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Price 10 Cents Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MB 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 pan. daily and 1230 p.m. Sunday If regular deliver? arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Recommended Tribune BFORB A feature on early schools in Jackson county's history appears on page II of today's Mall Trib une. United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 70 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1959 No. 19 54th Year Me Jr- 1 til I 5(111 iff !fi! r tBp WINNING FLOAT - Announced as sweep stakes winner for the best theme portrayal in the Pear Blossom parade in Medford yesterday was this float entered by the St. Mary's Cub Scouts. The float, depicting "100 years of pears," displayed a replica of Thousands Enjoy Parade, Flock to Southern Oregon weather was cooperative for Pear Blossom festival activities in Medford as thousands of out-of-town visitors and local residents lined Main st. to view the parade yesterday afternoon. The parade proceeded to Hawthorne park, where awards of recognition were Bear Creek Water Investigation Urged The Jackson county agri cultural council has urged fish " conservation groups ' to Investigate the possibility of obtaining sufficient water from the Talent Irrigation district to maintain adequate minimum stream flow in "Rpar creek to suDDort fish life all year. The council said last week that preliminary estimates in dicate that such a move would be economically feasi ble and would tend to elim inate the present "open sew- r" condition of Bear creek Car Study Group Reporis Progress Salem-OIPD- The emergency transportation" committee ap pointed by Gov. Mark Hat field to study a possible rail road car srfortage in Oregon this summer reported "grati fying progress" in an all-day meeting yesterday with repre sentatives of major railroads serving the state. Chairman R. J. Hogue, Medford lumberman, said the committee approved a plan railing on shiDDers and re ceivers of freignt to expedite efficiency in loading and of- fprpd other suggestions to avoid a "tight-car situation. The committee criticized the car service rules of the Association of American Rail roads, which controls the al location of various types of cars throughout the country. "We plan to advise the AAR of our disappointment in the working effect of the present car service rules," Hogue said, "and request a more equit able distribution of cars, par ticularly in the double -door variety, to the northwest." . Rep. Mahon Asks Missiles Step-Up Washington - (UPD - Chair man George H. Mahon of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee came put pub licly yesterday . f or a step-up in the 5,000-mile range bal listic missile program. The Texas Democrat said he was convinced that Presi d e n t Eisenhower's $40,850, 000,000 defense budget must be increased by Congress so that the big missile effort can be "expedited." While Mahon gave no fig v.rz3 on how big an increase " ? f-.vored, his statement in i :a:ed the military appropri ations enacted, by Congress may be considerably above the level Eisenhower requested. Uons' Sportsfair made to Pear Blossom King and Queen Margaret Stephen and Frank Hunt, and to their royal court, by Miss Pat Rushton, the grand marshal. John Watkins, president of this year's festival, presented awards for winning floats in various divisions. Russ Jami son was master of ceremonies and music for the occasion during the summer months. Such a move also would make the stream more at tractive as a recreational as set, the council noted. Serves as Liaison The council, composed of representatives of all agricul t u r a 1 interests in Jackson county, serves as a liaison be tween the county extension office and ranchers, orchard ists and farmers. Council members, 'many of whom are fishing and hunt ing enthusiasts, said there has not been a single case of fish poisoning in local streams traceable to the use of chem ical protective sprays by ranchers, orchardists or farm ers. They said that after con sulting fish commission rep resentatives concerning a re cent incident in Bear creek they came to the conclusion that previous reports of fish being killed by toxic poisons from sprays were unsubstan tiated. Urged Care Council members noted, however, that some insecti cides and other agricultural chemicals are toxic to fish life and urged users to exer cise care in their-use