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53rd Year Recommended Three nnlqni machine are belnc constructed at Gold Rill for the lumber and plywood In dustry. The story behind the founders of this small Industry makes interesting reading an paje II of today's Mail Tribune. 'Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 3-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 1230 ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service DFORB United Press full Leased Wire) United Press) FuU Leased Wire 54 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1958 No. 233 Me Jerry E. Golden Awaits Hearings In District Court Two Charges Allege Assaults to Kill, Rob Jerry Eugene Golden, 28 faces preliminary hearings to morrow following his arraign ment in district court Friday on charges of assault with in tent to kill and assault with intent to commit robbery. Golden, of 684 East Valley View rd., Ashland, has admit ted firing the shot that struck Ray Edward Reid, 34, in the 90 and 9 Tavern on South Riverside ave. shortly before 7 o'clock Thursday evening. He has also admitted rob bing the bartender, Samuel James Morehouse, 463 North Sixth st.. Central Point, right after the shooting. Reid, a truck driver resid ing at 1850 Barnett rd., was reported in "satisfactory" con dition last night at Rogue Val ley Memorial hospital. The .38 slug lodged near his spine was removed Friday, and one physician saw hope of recov ery from the paralysis to his lower body which it had caused. Iron Lung Unnecessary An iron lung brought from Ashland General hospital as a precaution during the oper ation proved unnecessary' District .Court Judge James M. Main set bail for Golden at $25,000 on each charge. Golden waived his right to an attorney at the arraign ment, stating he lacked funds. But he requested preliminary hearings on both counts. The hearings are scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow in dis trict court. Deputy District Attorney Gerald Scannell said Friday that both charges specifically allege the use of a dangerous weapon. According to witnesses in the tavern, Golden fired at Reid after what appeared to be a brief spat over jukebox selections. Golden had repeat edly played a rock and roll number called "Rebel Rouser." But Golden himself told District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder Friday that he came to Medford specifically for a holdup, and had first thought of robbing a grocery store. Af ter failing to enlist an accom plice here, he told Reeder, he had started back toward Ash land and stopped at the tav ern. 'Heist Job' Medford police Friday eve ning questioned Daniel Denni- son Hull, Rainbow motel, Shady Cove, who . reportedly said a man answering Gold en's description had asked him Thursday afternoon to ac company him on a "heist job" (holdup). He said the man approach ed him in Brown's cafe, . 101 East Main st., and told him he had a gun and was planning a robbery. Hull said he told the man he was not inter ested. Golden said he had meant to shoot over people's heads the tavern to frighten them, and was shocked when he saw he had shot Reid in stead. Morehouse, at gunpoint, then handed him about $35 from the cash register. Golden went out into the foggy night, found his car and started south on Highway 89. But after a short distance, unable to see clearly, he drove off the road and into a telephone pole. Here he was found mo ments later by three students from San Jose State college, Calif., who took him into cus tody. Passerby summoned state and city police, who took Golden to the city police sta tion for questioning. He was taken later in the evening to Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital for treatment of several cuts, and was eventually lodged in the county jail. WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy Mon day; occasional light rain - showers. Some clearing Sun day night. High Sunday 4. Low Monday morning 35. High Monday 43. TEMP. Highest Saturday 35 Lowest Saturday 36 FRECIP. .04 To 5 pjn. Saturday . Our Skies Tonight Sunset today L 4:41 pjn. Sunrise tomorrow 7:37 a.m. The Sun now rides low and Winter begins here tomorrow at 12:40 a.m. Moonset tomorrow .... 4:15 a.m. Full Moon Dec. 25 VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, near the Moon. Jupiter, rises 4:St a.m. EXCAVATION WORK Removal of 14,000 cubic yards of earth and rock is progressing satisfactorily at the site of the planned Rogue Valley Manor on Barneburg hill southeast of Medford, Walter Higgins, Manor director, has, reported. The F. L. Somers company, Medford, began hauling earth last week and is moving it to the California Oregon Power company site at Estimates For New Ashland Junior High Ashland - Estimates should be ready in January on con struction costs for an 800 student Ashland junior high school, Stanley Jobe, Ashland superintendent of schools, said Friday, Following ' preparation o f estimates a measure will be considered for school bonds to be placed before the voters at a later date. Jobe told the Ashland Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday that a new junior high school and classroom ad- Festival Drive Total Increased By New Donations Ashland Another $2,000 was added to the Shakespear ean Festival building fund total by the close of office hours Thursday, a campaign official said. This raised the grand total to $223,283.93 which is 81V per cent of the $275,000 goal, it was reported. Final report luncheon for the Medford area Oregon Shakespearean Festival build ing fund campaign workers was held Thursday noon at the Medford Red Cross build ing. The grand total at that point was $221,283.93. Ashland workers have ob tained $70,021.84 as the new total after reporting $69,519. 