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Newspaper Page Texto o dfine ft of Traiais it V70RRERS PROJECT AGC, Operating Engineers Meet With Mediator Delivery Canal Werk Stopped Today Tremors from the labor dis pute between Associated Gen eral Contractors and the strik ing Operating Engineers un ion, currently under federal mediation in Portland, were felt here today. Work on two sections of the Howard Prairie delivery canal in the Talent project and on the narrowing of the Siskiyou blvd. center strip in Ashland has stopped, accord ing to reports. It was under stood the contractor in each case was complying with an AGC order that all its mem bers halt operations immedi ately on jobs employing mem bers of the striking union. The AGC stated: "A strike against one is a strike against all." Work Stopped Cherf Brothers, Sandkay and Birch, Ashland, reported this morning that work on the Talent project stopped in com pliance with the AGC request, and that approximately 180 workers were idle. The bu reau of reclamation effice at Camp White said the com pany was working on the Howard Prairie delivery canalQ 0 No pickets have been re ported in the Talent project area, however. Other .contrac tors said they were "standing by" to receive official word direct from the AQC. M. C. Lininger anfl Sons, Medford general contractors, announced that work on the Siskiyou blvd. center strip in Ashland also had been halted in compliance with the AGC. Work on the project began Wednesday. Mediator Meets In Portland, meanwhile, a federal mediator was to meet today with AGC and union representatives in an effort to settle the strike. Some $350 million in Oregon construc tion work has reportedly been halted. . The strike started in south west Washington Wednesday and stopped work on the $56 million Swift dam on the Lewis river. It spread into Oregon Thursday, when pick ets appeared at two dams on the Clackamas river east of Estacada. Associated General Contrac tors then called upon mem bers to halt operations on jobs employing members of the striking union. The walkout started after failure to reach agreement on a new contract. In May, a strike of laborers against AGCA shut down ma jor construction in Oregon. The AGC also is negotiating for a new contract with the Teamsters Union. Pendleton (UPI) Oregon life insurance executives open ed their first annual conven tion here today. Portland (UPI) George W. Joseph Jr., 53, Chairman of the State Hydroelectric Commission, died here today. Surplus in General Fund Said About $50 Million Salem (UPI) Oregon's general fund surplus at the end of the fiscal year was about 50 million, the Depart ment of Finance estimated to Qday. The Department also esti mated that the general fund balance at the end of the bien nium on June 30, 1959 would be about $30 million. The figures were prepared for Gov. Robert D. Holmes who commented: Bear Out Accuracy "The figures apparently bear out the accuracy of the revised estimating procedures of the State Tax Commission and the Finance Department and justify our insistence that:. . . . "Calling a special leg islative session to reduce taxes was economically sound and . . . That we hold the line against politically-inspired at tempts to cut them back too far." " - HALT- Medford 20 Pages MEDFORD, Acoustic Method To Detect Nuclear Explosions Agreed Geneva (UPI) Western and Communist scientists, fi nally agreed on one nuclear detection system, took up to day the study . of additional ways of spotting bootleg nuclear blasts. Thursday's session the longest yet resulted in the first substantive agreement of the 10-day-old conference. Acoustic Method A communique announced the experts had agreed to rec ommend the acoustic method be included "in the list of ba sic methods for the detection of nuclear explosions with the aid of a network of control posts." ' Problems of acoustic detec tion have been the only ones discussed so far. Today's su per-technical discussions cen tered on detecting nuclear blasts by measuring radioac tive fallout. The communique indicated each side had won acceptance of at least one of its favorite theories. West Hesitant previously western . scien tists had hesitated about ac cepting the Soviet contention that the sound-waves method of spotting unannounced nu clear explosions was - com pletely suitable. The Soviets in turn accept ed, at least in principle, the Western contention that a worldwide grid of control sta tions must be established to police nuclear tests. In the Western view, this would mean placing stations in Rus sia and Bed China as well as in Western nations and ships at