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mm um Ml 53rd Year Medford 20 Pages Lebanon Official May deepest Anglo-America n , D nteroeritibh; III" "L I affiftF r CROWD SEES DERBY A crowd esti mated at 2,000 people watched the annual Cat Fish Derby at TouVelle State park Sunday. The derby finished just ahead of Drownings Claim Six Oregonians During Week End By United Press International Creeks, rivers and the sea shore claimed the lives of at ' least six Oregon residents over the week end as temper atures in the state hovered in the nineties. There were five victims Sunday. Two Portland men, Albert Chatman, 28, and An drew L. Walton, 34, drowned in the surf at Seaside during a swim shortly after lunoh They were in a party of six, including their wives, when they disappeared Ijeyond the breakers. The bodies were not immediately located. Albany Girl Drowns . Joyce Brenda Mathews, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Mathews, Albany, drowned in the Willamette river about one-half mile west of Albany while wading with a girl friend, Jan Vale, also of Albany. . The girls stepped in to a deep hole and disap peared beneath the water. Two. men who were docking their boat nearby saw tnem eo under and managed to save .Tnvrp's body was re covered shortly afterward, but efforts by the Albany fire-department to save the girl were unsuccessful. A 13-year-old Ranier girl, Diane Philbrook, and Bobby Watson. 18. Delena, drowned in Beaver creek Sunday after noon about five miles east of Clatskanie while swimming. Gail Haakinson, deputy cor oner for Columbia county, said; apparently there were no witnesses to the accident. The bodies were recovered. Grappling operations re sumed at dawn Monday for - the body of William D. Wink ley, 39, Oregon City, who fell into the Willamette upstream from the old Wilsonville ferry Saturday after a boat he was riding " in capsized. Three other passengers in the boat clung to the overturned craft and were saved. Woman Injured In Car Mishap Miss Patricia Blanche Irwin, 39, of 329 West Jackson street, was injured slightly Sunday noon when the automobile in which she was riding hit a parked vehicle owned by Kay Fong Lee, 619 South Central ave., on South Central ave. Miss Irwin was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Med ford Ambulance and released, according to police reports. Charles Elmer Lindgren, 945 Gibbon rd., operator of the car in which Miss Irwin was a passenger, was cited by po lice for failure to maintain proper lookout. MEDFORD, CATFISH CHAMPION John Bowman, 14, of Ashland, Sunday, received a trophy from Luke Dyatt, Grants Pass, first winner of the annual Cat Fish derby in TouVelle state park. Wyatt won the derby in 1936 and 1937. This is the second straight championship for Bowman. He was pre sented a spinning outfit later as his other prize, ' John Bowman Wins Derby Second Time , John Bowman, 14, son of Mr. and 'Mrs. John D. Bow man, proprietors of the resort at Hiatt lake, successfully re tained his crown as grand champion of the Catfish Der by held at TouVelle State park Sunday afternoon. He was also 1957 grand cham pion. Other winners were Mike Compiunisls Ask Money for Captives Berlin (UPI) The East German Communists are de manding $3,095 "room and board" money, as well as dip lomatic recognition, for the re lease of nine American sold iers held prisoner since June 7, diplomatic sources said today. The U. S. is willing to pay the money, the sources said, but is determined not to take any step that could be inter preted to mean that the U. S. recognizes East Germany as a free and independent state. The sources said the Com- munists demanded 13,000 marks ($3,095) for expenses during talks between U. S. Army and East German gov e r n m e n t negotiators . last week. Salem (UPI) Needed changes in dairy laws will be discussed here Tuesday at a meeting of the State Agricul ture Department's dairy rela tions advisory committee. OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1958 the storm which struck the Rogue Val ley. After the derby, rain sent the crowd running for their cars. Hilkey, 8, Medford, with 250 for the most fish caught; Mar vin Hilkey, 3, Medford, youngest catfisherman; Jules Paudois, 83, Jacksonville, old est catfisherman, and