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BP. fo)nn(g SCHE as U U U V U 53rd year Price 10 cents "The Critics Don't Like It' Freedom for Security Export Fro Tribune Medford 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1958 No. 163 m Dke, dies Me ut Rod C na I J 11 W- 1 1 i niftto m n. rM'iii iMtmSt 0 i - .. Sr ... JSi : ... .......... ... PRINCIPALS-Robert Shaw, Teamsters offi cial (right) answers Vincent Smith of Gil man's Dairy (left) at yesterday's Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable. The two men are principals in the dairy- $31,159 Collected In United Medford Crusade So Far A total of $31,159.15 has been collected so far in the United Medford Crusade cam paign, division chairmen re ported at Monday's noon meeting in the YMCA. The total represents an in crease of $14,589.34 over the first week's collections, and is almost 25 per cent of the $131,030 goal this year. Campaign Chairman Dick Travis said this year's receipts are considerably higher than those at the second meeting last year. He credited the in crease to the "fine organiza tional job being done by the division heads." Report Progress Most division chairmen re ported on progress of their groups, and some subdivisions were reported close to their goals or already reached them. Dr. George S. Jennings Jr., chairman of the Osteopaths subdivision, reported collec tions of $243, $18 more than the group's quota of $225. El liott Becken, chairman of the Public Employees division, credited Myrna Frink, princi pal of Griffin Creek school, for the job she did in meeting her quota in the first week of the campaign. The lumber division show ed total receipts of $6,861.50 and public employees account ed for $7,968.81. Other divis ions reporting larger sums were the service division, $7,681.04; professional divis ion, $2,996.50; and special gifts, $4,252.50. Special mention was given Larry Clark, chairman of the special gifts division, for col lecting $4,252.50. Goal for the division is $6,000. UMC officials announced that a special dance will be held starting at 10 p.m. Fri day, Oct. 3, at the Jackson hotel for the Crusade. Music will be furnished by a seven piece band arranged through the local musicians union, and the Jackson hotel has donated space. Admission will be $1 per person, and all proceeds will go to the Crusade. The dance will follow the Med f ord-Marshfield football game. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and warm with low humidity through Wednesday. Low tonight 45. High Wednesday 85-88. Temp. Hi eh est Yesterday 88 Lowest this Morning 44 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:56 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:08 a.m. Moonrise tonight 7:25 p.m. Last Quarter Oct. 5 A combination of the move ments of the Earth and Venus on their orbits around the Sun will bring Venus, now a dis appearing morninr star, bark as an evening star late in December. - - t -V" si I Action by Drivers Could Help Solve Contract Problem Positive action by the five men who deliver milk from Gilman's Dairy may help solve the controversy with Teamsters Local 962 over the dairy's alleged violations of a contract. This action, it is under stood, would involve an elec tion authorized by the na tional labor, relations board. The five drivers would vote on whether or not they wish to be recognized as a bar gaining unit. If a majority is Democrats to Name Sheriff Candidate The Democratic Central committee will meet at 8 o'clock tonight to name a new candidate for Jackson County sheriff. The Democratic candidate, Earle Fichtner, 2547 Corona ave., Medford, withdrew from the race late last week for "personal reasons." County Clerk Bereth Hop kins said Fichtner's name will be removed from the bal lot, and a successor inserted if a nomination is made by the central committee. To night's central committee meeting will be in the Esquire theater, headquarters for the party. Fichtner, in withdrawing from the race, also changed his voter registration fr.om Democratic to Independent. Fichtner said "The change of registration was for one reason, and that was to render myself ineligible for the of fice, and create the type of vacancy able to be filled by a Central Committee nomina tion." He added that he plans to support the new nominee. Two Attempt Alcatraz Escape; Guards San Francisco -(UPD-Guards armed with carbines and re volvers prowled fog-swept Al catraz Island today in search of a convict who with a com panion tried to "beat the Rock." The missing man was Aaron Walter Burgett, 28, a rangy gunman from St. Louis, Mo. His companion, Clyde John son, 40, a Memphis, Tenn., bank robber, was caught several hours after they over powered a guard and disap peared. FBI Men Aid Search Aiding in the all-out search were squads of FBI men rush ed to the island prison from San Francisco. A Coast Guard helicoDter and four Coast Guard cutters circled the is union dispute over whether Gilman's has violated a union contract. Robert Balk, chairman of the roundtable committee, is in the middle. opposed to such recognition, the group would become "de certified." - So designated, they would be exempt from union inter ference for a year. Presented at Luncheon This remedy was presented before the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce week ly roundtable luncheon at the Jackson hotel yesterday by Robert Shaw, secretary of the Teamsters local. "If the members of Gil man's Dairy don't want any part of the union," Shaw said, "the union doesn't want any part of them." If the group is de-certified, Shaw said later, "We wouldn't insist on enforcing the con tract. We wouldn't insist on the uen being in the union." He pointed out, however, that de-certification would not free the drivers from the Central Labor council's "un fair list." He said they might be taken from the "unfair list" and placed on the "do not patronize list." A Technicality But as far as the drivers themselves are concerned, it is understood, this shift would be simply a technicality. So long as they are not union members, Shaw said, those who do belong to. unions would be urged not to patronize them. Bill Hoxie, labor council of ficial and first speaker at the luncheon, stated that, "one of the basic principles of union ism is that union members patronize union firms." (Continued on page 11) Portland-flJPD-Kelly G. Mor gan, 37, a jailer at the Rocky Butte county jail, was killed Monday when a car slipped from jacks in the driveway of his home. To Beat the Rock7 in land to prevent a getaway by boat. Burgett and Johnson flash ed a knife in the face of guard Harold Miller shortly after 3 p.m. Monday. "They jumped me with a knife and told me I'd be all right if I was good,"- Miller said. "Then they slipped away in the fog." Both Outside Walls Both men were outside the prison walls and workin0 on a garbage detail at the time. They told Miller a getaway launch was waiting for them. The escape came to light about 3:40 p.m. when prison officials realized Miller and his two charges had failed to return from their work. Asso ciate Warden Joseph B. Lati mer sounded the alarm. Ho Hard-Headed Altitude Planned By United States Important Policy Change Possible Washington -(UPD-President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles held the door open, today for a peaceful settlement of the Formosa crisis that might in clude withdrawal of large Nationalist Chinese forces from the offshore islands. Both ruled out "appease ment" and any retreat under fire. But they emphasized a willingness to consider any suggestions for easing ten sions in the powder keg area. No Hard-Headed Attitude Eisenhower made it clear in accepting the credentials of Chinese Nationalist Ambassa dor George George Yeh that the U.S. was not going to take a hard-headed attitude which would exclude a peaceful set tlement with Red China. He also called on Nationalist China to help avert war by considering suggestions for peaceful settlement. Meanwhile, Dulles indicat ed that the U.S. urge the with drawal of large Chinese Na tionalist forces from Quemoy and Matsu if a dependable cease-fire arrangement could be worked out with the Com munists. Change in U.S. Policy , " Dulles told a news confer ence in reply to a question that there might be an import ant change in U.S. policy if the Communists were willing to "give" on some of the is sues. He said U.S. policy was "flexible and adaptable" to the situation the nation was required to meet. The President told Yeh that the U.S. would stand by its treaty with the Nationalist government. But he added that "I am confident also that your government shares the deep desire of the American people that these aggressive actions not lead to a war as a result of any failure on our part to entertain suggestions for a peaceful settlement." Would Meet Premier In discussing the Far East situation at this news conference,- Dulles also 1 said he would be willing to meet with Red Communist . Premier Chou En-lai if there were rea son to think it would help set tle the Formosa crisis. But he doubted the wisdom of such a meeting at this time. No Action Taken on D'Autremont Appeal Salem-dJPD-The office of the State Parole Board said to day that no action was taken Monday night iii connection with the parole application of Hugh D'Autremont. The con victed train robber and mur derer appeared before the board here. D'Autremont is under life sentence in connection with the Siskiyou tunnel train robbery and murder in 1923. Capture One Latimer said he doubted Burgett could have swum from the island through the man-killing tides of San Fran cisco Bay to the mainland a mile and a half away. Guard Bound Tightly About 15 minutes after the search got under way, Miller was found, his eyes and mouth bound tightly with cloth and his wrists and legs bound with rope. The search had been going on for about an hour when a sharp-eyed crew man of a Coast Guard patrol boat spotted Johnson. He was standing just off shore, up to his waist in the chill waters on the west side of the island. Through chatter ing teeth, he said: "We made a good try and it just didn't work." Copyright. , Suggestions Needed By Make Medford Beautiful Group Suggestions