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Newspaper Page Texto o o o MM 'O o o r (Say Attend Tab REQUESTS TO "FORBID 'DUMP UHBER STUDY The county plfcflnutj com mission last nifhfj 4c under j : V a -i aavi&emeni regur uiat 11 recommend couty onmg ordinances to Brohibit the Cit Sanitary Service from operating a gKpo4 4ump south of Jaf kscnviH. At a special lttiiag Ia the courthoug? auditorium,' gen erally ordqgly btft Qrmetimes excited crowd 0 mere than 130 person, herl attorneys and othr interiUd argue the pros and cotf iha pro posed site. fiiuy anitary ttie plans to begin dumpinf th site bordering Jacksonville on Aug. 1 regardlm ,i bjee tions, Anthony Boittna, kcd of the firm, inflict last week. HowtvO, Attorney Stanly Jones, representing , the comrgny, indicated that it would be willing to post pone use of the sit "for a rea sonable length of time." Uses Large Maj Jack Eaton, planning tech nician, using large map of the area poimed out the exact location , of tfte" 360 acres which the company has pur chased as 4 proposed dump site. The land borders the Jacksqgille city limits en the southeast corner, fnd parti ally fan the south sid. Eaton reported thft from the standpoint f 'good plan ning "the proposed location Redmond,Flier Crashes; Helps , Extinguish Blaze Redmond, Ore. (UPD A Redmond lumberman crash landed his Cessna 180 plane in the treetops of young hem locks, slid down one' of the trees as the plane burst into flames, then dashed to his summer home a quarter of a mile away, summoned aid and came back to help put out a potential forest fire Wednes day evening. 1 Plana Stalls Phil Dahl, operator of the Tite Knot Pine mill, Red mond, was coming in for a landing on his private airstrip at his summer home in the Metolius river area when the plane stalled and crashed into the threetops. Dahl was cut and bruised as he slid down the tree, but lost no time in summoning help. Meanwhile, Carl De Moye, Black Butte lookout, and Howard Anderson, on Cache Mountain, reported the heavy Gclouds of smoke. Mervin Wolfe, MetoMus District Ran ger, and Lee Morton headed a crew of firefighters who Omoved quickly and halted the blaze before it had spread . more than 40 feet. The plane was destroyed. Local Youth Awarded Damages by Jury -. A circuit court jury return ed? a verdict in favor of Clif ford Eckel, 47, Wednesday af ternoon in a trial on an as sault and battery complaint filed "by the guardian of the plaintiff, Paul O. Eckel, Hapf$r Valley rd., Medford. The complifit vas filed against John i. Breeze, Med ford. Eckel was tvPt $1,000 O general gamaget an $4,000 O punitive damages. Attorney for tha plaintiff was Bernard Kelly -with O. H. Bengston attorney for the defendant. Search o? Atlantic for. Mouse Sent AJoft in Thor Missile Unsuccessful Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPD Air Force planes and Navy O recovery boats reported no success today in the South At- " lantic search for Wickie the spacQmouse. Te Air Force said the hutit is ''still going on." ' Wickie, blasted into space at 2:13 p.m. (PT) Wednes day in the nose cone of a Thor-fcble missile, was the . second rodent t be shot through space in a combina tion military-scientific test. Flcfching Rd Light Tije ecovery package of the Thr-A.ble noSfe con con tfcned g radio1 transmitter outfitted with a flashing red lfc&P ?id constant white ut if they functioned Is in extremely poor taste. Garbage disposal is consid ered heavy industry and as such should be located in an industrial area." East of Medford practically all the usable subdivision land has been used up, Eaton not ed, and in the -next five to ten years a large residential growth between Medford and Jacksonville is anticipated. With that growth, he project ed, the logical place to build would be in areas suqh as the proposed dump site. Use Fill Method In response to questioning, Jones stated that the service plans to use the sanitary fill method of disposal, and that bo burning is anticipated at this time." The latter state ment was met with overtones of distrust from the audience and later in the hearing Wal ter Nunley, representing a number of families in the area, said that "inherent in the statement is if the City Sanitary Service feels it nec essary at a later date, it will burn." With further probing from Commissioner John Nieder meyer it was brought out that the sanitary fill method re quires covering refuse dailyi Jones agreed to this defini tion and said that "techni cally speaking the service would use the fill method. Thisindfcated a plan to fill at regular intervals but not daily. , At one point during the hearing Jones answered "I be lieve .there are a number of people who have objections" to the site .location. Laughter and clapping boiled from the strongly anti-dump site crowd but order was quickly re stored by Commission Chair man Edwin Gebhard. Presents City's Case Jacksonville City Attorney Ervin Hogan" presented the city's case against the pro posed site but admitted that he had not come up with any laws that have been broken. With strong backing from the mayor and city council men, Hogan pointed out that the dump would inhibit nor mal growth of the city and its location so close to the city would possibly constitute a nuisance. He also said that the city has been planning for two years to build a second reservoir on land directly ad jacent to