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ro)fn u 53rd Year Medford 16 Pages Mummlbeir tf Jobless 616, Mglheir Posf-Chrisfmas, Outdoor Cutbacks Blamed for Slack Unemployment Rate Virtually Unchanged Washington -(UPD- The gov ernment said today the num ber of jobless increased by 616,000 last month to 4, 724,000. The Commerce and Labor departments also said in a joint report that employment fell 1,267,000 to 62,706,000. Post-Christmas lay-offs of retail store and postal work ers and further cutbacks in outdoor work accounted for both changes, the report said. It said job losses were about normal for this time of year." Withdraw From Fore The . drop in employment was larger , than the rise in unemployment because most of those persons leaving holi day season jobs withdrew from the labor force instead of seeking other work. The unemployment rate after sea sonal adjustments remained virtually unchanged at 6 per cent of the labor force for the second month in a row. This reflects a slowdown in the rate of job recovery from re cession lows, the report said. Year Ago Comparison Unemployment hit a post war peak of 5,437,000 last June. Last month's jobless fig ure exceeded the January, 1958, total by nearly a quar ter million, however. The report said that non farm employment including self-employed, domestic serv ants and unpaid family work ers fell by 1,100,000 during the month to 58 million. Nearly all of this was ac counted for by cutbacks in re tail trade, post offices and construction work. Average factory work-week dropped 24 minutes to 39. 09 hours in January because of a reduction in overtime. Week ly earnings of the average factory worker dropped by 88 ' cents to $87.38 last month because of the shorter work week. Holland Refuses Moloiov as Enyoy The Hague, Holland -IUPD-The Dutch government has in formed Russia it does not want former Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov as the new Soviet ambassador to The Hague, reliable diplomatic sources reported today. Molotov, ousted in the purge, of the "anti-party group" by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, was one of three candidates orig inally put forward for the post here- by Moscow. Molotov presently is Soviet ambassa dor to Outer Mongolia. There were reports that the Dutch government first had agreed to Molotov's nomina tion to fill the post of ambas sador to Holland. But a bitter press and behind - the - scenes campaign apparently forced the Dutch government to veto the nomination. Britain Pushes Mounting Stockpile of Atom Bombs London - (UPD - Britain an nounced today that she is pushing production of her own H-bomb weapons to bolster a mounting stockpile of A-bombs. Exchange of nuclear infor mation with the United States will permit "a significant in crease in the rate of produc tion," a government defense white, paper said. To Boost Army The white pape disclosed that Britain has decided to boost the size of the stream lined regular army she is scheduled to "have by 1962 after the draft ends. Originally this was to have totalled 165,000. But the gov ernment now has decided to step it up to 180,000, the white MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1959 State Senate Molds First Wight Session Salem -(CPD- The Oregon Senate, in its first night. ses sion of the 1959 Legislature, Monday passed a bill to auth orize acquiring of property for access roads by the State Forestry Board and sent a measure to increase voting hours back to committee. A protest against passage of the property acquisition measure was made by Sen. Ben Musa (D-The Dalles). He said the. bill was an invasion of public rights. The measure would facili tate the acquiring of property needed by the Forestry Board for access roads and other uses and would give compensation to affected property owners. Three Vote No Sen. Melvin Goode (R-Al-bany) said the measure was in the public interest in that it gave the Board authority to clear out fallen trees from access roads. Musa and Sens. Dan Thiel (D-Astoria) and R. F. Chap man (D-Coos Bay) were the only ones voting against the measure.' SP Shasta Schedule Cut Seen Bus Service Threat Sacramento-flTD-The California Senate passed a resolu tion Monday protesting the proposed curtailment of Shasta Daylight service by the Southern Pacific railroad. The resolution was by Sen. Randolph Collier (R.