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Newspaper Page Textr 53rd Year Recommended Price 10 Cents' Subscribers Tribuie A story regarding a tour to study foliate on treej in the upper Rocue area, to determine whether they are being damaged by deer or cattle, appears on page 1 of today's Mail Tribune. The tour was sponsored by In dustrial Forestry association to inspect the damage. DFORD To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Med ford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 2-1021. Vreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 12:30 aon. Sunday. If regular delivery arrive shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating; special messenger service. United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Win 62 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1958 No. 185 Me Ike Asks Russia For Its Decision On One-Year Ban Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Eisenhower put it square ly up to Russia yesterday to decide whether a worldwide one-year suspension of nu clear tests goes into effect six days hence. He Tenewed his call on the Soviet Union to join this coun try and Britain iir such a sus pension while East and West discuss a permament test ban AEC Announces Another Soviet Nuclear Blast Washington - 07PD - The Atomic Energy Commission last night announced detec tion of arlother "relatively large" Soviet nuclear .weap ons test in a statement which pinpointed the site of Russia's arctic proving grounds. An announcementby AEC chairman John A. 'McCone said the Soviet test, like 13 others which have been an nounced by the U.S. since Sept. 30, "took place north of the arctic circle at the Rus sian test site at Novaya Zen lya." Novaya Zenlya is a large island which separates the Barents Sea and the Kara sea. The arc shaped island, some 500 miles long, is about 400 miles northwest of the port of Murmansk and some 200 miles west of the Yamal Peninsula. The "relatively large yield" was the eighth major deton ation in the current Soviet test series. Highly placed sources here said the series now ranks as Russia's most intensive testing effort as far as the number and rapidity of tests were concerned. Some U. S. experts believe that the Russians are trying to complete some of their atomic weapons developments before talks begin in Geneva Oct. 31 on a possible test ban. There has been no clear indication as to what the Russians are trying to accomplish in the current test series. Wolf Creek Man Found Dead Friday Grants Pass (UPD A 53-year-old Wolf Creek man, Charles Smith, was found dead Friday in woods north of Wolf Creek. Authorities said apparent cause of death was a heart attack. Indications were that Smith, a timber' faller for the Cave man Lumber Co., collapsed while measuring a log. Sports Bulletin Monmouth Oregon Col leg of Education mad good us of six pass inter ceptions to baiter Southern Oregon College 21 lo 0 in an Oregon Collegiate con ference football game here Saturday night. OCE led 14 to 0 at halflime and chalk ed up 19 first downs to SOC's 7. The losers never threatened the Wolves' goal-line. Make Medford Beautiful T OVERGROWTH This tangle of weeds and shrubbery beside a major highway entering Medford is no credit to the city. Neither is the weather-whipped, deserted shack in the back ground. This yiew is another in the Ma!l Tribune's inventory of eyesores which should be cleaned up to help "Make Med ford beautiful," in talks to start at Geneva Oct. 31. He noted that Russia "has not yet accepted" this propo sal and said he "still hopes" it will do so. "It thus lies with the Soviet Union to decide whether on Oct. 31 all countries which have tested nuclear weapons will have voluntarily suspend ed testing," the president said He made the statement aft er a meeting with Undersec retary of State Christian A, Herter and Ambassador James J. Wadsworth, deputy U. S. representative to the United Nations and the man selected to represent this country at the proposed test ban talks. . ( Another Geneva The state ' department, meanwhile, announced that the United States and four other western allies have com pleted consultations here in preparation for another Gen eva conference which the Rus sians have agreed to attend. These talks, starting Nov. 10, will concern ways of guarding against sneak at tacks. Technicians from this country, Britain, France, Can ada and Italy will meet with experts from Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and perhaps other Soviet bloc na tions. While the state department did not say so, the western experts are believed to have worked out their position on aerial inspection, ground con trol posts, weapons potential ities and similar .problems bearing on prevention of sneak attacks. "- , Ambassadorial