the proposed site. Hogan summed up: "Our position is that there is no way it (the dump) can be justi fied from the standpoint of good planning." Water Contamination Questions concerning possi ble water and air polution and contamination from ro dents were also discussed. Nunley told the commission that he represented 64 fam ilies whose property holdings in the area were evaluated at v$834,000. He said these people "honestly believe that proposed dump, if operated, would have an adverse effect on the value of their prop erty." Both Hogan and Nunley told the commission that if their plea was ineffective they would have to seek an other forum. The commission set a sec ond special meeting for Wed nesday, July 30, at which time they said they will for mulate a recommendation to the county court. Attorneys for both sides agreed " to prepare written briefs,-setting forth their argu ments, for the next meeting.. properly the search force was unable to detect them. The hunt was being center ed about halfway between Ascension Island and the coast of Africa. It appeared the best guide the searchers had today, if it worked, was the medicineman size balloon designed to sus pend the nose cone and its little passenger just beneath the surface of the water. "The, search for the nose cone of the Thor-Able reentry test vehicle launched last eve ning is still going on," the Air Force said in the first statement since the rocket was launched. But the odds favored Wickie's survival on the 6,300- 52nd Year Medford 26 PAGES -For Greener Pastures (Herblock Is on Porter Introduces Bill to Increase Size of Monument By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Legislation authorizing a five-fold in crease in the size of Oregon Caves National Monument southwest of Medford was in troduced in the House today by Rep. Charles O. Porter (D Ore.). ' ' ' In a speech prepared for de livery to the House, Congress man Porter said the expan sion of the scenic area run by the National Park Service would be a prelude to im provement of facilities for at tracting more tourists. "The experts in the Park Service are agreed that the expansion recommended in my bill will help to increase the tourist traffic to the mon ument by providing space for much needed development of visitor facilities," said Porter. Plans Improvements The Park Service, he said, informed him that it plans to Chrome Miners Set Meeting in CJ ' Cave Junction A meeting of chrome miners and those interested in chrome mining will be held at the American Legion hall in Cave Junction at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 26. Medford Attorney Bruce Manley, president of the California-Oregon Chrome Pro ducers association, will re port on his trip to Washing ton, D.C., where he wprked for six weeks on the chrome stockpiling program. Representative Claire Engle of California introduced a bill in the house for a chrome pro gram calling for stockpiling 50,000 tons of ferrochrome in a six-year period, and the establishment of a ferro chrome processing plant to handle all locally produced chrome ores. J. W. Pressler, Grants Pass, secretary of the association, urged all interested citizens to attend the meeting. Albacore Tuna Catches Said Good Astoria (UPD Grind ratrhes of albacore tuna off the Ore gon coast continued to be re ported , today as two boats docked here with 5Vi tons apiece. . . mile trip through the hazards of the unknown outside the earth's atmosphere. A spokesman disclosed Wed nesday that Wickie's predeces sor, another albino female named Laska, lived for 32 minutes after she was blasted into the heavens. Chute Thought Failure This is the period required for the return of the Thor Able nose cone to the earth's surface in a 6,300-mile jour ney. It was believed the last recovery effort failed either because the nose cone's para chute did not open or the balloon designed to suspend the package just below the water failed to inflate. Vacation) spend nearly $190,000 on im provements, some of them contingent on whether Con gress passes the bill. The idea of expanding the area from 480 acres to 2,910 acres is not new. The Park Service has desired the ex pansion for some years. In 1951, the service obtained an agreement from the U. S. Forest Service about the pro posed expansion. All of the ad ditional acreage to be added to the monument would be carved out of Siskiyou Nation al Forest, which surrounds the monument grounds just north of the Oregon-California bor der in Josephine County. But no one has pushed the idea in recent years. ;. .. .. .. Enlargement would provide Oregon Caves monument with a suitable water supply, add essential forested mountainous areas, include significant geo logical and biological fea tures and allow construction and development of much needed visitor facilities, Por ter explained. Natural Contours - The boundaries of the ex panded area would follow,, for the most part, the natural con. tours of the surrounding ridges, instead of being straight and giving the monu ment grounds its present rec tangular shape. It would be about three miles across, com pared to one mile wide now. "At one time there were some objections from cattle men in the area," said Porter. "However, these objections have been met by a provision in the agreement between the Forest Service and the Park Serviceito allow lifetime graz ing rights for