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MEMORIAL PROGBAM-About 200 persons
attended the Memorial day program held
yesterday at 10 a.m. in the city park near
the Medford library. In the picture above,
Mrs. F. A. Daugherty reads the order of
General John A. Logan, establishing Mem
orial day in 1868. Principal speaker for the
SprinCder System
(Q)rdler ChaDflenged
Dm Court Maneuver
A Medford ordinance re
quiring installation of sprink
ler systems in basements over
a certain size has come under
fire in circuit court.
Eight complaints by own
ers of downtown buildings,
filed Friday, ask that the or
dinance be nullified. They
ask further for an injunction
against enforcing the sprink
ler requirement.
Named as defendants are
the City of Medford', as a cor
poration; M a y o r j John W.
Snider; City Manager Robert
A. Duff; Fire Chief f Gordon
Barker; Fire Marshal Truman
Nelson, and Chief of -Police
Charles Champlin.
Circuit Judge. James M.
Main Friday ordered the de
fendants to appear June 22
to show cause why a temp
orary injunction should not
be issued.
Mayor Snider, Duff and
Champlin declined to ,com
ment, while Barker and Nel
son could not be reached.
City Attorney Joel B. Reeder
was out of town.
Established Cod
- The ordinance, passed and
amended in 1957, established
a fire prevention code pro
viding among other things
that sprinkler systems be in
stalled in basements 3,500
square feet or more in size
with certain exceptions.
The city council last Dec.
18 extended an earlier dead
.line for compliance to Dec. 31
of this year, with the stipula
tion that the fire department
could require compliance
sooner if it determined a sit
uation was hazardous.
' The council on that occa
sion took no action on a pro
posed increase in the mini
mum basement space limit.
A spokesman for the plain
tiffs said yesterday they had
received notices signed by the
fire marshal setting a dead
line of June 30.
The plaintiffs, represented
by Roberts, Kellington and
Branchfield, Wnd their build
ings, include:
Plaintiffs Listed
Margaret Ames Fluhrer and
the First National Bank of
Oregon, trustees for the es
tate of William H. Fluhrer:
Bakery building, 29 North
Holly st., and the Crane com
pany building, 125 West
Fourth st.;
Fluhrer Building, Inc.: the
Fluhrer building, 5 South
Central ave.;
Margaret Ames Fluhrer,
Constance Ames and Eleanor
Ames: the 3 West Sixth st.
building; '
Teamsters Fail
In Lumber Mills
Roseburg (UPD Production
employees of the Martin Bros.
Container and Timber Pro
duct Corp. plants in Sutherlin
and Oakland have voted near
ly two to one to be represent
ed by the Lumber and Saw
mill Workers union.
The election was conducted
by a national labor relations
board official. Rejected was
the bid of the Teamsters un
ion to represent the em
ployees. It was said to be the first
Teamster attempt to move
into the production end of i
the lumber industry in Ore-
gon. i
IvlEBFORD
United Press International Toll Leased Wiro
program was Brig. Gen. William H. Pren
tice, commanding officer of the 417th En
gineer Brigade, Army reserve unit. A par
ade along Main st., followed at 10:30. At a
ceremony at East Main st. bridge, flowers
were dropped into Bear creek in honor of
servicemen lost at sea.
E. A. Littrell: the Littrell
Parts building, 319 East Sixth
st.; . ' '
Scott V. Davis Building,
Inc.: the Davis building, 34
North Central ave.;
Robert J. Crossman and
Hazel D. Crossman: the Med
ical Center building, 33 North
Central ave.
Raymond R. Reter: the
Leverette building, 205 West
Main st.;
Roland A. Hubbard, Lois
A. Hubbard, Chester A. Hub
bard and Mary L. Hubbard:
the Hubbard building, 335
East Main st.
The complaints allege that
the ordinance in various par
ticulars is retroactive, affect
ing buildings, erected in com
pliance with regulations then
existing; and- unreasonable,
confiscatory and unconstitu
tional in its failure to set
forth standards, the excessive
cost of compliance, its man
ner of enforcement and its
delegation of legislative au
thority to the fire chief or
fire marshal.
