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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.
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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.