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Newspaper Page Textti n n 7 etp n n rp A fTTN : s' iM v-y U U v- u U U 1j Lu I ''? A S,' ' iW4 : l IrliuLrQ ViiJ f ' ' S' - 53rd Year "ftLA T i, " 14 Pa9es MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1959 MRS. HARLAN BOSWORTH Oregon'i Mother of Year Mother of Year Title Goes to Bedford Woman A Medford woman long known for her activities in widely varying fields of in terest has received state-wide recognition. She is Mrs. Harlan P. (Marie) Bosworth Jr., 2425 East Main st., who yesterday afternoon was named 1959 Oregon Mother of the Year by the Oregon Mothers' commit- tee. Mrs. Mary Woodward, Portland, chairman of the committee, stated that Mrs. Bosworth was chosen from a group of 14 nominees. Mrs. Bosworth, wife of a vice president and assistant general manager of the Cali fornia Oregon Power company and mother of three sons and a daughter, will go to New York in May to represent Oregon in competition for the American Mother of the Year award. Children Listed The Bosworth's four chil dren are Mrs. William G. Hughes, Salem; Harlan P. Bosworth IV, student at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif.; Robert Lathrop Bosworth, an architect in San Anselmo, Calif., and David Myers Bos worth, student at Southern Oregon 'college. There are seven grandchildren. Mrs. Bosworth's father is O. V. Myers, 20 Ashland ave., re tired automobile dealer who Voters Approve Land Annexation Central Point Voters in the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district unanimous ly approved annexation of a strip of land in the White City industrial area in a special election yesterday. The vote was 52-0, accord ing to Fire Chief L. C. Lisen bee. The annexation was ap proved by a narrow margin in a previous election last De cember, but an error in the property discription on that occasion made a second ballot necessary. The land, about a block wide and a half mile long, is situated 80 feet south of G st. in the White City area. General Hicks Talks To Sheriff's Reserve Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, Med ford, director of Jackson County Civil Defense, was guest speaker at a meeting of the Jackson County Sheriff's Reserve last night. General Hicks explained the danger of fall-out and ra diation. He also told the group what to do in case of civil de fense disaster and demonstrat ed use of radiation detection devices. Officers of the group elect ed last night are Hi Martin, Medford, captain; John Creel, Medford, lieutenant; and Charles Bottjer, Jacksonville highway, secretary. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Wednesday. Low tonight 30; high Wednesday SO. Temp. Highest Yesterday 67 Lowest this Morning 35 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:03 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:43 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow .. 3:29 a.m. Mercury is now beginning its first and best appearance as an evening planet in 1959. For about the next 10 days this planet will be seen low in the west below Venus. New Moon March 9 is also widely known in southern Oregon. Oregon's new Mother of the Year has a long record of ci vic and religious activities, and she broadens her inter ests yearly. A member of St. Mark's Episcopal church in Medford, Mrs. Bosworth teaches a Sunday school class of three-year-old children. Other than her home and church, she considers her most important civic activity her work with Medford chapter, Oregon United Nations' asso ciation, and the state and na tional UN. She is on the OUNA board, attended the na tional UN convention in New York last year, and recently was invited to join the Citi zens' Consultation Group of UNESCO. Charier Member Mrs. Bosworth. was a chart er member of the Klamath Falls League of Women Vot ers and now belongs to the Medford league. For 10 years she has worked on league committees seeking adequate meat inspection laws for the state, has served on other boards and committees, and attends many hearings. She helped initiate the league's local studies on water re sources, and is a member of the Jackson County Pollution study committee. Mrs. Bosworth served as president of Medford Council of Church Women for four years and has also served as its legislative chairman. Her major activity for this group, both on the local and state level, has been on behalf of the Oregon Indians. One re sult has been a program, car ried out in cooperation with the American Friends Service committee, to maintain a so cial worker for the Klamath Indians. Another major interest of Mrs. Bosworth is in the field of nutrition. She is a member of the Soil Association of Eng land, the American Nutrition society and is vice-president of the Medford Natural Foods associates. When