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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
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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