Monday. Concessions, financial re quest for Frank Branch Riley tour, the stamp cancellation, the history committee's rec ommendation for the official ly approved history and the Governor's state advisory committee for Jackson and Josephine counties will be the topics. ' WEATHER FORECAST: Clear to partly cloudy this afternoon through Monday, chance of showers in the mountains during after noons, high both days 62 to 4, low Monday mornin? 36. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 62 Lowest this Morning 39 Our Skies Tonight (Times below are Pacific Stand ard) Sunrise 5:13 a.m. Sunset -...l 7:06 p.m. Voonset Monday 2:08 a.m. PROMINENT STARS Reguius. follows the Moon. Aldebaran, sets 8:58 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, due south .. 11:25 p.m. Saturn, low in south east 12:14 a.m. Mars, rises 3:12 a.m. Venus, rises 3:54 ajn. -fc Wr ir i r SSBSSigA or single eggs and worms as well as flash ing lures. One fine catch of Eastern Brook trout was reported yesterday, with the largest measuring 20 inches, according to Fish lake pesort manager Lloyd Morris. A few limits of 30 fish were also taken, Morris said. The limit of 30 has been al lowed in Fish lake this season because the lake will be poisoned this fall. sheriff's deputies found the bodies of a Negro man and his wife in it. They were look ing .for a child reported to have been in the car. A woman was killed in a headon collision near Fort Worth in a driving rain, The storm was felt from Dallas and Fort Worth south xo Austin ana east to near Marshall. At least ii persons were evacuated in Dallas Saturday, a year to the day from the time last year's tremendous floods hit The Trinity river shot into a flood stage of 30.75 feet and flood gates at Mountain Creek lake had to be opened, which U.S. weather bureau forecaster Robert Bland said would send the river to 33 or 34 feet by Sunday morn ing. This stage poses no threat to Dallas but floods lowlands below the city. Hail Reported Hail an inch in diameter and winds up to 55 miles an hour were reported near Mar shall, and heavy hail fell north of Austin. Four inches of water was reported across Highway 79 near Thrall, in the Austin area. Motorboats chugged along downtown Dallas streets and a police car in Haltom City, a Fort Worth suburb, was swept into Fossil creek by a surge of water. Eleven homes were evacu ated in Dallas and an unde termined number in Pitts burg, Tex., in CamD countv. which received 10 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Highway 11 from Pittsburg to Daingerfield was blocked, stranding nightshift workers at the Lone Star Steel Co. plant at Daingerfield. Nine of the homes evacu ated were on Bar-433 street, which bore the brunt of every Dallas flood last year. Streets were barricaded in 90 places during the height of the storm, police said, and water reaching to the windows of cars caved in streets in two places. aging from 10 to 17 inches and children seemed to be having as much luck as adults. The crowd was about one-third greater than opening day last year, according to resort manager Bert McConochie. The pic ture was taken about 10 a.m. when a lot of the anglers, who had been out since daylight, were coming in for a "second" breakfast. Nixon Plans Visit To South America To Boost U.S. Washington (IP) , Vice President Richard M. Nixon wil try to counter a resurg ence of anti-United States feeling and a growing Soviet trade and diplomatic offen sive during his 18-day visit to South America which begins today. Nixon particularly will search for ways to help a number of this nation's "good neighbors to the south" out of severe economic crises. Brazil, Colombia and Chile already have warned that un less the United States assures them more stable markets for their mineral ahd agricultural exports their entire political and social structures may be threatened. Nixon will limit his tour to eight nations Argentina, wljere he will represent Presi dent Eisenhower at the in auguration of a new presi dent, and Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Co lombia" and Venezuela. But he will get first-hand accounts of problems that beset South America generally. Among the experts accom panying him will be President Samuel C. Waugh of the Export-Import bank, Assistant Secretary of State Roy R. Rubuttom, and Maurice Bern baum, chief of the State De partment division of South American affairs. A deterioration of eco nomic conditions brought on largely by a dip in raw ma terial prices resulting in part from the U.S. business re cession. Increasing Soviet pres sure to gain a broader trade and diplomatic foothold in the Southern Hemisphere. Russia evidently is trying to exploit the economic crisis by offering to purchase such sur plus commodities as coffee, copper and wool in return for a resumption of diplo matic relations. Many Latin American republics severed relations with Russia after World War II. Russia Turns Down Joint Meeting Idea Washington (IF) Russia Saturday rejected a western demand that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet jointly and immediately with the United States, Brit ish and French ambassadors to break the East-West