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Proposes Fire Test in 53rd MEDFOKD 22 PAGES ireg Dun tLost-Onteh Mve FIRST AUDIENCE Pope John XXHJ is shown holding his first papal audience at one of war into instruments of a just and J Id rulers to turn their "monstrous" weap one of war into instruments of a just and lasting peace. Groundbreaking Scheduled for Shopping Center Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Sears Roebuck company building in the East Jackson st. shopping center will be held Thursday, Nov. 6, at 10:30 a.m., it was an nounced today by Mark Goldy, Medford real estate and insurance broker. The groundbreaking will mark the beginning of con struction in the shopping cen ter which is expected to in clude a Safeway grocery store and a chain drug store. Here for the ceremonies will be Edward Cameron, Se attle, public relations man ager for Sears; Price Sullivan, Seattle, merchandising de partment director for the northwest region for Sears; and John Wadham, Los An geles, western division man ager of the real estate division for Sears. James E. McClellan, Los Angeles, partner in the Los Angeles construction firm Buttress and' McClellan, Inc., will also attend the event. The $639,000 building per mit for the building was issued by the city building department earlier this month, as was a permit for $131,725 for the erection of a Safeway store building. The Sears building will include approxi mately 80,000 square feet of space. Businessmen and city and ) county officials in southern Oregon and northern Cali fornia will receive invitations to a luncheon at the Rogue Valley Country club follow ing the groundbreaking cere monies, Goldy said. Washington - UPD - Presi dent Eisenhower played golf Thursday. Portland -UiPD Sale of the downtown Yeon building here has been reported. Price was not disclosed. Make Medford Beautiful GHOST TOWN-A visitor passing through Medford might get the idea from deserted buildings like this that the city's for tunes are on the decline. Local residents are seldom proud of such sights. What about the property owner? Each citizen can help "Make Medford Beautiful." Year MEDFORD, Geddes, Portland Candidate Report Top Expenditures By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington - Reports filed this week with Congress by Oregon congressional candi dates showed mat it is nip and tuck between two Re publican candidates, Paul Geddes of Roseburg and John Johnston of Portland, as to who is putting on the most expensive campaign for Con gress. Geddes, who is trying to unseat Democratic Rep. Charles Porter, filed a report which said he had personally received and spent nothing. But the Geddes for Congress committee, Springfield, re ported receiving $15,092.82 and spending $11,722.07 through mid-October. Johnston, who is trying to defeat Rep. Edith Green in Portland, reported he re ceived $17,953 and spent $12, 310. Porter Roport Not In No 'other candidates of either party came close to having this much money this year, according to reports filed with the clerk Of the House of Representatives. In the fourth district race, Congressman Porter did as Geddes did and reported he personally received no funds. The report of his campaign committee had not yet been received by the clerk's office today noon. Mrs. Green reported she received $2,568 in her con test with Johnston. Rep. Walter Norblad re ported receiving $2,272 and spending $1,729, against his Democratic opponent, Attor ney General Robert Y. Thorn ton, who reported he got $1,107 and spent $1,550. In eastern Oregon's second district, Rep. Al Ullman was running the poorest, finan OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1958 cially speaking, campaign. He said he had received only $33 in four separate contributions ranging from $5 to $13. He spent $300. His Republican opponent, Marian Wetherford, received $6,311 and spent $7,551.89. Party Groups Help Geddes Geddes' largest single con tributions came from party groups. The national GOP congressional committee gave him $1,000: the United Re publican Fund, Roseburg, gave $1,000 and Lane county central committee gave 10 listed contributions totaling $3,205.30. The national Republican congressional committee also put $750 into Norblad's re election bid, but passed up Weatherford and Johnston. There was no indication that Democratic candidates were being helped financially by their national committees. Police Investigate Stabbing This Noon City police were investi gating an apparent stabbing this afternoon. They said they received a call about 12:10 p.m. concern ing a man found lying in the city park at the south edge of Medford. He was taken to the police station where ex amination revealed an .ice pick wound in his back. The victim, whose identity was not yet learned, was taken to Sacred Heart hos pital. Man Tells