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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1958
No. 173
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.