on how Med ford could be made beautiful are needed by the "Make Med ford Beautiful" committee, it was reported Monday at the first meeting of the recently organized group. "It is hoped that the pro gram will be contagious," Mayor John W. Snider ex plained, "once it gets under way." He mentioned that more than half of the beautification program could be completed without spending a penny, by property owners cutting weeds on their own land. Committee's Objective The committee has as its ob jective to make Medford the most attractive city in Oregon for the Centennial year and the years to follow. The com mittee was appointed by the mayor last week. Members attending the luncheon meeting in the Med ford hotel were Lou Cranston, who was appointed chairman; Darell Huson, Tom MacLeod, Granville Brittsan, and Mayor Snider". Mrs. Bert Pree, anoth er member was unable to at tend. Highlight of the meeting was a letter received by the mayor from the City Sanitary Service company. The com pany has offered to supply a truck and crew to clean up vacant lots and other areas when requested by a commit tee member. This service would be furnished the city without charge. Realizes Problem In a letter from Charles W. Bottjer, partner in the com pany, he states "we realize that a part of the problem of unsightliness caused by the accumulation of trash and debris on vacant lots around the city, for which no one ap pears to take any responsi bility." He concludes by offering their complete cooperation with the program. Nationalist China To Await Revolt United Nations, N.Y.-OJPD-Nationalist China said today it would defend "every inch'' of its territory but would await a revolt against the Chi nese Communists before in vading the mainland. "We are realists," Chinese Ambassador Tingfu F. Tsiang told the U.N. General Assem bly. "We love peace as much as anybody else. We have our fund of common sense. "It is not our thought that the 10 million people on Tai wan (Formosa) should be pitted against the 500 or 600 million on the mainland. We have no reason to fight against our brethren on the mainland. "However, when our peo ple on the mainland rise in revolt as the Hungarian peo ple did two years ago and call for our help, we shall fight side by side with them for their freedom." Tokyo -UPD- Meteorological stations throught Japan re corded abnormal atmospheric disturbances tonight and ex perts believed Russia had ex ploded another nuclear bomb. 195s, The Pulitzer Publlsnmi Co. 8t. Louis Post-Dispatch Mayor Snider outlined the three main problems ' to be met by the committee. They included the city assuming its proper responsibility, proper ty owners assuming their re sponsibility and to organize a group of volunteers to aid with the project. Complete Check Planned The committee, along with volunteers, will first check the city block by block to spot areas which need attention. From these" block reports, a master map will compile the information. The master map also will record the progress of the projects. The group also discussed the possibility of planting flowers on the approaches to the city. Another suggestion concerned the feasibility of the city buying water from an irrigation district to increase the flow of water in Bear creek which would eliminate the stagnant water in various areas as well as the odor. Mayor Snider reported that several civic organizations had expressed interest in the pro gram. The committee decided to send letters to the various organizations to tell them the aims of the group and to re cruit volunteers. Chrysler, Union Settlement Near; GM Talks Start Detroit (UPD United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther walked out of Chrys ler Corp. contract talks today and promptly turned his at tention to General Motors. The break in the negotia tions, after almost 23 Vi hours of marathon bargaining, came as a surprise, because the two sides had been believed with in "inches" of a settlement. Practically all points. of issue had been settled except the matter of worker seniority. Reuther walked out of the Chrysler talks at 9:30 a.m. Election Day Board Judge Not Needed Notices have been mailed to judges who served on the primary election day boards informing them their services will not be required in the general election, County Clerk Bereth P. Hopkins said today. This was done on the. rec ommendation of the chief of the elections division in the secretary of state's office, Mrs. Hopkins explained. Ballots will be printed with only one stub, which can easily be removed by the chairman. Therefore, the need for an election judge on the first board has been eliminat ed, Mrs. Hopkins said. How ever, judges will be given first preference wherever va cancies occur on either elec tion board in the precinct, she said. By eliminating the judge position, Jackson county will save an estimated $1,310 in election costs, Mrs. Hopkins said. Other Means To Keep Education Segregated Eyed Court Order Stops Private School Plan Little Rock, Ark.