84 Monday. Their orginal quo ta was $50,000. Medford workers, seeking a $100,000 share of the $275,000 goal have accounted for $70,- 378, it was reported. Although the formal report luncheons ended last week, the solicita tions will continue until the full amunt is raised. Ray Sorenson's special gifts committee continues to top the Medford total with $48,374.50 raised, $5,675 of during the past week. John Hamacher's material gifts division secured an additional $1,120, thus pushing their total to $6,662. The out-of-town gifts sec tion, with Glenn Jackson as chairman, has reached $13, 634. Festival partons sent $6, 85.50 of this by mail. The mailed-in- gifts are still, ar riving regularly, it was re ported. Individual totals from the special campaigns in Portland, Salem, Eugene and Grants Pass and Southern California, the Bay area and California's Humboldt county will be an nounced soon. High totals for the week in Medford were Mrs. Julie Tum mers with $634 and Mrs. A. C. Allen with $305. Curtis Hop kins topped the men's division with $645. Mrs. C. Rease Braley is first in the accummulated totals section with $1,571 personally accounted for. Curtis Hopkins' team No. 7 has raised $1,416 and Mrs, A. C. Allen's eam No. 21 has secured $1,386. The Oregon Shakespearean Festival is scheduled to open its 1959 season next July 28. Plays will include "Twelfth Night," "King John," "Mea sure for Measure" and "An thony and Cleopatra." A spec ial masque in the Elizabethan manner, honoring Oregon's 100th birthday, will be staged as a prelude to each perform ance of "Twelth Night." Expected in January ditions to Bellview and Lin coln school are needed to accommodate the increasing school enrollment, The six - room addition to the Walker school will be completed by the start of the 1959 school year with funds from the current budget, the superintendent told the cham ber members. Additions to the elementary schools will take care of the enrollment through 1964, Jobe said. After 1964 the school district will have to construct a new ele mentary school, he added, "This six-room addition at Walker and the proposal for four more rooms: at Bellview and' six at Lincoln'" will' only keep up abreast of our needs," the superintenderit empha sized. The new junior high school should be built to accommo date 750 to 800 students, Jobe said. Basic plans should allow for expansion to 900 to 1,000 students, he added. The Ashland school district board is considering a junior high site and options have been taken for a tract bound ed by . Iowa, : Walker and Wightman sts., Jobe said. The third floor of the Ash land junior high school" was permanently condemned as a fire hazard Tuesday, Dec. 10, by the deputy state fire mar shal. Classes were dismissed for the rest of the week. " Deputy W. R. Roble, Grants Pass, condemned the entire third floor of the 58-year-old structure after he had been summoned to Ashland by Fire Chief Charles Davis. Davis Assessment Ratio Approved by Board An assessment ratio of 25 per cent of 100 per cent of market value was approved recently by the Jackson coun ty board of equalization. The new ratio was presented and recommended by County As sessor Ray Schumacher. According to County Com missioner Chester W e n 4 1, member of the board, the new assessment ratio would dis tribute tatxation more equally on all property in the county. The present ratio is 28 per cent of 90 per cent of the true cash value. Wendt explained that Schu macher suggested the ratio at the recommendation of the state tax commission. Other member of the tree man board who attended the meeting was Arnold Bohnert. Southern Pacific's Slashing of Rates For Shipping Washington -DPD- The inter state commerce commission said Friday Southern . Pacific railroad rate reductions on moving lumber from Oregon to. points in California and Arizona would go into effect today. The reductions average about 20 per cent on carloads of a minimum 34,000 pounds. They originally had been scheduled to become effective last May 21. Upon Protests Upon protests from truck ers and water carriers, how ever, the commission ordered an investigation and suspend the corner of Stewart ave. and Grape st. in Medford. The carrier, pictured hauls 16 cubic yards every 30 minutes. The job of removing the earth is estimated to last about a month and is the initial phase in the con struction program which will continue over the next 18 months. Total construction will cost about $5k million. said a group of parents made the request. The building had been listed as sub -standard for several years, he added. Later, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, two classrooms in the Ash land high school were temp orarily closed to classes by Deputy State Fire Marshal W P. Roble, Grants Pass. "Jobe replaced Dr. Howard Balderstone, former superin tendent who went to the Uni versity of Montana at Mis soula, Mont, as associate pro fessor