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Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141, Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 1230 p.m. Sunday If regular deliver arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. 53rd Year Price 10 Cents Recommended Tribune VlEBFQR) The or i tin, planning, founding and purpose of the new Med ford Gospel Mission on South Front it. are the subjects of a feature article appearing on page 11 of today's Mail Tribune. United Pres International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 64 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1959' No. 211 (i uoaoeii P. St. Helens Halls' Black Tornado By 51-53 Score Margin of Victory Found in Free Throws McArthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene-St. Helens built up an eight-point lead in the fourth quarter and held off a Tornado challenge in the final two minutes to up end Medford high 57 to 53 in the consolation finale of the Oregon Class A-l high school basketball tournament. The Lions nabbed the fifth spot trophy for 1959. It was at the free throw line where the margin of victory was established, although the Tornado put in a higher per centage of its tries. St. Helens hit 13 for 22 from the gift stripe and Medford 9 for 11 Each had 22 field goals. The Lions shot less. 51 times, for a .431 mark while Medford fired 63 for a 1349 average Medford controlled the backboards, 45 retrieves to 21, but was troubled by personal fouls which had hurt the Tor nado through the tournament. It was a tight third canto when Mark Simons of St. Helens scored on a pusher and got the Lions back in the lead for keeps with 5 min utes 41 seconds to play. Teammate Bill Adams con tributed a jumper, Lanny Mvers scored on two free heaves, 'Adams a driver and Bruce Rhine a gifter. St. Helens had a 55 to 47 edge with 234 minutes left. Medford flurried on Don Peek's corner bucket with two minutes to go, Ander son's rebound and a goal on a drive down the floor by Andy. That made it just 55 to 53 with slightly more than a minute remaining. Simons hit a score-pauding jumper with 44 seconds to play. The Tornado fired several shots in the seconds left but couldn't get the ball into the cage. (See the story on page 11 for more details.) - Reinstatement Deadline April 3 Persons notified of their failure to vote in the last two elections have until April 3rd to be reinstated, County Clerk E. M. Madden has warned. This may be accomplished by calling the election depart ment of the county clerk's office or by writing a letter to the county clerk indicating a desire .to be reinstated as a registered voter. The card or letter must be signed with the same signature as on the orig inal registration card. Madden said that re-registrations will be received by mail when persons have mov ed from one precinct to an other within the county or when the name has been changed by marriage. To re-register in this man ner it is necessary for the individual to include in the letter the previous address as well as the new address. In case of marriage, the former name as well as the new name must be shown. This letter must also be signed using the same name that appears on the original registration card, he said. The signatures will be com pared by the county clerk and if satisfactory, registra tion will be effected. Mail Tribune Honored For Education Coverage Portland-The Medford Mail Tribune was. honored by the Oregon Education association Friday night as the daily newspaper in Oregon "most outstanding in its continuous and comprehensive interpre tation of public education." The award was presented at a dinner of members of the OEA's public relations committee," held in connection with the annual convention of the educators association. Six Others Honored Six other persons or organi zations were honored at the same time. They included Mrs. Wilma Morrison, educa tion editor of the Portland Oregonian, for "the most con sistent and effective interpre tive writing in, the press"; North Bend News, an award similar to that to the Mail Tribune, for weekly news papers of the state; KWJJ, Portland radio station, for the best single radio series on DOWNTOWN GREENERY - A plan to line the streets of downtown Medford with trees, planted either in redwood tubs or in holes cut through the sidewalk, is now under going experiment by the landscape commit tee of the Medford Street Tree program. The project is sponsored by the Retail Mer chants committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Last week trees in tubs were temporarily placed along a