Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 26, 1958, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textr Fails Law lei mm 53 rd year M EDFORD 14 Pages RFERBIM AT TAIPEH 01 Air and Naval Commanders In Urgent Talks British Bolster Far East Fleet Taipeh, Formosa- (UPD -Top U.S. air and naval command ers met in Taipeh for urgent talks today amid reports that the United States might in crease . its military power around Formosa. Maj. Gen. Thomas S. Moor man, commander of the U.S. 13th Air Force flew to Taipeh today from his headquarters at Clark Air Force base in the Philippines. Vice Adm. Wallace Beakley, commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet, arrived unannounced about the same time. Operational Matters Moorman was reported con ferring on "operational mat ters" with Vice Adm. Roland Smoot, senior American mili tary official in Nationalist China and commander of the U.S. Taiwan (Formosa) De fense command. As the senior U.S. air and naval officials converged on this island bastion, elements of the 7th Fleet were report ed moving from Singapore to Okinawa in connection with the shelling of the Quemoy Islands. Eight units of the fleet with 1,600 Marines aboard headed for Naha after a resupply and liberty visit to the British port in south east Asia. British Bolster Fleet At the same time, a London dispatch reported the British were bolstering their Far Eastern fleet with two more aircraft carriers, although an admiralty spokesman said there was "nothing new and nothing sinister" about the move. He said "it does not mean the Far Eastern situa tion has deteriorated or any thing like that." Meanwhile the Communist guns on the China mainland pounded the Quemoys with heavy artillery barrages for the fourth straight day. Previously, Nationalist of ficials estimated that 96,000 rounds were fired against the Quemoys from Saturday through early today in bar rages that killed or wounded more than 600 persons. Heavy Rains Trigger Collapse of Dam Federalsburg, Md. -(UPD -Heavy -rains early today triggered the collapse of a dam on Marshyhope Creek above here, releasing a tor rent that swept into this community and forced scores of persons to flee. Washington .- (UPD - Sen. Frank A. Barrett said at the White House today that he believes President Eisenhow er will make a campaign speech this fall either in the West or Midwest. Ex-Presidents' Pension Measure Signed by Ike" Washington - (UPD - The world's richest nation has fi nally made sure that never again will an ex-president have to live off the charity of relatives. President Eisehower signed into law Monday a bill granting an annual $25,000 pension to all present and fu: ture ex-Presidents. The bill also grants an an nual 510,000 pension to the widows of ex-presidents. Four Now Eligible Four persons immediately eligible are: former Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Besides the pensions, ex presidents also get office space, unlimited free mailing privileges and an office staff tlat could earn up to $50,000. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST CAES OFFICIALS 'Boys, Please Are You Listening To Me?' Union Local Sale Aired by Washington -UPD- Senate rackets investigators charged that one of teamster President James R. Hoffa's lieutenants "bought" control of a St. Louis warehouse workers un ion local for $78,410 in 1949. The committee opened its investigation of teamster Vice President Harold J. Gibbons with testimony ' from Law rence J. Carr!ie, one-time ex ecutive officer of Local 688 and now a St. Louis trucking and real estate operator. t Camie denied that Local California Youth Drowns in River Tommy Junior Fauver,'. 18, Watsonville, Calif., drowned in the Rogue river yesterday afternoon near the old High way bridge near Gold Hill, according to state police and Carlos W. Morris, Jackson county coroner. Fauver was employed bw the Pelton orchard, Sams Va.- I ley, police reported. . He had come here with other mem bers of his family for the fruit-picking season. Fauver, understood to be a good swimmer, waded out into the river after having been swimming earlier, according to police. Less than two min utes later, police said," his body was brought ashore by his brother-in-law, Robert Lewis Havens. Artificial respiration, and use of a resuscitator by Med ford Ambulance service, failed to revive him. