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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1958
No. 47
Med
s to
Registered voters tomorrow
will nominate Republican and
Democratic candidates for
congressman and state and
local offices. Judges for the
state Supreme Court, circuit
court and district court will
be nominated on a non-partisan
ballot. '
Polls will be open between
8 a.m. and 8 p.m. for the 106
precincts in Jackson county.
A list of precincts, the polling
place and address of the loca
tion appears on page 15 to
day. ..Fair and "rather warm"
weather is anticipated in the
Medford vicinity on election
day, the weather bureau ha
Transportation to
Polls Offered by
3 Local Groups
The Moose lodge last night
announced it would provide
transportation to the polls be
tween 8 a.m., when the polls
open, until 5 p.m. It is being
offered as a civic service for
persons unable to get to the
polls during the day.
Persons desiring transpor
tation may contact Francis
Cronin, governor of the local
lodge, at SPring 3-3171.
Transportation for any vot
er, regardless of political af
filiation, will be provided in
the Rogue River, Central
Point, Medford, Phoenix, Tal
, ent and Ashland areas by
Democratic candidates and
central committeemen, it was
announced today.
Numbers to call are JUni
per 2-3284 in Rogue River;
NOrmandy 4-2426 and NOr
mandy 4-2286 in . Central
Point; SPring 2-7455, SPring
3- 4146, and SPring 2-6801 in
Medford; and KEystone 5
1468, KE '5-1389, KE 5-2037,
and KE 5-2870 in the Ashland-Talent-Phoenix
areas.
Republicans who wish trans
portation may call SPring 2
9447, SP 2-4319, and SP 2
2347 in Medford; MUrdock
2-4221 in Ashland; NOrmandy
4- 1624 in Central Point; TWin
oaks 9-1275 in Jacksonville;
TRinity 8-2258 in the Shady
Cove area; UNion 9-2281 in
Prospect; Hlllcrest 6-3121 in
Eagle Point; JUniper 2-3649
in Rogue River; ULrick 5
1334 in Gold Hill; and 2534 in
the Applegate area.
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Patient Evacuation Course Conducted in Medford for Hospital,
LIVE FLAMES Katherine Eitchey, left,
and Barbara Cox, both nurses aids at Sacred
Heart hospital, got practice in the use of a
fire extinguisher when real fires were start
ed in containers during the all-day institute
About 75 staff members of
hospitals and nursing homes
in southern Oregon took an
intensified course in fire fight
ing techniques and patient
evacuation in Medford yester
day. The all-day session includ
ed a film, instruction on han
dling patients and "live" fire
resdlie demonstrations staged
ipBD
Tomorrow
tDODiS
reported. A high temperature
of 88 degrees is predicted for
Friday. Western Oregon fore
cast predicted 80 to 90 degree
temperatures in. the southern
interior of western Oregon.
In addition to nominating
candidates for the general
election in November, county
voters also will decide on
establishing a permanent tax
base of $652,386.68, and Med
ford voters will decide on two
annexation proposals. Resi
dents of the Shady Cove-Trail
rural fire protection district
will vote on establishing a tax
base to provide funds for op
erating the district.
The annexation proposals
are for present "islands." One
is about 150 acres between
Bear creek and Crater Lake
ave. and McAndrews rd. and
the proposed shopping center,
and the other is a tract of
about 145 acres between Riv
erside ave. and Bear creek
and Earhart st. and an east
erly projection of Stewart
ave. Both tracts are now sur
rounded by .the city limits.
..City, state and county of
fices will be closed tomorrow.
States offices include the mo
tor vehicle department office
and the state liquor store on
South Central ave., Medford.
All county offices, except the
county clerk's office, will be
closed. The clerk's office will
be open for voters who are
not sure of their precinct or
polling place.
Voters entering polling
places must give the elections
clerk his name, residence ad
dress, and in the primary
election, r declare his party
affiliation. Af,ter the voter
signs the poll book in the
space designated by the clerk,
who also will distribute bal
lots, the voter marks the bal
lot in a voting booth,
Voters should not mark the
ballots outside the booth, and
only sample ballots or other
notes to assist the person in
voting are allowed in the
booth, elections officials point
ed out. After marking and
folding the ballot, the ballot
is handed to the clerk, :who
tears off the stub. The stub
and ballot are placed in the
container and ballot box by
the clerk.
