Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 26, 1958, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDpi lest Berlin 1 Efat Berlin locked Over Remarks ly Suites Berlin (CPU Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' an nouncement that the Western powers might deal with the East German Reds over Berlin was met with shocked disbe lief in this divided city tonight. The fact that Dulles stressed that the East German offic ials would be regarded merely In any dealings on minor matters did little to offset what was regarded as a complete crisis about the city's future Dulles said the United States and its Allies are in agree ment on this aspect, although they and West Germany are equally determined not to deal with the East Germans In any manner which might imply de facto recognition of the Communist puppet regime, He also said the United States will use all means, in cluding force if necessary, to keep open the communica tions routes to Red-encircled West Berlin. Dulles' remarks came just as a communique was issued in Bad Kreuznach in which French Premier Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer announced they believe the present status in Berlin must be maintained. Some officials of the Allied command in West Berlin ex pressed frank disbelief when told about Dulles' statement at his Washington news con ference. The spokesman for the West Berlin city government re acted with astonishment. Then he said for the record: "Dulles' remarks contradict all the West has said about Berlin up to now." Holiday Opening Planned Friday Christmas opening for downtown Medford stores Friday will feature a treasure hunt, Santa Claus and music by Medford school bands. Free tickets for the treasure hunt have been available in 43 stores in downtown Med ford since last Monday. All stores in the downtown sec tion will be open until 9 p.m. Friday. Each of the stores Friday night will display one or more prizes with cards showing the winning numbers. No pur chases are required to obtain tickets, officials added. Tickets will be given out until 4 pjn. Friday. Follow ing that time, numbers will be drawn and the stores will be notified to display the winning ticket numbers. Prizes will be removed from the Christmas treasure hunt if they are not picked up by 5 pjn. Saturday. The junior high school bands will play on the vari ous street corners from 7 to 8 o'clock. The Medford Jun ior Chamber of Commerce is providing a Santa Claus to distribute candy r between 7 and 8 p.m. For the first in five years no parade will be held. Bail Forfeited in Municipal Court Case Bert W. Riebe, 1117 Reddy ave., has forfeited $35 bail in Medford municipal court in connection with a charge of assault and battery. Riebe was charged with striking a Continental Trail ways bus driver Nov. 13. The driver, Frank Augustus Lind strom, Sacramento, told police that his assailant entered the bus at the downtown Medford depot, grabbed him by the necktie and struck him in the face while accusing him of nearly having caused him an accident a short time before. Lack of Moral Responsibility Seen Contributing By DOC QUIGG UPI Correspondent New York -UPD- Do you feel like a moral offender? One of the frightening aspects of the national traffic blood letting that will occur from tonight through Sunday night is the lack of moral respon sibility of the man behind the wheel. This man, in many cases, is behaving close to his animal nature behaving crudely, callously, while shielded by the anonymity that automo bile travel affords. Churches Can Help How to make him under stand that he is morally re sponsible, as an individual, for his actions behind the wheel? The problem has. been a stumper for the experts. A recent suggestion is that the churches can help. as "agents" for the Russians reversal of policy In the new Los Angeles Smog Continues To Irritate Eyes Los Angeles -(DPD Residents were offered little relief to day from a four-day smog at tack that, consisted partly of a sulphuric acid mist similar to that found in the killer fogs which once engulfed Do- nora, Pa., and London, Eng land. Scattered showers fell late Tuesday night but failed to cleanse the basin area of the eye-irritating air. The U. S. Weather Bureau said the earliest 'relief in sight was in the late afternoon. Visibility Cut Thousands of irate citizens complained to the Air Pollu tion Control District Tuesday as the heavy pall of dirty air hovered over the city and cut visibility to less than a mile. S. Smith Griswold, APCD chief, told the county board of supervisors there was no way presently known to mea sure the acid content of the air. He emphasized that he be lieved the current smog pre sented no immediate health hazard to the area's 5 million residents.. Griswold admitted that science frankly doesn't know what compound in the air causes the eye irritation, the chest congestion and the sore throats. 