dead lock on a Summit confer ence. Officials said the rejection, ananounced by the state de partment, added to doubts here that Russia is interested in a heads-of-government con ference that would lead to fruitful negotiations . The Soviet action came as Democratic Party To Send Leaders For Dinner Here Sen. Wayne L. Morse, guest speaker at the eighth annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner to be held at McLough lin Jr. High next Saturday evening beginning at 6 o'clock, will arrive in Ore gon Friday evening, spending the night at his home in Eu gene, according to his Ore gon Administrative assistant, Charles Brooks of Portland who called the local commit tee. Present plans call for Brooks to drive Morse to Medford, arriving around noon, he said. Request for the senator's appearance on radio, TV and before other local forums are being re ceived by the committee, ac cording to Robert A. Boyer, general chairman for the din ner. He explained that the ad vent of daylight saving time (affect ing communications scheduling) as. well., as pres ent uncertainty of the sena tor's arrival here makes it difficult for the committee to make any definite promises for additional appearances this early. Oregon's new Democratic State Chairman David Epps, Democratic National Commit teeman C. Girard Davidson and members of Governor Holmes' official family have tentatively accepted invita tions to attended the dinner, in spite of its conflict with a large Portland dinner at which the three Democratic governorship candidates are speaking. Centennial Secondary Theme Officials from the forth coming Oregon Centennial commission are also expected to attend. The 100th state cn niversary celebration will be a secondary theme through out the dinner. Decorations, program and even costumes on the part of the head table committee will accent the centennial. As in years past the pro gram, presented early in the evening, will' be staged as a complete unit of the eve ning's entertainment. This will be under the direction of Mrs. Stan Zapell, program di rector. Featured in spoken portions will be Mary LaBar, narrator and Dennis Barr, senior high school speech students. Centennial and me morial theme music will be furnished by the senior high school choir directed, by Lynn Sjolund. Mayor John Snider will welcome the guest speaker on behalf of the city of Medford and Rep. and Mrs. Robert B. Duncan, running as a team for the state legislature will act as joint masters of cere mony during the evening. Rev. Thomas McCamant, past or of the Congregational Church will deliver the invo cation. A gift to the honor guest will be presented by Legis lative Candidate Gordon Hud son in a special ceremony. The dinner, served buffet style will start promptly at six o'clock, according to Mrs. W. D. Werner, foods chair man, so that the audience will be quietly in place by the time the tightly scheduled program starts at 7 o'clock. Those planning on attending are urged to cooperate with this plan as nearly as possi ble to facilitate service she said. Tickets are available at Lamports and Walt Youngs, as well as from members of the committee . headed by Stan Zapell. The public, in cluding candidates of both parties are cordially invited to attend, he said. diplomatic sources reported this country told its allies it will decide by May 5 wheth er it will agree to a modifi cation of the western disarm ament plan. The big question is wheth er the United States is ready to split the western package plan and agree to halt nu clear testing without insisting on other disarmament steps at this time. State department press of ficer Lincoln White said Rus sia's rebuff of the west's latest Summit proposal was contained in a note deliver ed to U.S. Ambassador Llew ellyn E. Thompson in Mos cow aSturday morning. The United States, Britain and France asked Gromyko, in effect, in a terse note de livered Thursday to quit stall ing on Summit preparation talks. ; Urge Joint Meetings It called on him to start holding joint meetings with the three western ambassa dors. He has been calling them in individually for "sep arate interviews." j The Big Three also demand ed an immediate start of the joint meetings and said the preliminary discussions should concentrate on mat ters to be included in a Sum mit conference agenda. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles held an extra ordinary two-hour meeting with top advisers at his home Saturday to discuss the dis armament issue. " The state department said the meeting was designed "to carry forward the continuing review, of our disarmament policy." ' Dulles told a news confer ence March 4 that the West would accept bringing Russia satellites into the. Summit meeting itself- provided Brit-" ain and France were not put on the same level with such Communist nations as Ro mania and Bulgaria. Diplomatic sources said May 5 is a target date for a U.S. decision on modifying its disarmament stand be cause that is when a meeting of the 15-nation north Atlan tic treaty organization (NATO) will begin. That ses sion, to be held at Copenhag en .will consider both disarm ament and Summit confer ence moves. Legion Buys