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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1958
No. 167
53rd Year
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HANDFUL OF DUST-Orie Moore, Jack- as Ted Gerow, from the state air pollution
son county sanitary official (left) checks a authority (right), compares it with a clean
glass-fibre filter clogged with Medford dust filter. ,
Two Officials
Conduct Study
Of Local Dust
Mop-wielding hou sewives
might well be appalled at the
activities of two officials here
last week. These men were
actually setting out, with the
latest in scientific equipment,
to gather dust.
Orie Moore, a sanitarian
with the Jackson, county
health department, and Ted
Gerow, sanitary engineer
with the state air pollution
authority, were measuring
the amount of dust floating
In the local atmosphere as
part of a statewide study.
Two measuring devices
were installed,- onetopCity
Hall and one at the airport.
For one week, these devices
sucked air through glass-fibre
filters that winnowed out dust
particles. Moore and Gerow
checked them daily and in
stalled new filters.
Total weight of the particles
on the filter, along with the
volume of air that bore them
and the elapsed time, yields
figures for the amount of
dust per cubic foot.
Parts of the dust-choked
filters are analyzed by various
chemical means to determine
the nature of the dust.
A report on the air-pollu-tinn
situation here with rec
ommendations for its improve
ment is expected by tne ena
of the month, Gerow said.
Such recommendations, he
said, are helpful to commun
ities interested in drawing up
an ordinance to control pollu
tion, t
Gerow said that cities are
encouraged to conduct long
term studies on their own to
develop more accurate data.
But, he said, such programs
can be expensive.
Diplomats Meet
Amid Pessimism
Warsaw - (CPU - The U. S.
and Red Chinese ambassadors
to Poland met for 2 hours and
35 minutes yesterday and then
set another meeting for next
Friday amid growing pessi
mism over any early settle
ment in the Formosa crisis
talks.
The negotiations in the pal
ace in the park are being held
in secret. And as usual, nei
ther America's Jacob Beam
nor Peiping's Wang Ping-Nan
would comment on the discus
sions or give any explanation
for the week-long delay for
the next session.
The meeting was the sixth
between Beam and Wang here
and one of the longest.
Western observers said the
fact they planned to wait six
days before meeting again ad
ded to speculation that the
talks have reached a stage
where they might drag on
for some time.
In London, diplomatic
sources said that Peiping had
refused to guarantee the safe
passage of any troops the Chi
nese Nationalists might agree
to withdraw from their gar
risons on the Quemoy and
TI-itsu Islands.
The sources said the refus
al of a "safe conduct" was
made by Wang in the War
saw talks. Such a guarantee
was reported to be one of the
prime American conditions
for an agreement.
ce Answers Attack
On Formosa Policy
Washington -(UPD- President
Eisenhower yesterday bluntly
told Democratic opponents of
his controversial Formosa
Strait policy that their, at
tacks might make a war "al
most inevitable."
He took this stand in a
bristling letter to Chairman
Theodore Francis Green (D
R. I.) of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee. Green,
in a letter to Eisenhower on
Sept. 29, had voiced doubt
that the American people or
U. S. allies would support
military action by this coun
try to defend Quemoy island
just off the Chinese mainland
from Red Chinese attack.
-"The--President,? obviously
rankled by Green's criticism,
replied in an 800-word letter
that he "deeply deplores the
effect upon hostile forces of a
statement that if we became
engaged in battle, the United
States would be defeated be
cause of disunity at home.
"If that were believed, it
would embolden our enemies
and make almost inevtiable
the conflict which, I am sure,
we both seek to avoid, pro
vided it can be avoided con
sistently with the honor and
security of our country," Eis
enhower said.
Football Scores
EAST
Dartmouth 13. Pennsyl
vania. Princeon 43, Columbia 8. '
Holly Cross 14. Syracuse 13.
Navy 28, Boston Univer
sity 14.
Army 26. . Pennesylvania
Stale 0.
Brown 35, Yale 29.
Cornell 21. Harvard 14.
SOUTHWEST
Texas A&M 12 Missouri
0
. Oklahoma 6, Oregon 0.
Notre Dame 14, Southern
Methodist 6.
WEST-
Wyomirg 15. Denver 12.
