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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?"
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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