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tegra to-LRU Ami Fiir He Urn 53rd Year Medford 24 PAGES Khrushchev May Move best's Berlin Deadline 'Sensible Talks' Declared Key To Date Extension Not in Hurry, Premier Declares Leipzig, East Germany-(UPD-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev said today he may ex tend his deadline for the West to get out of Berlin beyond May 27 if "sensible negotia tions" are going on then. It could be extended tc June 27 or even July 27 Khrushchev declared. "We have no grounds to hurry but we must solve the Berlin problem, ' he said. Confirms Remark Khrushchev's statement that the Berlin showdown might be postponed confirm ed an earlier remark by his deputy prime minister, Anas- tas I. Mikoyan, after his re turn from the United States that the May 27 deadline was not final. Khrushchev reiterated that his demand that the West get out of Berlin by May 27 was not an ultimatum. "If we negotiate sensibly, then it will not be May 27 but perhaps June 27 or July 27," he said. Ends Potsdam Agreement However, the Soviet leader warned that once Russia signs a separate peace treaty with the East German Communists it will end the Potsdam Agreement of 1945 which .al lowed the West to occupy part of Berlin and guaranteed it free access to the city across 110 miles of East Germany. "The control functions we exercise will be transferred and the provisions of the Pots dam Agreement will no long er be valid after a peace treaty is signed," Khrushchev said. Khrushchev is discussing a separate peace treaty with East Germany during his stay here. 38 Apply for Director Position A total of 38 persons ap plied for the position of Med ford parks and recreation di rector by the March 1 dead line, according to Gilbert Gut- jahr, city administrative as sistant. The applications have been screened, Gutjahr said, and the field has now been nar rowed to "about a dozen." These, he added, included "some with outstanding expe rience as well as education.' The netx step will be to se cure additional information on those still under considera tion, Gutjahr explained. He said this might eliminate "three or four." After that, those near enough will be ask ed here for personal inter views, he continued. He said the applicants are primarily from Oregon, with Washington second and Cali fornia third. He said other ap plications have been received from as far away as New Hampshire. All those still in the running are men, he re ported. Missing Virginia Family Believed Found Murdered Fredericksburg, Va. (UPD Official confirmation was ex pected today that finding of two bodies at an abandoned sawdust pit ended a seven week hunt for a missing fam ily of four. Disappeared Jan. 11 Police said they were sure the bodies of a man and brightly-dressed little girl found in the pit were Carroll V. Jackson of Mineral, Va., and one of his daughters. Jackson, 29-year-old feed siore clerk, his wife, Mildred, 27, and daughters Susan Anne, 5, and Janet Carroll, 18 months, vanished during a country drive the night of Jan. I 11, touching off the biggest MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1959 PROPOSALS FOR BERLIN REM All' J UNACCEPTABLE Washington -flJPD- The State Department said today that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's Berlin proposals are stUl unacceptable to the United States despite his re ported willingness to post pone the crisis deadline be yond May 27. Department Press Officer Lincoln White read reporters a statement rejecting anew Russia's proposed intention to turn her sector in East Berlin over to the German Commun ists by May 27 and force the allies in West Berlin to deal with the local Reds. This government's position was spelled out shortly after the White House announced that President Eisenhower had summoned a special meet ing of the National Security Council and discussed the Berlin crisis for nearly two hours. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said Air Condition Study Scheduled to Start The joint city-state study of Medford's air conditions is to be initiated Tuesday, March 10, according to word receiv ed today by City Manager Robert A. Duff. J. L. Agee, associate engin eer of the state air pollution authority, wrote Duff that he and Ted Gerow, sanitary en gineer from Grants Pass, would be in Medford from March 10 to March 13. They will train Don Kent, a city employee, in the oper ation of air sampling equip ment and in field survey work. Under an agreement reach ed in January between Med ford and the state authority, the city is responsible for the manpower and field , work while the state provides the equipment and analyses the results. The study is expected to continue for about a year. Algerian Rebels Slay American Algiers, Algeria UPD Al gerian rebels today shot and killed an American photogra pher and seriously wounded another American in an am bush near the Morcccan bor der Wednesday night, it was reported today. The .dead American was identified as Homer Flint Kellems, 65, Siloam Springs, Ark., a retired Air Force Colonel and brother of Con necticut industrialist Vivien Kellems, ardent anti-tax cru