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tregoon Seft T ECick tff QmM Centennmi Celebration SHADES OF YESTERYEAR Although stu dents at Howard school didn't have their lessons taught to the tune of a hickory stick today, they looked like pupils that would have attended a one-room school long ago. Hoop skirts, sunbonnets, brocaded vests and derby hats were all in style for children and teachers alike as the school held its own START Posse Grounds Main tL.,, - I' Varied Activities Planned in A wide variety of Centen nial activities are planned this week end throughout Jackson county. The Centennial parade, sponsored by the Medford Trail Riders, wUl arrive in the downtown Medford area about 1 p.m. Saturday. The parade will start at the Jack son County Sheriffs posse grounds on Sage rd. at 12:30 p.nv. The parade will go south on Summit ave. to. Jackson st. then proceed to Holly st. and to Sixth st., east on Sixth st to Bartlett st., south to Main St., to Holly st. from where it will return to the Posse grounds. Included will be covered wagons, riding horses, pack mules, old cars and other ve hicles, it was reported. Whiskerino Contest' In Central Point old fash ioned clothing will be the order of the day Saturday with a "whiskerino contest" scheduled at Phelps' Coffee house at 3 p.m. Saturday at 6 p.m. the Cen tral Point Grange will hold its Centennial dinner with a pageant following the meal. All tickets for the banquet have been sold. Dancing will be held later Saturday night at the Grange hall. Mayor F. W. Mason of Cen tral Point has issued a procla mation urging citizens to cele brate Oregon's Centennial Saturday and throughout the year. Two Centennial breakfasts have been scheduled for Sun day morning. One will be held in Jacksonville and one in Talent. Breakfast Scheduled The Jacksonville Commun ity hall will be the setting for the Buckaroo breakfast from 6 a. m. until 1 p.m. The Lum berjack ' breakfast in Talent will be held at the Talent city hall between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. A dance is scheduled for Saturday night at the Ashland National Guard armory. An hour long salute to the Oregon Centennial will be heard Saturday on radio sta tion KMED from 3:30 until 4:30 p.m. The program will originate from the Capitol rotunda in Slem and will include ad dresses by Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Gov ernor Mark Hatfield. -Musical Narrative The musical narrative, writ ten and produced by Angus Bowmer, producer-director of Saturday Parade Route Valley the Oregon Shakespearean Festival in Ashland, will be narrated by Don McCutcheon, public services director of the Oregon Association of Broad casters. Music during the program will include the 60-piece Port land symphony orchestra and the 75-voice symphonic choir. This evening following the Jacksonville High school basketball game a group of Explorers from Post 35 under the leadership of Jerry Paw lowski will leave Jacksonville on a hike to Sterling creek mine. To Mark Trail The 12 boys on the hike will reblaze the trail to the mine and mark it for later use. The event will qualify the Explorers for the histori cal trail award. The trail was first used during the 1800s by wagons traveling from Jacksonville to the gold mine. The boys will camp out tonight and are scheduled t o arrive a t the mine tomorrow morning. They will be met at the mine by an "old timer" who will teach them how to pan gold. . Cloudy skies affd wind are forecast for Saturday, accord ing to the weather bureau here. Court Opposing House Bill 360 Jackson county court has written State Sen. Dr. Edwin R. Durno and State Rep. Eve Nye stating it opposed House Bill 360. The bill" provides that state, counties, cities and other dis tricts and public corporations must call for bids on all work estimated to cost more than $5,000. This would include alterations or wrecking of buildings, construction or re pair of bridges, streets and roads. Maintenance projects are excepted. County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt said no limit is set now on what the county must put up for bid. This bill would take the county out of the road construction business and make it too costly to op erate a roads program, Wendt said. celebration of Oregon's birthday. Student Linda Thames rode her horse to school, like children did before the days of school buses, which attracted the crowd of onlookers in the picture above. Other schools throughout the county observed the state's 100th birth day in the same manner. a Association May Sponsor Wagon in Oregon Cavalcade Dick Carter, Medford, rep resentative of William Dawk ins and associates, discussed the possibility of Jackson county sponsoring a wagon in the "On to Oregon Cavalcade" at a meeting of the Jackson County Centennial association this morning. The cavalcade will leave Independence, Mo., April 12, and arrive in Independence, Ore., about Aug. 15, Carter said. Carter, who will serve as administrative assistant on