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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
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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.
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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?"
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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