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CD O Mw Sim Itwlrail LAZY BONES This half-grown shep herd pup owned by a Medford resident ..may not be intelligent by human standards, bufcshe is not stupid either. To save her energy these hot summer days she has gotten, in the habit lately of eat Fires Sweeping Eastern Oregon Forests, Ranges By &niied Press International Thousands of acres of for est, range and grass lands in Eastern Oregon were aflame today and weary firefighters fought to control the blazes. At Pendleton, Wright Mallery, Umatilla Forest Service of ficer, said he counted 45 fires in the Ukiah and Umatilla areas. Blaze 'Bombed' The biggest blaze, a 450 acre holocaust that licked at the edges of the Umatilla Na tional Forest Tuesday night, was "bombed" with 1200 pounds of borite solution with an airplane frying out of La Grande. Mallery said the so lution "calmed the fire down" and kept it from spreading further. A crew of 25 men were working above the fire and expected to get a line around it Wednesday morn ing, he said. Reports indicated that there were 20 fires in the Ukiah district 50 miles south of lndleton, 13 fires in the Heppner area, at least five in the Walla Walla district and several blazes in the Pom eroy area.-' - "" "' "rr" Rains No Help There was some slight rain fall reported over the Uma tilla forest Tuesday night but Mallery said it "didn't help jpuch." Fires were also raging in the La Grande area, one a 400-acre blaze on Mt. Harris, visible from downtown La Grande. . . Two new fires were report ed Tuesday night in the Rock Creek aja about 10 miles southwest of La Grande. Portland (UPD Four Port land firemen suffered burns on their legs and feet here Tuesday when burning chem icals splashed on them as they were fighting a blaze at the American Marietta Company. lEasebaOB AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 17 2 Detroit 2 7 0 Delock and White; Susce and Lau. Homerun: Stephens. County Court Squaw Lakes Members of the Jackson county court Thursday will survey Squaw lakes to study their possible use as a recrea tional area, County Commis sioner Ralph James has re ported. Squaw lakes are, located eight miles -east of the Upper Applegate rd- near Copper. The survey will be conducted in answer to a letter from Cole M. Rivers, district fish ery agent of the Oregon state game commission. The letter states the public may lose use of the lakes unless some pub lic agency or group of agencies arrange with present property owners to maintain a recreation area there. Property surrounding the lake is owned by A. C. Pierce "and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Harr. The Harrs have been using their property as a recreation al business, catering to camp ing, picnicking and fishing. The Harrs are considering closing their property to pub lic use, but are agreeable to a lease. Rivers' letter stated. The lower lake is used for fishing, swimming, boating and camping. The upper lake is primarily used by one-day fishermen. Water-skiing is not allowed on either lake since a 10-mile per-hour speed limit has been established. Use of Medford Schools to Open September 15; Buildings The Medford school board has set Sept. 15 as the opening date for schools in district 549C. Teachers are scheduled to report Sept. 9 for in-service training. The Sept. 15 date was set to give students an opportun ity to work in the fruit har- Pear Harvest in Area Scattered The pear harvest in the Medford district is scattered so far, according to Clifford B. Cordy, county horticultural agent. Full-scale picking will get underway in most orchards about Aug. 1, the county agent said. Bartletts, which are now being picked, are sizing up well, and will be of normal size and of the usual good eat ing quality, Cordy added. The pear harvest is expected to be close to three million boxes. The crop is better than average and better than last year, in spite of isolated hail damage,, pear, men.. reported. Orchardists are still signing up pickers, and the size of the crop indicates many more pickers are needed yet, it was noted. In late August, D'Anjous will be harvested. Growers will follow up with other va rities. Approximately two months of picking is expected for the complete season. During last Thursday's meeting the Medford Pear Shippers' association, the group voted to provide D'An jou pears for the London and Vienna fairs. The pears will be shipped from this district on Aug. 24, it was announced. Red Cross Blood Spilled in Wreck Wolf Creek, Ore. (UPD The Red Cross today reported loss of about 20 pints of hu man blood when a Red Cross pickup crashed into the rear of a logging truck near here. A hospital official from Jo sephine General hospital in Grants Pass salvaged 41 pints of whole blood that did not break when the truck's load was spilled on the pavement. to Visit Thursday the lakes has grown from 2,049 people and 598 cars in 1947 to 6,050 people and 1,700 cars in 1957, according to records kept by the Harrs. "With improved fishing, the angler-use only of this area could be expected to triple or quadruple," Rivers wrote. "Much work needs to be done at Squaw lakes but the game commission cannot spend