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Newspaper Page Text" M1" 1 '""' v A 4 4 ' 4 CALLING FOR HELP, friend of newsboy killed instantly in Beirut, Lebanon, during anti-government rioting, kneels be side body, arms outstretched. (International) Ceremonies, Parade Planned for May 30 A Memorial day ceremony and parade commemorating America's war dead, will be held Friday, May 30, accord ing to M. A. Beneka, chair- mand, and M. E. (Bud) Fisher, co-chairmen for the Veterans Allied Council of Jackson county. - The ceremony will be held in the City park at West Main and Holly sts. at 9:45 a.m. with the parade following at 10:45 a.m. Veterans organizations and the public will march from Birk east on Main st. to Bear reek bridge. The program, with Ray Hu- n as master of ceremonies, fill include an address by the Rev. George Bolster of St. Mark's Episcopal church; organ music, Mrs. Dorothy McOuat; welcome address, Col. W. H. Paine; invocation, the Rev. John Reynolds, Pres byterian church; music, Med ford High school triple trio; music, Marion choir of St. Mary's school directed by Richard Cooper; "Taps" by Robert Sheldon; benediction, the Rev. Carl Mai. Recite Address Frank Buchter of the Med ford Footlighters club will re cite Lincoln's Gettysburg ad dress. A wreath will be placed on a replica of the tomb of the unknown soldier, U.S. Academy Receives Threats Beirut, Lebanon (IP) Anti-government terrorists to day threatened the 440 stu dents at the American Academy with "extinction" if the United States does not start showing sympathy to the opposition cause. The threat was delivered in an anonymous letter to the school principal, Clarence Schultz, San Francisco. Schultz said it looked like a threat to burn the school. He immediately requested a security guard from the Lebanese government for the full academic and dormitory buildings. The letter, in Arabic and signed "Opposition," said, "If you don't change your atti tude toward the Lebanese people you'll be sorry. You will face extinction if you , !c'i start showing sympathy toward our cause." California Youth Sentenced to Jail James Paul Donis, 19, San Bernardino, Calif., was sen tenced to six months in the county jail on a charge of as sault and battery, when he ap peared in district court yes terday. Donis is' already under a circuit court sentence of lYz years in the state prison. He was jailed by state police March 4, after he was involved in a teen-age fight at a drive in restaurant. Judge James Main sus pended the jail sentence with the understanding that Donis would be in the penitentiary during the period of the short er sentence. The prison term was given him on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with the beating of an 18-year-old boy at a Gold Hill dance hall. Argentine Navy Attacks Submarine Oft Patagonian Coast Buenos Aires IP! Presi ent Arturo Frondizi told a ress conference today that he Argentine navy attacked an unidentified submarine off the Patagonian coast May 21. Frondizi said the subma rine was believed sunk or damaged. The Navy department in JVashington said "no Ameri can submarines are missing in South American waters or elsewhere. The British Admiralty in with Miss Laura York in charge for the ladies' auxil iaries. Music for the march to the bridge will be provided by the Junior Drum and Bugle corps of the Cavemen aeria of Eagles lodge. The Rev. E. S. Tollefson of the Ascen sion Lutheran church will lead the ceremonies there and the auxiliaries will strew flowers on the water. Beneka will be parade marshaL The Camp White firing squad and color guard will give the salute. Sweet Home Firm Low Bidder on Two Projects at Park Norquist Brothers Con struction company of Sweet Home was apparent low bid der for grading and paving a utility area and reconstruct ing a road intersection at Annie Spring in Crater Lake National park. Five bids for the two proj ects were opened by the Na tional Park service here yes terday afternoon. Norquist bid $15,227.50 for paving a utility area at park headquarters, and $9,423 for reconstructing the Annie Spring rd. intersection. The low bid was slightly below engineer's estimates,, park service officials said. Hughes and Dodd, Medford contractors, bid" $27,132 for the two jobs; $16,154 for pav ing the utility area, and $10, 978 for reconstructing the in tersection. Other bidders, with their bid for utility area paving, road intersection reconstruc tion and total bid, in that, were: Asphalt Paving company, Klamath Falls, $22,681.50, $12,664, and $35,345.50; Bab ler Brothers, Portland, $30, 509, $16,747, and $47,256; and John Bostwick, Eugene, $20, 269.25, $11,709, and $31, 978.25. Bids are being reviewed, and the contract is expected