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t Subscribers 53rd Year Price 10 Cents Recommended To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MU 2-1021. Vreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1320 .m. Sunday. If ' regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. RIBUNE A story about how Hal Foster, creator of th adventure atrip, "Prince Valiant," obtains factual information for the strip appears on page 10 of today's Mail Trub nne. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire No. 115 52 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1958 iWLAJLT NEW DUMP City Sanitary service trucks bring the first day's loads Friday to the new garbage dump south of Jack sonville. The bulldozer pushes garbage to the bottom of the pit, then covers it Many Lumbermen Say Market Will Continue to Show Upswing Many lumbermen in this area believe the current "strong upswing" in Oregon's lumber market will continue, but have their fingers crossed, a Mail Tribune telephone sur vey of some of the larger com panies in this area revealed. With one exception, the in dustry representatives con tacted here said the current rise in the lumber market is a good strong sign. One lum ber company official here summed up the general atti tude of others when he said, "the psychology is good. This will have a direct influence on the building trend." Industry spokesmen gener ally seemed to feel that the lower mortgage rates estab lished by the government and the general population growth are two factors most directly affecting the rise in the lum ber market. Oppose View ' A representative of one of the larger lumber companies in this area oppose'd these views. "It is not a strong upsurge by any stretch of the imagina tion. Yes, it is better than earlier in the year. Then we had reason to worry because we were not breaking even. This current rise is not some thing we didn't somewhat an ticipate. All statisticians anti cipated it. "It could be foretold by the number of FHA loans be ing taken out. Easier financ ing helped. The market was bound to show some improve ment. "We work with sales repre sentatives from all over the United States. The eastern areas were slowest to show any market improvement. It is getting a little better in California. The southwest states possibly showed the earliest improvement by an upturn this spring. Production Increase "It should be kept in mind that as the market improves production will increase, too, and offset some of the price increase. You could say that we are not really enthusiastic about the current market con ditions." National trends seem to in dicate housing starts for 1958 will be about 1,150,000 units, a 10per cent rise over . 1957, according to the current issue of U.S. News and World Re port. One lumber company repre sentative here decried the loss of Texas as a strong lum ber market about two years ago. Lumber there went main ly into housing, he said. How ever, as the Texas market declined the commercial building continued in the east, he added. The lumberman blamed sat uration of the lumber market for the market decline. Too many builders had too many houses in excess of the cur rent demand, he said. First To Recover One spokesman noted that sheathing plywood was the first to recover on the mar l:3t. Of the various species, tx seems to be among the strongest on the current mar ket. Pine is not so good, he said. Another lumberman said he thought a general shift in investment demands was par tially responsible for the bet terment of the lumber market. "For awhile all industry was requesting money so bad ly they paid good returns on short term loans. However, during the same period, the housing industry was still plugging along on long term loans at low rates. Need for Financing "Now industry as a whole is not able to make big re turns since it no longer has a big need for financing. In vestors are content to invest at lower interest rates on long er terms. So you see the mar ket is just balancing itself out." A spokesman for a com pany dealing in manufactur ed lumber, such as window frames, door frames and sashes, said one factor in Enforcement of Agreement Asked The Medford Realty board has requested that the Jack son County Housing authority enforce its stipulation that purchasers' removing build ings from its project demolish them first. "We would expect the hous ing authority to have these people fulfill their obliga tions," Cap C Vandagrift, president of the realty board, said yesterday. According to Mark A. Goldy, chairman of the