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J 53rd Year Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka 841W before 6:45 pan. daily and 1220 pjri. Sunday. If regular delivery arrive shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended Price 10 Cents Rome Valley section of the Professional Engineers of Ore gon is drafting plans for a sci ence or mathematics contest for local high school students this spring. The story of this pro4 posal and other activities of the' engineers' gronp appears on page 12 of today's Mail Tribune. MEDFORJ RIBUIE United Press Full leased Wire United Presa FuU Leased Win 52 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1959 No. 287 11 f r Air Force Plans To Develop Missile Launched by Planes Washington -41TD- The Air Force is plannig to bolster U. S. retaliatory power with a revolutionary ballistic missile that can be fired from bomb ers, it was disclosed yester day. A highly placed official said the first of the high-speed nuclear-tipped weapons may be ready by late summer of 1960. They will have a range of more than 1,000 miles and will zoom from beneath the wings of the launching bomb ers. The project is known as Bold Orion. So far it has been limited to studies and missile launchings by three compan ies which have demonstrated the feasibility of the radical weapon. Authorities revealed that 24 companies participated in an Air Force conference on the weapon this month. They said a choice would be narrowed ' to not more than half a dozen companies from which Air Secretary James H. Douglas and Chief of Staff Gen. Thom as D. White would select the contractor. This contract will call for development only, but a production contract will follow quickly. Officials said the first weap ons should be ready in about 18 months. Officials said the ALBM (air launched ballistic missile) will have these advantages: 1. It will be a retaliation weapon that can't be knocked out easily. Hence it will vital ly strengthen U. S. deterrent power. 2. It can extend the useful life of present-day bombers enabling them to fly well away from enemy defenses and launch missiles over any number of courses. The Air Force has about 1,500 B-47 bombers and several hund red B-52's, all candidates for the new missile. The new supersonic B-58.. likewise can carry the weapons and, more over, launch them while trav eling faster than sound. 3. The weapon could con found Russian defenses- be cause it will be in motion constantly and relatively in vulnerable compared with big, fixed - base intercontinental ballistic missiles. Also, it can be flown relatively close to targets in emergencies but re called. An ICBM cannot be stormed, once it is launched. 4. The ALBM, because of Civil Rights Suit Brought in Alabama Montgomery, Ala. -DPD- The Civil Rights division of the Justice Department goes to federal court trial Monday charging that properly quali fied Negroes were denied vot ing rights in Macon County, site of famed Tuskegee Insti tute. It is the second voter right suit brought by the depart ment's new civil rights divis ion. The first suit charged Terrell County, Ga. Regis trars with refusal to register "fully qualified" Negroes, four of whom were school teachers. Trial is pending in that case at Columbus, Ga. The Alabama suit charges the Mavon board of regis trars with violation of Negro voting rights and seeks a per manent injunction to prohibit alleged discrimination in the registration of Negroes be cause of race or color. The suit also test, for the first time, the use of segre gated facilities in the regis tration process. Negroes out number whites four-to-one in Macon County. JJt. Bragg, N. C. -4UPD- Phy sicians treating Gen. George C. Marshall for two strokes and pneumonia gave the fam ed soldier-statesman "a 50-50 chance" for recovery yester day. WEATHER FORECAST: Low clouds or fos this moraine: becoming fair and mild this afternoon. Increasing rlondinrss tonight and Monday. Few light showers Monday. High todav 56. Low tonight 38. High Monday 52. TEMP- Highest Saturday 4S Lowest Saturday . 