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srere K r-x - '! MISSILE MANEUVER Chinese farmers up a "Matador" missile during a practice in a nearby rice field watch men of the U.S. maneuver near Taiwan, Formosa. Air Force 17th Guided Missile Squadron set (Defense Department photo) Evacuation Exercises Are Meld on SimuDated Alert Simulated evacuation exer cises were conducted from 9:30 a.m. to noon today, dur ing the second day of the two- day nation-wide Civil Defense alert, according to Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, county civil de fense director. Chief Criminal Deputy Sheriff Joe Walsh, assisted by by deputies and members of the Jackson county police re serve, set up traffic control points along .Highway 99 south of the Highway 66 junc tion. ' Take Part 'Drivers and passengers were asked to take a volun tary part in the registration exercises at the Southern Ore gon college gymnasium. A radioactive substance was found on Trail summit during Civil Defense exer cises in the county yester day. Maj. Gen. H. H. Hicks reported today. He said a crew, consist ing of Howard Nutt and R. C Oliver, both of Shady Cove, picked up a reading of .13 roentgens per hour on their monitoring instru ments. This, he said, is consid ered "pretty hot" and ex posure to such a radioactive substance for five or six hours would be definitely harmful to a person. Civil Defense headquar ters in the county court house this morning said a technician has been sent out to investigate the report, but he has not yet reported back. All other reports from radiological crews search- f ing around the edge of the valley as part of the exer cise were .negative. General Hicks added. Walsh said this morning traf gc would be directed, down Walker st. in Ashland to Webster st, where the gym is located. '" Tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the courthouse auditorium, Civil Defense workers will hear re ports on the exercises. Yesterday -afternoon Jack son County Civil Defense worked on support problems. Calls were received from the Klamath Falls area to send support there. A'team of 12 radiological monitors was sent there plus a dozen pieces of fire apparatus which were furnished by Ashland, Med fbrd and Central Point. Hicks said his organization was notified yesterday that, in theory, 5,000 persons were evacuated from Klamath Falls to this area, 600 of them casualties and 150 requiring hospital treatment. Portland Evacuation A report of the theoretical Medford Police Complete wonsTrucTion The Medford police depart ment has announced it has completed construction of a pistol range on state property in the Camp White range area. Chief Charles Champlin said the range is designed for the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation pistol course and for other modern police pistol courses. He said the depart ment had been using the Na tional Guard's .45 caliber range, but found it did not meet several police require ments. . Champlin said other than small construction expenses, the total cost was kept low. Off-duty police officers did most of the work, he noted. Police received assistance from the city public works de partment which did grading, scraping and some surfacing with city machinery. The city public works department also Portland evacuation estimat ed 60 per cent of the popula tion had evacuated, and this area would receive 25,000 to 30,000 evacuees from Port land. Portland Civil Defense estimated 130,800 persons were theoretically killed, 44, 000 injured, 12,000 received radiological injuries and 25, 000 would require surgical and hospital treatment. Salem dP) Civil Defense officials said today that Tues day's simulated attack on Portland and Klamath Falls showed Oregon to be "woe fully short," of medical sup plies against a nuclear attack. Col. Arthur Sheets, state civil defense leader, also said radio (communication with eastern Oregon is weak. Most medical supplies are kept in Portland which is a prime target, he said. Col. Sheets said that if real bombings took place in Port land and Klamath Falls, Ore gon would be in relatively good shape as far as food was concerned. It would have 66 days supply in food process ing ' plants, warehouses, and groceries. Food would have to b$ ra tioned at the rate of three pounds a day, or 2,200 calories. IFolsom Quits Post; Hemming; Selected Washington (IP) Presi dent Eisenhower today accept ed the resignation of Marion B. Folsom as secretary of Voters Pamphlet Mixed in Mailing Approximately 400 voters pamphlets have been mailed in Jackson county to correct an error in earlier mailings, the county clerk's office said today. Pamphlets designated for members of one political par ty had been sent members of the opposite party in some cases, a spokesman said. This applied to Precinct 46 voters whose last names started with the letters R to Z, all of Pre cinct 46A, and to Precinct 46 B voters who names started with the letter B through J, it was explained. This is not the only mixup in the mailing of voters' pamphlets, the spokesman said. Jackson county clerk's office received approximately 500 pamphlets designated for Coos county from the Secre tary of State's office in Salem. They have been laid aside. or Kanqe altered a small range building on xne site, Champlin ex plained. The range contains six fir ing points and has a maximum range of 60 yards and