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Newspaper Page Texta a n - 9 mm 100-Gun Salute Opens Centennial Exposition Governor Heads Dignitaries at Noon Ceremony Weather Threatens To Dampen Spirits Portland - (DPD - A 100-gun aalute, a shot for each year Oregon has been a state, got the Centennial Exposition of to a roaring start here today , Gov. Mark Hatfield headed a list of dignitaries present at noon ceremonies kicking off the summer - long extrava ganza, .y The weather was threaten ing with showers likely today ana inursaay. 11 ram con tinues this week end, how ever, Centennial officials will have the last laugh. The ' Centennial will get $10,000 for Friday, Saturday and Sun day if more than one-tenth of . an inch of rain falls on any of those days. Twenty-three nations have exhibits at the two-week In ternational Trade Fair and the 65-acre site was crammed with attractions. A crash pro gram to complete last minute preparations was undertaken Tuesday with top Centennial officials personally taking charge. Big Crowd Shi Parade The Centennial gates open ed at noon and the Interna tional Trade Fair at 2 p.m. Gates close at midnight. The gala opening came dur ing the height of Rose Festi val week activities here. More than 100,000 persons turned out in downtown Port land Tuesday night for the Merrykhana parade, which got the Festival off to a fun filled start. Tonight is the big night for one of 11 princesses. She'll be picked as Queen of Rosaria in ceremonies at Multnomah ' stadium. A huge 32-by-45-foot screen will carry colored pic tures of the princesses during the eremonies. Navy in Town Six sleek Canadian . Navy Corvettes arrived in town Tuesday afternoon and tied up at the west seawall of the Willamette river. Five' U. S. Navy minesweepers were due in today and more U.S.. Navy units, including the cruisers Helena and Bremerton, are due Thursday. Today's Centennial show start kicked off a summer ' long event which officials hope will draw six to eight million visitors to Oregon. Newspaper editors were taken on a 'preview of the Centennial grounds Tuesday afternoon and most comments were highly favorableMany agreed it would take several days to see it all. Some ex hibits still were not in place. .. Pirates Arrive A third "Navy" joined the festivities. Twenty -two Coos . Bay Pirates aboard their good ship Elfin steamed into port Tuesday afternoon flying the Jolly Rogers at the mast. ; They fired a full broadside, but the most damage occurred to the Elfin itself. Someone charged one of the cannons the wrong way and holes were blown through two decks. (A schedule of Rose Festi val events for Friday and Saturday are listed on page 2). 4-H Wagon In Climbing Grants Pass -The Jackson County 4-H wagon train faces its first real test today when it climbs Sexton mountain, Glenn Klein,' Jackson county 4-H agent, reported this morn ing. , The group plans to empty the wagons of all passengers to make it easier on the horses, which he said are bear ing up well. No further trou ble with wagon wheels has been reported. The wagon train crew is getting used to cross-country travel with a few minor blisters, he said. - The train is on. schedule, with tonight's stop set for the Charles Day farm north of Wolf Creeks At Wolf Creek the train will be met by. a pack led by 20 Curry county 4-H club members. Three of them will join the train to Corvallis. - The wagon train started to day late but is averaging about 4 .miles an hour, Klein ' SHOW QUEEN-The queen of the show award in the annual show of the Medford Rose society held Tuesday went to a Peace bud grown by V. L. Quackenbush, 5643 South Pacific highway, shown above. Hundreds of valley residents attend ed the show in the Medford High school cafeteria. Sweep stakes winner for accumulating the highest number of points on all entries was Mrs. E. P. Updike, 1216 Locust st. (Knackstedt photo) Mrs. Updike Takes Sweepstakes Prize In Local Rose Show Mrs. E. P. Updike, 1216 Lo cust st. Medford, was sweep stakes winner, and V. L. Quackenbush, 5643 South Pa cific highway, Medford, won the queen of the show award in the fifth annual show of Medford Rose society yester day in the cafeteria of Med ford High school. Sweepstakes winner goes to the grower with the highest number of points won on all entries. ' Ouackenbush's prize -win ning rose was Peace bud. He also won several other rib bons, and in the Grants Pass show yesterday won three Federal Court Set In