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53rd Year Price 10 Cents Medford TRIBUNE 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, '1958 No. 126 : PEACE RESTS' OKI 'fflEST. - eoirch fee Cause of Airliner Crash Is Mystery; Ships Leave Scene 99 Persons Aboard; Find Some Wreckage Shannon, Ireland (LTD The search for bodies or possible survivors of Thursday's crash of a KLM Dutch airliner with 99 persons aboard was called off today. A KLM spokesman said that all ships which had searched the area where the plane plunged into the white-capped Atlantic 130 miles northwest of Shannon were told to pro ceed to their destinations. - The spokesman did not say whether the search had been abandoned altogether or whether it had been called off just for today. The cause of the tragic acci dent on the Amsterdam to New York flight still was a mystery. An airport official said in vestigators were checking all possiblities that the plane had been hit by lightning dur ing a sudden Atlantic squall, that it had suffered a sudden engine failure, that it was sab otaged, that it was destroyed by a bomb, that someone de liberately wrecked it as part of an insurance plot. Vain Rescue Attempts Parts of the wreckage and bodies of some of the victims were on their way to Irish ports aboard surface vessels which had raced to the scene in a vain attempt at rescue' op erations. . - Col. J. Maher, manager of Shannon Airport, said the cause of the disaster may not be known for days or weeks. "There have been rumors that an electrical storm caused the crash for-that matter very possible cause has been suggested but these are only wild guesses," Maher said. "The cause cannot be estab lished until the experts have made their examination." Dirk J. Koeleman, KLM vice president and general manager for the United States, said in New York that "some thing violent must have taken place" because it was "high ly improbable" that the plane's four motors and four radio sets all would go bad together under ordinary cir cumstances. Koeleman said his reference to violence referred to reports of severe storms and light ning in the area where the plane went down, and did not mean that the airline sus pected sabotage or deliberate destruction of the big plane. He said that so far no clues to the cause had been found. BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland ..... 3 7 2 Chicago 4 111 Woodeschick. Grant (7) Mossi (8) and Nixon, Brown (8); Lalman, Lown (7) and Lollar. Survey of Feasibility Of Work May Be Year Off It may be about a year be fore a survey is made by fed eral engineers on feasibility of development work on the Bear creek watershed, accord ing to C. W. Jensen, Rogue River, chairman of the Rogue Soil Conservation district. Jensen and representatives of other interested local agencies this morning re ceived letters from the Soil Conservation service, which said "application to the secre tary of agriculture for plan ning assistance on the Bear creek watershed has been re ceived. Planning assistance will be provided for addition al watersheds when technical facilities are available. "The additional watersheds will be selected for planning in consideration of watershed priorities recommended by the Oregon state engineer for the applications received and approved in your state." Written notification will be given by the state conserva tionist of the Soil Conserva PDoime Coifed ! This Splendid Achievement, Made Possible By a Man Whose Name I Forget" Jdhg si'-o' Medford Chosen As Site for Education Group's Meetings Boulder, Colo. Medford, Ore., has been chosen as the site of next year's annual meeting for the Western In terstate Commission for Pat Rushion Is Roundup Queen Miss Pat Rushton was crowned queen of the Rogue River Roundup at the street dance sponsored by the Med ford Junior Chamber of Com merce at "Dead Man's Gulch" last night. Between 750 and 1,000 per sons attended the festivities, which included dancing to western music by the Polka Dots and entertainment by lo cal talent groups. "Dead Man's Gulch" in an area on Fir st. between Fifth and Sixth sts. and activities there are to publicize the Rogue River Roundup this week end. Entertainment and dancing will be held at the Gulch this evening and will continue tomorrow after the parade. The Roundup parade will begin at 7:30 p.m. today and from Hawthorne park and will go west on Main st. to Ivy St., then down Sixth st. to the Gulch. Entrants in the parade should assemble by 9 a.m., ac cording to Junior Chamber of Commerce officials. Other finalists in the queen contest were Linda Luman, Marion Christian, Patricia Hanson and Doris Owens. The Roundup Rodeo will begni at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday and at 2 pjn. Sun day at the Jackson County Sheriff's Posse Grounds on Sage rd. tion Service when further ac tion is taken, the letter con cluded. Jensen said this morning that application was made about a year ago for the work. When the survey on feasibility of the work is made it will eventually include all of the Bear creek watershed, head waters and tributaries. Such a project would have to be split up into small areas, he said. The Rogue Soil Con servation district started the drive which