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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.