-Yreka) who said that "the railroad has been staging a program to downgrade its passenger program so that it could concen trate on the more lucrative freight service." Kansas Pancake Flipper Wins Race Liberal, Kan. (UPD Mary Collingwood, her bright orange head scarf flapping in the breeze as she flipped a pancake in her skillet, today won the 10th annual Inter national Pancake Race by seven seconds over the win ner in Olney, England. Miss Collingwood, 25, ' a high school physical educa tion teacher, raced across the 415-yard course in 1 minute, 8.8 seconds. The winner in Olney, Brid get Lowrie, covered the dis tance in 1 minute, 15.8 sec onds earlier today. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued cloudy and cool with occasional show ers, of snow or rain tonight. Mostly cloudy with possibly a few light showers and occa sional sunny periods Wednes day. Low tonight 32, High Wednesday 42. Temp. Highest Yesterday 41 Lowest this Morning 32 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:36 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:15 a.m. Moonset tonight 8:59 p.m. First Quarter Feb. 15 The constellation of Leo is in the east at moonset tonight. The brighter stars of this group form the figure of a sickle with the blade curved up toward the Twins. paper announced. The government disclosed that the army, navy and air force all are being equipped with the most modern nuclear age weapons. Russian Progress Recalled Britain's release of informa tion that it was pushing ahead with hydrogen weapons pro duction recalled the fact that the Russians disclosed they also were making progress in modernizing their atomic age armaments. The white paper noted that Britain- now has growing stockpiles of atomic and hy drogen bombs and a sizeable family of American and Brit ish guided missiles capable of carrying them to enemy targets. The bill providing for open ing of election polls at 6 a.m. instead of 8 a.m. was sent back to the Committee on Elections for amendment after Sen. Dan Dimick (D-Roseburg) said he had received some ob jections to the measure as written. Truck Weight Bill ; The Senate approved four House appropriation measures calling for funds for the Cap itol Planning Commission, the Potato Commission, the Watchmaking and Clockmak- mg Commission and the La dina Clover Commission. The upper chamber passed and sent to the House a Meas ure which Sen. Anthony Ytur ri (R-Ontario) said would eliminate evasions on truck weights and provide some $360,000 more a year. He said it would combine the present double system of licensing commercial vehicles by weight under which the trucker pays one fee for "light" weight and another for "gross" or loaded weight. Daylight San Francisco - If the South ern Pacific railroad is allowed to reduce the frequency of its Shasta Daylight train, it will mean curtailed bus service in the Ashland, Medford and Grants Pass area, according to an Oregon Public Utilities of ficial. Clifford W. Ferguson, direc tor of rail transportation for the Oregon PUC, reported this side-issue today as inter state commerce commission hearings on the SP's abandon ment proposal were to open here today. Connects With Daylight Ferguson pointed out that SP-operated bus service in the Rogue valley area is designed to connect with the Daylight at Dunsmuir. If the Daylight is reduced to three times a week in frequency, such, bus service also will decline, he pointed out. The PUC official will rec ommend to the ICC that the application for partial discon tinuance of service be denied by the federal agency, and will support this by some 20 pages of testimony, including exhibits which he said show the SP has long "deliberately discouraged" passenger serv ice on its lines. He will cite the railroad's sale and advertising of airline tickets (which he said is a service paid for by the SP at no cost to the airlines); a de crease in advertising designed to decrease rail passenger pat ronage; closure of ticket of fices; discontinuance of car cleaning services; a down grading of train meal service; a record of many late arrivals by the Daylight; elimination of traveling agents and the use of fewer chair car porters; and similar practices. Deliberately Discouraged These he said: ". . . Show that passenger patronage of the Southern Pacific is being deliberately discouraged by adopted practices designed to discourage patronage. This de sign might be properly titled pattern for abandonment.' It was used, the evidence will show,- in a modified form in relation to the Rogue River intrastate passenger service prior to abandonment of their service." Price 1 0 Cents Tribune No. 27 President Warns Congress Against Foreign Aid Cut Greatest Possible Return Said Obtained Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower warned the Democratic-controlled Congress to day against cutting foreign aid to offset increased spend ing for Domestic programs such as housing and airports. The President told a news conference that he could think of no policy that