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Newspaper Page TextHdlfckiy IKDgjuWr ll j " mBmm lit Medford 16 Pages. British Prestige At Conference Table Shaken Replacement Reported in Press Geneva - (LTD - The western Big Three opened a new week of secret talks with Russia to day, staggered by London re ports that British Foreign Sec retary Selwyn Lloyd may soon be replaced. The report,, published by the authoritative Times of London, shook British pres tige at the Foreign Ministers' Conference table and raised fears of new Soviet moves to split the West. It came at a tfine when a break appeared - possible over the East-West stalemate over Berlin. Dispatch Denied , . Officials here and in Lon don denied the Times . dis patch. But the newspaper's reputation as a highly respect ed and generally well-inform ed, publication with solid pipe lines into the .government gave the report great import here. .As one diplomat put it, it was sufficient to "yank the rug" out from under Lloyd. Some observers feared Rus sia's Andrei Gromyko would react by toughening still fur; ther the already tough Com munist line here to see if the Times report indicated a ma jor shift of British policy Lloyd himself met with Secretary of State Christian Herter, French Foreign Min ister Maurice Couve de Mur ville and West German "ad viser" William Grewe for an hour this morning to discuss conference strategy. French circles said, how ever, that the Times of Lon don report was not discussed at the ministerial level dur ing this previously scheduled western' consultation. Then they drove to Gromy ko's villa for the first session of their" fourth week here a secret meeting aimed at working out an arrangement on Berlin that would preserve the status quo there and per mit a summit meeting. One Bid Received For Cily Wafer Main W. H. Conrad, Medf ord con tractor, was the only bidder on the proposed city water main from Saling ave. to East Jackson st. on Mary st. and from Mary st. to McAndrews t. on East Jackson, according to Medf ord Water Superin tendent Robert L. Lee. Lee reported Conrad's bid as $3,966.05, about 10 per cent above the engineer's estimate of $3,486.95. Plans call for a 6-inch main. -The Medf ord city council is expected to consider awarding a contract at its meeting Thursday night. Pasadena, Calif. -flJPD- The California Institute of Tech nology's seismograph record ed a brief but sharp earth quake at 8:36 ajn. (PST) to day at a distance of about 200 miles. -- J. Fruit Frost Season Officially Ends, One Record The fruit frost season of ficially ends, today, accord ing to Clifford B. Cordy, eounty horticultural agent. . . Bill ' Rogers, -meteorologist of the weather bureau's 'fruit frost warning service, left to day to return to his .headquar ters in Pomona, Calif. ' "Orchardists may remove all heaters and housewives can give their houses a final spring cleaning without fear of further smoke this season from orchard heating," Cordy said. . 54th Year HI A f T Price 10 Cents MEDFORD, mam BEAUTIES-Roger Roberts, 2076 Roberts rd., Medford, displays two big kamloops trout that he took out of Diamond lake Sat urday, opening day, by trolling with a ford fender. The trout, minus heads, have been cleaned and are ready to cut into steaks, fillet or bake whole. The meat of the kam loops, planted at Diamond lake, is a deep 5 3 H os p i fa I ized by Escaping Gas at McCredie Eugene, Ore. (DPD - Fifty- three persons, , most of them children, were hospitalized Sunday when a tank of chlor ine gas sprung k leak at a crowded resort swimming pool. , - .' All but 15 were treated and released. Hospital attendants said none of those who re mained in the hospital was in serious condition. The resoTt, McCredie Springs, is about 54 miles east of here. It includes cabins and the pool, which is fed by min eral springs. Connection Broke , -' Police said the leak de-' veloped in a connection on the bank which feeds chlorine into the swimming pool. The connection broke when an at tendant attempted to tighten it. 1 Chlorine sprayed across the pool and fumes were carried by the wind into adjoining bath houses. State Police Officer Harold Taylor, off duty at the time, was able to turn off a value at the top of the tank, stop ping sthe flow of gas. Four ambulances and a fleet of private cars brought the 53 to the hospital. Attendants said none of those affected was knocked out by. the gas. Haxe Covered Area - . Taylor said he was at the resort office when the man- BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 1 5 0 Detroit 3 5 0 Bell, Brodowski (8) and Nixon; Foytack and Berberel: Established During April Considerable damage oc curred during the season to some imheated or inadequate ly heated orchards, and in some rare cases to some or chards well-covered by orch ard heaters, the county agent said. Cordy said current pre dictions are that the pear