Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 14, 1958, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWith I M " 3 -. t .5Vm '.' ' :'"JlfcCir:;'5I '-fear.'. B i ift W-Mii "hlrfwki r Til' 'J3 , V - 0s. i . BAD HOMBRES Local badmen were through Sunday at the Rogue Valley Round nabbed Wednesday afternoon as they up. At any rate several Jaycees, sponsors of emerged from the Beekman bank in Jack- the western show, saved the day. From sonville. The "loot" may have been the left are "bad guys" Art VanLeeuwen and prize money destined for the pockets of Don Carlon, and "good guys" "Gil" Gilbert, some of the best rodeo participants in the Walter E. Brown and Greg Orr. world when they appear Roundup Activities Get Under Way Here "Rodeo fever" should be at a high pitch during the next three days, as the Rogue Val ley Roundup is conducted at the Jackson County Sheriff's Fosse grounds on Sage rd. - One stage of the event will be culminated tonight, when the Rodeo Queen is crowned at 10 o'clock during a street dance at Dead Man s Gulch (The "Gulch" is on Fir st be tween Fifth and Sixth sts.) Activities got underway at noon today at the "Gulch" with a mock gun battle. Other festivities are planned to last right up to 9 p.m. when the street dance is to begin. Finalist in Contest Finalists in the Queen con test are Linda Luman, Marion Christian, Patricia Hanson, Patricia Rushton, and Doris Owens. They were chosen at an outdoor dance at the high school on Aug. 9. The show will run Friday through Sunday, with rodeo contests featured each day. On Friday and Saturday it will begin at 7:30 pjn. and on Sunday at 2 p.m. A $1,700 purse has been posted by the Jaycees, sponsors of the west ern show, to insure that top performers will participate. In addition, entry fees of the con testants are expected to add another $1,360 to the purse. The rodeo is approved by the Rodeo Cowboys associa tion as a world's championship contest. It will be built around the five standard events of bareback bronc riding, calf roping, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, and bull rid ing. In addition there will be team roping. Three Day Show B. H. Gilbert is general chairman of the three-day show. He has appointed a number of committee heads including Dick Lamont, Queen contest; Al Carpenter, special events; Joe Walsh, posse grounds patrol; Charles Hen ry, contracts; Ray Bostwick and Wallace Long, conces sions; Art Van L e e u w e n, grounds; and Larry Allen, tickets. Among the top hands ex pected at the rodeo are Slim Pickens, nationally famous rodeo clown; Jim Shoulders, the current World Champion bareback rider, bull rider, and all-around champion cowboy; Manuel Enos, E. V. Dorsey, and Duane Howard. Shoulders has held 11 World champion titles, more than any other cowboy. Howard has consistently placed high in the final standings for All- Petitions Being Circulated in CP Central Point A petition is being circulated for the nomination of John Smock, 98 Bigham dr., for mayor, city officials said today. A nominating petition has been taken out also for James Corliss, 543 Cherry st., as councilman-at-large. Petitions are also out to nominate Gay Anderson, 617 Cedar st., and Richard Peters, 458 Oak st. as councilman for Ward 2. No candidate has filed yet for Ward 4, it was reported. The mayor is elected every four years and half of the councilmen every two years, a city official explained. , All petitions must be in the city recorder's office by Aug. 29 to comply with the state law, an official said. The filing date'must be 65 days prior to the November election. here Friday around champion and for bull riding; and Dorsey and Enos are both well known around the rodeo circuit. The Christensen brothers of Eugene are producing the show this year along with about 30 other rodeos through out Northern California, Ore gon, Idaho and Washington. Bonds To Be Sold By School District For Construction Bonds worth $1 million will be sold by the Medford school district Sept. 10 to help fi nance construction of new buildings and remodeling work. The work already is under way, with most of it to be completed before school opens next month. Final arrangements for the sale were made by the school board this week. The bonds were approved by district voters last year to finance a two-year construction pro gram. Under construction now are Wilson and Hoover elemen tary schools, and remodeling work is progressing at Med ford High school. Bids will be opened Monday for a multi purpose room addition at West Side school.. Double-Shifting Board members made plans for double-shifting students attending Roosevelt and Wil son schools for about three weeks until Wilson school is completed. City officials in formed the school board that sewer service to Wilson school probably will not be available until about Oct. 1 because of recent strikes. About 800 students will at tend the double shift at Roose velt school, board members noted. Hoover school on Siskiyou blvd. is expected to be ready