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Newspaper Page Textp n n Oi n n U Si APPROVES P0STA6E Mi Ex-Premier Asks For Mediation From De Gaulle Pflimlin Government Pressing Ahead Paris (ffl Right wing ex Premier Antoince Pinay dra matically appealed ' to Gen. Charles De Gaulle today to mediate between the French government in Paris and pro De Gaulle generals in Algiers to save France from a possible civil war. Pinay went to see De Gaulle at a moment when the Pflim lim cabinet, brushing aside new ' fiery calls by prc-De Gaulle elements in Alegria, was pressing ahead confident ly with its own plans for a possible "face-saving "peace" settlement. . But officials were not op timistic that De Gaulle would agree to intervene. This prob ably was the chief reason why Pflimlin refused to back the mission. I De Gaulle came out of re tirement Monday and told a news conference he was ready to take over the government if it could be done legally, if he would be granted special powers, and if he had the sup port of the nation. The demand for De Gaulle's return meanwhile lessened somewhat in Algeria, where military leaders joined the angry population in de manding an end to the Pflim lin government and the set ting up of a Gaullist govern ment. Meets With Cabinet The threat of civil war les sened under Pflimlin's two fold plan to settle the crisis. He called his cabinet into ses sion late today to discuss the plan about wheih he was re ported to have increasing con fidence. The plan had two parts: First, Pflimlin was moving cautiously to drive a wedge between the army generals in Algeria and the insurgent Jfrench colonists who still de wand power for Gen. Charles Xfc Gaulle. Second, he was preparing sleeping constitutional re forms at home to 'make it aiore difficult to overthrow Jrench governments The re forms also would throw a tumbling block into De fiaulle's path to power. The army was believed to ive the Algerian situation irmly in hand, but Gen. 3Kaoul Salan was said to fear jTDting and bloodshed from civilian hotheads in Algeria if they got wind of the deal now in the making with the Paris government a deal that would mean scuttling De Gaulle, at least for the time being. Dulles To Meet ' Latin Americans Washington (IP) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles scheduled a meeting today with ambassadors from the eight South American countries visited by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Informed sources said Dulles wanted to compare notes with the Latin envoys on the effect of Nixon's violence-marred tour. Diplomats from seven of the eight nations all but Co lombia Wednesday heard the Vice President address a luncheon at the National Press club. (BasebaUD AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 50 Detroit 4 10 3 Shanlz, Grim 6. Durtn 7 and Btrra; Foytack, Aguix x 9 and Hegan. Baltimore 9 1 10 2 Chicago S Portocarraro, Moeller (5), Beamon (7) and Triandoc; Vilion and Battay. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable clou diness through Friday. Scat tered light showers or thunder shower late this atfernoon and evening and again Friday. A litUe cooler In the afternoon. Low tonight 55. High Friday 5. - ... Temp. Highest Yesterday 99 Lowest this Morning . JS Our Skies tonight Sunrise Sunset 4:44 a.m. . 7:32 p.m. Moonset ..10:53 p.m. First Quarter Sunday Night Antares, rises S:51 p.m. Spica, due south 9:31 p.m. Jupiter, the bright planet now seen a few degrees above Spica, next year will appear near Antares. Zr INSURGENT GENERALS French paratroopers in battle dress present arms as Gen. Raoul Salan, French commander-in-chief in Algeria, arrives at-Government House in Algiers. He is followed by Gen. Allard and Gen. Jacques Massu (with beret), two other leaders of the controlling military junta. Huge Blast Rocks Nike Missile Base Leonardo, : N.J. (III A thunderous explosion that shook communities for miles around rocked a Nike guided missile base today. State police at Keyport said three persons were killed, seven were missing and an Senate Group Approves Bill To Aid Jobless Washington (IF) The sen ate finance committee today approved a bill to help states extend by 50 ; per cent the number of weeks in which jobless persons could draw compensation. Committee Chairman Harry F.r Byrd. (D-Va.) expected the Senate to start debate on the bill next Tuesday. Sen! Paul H. Douglas (D-IU ) ' said he would make .a floor; fight to liberalize the measure. The committee approved, by a 11-4 vote, a bill previous ly passed by the . house. It would