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o 53rd Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers Recommended To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 12 JO ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call pleas notify offie thus eliminating special messenger service. IViEDFORD RIBUIE A feature story about a pear picking hool c onducted at Soihera Oregon Sales, Inc., Medford. appears on page 14 of today's Mail (Tribune. United Press . Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 5 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1958 No. 103 o G m m p-s-h.-w;tihi i.istvw mm mr mm mi Lake load Gets PBfo Approval As Forest Highway The bureau of public roads has approved the Lake of the Wodfts route between Med ford an8 KlamjRh Falls for inclusion on the forest high way network, it was reported Saturday. The county court of Kla math county was notified of the action. Word of the de cision had not yet reached the Jackson county court Sat urday. Approval of two other ag- Public Hearing Set on Use of Site for Dumping A public hearing on the proposal to use a site in the Jacksonville area for a gar bage dump will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, before the county planning commission, according to Lloyd Selby, commission member. A number of Jacksonville area residents, the Jackson ville mayor and city council and the city attorney are ex pected to attend. Ervin B. Hogan, Jackson ville city attorney, said, "at the present time there is noth ing in the process concerning legal action. The citizens of the area have generally re quested the meeting." Plant to Us Dump The City Sanitary Service plans fo use the new site for garbage dumping regardless of the objections. A Boitano, operator of ; the service, main tained Friday. "The dumping spot we plan to use is at least a mile away from the nearest habitation," Boitano added. "We can move the dumping even further away, but I don't think it will be necessary," he said. Although all the county planning commissioners have been notified by mail of the meeting, Boitano said he had not. He said his company still plans to start dumping on the site about Aug. 1. His comp any recently purchased 360 acres which contains several canyons. The service will discontinue the garbage dumping dump later, Boitano said. The lat ter is in the Camp White area. Both sites are considered un suitable by the company. Family May Order Autopsy Inta Death An autopsy into the cause of death of Charles William Ogle, 18, who died at Twin Plunges in Ashland Friday, may be ordered, local offi cials said Saturday. Death was believed from drowning, at first. friends told Ashland au thorities that Ogle went to the pool early to attend a swimming class and was seen at the edge of the pool. How ever, no one saw him go into the water, pool officials said. Gregg Ljninger and Max Hieken, both of Ashland, saw Ogle in the pool and pulled him out, officials said. Arti ficial respiration was per formed at poolside, but Ogle did not respond to the at tempts to revive him. Family members indicated to local .officials that the fam ily may order an autopsy into the cause of death. Sports Bulletins Salt Lake City (CPD Big First Baseman R. C. Stevens broke up the game in the 10th inning" with a 425 foot home run last night to give Salt Lake City a 5-4 Pacific Coast league decis ion over San Diego. Sacramento (tPD Sac ramento, paced by Dick Cole's first home run of the year, defeated Spokane last night 6-1 to take a two game lead in the PCL series. Camp White Eugene McCulloch Chain Saw de feated the Klamath Falls Basinetles. 5-4, and the Rogue Valley Dairy Maids. 9-7. in women's Softball games her last night. encies, the U.S. forest service and the state highway com mission, is still needed, but this is believed to be a fore gone conclusion, as both have informally approved such ac tion. The inclusion of the route on the forest highway system mean that federal funds will be available for construction of the route as a high-standard, all-weather highway. It will be maintained by the state. The route is a major link in the "Winnemucca-to-the-Sea" proposal for an east west highway, long lacking in the southern Oregon and northern California area. Klamath Commis sioner Charles Mack said it is an ticipated the improvement of the section can be completed by 1960, and that if final ap proval is given right away, engineering surveys could start this year. The route would succeed the steep, twisting Green Springs high way as the major trans-Cascade highway