Grant Bailey, 12, Jacksonville, for the smallest catfish caught. Howard Beal, chairman of the Derby reported that 2,000 persons attended the event with only 10 entries in the contest. Miss " Pat Newbry, Medford High school sopho more, reigned as queen of the event. Young Bowman was pre sented with a trophy and spin ning outfit. Luke Wyatt, win ner of the first two derbies in 1936 and 1937, presented the trophy and prizes. Swimming Classes Said Popular Here Children from Central Point, Gold Hill, and Eagle Point have been attending the swimming classes currently being given at the Medford municipal pool, according to Darell Huson," city park di rector. The children attending the classes for two weeks Mon day through Friday, come to Medford by school bus. So far 24 have registered from Cen tral Point, 1 from Gold Hill, and 26 fron Eagle Point. Huson reported that during the 16 days that the pool has been open nearly 8,000 per sons have taken advantage of the facilities there. Tribune Arab Republic Declared Waging Actual Warfare Situation Said To Be Deteriorating Beirut, Lebanon (UPD Lebanese Prime , Minister Sami Ee Solhi accused the United Arab Republic today of waging "actual war" against Lebanon and said he "does not exclude" a call for Anglo-American military in tervention. Solh made the statement to UPI correspondent George Bi tar while UN Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold was in Cairo for talks with Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser of of the Egyptian-Syran repub lic. " Seeks to Prevent Clash Cairo reports said Hammar skjold was concentrating on preventing a clash between the United States . and the UAR which has been accused of supplying rebels who seek to overthrow pro -Western President Camille Chamoun. Solh warned today the Leb anese situation is "deteriorat ing very rapidly" and said he might call for American and British military assistance of the UN is not successful in quickly halting the rebellion. Solh indicated , Lebanon would ask for another session of . the (UN-Securi shortly after Hammarskjold returns to New York. He said the "least" request would be for a UN cordon sanitaire to seal off the borders. Auto Accidents Occur During Week End Here Two automobile accidents were reported to city police at the intersection of Eighth and Hamilton sts. during the week end. - Saturday morning two ve hicles, operated by ; Delbert Leon Harvey, 613 Newtown st., and Lee Roy Hancock Jr., 744 Beall lane, collided at the intersection. No citations were issued by police. Sunday at 12:16 p.m. auto mobiles operated by Maxmil lian Arthur Larson, 1423 Eu clid ave., and Donald George Adams, 1405 West Main st., collided at the same spot. Adams was cited by police for failure to yield the right of way. WEATHER FORECAST: Warm and humid through Tuesday. Afternoon and evening thunderstorms in moun tains, occasionally moving into valley. Low tonight 60. High Tnesday 90. TEMP.. Highest Yesterday 97 Lowest This Morning 66 Prec. to 4 a.m. Today .80 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:52 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:35 a.m. Moonset tonight 11:54 p.m. First Qtr. tomorrow 1.44 ajn. PROMINENT STAR Antares, in the south 10:29 p.m. There's Still Bad Blood Between the Hatfield And McCoy (HerblockAs Price 10 Cents No. Eastern Oregon Rancher Slays Brofher-in-Law Right of Way Dispute Climaxed by Duel Canyon City, pre. (UPI) An Eastern Oregon rancher, Robert Sproul, 43, was being held in the Grant county jail here today on an open charge following a blazing gun duel Saturday in which, his. neigh bor and brother-in-law, Har lan Link' Williams, was killed, Grant county Sheriff Ray H. Brisbois said Sproul will appear at a preliminary hear ing Tuesday in Justice Court here. . Climax of Argument The shooting occurred at a line fence separating the two ranches, at the climax of an argument over right of way on a road on the Williams prop erty. Orville B. Yokom, SprouFs attorney, gave this version of the duel. Williams had a 25 35 rifle and two pistols, one in his belt and another in his hip pocket. Sproul carried a rifle and a pistol in a shoulder hol ster. The two walked along the fence and the road in dis pute as they talked." Holster Shot Sproul