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Newspaper Page Textke We m? Tot CM .'r 2" INTO RIVER This northbound Freight ways "double box rig" went out of control and tore out a section of bridge before plunging into the Shasta river on Highway 99 just south of Gazelle, Calif., Sunday. Salter Submits Low Bid for Work At Phoenix School Phoenix Harold Salter, Rogue River contractor, was awarded a contract to con struct an addition to Phoenix High school Monday at a spe- cial meeting of Phoenix school district. Salter offered the low bid, for $19,890. Construction will start about May 30, and will be completed within 60 days, ac cording to Ernest R. James, school superintendent. R. J. Keeney, Medford, is the archi tect. The addition will consist of an area 64 feet long and 31 feet wide, divided by folding doors to form a band room and a classroom. A covered con crete walk and a breezeway are included. Block Construction Plans call for concrete block construction, rigid insulation acid built-up roof, corrugated fiber glass panels and cement plaster. Heating calls for unit ventilators and connections to existing boiler system. In addition to the low bid, others were submitted by Cummings Construction com ptnr, $19,890; Don Jacobs, Medford, $21,251; Batzer Con struction company, $21,891; Myers D. Jones, $22,200, and Ctulkins Construction com ptny, t31,056. Curtis Barnes, school board chairman, signed the contract. Othr members of the board ar Jtck Hoffbuhr, Allen "Har ris, Jeannette Grove and Merle .Simmonds. Mrs. Law Knee Drake is district clerk. The special board meeting followed the annual budget election, with the budget of about $400,000, calling for a lvy in excess of the 6 per cent limitation, approved by a vote 100 yes, IS no. Polls were cen from 2 to 8 p.m. Huge Lumber Fire Under Control Seattle, Wash. (IP) A spectacular fire feeding on more than seven million board feet of cedar was brought un der control early today after causing damage estimated un officially at about 2 million dollars. Damage to lumber alone was estimated at $900,000. The blaze at the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing com pany, one of the world's larg est cedar mills, also destroyed a machine shop, a dry kiln building and a small factory adjacent to the mill. Two persons suffered minor burns in fighting the blaze. "It was one of the worst fires I've seen in 47 years service with the Seattle fire department," said Fire Chief William Fitzgerald. ' Portland W Kempton Hewitt, Philomath, has been elected student body presi dent at Cascade College for 1958-59. Gearhart W Margaret Conn of Portland was elected president of the Oregon Fed eration of Music Tuesday. WEATHER T untvrj x . - - diness through Thursday. Chance of afternoon and eve ning thunderstorms over high mountains. Low tonight 54. High Thursday 8S. Temp. Highest Yesterday 87 Lowest this Morning 5 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset 4:45 a.m. 7:31 p.m. . 10:09 p.m. Moonset rint Omrtrr Sunday night PROMINENT STARS The Twins, above the Moon VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, low in south east 10:35 p.m. Jupiter, in the south west .12:15 a.m. Venus, low in east 3:49 a.m. Mars, in the southeast at sunrise Wreckage Searched After Air Collision Brunswick, Md. . (IP) In vestigators today combed the wreckage of an airliner and a jet trainer that collided in air, and an aroused Congress asks how such accidents can hap pen and what the government can do to prevent more of them. There were new demands Indonesia Rebels Otfer Meeting To Settle Strife Jakarta, Indonesia ? (IP) The Indonesian revolutionary government announced to night it was "willing to ne gotiate" with the central gov ernment in Jakarta for a "reasonable solution" to the Indonesia crisis. The announcement was made by Col. Ventje Sumual, commander of the rebel forc es in the North Cebeles, in a rebel Radio Menado broad cast monitored in Manila.' The announcement did not state what the rebel terms for negotiations would be. But it said the revolution ary government was willing to negotiate "for the unity of the whole nation." The announcement came in the wake of reports that In donesian central government forces had recaptured the big rebel air base at Morotai and occupied Gorontalo, second largest town in the North Celebes. Fong Sentenced To 20 Year Term Portland (IP) Wey Him Wayne Fong, 29, Portland, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Federal Court here Tuesday. He. had pleaded guilty to selling heroin. Fong was arrested three weeks ago by federal narcotics agents and at first pleaded innocent. Jle later changed his plea to guilty on one count of selling the narcotic and the U. S. attorney's office dropped the other counts against him. Under terms of the federal narcotics act, no parole is per mitted. Fong and his wife, Sherry, were acquitted of the 1954 slaying of school girl Diane Hank. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 5 7 1 Pittsburgh 15 1 Phillips and S. Taylor; Porterfield, Blackburn 5. Gross 8, and Foiles. Krav itz 9. Home run: Moryn, Chicago. Los Angeles 2 4 1 Milwaukee 7 9 0 Drysdale, Labine 7. and Roseboio; Rush, Johnson 8, and Crandall. Home run: CimolL Los- Angeles. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York , 5 8 2 Chicago 2 9 0 Ford and Berra; Pierce. Fisher 7. Staley 8, and Lol lar. (12 Innings) Boston 2 5. 0 Cleveland -3 12 0 Sisler, Kiely 6, Delock 8, Wall 10 and White; Toman ek (1-0) and Nixon.. Baltimore ... 8 8 1 Detroit 1 8 0 Johnson, Lehman 1. Zu erink 9 & Triandos: Lary. Sleater 4, Susce 6, Shae 7, Aguirre 8 and Lau. . Driver of the truck, Claude Chapman Hil ger, 29, of "Rogue River, Ore., was not in jured. California state police said they be lieved the accident was caused by an un even load in the trailer. for an end to the "see and be seen" rule that has governed pilots. Critics called for more central control and speedier output of electronic devices to guide civil and military air craft through the skies. It happened in the wink of an eye Tuesday the collision of a Maryland Air National Guard T33 jet with a Capital Airlines Viscount in clear weather at about 8,000 feet. The sole survivor was Capt. Julius R. McCoy, the jet pilot, from the Maryland National Guard's 104th Fighter Squad ron at Martin Airport near Baltimore. He miraculously escaped death when he was blown from his plane after the collision and parachuted into a tree. At Frederick, Md., Memor ial Hospital, where he was treated for burns, McCoy told questioners he "never saw" the Viscount. His last memory was of being at 8,000 feet heading east. In the circumstances, the Viscount pilot, Kendall Bra dy .of Park Forest, HI., had every right to assume no oth er traffic was in the area. Honor Planned . For Ex-Governor Salem (IP) A bronze tablet honoring ex - Gov. Oswald West, Portland, and commemo rating the preservation of Ore gon's beaches for public use will be dedicated this Sunday at Neahkahnie mountain. Mr. and Mrs. West will be unable to attend the dedica tion ceremonies. They will be represented by a nephew, Wil lis West, also of Portland. Two daughters, Mrs. Helen West Stone and Mrs. Frank J. McHugh Jr.,. and three grand daughters also will be present. The ceremonies will start at 2 p.m. with Vern Hiner, Ne halem, presiding. Arthur Kirk ham, Portland, will be speak er, and Robert B. Chessman, Astoria, will make the dedica tion. iBuBDefnn Word was received at noon today from Portland that the sentencing of Hugh D'Autremonl, 54, in U. S. district court in Portland, previously scheduled for Friday has been postponed until mid-June. The postponement was necessary, it was reported, as Judge Gus Solomon had been called out of town. D'Autremont had plead ed guilty May 1 to assault with intent to rob a mail train. Methods of Fish Passage Research Are Reviewed "Cautious optimism" about research to find methods of upstream and down stream passage of migrating fish over dams has been reported to Congressman Charles. O. Por ter by Ross Leffier, assistant secretary of the interior. Porter had requested infor mation concerning fish es capements in connection with various reclamation programs, including , several in south western Oregon among them the Rogue River Basin project. Leffier said the Fish and Wildlife Service is actively engaged in extensive research. The problem concerns passage of adult salmon upstream dams to spawning grounds and the passage of juvenile salmon downstream. Upstream Passage Leffier wrote that "Re search on the upstream pas sage problem is being conduct Proposed Freight Rate Reductions Suspended by ICC Commission to Study Reductions Proposed The Interstate Commerce commission yesterday sus pended proposed freight rate reductions by Southern Pacific between Oregon and Califor nia according to United Press reports from Washington, D.C. The suspension was ordered until Dec. 20, this year, so the commission can investigate the proposed reductions, UP said. The reduced rates would have gone into effect at midnight last night. The action by the ICC came after division two of the ICC suspended the proposed reduc tion. Earlier, the ICC's suspen sion committe, which is com posed of five men, approved Southern Pacific's new re duced rates. Division two of the ICC is composed of three men. Division two's suspension followed an appeal by barge lines and truckers in Califor nia and Oregon. The appeal was made on the decision of the suspension committee. Seek Reconsideration The Southern Oregon Con servation and Tree Farm asso ciation and the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's associa tion asked the commission to reconsider the matter imme diately after its action yester day. The ICC rejected recon sidering it. The railroads had proposed the rate reductions on large quantity lumber shipments from Oregon to southern Cali fornia markets. The reduc tions would have put Oregon producers on an equal basis with northern California ship pers as far as freight rates are concerned, officials said. The suspension of rate re ductions is good for seven months, unless the ICC acts to lift the suspension before that time has expired. If the ICC fails to act, the railroad can put lower rates into effect after the seven-month period, an ICC spokesman said. Highway 230 to Diamond Lake Open The Diamond lake cut-off, State Highway 230, connect ing Highways 62 and 97, was officially open for traffic at 9 a.m. today, according to state police. The route has been closed for the winter Police said snow drifts of more than six feet are along the road side and two feet of snow is at the south