one- Franklin Downs Marshfield High To Take Crown Eugene A hot-shooting Franklin high team of Port land won the Oregon. Glass A-l basketball championship here last night by downing Marsh- field 58-52. The issue was virtually set tled with 2V2 minutes to play when the Quakers gained a 50-41 lead. Franklin took the lead for good early in the second quarter. They had quarterly margins of 13-11, 27-21, and 40-32. High scorer in the game was Mel Counts of Marshfield with 33. Jerry Bergstrom had 21 for the Quakers and Steve Jones 17. Franklin fired .456 from the field. Pendleton gained third place with a 56-47 verdict over Klariath Falls. Pendleton Trailed Pendleton trailed through out much of the game and finally tied it up 38 all with 5:25 to go. Dan Eckles shot the tying bucket. The game seesawed back and forth until Pendleton took a 47 to 43 lead on Ladd Horn's bucket with just a little over 3 minutes to play. At this time Pendleton went into ball control and on this ball con trol boosted the lead to 56- 45, or from 2 points to 11 points in less than 3 minutes. Klamath Falls made a quick bucket right at the whistle. Quarter Scores Quarter scores were In fav or of' Klamath Falls the first two quarters, 13-12, 25-19 and 34 all in the third quarter. High point man for Pendleton was Dave Nelson with 18. Bill Cook followed with 15 and Eckles had 12. Bob Peterson was high for Klamath Falls with 16. Medford's Jerry Anderson, one of the top scorers "in the touranment was named to the all-touranment second team by the sportswriters. Baghdad, Iraq -4UPD- Hordes of Arabs screaming "to hell with Nasser" swarmed around Premier Abdel Karim Kassem and nearly trampled him in a show of loyalty yesterday before he was rescued by an armored column. education; KGW-TV, Port land, most outstanding school TV series locally produced; KOIN-TV, Portland, for the most outstanding telecourse in variety and quality, and KVAL-TV, Eugene, for class room programing produced in cooperation with Eugene pub lic schools. Awards Presented The awards were presented by Tom Powers, superinten dent of the Bethel (Lane county) school district, outgo ing president of the OEA. The M a i 1 Tribune's award was accepted by the news paper's managing editor, Eric W. Allen Jr. Mrs. Montana Richards, chairman of the OEA public relations committee, presided, and the speaker was William E. Van Steenburgh, advertis ing and public relations ex ecutive for the Pacific Tele phone company. block section of Main st. between Grape and Holly sts. to see what the overall effect would be. The trees, using either planting method, would cost about $25 each in place and would be paid for and kept watered by individual business firms in a given block. Installation is scheduled to start this week. Above, Ben Trowbridge, block chairman, looks over an evergreen with Chester E. Corry, Ashland landscape engineer. Two Thors Fired At Cape Canaveral; Nose Cone Sought Cape Canaveral, Fla.-flJPD-A snub-nosed Thor roared off on a 1,600 mile flight last night while a recovery force prepared to resume searching for a futuristic nose cone shot three times that distance earlier yesterday. The intermediate range Thor, the same rocket used to hurl the "bottle-neck" nose cone 5,000 miles down range before dawn yesterday, was fired at 4:58 p.m. PST. No attempt to pick up the Thor'swarhead protector was planned. The Air Force al ready has solved the problem of shielding frof atmospheric friction nose cones fired on intermediate range hops. But it was learned that re covery snips were ready to begin scouring the ocean near Ascension island today for the Thor-Able cone fired earlier. Lightweight Protector The little cone, shaped like the neck and shoulders of a soft-drink bottle was fired in a test aimed at developing lightweight warhead protec tors for ICBM's of the future. Informed sources said the search force received no sig nals yesterday from the cone's recovery package. The search force was planning to rely on the signals rather than visual means. These sources said the searchers hoped to spot the bright orange balloon which was supposed to inflate and suspend the nose 15 feet be low the ocean's surface. It appeared possible, how- $2 Million Added For Access Roads Washington - (UPD - The House appropriations commit tee Friday added $2 million to the forest service budget for timber access roads, ac cording to announcements from Sen. Wayne L. Morse, (D-Ore.), and Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.). The boost was "virtually the only" increase in the $491 million budget submitted by the President for the depart ment of the interior and the forest service. The bill was cut $19 million by the appro priations committee but a bud get increase of $2,800,000 for accelerating timber sales was allowed. Porter's office also said the bureau of land management budget was reported by the House appropriations commit tee "essentially as submitted by the administration," per mitting work to continue at last year's levels on timber sales and O&C access road construction. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy and windy with occasional light rain thfs afternoon and tonight. Showery and cooler Monday. High today 58. Low tonight 40. High Mon day 52-55 TEMP. Highest Saturday 57 Lowest Saturday 41 PRECIP To 10 p.m. Saturday .06 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:25 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:11 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 5:23 a.m. Mars completes its orbit around the Sun in 687 days and its movements among the stars are more noticeable than those of more distant Jupiter and Saturn. Tonight Mars appears right be low Elnath in Taurus. ' Ail ever, that the balloon did not inflate and that the cone sank to the ocean floor. It was learned that the search effort was scheduled to resume at dawn today. The missile fired last night, the 26th standard Thor 1 a u n c he d from the Cape, seemed to spew out a ragged tail of flame unlike that seen in other launchings. But the missile did not falter in its takeoff and disappeared- in a thin overcast 90 seconds after blastoff. A bright moon peep ed through the overcast as the Thor blazed across the sky. The Thor was fired in the Air Force's drive to make "it at least 90 per cent reliable. Cable Across Road Hurts Motorcyclist Michael Roberts, 18, of 60 Rose st., was reported in good condition at Sacred Heart hos pital yesterday evening after he was knocked from his motorcycle in the Jackson ville area about 4:30 p.m. The accident occurred ap proximately one mile north west of Jacksonville on a private road off Old Military rd. Roberts, who was in a group of three motorcyclists, was injured when he failed to see an inch - thick cable stretched across the road ap proximately three feet from the ground. The boy, son of Dr. and Mrs. William R. Roberts, was reported to have lung injur ies and possible internal ab dominal injuries. It was re ported that the cable hit him across the chest. He was taken to the hos pital by Medford Ambulance service. According to County Engi neer Paul Rynning, the pri vate road on which the acci dent occurred had been used for logging operations more than 20 years ago. Little use had been made of the road in recent years, he indicated. Creating National Park on Oregon Coast Stretch Expected to By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington -(Special)-Leg-islation to authorize creation of a new national park to em brace a stretch of the scenic Oregon coast will probably get the blessing of the nation al park service. This was the indication from Conrad Wirth, director of the park service, who has personally visited the Oregon seacoast and is impressed with its beauty. 'Think Highly' ' "We think highly of it," Wirth said, referringt o the stretch outlined in a proposal by Sen. Richard L. Neuberg er. It would extend along the coast about 23 miles from Sea Lion Caves north of Florence to the mouth of the Umpqua river near Reedsport. In order to qualify for des ignation as a national park, an area must be regarded as "nationally outstanding from Tibetans Battle Chinese Masters In Sacred Lhasa Communists Reported Out to Smash Revolt New Delhi, India fflPD Thousands of Tibetans were battling their Chinese Com munist masters in the Sacred City of Lhasa in the Himala yas this week end, and the Chinese were using artillery and automatic weapons to try to smash this new "Hungary" reports reaching here said. About 300,000 Tibetans were reported up in arms. The fate of the Dalai Lama, god and king to the Tibetan people, was unknown. The re volt, fanned by tough Kham ba tribesmen, apparently was touched off when the Chinese commander ordered the Dalai Lama to appear before him without his bodyguards. Some reports said the Dalai Lama had been seized and flown to Peiping. Others said he was killed by the Reds. Details Shrouded The remoteness of the capi tal city on the "roof of the world" and the rugged moun tains and primitive methods of communication shrouded details of the revolt. But reports, including some from Indian officials gave this picture: Fighting began last week with the order for the Dalai Lama to appear before