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'SSK OVERTIME Moving furnishings b supplies of a whole hospital is compli and every staff member pitched in rtardy packing boxes and carrying loads fcien, surgical supplies ana MOVE PATIENTS By using all three am bulances to transport the 27 patients to the new Rogue Valley Memorial hospital, Med ford Ambulance service got the job done in about four hours. The woman in the picture above was a maternity patient and going along with her on the stretcher was her 'Remarkably Smooth' Move Made to New Valley , A "remarkably smooth"! move with "excellent cooper ation" from everyone was how Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital officials described the moving of equipment and pa tients into the new building Thursday. Miss B. J. Larsen, hospital administrator, reported the patients were moved between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. by local ambulances. Twenty-seven pa tients $nd four babies were Qnovsd from the old hospital. jgbg&i ambulances and three & ifl, born to Mr. and ' tSSA Donald Pearson, 55 Qan lane. Medford, wat c5 first baby to arrive at new Rogue Valley hos jjjafcal this morning. The SfcaBy weighed 6V2 pounds 5nd -was born at 2:43 a.m. Tie baby received a sil cjtw Siug and a $25 savings The last baby born in the p3d building was a boy to tSSs. and Mrs. William Bar-Ctotr- 125 Crater Lake ave.. C6 6:56 a.m.. May I. The igsby weighed 7Vz pounds. Wo other babies were aOso born early this morn ing at the new hospital. A bo. at 3:23 a.m.. to Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Worlhey. general delivery, Happy Cmp. Calif., weighed 73t pounds. At 4:09 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Nogle. route 1, box 349D, Medford, had a girl which weighed IVz pounds. trucks were used. The major ity of the equipment to be used On the new hospital was moved Thursday, she said, with ft few items transferred today. 'Mopping Up' "Mapping up ODtions" are in progress toaay, Miss L&sen said, with staff check ing equipment in the old building to be sure nothing is overlooked. The moving of patients was originally scheduled to start at 11 ajn., It was explained, asebaDD American league Sansas City 14 1 gew York 8 12 0 Terry, Craddock (5). Dick Qo (8) and House; Turley gd Berra. oietroit 0 7 1 gqston 6 9 0 Bunning. Morgan (8) and 2Tilson; Sisler. Daley (3) XJd White. items to waiting cars and trucks. Many em ployees used their own cars to transport the goods to the new hospital. Above, two staff members load boxes of supplies into omer smaii a car. baby boy, just five hours old, A nurse was assigned to each ambulance, which carried two patients at a time. A temporary admit tance desk was set up inside the ambulance' entrance at the new hospital to check pa tients out of the old hospital and into the new. but doctors recommend an earlier transfer of two pa tients in the maternity ward. Officials stated that they had expected the moving of patients to take longer than the four hours. No Emergencies The new $2,800,000 build ing was dedicated Saturday, and about 6,000 residents were conducted through the three- Defense Asks Funds For Construction Washington (IP) The De fense Department has asked Congress to approve $1,684, 361,000 in military construc tion, $1,279,464,000 of it in the United States. Chairman John C. Stennis (D-Miss.) announced his Sen ate Armed Services subcom mittee will open hearings on the biil "at the earliest pos sible date," probably . about May 15. 193 Installations The proposal covered 193 installations in 45 states and the District of Columbia. It also listed new construction in Alaska, Hawaii, the Carib bean area, Europe, Africa, the Pacific islands, and Korea. Morse to Arrive Saturday Morning Sen. Wayne L. Morse, guest speaker at the eighth annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner, scheduled at 6 o'clock tomor row evening at McLoughlin Junior High schol, is expect ed to arrive in Medford by car about 11:45 a.m. tomor row, according to Democratic County Chairman James A. Redden. Senator Morse will give a brief talk before the Junior Chamber of Commerce, state convention luncheon at 12:15 p.m., visit Hanleylands and appear on television Satur day afternoon. The memorial dinner will start at 6 p.m. and be over by 9 p.m. in order to allow Sena tor Morse to get to Portland. The memorial dinner will carry as a secondary theme the approaching Oregon cenr tennial. A brief spot on the program will be given An thony Brandenthaler, chair man of the Oregon centennial commission, who with Mrs. Brandenthaler will arrive here from Portland for the event. Hospital story structure Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Hospital , authorities said several inquiries have been made as to rates in the new hospital. They explained that the rates will remain the same as in the old" hospital. Rates range from $16.50 per day for the four-bed wards to $18 for semi-private, and $21 for pri vate rooms. At the same time, the mea sure asked for authorization to build 57,724 family hous ing units for military person nel and dependents at bases in the U.S. and overseas. A total of $125 million