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Newspaper Page Textt IX A IT TT 53rd Year ' 'A Recommended Price 10 Cents Subscribers To -report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 1230 ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. A summary of the qualifica tion of the various Jackson county candidates (or the Nov. 4 general election and their stand on certain public issues is covered in a story on pace 14 of today's Mail Tribune. RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Win United Press Full Leased Wire 60 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1958 No. 173 I"' i ' myt I., Iuli- , Sift t ' ., , a BUILD POND - A new 17-acre mill pond that will be one of the largest in Jackson county is presently under con- struction by Timber Products Co., Medf ord. AboVe, two of seven earth movers employed on the project bring loads of dirt to fill the dike on the south side. The pond is located between Sage rd. and the Southern Pacific railroad tracks, Timber Products Constructs Pond, Other Facilities Expansion of log handling ' and lumber manufacturing fa cilities, involving a cost of some $V& million is currently underway at Timber Pro ducts Co., Medf ord, according to Manager T. K. Oliver. Under construction is a 17' acre pond, that will more than double the firm's log storage facilities, and a log control center that will aid in effic ient use of logs. A gang mill that will make use of lower grade logs is scheduled for completion by April of next year, Oliver said. The log control center will be the key to efficient log use by enabling them to be routed from one point to either the plywood mill, the saw mill or the gang mill, according to grade. The large building will accommodate machinery to bark and buck the logs be fore they are sent to their des tination. The log control center, the foundation for which has al ready been poured, will be completed by Dec. 1, Oliver said. The firm's" new mill pond, located between Sage rd. and the Southern Pacific tracks, will be one of the largest in the area. Working on the pro ject to speed completion are three D-8 'dozers and seven earthmovers, as well as other heavy equipment. The pond will be between 10 and 15 feet deep. Job Situation Reported Better Salem-IDPD-Sharp decreases In unemployment and in creases in non-agricultural job placements were reported by the , state unemployment compensation commission yes terday. Estimates from state em ployment service offices throughout Oregon indicated that 30,300 persons were un employed on Oct. 1. This was well above pre-recession years but was decidely under the 36,400 of Sept. 1 and the 33, 500 of a year ago. This was the first month in two years that estimated un employment fell below that of the previous year, the com mision said. Most likely causes of the improved situation were set tlements in major labor dis putes and favorable weather conditions which have kept work at a peak. Medford Police Department Is Host To Five-Day Medford's police depart ment will serve as host this week to a five-day school for new officers in this area. The school, beginning to morrow, is one of six sched uled in the state this fall in the annual program. Two Medford officers, Gor don Wright and Floyd Law son Jr., are scheduled to at tend, according to Pplice Crief Charles P. Champin. Officers from Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, Central Point and Ashland are also expect ed. The school is sponsored by the Oregon Association of City Police Officers and the State Board Chairman Tells Stand On Peterson "Veterinary employees can not dictate state policy de signed to improve their status in the state department of ag riculture," Loyd Key, chair man of the state board of ag riculture, stated in a release Neither can any outside group change the state law by pressure or resolution, Key stated further.' Key's statement came after a telephone conference Fri day morning with all members of the advisory board to the state department of agricul ture. The statement was designed to clarify the board's position on the resignation of Dr. K. J. Peterson as state veterin arian Tuesday and the contro versy between the division of animal industries and the vet erinarian's office which led to the resignation. Peterson, with the backing of the state veterinarians, sought to make his office independent of the jurisdiction of the division of animal industries headed by M. E. Knickerbocker. "This board urges producers and consumers, both as inter- More Appointments For Boat Control Chief Criminal Deputy Joe Walsh said Friday , five more special deputies are to be ap pointed by Sheriff Howard Gault to enforce boating regu lations on rivers and lakes in Jackson county. The five deputies appointed Thursday night during a meet ing of the Rogue Aqua Ski club are Gale Kimball, R. B. Browns, Lon