Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 31, 1959, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textfl IM1 fo) Wis Liu u o) 53rd Year Medford 16 Pages ton Four Men Said Cast Overboard By Gigantic Wave Several Queen Mary Passengers Injured New York - (LTD - A titanic five-day-old storm tnat is dis rupting Atlantic shipping schedules has taken at least iour lives and injured a score of persons aboard harassed ocean liners. The captain of the North German Lloyd liner Berlin, en roifte from Bremerhaven to New York, radioed today that four crew members were washed overboard and pre sumed drowned last Saturday Rescue Attempts Fail The report said the men were lost in spite of imme diate rescue attempts when a giant wave swept over the 19,100-ton liner 700 nautical miles northeast of the Azores, The Berlin is scheduled to dock here April 14. but most luxury liners were running from 12 to 24 hours late due to the massive disturbance which veteran seamen describ ed as one of the worst in memory for the normally stormy spring season. The American Export liner Constitution docked here 10 hours late this morning be cause of the storm it encoun tered Saturday and Sunday en route from a Mediterranean run. Queen Mary Tossed Capt. Hugh L. Switzer said gale winds of up to 60 miles an hour forced him to reduce the Constitution's speed from 22.5 knots to 14 knots for 24 hours. The 29,000-ton liner suffered no damage and no one aboard was injured. The Queen Mary reported on her arrival in Southamp ton, England, that she had been hit by an immense wave in mid-Atlantic which rolled her 22 degrees and then back 16 degrees. Passengers and crew were tossed around and several received cuts and bruises. U.S. Will Reject Corridor Ceiling Washington -UPD- The State Department said today that the United States will not ac cept any Soviet-imposed 10,-000-foot altitude ceiling for planes flying the air corridors between West Germany and Berlin. Lincoln White, State De partment press officer, made the statement in commenting on the buzzing of an unarmed American transport by three Soviet fighters over Commu nist East Germany last Fri day. The U.S. has never accepted any altitude ceilings for its planes flying the corridor and has no intention of doing so, White said. ' , A military source said that Britain, France and America for several years, .as a prac tical matter, have operated most of their planes to and from Berlin at altitudes of 10,000 and lower. Salem - (UPD - Two inches of new snow was reported at Timberline with an inch at Government Camp foday. Demand for Investigation Salem (UPD A proposed investigation of the state po lice asked by Sen. Richard G r o e n e r (D-Milwaukie) is dead. By unanimous vote, the ( Senate State and Federal Af fairs Committee Monday ta bled Groener's resolution call ing for the investigation. Groener is a foe of State Police Superintendent H. G. Maison. Sen. Boyd Overhulse, chair man of the committee, said "the resolution was given a lalays Bog liners i MEDFORD, OREGON, in Atlantic "Think We'd Better Lie Low For A While?" 'Green Stamp' Bill Again Introduced In Oregon Salem (UPD The "green stamp" bill is back again in the Oregon Legislature. . - A bill regulating trading stamps to require printing of cash redeemable value on stamps and redemption in cash or merchandise from the persons issuing the stamps was introduced in the House today. BLM Office Being Moved to New Area A pair of moving vans be gan moving the bureau of land management office from the city hall to its new quar ters in Office Park, South Riverside ave. at Barnett rd. Both records and office equipment were being moved this morning, but the BLM's telephone, SPring 3-3605, was still connected and manned at noon. It is expected the num ber will be used at the new location. The BLM is vacating the third floor of city hall to oc cupy larger quarters in its new building at Office Park. Some offices are to be moved upstairs to take its place. The vans were from two local moving companies. Ob servers were uncertain as to whether the move could be entirely accmplished in one day. Musa Seeks Ouster Of Board Secretary Salem -4UPD- State Sen. Ben Musa (D-The Dalles) today called on State Treasurer Sig Unander to ask for the resig nation of Board of Control Secretary William C. Ryn. Churchill Loses Valuables To Thieves London -(UPD Burglars Mon day night stole diamonds, ru bies and possibly furs from Sir Winston Churchill's town house. State Police Buried proper burial. All members of the committee felt that the proposed investigation was unnecessary." Groener has been fighting the higher echelon of the state police, declaring that he has no quarrel with the de partment itself but feels that the superintendent should be removed. However, he has failed to get much support in his cam paign against the state police although he said today that "I will eventually get Super intendent Maison.' TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1959 House A similar measure failed n the 1957 session. The bill was introduced by Rep. Thomas R. McClellan (D-Neotsu) at the request of the Oregon Independent Grocers Association. It would require licensing of users and sellers of stamps at an annual fee of $6,000, but