to be awarded within a few days. The worK will be com pleted before winter starts. The work is part of the Mis sion 66 program by the Na tional Park service to restore deteriorated park facilities and to expand and improve services and facilities to meet an increasing demand by visi tors. Bids on other projects at Crater Lake National park will be opened later this spring. Historical Society Sets Annual Meeting The annual meeting of the Southern Qregon Historical society will be held Monday, June 2, in connection with a 6:30 dinner in the dining room of the Masonic temple at Jacksonville. After the dinner and a short program there will be a visit to the Jacksonville museum to view improvements made in the past year. Persons who wish to at tend are asked to make reser vations as soon as possible by calling , the museum, TWin-oaks- 9-1322 or the society secretary, Mrs. T. J. Gifford, SPring 2-6487. ' ' ' London said none of its sub marines had been operating in the area at the time of the reported attack. Western naval sources in London speculated that the unidentified submarine re ported by Frondizi may have been from behind the Iron Curtain. , . t Soviet submarines are known to be operating in Western Hemisphere waters. Red China, Poland, and East Germany also number subma MEDFORDfeFRIBUNE 22 PAGES Fires, Outages Caused by Storm In Rogue Valley No Damage to Pear Crop Reported An electrical storm early last night caused at least three forest fires in southern Ore gon and knocked out several power : lines for periods ranging up to several hours. Two small forest fires were spotted by John Croner, look out at Tallow Box lookout, ac cording to Curt Nesheim, dis trict warden for. the state de partment of forestry. One is on Forest creek near Ruch and the other is on Williams creek in Josephine county. , A . lightning strike was re ported near Butte Falls. There have been other reports of strikes, Nesheim said, but they have not all been checked out as yet. Two-man crews were sent to the fires near Ruch and on. Williams creek. 'Slpr Fircc Nesheim and H. G. Hop kins, of the Rogue River Na tional forest, said "sleeper" fires may be reported within the next few days as a result of the ; storm, which moved into southern Oregon shortly after 7 o'clock last night. , Planes were being used this morning in reconnaisance op erations to locate more pos sible iorest fires. High winds and lightning also caused widespread power outages throughout southern Oregon, according to the Cali fornia Oregon Power conv pany, but no damage to the fruit crop in the Rogue valley was reported by county ex tension agents. . The west business district of Medford was without ' power for , about three hours when wind fclew lines together near the courthouse. Power outages also were" -reported in' White City, Eagle , Point, Prospect and the Wimer-Bybee Springs area. .; Short in Duration Most power outages were short in duration,, except in the Wimer area, where a transformer was knocked out by lightning. The outage was not. reported until this morn ing, Copca officials 'said. Trees were blown down in the Union Creek area, state police . said. A power line be tween Prospect and Medford was believed s t r u c k by lightning.- Rainfall at the Medford air port during the storm totaled .31 inches, weather bureau of ficials said. . i RciV 'Work-Out . Auxiliary generators at the new Rogue Valley hospital re ceived a "work-out" last night, according to hospital officials. The 'generators worked "beautifully,"' it was reported. No operations were report ed in progress' during the power outage by hospital of ficials at the three local hos pitals. Auxiliary . units and other lighting equipment were put ' into use at the various hospitals during the blackout. . Auxiliary power generators at the Oregon state police of fice here failed: to function during 'the power, outage Thursday from 7:25 until 8:45 pjn.j" officials reported. Dur ing the outage the office was without teletype or police radio service. . Portland (IP) Pacific Power and Light company re ported a severe .electrical storm over the Cascade moun tains disrupted service . in parts of the state from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday. Prineville had no power for 31 -minutes due to light ning, and . service" in 'Madras was halted 'for 20 minutes when lightning struck a trans mitter line. There was a se ries of short power failures in the Bend area. Mystery rines in their small fleets.7 The President said a squad ron of A Argentine warships sighted a submarine northeast of Puerto Cracker -in the Golfo'Nuevo Gulf on May 21. After fruitless attempts at recognition signals, four depth charge attacks were made. , He added that ; the war ships searched the. vicinity without - finding the subma rine, which was believed to have been sunk or damaged. F RE MEDFORD, OREGON, rages Dke Gives irdeir IFor Air Washington (W Chair man James R. Durfee of the Civil Aeronautics Board said today a single federal agency should supervise both mili tary and commercial flights to insure safety. Durfee testified at Senate Aviation subcommittee hear ings on recent air collisions and near misses. The hearings continued as federal officials worked out details of President Eisenhow er's order placing some mili tary flying under civilian con trol. Some military flying may have to be curtailed tem porarily to carry out the Pres ident's orders. Durfee said Eisenhower's City Budget Group Suggests Parking; Recreation Funds The Medford budget com mittee last night recommend ed to the . 'city council that sinking funds be created for of fstreet parking" and recrea tion purposes. The-of fstreei parking fund would be $7,000, and the re creation fund ; $5,000. The money is part of $14,264 available from an increase in the city's tax base because' of annexations approval in an election, May 16, and from unT appropriated funds. Budget committee men pointed out that although the two funds recommended do not have what some members feel is sufficient money, they will provide enough for a start. Suggest Allocations Medford Mayor John Sni der, who is not a member-of the committee, suggested the allocationsbe made-Jor off street parking and recreation purposes. Some budget com mittee members believed the $12,000 should all go toward off street parkng, but Snider pointed out that a start to ward developing some recrea tion facilities is badly needed. The committee also added $1,000 to the budget for land scaping . at the Medford air port, an item-suggested by City Manager Robert -' Duff. Funds for airport landscaping were' deleted from the budget for the current year.. The committee authorized Duff, who also serves as budg et officer, to recommend mis cellaneous allocations for the remainder of the available unappropriated funds. Preliminary work on the budget is expected to be com pleted and" presented to the city council at the June -3 meeting. A public hearing on the budget will be held by the council later. Warning Given Chinese Reds : Taipei (IP) Nationalist China warned tonight it would "take whatever actions neces sary" if the Chinese Commu nists send troops or "volun teers" to intervene in the In donesian rebellion. Foreign observers regarded the warning as a definte war threat against the Chinese Reds." ' The Nationalist Minister, of National Defense . said in a formal statement that the government "would reserve its freedom to take whatever actions necessary to interdict the movements of such Communist troops or 'volun teers.' " - , . An Indonesian spokesman said this- week that the gov ernment might be forced to accept aid from foreign vol unteers "if worst comes to worst." ' . Sheriff's Deputies Arrest Two Men Sheriffs deputies arrested Jack Downey, 56, box 66, Talent, Tuesday night on. a charge of petty larceny. He is being held in the county jail under $500 bail in con nection with the theft' of a wooden door belonging to Ida 'Troop, deputies reported. . Robert Earl Lewis Jr., 37, Ashland Mine rd., was jailed by . deputies Thursday on a fugitive warrant , from Ari zona. He is wanted for al legedly removing mortgaged property, they said. FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1958 refihery Safety directive will enhance" air safety. But he added that there is no immediate pan acea for the problem. CAB. safety director said there have been fewer colli sions recently involving civil aircraft than at any time with in the last 10 years. It was said, however, that studies show a higher percentage of near misses and collisions and demonstrate the need for a "positive control - system." Durfee told Monroney that military planes now have ex clusive access to the area above 25,000 feet because oth er planes cannot now operate there. Within a year, how ever, commercial jets will be cruising in the 35,000-feet neighborhood and any such rule, if made, would have to be changed, he said. The President's orders rais ed the possibility that some military planes will be tem porarily grounded. Civil Aeronautic Adminis trator James T. Pyle told the United Press the CAA might not be able to handle all the flight plans military ' planes would be required to file un der the President's order.. Eisenhower late Thursday is sued immediate orders putting some military flights under civilian control and tighten ing flight restrictions on others. ' The President directed that: All military jets, flying from one base to