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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1958
No. 138
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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.