edge of the lake. - Parking space at the lake is at a premium, reports said. No snow was reported at the lake when, the road was op ened last , year. Titan Launching Site Announced Washington (IP) The Air Force announced today that the first launching site for the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile will be located near Denver. It said the site-for the 5,500,-mile-range weapons will be at Lowry range on land already owned by the government and now used for bombing prac tice. - The . Colorado installation will be the fifth of the nation's widely dispersed string of bases from which the ,giant, nuclear-powered Titan and At las, can be launched. P ed at the Fisheries Engineer ing Research Facility at Bon neville dam on the Columbia river, f ianced by the Corps of Engineers . . . This is a large covered structure somewhat resembling a navigation lock. It has penstocks to provide it with a flow comparable to a good sized stream, and full scale fishways can be built within it. "In this structure our biolo gists and engineers have con structed models of fishways with varying structural char acteristics such as width and gradient. The purpose of this research is twofold: First to increase the efficiency of up stream fishways, and second, to make them more econo mical. "The first is achieved by studying the hydraulic condi tions in the fishways of steeper gradient and narrower width, which will be fully as efficient in passing fish as the Medford 20 Pages o New Army Head To Offer Peace To Rebel Generals Pflimlin Wins New Victory In Council Paris (IP) Premier Pierre Pflimlin will send France's new army chief to Algeria with full authority to make peace with insurgent generals demanding the return to pow er of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, informed sources said today. Pflimlin won a second vic tory over Gaullist forces to day when the council of the republic upper house approv ed his request for an exten sion of emergency powers in Algeria. Political sources, however, believed it might be a short-lived victory, merely postponing the ultimate struggle. "We will accept no one but De Gaulle," Alain de Serigny said. But the mission from Paris will go through, it was learn ed. It will be undertaken by Gen, Henri Lorillot, France's new chief of fcthe general staff. Goals Outlined The government decided on the Lorillot mission to spearhead a new drive to: Bar De Gaulle from pow er. Make "peace" with the insurgent generals in Algeria who have provided. De Gaul le's main support. - Step up the continuing war against the Moslem reb els. " The parliament victory for Pflimlin's middle of the road government was the second defeat in two days inflicted on De Gaulle in his bid for power. . Defeat of Pflimlin's pro posals in the senate or the house would have brought down Pflimlin's government. It would have precipitated the crisis in which De Gaulle and the Communists would stage their final showdown struggle for control of France. Political observers said this struggle would still come in the future but that Pflim lin was safe for the moment. Indicative of slowly easing tension, the' French govern ment announced today that telegraphic communications with Algeria, suspended when the crisis first exploded, will resume at midnight. All tele grams must be sent in un coded French language. Pelton Dam Set For Dedication Madras, Ore. (IP) Pelton dam, multi-million-dollar hydro-electric project on the De schutes river 11 miles north west of here, will be dedicated Saturday in an eight-hour pro gram. : - . The Central Oregon Cham ber of Commerce said marine activities, including water skiers, a chuck wagon feed, war dances by Warm Springs Indian scouts, and fireworks will be offered. About 5000 visitors are expected. more expensive fishways now in existence at Bonneville, The Dalles and McNary dams. Guiding Device "Also under the heading of adult upstream passage, our biologists and electronics tech nicians have.developed a guid ing device of which a full scale model has been installed at the Browniee dam on the Snake river. This device guides the fish to a trap from which they are taken by truck to a point above the dam and placed in the water to com plete their upstream migra tion. Over 15,000 salmon and steelhead trout were trans ported in this manner in the fall of 1957. - . "Turning to the downstream migration problem, extensive research is also underway, al though progress toward solu tion is somewhat less well ad vanced. At Browniee dam mentioned above; a large met al screen will be installed in MY MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1958 ahards "You Know, I Think People Are Worrying Less About The Recession" Pay Structure in County Competitive, Report Indicates A proposed salary and wage plan for Jackson county em ployees prepared by the Ore gon State Civil Service com mission, was received today by the county court. "Generally speaking," the report said, "it was found that the Jackson county pay struc ture was quite competitive in terms of present-day salary trends." County Judge Rodney Keat ing said the plan will be re viewed by members of the county court and discussed at a meeting of the county budg- Sfassen Loses In Primaries Pittsburgh HP) 5 Pennsyl vania Repulicans scuttled Harold E. Stassen's guberna