sea. , Fire Results When Tractor Turns Over A half-acre fire resulted north of Sams Valley Thurs day afternoon when a logging tractor turned over and began burning, according to state forestry department officials. No injuries resulted from the accident, officials report, and the fire, which, began at about 3:30 p.m. was quickly controlled. The fire danger is high now, the department warned, and persons are reminded to exer cise extreme caution when burning materials. Third School Budget Election Scheduled ' The third school budget election for Evans - Valley school district has been sched uled for July 25, according to county school officials. The budget to be voted on is $44,160.17, the same amount as was defeated by one vote in the last election. Actual general fund reve nues for the fiscal year which ended July 1 totaled $138 mil lion and were within a few hundred thousand dollars of the amounts estimated for that period, the report showed. Expenditures were about $3 million in excess of the esti mates for the mid-point of the biennium, due mostly to rap id progress of the building program for higher education and state institutions. Personal Income Down Revenues from personal in come and corporate taxes amounted to $105 million or about $2,300,000 less thn fore cast, while revenues from all other sources was $33,400,000 or $2,500,000 above the esti mate. Final surplus figures will not be available for several weeks when all agency ac counts are balanced out, the Finance Department said. TftLEHT OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY A Business Investment With No Hope , Of Ever Making A Profit? (Herhlock Is on Attempts Made To Gangland Washington (UPI) The Senate Rackets Committee re vealed today, that, the FBI is investigating, attempts in Chi cago . and . Detroit to "intimi date" witnesses scheduled .to testify during the current underworld hearings. Chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy said there were two Interim Group to . HoldHearingHere The state interim commit tee on mental retardation and emotional disturbance ; will hold a public hearing at the Jackson county courthouse auditorium Saturday; July 19, John D. O'Donahure, execu tive s e c r et a r y, has an nounced. The hearing will start at 9 a.m. and the morning session largely will be devoted to hearing agencies which now work with mental retardation and emotional disturbance among children and adults. Also to be heard will be indi viduals who wish to express their opinions. The meeting here is aimed primarily at getting a closer look at programs and services being offered in southern Ore gon v for mentally . retarded and emotionally disturbed. Medford's meeting is the 16th held by the committee, which will report its findings to the next legislature. O'Donahue said the after noon hearing, which also will be open to the putflic, will be a discussion among commit tee members. . State Senator Carl Francis of Dayton is chairman of the group. ......''.' Three are Sentenced In Circuit Court Three persons were sen tenced to the Oregon state penitentiary Thursday by Cir cuit Court ,Judge Edward C. Kelly, Sentenced were Charles John Dahm, 18,' of Jackson ville, and Richard Duane Til ley, 23, of 1950 Sunset drive, Medford, both charged with burglary not in a dwelling. Dahm -was sentenced to 14 months and Tilley was sen tenced to 32 months. . The two men were arrested in connection with the bur glary of Hydraulic Jack serv ice. , Also sentenced to 32 months was Max Marvin Mayo, route 1, box 298G, Central Point. Sentenced 1 on a charge of burglary not in a dwelling, Mayo was arrested in connec tion with the burglary last month of Echo Tavern, Shady Cove. HORK Tribune 11, 1958 No. 96 Vacation) Declared Intimidate Witnesses such reported incidents in De troit last weekend and one in Chicago. He said .the Chicago witness is scheduled to testi fy next week in connection with the investigation of gangster infiltration of labor and management groups in that city. Kennedy said the two wit nesses in Detroit are slated to testify later this summer. Criminal Threats Chairman John L. McClel lan (D-Ark.) reported on the attempt to intimidate the wit nesses at the start of today's session. Several alleged mem bers of the Chicago crime syn dicate, including Tony Accar do, its reputed leader, were scheduled for questioning. McClellan said efforts to in timidate the witnesses pro vide the strongest evidence needed to support his asser tion that criminal elements moving into the labor man agement field "threaten the security of our country." He said the committee would start contempt