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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 12 JO p.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended Price 10 Cents Th first 18 years of St. Joseph's Catholic chnrch. Jack sonville, will be reviewed dor Ins; ceremonies planned next week end there and in Med ford. A story on pace 1 of to day's Mail Tribune tells the history of the chnrch. MEDFORD RIBUNE United Press rail Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 54 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1959 No. 263 53rd Year -rv rr -4 rm "Well, At This Price We Had to Sacrifice Something" Mikoyan Calls for East-West- Meeting To Check Moscow-flJPB-Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, reporting that he found the American people ripe for a cold war settlement, Saturday called again for East-West talks to head off a Berlin im passe May 30. The Armenian-born Russian trade chief repeated previous Soviet statements that the Kremlin might suspend its May 30 deadline for turning over Its occupation powers in Berlin to the East Germans provided the United States, Britain and France agreed to Two More Die in Tank Car Explosion Monroe, La.-flJPD-Two more victims died Saturday in the aftermath of a fire and ex plosion that ripped apart a derailed railroad tank car, in juring more than 50 person. Five have died. The latest victims, both railroad men, succumbed in a hospital. Three died at the scene of the fiery blast last night. Of the injured, 17 were list ed in critical condition. C. O. Prestage, 47-year-old wrecking crew foreman , of Monroe, and trainmaster Char les R. Barnes, 35, of Little Rock, Ark-, died Saturday. Two victims were burned be yond recognition. The car was among 33 that jumped the tracks midnight Thursday when a journal on a 139 - car Missouri Pacific freight train burned out. Two Sentenced for , Portland Robbery Portland, Ore.-flJPD - Two Portland men who robbed the Canteen Co. of Oregon of $14, 000 in December have re ceived maximum sentencing by Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding. Floyd Melvin Libby, 24, and Arthur Lavalley, 26, re ceived five years each in the Oregon prison for their part in the robbery- About $10,000 of the origin al amount has been recovered. Medford Man Reunited With Mother; Each Thought the Other The heart-warming story of how a Medford businessman spent part of the Christmas holidays with his mother a mother he had presumed dead for the last 38 years was told last week by William E. Frake, 22 Richmond ave. Frake returned home after a trip east and related de tails of the almost unbelieva ble story. Searched Records The Medford man went east before Christmas to visit his son, Bill, sophomore at Harvard university, and de cided to search the records in Massachusetts and Connecti cut in an effort to find dates concerning his mother's death. A separation in the family when Frake was still a small boy had resulted in father and son going to California to live, while the mother return ed east. At the age of 12 he had been told that his mother had died- Frake'i search resulted in I r UK tMBUW4 rfT- Impasse negotiate the Berlin question before that time. "The main thing is not the deadline but to have talks," he said. Tour Discussed He discussed his 17-day, coast-to-coast American tour at a news conference in which he touched on a wide range of topics. He said he found anti-Russian "prejudice" in the United States but also an increasing American convic tion - not shared by Washing ton - that the time had come to end the cold war. The mustached Mikoyan said he was impressed by the "cordial" reception accorded him by President Eisenhower and other officials as well as by such capitalists as Henry Ford and ordinary American citizens. He said any top American leaders who wanted to visit Russia would receive an equally warm welcome. But he did not say whether any planned to come. His "general impression" of America, he said, was this: "There is a growing convic tion that despite the evidence of the cold war and the ex istence of many prejudices in the U.S.A. against the U.S.S.R. and its attitude, the atmosphere generally is now favorable for steps toward peace." Interest Said Shown He pointed out that in his meetings with American "cap italists" the businessmen had shown great interest in pros pects of closer economic ties with Russia. They "frankly stated that we must normalize our rela tions," said the Communist leader who dined on Wall street. He reported that his meet ing with American labor lead ers, unlike those with busi nessmen, was "sharp to the end." He and Walter Reuther tangled verbally over Berlin and Hungary, he said. "Reuther thought he crush ed me, but I gave him back plenty," Mikoyan said through his interpreter, Oleg Troyan ovsky. his finding Henry Frake, Springfield, Mass., a cousin of his late father, and an aunt, Mrs. Sarah Frake, in Three Rivers, near Springfield. The latter informed the visitor from Medford that his mother, now Mrs. Mary Chandler, was living in Woonsocket, R.I. Touch of Unreality The reunion, which had a