Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 11, 1958, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textf5r aj)ttJL L7Slmitn MsiS til m fninten1 ill V.iMifitl nil nit i itiifiiii ft fmliifi '. f It in I ti .,4,ifi.v,'4f m, iiwnWiiys.t ,v NEW SCHOOLS Progress on two new ele- ave. in north Medford. Framework for the memary schools in Medford is shown in the gymnasium at the new Hoover school on pictures above taken this week. Men in the Siskiyou blvd. in southeast Medford is ; top picture are working on the cafeteria shown in the bottom picture. The buildings '' section of thgjnew Wilson school on Corona are expected to be ready for use this fall. ICC Plans Public Hearing on SP's Rate Reductions By ROBERT A. SMITH Mail Tribun) Correspondent Washington The Interstate Commerce commission is ten tatively planning public hear ings in San Francisco on Southern Pacific railroad's proposed lumbgr freight rate 1 reductions, an ICC official said Wednesday. The hearirs woulS prob ably be September, he said, and last a eefc. This is in the evnt fJlt ICC turns down gg jtitio tot re consideration of it May 20 spension 90 th reduced rates. SPo &le h petition June 2Q T&ose opposing the petition have until June 22 to reply t0 it. The commission is expected to rule on it by June 30. "That question mst be passed on first," the official saido He said SB FraGgisco was selected because seemed to be the most ce?itral location for the many parties who are interested inothe case from Washington state to Arizona. Bfirge lines, truckers and Cal ifornia lumber interests are O opposed to t? lower rates, which would give Oregon lumber shpers a break in competition for the big south erigalifornia market. North Entrance Road To Park To Open The north entrance road to Crater Lake National park from state Highway 230 will open Saturday, June 14, Park Superintendent Tom Williams announced today. " Park road crews are now widening the road to permit safe two-way traffic through snow. Drifts more than 30 feet were encountered in many places along the rim of the lake, and snow still re mains along the road. - Williams said he expected the cafeteria to open Satur day, but the lodge and din ing room will not open until Sunday, June 15. Scheduled bus service from Medford, Klamath Falls and Send will resume by Pacific "railways. The 35-mile rivt ground the lake willonot be opened for another week or two, Wil liams said. CreTws tre now worjung to open the drive, but arp encountering heavy snow ad-roog ffl. - Salem (UPI) The State Agriculture ?artment will hold a public hearin here June ,25 on roposeS rules for operation of bonded pub ljj warehouse. Club IVloinbers to Report On Coun?y Fair Progress The Citi club planning commitat Scf th Jackson county 'SkiP August 31 to 24, will mee Sony noon, June 16, at tft Jtoison hotel, ac cording to Coi- 4- W. Savard, general chairman. Committee chairmen . will report on their special assign ments, incluAn o types of rides an carnival, booth ren tals and exhibits, contests and d emonstrations, enter tainment plans and -H Fu ture Farmei of America lia ison." " o Plans bin made for a Miss acfcson County beau ty and talent search to b conducted as part of the four dayevent. America, Mar-O Contract Let for School Addition Clark C. Cummings Con struction company of Grants Pass was awarded a contract by the Medford school board last night to construct an in dustrial arts addition to Med ford High school. Cummings was lowest of five bidders at $186,646. Oth er bidders were H. Barnhart, Medford, $202,500; Jack Bat zer, Medford,. $202,084.15; Myron Jones and William E. Guard to Leave for Training Camp Almost 250 members of the National Guard in Jack son county will leave this week end for two weeks' summer encampment at Ft. Lewis, Wash., and Camp Clat sop, Ore. - Leaving by train just after midnight Saturday will be 73 enlisted men and 3 offi cers of headquarters com pany, 1st battalion, 186th in fantry regiment and 72 en listed men and 5 officers of company A of the same bat talion. Troops will participate in the new battle group concept of warfare for which the regular army troops are now organized. The truck convoy carrying equipment for the companies left early today. Approximately 90 enlisted men and officers of headquar ters and headquarters bat tery, 723rd anti-aircraft artil lery battalion at Ashland will leave at 6 a.m. Friday by truck convoy. Thirty trucks will take the men and equipment to Camp Clatsop for two week's train ing. They will, return June 28.. Lt. Col. Francis C. Ayres is commanding officer at Ash land. Salem (UPI) Lloydena Grimes, educational director of Good Samaritan hospital school of nursing in Portland, has been appointed to the ad visory council for examina tion of practical nurses. iaseball AMERICAN LEAGUE .(1st Game) Detroit 7 13 1 Boston . 