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Newspaper Page Textmm mm 0)n WO V I Buddhist Monks Urge Ceylon Cut Ties With China Asian Nations Note Diplomatic Blunder New Dehli -(LTD- Buddhist monks in Ceylon demanded today that Premier Solomon Bandaranaike sever diplomat ic relations with Communist China and cancel the Ceylon Chinese trade pact because of Communist attacks against Ti bet. The Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet, arrived safely Sunday in the Indian army hill town of Bom dila and was expected to be flown to New Delhi shortly. Thousands of Buddhist hill people greeted the god-king with drums and dancing as he emerged from the Assam jungles. Political Weight Ceylon is predominantly Buddhist, site of one of the biggest Buddhist temples in the world (The Temple of the Dooth at Kandy), and the Buddhist monks carry great political weight. Their grow ing anger at Peiping crystal ized Friday when the Chinese ambassador refused to receive them to hear a protest. , Observers in Ceylon said the embassy rebuff to the Buddhists was a major diplo matic blunder. The Dalai Lama is revered in Ceylon al most as highly as in Tibet, Other Nations Stirred The Communist action In Tibet also has stirred other Southeast Asian nations against Peiping and thousands of telegrams and cables pour ed into India to congratulate the Dalai Lama on his escape from the Red army. Many of the cables from abroad offer ed asylum to the Dalai Lama. Excitement over the Dalai Lama's safe arrival at Bom dila almost overshadowed the news of fighting in Tibet. Re ports reaching New Delhi said the Tibetans had" blown so many important highways and bridges that Tibet was now cut in two between north and south. Vandals Leave . School in Mess Jackson elementary school, 630 West Jackson st., was left a shambles over the week end by vandals who turned on fire hoses, broke into the ice cream freezer and painted ob scenities in a girls' rest room, Medf ord police reported. I Walter Wade Harmon, main tenance man, discovered the vandalism early Sunday after noon, police said. The vandals had entered the school, pos sibly by prying open a win dow, sometime after 2 p.m. Saturday. Two fire hoses on the lower floor of the west wing had been turned on, flooding three rooms, police said. Another hose had been turned on for a short time on the top floor. An udetermined quantity of Ice cream bars and popsicles were taken from the freezer, according to the report. Some were recovered at various points in the building, one of each being found on a teacher's desk. The vandals suspected by Investigators to be school chil dren, had entered a girls' rest room on the second floor and painted obscene pictures and words on the door and inside with aluminum spray paint from a room across the hall. Moscow -UPD- Soviet Pre- mier N i k i t a Khrushchev's drastic seven-year plan for catching up with U. S. indust rial output exceeded its first targets by 105 per cent, the government has announced. Mail Tribune Women's Editor Receives Award Mrs. Olive Starcher, wom en's editor of the Medford Mail Tribune, received one of the first place awards in the annual contest for mem bers of the Oregon Press Women. The announcement was made at the awards ban quet of the 1959 spring con ference at the New Heathman hotel in Portland Saturday. Mrs". Starcher received the award for the Sunday wom en's section of the Mail Trib une. The winning entries will be forwarded to the national Press Women contest and national winners will be an nounced at the annual Na tional Federation of Press I HITS THE SILKl-A member of the Drifters Parachute club of Redding, Calif., floats to earth under a cloud of silk during parachute skydiving demonstrations held as part of the Crater Lions Sportsfair. An estimated annual event Sunday. The Skydiving Sunday was among sev eral demonstrations and displays.-(Kenn Knackstedt photo) Crowds Reported At Week End Activities An estimated 7,000 persons visited the second annual Sportsfair yesterday at t h e Medf ord armory, Crater Lions club officials reported. They said that attendance for the entire fair, which op ened Friday evening, was ap proximately 12,000. Boats dominated the fair scene but the event included a wide variety of sports dem onstrations' and displays. Richard Walls, Ashland, was announced as winner of. the ?oat and motor given away by Century Sporting Goods. A five-day fishing va cation at Fish lake went to Mrs. Virginia Wait, 220 Van couver ave., and a similar va cation to Willow Creek reser voir went to carol ivagy, route 2, box 443. Fred . Buehling, Jackson ville, gained the one-day guide service on Rogue River of fered by Straus and Smith Sporting Goods. Winning Floats Among the winning floats in the Pear Blossom festival parade