permit states to borrow from the federal government to finance a 50 per cent exten sion of the compensation pe riod. The extension would run from a few weeks in some southern states to 15 weeks in the largest industrial states. Only persons who had used up their regular unemploy ment benefits would be eli gible, but the program would be retroactive to June 30, 1957. State participation would be strictly voluntary. Douglas wants , to extend payments 16 weeks for all eli gible unemployed and to give jobless workers not covered by existing programs $30 a month federal relief per per son or dependent. Defeated in committee, Douglas promised a fight for his provisions in the Senate. Pioneer Pilot Avery Black Dies Burbank, Calif. (IP) The death of pioneer aviator Avery J. Black, 61, former president of Continental Air Lines and a pilot in World War I, was disclosed today. Black, who was believed to be the oldest active test pilot in the world when he retired last year.fdied at St. Joseph hospital of cancer. He was a friend of Gen. James Doolittle from the thrift of the Army signal corps days when aircraft were part of the corps. In 1921 he formed Pacific Airways corporation carrying mail and passengers between Seattle and Victoria. Three IFYE People To Visit in Medford Three young people from Burma and Taiwan will spend Friday night in Medford en route to visit farm families in Wasco and Linn counties un der the International Farm Youth Exchange program. Arriving by bus will be Chang Chun-Pang, Taiwan, and Nwe Nwe Tun and Khin hwe, both of Burma. The three will be greeted here by County 4-H Agent Glenn Klein. Chicago (IP) Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, Air Force missile chief, said to day he hoped "to put a man into space" in the early 1960's. undetermined number injured. It could not immediately be determined if a Nike guid ed missile had exploded. The blast shook the base about 10:30 a.m. (PDT). A second blast occurred four minutes later. The explosion touched off fires among other structures at the base, according to the Fort Monmouth public infor mation office. Some buildings were shat tered by explosions, the Fort Monmouth public information office said, i The blast rocked commu nities for miles around. First reports from the scene said that the explosion oc curred in an acid pit near a Nike missile launching pad. Five men were said to be working in the pit at the time. The missile is designed to bring down planes flying at an altitude of 60,000 feet. Children Warned About Strangers An increasing number of "friendly" strangers talking to school children have been reported to the Medford city police during recent weeks. Officials said the number of these encounters usually increase during the spring and summer months and par ents should caution children against accepting rides, candy or money from strangers. It should also be stressed to children that they should not go with strangers. When approached by a stranger, if the child believes that some thing might be wrong, the child should remember a gen eral description of the per son. If he is in a car a descrip tion of the car and if possible the license number should be noticed, police said. If the stranger is on foot, the child should try to remember a description of what he is wearing. 'When confronted by a stranger, the child should notify his parents immediate ly if they are near home. If closer to the school the "child should notify the teacher or other school authority. The police mentioned that children should stay away from empty buildings and houses. . Crater Lake Park Created by Bill V ... 56 Years Ago Today ' Fifly-six years ago today. President Theodore Roose velt signed a bill which made Crater lake atid about 200 square miles of the sur rounding area the country's fifth National park. The act was the realiza tion of a long-lime ambition . and efforts of William Glad stone Steel, who later be came the park's second su perintendent. He also was the park's first commis sioner. - The first bill lo establish Crater Lake National park was introduced in 1886, but Congress was not interested at that time. As a result of Steel's efforts. President Cleveland withdrew from public sale 10 townships, including Crater Lake and its surroundings, in 1888. Today, Crater Lake Na tional park is one of 29 national parks and 151 oth er areas which comprise the national park system. Danielson May Accept District Judge Nomination Expresses Desire to Accept to Clerk Former Ashland Attorney Robert G. Danielson appar ently