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Newspaper Page Textistaif ii "r ai w nil" i ii ii i i U U IS Jl m mm VISITS COUNTRY-Anastas Mikoyan Geft), Russian trade director and No. 2 man in the Kremlin, chats with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (center) at the State depart ment in Washington. At right is Russian Dnaugurafion off (Govenior May Be Mayedl by InlassDe Salem -flJTO- The possibility loomed today that the hassle between Gov. Robert . D. Holmes and Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield over which man will appoint the new secretary of state might delay Hatfield's Inauguration. . The inauguration and the beginning of the 1959 legisla ture are scheduled for next Monday. ' GOP Liberals to Limit Fight fo two House Posts Washington -(UPD- Eleven Senate Republican liberals de cided today to limit their fight for the GOP leadership to two positions - floor leader and whip. ,. , ', '. -They 'had once -indicated they might fight for all five leadership jobs. But today they endorsed three of the in cumbent officers. Joined by Sen. , Margaret Chase Smith (Maine), the lib eral bloc endorsed Sens. Styles Bridges (N.H.), GOP Policy committee chairman; Leverett Saltonstall (Mass.), GOP conference chairman and Milton R. Young (N.D.), conference secretary. Sen. George Aiken, (Vt.), who presided at today's meet ing, said the slate was not so much a compromise "as an effort to get all viewpoints in the slate so we would have maximum strength in the party." , Narrowed Leadership The decision in effect nar rowed the leadership fight to a contest between Sen. John S. Cooper, (Ky.), the liberal candidate, and Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (ill.), for the floor leadership. Cooper was nominated by the liberals a week ago to ' challenge Dirksen. The liber als also at that time nominat ed Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (Calif.), for the position of whip now held by Dirksen. There was a chance GOP con servatives would run someone against Kuchel. Meanwhile, it was disclosed that Vice President Richard M. Nixon made an unannounc ed visit to President Eisen hower's quarters at the White House Monday night. But Press Secretary James C. Hag erty said he was "sure" they had not discussed the leader ship fight Asked if the President con sidered ' it improper for the chief executive to intervene in the leadership contest, Hag erty said "these are matters for the membership of the House and Senate." Appointments Are Planned by Court Eight appointments to coun ty governmental bodies will be made this week by the county court, according to County Judge Earl Miller. Three vacancies will be fill ed in the county planning com mission, two on the budget committee, and three on the dog control board. Ending terms on the plan ning commission are John Niedermeyer, Jackson v i 1 1 e; Lloyd Selby, Ashland;- and Stuart McQueen, Medford. Tom Wray and Curtis Barnes, both Medford have ended terms on the budget committee and Henry Owens, Antelope, Warren Bayliss, and Winn Arnold, Medford, and terms with the dog control board. Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov. Mikoyan is in the U.S. for a two-week unofficial visit, but it is s p e c u 1 at e d that he may have brought a Soviet proposal for easing cold war tension. - Hatfield is hopeful that the matter may be settled in the courts this week, but this hinges on whether lawyers for the two men can get to gether and agree on the is sues. It also' hinges on whether the Supreme Court might is sue an advisory opinion ' on the subject without an actual case before it. In the past it has been reluctant to do so. Holmes favors appointment of Dave, O'Hara, 71, former state elections chief and a Republican, to succeed Hat field as secretary of state. The governor's ability to appoint O'Hara is backed by Attorney-General Robert Y. Thornton, who said in an op inion last week that Hatfield must resign as secretary of State before assuming office as governor. By Thornton's interpreta tion, if Hatfield resigns, then Holmes would have the power to appoint O'Hara. : Opinions of the attorney general normally have " the force of law until tested in the courts, but Hatfield main tains that the present opinion is not binding until the courts have acted. Attorney's Lamar Tooze, Portland, who represents Hat field, and Orval Thompson, Albany, the governor's legal advisor, have discussed issues that could be presented to the courts, but so far no agree ment has been reached. Both Hatfield and Thornton have taken swipes at each other during the argument. Hatfield has criticized Thorn ton's handling of the Port land vice investigations and Thornton has charged Hat field with putting the dis agreement on a "personal bas is." ' Holmes and Thornton are Democrats. O'Hara and Hat field are Republicans. Another possibility of de lay lurks in the technicality that a governor is not in of fice until the official tabula tion of the .votes is announced by the speaker o' the State House of Representatives. Democratic Speaker Robert Duncan, Medford, and the Democratic- controlled house might be able to delay this announcement in an effort to force Hatfield to resign. Hatfield might be able to work with Republican O'Hara, but doubtless would prefer making his own man eligible for the job. Another possibility was that Holmes might resign him self as governor before Hat field is inaugurated. That development presum ably would occur after the 1959 legislature organizes and thus would elevate Sen. Walt er J. Pearson, Portland Dem ocrat, and Senate president, to the governor's post. The Holmes resignation might underline the principle involved without risk of crit icism that Holmes wants to continue as governor on a technicality. ihe state constitution pro vides that the beginning of a new governor's term is up to the legislature. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy tonight and Wednesday with occasional light rain in the valley, snow above 4,000 feet. Low tonight 32 and high tomorrow 45-48. TEMP. Highest yesterday SO Lowest this morning , 31 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 4:53 p.m. 7:41 ajn. Sunrise tomorrow The moon rises 5:56 a.m. tomorrow and rides low. Below it is the planet. Mercury, which is now moving on its or bit at a speed of about 27 miles per second. This planet, the one nearest the Sun, will next be seen as an evening star In March. icials Claim Mikoyan Backing Down on Demands Washington -(UPD- High of ficials said today that Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan in his talks here ap pears to be backing down on Russia's Berlin demands. Mikoyan, who met Monday with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and dined Mon day x night with congressional and business leaders, was re ported to have assurd offi cials that Russia has no in tention of trying, to force Britain, France and the Unit ed States out of Berlin. Informants said the Krem lin's No. 2 man told the din ner group that Russia was willing to promise continued allied access to the Commu nist encircled city when the Russians turn over control of their sector and the supply lines to the East German Communists June 1. Mikoyan has insisted that Russia intends to go through with its promise to turn' East Berlin over to the German Reds at the end of May and has urged anew that the allies evacuate West Berlin by that time and permit it to become a "demilitarized, free city." Beaten by Airlift However, he appears to have made it clear that Rus sia does not intend to try, through the German Commu nists or by its own.action, to cut off and isolate the allies as was done in 1948. At that time the western powers re sorted to a massive airlift to supply the beleaguered west ern sector of the city. The, Russian official has dropped strong hints that what his boss, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev really wants is a summit meeting with President Eisenhower on Berlin, other German prob lems such as reunification and the question of European se curity. This confirms the belief of some. American officials that Khrushchev deliberately pre cipitated the Berlin crisis in an effort to get a summit con ference. Mikoyan has talked here only of a Soviet-Amerj-can meeting and it is not clear yet whether he intends to in clude chief British and French officials. The United States could be expected to insist that its two major allies attend any top meeting. i Officials said that Mikoyan in his talks with Dulles and others, has said that Russia did not make its Nov. 27 pro posals on Berlin with the idea of serving an ultimatum. Mik oyan has described the Rus sian note as being a set of "proposals" which the Krem lin wishes to use as a basis for negotiation. Queen Elizabeth Preparing for Visit To Canada, - Sandringham, England-UPD-Queen Elizabeth has been spending her New Year's "holiday" at her country home in a flurry of prepara tions for her joint christening with President Eisenhower of the new St Lawrence Seaway next June. Officials almost daily visit the Queen's white and gold drawing room at her vacation mansion here to iron out the details for the opening cere monies and her tour of Can ada, which may be followed by a brief look at the West coast of the United States. The Queen last visited North America during her state visit to the United States in October, 19571 The highlight of this trip 53 rd Year Medford 12 Pages Soviet Scientist Says Moon Rocket Fired First Time Moscow DPD A top Soviet scientist said today the Rus sians successfully fired their moon rocket the first time they tried. Prof. Anatoly Blagon ravov, head of the Technical Sciences Department of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, said the moon shot launched Friday was the first of its kind ever tried in Russia. The statement that the So viet Union has known no failures such as those suffered by the United States in its moon rocket efforts was made at a news conference for for eign and Soviet correspond ents. , Scientists at the conference also said the rocket, which was launched in the direction of the moon and bypassed it by 5,000 miles Sunday morn ing, is now 500,000 miles from the earth. Prof. Boris Kukarkin, a leading Soviet astronomer, said there was a possibility the artificial planet might come within comparatively short distances of the earth, a development which would make its tracking possible. Blaganravov said this launching had not been pre ceded by unsuccessful at tempts. He also replied in the nega tive to questions about wheth er the Soviets have undertak en experimental