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Me United Press International Full Leased Wire 16 Pages Picte (i Fir Structure Damage Expected To Be Added To Figure 40 Firemen Felled By Acrid Smoke Washington (UPD-Electronics equipment valued at more than $30 million was pro nounced a total loss today as workmen slogged through the wreckage left by Thursday's spectacular Pentagon fire. Structural damage costing additional millions and the possible loss of some irre placeable secret documents were expected to be added to the fire's toll. IBM Assumes Loss The electronics equipment was owned by International Business Machines Corp which leased it to the Air Force at $3,500,000 a year. The Air Force said IBM as sumed the entire loss on the equipment. A sp okesman said he understood the ma chines were at least partly covered by insurance. The blaze swept a super secret Pentagon basement hideaway Thursday afternoon. It buckled concret floors, burst water pipes, and des troyed tightly guarded elec tronic equipment. 40 Firemen Felled Three hundred firemen bat tled , the fire, and 40 were felled by the dense acrid smoke given off by the burn ing of 7,000 rolls of taped Air , Force data, some of it stamped "secret." The breakdown of the water system caused Defense Secre tary Neil H. McElroy to dis miss the entire Pentagon working force of some 29,000 military ; and civilian em ployees, giving them an early start on a three-day Fourth of July week end. Some Unaware of Fire Many, working in unaffect ed sections of the massive five-sided concrete building, had been unaware of the fire. .. The blaze was confined to a small section -20,000, square feet - of the Pentagon's total area, although smoke poured through an area equal to about four city blocks. Structural damage was esti mated at from $200,000 to $5, 000,000, depending on who was guessing. This was on top of the $30,000,000 loss'of com puters, tapes, and equipment in the Air Force's hush-hush statistical center. Electrical Failure The five-alarm fire burned out of control from 11 a.m. to 2 pjn. (e.d.t). By 4:15 pjri., about five hours after the blaze started, the Pentagon announced the fire was "ex tinguished" for all practical purposes. Pentagon authorities said the blaze apparently started from an electrical failure, pos sibly a shortcircuit. There was no evidence of sabotage. JTheJ Defense Department told United Press Internation al, in response to a question, that all of the records on which the joint chiefs of staff rely are duplicated elsewhere. Manor Building Permit Issued, Fee $7,561 A $4,693,616 building per mit was issued for Rogue Val ley Manor Wednesday, The Medford building department reported. Excavation for the manor, a $5V million retire ment home being constructed atop Barneburg bill, is al ready in progress. The building department received a fee of $7,561 for the permit, according to de partment records. 'Mind Your Sponsors Tell Vale, Ore. - (UPD - The Vale Chamber . of Commerce and Rodeo Board today advised the president of the Animal Defenders League, Inc., to "mind your knittin,' ma'am." They said the annual Vale "suicide race" for horses and riders would go off as sched uled Sunday, evening. The battle between Vale 54th Year DFORB 11 "Those Guys Have Funny Ideas About Americanism They Hit You From The Front" '" Warren's Of Nixon To ABA Parley Told Chicago (UPD The Chicago Tribune said today Chief Jus tice Earl Warren blackballed an invitation to Vice President Richard M. Nixon to join in the American Bar Association meeting in London in 1957. According to the Washing ton dispatch by Walter Tro han, Warren told the president of the ABA, "if you let that fellow in, count me out." The ABA finally bowed to Warren's threat, Trohan said, Businesses Close Here for July 4 The Ashland city hall and federal offices here are closed today in honor of Independ ence Day tomorrow. . , Medford retail stores are expected to be closed tomor row because of the - holiday, it was announced. Most of the grocery stores have indicated they will also close their doors. All government ..offices except police and fire agen cies, will close. A full slate of holiday fes tivities awaits area residents and visitors, however. Kick ing off the day's program is a hotcake breakfast at 5:30 a.m. at the city park in Eagle Point. . A barbecue dinner at the Grange, park ' jis" scheduled from 3 to 8 p.m ; " v A fireworks display, spon sored by the Ashland Jaycees, will be held at 8:30 p.m: at Southern Oregon collegesta dium. Selections by the Wel donian band will precede the display. Ashland activities will be gin with a 10 a.m. parade. Also scheduled tomorrow is the grand opening of Ore gon Gold Gulch, the. psuedo frontier mining town. The little .community, whi,ch will be open to visitors from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. daily, is north of Central Point. Visitors may reach the com