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f 53rd Year Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medford phone SP 2-6141, Ash land MU 2-1021, Vreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1220 p.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended Price 1 0 Cents Tribuw DFORD Tentative proposals for re shaping the school districU in Jackson county under the dis trict reorganization law is ex- 5. !n?,on pae 14 f todays Mail Tribune. United Press Full Incased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 56 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1959 No. 293 Me South Vie) Nam Denies Charges Of Kidnaping 82 Communist Chinese Claims Arouse Fear Saigon, South Viet Nam -(UPD - The South Viet Nam governemt yesterday denied Communist Chinese charges that a Vietnamese Navy gun boat kidnaped 82 fishermen from the Percels Islands in the South China sea. The Communist charges aroused fears of a new Red inspired crisis in Asia. The Parct.-ls Islands, which lie 280 miles off the Viet Nam coast, are claimed by Communist and Nationalist China, South Viet Nam and the Phillipines. Officials in Saigon said yes terday that 50 Chinese who landed on Duncan Island in the Parcels in two junks were held briefly for investigation. Allowed to Leave After the fishermen had been identified and question ed, the officials said, they were given food and drinking water and allowed to leave for their homeland. The ar rest took place Feb. 22, the officials said. The Chinese Reds said Fri day the incident took place Feb. 26. They accused the Saigon government of Pre mier Ngo Dinh Diem of in vading the islands, tearing down Communist flags, "kid naping" 82 fishermen and seizing five fishing boats. Earlier this month the Pei ping Regime reported it was colonizing the island group, which it calls Hsisha West Sands. Will Investigate Government spokesman in Saigon said last week South Viet Nam, a staunchly anti Communist ally of the United States, would investigate the Chinese reports. Peiping made the charges in a foreign Ministry state ment issued through the of ficial New China News Agen cy. The Communist charges and threats aroused fears in some parts of Asia that Pei ping now planned to stir up a new crisis over the Parcels to succeed current tension over Quemoy and other off shore Islands. Sports Bulletins Central Point Grants high kept in contention for a slate A-l basketball tourn ament berth by trimming Crater 41 to 38 here last night. The Cavemen over came a five-point fourth quarter deficit to gel the triumph. Chuch Turner had 15 points for Crater and Rick Sabin 13 for Grants Pass. Klamath Falls Klamath Falls claimed its third straight Southern Oregon conference basketball title by downing Medford high 71 lo 67 here last night. The Pelicans of Klamath had quarter leads of 16 to 11. 36 to 33 and 50 to 41. Medford's Jerry Anderson put in 29 points. New County Specific Provisions for Responsibility A contract for continued ex tension of services to Jackson county by the Medford Pub lic Library was signed Fri day afternoon. Signers were Mrs. Leland Mentzer, president, and H. Dewey Wilson, representing the library board, and Judge Earl Miller and Commission ers Ralph James and Chester Wendt of the county court. The new contract is the latest of a series starting in 1920 when the county court first contracted with the Med ford Public Library board for extension of its services as a county library. The contract has been modified and im proved through the years, with the revision of 1954 in force up until the present time. The new version, recently completed in -conferences be tween the county court and the library board, was under taken in order to achieve an agreement more specific in several respects and thus more practicable in operation, according to library officials. Certain provisions strength en the administrative duties and responsibilities of the li brary board, while others en sure a measure of local con 4 yfPi i'f '-''-'"--'! CENTENNIAL THEME - Students and teachers of Lincoln school, to stimulate in terest in the school carnival, attended classes Friday in old-fashioned costumes. The carnival theme was "pioneer days," tying in with the Oregon Centennial ob Red Trawler deliberately Cut CabBe, Official! States New York -(UPD An offic ial of the American Telephone and Telegraph company said test night a fishing trawler apparently had deliberately cut the trans-Aatlantic cable that has sparked a new cold war incident between the United States and Russia. John A. Bowman, general manager of special projects for AT&T's long lines depart ment, s aid the repair ship Lord Kelvin had located the cable break about noon some 195 miles off Clarenceville, Nfld. Bowman said the Kelvin had raised the cable to the surface and found it to be "badly scuffed," indicating it had been dragged aboard a vessel previously. "From the looks of the cable," Bowman said, "it ap pears that it had