Skinner, George Ketchum and Lanny Rose. Appointment of the special deputies is looking toward the eventual development of rec reation facilities in the Talent project reservoirs, Walsh said. Holmes Denies Raising Question Of Religion Salem (UPD Gov. Robert D. Holmes has denied he "ques tioned the religion" of Secret tary of State Mark Hatfield, his November opponent ' in the Oregon " gubernatorial race. The denial came after Tra vis Cross, a member of Hat field's campaign staff, attack ed a speech Holmes made in Portland Thursday night "as vicious and vindictive." Holmes charged his remarks were misconstrued. Basic Training Oregon State Sheriffs associ ation. Cooperating in the program are the Oregon state police the federal bureau of inves tigation, the Bureau of Mun icipal Research and Service and the League of Oregon Cities. All major law enforcement agencies in the state are pro viding instructors. Lt. Thomas W. Simmons, Portland police bureau, is to teach the class on laws of ar rest, search and seizure here. John T. Truett, Bend police chief, is scheduled to give instruction on mechanics of arrest, basic use of sidearms rfiiL-j&zit&i, m Ai," ..,'.,.1 near the Timber Products mill site. Decked logs can be seen above the machine on the left. The w.est dike is barely discernable through the dust. Other projects under- way at Timber Products co. include construction of a log control center and a gang mill, ested citizens and taxpayers, to settle the issue of lay vs. professional supervision of our disease control and meat inspection programs in the state legislature," Key's state ment in a telegram to fellow board member Ward Spatz, Medford, declared. "We have been in close touch with the department ac tivities since June, 1957. We believe both of these import ant programs are progressing on schedule. They are the best the state has ever had," Key concluded. During the last regular meeting of the state board of agriculture on Sept. 24 in Sa lem all members agreed that 'to establish a separate division for livestock disease control and meat inspection it would be necessary for legislature to amend two sections of the present law. One such amendment would set up a new division and the other would take away cer tain authority from the divi APPOINTED John Dellen- back, member of the Medford law firm of Van Dyke, Dellen back and McGoodwin, has been named to the state board of bar examiners. The board conducts the annual bar ex aminations in the state, and is responsible for screening and recommending successful new attorneys' for ' admission to the state bar association. Little Hope Seen For Red Agreement United Nations, N.Y.-njPD- Western diplomats saw little hope yesterday of Soviet agreement to a nuclear test suspension until Russia com pletes its current test series. School and defensive tactics. Lt. E. W. Tichenor, Oregon state police, is slated for classes on traffic patrol, en forcement and case prepara tion, officer-violator contact and court procedure. Keith L. Jones, League of Oregon Cities, is to teach report writ ing and patrol techniques. John R. McCulloch, FBI, is scheduled to teach crime scene investigation. , Chief Champlin is to ad minister a final exam Friday afternoon. Those receiving a satisfactory score, and who attend at least four days of the school, will receive certificates. ,,,, V 1 Zf . sion of animal industry. This change, the board agreed, should be decided be- 1 tween the veterinary profes sion and the livestock indus try in the state legislature. The board should remain neu tral until these two groups de cide what changes should be made in the law, an excerpt from the minutes stated. 600 Students Have Departed From Little Rock Little Rock, Ark. (UPD -About (TOO students, a sixth of the total enrollment of Lit tle Rock's four closed high schools, have transferred to schools outside the city. Little Rock's public high schools were supposed to have opened Sept. 2, but did not because of the integra tion dispute. Rural schools in Pulaski county, in which Little Rock is located, will admit 71 more Little Rock students Monday They apparently will be the last that . county schools will accept and will bring the total of Little Rock stu dents attending rural Pulaski county schools to about 450 The others who have trans ferred are attending schools as far .away as Los Angeles and Milwaukee. There still was . no indica tion when the impasse will be broken or when the Little Rock private schools corpor ation will get a system of high school classes going in churches, lodge halls and rumpus rooms with public contributions. Sports Bulletins Ashland Southern Ore gon college opened defense of its Oregon collegiate con ference football title here last night by defeating Port land Stale college 21 lo 14. Portland, Ore. -OJPD-Pow-erful Oregon . scored on a 66-yard run by Halfback Willie