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F ! T?WW ? ! "?" W "1 t5 ski- Tnw-' m 0) Uu TWO DIE The automobile in which two persons were killed Tuesday evening rests on the bank of Neil creek after it was pulled from the creek bed this morning. The vehi cle, according to state police, struck the bridge abutment and went into the creek, landing on its top. The late model automo bile had to be pulled from the creek bed before one of the bodies could be removed, Two Killed iirGrash Vehicle Strikes Neil Creek Bridge, Goes Into Water Two persons were killed, ap parently sometime last night, when the car in which tffey were riding went out of con trol, struck Neil Creek bridge southeast of Ashland and went into the creek, state police re ported today. The victims have been ten tatively identified by police as Denzil Hubert Shilts, 42, gen eral delivery, Blue River, Ore., and Mabel E. Lilja, 64, Redmond, Ore. Police said a check on li cense plate numbers showed that the automobile was regis tered to a Mabel E. Lilja, of Redmond. ' They said the accident oc curred when the vehicle, headed west on Highway 66, traveled 219 feet along the north shoulder, struck the bridge abutment and went in to the creek, resting on its top. One of the victims was pinned in the vehicle, police said. Officers received the first report of the accident about 8:02 a.m. today, but added that indications are the accident happened last night. Watches on the victims were stopped at 7:55 and 8, police said. They were the sixth and seventh traffic fatalities in Jackson county this year. At this time last year, there had been one fatality In the coun ty. League Changes Altitude on Dam Portland -(UPD- The Izaak Walton League of Oregon said today it no longer endorses the Oregon Water Resources board's proposed embargo which would block a high Mountain Sheep dam on the Snake river below the mouth of the Imnaha. The league, in announcing its change of attitude toward a proposed moratorium on Snake river dam construction, said that "we don't want to be in a position of stalling so long on high Mountain Sheep that we'll end up with Nez Perce." The latter would hurt impor tant fish runs on the Salmon river, the league said. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York-lPD-Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 601.18, off 1.73: 20 railroads 163.09, off 1.43; 15 utilities 91.57. off 0.35: 65 stocks 207.81. off 0.89. Sales today were 3.780,000 shares compared with 4.430,000 shares Tuesday. Thornton Loses Appeal On Investigation Records Salem (WD The State, Su preme court ruled today that the attorney general has no powers to undertake criminal investigations or prosecu tions unless he is directed by the governor to do so. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton had demanded that a former Liquor commis sion turn over records from a special investigation mad by a previous commission. When the commission refused to turn over the report Thorn ton brought suit in Circuit Eisenhower Sees Hopes Lowered for Talks on Germany Washington -HJPD- President Eisenhower said today that So viet Premier Nlkita Khrush chev's obvious and palbably intransigent attitude- low ers hopes for any really suc cessful negotiations on Berlin and Germany. The President also threw cold water on Khrushchev's suggestion for a summit con ference. He said such a meet ing would do more harm than good unless it was prepared in such a way as to promise some hope of accomplishing something. He told a news conference that Khrushchev's rejection of the West's proposal for a County's Share of Welfare Budget Increases $80,000 Jackson county's share of the 1S59-60 welfare depart ment budget will be $80,000 more than that of the current year's budget according to James Pullman, welfare de partment administrator. The county's share for the new year is $336,873 com pared to the current total of $256,839. The total budget approved by the Jackson county wel fare commission yesterday is $1,841,344 representing an in crease of $320,168.'This com pares to the budget the state welfare commission certified for the current year of $1,521,576. The total budget for the new year will be sent to the state walfare commis sion for its approval and re vision, Pullman said. The federal government's share of the total budget is 39 per cent, the state's share is 43 per cent and the county's share is 18 per cent. State law requires that the county provide the necessary budget up to 4V mills on each dol lar of the county's assessed valuation, Pullman explained. Reasons for the increase, he said, are more welfare appli cants in all categories, popula tion growth, less employment, more dependent children cases due to desertion of par ents and increased medical care costs. Aid to dependent children alone increased from 170 to 210 cases, Pullman said. The total budget does not include administrative costs, he added. court here. Judge George Duncan upheld the commis sion and the case was ap pealed to the Supreme court. In the opinion, the high court noted the common law powers to investigate and prosecute criminal violations are given the district attor neys rather than the attorney general. ' " ' The special investigation report sought by Thornton had been made at the request of the late Gov. Paul Patterson. police