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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1958
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L No. 79
Governor Holmes
Grants Reprieve
Jo Billy J. Hunn
Zourt Proceedings
Given A Season
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Salem (UPI) Gov. Robert
D. Holmes Friday granted a
12-month reprieve lor Billy
Junior Nunn while hc state
Supreme Court decides action
challenging the Governor's
right to exercise the powers
of commutation.
It was the third reprieve
to Nunn who was sentenced
to die in the gas chamber by
a Jackson county judge for
the murder of 14year-old Al
vin Eacret of Klamath Falls
two years ago.
"It would be improper for
Billy Junior Nunn to be ex
ecuted or for the. Governor to
exercise any of his powers of
executive clemency while
proceedings are pending in
the Oregon Supreme Court,
the Governor said in grant
ing the reprieve until June
26, 1959.
Seek Block
Eacret's parents, John W.
and Lily M. Eacret, Klamath
Falls, sought to block an ex
ecutive clemency by the Gov
ernor in a suit filed in Jack
son County Circuit court.
The action was ' shifted to
the Marion County Circuit
Court and Judge Val Sloper
ruled that the Governor had
the right to commute or par
don. This ruling was appealed
to the Supreme Court.
Nunn was originally sched
uled to die March 28.
The Governor reaffirmed
his stand against capital pun
ishment last week in a state
ment read to the Oregon Pris
on association in Portland.
Crater High Plans
New Music Room
Central Point Plans
were authorized for construe
tion of a music room at Crater
High school at a recent meet
ing of the District 6C school
board.
The present band room is
too small for the size of the
school and band to meet with
state standardization require
ments. However, Crater high
school has been given a con
ditionally standard rating
pending completion of the
band room and several other
class rooms now under con
. struction.
Compliance with state stan
dards is necessary if the dist
rict is to receive state funds,
which amount to more than
$200,000 annually for District
6C.
Because of a favorable bid
received on classrooms now
under construction, sufficient
funds are available to con
struct the music room, board
members noted. Plans are be
ing prepared by Hayslip, Tuft,
Hewlett and Jamison of Port
land, a firm which has pre
pared all previous plans for
Crater High school.
Rogue River Budget
Approved by Voters
Rogue River The Rogue
River city budget was passed
Friday by more than a two-
to-one margin in an election
which saw only 82 voters.
With well under a 50 per cent
turnout the budget which
totaled $27,739.25, was ap-.
proved 58 to 24.
A ftiajor increaft in this
G year's budget was a library
fund of $1,860 which is more
than three dollars for every
man, woman, and child in
the city. This levy was made
necessary when the Rogue
River city library announced
plans to withdfttw from the
. county library system, effec
tive July 1.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Continue fair and
warm through Monday. High
both days in high 90s Low
tonight SO.
TEMP.
Highest Yesterday 99
Lowest Yesterday 59
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
4:34 a m
Sunset ...
7:52 p.m.
Moonset 11:21 .m.
First Quarter June 24
VISIBLE PLANETS
Saturn, low in south
east 8:19 p.m.
Jupiter, In the south
west
10:05 p.m.
1:10 a-m.
Mars, low in east
Venus, rises
.. 2:58 a.m.
(Above Mars is now seen the
Square of Pegasus)
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LIGHTNING BOLT The electrical storm that set a number
of fires in nortnern California Wednesday evening only
brushed the edge of the Rogue
brilliant show to the south as the lightning danced up, down
and sideways over the Siskiyous just before dusk. The bolt
in the picture above apparently made contact with the
mountain. The power of the storm is evident in the distance
the lightning arced and the size of the bolt, which was
photographed from a distance of some 18 miles. Lights in
the lower part of the picture are on the back porch of a
Meotora residence.
Rogue River Youth
Own
Champ
In Annual
Rogue River "Rusty" be
came the 1958 rooster crow
ing champion at the national
crow in Rogue River Satur
day afternoon after crowing
68 times between noon and
12:30 p.m.
The champion bird, was enA
tered by 12-year-old Becky
Irwin, rt. 1, box 297, Rogue
River, who collected the first
place trophy and $250 in cash,
There were 264 official en
tries in th$ contest this year,
according to Rogue River
Booster Club President Floyd
Jones. Last year's crow, won
by "Goldie," has 198 entries.