the Red Chinese leader. His moth er at his Potala palace broke into tears and wailing. Loyal Tibetans, chafing under al most eight years of Red rule in the "autonomous region" leaped to the cause. For Showdown Rebel Khamba tribesmen, who have been battling the Reds with hit-run guerrilla tactics for two years, began marching on Lhasa for the showdown. Fighting erupted in the streets as it did in 1958 in Budapest. Reports said the battle raged around the spa cious enclosure of the Indian diplomatic mission and spread behind the Turquoise bridge, the main gateway to Lhasa. Semi-official sources ' in New Delhi said the Commun ists were' bringing artillery into action and were flying in automatic weapons. Khamba tribesmen have been known to be buying American-made rifles for as much as $200 apiece whenever they could lay hands on them. Man, 81, Missing At Pleasant Creek Wimer - A team of blood hounds and their owners from Klamath Falls were enroute to the Pleasant creek area late Saturday night to search for an 81-year-old Pleasant Creek man lost in that area since 10 a.m., Saturday, state police in Medford said. Plea sant Creek is about 4Vi miles above Wimer. Bill Peters, Rogue River police chief, reported the man was missing to state police and the Jackson county sher iff's office. Personnel from both the nearby Grants Pass state po lice office and Medford office were searching for the man Saturday night, with Jackson county sheriff's office person nel and people of the Pleas ant Creek area. Gain Federal a scenic standpoint, Wirth explained. "It has to be more than just a good local recrea tional area." For the past year the park service has been surveying the whole Pacific Coast to evalu ate its scenic value. The con clusion drawn, Wirth said, was that this section of the Oregon coast merited national attention. Previously, the park service surveyed the Atlantic and Gulf coasts for the same pur pose, and it is. currently sur veying the coastal areas of the Great Lakes. Recreation Area , A conclusion of the Atlan tic Coast survey was that Cape Cod in Massachusetts should be designated as a national recreation area, Wirth said. While the park service has recommended Cape Cod, the administration has not com mitted itself to the idea as yet, Wirth said. This might hold tru with ymmeir Summit PorSey McElroy Says Ground Troops Would Be Used Washington - (UPD Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy has told the House Foreign Affairs committee the United States would fight with every thing it has, including ground troops, if war broke out in Europe. Reliable sources said this was the gist of secret testi mony McElroy gave recently when the House unit unex pectedly went behind closed doors in the midst of hearings on President E i s e n hower's foreign aid program. McElroy's statement was in answer to demands from Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) that the administration explain a news conference statement by the President that this coun try had no intention of fight ing a ground war in Europe. Would Be Outnumbered Eisenhower told reporters March 11 that allied ground forces in Europe would be hopelessly outnumbered b y "masses" of Soviet and Com munist troops in a ground war. ' It was estimated that about 21 NATO divisions would be opposed by 175 Communist divisions on the continent. The President refused to rule out the possibility of us ing nuclear weapons in case hostilities resulted from the Berlin crisis. But he warned that nuclear arms could not keep West Berlin free and might be self-defeating be cause of their vast destructive powers. - On the basis of Eisenhow er's statement, Hays had questioned the need of pour ing millions of dollars worth of U. S. military aid into ef forts to strengthen NATO ground forces. Why Spend So Much Hays also wanted to know why this country had spent so much money in the past for the same purpose if the main defense of U. S. forces in Europe was going to be "mis siles and nuclear weapons. He said Eisenhower him self had recommended the aid when he was NATO comman der. Hays, who said the Ameri can people were ''confused," demanded McElroy answer the questions in open hear ings but the committee went into closed session despite the Ohio Congressman's protests. Afterward, Chairman Thomas E. Morgan (D-Pa.) and Hays told reporters that McElroy had made a "con vincing and reassuring reply." But they said the Defense Secretary's testimony would have to be checked for secur ity before being released. A committee spokes man said yesterday 'the "edited" testimony probably would be