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Newspaper Page Texto o o 53 rd Year. Recommended Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune is Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MU 2-1021. Yreka 4lW before 6:45 pjn. daily and 12 JO aon. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call pleasa notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. DFGRD A feature story about the deti(n or a boat hull which remits In smoother boating and handling appears on page 14 of today's Mall Tribune. . United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full La axed Wire 66 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1958 No. 67 Me BOTE Soviet Diplomat YhoTriedloDuy Secrets f xneUsd American lemmga Identifies Himself . ... a Washington (UF1) Thm United States announced Sat urday it is expelling Sgviet diplomat who tried tfl buy U. S. military secrets from American newsman. The newsman, identified by the justice department efts Charles Beaumet, helped the Soviet officiaKget about 25 non-secret military publica- tions but reported to the FBI vhen the Russian asked him X A. , . O iur secret aucumenu. The state department did not name Beaumet in the case. But it revealed that note,sent to the Soviet em bassy Friday demanded the immediate departure of em bassy Third Secretary Niko lai I. Kurochkin. . Violate Procedure It accused Kurochkin, junior official, of violating established procedure in get ting U.S. Army manuals and trying, to buy secret docu ments A justice department offi cial emphasized that there are no charges against Beaumet and no arrests have been made. Beaumet, 25, identified himself as a reporter for the National Guard Association's publication, "The National Guardsman." The editor of the magazine ' said Beaumet was fired in February after the FBI learned of his activi ties. The dismissal was based on immaturitv rtf iuripment. not dislovaltv. the editor said Non-Secret Information The justice department said Beaumet told the 'FBI he re ceived about $435 from Ku rochkin between last Septem ber and December for "un- clasified" military publica tions, training manuals, news releasesand othefJ non-secret -information. He said he cooperated with the Russian Strictly on a free lance basis" until Kurochkin asked him to obtain mnuCls including classified, or secret, information. - The Soviet embassy refused comment. But Soviet sources) said gurochkirPjyoulC lef, forIoscow in g ffej ta9t- Rebels, Antyjft Trirjoli Me Beirut, Lebanon -2- ftJJl A pitched battle; aupaj la Tripoli between wtbelf en trenched in tho olflf'eit n Lebanese government breee baclted by ijhte jines, tanks and artillery, fecoptiae to reports rechin$ XePe. The old city oPth tuit, 0 miles north oP BftiruV Asa been controlled bj tha vafcels since the insurrection euf last gontn. Rebel sourceQS&id the Jight ing brgje out shortly before dawn, in the first 9if hours of fighting, the sources the. insurgents suffered 10 to 1 killed and 30 to fiO ounfiwfi. A rebel spo&cfrnfn, in a telephone convocation fjith sources in Beirut, exit the Lebanese army 9M6 using artillery, tanj nt jt Jight ers agatft th f rit)li rebels for the first tn& Kftretofove, clashes had bfin eorefnest to exchanges of rifle gsst jptH- matic wegpoififev- ' Medford Crater Late Mo tors defeated Central Voinl Cheney Studs 8 to 4 last night in a non-league Amer ican lieg&n junior baseball game here. SjQkane (UPI) The 6aa Diego Padres handed the Spokane Indians a 4-6 vic tory in the seven inning opener of a Pacific Coast League double header last night. The Indians piddled out only four hits, but took the game Qn four unearned runs with the help of five Padre errors. Vancouver (UPI) South paw Vic Lombardi . wild pitched the winning run home with the bases filled in the ninth inning last night as the Vancouver'; Mounties won an extra in ning thriller 1-0 from the , Portland Beavers in the first game of a Pacific Coast League twi-night double-header. Ml Base 'I Think I'm Beginning To Feel a Sense Of Urgency" ' Do Gaulle Calls fpr Referendum Oct. 5 Pans (UPD Gen. Charles de Gaulle Saturday closed out his first hectic week as French premier-by setting Oct. 5 as the date for a nationwide ref erendum on constitutional re forms to end government "im potence" and ordering munici pal Algerian elections within a month. The 67-year-old premier, fresh from a three-day visit to Algesia in which he de manded and won full support of the