the Bosworths' chil dren were still at home, Mrs. Bosworth worked in parent teacher associations, was co chairman and one of the founders of the first Klamath Falls Youth council, and in more recent years served on the Medford YMCA board. She was once named Klamath Falls Woman of the Year by the Zonta club in that city. A graduate of the Univer sity of Oregon, with a bach elor of arts degree, she is per manent secretary of the class of 1925 and is a member of Chi Omega sorority. She has maintained membership in the Oregon Mental Health so ciety for several years and is a continuing member of the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val association. She is a group leader for the Great Decisions program, and a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Free dom. Mrs. Bosworth is an active member of the Democratic party and once ran for the state legislature. As Marie Myers, the new Oregon Mother taught school in Reese Creek, Howard Ele mentary and Medford Junior High schools. The Bosworths first lived in Medford, later in Klamath Falls and then re turned to Medford after Bos worth, who served ,as a colon el in World War II, resumed his position with Copco. , Talks in Paris, Bonn on Schedule For Top Briton Hopes for Peace Hinged on Decision Washington (EPB The White House announced to day that President Eisen hower has invited British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to come here to discuss the Berlin crisis. London -(UPD- Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan an nounced tonight he hopes to report in person to President Eisenhower on his Kremlin talks. Macmillan disclosed his plans for a second round of "little summit" talks in an airport statement on his re turn from 10 days in Moscow. "Now the foreign secretary and I must go off again next week and have talks with our friends and allies in Paris, Bonn, and after that, I hope, in Washington," Macmillan said. Moscow -(UPD The West to day pinned its hopes for peace on a reluctant Soviet decision to discuss Berlin at a foreign ministers conference, but some Western diplomats were more pessimistic than ever about the Berlin crisis. British Prime . Minister Harold Macmillan appeared to have succeeded to some ex tent in softening the hard Ber lin line of Premier Nikita Khrushchev although observ ers noted the basic Russian position was unchanged at the end of his 10-day mission. Last Meeting Macmillan and Khrushchev held one last minute meeting this morning to approve a joint communique on trade and cultural relations worked out during the Macmillan visit. A Soviet note handed Mon day to envoys of the United States, Britain, France and East and West Germany called for an East-West foreign min isters meeting on Germany and Berlin in Vienna or Gen eva in April and a summit conference of the heads of state later. Toboggan Mishap Injures Youths Two Medford youths were injured Monday morning in a toboggan accident at Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl. Injured were Lynn Knight, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Knight, 522 King st., and Roy Shaw, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sid Shaw, 121 Ashland ave. Mrs. Knight said the boys were injured when the tobog gan went over a 12 to 14' foot embankment and landed on pavement. The impact threw the boys across the highway and against a frozen snow bank. She said young Knight suf fered internal injuries, a brok en nose, and several arm lacerations, and young Shaw suffered a concussion, broken bones in his foot and leg in juries. Both are at Rogue Val ley hospital, where additional x-rays are being taken. Mrs. Knight said the youths were returned to Medford Sunday evening from Mt. Shasta hospital. Lynn Knight is a student at Medford High school, and Roy Shaw is a student at Hedrick Junior High. Salem-(DPD-A bill transfer ring control over the State Capitol Guide Service from the secretary of state's office to the Highway Department' has passed the House and was sent to the Senate. Senior Citizens Relate Views on Property Salem (UPD Some of Ore gon s senior citizens got a day in court Monday when the House Tax Committee con sidered three bills designed to ease the property tax burden on older neoDle. But protests came from city and county groups who were afraid the bills might reduce Frost Forecaster Expected in Area Later This Month Bill Rogers, meterologist with the U.S. weather bur eau's frost forecasting service, is expected in Medford March 15, according to the county extension office. Rogers will establish head quarters in Medford for the local frost forecasting service which will be active until June 1. All fruit growers are asked to take thermometers to the county agent's office for checking by March 17, according