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Newspaper Page TextJ mm CONSTRUCTION TO START-Development of Medford's SlVi million shopping center, located at Jackson st. and Biddle rd., will be in high gear within a week or so as con struction crews and equipment are moved in, according to reports. Workmen have already laid out the corner forms (see arrows) for Jhe 75,000 square foot Sears Roebuck and company building and erection of the construction office wild Cays Air Force CI 23 Falls in Idaho; 19 Persons Die Payette, Idaho - (UPD - An Air Force . C123 transport plane that crashed Thursday night killing 19 persons may have been disabled by a flock of geese, witnesses said today. The plane, en route from Pope AFB, N.C., to McCord Field, Tacoma, Wash., plum meted to earth at dusk Thurs day after it knifed through a formation of wild geese. An explosion and fire fol lowed the crash which occur red on the CVaude Smith ranch about 10 miles east of this farming center on the Idaho-Oregon border. Withhold Casualty List Air Force officials with held the casualty list pending identification of the bodies and notification of next of kin. The plane had made a re fnoilinff stoD at Hill AFB, near Ogden, Utah and had checked in with the Civil Aeronautics Administration fnwer at Boise. Idaho, less than a half hour before it came to grief. The Boise tnwr said no message was received from the plane in dicating any dif f lculties. . 1 ne cA A said -the nlane was on course for Tacoma when it crashed. One of the eye witnesses, Flriro Gissell. who operates a ranch about four miles from the crash scene, said he saw ihf. nlane flv through a string of about 200 to 250 geese at an estimated height of aDoui 2,000 feet. The area is on the north-south "flyway" for wild geese and other migrant wild fowl. Knifes Toward Ground "The formation of geese broke up and the birds flew in all directions, honking wildly," Gissell related. "Then I heard the plane's engines stutter and the plane seemed to go into a stall and spin. 'For a brief moment, the engines roared wide open and the plane seemed to pull up. Then it .knifed down toward the ground. A moment later I heard the explosion." County Stockmen Seek Study of Vets Office The Oregon Cattlemen's as sociation will be asked to ap point a committee to study the situation involving the operation of the state veterin arian's office and the division of animal industries, accord ing to a motion passed by the Jackson County Stockmen's association last night. The OSA will be asked to make this in the form of a resolution. County stockmen agreed last night that the group does not know enough about the conflicts between the two departments. In another development, a further statement is expected some time today from Robert Steward, director of the state department of agriculture and will stand on the controversy ami answering any charges mfde against the department, n n Possible ess off f lame Displays Planned At Candidates Fair Maps of the Rogue river basin and projected recrea tional areas, architectural drawings of the detention home, county farm buildings, and the recent off-street park ing proposal in Medford, are among wall displays planned at the Candidates Fair at Hed rick Junior High school gym nasium next Friday. The Fair is being sponsored by the Medford League of Women Voters, and is being planned so voters may meet state, county and city candi- 150 Expected at Conference Here About 150 delegates are ex pected to attend the ninth an nual conference of the Na tional Forest Recreation as sociation at the Jackson hotel hotel here Nov. 18-20. The association is made up of operators of lodges and re sorts in national forests in 12 states, all of them in the west. E.. L. Tedrick, operator of Union Creek resort m Rogue River National forest, and chairman of the program, said participants in the conference will include J. Herbert Stone, regional forester of the for est service, Portland. A field trip in southern Oreeon is beiing arranged by Carrol Brown, superivor of Rogue River National forest, Tedrick said. Forest service officials from San Francisco and Washington, D.C., also are expected to attend. Directors of the association will meet Nov. 17, the day be fore the conference officially opens. Siskiyou Paving Job Almost Completed Paving crews are scheduled to complete work on Siskiyou blvd. near the new Hoover school today, according to Medford Public Works Direc tor Vernon Thorpe. Crews paving Hamilton st. should also finish today, Thorpe said. according to Ward Spatz, member of the state agricul ture advisory board. Spatz said a meeting was held by telephone this morn ing between Steward in Salem and the various board mem bers scattered throughout the state. A statement was agreed upon then, Spatz said. K. J. (Pete) Peterson, re signed as state veterinarian Tuesday, stating in his letter of resignation th.at "Under the present administration it .is impossible for me to conduct a sound animal disease pro gram or a sound meat inspec tion program." Slate veterinarians had been backing Peterson in his