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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1958)
o o oQ ii umi ii ! imiaf Til m fiwr Win urn 1 THEE FELLED Strong erratic winds off the trunk, area residents said. The tree Wednesday night toppled this pine tree on is said to be the original tree from which Cherry lane. Tie jvW appeared to lift it the Lone Pine area was named. Thtmdersto'rms Forecast Today Late afte9noon and evening thundeMtonw are forecast for the fourth consecutive day today in southerf, Oregon as , fire fighters continued check ing lightning striHes and pow er company crews worked to restore outages. Several lightning strikes were reported in Medford, and winds blwv tres across power lines, and paused other dam- Overall fruit crop damage ding tfce storms has not been extensive, officials said, but stands orchards west of Phoeftfc Suffered serious hail damage Wednesday night. Some fruit was blown off . trees in yesterday's storm. u The storm left .59 of an inch of rain at the weather bureau (gtation at the Medford air port, bringing the total for the month to 1.35 inches. The total is 1.23 inches above normal for the month. 12 Fires Reported Onlj 1 new small forest fires were reported in yester day afternoon's storm, bring ing the total in southern Ore gon 6ince Tuesday night to 67 lightning strikes. All but 13 fires have been controlled, and crews were ex pected ttf control most of the 'others today. Both the state department of forestry and the forest service planned to fly 0 over mountain areas today in an effort to spot other strikes. Lookouts have been ham pered by morning clouds. Both services exjget several "sleep er" fires. T. S. (Tenny) Moore said a smokejunjper crew was dis patched to a fire in the middle fork of the Rogue, but because of weatjjr Conditions was grounded at Klnath Falls yesterday. graund erev was q dispatched. Foufire vere reported in Rogue Jiver Kstionel forest fronV) yesterday torm, offi cials said) Tfo of them were in the Union0Crek area and two in thft Butt alls area.. All four ere considered G -Nine Inr, District Jfe state department of for. estry reported nine in the southwestern district, three in southern Josephine county eftna six scattered throughout Jackscft county. Strong, erratic winds again accompanied yesterday's o?r, and one Medford wom an teported that it reached tornadic p9oportions. She said Qot out an aluminum awn- iiiq yvii, idineu 11 inxo xne r ajjd forced it through the rof of a house trailer. Other trailers in the same court afcy suffered wind damage, sXsid. Li8itngigstrikes and trees blown - across power lines caused several power failures. ($tajor SasiaQe . Major damage was reported in the ' Prospect area where lightning struck a large transformer bank at the Red Blanket substation one mile (gast o Irospect. The power outage covered the immediate area and rural line regulator was damaged at the Biddle rd. substation in Medford causing a blackout in the east business district. Twelve snfaSer transformers werg eorted damaged: throughout the county. Hardest hit area was Sams Valy with many communi ties reporting periods without power.- Several lightning strikes were reported in the Medford 0 city limits Thursday, accord ing to Medford City firemen. Lightning struck the electric wires at the M. M. Hogan res idence, 1512 East Main St., burning out two fuses and one outlet. No other damage was reported. A firs at the gags of the Leonard B. Nelson residence, 1720 Prune St., at 6:06 p.m Thursday was reported by witnesses as caused by lightning strike. Firemen list ed cause as undetermined. A wall and roof were burned with considerable damage done to stored articles. Firemen also responded to a call on Jackson rd. at the Phipps property where a va cant building was reported struck. No damage was re ported except for electric meter wires. Firemen also stood by until Copco crews arrived at Maple st. and North Central ave., where a power line was blown down. Mrs. Norman Chausse, 2946 Merriman rd., reported light ning hit a hay barn on a farm run by she and her husband. It cracked two large timbers full length and set the barn on fire. She said she and her husband were able to put the fire out. Station Planned In Medford Area Plan for a new television station in the Medford were announced today. area John Williams, formerly a staff member at radio station KMED, president of the recently-incorporated TOT In dustries, Inc., said the firm has applied to the federal communications commiss ion for Channel 10. He added that if an allocation of the chan nel is made to Medford, the firm immediately will apply for a construction permit Williams said 14 local peo ple are associated