for use when school opens. The board deferred action on a consideration that a prac tical nurses course be spon sored by the Medford school district. Resignations of six teach ers were accepted, and the board hired five. Resigning were Gene Beaver, Medford High teacher; Mrs. Ruth Hol- yoak, elementary school; Ernst Ludwig, McLoughlin Junior High; James Miller, and Mr. and Mrs. George Sloniger. all from Hedrick Junior High. Teachers elected are Carol Mary Carlong, primary; Jay Burns, junior high school; D. Evans, junior high; Claud ine Kratzberg, high school; and Carrol Maurer, elemen tary school. Geddes fo Speak Af GOP Picnic Paul E. Geddes, Repub.an nominee for congress from the Fourth District, will speak at a Republican picnic- in Hawthorne park in Medford Monday evening. The Roseburg attorney will be accompanied to Medford by his five daughters, who will do a parody of "South of the Border" which they dedi cate to his opponent in the congressional race. Geddes said that his talk will be "a brief report on what people of this district tell me that they want and need from a representative in Washington.' County Planners Dicuss Revised Subdivision Bill The revised proposed coun ty subdivision ordinance was discussed further last night by members of the county plan ning commission at the com mission's regular monthly meeting. The commission began work on the proposed ordinance at its July meeting after it had been prepared by planning Steps to be taken before proposed subdivision ord inance can be adopted: Preliminary reading by planning commission; 're vision by commission; pre sentation to public for hear ing; recommendation to county court; public hear ing held by court; and final ly adoption into law by the county court. technician Jack Eaton. When the 2V4 hour meeting last night" was adjourned the planners still had not com pletely covered the rough draft. Commission President Ed win Gebhard said that at the next regular meeting of the body set for Sept. 10, he will try to have the rest of the pro posed ordinance read, and an attempt will be made to have a number of county officials present to offer advice and suggestions. With the first study out of the way, Gebhard said, he hopes to have the document redrafted and copies made available to the public. Eaton explained that sub division and building ordi nances are adopted by the county court and do not re quire a vote of the people. However, a zoning ordinance would have to be passed by popular vote. During the meeting, Eaton presented his monthly bud get report for approval by the commission. A study of the report revealed that out of 207 hours worked by the technician during July, 107 were spent on jobs connected with the garbage dump locat ed next to Jacksonville. This included time spent on pre paring maps, public hearings, and perparing an interim zon ing ordinance. Commissioners present at the meeting in addition to the president were Lloyd Selby, Stewart McQueen, John Nied ermeyer, Ed Strother, and Ed Bolt. "They Don't NONUCIEAR SMOKING - SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS 1W, M ( -VI v-, ' 53rd Year M EDF0RD 24 Pages Lloyd Gives Full Support to U.S. Middle East Plan Calls for Private Talks on Details United Nations, N.Y. (UPI) British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd gave full sup port to President Eisenhower's Middle East peace plan today and blasted 'Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for uttering "just plain nonsense." Lloyd called for private talks at the United Nations to arrange .details of Eisen hower's six-point Mideast plan. He said Gromyko's charges of aggression by the United States and Britain were unfounded. The Soviet official, he said "has got the record wrong.'-' In fact, Lloyd said, it is the Russians who have been ship ping arms to the Middle East and attempting "to whip up fears of war, and to create a kind of international hys teria." Eisenhower Wednesday pro posed a do-it-yourself eco nomic program for the Arab world. He suggested establish ment of a U.N. standby peace force and emphasized the need for action in the world or ganization to safeguard Leba non and Jordan. Lloyd told the General As sembly's emergency; session today he thought it would be "unwise" to go into details of these plans at this stage. "One of the advantages of our meeting here is that we have the opportunity of pri vate consultation and discus sion," he said. Lloyd put forth his views as U.N. Secretary-general Dag Hammarsk j old's peace - mak ing role was assuming in creasing importance.. . There was belief that the entire problem might eventually be turned over to him. This task would include helping set up an economic development or ganization and forming a U.N. peace force for the Middle East. Lloyd was the only speaker at the morning session. After his 22-minute speech, the as sembly adjourned until after noon. Lloyd, despite earlier sup port expressed by his prime minister, Harold Macmillan, said he doubted the value of