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Recommended 54th Year Subscribers Price 10 Cents To report improper etr non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 1230 p.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. MEDFOBD ' Jacob Wagner, whose land would now be within the bound! of the Talent irrigation district, applied the first Irrigation water in Oregon. Development of the Talent irrigation district through the years is traced on page It f today's Mail Tribune. United Press International Tull Leased Wiro United Press InUrnational full Leased Wiro 66 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 1 0, 1 959 No. 43 Mmm Opposes Wield's Views About Legislature ' Salem-(UPD-Speaker of the Home Robert Duncan, Med ford, has taken an opposite view from that expressed by Gov. Mark Hatfield on the accomplishments of the 1939 Legislature. In a statement issued yes terday, Duncan cited some of the accomplishments of the Democratic - controlled 50th Legislative session. Friday, the vounz .Republican gover nor declared the recent Leg islature looked backward in stead of forward in taking care of the state's mentally deficient. . But Duncan said the Legis- Tibetan Refugees Tell of Slaughter By Chinese Reds Calcutta, India-MPD-Chinese Communists troops ringing the Tibetan border have ma chine-gunned to death large numbers of anti-Communist Tibetains trying to flee to safety in India, refugees re ported yesterday. Refuge statements to the Indian reception authorities in the rugged northeast frontier agency of Indian in Assam State said the Reds were turn ing the escape route into In dia into a shooting gallery to prevent more defections. The refugees said many who were wounded were left to die with out medical attention; An estimated 10,000 Tibet - ans have managed to slip . across the border into India despite Chinese efforts to pre vent them. About half of, this number are Khambas, who have, by. the Communists' ad mission, been fighting for freedom since 1952. The border crossings have Irritated Peiping almost as much as did the successful flight of the Dalai Lama from Tibet to India. Communist China an nounced ' Friday night that farmers in the area around the Tibetan capital of Lhasa will be forgiven all taxes this , year. The announcement was taken as a move to win popul- lar support for the Red re gime. The new China news agency said in a broadcast that "those who till the land shall enjoy all they reap, without having to deliver any public grain or pay any tax this year." Vacation-Pac Offered Again The Vacation-Pac program which the Mail Tribune put in service last year is again being offered to all subscrib ers. The service is free. Its pur pose is to enable Mail Trib une readers to catch-up on their favorite features and home town news when they return from vacation or an extended stay out of town. Under the plan, the Mail Tribune will hold each issue while the subscriber is away and will deliver the Vacation Pac bundle by carrier when the subscriber returns home. From time to time a remind er will appear in the Mail Tribune ; which will contain ' a handy form to be filled out by subscribers wishing the ' service. The completed form may be given to the carrier or brought or sent to the Mail Tribune circulation office. For subscribers who will be on . extended vacations of a month or more, the Mail Trib une will supplement the Vacation-Pac service with direct ma.il if the subscriber does not . have more than one address while he is away. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy Son day and increasing cloudiness Monday morning. High Sunday 65-68. Low Monday morninc 38. High Monday 72. TEMP. Highest Saturday 59 Lowest Saturday 42 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 721 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:55 a.m. 9:J p.m. Moonset tonight . Moon rises high. Venus, seen right above the Moon tonight, is now moving in to the constellation, Gemini. Well above Venus and a little to the left is Mars, which is now scarcely brighter than the North Star. lature provided 800 new beds for the mentally deficient by providing for new buildings at Fairview Home here and converting the Eastern Ore gon Tuberculosis hospital at The Dalles to a mid-Columbia home for elderly persons not requiring maximum se curity. This .facility will care for 200 patients initially. Funds were provided, Dun can said, to expand outpa tient treatment at Oregon State hospital in Salem so that many patients can be treated without being admit ted to the hospital proper. In answer to Hatfield's statement that the tax pro gram adopted by the Legis lature would increase income taxes about 9 per cent and that Hatfield's one per cent gross income tax plan would have taken care of present state needs and those in the future, Duncan said that the Governor's tax plan would have brought in new taxpay ers whose contributions' were not needed at this time. "No citizen,". Duncan add ed, "wants a new tax when it's unnecessary." Duncan pointed with pride to amendments to the unem ployment compensation laws by which he said "loophole benefits" were pluggett and a trust fund established. Test-Ban Talks Concession Told Geneva (UPD A far-reach ing concessipn by the United States at the deadlocked. nuclear-test conference here may provide the key to the first real step toward East -West disarmament, it was reported yesterday. 