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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.