53rd 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.