crop is slightly better than aver age. However, orchardists have a number of hazards to- overcome before the pears are ready for shipping, the coun ty agent reminded. . The fruit frost season this OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE at red similar to the color of freshly cut beef. Roberts and his family spent a good part of the day out in the boat, catching the fish above and two others just as big. Bright, . weather caused . a number of sunburned faces. State police counted 1,800 cars and 7,000 fishermen at the lake, Saturday morning. , . Springs ager, Bernie Anderson, burst into the room and told him quickly what happened. The officer ran to the pool about 200 yards away. "There was a blue-green haze covering the whole area," he said. Taylor checked the bath house, found everyone had fled, and then found a wrench and shut off the valve. Taylor was one of those hospitalized, ' as was Ander son. Most of the victims were Oakridge residents. Suspense Novel Has Festival as Setting A suspense novel with the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val, Ashland, as its back ground, is scheduled- for No vember publication by Simon and Schuster, book publish ers, it was reported today. . The book, entitled "Walk ing Shadow,", was written by Lenore Glenn Offord, a pa trcn of the Festival organiza tion. The novel identifies both tne Festival, and Ashland by their actual names, but all of the characters are reported to be fictitious. Mrs. Offord, who makes her home in Berkeley Calif., has attended several Ashland sea sons and reviewed many of the productions for the press. She has written seven books including an earner novel us ing the Festival as back ground. Central figure in the recent book is a young costume as sistant and her roommate. year had a record - of the longest continued period of orchard heating since" 1927, Rogers reported. This year orchardists fired 10 days straight and 14 out of 16 days. In 1947 orchard ists lighted heaters seven days in a row and in 1929 six days in a row and 12 out of 14 days. : "We may have had colder weather, worst freezes and more damaging frosts, but that 10-day period is the longest on record," Rogers noted. TRIBUNE 1, 1959 mm Engineers in Tentative Pact With Contractors Seattle (DTD Tentative agreement has been reached in the Operating Engineers Union strike against the As sociated General Contractors, Russell T. Conlon, secretary of Local 302 of the Operating Engineers, announced Sun day. . "We have a proposal to bring back to our members of setting up meetings," said Conlon. "A general meeting has been called for 8 p.m. on Tuesday in 'the Masonic hall in Seattle. We hope to, get the men back to work as soon as possible." . Thousands Idled The strike began May 11 in a dispute over a hiring hall proposal. Thousands of work ers were idled by the dispute and several major construc tion projects in the Pacific Northwest were shut down. Conlon said the tentative agreement was reached in a week end meeting between the union, contractors and Federal Labor Conciliator Al bin L. Peterson. The contract proposals, terms of which were not an nounced, will be submitted to union members for their ap proval. Columbia Utilities" Merger Authorized Salem - (DPD - Public Utility Commissioner - Jonel C. Hill announced today he had au thorized the merger of Colum bia Utilities Company into the Oregon-Washington Telephone Company. Columbia furnishes service in Lane, Jackson and Klam ath counties. O r e g o n-Washington pro vides telephone service in Deschutes, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Lake, Malheur and Wasco counties and also in four counties in Washing ton state. Control Board To Ask Funds To Build Fence Salem -(DPD The State Board of Control today decid ed to ask the Emergency Board for money to construct a second fence around the new Intermediate Correction al Institution. It is contem plated that the fence could, be built at a cost of some $55,000 using labor- from the state penitentiary. ; No. 62 Police Report Week End Travel: As 'Very Light' . Nine Persons Hurt In Four Accidents ' Memorial day " week" end traffic was "very light" and motorists traveling in Jack son county . behaved well, state police reported this morning. Police reported four acci dents occurring over the week end and a total of nine per sons injured. One man, Ar thur Bellows of Medford, was killed. Ashland police reported a three - car accident occurred about 5:55 p.m. Sunday on Highway 99 near the Oregon Food store. , Treated at Ashland General hospital and released Jwere Francis G. ; Hawkins, 50, of Rogue River; Mrs. Hawkins; Edgar Loranze Homer, 47, of 847 West Second st., Medford, and Mrs. Homer. Ashland police said a car driven by Helen B. Hassell, 842 Clay st., Ashland, appar ently had stopped for anoth er car. The other cars driven by Hawkins and Homer