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it Fwm T Un Um MM Medford 18 PAGES Bids Scheduled For Projects In Rogue Basin Bid Opening Planned During May, June Five Rogue River Basin pro jects will be open for bid during May and June for Bureau of Reclamation con struction programs in south ern Oregon, all part of the Talent project. May 16 has been set for bid deadline on construction of 4.1-mile gravel road and about 1,800 feet of side road at the Howard Prairie dam site. Completion time has been set at 150 days. Bids will be invited about May 22 for construction of about 23A miles of unlined canal, about 700 feet of six foot rectangular concrete flume, two 42-inch .precast concrete pipe siphons and sev eral other minor projects in the South Fork collection canal. The time allowed for completion of the project is 400 days. A bid call on May 29 will be for earthwork for the Conde creek collection canal, about 2V2 miles long, and for earthwork on the Dead Indian collection canal, about 300 feet long. Work will also in clude construction of five-foot rock-fill diversion dams and headworks structures on each. Time to be allowed on the job will be 180 days. Another project planned for bid calling on May 29 will be the relocation of the Hill cemetery southeast of Ashland, near the Emigrant reservoir. Completion time has been set at 180 days. Also planned to be opened for bid in early June will be the Ashland diversion dam and lateral near Ashland. The dam is to be 8V feet high with an uncontrolled over flow crest of 65 feet long. Other work on the project will include construction of a headworks structure, about three miles of open ditch lat eral, iVi miles of which are to be fined with concrete, and three -S 8-inch diameter siphons in addition to several other small requirements. Local Men Present Ai Highway Meet Representatives from Cali fornia, Nevada, and four Ore gon counties attended a meet ing in Portland Friday on the "Winnemucca to the Sea" highway project. - More than 20 persons at tended the event at which time the proposed highway was discussed. Tentative plans mil for the highway to con- ot wihwav 40 at Winne- mucca, Nev., with Highway 99 in Oregon by the way of Lakeview, Klamath Falls, Lake' of the Woods, and Mc Allister and Soda Springs areas. It was reported that the Bu reau of Public Roads .will soon make .a reconnaissance survey of the areas involved. Jackson county personnel attending included County Commissioners Chester Wendt and Ralph James; County En- eineer Paul Rynmng, ana Chester Hubbard, who repre sented the Medford Chamber of Commerce. St 250 Cars Sold Locally During 'Auto An estimated 250 new and used cars were sold during the first ten days of May, ac cording to automobile deal ers. The dealers and other re tail merchants report that the "Keep Medford's Econo my Rolling" campaign was successful in stimulating in creased consumer purchasing according to Hugh Coleman and Darrell Miller, co-chairmen of the planning commit tee. Final tabulation and com parison with previous years sales during the first ten days of May will be available later this week, it was reported. In creased business activity was also noted by many other r MEDFORD, nJiJllS Bump on Head During Tour of Oregon Caves Brings Back Use of Eye Oregon Caves National Monument Mrs. Mary Brown, 60, has been virtually blind in her right eye since it was injured in an accident when she was 2 years old. Yesterday, while en route from Spokane, Wash., to her new home in San Jose, Calif., she visited the caves. She and her sister were part of a group going through the na tional monument, and in the "Paradise Lost" gallery, they accidentally jostled each other. Mrs. Brown's glasses fell off and into a cranny several feet below. Undaunted, Mrs. Brown continued the tour. But, on the way, she struck her head sharply against "Headache Rock," the name of which is self-explanatory. When she finally emerged from the caves, she gave a gasp of amazement. For the first time in 58 years she could see from her right eye could detect color and see objects clearly, where before she could only tell light from dark. Although a ranger recovered her glasses, Mrs. Brown continued her journey, hoping she would not need them any more. 