munity by traveling north on Highway 99 and turning right at the Tolo intersection (Old Highway 99), left through Double Dee Lumber company, and two right turns after crossing Highway 99 overpass. Knittin', Ma'am, Vale 'Suicide Race1 Animal Defenders League President and Grazielia Boucher, Port land, started when she saw television newsreels of last year's race down the boulder strewn hillside to climax the annual Vale rodeo. The films showed spectacular tumbles for both animals and riders. The president of the Ani mal Defenders' League quick ly telegraphed the Vale Cham mm Blackball Invitation because the association had formally invited the Chief Justice and received his ac ceptance. The story of Warren's poli tical feuding with Nixon was detailed and confirmed by a former president of the ABA, who told the Tribune: "I do not want my name to be used, but if Warren sues I'll be a witness in court for you." ; Trohan said Nixon had no comment on the disclosure of the blackballing. The Tribune recalled "the latest' evidence of the deep split between the Californians occurred at a Washington cocktail party when Warren upbraided the author of a Nixon biography." Called Author Liar . ' Trohan said Warren accused Earl Mazo, author of the biog raphy of stepping , "over my body" in an effort to "make Nixon president." He called Mazo a "damned liar" when the author denied intent to step on Warren, the dispatch said. The Tribune said it learned Warrerfhad been successful in a behind the scenes effort to keep Nixon out of the politi cal limelight by barring him from the London legal meet ing in 1957, attended by more than 5,000 Americans lawyers. 49-Star Flag To Fly Saturday Washington (UPB-Old Glory will go aloft Saturday bearing 49 stars. . Flags with a new star for the new state of Alaska will be hoisted in ceremonies at the Capitol and at Baltimore's Ft. McHenry National Monu ment, birthplace and shrine of the National Anthem. Both will be held a few seconds after midnight. One of the two flags to be raised simultaneously at the Capitol will be given to Alas ka as a symbol of its new stat us. The other will remain as a regular Capitol flag until it wears out. ber that the "suicide . horse race is against human con science and human laws of the land." She objected , to the "stu pidly cruel exploitation of horses", and warned that "Vale is being widely dis cussed as backward, un-American and objectionably . cruel community ...'' I ""kvV rsiT MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1959 Oregon Police Planning All-Out Safety Campaign Traffic Caution Urged on Holiday Salem (UPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield said today that "all available means ' would be used by state . police during this 4th of July week end in a continuation of a stepped up traffic safety program. Neither the governor nor the state police would con firm whether planes would be used, but the governor had indicated earlier that they would be used on an unan nounced" basis. - i Leaflets Distributed The governor and H. G. Maison, - superintendent of state police, will confer, here at 4:30 p.m. today. Some 25,000 leaflets urg ing careful driving and con taining antilitterbug . remind United Press International The vanguard of an esti mated 45 million care car rying holidaybent vaca tionists look to the nation's highways today for the Fourth of July week end. btate and local police, warned by th National Safety Council that motor ists may set a new death record of 350 for a two-' day Independence Day week end, mobilized to crack down on speedy, careless driving. ers are being handed out by state police this week. The leaflets open with a welcome to Oregon and its Centennial. The Oregon Traffic Safety Commission said the safe- driving skills of motorists will have to be brought into play to keep the week end free of a tragic record of ac cidents.. , 399 Accidents Last year, Oregon recorded 399 traffic accidents during the 78-hour holiday period, resulting in 127 injuries, and one death. This year, the holi day extends over 54 hours. The commission had a spe cial word of caution for mo torists who . may be pulling boats or house- trailers this week end: Check occasionally to see if traffic may be stack ing up behind you. If a long line of traffic is forming, the commission suggests, the driv er should pull off the road and let faster moving -traffic pass. Humphrey Unable To Appear Here A tight schedule has made it impossible for Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) to ap pear in Medford as anticipat ed, it was announced today. Humphrey was expected to make an appearance here on July 13. He had been mentioned often as a likely presidential candidate in 1960. The . Minnesota senator will be attending a luncheon meet ing in Los Angeles on July 13, according to Mrs. Edith Rode, vice chairman of the Jackson County V Democratic central committee, and