a mini mum range of seven yards, he said. The firing lanes have been covered with granite. The location of the range is south of the present National Guard pistol and rifle range, Champlin said. He said the state had granted free use of the land to the department. Champlin said arrange ments for securing use of the land were made by Charles J. Meyers, superintendent of military department of Camp White. He noted. police must qualify on the FBI course every two months. He said the police range would now make it possible for Medford patrolmen to use the range for practice purposes at more convenient times. Battle Creek, Mich. HP) A costly flaw in the nation's civil defenses was exposed to day when simulated radioac tive fallout rained make-be-live death on millions who lacked adequate shelter. The fallout plotted as part of the 1958 "Operation Alert" that opened Tuesday with 291 mock H-bomb and missile at tacks, pointed up what Civil Defense officials said was. a "crucial need" for both mass and family size shelters. Radioactivity Reports . Early radioactivity reports indicated some of the deadli est mock fallout centered in the heavily populated New England states. Two bright spots of the alert were reported by crews manning a 24-hour watch in the "war room" at the Battle Creek headquarters of the Federal Civil Defense admini stration: ; It took less than three minutes to flash a warning to all crucial target areas. This speed would be invaluable in preparing for actual missile attacks. , . . . . . ,.- ; : Improvements in - m a s s evacuation- procedures were credited with "saving" about 25 million persons who would have been considered casual ties in last year's drill, " Health, Education and Wel fare. He named Dr. Arthur S. Flemming to succeed him. Flemming, now president of Ohio Wesleyan university will take over from Folsom late in July if confirmed by the Senate. The President sent Flem ming's nomination to the Sen ate at the same time that Folsom's resignation was an nounced. , Flemming, 52, was a civil service commissioner from 1939 to 1948 and defense mo bilizer from 1953 to last March when he returned to his post as university president at Del aware, Ohio. ' Folsom resigned for per sonal reasons. In an exchange of corres pondence with Eisenhower, the retiring secretary recalled that he told the chief execu tive last year, "that for per sonal reasons it would be necessary for me to leave government service some time this year." Folsom, who has been ail ing, said the logical time "would seem to be near the close" of this session of Con gress" "so that the new secre tary can participate in plan ning the budget and legis lative program for next year." Folsom was named to the Cabinet on Aug. 1, 1955, suc ceeding Mrs. Oveta Culp Hob by, first secretary, of the new est government department. Barge Operators Accused by Railroads .Portland (IP) The Ore gon Railroad association to day charged barge onerators with trying to stifle competi tion on movement of grain to North Pacific Coast terminals. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and mild to night. Partly cloudy Thursday with chance of scattered light showers. Low tonight 40. High Thursday 72-75. Temp. Highest Yesterday 70 Lowest this Morning 40 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise ' 5:00 a.m. Sunset 7:17 p.m. Moonrise 11:38 p.m. Last Quarter , May 10 PROMINENT STAR Spica. due south 10:30 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, near Spica Saturn, rises 10:40 p.m. Mars, rises 2.51 ajn. Venus, low in east 3:45 a.m.. Scientists Make Balloon Journey. Into Stratosphere V Telescopic Look At Heavens Made Dubuque, Iowa (IP) Two Navy scientists, who soared in a balloon eight miles into the stratosphere for a tele scopic look at the heavens to help pave the way for manned satellites, landed unharmed southeast of here today. The balloon, launched on Tuesday night, came down shortly before 4:30 a.m. (PST) in a clover field on the Joe Aeurcamp farm, six miles east of here, in Illinois. 76 Degrees Below Zero The scientists experienced temperatures as low as 76 degrees ' below zero at the eight-mile altitude. They were flown to Minne apolis where they will hold a press conference this eve ning. The scientists were the first to view stars and planets through a telescope in the stratosphere. The experiment al flight also tested the reac tion of the scientists to the thin air and the cold temp eratures of the lower stratos phere. Flight Said Successful The men wore heavy clo thing and breathed mechani cally supplied oxygen in the rarif ied ' stratosphere. Navy spokesmen at Minne apolis, who maintained con tact with the scientists via radio, said the flight was "successfully executed with no failures reported in the tests or measurements." The spokesmen said it would take some time to eval uate the scientific data ob tained. Plans Being Made For County Fair Plans are being made by the Medford Kiwanis club to reestablish a county fair here, Col. Arthur M. Savard, chair man of the Kiwanis commit tee, said this morning. Tenta tive dates are Aug. 21-24. Negotiations are being made with contractors on set ting up sound and light equip ment, and to bring a carnival here, he said. A budget is be ing worked out and an at tempt is being made to see if income from the event could be guaranteed; he added. The Kiwanis club has asked that