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Newspaper Page TextA fn fed mil AT DraiggDing ontinuiss in tappa for Irasia Victims Bodies of Three Found in Wreck Of Piper Apache . Search Resumes ; For Three Others ' Reedsport, Ore. -UPD -Drag-Ing operations in the Umpqua river continued todav east of here for three persons miss ing after the twin - engine plane in which they were fly ing struck power lines and crashed in the river Saturday. - Six persons in all were aboard. The bodies of the other three were located in the plane Sunday. Dead were the Dilot. William B. Rogers, 34, Longview, Wash., and two of his passengers, Mrs. Sally Nimmo. ReedsDort. and Mrs. Olaf Bong, 41, of Ft. Bragg, Calif. Mrs. Nimmo was the. wife of Reedsport policeman Ted Nimmo and the mother of two children. - Missing were Bong, hus band of the dead woman; Mrs. Gerald Olson, and her five- month-old son, all of Ft Bragg. The plane was a Piper Apache owned by the Abor igine Lumber company of Ft, Brasrr and Longview. Police said Rogers was taking the plane back to Ft. Bragg from Longview via North Bend, where Mrs. Nimmo planned to deDlane. .- Mrs. Nimmo and Mrs. Bong were returning after attend ing the funeral of their fath er, Lawrence Clark, at Wood land, Wash. Nimmo reported the plane overdue at North Bend after it left Longview at 2:30 ojn. Saturday. The wreckage was first dis covered by workmen of t h e Douglas County Electric Co operative, who were called out to repair power lines. The plane was raised from the rivT er with the use of a floating crane. One of the craft's en gines had been torn loose and had a power cable wrapped around it, police said. State police said they were forced to cancel dragging op erations about 2 pjn. Sunday because grappling equipment yas damaged by boulders. Re pairs were made and opera tions resumed at 6 ajn. today. Washington School Entered by Vandals Unidentified vandals broke into Washington school, 610 South Peach st., over the week end, Medford police re ported today. Police said the only items taken apparently were 13 or 16 screws from various doors in. the kitchen and dining room, and one door knob. Damages reportedly included two broken door windows, and an unspecified quantity of ice cream taken from a freez er and left to melt. Vandals entered the Jack son school four weeks ago, a erase police are still investigat ing. . Cancer Society 'directors Named . Portland-flJPD-Four members "of the national board of direc tors of the American Cancer Society were named at a re gional meeting here Sunday. ; Nominated were Mrs. Roger Goodwin, Los Angeles; Dr. Ervic A. Hinds, Denver; C. . Glenn Rye, Billings, Mont, -and Dr. Thomas Carlile, Seat "Hle. The nominees are assured of election. . Multnomah To Hold ' Portland -WD- Multnomah county sheriffs deputies today were ordered to stop holding part-time jobs or be dismissed. attorney's Opinion The directive came from Sheriff Francis Lambert who reVently received an opinion JllrL restrict Attorney Charles -Sd&t "moonlighting STounty and fid employees was illegal. ! Raymond said that under a in-Wld Oregon tatute, JSSl o mother job to U- : I 54th Year Medford 16 Pages MEDFORD, WellHa Ha None Of U$ Is Perfect" Britt House and Gardens to be Sold The house and gardens of the Peter N. Britt estate m Jacksonville will be put up for bid by the Southern Ore-, gon college in about 30 days, according to college officials. The house and gardens, com prise about three-fourths of an acre. The remainder of the estate-80 to 100 acres-will be kept by the college. Latter to Court Mrs. Dwight L. Houghton, secretary of the Siskiyou Pio- Two Seri Hurt in Accident Two persons were seriously hurt in a two-vehicle accident near the Desert Service sta tion on the Crater Lake high way Sunday. Darlyn Jean Dugger, 20, star route, Trail, driver of one of the cars involved, was list ed in fair condition today, with lacerations and a broken nose. Leonard Ralph Black, 25, of route 1, box 2A, Jack sonville, driver of the other vehicle, was reported ia poor condition, suffering from scalp lacerations, a dislocated hip and fractured pelvis. Both were taken to Sacred Heart hospital by the Medford Am bulance service. A witness told state police that about 1:30 a.m. Sunday a car passed her. She heard a crash and then saw sparks fly further down the highway as the cars collided. Police are continuing their investigation of the crash. Hoover Asks Sterner Measures on Juveniles Washington-flJPD-FBI Direc tor J. Edgar Hoover has asked the courts and local communi ties to use "sterner measures" on "savage . . . brutal" juve nile delinquents contributing to the .rapidly rising crime rate. Deputies One Job legal while employed by the city or county. The practice is opposed by labor unions who contend it takes jobs away from the un employed. To Seek Injunction