Saturday afternoon was the Moose lodge's float, which received first place in section 2 for organizational float division. In this same division Rogue River Booster club's rooster float was second and Royal Neighbors of . America float was third. In the commercial float di vision, an entry by Kathleen Classick was second and one by Dave and Vern Fraysher was third. Second and third place win ners in the organization float Greenwood Named To Irrigation Board Ed Greenwood, Eagle Point, was appointed to the board of directors of the Eagle Point Irrigation district at a board meeting recently. He will re place Howard Stanley who resigned due to illness. Green wood's term will run until the November election. Ted Flury, secretary - man ager of the district, was re appointed to that position by the board. The board also approved a bill for attorney's fees sub mitted by the firm of Farrell and Blackhurst, Medford. Women's 'convention in Au gust. Among the other first awards was one to Mrs. Faith McCuUough for an editorial she wrote which appeared in the Ashland Daily Tidings. J. Richard Eimers, Associ ated Press bureau chief in Portland, was principal speak er at the two day convention. He spoke on "Expanding Op portunities for Newspaper Women." At the convention plans were formulated for the an nual national convention which will be' held in Port land this year. 7,000 persons visited the second division of section 1 were en tries by the Medford Jay- cettes, second, and Central Point 4-H club, third. Floats entered by Geneil Spruill and Mrs. George 'Holberton plac ed second and third respect ively, in the individual float division. Brownie Troop 43, Jeffer son second grade, was second and Kathy and Wayne Carl- on placed third in the cos tume walking group division; entries by Ruth Ann Hay and Rita Allen, Karen Merrifield and Diana Dyer placed sec ond and third, respectively, in the vehicle decorating sec tion. Influenza Reported On Increase Here Influenza cases seem to be on the upswing in Jackson county, according to reports made to the cbunty health office so far this week. So far 170 cases of flu have been reported by county physicians. However only one third of the expected routine reports have been turned in, according to Dr. A. Erin Mer- kel, Jackson county public health officer. For the week ending April 4, Jackson county had 44 re ported cases and 92 cases for the week ending April 11. This is in keeping with the state trend which shows 3,545 flu cases reported throughout Oregon for the week ending March 28 and 4,195 cases re ported for the week ending April 4, according to figures from the Oregon state health department. Medford school officials re port "quite a few" absences in j iior high schools and in the nigh schools but not so many in other schools in the district. Fire Does Extensive Damage to Building Fire extensively damaged the welding shop ,at Crater Lake Machinery company, 2919 North Pacific highway, late last night, city firemen reported. ' They said they found the 30 by 40-foot metal-covered, space -frame structure com pletely involved in flame be cause of intense heat from burning oxygen and acetylene tanks. Firemen were summon ed about 11:30 p.m. and were at the scene two hours. The blaze apparently origi nated at a leaking tank in acetylene storage, according to firemen. They said that source of ignition was not determined. Welding equip ment was destroyd or dam aged in the flames, but two Caterpillar tractors were un damaged. DOW-JONES AVERAGES ' j New York - (CPD -Dow Jones final stock averages: :30 industrials 607.76, up ' 1.79; 20 railroads 164.21, up 1.10; 15 utilities 92.18 off 0.41, and 65 stocks 209.73, up 0.50. Sales today were about 3.140.000 shares com parted with 3,000,000 shares Friday. Trading- Stamp IBoll Aired By State Sponsors Urge Act To Prevent Business Failures Many Letters Said Opposed To Bill Salem - (UPD - Both support and opposition to House bill 646 regulating trading stamps in Oregon was expressed at a two-hour hearing before the house State Federal Affairs Committee here today. Two of the sponsors of the bill, Reps. Fred Meek . (R- Portland) and Thomas Mc Clellan (D-Neotsu) urged the committee to favor the bill as a means of preventing many independent merchants from being forced out of business However, McClellan told the committee that he had received many letters con cerning the bill, of which about 90 per cent were in opposition to it. The bill provides that if stamp companies redeem stamps with premiums a li cense from the state would be necessary, but if they re deem them with cash no such license would be required. R. R. Bullivant, attorney for the- Sperry and Hutchin son Company, the oldest stamp 'company in the nation, declared that in the state of Washington where