would exempt premium coupons issued by manufac turers and attached to the original package. No premium coupons could be issued on sale of eggs, poultry or milk. Oregon officials ' of the Sperry and Hutchinson Com pany, which has been issuing trading stamps in Oregon for more than 50 years, opposed the measure. Wafer Storage Use To Depend on Rain When Medford and Rogue River valley Irrigation dis tricts will start drawing on their water storage for irri gation will depend on spring rains, it was indicated today. "We do not have much ad ditional moisture and do not expect anywhere near the normal spring runoff," Jack Hoffbuhr, Medford irrigation district manager, said today. Fish Lake now contains 7, 938 acre feet of water. It is full at 8,021 acre feet. Four mile lake now has 15,646 acre feet of water, with a capacity of 16,123 acre feet. Snow around Fish lake measures 9 inches with 33 per cent, or three inches, water content. Billy Creek snow course measures 28 inches at average depth, 36 per cent density and has 10 inches of water con tent. Four Mile snow course had 38 inches average depth, 29 per cent density, and 11 inches of water content. Princess Grace ; Reaches Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerlarid-(UPD-Princess Grace of Monaco ar rived today in Lausanne, where she is expected to have her appendix removed. But no one would say anything about an operation. The former Grace Kelly of Philadelphia, and her familv flew from Nice Airport near Monaco to Geneva and then came to Lausanne in three American cars. Princess Grace, her hus band, Prince Rainier, her par ents. Mr. and Mrs. John TS Kelly of Philadelphia, and the Kelly family physician, Dr. James A. Lehman, and his wife sweat ud to thp lakeside Hotel Beaurivage at miaatternoon. Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 219 Red China Admits Tibetan Revolt Still Smoulders Chutists Dropped To Head Off Dalai Lama New Delhi-OIPD-Communist China admitted today the Ti betan revolution is still smoul dering and warned foreign na tions chiefly India against interfering in China's "inter nal affairs." The warning broadcast by Peiping Radio coincided with reports the Dalai Lama was nearing the Indian border and that he might seek asylum in India once India's position is clarified. Paratroops Said Dropped The Chinese Communists were reported seeking to cut off the Dalai Lama in his flight to the border and un confirmed reports said the Reds had dropped paratroops south of the Brahmaputra river to try to cut him off. The London Daily Tele graph in a dispatch from Ka- limpong said the Dalai Lama was believed to have crossed the great river into rebel-held areas the Chinese Reds have not previously managed to penetrate. Appeal To Nehru A group of 100 Tibetans called on Prime Minister Ja- waharlal Nehru today and handed him appeals asking him to take the Tibetan issue before the United Nations. Nehru previously refused to meet the Tibetan delegations but today they called at his home and asked him to use his influence to guarantee the safety of the Dalai Lama, to protect the destruction of Ti betan monasteries by the Commuuists and to try to pre serve Tibetan autonomy. Nehru told the visiting dele gation India had no power to "intervene" in Tibet and in fact would not like to take any steps which "might aggravate the situation there." But he expressed hope the Tibetans' present difficulties would end peacefully. Ike Confers With Policy Advisers Washington - (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower conferred with his top foreign policy advisers today at the West's Big Four ministers assembled here to iron out a master plan for negotiating a Euro pean settlement with Russia. The President met with Act ing Secretary of State Christ ian A. Herter and Undersec retary C. Douglas Dillon at the White House for about an hour. Their talks dealt in part with the foreign ministers conference starting this after noon and the meeting of NA TO foreign ministers which begins Thursday. D'Autremont Said Victim of Cancer San Francisco - (UPD - Hos pital authorities said today the death of Hugh D'Autre mont, who spent 31 years in prison and won freedom less than three months ago, was due to cancer. D'Autremont, 55, died in a local hospital Sunday. He was paroled Jan. 9 from the Oregon state prison after spending most of his life there for the 1923 attempted rob bery of a mail train in Or egon's Siskiyou mountains in which four trainmen were killed. In Saltm, Warden Clarence Gladden of the state peniten tiary said he was sorry to hear of the death of D'Autre mont, whom he described as one of "our best prisoners." "As far as we were con cerned, we thought he was in good health when he left the prison," Gladden said. "He was a man who rarely asked for medical assistance." 