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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1958
No. 66
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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
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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.
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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."
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