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Newspaper Page TextEdflto Mtpir YmIcs mmi by fefcl Fros to Mb Amskm mm P(d Measure Goes To Eisenhower For Signature Vote of 64 to 20 Approves Statehood . Washington (UPI) Alaska emerged onto the threshold of statehood today to a sunburst of predictions it will open a vast new frontier for expan sion of America's population and wealth. - Delirious statehood support ers, their 42-year fight nearly over, could hardly believe it when the Senate passed the statehood bill Monday night by an overwhelming 64-20 vote. Unprecedented celebrations broke out in Alaska where a river was dyed gold, bonfires roared skyward and a beauty queen astride a fire ladder pinned a 49th star on a 40-by- 60 foot American flag. Administration sources said President Eisenhower is cer tain to sign the bill, a major triumph for one of the top items on his legislative agenda. The House previously passed the bill and the Senate vote sent it to the White House. The territory still must ap prove statehood in a referen dum this fall. But this was labelled a "sure thing" by statf hood backers. A procla mation by the President after the referendum will formally complete the statehood proc ess probably in December. Alaska's prospective state hood was seen as vastly en hancing Hawaii's chances of entering the Union as the 50th state, although probably, not; before next year at the ear-j liest. . Alaska will get two U.S. senators and one representa tive bringing the Senate to tal to 98 and the House figure to 436. Alaska now has one non-voting delegate to Con- prpss. When the final vote was an nounced Monday night after ' five days of debate, cheers and a burst of applause rose from the Senate galleries where about 200 persons, many from Alaska, had come to witness the historic event. Alaska's Governor Mike Stepovich shouted' "Thank God" and declared: "I did believe we'll show the United States of America that we will be one of the greatest states in the Union within the next 50 years." ' Amid the wild rejoicing, a sober note was sounded by E L (Bob) Bartlett, Alaska s non-voting delegate to Con gress since 1944, who spoke of it as a time of "great re sponsibility and great oppor tunity." "We regard ourselves as custodians of a great trust," he said in a dispatch written for United Press Interna tional: "The untapped mineral wealth of Alaska, the marve lous natural resources and sce nic beauty all these must be used and preserved for the benefit and security of fu fore generations of Ameri cans." . . It marks the first time the United States has added to Itself since Arizona became a state on Feb. 14, 1912. (See Stories on Page 14) Montana Man Finds It Easy to Find His Friend, But Harder to Locate Hostess '-' Spanning a forty year pe .riod was easier than span 'ning a period of a few hours for a Montana man Jiere last week. While visiting a niece in Forest Grove, Ore., Axel .Vigell of Helena expressed the desire to find a friend with whom he grew up in -Sweden 40 years ago. He knew the friend's first name was Bernard, that he had changed his last name since coming to the United States, and that he grew pears near Medford. ' Vigell, along with his niece, Miss Elsie Lundborg, and a nephew, Allen Lund borg, arrived in Medford Saturday evening to try to -trace Bernard. '- County Librarian Miss Helen Webster was called 24 Pages SNIPER SEARCH Tank and troop carrier western President Camille Chamoun has move through street in Tripoli, Lebanon, been reported. Armored cars and tanks are where the heaviest fighting of the seven- being used against insurgent snipers, week revolt against the government of pro- , $l,974,515Levy Gets Certification By Rural Board The rural school board has certified a levy totalling $1,974,515.12, according to County School Superintend ent Alf B. Mekvold. The total rural equaliza tion levy included $1,957,685.- 12, plus $16,830 of the county office budget for rural board operations. The levy is apportioned to the various school districts based on average daily at tendance, Mekvold said. The board recently consid ered three final requests for emergency funds for Lone Pine district, Evans , Valley district, and the Shady Cove school district. . Petitions from Lone Pine and Evans Valley were de nied based on a study of budget and cash status. The petitions had been presented earlier when the districts felt they would need emergency funds and before it could be determined whether they would remain within ; their budgets, Mekvold explained. The petition from Shady Cove was approved. A total of $908.08 budget deficit had been carried, over from the previous year. Deficit for the present school year is $1,225, Mekvold said. . The district was allowed to draw $2,133.18 from emergency funds. The superintendent explain ed that the deficit was car ried over since the rural board wanted to make a com plete study. Salem (UPI) A county school superintendent is not an appointive officer with a fixed term, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton has ruled. into the search. After sev eral phone calls in the seem ingly fruitless search, Cliff Cordy, county extension agent was contacted. Cordy named the man as Bernard Ekholm and gave clear in structions for finding him, since he had no telephone. The friends were soon united and in deep conversa tion about boyhood days in Sweden. Believing the men would enjoy their visit more if left by themselves, the women returned to Miss Webster's residence. There they waited and waited for the return of the rest of Miss Lundborg's party with her car and her suitcase. They finally, re tired for the night, believ ing the men had decided to stay over with Ekholm. Sunday morning passed MEDFORD, OREGON,. Ballet Celeste Sets Ashland Appearance , Ashland The Ballet Ce leste will make its initial Pa cifie Northwest appearance as one of the extra attractions of the . 18th annual Oregon Shakespearean Festival . in Ashland with matinee per formances Aug. 22 and 23. The company, highly suc cessful in its coast to coast tours of the United States, was formed through public Adams Hearing Violation Denied Washington (UPI) -r- House influence investigators today unanimously rejected a Republican charge that they violated House rules by hear ing in public sensational charges against Sherman Ad ams. Chairman Oren Harris (D Ark.), told reporters the mat ter was discussed at a closed meeting of the investigating subcommittee and "there was unanimous agreement that the committee was right in hold ing public sessions." Today's discussion came on the heels of a demand by Rep. Thomas D. Curtis (R-Mo.), that a special three - man committee be set up to inves tigate the Harris subcommit tee. Washington Searchers Seek 11 -Year-Old Boy Pomeroy, Wash. (UPI) Some 150 volunteers and two helicopters were scheduled to resume" the search today for Bobby Meek, 11, Clarkston, lost since Sunday in rugged Tucannon river country near here. with no further word from the men and finally Miss Webster and Miss Lund borg returned to the Ek holm farm only to find no one there. They could learn nothing of the men's where abouts. However, about noon the weary pair of travelers drove into the Webster driveway. They explained that after searching half the night and all morning they had gone to the police; con fessing that they had no more idea of the last name of their hostess than they had had earlier of the friend they came to find.,; ' ; The Medford police soon straightened out the mixup. It took one hour to locate Ekholm, and 16 to relocate Miss Webster. TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1958 lipiiil;tl; KIilllSfiiillSll..i'Sfc,.... s auditions eight years ago in San Francisco. It has been trained and directed in its choreography by Merriem Lanova, a former soloist with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The group currently has more than 20 ballets in its repertoire, ranging from clas sics such as "Swan Lake," "Coppelia," and "The Nut cracker," through several numbers choreographed for it. The original company of 10 persons' has been expanded to more than 30 through an nual auditions of talented young people in San Fran cisco. Auditions will be held in Ashland in connection with the performances to give tal ented young dancers from this area a chance to join the company. ' Tickets for the Friday and Saturday showings are avail able in Medford at Mann's, 14 North Central ave., and in Ashland at the Festival's central box office. Both per formances will begin at 3 p.m. in Churchill hall at Southern Oregon college. There will be no reserved seats. The Oregon Shakespearean Festival is offering a six-week show this season, opening July 28 . with the comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" and continuing with "King Lear," "The Merchant of Venice," . and "Troilus and Cressida" on the "next three evenings. Continental Bus Drivers on Strike Lincoln, Neb. (UPD Drivers for the Continental American Bus Lines walked off the job today, joining a walkout begun last Friday agamst Continental Central Lines. Both firms are. divi sions of the National Trail ways Bus' system. Drivers are asking an in crease of lVz cents per mile, compared with a company of fer of V4 cent per mile. The strike of Continental American halted bus runs on east-west routes from New York to San Francisco, New York to Los Angeies, and New York to Dallas. The Continental Central strike has shut off service from here south. Dalles TB Hospital Closure Recommended Salem (UPI) The Ore gon Tuberculosis and Health association today recommend ed to the Board of Control that The Dalles TB hospital be closed or used for some other institutional purpose and that the Salem TB hospi taUse kept open. Tribune No. 87 Pro-Western Forces Beat Back Rebels in Lebanon Thrust Toward Airport Repelled Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Government forces beat back a rebel thrust toward Beirut's International Airport today. There were rebel-inspired re