the county court author ize renting booths for -such county exhibits as those spon sored by Granges and the Farm Bureau. This, it was pointed out, would contribute materially to finance the fair. The county court has asked the district attorney's office for an opinion on this matter and expects to receive one soon, Colonel Savard said he had been informed. t The county fair would notl detract from 4-H orv FFA groups who last year exhibit ed in conjunction with the Kiwanis Town and Country show, he explained. Instead, each would contribute to at tracting crowds. Last year's event was primarily a home show while the Kiwanis club hopes to attract both business and industry to the county fair type of event this- year, he added. GOP Ballots Have Wrong Initial A mistake on 17.161 Remib- lican ballots has been pointed out to the elections depart ment of the Jackson county clerk's office, it was reported this morning. All the Republican ballots have "H" instead of "W". for The elections department learned about noon today that Republican ballots in 17 of the 106 precincts are correct. The error was made in printing the ballots and those ballots with the error will be replaced with no additional cost to the coun ty, an elections department official said. the middle initial of Medford Mayor John W. Snider, seek ing the Republican nomination for state senator. All absentee ballots were printed correctly, according to an elections de partment official. The elections department of the secretary of state's office will be. contacted to find out what the legal implications of such an ; error might be, the spokesman said, and how it nyght be corrected properly. Medford 20 Pages Holt Charged' Fort Worth, Tex. OP) DiS' eased Korean babies have been brought into the United States for adoption through an Oregon adoption agency. City Health Director Dr. W. B Bradshaw charged today. Dr. Bradshaw claimed the agency, operated by Harry Holt of Creswell, Ore., had shipped the orphans into this country ; without medical checkups and then given them to "couples too old to adopt babies." Protest Registered The doctor said he protest ed to the state Health Depart ment after one of the babies died in Fort Worth. The infant that died, two-year-old Charlene Kim, was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hamilton, who said they paid plane fare plus $75 to Holt to cover "other costs" of bridg ing the baby to this country. Bradshaw said 89 babies had been brought to the U. S from Seoul, Korea, by Holt. "I want someone to do some checking on how these infants get into the United States without a medical checkup,' he said. Creswell, Ore. (IP) Mrs, Harry Holt confirmed here to day that diseased Korean or phans are brought into this country for adoption, as charged by a Fort Worth health official. But she pointed out that the program has full Congressional and government sanction and complete medical safeguards. - Mrs. Holt explained that in order to get a passport to this country the children are sub jected to a rigid physical ex amination in Korea and then undergo further medical ex aminations by American doc tors before they are granted a visa to this country. The Holts, in a widely recog nized act of private philan thropy, have brought nearly 800 Korean mixed-blood or phans to the U.S. Last year Holt was honored by the Na tional Conference of Chris tians and Jews . with its Brotherhood Award for his work in rescuing the Korean orphans. The act of Congress per mitting tubercular orphans to enter this country was signed by PresidentTSisenhower Sept. 7, 1957. It admits such chil dren on the condition that Holt are being treated at Na- Polling Places in r Phoenix Changed Voting places for four Phoe nix precincts h a v e been changed, according to the elec tions department of the coun ty clerk's office. Votine nlace for nrecincts 57A and 59 has been changed from the Phoenix grade school to the' high school. Precincts 61 and 86, which were to have the high school for a voting place, have been shifted to the grade school, an elections de partment official said. A number of voters had complained they had to walk out of "their way due to the former polling place (arrange ments, a spokesman said. Starkweather Said Prodded by Girl '.Lincoln, Neb. (IP) The de fense pictured Charles Stark weather today as a young man who would have halted his orgy of 11 killings at the halfway mark had not his 14-yeaf-old girl friend prodded him on. Not only did Caril Ann Fu gate urge him on, but she held a shotgun as she told him she wasn't going to sur render and neither was he, lawyers f o rv Starkweather said. 