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Rffl n n mum Hinted K (EomittBirDDJi CRUSADE SPEAKER G. Roderick Dur- United Medford Crusade in the YMCA here ham, Salem, of the United Oregon Appeal, last night. To Durham's left is Tom Polk, discusses "The Three Bogeymen of Fund president of the UMC. Raising" at the "kick off" dinner of the 23,096 Acres of Land Withdrawn Along Rogue River The Interior Department has announced withdrawal of 23,096 acres of public lands in Jackson and Curry coun ties for protection of scenic and recreation areas near the Rogue river and its tribu taries. Withdrawal of the . lands will make possible planning for present and future recrea tional needs. Lease. Sal Permitted The withdrawal terms per mit the lease or sale of re sources under the Materials Act on all the lands. Leasing under the Small Tract Act and leases or sales under the Recreation and Public Pur poses Act will be allowed on 13,897 acres and mining will be permitted on 2343 acres. Some of the lands are with in the Siskiyou National Forest,- some in the public do main and others are O & C lands. Half-Mile Wide Strip The withdrawal was re quested in 1955 by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service. Hearings on the proposal were held in Grants Pass in 1956. The land involved is a strip approximately Ji mile wide on each side of the Rogue river from above McLeod to A g n e s s. Approximately an eight mile area along the river from Grave creek, be low Galice, which is a mineral belt, will also be subject to mining laws. Dionne Quintuplet Gives Birth to Son Montreal -OJPD- Cecile Di onne Langlois, one of the four surviving Dionne quin tuplets, gave birth to a seven pound, five-ounce son Monday night at St. Justine Hospital, it was learned today. Oregon Air Guard Officers on Alert Portland -(UPD- Ten officers of the Oregon Air National Guard's 123rd fighter-interceptor squadron are sched uled to go on active duty Oct. 1 to help provide "alert" assistance to the Air Force. (Bulletin Point Mugu, Calif. -41PD-The Department of Defense today announced the launch ing of the first Regulus II controlled missile from the deck of the submarine Grayback in the Pacific. Tempermental Vanguard Fails To Get Off Ground Cape Canaveral, Fla. -fUPD-The Navy counted to zero on its temperamental Vanguard today and flames spurted from the rocket for a few sec onds. But it never left the ground and minutes later the launching was called off. Vanguard Not Damaged The new Vanguard, bearing a 20-inch artificial satellite that could revolutionize wea ther forecasting if it could get into orbit, did not appear to be damaged. There was no explanation of what caused the fizzle, the first time the Vanguard has failed to get off the ground since the spectacular blow-up of the first rocket last Dec. 6. Jn six tries the Vanguard ini! lull wh'Ac yMT f t VI Crusade Campaign Starts With Dinner The United Medford Cru sade for 1958-59 got under way at a "kick off" dinner held at the Young Men's Christian association last night. G. Roderick Durham, Salem of the Oregon Appeal, was the speaker. He discussed "The Three Bogeymen of Fund Raising." A "Bogeyman" Dur ham explained, "is an object of supernatural sphere that spreads fear, pessimism, dis trust and confusion." Using a mockup of characters to rep resent the various types of campaign bogeymen, Durham New Turbojet To Visit Medford The new F-27 "Friendship," a turbojet 40-passenger air craft, will serve Medford on two flights each way starting Sept. 28, it was announced today by West Coast airlines, which has purchased a num ber of the planes. First visit to Medford by one of the craft will be at 6:27 p.m. today, in the first of a series of "proving runs" be ing made prior to the start of regularly scheduled ser vice. The flights will carry West Coast and civil aeronau tics administration personnel. The plane, manufactured in this country under a Dutch Fokker license, has two jet engines which also operate turbines which in turn power propellors. The planes are pressurized and air condition ed. Ed LeShane, West Coast sta tion manager here, said there will be a number of proving runs in the two weeks prior to the start of regular ser vice. Probably the only thing which would prevent the start of service as scheduled is a dispute between the company and the Airline Pilots associ ation regarding a contract for pilots flying the new planes. The dispute is now under ne gotiation. Three Traffic Lights Turned on in Medford Three Medford traffic lights have been turned on with the reopening of school. Those East Main st., at Lindley ave. and Keene Way dr., have returned to full cycle and flashing yellow serv ice respectively. They were turned off during the summer. The light on West Jackson st. at Summit ave., a flasher during the summer, is now back in full-cycle operation. has placed only one satellite in orbit. The Navy has plans for five more Vanguards in the International Geophys ical Year program, but in formed sources said congres sional pressure is mounting to kill the project. $100 Million Spent The Vanguard project was allocated $110 million and an estimated $100 million al ready have been spent. Apparently the only irreg ularity in the launching ef fort was the failure of the liquid oxygen vent near the top of the gaunt, dark rocket to "close. Liquid oxygen was still streaming out when the flames and smoke spewed from the rocket's base. discussed "three top notch ers." Pessimism, whose attitude is "its a good idea but it won't work" was the first character Durham talked about. "This fellow carries a wet blanket with him to douse any kindle of enthusiasm," he said. Parsimony was the next character. "He makes a big thing out of very little," Dur ham said. "He doesn't know about the joy of giving and doesn't want to learn." The last character discussed was Procrastination. He was described as pessimisms help er who is "generally pleasant and willing as long as itN isn't now." Durham finished by en couraging the workers to "strike while the iron is hot." Invocation was given by the Rev. Thomas McCamant, pastor of the Congregational church. Tom G. Polk, UMC president, made introductions and presided. Dick Travis, campaign chairman, discussed "Why am I a Volunteer." Bob Johnson, last year's chairman, discussed the plaque award system as "a key to success." Ken W. Cook, assistant cam paign chairman discussed the role of the volunteer; and was followed by a slide series on the community agencies by Bob Balk. All the partici pating agencies were repre sented and other campaign workers were on hand. The crowd was estimated at 225. Goal for this year's cam paign is $131,030. Report meetings will be held at the YMCA each Monday to eval uate the progress of the campaign. Sheriff's Office Geis 223 Complaints The Jackson County sheriff's office received a total of 223 complaints, and issued 28 war rants, during August, deputies have reported. It was the sec ond highest number of com plaints received in a single month since records have been compiled, they said. The complaints resulted in 91 arrests. There were 56 fel ony c o m p 1 a i nts which in cluded 23 for larceny, 12 for burglary, and 12 dealing with checks. Misdemeanor comp 1 a i n t s totaled 34 and 105 miscellan eous complaints were re ceived. These included such items as missing persons, run aways, dog bites, livestock and found property. "Any Questions?" gTI - 53rd Year Medford 14 Pages Utile Sept. 27 Set for School Integration Ballot by People School Board's Action Said Cruel Little Rock, Ark.-(DPD- Gov. Orval E. Faubus today signed a proclamation moving up to Sept. 27 a special election in which the voters of Little Rock will decide whether or not they want their four high schools reopened on an integ rated basis. He originally had ordered the election for Oct. 7. He said he was moving up the date for two reasons: "we need to get it' over with as soon as possible and get the kids back in school," and if he waits until after Oct. 1, itwill take an aditional 30 days to prepare new voters' lists. "If1 they vote against inte gration, how will they get the kids back in school?" a report er inquired. "That is something I will have to reveal at a later date" Faubus said. He said he realizes a lot of internal pressure is building up and charged that the School Board's action in can celling extra-ciricular activ ities, such as football, while the schools are closed by his order, was a "cruel and need less action on their, part." . Faubus said the School board originally postponed the - opening of the high schools for two weeks-Sept. 2 to Sept. 15- to await the Supreme Court's decision on the integration question. He said he also was post poning the opening for two weeks, and emphasized "post poning." The Justice Department failed to make any move to day to break the impasse. A U. S. district judge said the prospects for immediate inte gration are so dim that he is leaving Little Rock. Wood Promotion To Be Reviewed Here Lumbermen of southern Oregon and northern Cali fornia have been invited to attend a meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's associa tion here next Monday at which the million-dollar na tional wood promotion pro gram will be reviwed. The meeting will be held in the Jackson hotel at 7 p.m. The dinner will be preceded by a social hour at 6 o'clock. H. V. Simpson, executive vice president of WCLA, will be In charge of the program and will explain how the WCLA and national advertis ing plans dovetail to give maximum value to the mill subscribers. Also on the program will be proposed grading rule changes in some West Coast species to conform to FHA requirements and insure bet ter acceptance of West Coast lumber in the nation's home building program. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Kock COMMUTER TRAIN DISASTER-General view shows the drawbridge at Bayonne, N.J., where two locomotives and three passenger coaches of a New Jersey commuter train ran through an open drawbridge and plunged into the wa Head Car ol New Jersey Train Raised From Bay Bayonne, N.J. OJPD An autopsy report indicated to day that the engineer who plunged a New Jersey Cen tral train off an open draw bridge Monday might have suffered a heart attack. Bayonne, N. J. -(UPD- The head car of the Jersey Central Railroad train - that plunged through an open drawbridge Monday was raised from the bottom of Newark Bay today, bearing on its badly smashed roof the body of a man. He was the twenty - first victim recovered from the waters and coaches beneath the drawbridge. An undeter mined number of passengers and train crew still were miss ing. . Third Car Still