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Newspaper Page Texto O 53 rd Year flsesfiMttnded A f$tur story about the historic Jacksonville 04i Fel lowi lodge and hall appears on paje 12 of today's Mail Tribune. Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka 84!W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 12 JO ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 64 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1958 No. 85 MebformkbTribune Soviet Union Asks U.S. to State Its Position on Tests Note Reiterates Russian Position (Moscow (TPI) The So- vie tJnior asfced the United StoteilAC ntv note Saturday tor sJlt elesrly before the start t ht Geneva confer ence 1fcfctthr it intends to discoriinC nuclear tests. The noi iterated the pre vious Soviet, position that a meeting of experts on means of detecting nuclear tests would be a "waste of time and only lead to the deception of people" if it does not result in an "immediate universal" test ban. Th note left still unan swered the question whether Russia will attend the Geneva meewng Scheduled to begin Tuesday after an original sug gestion by President Eisen hower. The United States has said it would not agrep to any nu clear test ban in advance. Russians May Attend An indication that the Rus sians might attend the meet injjgwas seen yesterday in a report from an authoritative source that the Soviet delega- tion had applied for and re- ceived the Swiss visas needed to attend the Geneva session Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko handed Saturday's note to U. S. Ambassador Llewelyn Thompson. The note said "In connection with the beginning of the conference of experts, a full and clear understanding regarding the purposes of this conference must be achieved between the governments." It continued, "The Soviet government would like to hope that the U.S. govern ment will make an unequiv ocal statement in this regard." France Changes Arm? Command tti (UPI) Premier i4.f4HI gmm Gaulle s govern- mgn hock up the top com- mfftj et the army Saturday Ifta pp4 new measures to (3&9 ttitig pece to Algeria. Aftct 40-minute cabinet glMtitf, h fovernment an fseVe-i V , resignation of S8. Hni Lorillot as army effif tft tff and appoint ment 99 Gtn. Andre Marie Zeller, ti, to replace him. Announcement of the Nex measures fcr Algeria was withheld until De Gaulle goes to the strife-torn North African territory this week. The change in the army command was unexpected and no reason was given. But it could be interpreted as a vic tory for the extreme right wingers in the army. Yesterday marked the end of De Gaulle's first four weeks in office and the signs were that he was getting impres sive national support for the record of things he has done so far. The government crisis has vanished. Armed police and curity guards have disap peared from the streets. The Frenchmen have responded 5 overwhelmingly to his ap peal for a loan pegged tp the price of gold. Work has be gun on new constitution. Eagles Elect Local sk J sk asm A m sO Am JlllM r dll Aj IUI UUUUI Pendleton (UPI) Port land roofing contractor Bill Bigoni was elected president of the Oregon State Eagles at a thre-day convention that pened here Wednesday, -j Bigoni succeeds Francis Baker of Pendleton. 0(Jher officers included" Leonard Wildish, Eugene, vice president; Bill Kemp, Coos Bay, chaplain; Jack Web ber, Medford, conductor; Ken neth Bcstum, Nyssa, inside guard; and Marvin Hame street, Klamath Falls, outside guarc r. e Contract Awarded for Reservation Road Work Klamath Falls (UPI) Klamath Indian reservation superintendent's office Satur day announced the award of a contract for repairs to a road within the reservation to Nor quist Brothers of Sweet Home. The Norquist bid was $191, 666. The work is financed by the Buretvi of Indian affairs. BUDGET COMMITTEE Members of the United Medford Crusade budget committee submitted a budget totaling $131,030 for the 1958-59 campaign goal, according to UMC President Tom Polk. Members of the Goal of $131,030 Set By Local Fund The 1958-59 campaign goal for the United Medford Cru sade has been set at $131,030, according to Tom Polk, presi dent. - The UMC directors adopted the report of the budget com mittee as given by Chairman Edward Branchfield at a meet ing Friday eyening. Dick Travis, UMC cam paign chairman, said he is confident that the goal, even though high, will be achieved An effort will be made to reach more people