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CENTENNIAL SPEAKER Speaker of Oregon's bouse of
representatives for the 50th or Centennial legislature is
Robert Duncan of Medford, k'oove. In this picture, taken
Monday, on the house rostrum, he is shown with a few days
growth of stubble on his face, the precursor of a Centennial
bjard. As speaker, he presides over the house, makes com
'mittee assignments, refers bills to the committee to which he
thinks they should go, and generally is responsible for the
orderly progress of the legislative machinery of the house.
A Democrat, he is serving his second term in the house.
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Hatfield Declared
Duly Elected as
Oregon Governor
; Salem -(DPB- The Oregon
Supreme court today unani
mously declared that Mark
Hatfield was the duly elected
governor of Oregon and that
His appointment :: of " Howell
Appling. Jr. and secretary of
state was legal.
The decision settled a legal
battle over who was' secre
tary of state, Appling or Dave
O'Hara, an appointee of ex
Gov. Robert D. Holmes.
The matter was decided on
quo warranto proceedings fil
ed by Attorney General Rob
" ert Y. Thornton and Marion
County District Attorney Hat
tie J. Bratzel.
They claimed that Holmes
had appointed O'Hara and
that he was rightfully entitled
to the office. i
Holmes was not immediate
ly available for comment.
Governor Upon Oaih
The court held that the doc
trine of "implied resignation"
as previously established by
its decisions, is the law of
Oregon, and thus Hatfield be
came, governor' when he took
the qualifying oath and at
that instant a vacancy was
created in the office of sec
retary of state.
'Hatfield had resigned as
secretary of state effective up
on his assuming the office of
governor.
The court said that at that
moment Holmes then ceased
to be governor and Hatfield
was invested with constitu
tional authority to appoint a
secretary of state as his suc
cessor.
This made the swearing in
of Appling, which occurred
just a moment after Hatfield
was inaugurated governor, le
gal.
The decision, the court felt,
was in the tradition of the
common law of Oregon
Said Not Unconditional
Thornton had maintained
that Hatfield's resignation
was not unconditional and
was therefore not legaL He
felt that Hatfield was still
secretary of state.
Attorneys for Appling, Roy
Shields and Lamar Tooze,
both of Portland, argued be
fore the court that the basic
issue was the people's right to
rule.
(Continued on Pag 10)
Public Tree Planting
Topic for Meeting
Edward H. Scanlon, Olm
stead, Ohio, nurseryman and
landscape architect, will dis
cuss management and plant
ing public trees at a public
meeting at 7:30 pjn. Thurs
day in the Red Cross building,
60 Hawthorne ave. Slides will
illustrate the discussion.
Scanlon will meet with the
Medford street tree commit
tee during the day.
. He is former shade tree
commissioner for Cleveland,
Ohio, and operates nurseries
throughout the country.
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53rd Year
Medford
18 Pages
Eleven Directors
Elected at YMCA
Annual Meeting
Eleven directors were elect
ed at .the annual meeting of
the Medford Young Men's
Christian association last
night,
Carl Brophy, Medford at
torney and president of the
YMCA, was named to a one
year term; and Joe Moore,
manager of the - Medford
branch, First National Bank
of Oregon, was named to a
two-year term.
Those elected for three-year
terms include Mrs. Glen Har
rison, Mrs. Murray Gardner,
Richard Travis, Bob Nelson
and Lynn E. Sjolund. The
Rev. George Bolster, Dr.
Frank Wilson, Dr. Roland
Mayer and Wayne - Struble,
who are now serving unexpir
ed terms, were appointed to
three-year terms.
Board members whose
terms expire this month in
clude Dr. Laurel Case, Robert
Dames, Irven Eitrem, S. V.
McQueen, Alex McDonald
and Mrs. John Mansfield.
Discusses Movement
Dr. Robert Anderson, Sa
lem, chairman of the Pacific
Northwest Area board, dis
cussed the YMCA movement,
reviewing the local responsi
bilities and responsibilities of
the world organization. He
commended the Medford
YMCA for its program . for
youth and adults.
Volunteers who conducted
and assisted in programs at
the Y were recognized. Pro
grams are conducted in phys
ical education, in youth ac
tivities, and adult activities.
Brophy, in a message to
members, urged consideration
of an endowment program
through which the YMCA
could complete the lobby and
other facilities. He noted that
"it is difficult to do these
things from the operating
budget."