rebellious military-civ ilian junta, presided at a two- hour cabinet meeting to plan Suslpy Said Not Seen in Public London : (UPI) Diehard telinist Mikhail Suslov, .who i reputed to be a rival for Nikita Khrushchev's leader- shin, has not been seen in public since mid-May and ap parently has vanished from lAe Moscow scene, - reports from behind the Iron Curtain sail Saturday. Hie absence from recent Mooe public functions was aroueing considerable specu lation in the West. Failure of high Soviet officials to appear t official functions frequent ly his signified their down fall in thit past. There was no indication in the iFon Curtain reports, how ever, wet buslov was being foamgreded. Sualov is one of the secre taries) of the Communist party and a member of the ruling presidium. He is a former ed itor of the Soviet newspaper Pravda, and one of the lead ina Communist theoreticians, ut Suslov, despite his high rang; in Premier Khrushchev's government, has not accept et Khrushchev's de-Staliniza- tion program. California PUC italics Price Cut San Francisco (UPI) The State .Public utilities com mission has again turned down the request of five 4 major railroads to cut prices 30 per cent on rates of car load lumber shipments. On May 20, the commission refused to approve the rate cut sought by the railroads. At the same time, the Inter state Commerce Commission also refused similar inter state reductions. The proposed rate lower- ings have brought bitter ob jections from Northern Cali fornia lumbermen, who said it would put them at a dis advantage against their Ore gon competitors. Truckers al so objected strongly,- arguing the new railroad rates would be lower than the costs to truckers of handling similar shipments. The petition filed Friday by the railroads called on the commission to, reconsider their action, which was label ed as "improvident, unlawful and contrary, to the public in terest" by the railways. A similar petition was filed with the ICC to protest their ruling. . his "salvation" program. A source said de Gaulle and the cabinet decided to appoint a Moslem Algerian to a cabi net position for the first time in the history of the republic, Tfte meeting formally ap proved Gen. Rauol Salan, the army commander in Algiers, as "delegate general" in the territory with an "important civilian administrator" yet to be named. His attempts at "reconcil iation" of the Algerian Mos lem rebels fell flat. A series of rebel attacks were staged Saturday including one at Bone, where de Gaulle spoke Thursday. Information Minister1 Andre Malraux said the cabinet de cided that as a first step to ward settling the Algerian cri sis, municipal elections would be held within a month. Reform Plan , The ' constitutional reform plan, rammed through the na tional assembly in the early morning hours last Tuesday on de Gaulle's threat to re sign the office he had taken on Sunday, was to be put to the people of France in Octo ber to end what de Gaulle called "the impotence of the public authorities." The details of the plan will be drawn up by a consulta tive committee, two-thirds of whose members will be from parliament. Object will be to revise the constitution and prevent the "revolving door" system that has toppled 25 governments in 13 years at the whim of the divided national assembly . 44,900 Persons Seek Work in State Salem (UPI) There were 44,900 persons seeking work in Oregone June 1, the State Unemployment Com pensation commission report ed "Saturday. This figure was down 11, 600 from the 56,500 estimated for May 1. But it was still almost double the number unemployed last year on June 1. The Commission said that 20,425 of the unemployed were covered by insurance. Some 22,400 insured work ers have exhausted their benefits since the beginning of the fiscal year last July 1. Of these 9,200 are still out of work. The unemployment peak was reached in February when 75,000 were out of work. Talks May Washington , (UPI) Sen ate Disarmament Chairman Hubert Humphrey said Satur day he believes the forthcom ing technical talks on sus pending nuclear tests will lead to a summit conference agreement for a limited test ban with inspection. The Minnesota Democrat said in an interview that he shares Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' feeline that many U. S.