1,000 Registered
In Stockade Book
About 1,000 persons have
registered at the Siskiyo.u
summit welcome stockade,
Ernie Hood, Jackson county
Centennial events coordina
tor, said Saturday.
The stockade opened May
18 to provide information
about the state, Centennial
events and other subjects of
interest to tourists.
Up to about 3 p.m. Friday,
a total of 295 out-of-state resi
dents had registered, and 659
Oregon persons had signed
the registry, Hood said.
Late last week, visitors in
cluded two women from New
Brunswick, N. J., two persons
from Glendale, Ariz., two
from Bay City, Mich., and a
couple from Seattle, Wash.,
who said they plan to move
to southern Oregon. Other
visitors included a traveler
from New Zealand and two
from Formosa. ,
The stockade is open be
tween 8 ajn. and 8 p.m. daily,
and. is manned by students
from Southern Oregon college.
Methodists Finish Business Sessions;
Reading of Appointments Set Today
Business sessions . of the
Methodist church during the
annual conference held in
Medford last week concluded
Saturday, afternoon.. ...
Today, following worship
services at 10:30 o'clock at
the Medford High school audi
torium, appointments will be
read by Bishop A. Raymond
Grant, who will also speak
at the service.
The 324 ministerial and lay
delegates yesterday unaninv
ously rejected a proposal to
divide the present Portland
area of the church. This de
cision -will be presented to the
church's general conference
meeting in Denver next May.
Retirement was granted five
ministers. One was Dr. Ernest
F. Harold, who has served the
last five years as executive
secretary of
the conference
coordinating council.
. Friday evening two young
Pulp and Paper
Workers to Vote
On Renewal Terms
' Portland - (UPD - Terms for
renewal of the uniform labor
agreement cover i n g nearly
20,000 employees in 46 Wash
ington, Oregon and California
pulp and paper mills w,ill be
submitted to a referendum
vote of union members with
in the next 10 days.
Contract renewal terms, ar
rived at Friday after 15, days
of negotiations call for a 3
per cent general wage hike,
according to a joint release
from the United Papermakers
and Paperworkers, Interna
tional Brotherhood of Pulp,
Sulphite and Paper Mill
Workers and the Pacific Coast
Association of Pulp and Paper
manufacturers.
The joint statement by both
labor and management repre
sentatives, said the increase
will range from 5Vfe cents to
14 Vi cents an hour.
Mills in the Pacific Coast
area affected are operated by
the following pulp and paper
manufacturers:
Cascade Kraft Corp.; Con
tainer Corporation of Amer
ica; Coos Bay Pulp Corpor
ation; Crown Zellerbach Cor
poration; Fibreboard Paper
Products Corp.; Kimberly
Clark Corp.; Longview Fibre
Co.; Pacific Coast Paper Mills;
Potlatch Forests, Inc.; Pub
lishers Paper Co.; Puget
Sound Pulp and Timber Co.;
Quaker Container Corp.; R-W
Paper Co.; Rayonier, Inc.;
Royal Fibre Corp.; Scott Pa
per Co.; Simpson Paper Co.;
West.Tacoma Newsprint Co.;
Western Kraft Corp.; Weyer
haeuser Timber Co.
Baccalaureate
Services Tonight
Baccalaureate services for
the class of .'1959, Medford
High school, will be held at 8
o'clock tonight at Hedrick
Junior High school audi
torium. The Rev. Clynton Crisman
of the Medford Friends church
will give the sermon, and the
Rev. John O. Reynolds, organ
izing pastor of Westminister
Presbyterian church, will give
the invocation and benedici
tion. Also participating in the
service will be the high school
choir under the direction of
Lynn Sjolund, and Jhe high
school orchestra under the di
rection of John Drysdale.
men were ordained ministers
and one man one woman were
consecrated as directors of
Christian education.
