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n n M mm u uj rr rs n n s P. IVI Nixon Says Wesf To Stay in Berlin Pending Solution Vice President Arrives in London London-CPD-Vice President Richard Nixon bluntly told the Communist world today that the West intends to stay In Berlin until an acceptable solution to the city's problems is reached. Speaking at a lunch of the Pilgrims Society, a British American group dedicated to furthering closer friendship between the two nations, Nix on warned against faltering in the face of Red challenges. History Said Clear "The lesson of history Is clear," Nixon said in the speech which marked the first formal event of his four-day goodwill visit to this country. "Rewarding aggression does not stop it," the Vice Presi dent said. "It only encourages more aggression in the fu ture." The Nixons were welcomed at Victoria Station by a small crowd of onlookers and a large group of newsmen. He was greeted at the sta tion by U. S . Ambassador John Hay Whitney and his wife, and by British Foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd. The high point of the visit will come Wednesday when Nixon, acting as President Eisenhower's representative, dedicates the American Me morial Chapel in St. Paul's Cathedral. The chapel is a me morial to the 28,000 Ameri cans wno lost tneir lives in Britain or in military opera tions launched from this coun try in World War H. Beds Schedule March The Communists have scheduled a mass meeting and a "march on the U.S. Em bassy" tonight to protest Nix on's arrival. Scotland Yard has been alerted to deal with any repetition of the Red-led mob violence which greeted the Vice President in Latin America last spring. "We can't prevent the Com munist meeting, but we will watch it closely to make cer tain it doesn't get out of hand," A Scotland Yard spokesman said. "We wouldn't want any unpleasant inci dents while Nixon is in Eng land." British police in uniform and plainclothes are certain to be on hand throughout Nix on's visit, but the spokesman said so far as he knows Brit ain will furnish no bodyguards for Nixon as such. Wilson School to Open December 2 Wilson Elementary school will open on a full-time basis Tuesday, Dec. 2, Dr. Leonard Mayfield, superintendent of Medford schools, announced today. Wilson school children go ing to Roosevelt will move into the new school the after noon of Monday, Dec. 1, and will start a full schedule the following day. Wilson and Roosevelt school children have been double shifting at Roosevelt on an abbreviated schedule. A full schedule of classes will start for . Roosevelt stu dents Tuesday, Dec. 2, Dr. Mayfield said. The cafeteria and gymnasi um at Wilson will not be ready for use Dec. 2, he said, but milk will be available for students who bring lunches. The cafeteria at Roosevelt school will start operating Dec. 2. Revised bus schedules will be given to students by prin cipals of both Wilson and Roosevelt schools, Dr. May field said. I Living Costs Unchanged For 2nd Straight Month Washington -DPD- Living costs remain unchanged in October for the second straight month but a rash of strikes in the auto industry cut factory workers' buying power, the government re ported today. Holds at 123.7 Per Cent The Labor Department said its consumer price index held steady at 123.7 per cent of 1947-49 prices because lower food costs offset increased prices of new cars. The index declined two tenths of one per cent in Au gust and levelled off in Sep tember and October. This means a one cent hourly re- j 'We're Not Doing So Well in Geneva But We're Getting Disarmament Check Raises Hopes For New Swimming Pool on Jackson St. Medford's hopes for a west side municipal swimming pool by next summer moved ahead yesterday, with the ar rival of a $25,000 check from the federal government. The check goes to the Jack son County Housing authority for the time being. But Chair man Mark A. Goldy said he expects the authority to dis solve in a few i weeks. At that time, following an agreement made earlier in the year, the authority is to turn over its total assets, estimated Counfy Receives $326,805 From FS Jackson county's share of receipts from U.S. forest serv ice lands this year totals $326,805.03, according to Karl Janouch, county treasurer This sum is approximately $100,600 more than what Jackson county received last year, he added. Janouch said he received the check this morning. It rep resents 25 per cent of the money from federal forest service receipts from land within county boundaries, the county treasurer explained. The money is received from timber sales, grazing permits. and special land uses such as leases for summer home sites. Of the money received, the county allocates 75 per cent for the general roads fund and 25 per cent to county schools. - State Calls for Bids for Bridge The Oregon State Highway commission has advertised for bids