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Newspaper Page Text53rd Year Price 10 Cents rPn -rr-rr -rr-r-rx -r-r Subscribers Recommended MEDFORD 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 1220 a jn. Sunday. . If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. A feature itory about the fir foreman's school conduct ed near Med ford and Grants Pass last week appear on pace 12 of today's Mall Tribune. United Press roll Leased Wire United Press Pull Leased Wire 64 Pages . MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1958 No. 43 .ee. m . winy-TI I aaYX sssssbw r ROBERT F. KYLE Diet at Home Friday President of Loan Association Dies At Medford Home Robert Kyle Headed Association in City Robert F. Kyle, 57, presi dent and manager of the First Federal Savings and Loan as sociation, Medford, died at his home at 42 South Keeneway dr. Friday night. He had been In failing health. Mr. Kylt was born in Re public county, Kansas, Nov. 27, 1898, and moved to Le banon, Ore., with the family in 1902. The family moved to a farm- near Central Point in 1905. He attended school in Cen tral Point and graduated from Central Point High school. He received a bachelor's de gree from Oregon State col lege. After graduating from OSC, h lived in Los Angeles un til 1933, when he returned to Medford and became asso ciated with the savings and loan association. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle were married in the Los Angeles area. Mr. Kyle was manager, of the savings and loan associ ation in 1934 when it receiv ed its federal charter. He is a past president of the Ore gon Savings and Loan League and was active in Medford civic affairs. He served as .chairman of the city budget committee, Vi airman nf the OPA Tirice panel, chairman of the Jack son County Housing author ity, was a member of the war finance committee, and for mer finance oficer of the Boy Scouts and American Legion here. He served in both the Army and Navy during World War I, was a Mason in the Cen tral Point lodge, and a mem ber of Hillah Temple of the Shrine. He was a past treas urer of the University club here, and was a member of Delta Upsilon" fraternity. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Metta N.Kyle, Medford; two sons, Robert F. Kyle, Jr., Medford, and.Capt. Richard R. Kyle, who is stationed with the Air Force at England Air Force base, Alexandria, Lt.; a daughter, Mrs. Jean A. Gardner, Salem; a brother, Elmer E. Kyle, Medford; and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at Perl Funeral home at 1:30 pjn. Monday, May 12. The Rev. William C. Piper, pastor of the First Christian church, will officiate. Private Interment will be at Medford Memorial Mausoleum. Pallbearers will be Herbert G. Grey, John E. Myers, Harry C. Skyrman, Frank E. Ross, Samuel D. Koehler and Rob ert Taylor. Honorary pall bearers will be Thomas G. Ross and brothers-in-law A. W. Herrigan, D. W. Hutchens, Sheldon Crow, C. P. Ellison and C. B. Howard. J. Edgar Hoover Marks Anniversary Washington (TO J. Edgar Hoover Saturday began his 35th year as director of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion. As the first chief of the nation's "G-Men" Hoover has served under five presidents. Ke was a 29-year-old lawyer in the Justice Department when Attorney General Har lan F. Stone gave him the job of building and directing the FBI. Saturday, at 63, Hoover has become an ; institution, his name a household word throughout the country. m - v if 4 "We're Faced With A Security Crisis. Information Is Still Leaking Into This Country' 1 1 i a, i ii i :c-rry !v '"" xsr Navy Backs Ruling On Sailor's Death Washington (IP) The Navy Saturday stuck by its ruling that the , death by hanging of an 18-year-old De troit sailor aboard the air craft carrier Bon Homme Richard was . suicide father than murder. - In a letter to Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), it said "extensive investigations" of Ihe Feb. 16 death of John Edward Ruttan "have failed Top Businessmen Against Tax Cut By Three to One Hot Springs, Va. r-flH Top business executives polled here by Secretary of Com merce" Sinclair Weeks, lined up Saturday about three to one against a general tax cut. Weeks, witli a view to re porting to President Eisen hower next week, informally canvassed members of the business advisory council, a group of more than 100 lead ing industrialists and business men who help keep the gov ernment abreast of business trends. . The council concluded its conference without taking a vote on proposed anti- reces sion measures. The commerece secretary, ex -officio general chairman of the 25-year-old council, said he thought there was gen eral agreement that an ap propriate time in the future the entire tax structure should be overhauled. Many of the business lead ers thought a general tax cut now would be too late to pro duce any appreciable change, an invitation to inflation and be an invitation to heavier federal deficits. ' The administration's recip rocal trade . program also figured in council discussions, with majority, in Weeks' opinion, favoring the