Level The president proposed last Aug. 22 that the three atomic powers meet on the ambassa dorial level at Geneva Oct. 31 to negotiate a permament ban on nuclear tests under inter national control. He proposed that all three agree to a one-year suspen sion dating from the start of the conference and offered to extend- the suspension on a year-to-year basis if the three powers made progress toward agreement on general arms control. Russia tentatively accepted the Oct. 31 date but proposed that the conference be on the foreign minister level. Brit ain and the United States re jected that but left the way open for attendance by for eign ministers later. In yesterday's statement, Ei senhower construed the So viet position as failure to ac cept the U.S.-British proposal. Dinner Monday Night Honors Rep. Porter A dinner honoring Con gressman Charles O. Porter will be held at the Phoenix Grange hall starting at 7:30 o'clock Monday night, Mrs. Mark Norton, Phoenix, has announced. Porter is scheduled to speak at the dinner meeting. Portland-(UPD-The Interna tional Longshoremens and Warehousemens union has been named defendant in a six million dollar federal court damage suit by the Harvey Aluminum company, of The Dalles. '-"fcWfll if 1 1 DEER GUARD - The wire mesh around the young Douglas fir tree in the picture above is part of an experiment to determine whether deer or cattle are damaging trees in the upper Rogue area. Sam Taylor, sec ond from left, of Elk Lumber company, shows members of a tour of logging and tree farm operations how the foliage of Veterans Day Football Game Scheduled Here A football game between Southern Oregon college and Moffett Field Naval Air sta tion has been added to activ ities on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, M. E. Fisher, chairman of the Veterans Day commit tee, has announced. The game was arranged through the cooperation of the Veterans Allied Council of Jackson county: '; Reserved Seats Reserved seat tickets for the game, which will start at pjn.' Nov. 11 at Medford High school stadium, will go on sale Oct. 28 in several lo cations. Reserved seats will be id the new grandstand only. Tickets may be purchased at Medford High school, Bark er's Men's store, Home Appli ance store, Morse Motors, all in Medford, and Crater De partment store in Central Point. Several Events . . The game is one of several events scheduled for Veter ans Day. Others include ' a parade in downtown Medford that morning, a display of military equipment, and a dance at the Medford Nation al Guard Armory that night. Four divisions of floats will be featured in the parade. They are schools and cities of Jackson county; civic and fraternal orders; veteran and military- organizations; and commercial divisions. Theme of the parade will be "comedy or cartoons in the service." Youth Marchers Stopped At Gale Washington-(UPD-Leaders of a "youth march for integrated schools" failed yesterday in an attempt to , get through the White House gates to deliver a statement to President Ei senhower. The group, which included singer Harry Belafonte, went to the White House as students from theiourth grade through college marched down Consti tution avenue to the Lincoln memorial. A spokesman said about 6,000 students had been scheduled to participate. Those who appeared at the White House were barred by White House police as a large crowd gathered. Washington -(DPD- President Eisenhower played golf at Burning Tree club yesterday after a few early morning ap pointments. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy through Sunday, showers late Sunday afternoon. Partly cloudy Mon day. High today 65, low to right 38. TEMP. Highest Saturday 9 Lowest Saturday . 34 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today .... 5:14 pjn. Sunrise tomorrow 6:38 a.m. The Moon rises 4:55 p.m. today and Is In Apogee. Apogee dista'nee this month is 252,500 miles. Full Moon (Hunter's Moon) Monday MARS, rising at 6:56 p.m. wlU be in the west In the morn ing twilight. This planet is now less than 47 million miles away. - i " Keds Open Fire, Breaking Word Taipei-nJPD-The Communist Chinese opened up with light shelling of Quemoy island to day in apparent violation' of their own 12 - hour - old an nouncement that they would bombard the offshore islands only on alternate days, the Na tionalist defense ministry re ported. The Communist statement said that mainland guns would not be directed against the Nationalist - held offshore is lands on even dates of the month. The Reds also offered to supply the troops and civilians on the islands with "anything" they needed. The move was Red China's strongest bid yet to win over the Nationalist forces. Even Dated Red China announced yes terday that mainland guns would not shell the airfield at Quemoy