'In a 'dramatic effort to break the deadlock, U.S. Am bassador James J. Wadsworth said Friday that the United States is prepared to drop its demand that test-control posts on any nation's soil be manned entirely by citizens of other countries. Wadsworth made it clear, however, that the U.S. offer depended on Russian willing ness to offer a realistic plan for increasing non-Soviet per sonnel in control posts on Rus sian territory. . Chief Soviet Delegate Sem- yon Tsarapkin welcomed the proposal ' warmly, indicating that the conference has taken a new lease on life. Although no further ses sions of the nuclear talks have been scheduled, it . was gen erally believed that they will resume Monday - probably in the morning, before the after noon opening of the East-West foreign ministers' meeting here. Oregon Cavalcade Crossing Prairies Roseland, Neb. -(UPD- The on-to-Oregon wagon train re enacting the pioneer journey over the old Oregon Trail pushed across rainswept Ne braska prairies toward Min den yesterday, eager for a week end rest. The train of seven wagons, attended by some rather mod ern station wagons, spent the night at the Jay Goble farm 2V2 miles west of here on Neb. 74, which coincides with the famed pioneer trail. 1 The wagoners left their camp and drove into nearby Hastings for a look at the city's House of Yesterday mu seum. They watched movies of the Oregon trail and look ed at various exhibits left be hind by the pioneers who lum bered across the plains 100 years ago. One of the, items was an original covered wag on., The wagoneers were draw ing good crowds of curious motorists. Some 100 automo biles . were parked around their camp near Glenvil Thursday night. ... Moscow fUPB The 1959 cen sus shows that Soviet Union has a population of nearly 209 million, an increase of 18 mil lion since 1939, the official Soviet news agency Tass re ported last-night. (The popula tion of the United States is estimated at around 175 mil lion.) Capsized Ship Yields Corpses Of Excursionists Frogmen Dive in Nile; 32 Bodies Recovered Cairo -(UPD- Divers pulled body after body from a cap sized excursion steamer in the muddy Nile river in Egypt yesterday amid the wails and screams of relatives on shore. Frogmen brought 32 bodies to shore. At least 150 more men, women and children were missing and presumed dead in the sinking of the overcrowded steamer Dandar ah Friday off the Nile town of Qalyub, 10 miles North of Cairo. Worst in 30 Years Authorities said it was the worst Nile disaster in 30 years. A nationwide service was to be held today for-the victims. President Gamal Ab del Nasser sent condolences to their' families. Police officials said 167 per sons were known to have been saved. , About 350 people, mostly government - workers and their families, were on a holiday picnic aboard the steamer which had an offi cial passenger capacity of 60. Ship captain Abdel Hafeez Aly Hakmad, injured and in the hospital, was ordered ar rested. Crew Escaped All of the crew managed to escape when the ship sprang a leak and started for shore. Panicky passengers Interrupt ed their theatrical show and, community sing aboard to rush to the shore side of the steamer. It listed and tipped over. Many were trapped in side the vessel. 1 ; The United Arab Republic government r. sent Mahmoud Younis, president of the" Suez Canal authority, , to' take charge of the search opera tions. i2i,"':''''y':''Z;V'"':- Coast Searched For Woman, Boy Depoe Bay-IUPD--State police, sheriff's deputies and a blood hound scanned the rocky coast line near here yesterday morn ing for a 36-year-old Portland woman and a 10-year-old' boy missing and feared drowned in the stormy surf Friday nightl State police said that Miss Margaret L. Gray and Julian Sloan were beginning a vaca tion with the youth's mother, Mrs. Barbara Sloan, Beaver ton, when they vanished from the socks near Finesterre lodge about a quarter of mile from here. State police et Newport, who are organizing the search, said that a bloodhound has taken searchers , to two different- points