of education. Jobe formerly was high school principal in Ashland. Jobe, who became superin tendent just before school opened . JtBls IfalLaid' he thought the Ashland district voters wouldn't oppose a bond issue which covered construc tion of only one junior high school. Voters were against a plan which included building two junior high schools, he explained. - Sports Bulletins Grants Past Roseburg high basketball team nosed out Grants Pais 36 to 33 here last night. Bob Steele of the Indians had 14 points while Dick H a y i led Grants Pass with 10. Grants Pass headed 23 to 15 at the half. Central Point - Eagle Point high cagexs, with Bill Turner scoring 26 points, spilled the Crater Comets 42 to 40 here last night. The Eagles took the lead for keeps at 36 to 34 on a shot by Turner with 3Vi min utes to go. Halftime tally favored Crater 22 to 19. Bill While had 13 points and John Burns 12 for Crater. Brookings 36, Phoenix 24 Tillamook 56, Ashland 46 Texas Tech 80, Missouri 70. Shasta JC 65. Napa JC 56 Maryland 68. Wake For- est 65 Illinois 83, New York U. 78 Canisius 68, College of the Pacific 59. - Washington 81, Iowa 68 Utah State 79. St. Mary's 63 Nevada 39, Sacramento State 29 Auburn 79, Alabama 60 North Carolina Slate 66, Kansas 63 Stanford 53, University of San Francisco 45 Wichita 82. Southern California 70 Lumber Awaited Today ed the rate cuts for the seven- month period allowed by law. The. failure of ICC to act so far will permit the new rates to go into effect. The commis sion still is expected to decide on the "lawfulness" of the rates, however, and a report is "forthcoming," according to a spokesman. : ' The ICC held hearings last summer on the .West Coast. A Southern Pacific spokesman said Friday the, new rates would result in ' "substantial savings" to shippers. The Southern Pacific told the commission the reductions were ordered to meet truck Russia May Be On 'Powder Keg' In East Germany Unrest Seen as Factor In Recent Soviet Acts Washington TOPD High offi cial sources said yesterday that seething unrest in Com munist East Germany may force the Russians to negoti ate in good faith for reunifi cation of Germany if they wish to avoid a disaster. These sources said that Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles, now resting in Jamaica after attending the Paris NATO meeting, believes the Soviet Union may well have the choice of withdraw ing its 22 divisions from East Germany or risking a serious Hungarian -type explosion there. The opinion of many well informed officials here is that the mounting Russian trou bles in East Germany were one of the principal factors behind Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's Nov. 27 note to the Western Allies demanding that they pull their forces out of West Berlin. Dulles and the foreign min isters of Britain and France decided at Paris, with NATO approval, to reject the Rus sian demand. But the Western big three are reported ready to give the Russian premier a face saving "out" if he is looking for one. Britain, France and the United States are expected to offer the Russians another op portunity to agree to reunifi cation of Germany under free elections on a basis which will not place the Soviet Union at any military dis advantage. Dulles and some of his col leagues are reported to be lieve that Khrushchev or others in the Soviet hierarchy must be .increasingly aware of the -fact that Russia is sit ting on a powder keg in East Germany and be willing to soften their attitude on reuni fication if they can. get a guarantee a g a i n s t the Ger man militarism whicn Kus sians fear. Mother Receives Murder Charge Eugene - (UPD - A first de gree murder charge, was filed here Friday against Mrs. Donna May Rutledge, 27, whose three children were found dead Thursday in Ama zon slough near Eugene. The children had drowned. The three victims were Mark Elliott Rutledge, 5; Darlene, 4, and Tammia, 2. The charge was in connection with the death of the boy, her only son. : The woman was found wan dering through a field. She told police at the time of her arrest that she had killed the children. Mrs. Rutledge was taken to a Eugene hospital for treatment of a head wound, apparently self-inflicted, officers said- She was un der guard at the hospital Sat urday. The district attorney's office said she would be ar raigned after her release from the hospital. Donald Rutledge, the wo man's husband, was believed in California and had rented a home for the family in Downey, police said. New York - (UPD The lead er of the 11-day truck drivers strike that has kept nine maj or New York City daily news papers from publishing ap pealed yesterday to other newspaper unions to join in the walkout, but was rebuff ed with a unanimous "no" vote. and water transport competi tion. The line said it also would make lumber rates from Oregon more competi tive with rates from mid California. Turned Down ICC officials said the com mission had asked Southern Pacific to postpone the effec tive date of the rate reduction for 90 days. But the railroad, it said, turned down the re quest. The cuts also were opposed by California mills and by a group of Oregon coast mills shipping by water to California. To Ikes, USeoms essoge American Airlines Grounds All Craft As Pilots Walk Out Chicago - (UPD - A strike by some 1,500 pilots grounded