in or der to prevent damage to fish life. - The council reaffirmed pre vious recommendations on use of agricultural sprays and chemicals. The recommenda tions are available at the Jackson county extension of fice, it noted. "Shall We Turn Up The News Broadcast A Little?" a log cabin on one end and a modern home on the other. Between the buildings was a pear tree complete with crepe paper bios-, soms. Sweepstakes winner in the best de sign class went to the Eagle Point Jaycees. was furnished by the Central Point Junior High school band. Sweepstakes winner for the best theme was a float entered by the St. Mary's Cub Scouts, while sweepstakes award for the best float de sign went to the Eagle Point Jaycees. First Place Winner First place winners In var ious divisions were: organiza tional float division, Rogue Chef association; individual float division, Roberts Road Neighbors; costumed walking groups, Girl Scout Troop 181, St. Mary's school; ve hicle decoration, Marilyn V. Jones; commercial .float divi sion, Oregon-Nevada-California Fast Freight; organiza tional float division, Eagle Point Jaycees. The parade featured many old-time vehicles and riding groups, including the Ash land Sage Riders and the Black Dog bandit gang. School bands participating were those of Medford, Cra ter, Ashland, Phoenix and Rogue River High schools and Hedrick and McLough- lin Junior High schools. 5,000 at Sportsfair An estimated 5,000 people meanwhile viewed exhibits and demonstrations at the second annual Crater Lions' Sportsfair yesterday at the Medford armory. About 70 exhibits are housed in the armory and in a plastic bubble outside in which various water demon strations, including skin div ing and swimming exhibits are conducted. The Sportsfair will be open between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. today, the last day of the three-day event. Among features today will be parachute jumps,' sched uled at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., retriever demonstrations, a horse show, and helicopter rides. Most displays are of equipment used in water and other outdoor sports. Also on the Sportsfair pro gram today are appearances of the Shadows, the high school rock 'n roll group, who will perform at 3:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m. j Man Slopped, By State Police Admits Killing Arrest Follows A Routine Check Leland Duane Benson, 33, of Breckenridge, Minn., arrest ed by state police after a rou tince check Friday, admitted orally yesterday Jhat he killed a man in St. Louis, Mo., police said. He admitted Friday that he had stolen a car, according to the ' report Benson waived extradition on a murder charge, police said. St. Louis law enforce ment officials are expected to arrive in Medford early to day to pick him up. State police and federal bu reau of investigation agents questioned Benson Saturday concerning the death of Thom as G. Kimber, 27, of St. Louis, about March 31. Officials said he admitted killing Kimber, but had not yet signed a writ ten statement. Benson also admitted steal ing the car in St. Louis about March 31, officers said. Found Dead April 4 Police and FBI agents said Benson had in his possession a credit car, other papers and a billfold which belonged to Kimber, who was found dead in his apartment April 4 of a skull fracture. Kimber was last seen alive March 31, of ficers said. Kimber was a field agent for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Pub lishers (ASCAP), and the stolen car, which belonged to ASCAP, was assigned to Kim ber's use. State police stopped the car about 9:40 a m. Friday during the routine check. Benson ad mitted the car was stolen, po lice said. Two Passengers Benson, and two passengers, were taken to the Jackson county jail. Theft of the ve hicle was verified later in the day, and FBI and state police verified still later that Benson was suspected of murder. Benson's two passengers, Floyd William Ballantine, 32, of Yakima, Wash., and Larry Donald Miller, 35, of Billings, Mont., are scheduled to be ar raigned on vagrancy charges Monday, police said. Officers said Ballantine and Miller told them they""were hitchhikers. Benson told po lice he picked up Ballantine and Miller in Seattle, Wash., and was taking them to Cali fornia, where they hoped to find work. Jerry Golden Gets Ten-Year Sentence Jerry Eugene Golden, 28, of Ashland, was sentenced to 10 years in the Oregon state penitentiary by Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly. Friday on Roller Coaster Ride Proves Fatal Portland -(DP- Gary Seek ins, 16, of Orchards, Wash., was killed instantly Friday night when struck by a car as he fell from the roller coaster at Jantzen Beach park here Seekins was riding with a companion, Gary Eugene Snow, 17. also of Orchards, when the accident occurred. Snow told police that he and Seekins were riding in the first car when Seekins sud denly fell from the car onto the track before it. The car passed over the youth's body before coming to a stop. The amusement park had been onen for only five hours for the 1959 season when the tragedy occurred. Oscar How lett, deputy, district attorney of Multnomah county, or dered the "Big Dipper" ride closed pending a full investi gation. Parents of the victim were Mr. and Mrs. Clair Seekins, route 1, Orchards. Morton Heads GOP Washington (UPD Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Ken tucky, self - styled political middle - of - the - roader was elected Republican National chairman without opposition yesterday and Chicago was selected as the site for the 1960 GOP presidential nomi nating convention. WHOA ALREADY! ! ! - Ragdoll, a 150-pound St. Bernard, seems to be running away with nine-year-old Donna Buckley in this picture taken at the Crater Lions' Sportsfair Friday night. Donna knows what she is doing however because she helps her grandmother raise and train the big dogs at Sanc tuary Woods kennels near Drain, Ore., which is reported to be the largest kennel of Swiss St. Bernards in North Amer ica. Ragdoll is a sister to ITeil, the canine star in the tele vision show, Topper. One Dead, Two Hurt In Highway 99 Crash Harold Davis Schuck, 22, of 628V& North Riverside ave., Medford, was killed and two persons were injured when the car in which they were riding crashed about two miles south of Rogue River on Highway 99 early yester day. Robert Franklin Schuck, 20, and his wife, Janice Col leen Schuck, 19, of the Med ford address, were taken to Josephine - General ' hospital in Grants Pass for treatment of injuries. State police in Grants Pass said Mrs. Schuck told them she was asleep in the back seat at the time, and did not know who was driving or how the accident occurred. Her husband was too seriously in jured to determine if another car was involved, police said. The accident occurred just north of the Birdseye creek bridge. Harold Schuck was reportedly also known as David Hoots, using the name of his stepfather, when he was going to high school in Ashland. charges of assault with intent to commit robbery. The charge resulted from a hold-up and shooting last December 18, in the 90 and 9 tavern here. Golden entered a guilty plea on Feb. 11. A charge of assault with intent to kill is still pending in the case. A slug from a .357 revolv er, fired by Golden struck Ray Edward Reid, 31, Medford truck driver, and lodged near his spine. Reid is now in the Veterans Administration Par aplegic Center at Long Beach, Calif. He was transferred there Feb. 25. The robbery netted Golden about $35, which Bartender Samuel Morehouse gave him from the till after the shoot ing. Golden disappeared into the foggy night. A short time later his car ran off the high way into a power pole. Three San Jose college stu dents, who stopped to help him, were credited with Gold en's capture. They were Nor man Carr, San Leandro, Calif., Charles Brewer, San Jose, Calif., and Miss Geralynn Schutt, Spokane; Wash. NEW BOWLING ALLEY - Construction of the Roxy Ann Lanes on Highway 99 south of Medford is expected to start Monday. It will be part of a proposed sports and recreation center on an 18-acr site. The bowling alley will take three The fatality was the eighth in Jackson county ttis year, compared to five at this time last year. One state police car from the Medford district was ex tensively damaged and the driver of a truck was lodged in Jackson county jail after another accident about a half mile from the scene of the fatality, police reported. . A : patrol car .. operated by Robert - L. Wievesiek, 3405 Madrona lane, Medford, had stopped behind a line of cars halted because of the Schuck accident. Wievesiek got out of the car and was distribut ing red flares to the waiting motorists. Truck Skids A truck owned by Patter son's Bakery of Roseburg and operated by Anthony C. The lan, 45, of 921 North Central ave., Medford, skidded side ways into the police car and knocked it into a car oper