Brophy noted "The gener
ous bequest received by this
association from the late John
R. Tomlin brought forth how
important such a program
could be. With a portion of
those funds we have been able
to make real progress to
ward completion of the lobby
and other downstairs facili
ties." He said 'additional funds
will be required to do all that
is necessary if the building is
to be completed and properly
maintained'.
Portland -UPD- William E.
Bob Lawton, 41, northwest
power manager for the Alum
inum Company of America,
died hers today.
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ONLY LEGISLATIVE DOCTOR Dr. Edwin Durno of Med
ford, state senator from Jackson county, is shown above at
his desk in the senate. He is the only physician in the 50th
legislative assembly. He is vice-chairman of the senate com
mittee on public health, and also serves on the alcoholic
traffic, ways and means, and resolutions committees. Dr.
Durno, a Republican, is beginning his first term in the senate,
never before having run for political office. He recently re
signed from the state board of medical examiners in order
to qualify for membership in the senate.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1959
"If You Ask Me, They're Acting Like
A Bunch of Communists" ,
County Fairground
Expansion Possible
Foundations for future use
and possible expansion of the
fairground facilities were set
yesterday afternoon at a meet
ing of the county court and
fair board.
County Judge Earl Miller
said he would check on the
obligations of the county to
ward providing quarters for
the extension service and see
if state money may be avail
able toward constructing new
office facilities.
The extension service has
requested an enlargement of
its present quarters to allow
for an increased work load.
Tentative plans call for add
ing a second home extension
agent and horticultural agent
to the staff.
The fair board also stated
present facilities at the coun
ty fair grounds at the south
Medford city limits are inade
quate for the rapidly expand
ing 4-H and FFA county fair
held each fall.
The fair board' has been
asked to determine its needs
for a 10-year period. Both the
fair board and county court
have indicated it may be prac
tical to provide an all-purpose
building on the present fair
grounds which could provide
offices for the extension serv
ice, serve for fair exhibits and
be used by the public all year.
Josephine county has provid
ed such facilities, it was point
ed out.
In reply to another question
asked by members of the fair
board, Judge Miller determ
ined today that the fair
grounds property is actually
owned by the county and that
area on which the National
guard armory stands was
deeded outright to the Nation
al Guard.
Attending the meeting be
sides members of the county
court were Collier Buffing
ton, Valley View district, Bill
Bigham, Eagle Point, and
Francis Krause, Applegate, all
fair board members.
Mikoyan's Mission Failed
Points; Officials Hope Trip Enjoyed
Washington -UPD- What did
Soviet Deputy Premier An
astas I. Mikoyan hope to gain
by coming to the United
States? What did he gain?
As to any hopes of .easing
cold war tensions, he failed on
two major points peace on
Communist terms and increas
ed U. S.-Russian trade soon.
Trip Enjoyed
His announced purpose was
a holiday. It was in the sense
of being a trip which appar
ently he enjoyed. But the
pace he maintained for 17
days in this country made it
anything but a restful holi
day. He also wanted to take this
nation's temperature and find
out what progress it had made
in the 22 years since his pre
vious visit. He obviously was
ONE OF EIGHT Evelyn (Mrs. Stephen) Nye of Medford,
Jackson county's second member of the house of representa
tives, is one of eight women serving in the 60 member house.
A "freshman" legislator, she is serving on the agriculture
and livestock, education, and local government committees.
She is a long-time member of the Medford school board, and
has been active in other civic endeavors. She is a Republican.
Mrs. Nye's secretary, shown with her . above, is Mrs. Don
(Mildred) Lane, Salem, wife of the former manager of the
Jackson County Chamber of Commerce
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Tribune
No. 260
GOP Postpones
Choice of Site
For Convention
Des Moines, Iowa-(UPD-The
Republican committee charg
ed with picking a site for the
1960 National convention de
cided today to defer a deci
sion for a month or two. .
Although no final decision
had been expected this week,
the committee had intended
to try to narrow the field to
two or three cities from
among the six bidding for the
convention.
. Ray Bliss, Ohio Republican
chairman and vice chairman
of the Site committee, an
nounced today, however, that
the committee had decided
against eliminating any of the
bidders at this time.
Further Negotiation
He explained ithat spokes
men for all of the cities had
indicated willingness to nego
tiate further about some of
the conditions, and that the
committee wanted more in
formation before taking any
action.
Bliss said he hoped the
committee would finish its
work by late February or
early March and that he as
sumed there would be anoth
er GOP National committee
meeting then to make a for
mal selection.
