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Mot 9 w u UNITED NATIONS IN ACTION Top photo shows Britain's Sir Pierson Dixson (C) and U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge (R) vot ing againstcRussia's Arkady Sobolev (L) de- manding tat U.S. and British forces pull Republicans Plan Registration Drive PonnKlir'an u nr 1r ore in Jackson county will start an intensive" registration drive Aug. IjDon Stathos, chairman of the Republican Central committee, announced today. A registration committee, of which Mrs. Wayne Stine is chairman, will work with civic o.r other organizations in the county which are interest ed in the project, Mrs. Stine said. Stathos said purpose of the drive is lo register any elig ible voter not now registered in the county. Each section of the county will be covered, he said. The goal is to have Jack son county the first in the 0 state with the highest percent age of its eligible voters regis-t-ed and voting on election O day. Will Be Assigned "If thi3 is accomplished, Jackson county will be as sured, though the free elec toral process, of electing the type of officials of" which it can be profid," he said. Any eligible voter who is not registered and needs transportation may obtain it by telephoning the central committee at SPring 3-7313 or SPring 2-2347, Stathos said. Special arrangements will be made for baby sitting when necessary. Arrangements are being made to Save registrars in various parts of the county at BLM To Release 40 Acres for Public ( The bureau of land man agement has released 40 acres of public land in Jackson county to filing of applica tions under the public land laws, Virgil T .Heath, Oregon supervisor for the BLM, an nounced today. The acreage is part of 101, 000 acres opened for applica tion filing by the BLM. Most of the land is widely scatter ed over eastern Oregon and is grazing land not - adapted for agricultural use. Veterans of World War II and the Korean conflict have a 91-day preference right in filing applications for home steads, desert lands and small tracts. Detailed descriptions will aear shortly in the federal register andSvill be posted in the land office, Portland, and in district offices at Baker, Burns, Coos Bay, Ltkeview, Medford, Priigville ad Vale, Heath said. City Patrol Car Needs Repairing After Call A Medford police car went on an unintended "shooting spree" on South Central ave. Saturday night, city police re ported. Q Helen Irene Lugned, 614 South Central ave., and Mat tie Jean Grimes, 618 South Central ave., were under standably ' dismayed when chunks of metal flew in the front windows of their houses, police said. A patrolman, an swering an 'emergency call, had hurried past with his pa trol car in low gear. The gen erator and crankshaft pulleys had broken with the strain, tossing fragments in al directions. Salem (UPD War veter ans have been offered prefer ence inothe purchase of 14 full-time farm units current ly offered in the southern tip of the Columbia Basin pro ject near Pasco, Wash., ac cording to the Oregon Depart ment of Veterans' Affairs. ij a preannounced time, he said. Last month, the Jackson county Democratic party is sued the Republican party a "voter registration challenge." The Democratic party said it will start a drive to "register more voters for the Novem ber election than will the Re publican party." James A. Redden Jr., chair man of the Democatic cen tral committee, said this morning the Republican plans to launch its drive Aug. 1 is apparently an answer to the challenge. Three Persons Hurl In Valley Accident Three persons were injured In an accident on Highway 238 at Bybee corner about 4:30 p.m. yesterday, state po lice reported today. - Robert Dempsie Shefler","' 30, of 532 Palm st., Medford, driver of one - vehicle, and Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Temple ton Wilson, route 4, box 288, Grants Pass, were treated at Medford Osteopathic hospital for injuries. They were taken there by Medford Ambulance service. Shefler was arrested for driving while under the in fluence of intoxicating liquor state police said. State police said Shefler was traveling east and after rounding the curve, lost con trol of the vehicle. The car went onto the right shoulder, back onto the highway and across the center line into the path of the Wilson veh icle, police said. Both cars sus tained extensive damage. Band Concerts Set in City Park ; Three bands' participating in the Medford summer school music program will present concerts starting at 8 p.m. to morrow in the city park be side the Jackson County Pub lic library. The grade school intermed iate band will present its con cert starting at 8 p.m. fol lowed by the junior high band at 8:30 p.m., and the senior high school band at 9 p.m. Features of the concerts will be a cornet trio, trom bone trio, flute ensemble and the high school majorette twirling exhibition. The concert is open to the public without charge. New Postage Area Aug. 1, New postage rates will go into effect Aug. 