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'He May Not Be Doing So Well In California, But" Medford Tribune 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1958 No. 74 Agspst Mins moras O mi ' - I " h'ff 'fefSV' ' j yrp; Jfc-f ' "-lass LEVJ Jf09 ClOOi Approximately 50 Klein, at far right in trailer, is helping load Jackson count j t-H luB members, most of., luggage for the week's stay in Corvallis. A ; whom ftrf fton tbovt, left this morning total of 1,875 4-H'ers are expected to attend for the $3rtf f nnufl 4-H cummer school at ' classes and take part in planned activities Oregon Sift eollifi. Club agent Glenn at the school. Gens Winters to RepJaco Tucker as Extension Agent Gene Winters, nov tempor ary extension agent in Clat sop county, will replact W. B. (Ben) Tucker here Auf. 1, Tucker said today. Tucker, Jackson county ex tension agent sine 1947, will retire June 30. He ind Mrs. Tucker will continut to live in Medford. WinterS'wiy serv ts coun Approach iijhh Being Installed Construction of an approach ligntmg system at tne Aiea ford airport began today. The Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministraton project, when completed, wll allow more landings in poor weather. The lights will extend 3,000 feet beyond th north end of the main runway. They will en able a giot to determine his direction and his "glide an gle," or ngle at which he is descending, as he comes in for a landing. . The installation is expected to tsgi about S days. Mus sac Construction company, Sara Ana, Calif., which un dei local contractors, is doSg the work. Col of vtheinstallation, ac cdfdiftf to CAA officials, is "agfU'oaimately 928,500." Maritime Unions Tie Up Vessels New York (UPI) Sep arate strikes by two warring maritime unions today tied up virtually all U.S. flag ships now in East and Gulf Coast ports and threatened to spread to the rest of the 700-vessel fleet as fast as they reach American ports. 0 Members of the Marine En gineers Beneficial Associa tion, representing about 1,700 licensed engineers who run the ships, refused to sign on passenger and dry cargo ves sels when their contract ex pired at midnight without a new agreement. A total of 448 ships was involved, but those at sea or in foreign ports will not be affected un til they return to U.S. ports. Salem (UPI) Appoint ment of Jean Carol Davis as school lunch supervisor of the State Department of Educa tion has been announced. Salem (UPI) A state-wide summer conference on trade and industrial education opened here today. mm VACUAl ty agent in soils .and agro nomic work along with Coun ty Agent Earle Jossy. Clif ford B. Cordy, county horti culture agent, will serve as chairman of the office, the position now held by Tucker. Tucker explained Cordy as sumes the administrative functions of the office on the basis of seniority and rating. Cordy is now ranked as a full professor as is Tucker. Tucker said He will fill in for the county extension of fice on two agricultural events here. One will be the referendum election for the Rogue . River Soil Conserva tion District at Wimer Grange hall on July 8. The other is a meeting of the Rogue Soil Conservation district July 10. Tucker will serve as secre tary at both meetings. Winters, the new county agent, was filling in for Clat sop County Agent Jack Wood who is on a sabbatical leave Winters has been a field agent at large for four years. Winters' home town is Cove in Union county. He is a grad uate of Oregon State college and is married. Burglar Helps Self To Dinner, Television Set Whoever stole Grace Granger's television set here last night helped hin self to a dinner in the pro cess. Miss Granger, a barmaid, told police the intruder con sumed beans and milk and made off with some steak. According to her com plaint, the burglary occur red between 4:30 p.m. Sun day and 3:40 a.m. today. The burglar apparently entered through an un locked bedroom window at the rear of her residence. 519 Marie st. Court To Inspect Road Connections The Jackson county court will inspect connecting Azalea rd. and Orr dr. near Table Rock rd., to determine the width, County Judge Rodney Keating said today. A delegation of residents living along the roads met with the county court this morning to request that the road be made narrower than the regulation 60 feet. The two roads are to be taken into the county road system soon. Residents complained that es tablishing the road width at 60 feet would require moving trees and fences. I ALEEfTED Further Action on Firing of Brand Inspector Planned A. meeting to consider fur ther possible action on the discharge of Sterling Fry rear, brand inspector for this area, is planned by the ex ecutive board of the Jackson County .Stockmen's associa tion at 8 p.m. today in the county extension office. Jim Miller, Medford, and Leon