'Tiny Ray of Hope' Seen in New Soviet Offer of Meeting Washington (IP) Adminis tration officials said today they saw a tiny ray of hope in Moscow's latest disarma ment offer to President Eisen hower. But many weighty ques tions remained to be answered and Allies consulted urgently, before the government decid ed whether Soviet Premier Nikita S. Krushchev was opening the door to a first step disarmament agreement or merely maKing anomer Program Planned For Nurse Awards A program in recognition of the Red Cross nursing ser vice of Jackson county will be held in the Red Cross buil ding tonight at 8 o'clock. Ser vice pins will be presented to more than 40 nurses who have aided the program in one or more of its four phases, disaster, blood bank, instruc tion in home nursing or mo ther and baby care, and vol unteers to the armed forces. Manville Heisel, chapter chairman, will preside and Mayor John Snider will pre sent the volunteers with pins. Mrs. J. B. LaMarre, Ashland, Red Cross nursing program chairman for the county, will speak on the history of the program. Refreshments will close the event. Anyone interested is invited to attend. Heavy Construction Remains Crippled Portland (W The heavy construction industry in Ore gon remained crippled today as a strike of laborers against contractors went into its sec ond week. The strike, called by the Oregon State Council of La borers one week ago on a wage dispute, halted work on millions of dollars worth of construction jobs throughout the state. Federal mediators said they tried without success to ar range a meeting between the contractors and the . union over the week end. Buy' Sales lines, but no exact percentage figures of increase were im mediately available. The chairmen of the cam paign complmented the busi ness community and the pub lic for their support of the campaign and noted that suc cess of the local effort to bolster the economy has prompted several other south ern Oregon cities to plan sim ilar programs. Dick Knight, publicity chairman, praised the press, radio, and television for the coverage and assistance given the campaign during the planning of the program. (See itory on page 11) OREGON, MONDAY, MAY propaganda move. Krushchev touched off con siderable surprise and specu lation in Western circles with his latest letter, delivered to the White House Saturday. 'Serious Doubts' In the letter, according to an announcenent by the offi cial Soviet news agency Tass in Moscow Sunday, Khrush chev said that despite "serious doubts" Russia was willing to hold technical talks with the United States aimed at ending nuclear weapons tests. The White House, acting with extraordinary speed, is sued a statement Sunday say ing Krushchev's letter "seems to recognize" the validity of the long-held Western view that study of technical aspects of disarmament should begin soon and might lead to prog ress on disarmament itself. But the statement noted Khrushchev's offer involved only the issue of nuclear test suspension and not "the more important elements of disarm ament" which the West and a majority of the United Na tions Assembly have en dorsed. Careful Study "It is to be hoped," the White House statement said, "that this acceptance presages agreement to begin similar discussions on other measures of disarmament. Premier Khrushchev's letter will of course receive careful study and will be the subject of early consultation with our allies." The 'letter occasioned sur prise here since Khrushchev's previous letter to Eisenhower April 22 appeared to reject technical disarmament studies prior to a firm agreement on a nuclear test halt. Nixon's Reception In Colombia Warm Bogota, Colombio IOT Vice President Richard M. Nixon, buoyed by new praise for the way he has faced up to Communist demonstrators in South America, headed into the open country today for a tour of a Colombian agricul tural station. The U. S. Vice President got the warmest reception of his eight-nation tour when he arrived in Colombia Sunday. Communists shouted anti Nixon slogans Sunday when he arrived at his hotel and later at Bogota's parks where he placed floral wreaths on the monuments of Colombia's two greatest heroes, liberator Simon Bolivar and founder of the republic Francisco de Paula Santander. Grand Jury To Hear Narcotic Charges Raymond Amiotte, 32, Oak land, Calif., was bound over to the grand jury by . District Court Judge James Main last week on a charge of attempt ing to obtain a narcotic drug by forged prescription. Bail was set at $1500. Amiotte waived prelimin ary hearing and the right to an attorney at the arraignment. TRIBUNE 12, 1958 Bloodhounds Join 200 Persons in Combing Hills Seven-Year-Old Last Seen Sunday St. Helens (IB A seven-year-old St. Helens boy was lost in hilly country near Goble about 12 miles north of here today and blood hounds were called on to help in the search. Jimmie Helton disappear ed late Sunday while helping his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Bain, round up stray cattle St their farm a short distance from Neer City, located in the hills overlooking the Columbia river. 