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Newspaper Page TextPrice 10 Cents Subscribers Recommended A feature on the foster home prof ram of the Jackson County Welfare commission appears on page 12 of today'f Mall Tribune. 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 msa. Sunday. 1 If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. MEDFORD 1IBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire) United Press full Leased Wire 68 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1958 No. 149 53rd Year est SoDnoels OpoDHflimg leers Rere Tomorrow , The Medford public schools, with the exception of Med ford High and Hoover ele mentary schools, will open to morrow morning for the 1958 59 year. Medford Hieh and Hoover schools will open a week from tomorrow, Sept. 22. Wilson school will not open until mid October, school officials said. But students living in the school area will attend Roose velt school during the after noon portion of a double-shift at Roosevelt. Provisions will be made by teachers at Medford High and Hoover schools to telescope the program slightly to cover all fundamental aspects of the studv courses, officials said. Vacation periods and the spring school ending will be the same for all schools. Temporary Shift Roosevelt school will oper ate its temporary shift pro gram from 8:30 a.m. until noon each day, officials said. Students at Roosevelt will be registered starting at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, and will be dismis sed for the day after comple tion of registration. Wilson school students will be transported by school bus to Roosevelt, and will arrive by 12:30 pjn. tomorrow. The Wilson school program will extend from 12:30 pjn. until . 4 pjn., at which time students will be transported home. On opening day, Wilson students will be transported to Roose velt school, and will be re- Five Injured In Accidenis This Weekend Five persons were injured in a series of accidents this weekend, it was reported. Mrs. Harold Edmonds, 30, of route 4, box 368P, Med ford, was taken to Rogue Val ley hospital by Medford Am bulance Service with an arm injury following an accident at the corner of Sunset drive and Thomas rd. at 4:35 pjn. Friday. Allan Zell, 63, of Grants Pass, was rounding a curve on the wrong side of the road when his car and that driven by Mrs. Edmonds collided, state police said.- Zell was cited for failure to operate on the right side of the highway. Three persons received min or injuries in a three-vehicle accident at the intersection of Eighth and Front sts. about 7:15 pan. Friday, city police reported. Taken to Sacred Heart hos pital by Medford Ambulance Service were Mrs. Alice Jane Slade, 246 South Ivy st., and Zelma Waldon Whaley, 120 First St., Phoenix. All re ceived minor injuries, city po lice said. A car driven by Harold Clif ford Boat,, of Williams, Ore., failed to stop at a traffic sig nal at Eighth and Front sts., city police said. It struck a Jeep station wagon driven by Elmer Wesley Settell, 131 North Bartlett st., causing it to roll over into a parked car owned by Phillip Brown Dod ridge, 796 Forrest st., Ashland, officers said. Zelma Whaley was riding in the Boat car and the Slades in the station, city police said. Another accident occurred at 1:30 p.m. Saturday on the Table Rock rd. near the labor camp when a car driven by David Berrow, Grants Pass, struck in the rear a car driven by Clark Barker, 17, of Med ford. Barker had stopped on the highway when hit. Barker was cited for failure to give a proper signal and Berrow was cited for violation of the basic rule.. Mrs. David Berrow received an arm injury and was taken to the Josephme county hos pital in Grants Pass. MUetnra Cape Canaveral-JIPD - A 100-ton inter - continental Alias thundered up early today in another 3000-mile test that was expected to be followed by an attempt at an ocean-spanning. 6200 mile flight within the next few weeks. turned after completing reg istration. Other elementary schools Will start at 9 a.m. tomorrow with doors opening at 8:30 a.m. Children and parents will be directed to registration rooms, and after registration and securing of .books, stud ents at Jackson, Jefferson, Lincoln and Washington schools will be dismissed un til 1 p.m. At 1 pjn. students will be placed in homerooms and arrangements made for a regular full day , of , school Tuesday. Sack Lunches The cafeteria will not op erate at elementary schools tomorrow, but school officials said children transported to school by bus may bring sack lunches. Milk will be avail able at the schools. Working parents with difficulty in car ing for children between reg istration and 1 p.m. may also send children with sack lunch es. , Cafeterias at Oak Grove and West Side schools will operate tomorrow in serving hot lunches. Smaller enroll ments at these school preclude the necessity of an adjustment period from initial registra tion to 1 p.m., school officials noted. These elementary schools will be dismissed between 2 and 2:30 p.m. . Junior High Junior high schools will start at 8:30 a.m. each