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mm to Jl 53rd Year Med 24 PAGES Senate May Cast Ballots on Issue Following Debate Washington -4EPD- Th Senate, after a day of bick ering, today ' unanimously put off until tomorrow a showdown Tola on efforts to change its rules to make it easier to choke off fili , busters. Washington -fUPD The Sen ate cleared the ,way today for the first significant test vote on the issue of amend ing its rules dealing with fili busters. The vote probably will come late today. It will center on a motion by Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. John son said he would allow both tides in the dispute time for debate and then call for a test vote "late today or early this evening." At issue in the "controversy, which broke out as soon as the Senate convened for its new session Wednesday, is a demand by a liberal bloc that the rules be revised to make it easier to halt filibusters. i Johnson will force the test vote by moving to table a resolution sponsored by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-NJVI.) that would in effect allow the Senate to adopt new rules rather than carry over the old ones from session to ses sion. A motion to table means an immediate vote must be taken. It is not debatable. Will Indicate Decision The vote was expected to give a clear indication of what the Senate will eventu ally do on the filibuster ques tion. ; Those advocating easier curbs on filibusters argue that in the past southerners have been able to block civil rights and other so-called liberal legislation by talkathon tac tics. Johnson is advocating a comromise while southern ers want no change at all in the rules. Vice President Richard M Nixon opened the day's pro ceedings by ruling that each side would have a chance for a clear-cut vote on alternative proposals. ; Nixon's ruling was given on an inquiry by Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield of Montana. Mansfield said he wanted to make it plain there had been no "high-jacking or black-jacking" because John son has offered his compro mise rule change first. Johnson's measure would permit two-thirds of the sen ators present and voting to impose cloture or limitation of debate. The present rule requires two-thirds of the total membership of 98 sen-ators-or 66-and debate limit on a motion to change the rules themselves. Remains of 100 Deer Found in Home Dallas, Ore. flJPD State po lice said five men were ar rested Wednesday after the remains of more than 100 deer were found in a' home at the edge of Falls City, in the Polk county foothills of the Coast range. Officers Kenneth Scripter and Wallace Cobine said at least 100 deer had been sold, most of them going at three- for-$25. They said Joseph M. Sum rail, 44, and Dorman K. Mil ler, 42, in whose home the carcasses were found, pleaded innocent to killing deer out of season, but pleaded guilty to shooting quail out of sea son. Lowell D. Parker, 29, Inde pendence, was charged with selling game. William Lee Kostenborder, 28, Salem, and Dorwin Eugene Beaty, 48, Dallas, pleaded guilty to buy ing game illegally. Parker was yet to be arraigned- Police added that the in vestigation would continue. Portland -UPB- Two persons suffered minor wounds early today in a shooting at a trail er house here. mm FORD MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959 $1EL VOTE CL WED &gE508e:- Oklahoma IFire Mikoyan Outflanks Pickets at Detroit Detroit-flJPD-Russian Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan outflanked a group of anti Soviet pickets on his arrival by plane today and imme diately launched into a whirl wind tour of the motor city's automobile plants. ; A group of about 50 pla- carff-carryirig pickets waiting for - Mikoyan at Willow Run airport were left without even a glimpse of the Soviet deputy premier and his party of Soviet officials. The pickets paraded in a parking lot adjacent to the ad ministration building at Wil low Run, hoping to demon strate as Mikoyan and his party left the airport by au tomobile. But as soon as the Mikoyan plane touched down, it rolled to a giant hangar at the north end of the field, Big Pines Lumber Plans New Store The Big Pines Lumber com pany s carted construction to day on a project at their build ing at 32 West Sixth st., which will replace the present structure with a- modern building, according to Bert Thierolf, president of the firm. The current building, built in 1908 when the company was established, will be razed to clear an area 93 feet from the Sixth st. frontage where the new $55,000 one story building will be built. The plans will include a customer parking area. Thierolf said that the build ing of cement block construc tion will have approximately four times the sales area of the curent building. Tempororay sales offices for the company will be set up in the garage building at Sxith and Fir sts. due west of the present building, it was reported. The moving of pres ent supplies to the temporary site is expected to be com pleted by Sunday, Thierolf said. Contractor for the job is Don L. Jacobs while architect is Jack Edson. The store lay out was planned by Harper Mitchell, Boise, Idaho, special ist in buildng material mer chandising, Thierolf said. Completion date for the building is March 15. . WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with intermittent rain and occasional gusty winds tonight and Friday. Cooler. Low tonight 40. High Friday SO. TEMP. Highest yesterday 5S Lowest this morning 54 PRECIPITATION: Trace. Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . . 4:55 p.m. , 7:41 a.m. Sunrise tomorrow New moon tonight . 9:34 p.m. There will be three eclipses in 1959, two of the sun and one of the moon. Only the last of these, a total eclipse of the sun in October, will be visibile in any part in North America. where Mikoyan and his party emerged and went I directly into the hangar. Enter Automobiles The Soviets entered auto mobiles inside the hanger, swept out onto the skirt of the airfield, and to a road leading .to the .expressway to Detroit. The pickets, parading in the parking lot were composed of refugees from the Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Latvia and Hungary. The visit, the second in a series of stops at cities across the United States, aroused a reaction by one-time freedom fighters from Hungary and refugees from other Communist-dominated nations who are now living here. Members of the nationality groups met for the past two nights to discuss plans to greet. Mikoyan and display their hatred of him. Tibor Magyar, a former member of the Hungarian parliament during the Hun garian revolt against Commu nism, in 1956 and leader of the anti-Mikoyan demonstra tion, said no violence was planned but no doubt would be left about their opposition to all the Soviet leader stands for. Winds of Gust Force Reported in Valley Blustery south southeast winds which have blown over the Medford area since Thurs day afternoon were expected to continue for the, rest of to day, possibly dying out by evening, Medford station of the weather bureau reported. Winds reached their great est intensity this morning. Gusts up to 55 miles per hour were recorded at the airport weather station about 9:30 a.m. Sustained winds of 40 mph were noted at 8, 9, 9:30 and 10 a.m. The wind caused by a low pressure area off the coast, about 400 miles north of here, blew up in the valley about 2 p.m. yesterday with gusts up to 35 mph and persistent force of 20 to 25. While the blow may die down by eve ning, there is the forecast of occasional gusty winds to night and Friday. Cold air from around the low pressure area could bring fairly heavy amounts of rain and some snow at low levels in the valley by the week end, the weather bureau indicated. Fidel Castro Enters Havana in Triumph Havana -0PD-, Fidel Castro, rebel leader who ousted dic tator Fulgencio Batista in a grueling two-year revolt, en tered Havana in triumph to day to the salute of boom ing guns, pealing church bells and the cheers of hun dreds of thousands. Tribune Boswell, Okla. (UPB Fire swept a four - room frame house here early today, killing 16-a mother, her 10 children, and five nieces and nephews. City Marshal Stanley Shoe make said most of the chil dren died as they huddled about the mother, Mrs. Aire Gardner. The father, Booker Gard ner, 45, was away on a coon hunting trip, and was not lo cated until after all the bodies had been recovered. Boswell Constable J. B. Richberg, who arrived first on the scene with the town's only fire truck, said the roof had already cayed in when he got there, and that the" "sides were just burning slowly." Fanned by Wind Helped along by 20-mile per hour winds, the flames leaped to the roof of a neighbor's home, that of Charles Ware, and firemen were forced to play their hoses on it rather than the Gardner home. The house was located about three blocks from the last wa ter main in this little farming village of about 1,000, and when the water in the truck's tank was used up, the volun teers had to leave the holo- Levy Increase Asked by Park Commission Ashland-The Ashland park commission at a meeting Wed nesday noon voted in favor of a lV-mill levy increase for the commission being placed before the voters be fore July 1, Eldon Scripter, commission chairman, report ed today. The action was taken by the commission in coopera tion with the city council to bring in an additional $9,300 a year in tax revenues. The commission now operates on a 4V--mill levy. The last "in crease for this commission was in 1952, Scripter explain ed. The additional funds will be used to cover an expanded maintenance program which will include landscaping, in cluding the new center park ing strip on the new extension of Siskiyou blvd., and for park commission employees' salaries. Scripter said that the cur rent annual budget of $23,000 is not sufficient to raise the salaries and wages of the em ployees up to a level with those of the other, city em ployees. Proposed is a 15-cent hourly wage increase. Scripter said that the com mission voted 4 to 1 in fav or of the proposed levy in crease. Members of the com mission in addition to Scrip ter are Frank Barnthouse, secretary; John Cotton, Jean Eberhart, and Archie Fries. County Registrars To Receive Letters