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TV T A IT 53rd Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6X41. Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka 841W before 6:45 pan. daily and 1220 pan. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended The needs for a subdivision ordinance and how it would apply to Jackson county is told on Pag 12 of today's Mail Tribune. Jnltcd Press fUU Leased Win United Prea Full Leased Win 64 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 81959 No. 275 lW Kli tV .11 MedfordTribuie Sen. Kennedy To Speak Here At F.D.R. Dinner March 6 Date Set For Annual Memorial Senator John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), has accepted the invitation of Oregon's Demo cratic Senator Wayne L. Morse to speak at the ninth annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner in Medford, Friday, March 6, according to Demo cratic County Chairman Frank L. Christian. Senator Morse called the local committee Friday to con firm Kennedy's acceptance, Christian said. The Massachusetts senator, a member of the Senate labor and education committee, has for the past six months led the Gallup Poll's list of Dem ocratic presidential contend ers for 1960. Because of this, his known speaking ability and long prominence of the Kennedy name in public life over two generations, Ken nedy was a popular choice, local Democrats said. The Roosevelt Memorial dinner, usually held in April (the month of the late presi dent's death) was moved for ward into March this year, because of Kennedy's heavy schedule in the Senate dur ing April. Speakers brought to Med ford in past years by the Roosevelt Memorial Dinner committee include U. S. Rep resentative James Roosevelt, Democratic National Chair man Stephen A. Mitchell, Senator Morse, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michi gan. Ashland Pilot Lost With Plane Salem -(UPD- Foul weather yesterday ' hampered the search for three brothers miss ing in a light plane in Oregon since Friday. The three brothers, Jim Miller, 24, of Ashland, the pilot, and his twin-brothers Roy and Coy, 14, of Turner, were reported missing by their father when they failed to land here on a flight from Prineville. Earl Snyder, director of the State Board of Aeronautics, said yesterday snow showers over the mountains hampered the search crews all day -especially on the west side of the Cascades. Snyder said one new lead looked promising. A man at Fash Lake, southwest of the Santiam Junction, heard a plane Friday at low altitude. He was so concerned that he notified state police, who at the time did not know a plane was missing. Snyder said planes would search the area today if wea ther permits. Welcome Wagon Urges Improving Prescott Park The Medford Welcome Wag on club has expressed a de sire to cooperate with other organizations to develop Pres cott park on Roxy Anne butte. Club officials pointed out that since this is Oregon's Centennial year, "we will be open to criticism from visitors outside the state as well as others from within the state." By developing Prescott park, they said, the city can be proud it has more favor able surroundings from which visitors may view the valley. 'Beneficial Addition' "Through the interest and efforts of our citizens, we can bring about the development of Prescott park into a desir able and beneficial addition to the recreation facilities of our area," the club noted. The club suggested several uses for the park. They in clude Easter Sunrise services, Boy Scout and Girl Scout day camps, camp areas for Future Farmers of America, 4-H clubs and the Young Men's Christian association, service group meetings and "gather ings, riding and hiking clubs, wildlife refuge and observa tion, group picnics, holiday orchestra concerts, celestial observation, rifle and archery ranges, a community lodge, authorized overnight camping and a zoo. Annual maintenance cost for the park, according to the state parks division, would total about $3,850, with the! GROUND CLEARED - Trees in the path of the Eighth st. extension, between Bear creek and the Scout office, are currently being removed by city workmen so the final section of the one-way couplet can be completed. Above, city employee Robert Bean saws up one of the big shade trees Forecasts off Water Supply For Southwest Region Vary Water supply forecasts is sued by the U. S. Weather bureau and the soil conserva tion service Oregon Agri culture Experiment station varied from "above" and "much above" to "short sup ply" for southwestern Ore- The weather bureau's wat er supply forecast for south western Oregon ranges from above to much above the 15- year average. January precipitation, ac cording to the weather bur eau, ranged from 90 per cent of normal in the Klamath and Rogue river basins to 105 per ecnt of normal in the Umpqua river basin. Consequently, streamflow forecasts have been lowere dfrom " those is sued last month in the Klam ath and Rogue basins and are unchanged in the Umpqua ba sin. The water-year forecast in the Rogue below South Fork is 1,450,000 acre feet, or 109 per cent of the average (while at the Upper Klamath lake net inflow the forecast is 1,760,000 acre feet, or 144 per cent of average. The residual flow, Febru ary through September, in the Rogue below South Fork is 1,020,000 acre feet, or 110 per cent