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger-Morris, funeral directors. Pensions for ex-presidents have been a long time coming. Nearly 170 years to be exact. Congress from the very be ginning was perfectly willing to watch ex-presidents scrape along on their past glories Land-Poor Squires House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack said in pressing for action on the bill that congressmen kept the public treasury tightly closed while George Washington and Thomas Jefferson lived out their lives as "land-poor coun try squires." He said James Monroe had to live off "the charity af rel atives" in his old age: James Madison had to mortgage away much of his estate, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had to write his memoirs to provide for himself while suffering from cancer. n j- j I Probers 688 was "sold" to Gibbons. He said Gibbons, then head of the St. Louis local of the CIO United Distribution Workers, wanted a teamster charter, but it was decided instead to merge the CIO union with the local. He said executives of Local 688 were given the choice of staying on or resigning with full pay for the three years remaining in their terms. Seven officials took the pay, amounting to $78,410. Claims Union Sold Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy asked: "As a mat ter of fact you and the rest of the Executive Board sold this union to Harold Gibbons, didn't you?" "I don't think I had the right to sell what belongs to someone else," Camie replied. . "I didn't sell this union," Camie said. He said the payment of sev erance pay to himself, two business agents' and six local officers was approved unani mously by the Executive Board. A . committee investigator said Camie got $36,360, busi ness agents Harry Karsh and John Church got $18,355 each, and six elected officers got $900 each for the three years remaining in their five year terms when the merger took place Jan. 24, 1949. Assistant Engineer Retained by County Robert J. Carstensen, of Grants Pass, has been appoint ed assistant county engineer, members of the Jackson coun ty court said today. Carstensen is now city en gineer for Grants Pass. He is scheduled to report to work about Dec. 1. annual salary has been set at $7,200, accord ing to the court. County Engineer Paul Ryn. ning said this morning that Carstensen had worked for the city of Medford part-time while going to school. He is a graduate of Oregon State col lege and is a professional reg istered engineer. Carstensen as married and has two children. Russia Seen Ready To Negotiate Ban Moscow-(UPD-Russia may be ready to negotiate a ban on nuclear tests with the West, diplomatic sources said today. One source, an Asian diplo mat, told United Press Inter national that Russia shortly will accept the western pro posal for talks on suspending tests. Washington -(UPD President Eisenhower will hold a news conference Wednesday. Tribune 26, 1958 Estimated 8,500 Attend Kiwanis Sponsored Fair Club Feels Event Was Successful An estimated 8,500 persons attended the four-day Kiwanis club sponsored county fair last week end, according to Arthur Savard, general chair man. Of the number, about 6,000 were paid admissions, and the balance consisted of fair ex hibitors, contestants and oth ers directly connected with operation of the fail, Savard said. i "The Kiwanis club feels that the county fair was very successul," Savard continued. He also said "much of the credit was due to the Med ford Junior Chamber of Com merce, the Siskiyou District Garden clubs, the Jackson County Pomona Grange, the participating home extension units, the commercial exhibi tors and numerous other community groups who as sisted." Indicate Support Russ Jamison, manager of the fair, emphasized that the "healthy attendance figures" indicate residents of the coun ty will support such an event. He noted the number of in dividual entries in the various competitive departments was smaller than anticipated, but were of high quality. Bill Singler, club president, expressed appreciation to the community for its support and promised "an even great er fair next year." The Kiwanis club under took to sponsor a county fair this year with the hope tht in the future it may develop into a regular county fair. It was held last week in con junction with the annual 4-H and Future Farmers of Amer ica fair at the fairgrounds south of Medford. Featured At Fair Features of the fair includ ed Miss America, Miss Mari lyn Van Derbur of Denver, Colo., who crowned Miss Jackson County Sunday night. Also attending Sun day's ceremonies was Miss Oregon, Miss Mary Ellen Vin ton, McMinnville. Miss Jackson County, Miss Pat Rushton, who was spon sored by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce, will represent this area in the Miss Oregon contest at Seaside next year. Other finalists in the Miss Jackson County contest were Ml-j Antonitte Cote, radio sta tion KMED;' Miss Molly Wal ker, Medford Kiwanis club; Miss Sally Elden, Lucas and Howard Furniture company, and Miss Sally Pyle, Rath's fashion center. Millage for Evans Valley Is 52.7 Mills Total tax millage for the Evans Valley school district will be 52.7 mills for the 1957-59 tax year, according to Ray Schumacher, county assessor. The figure includes 8.9 mills for the non-high district and 20.7 mills which was vot ed in Saturday by citizens of the Evans Valley school dist rict. The tax total for the dis trict, including the rural school levy, is $53,167.59, Schumacher said. The