'Compound X' Blamed Eight years ago the APCD blamed "compound X" for the irritating effects of smog. The same mysterious compound is still blamed today. "All we know is that the oxidation of car exhaust and burning of fuel oil and other air pollutants produces eye ir riation," an APCD spokesman said. "Which element is worst is not known." " Attention Asked In Oregon Election Portland -UPD- Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), said here Tuesday that the Fair Campaign Practices Commit tee headed by Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati has been asked to pay specific attention to the 1960 political campaign in Oregon so that "personal abuse and character assissina tion" can be discouraged. Neuberger said he had been in touch with the Taft group, which has established a code of ethics for the proper and fair conduct of political cam paigns. The senator said he well remembered the "foul blows" in 1954 against himself when he said Republicans tried to distort an incident 20 years earlier while he was a col lege student. Factor To Auto Crashes In a study of human behav ior as a factor in traffic acci dents, Dr. James L. Malfetti writes in the annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science that the high accident rate supports the view that the driving pub lic is not safety conscious. Calculated Risks "In each of us is a desire for calculated risks of excite ment," he says. "Our daily activities may provide little of this excitement and indeed may represent a series of mi nor frustrations with no im mediate opportunity for out-1 let so that, consciously or not, we sometimes enjoy tak ing a little risk, such as speeding and cutting in and out of traffic" The social deviate invites accidents-but the normal per son looking for a "change of Thanksgiving Expected To Be Homiest in Years Non-Holiday Death Toll Set at 470 By Unittd Press International Millions of Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving at home Thursday, while the tra ditional fowl simmers In the oven, and the winds howl out side. It was expected to be one of the homiest Thanksgivings in recent years with much of the nation facing bad weather and two of the largest airlines cut off service because of strikes. Extra Police Ordered The National Safety Coun cil did not make a prediction on the expected traffic death toll, but it noted that during a non-holiday period extend ing from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday 470 persons would be killed. Most states and cities or dered out extra contingents of police to handle the expected heavy increase in auto traffic and to keep the death toll at a minimum. However, the National Safe ty Council said Thanksgiving is not one of the holidays noted for drunken or reck less driving. Strikes at Eastern and Trans-World Airlines were ex pected to reduce the air traf fic by one third during the holiday period, and many persons decided to stay at home rather than face a long auto trip. Full Turkey Dinners Members of the armed forces throughout the nation and at foreign stations will be served full dress turkey dinners from cranberry sauce to cocktail nuts. Inmates of penal institu tions will get fowl dinners with all the trimmings,' and throughout the nation the homeless and the vagabonds can' share in giving thanks at charity kitchens. Churchgoers of all sects will attend services in re minder of the days when the Thanksgiving turkey was as much a sacrifice to God as to pilgrims' hunger. Scanned Not to Take City Position Gerald - J. Scannell Jr., deputy district attorney for Jackson county, said today he is not a candidate for Med ford city attorney. Scannell said he informed City Manager Robert A. Duff of his decision yesterday afternoon. Duff said today that the field has "narrowed down." He said he expected to an nounce the name of the new city attorney "in two or three days." Asked if this meant by the end of this week, he re plied, "Oh yes." Duff had stated previously that Scannell is "one of sev eral we're considering." Names of other candidates for the position have not been revealed. According to the amended city charter, Duff is respon sible for the appointment. It is expected, however, that he will consult other officials. E. Roy Bashaw, present city attorney, assumes his