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o I- f 52nd Year LA It Price 10 Cents Medford Tribune 20 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1958 No. 66 Council Suggests " fill ffjfl few Ml Time Extension on DIPLOMAS AWARDED About 2,500 per- Dillin, president of Linfield college, gave sons attended Medford High school com- the address. Handing out diplomas above is mencement exercises last night at Hedrick Frank Bash, chairman of the Medford Junior High gymnasium, at which 258 sen- school board, who is assisted by Medford iors were awarded diplomas. Dr. Harry L. High School Principal Lester D. Harris. Gladys BecJdoe, Sandra Buxton Named Top Graduating Seniors - - - - . tit l 1 H JT 1 11. TT- - X A Miss oiaays ueaaoe, udugn- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Beddoe, 30 Richmond ave., was named valedictorian of the Medford High school grad uating class Thursday night gt the 65th annual commence ment. H.T ice QanrJra Rn-xton. dauzh " " ' " ter of Mr. and Mrs: Kenneth R. Buxton, 2478 Sunny View, was salutatorian. A total of 258 seniors-received diplomas from Frank CO Bash, chair man of the board of educa tion. Dr. Harry L. Dillin, presi dent of Linfield college, delivered the main address He discussed higher educa tion, world conditions and economics in giving advice to the graduates. Outstanding Students Miss Nancy Adams, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Ross Adams, 2917 Fairview place, was named outstanding senior girl. David Frohnmayer, stu dent body president and son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto J. Frohn mayer, 1656 Spring st., was named outstanding senior boy. Other awards, which were announced by Principal Les- Wisconsin Tornado Toll Climbs To 31 Menomonie, Wis. (UPI) The death toll in the five county area of Northwestern Wisconsin stricken by torna does late Wednesday rose to 31 today. . Mrs. Rolf Lunn, 1, Colfax? died in Luther hospital today. Her brother-in-law, Erling Lunn, and his 3-year-old son, Ln, also were among the dead. AuthorOes still were fin able to identify a truck dri er and baby who had been found dead in Colfax. The Highway Patjl report ed sight-seers will not be al lowed into the tornado area this week end. Roadblocks .will be manned to keep the out. . ISasebaOD NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh V 4 1 Chicago 6 9 0 Law. Porterfield (4). R. G. Smith (8) and Foiles, Kravilx (8); Drott and S. Taylor. Nomination To Be Reissued by Clerk All certificates of nomina tion for precinct committee men and women of the "Dem ocrat' Carty by, the Jackson county elections department will be reissued, Mrs. Bereth P. Hopkins, county clerk, said today. Mrs. Hopkins said she does not yet know if certificates of nomination were also issued incorrectly to other Demo cratic party nominees. , The action is being taken in answer to a letter received to day from William V. Deathe rage, counsel for the Demo cratic party of Jackson county. He wrote Mrs. Hop kins that a number of certifi cates of nomination incorrect ly list the name of the party as "Democrat Party." O "Several years ago, a num ber of your prominent mem bers of your political party in cluding the late Joseph Mc Carthy and Leonard Hall, the former "national chairman of the Republican party, com menced a partisan campaign to change the name of the Democratic Party to that of the Democrat Party," Death erage wrote. , o ter D. Harris, included the American Chemical Society award, Sandra Buxton; Agnes Flanagan Art Merit award, M y r n a Callaway; Consoli dated Freightwuys award, Nancy Adams; Daughters of American Revolution Good Citizenship award, Winifred Gott; Elk Lodge award to outstanding senior student, Sandra Buxton; Elk outstand ing senior in leadership David Frohnmayer Honor Science award,. Ste phen Hoag; Kiwanis music service award for band, Susan Martin; Kiwanis for orchestra Larry Albright; Kiwanis for choir, Sharon Walsh; Oregon Scholarship press award for newspaper service, Curtis Cook and Joan Laurila; Ore gon Press award for year book service, George Turn- bull certificates, Stephen Hoag and Sandra Buxton. Other Awards Chapter AA, PEO Sister hood outstanding girl award, DeLores Williams; ; Chapter CG, PEO, Judy Blackburn; Larry Schade Athletic award, Jim Funston; University of Oregon Leadership . award, Frank Albert; and National Merit awards, Sandra Buxton, Jim Corum, Karen Sloniger and Jon Thompson Scholarships announced were from the AFL-CIO, to Sandra Buxton; Beta Sigma Phi, Alpha Rho chapter, Inger Palmquist; Marjorie Butler Memorial scholarship, Alpha McMahon; Delta Kappa Gam- Justice Brand Expected To Retire 3 Salem (UPI) There were strong indications today that Oregon Supreme Court jus tice James T. Brand, 72, might retire soon. Howeter, no official con firmation was forthcoming either from the court or from the governor's office. Justice Brand himself is now in Oberlin, Ohio, where he is a trustee of Oberlin college. Former Gov. .Charles A. Sprague appointed Justice Brand to the high court