said. The victims, tentatively identi fied by police, are Denzil Hubert Shilts, Blue River, Ore., and Mabel E. Lilja, Red mond, Ore. The automobile was not discov ered until this morning. The two deaths bring to seven the number of persons killed on Jackson county highways this year. The seventh traffic fatality during 1958 occurred during July. -(Knackstedt photo) Big Four foreign minister's conference on Berlin and Ger many was not a hopeful de velopment, particularly since it came at a time wnen Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is in Moscow try ing to create a good atmos phere for negotiations. Khrushchev's rejection came in a Kremlin speech Tuesday. Eisenhower, in one of his toughest statements in recent months about the Soviet lead er, said he could not, in fact, see much use in trying to hold East-West conferences of any kind if the Allies get anegap tive answer before negotia tions even begin. The United States and its Allies, the President said, are not going to give one single inch in preserving their rights and responsibilities in Berlin. He added that there can be no abandonment by the West of this principle of its rights and responsibilities taken un der wartime and postwar agreements to which the Rus sians subscribed. The President said the Unit ed States and its major allies have made plans to defend their position in Berlin. So far as he knows, the President said, the entire NATO alli ance stands firm with them in insisting on the absolute necessity to be firm. He declined to disclose de tails of military planning but repeated that so far as the United States is concerned, any act of actual war would have to be started by what he described as someone else. (Continued on Page 6) - Mrs. Day Receives Suspended Sentence Mrs. Hazel .Pauline Day, 417 King St., charged with unlawfully obtaining public assistance funds, yesterday in circuit court was placed on probation and sentence was suspended for two years. Appearing before Circuit Court Judge James Main, she withdrew her previous plea of innocent and pleaded guil ty to the charges. Her husband, Marion Ben Day, was sentenced to two years in the Oregon state penitentiary Feb. 19 on the same charges. Day was found guilty Jan. 13 following a cir cuit court jury trial. He was sentenced by Judge Main, also. Judge Main also sentenced Daniel E. Roach, 922 Siski you blvd., Ashland, to three years in the Oregon state pen itentiary on charges of utter ing and publishing a false check. He had pleaded guilty to the charges. Wain Charles Johnson, Grand hotel, Medford, was given a' suspended sentence of three years and placed on probation for burglary not in a dwelling. He was charged with breaking into Dick and Dot's Cafe in Medford Jan. 16. Washington-(UPD-Rep. Stev en V. Carter (D-Iowa) told the House today he will keep his 19-year-old son on his con gressional payroll, but cut his salary from $11,872 a year to $6,400. Suggestions Are Made for County School Districts The Jackson county school reorganization committee last night took a. major step to ward reorganization of many of the county's school districts. At a meeting attended by approximately 25 persons in the county courthouse auditor ium it decided on tentative recommend ations which would combine Evans Valley with Rogue River; most of the Phoenix district with Med ford; and Talent, Pinehurst and the Wagner Creek sec tion of the Phoenix district with Ashland. The committee voted down a proposal of Bob Gail, Rogue River member of the commit tee, to form a district in the northwestern corner of Jack son county, from the Darda nelle overpass to the Jose phine county line. This would include a portion of the Gold Hill area, which is now a part of District 6C, and Evans Valley and Rogue River. Evans Valley district school board will meet Thursday and may direct a letter to the re organization committee stat ing the majority of the board is opposed to consolidation with Rogue River. However, another Evans Valley board member said after last night's meeting that this reflects the opinion of only a few district residents. He said the minority would favor sending their students to Grants Pass High school. The committee voted to in quire of Josephine county school officials how they would react to a proposed re organization of Evans Valley with Josephine county. The tentative recommenda tion for the Phoenix district to join with Medford, came after a motion by Jack Hoff buhr, a member of both the Phoenix school board, and -the reorganization c o m m i ttee. Hoffbuhr said he felt that Phoenix might soon lose a large section of its tax sup port since residents 'of the district around Barnett rd. seem more interested in send ing their youngsters to Med ford than to Phoenix. Earlier, the board had recommended that Phoenix and Talent be combined. D. H. Barber, McLeod com Jury Finds Pair Innocent in Case A district court jury yes terday afternoon declared Willie Wong, owner of the Chungking Inn, and Mrs. Louella Lee Browne, Central Point, both innocent of the charges in a pinball machine payoff case. The jury, which deliberat ed approximately two hours, declared Wong innocent of charges of possessing, display ing and operating a game of chance, and Mrs. Browne in nocent of charges of illegally paying off on a pinball ma chine. Warren