for construction of Ante lope Creek bridge on Riley rd. about 2.5 miles south of Eagle Point. County Engineer Paul Ryn- ning said the commission de signs the bridge and calls for bids. The county court will award the contract. The bridge will be an 88- foot reinforced concrete struc ture. It is included in bids on eight projects advertised by the state highway commisson at an estmated total cost of $2,300,000. Couny crews are replacing wood decking on four or five irrigation bridges along the North Phoenix rd., Rynning said. The concrete decks will replace rotted wooden deck ing, he said. duction in pay for 220,000 workers in aircraft, electrical, farm implement and Chicago transit industries. Their wages are tied to the index by cost-of-living escala tor clauses in labor-management contracts. This was the first time since March, 1956, that workers took a cut in pay because the index drop ped. Food Prices Down Food prices declined five tenths of one per cent because eggs, pork, poultry and apples cost less. Dairy products and fresh vegetables increased in price but fresh fruit was cheaper. Over Here, Anyhow' at $75,000, to the city. These assets plus a tract of land on West Jackson st., to be turned over as well, are earmarked for a swimming pool and park area. Reserve Armory Th fWoi j KAUiange 1U1 1L3 $a,UUU, IS receiving an adjoining trian gular tract at West Jackson and McAndrews rd., where it a n 1 1 cipates constructing a ouu.uuu Army reserve arm ory. A deed transferring that tract from the authority to the government was recorded yesterday in Jackson county courtnouse. un neanng of trie govern ment's decision last August to buy the land, Medford City Manager Robert A. Duff pre- dieted completion of the oool on the adjoining tract by next summer. iimL!. i . . j. ins saie, saia uuff. a member of the authority him self, "will assure enough money to construct the pool win Make Effort I am sure," Mayor John W. Snider said, "that the city council will make everv ef- fort to make the pool a real- ity-" Duff said today he still hop- ea me pool would be con- structed on schedule. He said the park and recreation com- mission would probably take an interest in its planning. ine city council, he said. could now go ahead with au thorizing plans and specifica tions for the pool. So long as the government's check has been received, he explained, the council would not have to wan for the authority's for mal dissolution. Goldy has stated that the authority expects "reasonable assurance" from the citv that the pool and park will bp de- veioped before it will dissolve itsef and turn over the money and land. Units Sold Until last summer, low cost public housing units occuDied ine armory and Dool-Dark sites, .tenants were evicted and the units sold on condi tion they be removed by Oct. and not be used again for residential purposes. A brief controversy devel oped in July when it was re vealed that several of the units were to be used as liv ing quarters at their new lo cations. Goldy said the re quirement was "not ironclad." Yesterday, he reported on ly one unit still remained in the West Jackson st. area. He said bulldozers would clear up the debris after Dec. 1. sweeping it into one place for burning. Offices, Schools to Close Thanksgiving All city, county, state and federal offices will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving day. All schools in Jackson county will be closed Thurs day and Friday, according to spokesman from th r-nnntv school superintendent's office. Pupils from many of the county schools will be dis missed at 2 p.m. tomorrow, tne spokesman said. The Mail Tribune will pub- lisn a noon edition Thursday. Tacoma -fiJPD Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. has announced a curtailment in plywood and lumber production totaling 20 per cent under recent months. 53rd M 16 Pages 'Critics Flunked In Logic Oregon Solon Declares . Washington-UPD-Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) today defended his testimony in a 1931 auto mobile accident civil case and said his "critics" had "flunk ed in logic" in comparing it to another case involving Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield sev eral years later. Morse issued a statement in reply to a copyrighted story in the Oregon Journal Mon- aay wnicn said the senior Oregon senator, while a Uni versity of Oregon law profes sor, was involved in an auto- -mem near Eugene, : j -c was driving a car which collided with another and that the other party recovered $387 damages in a civil suit. It said a notable parallel between the Mose and Hatfield cases was that both Morse and Hatfield testified they did not see the object struck until the time of collision. Hatfield Case Revealed Morse, during the final days of the 1958 Oregon guberna torial campaign, brought out that Hatfield was -involved in a fatal automobile accident when