had changed his mind today about his ineligibility to accept the nomination for district court judge. County Clerk Bereth Hop kins reported that Danielson called on her Wednesday to express a desire to accept the nomination. Danielson, who earlier told the Mail Tribune he had mov ed to Klamath Falls, an. nounced last Saturday that the 7,534 votes cast for him in Friday's primary flection would not count because he was ineligible at the time bal lots were cast. He defeated Medford City Attorney E. Roy Bashaw, the only other district court judge, candidate, who receiv ed 7,308 votes. Accepts Position It was reported earlier that Danielson withdrew from the judgeship race after he ac cepted a job as assistant dis trict attorney in Klamath county. Mrs. Hopkins said she re ferred Danielson to District Attorney Thomas Reeder, who has requested an opinion of the attorney general. Reeder said the opinion his office is sending .to. "the attor ney general for consideration concerns whether or not Dan ielson was legally elected and if he was not, whether Bashaw could accept the nomination. Another issue is . how the position will be filled in case neither candidate is eligible. Pro-West Party Leads in Japan Tokyo - (IP) - Pro-western Premier Nobusuki Kishi's Lib eral Democrats took an ex pected lead in tabulation . of early returns from today's elections for Japan's house of representatives. - First - returffs-""sh6wed'lfiat Kishi himself and 46 other Liberal Democrats and 10 members of the opposition So cialist' party were virtually elected. 1 A record 39 million of 52 million eligible voters cast ballots in the two-party test of strength that will deter mine whether Japan main tains its policy of friendship with the West. Kishi's brother, Eisaku Satu, an important "official in the ruling party, was running sec ond. ,. The Liberal Democrats were expected to retain their majority in the 467-member house, although they may lose 10 to 20 seats to the Socialists. The Communists, who had two seats in the last house, were not expected to pick up any notable strength. School Closing Dales Announced Jackson county school offi cials today listed the' closing dates for schools of Jackson county. ' Closing today' is Evans Val ley, and on Friday, May 23, Applegate and Butte Falls. . Schools closing 'Thursday? May 29, are Griffin Creek, Ruch, Phoenix,' Ashland, Lone Pine, Rogue River, Elk-Trail, Prospect, Shady Cove, Pine hurst and Howard. Closing Monday, June 2, are Jacksonville and Talent schools. The' remaining schools, Eagle Point, Medford and Dis trict 6C, which includes Cen tral Point, Gold Hill and Sams Valley schools, will close Fri day, June 6. Rogue River Participate in Brussels Fair Rogue River Three Rogue River men have been select ed by the Rodeo Cowboy As sociation of America to be members of a group of 40 young riders to participate in the World's Fair at Brussels, Belgium, this summer. The men are Jack Herbur ger, 21, and his brother, Dave Herburger, 22, sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Herburger of Rogue River, and Phil Hillis, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hillis, East Evans creek. The men will represent the Unit ed States in exhibition rodeos at the fair. , The riders will be salaried and will present 11 rodeos each wek in addition to oth et shows which will include . - . Medford 28 Pages Action Demanded On Plane Collisions Washington (IPl Presi dent Eisenhower today or dered his air co-ordinating committee to speed action to prevent military - civilian air collisions like those which have claimed 59 lives in the past month. The White House said the President directed Lt.'Gen. E. R. Queseda, chairman of the group, to conduct a series of meetings .to "accelerate air safety actions and to elimi nate to the maximum degree possible mid-air, collisions." The meetings will start Fri day. ';;.