to C. B. Cordy, county horticultural agent. A shorter orchard heating season is expected this year than last, when it started March 1 last year. Little Activity Little bud activity has been observed in local orchards, Cordy said. It is during the critical period when fruit trees start budding that warn ing is needed so heaters can be used to raise the temper ature immediately surround ing the trees to protect the buds. Rogers, who operates out of Pomona, Calif., forecasts low temperatures through reg ular radio broadcasts. Expect ed lows also are available by a telephone recording device from the courthouse head quarters of Rogers. New Thermometer New to the fruit industry this season is an electrically operated temperature sensing device now being distributed locally by Hubbard -Wray Hardware company, Medford. The electronic device can be mounted on trucks and qr chardists can read tempera tures as they drive through their orchards. The unit can also be carried by hand or used in the house for measur ing outside temperatures. The new type thermometer is manufactured in Pomona, Calif., and was tested in this area last year," Cordy said. "December, January, February, March, April, May Here I Come, Ready Or Not" I IBS litlll Sfe. lax their property tax base too much. One of the bills, by Rep. Juanita Orr (D-Lake Grove), provides a property tax ex emption for persons over 65 who own homes valued at not more than $6,000 and who make less than $2,400 a year. Another bill, by Rep. Vic tor Atiyeh (R-Portland), would allow the exemption at age 65 on a $7,500 house, providing the head of the family doesn't make more that $2,500. The third bill, by Rep. Clar ence Barton (D - Coquille), would allow property taxpey ers 65 or older to defer pay ment of their taxes as long as there were non-delinquent taxes outstanding. Taxes Paid 50 Years The deferred taxes would be a lien on the property pay able when the taxpayer died or the homestead was sold or converted to some other use. The widowed spouse of the taxpayer also could get a de ferment. Clarence Jolly, Oregon City, pleaded the case for the oldsters, arguing that some of them had been paying taxes for more than 50 years. Dr. F. E. Brody, Clackamas, favored the straight exemp tion bills, but said he wouldn't mind the deferral bill either. Opposition came from Lor en McKinley, representing the League of Oregon Cities, who feared the three bills would result in shifting more of the welfare load to the cities. McKinley said that the de ferral bill was the "least ob noxious" of the three but thought that cities should be reimbursed for taxes de ferred. Tax Base Cut Opposed Barton pointed out that the taxes would be collected with interest from heirs of the de ferred taxpayer so that a re volving fund would be built up from which local govern ments might even profit. The Association of Oregon Counties also was opposed to the bills on grounds they would reduce the tax base. Frank L. Bass, represent ing the Oregon Education As sociation, protested that the bills would narrow the tax base on which local cities and particularly schools depended heavily. Rep. Orr estimated that her bill might cause a decrease in revenue from property o f $2,500,000 a year statewide. Rep. Fayette Bristol (R Grants Pass) suggested, how ever, that there might be an actual overall saving to the state by keeping people in their own homes and off the welfare rolls. Tribune TO ORBIT SUN This is the payload package of the Juno II rocket the Army fired from Cape Canaveral in hopes that it would pass the moon and go into orbit around the sun. The outer cone is made of fiberglass washed with gold to provide conductivity. The striped pattern is painted on to regulate temperature by controlling the reflection and absorption of solar heat. -(Official U.S. Army Photo) Nine Children Die When School Bus Plunges Into Pond Tifton, Ga. (UPD Nine chil dren between the ages of 6 and 14 drowned today when a packed school bus went out of control and overturned in a deep pond. All of the occupants, be tween 80 and 100, were Ne groes. The driver said his vehicle hit two bumps in the unpaved road and he lost control. The bus turned on its side and was two-thirds submerged in the chill water. Screaming children, stand ing on top of each other, were clawing at the topside win dows when the bus driver be- Deputies Seek Man Who Entered Home Jackson county sheriff's deputies today are seeking a man who entered the George Yockel home in Talent last nght. Mrs. Yockel said she went to bed about 10:30 p.m. while her husband was attending a lodge meetin. A few minutes later she heard the back door open and thought it was her husband. However, becoming suspicious, Mrs. Yockel went into the kitchen and turned on the lights. Saw a man standing just