said Willliams sud denly pointed his rifle at him and threatened to fire. Sproul said he threw himself side ways and as he did he gripped his Luger pistol, twisted it in the shoulder holster and fired without pulling the gun free from the holster. Williams was ' hit several times in the chest and died in stantly, "v the ' sheriff said. aioLwm;ams, arexting. rifle once and that a bullet zipped past him as he fired his shots. Brisbois said an ex amination of Williams' rifle showed one' bullet had been expended. ' Sproul had been using the road in his . ranching opera tions. Yokom said the two had also quarrelled about other matters. Ike Urged To Uphold Integration Washington (UPI) Four Negro leaders urged President Eisenhower today to pledge in a special pronouncement that he will vigorously", uphold school integration "with the total resources at his com mand." The Negroes also urged the President at a White House meeting to direct the Justice Department to intervene in an appeal from a federal judge's suspension of school , integra tion in Little Rock, Ark. Eisenhower made no com mitments or promises on these matters or others included in a nine-point program of pro posed presidential action which the Negroes submitted in a 45-minute conference. Detroit- (UPI) A .wildcat strike by United Auto Work ers has forced a partial work stoppage at the Army's Red stone-Jupiter missile pianx. artJCaim&) ; : t BUB HHHHH 1. IpilllPljll I :mMmmmmSi 'BilfiSf 111! ' II ' I . , I REPLACE POLES A string of 13 high tension power poles on Biddle rd. were snapped off like match sticks during the storm that struck the Medford area late yesterday afternoon and a crew of about 60 California Oregon Power company employees were up all night repairing the damage. Above, Marvin Cooley, As sistant Superintendent of the Copco Transmission department and , Working Foreman Maynard Atterbury (by, car) Mrs. Edith Davis, Eagle Point, Dies In Highway Crash Klamath Falls (UPI An Eagle Point, Ore., woman died and at least five others were injured south of here' today in a pileup of four vehicles, one of them a Greyhound bus, in a driving rainstorm. , Dead on arrival at a Klam ath Falls hospital was Mrs. Edith Davis, 72, Eagle Point. Loses Control State police said the "chain reaction" . accident occurred just north of the Oregon- fialifrrrnia border at ,5:23 a.m. when Mrs. William Spangler, 40 believed to be from San Francisco, lost control of her pickup truck on the wet pave ment. The woman had as pas sengers in the truck her son, William Spangler, 16, and two small - children. Injuries of Mrs. Spangler and the chil dren were not considered se rious. A station wagon and house trailer operated by L. L. Da vis, 71, stopped to give aid. With Davis was his . wife, Edith, his daughter, Dorothy Waltz, 35, Shady Cove, and her daughter, Judy Ann,, 8. Truck Jackknifes Davis, his daughter and his granddaughter crossed the highway toward the pickup and left Mrs. Davis in the sta tion wagon. At that moment a freight truck approached through the blinding rain and its' trailer jackknifed when the driver, Lawrence Thorn hill of Tracy, Calif., applied his brakes. ' The trailer struck the dis abled pickup. Mrs. Waltz then saw a Greyhound bus approaching the crash scene and ran to get her mother out of the station wagon. She was struck by the bus but hospital attendants here said her in juries appeared not to be se rious. It was not known whether Mrs. Davis died of a heart at tack when she saw her . daugh ter struck or. whether the truck trailer might also have struck the station wagon. Po lice, said they were continu ing their investigation. Fire Damages Truck loaded With Machines '- Phoenix Fire Saturday night did considerable dam age -here -to a load of IBM machines in . a '' Bekins Van Lines semi-trailer on-a trip north-bound to Portland from San Jose, Calif.' " r v The fire,"which' apparently was caused - by friction be tween the pads ' and the po lyethylene sack covering the machines, was discovered by the driver as he was going through town. He stopped the van between the Triangle market and Norton's market and turned in the alarm about 11 p.m. to the Volunteer Phoenix Fire department. A truck and crew were imme diately dispatched to the scene and