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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
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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
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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.