housing , au thority, the stipulation was "not ironclad" and "not en forceable." He described it Thursday as "a request of the federal government, which we in turn passed on to the buy ers." He said that buyers re moving buildings intact were "in violation of an agree ment," but admitted there was "no written agreement." Nothing To Say Informed of the realty board's action, Goldy replied: "I have nothing further to say." William Frohnmayer, a di rector of the board who initi ated the request at a special meeting yesterday, said: "We were condemning the action of the housing authority. If they didn't have a written agreement, then it was done in a very sloppy manner. "Probably the damage has been done," he added, "but we hope we can prevent the rest of the buildings from be ing moved out this way." "All we ask," Vandagrift said, "is that the obligations be fulfilled if at all possible. Actually a great many more people would have bid if they had thought the buildings could have been removed without demolition." In advertising sales of the buildings in the Mail Tribune, United Nations, N.Y. (BPD The Security Council is like ly to meet this week to set the time and place of a "sum mit" conference on the Mid dle East crisis, diplomatic officials said Saturday. 1 .riTL,rr2S2Ji with a layer of dirt. Meanwhile, John F. Keaveny, Jacksonville's mayor, has announced closing of the town's "junk dump" on Sterling creek rd. fluencing his business is that aluminum is losing in demand in the housing market Another lumberman point ed out that stumpage prices are still too high and would have to come down before he could predict any substantial improvement in the lumber market. As he stated during a sur vey of lumber industry opin ions earlier this year optimism and efficiency in operation are still the key words for better returns on lumber, ;he added. - ; Lumbermen generally be lieved that the ' government could not do .any more: than it is already doing to improve market conditions. Industry spokesmen seemed to feel generally the lower home loan rates set by the government had contributed materially to help (the market the housing authority stated "The buildings must be de molished to at least panel size." But purchasers were ap parently never bound to this by formal contract. See Carried Out The realty board's request stated that the authority should "not only demand, but see that the verbal sales agree ment is carried out at the site of the demolishing," and that it should "make this sales agreement ironclad." "The present practice," it concluded,, "will create un safe, substandard living con ditions in Jackson : coupty, thus reducing present proper ty values." Frohnmayer said the board had a "reliable report" that five building units had been located in sight of Crater Lake highway between Medford and Shady Cove and that two more were located back from the highway out of sight. DEDICATE PARK Medford Kiwanis club Friday noon dedicated the Maple park rest area to the city and county. Shown above after dedication ceremonies are, left to right, City Councilman Robert L. Van Sickle, Jackson County Judge Rodney Keating, Medford Mayor John 'Sleeper Fires Expected Today; Showers Forecast Strikes, Outages Result from Storm "Sleeper" fires, resulting from Saturday afternoon thunderstorms . in southern Oregon, were expected today by forest service officials. A total of 12 fires were reported by the forest service and state department of for estry late yesterday, and crews still were on three for est servipe fires in the Apple- gate area this morning. The fires all were small and crews extinguished most of them yesterday. The storm left only a trace of rain at the Medford airport, but substantial amounts were reported in other sections of he valley. At the airport, the temperature dropped from 91 degrees to 73, and climbed again to 87 within about an hour during and after the storm. Power Outages '' Several power outages were reported by California Oregon Power company, but service was restored by late last night, officials said. The weather bureau fore cast more thunderstorms for late this afternoon and early this evening over the moun tain areas of southern Oregon. The forest service yester day used calcium borate mix ture, dropped from planes on the three Applegate fires. The mixture, which was used for the first time in this area, keeps the fire from spreading until ground crews are able to reach it. Medford Air Serv ice has three planes equipped for the work. Smokejumpers Dropped Two smokejumpers from Cave Junction