- , , The President acted as both house of Congress pushed in quiries into . the problem of divided air control which per mits military jets to cross civilian air lanes. Congress and the adminis- Official Canvass Shows Tax Base Lost By 126 Votes The county measure estab lishing a permanent tax base was defeated by 126 votes, according to the official can yass of the non-partisan bal lot announced today. Canvassing of the ballots for the Democratic and Re publican party nominations is expected to be completed early next week, according to County Clerk Bereth Hop kins. . . " Certificates of nomination will not be mailed to success ful candidates until that time, she said. '. The county tax measure re ceivedTlw -votes"-aftd 6,935 yes The totals were only slightly off the early un official Mail Tribune . tally. Changes in the totals were due partly to errors in com puting the lengthy ballots by precinct counting boards. Other Results In other races, official re sults show that Gordon Sloan received 8,814 for judge of the supreme court, position No. 3; Boyd R. Overhulse, 3,- 852; and Samuel E. Bowe, 2,915. Judge of the supreme court, position No. 7, George Ross- man 8,423, and Jasen Lee, 7,422. Judge of circuit court, po sition No. 1,' Jackson and Josephine counties, James M. Main, 10,014; Robert D. Dames, 4,919; and Manville M. He"isel, 1,900. Judge of circuit court, po sition No. 3, Edward C. Kel ly, 9.667, and Walter D. Nun ley, 7,923. District judge for Jackson county, Robert G. Danielson, 7,537 and E. Roy Bashaw, 7, 308. No Hazards Found in 55 Homes Yesterday City firemen on home ni spection yesterday found no hazards in 55 dwellings and issued 66 recommendations for correction of conditions which could cause fire. A total of 101 homes were inspected. Firemen stopped at 258 homes. At 135 no one was home. Inspection . offer was refused by 22 occupants. North Bend, Wash. (IP) The 1,5 00-acre Camp Joy for est fire in Snoqualmie Nation al Forest is now in, the 'mop up" stage, the Forest Service said today. Men Selected to wild west stagecoach holdups. Their contracts are for six months and each man will ride in three or four rodeo events each week. Staged in Auditorium The rodeos will be staged in the auditorium which se'ats 10,000 persons. The Herburgers are mem bers of the association and are professionals.' They started riding in amateur rodeos while students at Rogue River High school and have per formed in the Rogue River Sheriff's Posse and jaycee rodeo. Dave participates in five events with calf-roping and bareback riding his special ties. Jack specializes in bare MEDFORD, OREGON, trauon were spurred by an other near-collision of military and civilian planes. Eisenhower conferred with Quesada this morning and scheduled a meeting this after noon with Rep. Prince H t-resion jr. (u-ua.) wno is demanding prompt federal ac tion to prevent further colli sions. The air co-ordinating com mittee is responsible for co-ordinating national aviation, pol icies involving more than one federal agency. No Quick Solution Meanwhile, Civil AeroAau tics Administrator James T. Pyle told a senate aviation subcommittee that "we are not going to solve this problem of divided air control overnight." The CAA, Pyle said, wants to set up sky boulevards re served exclusively for long range commercial flights Each flight would be given an altitude assignment, a route and a time. Other flights would have to get special per mission to cross such a route and would have to do so at a different altitude. Invited to the White House with Rep. Preston were Rep. Cliff Clevenger (R-Ohio), sen ior Republican on the House subcommittee, and G6n. Que sada. ; '"''.,'.. Preston was spurred by the near - collision Wednesday night of an Air Force B47 jet bomber with a Capital Air lines Viscount in the same air lane , where an Air National Guard jet trainer struck down another Viscount Tuesday. ; . The ' subcommittee had asked that military ; jets "be put immediately under the CAA's instrument flying rules system. The CAA rejected the proposal on grounds it would overload" the agency's air traffic setup. ; : - i , . ... But Preston said '. "some emergency compromise " 6 n our plan can be worked but." Miss Samuels Gets Suspended Term Miss Neva Samuels, 57, long time Medford city em ployee, received a year's sus pended sentence to the coun ty jail this morning in district court on a charge of larceny by embezzlement. She pleaded guilty. The former . city recorder, who was recently dismissed from her job in the city trea surer's office, was charged with taking $17.50 in city funds. . She was represented in court by a Medford at torney. Requesting leniency be cause of Miss Samuels',, long time city employment were District Attorney ' Thomas Reeder, Finance Director D. F. Huson and City Attorney E. Roy Bashaw. Miss Samuels reportedly admitted taking up to $50. Full restitution of the funds has been made, according to Judge James Main. Not more than $1.50 was taken at a time, the court was told. Miss Samuels was placed on a year's probation under the supervision of the state board of parole and proba tion. TamDa. Fla. (IP) Shrimn fisherman Melvin Coyle, Ru dolph Rutner and Adolphus Dozier were fined $500 each in Federal Dfstrict Court Wednesday, for using profan ity on their boat's radio. back riding and bull riding; Both are married and make their homes in Newhall, Calif. Hillis started bareback and bull riding in amateur rodeos two years ago. i The Herburgers have ap peared in Madison Square Garden, New York, with the Pendleton ' Roundup, Boston Gardens, and numerous ro deos in the southwest.. In Yuma, Ariz., Dave won the 1958 all around cowboy tro phy and is 800 points below the top 10 men in the national association. He will be rodeo clown at the Fair along with participating in actual events. The three men will fly to Brussels from Los Angeles May 26. THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1958 "Want Any More Arguments For Nuclear Control?" iij Survey to Determine Damage By Dwarf Mistletoe Starts An aerial survey started on the Rogue River National for est. in the Siskiyou mountains Monday to determine the ex tent of dwarf mistletoe dam age to the. Douglas-fir. stands, according to Supervisor C. E. Brown.' - , A species of dwarf-mistletoe attacks Douglas fir and in the last few years has caused. se vere damage to these . stands in the Siskiyoug and in the southern part of the Cascade unit of the forest. j-.ast year tne lorest re ceived an authorization for ah emergency increase of' 14. mil lion board feet, per year in the allowable; cut on -the rApple- gate district in order, to sal vage, some of this timber be fore it decayed. : Determine Damage Areas - The aerial survey will de termine the extent of the dam aged areas whether or . not deadening has taken place, and will enable forest person nel to more adequately plan Fruit Exempted From Labor Law Salem (IPl Labor ' Commis sioner Norman O. Nilson '.said today that the maximum 8- hour, 6-day and 44-hour maxi mum work week 'for minors under 18 does not apply to the agricultural harvesting of per ishable fruit and Vegetables. The commissioner said he had received many calls lately requesting clarification of the maximum work week order. Nilsen- said he brought the matter to the attention of the wage and hours commission which reaffirmed its stand that minors in seasonal har vesting jobs would not be sub ject to any fixed work time restriction. Minors employed in can ning of fruits, vegetables, meat or fish are allowed to work a 10-hour day under the commis sion's cannery order. A mini mum age of 16 has been set for work in canning . and processing plants. California Man Sentenced in Court James Paul Donis. 19. San Bernardino, Calif.,' was sen tenced to, lVfc years in the Oregon State penitentiary Wednesday on a cnarge oi ssault with a dangerous weapon. Judge Orval Millard pre sided. Donis was arrested in" con nection with the beating of an 18-year-old boy at a uoid Hill dance hall Feb. 28. A 16-vear-old boy who allegedly hit the 18-year-old with a chain was turned over to iuvenile authorities. Donis was charged with attacking him with a knife. Nehalem, Ore. (W Elmer I. High. 52, a logging com- nanv operator from Seaside. was 'killed Tuesday when struck by a failing spar tree about 20 miles northeast of here, Tribune No. 53 their timber sale program to harvest the severest damaged timber first. The survey is under the su pervision of Howard Hopkins, timber management officer on the. Rogue River staff, assisted by Lyle Anderson, assistant timber management officer. Helping-the forest personnel get under way on this project is Benton Howard from the forest disease section of the regional office in Portland, Walter Buckhorn, John' Hunt and Paul Aho from the forest diseases section Pacific north west forest experiment "sta tion, Portland.- ' ' ' 1 Also in the 'Medford area as observers are Roy Bloom strom from the San Francisco regional " of fice of the 'forest service, and Harold Off erd. Reed Miller and Hubert - By num from the forest disease section, California forest ex periment station,-Berkeley.