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54th Year Recommended Price 10 Cents 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 1220 p.m. Sunday If regular deliverv arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Tribune DFORD A story on the early history of the southern Oregon snow surrey network is related on page 14 of today's Mall Tribune. United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 60 PAGES BEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1959 No. 13 Me 14 Per Cent Hike In Allowable Cut On O&C Land Told New Forest Inventory Yields Higher Figures Portland - (UPD - An increase of nearly 14 per cent in the annual allowable cut of tim ber from revested Oregon and Calfornia railroad grant lands in Oregon was announced Fri day by Elmer F. Bennett, undersecretary of the interior, j Bennett said the increase ovould be 104.9 million board feet, raising the allowable 1959 cut to be 874.2 million board feet. He said that through in creasing its total timber sales program for 1960, the bureau of land management could provide the equivalent of 2,000 additional local jobs. Edward Woozley, BLM di rector, said new forest in ventories made possible the increase. The latest increase is the ninth since the base an nual cut of 500 million board feet was established when the O&C sustained yield act was passed in 1937. Woozley also said that an estimated additional 125.8 mil lion board feet of salvage and other materiai not chargeable to the new allowable cut base could be offered for sale in 1960, bringing the total cut to about one billion board feet. Additional funds necessary for an expanded timber sale pro gram for O&C land for 1959 have been requested from Congress, he said. (An additional volume of timber will be sold from pub lic domain land in the Med ford district, according to Bob Hostetter, assistant district manager in charge of plans. This should be computed be fore July, he said.) (O and C and public domain timber lands are reinventoried every 10 years according to a standard plan, Hostetter ex plained. The new reinventory has been geared to the big change in timber utilization made by lumber companies since World War II, he said. (Much more accurate tech niques have been developed in the last 10 or 15 years to make this reinventory more precise than previous ones, Hostetter said. Use of aerial photos and permanent sample plots are two examples of the new and more accurate meth ods, he said. (Eight to 10 men have been working on this district's re inventory continously for the last four years.) The new and old allowable cuts by marketing district, in millions of board feet: Salem District New Columbia River 47.5 Clackamas-Molalla 24 Alsea-Rickreall 60 Santiam River 51.2 Old 36 18 51 41 152 62.9 79.1 142 Total 182.7 Eugene District Upper Willamette 74.9 Siuslaw 79.1 Total 154 Roseburg District Douglas South Umpqua Total Coos Bay District South Coast 1 Total 123.9 112.8 32.5 32.5 156.4 145.2 i 160.1 160.1 150.1 160.1 Medford District Josephine 120 Jackson 78 Klamath 23 Total 221 102 54.7 13.2 169.9 U.S. Says Its Planes To Fly at Any Height Berlin - (UPD - The United States told the Soviets yester day that American military transports would fly through the corridors linking West Berlin and West Germany at whatever height they choose. In a note, the United States rejected s Soviet attempt to put a ceiling on the Western corridors 'over Communist East Germany. The note was in reply to a Soviet protest against the "illegal" flight of a C-130 transport at 25,000 feet. The Russians said the flight created an air hazard. WEATHER FORECAST: Increasing cloud iness today with occasional light showers likely by this afternoon and continuing through Monday. Much cooler Monday. High to day SS. Low tonight 35. High Monday 55. TEMP. Highest Saturday 77 Lowest Saturday 41 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 8:41 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 5:47 a.m. . 5:05 a-m. Moonrise tomorrow PROMINENT STARS Regulus, high in south east 7:34 p.m. Sirius, in the south west 8:54 p.m. Procyon, high above. Arcturus, in the east 8:59 p.m. Capella, low in north west H:3J p.m. : ,f ten T I ) IP 1' ' ft J? litis 11 i w ' X 1 ! I y J2st?r Iff iff ' i "' I J ERA TO END - The end of the month will mark the dis continuance of the Applegate post office, which has been in existence since 1858. People in the area will be served by what is termed a rural station. As a memorial to the 101 years the post office has been in use, faculty members and students at Applegate school prepared a sign which reads "Applegate Post Office, established in August, 1858." Above, Principal Norman Bonzon watches while students Jimmie Christensen, left, and Virgil Prowell fasten the sign to the door. President Pledges Firm Berlin Course Gettysburg, Pa.