in the firm, of whom 10 will be financial associates, and four, includ ing him, will be operating personnel. Plans Not Along Some of the company's plans are not yet far along enough to be announced, Wil liams reported. He said a site has been located and is under option. The company plans a low-overhead" type of opera tion, with both network af filiation and a strong empha sis on local programming and service. Williams estimated that the station will cost in the neigh borhood of $110,000 before it can start broadcasting. Fi nancing is assured, he said. Only station here at pres ent is KBES-TV, Channel 5. The new station would be a commercial station on the usual pattern, Williams indi cated. In recent months, a number of different plans for various forms of closed-cir cuit, or subscription, tele vision have been announced, but the new company has no plans for any such operation. Weston, Ore. (UPG Mildred Anderson, 50, of Weston was killed at 7:30 a.m. today when she was struck by a pea viner machine while she was walk ing home after completing her shift at the Lamb-Weston can nery. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable cloudi ness with few scattered after noon and evening thunder storms, mostly over mountains. Low tonight 60, high Saturday 8ft. Temp. Highest Yesterday 80 Lowest this Morning SI Free, to 10 a.m. Today .59 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:45 pjn. Sunrise tomorrow 4:51 a.m. Moonset tonight 8:48 p.m. First Quarter July 23 Right above the Moon tonight is the star. Regulus, and to the right of the Moon is the planet, Mercury, now making a very brief appearance In the eve ning iky. Nasser Confers With Khrushchev On Strategy Beirut, Lebanon (UPD President Gamal Abdel Nasser hurried to Moscow for eight hours of secret strategy con ferences with Premier Nikita Khrushchev immediately after learning of U. S. Marine land ings in Lebanon, Cairo and Domascus radios disclosed to day. Meanwhile, U. S. Marines in Lebanon increased their strength to more' than 6,000 men in a massive reply to Russia's ultimatum to "get out" of the troubled Middle East Furious Demonstrations Global aspects of the de veloping struggle between the Nasser-Communist camp on the one hand and U. S.-led western nations on the other were assuming proportions equal to or overshadowing military developments in Leb anon or in Jordan where Brit ish paratroops arrived Thurs day. Communist powers were whipping their people into furious demonstrations against both the U. S. and Britain. Apparently the U. S. moved swiftly to counter the Khrushchev-Nasser meetings which extended through Wednesday. Warning to Nasser U. A. R. Ambassador Omar Loutfi told the U.N. Security Council in New York today that a U.S. note delivered in Cairo this morning warned Nasser that any attack by United Arab Republic troops on U.S. forces in Lebanon would have consequences of 'dangerous proportion." The note said the landing of American troops was-de signed to uphold the- inde pendence of Lebanon and pro tect U.S. nationals, Loutfi told the council, adding that it also expressed Washington's desire to withdraw the forces as soon as possible. U.S. Flag Torn Down Anti-American or anti-Brit- ish demonstrations have been reported ' in at least eight cities in the last three days. In Potsdam, East Germany, a mob hauled down a U.S. flag, scrawled "Ami (Americans) go home" and then hauled it up its standard again before the U.S. Mission. In the swirl of other de velopments, official sources in New Delhi reported that Prime Minister Jawaharlai Nehru today personally re quested the U.S. to withdraw from Lebanon. The request was made in a message to President Eisenhower handed to the U.S. Ambassador m New Delhi, the sources said. Fanfani Sends Messages It also was disclosed that Premier Amintore Fanfani of Italy had sent "urgent" per sonal messages to Eisenhower and to West German Chan cellor K o n r a d Adenauer. Their contents were not dis closed. In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan held new urgent conferences with his defense chiefs. Camp White Hospital Issue Slated Monday The Camp White hospital issue will be taken up by the House Veterans committee Monday when Rep Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) wilLtestify in favor of establishing a 100 bed veterans' hospital there, A. Robert Smith informed the Mail Tribune from Washing ton, D.C., today. The committee launched its overall inquiry into VA hos pital policy this past week but put off until Monday the Camp White issue. Porter is armed with facts Eugene Orr, local merchant, helped com pile to support the hospital proposal. ' -.