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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.
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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
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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.