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Newspaper Page Text53rd Year Price 10 Cents" Subscribers fceommended 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 p.m. daily and 1230 on. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service MEDFORD G feature story on the forma- tie anf history of the Keep Ireto Green association ap f2r o page 12 of today's United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 9 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1958 No. 109 RUNE EXPLORER IS Jupiter Rocket Launched from Cape Canaveral Orbit First to Pass Over Russia 0 . Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPD An Army Jupiter C rock et launched Explorer IV into orbit around the earth early Saturday morni&g. It was swinging around the earth once every two hours last night on a "cook's tour" course that would cover its most populous areas, includ ing Russia. 'Jjte new and heaviest of U.S. satellites at 38.43 pounds carried aloft the most delicate instruments 8vjr devised for Radiation de letion help prepare man fot tjace travel. JVm& Secordtd Th low point in the satel orbit is 177 miles above E tlMM sjnd the high point is &,Mt miles up. It circles the ftlofe oce every 110 minutes fn ,t lifetime is estimated t "t i years." Y& George Ludwig, head w& &ha TTnivprcifv nf Tnwa tft iftiich designed special instrumentation inside the tellite, said it attained a vr$ large elliptical orbit" which would enable it to (jiake a much more complete measurement of the intense radiatior, outside the earth's atmosphere. It as to ' make its first pass over soutflern Russia abou& 10 p.m. est and would - cross Russia four or five more time$ before its eourse slant & fvfay. In it first circuit, Explorer 19 gassed over in southern CK7nia and Texas and also 9oif:d Mxic0 and New 3bundlnd. It sent forth a 9M" tep on twe frequen O0M, 108 and 108.3 mega- new Explorer will be (its irst U. S. satellite to fly (t Jtussia. The others were (Jfct in orbits which covered Itofd band of the-earth's SPufAl between latitudes 34 3 3Wth tri 34 south. X new trbit was picked (fc i-e Explorer IV's delicate ir8Mmets ati opportunity Sb cMsura radiation in space ovf t larger part of the plCnat. QSxjlorSrs I and III had run into e, belt of radiation, start ing about 600 miles up, 1,000 times more intense than ex pected. Their instruments were not "sophisticated" enough, howeger, t provide certain icjentification fft the radiation. Extremely small recorders will report for the first time just what the radiation hazard is- ' It traveled in an orbit rang ing from 51 degrees north to 51 degrees south, covering all of the United States, most of South America and parts of Canada, Africa and Australia. Local Man Drowns . In Shasta Lake Redding, Calif.-Ul'PB Ward McPherson, of Medford, Ore., drowned early Saturday while fishing with a friend orrthe Pit river arm of Shasta lake. The companion, Earl Tay lor, of Project City, Calif., told deputies that McPherson lost his footing on the south shore and fell into the lake. Large Earthquake Recorded in Berkeley Berkeley (LTD The Uni versity of California reported a "very large"' earthquake Saturday, 5.000 miles from here and 370 feet within the earth. , Seismologist Jack Cameron said the quake was first re corded at 10:47 a.m., pdt and o lasted about an hour. He add at that the . exact location 4 magnitude of the quake 9fl Sot known. laondon (UPI) Emer gency talks aimed at saving the ttering Baghdad pact or gripping it for another mideat defense alliance open ed hers yesterday. KV IV "I'll Be Glad To Come!-And I'll Set The Date, Make Up The Guest List, Select The Program, Choose The Menu, Pick Out The Music . . ." Power Dam Proposed On Illinois River Cave Junction Bruce Shavere, general manager of the Coos-Curry Electric Coop erative, Inc., has announced that the company has applied to the Federal Power commis sion for a license' to build a power dam on the Lower Illi nois river. The deadline date for fil ing briefs or objections is set for Sept. 2. After that the fi nal hearing date on granting of the license will be fixed. The company had previous ly secured permission to build a dam from the state hydro electric board. Plans were made up more than two years ago and much of the engineer ing work has already been done. The location of the dam will Dress Rehearsals End at Festival Ashland Dress rehearsals end tonight at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, and the 1958 season starts tomor row evening at 8:30 o'clock with "Much Ado About Noth- mg. The Monday night play will be preceded by the Feast of the Tribe of Will in Lithia Park at 6 p.m. Producing Director Angus L. Bowmer reported that all preparations for the festiva nave been completed ana xnax the group is ready for its 1958 opening. Rogue Valley patrons are reminded by General Man ager William Patton that membership' sales end at mid night tonight. Individual ticket sales are continuing to double last year's compara tive totals, with orders arriv ing from all parts of the world, officials reported. Opening nights" for the other three plays this year, "King Lear," "The Merchant of Venice," and "Troilus and Cressida,"' will be Tuesday, Wednesday ' and Thursday. The four will then rotate nightly performances through Sept. 4. Mrs. Dorothy Pressnal, 21, wife of a San Bernardino county deputy sheriff, will be guest at the Festival four days as "Queen for a Day." She is expected to arrive at the Med ford airport at 3:15 p.m. to day. She was named "Queen for a Day" on the Hollywood radio program last week. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair Jand hot to day and Monday. High today 98, low 0. High Monday 98. Temp. Highest yesterday . 100 Lowest yesterday 57 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:37 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 4:o9 ajn. The Moon, riding low, rises : 5:11 p.m. today and sets ...... 3:08 a.m. tomorrow. -The very dim stars in its background tonight are of the constellation, Sagittarius:, the slightly brighter ones below them form the bow of the Archer. ARBflY be at the wide bend in the Illinois river near Bald moun tain, but the power plant will be located approximately 12 miles below this point neces sitating about four miles of tunnel for the water run. The plant is designed for the pro duction of 92,000 kw with the total cost of the" whole project at an estimated $29,500,000, according to the petition. The dam will be 600 feet long and create a deep, storage reservoir with a water sur face of approximately 225 acres. Shaveresald that the greater depth will mean that the Illinois river itself would not be backed up any great distance. Protective measures for mi grating fish, salmon, cut throat trout and steelhead are being worked out in accord ance with the Oregon Game commission. The site of the dam is be low Deadman's Bar approxi mately 30 miles from Selma. Salem Contractor Low on Canal Work Floyd R. Grubb, Salem, was apparent low-bidder for construction work on the South Fork collection system and the Daley Creek collec tion canal in the Talent Pro ject, the bureau of reclama tion has reported. Bids were opened in the office of J. A. Callan, project construction engineer, Camp White. Grubb's bid was $236, 634. The engineer's estimate of $247,066. x Other bidders were M. C. Lininger and Sons, Medford, $294,834; Riverbend Contrac tors, Inc., Portland, $302,594; a joint venture consisljng of Cherf Bros., Inc., and Sand kay Contractors, Inc., Ephra ta, Wash., and Cheney Con struction Company, Seattle, $305,866; and Steve Wilson Construction Company, Camp White, S332.914. Included in the work 'will be construction of unlined canal, concrete flume, pre cast concrete pipe siphons and minor structures. Com pletion time is 470 days. Air Force Pilot Who Was to Attempt Conquest of Outer Space Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (UPD Capt. Iven C. Kincheloe, who was to have been the nation's first mili tary man to attempt a con quest of outer space, was killed Saturday when his Air Force F-104 Starfighter crashed on a routine flight. The 30-year-old "Kincheloe, already selected as one of the first two men and the first military pilot to fly the still to-be-completed X-15, was on what the Air Force described as a. "test support mission." The crash occurred 10 miles - - from Edwards Air Fores base. Explorer Signals Heard in Medford A Medford ham radio op erator reported yesterday he received the "eerie" whistling signal, which un dulates slowly as the wind in a storm, from Explorer IV on a frequency of 108 and 108.30 megacycles. The signal was louder than signals from other sat ellites and was heard for about five minutes. The sig nal was heard at 12:45 and 2:40 p.m. Saturday. Pear Harvest to Start in Rogue Valley This Week Pear picking will get un derway on a limited basis in this area this week, accord ing to Clifford B. Cordy, county extension agent. Some growers have an nounced that they will make their first picking of Bartletts as early as Monday, with more orchards starting daily through the week, he said. Picking will be in full swing by Aug. 4, he predicted. ' The crop is good this year, according to reports, the agent said. It is better than average and better than last year in spite of isolated hail damage. The size of the fruit is good and will develop well he added. Sign Up Pickers . More than three million field lugs of pears will be picked this year, reports in dicate, i Orchardists are still signing up pickers and the size of the crop indicates thaf many more will be needed. In late August, the pickers will turn to D'Anjous and then follow through the other varieties, winding up the sea son after approximately two months of picking. Cordy made the announce ment at the Fruit Growers league meeting Friday -after noon in the league's new of fice building on Grape st. Dulles, Adenauer Agree on Action Bonn, Germany (UPD Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles succeeded Satur day in easing Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer's misgivings over the sending of U.S. troops to the Middle East, ac cording to a joint statement issued after a meeting. The statement said the two leaders achieved "complete clarification" lof the "motives and intentions which recently guided the attitudes of the two governments." "There was also full agree ment on the assessment of the current situation and the con clusions to be drawn from it," the statement added. Dulles flew to London im mediately after the meeting. The secretary was met at London's airport by British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and American Ambas sador John Hay Whitney. Range Fire Burns 1,500 Acres Friday Burns (UPD A lightning kindled range fire swept through about 1,500 acres of tinder-dry brush and grass land late Friday near the Oregon-Nevada border three miles northwest of Denio, Nev. Bureau of land management crews and ranchers in the Denio area battled the blaze to a standstill late Friday. Howard R. Delano, BLM di rector in the Burns district, said 40 men, a pumper and crawler tractor were used to fight the flames. Killed in Crash on Kounne Air Force investigators theorized the sleek jet air plane had apparently flamed out (engine quit) and that Kincheloe was attempting an emergency landing near an unpopulated int e rs e c t i o n when the crash occurred. Sheriff's deputies from nearby Lancaster, Calif., said the plane exploded and burst into flames upon impact. Kincheloe, a Korean war ace before bcoming an ex perimental pilot, was sched uled to i test the X-15 at this base early next year. The North American Aviation New President of Lebanon May Be Elected This Week Murphy Says Talks Are Encouraging Beirut, Lebanon (UPD U. S. State Department trouble shooter Robert D. Murphy said Saturday he believed Lebanon would elect a new president within a few days and that stability would be quickly restored to the revolt torn country. Murphy, a deputy under secretary of state and a fre quent U. S. mediator in Mid East quarrels, has been en gaged in rounds of talks with government and rebel leaders since his arrival here in con juction with the landing of U. S. Marines in Beirut. Good Possibility "I think there is a good possibility that a president will be elected this coming Thursday when parliament is to meet," he said. "I am en couraged by the talks I have had. I-think we are making progress in the right direc tion." Asked specifically whether he believed Lebanon would have a new president shortly, the 63-year-old diplomat re plied: "Yes, I do." The quarrel between the rebels and the 'government developed over President Ca mille Chamoun's announced plans to seek a second term of office, although the present constitution forbids this. Cha moun had proposed a change in the Constitution. Murphy said the situation was extremely complex and that he has tried to talk with a variety of people, including Moslem and Christian leaders, opposition and rebel officials and government authorities. Confers - With Chamoun Saturday he conferred with Chamoun. Friday he talked with Kamal Jumblatt, the rebel Druse tribal leader whose forces were closing 'in on Beirut's International air port before the Marines land ed. Murphy and U. S. Ambas sador Robert McClintock went to a small house in the moun tains to meet Jumblatt. The rebel chief arrived with about 60 armed men. He said he believed the talks had helped "clear the air" and removed some mis givings ., about American mo tives in bringing troops into Lebanon. Murphy, as President Eis enhower's special representa tive here, said he also ex pected to meet within the next few days with Saeb Sa lam, the rebel leafder in Bei ruit proper. Charles Made Prince Of Wales by Queen Cardiff, Wales -lUPD Queen Elizabeth Saturday named her son, . Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, the royal title last held by the present Duke of Wind sor. The 9-year-old future king of Britain heard the news himself over the radio at his boarding school. The Queen announced her decision in a tape-recorded statement . to thousands of Welshmen attending the final day of the Empire games in Cardiff.- The audience greet ed the news with cheers and burst into traditional songs. Prince Philip attended the games in place of the Queen, who is suffering from sinusti tis. But he made no mention of the elevation of their son in his address. He left that to the Queen's recording. company's super -sonic jet is expected to fly at well over 100-thousand feet, and at speeds of more than 4,000 miles an hour. The X-15 ws believed cap able of flirting with the true space beyond the earth's gravity field, with an ultimate altitude of more than 100 miles. Kincheloe held the all-time altitude record, flying the ex perimental Bell X-2 to an al titude of 126,200 feet two years ago. Scott Crossfield, a civilian test pilot for Nortri American, wai to have given the X-15 George Potter