-Soviet Drob- lems could be settled at a lower level than a summit meeting But he forecast (1) success Alaskan Area Saved from Brush Blaze Saturday Fire Stopped Two Miles From Town Ketchikan, Alaska (UPI) The "model Indian com munity" of Metlakalta ap parently was saved at the last moment Saturday when firefighters managed to stop a huge brush fire within two miles of the little town. Metlakatla, which has a population of about 975, is on Annette island 13 miles south east of here. It is called a "model" because of its fine school system and fine resi dential district. The commun ity is the center of the Tsint- shean Indian tribe and has its own cannery and a sawmill. A back fire was set about mid-morning and stopped the main blaze which had. raged out of control since 1:30 p.m. Friday. Welcome Aid Weary firefighters also got some welcome aid Saturday in the form of a slight driz zle and fog which helped to slow down the steadily ad vancing flames. The brush fire started when a Civil Aeronautics ad ministration employee from Annette airport was sent out to burn an old military guard house between the- airport and Metlakatla, six or seven miles away. ' The CAA man had a small fire pump with him, but he was unable to control the fire when sparks, from the burn ing shed set the tinder dry brush in the vicinity ablaze. Between 250 and 300 men from the airport and Metlak atla rushed to the scene o the fire and were joined later by an additional 50- volunteers from Ketchikan. Pollution Study To Be Explained Salem A recently - com pleted study of air pollution problems resulting from saw mill waste burners will be explained at a half-day brief ing session for Oregon lum bermen in Springfield June 12. The $15,000 study was launched last June by the Oregon State college engin eering . experiment station in cooperation with the state air pollution authority and the U.S. Public Health service. Project engineers have com pleted 19 intensive measure ments of eight typical "wig wam ' type waste Burners in an attempt to determine methods for better control of smoke and cinder emissions. " Carl E. Green, air pollut ion authority president, said the study has proved some burners are doing "an excel lent job" of consuming waste products. Measurements showed others "are serious of fenders" in contributing to Oregon's air pollution prob lem, he said. ; The June 12 meeting is sponsored by the experiment station, air pollution author ity and the city of Eugene. Attendance is expected to in clude representatives of many lumber mills, state and local health and related agencies, and observers from the. state of Washington. The meeting will begin at 9 a in. in the Willamalane park and recreation building, Springfield. Washington (UPD-r-Labor Department experts testifying in a closed congressional hear ing have predicted .heavy un employment for the next 12 months, it was disclosed Saturday., i Lead to Summit Conference in the multi-nation technical talks at Geneva and (2) a heads-of-state summit meeting to follow "at which an agree ment on banning tests , with inspection will be concluded." Meantime, White House Secretary James E. Hagerty said he did not expect Presi dent Eisenhower's latest let ter to Russian Premier Nikita Kruschev on possible nuclear test suspension to be made public before the middle of this week. The two have been exchanging notes on the forth coming talks at Geneva on ways to police a test ban. M(5(fifi)D Navy Pilot's Body Found Near Spot Plane Went Down Wreckage of Craft Spotted Friday Cottage Grove (UPI) A search party that included 200 persons Saturday found the body of Cmdr. George W. Staeheli, Tacoma, Wash., in a wooded region of Western Oregon where his F-J4B Fury jet plane crashed Friday mor ning. State police said the body of the Navy hero and father of eight children was discov ered 300 yards from the crash scene and about 100 feet downhill. Tjhey sa.id the body was not burned, r . . The search Saturday for the body of the pilot who was credited with shooting down four Japanese planes in World War II included 90 National Guardsmen, state police and sheriffs officers from Roseburg, Eugene, Lane and Douglas counties, plus numerous volunteers. Searchers Friday found the wreckage of the jet at the bottom of a large crater blast ed out when 900 gallons of fuel aboard the plane explod ed. Nearby was an open par achute and Staeheli's helmet which gave rise to hopes he might have walked away from the crash scene. Staeheli and Lt. C. D. Ol son, m anotner plane, were on a routine mission from McChord Field, Tacoma, to Moffett Naval Air station in