cattlemen now grazing national forest lands that would become part of the monument area." Porter said his bill contains requested provisions relating to distribution of receipts from any O and C timber cut and' sold from the expanded area. This was requested by the Association of O'and C Counties back in 1952 when the idea, was fresh. Improve Roads The Park Service informed Porter that it planned to spend $69,800 in improving roads and trails and parking areas and $119,700 on buildings and utilities for visitors and em ployees. This would be done under the 10-year park im provement program called Mission 66. Number of visitors to Ore gon Caves has fluctuated greatly in the past decade. Last year it was 71,260. But in 1947 it was 86,003, which was higher than any year since. The lowest number was 60,638 two years ago. .The national monument was established in 1909 and is under the supervision of the superintendent of Crater Lake National Park. . ' Porter said he has hopes of getting his bill enacted before adjournment. He said he knows of no opposition to it. Johns Manville Plant . At KF Nearly Ready ) Klamath Falls (UPD The Johns Manville acoustical board plant here will go into full operation later this sum mer, W. H. Graham, local manager, said today. MEDFORD, OREGON, Troubieshoofer in Lebanon Appears Making Headway Troop Departure Matter of Time Beirut, Lebanon (UPD The opposition appeared today to be warming up to the trouble shooting mission of U. S. Dep uty Under-secretary of State Robert Murphy. An end to the crisis and the withdrawal of American troops seemed only a matter of time. Tension eased sharply Wed nesday when Speaker Adel Osseiran of the 66-man Leb anese Parliament announced it would meet July 31 to elect a successor to controversial President Camille Chamoun. The session originally had been scheduled for today. Talks With Leaders Murphy has talked with leaders of both sides in an ef fort to help find a suitable compromise candidate and his efforts drew praise today from the opposition newspa per Telegraph which predict ed confidently the U. S. forc es will "go back where they came from" soon. . " , It said Murphy, through talks with opposition leaders, now knows the facts about the situation in Lebanon. We have learned that the infor mation collected by Murphy will lead to a relaxation of the crisis within the next few day's." ' n . Compromise Seen The pro-government paper Albina also reported the pos sibility of a compromise aris ing from Murphy's talks but expressed government feel ings against such a move al though the government de cision to seek a presidential Candida te-utside-' Parliament represented' a major compro mise. The independents newspa per Nahar said Murphy is making progress because he had President Eisenhower's full authority, to engage in talks. ' The feeling here was that every day is vital in seeking a solution. No one knows how long the extremist opposition elements will continue to ac cept U. S. troops and fleet activities without provoking a real incident. Two Boys Reported Molested Near Park Two boys, 6 and 7, were molested yesterday by an old er boy who enticed them from Hawthorne park down to Bear creek, city police reported. This is the first case of its kind this year, police said to day. Several cases of indecent exposure have been reported but these were said to be a yearly occurrence. Asked if he thought the danger to children from such cases had reached serious pro portions, Charles P. Champ lin, chief of police, said: "Ac tually it hasn't. "But we consider any inci dent of that nature serious," he added. Champlin said the area was visited regularly by patrol cars, and "probably we will have the man inspecting meters in that area patrol on foot." Champlin urged parents to instruct- their children to avoid contact with strangers. "Parents hesitate about re porting such cases because they feel embarrassed," , he said. But he encouraged them to report every incident to police as quickly as possible. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE, Washington -.1 3 1 Cleveland .. 6 9 0 Griggs, Valentineiti (3). Constable (8) and Fitz gerald; Bell and Nixon. NATIONAL LEAGUE Los Angeles 3 ,6 "2 Pittsburgh .-5 9 1 Williams. Klipetein (4), Kipp (5). Labine (7) and Roseboro. Pignatano (7); Wilt, Gross (6). Face (9) and Hall. 'St. Louis 4 10 0 Milwaukee ... 0 -4 1 Jones- (8-7) and Smith; Spahn, Rush (1), Robinson (6), Conley (7) and Crandall. THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1958 HAROLD MACMILLAN PRESIDENT EISENHOWER NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV Summit Conference in United Nations Framework Goal of These. Men HJftS Working on Security, Protocol (Problems for Talk United Nations, N. Y. (UPD The United Nations has be gun working on security and protocol problems connected with a summit conference in the Security Council, and it was reported U.S. Marines may be asked to guard a 15 block approach to the build ing. ' Ready by Monday A source close to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold said the United Nations would be ready by Monday to play host to President Eisenhower, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev, and other government chiefs invited to attend. But some sources doubted security arrangements could be completed in time. It was expected that anti-Communist