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S StDOllOM mi raw if FIRES STARTED Actual fires were start ed during a fire foreman's advanced train ing school this week near Medford. Above, Assistant District Warden Howard Brock explains how to extinguish a fire without using water. Representatives of the lumber industry, both loggers and mill crews, were asked to extinguish the fire. The school Oregon Highway 'Crash Program' Given Approval ; Portland (IP) A "crash program" involving nearly $8 million in highway bill funds was approved by the Oregon - State Highway " Commission here Thursday. First con tracts probably will be let be fore the first of June. ' The program would utilize Oregon's share of the non-interstate federal money, which totaled $5,900,000, or $7,910, 000 when matched. Several Projects Observers said the program would mean a step-up of many projects already scheduled for work soon and includes sev eral highway projects that had not yet been programmed be cause of lack of funds. ; " ' The Commission also ap proved the big East .Bank -freeway project in Portland which will cost some $43 mil lion. t , Officials said the "crash .program" money must be con tracted this year, and the projects completed by the end of 1959. It is designed as an anti-recession measure, bene fitting contractors and work ers in particular and business in general. .Pacific Highway Mentioned Division I, made up of Mult nomah, Clackamas and Wash ington, counties, gets the greatest amount, $1,636,000. Division II- gets $1,259,800; "Division III, $1,389,700; Divi sion IV, $977,600; and Divi sion V, $1,236,900. . Highways that will get a boost from the program in clude the Pacific, North San tiam, Oregon Coast, Lower Columbia, ' McKenzie, 'The Dalles-California, Willamette, Old Oregon Trail, John Day, Coos Bay-Roseburg, Nehalem, . Three-Mile' Lane, Junction City-Eugene, Paulina and Kimberly-Long Creek. - Stolen Carburetor Makes Ashland Girl ' Late for School Ashland A stolen carbu retor started a chain, of un- - -pleasant an expensive hap openings at the George Asle- ton residence at 460 Sis 3ciyou blvd., Ashland, Thurs day morning. .f ; 2 Leaving the house at 8:30 ; 1a.m. to drive her daughter, "Wary Ann, to school. Mrs. -Asleson discovered the ga rage had been broken, into Jduring the night. Noticing - nothing missing the two got . into the family's new car. 4 ' Upon starting the aulomo V bile the motor caught on f fire. It was later discovered by Ashland firemen that the ? carburetor, was missing, f causing gasoline , to pour, onto the motor. .Jy The automobile was'' re ' ported badly damaged by : the fire. Mary Ann Asleson ' also was late for school. Just Fire Assistant, Solon's Husband Asks Washington (W Rep. Coya Knutson (D-Minn.) has rejected her husband's plea to stay home and defin itely will run for reelection, a member of her staff said today. : " Oklee', Minn. ' (IP) Rep. Coya Knutson's husband said today he did not object to her political career, only to her administrative assistant. -He Wouldn't Mind ; "I wouldn't mind her stay ing in Washington if only she'll get r rid of that .Bill Kjeldahl," Andrew Knutson said. "I might even go to Washington, who knows?" T. "But," he added after a thoughtful moment, "I don't HinrapDoyinraeinift KBse Noted! inn County The first large increase in employment this season was noted , the last two weeks of April, John J; Patton, man ager of the Medford state em ployment service office, said today. .- - ' ' The greatest increase was in the lumber industry, he said, where several firms call ed back regular crews. There also was a smaller, but notice able, increase in construction activity, which is consistent with the usual seasonal pat tern for Jackson county. The rise in employment is about one month later than was the case last year, Patton pointed out. Unemployment Listed Unemployment in the coun ty as of April 30 was esti mated at 2,085, Patton said, compared to 2,880 a month ago. The total still is 28 per cent more than April last Bids to Clear Lake Site Opened Howard Austin, Boise, Idaho, submitted the'apparent low bid for clearing the How ard Prairie reservoir site in the Talent project. Bids were opened by the bureau of reclamation at Camp White yesterday. Nine teen bids were received for clearing brush and merchan tile timber from a gross area of 990 acres, and for remov ing old buildings and other man-made improvements from a gross area, of 1,800 acres.