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Accent mwkig Treats ilfatiii Test rassoa Medford 16 Pages Humphrey To Report io Ike-On Khrushchev Talks Cold War Issues Aired in Russia Washington -UP&- Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), returned today from a trip to Moscow to report to Presi dent Eisenhower on his unus ual eight-hour talk with So viet Premier Nikita S. Khru shchev on cold war issues. Humphrey told reporters at National Airport here that the information he will give the President Tuesday does not necessarily "bode ill" for the United States because this country is very strong. He has described as "signifi cant" a message Khrushchev gave him to carry to Eisen hower. No Details Given Humphrey declined to give any details of his report to the President. The senator has told reporters Khrushchev did impart two "secrets" involv ing "items of our security The senator, at the airport, said he supports the Presi dent's position on the Berlin crisis and believes that if the United States continues to stand firm that situation will not worsen. Humphrey planned to see Undersecretary of state, Christian Herter this after noon and go to the . White House Tuesday morning. Peace Seen Essential Humphrey said he believed that Khrushchev wants peace because peace is essential to the Soviet seven-year econom ic plan. He said the U. S. should use those seven years in an attempt to penetrate the Soviet system with "good works and good deeds."' Humphrey, also said he would confer as soon as pos sible with. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. The Minnesota senator said he believes it important to work out bipartisan coop eration in foreign policy in the coming new Congress. Humphrey said he discuss ed nuclear tests suspensions both with Khrushchev and with the Soviet's chief dele gate at the Geneva negotia tions and that Khrushchev "seemed to show some will ingness for a meaningful a greement with effective in spection controls." Eagle Pointer. Loses Presents, Nickel To Wrong Auto An Eagle Point woman lost some Christmas pres , enls and had to pay a park ing fine Saturday because her car looked like loo many others. Mrs. Nellie Lucille Webb. Bulla Falls Star route. Ea gle Point, while Christmas shopping in Medford gave her daughter . some Christ mas packages to put in the car and a nickel for the parking meter. Unfortunately, her daugh ter 'put the nickel in the wrong meter and the pack ages in the wrong car. The car, of foreign manufacture, was the same color and make as the Webb car. Mrs. Webb requests that anyone finding the packages in their car either call her at Hlllcrest 6-3930 or write lo her at the above address. Portland -0IPD-W. F. (Ray) Wilson has been elected presi dent of Oregon's largest Team sters local, No. 162 of Port land. Dating Couple Learns Of Brother-Sister Ties Oregon City-(UP&-A boy and a girl went out on a date and discovered they were brother and sister. Couple Introduced Richard Gillett, 22, adopted son of Bert and Pat Gillett of Wilsonville, was introduced by a friend of Richard's to Dorothy Manewal, 16, adopted daughter of Mrs. Fred Mane wal, Gladstone. They made a date for Satur day night. Richard said the girl told him her real name was Sarah Esther Abridge. "It MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1958 "Is This An Early One, Or Is It Left Over From Last Summer?" Hearing Scheduled On Consolidation A public hearing on district consolidation involving How ard school will be held in the Howard school gymnasium at 8 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 11, ac cording to N. F. Gier, chair man of the reorganization in formation committee for Howard school. Thirty Howard school dis trict voters met at the school Saturday night to discuss the problems facing the school Jacksonville Road Detour Set The Medford - Jacksonville highway at Daisy creek will be closed to traffic to allow for culvert installation Wed nesday and Thursday, accord ing to Paul Robertson, Med ford maintenance foreman for the Oregon state highway de partment. A detour will be made be ginning Wednesday morning, starting at Oak Grove rd., will continue through Stewart ave. and Bellinger rd., and connect with the highway at Arnold lane, Robertson saicu Drivers of logging trucks are advised to take either the Medford-Phoenix highway or the Medf ord-Central Poi n x hiehwav. which by-pass this stretch, the maintenance fore man said. The work will start Wed nesday mornins and will con tinue through Thursday, Rob ertson said. A larger culvert is being installed to relieve a flood condition across the highway, he said. Estimated cost of the construction is $3,000. - Precipitation Below Normal Although .39 of an inch of rain fell Sunday and another .17 was recorded up to 10 a.m. today oreciDitation this month is still below normal for De cember. Sunday's "heavy mist" brought the rainfall total for seven days this month to .43 inch, which is still .27 below normal, according to records