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Newspaper Page TextTWLAXT Subscribers Recommended 53rd Year Price 10 Cents To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 1220 ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives ihortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. - MEDFORD A feature itory on th eld Jacksonville "CannonbaU" rail road which ran between Medford and Jacksonville during pioneer dyi In thii area appeari on W It of today' Man Tribune. United Pren Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Win 44 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1958 No. 138 i i r 1 L J ! f ---e-rr-s , MiteWisVWnsisiiiiat-ii ii 7to slsfc& NEW SCHOOL-The new Hoover elemen tary school on Siskiyou blvd. in Medford la shown under construction. A wing of the E-shaped structure is scheduled for com pletion by Sept. 15, a spokesman for the contractor said. The wing contains four classrooms with, connecting toilet facilities. Jackson County to (Get Increased TSmber Funds Jackson county is scheduled to receive $1,720,960.67 for its share of receipts from timber sold from Oregon and Cali fornia Railroad grants lands last fiscal year, according to Fred A. Seaton, secretary of the Interior. The figure is an increase of $183,432.52 over the $1,537, President Elect May Not Pressure U.S. Withdrawal Washington fllPD Leban ese President-elect Ma j. Gen eral Fuad Chehab has told American diplomats in Bei rut that he would not ask for Immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops on assuming office on Sept. 23, officials said yester day. Radi Cairo has insisted for days that the troops would leave the day Chehab was in augurated. Last' Wednesday it said "when Chehab and his government assume power their first demand will be the withdrawal of American forces." But officials here showed no concern yesterday about such a development. They said U. S. diplomats, including Am bassador Robert McClintock, have been in frequent touch with Chehab since he was elected president last month. Moderate Man They described him as a moderate and methodical man intent on strongly securing his position before the troops leave. The officials conceded that the United Arab' Repub lic would step up pressure on Chehab, once he assumes of fice, but said the UAR was indulging in "wishful think ing" if it believed Chehab would yield quickly. The officials said there were no plans auw iu wiuiuiaw ad ditional troops. One battal t : 4 1 ... A ion of Marines was pulled out on the eve of the UN General Assembly emergency session. No troops have-left since. A Few Men Leave But these officials did not rule out the possibility that some small contingents might leave before the end of Sep tember. They emphasized, however, that there were no present plans for them to do so. Nor would they commit themselves on a likely date for a complete U.S. withdraw al. They added, however, that there was little likelihood the United States would suf fer the humiliation of being asked to leave Lebanon. United Nations adoption by an 80 to 0 vote of the All Arab Resolution to send Secretary-General Dag Hammar skjold on a peace mission to the Middle East has bought valuable time for the West in which to prepare a sound so lution for the problems of Lebanon and Jordan, these of ficials said. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair today and Monday. High today 94; low Monday morning 55; high Monday 95. TEMP. Highest Yesterday , 92 Lowest Yesterday .. 53 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 6:48 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow Moonrise tonight 5:36 a.m. 7:51 p.m. The Big Dipper will be sinking in the northwest at moonrise and Dnbhe and Merak, two of the stars in the Bow of the Dipper, will be pointing up to ward Polaris, the North Star. $28.15 received from the bu reau of land management for timber sales on O and C lands last year in Jackson county. The 18 O and C counties of western Oregon will re ceive $10,975,514.48, Seaton said, with each county receiv ing more than it did last year. The checks represent the net payments to counties of their share of gross timber sale receipts, which amounted to $21,951,028.96. Counties are entitled to 75 per cent of the gross receipts, BLM officials said, but under an agreement with the coun ties, $5,487,757.24 has been retained by the federal gov ernment as the counties' con tribution toward costs of ac cess road construction on O and C lands. Heath Notes Rise The amount distributed to the counties is about $1.2 mil lion more than