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IrltSsI Tart Jit mm, IFighte 9 laieiiDDi 53rd MEDFORD 20 Pages mlhm Launching 'Awaited Fourth Explorer Attempt Will Be Made Tonighf Inflatable Sphere To Study Atmosphere Washington -UPD- Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, Army mis sile chief, said today that the Army will attempt to launch its fourth Explorer satellite tonight. He said the satellite will carry an inflatable sphere. Medaris, who is chief of the Army Ordnance Missile command, confirmed reports of a new satellite effort to newsmen at the annual meet ing of the, Association of the U. S. Army. Exact Tim Not Given ; He said he was "sorrji" that the scheduled attempt became known but the report was "correct." He would not say the exact time the launching is sched uled except that "I wish it was earlier." . That was a reference obvi ously to the fact that the launching will come late to night and Medaris like many others, will have a vigil into the early morning hours on Thursday while awaiting the word on the launching's suc cess. Five Previous Attempts The Army has previously attempted to launch five sat ellites and has succeeded in putting three of them into or bit. , Tonight's effort will be to put a shiny 12-foot balloon Into orbit to test atmospheric density at an altitude of about 400 miles. It will be the most spectac ular looking satellite yet launched by the U. S. and should be brightly visible to the naked eye. Jupiter-C Booster The balloon satellite will be launched from Cape Can averal, Fla. It will be thrust into space by a Jupiter-C booster with extra stages. A metal carrier, constituting the fourth and final stage of the rocket, will eject a 9.26 pound, deflated balloon. The balloon, made of plastic and coated with aluminum, will be auto matically inflated after ejec tion. From the way the balloon with its large surface reacts to the braking effect of the thinly spread air molecules, scientists will be able to de termine v: accurately atmos pheric densities at the alti tudes at which it travels. Dynamite Charge Found in Atlanta Atlanta - OiPD - Finding of a dynamite charge similar to that used to blast a Jewish temple here Oct 5 lent added urgency today to investiga tion of recent racist bombmgs in the South. Richard E. Pounds found the bomb Tues day in a patch of weeds less than three blocks from a white school just north of At lanta. Make Medford Beautiful SAD SHACKS A smart property owner who tore down de serted buildings like these , could pay for the job and save money, too, since reduced assessed valuations would mean reduced taxes. If he lets them stand, they not only cost him tax dollars but present ia sorry appearance for motorist en tering the city. Hence the Mail Tribune is including this pair in it "Make Medford Beautiful" inventory. Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1958 atellite . 'Boy, If You Think That President Picture off Chicago- (UPD -President Ei senhower today presented to a "coffee hour" of Republican women a sparkling picture of a prosperous and progressive future America provided the government does not come under the domination of the "radicals" of the Democratic party, i ' Two Sentenced in Circuit Court : Shirley Ann Kosse,, 24," a transient fruit worker, yester day was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary by Judge Edward C. Kelly, for first degree arson. Mrs. Kosse was -charged with setting fire to a cabin in the 401 orchards, northeast of Medford, on Aug. 28. She had admitted previous ly to setting fire to brush and an outside toilet in the or chards which spread to a large area of the hillside. She also admitted setting fire to the cabin, on the same day, which was occupied by Leon ard Franklin Brown. Mrs. Kosse pleaded ' guilty to the charges on Sept. 11 be fore Judge Kelly, who t had ordered a pre-sentence hear ing. : Judge Kelly yesterday also sentenced Duane Ray Denney, Gold Beach, to one year and two months in the state peni tentiary on charges of using a motor vehicle without per mission of the owner. Denney pleaded guilty Aug. 27 and a pre-sentence report h-d been ordered. Denney was charged with taking a car from Crater Lake Motors, Medford, on June 20. ivTA LT One's Complicated1 Presents Future ' The President-said the na tion - could have annual gross national, production., of $500 billion, and even human flight into space Warm-up for Speech Eisenhower's i remarks to the , women of his party con stituted a warm-up. for his na tionwide radio and television political address ' from here tonight at 5:30 p.m. (p.s.t.). The speech tonight will give the chief executive his first opportunity of the cur rent campaign to discuss Na tionally his new technique of blasting , the Democrats much in the manner of recent cam paign statements by Vice President Richard M. Nixon.