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Newspaper Page Text15 f7S M w w v U VU U J fp) Q - - ' - 52nd Year Medfoi 22 Pages Polls Will Remain Open Until 8 p.m. For Primaries "Measures Also On Ballots In County The number voting in to day's primary elections was said to be "about average" tip to noon today, according to a spot check of several down town Medford polling places. Polls opened at 8 o'clock this morning, and will remain open until 8 o'clock tonight lor registered voters to nom inate Republican and Demo cratic candidates for congress man, state and local offices. In a non-partisan election, judges for state Supreme Court, circuit and district courts will be nominated. .. Measures on Ballots In addition, there are va rious measures regarding taxes and, in Medford, annex ations which also appear on the ballot. Weather was ideal with clear skies, and temperatures reaching about 95 this after noon forecast. Most downtown precincts reported an "about average vote, and the number of reg istered voters going to the polls this morning was com paratively light. The number casting ballots was expected to increase later today. A total of 443 persons voted at the courthouse this morn ing, where there are. polling places for seven precincts. The total votes cast up to shortly before noon included 169 Democrats and 274 Re publicans. Vfcte at Hedrick .' A total of 228 votes were cast at Hedrick Junior High s&ool, where polls for four precincts are located. There is a total of 1,337 registered voters in the four precincts. At Medford High school, where polls are located for four precincts, a total of 216 had voted shortly before noon. Total registered voters in the four precincts is 1,451. At Washington school, 226 had voted by noon out of a total f 1,149 registered voters. Polling places for four pre cincts are located at Washing ton school. Ninty-five votes were cast at polling places .in Lincoln school, and 157 in Jackson school by 11 o'clock. Oregon Voters .Choose Party Nominees Today Portland (IPl Oregon vot ers went to the polls today to choose nominees for gov ernor, Congress and for local offices. A record 829,170 persons were registered to vote in the primary, but fewer than half were expected to cast ballots. The weatherman predicted fair and warm weather over most of the state. Five Public Hearings Scheduled by Eive public hearings last flight were set for the June 5 meeting of the Medford city council. The hearings are on a paving project, a sanitary sewer project, two changes of zone and an annexation of land into the city. The council will hold a hearing to consider annexa tion of the portion of the Ellendale subdivision, located outside the city. Street and sanitary requirements have been met, and annexation was recommended by the planning commission. Construction Hearing v A hearing on construction of a sanitary sewer on Siski you blvd., between Modoc ave. and White Oak dr.,- will also be held June 5. The sec tion will serve several homes and the Hoover school which is now under construction. Also on June 5 will be a EARLY VOTERS Voters in most polling places in Jackson, county got off to an early start this morning. In the picture '. above, civics class members of Hedrick Junior High school, who served as guide's, help a group of voters. find the correct precinct table. Hedrick Junior High school, like a nese Use Planes, Tanks To Quel! Tribesmen Beirut, Lebanon (IP) Leb anese forces using jet planes and tariks swept through northern Lebanon today in an effort to smash rebellious tribal armies and drive in filtrators back across the borter into Syria. Council Completes Couple! Action The Medford city council took final action on the; Eighth st.' couplet last night when it approved several parking restrictions required by the state highway commis sion. ' .-.- . . , The agreement with- the commission consists of mak ing the street a through street by installation of stop' signs for some intersecting streets and traffic signals at others. Parking restrictions are also set by the agreement. Other installations of stop signs will be at the-Hillcrest rd. and Valleyview dr. inter section, and at Modoc and East Main st. Both signs were requested by the traffic en gineer after studies of traffic movement. Chicago (IF) Eugene F. McDonald Jr., 72, co-founded and board chairman of the Zenith Radio Corp.,. died Thursday. ' Council hearing for paving Siskiyou blvd., between Modoc ave. and White Oak , dr. -This would serve the Hoover school and several property owners in the area. The council also granted a request for a June 5 public hearing to consider the re zoning of a section of land on Barnett rd. The property owner plans construction of a convalescent home in the area. The rezoning had been denied by the planning com mission because the project would require spot-zoning. Another hearing