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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."