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53rd Year Price 10 Cents ' 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 itnry about McCalliiter Soda Spring, and recent work of developing the area for a picnic and camp lite, appears on page la of today's Mall Tribune. Onltad Preaa full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 50 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1959 No. 269 MEBFORDfJiRIBUNE Danish. Feairedl Amid -Iceborgs' Halifax, N. S. (CPU An Armada of search planes and ships battled perilous ice and the Arctic darkness yesterday in a fruitless search for an "unsinkable" Danish ship that crashed into an iceberg in, a Titanic - like disaster on her maiden voyage. She was feared sunk with a loss of 95 lives. "Fear is gnawing on us," said Danish Premier H. C. Hansen in Copenhagen. The 2,857-ton orange-paint ed Hans Hedtoft, flagship of the Royal Greenland Trading company's Arctic fleet, had not been heard from since 12:36 p.m. pst Friday, when she radioed her hull was slashed and she was sinking. Thick With Icebergs Search planes and a U. S Coast Guard cutter that reached the scene shortly be fore the 11:04 a.m. pst Arctic sunset . reported the area was thick with icebergs and float ing chunks of ice of various sizes. At least one mercy ship Perjury Charge, Results in Arrest Of Medford Man Darrell Lewis Johnson, 26, of 217 South Riverside, ave., was arrested Friday night on a charge of perjury and lodged in Jackson county jail, Medford police reported. His arrest was requested by District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder on evidence he gave false testimony in " Meford municipal court Friday morn ing. He is being held on $2,000 bail. Johnson was tried Friday before Municipal Judge Alan Holmes on a charge of driving while his operator's license was suspended on Jan. 24. Deserve Witness He presented David Clay Dick, 19, of 62 Oak Grove rd., as a witness to corrobor ate his own testimony. Their account of the incident was that Dick, not Johnson, was driving the car at the time But Medford Patrolman William Hall, who arrested Johnson, testified he saw no one else in the vehicle. Judge Holmes found John son guilty, and imposed a $100 fine and a 10-day suspended jail sentence. City Attorney Joel B. Reed er asked city police afterward to investigate the matter further. Dick was questioned at the police station that afternon, and admitted in a signed state ment that Johnson had asked him to give false evidence "Everything I said in court this morning was false and 1 knew it was false," he stated, No charges have been lodged against Dick. Phoenix Conducts Consolidation Poll Phoenix A public meeting on consolidation with either the Talent school district or the Medford school district will be held in the Phoenix grade school gymnasium at 8 pan. Monday, according to Ernest James, Phoenix school district superintendent. During the past week. In formation and ballots were sent to voters of the Phoenix school district to get a poll on whether the majority would favor consolidation with Medford or Talent, the superintendent said. Any resident voter who has not received a ballot through the mail may obtain one at Phoenix High school. Ballots may be left at the meeting or sent to the school superin tendent's office in the high school before Feb. 6. Results of the poll will be made available immediately to the county organization committee, James said. Murphy, Idaho -EP&- The body of John Miller, 36, prom inent Vale, Ore., businessman, w as removed from the wreck age of his light plane in rug ged Owyhee mountain coun try in Southwestern Idaho near here yesterday after noon, i Snip Sunk turned back because of the menacing ice. The cutter reported a high, hazardous concentration of ice, with one floe measuring 40 miles by a half-mile in size. The weather was clear, but the early sunset cut the cutter's search short. The cuter Campbell, com manded by Capt. Fred J. Scheiber, 46, Cedar Grove, N. J., a veteran of the Green land ice patrol in World War U, sent word that the weather had become severe by night fall, with near-blizzard con ditions developing. High Winds, Waves The Coast Guard in New York reported that winds of up to 35 to 60 miles an hour and nine to 12 foot waves were expected . during the night. "As time goes on the chances, diminish, but we're all still looking," a Coast Guard spokesman said. The Campbell remained on the scene all night and was due to renew its active search at sunrise today. The disaster, the first ship collision with an iceberg