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M v M UUJ U .I -JU J WOT U Lb 53rd MEDFORD 16 Pages 'Inly dud mi Torch' Business Agent For Teamsters Expected To Die Uriels Vows To Seek Vengeance Pontiac. Mich (UPD Frank Kierdorf, ex - convict Teamsters Union business agent, clung to life today, and repeated to police that he did not know who turned him into a human.' torch. , Mean w h i 1 e, Kierdorf s uncle Herman, who had vow ed vengeance against his nephew's attackers, had dis appeared. Frank, 56, business agent for Teamsters Local 332 in Flint, Mich., was in St. Jo seph Mercy hospital. Doctors said he wcildn't live long. He repeated to interview ing officers that he did not know the two men who doused him with an inflam mable fluid and set him afire and gave no hint where he thought Herman might be hiding. Disappear ' Herman disappeared Mon day night from under the noses of police guards at the hospital but police admitted only today that they didn't know where he was. They had obtained a war rant charging him with pos session of a silencer. The silencer was found in the home of a next door neigh bor in Madison Heights. Judy Tyler 15, residing at the home, said Herman gave her a briefcase that contained a P38 automatic and the home made silencer three weeks agftv Herman told police he had no idea who attacked Frank but he was, "going to find out." 'If I Get There First A lieutenant told him to let police take care of the attack but Herman replied, "not if I get there first." Frank, who last November refused to tell the Senate Rackets Committee about op erations of his union, was drenched with, a fluid, set afire and dumped in front of the hospital "looking like a Zombie." , During spells of conscious ness Kierdorf told how two men took him from his home in Flint and drove him toward Pontiac to a wooded area. There, he said, one man poured inflammable fluid over him and the other threw a match. He burst into flames. Kierdorf said the two men then argued over letting him die. One of them said, "We don't want a murder rap on our hands." Then they bun dled his burned body in a bathrobe, put him in their car and drove him to the hos pital where they dumped him and sped off. 60 Classes Included in County Fair Competition in four depart ments and more than 60 classes, ranging from food and textiles to floral and land products, will be included in the Kiwanis club , sponsored county fair Aug. 21-24, ac cording to fair officials. The fair, which will be held at the Medford Armory, will use the same rules used by the Oregon State fair, Russ Jamison, fair manager, said. Fair officials have been ad vised that only a limited number of the more popular classes should be opened to competition this year, he said, and that other depart ments and divisions be add ed as public interest de mands.' The fair, long de funct, is in the process of being re-established through the efforts of the Kiwanis club and other interested organizations. Year MEDFORD, HARVEST BEGINS The picking of Bartlett pears got under way in many Rogue valley orchards this week and packing houses and cold stbrage plants bustled with activity as they prepared to receive the fruit. Above, Picking Boss Gordon Peterson of Orchard Park farms, looks on while Mrs. Clyde Peterson empties a bucket of pears into a lug box. Her hus band is picking from a ladder in the background. Picking will.be slow for about a week because the fruit has not sized up as anticipated, according to County Agent Clifford Cordy. ' Picker Supply Said Adequate for Pears ' There is an adequate supply of pickers for pear orchards, according to John J. Patton, 'manager of the local office of the U. S. employment service. He explained this is typical of the first few days of pick ing. The pear harvest is not expected to get into full swing until some time next week, he said. At the peak approximate ly 2,200 to 2,250 pickers and swampers will be used in the orchards. This is an average figure, he added. No Mexican nationals have been brought in, he empha sized. Rumors that they have probably resulted from Amer icans of Mexican parentage being emplojsed in some of the orchards, he explained. "Not even the first step has been taken toward employ ment of Mexican nationals in this area's orchards," Patton remarked. "I would certainly know about it before anyone else since it is a governmental arrangement. Such- an ar rangement is made according to an international agree ment." Mexican nationals can be brought in on short notice if the pear harvest labor supply cannot be satisfied locally, he added." Picking is a little slow right now since the fruit size is August 21-24 Russ Renner, chairman of the Kiwanis club's special events committee, will be in charge of the individual ex hibitors section, Jamison said. Deadline for applying for ex hibitor space is Aug. 15, he said. Renner said 39 classes in the food- and textiles depart ments of the home economics section are planned. He urged county