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Newspaper Page Textfin e an ITU 15 EASILY IE Gil I; MM mmmmmmmJ . t liaiiiil Jan ::&&j&fi&&CmtMtitm mmui mummmmi ROBERT DUNCAN Legislator Reelected Area Puts Two Democrats Five Republicans in Jobs Jackson county voters put two Democrats and five Re publicans into office in yes terday's general election. It also voted, as did the state at large, in the races for governor and labor commis- More than 24.500 Jackson county voters cast ballots in yesterday's general election approximately 69.2 per cent of the 35,518 regis tered to vole. sioner, and as did the fourth district as a whole for con gressman. Biggest "upset" in the local races was the defeat of Mrs. Bereth P. Hopkins, Republi can, seeking reelection as county clerk. She was defeat ed by Marvin Madden, Phoe nix businessman, a Democrat, in his first bid for public of fice. The count (103 complete precincts out of 105 in the county, and not including about 800 absentee voters) showed 12,614 for Madden, 10,086 for Mrs. Hopkins. Wendt Reelected Chester Wendt, Republican, was reelected county commis sioner, 12,518 to 10,034 for his Democratic opponent, Mayor Frank Christian of Talent. Earl Miller, Republican and former mayor of Medford, easily defeated Scott Hamil ton, Democrat of Central Point, in the race for county judge. The count: Miller, 12, 662, Hamilton, 9,888. Joe Walsh, Republican, now chief deputy sheriff, easily outdistanced Rogue River bus inessman Larry Sheehan, for mer Democratic county chair man, in the race for sheriff. The count: Walsh, 13,655, Sheehan, 8,891. Close Race The closest race one which conceivably but not probably could be upset by absentee ballots was be tween Dr. Edwin Durno, Re publican candidate for the state senate, and his Demo cratic opponent. Druggist Gor don Hudson. With' 103 pre cincts complete, Durno had 11,506 votes, Hudson 11,257 a margin of 249 votes. Robert Duncan, Democratic member of the state house of Atomic Age Battle Tactics Under Test San Simeon, Calif. - (CPD A landing force of 13,000 sol diers hit the central California coast by sea and air today in a full-scale test of atomic age battle tactics. Portland - (UPD - Mark Hat field, at 36, is the youngest governor ever to be elected in Oregon. Make Medford Beautiful r - -:? . i ! DISCARD- PILE This lot, near a major highway on one ap proach to Medford, is gradually being strewn with piles of rubbish, principally scraps from construction work and card board boxes. As the piles grow, they are bound to become all too visible from the highway. Property owners should recon sider allowing such situations to develop and do their part instead to "Make Medford Beautiful." O C RATS MRS. EVELYN NYE Elected to House Seat representatives, , w a s easily reelected. The other represen tative from this county will be Mrs. Eve Nye, Republican and former Medford school board member. Mel Lattie, a Repub lican, and Mrs. Marijane Dun can, a Democrat and wife of Representative Duncan, trail ed. Here is the vote: Bob Dun can, 13,038; Mrs. Nye, 11,493; Lattie, 9,755; Mrs. Duncan, 9,549. Carlos Morris, Republican coroner unopposed for reelec tion, received 19,212 votes. For governor, Jackson coun Groundbreaking Set For Shopping Center Groundbreaking ceremon ies for the new Sears Roe buck and company store in the East Jackson st. shopping center will be held at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The ceremony will mark the start of construction on the 75,000-square foot store which is tentatively scheduled to open next August. It is one of at least three stores which Thor Destroyed After Launching Cape Canaveral, Fla. -UPD-An intermediate range Thor missile twisted out of control a few hundred feet off the launching stand early today and was destroyed after only 30 seconds of flight. .Fiery fragments showered j the edge of the cape and the ocean, and ambulance and fire trucks raced to the impact area. But no one was injured. The stubby, cigar-shaped Thor, designed to hurl a hy drogen warhead at targets up to 1,500 miles away, blasted off at 12:52 a.m. (p.s.t.), but began tilting over too soon on its flight down the Atlantic : tracking range. Then, like an airplane "peeling off" into a dive, it began veering off to its left and at the same time turning on its back. It was at this point that the range safety of ficer flipped a switch to de stroy the missile. Morgan's