in peacetime since the Titanic went down in 1912, occurred far north of the most heavily- traveled Atlantic shipping lanes, which are patrolled con stantly for icebergs. Slight Hope Officials held slight hope for the survival of the 40 crewmen and 55 passengers, including 19 women and six children, who were aboard the Hans Hedtoft. All were Scandinavians. The ship was on the home ward leg of its maiden voyage' between Denmark and Green land when it crashed into an iceberg only 24 miles off the Greenland coast in a fierce North Atlantic blizzard that whipped up 20-foot waves. Experts estimated that a person could live only about an hour in the freezing-cold Atlantic. Rogue River Faces School Space Plight Rogue River A public meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Rogue River High school gymnasium to dis cuss possible action by the school board to handle stu dents displaced by the closure of the upper floor of Rogue River Elementary school. Deputy State Fire Marshal W. P. Roble, Grants Pass, who inspected the school facilities last week, closed the upper floor of the school effective Friday. He said the district could comply with the legal require- Flames Damage Phoenix School Phoenix-A fire in the fur nace room of the Phoenix High school Saturday morn ing caused slight damage, ac cording to Ernest James, Phoenix school district super intendent. James said - the fire was possibly caused by a defect in new wiring put in the furnace room this summer or by a spark from the furnace which might have ignited a box of paper towels nearby. Some of the wiring was burned through, and some general heat and smoke dam age resulted, the superintend ent said. A new floor will be necessary in the nearby jani tor's closet, he added. Ike Appoints Nixon Anti-inflation Head Washington -(UPB- President Eisenhower yesterday estab lished a special cabinet com mittee headed by Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon to spearhead his war against in flation. Eisenhower already has warned that unless inflation, with the accompanying deval uation of the dollar, is halted, the government may have to resort to price and wage con trols. The move gave Nixon his first major formal execu tive post and a chance to be heard publicly on the nation's economic problems. Dulles Decries Double Standard In United Nations Secretary to Fly To Europe Tuesday New York -CPfl- Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said last night that Soviet pressure on Berlin showed the Communists "never honestly accepted" rules of justice and law and that this eventually might wreck the United Na tions. He said Communist refusal to abide by the rule of justice and law had led to a "double standard in the United Na tions." He warned that the world organizataion could not survive indefinitely in this sit uation.' Dulles' renewed condemna tion of Soviet actions with re gard to Berlin and Germany came in an address to the New York state bar associa tion which presented him its gold medal award. To Europe Tuesday The speech followed a State Department announcement in Washington that Dulles would fly to Europe Tuesday amid reliable reports of Western differences on the timing of a Big-Four conference on the Berlin crisis and European se curity. The announcement said the trip did "not reflect any em ergency." But officials report ed that France and West Ger many were urging a go-slow approach to a four-power con ference. - . " In his speech here Dulles laid down a three-point pro gram which he said would "promote a fuller recognition of the rule of justice and law in international affairs." More Condemnations He said there was a need for more condemnation and less tolerance of the double standard in the United Na tions "which, has been creat ed by the actions and activit ies of the nations of the So viet bloc." "I say in all seriousness that the United Nations and the world can, perhaps, sur vive a limited phase of the double standard," ' he said. permanent double standards ments for re-use of the third floor, but conditions were such that it could not be made safe, according to John B. Harr, superintendent. He rec ommended that the third floor be permanently abandoned. Harr said students were moved from the upper floor Friday afternoon, and some primary classes are being com bined. Emergency use of base ment and gymnasium space will care for the students not combined with other classes. No elementary classes will be held Monday, Harr said, to give custodians and teachers an opportunity to make final changes. All classes will