Before today's announce
ment, Chicago and Philadel
phia had been regarded as the
strongest candidate, although
the San Francisco delegation
was reported to have made a
favorable impression on the
Site committee.
impressed with its economic
progress, its prosperity, the
productivity of its factories,
the great amount of construc
tion under way and the va
riety, quality and quantity of
consumer goods.
Understanding Hoped
As smart as Mikoyan is, he
hardly could still sincerely
believe the Communist doc
trine that U. S. capitalism
eventually will collapse.
One thing President Eisen
hower hoped Mikoyan had
gained was "an understanding
of the attitudes of our people"
their desire for peace and
"their unswerving belief, ir
respective of their political
party, in the right of people
to determine their form of
government" The President
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Mikoyan Plane
Forced To Land
At Secret Base
Argentia, Nfld. -(UPD- Sov
iet Deputy Premier Anastas
I. Mikoyan Tuesday night
was sidetracked to this key
U.S. Navy air base, designed
to prevent a sneak Russian
attack, when the airliner fly
ing him home caught fire and
made an emergency landing
on its two remaining engines.
The Scandinavian SAS'DC
7C carrying 35 passengers, in
cluding the five members of
Mikoyan's party, ran into
trouble over the . Atlantic
about 180 miles southeast of
Halifax. I
Three Hours Out
The four-engined plane was
only three hours out of New
York on its scheduled non
stop flight to Copenhagen,
Denmark, when the pilot ra
dioed a distress signaL ,
' -; The1 pilot said the plane's
number one engine was on
fire and the number four en
gine had been feathered be
cause of a defective super
charger. The fire in the num
ber one engine was put out by
automatic fire extinguisher
equipment.
The giant airliner then de
scribed a slowly descending
arc until it landed at the nav
al base at 5:07 p.m.. (p.s.t.)
during a snowstorm. The
plane had been convoyed by
a Royal Canadian Air Force
Lancaster patrol bomber, a
Pan American World Airways
plane and an Air France
Constellation.
Security Regulations
Mi'coyan and the other
members of his party, includ
ing his son, were billeted in
bachelor officers' quarters for
the night.
Immediately after landing,
strict security regulations
were clapped on the naval in
stallation described as the
Navy's main early-warning
aircraft station in the North
Atlantic designed to prevent a
possible sneak enemy attack
on the United States.
Heavily armed guards were
placed around the area where
the Soviet officials were bil
leted. '
The airlines headquarters
in New York refused to com
ment on the possibility of sa
botage. It said the plane had
been carefully guarded and
checked.
Salem -flJPD- Dissolution of
a partnership in Salem's radio
station KGAE as ordered by
Marion County Circuit Judge
George R. Duncan has been
affirmed by the State Su
preme court.
on Two Big
hoped Mikoyan would so re
port to Soviet Premier Nikita
S. Khrushchev.
The administration express
ed the hope in a farewell tele
gram Tuesday from Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles to
Mikoyan. It sweetened some
what the sour note of the
acrid exchange Monday be
tween the 63-year-old Soviet
official and the State Depart
ment over trade.
Interesting Experience -
The President and Dulles
hoped it had been useful to
Mikoyan to see this nation's
progress under capitalism.
They were sure the Soviet of
ficial had found the experi
ence interesting. They hoped
the visit over all had been
of value.
Full Benefits Are
Sought in Draff
Of Proposed Plan
Multiple-Purpose
Development Asked
The state water resources
board today recommended to
tne state legislature a pro
gram to "permit the maxi
mum beneficial use of waters
of the Rogue river basin con
sistent with the principles of
giving consideration to all
beneficial uses and the need
for maximum multiple-pur
pose development."
The board's findings and
recommendations were pre
sented at a meeting of the
board at the Jackson county
courthouse auditorium this
morning.
Accompanying the recom
mendations is a draft of a pro
gram the board proposes to
adopt for maximum multiple-
purpose development. Pro
posed programs are drafted
for the Upper Rogue River,
Little Butte Creek, Bear
Creek, Applegate River, Mid
dle Rogue River, Illinois Riv
er, and Lower Rogue River
basins.
Different Concept .
If the board's recommenda
tions are adopted, it would
mean an . entirely different
concept of use and develop
ment for the Rogue basin.
The report in effect sug
gests that statutory and oth
er limitations on the use of
Rogue river water be rescind
ed, and that authority for
specifying the beneficial use
of water be vested in the
board as is the case in vir
tually all other river basins in
the state.
