Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 16, 1959, Image 1

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EVANGELIST IN MOSCOW-U.S. Evangel- Andreanov is at left. Others are members of
ist Billy Graham shakes hands with newly wedding party. Although Graham attended
married Zinya Andreanov in the First Bap- services at church, he was simply a silent
tist church in Moscow. Bridegroom Paul member of the congregation.
Teamsters Boycott
Being Extended
To Medford Area
A Teamsters union boycott
on Tillamook cheese is being
extended o the Medford area,
according to Robert v Shaw,
secretary-treasurer of Local
962 here.
Shaw said a survey is being
conducted today on local sales
outlets for the cheese. Grocers
and others who do not take
the cheese off their shelves
will be subject to picketing
starting "probably tomorrow,"
Shaw said.
"We don't anticipate any
trouble," Shaw commented.
"I don't imagine they'll keep
the cheese when they find out
what we intend to do."
Local people would be em
ployed as pickets if necessary,
Shaw said.
In Connection With Strike
The- boycott, reportedly be
ing extended to 11 western
states, is in connection with a
strike, now in its sixth week,
against the Tillamook Cream
ery association. Pickets ap
peared in the Portland area
yesterday, where a survey re
vealed many supermarkets
were , removing ,,. the cheese
from their shelves.
"We are going to do the
same thing they're ' doing in
Portland," Shaw said.
The Teamster action is not
intended to halt the grocery
business or stop deliveries, ac
cording to a union spokesman
in Portland. The boycott, it is
understood, is considered part
of an "advertising" campaign.
Scale Model of
UO Building OK'd
' Portland-flJPD-First steps to
ward construction of an un
usual "bridgetype" science
building at the University of
Oregon were -authorized by
the State Board of Higher
Education here Monday.
The board's building com
mittee authorized the archi
tects to spend -about $9,000 to
build a small-scale model of
the proposed building and
conduct stress tests at Oregon
State college.
It was estimated that the
tests-would permit reduction
in the amount of structural
steel used in the building and
result in a saving of up to
$50,000. '
A 'spokesman for the archi
tects, Lawrence, Tucker and
Wallman, said this type of
construction was developed
in Europe and the building
at the University of Oregon
would be the first of its kind
built in the U. S. - '
127-Year-Old History
Found in Area Garage
A 127-year-old book be
lieved to be worth at least
$500 was discovered recently
in a garage in this area.
The discoverer of the book
was Mrs. Virginia Card, pro
prietress of the Terminal
Book and Gift shop in Jack
sonville, who, as agent for
the book's owner, is currently
negotiating with the New
berry Library in Chicago for
its sale.
Black Hawk War
Entitled "A History of the
Black Hawk War, by an Old
Resident of the Military
Tract," the book bears on its
title page the words "Fort
Armstrong: 1832."
The book is printed in a
strange arrangement of letters
and symbols, unreadable ex
cept by experts, and Mrs.
Card believes that it was dic
tated by the Indian Chief
Black Hawk shortly after his
4-H Wagon Train
Expected in Eugene
For Encampment
Eugene A number of
friends and relatives are ex
pected to greet the Jackson
County 4-H wagon train when
it arrives in Eugene tonight,
according to Miss Marilou
Garner, Jackson county 4-H
agent.
The six wagons will bivouac
at the Eugene fair grounds
where there is grass for horses
and a shelter from possible
rain for 4-H club members
from Jackson and Douglas
GOP Fund Drive
Announced Here
The opening of a two-week
program to obtain $30,000 in
pledges was announced at a
meeting here' last night by
Clif Ouelette, finance chair
man " of the Jackson County
Central Republican commit
tee.
. About 40 local Republicans
attended the meeting, includ
ing State Sen. Edwin Durno
and Eve Nye, state representa
tive. Ouelette said that the com
mittee's goal is to obtain 500
pledges of $60 each in Jack
son county between now and
June 30. The pledges would
be paid in quarterly install
ments over the next two years.
Medford Attorney Alan
Holmes has been named
pledge chairman.