Hatfioiri old and lost a civil suit re- suiting from the mishap, in which a little girl was killed. My critics had to labor mightily to pull out of the hat for Hatfield a property damage case which was tried before a Lane county jury in 1331, with me as a witness. and to try to make out that it is parallel to the Hatfiplrf case." Morse said in his statp. ment today. Morse said that in the case, Alice Miller vs. Carlton Spencer, "I admitted responsibility for damage to a motor vehicle. In the Hat- field case, Hatfield unsuccess fully attempted to avoid re sponsibility for an accident." Verdict Said Correct The Miller-Spencer case in volved a collision between a car owned by Spencer and driven by Morse and one driv en by, Mrs. Miller's husband which was owned by Mrs. Miller. Morse said, "as the driver of the Spencer automobile, I readily admitted to the jury lnat 1 "id not see the other automobile approaching when the accident occurred. I told the truth. The case ended in the trial court with a verdict 101 lne Piaintm, as it should hpve. As a witness I did not seek to prevent such a ver dict." (Continued on Page 5) Pears Top Carloads Shipped from Area Oregon's leading pear pro duction district, Medford, p?o- duced 727.7 carloads in Octo ber to account for almost all commodities-730.3 carloads - to leave the valley, according to W. L. Close, federal-state supervisor of shipping point inspection. In his report to the state de partment of agriculture, Close divided the remaining car loads to the following com modities and amounts: apples, .9; onions, .8; potatoes, .5, and peaches, .4. The second district in pear production, is Hood River, which moved a total of 116.3 carlots. Hood River cherries ft""me) added 6.7 carlots and appies l0iaiea i.o, ior a total of 267.6 carlots. Total statewide inspections made during October amount ed to 3,469 carlots, down 817 over figures of October last vear - The total to Nov- 1 aD" pears at 10.329 which is down 1,359 over Nov. 1, 1957. To date this year, federal state inspectors have checked 2,096 cars, as compared with 3,200 at the same date a year ago. Morse n 1931 Year EDFORD MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1958 n n III ni. Is kl II II II II II MYSTERY TREE-Shown as it appeared last summer in full regalia, this 14-foot tree in front of 820 South Beekman ave., Med ford, has aroused curiosity and controversy. Property Donated For Use by Rogue Council on Aging A piece of property of ap proximately IVz acres in the Ashland vicinity has been do nated to the Rogue Valley Council on Aging as a possible site for housing of elderlv persons. The offer came as a direct result of the housing conference held Nov. 17 at the Rogue Valley hospital. 'Howard Heydlauff, federal housing administration assist ant director at Portland, spoke at the conference on the new federal program for elderly people as well as at the Ashland Chamber of Com merce luncheon Tuesday. The site, contributed by a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, has been inspect ed by Heydlauff and found to be acceptable, it was reported. Non-Profit Group The land will be available if an acceptable non-profit sponsoring organization will assume the responsibility of carrying on the project. Such a sponsoring group would.be a philanthropic organization, church, labor union, fraternal lodge, club, trade or profes sional association, veterans group, nationality group, mu nicipal, state or county gov erning body or the like with a recognized interest in pro viding housing for the elderly, William H o x i e, housing committee chairman, and his committee met at the Senior Activity Center Tuesday and discussed the project. Any group wishing more informa tion may contact Hoxie or Frank Glonning, chairman of the Council. The conference was attend ed by nearly 30 persons repre senting the various levels of government, church, and other organizations as well as state representatives. Attending the meeting In addition to Heydlauff was R. E. Stevenson, FHA regional office. Salt Lake City, and K. Carl Robie, local FHA repre sentative. Among the facts brought out at the conference were that persons 60 years of age and older are eligible to live in such housing area; that the rental costs depend on the development; and that old ho tels in some incidents may be used for this type of housing. Salem-OJPD-Bids on $2,300, 000 in highway projects will be opened by the State High way Commission here Dec. 9. s Testimony Siven toil 6 Ml te OSC Professor Says Beekman Ave. Tree May Be Hedge Maple The latest attempt at nam ing the mystery tree at 820 South Beekman ave., Med ford has been taken by a sage at the Oregon State college school of forestry. "Acer campestre," better known as hedge maple or Eng lish cork bark maple, is the name offered by Warren R, Randall, assistant professor in the forest management depart ment. ine Arnold Arboretum