35 PREC1P. To 5 p.m. Saturday .el Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:58 p.m. 6:58 a.m. Moonrise today 5:36 P-m mil Moon Tomorrow .m. Now nearly Full, the Moon gives OS about 8 times as much light as it did a week ago at First Quarter and some dim stars, easilv seen then, are not visible tonight. The bright star near the Moon is Regulus. prior research and develop ment of submarine polaris and other weapons, can be de veloped quickly and relatively inexpensively. Feasibility of the ALBM was demonstrated to Air Force satisfaction last year by the Martin company, Baltimore, Convair division of General Dynamics Corp., San Diego, and Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, Calif. From a B-47, Martin launch ed a two-stage test missile over the Atlantic missile Fourteen Children Among Those Killed In Disastrous Fires United Press International At least 19 persons, includ ing 14 children, died Satur day in fires that swept their homes. Most of the blazes oc curred in the East and North east. At Crisfield, Md., five chil dren died in a fire, while four youngsters perished in a blaze in Boston. Anothef fire at Hanson, Mass., killed three children, and one at Los An geles claimed the lives of two brothers. At Crisfield, Md., the five children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miles perished when they were trapped by flames on the second floor of their Neuberger Reports City Funds Granted Washington-(UPD-Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger yesterday announced approval of a $24, 350 federal grant to the Uni versity of Oregon Bureau of Municipal Research and Serv ice, for., aid in preparation of growth and development plan ning for ten Oregon cities. The urban renewal admin istration informed Neubeger that communities to benefit under the grant are Albany, Corvallis, Florence, Grants Pass, Medford, Newberg, New port, Oswego, St. Helens and Toledo. The grant will be matched by local funds. The Oregon Democrat said the funds will provide "valua ble aid for these growing com munities in planning schools, parks, thoroughfares and sim ilar expansion and develop ment." The grant was approved un der the urban assistance pro gram to provide federal funds for cities of less than 25,000 population.- Highway Commission Blocks Road to Log Portland- (DPD -The Oregon State Highway commission has refused . permission to transport by truck a 200-foot long, 130,000-pound log from Coquille to Portland for dis play as an Oregon Centennial Exposition tree. The commis sion said the load might weak en bridges en route and add ed a truck rig would weigh an additional 13 tons. Centennial officials said the log, more than nine feet m diameter at the base, would be hauled by special railroad car to Portland. Non-High School Budget Approves 1959-60 $235,000 Outlay A total estimated budget of $235,000 was prepared and approved this past week by the Jackson county non-high school district budget commit tee for the school year 1959 60, school officials announced. The total includes $208,050 tuition, $20,000 transporta tion, $5,000 emergency fund, and $1,950 other operating ex penses. The committee esti mated that receipts would total $105,000 for the year, with the remainder of the budget to be met by tax levies in the county's seven non-high districts. Consolidation Could Affect County School Superintend ent Alf B. Mekvold stated that proposed school district con solidations could affect opera tion of the non-high district. Four schools now in the dis trict are considering consolida tion with Medford ' public schools. Pinehurst elementary school is considering joining with the Ashland schools. If these changes materialize, range from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and from a B-58 travel ing well above the speed of sound. The Convair-Lockheed team launched , another ver sion over the same range. A third version of an ALBM, in very early -stages, was testr ed recently at Cape Canaveral by McDonnell Aircraft Corp., St. Louis. This version was said to involve new principles. It will continue under exper imentation, regardless of trie decision soon to be made on the production weapon. frame house in the East coast fishing community. Mrs. Lucy Miles, whose hus band was not at home, jump ed to safety and said she was unable to reach her children in the rapid spreading blaze. Th children ranged in age from three weeks to 10 years. In Boston, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Orland.Watkins, ranging in age from 14 months to 12 years, were trapped when a space heater exploded near their beds in the living room. A fifth child was res cued. Mrs. Watkins said the explosion occurred as she and her husband were arguing about family finances. The victims of the Hanson, Mass., blaze were from a fam ily of 11 children. The father of the three, victims, Kichard Sullivan, was alone with the children when the fire raced through their isolated farm house. Sullivan was able to raise a ladder to savp oiirhf of his children, but the three -aged 3, 5 and 9-perished in their second floor bedroom. Four of Sullivan's nfhor .hil. dren-were hospitalized.-while j a nith was treated for burns. At Los Aneeles. Mrs. Car men Gomez returner! noma to watch helplessly as a fire -Deiieved started by a cigarette-claimed the lives of her sons, David. 3. and JoseDh. 