Offeribacher, Applegate, are expected to make their reports on a discussion with Fryrear's superior, Guy Hughes. The two men were to discuss a possible reenstate ment of Fryrear. Fryrear has obtained approximately 600 signatures on petitions urging he ' be rehired as brand in spector. Ask Reinstatement Miller and Offenbacher were to ask Hughes if he would reinstate Fryrear pro viding he should agree to "correct his errors," conform with regulations and if Hughes could' overlook the fact his subordinate had tried to go over hjs head in be coming reinstated.. Study of the case by the stockmen's association re vealed Fryrear was discharg ed in April for insubordina tion. He had reportedly dis obeyed a directive from state brand inspection headquart ers stating that anyone not hired by the inspection serv ice could assist with brand inspections. Fryrear's wife has been helping" him. Permis sion had been "granted his wife as an assistant by a pre vious district supervisor, it was explained. Baldock N earing End Of Mission To Iraq Salem (UPI) Former State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock, head of a highway mission to Iraq, will finish his assignment July 2 and head home, it was learned here today. Abominable Snowman of Nepal Katmandu, Nepal (UPI) An American expedition that set out to find the abominable snowman reported today the creature "is no more a myth but hard truth." Guide Saw One Members of the U. S. team did not see the creature which Himalayan natives swear ex ists, but former California Professor Norman G. Dhyren furth reported a "reliable" na tive Sherpa guide saw one. The team returned late Sun day night from a four-month trek through the Himalaya Estimated 100 Lebanese Slain In Street Fights 6th Fleet Marines Might Be Landed Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) r The 4,000 Americans in Leb anon were alerted today for evacuation should the spread ing civil war endanger their lives further. Already an es timated 100 Lebanese have been killed in three days of street fighting. Officials in Washington said that the United States is "ready to do what has to be done to protect American lives," raising the possibility the 1,800 Marines of the U.S. 6th fleet might be landed to protect them if Lebanon re quests such action. . The Marines were first alerted last May when the anti-government riots began. Britain alerted 2,000 para troopers on nearby Cyprus today to stand by to protect British lives here if asked. Main Battle in Beirut' Heaviest fighting in the struggle by pro-Egyptian-Syrian rebels to topple pro-Western President Camille Cha- moun tooK place in Beirut Other battles were reported in the port of Tripoli -where the uprising started and in the Bakaa valley and the Shouf mountains south of Beirut. The fighting was so intense in Beirut Sunday that Cha moun himself was reported to have seized a sub-machine gun and turned it on rebels firing on his palace. The civil war brought these major developments: U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock asked the State department to put Lebanon on an "alert status" but did not order the evacuation of embassy employees. Dag to Beirut U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announc ed he would leave New York Tuesday night to fly to Bei rut and organize U.N. observ er teams attempting to keep illegal Syrian aid from reach ing the rebels. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew back from Princeton university Satur day to keep in close touch with the Lebanese situation. ' - Relations between the United State's and the United Arab Republic of Syria and Egypt dipped sharply. Cairo radio accused Dulles of inter vention in Lebanon. Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser told Czech newsmen Leba nese aceptance of the Eisen hower Doctrine brought on the civil war. Beirut opposition chief Saeb Salam vowed his oppo sition would continue "until Camille Chamoun resigns" and that he would accept no halfway compromise. Khrushchev Sees Plans 'Moving Back' Moscow (UPI) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has told President Eisenhower that preparations for a sum mit meeting , are "marking time" and in some cases "mov ing back." mountains near Mt. Everest .seeking the hairy half-man. Dhyrenfurth said the while "our investigations are still unfinished, we want to declare that the yeti," as the Tibetans call the snowman, "is no more a myth but hard truth." Hairy Creatures For years Nepalese moun tain folk have told legends of the yetr, which is usually de scribed as a hairy creature bigger than man. , Several years ago a British expedition sought one in the Himalayan valleys. It found Rehearsals Start 1 For Shakespearean Festival at Ashland Ashland Rehearsals for "Much Ado About Nothing" and "King Lear" started