all planes of American Airlines yesterday and further strain ed already overloaded airline, train and bus traffic for the Christmas holiday rush. American immediately can celled all passenger flights through Dec. 26 and declared an embargo on air freight and pilots walked off the job at air express shipments when 11:59 p.m. (local time) Friday. Marathon talks between the company representatives and negotiators for the air lines pilots association dere "sus pended indefinitely" early yesterday after 17 hours of bargaining - talks. Coupled with strikes by flight engineers and machin ists against Eastern Airlines, the walkout left only two of the nation's "big four" air lines still operating for what normally is the busiest traf fic weekend of the year. Other air carriers promised to do what they could to al leviate the skyway ,- snafu, which brought increased pres sure for space on railroads and buses. Although only scattered de mands for travel accomoda tions were noted in the East, some western railroads receiv ed numerous calls from stand ed American passengers and planned to add extra cars. Most railroads, however, re ported business was "boom ing", before the -strike began and said they had pressed in operation all available passen ger cars. Airlines added extra flights and honored reservations of American passengers. Ameri can personnel worked night long in many cities, making substitute arrangements for its passengers. At Memphis, Term., workers said "tele phones were ringing off the wall" all night. ' The bus lines, particularly Greyhound, also reported calls from air travelers, and promised to press extra equip ment into service wherever needed. Morse Calls Bolt Rumor 'Nonsense' EDITOR'S NOTE: Mail Tribune Washington Corre spondent. A. Robert Smith reports on this subject to day. His story is on Page 5. Portland - (UPD - A report that Sen.- Wayne Morse CD Ore.) may bolt the Democratic party to resume his role as the only independent in the Senate has been branded by Morse as "nonsense." Morse was interviewed by Jim Miller, news director of KGW in Portland, by tele phone from Atlanta, Ga. Morse said he was at a "com plete loss to understand" a story from the Oregon Jour nal's Washington correspond ent speculating on a bolt by Morse from the Democratic party. The senator is spending the holidays with a daughter in Georgia. Adams Sentenced For Offering Bribe Allen D. Adams, . 52, of 577 SW G St.," Grants Pass, appeared before Circuit Court Judge Charles E. Woodrich, Roseburg, Friday afternoon here for sentencing on a charge of offering a bribe to a public official. He was sentenced to three years in the Oregon state pen itentiary ' with , the execution of sentence to be suspended on condition he serve 30 days in the county jail to start Mon day, Dec 29. Adams pleaded guilty to the charge Sept. 3. He was arrest ed June 19 and charged with having a letter written to Cir cuit Court Judge H. K. Han na offering him. $500 for a favorable decision in a civil case then pending before the court. V..' ". T- Ci a UU vc uoi iq oiup w Tm i iii tin iianwi rm President Will Seek Higher Gasoline Tax Washington-fUPD - President Eisenhower will ask the new Congress next month to in crease the Federal gasoline tax from the present three cents a gallon to four and one half cents. Israeli, U.A.R. Aircraft in Battle Over Negey Desert Tel Aviv, Israel (UPD An Israeli army spokesman re ported that Israeli and Unit ed Arab Republic planes fought over the Negev . des ert yesterday and one U.A.R. plane was shot down. The Israeli spokesman said the air battle broke out aft er a group of Egyptian planes violated Israeli air space and flew over the Negev area south of Beersheba. (In Cairo, a U.A.R. govern ment spokesman charged that four Israeli fighter planes vi olated U.A.R. air space in the El Arish area yesterday and were "forced to flee" " by U.A.R. fighters. He made no mention of the Israeli claim that a U.A.R. fighter had been shot down in an air battle.) "Israeli fighter planes in tercepted them and after a short air battle forced the Egyptian planes to withdraw' the Israeli official said. "One of them was hit and was seen falling over. Egyptian terri tory." He said the Egyptian planes were Soviet-built Migs of the U.A.R. air force. The air fight, he said took place at an al titude of 32,000 feet. "In the 'past few weeks," the spokesman said, "there have been several cases of Egyptian planes violating the airspace of the state of Is rael." County. State Sign Another Agreement Another in a series of agree ments between Jackson coun ty and the state highway commission was signed earlier this month, according to Coun ty Commissioner Chester Wendt. The most recent agreement concerns plans on the Evans Creek section of Pacific high way in the county for North River rd. Wendt explained that an agreement between the two parties was signed in early 1957 for the entire U.S. High way 99 project covering1 those areas where the proposed highway will affect the county road system. He explained that each minor change in the original plans where coun ty roads or interchanges are affected must be approved by the county court. He added that once the North River rd. is completed the county will assume the maintenance- of that section. r e n: i DCing oo mi iai.iuiia.ry The added revenue, esti