on the rocks. One point at which the dog stopped at the surf is right behind the lodge and another is about, 400 yards north of the lodge. - Mrs. Sloan told officers that the woman and her son started out for a walk along the rocky beach at 3:30 pjn. Friday and .never returned. Weather Delays Search for Martins Hood River-(UPD- Search for the three remaining members of the missing Ken Martin family of Portland was de layed yesterday because of foul weather, according to Hood River County Sheriff Rupert Gillmouthe. Gillmouthe said the Cas cade Locks canal, considered the most likely spot to look for the cream and " red sta tion wagon of the Martin fam ily, was too hazardous for professional diving operations at this time. Another Local Freeway Section Plans for another section of the proposed Highway 99 freeway route through Med ford were approved last week by the bureau of public roads, a state highway department official reported Friday. ' The section was identified only as lying "south of the Crater Lake interchange," in dicating it is located some where, between Crater Lake highway and 12th st. Plans for the section south of 12th st. reportedly were approved last month. ' - Two state officials denied that the highway department's 'A Bigger Boat Would Be Too Expensive" 0 IMfo Uoch roup Seeks Trio's E3ecaDD Little Rock,' Ark. (UPD More .than 200 businessmen organized yesterday in an ef fort to recall three segrega tionist members of the Little Rock school board. ' It was the first citizens' up rising of such consequence since President Eisenhower ordered in federal troops in 1957 to protect nine Negroes American Pilot Released by Reds At German Border Heidelberg, 1 Germany-(UPD- American civilian pilot Emory A. Vaughan, released by the East Germany Communists yesterday after 47 days in cap tivity, said he spent all but one day in solitary confine ment. " Vaughan, 32, a U.S. Army civilian employee from Ports mouth, Va. was released at the same time as a British soldier, Pvt. Claude Passan, who was held for three months in East Germany. The releases came on the virtual eve of the East-West foreign ministers conference opening in Geneva Monday to discuss the future of West Berlin. Vaughan was turned over to the American Red Cross by the East German Red Cross at the Helmstedt border check point and' taken to Heidel berg. He said the Communists treated him "in the correct manner" and . he was never threatened, although he was frequently interrogated. ' Vaughan wandered into East Germany in his light plane March 27 and was seized when he landed out of fuel in a meadow near Eisenach. ' Both Vaughan and Passan, who had been held since Feb. 9, were released at Helm stedt. Passan was whisked away by British autorities. He apparently wandered into East Berlin when he fell asleep on a train. Vaughan's' release came through negotiations between the American and East Ger man Red Cross societies. The United States does not recog nize Communist Germany and has refused to have any deal ings with it. Hawthorne, Nev. -(UPD- Al fred Howard Fuller of West Hartford, Conn., 46-year-old president of the Fuller Brush Co., and his wife, Dora, 46, were killed yesterday in a sports car accident near Lun ning, about '25 miles south of here. recent purchase of land from Medford Concrete Construc tion company meant plans for the section from Table Rock rd. south to Crater Lake high way had been approved. - According to previous ex planations, the purchasing of land is dependent upon BPR approval of final plans for the route through that land, and subsequent availability of federal funds. The transaction with Medford Concrete - in volving the state's purchase of land on Midway rd. be tween Table Rock "rd. and Bear creek for. a sum of about who integrated Central High school. None of Little Rock's four high schools has opened this year because of the integra tion uproar. The government hoped that public pressure would force their reopening, but it did not. The businessmen who or ganized themselves yesterday call themselves "stop this out rageous purge," or "stop." They want to recall three segregationist members of the Little Rock school board and stop the discharge of teach ers considered "integration ists." . Renew Contracts At a school board meeting Tuesday, - - three V moderate members 'proposed to renew all teacher .contracts, includ ing that of Terrell E. Powell, as superintendent. The mo tion was defeated by Robert Laster,Ben Rowland Sr., and Board President Ed I. McKin ley. Those three, who ran for the board on a strict segrega tionist platform, said they in tended to select teachers in dividually. The three moderate mem bers submitting the original motion, Ted Lamb, Everett Tucker Jr., and