-. ' Austin's tid was $49,977. R and P Contractors, Inc., Shelton, Wash., bid $51,940; andi J. M. Ollis, post office box. 211, Cave Junction,1 bid $74,680. - Engineers ' estimate for the job was $100,000.. Bids will be forwarded to the regional bureau of recla mation office in Boise,. Idaho, for review. J. A. Callan is construction engineer station ed at Camp White. ; Bids will be opened June 3 on enlarging Emigrant lake dam. Night Log Hauling Restriction Ends Portland AD The State Highway Commission Thurs day lifted a long-standing re striction on night hauling of logs over Oregon highways. W. C. Williams, state highway-engineer, recommended the action, but that the ban on Saturday and Sunday haul ing be retained. . ' . His recommendation - fol lowed studies of requests for longer hauling hours made March 28 by a group of log haulers headed by Fred Endi cott of Prineville. .Previous rules had permit ted log hauling only between 4 a.m. and 9 p.m. ; . - think I'd like it there." Knutson said he has heard nothing from Jiis wife since he issued a public request to her Wednesday not to run for a third term. He said he would work for her reelection, as he1 has in the past, "if she will just fire Kjeldahl." Workers Said Threatened '"' Knutson said Kjeldahl threatened office workers with the loss of their jobs, and that he was unpopular in the district. . ; He doubted that he could persuade her to abandon that interest now and content her self with, being a housewife. And he said he was astonished by the interest his request had aroused. - " 1 - - 3 s f" was held in an area near Old Military rd. About 0 from the Medford "area attended the Medford school. The school was spon sored by the (Southern Oregon Conserva tion and Tree Tarm association in coopera tion with the state department of forestry, the forest service and the bureau of land management. - . .. year. While the number of persons without work was still comparatively - high, a shortage of help in some skill ed occupations was beginning to be felt, Patton said. During . the week of April 24, unemployment compensa tion claims were filed for a total of 1,483 weeks of unem ployment, he said. This means that 11.8 per cent of the total number of persons working m insured employment in the county were unemployed and drawing benefits. One month previously, 15.1 per cent were unemployed onthat basis, he saia. -. . . ' v. Fruit thinning is expected to get . under way near the end of May, Patton noted, and the start of orchard activity will be timed to provide work for-students during vacation, Job opportunities should con tinue to increase during the next 60 days as . the effect of increasing seasonal payrolls is felt by local business. Patton said the employment service has completed its apti tude testing program at coun ty high :. schools this x.yearw Several seniors with: consid erable ability will be looking for permanent . employment upon graduation,- he added. The tests administered; by the employment . service give an indication of , each student's ability to learn ' various .occu pations.- . No Hazards Found In 63 Residences N hazards were found by city firemen yesterday at half the dwellings inspected. " Firemen noted no hazards at 63 residences. They issued 63 recommendations for haz ardous conditions "seen at other homes. Firemen ,on, nome inspection stopped at 211 houses. No one was home at many of them.- Occupants of nine residences rejected the inspection offier. - ,.- Firemen with three trucks, in constant radio contact with the main station, are calling at home on Medf ord's east and west-running streets and in areas annexed to the city in the past year.' , . . v City Fire Marshal Truman Nelson, inspected two business occupancies, two hotels and a dry, cleaning plant yesterday and issued nine orders for. cor rection of hazards. Red China Puts Khrushchev on Spot Warsaw, Poland UPV Conv munist China's violent attack on the "heresy" of Yugoslavia's- President . Tito has put- Soviet Premier A Jtfikita Khrushchev squarely on the spot, Polish sources said today;- -' -y " ; They said the blistering editorial assault by : Peiping this week on the program of the-i Yugoslav party almost certainly was aimed as much at Khrushchev as it was at Marshal Tito. "It is a direct challenge to Khrushchev's position on ide ological grounds," - a Polish source saidl "He's being told to take his choice - between orthodoxy and heresy. "If he backs Tito, he is affronting the most populous country in the Communist world and all orthodox Com munists," the source said. - Mamie Plans Visit With Ailing Mother " Washington- Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower will leave for Denver tonight to" visit with her ailing mother, Mrs. 'John Doud," for a few days, the White House said today. Mrs. Eisenhower will make the trip by train. Irregularity in Handling Meter Money Is Found Auditors Check Data On Fund Shortage An "irregularity in handling money from parking .meter violation fines . revealed a shortage totaling '$17.50 - in five days the last of April and first of May, ..Medford - City Manager Robert Duff said to day. - ' ,; The irregularity was noted during - an audit of records since Feb. 28, 1958, by Yergen and Meyer, Certified Public Accountants. The audit was requested by city officials aft er the suspension of Miss Neva Samuels, 57, of 123 Tripp St.; longtime city em ployee and former recorder for Medford. She was suspended from of fice earlier this week after an investigation of records in her office indicated a shortage of funds. Duff said this morning no action has yet been taken in. the case. The audit report was received today. ' Check Records Auditors checked . records since Feb. 28, 1958, relating to" receipt and deposit of cash through the finance . office. The examination, they said, revealed no irregularity in the accounting for