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I , IPipe Mppasils wm mm 53rd Year Medford 18 PAGES 12 MO Fill Kill MM iw mm Soto me : . , pill! '" Y''Fff --A 1 -y ' nil EAGLE SCOUTS Douglas Kliever admires the Eagle pin worn by Fred Lorish while John Crawford looks on. All three received the Eagle rank in a court of honor held at Roosevelt school last night. Other awards went to Kelly Somers, bronze palm; Stan Dowson and Mike Gannon, life rank; Tom Deakins, George Dames and Eric Schade, Star rank, and Monte Kennedy, first class rank. Merit badges were presented to Craw Education Board Talks Vocational Center Problems Salem UPD The State Board of Education today thrashed out some problems that might arise from setting up a system of educational centers for vocational arid technical education in Ore gon. ' , The centers were recom mended by Dr. W. R. Flesher of Ohio State university fol lowing a recent survey. O. I. Paulson, state director of vocational education, told the board that Oregon voca tional education people were generally in favor of setting up such centers. Possible in Next Biennium Board member May Darling said that should the Legisla ture approve the plan, there was the possibility of getting two-year educational centers started in the Salem, Eugene, Coos Bay, Pendleton and Bend areas during the next biennium. Elesher divided the state in to seven districts where schools might be started, but the Board agreed that boun dary changes of the districts probably would have to be made. Board members expressed some concern over local re action to setting up another school board able to levy taxes in addition to boards al ready in the area. Make Medford Beautiful ILL-GROOMED This tangle of overgrowth might inspire Vincent Van Gogh or lesser artists, but it is not likely to im press visitors entering Medford too favorably. Fence-mending, lawn-mowing and some snips of the pruning shears would make a big difference. Making Medford Beautiful is going to be primarily the sum of individual citizens each doing their part. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1958 ford, public health and nature; Dames citi zenship in the home and masonry; . Bill Dames masonry; Deakins, scholarship and citizenship in the home; Dowson, home re pairs and swimming; Gannon, stamp col lecting; Mike Higgins, masonry; Kliever, firemanship; Lorish, public health, fireman ship, camping and home repairs and Schade, basketry. ;- Geddes Discusses Views on Red China, Natural Resources Ashland-Paul Geddes, Rose burg attorney and Republican candidate for congressman from the fourth district, dis cussed his views on recogni tion of Red China and Ore gon's natural resources at a "Meet Your Candidates" as sembly here this morning. The assembly was the sec ond at Southern Oregon col lege at which candidates seek ing office in the Nov. 4 gen eral election appeared. Geddes reviewed his oppo sition to admission of Red China to the United Nations, and reasons why he objects to recognition of Red China by the United States. Technically at War He said the United States is technically at war with Red China because of the coun try's membership in the UN. He apparently referred to the UN truce with Red China, noting . that no actual truce treaty had been signed. The Republican candidate said Russia is using the Unit ed Nations as a place for Com munist propaganda, and if Red China is( admitted to the UN, the Chinese would use it for the same' purpose. Geddes felt that recogni tion of Red China by the United States would lead to UN membership. He felt that by any concepts of interna tional law or democratic " ' ' I standards, Red China-was not eligible for recognition. I "China wishes to liberate from democracy the Philip- pines, and a number of other democratic Asian countries, and does not intend to enable them to remain autonomous," Geddes said. He deplored the emotionalism with which both parties view the problem of recognition of Red China. Natural Resources The Roseburg attorney also discussed the federal govern ment's hold on Oregon's na tural resources, and felt that an unfair portion of income from Oregon and other west ern states is being funneled into the federal government. He cited the state's timber re sources as an example. Geddes recommended that Oregon resources be devoted to furthering the welfare of the state in every way possi ble. He said this was import ant now because of the Ore gon Centennial scheduled for next year. Also attending the assem bly at Churchill hall were Mrs. Evelyn Nye, Republican candidate for state represent ative from Jackson county; Melvin La t tie. Republican candidate for state represent ative and Dr. Edwin Durno, Republican candidate for state senator. Mclaughlin Pupils Delivering Signs McLoughlin Junior High school student body members today were to deliver "do not disturb" signs to elderly resi dents and homes in which there is illness. The annual Halloween pro ject by the McLoughlin stu dent body was started in 1946 as a public service. Signs, which are orange with blacky lettering, are staked in front yards of those who request them, school of ficials said. They generally are honored by children "trick or treating" on Halloween night, they noted. Glenn Lynn, principal at McLoughlin, said about 50 signs will be placed today. Pendleton -&?D- Arvine Por ter, 43-year-old wheat and cattle rancher from Pilot Rock, has been named presi dent of the Northwest Rodeo association. Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 188 Miners Trapped For Six Days In Deep Shaft May Be Others, Official Declares Springhill, Nova Scotia-(UPD Twelve miners were reported found alive today, nearly six days after they were trapped 13,000 feet underground in North America's deepest coal mine along with 81 other men. "There may be more of them alive," said an official of the Cumberland Railway and Coal Co. There still were 57 other miners unaccounted for since an earthquake - like "bump" shattered the mine last Thursday night and trap ped 174 men, mainly at three different levels. 24 Bodies Recovered Of the 174 men in the mine at the time of the disaster, 81 were rescued. Another 24 bodies were recovered from the mine. Workers have been struggling night and day to reach the rest of the men. Mine officials, workers and families of the trapped men had long since given up hope that any men remained alive. Richwod, W. Va. -(DPD- Two coal. ... mine . explosions .jn.u as many' days in West , Virginia left 35 men dead. " Thirteen were killed in the blast that ripped through the Burton Mine of the Ogleby-Norton Coal Co. near Craigsville Tuesday morning. Twenty-two were killed in a similar explosion at the Bishop mine of the Pocahon tas Fuel Co. at the Virginia border Monday morning. Charles Ferguson, United Mine Workers safety inspec tor, said he believed this was the first time mine disasters had occurred on consecutive days in the United States. Democrats Schedule Meeting Tonight A pre-election meeting of Democrats will be held at party headquarters in the Es quire theater at 8 o'clock to night, according to Party Chairman Jim Redden. He said a "get out the vote" campaign would be given a last-mmute review, and that all workers interested in par ticipating would be welcome. Sound trucks, a telephone campaign, and mail reminders are planned in an effort to get out a big vote in next Tuesday's general election. Fireman Injured En Route to Fire Elmer Ernest . Tompkins, 30, of 130 Elk st., was injured Tuesday afternoon while rid ing the tailboard of a fire truck at the intersection of Pennsylvania ave. and Peach st. en route to a fire at 713 Pennsylvania ave. According to Medford city police, Tompkins and Gor don Ardell Shelton, 36, of 948 Alta st., both Medford city firemen, were riding on the rear of the main fire sta tion truck operated by Theo dore George Marisz, 36, of 1540 Ellendale ave., when the .accident occurred. Reports show that the truck hit several dips in the street causing Tompkins to be thrown into the air and fall on the hand rail of the truck. He was taken to Sac red Heart hospital by Med ford Ambulance where he was treated and released. City firemen reported that the fire, at the residence of Donald J. Richey, started in a trash box on the back porch. Richey, who was driving past his home at the time, noticed smoke and turned in the alarm. The fire burned through the porch floor and partition into the kitchen. Reports Show heat and smoke dam age to the kitchen. Boris Pasternak Rejects Nobel Literature Prize Russian Scientists To Accept Awards Moscow -(DPD-Soviet author Boris Pasternak today reject ed the 1958 Nobel prize for literature. He said in an in terview that he changed his mind voluntarily and without consulting even his friends. However, three Russian scientists who have been awarded the 1958 Nobel prize for physics said today they will go to Stockholm later this year to accept their awards. Two of the three-Dr. Pavel Cherenkov and Igor Eugenevic Tamm-made the announcement at a Moscow press conference. The third man, Frof. llya Micnauovic Frank, was not present. He is vacationing on the Black Sea. Pasternak said that he had thought over the reaction to the prize and decided finally and on his own to renounce it. The Soviet press has de nounced him for having ac cepted it in the first place, and the Soviet Writers Union ex pelled him from its ranks. Pasternak's rejection was the first since the days of Adolf Hitler when the Ger man fufarer forced three Ger mans to reject the prize. Hit ler became angered