0 S 0 Lark and Hegan; Form ulas, Bauman (5). Kiley (9) and White (1st Game) Kansas City 2 7 3 Mew York 10 14 C Urban, Burnette (2). Gor- H man (4), Kellner (6), Crad dock (8) and Chili; Larson, Dusen (7) and Berra. llyn VanDerbur of Denver, will fly to Medford from Syra cuse, N.Y., to be official host ess of the fair. A special committee has been appointed to conduct a Queen of the Fair contest during the two months pre ceding the event. Savard said that more than 10,000 spectators are expect ed at the fair. Attractions will include agricultural and for est displays, contests, awards, talent search and carnival, all of which are to "compli ment" the annual 4-H and FFA fair August 19 to 23, he explained. . Reservations for displays at the fair may be made at headquarters, 11 Almond st. Brooks, Medford, $188,770; and Harold Salter, Rogue River, $194,292. The addition will house a woodshop, general m e t al shop and machine shop. Fa cilities also wil be provided for an automotive shop, but it will not be used this com ing school year. The automo tive shop area will be used for mechanical drawing at first, sfchool officials said. ,The addition is part of a two-year building program approved by the voters last year. The board also approved plans for construction of a stage and dressing rooms and a multiple purpose room at West Side school and for ren ovation of the entrance' at McLoughlin Junior High school to provide waiting area for students catching buses and waiting for par ents. Resignations of Max Kil- lingsworth as . sixth grade teacher at Oak Grove, . and Miss Maxine Anderson, physi cal education teacher at Mc Loughlin Junior high, were accepted. Five teachers were hired They are Mrs. Betty Love, school nurse; Mrs. Ella M Elle, intermediate; Marvin Trautman, science teacher at Medford High school; and Charles Jandreau, elementary grades at Jefferson school Jandreau is a former Ashland resident. The board appointed Le land Knox, certified public accountant, Medford, to audit the district's financial rec ords for the 1957-58 year. Pentagon Storm 'Deeply Regretted' Washington (UPI) Lt. Gen. Samuel E. Anderson says he "deeply regrets" that his remarks about planned rocket shots toward the moon stirred up a storm in the De fense Department. Anderson, Air a orce re- search and development chief, arrived here by plane Tuesday night and reiterated the statement he had made earlier in Milwaukee which aroused the ire of Pentagon officials. - He said the Air Force plans to shoot robot rockets toward the moon in August, Septem ber and October. Anderson said there was no discrepancy between his remarks and a Pentagon statement that "no definite decision" had been reached as to when the lunar probes would be conducted. The dates he mentioned, Anderson said, were "plan ning dates" for attempts to place instrumented robot rockets in orbit around the moon. There is no plan to try to hit the moon, he said. Fast Germany Wants Direct Negotiation Berlin (UPI) The East German Communists promis ed quick release today for nine captured American sol diers if the United States ne gotiates directly with their" government. The United States announc ed Tuesday it would negotiate directly with the "kidnapers" but apparently did not inform the East Germans officially. The Communists made no mention of the offer today. Portland (UPI) U.S. Dis trict Judge William East has granted a motion of acquittal for Herbert Haas, San Fran cisco, in connection with a recent mail fraud trial here. Adams To Prove Charges False, Hagerty Claims Aide Said To Have Ike's Confidence Washington (UPI) The White House said today that Presidential Assistant Sher man Adams will prove that charges against him by Huse investigators are "completely false." White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty also told reporters that Adams "has the complete confidence of the President." The charges against Adams stemmed from a House sub committee investigating al leged influence on federal regulatory agencies. Investi gators said millionaire indus trialist Bernard Goldfine ob tained special favors because of his friendship with the presidential assistant. On Way to Washington Hagerty said Adams, who has been fishing in New Hampshire, is now on his way back to Washington. Later Hagerty said, Adams - will prove "completely false . . . insinuations made yesterday that Mr. Goldfine received any preferred treatment from federal agencies because of his friendship" with Adams. The subcommittee Tuesday produced photostatic copies of more than $2,000 worth of ho tel bills it said were paid by Goldfine for Adims and mem bers of Adams' family at the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel in Bos ton. Earlier, .Goldfine's secre tary refused to honor a sub poena for surrender of the in dustrialist's financial records. Hagerty refused at a news conference to comment on the hotel bills. More Evidence The House investigators said they had more evidence of the alleged trip between Adams and Goldfine. A -staff -member testified that John Fox, publisher of the defunct Boston Post, charged that Goldfine got "fa vored treatment" by the Fed eral Trade - Commissionand the Securities and Exchange Commission because of friend ship with Adams. Chief .subcommittee coun sel Robert W. Lishman told United Press International he has "something even juicier" in his Adams-Goldfine