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Faun Fw UDD Iras Med 22 Pages tuiy PfloonirDed mi PoDDyDOini City-State Study Said Possibility For Medford Area Nuisance Condition Now Exists in City Medford may undertake a joint city-state study of local air conditions as the result of a recent report from the Ore gon State Air Pollution au thority, according to Mayor John W. Snider. "It canont be concluded at this time that an area-wide air pollution exists in the city," the report states, "but the sample data indicates the presence of local nuisance conditions. Additional samp ling and field surveys are re quired to further evaluate the area conditions." Danger Signal Indicated "I think," Mayor Snider said today, "if there is a dan ger signal indicated we must go ahead with it (the addition al study)." I am certain we will go ahead with it." He said he plans to read to read the state authority's re port, a letter dated Dec. 11, to the city council at its Thurs day night meeting this week. He added that he considers it an administrative matter, with further action the re sponsibility of City Manager Robert A. Duff. Duff is expected to return here Wednesday from a vaca tion. "The participation of the city in a joint program," the letter states, "would require the assignment of a man part time to service sampling sta tions and make field surveys. The Authority would provide sampling equipment, analys es of samples, and train the local man." The state collected air sam ples here during the week of Oct. 2-8, with one sampling device atop city hall and the second at six other sampling stations, according to the re port. Results Given "The results of the sample data collected from the sta tion on the city hall," the re port states, "showed that four of the 11 high volume filter samples collected for suspend ed particulate matter exceed ed the allowable value as de fined by the Air Pollution Authority Regulations (150 micrograms per cubic meter plus background). "The highest value of sus pended particulate matter was 262. Nuisance conditions begin to appear at about 200 micrograms per cubic meter for residential and commer cial land use. "All six fallout samples col lected from the city hall sta tion exceeded the Air Pollu tion Authority regulations (15 tons per square mile per month plus 5 for back ground). The highest value was 39 tons per square mile per month. "Samples collected from six other sampling stations shows evidence of nuisance conditions periodically." Ceiling Burns In Medford Home Ceiling and attic at the home of Stanley Shafer, 410 Clover lane, caught fire, about 6 p.m. yesterday, city firemen said. They reported that wiring of a kitchen exhaust fan shorted, causing the fire. Con siderable smoke damage re sulted. Berlin - - East German Communist Party Boss Walter Ulbricht hinted today that Red troops would invade West Berlin if any attempt is made by the West to break a Berlin blockade. AAedfeird Stores Wo 53rd Year FORD MoBfloon EDoDDar Work Set At SOC Ashland-Building construc tion totalling over $1 million in cost is planned for next year at Southern Oregon col lege and enrollment there is expected to climb to between 1,400 and 1,600 by the 1960-61 term, President Elmo N. Ste venson told a group of south ern Oregon legislators last week. "Southern Oregon college had the largest percentage of enrollment increase of any state system of higher educa tion this fall," Dr. Stevenson told the group at the Friday meeting at the college. A $600,000 fund for con- Pope Creates New Cardinals; Raps Red China Vatican City (UPD Pope John XXIII formally created 23 new .cardinals of the Rom an Catholic church today and denounced the "violent perse cution" of., the. churches in Communist China. Among the new cardinals were Archbishop Richard Cushing of Boston. Archbish op John O'Hara of Philadel phia and Apostolic delegate to the United States Amleto Viovanni Cicognani. Plight of Christians The 77-year-old pontiff, in a Latin language address in which he formally asked car. dinals of previous creation for their approval of his new choices, concentrated on the plight of Christians in Com' munist China where "a deep silence grows deeper every day." He referred to "atrocious sufferings," suffered by the faithful in "many countries" but he particularly stressed Red China. "We desire, therefore, in so far as we can, to assure those our sons that we share in their deep anguish as if it were our own, that we daily raise our suppliant prayer to God for them," he said. Arrested On Charge Of Grand Larceny Harry Alexander Helmick, 34, of 822 Cedar St., was ar rested here Saturday on a dis trict court warrant charging grand larceny and bail was set at $2,500, Medford police reported. He was lodged In Jackson county jail. Supreme Court Favors Negro in Tennessee Suit Washington -DPD The Su preme Court ruled today that a Memphis Negro who chal lenged ' Tennessee bus and streetcar . segregation laws must be given his day in court. Panel Overruled The tribunal overruled a special t h r e