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rui mm Ml fo)M urn u n ii ii Me Canvass iesulis Told A total of 24,669 persons voted in the general election Nov. 4 in Jackson county, ac cording to results of the of ficial canvass completed yes terday by the county elections department. This figure represents 69.45 per cent of the 35,518 persons registered to vote in Jackson county during the general election. Final vote figures for state and county candidates are: United States representative for fourth district, Paul E. Geddes, 12,066; Charles O. Porter, 12,248. Governor, Mark Hatfield, 14,918; Robert D. Holmes, 9,575. Bureau of Labor, Lyle E. McCauley, 11,112 and Norman O. Nilsen, 12,285. State senator, Edwin R. Durno, 12,399; Gordon Hud son, 11,783. State representative, Mrs. Marijane Duncan, 10,064; Rob ert Duncan, 13,748; Melvin J. Lattie, 10,459; Mrs. Evelyn Nye, 12,291. County Offices County Clerk, Beretn P, Hopkins, 10,940; and Ernest Marvin Madden, 13, 184. County commissioner, Frank Christian, 10,555, and Chester K. Wendt, 13,392. County judge, C- Scott Ham ilton, 10,350; Earl M. Miller, 13,492. County coroner, Carlos Morris, unopposed, 20,635. - Sheriff, Laurence J. (Larry) Sheehan, 9,351; Joseph D. Walsh, 14,557. Judiciary ballot, Kenneth J. O'Connell, state supreme court, district No. 2, 18,179; Gordon Sloan, state supreme court, district No. 3, 17,946; George Rossman, state su preme court, district No. 7, 17,341. James M. Main, circuit court judge, first judicial dis trict, position No. 1, 18,473; Edward C. Kelly, first judi cial district, position No. 3, 18,060. E. Roy Bashaw, district court judge, 17,740. Superintendent of schools, Rex Putnam, incumbent, 18, 378. Medford offices: John Sni der, mayor, 7,264; council men: Ward I, William Doern bach, 451; Bred Robinson, 1,152; Roy Wilkes, 1,041; Ward II, Don Hanson, unop posed, 2,066; Ward III, Robert B a c c u s, unopposed, 1,100; Ward IV, George Stacy, 595; Stanley Stark, 766. Sidewalk assessment, Yes, 12,657; No, 15,494. Official figures on voting for Ashland city offices are: City recorder, W. E. Bar- telt, unopposed, 2,483. City treasurer, Paul R. Fin nell, 1,916 and Guy E. Clarke, 768. Councilman, Kenneth H, Jones, 908; David S. Kerr, 1,676; Donald E. Lewis, 1,478; WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy and mi'd with intermittent rain tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 40. High Thursday 52. Temp. Highest Yesterday 59 Lowest this Morning . 44 Free, to 19 a.m. Today .06 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:46 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:08 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 1:40 a.m. Full Moon Nov. 26 Saturn, setting earlier each night in the southwest, now leaves the evening sky. It will return as a morning star In January. Make Medford Beautiful TRUNK SEWER LINE?-Medford has at least one unsanitary sewer svstem: Bear creek. This neath the East Main st. bridge raw sewage outlets. Making ing Medford Clean as well. In freeway may be running beside the creek. The freeway s con struction may lead to some improvement in appearance but Medford residents can start Arthur M. Peters, 1,357; Mrs. R. H, (Virginia) Westerfield, 1,224; W. P. (Bill) Wright, 1,227; and Derrel E. Beard, 422. Park commissioner, Jean F. Eberhart, 2,444; Archie C. Fries Jr., 2,408; John C. Cot ton, 2,395. Local Residents To Attend Meet At State College An estimated 25 persons from Jackson county are ex pected to attend the 73rd an nual meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural society in Corvallis at the Oregon State college Thursday and Friday. A number of the people will play a prominent part in the meeting. Orville Hamil ton, Central Point, is society president and chairman of the society's first session. Master of ceremonies for the annual banquet on Thurs day is Raymond Reter, Med ford fruit shipper. Those from Jackson county on the program are C. B. Cor dy, Jackson county horticul tural agent, and R. C. Blake, United, States department of agriculture h o r t i culturist with the Southern Oregon Branch Experiment station, Jacksonville. L. G. Gentner, entomologist, Southern Ore gon Branch Experiment sta tion, will talk on changing problems in pest control; and Don Berry, county extension agent, will participate in a panel on old and new stone fruit plantings in Oregon past, present and 'future. On the various committees are Stephen G. Nye, Medford, general program committee chairman; Ward Spatz, Med ford, resolutions committee chairman; Martin Luther Jr., Medford, auditing committee chairman; Dave Lowry. Hart man cup committee and legis lative committee. Helping to organize the ap ple and pear section