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54th Year Subscribers Recommended Price 10 Cents MEDFOI To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MTJ 2-1021, Yreka 841W before 6:45 pjn. daily and 12:30 pjn. Sunday. . If regular delivery arrives shortly after . you call please notify office thus eliminating' special messenger service. F 1TT -TTTT TTTTM A story the fourth annual forest fir control school con ducted north of Rouge River appears on page 14 of today's Mall Tribana. I K1JB U ll United Press International Full Leased Win United Press International FuU Leased Wire 64 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAV, MAY 17, 1959 No. 49 11 i School Districts' Budgets, Merger For Decisions Prospect, Eagle Point and Phoenix school districts will hold elections on their school budgets this week. . Both Phoenix and Talent school districts will vote Wed nesday on proposed consoli dation of the two districts. Prospect Monday will con sider a budget total of $199, 287.87 and will vote-on $39,- 355.85 in excess of the 6 per cent limitation. Eagle Point has a budget total of $660,- 189.30 and Thursday will vote on $377,738.76 in excess of the 6 per cent limitation. Phoenix has an operating bud get of $390,950 and patrons will vote Monday on $217, 577.53 over the 6 per ;cent limitation. Prescotf Park Master Survey To Be Prepared Plans for development of Medford'i Prescott park atop Roxv Ann butte were dis cussed Friday night at a meet ing of some 28. city officials, representatives of civic groups and interested individuals. Medford's ' new parks and recreation director, Robert L. Haworth, reportedly stated he would prepare a master sur vey of the park, with an eye to orderly restorations and im provements and standardized facilities. Following this survey, It was explained," groups inter-: ested in specific improvements projects could check with Ha worth's office to assure co ordination. Haworth reportedly told those at the meeting that large public outlays for parks and recreation should not be ex pected until more modest projects have proved their value. He explained that Med ford is just embarking upon an integrated program, and must still catch up with many other communities. Haworth reportedly , stated ' he favored joint city - county responsibility for the area's development. He said he fav ored, individual civic groups' and other organizations' ' as suming responsibility for in dividual improvement proj ects. Questionaires were dis . tributed at the meeting, to ob tain opinions and suggestions of those present. The meeting, held in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium, was called by the Welcome Wagon club with the endorsement of the Medf ord parks and recreation commis sion. Verl Walker represented the commission in the discus sions. Scheduled for Roxy Ann this spring are road improve ments by the county and spraying of poison oak along the road, by county.crews, and in picnic areas, by the city. Ashland Authorities Seek Cause of Fire Ashland Police and firemen yesterday continued inves tigating the cause of the fire which took the life Friday of ; 2-year-old Billy Lee Millard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe A. Millard, 296 Maple st., here.! The boy died of burns' which enveloped a lean-to hay shed . behind his home. The fire was reported by his four-year-old sister, Helen Marie, who had been playing with him. Optometrists Elect New Officers Here t Delegates to the annual con vention of the Oregon Opto metric association elected Dr. j Byron E. Woodruff, Roseburg, as president yesterday at the ; Rogue Valley Country club. Dr.; Allan E. Herndobler, Milton-Freewater, was named first vice president. Other of ficers included Dr. William Shackelford, Albany, second vice president; Dr. Donald Dry an of Portland, treasurer, I T T-fc J -tl 1 - ana ur. uunaia namoers, Milwaukee, secretary. More than 200 delegates were at tending the convention, which opened Friday and ends today. The total operating budget for Prospect shows a slight decrease from the current budget total - $199,287.87 for the new fiscal year compared to $208,877.56 .for this past fiscal year. Throughout the itemized list, the Prospect school dis trict budget shows little change from the current year's budget. The total in teachers' salaries "- $91,025 compared to $89,000 - is in keering with the normal year ly rise -in salaries, or normal increment. Upkeep of grounds shows a decided drop from the $3,060 expended for the current year to the $60 allocated for the new fiscal year. The play ground and school driveway had to be paved this year, it was explained. Total operating budget for Eagle Point for the new fiscal year is $660,189.30. It is dif ficult to compare Eagle Point's new