Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 22, 1959, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texttefeir Plains fublk Report Tnflsiay in) eiieva t- HI ft VICTORY HANDSHAKE-Senate leaders in the battle to deny confirmation to Adm. Lewis Strauss as secretary of commerce join hands in a hallway of the Senate office building in Washington, after the Senate voted 49 to 46 against Strauss. Left to right: 4-H Wagon Trek Wagons, Horses To Return Today Horse and wagons from the Jackson county 4-H wagon trek are scheduled to arrive , In. the Medford area today, the ' county extension office aid. G The wagons will be un loaded probably t the Jack son County Posse grounds on Sage rd. some time this after noon, it. was reported. It is not known where the horses will be unloaded. The 13-day, 225 mile wagon trip from Jacksonville to Cor vallis ended Friday. Young sters "who went on to two weeks of 4-H summer school at Corvallis seemed to feel that it was an anti-climax to the; wagon trip, according to Miss Mary f Pat Lucy, home extension agent., who refrjrn-, ed here with a trailer load of camping and cooking gear. Returned in Bus Five 4-H club members, Mrs. Jesse James, ' Medford, wagon train cook,' and ; Ray 'Inlow, Ashland, an adult leader returned on an Eagle Point school district bus Sun day from Corvallis. The bus brought back a remainder of the camping gear and cloth ing and had taken approxi mately 33 other Jackson coun ty 4-H youngsters to the sum mer camp. Mrs. James said she under stands that one or two of the wagons will be used for over night trips for 4-H members who did fcot make the trip. '. No difficulties were ex perienced by the "Centennial type" Butane stove pulled in an auto trailer, Mrs. James said. The food remained good and the youngsters generally remained in good health throughout the trip . except for several cases of upset stomachs. Hardest Pari Hardest part of the journey was the long steep pull over Sexton mountain near the start of the trip, the train cook said. The death of the Inlow horse occurred later in the trip. Mrs. James, who has been around horse teams before generally felt the youngsters handled the reins well, al though few, if any, had hand led teams before. Ashland Man Still Reported as Critical William Berry Thompson, 41, of 1800 East Main st., Ashland, was reported slight ly improved but still on the critical list, Ashland General hospital attendants reported this morning. , Thompson was injured in a tractor accident on Keene Creek dam construction in the Talent project Thursday after noon. He was burned on 80 per cent of his body when gas fumes ignited. Trade Fair Popular; Exhibitors Plan To Stay Portland - (EPD - The Inter national Trade Fair , at the Oregon Centennial Exposition here has proved so popular that 21 of the-22 participat ing nations plan to keep their exhibits here until the Ex position itself closes Sept. 17. Originally, , the Trade Fair was due to close Wednesday. Hong Kong, a private entry, also plans to keep its exhibit here until the Exposition ends its 100 days. Total attendance, bolstered by a large week end crowd, i Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.); Clinton An derson (D-N .M.); Wayne Morse (D-Ore.); and Gale McGee (D-Wyo.). Strauss was the eighth cabinet nominee in the entire history of the nation to be denied confirmation by the Senate. John Bowman Wins Fisherman Title At Catfish Derby A 15-vear-old hieh- school student from Hyatt lake, John Bowman, was judged grand champion fisherman of the f4th annual Catfish Derby yesterday at TouVelle State park. His string of 15 catfish won him the honor. John also won the junior division' spin-casting contest. Also taking double honors was Jim Waddell. 16. of Ash land, who won the senior di vision spin-casting contest and took first place in the boys Steel Negotiators Deny K; Of Compromise New Yofk-UPD-Top industry and union steel negotiators to day denied any knowledge of a report from Washington that federal officials have suggest ed a compromise settlement plan in the prolonged industry labor dispute. According to the report, the proposal would concentrate labor gams in pensions and welfare rather than in a wage increase. . Know Nothing of Plan ' Both David J. McDonald, president of the United Steel workers Union of America, and R. Conrad Cooper, execu tive vice president of U. S. Steel Corp., said they knew nothing of any such plan as they resumed negotiations at the Roosevelt Hotel here. After a two hour negotiat ing session, Cooper said the industry has "no union offer under consideration.'