California Friday morning when Staeheli's plane flamed out at: 33,000 feet and disap peared into the overcast. ; xne wrecKea plane, on Buck Creeks road,, was . alaUhBext-Tearf the budget most the exact spot . where Mrs. Irene -Ames, an aircraft pbservor, reported she heard the sound of a crash at 8:15 a.m. Friday. It was found by 15-year-old Don Work on his father's farm less than two miles from Anlauf. Ice Cream Will Be Given Blood Donors A pint of ice cream from the Rich Maid Ice Cream store will be given to each blood donor when the Red Cross Bloodmobile visits Med ford, June 11. Only 20 per sons have made, appointments so far. A total of 400 donors are needed this visit due to a shortage of almost 100 pints of blood when the Bloodmo bile was in Medford in April, Red Cross volunteers report ed. The 400 donors, minus an estimated 50 rejects, would make the 350 pints of blood needed. The April quota was 290 pints.' - The Bloodmobile wili be at the Red Cross building on Hawthorne ave. between 1 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. Ap pointments may be made by calling SPring 3-3813. Drop in donors will be welcome, the volunteers said. Hovering Helicopter Cost Hostesses Jobs Brussels (UPI) A hover ing helicopter and its wide eyed occupants cost eight hos tesses their jobs Saturday at the Brussels World's Fair. Fair officials spotted the 'copter lazily hanging over the main receptional hall. An in vestigation showed the eight girls sunbathing in ' Bikini bathing suits. All were sup posed to be on duty. The offi cials fired them on the spot. Other members of the sen ate foreign relations commit tee, who heard Dulles testify that he now sees no likelihood that a 1958 summit confer ence will develop, were divid ed on the question whether a top-level meeting even should be held. Sen. Bourke B. Hickenloop1 er (R-Iowa) said he sees "no evidence the Russians want to talk." - Reflecting Dulles' own lack of desire to promote a top conference, Hickenlooper said in a separate interview: "I don't think we should ac cept anything just to have a f: ij f j 6 (CZ " f v .sr. j "Mil jHp: ,,,;.v'i Ji m-iwHTwiiiihiih rp-- - nriiMit j i I imSwSTW-' .m-?..,-. m ai mmmmmmmmS S 'i' ; T " i C'.i m NEW STAMP Featuring reproduction of Douglas Volk portrait of Abraham Lincoln, new . four-cent stamp (left), is now being printed for use starting August 1. At right Budget Committee Agrees to Review Board for Complaint's A review board on salary adjustments will be set up to hear complaints from county employees, Jackson county budget committee members agreed Friday afternoon. Budget Committee Chair man M. T.' Wray was not present at the time. County Commissioner Ralph James acted as chairman. Since James had sat in on the reclassification board as a non-voting member, and other members of the budget committee said they felt it was proper for him- to preside at the meeting, Whether or not . salary ad justments, would be made this year was .not stated. An ap peals, board on job" classifica tion nrnhanlv will be iestab- committee said. , ; , . Decisions Follow Meeting The - decisions : followed ; a" meeting with representatives of the -Jackson County Em ployees 1 association - ' Friday afternoon. , The budget . com mittee is to meet again Mon day. ..'...'..'. With Larry' Tweedy, Jack son' county juvenile counsel or, acting as spokesman, the association suggested that $70,000 be included in the county budget to cover any future salary increases. Such increases would be given af ter a careful study of all plans and classifications of all em ployees within six months. Deadline for the last budget committee meeting is June 27. The association also " re quested a plan for a perman ent base of compensation for all employees. Employees would then know where they stand and what their future chances are, according to the statement. Provision also should be made for fluctuations in the cost of living. A margin of 3 per cent should be allowed, the association suggested. Requests Review Board The association requested a permanent review board be established which would in clude an employees associa-! Lifeguard Saves Youths from Tide Cannon Beach ' (UPI) A lifeguard with as much per sistance as courage rescued three youths from the surf at Cannon Beach' Saturday. - Two Beaverton youths, Du- arie Nelson, 21, and Gale Nel son, 16, "and George E. Beck, 17, Valley, Wash., Were pull ed out from an outgoing tide just north of Haystack