at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival theater in Ashland today. "Much Ado" was being rehearsed this afternoon, and "King Lear" is scheduled to night. Casting for the four plays, which start July 28 and con tinue through Sept. 4 this year, was completed by Pro ducing Director Angus L. 300 Register for State PEO Meeting Three hundred women from all parts of Oregon registered this morning for the 1958 con vention of the PEO sisterhood in Oregon, at the First Metho dist church here. Of this num ber, 103 are official delegates. Mrs. Ralph C. Day, Port land, a former Medford resi dent, is retiring president of the state chapter and presid ing officer of the convention. Mrs. Day is a daughter of the late Dr. Charles T. Sweeney, who practiced medicine here for many years. Honored convention guests are Mrs. wiima r. Jones, Portland, a past president of the supreme chapter and the present treasurer, and Mrs. Arthur E. Welch, Portland, corresponding secretary of the 'supreme chapter. Both are past Oregon presidents. To night an open meeting, with education as its theme, will be held at the church at 7:45 o'clock. Scholarship winners will be introduced. A recep tion will follow. Tuesday's sessions will in clude reports and other con vention business, a model chapter meeting and a ban quet at Rogue Valley Country club in the evening. Pendleton (UPI) The Elks lodge here was broken into sometime early Sunday and $600 in cash taken from two cash boxes.- . Washington (UPI) Pres ident Eisenhower will hold a news conference Wednesday. WEATHER ;; FORECAST: Clear to partly cloudy through Tuesday. Threat of afternoon thunderstorms in mountains south and east. Low tonight 55. High Tuesday 92. TEMP. Highest yesterday 89 Lowest this morning 55 Our Skies Tonight PI weather - Sunrise 4:34 a.m. Sunset 7:51 p.m. The Moon now rides high near the Sun and is hidden in its rays. New moon f.... 11:59 p.m. PROMINENT CONSTELLATION Coma Berenice, the crowded cluster of dim stars between Spica and the Big Dipper, is-in the west 10:41 p.m. none but members said they, too, believe the legends are fact. Last year a Russian scientist said he had seen a tall yeti in the Pamir mountains of So viet Central Asia. Killed by Riflemen Last Surday, there was a report that a strange creature possibly a close relative of the elusive abominable snow man had been killed by riflemen of the Raja Mustang in a rugged, 14,000-foot moun tain pass near the wild border of northwestern Nepal and Ti Bowmer and Directors Rob ert Loper and James Sandoe last night. Bowmer, who several years ago started an interpretive ex periment, will play Shylock in Sandoe's production of "The Merchant of Venice." This will be Bowmer's seventh por trayal of a comedy role. Richard , Graham, who has played many leading Shakes pearean roles in Ashland, has been cast as King Lear, Ulys ses in "Troilus and Cressida" and Don Pedro in "Much Ado About Nothing." Georfge and Margaret Va fiadis, a popular husband and wife team, have been cast in the leading roles in "Troilus and Cressida," the play which will complete the Festival's presentation of, the entire Shakespearean canon. Vafia dis also will play Claudio in "Much Ado" and Albany in "Lear." -Mrs. . Vaf iadis, who played Anne Bullen in last year's "Henry VIII," will play Portia in "The Merchant of Venice." Rosalyn Newport, who played Desdemona and Celia last year, will portray Hero in "Much Ado" and Cordelia in "Lear." Michael O'Sullivan, who was well received for his part as Cardinal Wolsey last year, will play Pandarus in "Troilus," Antonio in "Much Ado" and Old Gobbo in "The Merchant." v Others returning from last year include Nagle Jackson, who played Speed in "Two Gentlemen from Verona," will appear this year as Launcelot in "The Merchant," Balthasar in "Much Ado" and Thersites in "Troilus." Jerry Turner, who was Roderigo in "Othel lo" last year, will play An tonio in "The Merchant," Pri am in "Troilus and Cressida" and Gloucester in "Lear." New Arrivals Among the topnew arrivals this year is Harold Gould, pro fessor of drama at the Univer sity of California at Riverside, who will play Edmund in "Lear," Agamemnon and the Prologue in "Troilus," Tubal in "The Merchant," and Bene dick in "Much Ado." Patricia Moran of Bryn Mawr college, Bryn Mawr, Pa., will play Beatrice in "Much Ado." Hugh Evans of Stanford will portray Dogberry in "Much Ado." Several new players " received roles in "King Lear." They are Ed ward Grover and Paul Harper of the University of Texas, who will play Kent and Ed gar; Robert Towers of UCLA will be the Fool; Elizabetha Hiller of the University of Il linois will be Goneril, and Ra chel Weller of UCLA will be Regan. Wiliam Nye, a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus, will play Bassanio in "The Merchant." Said No Longer To bet. This creature