'Attorney T. Clement Gaughan released two sec tions of the confession the 19 yearnold red-haired killer made last February. They came as the trial went into its third day with a" panel of 17 prospective jurors ten tatively approved. It appeared a panel of 34 would be ap proved by late today and the 12-member jury chosen from that. : i MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1958 gJ Oral adopting parents pay for the full cost of treafment in sani tariums or hospitals approved by the government: They must be isolated during the plane trip to this country and even use separate debarking ramps at ports of arrival. Most of 1 the tubercular children brought to this country by Weather Forecast Not Included in Campaign Funds Carlos Morris, candidate for county coroner, does not have to include the expense of his televised weather forecast in campaign expenses, according to a verbal opinion from the secretary, of state's ' office in Salem. ' ' Freeman Holmer, chief of the state elections depart ment, told County Clerk Ber eth P. Hopkins by telephone that such a program ' is not designated as a political broadcast. Holmer agreed that the program could be considered a public service since it has been run as such for a number of years. Notified of Ruling Morris was notified in April by local television station of ficials that the Federal Com munications commission has ruled his program is a politi cal broadcast. The FCC regu lation states that whenever a political candidate appears be fore a microphone that broad cast constitutes a political broadcast. - Morris explained earlier that he is limited to $250 in campaign expenditures by state law. That means, accord ing to that ruling, he must drop his daily program, cost ing about $60 a night. -Through County Clerk Ber- eth P. Hopkins he requested the elections department of the secretary of state's office to look into the matter. Morris said he has had the program for four years. It is a weather broadcast and no political campaigning is done on it, he added. Armed Forces Day Activities Planned Local military reserves and Nati&nal Guard units have planned a series of activities during Armed Forces week, May 10 to 18. Highlight of activities will be a parade starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 17. Units par ticipating include units of the Army and Navy reserve and National Guard units from Medford and Ashland, r The Air Force has sched uled two fly-overs by various types of planes on May17 and 18, and windovr displays- are planned by local units. A display, which will include at least one - Air Force .plane, is planned at the Medford air port. ' - The Reserve Officers asso ciation has planned a military ball May 24 at the -Rogue Valley Cduntry club. All ac tive, retired or former offi cers of the armed services are invited. Tickets for the ball may be obtained at Swem's. Bend Truckers Face ' Federal Tax Charges Portland (IP) Three Bend truckers have been indicted on charges of failure to file federal transportation tax re turns Chief Assistant U. S. At torney Robert R. Carney said today. Carney said Herbert May field, 44; William Horsell, 37, and Emil Dachtler, 47, were indicted secretly last week by a federal grand jury, iney were, taken before Deschutes County District Judge Joe Thalhofer in Bend Tuesday night and posted $500 bail each. Radio Highlights A political broadcast by President Eisenhower will be heard over radio station KYJC.(1230 kc) at 10:30 tonight. mm Eragiig ais lit States tional Jewish hospital in Den ver. Referring to the "other costs" mentioned by Dr. Brad shaw as charged adopting par ents by the Holts, Mrs. Holt explained the cost breakdown. Adopting parents, she said, pay $253 transportation costs for each orphan. The Holts Adequate Forecast The outlook for adequate water supplies in the Rogue Umpqua watersheds has been only slightly affected . by an unusual pattern of April pre cipitation, according to W. T. (Jack) 'Frost, Portland, state snow survey supervisor. Precipitation was below normal in valley areas, Frost noted, and normal or greater than normal in mountain areas. Adequate June rains will be needed to keep stream flow normal in the smaller, low-elevation streams, he said. Water Content Water content of the moun tain snow - pack increased slightly. Cool temperatures held snow-melt runoff to near normal in the Rogue river, while excess precipitation brought flow of the Umpqua up to 124 per cent of the April average, he said. Exceptionally wet soils in the upper watersheds will favor a well sustained runoff from snow-melt and any sub sequent . precipitation. Al though reservoired water sup plies are somewhat less than last year at 4his time, they are 129 per cent of average, Frost noted. , Forecasts of streamf low for the irrigation season, April through September, are all at normal or above normal, ex cept for the inflow to Hyatt Prairie reservoir, which is ex pected to be 80 per cent of average. Frost said the Talent Irrigation, district may be short of water in the late sea- son unless adequate rains are received. Flow at Raygold Flow of the Rague at Ray gold dam is forecast at 106 per cent average. Low flow at Savage Rapids dam is not expected to fall below 950 second-feet, and. canal alterna tion should be unnecessary for the Grants Pass Irrigation dis trict. The Jliinois and Applegate rivers, rost said, win pro duce : greater than normal water supplies this year, and the Little Applegate should Auditors Checking Medford's Records Auditors were cheeking the city's records today in an at tempt to determine the exact amount of a shortage of funds, according to City, Manager Robert Duff. The . investigation started earlier . this week when a shortage of funds totaling more than $50 was noticed in the records kept by Miss Neva Samuels, 57, of 123 Tripp st., longtime city 'employee. She Was suspended from office Monday, Duff said. Duff reported earlier that Miss Samuels had verbally ad mitted to him and other city officials that she had been taking small sums over a pe riod of several months. Miss Samuels, who worked under the direction of City Treasurer