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p Ml M IB) ul v IK M i. ' , f "'," iMJ SINCLAIR WEEKS H Resign 1 . LEWIS STRAUSS He's Appointed Sinclair Weeks Quits Commerce Secretary Post Washington -UPD- President Eisenhower today accepted , the resignation of Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks and named Lewis L. Strauss, former chairman of the Atom ic Commission, to succeed him. Weeks resigned effective not later than No. 10. Strauss stepped down as AEC chairman June 30. He has been serving as special as sistant to the President on atoms-for-peace matters. Pressing Business Weeks said in a letter of resignation to the President dated Oct. 22 that he was quitting "only because of pressing business, personal and family considerations, which seemed to me to make it imperative that I return to Boston and to my interests there." The President, in a "Dear Sinny" letter, said Weeks takes with him "My deep gratitude for your long and unstinting devotion to duty and my very best wishes for your future health and hap- Diness." '"It is of course very grati fying to me, as it must be to you, that during your six years as secretary of com merce, the American economy has expanded broadly and generated for our citizens more jobs, higher incomes and greater abundance," the President said., Ordinal Member Weeks was a member of the original Eisenhower Cab inet which took office with the President in January, 1Q53 Onlv three original r,mhprc now remain Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles. Agriculture Secretary r.7ra T. Benson and Postmas ter General Arthur E. Sum- merfield. Police Question Three Reaardinq Complaint Medford police last night Interroeated three persons in connection with a complaint hv the Rev. Robert Edward Cull of the Assembly of God church. 1108 West Main st that someone had aroused his suspicions in attempting to borrow money. Chief of Police Champlin said today he planned to not ify other ministers in the area to beware of suspicious tran sients asking for loans or en gaging in other forms of con fidence game. . United Nations N. Y.-OJPD-The United Nations Political Committee neared the end of debate on disarmament today with little hope of breaking the nuclear deadlock. Make Medford Beautiful BARGAIN COUNTER Here is another example of outdoor display of used merchandise, cluttering the entrances into Medford Storing or exhibiting such items indoors or behind a closed fence would help "Make Medford BeautifuL" 53rd Year M EDFORD 22 Pages Aircraft Carrier Ordered To Cuba To Aid Evacuation Attack Transport Already at Scene Havana, Cuba (UPD The American Embassy announced today that the aircraft car rier Franklin D. Roosevelt has been ordered to Nicaro on Cuba's north coast to provide assistance "if needed" in withdrawing 55 American women and children from the rebel-infested area. The fast U. S. attack trans port Kleinsmith already was at the scene prepared to take aboard the Americans, all de pendents of American super visors who run the big U. S.- owned nickel plant nearby. Rebels Criticized The sleek carrier was pull ed off maneuvers near Guan- tanamo Bay to stand by at the withdrawal of the Americans who were left unprotected by the removal of Cuban gov ernment soldiers from the area. The Americans were order ed out of the area by the U. S. government, which also criti cized the rebels for thir kid naDines of Americans. An embassy spokesman dia not elaborate on the order to call the big aircraft carrier to the Nicaro scene,' but he did say the ship would "provide a helicopter airlift if neaea. Polling Places for Precincts Change Voters in precincts 29A and 30, Medford, will vote in the same places they did aunng the May primary election, Mrs. Bereth P. Hopkins, coun ty clerk, announced today. Originally, voters in ine two precincts were to vote in the new Wilson school at Co rona and Grand aves., but the building will not be complet ed by Nov. 4. Voters in precinct Z9A win vote at the Howard scnooi and those in nrecinct 30 will vote at the Lone Pine school, Mrs. Hopkins said. Klamath Indian Tracts for Sale Washington-ttJPD-The Depart ment of the Interior announc ed today a sale offer for 40 tracts of land on the Klam ath Indian reservation under the terms of the Klamath Termination Act. Tract value's range from one to 10 acres at iou iu a tract of 460 acres valued at $85,000. Indians themselves may buy the land if tney meet the high bid but only for themselves and not as agents for someone else. Don Foster of the Portland area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs said the sale is the firs"t of several in fringe areas of the reservation not included in the tribal forest of the Klamath marsh as de scribed in the termination act. He said such fringe area sales would convert to cash some of the assets of .the Klamath tribe "so that we can start paying off the with drawing members of the tribe." . Tillamook (UPD The Tilla mook ' County Creamery As sociation has voted against a proposed increase in milk prices as proposed by Oregon Milk Producers. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER Dylles CoowiDHced China Reds--Won't" Achieve Goa I c WALL BEING WRECKED Shown above is the concrete wall which encircled the , Oregon Shakespearean Festival theater in Lithia park, Ashland. Wrecking crews this week started wrecking the wall to make Directors To Be Elected in Five Districts Ndv.1l' Directors will be elected in area irrigation districts Tues; day, Nov. 11, water users in the districts were reminded today. Oregon law provides that ir rigation districts elect direc tors the second Tuesday in November, which this year comes on a legal holiday, Vet erans Day. A recent attorney general's opinion ruled that despite .the holiday, the elec tion must still be held on that day. Petitions nominating candi dates . for director must be filed with the irrigation dis trict secretary - manager 15 full days prior to the elec tion. Petition Filed Up to this morning, the only petition filed was one nominating J. G. Camerion for reelection to the Medford Ir rigation district board. No petitions had been filed nominating candidates in the Rogue River Valley, Talent, Eagle Point, and Gold Hill Ir rigation districts. In the Rogue River Valley district, the term of Gordon Kershaw, Medford, expires. David Holmes' term expires in the Talent district, and the term of C. Norman Gail ex pires in the Gold Hill district. In the Eagle Point district, Clarence J. Grebb's term ex pires. Mrs. Ann Todd, who has been involved in a dispute with other members of the board over district policy, has indicated she plans to file as a candidate for the post. ' ' Lumber Market In Spotty Condition , Portland - (UPD - The lumber market of the Pacific North west is in a spotty condition this week. Crow's Lumber Market Service which prepared the index of industry prices said "while there are a few indi cations that . the . downward trail is about to level off, there have been no depend able signs of it yet. Crow's said green fir di mension for water shipment has dropped closer to a 'nor mal price relationship with rail shipment. Demand from both California and the east coast has been slack and Ca nadian price competition is tough. Sanded plywood remains firm but unsanded sheathing continues to reflect a slow down in orders. Discharged PoJceman Named Deputy Sheriff Oregon City (UPD Former Oregon State Policeman Rob ert Wampler, discharged Oct. 16 for "insubordinations," has been hired , as a Clackamas county deputy sheriff to work as relief man during vacations. nff ATT 'SSI .Tpt-rttot?. room for construction of a new proposed theater building for the 1959 season. A cam paign to raise funds for construction of the new theater will start Nov. 12. (Classic Studio photo) Razing of Theater Wears Completion - Ashland-Razing operations at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival theater in Lithia park here are , almost com plete, with the stage already removed and workers this week tearing down the curv ed concrete wall which cir cled the back of the, stage. Festival officials, pointed out that the concrete wall had never been used, strarhirnlly by the theater . organization. Dating from its original con struction at the turn of the century for the former Chau tauqua building, the wall has been rated unsound The recent Elizabethan stage, built on the same Chau tauqua site; stood, within the wall, but was independent Gold Beach Man Plane Crash Victim Gold Beach (UPD A Tri Pacer plane crashed and burned near here on the southern Oregon coast Thurs day afternoon carrying one man to his death. Authorities identified the badly burned body as that of Elmer Costelloe, about 60, Gold Beach businessman. The Curry county sheriff's office said Costello left the Gold Beach airport about 4:30 p.m. to pick up a passenger at either Bandon or Medford, but his plane did not arrive at either town. Civil Aeronautics Authori ties were scheduled to arrive today for further investiga tion. . Medford airport sources re norted that Costelloe had been in Medford earlier yes terday, on a business trip and to get repairs on radio equip ment made. He had been a frequent visitor to . the- Med ford area, they said. Russia Shuns Award To Author Stockholm -(UPD The Soviet Union gave the cold shoulder today to the Nobel prize won by Russian author Boris Pas ternak and apparently block ed him from receiving the award. Western correspondents in Moscow were reported to have talked with Pasternak at his home outside the capital, but none of their dispatches had heen transmitted bv Soviet authorities. The only reaction allowed out came in -telephone calls from the Moscow correspond ents of Communist newspa ners in the West. All followed the same line-the award was a "Dolitical demonstration. The Communist writers de nounced Pasternak as a writ er who has "completely iso lated himself from his own people's struggle for Commu nism." : Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower played golf at the Burning Tree club today. 