200 Join in Hunt The Norman Wilson blood hounds from Dallas were called in and were due in the search area at mid-morning. Jimmie's grandparents call ed in neighbors to help them search and then notified State Police. By 1:30 a.m. today some 200 persons were hunt ing the boy. The temperature Sunday night dropped to the high 30s. The boy wore a brown suede jacket. Jimmie is the son of Mrs. Rosemary Helton, St. Helens. The country in which the boy was lost is steep, has both pasture and timberland and has several winding roads. Two Men Charged With Grand Theft Charles Lyle Hill, 23, and Amasa Morse Bowles, 23, both of Eureka,1 Calif., were arrested by Medford police on charges of grand larceny Sunday after Hill admitted, in a signed statement, to tak ing a shotgun from Kennedy's Second Hand store,' 1603 North Riverside ave. Police said the store owner, Robert Clifford Kennedy, 2624 Merriman rd., saw Hill take the shotgun from the store and place it in the back of their car late Saturday afternoon. The men were later arrested at the Medford Gun club where they were taking part in a trap shoot, police said. Hill and : Bowles were lodged in the Jackson county jail. The giin was vlaued at $95 by Kennedy. Hearings Slated On Zone Requests TJhe Medford city planning commission will hold hearings on two change of zone re quests and consider a request for another zone change hear ing at their 7:30 o'clock meet ing in the council chambers this evening. A public hearing on a zone change from single family to light industrial for a mobile trailer park on Morrow rd. and a public hearing on a zone change for the Milledge con valescent home on Barnett rd. from single family to multiple family will be held. A request for a zone change hearing for a change to com mercial from multiple family will be considered. Several reports on subdivision plats, street dedications and annexa tion reports will also be. dis cussed at the meeting. Eureka Men Arrested On Grand Theft Charge Two Eureka, Calif., men were arrested by sheriff's dep uties Sunday on Vilas rd. and charged with grand larceny, it was reported today. Arrested were Amasa Morse Bowles, 23, and Charles Lyle Hillv 23. They admitted the theft of a gun, officers said, from Kennedy's Second Hand store, Medford. They were scheduled to be arraigned in district court today. Portland (IP A new ex tension of time .has been granted to Jim Elkins and Raymond Clark to appeal their federal wiretap conviction. Price 10 Cents No. 44 Reciprocal Trade Renewal Stressed In Dulles Speech Step Said Necessary For Peace, Prosperity Minneapolis (IP) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles urged a five-year re newal of the Reciprocal Trade agreements act to. help the world achieve peaceful pros perity. Dulles spoke yesterday at the University of Minnesota stadium to climax Minneso ta's gala statehood centennial celebration. His plea for greater worfd trade echoed similar appeals by almost every visiting Scandinavian dignitary at tending the. celebration. Among the most outspoken trade boosters along with Dulles were Prince Bertil of Sweden and Danish Prime Minister H. C. Hansen. Necessary for Peace Dulles said renewal of the trade act "is necessary both for our economic welfare and for our peace." The world cannot survive in peaceful prosperity, Dul les warned, if each nation emphasizes only its independ ence and neglects interdepen dence. 1 He said the trade program contributes to the United State's political and military security. He cited the early 1930s as an example of what could happen, if the U. S. turned its back on interna tional trade. Relief from Depression "In the 30s we sought re lief from economic depression by raising our tariffs and de valuating our currency with out regard to the effect this would have on others . who were largely dependent on in ternational trade," Dulles said. He said Germany and Jan- an took this U. S. example as a justification for policies of extreme nationalism and of expansion, on the theorv that economic livelihood was no longer obtainable by normal methods of peaceful trade." No Hazards Seen In 270 Dwellings No hazards were noted at 270 dwellings called upon by Medford firemen last week in the first week of the annual home inspection program. firemen mspected 507 