was asked for projects at locations "not specified," presumably for security reasons. A breakdown of the pro posed appropriation: Army $347,028,000, of which $234,690,000 would be for continental U. S-, $87,- 338,000 for overseas and" $25,' 000,000 for unspecified loca tions. Navy $301,062,000, of which $258,173,000 would be for continental U. S., $17, 889,000 for overseas and $25, 000,000 for unspecified loca tions. Air Force $986,271,000, of which $786,601,000 would be for continental U. S., $174, 670,000 for overseas and $25, 000,000 for unspecified loca tions. Defense Department $50 million for unspecified loca tions. The projects included: Oregon Air Force Kings ley AFB, Klamath Falls, $229,000. Warren Gill Plans Visit in County State Sen. Warren Gill, Lebanon, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, will make his third campaign visit to Medford Saturday. Dick House, chairman of his campaign committee for Jackson county, said Gill will visit throughout the county, but also hopes to take time out from a vigorous campaign to rest a bit, and "soak up some southern Oregon sun shine." Gill will make three TV appearances here Saturday, but no formal public appear ances have been scheduled, House said. si ' ri HOSPITAL SUPPLIES Load after lo4 of bandages, tape, linen and disinfectant! and the thousands of small thinjs used in run ning a hospital wera transported to th new building on Barnett rd. yesterday. Besides caring for their ptient, and othr duties, - - 700 Delegate &e Expected for 1fth J-C Convention About 700 delegates are ex pected to register for the 19th annual Oregon State Junior Chamber of Commerce con vention which opened in Medford today. Registration started shortly atfer noon at convention head quarters in the Medford ho tel," the executive, credentials, by-laws and policy and nomi nations committees will meet late this afternoon as the three-day convention gets into full swing. General caucuses and other committee meetings will conclude the day's busi ness tonight. Delegates will be welcomed to Medford by Mayor John Snider, Police Chief Charles Champlin-and Medford Jay cees President Hal Gardner tomorrow morning. Committee Reports Also scheduled tomorrow are four-minute reports s by committees on Operation Li brary, Jaycee Talent Review, Teen-age Road-e-o, Junior Golf, Junior Tennis, the Na tional convention, the Future Farmers of America plowing contest, polio vaccine, the give and take session, by laws and policy ' committee, and the resolutions commit tee. Jaycoe awards will be. pre sented at a luncheon tomor row noon at the Elks club at which Senator Wayne Morse is scheduled to speak briefly Dick Stratton, Medford, will be toastrhaster at the lunch eon, and Art Van Leeuwen, Medford, is program coordina tor. Officers fpr the state Jay cees will be elected tomorrow atfernoon at a Holly theater business session. Officers will be installed at a banquet at the Medford Armory starting about 7:15 p.m. tomorrow. An inaugural dance is scheduled at 10 p.m. tomorrow at the Armory. Speaker at the banquet willo be Ervin L. Peterson, assist ant secretary of agriculture. The banqaet will be open to the public, John Gustafson, general chairman, said. Experience Noted Peterson has had experi ence in local, state and na tional agricultural affairs, aad was director of the Oregon de partment of agriculture for 11 years before receiving his present appointment. Sunday activities include a new executive committee meeting, a board of directors meeting, religious service, standing committee reports and selection of future state meeting sites. The convention will close Sunday afternoon after a Jaycee golf tourna ment at the Rogue Valley Country club. Wishes for a successful con vention was sent the Jaycees from Vice President Richard Nixon in a letter dated April 26. In part, Nixon said "This year, as in the past, the dedi cation of Jaycees to commu nity service and civic im provement occupies a high place on your agenda. In an age when there is a tendency to look to Washington for the solution of all problems, the importance of local effort takes on added meaning." Beverly Hills, Calif Bandits made off with gems valued at more than $100,000 Thursday in a jewelry store robbery. gtff members helped load boxes of miscel laneous supplies. Above, Mark Toole, hos pital employee, loads boxes in a pickup trvc&. Shelby Tuttle,v hospital board mem te. supervised moving operations. M EDFORD 2S Fages Action on Request For TV Franchise Postponed by City Actioa on the petition Cf Trimble Television Inc., for construction of a closed cir cuit television system in Med ford was again postponed by the Medford city council last night. The postponement came after KBES-TV officials ask ed the city council for a sim ilar franchise and several cotmcilmen asked for an ad ditional two weeks to study the ordinance. Voting to post pone action with Councilmen Fred Robinson, Al Bradford, Stanley Jones Jr., and Robert Van Sickle. Councilmen vot ing against postponement were Donald Hansen, Paul Myers and Jimmy Dunlevy. Ed Hall, eighth councilman, was not present. Discusses . Rights Kenneth E. Denman, KBES TV attorney, told the