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Newspaper Page Textan rui o)o) urn IIj1T 53rd Year Medford 16 Pages Uw Will in Future of Secretary lulles Mansfield Urges Cabinet Officer To Stay in Post News Conference To Hear President Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Eisenhower told Repub lican congressional leaders to day that he will have "a lot to say" at his news confer ence Wednesday on the future of cancer-stricken Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. House GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck (Ind.) said after the White House meeting that it would be "some few weeks" before there could be a firm determination of the extent of Dulles' illness and his abil ity to return to work. Meanwhile, Assistant Sen ate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield urged Dulles to re main in his Cabinet post to give guidance on the Germ an situation. Would Be Mistake Mansfield, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said it would be "a mistake" for the 70-year-old secretary to resign now despite the intestinal cancer that has stricken him. ' "We certainly need to have his knowledge and guidance on the German situation and the conferences that are com ing up," the Montana Demo crat told newsmen. Mansfielld suggested there could be a three-way leader ship of the State Department until it could be determined how Dulles responded to ra diation treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He said Undersecretaries of State Christian A. Herter and C. Douglas Dillon could re lieve Dulles of some- matters and give him time to "think through" the whole German problem. The radiation treatment will be started later this week after Dulles recovers suffici ently from his hernia opera tion last Friday. Intestinal tissue , a n d liquid removed then showed a recurrence of the cancer he suffered in 1956, Keeps in Touch Dulles continued to keep in touch with State Depart ment matters from his hos pital bed. He was briefed on current developments in in ternational affairs Monday by his special assistant, Joseph N. Greene Jr. He also remained in good spirits and the State Depart ment reported his condition was satisfactory. Dulles sat up in a chair in his room for about half an hour Monday. Fort Klamath Man Agriculture Appointee Salem (UPD Selection of Fred Pope, Fort Klamath cat tleman, as chief of the div ision of animal industry of the State Agriculture Depart ment was announced today by Department Director Frank McKennon. - Senate Deadline on Introduction of New Bills Brings Rush of Salem - (UPD - Brakes on the introduction of bills in the Senate were applied to day with the result that no L!U may be introduced here after without the approval of the tough Senate Rules com mittee. Exceptions Noted One exception was noted by Senate President Walter J. Pearson. Senators who have filed requests with the legis lative counsel for drafting of bills which have not yet been prepared, will have three days after delivery of such bills to the senators in which to introduce them without pass ing through the Rules Com MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1959 GHave 'fi Lot To Say' f """'-r uMiimumtft-ii ii.wuJii w.sr-t STEAM STALLION - This Shay-type iron horse is similar to the one being given' the city of Medfdrd by Medford Corporation for recreational purposes. Verl G. Walker, member of the city's parks and recreation" Work Begins in 3 Schools to Comply With State Orders Work has started in three Medford elementary schools to carry out orders by Depu ty State Fire Marshal W. P. (Bill) Roble, Grants Pass, who with Medford Fire Marshal Truman Nelson inspected the schools recently. Being installed in Roose velt, Lincoln and Jackson schools to seal off each floor is a material which will re sist fire at least one hour. All known vertical openings in the schools also are being sealed. Roble ordered the third floor of Roosevelt school va cated, chiefly because there is no outside fire escape. How ever, Nelson and school of ficials discussed the matter with Roble, who agreed that Betler Appearance Of Property Sought The Make Medford Beauti- ful committee has assigned volunteers to approach cer tain property owners on Main and Eighth sts., in regard to improving the appearance of their properties. Surveys of the two streets were made by members of the Crater Lions club. Granvil Brittsan, acting as chairman of yesterday's committee meeting at the Medford hotel, turned over lists of eyesores noted during the surveys to those who are to . seek the property owner's cooperation, Other volunteers are still approaching owners of eye sore properties on Riverside ave.. Court st. and Central ave., Brittsan reported. Gene Roethler, of Roeth- ler's Shell Service, 101 East Sixth st., recently accepted an appointment to the com mittee, according to Medford Mayor John W. Snider. Mayor Snider organized the committee last September to undertake the beautification of the city, especially its ap proaches. The committee seeks elimination of such eye sores as weeds, trash heaps, dilapidated buildings, build ings in need