become foul ed in trawling gear, was haul ed aboard a trawler and cut to free the gear." The leader of a U. S. Navy party that boarded a Russian trawler in the area said in Washington yesterday he be lieved the Soviet fishing ves sel cut the cable accidentally. The officer, Lt. Donald M. Sheely, said there was no evi dence to indicate that the cable had been cut on pur pose but "I am not convinced they didn't cut it deliber ately." Bowman said the cable, one-and-a-half inches in diameter been placed in service in Sep tember, 1956. He said it nev er had . been broken pre viously. Asked at a news confer ence whether there appeared Spring, Summer Hours At Museum Announced Jacksonville - Spring and summer hours at the Jackson ville museum have been an nounced by Miss Mary L. Hanley, curator. The museum will be open between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays, and between noon and 5 p.m. on Sundays and holidays, she said. The spring and summer hours start today. - Library Contract Offers trol by communities served with branch libraries, accord ing to Wilson, who, with Dis trict Attorney Tom Reeder and former Medford City At torney Roy Bashaw, drew up the document. In general, the headquar ters library is responsible for provision of books and other reading materials and sup plies, and for the staffing and supervision of personnel. Communities served by branches remain responsible for housing and equipment. This is the general pattern of county library service, throughout the United States, according to library author ities . The responsibility of the library board for employing and compensating branch li brarians, thus freeing local community funds for library improvements and needed equipment, has been spelled out in the new agreement. Selection of such personnel will be made "with the ad vice of and subject to the ap proval of the council of the city furnishing the facilities." A new provision permits the local librarian to spend money received as fines and to be anything suspicious about the break in view of the fact that such a thing never happened before, Bow man said, "not in terms of past experience with other ocean cables." He said underwater West Moscow Radio Calls Search 'Provocation' London - (UPD - Moscow Ra dio charged last night that the sian trawler off Newfound land was a "premeditated act of provocation" designed to intensify the cold war. In the first official Soviet comment on the incident, Moscow Radio claimed the High Speed Chase Results in Arrest A high speed chase Friday night by city and state police resulted in the arrest of a Medford youth on charges of burglary, auto theft and reck less driving, state police said Saturday. David Dexter Staniforth, alias Bernard Joseph LeBlanc, 20, of 560 Clover lane, is being held in county jail on the three charges, according to the report. State police said they were looking for a car stolen from near a Medford hotel Friday when it was spotted on the North Phoenix rd. being driv en by Staniforth. Police pur sued him on North Phoenix rd. into Medford, where city police joined the chase. Medford police said he is charged with breaking into the Hoover school and taking a clarinet, a high fidelity tape recorder and two phono graphs. The school was entered by breaking a small window over a door latch, they said. The car belonged to Margo Jean Bowers, 104 South Holly st, Medford. fees, whereas former contracts required that such money be turned over to the county treasurer. Another new pro vision specifies that the coun ty shall furnish a means of transportation of books from headquarters to. the library's branches. This is an improve ment over the previous use of private transportation, Consistent with the policy of the library board of meet ing with councilmen of towns served with branch libraries for fuller understanding of li brary policies and practices, uie new contract also pro vides a procedure by which inquiries can be made and explanations received by resi dents of the area served. The document is to be renewable annually. The librarian and members of the board pointed out that county library service is ren dered not only through nine community branches and sta tions, but is also available to all residents of the area serv ed from the headquarters li brary, where books, reading rooms, and professional refer ence services are available to rural as well as to city residents. servation this year. Above, third grade teacher Mrs. Ethel Chastain shows an old time school bell to students Kirby Lusk and Krista Hord. Prizes for the best cos tumes went to third grader Victor Haas and Linda Emery, sixth grade. ern Union telegraph cables were broken frequently. The telephone cable break occur red at 10:43 a.m. last Satur day, and four Western Union breaks occurred the follow ing Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, he said. search had been arranged in advance in conjunction with the state department. The Radio rejected