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Newspaper Page Text- 53rd Year Recommended Price 10 Cents Subscribers 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 pm. daily and 13 30 ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call pleas notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. The history behind the an cient Hill cemetery is told by a Bureau of Reclamation engineer who supervised the shifting of some of the craves to make room for the higher waters of Emigrant reservoir. The story appears on page 14 of today's Mail Tribune. DFORD RIBUNE United Pr full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 68 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1958 No. 161 Me ess Bosks Hurricane Blasts Carolina Coast, Damage Toll High Storm Veers Seaward As Another Looms Wilmington, N.C.-ICPD-Hur-ricane Helene pounded this port city with a record 135-mile-an-hour fury yesterday and spread destruction along nearby beaches. But with probably millions of dollars in damage done, the mighty storm turned out to sea and apparently the teeming cities of the upper .east coast would be spared. The weather bureau said Helene. should be well out in the Atlantic today. Only one death was attrib uted to the storm. Fallen power lines crackled In the streets and towering tides gushed over the water front at the height of the storm here, the strongest ever recorded in North Carolina. But the winds began sub siding late yesterday and the streets drained. ' 1 At 6 p.m. (EDT), the Wash ington weather bureau placed the storm center about 75 miles southwest of Cape Hat teras last night. It was then going northeastward at an ac celerated 18 miles an hour clip and bearing still more easterly. "This course will carry the center a short distance south east of Cape Hatteras before midnight and well out into the Atlantic today," the ad visory said. However, small craft warn ings were ordered northward as far as Nantucket off the south coast of Massachusetts during Helene's passage. Warnings Hurricane warnings were .up from Wilmington to Man teo, 130 miles to the northeast on the Carolina outer banks, and a hurricane watch was ordered to the Virginia capes. AH warnings were down south of Wilmington. Richard Watts, 40, of Pleas ant Plains, N.C., was killed when his car skidded and turned over on a rain drenched road during Helene's advance gales last night. The low casualty figure was attributed to advance preparations and speedy evac uation operations which kept Injuries down to a minimum. Rolling up ominously far to the southeast was another big storm, Ilsa, but its winds were reported a maximum 115 miles an hour at 6 p.m. com pared with 140 miles an hour earlier. Ilsa at that hour was 500 miles northeast of San" Juan, Puerto Rico, driving northwestward through open sea. The Raleigh weather bu reau reported that Wilming ton received the "full effect and force" of Helene with gusts reaching a deadly 135 miles an hour at 12:45 p.m. (EST). City, Contractor in Disagreement Over 'Violation' of Building Code The Medford building de partment and James Boyce, a . contractor, are at loggerheads over an alleged violation by Boyce of the city's building code. Oliver R. McNeel, head of the department, issued a viol ation notice and a stop-work order Sept. 22 on the grounds that apartments being con structed by Boyce at 825 East Ninth st. violated the setback requirement. Boyce, a contractor for Wat kins Construction company, asserts he is "in the clear" since the building department approved his plans and issued him a permit this summer. Requires Setback A five-foot setback from the side lot lines is required in the multiple family zone where the eight-apartment project is located. Boyce's plans called for a four-foot setback and he has reportedly carried out construction ac cordingly. McNeel said Friday that Rue Kerley, a building in spector discharged last week, had apparently overlooked the improper setback when Boyce submitted his plans. McNeel said he told Kerley to check the plans over and Ker 4 LANES 4LANES 4LANES . 