torial bid in Tuesday's pri mary and told political new comer Arthur T. McGonigle to fight it out with Democratic Mayor David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh for the executive mansion. The organization slates of both parties rolled to smash ing victories in a comparative ly light turnout of citizens. Stassen and 13 other inde pendent candidates for state wide offices were swept aside by decisions of less than half the 2,718,179 registered Re publicans or the 2,451,414 el igible Democrats. The ability of party organ izations to get out the "reg ular" vote also resulted in easy triumphs for Democratic Gov. George' M. Leader and veteran Republican Cong. Hugh D. Scott Jr. for their party nominations for the U.S. Senate, paving the way for their battle in November for the seat of retiring Republi can Sen. Eward Martin. the forebay to guide young salmon into traps from which they will be transported downstream by truck in a manner, somewhat similar to that . . for adults. "Other dams in the "Colum bia river basin have a device called the "skimmer system" which is being developed. Here the water for the tur bines is drawn from a location deep in the forebay of the dam. The young fish are tak en from the surface layers, below which they have been found by experimental fish ing not to migrate. Smaller Waterways "A device for smaller wat erways, such as irrigation di versions, is the louver device developed for the pumping plant at Tracy, Calif. This is something like a Venetian blind placed on end and it di verts the young salmon to safe passages. "Finally, after some six et committee and department heads next Tuesday and Wednesday. The compensation plan, which is part of the job classi fication study of county em ployees made by the civil serv ice commission, is a "review and evaluation of the current compensation plan." Revise Present Plan The- commission's represen tatives analyzed and revised the present compensation plan in terms of the proposed job classification and generally brought it into "proper rela tionship with prevailing rates in the area." A salary survey of local private industry and . other public jurisdictions in Oregon was the survey's basis. Keating said the commis sion's recommendations for implementing the plan also will be studied. Results of the job classifi cation survey were given to the court late in April and employees have been given an opportunity to protest any change in job status recom mended, by the study. Both the . classification and compensation r e c o mmenda tions are expected to have some effect on the 1958-59 county -budget. Assessments To Be Pondered by Board Additional requests for re view of tax assessments were to ie considered this afternoon at a meeting of the Jackson county board of equalization. - County Judge , Rodney Keating, chairman, said less than 50 appeals were expect ed. Deadline for filing peti tions was 5 p.m. Tuesday. , ' years of development in lab oratory and small scale field applications, a full-scale test is being made this spring of the electrical guiding princple for down-stream salmon mi grants. "This is being done at Lakje Tapps, a power, reservoir of the Puget Sound Power and Light company, located on the White River in the vicinity of Tacoma, Wash. Here rows of electrodes 1,000 feet long will be used. A system of traps for collecting the guided and un guided fish will test the effi ciency of the device." In summary, Leffier said, "we recognize that the prob lem of upstream and down stream passage, particularly the latter at -high dams, has not yet been fully solved. However, we are cautiously optimistic that the results of the various lines of research indicated . . . will provide the solution." Tribune No. 52 TUCKER Sno-Caf Company Receives One of Highest Honors Vehicles Took Part In Antarctica Tucker Sno-Cat Corp., of Medford, has been awarded the U.S. Navy's certificate of merit, one of the highest hon ors the Navy can bestow, it was reported today. The award was made for the Sno-Cat company's par ticipation in supplying its over-the-snow vehicles for Operation Deep Freeze, the Navy's expedition to the Ant arctic in connection with the International G e o p h y s ical year. The Tucker company also supplied Sno-Cats to .other participating governments. Make Trip Four of the big vehicles were the only ones to make the trek all the way . across the Antarctic continent, the first time this has been done by motorized ground trans port, with Sir Vivian Fuchs, of Great Britain. Formal presentation of the certificate of merit will be arranged by Rear Admiral E. J. Peltier, chief of the Navy's civil engineers. E. M. Tucker, president of the company was notified of the award in a letter from Thomas S. Gates Jr., secretary of the Navy. Gates' letter follows: My Dear Mr. Tucker: It is my great pleasure to inform you that Tucker SNO- CAT Corporation has been awarded the Navy Certificate of Merit for its outstanding contributions to the Depart ment of the Navy in the fields of development, technology, and production for Operation DEEP FREEZE. This is one of the highest honors which the Navy can grant, and on this occasion I wish to express personally the Navy's deep appreciation of the unselfish interest and pa triotic service which you and your company ; have so gen