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Newspaper Page Text53rd Year Recommended Price 10 Cents Subscribers MEDFORD 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 1330 Jn. Sunday. , If regular delivery arrhres shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. RIBUNE A featurs story on coat launching sites along the Route river appears on pace 12 of today's Mall Tribune. United Press full uinI Wire United Press full Leased Wire 58 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1958 No. 155 11 f IFremni Little Rock, Ark.-UPD-An exodus of high school students to schools in other parts of Arkansas and even in other states was reported yester day. The movement of students out of Little Rock indicated that many parents were tired Highway Crash Kills Woman, Injures 4 Girls Mrs. Bessie Marjorie Smith, 37, of Klamath Falls, was killed and lour 17-year-old girls were injured when the car in which they were riding went off Highway 66 about 1V4 miles east of Tub Springs State park and struck a tree about 2:45 a.m. Saturday, ac cording to state police. In Ashland General hospi tal are Helen Kathryn Smith, Josephine Ann Krook, Judith Marie Frasier and Ethel Florez, all of Klamath Falls. The girls were reported in serious condition Saturday afternoon by hospital officials. Police said Miss Smith suffered arm injuries and a 'possible skull fracture; Miss Krook, possible internal in juries; Miss Frasier, leg and facial injuries; and Miss Florez, a fractured jaw. The car, operated by Mrs. Smith, was traveling east on Highway 66, police said, when apparently Miss Smith at tempted to turn on the car radio. She struck the head- ; light switch, and the car's lights went off. - By the time the headlights . were turned on again, police j said, it was too late to avoid striking the tree. Mrs. Smith and the girjs were returning to Klamath Falls from Medford where they attended the football game between St. Mary's of Medford and Sacred Heart of Klamath Falls. The fatality was the 10th In Jackson county so far this year. Last year at this time, 21 persons had been killed in traffic accidents in the county. Football Scores Northwest Willamette 41. Whitworth 6 Linfield 32, Oregon Col lege of Education 6 Lewis and Clark 12, Port- -land State 7 West Oregon 27, Idaho 0 Washington State 40, Stan ford 6 Pittsburgh 27. UCLA 8 College of Pacific 24, Cali fornia 20 Washington 14, San Jose 0 X7SC 21. Oregon State 0 East West Virginia 6, Rich mond 22. Boston College 48, Scran ton 0 Connecticut 41. Spring iield 14 Villanova 28. West Chester Teachers 14 Midwest - Texas Christian 42. Kans as 7 Nebraska 14. Penn State 7 Oklahoma State 13. Den ver 0 Vanderbilt 12, Missouri 8 Kansas States 17, Wyom ing 14 Iowa Slate 33. Drake 0 Marquette 18, South Da kota State 7 . Bowling Green 20, Wichita 14 Morningside 28, Omaha 9 Montana State 15, North Dakota 8 South mond 22 West Virginia 66. Rich mond 22 North Carolina State 21, North Carolina 14 Florida 34, Tulane 14 VMI 26, Moorehead State 20 Wake Forest 34, Maryland 0 Clemson 20, Virginia 15 Kentucky 13. Georgia Tech 10 Newberry 16, Citadel 0 South Carolina 8, Duke 0 Florida State 42, Furman 6 Virginia Tech 28. West Texas State 12 Southwest ' Bishop 42. Butler (Tex.) 88 Louisiana Slate 26. Rice 6 Texas 13, Georgia 8 Baylor 12, Arkansas 0 Texas Tech 15, Texas A&M 14 of waiting for the schools to reopen either as integrated or all-white institutions. Dissatisfaction with the closing of schools in Virginia also was indicated. Parents were trying to set up a plan which would enable their children to attend classes in private homes, lodge halls or churches. These parents did not claim the new makeshift system would end the integration controversy that has closed three schools in Charlottes ville and Front Royal. But they believed it would give some schooling to the 1,700 students who are now idle. T-V Classrooms Here in Little Rock, tele vision was being used as a stopgap school until classes are resumed in the city's four high schools. In Arkansas's o flier major integration controversy, 12 Negro students who quit Van Buren High school two weeks ago because of a white stu dents' anti-integration strike will start back again Monday. U. S. District Judge John E. Miller refused to grant the Negroes an injunction against the school board Friday, but he suggested that the school board see they are protected. Television lessons, which began yesterday, are