24, 1958 from it, it' was pointed out. They said they have had sev eral inquiries regarding the reason for destruction of the concrete wall. Weakened by Cracks Architects and construction authorities working oh the proposed new .theater deter mined some time ago that the wall, which had been weak- r?nnri. .trneks, could-iot'-be- used as support. To have de signed- the .new theater build ing for construction within the wall would have greatly increased, the. cost estimates, since curves are more expen sive in construction, they noted. The remainder of the encir cling wall will be left intact around the audience area, Fes tival officials said. It is hoped that in future years this por tion can be altered and im proved in accordance with suggestions from acoustical engineers, advanced as a method for reducing traffic noise in, the outdoor theater. Although the $275,000 fund drive for the Festival's new stage does not start until Nov. 12, the present leveling proj ect had to start immediately after this year's performances. In order to open its 19o9 sea son, foundation work for tne new theater must be finished before heavy rains commence Work Starts on ; Hospital Building Remodeling plans for the old Rogue Valley hospital building on East Main st. are expected in the near future according to local sources. The building was sold re cently to Claude H. and Har old A. Esselstrom, brothers from Roseburg. It is report edly being converted to a gen pral . office building, with sDace being leased to doctors, dentists and professional -ana vocational firms. William Seibert, of the Med ford architectural firm of Sei bert and Sites, said today an architect's rendering of re modeling plans will be avail able "in about a week. Stanley Parrish Construe tion company has been select ed to carry out the remodel ine work, a company spokes man said today.' Crews from the company are currently do ing demolition work on cer tain parts of the building. Seibert said proposed off- street parking facilities may accommodate as many as 100 cars. Probation Revoked In Circuit Court T.pRov Edward Neff, 21, of Grants Pass, had his proba tion revoked in circuit court.) by Judge H. K. Hanna this morning and was sentenced to three years in the state pen itentiary. . Neff, who was -arrested by state police in July, had been charged with burglarly not in a dwelling.' Price 10 Cents 184 Nation Should Be Thankful for Chiang's Forces Red Forces Declared Aimed at U.S. Defeat Washington -(UPD- Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today his meeting with Generalissimo Chaing Kai- shek this week convinced him the Chinese Communists "will not gain their ends" either through military means propaganda. The secretary told newsmen this country can be thankful for Chiang's Nationalist gov ernment because it is resist ing forces aiming at the "ulti mate defeat of the United States." , The Chinese Reds, Dulles said, apparently want to keep fighting going in the Far East and are not interested in sin-i cere efforts to promote peace. Force Renounced Dulles said that the Chi nese Nationalists, on the other hand, have renounced the use of .force to carry out tneir avowed mission "to bring about the restoration of free to the Deople on the mainland." , Dulles made the statement after reporting to President Eisenhower on his conferences in Formosa this weeK wiin Chiang. Dulles returned ear ly today from the Far East.. Dulles said the Keas seem: ed to have broken their own cease fire proclamation be cause they want "to throw roadblocks in the way of sta bilized tranquility." He added that "it is possible that the firing is more tor psychological than for mili tary purposes. Praises Nationalists - Dulles said the American nation can be thankful for the Nationalist government be cause "it resists those forces whose central purpose is world rule and, to that end, the encirclement and ultimate defeat of the United States. The Communists seem to. believe that they can best achieve domination of the Western Pacific if they per petuate confusion and uncer tainty and if they alternately give hopes for peace and fears of war, Dunes saia in m& statement. "They accompany their erratic action with in tensive propaganda to the ef fect that if the people of Asia would unite to expel the Unit ed States from the Western Pacific, well." then all , would be Local Club to Observe 