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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