June 5 will be a request for a mul tiple family zone for about six acres .of land in. the Bid die and Morrow rds area for construction of a mobile trailer park. The planning commission had ; recommend ed the change in zoning from single family. MEDFORD, OREGON, number of other polling places, served more than one precinct-'The students above are, left to right, Norman Olson, Gary Wheeler, and Davfrjl Irving. Counting of votes began at 1 p.m. today, but was scheduled to start at 4 p.m. in polls located in schools. Forces . More; than 30' American refugees from the shell pocked countryside .sought haven in the comparative safe ty of Beirut. But more were Still in areas considered dangerous. Claims Confirmed . v One independent American eyewitness confirmed govern ment claims that 700 and possibly many more Syrians had crossed the border into Lebanon and joined with re bellious tribesmen stirred up by inflammatory broadcasts from Radio Cairo and Radio Damascus. , . A dispatch , from Washing ton said Lebanonhad asked the U. S. government' for a shipment of tanks. The State Department was reported studying the request. Informed, sources said Pre mier Sami el Solh would de mand that Parliament give him a confidence vote today on a request for extraordin ary powers to cope with the rebellion.. Government sources: said the Army had seized most of the territory captured by the rebels but strong measures still were needed to prevent the overthrow : of :' President Camille Chamoun's pro-Western government. Chamoun's position received support Wednesday by the U.S. decision to send anti-riot equipment to1 Beirut and dis patch a task force of 12 am phibious" ships to . eastern Mediterranean ready positions where they will be available for action if needed. Miss Samuels Case Referred To DA District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder reported Thursday that the case of Miss Neva Samuels, former city em ployee and recorder for the city of Medford, has been re ferred V to his office. . He said that his office would .take appropriate ac tion' in the case.' Miss Samuels, 123 Tripp st., was suspended from, her job May 9. An investigation re vealed an irregularity in the handling '.of nioney . from parking meter violation fines. The irregularity, was noted during as audit of records by certified public accountants after Miss Samuels was sus pended. -V She had been employed by the city -25 years. FRIDAY, MAY 16 1958 Armed Forces Day Military Parade - Armed Forces Day Satur day will start officially with a parade through downtown Medford at 11 a.m.,; according to Lt. Col. Frank Kehoe, Army reserve, and coordinat ing chairman. , The parade will start from the, old city park' near the Medford library at 11 a.m. and move west on Main st. to Bartlett and south on Bart letf st., Colonel. Kehoe said. A reviewing stand , will be placed directly across the street from the Medford branch of , the First National Bank of Portland. Invited to watch the parade from the re viewing stand are Gen. Roy V. Ricard, Maj. Gen J. H. Hicks and Col. W. R. Paine, Mayor John Snider and Col. Wil liam Prentice, all of Medford. ' Units in the parade will in clude the 417th Army En gineer brigade of Medford,, the local Navy reserve unit, Medford National Guard units with equipment and' the Med ford High school band. Fly-overs for Medford from the Kinglsey field, Klamath Falls, have been scheduled be tween 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sat urday. A C-119 or C-123 will make three fly-overs ' cover ing Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass, according to Lt. Col. Raymond A. Thornton, base commander. The . plane will land at Medford's air port and be on -display. All jet aircraft with the exception of an F-86 will make fly-overs also. . . ' . , Open houses ' have 'been scheduled by the Ashland anti aircraft units of the NatiorAl Guard in the armory there, and at Kingsley field in Kla math Falls. Guard Shop To Be Remodeled af CW Bids for remodeling the maintenance shop building and paving at the National Guard property . at . Camp White will be opened at 2:30 p.m. May 29 in the Salem Na tional Guard office, Lt. Col. William E. Adams, contract ing officer, has announced. , The work includes installa tion of two metal roll-up doors, with necessary remod eling to the shop building and construction of a concrete block oil storage building. P 1 a n s and specifications may be obtained from Lt. Col. Adams in Salem. Price 10. Gents- RIBUNE Construction of Television Service In City Planned Council Grants Two Requests at Meeting Immediate construction of a closed-system television serv ice is planned in Medford,; fol lowing action of the city coun cil last, night, The council approved the application of Trimble Tele vision, Inc., . for a franchise for its system. It also granted a similar application filed