operating budget with the current fiscal year since the next fiscal year will be the first time Shady Cove, Elk Trail and Eagle Point will be under the same budget. They were joined with Eagle Point this . year. Apparently the general fund is almost the same as the current year. A total of $77,324.71 has been set aside for bond in terest and sinking fund for the new fiscal year, an in crease over the $60,750.25 for the current year. The item of tuition to other districts amounts to $3,500 and will be used for a special education class to start in the new fiscal year: at Eagle Point. The state pays half. An additional teacher for the high school at an esti mated $5,200 annual salary has been included also in the new fiscal year's salary. The new fiscal year's bud get-shows approximately double the sum this year in capital expenditures $13,000 compared to $6,532.95. This is to complete a room on the new Elk Trail gymnasium, it was explained, to be used for music and other activities, or as a classroom. Elk Trail is bringing money into the combined district for this building project. This money is left over from Pub lic Law 874 and is received also from the rural' district funds. Public.Law 874 author izes allocation of federal funds to schools having pupils whose parents work on fed eral projects ,or jobs or live on federal lands. (Continued on Page 15) Evans Valley Meeting Called Patrons of the Evans Val ley school district will be asked during a public meet ing Thursday what kind of budget they prefer, according to James H. Martin", school board chairman. Evans Valley voted down its budget during ithe regular school meeting May 4. The school board will seek advice on the budget from the public following a public hearing in Evans Valley, con ducted by the county school district reorganization com mittee, Martin said. The EVans Valley school district budget committee decided Fri day night to widely advertise the hearing on Thursday and to discuss the hudget at the same time. The budget committee had asked the school district pa trons to send letters telling what kind of budget they want. However, as of Friday night only one letter was re ceived and that was favorable to the budget already voted down, Martin said. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy this after noon; partial clearing tonight. Partly cloudy through Monday night. Occasional showers.- High 67. Low 43. High Monday 72. TEMP. Highest Saturday 65 Lowest Saturday 46 PRECIP. To 1 p.m. Saturday .01 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7.28 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:48 ajn. Moonset tomorrow 2:23 a.m. The planet, Jniter, now rises in the evening twilight and will set shortly before sunrise. It is about 406 million miles from the Earth tonight, the nearest It wlU be in 1959. MAKING MEDFORD BEAUTIFUL - A team led by" Make Medf ord Beautiful Chair- i man Lou Cranston (center, David Keeton (far right); chairman of the committee's spring clean-up subcommittee, Summift Stockade Ceremonies Today Dedication ceremonies for the Siskiyou summit welcome stockade will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon with Dr. Edwin R. Durno, state senator from Jackson county as principle speaker. The stockade was construct ed by members of the Army engineers reserve unit of southern Oregon under the command of Brig Gen. Wil liam H. Prentice. It will serve as a welcome booth for tour ists - during Oregon's Centen nial year, and perhaps in fu ture years. The stockade will be open between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m starting tomorrow. It will be manned by students from Southern Oregon college, who have been attending a special course in Oregon history, scenic locations and Centen nial events. Financing for the opening week of the stockade will be by the Medford Elks club, ac cording to Jennings Pierce, co- chairman for the dedication ceremony. ' Bands to Participate Participating in events at the stockade will be the Ash land High school- band under direction of Raoul Maddox, and the Crater High school band under the direction of Norm Carothers. The bands are scheduled to play between 1:30 and 3 p.m. Medford High school's band, under - the direction of Irv Mirick, will play during the ceremonies. . State representatives, coun ty court members, mayors of local cities, Centennial associa tion officials, chambers of commerce and other groups will be introduced. Jackson County Judge Earl Miller, is to speak briefly. To Bo Introduced ; General Prentice will be in troduced, with Jack Creager," Bear Creek Topic 01 Two Meetings Two meetings on Bear creek its pollution and its potential are slated tomor row. . . Russell DeForest, president of the Oregon Sportsmen of Jackson county, -will address