summit talks for which Rus sia plugged all year, only to back down when the U.S. and Britain proposed a heads of government meeting in the U.N. Security Council. Lloyd's backing of Eisen hower's peace plan came after the Arabs and Communists re luctantly conceded that the President had outlined a con structive program to end the threat of war. But the empha sis was on Soviet charges of "aggression" against the U.S. and Britain. DON'T EAT THE DAISIES A Central Point man parked his car yesterday in a flower bed at the north end of Hawthorne park, city police reported. Asked why he had done so he re plied, according to the re port, that he could find no space in the parking lot and besides, his lunch was wait ing for him in the park. Say Positively" MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1958 WORK MAY IDLED This Pierce freight yard is sym- were idle because of a labor dispute be- bolic of most of the inter-state trucking tween the Teamsters union and West Coast terminals in the western states. Picture truckers. It is estimated that approximately was taken Wednesday during the height of 100 persons in the trucking industry have the working day but all trucks and drivers been idled in Jackson county. Farm Bill Gets Past House; Eye Adjournment Washington (OTD Con gress broke the adjournment barrier today. The house cleared one of the biggest obstacles to ad journment next week by pass ing a farm bill agreeable to the administration. The mea sure still must be compromis ed with the Senate, but no difficulties were foreseen. It would reduce support prices in future years. A multibillion dollar hous ing bill appeared headed for discard. A Senate-approved la bor reform bill was reported due for a vote in the House Monday, with its propects in doubt. , Adjournment this week end, as originally planned, was fi nally and formally ruled out. Congress won't quit for the year until next week. Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mont.), said southern senators will oppose adjournment until they get a satisfactory cotton price support bill passed. He said they had about decided to "stay until hell freezes over" to win their objective. The farm bill being rushed through the House today is the "real key to adjourn ment," Mansfield said in an interview. "This breaks " the log-jam." The new bill, agreed to by Democratic and administra tion farm leaders Wednesday, would head off scheduled cuts in cotton and rice planting al lotments. It also would allow cuts in price support floors to 65 per cent of parity for corn next year, for rice in 1961, and for cotton in 1962. The Senate already has passed a farm bill cutting corn and cotton supports even more deeply. But Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.), said he was hopeful the Senate would agree to the House bill rather than insist on a con ference to work out a new compromise. Dr. Balderstone Takes Montana Job Ashland Superintendent of Ashland schools Dr. How ard Balderstone submitted his resignation this week so he could accept an associate pro fessorship in education at the University of Montana. At a special meeting Tues day night the school board ac cepted the resignation, effec tive Friday, Aug. 15, and ap pointed Stanley Jobe to the vacated post and appointed Gaylord W. Smith as high school' principal. Jobe had been high school prin cipal and Smith was vice principal. Balderstone joined the local system two years ago, com ing here from Silverton where he was superintendent of schools. He will assume his new duties in Missoula, Mont., in mid-September. No word has been received on the appointment of a new high school vice principal to succeed Smith. OKI TALENT PRO J RESUME Benefits Sought by Western Truckers; Charges Are Filed San Francisco (UPI) Thousands of western truck drivers sought unemployment benefits today as a result of a strike-lockout affecting 11 western states. At the same time, the Team sters Union filed unfair labor practice charges against four truckers' associations, charg ing the lockout violated the Taft-Hartley Act. In Washington, D.C., Team ster President James R. Hoffa said he thought the dispute would be settled soon.. He said he has been in "daily contact" with the West Coast. The dispute began Monday when 2,350 teamsters in Cali fornia's Central Valley and in Western Nevada went on strike for higher pay. Employers ordered a lock out in the 11 western states ji i ii- ? on grounds xnai xne sinisers were covered by a master agreement signed on May 27. They said a strike against one was a strike against all. Hoffa said he was confident that the strike would be suc cessful. "Some of the companies are breaking away already," the truck union leader told United Name Doernbach A petition nominating Wil liam Doernbach for city coun cilman from Ward 1 is cur rently being circulated by Ray DeMarrs. DeMarrs said today that more than the required 25 signatures were on the peti tion, but that he wished to check them against voters' registration lists