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IM M hJU MnJ 1 1' Am IA U U mm i .... ' I - . UW " ft s f A .- NIXON IN ECUADOR Vice tour of South America, tries butting a soccer ball during pre- game ceremonies at stadium in Precinct Boundary Change Made When Voters Reach 500 Changes in voter precinct boundaries are required when a precinct reaches 500 voters or more, County Clerk Bereth Hopkins pointed out today. Because of many new sub-; divisions and new concentra tions of population, several precincts have been length ened to embrace the required number of voters to form a precinct while others have been enlarged along uneven lines and some have been made smaller. - Since city and rural areas cannot occupy the same pre cinct, all incorporated town precinct boundaries have been changed to correspond to the city limits, Mrs. Hopkins noted. This has made it neces sary to revise all rural area precincts surrounding towns. Voters Should Know Mrs. Hopkins urged voters to know the number of the precinct and the polling place in which they are entitled to vote. Polling places for several precincts within a geographi cal area have been established in schools -wherever possible. Some voters will have a great er distance to go to reach the polls, she said, because of boundary changes. Mrs. Hop kins said the clerk's office will be open until 5 p.m.' Thursday, and anyone who finds it impossible to get to the polling place Friday, may vote an absentee ballot before Friday in the election depart ment in the courthouse. Voters who have been given the wrong precinct number, as occasionally hap pens, may locate their proper polling place easily because most of them will be located in the same building, or im mediate area, Mrs. Hopkins said. Telephones are available in most polling places, and anyone who cannot locate his proper precinct may call the New ,Policy Made in Commission Agenda A new policy in preparing its agenda has been announced by the Medford city planning commission, starting with the June 9 meeting. - The agenda will 'be closed on the Thursday noon before the following Monday meet ing, according to the new policy. Commission members explained they would like to have time to consider items on the agenda before taking action. ' Gas Tax, License Fee Increase Seen Needed To Obtain State Portland IP1 If Oregon is to take full advantage of the federal highway funds being made available, a one-cent-a-gallon increase in the gasoline tax and a S5 increase in the state auto license fee may be necessary. That is the opinion of State Highway Commission Chair man Milo K. Mclver, who de livered a talk to the Portland Chamber of Commerce Monday. President Nixon, on a good-will Quito, Ecuador. county clerk, whose office will be open all day Friday. The telephone number is SPring 3-6211. Other offices in the courthouse will be closed Friday. Mrs. Hopkins asked voters to cooperate with election of ficials in keeping noise and confusion to a minimum in polling places. Board mem bers have been instructed to limit conversation- to identi fication of the voters in order to cut down any unnecessary delay in voting." " Polls will be open between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday for primary elections in the Re publican and Democratic parties and for non-partisan candidates. Various issues also will appear on the ballot in some areas. Water Runoff Above Normal High stream flow to date and forecasts of above aver age May to September flow will assure streams in south ern Oregon of well above av erage water year runoff, ac cording to the water silpply forecast issued by the local weather bureau station. Precipitation during April in southwest Oregon was be low normal, the bureau noted. Amounts generally were only 75 per cent of normal in the upper Klamath, Rogue and Umpqua drainages. The water year flow on the Rogue river at South Fork as of May 1 was forecast at 1,610 thousand acre feet, or 121 per cent of the 15-year average. The residual flow was forecast at 630 thousand acre feet, which also is 121 per cent of the 15-year average. The residual flow is for the period May 1 through Sep tember. Water year flow at the Upper Klamath lake net in flow is forecast at 2,260 thou sand acre feet, or 185 per cent of average, and the residual flow there is forecast at 670 thousand acre feet, or 189 per cent of normal. BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 5 9 0 Chicago 3 7 2 Jones, Muff ell (6) and Smith; Drabowsky. Phillips (8) and Taylor. HR: Walls, ' Chicago. Mclver said a problem next year will be Oregon having enough money to match fed eral funds available. "If we don't have the matching mon ey, the funds will go to the states that have it," he said. Under present revenues, Oregon will be about $4 mil lion short of the S12 million needed to match federal mon