Dismissal Of Suit Rejected Salem -(UPD- Circuit Judge Val Sloper today rejected an attempt by the Oregon Public Utility Commissioner, How ard Morgan, to dismiss a suit by the Portland Traction com pany is the Bellrose-Oregon service case. DR. EDWIN DURNO Close Race for Senator ty voters gave Mark Hatfield, the Republican secretary of state, 13,971, and Gov. Robert Holmes 9,098. In the race for congress from the fourth district, Jack son county voters gave Demo crat Charles O. Porter, Eu gene, a slim lead over Repub lican Paul Geddes, Roseburg. The count: Porter, 11,633, Geddes, 11,276. The vote here for labor com misioner was, Democratic in cumbent Norman Nilsen, 11, 662, Republican challenger Lyle McCauley, 10,322. are planned for the shopping center site. Safeway has been issued a building permit by the city, and a -chain drug store is reported interested in locating in the $1 million center. E. R. Cameron, northwest director of public relations for Sears, Seattle, Wash., will serve as master of ceremon ies. Those participating in the ceremonies will include Med ford Mayor John Snider,' Otto Frohnmayer, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce; James E. McClel land, partner in Buttress and McClelland, Los Angeles building contractor and de veloper of the site; and W. Price Sullivan, northwest re tail zone manager for Sears, Seattle. Managers Invited ""Among the guests will be Robert Egge, manager of the Klamath Falls Sears store; Frank Moir, manager of the Eugene store; Byron Ives, mail order catalogue sales supervisor for southern Ore gon, Roseburg; and James Craig, manager of the Med ford mail order office. Among other invited guests include city officials and chamber officials from Astf land, Klamath Falls, Grants Pass and Yreka, Calif., as well as many people and bus iness leaders from Medford. They all have been invited to a luncheon at the Rogue Valley Country club follow ing the ceremonies. Cameron said the building will be a one-story structure with a mezzanine. It will be reinforced concrete with tilt slab construction. The Sears store will include a service station to handle six cars at a time, and will in clude a complete line of wear ing apparel, home furnishings, building supplies, hardware, sporting goods, farm and gar den equipment and automo t i v e accessories, Cameron said. The store will be air condi tioned and parking will be provided for about 600 cars adjacent to the store. Facili ties for about 2,800 cars will be included in the completed shopping center. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night becoming foggy Thurs day mornihg but lifting by noon. Partly cloudy Thursday afternoon. Low tonight 42. High Thursday 65. Temp. Highest Yesterday 64 Lowest this Morning .i 54 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:00 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:51 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 1:17 a.m. New Moon Nov. 10 PROMINENT STARS Square of Pegasus, high in south 8:42 p.m. Regnlus. leads the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, low in south west 5:5S p.m. Mars, rises 6:02 p.m. 53rd Year MEDFORD 22 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBERS, 1 958 No. 1 94 How Oregonians Voted on State Offices, Measures Portland-(UPD-Here is how Oregon voted on leading state races: Governor (2646 out of 2719) Hatfield (R) 308,918, Holmes (D) 251,000. Labor Commissioner (2573 out -of 2719) McCauley (R) 212,844, Nilsen (D) 300,225. Congress, 1st District (674 out of 743) Norblad (R) 82, 619, Thornton (D) 66,611. ' Congress, 2nd District (406 out of 441) Weatherford (R) 29,650, Ullman (D) 47,806. Congress, 3rd District (850 out of 857) Johnston (R) 66, 666, Green (D) 128,661. Congress, 4th District (636 out of 678) Geddes (R) 6'2,636, Porter (D) 74,686. 1. Fixing state boundaries, Yes 276,515, No 86,405. 2. Increasing money for vet erans' loans, Yes 187,377, No 262,342. 3. Legislators salaries hike, Yes 180,634, No 251,510. 4. Capital punishment ban, Yes, 215,700, No 232,975. 5. Financing urban rede velopment, Yes 152,190, No 196,328. 6. Modifying county debt limitation, Yes 176,036, , No 155,468. 7. 'Special grand jury bill, Yes 239,429, No 105,862. 8. Authorizing different use state institution, Yes 209,501, No 136,857. 9. Temporary appointment of judges, Yes 252,531, No 91,- 146. 10. State power develop ment, Yes 175,167, No 239,- 513. 