new duties as district court judge in January. Portland (UPD Twenty five Oregon 4-H club members leave by train Thursday after noon for the group's 37th Na tional Congress in Chicago. The Congress, starting Sun day, ends Dec. 4. pace ' makes the same type of driving errors. "It is the normal driver taking an occasional risk may be his first, who causes most of the accidents today," Dr. Melfetti writes. "Unfortunate ly most fatal accidents are first accidents." Considering the American tradition of adventure, he re marks that to some drivers of rootin' tootin' cowboy bent -the car is a faithful steed. And again: "Many persons find their day-to-day actions directed by others, a boss or a parent. In the automobile, however, the driver is more likely to be his own master. He can drive as he wishes and tell the boss a thing or two.' Woe onto the other driver who is selected as the figure image of the' boss." 53rd Medford 12 Pages "Maybe We Oughta Services Scheduled At Valley Community Thanksgiving services have been scheduled in Medford, Ashland, Talent and Rogue River. In Medford and Ashland the services are sponsored by the Ministerial associations in the respective towns and will be held Thurs day at 10 a.m. The Medford service will be held at the First Presby terian church with the Rev. Richard M..Jones of Eastwood Baptist church speaker for the morning. The service will be broadcast over radio station KMED. The Rev. Herschel Hall of Ashland First Methodist church will speak at the serv ice to be held at the Ashland First Christian church, Second and B sts. The Talent service will be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the Talent Methodist Speakers Available For Festival Fund Guest speakers are appear ing before several area serv ice clubs to explain the cur rent Oregon Shakespearean Festival building fund cam paign. As a key part of the cam paign's public relations work, a list of qualified speakers is being provided clubs aid or ganizations. The speakers, in formed on the background and importance of the the ater's financial crisis, are available for brief talks and to answer questions.' 1 James Dunlevy, chairman of the speakers committee, "is in charge of the bookings. Scheduled this week is Frank J. Van Dyke, who addressed the Medford Kiwanis club this noon. John H. Pletseh. who will speak before the Medford Ro tary club Tuesday, Dec. 2. Prospect Man Is Sentenced in Court Raymond Allen Baker, Pros pect, was sentenced by Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly yes terday to two years and eight months in the state peniten tiary for assault with a dan gerous weapon. Baker was charged witn entering the Lester D. Loper home in Prospect Aug. 8 and threatening the family with a shotgun, according to records. Bascomb Taylor Buzbee, Modesto, Calif., was given a three-vear susrended sentence by Judge Kelly yesterday on charges of larceny by em bezzlement. Buzbee was charged with takins S633.24 from the Grey hound Post-Houses, Inc. in Medford June 9. Starlin Smith, transient from California, entered a plea of innocent in circuit court to charges of uttering and publishing a false check. His case was continued. Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1958 Close Them Too" Churches church with the Rev. J. C. Ar- nett of the Assembly of God speaking. Rogue River Service The Rogue River communi ty will attend services Thurs day at 10 a.m. at the Hope Presbyterian church. The Rev. E. D. Havemann of the As sembly of God church there will speak. Other services scheduled tonight include services at 7:30 o'clock at the Medford Friends church, corner Merri- man rd. and DeBarr ave., and at Zion Luthern church, Fourth st. and Oakdale ave. Five Medford churches have announced services for Thanksgiving day. The service at Apostolic Faith church, 404 North Central ave., will be held at 10:30 a.m. and will in clude a concert in addition to the sermon by the pastor. ' Ascension Lutheran church, 2501 Barnett rd. will hold services at 10 a.m. and St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran church, 1020 East Main st. has scheduled its service at 8 a.m. Holy communion will be served at 10 a.m. at St. Mark's Episcopal church, Fifth st. and Oakdale ave. Lesson-Sermon ' A lesson - sermon entitled "Thanksgiving" will be read at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, 100 Windsor ave., Thursday at 11 a.m. Other services scheduled throughout the county include a 10:30 a.m. program at Grace Lutheran church, Ashland, and combined services for St. Martin's Episcopal church, Shady Cove, and Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal church, Prospect, at the Pros pect church. The service will be held at 10 a.m. and will in clude holy communion and hymns. Thanksgiving day services will also be held at the Cas cade Gorge C.hristian church, Prospect, at 10 a.m. with a visiting evangelist as guest speaker. The public is invited to at tend any of the services. DOW-JONKS AVERAGES New York-fl'PD-Dow-Jones closing stock averages: 30 industrials 549.15, up 8.63; 20 rails 153.74, up 3.55; 15 utilities 84.83, up 0.53; 65 stocks 191.62, up 2.99. Sales today were about 4,090,000 shares compared with . 