homemakers to for ward applications in prior to Aug. 15 to be eligible to ex hibit. The fair also will feature project displays by 19 home extension units from the county. First, second and third .place ribbons will be presented in each class, Ren ner said. Advisor to the committee in setting up the home eco nomics section is Miss Mary Pat Lucy, Jackson county home extension agent. OREGON, TUE5DAY, AUGUST 5, 1958 smaller, accordng to Clifford B. Cordy, -county extension agent. Growers are holding off picking extensively until the fruit grows larger, he ex plained. At this time the fruit will increase in size from 2 2V& per cent a day. However, growers should not try to hold fruit on the tree until it reaches the de sired size, Cordy advised. The rate of fall will match the in creased growth. Growers also face the 'risk of having the fruit split by hail or being blown off the trees, he warned. Stark Nominated For Council Post A petition with 28 signa tures nominating Stanley Stark forv city councilman from Ward 4 was filed yes terday with the city recorder. This is the first city coun cil petition to be filed so far. It is understood that other pe titions are in circulation, in cluding one for Robert Bac cus ' to be councilman from Ward 3. Three petitions nom inating Mayor John W. Sni der for a second term were filed last week, with others reportedly still being signed. Deadline for filing peti tions has been set by City At torney E. Roy Bashaw as the end of August. The election, for mayor and four council seats, is scheduled Nov. 4. The mayor serves two years. The eight councilmen serve four years, with four of them being . elected every two years. Stark, who lives at 97 Fair Oaks dr., served last year as chairman of the city's budget committee. He moved to Med ford in 1932, and since 1953 has owned and managed Stark Finance company. He also is a vice president and director of the Oregon Con sumer Finance association. He is 46. Space Committee Said Lacking Courage Washington (UPD House Space eommittee members charged today the administra tion's proposed new space program is a "pre-Sputnik model" that lacks "boldness, imagination and courage." ' Tribune ' Pennies firay Ukarimigs, On e in Her Public hearings on the Army Engineers' Rogue Basin development plan will prob ably not be held before late November or December, ac cording to Ross Hatch of the Corps of Engineers. "Our present program of dam site drilling will extend through this month, and pos sibly into September," he told those attending a meeting of the Rogue Basin Flood Con trol and Water Resources asso ciation in Grants Pass last night. When the results of all the drillings have been evaluated, a hearing date will be an nounced. After that it will be three or four months before a report is ' completed, Hatch said. Scheduled Meeting The association scheduled its next meeting for Sept. 8 at 8 p.m. in the Jackson coun ty courthouse auditorium. At that time Hatch promised to have more definite facts on just what results would fol low from construction of dams at each of the proposed sites. Earlier in the meeting Ted Watson, chief engineer for the Oregon Resources board, told the 50 persons attending that his group has not made defi nite conclusions from its study of yield records on the Rogue river. He said that a report will be submitted to the state legislature next January. . . State Rep. Fayette Bristol, Grants Pass, contended that the Rogue river and its tribu taries do not carry as much water as they used to. To sup port his case he showed a number of color slides of the rivers and streams. A picture of the Applegate near Highway 199 taken last September showed the river as it was moving, at seven second feet. Twenty years ago Bristol said, the river moved at from 75-100 second feet during the same time of year. "You can't raise fish on hot rocks," he noted. Two Programs Hatch said that it now ap pears as though either of two alternative construction pro grams for the main stem of the Rogue appear economical ly feasible. Lewis creek dam apparently would provide the most nearly complete develop ment of the upper river that could be economically justi fied for flood control, irriga tion, and power, he said. From the standpoint of flood control, however, he said, the Lewis creek site is too far upstream. The alternative to Lewis creek includes dams on Elk creek, Big Butte creek, and on the Rogue river at the Lost creek site, Hatch report ed Flood control, irrigation, and other water conservation functions would be served equally well by either plan, he contended. But, power benefits from the three-dam plan would be about 30 per cent less than from Lewis creek. Balancing Loss Balancing that loss, the en gineer stated, would be the fact that the three-dam plan would destroy a much smaller portion of the anadromous fish spawning beds. Continu ing, he said that the three dam plan -cannot be economi cally justified,, so it really becomes a two-dam