five year - extension legislation sponsored by President Eisen hower. This request has en countered rough sledding in congress. Weeks was quick to admit, however, that within the council there was some vocal opposition to the reciprocal trade program. i Precinct Numbers Cause Confusion Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, Jack son county clerk, said Friday several residents are confused as to the location of the pre cinct number listed on the Voters Pamphlets. Some residents have con fused the Jackson county Voters Pamphlet number, which appears directly above the mailing permit, with the precinct number,' which ap pears directly to the right of the printed name. The county's Voter Pamph let number on the nonparti san pamphlet is 61, on the Republican pamphlet, 45, and on the Democratic pamphlet, 11. These numbers, she point ed out, are just above the mailing permit, and are of a larger sized type than the precinct number, which is stamped on it in the county clerk's office on the address- graph. to unearth any suggestion of foul play." Jackson said however that he would ask the Navy to continue its investigation "if there is any further evi dence." Ruttan was found hanging in a paint locker aboard the carrier while the vessel was. in a Bremerton, Wash., ship yard for overhaul: A controversy over wheth er his death was suicide or. murder arose when Al Seger quist, Kitsap,- Wash., county coroner and a veteran of 36 years " in criminal investiga tion, claimed the sailor was a victim of foul play. He flatly contradicted a Navy Court of Inquiry's ver dict of suicide and wrote let ters" o . five senators,' Includ ing -Jackson;- and -three-Ton-gressmen, asking for a f ur ther inquiry. Jackson requested a full re port from the Navy and Sat urday made - Public a letter signed by Rear Adiri. Chester Ward, Navy Judge Advocate General. Ward said that "bas ed on all the obtainable evi dence, there is no reasonable evidence to support the theory of foul play." He said the Navy's find ing was based on "separate, exhaustive investigations" by the police of the Puget Sound Navy yard, the Board of In vestigation and by the Office of Naval Intelligence. He said the latest in scientific meth ods and equipment were used with assistance from the FBI, the Washington State Toxicology laboratory and the Medical Laboratory of the Sixth U. S. Army area. Segerquist had said in Bremerton that the Navy can sail ships but 'when it comes to criminal investigation it is an incompetent organization." He had based his murder theory, in part, on his obser vation that markings on Rut tan's throat" were those of a three-eighths inch rope al though the sailor was found with a half-inch rope around his neck. , Road Work Starts At Crater Lake . Work on clearing the north entrance road to Crater Lake National park started recent ly, park Superintendent Tom Williams has . announced. Crews are encountering a snow pack of up to 30 feet in depth, and it will be June 15 or later before the north entrance road is open to visit ors, he said. The warming hut at the rim will remain open daily be tween 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. start ing immediately, Williams said. There will be no over night accommodations until June 15, and gasoline service station facilities will open about June 1, he said.1 WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy to day, partly cloudy tonight and Monday, cbance of light show ers or thundershowers mostly over mountains this afternoon, ! cooler today and warmer Monday. High 72, low tonight 40. High Monday 78. TEMP. Highest Yesterday go Lowest this Morning 48 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . Sunset . 4:54 a.m. 7:22 p.m. Moonrise Monday 1:51 a.m. New Moon May 18 MARS, the planet seen below the Moon tonight, has a diamet er of 4.140 miles. It is now about 129 million miles from the Earth. Housing Authority Residents Protest Order to Vacate Residents of the "tempor ary" housing project off West Jackson st., who have been ordered to vacate their apart ments by July 1, have protest ed the order and appealed for support from a number of government officials. Grading on Site Of New Shopping Center to Resume Grading on the site of a big new shopping center off east Jackson st., which has been delayed in recent weeks, will resume this week, it was re ported yesterday. J. E. McClellan, of the Los Angeles firm of Buttress and McClellan, owners of the property, in a telephone con versation with Mayor John Snider, said the delay was occasioned by a change in the location of one of the pro posed buildings on the 28 acre center, which required an engineering revision of the grade sheets-for the property. Announcement "Expected McClellan told the mayor that the announcement of the date on which actual con struction will start is expect ed in the immediate future. The shopping center will include a big Sears, Roebuck and company store, a Safe way store, and several oth ers. Total cost will.be in the neighborhood of SIVz mil lion, according to earlier an nouncements. ; Mayor Snider said McClel