11. County home rule amendment, Yes 240,546, No 129,535. 12 Authorizes discontinu ing certain TB hospitals, Yes 220,919, No 143,984. 13. Persons eligible to serve in Legislature, Yes 253,926, No 166,540. National Election Picture at Glance Washington -(UPD- Here's the national election picture at a glance: Democrats retained control of both houses of Congress in landslide victory. ' House 276 Democrats and 149 Republicans elected; 10 races still in doubt with Dem ocrats leading in 6, Republi cans in 33, and an Independ ent Segregationist in 1. Senate 25 Democrats and 8 Republicans elected; one seat still in doubt with the Democratic candidate leading. With holdovers, this means possible lineup of 62 Demo crats and 34 Republicans. Governors 24 Democrats and 8 Republicans elected; one still in doubt with Democrat ic . candidate leading. Demo crats captured 8 Republican governorships. Republicans took 4 Democratic governorships. QUEEN AND ADMIRAL Queen Frederika at nearby Shippingport. At left is Right of Greece chats with Admiral Hyman Rick- Reverend Polyefktos, Bishop of Tropaion, over before boarding train in Pittsburgh, and at right is the Queen's daughter, Sophie. Pa., for a visit to the atomic power, plant (1 "Oh, Well We've Got That We Were 1 .i-lCnr Officers Elected in Cities in Jackson Voters in nine Jackson county cities outside Medford elected city officials and voted on city measures in the general election yesterday. Freeman Mason was elect- Hatfield's Victory Greatest in Career Portland (UPD- Oregon vo ters Tuesday gave Secretary of State Mark' Hatfield the greatest victory of his politi cal career, rewarding his bi partisan campaign for govern or with a resounding plural ity over Gov. Robert Holmes. Republican Hatfield polled a heavy vote in virtually every precinct in the state and found staunch voter sup port even in Democratic strongholds. Earliest returns showed him well ahead of Holmes who served a two-, year term as the first Demo cratic governor in Oregon in 20 years. Holmes conceded defeat to day and offered his 36-year-old successor congratulations and the full cooperation of his office in affecting an or derly transfer of administra tions. Holmes was elected governor to fill the unexpired term of the late Paul Patter son. Democrats Hold House But By Slimmer Margin Portland-OIPD-Oregon Demo crats will control the house of representatives in the 1959 legislature, but by a slimmer margin than last time.' Nearly complete results in dicated 33 Democrats and 27 Republicans will make up the house at the legislature which convenes in January. 1 1 l 111 Ji d --''JSl YlnlDdJJ Price 10 Cents Tribune Two Years To Explain Only Kidding" ed mayor of Central Point with 379 votes to win over M. C. Gleason, who received 137 votes in a write-in cam paign. With all votes believed in, Central Point officials report ed close contests in the three positions on the city council For Ward I, Bill Colley, 59; Arthur Rupp, 56; and E. R Yocom, ,50; W a r d II, Les Bigham, ,120; Dale .Bartley, 113; and Gay Anderson, 24; Ward III, Don Patterson, 132; Jerry Bianconi, 56; James Corliss, 47; and Calvin Bower, 37." . Also elected were Lyle Paull, incumbent, city recor der; and Ed Jones, treasurer. Officials reported that the write-in vote was not as heavy as anticipated with the major ity of the write-in candidates receiving a single vote. Ashland Election Elected for the Ashland city council positions were David S. Kerr, incumbent; Donald E. Lewis and Arthur M. Peters, city officials reported. Paul R. Finnell, incumbent, won in the Ashland city trea surer race and W. E. Bartelt was unopposed for city re corder. Three positions on the park commission went to J. F. Eberhardt, Archie C. Fries Jr., and John C. Cotton. Talent Elections Seven candidates were seek ing positions on the Talent city council where six posi tions were open. Results showed John Butler, incum bent, 205; Leo Jacobs, 198; Richard Bradford, 195; Janies J. Henry, incumbent, 194; C. W. Cooper Jr., incumbent, 189; Roma Rice, incumbent, 181, and Albert Braed, 139. Other candidates who won were Wayne Reichstein, may or; Noma McAbee, recorder, incumbent; and C. G. Scharfe, treasurer. (Continued on page 9) 4 M,' ' o)M rui Opposition Tide Greatest Since Cleveland Era Number of GOP Governors Engulfed Washington-(UPD- Democrats surged to their greatest con gressional triumph today since the Roosevelt New Deal. President