e-judge panel which had dismissed the suit of P. Z. Evers, a postal clerk. The Supreme court, in an un signed opinion, ordered that Evers be allowed a trial in the case. Evers brought suit against Memphis city officials, the City Transit company and one of its employees, presum ably the bus driver. In other actions today, the court: -Reversed the congression al contempt conviction of Ab ram Flaxer, one-time head of the defunct United Public MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1958 struction of a social science building on the site behind the Ashland General hospital will be requested from the new state legislature by the state board of higher educa tion, it was disclosed. Con struction of another women's dormitory costing $500,000 is planned for next summer, Dr. Stevenson said. Financing Explained Funds from tax sources would finance the social sci ence building and the dormi tory would be a self-liquidating project, explained Don Lewis, SOC business manager. One of the greatest needs on the SOC campus is for additional classroom space, Dr. Stevenson told the group. This would be partially re lieved by construction of the proposed social science build ings, he said. The expected enrollment increase will re quire 21 or 22 more staff members in the next two years, he said. The college staff now has 83. The campus has 78 acres now and projected expansion will bring the total area to 103 acres, Dr. Stevenson said in outlining the campus needs. Funds for further . purchases of property are included in the SOC budget which will be presented by the state board to the January session of the state legislature, Dr. Steven son added. The new classroom build ing, now almost completed, and the central heating plant, finished this fall, were financ ed from state appropriations, the business manager added. Attending the meeting were Reps. Eve Nye, Robert Dun can and Sen. Edwin R. Durno. Legislators were present also from Josephine and Klamath counties. I Set Liquor Charges Against Youths Four Central Point youths were arrested by Jacksonville city police Sunday evening on charges of illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. Gale Jones and Marion Lucy McDonald, both 19, and a 15- year-old boy, appeared in dis trict court this morning and pleaded guilty to the charge. The fourth youth is scheduled to appear Tuesday. Jones was fined $55 and sentenced to six months in the county jail to be suspend ed on condition he refrain from drinking intoxicating liquor. McDonald was fined $30 and the 15-year-old boy is scheduled to appear with his parents in court Tuesday. Workers union. Flaxer had refused in 1951 to turn ..over membership lists to a Senate internal security subcommit tee, which was investigating Communist activities. The court said that because Flax er had been given 10 addi tional days to bring in the list, he could not be found guilty of contempt on the day he made the refusal. Upholds Color Ban -Upheld a federal food and drug administration order prohibiting Florida and Tex as growers from coloring or anges with "red 32" - a coal tar dye which the govern ment claims is poisonous. -Decided that National La bor Relations board rulings that determine which em ployes are to be included in a collective bargaining unit can be appealed to the courts. The NLRB had opposed the action. MILDRED A. GAIL Gets Rotary Fellowship Gold Hill Girl Gets Fellowship To Study Russian Gold Hill-Miss Mildred A. Gail, senior in the Far East de partment, University of Wash ington, Seattle, has been chosen as a Rotary fellow from Oregon for study abroad. She is the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Norman Gail, Gold Hill. The Rotary Foundation fel lowship will enable her to study one year at the National School of Living Oriental Language in Paris, France, be ginning the first term in the fall of 1959. The school is con sidered one of the world's best for study of the Russian lan guage. Miss Gail -was recommend ed by the Grants Pass Rotary club. Rotary International fellow ships are sponsored in order that outstanding graduate stu dents may further their educa tion in countries other than their own with the purpose of promoting better understand ing between countries in every part of the world. ' Recently .Miss Gail was elected to the national scho lastic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, and was presented a cash prize at the 22nd annual scholarship banquet of the fraternity on the University of Washington campus. She was one of 58 outstanding stu dents to be honored.. She was named as one of two, in a class of almost 5,000 seniors, as having the highest grade point average based on the first three years pf study. Miss Gail was also named the out standing senior in the Far East department. , College Leader Miss Gail is a member of Mortar Board, women's honor ary leadership society; secre tary of the Young Women's Christian association; chair man for the Cosmopolitan club; committee member of Blaine Hall dormitory, and a member of the French Drama club and Sigma Epsilon Sigma at the University of Washing ton. She has been a typist for the Russian file at the Univer sity of Washington library. Miss Gail is proficient in Rus sian and French, and has also studied Spanish. She is a graddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Wilson, 7 Chestnut street, Medford, and Charles Gail. Wimer. Washington (UPD Liberal Democrats claimed today that speaker Sam Rayburn is giv ing serious thought, to the probability that conservatives would seize control of legis lation in the new congress unless their powers in the House Rules Committee is curbed. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable cloudiness through Tuesday. Patches of valley fog tonight. Low tonight 32. High Tuesday 50. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 1 48 Lowest This Morning 33 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 4:40 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 7:34 a.m. Moonset tonight . 10:28 p.m. First Quarter Dec. 17 PROMINENT STARS Altair, low in west 7:44 p.m. Sirius, rises 8:40 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, high in south 9:29 p.m. Jupiter, rises 5:1S a.m. ie Price TO 1RIBUNE Higher Education Board Approves Building Program Portland-(UPD-The building committee of the State Board of Higher Education tenta tively approved today a $4, 780,000 building program for student centers and health services on six campuses. To Borrow Money The Board, last October, ap proved a plan to borrow $4, 460,000 to build dormitory and housing projects during the next biennium. It was in dicated the money for proj ects tentatively approved to day also would be borrowed. ' Financing of the dormitory and student center projects will be from student fees. The Board now has $190,000 in this fund and would issue bonds to raise additional money. No tax money would be used. Chancellor John R. Rich ards told the Board today that it could issue the bonds with out legislative action, because the over-all sum of more than $9 million falls within the $15,350,000 statutory limita tion fixed by the Legislature. Largest projects planned in Zoning Talk Set For Ninth Street The Medford planning com mission is scheduled to meet at 7:30 tonight at city hall. A quorum of four members is expected. The meeting was originally scheduled for last Monday, but a quorum could not be obtained at that time. City Attorney E. Roy Ba shaw may present to the plan ners the matter of a zoning variance for the 825 East Ninth st. eight -unit apart ments, city hall sources said. If it is presented, the plan ners could. call for a pubic hearing at their next meeting. This is the site where an alleged violation of the side lot setback requirements by the contractor, aggravated by apparent negligence on the part of city building inspect ors, caused city officials something of a dilemma last fall. Action against the viola tion was instituted in muni cipal court, but the case has not been tried pending a pos sible out-of-court settlement. The contractor, James Boyce of Watkins' Construc tion company, has reportedly taken steps to remove the violation. Items on the agenda in clude a continued public hear ing on four sign variance re quests and three public hear ings on zone change requests. Festival Workers Given $100 Check Ashland-New total report ed by the Ashland division of the Shakespearean Festival fund drive is $69,519.84, it was reported during the final fund meeting this noon. The Ashland goal was $50, 000 and the total Festival fund goal $275,000. The goal total is just enough to meet emergency needs, a spokes man explained. The final Medford division report meet ing will be held Thursday noon at the Red Cross build ing. Hugh Coleman, represent ing the Medford division, pre sented the Ashland fund di vision workers $100 since the Ashland workers went over their goal first. He also ate what appeared to be a dish of "broiled crow." Geneva-(UPD-The West today turned down Russia's latest ground and aerial inspection proposals to the Surprise At tack Conference as a political booby-trap largely outside the talks. . pen Cents No. 228 the student center program are $1,525,000 for an addi tion to the Memorial Union building at Oregon State and $1,475,000 for an addition to the Portland State . College center. The building committee will recommend formal Board adoption of the building pro gram Tuesday. Duck Hunters See Many Meteors Over K.F. Area A large meteor was observ ed in the Klamath Falls area early Sunday morning by the Paul Deckard family, of 904 Summit ave., Mrs. Decker re ported. She said she, her husband and two sons were en Toute to Klamath Falls to hunt ducks when three of them saw many stars falling about 4:40 a.m. Sunday. They count ed 19. Then a ball of fire left a streak two feet wide and a mile long across the skies, Mrs. Deckard said. It lit up the road and roadside trees, she said., Phil F. Brogan, associate editor of the Bend Bulletin, reported in his paper Satur day that ."residents there that morning saw