Medford Soon A two-week session of fed eral district court will be held in Medford starting June 16 at 9:30 a.m., it was announced today. The session will be held in courtroom No. 1 in the Jack son county courthouse, rather than in the federal courtroom in the Post Office building, due to air conditioning work being done there, it was re ported. Jurors summoned to serve during the session of federal court are now asked to note the change in location, ac cording to U.S. Marshal Paul Kearney. District Judge William East, Portland, will preside during the two weeks court is held here. A docket of cases set for trial will be announced soon, Kearney said. Train Faces First Real Test Sexton Mountain Today reported. The youngsters turn ed out at 5:20 a.m. today in stead of the set 5 a.m. How ever, they will be made to get up a half-hour early to make up for it, the county 4-H agent promised. The train was scheduled to travel along the old road through Sunny val ley, up Sexton mountain and into Wolf Creek. The wagon train members went to bed at 10 p.m. yester day. Last night was probably the first full night of rest the 4-H'ers received. Yesterday' they waited . an hour to enter Grants Pass, where a large crowd greeted them as they entered town. At the campsite they were met by a group of the Grants Pass Cavemen who claimed the wagon train was trespass ing on historic campgrounds and could not camp there. A Merlin delegation, however, erected a sign, "Merlin city limits," and told the group it wm firsts, four second place rib bons and two honorable men tion. Mrs. Dayton DeDue was iweepstakes runner-up and a Kordes Perfecta from tne garden of Ernest E. Vehrs, Grants Pass, was runner-up for queen of the show. Other top winners were Mrs. Richard Travis for her entry of Lady Elgins in best three roses; Mrs. Elton Wal dron for best floribunda, the entry being Pinafore; Mrs. George Hartley, best single or semi-double (Dainty Bess); Mrs. Updike, best grandiflora, (Montezuma); Eldred W. Pey ton, best spray of climbing roses (Elmshorn); Mrs. W. R-. Peabody, best base of 12 roses, mixed varieties; Mrs. Gaston L. Floux, Central Point, best base of 12 roses, one variety, (Peace); Dr. L. G. Gentner, best full-blown rose, (Christopher Stone); Mrs. H. E. Peyton, best old rose, (a red moss); Mrs. Carl W. Nor ris, best bouquet of old roses; Mrs. Ethel Carr, Phoenix, sweepstakes for best fioral ar rangement using roses; Cen tral Point Garden club, sweep stakes award for garden club entries; Mrs. L. G. Gentner, sweepstakes for division open only to American Rose soci ety members who have pre viously won sweepstakes prizes in arrangements di visions. ' - Hundreds of visitors at tended the show and the award ceremony last night. Carl W. Norris is president of the society and co-chairman in charge of the show were Eldred W. Peyton and Mrs. R. H. Travis. ... could camp behind the sign. Phil Krouse, Applegate, wagonmaster, was Issued a Caveman passport allowing the train to pass through the Grants Pass territory. The people of' Merlin, presented the train with a large basket of cookies and candy. The Josephine county 4-H Empire Builders and 4-H Leaders as sociation treated the group to a potluck dinner. Marvin Young, Grants Pass extension agent, led the campfire sing ing. A chorus of war-whoops and rifle shots announced the appearance of the "Moon Mountain Indians," a group of four Grants Pass boys, Bob Mars, Bob Thorpe-, Dick Davis and Larry Hassett. They staged authentic Indian cere monial dances for the wagon train. The wagon train crew slept well in spite of frost-covered sleeping bags early this morn ing, Klein reported. Hatfield Returns; No Comment on Vice Presidency Salem (DPI) Gov. Mark Hatfield was back today from a tour, of five eastern states, but he had no comment on whether he might be a GOP vice-presidential candidate in 1960. The governor was mum in the fact of much speculation that he might be a running mate for New York Gov. Nel son Rockefeller. Hatfield admitted he was "flattered" by the specula tion. In New York, Hatfield had breakfast Sunday with Rocke feller and his trip gave high party officials a chance to look him over. His rise to national recogni tion started when he was elected governor in 1958 by a comfortable majority in the face of a Democratic tide. Rockefeller's name prob ably will be placed on the Oregon primary ballot in 1960 under terms of a new law which provides that can didates generally advocated