the idea that the trawler Novorossock had anything to do with the cutting of five transatlantic cables. It charged that a boarding party from the U.S. Destroyer escort Roy O. Hale had no right to search the trawler 120 miles east of New foundland Thursday. The Soviet News agency Tass reported the incident Friday under the headline "an unlawful action of the American Naval fleet in the open sea" but made no other comment. Moscow radio commentator Viktor Korotkov opened yes terday's broadcast with the charge that "the war play of the U.S.A., whose obvious purpose is to undermine peace, has been taking uglier and more provocative forms. Korotokov charged that the boarding incident was unpre cedented, premeditated and provocative. He claimed that American planes had been following the Soviet fishing fleet off New foundland, and that the search was timed to coincide exactly with the moment the Novor ossick reached the area of the damaged cables. The U.S. Fleet's action against the Russian trawler was arranged earlier with the state department, the radio charged, and the boarding or der was issued by Atlantic Commander A d m. Jerauld Wright with the knowledge of defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy. "It goes without saying the American search party found nothing on the Soviet ship that could have harmed the sea cables." the radio said. "Did They Say This Was A Balanced Budget Or A Juggled One?" Khrushchev Plans Junket This Week To East Germany Macmillan Continues 'Understanding' Plea Moscow-(UPD-Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev will fly to East Germany, apparently to press ahead for a Berlin showdown, at the conclusion of his chilly summit talks with Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan, it was announced yesterday. (There was immediate spec ulation in the West that the Soviets premier would negoti at a separate peace treaty with the East German government, paving the way for the Soviets to turn over control of the West Berlin allied lifelines to East Germany on May 27.) Mikoyan As Host As Macmillan toured his toric Leningrad with Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan as his unexpected host, the official Tass News Agency disclosed that Khrush cheve would fly to the East German Leipzig International fair which opens this weekend and runs to March 10. He was expected to leave soon after Macmillan ends his Russian tour on Tuesday. "Tass said the Soviet statesman ac cepted an invitation from he East German government to visit the fair. Time was running out for Macmillan and his "reconnais sance" mission which began in an aura of goodwill last Sat urday and quickly degenerat ed into a diplomatic freeze when Khruschev rejected the Western call for a big four foreign ministers' conference on Berlin. One more formal summit meeting was scheduled on Monday between Khrushchev and Macmillan. The British prime minister continued to appeal for mutual understanding and further East-West negotiations because "hopes for peace are not enough." Macmillan again warned that governments 'must work for peace and avoid actions which lead to dangerous situations." Annexation Ballot Scheduled Monday Central Point A special election to annex an area about a block wide and a half a mile long will be held in the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district to morrow. The area to be annexed ex tends about 80 feet south of G st. in the Camp White in dustrial area. The election is necessary to correct an error in the description of the pro perty which was annexed last December , board members pointed out. The board of directors of the district recommended that voters approve the annexation since it will add materially to the assessed valuation of the district at no expense to the operation of the district. Board members pointed out also that fires in the section of land proposed to be an nexed would be fought by the department, to protect prop erty within the district at the present time. The White City fire hall of the district is only a block from the area to be annexted, members noted. DISCOVERER I. L FROM VAGIDEG.RER Tanganyika Sends invading Police Info Nyasaland Zomba, Nyasaland -(UPD-The Britissh trust territory of Tan ganyika sent an invading po lice force into Nyasaland to wrest control of the strategic Fort Hill airfield from Afri can hands, it was announced officially last night. The announcement said a police unit crossed the border into the Nyasaland British protectorate, "occupied Fort Hill and cleared the airfield." There was no violent resis tance, the announcement said. Field Seized African rioters, in a nation alist outbreak earlier last week, seized the field from a handful of European offic ials and blocked the air strip with boulders and oil drums to head off troop and police landings. British authorities have sent army and police rein forcements into southern and northern Rhodesia and Nyas land to check spreading "in