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list Differ at 53rd Year Medford 22 Pages Mearlly 600,00 Expected To Casft Votes in iregomi HOUSE FIRE STARTS FROM FLUE The., entire attic and second floor of this resi dence at 1800 Myers lane was damaged by fire and heat this morning. Fireman said the blaze started from a flue at the north aide of the house and was stopped "where we found it." Smoke damage occurred in the downstairs portion of the house and there was some water damage to the kitch New Hospital Set For Cenlral Point, Dr. Ruffer Says A new Osteopathic hospital will be constructed on six acres of land behind the Lu cas and Howard furniture store at Central Point, it was announced today. Ground will be broken this spring for a 25-bed hospital, according to Dr. Paul T. Rut ter, owner of the Medford Os teopathic hospital. The new hospital is ex pected to be ready for occu pancy by the end of 1959, Dr. Rutter said. It will replace the 'present Medford Osteo pathic hospital at 215 East Jackson st. Present location of the hos pital is considered too small for possible future expansion, a hospital spokesman ex plained. Construction will al low for future expansion to 50 beds, Dr. Rutter said. A hospital spokesman ex plained that a larger building with more modern equipment will be provided with erec tion of the new hospital. The future construction at Central Point is part of state wide expansion of osteopathic hospital facilities, it was ex plained. The new Portland Osteopathic hospital is to be occupied before the end of this year. Future plans also call for construction of an os teopathic hospital in the mid Willamette valley area. New York-UPD-A man who said he was carrying a hand grenade held up a branch of the Chemical Corn Exchange bank today and fled with $5,000. Make Medford Beautiful -lilt t,-ar feSftf" ABANDONED This orphan of an apparently neglectful property owner stands beside one of Medf ord's busier streets. Its windows are broken, its wall unpainted. its immediate surroundings choked with weeds. The" only bright spots are well-weathered carnival posters. Demolishing or rehabalitat ing such structures can contributely greatly to "Making Medford Beautiful." ' ' Miedlfcird S MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1958 3" -m'MA t " V, .'7'" rut-. H eavy Vote Seen or Election Day A "heavy vote" of over 65 per cent of those voters regis tered is predicted for tomor row's general election, ac cording to Mrs. Bereth P. Hop kins, county clerk. Occasional light showers, forecast by the weather bureau for election day, may tend to reduce the number of voters, however. Mrs. Hopkins based her pre diction on the fact that over 800 absentee voter ballots have been brought into the county clerk's office already. This compares to approxi mately 300 absentee ballots in the primary election. One voter turnout in recent years dropped as low as 51 per cent and a .presidential election had 68 per cent of the eligible voters turnout at the polls in Jackson county. Two Polling Changes Two changes in polling places have been noted for tomorrow's election. Precinct 30 will vote at Lone . Pine school and Precinct 29A at Howard school. Both precincts were scheduled previously for the new Wilson school but the buildings are not yet fin ished, Mrs. Hopkins ex plained. Both parties and the Med ford Moose lodge will provide free . -transportation to the polls. The lodge may be con tacted by telephoning E. Francis Cronin, of the Moose Lodge, at SPring 3-3171 be tween 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tues day. Rides may be obtained also by calling Republican headquarters at SPring 3-7313, Democratic headquarters at j mm en and dinette. The home, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Phillip McCormick, is owned by Bear Creek orchards. Firemen were told that the house was insured but the contents were not. The alarm, was received about 9:30 a.m. One truck was dispatched and a second was called a few minutes later. Eight firemen fought the blaze and the last truck returned to the station about noon. SPring 2-4737 or by calling SPring 2-5131 or SPring 2-9803. Under the new absentee voter law counting of those votes is expected to be speed ed up with use of one day board and two counting boards. All city, county, state and federal offices will be closed tomorrow. However, the coun ty elections department will be open from 7 a.m. until all votes are in, according to the county clerk. Mrs. Hopkins explained that voters who are unable to go to the polls Tuesday due to sudden