Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 27, 1958, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textrn i mm ! m sttm Medford 16 Pages 7' fete! -" ,r , - mm mwdfMMk SMOKE FROM FIRE Smoke from one of more than 30 forest fires in Josephine coun ty this week filters through the trees near Oregon Caves. The fire above was in the Waldo forest area, centered a few , miles from the Caves. State department of for Merchants Seek New Means foe Supplies Mediord merchants are turning tc new supply chan nels in efforts to circumvent the roadblock caused by the shutdown of long-haul freight trucking. Local delivery trucks, rent ed trucks, trucks owned by the merchants themselves, freight cars, railway express, parcel post, even air express all are being used to keep merchandise moving. So far, few are feeling the pinch- One mail-order house reports no decline in sales despite a three to five-day lag in deliveries. Substantial in ventories in local warehouses have generally met consumer needs. Starling To Worry But some merchants are starting to worry. Goods for promotional sales are often ordered months in advance, one explained. Back-to-school items, for example, were stocked for his store at least back in May and June. Now he said he should be stock piling for late fall and Christ mas. Deliveries by air or rail way express, among others, are proving costly. Rail freight, as a substitue for trucking, tends to be slow and frustrating especially when a carload shows up in Klamath Falls instead of Med ford. Some inventories are al ready running low. "We have quite a few empty spaces on the shelves,' an auto parts distributor here said Monday. Enters Third Week - Meanwhile, the trucking shutdown has entered its third week with little if any hope for an early settlement It all began when teamsters in central California and western Nevada demanded wages and benefits equal to those offered a local in the San Francisco bay area. When this was refused, they struck. Immediately, employers in 11 western states ordered their trucks off the road. Ap proximately 100 drivers in the Medford area have subse quently been locked put. Only 60 of these have ap plied for unemployment com pensation, according to the state employment service. Of the other 40, some reportedly have begun driving local de livery trucks or rented trucks on runs to distant distribution points. This, it is understood, has been criticized on the one hand as "wild-catting." But others are quick to defend it as being in the public interest. "You have to have experi enced drivers," one source ex plained. Carload Lots Under normal circum stances, most large shipments from the east arrive in Port land or San Francisco by rail in carload lots. At these points, the carloads are brok en down for distribution to smaller communities such as Medford. The long-haul trucks normally carry the bulk of such shipments to their final destinations. With the shutdown in ef fect, goods are piling up at MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1958 the major points. The rail road, according to reports, wait until new carload lots can be assembled before de livering their share of the truckers' freight. As a result, Medford mer chants have hired local deliv ery trucks or rented trucks, or where possible used their own, to make runs to distri bution points for direct pick up of shipments. "We're extremely busy," a spokesman for one local trans fer service . reports.- -A Jruck rental agency says its business has "more than doubled." Do Yeoman Service These generally smaller, lighter-duty trucks are doing yeoman service in keeping the Veterans Day Parade Planned in Plans for a Veterans Day i parade Nov. 11 were discussed j at a meeting of veterans and others interested here last night. The Jackson County Veter ans Allied Council is making arrangements for the parade in cooperation with other in terested groups, representa tives of the Council said. The group decided to have four divisions for floats. They are service and fraternal or ganizations, cities of the coun ty, schools of the county, and commercial. Council members Four Appear in Circuit Court Lester Howard Fields, Jack sonville, pleaded guilty yes terday to charges of larceny of livestock and was sen tenced to two years in the state penitentiary by Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly. He was charged with kill ing a Hereford calf weighing 300 pounds and removing part of the meat on a complaint signed by the owner, Oran E. Hukill, route 2, Jacksonville. Charlie Owen Cox, '210 Elm St., Medford, pleaded guilty before Judge Kelly to charges of raping a minor. He will be sent to the state hospital in Salem for a 30-day observa tion period before sentence is passed. Judge Kelly said. William Luther Due, alias William Dixon, of Califor nia, appeared Tuesday on charges of uttering and pub lishing a false check. He waived the right to appear be fore a grand jury, and Sidney Amsworth was appointed his attorney. Stsrlin Smith, of Califor nia, appeared on charges of uttering and publishing a false check. He waived a grand jury