new to tal is a decrease of 8.9 mills from the previous year's fig ure of 61.6 mills. The rate will mean a tax assessment of $17 to an owner of property valued at $10,000, he said. Saturday, patrons of the Evans Valley school district passed a special levy of $36, 737.67. The levy went on the tax rolls Monday. The new levy passed is $7,442.50 less than the previ ous total of $44,160.17 placed $ before the voters this year. Price 10 Cents No. 134 420 Highway Deaths Expected During Holiday injuries To Disable Estimated 12,000 Chicago - (UPD - The Nation al Safety Council warned to day that a "frantic last fling at summer" may lure 420 per sons to their deaths on the nation's highways during the Labor Day week end. It said "cold statistics" in dicate that 12,000 other per sons may suffer disabling in juries in accidents between. 6 p.m. Friday and midnight on Monday. Three Simple Rules The council said "absolute ly none" of the predicted fa talities need be recorded "if every driver would observe three simple rules." , Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Safety Council, said 45 million cars will take to the streets and highways for-summer's last big holiday. "Traffic enforcement offic ers throughout the country will be working around the clock to keep the drivers, of these cars from killing them selves," Dearborn said. "It seems only reasonable to ask the drivers to cooper ate." The council recommended that vacationers: -Cut normal speeds by at least 10 miles per hour to off set the extra holiday danger. Use Common Sense -Put their safe arrival ahead of time of arrival and drive accordingly - "with pa tience, courtesy and common sense." -Stay away from the wheel if they've been drinking. ' "The public highway is no place for a fuzzy mind, whe ther -you've driving or walk ing," the council said. The council's estimate of 420 traffic fatalities compar ed with the record Labor Day week end toll of 453 in 1951. Last year 443 persons died in the 78-hour period. Californians Die South of Shaniko The Dalles (UPD Two Cali fornia residents were killed today in a one-car accident two miles south of Shaniko on Highway 97, state police reported. The victims were identi fied as Frank Richard Rover, 72, and his wife, Ruby, 68, San Clemente, Calif. Witnesses told police the car skidded on a curve for 300 feet, went over a bank, rolled end over end through a fence and came to rest in a field. The bodies were brought to The Dalles by Deputy Coron er Don Spencer. Shaniko is about 90 miles south of here. 'Shoot on Sight' Ordered in France Paris - (UPD - Police and troops with "shoot on sight" orders ringed refineries and oil installations in major French cities today to pre vent new raids by Algerian rebels. Terrorists who bombed and burned oil installations and shot up police stations Mon day staged no fresh attacks during the early hours today. Seven persons died in Mon day's violence. As dawn broke police and troops tightened security pre cautions. Guards had orders to shoot suspicious characters on sight. Steel-helmeted police arm ed with submachine guns guarded the industrial sub urbs of Paris. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Wednesday. Cooler. Low to night 55. High Wednesday 90. Temp. Highest Yesterday. 99 Lowest this Morning i6 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:57 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:30 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 4:02 a.m. Full Moon Thursday night The "summer triangle" of Vega, Deneb and Altair is high in the south tonight at 9:31 p.m. and will be seen in the west ern sky at midnight. SEEKING COURT ACTION which would preme Court building in Washington where assure the enrollment of seven Negro stu- the National Association for the Advance dents in Little Rock's Arkansas high school ment of Colored People made an appeal Fri this week, these six students who atended day. The NAACP asked that emergency last year, appeared in front of the U.S. Su- action be taken to clear the way this week. osfteirmi iregni Forests Abfloze Lightning Storm Touches Off Fires In Critical Area By United Press International An electrical storm swept through eastern Oregon Mon day night touching off a new series of forest fires as fire danger remained critical in the state despite cooler tem peratures. The weather bureau said no rain, except for some thunder- showers, was in sight. Nearly 50 blazes were re ported in the Umatilla and Wallowa - Whitman national forests. The largest covered from 650 to 1000 acres about 41 miles southeast of Union in the Sparta Butte area. The blaze was reported checked at 6 a.m. today but firefight ers feared an increase in winds might fan it out of con trol again. Plane Helps Other big fires included a blaze in the Tollgate area of the Blue mountains which consumed some 700 acres of timber before firefighters got a line around it. A load of borate