illness may vote an absentee ballot. She said a doctor's certificate stating that the voters is ill must be taken to the elections depart ment by a person designated by the voter. The person will be given, the ballot to be taken to the voters which must be witnessed by two qualified electors or two prop ertyowners, or a notary pub lic, Mrs. Hopkins said. County officials also re minded voters to check their polling places prior to voting. A list of polling places was mailed to all registered voters, and one is printed in today's Mail Tribune. To Broadcast Returns The Mail Tribune and radio station KYJC will cooperate in compiling and broadcasting election returns tomorrow night, starting shortly after the polls close at 8 p.m. The staffs of the station and newspaper will gather returns from the county's polling places, report them to the Mail Tribune office, where they will be tabulated, and returns will be broadcast as soon as available. In addition, a high-speed United Press International state, and national election special election wire wrll bring state and national elec tion returns into the Mail Tribune for broadcast. Crucial senate and house races across the nation will be reported as returns come in. KYJC's affiliation with the Columbia Broadcasting 'sys tem will also provide a run ning commentary and report on election returns elsewhere in the nation. Kyoto, Japan-(UPD-A Shizuo- ka University professor re ported he has detected dan gerous strontium 90 in ashes scattered by a U.S. hydrogen bomb at Bikhv. four years be fore. tores Will. He Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 192 Hatfield Blast Heats Campaign In Final Stages Democrats Hold Edge In Voting Strength Portland - (UPD - Oregon's 1958 general election cam paign, heated up by a con troversial blast against Mark Hatfield by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), came to a close today as candidates made their final pitches for votes. Polls open at 8 a.m. and close at 8 D.m. in Ore son Tuesday. The State Elections Division forecast that nearly 600,000 persons would vote although the weather man said rain would fall in west ern Oregon with showers pos sible east of the Cascades. Big Edge for Democrats Democrats hold a big edge in voting strength with 447, 195 to 395,000 registered Re publicans. Registered voters numbered 855,044. Oregon will elect a gover nor, four congressmen, a labor commissioner, 14 state senators and a House of Rep resentatives. There also are 13 ballot measures including one to end capital punish ment. Three Supreme Court justices are unopposed.. The race for governor be tween incumbent Demorcat Robert D. Holmes and young Secretary of State -Hatfieia otnoratfr! bv far the most in terest, especially in view of the Morse attack. Tn thP Congressional races tvirpp Democrats and one Re publican seek to retain their two-year seats. Walter iNor WaH Oregon's only GOP member of Congress, faces Attorney General Robert x Thnmt.nn in the first district. Rep. Al Ullman faces Marion WMtherford of Arlington; Rep. Charles O. Porter ,is up against Paul Geddes of Rose- burg, and Rep. JSditn ureen is opposed by John Johnston of Portland. In -the other statewide race, Norman O. Nilsen Democratic incumbent, is op posed for labor commissioner by Lyle E. McCauiey, ne nnhlipan. SuDreme Court Justices Gordon Sloan, Ken neth J. O'Connell and George Rossman . are not opposed. (Continued on Page 7) j Small Plane Wreck Spoiled on Hillsi Cascades Locks, Ore. -OJPD-Wreckage of a small plane which vanished on the last leg of a flight to Portland from California was spotted on a mountain about eight miles east of here today. The Hood River County sheriff's office said it was not believed there were any survivors. Three persons, all from Portland, were reported aboard. The sheriffs office said the wreckage was located about halfway up Shell Rock Moun tain. Two bodies were reported recovered from the wreckage shortly before noon -and the search continued for the third person believed aboard. Large Vote Seen In Jacksonville Jacksonville-A large voter turnout is expected in Jack sonville tomorrow with con siderable interest being shewn in the candidates for city offices. J. O. Morgan and E. O. Gra ham are running for mayor. Seeking the three vacancies on the city council are Art Davies, Everett RavenorDon Caird, Francis Cuidry and Harvey Parrott. The listing of Jacksonville candidate in Sunday's Mail Tribune was in error. Chinese Reds Pound Quemoy In Big Barrage Si Loss of Civilian Life Feared Heavy Taipah, Formosa (UPD The Chinese Communists pounded the Quemoy Islands today with 36,431 shells in the big gest one-aay barrage since early September, the Defense Ministry said. Civilian loss of life wa feared heavy. The Defense Ministry said the massive bombardment hit the 14 offshore islands be tween noon and 6 p.m., the Diggest bombardment since Sept. 12 when Red artillery blasted the islands with more than 58,000 rounds. The bombardment was be lieved here to be a noisy pro test against U.S. government policies and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the eve of the American elec tions. 