California 34, Washington
Slate 14.
Oregon State 14. UCLA 0.
Texas Christian 12, Ark
ansas 7.
Miami (Fla.) 14. Baylor 8.'
Purdue 24. Rice 0.
Texas 12. Texas Tech 7.
Tulsa 34, Arizona 0.
SOUTH
Tampa U. 19 Western
Carolina 12
Alabama 0 Vanderbilt 0
Florida St. 27 Wake For
est 24
Davidson 8 Citadel 6
Mississippi 21, Trinity
(Tex.) 0.
Clemson 8, Maryland 0.
Georgia Tech 14, Tulane 0.
Duke 15. Illinois 13.
MIDWEST
Toledo 13 Louisville 7
Bowling Green 25 Day
Ion 0
Michigan State 12, Michi
gan 12.
' Northwestern 28, Stanford
0.
. Ohio Slate 12. Washington
7.
Pittsburgh 13. Minnesota
7.
Iowa 13, Air Force Acad
emy 13.
Nebraska 7. Iowa State 6.
Utah State 20. Kansas
State 13.
Wisconsin 50. Marquette 0.
NORTHWEST
Lewis and Clark 60.
Southern Oregon 13
Western Washington 21.
Whit worth 6
He said he felt "beyond the
shadow of a doubt that if the
United States became engaged
in hostilities on account of the
evil and aggressive assaults of
the forces of Communism, the
American people would unite
as one to assure the success
and triumph of our effort."
He also told Green he was
"misinformed" if he meant
that "United States action in
standing firm against armed
assault would not have the
approval of our allies."
. "Not only do I believe that
our friends and allies would
support the United States if
hostilities should tragically,
and against our will, be forced
upon us," he said. "I believe
that most of them would- be
appalled if the United States
were spinelessly to retreat be
fore the threat of Sino-Soviet
armed aggression."
Green said "this is encour
aging and may be attributable
in part to various expressions
of the kind to which I have
given voice." He added that
there has been "widespread
public concern lest our posi
tion in the Far East has been
too aggressive" and said he
welcomed the President's let
ter. Safety Award
For Schools Here
A certificate of achieve
ment for school traffic safety
education in the Medford
schools has been announced
by the Medford Safety Coun
cil. The presentation of the
award will.be made at spe
cial ceremonies scheduled for
October 17 in Medford.
Governor Robert D. Holmes
is expected to make the pre
sentation on behalf of the Na
tional Safety Council.
The achievement award is
made by the national council
on the basis of the annual in
ventory of traffic safety ac
tivities for 1957.
The inventory was re
viewed by a national commit
tee of specialists in school
safety education who rated
the Medford report at 84 per
cent of currently recommend
ed performance. This is re
portedly one of the highest
ratings awarded for cities in
its class.
Hunter Succumbs
To Heart Attack
Ormell O. Standard, 59, of
Mapleton, apparently died of
a heart attack while hunting
in Klamath county yesterday,
it was reported. He collapsed
near Mt. Goodlow. He died en
route to a hospital.
Another hunter, Einor Fred
Mickelson, 16, Bridal Veil,
was reported in "pretty good"
condition at McMinnville Gen
eral hospital after being shot
through the leg by a hunting
companion, Donald Robert
Jeffers, 15, of Portland.
He was wounded while
hunting in the Tillamook burn
area a quarter mile east of
Camp Murphy, state police
said.
Sports Bulletin
Malin beat St. Mary's
13-0 at Medford Saturday
night.
ilish Jets
Begin Service
Across Atlantic
One Sets New Record
For Eastbound Flight
New York (DPD Two sleek
British airplanes blazed a new
trail over the Atlantic yester
day with the first commercial
jet passenger flights.
One British Overseas Air
ways corporation Comet IV
set an Eastbound passenger
plane record of 6 hours and
12 minutes. It left New York
at 7:01 a.m. EDT and landed
in London at 1:13 p.m. EDT.
The other Comet made the
trip from London to New
York in the elapsed time of
10 hours and 20 minutes, in
cluding a refueling stop of'l
hour and 10 minutes at Gan
der, Nfld. The plane left Lon
don at 4:55 a.m. (EDT) and
landed at New York's Idle
wild International airport at
3:15 p.m. (EDT).