another must file flight plans in ad vance with the CAA in both good and bad weather. Jet planes making opera tions flights over civilian air ways will be under civilian control and will be required to fly under instrument flight rules. . Jet planes flown by stu dent pilots on civilian air ways must be under CAA control, and under, instrument flight julesrather than visuat flight rules.. . -Jet pilots making profi ciency jf lights must stay off civilian airways. ' - ? All jets coming from a higher to a lower altitude must : be off civilian airways. When crossing civilian air ways, jet pilots will come un der civilian control if under 25,000 feet. Officer Installed , SOPOA President : Officer Duane D. Franklin of the Medford police depart ment was installed as presi dent of the Southern Oregon Peace Officers association at a meeting this week .at the Dardanelles. , ; Others installed were Ford HagerT, ' parole officer, vice president; Miss Joan Sorg, ju venile office, secretary; Sgt. Dean DeBerry, Jackson coun ty sheriff's deputy, treasurer; Oran C h a s t a i n, assistant Grants Pass-police chief, ser geant at arms; and Sgt Loy Cole, Grants Pass state police, Deputy Robert Gheysen, Deputy Lester Tythcott and Chief Deputy Joseph D. Walsh, members of the board of directors. Walsh is the past president. Hospital Purchases Ventalung Machine Osteopathic hospital purchased a ventalung has ma- chine, according to hospital officials. The machine will .be used to apply positive pressure for the expansion of lungs, they said. ' The machine, which can ad minister both oxygen, and medicine, will be used mainly for asthmatic and .congestive illnesses. Officials said that the ventalung is portable and may be used in cases of emer gency as a manual resuscita tor. : ..... WEATHER -FORECAST: Partly cloudy this evening with a few-showers in mountains. Clear tonight. Part ly clondy Saturday. Low to night 50. High Saturday 82. Temp. Highest Yesterday 8 Lowest this Morning 54 Prec. to 4 a.m. Today ; .31 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise -'- a.m. Sunset 7:34 p.m. Moonset 11:32 p.m. First Quarter .... Sunday night MARS, rising at 2:17 a.m. Is now mving into-the con stellation, Pisces. It has become brighter than Altair, the star low in the east at ....10:30 p.m. No. 54 Two People Dead, Several Missing As Blaze Spreads Residents Evacuated 1 From Long Beach Area Long Beach, Calif. (W A 15-million-dollar oil refinery fire which claimed two lives continued to send flames and dense black smoke skyward today, but firemen hoped to bring it under control by 6 p.m. p.d.t. . The blast - ripped Hancock installation fire was being permitted to burn itself out. Firemen said they had con tained the blazes "within the tank farm area of thie lO-acre plant of the 25 million dollar refinery. Water pressure dropped briefly , this morning, but a defective pump was repaired quickly; and firemen were not hampered.. Smok Sprtads Filth Control of the fire, tonight depends on wind and water, according to Fire Chief Lloyd Colson of Signal Hill,- where the refinery is actually lo cated. He said the flames prob ably would continue to burn into Saturday Some of themf shot 300 to 500 feet in the air as the tanks exploded. Two men" were dead and three to seven reported miss ing as a result of a series of explosions, and . - the ensuing fire.; which raced through1 the $15 million Hancock Oil com pany refinery. At least seven , were report ed injured. ' Flames towered, hundreds of feet into the sky and a huge cloud of smoke covered the fire scene and several ad jacent' communities, " The! refinery was. almost destroyed by the -fire; which broke , out . Thursday ' af ter- noon. Flames were " carried. from. tank to tank by rivulets of burning oil, . . ; Firemen .from" Signal Hill, Long Beach, , Lot Angeles county,' the Air Force, Forest Service and nearby communi ties so far had succeeded in containing the fire to the re finery area. . -Fir Sean for Mili Firemen threw up a curtain of water around the perime ter of the blaze and soaked down unmolested gas and bu tane tanks. Authorities said that a leak which dripped crude oil on steam coils probably was the cause. Woodward H. . Langf ord, about : 45, Los Angeles, was trapped by flames as he ap parently attempted to close control valves. - James Ed wards, 66, Fullerton, Calif., tried to rescue his car and was turned into a human L torch. Signal Hill Police Chief Buck Oltman said at least seven persons ; were . missing, according to his records. More than 100 cars parked near the - refinery . were de stroyed by the- flames. One hundred patients were evacu ated from Long Beach Gen eral hospital nearby. - Many residents in the area were ordered