stamps must be redeemed in cash, price wars are frequent. This statement was made counter to charges that stamps are causing unfair competition Only Two States Regulate Bullivant said only two states in the.,, union;' Kansas and Wyoming, regulate stamps. He said his company had been in business in Or egon since 1904 and denied that it had drained out thousands of dollars annually from the state as had been charged by some proponents of the bill. He cited figures for 1957 when he said his company employed 157 persons on an annual payroll of $456,000. Rentals, he said, cost the company between $20,000 and $25,000 in the state and a new Portland warehouse cost more than $900,000. Taxes paid to the state totaled $70,000 in the "year, he said. Dr. Paul A. Volke, dean of the School of Commerce of the University of Seattle, de clared that a study of trading stamps carried on by his de partment' showed that the merchants can absorb the cost of the stamps through increased volume of sales. He also said that the Fed eral Trade Commission fol lowing a long investigation, had given the stamp company a "clean bill of health." The issuance of stamps was likened to other promotion schemes carried on by mer chants which the opponents of the bill said cost -more money to the merchants than did the purchase of trading stamps. Rep. Norman Howard (D- Portland), chairman of the committee, , announced that the committee would meet in executive session at least by Wednesday to act on the bill. 'Pardner, Some Of Those Non-Texans Are Getting Downright Unfriendly" Price 10 Medford 16 Pages District Attorney Gives Opinion on Subdivision Plan Public Hearing Set Thursday Evening The proposed Jackson coun ty subdivision ordinance need not be placed before the voters, but certain provisions pertaining to land use must be deleted from the ordin ance, according to an opinion from the district attorney's office today. The opinion, written at the request of the county court, stated that the court has the authority to adopt the sub division regulations but is limited only to subdivision regulations. Cannot Be Adopted Subdivision regulations can not be adopted if they in clude such land use provis ions as those pertaining to dedication of areas for schools and parks, paving of streets and sidewalks, a tree-planting program and certain sanita tion regulations. The district attorney's of fice based its findings on state law and an attorney general's opinion. . . A . public . hearing - on the subdivision ordinance is scheduled by the county court for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16. in the courthouse audi torium. Sets Up Plan A zoning ordinance, accord ing to law, must be put up for public vote while a sub division ordinance does- not necessarily have to be. The subdivision ordinance merely sets up an orderly plan for division of property of five acres or less which would be sold for building purposes. The subdivision ordinance was reterrea to tne county court by the county planning commission o n Wednesday, March 11, following a public hearing on that date in the county courthouse. Graham Addresses 15,000 in Sydney Sydney, Australia - (UPD Evangelist Billy Graham ad dressed 15,000 persons tonight at the first night rally of his current Sydney crusade. More than 2,000 "declared for Christ." "making a total of more than. 5,800 in two days. The organizers said the Sydney crusade may be the most successful Graham has ever held. But the Rev. Gor don Powell, a Presbyterian leader, warned churchmen at the rally against being over confident because of the early enthusiasm. He noted that the crusade would run a month. emiate Cents MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1959 1 RETURNED TO ST. LOUIS ureckenridge, Minn., throws leaves the county jail Sunday. Francis O'Neill of the St. Louis, Mo., police department ac companied by a state police with Benson back to St. Louis where the Minnesota man will face charges of murdering Thomas G. Kimber, 27, of St. Louis, about March 31. State police arrested Benson here on auto theft charges Friday. He later admitted to stealing the car and orally to tne murder charges. Library Budget Wins Committee Approval Jackson county's budget committee so far has approved one budget request-that of the Jackson county library board for $35,215.21. This represents an increase of $6,451.45 over the current budget- Included in the new budget is ,$3,131.75 for Ash land; $223.46 for Rogue River; $31,860 for Medford. Rogue River's library is now independent, however, it receives its four-tenths of a mill of property, valuation for the town. Other libraries also receive their revenues from the four-tenths of a mill prop erty valuation. Valuation Increased This valuation has increased for this year throughout the