released this week, possibly Wednesday. More fireworks are likely Tuesday when the committee resumes hearings on Eisen hower's $3,930,000,000 for eign aid request. Park Service's Support Neuberger's proposal for the Oregon seacoast. The senator said the estimated cost of ac quiring privately held land to be included in his proposal would be up. to S3 million. There would also be costs to the federal government for constructing tourist facilities which are normally provided by the park service. Neuberger Confident Whether the Eisenhower ad ministration, particularly the budget bureau, will go for this at this time is unknown. Nev ertheless, Neuberger express ed confidence he could get Congressional authorization for the park. The last time a national park was added to the system was in December, 1956, when Virgin Islands National park was dedicated. Last one on the mainland was Everglades park in Florida, 1949. There are 25 national parks. Neuberger said he thinks one factor favoring approval of ocmo "I Said Last Year That Things Would Bottom Out" Tf i i i i i i n ; J2SS- -l9C7-SS '-I i RECESSl Ori . J ' 1 1 1 I nph Nuclear Fall-Out Rate Much Higher Washington- (UPD -Sen. Clin ton P. Anderson (D-N.Y. said yesterday that both defense and atomic energy commis sion experts agree that rate of nuclear fall-out has greatly in creased and the United States probably is getting the heav iest dose. The chairman of the joint Congressional Atomic Engery committee said in a statement that "it looks like strontium 90 isn't staying up in there as long as the AEC told us it would, and the fall-out is greatest in the United States." Strontium 90 is considered the most hazardous result of radio-active fall-out spread through the stratosphere by nuclear explosions. Anderson announced the Mrs. Click's Trial To Start Tomorrow Trial of Mrs. Maxine A. Click, 46, of Ashland, on first degree murder charges is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Circuit Judge Ed ward C. Kelly's court. Selection ot a jury is ex pected to take most of the first day, according to court observers. Mrs. Click's at torney, Otto J. Frohnmayer, Medford, is entitled to" 12 pre emptory challenges and the district attorney to 6. Ob servers expect the trial to last all week. Mrs. Click, mother of nine children, was arrested by Ash land city police on Jan. 6 after she notified them of a shooting. She is charged with shooting her husband, Hous ton James Click, 47, in their Ashland home on Jan. 6. , Mrs. Click is being held in the county jail without bail. the seacoast is that compared to neighboring California and Washington state, Oregon does not now have its share of na tional parks. Crater Lake, the only one, was created -in 1902. California has Yosemite, 1890; Lassen Volcanic, 1916; and Sequoia, 1890. Washing ton state has Mt. Rainier, 1899 and Olympic, 1938. Four Other Areas In addition to the Sea Lion Caves and Oregon Dunes area, the park service survey of the Pacific Coast resulted in recommendations that four other areas be given national status: Cape Flattery on the northwest coast of Washing ton; Point Reyes Peninsula on the north central California coast; and two islands off the southern California coast, San Miguel and Santa Cruz. Two other areas were rec ommended as worthy of state park consideration: Leadbet ter Point and Point Brown, both off the coast of Washing ton state. Buaim Appir question will be looked into' in May when Rep. Chet Holif ield (D-Calif .) who. heads a special radiation subcommittee, holds public hearings. Three Letters Anderson made public three letters on fall-out. One was from Herbert B. Poper, assist - ant defense secretary on atom - ic matters, another to Loper from AEC commissioner W. F Libby, and a third from the the commission to the joint committee on the Loper and Libby reports. The commission letter con cluded that despite the par tially differing views of the two fall-out experts, he does think that "the data now avail able are sufficiently decisive to resolve the differences be tween the estimates of strato spheric content and retention time" made by Loper and Lib by. Loper's conclusion was the stronger of the two. He told Anderson recent indications are that "the radioactivity in the stratosphere has a resi dence half-life of two years (in contrast to the previously assumed value of about seven year)." Libby had made the earlier seven-year estimate. The longer radioactivity re mains aloft in the atmosphere, the less concentrated the amounts for humans. 