the trip, said five wagons now are being sponsored. He noted that the deadline for constructing the wagons is near, and invited the asso ciation to study possibilities of sponsoring a wagon. Commttee Organized A committee was organized to assist Carter in planning a Jackson county wagon, and several suggestions for financ ing such a venture were dis cussed. Cost of the trip is $1,650, he said, which includes the wagon, arrangements for horses, and space at the- Port land exposition, where the wagon will be displayed after Aug. 15. Carter said promotional op portunities are unlimited. He will plan promotion along the route, and arrange with Jun ior Chamber of Commerce groups to organize reception committees. The association also heard a report that the Redwood Empire would loan murals to the association to hang on the inside walls at the Siskiyou summit , welcoming center. The murals of the Rogue Val ley were at the San Francisco exposition. N . Also discussed was the pos sibility of a large topographi cal map of the county. Otto Ewaldsen, Medford business man, said he would cooperate in preparing the map. Men Fall While at Work This Morning Two Medford men were taken to Rogue Valley hos pital this morning by Med ford Ambulance service fol lowing falls while at work. Robert Swindler Jr., 27, of 528 South Ivy st., suffered in juries when he fell back wards across the prongs of a fork lift at Medford Con crete Construction company. Hospital officials reported that he was still being ex amined early this afternoon. Treated and released was Bethel B. Reeves, 45, of 3542 Alley lane, following a fall from a ladder while working at Oregon orchards. Work Progressing in Group Drainage Project in Beebe Farm Community Work is progressing in a group drainage project in the Beebe farms community near Central Point, Clem Ault, work unit conservationist, re ported at the annual meeting of the Rogue Soil Conserva tion District in Central Point Grange hall last night. The Ashland city council is working locally to support the Ashland creek dam proj ect, Ault noted. Work is also progressing on the Daisy creek project near Jackson ville and on the upper Jack son creek watershed above the old dam, he said. According to studies, all of the projects appear to have a favorable benefit-cost ratio. A large range brush clear ing and seeding trial is being planned for at least 1,000 acres in the Little Applegate area, Ault announced. This project is being spon Fate of Oregon Civil Defense Agency Debated Motion Approved To Hold Hearing Salem-OIPD-The fate of Ore gon's Civil Defense Agency hung in the balance today after a hearing before the Joint Ways and Means Com mittee in which some mem bers were ready to scrap it. Others favored transfer of some activities to other gen cies and still others insisted the agency continue as at present. After spending almost an hour arguing about the agency, the Committee ap proved a motion by Sen. Ward Cook (D-Portland) to hold a hearing before the entire Committee at some future date on civil defense's $301, 574 budget. Rep. Clarence Barton (D Coquille) declared that civil defense activities in his coun ty were duplications of ef fort. Stale Police Praised "We have spring floods in Coos county and in the past such disasters have' been handled adequately by the State Police," Barton said. "Then Civil Defense took over, purchasing "a jeep, a boat and other equipment and doing just what the State Po lice had been doing in the past," Barton . said. Rep. Leon Davis (R-Hills-boro) said he was not in ac cord with the Civil Defense organization and said he felt the same activities of this agency could be carried on more economically by other state agencies. But Sen. Francis Ziegler (R Corvallis) urged the Commit tee continue the agency. He said in his county, plans to cope with disasters were on paper and ready to be put into execution. Planners Suggest Rezoning Property . In Grandview Area The Medford planning com mission last night overrode a petition signed by '258 resi dents when it recommended approval for one of two zone change requests in the Grand view area. The petition was opposed to two zone change requests, both presented by Gottlieb J. Wolff, proprietor of the Grandview market, 2330 Cra ter Lake ave. The second re quest was turned down. The approved request, to be acted on next by the city council, is for a change to limited commercial zoning for a lot at the southeast corner of Crater Lake ave. and Rob erts rd., across from the mar ket. A service station is re-. portedly to be located there if the- request is approved. Not Spot Zoning Commission President Paul Selby stated that since this is adjacent to the market, which is already zoned limited com mercial, the change would not constitute spot zoning. The rejected request was for property at the northwest corner of Crater Lake ave. and McAndrews rd., Ervin Hogan, Medford attorney rep resenting Wolff, said retail shops were contemplated for this location. The