West on the third play of the game and then rolled to a 25-0 Pacific Coast conference victory over fumbling Southern Califor nia Saturday night before: a near capacity crowd of 32,734 fans in Multnomah stadium. It was Oregon's biggest margin - over the Trojans since 1915 when the Web foots won 34-0 in the first game of a rivalry which ended Saturday night be cause of the impending breakup of the PCC. West, a fleet junior from San Diego, got a block from Quarterback Dave Gross and oulraced the pursuing Trojans into the end zone to start things off for the de fending . co-champion Web foots. Southern California, which lost its last two games by only one point, fumbled away every chance it had to score. The deepest Trojan penetration was to the Ore gon 24 in the third period when workhorse Halfback -Rex Johnston fumbled. That was only one of four Southern California fum bles the alert Webfools recovered. CAB Authorizes Additional Stops For Two Airlines Washington-UPD - The Civil Aeronautics Board has auth orized Pacific Airlines to ex tend its service from North ern California to Portland and West Coast Airlines to extend its service from the Northwest to San Francicso and Sacra mento. The CAB Friday granted Pacific Airlines the route from Crescent City, Calif., to Portland, and West Coast per mission to fly from Salem, Bend-Redmond and Newport Toledo, Ore., to San Fran cisco-Oakland and Sacramen to. ' West Coast was also auth orized to fly into Salem. A request by Pacific Air lines to serve Reno' on its San Francicso, San Jose, Sac ramento run was held for further study. Meanwhile Gov. Robert D, Holmes has recommended to the board that it extend serv ice of West Coast Airlines through Oregon to include Salt Lake City, Utah.' "I feel that potential air traffic in eastern Oregon areas justifies first-rate single line service to and from major commercial and business cen ters with which eastern Ore gon cities have community of interest, he said. "Extension of service to Salt Lake City appears thor oughly justified, sound and progressive as an air service proposal," he added. Western's flights in eastern Oregon now include Pendle ton, Baker, La Grande and Ontario, but terminate at Boise, Ida., the governor pointed out. Blood Donors May , Make Appointments Appointments will be taken starting Wednesday, Oct. 15, for the visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile at the Red Cross building here Oct. 22. Quota for the , visit is 290 pints of blood, for which 350 donors will be needed. Ap pointments may be made by telephoning the Red Cross office, SPring 3-3813, starting Wednesday. COLLEGE SCORES WEST Wyoming 28, Oregon Stale 0. Air Force Academy 36, Colorado Stale 6. California 36. Utah 21. Stanford 22, Washington 12. . ' Washington Stale 8, Idaho 0. College of Pacific 26, Brig ham Young 8 NORTHWEST. . Central Washington 43, Whiiworth 13 British Columbia 13, Pu get Sound 7 Southern Oregon 21, Port land State 14 SOUTHWEST Texas IS, Oklahoma 14. Tulsa 24, Oklahoma State 16. Rice 24, Arkansas 0. SOUTH Virginia Tech 23. Virginia 13. Duke 12. Baylor 7. North Caarolina 6, South Carolina 0. Boston U. 36. West Vir ginia 30. Georgia Tech 21. Tennes see 7. Texas A. and M. 14. Mary land 10. Wake Forest 13, North Carolina State 7. Texas Christian 28, Tex as Tech 0 Clemson 12. Vanderbilt 1 ' ' Mississippi 19. Tulane 8 Alabama 29, Furman 6 Kentucky 0, Auburn 0 Georgia .28. Florida State 15 Auburn 8, Kentucky 0 EAST Syracuse 55. Cornell 0. Dartmouth -20, Brown 0. Harvard 20, Lehigh 0. Rutgers 22, Richmond 12. Colgate 7. Buchnell 0. Princeton 20, Pennsylvan ia 14. ' Pennsylvania Stale 40, Marquette 8. Columbia 13, Yale 0. MIDWEST Army 14, Notre Dame 2. Ohio State 19, Illinois 13. Michigan State 22. Pitts burgh 8. Navy 20,' Michigan 14. Wisconsin 31, Purdue 6. Southern Methodist 32, Missiuri 19. Iowa 34. Indiana 13. Kansas Stale 23, Nebras ka 6. OWEEl Im BR EARS 1 "I Didn't Think They'd Stoop To A Dirty Trick Like That" U.S. Army Installs First Of Launchers Taipei, Formosa UPD- U.S. Army missilemen installed the first of their Nike Her cules launchers on a moun taintop near Taipei yesterday and began - assembly of the atomic - capable ground-to-air rockets., ' . Across the Formosa Strait, meantime, the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu brace for an anticipated resumption of Chinese Communist attack when the Red ceasefire ends tonight at midnight. UPI Correspondent William Miller reported from Quemoy City that soldiers and civilians will go into their underground tunnels,; caves and dugouts early tonight. i, . American and Chinese mili tary authorities said the big guns, "troops and supplies Grants Pass Fire Damage 'Serious' Grants Pass What is de- cribed as the most serious fire in this area for several years from the standpoint of prop erty damage was said to be under control last night. Sixty