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Newspaper Page TextiLA XT 53rd Year Price 10 Cents 1 Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141, Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 1230 pjn. Sunday, If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended A story on tli history and activities of the Medford Y.M. C.A. appears on page 14 of to day's Mail Tribune. A story oa conditions at the Jackson Coun ty doc pound appears on pake t and a story on the lumber outlook this year appears on pafe today. United Press full Leased Wire United Pros Full Leased Win 58 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 18; 1959 No. 257 n n Oregon's Fiscal, Political Pictures Looking Brighter Supreme Court Takes 'Quo Warranto' Case Salem (UFD Oregon's fis cal and political pictures both looked a little brighter yes terday as the secretary of state battle got to the Su preme Court and emergency measures were suggested whereby the state could pay ills. ' " ihe Supreme Court accept ed jurisdiction over the quo warrento proceedings filed Friday afternoon by Attor nev General Robert Y. Thorn ton and Marion County Dist inct Attorney Hattie Bratzei. Attorneys Roy Shields and Lamar Tooze. both of Port land, filed an answer to the Thornton-Bratzel complaint an hour after the . original suit was filed. O'Hixa or Applinc? The suit tests whether Dave O'Hara, an appointee of for mer Gov. Robert D. Holmes, or Howell Appling Jr., an ap pointee of Gov. Mark Hat field, is secretary of state. The court set Monday at 2 p.m. as the time for the two sides to . present their argu ments. One hour will be al lowed each side. Chief Justice William Mc Allister, who conferred with attorneys on both sides Fri day afternoon, asked botn rjarties to present their legal points and authorities by yes terday afternoon in order that members of the court could start considering the case. Fiscal Situation The fiscal situation shaped iib somewhat as both State Treasurer Sig Unander and three legislators jumped in with ideas whereby the state can pay its bills while the court considers wno is sec retary of state. Unander prepared an em ereencv bill which will en able him, with legislative ap proval, to make advances to the state public welfare com mission and the state unem ployment compensation comr mission to meet emergency welfare claims and to pay un emDlovment checks. .The legislation would ex pire Feb. 1. He said the. state would be fully safeguarded in making these advances although he had nreviously held up direct payments while the O'Hara- Appling matter was being de cided. (Continued en Page 15) Official Warns . Lumbermen Face Shortage of Cars ' Portland The ' granddaddy of all freight car shortages faces northwest . lumber ship pers this summes. . K. C Batchelder, traffic manager of West Coast Lum berman,' " association, has warned railroads that lumber men are alarmed at the loss in one year of 75,000 service 'able freight cars from the na tion's already short fleet. This policy can only lead to disaster, Batchelder empha sized. We are losing 5,000 freight cars a month from .the operating fleet of the Class I railroads. Serviceable cars, he said s have dropped from 1,730,00( to 1,654,369 in one year, and cars were short last year. With major commodity ship pers announcing plans for in creased production this year, the ; situation becomes ex tremely critical. A year ago, Batchelder said, the naton's Class I rail roads had 61,000 cars on ord er, but currently there are less than half that many. Bad order cars have increased to a dangerous level with 149, 583 now inoperative. There is only one alterna tive, Batchelder warned. Eith er the railroads take immedi ate steps to put bad order cars back into shape and increase orders for new cars in suf ficient quantily to meet 'ship pers needs, or the nation's shippers will suffer tremend ous losses. The freight car shortage will strike the lumber indus try, he said, at the peak sum mer production period when the mills can ill afford dis ruption in shipping. INSPECT WAGON - When a group of Jackson county 4-H members make a cov ered wagon trek, pioneer style, from Jack sonville to Corvallis in June, equipment is going to have to be in top shape. Finding wagons that are sound and in good repair has been a problem for the organization because time has taken its toll on the early day vehicles. Above, Bill Bigham, Eagle Point rancher and former team driver, in spects the wheel bearings on a wagon that will be used on the trip. The wagon is Migratory labor Problem Needs DincreasDng Attention Each year the problem of migratory labor requires more attention, Lyle Kinney, retiring Jackson County Fruit Growers league president, told those attending the an nual meeting Friday. .