it will be "im possible" for him to arrive in ' Medford at a reasonable hour. Mrs. Rode received a phone call this morning from one of Humphrey's assistants in Washington, D. C, and she was informed of the change in plans. She was told that Hum phrey hopes to make an ap pearance h ere "sometime within the next two or three months," although plans are at present indefinite. Salem-dJPD-Representatives of more than 35,000 Oregon Legionnaires and Auxiliary members will hold their 41st annual convention here July 23-25. Kenny Johnson of the Vale Chamber of Commerce re plied today that "regardless of the word suicide in the Vale suicide race, it is merely a competitive race between animals over no rougher ter rain than the horses are ac customed to. Please mind your knittin,' ma'am." nn v.. xsAmsx, ,,,( , , , j CLOBBERED CABOOSE-Yesterday's truck train collision near" White City resulted . in "total loss" of the caboose, Southern Pacific officials said, and the engine also was dam aged. Truck driver. Robert N. Funk is in "good" condition at Sacred Heart hospital today, authorities there said. He suffered internal injuries. Referring to the accident as a "freak," C. B. Stevens, Southern Paci Institute Started In Ashland With Guest Instructors Under the direction of Dr. Margery Bailey,. 1959 courses are underway at the 6regon Shakespearean Festival's edu cational section, the Institute of Renaissance Studies. Following registration ear ly this week, initial classes in stage make-up, stage deport ment, and the workshop in Elizabethan staging began. A full schedule of , additional courses and activities will con tinue through the summer, closing with the play season on Sept. 5. Dr. Bailey indicates that two scholars of drama, one from each coast, will be in Ashland residence for the sea son to study Shakespeare in production. They will make use of the Festival collection of Renaissance materials housed in the Ashland Public library. Dr. Marvin Rosenberg, asso ciate professor of dramatic lit erature at the University of California, will work chiefly with "Antony and Cleopa tra." With the object of estab lishing critical "standards through production - revealed meanings, he is preparing a volume on the play as staged through three centuries. Fellow Appointed Dr. Joseph Anthony With- . . , ey assistant proiessor oi English literature and dramat ics at East Carolina college, Greenville, N.C., has been ap pointed Fellow in the Insti tute, for 1959. "A graduate of Cornell,' his additional studies have been at Shrivenham American university, Eng land, and at Biarritz Ameri can university, France. He has taught at Kansas college, Emporia, and at Utica college of Syracuse univer sity, and has authored numer ous articles on staging. Dr. Witney will remain for the season, studying produc tion techniques on the Festi val's singular Tudor stage, and presenting at least one address in the Institute s Thursday series of 4 p.m. Gresham Lectures. The Trinity Noons, offering lunchtime coffee and dramatic readings, will also be contin ued as a weekly feature on Wednesdays. The public is invited to at tend both the Gresham Lec tures and the Trinity Noons. Oregon Wagons Due At Pocatello Tonight Pocatello, Idaho (UPD The seven wagons of the on-to-Oregon train were scheduled to reach here today after leaving their overnight camp site three miles south of In- kom, Idaho. Price EIBOTE United Press International Full Leased Wire Medford's Budget Gains Approval at Hearing Thursday Medford's 1959-60 muni cipal budget gained quick ap proval from the city council last night following a public hearing in the city hall coun cil chamber. Only two persons rose to speak during the hearing. Jerry Latham, representing the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, complimented city officials and the city budget committee on their work with the budget. He took exception, however, to the city's continued operation of parking meters from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. when revenue from the extra hour at each end was not to be used for de velopment of municipal off street parking facilities. Meter Hours. Extended Parking meter hours were expanded from their former 9-5 schedule two years ago with the intention of using the extra revenue to help fi nance such development. But Ihe revenue in 1958-59, and in the fiscal year now begin ning, is simply being chan neled into the general fund. The other speaker on the budget was a man identifying himself as Sherman Holt, who suggested paring the budget further as one step against the nationwide trend toward greater public spending. The seven councilmen pres ent approved the budget unanimously. Councilman Ed Hall, Ward I, did not attend the meeting. The council also ordered the $871,394 total property tax levy specified in the new budget. Levy Includes This levy includes $352,766 for the general fund, $105,348 for the