3. 940,000 Tuesday. WEATHER FORECAST: Valley tog with occasional drizzle tonight and Thursday morning. Low cloudi ness during Thursday. Expect ed low tonight 38. High Thurs day 45. Temp. Highest Yesterday 43 Lowest this Morning 39 Free, to 10 a.m. Today, Trace. Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:42 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:16 a.m. Moonrise today 5:21 p.m. Last Quarter Dec. 3 PROMINENT STARS Aldebaran, near the Moon. Fomalhaut, due south 6:43 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, in the east. 6:26 p.m. Jupiter, rises 6:11 a-m. -Tauo Win Three of Four Major Offices Gained inVot Rivers, Bart left Going To Congress Anchorage, Alaska - (DPD -Democrats swept over Repub licans like an .arctic blizzard today to win at least three of the four major offices in Tues day's history-making Alaska election. The political prizes of the 49th state that went to the Democrats included the gov ernorship for William A. Egan, a seat in the United States House of Representatives for Ralph J. Rivers and a seat in the Senate for E. L. (Bob) Bartlett. Mounting returns from points as distant as Shemya on the tip. of the Aleutian chain to Point Barrow on the Arctic ocean, also gave the Democrats control of both houses of Alaska's first state legislature. Atop the Snowslide Riding the top of the Demo cratic snowslide was Bartlett, who spent 14 voteless years at Congress as a territorial delegate. Bartlett, 54, will go back to Congress next Janu ary as one of Alaska's first senators, an easy winner by a 6-1 margin over Republican it. E. Robertson, 73, Juneau . All the Democrats needed to make a clean sweep was for Ernest Gruening, at 71 a veteran of many years in politics, to win of Mike Stepo vich, 39, in their close race for the other Senate seat. Gruening held a scant lead throughout the night in this tight contest between two former governors, and each territory-wide tabulation maintained or increased his lead by a handful of votes. But with only a 700-vote lead halfway through the counting of a turnout which may have exceeded 40,000, Gruening was not claiming victory, nor was Stepovich conceding. Victory Celebration But Gruenings campaign headquarters here, certain they had backed a winner, early in the morning joined other Democrats in a victory celebration. f , Gruening's strength was a stunning reversal of the pat tern established in last sum mer's primary election which saw Stepovich over Gruening by a 4-3 margin with the two running unopposed. Returns, with an estimated 50 per cent of the balloting re ported: Governor: (R) Butrovich 7,907, (D) Egan 12,260. Senate term A: (R) Robert son 2,906, (D) Bartlett 16,603. Senate term B:.(R) Stepo vich 10,137, (D) Gruening 10,832. Congress: (R) Benson 8,198, (D) Rivers 11,196. Attempt To Link Beck Continues Tacoma (UPD The govern ment continued its efforts in the Dave Beck income tax evasion trial today to link checks written on union funds with payments made by Beck to Nathan Shefferman, Chi cago labor relations consult ant. Beck, former Teamsters Union president, 'is accused of evading $240,000 in income taxes during the years 1950 1953. The "Shefferman records" were admitted as evidence Tuesday. The records include evidence that merchandise raneine from underwear to fertilizer was mirchased for Beck and his friends through Shefferman. The government is attempting to show that Shefferman was reimbursed from the Teamsters Union treasury. Evidence of Soviet Nuclear Jests Seen Washington -(OPD Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today there has been slight evidence that Russia may have conducted more nu clear tests since Nov. 3. Tribune m Alaska Weather Onslaught Dumps Heavy Snow In Upper Midwest By United Press International The season's second blizzard sucked bitter cold blasts down from Canada early today' in a weather onslaught that dumped 14-inch snows in the upper Midwest,, derailed a train, and isolated an Indian tribe and seven communities. Gale-force winds