resi dences and made 338 recom mendations fo.' correction of hazards which might cause or add to the danger of fire. Stops were made at 951 homes. At 392 no one was home. Occupants, of 52 resi dences refused the offer of inspection. Dwellings on streets run ning east and west and in areas annexed to Medford within the past year are being inspected this year. InsDection is voluntary on the part of residents. Laddermen Untangle U. S. Flag at Hospital City firemen were called upon to perform a "public service Saturday evening at Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital on Barnett rd. They received a call shortly after 7 D.m. that the halvard on the flagpole at the hospi tal was tangled. A crew was dispatched with the aerial ladder truck to lower "Old Glory." New York (IP) Hilton Hotels Corp. has reached an agreement for the construc tion of a $10 million hotel in Portland, Ore. Madras HP) The Legis lative Interim committee on Indian Affairs will meet here May 19. WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy through Tuesday. Low tonight 38. High Tuesday 72. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 56 Lowest This Morning .. 43 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . 4:53 a.m. Sunset 7:23 p.m. Moonrise Tuesday 2:19 a.m. PROMINENT STAR VISIBLE PLANETS Regulus, high in the southwest 8:39 p.m. Jupiter, in the southwest 7:44 p.m. Saturn, low in the southeast 11:12 p.m. Venus, low in east 3:42 a.m. Mars, south of the Moon. Price Fixing in Sale of Polio Vaccine Charged Justice Department Indicts Five Firms Washington (tPI The Jus tice . Department announced that a federal grand jury to day indicted five big drug firms on charges of price fix ing in the sale of polio vac cine to federal, state and lo cal governments. The anti-trust indictment was returned in federal dis trict court at Trenton, N.J. It named as defendants: The Eli Lilly & Co. Indi anapolis, Ind.; Allied Labora tories, Inc., Kansas City, Mo.; American Home Products Corp., New York City; Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., and Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. Sole Producers The indictment charged that the firms which were the sole producers of polio vac cine in the United States dur ing the period of the indict ment conspired to fix prices and eliminate competition on sales cf the vaccine to federal government and local govern mental bodies. It said large amounts of polio vaccine were bought by government officials through out the country from the time the success of the vaccine was first announced in April, 1955, up to the time that the indict ment was returned. Assistant Attorney General Victor R. Hansen, who heads the anti-trust division, said the indictment accuses the vaccine producers of combin ing to submit "uniform bids to public agenties." Airport Lights Bids Scheduled Bids for a Medford muni cipal airport high intensity runway lighting system will be let. about June 30, accord ing to Richard Hogan, airport manager, this morning. He said final approval of the plans by, the Civil Aero nautics administration for the project is expected soon. Cost of the project will be shared with the federal government, Hogan said. The city paying 25 per cent and the govern ment 75. 1 He said interested contrac tors should contact him at the city hall at once to file pre qualif ications for bidding. The bid must also include the lights in addition to their in stallation, Hogan added. Hugan explained the city is also asking the CAA to ap prove the moving of the pres ent medimum intensity lights to the secondary runway. This would have, to be done wita city funds, he explained.'. ;". Free Play Pinball Ruling by Thornton Salem (IP) Free play, pin ball machines are to be treated for law enforcement purposes as unlawful gambling devices, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said today. Thornton said the machines were subject to prosecution as unlawful under the state anti gambling laws. The attorney general said that bona fide amusement de vices in licensed . taverns are not prohibited entertainment within the meaning of the liquor control act. Gun Club Broken Into; Cash, Shells Stolen Medford Gun club was re ported broken into late Satur day evening or Sunday morn ing, according to Jackson county sheriff's deputies. Taken was a small amount of cash and an undetermined amount of shotgun shells. Also taken at the same time were three boxes of shotgun shells from the automobile of Martin Clogston, deputies re ported, while it was parked at the