on film and are a pilot program for six hours' a day of lessons that begin on Monday over three Little Rock commercial stations. The lessons yesterday in cluded: "Introduction to Bio logy;" "The Pilgrims;" "Bet ter Reading," and "A Trip to the Moon." They were scheduled for showing from 1 to 2 p.m. c.s.t., over a single station, KATV. Regular television in struction . will be both livev Lawyers1 Statement Urges Integration Little" Rock, Ark. - (UPD - Sixty-one lawyers signed statement yesterday saying that Gov. Orval E. Faubus' plan to reopen Little Rock's closed high school was not constitutional. They urged the people to vote for integrated schools in a special election next Saturday. The lawyers' statement was made public as Little Rock's High schools opened a classes- by-TV project and the segre gationist Central High Moth er's league circulated a peti tion for an election to recall four members of the school board. The lawyers, including some of the most prominent in Little Rock, made these points in their statement: 1. "It is our opinion that existing public school facil ities of the district cannot be legally operated with any public funds as segregated private schools and, conse quently, that the real issue be fore the voters of this district on September 27 will be whether we shall open our schools under the (Supreme) Court approved plan of lim ited integration or close them altogether. 2. "A 1 i m i t e d integrated school system pursuant to court orders is distasteful to many in our group, but the alternative of no public school system is even more distaste ful." 3. "We do not believe that the existing circumstances justify destroying one of the finest public school systems in the nation. 4. "We regret that the al ternatives are harsh, but, Non-Union Mills Granting Raise Here A number of the larger lumber firms contacted in the Jackson county area have de cided to grant the 1XA cent hourly wage increase pro posed by the Lumber and Sawmill Workers union. Spokesmen for a number of the mills which were not union organized said they felt they had to go along with the wage raise since the mills under unions were. The raise is effective as of Sept. 1. The contract runs to June 1, 1959. The raise affects employees in central and southern Oregon. Medford School Calendar Set The proposed 1958 - 59 calendar for school district 549C, Medford, has been announced by school of ficials. The last of the schools, Medford High and Hoover Elementary schools, will open tomorrow. Tentative date for the . Jaekson County Teachers conference is Nov. 10, and the following day. Tuesday, Nov. 11, is a legal holiday. The Thanksgiving holidays are scheduled Nov. 27 and 28, and the Christmas holi days between Dec. 24 and Jan A. inclusive. Jan. 23 is the end of the first semester, and spring vacation is scheduled March 19 and 20. High school com mencement is scheduled June 4, and school will close June 5. (See story on page 14) with regular high school teachers, and film. ' School Superintendent Vir gil T. Blossom reported that 210 of Little Rocks 3,480 high school students have trans ferred to other schools. Of those who have trans ferred, 130 were from Hall High in the city's best resi dential section. Hall has a total of 717 students, mean ing that 17.7 per cent of its student body has gone. Central High, the center of the controversy, has lost 80 of 2,071 students in transfers. Little Rock Tech and Horace Mann,' the Negro school, have lost no students by transfers. nevertheless, as attorneys and citizens, we feel compelled to take our stand for public edu cation," they said. : 5. "We urge our fellow citi zens in the Little Rock school district to face frankly the hard alternatives and to join with us in an effort to pre serve free public education in our city." It was. denied that the Pulaski County (Little Rock) Bar association is behind the statement, which is being cir culated for more signatures. "It started in one . of the law offices and was passed around over town," a lawyer said. ' One of the lawyers said it is a statement of opinion, not a petition, and will not be sent to Faubus. AEC Postpones Atom Safety Test Las Vega's, Nev.