to leave "their homes; , MletiDBD Lincoln, Nb. (W Man killtr CharUs Starkweather was conricted of murder to day and ordered sent to the electric chair. . The case went to the jury late Thursday after closing arguments by the prosecu tion and defense and in struction by District Judge Harry A. Spencer. Anti-Submarine Device For Honolulu m The United States was . expected to trig ger a nuclear anti-submarine device, today at the Eniwetok test site, informed sources re ported here. ' The sources said the un derwater test was scheduled to begin at 2:15 pjn. (EDT) and that five warships would be used as "guinea pigs" to study the . effect of the blast. The ships included three de stroyers, a transport and a submarine. 1 - The Senate authorized the FSepfoiic's efeai 'Ha! An Un-American Tendency Toward Free Speech!' ' " -ri-oric- ' Suspension Ordered On Missile Work Washington (W -The Army announced t b-d a y a nation wide, suspension of modifica tion work on Nike-Ajax mis- 5f It said the explosions at Leonardo, N. J., Thursday in which seven persons :. were. State's Largest ect Set for Ceremony , Madras- W) Pelton dam, called the most extensive hy droelectric project ; built en tirely within the state of Ore gon; - will be formally dedi cated'., Saturday - ; . :State Sen.' Boyd Overhulse of Madras; acting- governor; will give the principal dedi catory address . in ceremonies starting at 3 p.m. The project is located nine miles from here on the . De schutes river. . The Central Oregon Cham ber of Commerce has built, a nearly all-day program around the official dedication cere monies for the 120,000-kilc-watt plant, which was con structed by the Guy F. Atkin son Co. of Portland General Electric. ' The day's events will open with selection of the Sisters Rodeo queen at noon. A marine show, including a water-ski . show .and hydro plane -exhibition, is scheduled at 1, p.m. Other activities in clude a western style "chuck wagon" dinner, with beef barbecued in a long open pit, a fire works display, Indian dancers and a war canoe race. Don Lehman, Central Ore gon chamber committee chair man predicted a turnout of "at least 5,000." Local Retajl Stores To Close on May 31 The majority of retail stores west of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks pIanto close the Saturday following ' Me morial Day, 3j representative of the group has announced. Some stores in other down town areas also plan to close May 31. . : ' Most retail stores, including the state liquor commission store, and local, county, and federal offices will be closed Friday, Memorial Day. , A spokesman for retail out; lets vwest of ' the tracks said many, of the merchants feel they should give their em ployees the Saturday after Memorial Day off, since gov ernmental : offices will be closed. ' Testing use oi tne vessels Monaay, and the Armed Services com mittee reported that the tests would consist of "newly de veloped weapons for under water detonation" The Atomic Energy com mission has so' far reported two nuclear explosions in the "operation hardtack" - series which started last month. But there was ho indication whether the AEC would an nounce today's expected un: derwater detonation. Electric Proj killed, "apparently occurred'' while modification of the antiaircraft weapons was un-. derway. - The Army said - in a state ment that such modifications have been completed on "hun dreds of other , missiles'. In other parts of the country "without incident." It said the suspension will remain 'in force until., cause of the New Jersey explosion has been determined. Leonardo, ' N.J. .' (Dl . A crack team of Army inspec tors opened an investigation today into the explosion of eight " supersonic Nike : Ajax missiles that killed between seven and 10 persons and in jured three others at a "safe at a gas station' Nike base near here. ''7 Thursday's disaster - came only, three days after - Army inspectors had . rated the in stallation "superior" in over all, safety. " :. '. . , . At least seven men were killed in the thunderous ex plosion, according to Brig. Gen. .Charles F. Duff, com mander of the 52nd "Anti-aircraft Brigade at Fort Wads worth, N.Y.. Three were miss ing and feared blown, to bits. Three men were injured; one seriously. Army pathologists were called in to try to identify the dead. All the casualties, including civilians and soldiers, were on the base: Damage to the base, about the size of a baseball field, as estimated unofficially at $150,000. No one was reported in jured off the base, 30 miles south of New York City at the ' southern edge of New York bay. The explosions, which eame in rapid succession about 1:30 p.m. (EDT), caused deep re sentment among municipal officials of the