flights of manned rockets to high alti tudes. He said the Russians will do that only when they are quite sure of the possibil ity of man's return to earth. A Russian science corres pondent predicted the next stage would be a rocket to" the moon and he boasted that the Soviet Union would be the first to land a manned space ship there. All radio contact with the rocket was lost Monday, 62 hours after launching, ending Mechta's scientific useful ntss. Powerful telescopes may pick it up when it completes its orbit around the sun 15 months from now, but it never will be heard from again. Crusade Reaches Goal Sixth Year United Medford Crusade has reached its goal for the sixth consecutive year, Dick Travis, chairman of the fund drive, said today. Total collec ted to date is $131,065. Three divisions in the cam paign went over the top. They are lumber division with $29,553 collected and a goal of $26,100; special gifts, $6, 000 goal and $6,483 collected; and special events, $700 goal and $773 collected, Travis re ported. Other divisions and am ounts collected include pro fessional, $8,895, public em ployees, $11,932, retail, $11, 825, commercial, $23,800; dis tribution, $9,248 and service, $26,485. ' DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York -4CPD- Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 591.37, up 1.16; 20 zailroads 161.86, unchanged; 15 utilities 91.38, up 0.05, and 65 stocks 205.34, up 0.23. Sales today were about 3.690,000 shares compared with 4,210.000 shares Monday. Christening New Seaway will be the debut of the sea way, which has been widened and deepened to allow oceangoing- ships to travel right into the Great Lakes shared by Canada and the United States. As the seaway is a joint TJ.S.-Canadian project, secret diplomatic exchanges are ex pected between Washington and the Queen's home to de cide exactly what shall be done by the Queen and what by President Eisenhower at the ceremonies. So far, plans call for an of ficial Canadian government banquet in Ottawa which both will attend. Elizabeth also will give a dinner party aboard her royal yacht. The Britannia, to which the Eisen MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1959 uv MRS. HUGH FRIEL , . Chairman of Group Mrs. Hugh Friel Named Chairman Of Decisions '59 ' Mrs. Hugh Friel, 404 North Grape st., has been appointed Medford chairman of Great Decisions . . . 1959, according to Wally Iverson, county chairman. Mrs. Friel will lead the or ganization of informal home study groups who will dis cuss United States foreign pol icy during the ten week pro gram. Great Decisions, now in its fifth., successive year, is "an annual, nation-wideTeview by American citizens in their own communities of the eight mos.t urgent problems of foreign policy facing the United States," Iverson' re ported, j Some 50,000 Americans in about 450 communities will take part. In observance of the Cen tennial year, the program be gins in Oregon Jan. 25 with an introductory fact sheet on "Building Today's Oregon." The following week's topic will also be on this state, "What Oregon Frontiers for the Future." The remaining topics will deal with United States and its relations with the rest of the world. The informal home groups will use discussion material provided in nine fact sheets prepared by the Foreign Pol icy association, and contain ing basic background inform ation. Iverson explained that the Foreign Policy association is a national educational agency, "nongovernmental, nonparti san and nonprofit." Founded in 1918 to encour age citizen participation in foreign policy, the FPA de rives its support from 12 ma jor foundations, over 120 cor porations and several thous and individual contributors, plus sale of publications and materials. The Medford Great Decis ions chairman was local gen eral chairman for National Business Women's Week in October'. She is a member of the Medford chapter of the National Federation of Bus iness and Professional Wom en, secretary of Crater Lions the National Association of the Nataional Association of Retired Civil Employees. howers undoubtedly will be invited. Fly To Canada The Queen plans to leave London June 18, .flying to Newfoundland with Prince Philip on a BOAC Comet jet airliner as she's a "poor sail or" on ships. After a short visit to New foundland, the royal pair will sail up 'the seaway. The Eisen howers will make the trip on the new waterway in then- own presidential yacht, . ac cording to palace sources here. Following the christening, the Queen will make a coast-to-coast tour of Canada. She may then "slip across the border" into the United States, palace sources say. loveiiiiie s Cabinet Sworn in Today; Martyred Heroes Honored Havana (UPD Provisional President Manuel Urrutia swears in his new cabinet to day and then honors the mar tyred heroes of a rival stu dent rebel . movement that threatened the new regime with its first internal crisis. The student group, the "Revolutionary Directorate" headed by 28-year-old Rolan do Cubelo, opened a second front in central Cuba in sup port of the "26th o f July" rebel movement led by Fidel Castro. It has demanded a voice in the new government. Urrutia's pledge to hold a ceremony today at the Uni versity of Havana to honor the students who lost their lives in the unsuccessful 1957 assault on the