4. The body of Rudolph Rodri guez, 21, with whom the mother argued before leaving the one-storv frame h o u s also was found in the debris. Mrs. Gomez was estranged from her husband. In other fires, a ireman, Lt. Joseph L. Rock, 43, died while fighting a blaze in a Lynn, Mass.; tenement from which nine persons escaped, while Alexander D. McKay, 70, perished when he was trapped by flames in a three story apartment building at Milf ord, N.H. At Chicopee, Mass., a body tentatively identified as S Sgt. Kenneth W. Hopke, o Cedar Bluff, Neb., a West over AFB airman, was found in the ruins of a home de stroyed by fire. At Rockport, Ind., Marie Boyd, 19, died of smoke in halation in her anartment above a bank when fire de stroyed the building. Others were luckier. Nine teen persons, including nine children, fled to safety in zero weather at North Adams, Mass. when a space heater explosion set a tenement afire. At East Chicago, Ind., 50 persons also escaped safe ly whin an extra alarm fire destroyed a hotel. only two schools would re main in the non-high district, Mekvold explained. The bud get was prepared for existing disrticts with the possibility of making adjustments at a later date. Non-high students for the coming school year are esti mated to be 535. The board approved the 1959-60 tution fee of $475 per student. Hearing March 17 At a meeting of the non- hich board last Wednesday, ! a hearing on the proposed bud- get was set for 11 a.m. in the county school superintendent's office in the courthouse. Mem bers also set the election on exceeding the six per cent debt limitation for the date of the annual school meeting the first Monday in May. As the district has no tax base, the entire budget is in cluded in the six per cent lim itation, it was explained. The board discussed election of new board members from zones 2 and 3. Petitions axe Symington Calls On Ike to Replace Secretary Dulles Asks Appointment As Soon as Possible St. Louis, Mo. - (DPD - Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) yes terday called for President Eisenhower to appoint a suc cessor for Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as soon as possible. Although the senator ex pressed sympathy for the ail ing secretary, he said the prompt appointment of a suc cessor was necessary to "con tinue such delicate negotia tions as those over Berlin and the current Geneva confer ence." The Russians, Symington "are working hard and mean business in their foreign af fairs." Symington also said he didn't think Dulles could run the state department -from a hospital and "we know it has not been run from the White House." Someone Outside Although not mentioning his own choice as a successor to Dulles, the senator suggest ed the President appoint someone from outside the Re publican party. He said Presi dents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman "used good Republicans" to head the department when they were in office. Dulles received his second radiation treatment, for ab dominal cancer yesterday and later conferred with Presi dent Eisenhower for 20 min utes. Dulles' doctors reported there were no adverse reac tions to the radiation. The treatment from the one-million-volt x-ray machine at Walter Reed Army hospital lasted one minute, the same as the first one Friday. The President drove to the hospital to see-Dulles aftep-re turning from his good - will visit to Mexico. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White said doctors reported that Dulles spent a comfortable night. His temperature, pulse, res piration and blood pressure were described as normal. White quoted the doctors as saying that Dulles, who will be 71 Wednesday, "is in fine spirits." Health Board Urges Shots for Influenza Portland -(DPD- The Oregon state board of health recom mended influenza vaccination for all pregnant women in the state Friday following receipt of a warning from the U. S. public health service that type B virus has been isolated in Maryland, Michigan and the District of Columbia. A health board spokesman said expectant mothers, chronically ill persons and elderly persons are most apt to suffer serious complica tions from flu. The board said that no type B influenza is known to exist in Oregon at the present time. The board recommend ed polyvalent vaccine for ex pectant mothers, the elderly and the chronically ill, be cause it protects against type B and most other important strains. Committee circulated for the nomination of incumbents John Chitwood, zone 3, and James Walker, zone 2, according to Chairman Edmund Ramsay. Petitions may be received in the sup erintendent's office for nom inating others who wish to be considered for board member ship. Those Present Present at Wednesday's board meeting were Ramsay, Mrs. Norah H. Blair, Chit