in May, 1941. Before that he was Circuit judge in Coos county. In 1947 a special assign ment took him to Germany to serve as a justice for the war crimes trials. Certificates "It is my belief that the at tempt by partisans to change names of political parties giouId remain in the partisan political arena and not be carried over into the elections department of the county clerk of Jackson county," the attorney added. "No evil intent was in volved in the errer," Mrs. Hopkins said. "It was merely a mistake made during the rush of business." Mrs. Hopkins answered the letter this morning. It said, in ?art,"I'm quite sure that you and members of the Demo cratic party known- the infer ence in your letter that parti san politics is practiced in the election department has no basis in fact." "It was an honest and quite natural error, certainlv not made with the intent of cast ing any reflection on the il lustrious and highly respected name of the Democratic party or the members thereof. It just so happened that a Demo crat typed all of the Demo cratic party notifications and a Republican the ReDublican notifications." ma, Mary Campbell; Future Business Leaders of Amer ica, Susan Campbell; Future Teachers' association, Carolyn Carr. Girls' League, Linda Smith; Jackson County Medical aux iliary, Susan Martin; Jackson County Voiture, 40 et 8, Marcia Spence; KMED staff and management, Frank Al bert; Medford Mail Tribune, Milton Smith; Medford Realty Board, Richard Durante; Med ford Rotary, David Gifford National Secretaries associ ation, Rogue River chapter, 'Judy Blackburn; U.S. Nation al bank, Ron Peery; and Zonta club, Maureen Mc Curdy. Scholarships College and university schol arships were from the Cali fornia College of i Arts and Crafts, Oakland, to Myrna Callaway; Navy Reserve Offi cers Training corps, Loren Cantrall and Stephen Hoag; Veterans of Foreign Wars, Crater Lake Post 1833, Jerry Bradford. Harvard university admis sion, David Frohnmayer; Har vard admission and scholar ship, Dick Conim and Jim Corum; Lewis and Clark col lege from Elk Lumber com pany, John Jones; Linfield college, Jack Goucher; Med ford Beauty school, Barbara Ogden. Oregon State college, San dra Buxton; Southern Oregon college, Curtis Cook and Lei- lani Kunkel; Stanford uni versity admission and schol arship, Jon Thompson; Uni versity of Oregon Dads' schol arship, Joe Burns; U of O honors at entrance, Joe Burns and Carolyn Carr. ' University of California at Berkeley honors at entrance, Karen Johnson; Washington State college, Bob Gee; Wil lamette university from Elk Lumber company, Nancy Adams, Lynn Hales, Joan Laurila and Tom Morris; Yale university admission and scholarship, Eric Eitreim. GOP Committee To Elect Chairman The Jackson County Repub lican Central committee will elect a chairman and new ex ecutive board at a meeting on Thursday, June 26, at 8 p.m., at the Girls Community club. Don Stathos, who was elect ed early this year to serve an interim term as chairman, will conduct the meeting. All newly elected Republi can committeemen and committee-women are urged to at tend, and interested Republi cans are invited. Oregon Traffic Takes 2 Lives During May Salem (UPI) Twenty- three persons from age one to 73 were killed on Oregon highways during May, bring ing the five-month total to 140. The Department of Motor Vehicles said the only encou raging note was that the. 23 fatalities for the month were m fewer than in May of 195? and it was the lowest May toll since 1947 when 22 per sons were killed in traffic. Macmillan Leaves To Confer With Ike ' London (UPI) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan leaves by air tonight for Washington, where he will confer with President Eisen hower on France's future as an ally of the West and other pressing problems. Macmillan will be accom panied by Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook and sev eral members of his personal staff. Vacating Housing Dissolution Would Create Hardships The Medford city council last night recommended to the Jackson County Housing Au thority that it extend the time in which the Authoriy's hous ing project at Jackson st. and McAndrews rd. must be va cated and demolished. Acting Mayor Stanley C Jones Jr., pointed out that the council has no jurisdiction on how the housing authority is operated, but noted that sev eral councilmen have visited the units and believe dissolu tion of the project now would create "an extreme hardship on some residents now living there." Earlier this year, the Au thority announced it planned to demolish and remove the remaining dwellings on the property. Residents were giv en until July 1 in which to move. V. City Manager Robert Duff said there are 18 families still living in the units. Council- men suggested that those 18 families be moved to one sec tion to facilitate dissolution of the remainder of the proj ect. Pool Is Desirable Jones said a "swimming pool at the location would be desirable, but . not to the point of putting people out of their homes J' He referred to an offer