plan, probably omitting construc tion of Big Butte dam. This plan does not offer quite as Price 10 Cents No. 117 asim May good control of the streams, he noted. - They1 are drilling at Lost creek now and are fairly cer tain that an adequate dam can be built at the site, Hatch announced. "Our present plan is to drill two more holes at the Lost creek site and three each at the Elk creek and Copper sites," he said. "In "addition to the storage on the upper river, we will probably be able to justify construction of dams on Little Butte creek, Evans creek, and Applegate river," Hatch re ported. Main-Eighth St. Couplet to Open Friday Morning Inauguration of the Main st. Eighth st. couplet is now set for Friday morning, Aug. 8, according to Vernon Thorpe, city public works director. Traffic on Main st. will be one-way westbound from Ri verside ave. to Elm st. Traffic on Eighth st. will be one-way eastbound between the same limits. Personnel from the state highway department are ex pected to arrive today br to morrow to supervise place ment of signs and temporary barricades. A crew from the Southern Pacific railroad is scheduled to set signals in operation at the Eighth st. crossing. Flashing Yellow Meanwhile, Main st. signals have flashing yellow lights as traffic signal adjustments are made. With the couplet in operation motorists on both streets will find the signals timed to allow an uninterrupt ed flow of traffic, Thorpe re ported. Thorpe and City Manager Robert A. Duff advised motor ists approaching Riverside ave. on Eighth st. to get in the proper lane for what they plan to do next. Traffic ex pecting to continue north on Riverside, ave.. is advised to stay in the left lane on Eighth st. and on Riverside ave. after they turn. Traffic expected to turn east on Main st., one block north of the intersection, is urged to get in the right lane on Eighth st. and move to the right side of Riverside ave. to facilitate turning rght on Main st. They also warned that mo torists traveling southeast, on Oakdale ave. can no longer turn across Eighth st. onto King st. by the county court house, since they would meet Eighth st.'s eastbound traffic. They must instead either turn west on Main st. and then south on Laurel st. or else con tinue on Oakdale ave. and turn south further on. Washington (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower will hold a news conference Wednesday. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and warm through Wednesday. Low to night 55, high tomorrow 95. Temp. Highest Yesterday 91 Lowest this Morning . 54 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:27 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5.08 a.m. The Moon rises 10.18 p.m. tonight and is in Apogee at the point on its orbit around the Earth at the greatest dis tance from us. Apogee distance this month is over 251,000 miles; Perigee distance on the 17th will be less than 227,000 miles. Hoffa Declared To Be Aligned With Underworld Evidence Claimed By Sen. McClellan Washington (UPD Chair man John L: McClellan (D Ark.) said today the Senate Rackets committee has evi dence that Teamster Presi dent James R. Hoffa had "aligned himself with certain underworld characters." These characters, McClel lan said, "are a part and par cel of the criminal elements and most sinister forces in this country." McClellan's statement opened a session in which it was expected that Hoffa, making a return appearance before the committee, would be questioned about the "hu man torch" attack on one of his Michigan associates. 'No Comment' Hoffa himself refused to talk to reporters about the attack on Frank Kierdof, bus iness agent for Teamster Lo cal 332 at Flint, Mich. Surrounded by lawyers and aides, Hoffa told newsmen "I have absolutely no comment about anything." McClellan said in his open ing statement that the team sters, largest and most pow erful union in the country, had given Hoffa a tremen dous "potential for gsod and evil." If that power should be misdirected, the chairman said, 'Hhen it could become an extremely evil and de structive force in the social, political, and economic life of our country." Improper Practices McClellan said the commit tee record was "replete with improper practices and con duct on the part of Mr. Hoffa ar.d some of his associates." He said this raised a "serious question" about Hoffa's "mo tivation and the direction and leadership he proposes to give this great and important union." Missing from the hearing room at Hoffa's return ap pearance was Sen. Barry Goldwater'(R-Ariz.) who had clashed with the union offi cial repeatedly in the past. I Truck Driver Killed in Mishap Everett Fred McCall, 42, of Grants Pass, was killed about 10:30 o'clock this morning in a logging accident at the Steve Wilson lumber mill south of Medford. McCall, a log truck driver employed by Theno and Mas ters contract loggers, w.a s crushed when a log rolled onto him from his truck. Mill authorities reported that the victim had