of average. In the upper Klamath Lake net in flow, the residual flow is forecast at 1,180,000 acre feet, or 147 per cent of average. The weather bureau stres sed that water-year runoff in southwestern Oregon, being largely dependent on the car-ryl-over effect of ground-water flow, will not necesarily reflect the deficient precipi tation picture to date. Water content of the small greatest amount, $2,000, going for roads and parking areas. Other estimated costs in clude grounds and janitor service, S500; walks and foot paths, $50; fences, $50; build ings and structures, $300; stoves and fireplace, $50; signs, markers and monu ments, $50; firewood, $100; benches and tables, $100; wa ter system, $200; sewer sys tem, $50 and general utilities, $400. Immediate Plans The club pointed out that the rapid increase in popula tion in this area requires im mediate plans for creation, of new and full development of existing recreation facilities at the park. The present facilities were developed by the C i v i 1 i an Conservation Corps, the Lions club and the City of Med ford. The improvements are slowly deteriorating from ne glect and lack of mainte nance, club oficials noted. The state parks department in a survey in 1956 found that the park would be used mostly by local residents and recommended the park be de veloped by Medford rather than the state. The Welcome Wagon club invited interested organiza tions and individuals to con tact Mrs Lei and Rauch, SPring 3-3314, or Mrs. John T. Mast, SPring 3-4945, in connection with possibilities of organizing the program, i snow pack is reported to be near 40 per cent of the aver age amount measured about Jan. 31, the weather bureau said. "The present outlook is for a short water supply for most of the Rogue-Umpqua water- sher of southern Oregon," W. T. Frost, snow survey super visor of the soil conservation service and the Oregon Agri cultural Experiment station, reported . January Mildness Kept Employment At Unusual Level January was a month of un usually high employment be cause of mild weather, John J. Patton, manager of the Medford office of the state employment service, said Sat urday. He pointed out that usually the level of employment in the county in January drops and hits the annual low point during February. There was considerable unemployment, he said, but the total did not increase over the amount noted at the end of December. Unemployment at the end of January, he said, was esti mated at 2,060, which is slightly below the total at the end of December, and 49 per cent less than the number out of work at this time last year. "A further slight decline in employment is expected dur ing February," Patton said. Should bad weather result in shutdowns, the shutdowns would be short because the season is late, Patton noted. The beginning of the seasonal upturn in employment could be expected before the end of March, he said. Orchard operators have found mild weather favorable and are making good progress in pruning with no present shortage of help. Robert B. Grieve Of Prospect Dies Robert Bruce ' Grieve," 57, prominent Prospect resident, died unexpectedly . in a .local hospital Saturday morning. He was born in Prospect June 7, 1901, and was edu c a t e d in Jacksonville . and Medford schools. A veteran of World War I, he was a member of the Episcopal church, past master of the Upper Rogue Grange, past worthy patron of Nevita chap ter, Order of Eastern Star, Central Point, and a member of the Cascade Masonic lodge at Shady Cove. Survivors include his wid ow, Mrs. Georgia Grieve, Prospect; one daughter, Mrs. Thelma Clark, Prospect; one sister, Mrs. Etta Phelps, Se attle, Wash.; one brother, John Grieve, Salem; two granddaughters and one great granddaughter; and aunts, un cles and cousins who live in Prospect. Funeral services will be held at Perl Funeral home at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The Rev. John Power of St. Mark's church will officiate. Inter ment will be in Siskiyou Me morial park. Masons will par ticipate in services at graveside. that "had to go," along with conifers and shrubs in the landscaped area. The exten sion will take the north half of the Western Auto company, building (white wall above Bean's head) and will bridge Bear creek to join East Main st. near the Scout building. Stored water supplies, he said, will enable the irriga tion districts to serve their lands with a nearly full sup ply in most cases, but this depends upon normal weath er conditions the rest of the winter. Only 34 Per Cent Water content of the moun tain snow on the Rogue-Umpqua watersheds is only 34 per cent of the Feb. 1 normal, Frost said. Normally, the snow accumulation is .about 59 per cent of the total win ter s accumulation by Feb. 1. This year, he noted, snow ac cumulation is only 23 per cent of average. "It is possible," he said, "but extremely unlikely, that future snow storms will 'make up' the present shortage of snow - cover without which most southern Oregon streams will produce short water sup plies this year." Stored water in irrigation reservoirs is 169 per cent of the Feb. 1 average and is slightly better than last year at this date, he reported. 