re sume in new locations Tues day morning. A normal high school sched ule will be followed Monday, he noted. The fire marshal's order and recommendations will be presented at the public meet ing Tuesday, at which time the board also will receive suggestions from residents concerning the future plans of elementary school space. City, State Police Plan Discussion of Radar Use A joint meeting of Medford I and state police officers to dis cuss aspects of using radar for traffic control, is scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow at city hall. Medford police plan to place their first radar set in regular operation, issuing traf fice citations to speeding mo torists, Feb. 9. Wind Up Training Patrolmen are currently winding up their training in use of the set. They have been operating it at various lo cations in the city, issuing warnings but not citations. Medford Mayor John W. Snider, City Manager Robert A. Duff .and a group of city councilmen observed the set in operation Friday morning. Tomorrow's meeting is slat ed to take up such matters as the presentation of radar opserved speeding eases in MMllMsisaaiis WILLIAM G. BARR Parking Expert Parking Program On Private Funds To Be Discussed The case for private devel opment of off-street parking facilities is cheduled for pre sentation here Thursday by an official of the National Park ing association. NPA's executive director, William G. Barr, is to speak at a Thursday noon luncheon at the Jackson hotel arranged by the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce. The public is invited. Medford voters defeated at the polls last Dec. 10 a propos al which would have provid ed the first step to municipal development of off-street par king. They defeated a com parable measure back in 1956. Some critics have suggested that downtown businessmen develop off-street parking fa cilities for that area them selves instead of asking the city to do it. Over 100 Cities Barr, who operates parking facilities himself in Joliet, 111. and in other communities of that state, has recently com pleted a survey of parking conditions in over 100 Ameri can cities. He has spoken fre quently before civil and civic groups. His recommendations have reportedly led to improved cities as Charleston, S. C; Monroe, La., Marion, Ind.; Burlington, N.J.; Pawtucket, R. I.; and Tucson and Phoe nix, Ariz. He' is also reportedly re sponsible .for adoption of "park and'shop" programs in a number of cities. These are programs permitting merch ants to offer their customers free parking at nearby facil ities. The merchants and park ing facility operators jointly share the cost of such free use. Articles as Well Barr has written articles as well, dealing with the relation of off-street parking to the present-day economy. The NPA has been cited by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States for "import ant service in helping cities solve their traffic and park ing problems and revitaliz ing downtown shopping dist ricts." Chamber officials here have asked those wishing to attend to make advance reservations through the office, Spring 2 6293, as seating will be limited. ... Moscow-TOPD-Former Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin has been dropped altogether from the new edition of the small Soviet encyclopedia now be ing issued. court, problems in operating the set' and various technical points. Champlin, Fichtner ; , Chief of Police Charles Champlin a nd Capt. Clyde Fichtner of Medford, togeth er with lieutenants and ser geants on the city's force, are expected to attend the meet ing. Capt. Paul Morgan, Sgt. Tom Eaton and a radar tech nician are to represent the state police. Municipal Judge Alan Holmes and City Attorney Joel Reeder are also expected. Chief Champlin said, Friday the set would be u sed in both marked and unmarked police vehicles in all parts of the city. He added that particular attention would be paid to areas where citizens complain of many speeders. Hearing Slated On Highway Land Acquisition Policy Duncan's Complaint To Result in Study Salem - The House commit tee on highways has scheduled a hearing at 3 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 10, here on right-of-way problems in relation 'to the state highway commission, ac cording to Verne N. Cady, rep resentative from Grant coun ty, and chairman of the com mittee. The hearing was called after Robert B. Duncan, Med ford, speaker of the house, recommended and requested a hearing on policies of the highway commission in ac quiring land rights-of-way for highways. Duncan, in