unfastened the binders on his load before the unloading tongs had been se cured. He is s u r v i v e d by his widow. Holmes Welcomes Labor Support Rdseburg (UPD Republi can attacks on Gov. Robert D. Holmes and on organized la bor were labeled by him as "a a deception on the people and a djsservice to the state" in a speech to the annual conven tion of the Oregon Labor Council here Monday. The Governor departed from the main economic theme of his speech to discuss the political charges. He said he welcomed support from labor because he found inter est in labor promoting good government for all of Oregon and because they had never attempted to extract any promises of favors. He said he had always found the members of organ ized labor "helpful in making great legislative decisions." Porter Says Venezuela Aware of Red Dangers Washington (UPD Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore), said today that despite re ports to the contrary, the gov ernment of Venezuela is "fully aware" of the dangers of the dangers of Commu nism. Porter, who visited the South American nation last month, took issue with a published report from Cara cas, "Venezuela, implying that only the Venezuelan army has a full understanding of the Communist threat. "Yeah, But It Gives Us The Feeling We're Controlling It" Lebanon Premier Threatens Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Premier Sami Solh has threat ened to resign unless Ameri can troops are withdrawn im mediately from Lebanon, in formed sources said today. Meanwhile, two more U.S. ships arrived with another 1,000 men and more than 200 vehicles, bringing the total American strength in Leba non to 14,300. An Army spokesman said the troops, which included hospital, ord inance, signal and graves reg istration personnel, were the last in the scheduled buildup Officers Named For Area Firms Earl R. Dean, Hood River, was elected president of Co lumbia Utilities company and its subsidiary, the California Oregon Telephone company, at a recent stockholders meet ing. He also is president of the Oregon-Washington Tele phone company. Columbia, with headquar ters in Medford, provides a large area of the upper Rogue basin with telephone service. All three companies are owned by United Utilities, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo. Dean succeeds D. O. Hood as president of Columbia Util ities, and E. R. Hood as presi dent of the California affil iate. Other offices elected are John W. Kirby, Medford, vice president and general manager ;J. S. Middleton, Portland, secretary-treasurer; and W. E. Driscoll, auditor and chief accountant. Directors elected are Alden L. Hart and John T, Naylor, president and vice president, respectively, of United Util ities; Dean; D. O. Hood, and Ernest R. Hood, Portland. D. O. and E. R. Hood have been retained" as management con sultants by both companies. The same officers were elected by the California-Oregon Telephone company, ' an affiliate of Columbia Utilities. iasehaDD NATIONAL LEAGUE Lot Angelei 3 7 0 St-Louis .13 21 1 McDeviti, Kipp (3), Ers- i kine (4), Birrer (7) and Roseboro; M u f f 1 1 and Gzeen. Bartlett Pear Crop Due To Hit Markets Earlier Portland (UPD Due to an exceptionally fine growing season, fresh Bartlett pears from the mountain orchards of Oregon and Washington will hit the market nationally shortly after mid-September, or about three weeks earlier than usual. Over-All Crop Smaller Richard A. Patterson, secretary-manager of the Oregon Washington Fresh Bartlett Pear council, said that while the over- all West Coast Bart lett crop is down, the Oregon and Washington crop is some what larger than last year. The canneries are making a heavy demand for Bartlett pears this year, but recogniz ing the increasing demand for fresh Bartletts, the four prin To Quit here, though he added that some additional small units may follow. He said all the units were from Germany and sailed from Bremerhaven. Demand Not Discussed Solh made his evacuation demand at Monday's cabinet session the sources said, with out discussing it first with President Camille Chamoun. A source close to the pre mier said the move was pri marily a maneuver designed to reveal his deep personal disatisf action with contacts which U.S. diplomatic trouble shooter Robert Murphy had with rebel leaders and was not a genuine' threat The source said Solh felt that Murphy had by passed him to deal behind his back with the rebel leaders. Solh told the cabinet min isters Monday the American forces were no longer needed in Lebanon because the elec tion of Gen. Fuad Chehab as president was a big step to ward the solution of the crisis, the source said. Chamoun was said to have been surprised by Solh's de cision and to have dissuaded him from presenting it for mally to the cabinet for a vote. Chamoun said he would not request the withdrawal of the 13,000 U.S. Marines and Army paratroops from Leb anon. But Chehab said the withdrawal of the American forces was a primary