was backed by the Jackson county chapter of the Izaak Walton league, Ash land, Medford and Central Point. The project would come un der the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention act. Pur pose of this act is to get good conservation of water and land on resources available. The federal government will pay up to $5 million per pro ject at 22 per cent interest. The remainder would come from contributions and assess ment of the districts involved. StonDvoirs Higher Education. This was decided at the concluding session of the commission here this week. Frank J. Van Dyke, Med ford, retiring chairman of the commission; Mrs. Edna Scales, Sandy, and Dr. John R. Richards, Eugene, were the three Oregon commission ers attending the seventh an nual meeting. Dr. Fred D. Flagg Jr., presi dent emeritus of the Univer sity of Southern California, and Dr. Richard A. Harvill,, president, . University of Ari zona, were chosen chairman and vice chairman for the coming year. Authorize Workshop More contact between edu cators and state legislators on the financing of higher edu cation is needed, the commis sion decided. The commission authorized a second legisla tive workshop on financing higher education for next spring, to bring together legis lators, state budget officers, and university officials. It also approved the forma tion of a medical manpower advisory council for the west, to study and make recommen dations as to western needs for more medical training fa cilities. Demonstration of television teaching by a chemistry pro fessor with years of TV teach ing experience, and a tele vised panel discussion of ETV's uses by western univer sities, were other highlights of the meeting. A panel report from the newly-formed west ern council on mental health training and research, and a panel discussion on medical education in the West also were featured. The commission, an 11-state organization created five years ago by interstate com pact, is responsible for pro moting cooperative programs in higher education among the western states. It administers a university student exchange program in the health sci ences, makes studies of west ern educational needs and re sources, and sponsors ongoing regional councils in several professional fields. Three commissioners from each member state, appointed by the governors, direct a perma nent commission staff with headquarters on the Univer sity of Colorado campus at Boulder. Prompt Action Prevents More Serious Fire Prompt action of ah em ployee was credited with pre venting more serious fire damage yesterday at the Blake, Moffit and Towne warehouse, 221 North Fir st. Firemen said that an ash tray apparently" had been emptied into a waste basket about 5 p.m. At 5:35 p.m. an employee found a fire involv ing the contents of the basket and scorching a wall and desk. He put out the fire with a hand extinguisher and called the firs department. Tax Group Starts Interim Meeting; 13 Persons Attend Main Meeting Will Be Held Saturday A two-day meeting of the state legislative interim com mittee on taxation got under way this morning at the Jack son county courthouse audi t o r i u m. Approximately 13 county residents attended the morning public session. Presented this morning by the subcommittee on inherit ance and gift taxes were bills drafted to amend those laws. Also discussed were tax ap peals procedures in other states and a bill to establish state tax court or board of tax appeals. Subcommittees on tax ex emptions and timber and nat ural resources taxes" were scheduled to present various bill drafts this afternoon. Among those to be presented were bills exempting student housing accommodations hold ing companies from corpora tion excise tax, and exempt ing uncompleted buildings from property taxation. . R. L. Uhlman, Weyerhaeu ser Timber company, repre senting the industry, was scheduled to testify this after noon on the proposed changes in the Oregon reforestation law. Also to be presented was an analysis and discussion of timber severance report laws. Jackson county residents in terested in expressing their views and opinions on state taxation may do so Saturday at 10:30 a.m. during the main committee meeting. Following this period F. LeRoy Span gler, Medford, willgive- a progress report of the prop erty tax limitation study. The interim committee will pre sent its final public report Saturday morning. , Of the subcommittee re ports that will be given will be a timber tax bill by the timber taxation subcommittee and the special mobile equip ment bill by the committee on ad valorem. State Sen. Walter Pearson, Portland, ,is chairman of the interim committee with State Sen. Philip B. Lowry, Med ford, and State Representa tives Fay Bristol, Grants Pass, as the southern Oregon members. Air Reserve Group Being Deactivated The 9091st Air Reserve group ' here is being deacti vated, according to TSgt. Bu ford Johnson of the 9417th Air Reserve squadron. Capt. I Donald P. Heming way and MSgt. Alf L. Bled soe, active-duty members of the group, have been assigned to training duties with the newly-formed 2477th Air Re serve Training wing, Vancou ver Barracks, Vancouver, Wash. Seven reserve officers of the group are being reas signed