put the fire under control, according to Fire Chief Leo Furry., Seattle (UPI) . Einar Mohn has officially taken over the - presidency of .the Western Conference of Team sters. . Two Big Range Fires Scorch 12,000 Acres In Eastern By United Press International High fire danger which has prevailed over most of Ore gon caused a rash of blazes over the week end, including two huge range and sageland fires that blackened some 12, 000 acres in the" eastern part of the state. ' 8-Mile Swath . ' . The; biggest .f fire, which burned 8,000 acres about 10 miles, northeast of Heldman in.. Juniper Canyon country, broke about 3 p.m. Sunday and cut an, eight-mile swath along the Columbia river. At one point the flames jumped a road. Farmers in the area expressed concern that, the fire would reach nearby wheat fields, richest in .Uma tilla county, but winds sud denly changed the fire's course and it headed away from the Juniper crop. About 30 men were fight ing the blaze with bulldozers, tractors and. water : trucks. Fire Controlled ; The second fire, which flar ed up about the same time, was finally controlled late Sunday after scorching about 4,000 acres of rangeland on the west end of the Army bombing range at Boardman. The fire originally broke out one week ago and had been Humphrey Named Lions Governor Eston Humphrey of the Medford . Lions club was named governor of District 36E of Oregon Lions, and Mrs. Frank Christian, Talent Lions' auxiliary, director of the same district for the auxiliary at the annual convention which closed- in Eugene Saturday night. District 36E is made up of southwest Oregon coun ties and one California club. .About 40 men and 20 wom en attended the convention as delegates from Jackson coun ty clubs and auxiliaries. ; The men voted, to sponsor A.. L. Hawn, Eugene, a past international director, for the office "of third vice president of Lions'. International at the coming . convention in Chicago opening July 10. The women 'approved a budget of 83,675 . for the an nual institute for parents of blhuh children -sponsored by the auxiliary, and gave $500 in scholarships to help train teachers of the blind. Robert Chrisman, Enter prise, is the new state chair man of Oregon Lions clubs, and - Mrs.- Vernon Conwell, Milwaukie, was elected head of the state auxiliary.- SaselbaDD AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 1 - 7 1 Detroit 3 10 0 Portocarrero, Johnson (S) and Triandoi. . Susce and Wilson. direct part of the crew as they remove the tangled wires-along the road. A' top from one of the poles is in the fore ground. The new poles, installed during the night by the crew, are on the left hand side of the road in the picture. Lightning struck one of the poles in the center of the string and the high wind and the weight of the wires pulled the others over, according to Cooley. Oregon alternately controlled until rising temperatures Sunday caused ' the smoldering mass to burst into flame again. John Hunt, regional fire control officer for the Bureau of Land Management, report ed that a 600-acre range fire near urowmee dam was in the mopping-up stage Sunday The fire was believed caused by - a .careless smoker, Radio Personality Visits Festival Ashland Frank Heming way, the noted radio news caster, was a recent visitor at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. -. Hemingway who owns ranch property on "the Rogue river, has long been in terested in the Festival and has given it generous mention on past programs. While at the theater, Hem ingway was given a tour of the facilities, introduced to several members of the com pany, and entertained as the Festival's guest for lunch. Hemingway spent part of the afternoon watching a re hearsal of "Much Ado About Nothing." He hopes to attend a performance during the Fes tival's production, season ex tending from July 28 through September 4. His news broad casts "Twice ' a day with Hemingway" are heard in the West on the facilities of the Mutual Broadcasting system. . Portland Youth In Detention Here A 17-year-old Portland boy was lodged in Jackson county juvenile detention home this morning by city police on a charge of vagrancy. The boy was arrested at 4:10 a.m. on ' North Central ave.. by police when the ve hicle he was operating was