hearing. O. H. Bengtson was appointed his attorney. Salem - (UPD - Appointment of Ralph Perry, Hood River county orchardist, to the State Air Pollution Committee cf the State Board of Health has been announced. estry officials said the fire, reported Mon day afternoon, started from someone dump ing hot ashes injudiciously in forest litter. The picture was taken by Marie Veale, who is visiting Mrs. G. Whitmore, route 4, box 434, Medford. pressure off local businesses. But, like any mechanism, they face a maintenance problem. At least one truck has al ready broken down. If the present demands continue, others can be expected to fol low suit. Fortunately, such essen tials as milk, bread and gaso line, which are hauled by pri vate fleets, and perishables, which are exempted from the shutdown, have not been en dangered. But so far. as. general mer chandise is concerned, local businessmen-and consumers- can apparently expect to see some bare cupboards until the truckers in California reach an agreement. Medford pointed out that observance of Veterans Day is being made on a couniy-wiae oasis, ana invited all cities and towns in the county to participate. In addition to floats, march ing units from this area, in cluding reserve and national guard units, will participate. Attempts are being made to obtain marching bands and units from military bases along the west coast. Awards are planned for first, second and third places in the float division of the parade. Displays are planned by military organizations follow ing the parade, and local vet erans are planning special dances and breakfasts Veter ans Day. Representatives of the Council said many business and industrial firms in the county have indicated they would cooperate with plans and close Nov. 11. 75 Tons of Hay Damaged in Blaze Central Point - About 75 tons of baled hay were 'dam aged in a fire yestercay after noon at the Tom Whittle ranch, 2668 Hanley rd., Cen tral Point rural firemen re ported. They said that sparks from a trash burner ignited the stack of bales. Firemen were on the scene for five hours. Two tank trucks, one pumper and 12 firemen were dispatched the blaze. to Hoover To Give Pension To Charity New York -(UPD Former President Herbert Hoover said today he will give to . public service or charity what the tax collector doesn't take of his new $25,000 a year presi dential pension. But he said his his action should not set a precedent for other public of ficials. Salem -(UPD The State Li brary Board has announced that Miss Eloise Ebert will be come state librarian at the end of this year. Price 10 cents TRIBUNE No. 135 Alaska Voters Overwhelmingly Favor Statehood Heavy Democratic Vote for Offices Anchorage, Alaska - (UPD -Alaska said today it was more than willing to become the 49th state of the union. As more votes of Tuesday's election were counted, it be came obvious Alaskans favor statehood by a landslide mar gin of 5 to 1. Tabulations of about two thirds of a record-breaking vote, estimated to total 40, 000, showed 22,214 for state hood and only 4,291 opposed. . The anti-statehood vote ex pected from Southeastern Alaska failed to show. Instead, the major southeastern com munities of Ketchikan and Juneau, the territorial capital, joined the rest of the vast northern region in voting overwhelmingly to join the union. Ketchikan voted 1,943 to 477 for the statehood propo sitions which clear the way for a presidential proclama tion admitting Alaska as the 49th state by Christmas. The vote at Juneau was 1,307 to 454 for statehood. Heavy Democratic Vole Incomplete counts at An chorage and Fairbanks, where the polls closed two hours later than in the southeastern region because of the time dif ferential, gave the statehood measures solid boosts of 4,805 to 918 and 1,307 to 454, re spectively. The non-partisan issues of statehood, supported by every candidate in the election, gave both Democrats and Repub licans something to cheer about. But the first counting of votes for political candi dates, slower to come through because of the priority given the statehood measures, gave Republicans something t o worry about. ' In most instances, the total Democratic vote for the ma jor congressional and state of fices was more than four times the Republican vote. The exception to the pattern was Republican Mike Stepo vich, former governor run ning unopposed for one of the U.S. Senate terms. Popularity Contests Stepovich was holding a 3-2 edge in early returns in his "popularity , contest" with Democratic Ernest Gruening, also a former governor and unopposed for his party's nom ination. In another contest of unop posed candidates, Democrat E. L. (Bob) Bartlett held an early lead of nearly 4-1 over Re publican R. E. Robertson of Juneau for the other Senate term. William A. Eagan of Val dez appeared to be on his way to the Democratic nomination for governor in a race with Victor C. Rivers of Anchorage and J. Gerald Williams of Juneau. The unopposed GOP candidate is John Butrovich Jr. of Fairbanks. The only real contest in the primary was for the one U.S. Representative. Roy Plummer of Anchorage