Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 18, 1958, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textfranded as immi Storm laste West ilidWSt , jfyy 'X, I sn',.iij. ) - I V NEW CITIZENS-A group of 14 persons be came naturalized citizens at ceremonies in circuit court in the Jackson county court house this morning. Presenting members of the group with a flag and a government booklet, above, is Mrs. G. Q. LVAlbini, who has served for many years as coach and instructor for persons in this area seeking 14 Residents of County Receive Naturalization Fourteen residents of Jack ion county became naturaliz ed citizens today, being sworn in by Circuit Court Judge Edward C. Kelly. This is approximately half the number which are usually naturalized in any one group, according to County Clerk Bereth P. Hopkins. Jackson county residents who became naturalized cm zen were Tatsumi Hoser Patricia Ann Clough, Agnes Sharon, Grace Irby, Geral dine, Frances McCalvey, Otto Karl Pfahler, Christine Leona Therres, Ruby May De Lisle, Valerie Ann Harrett, Peter Thomas Trim, Walter Enrest Richard Stamm, Joan Wood head, Reginald Randolph Sampson, Edith Evelyn Samp son, David Allen Harret. Members of Class The new citizens were members of a class in natur ization instructed by Mrs. G. Q. D'Albini, 308 North Ivy St., who has been instructing similar classes for the past 32 years under the auspices of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution. Mrs. D'Algini has announ rH she is sivine up this work and that this will be her last class for naturalized citizens She plans to move from the community, she said. Marion Prisoner Beaten in Jail Salem -UPD A Marion county jail inmate was seri ously beaten in an attack on Monday night, Sheriff Denver Young said today. J. Prevost. 27. Salem was taken to Salem General hospital for treatment of a possible skull fracture. He also suffered severe cuts and hniises about the face and back and chest injuries at the hands of six other inmates. Prevost was doing one year on a charge of assault and battery. Young said the other in mates apparently attacked Prevost for pleading guilty Monday in District court to a charee (of assault and bat tery. A ring leader of the group claimed the plea jeo pardized his chances on the same charge. The arrest involved a Sept. 27 warrant from District Court charging robbery of a 15-year-old Woodburn boy. Portland -UPD- Gerald Ches ter Scott, 17, Portland, has re ceived a years sentence in tne state prison after entering a nlpa of euilty to taking part in a burglary Oct. 3 at a sur plus store. Make Medford Beautiful t " ; - . I u--?--WHjt--t.Ji i iltWf jural I UNDER THE CARPET-Untidy housewives sweep dust under their carpets. This closeup shows a pile of debris east of the main runway at Medford airport. Unfortunately for the "housewives in this case the sengers landing and taking off the Mail Tribune's "Make Medford Beautiful series. citizenship papers. The group receiving pa pers today represents Mrs. D'Albini's last class before leaving Medford to live in North Carolina. She has helped more than 500 people become citizens since she first began this work in 1926. Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly presided at the hearing. Progress Reports on The first of five weekly re port meetings on progress of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival's fund raising cam paign will be held at the Med ford YMCA Wednesday noon. It will be Medford's initial progress report, and all volun- Beck Financial Probe Continues At Tacoma Trial Tacoma, Wash. (UPD The prosecution resumed its probe into the stock dividends, bank and expense accounts of Dave Beck today as the income tax evasion trial of the former Teamsters president enters its seventh day. Beck is accused of evading payment of $240,000 income taxes from the year 1950 to 1953. Beck's sister, Mrs. Rita Henne, was among those who took the stand Monday. She broke down and cried when defense attorney Charles S. Burdell asked her what be came of dividends for stock issued in her name. Meant Gratitude The woman, a 63-year-old widow, answered that her brother had given her the stock "for my future" but she began to weep as she tried to continue. Burdell said, "What you mean to say is, you owed him a great deal." The attor ney did not mean a great deal of money, but, rather, gratitude. She answered, "Yes, sir," and added that Beck was re investing the money for her. Government attorneys, how ever, contend that Beck con verted this money to his own use. Reported Income Mrs. Henne's income tax returns for 1950 show that she reported dividend income at $35,149 on Seattle Brew ing and Malting Co. stock and in 1951 she reported dividend income of $33,325 on stock of the same company. George L. Machin, chief auditor for the Division of Intelligence for the Internal Revenue Bureau here, testi fied that his investigation of Beck's income during a four year period, from 