-(UPD-Gov. Orval E. Faubus announced today that he is looking for another way to provide segre gated education for Little Rock high school students, since a federal court order has stopped his private schools plans. He concluded that if a re straining order now in effect is made a permanent injunc tion in an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing next Monday, his job will be more difficult. Action Thought Illegal ". . .Other avenues and means of providing education for the students will be ex plored," Faubus said in a state ment. "We think the action of the federal government is il legal, but if the injunctive ac tion of the courts is made per manent it will make our ef forts more difficult but not at all impossible. "As long as the people stand firm, a way will be found to preserve our traditions and ed ucate our children despite all efforts of the federal govern ment and the NAACP to the cantrary." Faubus was talking to his lawyers at the gubernatorial mansion. He issued the state ment through his office at the capitol. Signs Are Put Up Artruck pulled up in' front of Central High school and two men put up a four-by-six-foot sign in the center of the schoolyard. It said: "This school closed by order of the federal government." Similar signs were tacked on trees at the other three high schools. A watchman hired by the Little Rock School Board reported at Hall High that he almost had a gun fight with the men who put up the sign. A tussle was reported at Central between a watchman there and the men with the sign. A prominent segregationist admitted that he had the signs put up, but refused to sign a statement for United Press In ternational that he did it. Obituary of Plan' Dr. T. J. Raney, president of the Little Rock Private School Corporation, read the obituary of the private school plan in a driving rain in front of Central High. . The corporation planned to reopen the high schools, closed since Sept. 2 in the integra tion controversy, at 8 a.m. today. and announced "we have reached a meeting of minds" on all but the issues of engi neering and office workers. He said there would be a two-hour recess after which the regular negotiating com mittees would return to the bargaining table "and clean up the details." . "Of course, nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to," Reuther said. "But I think I can say we have reached a meeting of the minds on the basic contract." Reuther's comment indi cated that a settlement with Chrysler was possible within hours," and that his presence was not needed to wrap up final unsolved details of the contract. GM Strike Deadline Near Thus, Reuther headed for giant General Motors where a strike deadline is only two days away." It was believed that Chrys ler agreed basically to the same terms Ford accepted Sept. 17 when that company became the first "big three" auto maker to negotiate a new contract with the union. The Ford settlement, a three year pact, calls for chief im provements in supplemental unemployment benefits, pen sions and job security. Salem-IUHUDouglas McKay, former governor and secre tary of the interior, returned to his home today after he was hospitalized for 25 days at Salem General hospital. His wife said his condition was good and he was feeling fine. Washington (LTD President Eisenhower played golf today. The London Observer's chief an extensive tour of Communist articles telling the inside story of Singapore to escape censorship. By DENNIS BLOODWORTH HTNS-London Observer Foreign Service Singapore-The Peiping kiddybus is undoubtedly among" the world's odder vehicles, the front half of a bicycle pedaled by some sweating trishaw driver, the back an entire minia ture wooden bus on two wheels. The first one I saw was passing a long grim barrack of a building, at each window of which a woman was almost fertw ciously cleaning the metal lattices. Perhaps nothing could have expressed more eloquently the changing pattern of life in China. The kiddybus removes children from their homes and takes them to a State nursery or kindergarten. It brings some back in the evening but others stay there all week, returning to their parents only over Saturday night. The barrack is a State dormitory in which women city-workers live in an all-girls-together existence, although the majority of them are married. One May Enjoy Privacy As collective thinking . replaces Individual thought In China", so communal living is gradually ousting the family tradition. So far only a minority has to take advantage of the "Li Pai Liu" the "Saturday night" system whereby the women of a dormitory all sleep elsewhere except for one who may thus enjoy some privacy with her husband. But the signs are unmistakable. In the agricultural cooperatives of Sze chuan I saw individual farmhouses demolished and great tenements, equipped with communal kitchens and canteens designed to accommodate a hundred families, rising incon gruously in the fields. In the major factory complexes of Shanghai and Hankow, the children are parked out for the week so that the wives are freed to work at the lathe, and to take their meals in the workers canteen. In Peiping and other big cities the street organization-the lowest echelon