4LANES 4LANES 4LANE9 4 LANES ' TAKT I95 START 1959 START I96Z I TAT 1959 START I960 .START 1961 START 1967 COMPLETE 16Z COMPLETE IP62 COMPLETE 1964 XL COMPLETE J96I :OMPLETE62 ' COMPLETE 1964 COMPLTe 1970 " x SS s TENTATIVE CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE - This map be completed in 12 years, or by 1970, under the tentative v A? j iO y'A shows the preliminary schedule of work on the interstate schedule. On the schedule to start next year are sections Vs S Vv . v Jf yr highway between Grants Pass and the Calif ornia. line. W. C . between North Grants Pass and Rogue River, and between -i OK ..'V ij"-"? ' (Dutch) Williams, state highway engineer, said the schedule Rogue River and Gold Hill, both to be completed by 1962. X . ; 'ss " is based on continuing availability of funds and other factors. Also scheduled next year are four lanes between Seven Oaks N sV . .,.,, Field surveys are now being conducted on some sections, he and Crater Lake highway The section will be completed in i '' . said, while others have been completed. He said all" field 1961. The new four-lane freeway is shown Ifi the solid black Jr' I J Democrats Seek Man to Replace Earl Fichtner Earl Fichtner, Democratic nominee for . sheriff of Jack son county, late Friday after noon signed an affidavit of official withdrawal of his can didacy at the county elections department. He also changed his party registration from Democratic to Independent Earlier, Fichtner had given "personal reasons" for with drawing. Chairman James Redden has called a meeting of the Democratic Central Commit tee for 8 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 30, at the Esquire theater headquarters, to name a Dem ocratic candidate to replace Fichtner., The county clerk's office in dicated Fichtner's name would be removed from the ballot proof and the name of his successor be inserted in its place, if a nomination is made. The ballots have not yet been printed, County 'Clerk Bereth P. Hopkins said Friday morn ing. Mrs. Hopkins said she had contacted the secretary of state's office and learned that a candidate could withdraw up to 20 days before the elec tion. BULLETIN ' Ashland Southern Ore gon College trounced the University of British Co lumbia here, 25 to 6, Satur day night. It was Southern Oregon all the way as shown by quarter scores: 6-0, 19-0 and 19-6. ley subsequently told him they were in order. A building permit was is sued to Boyce July 10. Kerley's Contention Kerley's contention, as he explained it last week, was that he had spotted the set back error in the plans at once, that he pointed it out to McNeel and that McNeel did nothing about it. Kerley, according to Ms Ned, discovered the error later on when he inspected the construction site. Neigh bors had reportedly complain ed as well. McNeel said he has spoken to Boyce on "at least three oc casions" about correcting the violation. But, he said, Boyce took no action, and so he is sued the notice and stop-work order. "No body ever did say any thing about it until it came last week, after the apart ments were built," Boyce said Friday. "The people next door call ed it to the attention of the building department. Kerley never said anything to us about it. "We feel 11 per cent in the clear about it," Boyce went on. "Once wt submit a plat TENTATIVE CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE - This map shows the preliminary schedule of work on the interstate highway between Grants Pass and the California, line. W. C (Dutch) Williams, state highway engineer, said the schedule is based on continuing availability of funds and other factors. Field surveys are now being conducted on some sections, he said, while others have been completed. He said all" field surveys probably would be completed several months in ad vance of the starting of any particular project. The freeway construction is divided into seven projects, all of which will AAorlgn Shows Contract Between Dairy Union Negotiator Fred Morlan yesterday ' produced a con tract between Gilman's Dairy and 'the Teamsters Union signed March 23, 1955. He said Gilman's is still bound by this contract.- Robert Shaw, secretary of Teamsters Local 962, and Wil liam Hoxie of the" Central La bor Council are scheduled to present their side of the dairy union dispute tomorrow. The dispute involves union allegations that Gilman's vi olated the terms of a contract and the dairy's contention that it is not bound by any contract. It has resulted In e dairy's being placed : on the Central Labor Council's "un fair list." Gilman has public ly protested this action. Alleged Violations The alleged violations in clude failure to abide by a "closed shop" provision whereby employees must join the union within 30 days after. starting work, supplying milk to route men who are not union .members and selling milk routes to employees. Vincent Smith, manager of Gilman's since 1956, has pro tested compulsory unionism vigorously, asserting that em ployees' should have freedom of choice about joining. The Gilman's route men be came "independent business men" in August. Shaw, Hoxie to Speak - Shaw and Hoxie are to ad dress the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce round table at its weekly