was paid last fiscal year, Virgil Heath, state supervisor noted. It also rep resents an increase of timber harvest of from 624.5 million board feet in 1957 to more than 760.7 million board feet last year. The Medford district is the largest BLM forest district of the five O and C counties. It Can You Each year as a prelude to the annual "Bargain Day" subscription campaign, the Mail Tribune sponsors a daily contest which this year, will start today, Sunday, August 31 and continue through Sunday, September 7. The winner of each contest will receive a free one-year subscription to the Mail Tribune and the person who has entered all six contests and compiles the highest number of correct answers will also receive a one-year subscription to the Mail Tribune. In keeping with this year's theme "The Oregon Centennial" which will celebrate 100 years of statehood in 1959, the current contest is featuring the eventful history of Southern Oregon by presenting a number of early pictures that were taken by Peter Britt, Frank H. Hull and others, who did The overall building includes 10 class rooms, library and gymnasium and admin istration offices. The administration offices and gymnasium (to the right) can be seen in the picture. The wings containing the classrooms stretch behind. includes Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties, and well as sections of Douglas, Coos and Curry counties7. It contains about 816,000 O and C acres. Of the $10.3 million to be received by O and C counties, Jackson, Josephine and Klam ath will receive about one third of the total or $3,303, 532.71. Increased Sales The Medford district also shared in the increased tim ber harvest, Heath noted. There was more timber of fered for sale and sold in 1958 than in any other com parable period in the history of the Medford district, he pointed out. Recent reinventory of the O and C lands in Josephine county has permitted an in crease of allowable cut in that county, Heath said. Because of this, an increase of timber offered for sale in the district is expected during the next year. - The bureau of land manage ment explained that $2,780, 332.67 of the total sent to the counties came from timber sold by the forest service on the half-million acres of O and C lands which it' administers. Identify These " ijiwitiiiii is, - - - . much to record the various activities of the area. The above pictures were taken in Med ford from approximately the same position, Main and Riverside looking west on Main st. One picture was taken in 1890, the other recently and they represent a span of about 65 years. Can you spot any similarity be tween them? Hubbard Brothers Hardware is in the same location and the coupla over Swems Gift Shop is still there. Even the streets in 1890 were being torn up, as they are today. For other fascinatingipictures of a by gone era see the first contest on page 12, section 2 of this paper. Be sure to read the rules and submit your entry within the al lotted time. You may be the winner of a free one-year subscription. Traffic Fatality Toll Passes 100 On U.S. Highways California, Ohio Lead in Total Deaths The nation's highway death toll for the Labor Day holi day weekend pushed to the 100 mark Saturday night and National Safety Council offi cials said the accident rate was "tragically on schedule." At 1 a.m.'EDT, the United Press International counted at least 100 traffic deaths since the holiday period began at 6 p.m. (local time), Friday. In addition, there were 15 drownings, ,5 lives lost in plane crashes and 13 fatali ties from miscellaneous causes for an overall holiday toll of 133. California and Ohio had 12 traffic deaths apiece to lead the nation's states in high way fatalities and account for nearly a quarter of the coun try's total auto toll. New York and Virginia fol lowed . with 7 each. Florida had 6, Iowa 5 and three states -Texas, Illinois, and Missouri reported 4 deaths each. , National Safety Council President Ned H. Dearborn said that at this time last year there were "slightly over" 100 deaths and that at the present 1958 rate the council's earlier estimate of 420 highway fa talities this year wbuld be "just about right." The toll had been running at a slower pace than the council predicted until the latest barrage of death re ports but there was still hope that this year's final count would be under that of 1957 when 443 persons died in auto accidents during the three day weekend. Temblors Rattle Dishes San Francisco -flJPD-A series of dish -rattling earthquakes hit the San Francisco penin sula yesterday but were