slurry was dropped from an airplane on the fire this morning. Guy Johnson, regional U. S. fire control officer in Port land, said two blazes, one of 600 to 700 acres, and another of 200 acres, were burning in the Detroit ranger district of the Willamette national for est Another fire covered about 100 acres in the Bulger Hill area near North Powder in eastern Oregon. Twenty - two men were sent in to relieve weary firefighters on this blaze, set by lightning late Monday. Firemen hoped to bring un der control today a 120 - acre blaze about 40 miles north west of Grants Pass in the Galice ranger district. Situation 'Explosive' Lightning was blamed for at least 30 fires in the Uma tilla national forest overnight. Jay Hughes, fire control of ficer, said the situation was "explosive and critical." Nine of the fires were in the southeast Washington Pomeroy district, seven in the Walla Walla district, and one each in the Ukiah and Dale districts of Oregon. At least 12 blazes were spotted in the Pendleton district, south and east of Pendleton A dozen fires were reported in the Wallowa - Whitman national forest and at least three blaz es, including the one near North Powder, were on state land. Power Lines Hit Bonneville Power Admin istration reported 17 lightning strikes on major transmission lines in central and eastern Washington, western M o n tana and northeast Oregon Monday night and early to day. The longest outage was eight minutes Monday night at La Grande Some rain and hail were re ported in the Pendleton and Ukiah areas but in La Grande and the Wallowa district the storm was mostly dry. Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower played golf today at the Burning Tree club. Flaming Airliner Guided To (Ground Cut Bank, Mont. -(UPD -A Trans World airliner with 61 passengers left this remote northern Montana airport for Los Angeles today -just 12 hours after ' another TWA plane made a flaming, forced landing. The second four-engined Super Constellation was flown here from Kansas City this morning to take the pas sengers on the final leg of their, journey .between Lon don and Los Angeles. , Engine, Field Afire ' About 10 a.m. Monday, guided by an Air Force con trol and warning station offi cer into this World War II B17 field, Caupt. Earl W. Fleet made a forced landing after losing one of his pro pellers. The propeller landed in a nearby wheat field-set ting it afire. Moments before, the land ing, the plane's propellerless No. 3 engine burst into flame. When the plane had safely touched down, the 61 passen gers and 6 crew members im mediately left the ship through a canvas evacuation chute. One, identified as Wil fred Price, Sa- Francisco, suffered a broken leg. Two fire trucks extin guished the engine and wheat School Opening Dates Announced Opening dates for schools in Jackson county have been announced by the county school superintendent's of fice. Ruch and Evans Valley schools will open Tuesday, Sept. 2, and Butte Falls school will open Wednesday, Sept. 3. Other schools opening next week include Lone Pine, Thursday, Sept. 4, and Jack sonville, Ashland, Rogue Riv er and Prospect, Friday, Sept. 5. Opening Monday, Sept. 8, are Griffin Creek, Talent, Applegate, Pinehurst, and Howard schools. P'.ioenix schools are scheduled to open Thursday, Sept. 11 with those students working in the fruit harvest to report to school Monday, Sept. 15. District 9C schools, which include Eagle Point, Elk-Trail and Shady Cove, will open Friday, Sept. 12. Medford Public schools, and district 6C, which include Central Point, Gold Hill and Sams Valley, will open Mon day, Sept. 15. Sen. Derr Declared Idaho Vote Winner ' Boise-TCPD-State Sen. A. M. Derr today was officially de clared the winner of the Ida ho Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He goes up against incumbent Republi can Robert E. Smylie in No vember. Salem - (UPD Retaining of Walter P. Dyke, director of the Linfield research institute as technological consultant for the State Department of Planning and Development has been announced. . 4 field fires. Passengers were taken' into town to spend the night. Guided to Ground The stricken plane was guided to the ground by air units at Cut Bank and Havre, Mont. Spokesmen at headquarters of the Central Air Defense force at Richards-Gebaur Air Force base, south of Kansas City, quoted Fleet as saying that if it hadn't been for the radar units, he would have been forced to make a crash landing. Local Woman Dies In Mexico Crash El Centro, Calif. - (UPD -Police here today believed a 22-year-old Portland man was being held by Mexican auth orities on suspicion of man slaughter in connection with the traffic death of Mrs. Bon nie Jean Ayres, 19, Medford, Ore. Mrs. Ayres was identified by police as the daughter of Clara Dell Leveille, 51 North Oakdale ave., Medford. Police said Richard Lee Bard told them Saturday- his car had plunged into a canal near Algodones, Mexico, and