inside the door. When he saw her he ducked out the door and ran, she told sheriff's deputies. Sheriff's deputies speculat ed the man entered the home with intention to rob. Boundary Board Sets Change Hearing A Jackson county bound ary board hearing will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow on the proposal to annex the northwest portion of the How ard school district to school district 6C, according to the county school superintend ent's office. The annexation proposed would include 243 acres with an assessed valuation of 595,- 510, it was noted. The Detition was submitted to the board by residents of the area involved and has been approved by the Howard school board and by the Jack son county school district re organization committee, the superintendent's office said. Portland -(UPD- The Multno mah County Central Labor Council has voted 62.46 against daylight saving time. Price 10 Cents No. 295 gan kicking in the window- glass to get at the youngsters. Four children were admit ted to Tift County hospital, one in critical condition. An estimated 45 others came by private cars and another school bus for first aid treat ment. Children Calm A hospital attendant said most of the children were re markably calm following their ordeal, although they were wet, cold and bedrag gled. One little boy kept ask ing for a brother or sister. The dead were identified as Billy Tabon, 9; Leroy Tabon, 7; Burnese Henderson, 14; Ru- fus Harold Green, 8; Bobby King, 8; Johnson Gray, 8; Ruth Lee Simmons, 14; Eru line Wilcox, 14, and Gloria Jean Davis, 6. Driver Doyer Jones, 40, who had been making the bus route rounds for 23 years, said his bus hit two bumps in succession on the dirt road, causing him to lose control. The bus turned over on its right side and plunged into the water. The vehicle was about two-thirds submerged. The accident happened near the community of Brookfield, about seven miles east of here. Jones said he kicked out the window at the drivers' seat. He then mounted the over turned bus, kicked out other windows and hoisted to safety screaming children who were standing on top of other chil dren. White Men Help "The larger ones were stand ing on the little small ones," Jones said. "That's what caus ed so much trouble. Those (the small ones) werethe ones we lost." Jones said two white men from nearby farm houses helped him lift some of the larger children through the windows. Someone reached a telephone and soon an array of emergency apparatus was put into use. Five of the children were pronounced dead almost im mediately. Rescue workers re vived three nearly drowned children but, after several hours, gave up on four others. Salem-(UPD-The State Board of Control has requested the state fire marshal and state engineer to make a study of laws relating to protection of public buildings prior to the construction of the pro posed new labor and indus tries building in the capitol Mall here. raeKETSEfJIS TOWARD ORBIT Washington-flJPD-America's first artificial planet soared steadily toward a brief rendezvous in space with the moon on its way into orbit around the sun. By noon (PST) the National Aeronautics and Space ad ministration was notified by the jet propulsion laboratory in California that Pioneer IV had climbed to an altitude of 107, 900 miles and its speed was 5,675 miles an hour. JPL also ad vised that the satellite's latitude was reckoned at 20.8 degrees south and its longitude 191.3 degrees east. New tracking figures were being released every two hours by the JPL on figures received at its Coldstone track ing station on California's Mojave desert. Meteor Hit Only Obstacle in Path NASA scientists said nothing short of a direct hit from a meteor can now prevent the 13.4 pound gold-plated package from becoming planet No. 11. to. 10 is Russia's Lunik, launched Jan. 2. Pioneer IV was launched by a 60-ton Juno II Army rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 9:10 p.m. Monday. By 6 a.m. today it had climbed 72,400 miles and was coasting along at 6,518 miles an hour. Pioneer I, launched by the Air Force Nov. 11, had risen only 71,300 miles before falling back to earth, and the Army's first moonshot attempt, launched Dec. 6, reached only 63,580 miles. By 8 a.m., the pull of earth's gravity had slowed Pioneer IV to 6,162 miles an hour but had left it with plenty of mo mentum to pass the moon Wednesday afternoon and become a new artificial planet of the sun. Although slightly off course, the satellite was expected to pass within 35,000 miles of the moon-a miss of 20,000 miles from the planned trajectory. Its closest approach to the moon is expected at 11 a.m. (PST) Wednesday, when its speed will have been cut to 3,500 miles per hour. Ample Velocity to Orbit Sun But NASA scientists said the; space vehicle