sader. His wounded companion was identified as William Hobbs, 27, also of Siloam Springs. Their interpreter, identified by police as Raymond Airele, 19, a German, also was shot and killed. missing persons search in JTir ginia history. The bodies were found Wednesday night by James Beach, a Fredericksburg far mer who was loading sawdust for fertilizer onto his truck Pulled at Brush Beach said his truck bogged down in the thick sawdust and he pulled at some loose brush nearby to put under the wheels, uncovering a man's foot. A woman's shoe was found nearby but state police and FBI agents held off searching for the bodies of Mrs. Jackson and the other girl until today for fear they would destroy some clue in the darkness. the President called the spec ial meeting "to consider the evolving situation in Berlin and the broader question of Germany." " Asked whether the special meeting indicated an emer gency, Hagerty said he was not going to elaborate on his statement. Referring to Russia's pro posed intention of turning her sector of Berlin over to East German Reds, White said: "Whether such a transfer should occur on May 27 or some other date has no effect on its unacceptability." Public Hearings Set by Council Three public hearings are scheduled for tonight's meet ing of the Medford city coun cil at 7:30 p.m. at city hall. One is a continued hearing on rezoning property at the northeast corner of East Jack son st. and Genessee st. from residential ....to limited -.commercial. The matter was dis cussed at last week's joint meeting of the council and the city planning commission. A second public hearing concerns paving East Jackson st. from Bear creek to Genes see. The third is for a zone change from residential to light industrial for property bounded by North Riverside ave., Court st. and Ohio st. The council is also slated to consider an amendment to the fire code with respect to transporting explosives, a pro posed ordinance governing police removal of abandoned vehicles and a proposed ord inance governing operations of merchant patrols and pri vate detective agencies. Other items slated include developing a new area at Medford airport and grant ing leases for comemrcial use in that area, and a report from City Manager Robert A. Duff on the city's planning budget. ' The council is expected to call for a public hearing on the proposed Berrydale sani tary sewer to be held March 19 in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium. Rogue River Water Bill Approved . Salem -(UPD- The Senate to day passed with only one dis senting vote a bill authorizing withdrawal of waters of the Rogue river with certain ex emptions. Sen. Edwin Durno (R-Med-ford), in explaining the bill, said the word "industrial" in the list of exemptions to the terms of the bill "had raised the biggest row in the Rogue river area that has occurred since the beginning of time." "We eliminated this word and now peace and serenity is in the valley," Durno said. Discoverer Satellite Qeclared in Orbit Inglewood, Calif. -(UPD-The Air Force said today that its Discoverer I satellite is in orbit. The satellite, launched in a north-south polar orbit last Saturday at Vandenberg Air Force base, emitted only irrigular signals, apparently tecause of a malfunctioning radio. Voluntary Beef Council Approved Salem-OJPD-Establishment of a voluntary beef council was approved by the House today in a bill that now goes to the senate. Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 297 Pearson Predicis 100-Day Session For Legislature No New Taxes Seen as Result Salem -(UPD Senate Presi dent Walter J. Pearson pre dicted today the 50th legisla tive session would end in 100 days or sooner with no new taxes. Pearson, at a news confer ence, said a Democratic steer ing committee headed by him self was determined to wind up the Legislature as quickly as the Joint Ways and Means Committee has completed its work and the tax program has been passed. Pearson said there would be no new taxes, and while he favored a capital gains tax, he did not think one would pass. Nor did he think that any cigarette or tobacco tax would be passed by this Leg islature. He predicted that the oper ational budget for the 1959-61 biennium would be in the neighborhood of $290 million with about $15 million for buildings, making a total budget of around $305 mil lions. "We have decided to pass out a long-range building pro gram financed in part on a pay-as-you-go basis and partly by issuance of bonds," Pear son said. Pearson admitted that some new taxes might be necessary in two years although he tempered this statement with an observation that Oregon economy is in good shape now and may improve. The state may have a surplus rather than a deficit at the end of the present biennium, he said. For the first time, Pearson outlined the Democratic or ganization that is steering this Legislature. First of all, he said there was a policy committee, but the most im portant . group, he said was the steering committee. This group includes Pear son, Speaker of the House Robert Duncan, Sen. Alfred Corbett and Rep. Kieth Skel ton, co-chairman of the Joint Ways and Means