Don Stathos, Republican
county chairman, said that
the drive in Jackson county
is an integrated part of a
state-wide Republican cam
paign to raise approximately
$500,000 to finance Oregon
Republican activities through
the 1960 election.
Stathos said that half of
the money raised in Jackson
county, will go to the state
and national Republican or
ganization, and that half will
remain here to support county
candidates.
Also present at the meeting
last night were Jackson Coun
ty Sheriff Joe Walsh and
County Commissioner Chester
Wendt. '
National Debt Boost
Proposal Approved
Washinston-UPD-The House
Ways and Means Committee
today approved President Ei
senhower's proposal to in
crease the limit on the na
tional debt but withheld ac
tion on his proposals for rais
ing the interest rates on eov-
ernment bonds.
capture in Illinois in 1832.
If that is so, she says, it
antedates by a year the rec
ognized autobiography of the
famous Indian.
Offered $250 for Book
Two weeks ago, Mrs. Card
was offered $250 for the book
from a southern California
museum but she was told that
a mid-Western museum might
be more interested in it. She
wrote to Chicago and got a
prompt answer from the New
berry Museum, asking her to
ship the book insured for "at
least $500," for examination.
Mrs. Card is an amateur his
torian and she has written
and sold magazine articles
dealing with Western Ameri
cana. She says that Jackson
county abounds in old books
and Indian' artifacts and rel
ics, and that many local resi
dents don't realize how valu
able they may be.
counties
Owner of the horse which
died in the Canyonville state
park remains still undisclosed
today pending notification of
the owner. Only other prob
lem is consumption of all the
food which the wagon train is
carrying. Much of it was do
nated along the route
. The group showered last
night at one of the Cottage
Grove grade schools and will
wash its clothes at Eugene.
Because of the hay truck
breaking down en rbute to
Eugene before the wagon train
left Jacksonville, the group
expects to have to buy hay in
Eugene.
Wagon Train Greeted
An enthusiastic greeting
was given the wagon train
members last night when the
train encamped, at Cottage
Grove. More than 200 persons
attired in sunbonnets and
Centennial-type frocks for the
women and western riding
outfits for the men met the
train. . Wagonmaster Philip
Krouse, Applegate, received
the key to. the city, a large
cardboard replica, from the
Cottage Grove mayor as the
Cottage Grove German band
played.
The Cottage Grove Saddle
club raced its horses through
several competitive events for
the spectators yesterday. Miss
Garner estimated approxi
mately 50 horses participated.
The wagon train crew seems
to be generally recovering
from the wave of upset stom
achs reported at Friday's en
campment. A ' doctor diag
nosed it as light influenza,
she said. However, the young
est wagon-train member, Gary
Stewart, 3-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Victor Stewart, Ash
land, returned home with his
mother Sunday because of the
flu.' Vic Stewart and other
members of the Stewart fam
ily are continuing on the trip
to Corvallis.
As rain pelted down on the
encampment last night the
boys crawled under the wag
ons and the girls and female
members of the train spread
large plastic sheets over them.
However, none of the mem
bers who did not already have
colds were coughing or sneez
ing this morning, Miss Gar
ner reported.
The wagon train is continu
ing toward its destination of
Corvallis on June 20 for the
4-H summer school, without
further mishap tov wagons or
horses.
Pile Driver Strike
Being Investigated
Portland-flJPD-A formal in
vestigation by the Interna
tional Carpenters Union open
ed in the Masonic Temple
here today into the strike of
the Portland local of the Pile
Drivers Union, a Carpenters
Union affiliate.
The strike, now in its sixth
week, had halted work on
some $14 million worth of
construction in Oregon.
Admitted -to the hearing
room were 35 accredited
Union delegates. Indications
were that- the investigation,
behind closed doors, might
continue for several days, de
pending on how long the night
sessions last. '
The probe was ordered by
Maurice A. Hutcheson, gen
eral president of the AFL
CIO Carpenters Union.