Sheriffs deputies affected indicated they would seek an injunction barring enforce ment of the directive and seek a court decision on the sta tute's constitutionality. The. order , applied to . only Multnomah county sheriffs deputies. ously OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1959 No. 44 neer Sites . Foundation, has presented a letter containing the sale plan to the county court,1' It was written by Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, SOC presi dent. Average of the apprais als on the house and gardens is about $2,000, Stevenson wrote. The letter was written to the foundation since it had shown interest in possibly buying the property. Mrs. Houghton indicated that the foundation may ask for public contributions to pur chase the section of property, She asked if the county court might maintain' it for a his torical park. County Judge Earl Miller said the court would inspect the property perhaps today to consider the proposition. ' , Few Rooms Usable Only three or four rooms are now usable in the Britt house, which is some 100 years old. Several rooms, including the pioneer photographer's studio, front room, bedroom, living room and parlor were extensively damaged either by fire or rain. The foundation has been interested in, restoring the property for approximately two years but because of legal technicalities has been unable to do much, according to Al bert K. Gandt, foundation official. The foundation tentatively had made plans to restore the gardens laid out along a co lonial design, but has been undecided on what to do with the house, Gandt said. Volun teer labor would be needed for the rehabilitation work, he added. Revival of CCC Runs Into Snag Washington -4UPD- The" to terior Department today op posed a bill that would revive the pre-World War II Civilian Conservation Corps to provide work in national forests for 150,000 youths. Interior Secretary Fred Sea ton said in a letter to the Sen ate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare that the De partment considers it inad visable to carry forward such a major program at this time. Seaton's letter was read in to the record as Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), spon sor of the bill, was testifying before a special subcommit tee in the measure's behalf. Humphrey contended that the program would pay for itself in improvement of the forests and in added revenue from the sals of lumber. Price 10 Cents Tribune Southern Pacific Lark Passenger Trains Sideswipe Cars Derailed; Five Persons Hurt San Luis Obispo, Calif. - (UPD Two Southern Pacific pullman trains with 235 pas sengers and crewmen aboard sideswiped early Sunday, de railing, eight cars and diesel units and injuring five per sons. The sister trains called the Lark were both traveling slowly because of mountain grades. The accident apparent ly occurred when the north bound Los Angeles to San Francisco" train pulled out from a siding too soon and rammed the last four coaches of the southbound train, of ficials said. Track Ripped Up , Impact of the crash ripped up 800 feet of track about nine miles north of here half way between Los Angeles and San Francisco and hurled passengers from their Pull-. man beds. All of the injured were on the southbound train. One of the injured, porter Bennie, Daniel,-, 64, r Los An geles, credited a collapsed door with saving his life from flying debris. . "All of a sudden the train caved in on me. A door fell on . top of me. I couldn't move." Rescuers cut Daniel out of the wreckage with an acety lene torch. Injuries Minor His injuries were minor as were the injuries of other vic tims. Service on the railway was discontinued for 24 hours. The passengers on the wreck ed trains were taken to their destination by buses. . Three Pullman cars and a dining car of the southbound train were derailed and left leaning at a 45-degree angle against v an embankment. The first two diesel units of the northbound train were over turned and its last two diesel units were 'derailed. Mule-Drawn Wagon To Race Jet Plane Grandview, Mo. -(UPD- The Air Force today matched a mule-drawn covered wagon in a race with one of the newest and fastest jet fighters, the Delta Dagger, and predicted it would result in a dead heat. The covered wagon will lumber from one end of the Richards-Gebaur Air Force base runway to the other and return this Saturday, a trip of about four miles. The convair F-102A jet, meanwhile, will take off from the base, circle the "On to Oregon" wagon train which is expected to be camped at North Platte, Neb., and re turn. The jet trip will cover about 600 miles. The wagon train departed Independence, Mo., April 19 and is en route to Independ ence, Ore., to publicize Ore gon's centennial. Albany Firm Found Guilty byNLRB San Francisco - (UPD - Three charges of unfair labor prac tices