south of the Willamette pass. ' Much of the present route is already improved. The part from Klamath Falls to Lake of the Woods is paved, as is the section from Medford nearly to McAllister Soda Springs. Just' over 17 miles of the route in the Rogue River National forest, be tween the soda springs and Lake of the Woods, needs im provement, including widen ing, grading and paving. Five miles of it is in Klamath county and 12 miles in Jack son county. Oregon Mountain Tunnel Approved Grants Pass A California highway interim committee has aDDroved construction of a tunnel under Oregon moun tain on Highway 199 near the Oregon border, according to word received here. The committee met in Cres cent City Wednesday. Engi neering work on the project has been ordered started, it was Reported. The project, a multi-million-dollar iob. would elimin ate more than six miles of twisting route on the Red wood highway, and the re ports indicated that other por tions' of the highway on the California side of the border would be brought up to high- standard construction. Elwood Hussey, former Cave Junction mayor and lone a eood roads advocate in southern Oregon, attended the California senate interim com mittee meeting, and brought word of its action here. Republican Leaders Hold Salem Meeting Salem (UPD Some 190 Re publican party leaders and workers from throughout the state met here Friday night to fire the opening shot of the approaching general election battle. The State Central Commit tee's Policy and Action Com mittee laid out some basic campaign strategy. Mental Health Program Expansion May Increase Aid Expansion of the Jackson county mental health program to a regional basis might lead to increased state support, one member of a legislative in terim committee said here yesterday. Dr. Forrest E. Rieke, repre senting the state board of health on the Interim Com mittee on Mental Retardation and Emotional Disturbance, suggested that Jackson county consider broadening its serv ices to include other, less equipped counties. "Can you conceive of your program enlarging into a re gional program?" he asked representatives of local agen cies at the meeting. "Do you need state- funds for regional use or just for county use?" he added. Asked afterward if he' and other committee members thought the legislature would grant additional . funds more readily to a regional program, "Baghdad On (Herblock Is Outstanding Bonds In Jackson County Total $5 Million A total indebtedness of $5, 898,750 in outstanding bonds has been reported by County Treasurer Karl Janouch, for the fiscal year ending June 30. The bonds are for the ir rigation and school' districts in the county. Since July 1, 1957, $905, 000 new issues for school bonds have been registered for an increase in outstand ing bonds of $469,500. Net in crease in bonded indebted ness for the county schools is $561,250.52. During the fiscal year Eagle Point Irrigation dis trict paid $28,034.83 to clear it of any indebtedness with Gold Hill, Medford, and Tal ent . : Irrigation districts, de creasing their net indebted ness by $78,609.49 -leaving i $352,500 in outstanding bonds, it was reported. MID Bonds Medford Irrigation district has $152,000 outstanding bonds, and decreased their net indebtedness by $33, 816.48 during the fiscal year; Talent; $186,000 bonds, de creased net debt by $14, 938.43; and Gold Hill, $14,500 bonds, decreased net debt, $1,522.70. . Bonds outstanding and in crease or decrease of net in debtedness during the fiscal year for the individual county school districts are as follows: Jacksonville, $125,000 bonds, $9,391.53 decrease; Griffin Creek, $95,000 bonds, $10,- 695.72 decrease; Ruch, $57,000 bonds, $797.52 decrease; Phoe nix, $192,000 bonds, $30, 404.97 decrease; Ashland, $522,000 bonds, $77,435.30 decrease. Central Point, $934,000 bonds, $104,885.22 increase; Eagle Point, $406,000 bonds, $72,823.33 increase; Lone Pine, $114,000 bonds, $6, 583.64 decrease; f alent, $153, 000 bonds, $18,473.40 de crease; Rogue River, $75,500 bonds, $1,352.42 increase; Ap plegate, $14,500 bonds, $2,- 162.73 increase;- Elk-Trail, $55,000 bonds, $24,131.65 in crease; Prospect, $118,000 bonds, $35,458.74 decrease; Evans Valley, $45,000 bonds, $16,109.20 decrease. Shady Cove, $34,000 bonds, $8,480.70 decrease; Butte Falls, $15,000 bonds, $382.02 increase; Howard, $67,000 he replied they thought it might. "We feel the strong should help the weak," he said.' Sen. Carl Francis, commit tee chairman, said he was very impressed with Jackson county's progress compared to many other parts of the