1934-1937, resulted in uncovering' ap proximately $22,000 in unex plained bank accounts, plus a $5-per-day expense account on which the ex-union leader had not paid income tax. Salem -UPD- The Mount Hood Loop highway has been closed for the winter. pile is plainly visible to pas in planes. This is another in Fund Slated teer workers have been urged to attend- Ashland's first report, is sued Monday, listed a total of $12,240 in contributions, or about one-fourth of the city's $50,000 goal. Ashland workers have said they hope to reach the half-way mark by next Monday, Festival officials said. Other Collections In addition to Medford's to tal, other collections also will be announced tomorrow. R. M. Sorenson and Eugene Thorn dike, chairman and cochair man of the special gifts com mittee, also will announce that group's first efforts. Eric W. Allen Jr., vice president of the Festival asso ciation, will speak briefly. Succeeding report lunch eons for the Medford cam paign will be held at noon Tuesday, Nov. 25, and , on Wednesday noons, Dec. 3, 10 and 17. The campaign committee has set Christmas as the dead line for reaching the $275,000 needed to rebuild the Eliza bethan theater in Ashland. The former stage was razed following its condemnation as hazardous- Work on the new structure must start as soon as possible to be ready for use next July. Crusade Reaches 82 Per Cent of Goal The United Medford Cru sade has reached 82.5 per cent of its goal of $131,030, Dick Travis, campaign chair man, has announced. A total of $108,085, just $42 more than the amount collected at this time last year, was reported at the Monday noon luncheon report meeting. Public employees, lumber, service and special gifts divi sions are .over last year's totals, with commercial, dis tribution and retail divisions less than last year, Travis reported. The professional di vision has the same as the total reported last year. Solicitations will continue until the 'goal is reached, which is expected to be about the middle of December, Travis said. United Airliner Avoids Collision San Francisco (UPD United Airlines reported today one of its airliners had to take vio lent evasive action to avoid colliding with a military trans port plane near San Francsco airport. A spokesman said two stew ardesses suffered ankle injur ies when thrown off their feet by the sudden maneuver. He said the plane, a DC-7, en route from New York to San Francisco, was approach ing the field for landing late Monday when the pilot, Capt. Douglas Wilson, spotted a military four-engine Constel lation on a collision course. Wilson had to swerve the big airliper sharply to swing out of the other plane s path, the spokesman said. Holmes Will Attend Governor's Conference Salem (UPD Hawaii calls Gov. and Mrs. Robert D. Holmes this weekend for the opening of the annual West ern Governor's Conference at the Royal Hawaiian hotel in Honolulu. Russia Accuses West of Using Soviet Refugees Old Accusations Revived at Berlin Berlin (UPD The Soviet Un ion accused the United States and West Germany today of using Russian refugees in the cold war against Russia. More than 100 reporters, photographers and camera men turned out for a Soviet press conference which had been expected to produce the official Soviet view on possi bility of a new Berlin block ade. Old Accusations Instead they got a report from Maj. Gen. Sergei Vishni evsky, chairman of the "Com mittee for the Return to the Homeland," in which he trot ted out old accusations about the use of Soviet citizens by the West in the cold war. The East Germans had in dicated Monday Soviet Am bassador Mikhail G. Pervuk hin would hold the press con ference. He had just returned from Moscow and was believ ed to be bringing the official Russian viewpoint with him. Instead reporters heard a rehash of previous accusations used against Bonn and Wash ington. Belief that a major state ment was in the works fol lowed a statement today by Johannes Dieckmann, presi dent of the Communist East German parliament, who said the question of a blockade was up to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Word Not Used ' Asked if Khrushchev's plan to abrogate the four-power oc cupation agreements on Ber lin will lead to a new block ade, Dieckmann said, "Your question is directed at Mos cow." He swiftly added that Khrushchev had not used the word blockade in discussing Berlin. Dieckmann said he hoped all foreign troops would be withdrawn soon from all of Germany and Berlin and said the Soviets would withdraw theirs immediately if the Western powers do the same thing. Businessmen to Attend E-B Day Between 50 and 60 busi nessmen are expected to par ticipate in Medford's first annual Education - Business Day Thursday. The event is sponsored by the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce in cooperation witn Medford schools. Education-Business Day has been planned to give business men a better idea what the tax dollar is buying in the way of