noon luncheon at the Jackson hotel. and they approve it that's what we build by." McNeel said he believes that regardless of Kerley's al leged oversight the contractor is responsible for any viola tion. He bases this on a state ment in . the building permit application form, which Boyce signed in applying for his permit. The statement reads, "I hereby acknowledge that I have read this application and state that the above is cor rect and I agree to build ac cording to the above descrip tion, plans, specifications and city building codes." The question here, appar ently, is what happens "when the plans and building codes do not agree. City Manager Robert A. Duff Friday suggested one so lution, that Boyce purchase an extra foot of land from the neigbhors on each side, thus pushing the property lines out to five feet from the apartments. But Boyce retorted, "It's not my responsibility to go buy a foot of land. "I hope to have something settled by next week," he said. "Somebody's going to have to give." The public is invited. Smith addressed the round table last week. He called the Teamsters' allegations "an out-and-out lie." He has further stated that the contract of March 23, 1955, as well as any contracts signed by Morlan on Gilman's behalf were "not valid con tracts." Associations Morlan, secretary of the In dustrial Council of Southern Oregon, asserts he represent ed an association of dairy op erators belonging to the coun cil in union negotiations and contracts. . -'- He says that Gilman's was a member of the 'council from September, 1950, to April 30, of this year. , Morlan states that he signed union contracts for the dairy operators' association cover ing the periods August 15, FOOTBALL WEST College of Pacific. 34, Ari zona State 16 Rice 30, Stanford 7 Wyoming 21,' Montana State 14 - Oregon State 12, Kansas 0 MIDWEST Michigan State 32, Califor nia 12. Michigan 20, Southern Cal ifornia 19. Purdue 28, Nebraska 0. Buffalo 6. Harvard 3. ' ' Ohio Stale 23, Southern Methodist 20. Notre Dame 18, Indiana 0. Northwestern 29, Washing ton Slate 28. . Iowa 17. Texas Christian 0. Missouri 14, Idaho 10. Cincinnati 16. Wichita 16. Iowa 17, Texas Christian 0. California 18, Illinois 14. Oklahoma- 47, West Vir ginia 14. . -- v Ohio State 23, Southern Methodist 20. Missouri 14, Idaho 10 SOUTHWEST Iowa State 14. Arisona 0. Texas Tech 32. West Texas State 7. EAST Brown 22, Columbia 0. Pittsburgh 17. Holy Cross 0. Penn State 43, Penn 0.' Cornell 13, Colgate 0. Yale 8, Connecticut 6. Rutgers 28, Princeton 0. Virginia Military, Institute 33, Villanova 6. ' Dartmouth 20, Lafayette 0. Army 45, South Carolina 8. SOUTH Maryland 21, North Caro lina State 6 Virginia 15, Duke 12 Clemson 26, North Caro lina 21 Navy 14, William and Mary 0 Mississippi 27, Kentucky 6 ' Vanderbilt 21, Georgia 14 Louisiana St. 13, Ala bama 3 Tennessee St.. 23, North Carolina A8cT , 1953 to May 1, 1955, May 1, 1955 to May 1, 1956 and May 1, 1956 to May 1, 1958. He states that Gilman's ap proved his signing these con tracts and that Gilman's was a party to them. Smith Denies Smith has denied that Mor lan or anyone else was auth orized to sign for Gilman's. "What the Industrial Coun cil represented," he said last week, "I still do not know. There is no chartered or or ganized group of Southern Oregon milk dealers." The contract produced by Morlan yesterday bears the signatures of Shaw, Morlan himself and Les Gilman for the dairy. Specific Period It covers the specific period August 15, 1953 to May 1, 1955 plus a "continuing clause" which reads, ". . . and from year to year thereafter unless either party to this agreement serves notice as provided herein." " Morlan explained that this contract was identical to one covering the same . period which he had previously sign ed for the association. But, he said, the union had asked that Gilman sign a duplicate contract separately later on to resolve a "minor dispute over terms and conditions." Morlan said Gilman's was apparently violating some clause of the contract already in effect. The 1956:58 contract was renewed this summer. Morlan said. But Gilman's was not a party to it. (Continued on Page 15) "Now All We've Got To Do Is Sell The Doggone Things" CopjTlsbt, - be completed in 12 years, or by 1970, under the tentative schedule. On the schedule to start next ' year are sections between North Grants Pass and Rogue River, and between Rogue River and Gold Hill, both to be completed by 1962. Also scheduled next year are four lanes between Seven Oaks and Crater Lake highway The section will be completed in 1961. The new four-lane freeway is shown Ifi the solid black line. The dotted line is the present