held a narrow 2,764 to 2-713 ' margin over Ralph J. Rivers of Anchorage for the Democratic nomina tion. Henry Benson of Juneau won the GOP nomination un opposed. Jacksonville Run To Stop Sept. 2 The Evergreen Bus line's Jacksonville-Medford run will be officially discontinued on Sept. 2, Robert Warriner, manager of the line, has an nounced. The Public Utilities com mission recently approved the discontinuance, which had been requested on the basis of excessive costs. Warriner also announced discontinuance on that date of the 7 ajn. Medford-Ashland run, including the return trip leaving Ashland at 7:40 a.m. Instead, he reported, two oth er runs would be shifted. to fill the gap. The 6:30 a.m. run will leave Medford, at 6:45 a.m. and the 8 a.m. run will leave Medford at 8:05. The return runs will leave the college at Ashland at 7:15 and 8:35, re spectively, and downtown five minutes later. Quemoy Islands Bombarded With Heavy Artillery Island Airstrip Said Still Usable Washington fCPD T Navy today ordered the air craft carrier Essex, with about 80 planes aboard, to leave the Mediterranean and join the 7th Fleet in Pacific waters around For mosa. , Taipeh, Formosa - (UPD - De fense Ministry spokesmen Adm. Liu Hoh-Tu said today Communist naval forces were "converging" on the Formosa Strait area where heavy Red guns bombarded the Quemoy islands with nearly 9,000 shells by mid-afternoon. Liu said the Communists had 4.000 to 5,000 landing craft in the area following their recent buildup for pos sible amphibious landings. The Communists concen trated their shelling today on the sister islands of Tatan and Erhtan located in the mouth of Amoy Harbor but Liu warned the concentrated shelling of the two islands may be a screen for landings elsewhere. . The C ommunists also poured thousands of rounds of artillery on Quemoy in an apparent all-out effort to neu tralize the airfield there. It was the fifth straight day of murderous bombardment with the Communists shelling for an hour or two, stopping and then resuming the bom bardment with greater inten sity. In a three-hour morning bombardment they hit Que moy ' with more than 2,000 shells. Liu Hoh-Tu said the dirt airstrip on Quemoy was still usable despite the bombard ment. He denied as "greatly exaggerated" one report the strip had been hit with 1,600 shells. ' A government spokesman said the Nationalist garrison on Quemoy had replied with its own artillery and destroy ed several Red jun emplace ments at Weitou and Tatan and one ammunition depot and a gasoline depot on near by Wuyu Island. The Communist motives in the shelling still were not clear, but Vice Adm. Wallace Beakley, commander of the 7th Fleet, and Maj. Gen. Thomas S. Moorman, com mander of the 13th Air Force in the Philippines, were con ferring in Taipeh with Amer ican and Chinese officers. ' Whalin Resigns Planners Post Don B. Whalin, 300 Windsor ave., Medford, today resigned from the Jackson county plan ning commission. The county court s reaction to a proposed iterim zoning ordinance for the Jacksonville area is chiefly responsible, Whalin's letter of resignation said. The county court Monday rejected the proposal which would encompass the disputed Jacksonville garbage dump site and admonished the com mission for not making a timely recommendation to the county court.' "For several months I have been considering this move be cause of business and personal reasons," Whalin wrote. "The recent Jacksonville garbage dump episode helped me to reach this decision." "My best wishes for success continue to be with the plan ning commission in its efforts to develop a carefully thought out county-wide zoning ordi nance," the letter concluded. License Applications For Businesses Due License applications for Medford businesses are past due, City Recorder Darell Huson said today. Huson offered a special re minder to new businesses and those in recently-annexed areas. All business enterprises in the city must be licensed. WEATHER FORECAST Fair with occasional high cloudiness tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 52. High Thursday 90. Temp. . Highest Yesterday 94 Lowest this Morning 52 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:55 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:31 a.m; The Moon rises 5:51 p.m. today, sets 5:03 a.mi tomorrow and will be Full to morrow night. PROMINENT STAR Antares, low in south west . 