education. It is the counterpart of Business-Edu cation Day in September when school teachers and adminis trators visit local business. Businessmen will assemble at 8 a.m. in the little theater room at Hedrick Junior High school, and from there will be divided in groups of three to five members each. They will be transported from Hed rick to elementary, junior high schools and Medford High school. The school visits will last a half a day, with businessmen eating in school cafeterias at noon, Chamber officials said. Businessmen will be guests of teachers and will be given the opportunity of learning the problems of operating schools, school planning nec essary in order to keep up with growth of the area, changing needs in education, and facilities necessary at schools. Many of the businessmen will be visiting for the first time, Chamber representatives said. ith Green Would Meet With Hatfield Portland (DPD Rep. Edith Green D-(Ore ) wrote Gov. elect Mark Hatfield today that she would be glad to meet with him either here or in Washington, D.C. to discuss matters of interest to Oregon. Mrs. Green wrote Hatfield that on the day after the elec tion she assured him of co operation "in every way pos sible ... in continuing to work for Oregon's best in terest." Earlier, Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) turned down Hat field's proposal of a confer ence saying a meeting would be "political window dress ing." Morse offered the co operation of his office to Hatfield. 53rd Year Medford 16 Pages HEADS CAMPAIGN Jerry Gastineau, above, of 2647 Eastover Terrace dr., will head the Jackson county March of Dimes campaign, which will run Jan. 2 through 31, it has been announced. He also was county chairman of the 1958 drive. Rheumatoid arthritis and birth defects have been added to the work of the Na tional Foundation his year, in addition to polio. Plants Available For Local Group A variety of mixed bulbs, small shrubs and trees have been made available by the Rogue Valley Nurserymen and Growers association, for use by the "Make Medford Beautiful" committee, it was reported Monday at a meeting of the group at the Medford hotel. The' offer was made through the county Oregon Centennial organization. The plants and bulbs will be used mainly for planting on the approaches to the city, it was reported. ' When mak ing the announcement, Vern Marshall, secretary and busi ness agent for the association, said the plants are available now and may be . planted through December. The committee reported that service clubs and organiza tions in the area would be contacted regarding the actual planting. A survey of the approaches to Medford has been complet ed for the committee, with actual projects in the areas to be started in the near future. At the meeting John Chaney, representative of the Medford Realty Board and local attor ney, reported 6n preliminary work done by the committee regarding the sewerage situa tion in Bear creek. Rain To Dominate Weather in Oregon By United Press International Oregon's cold snap ended Monday night and gale warn ings were hauled down off the coast this morning. Rain will dominate the weather picture in western Oregon through. Wednesday with a few snow flurries and some rain east of the moun tains, the weather bureau said. - Heavy snow was forecast in the Cascades above 5500 feet and motorists traveling moun tain routes should carry chains. Temperatures rose during the night Monday. Baker, Bend and Burns, which had readings of five degrees or be low early Monday had lows or 24, 31 and 23 respectively Monday night. Western Ore gon temperatures were above freezing. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (UPD Dow Jones closing slock aver ages: 30 industrials 564.89, aff 2.55; 20 rail 156.11, off 0.35; 15 utilities 87.35, up 0.02; 65 stocks 196.59, off 0.62. Sales today were about 3,820,000 compared with 4, 540,000 Monday. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1958 Schedule Changes Not To Be Made; Retaliation Due Soviet Attacks on Yank Planes Disclosed Washington (UPD The United States refused today to change any of its military flight schedules and made it clear that U. S. airmen may fire back if they are attacked again by the Russians. This position was outlined after the State Department disclosed Monday that Soviet fighters made forays against two U. S. military planes one over the Baltic Sea and the other over the Sea of Japan on Nov. 7. Russian fighters fired twice on the plane over the Baltic. Simulated attacks were carried out on the plane over the Sea of Japan. Neith er plane was damaged. 