acres of Sunny Val ley grassland, three farm buildings and one. house had been burned by Saturday af ternoon, according to state forestry officials. First call came into . the Grants Pass state forestry headquarters at 2:30 p.m.' Six pumpers were dispatch ed to the fire and three more were reported on their way by 4:30 p.m. Guard station personal from Medford, Grants Pass, Rogue River, Pleasant creek and Sunny Valley were called to the fire. State forestry department officials said they are not sure how the first started. How ever, they said a number of incendiary- fires were report ed in the same area Thursday night. Mayor Snider Is Scheduled to Open Senior Activity Center Here Today 'ON rTri JULIE JOHNSON Honored Guest ; poured into Quemoy during the weeklong lull in the Red "artillery blockade" had made the islands stronger than ever. Nationalist Chinese naval vessels returned from supply runs with civilians seeking safety from the Red guns in Formosa. Some 6,000 civilians voluntarily left the Quemoy Islands last .week. The U.S. Army's 2nd missile battalion arrived in Formosa only four days ago to beef up the island's aerial defenses. Yesterday the first missile launcher was bolted to a con crete "pad" by American and Chinese soldiers racing against time ,,to get the battalion's four "batteries ready for ac tion within two weeks. Several miles away, missile men uncrated and bolted to gether the four tubes of a "booster"-in effect, a giant skyrocket which gives the anti-aircraft missile its initial push. - Today they will assemble the booster to a missile, ready ing it for .use. When completr ed, the four sites, with ninj launchers each, will ring Tai pei with missiles capable of seeking, out and destroying any enemy aircraft. Installation of the launcher was completed only hours be fore the expected arrival . in Formosa of U. S. Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElr.oy. McElroy will spend three days in Formosa during which he will confer with Generalissi mo Chiang Kai-Shek and in spect the jet - and missile weapons the United . . States has rushed . here . since the siege of Quemoy began Aug. 23. London (DPD A Soviet offi cial in London yesterday ex tended "all good wishes" to the- United States on the launching of a moon rocket and promptly began, discuss ing Soviet successes in the space field. Medford Mayor John Snider will formally open the Senior Activity Center at 601 Jack son st. at 1 o'clock this after noon. He will present the building for use by the Rogue Valley Council on Aging to carry on and promote leisure time activties for senior cit izens. Frank Glonning, chairman at the local council, formed in January this year, will ac cept the building for use by residents 50 years old or old er. Members of-the executive board of the council as well as members of the city council and the recently appointed Medford Recreation commis sion have been invited. Miss Julie Johnson, Eugene, executive secretary of the Ore gon Council on Aging, will be honored guest at the open house. She will be accompa nied by Mrs. Frank Bloomer, II rn UV mm STATISTICS Cape Canaveral, Fla., -(UPD -Here-are vital statistics of yesterday's moon rocket: Total height - 88.1 feet. Total weight - 52.2 tons. First stage - Standard Air Force Thor intermediate range ballistic missile; weight, more than 50 tons; thrust, approximately 150,000 pounds -liquid fuel. - ( Second stage - Modified Vanguard second stage as used in Thor able tests with addition of eight spin rockets. Liquid fuel ignites automati cally on contact with oxidiz er; weight, more than two tons; thrust, about 7,500 pounds. Third stage Advanced Vanguard third-stage; solid fuel engine; stage together with payload covered by streamlined nose cover to be jettisoned after second stage separation; weight, more than 400 pounds; thrust, about 2, 500 pounds. Payload - Contains solid propellant "terminaT rocket termed the fourth stage by the Air Force in nose to brake vehicle when approaches lun ar gravity; instrumentation package contains batteries, telemetry, ion .chamber to measure radiation, and elec tronic scanner. Telemetry in cludes measurement of me teorite density, earth and the moon magnetic fields and thrust chamber of terminal rocket to determine if . it fires; weight of payload, 85 pounds; weight of instruments 25 pounds; thrust of terminal rocket, 3,000 pounds. Dulles Meeting Sen. Greeji Today ; Washington -DPD-. Secretary of State John Foster Duljes has arranged to meet today with Chairman Theodore Francis Green (D-R.I.) of the Senate Foreign Relations com mittee in- a move to heal a split between President Eisen hower and . powerful Demo crats over administration For mosa policy. Green, one of the sharpest critics of the President's mili tary support of Chinese Na tionalist forces on the em battled Quemoy and Matsu Is lands ,is