Specifically, it would mean
among other things that the
lower Rogue could be used
for industrial (but not power)
purposes and that added bene
ficial uses of the waters of
the upper Rogue, including
fish, wildlife and recreation,
would be provided
Minimum Streamflow
One of the departures in
the report is in including the
concept of minimum stream
flow as necessary for the
beneficial use of a river's
water.
Another is the addition of
fishlife, wildlife and recrea
tional uses to the list of bene
ficial uses, along with the
more historic uses, making a
total of ten, all of which
must be considered in outlin
ing ' a realistic program for
the overall good of the basin.
In order that such a pro
gram may be adopted, the
b oa r d recommended that
single or limited-purpose sta
tutory restrictions of water in
the Rogue River basin be re
pealed or amended, and that
limited-purpose state engi
neer's withdrawals of waters
of the Upper Rogue river and
tributaries be rescinded.
Beneficial Uses
The ten beneficial uses
were considered by the board
in its study of the basin. They
are domestic, municipal, irri
gation, power, industry, min
ing, recreation, wildlife, fish
life and pollution abatement.
John D. Davis, Stayton,
chairman of the board, said:
"Utilizing the entire yield
of . the Rogue River basin,
there is sufficient water to
meet all existing and present
ly contemplated needs and
uses except for abatement of
pollution. The indiscriminate
use of our water resources for
pollution abatement in lieu of
proper treatment is a waste
of these valuable resources
and should not be permitted."
In the program recommend
ed for adoption, the board
listed the following uses for
the seven sub-basins within
the Rogue River basin: .
Upper Rogue All benefi
cial uses of water except pol
lution abatement. Davis, in
his summary this morning,
said: "We feel that our water
resources are too valuable to
be utilized for pollution
abatement and, in effect,
wasted. We do feel the uses
should be broadened to allow
small industrial appropria
tions such as millponds and
others of related nature."
Little Buiie Creek
Little Butte Creek Use of
the waters for domestic, irri
gation, wildlife and fish life
only. (Not for municipal,
power, industry, mining, re
creation or pollution abate
ment.)
Middle Rogue Domestic,
municipal, irrigation, mining,
industrial, recreation, wildlife
and fish life. (Not for power
or pollution abatement.)
Applegate River Domestic,
irrigation, industrial, mining,
wildlife and fish life. (Not for
municipal, power, recreation
Middle West
Feels Lash off
Winiteir Stioirinn)
By United Press International
A vast winter storm, the
worst of the season, pounded
the nation today from the
Rockies to the Appalachians.
It crippled the Central
Plains and Midwest with
heavy, drifting snow, un
leashed flood waters that
forced thousands from their
homes in Ohio and Indiana,
and lashed Dixie with tor
nadic winds.
A bitter cold wave swept
across the midsection of the
country on the heels of the
violent storm.
Traffic Slowed
A blizzard which roared out
of the Southern Rockies Tues
day slammed into the Great
Lakes today. It slowed traffic
to a crawl in Kansas City, St.
Louis and Chicago, blocked
hundreds of highways includ
ing the Indiana toll road and
closed countless schools in at
least eight states.
South of the massive snow
storm torrential rains flooded
rivers and streams in Ohio
and Indiana and washed wide
areas of the South.
In Ohio alone, floodwaters
drove thousands of persons
from their homes. The rains,
running quickly off frozen
ground, inundated highways
in many areas.
Residents Evacuated
An estimated 2,500 persons
were forced to higher ground
in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and a
state of emergency was de
clared there.
Hundreds of persons were
evacuated to higher ground
in Columbus, Ohio's capital
city, and officials called , the
flood the worst in 23 years.
Gov. Michael V. DiSalle
alerted the National Guard
and the Highway Department
to prepare for any emergency.
Gusty winds swept a broad
path across the South. They
cracked automobile wind
shields in Atlanta and blew
in a hotel window, injuring a
woman, at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Bitter cold speared deep
into the Plains in the wake
of the blizzard, sending the
Youths Arraigned
On U.S. Charges
Two California youths, a 16-
year-old from Mendota and a
17-year-old from Bakersfield,
were arraigned before U. S.
Commissioner Frank Van
Dyke Tuesday morning on
federal charges of violation
of the Dyer act, transporting
stolen motorized vehicle
across state lines.