this year, Travis said, who have not been given the apportunity to give before. "If all will give on the fair share plan, one hour's pay per month for 12 months, we will have no-difficulty in reaching the goal," Travis said. Those who have been giving on the fair share scale will not be asked to increase their gifts, he concluded. The campaign kick-off date is Sept. 15, but this year plans call for starting the campaign in mid-August in the lumber and construction workers division. Agencies budget are: Amer ican Red Cross, $20,000; Arth ritis and Rheumatism Founda tion, $1,000; Boy Scouts, $17, 250; Camp Fire Firls, 2,600; Southern Oregon Child Guid ance Clinic, $4,000; Girl Socuts, $11,000; Salvation Army, $18,750; YMCA, $21,- 750; Rogue Valley Council on the Aging, $250. Oregon Appeal The Oregon United Appeal, including 10 child-care ag encies, .USO, Oregon Prison assn., Amercian Social Hy giene association and four YMCA-YWCA college campus activities, $18,000. A $4,000 reserve for uncol lectible pledges and $11,930 for campaign and administra tive expenses also are includ ed in the campaign goal, about $3,000 above the amount raised last year, and $8,000 above the 1957-58 cam paign goal. If all agency requests had been granted in full, Polk said, the goal would have been $11,000 more. Budget re quests were trimmed in order to arrive at a goal that is possible to achieve, he ex plained. Due to several recent changes in- connection with the Oregon State Chest, now known as the Oregon United Appeal, the UMC has lost some agencies and gained oth ers. Among the agencies with drawn from the crusade are the Mental Health Association of Oregon, the White Shield Home, and the American Can cer Society. Agencies new to the cam paign this year are the Uni versity of Oregon YMCA and YWCA, the Oregon State col WEATHER FORECAST: Variable cloudiness today, tonight and Monday. Possibly a few showers over the mountains tonight and Monday. High today 75; low tonight 45; high Monday 72. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 75 Lowest Yesterday 44 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:53 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:37 a.m. The Moon rises 6:25 p.m. Riding low in the sky, it set tomorrow 4:20 a.m. SATURN, seen near the Moon tonight, is now about 845 mil lions miles away. The orbits of the Earth and Saturn are now carrying these planets away from each other at the rate of about 425,000 miles per day. lege Round Table, and the Rogue Valley Council on the Aging. The latter organiza tion, recently established comes in for a small allocation to cover incidentals in pro moting the Golden Age Club and other promotional work Transport Plane Fails to Report Washington (UPI) The defense department said Sat urday a transport type air craft, believed to be a C-118, has not reported on a flight from Nicosia, Cyprus,, to Teh ran by way of Turkey. The department said the U.S. Air Force is Europe re ported tnere were nine per sons aboard the plane. A C-118 is the military version of the DC-6 four-engine civil ian craft. The department said it did not know whether the miss ing plane was the one report ed by Moscow to have been forced down Friday by two Russian fighters over the Ar menian frontier. A defense department spokesman said the Pentagon had "no knowledge or con firmation" of the incident He also said he could give no explanation why a U.S. plane would be flying over Arme nia, in Soviet territory. Radio Moscow claimed the craft with nine aboard was forced down 149 miles inside Ar menia. The state department said it has not yet received a Rus sian protest that the plane violated Soviet air space. Harbison Appointed To Rural Board Sam Harbison, Medford at torney, has been appointed to the rural school board, ac cording to Alf B. Makvold, county school superintendent. His v appointment was effec tive Friday. : Harbison was appointed by the board during Friday's meeting to fill the position va cated by C. E. Hedberg, for mer vice president and man ager of the First National Bank of Portland, Medford branch. Hedberg had resigned effective last Monday. Hedberg has been appointed to an administrative position in the head office in Portland. Harbison will complete Hedberg's three-year term. Hedberg was elected" last fall as one of the members(at large to the rural school board. Secrecy Planned for Washington (UPI) An- other attempt , may be made Monday to throw a shroud of