- (UPD -Presi dent Eisenhower pledged the United States yesterday to follow a firm course in Ber lin and prevent that divided city from becoming "another Munich." - "The course of appeasement is not only dishonorable, it is the most dangerous one we could pursue," he declared. "The world paid a high price for the lesson of Munich-but it learned it well." The President spoke yester day morning at Gettysburg College's spring convocation, attended by 4,000 invited guests. The affair was held in windy, topcoat weather in the college football stadium. The President used the po litical crisis in Vietnam and the economic difficulties of Japan, along with the Berlin problem, as examples of the need for mutual free world security as a buffer against communism. Berlin is a tension" point jst now, he said, "because the Kremlin hopes to eliminate it as a part of the free world. "The communist leaders have chosen to exert pressure there at this moment," he added. "Naturally they al ways pick the most awkward situation, the hard-to-defend position, as the place to test our strength and resolution. "There will never be an easy place for, us to make a stand, but there is a best one." As the President spoke, the 15-nation North Atlantic Treaty organization council, meeting in Washington, warn ed Russia again of its deter mination to defend allied treaty rights in West Berlin. In a renewed defense of his foreign policy, which is under continuing attack in Congress, Eisenhower said the situations in Berlin, Viet nam and Japan show the need for. firm answers to Soviet po litical challenges, U. S. for eign aid to keep the spirit of freedom alive in divided countries, and foreign trade t keep nations of the free world in economic good health. ; , "We have learned, too," he said, "that the costs of de fending freedom-of defending America must be paid in many forms. They are assessed against us in all parts of the world-in Berlin, in Vietnam, in the Middle East, and here India-Parkistan Dispute Settlement Hoped For Washington-' (UPD .-Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said yester day he hopes the "possible common danger" of Red China as displayed in Tibet will end the long feud be tween India and Pakistan. The Montana Democrat add ed the implied hope that India would abandon her neutral ity and seek membership in the southeast Asia treaty or ganization (SEATO) to which Pakistan belongs. at home. "But wherever they occur and in whatever form they appear, they are first and last a proper charge to the na tional security of the United States." Eisenhower departed from his prepared text to declare that "no matter what areas of federal spending should be curtailed-and some should our safety comes first." Some congressional Demo crats have accused him of cutting back essential defense spending to achieve a bal anced budget. "Since that safety is neces sarily based on a sound and thriving economy," the Pres ident added, "its protection must equally engage our earn est attention." He also voiced hope that through' education, citizens would achieve an understand ing of the international situa tion and of the need for this country to play a major role in blunting communist efforts. County Sheriff's Office Asks $166,458 Total in New Budget Total budget request for 1959-60 for the Jackson coun ty sheriff's office is $166,458, according to Sheriff Joe Walsh. ' The total is $38,072 higher than the current year's bud get, but during this year the office has been operating on a deficit basis in both travel expenditures for deputies and allowance for jail food, Walsh explained. - The 1958-59 budget author ized by the county's budget committee last April is not a realistic base by which to make a comparison, Walsh said. Main increase to the sher Communists, Cause Riots Buenos Aires (DPD Army troops, police and firemen re stored order ' t o downtown Buenos Aires yesterday and workmen cleared the streets of scores of buses streetcars, and autos overturned or burn ed by Peronist and Commu nist-led rioters Friday night. A powerful bomb exploded early yesterday in a church in the Palermo district, caus ing some damage, but it was not known whether it was connected with the rioting. No one was hurt. Policeman Shot One ' policeman and three civilians were shot and 13 other persons were injured before police using tear gas and jets of colored water end ed the three-hour riot. One man was reported to have died of a heart attack and a police communiqua said ons iiorrow jnsolidaiion Districts Would a Merged Into One Patrons of Jacksonville, Ruch, Griffin Creek, Lone Pine, Howard and Medford school districts will vote to morrow on a proposal to con solidate into one administra tive school unit. Polls will be open between 2 and 8 p.m. in seven loca tions. They are Jacksonville High school music room, Grif fin Creek school gymnasium, Ruch school cafeteria, How ard school multi-purpose room, Lone Pine school cafe teria, Hedrick Junior High school cafetetorium, and Mc Loughlin Junior High girls gymnasium. Elections in the districts were called by the Jackson county boundary board after school district patrons sub mitted petitions to the board requesting the vote. The proposal to consolidate was motivated by the county school reorganization law passed by the 1957 legisla ture. It has been recommend ed by the Jackson County Reorganization committee as part of the overall school dis trict reorganization plan for the county. Alf B. . Mekvold, county school superintendent, point ed out that consolidation is being proposed on a volun tary basis under an old law, thus eliminating the compul sory feature of the new law. Search Futile For Hunt Suspect Law enforcement authori ties here conducted an