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Newspaper Page Textke Puts ISolloinice emise 1 'Oh, Yes Things Are Ticking Right Along' 3 Oef d CONCRETE PLAIN Construction of the Sears, Roebuck and Company building at the corner of Jackson st. and Biddle rd., which has been progressing on schedule all winter, took more noticeable aspects yes Rebels Smashed, Iraq Declares; Strafing Reported Beirut-t?&- The Iraqi gov ernment claimed today it had crushed a right wing army revolt and the country was quiet but a United Arab Re public broadcast said villages in Northern Iraq were straf ed this afternoon. There was no independent confirmation of their of the conflicting reports. The Iraqi government blam ed the northern uprising on an unnamed "foreign state" and crowds stormed through the streets of Baghdad de nouncing UAR President Ga mal Abdel Nasser. Victory Insisted Baghdad radio insisted it had scored victory over the revolt and subdued the insur gents. But Damascus radio said re ports received from the bor der tonight told of Iraqi air force strafing attacks on vil lages in revolt-torn Mosul province. It said fires were seen in the villages. A dispatch from Baghdad said authorities had clamped a night curfew on the city of mosul, third largest in Iraq, where the revolt erupted over the week end. Portland Clothing Union Strikes Portland-(UPD-The Clothing Workers Union today struck Robertson Factories Inc., here. Union Representative Jess Bell said the strike vote came after months of negotiations failed to produce a satisfac tory agreement. Bell said about 90 employees were af fected. A company spokes man said about 30 employees went to work. The union seeks a pay scale of $1.44 an hour for skilled operators. Lakeview Man Gets Suspended Sentence Elmer Ward, Lakeview, re ceived a two-year suspended sentence in circuit court yes terday on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon. He pleaded guilty before Circuit Court Judge Edward C. Kelly late yesterday after noon. Ward was charged with in flicting an 8-inch wound on Dorsey Lewis, 17 - year - old Lakeview youth in Jackson ville Saturday, Jan. 10. Tape Measure Assault Brings 51-Day Jail Term Memphis, Tenn. - (UPD - Frank Weaver, 39, a husky six-footer from Los Angel es, tiegan a 51-day jail sen tence today on charges of assaulting a comely blonde with a tape measure, Annette Hoyle, 21, a Brit ish citizen now living here with friends, said Weaver lured her to his office and told her she should become a model. ' . I f1 " i r". I". . .". i.;.,f, V li terday when the walls, shown above in the manner in which they were poured, were raised. Concrete, slabs were poured in a horizontal position. The crane at right was used to tilt the walls upright. 53rd Year M EDFOKD 22 Pages D'Autremont Faces Surgery In San Francisco San Francisco (UPD Hugh d'Autremont, former wild west robber recently released after 31 years in prison, to day awaited surgery at San Francisco General hospital. D'Autremont, 55, who got out of Oregon State prison Jan. 9, said the disease hit with a "kind of a diabolical timing." Doctors have not re vealed the nature of his illness but d'Autremont said he had been hemorrhaging internally and that his kidneys and lungs were involved. Sentenced in 1923 D'Autremont was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1923 along with his older twin bro thers, Roy and Ray, for the attempted robbery of a Southern Pacific train in which four of the railroad crewmen were killed. On his release, d'Autremont was given permission to serve out his parole under Californ ia supervision so that he could work in the Bay Area. He had been working six days as a linotype operator when he was taken to the hospital. Medford Crusade Dinner Wednesday The annual dinner meeting of the United Medford Cru sade will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hedrick Jun ior High school. Medford Attorney Frank Van Dyke will speak on "The Pioneer Spirit in Today's United Effort." Other high lights of the meeting will be election of new directors and officers, musical entertain ment by the high school choir and awards to volunteers for outstanding service. Campaign workers, member agency board and staff mem bers, and others interested in the UMC are invited. Tom Polk, president, will preside. William E. ipuhaime is in charge of arrangements for the meeting. Miss Hoyle said Weaver pinched her and made other advances while manipulat ing the tape measure. "He asked that I do other things, such as make undig nified poses for photo graphs," she said. "He was a most dreadful man." Police accused Weaver of luring 30 women to his of fice with promises of job.' MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1959 Architects Given Week To Get Final Junior High Plans Ashland Architects for the proposed new Ashland Junior High school asked for another week in which to present estimates. The Ashland school board last night decided to meet with Architects James L. Payne and Associates, Salem and Medford, Monday night to consider estimates. Date for a bond issue election to finance the school construct- Applegate Post Office lo Close The Applegate post office will becomea rural station of the Jacksonville post office, effective April 30, Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger advised the Mail Tribune today. Senator Neuberger said the action was authorized by the post office department. W. E. Birdsall, director of the post office department, said "patrons of the Apple gate post office will be pro vided with postal service by the establishment of a rural station tributary to the Jack sonville post office." Last week, Congressman Walter Norblad recommend ed that the Applegate office be consolidated with