day and will close at 3:20 p.m. when the 45-minute activity period starts. Hedrick students will spend VA hours in their first class period, the first half of which is a homeroom period for orientation, guidance, a n.d general announcements. The homeroom period at McLough- lin Junior High is scheduled either before or after the noon lunch, period, depending on the. grade level. . Two additional one-hour periods complete the morning session, followed by three class periods in the afternoon after noon recess. Except in laboratory-type classes, the last half of each regular class period will be devoted to sup ervised study under the teach ers direction. Library Schedule Entire classes will e per iodically scheduled for the li brary and students will have access to libary facilities dur ing out of class hours, officials said. The activitiy period will enable interested students to take additional instruction in classes not individually sched uled during the regular six period day. Such activities will include band, orchestra, vocal music, intramural ath lethic's, woodshop, homemak- ing, conversational Spanish, and others. Both Hedrick and McLough lin Junior High schools will have a full day's program the first day. Cafeterias at' both schools will be in operation the first day serving hot lunches. Students bringing sack lunches may secure milk at the cafeterias. (See stories oa page 2) HIGHEST SCORE-Mrs. H. A. Stanley, 35 Crater Lake ave., Medford, got the most correct answers in the picture quiz series which ran last week in connection with Mail Tribune Bargain Days. She is shown above getting her free one year's subscription from carrier Donald Huntemann. Mrs. Stanley, whose four sets of grandparents were pioneers of this area in the early 1850's, has lived here all her life. She said she worked the puzzles without doing any research, each one taking her about five minutes. The last day -that subscribers may take advantage of Bargain Day prices is Monday, Sept. 15, and all remittances sent in by mail must be postmarked no later than midnight Monday. The Mail Tribune circula tion office will remain open until 10 pjn. that day. CHECK GOAL-Dr. Frank Wilson, chair man of the United Medford Crusades' pro fessional division, pointst o two of the 26 agencies which benefit by the Crusade at a recent meeting of section workers m the professional division. Left to right are Wil liam Seibert, Dr. Wilson. Dick Travis. Dr. Appeal Director To Be Speaker At UMC Kick-Off G. Roderic Durham, execu tive director of the Oregon United Appeal, will speak at the United Medford Crusade "kick-off dinner at the Med ford Young Man's Christian association at 6:30 p.m. Mon day, Sept. 15. The dinner is the official start of the campaign to raise $131,030 to distribute among 26 agencies which .are mem bers of the UMC. About 250 people are expected to attend the dinner, including volun teer solicitors, members of various UMC committees and member - agency representa tives. . Tom G. Polk, president of the UMC, will conduct. the meeting.. The ; Rev. Thomas McCamant will give the in vocation, and included in the program will be a short talk by Dick Travis, campaign chairman; and one by Ken Cook, on volunteer duties. An explanation of the plaque award program will be given by Robert A. Johnson, chair man of the campaign last year. " Campaign supplies will be issued workers following the benediction by Capt. William Ricken of the Salvation Army. School Boundary Meeting Is Set A school boundary board meeting will be held at 10:30 a.m., Sept. 22, in the county court office to consider a pro posed transfer of .a piece of land from the Phoenix school district to the Medford school district, according to Alf. B. Mekvpld, county school sup erintendent. The land, having an as sessed valuation of $53,220, is adjacent to the Hoover school site in Medford and. extends along" both sides of 'Modoc ave. between Crestbrook rd. and Windsor ave. The shift is proposed in pe titions signed by 15 residents of Phoenix school district and 12 residents of the Medford school district, Mekvold said. Truckers Are Voting On Contract Offer Teamsters local 962 has called a special meeting for 10 a.m. today at the Med ford Labor Temple. The meeting is understood to concern "possible settle ment" of the trucking tie up. A similar meeting has reportedly been called for 1 p.m. at the Grants Pass Labor Temple. Separate meetings for teamsters and individual trucking employers will be held in Portland Monday to vote on the agreement reach ed in San Francisco Friday Safety Council Reaffirms Stand On Clark St. The Medford Safety Coun cil reaffirmed Friday its rec ommendation that the Clark st. railroad crossing be closed as part of an overall program to improve the city's crossings. This action followed a re port by Dr. William J. Thomp son, chairman of the traffic committee, on the city plan ning commission meeting last Monday night at which he presented the recommenda tion. Spokesmen of the more than 200 signers of a petition op posing the Clark st. closure took issue before