was described as being four and a half feet tall, bearlike and incredibly strong, and there was specu lation it might even be the fabled yeti itself. Intelligence of Man "We return fully convinced the yeti is a human-like, rare and fast-disappearing creature possessing the intelligence of a normal grownup man," Dhy renfurth said. "We have returned with definite proofs of the yeti's existence in the Himalayas." Investigators Hear of Payment For Hotel Bills No Contact Made, FTC Chairman Says Washington (UPI) Presidential Assistant Sher man Adams announced to day that he will testify Tuesday before the House committee investigating his relationships with Boston millionaire Bernard Gold-fine. Washington (UPI) Some records covering the Federal Trade Commission's action against Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams' friend Ber nard Goldfine have, been de stroyed inadvertently, acting FTC Chairman Robert T. Se crest testified today. Secrest made the statement to House investigators who earlier disclosed that Goldfine paid a total of $529.34 in hotel bills for Adams at the Wal dorf-Astoria in New York and the Mayflower Hotel in Plym outh, Mass. Payment Acknowledged Adams last week acknowl edged that Goldfine had paid about $2,000 worth of hotel bills for him at Boston's plush Sheraton-Plaza. A House influence - investi gating subcommittee heard staff investigator Francis X. McLaughlin report that Adams' millionaire friend paid $267.05 in bills at the Waldorf in January and Feb ruary, 1954, and that the vis its occurred at a time when Goldfine was trying to straightei out a dispute with the FTC over labeling of his firm's woolen materials. Adams has acknowledged contacting the FTC on behalf of Goldfine, but has denied categorically that he "ever tried to bring any pressure or influence to bear. Case Was Closed 'McLaughlin was asked if the dates of Adams' stays in New York had "any signifi cance."' He replied FTC rec ords indicate that Goldfine's company on Jan. 19, 1954, submitted a statement assur ing xne iiu it would "no longer mislabel" woolen ma terial. McLaughlin said on Feb. 5, 1954, an assistant to then FTC Chairman Edward F. Howrey wrote a letter to the chief of the FTC's wool labeling divi sion saying the label case in volving Goldfine's Northfield firm could be closed and it was. Secrest told the subcommit tee for himself and all other members of the commission that Adams has never contact ed them "directly or indirect ly with respect to any matter formal or informal under in vestigation by or in Jtrial be fore the FTC." Secrest later testified that the FTC's wool inspection rec ords for the period Jan. 1, 1953, to Dec. 1, 1953, acciden tally were destroyed last Jan uary by representatives of the government's h o u s ekeeping agency, the General Services Administration. White House Huddles Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark.), chairman of a subcommittee investigating alleged adminis tration influence on the gov ernment's independent regula tory agencies, chided the agency for having allowed destruction of records cover ing a period "very important" to the inquiry. , Secrest defended the FTC's handling of various North field violations as being done "properly and in good faith." The White House left open the possibility t that it will make a statement on Adams' activities, after FTC witnesses testify before the House sub committee. Adams conferred with Pres ident Eisenhower several times this morning, but the White House refused to shed any information on the nature of the conferences or on Adams' plans until testimony before the House subcommit tee "is concluded." He said one of the expedi tion's "responsible, reliable" Sherpa guides reported sight ing "one four-foot yeti collect ing frogs in a rivulet." Dhyrenfurth said the guide reported the creature chased him when caught in .a flash light beam. Yeti Disappeared "Dave Temba (the guide) ran to inform us but we found the yeti gone by the time we had marched one mile to the spot," the profes sor said, ; TAKES GAVEL Pat Graham, Medford (above left) receives the gavel as new commander of the Department of Oregon Disabled American Veterans, which held its 37th annual con vention in Medford last week. He is shown with Past Com mander William H. Manley, Eugene. Oregon Accidents Claim Five Lives During Week End By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL The death toll from week end accidents in Oregon rose to six today when the body of Harold Barrett, about 30, was recovered from a lumber mill pond on the Warm Springs Indian reservation. Barrett, an employee of the Warm Springs Lumber com pany, drowned while swimming in the pond, the coroner's office said. By United Press International Accidents in Oregon over the week end claimed at least five lives, three of