'Cooling Off' Curb In Divorces Defeated Salem (UPD By a close vote, the Senate today defeat ed a bill repealing the law passed by the 1957 Legisla ture providing for a 60-day "cooling off" period from the time of filing a divorce action to the hearing of the case. Pearson Charges Hatfield Hiding Broken Promises Salem - (UPD - Senate Presi dent Walter Pearson today charged that Gov. Mark Hat field "continues to throw out a political smokescreen to hide his broken campaign promises and talks about thousands of dollars when millions are involved." Pearson's statement follow ed a talk by Hatfield before the Portland Chamber of Commerce in which Hatfield was reported to have said leaders of the Legislature are crowding the people into a corner where they will be forced to have a sales tax. Higher Taxes Seen Pearson said that if the Legislature adopted the gov ernor's tax program taxes would be up over $14 million most of which would be spent for buildings. "His budget does not face up to the problems of educa tion, welfare, state salaries and higher education de mands. He talks about peanut savings through reorganiza tion but says nothing of the major problems which face this Legislature and the next one,'" Pearson said. No Comment on Bill The Senate president de clared that Hatfield had not commented on the "bipartisan bill sponsored by me and 21 other senators and 18 repre sentatives that will reduce property taxes from 30 to 40 per cent and raise personal exemptions in the income tax from $1,200 to $3,000 for a married couple. "True, this bill involves asking the people to approve a sales tax not as an addition al tax, but for offset purposes, a large part of the revenues to go to education," Pearson concluded. ICC Hearing on Application Held Transcripts of testimony taken in a one-day hearing conducted by the Interstate Commerce commission on an application to permit lumber hauling between Oregon and California will be forwarded to the ICC in Washington, D. C, for a decision. The hearing was held here yesterday. C. J. Hamilton, Medford trucker, who is seek ing the permit, attempted to show why he should be grant ed a permit to haul between southern Oregon and . Cali fornia points. The applicant and those tes tifying for him contended that there is a need for another lumber materials hauler for southern Oregon points of Glendale, Medford, and Klam ath Falls to such California points as Crescent City, Sac ramento, Fresno, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. Testimony of shippers sup porting Hamilton's applica tion is that railroad' facilities are not adequate and depend able and truckers now cover ing those points under ICC permit provide unsstisfactory service. Those protesting the appli cation claimed that their serv ice is more than adequate and granting Hamilton's applica tion would have an adverse affect on their operations. Rogue River Bond Election Wednesday Rogue River Rogue Riv er school district patrons to morrow will vote on a $175, 000 bond issue which would finance construction of addi tional elementary school fa cilities. A poll will be open be tween 2 and 8 p.m. in the high school gymnasium, John B. Harr, superintendent of schools, said. Building plans call for con struction of 11 new class rooms, office space, library, cafeteria and kitchen in a building which would join present facilities with a walk way, Harr said. The school board called the election as an outgrowth of a recent condemnation by the state fire marshal of the third floor of the elementary school, a three-stftry struct ure built 50 years ago. Medical Laboratory Board Set Up in Bill Salem-(UPD-Another state board called the State Medi cal Laboratory Board is set up in a bill introduced by Sen. Dan Dimick (D-Roseburg) and Rep. Grace Peck (D-Portland) in the Senate today. I--mt y a Ttf ACCIDENT-The picture above shows where two vehicles, operated by Rose Pauline Griffin, 2000 Orchard Home dr., Medford, and Velma Lucille Long, 501 South Third st.,' Jacksonville, came to rest after collid ing at the intersection of 10th and Ivy sts. yesterday. The women were taken to Sacred Heart hospital in a private vehicle and re leased after treatment for bruises. Medford police said Mrs. Long was cited for failure Tentative Budget Hearing Dates Set By County Court Tentative county budget hearing dates set by the coun ty court are April 8, 10, 15, 17, 24 and 29, it was an nounced today. Letters went out yesterday to members of the budget committee. They are L. W. Newbry, Talent, Gordon Hud son, Medford, and Arnold Bohnert, Central Point. The three, plus the county court, consider the budget. The dates were set for the convenience of the citizen members, it was explained. Estimated county receipts from all sources for the next fiscal year starting July 1 will be $3,857,000, according to Karl Janouch, countytreas urer. This includes receipts carried over from the current year. The estimated carry over is $603,000. However the county has four more months of collections before the fiscal year ends, Janouch said. The carry-over is estimated on the average of past years. Estimates Income The county treasurer esti mated the county's income from O and C timber receipts for the new fiscal year to be $2,100,000 or $400,000 more than the current year's re ceipts of $1,720,960.67. The county's share of Rogue River National forest timber receipts is estimated at $316, 427. State money for taxes on cars should bring in $505,000 to Jackson county, the treas urer estimated. Figuring all cash sources, Janouch said the total for the new fiscal year would be $4,150,000. Of this, the fed eral government contributes $2,416,427, the state $563,950, the local offices $320,785 and the balance, which includes unspent budget i.nd excess re receipts, amounts to $856,600. Nursing Homes Reject Lower Rates Salem -(UPD- The Oregon Li censed Nursing Homes Assoc iation decided Monday night it would not accept welfare patients at reduced rates aft er July 1 of this year. The move followed an nouncement of a 10 per cent cut in public welfare rates. The proposed cut is one of several ways under which the State Welfare Commis sion seeks to keep costs with in a $1,200,000 deficiency ap propriation now being con sidered by the Legislature. The Association said it did not want the cutback to es tablish a precedent. Portland - (UPD - Plans for a 10 -ton Oregon birthday cake received approval of the Oregon Centennial Commis sion. WEATHER FORECAST: Generally cloudy with occasional rain through Wednesday. Low tonight 40. High Wednesday 52. Temp. Highest Yesterday 57 Lowest this Morning 41 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 06 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:36 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 5:55 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 2:14 a.m. New Moon April 7 Rigel, the brightest star of Orion, sets tonight at 9:51 p.m. Well above Rigel are the 3 stars that form the Belt of Orion and well above them is Betel geuse, a star that occasionally outshines Rigel. Pear Blossom King., Queen To Be Chosen Thursday Evening The king and queen of the annual Pear Blossom Festival will be selected at ceremo nies starting at 7 p.m. Thurs day at the Jackson school auditorium. They will be chosen from six boys and six girls to reign over the sixth annual festival April 11. Mayors of valley towns have been invited to be judges. Included in the program at Jackson school will 'be a pag eant by Jackson school stu dents. The pageant was pre sented earlier this year in Condemnation Suit Starts Here The first of four condemna tion suits scheduled to be tried in Jackson county Circuit court by the state highway commission started this morn ing with selection of a jury. The suit pertains to a High way 99 freeway right-of-way in the Rogue River area be longing to Joe Allison, Rogue River carpenter, and his wife. During examination of pros pective jurors, William Mans field, Salem, representing the state highway commission stated, "There has been some talk that the highway depart ment is using improper meth ods. That is not the issue here. The issue is what should be just compensation for the property." The condemnation suit as filed against Mr. and Mrs. Al lison is for acquisition of 1.4 acres of land on the north side of the Rogue river approxi mately a mile west of 'Rogue River between the Josephine county line and Evans creek. Stanley L. Jones and Joel Reeder are defense attorneys. The case is in Circuit Judge James E. Main's couft. Boys' Summer Camp Proposed in Bill Salem -(UPD- A combination recreation and work , project summer camp for boys from 15 to 19 years of age is pro vided in a bi'l introduced in the Senate today by Ren. Rob ert Straub (D-Springfield). Local Police Recent Thefts of Building Local police and sheriff's deputies today .questioned Jose Manrubia-Martinez, 27, in connection with the recent thefts of an estimated $3,000 in building materials and equipment from construction sites in this area. . Police reported discovering a cache of apparently stolen items under a tarpaulin on a lot off Gibbon rd. In Man rubia's Medford apartment, they continued, they found sketched plans for building a house. Arrested Saturday Manrubia was arrested last Saturday, originally on a charge of violating immigra tion laws. This charge was dropped the same day when subsequent interrogation re vealed he was apparently authorized to be in this coun try. He was then charged with unauthorized use of a motor to yield right of way. Her vehicle was west bound on 10th while the other vehicle (fore ground) was southbound on Ivy and thus to her right, according to the report. A sign owned by the City of Medford was also damaged, police said. It is the second acci dent at the same intersection within the last week or so, according to a resident of the neighborhood. connection with class work concerning local taxes and government. Queen candidates are Ju lie Houk, 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. Dorothy Houk, 1080 Pleasant way, Ashland, Ka ren Greb, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Greb, Eagle Point; Pattie Klatt, 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Klatt, 204 Med ford Heights, Medford; Lynn Roethler, 5-year-old daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Roeth ler, 257 Cerritos ave., Med ford; Mary Helen LeRoy, 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vern LeRoy, 119 Pine st., Central Point; and Mar garet Stephen, 6 - year - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gor don C. Stephen, 2817 Beall lane, Central Point. King Candidates King candidates are Frank Allen Hunt, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunt, Hillcrest - Phoenix rd., Med ford; Kevin Kimmel, 6-year-old son of Mrs. C. E. Kimmel, Eagle Point; 'Jerry Smith, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Smith, 409 Summit ave., Medford; Michael Paul