and the wharf, Boeing 707 Jet ' Breaks U. 5. Record New York-(UPD-A huge new American Airlines Boeing 707 jet transport set a new West- tOrEast commercial transcon tinental speed record yester day by flying from Los An geles to New York, in 4 hours and 43 minutes. The sleek four-jet transport trimmed 1 hour and 27 min utes off the previous unof ficial west-east record, set in 1957 by an American Airlines DC-7' piston-engine aircraft. The arrival of the plane marked the first time that a United States domestic flag line has operated a jet plane into Idlewild International airport. Football Scores WEST California 23 Oregon 8 Stanford 21 UCLA 19 So. California 14 WSC 6 OSC 14 Washington 12 - Colorado 27 Nebraska 16 New Mexico 13 Wyoming 12 Whitman 12 College of Pacific 7 Willamette 54 College of Idaho 7 Portland Slate 34 East ern Oregon 14 Linfield 13 Lewis and Clark 7 SOUTHWEST Southern Methodist 20 Georgia Tech 0 Oklahoma 40 Kansas St. MIDWEST Illinois 16, Michigan St. 0. Ohio State 7. Wisconsin 7. Purdue 29. Notre Dame 22. Marquette 28. COP 17. Michigan 20, Minnesota 19. Iowa 26, Northwestern 20. EAST Pittsburgh 14, Army 14. Navy 50, Penn 8. Holy Cross 16, Dartmouth 8. Cornell 34, Princeton 8. Yale 14, Colgate 7. SOUTH Georgia 28, Kentucky 0. Auburn 20, Maryland 7. Vanderbilt 39, Virginia 6 Alabama 9, Miss St. 7. fjJCansu 14, Tulane 9. the tree has been eaten hampering its growth. Also shown above are, left to right, Ken Cook, Sam Richardson and Mrs. Eve lyn Nye. A story about the tour which was sponsored by Industrial Forestry associa tion, Medford, appears on page 12 of to day's Mail Tribune. beaches and ships at Liaolo bay on even dates so that the Nationalists could bring in supplies." It was not immediately clear whether today's shelling was aimed at the airfield, wharf or beaches. The de fense ministry said the light bombardment began at 9 a.m. (5 p.m. Saturday PST). In its announcement yester day, Communist China warn ed the offshore of f -again, on again ceasefire was condition al upon there being no escort by U. S. ships in the Formosa strait. Drive Wedge United States sources call ed the maneuver another at tempt by the Reds to drive a wedge between the U. S. and Nationalist China. "It is time now to turn from foe to friend," Red China's defense minister Peng Teh huai said in a declaration broadcast by Radio Peiping. He told the Nationalists on Quemoy and other offshore is lands "if there is a lack of anything, just say it and we will give it to you." Peng's declaration was lard ed with attacks ori United States "interference" in what he said was purely a Chinese matter. . In his declaration to the "compatriots" on Formosa, Matsu, Quemoy and other Nationalist-held islands, Peng as serted: "To arrange things be tween our two parties is very easy." Sputnik Rocket t Portland (TJPD Mrs. Robert Boardwell of the Oregon Moonwalch learn yesterday gave the fol lowing schedule for the appearance of Ihe rocket section of Ihe Russian sat ellite Sputnik III in this area. Oct. 26: 6:45 p.m. 71, degrees in the northwest sky. Oct. 27: 6:23 p.m. 34 degrees in the northwest sky. The rocket will be trav eling from southwest lo northeast, she said. Knowland's Calls Knight San Francisco - (UPD - The split between California's two top Republican candidates was brought into the open yesterday with the report that Sen. William F. Knowland's wife openly attacked Gov. Goodwin J. Knight as "maca roni spined" and a "tool oi the labor bosses." Knight is the GOP candi date for the Senate seat Knowland vacated to run for governor. Although Know land has endorsed the entire Republican ticket, Knight has steadfastly refused to endorse Knowland's candidacy. The San Francisco Chron icle reported Mrs. Knowland, in a personal letter Oct. 16 to top Republican party leaders, said it was vital that the peo COMMISSION APPROVES LOCAL .HIGHWAY -HINDS Cardinals Begin Secret Conclave To Elect Pope Vatican City -(UPD- Fifty one Cardinals sealed them selves in secret conclave in the Sistine Chapel yesterday with a mandate to elect a new Pope who will lead the Roman Catholic church against the - twin threats of war and communism. Not even the sudden death of Edward Cardinal Mooney of Detroit just 70 minutes be fore the opening of the con clave could stop the ancient election machinery. Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York and James Cardinal Mclntyre of Los Angeles gave absolution to their 76-year-old American colleague and then went in their grief to join the other Prelates for the conclave. , First Ballot Today This morning at 10 a.m (4 a,m. EST), the balloting will begin in the chapel with its gorgeous ceiling painted by Michaelangelo. Two ballots will be taken every morning and again every afternoon at 3 p.m. until one man - probably one of the 51 Cardinals - receives two thirds plus one of all the votes cast. Then a wisp of white smoke from a pipe through a chapel window will tell the world that the Church has its 262nd Pope in direct line from St . Peter, and the immediate successor to Pope Pius XII. Formal Ceremonies The formal ceremonies be ean at- 8:30 a.m. in the vast Basilica of St. Peter's where on Oct. 13, the Cardinals had held funeral rites for Pius. They must remain in the conclave until they have elected a Pope, paid obesiance to him and escorted him to the balcony of St. Peter's Ba silica to present him to t h e world. Building Permits Value Increases The value of building per mits for September showed a substantial increase over the value for August and for Sep tember last year in Medford, the Eauitable Savings and Loan association, . Portland, has reported. Permits issued-in Medford in September totaled $296,657, an increase oi oi per cent over the . August total of $189,295, and a 26 per cent increase over the September total last year of $234,819. The, value of dwelling per mits issued in Medford last month was $146,000, com pared to $103,000 in August and $104,000 in September, 1957, Equitable noted. All permits issued in the Equitable area's 16 largest cities last month were 17 per cent higher than in August and September last year. London -(UPD- A 19-year-old typist who extended the time for her employer's car at a parking meter by feeding it a shilling (14 cents) before it ran out, became Britain's first meter offender yesterday. Wife In Personal Letter 'Tool Of Labor Bosses' ple know the "real story" be hind her husband's decision to step down from the Senate to run for governor. Knowland's political ene mies charged the Senator forced Knight out of the race in order to use the governor's office as a stepping stone to the presidency. Knowland has denied this repeatedly. The letter, as quoted by the Chronicle, acknowledged that if the "story is properly told" it might well "result in the loss of the Senate seat for the Republicans." Mrs. Knowland was not available yesterday for com ment. Knowland said he knew of his wife's letter but would not comment on its content. "She is naturally concerned "What's This Crazy For Anybody iilfilnltfiwir TOO Last U.S. Evacuate Beirut,1 Lebanon -(UPD- The last of a 14,400-man U. S. mili tary force pulled out of Leb anon in peace and quiet yesterday.-to end America's his toric intervention in the Leb anese civil war. Democrat Team Registers 2,000 County Voters The registration team spon sored by the Jackson county Democrats registered over 2,000 voters during their reg istration drive. James A. Redden, chairman of the local Democratic cen tral committee, obtained these figures from the amounts on the county warrants sent to individual registrars who aid ed in the drive and were paid on a per name basis. Many voters in doubt about then status reirstered with the mo bile teams. However this was not reflected in the amounts on the warrants if the par ticular voter was registered already. Co-Chairmen Co-chairmen of the drive were Donna Straus and Mary Kelly. The five registrars who made the . most registrations were Marjory Madden, 303; Phyllis Christian, 290; Marg aret McGee, 229; Donna Straus, 215 and Hazel McMa- han, 178. This drive was the most vigorous conducted in the his tory of the county, Redden said. Only 687 Behind The Democrats are now only 687 voters behind the Republicans in registration as compared to a difference of over 1,200 when the drive started. The drive was con ducted on a non-partisan basis, and hundreds of Republicans took advantage of the con venient units as well as the Democrats. about attacks made upon me, and she has a right to express her views," he said. "But I stand upon my repeated pub lic statements that I endorse the . whole ticket -including Governor Knight." ' The letter as quoted by the Chronicle said Knowland en tered the governor's race to prevent California from be coming "another satellite of Walter Reuther's labor-political empire." Knowland was disappointed when Knight withdrew as a candidate for re-election because , the Sena tor wanted to meet him in a primary battle to demonstrate "the difference between two diametrically opposed points of view." ri Idea Of Independence Besides Me?" Troops Lebanon Only 10 claims officers, un armed and in civilian clothes, remained behind to clean up outstanding bills left after the 3Vi-month stay by American marines and soldiers. There was no' fanfare and little ceremony.. -A six-ship squadron was loaded with army equipment and a battal ion of marines which had cov ered the previous withdrawal of army troops. The ships steamed out with three toots of their whistles., watched only by small groups of Lebanese dock workers. The