county, which is the main rea son for the increased budget total, Ralph James, county commissioner and budget com mittee member, explained. The Ashland library is also independent and the Medford library operates by contract with the county. Main increase in the Med ford library budget is due to salaries, according to Helen Webster, Jackson . county li brarian. However operating expenses show a decrease of Orchards Heated As Temperature Drops Orchard heating occurred in the fruit orchards through out the Rogue valley early this morning, as the tempera ture dropped to 27 degrees in the coldest spots. Many of the orchardists started heating at 2:30 a.m., according to Clifford B. Cordy, county horticultural agent. Orchardists expect the low morning temperatures to con tinue until it rains. No rain is forecast for this week, accord ing to the U.S. weather bureau. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and cool to night and Tuesday morning. In creasing cloudiness Tuesday aft ernoon. Expected airport low tonight 32-34. High Tuesday 65. TEMP. Highest Yesterday . 68 Lowest This Morning 33 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:50 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:34 a.m. The Moon rides high tonight. Directly above the Moon is the planet, Mars, and well above Mars appear Castor and Pollux (the Twins), brightest stars of the constellation, Gemini. Moonset tonight 11:58 p.m. First Quarter April 15 Cmm5ttee - Leland Duane Benson, 33, of his jacket over his face as he Behind him was Detective Sgt. officer of this area. O'Neill flew about $1,000. An increase is shown in the amount set aside for books, she added. Bookmobile An unusual feature of the new fiscal year budget is the grant from the state library for' bookmobile service now provided by the county library system to outlying areas of the county. This is the first year the Jackson county li brary system has received a grant from the state, Miss Webster said. Glenn Linn Elected To National Board Glenn L. Linn, director of Hillah temple, AAONMS, was elected to the board of gov ernors of the Shrine Direct ors Association of North America at their 41st annual convention held at Shreve port, La., April 9-11. Linn will represent all shrine temples in the states of Oregon, Washington, Ida ho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Min nesota and Al Azar, Giseh, Ghartum and Wa Wa temples in Canada. Over 160 Shrine temples were represented at the con vention. Others attending from Hillah temple were Chester A. Hubbard, poten tate and E. C. Esselstrom, high priest and prophet. Linn, who is principal of McLoughlin Junior High school, lives at 119 Washing ton st. Sending 'Shoes to Congress1 Urged By Gardner, Medford Shoe Repairman Wilbur Gardner, the Med ford shoe repairman who started a nationwide cam paign for labeling the mate rials which go into shoes, is appealing to parents through out the nation to send "Shoes to Congress." Gardner's campaign, which started several years ago when he got "fed up" trying to explain to patrons why he could not s repair expensive shoes which actually had pa per or cardboard in them, has resulted in the introduction into Congress of bills which would require manufacturers to put labels on shoes, show ing what was used in their manufacture. 54th Year Tribune No. 20 Three Satellite Launchings Due Before Midnight Two-in-One Test Due at Canaveral Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The Air Force today fired Discoverer II. the world's first so-called controlled satellite, aiming its "re coverable" payload atop a seven-story rocket at a polar orbit around the earth. Washington - (UPD- The United States plans to launch three more earth satellites today two from Cape Canav eral, Fla., and one from Van denburg Air Force Base, Calif. If all goes well, the three man-made moons will be fir ed skyward by midnight. Seek More Data The new satellites are de signed to glean more data on the earth's make - up and weather and explore the pos sibility of putting huge re connaissance satellites into or bit in the future. The Cape Canaveral shot is scheduled to be a unique 2-in-one launching with the Vanguard rocket. It will car ry an instrument satellite for measuring the magnetic field, solar radiation and meteor effects, and a 30-inch inflat able sphere for checking air density. To Eject Package Actually, the Canaveral scientists may put three ob jects in orbit if all goes well. The third and final stage of the rocket assembly is ex pected to go into orbit with the two satellites. !' At Vandenburg, the Air Force will try to put a Dic coverer satellite into a south north polar orbit. This launching will be part of a long-range endeavor to de velop satellites capable of scanning the earth with tele vision