- - Because ot the large amount of unemployment in Oregon, growers in the Medford pear district were required to use all available native help be fore they could import Mexi cans, Kinney said. As a result growers ' wound up with a cross section of migratory labor who typified a "terrific amount of instability." ' When Mexican nationals were brought in finally it re sulted in high charges to the growers. The Mexicans were brought in toward the end of the season and cpuld . only work a comparatively short time, Kinney pointed out. At the same time a number of state committees were in vestigating the conditions of the migratory worker. "This made it necessary for repre sentatives of the pear indus try to attend ' a. number of meetings and hearings. - All of this was a good thing, Kinney said. However, he was looking forward to meet ing a committee working on improvement of the grower's conditions, he wryly added. . Kinney com plimented George Huber on "being an unusually good labor camp manager," and. Howard 'Bush on devoting so much time to his work as migratory labor committee chairman. Bush Gives Report . In giving his report on his committee, Bush said the de cision on labor, policies last year was placed more on the regional level which -made it more difficult in dealing with the problem. Those officials were too far removed from 'And Then After The Budget Is Balanced He Says Maybe There'll Be A Tax Cut" owned by Ray Inlow (left) of Ashland, whose great - grandfather was a pioneer settler here. Also pictured is Jackson county 4-H agent Glen Klein, who, along with 4-H agent Miss Marilou Garner, will be in charge of the expedition. The wagons, five in all, will be covered and outfitted with authentic pioneer gear for the 200 mile trip that will tie in with Oregon's centen nial celebration this year, according to Klein. the local problem, he said. Local pear growers have al ways tried to employ' all available manpower, : Bush said. Although local employ ment service personnel under stood the growers problems, thbse':tf?:rfe'gl&ia,;fea:-tate offices did not: Hiringof .pick ers was delayed during the critical harvest period since these officials had to be "edu cated." ; Of 1,128 migratory workers referred to this area by state employment o f f i c e s, ; 528 workers presented themselves and 399; stayed and worked, Bush reported. Too many of those referred as pickers did 'Sound and Color' Slated for Dinner Professor Donald Hunter, University of Oregon, will speak at the annual dinner of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Monday even ing at 7 p.m., according to John Dellenback, annual din ner chairman. Professor Hunter will pre sent a specialty program en titled "Adventures in Sound and Color," Dellenback said. . Dellenback urged those planning to attend to purchase tickets in advance since seat ing is limited. He said tickets could be purchased at First National Bank, U.S. National Bank, Rogue Valley State Bank and the Chamber of Commerce office. " - . ..The program for the event, to be held at the Rogue Valley Country club, . will include the installation of officers for 1959 and presentation of Business Progress Awards and Awards of Merit to outstand ing individuals in the community. not know what to expect and were not trained to do this type of picking, Bush said. The class of work was gen erally unsatisfactory,, he add ed. Before the growers could hire Mexican nationals they had to take everyone else, he added. Finally 126 men were brought in from Nogales which cost the growers $23 a man in additional charges. These pickers could work for only five weeks and 73 Mexi cans brought in from Fesno could work only four weeks, From an economic standpoint it was hardly worth it, Bush said - This problem will become increasingly important during the next two years. Compli cating the problem will be further demand for on-the- ranch housing which is not cheap, Bush said. The labor camp operated at $3,000 less than last year, it was reported. Reasons for the savings were the little equipment and supplies pur chased, the comparatively small camp population which eliminated the payroll cost and the opening at a later than usual date. The packing school oper ated earlier last year, running from July 10 to July 25. Mrs. Mabel Penland was in charge and has been with the school 20 years, Charles King said. Five instructors assisted her, The school ' was plagued with a shortage of wooden pears. Costs of obtaining more wooden pears was $223.57, King reported. Wooden pears are good but do not give the packers an idea of actual pear weight, King added, - Ninety-six girls were train ed and the school has a ca pacity for 140 trainees. Eighty- one of the girls were spon sored by packing houses. Four girls dropped out, he added. Hoover Dedication, Open House Tuesday Dedication and open house at the new Hoover Elemen tary school will be' held Tues day, Jan. 20, . starting at 7 p.m., school officials have an nounced. The school, which is named after the 31st U. S. president, Herbert C. Hoover, consists of nine classrooms, library, cafe teria, and auditorium. WEATHER FORECAST: Fosey through Monday except for partial clear ing Sunday afternoon. High Sunday 48. Low Sunday night 34. High Monday 48. Tighest Saturday . 