state. Local officials, while stress ing their financial needs, ap peared skeptical of expan sion. "There is a fierce belief in local government and local control," said Mrs. Kay Crow ell, juvenile officer of the Jackson county juvenile de partment. She said it was "pretty dif ficult' 'to get counties togeth er, because of "widely differ ing levels of understanding and interest." She added that a regional program might have a better chance if the state established it. Dr. Harry Danielson, dis The Subway" I on Vacation) bonds, $7,374.06 decrease; Medford, $2,523,750 bonds, $577,199.07 increase. County Court Says Surplus from Past Years Is $155,713 The statement that the Jackson, county government has a surplus of more than a million dollars in its treasury is false, according to members of the county court. v . The actual net balance sur plus from the fiscal year 1957-58 is $155,713.02, ac cording to the county treasurer's.-records j -the county- court stated. Explaining this statement, the county court pointed out that the cash advanced to the budget totals $1,036,070.23, all of which has been allocat ed already. Estimated receipts for O and C funds total $1, 560,141.86. Estimated miscel laneous receipts total $839, 675. These amounts make a total county budget of $3, 435,887.09, the county court stated. The county treasurer's rec ords show that the cash bal ance on hand as of June 30, 1958, was $1,326,895.64. Out standing warrants for the same date totalled $135,112.: 39. This sum, when subtract ed, brought the cash operat ing fund balance of June 30 to $1,191,783.25. However, the funds advanced from this total for the 1958-59 budget amounted to $1,036,070.23, resulting in a net balance of $155,713.02. "Further study of the rec ords reveal that over a five year period from 1952 to 1958, average income from all sources other than taxes was $2,385,595.73," the county court stated. "This year's esti mated income was set at a to tal of $2,399,816.86. Of this $1,560,141.86 is estimated to come from the O and C fund and $839,675 from the miscel laneous receipts." "Also a study of these rec ords would indicate that funds at the end of the 1958-59 tax year would be less than at the close of the 1957-58 year," the court said. trict psychiatrist for the Ore gon state board of health and psychiatric consultant to the health ofifcers of Douglas, Jackson and Klamath coun ties, agreed with Mrs. Crowell on the "sovereignty" of coun ties in southern Oregon. But he maintained that the pro gram must be "grass roots" and not imposed from above. Mrs. Henry Padgham, rep resenting the' Jackson County Mental Health committee, recommended that existing facilities be restricted to this county .i She said it was gen erally understood that Klam ath county wanted its own program and that Josephine county was not too interested. ; The local officials appeared all too conscious of current deficiencies in Jackson coun ty's program despite admira tion expressed by some com mittee members. Dick Jones, president of the board of the Southern Oregon Child Guid ance here, outlined several Danielson Files Acceptance of Nomination Friday Also Answers Suit Filed by Medfordite Robert G. Danielson Friday officially filed an acceptance of his certificate of nomina tion, according to County Clerk Bereth P. Hopkins. He also filed an answer to a complaint by Richard J. House, Medford, contesting Danielson's eligiblity for the district court judgeship. In his answer, Danielson request ed that the action be dismis sed. He stated that he, Daniel son, had received the greater number of votes cast during the primary election accord ing to the final vote canvass made on May 29. Danielson had 7,537, and E. Roy Ba shaw, Medford city attorney, 7,308. 10 Days Elapsed Danielson stated . further that at the time the petition was filed by House, more than 10 days had elapsed since the final canvass of election re turns. The petition was filed beyond the time allowed by law, he claimed. "This court has no juris diction under the facts al leged ; and the court lacks jurisdiction to render valid judgment," Danielson con- ! eluded in his complaint. In his complaint, Richard J. House stated that at the time of election Danielson was not eligible for the of fice of district court judge. "Prior and subsequent to the May primary election, Danielson was not a resident of the county," House stated in his complaint. "He had an nounced, his ineligibility and had withdrawn." Says Bashaw Nominated House asked in his com plaint that the court deter mine that Xanielson , was not