petition was submitted to the commission by Dick Henselman, a business part ner of Mark Goldy. Goldy and Henselman are develop ing a subdivision in that area. Allan Perry, commission member, said the difference between the two tracts was their location and the effects of extra traffic that commer cial development might cause. (See story on page 7) sored jointly by, the Rogue Soil Conservation district, bureau of land management, Caterpillar Tractor company and a number of cattlemen, he said. Word is being await ed from the tractor company so work can be started im mediately, Ault said. . Ault called on Walter Hoff buhr, manager of the Talent Irrigation district, who point ed up the need for irrigation planning and layout needed in anticipation of the addi tional water expected from the Talent project. The drain age problem will be acceler ated with additional water, he said. Chester Jensen, chairman of the soil conservation dis trict board of directors, dis cussed the purpose of the state association of soil con servation districts and the re lationship with the governor's 53rd Year Medford 18 PAGES Jan California Joins Against Curb of Daylight Service Railroad's Loss Figures Challenged San Francisco - flJPD - Cali fornia joined Oregon Thurs day in opposing Southern Pa cffic's attempt to reduce serv ice on its Shasta Daylight train between San Francisco and Portland. Oregon has charged in hear ings before the Interstate Commerce Commission that SP is attempting to discour age travelers from using the train by offering poor serv ice. The railroad proposes to op erate the train, now running daily, on a tri-weekly basis during winter months. Losses Minimized Clyde T. Neary, one of three California PUC experts who testified Thursday, said SP is actually losing only $155,000 a year on the train instead of $1,900,000 as claim ed by the railroad. Neary said this net loss is reduced by in come tax deductions, leaving the firm with a cash loss of only $72,000 a year on the Daylight operation, - . Neary said the train would make money if it were not for a $609,000 yearly loss on its dining car . operations. He testified ' the railroad could make a profit if it wanted to by converting to buffet style or airplane style meal serv ice. Other Figures Challenged Edward M. Jennings, PUC transportation engineer, chal lenged other SP figures by testifying that there was "con siderable doubt" as to the ac curacy of the railroad's main tenance cost accounting. He said SP car maintenance fig ures per mile were 42 per cent higher than a composite figure for three other rail roads and locomotive figures were 30 to 50 per cent higher. He blamed the railroad's higher locomotive mainten ance largely on inefficiency, charging that SP was not us ing modern repair methods in its shops. Defects Observed A third California witness, Claude Carlock, a PUC staff member, said he had observed numerous defects during trips on the Daylight within the last few weeks that would dis courage the traveling public. These included such de ficiencies as water leaking through the ceiling in three locations, automatic sliding doors out of order, a bar re frigerator out of order, air pockets in floor linoleum in the diner, a stuck baggage elevator that caused passen ger delays, and an improper valve which caused over-heating' of the parlor car. state committee, particularly as related to legislation af fecting means and advance ment of soil and water con servation activities in the state. One bill calls for appropri ation of $1,000 per district for clerical help so technical per sonnel can be relieved of rou tine administrative chores. Another bill proposes to per mit land operators as well as land owners to serve as soil conservation supervisors. Arthur J. King, extension soil conservationist, stressed the possibility for develop ment of market outlets in Mediterranean areas for Jack son county products, especial ly for field seeds. Soil topog raphy and climate here are similar in many respects to the Mediterranean lands, he noted. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1959 topi ddi rata Dulles' Operation Called Successful Washingion-OIPD-Secreiary of State John Foster Dulles underwent a ''successful" hernia operation today. Surgeons also removed tissue and fluid to check for cancer. Stale Department Spokesman . Lincoln White refused, pending results of laboratory tests, to speculate whether doc tors fear any recurrence of the intestinal cancer for which Dulles was operated on in November, 1956. Shortly after today's operation, the White House again vigorously denied a report that Dulles might resign his cabi net post. ; 'It's Not the Principle It's the Money' Lincoln's Ability Reviewed at Dinner Abraham Lincoln was one'minate slavery in the rest of of the few men throughout history who have been uni versally influential, Dr. How ard W. Runkel, professor of speech and drama at Willa mette university, said here last night. Dr. Runkel spoke at the 45th annual banquet