the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable at its weekly luncheon tomor row noon at the Jackson hotel. . Plans for organizing a "Bear Creek Development Commit tee" are to be laid tomorrow evening at a meeting called by Earl Knight, president of the Jackson county chapter of the Izaak Walton league. Representatives from civic and fraternal organizations, clubs and group devoted to sporting and conservation ac tivities are expected to at tend. The meeting is schedul ed for 8 p.m. at Medford city hall.' Persons interested in learn ing more of Bear creek's pol lution problems and of means of pollution abatement, and especially those willing to assist in efforts to clean up the creek and develop its park and recreation potential, are invited to both meetings. in jacket) and president of the Jackson Coun ty Centennial association; Miss Pat Rushton, Miss Jackson County; and Medford Mayor John Snider, a member of the Oregon Centennial commis sion. Dr. Durno will officially represent Governor Mark O. Hatfield. , The stockade will observe open house between 10 o'clock this morning and 5 o'clock this afternoon. It is located 12 miles south of Ashland on Highway 99. Morrow Rd. 12th St. Section Said Approved, v Plans for a stretch of the proposed Highway 99 free way through Medford report edly approved by the bureau of public roads last week are those for the Morrow rd. to 12th st. sector, according to an unconfirmed report. A state highway depart ment official said Friday he understood this was the sec tor involved. ' He said, how ever, that no confirmation of the BPR's reported action has been received here. ' Medford officials awaited further word with interest, since this, sector includes a number of engineering prob lems. Plans for the 12th st. to Barnett rd. sector were ap proved previously. Shakespeare Festival Ashland - The 19th- annual Oregon ' Shakespearean Festi val company will meet. June 11 for auditions and casting, Angus L. Bowmer, the thea ter's founder and . producer, has announced. ' Key performers for the 1959 Festival have been named, and v i ft r 1 THEATER BUILDING - The new stage for the Oregon Shakespearean Festival theater in Ashland -is nearing completion, with work on schedule, and the company is ex pected to meet June 11 for auditions and casting. All five levels of the new stage attacked the weeds and debris along South Pacific highway north of Stewart ave. early Saturday morning. The committee hopes to carry . the campaign northward, block by block, in the near future. Death of Dulles , Feared Imminent Washington- (OPD -John Fos ter Dulles, stricken with can cer and pneumonia, may die in a matter of days, friends said yesterday. They reported the strength of. the 71-year-old diplomat was ebbing and that he was growing weaker every day The former Secretary of State is in Walter Reed Army Medi cal Center. Members of his family have gathered here. Dulles has been bedridden since last Saturday when it was discovered he had pneumonia." The State Department re ported Friday that the pneu monia has persisted and "there has been some further decline in his general condition.'' Dulles has been1 valiantly battling cancer since Feb.' 13 when evidence of a new out break of the malignancy in his abdominal tract was dis covered in the course- of a hernia operation. In November, 1956, cancer had been discovered in the same area but an operation apparently was successful. This time, the condition was inoperable. Washington -UPD- The AFL CIO high command may ask the House to remove or fur ther modify the Senate - ap proved "Bill of Rights" in the labor reform bill, informed sources said yesterday. include several actors and ac tresses seen here before. The company will perform on a new Elizabethan stage, which is nearing completion. A recent $10,000 Ford foun dation grant,- awarded Bowm er for the continuation of his Shakespearean studies and for are in, roofing is completed, and exterior detail is starting. The interior finish will soon start, Festival officials said. Jack Ed son, Medford, is the architect. v (Dwaine Smith photo) CClfoiryslhidhiev 03 Western Notes Dispatched To Ike, Macmillan About Inspections Would Allow Limited Teams Moscow - (DPD Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has written President Eisenhower that Russia would be willing to allow a definitely limited number of veto-free nuclear inspection teams on its soil to enforce an international nuclear test ban, it was dis closed last night. Khrushchev said the Soviet Union was ready to "Under take to guarantee the timely and unimpeded access of in spection groups to any region within the Soviet Union, to check on suspected nuclear weapons test. But he was firm in insisting that the number of inspections must be limited