1, Moore Ham ilton, Medford postmaster, re minded residents today. New rates include 4 cents for first class mail and 7 cents for air mail. Available now at the local post, office is the lavender stmap bearing the likeness of Abraham Lincoln, costing 4 cents, for use on first class letters. New stamps will be available here Aug. 1. Blue, White Stamp The new 7-cent air mail stamp, replacing the present 6-cent one, will be blue and white featuring the silhouette of a jet airliner. The stamp will go on sale in conjunc tion' with the annual conven tion of the American Air Mail Society in Philadelphia. PoSf office officials remind ed residents they may use stamps still on hand. A one- out of Lebanon and Jordan, and bottom photo shows Sobolev vetoing U.S. resolution to send United Nations police force into the troubled zones of the turbulent Mid-East. Result: Stalemate, mounting tension. Local Man Killed In Logging Mishap On Beaver Creek Walter R. Allen, 55, of route 1, box 316E, South Stage rd., was killed Monday morn ing in a logging accident 20 miles southwest of here. Allen, an employee of Ober Logging company for more than three years, was working in the Yellowjacket spring area on Beaver creek. He was killed by a log rolling off a pile while he was unhooking a choker. Born Feb. 10, 1903, Allen formerly owned a cattle ranch near Butte Falls. He was em ployed by Medford Corpora tion from 1936 to 1952. Allen is survived by his wife, Zetta Rose, and two teen-age sons, John and Gor don. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger Morris funeral directors. Plans for Jaycee Rodeo Progressing Preliminary plans for the Rogue Valley Round Up, Aug. 15-17 have been completed, according to B. H. Gilbert, general chairman of the event sponsored by the Medford Junior Chamber of Com merce. Stock for the show will be furnished by Christensen bro thers, Eugene. The. Round Up is scheduled at the Jackson County Sheriff's Posse grounds on Sage rd. Christensen has furnished stock for several rodeos, in cluding the Pendleton Round Up. Points earned by contest ants in the Round Up will count toward the cowboy's world championship. Those appointed to commit tees by Gilbert include Dicki Lamont, Queen contest; Al Carpenter, special events; Joe Walsh, posse grounds patrol; Charles Henry, contracts; Ray Bostwick and Wallace Long, concessions; Art Van Leeu wen, grounds; and Larry Al len, tickets. Iraq Ambassador Returns To UN Seat United Nations, N.Y. (UPD Abdul Majid Abbass, pre revolutionary royalist ambas sador of Iraq, who had been under police guard following reports his life had been threatened, returned to the U.S. Security Council today. Rates Go Into Effect in Officials Remind People cent stamp must accompany a 3 cent stamp for first class mail and a 6-cent stamp for air mail. Officials also said that all coin operated stamp-dispensing machines will be adjusted to handle the new 4-cent and 7-cent stamps. Commercial companies will make the ne cessary changes in stamp ma chines in locations outside of post offices. 4-Cent Envelope Also available here Aug. 1 will be the 4-cent Franklin embossed envelope in laven der which will be released at Montpelier, Vt., the 4-cent Lincoln coil at Mandan, N.D., and the 4-cent Lincoln booklet panes at Wheeling, W. Va. The 7-cent air mail stamps in coils will be released at Miami, Fla., with the book let panes at San Antonio, Tex. The 7-cent air mail stamped envelope, in blue, will go on 53rd Year M EDF0RD 16 Pages. Voters in school district 62, the Evans Valley area, will go to the polls Thursday for the third time this year to vote on a proposed school dis trict budget. The proposed budget calls for increasing the tax levy for the fiscal year 1958-59 above the amount permitted by section II, article XI of the Constitution of Oregon. The increase is required, ac cording to the board of direc tors of the school board, to balance the budget and pro vide funds necessary to oper ate the school. The proposed levy of $44, 160.17 is slightly lower than the original budget proposed this year, but it remains the same as the one defeated by a single vote on June 23. More at Stake When the voters make their decision, there will be more at stake than simply the ap proval of rejection of a school budget, according to county school officials. It is question able whether the school can operate throughout the entire year unless the proposed levy is oassed, they said. The law provides that all tax levies shall be submitted to the assessor's office by July 15 unless an extension has been granted, County Assessor Ray Schumacher said that he has granted one extension. "Law required, the asses sor's office to extend ' levies and prepare tax rolls for turn over, to the sheriff 30 days prior to tax collection," Schu macher said. "The work load, does not allow time to extend filing of levies indefinitely." Studies Question A. B. Mekvold, superintend ent of county schools, said that in view of the present circumstances he has-made a study of the