the cash' after the treasurer's receipts were issued.' The firm also checked data in the possession of the fi nance officer, which "gave rise to the recent dismissal of one of the employees who had been .writing, treasurer's re ceipts and who had periodic custody ; of a portion of the cash in the finance office." ' The. data, they reported, in dicated ..that - periodically the employee "misappropriated parking meter fine payments and destroyed all copies of the patrolman's -ticket .covering the meter fine payment mis appropriated. This " data fur ther indicated that this .em ployee in writing ; the .treas urer's receipt for : the ; daily cash ; collected . from these. parking meter fines under stated . the receipt ; in ; the amount of $2 on four days and $3 on the other day of the five days in- which the ' data-is available." . : .''.; Exact Amount . The firm pointed out that "the exact amount of this shortage cannot be d e t e rr mined' because the patrol man's tickets are destroyed after the money is turned over to the finance officer or his deputy." The irregularity in handling the money from parking me ter violation fines "was only apprehended by the efforts of the city finance officer in run ning checks of ' the missing copies of the parking meter violation tickets after this employee had been left alone with the copies during the lunch hour and by making a double check on the amount of funds turned over to this employee during the day for which this employee wrote a treasurer's receipt for the to tal at the end of the day." The data examined covers checks on April 28, 29, 30 and on May 1 and 2. The data "in dicates a shortage on each day which for the five days totals $17.50," the auditors said. ' :. - i . Polaris Missile Explodes in Sky Cape Canaveral, Fla The Navy fired a fore-runner of its versatile Polaris missile Thursday and although it burst apart high in the sky the test was called "very sat isfactory," ) An official of the Lockheed firm which built "the 1,500 mile solid fuel missile, called the Polaris flight a success. When it becomes operational in 1960 the Polaris, which the Navy has called the na tion's most advanced Tallistic missile, will be launched from submerged nuclear - powered submarines. ;' , ' Thursday's Polaris streaked almost straight .up' for about 20 seconds and gained an alti tude of an estimated 20,000 or 25,000 feet before it blew into two large pieces.. Eugene itn Charles V. Stanton, editor and general manager of the Roseburg News Review, has been taken off the critical list at Sacred Heart hospital here. Stanton recently suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Srs ran Ulmy To By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent - Washington Southern Pa cific's proposed lumber rate reduction has set off what In terstate Commerce officials say is likely to be "a big case." The ICC all week has been receiving protests from truck ers, barge lines, southwest lumber mills and t northern California interests. The SP had announced its intent to cut. freight rates on lumber between Oregon and southern California effective May 21. A decision by the ICC's sus pension board is expected nexf Thursday; May. 15. If it allows the rate reduction, that's the end of it. If it for bids SP's loweK tariff s, the railroad can appeal its case to division two of the commis sion itself. No hearings on the matter, at least at this point, are planned. : Protests must be filed by today to be considered by the suspension board.; Those re ceived thus far by the board have been from Sause. Broth ers Ocean Trucking Co., Inc.; Upper Columbia River Towing Bill Would AHol ces ; A ; bill to authorize i con structionyof a federal office 'boiliding; h Medford costing ah estimated ; $1,200,000 was announced yesterday by Rep. Chafles O. Porter- (D-Ore.). The bill apparently is the result of an independent' sur vey conducted by city of ficials last winter of federal offices, and personnel, in va rious locations throughoutUhe city. '- ' J' : ' Most Federal offices now afe located at: Sixth st. and Riverside ave., in the post of fice building, and on the top floor of the Medford city hall. There" are other individual of fices in other locations in Med ford arid the valley. . ' 260 Employees ' The city's independent sur vey showed that more than 260 federal employees are working 'in various offices in Medford, and that present quarters are not all consider ed adequate. City officials said no figures were available in terms of how much it cost the federal government to main tain scattered offices. The survey was discussed with Porter earlier this year, spokesmen said. . - . f The local office of the Gen eral. Services administration, the" federal agency which handles governmental hous ing, did not know any details of Porter's bill, a representa tive of GSA said. Such a federal office build ing in Medford would concen-' trate all federal offices in one location. City - officials indi cated they believe such . a building would be more eco nomical .for the federal gov ernment to operate than the present scattered offices, most of which are rented. Morgan Orders Probe Of SP Rail