of paint and junk displays. mittee. The deadline for free in troduction of Senate bills was 5 pan. Monday. Because of this deadline, 35 bills and four joint resolutions reach ed the desk for first reading today. Death Penatly Bill One of these resolutions would again refer to the peo ple the question of abolish ing the death penalty for mur der in Oregon. Sen. Andrew J. Naterlin (D-Newport) introduced two bills, one authorizing the Highway Commission to es tablish tourist information bureaus on the state's bound commission, announced the gift at the com mission's meeting last week. The sturdy log ging engine is currently up in the moun tains beyond Butte Falls. "Owen-Oregon Lumber company" is Medco's former name. a man would be employed for a full time fire watch in lieu of vacating the floor. Work Planned The fire watch will be on duty until an outside standard fire escape is constructed and the floors are sealed off with a fire-resistant material good for one hour. The deputy fire marshal also ordered a standard fire escape at Lincoln large enough to handle two abreast. Lincoln school now has a fire escape, but it will not handle two abreast, Nelson said. The new fire escape will be suf ficient to vacate the third floor in case of fire without using an inside stairway. He also ordered that in schools constructed of com bustible material, the ceiling on the first floor be construct ed of one-hour fire resistant material. Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, superintendent of schools, said work has started to comply with' the orders. He pointed out that there will be no inter ruption of class schedules in any school. . Sprinkler Systems Nelson and Roble also rec ommended automatic sprink ler systems on the first floors of all buildings. If that is not economically feasible, sprink lers should be installed in the. furnace rooms. As a third al: ternative, they recommended heat activated fire alarms in the furnace rooms, which are sealed off from the rest of the structure in all buildings. . They also recommended that all carbon tetrachloride fire extinguishers be removed from schools and replaced with something less dangerous than carbon tetrachloride They suggested the present fire extinguishers be placed on buses where they could be used in open air. Roble and Nelson also rec ommended that two fire drills per month be held in the three schools with combusti ble type construction. State law now requires that one fire drill be held per month in all schools. Lincoln school was built in 1906, Jackson in 1912 and Roosevelt in 1919. 34 Measures aries. His second bill appro priates $50,000 to cover the expenses of establishing such bureaus. A bill designed to put an end to gasoline wars in which dealers cut prices below cost was introduced by Sen. Rich ard Groener (D-Milwaukie). Reasonable Profit It would affect both dis tributors and gas station op erators and would require that gasoline sold in Oregon be disposed of at a price cov ering the cost plus a reason able profit. The Oregon Gasoline Deal ers Association asked for the bill. - Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 283 Budget Group Discusses Center For Curriculum The rural school board budget committee met in the county school superintend ent's office last night to dis cuss the continuation and de velopment of the county cur riculum center, according to Alf B. Mekvold, county schools superintendent. A curriculum materials cen-! ter provides for central distri bution of audio-visual aids, such as films and pamphlets, and other printed material. The meeting was one of a series for presentation of in formation for preparation of the 1959-60 budget, Mekvold explained. The meetings are sponsored by the Jackson County School Superintend ed association and the rural board who are interested also in presenting information on development of classes for re tarded children. James McDonald, curricu lum center director, presented information on the history of the center and explained the present operation. A brief was presented on the efforts being made, at the request of the superintendents' associa tion, on qualifying for federal funds under the National De fense act in mathematics, science and foreign language curriculum sections. Regular budget committee members present were Tom A. Starzinger, Rogue River; Mrs. Edith Hoag, Prospect; Glenn W. Smith, Ruch; Clar ence Holdridge, Talent; Ben Lombard, Ashland; Sam Har bison. Griffin Creek. Jerry Latham, ' Medford, was not present. Lay members present were Eugene Burrill, Pros pect; John Spangler, Talent; Bill Sampson, Ashland. Medford Druggist Appointed to County Budget Committee Cordon Hudson, Medford druggist, has been appointed to the county budget commit tee to replace M. T. (Tom) Wray, the county court an nounced. The term is for three years. This provides for general representation of main seg ments of county occupations, county court members said. Incumbent member Arnold Bohnert represents the farm ers' interests, Lynn W. New bry, Ashland fruit grower and packing house owner, the fruit growers' interests, and Hudson, business interests. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness and occasionally windy and occasional light showers through Wednesday. Low tonight 35; high Wednes day 52. Temp. Highest Yesterday 58 Lowest this Morning 35 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 5:45 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:05 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 3:26 a.m. Moon rides high, Full Moon Feb. 23 Mars is now moving between Aidebaran and the Pleiades. 109 million miles from the Earth tonight, Mars is now only a little brighter than Aidebaran. Western Proposal May Delay Soviet Move in Berlin Russia Expected To Accept Plan Moscow UPD The Western proposal for a Big Four for eign ministers conference on Germany may have laid the groundwork -for postponing the showdown this spring on West Berlin, foreign diplo matic sources said today. The sources said they con sidered it likely that the So viet Union would accept the Western proposals for the con ference made in notes deliv ered Monday. ' It was noted that the So viet government had been pressing for some time for' East-West talks on the ques tion of Berlin and Germany. Expected May Meeting The sources said that while the Soviets might seek clarifi cation on some points and make some counter-proposals before agreeing on a' time and place, the general expectation was that the talks are likely to start before May 27. American officials said the West preferred that the con ference be held in late April or early May in Geneva or Vienna. Last Nov. 27, the Soviet gov ernment said it would turn over its control functions in Berlin to the East Germans unless the subsequent six months produced an agree ment to make West Berlin a "free, demilitarized" city. Later, however, Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev took pains to deny any ulti matum was intended. On Jan. 24, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan told a press conference that Russia might postpone the turn-over "by two or three weeks or two to three months" if talks were begun by May 27. Formula for Talks The observers said the West ern proposals provided a for mula for getting talks started. It is not a formula which can be expected to be fully to the Soviet liking. The notes rejected once more the Soviet proposal to end the occupa tion of West Berlin and said the Western Big Three intend ed to "uphold by all appropri ate means their communica tions with their sectors of Berlin." The notes also fell short of Khrushchev's stated objective -another summit conference. Bowmer Receives Foundation Grant Angus L. Bowmer, Ashland, producing director of the Ore gon - Shakespearean Festival, and a former Festival actor, William Ball of New York City, have been granted Ford Foundation grants to help stimulate their creative devel opment. They are among 10 Ameri can theater directors to re ceive $10,000 each, Henry T. Heald, president of the Foun dation; said. Bowmer plans to study Shakespearean production in Canada, the United States and United Kingdom. The grant also will provide additional financial help for actors who otherwise would be unable to participate, in the Festival, ac cording to Foundation's an nouncement. Ball, director of the current off-Broadway production "Iv anov," will direct the Globe theater, San Diego; the Actor's Workshop, San Francisco; the Alley Theater, Houston, and the Arena Stage, Washington, D. C, in 1959 and 1960, the foundation said. Ball was with the Shakes pearean Festival in Ashland in 1951, 1952 and 1953. He was seen as Mark Anthony in "Anthony and Cleopatra;" Ariel in "The Tempest," Feste in "Twelfth Night," and Prince John in "Henry The Fourth, part two." Road Conditions Highway 99. north: clear. Highway 99. Siskiyous: carry chains, conditions good; chains no longer re quired in Weed-Dunsmuir area. Highway 9 7. northwest of Weed: chains required to California line. Highway 66, Green springs: chains reqnired, 3 inches new snow. Highway 199: Open in slide area. IHIcitiffoeW Defends election off Ccuoieir 'Office Politics' In Portland Given Blame for Furore Protests Said Not Extensive Salem (UPD- Gov. Mark Hatfield today defended his nomination of former Pendle ton Mayor Sprague Carter to be Oregon's new state director of Selective Service. The Jackson County Selec tive Service Board threaten ed Monday to resign unless Carter's name was with drawn. Criticism of the nom ination also came from Port land. ; ' Hatfield nominated Carter last Friday. It is subject to approval by Lt. Gen. Lewis Hershey, National director of Selective Service. The Jackson county group said Carter was a "politician" and that the job should be removed from politics. 