col lided in rear end collisions. Near Siskiyous ..' The last ( accident reported to state police occurred at 5:15 p.m. Sunday on High way 99 near the Siskiyou mountains. Albert Elsworth Phillips, 55, of Tacoma, Wash., was northbound on Highway 99 when he apparently . pulled out to pass a northbound' car, hit the shoulder on the left side of the highway and went on over the bank, state police said. He was reported unin jured and only minor damage to his car.... . . ... ... . .. ... ; Phillips was lodged in the county jail on charges of be ing drunk on the public high way, state police said. Two persons were injured in Medford traffic accidents Saturday and early this morn ing, city police reported. Ra mona Eileen Schroeder, 16, of 3410 North Pacific highway, was reported in fair condition today at Rogue Valley hospi tal. Cecil Andrew Etter, 41, of 28 North Orange st., was .re ported in good condition at Sacred Heart hospital. Missed Turn Miss Schroeder received a dislocated right elbow, abra sions, and a possible spine in jury Saturday evening when the vehicle in which she was riding, operated by Joseph Alvarez, 673 Cedar st., Cen tral Point, missed a turn at Hilton rd. and Corona ave., and skidded into a vacant lot, according to police. Police said Alvarez, uninjured, was cited for violating the basic rule. Etter was Injured when the car he was onerating collided at West Fourth and North Holly sts. about 6:20 a.m. to day with a van truck operated by John Wesley Overand Jr., 487 Scenic dr., Ashland, ac cording to the report. He was taken to the hospital for pos sible back injuries, police re ported. Overand, police said, was cited for failure to yield the right of way. A parked vehicle at the scenA regis tered to . James Bryant, 240 North Holly st., was also re portedly damaged. Khrushchev May i ' .... Hold Conference Of Satellites Atom-Free Zone In Balkans Topic London - (DPD - Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev may invite Greece, Turkey and Italy to talk with Commu nist satellites about his plan for an "atom free" zone in the Balkan ..states, diplomatic sources said today. Communist leaders from Bulgaria, Romania and Hun gary, were believed converg ing on Albania where the So viet chief.- has been visiting since the beginning of last week. Repeated Warnings During the visit Khrushchev repeatedly has warned Greece, Turkey and Italy not to per mit U. S. rocket bases on their soil. He has indicated Soviet rocket bases would be set up in Albania in retaliation. During the week end Russia and Albania signed a joint statement calling again for a Balkan zone free of nuclear weapons and proposing closer relations between Albania and its neighbors. The statement also held out an olive branch to Yugo slavia, which has been feud ing with the rest of the Com munist world. ' Next Likely Step Diplomatic sources said the next likely step would be an invitation to Greek, Turk ish and Italian leaders-and perhaps Yugoslavia-to talk about an atom-free Balkan zone. . It was problematical wheth er any of the states would ac cept. . The Communists have pro-' posed other nuclear-free zones in the past - in central Europe and in Asia-but have attached conditions to them that made the plans unacceptable to the West. State Forestry Has 3 Lookouts Manned Southwest district of, the state department of forestry posted its Anderson ; butte lookout today. The district office said hat other lookouts in the area would be manned the latter part of this week and next week if the warm, dry weath er continues: , Mrs. Ida Mae Stone- was as signed to the Anderson' sta tion south of Talent this mor ning. It is the third lookout to be manned. John Groner was placed on Tallow Box south of Ruch, and Mrs. Ka tie Ash on Burnt peak north of TraiL late last week. Khrushchev Visit To United States ' '. Urged by Truman1 The , . Foreign Ministers meeting at Geneva and a possible summit conference have given some faint hope of setting points of conflict between the West , arid Russia. Now former President Harry S. Truman, while stressing past . Soviet be trayals, says that Khrush chev should be invited for a visit to the United States toilet him see for himself how determined Americans are lo preserve their free dom. ' Mr. Truman ' states his views on this and other con troversial questions in an exclusive article which will appear in the Mail Tribune Tuesday. . iregoim List Three mi IKliiglhwcifS By United Press International Oregon counted at least three dead in traffic, two drownings and two other ac cidental deaths during the Memorial Day holiday week end for a total1 of seven vic timettiree fewer than last year; -;x ' 'v.'V:. -.