question: "To what extent is a district re SDonsible to operate schools if levies are defeated?" Until recently, he reported, it has been held that a dis trict was obligated to carry on schools even if it was nec essary to issue protested war rants to finance them. How ever, he 'continued, more re cently the attorney general has held that a district can operate only until it has ex hausted its approved funds. "The attorney general's opinion has never been tested in court," Mekvold said, "be cause the situation to which it would apply has never oc curred in Oregon." Schools To Open Should the proposed levy be defeated Thursday, school will still open this fall, Mek vold noted. Even if the attor ney general's opinion is up held in court, he said, the dis trict will open with the funds which are now available. Funds available at the pres ent time for district 62, trie superintendent said, include a county school fund of $10 per child plus a federal forest receipts fund of approximate ly $2.50 per child; state basic sale in Dayton, Ohio, and will be similar to the current 6 cent air mail envelope with' only the denomination changed. The new 3-cent postal card, in the Statue of Liberty de sign and printed in purple, will be first sold in Philadel phia in conjunction with the convention and exhibition of the American First Day Cover Society. The 6-cent reply post al card will be released at Boise, Idaho. The 5-cent air mail post card stamp, similar to the present 4-cent value, but with the new denomination, and printed in red will first be sold at Colorado Springs, Colo. The 5-cent air mail post card will go on sale at Wich ita, Kan. Local postal authorities stressed that only the . 4-cent Lincoln stamp may be pur chased prior to Aug. 1. EtfAHS school set mm MEDFORD, VALLEY receipts, which vary with each district, with the average throughout the state 38.9 per cent of the operational costs of a district; federal aid for school lunch programs amounting to a few cents per child per day. County rural school district equalization, levied on a coun ty wide basis and amounting to $14,107.08; and estimated additional state basic receipts of $1,927. The last two sums will be deducted from the proposed levy if it passes, Mekvold said. The assumption is that when the funds are exhaust ed, assuming that the propos ed budget is rejected, the school would have to close until next year. A number of other compli cated legal questions will have to be answered after Thursday if the proposed levy is rejected, Mekvold con cluded. Polio Foundation To Tackle Birth Defects, Arthritis New York A program that will permit a scientific assault on major health problems of the nation, with arthritis and birth defects as initial new targets, was announced today by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Basil O'Connor, president of the organization that mades possible the Salk polio vac cine, announced the program at a press conference here. To Continue Research While carrying on the win ning fight against polio, the National Foundation, as it now will beknown, will con tinue its virus research pro gram and investigations of dis orders of the central nervous system, and will add research and patient aid in arthritis and birth defects, O'Connor said. The expanded program will be financed through the tra ditional March of Dimes con ducted each January by vol unteers in county chapters across the country. Research will be expanded without the restriction of be ing confined to a single dis ease, O'Connor said, and pro fessional education will be ex panded to cover training of personnel in research and pa tient care in all areas of activity. Age Limit on Aid It is planned to offer pati ent aid at first only to arth ritis patients through age 18 and to children suffering from malformations of the central nervous system also through age 18, he said. O'Connor said the Founda tion will continue the polio job until it is finished, includ ing care of post-polio patients. The patient care program for arthritis and birth defect cases will be started, first, where it will do the most good, O'Connor said, and second, on a scale commensurate with the public's willingness to finance it. Trail Couple Among Those in Mid-East Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hill man, who owns a ranch at Trail. Ore., are reported to be among a number of Ameri cans now in the Middle East. Hillman is a construction engineer for Bechtle corpora tion and he and his wife are on the island of Kuwait, just off the cost of Iraq. Mrs. Hill man's brother-in-law and sis ter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dar rohn, who live at Shady Cove, said they have not heard from the couple in more than two months. , Mrs. Hillman joined her husband there just before Christmas last year, Mrs. Darrohn said. The'Hillmans are owners of the former Ditsworth ranch in Trail. TOTE ISDAY OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY lamnimiift Talks Within UM SB. ' jT j ' TURKEY SYRIA ' V