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in the picture gbov vsrt tftt first to hit
the water wfien Hejtfiorn jool opened in
Medford at 1 p.m. Sturdey. Th quiet wa
ter, rippled only y th ind through the
winter months, ves f churBing turmoil
when 214 exuberant youngsters officially
opened the swimming fJeason.
ChralerMiliHe
Strike $nM
With Aflret
Detroit (UPI) Ar-
ment Ws reached pSy evert
ing a threatened striji ft th
vital Chrysler misilfc jlnfc by
United Auto DFor&er Union
members. TheClant is ftt Cen
ter (ine, north of here.
TSe d60 UAW membtit
were angered becauj Chrys
ler granted 8,000 laried
workers a 19 cent cost of liv
ing and improvement factor
pay boost June 1, while th
union(mployees got nothing
because the auto workers re
fused to extend present con
tracts. Result of Memo
.. : A cqpany spok.esman0idl
today at the missile plant has
been off as $he result of a
memo of understanding
reacheiPthis morning between
Chrysler and UAW Local
1245."
Angry workers at other
Chrysler plants were orderedt
back to their jobs because the
union has no contract and is
without a strike weapon be
cause of the business slum$.
Whether workers at some
Chrysler plants would obey
the orders and stay on the
job was doubtful.
UAW national bargaining
c&ncils for General Motors,
Ford and Chrysler adopted
the work-without-a-contract,
no-strike policy before con
tracts with the three compa
nies expired over Memorial
Day weekend. o
Happy Camp Youths
Injured by Rocket.
Milton Blackford, 17, and
Raymond Swaim, 22, Happy
Camp, were flown to Medford
by Mercy Flight, Inc., Sunday
afternoon for medical " care
after buffering injuries in an
explosion of a home-made
rocket.
The two were taken to
Rogue Valley hospital by
Medford ambulance for treat
ment of multiple injuries, in
cluding facial lacerations and
broken bones, reports indi
cated. A Mercy Flights plane car
ried the two to Medford about
3 p.m. and returned later for
their mothers, Mrs. Wes Bag
ley and Mrs. Al Swaim.
Fathers of the youths drove
to Medford later in the day,
it was said.
The boys were the 818 and
819th patients carried by
Mercy Flights ples.
Macmiilan in Capitol
For Talks With President
Washington (UPI) Brit
ish -im Minister Harold
Macmiilan flew back to
Washington from Indiana to
'day for the start of informal
talks with President Eisen
hower. Macmiilan briskly strode
past reporters and camera
men at the airport and droje
to the British Embassy.
The Eisenhower-Macmillan
WMte House talks embraced
subjects from cold war sum
mit negotiations to relations
with the new De Gaulle gov
' ernment in France.
r?
At least 100
1
Qomfes Discovered
In Ci&y Reservoir
fa fsplodtd homemade
omb wtr fiicovred Satur
iy morninj in on of the
city rtttrvoire on Capital
tif ., lecordinj to city police
fnd viter department offi
cial. Robert L. Let, water de
partment superintendent, aaid
thtt tha reservoir wai imme
fliataly thut off from the city
tr 'ystem when the ar
ticle were discovered. The
tfnfc va drained.
An object was discovered
floating aboat 30 feet from a
wall' of tha reservoir by Har-
J00 Phone Users
Ap'nst Rate Rise
Ashland An estimated 200
Ashland telephone patrons
have signed petitions against
the proposed rate increases
affecting Ashland and Gold
Hill area9," according to C. A.
Irwin of Irwin TV sales in
Ashland.
The petitions are to be sent
Public Utility Commissioner
Hoirard Morgan. Irwin said
three petition ara being cir
culated. 0 The petition protest "the
differential increase" now be
ing sought by Pacific Tele
phone against Ashland and
Gold Hill. Those opposing the
increase say, if it goes
through, it would be possible
for Medford patrons to talk
to AshlSnd residents cheaper
than Ashland telephone users
can talk to them. Others are
simply against an increase in
telephone rates, Irwin said.
Rates increases would be
$2.25 for one party business
and residence phones, $1.75
for two-party business phones
and 80 cents for two-party
residence phones. Rate in
crease for' four-party resi
dence phones is 60 cents.
Present rates are $11.25
for one party business phone,
$5.75 for one party residence
phone, $8.75 for two party
business phone and $4.35 for
two party residence phone.
A rate of $3.50 is charged
for four party lines. These
monthly charges do not in
clude tax.
New Shopping Center,
Planned at Salem
Salem (UPI) A $1 to
$2 million shopping center on
11 acres of ground just inside
the north Salem city limits
will be started soon, according
to Richard Schmidt, state fi
nance real estate department
manager.