the Authority made to the Medford budget committee concerning an es timated $75,000 which wjll be available through the Author ity upon complete dissolution of the project. . ' The Authority, in submit ting the proposal to the com mittee,', stipulated that the money be used "for the bene fit of the people of Medford and primarily of the westside area by the construction there on of ; a public swimming pool, park and other recrea tional facilities?' The land would become property of the city once the Authority is dissolved, ' and Duff has estimated that a pool on the site would cost about $75,000. Three acres will be sold to the Army for a reserve center prior to dis solution of the Authority, ac cording to present plans. The project was constructed as war-time housing measure. The council, in its recommen dation of an extension of time, gave no length of time for the extension. (See council story on page 5) Hawthorne Pool To Open Tomorrow The Medford municipal swimming pool will open at 1 p.m. tomorrow if the weather permit. This will be the ninth season for ' the Hawthorne park pool, which first opened in June, 1950. Lifeguards this year will be Bob Sutherland, Herb Bow man and Ron Von Dollah. Mrs. Doreen Bradshaw, a guard last year, will .super vise the younger children's pool this summer, according to Darrell Huson, city park di rector. If Saturday is cool- and damp, the' pool will open the first warm, dry day, Huson said. - " . . Six Escape Flames In Portland Apartment Portland (UPI)-Six per sons, two young mothers and four children, escaped in night clothes today 'from a fire which damaged an apartment house here. Mrs. Sandra Tillisen and her two children, Jimmy, 2, and Linda, 1; and Mrs. Nancy Haines, and her two young sons, John Martin, 2V2, and Buddy Glenn, 1VS, escaped after the fire broke out in Mrs. Tillisen's apartment. Counties Authorized To Aid Airport Upkeep Salem (UPI) ' Counties are authorized to cooperate with cities in the joint main tenance and repair of munici pal airports, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said to day. : The opinion was asked by the Union county district at torney, j Thornton said the word "municipality" in aeronautics law included both counties and cities. De Gaulle To Run Algeria, Safety Committee Told No Compromise With Committees Oran, Algeria (UPI) Gen. Charles De Ganlle called to day for, an end to the power of the revolutionary public safety committee in Algeria. In a clash with the military-civilian juntas which had taken over great power in this North African land, De Gaulle said from now on he would run Algeria from Paris with Gen. Raoul Salan as. his delegate general here. The move amounted to a showdown with the commit tees, whose uprising against the Paris government May 13 led to De Gaulle's return to power as Premier of France. To Assure Transition "My primary mission is to assure the transition toward a reform of our institutions without civil war and a breach of national unity," De Gaulle told a group of offi cials here on the third day of his fact-finding tour of Algeria. "I must insist on the absolute necessity to main tain this "unity of the country." De Gaulle showed he was not prepared to compromise with this group, headed by para troop Gen. Jacques Mas su. His decision . to appoint Salan ' also was a rebuff to the" insurgents, who had hoped tr see Jacguesi Soustelle, who wants to keep Algeria French at any price, named to the a top job. 1 Fair Board Tables Kiwanis Request The Jackson county fair board tabled a request from the Kiwanis club county fair committee for rental money on agricultural exhibit booths, according ; to a fair board spokesman. After club members ap proached the county budget committee, the matter was re ferred back to the fair board yesterday. A member of the fair board said - the Kiwanis club requested the fair board pay rental money fdr agricul tural exhibit booths. The Ki wanis club would keep both the gate receipts and the rent al money and use it for chari table projects. The board members said they would consider some sup port .of the Kiwanis event if the public shows it is gener ally interested in a county fair. No such interest has been shown to date', a board mem ber said.' Following its meeting with the Kiwanis committee, the fair board asked the county budget committee if it would be willing to authorize $100,- 000 allocation in the new fiscal year budget for such a county fair. . West Coast Telephone Tells Rate Boos Need Salem (UPI) Evidence to show that higher taxes, wages and costs make it nec essary for West Coast Tele phone company to have an $835,000 annual rate increase was presentea ai nearuigs here yesterday and today. The hearings were before Public Utility Commissioner Howard Morgan. WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy through tonight. Showers or thunderstorms tonight. Scat tered . showers and partial clearing Saturday afternoon. Low tonight 55. High Saturday 78-80. Temp. Highest Yesterday 81 Lowest this Morning 57 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 12 Our. Skies Tonight Sunrise "-35 a.m. Sunset-. ; 7:45 p.m. Moonrise . 