.' "If the union has any reas onable basis in mind for a set tlement, we have yet to see it," Cooper said. Negotiations were recessed until 2 pjn. Tuesday. Only Eight Days Left The top level negotiators now have only eight days to reach an agreement on a new contract before the midnight, June 30, strike deadline. Cooper told newsmen he in tends to go to Washington late today and see Joseph F. Finnegan, director of the Fed eral Mediation and Concilia tion Service. "I will simply visit with Finnegan to bring him up to date on developments in the negotiations," Cooper said. Coos Bay-(UPD-Mrs. Cecil Emma Hillstrom, 49, wife of Coos county welfare adminis trator, A.M. Hillstrom, died this morning in McCoy hospi tal here from injuries suf fered Saturday night in a two car collision near their home. Coos Bay police said driver of the other car was Dennis Vernon Lee, 16, Empire. shot up to a total of 206,818 after the end of 12 days. At this rate, officials said, total attendance would reach more than 1,660,000 at the end of 100 days, more than the 1,500,000 paid admissions needed for the Exposition to break even. And officials ob served that the peak of the tourist season is yet to come. From 16 to 18 private com panies featuring foreign pro ducts also plan to remain at the Trade Fair until the Ex position closes. lowledge pie-eating contest. About 2,000 people attend ed the festivities at the park yesterday, according to Bert Rostel, publicity chairman. The affair was sponsored by the Medford 20-30 club. Rich ard Schuchard was master of ceremonies. Repeat Winner The Hyatt lake student was a repeat winner in the derby. He also won top fishing hon ors in 1957 and 1958. He won a suply of fishing gear yester day, his share of the prizes donated by local merchants and fishing tackle manufac turers. Reigning over the affair was Karen Simcox, queen of the . Catfish -, Derby, and her court,' Betsy Beck",' Dee Reed, Susan Yoder, and Virginia Larson. " - Kingfisher Frank Perl was on hand to help judge the fish ing contest. Other Winners . Winners of the other con tests were: Best Centennial costume women, Joyce Reavis, Med ford; men, F. J. Clifford, Cen tral Point Best Beard 79 - year - old Cap Boyd, Jacksonville. Most bald-headed man - B. M. Lewin, Ocean Lake. Most red -headed freckle faced boy - Richard Kinney, Medford; 2nd place, Philip Rhodes, Camp White. ( Girls' pie-eating contest -10-year-old Dolores Hall, Rose burg. - Longest married couple -Mr. and Mrs. John Higgin botham, Central Point, mar ried 63 years. Oldest native Oregonian -L. H- Pankie, Ashland, born 79 years ago in Sams Valley. Youngest father Howard Young, 22, of Trail. Oldest entrant in the Cat fish Derby - Jules Pandois, 84, of Ashland, who also en tered the smallest fish. Youngest entrant - 13-year-old Randy Pinney, Central Point, who also entered the most fish, 68. . - Last year's winner entered 296 fish. Bill McCulley was derby chairman. Hif-and-Run Driver Sought by Police Ashland City police and other law enforcement agen cies in Jackson county today sought the hit-and-run driver who struck and injured an 11-year-old Ashland boy on North Main st. early this morning. The boy, William Alcive Dorris, 11, of 655 Beach st., was taken to Ashland Gen eral hospital for treatment of a fractured right wrist. His condition was reported satis factory. The accident occurred about 6:10 ajn., according to police. Dorris, riding his bicycle, was reported on a newspaper de livery route. . . Supreme Court Denies Starkweather Hearing Washington - (UPD - The Su preme. Court today, denied a hearing ' to Charles Stark weather, condemned murder er who terrorized the midwest a year and a half ago with a series of 11 slayings. Today's brief order leaves Nebraska free to carry out the electrocution. Russia Optimistic About Agreement For Summit Talk Exchange Visits Draw Importance Moscow (UPD The Soviet Union is expressing optimism that the East-West foreign ministers will reach agree ment next time they meet and make possible a conference of heads of state. Moscow Radio reported the foreign ministers narrowed three gaps before recessing Friday and said, "therefore it becomes clear that there are good grounds ior reaching agreement." The three points centered around reduction of troops and banning of rocket bases in Berlin, a cut in subversive activities there and establish ment of an all-German group to review the country's future. Exchange Visits Important Diplomatic observers also were attaching new import ance to the forthcoming ex change visits of Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon and Russia's First Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov. Western sources said the visits may generate new en ergy to the reconvened for eign, ministers conference, Nixon was expected to see Premier Nikita Khushchev when he comes here to open an American exhibition; Koz lov was expected to see Pres ident Eisenhower when he goes to the United States to open a Russian exhibition. Major Gains Claimed , Diplomatic observers in Moscow said the Soviet Union had scored major gains at Geneva by getting Western leaders to discuss the Berlin issue as a separate item from the German problem as a whole and by getting Commu nist East Germany seated in the conference room. The observers said the Rus sians apparently decided that an East-West summit meeting would be held without the So viet Union paying too high. a price. The bare bones of ne gotiations made it unnecessary' for the Communist leaders to talte pne-sided action in Ber lin. ' , V Khrushchev's speech Fri day, was regarded here as leaving the door open for con tinued negotiation, and . East West compromises despite his assertion