Russell H. Matson Jr., walked out of the meeting in protest. Ordered Discharge The three segregationist board members then ordered the discharge of 44 teachers, including Jess W. Matthews, the principal of the Central High school. The principal of the city's only Negro high school also was fired. After the boards action, a wave of protest flowed throughout the city. More than 13,000 persons, in meetings held in schools throughout the city, protest ed the firing and went on record as supporting the ac tion of the three walkout board members. The Little Rock Education Council, composed of all the city's teachers and principals unanimously adopted a reso lution saying they would re fuse to sign any contract for the coming fall term. Dish-Rattling Temblor On Peninsula Reported San Francisco -(UPD- A typi cal dish-rattling earthquake gave the San Francisco penin sula a good shake at 10:26 a.m. yesterday. No damage was reported. The University of Calif ornia seismographic station at Berkeley reported the tem blor registered 3.0 on the Richter scale and was cen tered near Daly City. $100,000 - was described by one official as an exception to the rule. The other official stated that convenience to Medford Concrete in relocating its op erations with minimum inter ruption to its business com mitments, and advantages and benefit' to both parties, were reasons for the purchase. Funds, he said, came from the highway department it self, with expectation of future federal reimbursement. This official emphasized that the state is not yet ready to undertake negotiations with other property owners along n n eeks Armed Services Ask More Funds To Build Missiles Washingion-UPD-The Arm ed Services have asked. Con gress to make substantial in creases in President Eisen hower's request for funds to build missiles. Congress yesterday released an 864-page transcript of testi mony by the Army, Navy and Air Force before a House ap propriations subcommittee. The requests were expect ed to provide fresh ammuni-. tion to critics who want heav ier spending on space pro grams than on military missile' buildup. . , The missile program is part of Eisenhower's $40,850,000, 000 defense budget. The sub committee has been studying the request since January and is expected to take final action on it within a few days. The transcript showed that: Air Force officials favor more spending on the Atlas and Minuteman 5,000 - mile missiles. One plan given to the subcommittee would increase outlays for these programs $651 million in fiscal 1960 and a total, of $4,788,000,000 over an unspecified period. A top Navy witness testi fied the budget should include more submarines which could fire the Polaris 1,500-mile mis sile. These subs cost about $100 million each. , 1 . The Army still would like money to begin production of tjie Nikezeus anti-missile mis sile: The Army wants $1,003, 000,000 ;for " Nike-zeus. The budget would , provide only $300 million for research, de velopment and Resting. Chevron Dealers Threaten Closure Portland-(UPD-Chevron 'gas oline stations in the greater Portland area threatened to close between' midnight last night and midnight tonight unless their demands are met by Standard Oil Company of California. The gasoline dealers 1 de manded that Standard make it possible for them to make a minimum of 20 per cent gross profit on 'gasoline and that the dealers receive "equal treatment"' from the company. G. H. Rogers, a spokesman for Standard, said the compa ny cannot "legally control" retail prices at any Chevron station. He said the pricing of gasoline is entirely at the discretion of the dealer. Eugene Woman Winning 'Mrs.' Portland-(UPD-Mrs. Dorothy J. Chase, 32, of Eugene, last night was named "Mrs. Oregon-Centennial" in competi tion with eight other finalists here. Mrs. Chase, wife of Grant B. Chase, partner in a plumb ing and heating firm in Eu gene and mother of two daugh ters, will compete next month in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for the title of Mrs. America. Along with the Oregon title went a $150 summer ward robe, luggage, a 'gas ' range, cooking utensils and four place settings of sterling sil ver. Runners-up were Mrs. Ruth Ann White of Bend and Mrs. Julia M. Jensen of Nyssa, who placed third in the con test. Approved the proposed right of way through Medford. Final plans for the Crater Lake interchange, it is under stood, are still under con sideration. One official c6mmented it was too soon to tell whether a ' threatened dearth of fed eral highway funds would af fect the freeway construction scheduled here. .He said if funds were cut off, the va rious states would have to jockey for priority on the left-overs. Construction of the freeway through Medford is slated