club. Flynn Electric Gets Lighting Contract Portland Trowbridge and Flynn Electric company, 214 West Main st., Medford, was awarded construction . of lights and traffic signals in Medford at Friday's meeting of the state highway commis sion. The firm's bid of $27,461 was the apparent low bid at the bid opening in Salem sev eral weeks ago. The lights and signals will be installed on Medford's one-way couplet project now under construction. "You'll Make Better Time Without This Extra Wheel" . Assessor Explains Permanent Tax Base Needed for Future A permanent county tax base, on which voters will de- J cide Friday, is needed to cov er the county's requirements for several years without drawing on any of the reserve funds, County Assessor Ray Schumacher explained today. As explained on the sam ple non-partisan ballot, pur pose of the county measure providing a permanent tax base "is to establish the pres ent county tax base of $652, 386.68 as a permanent county tax base of $652,386.68 under amended articles of the state constitution. Under the re vised constitutional provision it is necessary to levy taxes at least once every three years for the sole purpose of pre-, serving the tax base, unless a permanent tax base has been established. If a perma- Soft Drink Theft Causes Arrest Medford police report ar resting John Fry, 71, of 130 West Main st., and two youths on petty theft charges dur ing the week end. The youths, aged 15 and 16, were arrested after they ad mitted in signed statements to police of taking several battles of soft drinks from a truck parked in a lot at Third and Fir sts. about 10:30 p.m., Friday. Police said one youth was apprehended in the fenced-in lot. Both were vre leased to the custody of their parents pending juvenile ac tion. Fry was arrested on petty theft after employees of the Groceteria Super Food mar ket, Sixth and Grape sts. saw Fry take several small items and leave the store. He was held by employees until police arrived. Ontario Policeman Knifed in Fracas Ontario OP) An Ontario city policeman, Lloyd Leach, 32, was in satisfactory condi tion at Holy Rosary ospital here today recovering from a knife wound and three broken ribs , suffered early Sunday when he tried to break up a scuffle at a Mexi can dance in downtown" On tario. Police questioned two resi dents of the Ontario labor camp in connection with the attack on the officer. Leach was stabbed in the back above the kidneys and was then taken outside and kicked, police said. Demo Leader Sees Defeat of Norblad Portland (IP) Paul But ler, Democratic national chairman, predicted Sunday the Democratic party will gain 40 seats in Congress in the fall elections, most of them outside the South. Butler, who stopped in Portland briefly to Confer with Oregon Democratic leaders before continuing a sweep of the Northwest and California, predicted one of the seats they will gain is the one held by Walter Norblad, Republican from Oregon's 1st congressional district. Salem (IP) Oregon roads were generally clear today. nent tax -tase 'is established, taxes will only have to be levied when funds are needed to meet county obligations," the explanation on the ballot states. Voter Approval Needed Such a tax levy would have to be approved by the county voters, the assessor added. A tax base is the maximum amount which can be levied by a taxing district without a vote of the people, Schu macher explained. . '.'Under the old law, prior to -the constitutional amend ment, the tax base could be automatically increased by 6 per cent each year indefi nitely," the county assessor explained further. "Now un der the new law that doesn't have to be done only when a new base is needed." "The reserve money in the county treasury is not a fund administrative officers can draw upon at their con venience," Schumacher stress ed. "Funds taken from it must be budgeted same as any oth er money, bucn a reserve is merely an insurance that fu ture financial requirements of the county can be met." Amount Determined County Judge Rodney Keat ing explained the amount for the ntw tax base was de termined by taking the pres ent tax base .and increasing it by 6 per cent as allowed under the state constitution. He said it is . the same total which automatically would have been established for the new fiscal year under the old law. Members of the county court said the base would be flexible enough to cover the needs of the county for sev eral years providing there is no great expansion of popula tion and federal timber re cepits remain "pretty much the same," Keating