Informants said special em
phasis would be placed on
economic problems.
Before today's meetings
began, tha President confer
red with rstiring Chairman
Lewis L. Strauss of the Ato
mic Energy Commission.
In preparation for the
three-day Eisenhower - Mac
miilan talks, Strauss and oth
er U.S. officials have been
meeting since last week with
Sir Edwin Plowden, head of
the British atomic program,
on sharing of atomic wea
pons information and a pos
sible nuclear test ban.
children were waiting in line outside the
pool tntrance just before 1 p.m. Saturday.
In spite of the cool weather Sunday, 91
children made use of the pool facilities. The
swimming pool will be open for the rest of
the summer from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. daily,
including Sundays, according to pool mana
ger Ed Knapp.
vey James Dutton, city water
department employee, who
notified police. The object
consisted of a dark brown
bottle which served as a float
er that was attacked by a
string to the homemade bomb.
The bomb, according to police
reports, was a mass of black
friction tape wrapped around
a 12 gauge shotgun shell. The
shell had been exploded. The
entire bomb had been dipped
in paraffin.
City water department offi
cials and police officers also
collected bomb remains from
the bottom of the reservoir
when draining was completed
at 5:15 p.m. The second bomb
was similar to the first.
Lee explained that : air
.might be noticed By Presidents
in the water pipes, but said
that it should clear up by
Tuesday. He said that this is
the usual case when any part
of the water system is cut off
and water directed through
different pipes.
He added that the reservoir
would be put back into use
this week as cty crews were
now sterilizing it.
Police said that the bombs
discovered were similar to
those found last year along
several city roads and near
Sacred Heart hospital.
Lee said that the "prank"
would cost the city about $300
to clean the reservoir as this
particular one had only pre
viously been cleaned.
Medford Shoeman
Gets Recognition
Wilbur Gardner, the Med
ford shoe repairman who's
striving for better shoes and
honest labeling, has received
recognition in the Congress
ional Record and the St.
Petersburg (Fla.) Times.
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
informed the Mail Tribune
that Gardner, "has received
an excellent and favorable
article in an outstanding lib
eral daily newspaper, the St.
Petersburg Times of May 28."
The Times' women's editor,
Gloria Biggs, describes Gard
ner's labeling drive which
started "when he got irked
because so many of the chil
dren's shoes which were
brought into his store couldn't
be fixed."
"Already, Gardner has re
ceived commendation from
Parent's magazine, has had
several articles published in
trade journals and has . sent
out hundreds of petitions to
cities all over the country to
aid in getting legislation
passed," she continued.
"If you want to help Gard
ner along on his crusade,"
Miss Biggs told her readers,
"no doubt he'd be glad to hear
from you."
Sen. Neuberger, a member
of the committee on interior
and insular affairs, made a
speech to the senate concern
ing Gardner's efforts.
Bomarc Project at
Camp Adair Approved
Washington (UPI The
House Armed Service Com
mittee today approved estab
lishment of a Bomarc missile
project at Camp Adair, near
Albany and Corvallis, Ore.
Rep. Walter. Norblad (R
Ore.) said the action "virtual
ly assures" full House ap
proval.
53rd Year
EDF0RD
18 Pages
Extra Programs
Not Requested by
President Listed
Federal Loans for
Irrigation Slashed
Washington (UPI) The
House Appropriations com
mittee today approved a $1,
074,041,500 public works ap
propriations bill peppered
with extra projects not re
quested by President Eisen
hower. The bill as it emerged from
the committee carried $1,
974,000 less than the Presi
dent asked for in his 1959
budget despite the 43 extra
planning and construction
projects.
But the committee made
the bulk of its savings by
slashing $20,400,000 from the
new federal loans program
for construction of small ir
rigation projects. The Presi
dent requested $25,200,000
for this. The committee al
lowed but $4,800,000, saying
only one project, in Cameron
county, Texas, has met com
plete requirements.
'Sooner or Later'
The committee said- in add
ing more than $15 million in
extra projects that they
"would have been construct
ed sooner or later." '
"By starting them early it
is entirely possible that their
ultimate cost will be less," it
said. -
However, the committee
also pointed out that addition
of the extra projects means
"a higher level of appropria
tions will be necessary in the
future."
The committee, in a report
to , the House, hit the Army
Engineers Corps for "whip
ping up local enthusiasm for
projects which, from the
standpoint of local contribu
tion and other aspects, should
never be recommended fav
orably to the Congress." It
said some corps personnel
have been exercising "evi
dent super-salesmanship."