intense but fruitless search Friday, for a person reportedly answering the description of Richard Allen Hunt, wanter gunman. Medford police received a call that a person believed to be Hunt had been observed shortly before noon at Grand view Market, 2330 Crater Lake ave. A clerk reported the person purchased a box of .22 calibre ammuntion and a candy bar, then drove off rapidly eastbound on Roberts rd. in a 1959 Chevrolet Tudor. City, county, state and fed eral officers and agents cov ered the area by car and air plane until 2:30 p.m. Hunt, an ex-convict, has been sought for nearly two weeks in connec tion with snooting one police chief and kidnaping another in the Willamette valley. iff's budget request id for higher salaries on an incre ment or step system, and addi tional deputies. The incre ment scale is . from $336 to $429 a month. Which would compare with pay scales of other local law enforcement agencies. Three deputies would be added in the criminal division, bringing the total in that de partment, exclusive of Walsh, to 12. A deputy would be added to the tax division for collection of personal property taxes, bringing the total per manent personnel in the tax and civil department to 5. Total salaries in the crimi- Peronists in Argentina 144 persons were arrested in the "typical Communist dem onstration." About 500 rioters, who had massed before the Labor Min isthy and the congressional building 12 blocks away to protest against the govern ment's austerity and labor control policies, burned a t least a .dozen automobiles, 3 streecars and a bus and dam aged several police, cars. They also wrecked five stores, littered the streets with glass from shop windows and tried to lynch a bus driver whose vehicle acciden tally knocked down one dem onstrator who was trying to set fire to a station-wagon. The bus driver suffered a terible beating before bis pas sengers rescued him and car ried him to shelter in a pri vate home. i Big Game Hunting NATO Body Backs Big Three's Stand On German Situation Washington-(UPD-The NATO Council yesterday firmly en dorsed the f Western Big Three's German policy and warned the Communists to keep their hands off the Free Allied sector of Berlin. The" 15-nation council ex pressed "full agreement on the broad lines of policy to be pursued" by Britain, France and the United States in their forthcoming showdown talks on the German crisis with the Soviet Union at Geneva. . The council said in a com munique issued at the close of its three-day spring session that it wanted to see "out standing problems solved by negotiation" but - would - con sent to no appeasement on Berlin. "The council confirmed its unanimous determination xo maintain the freedom of the people of West Berlin and ob ligations of the Allied Pow ers." The council endorsed anew the Western Big Three's "bas ic principles" on Berlin and Germany. These are: - . 1. Britain, France and the United States will keep their forces in Berlin and maintain "freedom of access" to that city until there is an: accept able all-German settlement. 2. They reject any effort by Russia to repudiate the Sov iet Union's obligations to the other three victorious powers nal division, "including extra help, would be 66,328, an in crease of $4,312, Walsh said. A new deputy in the tax divi sion would add $4,452 a year or $371 a month. Collections Agent If the present budget re quest is approved, it would be the first time a male deputy would serve as collections agent in the tax division. Four women clerk-deputies are now employed, and four are re tained on a part-time basi; during the rush season. Walsh said a male deputy in the tax department wouli mean anticipated receipts ijl personal property tax collec tions during the first year of $125,000. A deputy from the criminal division worked on personal property tax collec tions for 1V6 months and col lected more than $30,000, Walsh added. . The county assessor's office has increased its personal property appraisals by adding several new accounts this year, making a new tax deputy more desirable, Walsh explained. Primary reason for request ing three new criminal depu ties is to establish a minimum five-day work week instead of the six-day work week now in effect, and to keep up with the increased case-load. Deputies on Duty Currently the criminal de partment night operation has two deputies on duty three days a week. One deputy mans the radio in the effice and one is on patrol. Four nights a week, two men are on patrol and one on the desk, Walsh said. (Continued on Page 15) in regard to Berlin. 