plank in his policy. Baseball Players Fight on Airplaine San Francisco (UPD Dusty Rhodes and Joe Margoneri of the San Francisco Giants' Phoenix farm club were kick ed off a Western Airlines plane Monday for staging a knock-down, drag-out fight while en route from Portland to Los Angeles. The plane radioed ahead for police to meet it and made an emergency landing at San Francisco International Air port. ' Rhodes one-time Giant World Series star, and Mar goneri broke lounge chairs, smashed tables and terrified other passengers as they lunged at one another in the plane's narrow aisle. Steward ess Betty Hunt of Hollywood told police. " The two men were smiling and well-behaved when they stepped off the plane between three airport security police officers. cipal growing and shipping districts will market between 900,000 and 1,000,000 boxes of fresh wrapped and packed pears. The districts are Yaki ma and Wenatchee in Wash ington and Medford and Hood River in Oregon. This year's pack-out should be ample to supply retailers through Octo ber. - - ' . Promotion Campaign Paterson saia a newspaper and radio advertising promo tion campaign will back up introduction of this year's crop. The campaign will break in mid-September. Newspapers or radio, or both, will be used in the 25 major consuming cities, including several in Canada. General Assembly Order for Troop Ouster Demanded Security Council Held 'Not Capable' Moscow (UPI) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev tonight rejected Western terms for a summit conference and instead demanded an im mediate U.N. General Assem bly session to order Western troops out of the Middle East. In a dramatic and sudden switch of tactics, Khrushchev told the Western Big Three that a General Assembly meeting is necessary since "the governments of the Unit ed States and Britain have de clined to call a conference of heads of government of the five powers." 'Not Capable' He said the U.N. Security Council "has shown it is not capable of ensuring a solu tion" in the Middle East. Khrushchev said Russia's delegate to the United Nations had been ordered to request an immediate General Assem bly session. Khrushchev revealed the new line in letters to Presi dent Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Harold Mac millan and French Premier Charles de Gaulle. As for an eventual summit conference, Khrushchev said only that he hoped the Gen eral 'Assembly session might "prepare the ground for ex pediting" such a meeting. And he made it plain that the Soviet Union intends for the General Assembly to de mand immediate U.S. and British withdrawal from Leb anon and Jordan. Khrushchev concluded his message to Eisenhower: "I would like to express the hope that the government of the United States will support the proposal for an extraordi nary session of he General Assembly which would be a good step toward the relaxa tion of tension and would pre pare the ground for expedit- ing a meeting at the summit." ! Follows Peiping Visit The Khrushchev letters; were made public shortly aft er the Western ambassadors': received them at the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Khrushchev's move f o 1- : lowed last week's secret trip : to Peiping where he discussed -summit policy with Commu nist China's Chief of State Mao Tse-tung. The Western ambassadors had been standing by for the Foregin Ministry summons since Khrushchev's return Sunday from his hurried trip to Peiping. The time and place for a summit meeting had awaited " Khrushchev's answer to Eisen hower, Macmillan and De Gajle. President Eisenhower and Macmillan suggested a meet ing "on or about Aug. 12" within the framework of the U. N. Security Council. De Gaulle stated his preference for a summit conference of the Big Four and India outside the United Nations on Aug. 18. Washington (UPD U. S. of ficials said today there ap peared to be no possibility of an early summit conference on. the Middle East as a re sult of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's rejection of a lop-level meeting within the ' United Nations Security Coun cil. The White House and State Department had no immediate comment on Khrushchev's ac tion. But the belief in official quarters here was that Khrushchev decided to turn down the Anglo- American . summit offer rather than go into a U. N. Security Council meeting where he would be bound by rigid procedures and unable to have free sway for Soviet propaganda attacks. Painters Start Job On Medford City Hall Painters from Riverside Painting and Decorating com pany are painting the exte rior of the city hall and re pairing windows. "The most permanent col or of the most permanent paint mixture" is being used, according to Alva Q. Murphy, one owner of the company. He said this paint job unlike the last one would not fade. Salem (UPD The Capitol Planning Commission has ap proved final plans for the ex terior of the new labor and industries building to be lo cated on the Capitol MalL