Committee; and Sen. Ward Cook and Rep. Clarence Barton, respective chairmen of the Senate and House Taxation committees. Pearson observed that if ed ucation in Oregon is to be kept on its present high level, it will require new taxes, but he did not state that such new taxes would be proposed by the Democrats at this session. At the conclusion of his tax discussion, Pearson issued a statement replying to some of the comments Wednesday by Hatfield. "The governor had another 'bad dream 'or is again delib erately misleading the pub lic," Pearson said. "His state ment yesterday of a legisla tive leaders' plot to force a sales tax on the people of this state is fantastic." Pearson said the governor professes to be opposed to a sales tax, but added that Hat field has recommended to the legislature an increase in the gas tax and a sales tax on to bacco to offset a loss of reve nue through enactment of a capital gains provision in our income tax law. "If he believes in selective sales taxes on a few for the benefit of the wealthy or even for the benefit of the major ity of the citizens, then his tax theories are very warped," Pearson declared. "The Democratic party in this Legislature is dedicated to making Mr. Hatfield live up to his campaign promises of trimming the budget and enacting no new taxes," Pear son said. House Speaker Robert Dun can added: "For many years the Re publican party has been seek ing a sales tax upon the state of Oregon. When direct at tempts to do so were beaten down time after time by the people, numerous indirect at tempts have been used. "The governor knows this, ar.d his attempts at this late date to slip a sales tax label on the Democratic party will not succeed." Duncan said Democrats have traditionally relied upon a progressive in come tax as being the fairest means of supporting public services. Salem-(UPD-Most Oregon routes were free of snow today. 'Look Things Section of Howard Transferred to 6C The county school bound ary board yesterday approved a petition to transfer the north section of Howard school district to District 6C. The transfer was made fol lowing the petition request of voters in the two districts. Keith Hockersmith, mem ber of the school reorganiza tion board, requested that a policy be established to do away with the double debt which now occurs in consoli dation incidents. The request is now under advisement by the boundary board, County School Super intendent Alf Mekvold said. He reported that the board Tex Riiter to Attend Festival Tex Ritter, well-known western television and motion picture star, plans to attend the first annual Southern Ore gon Farm Festival at Central Point May 22 and 23, the spon soring organizations have an nounced. The Festival, which will feature a Centennial theme, is being sponsored by the Crater High school Future Farmers of America chapter and the Central Point Junior Chamber of Commerce. Ritter is seen in this area as star of Ranch Party over KBES-TV Saturday evenings. The Festival will feature farm equipment, a Centennial booth display, covered wa gons from the 4-H wagon train, and square dancing on Friday night. Also scheduled are sheep shearing and plowing con tests and a teen age road-e-o on car safety driving. A queen will be selected. A barbeque dinner will be elude beef, chicken and buf falo from John Day's Blue Moon ranch in Central Point. Poll To Be Taken In Talent District A poll will be taken of Tal ent school district patrons be tween 7 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, in Talent elemen tary school to obtain public opinion on consolidation or reorganization, school district officials have announced. Ballots will be available on three choices. They are (1) to keep the district as it is until forced to reorganize; (2) to at tempt consolidation with the Phoenix district; and (3) to be reorganized with the Ashland school district. School officials pointed out that this is a public opinion poll only, and not a legal elec tion. The Jackson County - Reor ganization committee has rec ommended that the Talent district be made a part of Ash land ; along with Pinehurst and the Wagner creek district of the Phoenix district. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable high cloudiness tonight and Friday. Low tonight 30. High Friday 60. Temp. Highest Yesterday 63 Lowest this Morning ... 33 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:05 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:40 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 4:54 a.m. New Moon March 9 PROMINENT STARS Regulus, high in south- - east 9:36 p.m. Aldebaran, in the west 10:33 p.m. MORNING PLANETS Saturn, low in south east 4:27 a.m. Jupiter, due south .... 