drove the Arctic air across the northern plains, the upper Mississippi Valley and the upper Great Lakes Tuesday night, and" its influence was to be felt south to the Gulf and eastward to the Appalachians. The main snow belt extended into northern Minnesota, while rain in the path of the 60-mile per hour winds was changed to snow. Midnight temperatures were below zero at many points along the northern border, while Cut Bank. Mont., logged a 9-below reading and Dick inson, N. D., 4 below. In the mid-Missippi Valley and the central plains, temperatures were in the 20s and still fall ing. The Sioux Indian tribe of the Standing Rock reserva tion, with about 100 to 120 families, was "hungry, starv ing and in need of warm Portland (UPD Brisk but sunny weather is the Thanks giving Day prospect for most of Oregon. Little or no pre cipitation is expected. A storm is developing in the Pacific about 700 miles west of San Francisco and it is expected to move north eastward., bringing some cloudiness over the week end in extreme southern Oregon, with perhaps a few light showers near the California border. Temperatures west of the Cascades are expected to be from 25 to 55 degrees and those east of the Cascades will run from lows of 5 degrees in high valleys to maximum in the 40s. clothing," according to tribal council president Theodore Jamerson. . Welfare , workers were blocked from going in to assess the Indians' needs by snow-clogged roads. North Dakota was hardest hit. A snow blanket covering the state reached 14 inches at some points, and a Soo Line freight train was swept off the tracks near Napoleon. Three cars tipped over, and a fourth remained upright. All schools were closed for the rest of the week in the state and officials warned stu dents at the University of North Dakota and North Da kota agricultural campus to remain on campus until the storm bad blown over. Snow continued falling ear ly today across the upper Great Lakes into Michigan, while the core of the cold snap was centered in Iowa and moving eastward. A collision of the cold air mass with balmy weather spawned tornadic winds near Denver Tuesday. Two persons were injured and 50 homes and carports damaged in a Denver suburb. Damage was set at $100,000. Clear Skies Due Oregon Thursday Salem-(UPD-Oregon's Thanks giving holiday will be cele brated under clear, cold skies, a weather prediction which traffic safety officials termed "a break for drivers." - The Department of Motor Vehicles said it was hopeful that the state can go death free during the holiday period which starts at 6 jn. today and runs through midnight Thursday. There is a chance that hea- vier-than-normal traffic would continue into the week end. The Department said 40 deaths have been reported in traffic so far this month com pared with 50 deaths for the same period last November. The state's official traffic death toll through today was 399. Last year at the same time, 418 deaths had been re ported. Bend (UPD The annual youth conference of the Christ Ambassadors of Assemblies of God opened her today. Price 1 0 Cents No. 212 County Garbage Ordinance Not Necessary Yet A county garbage and waste disposal ordinance may not be necessary at this time, Deputy District. Attorney Gerald J. Scannell Jr. said today.. Scannell said he has not read the proposed ordinance thoroughly. However, state statutes now allow the county court to formulate rules for garbage and waste disposal without creating a county or dinance, he explained. An in vestigation of means for con trolling garbage disposal con ducted by the county plan ning commission is a good thing, he added. During its meeting on Oct 29 the county planning com mission directed that a com plete and corrected copy of the preliminary draft of such an ordinance should be sub mitted to the district attor ney's office for legal examin ation. ' Further Steps The commission is to con sider further steps which may be necessary prior to making its recommendation to the county court. These steps may include a public hearing or hearings. , The ordinance proposed is to designate, regulate and re strict the location and manner in which garbage and waste shall be disposed of, accord ing to the preamble of the ordinance draft. The ordi nance, if enacted by the coun ty court, would prescribe places and methods of dis posal and would establish a maximum penalty of $100 for its violation. Purpose of the ordinance is to protect the public health, safety and general welfare of the people of Jackson county and to prevent fires, rodent infestation, water and pollution. air Apprenticeship Council Sets