Rock. talkfest. The Russians want to play the game according to their own. rules. Nothing can be accomplished that wayfc be cause . then every decision would be on Russian terms." But, like Dulles, Hicken looper said "we might be jus tified "in having a conference on the theory that something possibly might come from it." Dulles told the foreign re lations committee there is "no reason for a summit confer ence" other than the fact that Russia "arbitrary and un reasonable" refuses to make agreements ''at a lower :lev- tion representative, a depart ment . head, a county court member, a budget committee member and a private citizen. However, the county bud-, get committee said the board should be composed of people from outside the official coun ty circle. Adoption of Plan No. 1 of the Oregon sfate civil service commissioner's compensation survey , report was suggested. Tweedy presented - a gen eralized outline of complaints which were: (1) employees and many of the department ; ; . - . 'r. : ;.J J:-."v.s ! Budget to on The Jackson county budget committee will meet Monday to further study the county roads department; - requests and to make adjustments on some other budgets. Meeting Friday, the com mittee (1) approved a motion to draw up a . new contract with the .Jackson county pub lic library for 410th of a mill and total budget of $34, 000, (2) took steps toward getting an attorney general's opinon on allocation of coun ty funds to pay needy pa tients' hospital bills, (3) ap- Crewman May Have Prevented Collision Honolulu (UPI) A crew man who didn't get the word may have beenable to pre vent the ramming. and sink ing of the submarine . USS Stickleback, testimony be fore a board of inquiry dis closed Saturday. The enlisted man, Torpedo man 3C John H. Phelps, 21, of . St. Louis, Mo., " testified Friday before a board investi gating the collision between the Stickleback and the. de stroyer Escort Silverstein off Oahu May 29. , All 82 of the sub's crew escaped. Phelps said he failed to hear an order from the con ning tower to fire off a warn ing rocket which would have alerted ships in the area the submarine was surfacing un der emergency conditions. Smith Named UPI Promotion Manager New York (UPI) r- Ken neth Smith Saturday was ap pointed associate promotion manager of United Press In ternational. He was formerly manager of International News Photos. Working with promotion manager Frank Brady, Smith will undertake immediately a number of special projects in connection with - the ex pansion., of the UPI Global News, feature and photo cov erage as a result of the con solidation of UP and INS.'- He began his news career with Central Press associa tion in 1933 and transferred to INS the same year. He was on the night news staff and became editor of the news and sports feature mail supplements DeD Study is new seven-cent airmail stamp featuring composite view of latest jet airliner. (UPI Telephoto) heads have not been inform ed of the salary recommenda tions with sufficient time for proper consideration; (2) not all . appeals were able to be heard on reclassification; (3) salary scales are not just and equitable; (4) length and qaul ity of service are not ' recog nized; (5) no policy has been stated . regarding future in crements for employees; (6) fringe benefits such as vaca tion, sick leave and compensa tory pay for overtime and holiday work have not been declared or set forth. . - f . .v...;..... .: .-. . - Get More proved the addition of $2,000 to the general county budget for the use of the Southern Oregon Child Guidance clinic, (4) studied the county roads department budget and' post poned further study until Monday, and (5) went back over budgets tentatively passed to make further ad justments, which will be con tinued Monday. , ' Rogue River Library .' The committee said Rogue River library will receive $200 out of the total county library budget- directly since it is now separate from the county system. Ashland pub lic library will receive $2,700 as its share for the new fiscal year. Jackson county library board representatives said the adult circulation of the coun ty library has increased 106 per cent in the last three years while the staff remains the same. Present wage scale is below what is paid else where, they pointed out. In other business, the budg et committee asked Medford Attorney Frank J. Van Dyke, spokesman for Rogue Valley and Sacred. Heart hospital boards, to contact other hos pitals in