organizations in New York, particularly remnants of the Hungarian freedom army who escaped the 1956 Soviet tank attacks,) would give the Soviet delegation a sizzling reception when it arrived. - U..N. Security officials said they were ready to cooperate with the U. S. Secret Service, Britain's Scotland Yard, " the House Files Reply In Danielson Case Richard House. Medford, through his attorney, Stanley C. Jones, today filed a reply to an answer filed recently with the court clerk in the action to contest nomination of Robert G. Danielson. House, in his reply, denied that the court did not have jurisdiction to render a valid judgment in the case as stated in the answer. House, in a petition filed earlier this month, contested the election of Danielson as district judge in the primary election May 16. He stated that Danielson had withdrawn as a candidate prior to the election, and was not an eligible candidate for nomination. In his reply House, asks for judgment as asked for in the complaint and that it be de termined , by the court that Danielson was not nominated and that E. Roy Bashaw was duly nominated as the candi date receiving next to the highest number of votes. Deveopmenf Banned In Upper McKenzie 1 1 Portland (UPD The Oregon Water Resources Board said today it had banned the up per reaches of the McKenzie river and Clear lake to hdro electric development. Jurisdiction of Assigning Summer Home Sites at' Howard Prairie Up to Bureau of Land Management County Court Judge Rod ney Keating returned Wednes day evening after attending a meeting in Portland with the representatives of the national park service and the bureau of reclamation and the Inter state association of public land committees at Glacier Na tional Park, Mont. While in Portland Judge Keating confirmed with the park - service and bureau of reclamation representatives on questions regarding the ad ministration of recreation fa cilities in the Talent project. Keating said jurisdiction of assigning summer home sites the Howard Prairie dam area will be entirely up to the bureau of land management. Price 10 Cents 1RIBUNE French Surete and Russia's se curity organization. Khrushchev's sudden pro vissional acceptance of Eisen hower's bid to a summit meet ing in the Security Council immediately touched off re ports that a 15-block stretch of Manhattan's First ave. may be closed off and policed by U. S. Marines. The glistening U.N. office edifice fronts on First ave., while the East river flows behind it. Soviet Ambassador Arkady A. Cobolev, who Wednesday night delivered to Hammar skjold Khrushchev's "request" for a Monday meeting of the council, said he had no qualms about putting up the t Soviet premier in his embassy in the heart of New York's Park Avenue, or' at a suburban Supreme Court Gets Nunn Case Salem (UPD An action to restrain Gov. Robert D. Holmes from commuting the death sentence of Billy Junior Nunn to life imprisonment was filed with the State Su preme Court here Wednes day. Filing the suit were Mr. and Mrs. John W. Eacret, Klam ath Falls, father of 14-year-old Alvin Eacret who was killed two years ago. Nunn was convicted of first degree murder in, Jackson county. The suit originally was filed in the Jackson couty Circuit Court and later transferred to Marion county Circuit Court. The Marion county Circuit Court held that the governor was vested with the authority to commute sentences. Court officials said today they had no idea when the ap peal to the Supreme Court would be heard. Gov. Holmes, who is op posed to .capital punishment, already has commuted two death sentences while "in of fice. New Post Office Sets Open House Shady Cove. The new Shady Cove post office on Highway 62 near the Shady Cove clinic will hold an open house between 10 a.m.' and 2 p.m. Saturday, July 26. The -post office has been open about two months, but open house was delayed pend ing completion of installation of new equipment, the post master said. The postmaster invited res idents of the area to visit the new building Saturday. He added that the area had only been designated for home sites at the head of the lake and haft not been surveyed at this time. He mentioned that the area near the dam would be first developed for summer homes with the area on the north side of the lake above the dam not being developed for several years. Organizational sites, the judge said, will be given to organizations as "use permits" only with a time limit. He ex plained that it is not antici pated that these sites will be permanent as at Lake of the Woods. Representatives from both the park service and bureau of reclamation will meet with No. 107 place the delegation owns at Glen Cove, Long Island, 25 miles from the city. He said, however, that Khrushchev might decide to stay at a New York hotel. Violent Electric Storm Batters DunsmuirArea . Klamath Falls (UPD A vio lent electric storm, accom panied by hail and heavy rain, caused extensive dam age in the Weed, Dunsmuir, Castella and Gazelle areas of Northern California and sev eral power , outages in the Klamath Falls area .Wednes day night and early today. Grain Crop Destroyed - The over-sized hail destroy ed the entire grain crop in the . Gazelle ;area, according to the Mt.. Shasta, Calif., weather bureau. Rain start ing about 7:30 p.m. Wednes day measured 2Vi inches in an hour and water was re ported standing up to