nominated and Bashaw was "duly nominated as the cand idate receiving the next to highest number of votes." The county clerk mailed a certificate of nomination to Danielson following receipt of an opinion from Attorney General Robert Y.' Thornton last Monday. Thornton direct ed Mrs. Hopkins to issue a certificate of nomination to Danielson. The controversy over the election came as a result of Danielson's moving from Ash land to Klamath Falls prior to the primary. Mrs. Hopkins deferred issuing a certificate of nomination until the at torney general's opinion was received, on the advice of the district attorney. Estimates of Fair Budget Are Accepted Salem (UPD Estimates for the 1956-61 Oregon State Fair budget some $200,000 in ex cess of the present biennium budget have been accepted by the State Fair Commission. Fair Manager Howard Ma ple said Saturday that - the total budget estimates for the next biennium are $1,287,478. The State Finance Depart ment will study the proposed budget and its final approval rests with the 1959 legisla ture. Beirut, Lebanon (UPD Syrian troops are stepping up their military activities near the Lebanese border, travel ers reaching here from Da mascus said Saturday. 'unmet needs for future ex pansion." In regard to finances, he urged that support be not only greater but more stabilized. He noted the immediate need for a resident clinical psy chologist, so that the clinic could live up to its name and greater teamwork could be achieved among , other staff workers. He urged greater co ordination as well between the various services, possibly achieved through establish ment of a social service ex change. Other local speakers empha sized the lack of adequate teachers for retarded children capable of being educated. Alf Mekvold, Jackson county superintendent o'f schools, and Mrs. Una Inch, former assist ant superintendent in charge of special education, describ ed the success of a pilot pro gram involving two classes at Talent for 30 retarded chil dren. But Mekvold said there Alrasteiiw Eib fir Sunlit (EwfeiMts o ,i i : Mideast Rebels Hit U. 5. Planes With Rifle Fire Tension Rising for Past Two Days , Beirut, Lebanon (UPD Mideast rebel shots that hit three American warplanes re sounded globally Saturday night with a Russian warning that a world catastrophe could result from American and British "aggression" in Lebanon and Jordan. The Lebanese front heated up with disclosure that two U. S. Navy carrier planes and a transport loaded with mar ines had taken rifle fire hits. In addition, America suf fered its first 'casualty in the Lebanon action with the death of a Navy pilot whose fighter crashed in territory where rebel snipers had been firing. Villagers See Crash Nearby villagers who saw the crash said, however, that they did not believe the Navy plane had been hit by rifle fire. The disclosures of the shoot ings and the crash preceded an ominous warning by Sov iet Premier Nikita S. Krush chev that "the guns are al ready1 beginning to' flre"aiid1 calling for a five-power sum mit conference Tuesday to avert "the world's greatest ca tastrophe." Rebel snipers hit a four-engine marine corps transport as it glided low for a landing here yesterday morning. They put two bullets into the plane. One of them narrowly missed the navigator. The transport was loaded with marines. Tension Rising Tension has been apprecia bly rising here for the last two days. The long-dormant rebels Saturday attacked Leb anese government headquar ters in downtown Beirut. One contingent invaded the American Presbyterian mis sion school, then , insurgents opened up a rifle and grenade assault on the government headquarters across the street. Rebel forces had been quiet in that area since the marines landed Tuesday. The sudden heat-up on the situation was coincident with the completion, of . an airlift from Turkey bringing in 1,700 U. S. Army paratroopers to join the marines already strung out on an 11-mile .de fense line. The American combined force here now to tals about 9,000 men the size of the Lebanese army it self. Quiet prevailed in Jordan, where 2,000 British para troopers found little to com bat except the blazing sun, and in Baghdad, Iraq, where an army-rebel coup set off the new Mideast crisis last Mon day. were 187 others in the county system for whom no special facilities could presently be provided. Committee members dis cussed the expansion and lo cation of state institutions during a business meeting in the afernoon. While Rep. Grace Peck urged additions to the present Fairview Home in Salem to meet immediate needs, others, including Dr. Rieke, asked consideration of a second large institution. Don Dawson, principal of Fair view, spoke afterward in fa vor of local institutions as sup plements to Fairview. It was revealed that the present waiting list figure for admission to Fairview was 434, with a time lapse of often two years or more be tween commitment and ac tually entering the Home. The current population of the in stitution was estimated to be 2,200, with 400 more beds being installed. President's Policy Should Get Support By People, HST Says By HARRY S. TRUMAN Notth American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. Copyright. 