65 Per Cent Flow of the Rogue at Gold Ray and at Grants Pass is forecast at 65 per cent of the normal fo rthe six-month irri gation season, Frost said. The Applegate and Illinois rivers are forecast at 82 and 80 per, cent, respectively, he added. Forecasts for the reservoir systems of Fourmile lake, Fish lake, and Hiatt lake, aer esti mated to be 57, 50 and 40 per cent, of normal, respectively. Sports Bulletins Klamath Union High school took over first spot alone in Southern Oregon conference basketball last night by trimming Grants Pass 60 to 39. In another league hassle Ashland tipped Crater 55 to 53 in overtime. It was Ashland's first victory in 16 games this season. In the Jackson Coun ty B league the leader, St. Mary's, turned back Butte Falls 50 to 38 and Talent bounced Prospect 43 to 30. Yreka, Calif., overcame Eagle Point 47 to 45 in a - non-league ruckus. -' Larry Howard tallied 30 points to lead Eastern Ore gon College to a 74-70 vic tory over Southern Oregon college in LaGrande last night. Dave D'Olivo was high for the losing Raiders with 17 points. SOC brief ly held a 41-40 halftime lead in a game that saw the lead change hands 11 limes. In another college game Oregon State defeated Washington Stale 72 to 6 in the Pacific Coast confer' ence. Cty Radar Ticketing 'For Real' Tomorrow Medford police will begin issuing citations to speeding motorists spotted by the cily's new radar set start ing at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow. Chief Charles Champlin said last night. Police have been practis ing with the set for several weeks, and recently began issuing warnings. Effective tomorrow morning, how ever, "it's for xeaL" Western Powers Discussing Plans For Contingencies Force With Force Reported as Theme Bonn, Germany OJPD An American spokesman said last night the western powers were discussing "contingency plans" to meet any Commu nist attempt to block Western access to Berlin. His state ment indicated force would be met with force. The spokesman, who ac companied U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on his flying tour of London, Paris and Bonn last week, said the "general thinking" among the Western powers was that there would be a Big Four conference with the Soviet Union before the May 27 Soviet deadline on Berlin runs out. Dropped Stand - His statement indicated West Germany had dropped its stand that such a meeting would be a form;' of appease ment. Dulles, who arrived here yesterday for talks with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, has reached agree ment with West Germany, Britain and France that the Allied powers must ' take "common action" against the Communist threat to West Berlin. The spokesman denied there were any cleavages among the Western powers, particularly between the United States and Great Bri tain, on what to do if the Communists attempted a new blockade of Berlin, isolated deep within the Soviet zone. 'General Agreement' Both the American spokes man and a spokesman for West Germany reported Dulles and Adaneuer attained "general agreement" on major political problems including the Berlin crisis. The West German spokes man said - Adenauer and Dulles discussed the Berlin and German problems and the Western reply to' the Jan. 10 Soviet note proposing a peace treaty for both East and West Germany. The two men discussed but reached no agreement on the possibilities of a Western con ference of foreign ministers to i precede any proposed four power conference with Rus sia. Hearing Scheduled On Bill Abolishing Coordination Board The house fish and game committee will hold a public hearing on House Bill 130 at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, Rob ert B. Duncan, speaker of the House from Medford, has an nounced. The bill provides for the abolition of the Rogue River Coordination board, which was set up to coordinate the activities of the mining and fishing industries in the Rogue River basin, Duncan, said. Its primary purpose was to control the turbidity of the waters during fishing season. Duncan pointed out that the board has been inactive since the decline of the hy draulic gold mining, and has had no budget for several bienniums. ' Anyone interested in being heard on the matter may at tend the hearing or direct communications to Represen tative William Holmstrom, chairman of the house fish and game committee, Capitol building, Salem. Portland -TCPD- Dr. Dallen H.' Jones of Roseburg was named new president of the Oregon Veterinary Medical association at the group's an nual convention here yester day. He succeeded Dr. W. H. Steele of Portland. ' WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to day: a lew snow Hurries, most ly over the mountains. Increas ing cloudiness tonight. Rain Monday Snow above 2.500 feet. High today 45; low tonight 28. High Monday 45. Temp. Highest Saturday ' 48 Lowest Saturday Morning .... 30 Precip. to 5 p.m. Saturday, .02. Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:34 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:17 a.m. Moonset tonight 6:57 p.m. The bright "star" which ap pears to follow the Moon to night is Venus, the planet circ ling the Sun between the Earth and Mercury at a speed of 22 miles per second. E!6cora Ceruses Healed'-' Words U.S. Says Reds Pile Lie on Lie By Their Denials State Dept. Finds Reaction 'Shocking' Washington -(UPD- The Unit ed States charged last night that Russia piled lie on lie by insisting that Soviet fight ers did not shoot down an un armed American transport plane in- the face of tape-re corded evidence to the con trary. ' The State Department said in a statement that it was "shocking" for the Soviet gov ernment "to describe the tape of Russian pilots' voices as a "fake." Radio Moscow belatedly challenged the authenticity of the recording two days after the department charged that Soviet fighters gunned the plane to earth over Russian Armenia last Sept. 2 with 17 persons aboard. The bodies of six have been returned. Elev en still are missing. "It is shocking that the Soviet government now has compounded its previous false denials that it posses vital in formation in this case by this new and transparent denial of the authenticity of a tape to which its ambassador and air attache in the United States nervously refused to listen to nearly three months ago," the department said. Ask Reconsideration The U. S. government again asked the Russians to recon sider their refusal to supply additional, information about the attack. The department said it made public the tape-recording only after having offered a transcript to the Soviet gov ernment "solely in the hope of obtaining information on the 11 missing crewmen." "The United States govern ment still hopes that the So viet government will recon sider its present inflexible at titude in this case, which has shocked world public opinion, and will supply this informa tion," the department said, , 'Violatling' Frontier The Russians have claimed that the Air Force transport crashed after "violating" the Soviet air frontier. They deny it was attacked and deny hav ing further information on the whereabouts of the missing fliers. "The whole world knows perfectly well the humane basis of American society and is consequently able to ap preciate as well as do the American people that the Un ited States government re frained, from publishing this evidence, after having given it to the Soviet government, solely in the hope of obtain ing information on the 11 missing crewmen," the depart ment said. "The U. S. government hopes that this Moscow radio statement does not reflect the considered attitude of the So viet government," it added. Senate Democrats Working in Secret On Challenge to Ike's Farm Program Washington (UPD Senate Democrats are working be hind closed doors on a farm program that may propose direct subsidies to farmers and lower food prices for consumers, it was learned yesterday. .They are under instructions from Senate Democratic lead er Lyndon B. Johnson (Texas) to produce a program that will effectively challenge President Eisenhower's pol icies. Planning Sessions The planning sessions are scheduled to continue this week while Secretary of Ag riculture Ezra Taft Benson de fends the Eisenhower pro gram before the House Agri culture committee. Benson will testify Tuesday on the administration's latest bid for authority to reduce farm price supports in an effort to cut down the steadily rising cost ef, propping farm income. The government now holds Dimq "It's Very Simple We're So Far Ahead of Them That In A Couple Of Years We Might Catch Up" Iraq, Russia Tell Of 'Vast1 Aid Plan; Aref Gets Sentence Baghdad, Iraq.- (UPD -Irag yesterday announced prelim inary agreement on a "vast" Soviet technical aid program that appeared to give the So viets the major foreign role in an Iraq five-year develop ment plan. The government statement was issued as a Soviet 'delega tion left Baghdad for Mos cow. The details of the de velopment program were ex pected to be announced with in two months. An Iraqi dele gation was to travel to the Soviet capital for further work on the ambitious pro-gram-the second major So viet venture in aid to Mid Eastern Arab states. Russia already .has sold the United Arab Republic arms and has agreed to help fi nance and build the Aswan high dam to harness the Nile. (The Soviet-Iraqi announce ment was made as observers in Cairo said the reported resignation of six Iraqi cab inet ministers showed a gain in the communist bid for power in the country now ruled by Premier Karim Kas sem.) Tne Iraqi statement said: "The two sides agreed on the basis of a preliminary draft agreement for economic and technical cooperation on a vast scale between the Re public of Iraq and the Soviet Union concerning national economic development in Iraq." A monitored broadcast of Radio Moscow said a further agreement was reached under which the Soviets would "grant technical help in train ing Iraq's national cadres both in Iraq and in higher e d u c ational establishments and enterprise in the U.S.S.R." more tnan 8 billion aoiiars worth of farm surpluses. Cost of the impending Dem ocratic program can't be esti mated at this time. But sourc es close to the drafting team guessed it might cost 4 bil lion dollars a year. The cur rent price support program will cost $5,400,000,000 in the present fiscal year. -Clash Head-On The bill taking shape in the Democratic huddles would clash head-on with the administration's basic i farm policy. It is being drafted by a team headed by the North South combination of Sens. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (D Minn.). They hope to, com plete their work by late Feb ruary. The bill is reported to ten tatively include' ' provisions for direct support payments to farmers on such crops as cotton, peanuts, rice, dairy products, corn and other feed grains, and wheat. .Disclosure ' Activities of the American Point Four program, which is providing technical assist ance under the present Iraqi development, have been sharply . curtailed . since the Iraqi revolution in July. Meanwhile, Col. Abdel Sa lam Areft, former No. 2 man iri the Iraqi government, was sentenced to death for at tempting to ; assassinate Pre mier Karim Kassem. it was announced last night. The people's court urged Kassem to grant clemency to his onetime aide. The court president said Aref, a former deputy pre mier and the man who storm ed the royal palace in the overthrow of the pro-western monarchy last July 14, was tried on two counts and con victed of one. He was found innocent of a charge of con spiring to overthrow the Kas sem government, but the court ruled there was no doubt he tried to assassinate his former chief. Court President Fadhil Ab bas El Madahwi recommend ed that Kassem himself' re duce the sentence in view of Aref's role in4he revolt. . (Top Arab sources in Beirut said Arefs death sentence ruled last Thursday-prompted the resignations of the ministers. The sources said the resignations represented a last-ditch protest of pro Nasser Arab Nationalists against the rapid swing of Iraq toward communism.) Portland (UPD The State Centennial advisory commit tee Friday night killed by a 5-4 vote a proposal to bring the San Francisco Opera com pany to Portland for six per formances next summer. Farmers, under these plans, would sell their crops in the market for whatever consum ers would pay. They would collect government checks to cover the diffrence between market prices and 100 per cent of the "fair earning pow er" parity price on their share of the domestic food market. Price Support Loans If market prices dropped too low, however, the govern ment would step in with price support loans to stabilize prices. The loans rates would be set at levels substantially below those fixed under the present support program. Another provision would ban payments to crop produc ers unless they put about 20 per cent of their tillable acres into conservation crops. Still another suggestion which may be adopted to help keep down the cost of the program would limit payments to any farmer to about $12,500 a year. i Moscow Attacks Tape as 'Fake' In Radio Blasts Washington Calls Charges a 'Mistake' London -(DPD-Radio Moscow last night denounced the U.S. tape recording of a Russian at tack on an American transport plane as "a transparent fake." Two Moscow commentators bitterly denounced the U. S. State Department for "scrap ing the bottom of a very dirty barrel" to try to upset a "thaw" in the cold war by publishing the tape that de scribed Soviet pilots attacking the unarmed transport last September 2. "The fake is so transparent that a child could see through it," said commentator Pyotr Zarin in a broadcast beamed at Britain. Commentator Yakov Virk torov, in a broadcast aimed at Denmark, said the American version of the downing of the plane with 17 men aboard near the Turkish frontier was "untrue." Virktorov denounced the tape as "one more false piece of evidence" 'which the State Department "invented." "The script sounds as if it were written in Hollywood by someone who knew nothing of contemporay Russian lan guage, or even fighter plane tactics," Zarin said. American officials said meanwhile that Russia is mak ing a mistake by insisting, in the face of tape-recorded evi dence to the contrary, that Soviet fighters did not shoot down the plane. They said that Radio Mos cow's cry of "fake," coming more than two days after the State Department released a recording of conversation among the Russian fighters who gunned the plane to earth, merely spotlights the guilt of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, officials pri vately pointed out that Mos cow Radio had ignored the additional evidence the United States released to back up the "authenticity" of the tape recording. This consisted of. two articles published Sept, 19 and 20 in the Russian Air Force newspaper, "Soviet Aviation," which described an attack which appeared to be" the same as that covered by the recording. The Russians have claimed repeatedly that the C-130 transport crashed in Soviet Armenia after "violating" the Soviet air frontier. They deny it was attacked and turned over only six bodies which they claimed to have found in the wreckage. The United States says 17 crewmen were aboard and has insistently de manded information concern ing their fate or whereabouts. Officials rejected as com pletely unfounded the Mos cow Radio assertions that the State Department released the evidence in an effort to upset a "thaw" in the cold war. The release at this time was not timed to influence the cold war in any way, American of ficials contended. BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE SCORES Wake Forest 56, Mary land 53. Indiana 84, Michigan 79. (overtime). Kentucky 97. Mississippi 72. Dartmouth 95, Columbia 55. Cornell 67, Harvard 63. Penn 75, Brown 67. Princeton 78, Yale 63. Purdue 85, Michigan State 81. Western Kentucky State 94, Army 73. Iowa State 61, Missouri 53. Iowa 69, Minnesota 65. Iowa State 61, Missouri 53. Whilworlh 29, Central Washington College 26. Noire Dame 76, Canisius 59. Georgia Tech 77. Tulane 67. Cincinnati 80, Temple 60. Texas 65, Baylor 52. SMU 72, Rice Institute 54.