wood, Walker, Superintendent Mekvold and Bruce Hitt, as sistant county school superin tendent. Budget committee members at the earlier meeting were the chairman, Mrs. Blair and Ramsay, Chitwood, Walker, Carl Quackenbush, Louis Straube, William Doernbach, Mrs. Robinette Heidemann, Chester Jensen, Mekvold and Hitt. Mrs. Heidmann's appoint ment as a lay member from zone 2 was approved early in the meeting. Soviet Premier Jells Of Red's Bottle Battle Moscow-JEPD-Premier Ni kita Khruschev lold Prime Minister Harold Macmillan yesterday the Soviet Union has been "having trouble" holding down vodka con sumption. Khrushchev told Macmil lan that a row of bottles on a long refreshment table contained no alcohol. "You may think this is odka. It's mineral water," Khrushchev advised the British Prime Minister. "We have been having trouble keeping down the consumption o f alcohol," Khrushchev said. Macmillan replied: "There is nothing wrong -with vodka. Everything done in moderation i s good." $4 Million Increase In 0. & C. Revenues Estimated by BLM Revenues from O&C Lands for fiscal 1959 will be $4 million more than origin ally estimated, according to new estimates by the bureau of land management. Senator Wayne Morse an nounced yesterday that he had advised Douglas County Judge V. T. Jackson, presi dent of the O&C County as sociation, of the new estimate. He said "of the $4 million increase, the O&C counties would receive an additional $2 million if they desire to transfer one -third of the money to be used in con struction of access roads." Under present statutes a percentage of BLM revenue is payable to the counties as a permanent appropriation. The counties have voluntarily allowed one -third of funds due them to be appropriated for construction of access roads on O&C and Coos Bay wagon road lands. Morse said that under new estTOateit,the.Qo.unUesde,- sired the transfer, about $6V2 million would be available in new funds for access roads. This amount would be in ad dition to the $4,447,000 ap propriated for access roads in prior years and available in fiscal 1959. Officials of the O&C Coun ty association informed Morse's office that they were considering a resolution ask ing the secretary of interior and Congress to transfer one third of the new money due the counties (approximately $1 million) to the construc tion budget. The remainder (approximately $2 million) would be distributed among the O&C counties, bringing the total for fiscal 1959 to $13 million. Shah Says Iran Will Sign Pact With U.S. Tehran, Iran - (DPD - The Shah of Iran announced yes terday that despite Soviet threats his government will sign a mutual defense pact with the United States. Provisions of the pact will be invoked only in the case of aggression, the Shah told a news conference. He said the agreement did not involve missile bases. Sports Bulletins Jerry Anderson scored 41 points here last night as , the Medford Black Tornado defeated Grants Pass high 76 to 60 to lengthen its second place hold in South ern Oregon conference bas ketball. Johnnie Olson tal lied 24 for Grants Pass. Klamath Falls trounced Ashland 75 to 38 at Klam ath Falls to keep its lead ership in the circuit. Glendale nipped Eagle Point 58 to 56 in overtime in the regular season Rogue league basketball finale last night. Eagle Point and Illinois Valley are league co-champs as result of the game. Bill Turner had 31 points for the Eagles and Bud Smart 29 for Glendale. Ashland - Southern Ore gon college took the lead of the Oregon Collegiate conference percentage-wise by virtue of its 50-34 vic tory over Portland Stale here last night. Gordy Car rigan for the second night in a row lead all scorers with 18 points. SOC now stands 12-3 in conference play whiles Portland State is second at 10-3. pern) Pqriey Dim Cmmvj Troops, Police Rushed to Prevent African Outburst Salisbury, Southern Rho desia -(DPD- Britain's Central African Federation yesterday rushed troop and police re inforcements into Nyasaland to prevent a fresh outburst of .. violence by Nationalist Africans. Attacks on three airstrips and against two police sta tions in the Indiana-sized pro tectorate occurred Friday as Africans sought to free jailed Nationalist leaders. Two white settlers were injured. Settlers predicted the gov ernment would declare a state of emergency which would enable police to round up fiery African leaders seek ing to make Nyasaland "an other Cyprus." Reports circulated that Na tionalist extremists were plot ting Mau-Mau assault tactics and had drawn up a list of "traitorous" Africans marked for death. - Officials sent in police units as well, as regular British troops from Rhodesian bases. There were fears that an Af rican National Congress meet ing today could