'57 Champion
The 1956 champion pro
duced 66 crows to gain the
title, but came up with only
two sounds during the con
test this year.
The $75 second place prize
was captured by "YanKee
Boy," entered by David Cum-
mings of Rogue River. The
Cummmgs' rooster, in con
tention to the end. finished
with 65 crows. ,
Fifty-nine crows produced
by "Pete" won the $50 third
place money for Roger Dick
of Cave Junction.
The crowd at the pre-crow
rirade and the contest itself
was estimated between 5,000
and 6,000 persons by William
Peters, Rogue River police
chief. He said that it was def
initely the largest turnout
they have had for the annual
affair.
Original Cage
Mayors or their representa
tives from cities tnrougnout
the Rogue River valley select
ed the dwelling of "Do or
Die" the most original cage.
Tom Merchant, Galice Ranger
station, Merlin, was its car
penter.
Second place in tne origi
nal cage contest was won by
Candy Ann Gail of Gold Hill,
and third place went to
Wanda Munday, also of Gold
Hill.
Other birds, their owners,
and the prizes they won were:
Louie," entered by Katny
Simer, Rogue River, fourtn
place with 56 crows; "Uft
Uh," entered by P. E. Hilger,
Rogue River, fifth place with
48 crows; "Chanticlear," en
tered by Hazel Pratt, Rogue
River, and "Leo," entered by
Steven Simer, Rogue River,
tie for sixth place with 47'
crows each.
'Pepper," entered by Tim-
my and Jeanne Cummings,
Rogue River; "Rumble,"- en
tered by Willie Hoeflin, Gold i
River valley, but it put on a
ion Bird
Contest
Hill, and "George." entered
by Mrs. Parcel, Rogue River,
three-way tie for eighth place
with 41 crows each.
Following the bird contest
were a talent show and pub
lic dancing.
Cemetery Change
Approved by Court
Permission to relocate part
of Hill cemetery near Ash
land was granted the bureau
of reclamation by the county
court Friday afternoon.
Approximately 135 graves
will be relocated to allow
Emigrant dam to be enlarged
as part of the Talent project.
Otherwise the higher water
level would place, the graves
under water, it was ex
plained. A bureau representative
said officials have contacted
70 next of kin on the reloca
tion. Approval was received
from them and the county
health officer, district attor
ney and the state board of
health, the official said.
Tht bureau representative
said the graveyard was es
tablished in the 1850's. Many
of the records were lost
which made contacting next
of kin difficult. It was also
a free burial ground for many
years and few records were
kept, he said. Victims of the
Indians were also buried
there, he added.
Medford Picked as Conference Site of
Methodists;
Delegates to the annual
conference of the United
Methodist church in Oregon
voted to accept the invitation
from the First Methodist
church here to hold the 1959
session in Medford.
The annual event attracts
an average attendance of 250
delegates and Methodist min
isters throughout the state.
This is the first time in
about. 20 years that Medford
has been selected1 as the site
for the annual meeting, ac
cording to information re
ceived. At the sessions, , which
closed in Portland Friday,
several area Methodist min
isters received new assign
ments; others were retained
at their present churches.
Transferred were Miss
Surveys on Lake
Road to Start in
July, Holmes Says
Governor Returns
From Washington
Surveys of the proposed
Lake of the Woods road con
necting Medford and Klamath
Falls will begin the first week
in July according to Gov,
Robert D. Holmes.
The governor, who return
ed last week from Washing
ton, said he had talked with
both forest service and bureau
of public roads representa
tives about the road. He told
the Mail Tribune that Richard
E. McArdle, chief of the for
est service, had assured him
of cooperation, and stated
that the preliminary BPR sur
veys, to determine whether
the route should be placed
on the forest highway system,
will begin within two weeks.
After his return to Salem,
Governor Holmes talked with
Bayard French, BPR chief in
Oregon, who told the gover
nor he is optimistic that the
survey will be favorable. He
said if it is, construction sur
veys could begin this fall.
Governor Holmes reported.
Recevet Aprpoval
The road has received ap
proval of both the state high
way commission and the for
est service, and only the sur
veys oy te urn are now
needed for final approval.