43 Lowest Saturday -- Jl PRECIP. To 5 pjn. Saturday .02 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 5:07 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:37 a.m. The Moon tonight appears near the planet, Mars, and sets 3;00 am. tomorrow. The light of the Moon reaches the Earth in less than two. seconds; the light of more distant Mars reaches the Earth tonight In a little ever seven minutes. Ike, Mikoyan In 'Useful' Talks At White House Big-Four Ministers . Meeting Is Predicted Washington-aJPD - President Eisenhower and Soviet T)en uty Premier Anastas I. Mikoy an exchanged cold war views for an hour and a half yester day. Well-placed informants predicted the talks would lead to a big-four foreign ministers meeting on Berlin and Ger man reunification. The White House empha sized after the talks that "no new proposals" were exchang ed. But it joined with Mikoy an in terming the discussions useful" in reaching a better understanding of East-West positions. Authoritative sources voiced belief, that what Mikoyan learned in talks with Eisen hower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles might lead to some softening of - the Soviet position on Berlin, Ger man unification, European security and disarmament. Four-Power Talks They said they believed this could bring Soviet acceptance of the western proposal for a four-power conference .on Berlin and Germany before May 27. This is the dealine Russia has set for withdrawal of U. S., British and French forces from West Berlin. However, these sources got the impression that there would be no summit meetings at least within the forseeable future. ' Later, the Soviet embassy announced that Mikoyan has cancelled plans to vist Tampa, Fla., before returning to Mos cow. It said Mikoyan decided against the trip because he was so fatigued by his tour of the country and talks with UlS. officials. r - Train lo New York . The embassy said Mikovan will take a train to New York Tuesday and prepare for his return to Moscow. Mikoyan. who has talked freely with reporters during his - "unofficial" American tour, declined to answer aues tions after his talk with the President. He said they exchanged views on "many matters of mutual interest." But,- the Soviet official said, "we did not conduct negotiations but rather tried to find out what the positions of our countries were on various international matters." Latham to Talk On Sly Tax Report Gerald Latham will dis cuss Dr. John F. Sly's report on Oregon tax structure be fore the Jackson .County Chamber of Commerce round table tomorrow noon at the Jackson hotel. The public is invited. Latham is vice president of the chamber and chairman of its committee on government al operations. Dr. Sly, director of Prince ton Surveys, was retained by the state last vear to studv and report on Oregon's fiscal situation. New Ashland Junior High School Site May Be Revealed by Board This Week Ashland -A 20 to 30 acre site may be purchased soon for a new Ashland junior high school, Supt. ' Stanley Jobe said Saturday. "The school board will not announce the location of the proposed new site until prop erty owners involved' have been contacted," the superin tendent said. He said the announcement could be expected "probably Tuesday or Wednesday." His statement followed a special session of the Ashland dist rict school board last Thurs day. No Conflict Wilh SOC The new site does not have some of the problems involv ed in other areas of the city, the superintendent' said. It will not conflict with any site selected for expansion of Southern Oregon college. Also it will be located in the south end of Ashland -an area toward which the town seems to be growing, Jobe said. Some of the mid-town sites which have been proposed would have involved purch AiroftD-Amerkaini SeiroftDuirueirot EUDDiruiiirug Stiromig aim Cuba AWARD WINNERS - Jerry Lausmapn, left, is shown above being congratulated by Medford City Council President James Dun levy after receiving the Industrial Safety award presented to Kogap Lumber Indus tries at the annual awards banquet of the Medford Safety Council Friday night. Also pictured is Mrs. Maxine Horton, who was the recipient of the Saved-A-Life award, Grand Jury Will Hear Mrs. Click. Case Tomorrow Evidence on the murder charge . against : Maxine A, Click. ' Ashland, will be pre sented to a Jackson county grand jury Monday, it was announced. District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder said he will