ports that new compromise ef forts were under way to end the seven-week-old revolt. Government sources claimed more than 150 rebels had been killed or wounded and more than 200 captured in the last 40 hours of fighting out side Beirut and in. the north ern port city of Tripoli. Pro - western government forces firing mortars, rifles and automatic weanons and spear-headed by armored cars regained four miles of terri tory lost Monday to rebel Druse tribesmen of Chieftain Kamal Jumblatt. . House-To-House Fighting They retook the village of Ain Nab in house to house fighting. The fight regained for the government strategic heights overlooking the Beirut airport and for the moment stymied rebel attempts to take Chamlane, just outside the Beirut city limits. ... ; - . The government Monday sent rocket-firing . jet planes to beat back ' the first rebel thrust toward Chamlane. United Press International Correspondent Larry Collins watched today's fighting and reported a force of 500 pro government partisans and gendarmes slugging it out with the rebel tribesmen. First report of a compro mise settlement of the-rebel fight against the government of President Camille' Cha moun came from rebel leader Jumblatt. No Details Jumblatt told UPI Corres pondent Wilbur G. Landrey in his Chouf Mountain strong hold that new eforts were under way to end 'the revolt but gave no details. However, informed sources in Beirut said the plan involved setting up a neutral provisional gov ernment without Chamoun to prepare for new parliamentary elections in six or eight months after tempers have cooled. . Oregon Marshal Gives Up Office Portland (UPI) Harold Sexton today announced his resignation as U.S. marshal for Oregon to "enter private endeavor." Sexton, 65, became marshal on Aug. 5, 1953, after his ap pointment by President Eisen hower. He was reappointed to the $9200 a year job recently. Before becoming marshal he" served for many years as Wasco county sheriff. 'After 29 years in public office it is my desire to retire and enter private endeavor," Sexton said. Salem (UPI) Labor Com missioner Norman O. Nilsen has appointed Donald Bar tosch, Portland, as chief of the boiler and pressure vessel division of the Bureau of La bor. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to il I K 11 1 ino ireujieuj " chance of a few scattered show ers. Mild temperatures. Low to night SO. High tomorrow TS. Temp. Highest Yesterday 72 Lowest this Morning . Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 2 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:52 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:31 a.m. Moonrise today .. S:0S p.m. Moonset tomorrow 6:23 a.m. Last Quarter July S Highlight of the celestial phe nomena this month will be the prominence of Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets, in the southern sky. Russia Not To Make Test Ban Issue at Talks Scientists Seek Detection Scheme Geneva (UPI) East and West opened . a crucial technical conference, today to seek foolproof means of de tecting nuclear explosions. Russia promptly promised not to bog the conference down with the question of nuclear tests. Scientists from four west ern countries prepared a "watertight" scheme for de tecting bootlegged ' nuclear test explosions before meeting with scientists from four Com munist bloc nations. Chief Soviet delegate Prof. Y. K. Fyodorov told the con ference in his opening state ment the meeting was not to decide whether to suspend nu clear tests. , "That is a question for gov ernment," he said. But he added that it was the Soviet view that the tech nical talks "must facilitate the cessation of test explos ions on the part of the west ern powers too." Russia already has an nounced suspension of its nu clear tests, conditioned on the western powers doing like wise. U. S. Chief Delegate Dr. James Brown Fisk also said in his opening statement that the conference was for" the study of the "technical prob lems involved in the detection of nuclear test explosions." "It is most important to have a common understanding of the "technical problems which are involved in this question as a basis for further con sideration by our governments of the important issues on which future decision will be required," he said. Last week the Russians threatened to withdraw from the conference unless the Un ited States gave advance as surance it would lead to west ern suspension of nuclear tests. Adams Bound Over To Grand Jury ' Allen D. Adams, 52, of Grants Pass, was bound over to the grand jury yesterday afternoon on bribery charges after appearing before Dis trict Court Judge James Main. He had waived a prelimin ary hearing and statement and was released after posting $2,000 bail. Adams was arrested June 18 by Jackson county sheriff's officers and postal authorities. He is believed to be the sender of an anonymous letter June 10 to Circuit Court Judge H. K. Hanna offering a $500 bribe for a favorable decision in a civil case. Second in Series of Classes Set at Park