touch off a general strike and fresh vio lence. Further developments in the area were blacked out by a government order requiring security clearance for all press dispatches. Hew Vote Called For Annexation Central Point - A special election will be held at the Central Point Rural Fire hall Monday, March 2, because of an error in the description of property annexed in the White City area last. December. The ballbt in December's annexation described the dis trict's northern boundary as "G" street, when it was actu ally 80 feet south of G, Claude Thompson stated. The board of directors of the fire district "recommends that the voters again approve this application for it will add materially to the assessed valuation of the district at no expense" to the operation," said Thompson,' the board chairman. The area proposed to be an nexed is slightly over a block wide and a half-mile long and contains five or six industrial plants, according to Thomp son. , He said it has been the pol icy of the board to turn down applications to join the dis trict, because adding more territory would decrease the efficiency of fire protection in the district. "In the case of this pro posed annexation, this would not be true, Thompson ex plained, "as we have to fight any fire occurring in this area to protect the property of our own district." Heart Sunday Volunteers Seek Contributions Today Heart Sunday's volunteer army of 175 local' residents will visit homes in all sec tions of the county today to collect contributions for the 1959 Heart fund. The march will begin at 1 p.m. and each volunteer will wear a square identifica tion badge and carry official envelopes in which contribu tors may seal their donations, according to Mrs. C. H. Buff ington, who is in charge. Mailed Donations Persons not contacted this afternoon who wish to con tribute may mail their dona tions to Dwight Houghton at the Medford branch of the United States National bank. "Heart Sunday is that spe cial day of the year on which the Jackson County Heart as sociation asks you to remem ber what you have seen, heard and read about cardio vascular diseases throughout the year and to givt for avry "These May Be A Little km -se- i-i i Tc'Tr' -i i it :-r.---7' i 1 1 Nasser Announces Russia Continuing Its Support of UAR Cairo -(DPD- President Ga mal Abdel Nasser said last night Russia has pledged to continue support of the unit ed Arab republic despite "ideological differences" be tween them. In a speech at a rally mark- in st" the first anniversary of the merger of Syria and Egypt into the UAR, Nasser said he received the pledge in a let ter Friday from Soviet Prem ier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Nasser told an audience es timated at 500,000 that Khrushchev told him "our at titude towards you will not change no matter what the ideological differences are." No Desire to Interfere The president quoted the Soviet premier as saying in his 10-page letter that Russia had "no desire to interfere" in internal UAR matters. Nasser has been cracking down on Egyptian and Syr ian communists. A number of them have been rounded up since Nasser attacked local Reds in a speech last De cember at Port Said. The crackdown did not please the Russians but Nasser has warned he would brook no in terference in UAR internal affairs. There have been reports re cently of a cooling in Soviet UAR relations, while relations between Nasser and the West have been warming some what. Struggle for Independence The president told a cheer ing crowd in Republic Square that Russia promised its back ing because of the UAR's struggle for independence and the realizations of the Middle East country's dreams. Nasser spoke after confer- heart in your family," Mrs Bufing said. The house-to-house collec tion will be similar to Heart Sunday collections in thou sands of other communities in the U.S. Blood Rushed The impact of research in open heart surgery was brought out last week when the entire amount of blood used in an open heart opera tion on a five and one-half year old girl was rushed to Portland from Medford. Dr. Albert Starr, head sur geon of a 14-man team that performed; the operation, re ported in a telephone conver sation . with Mrs. Buf ington that the girl stood an excel lent chance of having a nor mal childhood for the first time in her life. Similar surgery is being performed at the University of Oregon Medical t c h o o 1 weekly, Harder To Execute" rine for 90 minutes in the Dresidential palace with visit ing President Tito of Yugo slavia, whose independent brand of communism has an gered the Soviets. Tito is touring Afro-Asian t countries. SARAH G. RILEY Dies at 99 Sarah G. Riley, 99, Pioneers' Daughter, Dies in Hospital Here Mrs. Sarah G. Riley, 99, of Eagle Point, died in a local hospital Friday after a month's illness. Mrs. Rilev was born at Sterling, near Jacksonville, Oct. 6, 1859. She was the daughter of the late Martin F. and Margaret Hurst, early pioneers in southern Oregon. She had been invited to par ticipate in Oregon Centennial activities in Portland this summer. On Dec. 31. 