of the Jackson County Lincoln club at the Jackson hotel. The oc casion marked Lincoln's 150th birthday. He told the group of about 100 persons that Lincoln's self lessness, understanding, and spirit have been univer sally influential. A man who. believed in God, historians have marveled at Lincoln's ability to understand man and his tact in leading men, Dr. Runkel said. Wisdom was Lincoln's prin cipal asset, he noted, and cited several examples of the 16th president's ability to handle men and situations. Offered Governorship Dr. Runkel pointed out that Lincoln was offered the ter ritorial governorship of Ore gon while he was practicing law in Springfield, 111. Lin coln's wife, Mary, "put her foot down" and said no, Dr. Runkel noted. Lincoln was nominated for the presidency in 1860, Dr. Runkel said, because he had a plan. It was not a plan of abo lition or slavery, he said, but one which would limit slavery in new states, and slowly eli- WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy through Saturday. G u t y southerly winds. Occasional light rain, changing to snow tonight. Oc casional snow in mountains. Low tonight 35. High Saturday 40-45. Temp. Highest Yesterday 45 Lowest this Morning 30 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:40 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:11 a.m. Moonset tonight 11:52 p.m. First Quarter Feb. 15 PROMINENT STAR Arcturus, rises'- 10:03 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS ' Venus, low in west .. 6:59 p.m. Mars, high in southwest 7:48 p.m. Jupiter, rises 2:08 ajn. Saturn, low In southeast 5:39 a.m. w the states. At a short business meet ing prior to Dr. Runkel's talk, Manville Heisel, Medford at torney, was elected president of the club. Other officers named are Lloyd Selby, first vice president; Alan Holmes, second vice president; Mrs. Lester Adams, third vice president; and Don Stathos, secretary-treasurer. . Homer Billings of Ashland was elected historian of the club, succeeding Mrs. G. Q. D'Albini, who retired after holding the office several years. John Dellenback, retiring president, read a telegram from Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield, and Jim Frake, Med ford High school student ac tive in speech activities, read "In the Words of Lincoln." The club adopted a resolu tion reaffirming its faith in the Republican party. Slrolhers Resigns From Commission Ed Strothers, Shady Cove, has resigned from the Jack son county planning commis sion, the county court said today. Strothers will be replaced by someone from the same area, County Judge Earl Mil ler said. Strothers is one of the original members of the plan ning commission which was formed about three years ago, County Commissioner Chester Wendt noted. In his letter of resignation, Strothers said he felt that someone with an engineering or legal background can serve better. Thornton's Opinion Asked on Selection Salem -0JPD- Sen. William A. Grenfell Jr. said today he had requested Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton to give an opinion regarding the legality of Gov. Mark Hat field's recent appointment of Col. Robert L. Irving as the acting adjutant general of the Oregon National Guard. Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 280 Mass Destruction Threatened If Ice Breaks Loose Huge Chunks of Ice Piled High Lafayette, Ind.-UPD-Authori- ties mounted a round-the-clock vigil at the scene of a mammoth Wabash river ice jam 12 miles long which threat ens "tremendous de struction" to the Lafayette area if it breaks loose. Army engineers and police stood by to alert residents of Lafayette and Delphi if the 35-foot high ice gorge, carry ing chunks of ice as large as automobiles, begins to slip. The ice gorge slipped once Thursday night when it was rammed by a smaller ice floe from the flooded Peru area upstream on the rampaging Wabash. However, after roar ing for about a mile down stream it jammed again just above Delphi and about 26 miles from Lafayette. Less Danger Indicated xne weatner Bureau re ported the river crested at Delphi and Lafayette at about 26 feet Thursday night and has begun falling. Nation al Guard officers said that indicated less danger of the ice pack churning downstream again. Army engineers said the longer the ice floe stands still, the better the chance it will not tear loose again. But they added if it does give way, it would mean "tremendous de struction" to Delphi and La fayette. Lafayette police Sgt. Stan ley Davenport said engineers might try to dynamite the gorge apart a little at a time today. Deep Cracks Revealed "They'll probably try to blast it loose about 60 feet at a crack," Davenport said. "There isn't enough dynamite in the country to blast it all loose at once." National Guard officials at Logansport said an inspection of the floe Thursday night re vealed deep cracks on its downstream side. They said the gorge apparently loosened and moved downstream when the ice broke through along the cracks. Authorities said