the commis sion both with Thompson and with Dr. Mary , Jane. Fowlerr who supported him on behalf of the Medford Medical so ciety. The commission, after hear ing both sides, decided to continue its study of the mat ter, i ' City Attorney E. Roy Bash aw reported Friday: that he has prepared an opinion stat ing that the crossing has be come a city street through public use. One argument pre sented by Drs. Thompson and Fowler was that it had never been officially dedicated. Both sides apparently agree that the present crossing is inadequate. The petitioners ask that it be improved. The spokesmen for safety contend that funds for such improve ment could be put to better use on crossings which have a heavier flow of traffic. U. 5. Asks Soviets For Plane Crash Facts Moscow (UPD American authorities demanded yester day that Russia disclose the fate of 11 men missing from the unarmed U. S. Air Force transport forced down Sept. 2 in Soviet Armenia. . WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy today and Monday; High today 75, low tonight 52, high Mon day 75-78. TEMP. Highest Saturday 70 Lowest Saturday morning .... 55 PRECIP. To 10 p.m. Saturday .03 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . C:24 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:51 a.m. The Moon sets 7:06 p.m. todav and is in Perigee. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, sets 7:32 p.m. Saturn, low in south west 9:05 p.m. Mars, hirh in southeast 2:54 a.m. Venus, rises 4:56 a.m. Mercury, near Venus. John Weisel and Chuck Dorrell. Travis is campaign chairman. Goal for the profes sional division is $10,250 of the total goal of $131,030. The kick-off dinner for the cam paign will be held in the Medford YMCA starting at 6:30 pjn. Monday. in efforts to end a paralyzig strike-lockout that has tied up trucking in the 11 western states. Details of the proposed set tlement were not immediately made available by negotiating teams at the San Francisco meeting. A 10 a.m. meeting is plan ned for members of the Truck Operators' League of Oregon to consider the proposal. Lo cal No. 81 of the teamsters will hold a meeting at 3 p.m. to accept or reject the agree ment. City pickup and delivery drivers will get a chance to vote on the contract proposal at 7 p.m. Monday night. California Voting Employers and union mem bers in Caalifornia began vot ing yesterday on the agree ment to end the 34-day-old strike lockout. Negotiators announced they would recommend that the settlement reached Friday be accepted by the 1,200 truck ing firms and 30,000 Teamster members involved.. Approval would send approximately 20,000 striking and locked-out employees back to work Wed nesday night. But there was a hint that the settlement might hit a new snag: Snag Officials of the San Joa quin Central Valley Calif. Joint , Council of Teamsters, which touched off the lockout by calling a strike for wage parity, was reported to have given only a slim majority vote in favor of Friday's set tlement. Sen. Lowry Says Geddes Right Man For U.S. Congress State Senator Phil Lowry of Medford, speaking at the Jackson County Republican Central committee's campaign kick-off last . week, " stressed the need' of electing a ' con gressman who will devote his time to representing Oregon's fourth district. Lowry said he thought Paul Geddes, Roseburg Republican candidate for congress, "is just the man." Lowry said Geddes "will pay attention to de tail, he is intelligent, and he will work hard to see that the people of his district are getting the representation they expect to have in Wash ington." The Medford attorney said he has known Geddes since he was eight years old. The two first met when Lowry climbed a mountain where Geddes was stationed as a lookout for the forest service. Lowry said the people of the district have a right to have something to protect their interests. He pointed out the necessity of having some one in Washington who could effectively deal with the many government agencies since 50 per cent of the land in the area is owned by the federal government. Don Stathos, central com mittee chairman, gave final instructions for the GOP "neighbor to neighbor" cam paign which starts today. Brief talks were given by each of the Republican candi dates who attended. IFoirinnisea Peoee Police Will Not Aid Integration, Little Rock Says Little Rock, Ark. -(UPD The Little Rock city council told the government last night it will have to integrate Cen tral High school by itself, if and when it is integrated. City police won't help. - "If and when Central High school is integrated, the re sponsibility is clearly that of the federal government," a statement from the council signed by Mayor Warner C. Knoop said. "The municipal government of Little Rock will not assist in integrating this school. However, we will protect life and property in the city." Gov. Orval Faubus was in a hideaway near Little Rock perfecting his strategy for next week. His order closing Central and three other high schools takes effect at 8 a.m. Monday, 30 minutes before they would have opened. "A