by advance agreement. The official Soviet news agency Tass disclosed that Khrushchev .had explained the Russian position in let ters sent Friday to President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan discussing the problems of the stalled nuclear test ban talks. "The very idea behind our proposal is to do away with the so-called 'veto' question in sending groups for on-the- spot inspections," Tass quoted Khrushchev as saying. Khrushchev s letters were in reply to letters from Eisen hower :and .Macmillan which urged Khrushchev to ; help break the deadlock in the Geneva nuclear talks. Khrushchev said the Soviet Union would have "no objec tion" if the number of inspec tions were reviewed every two years. He said the review could take into account ex perience gained by the control organization. He also endorsed Eisen hower's proposal for "early consideration of concrete methods of detecting high al titude explosions." He said he approved of a short meeting of East-West, experts to dis cuss the matter and said such detection methods should be part of the inspection system. Russia, Khrushchev said, only wants a limit placed on the .number of inspections that would be carried out under an East - West agree ment i to prohibit nuclear weapons test, Tass said. Plans Announced the formulation of experienced acting companies this year and next, has made possible a veteran roster for the theater's 40-night season. The season opens July 28 with the annual Feast of the Tribe of Will in Lithia park near the. Fe'stival theater, fol- "What's All The Fuss For Senators Fromgoers (Perish M Car-Traita 'Crash ' Mattoon, 111.'- (DPD - Seven teen - agers returning ' home from a formal, high school prom were killed yesterday when a passenger train slam med into their car at an un guarded country crossing near here. - - Some of the victims were Salem Woman Named BPW Federation Head Miss Mildred Yetter, Salem, was elected and seated here yesterday as president of the Oregon Federation of Business and ' Professional Women's clubs.' She succeeds Mrs. Wil liam P. Downing, Myrtle Point. :v Other officers named in clude Mrs. William A. Bliz zard, Oswego-Lake . Grove, first vice president; Mrs, Loren Norton, Eugene, second vice president; Miss Betty Elofson, Salem, corresponding secrefary; Mrs. Marvin Sjo gren, Oswego-Lake Grove, re cording secretary, and Mrs V. L. Greene, The Dalles, treasurer. flowed by "Twelfth Night," di rected by Bowmer. A special production, "The Masque of the New World," directed by Jerry Turner, has been writ ten especially for the Festival company as a salute to Ore gon's Centennial celebration It will be presented as a pro logue to "Twelfth Night throughout the season. Qther plays, to rotate with nightly performances through Sept. 5, are "King John," di rected by Richard Risso; and "Measure for Measure" and "Aritony and Cleopatra," both directed hv James Sandoe. Returning ' to the Festival stage through Ford founda tion assistance are Philip Han son, who played Hotspur, Mal volio and other parts between 1949 and 1953; William Oyler, who played Iago in 1957; Ed ward Grover, 1958 s Kent in "King Lear"; Barbara Waide, formerly Barbara Huggins; and Mary Jo Randall, 1957's Rosalind and Katherine. - Several 1958 performers have - been awarded scholar ships in the new company. They include George and Mar garet Vafiadis, Nagle Jacks"bn, William Nye, Robert Towers, and George Riddle. David O'Brien will return to the Ashland stage from a year's study in London on a Full- bright scholarship, Making their initial appear ances are the following schol arship winners: Mark Rawson, Pasadena Playhouse; Charles Whitman, Cleveland P 1 a y- house; Ezra Howard, New York; Joel Riggs, University of Texas; Edward Poyourow, University of Michigan; Ar thur Lewis, Harvard; and Au riol M. D. Smith, the Univer sity of Bristol, England. smmosses. About A Little Carpeting In Washington?" hurled 100 yards by the Im pact of the collision. Although there w ere no witnesses on the immediate scene, persons who saw the accident from a distance re ported the train "opened the car up like .a tin can." Six of the car's eight occu pants, all dressed in party formals and dinner jackets, were dead on arrival at Me morial hospital here. They included three girls and three boys. A fourth girl, Dorothy Thomas, 18, died several hours after the crash. ; Ivan Moon, 22, believed to have been the driver of the car, was , the only occupant of the auto still alive. But hospital authorities said he was still unconscious and in "very bad shape." Those killed instantly in the accident were identified as Jerry Hill, 18, Irene Moon, 16, Lyle Pfeiffer, 18, his sis ter, Loraine, 17, Judy Keen, 18, and Jerry Ray Hays, 19. Hill, Pfeiffer, Miss Thomas and Miss Keen were