- The survey techniques being used on the Rogue River forest are being devel oped for the first time to sur vey dwarf-mistletoe damaged areas and the men from Cali fornia " are ' hopeful, that the same techniques can be ap plied in California infected areas. ' . ! Cover 300,000 Acres The aerial survey is expect ed to cover approximately 300,000 acres and is to be com pleted this week. After the survey is completed ground parties will, examine widely scattered, sample plots to de termine more exactly the pro portion of loss and damage occurring in the areas mapped from the air as being dam aged. Timber sale cutting plans will be changed if needed to harvest the seriously infected timber where the survey indi cates much timber killed from the dwarf-mistletoe infection. Planes used in the survey are a forest service plane from the smoke jumpers station at Cave Junction, one from Port land and one from the Kogue Flying Service, Medford. ' Preliminary reports from the aerial survey team are that damage is extensive in portions of v the, Applegate drainage and appears to be on the increase. Log Hauling Hours Lengthened Salem rm Public Utility Commissioner Howard . Mor gan today announced that log hauling at night in Oregon would be permitted starting at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, May 26. ' A nroDosal to extend log hauling hours was aired here Wednesday at a meeting of the Oregon Traffic Safety commission. The nrohibition against hauling logs from . Saturday noon .through Sunday from May 23 to Sept. 8 will remain in effect. Hauling logs on cer tain holidays throughout the year also is prohibited. Present rules banned haul ing of logs on highways be tween 9 p.m. and 4 ajn. Ask Stamp Cost Be Increased To Four Cents ; Workers May Get Salary Increases Washington (IPl The House overwhelmingly approved and sent to the White House today a 547 million dollar postage rate increase that would boost the cost of mailing a letter from three to four cents. u The increase, biggest mail boost in history, was part of a compromise package bill that includes pay raises" of 265 million dollars annually for about half a million postal employees. President Eisenhower wu reported yielding in his objec tions to the pay hike, which exceeds considerably the flat six per cent he recommended. Permanent Raises . .' - The bill contains permanent raises of 7Vi per cent for postal employees, plus three year " cost of living boosts amounting to 2 XA per cent for most . workers and 1V4 per cent, for those in higher salary grades. All are retro active to last Jan. 1. The retroactive feature caused the chief administra tion objection. Eisenhower had proposed that the raises . start July 1. The House vote was 379 to 0. The bill swept through the Senate Wednesday on an. 88 to 0 vote. ' The bill contains penny in creases for regular and. air mail letters and post cards, effective Aug.. 1. . Raises in second class newspaper and magazine and third class ad vertising matter rates would not start until Jan. 1, 1959. Rep. Elford A. Cederberg (R-Mich.) called this discrep-, ency "unforgivable", and. pro posed that Congress consider, legislation to make the effec tive dates uniform. Protest Planned ' Against Arabs Beirut, Lebanon- (Ifl-Leb-anon decided today to take its protest: against; .alleged United Arab ' Republic . inter ference in the present Leb; anese crisis to the UJf. Se curity council. . ' The Lebanese Council of Ministers instructed Leban- -on's envoy to the UJJ. to- take the case of "President Gamal Abdel Nasser's inters ference" to the Security Council. It also decided that For eign Minister Charles Malik should go to New York im mediately to present Leban on's case Today's Council of Minis ters ' meeting was presided over by pro-western President Camille Chamoun. , Earlier, Cham o u n and other government leaders had charged that Syrian soldiers were fighting alongside Leb anese rebel forces and , that Egypt had sent boatloads of arms and ammunition to sup port an insurrection ' against the government." ' . TID to Use Water From Lakes May 28 Talent Talent Irrigation district will begin using stor age water at 8 ajn. Wednes day, May 28, Walter Hof f buhr, district manager, an nounced today. Use of storage water is necessitated by a decrease in stream flow, he said. , Hiatt lake is full with' 18,000 acre feet but' Emigrant lake is not quite full, he . added. The quota for water users will be 18 inches, the .same as last" year. : The Talent lateral will be empty between Sunday, and Wednesday next week to kill moss in the canal. .' : . TID will go on storage' wa ter four days earlier this year than it did last year: The Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation dist ricts do not yet know when they will start using storage " water. It depends on stream Cow, district: officials said. Army To Retain Guard Divisions Miami, Fla. OP) The army reversed itself under fire to day and decided to retain its present 37 National Guard and reserve divisions. It ori ginally had planned to elimi nate 10. But it said it would still cut the manpower of the divisions . by eliminating 70,020 men from drill pay. r . v.