in Boston, botany's Harvard, has returned a similar finding. This was reported yesterday by Marcel Le Piniec, horticul ture authority and proprietor of Garden Center Nursery in Phoenix. Closely Related Le Piniec tentatively ident ified the tree two weeks ago as Acer divergens." The two are closely related, he said. But, he explaned, "campestre" has larger fruit and leaves. ine fruit and leaves are so small," he said of the Beek man ave. specimen, "that it cant be anything but diver gens." The plight of the unfamiliar tree was disclosed a few weeks ago as the Medford street tree Cerebral Hemorrhaqe Claims Gervais Mayor Gervais (UPD Merrill T?lair Lucas, 63, mayor of Gervais, died ttere Monday as he was preparing to make his mnm- ing school bus run. Death was believed due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Kettering, Inventive Genius, Succumbs Dayton. Ohio-flJPD-Charlpc: F. (Boss Ket), Kettering, 82, millionaire, philanthroDist and inventive genius of the autn. motive industry, died at 2:43 p.m. today of a cerebral hemorrhage. WEATHER FORECAST: Valley fog tonight and Wednesday morning. Clearing during the day. Cold er tonight, 30.36. High tomor row 46. Temp. Highest Yesterday 45 Lowest this Morning 40 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:43 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:15 a.m. Moonrise today 4:40 p.m. Full Moon tomorrow 2:16 ajn. MORNING STAR Jupiter, rises 6:14 a.m. Now about 591 million miles away, this planet's distance from the Earth is decreasing and its brilliance Is increasing. Tribune Members of Medford's street tree committee have been joined by experts as far away as Boston in determining its identity. committee wound up its in ventory of the city's streetside arboreal assets. One tree. members reported, had them stumped, One member described it as a species of oak. Another said it was a globe maple. Recent ly, experts have stepped in to help track down its family tree. John Gribble, retired for ester who raises seedlings be- nina nis 139 Kenwood ave. residence, told of Randall's identification yesterday. He appeared, along with several tree committee members, at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable luncheon. Offers Answer Gribble offered an answer to another mystery about the tree: how it got there. He said he has traced ownership of the lot back to George A. Seely, who lives today at 831 Niantic st. Seely owned a wood yard where the tree now stands some 40 years ago. Seely has stated he cannot recall where the tree came from, however. He remembers doing some gardening work at that time. He says he plant ed the tree in 1921 Gribble enclosed a seed of the tree along with leaves when he wrote the school of forestry. we win attempt to ger minate the seed which you sent in," Randall replied. "If we are successful we will let you know." Boasts Knowledge unooie, wno boasts a pro digious knowledge of trees ac cording to his fellow workers, has assisted Mrs. Jean Tucker and others in compiling the in ventory. Mrs. Tucker reported yes terday that some 4,700 trees, comprising between 70 and 80 varieties, have been recorded on 115 maps. Of the 4,700,' 'she told the roundtable, "200 are new trees planted under the pro gram." The tree committee was es tablished by ordinance in 1957, its ultimate function to encourage and regulate the planting of trees along Med ford's streets. Other members present yesterday to give the roundtable a progress report included John F. Williams Jr., Paul Jorgenson, Bob Johnson, John Adams, and Mrs. O. A. Eden, the group's chairman. ( Price 10 Cents No. 211 Shakespeare Fund Reaches Third of $275,000 Total The Oregon Shakespearean Festival fund - raising cam paign went well over the one third mark today, with a total of $103,057.70 reported at noon. The second general report meeting for the fund drive also was told that Ginger Rogers has accepted the chair manship for southern Cali fornia for the drive, and her mother, Mrs. Lela Rogers, will assist her. The campaign total is $275, 000, and will be used to con struct a new theater1 building in Lithia park to replace the old one, which has been razed in compliance with state fire marshal's orders. The total today more than doubles the amount reported last week at this time, when $48,606 had been collected. Voluniary Total The amount includes more than $32,000 raised in Ash land today, out of a voluntary quota of $50,000 for the fes tival's home city. This amount " oeen rnatcned by an anonymous donor, and results m more than $64,000 being creaiieo 10 Asniand up to this point. Medford's total as of today IS $.33,U4U. More than $3,300 has been received from out-of-town pa- irons 01 tne festival, who were solicited by mail only. These gifts have ranged from SI to $duu, and were sent in in response to the camoaign brochure and an accompany ing letter from the fund-drive cnairman, Alfred