presidential pa lace occupied by Fulgencio Batista was expected to im prove relations between the 26th of July group and the directorate. Rival Factions Diplomatic observers here were cheered that rival fac tions within the rebel coali tion proved capable of resolv ing the differences which for a while blocked Urrutia's tak ing over of the presidential palace. They" also were pleas ed by Urrutia's conciliatory moves. Meanwhile the Urrutia gov ernment took a number of steps 'designed ' to consolidate its position: -It proclaimed a new con stitution guaranteeing civil rights and pledging early el ections. -It received the foreign dip lomatic corps and , foreign press at the presidential pal ace within minutes after ar rival and asked for diplomatic recognition. -It pledged a full guarantee of American investments in Cuba. x -It promised an immediate increase in security arrange ments to prevent a recurrence of the invasion of the Colom bia embassy by rebel zealots. -It promptly repealed a martial law decree, issued by Havana military commanders, before it could even go into effect. -Urrutia gathered into his cabinet a member of former President Carlos Prios' Auth entic party and indicated a willingness to include repre sentatives of other revolution ary factions in his govern ment. Rayburn Named , Speaker of House Washington-UPD-House Dem ocrats today again unanimous ly picked veteran Rep. Sam Rayburn of Texas for speaker of the 86th Congress. , ' They also unanimously named Rep. John W. Mc- Cormack (Mass.) to another term as Democratic house leader. The Democrats, unlike their Republican counterparts, had no trouble picking their lead ers for the session that opens Wednesday. Both decisions, at a party caucus, had been fore gone conclusions. Rayburn's selection as speaker, technically subject to a roll call vote in the House Wednesday, came on his 77th birtday. He has served as speaker longer than any man in history. New County Judge Inspects Farm Home County Judge Earl Miller today praised the Jackson county farm home and its ad ministration following a tour of the place last week. Miller took office Monday. The judge, who made the tour with his wife, commend ed the farm superintendent, Millard Hoffman, and Mrs. Hoffman, superintendent of nurses, for their work. They said the county could well be proud of the home. TRIBUNE nt Formed "They Decided To Come Here For Vacations Now Move On And Stop Asking Questions" Cold Air Movinq Toward East Coast By United Press International A wave of cold Arctic air drove into the East in the wake of damaging gale winds today, and the season's worst storm lashed the West Coast with heavy rains and 100-mile-an-hour winds. .As the core of the cold air pushed into the East during the night, temperatures plung ed to below zero in New Eng land and ranged in the 20s as far south as upper Florida. Michael Hanley Dies In Boise - Michael Finly Hanley, 61, prominent rancher and a member of the pioneer Han ley family of Jackson county, died in St. Luke's hospital in Boise, Ida., Monday. Mr. Hanley was born Jan. 31, 1898, on the old Hanley ranch on Hanley rd., about 2Vfc miles from Jacksonville. Part of this ranch is now be ing used for the Southern Oregon Branch Experiment station. Mr. Hanley's grand parents were pioneers of southern Oregon. For several years Mr. Han ley operated the ranch he in herited from his father on Butte Creek. The beef ranch containing several hundred acres was sold in the early 1940s and Mr. Hanley moved to a ranch he purchased in Jordan Valley in Malheur county, Oregon. Mr. Hanley was a charter member of the Lake Creek Grange and a member of the Elks lodge here. Survivors include his wife, HazeL Jordan valley, three children Michael Jr., Susanne and Alice, stepmother, May Hanley, Medford, and several cousins. Funeral services are sched uled tentatively for Thursday in Jordan valley. Contribu tions may be made to the can cer fund in lieu of flowers, the family said. Halleck Wins First Test as GOP Head Washington (UPD House. Republicans today removed Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts as their leader and replaced him with Rep. Charles A. Hal leck of Indiana. The vote, by secret ballot, was 74 to 70. Washington - (UPD - Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R-Ind.) won the first test vote today in his move to unseat Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.) as House GOP leader. The vote was on motion by Halleck's supporters to decide the crucial issue by secret bal lot. It was approved by a roll call of 96 to 50. Martin had told members in advance he would regard a vote for a secret ballot as a vote against him. Price 10 Cents No. 247 Wind guests of up to 75 miles per hour in advance of the bitter cold pounded New York City and its suburbs Monday, upsetting two air planes at La Guardia Airport and causing a harbor collision between a Staten Island ferry and a barge. Seventeen per sons were injured in the col lisiri, none seriously. A wintry storm also bat tered northern California Monday, causing widespread damage and at least one death. Lawrence R. Ostertag, captain of a crab boat, was swept overboard in high seas and drowned in Humboldt Bay. At least 39 deaths around the nation have been blamed on the weather since the storm hit during the New Year's