In Massage Parlor North Bend, Ore. (UPD A California salesman com plained to police Thursday that he dropped in at a mas sage parlor and ended up do ing household chores in the nude for the gun-toting wom an operator. Brigit Daga Whitley, 38, op erator of a Swedish massage parlor in nearby Coos Bay, was jailed on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon. Police were called to the es tablishment by salesman Wil liam Driscoll, 32. They found him standing in the nude with a .22 caliber pistol which he said he took from the woman. Driscoll, who asked that his hometown and the. name of his firm not be disclosed, said he checked into a Coos Bay motel late Wednesday and made an appointment for a Hatfield Group Answers Charge By Neuberger Fair Campaign Committee Involved By United Press International The pace of the Oregon election campaign quickened today as politicians hurried to make last minute charges against their opponents in hopes the time would be too short for an effective counter charge' to get back to the vot ers before election day. At the gubernatorial level, the Democrats called on Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) to lend his influence in the final days of the campaign Tt T i r Tr ! iui uuv. xvuuei l j. xiumies. i Speaking in Portland, the Senatof called upon Mark Hatfield, Holmes' Republican opponent, to explain his vote against an Alaska statehood memorial in the Oregon Leg islature. Hatfield Replies The Hatfield committee countered that while their candidate was a member of the state Legislature in 1955 he automatically voted against all memorials to Congress, on any issue, as a trivial waste of legislature time. Neuberger noted that Holmes, also a member of the Legislature at that time, voted in favor of the Alaskan statehood memo rial. Holmes and Hatfield shared a political rostrum in Port land Thursday night, debating the taxation issue and each claiming an ardent interest in government economy. They agreed on the need for ex panding the bonding capacity of the State Department of Veterans Affairs. Geddes Accused The national Fair Campaign Practice Committee has be come involved in the congres sional race in the fourth con gressional district. There, Rep. Charles Porter (D-Ore.) accused, his Republican oppo nent, Paul Geddes of Rose burg, of character assassina tion in advertisements in district newspapers. Porter's campaign chairman, Keith Skelton of Eugene, demanded that Geddes repudiate the ads. Today Geddes replied that Skelton's demand was "last minute, desperation poli tics." He said his ads were based on "Porter's record as it actually is, not as Porter and Skelton wish the voters thought it was." Heavy Vote Predicted As the campaign reached its climax, the State Elections Bureau at Salem issued its usual prediction of the vote. Eyeing the increasing interest generated by the busy candi dates, the bureau said the Tuesday vote should amount to about 70 per cent of those eligible. Less than 54 per cent voted in the May primary. of Terror massage, which he often did while traveling. The salesman said that when the massage was over, Mrs. Whitley pulled the gun from under the pad on the massage table and forced him to disrobe. Driscoll said he spent eight hours washing clothes, empty ing garbage and doing house hold chores in the nude before he was able to grab the gun and notify police. Mrs. Whitely was held in lieu of $5,000 bail. Israeli Invasion . Of Jordan Rumored Paris-UPD-Arab government leaders stepped up consulta tions among themselves today quoting persistent reports that Israel plans to invade Jordan, informed sources said. Price 10 Cents No. 190 Eisenhower-Nixon To Climax GOP Election Effort Ike Asked To Forego 'Hobgoblin' Charges Washington OIPD President Eisenhower brings the 1958 Republican campaign to a climax tonight. Democrats de manded in advance that he forego "hob-goblin" charges of "socialism" and discuss s;rious issues such as the government deficit and un employment. The President delivers his final speech before next Tues day's congressional election at a Baltimore, Md., rally. He will speak over a national ra dio and telvision network at 6 p.m. (p.s.t.) Nixon To Speak Vice President Richard M. Nixon also makes his 'last pre-election speech at Seattle, Wash., tonight. Major Demo cratic campaigners including former President Truman, Ad lai E. Stevenson and Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson will make their wind up speeches Saturday night. In advance of Eisenhower's speech tonight, Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler called on the President to "throw away the hobgoblin speech your ghosts have writ ten for your Halloween cam paign windup . . . and talk about facts and the real issues of the campaign." 