Jackson ville. He said about $1,524 could be saved annually in operating costs. Annual cost of operating the Applegate post office is $3,024, he said, with annual receipts about $1,085. Norblad, as the only Re publican member of the Ore gon delegation in Congress, has considerable influence on the postal department, re ports from Washington have pointed out. Ike, GOP Leaders Discuss Jobless Pay Washington -UPD- President Eisenhower and Republican congressional leaders today discussed Democratic propos als to extend the jobless pay program for another year, but reached no conclusions. on Blonde for Man as secretaries and models. Miss Hoyle was the only one who appeared against him. Weaver pleaded guilty. . The pretty young British er, who had her long blonde locks piled atop her head, said "My only purpose is to . let this example be the warning to other young women." WALLS GO UP The first two panels of the Sears, Roebuck and company building wall are shown being raised yesterday at the shopping center site at Jackson st. and Biddle rd. The panels shown above weigh Mil ion will be set following study of the estimates, accord ing to Supt. Stanley Jobe. The board also agreed to hire eight additional teachers for the next school year. Some of these would be em ployed in grades one through four and in the two sixth grades, Jobe said. One more language-arts and social stud ies teacher is needed in the junior high school and one more instrumental music in structor is needed for the dis trict to be added. Teachers Rehired Ninety Ashland teachers were rehired and seven re signed, the superintendent said. Those resigning are Mrs. Dorothy Clayton, Briscoe school ' second grade; Mrs. Donald Lowrance, Briscoe fourth grade; Mrs. June Af tring, Walker school first Miss Jacquelyn Davis, Lin coln school third grade; Mar shal Swink, junior high school physical education; Miss Jo anne Green, high school sci ence teacher; and Addelburt Hackert, high school mathe matics instructor. , Carl Hayes, of the Jackson county department of special education, met with the board and discussed the program for retarded children as it affects Jackson county and the school system. House Bill 59 has passed the house and should pass the senate, Hayes said. The bill provides that any school area with 12 or more retarded children must have a program for them by 1964. State re embursement allows $300 for supplies, $700 for transpor tation and $2,500 for each teacher. . . The bill also provides that since there is a shortage of teachers for retarded child ren, the school district may choose a teacher for special training. The state pays $275 and the district contributes $200. Building Permits Total $151,883 Twenty building permits with a total valuation of $151,883 were issued at city hall yesterday, Medford build ing department records show. The largest -item was an $82,183 permit to the Zion Lutheran church for erecting a church edifice at 516 West Fourth st. A $50,000 permit was is sued for a service station in the new East Jackson st. shopping center. Portland-(UPD-Pacific North west Indian tribes realized a cash return of $248,000 last year from tribal-owned graz ing lands. mm Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 201 Jess Reelected Head of Rogue Resources Group Grants Pass Bill Jess, Eagle Point, was reelected president of the Rogue River Flood control and Water Re sources association at the an nual meeting of the group here last night. Other officers are Ben Hil ton, Grants Pass, vice presi dent; Wally Martin, Giants Pass, secretary-treasurer; and Bill Cochran, Grants Pass, his torian and technical advisor. Directors elected last night are George Field, Trail; Fran cis Krouse, Williams; Jose phine County Judge R. A. Lathrop; Charles Taylor, Cen tral Point; and Robert Bitter ling, White City. Judge Lath rop and Krouse were reelect ed. All directorships are for three years. Chairmen Listed Chairmen of committees are Hilton, membership; Judge Lathrop, legislative; A. A. Walker, Gold Hill, finance; and H. F. Norwood," Rogue River, public relations. Jess reviewed activities of the association during the past year, and committee heads re ported on their activities. Hilton, in a report on mem bership, said membership has increased 50 per cent in the past year, bringing the total number of directors to 16. Ben Day, Medford, is attor ney and legal advisor for the association. Jess reported that the asso ciation is scheduled to receive a report from Army engineers on the Rogue River basin pro gram in July, along with re ports from the fish and wild life service. Public hearings will be held by the engineers later this year, he noted. The association's next meet ing will be at 8 p.m.. Monday, April 13, in the Jackson coun ty courthouse auditorium in Medford. Sick Leave Bill For Teachers Tabled Salem (UPD A bill to double the amount of sick leave which could be accumu lated by public school teach ers was tabled by the Senate State and Federal Affairs committee Monday. Teachers now can accumulate 50 days sick leave with pay. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night Increasing and lowering clouds Wednesday. A little warmer Wednesday. Low tonight 28-30; high Wednesday near 60. TEMP. Highest yesterday 56 Lowest this morning 28 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:12 p.m. .6:31 a.m. Sunrise tomorrow Moonset tonight 7:45 p.m. First quarter March 17 Mercury, a planet with a diame ter of 3,010 miles, is larger than the Moon but smaller than the Earth. Tonight it appears near the Moon and is as far away as the Sun. between 20 and 21 tons. All walls are ex pected to be in place later this week and opening of the building is scheduled later this year. Buttress and McClellan, Los Ange les, is developing the center. Parley Would Be Followed by Summit Session Paris (UPD The western al lies want to hold an East-West foreign ministers' meeting in Geneva by mid-May, possibly followed by a summit confer ence in July or August, reli able diplomatic sources said today. They said the United States, Britian and France will pro pose this timetable to the Rus sians in their replies to the Soviet note of March 2, which accepted the idea of a foreign ministers' conference - but only as a preliminary to a summit session. The western notes are ex pected to make it clear that the Big Three will take part in a summit meeting only if the foreign ministers' talks pro duce some worthwhile result. Disagreement Among Allies Some disagreement has been reported among the western allies as to just how much in the way of results at the pre liminary conference would justify a meeting of chiefs of government. Britain is eager to "go to the summit" on almost any terms, while the United States has made it clear that it is not interested unless it appears that a top level meeting has a real chance of success. The French position is somewhere between these extremes. British Prime Minister Har old Macmillan was closeted to day with President Charles de Gaulle for talks which are ex pected to produce "broad agreement" between Britain and France on Berlin policy. Macmillan is scheduled to re turn to London tonight. The British leader got a chilly reception on his arrival here Monday because of re ports that he favored a policy of partial surrender to Soviet demands in Central Europe. Ashland Youth Held On Accident Charge Jimmie Howard Day, 21, of 417V2 King st., Ashland, is being held in the county jail on charges of failure to stop at the scene of an acci dent involving bodily injury, according to the Jackson county sheriff's office. Bail has been set at $1,500. Day is charged with hitting a parked car Sunday belong ing to Ed McCormick, pro prietor of a gas station where the car was parked, then hitting McCormick. The car driven by Day also knocked the gas pump off its base, deputies "said. Ashland police, who made the arrest yesterday, said Day's car backed into a car which had just been parked at the service station at Third and East Main sts., Ashland, by McCormick's wife. The car then hit the gas pump. As Mc Cormick went to hold the youth for police, he was caught between the two cars, Ashland police said. He was not seriously injured, they added. Portland -(UPD- Henry F. Ca bell, Portland, has been elect ed president of the Oregon State Board of Higher Educa tion. !, Military Funds Felt 'Adequate' To Defend Nation Obvious Reply To Democratic Charges Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower told Republican congressional leaders today that he puts national defense above a balanced budget but feels that his new military budget is "adequate" to de fend the nation. The President's view was relayed by Sen. Leverett Sal tonstall (R-Mass.) who said after Eisenhower's weekly meeting with GOP leaders: "He puts the defense of our country above budget require ments. The defense of our country comes first and will always come first in the minds of the administration." This obviously was in reply to Democratic charges that the President is more con cerned with a balanced budg et than in providing an "ade quate" defense. Saltonstall and House GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck said the overall military spending program is adequate even though the chiefs of the military services had express ed reservations. Answers Democrats Taking note of Democratic criticisms that United States should not cut ground forces during the Berlin crisis, Hal leck said: "The over-all package for armed defense of the country was approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff." Halleck said the President probably would make known at his news conference Wed nesday his position on pro posed cuts in the Army and Marine personnel. The President's fiscal 1960 military budget calls for an outlay of nearly $41 billion. Must Protect Economy "Whenever you spend more than that," Halleck told re porters "you don't strengthen the defenses but you weaken the country" by the effect on the economy. . Halleck said each military service naturally wants more money but added they all agreed on what he called the "size of the pie." He and Saltonstall called Eisenhower one of the great est military experts and said the President ought to know if the defense budget is ade quate. "I sincerely trust some re cent statements don't lead peo ple around the world to be lieve that our defenses are inadequate," Halleck said. "They are adequate." "I sincerely trust some re cent statements don't lead people around the world to believe that our defenses are inadequate," Halleck said. "They are adequate." House Committee Subpoenas Bridges Washington-(UPD-The House Committee on Un-American Activities said today it has subpoenaed union chief Harry Bridges to appear at a March 24 committee hearing here. A spokesman said the sub poena was served this morn ing on Bridges, who heads the independent International Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's Union. There was no immediate word from the committee on the subject of the hearing. Air Pollution Inside, Outside City, Engineer Says Medf ord's air pollution study will be conducted out side the city as well as with in it, according to the two state engineers who arrived here today to get it under way. Ted Gerow, Grants Pass, sanitary engineer, and Jim Agee, associate engineer with the state air pollution author ity, discussed plans for the study at city hall this morn ing with City Manager Rob ert A. Duff. They plan to set up samp