ated by Henry John Dolack of Seattle, Wash., police said. Wievesiek and Dolack, aware of the approaching truck, were able to get out of the way and avoid injury. Thelan was lodged in the county jail on . charges of driving while under- the in fluence of intoxicating liquor and violation of basic rule, police said. The red light on the patrol car was flashing at the time of the incident, which occur red about 4 a.m. Saturday, according to the police ac count. , Attempt fo Kill Almond Revealed Richmond, Va. (UPD - A sniper fired one shot from am bush at Gov. J. Lindsay Al mond Friday as the governor left the executive mansion to go to the papitol, police re ported yesterday. The shooting was first re ported to newsmen as only a loud backfire from a passing car. But police revealed their investigation led them to be lieve it was an attempt on the governor's life. Lt. C. G. Phaup, chief of the capitol police force, said the shot was fired from thick shrubbery bordering the ex ecutive mansion in a corner of capitol square. The square is in the heart of downtown Richmond. Free Tibet Asks LecginiD,SDini IHlelp Firm Accused American Asserts Innocence Havana (UPD - Alan Robert Nye, former U. S. Navy bomber pilot, pleaded inno cent last night at the opening of his trial on charges of hir ing out to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro for $100,000. The prosecution de manded the death penalty. "I plead not guilty," Nye told a Cuban revolutionary tribunal in grim Cabana fort ress. Nye, 32, of Chicago and Coral Gables, Fla., rose to his feet to reply after Lt. Jose Antonio Suarez read the charges against the Korean war veteran and demanded his death. Suarez accused Nye of "in cendiarism, collaboration and imperfect assassination." The prosecutor also charged that Nye was a "traitor" to the Cuban revolution. Burning Claimed Suarez claimed that as a member of the revolutionary July 26 movement Nye had burned up three airplanes in tended for. delivery to Cas tro's forces. The planes, Suarez said, had been pur chased by former Cuban pres ident Carlos Prio Socarras and were at Ft. Lauderdale, MARIANNE KEATING In Exchange Program Marianne Keating To Study Abroad Miss Marianne Keating, a junior at Anna Head school, Berkeley, Calif., and daughter of former Jackson County Judge Rodney Keating, 148 East Valley . View dr., Ash land, has been selected by the New York office of the American Field Service to participate in the summer stu dent exchange program. She will live with a Euro pean family for seven weeks, traveling across the Atlantic with about 500 other students participating in the program. She is being sponsored by girls at the school, who also sponsor the foreign exchange student who will attend Anna Head school next year. Miss Keating was one of four sent to New York for consideration. Selection i s based on essays submitted, leadership, personality, schol astic standing and other quali ties. Essays submitted with applications are written about the applicant's family, a typi cal school day, a summer day and other subjects. . The country to which Miss Keating will go will be an nounced later. acres, and will represent an investment of about $500,000 including .equipment, bowling lanes and other facilities, according to Herschel Dixon, Raymond, Wash., one of the developen. (See Story on Page 13) Geiiglfoboirs Fla., when they were destroy ed.' Nye was the first American to be brought before a revolu tionary tribunal since Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista last Jan. 1. Suarez charged Nye arrived at Nayamo, in eastern Cuba, last Dec. 17, armed with a telescopic rifle and a .38-cali-ber pistol to carry out the "physical elimination" of Castro. Asks Permission Nye, after pleading ; Inno cent to the charges, asked permission to make an addi tional statement. But Capt. Oscar N. Alva rado, presiding judge, told Nye the statement would have to wait until the evidence had been submitted. Firing squads Friday exe cuted four more "war crim inals" convicted by Cuban revolution ary tribunals, bringing the unofficial total to 524. ' The trials of persons ac cused of "war crimes" during the regime of Fulgencio Ba tista began in January and are continuing. Japan A-Bombing Leader Treated For Guilt Feeling Dallas, Tex. (UPD Former Air Force Maj. Claude Eath- erly, who led the World War II atomic bomb strike on Hiroshima, was sent to a 'ho pital Friday for treatment of a guilt feeling stemming