5:17 a.m. Are Picking Up' plans to seek a legal opinion from the district attorney. Under a 1955 ruling, areas of school districts which are transferred to another district assume double indebtedness. The transferred portion not only assumes their portion of the indebtedness of the for mer district, but also the in debtedness of the district to which it is transferred. Mekvold said that under the current system the county assessor must retain an assess ment code for the transferred tract. This, it was explained, adds to the work in the as sessor's office. The boundary board is seek ing a method whereby an equitable distribution of the assets, liabilities, and debts of each district in which boundaries are changed may be made. Problem of Boards This, the superintendent said, was the problem of both the boundary and reorganiza tion boards, to determine what policy is both fair and equitable as well as . defen sible. In making the request, Hockersmith stated that a policy regarding district in debtedness was needed, . par ticularly in cases where school district boundary lines are straightened, changed to eliminate duplicate bus serv ices, or to conform to natural boundaries. Attending the meeting Wednesday in addition to the boundary board members, which include the members of the county court and Mek vold, were representatives of both Howard and District 6C. Navy Approves Six Atomic Submarines Washington -(UPD- The Navy gave the go-ahead today for construction of six atomic submarines. BACK ON HER FEET - Audrey Hepburn cautiously leaves her home in Beverly Hills, Calif., for the first time since being injured in a fall from a horse on location at Durango, Mexico. Assisted by her husband, Mel Ferrer, Miss Hep burn is on her way to a hospital for an X-ray checkup. YEAR-AROUfJD POOL TALKED FOR MEDFORD The possibility of providing year-around swimming at the proposed West Jackson st. pool site was discussed last night at a meeting of Med ford's parks and recreation commission. Such a facility would entail construction of an indoor-outdoor pool, to be covered in winter and open on at least one side during the summer months. Recommending it strongly were Dr. Lynn Rodney, chair man of the University of Ore gon's recreation and outdoor education curriculum, and Don Van Rossen, head of the university's swimming pro gram. Look Over Site They visited Medford yes terday, at the commission's in vitation to look over the West Jackson st. site and other mu nicipal park projects. Late in the afternoon they were dri ven up Roxy Ann butte. The two men estimated the cost of an indoor-outdoor pool here at between $200,000 and $250,000. The Jackson Coun ty Housing authority has agreed to donate the land and about $75,000, its remaining cash assets, to the pool project. Van Rossen expressed doubt after the meeting as to whether an outdoor pool alone, of standard size and with adequate accessories in cluding a bathhouse, could be built for. $75,000 "without cutting corners." Go Ahead With Plans Dr. Rodney, while recom mending the more ambitious indoor-outdoor pool, told the commission it should go ahead with plans for an outdoor pool in any case even though "it is not the best thing you could do." "Whatever you do," he add ed, "do somthing quite unique." City Manager Robert A, Sarah Churchill Fined in Britain Liverpool, England (UPD Sarah Churchill, 44, actress daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, was carried bodily into ourt by four policemen today to face a charge of being drunk and disorderly at 10 o'clock in the morning. Asked how she pleaded to the charge, she banged the railing of the prisoner's dock and shouted "I will not accept any charge until you tell your constabulary to take their hands off me and give me back my shoes." The policemen released their grip on her and a matron handed her a pair of shoes. Miss Churchill turned to the matron and said, "Thank you very much. I'll give you the Order of the British Empire." She pleaded innocent to the charge, but the court held otherwise and ordered her to pay a fine of $5.60. wmmm '4 'i'''v4 ,,,, ' ip 8 Duff reminded the commission that the city has committed itself to providing some sort of pool at the West Jackson st. site by this summer. "We're going to have to move quite rapidly from now on," he said. The commission members agreed they still lack facts. especially with regard to costs. Duff said he would write various sources for fur ther information. (Continued on Page 11) Senator Kennedy To Arrive Here Lale Tomorrow Sen. and Mrs. John F. Ken nedy of Massachusetts are ex pected to arrive at the Med ford airport between 4:30 and 4:45 p.m. tomorrow. Senator Kennedy, who has been mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential can didate in 1960, will speak at the ninth annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner at McLough- lin Junior High school at 6 p.m. Friday. Introducing Senator Ken nedy will be Robert B. Dun can, Medford, speaker of the state house of representatives. Master of ceremonies will be Ex-G o v e r n o r Robert D. Holmes. Also expected to attend are several prominent state, legis lative and Democratic party officials, according to James A. Redden, general chairman. Arrive at Airport Senator Kennedy will be met at the airport by a dele gation from the Jackson County Centennial committee in costume, and will be pre sented a 59er pin. Also meet ing the senator will be local governmental officials and Democratic representatives. A press conference is sched uled at 9:15 a.m. Saturday at the Medord hotel. The Ken nedy party is