and Recorder Darell Huson, has had no formal charges filed against her pend ing the outcome of the audit. Neuberger" s Klamath Bill Passed by Senate Washington (IP) The Sen ate today passed and sent to the House a compromise bill providing for the disposal of timber lands on the Klamath Indian reservation in Oregon, It approved by voice vote an administration measure in troduced by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) Under the bill Klamath timber first will be put up for sale to private interests, and the federal- gov ernment will purchase what ever is le over. i Tribune No. 40 then charge a $50 adoption fee, a $15 home study fee, and a $25 immigration fee. The Holts realize no profit from the operation. They have sold a portion of their Oregon farm in order to finance construction of an orphanage in Seoul to care for orphans before adoption. Water Bs For Area produce considerably more water than last year. On a statewide basis, Frost noted, April precipitation, much above normal in many areas, has added to the al ready adequate or abundant water supplies available for Oregon farmers. High moun tain snow-cover is well above average and reservoired water supplies are excellent. Funds Approved For Talent Work The Senate Tuesday passed an accelerated - reclamation construction program. author izing an additional $2,500,000 for the Talent project. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, (D-Ore.), who participated in tne aenate, oetendea tne in crease as not contributing to types of farm crops which are in surplus. In replies to east ern -state criticism; - he said farmers on irrigated tracts in Oregon would buy many pro ducts manufactured by work ers in "eastern states. as a result or senate ac tion, Neuberger said he would appear before House and Sen ate Appropriations commit tees next week in support of 1959 fiscal appropriations to taling $1,800,000 for the Crooked river project, and $12 million for the talent pro- ject.- The accelerated reclama tion program passed by the Senate Tuesday includes an additional $1 million for the Crooked river project: 80 Residences Founcl Free of Hazards City firemen conducting in spection of dwellings' in Med ford found 80 residences free of hazards and made 42 recom mendations for correction of hazardous conditions. The firemen stopped at 201 houses and found no one home at 70 of them. Nine occupants turned down the offer of in spection. Baker OP) Howard Harri son Hull, 69, of Baker, was killed instantly Tuesday when he was struck by a car. BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati .'. 15 1 Chicago. 5 9 0 Dawrence, Wight (6)Klipp stein (7) and Dotierer; Phil lips and S. Taylor. . 'Man, This Is Certainly A Good Joke On , : - - The Union" Lockheed Makes Settlement With ridimniM union Other Companies May Follow Suit Los Angeles HP) A ten tative agreement on a two year contract providing a 22 cent hourly wage and benefit' "package" was reached today between Lockheed Aircraft and the machinists union as a high government official said there would be no major' strike in the aircraft and mis sile industry.' The Lockheed agreement with the International Asso ciation of Machinists raised hopes of avoiding a paralyz ing nationwide work stop page set for midnight tonight. Key to Settlement The government official in Washington said the Lock heed pact was the key to set tlement of the dispute. He added that other union groups and companies were "moving mto position" to reach agree ment before the deadline. At mid-day, the IAM pre sented a proposition identical to .the Lockheed proposal to Convaiij at San Dfego, ignor ing the "technical fact" that the union's agreement with . Convair expired' at noon to day. V; ; The agreement, announced jointly by Lockheed and IAM negotiators, covered 16, 000 employees in the comp any s Burbank, Palmdale and Maywood, Calif., plants. r.;, Paci " approved by in- xAivi i.odge 727, would "tMC wages on an of 22 cents an hnnr average Higher Demands Lockheed employees, with out a cost of living plan in their old contract, had higher demands than - employees of tne other companies. The strike threatened to paralyze airplane and missile production at 16 plants in sev en states, and would idle 125 -000 aircraft workers. It would --LUdiiy nau missile test ing and delay the country'i missile program. Eisenhower Offers lb Help Candidates Washington (m Presi dent Eisenhower is offering to do all he can to help elect Re publican congressional ranHi. dates who support his pro gram, particularly his defense reorganization, foreign aid and reciprocal trade nronns. als. This implicit pledee w contained in the President's nationally broadcast and tele vised speech Tuesday night at a dinner for Republican mem bers of . Congress. It was fresh evidence he was taking a no-compromise stand and fighting harder -than ever before for a legisla- N tive program that was run ning into trouble from both Republicans and Democrats. Porter Discloses First Atomic Test Washington HP) The At omic Energy Commission con firmed today that the United States fired the first shot in its atomic test series at Eni wetok atoll in the Pacific nine days ago. The AEC gave no further details. It confirmed the blast after Rep. ' Charles O. Porter, CD Ore.), who has just returned from the test site, disclosed the date of the shot in a speech to the House.