Lesseg, attorney for the defense, charged that the arresting Medford police officer, Gordon H. Wright, did not have other officers with him to witness the al leged illegal payoff, that the book used for allegedly not ing payoff sums could not be found, and that Mrs. Browne did not know what the 50 cents she handed the officer on his request was for. Mrs. Browne was not actu ally employed by - Wong at the time, Lesseg argued. She had replaced a waitress for only a few minutes and thought the 50 cents might be change due the officer he as serted. Dr. Rodney Unable To Be in Medford Dr. Lynn Rodney, head of the recreation and outdoor education program at the Uni versity of Oregon, will be un able to be in Medford today, City Manager Robert Duff re ported. Dr. Rodney, who had been scheduled to visit Medford to study the proposed municipal park and swimming pool site on West Jackson st., will be mdae the next Wednesday, he reported. The recreation and parks commission will not meet to night as previous planned, due to the official being un able to attend. mittee member, pointed out no vocational agriculture pro gram has been provided for Phoenix students if reorgani zation with Medford occurs. Phoenix would lose a good high .school, he added. An it would be going against "nat ural proposition" of uniting Phoenix with Talent. (Continued on page 7) Mekvold Reviews Tentative Steps For Consolidation Alf B. Mekvold, county schools superintendent and secretary of the school reor ganization committee, 1. st night explained steps tenta tively proposed for the volun tary consolidation of six school districts. A proposed boundary board hearing on annexation of the north section of the Howard school district into District 6C has been scheduled March 4, he said. Following that, petitions for the proposed consolidation can be circulated in each of the districts, Lone Pine, Grif fin Creek, Jacksonville, Ruch, the remainder of Howard dis trict, and Medford. t Petitions will be prepared by the county school superin tendent's office and must be signed by a minimum of 50 registered voters in each sec ond class district and a mini mum of 100 in the first class district (Medford), according to state law. ' . Petition Circulation A period from March 5 to March 12 has been allowed for petition circulation and from March 13 to March 18 to allow the county elections depart ment to check validity of the signatures, Mekvold explain ed. Posting and publishing of required notices of the elec tion on proposed consolidation will be March 19 or 20, ac cording to the tentative sched ule. Earliest date for consolida tion elections would be April 6, Mekvold said. However, this schedule "could be tele scoped somewhat," he added. If consolidation is approved, the county boundary board no tifies each district and declar es the consolidation effective, tentatively set for May 1. This would allow return of election results by Apri 11 and allow a 10-day period in which to can vass the results. The boundary board is allowed a 10-day per iod in which to declare the consolidation. If non-high districts consol idate before July 1, they will not be responsible for tuition and bus transportation costs for students sent to high school districts. However, the county boundary board can set the effective consolidation date at the start of the school year. Then non-high districts would be responsible for such costs, he added. Eagle Point Man's Body Found by Boys The body of Robert Henry Mitchell, 63, Eagle Point, who drowned in the Rogue river near Galice Jan. 22, was found Monday by four boys on an ocean beach near the mouth of the Rogue at Gold Beach. Mitchell disappeared and was presumed drowned while fishing from a . boat on the Rogue near the Kesterson lodge a few miles downstream from Galice. Police said identification was made through clothing and a tattoo. A river guide estimated that the distance from the scene of he accident to the mouth of the Rogue is about 95 miles. (Obituary notice on Page 11) WEATHER FOREC'ST: Mostly cloudy to night and Thursday morning with a few light showers. Part ly cloudy Thursday afternoon. Low tonight, 35. High Thursday, 52. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 54 Lowest This Morning 33 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:56 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:53 a.m. The Moon rises 9:07 p.m. tonight and is in Perigee. Last Quarter March 1 VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in west 7:30 p.m. Mars, high Ji south west . 7:23 p.m. Jupiter, low in south east ...... . 