Land For Clubhouse American Legion Post 15, Medford, has purchased two acres of land on Crater Lake ave. on which a new building is planned, according to Kee gan Townsend, Post com mander. The land is between Austin King Trucking company and Grandview market. Construc tion of the building is planned within the next few months, Townsend said. The building will be about 50-by-75 feet with additional rooms in a wing to provide kitchen and restroom "facili ties. The post negotiated with the county on property south of the Armory in the past few months, but Townsend said the negotiations were not suc cessful. Bids for construction are expected to be called in the near future, Townsend said, and tentative plans are to use pre-fabricated material. Medford Couple Hurt In Crash Grants Pass -r- Robert L. Doty, 65, and Alice M. Doty, 62, of route 1, box 306, Med ford, were reported suffering from undetermined injuries in Josephine County General hospital Saturday night after their car was involved in a collision Friday night, accord ing to state police here. The Doty vehicle and a cement truck operated by Harry F. Shaw of Grants Pass collided on Highway 99, near the southern city limits of Grants Pass, police said. State police said they are investigating the accident. Tunis (LP) Ten French soldiers accompanied by dogs crossed into Tunisia from Al geria Thursday and searched two villages, a Tunisian source said Saturday. im IS EXAMINES PAMPHLETS County Clerk Bereth P. Hopkins examines the huge pile of about 33,000 voters pamphlets which she and her staff were preparing Saturday for mailing. The pamphlets show pictures Senate Downs Bill ByKnowland On Labor Rights Washington HP) The Sen ate batted down another of Republican Leader William F. Knowland's "labor bill of rights" amendments Saturday and moved toward final ac tion early next , week on a less controversial democratic measure to protect union wel fare funds. The 53 to 28 vote came at an unusual Saturday session after five hours of talk devot ed largely to whether the Sen ate should try to convert the fund-safe guarding bill into a broad labor reform measure. After the vote the Senate recessed until Monday morn ing. No Democrats voted with Knowland on the final test, although Sen. Frank J. Lau sche (D-Ohio), who had sup ported the GOP leader's prev ious amendments, was paired in favor of the proposal. A total of 13 Republicans the greatest defection yet on the Knowland proposals joined 40 Democrats in de feating the amendment. The GOP senators included five who previously had voted with Knowland. They were Sens. Thomas H. Kuchel (Calif.), Charles E. Potter (Mich.), W. Chapman Rever comb (W.Va.), Edward J. Thye (Minn.) and Milton R. Young (N.D.). Knowland and his GOP sup porters argued that there was little or no hope for passage of general labor legislation this election year unless the Senate acted now. Democrats, with some Republican help, replied the Senate could and would act this summer and that Knowland's and similar proposals were too complicat ed to be adopted without thorough study by the labor committee. Defeated on four roll calls Friday night, Knowland took another defeat Saturday on his amendment to require a union to give equal rights to all employes it represents. He said no union should have "class B" members who are denied a vote and voice in its affairs. Knowland prefaced his arg ument for the amendment with a speech reiterating his belief that Congress has an "urgent public repsonsibility'' to legislate this year to guar antee democracy in unions. He also made a free-swinging attack on the political ac tivity of organized labor, some of which is directed against his party- and specifically against Knowland in his cam paign for governor of Cali fornia. Saturday's vote came after the Senate agreed unanimous ly to put itself under debate ' limitations starting Monday on the welfare fund bill. Sen ate Democratic Leader Lyn don B. Johnson voiced hope the measure could be put to a final vote Monday night or Tuesday. PITA Voter Registrations Show Gain of 3,288 Total voter registration of Jackson county is 33,841, County Clerk Bereth P. Hop kins noted Saturday as she and members of her staff, made final preparations Sat urday to mail out the voter s Damnhlets. ' This is an increase of 3,338 registrations over the total of May, 1956, which was 30,- 453, she said. Breakdown by party affil iations show 17,167 Republi cans registered as compared to 15,946 Democrats, or a dif ference of 1,221 registratioas. Miscellaneous or independent voters total 728. Both Republicans and Dem ocrats shsow a gain in regis trations since the last count was made March 5. Then Re publican registrations totalled 16,486 and Democrats 14,908. Republicans show a gain of 681 voter registrations and the Democrats a rise of 988 vot ers. Independents registra tions remained about the same. 6-25 Lands Here With Bad Engine Engine trouble while en route to a California air base from Portland forced an air Force B-25 to land at the Med ford airport about 11 a.m. Sat urday. An Air Force repair crew was expected tnis morning from California to fix the trouble -which is apparently in the