11:23 p.m. Last Quarter Sunday night PROMINENT STAR Antares, low in the southeast in the evening twilight. This giant star, brightest of the con stellation, Scorpio, is now. esti mated to be 520 light years from the Earth. last iff B Presideirotl: ftraojss Successor 'You Deviationist!' County Employees To Ask Adoption of Civil Service Plan The executive council of the Jackson County Em ployees' association met with some Jackson county depart ment heads last night to draw up requests which were to be presented to the county budg et committee at 4 p.m. today. Representatives of the em ployees' association will pre sent a letter to the county budget committee requesting it adopt Plan No. 1 as set forth by the state civil serv ice commission in its recom mended salary and classifica tion schedules.-They also plan to request that fringe benefits be included in a formal agree ment. These also are included in the state civil service com mission recommendations. 412-Year Schedule Plan No. 1 is based on . a 41-year schedule. Those county employees who have been employed with the county for 4V4 years or longer would be placed in the maxi mum salary bracket, those with 3V2 years would be placed on the fifth step, with 2 J2 years at the fourth step and 1V4 years on the third sal ary step. Those with six months service would be set at the second step and those with less than six ..months would be given a minimum salary. Fringe benefits would in clude sick leave and three weeks vacation for more than 10 years service. Sick leave is already granted on an in formal basis and two weeks vacation is given after one year's . service. . .This would merely establish the formal procedure. i' Since the county employees' association realizes that the budget will be adopted soon, spokesman this afternoon plan to request that a sum be set aside in the new fiscal year budget to take care of any salary adjustments after a study is made. Any adjust ments should be made retro active to July 1, 1958, the as sociation spokesman was to request. , . . n . The alternate to this would be establishment of a person nel review board.. This would also be to compensate for the time element. Members pro- Lebdnon Gives Arab League Another Chance U n i t e d ; Nations, N.Y. (UPI) Lebanon gave the Arab league another chance today to solve its dispute withi the United Arab Republica. The UN security council stood ready to take up the case if the effort failed. SeuecSs posed for such a board by the association would include one elected official, a county court member, a member of the em ployees' association and one impartial citizen from the county. Members of the executive committee for the Jackson County Employees' associa tion are Jack Eaton, planning office; Lee Monroe, county shops; Bill McCullough, asses sor's office; Orie Moore, health department; Adelaide Bailey, county school superin tendent's office; Vern Smith, weighmaster, and Elmer Har nish, roads department. Police Investigate Church Break-Ins City police detectives are in vestigating the forced entry of three Medford churches sometime Wednesday night. A fourth church, the Seventh Day Adventist, 310 Beatty si, was broken into ' Thursday afternoon and police arrested two boys, aged 14 and 13, who admitted forcing open a door. They were released to their parents. The three cases still under investigation involve the First Presbyterian church, 45 South Holly st.; St. Mark's Episco pal, Fifth st. and Oakdale ave.; and the First Christian, 209 South Oakdale ave. Only $3, taken from a desk at the Presbyterian church, was reported missing. A small safe was forced open at the Christian church but nothing was reported missing there, police said. Russian Crew Reports Radioactive Rain Encountered on Pacific Trip London (UPI) Moscow Radio said today a Soviet sci entific expedition ship ran into "radioactive rain" 1,800 miles west of a U.S. atomc testing base in the Pacific. The broadcast here said the radioactivity was registered by scientists aboard the So viet ship "Vityaz." It said the ship first encountered the radioactivity May 23. Normal Dose Said Exceeded . ."On 29th May it reached the maximum which exceed ed the normal dose by several hundred times," the broadcast said. Moscow Radio said the ship had been conducting IGY ob servations west of the Mari n Los Angeles Man To Fill Vacancy On Atomic Board Choice of Chairman To le Revealed Later Washington (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower today nom inated John A. McCone, Los Angeles industrialist, to the Atomic Energy Commission vacancy. . McCone, former undersec retary of the Air Force was named to succeed Lewis L. Strauss, who is retiring June 30. The White House did not immediately say whether Mc Cone would be nairied by the President to be chairman, or whether one of the present commissioners would be pro moted to the chairmanship now held by Strauss. c Deputy to Forrettal McCone, 56, served as un dersecretary of the Air Fofte in the Truman administration 1950-51. Before that he was deputy to Defense Secretary James Forrestal for seven months in 1948. He is ' now " president and director of. the Joshua Hendy Corp., and chairman of the board of the Pacific Far East Lines. ' He is a. Republican. He is also a member of the Burn irig Tree club where the Presi dent frequently-plays golf. . McCone was a member of President Truman's Air Policy Commission in 1947-48. 