pre sent the charges Monday mor nins if the iury is empanel led in time. Otherwise, the charges will be; presented Monday afternoon, he said. The 46-year-bld Ashland woman is being held without bail in the Jackson county iail on charees of first degree murder. The mother of nine children is charged with shooting her husband in their Ashland home on Jan. 6. She appeared Jan. 6 in dis trict court and waived the rights to an attorney and a preliminary hearing. Mrs. Click was arrested by Ashland police Jan. 6 after she telephoned them and said "I'd like to report a man has been shot. Landscape Architect To Meet Tree Group Edward H.: Scanlon, Olm stead, Ohio, nurseryman and landscape architect, will meet with the Medford tree com mittee Thursday, Jan. 22. Scanlon will be in Medford all day Thursday, and will show slides at a public meet ing that night. Place for the meeting has not been decided yet. members of the street tree committee said. ase of between 30 ana 4U pieces of property, most of them with residences, the su perintendent said. Purchases of this type would have meant 'moving many families attached to their homes. The cost would have run probab ly to a quarter million dol lars, he added. .A site pur chase of this type would have also meant removing consid erable taxable property from city tax rolls,' Jobe explained Just For Junior High "We will use the new site just for the new junior high school," Jobe emphasized. "We will have to buy anoth er site for a new grade school in five or six years." Next fall the district plans to add four or five rooms and a new kitchen onto the Bellview school at the south end of Ashland. Six rooms are being added onto the Wal ker school now. A year from this fall six rooms will be added to the Lincoln elemen tary school, Jobe stated. "Right now the district has a school population of 2,500" the superintendent pointed and Jackson county Sheriff Joseph Walsh, who accepted the Traffic Safety award pre sented to the Jackson county Sheriffs of fice. Distinguished Citizen Safety awards were presented to Mrs. James Grigsby, Jacksonville, and to Medford Police Captain Clyde Fichtner, and an Industrial Safety ci tation was presented to Timber Products company, Medford. ' TV Channel Contest May Result in Delay Competition for the right to establish a second tele vision station in Medford may cause two or three years' de lay in getting It; according to a spokesman for one of the potential competitors. -' The spokesman, John Wil- Reserve Center Bidding Scheduled Bids for the proposed $250,000 U. S.-Army Reserve Center here will be called for about Jan. 26 and opened about Feb. 24, according to a notice from the Army Engin eer's district office in Seattle. The center is to be located on an extension of Columbus ave. between West. Jackson st. and McAndrews rd. ' It will . replace the ' present quarters at 33 North River side ave. Plans and 'specifications will be available from the Seattle office, the notice states. ' Work is to begin within 10 days after receiving notice to proceed and to be completed within 300 days of the notice. But there has been no indica tion as yet. of when this no tice might be issued. Kansas City, Mo.-DPB - A Trans World airliner Super Constellation with 28 -passengers and five crew mem bers aboard made' a smooth and safe belly landing yester day after circling for more than five hours with faulty landing gear. out. "During just normal growth the district will pick up more pupils and will reach the 3,000 mark in five years We gain on an average of 100 to 115 students each year. Finance By Bond Issue Purchase of the new site and construction of the new junior high school would be financed by a bond issue This would be placed before the voters as soon as the site negotiations are settled and specifications and infor mation is prepared for the bond issue, the superintend ent said. Architect for the project is Wayne Struble, Medford associate of James Payne, Salem. "The original idea when the previous bond issue was put up for vote was to have a new junior high at each end of town," but this issue was defeated," Jobe explained "We then thought of having a new junior high construct ed in the center of town. However, we don't want to interfere with SOC's plans so finally have decided on the south end . of town.' liams Jr., represents TOT In dustries, Inc., which announc ed its intentions of setting up a station last July. , ! This past week, Radio Med ford, Inc., which operates radio station KMED here, re ported it has entered the field too. The federal communications commission is expected to de cide "in the near future" whether to allocate Channel 10 for a second Medford sta tion. . KBES-TV on Channel 5, owned by the California Or egon Television company, is the one station operating here at present. If the FCC allocates the