of Gold Hill Killed In Auto Crash Crash Occurs Near Gold Hill Saturday George Potter, 79, of route 1, box 1, Gold Hill, was killed Saturday morning when the car he was driving collided with a vehicle operated by Edward William Inch, 57, Garvey, Calif., according to state police. The accident occurred near the bridge leading into Gold Hill from the south, at the intersection of Blackwell rd. and Stage rd. Potter was found dead in his car when police arrived, according to reports. Inch was taken to the Rogue Valley hospital where he was treated for injured ribs and then released. Passengers Uninjured Passengers in the Inch pick-( up truck, his wife, Mrs. Gladys M. Inch, 57, and his daughter, ' Diana Inch, 10, were uninjured, police re ported. Officers said Potter was driving south from Gold Hill on Blackwell rd. when Inch drove onto the road from Stage rd. The Potter auto mobile struck the pickup on the left front fender, knock ing it into the ditch on the east side' of the road. No re port on the damage to the vehicles was available. Potter is survived by his widow, Mrs. Bertha Potter, of the same" "address. Accord ing to his nephew, Roy Potter, of Eugene, George Potter was a former wrestler arid black smith at one time the mid dleweight wrestling cham pion of Michigan. He came to Gold Hill in 1926, where he shoed horses up until four years ago. Thefatality was the eighth in Jackson county this year. At this time last year, Jack son county had had 13 fa talities. Heavy Fighting Flares in Beirut Beirut, Lebanon OJPD Heavy fighting flared for the second night in a row be tween government forces and rebels in the barricaded Basta Moslem section of Beirut. The skirmishing appeared to be more violent than the fighting Friday night in which 14 persons were killed and a dozen injured. There, were no immediate reports of casual ties in the sudden outburst of bombings, machine gun, rifle and cannon firing last night. The two nights of battling were the worst since U.S. Ma rines landed in Beirut a little less than two weeks kso. They hav,e managed to avoid open clashes with the Rebels. ' The fighting began soon after the Rebel leader in the Basta district, Saeb Salam, announced in his heavily-defended headquarters that he was willing to meet with U.S. diplomatic trouble shooter Robert Murphy and help him end the civil strife that began May 11. rugm its preliminary testing. But, it was Kincheloe who was to have tested the experimental aircraft'to its ultimated capa bilities including the pos sible flight to outer space. Before the crash occurred, the plane was flying 25 miles south of this test base. Sheriff's deputies said Steve' Michel, Lancaster, Calif., was apparently the only witness to the accident. He told deputies that he did not see any flame from the plane and confirmed that Kincheloe apparently was trvine to land. Biroees fee i Thre FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE The flag on the Jackson county courthouse building, a victim of the violent storms recently, was removed Friday by Medford city firemen using the aerial ladder truck. The flag, torn across to the binding just below the blue field, was later burned. A new flag will be raised . once the pole is ; removed and hinged at its base for easier future servicing' 'without fire depart ment assistance. The rope was the same time the flag was torn. Fire. Chief Gordon Barker (right) and Fireman Warren Ritchie manned the truck during the operation. At the top of the 85 foot,' 4i4 inch ladder is Fireman Bob Coash. The, ladder, extended to its maximum length, still fell 10 feet short of reaching the top of the flag pole. (Knackstedt photo). , Increase Approved In BLM Timber Cut A proposal to place 25,713, 000 or more board feet of limber on the market this fall was approved Friday by the advisory board to the Medford district of the bu reau of land management. All the timber, is in Jose phine county. The added sale was made possible by recent reinventory of stands of BLM timber in the area, resulting in an increased allowable cut under sustained yield prac tices. District Manager Ross Youngblood said three tracts, totaling 20,713,000 board feet, are in the North Josephine management area, all in the Galice section. The other two are in the South Josephine management area. Some 2 million additional board feet there will be placed on the market if access and cruising time permit, he said. Reinventory Under Way Youngblood told the board that reinventory of the Jack son and Klamath master units is under way, and it is hoped to have it completed by next July 1. It is expected that con siderable increases in the allowable cuts will result. The 25 to 27 million feet to be sold in addition to the regular 1958 timber sale plan represent about half of the over-all increase resulting from the reinventory. An other similar amount will be made available during ,the first six months of 1958. Allowable cuts are figured on a fiscal year basis, but timber sale plans are