'Trick-or-Treat Act' Butler and Eisenhower and Nixon have been "putting on a trick-or-treat act in business suits" and "scaring the day lights out of small children and big contributors . . . with such scary jack-o-Ianterns as 'radicalism,' 'socialism' and 'hare-brained schemes'." "Tomgnt, when we'll have plenty of scary young folks knocking at our doors and threatening horrendous things unless they are bribed off with bubble gum and candy corn, it would be good for us all to have a more serious performance," the Democratic chairman said. Pairoiman Pleads Innocent in Court Floyd Kenneth Lawson Jr., Medford "rookie" patrolman cited Tuesday for failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian, pleaded innocent in municipal court today, ac cording to Capt. Clyde Ficht ner. The trial is scheduled for Nov. 12. Lawson, driving his own vehicle jyst after going off duty Tuesday morning', struck and injured a 67-year-old Tal ent woman, according to the police report. The accident occurred at Fifth st. and North Central ave., directly in front of city hall and the police station,- ac cording to police. Myrtle Pearl Martin, victim of the accident, was reported to have spent a "good" night last night at Sacred Heart hospital. She resides at route 1, box 405 in Talent. Lawson, 25, lives at 1418 Reddy ave., Medford. Accord ing to Fichtner, he has been on active duty as a policeman for only "a week or two." Investigation Into Theft to Continue Investigation of the theft of about $400 from the safe of the Jackson county farm home is being continued, ac cording to Chief Criminal Deputy Joe Walsh. A special investigator from the state police conducted a series of lie-detector tests at the home yesterday, Walsh said. The money was discovered missing June 11 when a Jack son county welfare depart ment worker was checking funds of a welfare patient at the farm home as part of a routine investigation. A short age was discovered in the pa tient's funds kept in the farm home office safe Further investigation of other patients' funds kept in the safe revealed money had been removed from each of the envelopes No money pre viously had been added to or removed from each of the ac counts, farm home officials added. Fallout Over Los Angeles Causes Alarm Citizens Assured No Danger Exists Los Angeles- (UPD -A record concentration of radioactive fallout was detected in Los Angeles Thursdav. alarming thousands of residents and causing Mayor Norris Poulson to make a hurried telephone call to the White House. The mayor later assured the area's more than five mil lion residents who flooded police, newspaper, radio and television offices with calls that they were in no danger from the fallout, apparently the result of the hurried ef forts by American scientists to beat Thursday's midnight deadline on A-bomb tests in Nevada. Seven nuclear hlasts were unleashed in the final five days of testing. Concerned as residents were, there was no panic or frenzied seeking of shelter. Citizens went about their business as usual after being assured no danger existed. Poulson reDorted h had been promised by Washington officials that the U. S. would halt its nuclear testing as scheduled and that it would not be resumed for "a sub stantial period of time." The mayor said he called the White House seeking as surance for public safety after a high reading of 1,200 micro- misrorcuenes of radiation per cubic meter of air in the city. Portland - (UP1) - Radiation levels over downtown Port land reached the hiehest level Thursday which has been re corded since the state detec tion station began operating two years ago. The State Board of Health said the radiation was 27.6 micro-microcuries per cubic meter of air. This is about five times normal but still is far below the danger level. - - i Innocent Plea Entered by Flury Ted R. Flury, 54, of route 1, box 586, Eagle Point, entered a plea of innocent in circuit court Thursday after noon to a charge of accepting consideration while a public official for services rendered for a person dealing with a public body. Flury, secretary-treasurer of the Eagle Point Irrigation district, was arrested Oct. 15 on a grand jury indictment. He was released on $250 bond following his arraignment be fore Judge Edward C. Kelly. The grand jury investigat ed the irrigation district fol lowing complaints by Mrs. Ann Todd, Eagle Point water user. . Flury is specifically charged with receiving $4,050 from the California Oregon Power company between Jan. 1, 1955, and Oct. 1, 1958, while he was an official of the district. Flury was represented by George Roberts, Medford at torney. Trial will be scheduled for late December or early Janu ary. Prices Paid Farmers Declines 2 Per Cent Washington -(UPD Prices farmers received for crops and livestock fell more than 2 per cent in the month which ended Oct. 15, the Agriculture Department reported today. Geddes Claims Porter Seeking