were dropped on one of the Applegate fires, and they later were joined by ground crewsQther.,. fires were in Klamath district east of the Cascades and two in the Prospect area. State crews were dispatched to five strikes, mostly in the area east of Medford. One strike was reported on Cole man Creek rd. Others were in the Hiatt lake area, north of Eagle Point, one west ox Pros pect, and one east of Browns boro. Twister-type winds whipped the area west of Talent, knocking out power. Hail also was reported in the area, and trees knocked down power lines. California Oregon Power company officials said broken power lines in the Talent area were repaired last night, and service was restored from several minor outages extend ing from Ashland northward toward Eagle Point. ' Sports Bulletins Memorial Stadium, Camp White Rogue Valley Dairy Maids scored a 6 lo 3 ver dict over the Shasta-Cascade All-Star women's soft ball learn here last night. Spokane, Wash., (UPD The Spokane1 Indians back ed into a 4-3 win over the Salt Lake City Bees in the first game of a double head er as the Bees' left fielder Jim McDaniel committed two fifth inning errors that led to Spokane's winning run last night. y.s Public Hearings On Rogue Basin Are Postponed Porter Informed by Corps of Engineers Public hearings by the Army Engineers on the Rogue Basin development plan have been postponed until Octob er, it was reported Saturday. Congressman Charles O. Porter told the Mail Tribune he has been informed by the Engineers the delay is occas ioned by an extension of the current survey of the basin to include the feasibility of the Lost Creek dam site, and other possible sites. The hearings originally were to be announced in July, but their announcement is now expected in September, Porter was told. The notices of public hearing are to in clude details of a proposed survey report, Porter said. Meeting Monday (A meeting sponsored by the Rogue Basin Flood Con trol and Water Resources as sociation, at 8 p.m. Monday in the Josephine county court house in Grants Pass, is ex pected to be given similar in formation by Engineer repre sentatives), i ' Porter said the expansion of the survey to include the additional sites is expected to cost about $165,000. He said the report would serve as the basis for revision of his Rogue Basin project bill, now sched uled to be reintroduced to Congress in January. ' The proposed public hear ings-will, be .held .in..several different places in southern Oregon. They will report on the work of the Engineers oser the past year investigat ing a number of alternate pro posals for development of the resources of the Rogue for multiple-purpose use. Long Considered Rogue Basin development has long been considered. In 1948, hearings on an overall development plan resulted in the shelving of most of the proposals, but one portion, the $22,000,000 Talent project, now underway, was approved. Porter s bill calls for an estimated $60 million, or more in additional dams, fishways. recreational benefits, and ir rigation works. He has i peatedly stated that it would be revised in conformity with the Engineers recommenda tions, when they are complet ed. It was introduced when it was largely to expedite the Engineers' study. Million Dollar Relay System in Operation Pacific Telephone placed a $1,300,000 micro-wave radio relay system in operation be tween Medford and Klamath Falls Saturday, the 80th an niversary of telephone service in Oregon. The system increases the number of long distance cir cuits between Medford, Kla math Falls, Eugene, Portland, and other points in the north west and California. W. Snider, and Bill Singier, president of the -Kiwanis club. Members of the club, and local labor donated work in pre paring the park for use. The park is located at the corner of Highway 99, south, and Stewart ave. , (Knackstedt photo) SHED DESTROYED Two large oil tanks lie in the rubble of a machine shed which burned Friday afternoon in the Vilas orchards in the Central Point area. A speed-sprayer, caterpillar tractor, and . pickup truck also were destroyed when the shed burned, Ned Vilas Sr., said he About $30,000 in Damage Results. From Farm Fire At least $30,000 worth of equipment was destroyed when a shed burned to the ground at Ned Vilas' .orch ard in the Central Point area Friday afternoon. Equipment destroyed in cluded a caterpillar tractor, another tractor, a speed-sprayer, and a pickup truck, ac cording to Ned Vilas Jr., son of the orchard owner. Both the shed and equipment were insured, Vilas Sr., said. Tanks of