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Newspaper Page Textion I To and MOM) 54th Year Medford 2.8 Pages nseimlhioweir Accepts ISes5g.micfl4ip Letter Requests Dulles To Serve As Consultant Secretary Praised For Devotion To Job Augusta, Ga. -flJPD- presi dent Eisenhower today for mally accepted the resigna tion of John Foster Dulles as secretary of state and. con ferred by telephone with the cancer-stricken Cabinet offi cer on the selection of his suc cessor. The White House said a new secretary would be named "within a few days." Eisenhower, in accepting Dulles' decision to quit with "deepest personal regret," si multaneously named the ail ing secretary "as a consultant to me and the State Depart- . ment in international affairs." Successor Discussed The chief executive con ferred Wednesday night and again this morning by tele phone with Dulles who is , battling recurrent cancer at Walter Heed -Army Hospital " in Washington. Press Secretary James C. " Hagerty said the President and the secretary discussed . the selection of a successor f and the manner in which Dul .les, .although . grievously-. 411, will continue to serve Eisen hower as an elder statesman ' and consultant on foreign af fairs. " Dulles' letter to the Presi dent was dated Wednesday and stated simply, "It is ap parent to me that I shall not be well enough soon enough to continue to serve as secre tary of state." , Eisenhower, accepting the resignation which will be come effective when the new secretary has been nominated, confirmed by the Senate and sworn in, was unstinted in his praise of Dulles. , "As a statesman of world stature, you have set a record in the stewardship of our for eign relations that stands clear and strong for all to see,", the President wrote Dulles in an affectionate let ter signed "D.'E." "By this letter," the Presi dent added, "I request you to serve in the future, to what ever extent your health will permit, as a consultant to me . and the State Department in international affairs. I know that all join me in the fervent hope that you will be able to continue the important contri butions that only you can make toward a just peace in the world." The White House, reported today that public expression of regret over the illness of Dulles and his decision to leave was pouring into the President's offices in Wash ington and here in Augusta. Hagerty called it "a very large flood of messages" running into the thousands. Eisenhower Asked to Be Wagorimaster for Train President Dwight D. Eisen hower has been invited by the Jackson County 4-H Em pire Builders' Council to be honorary wagonmaster of their covered wagon train this sum mer, according to County 4-H Agent Glenn Klein. The letter was directed to President Eisenhower by Jo Anna Malloroy, president of the Empire Builder's council when the teenagers heard that the president would be com- ing west this summer. "Teenagers, too, are help ing" to focus attention on Ore gon's 100th birthday," Miss Malloroy wrote. "Our Jackson county 4-H Empire Builders' Council is sponsoring a cover ed wagon trek from historic Jacksonville in southern Ore gon to Oregon State college in Corvallis where we hold our annual 4-H club summer school. Our purpose in writ ing is to invito you to be MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL , "Hey Look, Fellows Castro Greeted by Cheers, Picketing On Arrival in U.S. Washington ' - (UPO --Cwbai. Prime Minister Fidel Castro, greeted by wildly cheering fans and picketing opponents, started a round of appear ances .today to win new friends for his regime. The only scheduled appoint ment on the first day of his 11-day U.S. visit was lunch with Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. But associates said the un predictable Castro might give his worried security- guards more headaches by getting a Request Drafted by Two School Boards Phoenix A letter request ing consideration of petitions requesting a vote on 'the Phoenix-Talent consolidation issue was drafted at a special joint school board meeting here last night. The letter prepared by Phoenix and Talent boards will be presented to the Jack son county school district re organization committee next Tuesday night in the county courthouse. . Previously, the reorganiza tion . committee called a spe cial meeting next week to fur ther consider the question of holding a vote on the consoli dation issue in each of the two districts. The committee at its last meeting voted against holding such an election. The special meeting was called fol lowing a Phoenix school board meeting Monday night when a number of citizens from Phoenix angrily protest ed the committee's action. honorary wagonmaster of our wagon train." "A news report stated you are coming west to dedicate a dam , in Colorado June 9. We would deem it the greatest of honors if you could plan your trip to be in the Medford Jacksonville area a day early, June 8, to give the order Wagons Ho! as we start our trip." The Jackson county 4-H'ers in cooperation with the coun ty Centennial committee and the extension service, have organized five wagons. En route the train will be joined by 4-H'ers from Coos, Curry and Douglas counties as the teenagers "relive" some of the conditions experienced by their forefathers. . . The trek with six wagons, 75 teenagers and adults will take approximately 12 days to cover the 200 miles, -it is estimated.' tTTTTl i ft-?. J'i j ' IFoirmollv A Parking Platform' whinv'.to-ga-ofj; shopping .