a large sum of money there until public use of the area is guaranteed. The commis sion desires an unencumbered perpetual access which may be answered by the purchase of a strip of land between the public road and the lake perimeter." Rivers suggested a joint program with the county court, the forest service, state game commission and the Harrs. A 100 to 150 foot strip around the perimeter of both lakes in addition to the access roads would be all that is needed for the public, Rivers suggested. The lower lake has approximately 1.5 miles of shoreline and the upper lake .8 miles. The forest service wants a timber-sale access road up Squaw creek by way of Squaw lakes, but has been unable to obtain one so far. ing her meals lying down, as the picture above shows. When evening comes she is as full of mischief as any pup. It could be that she's playing it cool ... or that she's just plain lazy. Visited vest, since no Mexican labor was brought into the valley to help harvest fruit this year, and to give more time for com pletion of new additions at Medford High school. Two new elementary schools, Wilson and Hoover, also are expected to be com' pleted in time for school open, ing. Board members visited the new school sites yesterday. Bids will be opened Aug, 18 for an addition of a gymnasium-auditorium, and cafe teria at West Side school. The addition will include facilities similar ' to those at Wilson and Hoover schools. Tfie board authorized school oficials to survey boundaries for Wilson, Hoover and Roose velt schools and to report on proposed changes at the Aug. 18 meeting.. Physical examinations re quired by the state for school bus drivers will be financed by the school district, the board decided. The examina tions are expected to range be tween $35 and $50, the board estimated. Recent state legis lation requires such examina tions, -as-well as-regular-aca demic and driving tests. The district employs six regular drivers and two substitutes. Bob Raymond, fourth grade teacher at Roosevelt, and Jim Miller, science teacher and coach at Hedrick Junior High school, submitted their resig nations. Raymond is moving to California, and Miller plans to go into private business. T. R. Florey, Medford con tractor, was awarded a con tract for asphalt paving on a roadway at the rear of Hed rick Junior High school and the play area at Oak Grove school. Ike Challenges for Summit Conference Washington (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower is challeng ing Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to a showdown summit meeting in mid August and the United States plans to charge the Russians with fomenting rebellion and unrest throughout the Middle East. A presidential note to Khrushchev, to be dispatched shortly, will call for the top level meeting to be held with in the United Nations Secur ity Council although not necessarily in New York between Aug. 10 and 15, high officials said. They added that if Khrushchev- accepts the challenge, the United States does not in tend to appear as a "defend ant" accused of "aggression" in Lebanon but will take the offensive and expose a pat tern of Russian and united Arab subversion throughout the oil-rich area. Big Crowd Due at Democrats' Picnic Democrats who plan to at tend the annual Democratic picnicat TouVelle State park Sunday, Aug. 3, are asked to bring at least one other per son interested in the party, ac cording to James Redden, county chairman. The slogan for the picnic, which starts at noon, is "each one bring one." The party ex pects the largest crowd in the picnic's history to attend. -A social event, the party has scheduled entertainment and games for which prizes will be awarded, Redden said. Each family is asked to bring food and service for themselves. Cold drinks and coffee will be served at the park. Faubus Chalks Up Record Majority In Arkansas Vote Incumbent Receives 69 Per Cent of Vote Little . Rock, Ark. (UPD Gov. Orval E. Faubus today credited the sending of fed eral troops to Little Rock in the integration crisis for a vote that gave him a third term by the biggest majority in Arkansas history. Almost complete returns from Tuesday's Democratic primary gave him 69.5 per cent of the vote. The rest was almost evenly divided be tween his opponents, Little Rock meat packer Chris Fink beiner, 37, and Judge Lee Ward, 52, of Paragould. . Unofficial returns to United Press International from 2,274 out of 2,330 precincts in the state gave: Faubus 261,101 votes; Finkbeiner 60,017, and Ward 58,438. ' The voting was a condemna tion by the. people of illegal federal intervention in the af fairs of the state and the hor rifying use of federal bayonets in the streets of an American city and in the hails of a pub lic school," Faubus, 48, said in a victory statement. Would Do It Again He meant President Eisen hower's sending of 1,000 troops of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock last September to protect nine Negroes who enrolled in Cen tral High school. Faubus previously had used two companies of the National Guard to keep Negroes out, on the ground that integration of Central would provoke bloody violence. Mrs. L. C. Bates, president of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, declined to comment on Faubus' victory. She led the fight to get theNegroe.s into ' the" school.' 