1958, by Harry S. Truman (Reproduction of this article in whole or in part is forbidden without written authorization.) The situation in the Middle East is one of extrame danger, and the President having taken a first and necessary step, the United States and the free nations of the West must be alert, determined and exceedingly careful not to leave any room for misunderstanding as to what we are prepared to do at all stages. 1 Our objective is to prevent a third world war. Our aim is to ensure the peace of the world, and we have devoted our wealth and energies to that end at great sacrifice. The President has made a momentous decision and pro claimed a policy which every citizen of the United States should support. Bi-Partisanship in Policy ' I hope, too, that we will find a way to create a atmos phere of genuine bi-partisanship in which our foreign policy can be supported by all citizens. For it is necessary that those who are trying to destroy the free world clearly understand that we will unanimously support the man who takes the leadership and- that man necessarily will have to be the President of the United States. For some time I have been worried about the steadily worsening prospects for peace and for the arrangements and organizations we have set up to help keep the peace of the world. I have been frankly concerned that the same fate that overtook the League of Nations of Woodrow Wilson might also befall the United Nations. This would be a great tragedy, and I expect that many anxious generations would pass before there could be built another international organi zation to cope with the recurring dangers of war. ! . (Continued on Pag 2) C re ws Se n t to Fo u r More Fires Caused Wfi-s.r.t,.':; By Lightning Bolts More "sleeper" fires from last week's thunderstorms in southern Oregon are expected to be spotted by lookouts this week end, forest agency rep resentatives said Saturday. Crews were dispatched to four fires on land protected by the state department of forestry yesterday. They all were reported to be small fires. ' A total of 78 lightning strikes were reported in the southwest Oregon district of UAR, Iraq Sign Defense Treaty London (UPD The United Arab Republic and the revo lutionary government of Iraq Saturday signed a treaty of mutual defense providing that both countries will "stand in one rank" against any aggres sion, Damascus . radio re ported. The treaty does not bring Iraq into the Syrian-Egyptian UAR itself. UAR President Gamal Ab del Nasser and a delegation of Iraqi leaders in Damascus reached agreement on the treaty, the radio said. The treaty has the effect of putting teeth into Nasser's warning in Damascus Friday that the Arab bloc will "take arms" against any interven tion in Iraq, where pro-Nasser elements yiolently overthrew the pro-western government last Monday. Two Men Shot Near Independence Farm Dallas, Ore. (UPD Two men were shot early Saturday on the Sunset Farms near Inde pendence, the Polk county sheriffs office said, when one of the farm owners mistaking ly connected them with labor trouble that had cropped up over Mexican labor employed in the bean harvest. The wounded men. Louis Paul Hayes, bean field em ployee, and Fred Tibbett, em ployed in a Philomath lumber mill, were taken to Salem Memorial hopsital, where their-condition was reported not serious. No charges have been filed. the state department of for estry and in Rogue River Na tional forest. All but a few of them have been extinguish ed. Crews were dispatched to fires near Ft. Klamath, Bessie creek and in the Butte Falls areas yesterday by the agen cies. The fourth fire was near the mouth of the Little Ap plegate river, and a state crew was dispatched to the scene yesterday afternoon. Patrol with Plan The forest service yester day patrolled the forest with a plane in an attempt to lo cate eight strikes reported last week which have not yet been found. The fires may