demand that his department be removed from the jurisdic tion of the division of animal industry headed by M. E. Knickerbocker. f r W 2&L fill 8?m1 Ej J 1 .1-If IfJ ial t i&.N?ra. ?J I La U! I Pi U (foreground above) was expected to be completed Saturday. Going up at the same time as the Sears building will be a large Safeway store, located further east on the 28.3 acre plot. Construction of the project was held up this summer due to some changes in plans, but no further delays are an ticipated, reports stated. Development of the center is the construction firm Buttress and McClellan, Inc., Los Angeles. Crash dates and obtain information Concerning measures which will appear on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. Mrs. Thomas Rutter, chair man of the League's voter service committee, said booths will include a ",oter I-Q test," a United Nations booth, and a straw ballot operated by radio station KMED, which will be broadcast from the Fair. Information Sheet The Voters' Information Sheet, appeared by the state League of Women Voters, will be on sale for 10 cents per copy. The sheet contains pro and con information material on measures on the November ballot. The Fair will start at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17. Meanwhile, Gov. Robert D. Holmes has confirmed that he will attend the Candidates' Fair. He and Mrs. Holmes will arrive in Medford Friday morning, Oct. 17, and leave Saturday morning. The Holmes' schedule in cludes a luncheon in Grants Pass, a safety award presen tation at the Medford YMCA, a tea for Mrs. Holmes at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Duncan, a tour of local mills, a dinner sponsored by the Democratic Social club, and a breakfast at the - home of Gordon Hudson Saturday morning. Red China Urged To Extend Truce Warsaw - (UPD - U.S. Am bassador Jacob Beam was to urge Communist China today to extend the Formosa Strait cease fire indefinitely, Wash ington reports disclosed. Beam and Chinese Commu nist Ambassador Wang Ping nan were meeting today for the seventh time. It was the 80th in the series of Sino American talks that began in Geneva three years ago. . Since the last talk Red China anonunced a one-week cease fire f4r "humanitarian" reasons and proposed direct talks between the Peiping and Formosa governments. Today Communist China called on the United States to prove its good intentions toward China by withdrawing all of its armed forces from Formosa and the Formosa Strait. Buildings on Central Reported Entered A typewriter, adding ma chine, electric drill and mis cellaneous tools were taken Wednesday night from a stor age room and workshop at 119 North Central ave.. ac cording to the report Medford police received from Almus Pruitt of that address.' The First Baptist church, 142 North Central ave.. was entered that same night, po lice said. But according to Rev. James Whyte Neely, pastor, nothing was taken. Washington -(UPD-The Agri culture Department estimates the 1958 corn crop at 3,686, 218,000 bushels. Grants Pass Man Found Innocent By Federal Jury A federal court jury found Walter E. Wendgren, Grants Pass, innocent of income tax evasion late Thursday follow ing two hours of deliberation. Wendgren, owner of the Better Roofing company, Grants Pass, was represented by Elbert L. Mikesell, Grants Pass attorney, in the trial which started Tuesday. The jury of eight women and four men was empaneled Tuesday, along with another jury which is scheduled Mon day to hear the case of the U. S. Government versus Rob ert Doland, Grants Pass. U. S. Attorney Robert Snashall, Portland, will present the gov ernment's case with Lawrence Aschenbrenner, Grants Pass, attorney for the defense. Three witnesses appeared for the defense Wednesday and Thursday, .including Mr and Mrs. Wendgren. More than 10 witnesses testified for the government. The government charged that Wendgren filed a false return with the intent of de frauding the federal govern ment. He was charged with filing three tax returns for the years 1951, il952, and 1953, for $310 total when he should have paid $3,700. Robert R. Carney, Portland, assistant U. S. attorney, pre sented the government's case. Distortion of Reports Charged Washington-fflPD-The United States accused Red China to day of putting out "distorted" reports about the Warsaw ne gotiations on the Quemoy cri sis. State Department spokes man Lincoln White made the statement in denying reports that the U.S. received from Communist China 10 days ago a message preparing the way for a ceasefire at Quemoy. The report said the message, transmitted by Norway, show ed the Reds were willing to negotiate a temporary settle ment of hostilities on the off shore islands. White flatly denied this. But he added that the U.S. has "been discussing the Tai wan Strait situation with many of our Free World friends." Some of these friends, in turn, he said "have been discussing it with the Chinese Communists, who have been giving them a dis torted report on the Warsaw negotiations." Special Deputies Named by Sheriff Special deputies were ap Dointed bv Sheriff Howard Gault last night to enforce boating regulations on rivers and lakes in Jackson county, according to Joe Walsh, chief criminal deputy. Some of the members of the Rogue Aqua Ski club, a re cently formed organization, were made deputies at a meet ing in the Girls' Community club. An estimated 20 people attended, Walsh said. Annointment of the special deputies is looking toward the eventual development of rec reation facilities in the Talent project reservoirs, Walsh said. Los Angeles -flJPD- The wife of Pancho Gonzales, world professional tennis champion, held out hope today for a reconciliation with her hus- Lband if he becomes more mature." 