by national news media can be placed on the ballot by Secretary of State Howell Appling. Appling said that if he had to make a decision now on placing Rockefeller's name on the Oregon primary ballot, he would put it on. Arrives Tuesday Night He said Rockefeller's own wishes would have nothing to do with the decision. Hatfield returned to Salem Tuesday night from San Fran cisco after a cross-country jet flight. While in the east he receiv ed two honorary degrees, bringing his total of honor ary degrees to four. He went to Portland today to head up ceremonies start ing the Oregon , Centennial Exposition. Time Extension Granted Company Western Auto Supply com pany, South Riverside ave., has been given until'July 15 to vacate the north end of their building, for the exten sion of Eighth st., it was re ported today. The extension of time was granted the firm by the city since the contract for Bear creek bridge was not let as early as previously had been expected. According to the company's manager, the firm will move later this year to the current Hubbard Wray building, 25 South Riverside ave. Hubbard Wray plans to move into their new building at 909 South Riverside ave., approximately Aug. 1. Western Auto Supply will remain in the south end of the present building between July 15 and when remodel ing is completed in the pres ent Hubbard Wray building. During that period the auto supply firm will operate on a reduced stock basis, it was explained. Work got under way this week on construction of curbs and gutters on the east em bankment approach to the Bear creek-Eighth st. bridge. The embankment was com pleted several months ago. Youths Questioned By Medford Police Four teen-agers were ques tioned by city police Tuesday evening following a report they were , throwing lighted cigarettes from the balcony at the Craterian theater. Questioned were two 16-year-old Medford boys, a 15-year-old Central Point boy, and 17-year-old Medford youth. It was. reported that the lighted cigarettes were being flipped over the heads of oth er persons in the balcony into the crowd below. The boys were released to the custody of their parents since no com plaint was filed against the youths, according to police re ports. J 959 Wheat Crop Estimate Given Washington (DPD The Ag riculture Department today estimated the 1959 wheat crop will total 1,181,596,000 bushels. This prospective crop com pares with 1958 production of a record 1,462,218,000 bush els, f Portland -(DPD-Joshua (Joe) Weiner, 73, local clothing store operator, died Tuesday of a heart attack. Price 10 Medford 18 PAGES District Approve Medford school district pa trons yesterday approved the district's budget for the 1959 60 fiscal year by a margin of about 4 to 1. The vote was 623 in favor, 186 against. The school board will canvass the vote at a spe cial meeting June 30, when it also will review and consider necessary transfer of funds for the fiscal year. , Frank Bash, chairman of the board, expressed his ap preciation to residents of the district for supporting, the school board and the budget committee yesterday. 'Park-and-Shop' Validation Plan Approved for City The Retail. Merchants group of the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce this morn ing approved a "park-and-shop" validation program for the downtown Medford area. Twenty-one merchants pres ent signed validation agree ments, and more are expected to sign, according to Don Mc Neil, manager of the chamber. In effect, the plan will pro vide free off-street customer parking for as long as the cus tomer wants to shop in the downtown area, McNeil said. Lots now in existence, both professionally operated and private, will be invited to par ticipate, he added. Expect Others McNeil said others are ex pected to be created within the next several months by private operators as a result of the profit incentive which the plan provides. The lots are privately owned and are operated on a profit basis. A board of control was elected to establish policies and administer the plan with the assistance of the chamber, McNeil said. Money for the operation will be handled in a fund. which is entirely sepa rate from that of the chamber budget, he pointed out. Named to the board of con trol are Bert Thierolf, Otto Frohnmayer, John Moff att, Cliff Lovejoy, Howard Boyd and Bruno Rath. McNeil said the plan is in operation in more than 120 cities in the country. In Fargo, N.D., a city of 45,000, the plan has