touch of unreality for both mother and son, took place at her home Dec. 21. Mrs. Chandler had been told by her husband's relatives that her son had been drowned when he was 12, and for some time could not believe that her un expected caller was indeed the William Frake she had believed dead for 38 years. By means of names, dates and old pictures, the two were convinced that they were in deed mother and son. Mrs. Chandler learned that she not only had a living son, but a daughter - in - law and two grandson, Bill Frake at Harv State Centennial Budget Remarks By Hatfield Due Salem -UPD- A joint state ment regarding the budget of the Oregon Centennial com mission will be issued by Gov. Mark Hatfield and chairman of the Joint Ways and Means committee next Tuesday. Neither the governor nor the co-chairmen had any com ment to make on the amount of the budget Saturday! Budget Suggested A commission budget of about $1,790,000 was suggest ed to a sub-committee of the joint Ways and Means com mittee by Sen. Ward Cook (D-Portland) Friday. Cook said he felt certain that directors of the Centen nial could make up the dif ference between this sum and the $2,046,314 that the Cen tennial asked the state to ap propriate. ' At a meeting of the sub-committee Monday at 3 p.m., fin al recommendations on the Centennial budget and the amount of its appropriation from the state will be resolv ed.; - The full committee will probably consider the budget Tuesday morning. Regardless of what the fin al state appropriation is, members of the sub-committee are determined that both budgeted and unbudgeted ex penditures be under strict state budgetary control. Meanwhile, discontinuance of the State Tuberculosis hos pital here was called for in a bill introduced in the House. The state would be author ized to enter into a compact with other states for return of juvenile delinquents and run aways, under, terms, of a bill introduced in the House A resolution calling for a full investigation of the con stitutionality of the state esta blishing school standards was introduced in the Senate. A similar resolution was intro duced in the House. Proposed changes in admin istrative expenditures by the State Tax commisison that would result in savings as high as $500,000 were sug gested by Sen. Alfred Cor bett, Portland, and Rep. Keith Skelton, Eugene, co chairmen of the joint Ways and Means committee. In a letter to the commis sion, the Democratic co-chairmen asked the tax commission to prepare a revised budget reducing administrative costs Klamath Student Wounded by Pistol Klamath Falls-ZUPD - A 15-year-old high school student here was wounded in the hand Friday when a .25 caliber pistol he had bought accident ally discharged. Robert Green told authori ties he had paid $15 for the pistol and took it to school He hid it in a book in class and it discharged, wounding him in the left hand and grazing a girl, sitting nearby, in the leg. Juvenile authorities said the gun had been stolen by anoth er youngster from a sporting goods store. Long Dead ard, and Jim, sophomore in Medford High school- Frake and his older son spent Christmas day in Maine with Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Gould, uncle and aunt of Mrs. Frake and then together visit ed in Boston; Hartford, where the elder Frake was born; in Washington, D.C., New York City and Philadelphia. They spent ; some time with Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Porter in New London, Conn., another uncle and aunt of Mrs. Frake Saw Ex-Local Man In Washington, D.C., they saw Walter Carson, formerly with United Airlines here and now ground operations man ager for the airline in the capital. When Frake's son returned to school after the holiday tour, the Medford man spent several days with his newly found mother and her hus band in Woonsocket before returning to Medford. and to be prepared to discuss such a budget with a sub-committee this week. Among the changes suggest ed were: Retroactive elimination of 100 per cent audit of all tax returns. Provision for elimination of refunds if amounts involved are less than $5. Simplified income tax form for taxpayers with earnings entirely subject to withhold ing. Reduced number of refunds under the adjusted withhold ing tax. Distribution of refunds ov er a longer period to adjust work loads. One per cent gross income tax collections on temporary agriculture workers in place of net withholding. Elimination of installment payments of income tax. Bear, Antelope Irrigation Bids To Be Refused Future applications for ir rigation water from Bear and Antelope creeks and their tributaries will not be ac cepted, Lewis A. Stanley, state engineer, has announced. Stanley issued the order to reject further applications for irrigation rights Thursday. The order followed a request from the state water resourc es board here last week that future requests for irrigation rights be rejected. The only requests which will be accepted, he said, are those which seek construction of reservoirs and the storage of water from Nov. 1 to March 30 and appropriation of the stored water. Stanley said "information