Letters to 59 persons who served as permanent registrars for the last primary and gen eral elections have been mail ed by County Clerk E. M. Madden. Madden has asked each if he wishes to be reinstated as registrar and if so, to call at the courthouse to sign the oath of office. Oregon law states that "Each county clerk shall ap point as many official regis trars as are necessary to facili tate the registration of elec tors. Each official registrar so appointed shall qualify by subscribing to an oath of of fice and shall hold office at the pleasure of the county clerk who appointed him but not beyond the term of which the county clerk was elected." Seventy-seven registrars, in cluding 18 temporary work ers, served for last year's elections. Price 10 Cents No. 249 caust to return to town for a refill. Authorities waited until daybreak before entering the ruins. Gene Nesbit, a reporter for the Hugo Daily News, said the house had been "com pletely levelled, except for an old refrigerator standing at the back of the house." Bodies Grouped About Bed Shoemake said the bodies of the children-including a pair of 6-week-old twins-were grouped about the bed of the mother. The neighbor, Ware, said he was awakened about 1:30 a.m.-"by people hollering and screaming." He said he heard some glass breaking, and he looked outside to see flames shooting out the window of Gardner s home. "I could see the fire was going to catch our house too," he said, so my wife and I ran inside, grabbed a suitcase with some clothes in it, and two or three quilts, and ran out side." Ware said he then ran to the City Hall to report the blaze. At daybreak, authorities probed the still - smouldering rubble with sticks, lining the bodies up beside the house. Victims Identified Richberg and Shoemake identified the victims as Mrs Gardner's children, Juanit-, 15, Easter, 13, Isaac, 11, Lou ise, 9, Larry, 6, Joe, 2, Omie, 3, Gwendolyn, J5, and 'the twins, Patricia Ann and Ter- resa Jan; three nieces of Mrs Gardner, living with them, Bobbie Woolbright, 11, Peggy Sue Ward, 7, and Linda Ward, 4; and two nephews, visiting from Oklahoma City, Freddie Webb, 13, and Herschel Fraz- ler, 9 or 10. Another nephew, John Steward, about 15, was visit ing but had gone hunting with Gardner and Odis Ward, the son of a friend, but not related to the Ward girls. Richberg said the fire had apparently started from wood stove in the dry wooden house. F. L. Somers Low Bidder for Sewer Bids for the Eastwood dr Hillcrest rd. sanitary sewer were opened today in Medford city hall. Apparent low bidder is F. L. Somers, with an over-all bid of $11,891. The engineer's estimate , for the project is $7,588. Other over-all. Dayton, bidders and their bids include Fred $14,637.55, R. $12,609.69: W. A. Heintz, H Conrad, $15,300.25 and M Limnger, $15,914.00. These bids include moving a city-owned sewer ejector pump from the Laurelhurst district to the intersection of Eastwood and Hillcrest and installing it. Alternative bids, whereby the city would move and in stall the pump, include: F. L. Somers, $11,456; Fred Dayton, $14,157.75; R. A. Heintz, $11, 809.69; W. H. Conrad, $14, 742.75 and M. C. Lininger, $15,414. Governor Holmes' Proposed Budget Uses Up State's 30 Million Surplus Salem -(DPB Gov. Robert D Holmes' proposed new budget was revealed in final printed form today by State Finance Director John Richardson. Richardson said the new budget uses up the state's $30 million surplus, about $10 mil lion in tax funds that will not be repeated next biennium and about $36 million for nor mal growth. This means that the 1961-63 Legislature might be faced with the problem of raising some $76 million by new means. He called this the state's most crucial fiscal problem. 900TH MERCY FLIGHT PATIENT - Lee Sewell, 120 Ajax rd., Camp White, was re turned to Medford from a Portland hospital yesterday, and he became the 900th patient since Mercy Flights, Inc., began its air ambulance service nine years ago next week. He also was the 896th patient when taken to Portland Dec. 30. Sewell, who is suffering from a severe skin affliction, is shop foreman for the Eugene Burrell County Voters Selected for Jury Duty List ' The selection of 2,000 names of Jackson county voters to fill the new county jury list is under way in the elections department, according to County Clerk Marvin Madden. The names, from which 1,500 will finally be selected, are being chosen by using the office's addressograph ma chine. Every 17th name in the 35,000 registered voters' ad dressograph cards is placed on the list, Madden reported. ' 'The new prospective jurors will be selected for Veniers beginning in April. They will serve on grand juries and in circuit and district court. Names of approximately 500 persons who will not qualify among the 2,000 being select ed must be written down, along with the reasons why they are exempted from jury service. According to state law, jury lists may be prepared from tax rolls or voter registra tion lists. Madden ' said the voters lists were chosen be cause tfiey contain more in formation. The names are selected geo graphically, as nearly as pos sible, depending on popula