from his participation in the raid. Psychiatrist Robert P. Mc- Elroy said the nuclear bomb ing had left Eatherly with a "neurosis with psychotic manifestations." District Attorney Henry Wade said Eatherly has "hal lucinations that the Japanese are after him." An attempted robbery charge against Eatherly was dismissed "because of th mental sickness" and Judge Lew Sterrett signed an order committing the 40 -year -old pilot to Waco Veterans Ad ministration hospital. Eatherly has been in and out of the hospital since his discharge from the Air Force. He flew the B-29 reconnais sance plane that led the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, where she dropped the bomb that changed the course of history Morse Urges U.N. Control of Berlin Salem -flJPD- Turning the en tire city of Berlin over to the United Nations was advocated last night by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) at the windup of the Young Democrats of Oregon session here. Morse asked: "At the nego tiating level, why should we not propose to put the entire city of Berlin under the United Nations? "All the great powers are occupying Berlin under the same agreements. If they no longer agree on the old terms of occupation, why not turn all zones over to the United Nations?" More Red Troops Reportedly Sent To Quell Rebellion Dalai Lama Rests : On Road to India New Delhi, India -(UPD- The Independent Tibetan govern ment, representing freedom fighters in their battle with the Chinese Communists, has appeared for formal recogni tion and help from India and other neighboring countries, informed sources said yester day. The Chinese Communists, virtually admitting that, the entire Tibetan nation wat be hind the Dalai Lama and the battle for independence, cre ated a new Tibetan "public security" department and were reported tunneling still more troops into the Himalay an mountain country. Reports from the border said 7,000. Tibetans, including 1,000 women, had been de ported to China and an un certain fate. Informed sources said fighting was continuing in the southwestern provinces between Tibetans and Red Chinese troops with about 100 casualties reported in the last three days. Other sources said Indian Premier Jawharlal Nehru and King Mehandra of neighbor ing Nepal probably would meet later this month to dis cuss the Tibetan crisis. Dalai Lama Resting The Dalai Lama himself was resting at Rahung village in India, eight miles from his goal at Bombila in the remote northeast frontier district. He was expected to reach Bombila today to confer with Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru's representative, P. N. Menon. Bomdila is 68 miles from civilized Indian territory. Dispatches from .Darjeeling, India, said the independent government set upu by the battling Khamba tribesmen under the Dalai Lama earlier last week had asked India and Nepal as well as other nearby Asian countries to recognize the regime dedicated to oust ing the Chinese overlords. Claims Control Informed sources said the provisional regime claimed control over the Tibetan prov inces of Tsang, Dhal-Po-King, Po-Kong Po and Southwest Dho. The whole area has 50 dzongs (forts) and a population of one million. The provisional govern ment, which had sent its origi nal independence manifesto across the border from south east Tibet, was reported to have asked neutral India to mediate the crisis, bring an "immediate cessation of hos tilities" and arrange an "im mediate cease fire." The sources said the Tibet ans wanted India to appeal to the United Nations against against "unprovoked aggres sion" by the Reds and negoti ate with China for a with drawal of the Chinese army and .civilian "colonists" in Tibet. The Dalai Lama was re ported to have sent a message to Nehru asking to see him at the earliest possible moment nresumably when the Tibetan God-king leaves the northeast frontier area and reaches civ ilization. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy thii morning, fair this afternoon through Monday. The high today 68 and low tonight 55 and high Monday 70. TEMP. Highest Saturday 64 Lowest Saturday 42 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today Sunrise tomorrow . Moonset tonight 6:49 p.m. - 5:3 S a.m. 11:11 p.m. - AprU 15 First Quarter PROMINENT STAR Alphard, In the southwest at moonset. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets 9:27 p.m. Jupiter, rises 10:24 p.m. Mars, sets 12:04 a.m. Saturn, rises 1:14 a.m. i