submitted by water users and stream flow records kept by the state engineer indicate that there is not sufficient wa ter in Bear creek and Ante lope creek during the major part of the irrigation season to satisfy existing rights." Principa tributaries of Bear creek are Walker, Emi grant and Neil creeks. "Irrigation," Stanley said, "is the principal beneficial use of water being made from these streams with rights to the use of water being held by the Talent Irrigation dis trict, Medford Irrigation dis trict, Rogue River Valley Ir rigation district, and numer ous individual users. Rights for use of the water for do mestic, municipal, manufac turing and other purposes "ex ist in a lesser degree." Two Drown as Car Dives Into Siuslaw Florence -UPD A man and his wife drowned in the Sius law river about nine miles east of here Friday when their pickup truck went out of control while trying to pass another car. Drowned were William Howard Mosby, 61, and his 63-year-old wife Martha Lucy, of Eugene. According to a witness Mos by was attempting to pass an other car and when he saw that he didn't have room swung back and lost control of the truck. It went over a bank and into about 25 feet of water. Salem (DPD A bill which would add two temporary jus tices to the Oregon Supreme Court early in February has been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy with inter mittent rain this morning be coming partly cloudy this after noon, variable cloudiness with a few fog patches tonight and early Monday. Cloudy with rain Monday. High today 52, low to night 35. High Monday near 50. Highest Saturday 56 Lowest Saturday 41 To 10 p.m. Saturday .24 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:15 p.m. .7:32 a.m. 6:46 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . Moonrise tonight . Last Quarter Jan. 31 DEN'EB, brightest star of Cyg nus, is sinking in the northwest at moonset. 1600 - light yean away, Deneb is the most distant of the brighter (tan. IMlevs Briefs... Madras-(UPD-Judge Ralph S. Hamilton, circuit judge of the 18th judicial district compris ing Deschutes, Crook and Jaf ferson counties, announced Saturday that he was retiring and would file notice of his intention with the secretary of state in Salem this week. His retirement would be effec tive Feb. 1. Speculation was that State Sen- Boyd Overhulse (D-Mad-ras), president of the Oregon Senate in the 1957 session, would be high on the list of lawyers recommended as Hamilton's successor. Waldport-UPD-A cable su spension bridge over the Alsea river about 12 miles north of here collapsed and fell some 30 feet into the river Thurs day night. Cause of the bridge collapse was not immediately known. Salem-tOPD - Charles Mack, Klamath county judge, has been appointed to the state tax commission by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Mack replaces S. W. (John) Horn, who resigned. Mack, 50, will take over his duties next month. Washington-(UPD-A drive to confer statehood on Hawaii gets under way in Congress Monday with its backers high ly confident of success. Washington-fllPD - President Eisenhower's proposal to raise the interest rate on GI housing loans will face a quick, and probably fatal test this week in the house veterans affairs committee. Salem, Ore. (UPD Peter Gunnar, 34-year-old Salem at torney, has been elected chair man of the Republican State Central committee, succeed ing James F. Short, who re signed 10 days ago. . "'"Washington -lUPD-'The Unit ed States said Saturday that Russia is hamstringing agree ment on a nuclear test ban by demanding veto power ov er the proposed inspection system. Mexico City -(UPD- President Adolfo Lopez Mateos' decision to break off diplomatic rela tions with Guatemala appear ed Saturday to have the al most unanimous backing of press and public opinion. Castro Ejects Reds From Labor Havana -(UPD- Fidel Castro has thrown out the Commu nists who infiltrated the Cu ban Labor Union leadership in the hectic first days of the Rebel victory, it has been dis closed. The Rebel chieftain forced a reorganization of the Cuban National Labor Front and Workers Confederation before he departed on a week end trip to Caracas, Venezuela. Five Reds were" reported forced out of the labor leader ship. At the same time, the pro visional government t o o k steps to tbne down the spec tacle of the Havana "war crimes" trials. Sources pre dicted that no more trials would be held in the big sports stadium where Batista Army Maj. Jesus Sosa Blanco was condemned , after a 12-hour and 19-minute trial witnessed by 30,000 jeering spectators. Nixon Favored By Republicans Des Moines, Iowa (UPD -Soundings among Republican organization leaders indicate that Vice President Richard M. Nixon is still a heavy fav orite for the 1960 presidential nomination. ' Many of them admit an in terest or curiosity about Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who won a spectacular victory in New York last November by bucking the national Demo cratic trend. But none of them appears to be in a hurry to start a Rockefeller-for-presi-dent bandwagon rolling. These inferences