38-Hour Lull Broken Nationalist sources claimed that counterfire from Ameri can-supplied, eight-inch self- propelled howitzers and other artillery "suppressed" some of the Communist guns but in tensity of the Nationalist counterfire was not disclosed. The Communist bombard ment broke a 38-hour lull in the Quemoys during which thousands of Communist sol diers could be seen building up Red defensive positions on the shore opposite Quemoy and the Matsu islands. Many of Quemoy's 45,000 civilians were caught out in the open on roads and at work in the fields, far from the shelters where they took refuge during the heavy bombardments of August and September. Peiping raido said it broadcast a "warning" Sunday but it was not re ported here.- Medford Man Back From Poultry Meet Dunbar Carpenter, of Foothills road, has returned to Medford after attending a poultryman's meeting and vis iting fruit markets and buyers in several cities in the mid west and Eastern states. Carpenter attended a meet ing in Atlantic City of the United States Poultry and Egg Producers' association as a delegate of the Oregon Egg Producers. He is a director and vice-president of the Ore gon group. Carpenter states that the national group is a newly-formed commodity as sociation formed in an effort to solve some of the egg pro ducers' problems. He visited Chicago, Boston, Providence and New York in the interests of Dunbar Orch ards. Man Assaulted, Robbed on Street Robert Leroy Connor, 124 King st., was assaulted and robbed of at least $31 early this morning by four uniden tified men who had taken him for a ride from a Front st. tavern, Medford police report ed. Connor was invited by the men to leave the tavern and accompany them shortly after midnight, police said. He was apparently driven to the east side of town, near the city limits. There, according to the story police received, he left the car and the four men at tacked him with their fists and took his billfold contain ing the money and personal papers. Subsequently abandoned, Connor crawled under a wire fence, fell into an irrigation ditch and eventually made his way to a nearby residence, po lice recounted. Connor was treated and re leased at Rogue Valley Me morial hospital. Jake Rocking Chair For Life of Ease A thief of thieves apparent ly contemplating a life of ease entered trailers on the Capi tal Trailer Sales lot, 1911 North Pacific highway, late last week, according to a re port received by Medford po lice. The reported loot: a box and inner spring mattress set valued at $100 and a rocking chair valued at $50. pen. MOTHER EaOOKt iSHOT SOME PLED i Air Force To Launch Rocket 'Within Week' Public Warned Against Optimism Washington-(UPD-The United States will launch its third moon rocket "with a week or so," the National Aeronautics and Space Administration an nounced today. NASA Deputy Administra tor Dr. Hugh L. Dryden re fused to reveal the launching date. But there have been well-founded reports previous ly that the earliest probable date for launching would be Nov. 7 and the, latest Nov. 9. That will be the time when the moon is in closest relation to the earth this month. Public Warned Dryden warned the public against "great optimism" over America's third effort to shoot a rocket to the vicinity of the moon. He said that scientists now estimate the chances of reach ing the vicinity of the moon as "something less than 1 in 25." On two previous . shots which failed, the odds were estimated as 1 in 10. There was no precise explanation for the change this time ex cept that, NASA spokesmen said, the odds range as high as 1 in 100 in the minds of some and 1 in 25 is a good but "arbitrary" estimate. Conducted by Air Fore The third lunar probe, like the first two efforts, will be conducted by the Air Force. The first effort was made Aug. 17 and ended in failure when the first stage of the Thor booster rocket blew up at low altiude. The second lu nar probe was launched Oct. 11 and reached 79,000 miles into space