'Greater In U.S.' Loper added that the con centration of strontium 90 on the earth's surface is "great er in the United States than in any other area in the world." Loper added that the dang er ot carbon 14 and cesium 137 has been examined and that "the immediate proba bility of any one individual being affected is about one in 500,000." These two elements have also been considered as fall-out factors affecting man kind. Of them, Loper concluded: "The risk of damage resulting from the testing of weapons is herefore extremely small and much less than other com mon-day occurrences such as x-rays, automobiles, chemical contaminacts, household clean ers, etc. However, the prob able casualties attributable to radioisotopes from weapons testing when summed over the populations of thousands of years of create a moral issue that could be of considerable propaganda importance." Loper said there is need for more experimental and col lecting programs. Sports Bulletin McArthur Court, Univer sity of Oregon, Eugene North Salem high won fourth place Saturday after noon in the Oregon Class A-l high school basketball meet by beating Beaverlon 46 to 38. The Vikings led at the quarters 12 to 7. 22 to 18 and 28 to 24. Ralph Ritlenour had 20 points for Beaverton and Grant Har ler 13 and Bill Maurer 12 for North Saltm, East-West Freeze Suggestion Made By Prime Minister Leaders Also Discuss Plans for Allied Action Gettysburg, Pa. -UPD- Presi dent Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Mac millan agreed to a summer summit conference yesterday but couldn't get together on the latter's proposal for an East-West freeze of strength along the Iron Curtain. The freeze has been advo cated as a step toward peace by Macmillan but his discus sion of the idea with Eisen hower during most of the aft ernoon of their second day at Camp David, Md., was in conclusive. The proposal came up after Eisenhower and Macmillan agreed to attend a summit conference with Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev in July or August after a for eign ministers meeting. An. Allied note proposing such a face-to-face meeting with Khrushchev was agreed upon by the two free world leaders and immediately dispatched to other allied . governments for consideration. No Agreement But there was no agreement hinted at on the prime min ister's freeze proposal. White 1 ouse ress secretary James 1 c- Hagerty said it was "ad- vanced by 'the British as a sug- I PPKinn nnd that ie all Via it O - " w..uv . t was." Some American and Brit ish observers thought the U. S. reaction to Macmllla n's "freeze" proposal was rather lukewarm. Peter Hope, Macmillan's spokesman, told newsmen that President Eisenhower had agreed to "consider it." 'Didn't See Split' Hagerty told British news men, probing for some sign of disagreement between the two leaders, that "I didn't see any split between the Americans and British" on any subject during the day's discussions. Hagerty also observed that the summit conference accord between Eisenhower and Mac millan was "the only agreed position taken all day." The summit meeting would be conditioned on results of the preliminary foreign min isters conference to be held in Geneva in May, aimed particu larly at solving the Berlin cri sis. Khrushchev has agreed that Russia would attend the foreign ministers parley. Ceiling Plan After the Anglo-American Summit accord was reached the British laid out their plan to clamp a ceiling on weapons and forces on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This would freeze East-West strength at about present levels. The Brit ish would like this plan car ried to the May meeting of Big Four foreign ministers in Geneva, then later to the sum mit. Spokesmen for Eisenhower declined to say how he re ceived the British proposal. They did point out that no effort was made to reach an agreement as the Eisenhower Macmillan talks at Camp David, Md., neared a conclu sion. Their afternoon meeting al so touched on plans for allied action should Russia precipi tate actual fighting over the Berlin crisis. Then the "Big Two" parley shifted to dis armament and the related problems involved in reduc ing East-West tensions which have gripped Europe. Vs. Disengagement White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty and Macmillan's spokesman, Peter Hope of the British Foreign Office, said the British and Americans agree there should be no "radical thinning out" of allied forces in Europe. Nor did they favor disengage ment to the point of creating a no-man's land between Free World and Red forces. The "freeze" plan was one of Macmillan's pet projects which he brought to this coun try to commend to the President.