man does some of his best thinking while resting," Faubus said. The federal gov ernment is almost certain to take action next week against him. He said he closed the school to save them from violence, but in any case, his action had the practical effect of thwarting the Supreme Court order to integrate immediate ly. What action did Faugus ex pect the government to take? "It's hard to tell what they will come, up with, but I hear they've been burning a lot of midnight oil lately," he said. "I don't think there is any law under which the : gov ernment can prevent me from closing the schools,' 'he added. Record Numbers Attend City Pool A record total of 42,242 toddlers, paddlers, splashers and swimmers attended the Hawthorne park municipal pool this summer, City Re corder Darrel Huson reported Friday. . The previous attendance record was 36,506, set in 1950 the pool's first year, Huson said. He explained that un usually warm weather was the major factor in this year's increase. Last year's total was 33,381, he said. Those attending this year included 21,151 under 12, 18,887 between 12 and 18 and 2,204 adults, Huson reported. He listed the average daily figures by month as June, 428; July, 552; August, 436; and September, 191. A record of 984 was set June 16. Total revenue from admis sions was reported as $9, 833.55. Huson said the total enrollment for the two sets of two - week swimming courses was 470, slightly less than last year. j Paris -dJPD-Premier Charles ue tiauiie ana west uerman unanceiior iionraa Adenauer were expected to hold a pri vate "little summit" confer ence today. Library Adult Depts. To Resume Operation worn on xne aauit depart ments of the Medford public library is proceeding on schedule, but the re-opening of the junior department has been postponed, possibly un til Oct. 1, according to Li brarian Helen Webster. The adult departments of the library will resume their regular schedule of operation tomorrow. Opening hours will be from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday, as usual. . More extensive work than originally planned has forced the postponement of the re opening of the junior depart ment, Miss Webster said. The maintenance of the library's lower floor is complicated by the nearness of an under ground stream flowing under the building, she explained. n U(S1 We're Ladty, Br"ak . Red Tactics Called 'Reckless Bv HARRY S. TRUMAN North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. Copyright, 1958, by Harry S. Truman (Reproduction of this article in whole or in part is for bidden without written au thorization). I do not thing there will be a .war in the Pacific unless A ,TTai ...w Red China launches it and XI : i TT-:.n .W. it Tt tht Soviet Union abets it. It is just that plain. The probing nists over Quemoy and Matsu are part of a reckless cam paign to determine whether they can get full support from the Kremlin and whether we will stand up to their use of force to take over Quemoy, Matsu and Formosa. The only role of our mili tary forces in the Formosan Straits is to prevent any mad adventure which could set off a third world war. These forces are no threat to the Chinese people or any other people. We have no territorial ambitions there or elsewhere. Until such a time as there is absolute assurance that the communists have abandoned their aim of territorial ex pansion, I cannot see that we have any other choice but to meet them and thwart them at every point where, it is necessary. It would be folly and dan gerous for us to abandon For mosa to the communists as long as they are aggression minded. For that reason, it is vital to protect Formosa as an important bastion - one of a number of such strategic bases the free world depends upon to safeguard the peace. Formosa could be the launch ing point for communist as saults on the Philippines, Korea and Japan. I think that part of the Red I A buiun, aw-. - - Chinese probing tactics is to engage in taiKS wnn us, ana would not discourage any talks they wish to have. But we have had considerable ex perience with the kind of Until the children's room can be opened, junior readers may return their books to the adult department of the li brary where they will find a limited selection of children's books, Miss Webster said. These will be available at the adult circulation desk. Chil dren's books may be borrow ed also from branch libraries in Butte Falls, Central Point, Eagle Point, Gold Hill, Jack sonville, Phoenix and Talent, besides from the well-supplied school libraries through out the city and the county, the librarian said. Damaged glass has been re placed along with the replast ering and painting work. Miss Webster said. Some electrical installations were made and the telephone system has been modernized for better public service. DOT) Campaign' talks Red Chinese conduct. We have only to recall the in terminable talks over Korea, which resulted in no final so lution, and the nrotracted ambassadorial negotiations in Geneva over release of Ameri can prisoners, again with no results. We should therefore not ex