file. Wreck Kills Three Near Grants Pass Grants Pass (UPI) Three persons were killed outright and two others were hospitalized, one in critical condition, after the car in which they were riding missed a curve on Lower Riv er road four miles west of here and struck a tree. The victims were Bobby Shelby 28, South Fork, Calif.; Dorothy Mae Willard, 37, Glendale, Ore., and Jack Baulk, '39, Los Angeles. In a Grants Pass hospital in "critical" condition was Patricia Gaffney, 39, Grants Pass. Don Clemence, 26, Grants Pass, was in "fair" condition, , Stale police said the car ap parently, went out of control on an "s" curve. The vehicle was demolished. Bjds Called For Collection Canals Camp White Bids for. con struction projects on the South Fork collection system and the Daley Creek collection canal on the Talent project will be received by the bureau of re clamation at Camp White un til 10 a.m. July 17. The bids are for construct ing, an unlined canal, concrete flume, precast concrete pipe siphons and other minor struc tures. J. A. Callan, project con struction engineer, said spe cifications will be mailed about June 17 and may be obtained without deposit from Camp .White, Boise or Den ver. WEATHER rnnvriisTr Partlv eloudv to night and Thursday. Slight chance of showers in moun tains. Lows tonight 50. High Thursday near 80. Temp. Highest Yesterday 75 Lowest this Morning 52 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:34 a.m. Sunset - 748 p.m. Moonrise Thursday 1:45 a.m. New Moon 7 June 16 PROMINENT STARS - The . Twins, set 9:58 p.m. Regulus. in the' west..l0.01 p.m. Vega, high overhead 1J.28 a.m. Arcturus, high in south 9:03 p.m. will be in the west at moon- l rise. f. Fomalhaut, rises 2:29 a.m. Medfoed 20 Pages Russia Abstains In Vote Before United Nations Move To Insure Against Subversion United Nations, New York (UPI) The United Na tions voted today, over Rus sia's abstention, to send a watchdog commission to in sure Lebanon against subver sion by the United Arab Re public. Soviet Ambassador Arkady A. Sobolev told the Security Council he did not veto the watchdog measure introduced by Sweden because neither the UAR nor Lebanon raised objections to it. Despite his abstention, So bolev said, the Soviet Union still regards Lebanon's com plaint of "massive interfer ence" by the UAR as " un founded." Three Sessions . The council held three ses sions Tuesday on Lebanon's complaint of "massive inter ference" by the UAR. The fi nal meeting, lasted well past midnight when it adjourned until this morning. Swedish Ambassador Gun nar V. Jarry proposed that Secretary-General Dag Ham marskjold "dispatch urgently an observation group to pro ceed to Lebanon so as to in sure that threis no-illegal infiltration of personnel or supply of arms or other ma terial across the Lebanese borders." Plan Supported The U. S. and Britain quickly supported the Swed ish plan,, saying flatly that Lebanon had proved its case against the UAR. While the diplomats debat ed, two major battles were reported underway in Leb anon between rebel and gov ernment forces. Observers said the rebels appeared to be shifting from defensive to offensive operations. Ike, Macmillan . In Close Agreement Washington (UPI) Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said today that he and 'President Eisenhower have reached "fairly . close" agreement on terms for a summit conference with Rus sia. "We do not want one -that is a - farce," he told the Na tional Press Club. Macmillan said an East West summit meeting would be profitable if itl"can achieve small decisions, some form of move in disarmament." He listed these two condi tions for western agreement to a summit meeting: Reasonable prospects of success. ' . An agenda which would permit wide debate. He said No veto on discussion of any subject would be permitted. Bateman Appointed to Fill CPRFPD Vacancy Central Point Charles Bateman was appointed to the board of directors of the Cen tral Point Rural Fire Protec tion district at a meeting of the board last night. Bateman will fill the va cancy created by the recent death of Harold Gebhard un til the post is filled at the an nual election in December. Plane Wreckage, Two Bodies Discovered St. Maries, Idaho (UPI) Wreckage of a plane, believed to be a single-engined Navion missing on a flight from Spo kane to Portland since Mon day, was located today and the sheriff's office said two bodies were found with the aircraft. . Phil Tappe, 45, Bremerton, father of two sons, was pilot of the missing plane.. Also be lieved aboard was Harlan Teer, Bremerton. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUFJE 11, 1958 b moon Wofelhooo BUDGET TOTALS $3,435,887 The Jackson county bud get for" the 1958-59 fiscal year totals $3,435,887.09, according to figures in the county clerk's office. 