'No Curtailment' An Air Force spokesman told United Press Internation al that there will be "no cur tailment of any of our train ing or routine flights." He em phasized that these air flights are not provocative and there is no reason for the Soviet attacks. The Penta gon has steadfastly maintain ed that all U. S. planes in volved in recent Soviet inci dent were engaged in train ing or navigational flights. In disclosing the recent Red attacks, a formal U. S. note to Moscow noted neither of the American planes involved fired back despite what it called the "dangerous, offen sive and provocative actions of Soviet fighter aircraft." Stern Language But it told the Kremlin in unusually stern language: "If such dangerous tactics are in the future repeated by Soviet aircraft in close prox imity to American aircraft in international airspace, the Soviet government should be aware that commanders of American aircraft will be un der instructions to take any defensive action which they consider necessary and ap propriate." Two BLM Men in Eugene This Week Two men from the local district office of the bureau of land management are in Eugene this week where they are assisting in setting up a timber cruising training school' to be held there in January. Attending from Medford Floyd Fogelquist and Hugh Shera, appraisers with the bureau. The meeting is expected to be attended by 25 persons including personnel from the five O and C land districts The school wil serve as a re training program for person nel, incorporating new ideas into the program, particu larly in checking for accuracy. Personnel attending the Janu ary school will in turn train local personnel, Ross Young- blood, district manager, BLM, said. Willamette Valley Gets Wind Warning Portland -(UPD The weather bureau today issued a special wind warning for the Willam ette valley, the Portland Vancouver area and the inter ior of southwest Washington, The bureau said southerly winds would increase to 25 to 35 miles per hour with gusts to 55 this afternoon. Bulganin Reported Removed From Post Moscow -(UPD- Diplomatic sources reported today that fcrmer Premier Nikolai Bul ganin, linked last week for the first time with the so-called "anti-party clique," has been removed from his post as chairman of the Economic Council in faraway Stavropol. i MsiibUcs "And What Do We Eisenhower Recreation k- fijKl!!ISrirB" Ah M r Opens Convention NeSrly 70 persons had reg istered by noon today for the 10th annual meeting of Na tional Forest Recreation asso ciation being held in Medford at the Jackson hotel. A talk by Congressman Charles O. Porter on congress' views on national forest recre ation will be given tonight at the 6:30 o'clock dinner at the hotel. Approximately 125 per sons are expected to attend the event and the remainder of the three day meeting. The souvenir business, win ter sports problems, and early and late season business will meeting was held. Speakers at a noon luncheon included J. Herbert Stone, Portland, re gional forester with the Pa cific Northwest region, forest service; Carroll E. Brown, supervisor of the Rogue River national forest, and Tom Wil liams, superintendent of Cra ter Lake national park. Topics scheduled for this afternoon included problems and costs involved in trailer court operations and the use of various media for advertis ing. The souvenir business will be discussed Wednesday morn ing with Stone the luncheon speaker. His topic will deal with recreation and multiple Wasfingfon Man Takes Valley Scout Position George L. Brennen, Ever ett, Wash., will become assist ant Scout executive and di rector of exploring for Crater Lake area council, Boy Scouts, on Dec. 1, according to the local Scout office. Brennen, who has been dis trict executive of the Ever green area council in Ever ett, succeeds Richard W. Lamb, who is now Scout ex ecutive at Aberdeen, Wash. Brennen also will serve the Roaring Rogue district, which includes Grants Pass. Eisenhower To Name Hero's Son To Washington -OffD- President Eisenhower today asked who ever is president in 1972 to appoint the son of a hero of the supersonic age to the Air Force Academy. Copy to Mother Eisenhower presented a copy of his letter to the presi dent of 1972 to Mrs. Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., the attractive young widow of an Air Force captain who died last July in a crash in the world's fastest military plane, the F-104. The chief executive follow ed a precedent set shortly after Pearl Harbor by the late President Roosevelt. Roosevelt addressed a letter Price 10 Cents Tribune Nc. 205 Do About These Darn Republicans?" guP TOE Group use management. A field trip is planned for the Wednesday afternoon session. Attending the meetings are operators and representatives of lodges in national forests in 12 states, most of them west ern states. The association has members in Arizona, Cali fornia, Colorado, Idaho, Mon tana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. More Campaign Expenses Filed Two more campaign ex pense statements have been filed in the county elections department. Deadline for can didates is tomorrow, 'accord ing to Mrs. Afton Carter, dep uty in charge of the elections department. E. H. Singinaster, treasurer of the Ashland Republican club, yesterday afternoon filed a statement showing to tal contributions to the