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Newspaper Page Textrns fcsptal OT MM 'SLOTS' Raids Conducted Simultaneously In Three Areas Names Withheld Pending Arrests Thirty-nine illegal slot ma chines were seized by city and state police in and near Medford yesterday. . , Warrants for the arrest of two Medford men, accused of owning the devices, were to be issued this afternoon. Their names were withheld pending the arrests. . The raids were coordinated through the office of District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder, and were conducted simultan eously yesterday afternoon at three locations. Twenty-three of the ma chines were taken from a shed on Coker Butte rd. by state police officers. Medford po lice confiscated 13 from a shed in back of 519 Crater Lake ave., and three more from the rear of Valley Mu sic company, 525 Crater Lake ave. Warrants Prepared Search warrants for the raids were prepared by the district attorney's office and signed by District Judge E. Roy Bashaw. The !' machines are being held In a city jail cell. State police reported that tags on "rubble" in the Coker Butte location indicated that slot machine parts and pieces in the ihed may have come from gambling devices seized by state police and sheriffs officers in Douglas county last June. The "intact" machines did not contain such tags, they said. The tagged pieces could hava been retrieved after law enforcement officers in Doug las county had destroyed the alot machines at a site about 20 miles from Roseburg, ac cording to state police. Red Boss Calls for Atom-Free Balkans London (DPD Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev called Tuesday night for an atom free Balkans. But he threaten ed to establish rocket bases in Albania if the United States went ahead with its plan to set up missile bases in Greece and Italy. Khrushchev also paused in a speech at Tirana, Albania, to call John Foster Dulles an "outstanding politician" and to express condolences for his death. But he told his Commu nist audience Dulles appeared to be softening toward Communism along toward the last. : Khrushchev did not mention expiration of his May 27 ulti matum for the West to get out of Berlin but he said the West :was trying to avoid agreement at Geneva and said Russia would sign peace treaties with East and West Germany if no Geneva agree ment is reached. Ike To Meet With Foreign Ministers Washington (UPD President Eisenhower will meet Thurs day with the Big Four and foreign ministers of other na tions who came here to at tend the funeral of John Fos ter Dulles, the White House announced today. ; Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko will be among those attending a luncheon at the White House. Announcement of the affair came after Eisenhower met with Secretary of State Christian Herter to receive a first hand report on progress of the Geneva Foreign Minis ters Conference. Under secre tary C. Douglas Dillon also sat in on the meeting. EX-MANUFACTURER DIES Ocean City, N. J. OJPtt An drew George Spiegelhalter, 75, former president of the Pusey and Jones Corp. of Wil mington, Del., died here Mon day. He began in 1900 as an apprentice with . the firm, which manufactures paper mill machinery and steel prod ucts and was named president in 1939. Salem-(UPl-Gov. Mark Hat field has reappointed C. A. House, Baker, as a member of the State Board of Examiners in Optometry. COHFIS i SLOT MACHINES SEIZED-The eight slot machines in the city truck above were part of 39 gambling devices taken by state and city police in simultaneous raids Tuesday afternoon. Medford police confiscated 13 machines, plus extra parts, from a shed be hind 519 Crater Lake ave., and three from Reorganization Question Tabled at The Talent and Phoenix school district reorganization question was tabled last night by the Jackson county school reorganization committee. . "Time is the best solution to the problem," committee chairman Keith Hockersmith told a group of approximately 30 persons from Talent and Phoenix. "It may be some time before we drag it out again," he said. One woman in the court house auditorium audience asked if the committee anti cipated making a recommen dation for Talent and Phoenix districts before the Oct. 7 deadline when the county school reorganization ; plan must be presented the state board of education. Hocker smith said that since the re organization questions had been tabled he could not an swer that question. Special ar rangements may even be made to delay settling , the question past the October deadline, he added. Public Opinion Dick Courtright, Medford attorney and resident of the Barnett rd. area, presented a petition, or what he named a "public opinion poll," from nearly 300 residents of that area, asking that their sec tion be joined with the Med ford school district. "This group is primarily concerned with the geograph ical proximity of their homes with Medford and feel their interests are closer to Med ford," Courtright said. "They are all either residents or property owners. Many are not registered voters since they are new to