-flJPD-T h e Atomic Energy Commission postponed a scheduled nuclear safety test yesterday without explanation. The test, an attempt to dis cover the best way to guard against accidental nuclear ex plosion, was to have been the 15th of its kind. The AEC said 2V4 hours be fore the. firing that the test was postponed . and "a new readiness date will be an nounced -shortly." It was indicated the reason for the delay was simply that the test was not ready at the scheduled time. GA1, Chrysler Propose Same Terms As Ford Detroit -0PD General Mo tors and Chrysler, threatened by the United Auto Workers with strikes, yesterday pro posed to settle their contract differences on the same terms that the UAW accepted from Ford Motor company. Sports Bulletin: Moffei Naval Air Corps base 40, Southern Oregon college 25. Score by quarters: First, Moffett 1. SOC 12; Half time, Moffeit 20, SOC 13; third, Moffett, 27, SOC 13. Jacksonville 19, Chile quin 6, at Klamath Falls. Roger Linhart, 14, Killed by Friend In Gun Accident Jack Peebler Pointed Brother's Gun At Him Roger Donald Linhart, 14, son of Mrs. Sarath Linhart, 1762 South Peach st., Med ford, was accidentally shot and killed by Jack Nelson Peebler, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Bud) Peebler, 1871 Marsh lane, Medford, early Friday afternoon. Chief Criminal Sheriffs Deputy Joe Walsh said the accident happened when the boys, who had known each other since the first grade, were playing with a .22 cali ber pistol at the Linhart home. The boys, both 9th graders at McLoughlin Jun ior High school, stayed away from school Friday, deputies said. The gun is owned by Floyd Linhart, older brother of Roger. It was in a holster hanging on Floyd's bedroom wall. Boys In Bedroom Walsh said the boys were m the bedroom, and young Peebler took the revolver from the holster. He pointed it at young Linhart, deputies said, apparently not realiz ing it was loaded. Young Lin hart was struck in the fore head, Walsh said. Young Peebler called Med ford police, who notified the sheriff's deputies, who called a physician. Walsh said the boy had died before the phys ician arrived. Case To Grand Jury Jackson County District At torney Thomas Reeder said that from the investigation conducted by the sheriff's of fice it appears to have been an accidental death. However, he said he would present the case to a grand jury next Thursday because of the ser iousness of it.?-j;t.J;i".' '" Young Peebler was releas ed to his parents by sheriff's deputies. Survivors of the Linhart boy include his mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Linhart; five sisters, Iris Carter, Medford, Mrs. Mildred Harris, Pittman, Nev ada, Mrs. Darlene McLeod, Medford, and Sharon and Iva Linhart, both of Medford; and one brother, Floyd Linhart, also of Medford. One sister, Cora, preceded him in death in 1935. Hunting Accident Injures Boy, 10 James Alan Gould, 10, of Happy Camp, Calif., was re ported in fair condition in Sacred Heart hospital Satur day suffering from a .22 cali ber bullet wound in the stom ach, v The Gould boy, son of Clif ford L. Gould, Happy Camp, was flown into Medford by Mercy Flights, Inc., plane. The 10-year-old boy was said to have been hunting with Ronald David Blaycock, 9, also of Happy Camp, Calif. when the accident occurred. James Gould was walking be hind Ronald Blaycock when a bird suddenly flew up. The gun went off too quickly and the bullet went through the Gould boy's stomach, it was reported. Warsaw Meeting Postponed One Day Warsaw - (UPD - The U. S. embassy announced yesterday that the scheduled meeting to day of the American and Red Chinese ambassadors on the Formosa crisis has been post poned until Monday. The spokesman said the session had been delayed "for administrative reasons." In diplomatic language, this meant one side had requested the postponement, probably to await new instructions from its government. There was no indication whether U. S. Ambassador Jacob Beam or Chinese Am bassador Wang Ping-nan had asked for the delay. Roger's Declaration A Warning To South . Washington -(UPD- Attorney General William P. Rogers' declaration that government officials cannot "flout" the supreme court's integration decision without violating their oath of office was view ed as a pointed warning to Southern extremist. Woman Stabs Rev. Martin King In Harlem Store New York .