area. . The explosions sent chunks of missiles flying several miles through the air, ' landing in yards, field and forests. Win dows were shattered, founda tion were cracked and houses trembled as though they were being shaken by an earth quake. . The blasts knocked down one woman a mile and a half from the" scene.. Bridge on Applegale To Be Replaced The last of the wooden bridges on the Upper Apple gate - road will . be replaced soon, ' according to County Engineer Paul B. Rynning. Crews will begin work next week on a reinforced concrete bridge on Squaw creek, mak ing the sixth permanent bridge constructed by the county in that area in the ' past few years. The new 32-foot span will replace a temporary structure erected when the old bridge was damaged by high water, Rynning said. The improve ments are part of an over-all road program in the Apple gate. Firemen Inspect 1 06 Residences in Medford City firemen inspected 106 residences yesterday. They found no hazards in 64 and issued 67 recommendations for correction of conditions which could cause or inten sify fires. Eleven residents rejected the inspection offer. Pflimlin Fights For Agreement With Insurgents Public Safety Group Formed In Algeria Paris (IP) The Algiers army t rebels called on the French nation today to over throw the Fourth Republic and sweep Gen, Charles de Gaulle to power. ' The challenge from the army generals and their revo lutionary "committees of pub lic safety" for all of Algeria was one of the most defiant challenges ever flung at a French government. It came shortly after defi ant generals, Moslems and French colonials met in a gov ernment building in Algiers and publicly proclaimed their all-Algerian committee. Premier Pierre Pflimlin still was struggling to reach a "peace" settlement with the Algiers insurgents but a series of events made this plainly impossible. The rebels: Proclaimed the new com mittee is the "repository of the popular sovereignty." Appealed to all French men in France to set up their own revolutionary public safety committee in defiance of the government. ' Said they would fight un- . til a government headed by De Gaulle is set up in Paris. .Gen. Raoul Salan, the defi ant French commander in chief in Algeria, presided to day over the opening session of today's fateful meeting in Algiers. It was the most ac tive part he has taken yet in the: committees. Perhaps- even more impor tant, the "insurgents elected firebrand - paratroops Gen. Jacques Massu as copresi dent of the Algerian commit tee with . Moslem leader Sid Cara. Massau has -been the most outspoken leader of the rebellion and formed the first anti-government committee. 'The Algiers challenge ap peared to knock the props out from under Pflimlin's repeat edly . proclaimed hopes of a face-saving compromise. But more ominous was the fact that Salan took such an active part in the meeting; he con trols France's 400,000 troops in Algeria. Once again the prospect of riots and disorder was raised in , France, strengthening De Gaulle's chances of gaining powr and strengthening the chances of a bloody counter move led by the Communists. . Salan's loyalty to the Paris government had been a cor nerstone of the Pflimlin gov ernment. Today he openly sided with the Gaullists and' his loyalty to Pflimlin be came a matter of great doubt. Pflimlin actually was pre paring to hand over to Salan the exercise of emergency powers voted by the National Assembly by an overwhelm ing margin Wednesday. Salan sent his chief of staff, CoL Michel de Juille, to France for talks with the Pflimlin government. Pflimlin was sending his new chief of staff, Gen. Henri LorilloL But the action in Algeria threw everything in doubt even Pflimlin's decision to risk his shaky government on a demand for immediate con stitutional reforms. And fail ure therc would bring down his government wthin a week. The insurrection of Gaul list army generals in Algeria was rapidly getting out of control and again the threat of bloodshed . was rising in France. Relations with Tuni sia reached the crisis , stage again and there was trouble with .Morocco. Dwelling Destroyed By Fire Thursday : A $5,000 dwelling owned by Hillcrest Orchards and oc cupied by an employee and his family, was destroyed by fire Thursday -morning. The blaze was caused by faulty wiring, according to the in surance agent who is adjust ing the loss. The property is located on Meridian rd. All contents of ; the house, with the exception of some articles of children's clothing, were saved. The fire was discovered by the occupant A state forestry patrol department crew kept the fire from spreading to other buildings,, assisted by orchard employees, who used a power sprayer to dampen the area.