secrecy around any new sen sational charges Boston fi nancier John Fox might make in the Adams-Goldfine affair, it was disclosed Saturday. Rep. Joseph P. O'Hara (R Minn.) said he would raise anew the question whether further testimony by Fox be fore House investigators should be heard in public. The House influence-investigating subcommittee, of which O'Hara is a member, resumes hearings Monday on the relations between Sher committee are, left to right, Wililam Du haime, Ray M. Sorenson, Dunbar Carpenter, Edward Branchfield, Tom K. Oliver, Law rence Clark and Dr. Merle Foland. Branch field is chairman of the group. Efforts of Cancer Society to Work With Drive Fails Efforts to work out a way in which the Jackson county unit of the American Cancer society could work with the United Medford Crusade have failed, it was reported Satur day. As a result, the cancer unit will not participate in the UMC drive this year. The difficulties stem from a recently-adopted policy of the national ACS, which gave 1960 as a deadline for local units to disaffiliate from united fund drives. Similar Policy But the Oregon division of the ACS last month adopted a similar policy, and made it effective immediately. John Dellenback, Medford attorney who is president of the local Cancer society , unit, attempted to work out a method by which the local unit could 'work cooperative ly in in - plant solicitations with the, UMC, but the list of conditions imposed by the state organization made the UMC board, at a meeting Friday night, decide that it just wouldn't work out," and that the conditions could not form a sound basis for cooperation. As a result, the Cancer so ciety withdrew from the UMC, effective immediately. Discussion Scheduled This leaves up in the air any Cancer society plans on a local level. Dellenback said Saturday that a series of dis cussions among the members, and with the medical profes sion, will be conducted to de termine what course of action would be the best for the community. In some instances, , local Cancer societies have ter minated their organization as a result of the "no - united fund" ruling, and formed in dependent organizations de voted to anti-cancer activity. What action, if any, will be taken locally will not be de cided until further considera tion is given to all phases of the problem, Dellenback said. And he emphasized that the dilemma, caused by outside forces, has caused no ' hard feelings whatsoever on the local level. Air force to Seek Cause of Fatal Crash Westover Air Force Base, Mass. (UPI) The Air Force, announced Saturday that ex perts will "probably" attempt to piece together the shred ded remains of a jet strato tanker that rose in hope and fell in death for 15 men. man Adams, chief assistant to President Eisenhower, and Boston millionaire-industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Fox will return for his third day of testimony. O'Hara said he did not have "the slightest - idea" whether Fox had more charges up his sleeve of the type he made last week. But if he does, O'Hara said, the witness should be heard only in secret. Adams and the White House have flatly denied and label ed as "malicious falsehoods" an array of accusations Fox made in public testimony Thursday and Friday. Among Body of Dean of Pharmacy at OSC Discovered in Car Crossen Reported Missing Thursday Corvallis (UPI) The body of George E. Crossen, 52 dean of pharmacy at Oregon State college, was found in his car yesterday afternoon one-half mile northwest of here on Cemetery Hill road apparently a suicide victim police said. Crossen had been the sub ject of a statewide search after he was reported missing from his home and work Thursday morning. The body was found in the locked auto by 'city policeman u. D. .Downing. A vial was found in a ditch beside the car, according to Benton coun ty coroner Joe McHenry. Explains Disappearance Crossen was first sighted Saturday at 3:04 p.m. by po liceman Kenneth Burright as Crossen drove into Corvallis, He said he talked to the dean, who appeared to be "okay, Crossen said he was headed home. He explained his dis appearance by saying he had driven to the Oregon coast and back. Then he drove off toward homp, Burright said. A check a short while later revealed he had not arrived home and another search was launched. The body was found at 3:40 p.m. McHenry said a four and one-half page note was found in the car also. . He said the text of the note, written