ey coming under the 1958 highway act, he said. The state also has to put up about $2 Tripartite Pact Signers Reminded Of Obligations Mobs Attempt To Storm Embassy Beirut, Lebanon (TP) The pro - western govern ment of Lebanon formally accused Egypt and Syria to night of "massive interfer ence" in this country's deepening military crisis. Sharp new fighting was underway in many places, with the northeast part of the country reported in the hands of rebels opposed to the democratic policies of President Camille Chamoun. Beirut, Lebanon (IP) Le banon's pro-western President Camille Chamoun formally informed the United States, Britain and France today that his country is "the ob ject of attack from abroad." His statement came several hours after jeering left-wing mobs tried to storm the U. S. Embassy in new demonstra tions that . signaled virtual civil war against the govern ment. The rioters were stop ped by soldiers 500 yards short of the embassy build ing. , -, Authoritative sources re porting Chamoun's stand said he told 'the ambassadors of the Western Big Three that arms and men were entering Lebanon both by land acrpss the Syrian border and "from ships- off Uhe-XMast-Arfftf- w. -f Chamoun was reported to have reminded the ambassa dors of, the western powers' tripartite declaration of 1950, in which the Big Three ex pressed their determination to guarantee the existing bor ders of Mideastern countries. Authoriative sources said he called upon the signers of that document : to "take up their responsibilities" because Lebanon now is the "object of attack from abroad." His move also could be a possible preliminary to invocation of the Eisenhower Doctrine or an appeal to the United Nations.. Sympathies Opposed Chamoun's meeting with the western ambassadors came on the fourth day of a boiling upheaval by leftist mobs who oppose the presi dent and his staunchly pro western sympathies. These were the latest de velopments in the fast-growing crises: A youthful mob of sev eral hundred gathered to march on the U. S. Embassy here but was turned back by bayonet-wielding troops and police. Demonstrators stoned the cars of two American diplomats. Lebanese authorities an nounced that three "Egyptian boats" were captured off the Lebanese coast. Officials said they were loaded with arms and Egyptian money, and had come from Egyptian-held Gaza farther south on the Mediterranean coast. Lebanese forces went into action early this morn ing against "Syrian infiltra tors" near Deir Al-Achayer, a Lebanese village in the bor der no-man's-land on the main highway to Damascus. First reports listed eight persons killed and a dozen wounded. It was announced that during the night infiltrators invaded the Lebanese frontier post of Al-Masmeh, on the Syrian border, and killed all five guards. Road Money million for the approximately $10 million anti-ression "crash program" money which must be contracted by. the end of the year on highway jobs that can be completed by the end of 1959. . Mclver said the additional one-cent gas tax and an addi tional $5 license fee were his proposals to raise the needed money. 53rd Year MEDFORD 20 Pages MEDFORD, On Tradl Washington (IP) A secret poll by Republican leaders showed today President Ei senhower can expect Utile help from House Republicans in the fight to prevent his liberal trade bill from being converted into a "protection ist" measure. Republican leaders declined to give figures in their poll but acknowledged the results "weren't good." Informed sources said the poll indicated three out of four Republicans would vote in favor of opening the trade legislation to crippling amendments on the house floor. ,. Assistant Secretary of Com merce Henry Kearns told newsmen- Monday the Presi dent might consider scuttling his trade bill completely if Congress botched it up with crippling amendments. Seven Area Pupils Get Scholarships Seven more Jackson county youths . have been, awarded scholarships to the University of Oregon, Eugene, the office of ' student affairs has an nounced. . A total of 182 stu dents will receive grants for attendance next fall. The Harry, and David Holmes scholarship of $250 was given to James Grover Corum and '. Richard George Corum, both' of Medford. Jo seph Edward Burns, also of Medford, and Jonathan El bert Frederick, Crater High school, Central' Point, re ceived University of Oregon Mothers scholarships of $222 each., ' David Robert . Spangler, Talent, received a $222 Uni versity of Oregon Dads schol arship, and Diana V. Gardner, Eagle Point, and Mary Ellen Williams, Jacksonville, . re ceived $138 state fee scholar ships to the university. Previously, Romelle Inez Fossen,. Jacksonville, received a $1,000 Max Tucker scholar ship, and Dow Robinson, Med ford, was awarded a $500 Crown-Zellerbach scholarship for work in journalism during his senior