Registration for the second and final series of swimming classes at the Hawthorne Park pool takes place this week, Darell Huson, city recorder, announced today. The classes are scheduled to begin Monday, July 7, and run daily, Monday through Friday, for . two weeks. Cost for the 10 lessons is $20. Registration, according to Huson, will be held at the pool Wednesday through Sun day this week, from 2 to 8 pjn. ...... Robert Sutherland, head lifeguard, will supervise the classes. Beginners, intermed iates and accomplished swim mers will be eligible for Red Cross certificates on finish ing the course successfully. The first series of classes was completed last Friday. Classroom Teachers Elect Pendleton Man Cleveland (UPI) Ewald Turner of Pendleton, Ore., has been elected national presi dent . of the department of classroom teachers of the Na tional Education association. Turned is an industrial arts teacher at Helen McCune unior high in Pendleton. (Herblock Is on Dulles Sees Threat To Security of U.S. Washington (UPI) Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles said today that the House Appropriations Committee's- $872 -million cut in foreign aid funds "is a grave threat to the security of the United States." If the action stands "'it will doom the Free World to grave losses," ' Dulles told a news conference. . Appeal by Ike Planned President Eisenhower is ex pected to go on radio and TV to persuade Congress and the country of the necessity to re store the funds, Dulles said. Earlier, Senate Republican leaders William F. Knowland said after a White House meet ing that the President feels the House - committee cuts would "jeopardize" handling of U.S. foreign affairs. He said the President expressed hope that "at least a substantial part" of the cut will be re stored by the House. The President asked for $3,942,000,000 for the mutual security program in the new fiscal year starting today. The House committee voted $872 million less than he requested The White House said short ly after Dulles' news confer ence that the President will make a special plea at his Army Moon Rocket Given Green Light Fort Bliss, Tex. (UPI) Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker disclosed today the Army has received a "tenta tive green light" on a specific plan for shooting a rocket to the moon. He said the Army is "work ing day and night" on the plan and hopes to be "ready early and get the. final nod" for for what may be the' nation's first first lunar probe launch ing. The secretary coupled his statement with an announce ment that the Army's Nike Hercules missiles, the first anti-aircraft rockets with atomic warheads, are " now mounted in the defenses of Washington, New York and Chicago. - Areas Withdrawn From Fire District The Medford city council last night withdrew three re cently annexed areas from special districts so residents of those areas would not be subject to double taxation. The areas, Earhart, Phipps and Douglas addition No. 1, previously were in the rural fire district. Had they not been withdrawn, residents would be subject to taxes by the rural fire district as well as the city for fire protection. The council also approved the appointment of Robert L. Baccus, principal of Jackson school, as councilman from Ward III effective . July 3. Baccus will serve out the term of Stanley C. Jones Jr., who resigned recently because he moved from the ward. Portland Weather Wettest, Warmest Portland (UPI) If was wetter than normal in Port land i n June. It also .was warmer than usual. - . The weather bureau said rainfall during the month was 3.14 inches or 1.52 inches above normal for the month. Record for June here is 4.24 inches in 1913. Monthly mean temperature for June was 66.6 degrees compared to a normal of 63.8. Salem (UPI) Multno mah County Circuit Judge Frank J. Lonergan spent $1,631 in campaign contribu tions for the May primary, reports show, Vacation) weekly news conference Wednesday for restoration of the amount cut by the House committee. Dulles said the foreign aid funds are vital in the battle against an intensified cold war campaign being waged by the Communists around the world. Fourth Displays Slated in Area Fireworks d i s p 1 a ys and Fourth of July celebrations are planned Friday. One of the largest fireworks displays between Portland and San Francisco will be featured at the YMCA's an nual show at the Medford High school stadium. The show will include 20 special displays such as the Niagara Falls scene, in addition to the usual candle batteries, foun tains, wheels, and bombs. In " Ashland, the Junior Chamber of Commerce has planned a show at the speed way. Preliminary events there will begin at 7 p.m. with the two-hour fireworks .show slated to' begin "at 8:30. """ Tickets for the YMCA show here will go on sale at the stadium at 6 p.m. with the pre-show activities scheduled to begin at 7 under the direc tion of Dr. Frank Wilson. Mrs. Lanell Wilkes, con cession chairman for the event, has announced that re freshments will be sold by club members beginning at 6 p.m. The .American Legion in CrescentJCity has also planned a July 4 celebration. Activ ities in that city will begin at 10 a.m. with a parade andi carry on through to a fire works display after dark. Short Circuit Results in Outage A short circuit in a trans mission line pole on the south side of Phoenix resulted in power failures in Medford, Ashland, Talent, Phoenix and Fern Valley this morning,, ac cording to Frank Benesh, dis trict manager for California Oregon Power company. The 5 a.