before filing it. Doernbach, who lives at 143 Mace rd., has taken an active part in public meetings of both the city council and the city planning commission. He reportedly retired as a cap tain from the United States Army Signal corps, and moved here in 1955. Doernbach's petition is one of several currently in circu lation, according to Darell Huson, city recorder. A petition nominating George E. Stacey for council man from Ward 4 was filed at city hall yesterday. A peti tion for Stanley Stark as Ward 4 councilman and three petitions nominating John W. Snider for a second term as mayor were filed previously. Deadline for filing is the end of August. SPORTS BULLETIN AMERICAK LEAGUE Kansas City 2 5 1 Chicago 5 8 1 Daley, Dickson (6), To manek (6), Craddock (7), and Chiti; Moore (8-3) and Lollar. Homerun: House, Kansas City. New York 8 12 1 Boston 2 8 1 Maas, Kucks (4) and How ard; Sisler, Fornieless (1). Byerly (5), Kiely (8) and While, Berberet (8). Tribune El EXT M0E1M Press International. "With pa tience we can crack the op position." He said settlement on union terms might take from 10 days to a month but was inevitable. Unemployment offices in California were besieged with out-of-work Teamsters seek ing benefits. The State De partment of Employment was investigating the drivers' eli gibility before making pay ments that could range up to $40 a week. Whether or not the Team sters qualify for state bene fits, they can collect interna tional union benefits of $15 a week plus $20 a week from the Western Conference of Teamsters. The strike could idle as many as 100,000 men in the western states if it continues. Mother, Son Go Fishing; Return With Rattlesnakes The fishing may have been great but Mrs. Drucilla Haverstick, 621 South Holly St., and her son, Tom Borlis, 14, didn't stay around to find out Wednesday. The two potential fisher men were about three quarters of a mile below Gold Ray dam when Tom noticed two rattlesnakes on the side of the trail, Mrs. Haverstick reported. He killed one with a rock but the other "big one" escaped under a rock. . . Mrs. Haverstick said she watched the rock while Tom returned to the car for his .22 caliber rifle. When he got back he killed the second snake and went on 'to kill 10 baby rattlers which were also under the rock. The trip wcsn't a com plete loss either because Tom returned home not only with a good tale 'but with a tackle box full of tails, complete with rattles. Air Force General Says U.S. Has 50-50 Chance of Getting Instrument to Moon Washington (UPD A top Air Force general said today the United States has a "SO SO" chance of blasting an in strument - carrying robot to the vicinity of the moon in the first lunar-probe launch ing expected next week. Lt. Gen. Samuel E. Ander son, commander of the Air Research and Development Command, gave his first eval uation of the lunar rocket mounted at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Roy W. Johnson, director of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, previously had estimated the chance of success in the first lunar shot at "no better than one in ten." However, Johnson's esti mate applied to a different degree of success. In the achievement he spoke of, the radio-equipped robot would Price 10 Cents No. 125 Engineers Must Ratify Package Offer from AGC Work on the Talent pro ject will resume Monday "ac cording to the best informa tion now available," a bureau of reclamation spokesman said today. James A. Callan, construc tion engineer for the project, is contacting major contrac tors in an effort to set the wheels in motion, the official reported. Hopes for regaining lost time and possibly com pleting some phases of work on schedule now ride on fav orable weather. The local operating engin eers must officially ratify ac ceptance of the Associated General Contractors' package offer before going back on the job. A meeting has been called for tomorrow night in the Medford Labor Temple to vote on the issue, sources said. Confident of Approval But observers here are con fident of approval. Local en gineers did not participate in the original strike. They were forced out of work by the AGC shut-down, which affected $6,750,000 in con struction work on the project. Portland Contractors called men back to their jobs on the 25-million-dollar Lloyd Center project to herald the end of the month-long strike and lockout in the construc tion industry of Oregon and southwest "Washington. The call to Lloyd workers was the first after a vote in the Portland Labor Temple last night by members of the Portland local of the operat ing engineers union. The vote was 526 to 211 in favor of ac cepting an undisclosed AGC offer. Must Be Accepted Union officials said the of fer must be accepterd by oth er union locals in the state, but it was generally agreed that workers would be back on the job within a few days. P. R. Wages, business rep resentative for the Portable and Hoisting Engineers Union in Portland said a vote would be taken Thursday or Friday among workers throughout the state. The Labor Temple meeting followed conferences be tween the two factions in the office of Governor Robert D. Holmes in Salem Tuesday. The groups met with fed eral mediator Leroy Smith and the Governor for. over nine hours Tuesday. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Fri day. Low tonight 52. High Fri day 92-95. Temp. Highest Yesterday .... 93 Lowest this Morning 52 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today ......J. 7:15 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:18 a.m. New Moon tonight 7:33 p m. PROMINENT STARS The Pleiades, rise ....11:22 p.m. At this time next month, the planet. Mars, which has been growing steadily brighter for several months, will be seen much nearer the Pleiades. pass at least once around the moon and would transmit to earth a picture of the moon's far side which has never been seen. No Date Set No date has been announced for the launching, but in formed sources said Wednes day the blast-off could occur as early as 8 a.m., (EDT) Sunday. Anderson, who is the Air Force's overall boss for both Cape Canaveral and the Bal listic Missiles Command at Inglewood, Calif., discounted the iact the 100-foot lunar rocket's third stage has never been flight tested. He said in an interview the third stage has received in numerable ground tests and is "a good rocket." The first two stages of the lunar rocket are the Air Force' Thor-Able, which has EOT Constellation Had 46 Americans; No Signs of Survivors Dutch Plane Goes Down in Storm Shannon, Ireland (DPD A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Super Constellation with 99 persons aboard, including at least 46 Americans, plunged into the stormy North Atlan tic today on a flight from Amsterdam to New York. Survival conditions were good, but there was no solid report that any of the air liner's passengers had sur vived the crash. The British Air Ministry said the French trawler Gen eral Le Clerc sent a message tonight saying: "Can see life boats with men on board." But after a close-up look, the Air Ministry said, the trawler messaged again there was no sign of life visible. . Darkness was closing in swiftly on the disaster area -and each passing minute dimmed hopes that any of those aboard had survived. Search planes flying over the scene reported sighting bits of wreckage, partly in flated life rafts and some bodies. Surface craft racing to the area still were hours away and KLM headquarters in Amsterdam said there was "little hope" for survivors. Thunderstorm Blamed A KLM passenger list is sued at the Hague, Holland, carried the names of 46 per sons the company said were Americans. A spokesman for the airline said earlier ithat "at least4 10 nationalities" were included in those aboard. The crew of eight was all Dutch. The ill-fated aircraft left Shannon airport at 8:05 p.m. (PDT) Wednesday headed for Gander, Newfoundland. It ap parently ran into a thunder storm and crashed. A spokesman for KLM in New York said the plane was equipped with radar. The pilot was identified a Capt. Firko Roelofs, and the co-pilot as Thamme Dykstra, both of Amsterdam. Shannon airport lost radio contact with the plane at 8:40 p.m. (PDT). There were indi cations that this was about the time the plane ran into a sudden violent wind and rain squall and crashed. Wreckage Sighted ' ' The wreckage was sighted first on the radar of a British Overseas Airways Corporation airliner on a New York to London flight. One of six Royal Air Force long range Shackleton planes, dispatched from points in Ire land and Scotland to search along the airliner's route, re ported sighting the wreckage at 6:45 a.m. (PDT) today about 130 miles from Shannon. . ' The search plane reported it saw bodies in the water, floating wreckage and a few half-inflated life rafts. Klamath Timber Bill Approved By House Washington (DPD The House today approved a com-; promise version of a bill for disposal of timber on the Klamath Indian reservation after the Federal government terminates its control. The measure, which came out of conference committee incorporating both Senate and House versions in a compro mise form, now goes to the Senate for approval before it is sent on to the White House. Supporters predicted it would get Presidential approval. carried two space - travelling mice on 6,000-mile journeys into the South Atlantic. In Airless Space The instrumental robot journey to the moon would be 226,000 miles and would take it at least two days. But only a small amount of addi tional power is required be cause the 60-pound robot would be moving in airless space. Scientists familiar with the project said that if the lunar rocket cannot be fired shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, then it might be fired shortly after 9 a.m. (EDT) Monday, shortly after 10' a.m. (EDT) Tuesday, or shortly after 11 a.m. (EDT) Wednesday. If the shot cannot be made at any of those times, then the lunar launching must ba postponed until mid-September.