53rd Year Medford 24 Pages Unemployment Down by 588,000 - r During September Figure Reaches New Low for Year Washington - (UPD Unem ployment in the United States dropped by 588,000 in Sep tember to a 1958 low of 4,- 111,000, the government re ported today. A joint report by the Labor and Commerce departments said September saw "a signifi cant improvement in the job situation," especially for men. Hiring Brisk "Hiring was especially brisk in automobile plants and steel mills, and among producers of home appliances," the re port said. The sharp drop in the job less total was about double the decrease that would have been normal on the basis of customary seasonal changes. But, the report continued, because of the traditional re turn to school of students and an early autumn lull in farm activity total employment dropped by 738,000 last month to 64,629,000. Weekly Earnings Rise . Meanwhile average weekly earnings of factory produc tion workers rose by 82 cents to an all-time high of $85.17. This increase was attributed to a boost in hourly wage rates and a seasonal expansion in the average factory work week to 39.8 hours. The big drop in the jobless total pushed down the pro portion of the labor force still unemployed from 7.6 per cent in August to 7.2 per cent in September. . While the report was the most favorable since the re cession began a year ago, the official figures showed that unemployment last month was still 1,559,000 higher than in September, 1957.-The employ ment total was down 1045,- 000 from a year ago.' 100th Anniversary Of Transcontinental Mail Observed San Francisco - (UPD - A stagecoach, carrying mail from the East, rattled into San Francisco today after a 25-day, 2800-mile journey from Tipton, Mo. A short time earlier a Navy Skywarrior jet bomb er took off with mail for Si. Louis - a flight of about three hours. The long haul and the short flight marked the 100th anniversary of tip first successful establish ment . of transcontinental mail, which linked Califor nia with the rest of the country. . Fourth Nuclear Shot Exploded Atomic Test Site, Nev. -(UPD-A 100-foot tower disin tegrated early today as a brief, but fierce fireball ex ploded just after dawn in the fourth full-scale shot of the Atomic Energy Commission's final announced test series. The AEC's, first tower shot on . American soil this year, "Quay," named for a New Mexico county near Los Ala mos, exploded with the force of less than a single kiloton over Yucca Flat at 6:30 a.m. (p.s.t.). AEC officials called it a "small" shot. Observers on News Nob, some 11 miles from ground zero, said the sub-kiloton deto nation was exploded to prove the AEC's expectation that ."certain" procedures in nu clear blast could be observed from a -stationary platform. Mekvold Attending National Meeting Alfr B. Mekvold, , Jackson county school superintendent, left Thursday for Minneapolis, Minn., to attend the week long meeting of the 13th na tional conference of county and rural area superintend ents. Mekvold, president of the Oregon Association of School Superintendents, will lead a discussion on the topic of "Elements of Quality Educa tion." Mekvold plans to return Oct. 21. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1958 IBd v u IP pe Pays Tokein) T Voft Dcoim ion People View Procession To Eternal City Saturday Starts Nine Days of Mourning Vatican City-WPD-Pope Pius XII returned in death to Vat ican City tonight, mourned by millions and honored with all the panoply of the Roman Catholic church. The body of the late pon tiff crossed the border into the Vatican State as dusk was falling. It was borne in a long and solemn procession from Castel Gandolfo, "where he died Thursday, into Rome and A Solemn Requiem High -Mass at 11 a.m. next Thurs day will be read at Sacred Heart Catholic church here in mourning of the death of Pope Pius XII, the Rey. Carl Mai. priest of the church, announced today. then across the Eternal City before the eyes of a million watchers. Placed Before Altar At precisely 6:06 p.m. (9:06 a.m. p.s.t.) members of the Sediari the men who carried his ceremonial gestatorial chair in life bore the Pope's casket through the portals of St. Peter's Basilica and placed it before the majestic Altar jot .the Concession. . wr The crimson-shrouded cas ket was laid on a catafalque in the heart of the great church the largest' in the world. Its arrival there was a prelude to nine days, of mourning and funeral