When construction could
start depends on availability
of funds. ,
The road would follow
Highway 62 to Eagle Point,
then go through Brownsboro,
McAllister Soda Springs, Fish
lake and Lake of the Woods
connecting there with the
completed highway to Klam
ath Falls. It would be a high
way superior, both in grade
and in alignment to the pres
ent Green Springs highway,
No. 66, and would furnish a
direct, all-weather connection
between Jackson and Klamath
counties. ......
Columbia Utilities
Bought by United
Columbia Utilities compa
ny, which provides telephone
service tor residents in
Camp White, Eagle Point,
Prospect, Butte Falls, and Cra
ter Lake National park, has
been purchased by United
Utilities, Inc., Kanasas City,
Mo., D. O. Hood and Ernest
R. Hood, principal owners and
managers of Columbia, have
announced. .
The amount involved in the
transaction was not disclosed.
The brothers said the com
pany has telephone assets of
about $1,500,000 and annual
revenue in excess of $530,000.
Columbia Utilities, and its
whollyrowned subsidiary, Cal
ifornia - Oregon Telephone
company, presently serve
about 5,000 telephones and
operate an extensive toll net
work in Oregon and Cali
fornia with headquarters in
Medford. Service is provided
through 13 dial exchanges in
Oregon and northern Cali
fornia. United Utilities, Inc., is
managed by Alden L. Hart,
president and general man
ager. United provides tele
phone service, electric power,
gas, water and propane serv
ices in portions of 15 states.
Its other principal operat
ing property on the Pacific
Coast is Oregon-Washington
Telephone company with
headquarters in Hood River.
It also operates in the greater
area of the Yakima valley in
Washington.
Ministers Are
Alice May Woolley, pastor of
Talent First Methodist church
for 13 years, to Canyonville;
the Rev. Ross Knotts, pastor
Of Ashland First Methodist
church for seven years, to
Springfield, and. the Rev.
Robert Kingsbury, Cave Junc
tion, to director of Wesleyan
Foundation at the University
of Oregon, Eugene.
New pastor at the Talent
church will be the Rev. Ern
est Bell, recent graduate of
Boston University School of
Theology, Boston. The Rev.
Hershel Hall of Portland will
arrive in Ashland, and the
Rev. Harold Mackey, Molalla,
will assume duties at the Cave
Junction church.
- Both the Rev. Melvin Dix
on of St. Luke's' Methodist
church -and Dr. George G.
n rt rt rP
Lebanese Rebels
Fire on UN Jeep
At Syrian Border
Observation Troop
Barred from Area
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) A
white jeep loaded with United
Nations observers was . fired
on and turned back from the
Syrian border area by Leban
ese rebels Saturday.
A rebel chief barred a long
stretch of the eastern and
northern border to the UN.
Galo Plaza, former presi
dent of Ecuador and member
of the U. N. watchdog commis
sion in Beirut, said he was ex
pecting a detailed report on
the situation. He said the U.
N. would not force its way
into an area if it has been de
nied access. ..
. If maintained, the ban
would cancel the effectiveness
of the 100-man observation
team sent ir by the U. N. se
curity council when Lebanon
complained of "massive in
terference and arms smug
gling by the Syrian-Egyptian
United Arab republic.
Rebel leader Safri Hamaei,
who controls a long strip of
the border, was reported to
have apologized for the attack
on the plainly marked jeep
near Baalbeck early yester
day. But he told the colonel of
the U. N. group that all ob
servers were banned from his
area. The U. N. was expected.
to protest. ;
In Beirut, the rebellion
lsimmered-.down to scattered
bombings as U. N. Secretary-
General Dag Hammarskjold
completed an on-the-spot sur
vey of the 44-day-old revolt by
rebels who support the United
Arab republic against the pro
western regime of Lebanese
President Camille Chamoun.
The U. N. chief flew to Am
man for conferences with Jor
dan's King Hussein and then
left to confer with Israeli offi
cials in Jerusalem.
Temperature Equals
Record Set in 1925
The first day of summer
yesterday held true to
form.
Medford' official high
temperature, taken at the
-weather bureau, station at
the Medford airport, reach
ed 99 degrees equalling the
June 21 record set in 1925.
' Summer officially started
at 1:57 p.m. Saturday.
'Bullets' Available
To Medical Science
Portland (UPI) The
department of the interior
said Saturday that tiny "bul
lets" of radio-active chromi
um ' metal, weapons in the
fight against cancer, are now
available to medical science
as a result of Bureau of
Mines metallurgy research at
the Northwest Electrodevel
opment Laboratory in Al
bany, Ore.