dependence" demonstrations by Africans. The three terri tories are linked in a central African federatiton. Last night's announcement said Tanganyika took the ac tion "by arrangement" with Nyasaland Governor Sir Rob ert Armitage and to prevent African bands roaming across the border into Tanganyika's southern highlands. The ac tion was part of the govern ment program to protect the lives of law-abiding citizens endangered by rioters, it said. The latest outbreak occur red Friday at Chigarus, Ny asaland, when 250 rioters tried to attack the courthouse to free two African national congress officials. One Afri can was killed and two were wounded when British-led Af rican troops fired into the mob to halt the riot. Tri-Sfafe Power Tie Parley Set March 4 Salem -(UPD Gov. Hatfield has set March 4 for a confer ence of representatives from California, Washington and Oregon on a power inter-tie that would unite the three Pacific Coast states. The first meeting will be between government agency heads from the three states, Hatfield said. Hatfield has named Public Utilities Commissioner Jonel Hill; Water Resources Direc tor Don Lane; State Engineer Lewis Stanley; and Natural Resources Secretary Dan Al len to attend the conference. The three chief executives will meet to name representa tives of both public and pri vate power for further study of a power inter-tie after the agency heads have agreed on a framework for the study. , Mental Health Group Would Provide Permanent Family Counseling Agency The Jackson County Metal Health committee has agreed to set about establishing a permanent, countywide family counseling agency. This agreement was reached at a committee meeting Thurs day night. Miss Celia Walker was named chairman of a steering committee to take charge of the agency's forma tion. Two immediate objectives of the steering committee are to draw up a constitution and name a board' of directors. Both these steps are required for incorporation. Then, money must be found. Annual Requirement Miss Walker told some 55 persons at a luncheon Friday that at least $10,000 or $12,000 would be required annually to operate the agency. The principal expense, she said would be the salary of a properly qualified profession al counselor. This, she explain ed, could be anywhere from $6,000 to $8,000. Other expenses Miss Walker listed include office facilities, office help and conusltation SATELLITE VEHICLE - This 78-foot-tall rocket was used to carry the Discovered I satellite up toward its north-south orbit over the polar regions. The missile, shown standing on its launching pad at Vandenburg Air Force Base, Calif., is composed of a first-stage Thor IRBM and a Lockheed-designed second stage housing the Discovered. Neuberger Says U.S. Won't Enter Draft Head Dispute Washington (UPD Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said yesterday he. has. been informed that the selective service system does not in tend to enter the controversy over the appointment of a new service director in Ore gon. Neuberger said the selec tive service here told him that it is the policy of the system "to approve any nomination for state director made by a governor." The senator said he had re ceived requests from Oregon to determine whether Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the nation al director, has ratified Gov. Mark Hatfield's appointment of Sprague Carter of Pendle ton as Oregon director. Neu bereer said Carter's selection by Hatfield has been "under fire as politically motivated by various draft-board mem bers in Oregon." Neuberger said he does not plan to ask Hershey to inter fere in the selection because "I think Governor Hatfield ought to assume the respon sibility which was his." fees for the necessary services of a psychiatrist. She said that from 10 to 40 per cent of the agency's budget would be re imbursed by those receiving its assistance. She said it is a tradition in marriage counseling that those able to pay for the help they receive, do so. But no set fees are exacted. Primary Support Mrs. Freida Burnside, rep resenting the Family Service of America, told he-luncheon audience that united funds or community chests have pro vided primary support for ag encies in other communities. But, she explained, such support is permissible only after the agency has operated on its own for one year and proved its worth and stability. For the first year the agency must seek support elsewhere. Mrs. Burnside mentioned local foundations, legacies, endow ments and individual contribu tions from a fund-raising drive as possible sources. She zid any fund campaign should avoid conflict with other com munity drives. OFTED Air Engineers' Visit Scheduled Preparations for a full-scale study of air conditions" in the Medford area should begin within the next two weeks, ac cording to Ted Gerow, en gineer with the state air pollu tion authority. Gerow, who lives in Grants Pass, said yesterday he and an engineer from Portland are