were Paul Culbertson, chairman; Hamilton, Nye, Lyle Kinney Howard Bush, Dunbar Car penter, Robert Minear, Char les Henry, Lowry, Tom Spatz, Luther, and Cordy. Others who plan to attend the annual meeting are El mer Olson. Von Quacken bush, Bruce Cyphers, Fred Danielson, Charles Taylor, Paul Beddoe, John Higdon, Jim Semple, Chet Gutches, Chet Fraker and Gordon Kershaw. Norfolk Voters Defeat Integration : Norfolk, Va. The Nor folk Citv council had the vot ers' three-to-two blessing to day to ride with the . state s anti-inteeration policy, which has closed six of . Norfolk's public schools. Tn the first direct ballot on Virginia's "massive resist ance" program, three out of five voters said they would rather have the schools re main closed than have them opened and integrated. The vote Tuesday was 12, 658 "against" and 8,781 "for" the proposal. scene shows the creek under and downstream from several Medford Beautiful means Mak a very few years a four-lane now to make it look better. "Why Don't You Move Out And Stop Torturing This Poor Guy?" ,VT .J ill I t Congressman Tells Of Need to Develop Recreational Areas With the amount of radio active fallout increasing daily and with individuals under more and more of a strain, there is indeed a great need for recreation today, Con gressman Charles O. Porter told the National Forest Rec reation association last night. It is holding its tenth annual meeting here. The meeting will conclude Thursday evening with a din ner presided over by the asso ciation's new president. Porter stressed the impor tance of getting out into God's wilderness and mentioned the need for improving and ex panding current facilities at the national forests,, monu ments and parks. Porter stated that the recre- Contributions Told by Festival A total of $48,606.50 has been contributed to the Ore gon Shakespearean Festival's building fund drive, division chairmen reported this noon: Of the total. Medford has raised $23,080, Ashland $12,- 240, out-of-town contributions received in the mail $546.50, and the Ashland Matching fund, $12,240. Not credited to any group is $500 worth of material gifts for building supplies. Richard V. Finch, chairman of GrouD B Men's division, Medford, reported collections .totaling $2,035,, and the high est donations in the women s division in Medford was S1.525 reported by Mrs. C Rease Braley, chairman of Group E. The building fund cam paign started Nov. 12 with a goal of $275,000. General Chairman Alfred S. V. Car Denter. Medford. has ex pressed the hope the campaign will be concluded by Christ mas. The campaign is being con ducted to raise money to re build the Festival's Elizabeth ean stage in Ashland for use next year. Russia Closes Door On West's Proposal Geneva-dJPD-Russia slammed the door today on a Western compromise plan to get the deadlocked atom conference down to negotiating a con trolled nuclear test ban. The United States and Bri tain formally proposed that the conference begin concur rent negotiations on a test suspension accord and a sys tem of built-in controls to police it. But Russia's chief delegate, Semyon Tsarapkin, stood firm by the Soviet demand that agreement in principle on test suspension "forever" must come first. Negotiations on the West- demanded effective interna tional control system would be releagated to second place under the Soviet plan. Washington -BP&- The Sen ate Rackets Committee hoped to wind up its secondary boy cott investigation today with hearings on Teamster "hot cargo" cases in Texas and Nebraska. 1 A ation operations there should be operated by private per mittees, rather than by the government. Recreational Potential All important today, he said, is development of recre ational potentials throughout the country. In speaking of the northwest and Oregon in particular, the congressman mentioned the bill he intro duced in congress for the ex pansion of the Waldo lake area for recreation. He also noted the need for enlarging the area of Oregon Caves Na tional monument, explaining that 14,000 fewer persons toured the caves this year than in 1957, idue mainly to the lack of campground facili ties in the area. ' Turning to Crater Lake Na tional park, he recommended the installation of a chair lift from the rim to the water's edge so boating and fishing would be encouraged. Oregon will celebrat its centennial in 1959, Porter said, but this year another centennial is being recog nized. This is the centennial of Theodore Roosevelt, honor ing his conservation policy which was the backbone of the policy today. History Reviewed The congressman reviewed the history of the natural for ests, which he called a living memorial to Roosevelt. He mentioned the major movements in conservation