35th Anniversary Medford Kiwanis club will observe its 35th anniversary with a Saturday night dinner and dance at Rogue valley Country club. Speaker for the dinner, which is set for 7:30 p.m., will be Stary Gange, Visalia, Calif. A former governor of the California-Hawaii-Nevada dis trict, Gange is an olive grow er. . He travels about tne country giving addresses and is rnnsidered one of the 10 leading speakers in the Unit ed States. He addressed the anniversary dinner of the Medford club in 1953. Anti-Porter Ad , Protested by Butler Washington-(UPD-Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler protested today against what he called "smear cam paigns against Democrats. One of the things about which Butler complained was an ad vertisement in the Roseburg (Ore.) News-Review which smieht to identify Kep Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) ,-ith Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's propaganda. . London -(UPD- Police hunted today for a stolen 14-ton. eight-wheel truck carrying a 5-ton 11-foot-wide ship's pro peller. No 78 Rescued, Nine Bodies Sighted In Coal Tunnel Little Hope Held Men Still Alive Springhill, Nova Scotia-(UPD Weary rescuers worked deep in the rubble-strewn Cumber land Coal and Railway Com pany mine here today in an effort to free 84 trapped min ers. But a company spokes man said there was "little hope" any would be found alive. The miners were among 172 trapped in an earth-shaking "bump" Thursday night which sent coal and rock slides roaring through the tunnels, closing portions of the mine. Nine Bodies Sighted Seventy eight miners were rescued, but one died. Nine bodies were reported sighted in the mine by rescuers, mak ing a death toll of 10. It was the second major cave-in at Springhill in two years. The comDany said six "su pervisory personnel" were in the mine when a "bump" an underground upheavel which results in the movement of the coal seam, trapped them at two levels. Explosion Two Years Ago -It was reported the super visory personnel were mak ing tests to determine what caused a series of small bumps which occurred at the mine this spring and for a while threatened closure of the colliery. An explosion at the same time two years ago killed 39 miners. Draegermen. so-called be cause of a German named Draeger who invented xneir special equipment, pumped fresh air down the slope to ward the two levels. Harold Gordon, genera manager of coal operations for the parent firm of Domin ion Coal and Steel Corp., went into the pit to direct opera tions. Gordon is a former min er and Draegerman. Rain Adds lo Gloom . . A heavy rain added to the gloom at the pithead where families of the trapped men gathered in silent vigil. Some 80 masked Draeger m e n barefaced miners go ing into the pit in relays re fused to give up hope and worked throughout the night under floodlights. Some Residents Pay Property Taxes A few Jackson county resi dent have already paid their property taxes, county tax de partment officials reported to day, but the rush of tax pay ments is expected near the first of the month. Tax statements were mail ed Oct. 14, officials said. Pay ments are due by Nov. 15. The total tax levy fs $5,904,- 000, they reported, and of that amount 17 per cent is received from personal property tax. 14 per cent from utilities, and 69 per cent from real estate. None of the tax income this vear will eo. for county pur- poses, but will be msiriDuxea to cities, school districts and other taxing units in the --- - ..... i county. The state of Oregon collects no property tax this year, and has not for a num ber of years. Chicago (UPD Time will stand still for an hour Sunday morning when areas of the nation still on daylight saving time turn back the clock. Highway Commission Okays Budget Of $126.9 Million for Next Tear Salem -(UPD- The Orgeon Highway Commission which concludes a meeting here to day has approved a highway budget of $126.9 million for 1959 the biggest on record. This year's budget was $74.1 million. The increase stems largely from the large federal-aid highway program for 1959 which will see more than twice as much money spent for highway construction as this year. Construction Spending Up Construction spending will be about $77.4 million com pared with $35.9 million this year. The department will get about $65 million in federal funds for 1959 and some $60 million from state motor ve- "Dear Sir: In )n$wer to Your Expression of Concern of a Couple of Weeks Ago" (Russia GDffffers To IBacCc Aswan EDam Cairo -(UPD The Soviet Un ion scored a major gain in the Middle East with its offer to finance the first stage of the gigantic Aswan High Dam on the Nile. i The announcement of the Soviet offer of the ruble eauivalent of $100 million Thursday night was followed today by an announcement work- would