Service : Salem OPI Public Utility Commissioner Howard Mor gan said today he has ordered an investigation into the ade quacy of passenger service of the Southern Pacific railroad in its .Portland division which includes all SF tracks in Ore gon. . ' y. ; .Morgan.said he was making the -.investigation because of "numerous telephone "'and written complaints from peo ple using the facilities."' . Washingtbn-nPt :The Cen tral Electric Cooperative . of Redmond, Ore., has won a $775,000 loan from the Fed eral Rural Electrification Ad ministration. - rem raSES Agency. Off i Qd EM lni company of "Vancouver, Wash.; New Mexico and Utah; W. R. Chamberlain and com pany; Mitchell Brothers Truck Lines; Foss Launch and Tug company; Consolidated Navi gation company- California Lumber Truckers' rate com mittee, consisting of numer ous truckers; California - For est Products Shippers' associ ation, and various chambers of commerce - from northern California cities such as Eure ka, Ukiah and Del Norte. Barge lines and ' truckers maintained the cut rate rail tariff would drop rail rates below those they . charged. Upper Columbia Towing said the all-rail rate from Coos Bay to Los Angeles would be $1.03 less than . the rate by barge plus truck from harbor to Los Angeles. - From inland points the differential increased so . : 53rd Year Medford 24 PAGES MEDFORD, "Well, Hello There, Old Rio Trai n Coll ision Kills, Injures 300 Rio de Janeiro (IP) Officials today blamed an en gineer's error for a head-on collision between two passen ger trains that killed and in jured more than 300 persons. "'A count of bodies at the Rio city morgue and at hospitals reached 114 . this morning. Hospitals reported treating 201 injured, some in critical condition.--.. , Estimates of the dead ranged up to 150. The force of the crash Thursday night in nearby Sao Cristovao was so great ' that many bodies . were mangled, and the exact death toll may never be known. The crash "occurred at 6:17 p.m.- at the height of the com muter rush hour. One train, headed from Rio toward the suburbs, was pack- WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight and Saturday.' Low. tonight 45-48. . High Saturday about 82. Temp. Highest Yesterday 81 Lowest this Morning .46 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4 :S7 a.m. Sunset 7 :20 p.m. Moonrise Saturday -12 :5l a.m. May 10 :12 p.m. :25 pjn. :13 p.m. Last Quarter PROMINENT STARS Procyon, low in west 10 Altair, low in east .11 Arcturus, high in ' south 11 Antares. due south .... 1 Vega, high overhead 3 :3 a.tn. tBfg-1 m1 that rail rates to Palm Springs from Coos Bay would be $5.08 less than by barge-truck. The barge company main tained that a 35.79 per cent rail rate cut by "SP consti tutes "unfair and unjust com petitive practices contrary to the national transportation policy" and goes "far beyond the realm of reasonableness." It. argued that "it is indeed an anomaly for the railroads to publish such a stupendous rate reduction in the face of their continued pleadings for increased revenues." . The southwest mills con tended Jthat reduced rates from Oregon to California "would , give undue and un reasonable preference and ad vantage to the California and Oregon lumber mills, and sub ject the Arizona and New Mexico lumber mills to un OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY Pal, Old Pal, Old Pal' ' rr mrm, ' i ' I V ed with commuters going home. The other was bringing suburbanites into the city. , An official statement by the Central do Brazil Railroad blamed the accident on Firm ino Teixeira Araujo, engineer of the outbound train. It said he. was going out on an in bound track without proper permission. Rasor Quits Oregon Race for Governor Portland OP) Orval Rasor, Portland logging operator, to day announced his withdraw al from the race for the Re publican nomination for gov ernor in the May 16 primary election.. Rasor said he was asking his supporters- to vote for State Sen. Warren Gill of Lebanon. j Rasor said he had tried to get support from lumbermen for his plan to have the state buy all federal timber lands in Oregon and administer them on a state level, rather than from Washington. But, he said, lumbermen were re luctant to join him so with no support the best thing was to drop out of the ra'ce. Although he has withdrawn, Rasor's name still will appear on the GOP ballot. x due and unreasonable preju dice and disadvantage." It complained that SP had not proposed equal reduc tions between the southwest and southern California. California truckers com mittee contended that ."truck carriers will be destroyed'.' by the new SP rates. They said it now costs $1 to' truck 40,000 pounds of lumber from Port land to Los Angeles and $1.03 to ship 34,000 pounds by rail, but that under the reduced rates it would cost only 81 cents to ship 50,000 pounds by rail. Northern California inter ests objected because the new rates could put western. Ore gon mills bn a more competi tive basis with those in north ern California for the - big southern California market. Price 10 Cents Tribune : 9, 1 958 ; No. '42 Peruvians Praise s In Face of Mob Lima, Peru (IB Em barrassed Peruvians today