orga nization of $380. A. A. Laus mann, .Medford lumberman, filed a statement of campaign expenses, totalling $170. Contributions to the Ash land Republican club includ ed $211 from Lloyd Selby, Ashland auto dealer, $30 in personal contributions from Singmaster and $139.50 from the neighbor to neighbor do nation campaign. Included in Lausmann's contributions were $26 to Anna Scott, county clerk can didate in the primary election; $15 to the Jackson County Re publican Central committee; $100 to, the Jackson County Republican Central commit tee; $25 to Earl Miller, county judge elect; and $30 to Ches ter, Wendt, incumbent county commissioner. Asks President of 1972 then to the President of 1956 asking appointment to the Military Academy at West Point for the son of one of America's first .World War II ' heroes, Capt. Colin B. Kelly Jr., who died when he dived his flying fortress to wards a Japanese battleship three days after Pearl Har bor. Ready to Honor Request The Roosevelt request to President Eisenhower is now before the chief executive. Young Kelly is now 17 years old. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said Eisenhower is ready to honor Southern Arizona, Dakotas Battered By Heavy Snows Rash of Twisters In Southern States By United Press Internaxirnal A record storm, which lashed the West and Midlands with devastating tornadoes, . deep snow and drenching rains, veered northward to day with blizzard conditions whipping sections of Minne sota and the Dakotas. At least six deaths were blamed on the storm which began on the West coast dur ing the week end and rolled across the Rockies to batter, a vast region from the Cana dian border to Mexico. Another 18 persons were missing, including three Boy Scouts and three airmen lost in snowy wester wilderness regions. Scores of persons were stranded temporarily in lodges and along the snow clogged highways. Records Smashed The vicious snowstorm smashed records in southern Arizona's vacationland, left snow 20 inches deep in south ern Wyoming and 16 inches in the Dakotas. Nearly 100 schools were closed in Kansas. The Chicago weather bu reau said the storm also prob ably set a record for its ex tent and ferocity this early in the season. Ahead of the wintry blasts. southerly winds pumped mild weather into the East, setting the stage for a rash of twist ers Monday which skipped through Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. Buildings Damaged Hardest hit was Elkader, Iowa, where a tornado swoop ed down on the town's main street "like a fireball" Mon day afternoon. .About 14 buildings were damaged and the roof of the county jail was torn away. Six to eight automobiles were demolished. In the West, searcher slogged through deep moun tain snows for three thinly clad Boy Scouts missing since Sunday in. the frigid Santa Rita mountains south of Tuc son. There was little hope the youngsters would- be found alive. . . However, hope mounted that two missing airmen might still be alive high "in the Rocky mountains west of Fort Collins, Colo. A search pilot reported sighting a se ries of fires arranged in an "L" shape near the summit of Hayden peak. Other storm victims were a man killed Monday when winds smashed an Odessa, Tex., oil derrick; a Morris, Okla., woman found dead in the tornado wreckage of her chicken coop, and a Colorado motorist whose car skidded on ice down a 30-foot cliff near Eagle, Colo., Sunday. Among the stranded were 50 persons caught by treacher ous road conditions at the Mt. Lemmon resort lodge near. Tucson. Twelve other persons were brought out of the Arizona snowlands by ambulances and search parties, two of them hunters suffering from ex haustion and starvation. Ten hunters still were miss ing in the Arizona snow, but authorities believed that they were safe and taking refuge in cabins. WEATHER FORECAST: Occasional rain and gusty wind tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 38. High Wednesday SO. Temp. Highest Yesterday 42 Lowest this Morning 32 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today .01 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:47 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:07 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 12:42 a.m. Full Moon Nov. 26 PROMINENT STARS Capella, low in north east 6:25 p.m. Aldebaran, high in southeast 11:19 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, sets 6:02 p.m. Mars, in the east 7:11 p.m. Air Academy the Roosevelt request once young Kelly and his mother, now Mrs. J. Watson Pedlow Jr., Chester Heights, Pa., de cide whether to accept the West Point appointment. The Eisenhower letter to the future president asked an Air Academy appointment for Iven C. Kincheloe III, now 20 months old and living with his mother and six-months old sister, Jennine, at Oak land, Calif. The President said he was making the request as a "small measure" of national gratitude for the advanced aeronautic research by the small boy's father.