p 4 FOCUS OF DANGER Newsmap spotlights developments in Middle East. U.S. paratroopers flew into Lebanon from Adana, Turkey, where the U.S. is building up a nuclear striking force. Israel has protested British airlift of para troopers across her territory to Jordan. Arrival of new units of the Sixth Fleet brought to 44 the number of U.S. warships in Lebanon water. UAR President Nasser is reported to have arrived in Damascus after hurried conference in Moscow with Premier Khrushchev. Soviet military units have begun massing op Turkish and Iranian borders. Allowable Timber Cut Is Increased The allowable timber cut for O and C lands in the Josephine master unit has been more than doubled, ac cording to Ross a Youngblood, manager of the Medford dis trict, bureau of land manage ment. Youngblood emphasized this is only an interim cut, based on completion of field work and preliminary office work on -a forest inventory of the unit. The final cut will de pend on local tree-growth data as well, he said, and will be announced in the current fiscal year. He added that permanent sample plots for gathering such data have been established in the unit by dis trict foresters. Inventories for the rest of the Medford district will also be completed by June 30, according to Youngblood. Present Inventory The BLM is currently con ducting an inventory of all its resources in western Ore gon. New allowable cuts in other units of the Medford district may result, one BLM spokesman said. The new figure for the Jose phine unit's cut is 102 million board feet per year, compared to a former figure of 48.8 mil lion.. This represents approxi mately 69 TDer cent of a total increase approved July 3 for three master units in western Oregon. The other two are the Siuslaw master unit in the Dr. McAulay Returns From World Trip Ashland Dr. and Mrs. John McAulay and son returned to Ashland this week following a two-year trip, most of which was spent in Australia and New Zealand where Dr. Mc Aulay lectured at several col leges and universities. More recently, the family travelled in the Orient and Europe, and attended the Brussels World Fair. They visited relatives in England and Ireland. ' Dr. McAulay has accepted a position on the faculty of Pennsylvania state university and will leave Ashland after selling his property here. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued fair and warm through Wednesday. Thundershowers over moun tains this evening. Low tonight 58. High tomorrow 94. Temp. Highest Yesterday 93 Lowest thuj Morning 62 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:41 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:55 a.m. Moonset tonight 11:07 p.m. First Quarter Tomorrow The Moon's orbit around the Earth tonight carries it into the constellation, Virgo, and it appears near Spica, brightest star of Virgo, and the planet Jupiter. Price Tribune 22, 1958 U.S.5.R. A. MX AC A Eugene district and the South Umpqua master unit in the Roseburg district. This is. the sixth increase' since October, 1955. The current total for the entire Medford district, in cluding the Josephine unit's increase, is 169.9 million board feet per year. The total O and C lands in the five BLM districts in western Ore gon, including increases in all three master units, is now 769.3 million. Marine Killed in Lebanon Accident Beirut, Lebanon (UPD A U.S. Marine was shot and kill ed today by one of his own buddies the second Ameri can to die in Lebanon since U.S. troops landed last Tues day to try to save the coun try's independence. The name of the Marine was withheld. He had left his own lines to lay trip flare wires around his company perimeter near the Beirut International Airport seven miles from the city and was killed by a sentry when he failed to answer three challenges. Happy Camp Man Hurt In Logging Accident. Jess Woodward of Happy Camp, Calif., was taken to Sacred Heart hospital yester day afternoon after suffering possible back injuries in a logging accident near Happy Camp. He was flown to Medford by Mercy Flights, Inc., and taken to the hospital by Med ford Ambulance service. De tails of the accident were not available this morning. "Nice, Cozy, Little Bomb (Her block Is on n MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING Xy$r TUAT CONGRESSMEN NOT iJTJ? ';" INVESTGATE EACH 0THCR WW- 10 Cents No. 105 Meair Britain Accepts Soviet Premiers Meeting Proposal United States Declared Willing United Nations, N.Y. (UPD Russia today vetoed Japanese compromise reso lution designed lo enable the United Stales to with draw its troops from Leo-, anon. The vote was 10 to 1, . with Russia's 85th veto blocking the measure. Washington (UPD The West moved today toward a summit conference with Rus sia within the United Nations. In quick succession: Britain accepted Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's proposal for a summit confer ence on the Middle East crisis, provided the conference were held within the UN Security Council. United Nalions, N.Y. (CPD The U.N. Security