A budget of $443,397 was
adopted yesterday for work of
conference agencies in 1959
60. This is an increase of near
ly 7 per cent over last year's
total and includes increases
in the minimum salary for
ministers and in pensions. Ap
proval was given to a cam
paign to raise funds in addit
ion to the budget. Beginning
in 1960 and running for two
years, a total of $328,500 will
be sought, which includes
$228,500 for the church's high
er education programs and the
remainder for church exten
sion. Regarding world affairs,
thee onference urged 'an "in
terchange of ideas with all
governments and nations in
cluding encouragement of
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PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS-Victor David, (left) .president
of the Veterans' Allied council of Jackson county and master
of ceremonies at the Memorial day program yesterday, is
shown above talking with the principal speaker, Brig. Gen.
William H. Prentice. During the program a wreath was
placed on a replica of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
by the American Legion and Auxiliary.
Rogue Valley Manor
Start Slated Monday
Excavation work prior to
actual construction of the
$51 million, 1 0-story Rogue
Valley Manor will start on
Barneburg hill tomorrow,
following ground breaking
ceremonies at the site late
Friday.
Mel Hogan, president of
the Manor board of directors,
turned the first spadeful of
dirt for the retirement home.
Contracts totaling $4,667,
616 were awarded for con
struction of the Manor earlier
this month. Donald M. Drake
company, Portland, was
awarded the construction con
tract on a bid of $3,131,000.
The contract for the me
chanical and plumbing por
tions was awarded to Harder
Plumbing and Heating com
pany, Portland, on a bid of
$1,264,500. The electrical con
tract went to Trowbridge and
Residents Have Year
To Register to Vote
Just under one year or
356 days - are left for Jack
son county residents to regis
ter to vote in the Oregon pri
mary election May 20, 1960,
according to the state elec
tions department.
The deadlines for voter
registration and dates of elec
tion for 1960 were announced
last week in Salem.
General election will be
held Nov. 8, 1960, with voter
registration deadline Oct. 8,
1960.
For the primary election
candidates must file for nom
ination by March 11 and for
the general election by Aug.
29, 1960.
Other deadlines listed in
cluded those for measures to
appear on the ballot. Meas
ures byinitiative petition, July
7, 1960; and referendum peti
tion, Aug. 4, 1959.
trade and passage of press
and church representatives
both ways .... and we urge
our U.S. state department to
support the recognition of any
nation into the Union Nations
that meets the requirements
of the UN charter."
The delegates also went on
record as being "totally op
posed to the resumption of
nuclear-weapon testing.
Memorials to be sent to the
general conference next May
icnluded: (1) that the central
(Negro) jurisdiction be aboli
ished as of 1968, and (2) that
a revoloving loan fund be set
up for church extension with
the money to come from in
vested funds of major insti
tutions , of the Methodist
church.
Other memorials recom
mended were regarding the
Methodist Federation for Soc
ial Action.
OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY
Flynn, Medford, on a bid of
$272,066.
Opening date for the Manor
was set as Dec. 1, 1960, by the
board of trustees.
Reviewed History
Hogan Friday reviewed the
history of the Manor, and
paid tribute to Walter Hig-
gins, administrator, for his
work in helping get it estab
lished. Hogan also expressed
the trustees' appreciation for
financial assistance from val
ley firms. 1
Hugh Coleman, president of
the Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce, said the Manor
is a significant factor in the
economy of the valley, and
spoke of the vision of the
Manor founders.
Glenn O. Taylor, Medford,
one of the first Manor mem
bers, welcomed other mem
bers. He reviewed his interest
in the retirement home, which
began when the Manor idea
was first mentioned about
three years ago.
Miller. Dunlevy Speak
Speaking briefly were Coun
ty Judge Earl Miller and
James Dunlevy, president of
the Medford city council who
represented Medford Mayor
John Snider a the ceremony.
The Rev. Raymond Grant,
bishop of the Methodist
church, Portland, gave the in
vocation. Dr. Elmo Stevenson,
president of Southern Oregon
college and a Manor director,
was master of ceremonies.