S. V. Car penter of Medford. Other gifts have ranged in size irom iu cents, given yes terday by an Ashland bov aged 5, to $10,000 from an other anonymous donor. .next report meeting will be at- noon Wednesdav. Dec. 3, in the Red Cross building on nawtnorne ave. Christmas Decorations Being Installed Medord work crews are raising candy cane Christmas decorations along downtown streets this week. These and other decorations are being placed on lamp posts as down town merchants prepare for their Christmas Opening Fri day. The merchants supply the decorations, and the neces sary wiring. City crews do the installing. Clear and Cold Due For Thanksgiving By United Press International Clear but cold weather is the prospect for most of Ore gon for Thanksgiving Day. Sunny, cold weather is ex pected in Oregon today and Wednesday, and little change is expected for Thanksgiving Day. Winds, Heavy Schools in Midwest Area By United Press International Howling winds propelled cold air into a broad area of the mountain and plains stat es today, threatening four inches and more of snow for part of the northlands, clos ing schools in part of North Dakota, and bringing cold wave warnings to an eight state area. Winds in gusts up to 100 miles an hour injured two persons and caused thousands of dollars damage in country south of Denver today, wreck ing some automobiles and car ports and lashing homes. In North Dakota, winds reached 65 miles an hour, up to seven inches of snow was Parole Board Grants Release After 31 Years , Printing Trade To Be Followed Salem -(0PD- Hugh D'Autre mont, 54, winner of a parole after 31 years in prison for the 1923 Siskiyou murder train robbery attempt in southern Oregon, looked for ward today to a job as a printer and freedom from publicity. The Oregon Parole Board voted unanimously Monday to grant D'Autremont a pa role after he completed a pre-release training period, normally about 60 days. Excerpts from the film of the Mail Tribune of June 21, 1927, the day Hugh D'Autrement was found guilty of murder in the tun nel 13 train robbery in the Siskiyous, in a trial at the old county courthouse Jacksonville, appear page 5. ra on D'Autremont was convicted of murder in 1927 and has been in prison since. His older twin brothers, Roy and Ray. also are under life sentences. Roy is in the state hospital. Classic Crime The 1923 train robbery was one of the classic crimes of the west in the roaring 20s. On Oct. 11 Southern Pacific mail train number 13 was making its way through the Siskiyou mountains. As it reached tunnel 13, it was halted by three bandits. Three trainmen were shot to death and a mail clerk was killed in the dynamite explo sion of the mail car. The banr ' dits fled without getting any loot. The three D'Autremonts were indicted for assault on a mail clerk that December. But despite one of the West's biggest manhunts, the bandits remained at large. Four years later Hugh was located in the Philippines through a wanted poster. He was serving in the Army under an assumed -name. The older brothers were found living in Ohio. All were brought back to Ore gon and got life for murder. Hugh, in recent years, be gan a legal battle to get his freedom. Three murder charges and the assault count remained against him. He ap- pea red in court in Medford and pleaded guilty last Febru ary to another of the murder charges, receiving another life term. The other murder counts were dismissed. On May 1 he appeared in Federal Court in Portland and pleaded guilty to the as sault charge. He was given probation by Federal Judge Gus Solomon who noted Ore gon had "assumed jurisdic tion over the defendant and the responsibility for his cus tody and punishment," (Continued on Page II) Restraining Order Issued in Strike By United Press International A federal judge Issued a temporary order against a threatened pilots' strike on American Airlines, third of the major air carriers beset by labor troubles, but a spokesman for the pilots' union said todnight's walkout deadline remained in force for the time being. Two major lines, Eastern and Trans World, were grounded and their planes si lent instead of warming up for the Thanksgiving rush. The strike of the Air Lines Pilots Association against American, in a long wage dis pute, was set for a minute be fore midnight. Snow Close expected in the northern part of the state and motorists were told to stay off the high ways. Highway equipment was idled as the storm struck and schools were closed. Traf fic in Minot was paralyzed. Conditions Worsen As the day wore on, condi tions in parts of North Da kota and Northwest Minneso ta worsened, and blizzard warnings were issued. Winds were blowing 20 to 35 miles an hour, whisking thick, hea vy snow ahead of them. Stud ents at the University of North Dakota and and North Dakota Agriculture colleges were asked to remain on cam pus until the storm abated.