he believed Mrs. Ayres had drowned while they were swimming away from the wreckage. He told police he was returning across the bor der to help authorities seek her body. Officers said Mrs. Ayre's body was found Sunday and that Bard had nqt returned from Mexico. They said it was assumed he was held on a manslaughter charge, which under Mexican law, is auto matically preferred against a motorist involved in a fatal traffic accident; Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 10 13 I Chicago 3 4 2 Roberts and Lopata; Dra bowsky, Hobbie (5), Henry (5), Elston (8) and S. Taylor. Heavy Balloting Expected On Statehood in Alaska Anchorage, Alaska - (UPD An estimated 30,000 Alaska voters went to the polls today to put the stamp of statehood on a territory twice the size of Texas. From Point Barrow to Ketchikan, Nome to Fair banks, the heaviest balloting in the history of the terri tory was expected. Political experts predicted the heaviest balloting in the history of the territory was expected. Polit ical experts predicted th e total vote would easily top the highest recorded vote of 28,000. Rejection Not Considered The possibility of state hood being rejected wasn't even considered. "We'll win by a 5-1 mar gin," predicted former. Gov. Mike Stepovich who stepped out of the governor's office Forceful Attempt For Integration Would Shut Doors Special Session Hears Governor Little Rock, Ark. -(UPD-Gov. Orval E. Faubus asked a spec ial session of the Arkansas Legislature today to give him a law to close any school that the federal government seeks to integrate by force. Faubus addressed a special session called specifically to prevent integration at Cen tral High school if the Su preme Court insists on having Negroes attend it from the opening, now postponed to Sept. 8. State Referendum Urged He also asked the Legisla ture to provide for the call ing of a state refendum with in 30 days after the closing of Central or any other school. "At the election, the people of the district may vote on the question of keeping the schools segregated or integrat ed," he said. "The election would be held in the usual manner by the same officials as would other state erections. "If the people vote to inte grate the school, it will be opened on an integrated basis, otherwise it will be kept clos ed and other provisions must be found for the education of the children who would other wise attend such school.'' Later Opening Date Faubus also asked for a law to postpone the opening date of "certain high schools" presumably Central, to Sept. 15. The governor asked the Leg islature to provide for the closing of schools under three conditions: The first would be to main tain the peace against "actual or impending violence" which, endangers the citizens, stu dents or teachers, and provide for the safety of building and property. The second would be the or dering of a school to integrate by any court and the use of federal force on-or about the school grounds to enforce the order. The third would be the de termination that "a general suitable and efficient educa tional system cannot be main tained in any school district because of the integration of the races." Defends States Right! Faubus said there is no clear-cut federal statute re garding the integration of schools. And if there were, he said, it would be unconstitutional, "for the authority to control public education has never been delegated to the federal government." Meanwhile, United Press In- . ternational was informed by a reliable source the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People was- "making a strong and deter mined effort" to have "quite a number of Negro students" appear at the school board of fices this afternoon to attempt to enroll in Central and Hall high schools here. School Janitor Dies While at Work on Lawn Oscar Wilhelm Larson, 61, of 1015 Murray st., died this morning while working on the lawn of Washington school, 610 South Peach st. He had been employed as a janitor in Medford public schools since 1951. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger-Morris, funeral directors. Salem-(UPD-Bids on $4,100. 000 in highway projects will be received by the State High way Commission here Sept. 9. to run unopposed for the Re publican nomination for one of the Senate terms. Alaska voters had to ap prove three propositions to clear the way for admission to the Union. One proposition asked simply, "Shall Alaska be admitted into the Union as a state?" Another set the boundaries of the 49th state as the lines established in the statehood bill signed by Presi dent Eisenhower last month. The third fixed the rights and powers of the new state as those set forth in the state hood bill. To Decide Terms The length of the senators' terms will be decided at the next Congress with one sen ator having a term of two or four years and the other four or six years, depending upon which lot each draws.