praised the personal courage of U.S. Vice President Rich ard M. ' Nixon who braved a Communist-led mob which stoned him, -threw garbage, spat on him and desecrated the American flag. ' Nixon was leaving today for Quito, Ecuador, on the -next lap of his South American tour. But he made it clear he did not blame Peruvians as a whole or the student body of San Marcos University only Communist ringleader for Thursday's violence. Encouraged To Go , - It was) disclosed that U.S. Ambassador . Theodore Achil les had encouraged Nixon to go to the university despite the t h r e a t s of violence. Nixon's advisers had urged him to remain away and he actually cancelled his plans until Achilles convinced him the Peruvians would consider him cowardly if he failed to show up. .' The fact he did visit the uni versity and the fact he stood up to the mob and demanded to talk with31 its leaders had a profound effect on "many Peru vians. Nixon himself said the reds had suffered a "great de feat as time will tell." Negotiations Called For Aircraft Dispute A Los Angeles (IP) Day to day negotiating sessions were called today to head off a threatened strike of more then 100,000 workers at 15 big aircraft plants across the nation. 1 Bird Chaser, Fund' Cut By Washington P There was bad news today for the Supreme Court justices and for American diplomats living abroad. f- . The justices will have to get along with their Vdirty birds" lor another year. vThe diplomats will have to get along with less whiskey money than they had hoped for.. ..... Electronic Device Rejected Committee ' turned down the Committee utrned down the justices' pleas for $33,000 to install an electronic device to give the hot foot to birds who desecrate the marble edifice which houses the Supreme Court. Courage Lenient View of Troubles Taken by House Members j. New Yorker Charged With tax Evasion Washington (IP) His in dictment by a federal grand jury left Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D-N.Y.) unscathed today as far as his member ship in the House is concerned. Not only does Powell retain all his congressional preroga tives and pay, but on the bases of past . performance, other members-will act as if thev don't even know he's in trou bles Powell was charged in New York Thursday with income tax evasion. This is the kind of charge which could, if he is convicted, send him to jail. Even then his House member ship would not be denied him. Could Retain Seat - He s could ' resign. Or he could, like Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D-Mass.) before him, swe hie nrienn iima itI;1a holding his seat. Lane, j ailed for tax evasion in 1956, not only continued to serve but ran for another term and was reelected. His official status in the House remains unim paired. - ' The House takes a' lenient view of the, troubles of its members. , By , and large the attitude is that it's up to the - u. - - i vuicis in eauu congressional district to select their repre sentative. The House is not in- 12 i ; a r -it j i cuneu. iu imerxere wun ineir judgment.' . Powell's . position in the House at the moment is prob ably in. greater, jeopardy on political than, legal grounds. Democratic leaders in his dis trict, are. reported hoping to dump him, mostly because he bolted the party in 1956 and supported reelection of Presi dent Eisenhower. Fraudulent Return Charged ' "Powell was accused specific ally of preparing a fraudulent income tax return for his wife. pianist Hazel Scott, for 1951. Her return listed her income as $4,815 when it should have been $9,181. : He also, was charged with evading taxes on a joint re turn with his wife in 1952 by listing joint net income as $5,252 when it actually was $8,952. ..'"I' If convicted, he could be sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison and fines of S3 0,000. His ' wife was not named as co-conspirator in the indictment.- Pacifists Refuse To Accept Sentence UnIATll1ll fit! SWVK bers of the nuclear protest yacht Golden Rule have re fused to accept the 60-day sus pended sentence and one year probation handed them by the federal court. . TU x.i . . bation officer James Mattoon Thursday they would not sign papers acknowledging the sen tence handed down Wednes day by Federal Judge Jon Wiig. The crewmembers include AlHart Krttith Rioplmir 51 Cos Cob, Conn.; William R. Huntington, 51, St. James, N. Y.; Orion Sherwood, pough keepsie, N. Y.; and George Wllloughby, 43, Blackwood Terrace, -N. J. . I They were found guilty of criminal contempt for defying a federal court order against trying to sail to the Eniwetok H-bomb test area. 'Whiskey Committee The committee reached its decision on the Supreme Court! request after hearing testimony that the device would merely chase the birds over to the Capitol, which has plenty of its own birds already. ' j Entertainment Fund Cut ; The committee also slashed to $650,000 a budget request for $1 mililon to help Ameri can diplomats abroad finance the entertainment expected of them. Last year Congress pro vided $600,000 for this pur pose. The State Department calls' it . the "representation allowance' Some congress ional critics call it the "whis key fund.'