would be more destructive to Amer ica's best interests. He said the nation gets the greatest possible return from foreign aid spending. Jobless Not Alarming He said that if the Democratic- leaders of Congress had any idea of in effect using foreign aid funds to finance domestic programs, then statesmanship was beginning to sink to a very low level. On other topics, the Presi dent: Made clear that he is not alarmed by the current in crease in unemployment. But he said not for one minute would he accept 4,700,000 un employed as a satisfactory level. He expressed confi dence that there will be a pick-up in employment later this year. Warning on Inflation Sharply disputed argu ments, advanced largely by Democrats, that federal spending on domestic pro grams should be stepped up in light of the faster growth of Russia's economy. He again pointed out what he considers would be the dis astrous effects of inflation on the national economy. He said that he thought the bad ef fects of deficit federal spend ing would be greater than the good effects. He urged the American people to pray for the early return of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to his du ties. Dulles entered Walter Reed hospital this morning for a hernia operation which will keep him from his job for several weeks. No Third Term Gave a flat "no" when asked whether he would be thinking of running for a third term if this were not prohibited by the Constitu tion. Said that he will leave selection of a site for the 1960 GOP convention entire ly up to the party's National Committee. He said that he had no choice for it. Said his school construc tion legislation, which went to Congress Monday, was de signed to provide federal aid only to school districts whose need for outside help can be proved. He said the educa tional problem was primar ily and basically a local re sponsibility. Said that before consid ering a visit to Russia that he would have to await -a more persuasive invitation than Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev recently made in a speech to the Soviet Communist Congress which included attacks on Eisenhow er and U.S. foreign policy. Six-Year-Old Hurt En Route to School Six-year-old Loren Herndon of Medford suffered slight in juries this morning when he was struck by a car en route to Washington school, school officials reported. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Laurel Bowker, 405 Chestnut st., Medford, was treated at Sacred Heart hospital follow ing the accident and released. Young Herndon had just been let out of his parents' car on Dakota st. and was crossing to the school play ground when he ran directly in front of a car driven by Kathleen Carlson, 603 King st., Medford, according to reports. Thed river was not held, school authorities said. The Carlson car was traveling 5 miles an hour when the accident occurred, they added. Salem (UPD T h e Oregon House has referred to the Ju diciary Committee a bill that would make it a criminal of fense not to cooperate with a livestock inspector. "Don't Forget To Fasten Your Money Belt'1 Improvement Plan Not Designed to Push People Around Edward Syring, manager of the driver licensing division of the state department of mo tor vehicles, told local traffic officials here yesterday that the state's driver : improve ment program is not designed to "push people around." The program, in effect since 1950, seeks to control poor drivers and help them become good ones by a system of screening records, dispatching warning letters, interviewing chronic law breakers, and sus pending drivers' licenses on a discretionary basis. A point system is one basis for such suspensions. Syring said that until last year information about the program's operation was limit ed to those destined by poor records to receive warning letters. Recently, he said, the pro gram has received consider able adverse publicity. "There have been times in the last few months when we wished the point system had never been made known to the pub lic," he said. "We had much information put out in the newspapers that was not true," he added. "We do have to defend our selves," Syfing said, against accusations that the program is being carried out in an arbi trary .manner. He said such accusations often arise from prejudice and misinformation. He noted that those people who have taken an interest in learning about the program's operation have in many cases come to praise it. He said the state plans to provide the public with infor mation about the program to promote understanding of its aims and accomplishments. Records Screened Of the more than 850,000 licensed drivers in Oregon, Syring said, less than 19 per cent have