before falling back into the earth's atmosphere and burning up over the Pa cific ocean. Gets Theft Charge, Says He's Lonely Jack Shipman, 59, of Camp White, was arrested on a grand larceny charge Satur day in connection with the theft of a $230 tape recorder from a Medford music store, city police reported. Shipman throught the. re corder was a radio, according to a police interrogation re port. He reportedly told po lice it was "so lonesome out at camp at night" and he want ed the radio to help pass the time. The recorder was taken from Purucker's Piano House 111 North Central ave. Ship man was discovered shortly afterward by a store employee who notified police. , He was lodged in Jackson county jail pending arraign ment. Violence Marks Cuban Elections Havana -(UPD Strife - torn Cuba voted today in nation wide elections marked by re newed rebel violence and the fear of new bloodshed despite a rebel promise to call off bel ligerent activities threatened in Havana, v. Rebel promises of a peace ful election' day failed to im press a nation shocked by the week end rebel hijacking of a Cuban Airlines plane that crashed off the north coast of Cuba with a loss of 17 lives, seven of them Americans. There were four candidates for president, but ' only one was given any chance of win ning. He was Dr. Andres Riv ero Aguero, backed by Presi dent Fulgencia Batista and the ruling four-party govern ment coalition. He has promis ed to continue Batista's polic ies. Markets To Close On Election Day By United Press International All major domestic secur ities and commodity markets will be closed Tuesday, elec tion day. Until 9 ' O'clock ITonight You Fellows Serious This Time?" Redden and Lowry Dssue Statements An exchange of campaign statements between James Redden, Democratic party chairman in Jackson county, and State Sen. Philip B. Low ry, a supporter of Republican candidates, continued today. Redden set off the ex changes by deploring Lowry's "rabid partisan attacks on Governor Holmes and Con gressman Porter." Lowry replied in Sunday's Mail Tribune by stating that his support of Hatfield and Geddes was something he was proud of, and also accused Redden of "intemperance" in political discussion. He asked two questions of Redden, and the latter's reply follows: "Senator Philip B. Lowry, in his statement printed Sun day, makes two specific in quiries. "One was whether or not I was 'offended' by his refer ence to the remarks of Lew Wallace, of Portland, who ex pressed displeasure at Gov. Holmes' overwhelming pri mary victory. Mr.. Wallace was, of course, the governor's opponent in the primary. No offense was taken, any more than Phil was offended by the remarks of Sig Unander, Hat field's primary opponent, who said, I resent Mark Hatfield's gutter politics, attitude and who said of Hatfield, 'This is not the cloth from which sin cere leaders are cut.' Don't Feel Ashamed ' 'As for Governor Holmes' primary deficit, Democrats do not, and need not, feel ashamed. It is this lack of big money backing that means Governor Holmes is the man free of financial ties. It is odd that the Republican candidate for Governor blandly, stated in Medford that Democrats have 'a bottomless pit' of U.S. Envoy To Send Plane To Cuba Area Havana, Cuba (DPD VS. Ambassador Earl T. Smith, announced today he would send a plane to the area of Cuba where four rebels seized a Cuban airliner Saturday and caused it to crash into the sea with a loss of 17 lives, seven of them Americans. Earlier. Smith said he would fly. to the scene him self There was no reason given for this change of plans, although observers noted ne would have placed himself in danger of possible, capture by rebels had he gone. There also was no reason eiven as to why he was send ing a plane to the scene, al though it was presumed it would carry personnel to help in investigating the incident so far as it affected the Ameri cans aboard the ill-fated plane. wealth, while his supporters complain of our lack of funds. "As for the senator's per sonal observations on the Democratic chairman, these, I hope, are attributable to the heat of campaign, as I have nothing but the warmest per sonal regard for Phil Lowry." Hubcap Taken " For Auto Show Three Medford juveniles, one 16 and two 17, were ar rested by Medford Police Of ficer Frank Elsom Sunday, shortly after they had taken a hubcap- from his car. The youths said the hubcap was just what they needed to put on a car being entered in an automobile show, accord ing to the police interrogation report. Witness to the theft noti fied police and Elsom