of Con gress action against any per sons who in any way threaten, coerce or otherwise attempt to keep witnesses from testi fying. Rival Hoodlum Groups The committee's investiga tion of underworld penetra tration of business and union groups in the Chicago area has turned up a situation which makes ordinary thiev ery look as innocent as a game of jackstones. It involves a reported at tempt by one group of hood lums to set up a restaurant association in ' competition with another group of hood lums who were running a la bor, racket through another association. In the process, according to the testimony, Abraham Teitelbaum, an association at torney who got his start , as the late mobster Al Capone's lawyer, was in danger of get ing shoved out of his own of fice window. And the two hoodlums who allegedly planned to do the shoving Joseph Weinberg and Paul (Needlenose) La briola themselves -wound up as victims of a gangland slay ing. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 3 7 1, New York .....11 14 2 Narleski,' Constable (7), Martin (8) and Brown; Tur ley and Berra, Howard (8). Chicago .. 1 Boston 6 , Wilson, Lown (8) Bailey; Delock and beret. 8 0 7 2 and Ber- NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh : 7 .7 0 Chicago .... : 2 6 0 Kline. and Hall; Drabow sky. Nichols (5), Henry (6). Hobbie (9) and Taylor. Pouncing Caf Puts End To Squeaking Static From Radio , Iuki, Miss: (UPI) For about a month, Mrs. Sue Vinson Vas continually hav-' ing to chase the cat from atop the radio.- And the radio had been emitting a strange squeak ing sort of static. Finally Mrs. Vinson, re moved the back panel from the radio, with the cat an interested onlooker. A mouse ran out, the cat pounced and the case was closed. Areas of National Forest to Close Because of Hazard Several small areas in the Rogue River National forest having unusually high fire hazards will be closed to en try by proclamation by Gov. Robert D. Holmes, Forest Su pervisor Carroll E. Brown an nounced today.. The closure, effective at midnight tonight, prohibits entry except under permit, and permits will be issued only to persons having busi ness in the areas. A governor's proclamation covering all land in the Rogue River National forest, which was issued July 4, requires the public to refrain from smoking while traveling, and to have an axe, shovel and water bucket when using campfires, except when trav eling as a pedestrian or camp ing at improved, designated and posted campgrounds. Ashland Canyon Closed Ashland canyon has been closed, Brown pointed out, as it is each year as a special pro tective measure for the city watershed. Other areas closed effective at midnight tonight are where timber is being cut near Han ley gulch, Crater - Hurryon creeks, Rabbit Ears creek, Copeland-Bybee creeks. Gin- ke- creek, -W-e-e-dr u f-f-F-l-a-t creeks, McCall creek. Red Blanket creek, Sevenmile, Threemile and Willow creek. None have any special re creation attractions and it is not believed that forest users will be inc onvenienced, Brown said. . ; One area on private land in Siskiyou county, California, was closed because of high fire hazard. Logging opera tions have been conducted in the area, and permits to enter will be issued only to those persons having business there, Brown said. Jury Trial May ConiinueSaturday The trial of the state versus Roger Smith, 106 Crater Lake highway, is expected to continue into Saturday, it was reported today, with the state tentatively scheduled to rest its case this afternoon. The trial entered the third day this morning with two state witnesses testifying. They were Ralph Prouty, Oregon state crime laboratory technician, and Thomas C. Matthews, of the state de partment of geology and min eral industries, Portland. More than a dozen wit nesses have been, called by the state including nine Med ford city police officers. Smith is charged with re moving a safe from Southern Oregon Distributors, 710 South Grape st., on March 30. The trial, in circuit court, is being heard by Circuit Court Judge O. J. Millard. District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder is presenting the state's case with George Rode attorney for the defense. Salem (UPI) Speed the No. 1 driving error con tinues to be the principal kill er in Oregon, an analysis of the 20 fatal traffic accidents in May revealed today. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and warm through Saturday except for some chance of thundershow eri over mountains Saturday evening. Low tonight 60, high Saturday 97. Highest Yesterday 96 Lowest this Morning ... S8 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today .1 7:49 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 4:45 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 1:29 a.m. New Moon July 16 PROMINENT STARS - . . . Altair, low in east at sunset, will be high in southeast , 10:45 p.m. Deneb, in the northeast at sunset, will be high overhead 1:30 a.m. The Pleiades, north of the Moon-. Paid Hotel Bills For Adams Zooms Back in Spotlight 49 Nights Said To Cost $3,096.56 Washington (UPI) Sher man Adams zoomed back into the House influence investi gation today on a carpet of hotel bills paid for him by one of his "dearest friends," Bernard Goldfine. , New records of the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight showed Adams spent 49 nights in three hotels at a cost of $3,096.56 to Gold fine since becoming the Presi dent's aide. Total Higher The committee said "previ ous testimony indicated that Goldfine paid about $2,000 in Adams' hotel bills. Rec ords supplied by Goldfine re flect that the total as to these hotels now is $3,096.56." Some of Adams' hotel chits ran over $100 a day as he signed checks for everything from laundry to parking space, paid by the textile tycoon. The committee late Thurs day released a revised ac counting of Adams' hotel bills. It showed some hitherto undisclosed items. For one thing Adams stayed at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in Bos ton, one of his favorite inns, on Goldfine's cuff as recently as last May 5-6. Investigators Browsing If Adams, the former gov ernor of New Hampshire, had known it, he probably could have spotted some committee investigators browsing around Boston about the same time. The list covered 21 separate visits to hotels by Adams, sometimes with his wife, sometimes with their chil dren, always at Goldfine's ex pense. Adams has insisted these trips were merely . manifesta tion of. a close friendship be tween' the Goldfine and Adams families. The commit tee offered no records to show Adams ever had Goldfine as his house or hotel -guest" in Washington. Postal Officials End Stale Meeting Post office officials from Portland and Washington, D. C, planned to leave Medford today after attending the 24th annual convention of the Ore gon chapter of the National Association of Postmasters here. . George Siedle, assistant postmaster general in charge ton, D. C, discussed problems of transporting mail at the convention's banquet at the Medford hotel last night. Another official, S. G. Schwartz, Portland, regional operations director, told more than 200 postmasters and their wives or husbands from Ore gon pf improvement in the mail service since regional dis tricts were established. The convention started Tuesday, and continued for three days with classes of in struction at Medford High school. General business ses sions were held in the Med ford High auditorium. Tito, Nasser Blame Both Sides Equally Belgrade, Yugoslavia (UPI) A joint statement by Pres idents Tito and Gamal Abdel Nasser blaming East and West equally for cold war ills was considered likely today to bring violent reaction from the Soviet bloc. , Their communique criticiz ed "antagonistic blocs." This was almost a repetition of the Yugoslav Communist Party thesis that equated NATO with the Warsaw Pact. The Soviets and their allies re sponded to this by reading Tito out of the Communist family. This time the Soviets were not expected to go so far since Nasser, president of the' Unit ed Arab Republic, also signed the communique and the Sov iets have been wooing the Egyptian for months. . Soviet Ambassador Called for Protest Washitntgon (UPI) Rus sia n Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov today was sum moned to . the State Depart ment to receive a stiff Amer icen protest against the shoot ing down of an unarmed U.S. Air Force transport plane over Soviet Armenia June 27. ) f BERNARD GOLDFINE 'A Contemptible Lie' Bids Are Opened For Sewer Systems In Two Districts Bids on the Kenwood-Grand-view and Laurelhurst sani tary sewer projects were opened today at city hall. R. A. Heintz company, Port land, submitted the low bid of $427,973.90, which was $2,439.40 aboye the engineer's estimate. City Public Works Director Vernon Thorpe, who opened the ' bids, said the Heintz bid, along with others, would be referred to the city council at its meeting next Thursday. Other Bids Other , contractors and their bids included Lee Hoffman, Inc., Portland, $438,969.10; the two Medford firms of M. C. Lininger and Sons and Tru Mix Concrete company, a joint bid of $479,673.50; and Trio Construction company, Eugene, $91,670.58 on. one schedule