when the Nobel peace prize was award ed to anti-Nazi journalist Carl von Ossietzky in 1935. Meanwhile, at Stockholm, three Americans at the uni versities of Wisconsin, Stan ford and Oxford were expect ed to win the Nobel medicine prize for their work in ge netics. - . They are Dr. George W. Beadle, formerly of Stanford and now at Oxford, Dr. Ed ward L. Tatum of Stanford and Joshua L. Lederberg of Wisconsin university. After the medicine prize is announced only the prize for peace will be left. Its winner will be chosen by' the Nor- weian '"oberwnninitteein Oslo. - ' , " BLM to Review Timber Program Suggestions toward improv ing the Medford bureau of land management district 1959 field operations program will be received by BLM of ficials at a meeting at I p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in the Jack son county courthouse audi torium. Plans for development of resources in the area will be discussed by local BLM offi cials. - This is the second meeting scheduled to- give interested persons an opportunity to make suggestions toward im proving BLM field operations. The first one was held earlier this year. ' ' BLM State Supervisor Vir gil Heath, and members of the staff, as well as local person nel, are expected to attend to be available to answer ques tions.. Representatives of the forest service also are expect ed to attend. Included 1 on the agenda will be a discussion of the sal vage problem, according to of ficials. The salvage problem was added to the agenda at the suggestion of small log ging operators in southern Oregon, who have expressed the belief that salvage opera tions could be handled on a more effective and efficient basis. Nuclear Explosions Detonated in Nevada Atomic Test Site, Nev. -(UPD -Nuclear blasts sent rumb ling echoes across the desert today as U. S. scientists Dunched buttons in' a race to fire five shots in one day and beat a proposed test ban dead line. Humboldt, the day's sec ond shot, flared brightly as it was detonated at 6:45 a.m., (PST). A few hours earlier, Mazama had been triggered. Portland -(UPD- Clinton S. McGill has submitted his re signation as executive direc tor of. the Housing Authority here to enter private business. He was appointed to the 89,600 a year post three years ago. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (UPD - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 542.72, up 5.84; 20 railroads 149.10, up 1.21; 15 utilities 82.92, up 0.54, and 65 stocks 188.22, up 1.78. Sales today were about 4,790.000 shares com pared with 3.670,000 shares Tuesday. -A I - ,0 DR. C. TODD JESSELL Speaker ai Meeting Radiologist to Speak at Cancer Society Meeting Dr. C. Todd Jessell, Port land radiologist, will be guest speaker at the annual meet ing of the Jackson county unit of the American Cancer So ciety at the Rogue Valley Country club Friday, Octl 31. Dr. Jessell is scheduled to speak at 11:15 a.m. Friday on the origin, history and future course of the American Can cer Society, and during the presentation of awards to volunteers, scheduled at 12:25 p.m. A graduate of the Univer sity of Wisconsin and Wiscon sin medical school, Dr. Jessell has been an active volunteer executive board member of the American Cancer Society, Oregon division, Inc., since 1951. He received a special sword plaque award at a re cent meeting and workshop of the Oregon division in Port land for his outstanding work as chairman of the executive and medical-scientific com mittee.. v , . . ' The meeting will start at 9il &; iSaCiHXSrfii&tiSif and a discussion of the coun ty's work -toward . a " solution for the cancer problem. Topics wnicn .. wiu De covered- in clude service facilities, edu cational program, memorials, tumor registry and clinic and the film story. Reservations for the lunch eon may be made by telephon ing the Cancer Society ' at MUrdock 2-6551. Dallas Man Injured On Construction Job Melvin Clinton Shefetov, 50, Dallas, Ore., was treated at Rogue Valley hospital Tues day afternoon for scalp lacer ations and released, according to Medford city police. Shefetov," who is working on a construction job on Co yina ave. approximately 75 yards south of Grand ave., was hit on the head by a crane which was digging a ditch, police said. Shefetov said that he thought the crane, operated by Frank Richard Wairi- wright, 51, Grants Pass, was pulled away when he jumped into the ditch to measure it. He was taken to the hos pital by Medford Ambulance service. Sage Riders To Be in Mail Runs The Ashland Sage Riders have submitted an application and registration to partici pate in the Oregon Centen nial Pony Express mail run June 7 to 10 next year, Harry Long, Baker, executive vice president of Centennial Pony Express, has announced. The mail run will be staged to "kick off" the