Increase Over Budget
The. committee approved
$577,035,500 for general riv
ers, harbors and flood control
projects by Army Engineers.
That is a net increase of $12,
415,500 over the President's
budget. It okayed -a separate
item of $67,250,000 $250,000
more than Eisenhower asked
for flood control on the
Mississippi river and its trib
utaries. '
Other appropriations in the
bill included: $138,986,141
for Reclamation Bureau pro
jects, a $1,023,859 cut from
the President's budget; $66,
173,585 ,for the Upper Colo
rado River Basin fund, $1,
301,415 less than Eisenhower
asked; $30,104,000 for the
Bonneville Power Adminis
tration, a cut of $66,000.
(See Story on Page 11)
Jewelry Store Robbed
In Ashland Today
Ashland Nine sets of wed
ding and engagement rings
were stolen from the BJ
Jewelers store, 283 East Main
st., Ashland, early today, ac
cording to investigating sher
iff's deputies.
Owner Jim Madison esti
mated the loss at between
$1,000 and $1,200. '
Burglars broke a display
window of the store with a
monkey wrench to remove the
rings, deputies said.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Partly cloudy to-
night and Tuesday. Isolated
showers in mountains Tuesday
afternoon. Mild temperatures.
Low tonight 52.' High Tuesday
75. TEMP.
Highest Yesterday 67
Lowest This Morning 54
Prec. to 10 a.m. Today Trace
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
4:34 a.m.
7:47 D.m.
Sunset
MnnnHc. TnKiiav 12:48 a.m.
New Moon : June 16
Mars, seen near the 'Moon, is
about 113 million miles from the
Earth tonight. The orbits of the
Earth and Mars are now carry
ing these two placets nearer
each other at the rate of 540,000
miles per day.
FOR
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By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The House Appropriations
committee today approved $9,500,000 for
the Talent division, Rogue River reclama
tion project the amount requested by
President Eisenhower in his revised budget.
This raised the possibility that this fig
ure might be increased before the public
works appropriations bill runs its course
through both houses. The Oregon delegation
plans to press' for an increase to $12 mil
lion. The Senate usually raises the figures
approved by the House.
The House committee showed uncom
mon generosity this year in not only ap
Outdoor Activity
Raises Job Trend
In Jackson County
Lumber, construction and
other outdoor activity brought
the employment trend in
Jackson county upward dur
ing May, according to John J.
Patton, Medford manager of
the Oregon State Employment
service. - , -. - - -
Much of the increase was
due to the callback of regular
crews, but the amount of new
hiring was increasing at the
end of the month, Patton re
ported. "This pick-up in local activ
ity has been greater than is
generally realized," he said,
"and has reduced unemploy
ment in this county to about
the same level as one year
ago."
Unemployment in the coun
ty at the end of May was esti
mated to be down 40 per cent
from the level of one month
before. It was slightly above
last year, but still not the
highest May unemployment,
total in recent years.
Strike Settlement Helps
Patton said that settlement
of the labor'dispute involving
the Heavy Construction La
borers union enabled several
construction projects to re
sume operations after a short
interruption.
Labor shortages are begin
ning to be felt in several oc
cupations, including skilled
sawmill workers such as edg
ermen, ratchet setters, saw
yers and millwrights.
A lack of experienced, well
qualified office help was re
ported also. Many employers
are offsetting the lack by hir
ing 1958 high school gradu
ates, many of which have
shown ability to learn quick
ly, according to employment
service aptitude tests.
Agriculture has provided
few jobs as yet, since there
are no field crops in this area
such as the large berry acre
ages now requiring pickers in
the Willamette valley.
Orchards are using some
thinners, although the demand
has been light this year due to
heavy "June drop." The
next major demand for help
will come with the start of the
pear harvest about August 1,
Patton predicted.
Air Connection
Set for Denver
New connecting air service
"from Medford to Denver and
Chicago via Portland will be
inaugurated by United Air
lines on June 6, according to
K. W. Cook, station ground
services manager here.
A 44-passenger Convair de
parting from Medford Munici
pal airport daily at 3:15 pjn.
will operate via Eugene and
Salem to reach Portland at
5:22 p.m. At Portland, trav
elers can make connections to
a 58-passenger DC-6B arriv
ing m Denver at ii:od p.m
and Chicago at 6 a on. (CDT). I
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY,
9
"Have To Keep Peace In The
Family, You Know"
De Gaulle Appoints
Corsica Governor
Paris (UPI) Gen.
Charles de Gaulle today nam
ed a new prefect (governor)
for Corsica with instructions
to re-establish the authority
of the Paris government over
the mutinous French Mediter
ranean island.