1 This compares with $3,112, 695.72 total budget for the current year, an increase of $323,191.37. No county property tax will be levied during the coming fiscal year, the county budget committee decided Monday. State and federal funds, other sources of in come and funds on hand make this possible. As a result, the county will operate without a tax bse during the year. Major Increases Major reasons for the in crease, according to County Commissioner Chester Wendt, are salary increases which total $32,000, the roads de partment which budget totals $250,000, including $75,000 for construction of the How ard Prairie reservoir road and $46,000 for operation of t h e county school superintend ent's office. Wendt said the federal gov ernment will reimburse the county $35,000 for the How ard Prairie road construction. Ricker Leaves VA Domiciliary; No Successor Named Camp White Eugene K. Ricker, manager of the Veter ans Administration Domicil iary during the . past five years, will leave Camp White on disability retirement this week. - No successor has yet been named, Ricker stated. . Banks I. Paul, assistant manager, is expected to' serve as acting manager in the interim. Mr. and Mrs. Ricker plan to move to an apartment in the Medford Plaza Friday and will take up residence there following a brief vacation trip during the summer. Ricker came to Camp White from Ft. Bayard, N.M., in 1953. Numerous changes were made and several important improvements were under taken while he was manager, the most recent of which was the completion of the stadium at Memorial Field. Ricker comes from Massa chusetts and has spent the last 41 years in government service, including service in the army during both world wars. He holds the rank of major, retired, in the army. Ricker started with .the Vet erans administration in the public health service in 1919, serving in supply until 1946, when he became assistant manager at Ft. Benjamin Har rison, Ind. . - Dr. Wallace Pianka, chief medical officer during the past two years, has left for the Fargo, N. D.,' VA center, leav ing two top posts at Camp White to be filled. United Plane, Jet In Near Collision San Francisco UPI) A United Air lines spokesman said that a B52 jet bomber came within 200 or 300 yards of one of its planes, with eight persons aboard, near Modesto, Calif., at 8:02 a.m. (p.s.t.) today. According to the spokes man, Capt. ' H. K. Inglis spotted the speedy bomber "on a collision course" at a distance of about 3,000 feet. Inglis was, said to have dived his craft about 500 feet. Upon landing in Modesto, two persons were taken to a hospital for X-rays when they complained of sore necks after the dive. They were Peter S. Rogers, a passenger, and J. B. Hooper, stewardess, both of Los Angeles. Salem (UPI) The sixth annual district attorneys' con ference will be held here June 26-27. He explained that several large bridge and other con struction jobs have .boosted the roads department budget this year. Earliest possible date for a public budget hearing would be July 7, County Com missioner Ralph James added. Approve Budgets Meeting informally yester day, the county budget com mittee approved the resub mitted budgets for the county planning commission and the watermaster's depart ment. The wrong budget had been submitted for the plan ning commission and the sal ary figure for the assistant watermaster was in error, the county court said yesterday. Total budget approved for the planning, commission is $13, 505 and $18,604.for the water master. Monday the committee moved to establish a salary review board to review' sal aries for 1959-60, leaving compensation for county em ployees for 1958-59 same as those already in the budget. Make Recommendations The committee, which will make recommendations to the "I'd Be Glad To Take I Afraid :Tq Auditions Start for Shakespearean Plays - Ashland Auditions for the 18th annual Oregon Shakes peare Festival, which will be held between July 28 through Sept.' 4 in the Elizabethan theater in Ashland, will start at 1 p.m. Friday at the the ater. Registration for more than 60 company personnel will start at 3 p.m. Thursday. Per sonnel was selected from more than 400 applicants and represents 15 states, England and Canada. Following registration, the new company will attend the traditional "get - acquainted coffee" at the home, of Pro ducing Director and Mrs. An gus L. Bowmer. The first staff meeting is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Newcomers in Compnay Newcomers to. the company will familiarize themselves with the festival stage before auditions start at 1 p,m, Fri day. All new performers will offer prepared scenes while the directors evaluate the company, starting the casting task. After the Friday audition scenes, there will be a com plete read-through of all four nlavs. starting Saturday morning. The read-through is expected to continue Sunday, and Sunday night, directors meet at Bowmer's home for the casting session. The cast for plays will be posted Mon day morning at dawn. Rehearials will start at 1. Tribune No. 70 county budget committee, will be composed of two members appointed by the court and a third appointed by the other two. Budget committee m e in hers also adopted the "second method of implementing" the new county employee com pensation plan. It is a poten tially less expensive method and would place in the sec ond salary range employees who have . been with - the