made on the basis of a calendar year. The board also reviewed organization of the district, which was changed somewhat recently,' and heard a report on the progress of the rein ventory studies: Assistant Dis trict Managers John Carne- Tokyo (UPD Seven per sons were known dead and 15 injured in floods that hit northern and central Honshu, Japan's main island, Friday and Saturday, reports reach ing Tokyo aaid. ot if knocked from .the pulley at gie and Robert Hostetter gave details of the work. Josephine County Judge Raymond Lathrop presided in the absence of Chairman L. L. (Doc) Simpson, who is in the hospital. Ten members at tended the meeting from Klamath, Jackson and Jose phine counties. Log Truck Driver Jailed After Crash Crescent City, Calif. (UPD A logging truck driver was jailed on- manslaughter charges Saturday following an accident in which a heavy log bounced off his truck and crushed a station wagon, kill ing two persons. The truck driver was Myr- Iand B. Austin, 29, of Grants Pass, Ore. He was arrested by Highway Patrol Capt. A. D. Johnson and charged with negligent manslaugh ter, speeding, driving without due caution and driving with un safe equipment. He will be arraigned Monday. One of seven large logs on Austin's rig bounced off onto the car Friday afternoon on a curve of Highway 199 30 miles east of here. Killed instantly were Mrs. Etta Gallea, 70, and Donald H. Williams, 40, her "son-in- law, who was driving the station wagon. Injured were Williams' wife, Gertrude, and their, two children, Carl, 6, and Irene, 7. The victims were all of Areata, Calif. Sports Bulletins Sacramento d'Pl The San Diego Padres downed the Sacramento Solons last night, 6-2 and 3-0 in a lwi nighl doubleheader. Phoenix (IPD Andre Rodgers led a smashing Phoenix attack last night as the Giants pounded out a 14-3 Pacific Coast league Ticlory over Portland. INI FDC Eisenhower Rules Out Quick Summit Meeting in Note Insists on Security Council Ground Rules Washington (UPD The United States braced Satur day for an expected new Rus sian attempt to use the threat of World War III to force a quick Summit meeting on the Middle East crisis. Diplomats said President Eisenhower appeared to have won a temporary war-of-nerves victory in convincing world- opinion that a 'mad' rush" to the Summit under any conditions was unwise. But officals feared a re newed Soviet effort to create a "crisis atmosphere" in which such a meeting would seem immediately necessary to stave off another World War. They expected a new broad side of Russian threats to in tervene militarily in the Mid dle East. New Letter Friday Russia had demanded that the Summit conference begin Monday at the United Nations. But Mr. Eisenhower, in a new letter Friday to Soviet Prem ier Nikita Khrushchev, ruled out a meeting Monday and insisted the sessions be held under Security Council ground rules. He also served notice the United States ex pected to expose Soviet in trigues in the Middle East if a conference is held. . Diplomats said the effect of the President's stand was to stave off a Summit meeting until . probably mid-August while the West works out its strategy. Meantime the state depart ment was reported working on, a broad, new program to stabilize the Middle East by trying to solve the economic and military problems of the whole area. ) Presented to Summit Such a plan presumably would be presented to the Summit meeting when and if one is held. It would be de signed to counter anticipated Russian proposals to remove U.S. and British troops from the area without providing adequate security guarantees for small nations or trying to solve the basic causes of Mid East turbulence. Khrushchev has not yet given any formal indication whether he would accept the conditions laid down by Mr. Eisenhower for the confer ence. There .were some expec tations that he woufc balk and try to use war-threatening propaganda to get an agree ment for his own conditions. Runaway Girls Give Themselves Up La Grande (UPD Three runaway 15-year-olds from the Louise Home for Girls in Portland turned themselves in to La Grande police Satur dy after a Reveend and a ra dio announcer convinced them that was the thing to do. Police said one of the girls was from Portland. The other two were from Medford and Elgin, near here. The trio ran away from the home Wednesday and told officers they hitchhiked to La Grande. They said that for the last two nights they slept in an abandoned auto on the outskirts of town. ' County Court Plans Squaw Lake Visit Members of the Jackson county court have announced plans to tour the Squaw lake area next Thursday to con sider possible recreational fa cilities and access problems. Carrol Brown, superinten dent of the Rogue River Na tional Forest; Thomas Rick ard, president , of the Izaak Walton League; Paul Ryn--ning, county engineer; and Cole Rivers, representing the state game commission, are all expected to make the tour with the court. Squaw lake is about 40 milei southwest of Medford.