9:40 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, sets 8:37 p.m. Saturn, sets 11:07 p.m. Mars, in the east 12:18 a.m. Venus, rises 4:12 a.m. Ik . control In Oregon Areas Light Rain Fails To Ease Situation ' By United Press International A little light rain fell in extreme northwest Oregon this morning but it didn't ease the forest fire danger appre ciably and several blazes con tinued to burn out of control in scattered sections of the state. The weather bureau said light rain fell in western Washington and on a line from Portland to Astoria in Oregon. It wasn't expected to spread much further south and much of the state remain ed dry and hot. Blazes were out of control in eastern Oregon, in the Wil lamette national forest and in the Siskiyou national forest. Detroit Blaze Serious ' The U.S. Forest Service said its most serious fire in Oregon covered about 1000 acres on Canyon creek in the Detroit area of the Willam ette national forest. Three fires were reported in the Siskiyou national for est, one of which covered about 200 acres in the Bun ker Creek area. In eastern Oregon, a brush and timber fire on Little Lookout mountain about 40 miles southeast of Baker burned some 1500 acres. An other fire covered some 2000 acres of brush and small tim ber in rugged terrain in the Pike's Peak ridge area in the Blue mountain .foothills of Washington and northeast Oregon. Medford Tankers Used The Klamath district of the Rogue River National Forest reported its biggest fire of the season, a five-acre blaze on Goose Egg Butte in the Seven Lakes Natural Recreation Area. Foresters said they hoped to control the blaze with crews now on hand from Union Creek and Prospect. Aerial tankers carrying bor ate were dispatched from Medford and smokejumpers from Cave Junction .were used in the remote area at the southern boundary of Crater Lake National Park. Land Transferred To EP School Area An order transferring 242.7 acres of land from the Pros pect school district" to Eagle Point has been signed, County School Superintendent Alf B. Mekvold said today. The property is on the north side of the Rogue river and two miles above the Mc Leod bridge. The transfer will affect two high school students and one elementary school pupil. They are chil dren of John Dunlap, resi dent on the property. As sessed valuation of the prop erty is estimated at $3,090, Mekvold said. A final hearing was held July 22 and the order signed following the public hearing of the school boundary board, Mekvold said. The district reorganization committee had originally ap proved a petition by Dunlap requesting the transfer. The boundary board's original hearing on the question was held prior to July 1, Mek cold said. However, decision was postponed pending the consolidation of Prospect and Elk Trail school districts. Schedule of Events At Opening Day of State Fair Revealed Salem-(UPD-Following is the schedule of events at the Ore gon State Fair, which opens a 10-day run here tomorrow: 8; a.m.: Log cutting cere mony to open the. Fair. 10 a.m.: Dedication of the new 4-H and FFA building. 11 a.m.: Grand opening of garden show. 1 p.m.: Flower arranging demonstration. 1:30 p.m.: Horse racing, Lone Oak track. 8 p.m.: Horse show and rodeo, stadium. 8 p.m.: Larry Allen's night I revue. fld ' Sim Tou Can jj III fMT C. like Declares U.S. To Defend Formosa Washington (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower declined to--day to say whether the United States would fight to save Nationalist held islands off the coast of Red China. But the President asserted that the U.S. will not desert its obligations and responsi bilities to defend the Nation alist Chinese bastion of For mosa and the Pescadores Is lands near Formosa. He also took the occasion of his -weekly news confer ence to warn that any nation which started an all-out nu clear war would be destroyed by American retaliatory pow er. He added that it would be silly to say the U.S. could be defeated in such a war. The President was ques tioned about the stepped up artillery attacks which the Chinese Communists have been making on the Quemoy and other offshore islands gar risoned by Chinese National ist troops. Important Islands He said some of the islands now have an increased im portance over what they had several years ago because the Chinese now have stationed one-third of their forces on islands west of the Pescadores. Union Officer's Home Dynamited : Indianapolis. Ind-(UPD-An apparent, dynamite bomb Tuesday night blasted the home of John R. Stevenson", first vice president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. There were no injuries in the explosion which occurred while the Stevensons were out of town. Neighbors said they were visiting relatives in Chicago. Police investigators said the bomb was believed to have been constructed of sev eral sticks of dynamite and tossed into the home, located in an exclusive residential district. Authorities said question ing of friends and union asso ciates of Stevenson revealed no motive for the bombing. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 2 . 