mated at between 850 and 900 million dollars, would be ear marked for the 41,000-mile Federakstate highway con struction program which faces a future deficit. . More than 70 million motor ists and truckers would feel the bite immediately. Later, officials said, it probably would show up again in the price of goods transported by truck. ine request laces an un certain reception in the Con gress. The highway systme has been financed with "user" taxes, with gasoline taxes the biggest money-raiser, But Congress, in a move to keep the building program on schedule and also to combat unemployment, authorized the bureau of public roads last spring to abandon temporarily it pay-as-you-go policy. This allowed the bureau to spend more than the highway trust fund for collecting. As a result the program faces a 450 million dollar deficit in the current fiscal year. This will be covered by a surplus col lected in the early years of the program. But an expected deficit in 1960 will probably wipe out whatever surplus is left. The President's recision is based on recommendations of the treasury, commerce de partment, of which the bu reau of public roads is a part, and the budget bureau. It conforms with the admin istration's philosophy that where possible the cost of pub lic projects should be borne by those who use them or de rive most benefit from them. Officials admit that the rec ommendation faces stiff op position from lawmakers, from auto makers and major highway users. But the admin istration is prepared to argue that it is necessary if the fed eral budget is to be balanced. For fiscal 195, which ends next June 30, the highway trust fund's recepits are esti mated at $2,016,000,000 and construction expenditures at $2,460,000,000. In fiscal 1960 receipts are projected at $2,100,00,00 (B). Spending is unofficially esti mated at three billion dollars, possibly higher. IKE MAKES CHANGE Washington (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower yesterday ap proved a new design for the reverse side of the Lincoln penny. A view of the Linc oln Memorial from the front entrance will be shown on the reverse side. a l .,fi!w.t. I I Satellite Proves Ability to Function As Relay Station Ike's 'Peace on Earth'. Words Re-Broadcast Washington (UPD The giant Atlas satellite opened a revo lutionary new era of com munications yesterday. It suc cessfully picked up and re corded a radio message over the West coast, then beamed it back to earth twice as it zoomed over the United States. The feat was a new space triumph for the United States. It demonstrated that satellites can be used as relay stations for radio and eventually television communications. The latest experiment was staged shortly after 2 p.m. PST when the huge satellite made its 28th trip around the globe. The Army Signal coros sta tion at Corona, Calif, re transmitted to the satellite a recorded version of President Eisenhower's "neace on earth" Christmas message which the Atlas had beamed back from outer space yesterday, i "Stored" Words The Atlas picked up the President's voice and "stored" his words on a tape recorder. At about 2:10 pjn. PST, as the satellite continued its west -to -east path above the United States, the Signal Corps station at Ft. Sam Houston near San Antonio, Tex, directed the satellite to; broadcast back to earth what it had received over Califor nia. The Pentagon said the satel-5 lite did so and that the Presi dent's words were received "loud and clear" both at Ft, Sam Houston and at a station at Ft. Stewart near Savan nah, Ga. Repeated It The Georgia station then told the satellite to relay the message and the satellite re peated it. Again, Georgia re ceived the transmission, This Is the first successful courier type communication ground station to a satellite and re-transmission to anoth er station at a later time," the Pentagon said. The experiment was repeat ed successfully on the satel lite's 29th pass. The Califor nia station sent the same mes sage to the Atlas and then or dered it to broadcast the mes sage. On this occasion, the de fense department said, the message was heard at Ft. Sam Houston and Ft. Huachuca, near Tucson, Ariz., and brief ly at Ft Stewart. , The satellite will not be in a position for further tests un til this afternoon. The experiment foreshad owed the day when satellites will take over much of the world's communications bur den. A satellite could be used, for example, to pick up mes sages for Tokyo when passing over New York and then beam them down on command when its orbit around the earth put it over Japan. There have now been three successful c o m m u n ications tests with the Atlas. Friday the Atlas beamed, back-to earth the president's Christmas message which had been recorded and placed aboard it before it was launch ed from Cape Canaveral; Fla., Thursday.. This was the first time a voice communication had been received from space. It 'represented a one-way transmission satellite to earth. City Beautification Committee to Report Members of the "Make Medford Beautiful" commit tee are scheduled to give a progress report tomorrow at the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce roundtable luncheon. . Chairman Lou Cranston, Granvil F. Brittsan, Darrell Huson and Jack Foster are scheduled to speak.-The week ly luncheons are held at tha Jackson hotel. 5