Oregon Cen tennial exposition and inter national trade fair in Port land. Pony Express post of fices will be established throughout the state, and stamps will be sold at each. The statewide Pony Express mail run is expected to take three days, Long said, and will follow two main line routes across Oregon with some feeder lines. One run each week, starting at the Centennial site in Portland,' is planned for the duration of the Centennial celebration, Long said. The Ashland riding club was formed last May, and has participated in parades, shows and formed a posse to locate a boy lost in the mountains. Mrs. Mike Jacoby is president of the club, which also helps ranchers in the area in cattle drives. Pontiff's Speech Brings Elective Conclave To End 'Listen To Voices World Leaders Urged Vatican City-(UPD-Pope John XXIII began the first day of his reign today with an ap peal to the leaders of the world to abandon their mon strous arms and ensure peace with justice. The 76-year-old pontiff, in his first papal address, asked the world leaders to "look at the people, listen to their voices." "What do they ask? What do they implore? Not new monstrous arms but peace . . . but justice . . . but tranquility and concord." Pope John, his voice firm and at times almost musical, spoke in Latin from the papal throne in the Sistine Chapel where a secret conclave of cardinals elected him Tuesday as the 262nd pontiff. His speech followed a Sol emn Mass that brought the electing conclave to an end and opened the sealed area of St. Peters to the world for the first time since last Saturday. Needs Free Peace He said the world needed a free peace-not a peace exist ing under conditions of sla very. Addressing himself to those who "hold in their hands the fate of nations," the Pope asked: "Why are dissensions and discord not settled? Why are efforts directed at creating harmful instruments of war instead of civil progress? "Come, act courageous and confident . . .' the light from above shines on you." He quoted from St. Augus tine: "Pax est tranquillitas domini'-Peace is the tranquil ity of the Lord, and from St. Thomas: "Between peace and slavery there is a great dif ferencel Peace is tranquil freedom." . Speaks of 'Silent Church He spoke then of the ''silent church" behind the Iron Cur tain and said: "". -' "Our thoughts go out in a particular way to the bishops, priests arid faithful who live where the church's sacred rights are trampled on with daring . . . where pastors are impeded to the point that they canont carry out their task. "We share in their sorrows." Such restrictions against church liberty are "complete ly repugnant" to civilized life, he said. He prayed for di vine enlightenment of ' the minds of the persecutors to bring about "freedom for all." (See stories on Page 6) Geddes Called on To Repudiate Ads Eugene - (UPD - A spokesman for Rep. Charles Porter CD Ore.) today called on Repub lican Paul Geddes of Rose burg to repudiate newspaper advertisements published in behalf of Geddes' campaign to unseat Porter in the fourth congressional district. Keith Skelton, .chairman of the Reelect Porter to Con gress Committee, declared that the advertisements were "in the character assassination tradition of Nixon,, McCarthy, and Deadwood Dave Hoover, and are an insult not only to Congressman Porter but to all of the rational and reasonable people of the State of Ore gon." Skelton said he had re ceived a wire from National Democratic Party Chairman Paul Butler reporting that Butler has asked the Fair Campaign Practices commit tee for prompt action in con nection with the Geddes advertising. Military Units To Take Part in Veterans Parade Military , units of southern Oregon have indicated they will participate in the Veter ans Day parade Nov. 11, Brig. Gen. W. H. Prentice, military chairman, announced today. Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, adjutant general of the Ore gon National Guard, will be honorary marshal, and will be accompanied by . the Oregon National Guard band from Portland. National Guard units from Medford and Ashland will lead the parade, with Army, Navy and Air Force reserve units participating, Prentice said. The parade will start at 10:30 a.m". from Oakdale ave. Holmes,a-cvield Press Campaign Portland (UPD Gov. Rob- Portland -UPD- Mark Hat- ert Holmes told a labor union audience here Tuesday night that he doubted Mark Hat field, if elected governor, would serve a full term. Holmes told members of the Streetcarmen's Union at the Labor Temple that he ex pected Hatfield, the . Republi can candid at e opposing Holmes, would try to unseat Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) when the ' latter's term expires in 1960. Miss Shirley Field, a Re publican state legislator from Multnomah county, asserted that the state income tax was lower because Republicans fought for lower rates in the last special session of the Leg islature. Holmes replied that in the regular session taxes were reduced for the 60 per cent of the people who have lesg than $6,000 income." Miss Field countered: "In the first $500 of income the rate doubled from 2 to 4 per cent. Isn't that true? Yes or no." Holmes said he couldn't an swer because he didn't know, but he continued, "I do know that nobody has the authority to call a special session except the governor, and no Repub lican governor in the state's history has ever called a spe cial session to cut taxes when they had a surplus." 