scheduled to bring air sampling equipment to Med ford "the first part of March." The two engineers, under an agreement made early in January, are to provide the equipment, and train a city employee in its operation. Under the joint city-state pro gram, the city employee will do the field work and the state will analyze the samples he collects. The study is ex pected to take "about a year." Its purpose is to determine whether the Medford area has a serious air pollution prob lem. Token sampling last fall disclosed the presence of "nuisance conditions," on the basis of which the state au thority recommended a full study. She also urged integration of the agency with other social services in the community, for maximum mutual benefit. A pilot project in marriage counseling has been under way here since last Septem ber. Ten voluntary counselors met Thursday night. They agreed that in nearly every instance those who came to them received a better under standing of themselves and their relationships as a result of the counseling. 22 Couples Helped Tom Goff reported at Fri day's luncheon that 22 couples have received counseling. He said that a total of 102 inter views lasting about an hour and a half each have been held, with some couples hav ing as many as 12 interviews. He said the counselors held 16 weekly staff meetings. They were assisted by Dr. Harry Davidson, Medford psy chritist. Interviews with some of these couples are still being held, it is understood, al though no new cases have been accepted since Feb. 1. Officials Report Satellite's Voice Remaining Silent Moon's Orbit Entry Not Confirmed as Yet Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. -flJPD- The U. S. launched the first Discoverer Satellite yesterday but the voice of the artificial moon remained silent and the Air Force could not confirm the 1300-pound artificial moon had been put in Polar orbit. There was no trace of the satellite by 10:30 p.m. (PST) and none of the various track ing stations had picked up any signal. There was no visual observations reported. Officials refuspH in K ;. u wW heartened. They still held nope that sometime during the. night a tracking station would pick up the first radio signal from the blunted-oen-cil shaped artificial moon- Sluggish at First It was lofted from iin -naA on the Sandy Beach range some 160 miles north wt Los Angeles at 1:49 p.m. PST. was slow, almost sluggish, at first. Then, given a boost by the first stage Thor mis sile, it shot almost straight up oeiore arcning into a hori zontal, southerly flight. In less than four minutes it was out of sight. Only a wide, yellowish white vapor trail was left in its wake as it disappeared high in the skies in the general direction of Los Angeles. At 1:54 p.m., right on sched ule, the second stage-the 18.8 foot long satellite-was nit loose from its booster. The tracking station at nearby Point Mugu Naval Station picked up its signal for six minutes. Then Silence The downranse tracking ship, some 950 miles at spa south ' of here, received the signal briefly. Then silence. There was no signal when it was scheduled for its first pass over Alaska. None, either, nearly two hours later at 5 p.m. PST when it should have zoomed over Hawaii. But diehard launch offic ials were hopeful. Adm. John E. Clark, deputy director of the Advance Research Pro jects agency which worked with the Air Force on today's test, told a press briefing that "we have not confirmed the orbit." Then he qualified his state ment. "I would like to think it was in orbit," he said. He pointed out that all conditions were peifect for orbit. "If we didn't make it, it was very, very close." Pressed for an explanation of the silent radio, Adm. Clark noted the Discoverer's radio antennas were located in its nose cone. At a certain height a covering was to have been jettisoned and the antennas ejected. He theorized that the covering failed to jettison. Lithia Lumber Co. Ruled in Violation Portland-(UPD-James R. Hem ingway, trial examiner of the National Labor Relatioas board, ruled yesterday that. Lithia Lumber company, Ash land, violated the Taft-Hartley law by refusing to bargain with a local of the AFL-CIO Woodworkers of America. Hemingway recommended to the board that it order the company, upon request of the union, to bargain with the woodworkers union. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable high cloudiness today. Lowering cloudiness tonight. Mostly cloudy Monday. High today 64. Low tonight 38. High Mon day 58. TEMP. Highest Saturday 67 Lowest Saturday 33 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:00 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:47 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 1:39 a.m. Last Quarter tonight 6:51 p.m. WUPITER, the largest planet, will remain nearly stationary among the stars for the next 5 weeks and GRAFFIAS in the constellation, Scorpio, is the tecond magnitude star seen quite near Jupiter during this period.