could be drawn from talks this week with members of the Republi can national committee, which also includes most of the GOP state chairmen. The commit tee met here to begin plan ning for the 1960 campaign. Drastic Battered by Surging j1 """""""" "" 5 SURREYS READIED - Visitors in Jackson ville will soon have the opportunity to take a real old-fashioned "buggy ride" when partners Lee Garland and Dave Taylor finish renovation of two surreys to use in their guided tour service of the historic town. The men have acquired the franchise to operate the horse-drawn vehicles in con nection with Oregon's centennial celebra Senior High Rooms Damaged By Saturday Fire Fire early Saturday morn ing damaged the boiler and laundry rooms at Medford High school. Heat damage was consid erable in the south boiler room, firemen said, and dam age in the laundry room was extensive. Elliott Becken, as sistant superintendent of Med ford schools, said most of the laundry equipment was dam aged. Becken said school will continue as usual with the use of an auxiliary boiler. The damaged equipment will be replaced or repaired as quickly as possible, he said. The fire, discovered by Ray Harder, janitor, about 6:48 a.m. Saturday, apparent ly started in the flue, firemen said. The blaze was contained in the two rooms, which are enclosed in concrete. Fire Marshal Truman Nel son inspected the scene Sat urday morning. The boiler room was used for the first time this year, Nelson said. Previously, the outer chamber of the protec tive brick enclosing the metal flue had been used as a lint trap from the adjoining laun dry room. When the boiler room was put in operation this year, the lint trap was disconnect ed, but the outer chamber encircling the metal flue could not be cleaned out. Nelson said when the inside metal flue become hot, it ignited lint within the outer chamber. From there the fire ignited material inside the boiler room, he said, prob ably from direct contact against wooden shelves on the outside of the outer chamber, or by contact with something at the clean-out door at the bottom. Varsity wrestling togs were burned in the fire. . Cooperation in Death Probe Asked Portland -(UPD-Mayor Ter ry Schrunk of Portland Fri day expressed his desire for the Portland police to co-operate fully with county and fed eral authorities investigating the death of Fred Moe, killed Thursday night in an automo bile accident. Moe was suspected of being involved in a huge narcotic smuggling ring believed working out of Red China. In a letter to Police Chief William Hilbruner, the mayor said, "there is always the pos sibility that this could have been vicious murder." Moew as killed when his car crashed into a concrete abutment on the Banfield expressway. Action - tion. The tours will be operated on week ends, beginning early in February, Garland said. Above, Garland shines up the leather upholstry on one of the surreys while Taylor tries out the driver's seat. The sur reys will be equipped with a fringed top to allow all-weather operation. A stage coach run will also be operated by the men later this spring. Man Killed; Child, Policeman Injured In Shooting Fray Aberdeen, Wash.-(UPD-One man was killed and two other persons a state patrolman and a five-year-old son of the dead man were wounded in a gun battle north of here on the Washington coast Friday. The dead man was identi fied as John Craig, 25, an oil worker from Houston, Tex. Officer Howard Chapman was shot in the left shoulder, but was released from the Aberdeen hospital after the bullet was removed. The boy was treated for vounds from bullet fragments in the shoulder. Girl Not Injured A girl, about four years old and believed to have been Craig's daughter, was not in jured. ! Craig, who was renting a cabin at a motel, asked Wil liam Redfield, the landlord, to look at some faulty plumbing and when Redfield's back was turned, Craig struck him. Craig then loaded the chil dren into a jeep and fled- Redfield's wife telephoned police and Chapman was sent to investigate. He was tak ing Redfield to Ocean City for treatment when he noted Craig's car parked in a gravel pit. Took Revolver The officer stopped the po lice car, armed himself with a shotgun and sneaked around behind Craig. He took a re- Sports Bulletins Medford. Southern Ore gon conference pace-setter, rampaged 78 to 50 over the Crater high basketball learn here last night. Period leads for the Tornado were 22 to 4, 37 to 21 and 62 lo 31. Jerry Anderson had 26 points and Lowell Dean 21 for Medford and Wayne Al len 20 for Crater. Grants Pass Grants Pass Cavemen defeated Ashland high school 55 lo 28 in a basketball game here last night. The Cave men enjoyed leads of 7 lo at the quarter, 23 to 8 at the halfway mark and 32 to 16 at the third quarter. Portland Substitute Stan Weber scored 10 points in a double overtime af fair to lead Portland Slate lo a 75 lo 67 victory over Southern Oregon college for their second win in as many nighls. Portland Slate has undisputed possession of first place ' in the Oregon collegiate conference. Washington 79. Oregon 60 Phoenix 48. Rogue River 35 Taken inn