cere monies of the church he head ed for more than 19 years. The nine days start Saturday. An immense procession, rich with the age-old forms of the church of Rome and the honors of state, escorted the pontiff's body to the basilica through streets packed with Romans and visitors. The silence of the throngs and the immensity of their number as the cortege carried the Pope's body from the Ba silica of St. John in Lateran to St. Peter's Square in Vatican City was accentuated by the tolling bells of the many churches of the Eternal City. Here, inside the great Ba silica of St. Peter's prayers for the Pope will be said and the final rites and ceremonies will be followed as the bady lies in state in full regalia for the veneration of the thou sands who will file past the bier. ! On Monday, the 82-year-old pontiff will be buried in the vaults beneath the church. (See stories on page 9) Nationalist, Red Planes in Dogfight Taipeh-dJPD-Chinese Nation alist Sabrejets, outnumbered more than three to one, shot down four Communist MIGs and damaged two today in a 25-minute dogfight near the Matsu outpost islands, the Na tionalist Defense Ministry an nounced. A fifth MIG and a Sabrejet collided and crashed in flames into the Formosa Strait, the ministry said, adding that no Sabres were shot down. The Communist radio, de scribing what apparently was the same battle, said the Reds shot down two Sabrejets and damaged a third in a dogfight over Fukien Province." The broadcast made no mention of Red losses. . Dulles, Two Others To Attend Pope's Rites Gettysburg, Pa. (UPD Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles and two other prom inent Americans were, named by President Eisenhower to day to represent him at the funeral of Pope Pius XII. Accompanying Dulles will be Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, former Ambassador to Italy, and John A. McCone, chair man of the Atomic Energy Commission. Tine -Now All Candidates Named McKinley" O&C Fund Formula Change Discussed An organizational meeting of 40 educators and interested persons from the 18 O and C counties was held "in Rose burg Wednesday. The group discussed matters regarding proposed changes in the dis iribution formula-by which O and C funds are distributed and matters where- the. basic school distribution formula is applied. School Closure Law Appealed to Court Little Rock, Ark-(UPD-Law-yer Kenneth Coffelt appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court today a case that could deprive Gov. Orvai E. Faubus of the law under which he closed Little Rock's four pub lic high schools. Coffelt filed his appeal in the civil court. The clerk has 90 days within which to send the record' of the case to the Arkansas Supreme Court for review. But Coffelt said he doubt ed that it will take 90 days "because it will be carried on as expeditiously as possible." The case involves Act 4, which a special session of the Legislature passed late in Au gust as part of Faubus' anti integration "package." Fau bus signed it into law Sept. 12. Jupiter Missile Launching Failure Cape Canaveral, Fla.-IUPD- A safety officer flipped a switch to destroy an Army Jupiter seconds after, launch ing late Thursday night and the intermediate range missile plunged back onto the cape in a spectacular failure. The Jupiter, in hot compe tition with the Air Force's Thor for the role of the na tion's 1,500-mile range ballis tic missle, exploded twice be fore slamming onto a vacant field. The failure of the 69-foot long Jupiter must have come as a sharp disappointment to the Army, which still hopes to have the missile chosen over the Thor' even though the Air Force has been as signed use of all intermediate range weapons. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 45. High Saturday 80. Temp. Highest Yesterday 79 Lowest this Morning 46 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:39 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:19 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 4:52 a.m. New Moon Sunday PROMINENT STARS Deneb, high overhead 7:32 p.m. Fomalhaut, due south 9:47 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, low in south west 7:29 p.m. Mars, kigh In south- east 1:31 a.m. Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 172 We Need Is Some The group met to appoint a committee to study possible legislation wnich would re duce school monies to O and C counties where the basic school distribution formula is applied. i Opposed to Legislation : ihe 18 Oregon counties that receive O and C monies are opposed to proposed legi slation approved by the state legislative education interim committee. One of the sug gestions by the interim com mittee was to include 25. per cent of O and C land receipts in the money to which the basic school distribution for mula would apply. This would literally eliminate the equal ized money received by the county from the state school support fund, it was reported. Attending the meeting from Jackson county were County Judge Rodney Keating, mem ber of the Association of O and C counties; Dr. Leonard M a y f i e