Actually small metal cyl
inders, the bullets are a tenth
of an inch long and one
thirtieth of an inch in diam
eter, cut from fine strands of
high-purity chromium wire.
Transferred
Roseberry, First Methodist
church, Medford, were re
tained at their present
churches.
All of the ministers who re
ceived new assignments are
scheduled to be in their new
churches by Sunday, June 29.
Attending the conference
from Medford were Dr. Rose
berry and Mrs. Roseberry,
and Ben Schmidt and. O. P.
Taylor, -delegates from First
Methodist church, and Ross
Youngblood, member of the
same church and member of
the missions and finance com
mittee of the cpnf erence. -
Taylor was elected to the
commission on education of
the conference.. Schmidt Is a
member ; of the conference
church administration . com-
mission.
C. E. HEDBERG
Transferred lo Portland ,
-CHESTER-. E. IRISH v
Promoted at Medford
Two Americans
Moscow (UPI) The So
viet Union Saturday awarded
full membership in the
U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
to Americans Linus C. Paul
ing and Detlev W. Bronk in
a precedent-breaking action.
It also named Nuclear Phys
icist Bruno Pontecorvo, who
fled to Russia, from the West
in 1950, as a corresponding
member of "the academy
which directs all scientific re
search in the Soviet Union.
Pontecorvo now; heads all
Communist ; bloc ; nuclear re
search.
Pauling an ouutspoken foe
of nuclear bomb tests, and
Bronk were - among some ' 30
scientists and scholars from
the Communists- and free
worlds to be awarded mem
bership in the academy. It
was the first' time that any
non-Soviet citizens had been
so honored.
Reefs Tell U. S. to
Stop Being Stubborn
Berlin (UPI) The Com
munists Saturday told the
United States to stop being
stubborn and negotiate on a
governmental level with East
Germany "as Belgium did if.
it wants nine American sol
diers released from Red cap
tivity. The official-East German
news agency A.D.N. said a
Belgian pilot held by the
Reds since May 29 was re-"
leased because Belgium de
cided to negotiate for his re
lease on a governmental level.
Sports Bulletins
Central Point Cheney
- Studs topped Klamath Falls
2 to 0 in an errorless Amer
ican Legion junior baseball
game here last night. Bill
Anhorn pitched a three-hil-ter
for the Studs and struck
out Klamath batters '- 10
times.
Portland (UPI) The
Portland Beavers wedged
in two runs in the 10th inn
ing last night to defeat the
Vancouver Mounties. 7-6, in
a Pacific Coast League
baseball game here.
.Sacramento (UPI)
The Phoenix Giants ! nosed
out the Sacramento Solons
fe. 5-4 in a Pacific Coast league
.game here last night.
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JOSEPH A. MOORE
Named Manager
Hedberg Promoted
To Head Office;
Four Changes Made
C, E. Hedberg, vice presi
dent and manager of the Med
ford branch, First National
Bank of Portland, has been
promoted to an administra
tive position of the head of
fice, C. B. Stephenson, presi
dent, has announced. Hed
berg plans to' move to Port
land immediately. :
Four other changes in the
Medford and Central, Point
branches also have been an
nounced.
Joseph A. Moore, assistant
manager at Medford, has been
named manager of the branch.
F. C. (Cliff) Ayres has been
named manager of the Cen
tral Point branch, replacing
Richard C. Isaacs, who be
came assistant manager at
Medford. Also moving into
an assistant manager's posi
tion in Medford is Chester E.
Irish, loan officer at the
branch.
Hedberg has been with the
local branch since 1952, and
has been connected with bank
ing in Jackson county for 36
years. ,
Activities Listed
. He has been active as treas
urer of the county chapter of
American Red Cross, trustee
of the Medford Public library,
member of the Jackson Coun
ty Housing Authority, direct
or of the Southern Oregon
Child Guidance Clinic associa
tion, and treasurer of Oregon
Society for Crippled Children
and Adults. , ' .