to the 9417th squad ron, TSgt. Johnson said yes terday. This unit includes approxi mately 50 members in the Medford area alone, he said. Capt. Hemingway said he expects to move his wife and three children to Vancouver today. They have been in Medford since 1954, residing at 4 Glen Oak ct. Eisenhower For Study of Washington (DPD Presi dent Eisenhower assured a roused Senate today that no federal money has been or. will be spent on a study of possible U.S. surrender to an enemy in event of nuclear war. He issued a statement, de claring that the idea f such a project is "nonsense." The President's reaction to the uproar which rocked the Senate Thursday was outlined to newsmen in a statement read by White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty. "As far as the President is concerned," Hagerty said, "All this talk about surrender is nonsense." Mediators Try to Find Truck Strike Settlement Basis Industry Crippled In 1 1 Western States San Francisco (UPD Fed eral mediators Jtried today to find a basis for settling a f o.ur-day-old strike-lockout that has crippled the for-hire trucking industry in 11 western states. Arthur Viat, regional head of the agency, said he and his aids "are still trying to create a climate for mediation." "Our goal is to get the Teamsters and employers to gether as . early as possible, but no meeting is likely be fore next week," Viat said. The dispute began Monday when 2,350 teamtsers belong ing to Joint Council 38 went on strike against trucking firms in central California and western Nevada. They are seeking wage parity with drivers in the San Francisco Bay area. Lockout Declared 'Employers immediately de clared a lockout in 11 west ern states, declaring the team sters had already accepted an agreement covering the West on May 27. It was impossible to esti mate the number out of work as a result of the dispute, but industry leaders predicted the total would reach 100,000 as the strike-lockout continued. The California Trucking as sociation said that by Satur day lockouts by 1,600 com panies would idle 150,000 pieces of equipment, which normally move about three quarters of all the. truck freight in the entire West. They do a $2,500,000 a day business. Unfair Practices Charged Meanwhile, . the union charged six more trucking operators and employer asso ciations with unfair labor practices by locking out the teamsters in Arizona, Colora do, and western Texas. The complaints were filed with the National Labor Re lations Board in San Francis co Thursday. It brought to 10 the number of firms accused of unfair la bor practices in the current dispute. Permits to Move Buildings Issued Three more permits to move houses from the Jackson County Housing authority project on West Jackson st. were issued at city hall this weekl The authority stipulated in advertising its sale of sub standard dwellings this spring that they had to be demolish ed to at least panel size before removal from the project area. According to Chairman Mark A. Goldy, purchasers agreed verbally to demolish the buildings in this manner if they were to be used again for residential purposes. But the stipulation was "not an ironclad require ment" and. "not enforceable," according to Goldy. There was no written sales agreement. Hence a number of the dwellings have been removed intact. The purchasers have cited such varied uses as ga rages, tool sheds, workshops and chicken coops. But some at least appear destined for residential use, on the theory that "there's no rule says a man can't sleep in hi3 chicken house." The city building depart ment has no authority, it is understood, to deny moving permits so long as the struc tures are being moved outside the city. The three permits this week were issued to the Medford House Moving and General Contracting, Inc., 207 Berrydale ave. Assures Senate No Money Will Be Spent Possible U.S. The press secretary added "Let me set the record straight. There has been no public money spent to study how or when the United States might surrender. There will be no such money spent for such a purpose. Whole Matter Ridiculous "The Senate evidently feels about this as does the Presi dent. It wants to require that no appropriation be used for such a purpose. "As to that, the President wants me to say this: Even if he is given the money for such a purpose it would " not be spent. The whole matter is too ridiculous for comment." hi ii iiinihiii ii jgmmmmm MMIMWWJ WWUM! Iff " SPUTNIK WATCHERS This group of people, who call themselves the Dakota Street Sputnik Wr.tching society, have been gathering every evening for more than a week on the front lawn of Mr. and Mrs. Ryder Berg, 733 Dakota st., to view Russia's Sputnik III rocket. Be tween the first and second appearance of the satellite someone in the group provides refreshments of ice cream, water Morgan Promoted To Captain With State Police Paul Morgan, Medford, who has been with the state police department for 27 years, has been promoted to captain, ef fective today. He is now in command of operations in dis trict three, with headquarters here. . Capt. Morgan replaces Capt. Paul Parson, who retires Sept. 1 after about 30 years in police-work. Captr Parson went on leave Aug. 1. Lt. Earl