'V . r Integration itself was not an election issue, since Ward- and Finkbeiner were against it. The issue was what to do if a school were faced with in tegration. Faubus said he'd call out the National Guard again if he thought it necessary. Ward and Finkbeiner ' said they woul:d never use 'the state mi litia to defy the government. Sets Pattern Harry S. Ashmore, Pulitzer prize-winning executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, read into Faubus' victory a power ful stimulant to integration re sistance throughout the South. He won the Pulitzer prize for a series of editorials last fall contending that the issue was not the right or wrong of segregation but defiance of the federal government. "The governor's course of resistance has been over whelmingly endorsed," . h e said. "It (Faubus victory) has set the. pattern for other Southern politicians." He said it will cut the ground out from under mod erate Southern politicians. Haiti Quiet Under Effect of Curfew Port Au Prince Haiti (UPD Haiti was reported quiet early today under a 12-hour curfew imposed in the wake of Tues day's abortive attempt to over, throw President Francois Pu valier. Strict censorship, reinforced by armed guards at the over seas telephone exchange, pre vented details of the situation, but there were no immediate reports of new violence. The curfew order, restrict ing movement in this island republic between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., was accompanied by censorship of both the local press and outgoing news dis patches. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and warm to night and Thursday with some afternoon and evening cloudi ness. Low tonight 55. High Thursday 92. Temp. Highest Yesterday . 96 . Lowest this Morning 55 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:34 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:02 a.m. The unseen stars in the Sun's background are now those of Cancer. Moonrise today 7:21 p.m. Moonset tomorrow 6:13 a.m. Full Moon today 8:47 a.m. The dim stars in the Moon's background tonight are in the constellations, Capricornus and Aquarius. :t.-: 53rd year. 16 Pages x Washington (UPD The United States is about to em-j bark on a new civilian-direct-j ed program for the conquest of outer space. President Eisenhower sign ed into law Tuesday a bill es tablishing a new space agency to supervise the peaceful ef forts. His signature created a new National, Aeronautics and Space Administration. The President said in a spec ial statement the measure was an "historic step" pledged to "peaceful purposes for the benefit of all. mankind." It was expected the Presi dent would. ask Congress for about $300 million to finance the new agency. Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, head of the National Advisory com mittee for Aeronautics, esti mated NASA would be a func tioning unit within two to Hearing Slated On Garbage Dump Plan This Evening A second Dublic hearing on the proposal to use canyons near Jacksonville as garbage dumps will be neld at 8 o'clock tonight in the office of the county planning com mission. .. . Residents of Jacksonville have protested the plan, which was announced by the City Sanitary company of Medford. On the other hand, company officials have promised a clean, unobjectionable opera tion, conforming to- all laws and sanitary requirements. The planning commission plans to formulate recommen dations following tonight's hearing, at which both sides of the controversy are expect ed to be aired again. Assures Commission Attorney Stanley C. Johes Jr., representing the sanitary service, has assured the com mission that, the company "will abide by any and all reasonable recommendations in the operation of the dis posal plant." . , . At the first hearing on the dump site, held at the request of Jacksonville residents last Wednesday night, Jones and attorneys Ervm riogan ana Walter Nunlev spoke. Hogan is the Jacksonville city attor ney, and Nunley reported that he has been retained by a eroup of families living in the Jacksonville area. The attorneys were request ed to prepare written summa tions for their arguments for study by the commission to night. The reports from Ho ps n and Nunley were not made available to the Mail Tribune. The City Sanitary Service, according to Jones's State ment, has indicated its wil lingness to permit Jackson ville residents free use of the proposed garbage dump should the company decide to close down the dump it oper ates. . He reaffirmed the statement made earlier by Anthony Boi tano, head of the firm, that the 'proposed disposal areas are at least one mile from the nearest residence. "No disposal area will be within the view of any resi dents, and we will give what ever written assurances or guarantees may be requested that no area will be used for disposal purposes on our two tracts that are immediately adjacent -to the Jacksonville city limits," Jones promised. Khrushchev Asked To Arrange Nasser Talks Jerusalem (UPD Israel has asked Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to