-(UPD- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Negro integration leader, was stabbed in the chest yesterday by a Negro woman who attacked him with a letter opener while he autographed copies of his new book in a Harlem depart ment store. It took surgeons nearly three hours to remove the weapon from King's chest. The knife thrust by 42-year old Izola Ware Curry nearly pierced the heart of King who led the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1956. King spent more than four hours in the operating room at Harlem hospital where at team of four surgeans per-' formed a "miraculous job" in the intricate removal of the letter opener. . 'Quite Satisfactory' His condition was describ ed as "quite satisfactory" as he was wheeled from- the Student's Knife Brings Expulsion New OrleansHWI1--An uni dentified Negro student was expelled yesterday from the integrated New Orleans branch of Louisiana State uni versity for carrying a six-inch knife on the campus. Dean Homer L. Hitt at the same time warned bluntly that any- other students, Negro or white, found carrying weapons of any kind on the campus also would be ex pelled. He thus lent weight to his statement earlier in the week that school officials would tolerate no violence, boister ousness, congregating j and name-calling. Students dem onstrated on the campus, where 69 Negroes began class es this week, for two straight days before Hitt issued his crackdown order. A white student noted the knife protruding from the Negro's pocket, Dean Hitt said, and reported it to a campus security guard. The guard in turn notified school officials. Dr. Hitt said the Negro student told him he "was go ing to get the knife sharpen ed later in the day." Rail Disaster Toll Increases To 46 Bayonne, N. J, -(UPD- The death toll in Monday's Jersey Central Railroad disaster rose to 46 yesterday with the re covery of a mall's body from Newark Bay. The body was tentatively identified as that of James C. Adams, 45, Rumson, N. J., a trade publication publisher, whose wife died of. cancer the day after the commuter train plunged off an open draw bridge. Two men were still listed as missing. They were be lieved to be Thomas Judge, 48, Elizabeth, N. J., and Rich ard McGovern, 45, New York City. County Voters' Registration Slow Registration of voters con tinues to be slow in Jackson county, according to County Clerk Bereth P. Hopkins. As of Friday, Sept. 19, the Republicans had 17,295 voters registered and Democrats 16, 136 registered. Those in the miscelalneous category of party affiliations totaled 737 voters. Total registered is 34, 168. Mrs. Hopkins said this is a gain of 122 voters for the Re publicans, 201 for the Demo crats and eight miscellaneous since July 15. room. v Doctors said it took two and one-half hours to re move the seven-inch blade. It was the third attempt on the life of the minister. "You made enough people suffer in the last six years," shouted the Southern - bprn Mrs. Curry as she drew the letter opener from the front of her dress and plunged it into him. "I have to do it, I have to do it." Blade Pierced Breast Plate Dr. Bernard Nadell, ' senior medical superintendent at the hospital, said the blade pierc ed the upper part of the breast plate.' "A large section of the large vessel, the aorta, which comes from the heart, was severed, but not enough to cut it completely." The main fear of the sur geans was that removal of the blade would trigger fatal bleeding from the nearly-cut blood vessel. Gov. Averell Harriman of New York was at the hospit al while the surgeons worked then later left when doctors assured him King would pull through. King was received at New York's city hall earlier this week, where Mayor Robert F. Wagner told him: 'Democracy at Work "I'm sure you , will see Democracy at work here.' King was sitting at a desk in the shoe section of Blum stein's department store au tographing copies of his book on the integration battle in Montgomery. The story was jammed with shoppers and about 20 persons were stand ing in line waiting for him to write his name in copies of the book which they had pur chased. King's assailant burst through the lin'e and address ed him. "Are you Dr. King?" she asked. "Yes, I am," he replied, looking up. She then stabbed King. He tried to grab her but she slip ped away. A store security guard and a representative of a Negro newspaper grabbed her and she began to scream incoherently. Automatic in Brassiere The woman was handcuffed and searched. A .32 caliber loaded automatic was found tucked in her brassiere,, po-' lice said. . Some of the customers in the department store were thrown into a panic and ran screaming for cover. His' assailant -was taken . to the hospital, where he identi fied her, and then was