start soon since the Nile flood season is end ing now. The offer was the second Police Seek New Rally Location ' Medford police are seeking a new site for "high school football rallies and bonfires following an incident last week at the present site on Barnett ' rd:, Police ' Capt. Clyde Fichtner said today A Medford physician an swering an emergency call to deliver a baby at Rogue Val ley Memorial hospital farther east on Barnett was reported ly delayed last Thursday eve ning by traffic congestion at the senior high school's rally. Police said a St. Mary's school rally last night at the same location caused no con gestion thanks to prior plan ning, but explained that tne senior high rallies are much larger. Gold Beach Woman Flown lo Medford Mrs. Lois Bust, Gold Beach, was flown from her home city to Medford yesterday for treatment of a gunshot wound in the hand. The flight was made in a Mercy Flights, Inc., air ambulance plane. She was . taken to Sacred Heart hospital, where her con dition was. reported as good this noon. . " " ( According to reports from Gold Beach, .Mrs. Bust was wounded when she attempted to prevent her husband from committing suicide. Another Mercy Flight yes terday took Mrs. Mildred Brown, route 1, box 215, Gold Hill, to Portland for emergen cy medical examination, and back to Medford. The two flights brought to 884 the number of patients carried by the non-profit air ambulance corporation since it was formed nine years ago. hicle revenue Included in the budget is $400,000 to lure tourists to Oregon during its centennial year. This is some au,uuu more than is being spent mis year. ' The travel information di vision which handles this part of the budget plans to spend $99,000 for magazine adver tising, $95,000 for newspaper ads and $35,000 on television and radio.. , . Bids Too High : The Commission awarded $9,100,000 in highway con tracts, all of them going to previously listed low bidders with two exceptions. - Bids on the Eagle Creek hridee near Richland were rejected as too high and the bid on the Nevada ave. inter big Soviet loan negotiated by. Vice President Abel Bakim Amer who was named head, of a ministerial committee to speed up work on the dam. Amer negotiated a $175 mil lion loan for industrialization a year ago. A United Arab Republic an nouncement said the project would cost $560 million, but it was not clear whether this referred to the first stage which calls for an irrigation dam or the second stage which. includes a hydroelectric proj ect. Forges Another Link What did appear clear was that Russia had forged an other link in its already close friendship with the UAR by offering help that the Western, powers had rejected. Amer remarked at a Krem Llin reception celebrating the loan that "the Soviet Union has proved she is a friend of all Arab peoples." President G a m a 1 Abdel Nasser has always insisted that Soviet aid had "no strings" and that the UAR continues to follow its policy of non-alignment in the strug gle between East and West. But Western diplomats feared Russia sooner or later would present its political bilk Renewed Effort Seen In Washington, diplomatic sources said Russia was mak ing a renewed effort to woo the wavering Nasser closer to the Soviet bloc since there have been signs he was again leaning toward the West for economic assistance, recently borrowing $100 million from West Germany. The Washington sources al so saw it as a long-range Rus sian program to spread Soviet influence since terms of the loan call for Russian technic al personnel and construction equipment to help in the dam's construction. WEATHER FORECAST: Increasing high cloudiness tonight. Cloudy Sat urday with occasional light rain by early afternoon. Outlook for Sunday cloudy with showers. Low tonight 32. High Saturday 65. Temp. Highest Yesterday 58 Lowest this Morning 29 Our Skies Torugrri Sunset today 5:16 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:36 a.m. Moonrise today 3:57 p.m. Moonset tomorrow 4:44 a.m. Full Moon( Hunter's Moon) Oct. 27 PROMINENT STARS Square of Pegasus, high in south - 8:30 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, sets . -. 7:31 p.m. Mars, in tne east 9:27 p.m. change in Klamath Falls was awarded to Tom Lillebo, Reedsport, for $334,099 be cause of a $27,500 error in a bid submitted by Pacific Con crete Company. . The Commission, also ap proved purchase of eight acres of land from the federal gov ernment between Yaquina Bay lighthouse and the Coast highway for use as a park. Klamath county was au thorized to give L,ake county its. 1960 federal road funds to start its "Winnemucca to the sea" route, although State . Highway Engineer W. C. Wil liams was skeptical as to whether the project could be completed with .the money available. Lake county will pay the funds back in 1962. " v