Submerged No dead were visible inside the car as it was swung up by a huge floating crane and held above the bay while mucky water drained from it. The car had been a "dead head" and was believed to have carried only three per sons, two of whom escaped. Still to be raised was the third car which plunged off the bridge. It had hung half in and half out of the water long enough for many of its occupants to climb to safety, but a number of its Monday morning passengers were be lieved entombed in it. Thirteen bodies were found in the center car when it was raised early today. The medical examiner meanwhile scheduled an au topsy on the body of Engin eer Lloyd F. Wilburn, 63, to determine whether he may have had a heart attack at the throttle. , Currents Strong Determination of the exact death toll might take days, officials said, because the strong tidal currents in the area may have washed bodies out through the smashed win dows. t Federal and state inquires attempted to determine why the train rolled apparently un hesitatingly through two war ning lights and a final red light into its watery tomb. Be cause of the manner in which the train ran non-stop off the bridge, investigators were in clined to spotlight the heart attack theory as a possible cause. .Vote odies Taken? From tetter Requests Money Be Letters have been mailed to three members of the coun ty budget committee request ing that a total of $410 in ex pense money paid them be re turned to the county, District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder said today. No deadline was set. The letters were mailed yesterday to budget commit tee members M. T. Wray, Medford, Roger F. Rath,! Ash- Trailways Service Cut Is Approved Salem (UPD - Public Utility Commissioner Howard Mor gan said today he had approv ed elimination of service by Continental Pacific Trailways to cities on Highway 99 East and to five cities in southern Oregon. Morgan originally had re jected the application to limit service to non-stop over the Baldock Freeway and to the main highway, 'U.S. 99 in southern Oregon. Under the order, the lines service will be abandoned to Oregon City, Aurora, Wood burn and other points. Also eliminated will be off-route service at Creswell, Goshen, Cottage Grove, Curtin and Gold Hill. Roseburg wijl re ceive "off-route" service. Western Greyhound Lines had protested the cut in service. Sema Man Sentenced To Penitentiary Term R. W. Akers Jr., Selma, was sentenced today to a year in the state penitentiary by Cir cuit Court Judge Herbert K. Hanna. He had pleaded guilty on July 9 to charges of uttering and publishing a false check and a pre-sentence report had been ordered. Dr. Charles Malik Elected UN President United Nations, N.Y. -UPD-Dr. Charles Habib Malik, American - backed lame duck foreign minister of Lebanon, was elected president of the U.N. General Assembly's 13th annual regular session today. Salem - (UPD - The State Board of Control has voted to have a bill drafted asking the 1 9 5 9 Legislature for money to remodel the steam distribution and electrical systems serving buildings in the Capitol Mall. Price Tribune 16, 1958 -ovecfl Op ter of Newark bay. Note near side of the drawbridge, raised up above the tracks. One of the coaches can be seen (arrow, center) still hanging from the open end of the bridge. Returned land, and Arnold J. Bohnert, Central Point. In his letters, Reeder quot ed a recent attorney general's opinion on the legality of paying $10 a day expense money to the budget commit tee, a practice which has since been discontinued. The opinion stated that,, according to state law, it is the district attorney's duty . to recover any money improperly paid by county officials. . Made Investigation ' . "I have made an investiga tion as to these payments-, and find that the first such pay ments made by the county court were paid from the emergency fund to each of you in the sum of $60 on June 30, 1956," Reeder wrote. "My investigation reveals further that Mr. Wray and Mr. Bohn ert were each paid the sum of $80 in January, 1958, to cover eight days of meetings by the budget committee while considering the 1957-58 budget. The sum of $70 was paid at the same time to Mr. Rath and covered seven days of budget committee meet ings. These moneys, too, weVe paid from the emergency fund." "It is very clear to me that neither you nor the members of the county court had any intention of violating the law in any way," Reeder stated. "The error made was by the county court and their mis understanding of the law." "In the future, I trust that the county court shall clear the legality of such matters with my office before taking any such action. In that way the rights, of all parties in volved, including the citizens of this county, will be fully protected," the district attor ney concluded. . Commissioners Tour Road Projects County Commissioners Ches ter Wendt and Ralph James accompanied County Engineer Paul Rynning on an inspec tion tour of roads ad bridges Monday afternoon. The group checked the raising of the bridge on Wheeler rd., the drainage problem at Phefly and Wheel er places and examined the work the county crews did on the Snider creek bridge on Table Rock rd. Drainage problems at the Sams Valley orchard on both sides of the road also were examine. 