lay California - Oregon Television Corp., operators of KBES-TV. - Trimble announced plans several months ago to bring signals from three Portland television stations in Medford on a closed system basis. In stallation of the system would cost subscribers about, $40 with about $5 per month service charge; Similar System, KBES-TV, announced at the May 1 council meeting it wished to secure an ordinance for a similar system of closed television. They told, the coun cil of their right-to protect their.. interest in the Medford area,' and of their efforts to satisfy viewers. ;V The local firm "plans to bring; programs from KOTI TV into Medford. Rate sched ules and installation costs for the KBES-TV; system will not be available until they can be worked out, according to 'of ficials. -The council postponed ac tion on the Trimble request several times, saying it need ed, more study on the matter. A discussion of the system at the f May 1 council meeting centered on the limit of regu- laf atory powers of the coun cil. Both franchies, which are non-exclusive, passed last night without discussion. Post Bond ' - Both firms will post a $10, 000 bond with the city to in sure . against damage, to city property in installing the sys tem. The franchises also call for the firms to pay the city three per cent of the gross revenue each year.- Operation of the Trimble system will require . erection of a . pickup tower - south of Eugene and use of the. tele phone company's-: lines to bring the signal into Medford. Several boosters would be-in-stalled along the line to keep the signal up to good viewing quality, officials noted. . KBES-TV plans the instal lation of a translator to' bring KOTI-TV signals ' i n t o the area. Other information about the system has not been an nounced. . Medford 'Hams' Report Receiving Sputnik Signals v , Amateur radio operators in Medford reported today receiving the signal from Sputnik Ill's transmitter. The signal, - said, to be clear, was picked up on the high side" of 20 mega cycles and lasted for about 7 minutes about 10:23 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. The signal was similar to the Morse code letter L (dot. dash, dot, dot).- they .'said. It ' war explained that the signal should be. heard on any amateur radio set that receives 20 megacycles. WEATHER - FORECAST: "Fair and warm through Saturday. Low after r jioon humidity. Low tonight 50. High Saturday 9J. ,' Temp. Highest Terterday 1: r Lowest this Morning 59 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise a-m- Sunset ... : P-m. Moon rise Saturday 4:11 ajn. New Moon : May IS PROMINENT STARS The Big Dipper, in the north west at midnight. In this posi tion the Handle -of the Dipper appears above the-Bowl; in the northeast the Bowl Is seen above the Handle. No. 48 Work Resumes on Talent Projects; Strike Settled Workers Start When Pickets Removed Work on; more than $7,500, 000 worth ;of construction in the-'Talent, oroWt 'wae r- "sumed yesterday and this morning, following a 12-day strike by construction work ers: :--.::V' , " Announcement of 1 the set tlement came in a joint state ment by A;; H. Harding, man ager of the Associated Gener al Contractors of American, Portland chapter, and G. W. Royer, secretary and business representative, of the Oregon State District Council' of La borers. United Press reported that the union won a 50-cent an hour -wage increase,- spread over three years, as well as "a reasonable transportation reimbursement program" that will be in effect over the three years. Effective March 1, this year, a 20-cent hourly pay boost will go to all classifica tions. Pay will be increased an additional 15 cents an hour next Jan. 1, and -another 15 cents an hour Jan. 1, 1960. Three Classifications . . Pay scales for three classi fications of laborers went from $2.35 an hour to $2.55 an hour; $2.55 to $2.75, and $2.70 to $2.90 under the new contract, United - Press - re ported, -r . . The walkout started May 5 when wok on the Green Springs, and Cascade tunnels, Keerre Creek dam and the Howard Prairie delivery ca nal was halted. Workers on the - Green . Springs power plant and penstock stopped work last Thursday noon. About 200 workers were in volved, officials said.. - . Oficials at Cheney Cherf and Associates said work was resumed yesterday afternoon as ' soon as '. pickets left . the Green Springs and Cascade tunnels. Three shifts work on a 24-hour basis on the tunnel projects. Work on the Keene Creek dam was. resumed this morn ing. The contract for the tun nel and Keene Creek dam projects is for $2J894;000. Delivery Canal Work also was resumed this morning on: the Howard Prai rie delivery canal Two con tracts totaling $2,922,000 were awarded Cherf Brothers, Sandkay and Birch for the delivery canal. ' . , Employees of Wismer and Becker of Sacramento, Calif., and B. S. Lord,'. Portland, re sumed