been in operation six months,, and has resulted in the creation of 250 new off street parking spaces down town by private investors. Defense Command In Practice Drill Colorado Springs, Colo. -(DPD - The North American Air Defense Command opens a 24-hour command drill cover ing a quarter of the globe today to test the judgment of men responsible for the de fense of the Free World. Headquarters here said the exercise, labeled "Desk Top II," opened with a mock sneak attack on several Stra tegic Air Command bases in the United States at 9 a.m. (p.s.t.). No missiles or planes were to be launched or flown as part of the test. S6da Mountain Lookout Manned Southwest district office of the state department of for estry placed Mrs. Thelma Sims, Jacksonville, at Soda mountain fire lookout and John Bilderback, Ashland, at Table mountain lookout this morning. This brings to nine the num ber of lookouts which have been posted this season. There are 11 stations. Forest patrol men said that the Buck Rock lookout is scheduled to be posted June 15 and that Mt. Isabelle station will be filled when remodeling is com pleted. BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City , 4 9 1 New York - 6 11 1 Daley, Gorman (7) and House, Chili (8); Diimar, Broaitid (3) and Howard. Cents MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1959 Patrons Budget The said "it is gratifying to know the people support the budget committee in the face of rising costs, and support the committee's policy of do ing what it can to keep school taxes as low as possible while still providing necessary fa cilities for a strong school program." Budget for Year The budget for fiscal year 1959-60 totals $3,771,866.29 of which $1,699,051.07 was above the 6 per cent limita tion. The vote' by polling places: McLoughlin Junior High, 264 yes, 95, no; Hedrick Junior High, 132 yes, 28 no; Jackson ville, 52 yes, 9 no; Ruch, 33 yes, 19 no; Howard, 33 yes, 14 no; Griffin Creek, 75 yes, 12 no; and Lone Pine 34 yes, 9 no. The estimated levy for next fiscal year is 57.5 mills based on budget figures for the pres ent fiscal year with a $45 mil lion assessed valuation. This represents an increase of -10.7 mills-in the original 549C dis trict, but is less than the mill age levied in districts which recently consolidated with Medford. Capital Outlays As a result of the consolida tion, most capital outlays for major construction were elim inated from the current budg et in order to keep the re quired levy to a minimum, school officials noted. However, Dr. Leonard May field, superintendent, report ed to the school board last night that cleaning, repairing and renovating one or more phases of all school buildings in the system are planned this summer. Plans for the work are nqw being completed, he said, improvements will be made in every school during the summer. A study of immediate and long-range building needs in the district outside the oper ating budget is now under way, Dr. Mayfield reported. The study was approved by the budget committee and school board af-ter the recent consolidation. Hallock Discusses Orchestra Schedule Ted Hallock, Portland, state cordinator for the Oregon Centennial commission, dis cussed with Medford officials yesterday promotion plans for the Portland Symphony or chestra's visit here Sunday, June 28. The concert, which is one of a series of six throughout the state, will be held in Med ford High school auditorium at 8 p.m. that day. Hallock is touring the six cities in the state where the orchestra will perform. The special Centennial tour of the orchestra is to bring the orchestra to cities which normally would not have a chance to hear the,group un less traveling to Portland, and introduce its new conductor, Piero Bellugi. Dr. Frank Wilson, Medford, will be in charge of local pro motion. Tickets will be avail able in several locations .in the near future, he said. Traffic Signals Changed for Summer Two traffic signals in school areas have been changed for the summer months, according to Vern Thorpe, public works director. The signal at East Main and Lindley sts. has been turned off for the summer with the signals covered. This is in ac cordance with state law, Thorpe reported. The other signal, at Jackson st. and Summit ave., has been changed to a flashing light for the summer. The Jackson st. traffic will be controlled by the amber light while Summit ave. traffic will stop on a flashing red signal. San Diego (DPD One of