discovered to have been stolen in Portland. Salem (UPI) Gov. Rob ert D. Holmes has proclaimed this week as 'Xivil Engineer ing Week" in Oregon. Oregon AA1A Curb on Holts Program San Francisco (UPI) The Oregon delegation . to the American Medical Association today expressed "grave con cern" over Creswell, Ore., farmer Harry Holt's program to 1 bring Korean orphans to the United States. . The Oregon physicians in troduced a resolution before the AMA House of Delegates urging it to call upon Con gress to amend the law to bar sick children. ... Many Diseased They complained that these children, many of whom are illegitimate offspring of Amer ican servicemen, sometimes have tuberculosis and intes tinal diseases, and some have died en route. Power, Telephone Lines Blow Down; Crops Damaged Fear Crop Said in Generally Fair Shape A powerful electric storm hit the Rogue valley Sunday afternoon. In its wake it left power and telephone lines out of or verely damaged in spots, buildings wrecked or dam aged, and a few isolated for est fires. More than two-thirds of an. inch of rain fell in less than 45 minutes. The. temperature dropped from a high of 98 degrees at 4 p.m. to about 72tfat 6 p.m. Hailstones the size of marbles fell. Overall storm damage to the valley pear crop was slight, Clifford B. Cordy, county horticulture agent, said this morning. Pear damage from Sunday evening's hail storm centered in the area west of Medford. However "not too many or chards' are located in this section, Cordy said. Damage there was reported as heavy. The whip-like . wind and rain which accompanied the storm, Cordy warned, will scar some of the fruit and "bruise new. tender crowth. He advised that bruised growths will be extremely susceptible to blight bacteria and farmers with blight in their orchards should snrav as soon as possible. Damage . to hay and grain crops was not serious, accord ing to County Agent Ben Tucker. Power outages occurred throughout Medford and and around the cit,y Cali fornia Oregon Power com pany officials here reported. Telephone service in the Med ford area was hard hit with 11 cables out 'and 1,000 cus tomers out of service for vary ing lengths of time, according to Jack Creager, manager of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company office here. - Both Oregon State Forestry Service officials and those of the Rogue National forest re ported a lightning caused lire apiece as a result of yester day's storm.- Neither strike was serious, however. Emergency power was used by the hospitals in the area, city police and state police. Robert Lawrence States, Holland Hotel, was trapped in his car at 10:40 p.m. Sunday when a 2400-Tolt wire fell from a power pole across his car while it was parked in the alley behind the hotel between Grape sL and Fir st. Staten jumped from the rehide, police reported, when it was noticed that the sparks from the.wixe were near the car's gasoline tank, power company crews ar rived and removed the wire. The storm extended as. far north as Eugene, east to Kla math Falls and South to Red Bluff, Calif., according to VS. Weather , Bureau officials at the Medford municipal air port. Hail and rain covered a good part of the valley, they said, but no hail was noted at Eagle Point nor at Lake Creek. Varying reports stated the haiL occurring mostly be tween 5 and 5:30 p.m., meas ured from 1 inch to IVi inches in idameter. Gusts ' of wind up to 42 miles per hour were reported by the weather bureau. Offic ials said rainfall during the main part of the storm meas ured .70 inch and total rain fall including last night's was recorded as .75 inch. Continued en Page 1) Envoys Ask Holt, 58, and his. wife have adopted eight Korean orphans themselves and have arranged for adoption of nearly 700 others. The resolution noted that the youngsters are admitted to the United States "without having to meet the provisions of the Immigration and Natur alization act as far as they re late to aliens afflicted with tuberculosis." The Oregon delegation asked the AMA to "petition the Congress of the United States to amend the latr so as to control, in the interest of the public health and welfare, the admission of children with severe communicable dis eases into the United States t.i - - v .-...,. . -