at the weather bureau's Med ford station. Rainfall for the season, as of midnight last night, was 2.76 inches, which was 3.17 below normal. wasn't 'till then that I knew she was my sister because my real name is Michael naries Abridge," he said. Mother Killed Richard explained their mother had been killed in an accident and that their father had been in a veterans' home hefore they were adopted Dorothy was 7 when she was aHnnted and Richard was 12 Richard was back at the Manewal home Sunday, help ing his sister with Christmas decorations. district with consolidation. The group approved holding a hearing and a poll of voter opinion. Present recommendation of the Jackson county school re organization committee is to consolidate Howard . school district with the Central Point school district. The deadline for making recom mendations to the state board of education has been extend ed to Dec. 22 to allow the dis trict to poll their voters, it was explained at the meeting. . , Under house bill 163, if the majority of voters decide against the""courity reorganiza tion committee recommenda tion a petition must be circu lated within 30 days. Another election must be held, then in 30 days. If the majority of the voters still disapprove anoth er election is possible within 120 days, all at the expense of the district, it was explained. Both Medford and Central Point district officials have agreed that regardless which way the district consolidates, the students now attending high school may complete their high school education at the school they are now at tending. Ashland Tops Goal For Festival Fund Ashland - AsHland workers for the Shakespearean Festi val fund drive went over the top today with a total of $51, 241.34 collected as of this noon, according to A. C. (Archie) Fries, president of the Shakespearean Festival association. " . Goal for the Ashland work ers was $50,000. Total goal for the drive is $275,000. Mdeford is to hold its report luncheon on the drive Wednesday noon. Medford's goal is $100,000, it was re ported. "The Ashland people are determined to go on with the drive to get more money for reconstruction of the Shake spearean Festival theater," Fries said. "Actually, the $275,000 is an emergency amount. It will not take care of all the work needed." Medford Man Dies, Car Hits Pole Ralph Andrew Truax, 67, route 3, box 251, Medford, died apparently from a heart attack while driving a car along Court st. here this morning, city police reported. The car struck a power pole in the 1000 block of the thoroughfare shortly after 11 a.m. Police surmised mat a heart attack caused Truax to lns control of the vehicle. He was dead on arrival of the in vestigating officer. His only passenger in the auto was a dog. Thp hodv was taken to Conger-Morris Funeral home. Tribune No. 222 Demo Advisory Council Drafts 'Union Message' Civil Rights, Union Legislation Asked Washington - (UPD - The Democratic Advisory Council handed Congress its own "state of the union message today calling for more civil rights action, some union backed legislation and more spending on new or expanded welfare programs. The proposals were sure to provoke prqtests from South ern Democrats and conserva tives in both parties who would view it as a big-spending, updated version of the New Deal. And it was unlike ly to get an enthusiastic re ception from Democratic con gressional leaders. The blueprint for action designed for the new Demo cratic Congress, which con venes next month, came Sun day night from the party's policymaking voice outside Congress between national conventions. The advisory council m e.m beri. include former President Truman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Gov Averell Harriman of New York, Gov. G. Mennen Wil liams of Michigan and other party leaders. Urge Union Reform Bill Besides the far-reaching civil rights proposals, the pro gram included such labor backed recommendations as a $1.25 minimum wage (now $1) and repeal of the Taft-Hartley provision allowing state right-to-work laws. It also ad vocated passage of the Ken-nedy-Ives union reform bill, which was passed this year by the Senate but killed by the House. ' . . v The council meeting Sun- day climaxed a series of post election Democratic sessions in which the party-splitting issue of civil rights, was domi nant. The same issue was be fore the Democratic National Committee Saturday when it refused to unseat Camille E. Gravel as Louisiana national committeeman and gave a vote of confidence to party Chairman Paul M. Butler, specificaly, for his "forthright utterances"' on civil rights. The 6,000-word statement from the council was the most comprehensive it has ever issued. It applauded the congres sional leadership of Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, who refused to join the council and never show ed much enthusiasm about getting its advice. . . In its civil rights . section, the council merely expressed a hope for legislation to help reopen closed schools in the South and to prevent others from closing in disputes over racial integration. But it also called for enact ment of a bill like the con troversial "Part m" stricken by the Senate from the 1957 civil rights bill. That provi sion would allow, the Justice Department to seek injunc tions against persons seeking to deprive others of civil rights. ! Alongside the civil rights program, the council urged a tighter anti-filibuster rule for the Senate, where Southern filibusters have long served to block civil rights legisla tion. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (UPD Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 556.08, off 0.29; 15 utilities 87.20. up 0.73, and 65 stocks 194.06, up 0.09. Sales today were about 3,590,000 shares com pared with 3.360,000 shares Friday. 1 ! SislkSyou Area ISeDoevedl Low E3isEi toPossible Location of Earthquakes Pasadena, Calif.-TOPD-Eighty to 90 per cent of the earth quakes in the U. S. occur in California but many other states throughout the country are vulnerable to damaging temblors, Dr. Charles F. Rich ter said today. Survey Completed Richter, professor of seis mology at the California Insti tute of Technology and an in ternationally known author ity on earthquakes, said he has completed a survey of the U. S. designed to show where the severest earthquakes are likely to hit. Areas of high risk which at some time could suffer dam age to buildings from earth quakes are California, north ern New York state, New England, the Central Missis sippi Valley, nd a narrow East German Premier Issues Blockade Threat Berlin (UPD - A massive vote against Communism by the people of West Berlin touched off new Communist threats today and a veiled warning by East German Pre mier Otto Grotewohl that Western troops face a land and air blockade if they try to remain in the city. Barelv-12 hours after the Communists' .smashing defeat in the West Berlin city elec tions Grotewohl went before the Communist zone parlia ment to claim West Berlin as part of East Germany. : He said that Allied troops are unjustly arid illegally" sta tioned "on the territory of the German Democratic Re public." "The Communist east zone government will be in a posi tion to exercise sovereignty on the land, on the water and in the air," Grotewohl said. Ignores . Municipal Balloting Hp iznored the West Ber lin municipal balloting which gave a rousing and empnatic no" to a Soviet proposal that Western Allied troops leave Berlin and West Berlin be turned into a demilitarized, 'free city" surrounded by Communist bayonets. The Russian demands were the main issue in Sunday's record voting, and the em phatic rejection gave the Western Allies a clear man date from the people of West Berlin to reject the Red de mands. Grotewohl said the West Berlin City Council elections were not a plebiscite on So viet demands that the West ern Allies quit the city - the view also taken by the Communist press. Until re cently, when he expected the Communists to gain, he had said just the opposite. j Vole of Confidence It was a massive vote of confidence for Socialist Lord Mayor Willy Brandt who de clared, "West Berliners have said that never and at no time will they bend under the yoke of Communism." The Communists received only 1.9 per cent of the bal lots and this from the labor district of "Red" Wedding which was known as a Communist stronghold even in the days of Adolf Hitler. The Communist, vote was smaller than in the 1954 elec tions and again was too tiny to win a seat in the City Council, Planning Commission Meeting Postponed The Medford planning com mission's regular monthly meeting, scheduled for to night, has been postponed un til Dec. 15, according to City Manager Robert A. Duff. Duff said the necessary quorum of four members would not be available tonight TrouDDbdl.ii belt extending north and south through Montana, Ida ho, Utah and Arizona, Richter said. Where Risks Exist The seismologist said his survey divides the country into risk areas ranging in in tensities on the Mercalli in tensity scale from six to nine. The scale measures shaking at any one point caused by quakes and an intensity of six is enough to cause slight damage to poorly constructed buildings while a nine inten sity can cause considerable damage to well constructed buildings. Areas labeled "high risk" are those where a nine inten sity quake is likely to hit, he said. Richter said he was mak ing no attempt to predict Yes Vote Asked For Charter Amendment Details of the proposed off street parking charter amend ment, to be voted on in Med ford on Wednesday, appear on Page 10 of today's Mail Tribune. Mayor John Snider today called for a favorable vote on the measure, in a letter ad dressed to voters of the city. His statement said: 16-Year-0ld Held On Theft Charges A 16-year-old Oklahoma boy was held by Jackson county juvenile authorities today in connection with the theft of a $750 cameo brooch and other items from the Med ford couple who had be friended him. . Medford police