against the Wah Chang corporation, Albany, Ore., have been upheld in a finding by trial examiner Howard Myers of the National Labor Relations board here. . Myers, found, the rare met als processing firm guilty of discharging four employees last November because of union activities, of giving un lawful support to an inde pendent company union and of making coercive statement!. Unemployment At Lowest Level For 17 Months Number Working Reaches 65,012,000 Washington-(UPD-Unemploy-ment fell by 735,000 in April to 3,627,000, the lowest level since December, 1957, the government reported today. The number of persons working climbed to a record April high of 65,012,000. Brisk hiring in construction and manufacturing a n d a seasonal pick up in farm work lifted the April employment total by 1,185,000 from March. Better Than Expected Both changes were twice as good as was expected on a seasonal basis. They dropped the proportion of the labor force out of work from 5.8 per. cent in March to 5.3 per cent in April. The Commerce and Labor departments said in a joint report "the job recovery ac celerated in April" and the favorable development meant that two thirds of the unem ployment bulge attributed to the 1957-58 business recession was wiped out. . Earnings Increase Average factory earnings rpse 63 cents from March. This gave factory workers $89.87 a week in April. Seymour Wolfbein, the La bor Department chief job ex pert, noted as "a most en couraging sign" that 450,000 of the unemployment drop in cluded married men with families - "a critical sector where it really counts." The unemployment total was down 1,100,000 from De cember, indicating' that after a sluggish winter the job pic ture brightened markedly in the spring, the report said. But unemployment was still more than 900,000 higher than in" April, 1957, when the job less.vrate . was only,-4.0 per cent. A year ago, at the bot tom of the recession the rate was 7.5 per cent and unem ployment totaled 5,120,000. Creek Pollution Topic of Meeting "Clean water is everybody's business" is the theme of a program on abating pollution of Bear creek called for to night by the Jackson county chapter of the Izaak Walton league. The program, slated to get under way at 8:30 o'clock after a business meeting start ing at 8, will be presented at Girls Community club, 229 North Bartlett st. Kenneth Denman, Medford attorney and state game com mission member, will moder ate a panel including Cole Rivers, state biologist, and Ted Gerow, state sanitary en gineer, both of Grants Pass, Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county health officer, and Bob Root, Medford pear grower and member of the state wa ter resources board. The panel's presentation is scheduled to last one hour, with a period, to follow for questions from the audience. The public is invited. Representatives of slaugh ter houses using the creek for waste disposal, officials from cities in the creek's watershed and county officials have been especially asked to attend. The program's object, ac cording to Col. Paul H. Wei land, chairman of the chap ter's pollution committee, ' is "to better inform our mem bers and public of the poten tial of Bear creek and its pol lution problems and the pos sibilities of securing correc tive action." Newspaper Buying Habits To Be Surveyed Washington -(UPD A nation wide survey of the newspaper buying habits of the Ameri can public will be made next week by the Census Bureau. WEATHER FORECAST Fair and warm through Tuesday. Low tonight 45. High Tuesday 80. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 72 Lowest This Morning 40 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:22 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:53 a.m. Moonset tonight 10:42 p.m. First Quarter May 15 The Moon tonight appears to he moving among the stars of Gemini which are actually in its far distant background. Al hena, the star seen nearest to the Moon, is 105 light yean away. RUSS TEAM' ARRIVES Members of the Russian negotiating team arrive at Geneva, Switzerland, for the upcoming Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference. At left is Steel Talks Measures for Unemployment Security Sought New York -(UPD- Eight men were to sit down to brass tacks bargaining for a new steel industry labor contract today with' 50 days' between them and a threatened crippl ing strike. David J. McDonald, presi dent of the United Steelwork ers of America, said he would seek to make "practical meas ures for unemployment secur ity" the first order of business in talks with the four-man ne gotiating team representing the big three of the steel in-dustry-U. S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic. McDonald said that security could be achieved, in the union's view, by "a balanced program of reducing hours, increasing purchasing power