appre hended them soon afterward. They were released in their parents' custody pending ac tion by county juvenile auth orities. Sen. Wayne Morse Hanged in Effigy Corvallis (UPD They hang ed Sen, Wayne Morse (D- Ore.) in effigy on the Oregon State College campus over night.1 When students arrived for their 8 o'clock classes this morning, they saw a figure swinging prominently from a tree in front of the Memorial Union building. And attached was a tag "The Hon. Wayne Morse." Nothing more. Sen. Morse drew criticism from both Republican and Democratic camps over the weekend when he brought up an 18-year-old traffic fatality involving the car of Mark Hat field, Republican candidate for governor. Salem Chamber, Cancels Speech by Wayne Morse Salem - (UPD - A speech isible demonstration of some scheduled by U.S. Sen. Wayne Morse before the Salem Chamber of Commerce this noon has been cancelled. Cancellation of the lunch eon speech at the Marion ho tel here was announced by Chamber President Robert D. Gregg. Possible Demonstration 7 Gregg said he was elimin ating the speech "in the light of the non-partisan position of the chamber and the state of feeling this late in the po litical campaign." Gregg did not elaborate on his statement but other cham ber sources said they feared "unpleasantness" and a. pos- Dispute Follows Rejection of Unlimited Ban Row More Than One of Procedure Geneva-(UPD-Russia and the West differed sharply in the' Geneva atom talks tonight. The dispute followed U.S. and '. British rejection of a Soviet i demand for an immediate un conditional ban on nuclear testing for all time. The new wranele develoned : when both Russia and the U.S. introducer rival aeendas for the negotiations. But the row was more than a simple one of procedure. It went to the very heart of the East-West nuclear is sue. The Soviet aeenda called for discussion first of suspen sion of nuclear tests, leaving the question of controls until. later. Soviet Offer Refused The U.S. agenda rjrovided that the conference should first tackle the control system to police any nuclear testing agreement. The Russians want a three.: power pledge at once to ban nuclear tests for all time. The West refuses to sien anv such agreement until a watertight t:uui.roi system is set up. The new rumnus exnlnrfpH as the U.S., British and Soviet delegations met for their sec ond formal meeting at the Palais des Nations. The third formal meeting will be held xuesaay. Before them thev had th draft of a treatv. handed bv the Soviets to the West at their first meeting Friday pro viding for an immediate three power declaration banning nu clear tests for all time and an East-West control agreement to Dolice it. No Counter-Proposal It was learned that the West turned down the Soviet posal without, however, put ting forward any western counter-proposal at the nres- ent stage. At the moment the most the West is prepared to accent is a year to year ban on nuclear testing which could " bi tended only if a control sys tem is functioning and if pro-' gress is made toward penpal nuclear disarmament. Christmas Joy Project Underway Annual Christmas toy pro ject of Medford city firemen is now underway. Firemen . have requested residents of the vicinity with broken or discarded toys to bring them to the main fire station at Third and Front sts. The toys will be repaired and painted and Medford Lady Lions will distribute them as gifts for needy children at Christmas time. Dolls and all types of wheeled toys, particularly wa gons and tricycles, are want ed. WEATHER, FORECAST: Cloudy with occa sional light rain tonight and Tuesday. Chance of gusty southerly winds. Low tonight 45. High Tuesday 60. Temp. Highest Yesterday 55 Lowest this Morning 49 Precip. To 10 ajn. Today 11 Our Skies Tonight ' Sunset today 5:03 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:48 a.m. Moonrise tonight 11:05 p.m. Last Quarter tomorrow 6:19 a m. Mars, now moving westward among the stars, tonight is seen near the Pleiades. At 1:03 a.m. the planet will be high in the south and the Pleiades di rectly above it. sort. ."The true reason," Morse said, "is that the Chamber does not want to support that American institution of basic freedom, namely freedom of speech." Stems From Speeches The controversy stemmed from speeches made by Morse lats week in which he took Hatfield to task in regard to a fatal automobile accident in 1940 when the Republican1 candidate for governor was 17 years old. Morse said his speech was to be "non-political," dealing with the constitutional system of checks and balances.