council of the station's "right" to bring wired television to the Medford. area because of the amount of expense the station has undergone to bring free TV to viewers. He explained the efforts of the station to satisfy viewers and said KBES-TV should be per mitted to bring the system into Medford to protect their investment. o Alo speaking at the coun cil meeting on the system was Attorney Jim Redden, who represents Verl Walker Radio Engineering and Supply com pany. He expressed an inter est in who the stockholders of Trimble Television, Inc., are and questioned whether the planned $50 installation fee is reasonable. He also ex pressed concern about local interests if channel five were forced out of business by the system. Under later courtcil ques tioning, Redden stated" Verl Walker was a heavy supplier of parts for station KBES-TV. Welcomes Competition , Otto Frohmayer, attorney for Trimble, told the couacil the firm welcomes competi tion and does not want an exclusive contract for the sys tem in Medford. He voiced no objection to KBES-TV op eration of a similar system in the city. Frohnmayer added that Trimble officials are selling their homes in the northern part of the state and are plan ning to move to Medford if the system was granted by the council. In other action on the tele vision system, the council voted to have" a complete re port on the KBES-TV request for the franchise at the next council meeting. Benson Plans Visit To Russia in July Washington (IP) Agri culture Secretary Ezra T. Ben son said today he will accept an invitation to visit Russia and hopes to leave for a 40 day trip "sometime in July, or possibly a little later." He will be the first U. S. Cabinet member to go to the Soviet Union since 1947. 1 A - s$ r it I " ! i I L MEDFORD, OREGON, 'All I Got Was One Board Members to Be Elected in All School Districts Board members will be elected in all Jackson county school districts at the annual school elections between 2 and 8 ,p.m. Monday, May 5. Districts will elect one board member for a five-year term, and where vacancies have o c c u r e d, additional members will be elected for shorter terms, according to the county school superinten dent's office. All districts also will vote on a member-at-large for the rural schooj, board. Elwood Hedberg, . Medford, incum bent, has been nominated. Space will be provided for write-in votes, the superin tendent's office noted. Medford District Candidates in the Medford district are Keith Hocker smith and Mrs. Allyn Monroe. Hockerjmith, now a member of the board, also was a mem ber of the old Oak Grove school board, and was chair man at the time the district was consolidated with the Medford district. Polling places in the Med ford district are the Hedrick Junior High school cafetorium and the boys , gymnasium at McLoughlin Junior High. The dividing line between the pre cincts is Bear creek, school officials said. In addition to electing board members Monday, all districts will vote to author ize the county rural board to levy $334,377.66 in excess of the 6 per cent limitation. The total required levy is $2,004, 303.07, and the present tax base is $1,669,925.41, which is 83.3 per cent of the total levy. Four - districts . will have elections on exceeding the 6 per cent limitation for indi vidual district budgets. They are district 6C, which in cludes Central Point, Gold MOVE EQUIPMENT About 15 van loads of heavier equipment, including beds, as sorted filing and" storage cabinets and sur gery equipment were transported from the old to the new Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital yesterday. The vans, supplied by Davis Pv FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1958 Station In Florida' fcr-ERBLOC; Hill and Sams Valley, and Lone Pine, Butte Falls and Pinehurst. Zone Board Members One rural board zone mem ber will be elected for a three-year term in each of the three zones. Gerald Latham is a candidate in zone 2, which includes the Medford district only. Edith Hoag is a candi date in zone 3, which includes Eagle Point, Lone Pine, Elk Trail, Prospect, Shady Cove, and Butte Falls. Clarence Holdridge is a candidate in zone 5, which includes Ash land, Talent and Pinehurst. Candidates for election to school boards in other dis tricts are (all are for five-year terms, unless specified): Jacksonville: Ruppert F. Maddox, The Rev. William D. Turnbull ami Mrs. Ellen M. Zimmerman; one to be elect ed. Griffin Creek: Lanse Pitts and Larry Perkins, one to be elected; and Mrs. Floyd East wood, unopposed to fill a va cancy, one-year term. Ruch: Rex Davis and Bill Barker, one to fill a vacancy; Stan Larson, unopposed. Phoenix: Curtis Barnes, un opposed. District 6C District 6C: J. W. Fitzger ald, unopposed. Eagle Point: John Reid and Raymond Palm, one to be elected; Elmer Harnish, unop posed to fill vacancy, three year term. Lone Pine: Wilbur B. Fish and Manville M. Heisel, one to be elected. Talent: Joyce Goodrich, Wayne Reichstein and Sam Jones, one to be elected.' Rogue River: Ed Martin, unopposed. Applegate: Dr. Robert J. Tolle, unopposed. (Continued on Page 14) i TRIBUNE No. 36 Finn Loses Bid For Order Barring New Deportation San Francisco (IP) Ex--Communist William Heikkila lost a bid today to obtain a permanent restraining order barring the government from again hustling him out of the country. : Federal Judge Edward P. Murphy rejected the request for. the ; order, by Lloyd E. McMurray,; attorney for the 52-year-old - Finnish - born draftsman. t . The action came at a hear ing on why District Immigra tion Director Bruce . Barber and his assistant, Stanley Ol son, should not be held in civil contempt for the one-armed draftsman's abrupt deporta tion two weeks ago. Has Temporary Order ; The judge's decision on the contempt issue was not ex pected until later today. McMurray asked for the permanent restraining order to back up a temporary one he already has obtained to prevent the "exporting, ex cluding or jailing" of Heik kila. He demanded it on grounds the government claims that now that Heikkila has actually set foot on his native Finland he can be sent back at any time. On the contempt issue, Bar ber testified that he was told by U. S. Assistant Attorney Elmer Collett that there was no court matter pending at the time to prevent Heikkila's deportation. Battle Expected ' Asked by- McMurray about the ."cloak and dagger'.' spir iting of the draftsman from the. country, Barber said he feared they would have diffi culty seizing him. "I had visions of having to carry Heikkila with a man on each arm and. leg," Bar ber said. "In my opinion we are not dealing here with a completely reformed Commu nist." McMurray claimed that Heikkila was merely a "de pression Communist" who worked "for bread, relief and unemployment insurance." Elmo Smith fo Talk At Dinner Meeting Former Governor Elmo Smith will discuss the state tax situation at a dinner at the Tally-Ho restaurant at 7 o'clock tonight. Smith, state chairman for the Mark Hatfield for Governor-campaign, said he would analyze each of the three na jor Republican candidate's positions on state taxation. Smith, who spoke at' a Klamath Falls noon meeting today, also will appear on the local television station to night, i Portland (IP) Carl Oliver Walcott, . 36, Santa Maria, Calif., has been given a six year prison sentence for at tempting to rob the Live-stock-Kenton branch of the First National Bank of Port land last February. Transfer company, Medford, hauled equip ment from early morning until 8 p.m. yes terday and another truck was put into use today to complete the "mop up" operation, according to Company Manager Jack Fitzgerald. Russia Rejects U.S. Proposal For Safeguard United Nations, N. Y. IP Russia today vetoed in the U.N. Security Council a U.S. proposal to establish an Arctic "open skies" inspection sys tem as a safeguard, against surprise attack. . The vote was 10 to 1 in fav or of the American resolution proposing the northern inspec tion system. Russia's single vote, as a permanent member of the Security Council, block ed its adoption. , It was toe 83rd time Russia had used its U.N. veto. Of these, 47 vetoes were used on membership questions. Japan Move Fails , An adjournment moved by Japan at the end of this morn ing's council meeting failed to produce agreement "upon a plan backed by India and oth ers to have Council President C.S.A. Ritchie of Canada ex press the consensus of the 11 nation group as favoring the American plan. The proposal grew out of complaint by Russia that H bombers of the U.S. Strategic Air Command were flying Arctic alert missions "toward the frontiers of the Soviet Un ion." Interested in Anxieties U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge told the council Russia's veto demonstrated that the "Soviet Union is more interested in bringing to the world anxieties instead of trying to allay fears." "This," Lodge said, "is merely an attempt to keep U.S. Air Force planes on the ground where they would be sitting ducks for a surprise at tack." Russia called the plan "con trol without disarmament" and criticized Secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold for having endorsed it. Soviet Am bassador Arkady A. Sobolev told the council there was "no ground for any change" in Russia's opposition. Dealers Report Upturn in Buying : Medford automobile deal ers report on increase in in terest and a general upturn in automotive buying as a result of the first day's campaign to "Keep Medford's Economy Rolling You Auto Buy No.'! . The 10-day campaign start- ' ed yesterday in an attempt to stimulate consumer buying. Spearheaded by the Medford Automobile Dealers associa tion, the drive is being sup ported by various other busi nessmen and organizations. Spokesmen for. the cam paign said other business seems to be stimulated and many retailers are experienc ing some increase in moving items. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight and partly cloudy Saturday. Low tonight 40. High Saturday 75. Temp. Highest Yesterday 80 Lowest this Morning 39 Sunrise 5:06 a.m. Our Skies Tonight Sunset 7:12 p.m. The Moon rises 6:37 p.m. and will be Full Satur day 4:23 a.m. At that time a very small eclipse of the Moon will be tak ing place that may be seen in the far West just before the Moon sets. This eclipse, lasting only 26 minutes, is the short est in many years. O 1