0 The White House said that a new chairman would not be named until the Senate con firms McCone's nomination. En Route to New York Associate White House Press Secretary Anne Wheaton said that the President had con ferred with McCone in per son and by telephone during the past week. McCone was en route from here to New York when his nomination was announced. The nomination was sent i& the Senate about an hour after Rep. Patrick J. Hillings (R Calif .) said he had Tjeen in formed by ftie White House that the President wouli name McCone. 70 Appointments Made For Blood mobile Visit Only about 10 appointments have been for the regular visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile to Medford next Wednesday, June 11,' Red Cross officials said today. The Bloodmobile vill be at the Red Cross build ing on Hawthorne ave.' be tween 1 and . 6 p.m. Wednes day. The quota for this visit is 350 pints, an increase over previous visits because the quota last time was not filled. Appointments may be made by telephoning the Red Cross office, SPring 3-3813. , ana Islands and north of the Carolina Islands. v There was no indication im mediately if any of the Soviet crew members suffered ill effects from the radjoactive rain. The Moscow broadcast re called the incident of the Japanese fishing boat Fortu nate Dragon which, entered the U.S. Bikini test site in 1954 and was dusted with ra dioactive H-bomb fallout. One fisherman died; the other 23 recovered in Tokyo hospitals. Relations Damaged That incident damaged U.S. Japanese relations at the time, with Japanese newspapers giving the story banner head line and full page treatment. pirg I o Air, 6round Hunt Launched Despite Squally Weather0 Flameout Reported At 33,000 Feet Eugene (UPI) A Navy jet fighter plane was pre- imed to have crashed in rugged country south of here in squally weather today and an a,ir and ground search was launched. Officials at McChord Aif Force Base, Wash., identified the pilot of the missing plane as Cmdr. G. W. Staehelie. His jet was reported to have flsmpd nut at 5"J nnn j - W U j U U U KXt 111 the Eugene area. Last trans- Lmission received from the pi lot wawhen he reported he was at 15,000 feet. It was not known whether the pilot managed to eiect himself from the aircraft. Flywg To California The plane was one of two flying from McChord to Mof fett Naval air station in Cal ifornia. The other, piloted by Lt. C D. Olsen, landed safely at Moffett. The two planes left McChord at 7:26 a.m. - The plane was described as a Navy Fury, the Navy ver sion of the Air Force F-86 Sabre jet. McChord officials Said the plane was believed to have crashed east of Roseburg, about 70 miles south of here. Officials also . were investi gating a report from Mrs. Irene Ames of the Curtin dis trict, about 25 milf$ south of here, that she heard a whis tling sound followed by an ex plosion not far from her home about 8:15 a.m. Rescue Craft Sent State police and sheriff's ground parties were sent to the scene and McChord re ported it was sending a C-47 search and rescue craft and a helicofter. A second C-47 was sent from Portland Air Base " but squally weather and over cast skies were expected to hamper an air search. Search parties were also dispatched from the Douglas county sheriff's office. Curtin is near the Lane-Douglas county line. Unemployment Dips 200,000 in Mayo Washington (UPI) The government reported today that employment rose J.200, 000 and that unemployment dropped 200,000 in. May. The Commerce and Labor departments said unemploy ment went down to 4,904,000 a larger than usual de crease for this' time of year. April unemployment was 5, 120,000. Government economists re garded as most significant in today's; ggures the fact that the seasonally adjusted rate of employment dropped to 7.2 per cent of the labor force in May as compared with the high of 7.5 per cent in April. This was the "first reduction in the seasonally adjusted rate since it started to climb last summer. A Pravda newspaper com mentary on the report de clared that radioactivity caused by testing was a men ace to the health of many peo ple in the area." Washington (UPDScien tist Ralph E. Lapp estimated today that the radiation dos age reported by a Soviet ship in the Western Pacific was just about the same as the maximum safe daily dosage permitted to workers in U.S. atomic energy plants. Nothing to Worry About Lapp, wartime member of the U.S. Atomic Bomb Proj ect, said that on the basis of Radio Moscow reports the So viet - crew members have "nothing to worry about." 0