reported the boy was picked up for routine check at the Greyhound Bus Depot, 212 North Bartlett st., early this morning. At first Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd J. Chap man, 505 Benson st., said their young boarder was free to leave. But thev notified the po lice station not quite an hour later that some items were missine. Meanwhile, the boy had missed his bus. He was picked up again, and taken to the station. He told investigators he had left home, Musogee, Okla. on Oct. 21. "I didn't like my dad and didn't get along with him," he said. "I didn't want to grow up to be like him." He. said he hitch-hiked with a friend to his grandmother's home in Redlands, Calif. Then the pair continued to Med ford, The boy said his com panion left him here Nov. 9, and that two days later he was taken in by the Chap mans. . Officer Roy Thompson said the boy had done some work for Chapman during his stay. When picked up at the depot the second time, the boy reportedly had in his posses sion besides the brooch, clothing,, jewelry, tools and a bus ticket to Hilt Junction, ralif. He told police he was planning to take them to his grandmother. T.V. Highlights A report on Wednesday's special election on a Med ford charter amendment to set up an off-street parking program will be giren on KBES-TV at 10 o'clock to night. On the program will be City Councilman James Dunlevy. Municipal Judge Noreen Kelly. Dr. D. Kirk land West, chairman of a citizens advisory committee on off-street parking, and Otto Ewaldsen, downtown merchant ' - long active in promoting parking facil ities for Medford. when earthquakes would oc cur. "The estimates do not rep resent the probability of average-sized quakes, but the maximum shock that could be anticipated over long per iods of time," he said. Siskiyou Area Low Risk Areas of lowest risk in the U. S., Dr. Richter said, were parts of Southern California, California's Sierra Nevada, the Klamath and Siskiyou mountains in Northern Calif ornia and Southern Oregon, mountains in the north of Washington state and Idaho and Southern Florida. One of the primary pur poses for plotting the survey is the possibility for zoning a city for earthquake protec tion, he said. To the People of Medford: Your "Yes" vote on the balanced parking measure will mean much more than just the first orderly step toward the solution of one of our city's most awkward problems. Your "Yet" vote will build our metropolitan area with the costs justly dis tributed over a narrow, well-defined mid-town bus iness district. Your "Yes" vote will establish Medford as one of the ' most progressive busi ness climates in the North west. This is important if we are to attract the pay rolls of industry lo our ' valley. I sincerely recommend and solicit your support of this planned program for convenience parking. John W. Snider , Mayor of Medford Polls will be open from 1 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, one in each ward, as follows: Ward I: Hedrick Junior High school. Ward II: Medford High school (girls' gym). Ward ni: McLoughlin Jun ior High school. Ward IV: Girl Scout office, 500 East Main st. . $1,500 Stolen From Local Store The theft of over $1,500 in cash and checks from the Thrifty Nifty market, 223 West Jackson st., was report ed to Medford police Sunday morning. The theft occurred some time Saturday night or early Sunday, according to the re port from Raymond Edward Gould, 825 Park st., the owner. About $740 in cash and $780 in checks, cached away in a money , sack behind twelve loaves of broad, were reportedly missing. The theft was discovered by Jesse Har old. Smith, 411 Oak st., ac cording to the report. Washington (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower will hold a news conference Wednesday. Snow, Freezing Rain Force School Closures in Bellingham, Wash.- (UPD - Whatcom county schools closed their doors today in the face of a freezing rain and snow storm while eastern Washington and northern Idaho were digging out after a week end snowfall. Worst Since 1932 Old timers in Whatcom county said that the area was struck by its worst storm since 1932. Roads and high ways were covered with ice up to two inches thick in places, High winds had knocked He said generally buildings constructed on mountains or solid rock are likely to suffer less damage from temblors than those on lower hilly and terrace areas while buildings on sandy areas near the coast are most vulnerable of all. Count Small Quakes A rough rule for estimat ing the likelihood of a dam aging earthquake occurring in an area is to count the num ber of small quakes which rumble through the section each year, Richter said. Where an average of 500 small temblors occurs each year, one great earthquake can be expected once every 40 years. Where 50 small quakes occur each year, one great one may be expected about once every 400 years. ; MRS. MAXINE SMITH New President of OEA Local Teacher Named As Head Of Educators Mrs. Maxine .