tion. Exemptions under the law include judicial officers, any other civil officer (with some qualifications), attorneys, phy sicians, dentists, optometrists, chiropractors, osteopaths, Christian Science practition ers, naturopaths or under takers, professional firemen, members of the senate and house of representatives when they are in session, and mem bers of the National Guard, or those with six years active duty National Guard. Others may be excused un der other circumstances, ac cording to the law. Radio-TV Highlights President Eisen h o w e r's State of the Union message will.be broadcast and tele cast in Medford tomorrow. Radio station KMED will carry the message at 11:05 a.m. and 4:05 p.m. tomor row, and radio station KYJC will broadcast the President's message at 9:30 a.m. Television station KBES will telecast the mes sage starling at 9:30 a.m. Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield is reviewing the budget and will doubtless have some changes to suggest to the Legislature which meets here next Mon day. The budget showed a "re fined" estimate some $600,000 lower than the general fund figure of $229 million dollars released by Gov. Holmes earlier. Counting dedicated funds, the state's overall budget amounts to $909 million-approaching the one billion dol lar mark. Richardson told a press con ference that the new budget was an "educational docu Lumber company, and Burrell (in the plane in photo above) was co-pilot on the trip. George Milligan (right, helping unload Sewell's stretcher) was pilot. Wayne Reavis of Rogue Flying service (left) assists. The 901st patient was flown to Portland this afternoon. He was Erwin Bebb, 112 Ross lane, who was taken to the Veterans Ad ministration hospital for emergency treat ment of internal bleeding. (Knackstedt photo.) Judge Main Rules On Motion in Case More action in the case of five water users versus the Eagle Point Irrigation district was taken yesterday in circuit court when Judge James Main upheld a defendant's motion to quash service of summons. . The water users, Paul D. Conrad, Fritz M. Carlson, Her man Higday and Ann and Howard F. Todd, are seeking a temporary injunction re straining the irrigation dis trict from "overloading a wooden siphon across McNeil Creek canyon in the. . .district beyond its designed and con structed carrying capacity. . ." One Plaintiff Only the signature of one plaintiff, Mrs. Todd, appeared on the motion for service of Appointments Made by Group Four new appointments to the Jackson County Centen nial association were an nounced today by County Co ordinator Ernie Hood. Appointed were G. A. Cot tingham, Bear Creek or chards,, pear industry repre sentative; Otto Ewaldsen, Swem's, retail merchants; H. A. Mauck, Travelodge motel, motel owners; and Chandler Drew, Medford Corporation, lumber industry. With the appointment of these four men, 22 areas of activity within the county are represented in the association. The four appointees were contacted Wednesday by as sociation officers, J. H. Cra ger, president; Frank Bash, vice president; and David Irv ing, executive committee member. At a Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce meeting this morning the group approved the new design for a Centen nial folder which will contain standard chamber of com merce literature as well as Centennial material. The fold er will be suitable for mail ing, it was reported. Washington (UPB Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D Wash.), announced Wednes day that the Navy has award ed a $21,645,000 contract for construction of the world's largest drydock in Bremer ton, Wash. ment" as well as a statistical document. This is because it contains narratives of how state agen cies work and the basis on which agency budgets . were decided. Some statistical details of limited interest also have been eliminated, but are avail able to interested parties such as the Legislative Joint Ways and Means committee. The finance director said no state agency's programs had been reduced below cur rent levels of service, account ing for normal growth, in the new budget. summons. The defendant's motion, up held by the judge, contended that the users' summons was defective since all five plain tiffs should have signed their names. Judge Main stated that "It is the opinion of the court that matters such as this should be corrected in the early stages of a proceeding in order that a judgment or a decree later obtained will not have to be set aside for such irregularities. . ." ,. J" The water users' memoran dum following the motion to quash service of summons, challenged the authority of the law firm Roberts, Kelling ton and Branchfield to repre sent the district as they "have not been employed ... at any meeting of the district. -." Not An Issue Judge Main stated that "it raised no issue for the court." The users' other complaint seeks nullification of the dis trict's contract with the Cali fornia Oregon Power com pany. A motion. -iled Monday by the district and Copco sought disqualification o f Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly in the contract suit. Under Oregon law any party or