supply ship U.S.S. Pocono led the convoy in single file. The complete departure was symbolized at noon when Maj. Gen. Paul Adams, the Ameri can armed forces commander, boarded an air force trans port for a flight to West Ger many. t He inspected an honor guard of two platoons of Lebanese infantry dressed in black ber ets and combat boots. Adams carried a swagger stick and a Lebanese souve nir: A carved, wood back scratcher. : Two hours after Adam's left, three air force C-130 turbo prop transports left with the last of the air force equipment in Lebanon. . As the sun set, streets which 36 hours before had been cluttered with American soldiers and military vehicles were deserted. "It was as if they folded up their tents in the middle of the night and stole away," a Leb anese said as he watched Adams' plane disappear from sight. The Lebanese press, both pro and anti-Western, virtually disregarded the pull out. Downtown Injures 32 Ottawa - (UPD - An explos ion flattened buildings in the heart of downtown Ottawa five blocks from the Can adian houses of Parliament yesterday only an hour before the start of the Saturday shopping rush. Authorities said no bodies had been found, in the crater blasted -with ' blockbuster force by the explosion, which apparently was caused by an accumulation of gas under a small building.. Two hospitals reported re ceiving a total of 32 injured persons, most of whom were only slightly hurt. The explosion was Canada's second disaster in two days. A mine collapse in Nova Sco tia Thursday night caused heavy loss of life. Officials said that if the 8:20 a.m. explosion in the Canadian capital had come a few hours later, it might have caused a major tragedy. The area of the blast would have been teeming with choppers, 'Lake' Road Grading May Start Next Year Crater Lake Route Gets State Funds Too The state highway commis sion Friday approved state participation in $5 million worth of forest highway proj ects to be undertaken next year in cooperation with the federal bureau of public roads and the forest service. Included in the construction program would be five miles of grading in the Cascade Gorge section of Crater Lake highway, $700,000; and five miles of grading on the Lake of the Woods highway near McAllister Soda Springs, $600,000. This sum for the Lake of the Woods highway is the first, either state or federal, to be allotted. The highway is potentially an important link between Medford and areas east of the Cascades. : Survey Crew forking Jackson County Judge Rod ney Keating said survey crews have been working in the Mc Allister Soda Springs section for the past 4V weeks, and it is expected work will start during the construction season of 1959. Keating said he believed the bureau of public roads would have contracts ready for let ting in the spring. The Lake of the Woods road ii . . . recenuy was approved to De included in the federal forest highway system, making it eligible to receive . federal funds for improvement. 'Winnemucca-to-xhe-Sea Roads in the federal forest system are high standard, all weather roads. The present highway is unimproved for about 17 miles between Mc Allister Soda vSprings and Lake of the Woods, all of which is in the Rogue River Moifnnnl T"T U:l from Klamath Falls to the lake is paved, and between McAllister Soda Springs and Medford, the highway ii paved. Improvement of Lake of the Woods highway has been en couraged in southern Oregon as a . possible link with a "Winnemuca-to-the-sea" route to the Oregon coast. Rebel Premier Rejects ' Peace Talks In Paris Cairo (UPD Premier Fer hat Abbas of the Algerian reb el government in exile last night rejected French prem ier Charles De Gaulle's pro posal for peace talks in Par is but left the door open for negotiations "on neutral ter ritory." i - He insisted the only final solution can be Algerian in dependence and warned the French government not to mistake the rebels' willing ness to discuss peace as a sign of weakness. Explosion In Ottawa and a seriously damaged mov ie theater would have been occupied by a matinee audi ence. ' Firemen fearful that a brok en gas pipe might unleash an other explosion ordered all stoves, pilot lights and oth er flames put out over a wide area and put a strict no-smoking ban in force throughout the danger zone. Heavy police reinforce ments were rushed into the downtown section to put a halt to looting that began as soon as smashed store win dows were discovered. Debris was scattered heav ily over a four-block down town section and the explos ion was felt up to 10 miles away. Picture windows in some suburban homes were smashed and every window in the nine-story Jackson build ing, across the street from the blast site, were blown out. Power lines were cut, but tele phone wires were undamaged.