The 17-year-old waived the
right to a preliminary hearing
while a hearing, requested by
the other youth, was held, of
ficials reported. They were
lodged in the Jackson county
jail on $1,500 bail each for the
U. S. marshal.
The teen-age boys were ar
rested here early Sunday and
admitted in signed statements
that the automobile they bad
in their possession had been
stolen last week from a used
car lot in Modesto, Calif. They
also admitted taking license
tabs for it from another ve
hicle, police said, and the
theft of $40 Thursday from a
service station in Firebaugh,
Calif.
The 17-year-old alsd is re
ported to be absent without
leave from the Marine Corps
station at Camp Pendleton,
Calif. i
A Medford patrolman ap
prehended the pair at Main
st. and Riverside ave. after he
had stopped them for a traf
fic violation.
or pollution abatement.)
Illinois River Domestic.
municipal, irrigation, mining,
power, industrial, recreation,
wildlife and fish life. (Not for
pollution abatement.)
Lower Rogue Area
Lower Rogue Domestic,
municipal, irrigation , indus
trial, mining, recreation, wild
life and fish life. (Not for
power or pollution abate
ment.) Davis noted that "these
recommendations will permit
the maximum beneficial use
of the waters of the Rogu Ri
ver basin consistant with the
principles of giving considera
tion to all beneficial uses and
the need for maximum multiple-purpose
development."
(Sm story on pagt 6)
mercury to 25 degrees below
zero at Drummond, Mont.,
and Alamosa, Colo., and to
sub-zero readings at Denver
and Omaha, Neb.
Many Schools Close
Wind gusts up to 65 miles
an hour whipped the 5 to 12
inch snow into deep drifts
across the blizzard belt. In
many areas, freezing rain or
sleet pushed ahead of the
snowstorm, slicking highways
and downing power and com
munication lines.
All schools in metropolitan
Kansas City, private schools
in St. Louis, scores of schools
in the Chicago metropolitan
area, and hundreds of schools
elsewhere in Missouri, Illin
ois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Michigan, Kansas, Colorado
and Oklahoma were closed
today.
Many Indiana schools south
of the snow belt were closed
because torrential rains, rang
ing up to ZVt inches at Scotts
burgh, caused creeks to over
flow and block highways.
Eisenhower Raps
Demo Critics of
Balanced Budget
Washington -(UPD- President
Eisenhower said today that
Democratic congressional crit
ics of his $77 billion balanced
budget were suffering from
what he called budgetary
schizophrenia. He said they
were on all sides of the bud
get. The president made it plain
he would not have any part of
making his budget a political
football.
Schizophrenia Seen
He told his press conference
that the Democratic attacks
on his budget came from so
many different angles that he
could not escape the conclus
ion that his opponents were
suffering from budgetary
schizophrenia.
Webster's New Internation
al Dictionary defines schizo
phrenia as "a type of psychos
is characterized by loss of
contact with the environment
and by disintegration of the
personality. It includes de
mentia praecox and some re
lated forms of insanity."
Eisenhower firmly rejected
the idea, as voiced Tuesday
night by Senate Democratic
Leader Lyndon B. Johnson,
that his budget was political
ly motivated and invalid.
(Continued on Page 7)
Arraignment on
Charge Postponed
Arraignment of Mrs. Max
ine A. Click, 46, of Ashland,
on first degree murder charges
was continued yesterday after
noon , after Circuit Court
Judge Edward C. Kelly ap
pointed Otto J. Frohnmayer,
Medford, as her attorney.
Pending consultation with
her lawyer, no date has been
set for the arraignment.
Mrs. Click is charged with
shooting her husband, Houston
James Click, 47, in their Ash
land home, Jan. 6. The Ash
land woman had previously
waived her right to an attor
ney and a preliminary hear
ing in district court. She is
being held in the county jail
without bail.
Buenos Aires DPD Flying
squads of battle-geared troops
armed with tommy guns
roamed the streets today to
break up Communist and Pe-
ronist attempts to put new
life into their crumbling gen
eral strike.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Cloudy tonight
and Thursday with a few show
ers of rain or rain and snow
mixed in valley and snow
flurries in mountains. Low to
night 35. High Thursday 43.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 48
Lowest this Morning 31
Prec to 10 a.m. Today, Trace
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today
5:19 p.m.
7:35 a.m.
Sunrise tomorrow
The Moon, riding high tonight
between the constellations
Taurus and Gemini, sets to
morrow 5:37 a.m.
Full Moon . Jan. 24
Orion, the brightest constel
lation, in the. southeast at
- 7:24 p.m.,
Is right below the Moon at
that time.