Several hundred people at
tended the ceremonies, includ
ing many who plan to live
in the Manor.
North Entrance
Open to Traffic
Klamath Falls - (UPD - The
North Entrance road to Cra
ter Lake National Park open
ed Friday, about two weeks
earlier than usual, Park Su
perintendent Tom Williams
reported.
He said good weather was
the reason for the early open
ing. The road cuts.down from
Bend on - highway 97 and
merges with 230 toward
Diamond Lake.
Williams also said crews
have been working on Crater
Lake's Scenic Rin drive and
it may be open to traffic in
a week or 10 days. Lower
than normal snowfall last
winter makes the early open
ings possible, he said-. The
scenic drive usually does not
open until late June.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair and mild today
and Monday: High today near 87.
Low tonigbt about 45. High Mon
day near 80.
TEMP.
Highest yesterday 81
Lowest Saturday morning 39
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today .1.
7:40 p.m.
. 4:38 a.m.
Sunrise tomorrow
Moonrise tomorrow
2:11 a.m.
Brilliant Venus tonight appears
near Pollux, (as it did 8 years
ago tonight) Now less than 84
million miles away, Venus with
a diameter of 7.610 miles, Is al
most a twin of the Earth.
31, 1959
T ft Demote itt-y
Hatfield Vetoes
Six More Bills,
But Signs Three
Salem-OJPD-Gov. Mark Hat
field Friday vetoed six bills
and signed three others to
wind up the 20-day period he
had for passing on legislation
of the 50th Oregon Legisla
ture. His deadline was midnight
Friday. He vetoed a record
total of 19 bills.
The last bills vetoed by the
governor would have extend
ed lien rights of sawmill work
ers to include lumber o'f slab
wood in custody of public
warehousemen, and allowed
creation of legislative interim
committees by joint resolution
of the House and Senate. Such
joint resolutions would have
had the full force and effect of
law.
The governor said creation
of such committees by this
method was now bing done.
Also vetoed late in the day
were Senate Bill 366 making
technical amendments to coun
ty civil service law and Sen
ate Bill 500 calling for an ex
planation from the state in
dustrial accident commission
as to why they refused an in
jured workman's request for
a specific doctor.
He signed before the mid
night deadline bills providing
a $1 fishing fee for salmon
nad steelhead to be used for
fish research.
Loyalty Oath
The last bill signed by the
governor was House Bill 558,
a measure which changed the
negative loyalty oath now re
quired of state civil service
.employes to the positive oath
required of all elective and
appointive officials.
This means that instead of a
civil servant having to swear
that he was never a member
of a subversive organibation,
he will now be required only
to swear his support to the
U.S. and Oregon constitutions,
as elective and appointive of
ficials are required to do.
The governor also signed
Senate Bill 524 which would
increase his own expense ac
count from $400 to $600 a
month.
Springfield Man
Dies During Hike
Springfield - (UPD - William
O. Farmer, 57, of Springfield,
died early yesterday while
hiking up Rosary Lake trail
in the Willamette Pass area
during a family fishing trip.
Cause of death was not
determined and a deputy Lane
county coroner said it was not
known late Saturday after
noon whether an autopsy
would be performed.
Farmer, an employee of the
Springfield Plywood compa
ny, was hiking up the trail
en route to Rosary Lake with
his wife. Other members of
the family had gone ahead.
He collapsed about a mile
up the trail and succumbed
about 6:30 a.m. He was not
known to have a heart con
dition, according to the fam
ily. "Ready,
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HOLIDAY DEATH
TOLL SHOCKING
By United Press International
Memorial holiday week end
highway deaths mounted
shockingly last night and
safety officials begged motor
ists to at least think of the
other fellow if not of them
selves. The death toll jumped to a
figure way above last year's
and the national safety coun
cil pleaded with drivers that
before taking a chance on the
road, they should remember
they not only are risking their
own lives but the lives of
their passengers and persons
in oncoming cars.