3. They will refuse to rec ognize as valid any Soviet ao tion turning over to the Ger mon Communists control of the Russian sector of East Ber lin or control over the Allied access routes to West Berlin. Inspiring Example The U. S. delegation, head ed by acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, hailed the meeting as an in spiring example of western solidarity. Assistant Secretary of State Andrews J. Berding said on behalf of the delegation that "we are encouraged by the un- swerving firmness of the posi tion of .the other members of NATO on Berlin and Ger. many." Berding added that the U. S. delegation also was "impress ed by the general confidence and support evinced by the other NATO countries for the four powers most directly con- cerned'-Britain, France, The United States and West Ger many. After the communique was released, NATO Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak pleaded with newsmen to place emphasis on the broad field of agreement among the NATO members, rather than on some differences he de scribed as being of mino: im portance. Meeting April 13 The council's recommenda tions and observations will be taken up at a Western Big Four meeting in London April 13, during .which a working group will rough out an Al lied bargaining position. In his press briefing Spaak said a final western position may not be hammered out un til the Allied Ministers' meet ing at Geneva. Spaak did not discuss a Canadian proposal made yes terday that the United Nations place some sort of watchdog unit on the road to Berlin. Diplomatic informants have said there is strong opposition inside the council to any scheme for bringing the Unit ed Nations on the scene. Washington (UPD Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) assert ed yesterday the Democratic leadership in congress has al lowed itself to serve at a ven triloquist's , dummy for views of the Eisenhower administration. Agents Close Plaza Cafe On Non-Payment of Taxes Ashland The Plaza Cafe, well-known Ashland restaur ant, was closed by internal revenue agents Thursday af ternoon for failure to pay tax es withheld from employees wages and social security taxes. Tax liens totalling approxi mately $4,000 have been fil ed in Jackson county circuit court against the Plaza cafe. Erie M. Gray, Medford, reve nue pficer, said the closure was made for taxes due in 1958. Now In Charge Gray and Revenue Officer John Koeppen, Medford, who closed the cafe, are now in charge of the establishment's assets. Revenue agent said the T Smoslh lev Air Force to Order New ALBM Missile Washington -(UPD- The Air Force soon will order produc tion of a new ballistic missile to be launched from bombers. It also is weighing the possi bility of doubling orders for Atlas Intercontinental ballist ic missiles. Informed sources who dis closed this yesterday said the Air Force was ready to name one of about two dozen com peting contractors to produce the air-launched ballistic mis sile (ALBM). ' The missile, on which ex periments have been under way for months at Cape Can averal, Fla., is expected to have a 1,000-mile range. Its development would extend the usefulness of the Strategic Air Command's big bomber fleet. The first bombers may receive the missiles in about 18 months. Armed with them, bombers will be able to destroy targets without coming near enemy defenses, in much the same way as Polaris missile sub marines can operate at sea. Nine Alias Squadrons The Air Force has now ord ered nine squadrons of Atlas missiles. The squadrons, with 650 to 700 men each, will be stationed at nine bases and will have a total of 80 missile launchers- The first' squadron will have three launchers, the next three squadrons will have nine launchers each, and tho last five will have 10 each, according to well in formed authorities. This is what is now under study at the Pentagon and in the House Appropriations committee: Orders would be placed for eight more Atlas squadrons with a total of 80 launchers or double the presently plan ned number. Thst would give the Air Force 17 squadrons If adopted, the e ight new squadrons would have under ground launching sites and the final three squadrons of the nine already ordered would be redesigned and in stalled underground. Estimates of the cost of the program under study indicate the Air Force would need between $500 and -$700 mil lion in the fiscal year starting July 1. Whether appropria Final Planning For Parade Slated Final plans for the annual Pear Blossom Festival parade this Saturday will be made at a meeting of the Festival association Monday noon at the Jackson hotel. John Watkins, president, has asked all committees to have representatives at the meeting. Watkins reminded individu als and organizations that the deadline for entering the par ade is Wednesday noon, April 8. He pointed out the deadline is necessary to allow for cler ical work to organize sections of the parade. equity of Ralph and Doris Schulte in the Plaza will be sold at public auction in the future to satisfy tax claims of the treasury department un less Schulte himself satisfies the claim. Gray said Schulte was giv en ample opportunity to sat isfy the tax claims before the cafe was closed. Friends of Schulte asked Ashland police to issue a missing person bulletin on him, since he could not be located at his apartment and his car was reported gone. Schulte has been operator of the Plaza for about two years. About a year and a half ago, the cafe was remod eled and a large adjoining room added for banquets. tions would have to be in creased or whether the funds could be diverted from other defense projects is being stud ied. The Air Force has rejected diverting money from its Ti tan ICBM program to finance the expanded Atlas program. It plans 11 Titan squadrons with a total of 110 missile launchers. Three Stales Agree To Undertake Study Of Joint Power Use Sacramento, Calif .