year at the Uni versity. Consumer Finance Group Sets Meeting Some 100 residents of Jack son and Josephine counties, members and guests of the regional organization of the Oregon Consumer Finance association, will meet for din ner at 6 p.m. Wednesday to hear discussions and see a film concerning consumer fi nance. Guests will be mayors of the larger communities of the counties, ' and other public and chamber of commerce of ficials. The film,. -"The Littlest Giant," describes the growth and development of consum er finance as a force in the American economy. It wili be shown by Ray Vester, Port land, a director of the asso ciation. Presiding will be Richard Fields, Portland, president of the association, and L. T. An derson and Stan Stark, an association vice president, both Medford, ' are co-chairmen in charge of the meeting. The association's board will meet here Wednesday at noon and a tour of the valley will be conducted in the after noon. Both luncheon and din ner meetings will be at the Rogue Valley Country club. OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY UW Mi Bill M An. earlier Democratic poll showed less than half of the House Democrats were ready to support the President's re quest i for a five-year exten sion of his authority to nego tiate reciprocal tariff -cutting pacts including power to make added tariff cuts up to 25 per cent of present duties. Republican leaders ob viously feaVful of what the results would show didn't Planners Suggest Zone to Include Mobile Homes The Medford city planning commission has recommended an amendment to the city zon ing ordinance to include a spe cial zone "for mobile trailer home parks,, as a result of a public hearing. last night. The public hearing was on a" zone change, request from single familyto lightindus- trial for a trailer home parkTin"e "Dollar Volume con on Morrow rd. The suggested new zone would be class IIB and would be simiiar to the present class II, multiple fam ily. Action on such an amend ment would require, petition ing the commission for such an amendment to the zoning ordinance. The commission denied a request for an zone change from single family to multiple family for construction of a convalescent home on Barnett rd. following another hearing last night. Commission mem bers : noted the request, ; if granted, would be spot-zoning, and would be unfair to the present property holders in the area. , A request to call a public hearing for a zone .change at East Main and Cottage sts., was also denied by the com mission, after receiving sev eral petitions objecting to the change by residents of the area. A service station and clinic were planned in the area. Under the present zone, multiple family, the ' clinic couH be constructed, but not a service station. A public hearing will be held at the June 9 commis sion meeting for several pro posed zone changes along" Cra ter " Lake highway. Another public hearing June 9 will be for a change of zone request from single family to multiple family on East Ninth st." Transportation Plan Announced by GOP Republicans who do not have transportation to the polls Friday have been asked to call one of several tele phone numbers and trans portation will be provided. The courtesy transportation plan is being sponsored ' by the Jackson County RepubliT can Central committee the Jackson . County Republican Women's club, and the Jack son County Young Republi can club. Donald L: Stathos is county chairman of the Re publican party. . Telephone numbers to call for transportation are SPring 2-9447, SPring 24319, SPring 2-2347, MUrdock 2-4221, NOrmandy 4-1624, TWinoaks 9-1275, TRinity 8-2258, UNion 9-2281, Hill crest 6-3121, JUniper 2-3649, ULrick 5-1334 and in the Applegate area, 2534. Algiers', Algeria (IP) A mob of young French" nation alists stormed and sacked the American Cultural Library in Algiers today. Price 10 Cents Tribune 13, 1958 No. 45 even bother to ask the Re publicans how they -stood on the President's five-year pro gram. ' House Republicans were polled on two questions: whether they would vote for any extension, however brief, of the present reciprocal trade program without amendments; and whether they would support a "gag" rule to bar crippling amend ments on the House floor. Democratic leaders are try ing to devise a compromise containing enough concessions to the powerful protectionist bloc so they can get it passed under a gag rule barring further amendments. The gag rule must win approval by a majority House vote to take effect. Local Man Wins Dollar Contest : Roy Steele, 2234 ' Hanley rd., Medford," won first prize test" of. the recent "Keep Med- ford's Economy Rolling You Auto Buy Now" campaign. Steele submitted the figure nearest the total wages and salaries paid to the 400 local residents employed by f ran chised new car dealers, plus the amount of