ling stations tomorrow. At least eight sampling devices are available for use in this area,' they reported. Inventory of Sources The study, they said, is to include not only collection and evaluation of air samples but aru inventory of observ able smoke sources. They said they plan to talk with members of the county court and Dr. A. Erin Merkle county health officer, in con nection with work outside the city limits. "We have to get the county in on this if it is to be ef Rocket Ship Test las Pilot Aboard Edwards AFB, Calif. -fflPD-America's space-probing man ned rocket ship X15 was tak en aloft for the first time to day in a "captive" test with a pilot strapped inside the cockpit. The dart-shaped research airplane was carried high over the Mojave Desert, about 65 miles northeast of Los An geles, by a '"mother sh'ip" B52 bomber at 9:50 a.m. (PST) to begin a long series of steps toward mankind's venture above the earth's at mosphere. In the initial flight, the XI 5 was nestled without rocket fuel but with test pilot Scott Khrushchev's Offer Held Meaningless Washington (UPD The Un ited States today dismissed as meaningless Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's offer to let some allied troops remain in West Berlin if it becomes a free city as proposed by the Russians. State Department Spokes man Lincoln White said this offer and other so-called con cessions made by the Russian leader in recent statements are "simply saying the same thing over in different terms." Hawaii Statehood Takes Forward Step Washington -(UPD The Ha waii statehood bill took a giant step toward final con gressional approval today by clearing the House Rules com mittee. Committee action on the measure to make the Pacific island territory the 50th state cleared it for House floor ac tion. The Rules committee had been considered the major roadblock to quick passage. Texas Flier Gives Up On Flight To Rome New York (UPD- A Texas flier trying a non-stop flight from Long Beach, Calif., to Rome, was reported today to have abandoned the attempt and landed at Tri-City Air port, Bristol, Tenn. Study To Be fective," Duff commented. Gerow said the county plan ning commission should be well apprised of pollution problems or potential prob lems. Both engineers stated that the current study which they expect to last about six months is concerned with understanding the pollution situation in this area and not with setting up control meas ures. Don Kent, city hall printer, is slated to collect air sam ples from the stations. It is expected he will make the in ventory as well. The state engineers said they would lend assistance in joint sur veys of specific smoke sources such as steam plants or waste burners. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the primary problems of smoke and soot, the engineers noted. Gerow observed that so far as he knows "the Rogue valley con tains no concentrations of highly toxic materials," such as factory fumes that might cause a health, hazard. Crossfield aboard under the giant sweptback wing of the modified carrying plane. The little rocket vehicle, thus, did not fly by itself on the first aerial outing. In Snug Cockpit Crossfield, 37, civilian en gineer for North American Aviation, wore his specially designed crash helmet and silvery space suit for the test eventually expected to take pilots at 4,500 miles per hour up to 100 miles into space. He sat m the snug cockmt just back of the needle nose. lhe 50-foot long craft was slung under the B-52's right wing and attached with inter com and other connections to determine operational hazards when both are flying together. Crossfield s mission also was to break loose-if neces-sary-from the mother Strato fort in event the multimillion. dollar space vehicle should have to lend by itself on the dry lake bed of Edwards Air Force Base. Part Space Ship The X15, often referred to as part airplane and part space ship but more like a man-controlled missile in ap pearance, is the first of three similar craft being readied to attempt the space assault. The total research program will cost about $123 million to investigate in relatively, brief forays how humans and' heat-resistant vehicles fare be yond the known environment. Glide tests of the XI 5 are to follew within a matter of weeks if all goes well, accord ing to North American, build ers of the airship. Klamath Airfield To Receive $50,000 Washington-(UPD-Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said today that the Federal Avia tion Agency has authorized $50,000 for Kingsley field at Klamath Falls, Ore., under the federal aid to airport pro gram. The money will be used for construction of a terminal building. Salem -(UPD- The State Sen ate has unanimously confirm ed the reappointment of Wil liam E. Walsh. Coos Bay attor ney, as a member of the Board of Higher Education for a six year term. Conducted The possibility of a special springtime study on the ef fects of crop dusting and or chard spraying was also dis cussed. Agee said this would only follow requests in writ ing from physicians who be lieve these practices may con stitute a public danger and warrant full-scale investiga tion. He said the county health officer would probably have to endorse these re quests. The decision on whether to make the study, he said, would then be up to Dr. Har old M. Erickson, state health officer. Agee explained that half the state authority's staff of four engineers and two chemists would be involved two or three months in con ducting such a survey. The joint study for which the engineers are here was agreed to by the Medford city council Jan. 2, after a pre liminary sampling was con ducted here last October. State technicians are to eval uate the results of the samples.