of the project only. The Corvallis engineering firm of Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merryfield esti mated $425,534.50 for the whole project and $87,612.50 for Schedule B alone. - Thorpe instructed 'the con tractors that construction of 1,500 feet of trunk, sewer along Hilton rd. would be de layed pending word from the State Sanitary commission that federal aid for this sec tion had been granted. He said federal aid could not be applied retroactively to work already accomplished. , Timber Taxation Measure Approved Portland (UPI) The leg islative subcommittee on taxa tion, for timber and natural resources today approved a measure under which timber lands would be taxed by a new formula. Under the measure, timber land would be taxed by area. The State Tax Commission has ruled that present law calls area all land within the county. .Depletion rates are now based on these areas. Under the new plan, areas would be made into smaller parcels of the county. The subcommittee agreed to sencj its report to the full com mittee which meets August 16 at Medford. Portland (UPI) A suit stemming from last Satur day's fireworks explosion has been filed in Circuit Court: Portland (UPI) The North American Christian convention opened here today. Streetlights Areas May Be Installed Next Month Streetlights for Berrydale, Grandivew and the Jefferson school areas are next on the list for installation, a spokes man for the California Oregon Power company said yester day. The company's crew as signed to' full-time work on the city's streetlight improve ment program is expected to reach these areas next month, according to Frank A. Benesh, district manager for Copco. Railroad Crossings Benesh also estimated that other' workmen would begin installation of 20,000-lumen mercury vapor lamps at three downtown railroad crossings within 60 days. Tive were planned for the Eighth st. crossing, and two each for the Sixth and Main st. crossings. The. lamps are similar in out put to those installed else where along Main and Sixth sts. May 1. New metal standards are re quired for eight of the rail Washington-(UPI) Bern ard Goldfine testified today he gave Christmas gifts to for mer President Truman's chief assistant, who helped him get "a commitment" for a $12 million federal loan. The loan never was made. ' The Boston textile magnate reported his relations with Dr. John R. Steelman, ' the assistant to the "president in the Truman administration, in the fifth day of testimony be fore a House subcommittee in vestigating him and Sherman Adams. Adams, who also received gifts from Goldfine, is the assistant to President Eisen hower. ' Goldfine brought Steel man's name into the Hearings after these developments: Subcommittee counsel Robert ' W. Lishman accused Goldfine of having "tapped the till" of one of his firms for $104,793 a charge hotly denied by the witness. Claims Fox Lied ' Lishman said Goldfine was guilty, in his opinion, of the contempt charge the sub committee was. fast building against him. Goldfine also re jected this charge. The subcommittee wound up its fifth day. of questioning Goldfine without taking di rect action in its steadily building contempt case against him. It directed Gold fine to return at 10 a.m. Tues day. Goldfine denounced as "a contemptible lie" charges by John Fox, Boston promoter and former friend of Goldfine, that he once claimed he had Sherman Adams "in his pock et" and that he also said Adams was not "letting him down" in his troubles with government agencies. Can't Remember Bill Rep. Joseph P.; O'Hara (R.-Minri.) asked Goldfine if he once paid a $900 bill for Adlai E. Stevenson, Democra tic candidate for president in 1952 and 1956. Goldfine re plied "I can't remember." Rep. John Bell Williams (D.-Miss.) told Goldfine- his generosity to Adams, in the form of more, than $3,000 in hotel bills and assorted gifts, was a "perfectly obvious" clue to why he got alleged special treatment from gov ernment agencies. It was O'Hara who started Goldfine off on Steelman. The witness said he had done favors for Steelman as well as Adams. "I sent him (Steelman) some Christmas presents," he said, "if you caU that gifts." "Did you appeal to him to help you in any of your prob lems?" O'Hara asked. Help on RFC Loan Goldfine, who had courted what now appeared an in evitable contempt situation by balking) at numerous other queries during the morning, showed no reluctance at this one. "I did," he replied, adding that "through his connections I got a commitment . '. . for $12 million from the Recon struction Finance . Corpora tion. ' He said the loan was to be