- During the questions and answers, the President made these points: Determination for GOP He said, it should be "a doctrine a "prayer and a de termination of all Republi cans, indeed all Americans" to help reduce the climbing rate of federal expenditures in order to combat inflation. He pictured the Demo crats as being dominated by "radical ... extremists" and said the Republicans should reject any form of govern ment "that pretends to'help the people while it robs their pocketbooks through infla tion." Some Logging Slash Burning Permitted Some logging slash burning has been permitted by the southwest district office of the state department of fores try this week. - District Warden Curt Ne-. sheim stated that the burning has been allowed on a limited scale according to location and favorable conditions. Rain, already falling in some parts of the district this morning, will halt the burn ing of scattered slash but burning joi piled logging de bris can be allowed if other conditions are all right. Paving Starts at Medford Airport Paving of car parking and ramp areas at the Medford municipal airport started to day by the Rogue River Pav ing company, city officials re ported. The three projects, costing $4,050, will include paving a section southeast of the termi nal building which will ac commodate 65 vehicles and one northwest of the building which will allow room for 28 cars. The third project will include paving an 81 by 114 foot ramp in front of the Rog ue Flying Service. OPPOSITION TO 'PROPOSED CHARGE TOLD A ' two-pronged offensive was suggested here last night to combat a proposal to spread a portion of O and C timber receipts over the state's school districts. Oregon School Boards as sociation, district 13, should have representatives attend ing the state association meet ing in Eugene Nov. 5, 6 and 7, and Mrs. Evelyn Nye, chair man of the association which includes both Jackson and Josephine counties, urged here last night. A two-county representative should also be long to the state association's legislative committee, she ad ded. The suggestions came near the end of a meeting in Hed rick Junior High school. The meeting was attended by rep resentatives of a majority of the school boards In the coun ty. Basic Support An explanation of the basic school support formula, what loss of a portion of O and C would mean to this county, and arguments of those coun ties favoring equal ' distribu tion were given by Elmer Fleming, superintendent of Josephine county schools. Jackson county would lose $167,000 a year if the new proposal is made into law, he said. At the present time, the .18 Oregon, counties re ceiving O and. C funds use them, for general county pur poses. Some turn portions over for use of the county schools. Fleming pointed out that if Multnomah and eastern Ore gon counties can obtain the support of the state school boards association and Ore gon Education association, the recommendation may be act ed on by the state legislature and the counties would lose 25 per cent of their O and C funds to basic school support funds. This would mean levy ing of taxes in some O and C fund counties, including Jack son, which do not have to now. 'I Received by County Mrs. Nye pointed out that Jackson county had received more than $9 million in O and C funds during the past seven years. ' During an organizational meeting of 40 educators and interested persons in Rose burg Oct. 8, it was explained the 18 Oregon counties that receive O and C monies are opposed tb proposed legisla tion approved by the state legislative education- interim committee. One of the committee's sug gestions is 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 explain ed then. Loss of O and C funds would mean that the wealth ier school districts would have to dig deeper and the poorer districts would suffer, it was explained last night. Should Organize Douglas, Lane, Jackson and Josephine and Coos counties would be. hard hit if the prop osition goes through, and the counties should organize to prevent it, Leonard Mayfield, superintendent of Medford schools, pointed out. .The O and C funds are not WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with occasional rain tonight. Partly cloudy with a lew showers mosUy over mountains Thurs day. Low tonight 36. High Fri day 58. Temp. Highest Yesterday . Lowest this Morning 36 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:19 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:33 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 2:49 a.m. Full Moon( Hunter's Moon) Oct. 27 PROMINENT STARS Capella, low in north east 8:11 P-m. Betelgeuse, low in east 10:31. P-m. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, low in south west 6:45 p.m. Mars, high in south . east 12:39 a.m. Price 10 Cents No. 182 paid to school districts so should not be considered school funds, Fleming said. The; state has little connec tion with them. The money is a federal fund paid from the sale of timber on forest lands' administered by the bureau of land management. The lands were originally donat ed to the railroads 'by the federal government. The state merely picked the railroads to receive the land, so actu ally has no jurisdiction over the funds, and how they are apportioned. It would make as much sense to spread out the funds received by eastern Oregon counties from the Taylor grazing act or the property taxes on eastern - Oregon wheat lands, Flpming said. Such wheat lands receive fed eral supports paid for from the taxes of everyone. Basic argument for receipt of the O and C funds is that the basic school support for mula is impossible for the av erage person to figure. Equal distribution of 25 per cent of O and C funds throughout the state would eliminate the need for such a formula. This formula can be easily under stood using .eighth grade ar ithmetic, Fleming illustrated. (Continued on Page 13) . . Lowry-Ms PUC For Decision on Railroad Case State Sen. Philip B. Lowry, Medford, has asked Public Utilities Commissioner How ard Morgan to advise him when, a decision on the pend ing case of three senators vs. Southern Pacific railroad can. be expected.- s Senator Lowry, former sen. Paul Geddes of Roseburg and Gene L. Brown, former sena tor from Grants Pass, filed a formal complaint with the public utilities commissioner in July, 1955, asking the PUC to prevent Southern Pacific from discontinuing service on its Eugene-Ashland run. Trial Record Senator Lowry pointed out that "The trial record in this case was closed on Sept. 20, 1956. Final argument was made by the complakitants in April, 1958, and proposed findings submitted by them some two months ago." Lowry noted that prior to the submission of findings, Morgan "advised all parties that you desired to -make a prompt decision. You further indicated more than two months ago that you felt it was your duty to make a prompt decision and that you were in a position to do so ir respective of any further moves by any of the parties in this case." . "We will therefore . appre ciate your promptly advising us as to when your decision will be made, as numerous in quiries have been made 'as to what is delaying your deci sion. In our opinion protract ed delay will further injure the public interest." " . Survey of County Salaries Completed A survey of county env ployees' salaries in Jackson county was completed today by Allan Kahn, staff analyst, Oregon State Employees asso ciation. Kahn said the results of the survey of Jackson and other counties in the state will be compared with state salaries and published in November. A report will be given to the state legislature for its con sideration. Such recommenda tions for salary changes for state employees might be acted upon by the state legislature in January, and go into effect in July and remain in effect until the end of the biennium,' Kahn explained. GOING UP The crate in the picture above, being ' hoisted to the top of the Medford post office building by a big crane, contains an electrical control panel for the new au-, tomatic elevator which will be-installed in the building within the next three months. Three other heavy pieces of equipment were sent up by the same means this morning. The new elevator will eliminate the need : Hatfield Calls on Gov. Holmes To Back Up 'Fantasy' Salem (UPD Secretary of State Mark Hatfield today challenged Gov. . Robert D. Holmes to back up with sup porting facts, what he called Holmes' "fiscal .fantasy" claiming millions in savings. "The governor's press re lease of last week in which he took a large part of the credit for what he .said would be a turn-back of $3 million tothe general fund is largely inac curate and misleading,!' Hatfield,- Republican candidate for governor, said. ' . . Hatfield claimed that- de partments over which the gov ernor has budgetary . control would turn back less than $1 million to the fund. ' In addition, the governor's office has been "unable or un willing" to substantiate even this figure, Hatfield said. "We must conclude that it is purely a pre-election, polit ical guess or an estimate," he commented. Accordling' to Hatfield, the amount returned will be the smallest in at least 10 years. The Republican candidate said that of the $3 million, $764,000 was a "purely math ematical error already admit ted by the governor." In addition, $1 million ap parently is from the Emergency-Board, not under the control of the governor, and $3C0,000 is from state institu tions, Hatfield added. - He also said the governor's press release was misleading in its statement that "reduced state government expendi tures" have brought about the