The actual flying time from
London to New York was 9
hours and two minutes.
This' fel Ishort of the mark
of a Pan American World Air
ways 707 jet plane that ar
rived at Idlewild airport on a
shakedown flight from Lon
don in a flying time of 7 hours
and 58 minutes.
The Pan American plane
left London at 6:42 a.m. (EDT)
and landed here at 3:40 p.m.
It made a fueling stop of 1
hour and 18 minutes at Kef
lavik, Iceland.
. The flights trimmed the av
erage time pf the conventional
propeller - driven, piston-engine
planes by about one third.
The Eastbound piston-engine
flights usually take about
IOV2 hours and the West
bound usually take about 13
hours.
Pacific T. & T.
Of Center Here
An open house and tent
show at Pacific Telephone's
Medford central office at 502
North Cential street. October
22, 23 and 24, has been an
nounced by J. H. Creager, the
company's manager here.
"It's the first time that we
have been able to invite the
general public into our North
Central building to take a
look behind scenes at the tele
phone nerve center for Jack
son county," Creager said.
Open house visitors will
have the opportunity of view
ing the complex dial switch
ing ing equipment in the cen
tral office and hearing guides
explain its operation. The
swithboard where operators
handle long distance calls will
be another point of interest
on the guided tours.
In addition, a huge tent will
be set up in the company
parking lot next to the central
office. It will hold an array
of special telephone exhibits
and demonstrations.
Invitations to the open
house are in the mail this
week to telephone users in
Medford, Ashland, Central
Point, Jacksonville, Phoenix
Talent and Gold Hill. Every
one is invited Creager added.
He said open house hours
on the three days will be from
to 4 p.m. in the afternoons,
and from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in
the evenings.
Fund Drive Starts
For CP. Stadium
Central Point - A drive to
raise funds for Crater High
school stadium completion
will start here Monday at
6:30 p.m. when -members of
the Central Point Junior
Chamber of Commerce and
Crater student body begin
door to door sale of Pepsi
Cola throughout School Dis
trict 6C.
Nineteen teams of Jaycees
and students plan to cover the
entire district in about three
hours. The soft drink will sell
for SI per bottle with' pro
ceeds to go toward construc
tion of a grandstand and in
stallation of lights.
This project, first of a num
ber through the year, will con
tinue through Saturday, Oct.
11.
Washington - (UPD - The
rocket powered x-15 in which
man will attempt his first
flight to the edges of space
will be rolled from the as
sembly line on Oct. 15, the
Air Force announced yester
Three
lira- CoDnfemao. Iraslh
Medford Youth
Killed By Bullet
On Hunting Jaunt
Frankie Elmer Lane, 14, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert H.
Lane, 2984 Buckshot rd., Med
ford, was fatally injured in
a hunting accident about 6V&
miles northeast of Medford
about 1 p.m. Saturday, state
police and sheriff's deputies
said.
The accident happened be
tween Roxy Ann and Little
Roxy Ann where a party of
three boys were resting. The
League Announces
Candidates Fair
Governor Robert Holmes,
Representative Charles O.
Porter and contender Paul E.
Geddes will be in Medford
Friday, Oct. 17, for the bien
nial Candidates' fair sponsor
ed by the Medford League of
Women Voters, Mrs. Thomas
Rutter, fair chairman, an
nounced yesterday.
Democrats and Republicans
will join forces with the
league to present state, coun
ty, and city candidates to
Jackson county voters on a
face-to-face basis, Mrs.: Rut
ter emphasized.
State and county candidtes
will have individual booths so
voters can meet and question
them. Judicial candidates will
share a "nonpartisan" booth,
and city candidates will also
share a central booth.
Set for 8' p.m., the fair will
be held in the gymnasium of
Hedrick Junior High school.
' J? ' , tfi U t--i inr- l i
SCOREBOARD Edward J. Warmoth,
state traffic safety representative, gives
Medford officials a rundown on the city's
1957 traffic safety record. Medford scored
Traffic Safety Inventory
Recommends Improvements
The "Annual Inventory of
Traffic Safety Activities" for
1957 presented to Medford
officials Thursday includes a
series of recommendations for
improvement of the local traf
fic safety program.