Los Angeles-flJPD-Vice presi
dent Richard M. Nixon has
returned to Washington after
a five-day, non-political tour
of the west.
Anti-Communist
Demonstrators
Create Trouble
Factions Campaign
In India State
Trivandrum, India (OPD
Anti - Communist demonstra
tors defied killings and mass
arrests by Communist-directed
police in Kerala State to
day and staged huge new pro
test demonstrations in ?an ef
fort to unseat the Red govern
ment. ' Police arrested 86 persons,
bringing to nearly 1,000 the
total number seized since
members of India's . ruling
Congress Party and other fac
tions began their anti-Communist
campaign in the state last
Friday.
10 Persons Killed
Up to today, 10 persons had
been shot and killed and more
than 50 injured by Kerala's
policemen.
Local members of the Con
gress Party charged that Com
munists in disguise were stir
ring up violence and giving
police an excuse to shoot anti
Red demonstrators.
In spite of the threat of
more killings, men, women
and teenagers formed pro
cessions throughout the state
again today, waving flags and
shouting "down with Commu
nism." Others picketed gov
ernment offices and state-operated
schools.
Official Rushes to Scene
The situation has become
so critical that Sadiq Ali, sec
retary of Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress
Party, rushed to Trivandrum,
Kerala's capital, to investi
gate. Ali was reported armed
with authority to order local
Congress Party leaders to call
off the demonstrations if he
discovered they were respon
sible for the violence.
City Investigates
Elements of Pool
The City of Medford is in
vestigating whether elements
of an old University of Oregon
swimming pool might be suit
able for use at the proposed
West Jackson st. pool, accord
ing to City Manager Robert
A. Duff.
Bids for demolishing the
old pool are reportedly being
called Friday by 'the univer
sity. The successful bidder is
to salvage filters and other
water treatment facilities.
Duff said today he has
asked Loren Thompson, con
sulting engineer for the West
Jackson project, to check
whether any of these facilities
could be used here.
The city's plans for develop
ing the pool site are hobbled
by a strict budget. The pur
chase of second-hand equip
ment, if practical, might lead
to savings permitting use of
more funds on other elements
of the project.
Sheriff's Office
To Get Teletype
A new teletype machine
will be installed in the Jack
son county sheriff's office
about July 1, according to
Sheriff Joe Walsh.
It will be one of the eight
machines which will be added
to the law enforcement tele
type network, according to
Director - Verne Hill, motor
vehicles department. Also
added to the network will be
one machine in the Milton
Freewater police department
and six in state police offices.
All connections are scheduled
for July 1.
The sheriffs office present
ly is sharing the expenses and
operation of a machine at the
Medford city police depart
ment. However, the heavy
traffic for the local sheriff's
office requires a separate ma
chine, Walsh explained.
With the added equipment
there will be 52 stations tied
to the master station in Salem,
it was reported.
Judge Instructs
Liberaee Jury
London -UPD- The presiding
judge in the trial of Liberaee
against the London Daily Mir
ror told the jury today to
decide on fact, not emotion,
whether the performer was
libeled.
Justice . Sir Cyril Salmon
gave his instructions on the
sixth day of the trial in which
Liberaee charged Mirror col
umnist William (Cassandra)
Connor with implying that he
was a homosexual. The judge
said he would finish his sum
mation Wednesday.
Price 10
Medford
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M
Steel Industry
Wins Concession
In Negotiations
Union Backs Down
On Talk Demands
New York-UPD-The United
Steelworkers Union backed
down on its demand for indi
vidual company negotiations
and agreed to resume industry-wide
talks today,f two
weeks before its strike dead
line. ' - '
The agreement to resume
negotiations on an industry
wide basis after a four-day
recess was a concession to
the steel industry, which has
refused the union's proposal
for company - by - company
talks. . (
Copper Threat Looms
Meanwhile, the possibility
of a strike in the copper, lead
and zinc industry was raised.
The wage-policy committee of
the International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Work
ers scheduled a meeting for
next Monday in Denver to re
view contract negotiations.