work this morning on the $1,787,000 Green Springs powerplant and penstock. The contract price for the power plant; and penstock does not include the generator or tur bine. , . . n Throughout the state, about 3,000 workers had walked off jobs. The- strike affected about ,14,000 -workers. About $275 million 'dollars worth of construction projects in the state was halted during the strike. Smelter Plant Causes Failure , An electrical failure in a transformer bank at the flanr na Nickle Smelter - company hear Riddle cause a general power outage in southern Ore gon and . northern California this morning. ... Electrical power was affect ed in Jackson,, Josephine, Douglas and. Del Norte, Calif; ornia counties, California Ore gon Power company officials reportedl In Medford the power went off . about 9:50 a.m. with the blackout lasting for "about three minutes. The outage' was longer in other affected areas, they said. - Officials reported that power was restored lo normal throughout the system within 30 minutes of the failure. ; Los Angeles (in A Lock heed F104A Starfire jet today topped jthe world's aircraft speed mark by. nearly 200 miles per "hour when it reached an average speed of 1,404.19 miles an hour. "By the Way, What Have We Been Doing About Latin America Theie Pa$t Few Year?" $30,000 in Frost Damage Reported in Del Rio Frost damage estimated at $30,000 to $50,000 occurred in the Del Rio orchard near Gold Hill Monday night and early Tuesday morning when six members f an orchard heat ing crew ; walked off, refus ing to work, H.- S. (Hob) Deuel, orchard owner; said this morning. He stated it was the same group of youths, mostly teen- Bids Are Called Portland Bids are now be ing . accepted for paving and grading a 1.1 mile section of the Green Springs highway; at the Ashland city- limits, . ac cording to the state highway commission. Bids also are being accept ed for' stockpiling about 9,000 feet of crushed material north and east of Prospect on Crater,' Lake highway; ; v Also called were bids for construction of a bridge across Trail creek on Crater Lake highway. In addition to grad ing and paving ..77 miles of highway, stock piles of crush ed material, erection of 1,600 feet of metal guard rail, 30 metal sight posts, 30 rods of type number three fence and culvert' construction are re quired. - - Bids on the projects must be. received by the commis sion in room 418, state high way . building, Salem, by 10 a.m., Thursday, May 29, when bids will be opened. Hottest Day This Year Recorded Here Medford and vicinity resi dents sweltered under a 90 degree temperature yester day. , It was the . hottest day so far this year but even hotter temperatures were ; anticipat ed for today and tomorrow, the weather bureau reported this morning. The mercury at the airport weather, station was expected to climb to 95 degrees -both 'this afternoon and Saturday. The maximum temperature today could be a record high. Hottest May 16 theremometer reading is 92. ...... Projects Holt Says Complicated Procedures, Laziness May Be Slowing Adoptions Seoul, Korea OF) Oregon farmer Harry Holt, said to day that some U.S. and inter national adoption - agencies have accomplished little be cause of . "complicated pro cedures and laziness." Holt, who, has arranged for the adoption of more than 800 Korean orphans fathered .by American soldiers, issued his denouncement . in answer to a complaint that he is taking diseased children to the Unit ed States without medical examinations. . Instructed Attorney He said he has instructed his attorney to determine whether he should bring suit against Dr. W. B. Bradshaw, Fort Worth, Tex., city health director, who made the ac cusation. v Orchard afters, who did considerable damage to the - neighboring Pelton orchard and some to the Sams Valley orchard the same night. Deuel - said it. is possible that one of the youths who walked off the heating job was not involved in the vandalism. The orchard owner estimat ed the pear crop on 50 acres was damaged from frost, ap proximately one-half of the 100-acre orchard.; The youths dumped 20 orchard heaters in the Pelton orchards- .and stacked, up six . of these, scorching four trees. Refuse lo Work They then came back to the Del Rio orchards and refused to work " when " the foreman called them out, Deuel said. Five ; of the youths are from Gold Hill and one from Med ford. They were joined in the fPelton orchard vandalism by five other youths from Gold Hill, . Deuel said. Deuel reported they - said the Pelton orchard pays $1.10 an hour and wanted more pay. Deuel said he pays the standard rate of a dollar an hour while the crews re. ac tually working and lesser rate of pay when the . crews are waiting in quarters provided for them. He added he has had same crew for some time without trouble. Threatened Members -- Some of the larger and old er members of the six-youth group threatened other crew members working in another section of the orchard and forced them to walk off, Deuel said he had been told. However, damage there was not quite so serious. Three of the youths have been remanded to county ju venile authorities. . The dist rict . attorney's office has called in three other warrants out for the arrest of the other youths, state police said this morning. The : entire matter has been : referred to the county juvenile office, it was reported. i - . EBaselbal NATIONAL LEAGUE San Francisco .. 