- Memorial Day week end deaths in Oregon last year in cluded seven drownings and three in traffic. Traffic claimed two young lives Sunday; Robert Leroy Steward, three-year-old son of the James K. Stewards of Salem, was killed when his tricycle was struck by a car. Gary Edward Streeter, 16, Hood River, was killed in a single car accident on highway 30 east of Hbod River. Two others were injured, driver Marvin Muma, 17, Hood River, and Bill H. Smith, Odell. Arthur Bellows, 74, of Medford died Sunday in an Ashland hospital . from in juries suffered in a one-car acqident when his car ap parently went out of con trol on a city street and smashed into a stone wall. His wife, Sarah, and two others were injured in the accident. -, Missing and presumed drowned were John Clark, 47, and his brother Kenneth, 50, both of Albany. They van- Baccalaureate Services Held Three high school baccalau rette services were held in Jackson county Sunday eve ning.' More than 2,000 persons attended the Medford Higli school service held at Hed- rick Junior High school, and more than 700 were reported at the Ashland High school service. Approximately 500 persons attended Crater High school baccaulaureate ' ser vices in Central Point. Pastor Clynton Crisman of Medford Friends church gave the Medford sermon and Mr. Jean M. Shelley, minister of Central Point Church of Christ, was Crater High school speaker. The Rev. B. J. Holland of First Presbyter ian church, Ashland, spoke at the Ashland service. Commencement exercises will be held at tne three high schools Thursday, June 4, at 8 p.m, Dr. Elmo Stevenson, 'presi dent of Southern Oregon col lege, will be the principal speaker at the Medford High school program to be held 'at Hedrick Junior High school. Four seniors at Crater High school will . speak for the program there, and Dr. Howard Runkel of the Wil lamette university's depart ment of speech and dramatics is to be 'the Ashland High school graduation principal speaker. The program will be held in school gymnasium. Hatfield Lauds Traffic Control Salem (DPD Gov. Mark Hatfield said today that the stepped up Memorial Day traf fic control program involving airplanes was so successful that it may be repeated on an unannounced basis. The governor said Oregon's three traffic fatalities were "much to be regretted" but thought the week end program had held the death toll down. 'After a conference . with State Police Superintendent H. G. Maison, Motor Vehicle Director Vern L. Hill and Act ing Adjutant General Robert Irving, the governor said "the role played by the air patrols give us reason to believe they should be pressed into service more frequently." WEATHER FORECAST Increasing high cloudiness tonight. Considerable cloudiness Tuesday. Low tonight 50. Cooler Tuesday with high near 80. TEMP. Highest Yesterday 89 Lowest This Morning 49 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:41 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:37 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 2:40 a.m. New Moon June 2 Three planets and three stars wiU be prominent In the evening sky in June. The three planets are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The three stars, seen higher in the eastern sky each night are Vega, Deneb and AJtair, the summer triangle of navigation. ished while fishing Saturday on the coast south of the south jetty of Yaquina Bay. A Coast Guard and beach patrol search was fruitless. Their 15-foot outboard skiff was found cap sized. A Springfield man, William O. Farmer, 57, died Saturday while hiking up Rosary" lake trail in the Willamette Pass area during a family fishing trip. He was hiking with his wife when he complained of feeling ill and they stopped. The Lane county coroner's of fice said he apparently fell unconscious and died about 6:30 a.m. of undetermined causes. Burns Fatal A retired printer, Elmer R. Wickham, 65, died of burns suffered in a fire in his South west Portland apartment early Saturday. He was burned over 75 per cept of his body and died in a Portland hospital about eight hours after the fire. Arthur Bellows Dies in Ashland After Car Mishap Ashland - Arthur Bellows, 74, of 429 North Holly st., Medford, died in Ashland General hospital Sunday two hours after a one-car auto ac cident in Ashland. Also injured were three passengers, Mrs. Bellows, 66, with a head injury; Alex Ves tal, 75, of 546 Maple st., Cen tral Point, minor injuries; and Miss Elizabeth Jack, 73, also of 546 Maple st., Central Point, broken arm. All are re ported in fair ' condition in Ashland General hospital. -The car driven by Bellows, about 5:20 p.m. Sunday, was traveling an estimated 55 miles an hour down steep Fork st., above the Shakes pearean theater in Ashland, apparently out of control, a witness told Ashland pol! e. The car jumped the curb and smashed against the curving Shakespearean theater con crete wall. Bellows may have had a heart attack when the car started down the hill, Ash land police said. Ashland firemen had to turn the car around to open the doors on the station wagon. Both Bellows and his