to Crossen's wife, Helen, was highly personal" but indi cated Crossen had been in a state of "mental depression. Last Seen Thursday Crossen had been last seen at 10 a.m. Thursday at his office. He told his secretary he was going to the Corvallis airport but he was not1 seen there and he did not return to his office or home. He had been dean of the school of pharmacy at OSC since 1945. He also taught at University of Minnesota and Drake university, where he was dean and professor of pharmacy ' before coming to Corvallis. In 1952, he received the "outstanding a c h i e v ement" award given by the Minne sota ' school to outstanding alumni. Baccus Named to Succeed Jones Robert L. Baccus, 39, princi pal of Jackson school, has been appointed by Medford Mayor John Snider to serve out the unexpired term on the city council of Stanley C. Jones Jr., who resigned be cause he moved from Ward 3. The appointment is effec tive July 3, subject to the ap proval of the council. Baccus, who was born Nov. 24, in Picher, Okla., lives at 747 West Jackson st. He is married and has two children. He has. been principal of Jackson school for fhe past three years, and will become principal of the new Wilson Elementary school this fall. The school is now under con struction. Coming to Oregon in 1947, he received a bachelor's de gree from Southern Oregon college in 1949, and his mas ter's degree in 1954. He is a Methodist, a Mason, and is a member of the Phi Delta Kap pa educational fraternity. He also is a member of the Na tional Education association and the Oregon Education as sociation. Baccus' term will expire Jan. 1. Adams Case Hearing other things, Fox said that Goldfine boasted: Of buying a house for Adams to live in during his Washington stay. Of buying securities for Adams and' other public offi cials. Of sending checks to Adams at regular intervals before, the former New Hamp shire governor came to the White House. That Adams had prom ised to "take care of Gold fine's troubles with two gov ernment agencies and in one instanie actually did so. Goldfine himself will testi fy before the subcommittee Grandview Area Sanitary Trunk Lines Authorized Council Acts After Continued Hearing The Medford city council Friday night authorized con struction of a sanitary sewer trunk system in the Kenwood Grandview district following a continued public hearing in the Jackson county court house auditorium. Bids on the sewer will be opened July 11. The trunk system will serve about 1,170 acres, will require about 67,- 000 linear feet of pipe, and cost an estimated $325,000. The council voted 6-0 in fa vor of the sewer. Councilman Fred Robinson was unable to attend Friday night's meet ing, and the eighth council man, Stanley C. Jones, Jr., resigned at the last meeting because he moved from the ward which he represented The hearing was continued from the June 19 meeting to accomodate residents of the area who crowded the council chambers and hallaway at the city hall. About 80 persons at tended Friday's hearing. City Manager Robert Duff said work on the system prob ably will start early in Au gust, and be completed in 200 calendar days. Sections of the system could be used prior to completion of the project, he said. Questions submitted .by res idents were answered by city officials at the start of Fri day's hearing, after twhich Mayor John Snider called for representatives lavoring " and opposing the project to pre sent their cases. Prior to the council voting, Mayor Snider asked that residents indicate their, approval or opposition by raising their hands. Those favoring the trunk system out numbered those opposing it about 2 to 1. Most the opposition voiced at both hearings centered on the preliminary estimated costs or assessments. Duff pointed out that as sessments for such improve ment can be financed under the Bancroft act, and City At torney Roy Bashaw noted that recent legislation has made it considerably easier to secure Bancroft financing. Under the " Bancroft plan, property owners pay assess ments in semi-annual install ments for 10 years. Duff point ed out that there is a 6 per cent interest on the deferred charges. Most of the property owners in the district will be eligible to finance assessments under the Bancroft plan. (See story on page 12) Voter Registration Challenge Issued A voter registration chal lenge has been issued by the Democratic party to the Re publican party, according to James A. Redding Jr., chair man