There are 33,841 registered
voters in Jackson county, an
increase of 3,388 over May,
1956, according to elections
department officials. Of ' the
total, 17,167 are registered as
Republicans and 15,946 as
Democrats. There are 728 reg
istered as independents and
miscellaneous.
cp- .
on patient evacuation and fire fighting tech-
niques held in Medford yesterday. The
classes were held in the YMCA in the
morning and at the Medford Armory in the
afternoon.
by Lt. Robert McGrath, hospi
tal inspector of the Chicago
fire department, who is cur
rently touring the - country
conducting the institutes.
The southwestern district of
the Oregon hospital associa
tion includes Klamath Falls,
Roseburg, Cottage Grove,
Grants Pass, Medford and
Ashland which were all rep
Developments in
GOP Governor's
Race Reported
Telephone Poll
Results Are Told
Two last minute develop
ments in the Republican
gubernatorial n o m i n a ting
race, one local and state-wide,
were reported here today.
State Sen: Philip B. Lowry,
Medford, reported that a tele
phone poll of 12 of the 15
Republican members of the
state senate, completed today,
revealed that 10 of the 12
plan to vote for their col
league, State Sen. Warren
Gill, Lebanon.
Lowry said that he and
Senators Don Husband, Eu
gene, Carl Francis, Dayton,
and Anthony Yturry, Ontario,
conducted the poll. He said
the results were: Ten of the
15 Republican senators said
they favor Gill, one favored
another candidate, one still
has not made up his mind,
and one could not be reached
for comment. The two GOP
senators in Marion county
were not contacted, since that
is the home county of Secre
tary of State Mark Hatfield,
another GOP candidate.
Yesterday noon, a gather
ing of Republicans invited by
Mrs. Frank Bash, chairman of
the Hatfield for Governor
committee here, heard Frank
J. Van Dyke, Medford attor
ney and former speaker of
the house of representatives,
speak on behalf of Hatfield
and in opposition to Gill's
candidacy.
Van Dyke said Gili's sales
tax program "wbuld not only
be impossible to accomplish,
but impractical in its appli
cation." Van Dyke stated there are
many kinds of sales tax, and
that while he himself be
lieves in one, . as1 do other
GOP candidates for govern
or, the one proposed by Sen
ator Gill is undesirable.
He also pointed out that, it
is the " legislature's responsi
bility, not the governor's, to
determine a tax program, and
said it would be a mistake for
Republicans to nominate a
man whose campaign has
been based on a legislative
function.
A' question and answer
period followed Van Dyke's
talk, during which t.a number
of Gill supporters challenged
some of the speaker's conclusions.
' Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IP)
The Air Force launched its
highly secret Bull Goose to
daya speedy decoy missile
designed to fly over ' enemy
territory and confuse defense
to clear the path for bombers
and ballistic missiles.
resented at yesterday's ses
sion. ; , .
The training v program was
held at . the YMCA in the
morning, where instructions
were given in the use of fire
extinguishers and emergency
evacuation of patients. After
lunch Lt. McGrath, with the
help of members of the Med
ford fire department, set up
Full Speed
At Home,
Urged by
By HARRY S. TRUMAN
North American Newspaper
. Alliance, Inc.
Copyright, 1958
by Harry S. Truman
(Reproduction of this article in
whole or in part is forbidden
without written authorization.) .
These are days when I find
myself getting a little im
patient with people in respon
sible places who are upset by
reports of Russia's growing
industrial strength and yet do
nothing about our infinitely
greater economic potential. I
think that what we are suf
fering from is the consequence
of' indecision.
We are failing to make the
most of our vast, resources,
experience and skills in the
face of a still troublesome
Russia. The leaders of the
free world cannot just sit
and- wait for things to hap
pen. They must act.
And these are some of the
TV Franchise On
Council's Agenda
The much - discussed pro
posed television franchise for
a pay-system of Portland tele
vision will appear on the
Medford city council agenda
tonight. The council will meet
at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
Trimble Television, Inc.'s
effort to secure such a fran
chise was delayed at the May
1 council meeting when
KBES-TV representatives told
the council of its "right" to
bring such television into the
valleyand asked for a similar
franchise. Both firms are re
questing non-exclusive fran
chises. Other items on the council
agenda include plans and spe
cifications for several paving
and sanitary sewer projects
and discussion to determine
the method of. assessing sani
tary sewer systems in : the
Kenwood - Grandview, Berry
dale and Laurelhurst districts.
. The council also will .con
sider granting a. license to the
Civil Aeronautics administra
tion for construction of a light
approach lane system at the
airport. Authorization for
condemnation of land needed
for the light approach lane
also will be considered.
IBuflDefen
Portland A strike
of construction laborers
ended in Oregon ' today,
permitting resumption of
$275 million worth of con
struction projects.
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EXTINGUISH FIRE In a one-day course
on patient evacuation and fire fighting tech
niques held in Medford yesterday by Lt.