a letter to Cady last month, said citiiens "of Jackson and Josephine coun ties have expressed to me con siderable dissatisfaction with the land acquisition policy of the state highway commission, and particularly their tech niques and tactics in acquir ing land for the relocated Highway 99 in the area near Rogue River." He asked for a hearing "to determine the extent of the problem and whether legisla tion is needed to solve it." Cady said the committee would appreciate hearing from those desiring to be heard on the subject. Inter ested persons may contact the committee clerk, Ellen Schei del, room 325, State Capitol building, Salem, concerning the specific topic on which they wish to speak and the time which they will need to present their subject. The hearing will be held in room 309 of the state capitol building. Mrs; Rita Holmes Named State Head Mrs. Rita M. Holmes, Camp White, has been appointed Oregon state director of Sen ior Citizens of America, a na tional non-profit, educational, philanthropic, scientific or ganization serving citizens of mature interests. Mrs. Holmes is a group spe cialist with 26 years' experi ence in community organiza tion, recreation and related fields. She has had special work at the University of Wis consin, the University of Illi nois, Stanford and the Uni versity of Southern Califor nia, and has attended many geriatrics conferences and workshops. Mrs. Holmes also is a mem ber of the National Recreation association, the American and California Recreation socie ties, and the American Aca demy of Political and Social Science. In addition to having organ ized Golden (Age groups in other states, she is at present coordinator of the Medford and Camp White Fifty Plus clubs. Mrs. Holmes is an ad visory member on the board of directors of the Rogue Val ley Council on Aging. BASKETBALL By United Press International COLLEGE BASKETBALL RESULTS Duke 75. Pittsburgh 66 Michigan. Si. 81, North western 72 Navy 66, Temple 53 Ohio St. 64, Minnesota 80 Princeton 75 Rutgers 48 Kentucky 94. Florida 51 Tennessee 66, Georgia 60 Iowa Si. 48, Oklahoma St. 47 Yale 78. Harvard 65 Iowa 78. Michigan 74 Oklahoma 40, Air Force Academy 39 Indiana 75, De Paul 69 Washington 22, Stanford 17 WEATHER FORECAST: Variable cloudiness through Monday. Low clouds or tug in the valley during late night and morning hours. High today 55. Low tonight 35 and high Monday near 55. Temp. Highest Saturday 50 Lowest Saturday r34 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today S:24 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:25 a-m. Moonrise tomorrow 2:43 a.m. New Moon Feb. 7 MARS, high in south at 6:59 p.m.. varies in its dis-' tance from the Sun from 128 to 154 million miles. And tonight lvs distance from tha Earth U the sama ai that of the Sun, S3 million miles. Megir 4rictly mi McElroy Admits ICBM Statement Was Incorrect Cincinnati. Ohio-(IJPB-Sec-reiary of Defense Neil H. McElroy said here yester day that the United States' intermediate range missile bases on allied territory overseas plus its tactical and strategic aircraft make needless a race with Rus sia to produce intercon tinental ballistic missiles. Washington-flJPD - Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy ad mitted yesterday he was wrong when 'he told a senate inquiry the United States would have a squadron of in tercontinental ballistic mis siles ready for action on the West coast in- July. His ICBM claim, made in testimony Thursday, had been challenged as incorrect by Sen. Stuart Symington (D Mo.), a member of the special committee investigating U.S. progress in the space-missile race with Russia. McElroy's acknowledgement of error came as it was learn ed that Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon is convinced the missile investgiation will prove to be a political dud for the Democrats. Nixon, it can be reported on highest authority, believes the inquiry being conducted by Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson will show that under President Eisen hower the United States has maintained its . m il i t a r y strength instead of falling far behind flussia. The McElroy - Symington dispute centered on the de fense secretary's reply to a question at the hearing. He said it was correct that the first operational squadron of ICBM's would be ready at Camp Cooke, Calif., in July. Yesterday, in Cincinnati, McElroy said in an interview: "In my prepared statement, I said that we would have a few ICBM missiles ready by July and a squadron by Jan uary. If I said something else in the give and