attorney in a court action has a limit of two disqualifications of judges. Court personnel said Judge Main is expected to hear the suits. Medford Cobbler io Ship 500 Petitions Wilbur Gardner, Medford cobbler campaigning for fed eral shoe labeling legislation, said today he is dispatching a box of 25,000 signatures in support of such a law to Rep. Charles O. Porter, (D-Ore.), in Washington. The box, he said, weighs 16V pounds. It contains about 500 petitions from 40 states, he explained. Porter recently asked Gardner to send him the fruits of his two years' cam paigning to support a bill in the House of Representa tives. The bill would require labels on shoes designating the materials of which they are made, so that customers will know if a prospective purchase contains paper fibre or other cheap synthetics. Hugh Coleman Elected President of Chamber Hugh Coleman was elected president of the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce at a board meeting this morning. Other officers elected for the one year term were Gerald T. Latham, first vice president; Robert Taylor, second vice president; and Joe Moore, treasurer. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York-CPD-Dow-Jones final slock averages: 30 in dustrials 588.14, up 4.99; 20 railroads 162.80. up 2.70; 15 utilities 91.55 up 0.55 and 65 slocks 205.01, up 2.01. Sales today were about 4,030,000 shares compared with 4, 140,000 shares Wednesday. Holmes Appoints O'Hara to Fill Unexpired Term Becomes Effective At Inauguration Salem-flJPD-Gov.-elect Mark Hatfield today submitted his resignation as secretary of state to Gov. Robert D. Holmes. However, the resignation does not become effective until Hatfield is inaugurated governor. Hatfield delivered his res ignation to the governor im mediately following a 9 a.m. press conference. Hatfield's action followed Holmes' first official action in appointing 7 1 - year - old Dave O'Hara as secretary of state to fill out Hatfield's un expired term which runs until 1960. Has "Duty" To Slay On Hatfjeld said his resigna tion was set up to the time he takes office because "I have the legal and moral duty to stay on the job as secretary of state until I assume the duties of governor." Immediately following his inauguration next Monday at 2 p.m. Hatfield plans to take a "quo warranto" Droceedinir before the Supreme Court to test the validity of O'Hara's appointment as secretary of state. Hatfield also will announce then his own choice for the secretary of state post. This plan has been dis cussed between Hatfield's le gal advisor, Lamar Tooze, and Orval. Thompson, the gover nor's legal advisor. Problem Unsettled The present course of ac tion does not settle for sure the problem of whether Hat field's inauguration might be delayed. The state Legislature in joint session might still refuse to hear announcement of the official election results, a technicality that must be ac complished before Hatfield can be sworn in. Both houses are controlled by Democrats. "We'll just have to wait and see," Hatfield commented on this point. Hatfield said the governor's move in appointing O'Hara was necessary in order to have a basis for a Supreme Court action. Statement Given The gov.-elect' statement read: "We have all assumed that Gov. Holmes' successor as governor was elected by the people on Nov. 4, 1958. I am advised by counsel that under the constitution, my election will not officially become known until after, the two houses of the Legislature per form their constitutional du ties. Both houses must meet in joint session for the publi cation in their presence, of the returns by the speaker of the House. "Then and only then will the constitutional elective processes have been com pleted. I will then 'qualify' by taking the oath at which , time my resignation becomes effective. Then, and not until then, will a vacancy exist and at the same time Gov. Holmes' power to appoint will cease," Hatfield continued. Ready To Cooperate Hatfield said he stood ready to cooperate fully with the governor's lawyers to secure a quick ruling from the Su preme Court. He invited co operation from the retiring administration "so that no state business will be inter rupted or affected." Hatfield said he "anticipat ed" that the results of the election would be officially read to the joint-legislative session next Monday without a hitch and that he further "intended" to take the office of governor. He said he had not talked about any possible delay in the inauguration with either House Speaker-elect Robert Duncan, Medford, or Senate president-elect Walter Pear son, Portland. Hatfield's case before the Supreme Court will be han dled by attorneys Lamar Tooze and Roy Shields, both of Portland. A "quo warranto" proceed ings means "by what right." It is an action designed to test the validity of claims to state offices and is one of the few actions over which the high court has original juris diction. If O'Hara's appointment is proved to be valid, he can at test to his own appointment because he would be secretary of state at the effective time of appointment. There is no time requirement for signing the attestation.