W. Tichenor, Mil waukie, will be transferred here Sept. 1 to assume duties as assistant commander, suc ceeding Capt. Morgan. Capt. Morgan entered the service in the traffic division Aug.'l, 1931, and was sta tioned at Cottage Grove. He later held positions in Eugene and Salem, and was promoted to sergeant and transferred to Grants Pass Jan. 1, 1939. After his transfer to Rose burg, he was promoted to lieu tenant and assigned to Med ford as assistant commander here May 15, 1947. Lt. Tichenor started serv ice with the state police on March 18, 1936 at Milwaukie, and served in Medford and Coquille before he was pro moted to sergeant and trans ferred to Klamath Falls Oct. 1, 1941. He was commissioned lieu tenant and assigned to the arson division Dec. 1, 1956, when he was transferred to Milwaukie. District three includes Jack son, Josephine, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Klamath and Lake counties. House Group Okays Chrome Subsidy Bill The house rules committee has approved the chrome mineral subsidy bill S4036. House consideration of the bill is expected .next week, Bruce Manley",, president of California Oregon Chrome Producers association, said to day. The bill provides for a $35 a ton subsidy for 46 per cent chromite upon sale to in dustry. The bill has been ap proved by the Senate, he said. Surrender to Hagerty said the President had. authorized him to make the statement exactly as he made it. He declined to goiur ther when asked if the Pres ident resented a proposed amendment which stirred up the Senate furor. The amend ment to bar spending any fed eral money for a surrender study .sent the Senate into an uproarious night session Thursday. Despite the President's statement, the Senate moved toward a vote on the proposal. Chairman Richard B. Rus sell (D-Ga.) of the Senate Armed - Services committee proposed to withhold funds Sputnik Rocket Big Attraction in Area During Past Week The dead rocket tube of Russia's third Sputnik, or earth satellite, has been vis ible to Rogue valley people each night for more than a week now. It has attracted much at tention, and caused a certain frustration among those who Rise Seen in Milk Prices Because of Low Production The predicted rise in retail milk prices will probably ap ply statewide, according to Dick Westberg of Milk Pro ducers League here and presi dent; of Oregon Milk" Pro ducers. ' . Will Henry, general man ager of the Dairy Cooperative association said today in Port land that milk prices will rise since pastures are drying up and cows are producing less milk. Some rain could change the picture, he added. Westberg, manager of the local dairy cooperative, said the situation is relatively gen eral. Southern Oregon is not suffering yet since it still has irrigation water. The increased demand for production will naturally af fect the outlying districts, he explained. However, in time this area, too, could become short in milk supplies. r Lester Adams, manager of the Oregon Milk Producers, said state dairymen are faced with a 4 per cent increase in actual feeding costs this sea son compared to a year ago. Adams said the organization has completed recently a sur vey of dairy operations from Klamath county, through cen tral Oregon and from Eugene south. The manager of Oregon Milk Producers would not estimate what a price increase on milk might be. However, he did say that the recent dairy operations survey shows production costs are steadily rising. 4 An Enemy from any Pentagon-sponsored studies on policies for possi ble U. S. surrender in nuclear war. Russell's amendment came in the midst of a furor that raged from the White House to Congress after it was dis closed some kind of "surren der study" or studies had been prepared at the Penta gon's request. The White House said Pres ident Eisenhower considered the study "ridiculous" if it ac tually did discuss the condi tions under which this coun try might give up. The Presi dent demanded an immediate report on the incident. melon or cookies and coffee, and they chat awhile until the rocket again circles the earth. Pictured are, left to right front row, Ryder Berg, Glenn Klein, Ray Alder and Walter Hahner; back row, Mrs. Alder and daughter, Judy, Mrs. Hahner and Mrs. Berg. The group makes a game of seeing who can spot the satellite first, and by now, they know the exact point where it will appear. have been unable to spot the object which looks much like a first-magnitude star winking on . and off as it slowly moves across the heavens. ' It first became visible local ly about a month ago, and has returned to a visible 'orbit periodically, since then. In recent nights it has made at least two transits of the southern Oregon sky each night, about 103 minutes apart the length oij time it takes to circle the earth. Each pass is about 11 minutes earlier than the comparable one the night before. While data on the rocket tube (which is now far ( sep arated from the instrument- bearing Sputnik itself) is lack ing, it is believed to be about 79 feet long and between five and six feet in diameter. It tumbles over and over in what appears to be an erratic pat tern as it moves in its orbit. The Portland team of mbonwatches is the only source of information