arrange a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and United Arab Re public President Gamal Abdel Nasser in a bid to settle Arab Israeli differences, highly placed sources revealed today. Eiseinilhidweir S (Later Space MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1958 three months. NASA will sup ercede Dry den's 38-year -old committee. ' There was speculation Dry den might become the $22,500 a year administrator of the new agency. The law charges the administrator with plan ning, directing and conduct Veteran Pilot Will Take First Graft Into Space Los Angeles (UPD S o m e time within the next year or two a weirdly-garbed pilot will be strapped into the cock pit of the rocket plane X-15, carried aloft under a giant jet bomber to the lower strato sphere and then dropped. The X-15's throaty rocket engine then wilj be switched on and the missile-like craft will streak upward at a speed near 4,000 miles an hour into true space. Veteran To Be First The man assigned to pilot America's first space ship is a poised New Yorker,' Air Force Capt.. Robert (Bob) White, 34 veteran of 52 com-bat.missions-in-iJWorld War II and Korea and now desig nated to replace Capt. Iven C. Kincheloe, killed in a jet crash last Saturday .at Ed wards Air Force Base. , Capt. White and other fel low pilots paid last tributes to Kincheloe Tuesday the man who was originally scheduled to make the danger ous mission. Kincheloe's body was taken to Arlington Ceme tery in the nation's capital for burial Friday. Before Capt. White steps into the X-15 for an all-out assault on space, civilian test pilot Scott Crossfield of North American will, prove the rocket : plane's control and structural integrity at some where near 100 miles above the earth. Capt. White, father of a 3-year-old son and a daughter who will be 1 on Oct. 17, is a hazel-eyed, 170-pounder who has flown 4,200 air hours in practically all types of planes. Job for Youngsters Although he may be the first man into space, White Governor Urges Strike Settlement Salem (UPD Gov. Robert Holmes today dispatched a wire to both sides in the labor dispute involving operating engineers and general con tractors in Oregon and urged a speedy settlement. Gov. Holmes offered the full assistance of his office in an effort to get construction pro jects underway "this week." The telegram, sent to A. H. Harding, manager of Asso ciated General' Contractors, and to Paxton Wages, secre tary of the Operating En gineers Union local 701, said "In light of Oregon's eco nomic situation, it is impera tive that we push ahead with construction projects and get our laboring forces back on payrolls." House Group Votes" Debt Ceiling Boost Washington ' (UPD The House Ways and Means com mittee, informed that the gov ernment now expects a $12 billion budget deficit, voted overwhelmingly today to up the temporary ceiling on the national debt to $288 billion. - Pendleton (UPD Clarence Daniel Siles, 17, of Roseburg, was killed instantly two miles west of here today when the car in which he . was riding smashed into a loaded beer truck. efts Up Ageimcy ing aeronautical and space ac tivities. But it also gives the De partment of Defense clear jurisdiction over "activities peculiar to or primarily as sociated with the development of weapons systems, military operations . or the defense of doesn't feel he'll be riding the space planes of the future. He said, "There'll be youngsters coming up and that will be their job." White's own youngsters are too young to know what their father is planning, but his wife, the former Doris Allan of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., does and she apparently isn't worried about the danger. "She takes it in stride, like everything else," said White, Evans Valley Vote Scheduled Aug. 23 For $36,737 Levy : Evans Valley Evans Val ley school district voters will go to the polls Saturday, Aug. 23, to vote on a total levy of $36,737.67 for the new school year,' according to School Board Chairman James Mar tin. . This will be the fourth time this year school district pa trons will vote on the new school levy. Voters of the school district, 12 miles north of Rogue River, recently re jected the school levy for the third time. Three Burglaries Are Reported To Police Three break and entries were reported to Medford city police early this morning, entered during the night were Morse Motors, Sixth and Ivy sts., Ham and Egg'r Restau rant, 301 South Central ave.; and Mitchell Paint and Radia tor shop, 608 South Riverside ave. " Two of the businesses were ransacked by the burglars, police said, while $164 in cash was taken from Morse Mo tors. The firm was entered by a rear door in the service de partment and the money was taken from a petty cash box and the register cash drawer. Two Medford Boys Establish Carnival; Show Small Profit Two nine-year-old Med ford boys have set them selves up in business and the first performance show ed a 24-cent profit. The two businessmen, Paul Greeny, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Greeny, 36 Myers court, and Tim Bow man, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Bowman, 29 Summit ave., have transformed the Greeny