had their records screened under -the improve ment program since its incep tion in February, 1950. Less than 4.5 per cent have been sent warning letters, he continued. Less than 1.2 per cent have been interviewed and less than .5 have suffered temporary suspension of driv ing privileges, he stated. "I believe these figures show we are not pushing peo ple around," Syring com mented. "We feel this program is meaningful, and is getting re sults," he said. Among those who heard him yesterday afternoon were Road Conditions Highway 99. Sexton mountain, north: Carry chains, snow extends north ward to Roseburg'. Highway 99. Siskiyous: Chains required; 8 inches new, 11 inches roadside. Highway 66. Green' Springs: Chains required. Klamath Falls reported S iriches of new snow this morning. " Highway 62. ' Prospect: Carry chains. Twelve inch es of new snow was re ported at Crater Lake Na tional park entrance. Highway 199, Oregon mountain: Chains required. Cave Junction area report ed two inches of new snow this morning. Highway 99, California: Chains mandatory from three miles north of Weed to about 18 miles south of Dunsmuir. C. D. Larson, president of the Medford Safety Council; City Manager Robert A. Duff; Capt. Clyde Fichtner and other offi cers of the Medford police department; and Jackson County Sheriff Joe Walsh and Chief Deputy Sheriff Paul Bettiol. Parade, Pageant Among Activities' For Centennial A parade in downtown Medford, a dinner arid page ant in Central Point, and a dance, in Ashland will "kick- off" local observances of the Oregon Centennial Year Sat urday, Feb. 14. The parade, which will start at 12:30 p.m., is being spon sored by the Medford Trail Riders. The route of the pa rade will be announced later, club official said. Anyone interested in rid ing a horse or in wagons or buggies may contact members of the Trail Riders or Stanley Foley, president, in Gold Hill, ULrick 5-1533, Ray Barnard, Central Point, NOrmandy 4-1246, or Glenn Porter, Med ford, SPring 3-3781. The Central Point Grange is sponsoring a . Centennial dinner starting at 6 p.m. Sat urday at the Grange hall. Old fashioned dress will be appro priate for the occasion. Following the dinner, a pageant, "An Oregon Trail," written by Mrs. Scott Hamil ton, will be presented. The few remaining tickets for the dinner are available from Delmar Smith in Cen tral Point. Banjo music is planned during the evening, along with dancing following the pageant. The Ashland National Guard unit is sponsoring a dance at the Ashland armory Saturday starting at 9 p.m. The dance is planned as a Pio neer dance, with prizes for beards, best oldtime military costume, best pioneer -costumed couple and others. Ash land merchants will furnish prizes. Duke Pothier, local guitar ist, will be featured with his ensemble, and will offer se lections for square dancing, western swing and modern dances. Pioneer costumes are not mandatory, but those at tending are urged to wear old fashioned clothing. Bloodmobile Visits Chapter House Here The Jackson county chap ter of the American Red Cross counted on walk-in donors this afternoon to help obtain 290 pints of blood during the regular Bloodmobile visit to Medford. The Bloodmobile will be at the Red Cross chapter house, 60 Hawthorne ave., until 5 o'clock this afternoon. At mid morning, only 112 persons of the 350 needed had made ap pointments for the regular collection. Thirty persons contributed blood in a special , drawing at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon. The blood was flown to Port land for open heart surgery. The Bloodmobile will be in Ashland at the Elks temple between 1 and 5 p.m. to morrow. ' 20 Known Dead, Hundreds Injured; Homes Smashed Dazed Survivors View Bodies at Morgue ' St. Louis -(UPD- A tornado smashed across a central ten ement area here today, killing at least a score of persons, in juring hundreds and devastat ing acres of homes. There were 20 bodies at the city morgue, 19 of them iden tified. Under a hazy sun, fire men and policemen and oper ators of cranes and wrecking equipment moved through the storm area, seeking more bod iesY: There was confusion at the morgue, where dazed sur vivors, viewing the dead, dup licated identifications. No Monetary Estimate More than 320 persons were treated for injuries at hospi tals. City officials and members of civil defense organizations toured the storm - ravaged area, but refused to put a monetary estimate on the damages until a complete count had been made and checked against assessment figures. Hundreds of persons lost their household belong ings, or. found them so rav aged by winds and falling de bris as to be useless. Weathermen said that se vere weather warnings