said. "If the measure passes, the county will have sufficient funds on hand to pay for its operations without levying any taxes, but at the same time a realistic tax base will be preserved if it is ever need ed due to declining federal forst revenues." ' County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt said estimates from the bureau of land manage ment place possible federal timber receipts to be paid the county in September at $1,580,000. BaseMQ NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis : 6 10 4 Chicago 4 7 4 Barnes, Mabe (4) Pain (5) Jackson (9) and Smith; Hobbie, Freeman (5) Nich ols (8) and Taylor. Controversy Washington (IP) The Unit ed States set 'off another nu clear test Sunday the second announced by the Atomic Energy Commission in its cur rent "Hardtack" series at the Eniwetok Proving Grounds in the SouthPacific. The AEC .did not mention the size, of the weapon tested or whether it was successful. A controversy raged within this country over the con tinued testing. As the latest shot was fired a group of pro- Pro-Western President Rejects Demands To Quit Troops, Rioters v Clash in Capital Beirut (IP) Anti-government mobs set fire to the United States Information Service, library in Beirut to-. day. The mobs battled troops in riots supporting opposition demands that pro-Western President Camile Chamoun quit. . The library is situated in the Basta (Moslem) quarter of , the city. It was the second U.S.I.S. . library attacked in Lebanon in three days. Last Saturday other ripters sacked and burn ed the five-room, one-story U.S.I.S. library building in the port of Tripoli, second largest city in the country. Today's ' incident followed the same pattern of destruction. The firing of the library, in a building rented from a Lebanese landloard, was one of many incidents throughout ' the country in a day of riot ing. Face Heavy Toll Troops clashed with rioters in the capital and elsewhere today as violence continued into . its fourth day. No casualty figures were avail able but it was feared they . might be heavy. Opposition leaders handed' the government an ultimatum . today demanding that it "re-, sign immediately," but aides refused to pass it on to Cha moun. Sources said Chamoun is determined to keep his gov ernment in. office, and clamp down on mob violence. Meanwhile, Cairo and Da mascus radios blared repeated calls to Lebanese listeners during the day to "revolt against the forces of imperial ism and its agents." Urged to Fight The Lebanese were urged, to go into the streets to fight the Chamoun regime. , -This troubled nation was in the grip of a paralyzing gen eral strike which was said to be 100 per cent effective. It was called after two days of, rioting, in Tripoli, during which an estimated 20 persons were killed. ' Heavy fighting accompan ied by shooting broke out be-' tween troops and rioters in the Moslem outskirts of this city, the opposition stronghold in the capital. By afternoon, Lebanese Army units reinforced with armored equipment, appeared to be in complete control of Beirut and Tripoli, the na tion's two largest cities. Curfew Ordered The government ordered a , dusk-to-dawn curfew tonight and was reported preparing to ask parliament Tuesday for emergency powers including martial law. Sources said at least seven persons were killed in this morning's street f ighting. There also were unconfirmed reports of fighting in moun tain villages in the northeast portion of the country be-, tween . pro and anti-govern-' ment civilian groups. One report, ; also uncon firmed, said that between 300 and 400 Syrian tribesmen in filtrated Lebanon near Baal beck and now are fighting with army units. No Plans Set Yet For Old Hospital . No plans have been made yet for sale of the old Rogue Valley hospital at 843 East Main st., according to Jack Crawford, member of the hos pital board of directors. . He said this morning care takers are watchirig over the maintenance of the building pending future plans. Patients were moved into the new $2,800,000 hospital building at 2825 Barnett rd.. May 2. The building was ded icated April 26. Weapon Tested As Continues testers were on a hunger strike at the AEC's new head quarters in nearby German town, Md. A short time later, Dr. Linus Rauling, a leader in the fight to ban nuclear tests, accused "two or three scientists" of serving as "spokesmen" for the AEC. Although he did not name names, Pauling charged the scientists with making, "dishonest, untrue and mis leading statements" about the dangers from the tests.r
