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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,
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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
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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
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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.