highway. The proposed new highway will cross Rogue River at Homestead on the Rogue between Rock Point and Rogue River. Ike Announces Persons Will Replace Adams Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower yesterday named his Deputy Assistant Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons (ret.), to replace Sherman Adams as his No. 1 . aide as part of a White House staff shakeup. Press 'Secretary-James :C. Hagerty said the 62-year-old Persons, an old Army buddy of the President, would. ex ercise the same broad duties as Adams but that there would be a "redistribution" Of the responsibilities assign ed to other presidential aides. He said he would not call this a "reorganization." Adams resigned under heavy Republican political pressure last Monday as "as sistant to the President." He told the nation in a radio-TV address he had decided to quit because a "campaign of vilification" had been launch ed against him as a result of his' relations with gift-giving Boston millionaire Bernard Goldf ine. . ; , In promoting Persons, the President picked an oH comrade-in-arms.' He and Persons first served together in Wash ington when the chief execu tive was a relatively un known Army colonel. Water Stoppage Set Water in the Medford Irri gation district will be stopped Oct. 1, Jack Hoffbuhr, secretary-manager of the district, announced Saturday. Hoffbuhr said crews will start cleaning "ditches, and other rehabilitation work is planned. 19B, Ths PuUtssr Publlshin 0. at Louii Fost-aiinstch. The Giant fears Ahead Report .'From Red China ' Editor's note: Ths London Observer's ehlef Far East correspondent has just-made an extensive tour of Communist China. This is the first of five articles telling the inside story of Ked China today. It Is written from Hong Kong to escape censorship. ' ' BY DENNIS BLOODWORTH HTNS London Observer Foreign Service Hong Kong Today, the streets of Peiping have burst into 'color, into recognizably human life. The women grow their hair long or sport permanent waves, they wear West ern : frocks, flower-patterned Chinese cheongsams, shorts, jeans, and blouses, all made from cottons of a multitude of gay designs, and even lipstick is not unknown among them. In Shanghai, as in the capital, roof garden restaurants throw dances, competent if uninspired bands thump out jazz, Viennese waltzes and souped-up travesties of Russian songs. Idle crowds watch baseball, gloat over a Wall of Death which might have come straight, from a London fair. There are Peiping bars that stock 60 brands of Chinese cigarettes and 200 types of hard liquor. My hotel served everything from a Manhattan to a Singapore gin sling. China sells scented dress material, perfumed ear-rings. Little To Do With Reality But again this painstaking frivolity, inspired by a de cadent West, while dazzling the impressionable foreigner, has little to do with reality. In the quiet courts of the museum at Sian, former capital of the Tang Emperors, I stopped to look at a model of Stone Age life. "This illustrates our new theory of evolution," my interpreter said. "You believe God made Adam and Eve, but in fact man developed through labor. It wasn't your God, it was work." Behind the screen of cheerful idlers are the hard-working 600 millions whose standard of living has risen little in the past three years and who will probably never see a yard of offensively scented export silk. China has abandoned her measured gait and is tearing down the road to Socialism today, careless of potholes and snags. Everything must be done "better, faster, more economically." China must over take Britain industrially in 15 years, or 10 years, or five. In meetings all over the country organized by factories and trades unions, workers agree to multiply production 10 times, to reduce target dates by half, to make two hands do the work of six. Remains To Be Seen ; This is the "great leap forward" that will keep the nose of every Chinese down to at least two grindstones, if not more. - It nevertheless remains to be seen If even Chinese stam ina can stand the pace. "People are making themselves stupid with overwork here," a Communist told me, and I noticed that the standards of 1955 were sagging. Chinese officials often seem dazed with fatigue. Districts of Peiping that push ed workers into putting in 10 and even 12 hour days, revert ed sharply to eight hours after men fell asleep at their jobs. Railways services have been speeded up according to the time-table, but three out of four trains I took in China were hours late. There were flies in the stations, cockroaches in my sleeper. It is useless to be sentimental about Peiping, for all new