fire maintenance fund, $26,336 for the park and swimming pool fund, $129,318 for the .general bond sinking fund, $47,526 for the water bond sinking fund, $143,600 for the arterial street fund, $19,000 for the sanitary sewer fund and $47,500 for the storm sewer fund. It represents an increase of $41,112 over the 1958-59 levy. But city officials anticipate WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 50. High Saturday 85-88. Temp. Highest Yesterday 79 Lowest this Morning 49 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:52 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:39 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 3:49 a.m. New Moon July 5 PROMINENT STAR Vega, high overhead 11:58 p.m. 26 light years from the Earth, Vega is the brightest star in the constellation, Lyla and also now the brightest star in the sky. 10 Cents No. 90 fic freight agent, said that none of the four men riding in the caboose at the time of the accident was injured. They were Walter Winkler, conductor, who lives on Jackson ville highway; and brakeman Don Way, Walter Ross, and Eldon Girard, all of Ash land. Not a car was derailed, Stevens said, and there were 27 of them hooked on be hind "the mess." that the increased valuation of property within the city will avert any rise in millage rates. Later in the meeting Floyd' Courtright, a spokesman for 18 hosemen in the city fire department, asked the coun cil to grant a higher salary rating for hosemen to place them on a par with police department patrolmen. The request was referred to a meeting of the city budget committee, since the budget had already passed with no leeway for such an increase. Irrigation District Seeks Suit Appeal Eagle Point irrigation dis trict has filed an appeal from a district court decision awarding damages to a farm er for loss of hay due to an irrigation ditch leak. Paul D. and Mary G. Con rad, Eagle Point, on April 29 were awarded $204.75 in damages for a first cause and $10 damages for a second cause. In their complaint the Conrads alleged that the irri gation water was emptied into their hay crop causing a partial loss. They were seek ing $204.75 in general dam ages for a first cause, $58.50 special damages in a second cause and $140 general dam ages. The Conrads had charged that the irrigation district was negligent and careless in not inspecting the ditch for leaks, in not stopping or correcting leaking and in diverting water and emptying it into the hay crop. Effectiveness In Reorganized Districts A further study will be made on the effectiveness of the county school office in re lation to reorganized school districts, Glenn D. Hale, Eagle Point, president of the Jack son County School Admini strators, informed the county court this week. Hale wrote the county court that his group has met a num ber of times and has decided a further study of the situa tion should be made. The last meeting was held in Med ford on May 28, he reported. Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent, and Bruce S. Hitt, assistant sup erintendent, spoke on the place of the school superin tendent's office as an inter mediate unit. According to the experiences of other states there is a definite need and Wildcatters End Steal nny nn . n IwaiKOIKS Negotiators Recess Until Monday Morning New York'OJPD-Steel wage negotiators, after meeting for an hour today, recessed until Monday morning. After the joint session of the two four-man bargaining teams of labor and manage ment, neither side talked to newsmen. However, David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, and R. Conrad Cooper, indus try chief negotiator, sent a formal statement to the press room. The statement said: . "We are conscious that the extra time for bargaining re sulting from the two-week ex tension is fast running out. Exceedingly Wearing "We have been bargaining for two full months. The past week, with its problems at tendant to implementing the extension, has been exceeding ly wearing. "We both believe that the parties may be better able to address themselves to our problems if we take time for rest and meditation over the Independence, Day week end. Therefore, we have recessed until Monday morning at 10 o'clock." Meanwhile, the last of sev eral wildcat strikes which had threatened to disrupt contract negotiations ended today. Bow To Demand The walkout, involving 6,000 workers at the Cleve land plant of Republic Steel, ended only a few hours be fore industry-wide bargain ing talks resumed here.. The Cleveland workers, who defied union orders to re turn to work Thursday, f iially bowed to a demand by United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald and began re turning to their jobs at a.m. today. The Cleveland strike was one of several unauthorized walkouts that broke out -Tues day night when the union's contract with the industry ex pired. In all, about 30,000 steelworkers were involved