that continuation of the occupation troops in Ber lin was unacceptable. I Ownership of River Properly Checked Deputy District Attorney Gerald Scannell this morning was investigating the legal ownership of a 40-acre pro posed county recreation site on the Applegate river. Following an inspection tour of the site a mile north of the old McKee bridge last week the county parks and recrea tion commission recommend ed that the county court ac quire the site as soon as pos sible. Scannell said this morning that as far as he can deter mine Earl Gebhard has no patent rights to the property since he has not done the amount of claim development each year as required by law. He was reported to have two placer claims on the 40 acres divided by the : Applegate river. . - . , Scannell said he has learn ed also that the property was transferred from bureau of land management ownership to the U.S. forest service in the recent land swaps. The deputy district attorney said he is investigating further to see if something might . be worked out with the forest service for recreational devel opment of the property. Man Injured in Fall Listed as Critical ' Frank B. Wheat, 42, of 801 North Central ave., Medford, was reported slightly improv ed although' still on the criti cal list this morning following a three-story fall at the new Shakespearean Festival thea ter Friday, according to Sa cred Heart hospital attend ants. ' s - Charles Johnson, an , em ployee of Trowbridge and Flynn, Medford contractors, saw Wheat's body hurtle past him as he, Johnson, was work ing on the theater stage Fri day. He said Wheat must have bumped bis head and slipped on the beams of the unfinished penthouse atop the Shake spearean theater. - Wheat was checking the sprinkling system as an in spector for the company which ini tailed it Price 1 0 Medford 20 Pages - EOTffl IBM SI! 6mtd(' m area ' il' ' i m i f I " I I I I . . .. I . ., , NOMINATED - Barbra Nul- ton, above, 18-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Nul ton, 341 Ardmore ave., has been nominated for national TAP chairman by the Oregon office of the National Founda tion, formerly the National Foundation for Infantile Para lysis. The Teen Age Program (TAP) is the youth segment of the March of Dimes, an nual drive for funds to com bat polio, birth defects and rheumatoid arthritis. Miss Nulton was nominated for the position because of her out standing work in organizing the Jackson county TAP pro gram last January. To The pace picked up today in the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" program when Bob Taylor, general chairman, announced the ap pointment of Mayor John Sni der as chairman of the Citi zens Advisory Comimttee. Mayor Snider has scheduled a luncheon meeting at noon Thursday in the Medford ho tel and said he expects about 50 local civic leaders to at tend. Invitations baye gone out to the heads of local service and women's organizations, industrialists and religious and civic leaders. Mayor Snider indicated that he, will ask those attending the luncheon to advise and coun sel the chamber as to how the Keep Pace With . Tomorrow program should be organized. They will also be asked to' list the things they believe the community must achieve for orderly planning and prog ress. The theme of the luncheon meeting will be "planning for tomorrow through action to day." The Keep Pace With To morrow program will be ex plained in detail to those preserit. Portland-(UPD-Lee H. Fred erick, 64, district freight agent in Portland for the Southern Pacific railroad since 1945, died Saturday. Salem - (UPD - The measure ment and reporting of radia tion will become a nation-wide operation jn fact by 1960, the Oregon Civil Defense Agency said today. LSuflDetSn Cape Canaveral, Fla.-(UPD -A lean Vanguard rocket streaked toward space to day with a satellite design ed to help scientists learn how heat in the atmosphere causes the earth's weather. All three stages of the Vanguard fired . successful ly, thus assuring its launch ing team it was in orbit. The new satellite was christened Vanguard HI by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which sponsored the experi ment. . The first stage engine of the 72 foot tall Vanguard ignited at 12:17 p.m. (psi). and the rocket rose slowly from a cloud of steam gen erated when its tongue of flame licked the water in a cool off pool under the launching stand. Mayor Appointed Head Group Cents -vr A it r MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY,. JUNE 22, 1959 Lightning Blamed For Five Blazes; Humidity Low Thunder Storms Expected in Area By United Press International Forestry officials said today that Eastern Oregon is con sidered a "critical" fire area, with more thunder storms ex pected in the next three days. Lightning during the week end touched off at least five fires, mostly in rangeland. Of ficials said lightning may have caused the blaze ,that leveled half the recently abandoned eastern Oregon logging town of Pondosa, near Baker. Other Fires Controlled Five other fires in the Bak er and Burns areas were re ported under control today and in the "mop-up" stage. Jack Hunt, fire control