taken to a police station for ques tioning by high police of ficials. Chief Inspector Thomas Neilson said Mrs. Curry gave them several versions of why she stabbed King. He said she remarked at. one point that "people were torturing me." She complained, he said, that she was suffering from a persecution complex. Did Not Know King Neilson said the 151-pound woman did not know King and had never seen him be fore the attack. Mrs. Curry was booked for felonious assaultand violation of the Sullivan law, which prohibits carrying concealed weapons. U.S. To Press Again For Return of Airmen Washington -(UPD A State Department spokesman said yesterday the United States will press again for return of all 17 American airmen downed in Russia this month -not just the six bodies Rus sia has agreed to return. There has been no indica tion whether the other 11 men art dead or alive. "Think We Should Wait Till They Catch Up?" 1 1 1 f 1 Foreign Interest In Oregon Studied A comprehensive studv of foreign trade interest in the state of Oregon and its impact upon the economy of the state is now being conducted by the Library of Congress, Gover- Mothers Plan Schools At Home Charlottesville, Va. (UPD Determined mothers tidied their basements and set up borrowed black boards yester day preparatory to opening do-it-yourself grade schools Monday as one answer to state school closures. Plans also were made for high school seniors to start their fall semester belatedly in the local Elks club later next week. More than "300 pupils of Venable Elementary school, one of two closed here by Gov. J. Lindsay Almond Jr., to block federally - ordered racial integration, were to re port Monday to 15 or 16 pri vate homes where, their regu lar teachers from the city school system will hold classes until the public schools reopen. No plans were made to ad mit Negroes to the classes held in private homes, clubs or churches, even though tax paid public teachers will be used. Lebanon Premier Flown to Turkey Beirut, Lebanon (DPD Out going pro-Western Premier Sami es Solh was flown out of Lebanon to Turkey aboard a U. S. Navy plane yesterday in a cloak-and-dagger opera tion which indicated possible concern for his life. His staunch defense of President Camille Chamoun's pro-Western policies had made Solh the target of five recent assossination attempts. His departure plans were so secret that his brother and sister were not informed until after his plane took off. Solh arrived in Istanbul last night and said he would not return to Lebanon if the nation lost its "independence" He said in that even he would "fight from other countries" until Lebanon becomes an in dependent state again. BULLETIN Medford firemen were called at 9:52 p.m. Satur day to put out a fire in a shed behind a house at 215 South Front St., it was re ported. A partition and part of the roof of the shed were burned. Damage was esti mated as small. The house is vacant, firemen said. An itinerant is believed to have dropped a cigarette in the aaed, causing the fire. an- The study is being prepar ed by the Legislative Report ing service of the library with the cooperation of the Oregon State System of Higher Educa tion, through the University of Oregon and Oregon State College. The Oregon Planning and Development department is assisting in the reseach and field work .and is provid ing necessary funds, along with the System of Higher Ed ucation and the Library of Congress. The study is being super vised by Dr. Howard S. Piq uet, Senior Specialist in In ternational Trade of the Li brary of Congress and for merly Chief of the Economic Division of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Dr. Wesley C. Bellaine, Di rector of the Bureau of Busi ness Research of the Univer sity of Oregon, is acting as co ordinator for the Oregon Ed ucational institutions who are cooperating. Dr. Piquet is at present in Oregon meeting with various business groups to explain the nature of the . study and to formulate return of the ques tionnaires which are being sent to all manufacturing es tablishments in the state em ploying five or more persons. The Agricultural portion of the study is being prepared by the Agricultural Economic staff of Oregon State College. The portions relating to tim ber, industry, ports and trans portation will be prepared by members of the staff of the University of Oregon. Julius R. Jensen, Director of the Planning and Develop ment department, stated