stars on the move." This, he said, is the occas ion of the annual appearance of the Geminids, a meteor shower that appears to issue from the constellation Gem ini. One resident counted 22 meteors. "Some . of the stars were merely strays. Later in the month, shortly before Christ mas, another meteor shower will provide a special show in the winter heavens," the editor said. "These will be the Ursids, described as a weak shower." "Meteors from interplan etary space become visible when they bore into the earth's atmosphere at from 9 to 29 miles a second and burn up," Brogan said. . "Most me teors are small particles of stony matter." Pleads Guilty To Theft Charges Joseph Ulrich Dieringer, 520 North Front st., entered a plea of guilty to a charge of petty . larceny in district court Friday afternoon. He was fined $100 by "District Court Judge Pro Tem A." E. Piaazza on the recommenda tion that the fine be suspend ed if the defendant enter a Veterans Administration hos pital for examination. Also appearing in district court were John Kenneth Col well, Merrill, Ore., who was bound ov,er to the grand jury on a charge 6f non-support. Bail was set at $1,500. The case of Travis Edward Moore, 2060 Table Rock rd., charged with parole violation, was continued until Dec. 19 at. 9:30 a.m. He is represented by O. H. Bengtson, Medford attorney. ' Portland- (UPD -Robert Stoll, 16, Portland, has been ap pointed by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger as page boy in the United States Senate. y Umitiol 9 'CBsk IMglhft 'He Asked, 'How About A Free Country'?" Im. A II I R National Guard Alert Termed Big Success Approximately 90 men of the two local National Guard companies participated in the statewide test alert Sunday, it was reported. The test alert was nart of a surprize 'mobilization of Air .National Ciuard and National Guard. Both state and local officers called it a "very great success." The test alert was called at 4:11 a.m. Sunday for the 4,852 Oregon National Guardsmen and the 1,288 Air National Guardsmen. Word of the alert was passed through various channels and within four hours all units were reported ready for action. Capt. S. P. Fagone, com manding officer of head quarters and Headquarters Company First Batallion, 186th Infantry was alerted by phone at 4:35 a.m. By 4:45 a.m. both headquarters com pany and Company A, 18th Infantry had enough men to establish a guard detail in the armory area, Captain Fa gone said. Police Assist All communication means were mobilized, it was re ported. This included Med ford city police, state Dolice and the Jackson county sher iffs office. All platoon lead ers and sergeants were noti fied by phone. Within the first hour the motor section was dispatching vehicles, the cooks planning breakfast and the office per sonnel were busy preparing a guard roster and detail roster for administrative duties. The communications platoon had normal radio and teleDhone networks operating. The pio neer and ammunition platoon was standing bv for action. End of the alert came at 8:35 a.m., it was reported. Brig. Gen. Alfred E. Hintz, commander of the Oregon part of the 41st Infantry di vision ana col. W. E. Timm, commander of the Oregon Air National Guard were the first to receive the alert Sunday. Four .hours later. 4.852 of ficers and men under Gen. Hintz's command had report ed m battle gear at their Admits Safe Theft From Local Office A 20 or 21-year-old man ar rested Saturday in Spring field on another burglary charge has admitted the theft last Thursday of a safe from me international Harvester company office here, Med ford police reported today. Detective Lt. Lyle Perkins reported the man's name as Jim Head, and added that he is reportedly an armed forces deserter. Jackson Countv Sheriff- elect Joe Walsh and Medford Detective Dean Abshire are going to Springfield to inves tigate the man's story fur ther, Lt. Perkins said. He said a search for the missing safe would be conducted here in the meantime. A total of $60 in cash, $320 in checks, and records and numerous keys were report edly taken from the safe. Washington -UPD- President Eisenhower and GOP congres sional leaders opened a day long discussion today of the administration's big legisla tive package for the 1959 ses sion oi congress. various headquarters through out the state, National Guard officials said. A total 'of 1,051 officers and men wer at the Portland airbase headquarters. d orty minutes after the alert notice was received, Col. ximm reported to the regional command at McChord field that the 123rd Fighter Inter ceptor Group had five planes on 30-minute alert status. First unit of the ground forces to turn out in full force was the replacement com pany at headquarters. Agencies Fear UMC Shortage The United Medford Cru sade reached $126,040 this morning and was still $4,990 short of the $131,030 goal, it was reported. Richard Travis, general chairman and other UMC leaders were to meet today at noon to plan what should be done to reduce the deficit. Travis commented that in uiviauai