1882. she was married to Thomas Riley, who preceded her in death, with the exception of five years at Jacksonville, her entire life was spent in the Eagle Point area. Mrs. Riley was in good health until about a month ago. She continued with her housework, cooking, canning and sewing, and raised flow ers and braided rugs to keep herself busy until her illness. Surviving are three child ren, Mrs. George B. Holmes and Thomas Riley, Eagle Point, and Mrs. Elmer E. Wilson, Medford; two broth ers, Walter Hurst, Medford, and Claud Hurst, Bremerton, Wash.; two sisters, Mrs. Flora Jackson and Mrs. Myrtle Hobbs, both of Medford; a grandson, Orville R. Wilson, Elko. Nev.: a granddaughter, Mrs. John A. Redmond, Se attle; and three great grand children. Funeral services will be held at Conger-Morris Funer al home at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Joseph Munshaw of the Eagle Point Community Bible church will officiate. Committal will be in the Medford IOOF cemetery. Pallbearers, will be W. E. Holmes, Earl Fralow, Lyle Van- Scoy, Pwight McCorkle, Claus Charley and Lealand Charley, mJ"- ' 4, Prime Minister Expresses Fear Of Nuclear War . Asks or Concentration On 'Things That Unite' Moscow-(DPD-British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan opened summit talks with Nikita S. Khrushchev yester day by appealing for greater East-west understanding lest the big powers "muddle" their way into a suicidal war. The two chiefs of state plunged into the first of a series of discussions on such world problems as Berlin and Germany almost immediately after Macmillan arrived aboard a British Comet jet liner from London to a rigidly formal welcome. Soviet Premier Khrushchev, in jovial mood, said at the airport he looked forward to useful talks." Macmillan said his 10-day mission was to seek "better understanding" be tween the world power blocs. At a Kremlin reception later, Macmillan amplified his remark in a speech that ranged generally over major issues and reduced them to the basic fear that a war in the nuclear age could destroy the world. 'Ever More Terrible' He reminded the audience that fore more than 10 years with only intermittent "thaws," the East and West have been "confronting each other with ever more terrible instruments of destruction." "I wish with all my heart that this competition would cease," he-said..v- "It is not that we fear acts of calculated aggression, and I hope that you do not. In modern conditions such ag gression, between the great powers, at least, would be suicidal folly. 'Calamity for All' "At the same time lt is impossible to hide from our selves the dangers of a war by miscalculations or by mud dle. That indeed would be a calamity for us all." In off-the-cuff remarks di rectly to Khrushchev at a two-hour banquet in St. Cath erine's hall of the Kremlin, Macmillan said East and West should concentrate on "the things that unite us rather than the things that divide us" to give the world peace. "Let us try to guide the world through the next gen eration in peace," he said. 'This Thaw' Khrushchev in return said he . considered Macmillan's visit a result of "this thaw" in the cold war. Macmillan, making the first summit contact between East and West since the Soviets set May 27 as the deadline for allied withdraw al from West Berlin, stressed the need for "some basis of confidence." To Khrushchev's economic challenge to the West, he de clared that it is this kind of competition on which Britain and the other western powers thrive. "We prefer it to other sorts," he said. "If we could channel all the energies which at present are devoted to the manufacture of arma-. ments, both conventional and nuclear, what an upsurge there might be in the scale of production for peaceful purposes. "I do not pretend that this is an easy task, but let us at tempt it nevertheless. Mean while let us and the other governments concerned try to avoid hazardous courses," he concluded. It was on this basis that Macmillan was expected to thrash out details of the cold war quarrels with Khrush chev. County, Sfofe, U.S. Doors Closed Monday All county and state ana federal offices will be closed Monday since George Wash ington's birthday, a legal holi day falls on Sunday, officials announced. City hall will remain open in Medford, city officials said. All the schools will be oDen and running as usual. school officials reported. r