that employer lists may not be up to date, and some industries may not be represented. In such cases, he sugges' ies tionnaires may be o Jied from either the Department of Planning and Development, State Office Building, Port land; or from the Bureau of Business Research, University of Oregon, Eugene. , School Bus Crashes Near Myrtle Point Myrtle Point -(UPD- A school bus filled with elemen tary and junior high school students crashed off Lee Val ley road Friday about six miles northeast of here in juring seven children and the : driver, none of tnem serious ly. One child, Kenneth Starry, 9, Myrtle Point, was kept overnight at Mast General hospital here for observation and the others were treated and released. Driver of the bus was George Royer, 59, Myrtle Point.- He suffered bruises. ' . I The accident occurred on a curve, the Coos county sher iff a office said. nor Robert D. Holmes nounced Friday. Ike Calls Charges 'Unacceptable Note 'Abusive' Believed First Time Red Note Snubbed Newport, R.I. (UPD- Presi dent Eisenhower angrily re jected Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khruschev's latest message on Formosa yesterday and sent it back unanswered. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said that, as far as State Depart ment officials could recall, this was the first time a So viet communication ever had ' been rejected. Eisenhower issued a special statement at the vacation White House denouncing- a letter received at the Ameri-' can embassy in Moscow Fri day. He labelled the Soviet Premier's latest charges aa "unacceptable" and termed the letter "abusive" and full of "inadmissable threats." The White House said Rich ard M. Davis, U.S. Charge D Affairs in Moscow, has been instructed to return the Khru schev message to the Soviet government in Moscow this morning. In a second statement ac companying his announce ment of rejection of the Khru schev letter, Eisenhower said the United States consider! the Russian viewpoint "gro tesque and dangerous." In Washington, officials said Eisenhower's refusal to accept Khruschev's "abusive" letter had plunged Russian American relations to a new low. Such a rejection of a dip lomatic message is not a move toward severing relations, of ficials said, but is considered a severe "slap in the face." It was considered bound to put a further chill on U.S. relations with Moscow. 1 One ef the Sharpest Khruschev's note to Eisen hower was one of the sharpest he has yet written to the President. He said the Chi nese Communists would drive U.S. forces out of the Formosa area unless they leave volun tarily and promptly, and he warned again that American resistance to the Communists would mean another world war. Khruschev also demanded that the Nationalist-held off shore islands be turned over to Red China and said that neither the Soviet Union nor Red China would be "frigh tened" by American "atomic blackmail." Eisenhower conferred by telephone with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles In Washington this afternoon 'af ter the President returned from viewing the opening of the America's Cup races. La ter he played golf. Then the White House is sued two statements, one re jecting the Khrushchev note and the other commenting on its contents. In rejecting the Khrush chev message, the White House said: "This communication is re plete with false accusations; it is couched in language that is abusive and intemperate: it indulges in personalities; it contains inadmissible wrests. "All of this renders the communication unacceptable under established internation al practice. Accordingly, it has been rejected, and the United States charge d-affaires in Moscow has been instructed to return the communication to the Soviet government." WEATHER FORECAST: VsrUble cloudiness . this morning and increasing cloudiness this afternoon sod evening. Cloudy tonight and Monday with possibly a few light showers Monday. High today 72; law tonight S; high Monday C8. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 8 Lowest Yesterday J J Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 6:12 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 5:58 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 12:56 a.m. The constellation of Orion now rises shortly after midnight and It will be high in the south east In the early morning twi light. This group of bright stars will be prominent In the even ing sky Best winter.