erously extended to the Naval Establishment. I am asking Rear Admiral E. J. Peltier, Chief of Civil Engineers, to make arrange ments for presentation. With hearty congratulations and best wishes. Yours sincerely, Thomas S. Gates Jr., Secretary of the Navy. 102 Suggestions Made for Hazards City firemen made 102 recommendations for correc tion of hazards yesterday dur ing inspection of 114 homes. They found no hazards in 53 dwellings. Firemen stopped and 206 homes ahd found no one home at '84. Eight occupants turned down the offer of inspection.' City Fire Marshal Truman Nelson inspected five liquid petroleum gas installations, two mercantile occupancies. and one building of public assembly yesterday. He is sued eight orders for correct ing hazardous conditions. Salem Officer Named to Position Wayne M. Gurdane, cap tain of Oregon state police at the Salem headquarters, was elected secretary-treasurer at a meeting of the ninth an nual Western States Crime conference, which ends here today. It is the only elective office. 1 Kalispell, Mont., was elect ed as the site for the 1959 conference. About 250 law enforce ment officials from 14 west ern states, Alaska and Can ada attended the conference, which - provides an exchange of information on known criminals operating in the re gion. Corvallis (IPl Merrill Maxwell of Tillamook was in stalled Tuesday night as grand patriarch of Grand Encamp ment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at the group's convention here. Future Bright For Business, Ike Broadcasts To Confer Before Making Tax Decision Washington OP) Some congressional tax experts said today that, despite hints to the contrary, they expect President Eisenhower to stand firm against any immediate tax cuts. They said, however, that congress probably will insist on some cuts in excise sales taxes designed to lower the cost of living for consumers. They did not rule out the pos sibility that the President will offer a modest tax reduction program later this year if he succeeds in warding off any major tax slashes in the next critical six weeks. The President, in a speech in New York City Tuesday night, said the administration "after consulting with con gressional leaders" will make "certain decisions . . ; in the field of taxation." Sees Good Future Declaring the recession is "slowing down," he envision ed an economy moving -into a future "bursting with vitality, and promise." He also urged business and labor to hold the line on prices and wages. "The American people are going to be looking over the shoulders of those sitting at every bargaining table to see whether the wage settlement and subsequent - price decis ions are consistent with a stable dollar, or whether they mean another dismal sequence of ever-rising costs and prices," Eisenhower declared; The President said the tim ing of tax changes poses a problem and pointed to pos sibly inflationary effects of a tax cut. He also noted increas ing government spending threatened to increase the fed eral deficit. He said the tax decision would be made "in the light of the latest inform mation regarding the eco nomic situation and with a full evaluation of the probable short and long range conse quences." Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson used almost iden tical language in a speech pre pared for the Governors' con ference in Miami, Fla., today. He said the administration's decision would be made soon after consulting congressional leaders "in the light of the specifics of our improving economic situation and reflect a full evaluation of both the probable short and long term consequence s." He also warned against belief . "any single and dramatic action" would bring desirable changes in the economy. . Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.) chairman of the senate GOP policy committee, told the United Press "there may be some adjustments in excise taxes, on taxes affecting small business and some technical changes" , growing from the administration c o n f e rences with congressional leaders. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D 111.), renewing his demand for an immediate income tax cut, compared the President's speech to the way "Herbert Hoover sounded 28 years ago in the spring of 1930 in assert ing that "prosperity is just around the corner'." Correction Given On Adoption Story Fort Worth, Tex. OP) The United Press in a dispatch on May 7 incorrectly quoted City Health Director Dr. W. B. Bradshaw as saying that an Oregon adoption agency was bringing Korean babies into the United State without med ical check ups. The adoption agency is op erated by Harry Holt of Cres well, Ore. Bradshaw also denied , a quotation attributed - to him that persons who adopted the children were "too old." One of the Korean orphans adopted by a Fort Worth cou ple died May 4, Neuberger Named To Subcommittee Washington (IP Sen Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) to day was named chairman of both the retirement and gen eral matters subcommittees of the Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Services. He succeeds the late Sen. Kerr Scott of. North Carolina in these capacities. ' Salem (IP) The Legislative Interim Education Committee will meet here Friday and Saturc y to discuss rural dist rict school law and O and C land problems.