The inventory, a study pre
pared by the National Safety
council and other national
safety organizations, was dis
cussed by Edward J. War
moth, manager of the traffic
safety division of the state de
partment of motor vehicles.
Warmoth emphasized a
number of the inventory's rec
ommendations, including one
for a pedestrian safety en
forcement program accom
panied by "intensive public
safety education activity."
Another recommendation of
particular interest is for an
increase in off-street parking
facilities.
scene was uphill from the
junction of Coker Butte and
Foothills rds.
Officers said young Lane
was shot in the lower abdo
men by Earl Thomas Dalton,
14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
C. Dalton, of 1900 Spring st.,
Medford, who was checking
the safety device when it dis
charged. 1 ; ,
The gun was 'a Winchester
30-30 ealiber rifle. Police said
the boys stopped to rest along
a power line. Young Lane
and Dalton were sitting across
from each other.
When they prepared to
leave, and before Frankie
Lane got up, young Dalton
was going to check his gun.
He pulled the hammer back,
officers said, to see if it was
on safety. Apparently the
boy's hand slipped and the
rifle discharged.
Officers said young Lane
died soon after he was wound
ed. John Walter Stroup, 15,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Stroup, of 2924 Buckshot rd.,
Medford, the third member of
the party, was a witness, of
ficers said. . Both Dalton and
Stroup had guns, police said,
but young Lane did 'not.
The incident was reported
to police , by Mrs. F. W. Nel
son, who said there was a
shooting to the rear of her
place near the Coker Butte
and Foothills rds.
Funeral arrangements will
be announced by Conger-Morris,
funeral directors.
With respect to police traf
fic supervision, it is suggested
that the total strength of the
city police force be increased
in proportion to population
growth and that efforts be
made to concentrate police
control at critical locations
and at critical times during
the day.
Three recommendations are
submitted for public traffic
safety education. These in
cluded maintaining a score
board on the current traffic
toll, displaying traffic safety
posters and devoting more
time to planning in the light
of local accident records.
Three recommendations are
made also for school pro
grams, among them one that
six hours of practice driving
instruction be' given in addi
tion to 30 hours of classroom
Teamster
U. S. Supporting
NAACP's Petition
Little Rock, Ark-flJPD-The
Federal1' government- joined
the National Association for
Colored People yesterday in
an effort to have the Little
Rock school board forbidden
to let a corporation have four
closed high schools for priv
ate, segregated' operation.
The government went to
the court in support of a peti
tion for injunction by the
73 last year, against 70 in 1956. The bar
graph compares scores in specific categor
ies,' the black representing 1957 results.
instruction for all eligible
students.
Parent-teacher and school
community safety committees
are also recommended. A third
suggestion is the institution of
a reporting system in non-public
schools for keeping track
of traffic accidents involving
school-age children.
In the traffic engineering
category, the study recom
mends more time on adminis
tration,' surveys and investi
gations, as well as on main
tenance of signs, signals and
other control devices.
In its evaluation of the Med
ford Safety council, the in
ventory cites the council's
"lac kof a written statement
of general operating policies
and written program objec
tives to guide committee activities."
Spired
Copyright. 1958, The Pulitzer Publlihln Co
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
National Association for Ad
vancement of Colored People.
More than 3,000 high school
children in Little Rock were
to begin their sixth week
without ciasses Monday.
The school board is now un
der an Eighth Court of Ap
peal's restraining order, which
it handed down last Monday.
The restraining order, "expir
ing Monday, forbids the school
board to turn the schools over
to the Little Rpck private
school corporation.
The appeals court, meeting
in St. Louis Monday, will
hear the NAACP'S and gov
ernment's petitions to make
the restraining order an in
junction, which is a legal in
strument of more forceful and
lasting nature.
The decision of the court is
the next landmark in the
Little Rock integration crisis.
It is generally expected to be
in favor of the NAACP.
The Little Rock, private
schools corporation, which is
taking contributions to estab
lish classes in private build
ings and homes, is waiting un
til Monday ,to see what the
court does before trying to put
its new plan into operation.