1 0 Cents No. 151 Wreek Formosa Strait Peace Proposals Being Considered Warsaw (UPD The United States and Communist China today considered each other's "substantive" proposals for peace in the Formosa strait. U. S. Ambassador Jacob Beam and Red Chinese Am bassador Wang Pihg-nan met Monday for nearly th r e e hours to trade terms for si lencing guns on the Commun ist mainland and on Nationalist-held Quemoy. To Meet Thursday Although it was their first meeting, the two ambassadors got down to business immed iately and made "substantive" proposals, a highly placed western source said. They also agreed to meet again Thursday in Myslewicki palace, a hunting lodge in the center of a Warsaw park that the Polish government made available. Their task was not to ach ieve a final solution to the problem of the two Chinas but to spike the guns which threatened to set the entire Far East ablaze. Both ambassadors apparent ly were waiting word from their respective governments on the next move. WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy with showeri tonight and Wednesday morning. Partly cloudy with showeri mostly in the mountains Wednes day afternoon. Low tonight 53. High tomorrow near 70. Temp. Highest Yesterday 84 Lowest this Morning 48 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:20 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:53 a.m. Moonset tonight 8:27 p.m. First Quarter Sept. 19 PROMINENT STAR Antares, low in southwest 8:19 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, sets 7:26 p.m. Saturn, low in southwest 8:57 p.m. Mars, rise 9:34 p.m. Venus, rises 5:00 a.m. Algerian Extremists Bomb French Paris -(UPD Algerian tremists bombed an army camp outside of Marseille to day and the French govern ment came under mounting pressure to outlaw the Com munist party. A civilian worker was killed and five other persons three soldiers and two civilians-were injured when the bomb went off near a parade United States Asked To Help With Bombings Sea Convoys Said Having Little Effect Taipeh, Formosa -(UPD- Pre mier Chen Cheng told the na tion today the war in the For mosa Strait will spread to the Chinese mainland if the Com munist blockade of the Que moy Islands is not broken soon. "We have absolutely no in tention of idly sitting by and letting the more than 100,000 civilians and military person nel of Quemoy and its adjac ent islands be besieged with out taking effective methods for their reinforcement," Chen said. Would Extend War "I am firmly of the opinion that should the enemy persist in sealing off Quemoy com pletely, it would mean extend ing the war."' The National Assembly adopted a resolution Monday requesting the United States and Nationalist armed forces to "take immediate and effec tive measures of bombing the mainland coastal areas and thoroughly destroy the Com munist gun positions." The assembly said the U.S. Navy-escorted sea convoys at tempting to break the Quemoy blockade "had little effect" and that bombing of the Com munist guns is needed to "save the 150,000 (sic) civilians and soldiers on the islands from a helpless state." Just before Chen reported to the nation today Commu nist shore guns half-encircling the 14 besieged Quemoy Isl ands opened their 23rd day of bombardment since Aug. 23. Big Quemoy, Little Quemoy, Tatan and Erhtan were the principal targets. Forty minutes after the guns fell silent a lone C-46 of the Nationalist Air Force es caped from Big Quemoy with a load of 21 wounded Nation alist soldiers, some with legs' blown off, and the last three newsmen remaining on Que moy. The U.S. and Nationalist governments have barred newsmen from visiting the island complex. Work Progressing On Sewer Systems Work is progressing on two sanitary sewer systems in the city, according to Vernon Thorpe, public works direc tor. In the Kenwood-Grandview area the 24-inch line ha been laid from Cater Lake ave., along Biddle rd., to within 200 feet of Morrow rd., he reported. , The 12-inch line on Velia rd. and Johnson st. has been., completed except for an area near and along- Johnson st. Work has slowed in that area due to solid rock which will make it necessary to blast, Thorpe reported. Blasting is expected to start today. Paving will be completed today on Beatty st., the city engineer said, with the pav ing of Eastwood dr., expected to start either today or to morrow. These are two of four paving projects author ized by the city council this summer. Voter Registration Booths Are Planned Two non-partisan mobile voter registration booths will be operated in the Stewart ave. area this evening, accord ing to the Jackson County Democratic committee, the sponsors. One will be located at the Piggly-Wiggly store at Stew art ave. and King st., from 5 to 9 p.m., and the other at the Chevron station at Stew art ave. and Holly st., from 6 to 9 p.m., it was reported. A crew of volunteers will canvass homes in the area to 1 contact residents to suggest they register to vote if they have not already done so. The crew will work from 7 to 9 p.m., the committee spokes man said. Army Camp ground at the Montfouron camp. Interior Minister Emile Pel letier accused the Reds of aid ing the Algerian rebels. He hinted at new moves to out law the largest Communist party in Western Europe. Police carried out a new wave of arrests among Al gerian suspects on the second day of stepped up violence throughout France. .