The death toll rose rapidly
last night. By 2 a.m. (EDT)
Sunday, United Press Interna-
Lumber Industry
Wage Bargaining
Agreements Told
Portland -(UPD- Major wage
bargaining agreements were
announced here Friday for the
Northwest lumber 'industry
Two bargaining agreements
disclosed late Friday rounded
out the number of lumber
workers affected to more than
63,000. The last two settle
ments involved the Interna
tional Woodworkers of Amer
ica and the International Pa
per Co., and the Simpson Log
ging Co.
earner, two-year agree
ments affecting some 60,000
lumber employees in Oregon,
Washington and northern
California calling for a pack
age mcrease of about 20 cents
an hour, were announced.
Subject to Approval
The agreements, subject to
approval by union members
and individual firms, are be
tween the IWA, the Lumber
and Sawmill Workers and the
Forest Products Operators as
sociation.
Harvey Nelson, chairman
of the IWA, said the union
has now completed bargain
ing with major employers in
the fir belts of Western Ore
gon and Western Washington
and will turn its attention to
the pine regions of the eastern
sections of those states and
in Idaho and northern Calif
ornia.
Affects 40,000
The agreement with the
LSW affects about 40,000
members in the Northwest
and northern California, ac
cording to LSW Executive
Secretary Earl Hartley. The
agreement with the IWA and
the FPOA affects some 20,
000 employees in Oregon and
Washington. . The contracts
with International Paper and
Simpson affect about 3,000.
The two firms are not mem
bers of the FPOA.
Reached Accord
The LWA has reached ac
cord with Weyerhaeuser and
Georgia Pacific-two of the
Northwest's larger timber
firms, and the LSW has reach
ed agreement with G-P.
Aim -
tional figures showed at least
149 persons killed in traffic
accidents since 6 p.m. local
time Friday. In addition, 40
persons had drowned and 26
others died in miscellaneous
accidents for a total of 215.
Tennessee ranked first
among the states in the grisly
death race with 13 traffic
deaths, followed by. phio and
California with 12 each and
Michigan with 10.
By early today, nine states
had reported no holiday ac
cident fatalities of any kind.
These states were Wyoming,
Washington, Vermont, New
Jersey, Nevada, New Hamp
shire, Mississippi, Idaho and
Delaware.
The corresponding figure
on highway dead for last year
at 10 pjn., (EDT) was 75. By
early Sunday morning last
year, the figure was 114 dead.
Appeal to Drivers
"We appeal to every driver
to remember that when he de
cided to take a chance he
risks not only his own life
but those of his passengers and
of the other people he may
involve in an accident," the
Safety Council stated.
It said it was unusually
shocked by the high toll since
Memorial day is considered
mileage-wise one of the year's
safest holidays, having an
above-average highway death
rate of only 12-15 per cent,
compared to the Christmas
week end's rate of 120 per
cent. .
Nine, of the Tennessee high
way deaths occurred in only
two accidents, both on rain
slickened highways. Four per
sons, including two infants,
were killed in one head-on
crash near Crossville and five
died in a second head-on col
lision near Knoxville.
Five Feared Drowned
Five persons were feared
drowned in a two-boat, collis
ion on Lake Conchas in New
Mexico, the state's worst boat
ing tragedy m modern his
tory. One body already had
been recovered. A sixth per
son drowned In a second boat
ing, mishap.
Authorities throughout the
nation pleaded with vacation
ers and travelers to please be
careful, particularly on the
crowded highways.
Haircut Prices
Hiked 25 Cents
The price of haircuts for
adults will be raised 25 cents
to $1.75 effective Tuesday,
June 2, in all union barber
shops in Jackson county, Tom
Tarns, president of Local 269,
Journeymen Barbers union,
has announced.
Tarns said this is the first
increase since July I, 1955,
and gives the journeymen
barbers, all of whom work on
a 70 per cent commission
basis, their first wage increase
in four years.
, There will be only a limited
increase in children's1 hair
cuts, which are $1.25. The
children's price is to continue
unchanged except for an addi
tional 25 cents for Saturdays,
Tarns said.