oil system of one engine. The Medford fire depart ment was called to stand by while the plane landed and later stood by at 12 noon and at 3:30 n.m. Saturday when the crew attempted to start the engine. Fire department officials reported both at tempts failed. ''Don't Get Hysterical I'm Watching 'All The Time" j in h i ii in 1 ' ' I II HI 114 DEDICATE of. each of the candidates in the primary election May 16 and their political plat forms. The picture was taken in the elec tions department of the Jackson county clerk's office. ' The final spurt in registra tions was probably due to the active campaign to get voters out to register by representa tives of both parties. Party workers are forbid den by state law to make house to house registration canvass but are allowed to set up central registration lo cations. Courthouse Parking Lot To Be Enlarged The Jackson county court has taken an option to pur chase for $76,000 a 24,700-square-fobt area of land with in the city of Medford. The strip of land is 100 feet wide on , West Eighth st. and 247 feet on Laurel st. to within 153 feet of West Main st. ' The land would be used by the county as a public park ing area, according to County Court Judge Rodney Keating. He reported that the proposal will be presented to the coun ty budget committee for con sideration sometime prior to July 1. The land is located in block two of the Galloways addition and is behind the county courthouse. Owners of the land are Donn V. and Fidelis M. Piatt, Roland A. Smith and Amy K. Smith, and J. Verne and Ruth Shangle. New York (IP) Former President Herbert Hoover continued to show imDrove- ment Saturday in his recov ery from a gall bladder oper ation. Salem, Ore. OP). A controversial 2 per cent sales tax bill was killed in the house of representatives at the annual UMCA Youth Legislature here Saturday. 1 Move of Patienls Scheduled For . May Deadline Plan Guided Tours Throughout Today The dedicatory sentence of the new Rogue Valley Me morial hospital was said at about 2:35 p.m. Saturday by the Right Rev. Beniamin O. Dagwell, president of the Doard of directors for the hospital, to officiallv onpn the $2,800,000 structure. Although several denart- ments of the new building are now in operation and several others planning to move with in the next few days to the in the next few days. Patients will not be moved until May 1, according to Miss B. J T.ar. son, hospital administrator. Other speakers at the cere mony were Mayor John Snid er of Medford, Dr. Harold M. Erickson of the Oregon state board of -health, Dr. E. R. Durno who is chief of the medical staff at the hospital, A. S. V. Carpenter who is 24-year member of the board of directors and J. P. Rowan who is president of the found ers group. Chamber of com merce president and board member Otto J. Frohnmayer introduced the speakers. Mrs. A. S. V. Carpenter cut the ribbon which officially opened the building. Benedic tion for the event was given by the Rev. George R. V. Bolster of the Medford St. Mark's Episcopal church. Also present at the opening cere mony was A. V. Peterson of A. V. Peterson company of Portland who was the general contractor. Guided tours of the build ing were held following the formal dedication ceremonies and will also be held all day Sunday. Visitors will be shown the solarium, nursery, obstetrical suite with prep room, four labor rooms, two delivery rooms, formula rooms, doctors' quarters, pose room. Three major operating rooms, instrument sterilizing, nurses' quarters, recovery room, surgical suite with a multiple - pur - Cystoscopic room, chief surgical nurses' station with facilities for x rays, frozen section; radium and anesthesia storage; cen tral supply, nursing station and observation nursery. All Furnilur New All furniture in the build ing is new with motorized beds. Patient rooms in the hospital are plaster and wash able wall-paper with Venetian blinds. Every room contains a clothes clospt toiipt howls haths in Vi 9 u Mil A UUllli), showers in five rooms, night ngnio,. mgn iignis, oxygen, suction, nowor "nutlot tola. phone, television antennae and a two-way call system to nurses. Officers of the board of di rectors include Dagwell, Eu gene Thorndike. vice Dresi- dent; Leon Boomer, secretary: and Dwight Houghton, treas urer. Board members are Otto Carpenter, Charles Crary, Bohnert, George R. V. Bolster. John Crawford, Ernest De- Voe, James Dunlevy, George Flanagan, Frohnmayer, Mrs. William Fluhrer. Walter G. Garner, Mrs. Chester Guches, Glenn Jackson, Martin Luth er, John Niedermeyer, R. M. Sorenson and Shelby M. Tuttle. Other officers besides Dur-. no on the medical staff are Dr. M. L. Vorheis, president elect; and Dr. Malcolm S. Byers, secretary. Rogue Valley hospital ad ministrative staff members are Miss Larson, Mrs. B. W. Nims, director of nurses; P. M. Huntley, office manager; Mrs. Tom MacLeod, dietitian; Mrs. M. Eastwood, housekeep er; and W. Groleau and R. Ebbe, engineers. Sports Bulletin Portland, Ore. (IP) -The Portland Beavers bounced back Saturday night to defeat San Diego, 5-4, after the Padres won the first game of a Pacific Coast league day - night doubleheader 9-4 in Mult nomah stadium. 4- t