second channel for this area, those interested in operating on it could submit their ap plications after 30 days. If competition loomed, the FCC would call for hearings to decide which concern should be granted the chan nel's use. Either side," Williams commented Friday, "could re quest delays at will" in pre senting their cases. He said this could mean "two or three years' delay" in starting oper ations here He said that Eugene, under comparable circumstances, is still waiting after "two and a half years." Both Radio Medford and TOT Industries are interested in affiliation with the Nation al Broadcasting company, it is understood. KBES -TV is primarily affiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem Two Medford city council men. Council President Jim my Dunlevy. Ward IV. and Robert Van Sickle, Ward III, expressed interest Thursday nieht in the council's possibly recommending allocation of the second channel to the FCC They urged those interest ed in establishing a station on the proposed channel to pre sent themselves to the coun cil Sports Bulletins Asbland-Craler High de feated Ashland 49-47 in a Southern Oregon confer ence basketball game here last night. The Comets led 12-7, 30-22, and 41-37 at the quarters. Dennis Pfaff. of Crater, was high point man with 13. while Jim Bjork paced the Grixilies with 12. Grants Pass-The Grants Pass Cavemen bowed lo the Klamath Falls Pelicans 62 46 here last night. Bob Peterson and Dean Dunson scored 20 and 19 points res pectively to pace the Peli cans. Johnny Olson netted 17 points for the CaTtmtn. LI. S. Criticisms Of Trials Brings Heated Reaction Alarmed Clergymen Support Rebel Justice Havana-(DPD- Anti-American sentiment swept across Cuba yesterday in reaction to crit icism of "war crimes" trials and executions by revolution ary tribunals. Transport workers in Cama- guey Province threatened to strike against an "imperialist Yankees company" running the consolidated railroads- of Cuba. The newspaper "La Tarde" blasted Rep. Wayne Hays (D-O.) for suggesting the United States intervene to stop the executions of accused henchmen of ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Fidel Castro, who led the revolutionary government in to power, was arranging for a giant rally of half a million Cubans in Havana Wednesday night to protest the "insolent" foreign interference. Four American protestant clergymen, alarmed at the de veloping resentment, issued statements endorsing the type of justice -being administered by revolutionary courts and urging Americans to keep silent. Indicate Softening Despite their angry defense of the executions, the revolu tionists indicated a softening and-more cautious approach on handling accusations against supporters of Batista. Castro estimated Friday night that the total number of executions would be less than 450 about double the present number. He said" this would be few er than the number Batista agents killed in a single town in Oriente, Minas De Buyeci- to, where 450 bodies were dis covered at the bottom of an abandoment mine shaft. Most showed evidence of torture, he said. Out of Sickbed Castro got out of his sick bed against his doctors orders for the second straight day and set off in a motorcade to keep a promise to visit Pinar Del Province, the only one of the six Cuban provinces he has not visited since Batista was overthrown. As he left, Maj. Juan Nuiry, the adjutant general of the Rebel army, said trials of prisoners in Cabana prison would not be carried out for a few more days pending completion of investigations of the accused men. They had been scheduled to start Fri day. But Castro did not soften his words of Friday' night when he lashed out at the United States and other for eign coufltries in a speech to a crowd -of 10,000 assembled before the presidential palace. Calls Demonstration He called for Cubans to stage the biggest demonstra tion the country has ever seen Wednesday. He accused the United States of "gunboat diplomacy" of trying to dictate to Cuba and trying to discredit the Cuban revolution through de famation. "What we are going to do instead of cease shooting these (Batista) assasins is demand that the United States hand over those assassins they have there," he said at an earlier speech at a cemetery memor ial service. 'Demand Dollars' "Not only that but we'll demand that they hand over millions of dollars they stole that belong to the Cuban peo ple." Two American ministers at the Union Theological Sem inary at Matanzas, Methodist David White and Presbyterian Raymond Strong, cabled Pres ident Eisenhower and chair men of the Senate and House foreign relations committees on behalf of the rebels. They urged an end to crit icism of the Cuban povisional government "which has over whelming popular support in cluding church, civic and oth er democratic organizations."