7 0 Washington 1 4 0 Pierce and Lollar; Pas cual, Hyde (8) and Court ney. Detroit - 2 3 .0 Boston ....3 6 0 Bunning and . Wilson; Brewer and White. Kansas City 11 "18 0 New York 7 11 1 Terry, Gorman, (3). Tom anek (7). Herbert (6) and Chili; Kucks, Maas (2). Trucks (8). Duren (9) and Howard. NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia ...2 4 0 Chicago : :.5 7 1 Simmons, Meyer (8) and Lopata, Hegan (8); R. An derson and Nteman. Cisoinig Arkomis Make It" He said that makes a closer interlocking of those islands with the defense of Formosa. Asked whether this in creased importance would af fect his jlidgment on U.S. actions . to defend Formosa, the President said such mili tary decisions simply could not be made until after the event. He went on to say, how ever, that the increased im portance of these islands near ,the coast might be a consider ation under circumstances which he did not define. But the President made it clear that whatever the decision is about Quemoy, this country will defend Formosa and the Pescadores. On domestic subjects, Eisen hower: -Criticized what he called a tendency on the part of Con gress to appropriate more money than should be spent in the domestic field. He. also said he was disappointed that no labor reform legislation was approved in the congres sional session 'which ended last Sunday. -Withheld his final ap praisal of the Democratic-controlled , Congress accomplish ments for a week or 10 days until he completes action on the about 200 bills awaiting his signature or veto. Use of Atomic Weapons -Answered no to a question about whether local U.S. mili tary commanders were au thorized to use atomic weap ons in an emergency. But he said he believed there was a directive . that U.S. forces could use any means to de fend themselves when they or the U.S. ' were under at tack. However, he said that as he remembered the direc tive, it didn't mention atomic weapons., s -Said he was going to stress cutting down the federal deficit in any campaigning he does this fall for Republican congressional candidates. -Declined comment on a possible tax increase next year to helD cut down an ex pected . deficit of. about $12 billion. Portland -rtlPD- The rocket of Sputnik III is expected to be visible over Oregon at 7:50 p.m. (p.s.t.) Thursday. First of Brownlees Generators in Brownlee. Idaho (UPD Idaho Power ComDanv Presi dent T. E. Roach today closed a switch and put the first of Brownlee dam's generators into operation. ' . Two More Generators Roach remarked that "the company promised to j u t Brownlee's first power on the line by September and here it goes." Two more genera tors are to be supplying pow er by December. Total out put eventually will be 360, 000 kilowatts. The generator hummed into action as soon as Roach threw the switch at 10:06 a.m. The occasion was witnessed by Power construction em Faubus 'Package' Gives Governor Power To Act . Private School Strategy in Works Little Rock, Ark.-njPD-The Arkansas House of Represent atives passed 94-1 today a bill empowering Gov. Orval Fau bus to close any school fac ing forcible integration . of Negro children. The overwhelming vote on the school closure bill marked the defiant temper of lawmak ers in the face of federal orders. The sole dissenting vote was cast by Rep. Ray Smith, Hot Springs, an area which does not have a serious Negro problem. Passed by Senate The state Senate, a short time later passed the entire Faubus "package" by a vote of 33-0. Arkansas legislators pv- pressed gratification at Presi- 1 dent Eisenhower's acknowl edgment today that he might have told friends srhool inte gration should be proceeding more slowly. "That might have a power ful effect on some of those Supreme Court justices," said Sen. J. Lee Bearden. , "That is the first sensible thing he has said since the racial problem came up," said Rep. Carroll Hollensworth, dean of the House. Private School Plan United Press International learned, meanwhile, that the Faubus administration is working on a strategy where by it could close a public school one day and open it almost immediately as a pri vate, segregated institution. The key to the whole pro gram is already on the state's lawbooks and has been since reconstruction days. It allows an unused public school to be used as a private school- 25-Man Crew Sent To Forest Fire A 25-man crew was sent to a five-acre forest fire in Rogue River National forest early this morning to relieve eight smokejumpers and other fire fighters sent late yesterday. Forest personnel said the fire was spotted yesterday afternoon and apparently is a "sleeper" fire from, last Thursday's lightning storm. It is located south of Crater Lake National park and .west of Ft. Klamath, five miles from the nearest road. Officials said the fire was controlled today. Three planes were dropping water on the fire today. Petition Nominates Hansen for Council A petition nominating Don ald Hansen, 1116 Stewart ave. for reelection as councilman from Ward II was filed with City Recorder Darell Huson this morning. Hansen is the only one so far in the race for Ward II. Deadline for filing nomin ations for council positions and for mayor is noon Fri day. So far, one petition nom inating Mayor John Snider for reelection and seven nom inating councilmen have been filed. Operation ployees working in the pow erhouse, where the ceremony took place. Idaho Power's projected string of three dams to be built on the Snake river. It was begun less than three years ago after a prolonged public versus private power battle that reached to the floors of Congress. Ultimate Production A total of 1,200,000 kilo watts ultimately will be pro duced by Idaho Power's entire $164 million development, licensed by the Federal Pow er Commission and including Oxbow and Hells Canyon dams in addition to Brownlee.