during the past 100 years and told of the part played in this drama by the northwest. He commented on the major ben efits received by the region and told how many abuses of these rights aroused the pub lic to action for better con servation laws.' Porter concluded that dur ing the 86th Congress many bills will be considered re garding conservation. Among those will" be the Wilderness bill. Others Present The speaker was intro duced by Ted Tedrick, Med ford, vice president of the as sociation. Others at the speak er's table were J. Herbert Stone, Portland, Pacific Northwest regional forester; Larry Jolley, Portland, re gional director of instruction and education; Mrs Tedrick, John Edwards, Bend, secre tary-treasurer of the associa tion; and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Winther, Sierra county, Calif W i n t h e r, association presi dent, was master of cere monies. More than 100 persons from 12 western states attended the dinner at the Jackson hotel The dinner menu featured all Oregon products with the huckleberry pie furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Beckel heimer of Becky's cafe, Union Creek. Municipal Judge Elected Secretary Miss Noreen Kelly, Med ford's municipal court judge, was elected secretary of the Oregon Association of Municipal Judges yester day at Eugene. The association met in lha course of the League of Ore gon Cities annual conven tion at the Eugene hotel. Other officers elected were Richard Singleton, St. Helens, president, and Jerry Myllinbeck, Myrtle Point. ice president. 53rd Year Medford 18 PAGES torim -ioto Canada At Least 14 Dead in Wake Of Wintry Blast Five-Foot Drifts In North Dakota By United Press International High winds trailed a vi cious storm system across the nation's border jnto Canada today, leaving in its wake at least 14 persons killed by snow, cold and tornadic winds. There were three dead in both Utah and Oklahoma, two dead in Texas and New Mex ico, and one dead in South Dakota, Wisconsin, Colorado and Missouri. Another 16 persons were missing in the snow covered mountains of Arizona, Utah and Colorado. Hope Fading Searchers virtually gave up hope for six of the miss ing, three of them Boy Scouts lost in. deep snow in Arizona's Santa Rita mountains, the last of eight airmen who par achuted in the Magpie Flat area near Huntsville, Utah, and two men , whose plane crashed near Fort Collins, Colo. Blizzard conditions swept parts of the Dakotas and Min-. nesota Tuesday, piling up five-foot drifts along high ways in the Grand Forks, N.D., region. The storm then smashed in to Canada, dumping up to 20 inches of snow on Manitoba's Red River valley in the worst November snowstorm in the province's history. A tornado along the flanks of the storm hit Port Arthur, Ontario, re gion. Cold air radiating out from the storm's core blanketed a vast area of the nation ex tending from Pennsylvania across eastern Tennessee and Alabama and into the Gulf of Mexico. Fair and cold weather also prevailed westward into the plains states, but a warming trend eased the bitter cold in the northern and central Rockies and began seeping eastward into the plains early today. Treasure Hunt Tickets Available Tickets are now being dis tributed by Medford merch ants for a Christmas Treasure Hunt which will be held . Fri day, Nov. 28, in downtown Medford. Sponsored jointly by the Retail Merchants association and the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the tickets are .available to all persons who enter Medford business estab lishments regardless of wheth er they make a purchase or not. Tickets, will continue to be given out through 4 pjn., Nov. 28. During the Nov. 28 evening Christmas activities, numbers will appear in store windows on prizes that have been dis played during the week. Per sons holding the same num bred ticket as that which ap pears on a prize will receive it as part of the "treasure hunt." Stores will remain open un til 9 p.m. as a kick-off for the Christmas season. "Santa Claus' will make an appearance, accompanied by the Medford High school and Junior High school bands and carolers. They will tour the downtown area from 7 until 8 p.m. and then will stop on Bartlett st. between Eighth and Sixth sts. Santa' will dis tribute candy to children and talk to them during the two hour period. Corvallis (UPD Sharon Spencer of Oswego has been crowned 1958 homecoming queen at Oregon State Col lege. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, mm Illlllillll: - DISTINGUISHED DINERS-Mayor John W. Snider of Medford introduces Governor elect Mark O. Hatfield to the nearly 400 people attending yesterday's luncheon at the League of Oregon Cities convention in Arrested Youths Held in Jail on Burglary Charges Central Point Two Cali fornia youths, arrested on dis orderly conduct charges by Central Point police last night, have confessed to a number of burglaries in Jack son county during recent months, authorities reported. Being held in the Jackson county jail on changes of bur glary are Jack Kenneth Lytle, 25, a transient from California, and Merle Frank lin Hinds, 19, Hayfork, Calif. The : youths, upon routine questioning by Central Point police and a state police offic er, admitted taking $1,000 from 'the Jacksonville High school safe Sunday night, $11.50 from the Central Point junior high school cafeteria this fall, and approximately $170 from the safe in the Lu cas and Howard furniture store, Central Point, also this fall. Admit Burglaries State police said today the youths admitted to a number of burglaries in the northern California area! Lytle is want ed by Los Angeles and Red Bluff, Calif., authorities on charges of burglary and car theft, state police added. The youths were arrested on a complaint of disorderly conduct by a Central Point pool hall owner. Questioning by police, large sums of money and other articles the youths had in their possession led to further questioning and the confessions. Police said they recovered $755 of the $1,000 stolen from Jack sonville (High school. Chains Required on Some Oregon Roads Salem -flJPD- Chains were required for travel at Govern ment Camp, Warm Springs junction and Santiam Pass, the State Highway Depart ment reported today. Motorists were advised to carry chains at Meacham and Austin. Icy spots were reported on highways at Siskiyou, Willam ette pass and Seneca. Portland -(UPD- Dr. William A. Pearl, Bonneville Power Administrator, said BPA is re considering a plan to sell to California utilities surplus uninterruptible electric powj er. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York - (UPD - Dow Jones closing stock aver ages: 30 industrials 565.97. up 1.08; 20 rails 157.91, up 1.80; utilities 87.25. off 0.10: 65 stocks 197.27. up 0.68. Sales today were about 4, . 090.000 compared with 3 820.000 Tuesday. FOLLOW Eugene. The luncheon was held in the King Cole room of the Eugene hotel. Mayor Sni der returned to Medford in time to be at his desk this morning. Most of the other city officials are returning today. Armed Forces To educe Manpower Washington-fDPP-Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy today cut Army draft calls and ordered the Armed Forces to reduce their total manpower by 61,282 men by next June 30. The secretary look these steps: He directed the Army. Navy, Marines and Air Fore to carry out scheduled reductions that had .been delayed through the first half of the current fiscal year. ., He set the January draft call for the Army at 9,000 men. The January draft call is the lowest since the October December, 1957 period, when 7,000 men were called into the Army each month. Reasons cited by Defense officials for the draft cut war the overall manpower reductiong and improvement in Army reenlistment rates. The other services do not draft men. . Russia Accused of Mass Interference In German Affairs Washington -(UPD-The Unit ed States accused Russia to day of "massive interference in German affairs." State Department Press Of ficer Lincoln White said the Soviet Union was guilty on this count because of "its ef fort to maintain . by armed force domination over a large part of the German people." At the same time, White dismissed as "ridiculous" Rus sian charges that the United States is using West Germany and West Berlin as base's for espionage activities. White said of the Russian assertion, made in a press Porter To Meet ield Thursday Eugene C ongressman Charles O. Porter announced today that he will meet with Governor-Elect Mark Hatfield at 9:30 ajn. Thursday, in Hat field's Salem office, to discuss "five areas in which I believe Mr. Hatfield and I will be able to cooperate extensively during the next several months for the benefit of Southwestern Oregon." While in Salem Porter will also confer with Gov. Robert D. Holmes and Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton about matters of mutual in terest. The five items which Por ter said he hoped to discuss with Hatfield are the upcom ing omnibus housing bill in Congress, construction funds for Green Peter dam on the Santiam river in Linn county, harbor improvements for the mouth of the Siuslaw river in Lane county, the proposed Gold Beach-Selma-A g n e s s highway in Josephine and Curry counties and the Rogue River flood control project in Jackson and Josephine counties. Price 10 Cents Tribune 1958 No. 206 conference at the Soviet Em bassy in East Berlin Tuesday: It is a "lead balloon which appropriately