2:40 a.m. Saturn, rises 4:06 a.m. Oregon Discussion Draws Crowd Salem-dPfr-An old perennial was back in the Oregon Legislature today after a hear ing on a daylight savings time proposal drew a good crowd. The bill would allow setting up of Oregon clocks one hour from April to September. The state made daylight savings possible in 1950, then repealed the law in 1952 and the people rejected it in 1954. The Portland Chamber of Commerce, represented by William Boon, said there was a commercial angle, to daylight savings in that it would give Oregon commercial people another hour in which to deal with eastern financial interests such as lumber brokers. Tom M c C a 1 1, representing KGW-TV. KOIN-TV and KPTV, argued that remain ing on standard time while the rest of the country went to daylight time meant serious financial losses for Oregon television dur ing the summer months. Network programs have to be taped so they can be shown at Price 10 Cents Medford 18 PAGES MEDFORD, President Warns Against Heavy Taxes on Profits Washington (UPD President Eisenhower today warned em phatically against taxing prof its to such a dangerous point that the nation would have to find a new way of financing the federal government. The President told his news conference that too many people were prone to decry profits and their place in the American economic system when actually the operation of the government was based squarely on successful profit making private enterprise. Strong Language Eisenhower used some of the strongest press confer ence language ever employed to attack the current policies of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toward the West. He declared they were palpably intransigent and of such a nature as to cast a mood of hopelessness over present diplomatic negotia tions. -He threw down the idea of a summit meeting under the present East-West climate, expressed the viewpoint that a non-aggression pact with Russia right now would not be worth much and said determ inedly that the United States would not give one single inch in the preservation of her rights and responsibilities in Berlin. (Continued on page 6) No Word Received On Pollution Study The city has received no word as yet from the state about an engineer coming to Medford to train local staff for an air pollution study, City Manager Robert A. Duff reported today. Duff received approval from the city council last month to proceed with a joint city-state air pollution study here. He said that at that time the state had said it would send an engineer with in two weeks to Medford to train the local employee. Medford's " participation in the air pollution study would involve about one hour of one man's time per day, for "about a year." Duff said that a man already employed by the city would be available. The engineer would train the employee in the reading, servicing and operation of air sampling equipment. The state would provide equipment and analyse the samples. Titan Blasts Off In Test of Range Cape Canaveral, Fla. (DPD A bullet-shaped Titan, the na tion's newest and most power ful intercontinental ballistics missile, shot aloft on twin jets of flame today in its second flight test. The 90-foot Titan was aimed at an impact point only about 300 miles down the Atlantic tracking range. But the test was considered an important "baby step" toward achieving the weapon's ultimate range of more than 8,000 miles. Daylight Saving OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1959 'We Control Everything That Rolls Almost Army Reserve Units Being Reorganized To 'Pentomic' Idea Two Army reserve units in Medford will be deactivated and four units reorganized under a change to the "Pen tomic" concept of the regular Army, Maj. Gen. Francis M. Day, commanding general of the 10th Army corps, reserve, Seattle, has announced. The Medford units which will be deactivated are head quarters company of the 417th Engineer Brigade, and headquarters company, sec ond battalion, 413th infantry regiment. General Day said headquar ters detachment, 382nd quar termaster battalion, Medford, will be retained without change. New Units New units in Medford will be headquarters company and companies F and G, all of the 2nd battalion, 1st basic com bat training regiment, 104th division, and the receiving company of the 104th training division. Personnel for the four new units will be taken from headquarters company, 417th engineer brigade and head quarters company, 2nd bat talion, 413th infantry regi ment, both at Medford. The 104th training division is the former 104th infantry division of Oregon and Wash ington, and contains five regi Dulles To Make Decision On Future in Cabinet Washington -UPD- President Eisenhower indicated today that after Secretary of State John Foster Dulles completes radiation tratment for cancer, they will confer on whether the cabinet officer wishes to continue on the job. The President, at his news conference, emphasized again however, that Dulles himself will make the decision. Eisenhower reported that Dulles, who marked his 71st birthday today at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, is re their regular time or films must be obtained for delayed release, McCall said. Elmer McClure. master of the Oregon State Grange, protested on behalf of farm ers. He said that many farm workers now come from cities and if they were on fast time, they would be an hour too early for work to begin. McClure also said that in parts of Oregon there were fog belts where work could not begin before a certain time anyway. J. T. Marr, representing the Oregon AFL CIO, said his organization opposed daylight savings until the whole country made up its mind whether it should be on daylight or standard time. Harold Smith, McMinnville, said stand ard time was best because railroads and communications facilities used it. He main tained that if daylight savings were de sired, businesses could just go to work an hour earlier without "fooling with the clock." 