used for construction of an underground garage in Bos ton Common. The garage plan fell through, however and the loan was not actually made. Asked what Steelman's role in Berrydale, road crossing lights, while the 79 others along Main and Sixth sts. merely involve a change of lamps. Benesh said the new standards had just been received. Berrydale will receive 20 2,500-lumen lights, according to Copco's present plans. Ten will be installed in the Grand view area, seven of these at various intersections along Crater Lake ave. The Jeffer son school are will receive 13 2,500-lumen lights and two 4,000-lumen- lights. - . , Lights Improved The Copco crew's present block of work includes lights on Eighth, Bartlett, Fir and Front sts. Fifteen existing lights along Eighth St., not counting the railroad crossing area, are being improved by installation of more powerful lamps. One new light is being added. Two 6,000-lumen lights are also being added on the island formed by Eighth and King sts. and Oakdale ave., iipt tee was, Goldfine said "ht done quite a lot of work on that." He said the Truman assistant helped him eet aDDointments with RFC officials. O'Hara Questioned Gold- fine about Fox's testimonv that Goldfine told him he bought a house for Adams. That's not true." Goldfine declared. "... I have never bought anything outside of the rugs and coats that was talked about. As far as the house, or anything like that. that's absolutely not true." uovernor Kept Gifts - O'Hara asked whether Gold- fine said in Adams' presence that Adams "doesn't let his friends down and won't 'let me down," in connection with Goldfine's problems at the Federal Trade Commission, as Fox had claimed. "It's a contimDtible lie." Goldfine said. As for ever savin? he bad Adams in his pocket. Gold- fine asserted: 'Why that's silly. Whv I never did. That's a contempti ble lie." Goldfine said in 1955 he ar ranged to have bolts of cloth sent to all 48 governors and hadn't had any returned yet. ixoicmne stuck bv hi earlier assertions that the questions weren't relevant to the inquiry. He said thev ex ceeded the authority of the. subcommittee looking into! charges that Goldfine got fa vored treatment from eovern- ment agencies as a result of his favors to Adams. Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) had gone to great pains to show this, wasn t so. High-handed Finances He had read a 13-page state ment into, the record in an ef fort to show that Goldfine's "manipulations',' with funds of two Boston firms were relevant and pertinent to the inquiry. - .- .;-. Harris accused Goldfine of having . run his East Boston Co.. and the Boston Port De velopment co. in a high-hand-ed. manner to. eliminate mi nority stockholders.. . . ; -He said this was of proper concern to the subcommittee in its inquiry into whether some firms have received fa vored treatment from federal agencies. The immediate basis for the contempt charge the subcom mittee was building ' "was Goldfine's refusal Thursday to talk about two $20,000 checks he and an associate, the late W. J. McDonald, had ' drawn on the Boston Port De velopment Co. in 1947. Harris, after today's elabo rate technical preparations, renewed the question, and di rected Goldfine to answer. After consultation with his attorneys, Goldfine again re fused to answer. Possible Jail Term Subcommittee members had served notice in advance that this was Goldfine's chance to redeem himself. Failing to do so, they said they would recommend 'that the House charge him with contempt. This could send him to jail. The balking Bostonian, in response to additional ques tions, also declined to say what services he and McDon ald performed for the money drawn from the Boston Port Co., or if the directors of the firm approved of the expendi tures. Grandview according to Copco plans. The crew's schedule in cludes three additional lights on Fir st, eight lights im proved by more powerful lamps on Fir st. and five lights similarly improved on Bart lett st. Three lights are to be added and two improved along Front st. " The crew recently complet ed the addition of 14 lights in the Country Club manor, Hill crest, ' Country Club estates area. A number of other ad ditions and improvements in cluded in the city's program remain to be done. It was ex pected the work would con tinue until late October. City Manager Robert A. Duff launched the program with a special report to the city council last March. The increase in the city's annual rate for streetlight operatioa and. maintenance was esti mated at $6,088.66. The 1958 59 budget allocation was sub sequently increased by $4,-094.38.