returns. "Actual expenditures have increased materially," Hatfield charged. "Any return will come from, greatly in creased but unspent appropri ations and not from reduced expenditures." ': ; U.S. Pressured To Amend Resolution United Nations, N. Yl-flJPD-Pressure mounted on the Unit ed States today to amend its disarmament resolution in the United Nations main political committee. The U. S. delegation referred all suggestions to" the State De partment for final decision. Similar action was taken by Britain and the other sponsors of the 17-power resolution. There was increasing be lief among .diplomats and ob servers ' that neither the western resolution nor the two others on the floor could receive ' the command ing vote to make it effective. Best estimates were that the western proposal, which calls for early agreement on "suspension" of nuclear tests, would receive a bare two-thirds majority. TO SPEAK TONIGHT Dr. Lynn Rodney of the University of Oregon will speak tonight at the meeting of the park and recreation commission in the city council chambers. The meeting will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Portland -(UPD- Stratospheric balloons for cosmic ray re search may be launched by General Mills, Inc., from Til lamook starting next month. for an operator, being operated by. the pas sengers themselvs. The installation includes a new elevator ' car, with automatic doors and ' a generator and motor combination that will make and use direct current for1 more accurate control. The equipment was too bulky to take up in the elevator, so the crane was employed. Chiang Reassured Q)f Convoy Support , Taipeh, Formosa-(UPD -Secretary, of State John Foster Dulles reassured President Chiang Kai-shek the U.S. Navy, would resume it Que- moy convoys if necessary, but there were reports of dis agreements ' in their four meetings today. American diplomatic quar ters said Dulles will extend his stay in Taipeh until at least mid-day 1 Thursday in hopes of ironing out any. mis- Speedy Election of New Pope Possible Vatican City-(UPD-The new pope may be elected in a mat ter of minutes by "inspira tion," Vatican quarters said today. Prospects for such an elec tion at the secret conclave of cardinals openinghere Satur day were enhanced by the ap parent, absence of any "obvi ous" successor to : the late Pope Pius XII. : ' Election by inspiration has not occurred for centuries, but the regulations governing the conclave make specific provision for such a proce dure. . The choice by "inspiration" could take place if one of the cardinals in the conclave sud denly arose and announced, "I propose. Cardinal as supreme pontiff." , If all the other cardinals present unanimously an nounced in Latin "eligo" (I elect), the person named would be the new pope. 2 Atomic Devices Exploded in Nevada 'Atomic Test Site, Nev.-flJPD Two full-scale atomic de vices were exploded within hours today at the Atomic En ergy Commission's Neyada Test Site. American scientists, speed ing up their experiments aft er weather and technical de lays, triggered shot Wrangell above Frenchman Flat at 8:50 a.m. (p.s.t.), following a deto nation called Socorro in a scheduled triple,-feature of weapons development tests on a single day. The third shot was - scheduled for 3 p.m. (p.s.t.). Down Payments Cut On Home Financing Washington -(UPD- A govern ment - authorized reduction of down payments on medium priced homes financed through federally - chartered savings and loan associations was seen today as helping counteract any tightening of credit. The Home Loan Bank Board announced Tuesday night that the associations may write mortgage loans up to 90 per cent of a house's appraised value. The limit had been 80 per cent, i Thus) a buyer who is financ ing a $15,000 house will be able to borrow up to $13,500 instead of $12,000. The down payment may be, therefore, as little as $1,500 instead of 3,000. understanding with Chiang. The ' talks originally were scheduled to end today. An . American spokesman said following the third Dul les-Chiang meeting that there were no major agreements other than the convoy matter.