have been extinguished by rain accompanying the stoians, officials said. The forest service had men on three fires Saturday, the only "live" ones from a total of 23 found. Thirty-one strikes were reported since Tuesday Tuesday night when the series of storms started. State department - of for estry personnel reported, 47 strikes last week, with but one extinguished. The remain ing one is in the Butte Falls area, which was discovered yesterday afternoon. Talent Project Workers Still Idle Contractor Bill Gross . is reportedly still at work re moving graves from Hill cem etery to make way for the en largement of Emigrant lake. And clearing work continues, it is understood, in the vicin ity of Howard Prairie dam. ' But elsewhere on the Tal ent reclamation project, near ly 400 construction workers employed by four major con tractors in millions of dollars worth of construction work remain idle. 1 Their employers have sus pended operations in compli ance with an order by the As sociated General Contractors to halt work- in reply to a strike begun July 9 against certain AGC members by the Operating Engineers union. Two contractors complied July 11, and the other two fell into line July 15 and 16. The Teamsters union has since joined the strike. As yet, no pickets have appeared in the Talent project area." Geneva Meeting On Middle East Would be Tuesday Levels New Charges Toward US. Q Moscow (UPD Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev called Saturday for an emer gency five-power summit con ference on the Middle, East at Geneva Tuesday to prevent "the world's greatest catastro phe." In letters to President Eis enhower, British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan, French Premier Charles De Gaulle and Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, Khrush chev said he would agree to' any time and place the west ern powers set if they opposed Geneva Tuesday "in this grim hour of history when it is no longer possible to wait anoth er minute." Levels New Charges He levelled new charges that the United States and Britain were guilty of "ag gression" in Lebanon and Jordan. Khrushchev suggested that United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold also attend the meeting. The letter to Eisenhower carried the additional warn ing that' Russia has "ballistic rockets of all types, including intercontinental ..one s." He added that Russia was ahead of the United States in de velopment of intercontinental ballistic missiles. He said the world, as a re sult of Anglo-American action in the Mideast, has "orme to a point at which any incautious step may precipitate the world's greatest catastrophe." , Khrushchev expressed . a feeling of extreme urgency in his call for the meeting. It was believed he would be willing to travel to Washing ton, if need be, if that was the only way to arrange a summit parley. Start Chain Reaction He warned that the Middle East crisis, could "start a chain reaction which would be impossible to stop." "However, we consider at this fateful hour it would be wiser not to bring the heated atmosphere to a boiling point, seeing that it is already suf ficiently permeated with in flammable material," Khrush chev said. Warning that events in the Mideast are close to Russia's borders, he said "the Soviet Union cannot stand aside when the question of whether there is to be war or whether there is to be peace is being decided." King Hussein Asks For American Troops Amman . Jordan (DPD King Hussein said last night that he had asked tor Ameri can troops in Jordan and that "I expect them to arrive." Hussein spoke of his desire for American troops to sup plement the .2,000 British par atroopers already airlifted to his tiny-desert kingdom dur ing a news conference in the banquet hall of his Basman palace on one of the seven hills of Amman. He made it plain that he ex pected the United States to honor his request. The King refused to elabor ate on his statement. He de clined to say whether the Americans would be supply troops or combat units. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and warm to day with a chance of even ins thunderstorm! along the t. mountains both days. High both days, 95; low, 60. TEMP. Highest Yesterday , 91 Lowest Yesterday 37 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:43 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow Moonset tonight 4:53 a.m. 9:58 p.m. The planet, Jupiter, Is in the southwest tonight at 8:21 pjn. and wiU set 10:54 p.m. It is now noticeably moving from Spica and will again be seen near that star In 1969.