and photograpliic cam eras. The 1,300-pound Discoverer probably will eject a package of instruments which scien tists will try to recover. How ever, defense officials were mum on this aspect of the ex periment. Bloodmobile to Be In Medford Tuesday Only 30 appointments have been made for tomorrow's visit of the Blopdmobile, Jack son county Red Cross officials reported today. Quota for the visit is 290 pints, for which 350 donors are needed. Appointments may be made by telephoning the Red Cross office at SPring 3-3813. The Bloodmobile will be at the Red Cross chapter house between 1 and 6 p.m. Tuesday and at the Ashland Elks club Wednesday, April 15, between 1 and 5 p.m. Drop-in donors will be wel come, officials reported. He has met with strong op position from some shoe man ufacturing firms, trade asso ciations, and shoe workers' unions. But thousands of people throughout the nation have signed petitions supporting his labeling plan. And shoe repairmen in every part of the nation have helped him, by displaying copies of his peti tions. Now, as a "final gun" in his battle, he is asking all par ents in the nation to mail a worn shoe, showing paper fi ber, to Congress. This, he says, will demonstrate graphi cally the need for labeling Only Miracle Said To Prevent Resignation Secretary Ordered Back To Walter Reed i Washington -(UPD- Presi dent Eisenhower conferred with cancer-stricken Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles for 45 minute today and said afterward that he would postpone any consid eration of Dulles' future role in government pending new treatment and further medical evaluation. "There has been no res ignation submitted .". . as of today." While House News Secretary James C. Hagerty told reporters. Washington - (UPD - Associ ates of cancer-stricken John Foster Dulles said today that, barring a miracle, he will have to resign as secretary of state. They based their conclusion on reports from his physicians and developments in Dulles case during the past week at Hobe Sound, Fla., where ie had been resting. Persons who talked with the 71-year-old diplomatic warrior since he re-entered Walter Reed Army Medical Center Sunday reported him weaker now than when he left Washington just two weeks ago for his Florida "rest and recuperation." President Eisenhower and Dulles' brother, Director Allen W. Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency, visited the secretary at the hospital during the noon hour. No Definite Date The President, interrupting his golfing vacation in Georgia, went directly to the hospital from the airport. He came to Washington to make three talks today and Tues day, and to see Dulles. There was no indication,' however, how soon a final de cision on Dulles' future would be made. High officials said that if the decision is to resign, as, they expected, the successor would be Undersecretary Christian A. Herter, who has been acting secretary. Determined To Try Dulles, following radiation treatment for his abdominal cancer, had hoped to regain enough strength to continue his duties for a while. As recently as last Wednes day, he was reported deter mined to try to return to his post and lead the American delegation to the foreign ministers' meeting at Geneva starting May 11. He had been arguing against the advice of his physicians, who doubted that he would be well enough to undertake the rigorous Ge neva meeting. But after an X-ray exami nation in Florida Thursday, his Army doctor who had ac companied him south insisted that the secretary return to Washington as soon as possible for a thorough check-up at Walter Reed. The tests began this morning. There was speculation that Dulles' decision to resign and Eisenhower' designation of a successor would ' come soon after doctors evaluate the re sults of the conclusive check up. Berrydale Sanitary Sewer Bids to Open Bids on the proposed Berry dale sanitary sewer system were to be opened in the city hall council chamber at 3 p m. today, according to Medford engineers. Officials last month estimat ed the system's cost at $277, 000 but this figure, it is under stood, does not represent the actual engineer's estimate. Two sets of bids were on file this morning, with more expected by the deadline. legislation, to protect par ents in purchasing children's shoes. Mail to Neuberger He suggests they be mailed to U. S. Sen. Richard L. Neu berger (D-Ore.) who is spon soring a labeling bill. Gardner says, "Let's show Congress the proof that a la beling bill is needed to give the consumer the right to buy shoes more intelligently, for the health and protection of our children." Gardner, whose small shop on East Main st. has a sign over it saying "National Head quarters for Labeling Shoes," signs his plea', "Wilbur Gard ner, The Man with a Sole."