Facio, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Facio, 2241 Roberts rd., Medford; Michael Mattson, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Mattson, 911 Queen Ann ave., Medford; and Larry McCulley, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Mc Culley, 1440 South Ivy st., Medford. Bob Boyer, program chair man, said invited guests in clude Miss Pat Rushton of Jacksonville, Miss Jackson County, who will serve as grand marshal of the Pear Blossom parade; Miss Mari anne Samuelson, Miss Sports fair, who will lead the motor powered section of the pa rade; and Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Lane, Ashland, who will lead the Centennial section and reprerent "pioneer Jack son county." The royal couple will be crowned by the king and queen of the 1958 Pear Blos som Festival, Miss LaDonna Lull, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G- Lull, Medford, and Bobby McLean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith McLean, Medford. Question Man About vehicle. His arraignment on this charge got. underway in district court this morning. Deputy District Attorney Ger ald Scannel said his office was considering charging Manru bia with grand larceny as well. A partial list of the cache, as furnished by state and Medford police this morning, includes lumber, windows, doors, roofing, plywood, a bath tub, a toilet, a fireplace and' tools including at least one power saw. Payment on Lot Police said investigation re vealed Manrubia had appar ently bought the Gibbon rd. lot recently from Lester Lee Lewis, and had made a pay ment of $375 on it. But, they reported, no formal papers concerning the sale have been discovered as yet. One major theft to which investigators have linked this I Soviets Declare Across Corridor Incident Occurs On Supply Flight Bonn, Germany (UPD The United States has protested the buzzing of an unarmed American Air Force transport plane by three Soviet jet fighters during a flight to and from West Berlin last Friday, informed sources said today. The Soviets have countered with a protest declaring that no American plane may fly above 10,000 feet from cross ing East Germany to and from West Berlin, the sources added. Witnessed by Hundreds The buzzing occurred last Friday and was witnessed by hundreds of West Berliners out for an afternoon stroll. Informed sources said the incident occurred during the first of a series of supply flights to the U.S. Garrison in West Berlin of C130 turbo prop transport planes. The C130 is a high altitude plane and is now being sub stituted throughout Europe for the twin-fuselage CI 19s which formerly were the sup ply mainstay. The U.S. representative at the Berlin Air Safety Center, manned by U.S., British, French and Soviet officers no tified the Soviets of the planned flight in the normal fashion, informed sources said. Objects To Altitude He told the Russians the plane would fly across East Germany at about 25,000 feet. The Soviet controller imme diately objected to the plan ned altitude, the informed sources said, but U.S. officials decided to have the flight made nevertheless. Shortly after the C130 crossed the East-West Ger man frontier, these sources said, it was apprached by three Soviet jet fighter planes which harassed it until the American craft landed at Tem plehof Airfield, in the center of West Berlin. The Soviets performed air acrobatics, and often flew within five or 10 feet of the American pane, it was report ed. Identification Noted They came close enough for the American plane's crew to read, and note, the Soviet fighters' identification num bers. At least two of the Soviet fighters remained within a few feet of the American plane until after it had enter ed the Tempelhof landing ap proach pattern. The American plane took off to return to its base in France as soon as it had un loaded its cargo. Three Soviet fighters it is not known whether they were the original three immedi ately approached the Ameri can craft, and harassed it all the way to the East German frontier. Maneuvers 'Dangerous No shots were fired by the Soviet fighters, but their ma neuvers were described , by informed sources as "danger ous." The Soviet counter-protest contended that all air space above 10,000 is reserved for Soviet air traffic. Western allied officials al ways have understood that the three air corridors across East Germany were limited only in width. Each is 20 miles wide. This is believed to be the first time the Soviets have attempted to put a ceiling on the corridor. Materials case was that of an estimated $1,000 in materials from Dee Hord, 400 Ashland st., Ash land. This theft was reported last Friday. Another theft mentioned was that of aluminum roofing from Leonard Burdahl, route 1, box 462, Eagle Point, on March 20. Police said a television set and preserved fruit taken last week from a Biddle st. resi dence were discovered in Manrubia's apartment. Wife Said Here According to investigators' present information, Manru bia has been in this area for two years, and was married three years ago in Mexico. His wife, it is understood, is living in a house trailer here. A truck was to be dispatch ed to the Gibbon rd. site this afternoon to pick up the building materials and other items.