backyard into a car nival. For an admission of one cent, neighborhood children play horseshoes and other games which the boys no ticed on several daytime television programs. Prizes were candy, balloons, and toy cars. Paul, founder of the bus iness, also tells "tall tales" .to the children during the hour and a half perform ance. The partners report that - since the business has prov en to be so profitable they may schedule several other performances and add to the variety of games of Price 10 cents Tribune No. 112 the United States," including research necessary to make effective provision for the de fense of the United States. Dryden said funds would be asked from Congress for these major purposes: "Manned space," which will be termed "technology of manned space vehicles." This may be a small part of the program at first, but it is ex pected to grow into the agency's principal preoccupa tion. "Space science" includ ing instrumented artificial earth satellites for scientific purposes, and the develop ment of larger boosters, such as rocket engines with mil lions of pounds of thrust. Improved electronics to advance space technology, communications and meteor ology. The new agency director will sit on an all-powerful "National Aeronautics and Space Council" headed by Eisenhower and including the secretaries of state and de fense, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and four other presidential appointees, only one of whom can be from the government. The new levy proposed is $7,422.50 less than the pre vious total of $44,160.17. The cut had been made when the school board met with the dis trict budget committee and 26 of the school, district resi dents last Thursday. Some of th major altera tions of the, school district budget included removal of $7,000 allowed for a new school bus, $2,000 for' cafe teria remodelling, addition of $1,170 for repair of a 10-year-old school bus, inclusion of $500 ior emergency expendi tures and $70 for the bus dri vers physical examinations as now required by law. The Evans Valley school board members met with county officials yesterday to resolve several legal and op erating problems. County As sessor Ray Schumacher grant ed the district an extension of time on the condition the board would revise the budget so any controversial issues are not in it when the levy is re submitted to the voters. He said the levy must be certified by Aug. 25 so it can be placed on the tax rolls, i Martin said he wished to thank the county assessor, the county superintendent's office and the district attorn ey's office for work done for the district. . At Night, When You're Asleep, Into Your Tent I'll Creep . . .' - - ' -' - i Premier Pledges Attempt To Halt Parliament Vote Beirut Said Still ' Subject To Violence Beirut. Lebanon (UPD Premier Sami Solh pledged today to use all his influence to prevent holding of presi dential elections Thursday. He promised especially to op pose the election of leading candidate Mai. Gen. Fuad Chehab, army chief of staff. Solh spoke out less than 24 hours before the balloting was scheduled to start. Shaken by Tuesday's assassination at tempt on the Premier, Leb anon wag sharply split and observers rated chances of the election being held on time as barely 50-50. Security Tightened In the suddenly tense at mosphere, U.S. forces tight ened security precautions. Helicopters reconnoitered the port area for possible snipers. Mobile patrols shuttfed through the city. Marines t the ready in battle dress. Solh told United Press In ternational C o r r e s pondant George Bitar that he would use "all his influence" to block the election because x "Beirut is still subject to vio lence." Wants Troops io Stay He charged that Chekab, the single likely candidate be hind whom the various op posing factions seemed likely to unite, had "failed in his duty to clean up the rebellion and should not be president." Solh also said American forces should remain in Leb anon until "Independence and integrity" are assured. Rebel elements want the Americans out immediately. Expresses Thanks Solh also asked Bitar tt relay "to the American people and government our thanks for a whole-hearted support in the crisis." Solh said Tuesday night that he would try to prevent a quorum from attending Thursday's ' electoral session of Parliament unless Chehab ordered his troops to clean Out the rebel forces still dom inating large areas, of the capital. Today, the insurgents still were in control of the Basta quarter which faces directly on the Parliament building. 'Bard's Bus' Now Running to Ashland The "Bard's Evergreen Bus," a special transportation service between Medford and the Elizabethan theater in Ashland, is now in service for the 1958 Oregon Shakespear ean Festival season. Routed on a nightly sched ule leaving from 1jie Medford hotel at 7:30 p.m. and from the Jackson hotel at 7:35 p.m., the bus will take audience members directly to the thea ter , entrance. The same ve hicle will return passengers to Medford immediately follow ing the plays. "Play-goers with cars have found the 'Bard's Bus' an easy way to avoid the nuisance de lays of traffic and parking," William Patton, Festival man ager, stated.