He also named four middle
road politicians and one ca
reer civil servant to round out
his Cabinet.
Shortest Meetings
Information Minister An
dre Malraux announced these
moves after a 45-minute Cabi
fice and one of the shortest
net meeting the shortest in
De Gaulle's eight days in of-
Weed Boys Face .
Charges of Arson
Weed, Calif. (UPI Two
boys, aged 9 and 11, were
charged with setting fire to
the two-story frame Hippo
drome here Sunday.
The boys were placed un
der arrest at their homes, ac
cording to David Dawson,
Weed police chief.
The boys admitted starting
the fire that partially de
stroyed the 40-year-old build
ing. The Hippodrome is owned
by the International Paper
company, Longbell division.
The 150-foot by 50-foot build
ing was used for public meet
ings. It has a seating capacity
of 1,000.
Because of water damage
resulting from the two hour
battle with the fire, no esti
mate of damage was made.
Salem (UPI) Today
is Stephen A. Stone day in
Salem in honor of the asso
ciate editor of the Capital
Journal who has been a news-
paperman since 1912.
Tribune
JUNE 9, 1958
mum
proving most of the President's budget re
quests but adding some new projects in
other parts of the country; This generous
attitude is attributed to the desire in Con
gress to combat the recession. In past years,
the House committee has slashed the
budget.
The Senate appropriations committee
has not completed its work on the public
works bill. Senate Democrats have pre
pared an accelerated reclamation program
which they may attempt to substitute for
that in the President's budget. It would
boost to $12 million funds for Talent. The
Bureau of Reclamation has said it could use
that much during the fiscal year starting
June 30.
since World War II. Malraux
said De Gaulle decided to
postpone a decision on renew
ing friendship negotiations
with Tunisia until his next
Cabinet meeting, which is ex
pected within 48 hours.
The internal developments
were disclosed shortly after
De Gaulle had conferred with
U.S. ' Ambassador Amory
Houghton amid reports that
steps may be under way for
possible talks between Presi
dent Eisenhower and De
Gaulle.
Bloodless Revolt
Guy LaMassoure, 48, form
er prefect of the Indres De
partment inside France, will
be the new prefect of Corsica,
which staged a bloodless re
volt again Paris control two
weeks ago.
LaMassoure is considered
one of the rising stars of the
French administration. He
replaces Marcel Sayreaux, 59,
who offered little resistance
to the paratroop-led mutiny
against his authority. Savreux
has not been fired from the
government. But he is being
transferred to the forlorn,
windswept Department of Fi
nisterre in Brittany, western
most department of France.
Youths Apprehended
For Recent Burgalries
Two 15-year-old Medford
boys and a 16-year-old from
Phoenix are.held in the coun
ty juvenile home in connec
tion with the burglaries June
3 of Jim's Union service sta
tion and the Rod and Reel
cafe at Camp White and lar
ceny of a gun and tools from
a car owned by Loyd Spriplir,
54 Oak st., Medford.
State police, who arrested
the trio at their homes, Fri
day, reported that the stolen
articles had been recovered.
Price 10 Cents
No. 68
Hearing Possible
On Hospital Need
At Camp White
Supporting Evidence
Needed by Committee
A congressional hearing on
the need for general medical
and hospital facilities at Camp
White is a possibility, if need
for such facilities can be dem
onstrated, it was reported
today. ,
Congressman Charles O.
Porter wrote to Eugene Orr,
Medford merchant who is ac
tive in American Legion af
fairs both locally and nation
ally, to say that Congressman
Olin E. Teague, chairrflan of
the house veteran affairs com
mittee, has agreed to call such
a hearing if supporting evi
dence can be filed with the
committee.
Porter added:
"It will be necessary to
demonstrate at a hearing that
there are enough service-connected
disability cases in the
area to make the hospital nec
essary. It will be necessary to
prove that competent medical
staff personnel is available.
"It will have to be proved
beyond doubt that there is
greater economy for taxpay
ers, as well as better service
for veterans, in enlarging the
care now available at the
facility. '
"I am willing to file any
testimony with the committee
However, to provide an effec-
ive hearing in this instance,
; is necessary to have as wit
nesses local people familiar
with the problem and sup
plied with all available infor
mation so they can withstand
cross-examination by commit
tee members and staff."
Porter also reported that
Committee Chairman Teague
has written to the President
asking for an outline of the
administration's program for
veterans, to "let it be known
publicly whether there is a
policy being established that
treatment of non-service con
nected disabilities be cur
tailed." No reply has been re
ceived yet.
Copies of Porter's letter to
Orr have been sent to a num
ber of persons in this area in
terested in the Camp White
situation.