Id, superintendent, Medford schools, who acted as chairman of the meeting; John Harr, superintendent, Rogue River; Glenn Hale, superintendent, Eagle Point; Alf B. Mekvold, Jackson county school superintendent; and Gerald Latham, school board member who attended as legislative member of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. A committee of nine per sons were selected at the meeting to work with the As sociation of O and C counties on educational matters. Ap pointed from Jackson county were Dr. Mayfield and Latham. . A telegram was sent by the county court today to the O and C legislative commit tee meeting in Portland to day stating that the court is opposed to any change in the distribution of O and,C tim ber sale receipts, members of the county court said. 1 Art, Crafts Exhibit Planned at Open House An art show and an exhibi tion of crafts will be featured at an open house Sunday be tween 1 and 5 p.m. at the recently established Senior Activity Center at 601 East Jackson st. at the corner of Hawthorne ave. The center, one of the first of its kind in Oregon, will be operated by volunteers and will be dedicated entirely for the leisure time needs of sen ior citizens. A five-day sched ule of activities and classes in painting, v wood carving, danc ing and other crafts will start Monday, Oct. 13, at noon. About 500 invitations have been sent to clubs, churches, social agencies, various gov ernmental officials and senior citizens. Several members of the Soviet Foreign Minister Derides Yean Suspension AII-or-Nothing Stand Seen Obvious . United Nations. N.Y.-(CPD- The Soviet Union today at tacked a U.S.-British proposal ' for a one-year moratorium on nuclear weapons tests to be gin when talks on the subject open in Geneva, Oct. 31. Soviet Deputy Foreign Min ister Valerin Zorin said his " country was ready to agree to '. suspend tests "for all time." But he derided the Angle- American offer for an uncon- . ditional test suspension for a . year. Stand Obvious He said the U.S. and British statements on this "are in ef fect negative." Zorin made it obvious that, ' as of now, the Soviet Union was taking an all-or-nothing stand. x Zorin spoke to the 81-na-tion Main Political Commit tee of the General Assembly shortly after U.S. Ambassa dor Henry Cabot Lodge open ed the annual disarmament debate with an offer to dis close more secrets in future arms negotiations with the Soviet Union. . ( Conflicting Viewpoints Lodge emphasized that the U.S. offer for a one-year halt to nuclear weapons 'testing starting with the Geneva talks was not conditioned on other aspects of disarmament but only on Soviet -compliance. He said it would go on indef initely each year as long as we Know the inspection sys tem is working and we are making reasonable progress on other aspects of dis armament." But he said the U.S. always had 1 and would continue to insist on considering the per manent reduction of nuclear and conventional weapons to gether. Speech Disappointing Zorin called Lodge's speech "profoundly disappointing.' He repeated Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's threat earlier this, week that the Soviet Union would con tinue test explosions until it had caught up to the U.S. and Britain numerically. And he indicated this might mean about 100 such explo sions. Both Lodge and Zorin said in their prepared speeches they expected the Geneva meeting to be held. Property Tax Rolls To Be Turned Over Jackson county property . tax rolls will be turned over to the county sheriffs office for collection Monday morn ing, County Assessor . Ray Schumacher said today. Then the sheriff will start mailing out the tax state ments, Schumacher said. With these statements, 25,- 000 booklets will be mailed. They include a summary of taxes, explanations of the ad valorem tax system, a sum mary of the codes, and levies of the taxing districts, the county assessor said. The booklets are being mailed for the second year. They were mailed originally to acquaint the taxpayer with the . operative procedures in volved in the evaluation, proc essing and collection of taxes for taxing units, Schumacher explained. Vancouver, Wash.-tU7D-Sal ' of the interests of Capt. A. Leppaluoto in Inland Naviga tion Company and seven oth er affiliated firms was an nounced here today by the purchasers. Financial consid-. eration was believed to be in excess of $2 million. Southern Oregon Society of Artists who are' 50 years old or more plan to exhibit paint ings. Also on exhibition will be sculpture work in metal, stone, clay and wood done by local residents, and crafts in almost every medium, includ ing work by exhibitors at the Veterans administration Domiciliary's hobby shop. Members of the 50 -Plus club have been asked to ex hibit hand made articles. The committee in charge will re ceive items for exhibit today and tomorrow afternoon. The center is located in a corner of a warehouse build ing used by the city. The room has been redecorated and the exterior has been painted. Landscaping under the direc tion of the Medford Trarden club is planned. . - tt r r ii n ii - "