wife were unconscious when found. Mrs. Bellows and Miss Jack were wedged between the front and back seats, police said. This is the 10th county traf fic fatality for 1959 compared to six the same time last year, year. "" Slot Machine Found Sunday Near Pond Jackson County Sheriff Joe Walsh applied for an order today to destroy a slot ma chine found in the Central Point area Sunday. Deputies picked up a slot machine Sunday from where it was dumped alongside the road near the Medford Lum ber company log pond. Guy Hughes, state brand inspector, observed the machine and re ported it to deputies. District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder remarked that the ma chine was discarded probably because of raids by city and state police Tuesday during which 39 slot machines were confiscated. Wagons Head Westward After Two-Day Layover Register Cliff., Wyo. - (DPD Seven wagons retracing the Oregon trail set out west ward today for Douglas, Wyo. after a two-day layover at this historic campsite 14 miles west of Old Fort Lara mie. The train was scheduled to arrive in Casper-which will be as it was 100 years ago the jumping off place for the caravan, on Saturday. From Casper, the wagon train will set off next week end over the red desert for Kemmerer, a 15-day trip. j The covered wagons camp ed at Register Cliff Saturday and found the names of their predecessors of more than a At Least 300 Persons Killed, Check Reveals California Leads With 27 Deaths By United Press International Speeding, careless motorists turned a carefree week end into the blackest two-day Me- morial holiday in history.;:- ; Slaughter on the nation's nignways moumea iar "anove . 1.1 . ! . . " . tne previous recora oi zoi . -persons killed in a 54-hour Memorial Day holiday in 1953. Over Estimate : The death toll also climbed far over the National Safety Council's pre-holiday estimate that 260 would die in traffic tangles. A United Press Internation al count at 8:30 a.m. (PST). showed at least 300 'killed in highway accidents. An addi tional 101 drowned and 63 . others died in miscellaneous accidents for an over-all total of 464. . California recorded the heaviest toll on the highways with 27, dead. Ohio counted 22 killed, New York 20, and Tennessee 14. The National Safety Coun- cil blamed the record slaugh ter on "extremely heavy travel and a rash of multiple death accidents." Tragic, Shocking The council, which had. hoped one of the most inten sive police crackdowns in his-' tory would hold down the toll, called the figures "tragic and shocking." Almost six persons were killed in traffic every hour .... 4-U . .. . - - j : At uu uie avciage uuruig Liiv holiday period from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday. There s a whole upward' trend in highway deaths that's been going on since the first of the year," the council said. "For some reason the toll just started going up again." Only five states and the Dis trict of Columbia escaped death on the highways this holiday. The states were Dela- 1 ware, New Hampshire, Ver mont and Washington. Five Die in Crash Indiana's holiday toll was boosted by two high fatality traffic crashes. A young moth er and four of her children ware killed at Crown Point, Ind., Sunday when their car was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at a crossing obscured by high weeds. Near New Bedford, Ind., three men were killed when their car traveling at high speed skidded into the path of an oncoming car. Four persons were killed and three others injured in a two-car head-on collision at' Northampton, N.Y. Poisonous Fumes Kill Four Miners Iron River, Mich. -(DPD Four men died from poison ous sulphur fumes today when trapped by a cave-in and fire at the bottom of the Sherwood iron mine of the Inland Steel Co., one mile south of here. Thirty one other miners made their way to safety, al though two were in critical condition at Stambaugh Gen eral hospital. The dead were Rudy Carl Anderson, 41, Iron River, fa ther of six children; Einar Johnson, 59, Crystal Falls; ( Ingver Wester, 31, Iron River and August Zuckoff, 41, Crystal Falls. Portland-nJPD-A. G. Fegles has been named general su perintendent of the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bu reau. Washington -(DPD President Eisenhower wJl hold a news conference Wednesday. century ago carved in rock. The caravan, a feature of the Oregon Centennial, left Independence, Mo., April 19. The caravan made only 14 miles Saturday - the shortest distance it has covered in one day since the trip began. The 27 members of the party,' the men bearded and all in historical dress, made camp in a grove of cotton woods about 300 yards from the cliff, on the banks of the North Platte river. Under heavy clouds, the wind blew sporadic bursts of rain against the wagons' flap ping sides as the party pulled into the camp site about 10:30 ajn.