'Office Polities' Cited The governor said protests against the nomination were not as extensive as had been reported and added that most of them stemmed from "of fice politics" in the Selective Service headquarters in Port land. The Jackson county report indicated Carter handled Hat field's campaign in Umatilla county. Travis Cross, Hat field's press secretary, denied Carter was Hatfield's cam paign manager in the county during the last campaign. A spokesman for the Med ford group also said that at least 17 of the state's 31 draft boards were opposing the ap pointment. Cross said only three protests had been re ceived. Cross also charged that the protests were sparked by so licitation from employees of Selective Service headquar ters in Portland. Hatfield has proposed moving headquar ters from Portland to Salem. Mason Praised Carter was nominated, the governor's office said, only because he was secretary of the Umatilla County Selective Service board for a time, a successful businessman, a vet eran of World'War I and the fact that Hatfield thought he could do a good job. Some capitol observers thought that opposition might have stemmed from fear for the job of Col. Francis Mason, the assistant director of Se lective Service. Cross said there were no plans to. replace Mason. He is due for retire ment soon and it was believed he will be allowed to finish his time with the Selective Service office. Telegrams praising Mason, who has administered selec tive Service in Oregon since 1948, were sent to both Gen. Hershey and the governor's office. Hatfield said his office had checked with Hershey person ally before offering the nom ination. "Contrary to the Medford Board statement Sprague Car ter has a long and honorable" service record as an officer of the Umatilla County Selec tive Service board," the gov ernor said. "Moreover," he continued, "I think it may be desirable to put such activities in the hands of a civilian. Razing of Market Starts in Medford ' Razine of the Oakdale mar ket, 401 South Oakdale ave., a Medford landmark for more than 50 years, began yester day.' The building is being re moved to make parking area for customers at the store's new building, which is near ing completion just south of the old structure. The grand opening of the new store is expected to be held some time next month, store officials reported. The market is owned by M. O. Bessonette. Amusement Device Tax Bill Approved Salem HUM- A bill taxing music and amusement devices $25 a year passed the House today respite some dispute that is was not clear. "Great Scott, Man Cuban Cabinet Votes To Slash Salaries; Lottery Replaced Havana (UPD The Cuban cabinet, with new Premier Fidel Castro presiding, voted today to slash its salaries 50 per cent. The decree reducing cabinet pay, one of nine approved at an all-night cabinet session, also ordered the suspension of all , government "secret funds." Other decrees approved at the meeting provided for: Establishment of a na tional institute for saving and housing, replacing the tradi tional National Lottery, which will regulate gambling in Havana's multi-million-dollar casinos. Tourist Trade Sought A maritime promotion of fice to seek to build up the tourist trade. . Civil service security for government workers, who in future may be dismissed only for the "high convenience of the government," with three months' severance pay. Top officials appointed by ousted ex-President Fulgencio Ba tista were exempted from the provisions of this decree. Ratification of all acts committed by the rebels dur ing their two years in the Maestra Mountains, and can cellation of cdl prisoners sen- Dr.. Rodney Plans To Inspect Site 'Dr. Lynn Rodney, head of the recreation and outdoor education program at the Uni versity of Oregon, plans to visit Medford Wednesday, Feb. 25, to study the proposed municipal park and swimming pool site on West Jackson st., according to City Manager Robert A. Duff. Dr. Rodney will be accom panied by Don Van Rossen, U. of O. swimming coach and swimming pool expert. They will study the park and pool site with members of the city's parks and recreation commis sion. Duff has predicted the pool will be in operation by next summer. Dr. Rodney told the com mission last December that he, Van Rossen and a landscape architect would look over the site in connection with a pos sible design study. But he told Duff recently that the Uni versity's design architects have full schedules until summer. Chester Corey, Ashland parks director, is expected to go on the Feb. 25 inspection, Duff reported yesterday. Work on Reservoir Covers Starts Work on covering the two small reservoirs on Capital Hill started last week, accord ing to Robert L. Lee, Medford Water superintendent. A building permit for the $83,156 project was issued Feb. 11. Graff and James, Medford, is the contractor, the Contract calls for comple tion of the covers by June 1. That's Inflationary" tencing resulting from their acts. Youngest Premier Castro, who at 32 is the youngest man ever to hold the post of premier, had said earlier that he expects his new job to be "the toughest test of my life." Castro said in a speech Mon day night that he had no ad vance knowledge -of last week's constitutional amend ment which, by reducing the minimum age of Cuba's presi dents from 35 to 30, made him eligible for his country's No. 1 position. He said he has no presidential ambitions. Hearing on Senate Bill Thursday A hearing on Senate Bill 183, on use of Rogue River water, will be held before the Senate Game committee Thursday, Feb. 19, instead of on Feb. 18. In a telegram to