Meeting Salem -(UPD The State Ap prenticeship Council will hold its quarterly meeting here Monday. The council will interview and select a state director of apprenticeship to replace A. C. Hoggan who has resigned. Area Highway Traffic Shows Increase in Oct. Highway traffic at four lo cations in Jackson county showed an increase in Octo ber over the same month last year, the state highway de partment has reported. The average daily traffic for October on Highway 66 five miles east of Ashland showed an increase of 64.2 per cent over October, 1957. An average of 1,937 vehicles was counted, compared to 1,180 last year. Traffic at the Highway 66 location has in creased 21.8 per cent in the last 10 months. An increase of 26.3 per cent was recorded in the av erage daily traffic on High way 62 four miles south of Shady Cove last month, the department reported. An av erage of 1,849 vehicles was recorded last month, com pared to 1,464 in October, 1957. Use of Force If Necessary, Secretary Says Allied Access To City Not Threatened Washington -(UPD Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today the United States will use all means, including force if necessary, to keep open the road, rail and air communications to Communist-encircled West Berlin. Dulles was asked at a news conference whether the West ern Big Three had ruled out the use of force if the Rus sians or East Germans tried to blockade the city. He said that the Allies have not ruled out any of their rights at all. He declared, however, that he thinks the question is still academic because, accoriing to his interpretation, the Rus sians and East German Com munists have not threatened Allied access to the city. Dulles said the only issue raised by the Reds so far, as he sees it, is whether the So viet Union can turn East Ber lin over to the German Com munists and wiggle out of its responsibilities and . obliga tions to the Three Western Allies. Second Thoughts Dulles said, in fact, that So viet Premier Nikita Khru shchev may be having some second thoughts on the wis dom of his declaration earlier this month that Russia was ready to turn its Berlin sector pver to the German Commu nists. He said the Russian leader obviously spoke without con-, suiting his legal advisers and may be reviewing the situa tion now that he has found his legal position unsound. . DUlles' ' statements w e r made during this development in the growing Berlin crisis: The East German Radio announced "that Soviet For eign Minister Andrei Gro myko has met with East Ger man leaders in Berlin to dis cuss current, political ques tions. These undoubtedly con cerned the new Communist drive to take over the city. The United States. Bri tish and French commandants in Berlin met for two hours to map plans for defending the city should the Reds take any overt actions. The East Germans ac cused the United States of sending war material from West .Berlin to West Germany aboard Allied trains. Might Deal With Reds The Secretary also made the following points at his first news conference since the Berlin crisis flared into the headlines: The United States and Its allies are in agreement that they might deal with East German officials as agents of the Russians on minor mat ters. However, he said, the Western Big Three and West uermany are equally deter mined not to deal with the East Germans in any manner which might imply de facto recognition of the Communist puppet government. -The United States, Bri tain and France are firmly agreed that the Russians undertook a solemn obliga tion at the foreign ministers council meeting in Paris in June, 1949, to assure the Western powers and the world in general access to West Berlin and they don't intend to let the Russians get out of fulfilling their duties. Salem -UPD- More than 50 driver education teachers will gather here Friday and Sat urday for the group's second annual workshop. On Highway 238, one mile west of Ruch, the average daily traffic increased from 460 in October, 1957, to 546 last month, an increase of 18.7 per cent, the department said. Average daily traffic on Highway 99 two miles south of Talent was 2,425 last month, compared to 7,229 in October, 1957, an increase of 16.5 per cent. Statewide, highway traffic increased 9.7 per cent during October, this year. Averages are recorded on 63 traffic counters throughout the state. October was the first month to show an increase over 1957 since May. The increase in traffic dur ing October was partly due to deer season opening with maximum daily traffic being recorded at most rural loca tions on Oct 3, the dayjbefore the season opened.