not strong enough to do any dam age. A University of California seismologist said the strong est of five shocks registered only 3.0 on the Richter scale. The others were recorded at less than 2. Pictures? Jets Increase Far East Forces As Fears Mount Washington -(UPD- The Air Force disclosed yesterday a jet fighter squadron and cargo planes were being dispatched to build up U.S. air power in the Far East where Red China threatens invasion of Chinese Nationalist islands in the For mosa strait. The move came as U. S. officials voiced growing con cern that Red China's con- Red Guns Blast Offshore Islands 9th Day in Row Taipei, Formosa-(UPD-Com-munist Chinese artillery pour ed a steady rain of shells into the Quemoy Islands at the southern end of the Formosa Strait for the ninth straight day today. Other Red guns blasted the Matsu Islands to the north as invasion jitters mounted. A typhoon halted air and sea action in the area as the Reds stepped up their threats to "liberate" Formosa and the offshore islands. Tlie United States countered with an an nouncement that it was furth er bolstering its miliary might in the Far East. The Nationalist defense ministry said 101 shells had been hurled at little Quemoy in the two hours up to mid night, and the shelling con tinued on into this morning. A communique said Big Que moy had been under fire since an hour before midnight. Sharpnel Used For the first time during the nine-day bombardment the defense ministry reported that the Communists were firing anti-personnel fragmen tation shells as well as well as shells made for blasting fortifications. Sventy-two r o -l n d s of shrapnel exploded on Big and Little Quemoy before dawn today, the ministry said, and by 8:30 a.m. 228 sheels of both kinds hit the two islands and Taten. The ministry said earlier that Kaoteng in the Matsu group -at the northern end of the strait was shelled, for the first time in several days with 16 rounds in 10 minutes last night. Counter Battery Fire The Nationalists disclosed that their own artillery at dusk Friday had unleashed what the defense ministry called a "bombardment of destructive nature" against the Red-held China mainland. A communique said mere than 30 Red gun positions near the coast were destroyed in two hours of shelling. The ministry added that the Communists had thrown more than 130,000 shells against the offshore islands in the past seven days. Seven thous and of them, it said, were fired at the tiny islets of Tatan and Erhtan in the Quemoys, where invasion at tempts is most feared. Water Skier Impaled On 8-Inch Boat Cleat Portland, Ore.-(UPD-A 30-year-old water skiier, James Scott, Portland, was impaled on an eight-inch boat cleat in a skiing accident near here Saturday afternoon. Scott was skiing behind a boat driven by "Chuck Stod dard, also of Portland, and was approaching a floating dock at the moorage at south east Linn when he lost his balance, fell and struck the boat cleat on the dock. Scott was taken to Provi dence hospital here where he was examined prior to re moval of the metal object from his left thigh. tinued tough-sounding threats might force her into an actual invasion attempt on the Que moy Islands to "save face." Some authorities suggested the Reds might deefde the long ' Labor Day week end would be the best time for such a strike. It was reported the fighters were to leave George Air Force base, Victorville, Calif., last night. They are F-100D fighter - bombers, capable of carrying atomic or conven tional weapons at supersonic speed. There normally are 25 in a squadron. Leaders Absent The absence from Washing ton of vacationing President Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Assistant Secretary of State Walter S. Robertson, who is responsible for the Far East, might encourage the Commu nists, officials said. ' Dispatch of the planes was part of an increasing build-up of U.S. forces in Formosan waters and elsewhere in the Far East. The Navy previous ly had reported dispatch of additional aircraft carriers and surface ships to strength en the already powerful U.S. Seventh Fleet which patrols the Strait to guard against an invasion of Formosa. U.S. Committed The United States Is com mitted to help Nationalist China defend Formosa and the Pescadors Islands. But Congress has left it up to President Eisenhower to de cide whether to resist seizure of other Nationalist-held is lands, .including the Quemoys, lying closer to the Chinese mainland. Under its "keep-them-guess-ing" policy, the United States has not said what action it would take if the Quemoys