Contracts expire June 30 as
do the steel industry con
tracts. Steelworkers Union Presi
dent David J. McDonald said
the union's 435-man wage
policy committee would be
standing by today in the
event separate talks were ar
ranged with 12 major steel
companies, . :
Not 'Too Proud'
It had appeared that the un
ion's insistence on separate
talks would result in a dead
lock. Then Monday night Mc
Donald announced in Wash
ington that the union was not
"too proud" to continue indus
try-wide talks and would
have its four-man bargaining
team on hand here today to
meet with steel negotiators.
The steel union head made
the announcement after meet
ing with Federal Mediation
Chief JosephFinnegan for 35
minutes. Finnegan, who had
asked to see McDonald, said
"we had some very interest
ing, informative and explora
tory talks." The mediation
leader noted that would con
fer next Monday with R. Con
rad Cooper, head of the indus
try negotiating team, and
Roger M. Blough, chairman
of the board of the U.S. Steel
Corp.
Hail Collectors
Volunteer in Area
Approximately 23 hailstone
collectors have volunteered
their services for the Rogue
valley hail research program,
according to Judson Parsons,
local director.
Parsons said he has all the
hail collectors he needs. They
are distributed throughout the
valley so the hailstonescan be
gathered over a wide area.
Approximately 175 hail re
cording stations have also
been established throughout
the valley. Sheets of alumi
num foil have been wrapped
around pads of stylafoam and
mounted on pear boxes so the
pattern and density of the
hailstones can be recorded as
they hit the ground.
Some of the equipment was
stolen but is now replaced,
Parsons said. He requested
that all persons seeing the
boxes in orchards near public
thorougfares leave them alone
since each station is vital to
the hail research program.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Variable cloudiness
with chance of showers or
thundershowers tonight and
Wednesday. Gusty surface
winds during the afternoons.
Low tonight 47. High Wednes
day 78.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 80
Lowest this Morning 54
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today
7:51 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 4S4 a.m.
Moonset tomorrow 2.11 a.m.
Full Moon June 20
A search of the sky close to
the Moon tonight with a tele
scope would reveal a small
greenish dot that is the planet,
Neptune. Neptune, moving at a
speed of 3.4 miles per second,
circles the Sun every 165
years.
Cents
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1959
United States
Patrol Craft Hit
Over Open Sea
Crewman Seriously
Hurt in Incident
Washington (UPD Commu
nist jet fighters attacked a
U. S. Navy patrol plane over
the Sea, of Japan near North
Korea Monday night. They
shot it up in six firing runs
and seriously wounded a crew
man The Defense Department
said the badly damaged U. S:
plane, through the skill of its
pilot, managed to reach an
Air Force base in Japan.
Wounded Seriously
Aviation Electricians Mate
3C Donald Eugene Corder, a
tail gunner, was wounded ser
iously. He is the son of Ivan
L. Corder, Jacksonville, 111.
The attack occurred at 7,000
feet over international waters
about 85 miles east of Woh
san, North Korea. The Navy
P4 Mercator under heavy at
tack, dove to within 50 feet
of the water to escape.
The department said radio
-messages from the crippled
plane indicated two jet fight
ers participated in the at
tack. The planes were identi
fied only as MIG jet fighters
with red star markings on the
fuselage.
Skies were clear and ceil
ings unlimited.
There was no indication
whether the pilots were Rus
sian, Chinese Communists, or
North Koreans.
The North Koreans are esti
mated to have about 500 MIG
jet fighters with many based
at Wonsan. .
Eisenhower Informed
The State. Department
branded the attack as "un
warranted and v i c i o u s."
Spokesman Joseph Reap said
the United States will protest
the incident as soon as the
identity of the jets is estab
lished. He noted the U.S. plane
was well out over internation
al waters on a peaceful patrol
mission when the fighters
started shooting.
There was no White House
comment pending further de
tailed information, but Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty
said President Eisenhower
was informed of the attack
when he arose this morning.