sinks to the bot tom of the waters it hopes to muddy." White said the new Soviet charges are not likely to "suc ceed in convincing anyone" that the West, rather than Russia, is guilty of interfer ence and subversion in Ger many. He said Russia, at a meet ing of world Communist lead ers in Moscow in November, 1957, "made clear its determi nation to use Communist and workers' parties throughout the world in attempts to in stall the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' in all countries In view of the Russian rec ord, White added, it was un likely that world opmion could be fooled about the party really guilty of interfer ence in German affairs. - Rain, Wind, Snow Likely On Oreqon Weather Scene By United Press International Rain and wind with snow in the mountains was the weather outlook in Oregon to day following a gusty blow which spilled more than two inches of rain along the coast and more than an inch in parts of the Willamette val ley. Winds Expected Southerly winds of 20 to 40 miles per hour were expected in the Willamette valley to night and gusts up to 50 miles an hour were forecast along the coast. Strong winds ac companied Tuesday's rain storm with gusts reaching 55 miles per hour at the Port land airport. - Rain, becoming heavy at times, was expected in west ern Oregon through Thurs day with rain or snow in east Two Survivors Found in Northern Lake Michigan 33 Believed Lost As Freighter Sinks CharlJvoix, Mich.-(OPD-Two survivors were rescued today from the sunken cargo ship Carl D. Bradley that foun dered in a wild storm in the graveyard of ships" in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan. But the wind-lashed waters apparently claimed the lives ot d3 otner men, including the captain. Roland Brvan 52. Loudonville, New York. There had been early reports this morning that two more sur vivors had been sighted on an uninhabited island not far from the sinking, but the re port could not be confirmed by the Coast Guard. Nine Bodies Sighted The bodies of nine men were sighted in the area be tween Hieh and Gull Islands. The freighter Transontario re covered one body west of High Island and three bodies were picked up by the Coast Guard cutter bundew on, the north side of Gull Island. Five oth er bodies were in water too shallow for the Sundew to go m to pick them up, and the lake'was too roueh for the cut ter to launch small boats. The two men rescued were First Mate Elmer Fleming and Deck Watchman Frank Mayes, both of Rogers City, Mich. They had succeeded in getting onto a life raft when the Bradley broke in two dur ing the storm Tuesday night, and were picked up 14 hours later by the Sundew. They were suffering from exposure. No Explosion Fleming told the Coast Guard that the ship broke up in heavy seas. He said "there was no explosion." The Coast Guard withheld questioning either Fleming or Mayes further because the men were suffering from the shock of exposure to their long oraeal. "They are in poor con dition," the Sundew captain said. "We've broken In half," we're going down," was the last message flashed by the Bradley, a 615-foot limestone carrier, late Tuesday. It was after dark and the lake was kicking up mountain ous waves from violent winds up to 60 miles an hour. The Bradley, a 14,800-ton ; ship, was returning without cargo from Buffmton, Ind., southeast of Chicago on Lake Michigan, to the limestone harbor at Rogers City. Local Man Buys Radio Station Fred W. Stevens, 714 King st., Medford, and Jack Com fort, Milton-Freewater, have purchased . Pendleton radio station KWRC, Stevens has announced. The station, a 250-watt mu sic and news type station, will be operated by the WSC Broadcasting c o mpany of Oregon, Inc., he said. Signing incorporation papers were Stevens, Mrs. Stevens and Medford Attorney Warren Lesseg. Comfort, who has been connected with a radio sta tion in Pendleton for about a year, and Paul Ward, former Medford radio announcer, will work at the station, Stev ens said. Stevens will manage the station, but at present has no plans for moving to Pen dleton. ern Oregon. Cascade moun tains were expected to get heavy snow. Tuesday's storm, which re sulted in some power out ages, saw 3.11 inches of rain fall at Cape Blanco. Newport had 2.75 inches, North Bend 2.11 and Astoria 1.61. Inland, Salem had 1.76 inches, Eugene 1.64, and Portland .88 in the 24 hours ending at 4 a. m. to day. Near Blizzard A near blizzard was report ed at Timberline lodge on Mt. Hood where 12 inches of new snow fell. Government Camp got mostly rain. The rain sent rivers up and the Santiam at Jefferson was 13.8 feet at 8:30 ajn. today. Flood stage there is 13 feet. The Willamette still was far below the flood mark. and smell better. 3