land told him he has full con fidence in the , future of the Rogue River valley, and is glad to have a business enter prise going in here. He said his firm is going "all-out" on the development of the cen ter this summer. , Plane Forced Down Near Warm Springs Madras (IP) A private four-engined plane with only the pilot and copilot aboard made a forced landing on a plateau on the Warm Springs Indian reservation in rugged central Oregon rimrock coun try about 6:40 p.m. (PST) Sat urday night after a fire broke out in a lower compartment. The two men aboard were not injured, State Police at Bend said. They were iden tified as Leo Wassenberg, En glewood, Calif., pilot and Al Brooks, Glendale, Calif., the copilot. . Police said the plane was en route to the Philippines via Hawaii for "conditional sale" to Wilbur Kelsey of Manila. They said the plane was owned by Leo Aimonette, Newcastle, Wyo. The aircraft was destroyed by flames after the landing. The fliers set the plane down about eight miles southwest of Madras, on the west side of the Deschutes river. Ex-Jacksonville Man Dies In Boise, Idaho Boise (IP) Funeral serv ice arrangements were being made today for Robert K. Davis, 94, member of a pion eer Idaho family, who died here Friday. Born June 26, 1863, at Jack sonville, he came to Idaho in 1864. j Fly-overs, Open House Set By Kingsley Field The 408th fighter group at Kingsley field, Klamath Falls, will observe the ninth anni versary of Armed Forces Day Saturday, May 17, according to Lt. Col. Raymond A. Thorn ton, base commander. A C-119 or C-123 will leave the Klamath Falls field at 9:45 a.m. Saturday and make three fly-o'ers covering Med ford, Ashland and Grants Pass, Lieutenant Colonel Thornton said. The plane will land at Medf ord's airport and be on display. Also making fly-overs will be all jet aircraft with the exception of the F-86. Sched uled time for the fly-overs, are F-102 at 9:15 a.m., F-104 at 9:30 ajn., F-89 at 9:45 ajn. Yesterday, a spokesman for many of those living in the project reported they - have called for assistance from Gov. Robert D. Holmes, from Sen. Wayne L. Morse and Congressman Charles O. Por ter, and from city and county officials. . " None of these have any di rect authority -regarding ihe project, which is owned and operated by the Jackson Coun ty Housing authority, an in dependent agency of govern ment created under state and federal laws and appointed by the county court. Rental Unavailable ; .' ' The spokesmen declare that rental housing in Medford either is unavailable, or is too high in cost for them to af ford, or does not allow chil dren. They say they have searched all " over town for suitable accommodations with out success. One year's post ponement of the termination date of the wartime project is what they are asking. The housing authority plans to sell part of the area to the Army for the site of a new reserve armory, and work with the city in developing a park, swimming pool and ployground. in the rest of it". In; the eviction notices, which were 'mailed early in January, the, tenants ' were given six months to find new quarters; and move out, and the notices stated that rental housing now is more readily available than it has been in this area for some time. Bids Are Called -' Bids for the demolition of some of the now-vacant units have been called, and the rest are scheduled to be razed this summer. - ,v '-.' .. Members of the housing au thority include . Mark A. Goldy Robert A. Duff, H. S. Deuel, Elwood Hedberg, R.B. Thierolf and Otto Ewardsen. Members of the city council toured the project last week, after a delegation of tenants asked for their help at a rec ent council meeting. Any ac tion the council would take would be purely advisory in nature. - The housing project, built in 1942, is now 16 years old, and according to the authority is of sub-standard construc tion, and should have come down long ago. It was con tinued in use because of the post-war housing shortage, which the authority now con siders to be over. Red Skelton's Son Dies Saturday Hollywood (W - Com edian Red Skeleton's nine-year-old ion Richard,whose fight1 against leukemia won the hearts of people throughout the world, died Saturday night at . the UCLA Medical center. . A UCLA Medical center spokesman said the fragile, red-haired boy. stricken with the dread disease two yean ago, died at 8:30 p.m. (PDT). - The comedian had taken the boy to Europe last sum mer in a vain attempt to ob tain treatment that might save his life. Richard had been admit ted to the UCLA Medical center from time to time in the past several months. and the RC-121 at 10 a.m. A military parade is sched uled in Medford at 11 ajn. Saturday, May 17. Participat ing units include the Army and Navy reserve and Nation al Guard units from Medford and Ashland. Open house will be held all day at the Klamath Falls base. All facilities and activities consistent with security and work schedules wll be open to the general public, the base commander said. Static displays w i 1 1 . be shown of the Air For ces's cen tury series aircraft, the F-104 Starfighter, F-102 