I L LUl? JllUCU W..A talks, yet we must never lose . j . J j 1 pect too much from further our patience. At the same time, we should never drop our guard against the possi- bilitv of sudden maneuvers involving direct or indirect aggression 'such as took place in the Middle East and has now been shifted to the Far East. (Continued on page 5) Another Convoy Reaches Quemoy TaiDei. "Formosa - (DPD -A Nationalist convoy with Am erican naval escort put food and other supplies ashore yes terday in two landings under heavy Communist artillery fire. However, the pinpoint harraee drove the National ists off Quemoy island before all supplies could be unload ed. An American military snokesman said one National ist LSM was hit by a Com munist shell, and caugnt fire. But the fire was ex tinguished and the ship with drew to safety. The sDokesman said the convoy tried to land supplies in the morning and then re turned shortly before dusK and unloaded "considerably more supplies than before," tViA snokesman said. . The convoy registered the Nationalists' third failure in four tries to unload heavy quantities of supplies on the beseiged island and it brought bitter criticism of American convoy methods. The U. S. Ambassador was summoned to urgent secret talks at the foreign ministry; Two Hew Workers For Welfare Cases ' The Jackson county public welfare commission has hired two new caseworkers, ac cording to James Pullman, administrator. Mrs. Karen Pierson, a 1957 graduate of George Fox col lege at Newburg, Ore., started work, last week. She is orig inally from Salem. She, her husband and nine - months old daughter recently moved into this area. Her husband is a student at Southern Oregon college. Fred Stock, recently re turned from two years' serv ice in the Army, will start work as a caseworker for the commission Monday, Pullman said. He is a graduate of Lew is and ' Clark college and a former resident of Portland. "Mk U.S., Red China Agree to Meet Within Few Days Ike Dispatches Stern Note fo Khrushchev Washington -(DPD- The State Department disclosed yester day the United States and Red China have agreed to be gin peace talks on the For mosa crisis in Warsaw, Po land, within the next few days. The development coincided with a stern note from Presi dent Eisenhower to - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev calling on him to persuade Red Chinese leaders to end their artillery attacks on the Chinese Nationalist-controlled Quemoy and Matsu islands just off the China coast. The United States has been pressing for the talks in hope of averting war. The Presi dent warned the Peiping gov ernment earlier this week that attempts to conquer the is lands, gateway to American defenses in the Western Pa cific, would be resisted. He urged the Reds to substitute the conference table for guns. The Warshaw negotiators will be U. S. Ambassador Jac ob D. Beam and Red Chinese envoy Wank Ping-Man. Concessions Hinted Both Eisenhower and Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles have hinted the United States may be prepared to make some concessions to Peiping if it will renounce use the force In Formosa strait. But exactly what they might offer has not been spelled out. , ' - George Yeh, new ambassa dor of the Chiang Kai-Shek Ntaionalist government, visit ed Dulles at his home yester day morning, presumably to discuss the impending peace negotiations. Yeh said Friday his government could not ac cept any settlement that im periled its control of the Quemoy, Matsu and Pesca dore islands, advance bases for Nationalist Formosa. Next Few Days The State Department said it expects the talks to begin in the next few days. Press officer Francis W. Tully Jr., said arrangements for the meeting should take place within that period. No precise time has been set. Wang returned to Warsaw Friday after consulting with his government in Peiping. He also is believed to have con ferred with Soviet officials in Moscow. Informants said the Red Chinese and American diplo mats had been in contact since Wang's return, making pre liminary arrangements for the negotiations. City Jail Death Cause Revealed William Russell Blaine, 39, of Camp White, died in Med ford city jail Aug. 1 of as phyxication after he had vom ited, according to a report from the state crime labora tory. A spokesman for Dr. Robert Buck, Medford pathologist, said an examination of Blaine's stomach contents showed he was under the in fluence of barbiturates, with levels of a morphine deriva tive, and alcohol. "He threw up and inhaled what he vomited," the spokes man said. Blaine was reported to have died in the city jail at 2:25 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1. He had been arrested two hours earlier on charges of being drunk in public. A transient in the jail at the time saw Blaine collapse and summoned police offic ers. Newport, R.I.-flJPD-President Eisenhower yesterday spent the second no-work day of his work-and-play vacation fish ing for trout on a secluded lake about 20 miles from his vacation residence at the southeastern end of Narragan ett bay.