Moore came to Medford last
January; after: serving four
years at the bank's head of
fice in the business develop
ment department. He has at
tended Rutgers graduate
school of banking, and has
been with the First National
for 20 years. He started with
the bank in Astoria and was
manager, of the! Newberg
branch between 1950 and
1954. , -
Moore is a member of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce, Parents club, Elks
and Rogue Valley Country
club. He . also is a member of
the Agricultural Engineering
Research- Foundation and. the
Oregon Finance Officers as
sociation. Started In 1945 '
Ayres, who has lived in
Jackson county most of his
life, . started in the banking
business with First National
in Medford in 1945. He was
promoted to assistant cashier
and instalment loan officer in
1950. In 1953,: he moved to
head of the department and
in recent years, he has been
affiliated with all types of
loan work. '
He is immediate past presi-
dentof the Southern Oregon
Bankers association and active
in community affairs, includ
ing the Izaak Walton .League,
Unted Medford Crusade and
the National Guard.
Isaacs, who was born in
Medford," started in banking
in 1933 at First National bank
of Medford. , He continued
there until the bank was pur
chased by First National of
Portland..He was named man
ager of the Central Point
branch in 1946, when he re
F. C. AYRES
Mores lo Central Point
turned from military service.
Active in Club
He has been active in the
Central Point Businessmen's
club, the Izaak Walton league,
and the . Future Farmers of
America.
Irish came to Medford in
1943, after serving 16 years
with, a California bank. He
has been general loan officer
for the past; five years, and
previously he was head of the
branch instalment loan depart
ment.
A past president of the
Izaak Walton League and past
master of the local Masonic
Lodge, Irish also is a mem
ber of the industrial develop
ment committee of the Jack
son County Chamber of Com
merce. ' -
All the changes announced
by Stephenson become effec
tive in several weeks.
Medfordite Named
First Citizen '
Corvallis (UPI) Beav
er's Boys ' State Saturday
elected Medford High school
senior, Gerald Allen Vice as
First Citizen.
The selection entitles Vice
to travel to Washington, D.C.,
with' earlier elected governor
of Boys State, Douglas Leon
etti, Franklin high school
senior, to visit Boys Nation.
The First Citizen is select
ed by senior counsellor Le
gioneers for "greatest ability
in leadership and coopera
tion." Gerald Allen Vice, named
First Citizen at Bave Boys
State at Corvallis, is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. William A.
Vice, 527 Barnes ave. He was
sponsored at Boys State by
Medford Kiwanis club.
"That Respectable Cloth
Education System
At Central High
Said Impaired
Not a Surrender to
Unlawful Force
Little Rock) Ark. (UPi)
A Federal judge Saturday
granted a 2V4 year suspension
of integration at Central High
school because it had "broken
down under the pressure of
public opposition."
Judge Henry j. Le ?4
granted the Little Rock schoo!
boards "prayer for relief" by
allowing them to suspend inte
gration until the middle of the
1960-61 school term.
"This does not mean a sur
render to unlawful force or
violence," he said.
The National Association
for the Advancement of Col
ored People filed notice of ap
peal of the ruling with the
Federal court clerk in Little
Rock. The appeal is to the
Eighth Circuit Court of Ap
peals at St. Louis. -System
Impaired
Judge Lemley said the Cen
tral High educational system
had been impaired by integra
tion: And he said that if intei
gration is maintained next
term "the board will have to
have military assistance or its
equivalent and it is financial
ly unable to bear the expense
of hiring" guards.
Central Higlfc school gradu
ated the first negro in its his
tory May 27, after the school
was integrated under the bay
onets of federalized national
guardsmen and 101st Air
borne paratroopers Sept. 25.
; The troops were sent in by
President Eisenhower to sup
press rioting that local arid
state police could not handle.
Lemley said inea 35-page
opkiion that while troops can
check vandalism and violence.
"they cannot reduce or elim
inate racial tensions or create
a climate that is conducive to
education."
National Guardsmen
Gov. Orval Faubus, veho
used national guardsmen to
keep negroes out of Central
High until the guardsmen
were federalized to help force
integration, was "most grati
fied.", He said the three-day hear
ing earlier this month and the
opinion of Judg" Lemley was
quite a contrast to the three
minute hearings ' and forth
with orders of . the Federal
court proceedings last Sep
tember." The judge said it was im
portant to note that the trou
ble did not stem from lawless
ness on the part of the white
students or the people of Lit
tle Rock, "rather, the course
of the trouble was the deep
seated popular opposition in
Little Rock to the principle of
integration which, as is
known,' runs counter to the
pattern of southern life, which
has existed over 300 years."
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