to have graduated this spring from Shelbyville high school, 23 miles west of here, where the annual junior - senior prom was held Friday night. The prom also was a birthday cele bration for Miss Keen, who was 18 Friday. Highest Ranking Miss Moon, whose father, farmer C. R. Moon, owned the car, was the highest ranking girl scholastically in the jun ior class, and was to have been inducted into the na tional honor society Monday. C. R. Segley, principal of Shelbyville High, said the bodies were so badly mangled that he could not even recog nize the dresses of the girls, which he had seen at the prom only a few hours earlier. Wafer Distrkt Slates Election A special election will be held June 1 in the Jackson ville highway water district to vote on two proposals pre sented by the board of direc tors. One is whether or not a standpipe on property east of Oak Grove school should be dismantled and discarded. The tank, which has been out of use several years, is consider ed a hazard, and costs about $1,500 for maintenance an nually, '-"the board said. The other proposal is whether the district shall in stall another four-inch water main between two six inch mains on Lozier lane between Jacksonville highway and Stewart ave. Increased demand from wa ter users west of Lozier lane would be better served with the additional main, board members said. The election will be held at the Oak Grove school between 2 and 8 p.m. Funds are avail able for both projects, board members said. , Some Parts Held Worth Discussing At Geneva Parley Tone Considered Remarkably Mild Geneva- (DPD -Russia yester day rejected as a cold war trap the Western Package plan for Germany, but said some parts of it were "worthy of discussion" at the Geneva Foreign Ministers conference. Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, in a burst of per sonal diplomacy during the week end recess of the Ge neva Foreign Ministers Con ference, spoke out in Moscow on the cold war issues of Germany and a nuclear test ban. In neither case did he close the door to negotiation. . These were the day's de velopments: Khrushchev insisted the Western one-piece package plan must be broken into sep arate parts. His tone was re markably mild. Secretary of State Chris tian A. Herter informed An drei Gromyko the West would refuse a summit conference unless the ministers ' made enough progress to warrant it Khrushchev sent letters to President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan declaring Russia's willingness to allow a fixed number of veto-free inspection teams on its soil to enforce a nuclear, test ..ban. But he in sisted that the number -of such investigations of suspected nu clear test must be limited and fixed in advance. Swift Trip fe Rome Herter made a swift trip to Rome for conferences and promised that the West would fight to seat Italy first if the Big Four ministers conference is expanded. Much negotiation lay ahead. Khrushchev-speaking on his award of "a Lenin prize for peace-served notice that Rus sian strategy now was to split apart the western package on Berlin, German reunification and European security. At the same time, the Soviets would trp to divide the western big three on the issues involved. The U. S. delegation dis closed that Herter informed Gromyko flatly there would be no summit conference just because Khrushchev wanted one. He stressed the U.S. in sistence that the foreign min isters must make progress be fore President Eisenhower would sit down to a meeting with Khrushchev. . There was belief that Rus sia might give just enough to win the summit meeting. It was learned that the U.S., Britain and France were pre paring for such a meeting in mid-July, possibly in San Francisco. The western package was presented as an indissoluble whole-all or nothing. The Soviets countered with a de mand that there be a separate peace treaty made with each of the two Germanies and then a discussion of the Soviet demand that the western pow ers cear out of West Berlin and turn it into a "free city." Khrushchev stressed that this remained the Russian goal. It would be up to for eign minister Andrei Gromy ko to try to exploit the Soviet stand and probe for weak nesses in the western united front. Sports Bulletins Los Angeles (UPD Fast balling Bob Buhl pitched a four-hitler last night lo pace the Milwaukee Braves lo a 6-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Camp While American Linen of Portland tallied three runs in the seventh ining lo Irim Rogue Valley Dairy Maids 7 lo 5 here last night in a Northwest Girls' Major Softball league game. Pilcher Marge Grant brought the Whirlwinds from behind with a two run -homer. She hurled a no-hil-ler but walked four and hit a bailer in the first inning when Ihe Dairy Maids scored all their runs.