giving tms year is j i , . . ... averaging neiow last year which is the Drimarv cause of the deficit. This is the first time in six years that the United Medford Crusade has not reached its goal at this time. If the goal is not reached. the agencies will receive only portion of their allocation and the community services will have to be curtailed, ac cording to Travis. The local agencies affected most are the Boy Scouts, Girl Sscouts. YMCA. Salvation Army, Camp Fire Girls and the Red Cross. Travis said. The Oregon United Anneal child care agencies will also receive less than was allocat ed, ihe chairman added. The course of action neces sary to reach the goal will be announced later this week, it was reported. Travis and his committee are making a soec- ial appeal to those who have not given to the Crusade this year because the monev is desperately needed at this time. An additional appeal is being made also to those who have already given. Travis said. Co n t r i b u tions bv mail should be sent to the United Medford Crusade, Leverette building, Medford. Ike Seeking Budget Next TT7 u rrmn c . Republican leaders were told today that' President Eisen hower is shooting for a bal anced budget in the next fis cal year, but that it may run a little higher than this year's $79,200,000,000. No Figures Available Sen. Stvles Bridges fR-NH). chairman of the GOP Policy Committee, announced dur ing a break for lunch in the dav-lone White House legisla tive conference that no "over all figure" is yet available on the new budget. But he said Eisenhower is "aiming toward as close to a balanced budget as possible." His personal opinion, Bridges said, is that the President "will submit a balanced budg et." Mountain Area Residents Told -To Leave Homes Valuable Watershed ' Brushland Consumed San Juan Capistrano, Calif. -UPD-Turbulent 30-40 mile an hour winds whipped a roaring brush fire toward a canyon dotted with several hundred homes today after leaning over a state highway in Cleve land National Forest. Mountain cabin residents in the isolated area were order ed to evacuate as were rare- takers of a Methodist boys summer camp at San Juan Hot Springs a dozen miles northeast of here. Elmer Osterman. fire co ordinator for the California Forestry Service, said some 20,000 acres of valuable water shed brushland had been burned, 90 ner cent of it onen land. "We have a verv hot snot burning on a three-mile front that leaped over Ortega High way and is heading in the gen eral direction of Trabuco Can yon five miles away." Oster man said. He estimated there were 200 to 300 homes in the canyon just outside the forest. Quick Control Unlikely Another hot SDOt was near the tri-county juncture of Tt iv- erside, Orange and San Diego counties, Osterman said. Osterman said the fire fight ers were not too ODtimistic about control of the blaze and containment "certainly could not come before Tuesday" be cause of the unpredictable winds that whipped spot fires ahead of the fire line. The blaze was concentrated mostly in uninhabited areas, so rugged with dipping can yons and steep mountains that equipment could not get too close. About 1,100 men from throughout the state manned the firelines with 70 fire trucks and 15 bulldozers as they attempted to cut off the racing flames. Some Ranches Threatened ' Eight planes were expected to dump borate-water solution on the flames before the nd of the day, Osterman said. The fire started at the Stew art ranch in the forest Sun day and sweDt westward and to the northwest burning iso lated cabins in its nat.h. a1k threatened were scattered ranches. Cause of the fire was unknown. The San Juan CaDistrano Hospital on the outskirts of tms Historic town appeared threatened for a while during the night but shifting winds ended the menace. The El Toro Marine Air Base would be in the Dath if the flames managed to burn through Trabuco Canyon, a half dozen miles from the base and about 40 miles from Los Angeles. Private Airplane Demolished in Crash Woonsocket, R.I.-(DPD-A dis abled private plane with seven persons aboard crashed in a snowstorm today five miles southwest of here. An Army helicopter said the plane was "demolished." The fate of the Dassengers was not known immediately. The plane carried a pilot, ' copilot and five business ex ecutives headed for new jobs in Gloucester, Mass. Balanced Fiscal Year T" : j , ai r Bridges and other GOP leaders said no final total for defense spending has been agreed upon. Bridges thought it would be "somewhere around" the $40,800,000,000 for the current fiscal year. Speaking of the balanced budget generally, Bridges said that "anything else it will be on the shoulders of the wild spenders in Congress and there are plenty of them." Martin Sees $80 Billion House Republican leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.) said the new budget "won't be too far from $80 billion." He added that "we'll be fort unate to keep it at $80 bil lions after it gets through Congress." Bridges and Martin said there was no chance of a tax cut.