in the wildcat strikes which had cast a cloud over industry wide negotiations. Ike Asks Extension The series of wildcat strikes eliminated any chances of progress Thursday in the sec ond day of a two-week truce set up by President Eisen hower. The union earlier had set a strike deadline of July 1, when the old contract ex pired, but acceded to a two week extension at the Presi dent's behest. The extension triggered a rash of unauthorized strikes Tuesday night. Many mem bers said the contract exten sion was contrary to the un ion's traditional policy of "no contract, no work." In Washington, Sen. John Talent Project Bids . To Be Called July 9 Denver (UPD-The Bureau of Reclamation here will issue an invitation for bids about July 9 for the construction of a 30-inch siphon in the Tal ent division of the Rogue Riv er Basin Project near Ash land, Ore. The project involves 10,000 cubic yards of excavation, 6, 500 yards of backfill, and 6, 700 feet of 30-inch precast concrete or steel cylinder pipe. Completion must be within 240 days. of County School Office place for an intermediate unit between the school dis tricts and the state, they re ported. Such an intermediate unit could be a county school office, an area or zone unit covering more than a county area, or a combination of the two. Such a unit would be one of authority, service and leadership, and a combination- of all three, it was ex plained. Based on the number of questions and requests re ceived by the Jackson county school superintendent's office some school districts need an intermediate unit between them and the state, Mekvold said. After Hitt and Mekvold left, the group discussed the position of the county school superintendent's office and F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) called on President Eisenhower to reconsider his refusal to name a government fact-finding board to consider issues in the steel dispute. Such a study, Kennedy said, would make a valuable contribution toward a settlement. The steel industry, in re fusing to accede to union de mands, has insisted on a one year wage freeze which it says is necessary to avoid a new inflation. Long Schedules Triumphal Entry To State Capital New Orleans-fOPD-Gov. Earl ' K. Long arose almost at dawn today so doctors and psychia trists can check him over be fore he leaves for a triumphal entry into Baton Rouge, the state capital. The last time he was in Baton Rouge, on June 18, an investigating board of doctors met him, certified that he needed mental treatment and ordered him rushed off to the Southeastern Louisiana men tal hospital at Mandeville. He has no fear of that happening today, however. He got out of the hospital a week ago by sacking the superintendent and state director of hospitals. To Start Campaign Long, put up in a tempor ary state capitol in a motel at Covington, La, which he abandoned Thursday night for the Roosevelt hotel in New Orleans. He promised to be in Baton Rouge at 8:30 p.m. to day. Long, 63, who suffered-"a slight heart failure" Wednes day night, still plans, against the advice of his doctors, to start his campaign for an un precedented fourth term as governor Saturday. The governor plans four stump speeches in his Fourth of July debut for the Demo cratic primary election. He also plans to attend a beauty contest. Medford Brownie Receives Reply to Letter to Princess Susan Whinihan, 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Whinihan, 1024 Winchester ave., has received a letter from ' a lady-in-waiting of Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. The note dated June 11 was sent in answer to a let ter Susan wrote to Princess Ann welcoming her into membership in the Brownie Scouts. The Medford girl, a mem ber of Brownie troop 84, sponsored by St. Mary's school, read in the Mail Tribune of the princess joining the Scouts. Her letter from Bucking ham palace reads: "Dear Susan: I write at the Queen's command to thank you for your letter to Princess Ann and for your very kind message of good wishes on. the occasion of Her Royal Highness be coming a Brownie. "I am to say that her . daughter will enjoy it all as much as you do." The signature on the let ter was illegible. Is Studied reached a number of conclu sions. They said the school districts have benefitted greatly from the professional leadership and services pro vided by the personnel of the county schdol office and the lay boards associated with it. Also, the group agreed that it provided the need for an in termediate agency. Further study is to be made on the practical and professional type of unit needed. In his report, Hale wrote that he was merely informing the county court of the study being made. Members of the group besides Hale are John Harr, Rogue River; Stanley Jobe, Ashland; H. P. Jewett and Charles Meyers, Central Point; Roy Parr, Talent; Ern est James, Phoenix; Leonard Mayfield, Medford, Mekvold and Hitt.