holiday. Kansas recorded eight deaths, Oklahoma seven, Indi ana and Missouri five each, Iowa four, Illinois three Wis consin two, and Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, Pennsyl vania and California one each. The intense cold in the na tion's interior relented some what during the night as a strong warming trend swept out of the Rockies into the plains, the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and lower Mississippi Valley. The cold , air also brought heavy snow to sections of western New York state, blocking roads with six-foot drifts and cutting speeds on the New York Thruway for a time to 35 miles an hour. The hard freeze extended into the Gulf states, with At lanta, Ga., reporting an early morning reading of 16 and temperatures in the 20s east to northern Florida. Other early morning read ings included 14 at New York City, 5 at Boston, 12 at Wash ington 6 at Louisville, 4 at Detroit, 5 at Minneapolis and 3 at Chicago. Tree Planting To Start This A tree planting program on state owned forest lands in the Southwest Oregon Forest Protection unit will get under way in the spring, District Warden Curt Nesheim report ed today. He said 80,000 seedlings will be planted on 166 acres of land in the Kennedy Gulch area a few miles southeast of the Wolf Creek post office in the northern part of Jose phine county. Nesheim said the contract for the planting job had been awarded to Tree Farm Man agement, Service, Inc., of Eu gene, on a bid of $31.50 per thousand trees planted. Spe cies include 30,000 douglas fir and 50,000 ponderosa pine. "The area to be planted is part of the forest land acre age deeded to the state by Josephine county in 1947," he said. "The county retained title to the timber and this Ashland Woman Being Held on Charge of Murder Shooting Occurs In Home Early Today Ashland-Mrs. Maxine A. Click, 46, of 720 Indiana st, Ashland, is being held on a charge of murder. Sheriff Joe Walsh said this morning. Walsh reported Mrs. Click has confessed in writing to shooting her husband, Hous ton James Click, 47, in the bedroom of their home about 8 a.m. today. The shooting was the cul mination of a series of family arguments, Mrs. Click told of ficers. She is the mother of nine children, aged 4 to 21 years, Walsh said. Shot While In Bed Mrs. Click said in her con fession that she shot her hus- ' band while he was in bed. She said she did not know wheth er he was asleep. Click was shot once through the head and once through the upper part of his body with a .22 caliber rifle, of ficers reported. The body has been taken to Ashland Mortuary and an au topsy was to be performed this afternoon, Deputy Cor oner Gordon Hays said. State police, Ashland police, Jack son county sheriffs officers and Jerry Scannell, chief dep uty district attorney, are in vestigating the case. Following the shooting, Mrs. Click called Ashland po lice from a nearby grocery store. "I'd like to report a man has been shot," she told Ashland police. Receive Welfare Mrs. Click is receiving pub lic welfare aid and Click was an unemployed mill worker, Walsh said today. Mrs. Click has been living in Ashland a year. Click joined his family Dec. 26 in Ashland after be ing discharged from a hospit al in Missouri, Walsh said. He had been injured in a mill accident. Six children were sleeping in adjacent bedrooms when the shooting occurred, Walsh reported. Three children were living away from home at the time of the shooting. The six children at home have been turned over to the public wel fare department, Ashland po lice said. The children living here are Beverly, 15, Tommy, 11, Da vid, 8, Nancy, 9, Russell 4, and Elsie, 10. Three children living in Missouri are George, 21, Houston Jack, 19, and Robert, 13, Ashland police said. New Radar Sets Placed in Action ' The Medford police depart ment's new radar set has been placed in operation this week and warnings-but not citations-are being issued to speeds. Capt. Clyde Fichtner report ed this today, and explained that its current use is for edu cating both patrolmen and the public in its operation. He said the set is being used this week on the midnight to 8 a.m. shift. He plans to use it on the 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. shift next week and on the 4 p.m. to midnight shift, the week following. Patrolman Duane Franklin is in charge of the set's opera tion and training of other patrolmen. Capt. Fichtner gave no defi nite date for when police op erating the set would start issuing citations to speeders. Program Spring was sold and logged some years ago. Then the very seri ous fire season of 1951 brought numerous fires to southwest Oregon and Ken nedy gulch was swept by a 1,200-acre fire. All reproduc tion and most of the seed trees were killed. Practically no natural reproduction has come in since that time." This is the first step in an annuaj planting program that will eventually result in re- foresting all poorly and non stocked state forest lands in both Josephine and Jackson counties, Nesheim said. The total acreage involved in cludes 7,303 acres in Jose phine county and 2,062 in Jackson. Nesheim said that an inven tory of all the lands is nearly completed and one phase of this work will indicate the degree of stocking on all the lands and thus tell the story as to the need of planting.