of the State control apparatus-adds to its tasks of political supervision and education the role of foster mother to the local young while the worker and his wife go their separate ways to do their daily stint for China. City Dwellers Shifted to Farms Meanwhile China's leaders are playing general post with the population. City dwellers with bourgeois complexes re quiring reducation are shifted out to the farms. Redundant administrative workers go "down to the country" to teach and learn from the peasant. Trained technicians are shuttled about the provinces to pass on their knowledge. Unskilled eager beavers and unwilling volunteers alike are transferred to workion distant construction projects. I met the wife of a department head in the Chinese For eign Ministry who was doing her husband's job. He had been sent to the provinces and they were unlikely to be reunited for three years, if not more. A. Peiping student told me that half of his colleagues were being uprooted from their homes and sent to work in far-off parts of China-not for a few months or even a few years, but for good. The average Chinese is irresistibly caught up In the ideo logical and economic revolution of his country. He must for get personal considerations and strive only to be "more Red, more expert." I found in factories all over China that in addi tion to a basic 48-hour week for which his production norms were constantly being raised, the worker "volunteered" to do extra subsidiary tasks which would release other men and enable staffs to be cut. Attended Production Meetings He also attended long production meetings, organized by a trade union whose sole purpose was to get more work out of him, two-hour political indoctrination classes and "rectifi cation" get-togethers at which he confessed his own secret heresies and shortcomings to his mates and denounced others publicly for theirs. After all this, he might be permitted to fall into bed. Life is little different for the rest of thepeople. All house property is being nationalized and householders must regis ter, and be ready to give up, the iron gates of their gardens, superfluous metal articles in the home, even spare bricks and tiles. Shops and businesses have been turned virtually into State enterprises in which the original owner, employed by the staff, has only a modest share. In other cases, they have been grouped into cooperatives. Ninety-seven per cent of all farming families have now been drawn into "advanced" agricultural cooperatives - in effect collective farms in which they draw no rent for the land and stock they have contributed but are merely paid according to their work as laborers. (Continued on Page 7) Policeman Faces Charges Over Ticket Quota Remark Portland-fllPD-A state patrol man said today he understood charges were being preferred against him as outgrowth of assertions made by State Rep. Richard Groener last week that state officers have been ordered to write a certain quota of tickets for traffic violations.. Officer Robert Wampler said he was ordered to ac- Hospital Building Sale Near Complete The sale of the old com munity hospital building on East Main st., is "pretty well settled," Thomas J. Hight, Medford realtor who is hand ling the transaction, revealed today. Two brothers from Rose burg, Claude H. and Harold A. Esselstrom, are the pur chasers, Hight said. "The planning commission and the city council approved everything they asked," Hight explained. These groups last week interpreted the city's zoning ordinance in a way permitting the offices uses be ing considered. Hight said a local archi tect is being hired in order to plan interior and exterior remodeling of the building. He said he expected the final papers to be signed in about a week. He declined to state the purchase price. Far East correspondent has lust m,ri. China. This is the third of fiv Red China, today. It is written from pony a lieutenant to the office of State Police Supt. H. G. Maison Monday and "was told charges were being preferred. Wampler said he was "com pletely in the dark as to the nature of the charges." He said he had been called into the office at Milwaukee and asked if he had anything to do with the statements made by Groener. He said he re plied that he did not. In Salem, Maison said that no charges are preferred against any member of the department except for Just cause. He said if any charges were made it would be for violation of rules and regu lations. Honest Day's Work Regarding Groener's charge that state officers have been ordered to write a certain quota of traffic tickets Maison' said "all we expect is for a man to do an honest day's work." Groener said he had statements from several offi cers that they have been pres sured into making a quota of traffic arrests. Neuberger Proposes Medical Year Program Washington-UPD-Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) has proposed an International Medical Year to "mobilize all the world's skills, knowl edge and facilities for an all out onslaught" against dis ease. The proposal was pub lished Monday in a magazine article by Neuberger,