them by drowning and two in traffic. A sixth person died of in juries suffered in a motor cycle accident June 5. A Portland man, Clinton Worden, 67, fell overboard Sunday when a big swell rocked a crab boat in which D'Autremont to Be Sentenced Hugh D'Autremont, 54, who pleaded guilty in U. S. district court in Portland May 1. to charges of assault with intent to rob a mail train, will be sentenced at 2 p.m. tomorrow according to reports ' from Portland." f Sentencing on the federal indictment, which was issued in 1923, was postponed twice by Judge Solomon, first so pre-sentencing reports by the federal parole and probation officer could be prepared and then when the judge had to preside at the U. S. district court session in Medford. D'Autremont is the young est of three brothers serving life sentences for murder for the killing of train crew mem bers during the attempted rob bery of a Southern Pacific mail car near Ashland in 1923. Earlier this year, D'Autre mont appeared m Jackson county circuit court before Judge H. K. Hanna and plead ed guilty to one count of sec ond degree murder and to stopping a railroad train with the intent of robbery. Three pending murder indictments against him were dismissed by the court. Maine Primary Election Under Way Portland, Maine (UPI) Early scattered reports indi cated a heavy vote in the Maine primary today. .Election officials said vot ers apparently were turned out in large numbers to nom inate candidates for Maine's last "weathervane" election. After this year's September election, the time-worn pre diction of "As Main goes, so goes the nation," will be dis carded. By an amendment to the state constitution, the state will vote with the rest of the nation in November, beginning in" 1960. Gov. Edmund S. Muskie was unopposed for the Demo cratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Sen. Frederick G. Payne. Be Myth T visited caves in which the yeti lived and collected droppings, hair and enough other proofs to convince scien tists about its presence," Dhy renfurth said. Two Varieties ''Our investigations showed they (yeti) were of two var ieties, one about 10 to 12 feet tall, and the other smaller about four to five feet high." The American expedition, headed by W. M. Russell, plan ned to remain here for sever al days before moving on. he was a passenger during an outing on the coast 'north of Tillamook Bay. He was pulled back into the boat and taken to Garibaldi where ef forts to revive him failed. Drowns in Pond Robin Davis, 17, drowned Saturday afternoon at a mill pond near. Mill City while swimming from a float with a cousin, Pat Wilkerson. The body was recovered in about 20 feet of water. , The body of a Bureau of Reclamation employee, De Wayne L. Miller, 39, Camp . White, was recovered Satur day from the Applegate river by searchers after the man was reported missing early Friday. He was the father of seven children. A 17 - year - old Portland youth, Ronald French, died late Saturday after he was struck by a car in front of his home in North Portland. He had been working on his own car, police said, when a car driven by Roy Ramsey Glover, 63, Portland, struck the youth's auto and then hit French. Student Killed An Oregon State college student, Rodney Albert Alex ander, 22, Milwaukie, as killed Saturday when the car he was driving plunged over a high embankment one mile north of Carver on Spring water road near Milwaukie. Gary Eldon Scrttcher, 17, Sheridan, died in t Medford hospital of injuria rcived near Wilderville on th Red wood highway. Jacksonville Ta Vote on Schod Taf Jacksonville Jacksonville school district voter will vote on a levy for operating the three Jacksonville schools at a special election Wednesday, June 18. Polls will be open between 2 and 8 p.m. in the music room at Jacksonville High school. The school board has ap proved a total levy of $141,--322.21 for operating costs. A budget calling for ' a levy of $153,404.40 was defeated in an election held in May. The reduction was made by cutting the transportation allowance and the reserve cover unpaid taxes, and by reducing the propped total for salaries, school officials reported. O0 Diplomatic Ransom Denied E. Germany Berlin (UPI) The United States refused today to pay diplomatic ransom to the Communist East German re gime for release of nine "kid naped" American service men. As a result, the Reds kept the Americans locked up. U.S. Army officers met with the East German Reds for the second time in three days on the case of nine Americans who were taken prisoner more than a week ago when their helicopter strayed into East Germany. But they did not take with them State Department docu ments which the Reds had de manded and which, in effect, would have given the East German Communists their much-sought recognition in fact from the U.S. O