Eisenhower, who had pleaded in vain for a GOP victory, was confronted for his last two years in office with a House and Senate un der more complete opposition domination than any ever be fore faced by a chief execu tive in this century. As of midmorning the indi cated margins of Democratic control in the 86th Congress were 28 Senate and 130 House seats, compared to the pres ent margins of 2 Senate and 37 House. Started Two Months Ago The Democratic tide, which started rolling in Maine two months ago, swept across such Republican strongholds as Vermont, Ohio, South Dakota, Nebraska and Wisconsin. In addition to giving Demo crats lopsided 'control of Con gress, the greatest for an op position party since the second half of Grover Cleveland's second administration, Tues day's landslide engulfed a number of GOP governors. The indicated governor count is Democrats 34 to 14 Republicans. Robinson Wins Council Post On the basis of complete returns from all precincts in Medford's fourth ward, Coun cilman Fred Robinson appar ently won his bid for reelec tion in yesterday's general election. : Robinson received 1,105 votes, and the next-highest contender, Roy Wilkes, 1,025 -a margin of 81 votes in unof ficial returns. It appeared un likely that absentee votes could upset this result. The third man in the race, William Doernbach, received 436 votes. In Ward 1, Stanley Stark was the victor over George Stacy, 739 to 565. Don Hansen, unopposed in Ward II, received 2,007 votes, and Robert Baccus, unopposed in Ward III, received 1,062. Mayor John Snider, unop posed for reelection received 7,023 complimentary votes. All city offices are non partisan. The sidewalk assessment proposal was defeated by a better than 2 to 1 margin, with 5,281 yes votes and 2,464 no votes. Tickets Go On Sale For Fireman's Ball Tickets will go on sale Thursday morning for the an nual Medford firemen's ball. The dance is scheduled for the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 26, at the Medford Arm ory. Baldy Evans' band will play. Off duty firemen will call at Medford establishments to morrow with the tickets. Proceeds from the dance will go toward the-Christmas toy project. Firemen are re pairing and painting broken and discarded toys for distri bution to needy children. They are accepting the bro ken toys at the main fire sta tion, Third and Front sts., and request that residents bring them early, to expedite the renovation, work. Three Candidates Seek Election to EP Irrigation District Board Eagle Point-Eagle Point ir rigation district has declared all of its aboard of director candidates eligible for elec tion, a district official said to day. ' Eagle Point irrigation dist rict will be the only district holding an election next Tues day Nov. 11. In all other irri gation districts only the in cumbent has filed for election. Under Oregon law when the incumbent is the only candi date the district board may declare him elected and no election need be held. Since some of the irrigation district candidates had waited J State Legislature To Be Dominated By Democrats Three Representatives Defeat Challengers Portland (UPD Oregon's election Tuesday gave .the state a Republican governor, a Democratic legislature and a congressional delegation with a single Republican sur vivor. Gov. Robert D. Holmes Wednesday conceded defeat at the hands of Republican Mark Hatfield who will be in augurated in January as the youngest governor in Oregon history at age 36. Breasting the Democratic tide along with Hatfield was Congressman Walter Norblad of the first district who won his eighth term in Congress over Democratic Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton. Challengers Lose The other three Democratic representatives won votes of confidence at the expense of GOP challengers. ReD. Edith Green of the third district once again was returned to Washington with a whopping majority. Public power man Al Ull man was reelected in the sec ond district over wheat ranch er Marion Weatherford. Republican Paul Geddes of Rosebure failed in his attemnt to unseat Ren. Charles Porter in the fourth district. - In the other race for a ma jor state office, .Labor Com missioner Norman Nilsen won handily over Republican Lyle McCauley after a quiet campaign. Oregon voters sDoke out strongly against abolition of capital punishment for first degree murderers and refus ed to sanction the invasion of the state into