by improving wages and other benefits, and appropriate re visions in our pensions" and seniority agreements. Cooper Heads Team R. Conrad Cooper, execu tive vice president of U. S. Steel, heading the industry team which represents the three big steel firms and, in directly, nine other major steel producers, enters the talks with a mandate from all 12 - companies to resist any demand for wage increases. In the face of this apparent deadlock, the weekly publica tion Steel magazine said to day that manufacturers' at tempts to build steel inven tories against the threatened strike are not progressing as rapidly as had been hoped. The magazine said that the heightened business recovery has caused manufacturers to dip into steel supplies ordered as strike insurance. It said that at the present inventory build-up, a steel strike lasting three to four weeks may force some manufacturers to shut down. Urges Intervention A demand for federal in tervention to prevent a new inflationary spiral in the cru cial steel agreement was made Sunday by Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.). He called on President Eisenhower to sum mon both parties to the White House and "talk turkey to them" if it appears that wage increases will lead to a new steel price boost. The industry has demanded - and. the union rejected - a one-year wage freeze to halt inflation. It has contended any wage increase must be passed on by the industry, in price increases. The union has said the industry can afford to raise wages without raising prices. ' Washington (UPD Vice President Richard M. Nixon has appealed to religious lead ers to "mobilize the moral support of the American peo ple" in a. drive to wipe , out racial discrimination in employment. tJirai ONUS Industry Bids to be May 26 for Bridge Bids on the proposed Eighth st. bridge over Bear creek are among .those on a total of 23 projects slated for opening by the state highway commission May 26 in Salem. , The bridge is the major link in the extension of Eighth st. from Riverside ave. to East Main st. just east of the creek. When this extension is com pleted, eastbound traffic on Eighth st. will no longer have to turn north on Riverside ave. and then east on Main a maneuver contributing to occasional congestion on Riverside. Plans call for the bridge structure to consist of a 182 foot, reinforced concrete gird er, with 26-foot clear road way and 5-foot sidewalks. Rapid Construction - It is expected that a con tract will be awarded soon after the bid-opening to per mit construction of the bridge. The east approach embank ment for the bridge has al ready been completed. The right-of-way from Riverside to the creek is expected to be cleared for construction work after the end of May. The Eighth st. extension Ashland Man Killed In Logging Accident Yreka, Calif-Melvin Cook, 42, of 753 Siskiyou blvd., Ash land, was reported killed to day in a logging accident 45 miles north of Yreka. Cook was killed in a log slide at the Fruit Growers' Supply company operations in the Siskiyou mountains, 'ac cording to the Siskiyou coun ty sheriff's office. The acci dent occurred about 9 a.m. Cook's wife, Laura, is em ployed by J. C. Penney com pany in Medford. Health Department Reports Less Cases The number of flu-like virus cases in Jackson county have dropped to less than half of the previous week's total, ac cording .to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county public health officer, today. Dr. Merkel reported that the total number of cases has dropped from more than 600 reported -last week to about 402 reported so far this week. Approximately 180 cases were reported from Ashland dur ing the previous week which had not been included in fig ures released in official re ports, he explained. Khrushchev Delivers 'Big Speech' at Kiev London-(UPD-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev today de livered a "big speech" at Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, Mos cow Radio reported. It did not broadcast details. " Sdviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and next to him (right) is Soviet Ambassa dor to London Jacob Malik. At right back ground is Soviet Ambassador to Germany Andre Smirnov. Opened project is being financed by the city itself. When complet ed, it will represent the last step in the Main st-Eighth st. couplet. No definite comple tion date has been set. The bridge project was de layed due to an unusually heavy workpad in the state highway department. The state office designs bridges for Oregon cities since they have the engineers trained in that field, it was reported. The cities reimburse the state for the work done. Surgery Scheduled For Gen. Twining Washington (UPD - Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will undergo "exploratory surgery because of suspicious X-ray findings, . the