of ficer in Portland for the Bu reau of Land Management, said the situation was consid ered explosive in eastern Ore gon because of low humidity, high temperatures and expect ed more lightning. Euel Davis, manager of the Baker BLM district, said cause of the Pondosa fire was still undertermined but it could have been lightning. He esti mated damage at more than $100,000rThe fire 'wiped "but the big Valsetz Lumber . Co planing mill, idle for some time, two repair shops and 15 to 22 houses, but the hotel escaped the flames. A 30-mile- an-hour wind whipped flames from house to house despite efforts of firemen and equip ment from Baker, and Union, and from the BLM. Geographic Center Pondosa became a ghost town recently when the Val setz Lumber Co. shut down operations and auctioned off mill equipment and property in the town itself. It was later designated as the new geo graphic center of the United States with the admission of Hawaii to the Union. Rogue Basin Study To Be Presented Representatives from the U. S. Fish and Wild Life service will be unable to attend a meeting Thursday, June 25, of the Rogue Basin Flood Control arid Water Resources association, according to Wil liam Jess, president. Jess explained that the as sociation had hoped the repre sentatives would discuss the fish and wild life aspects of the Corps of Engineers' report. The Thursday meeting will be held in the circuit court room of the Josephine county courthouse, Grants Pass, at 8 p.m. Henry Stewart and Walter Basham, representatives of the U. S. Army Corps of En gineers, will present the Corps' report on its Rogue Ba sin study. Included in the re port will be the storage projects-which the Corps is sug gesting for local consideration as well as financial data on Copper on the Applegate. The Fish and Wild Life rep resentatives are expected to review the fish and aspects of the program at a meeting ear ly next month. At the later meeting the Corps will pre sent financial data on the plans discussed at the Thurs day meeting, Jess said. Building Permit for $430,000 Building California Oregon Power comDanv was issued a Med ford building permit this morning for construction of S430.000 worth of necessary buildings at its Medford serv ice center project, South Grape st. at Stewart ave. The buildings include a warehouse, storage building, transformer building and out door crane coverage, accord ing to a building spokesman. Graff and James Construction company ia the contractor. "Say, I "Just; Thought of Something What Do We Do if They DON'T Strike?" II I1T) BUTOfE H SOUSE. I ffSf I :: : Convicted Florida Rapists Sentenced To Life in Prison Tallahassee, Fla . (UPD Four . white youths convicted of the rape of a Negro college coed were sentenced today to life imprisonment. The youths, ranging in age from 16 to 23, were convicted of taking the girl from her Negro date on the might of her college spring formal dance and raping her seven times. The jury recommended mercy, without which the judge would have been re quired to give them the death penalty. Under terms of the life im prisonment statute, the im prisoned men could apply for parole as early as six months after sentence begins. But in such cases it is extremely rare for any consideration to be given the request in under ten years. Circuit ' Judge W. May Walker pronounced sentence at 9:44 a.m. and the youths were immediately wnisKea off to the state prison at Rai- ford. - They are -Patrick Scar borough, 20, Willon T. Col linsworth, 23, Ollie Stouta mire, 16, and David Beagles, 18. The youths were convicted June 15 after a four day trial. Under terms of the jury's conviction, the judge could have imposed sentences any where from a few years to life. No white person ever has been sent to the chair for raping a Negro , in Florida, but 37 Negroes have paid that price for assaulting white women during the past 25 years. The courthouse was nearly empty. No advance word had been given of the sentencing and only the lawyers and relatives of the four youths were on hand, along with a few newsmen. Collinsworth's a 1 1 r a ctive blonde wife, holding her two-year-old boy in her arms, , broke down and sobbed. The four youths admitted j i i. in signea coniessions xnat they abducted the 19-year-old Negro coed at gun point May 2, and raped her. The name of the rape victim is protect ed from publication by Flo rida law. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable high cloudiness tonight and Tuesday; otherwise, fair and a little cooler. Low tonight S3. High Tuesday 83. Temp!. Highest Yesterday . 