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SINCLAIR WEEKS
H Resign
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. 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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. "
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