-or sightseeing. V--': 1 An American official said precautions taken to protect the 32-year-old Cuban leader were tighter than' those ap plied when Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I.' Mikoyan visited here in January. The Cuban Embassy and U. S. State Department have re ceived anonymous threats against Castro's life. , -Seeks U. S. Loans Castro, whose forces over threw dictator Fulgencio Ba tista on New Year's Day, hopes to win better U. S. un derstanding for .his govern ment. He also has said he will seek loans and a larger share of this country's sugar quota. The bearded prime minis ter, dressed in his famous army fatigue uniform, was welcomed by 500 well-wishers when he arrived late in a Cu bana airliner Wednesday night. Guards tried to hustle Cas tro into a waiting limousine. But he pushed them aside and strode over to shake hands with fans who had been kept off the field behind a fence. Picket While House Shortly after arriving at the Cuban Embassy he again upset' security precautions by dashing across the street to greet knots of onlookers there. Castro, speaking in English bafely above a whisper, said at the airport he hoped his unofficial visit would create better understanding between Cuba and the United States. He has criticized this country for being too. friendly to Ba tista. Thirty-three persons, repre senting the "Anti-Communist Movement of The Americas," picketed in front of the White House to protest Castro's trip. They were led by Rafael Del Pino, who once was a sup porter of Castro - but then turned against him. Daylight Saving Bill Passes Senate Salem (CPE The Oregon Senate today passed a bill to refer lo the voters in No vember of 1960 in question of whether the state will have daylight saving lime. The vote was 20-10. The measure previously passed the House. Oregon will remain on standard lime this summer ' and next summer. , London-(DPD-Britain agreed Wednesday to make a gift of $5,600,000 to impoverished Jordan in the present financ ial year and lend $1,400,000 more toward a desert road project," Tribune 161?59 Steel Industry Strike Expected By This Summer Union, Industry Reject Proposals New York (UPD The odds favor a steel strike this sum mer, top industry sources said today. The steel industry and the United Steelworkers of Amer ica have flatly rejected each other's major pre-negotiation proposals. The sources told United Press International that as of now both sides will enter, contract talks next monfh "miles apart." The current three-year con tracts expire at midnight June 30. The steel industry Wednes day night not only turned down a union suggestion that wages could be raised in the face of a price freeze, but also accused the union of asking it to violate the anti-trust laws by fixing prices. In a letter to USW Presi dent David J. McDonald, the nation's 12 top steel comp anies said it would be "illeg al" for them to join in a deal calling for a price freeze.,' Based on Profits The companies also reject ed a union proposal that a wage Jincrease be granted on the basis of higher "outpulTper man-hour and profits. , They said this suggestion - was "wholly unacceptable." In Pittsburgh, a . USW spokesman said the union would have no immediate comment on the industry let ter. Last Friday, the industry proposed a one-year wage freeze until June 30, 1960, in order to guarantee an anti-inflationary policy in the basic steel industry. The union immediately re jected the industry's proposal as a "publicity stunt." On Monday, the USW countered with its own proposals for ac celerated negotiations and wage and fringe increases based on higher productivity and earnings. It also called for a price freeze for the duration of any agreement. Withdrawal of Land Proposed by FS The forest service has pro posed withdrawal of 190 acres of public land in Rogue River National forest near Oregon Caves National Monument for recreational development. Virgil T. Heath, Oregon state supervisor of the bureau of land management, said the land lies along Steve fork of Carberry creek in southeast ern Josephine county a few miles east of Oregon Caves. Purpose of the withdrawal is to preserve the land for public recreational develop ment by the forest service. The land will remain in Rogue River National forest and the withdrawal will be subject to valid existing rights and will affect the fu ture location on mining claims only, he said. Thirty days after date of publication of the notice in the Federal Register is pro vided for filing protests or comments by the public. Such protests or comments should be addressed to Heath at 809 NE Sixth ave., Portland 12, Ore. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight and Friday. Airport low tonight 32 34. High tomorrow near 70. Temp. Highest Yesterday 63 Lowest this Morning 29 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:54 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow . 5:28 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 2:04 a.m. Full Moon April 22 PROMINENT STARS . Sirius, in the south west :10 P-m- Arcturus, in the east' 8:16 p.m. EVENING PLANETS Mars, in the west 8:44 p.m. Venus, sets 9:35 p.m. Jupiter, rises 10:05 p.m. Price 10 Cents No. 23 High-Flying Plane Harassed By Soviet Jets Britain Urges U.S. To Lower Altitude Berlin-(UPD-Soviet Jet fight ers used "dangerous harassing tactics" against the turboprop C130 freighter which flew here at 25,000 feet Wednes day in defiance of Russian al titude limitations, American sources said today. Contradicting earlier re ports that two Red planes merely "shadowed" the C130 at a distance of about 600 feet, the sources said they "harass ed it in flagrant violation of flight safety, regulations." The United States was ex pected to protest the safety violation. The Russians already have protested the flight, renewing demands that planes plying between Berlin and the West keep below the 10,000-foot mark. Britain Against Flights Reliable sources in London reported that Britain had urg ed the United States to halt high-level flights to Berlin, arguing they are an. "unnec essary provocation" of the Russians in the light of the forthcoming East-West foreign ministers conference. They said Viscount Hood, British minister in Washing ton, made the suggestion in a visit to the State Depart ment Wednesday even though Britain agrees there is no ceil ing for western planes in the corridors. Earlier, U.S. diplomats had said the United States will continue high - altitude cargo flights to. JJerlin on-a regular and frequent basis despite the misgivings of its allies. Trek Is Saturday, Breakfast Sunday An historical trek by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows is scheduled in Jack sonville Saturday, April 18, instead of Sunday as reported in a previous story. The program will include initiatory degrees conferred by the Gardner lodge at 2:30 p.m. and a parade to the Jack sonville museum at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. A banquet is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. by the Ruth Re bekah lodge. Sunday morning, April 19, a sourdough breakfast is scheduled at the Central Point American Legion hall. The breakfast is being sponsored by the Central Point IOOF Lodge. It previously had been scheduled at the Central Point Grange hall. New Position Filled In Forest Service A new positidn of assistant to the timber management staff officer of Rogue River National forest is being filled by , the transfer and promo tion of Dale L. Farley from the Okanogan National for est, according to Supervisor Carroll E. Brown. Farley is a 1952 graduate of the University of Washing ton school of forestry. He also took a year of graduate work there in 1954-55. He has been general assis tant to the ranger on the Pasayten district with head quarters near Mazama in North Central Washington. Previously he served three years as timber management assistant on the Tonasket dis trict of the Okanogan Nation al forest. In his new position on the Rogue River National forest, Farley will assist Staff Offi cer H. G. Hopkins with the review of timber sale ap praisals, contracts, advertise ments, conduct of sales, and assist the- district rangers with timber sale preparation, check cruising, and timber sale administration. Faint Hope Held for Recovery of Capsule Vandenberg AFB, Calif. -(UPD The United States held out a faint hope today of re covering Discoverer II's space capsule which may have 'fal len near Russian polar territory. so? EARLY HEATING - As temperatures dropped to as low as 25 degrees last night, many valley orchardists were forced to begin heating before midnight, the earliest this year. The glow from the burners, be fear felgft B43 ' -frx V : HEAVY SMOKE - A heavy blanket of smoke from last night's orchard heating hung over the valley this morning after one of the coldest nights since pear blossoms have been in the "critical" stage. Heating was general throughout the valley and the heaviest this year, according to County Ex Two Hearings on Council Agenda I Public hearings on a sani tary sewer for South River side ave. and a water main for Mary st. are on the Medford city council's agenda' for 'its meeting at .7:30 .o'clock, to night atcity hall...."