smarting under a letter , from Eisenhower a week ago in which the Chief Executive asserted that at tacks on his policy "embolden our enemies and make war al most inevitable." WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy with chance of isolated showers this after noon; varying ' late tonight. Fair and cool Monday. High today 75, low tonight 40. High Monday 8. TEMP. Highest Saturday ; ' Lowest Saturday morning 41 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:35 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 6:Z1 a.m. New Moon today 12:52 p.m. And the Moon is invisible ex cept in an area of the South Pacific Ocean beginning near New Guinea and ending in Ar gentina where it hides the Sun as a total eclipse of the Sun takes place. This eclipse will be seen as a partial eclipse over a much larger area of the above ocean. of Eugene's Emerald Empire Council ' on Aging, and Mrs. Clifford Zollinger, Portland, member of the. executive board of the state council and the National Council on AgT ing. Qpen house today will con tinue until 5 o'clock with cof fee being served throughout the afternoon. Included in the open house will be an art exhibit, and displays of sculp ture, as well as crafts. - A five-day schedule of clas ses, including painting, wood carving, dancing and other crafts, will start Monday. The- building housing the center is city owned, and vol unteers have redecorated the interior and exterior. Land scaping will be done by the Medford Garden club. Use of the building was granted by the city to the Council on Aging. ROCKET i . - S .'GRIP Veers From Path But Sets Record, Gives Vital Data Achievement Ranks With Red's Sputnik I Washington-(DPD- America's "Pioneer" moon rocket shot into space yesterday on an epoch-making flight that broke the barrier of gravity for the first time but failed to find a path to the moon. Less than 15 hours after its pre-dawn launching at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Air Force rocket had streak ed 67,830 miles into unlimit ed space - a new altitude record for a man-made veh icle. But the Defense Depart ment said the Pioneer had veered too far off course to seach the "near vicinity" of the moon and go into the hoped-for orbit. Its ultimate destination was uncertain. Despite its failure as a moon shot, the Pioneer was a tremendous scientific ach ievement, ranking with Rus sia's Sputnik I earth satellite as a milestone in man's at tempted conquest of space. First Free of Gravity It became the first man made object to break free of the earth's gravity and in addition was suppling valu able scientific data that will bring closer the day of man ned space flight. ' A late position report, al most a third of the projected 225,000-mile trip to the moon, indicated the rocket might be slowing down or perhaps striking a courser more par allel'to the earth. Shortly after it roared off the Canaveral launching pad at 4:42 am. (EDT), the Pio neer was clocked at 25,000 miles an hour. By 7:47 p.m., when the last speed check was reported, it was making about 3,000 mph. l Between 4:47 pjn. and 8:09 p.m., the rocket covered some 2,830 miles. New Light The signals it was sending back shed new light on the mysterious band of radiation that encircles the earth and now poses one of the barriers to man's first venture out of the earth's atmosphere. It became apparent as early as 1:45 p.m. that the rocket .was "departing from its intended trajectory." In a laterannouncement, the Pentagon said the Pioneer ob viously would not come with in 50,000 miles of the moon, the proximity necessary for the hoped - for orbit- In the first 12 hours that it 'sped across the' heavens, the rocket was hit by only one micrometeorite. As it pene traded deeper into space, its internal temperature began dropping from the 40 degrees reported earlier.' ; Maximum Reading Dr. W. W. Kellogg, acting chairman of the satellite panel of the International Geophys ical year committee, reaffirm ed an earlier report that the Pioneer show a radiation reading of four roentgens an hour when it was about 10,000 , miles up. He said the data in dicated this was a "maximum reading." A roentgen is a unit of radi ation. Atomic industrial work ers are permitted to receive no more than three-tenths of a roentgen per week. . The Pentagon reported that all : ground stations in the world-wide network of moni toring posts had obtained tel emetering signals by 8:09 pm. EDT. Odds 10-1 Scientists estimated that the odds were 10 to 1 that the Pioneer would fail to circle the moon. Its failure in that regard did not detract greatly from its value as a scientific instrument and as a giant step for tthe United States in the race for space. Rocket experts said the Pioneer's ultimate course would depend in large meas ure on the still unfired fourth stage "retro-rocket" which was intended to boost it into' orbit.