has ample velocity to go into an orbit around the sun. Its speed at launching from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 9 p.m. Monday was 24,890 miles per hour. This was 305 miles per hour more than needed to the earth s gravity and the tug of the moon's gravity field." The scientists said Pioneer P7 will go into a solar orbit somewhat larger and more elongated than that of the earth's. The space vehicles, like the earth, they said, will take about a year for each trip around the sun. NASA scientists said U. S. ground stations may be able to track the radio-equipped robot for a distance of 300,000 to 400,000 miles from the earth. Tracking Stations Locked on Signal The robot's batteries are expected to last about 50 hours after passing the moon, 221,000 miles away. For a brief period this morning, from 3:47 to 4:02 (PST), three of the biggest tracking stations in the world were lock ed onto Pioneer's radio signal. The stations weree Mayaguez in Puerto Rico, Jodrell Bank in England and Goldstone at Camp Irwin in the Mojave Desert in California. Goldstone then took over the tracking and was scheduled to remain locked on the signal for about nine hours. After a 14-hour period of uncertain tracking, Goldstone again would lock onto the signal and chart the robot's closest ap proach to the moon. The 14 hours of uncertainty the earth. This will place the side of the globe. But NASA scientists said could divert the robot from its charted course, and Goldstone should have no difficulty in picking it up again. First in Series-of Training Classes Starts The first in a series of po lice training classes for city and county police officers will be held in Medford Wed nesday from 1 to 5 p.m. in the city council chambers. Instructor for the session will be Keith L. Jones, Eu gene, bureau of municipal re- Dress Rehearsal Set for Kapers A full dress rehearsal of the 1959 Kiwanis Kapers is scheduled tonight at Medford High school. The production, "Now and Then," will be a contrast of the 1800s and 1959 featuring local personalities. The first act is made up of seven scenes, each depicting the old way of singing or dancing, followed by the way it is done today. The scenes are introduced by Miss Then, Sally Champ lin; and Miss Now, Margaret Dix. The second act is an old time minstrel revue featuring a large chorus with two in terlocutors, John Pletsch and Ray Baker. End men who carry the running gags throughout the second act are Tom Anderson, Dr. Abner Clark, Sam Richardson, Ron Rice, Ed Barnett and Frank Perl. Among the specialty num bers of the show is one fea turing a local singing group that received recognition last year at the State fair, The Shadows. Reserve tickets for the show are now on sale at Bar ker's Men store at Main st. and Central ave. There will be no reserved seats for the Wednesday night perform ance. The Kapers will be pre sented March 4, 5, 6 and 7 at the Medftfrd High school. Proceeds go toward contin ued support of the Kiwanis Dental clinic and other boys' and girls' work. ' i escape the backward pull of will result from rotation of tracking stations on the opposite only a collision with a meteor search, league of Oregon cities. The class, entitled "Car Stops With Practical Prob lems," will also include three ten-minute instruction periods given by southern Oregon of ficers. Sgt. DeLaire Tusow, Medford police department, will speak on communication with his own and other de partments while in actual pur suit of an automobile; Sgt. Dean DeBerry, Jackson coun ty sheriffs office, the prob lem of setting up a road block system in his own area; and Orin Chastain, Grants Pass assistant chief of police, prob lems encountered between lo cal law enforcement agencies in apprehending a fast moving fugitive automobile. The classes will continue for three weeks each Monday and Wednesday afternoon. The regional police schools have been held locally for more than 20 years. Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin said. He explained that the classes are part of the local department's training pro gram. The school, which is also held in 14 other Oregon cities, is sponsored by the Oregon Association of City Police Of ficers and the Oregon State Sheriffs association in coop eration with the Oregon state police, League of Oregon Cities, bureau of municipal research and service at the University of Oregon and the federal bureau of investiga tion. Senate Adopts Bill On Log Truck Permits Salem - (UPD - A bill amend ing the highway code to re quire the Highway Commis sion to revoke the permit of log trucks if county courts or commissioners and muni cipal authorities adopt reso lutions citing that suspension of use of roads and streets by such trucks is necessary to preserve them was adopted by the Senate today.