smudge oil and diesel oil and a stack of hay also were destroyed. ' Cause of the fire is unde termined. Ned Vilas Jr. said he spotted the fire and called the Central Point rural fire department about 2:18 p.m. Kept Flames from Spreading Neighbors, volunteer fire men and 1 a : crew irom Cali fornia Oregon Power company used garden hoses and hoses from two pumpers and two tankers to successfully keep the flames from spreading to a barn and house. Flames had alreadv ' charred narts of a woodshed, two-car garag and the Copco power pole. Vaughn Beer, a Copco line man said nis crew was en- route to a job when they saw the fire truck. The Copco truck followed since crew members thought a power pole might be endangered. Camp White Man Dies in City Jail William Russell Blaine, 39, of Camp White, died in city jail at 2:25 p.m. Friday, ac cording to city police. Police said they arrested him two hours earlier on a charge of drunk in public. He had been picked up on Fourth st. between Central ave. and Bartlett st., police reported. Henry Converse Lanigan, a transient in jail at the time, saw Blaine collapse and sum moned police to the cell. Police Chief Charles P. Champlin called in a deputy district attorney, the coroner and representatives from the county sheriff s office. A cor oner's report is expected Mon day. Blaine had been arrested July 22 on a similar charge, police records show. Dr. E. G. Everett, Camp white, re ported Blaine had been con fined to the guardhouse there Thursday night for drunken ness and had been released Friday at 10 a.m. It was learn ed he was being treated at Camp "White for tuberculosis and "abdominal spasms." His next of kin was listed as Mrs. Betty Louise Blaine, Clovis, Calif., a former wife. 7 railways Seeks to r Halt Gold Hill Stop ' Continental Pacific Trail ways has filed an application with Public Utility Commis sioner Howard Morgan seekng permission to abandon service to a number of Oregon cities, including Gold Hill. , A hearing on the applica tion will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 11, in room 210, public service building, Salem, Morg an announced. mioses 1 i ly tl . Operating Reject Wage Offer Portland ftlPIl Strilrini Operating Engineers Friday rejected the "final" wage of fer of the Associated General Contractors in a meeting here killing hopes of a speedy set tlement to the three-week-old heavy construction strike. Union Spokesman P. R. Wages, business representa tive of Local 701, said the vote to reject the AGC offer oi wages, travel time and ex tension ft the contract for three years was 613 to 88. He said, however, that un ion members voted unani mously to. accept the section of the contract concerning working conditions which the two factions had agreed upon. The AGC said the package offer was: A 25-cent-an-hour increase effective April 1, 1958; an added 15-cent hourly hike Jan. 1, 1959; 10 cents an hour for pensions July 1, 1959, and 5 per cent an hour (about 17 lA cents an hour) Jan. 1, 1960. Wages said members of the union in other parts of the state will vote on the offer at the special meetings either Monday or Tuesday nights. He said these meetings will be Argument Ends In Gun Wound A two-man argument in a cabin on South Stage rd. ended with the shooting of one man Friday evening, wounding him in the hand, according to state police. Steve Dinkins, no address, given, was . shot by Herbert Joe Taylor, 52, Hillsboro, Ore. police said. Dinkins told of ficers Taylor ordered him to leave the cabin they shared, and as he was about to do so, Taylor pointed a gun at him. The two then struggled, ac cording to the injured man, and several shots were fired. State police were called to the scene by Mrs. Paul Hen rricksen, 594 South Stage rd. at 9:22 p.m. Taylor fled before officers arrived, but was apprehended by Medford city police with in an hour and a 'half on Front st. State police, sheriffs depu ties, and city police cooperat ed in the hunt for Taylor, set ting up road blocks through out the area. Medford police said he offered no resistance when asked to go with them to the police station. A .22 caliber rifle, believed to be the weapon used in the shooting, was found in Tay lor's car when he was arrest ed. Taylor is being held in the county jail charged with as sault with a dangerous wea pon, police said. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable cloudiness this .afternoon and tonight. Fair Monday. Isolated thunderstorms in mountain! this evening. High today 88. Low tonight 56. High Monday 90. Temp. Highest Yesterday 91 Lowest Yesterday , 66 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:30 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:06 a.m. Moonrise tonight 9:21 p.m. The-bright "star" seen lower in the southwest each evening for the next two months is the planet, Jupiter. Tonight it -will be about 10 degrees above the horizon as the Moon rises. did not know the cause of the fire. Dam age was estimated to be at least $30,000. Two tankers and pump trucks from the Central Point rural fire department were used to keep the flames from spreading to other buildings. Engineers in Klamath rails, Medlord, Pendleton, Coos Bay, Eugene and either Halfway or Rich land for workers who have been employed on the dam projects in the Hells Canyon stretch of the Snake river. The AGC meanwhile, asked the Oregon highway depart ment and the U. S. reclama tion bureau to delay bid op enings on the Prineville dam on the Crooked river and all state highway work because of : the strike. The organiza tion said it was "impossible to estimate cost properly" at this time. The dispute has halted more than $400 million worth of heavy construction in Ore gon and southwest Washing ton. Snider Nominated For Second Term Three petitions with 75 sig natures nominating John W. Snider for a second term as Mayor were filed at city hall Friday, according to Mrs. Updike, acting city recorder. Petitions nominating Stan ley Stark and Robert L. Bac cus for city councilman, as well as two more ' petitions for Mayor Snider, are cur rently in circulation, she said. Stark would represent Ward 4 and Baccus, Ward 3. Stanley C. Jones Jr., for mer city councilman, and Paul Meyers, city council man from Ward 4 at present, are circulating the petitions for Mayor Snider and Stark. Jones is circulating the peti tion for Baccus as well, it is understood. The deadline for filing peti tions will be "around the end of August," according to City Attorney E. Roy Bashaw. The city charter sets a deadline of 35 days before election. How ever, Bashaw explained, the nominees would appear on the same ballot as state and coun ty candidates. - Deadline for the ballot is 65 days prior to election, which this year is November 4. - "I Can Lick Any In The Murphy Arrives in Baghdad for Talks With New Officers Two Marines Released After Formal Action Baghdad, Iraq (DPD Th United States formally recog nized Iraq's new revolution ary regime Saturday. Shortly afterward, Iraqi au thorities freed two U.S. Mar ine sergeants who had been held in custody here for 70 hours. The release of the two Am ericans came almost simul-, taneously with the arrival in Baghdad of presidential en voy Robert Murphy who flew here for talks with the new Iraqui government leaders. The two Marines had been held for questioning along with about 50 other foreign ers picked up in the vicinity of a vast oil fire in Baghdad last Wednesday. Flies from Beirut Murphy, Deputy U. S. Un dersecretary of State, flew in from Beirut late Saturday aft ernoon following the an nouncement of U. S. recogni tion of the new Iraqui gov ernment. U. S. Ambassador Walde mar Gallmain delivered a State Department message to Iraqui Foreign Minister Ab del Gabbar establishing tha diplomatic relations only 19 days after the coup that over threw the late King Faisal's regime. Murphy, veteran U. S. dip lomatic "trouble-shooter,"' be gan a round of talks with top Iraqui officials including Pre mier. Abdul Kerim Kassem shortly after his arrival. No information on the talks was expected until today, when Murphy was scheduled - to leave for Cairo. Stand by UN Charter The United States, in recog nizing the revolutionary re gime, noted the Premier Ab dul Karim Kassem's govern ment had assured United Na tions Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold it would stand by the UN charter and other international obligations. The note ' delivered here also extended the United States' "good wishes" to the Baghdad government. Ambassador Gallmain said the Iraqui government was very "pleased" at the Ameri can recognition. He said the Iraqui foreign minister made a statement underlining the many years of close and friendly relations between the two countries. Seven Drown in River ' Near Princeton, Calif, Princeton, Calif. (DPD A car filled with nine persons plunged into the Sacramento river last night and seven of them drowned. Colusa sheriffs deputies re ported that two families of farm workers from El Paso, Tex., had been riding in the vehicle. Shortly after 8:30 p.m. seven bodies were re- I covered from the river. Other Peace-Lover House"