county more than five years and who have received less than the minimum range rec ommended by the state civil service plan. The "second, method" would adjust individual em ployees to a rate correspond ing with the nearest step, in the range for their classifica tion. In answer to complaints that insufficient salary ad justments have been made for employees in the past, a committee spokesman said that salaries have been ad justed continually. Some pay increases resulted from de creasing the 44-hour work week to 40 hours. Out A Few Things, But Open The . Dqot v . p. m. Monday at the theater. James Sandoe from the University of Colorado will direct "The Merchant of Ven ice" and "Troilus and Cres sida," and Robert Loper of Stanford university will di rect "King Lear" and "Much Ado About Nothing." With the staging of "Troil us and Cressida," the Ashland organization will have pro duced the entire Shakespear ean repertoire, one of the few English speaking theaters in the world to have produced all Shakespeare's plays. m tub Ctwwi fr Colorado Girl Muff Word in Washington (UPDFredel Amos, a 13-year-old blonde from Pueblo, Colo., was the first youngster to muff a word in the 31st annual National Spelling Bee today. The eighth grader dropped out on her very first word weird. . Fredel spelled it "wierd" and murmured "it's wrong, I know it is." 'Debtor' Muffed , Fredel soon had company as a second speller found the excitement at her first word too much. Carole Lynne Cook, 13, Harrold, Tex., missed when she hurriedly spelled "debtor" with an "er." When the contest began there were 41 girls and 27 Torrential Rains Drench Midwest; Thousands Flee Quick Thinking Keeps Toll Down By United Press International The Midwest reeled today under a juggernaut of deadly tornadoes and torrential rains that killed at least 14 persons and forced another 5,000 to lee their flood-threatened homes. A fast-striking twister pul verized a mile long, three block wide strip in El Dorado, Kansas, late Tuesday. Four teen persons were reported killed, 150 homes destroyed, and more than 50 persons in jured. Severe thunderstorms, meanwhile, drenched the bat tered states of Illinois and In diana. In weather-caused ac cidents alone, 12 persons have been killed in Indiana since the storm barrage began late Sunday. o Communications Cut The El Dorado tornado roared in from the west short ly before dusk, knocked out almost all electric and tele phone service. Gov. George Docking authorized the use of National Guard troops fol lowing a declaration' of mar tial law by City Manager Stanley Dial. Emergency Red Cross sta tions were set up to handle those less seriously injured, while others were brought to the community's only hospi- . tal. 1 Officials credited quick thinking by many citizens for helping hold the death toll down. Motorists on the out skirts of town saw the black funnell swirling toward the city and sounded their horns to give advance warning. There was only five minutes notice before the twister truck. Cars Tossed Like Toys Observers said the sucking wind drew up cars from a junk yard and tossed them around "like toys." Most of the destruction was centered in the Graham Ad dition, a middle class residen tial district. Sheer weather torment con tinued to plague a vast area embracing most of the central Mid-west. The U. S. Weather Bureau reported a string of tornadoes through parts of Missouri, Illinois, and western Kentucky. Howling winds continued to take their toll of telephone poles and commun ications, property and crop damage, while hail stones four inches wide pelted Em poria, Kan., and piled eight inches deep at Dixon, Mo. In Indiana, authorities said that at least 5,000 persons had been, forced to flee to high ground in advance of swollen rivers. Bridges were closed along the Mississippi river near Marion, Ind., as almost unceasing rains pelted the region and land to the north. De Gaulle Condemns Algerian Warning Paris (UPI) Premier Charles de Gaulle today ord ered Gen. Raoul Salan, France's supreme military and civil commander in Al geria, to keep out of politics. De Gaulle also denounced an Algerian Public Safetj com mittee warning to him Tues day as "unfortunate." De Gau moved fast to meet a direct challenge to his authority issued Tuesday by the All-Algeria Qimmittee of Public Safety, made up for the most part of right wing extremists who want to end all vestiges x of the old politi cal regime in the French government. This group issued a com munique which was inter preted as open defiance of De Gaulle's authority. First To Spelling Bee boys competing for the $1,000 ctsh first prize. Seven spellers went down during the second round. Barbara Hull, 12 of King man, Ariz., was the third speller to go out. She mis spelled "gabardine" as "ba gerdeen." . To End Thursday The bee, sponsored by Scripps - Howard Newspapers and 47 other leading newspap ers throughout the country, will end Thursday. The hopefuls ranging in age from 10 to 14, come from big city schools and one-room school houses. One winner comes from Oslo, Norway, and represents childjen of Americans stationed abroad.