six in ches deep in some fields this morning. Highway 99 was temporarily closed to traf fic during . the night because of the storm. Lightning caused several fires in Weed. One strike was at the Weed Safeway store, where an electric motor in a frozen food locker burned out, causing severe smoke damage to the store. Crewi Called Out Crews from the California Oregon Power Company and Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Company worked through the night to restore service. Copco reported sev eral transformer strikes, with power out all night on High way 99 south of Weed. Floyd Dill, i P. T. & T. manager at Yreka, said 200 phone sub scribers were still without service this morning. Three phone cables were damaged by lightning. A crew was rushed from Redding, Calif., to' help restore the service. . Five Explosions Rock City in Illinois Bellville, 111. (UPD - Five explosions rocked the near center of this city about noon today, resulting in the evacu ation of thousands of persons from their homes in an area two miles long and one-half mile wide. Corvallis (UPD George L. White, 46, Philomath, was killed Wednesday in a logging accident near Eddyville. the Jackson county court Wednesday afternoon in Med ford it was reported. At the meeting held at Gla cier Monday and Tuesday Judge Keating was one of two delegates from the Oregon as sociation. The other delegate, County Court Judge Charles H. Mack of Klamath county, was elected vice president of the association. Items discussed at the meet ing included general discus sion by each state of its own problems as to public lands and related problems. The local delegate mention ed the real estate promoter problems experienced in sev eral of the member states where large areas of land are Decision Catches French Officials By Surprise Meeting Must Be Kept Short Washington f(JPD Presi dent Eisenhower today com- pleted a note to Nikiia S. Khrushchev which yit said to demand that the Soviet Premier spell out e& aclly what he wants to dis cuss at the proposed United Nations summit meeting. Washington (UPD French Premier Charles De Gaulle in an about-face today agreed to attend a summit meeting in New York if it is kept short. The general's decision, an nounced in Paris, surprised even French officials who thought he would refuse to participate in a Middle East conference if it were held in the publicity glare of the United Nations. New Note Prepared De Gaulle's decision was disclosed as President Eisen hower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were draft ing a proposed new note to Soviet Premier Nikta S. Khrushchev on date, place and program for the meeting. There was no hint as to the contents of the U.S. note, but White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said it would not be sent to Moscow until it had been looked over by Britain and France. Ever since the subject of a summit meeting in the Se curity Council was broached this week, Paris has been re porting that De Gaulle ob jected strenuously to holding the conference in New York. French authorities said he pre ferred a more neutral place, such as Geneva, and a meet ing without publicity. U.N. Security Council meetings usually are televised. It appeared that De Gaulle's decision removed one of the possible obstacles to a sum mit meeting soon on the Mid dle East crisis. 1 . . Still to ..be resolved were issues of time, representation, and ground rules. . Next Monday Appears Out It was clear, however, that the meeting time proposed by Khrushchev next Monday . was out. i ' Dulles will be in Europe over the week end and will not "return to this country until Tuesday morning. He has dates that day , and the next with Italian, Premier AmnKore Fanfani. Tha White House gave no indication of the official U.S. attitude toward Khrushchev's demand that Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and chiefs of the Arab states be invited to the. meeting. Portland Woman Dies in Home Fire Portland (UPD Mn. An' Ambrose, 70, a cripple, did today in a fire at the bedroom of her home here. Reno, Nev. (UPD Planes from the Civil Air Patrol and the Sixth Air Force are searching for a small Army plane missing on a flight from Bishop, Calif., to Winnemuc ca, Nev. WEATHER FORECAST: Afternoon and eve nine thunderstorms over Cas cades and Siskiyous; otherwise fair throuffh Friday. Low to night 60. High Friday 95. Temp. Highest Yesterday ; ,,, 93 Lowest this Morning ' 62 Our Skies Tonigrit0 Sunset today 7:40 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:56 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 12:29 a.m. Full Moon Juiy30 Mercury, the planet nearest to the Sun, might be dfmy seen tonight in the early eve ning twilight. It is moving nrf the star, Regulus, and is a. kit brighter than the latter. 1 being sold for subdivision. One example cited was where desert land without water was being sold from $39 to $100 per acre. Keating said that the majority of the states, to com bat this problem, are adopting as fast as possible subdivision ordinances to prfteet both the ' present land owners and 'resi dents. ..Also discussed were various bills before the Senate per taining to public domain lands. Judge Keating ' served as chairman of the buiget com mittee during the meeting. Also attending from Oregon were delegates from the coun ty , courts in Tillamook and Lake counties.