had been set up for the St. Louis area, but the intensity of the storm which struck came as a surprise. At Kansas City, Donald House, supervisor of the U.S. Severe Storm Warning Cen ter, said that severe storm warnings were out for the area, but "while a twister in the storm was not totally un expected, we certainly didn't expect one of such intensity to drop down on St. Louis." The heaviest blows of the storm were rained on a 7-by-30 block area in the heart of the city. Bounded by Euclid on the west, Vandeventer to the east, Chouteau to. the south and Natural Bridge to the north, it is a predominant ly Negro neighborhood. Emergency Power A rooming house was al most leveled and police and rescue workers worked fever ishly by the light of emer gency spotlights searching the ruins. A power failure put regular lighting facilities out of commission. Despite wide open store fronts and vulnerable dwell ings, police said there was little looting. Two men were caught and handcuffed to a pole while police completed other duties but no others were apprehended. Arraignment Set For Mrs. Click Arraignment of Mrs. Max ine A. Click, 56, of Ashland, on first degree murder charges is scheduled for 2 p.m. tomor row before Circuit Court Judge Edward C. Kelly, it was announced today. . - Mrs. Click is charged with shooting her husband, Houston James Click, 47, in their Ash land home ton Jan. 6. The Ashland woman had waived previously her right to an at torney and to a preliminary hearing in district court. Judge Kelly on Jan. 20 ap pointed Otto J. Frohnmayer, Medford, as her attorney and the case was continued pend ing consultation of Mrs. Click with her attorney.' The Ashland woman is be ing held in the county jail without bail. History Students to Man Welcoming Students in Oregon history will man the Jackson County Centennial association's stock ade on Highway 99 at the Sis kiyou summit next summer, according to -Capt. Tom Teutsch of the 417th Engineer brigade, local Army Reserve unit. Brigade troops from this area will construct the stock ade in the course of five Sun days starting March 15, Teutsch said yesterday. Dead line for completion is May 1. - Teutsch told the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce roundtable the stock ade would be erected as per manent structure. He said its use as a tourist information center might be continued in future years if local groups become interested. This year it is scheduled to operate from May 15 to Sept. 30. The history students will be armed with maps, literature and helpful facts for Centen Dulles on Leave From Cabinet To Undergo Surgery Washington -(UPD- Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, on leave from his cabinet post for "a few weeks," entered Walter Reed hospital today for his second major opera tion in a little more than two years. Surgery for Hernia Dulles, who will be 71 on Feb. 25, was to undergo sur gery for a hernia. It was the latest in a series of illnesses that has plagued him since he was operated on for intesti nal cancer in November, 1956. , Dulles asked and received Report on Fish, Wildlife Study Of Basin Planned A preliminary report on the study of the Fish and Wild life Service study of the Rogue River basin will be made to the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers by May 1 and the final report will be made June 1. Three officials of the U. S. Fish and .Wildlife Service an nounced those dates to ap proximately 50 persons at a meeting of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources association in Grants Pass last night. Outlining the impact of the new fish and wildlife coordi nation act, J. T. Barnney, rep resenting the bureau of sport fishery and wildlife; T. S. Roberts, Supervisor of the branch river basin studies, and George O. Plack, fishery research biologist, branch of river basin study, pointed .to what they consider a great op portunity to plan for fishery in connection with "the Rogue River basin project. Work Together The three officials also told of how effectively the corps of engineers and the Fish and Wildlife Service have worked together closely and their ex periences in their team proj ects in other areas and with other proposed dams. Bill Jess, president of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources associ ation, said the dates an nounced by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service ties in with the corps of engineers plans to make information on their study available July 1 and hold a public hearing on Sept. 1. The association elected An drew Schmidt as director to fill the remainder of Jennings Pierce's term and George Field, Trail, as director to fill the remaining term of Miles Williams, Shady Cove. Jennings, Medford business man, said the meetings con flict with his business appoint ments and Miles said he is un able to attend the meetings during the winter since he spends that season in the des ert. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New ;York - (CPD - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 532.65, up 8.19: 20 railroads 160.03, up 2.09; 15 utilities 90.87, up 1.09, and 65 stocks 202.82, up 2.73. Sales today were about 2,960,000 shares com pared with 3,130,000 shares Monday. Booth on Siskiyou Summit nial visitors, according to Ernie Hood, county chairman for the anniversary event. Fund Raising Dick Woodcock, member ship committee chairman for the local association, told of plans for fund-raising to fi nance the students' services. He explained that offering pay was expected to attract more capable manpower. Woodcock said the fund campaign will ; be called the "Pledge of the 59ers," with a goal of $7,900. He said the campaign kick-off will be Feb. 14. While the money will go primarily to paying the stu-dents-and possibly providing them with uniforms - another expense expected is that of plumbing installation, accord ing to one spokesman. The stockade is to be 10 feet high, with a Welcome to Oregon sign above the en trance. A walkway across the the President's permission to turn over his duties to sub ordinates "for a short period." In the meantime, the State Department will be run by Undersecretary Christian A. Herter or, in his absence. by Undersecretary C. Dou glas Dillon. In a letter to the President. Dulles also gave a second rea son for entering the hospital. He said his doctors had ad vised him that he had "not wholly thrown off the ef fects" of a colon inflamma tion he suffered last Decem ber. The energetic cabinet offi cer, who has guided Ameri ca's foreign policy for six years, said he would like to use his period of recuperation to concentrate on "the com-, plicated and grave" Berlin problem "free from other re sponsibilities." Not To Step Down He made it clear that he did not intend to step down permanently "from his high post. He said he would be available for consultation in the hospital and "would ex pect, after a few weeks, to re sume fully" his duties as sec retary, i White House News Secre tary James C. Hagerty said physicians had assured Dulles that "there is no sign what soever anything is malig nant" in his new illness. Dulles doctors gave him a clean bill of health after his 1956 operation. Ash Wednesday Services Slated Blessed ashes will be dis-' tributed . . at Sacred Heart Catholic church following masses and devotions Ash Wednesday, tomorrow, the Rev. Carl Mai has announced. Ashes will be distributed after the 6:30 and 8 a.m. masses, at 12:15 p.m. and fol lowing the 7:30 p.m. devo tions. Starting tomorrow, masses will be scheduled daily at 6:30 and 8 a.m. for the Lenten season. On Wed nes, Feb. 18, an evening mass will be added at 7:30 p.m. The Wednesday evening mass will be followed by a short sermon and benedic tion, and by stations of the cross and benediction on Fri days. Sunday masses will be scheduled as usual at 6, 7, 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m. and at 7 p.m. In Jacksonville, ashes will be distributed following the 9 a.m. mass next Sunday in St. Joseph's church. At Our Lady of Fatima church. Shady Cove, distribution of ashes will take place next Sunday after the 1.0 a.m. mass. Bill Would Abolish Board of Control Salem-DPD-Rep. Keith Skel ton (D-Eugene) has introduced a bill to abolish the Board of Control as what he calls "an unwieldy institution which frustrates the power of the governor of the state." He said the current three-man board of control set-up elevated the secretary of state and state treasurer into executive policy making positions they were never intended for under the constitution. Centennial front will provide visitors with a view of the Siskiyous. It has been designed by Albert Gandt, president of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foun dation. Blueprints have been prepared by Wayne Struble, Medford architect. 'Tactical Situation' Teutsch, assigned to the brigade's plans and engineer ing section, said the stockade would be erected as a "tacti cal situation." He said the California-Oregon Power company is pro viding power poles and other assistance in bringing elec tricity to the stockade, and Red-E-Cut Log, Inc., Roseburg, is contributing the outside logs. The stockade will also house rest room facilities and a first aid station, Teutsch said. It is to be situated about 150 feet from Nina's Cafe, on the cafe owner's land. No fee for the land's use is contemplated.