expected to leave Medord about 10 ajn. Saturday on its return trip to Washington, D.C. Senator Kennedy is one of several nationally-known fig ures to speak at the annual dinner here. " Others include Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Michigan's Governor G. Men nen Williams, Democratic Na tional Chairman Stephen Mitchell and Congressman James Roosevelt. Patrolman Accused Of Damaging Screen Raymond Leon Wiles, 422 Chestnut st., accused a Med ford patrolman this morning of damaging a window screen at Encyclopedia Americana Corp., 1512Vi North Riverside ave., according to police rec ords. The patrolman, Glen S. Bundy, stated that the screen had been damaged previously and that he had left messages to the proprietor to this ef fect. He said that while the screen was damaged he had made a habit of entering the building by way of that win dow in order to check the interior. Wiles denied receiving any messages, according to the re port, but another patrolman confirmed Bundy's statement. Oregon Farm Income Drops Seven Per Cent Washington (UPD The Agri culture Department reported today that farm income was down 7 per cent in Oregon last year. The average net in come per farm was $2477. Radio Transmission Distance Mark Broken Washington -4UPD- America's Pioneer IV space robot, sweeping toward a permanent orbit' around the sun, today broke the long-distance radio transmission record claimed by Russia for its Lunik. Officials at the Jodrell Bank radio-telescope tracking station reported they received radio signals from the U.S. space vehicle at a distance of 305,000 miles. The Pioneer signal later was picked up by the Gold stone tracking facility in Cali fornia's Mojave Desert. Gold stone reported the vehicle Dormitory at Negro Industrial School Destroyed Doors Locked, Faubus Informed Little Rock, Ark. -(UPD Twenty-one Negro boys burn ed to death early today when fire swept through their dor mitory at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial' school, 12 miles south of here. The figure was established by Bill Struebing, a lieuten ant in the fire marshals' sec tion of the Arkansas State po lice. Gov. Orval E. Faubus, who went immediately to the scene, said he was told that the doors to the one-story brick veneer building were locked, and there was no care taker in the building. Faubus said he would begin an immediate investigation. The fire broke out in the room of the caretaker, who was ill and not at the schooL Blaze Out of Control One pumper truck from Little Rock went to the scene, but the blaze was out of con trol when it arrived. The fire men pumped water out of a swimming pool to cool the gutted building. L. R. Gaines, the Negro sup erintendent, said the building, erected as a WPA project in 1938, went up "like match sticks." He said 68 boys were asleep in the barracks-like room of the building when the fire was discovered. Many kicked the glass and screens out of windows in their mad scram ble to escape. One of the boys who escap ed said the screams of other boys awakened him. "The room was so filled with smoke I could hardly see," said Nolan Fortner, 16. "Everybody was trying to get out through the windows. I pushed one boy aside and crawled out." Another said he kicked out a screen and crawled out a window. Robert Ramon, 15, said he awoke and found the room filled with smoke. Heard Boys Screaming "I heard boys screaming," he said. "The only thing I could think of was how to get out of there. I ran toward the window nearest my bed and kicked out the screen and left." Faubus said he inspected the school about a year ago, and at that time "everything was fine." The governor said a care taker was supposed to be on duty in each building to warn the boys in case of emer gency. The superintendent said P. R. Banks, the caretaker for the L-shaped building, had been ill for a week and was not in his quarters. 'There is supposed to be a man in each building to warn the boys of any such disaster as this," Faubus said. The governor was visibly shaken by what he saw. "From the information I have gathered, the boys were locked in," he said. "This is something that should not have been." New Deputy Hired By County Sheriff William C. Rice Jr., has been hired as a new deputy in the Jackson county sheriff's office, Sheriff Joe Walsh an nounced Wednesday. Rice will serve in the crim inal division. He is a graduate of Medford High school. The new deputy served in the Multnomah county sheriffs office for seven months. Rice fills the vacancy cre ated by Walsh's election to sheriff and the subsequent promotion of other staff mem bers. Walsh had served as chief deputy before his elec tion. was 306,000 miles from the earth and traveling at 4,250 miles an hour. The Russians claimed to have received signals from their Lunik probe at a dis tance of 300,000 miles. ' The Pioneer, which soared past the moon Wednesday, al ready is orbiting the sun, but will move into its permanent orbit March 17. Government scientists said that for a period "comparable to the life of our universe" the gold-plated 20-inch long in strument package will con tinue to revolve around the sun every 382 days.