OSC Prof essor To
Face Trial in Death
Corvallis - (UPD - Dr. David
C. England, 37, assistant pro
fessor in animal husbandry at
Oregon State college, is sched
uled to go on trial Wednesday
on a charge of involuntarily
causing the death of his 12-year-old
adopted son last
February.
A Benton county grand jury
indictment charged that Dr.
England struck Charles Ed
win England so hard he caused
an injury from which the boy
died the following day. Death
occurred Feb. 8.
District Attorney John B.
Fenner was expected to sum
mon medical testimony that
the father exceeded the
bounds of the law when he
struck the boy on the side
of the face, causing a brain
hemorrhage.- . '
Potency off High-Altitude Tests ToDd
Washington-(DPD-Two hydro
gen bombs exploded by the
United States high over the
Pacific last summer disrupted
radio communications in a
3,000 mile area and partially
blinded animals 300 miles
away.
The tests, conducted over
Johnston Island, also appar
ently loaded the earth's mag
netic field in the middle lati
tudes with artificial radiation
intense enough to kill an un-
MI
"I Think I'd Rather Talk To The
Wheat Farmers"
A1 IMC UMf H4T"
Centennial Trade
Fair Produces Some
Ruffled Feathers
Portland (UPD Oregon's
International Trade Fair pro
duced reports of diplomatic
discontent today over delicate
matters of protocol, but
spokesmen for Gov. Mark
Hatfield and the Centennial
claimed they were exagger
ated.' William Marsh, Centennial
Centennial Events for
Wednesday June 17:
Belgian day at Interna
tional Trade Fair.
12 ' noon: Gates open to
public.
2 p.m. Trade Fair opens
to public.
3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Mather
Air Force band concert at
Forest Products Pavilion.
3 to 9 p.m. International
films featuring Belgian
films on linen, history and
louring International Thea
ter. 12 midnight: Exposition
closes for day.
reports have been exagger
director of promotion and
publicity, said "none has been
slighted to my knowledge."
Trafic Cross, press secretary
to the governor, said "these
Petition Received
On Service's Dump
A second petition claiming
that the City Sanitary Service
dump near Jacksonville is a
public nuisance has been re
ceived by the Jackson county
court, Commissioners report
ed yesterday afternoon.
The petition contains the
signatures of 77 Jacksonville
citizens. Another petition, one
from the Jacksonville city
council, had been received
previously.-
Both petitions will be read
during the air pollution meet
ing in the county court office
Thursday morning.
unshielded space traveler.
This was disclosed Monday
in the first detailed official re
port on probably the most
spectacular bomb tests ever
conducted by any country.
The explosions, one at more
than 40 miles' altitude and
the other at about 20 miles,
proved that:
High nuclear shots can
black out radio communica
tions and disrupt radar early
warning systems over great
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ated. There have been slip
ups, but" I don't thjnk they
have been any worse than at
other affair's of this magni
tude."
Some Reported Irked
Some visiting consuls gen
eral were reported irked at
opening day ceremonies last
Wednesday in which the star
was Hatfield. Marcel Rijmen
ans, Belgian consul general
in San Francisco, reportedly
left for home in anger last
Friday, but many remained
for Hatfield's banquet Mon
day night marking the Trade
Fair's official dedication.
One report said Herwig
Effenberg, German vice con
sul at Seattle, ".angrily left
Portland Monday because of
a private party thrown Sun
day" to which he was not in
vited although Peter Vautov,
Bulgarian consul general to
the United Nations, was there.
However, Effenberg was on
hand at last night's banquet.
Not Just Diplomats
Elaborating on the "slip
ups," Cross said they appar
ently, were not confined to
the diplomatic set. He said
one member of the Oregon
Supreme Court voiced mild
criticism of the lack of prom
inence assigned to him and
his colleagues at opening
ceremonies.
Cross said visiting diplo
mats did not always advise
the state when they were ar
riving and that Hatfield him
self could not always be on
hand.
He said he believed some
of the "tensions" in the trade
fair stemmed from the sharp
competition between some of
the 23 nations represented.