-T-,:. FIRE IN STORM Fire during yesterday's listed the cause as undeterrmined, but wit storm damaged this garage owned by L. B. nesses in the area said that the garage was Nelson, 1720 Prune St., Medford. Firemen struck by lightning. (Knackstedt photo) Bpssiais Medford 20 Pages MEDFORD, 'Let Me Live in a of the (Herblock Is Council Agrees to Meet With Planners The city council resolved yesterday to meet in open ses sion with the planning com mission prior to a public hear ing Aug. 21 on the Berrydale zone changes. The resolution followed charges by William Doern-bach,- Mace rd., that the plan ning commission "did not have proper public hearing" when it considered . the changes Monday. After the hearing, the commission had recommended that the zone changes be approved: ' "I didn't pay any attention to him," M. Thomas Wray, planning commission presi dent, said today on learning of Doernbach's criticism. Doernbach asked that the recommendation, which ' he opposed, be returned to the commission for reconsidera-; tion. Mayor John W. Snider questioned this "from' the standpoint of harmony, "and urged that the .council not antagonize the commission. It was evident that the action requested by Doernbach would have amounted to a challenge of the commission's cbmpetence. Mora Hearing Delay Councilman Donald Hansen then moved that the council's public hearing on the changes be delayed until Aug. 21, and that the council and commis sion meet in the meantime for a joint study of the issue. He added that this should be an open meeting. The council gave its unanimous approval, although no date for the meet ing was discussed. Doernbach's attack on the commission centered on an al leged "deal" between Harold Farr, proprietor of the Valley Center Trailer park, and cer tain commission members and assistants. He added however that by "deal" he meant "nothing derogatory." He re ferred to an off-the-record dis cussion between - Farr and certain members of the com mission at Monday's hearing as evidence it was' "not a pro per public hearing." "Look in on the next plan ning commission meeting and see how they're conducted," he told the council. . Both Monday and yester day, Doernbach contested a particular zone change which would classify a portion of the Valley Center subdivision as light industrial. He said he spoke for other resident of1 OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY House by the Side' Road " ' Tir on Vacation ) the subdivision as well as him self in stating the entire sub division had been zoned re stricted single family and should remain so. The portion in question, it was reported Monday, is used by .Farr's trailer park for storage and recreational purposes. "We would like to go out there and look at that area with you," Mayor Snider as sured Doernbach. Doernbach said he would be happy to show it to Mayor Snider or members of the council any time. "All I showed them," Farr said today, "was what my boundaries consisted of, and they zoned all four portions of my property as one unit." With reference to the dis cussion at Monday night's hearing, Farr said: "They just showed me the map and said, 'Are these your boundary lines?' and I said, 'Yes.' " Salem (UPD Public Utility Commissioner -Howard Mor gan has signed an order au thorizing the transfer of prop erties of The Dalles Natural Gas Company to Northwest Natural Gas Company for merly Portland Gas and Coke Company. IBaseba.ll NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee 3 7 0 Chicago 5. 8 0 Willey and C r a n d a 1 1; Bridges and S. Taylor. State Gas Tax Increase Said Needed For Money To Match Federal Road Aid Salem (UPD State Highway Engineer W. C. Williams said today that a one-cent increase in the state gas tax would be necessary if Oregon wishes to take advantage of federal matching funds for highways during the next 10 years. Approval Asked Williams Asked the High way Interim Committee here to approve this increase. He also proposed a $5 increase in auto license fees to provide additional funds for secondary projects which do not have federal match money. The license fee is now $10 a year. Tha one-cent increase in Stone Tribune 18, 1958 No. 102 Diplomats Confer With Military Men on Strategy Washington (UPD Anglo American diplomatic and mili tary chiefs in a new round of conferences mapped strategy today against anti western plotters seeking to extend their grip on the Middle East. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and British For eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, flanked by military experts, began their second day of talks. Dulles went to his confer ence . with, Lloyd direct from a Cabinet meeting . presided over by President Eisenhow er, -f ' r, :. ; i Review of Crisis It was understood that the leaders are focusing their im mediate plans on the touchy situations in Lebanon and Jordan where U.S. and Brit ish troops are propping up ex isting pro - western ' govern ments threatened by the United Arab . Republic with the encouragement of Russia. At the Cabinet meeting, Dulles presented a review of the Middle Eastern crisis "as it stands this morning," White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty reported. Grants Pass Youth Drowns in Pool Ashland Charles William Ogle, 18, freshman at South ern Oregon college, drowned this morning at Twin Plunges. He was one of a group of 10 college students who arrived early for an' 11 a.m. swim ming class, Ashland police re ported. The boy was the son of Mrs. C. L. Ogle and the late Dr. Ogle of Grants Pass. Ash land firemen and police at tempted for more than an hour to revive the boy after he was pulled from the bot tom of the pool ty two college students shortly after 11 a.m. The boy was a member of one of the classes of private swimming lessons taught by a college instructor. The in structor, according to Ashland police, had not arrived at the time of the accident. Police re ported that the pool life guard was checking equipment at the time of the accident. gas tax would provide $45 million for state projects dur ing the 10-year period. In ad dition, $12 million would go to counties and $6,300,000 to cities. The $5 license increase would provide $30 million to the state for the 1957-1966 period. It would also provide $8 million to the counties and $4,200,000 to the cities. Short in 1960 The present Oregon gas tax is 6 cents a gallon. With pres ent revenues the state can match the federal funds avail able for the interstate system next year but will be short $9,600,000 in I860, Williams WIND DAMAGE William B. Barnum Jr., Barnums said they can save most of the" looks over peach trees damaged in orchard fruit, but 10 per cent of the trees were a north of Phoenix Wednesday evening. The complete loss when wind tore off limbs. Cairo Warned Against Attack On U. S. Forces United Nations, N.Y. (UPI) The United States has serv ed notice on Cairo that if United Arab Republic troops attack American forces in Lebanon, the consequences will be "of dangerous propor tion." U.A.R.. Ambassador Omar Loutfi told the U.N. Security Council a note to that effect had been delivered by the U.S. to the Foreign Office in Cairo this morning. To Uphold Independence The note said the landing of American troops was de signed to uphold the inde pendence of Lebanon and pro tect U.S. nationals, Loutfrtoid the council, adding that it also expressed Washington's desire to withdraw the forces as soon as possible. "It said, that the ' U.A.R. must understand that if U.S. troops are attacked by troops of the U.A.R. or under U.A.R. control, and if the United Mark Goldy Resigns From Commission The resignation of Mark A. Goldy from the city planning commission was announced by Mayor John W. Snider at last night's city council meet ing. The council approved it without comment. Goldy, in a letter dated July 10, -charged the council with indifference and lack of Council Awards Sewer Contracts The city council awarded a contract yesterday for con struction of the Kenwood Grandview and North Laurel- hurst sanitary sewer system to R. A. Heintz, Portland. The announced grand total of the bid is $428,368.50. The council also awarded a contract to W. H. Conrad. Medford, for construction of a sanitary sewer on Siskiyou blvd. .from Modoc - ave. to White Oak dr. The announced bid was $6,529.75, a sizeable reduction from an earlier bid by Conrad, which had been rejected. Ash Lake, Minn. (UPD Volunteer searchers today sought a little brother and sister who disappeared into the wilderness. told the committee The Interim Committee did not take any action on the proposed increase, but Chair man Al Flegel, Roseburg Democrat, complimented Wil liams on the completeness of his report. , Williams said there were 12 states with 7-cent gas taxes. Washington has a 6.5-cent levy and California is the same as Oregon. The engineer told the com mittee that under present plans it will take 26 years to improve the state's second ary system. The federal pro jects will be completed!in 13 years. States is convinced they have instructions from the U.A.R., then the consequences will be of dangerous proportion," Loutfi said. The fourth day's debate on the Middle East crisis opened with a reply by Lebanese Am bassador Karim Azkoul to a number of minor points pre viously raised. Rejection Seen Certain It appeared certain that the council would reject prob ably late today rival Ameri can and Soviet resolutions calling respectively for the