(Paul R.) Smith, 3412 Madrona lane, language teacher in Medford High school, was elected presi dent of Oregon Education as sociation at a meeting of the association's r e p r e sentative council held Saturday in Port land. Mrs. Smith, who was first on the faculty of McLoughlin Junior High school, has been with the Medford system since 1946. She is a former president of the Jackson County unit of OEA and of the State Department of Classroom Teachers. She -has been a delegate to six conven tions of National Education association and has served on a number of state, regional and national committees. Mrs. Smith, a native Orego nian and graduate of the Uni versity of Oregon, is a mem ber of Epsilon chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma, and Kappa Kappa " Iota, professional so rorities for educators; Med ford branch, American Asso ciation of University Women; Kappa Delta, national colle giate sorority; Medford League of Women Voters and Rogue River Valley Knife and Fqrk club. i i .. i 1 te-X I fee JAP X 'H I jy Western Washington over more than a hundred power and utility poles caus ing serious outages in tele phone and utility service. The northern part of What com county was glistening un er a "silver thaw" which cov ered every tree, every build ing, and every pole with a sheet of ice. 40-Mile Winds School districts in the area Sunday announced the clo sures as snow drifted in. front of 40-mile-an-hour winds and the State Patrol placed a chains required restriction on most roadways. The patrol Cooperation With United States, Britain Pledged Key Control Provision Okayed Geneva -(UPD- Russia accept ed a binding treaty obliga tion to cooperate with the United States and Britain in a control organization for su pervising a nuclear test ban. Agreement came after a 3V4 hour session of the three-power nuclear conference which approved the key control provision aslhe second article of a test ban treaty. Today s accord was reached within 48 hours of the East- West agreement on the first article of the projected treaty pledging the prohibition of nuclear tests. A communique announced that the conference agreed on the text of a draft article on the establishment of a con trol organization for the pur pose of assuring that the ob ligations assumed in the treaty are carried out by the parties." West Demanded Pledge The West had been demand ing such assurance from the Soviet Union as a binding link between a test ban and a control organization to police it ever since the conference started more than five weeks ago. The Soviets, after weeks- long stalling and blocking tactics, finally gave their ap proval to this commitment which western conference sources consider the key to the test ban issue. It was the first known, time that the Soviets had com mitted themselves to cooper ation in an international con trol organization extending to Soviet territory. However, this commitment did not yet clear all the ob stacles to a final test ban ac cord. What still has to be agreed is the working procedure of the projected international control organization. , Much, if not all, will de pend on scope, powers and workings of the control scheme. Copco to Build Office Building The California Oregon Pow er company plans to erect an ofifce building on property it owns near the corner of Grape st. and Stewart ave., it was . reliably reported this week. John Boyle, vice president and general manager of the utility company, this morning confirmed plans for such structure are being made, but that they are incomplete as yet. Details of the building, how extensive it will be, and its cost, will not be available probably until the middle of January, Boyle said. Copco generates and distri butes electric power through out the southern Oregon- northern California area. Its headquarters are in Medford, and its main offices at pres ent are located on West Main st. WEATHER FORECAST; Mostly cloudy with occasional light rain tonight and Tuesday. Valley fog early Tues day. Little temperature change. Low tonight 40. High Tuesday 50. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 47 Lowest This Morning 4S Prec to 10 a-m. Today U Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:39 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 1:29 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 6:06 a.m. New Moon Dec 16 PROMINENT STARS Aldebaran, In the east 6:50 p.m. Regulus, In the east . ...11:59 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, well above Aldebaran. Jupiter, leads the Moon. said sDeeds of more than 20 miles per hour were highly dangerous. All schools in the county with the exception of Western Washington college at Bellingham were closed to day. Snow at Spokane In eastern Washington crews were busily clearing streets and highways after the week end storm which was the third in three weeks. Nearly six inches of snow was reported in Spokane, three inches in Colvilletwo in El lensburg and several inches of snow fell over north Idaho. i t ires Wd 9 'CD Med wd S Uro.il u .