- ... The council is also slated to award a contract for the Berrydale sanitary sewer sys tem and consider passage of the proposed ordinance regu lating private detectives . and merchant patrolmen. . City Manager Robert A. Duff is scheduled to report on the sewer situation for East over terrace and on steps to ward developing a swimming pool and park area off West Jackson st. These steps, spe cifically, include appointing swimming pool engineers and selecting a landscape archi tect. The South Riverside sani tary sewer would run from Spencer ave. at 12th st. to Stewart ave., and would serve properties east of Riverside to the proposed Highway 99 freeway right of way, plus the Jackson county shop buildings and fairgrounds. Estimated as sessments for the project are $2.35 per front foot, $84 per acre and $45 per connection. The May st. water main would run from Saling ave. to East Jackson st., replacing small private lines now serv ing the area. The cost has been estimated at $2.26 per foot. Contract Expected To Be Awarded A contract for a trench for the last section of a feeder main taking water from the Capital hill reservoirs to southeast Medford was to be awarded this noon, according to Medford Water Superinten dent Robert L. Lee. Frank W. Kanehl, Medford, was low bidder for digging the trench at $2,258, Lee re ported. Other bidders were M. C. Liniger and Sons and Tru-Mix Concrete company, both Medford, at $2,258.50 and $3,083, respectively. The city water commission was expected to award the con tract to Kanehl at its noon meeting today. The trench will follow an easement on a line with Black Oak dr. from Walden pi. to Barnett rd. Lee said the work should begin next week, with the pipe to be installed with in three weeks afterward. He said the main should be in use by June.' 1, supplying water for the southeast Med ford area. . Cleveland, Ohio-flJPD-Agree-ment was reached today, be tween the -Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and the United Rubber Workers union on a company-wide contract and supplemental unemployment benefits covering some 24,000 hourly employees in 11 plants. fore the heavy smoke formed, looked like street lights in numerous small towns from a vantage point on the east side of the val ley. The picture above was taken from Foot hills rd. looking over 401 orchard about 11:30 p.m. tension Agent Clifford Cordy. With all heaters going, some orchards could not hold the temperatures above the danger point and some damage was done by frost, Cordy said. The view, above was taken from Roxy Ann early this morning,- before the smoke began to lift. Considerable Bud Damage Reported in Valley Last Night Orchard heating started south of Medford . at 10:30 p.m. yesterday, the earliest of the"'eason so far,' according to Clifford B. Cordy, county horticultural agent. Heating continued to shortly after 8 a.m. today, , Temperatures in the cold est spots dipped to a low of 24Vi degrees, Cordy said Considerable bud damage re sulted last night, even in A new record low tem perature for April 16 was established at the Medford weather bureau station at the airport this morning, when the mercury dipped to 29 'degrees. The previous low tem perature recorded on this dale at the Medford weath er bureau station was 32 in 1940. The weather bureau fore cast a little warmer weath er tonight, with the low dropping lo about 32, a few" degrees warmer than last night's forecasted low. some of the heated orchards as the weather became too cold for the heaters to hold the temperatures, he added. "Everything is so dry that nothing will hold the heat," Cordy explained. "Tempera tures drop to freezing quick ly." Freezing Ceilings Prior to last night, freezing ceilings have been fairly low, Valley Stations To Join Conelrad Test All valley radio stations will join other radio and tele vision stations across the na tion Friday morning in a civil defense training exercise. All stations will be off the air between 8:30 and 9 a.m. The only two stations in the valley with national defense authorizations to operate dur ing the time of the conelrad test are KMED and KYJC. The stations will alternate broadcasting from 1240 kilo cycles during the test period, it was reported. During -4he program a brief message will be given by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hicks, Jackson county civil defense' director. The balance of the program will be from the national civil defense network. Station KBES-TV will be gin its broadcast day at 9 a.m., as usual, station officials said. The usual 10 minutes of test pattern, which usually starts at 8:50 a.m., will not be seen Friday because of the conel rad test, it was stated. Salem -UPD- Glenn Walker, Tigard, has been appointed justice of the peace for Tigard district in Washington county. Q and ' that is probably the reason the tree damage has been confined vto. . the lower portions -oi tne trees, ilow- ever, last night the ceiling raised some what which may have brought the frost dam age to the tops of the trees, the county agent explained. The 10 hours' of heating last night and this morning cost the fruit growers "in excess of $150,000," Cordy said. He based his estimate on such factors as labor at $1.10 an hour for the 10 hours of heating, cost of oil and de preciation on the equipment used. 1 "It's the heat that protects the orchards, not the smoke, Cordy said. "The object is to raise the temperatures around the trees." i Successful Means ' The growers are