creation of a U.N. police force and for the immediate .with drawal of U.S. and British troops from the Middle East , Failure of the veto-strapped 11-member council to agree on either resolution was like ly to send the crisis to the 82-member General Assembly while leaving American and British armed forces on emer gency duty in Lebanon and Jordan. cooperation in its relations with the planning commission. He said the council in many cases "ignored and reversed" the commission's recommen dations "without proper or any investigation and with out consultation." Devote Much Time ; , The Medford insurance and real estate broker said he had been a member of the com mission for the past several years and had "devoted much time" to matters coming be fore it. He said the commission had "taken into consideration the welfare of the general public" and "the rights of the people" and had made its recommen dations "without influence by pressure from individuals or groups. "Notwithstanding," he con tinued, "the time and effort expended by the planning commission and its desire to maintain a system of zoning and planning for the benefit of the people of Medford as a whole, the council, in many cases, : has ignored and re versed the recommendations of the commission and the recommendations and advice of its employed planning and zoning experts. ' 1 ' Without Consultation "These acts of the council apparently have been without proper or any investigation and without consultation with the planning, commission. "An active planning com mission can be of great as sistance to a city council and the people ' of a city. How ever, if a city council is in different to or ignores the commission's work and rec ommendations, or does not cooperate with it," then the planning commission may as well be abolished.- " . "I feel that under present conditions my services as a member of the planning com mission ' of the city of Med ford are of no benefit to the people of the city of Medford and are a waste of my time and effort." Washington (UPI) The investigation of Bernard Gold fine took a breather today. Demonstrators Surge Through, Police Lines Moscow (UPI) Russian demonstrators shouting "get out of Lebanon" sureprf through police lilies guarding the U.S. Embassy today and threw inkwells and stones through the embassy win dows. Intervention Denounced In a nearby square, anoth er throng of Muscovites esti mated at 50,000 to 100,000 massed at a rally denouncing Anglo-American intervention in the Middle East. Still other demonstrations broke out in front of the Brit ish Embassy. At the U.S. Embassy, three lines of police battled with the surging mob which wav ed banners and kept up a continuous chant of "Get out of Lebanon," "Shame on America" and "Aggressors go home." Flags Torn Dorn Demonstrators at the Brit ish Embassy carried placards with slogans "Hands off Jor dan," "Hands off the Arab countries" and "We demand the withdrawal of Brish troops from Jordan." In East Berlin, Communist mobs tore down the Ameri can and British flags at the U.S. and British Military Liaison Mission offices and threw stones at the U.S. build ing and vehicles parked around it. ' . The city seemed alive with Muscovites who thronged to Vostaniye , Square to hear speakers denounced the U.S. and Britain. ' United Press International correspondent Colette Black- more reported from the scene: "The whole street as far as I can see is a sea of people and a forest of slogans." Nothing of the kind had been seen in Moscow before. An estimated 15,000 to 20,- 000 persons jammed the street in front of the U.S. Embassy. Police struggled to fend "the people off, and finally pushed the crowd back across the street. In front of the embassy the demonstrators sailed paper disks into the air and threw sticks, stones and bottles of ink at the 10-story building. Some of the missiles reach ed as high as the ninth floor, indicating sling shots and air guns were used. Myelins United Nations, N. Y. (CPU The United Nations Se curity Council late today rejected Russia's demand that American and British forces be ordered out of - Lebanon and Jordan immed iately. . The vote was 8 to 1 with 2 abstentions, with only. Russia, favoring its own res olution. Sweden and Japan abstained. Russia then vetoed the United States, resolution to send an international police force into Lebanon under the' U.N. flag. The vote was 9 to 1 with Sweden abstain ing. Russia's negative vole was the 84th Soviet U.N. veto. London (UPI) The So viet Union today denounced the Anglo-American inter vention in Lebanon and Jordan as "unprovoked ag gression." It said it "would have to take the necessary steps" dictated by the in terests of its own security. O