money received from the sale of all new and used cars in addition to the parts ' arid services charges during 1957. The estimate was $15,056, 023.23. Other winners were Myrtle Schoneberg, Camp White; Bob Morris, R. E. Lowe and Sylvia Lu Morris, all of Medford. Checks, bearing the "You Auto Buy Now" notice, ap peared in Medford trade chan nels last week, according to contest officials. They said the $5 checks were awarded as prizes to new car purchas ers during the 10-day period. . Several of the checks also were given employees of the 13 Medford new car dealers as part of the payroll to help focus attention on the "auto motive dollars" of the com munity. Some Fruit Marking Reported in Frost Some fruit marking oc curred in the unheated pear orchards last' night as the mercury dropped to as low as 28 degrees, according ' to Clifford Cordy, county horti cultural agent. Firing started about 2:30 a.m. in the colder spots scat tered throughout the valley, Cordy said. , . He said pear prospects still look good with an average crop predicted. He said there should be a "pretty good crop" of peaches in this area. 'A lot . of , second bloom is still on the Bartiett variety trees, Cordy ' said. " Orchard ists should keep those blos soms either cut out; or spray ed to prevent blight, he ad vised.' WEATHER 'FORECAST: Fair through Wednesday with rising , tem peratures. Low tonight 36. High Wednesday 78. Temp. Highest Yesterday 81 Lowest this Morning 32 Our Skes Tonight Sunrise .. Sunset 4:52 a.m. 7:24 p.m. The Moon rises Wednes day:.- 2:46 a.m. and is in Apogee. New Moon ; May 18 Venus, the planet seen below the Moon tonight, has. a dia meter of 7,610 miles. It is now about 89 million miles from the Earth. This Will Give You Portland Chamber Expresses Interest In Howard Prairie A letter from the Portland Chamber of Commerce ex pressing interest in the recrea tional potentialities of the Howard Prairie reservoir area has been received by County Judge Rodney Keating. - Marshall N. Dana 'wrote in behalf of the. Portland cham ber inquiring what the county court has done in regards to the Howard Prairie project. He also inquired as to "wheth er there, is prospect that either public or private interests in Jackson county may assume an administrative responsi bility." , "The recreational and nat ural resources committee of the (Portland) chamber, of commerce has interested itself in projects in all parts of the state that, in their develop- Bids Called for Talent Projects The bureau of reclamation has called for bids for the first two of another series of construction projects' sched uled in the Talent project this spring. Bids will be received at the Camp White reclamation of fice until 10 a.m. June 5 for right-of-way fencing for re located Highway 66 east of Ashland. The project is part of the Emigrant lake enlarge ment section of the Talent project. Bids will be received until 10 a.m. June 12 for construc tion of the Howard Prairie dam access road, which will extend from a point about 2,000 feet east of the dam to the intersection with Hyatt Prairie rd. about 25 miles east of Ashland. Plans and specifications for both jobs may be obtained without deposits from J. A. Callan, project construction engineer at Camp White. Bids on several other Tal ent propect jobs are expected to be called for in the near future. Firemen Visit 188 Homes in Medford' Medford firemen- visited 188 residences Monday on their annual home inspections but found only 118 residents home. Thirteen residents of the 118 total refused the offer of the" free inspection. A total of 92 hazards were recommend ed for correction in homes inspected, officials report. They said 54 homes inspected had no fire hazards. Ranger Robert Smith, of the Oregon Caves national monument, accompanied fire men on their inspections Mon day.' He plans a similar series of inspections of monument buildings. Both An Even Chance" m e n t and administration, would prove attractive and profitable so far as tourist travel is concerned," Dana wrote.- Wrote to Wieland . Dana added that he has also written Col. Paul Wieland of the Jackson county Izaak Wal ton League. Dana, wrote that the cham ber committee has obtained information from the Nation al park service, the forest service, the bureau of land management and the Oregon state park superintendent re garding the Howard Prairie reservoir. ' He said his information in dicates that the Howard Prai rie reservoir does have a rec reational value "enhanced by the recreational value of other nearby areas and reservoirs." The anticipated draw-down of approximately seven feet will not destroy the recrea tional value of the reservoir, Dana said he has learned. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has commented that local ad ministration of such an area is to be preferred, Dana said he has been informed. No Official Facts Keating told a meeting, of the Izaak Walton League last night that the county has yet to receive official facts ' and figures on the project or any official communication telling of how the county might de velop the area for recreational uses. . j Keating added that the county court is definitely in terested in developing all pos sible recreational sites which may be feasible. The county planning commission has - a parks subcommittee to which investigations of such - park sites are delegated, Keating said. Keating added this morning he was invited to the meeting, merely as a guest then was asked about the Howard Prai rie dam project.. Telephone Employees Join 'Blood Bank' Plan The Telephone Employees Activities association, com posed of employees of the Pa cific Telephone and Tele graph company, has adopted the "individual blood bank plan" in cooperation with the Jackson county .Red Cross chapter. Under the plan, accounts can be established similar to a bank, and deposits made to any specific blood account Blood deposits do not remain dormant in any one account, but become part of thetotal bank reserves to be drawn upon by any member of the organization, or his or her . im mediate family and by anyone authorized ;' by the organi zation. Any individual may donate tlood to any account he President, Narrowly Escape Injury " Secret Service Agents Disperse Mob Caracas, Venezuela (in -Vice President Richard. M. Nixon and .Mrs. Nixon nar rowly escaped serious injury today at the hands of a mob which attacked their official caravan with clubs and rocks. . Neither the .vice president nor his wife was hurt, thanks to the quick action of U. S; Secret Service agents who hurled the attackers back be fore Venezuelan police could intervene. Later, Venezuelan police dispersed the mob with tear gas. 'Go Home-Yankee Dog' The attackers, shouting "Go home ' Yankee dog," closed in an the caravan just as it swept into the city lim its from the broad four-lane highway leading from the airport. ' They smashed all the win dows except front ' and rear in the lead car in which Nix on .was riding,- showering all Washington OP) - Sec . retary of Stat John Foster' Dulles, acting on President -' Eisenhower's -, orders, de- ', manded today that Vene- zuela take "every possible ' 1 measure" to - protect Vice - President nifharil Ul Hivmi " from further attacks. , cisennower, reported to , be "hopping mad," order- -ed Venezuela's chief diplo-, . mat here called to the Stat . Department for questioning , en today's riot against , Nixon in Caracas. the occupants with, broken glass. The flying glass cut Venezuelan Foreign Minis ter Oscar Garcia Velutini on the lip . and Nixon's oflicial translator, Lt. Col. V e r n o n Walters, got a' mouthful of it U. S. Agent Clubbed Henry Roberts,- one of . 12 Secret Service men with the Nixons, was struck on the head by a rock and also "was clubbed. However, his in juries were described as not serious. At the airport the Nixons had encountered student dem onstrators but with no real' hint of what was to follow. ; At one. point, a student ap proached Mrs. Nixon and shouted, "Remember Little Rock." Mrs. Nixon looked back, smiled and said, "that's an in teresting point. We'll talto about that later." She thereupon got into her car which was the second one in the caravan. . Assassination Reports It was Nixon's worst ex perience yet on his eight-nation South American tour, even more violent than the outbreak at . Lima where -a thrown stone grazed his neck and demonstrators hurled garbage at him and his party," Before his arrival here today, there had been reports that the Communists might try to assassinate him. , About 150 were in the mob that spearheaded today's at tack. The-mob spat upon -the: cars and ripped American . flags from both the cars in which the Nixons were rid ing. . The Venezuelan flag also was torn from Nixon's car by the mob which was throwing . eggs, tomatoes and rocks. riii'n rrf, (in Cfn. TC I-l doubled for his ,3,000th major league hit today as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning for' the bt. Louis Cardinals against the Chicago Cubs. chooses, officials noted. Any organization may establish its own account. . . The Red Cross, although acting only as the vehicle for collection and distribution' of blood, has volunteered to keep all account records. The Red Cross pointed out that one person from each organization should be appointed "treasur er" for that account. Anyone interested in estab lishing a blood account may telephone the. Red; Cross of fice at SPring 2-4405. The Bloodmobile will be in Med ford Wednesday, June 11, from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Red Cross chapter house on Haw thorne ave. The quota will be 350 pints to help make up a deficit in quota last time, offi cials said. Vice