the power gen eration field. School teachers were encouraged to run for seats in the state Legislature without having to . resign, in the interim to teach school. A move to make more state money available for veteran farm and home loans was re jected. State legislators lost their bid for a salary increase. Labor Opposed Hatfield will take office at an age one year younger than Oswald West was when he became governor in 1910. He won election in the face of opposition from organized la bor and its powerful COPE. The state's two Democratic senators actively ureer! his rln. feat and one. Sen. Wavne Morse, challenged his person al integrity in the final days of the campaign. For the first time in 80 years voters sent to the state Senate a solid Democratic ma jority, ending the 15-15 con trol the parties shared in the 1857 legislature. Nearly com plete returns indicated the balance of power would be 18-12 in the Democrats' favor next year. Tabulations of the House races trailed the major contests but the Democrats seemed assured of holding and expanding their control of the chamber, in view of the Democratic onslaught. BLM Schedules Meeting Tomorrow Medford bureau of land management district officials have scheduled a meeting on Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Jack son county courthouse audi torium to hear suggestions to ward improving the district's 1959 field operations pro gram. The meeting, open to all interested persons, will be held at 1 p.m. Plans for development of resources in the area will be discussed by BLM officials. Representatives of the forest service are also expected to attend. This is the second meeting scheduled to give persons an opportunity to make sugges tions toward improving BLM field operations. until Monday, Oct. 27, to file their petitions there was a question of whether Saturday or Monday was the deadline for filing. According to state law all petitions had to be in 15 days before election. This would place the deadline on Sunday, Oct. 26, a legal holi day, and a time when district offices normally would be closed. Asked for an opinion by Philip B. Lowry, attorney for the Medford irrigation dist rict, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton declined to give a ruling in what he called an "internal matier." L&tt8SfaA&att&f:i,.V MARK HATFIELD Youngest Governor CHARLES PORTER Back To Congress , :"Wy.,;.....-y'..jLj. i..i.urtf.y..A 3 s j NORMAN NILSEN Labor Commissioner Red China Renews Attack on Quemoy Taipeh -(UPD- Chinese Com munist artillery shattered a 27-hour lull in the Quemoy Islands today with another heavy bombardment. Nation alist guns roared back. ' The artillery duel began a few hours after the Commun ists accused - the Nationalists of using poison gas shells in Monday's firing. The National ists denied the charges but prepared for Red "reprisals:" Moscow Radio echoed the Peiping charges early today and said the United " States and Nationalist China were guilty of "barbarism" and vi olation of international law. Statesmen Meet With Pope John Vatican City (UPD Pope John XXIII held a mass audi- -ence today for the statesmen and officials who came from all parts of the world to wit ness his coronation. It marked the start of a pontificate de voted chiefly to religious af fairs. The audience provided the first opportunity for the of ficial delegations to meet and talk with the new Pope. The delegates came from Europe, North and South America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa. The Pope indicated in a ser mon before the coronation Tuesday that his would be a "pastoral" rather than a po litical reign and that the pon tificate did not call for a "statesman, diplomat, scholar, and organizer of collective life. Newport, Ore.- (UPD -Circuit Judge Richard Anderson of the 2ist judicial district won reelection Tuesday. of Directors Those up for election in the Eagle Point irrigation district are Dobe Greb, incumbent, James 'Dunn and Mrs. Ann Todd. Election will be held in the Reese Gospel church from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov. 11, Eagle Point irrigation district officials announced. Incumbents who have been or will be declared elected by directors of their respective irrigation districts are David Holmes for Talent, C. Norman Gail for Gold Hill, J. G. Cam eron for the Medford irriga tion district and Gordon Ker shaw for Rogue River Valley. r - fr' I ' " !