the area." Other Proposal Tabled This section proposed for a shift into Medford has on its perimeter Campbell rd., Cher ry lane and Ellendale dr. Bar nett rd. cuts part way toward the center. This proposal was tabled, too. July 21 and 23 were set as dates for hearings on Pine hurst and Ashland school dis trict . reorganization. Exact dates were left open. The committee approved a motion to instruct the sec retary to prepare materials for; reorganization plans for two administrative districts in Eagle Point and Butte Falls, Traffic Crackdown Due on Week End Chicago- (CP! -The National Safety Council said today state and local plans for the great est crackdown on traffic vio lators in history may cut Memorial Day holiday traffic deaths below its estimates. The council had estimated 260 persons could die in traf fic during the holiday week end between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Sunday This compares with an estimated 225 traffic fatalities during a non-holiday period of similar duration. During last year's three-day Memorial Day holiday, United Press International counted 380 persons killed in traffic. San Francisco Loses Summit Meeting Bid Geneva -DPD- The Western Allies have abandoned San Francisco as the site for a summit conference in favor of Vienna, it was reported today. mm Tuesday Meeting Rogue River and Evans Val ley. The committee will be glad to hear any proposed solu tion from anybody in Talent and Phoenix districts, the committee chairman said. Simple Majority Phoenix voted down con solidation with Talent with 425 "no" votes to 412 "yes" votes and Talent approved it with 239 "yes" votes to 119 "no" votes. Each district stands alone on the vote, but both affected districts must approve it by a simple major ity for consolidation to take County Budget Set At $3,633,536.32; Has Final A ' total county budget of $3,633,536.32 for the 1959-60 fiscal year was approved by the county budget committee yesterday afternoon. A public hearing will be held on 'the budget at 8 p.m. July 9 in the courthouse audi torium, the county court an nounced. ' The final budget total shows a cut of $278,477 from the total of $3,912,014 on the budget when it was presented George Stacey, Medford ac countant, for his examination. The budget committee, de leted the proposed allocation of $120,000 for an all-purpose building at the county fair grounds but included a capital improvements sinking fund of $65,000 in which construction costs for such a building could be included at a later date, the county court explained. Sinking Fund The county court said the sinking fund was established so the county's "necessities and needs" could be projected Jury Re-Indicts G. Pass Woman Grants Pass (UPD Mrs. Frances Irene McCurdy, 49, today was re-indicted for the 1948 slaying of her son. She also was indicted for the first time for the murder of her daughter. Mrs. McCurdy recently was released from the state hos pital in Salem where she was sent after the bodies of her son, Paul, 10, and daughter, Pamela, 11, were found in a local auto-court. The grand jury returned the indictments shortly after noon. She now faces trial for the two slayings. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued cloudv and cool with scattered light ihowers t h r o n f h Thursday. Low tonight 43. High Thursday 68. Temp. Highest Yesterday 5 Lowest this Morning 43 Free, to 10 jn. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:37 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:40 a.m. Moonrtse tomorrow 12:10 x.m. Last Quarter May 29 PROMINENT STARS The Big Dipper, In the north west at midnight. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, in the west at sunset. Mars, to the left of Venus. Jupiter, low in south S:25 p.m. Saturn, low in south east .11:91 pjn. here Pj '"j i the rear of Valley Music company, 525 Crater Lake ave. State police took 23 from a shed on Coker Butte rd. Warrants for the arrest of two Medford men, believed to be owners of the machines, were to be issued by the district attorney today. place, Hockersmith said. A request by Laura Gilman McKee for transfer of prop erty from District 549 (Med ford) to District 6 (Central Point) was refused. The prop erty in question is located on Merriman rd. close to the Howard district which has been transferred to District 6 and is just west of Gilman's Dairy, Hockersmith explain ed. Mrs. McKee said her four children would have to travel over four miles to attend Med ford schools and a little over a mile to attend Central Point schools. Approval over the next 10 years. The proposed building which would include extension agents' offices and a large auditorium is "not entirely forgotten," the, county court said. The budget committee feels further study should be made, it was reported. Other cuts made we're $125,' 500 from the general road fund and $3,500 from the dis trict court allocation. Slate Pays Salary The recent state legislature raised the district court judge's salary and becameisole agency for paying the salary. The county now has to pay only the $4,500 covering the interim