Richard Phair Arrested
For Gambling Devices,
Roseburg (UPI) Seven
teen slot machines were turn
ed over to Douglas County
Sheriff Ira Byrd Sunday af
ter being seized by state po
lice.
Richard G. Phair, secretary
of the Elks club in Medford,
was arrested on Highway 99
south of Roseburg and charg
ed with possession of illegal
gambling devices.
Phair was released on bail.
Rains Boost
Of Irrigation
The temporarily reduced
need for irrigation water plus
last week's rains have bol
stered water supplies of Med
ford, Rogue River Valley and
Talent irrigation districts, it
was reported today.
Hay is now down and many
orchards have not yet started
irrigating, a Talent Irrigation
spokesman said.
Both Butte creek and Bear
creek are up due to the recent
heavy rains. The tributary
small creeks flowing into Bear
creek are materially boosting
the amount of water, a spokes
man explained.
Medford and Rogue River
Valley districts draw out of
Four Mile and Fish lakes. Tal
ent district draws from Emi
grant and Hyatt lakes. Butte
creek, or the head of its north
fork flows from Fish lake
through Eagle Point and into
Rogue River. Emigrant and
Hill creeks form tributaries to
Bear creek and flow into Tal
ent Irrigation district's Emi
grant reservoir.
Attempt Feared
luiuiieiaiio
With E. Germany
Nine Americans
Declared Captured
Berlin (UPDU. S. offi
cials negotiated today with
seemingly uninterested Soviet
authorities for return of nine
Americans captured when
their helicopter was forced
down in East Germany.
Continued Soviet silence
caused some fear the Russians
might try to blackmail the U.
S. into negotiating with the
East Germans, thereby giving
the puppet regime de facto
recognition
At mid-morning today a U.
S. army spokesman said "no
real progress" had been made
toward winning release of the
Americans.
Instructed to Negotiate
An , Army announcement
said.the U. S. military rftssion
at Potsdam, in East Germany,
had been instructed to nego
tiate with the Soviet occupa
tion officials for release of the
men.. The State Department
also contacted Soviet offi
cials, o
Americi officials in Ber
lin aid Sunday night that as
yet no Soviet answer of any
kind had been made to the
request that the prisoners and
the helicopter be released.
The U. S. does not recognize
the East German government.
As one of the four occupation
powers, it has agreements
with the Soviet covering such
incidents.
The Russians have returned
to U.S. hands at least three
American aircraft and their
crews which wandered over
the frontier since the Soviets
granted East Germany sov
ereignty two years ago.
In an apparent attempt to
open negotiations for the re
lease of the prisoners, the East
German government sent a
protest note to the U. S. State
Department denouncing the
helicopter flight as a "gross
violation" of its territory.
'Forced to Land'
'The Germans said the Third
Armored Division helicopter
was "forced to land" Satur
day near the city of Karl
Marx Stadt (Chemnitz), some
25 miles from the American
zone. The helicopter was on
a flight from the West Ger
man city of Frankfurt to ma
neuver grounds at Grafen
wohr when it accidentally
crossed the Iron Curtain
frontier.
A U. S. Army announce
ment said the crew of two of
ficers and a sergeant and six
officer passengers from the
Third Armored Division were
safe and were being held by
East German police at Karl
Marx Stadt.
Weather Cancels
CAP Open House
On the advice of "the Air
Force, the Medford squadron
of the Civil Air Patrol has
postponed a scheduled air
show and open house, it was
announced today.
The show, slated for June
14 and 15 at the Medford and
Ashland airports, will be held
in about 30 days, a CAP
spokesman said. -The ' dates
will be announced later.
The postponement was caus
ed by advice from the ir
Force that unsettled weather
conditions will prevail during
the . ensuing week, which
might cancel fly-overs of Air
Force jet aircraft.
Supplies
Water
A spokesman for the Talent
irrigation district said the dis
trict started drawing water
before the rains started since
the , district's laterals were
getting "pretty dry." As Hy
att and Emigrant reservoirs
were drawn down the district
went into its storage quota.
The quota allows the district
18 inches per acre for approx
imately 10,000 acres under its
system. The district went off
its quota after the rains, a
spokesman said.
Emigrant lake will b e
drawn dry by Sept. 15', the
end of the irrigation season,
it was reported. The bureau
of reclamation is letting a
contract this month for the
enlargement of the dam there.
After Sept. 15 the reservoir
will remain dry for two years
until the construction is com
pleted, it was explained. Wa
ter supplies at Hyatt lake dur
ing that period will be sup
plemented with water from
Howard reservoir, a spokes
man said.