Defense Department announced today. Twining entered Walter Reed Army Medical Center May 3 for an annual physical examination. His chest X-rays showed a need for "further diagnosis and study," it was announced today. All investi gations so far have proved "negative," the Pentagon re ported. "However," the department said, "In an effort to deter mine the cause of the changes found in his X-rays, explora tory surgery is now contem plated in the near future." Grave Markers at Milwaukie Broken Milwaukie, Ore. , -(UPD- Mil waukie police said Sunday vandals uprooted at least 30 tombstones-over the week end at the historic Milwaukie cem etery here and used a pickax to break some of them.' The plot was established in 1849. It was the first case of vandalism reported at the his toric cemetery in two years. In that instance, a number of temporary headstones were moved from graves. Seattle Construction Jobs Closed Seattle -(UPD- A strike caus ed t by a disagreement over hiring halls today tied up sev en large construction jobs in Seattle and Tacoma and threatened to spread through out the state. AGC Calls Lockout Members of Operating En gineers Local 302 and several Teamsters locals, including 174, the general Teamsters or ganization in Seattle, did not report for work at five jobs in Seattle and two in Ta coma. At the same time the Asso ciated General Contractors called for a lockout at all jobs by AGC. By tonight, the strike was Russian Demand To Seat Germany Delays Opening German Delegations Given Adviser Roles Geneva -(UPD- A Soviet de mand that East Germany be seated as a full member of the Foreign Ministers Confer ence delayed the conference start by two and a half hours today.. Russia withdrew the demand in the face of stone wall opposition. It was agreed that both East and West German delegations would be admitted as "advis ers." They will sit at two small tables close to the big one at which the U.S., British, French and Soviet foreign ministers themselves will be seated. Western Victory ' The agreement was worked out at a meeting today be tween the western foreign ministers and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.' They met at the villa of Brit ish Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. : , Thus, the parley called to deal with the problems of Ber lin and Germany started off with an initial western vic tory. The first session, which lasted about 40 minutes, was largely perfunctory. The next session was set for Tuesday, at which time Gromyko will be in the chair. Gromyko started the wran gle Sunday when he announc ed the demand that East Ger many be admitted as a full and equal member of the con ference. West Rejects. Demand The West promptly rejected the demand, maintaining its ' position that it would be will ing for East and. West Ger many to have "advisers" pres ent in the conference room of the Palais des Nations. The West does not recognize East Germany as a legitimate re gime and has shown no in clination of being pressured into recognition here. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville held emer gency talks. Then they sent Lloyd off to try to change Gromyko's mind. He got nowhere. Lloyd saw Gromyko again and gave him two hours to reconsider. The deadline pass ed without a break. After Lloyd presented Gro myko with the West's final "no" on the East German rep resentation question, the four foreign ministers attended a formal, lunch 'given by the Swiss government. Following the lunch, the four gathered at Lloyd's villa for more informal talks. It was during this period that Gro myko gave in and agreement was reached to get the con ference under way. 'Complete Agreement Gromyko himself announc ed after this meeting that "complete agreement" had been reached. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Berding, acting as chief U.S. delegation spokesman to the press, con firmed the agreement. He said the two German delegations would have the right to speak, something to which the West had objected earlier. The Soviet demand Sunday that East Germany be seated at the conference table for a time threatened to blow up the conference before.it could begin. New York -(UPD- Columnist Westbrook Pegler was to mar ry Mrs. Pearle Doane of New York and Los Angeles this afternoon. by Walkout expected to have spread to most industrial and commer cial building projects as well as most highway jobs, includ ing the Seattle freeway pro ject and Hood Canal floating bridge job. No Mediation Plans Colton D. Harper, manager of the Seattle chapter of the AGC, said members in the area were planning to shut down operations. But Harper was uncertain how many pro jects would be affected. Involved were approxi mately 3,000 engineers and 7,000 associated workers, plus an undetermined number of" Teamsters. There were no immediat plans for mediation.