to start next year. n 'veird(Uief Acirdl DULLES -HEARER, HAS ..'PHEUeadUIA Washington -(UPD- Formers Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, .already gravely, ill with cancer, developed a mild case of pneumonia yesterday and was reported "somewhat weaker." . ' ' The state department said the initial response of the 71-year-old diplomat to anti-biot-ics "has been satisfactory." Dulles, who resigned as sec- fretary last month, has been in Walter Reed Army Medical Million Dollar Stamp Collection Reported Stolen . Dublin, Ireland - (UPD - A collection of rare postage stamps valued at $1,200,000 was stolen from an auction house Friday night while spe cial officers hired to guard them sat in a nearby room. But the burglars missed a $10,000,000 collection . of Swiss tobacco millionaire Maurice ' Burrus stored in nearby steel cabinets in the Shanahan's Stamp Auctions Co. building. ' Paul Singer, ' manager of Shanahan's, the largest rare stamp ' dealer in the ' world, said "it's probably the great est theft of its kind in his tory." : - Singer said the burglars were "indeed very clever about their work." But he ad ded: "Certainly no intelligent burglar would ' steal some thing he could not sell." He noted that the stamps are "well known and have been illustrated in our cata logues." Singer said two spe cial guards were in a "nearby room" to protect the stamps. "They tell me they didn't hear a thing," Singer said. "I suppose the burglars worked rather quietly when they broke through a ground floor window and broke into cab inets on the ground and' first floor." The thieves had to cut through steel bars on the ground floor window and drill through the steel cabinets to get at the stamps. Minister Dies After Collision Grants Pass (UPD- Aubrey Ashburn, 26, of San Diego, Calif., an Assembly of God Church minister, died in a hospital here Friday night of injuries suffered in a head on collision north of here. The accident also injured Ashburn's wife, Betty, 21, and their 11-month old son, Dan iel. They were also taken to the hospital but they were re ported in fair condition. The accident occurred north of the city limits on Highway 99. Ashburn's sta tion wagon collided with a truck and trailer driven by Louis D. Nicholson, Grants Pass. Nicholson told investigating officers it appeared as if Ash burn lost control of his car just before the collision. Medford Woman Narrowly Escapes A Medford woman narrow ly escaped being burned Sat urday morning when a fire broke out on the back porch of her home at 345 Apple st., city firemen said. Mrs. Hazel Ralls had fast ened a garden hose to the set tubs on the back porch when the hose knocked over a glass jug of gas. This ignited from the hot -water heater and flames flared up inches away from Mrs. Ralls, firemen said. "If she had worn a nylon dress or a dress of synthetic materials instead of a cotton dress it could have been seri ous," a fireman said. The fire resulted in exten sive smoke damage through out the house and extensive fire damage to the back porch. Center since April 12. It was disclosed last week that he now uses a wheel chair. The state department said be is able to walk but finds it more convenient and restful to use the chair. 1 Dulles has been receiving analgesics to ease the almost constant cancer pain. Dulles was visited Friday by President Eisenhower and the new secretary of state, Christian A. Herter. Eisenhow er stopped in to see him be fore going to his Camp David, Md., retreat for the weekend. Herter conferred with Dul les before leaving for the cru cial Big, Four foreign minis ters conference in Geneva -a conclave at which Dulles was to have been the leading figure. As Herter left, the ail ing statesman called out to him: "Good luck, Chris." Earlier in the week the President and Sir Winston Churchill visited Dulles who, after his resignation, was named as a special foreign policy consultant to the Presi dent and the State Depart ment ' Plane Wreckage Beside Umpqua Leads to Search Reedsport - (UPD A plane that crashed yesterday after noon in the Umpqua river about 13 miles east of here was believed last night to be a twin-engine Piper Apache with six persons aboard en route from Longview, Wash., to Florence, near here. . Reedsport Police Chief H. M. McCabe said insulation and nart of the firewall of the plane was found on the north bank of the Umpqua with a hat identified as one believed worn by William B. Rogers, 34, one of the passengers aboard the Apache. McCabe said a search by state police and Douglas coun ty sheriff's officers last night failed to turn up a trace of the six persons aboard. A Coast Guard boat was en route up the Umpqua to probe the riv er. ' The downed plane was first noticed by a