period from July 1 to Jan. 1, 1960, when the new Usalary of $9,000 will be paid. lne budget committee had allocated $8,000 previously, Estimated county receipts total $4,019,062.21 for the new fiscal year. Of this total, $2,081,916.37 are estimated re ceipts expected from O and C timber payments and $1,921, 097.56 estimated receipts from other sources. Funds estimat ed to be on hand in the county treasury as of July 1, 1959, total $533,535.39. Methodist Conference Opens Here with Banquet - Pageant; Election Bishop A. Raymond Grant, Portland, will speak at 5:30 o'clock today before the first all-conference banquet of the annual Oregon conference of the Methodist churcw current ly underway in Medford. Bishop Grant will also pre side at the five-day confer ence which started this morn ing here. At 8:15 p.m. a pageant, "God of Our Fathers" will be presented at First Methodist church. Thursday lay and minis terial delegates to the general conference in Denver next April will be elected. Also to be studied during the conference will be a re port of the western jurisdic tional committee on episcopal areas, which recommend es tablishment of a fifth district in the West. It has been suggested that Oregon, southern Idaho and five southwest Washington cou- "'s i included in the new Portland area and that the remainder of Washington, northern Idaho and Alaska be Russia Reported Aiming To Split Western Allies , Move Expected In Secret Sessions Geneva - (UPD The Soviet Union was reported today to be preparing a massive effort to split the Western Allies when East-West talks resume here in secret session Friday. Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko was in Wash ington with the Big Three foreign ministers for the fu neral of John Foster Dulles and might make a pitch to President Eisenhower. West German Chancellor K d Adenauer had an ap pointment with Eisenhower in Washington today and it was believed here he would make an even stronger bid for a firm and united Western stand. British Mistrusted Adenauer-and French Pres ident Charles de Gaulle-have mistrusted British intentions from the start and were said to fear that Britain might want to make major conces sions to win a cold war settle ment. Washington dispatches said there was no certainty Gro myko would see Eisenhower and that if the President re ceived him it probably would be in the presence of Secre tary of State Christian Herter and the British and French ministers. Well-informed Western del egates predicted the Soviet drive to split the Allies and said the major test of unity would come in off-the-record wrestling with Gromyko in the secret sessions starting Friday. .-, Woman Honored At Portland Event , Oregon's Mother of the Year, Mrs. Harlan P.- Bos worth. Jr., returned ' to "her home in Medford yesterday from New York City where she attended the festivities in connection with the selection of the 1959 American Mother of the Year. . , i Mrs. Bosworth retur n e d home by way of Portland where she, was joined by her husband and the two attend ed the annual meeting of the Oregon United Nations asso ciation. Mrs. Bosworth served as chairman of the resolutions committee, and was honored at a banquet May 23. Speaker was C. Lloyd Bailey, execu tive director of the United States committee for UNICEF Who talked on "All the World Loves a Child." While in Portland Mrs. Bosworth was interviewed on a television program, and led a four-hour conference of a group of members of the Port land branch, American Asso ciation of University Women, on foods and nutrition. The group is planning a study pro gram for the branch on these topics. Before leaving the East, Mrs. Bosworth spent some time with her father-in-law in Buffalo, N. Y., visited the headquarters of the United States Food and Drug admin istration in Washington, D.C., and visited a bio-dynamic farm at Newton, Pa. included in a new Northwest district with headquarters in Seattle. Any recommendation by BISHOP. A. R. GRANT Presiding Official 54th Year Medford 28 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1959 No. 58 Morse Accuses Neuberger (Off 'PhraseoDogican Evasoon' Sen. Wayne L. Morse CD Ore.) today accused his jun ior colleague, Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, of "phraseo logical evasion," and implied he plans to campaign against Neuberger during the 1960 election campaign. Morse, in a telegram to the Mail Tribune, said, "In the political campaign ahead I in tend to point out to the voters of Oregon the sorry record he (Neuberger) has made on is sue after issue, and we will let the record speak for it self." Morse was referring to a Valley Firm Low Bidder for Bear Creek Bridge R and M Construction com pany, Central Point, was low bidder for construction of Eighth st. bridge over Bear creek when bids were opened Tuesday afternoon in Salem by the state highway depart ment. The company's bid was $51, 038 and was one of nine re ceived for the projec. The bid is within original cost esti mates. Construction is to be com pleted by next Oct. 31, accord ing to Public Works Director Vernon Thorpe. 