if the gorge let loose again, it could smash at least 10 bridges between Delphi and Lafayette and crush low-lying buildings. Sweetheart Trees To Be Planted A planting of redbud trees, also known as the sweetheart tree, will be held Saturday by the Medford Tree committee, honoring the state's birthday and St. Valentine's day. The trees will be planted on Catherine st. The trees have heart shaped leaves. Coordinator for the area is Mrs. Ted Ball. The trees will be planted and dedicated to children in the area, with sev eral of them dedicated to chil dren with birthdays on Feb. 14. mm i mm Bids To Be Called Soon On Two Jobs Bureau of reclamation of ficials reported today that calls for bids on two more jobs in the Talent project are expected in April. Construction is expected to start in June. Dates for the bids will be set by the chief engineer, according to reports from the Denver, Colo., office. The projects are for the en larging of the present east lateral canal of the Talent Ir rigation district from Emi grant dam nearly to Medford. Earth work on this lateral is currently under way by the irrigation district. The contract will include the constructing of nine 33 to 51 inch precast concrete pipe siphone totaling 2,835 feet, and a 330-foot-long concrete Visit by Nixon Adds To Plans For Saturday Festivities Start Year of Observance Portland -UPD- Oregon, ad mitted quietly to the union 100 years ago Saturday as the 33rd state, today prepared for a rousing celebration of its Centennial birthday to be spiced by a visit from Vice President Richard Nixon. Nixon, due to arrive here by plane at 9:05 p.m. today, also scheduled visits to As toria and Salem to help his neighboring state observe its Valentine's day admittance to the union. Other cities and towns throughout the state were planning observances of their own. The Saturday festivities touch off a year which will feature a 100-day Exposition and International Trade Fair starting June 10 which state leaders hope will heip attract new business and industry. Word Late in Coming The gala preparations were in sharp contrast to 100 years ago when word of Oregon's admittance to the union did not reach the state until a month after it happened-on March 15 when the steamer Brother Jonathan arrived from San Francisco. Nixon was to spend the night at his hotel here and then fly' along with Gov. Mark Hatfield and other state offi cials to Astoria Saturday morning where ceremonies will be held for issuance of a Centennial stamp at the old est post office west of the Rocky mountains. After ceremonies there, Nix on flies to Salem for an after noon round of festivities be fore returning to Portland for a speech Saturday night. The Vice President is scheduled to pay a visit to his home state of California, leaving Portland Sunday morning, be fore returning to Washington, D.C. Ball at Salem A Centennial ball is sched uled for Salem Saturday night with actress Gloria Krieger, a former Portland Rose festi val queen, as guest soloist. At Astoria, precedent will be shattered when the Vice Presi dent will be served sable fish instead of salmon for lunch. Sable fish is a valuable ocean delicacy, also called black cod. Thousands of Oregon men. caught up in a "pioneer" spirit, were growing beards, including several state legisla tors. A stagecoach and a group of about 50 horse riders near- ed Astoria on the last leg of a three-day trip from Port land. Porter Says Cuba Action Avoidable Portland -UPD- Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) charged to day that the bloody revolu tion in Cuba could have been avoided if top officials of the State Department had not op posed holding of free, super vised elections while the Ba tista regime was in power. Porter, who returned to Oregon for a Democratic fund raising speech in Salem to night, said policy makers in the State Department refused to go along with proposals for United Nations-supervised elections in Cuba before the revolution. He did not identify the officials he said were in volved. The Eugene Democrat said he was convinced that Cuba, under the revolutionary gov ernment was on the right road. He added that present U.S. policy toward the nation is "very encouraging and I am satisfied with it." Washington- (UPD -The State Department has announced that "if developments war rant" there may be a meet ing of western foreign min isters in Paris sometime be fore April 1. in Project bench flume as well as related work. The second contract will complete the collection sys tem for the Talent project in the higher country above Howard Prairie reservoir. The project is to construct nine miles of unllned canal with 65 cubic feet per second capa city, 1 12 miles of unlined canal with 130 cubic feet per second capacity and three in let structures. These canals will divert the water from South Fork of Little Butte creek and Daley creek into the reservoir. Other collection canals that were completed last year were for Dead Indian creek and Conde creek.