Bonneville pow er crew which reported see ing wreckage on a bank of the river yesterday afternoon when men were called to fix a power outage in the area. The-crew said it appeared the plane had crashed into pow er lines. A Reedsport police officer, Ted Nimmo, had reported his wife, her brother and four other persons were overdue in the Apache from Long view. Nimmo said the six had flown to Longview for a fun eral and were returning yes terday. He said they took off from Longview at 2:30 p.m. (PST) and were scheduled to arrive in Florence about 4 p.m. (PST). Neither the civil aeronautics administration or the federal aviation authority had a report of the missing plane but the CAA said it was possible they were flying without having filed a flight plan. The Bonneville power crew said it had not . sighted any survivors either and had re turned to notify authorities so a search could begin Sports Bulletins Eugene Rogue Valley Dairy Maids whanged the McCullough Chain Saw learn of Eugene 3 to 1 on the Franklin park diamond. Pitching for the maids in the first game of the sea son was Pat Baron. Jean Main was catching. Pitch ing for the Eugene team was Lois Winn with Linda McKay catching. Fesno, Calif. -4IPD- Char ley Dumas high jumped sev en feet; Ray Norton equal led the world record of 9.3 in the 100-yard dash; Dal las Long heaved the shot 62 feet, SVt inches to high light the 33rd Annual West Coast relays last night. Foreign Envoys' Big-Four Parley Starts Tomorrow West German Note Rejects Red Charge Geneva -(UPD- Secretary of state Christian A. Herter ar rived for a foreign ministers conference with Russia yester day and declared he had come to "pave the way to a final, overdue settlement" of cold war problems. In a statement, Herter said, "The United States approaches these negotiations with a sin cere desire to achieve positive results." Soviet Foreign Minister An drei A. Gromyko, who pre ceded Herter into Geneva by several hours, said Russia hoped the meeting opening Monday on Berlin and Ger many would lead to an "early convocation of the heads of government at the summit." French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said on arrival from Paris that nothing could be worse at the talks than "concessions to the Soviets leading to new de mands." Lloyd to Arrive British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was to arrive from London today for pre liminary conferences with Herter and Couve de Murville on the Western "peace pack age" plan - which Russia hat rejected sight unseen. Gromyko left no doubt that Russia still stands by its de mands that the West clear out of West Berlin or else Russia will sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany. During his ' stopover in Bonn, Herter- had reviewed the situation with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who urged him to make no concessions to Russia on Berlin.- West German Note The deadlock between the East and West was pointed up by a West German note to Russia yesterday rejecting the Soviet charge that Bonn fol lowed "war policies." The Adenauer government said this was a "distortion of fact" and it rejected a Soviet warn ing against equipping West German NATO forces with nu clear weapons. Herter's meeting with Ade nauer was described as "al most as cordial as in the form er talks between Adenauer and John Foster Dulles." t Official German sources said Herter and Adenauer were in 'complete agreement" on their evaluation of world affairs. One Ray of Hope - Responsible Communist sources at Geneva offered one ray of hope. They said Russia planned to cut short procedur al arguments which Have bog ged down so many conferences in the past. - - They said Gromyko would try to settle privately with the Western ministers the ' ques tion of East Germany. Poland and Czechoslovakia. Russia wants their foreign ministers seated as members of the conference. The West wants them, with the West German foreign minister, to attend only as "advisors." Five Feared Dead Following- Tornado By United Press International A rash of tornadoes, spawn ed by a wide belt of thunder storms, slashed through the southwest and southen plains Saturday, night, the most sev ere slamming into Stonewall, Okla., where at least five per sons were feared dead. The U.S. Weather Burean said an amateur radio opera tor in the Stonewall area told of considerable property dam age and at least eight injur ed. Medical teams, electric generators and rescue person nel immediately were rush ed to the scene. Stonewall is a small town 120 miles southeast of Okla homa City, the twister there apparently hit ground at near by Fittstown, complete with accompanying hail. Hit-and-run twisters also lashed at Kansas, Iowa and Missouri.