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 the 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 oc casional congestion on River side ave. Plans call for the bridge structure to consist of a 182 foot reinforced concrete girder with 26-foot clear roadway and 5-foot sidewalks. The east approach embank ment for the bridge has al ready been completed except for paving and landscaping. The Eighth st. extension project is being solely fi nanced by the city. Stockade Continues To Attract Visitors Out of state visitors con tinue to stop at the welcome booth in the Stockade on Sis kiyou summit, according to Ernie Hood, coordinator for the Jackson County Centen nial association. Tuesday's tourists were from Oakland, Wattsville, and Vista, Calif.; Phoenix, Ariz., and Forbes, N. D. Many of the visitors expressed interest in the historical background of the area and others stated they had visited the state be fore and decided to return. One couple planned to spend several weeks in the state prior to driving to Alaska. Also stopping at the Stock ade were several Oregonians from the northern part of , the state. v Scheduled the Oregon conference will be presented at general confer ence next year. The pageant tonight and the three evening services, when Dr. Roy Nichols, Oak land, Calif., will speak, are open to the public and are held at the First Methodist church. Installment Payment Interest Bill Signed . Salem-IUPD-One per cent a month interest for installment payments of state income taxes will be required under terms of a bill signed by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Some $6 million is expected to be raised during the next biennium under the bill be cause more persons will be paying on the due date. The governor also signed bills authorizing a $10 million building program for the state system of higher education and increasing taxes on utilities. letter written to a number of Oregon newspapers by Neu berger, in which he defended himself from earlier criticism by Morse. The senior senator did so in a wire to Larry Smyth, political writer for the Ore gon Journal, who was among the first to, receive Neu berger's letter, and who broke the story in the Journal last week. A copy of his wire to Smyth was sent to the Mail Tribune, and presumably to other papers in the state. The wire was signed, "Oregon Of fice of Senator Wayne Morse." "Say, You Have Quite A Green Thumb' Russian Deadline To Swallow Berlin Brings No Berlin .-(UPD- Western allied traffic moved smoothly in and out of West Berlin today and the May 27 deadline the Soviets set six months ago was just another date on the calendar. The uninterrupted flow of trains and automobiles was in a way a memorial to John Foster Dulles who shaped a united Western stand against Soviet threats and thus stay ed the executioner's hand. Trains Run As Usual Western allied military trains crossed 110 miles of Communist territory between West Berlin and West Ger many as usual. The vital Four Injured Today In Highway Crash Four persons were report ed injured this morning in a two vehicle accident approxi mately 2Vi miles from Med ford on Highway 62, accord ing to state police. The injured were taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Medford Ambulance service. Hospital officials reported that three persons were treat ed and released while the fourth, a woman, was admit ted. Names of persons injured, or cause of the accident were not available at press time. Elkins Indictment Held Insufficient Salem-OPD-The Oregon Su preme Court today sustained a ruling of the Multnomah Countv Circuit Court that in dictments against James B. Elkins and three other men involved in the Portland vice probe were insufficient. Also involved in the case were H. E. Ferguson, Thomas E. Ma loney and Joseph P. McLaugh lin. BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 2 New York 3 Delock. Wall (8) and Daley; Maas, Duren (9) and Howard. Cleveland 1 5 0 Chicago 5 8 0 Btll and Fiisgerald; Wynn. Staley (9) and Lollax. Price 10 Cents Tribune Morse said: "I have read what you report as Senator Neuberger's answers to my criticisms of his record on a series of vital legislative is sues in the senate. In his typical fashion, he again side steps each issue with phraseo logical evasion." , . ' Neuberger's letter was printed on Page 4 of yester day's issue of the Mail Trib une, and referred to a talk made by Morse early in April, during which he criticized Neuberger on foreign policy and several other matters. Trouble highway link to the West still was open. There were no new changes on the-East-West city border. Allied planes flew through the three 20-mile air corridors above the Soviet zone of Germany. Nevertheless, the Commun ists continued their.propagan- da campaign against Berlin. The East German newspaper Berliner Zeitung devoted nearly a full page to an at tack on the Western sectors, demanding that Allied troops leavo and that West Berlin be neutralized. ' Khrushchev Set Deadline - Last Nov.' 27, Thanksgiv ing day for Americans, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev declared that in six months the Russians would turn over to the East Germans all of their occupation functions, in cluding control over Western access routes. Subsequently, in the face of united Western opposition the Russians insisted they never had meant this to be an ulti matum, that there was no sig nificance to the date May 27. Date Not Mentioned There was no move in Mos cow to carry out the original Soviet Berlin plan today. Khrushchev was out of the country on a visit to Albania. In a speech at Tirana Tues day night he did not mention the May 27 date. The 2,200,000 people of West Berlin had gained a breathing spell but danger was not yet over. The Soviets have not ab andoned their demand that West Berlin be made a "free" demilitarized city with its life lines controlled by the East Germans. . They have postponed the deadline. only Yreka Man Killed In Auto Accident Klamath Falls -UPD- Earl Leo Brower, 58, Yreka, Calif., died in Klamath Valley hos pital today from injuries suf fered in a one-vehicle acci dent Monday evening. He was injured when his pickup truck went out of control and rolled over on Highway 97 north of here. Washington -(UPD- Sen. John F. Kennedy, the front-runner for the Democratic Presiden tial nomination, will carry his speaking campaign to Hawaii this summer. Donation Enables Rogue Valley To Double Capacity Directors To Be Asked for Approval A $1 million eift will n. able Rogue Valley Memorial nospuai to double its capacity, it was announced today. as a result of the gift, from a donor who prefers to re main anonymous, the board of directors of the hosnital will be asked to approve a $1V4 million expansion program. The recommendation was made yesterday by the execu- uve ana building committees j oi me community owned and operated institution. Addition al service facilities, as well as doubling the capacity to 160 . beds, also are recommended. The board will meet June 4 to consider .the recommenda tion. The committees also voted to recommend that hospital di rectors apply for federal Hill Burton hospital construction funds necessary for the work. in -addition to the gift. . They felt that such a request would be granted, pointing out that less man zo per cent of the original cost of the hospital came from federal funds, far less than average. Original Cost $2,800,000 Total cost of the hospital, dedicated only last year, ras more than $2,800,000, of of which $564,000 was in Hill, Burton money. The balance came from voluntary contri butions by residents of the area. Although the hospital has been open little more than a year, it is already experienc ing a rapidly-growing demand for its services, board mem bers said. Charles Gustafson, hospital administrator, told the committee that beds in the medical and surgical sec tions, as an example, now show 80 to 90 per cent occu pancy, and that need for addi tional facilities is acute and growing. . , Eugene Thorndike, vle chairman of the board, report-' ed that normal population in crease alone will necessitate enlargement of facilities soon. He added that Medf ord's repu tation as a medical center is growing, and that it now serves an area with a radius of 100 miles. . Wings to be Extended ' Plans suggested by the com mittees yesterday call for ex tension of both the east and west wings of the building, with most of the added area, an estimated 44,000 square feet, for1 additional beds. The plans also call for other serv ice facilities, such as a cardio pulmonary laboratory. The present hospital, which was dedicated April 26, 1959, was designed for eventual ex pansion, although it was not expected to become necessary so soon. The wings can be ex tended comparatively easily, and there is adequate space to accommodate them, as well as additional parking. The "core area" of the hos pital also was designed to serve a larger building, and present heating, laundry, kitchen and other facilities will be adequate for the en larged building. Sanitary Engineer Tours Bear Creek Kenneth H. Spies, deputy state sanitary engineer from Portland, left Medford yester day after touring the entire length of Bear creek Monday. He was accompanied by Ted Gerow, district engineer. Spies' visit, Gerow explained, was prompted at least in part by a letter to the state sanitary authority dispatched last week . by the Oregon Sportsmen club of Jackson county. The. club asked in the letter that the state authority en force anti - pollution laws against those responsible for polluting Bear creek. The let ter blamed the creek's pollu tion in part on the "very ap parent apathy and defeatism displayed by those persons charged by law with the pre vention of such a situation." Spies declined to make any public statement. Richard Hunt Placed On Most Wanted List Washington -CPD- The Fed eral . Bureau of Investigation today added Richard Allen Hunt, charged with kidnap ing one Oregon police officer and critically wounding an other, to its list of "10 most wanted fugitives." Cape Canaveral, Fla.-flJPD-The first Super-Bomarc inter ceptor missile arched across the sky today to begin a short range test flight.