were targets of a Red Chinese landing. But the build-up of U.S. forces showed this coun try's growing concern. A normal jet fighter squad ron consists of 25 planes. The Air Force would not say, how ever; whether that many or more were in the squadron going to the Far East. Nor would it say how many cargo planes were involved. Destination Not Specified It. also did not say specifi cally where the planes were going. The Defense Department is sued this statement: "In response to inquiries concerning movement of air craft, the Department con firms that the United States Air Force Tactical Air Com mand (TAC) is deploying a squadron of jet fighters and some cargo aircraft to the Far East to supplement Air Force capability in that area. "The Military Air Trans port Service (MATS) is" assist ing TAC with logistic sup port." Two Are Treated After Car Mishap Two persons were reported in good condition in Sacred Heart hospital Saturday fol lowing a one-car mishap Fri day at Camp White. Michael Wells Travis, 19, of 1042 Mt. Pitt ave., Med ford, was reported in good condition undergoing treatment-for severe cuts. Patricia Dee Foulon, 17, of 1310 East 10th St., Medford, was re ported in good condition also. She is being treated for in juries to her left hand, leg and elbow. The accident occurred on the drag-strip in Camp White when the car driven by Travis sped an estimated 75 miles per hour west on G. st. into the deadend and an open field. There the car rolled over several times and came to rest on its right side, state police said.- "And All This Time I Speak Magh Court Could Upset Maneuvers Washington -(UPD- Legal ob servers said yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court could move swiftly and decisively to up set any maneuver in Little Rock, Ark., aimed at reopen ing Central -High school on a segregated basis before the court's Sept. 11 hearing. Sen. Neuberger 'Resting Easily' After Operation - Portland-flJPD- Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), under went exploratory surgery at the Univer-sity of Oregon Medical school here Friday. , His wife, Mrs. Maurine Neu berger, said the minor sur gery was undertaken to ex plore the possibilities of a tu mor. Mrs. .Neuberger said "we are not keeping a anything from the press. We'll let them know the results as soon as possible." Mrs. Neuberger said it might take the sena tor, who had just returned to Portland from the national capital Thursday, a week to recover from the minor sur gery. -- Mrs. Neuberger said th hospital was inundated with calls about the Senator's con dition but that there was nothing that could be report ed yet. She said a press con ference would be held Wed nesdayt o give a complete ac count of the operation and its findings. She said the Senator is resting easily. Soviets Pledge Aid To Chinese Reds London-WPB-The Soviet Un ion said yesterday it will give Communist China "the neces sary moral and material aid in the the just struggle"' for the "liberation" of Formosa from the Chinese Nationalists. The statement was made by Pravda, organ of the Soviet Communist party, and was broadcast by Russia as unceas ing Red Chinese shelling of the Nationalist-held Quemoy brought invasion jitters in the Formosa Strait to a high pitch. - Pravda hurled a warning at the United States, which has beefed up its armed might in the Formosa area as a counter weight to the Communist ar tillery and , "psychological warfare" assault on the off shore islands, stepping stones to Formosa itself. He who threatens China, the official Soviet organ said, "must not forget that he is threatening the Soviet people also, since the Soviet people are linked to People's China by unbreakable ties." rQ(Q)W L2XSH& Was Hoping You'd Up" They pointed out that it would take only one brief order from the high court to wipe the slate clean of all appeals, delays and stays granted by lower courts. The effect of such an order would be to reinstate the ' original court ruling requiring integra tion at Central High, regard less of when it opens. At the conclusion of its hearing Thursday, the Su preme Court went along with the plea of the Little Aock school board to leave in effect, for the time being, a stay granted by the 8th Cir cuit Court of Appeals tem porarily suspending integra tion at Central High. Final Decision Due Chief Justice Earl Warren emphasized in Thursday's or der that the high court let the suspension stand until its Sept. 11 hearing because it was "advised" that Little Rock, schools would not open until Sept. 15. The Supreme Courts evidently planned to issue