of the Jackson County Democratic Central commit tee. The charge is that the Dem ocratic party and its workers will register more voters for the November election than will the Republican party. A second challenge, also from the Democrats to the Re publicans, is that the Demo cratic party will transport more voters to the polls on election day than will the workers in the Republican party. Tuesday. He had served no tice that he will deny Fox's basic testimony under oath. Fox insisted he has "docu mented proof" to back up some of his statements. Goldfine's. lawyers , asked the 11-man subcommittee be fore Fox first appeared to re quire him to testify behind closed doors to avoid defam ing and degrading the char acter of both Goldfine and Adams. . , The . subcommittee refused to do so. But the lawyers re newed their request Friday, claiming Fox's Thursday tes timony had been "shocking, revolting and incredible." : : ; I : The 'Top Kick" Sets the Pace (Herblock Is No Action Taken on Transfer Request The Jackson county bound ary board Friday took no ac tion on a proposed transfer of land from the Prospect school district to Elk Trail district because the Elk Trail district recently approved consolidation with Eagle Point. , Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent, said a new petition will have to be submitted for the proposed land transfer to the former Elk Trail district. Now, the request will have to be to transfer the land from Pros pect to the Eage Point school district. , The boundary board Friday canvassed election votes in the Eagle Point and Elk Trail school districts consolidation election. The official tally showed 55 yes votes to 10 no votes in the Elk Trail district and 47 yes votes with no op-' position votes cast in the Eagle Point district. At the request of school board direct ors, the effective date of con solidation will be July 1, 1958, Mekvold said. Approve Rezoning The boundary board also approved rezoning the non- high high school district in the county. Consolidation with Eagle Point of Elk Trail district and Shady Cove dis tricts eliminates zone 2 in the non-high school district, Mek vold explained. The non-high school board Medford Woman Named President Redmond, Ore. (UPI) Miss Laurene Kell, Medford, was elected president of the Department of Oregon Vet erans of Foreign Wars Aux iliary at the closing sessions of the 37th annual state con vention in Redmond Friday. She succeeds Mrs. Harriett Shoemaker of Portland. Chosen as senior vice presi dent was Mrs. Viola Mansfield of Portland. Mrs. Patricia Conley, Cloverdale, was elect ed junior vice president. ' Other officers are Mrs. Lil lian Stanton, Cannon Beach, treasurer; Mrs. Jean Peterson, Portland, chaplain; Mrs. Mel Clemens, Salem, conductress; and Mrs. Leon Bennett, Port land, guard. Installation ceremonies were held Friday night in the Red mond High school gymnasium. Sports Bulletins Portland (UPI) The Portland Beavers evened their Pacific Coast League series with Salt Lake City at Two games apiece by drubbing the Bees last night, 4-1. Phoenix. Ariz. (UPI) Big Bob Jenkins, a terror for the Spokane Indians in the series with the Phoenix Giants here, stayed around long enough for a fourth inning beaning to start his team on the way to a 12-6 triumph. Vancouver. B.C. (UPI) The Vancouver Mounties won a B-5 victory over the San Diego Padres last night before 2,667 fans at Van couver's Capilano Stadium. Prrnvn 'i ON TAKING- v G-IFTS on Vacation) had considered recently and recommended to the bound ary board that Griffin Creek school district, now a part of zone 4, be made into zone 2, the county school superintend ent said. The law requires five zones and five board members on the non-high school board. An appointment of a school director to the non-high board to represent this zone will be made during the next annual school meeting. The board is expected to meet soon tov act on high school - tuition pay ments from non-high districts Guardsmen Home From Ft. Lewis Southern Oregon National Guardsmen returned Satur day from their annual summer encampment at Ft. Lewis, Wash. Nearly 250 men from Jackson county participated in the two-week training exer cise. The local men came home with second place in the 41st Division rifle competition. Memben of the team, com posed of marksmen from the first battalion of the 186th Infantry- Regiment were Lt. Jack Phillips, Medford; Lt. Ed Prefontaine and MSgt. Jim D. Schelenbaum, both