the county for in formation on the average yearly number of needy pa tients whose bills remain un paid. Forwarded to Attorney The . information will be forwarded to the district at torney, who will relay it to Attorney., General Robert Thornton. Thornton will be asked if the county. can legal ly assist the hospital with its unpaid bills from needy -patients. , - The county now allocates funds to local hospitals based on a ratio of needy patients to total number of hospital' beds. . While approving the $2,000 allocation for the child guid ance clinic, as members of the county, budget committee, the county court stated it is planned to provide office space, and telephone service to the clinic on the third floor of the county courthouse an nex.. " ' Presenting the case for the clinic, County Public Health Officer Dr. A. E. Merkel pointed out that few clinic patients can afford to pay fees. The majority of such pa tients are from broken homes and "a lot are on aid to de pendent children," he said. Monday Discussions May Center on Tests, France, Summit Prime Minister Says Talks to Be Informal Washington, June 7-(UPI) British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan arrived Saturday for talks with President Eisen hower on nuclear tests, rela tions with Gen. Charles de Gaulle, and prospects for a summit conference with Russia. MacMillan, met at the air port by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, said his talks with the president would be "informal." He did not detail the problems they would discuss but said they always had "something to talk about." Their talks were certain t center on: Heavy Pressure Nuclear .tests Both the United States and Britain are under heavy pressure from Russia to follow her lead and voluntarily suspend tests with out awaiting an international agreement. The United States is considering such a step once its current Pacific test series is concludede. But Britain is anxious to continue testing! until she is assured of obtain ing enough information to en able her to catch up with this country and Russia in nuclear weaponry. De Gaulle Both Britain and the United States - are carefully watching moves by de Gaulle to stabilize France's internal and - world position. Both governments have ex pressed official optimism over1 France's future, but privately there is concern whether de Gaulle will continue the close cooperation with this country and Britain that marked pre vious French regimes. ". Assessment of Sincerity : Summit Eisenhower and MacMillan will make a new assessment pf Russia's sincer ity in -demanding a summit conference and the chances of success. Dulles told a congres sional committee Friday he sees little likeihood a confer ence can be arranged this year. Soviet Economic Offensive Both leaders are disturbed over Russia's drive for eco nomic gains in Africa, Asia and Latin America and may try to work out new moves to counter the offensive. The British also are . concerned over the U. S. recession and Russia's offer to buy billions of dollars worth of American machinery and other items. CAP Plans Show at Medford Airport The Medford squadron of the Civil Air Patrol will hold an air show at the Medford. airport Saturday, June. 14, and at the Ashland airport Sunday, June 15. CAP guides will assist the public at the show and many exhibits are planned to make an interest ing program, according to Greg McDougall. The CAP prepares . young people to assist in emergen cies and to encourage careers in aviation. Outings are held each year in practice search and rescue missions. Eighteen members recently conducted a hiking and camp ing expedition up Palmer creek and were given a famil iarization course in driving a jeep over rough terrain. The complete Medford divi sion of the CAP includes a plane, a Link trainer, mechan ical course, photo lab .and radio station. Suggestions for improvement are always wel come, McDougall said. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable cloudiness today and Monday with after noon or evening showers er thundershowers. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 71 Lowest Saturday SS Our Skies' Tonight Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Monday Last Quarter PROMINENT STAR Altair, low in east .... VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, due south 4:3S a m. . 7:4 pja. 1Z..1 a.ra. 1:S p.a. 9:2T pan. . S:Z p.m. Saturn, low in south- ease ... : Mars, rises :I pjn! . 1:4 a-m.