Delta Dag ger -and the F-l 00 Super Sabre, F-89 Scorpion and the F-86 Sabre jet. 111 uVU 5"a GUEST OF HONOR Scott Brill, 65, who, at the end of this school term, will be: the first Medford High school teacher to iretire, was guest of honor at a. party given for him by faculty members after school, Friday. Students of the school's home ', economics class baked the cake, above, that represented a check made out to him for "one thousand best wishes." Brijl has been metal shop instructor at the high school for 14 years and recently -. V W;': V .v.;; House Group To Concede On Military Streamlining ' Washington (IP) ' The House Armed Services com mittee appeared ready Satur day to offer several conces sions to President Eisenhow er's views on how to stream line the nation's military high command. ' - However, key features of the President's defense reor ganization - plan still faced either heavy rewriting or re jection when: the committee sits down next week to draft its version of the bill. : If the President arid his congressional supporters stick, to the"no compromise" line taken by the White House so far, one of the year's hottest fights is in, store ; when the committee's bill reaches the NATO Allies Against Separate Meetings Washington OP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has run into new protests from NATO allies against sep arate negotiations with Rus- Accident Victim In Good Condition Susanne Gray, 18, of route 3, box 169D, was reported in good condition Saturday night in Rogue Valley hospital from injuries suffered in a car col lision at Hillcrest rd. and Valleyview dr. about 6:45 pjn. Friday. Miss Gray suffered cuts, bruises and a minor concus sion, hospital officials said. Medford police said the car she was driving was involved in a collision with one operat ed by Frank Joseph Kennedy, 2123 Capital ave. . She was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Medford Ambulance Service. Police re ported she was thrown from her vehicle in the collision and -was found lying under.' the car. It is not known if the vehicle rolled over her, police added. United Nations, N.TJ'. HP) Secretary-General Dag Ham marskjold returntd Saturday from Geneva, where he was attending a ' meeting , of the heads of the United Nations Specialized Agency and par ticipating in preparation for next fall's . Second Scientific Conference on Atomic Energy. RID ' 'S' , '""" house floor later this month. - Committee sources said Saturday that chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), the President's most powerful opponent in the fight, will push his 37 member; committee to bring out a watered-down defense reform plan by next weekend. Here is the way major-features of the President's plan are likely to fare, according to committee sources and com ments during open hearings: For Authority Boost , Strengthening the au thority of the unified com manders. The committe prob ably will go along with the President on this. - Enlarging the staff of the joint chiefs. The Eisenhower sia on banning nuclear weap ons tests, " informed sources said Saturday. . These sources disclosed that the opposition was' expressed to Dulles during the 15-na-tion NATO foreign ministers conference in Copenhagen. Dulles returns here next week and will pace the, issue before President Eisenhower immed iately. There has been heavy pres sure from other areas of the world for the United States to join Russia in stopping the tests and thus diminsh the hazards of radioactive fallout. The United States has been studymg the feasibility, of negotiating a ban with Rus sia separate from the overall Western disarmament "pack age" plan. , Includes Test Halt The package plan Includes a halt on testing but links it with a cutoff of production of fissionable material for weapons purposes. In the Eisenhower family it self, there has been vigorous backstage tugging. Adm. Lew- is L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy commission, is opposed to stopping the tests while Dulles reported to favor it. . Informed sources said the trend of administration stud ies appears to favor the Dulles stand but not until the cur rent Pacific test series has ended. The final decision is up to the President.- The informa tion Dulles brings home could be a decisive factor. i era tripou received injuries from ' a "homemade" bomb planted in the school. Brill and his wife, who was also present, live at Trail. Above, city school superintendent Leon ard B. Mayfield, (left) congratulates Brill . for his years of service while High School , Principal Lester Harris looks on. Other teachers to retire from the city school sys tem this year are school nurse Olive Curry and Mary Norvell," Lincoln school second grade teacher. plan calls for wiping out the legal limit of 210 officers on this staff. The committee prob ably will insist on keeping a limit but raise it to 400. Repeal of the legal re quirement that the Army, Navy and Air Force be "sep arately administered." The committee will refuse this. - Power for the defense secretary to abolish, merge or consolidate combat