93 Lowest this Morning 55 Our Skies Tonight . Sunset today 7:52 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:34 ajn. HTnnnris tonicht 9:26 p.m. Last Quarter 27 PROMINENT SiAK Altair, high In southeast at midnight VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, low in south east - : P - Jupiter, due south :33 p.m. Venus and Mars, set 10:03 p.m. 54th Year' No. 80 ; Judge Walker,, whose con duct of the sensational trial has drawn praise from whites and Negroes alike, was solemn as he told the four young men to stand for sen tencing. ' "Have you anything to say as to why judgment should not 'be pronounced," he asked. Each answered In a quiet voice no sir." The youths showed no emo tion as the judge told each he must spend the rest of his natural life in prison, al though Collinsworth cried like a baby earlier when his wife and child rushed up to him. ' O'Brien Man Dies In Highway Wreck Grants Pass-IUPD-One man was killed outright and two others seriously injured today when their car apparently failed to negotiate a curve on Highway 199 between Selma and Kerby. Dead is Thomas Lee Bailey, 21, O'Brien. Stanley Guy Dick, 22, and Linton John Etherton, 24, were listed in fair, condition at Josephine General hospital here. State police said the auto failed to make the curve and rolled over several times, throwing all three occupants out of the vehicle. Portland Attorney On Board of Parole Salem-UPD-Tom Price, Port land attorney, was named to day as a member of the Ore gon State Board of Parole and Probation. He fills one of two positions created by the 1959 legisla ture. The governor's office indi cated the second new position would probably be filled shortly. Price is a Republican. By law the next appointment must be a Democrat. Neuberger 'Encouraged1 Over Columbia Progress Washington - (UPD - Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.), said today he was "greatly encouraged" by in dications of an early U.S. Canadian agreement on Upper Columbia river de velopment. He said agreement on use of boundary waters of the river would launch "a new era of progress in the Pacific Northwest and western Can ada" with a series of dams to harness the Upper Basin's power and flood control potential. President, Dillon Discuss Problems With Secretary Summit Meeting Prospects Dodged '. Washington iTJPD Secretary of State Chrstian A. Herter an nounced after an hour-1 o n ( conference with President Ei senhower todav that he will make a television report to the American people Tuesday , night on the dead-locked Ge- . neva Conference. " Herter met with Eisenhower and Undersecretary C. Doug las Dillon at a White House breakfast meeting. He - said his first hand report to Eisen hower was couched "in gen eral terms"' and included an evaluation of "where we are" in the deadlocked foreign min isters negotiations at Geneva. Detailed Report mi a . , j, make a detailed public report ft-. . j . i. 4. Details of the Herter broad- , cast will be announced later. Reporters asked Herter what he thought of prospects for a summit meeting this summer. The secretary declined to hazard an estimate, but said a summit conference was not discussed with the Russians at all ilnnna Vi . fnr ntm 4llr This was in line with Eisen hower's repeated public posi tion that there must be some measurable progress at the foreign ministers' conference as a preliminary to any top level meeting of the major powers. It was understood that Her ter gave Eisenhower an ex pert on-the-scene evaluation of current Russian tactics as re- Returned Sunday Herter flew back from Eu rope Sunday with the firm be lief that Russia's aim is ab sorption of West Berlin and then West Germany into the Communist orbit. , He said the Soviet Union "revealed clearly that its true desire is to absorb Weet Ber lin into ast uermany ana xo keep Germany divided until it can be brought under So viet influence. Herter pledged,, however, that the West would . make "ho arrangement" with Rus sia that would undermine the freedom of West Berlin. After six weeks of negotia tions with Russia the Western ministers decided on a three week "cooling off" recess. Talks are scheduled to resume July 13. .:... Officers Elected by Life Underwriters Oscar Specht, Salem, was elected president of the Ore gon State Life Underwriters association at their seventh annual convention held in Medford last week. Other officers elected were . Charles Croley, Albany, secretary-treasurer; and Lew Madsen, Eugene, national committeeman. Regional vice presidents were Larry Lillebo, Coos Bay; Don Lewis, The Dalles; Irving Enna, Portland; and C. Kenneth Folkstad, Salem. . William C. Caldwell, Med ford, immediate past presi dent, was elected to the board of directors.' Gearhart was selected as the site for the 1960 convention. A total of 130 persons regis tered for the convention here. Among the awards given during the event were to Enna, immediate past presi dent of Portland Life Under writers association, as man-of- the -year; and John Scott Humphrey, Medford, as rookie - of - the - year. The awards, made by the Trust Of ficers association, cites mem bers who have been outstand ing in their field during the past year. Geneva -(UPD-U. S., British and Russian scientists today. began a weeklong study of means to detect high altitude nuclear explosions. Neuberger commented after spokesmen for the State De- , partment and the Interna tional Joint Commission re ported to the Interior and In sular Affairs Committee on negotiations with Canada. The Oregon senator, who has headed a special Senate Subcommittee studying de velopment of the Upper Co lumbia, said he thought ex Gov. Douglas McKay, IJC chairman, was doing a good job in efforts to reach agree ment with Canada.