The corporation leased the
four high school buildings,
hoping to use them. But the
Eighth Circuit Court of Ap
peals stopped transfer of the
buildings with the restraining
order to the school board.
President's Health
Called 'Excellent'
Washington -J1UP0-. President
Eisenhower's doctors said yes
terday he is in "an excellent
state of health."
The report was issued after
the chief executive underwent
a complete physical examin
ation at the Walter Reed
Army Medical center.
Maj. Gen. Leonard D. Hea-
ton, commanding officer of
the Medical Center and one
of those who examined the
President, told reporters the
results of the checkup were
"fine best yet."
WEATHER
FORECAST: Continued fair,
warm and dry through Mon
day. High both days 90-92.
Low tonight 45.
TEMP.
Hightest Saturday 94
Lowest Saturday morning . 45
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 5:47 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 6:13 a.m.
The Moon, at Last
Quarter 5:20 p.m.
rises tonight at 11:13 pjn.
PROMINENT STARS
The Twins, rise 11:16 p.m.
north of the Moon.
Betelgeuse, low in 11:37 p.m.
Betelgeuse, low in '
east 11:37 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS'
Saturn, low in south
west 7:47 p.m.
Mars, high in south
west 4:42 a.m.
Monrovia Blaze
Destroys Cabins,
Over 8,000 Acres
Another Threatens
Powder Plant, Oil
Monrovia, Calif. (DPD
Three major brush fires total
ing more than 13,000 acres
raged out of control in wide
ly separated sections of heat
stricken southern California
last night.
One of the latest blazes to
start up yesterday vied with
the other two for recognition
by having a powder plant in
its path. It was located near
Newhall, about 40 miles north
of Los Angeles, and also was
less than a half mile from an
oil refinery.
It was out of control over
1,000 acres of tinder-dry
brushland.
The other major fire to
spring up late yesterday was
a 3,500-acre blaze near Eti
wanda in San Bernardino
county about 60 miles east
of Los Angeles. It also was
out of control late last night.
Biggest Blaze
The biggest blaze started
here by two small boys play
ing with matches grew to
8,400 acres as it roared un
controlled into its fourth
night. In addition to eight
homes destroyed earlier, the
fire last night razed a handful
of week end cabins which
firemen said were "impos
sible to save because they
were located far back into the
brush."
At the Newhall blaze, fire
authorities said the Hercules
powder plant appeared in no
serious danger, but that units
were sent to stand by and wet
down the ground around it if
flames got too close. At the
same time they pointed out
the plant is of "bunker" type
construction with semi-underground
cement storage rooms
and "heat-tight doors."
The Newhall Oil Refinery
was less than a mile from
flames, but firemen said it
was unlikely it would be en
dangered because brush nor
mally is cut out for half a
mile around it.
Numerous Brush Fires
The Monrovia fire was the
biggest of numerous brush
fires in heat-stricken southern
California, which one fire of
ficial declared is "considered
to have just the fastest-burn
ing ground cover in the
world."
Fire authoritties estimated
this blaze, which has destroy
ed eight homes and millions
of dollars of precious water
shed, had a perimeter of 66
miles, two-thirds of which is
raging unchecked.
The other third was gener
ally along the south side of
the fire where homes, many
of them expensive estates,
have, been built up into the
mouths of numerous canyons
which range parallel to each
other along the San Gabriel
foothills. This is the side
which fire spokesmen said
now was "pretty well con
tained" by the mass firefight-
ing equipment concentrated
there.
At Least A Thousand Mea
The uncontrolled sections
were mainly to the north and
east in unpopulated areas of
the upper foothills and can
yons about one-quarter of a
mile from dwellings. At least
a thousand men were on the
lines.
Fire chiefs heading units
which poured in here from
throughout the state after the
Governor declared this a "dis
aster area Friday, declined
after another day of heat
wave conditions to estimate
when it might be controlled.
Temperatures ranging into the "
lUus again yesterdav in manv
areas, with Los Aneeles. some
30 miles west, recording 99.
Portland -UPD- Sen. Rich
ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), is
making a satisfactory return
to normal health" after sur
gery last month for removal
of a small malignant tumor,
his physicians said yesterday.
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