Areas volver from Craig but per mitted the man to get back into the jeep when Craig said he wanted to get some per sonal belongings before go ing to the police car. Craig suddenly came up with a derringer pistol and shot Chapman in the should er. The officer using the gun he had taken from Craig, shot back and hit Craig in the arm. Craig fired again and hit his son but then was killed when Chapman shot him in the head. Pear Growers To Hear Talks A talk by Donald Langmo, assistant industrial engineer, Oregon State college, on bulk handling of pears is expected to be one of the featured talks at the annual pear growers meeting in the court house auditorium Monday. Langmo will report on bulk handling experiments con ducted in local orchards and in , Washington and Hood River areas. Another important talk will be that of C. B. Cordy, coun ty horticultural agent. He will talk on influence of root stocks on tree size, yield and decline. Other talks will include re ports on local research. These include pear nutrition, O. C. Compton, associate horticul turist, Oregon State college; time of picking red Bartletts as related to quality, Elmer Hansen, OSC horticulturist; fungicides and fruit russet, Norman Dobie, OSC plant pathologist; pear pest control, L. G. Gentner, Southern Ore gon Branch Experiment sta tion entomologist; and spray program, Don Berry, county horticulture agent. ' Porter Says By Fidel Castro 'Just' W ashingto n-(UPD-Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.), just, back from Cuba, says the more than 200 persons ex ecuted by the rebel govern ment "deserved to die." 'Half-Cocked' Protests Porter, a frequent critic of Latin American dictators, said the storm of protest in this country against the kill ings was "half-cocked-even though well-intentioned." "All evidence was that the trials were just and had been done properly," Porter said. He said that those executed were convicted of "torturing and murdering defenseless people." Streams Cordon of Guards Seal Off Area Of-Fremonl, Ohio Receding Water Threatens Cave-ins By United Press International Mid-winter floods battered several Ohio .and Pennsylva nia towns Saturday night, and officials took drastic action to protect homes and prop erty from water destruction and looters. A "cordon of guards" seal ed off a flood-ravaged area of downtown Fremont, Ohio, where the ice-filled Sandusky river rolled over its banks and reached a crest of 17 feet. At MeadviUe, Pa., dynamite was delivered by helicopter to authorities who hoped to relieve pressure pn the wat-ter-soaked community by blasting an ice jam on French creek. Street Cave-ins Feared Some maverick streams and rivers were receding. But at Chillicothe, Ohio, a third of the city was inundated and still closed by the floodwa ters of the Scioto river. A danger of street cave-ins post ed a new threat as water drained out of the area. At Lafayette, Ind., a bridge over the Wabash river was threatened by ice jams, and authorities prepared to evac uate patients from a sanitar ium if the river continued to rise. Still other towns faced ad ditional dangers from the rampaging streams in Ofiio and Pennsylvania, where floodwaters forced at least 25,000 persons from their h o m es and caused damage well above $100 million. Red Cross headquarters in Wash ington said preliminary re ports indicated at least 3,500 homes were destroyed or damaged by floods from In diana to New York. Al Least 115 Dead The floods, plus the giant snowstorm which battered the nation during the past week, exacted a high price in human life. A United Press International count showed at least 115 deaths attributed to floods, traffic, exhaustion, ex posure and tornadoes. Meanwhile, a warming trend mushroomed across the plains into the midwest, breaking a bone-chilling cold wave that followed on the heels of the snowstorm, the worst of the winter. Warmer temperatures were expected to push into New England today. Federal and state agencies speeded relief to the Ohio Pennsylvania flood areas af ter President Eisenhower au thorized federal aid Friday. In the keystone state, Gov. David L. Lawrence called a meeting of cabinet officers for tonight to discuss pos sible emergency legislation to help the flood areas. Four Youths Confess To Robbery of Grave Paso Robles, Calif.-JUPD-Four youths, one an AWOL soldier from Ft. Ord, confes sed Saturday they robbed a grave and planted the skull on a fence post "just for kicks," sheriffs deputies said. "We just did it for kick," one of them said. "There's nothing to do in this town and we thought we'd have a little fun." Executions Several lawmakers who have been critical of the rebel trials and executions declined rebel leader Fidel Castro's in vitation to come to Cuba to see for themselves how Cu ban justice operates. Porter, who spent two days in Cuba, said his investigation uncov ered no proof of any "drum head courts martial or blood baths." But the congressman said he recommended to Castro that the rebel leader stop the "spectacle" of trials in the Havana Sports Palace where thousands watched the pro ceedings. Castro followed this advice.