take of the committee hetaring, that was incorrect." Gold Rush Jubilee Revival Announced Jacksonville The Jackson ville Gold Rush Jubilee, which which has not been held since 1956, will be re vived during the Oregon Cen tennial year, Bruce Blew, president of the Jacksonville Lions club, has announced. The Lions club here spon sores the Jubilee. It was rein stated this year to serve as a climax to the summer-long series of events planned in Jacksonville to observe the Centennial. Proceeds from the Jubilee have been earmarked for the restoration of the U.S. Hotel, and a committee is being as signed to work out details of the project, Blew said. He added that the Lions club will work with other org anizations including the Jack sonville city council in plan ning Centennial events. Benson's New Formula Slices 1959 Farm Income Washington -UPD- Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben son has sliced uncalculated millions of dollars from the possible 1959 income of dairy, rice, tobacco, cotton and pea nut farmers. This was revealed when the agriculture department re leased its monthly farm price report Friday and at the same time set the price suport rates for 1959-crop cotton. It was all done through re vision of the formula by which farm parity prices are calculated. The revision covered the in dex of prices paid and re ceived by farmers. These two figures are used in computing parity prices of farm products. The revised figures rtduca Sftudeftrite. to tie 1 Was Just Telling Ike The Other Day, We'ye Got To Keep Watching That Budget" Mikoyan Denounces 'Anti-Party1 Group, Denies 'Dumping' Moscow (DPD - Anastas I, Mikoyan, adding his voice to a rising chorus, yesterday de nounced the ousted "anti- party" group and boasted that its members failed to win a "single recruit" since their downfall. In an address 'to the 21st Communist Party Congress, the First Deputy Premier said the reason the charges against the Bulganin-Molotov - Malen- kov group and its backers were aired was to "prove the absolute incorrectness" of the group's actions and the "cor rectness" of the party. "As for the anti - party group," Mikoyan said, "it did Centennial Group To Seek Members A membership campaign to allow more county-wide par ticipation in activities planned in this area by the Jackson Conty Centennial association has been announced by Jack Creager, president of the as sociation. Dick Woodcock, Medford, will be chairman of the cam- pagin, and Russ Jamison, Med ford, will be 'assistant chair man. The drive is expected to be county-wide in scope, Creager said, and will be timed to coincide with the Centennial kick-off scheduled Feb. 14-21. Gov. Egan Removed From Critical List Seattle, Wash.-ffiPD-Alaska's Gov. William A. Egan was taken off the critical list yes terday at Virginia Mason hos pital, but his physician said the governor s condition is still serious. The 44 year old Egan is recovering from an emer gency operation performed on Jan. 20 to remove an intes tinal block. parity prices for farm com modities about 3 per cent. Parity is the price needed to put . commodities sold by farmers on a par with the cost of things they buy. Theo retically, it is a "fair return" for their products. Support prices for many crops are set at a fixed percentage of pari ty. Under Benson's new meth od, the formula showed that dollars-and-cents support rates on dairy products, rice, to bacco, and peanuts probably would range 2Vfc to 2 per cent lower than under the old system. In the dairy industry alone, which is responsible for about four billion dollars of farm income, the cut could be considerable. Ilheiir not win a single recruit since the time it was exposed" in July, 1957. During his speech, he re iterated that there was to be no repression of Soviet citi zens for political reasons. Mikoyan, who recently re turned from a 17-day tour of the United States, also re ported that Russia was pre pared to enter longterm trade agreements with America. He pledged that Russia would not "dump" goods on world mar kets at low prices and said the new seven-year plan had great world trade possibilities. He denied as "groundless" the assertions of U. S. offi cials that trade agreements with the Soviet Union were unreliable. He said Western . powers feared that as the Russian economy swelled the Soviet Union would throw goods on the world market at low prices. ' We have never engaged in dumping and we shall not ao so," Mikoyan said. (The West has accused the Russians most recently of flooding world markets with low priced tin. Before that it