locally as to the behavior of the ob ject, and reports from this group have been spotty and irregular, resulting in some confusion as to where and when it can be seen. At the request of the Mail Tribune, the United Press International has arranged to obtain 'the schedule each day for the rocket's visible passes over Oregon. . On recent nights, the early evening pass has been in the eastern sky, about one, third to one half of the way up.from the horizon to the zenith. The rocket has moved in a south eastern direction, fading out at a point just south of east. The later pass has first be come visible just below the Big Dipper. Last night it al most occluded the last star on the handle of the dipper, and tonight is expected to pass just to the west of it. Its course then goes roughly south-south-west, and it disap pears, presumably into the shadow of the earth, in the Milky Wav area. The rocket is due tonight at 8:17 o'clock and again at 9:59. Altitude of the rocket is thought to vary from a low point of about 150 miles to a high point of some 1,100 miles.. Its speed is about 18, 000 miles per hour. It was launched May 15. It is visible only at night, and only when it is in the light of the sun, which it reflects, making it possible to be seen. The timetable is based on the best information avail able, but may vary a few minutes, as the data were pre pared for other areas. Would be viewers are advised to start their watch several min utes earlier than the time listed, and to avoid brightly lighted areas. Mt. Angel, Ore. (UPD More than 7,000 Catholics are ex pected to make the half-mile Marian Pilgrimage at Crook ed Finger near hers today. Delegate Shukairy Says Arabs Master Of Own Homeland West Hopes for Resolution Soon United Nations, N.Y. (UPD Saudi Arabia, regarded as the- middle man in the divided Arab world, warned today that peace rests on western withdrawal from North Africa and the Middle East. "In a word," Saudi Arabian delegate Ahmad Shukairy told the U.N. General Assembly's emergency Middle East ses sion, "the Arabs are deter mined to be lord and master of their homeland from the Atlantic to the Arabian Gulf. "There is only one choice, and one choice only. It is be tween peace of French intran sigence in North Africa. It is between peace or British rule around the Arabian Penin sula. It is between peace or American Zionism in Pales tine. Diplomatic activity quick ened meanwhile in a search for agreement on a course of action to be put before the 81 nation assembly immediately. The West hoped to place a res olution before the delegates by the time they adjourn for the week end. Diplomatic Drama Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were the central figures in the diplomatic drama. But Ameri can sources could not confirm reports that Dulles and Gro myko, after a private talk Tuesday night, found them selves close to accord on a policy for Lebanon. Gromyko said "If the United States has the wish, it is possible to reach a mutually satisfactory decision, which of course would involve the' withdrawal of U.S. troops from Lebanon and British troops from Jordan." Gromyko scheduled an aft ernoon conference with Japa nese Foreign Minister Aiichi ro Fujiyama, who was seek ing a compromise course be tween the western powers and the Soviet-Arab front in the assembly. Fujiyama spoke this morn ing and revived Japan's plan to give Secretary-General Dag Hammerskjold a free hand in strengthening the U.N. observ er force in Lebanon to permit , the withdrawal of U.S. forces. Flood of Resolutions A flood of suggested resolu tions offered for western back ing, all appeared to be based on the same idea: "Let Dag do it." The West pinned its hopes on a comprehensive measure now scheduled to be intro duced by Norway which ap peared more than ever to make Hammarskjold the "Middle East's middle man." Turkey denounced Russian threats of war and gave its full support to President Ei senhower's plan for peace in the Middle East. Republican Women Cancel Luncheon The Jackson County Repub lican Women's club has can celled its noon luncheon Mon day because of its work with the central committee in mak ing plans for the Republican roundup Monday . night at Hawthorne park, club offi cials have announced. Club . representatives said several persons have made reservations to hear Mark Hatfield, secretary of state and candidate for governor. Those who have made reserva tions are asked to attend the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable lunch eon in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. Hatfield will attend the luncheon and probably speak briefly. He also will speak at the Republican roundup, as will Paul E. Geddes, Republi can nominee for congress from the fourth district. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued fair and warm through Saturday. Outlook fair Sunday. Low to night 55. High Saturday 95. Temp. Highest Yesterday 95 Lowest this Morning 54 Our Skies Tonight sunset today 7:13 p.m. 5:19 a.m. 7:22 p.m. Aug. 21 Sunrise tomorrow Moonset today First Quarter PROMINENT STAR Arcturus, in the west 9:14 p.m. Jupiter, sets 930 p.m. Saturn, low in south west 10:59 p.m. Mars, in the east 12:33 a.m. Venus, rises 3:46 a.m.