the nation's intercontinental ballistic missile weapons, the Atlas, should be operational by July despite failure of the last five tests, a Convair offi cial said today. Tacoma -(DPD Two children died of suffocation today when fire destroyed their home here. "Say, If We Don't Get Eleven Teachers Named to Schools In Medford Area Eleven teachers were elect ed by the Medford school board last night, and resigna tions of four others accepted. The board also reappointed the school district clerk, named an auditor, approved a revision in check forms and purchased two new school buses. Teachers elected were John Dean, secondary mathematics; Mary Grumbach, homemak- ing, junior high; Robert Carl Hanson' history, junior ; high; Jack D. Henry," junior high English, drama and speech; Margradelle Hiatt, primary Ruby'Hiatt, junior high Eng lish; Anne Leonard, English, French, junior high; Patricia Stewart, primary; James Teg ner, intermediate; Sally Dev ers, 1 primary; and Robert "A. Radcliff, physical education and coach. . Teacher Resignations Teacher resignations accept ed were from Joanne Wick man, West Side second grade; Donald W. Mitchell, Lone Pine eighth grade; John W. Childers, principal at Roose velt school; and Frances K. Henry, Lone Pine librarian and seventh grade teacher. Wilson Slater was reap pointed school clerk "for the-1959-60 fiscal year, and Le land Knox, Medford, was ap pointed auditor. Knox was recommended by school ad ministrators as auditor be cause he has worked closely with Slater during the past year in studying and working on various phases of the dis trict's records and reporting system. Slater was appointed dis trict clerk last year, and his reappointment was recom mended by Dr. Leonard May field, superintendent. The revision in check forms for the district was proposed for more efficient record keep ing. Action on a proposal to adopt a check signature ma chine was postponed until the next meeting for a report on control methods for the ma- Siskiyou Pioneer Board Sets Meeting The board of directors of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 11, at the Thomas Hight office, 221 North Central ave., Medford. All board members are ask ed to attend. Dr. Frank Haines, who recently was elected president, will pre side. WEATHER FORECAST: Thickening cloudi ness tonight. Cloudy with oc casional light rain Thursday, becoming showery Thursdav night. Low tonight 48-50. High Thursday, 60-70. Temp. Highest Yesterday 66 Lowest this Morning 42 Our Skies Tonight. Sunset today 7:48 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:34 a.m. Moonset tonight 10:43 p.m. First Quarter June 13 PROMINENT STARS The Big Dipper, high in northwest at moonset. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, north of the Moon. Venus, just north of Mars. Saturn, low in south east . 10:02 p.m. Jupiter, due south 10:21 p.m. 54th Year Tribune No. 70 Started Pretty Soon" chine and check records, The board approved pur- chasing two new 78-passehger school buses, both with the forward engine. One unit will have a Superior body, cost ing $11,935 and the other will have a Carpenter body, costing $12,011. Both buses will be purchased from Inter national Harvester company, Medford, who submited the lowest of seven bids. Other bidders were Schetkv Equipment company, Med- ford; ; Pacific , School , Coach company, Portland; Crater Lake Motors, Inc., Medford: jawara l,. jsropp company, Portland; Crown Coach cor poration, Los Angeles, Calif.; and American Bus corpora tion, McMinnville. Purchasing the buses was contingent o n yesterday's school district budeet elec tion, which was approved by district patrons by a margin of about 4 to 1. Accept Construction The board also accepted as being complete Hoover El ementary school and remod eling work at Medford High school. Hoover school was built by Loren Ritchie, con tractor, and remodeling work at the high school was done by Salter and Kline. A request from Jackson ville museum for early rec ords of the. old Jacksonville school district was approved contingent upon legal aspects concerning school district rec ords. Records requested were from Oct. 2, 1869, to Sept. 30, 1896; July 13, 1903, to July 15, 1915; and from March 2, 1915, to July 18, 1922. Mrs. Otto Ewaldsen and Mrs. William Seibert, two of the three delegates from the Medford district to the Na tional Citizens Commission for the Public Schools region al meeting in Sun Valley, re ported on the meeting. Forty