Coun cil adjourned late today without fixing a date for its next meeting on the Middle East crisis. Russia opposed the adjournment but was voted down, 10 to 1. The White House called this "an orderly procedure, and said the U. S. would go along if it. were "generally desired." The U. S. canvassed other North Atlantic pact na tions on the issue. Attilude Moderated Russia unexpectedly mod' erated its attitude in the Se curity Council toward a Jap anese compromise proposal on the Middle East. Instead of sticking to its indicated in tention to veto the resolution at once, Russia postponed a showdown for a while by pro posing changes in the resolu tion. Khrushchev had called for a' five-power heads of state meeting today in Geneva or anywhere else that might be agreeable. He proposed that he, President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Har old Macmillan, Indian Pre mier Jawaharlal Nehru, French Premier Charles de Gaulle, and UN Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold participate in the conference. Western Powers Agree Nehru has accepted the pro posal and France has agreed to it "in principle." Hammar skjold has said he is avail able. The U. S. had opposed any meeting on the Middle East that might undermine UN au thority and jurisdiction. At the UN, Soviet Ambassa dor Arkady A. Sobolev sought to modify Japan's compromise proposal by putting in it a demand for immediate with drawal of U. S. forces from Lebanon. He also proposed re instatement of a proposal that the UN observer group in Leb anon "continue to develop its activities." Washington (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower will not hold a news conference Wednes day. Shelter We have Here" Vacation) Cracks Appear In Harmony Over Lebanon Action Growing Pressure Confronts President Washington (UPD Under secretary of State Christian A. Herter reemphasized to sena tors today that the United States has no intention of moving troops into revolt rocked Iraq. Herter. however, did not tell the lawmakers whether the U.S. plans to recognize the new Iraqi government and only smiled when newsmen pressed the question later. Cracks in Harmony , The first of the daily brief ings came as serious cracks peared in the harmony and unity front with which Con gress at first backed President Eisenhower's movement of Marines into Lebanon. Eisenhower was confronted with growing congressional pressure in two directions: A "get tough" Republican bloc which appeared fearful the administration would not maintain a stiff enough Mid dle Eastern stand to assure the downfall of Soviet-backed revolutions. A Democrat ic group ' which urged the Chief Execu tive not to dismiss the Soviet proposal for a "summit" meet ing if there were the slightest chance it would contribute to peace. The GOP bloc raised its voice strongly Monday night in the person of Senate Re publican leader William F. Knowland who sharnlv at tacked the administration's support for a Japanese resolu tion in the United Nations Se curity Council. Fatal To Future The Japanese resolution. which Russia vetoed today, called for strengthening the present UN observer group in Lebanon but did not spell out how it should be strengthened. Knowland said if U.S. troops were replaced by un armed observers "in this pres ent difficult set of conditions" it would be "fatal to the fu ture of Lebanon and any other free nation subject to a simi lar situation." ' Middle East At a Glanee United Press International London: Moscow jadio stressed the urgency of an. immediate summit confer ence and said "Today a dis aster can still be aveided but perhaps tomorrow it cannot." - Beirut: Vice Admiral Charles R- (Cat) Brown, commander of the U. S. 61h Fleet, told newsmen his car rier - based planes would support British action in Jordan if it becomes neces sary, a Cairo: Mohammed Hassa nein Heikal, Editor of the newspaper Al Ahram who is close lo Nasser said the Iraqi revolution broke the chain of Western alliances along the borders of the Soviet Union. Cairo: Nasser's visit lo Sheikh Abdullah, ' ruler of Kuwait, aroused speculation that the UAR .would make some move to bring the oil rich area into the Syria Egyptian union. Medford Man Hurt in Fall at Work Lester Fields, about 26, of 1850 Myers lane, Medford, suffered possible back injur ies yesterday when he .fell from a ladder against a plum tree in an orchard near Tal ent. ' He was employed by Bear Creek Orchards, and had been at work only a few days. He was picking plums in the High Valley orchard neaj Tal ent. Orchard officials said cause of the fall was unknown, and that nothing seemed to be out of order. They said other em ployees heard him call when he started to fall. He was taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Medford Ambulance service. Calif or nian Held For Klamath Murder Klamath Falls (UPD Wil liam Thomaston, 47-year-old California contractor, was held today on charges of first degree murder in the gunshot slaying of Mrs. Edith Atkins here Monday night. t