Shaves will be $1.50, he
said, and tonic applications
are being reduced from 50
to 25 cents. All other service
prices remain the same. Tarns
said the minimum weekly
guarantee will be $50.
Portland (UPD Gov. Mark
Hatfield Friday said failure
of the 1959 Legislature to
raise the gasoline tax by one
cent may mean a two-cent in
crease two years from now if
Oregon is to maintain its
schedule of highway improve
ments. Sports Bulletin
Los Angeles-(EPD - Ninth
inning homeruns by Ron
Fairly and Gil Hodges gave
the Los Angeles Dodgers a
7-6 win Saturday night over
the St. Louis Cardinals. The
Cardinals surged into the
lead in the top of the ninth
on an inside-the-park homer
by Ken Boyer, his 10th of
in yeas.
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No. 61
eiroevo
Meeting in Secret
Follows Failure
At Public Session
Khrushchev Assails
'Horse-Dealing' Tricks
Geneva -(UPD- The Bis Four
foreign ministers worked late
at a secret session last night
seeking a stalemate-breaking
interim settlement on Berlin.
The Russians reported the
talks "moving ahead" despite
cold water thrown by Nikita
S. Khrushchev.
A Western informant said
both sides made an effort to
'find a concrete approach."
Diplomatic sources reported
Soviet feelers toward a temp
orary truce on Berlin which
would allow the whole issue
to be thrashed out at a sum
mit meeting.
The U. S., British, French
and Soviet ministers admitted
they were stalemated at 214-
hour public meeting yester
day But then they went into
secret session, away from the
glare of publicity and the
temptation to speak for pro
paganda purposes.
Nearly Three Hours
The ministers spent nearly
three hours at a dinner con
ference in the, Soviet villa.
On the depature of the West
ern diplomats, a soviet spokes
man said:
"I can say that the atmos
phere was very good and that
the, whole, business moves
ahead and not backward."
Nikita S. Khrushchev mean
while rejected U. S. Secretary
of State Christian Herter'a
proposals for Berlin and Ger
many at the Geneva confer
ence and accused the west of
"horse - dealing tricks" in the
crucial negotiations. -Denounce
Package
The Soviet premier, In a
speech delivered at Tirana,
Albania, specificially denounc
ed the package proposal pre
sented by Herter on grounds
it "does not contain a single
element of negotiation."
He warned that Russia,
would offer no concessions be
cause it had "no reason to."
He said Russia was willing
the Berlin and German issues
to work for a settlement of
but only on the basis of try
ing to reach a "reasonable
solution" which "would not
harm either side."
Would Never Agree
Khrushchev particularly at
tacked the leaders of West
Germany for trying to make
the Geneva conference a horse
trade, concession for conces
sion. And he warned that
Russia would never agree to
do business this way.
The official Tass news
agency reported on the pre
mier's speech. The Commu
nist Chinese New China news
agency added that he also
signed a "joint statement"
with top Albanian Communist
officials. Its contents were
not disclosed immediately.
Khrushchev insisted that
Russia "sincerely wants to
reach agreement" at Geneva.
Five Injuries
Total in County
Two persons injured in an
auto accident yesterday
brought the Memorial Day
holiday total to five for Jack
son county as of late last night
according to state police.
The two persons were in
jured about 2:30 pjn. in a
two-car collision on the Big
Applegate rd., approximately
4 miles above Ruch.
Cleo H. Young, 49, of route
1, box 507A, Central Point,
was treated for broken front ,
teeth at Sacred Heart hospit
al and released. He was a pas
senger in a car driven by
Frances A. Young, 39, of route
1, box 507 A, Central Point.
Beverly Collier, 30-, of Route
4, box 804, Grants Pass, the
driver of the other car, was
treated for face cuts and
bruises and also released. No
citations were issued.
The first holiday accident
reported to state police occur
red, when a lumber truck and
automobile collided about a
mile north of Butte Falls
junction on Highway 62 about
8:15 pjn. Friday, state police
said. Three were injured, but
none seriously,
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