'My Dear Fellow Ahaha The Pleasure Is All Mine" WT- ' dT - , Sssgss- run TERRIBLY FRIEMPLY CO. . MONEY VOOR NAME AUOME , Governor Tax Appeal System Salem - (UPD - Several thous and Multnomah county tax payers may appeal increased property tax assessments by machinery now being set up, Gov. Robert D. Holmes told a news conf eren'ce here today. The governor said appeal blanks are now being printed and temporary offices will be set up around the county by the Tax Commission. S. W. Horn, chairman of the Tax Commission, said any Multnomah county taxpayer whose assessment had been increased could file an ap peal. The governor said he had received between 75 and 100 letters from taxpayers, in Multnomah county, most of them from older citizens who were fearful of losing their property due to increased assessments. Last Friday, the governor ordered the Tax Commission to conduct an investigation of the situation. The governor said the tax and Eighth st. It will proceed east on Eighth st. to Bartlett st., north on Bartlett to Main, and west on Main to Laurel st. A reviewing stand will be located on Main st. . . The parade is among activ ities planned ly the Jackson County Veterans Allied Coun cil in observance of Veterans Day. Others include break fasts for veterans, a public dance at the Medford Armory that night, and a football game between Southern Oregon col lege and Moffat Field at Med ford High school that after noon. Medford stores, all govern- i mental offices, and schools; will be closed Veterans Day. I field said Tuesday he was ''not of the school that says 'party first and the public second'." The Republican . candidate for governor told a Kiwanis lunheon that he did not con sider all the brains were in the Republican party. "We must bring together people oi ability, capacity and exper ience, regardless of political label," Hatfield said. The secretary of state saio! he had "fought hard" to bear the standard of the Republi can party. But he said he did not think only party should be considered in making political appointments. Hatfield outlined three points of tax structure im provement he said he believed necessary to help bring in new industry. He said he favored a capital gains provision for the personal income tax, elim ination of the "discrimina tory" inventory tax and pro vision for writing off small business losses. He said the latter would help encourage expansion of business already in operation in the state. Hatfield revealed that con tributors to his campaign have reached the 1,000 mark. Sets Up increase had caused hardships and that he favored a "home stead bill" proposed by the Legislative Interim Commit tee on taxation which would not forgive taxes, but would defer payment of taxes until the property was sold or went into an estate. The governor took excep tion to a different homestead bill proposed by his opponent in the Nov.. 4 election, Secre tary of State Mark Hatfield. Hatfield would forgive taxes, but the governor said "I don't think he could sell it to the Legislature." Taxpayers who wish to ob tain the three per cent re duction by paying their taxes by Nov. 15 could make the payment on or before that date and still file an appeal, the governor said. Bids To Be Opened on Two Sewer Projects Bids on two Medford storm sewer projects are scheduled to be opened Thursday at 11 a.m. at city- hall, according to Vernon Thorpe, public works director. One project is . on North Riverside ave. at Edwards st. The second is on Columbus ave. between Dakota ave. and Mt. Pitt ave. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight and Thursday except for patches ol valley fog late night and early morning hoars. Low tonight 35. High Thursday 75. Temp. Highest Yesterday 71 Lowest this Morning 34 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 5:09 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow , 6:43 a.m. The Moon rises 6:41 p.m. tonight and its orbit around the Earth has again brought it into the constellation, Taurus. It is seen between Aldebaran and Mars and during the night it moves nearer Aldebaran. Last Quarter Nov. 4 - ' i