the Mail Tribune this morning, House Speaker Robert B. Duncan, Medford, corrected his pre- vious communication which stated the hearing would be held on Wednesday, Feb. 18. Bill Jess, Eagle Point, and Jerry Latham, Medford, of the Jackson county water resourc es committee, presented a let ter to the county court yester day afternoon and the major ity and minority opinion re ports made as a. result of a committee meeting Friday to consider recommendations on Senate Bill 183 and Senate Bill 182. Members of the committee and its subcommittees voted in favor of Senate Bill 183, 14 to 10 and unanimously en dorsed passage of Senate Bill 182. Senate Bill 183 amends present state law to include use of water from the main stem of the Rogue for indust rial, fish, wildlife and recrea tion purposes in addition to previously authorized uses domestic, stock, irrigation and municipal. Copies of both reports were mailed to the Jackson county legislative delegation also. Oregon Man Missing In Crash of Naval Blimp Pinetown, N. C. -JUPD One Oregon man was missing and another was injured' today after a Navy blimp crashed and burned in a remote coast al swamp near here. Three other crewmen also were missing. Three In Hospital Three others were taken to a hospital in Washington, N.C., southwest of the acci dent scene, the State High way Patrol reported. They suffered burns but their con dition was not thought to be critical. The Navy identified the missing as: Lt. Arthur A. Ahrendts, 34, Wilkes-Barre, Navy Vanguard Launches 'Moon' To Study Clouds Three More Firings x Of Vanguards Slated Cape Canaveral, Fla. -UPD-A Navy Vanguard missle hur tled into orbit today bearing a 20-inch satellite on an his toric new mission to study at mospheric conditions that cause the earth's turbulent weather. Immediate mission of the new earth moon was to mea sure cloud cover surrounding the earth, but one of the ulti mate targets of such miniature weather stations in space would be to spot Atlantic hur ricanes and Pacific typhoons. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration an nounced 10 minutes after the 7:55 a.m. (PST) firing that all three stages of the bullet shaped missile had fired sue- . cessfully. There is another satellite from a previous Vanguard fir ing now circling the earth. Perfect Takeoff The slender 72-foot Van guard burst from its launch ing pad in an apparently per fect takeoff. In 47 seconds it was lost in a heavy overcast but its ' faithful power plant could be heard giving off a low rumble. It was the 10th Vanguard in this series began May 1, 1957. There have been six previous firings in the Van guard test series and three ad ditional firings of Vanguard satellites. There are only three more Vanguard satel lite firings scheduled. Today's firing was an im portant new scientific effort to find out what gives us the kind of weather we have on earth. The intricate package represented the first step to ward obtaining continuous mapping of the earth's weath er system. ..' Others Certain To Follow This particular space weath er station was designed to send earthward data for only about two weeks, but if this one worked properly, others of more intricate design and long life were certain , to follow. NASA said the "primary ob jective of the experiments is to measure the distribution of cloud cover over the daylight portion of the equatorial orbit and relate it to the over all meteorology of the earth." The plan was to call on the satellite as it passed over a receiving station and take the data it had accumulated in 50 minutes of flight during a short span of only 60 seconds. This was to be taken down in coded form for detailed future study. To Detect Cloud Shades The photoelectric cells were intended to detect the varying shades of the clouds hovering over the earth. The cloud re flections, as picked up by the cells, were to be converted to electric signals and stored in a tape recorder. Project officials said these tapes would be fed into' an electronic device at Ft. Mon mouth and would be convert ed into crude photographs. These weather pictures were taken to be fitted together like aerial photographs. The satellite contained a 108.03 megacycle transmitter with one watt power to send its weather data and a 108.0 megacycle transmitter to send tracking information at 10 milliwatts. The tracking trans mitter was expected to have a four-week lifetime. Washingtqn -4UPD- James G. Cross, president of the Bak ery and Confectionery Work ers, has been acquitted of a charge that he lied to the Sen ate Rackets Committee. Pa.; Lt. (jg) August A. Cath er, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy N. Cather, Brooks, Ore.; AMI Frank R. Day, 33, St. Simons Island, Ga.; and AT2 Anderson F. Howard Jr., Col lege Park, Ga. Burst Into Flames The injured included Lt. (jg) Lynford May, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. May, Oswego, Ore. The patrol said the lighter-than-air craft, attached to the Glynco Naval Air Station near Brunswick, Ga., crashed at about 3 a.m. (e.s.t.). It burst into flames and set the woods on fire, attracting the atten tion of residents in the area.