- m power failure caused power outage in south west and southeast Medford, Ashland, and Phoenix for 28 minutes, he reported. Normal service in the area was . re stored within 46 minutes of the breakdown. Benesh said that cause of the short circuit has not been determined. Passenger Trains ' Collide in Virginia Alexandria, Va. (UPI) Two passenger trains collided at the Alexandria railroad station today, the dispatcher's office reported. First reports said a number of passengers were injured. - ' Porter Hurls In Gerald Mu Washington (UPI) Rep. Charles O. Porter accused New York Attorney Morris L. Ernst today of "c h a r act e r assassination for a fee" in his investigation of the De Galin-dez-Murphy case. Report Said "Whilwih' The Oregon Democrat, in a soeech Dreoared for delivery in the House, dismissed as a "smear" and "whitewash" Ernst's report absolving the Dominican Republic of any blame in the 1956 disappear ances of Jesus De Galindez and Gerald Lester Murphy. De Galindez, an anu-Tru- jillo scholar and lormer Co lumbia University lecturer, disappeared in New York. Apprehension Grips Families In Eastern Cuba No Progress Made To Win Freedom Havana (UPI) Hnha els kidnaped four and per- naps seven more Americans today, sending a wave of ap prehension through trio nMrlw 100 American families ia Eastern Cuba. The new kidnarjings brniiur. to 48 or 51 the number of Americans.- and Canadians seized in bold nighttime raids by rebel leader Fidel Castrn' men in Oriente Province. Hopei Dim Castro's rebels a I r e a H v were known to be holding 42 Americans and three Cana dians. Hopes for the prisoners' immediate release were dim. A band of eight rehels swooped down on the United Fruit Co. Sugar and Agricul ture . school at . Guam midnight. They seized A. F. Smith of New Hampshire, the agri culture superintendent; J. P. Stevens of Oklahoma, the as sistant superintendent; and two district suDerintendenfj: A. F. Sparks of Indiana and J. G. Ford of South Carolina. An official at the installa tion said the rebels also cut telephone poles in the area. The other three kidnapings could not be confirmed im mediately. Though alarmed, the Amer icans in Oriente Province where Castro's rebels -have their stronghold were under no special guard. They stayed indoors, though, and did not venture out of their homes after dark. The three Americans whose kidnapings had not yet been confirmed were identified in reports from Santiago as ex ecutives of the Ermita sugar mill which is about 25 miles northwest of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo. '"American negotiators ap peared to be making no prog ress toward winning quick freedom for the prisoners de spite U.S. government guar antees, which were demanded by the rebels, that Nayal Base facilities would be denied the Cuban ait force. Stayton Man Enters Plea of Innocent Salem (UPD Daniel Cole, 60, of Stayton, Ore., Monday entered a plea of innocent in Salem District Court on a charge of assault and battery against his aged father. District Judge E. O. Stadter Jr. said he would set trial date later for Cole. Eugene Coie, 88, is now in a nursing home after he was taken by sheriff's officers from behind an electric-wire enclosure be hind the Daniel Cole home in Stayton. Hospital authori ties said the man was suffer ing from malnutrition. ! Two Local Men On Pear Committee Washington -(UPD The Department of Agriculture to day announced new members of the Oregon, Washington, California winter pear control committee which controls the marketing and handling of winter variety pears grown in the three states. ' , . : Members announced today are: Paul Culbertson and R. W. Gray, Medford; Ross R Collie and W. J. Bryan, Hood River; Robert D. McDougall, Wenatchee; G. C. Crossland, Cashmere; F. E. Freshwater and Ray Forman, Yakima; L. W. Veerkamp and J. A. Ho dapp, Placerville; Walter W. Brown, San Jose, and M. Aw Nielson, Santa Clara. New Charge rphy Case Murphy, a Eugene, Ore., flier, disappeared in the Dominican Republic. Porter claims there is evi dence De Galindez was spirit ed out of the United States by agents of Generalissimo Ra fael L. Trujillo, Dominican dictator, aboard a twin-engine plane flown by Murphy. The evidence, he said, indicates that Murphy in turn was liquidated because he ' knew too much. The congressman demanded a congressional investigation to ;, include questioning of Ernsi, Sydney Baron, a New York public relations execu tive, and John Joseph Frank, former FBI agent.