its final decision Sept. 11 or 12. If the circumstances on which the court based its ac tion should change as they would change if Central High school were to open on Sept. 8 instead of Sept. 15 - the court would have abundant precedent for making an ab rupt change in its own stand. Fully Aware The Supreme Court justices are fully aware of the news stories from Little Rock re porting that Gov. Orval E. Faubus is withholding his sig nature of a bill to set Cen tral's opening date on Sept. 15. They know that the Little Rock school board will meet Monday night to decide whether it should act on its own authority to set the open ing date on Sept. 15 - or leave it at Sept. 8. Authorita tive sources, meanwhile, expressed ' confi dence that the board would postpone the opening until the 15th to keep on the right side of the court. Last Performances Start At Shakespeare Festival Ashland - The last round of plays in the Oregon Shake spearean Festival here starts tomorrow, Labor Day, and the Festival is assured of setting an all-time attendance record. A total of 24,457 persons have viewed the four Shake speare plays, exceeding the record - breaking attendance last year., The final round of plays starts with "Troilus and Cres sida" Monday night, followed by "Much Ado About Noth ing" Tuesday, "King Lear" Wednesday, and "The Mer chant of Venice" Thursday. To date, "Much Ado" has had the largest attendance with a total of 7,621 attending . n ILTQQJ Date Three Days Before Slated Court Meeting Negroes Would Be Barred From Classes Little Rock, Ark.-flJPD-A ma jority of the Little Rock school board yesterday favor ed opening Central High with Negroes barred on Sept. 8, three days before the U. S. Supreme Court meets again on the integration crisis. It was learned, however, that school board lawyers just back from Washington will tell them Monday night, when they meet to set the opening date, that a Sept. 8 opening may ruin any chance of get ting a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court. When the Supreme Court adjourned its extraordinary meeting on the Little Rock case Thursday until Sept. 11, it did so in the belief that Central will not open until Sept. 15. , Could Open All-Whit Since Central still has the benefit of an appeals court stay, it could open Sept. 8 as an all-white school and re main that way until the Su preme Court handed down its decision on a longer integra tion stay. Four of the six school board members said they personally favor Central's opening Sept. 8. But at least one indicated that he was open to argument at the Monday night meeting. "I would favor the eighth," school board member Henry V. Rath said. "I think that's the normal time. One week's delay is sufficient. I'd cer tainly prefer that we started on the eighth, rather than hold off to the 15th. "We extended the opening from the second to the eighth, and I don't think it's good for the children to keep them out another week. None of the members men tioned the integration issue as a factor in their feeling. They pointed out that they have already delayed he open ing from Sept. 2 to Sept. 8 and are stuck for an extra week's salaries for teachers. Faubus Has Bill Gov. Orval E. Faubus has a bill, passed in special ses sion by the legislature, that gives him the power to delay Central's opening until Sept. 15. All he needs to do is sign it. Another of the bills the leg islature has passed for Faubus aiiows nun to close central with a stroke of his pen if the federal government in tegrates it forcibly. He thinks that a law passesd in 1875 will allow it to be re opened immediately as a priv ate school from which Neg roes are excluded, with the state paying the tuition of white students. Berlin-flJPD-The Communist East Germans government de clared in a note to the Soviet Union yesterday that western bases in West Germany will be attacked with atomic weap ons if war breaks out in the Middle East. - LABOR DAY The Mail Tribune will not publish Monday, Sept. 1, in observance of Labor Day. the nine showings of the play. jvieicudiu ui veiuue una been seen by 7,300 patrons, with "King Lear" drawing 5,848 and "Troilus" attracting 3,688. Special closing night cere monies wil lfollow the stag ing of "The Merchant" Sept. 4, which will be the last play staged on the present theater stage. Soon after closing night, construction of a new theater, planned for use in 1959, will start. Festival officials said tick ets still are available for all remaining performances and. may be obtained at Mann's i i t t t : or by telephoning MUrdock 9-5111 In Ashland.