anxious to find an efficient, economical means of heating without creating smoke but so far have not been able to, it was explained. Only successful means yet found to heat or chards is oil. Wood is too bulky to handle, it was ex plained. Presto-logs have been tried. However, they will burn in the pots for only two hours. Oil will burn at a gallon an hour in the 9-gallon pots, it was explained. Also, the pots are much easier to refuel than the pots filled with wood would be. The pots were pret ty well burned out by this morning from last night's heating, Cordy said. A preliminary forecast pre dicts moderate heating again tonight. Law Officers In Pistol Course Here More than 50 valley law enforcement officers are par ticipating in the practical pistol course sponsored by the Medford Police depart ment Wednesday -and today. Instructor of the annual course is Special Agent Leon ard Kurtz with the federal bureau of investigation office in Portland. The course is part of the general firearms training pro gram of the local police de partment, Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin said. He explained that the depart ment schedules six firearms practice sessions during the year for the department mem bers. Champlin explained that during the annual event now under way other nearby law enforcement departments are invited to participate. The chief added that the ammunition used by the de partment, for training pur poses only, are reloaded cart ridges, which cost approxi Thousands Take Hidden Arms in Guerrilla War Communists Open War on Religion New Delhi uTPD Nationalist Chinese intelligence sources reported today that the anti Communist revolution in Ti bet has spread to the border of Szeuchuan province in in land China. The sources said in Taipei that fresh intelligence reports from mainland China disclos ed that "thousands of people" in Szechuan have taken out hidden arms and joined in guerrilla warfare against the Communists along the King sha (Gold Sand) river. Previous Nationalist Chi nese reports said Tibetans residing in Sikang, Chinghai and Sinkiang on Tibet's bor der had joined the revolt. This was the first report that the fighting had spread in land. Reports reaching New Del hi from the Indian border town of Kalimpong said the Chinese Communists had launched a heavy surprise at tack against Tibetan positions 150 miles southwest of Lhasa in their first penetration of that anti - Communist strong hold. The reports said the Tibet ans were taken unawares but still held .the fortress. Modern Weapons The Communists attacked with modern guns' and weap ons and casualties are heavy on both sides, the reports said. A traveler reaching Kalimpong from the battle area estimated 500 dead and wounded on each side. The Chinese also were us ing bombing planes against the rebellious patriot's .lines of communications in south west Tibet, some 70 to 80 miles from the borders of Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan, the reports said. , - ,'. , Reports reaching New Delhi also said the Communists had opened an all-out war against the Buddhist religion in Tibet in an attempt to end the in fluence of Dalai Lama, the god-king of the Tibetans. Buddhist sources said sev eral thousand followers of the Dalai Lama have been placed in concentration camps and the one considered "less crim inal" are being used as forced labor to rebuild damaged roads and monasteries. County Farm Home Budget Accepted The Jackson county farm home budget, with the excep tion of the salaries included, was accepted yesterday after noon by the Jackson county budget committee. The committee said it ex- pects to make a more thorough study of all the county department proposals for salary increases next week. Requested total for the farm home budget is $117,971. The budget committee re vised the estimate on supplies by cutting it $14,090 and di recting that the supplies be purchased in larger quantity. Included in the salary schedule is $3,300 each for the superintendent and his assistant, a raise of $200 for the new fiscal year. Not revealed in the budget figures is an estimated ex pected income of $10,316 for meals and lodging to be paid by the farm home workers to the county. Take Part mately half the price of new ammunition. Standard silhou ette targets are used. The practical pistol course consists of firing 50 rounds of ammunition using the best positions that a police officer could use when firing a weapon, in the line of duty. The course included both single and double action fir ing from 7, 60, 50 and 25 yards. Positions include prone, sitting and kneeling and firing from behind a bar ricade both right and left handed. Departments represented at the Wednesday practice ses sions were Central Point and Medford, Jackson county sheriff's office and the Crater Lake park rangers. Scores in today's sessions will be re corded, it was reported. The pistol range is located off Corey rd. on government property, formerly used by the Army as a rifle range and reconstructed by the local department last year.