Paul Geddes, Republican candidate for fourth district congressman, charged his op ponent yesterday with seek ing a political dividend from the Rogue basin flood control and development program. He called it "entirely im proper of Kep. Charles O. Porter to "inject" the issue into the campaign, and criti cized "any attempt to grab the ball and run to get publicity." "I have intentionally failed to make any mention" of the program, Geddes told some 50 people at a no-host luncheon in the Rogue room of the Medford hotel. , Stating Views But, he went on, "I have been accused of failing to publicly state my views on this matter." He was appar ently referring to a statement to this effect made by Porter Oct. 27 before the Democratic Social club in Phoenix. Porter on that occasion also accused Republican State Sen. "Gee, Fellows, This Is Are the Rest Oakridge Proprietor Slain; Police Seize Killer Eugene - (UPD - Raymond Jamieson, 62, owner of Jamie son's restaurant and night club in Oakridge, Ore., was shot and killed in his estab lishment early today. District Attorney Eugene Venn said he would file mur- Plans for Freeway Interchange Here May Be Changed A "good possibility" exists for revision of plans for the proposed freeway interchange at Crater Lake highway and Biddle rd., City Manager Robert A. Duff reported to day. Duff, Public Works Direc tor Vernon Thorpe and City Attorney E. Roy Bashaw were in Salem yesterday to discuss this and two other freeway points with State Highway Engineer W. C. Williams. Duff said state engineers are "working on a new study now." The interchange plans were criticized at the city planning commission "interim" meet ing Monday as a potential source of traffic congestion and safety hazards. One planner said it could become "the biggest wrecking yard in Oregon. "We told them w didn't like it," Duff said of yester day's conversation with state officials, "and they said they didn't like it either." But, he cautioned, the en gineers are bound by bureau of public roads standards and may be unable to change the present plans. Concerning plans for the off-ramp where the proposed extension of Fourth st. is to meet East Jackson st.. Duff said he was informed "addi tional studies" of traffic and other factors are being under taken. Duff said the possibility of including a strip of land be tween the proposed freeway and Biddle rd. from East Jackson st. north to Crater Lake highway in the freeway right of way as a road side park area was also discussed. But, he said, he was "not hopeful" this could be done. I Phil Lowry of introducing the Rogue program into the con test. Lowry on Oct. 24 report edly criticized Porter for "his use of the Rogue basin devel opment for political pur poses." Geddes asserted yesterday that "the people of this val ley" have reactivated "volun tarily and on a cooperative basis" the Army Engineer's study authorized by the 1936 Flood Control act. "If there is any credit due to anybody to date," he said, "and if there is going to be any credit due in the future, that credit will, not belong to any congressman - past, present or future-but it will belong to the people of Jack son and Josephine counties. "No Johnny Come -Lately should try to step in and take credit for what these people have been and are doing," he said. Geddes warned of the need for eventual unanimity among local intents with respect to Fun. By the Way, Who of the Boys?" & Restaurant der charges against Foster Lee Collins, 31, of Oakridge. Warned Not To Shoot State police reported that their' investigation disclosed Collins had fired a shot from a .22 caliber weapon in the restaurant and that Jamieson had warned him not to do it again. Officers said Jamieson then turned and walked to ward the kitchen and was shot in the back. Officers said that Jamieson was crawling on his knees to the kitchen three more shots were fired at him. Roadblocks were set up on all routes leaving Oakridge and Collins was arrested at 2:15 a.m. at Lowell Junction near Lookout Point dam by two state police officers. They said he offered no resistance, There was no indication, police said, that Collins and Jamieson had been acquaint ed prior to the early morning shooting. Pupil Enrollment Shows Increase A total of 15,464 students are enrolled in Jackson coun ty schools in the first through twelfth grades, an increase of 666 students over 1957 enroll ments, according to Alf B." Mekvold, county school su perintendent. Enrollment figures show 11,244 students in .the first eight grades and 4,220 in high school grades. Students at tending first class schools dist ricts, those having more than 1,000 school children total 12,366. The county schools have in creased their staffs by 29 teachers, administrators, and supervisory personnel for a total of 741. This includes 682 classroom teachers, 48 admin istrators, and 11 supervisors. There are 34 elementary schools in the county, an in crease of two in the Medford district; 4 junior high schools, and . 