of Grants Pass; Capt. John A. Parsons and Pfc. Larry R. Lane, both of Roseburg; and Sgt. Gary B. Olsen,- Creswell. First place in the hoot was won by the second battalion of the 186th. About 7,500 troops ' from units in the Sunset division participated in the 11th an nual training program which marked the first camp attend ed by men who have been trained under the Reserve Forces' Act six-months' pro gram. Highlight of the training period was the Governors' Day parade, attended bj both Gov. Robert Holmes of Ore gon and Gov. Albert Rosellini of Washington. Four Teenagers Hurt In Auto Accident Four teenagers suffered minor injuries Saturday night when the car in which they were riding struck the rear of a house trailer on Highway 99, near the state police office. According to Rogue Valley hospital attendants the four youths were treated and re leased. They were Dean Le Roy Smith, 19, Brookings; Charles Patrick Thorn, 19, Brookings; Lawrence Eugene Way, 18, Harbor; and John John David Baldwin, 19, Brookings. Smith, the -driver, was cited for violation of the basic rule, according to state police. A car' driven by v Bennett Bradener Lewis, 42, of 2695 Merriman rd., Medford, was towing a 16-foot house trailer south on Highway 99. He had stopped to s make' a left turn when the car driven by Smith struck the rear of the trailer, police said. i Officers said the trailer and both cars were seriously damaged. Sailors, Marines Bound for Base in Guantanamo Bay 24 Men Reported On Cuban Vehicle Washington (UPI) The Navy said Saturday a bus carrying 24 U. S. Navy and Marine personnel bound for the American base at Guant tanamo Bay, Cuba, was found empty Saturday afternoon 30 miles from the base. The Navy said the men left Guantanamo City Friday evening in a bus maned by a Cuban civilian crew. Text of the Navy state ment: "A bus maned by a Cuban civilian crew consisting of driver and conductor depart ed Guantanamo Citv. Cuba- Friday evening (at) 9:25 p.m. Havana (UPI) Cuban army detachments searched' the Guarantanamo region ' last night for 24 American, sailors who failed to retur to the Naval base and were presumed to have been kid naped by Cuban rebels. , When the bus failed to return as scheduled, a U.S. Naval, air search was car ried out. A ground patrol from the U.S. base failed to locate either the Cubans or the American passengers. U. S. Ambassador Earl Smith said he had contacted Cuban government authori ties, who immediately dis patched a squadron of troops to conduct a thor ough search .of the region. with 24 Navy and Marine Corps personnel on board, in cluding three Navy Shbre Pa trolmen. It was' bound for the Naval Base at Guantanamo. It failed to arrive. Bus Found Empty - "Saturday - afternoon he bus .was found empty about 30 miles east of the Naval base." Earlier, a Navy spokesman said communications from Cuba appeared to bear out re ports that Cuban rebels had kidnapped 27 or 29 Sailors aboard a Guantanamo bus. If the Sailors and Marines were indeed kidnapped, it would bring to 34 the total of U. S. citizens nabbed dur ing the past three days by guerrillas headed by revolu tionary Fidel Castro. - The State Department said Friday rebel sources have promised early release of 10 Americans and two Cana dians kidnapped Thursday night. . , Declines to Identify A spokesman said U.S. officials were given the promise by sources they be lieved to be authentic. But he declined to identify these sources or to disclose how they met with department representatives. He said the same sources reported the captives were "safe and being well cared for." A band led by Raul Castro, brother of the rebel leader, seized the 12 engineers. at a mining company project in Oriente Province and took them to a hideaway in the hills. The rebels were reported to have staged the Thursday ab ductions because they be lieved the United States was providing gasoline for Cuban Army planes. State Depart ment sources said they had no confirmation of this. First National Bank Plans Change in Name Portland (UPI) The First National Bank of Port land will be known as the First National Bank of Ore gon after August 1, C. B. Stephenson, bank president, said Friday after sharehold ers voted to change the name of the institution at a special meeting held in Portland. The bank which now has 77 banking offices serving 55 Oregon communities was the first national bank to be chartered west of the Rockies. The charter was granted in 1865.