Robert McGrath, left, of the Chicago fire
department, women hospital employees
were taught how to use a fire hose. A mock
beds outside the Medford
Armory where volunteers par
ticipated in simulated emer
gency evacuation of a hospi
tal ward. '
The volunteers were in
structed by: McGrath in the
system to use in the evacua
tion and had -practice in the
use of extinguishers and fire
nose 'before fires were lighted
Ahead
Abroad
Truman
things that I believe must be
done to restore the initiative
of Ahe free world in the inter
ests of peace and freedom:
Herein the United States
I do not think we ought to de
lay doing everything neces
sary to get our economy forg
ing ahead again so that we
will not suffer a more serious
set-back and risk, at the same
time, affecting our allies and
friends by our recession.
I would urge our friends
and allies to be wary of any
tendency to be over-impressed
by the Russians to the extent
of entertaining notions of ap
peasing , them. Our friends
should remember that unity
of purpose and cooperation
have served all of us well in
the past.
Further Steps
We should consider further
steps to bring about closer
economic and v financial . co
operation and trade relations
with our allies.
I would recommend that, as
quickly as possible, we take
our allies into full confidence
with respect to all nuclear de
velopments, sharing with
them the benefits pf this vast
source of ene'rgy and defense.
I had favored this action
during my terms as President,
but the MacMahon Act, set
ting up the Atomic Energy
Commission, reserved for the
United States all atomic se
crets. I hope that now, as the
result of our experience and
the new conditions in the
world today, the Congress
will pass the necessary legis
lation to enable our Govern
ment to extend full nuclear
partnership to our allies.
We must not forget that it
was the British who carried
out the first practical stages
that eventually led to the pro
duction of the A-bomb when
they turned over to us all
their, secrets, as well as the
experts. .
Informed of Understanding
Both Churchill and Attlee,
as Prime Ministers, informed
me of the .existence of - an
understanding between Presi
dent Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill that imme
diately after ; the war . we
would share with the British
all atomic information. I told
both Prime Ministers that I
had no knowledge of such an
understanding and that I
could find no record of such
an understanding in any of
the records of the President's
office. I also told them that I
could understand the fairness
of such an arrangement and
was sympathetic with its pur
pose but that my hands were
tied by the MacMahon Act.
(Continued on Page 16)
evacuation of a burning ward was demon
strated by local women hospital employees,
who were - instructed' by McGrath before
fires were lighted in containers surround
ing the beds. , - -
on patients beds and in con
tainers placed about the
make-believe room.
At the sound of . an alarm
the nurses put out fires on pa
tients beds with a blanket,re
moved the patient " from the
"room" and returned to ex
tinguish small fires with hand
extinguishers, then' all four
lrferQ
Thousands Greet
Vice President
On Return Home
'Great Dignity'
Praised By Ike
Washington (Ut PresU
dent Eisenhower personally
welcomed Vice President
Richard M. Nixon home from
his stormy South America
tour today with a salute to
his courage and assurances
that this country's affection
for its Latin American neigh
bors is as "close, as ever."
The vice president and
Mrs. Nixon, stoned and spat
upon in Venezuela just two
days ago, came ', home to a
welcome unprecedented for
such an occasion. '
A great cheer went up
from the thousands at Wash
ington National Airport as
Nixon and his wife stepped
from the big plane which
tlew them from the violence
of South America to a hero's
welcome.
Eisenhower was the first to
greet the Nixons as they step
ped from the plane.
"All America welcomes
him home," the President
said, touching off a burst of
flag-waving applause.
"Through this entire- trip,"
the President said of Nixon,
"He has conducted himself ef
fectively, with great dignity
and has performed to the satisfaction-
not only, of us' but
to our sister countries the
duties he was sent to per
form. Faced Real Danger ..
. "There have been some, un
pleasant incidents," the Presi
dent said in reference to the
anti-American outbursts in
Venezuela, Peru and Colum
bia. "Some came to the point
of danger, real danger, and
risk of harm and even of
worse, not only to the vice
president but Mrs. Nixon."
Nixon in response to the
President told the crowd that
he and his wife "have always
been "very proud to represent
the United States," in their
trips abroad, "but I don't
think either of us have ever
been as moved as today."
manned a fire hose to put out
a large firei
According to McGrath, drill
in a 'set" system of patient
evacuation is , necessary to
avoid confusion, and he ad
vises all hospitals and nursing"
homes to train personnel in
the sequence demonstrated at
the class. Once a system is de
veloped, evacuation can be
Welcomed
"Find Any Fingerprints On It?"
BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati ... . 9 14 0
Pittsburgh ......... 4 11 0
Haddix, Klippsiein (4),
Jeff coat . (8) - and Burgess,
Bailey (8); Friend. Face (9)
and Foiles, Kravvilz (9).
San Francisco ; 4 9 1-
St. Louis 2 110
McCormick, Constable
(9) and .Schmidt; McDaniel,
Mabe (6) and H. Smith.
Dead Indian Road
Now Open To Lake
. Dead Indian rd. to Lake of
the Woods is now open, ac
cording to reports from- the
county engineer's office and
the lake resort.
The resort reported also
that the road to east side sum
mer homes is open. Good fish
ing at the lake was reported
during the past week at Lake
of the Woods with trout
catches measuring 10 to 14
inches. The resort is in operation.
Nursing Home Staff
ana.
MOVE PATIENT How to get patients out to put out a gasoline fire started on a piece
of a burning hospital ward was demon- of asbestos. About 75 staff members from
strated yesterday by volunteers from Rogue hospitals and nursing homes in southernv
Valley and Sacred Heart hospitals. The Oregon attended the course,
blanket on the corner of the bed was used
carried out in an orderly man
ner, he said.
The Medford fire depart
ment furnished three men and
a pumper on a standby basis
during the day. The session
was attended by Medford Fire
Chief Gordon Barker, Fire
Chief Harold Filer, Grants
Pass, and? Fire Chief Charles
Carlos Morris Says
Ad Is Misleading
Carlos Morris, candidate for
the Republican nomination for
county coroner, today said
that a statement appearing in
an advertisement in the Mail
Tribune yesterday was inac
curate and misleading.
.The ad, ordered and paid
for by the Perl for Coroner
committee, indicated that dur
ing Morris' incumbency in the
office, there had been no free
dom of choice in selecting a
funeral director on thepart
of the families of deceased in
dividuals coming under juris
diction of the coroner's office.
Morris declared that in no
instance has . family . freedom
of choice been denied. He de
manded a retraction be made
by the Perl for Coroner com
mittee. - -
The Mail Tribune, believing
Morris' statement to be cor
rect, regrets the publication of
an ad which it believes to be
misleading.
Davis, Ashland, as well as
Deputy State Fire : Marshall
Bill Roble and Medford Fire
Marshal Truman Nelson. . ,
The course was ' sponsored
jointly by the Oregon Associ
ation of hospitals, Civil De
fense and the Oregon state
fire marshal, and was one of
four scheduled in Oregon this
Man-Made Moon
Claimed To Weigh
2,925.53 Pounds
Size Indicates
Power of Rocket
Moscow ' (IP) The Soviet
Union sent its third Sputnik
into orbit today. The new
satellite weighed almost a .
ton and a half, twice the size
of any previous man made
moon, indirectly indicating
the tremendous power of the
Soviet intercontinental rock
et. The exact weight of the
new satellite was given as
1,327 kilograms 2,925.53
pounds. It was more than
double the size of the now-
defunct Sputnik II, the larg
est satellite until todav. which
weighed 1,118 pounds and
carried the space dog Laika.
It was more than 100 times
larger than the biggest U. S.
satellite, Explorer III, which
weighs .31 pounds.
Sputnik HI apparentlv car
ries no living animal, but con-.
tains a considerable amount
of -important apparatus for
scientific checks.
The new satellite is a cone-
shaped tube 11 feet 8 58 in
ches long, and five feet Bi
inches in diameter at its base.
The fourth stage of the
launching rocket is following
the satellite in a close orbit.
The Soviet announcement
said Sputnik III represented
a new stage in the scientific
investigation of the upper
layers of the atmosphere and
in the study of cosmic space.
Prof. Cyril Staniukovich, a
noted Soviet astrophysicist,
said launching of this Sput
nik is expected to reveal data
that will facilitate space flight
to the moon "within the near
est possible future."
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair and rather
warm through Friday. Low to
night SO. High Friday 88.
- .Temp.
Highest Y'esterday 84
Lowest this Morning 45
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise .. 4:50 a.m.'
Sunset 7:26 p.m.
Moonrise Friday
New Moon
3:43 a.m.
Sunday
Mercury, dimly seen below the
Moon tonight, is now making
a brief appearance as a morn
ing star. This planet, with a
diameter of 3,010 miles, is now
about 79 million miles from the
Earth.
Members
week. The first was held at
Portland Monday, the second
at Eugene Tuesday and anoth
er one will be held at Baker
Friday, according to Lt. Mc
Grath. Glen Keyes, business mana
ger at Sacred Heart hospital,
was in charge of th$ local
program. . ,