was cotton.) Mikoyan said -U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon called trade agreements with the U.S.S.R. "unreliable." Mikoyan said Russia main tained trade agreements with Great Britain, France and other countries, and that the Soviet foreign trade turnover during 1958 was several times higher than in 1950. He said Russia was willing to conclude trade agreements of three, five or seven years with the United States if U.S. officials would go along with it. Blaine fo Receive $20,000 Damages Clinton Ward Blaine, Pros pect, will receive $20,000 in damages as a result of a lum ber mill accident, according to a jury verdict last week in circuit court. Blaine originally sought $100,000 in damages from Ross Lumber company as a result of an accident at the company's Prospect mill when he was helping to unload logs, according to the com plaint. A log fell off the truck , severely injuring Blaine and killing Jean Charles Smith, also of Pros pect. Blaine was working for Lewis Biden, Prospect, at the time of the . accident and Smith for Charles Skeeters, Prospect. Blaine charged negligence on the part of Ross Lumber company. The verdict was brought in at 6 p.m., Thurs day after three hours of de liberation. The damages sought included approximate ly $3,000 for medical expen ses and about $5,000 for loss of wages. wot Seventeen Plan To Enter Norfolk Schools Monday Churches Pray for Peaceful Integration Norfolk, Va. (DPD Seven teen Negro students entering previously all-white schools here Monday will do so indi vidually and without escort in the hope Virginia's first inte gration will go off quietly, it was revealed yesterday. Victor Ashe, local represen tative of the National Associ ation for the Advancement of Colored People, said parents of the Negro children probab ly would .accompany them to the three high schools and three junior high schools Mon day morning. "Other than that," he said, "the children will be strictly on their own -just like any students transferred from one school to another." Utmost to Soft-Pedal Norfolk was doing its ut most t o soft-pedal integration of the schools, closed since September by order of Gov. J. Lindsay Almond. Police Chief Harold Ander son will have plain clothes men m hand at the six schools but uniformed officers will not be present unless there is a disturbance. Pro-segregation groups have made no an nouncement of plans to pro test. Norfolk churches will say prayers today that inte gration is peaceful. No trouble was expected at Arlington, Va., where four Ne gro pupils will entet previous ly all-white Stratford Junior high just across the Potomsc from Washington, D. C. Warren Refuses Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Supreme Court refuses yesterday to grant a stay of integration in Arlington. There had been no school clos ings in Arlington, and pupils at Stratford have been at tending classes regularly. In Richmond yesterday, the legislature finished work on Gov. J. Lindsay Almond's pri vate school tuititon granti program which wiU not pre vent Monday's inteeratiton. The lawmakers killed several hasty stop- any- integration plans, but there was feeling that the legislators should stay in their special emer gency session Monday to see what develops. Almond's program will pay $250-a-year private school tu ition grants to parents who choose not to send their chil dren to integrated public school classrooms. Sports Bulletins New York !DPD John Thomas, a lanky 17-year-old freshman from Boston Uni versity leaped to a new world indoor high jump rec ord of 7 feet Saturday night to steal the Millrose Game thunder from mile winner Ron Delany. Thomas, a 6 foot, VA inch Negro who will be 18 years old in March became the fifth man in history to leap seven feet before a standing room crowd at Madison Square Garden. Medford high kept in front in the Southern Ore gon conference basketball race by downing Grants Pass 59 to 54 here last night. John Olson scored 22 points and Rex Brenner 20 for Grants Pass. Lowell Dean and Done Peek each bad 14 for Medford, and George Koch 13. Eagle Point-Myrtle Creek the state's No. 1 rated A-2 hoop team, trimmed Eagle Point 71 to 39 here last night. Bill Turner tallied 21 points for the Eagles and Fred Earwood 20 for Myr tle Creek. Klamath Falls - Klamath Union High pulled into place in the Southern Ore gon conference last night by lacing the Ashland basket ball team 64 to 20. Eugene-Oregon State col lege nosed out University of Oregon 58 to 57 in over time last night in a Pacific Coast conference basketball scuffle.