- Assistant Secretary of State Walter S. Robertson denied rumors that a "rift" had de veloped between Chiang and Dulles and said "their; talks have been completely friend ly" ' ' The mature Mf the reported disagreements was not , disr closed but American quarters attempted to minimize their importance. ; -,: Agree on Principles "I think you might say there has been some differ ences on methods of working out a common front in the face of Communist . China's renewed attacks on Quemoy but there is no disagreement on general principles," one American source said. While Dulles was en route here - from Washington the Chinese - Communists shat tered the Formosa strait cease fire with renewed shelling of Quemoy, blaming the United States. - . Medford Man Tries To Help 'Make City Beautiful' With Oil One Medford man may have thought he was help ing "Make Medford Beauti ful" Saturday when he be gan dumping heavy crank case oil in an alley behind his residence. ' But a neighbor thought otherwise and called city police. The man reportedly told ' the investigating officer he ' thought the oil would soak into the ground "and do the alley good." , The officer, it is reported, told , him no, the oil would not soak into the ground. He then said lie .would "clean it up immediately' according- to -the record. One way or the other, it would seem, he was going to do his bit. Twenty, Medford Lawyers Named to Committees Twenty Medford attorneys have been assigned to commit tees of the Oregon State Bar, George L. Hibbard, Oregon City, newly elected president, has announced. A total of 46 standing com mittees carry on the work of the Bar with the largest group in the trial committee,' which has 94 members. - ' Local attorneys named in clude George M. Roberts, committee on bar building; John R. Dellenback, board of bar examiners; Kenneth G. Denman and Frank P. Farrell, trial committee; Carl M. Brophy, committee on contin uing legal education and tax ation; Robert B. Duncan, com mittee on appellate procedure revision. Otto J. Frohnmayer was named to the committee on corporation law, committee on economics of law practice, and Collision Occurs High Over Anzio; 31 Declared Dead Wing Sheared Off; Craft Plummets Anzio, Italy -(UPD- A Brit ish European Airways turbo prop Viscount airliner bound from London to Naples col lided in clear sunny weather with an Italian air force jet fighter high over Anzio to day. BEA said all 31 persons aboard the airliner were kill ed. A BEA spokesman in Rome said the plane carried 26 pas sengers and five crewmen. The plane, he added, was de stroyed. A wing was sheared off in the air and the plane plummeted to earth from 23,- 000 feet. Jet Pilot Escapes The pilot of the Italian air force F84 jet parachuted safe ly into the Mediterranean and was picked up by a mo torboat. Unconfirmed reports said an elderly Italian civilian on the ground was killed by fall ing wreckage. BEA announced in London that the airliner pilot was Capt. Frank Foster, a well known glider pilot who has flown with BEA since it was started 11 years ago. The jet fighter sheared off the left wing of the four-en- gined, turboprop Viscount. BEA did not release a pas senger list immediately, but an airline official in Lon don said "a number of jour nalists were aboard." , Model Said Aboard - The London Daily Sketch said three of its reporters and a model, Jane Buckingham, 22, were among the passeng ers. The airliner, on a regularly scheduled flight from London to Malta by way of Naples, struck land near the coast,... close to the twin cities of An zio, and Nettuno. The impact smashed it into wreckage that scattered over a 500- yard, area. - - ; The Viscount crashed just 12 minutes before it was to have reached Naples Capodi chino Airport to dfscharge 13 passengers and pick up seven others before continuing on to Malta. Permit issued for Office Building A building permit for $42,341.91 was issued by the Medford city building depart ment Tuesday to the Wilson and McCabe Refrigeration company, for construction of an office building at the cor ner of Grape and Fourth sts. The - building, to contain 5,200 square- feet of space, will be leased to the Jackson County Public Welfare de partment and the state tax commission, it was reported. Additional suite of offices will be assigned at a later date. The property is owned by the' refrigeration company, 301 North Fir St., who are also having the building con structed. . Architect is Robert J. Kee ney, who has reported that the building will be the first unit in a planned larger struc ture. Truman Accused of . Rewriting History Chicago (UPD The White House said today that former President Truman was at tempting "political rewriting of history" by accusing Presi dent Eisenhower of "surren dering to the Communists" in Korea in 1952. ' the trial committee; Thomas J. Reeder, district attorneys; Robert R. Dickey, chairman of the committee on work men's compensation; B.- Kent Blackhurst, committee on eco nomics of law practice; Ed ward Branchfield, federal practice and procedure, law yer placement, legislation and trial committees. Frank J. Van Dyke, com mittee on judicial adminis tration, legislation and trial; James V. Goodwin and H. Dewey Wilson, juvenile law; Manville H. HeiseL legal as sistance to servicemen; G. W. Kellington, grievance com mittee; William E. Duhaime, committee on legal ethics; George M. Roberts, commit tee on necrology; Lawrence L. Clark, probate law and pro cedure; and Stam B. Harbi son, committee' on unauthor ized practice. . a .