53rd Year Tribune No. 290 ments. The division will be responsible for providing ef ficient basic combat training, advanced individual training and specialist training in a short time in case of mobiliza tion. Maj. Gen. William H. Pren tice, commanding officer of the 417th engineer brigade, said enlisted personnel from the brigade will be placed in the new headquarters and re ceiving companies. Vacancies will not be available for all officers, -but efforts are being made, he said, to place offic ers in other units in this area. Other Changes Other units in southern Oregon which will become units of the 1st basic combat training regiment are com pany E, 413th infantry regi ment, Grants Pass, which will become company E in the new regiment, and the 733rd en gineer depot, Klamath Falls, which will become Company H in the 104th division regi ment. Brig. Gen. Eugene G. Cush ing, Vancouver, Wash., will continue as division comman der. The division is scheduled to complete its reorganization before going on its two weeks' annual active duty for train ing this summer, General Day said. sponding remarkably well to radiation- treatment for the ab dominal cancer. . The President said it will take some weeks to complete the intensive radiation ther apy which Dulles and the doc tors shortly after the radiation treatments are completed to determine the feasibility of the secretary's resuming his duties. Eisenhower declined to pre dict how soon it will be pos sible to tell whether Dulles will be able to return to his post. Showdown on Fate of Germany Appears Nearer Success Doubted for Macmillan Mission By United Press International The East-West cold war cri sis worsened on several fronts, today. A showdown on the fate of Germany and Berlin seemed nearer. President Eisenhower told his Washington news confer ence that Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev's unyielding attitude lowers hopes for any really successful talks on the German and Berlin questions. He also dismissed Khrush chev's suggestion for a Big Four summit conference by saying that such a meeting would do more harm than good unless there was some hope of accomplishing some thing in it beforehand. Won't Discuss War Plant Eisenhower said the West had made plans to defend its position in Berlin, but he de clined to disclose any details of the , military planning in volved. He said, however, that so far as the United States is concerned, any act of actual war would have to be started by someone else. In Moscow, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met for four more hours to day with Khrushchev in an atmosphere described as "calm, cool and collected. A British .spokesman said afterwards that neither side had budged from their posi tions. The West outlined its stand in notes sent to Mos cow Feb. 16 in which it sug gested a foreign ministers' conference on the Berlin and German questions. Khrush chev bluntly rejected the idea in a political speech on Tuesday, much to the sur prise of Macmillan. Deteriorating Situation Other developments in the deteriorating East-West situa tion: At Geneva the United States bluntly asked Russia today if it was time to end the three-power nuclear con ference without agreement on halting atomic weapons tests. The Russians did not give a direct reply. -It was announced in Bonn, Germany, that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French President Charles de Gaulle would meet in Paris next Wednesday for a con tinuation next Wednesday for a continuation of talks they started last year. There was no doubt that the rapidly warming up Berlin crisis would figure large in the new ' j: t discussions. -Despite the deepening gloom over any successful ne gotiations with the Soviets, authoritative British sources expressed hope in London that Khrushchev's rejection of an East-West foreign minis ters' conference was "not his last word." The West still is awaiting a formal "reasoned reply" to the Feb. 16 notes dispatched by the United States, Britain and France. In Moscow the British were making no official statements, but it was clear the Khrush chev speech had cast doubt on the success of Macmillan's mission just when the British, believed the mission was suc cessful beyond their greatest expectations. The crisis centered on Khrushchev's Nov. 27 propos al that the Western Allies withdraw from West Berlin and that it be turned into a "free city" with the Commun ist East German government controlling its approaches. He gave the Allies six months to take it or leave it. The West asked for a for eign ministers' conference to discuss the German problem. Khrushchev rejected this idea and called instead for a sum mit conference. The Allies had hoped a for eign ministers conference would be in session when the Soviet's May 27 deadline ex pired and that this would avert or postpone a crisis. But the call for a summit con ference without the prepara tions demanded by the West apparently meant the crisis would explode on schedule. The Soviet move was seen in Washington as a move to split the Allies at a time when Macmillan was in Moscow and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was in a hospital. La Grande Newspaper Sold To Bend Man Bend -(UPD- The La Grande. Ore., Evening Observer was sold today to Robert W. Chandler and Riley D. Allen of the Bend Bulletin and J. M. McClelland Jr., of the Long view, Wash., Daily News.