functions. The committee is dead set against this. - , . Joint Chiefs the Presi dent wants to allow the chiefs to delegate duties and respon sibilities to their vice chiefs. He also would repeal a pro vision that the chairman can't vote and allow the chairman to name the staff director and assign duties to the staff. The committee probably, will per mit the chiefs to delegate duties but not responsibilities; repeal the voting ban, and al low the chairman to name the director but not confine to him the power to assign staff duties. ; Research The President wants to creat a new director of defense and research and engineering. The committee is ready to go along but will limit his contracting power to that field alone and coordin ate his office with the recent ly established advance re search projects agency. Officer Transfer Eisen hower seeks authority to transfer officers between serv ices, with their consent. The committee probably will grant.it. ' Appeals to Congress The President would repeal a sel dom if ever used law per mitting top officials of the services to take differences with the defense secretary di rectly to congress. The com mittee will refuse this request. Secretaries President's bill would cut out one assist ant secretary of each service and two assistant defense sec retaries. The committee gen erally favors some reduction but isn't decided on how far to go. Paaris (W Secretary of State John Foster Dulles leaves for home Saturday aft er secret talks with U.S. dip lomats, apparently covering East-West problems and France's troubles in ' North Africa.' ,St. Louis API A blinded veteran of Heartbreak Ridge in Korea will be the Suest of honor at an American Legion observance here Saturday. Anti-Government Mobs Set Tripoli in State of Siege 15 Reported Dead During Violent Riots Tripoli, Lebanon (IP! Anti-government mobs sack ed and burned the U.S. infor mation service library Saturday- and clashed in violent riots with police and soldiers. Saturday night this second largest city of Lebanon was in a state of virtual siege. There were no official es timates of dead or wounded, ' and there was no immediate indication that any Ameri cans were hurt. But reliable sources said there were at least 15 dead and more than 125 .wounded, some' seriously. The rioters concentrated their attack on the one-story U.S.I.S. building. It was burn ed and looted. But the violence raged widely until army units us ing . tanks and trucks were able to drive the rioting mobs off the streets. No Immediate Explanation There was no immediate ex planation' why the mob con centrated its fury on the. U.S.I.S. building. But it was believed that Communists took advantage of the riot to direct the demonstrators violence against the United States. And the U.S.I.S. build ing was handy since Tripoli is headquarters for the serv ice in Lebanon. Army officers said they were sealing off the narrow aalleyways . of , the old city, where 1 the anti-government elements were lodged. They said most of the rioters were armed ' with rifles and pis tols. :- -; The officers said that, with the exception of heavily-armed natrols. thev were not to- ing into the area in force in hopes the situation would play itself out without fur ther bloodshed, - Sporadic firing from light arms echoed through the city throughout the, afternoon ss patrolling troops and hidden snipers exchanged shots. Steel-helmeted soldiers with arms at the ready were post ed every 50 yards along the streets leading into the old city. Most of them took cov er in doorways while waiting the call to go into action. Patrols Sent Out Patrols of five men each equipped with portable ra dios made their way into the old city on probing missions. Army . trucks and radio "eauiDDed teams staved nn the fringes and barred the way to the old quarter. Outside the city, police threw up roadblocks and searched all vehicles coming into Tripoli for arms. All cilivian lite im Tripoli itself was paralyzed. The shops were closed and the in habitants of apartment houses put up shutters or temporary covers on their windows. -: Army trucks, jeeps, fire en gines and ambulances took up positions at key intersections. At the height of the morning rioting, and before the army units had. intervened, a crowd of rioters estimated at sev eral thousand Dersons smash ed its way into the five-room library building. The demonstrators ripped up books and films, destroy ed furniture and filing cabi nets, and shattered three glass display windows. Then the mob heaped the debris into piles and set the building on fire. Another segment of the crowd also pillaged and burn ed the store of a government supporter who bad refused to close down his shop in line with opposition demands. Sports Bulletins Seattle, Wash. (IP) Behind the two-hit pitching of Marion Fricano, the Se attle Rainiers defeated the Vancouver Mounties 4-1 Saturday night to snap a three-game losing streak. Portland (IF) Spokane dumped the Portland Bea vers, 3-1. in a Pacific Coast league baseball game here Saturday night with win ning pitcher Connie Grob tingling in all three In dian runs.