Hatfield has been repre
sented at Centennial head
quarters here by a staff mem
ber, Vern Stulken, who has
been directed to take an in
creasingly strong hand in ar
rangements involving foreign
officials.
distances.
Such bomb tests can be
easily detected by their blind
ing light for perhaps 1,000
miles and for 2,000 to 3,000
miles by their auroral and ra
dio effects.
At greater distances, how
ever, they might go undetect
ed and even at 2,000 to 3,000
miles it might be impossible to
be sure exactly what hap
pened and who did it.
Such high shots produce
Sources Believo
Russ Envoy Might
Forget Deadlino
Secretary Meets
Western Ministwl
Geneva (DPD Secretary svC
State Christian Herter frfi
Soviet Foreign Minister 4-n-drei
Gromyko met privatelfc
for an hour today amid r
ports that a compromise for- -mula
for holding a summ
conference may be in thg
works.
Herter hurried to full
meeting of the western for-
eign ministers to report on
Gromyko's sudden visit dur
ing a conference recess.
There was no immediate)
announcement following th
Herter-Gromyko meeting.Qbut
some Communist sourcesftaid
the Russian might be willin
to forget his Berlin deadline
in exchange for a summit
meeting on broad East-West
issues.
This would follow a sugges
tion made by British Foreign
Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, last
week that the conference "for-
get" the new Russian ulti
matum to the West to get out
of Berlin.
Lloyd asked Gromyko to
go back and start all over
again.
Some American sources
said they believed President
Eisenhower might be willing
to meet at "the summit on
broad East-West issues, such
as disarmament and nuclear
test suspension, even without
a specific agreement here on
Berlin.
Must Withdraw Demand
However, they emphasized
that nothing was possible un
til Gromyko withdrew, tacitly
or otherwise, his demand fof)
the West to get out of Berlif
within 12 months.
There was speculation,
based on a combination of in
dications from Communist
and western sources, that thft
issues of Berlin might be put
into cold storage for discug
sion at a later foreign minis
ters' meeting, with each sid
pledged in the meanwhile t
do nothing to alter the present)
situation.
This would, in effect, pro?
vide the guarantee the Wes
has demanded against any uni
lateral Soviet action regard
ing Berlin.
Jury Trial Date
Set in Court
A jury trial date of Oct.
has been set for Rollin B. Dex
ter, 49,of 12 Rose ave., Med
ford, who is charged with ex
tortion.
Dexter appeared before Cir
cuit Court Judge Edward C.
Kelly Monday with his attor
ney, Bruce J.Manley, and
pleaded innocent to the
charges. He is being held on
$1,500 bail.
Sheriffs officers arrested
Dexter April 13 in Medford,
and it was reported he had
signed a statement admitting
the charges. David Lee Ma
thias, 28, of 724 Alder st., Med
ford, had previously told sher
iffs deputies of attempted
blackmail.
Sheriffs deputies gave Ma-
thias a roll of marked bills.
Deputies watched from near -by
while the money was
passed, then on a pre-arranged
signal arrested Dexter.
320 Students Sign
Up for School
A total of 320 students reg
istered Monday for summer
school classes in the Medford
public school system, Glenn
L. Linn, supervisor, reported
today.
A breakdown by class qS
to the number who registered
showed first grade, 17; sec
ond grade, 15; third gradf,
32; fourth, 33; fifth, 27; sixth,
17; seventh, 22; eighth, Qi;
ninth, 43; tenth, 18; eleventh,
29 and twelfth, 14. '
Eighty-five registered pr
the arts and crafts shop.
A variety of classes are
available in the summer
school program, Linn sad.
Registration will conclude to
day. negligible heat and blasf ef
fects on the ground but gen
erate fantastically huge fire
balls and brighter than th
sun flashes of light which can
blind at immense distance
faster than a man can blint
his eyes.
The report, issued by the
Atomic Energy Commission
and Defense Department, cov
ered the socalled Teak and
Orange tests carried out last
July 31 and Aug. 11,
I