5 9 0 'Chicago 6 11 . 0 Monnnt, Miller (7). Worthington (8). Constable (8), Crone (9), and Schmidt; Phillips, Nichols (6). Eliton (8) and Taylor. Neeman (9). I would first like to say that the charges are not true at alL" Holt told the United Press in an interview. U.S. embassy officials in Seoul and Republic of Korea health offi cials also denied the charges. "I also would like to say that this doctor (Bradshaw) must be either very naive "or ill-informed," said Holt. Strict Examination . "Anyone who knows any thing about immigration pro cedures at all must know that you have to have a very strict examination' to secure an American visa." ' - Holt explained there are only two hospitals through out Korea approved by the American embassy , to give visa physical examinations: "One is the Seoul sani tarium and the other is the French Premier Seeks To Avert Bid By de Gaulle No Guarantee Of Enforcement Paris ito The French Na tional Assembly gave Pre mier Pierre Pflimlin's govern ment a three-month grant of sweeping emergency powers today to head off a new bid fdr power by Gen. Charles de Gaulle or a Communist up rising. . The . vote, which came as the nation verged on civil war in a setting already tense with violence, was announced officially as 461 to 144. 'To Save Republic The Assembly voted Pflimi lin the emergency powers "to 6ave the . republic, . while rebellious French generals and settlers set up. what was virtually a rival government in embattled Algeria. But, even with the grant of authority, there . was; nb guarantee that Pflimlin could enforce . it,- since there still was the possibility , the army in France might join the army in Algeria in defying the or ders of Paris. ' The special, powers bill. establishing a state of emer gency throughout metropoli tan France and Algeria,' was passed by the Assembly after only about 4V4 hours debate. Search and Seizure Only extreme rightists vot-' ed against the bill, which establishes a situation some what -less drastic than a state of siege or martial law. But it considerably extends police powers . and permits - almost unlimited search and seizure. It also sets up the right to establish a curfew. The bill went at once to the upper house, the Council of the Republic, ' and the gov ernment, hoped to push it through all its formal parlia mentary stages " by late to night. - , , i A bomb " damaged - Pflim lin's country residence at Hendaye, and two more bombs were found in the In terior and Economic Minis try buildings ; in Paris.' The bombs in Paris did not go off. Pflimlin himself was in Paris when the Hendaye blast was set off. City, Building Owners To Meet A committee was appointed by Mayor John Snider 'last night to meet with a group of nine Medford building owners next week. The group, represented by Attorney Frank Farrell, told the council of hardship in in stalling sprinkler systems in the basements of their build ings. -The 'system is required for all buildings with 3,500 or more square feet of basement space.' , " - The fire code ruling would require a cost of about $50,000 total for the nine buildings, he noted. . Farrell said the typical insurance rate would drop about $50 per year with the installation of each system which would cost about $6, 000. . , . ' - Medford fire department of ficials, in a recent announce ment, said most fires in large buildings' start in the base ment and installation of such a system would prevent small fires "from turning into large ones.. Several Medford build ings have complied with the ruling and have recently in stalled the system, they noted. Oceanlake (01 Willis Stu art, 17, Portland, drowned in the 'surf here Thursday. Severance Union hospital, he said. "All of .our children had this required physical examination prior to their de parture for the United States. "Public health officials of the United States also ex amine the children on ar rival." Holt emphatically denied a Bradshaw charge that the orphans sent by Holt's agency to the United States had been exposed to typhoid and were all tubercular to some extent. Diagnosis Corrected "He may be referring , to one of them who was falsely diagnosed as having typhoid in California," Holt explain ed. "However, we have a cable from the California Health Department "stating that the diagnosis was wrong. The child only had diarrhea.