-UPD- Rep resentatives of California, Ore gon and Washington have agreed to the principle of a power link which would bring surplus Pacific Northwest electricity to power-hungry California. Spokesmen for the three states attended a closed-door session Friday in the office of California Gov. Edmund G. Brown. Brown's special water coun sel, Ralph Brody, said the tnree states agreed to lure, a private firm to study the pro posal. Shartly before Brody made the announcement,-Cal- uornia State Sen. Stephen Teale (D-West Point) intro duced a bill to appropriate $70,000 to pay California's share of the cost of the study. Brown has estimated that 3,000,000,000 kilowatt hours of power from the Northwest's Bonneville - system goes to waste each year because it has no market. He said if California bought some of the surplus power it would help keep electricity prices down in all three states. Two in Custody For Bad Checks Two Rogue River men are scheduled to appear in district court at 10 a.m. Monday on charges of paying off on pin- ball machines, sheriffs dep uties said Saturday. Shade Combs. 62, owner of the Homestead Tavern in Rogue River, and Paul Sherod Bailey, tavern bartender, each posted $125 bail and were re- leased pending their court ap pearance. Sheriffs deputies said Sat urday they had received many complaints that the pinball machine was being played on pay-off basis. They inves tigated Friday night and mare the arrests in the tavern. The machine has been con fiscated and is now in the custody of the sheriffs office, deputies said. Total Snowfall Sets Record Low The lowest total seasonal snowfall on record was record ed March 31 at Crater Lake National park, Superintendent Tom Williams has announced. A total of 329 inches of snow has fallen since winter started last October, he said, compared to average snowfall to March '31 of 548 inches. The total snowfall at the end of February also established new low record, Williams noted. Precipitation, he added, is not as far below normal as snowfall. Total precipitation to March 31 was 48.99 inches, compared to an average of 57.45 inches. April, he said, frequently produces considerable precip itation. In 1948, 143 inches of snow fell in April, although the average is 47.74 inches. In 1937, rain and snow com bined totaled 11.57 inches, compared to an average of 4.66 inches, he said. Seeks Border Sources Say 100,000 Men Are Sent to Tibet Dalai Lama Continues Trek Over Mountains New Delhi, India -flJPD-Com-munist China has sent 100,000 fresh troops to smash the Tibetan rebellion before the stunning escape of the Dalai Lama inflames all of Tibet, reports from the border said yesterday. The reports said the Peip ing regime, s tung by the suc cessful flight of the Tibetan God-King into India apparent ly intended to overwhelm Tibetan anti-Communists bv sheer numbers as. they tried to do with United Nations forces in Korea. The rebels, led by the fierce Khamba tribesmen- have used their suneHnr knowledge of the mountain ous country to ambush Chin ese columns, raid their arsen als and harass them out of strategic locations. Reports from the Indo Tibetan border said shooting still was continuing on the outskirts of Lhasa, but not in the capital. Information from Shillong, capital of India's Assam state, said the 25-year-old Dalai Lama had made it through the 14,000-foot Sela Pass and may have arrived at Towang last night, 24 hours ahead of schedule. The Dalai Lama, who cross-' ed the border from Tibet last Tuesday, is traveling with 80 of his followers. They are being escorted by an Indian political officer and Indian troops. The only method of uousjjuiiauon in tne moun tainous area is horse or mule back. United Press International Correspondent Patrick J. Kil lem reported from the border town of Kalimpong that of- nciais there estimated it would take the Dalai Lama and his party about a week to reach the nearest railhead at Tezpur. As the young temporal and spiritual leader of Tibet drew closer to safer grounds, the Indian government began to worry about repercussions from giant, neighboring Com munist China. . Newspaper and govern ment leaders continued to in sist that the Dalai Lama would do or say nothing to compro mise India with Peiping while he is on Indian soil. Domestically, the Tibetan affair appeared to be a bless ing in disgu-'! to Prime Min ister Jawaharlal Nehru's rul ing Congress party. The Communists, who had been gaining popularity among the masses at the ex pense of the Congress party, suddenly found themselves looked upon with increasing suspicion for supporting Peip ing's version of the Tibetan rebellion and for making the charges that India was letting Kalimpong be used as an anii China spy base. When Nehru announced in Parliament Friday that the Dalai Lama had been granted haven in India, every member of Parliament cheered but the Communists. They sat glumly silent. Man Jailed Here On Check Charge Fred Owen Gidley, 23, of Hoquiam, Wash., is being held by Medford police on a charge of issuing a bad check to the Groceteria market here. He is charged with issuing a bad check for $50 to the local grocery. Officers recov ered $20 worth of groceries following his arrest Friday night by city and state police. Franklin Dale Walker, 25, of Olympia, Wash., his com panion, is being held on charges of vagrancy pending further investigation, city po lice said.