10 senior high schools, Mekvold said. The county school districts include five first' class, nine second class, with a school population between 200 and 1,000; and three third class, having less than 200 school population. details of the program. "If there is widespread or any appreciable dissension," he said, "then certainly any proposal in Congress will net be looked on with favor." 'Middle Ground' He expressed belief that a "middle ground" exists "that will serve all interests." In a remark clearly direct ed at Porter, Geddes said that any premature introduction of legislation "can mean only stumbling blocks to the ulti mate objective." He stated that arousing any dissension between federal agencies would also lead to delays. This was apparently aimed at Porter's assurances Oct. 19 that he planned to investigate reported delay of the Army Corps of Engineers Rogue basin report by the U.S. fish and wildlife service. Geddes said that when the final reports have been sub mitted, "It will then only re main for the people of this area to get together and pre Soviets Seize in Geneva Parley Swift Deadlock Seen by Diplomats Geneva-(UPD-Russia handed the West today an East-West draft treaty proposing imme diate cessation of nuclear tests for all time and a control system to police it. By doing so, the Soviets seized the initiative in the first working session of the Geneva nuclear conference. It got under way this atfer noon at the Palace of Nations with representatives of the world's three atomic powers Russia, the United States and Britain in attendance. However, there were strong signs that the parley would head swiftly into an East-West clash on the Soviet proposal. Effective Control Sytsem The Soviet plan called for a permanent ban on nuclear testing. But the U.S. made it clear, at the opening session, too, that it was not prepared at the moment to conclude an agreement to end tests for all time. U.S. delegate James J. Wadsworth said he U.S. is ready to end the tests on a year to year basis, and then only providing an effective control system is set up and working and providing prog ress is made towards general nuclear disarmament. The U.S. and Britain ended aU their tests for a year last midnight, provided the So viets don't resume theirs. Deadlock Predicted ' Diplomats predicted that unless one side or the other was prepared .to back down, the conference might be swiftly deadlocked. The meeting adjourned a little less than three hours aft er it began. In New York, the U.N. Po litical Committee voted down an adjournment of its dis armament debate for the week end as requested by In dia. India had sought adjourn ment to seek western agree ment to a Russian demand for a three-power statement in dorsing a permanent ban on nuclear weapons tests regard less of the Geneva talks. Local Police To Be Out in Force Tonight Medford police will be out in force tonight but anticipate little Halloween trouble from goblins - hu man or otherwise. Police Chief Charles P. . Champlin has said a "full crew" with "one or two" more than the usual comple ment of patrolmen sched uled for duty. "We've had no serious problem with vandalism in the last couple of years," Champlin said. He credited church and school programs and the work of other agencies such as UNICEF with helping youngsters to be more considerate of then' rights. WEATHER ' FORECAST: Cloudy and mild with occasional light rain to night and Saturday. Low to night 43. High Saturday 65. Temp. Highest Yesterday 76 Lowest this Morning S3 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:06 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:44 a.m. The Moon rises 8:12 pjn. tonight and rides high. Last Quarter Nov. 4 PROMINENT STARS Procyon, low in east 11:30 p.m. Betelgeuse, high in south 3:21 st-m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, rises 6:Z p.m. Saturn, sets 7:07 pjn. Dividend sent a united front." Then, he said, when the bill goes before Congress "in a legitimate and proper man ner" it can pass "without poli tical fanfare and the credit can go to you people." In preferatory remarks, Geddes repeated "violently and vociferously" previous charges that Porter favored appeasement with Red China, high farm price supports and unilateral suspension of nu clear' tests. He also quoted an editorial in yesterday's Oregonian to the effect that Porter had voted for only 8 , per cent of a group of congressional measures considered "econo my bills" and had voted against 83 per cent. This, he said, indicated Porter was not fighting as he should against inflation. Geddes also repeated the statement that "not more than two" of the "72 or 76" bills Porter introduced into Con gress have been passed