building has this in common; it is strictly functional and strictly hideous. But it is also often showy but useless. Plas ter falls quickly, the first ;rain brings damp, floors sag. In the new diplomatic quarters there are new houses which have been uninhabitable since they were built. Yet the changes wrought in the three years since I was last here are little short of fantastic. The outskirts of Peip ping are unrecognizable for the new roads, the factories built or being built, the vast new airport whose terminal looks like a Victorian penitentiary. Dirty little towns like Loyang and Chengchow have become great complexes of spanking new plants. On the outskirts of Wuhan vast stretch es of land which in 1955 were "covered by nothing more than coarse grass are smothered by a monstrous industrial suburb ia. In one section alone I counted 260 imposing barracks and dormitories housing the workers of adjacent factories. Fills One With Foreboding The Chinese are justly proud of what they have achiev ed, but while a visit to China three years ago was an exhil arating experience, today it fills one with foreboding. Most Chinese officials remain unfailingly courteous, but there is an aggressive arrogance in the air, the mannerless self-asser tion of the giant whose growing strength allows him to disre gard politenesses and principles alike. (Continued ea Pag I) People Vote 3-1 For Segregated Private Schools Institutions To Be 'Opened Shortly' Little Rock, Art-flUD-The people of Little Rpck voted almost 3-1 yesterday to try to thwart the U.S. Supreme Court's school integration or der with Gov. Orval Faubus private school system. 1 "We shall move forward with all dispatch to open the closed schools as private ed ucational institutions,'' Fau bus said in Harris, Ark. "It is expected that the schools will be opened short ly, possibly by Monday. "The vote is all the more significant when you consider it was cast in the face of closed schools that the people want to see opened. It was cast with the full knowledge that the people face great dif ficulties." The issue was whether the four closed high schools of Little Rock should be opened integrated or segregated. Majority Necessary A majority for segregation was necessary to put the Fau bus private schools plan into effect and the election was the next to last step in put ting it into effect. Returns to United Press In ternational from 30 of 32 pre cincts gave: Against integrat ed schools, 17,650; for inte grated schools, 6,856. Segregation leaders re joiced. 'Expected , "This is about what we ex pected," Dr. Thomas J. Raney, president of the Little Rock Private Schools corporation, which wants to take over the schools, said., "But now we know that segregation is what is anted by the people. It re mains to'be seen if this will make our job easier." As far as the Supreme Court is concerned, the elec tion has no effect. It was es sential to the Faubus plan in that he had to make sure first that a majority did not want the schools to reopen inte grated. The final step in his plan is for the school board to lease the schools to the Little Rock Private School corpora tion and reopen them as pri vate schools. Nine Appointed To Park Group Medford Mayor John W. Snider Friday announced the appointment of nine members to the recently-formed Park and Recreation commission. The list includes Jerry Poulos, manager of KBES-TV; Mrs. Edith Eden, a member of the city's Tree committee; Miss Colleen Hope, who con ducts a dance studio; Dr. Ern est Duce, a dentist; Mrs. Dia mond L. Flynn, widow of the late Mayor Flynn. Also Mrs. Owen KunkeL president of the Jackson County Council of the Parent Teacher association; Mrs. Verl G. Walker, wholesale electronic parts distributor; James E. Zack, real estate and insurance salesman; and Glenn L. Linn, principal of McLoughlin - Junior High school. The commission was. offic ially created by the city coun cil at a meeting Sept. 4. Its Drimary function is to make recommendations re garding the general supervis ion and control of all parks and recreational facilities and programs of the city. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair Sunday morn ing; variable high cloudiness Sundav afternoon and even ing. Cloudy Monday, cooler; high 88 Sunday, low 43; high Monday 82. TMp Highest Saturday .. 9 Lowest Saturday Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 5:59 pjn. . 6:06 a.m. . 6:23 p.m. Oct i Sunrise tomorrow . Moonrise today Last uarter PROMINENT STAR Aldebaran, rises 9:35 pja. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, sets - 6:44 pjn. Saturn, low in south west 8:13 P . Mars. ihAvi Aldeharaa. Venus, rises SM 3