delegates from Ore gon, Washington, Utah and Montana attended the ses sion, which was to exchange views and discuss mutual problems of school districts. Ballet Celeste To Be In Ashland This Year Ashland - The Ballet Ce leste, San Francisco's young classical ballet company, will return to Ashland this sum mer, to present two programs each afternoon from Aug 8. through 15, William Patton, Oregon Shakespearean Festi val general manager, has an nounced. The ballet will be present ed in the Ashland Junior High school auditorium. Two newly choreographed ballets, which were premiered in San Francisco last March, will be presented. They are "Lincoln's Ladies," and "Es panita." Also on the program will be classic ballets which were presented in Ashland last year. The ballet was formed in 1950 and trained and directed by Merriem Lanova, former soloist with Ballet Russe de Montt Carlo. The troupe has West Diplomats Pessimistic Abort Any Agreements Answer Expected In Gromyko Speech Geneva (DPD T h e f oreigi O ministers conference today en tered a crucial 24-hour period that could decide its success oe) failure and whether summit talks will be held. O Western delegates openrj admitted they were pessimis tic that any agreement coulS be reached at this meeting. A air of crisis was eviderg ov continued Soviet insistence Allies quit West Berlin. , The answer was up to Bup sia and it was expected todf9 when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko speaks i another of the open sessions h has used for angry tirad against the West. ' His speech was in renlv the Western ultimatum thU the East-West meeting murf) agree on Western rights it. West Berlin or give up the thought of a meeting of heatfe of state demanded by Premium Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev Charts Court '. The only question wA whether Khrushchev had im structed Gromyko on what ta say. Khrushchev met in Mos cow Tuesday with East Ger man Communist leaders anff was believed to have charte the Communist course.. Again the only ray of hoifc) in Geneva came from ihm, long-stalled, talks on howtt Dan atomic bomb tests. Botf sides met today and there waft some hope of a preliminajdf agreement. Political Crisis But the West also wi.O faced with a crisis in Wcfe German politics- that might mean the end of Chancellor KonracLAdenauer's leadership could see France leave th organization in anger at beir left out of major global strategy and deprived of Anglo-American atomic bomk i secrets. uespite the air of futility prevailing among the Western delegates, not was prepared to break off the conferenc as long as there was any hoDtm of success. Trying To Blame West The Communists appeare) resigned to failure of the East West conference and alreadft were making efforts to blam the West. The first such charge came from the Eaflfc German Communist newrf) agency ADN which said th West was trying to end th$ conference without results.. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd Af) French Foreign Ministf Maurice Couve de Murvillg) placed the full blame for thg) deadlock on Khrushchev. They were, certain by no that Gromyko had no author ity" to make any decisions here, even tactical ones, and that the Soviet premier signaling the moves from Russia. , Leg Bones Found In Creek Identified Portland - (DPD - Leg bonqej) found in Johnson creek thm week may have belonged to a man reported missing sino March 10, 1958, sheriff's de tectives said today. Detectives Earl Son arf? Fred Boynton identified thg) missing man as James Ridge way, 38, whose last knofnD address was at Greshfm. They said the same type of) army combat boot Ridgewfy usually used was found ot the leg bones. The bones eT sent to the state crime lab& ratory for analysis. been expanded to 30 membeig through auditions of young people. Auditions are scheduled again . this year in . Ashland, Patton said. Tickets may be obtained at the Shakespearean Festival box office. The Shakespearean Festival will open July 28 in its new $275,000 theater with "Twelf th Night," and an original "Masque of the New World," written especially as a Festi val salute to honor Oregon's Centennial. "Measure for Measure," "King John," and "Anthony and Cleopatra" complete the 1959 repertogy season to run nightly through Sept 5. Tic kets may now be reserved through the theater for all performances, as well as thf traditional "Feast of the Trih of Will" which will preclude the opening performnct.