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Newspaper Page TextI 1 fo) S2 LTQU JV u J) 1 i 5.1 f.i President Vetoes Housing Bill as 'Too Extravagant' Congress Asked To Enact New Bill Washington -UPD- President Eisenhower vetoed the Demo cratic housing bill today. He said its spending provisions are excessive and would do more damage than good. ' In a message to the Senate, the President called the bill "extravagant." "Much of the spending it authorizes is' unnecessary," he said. He objected particularly to spending authorizations which he said amounted to a minimum of $2,200,000,000 as against his budget recommen dations of $810 million. ' The Democrats had put a $1,375,400,000 price tag on their far-reaching bill. Aski New Bill After listing the defects in the measure, the President called on Congress to enact before adjournment a new housing bill along the lines of hir recommendations of last January. There appeared to be no chance Congress would over ride the veto. The bill passed the Senate 56-31 and the House 241-177. Both were less than4he two-third margin re quired in both chambers to enact vetoed legislation. The rejected bill - would have expanded federally sub sidized public housing and launched new federal lending programs to build college classrooms and low-priced rental housing for elderly per sons. Centennial Group Elects Officers 'Officers of the ' Jackson County Centennial' associa tion were elected yesterday -for terms of 100 years each. rThe association, .which, ex pects to wind up its .business and disband in October, is re quired by its by-laws to hold an annual meeting each year of its existence. Since it will no longer exist a year from now, the officers were named "to serve until Oregon's sec ond Centennial celebration." Jack Creager was named president; Frank Bash first vice president; Bill Abbott second vice president; Don McNeil secretary, and Tod Tibbutt, treasurer. All were reelected except Abbott, who was named to fill a vacancy. Members also reelected the present trustees, and filled three vacancies on the board. Creager issued an appeal to county residents who have received the gold nugget sou venir membership pins, but who have neither sold nor re turned them, to see they get to the Centennial association. Many are being sold at the Siskiyou summit welcome stockade, and more of the pins are needed for this purpose. It is one of the association's few sources of income. A call to Centennial head quarters, SPring-3-2059, will bring someone to pick them up from those holding them, Creager said. . ' Covered Wagons Reach American Lake Site American Falls, Ida. -4UPB-Oregons Centennial covered wagons clattered along high way 30 Monday, traveling about 25 miles from Pocatello to a camp site in Reclamation park at the base of American Lake dam near here. Criminal Libel Trial of Salem Radio Man, Independence Police Salem-OJPB-The trial of Ra dio Station Owner W. Gordon Allen and Independence Po lice Chief George Utley on a charge of criminal libel opened in Marion county cir cuit court today. Before the trial started, Cir cuit Judge Val D. Sloper dis qualified himself. Clackamas County Circuit Judge Ralph Holman was called' upon to try the case, while Judge Slo per took over his duties at Oregon City. Sloper gave no reason for disqualifying him self. Based ea Truth Allen and Utley were eharsed with libeling Capt. Ray Howard of the State Po lice, in a radio broadcast. Utley claimed he wa ordered by Howard not to make a re 54th Year Medford 14 Pages Russian Premier Holds Conference With Governors No Information . On Conversations Moscow-ttJPD-Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev todav held a long conference on Soviet- American relations with sev en U. S. governors on a four week tour of the Soviet Union. . . There was no information immediately available on the details of the conversations in Khrushchev's Kremlin office. Shook Hands Khrushchev shook hands with each of the governors as they entered the office he maintains in the walled Krem lin as chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers. -; The governors included Robert B. Meyner, New Jer sey; Leroy Collins, Florida; George D. Clyde, Utah;' John . Davis, North Dakota; Lu ther D. Hodges, North Caro lina; Stephen L. R. McNichols, Colorado, and Robert E. Smy- lie, Idaho. Two other governors, Wil liam C. Stratton, Illinois, and Cecil M. Underwood, West Virginia, returned to the Unit ed States a few days ago. Arrived June 24 The governors arrived in Moscow June 24. Before leav ing the United States, they- met with President Eisenhow er, and Secretary of State Christian-Herter. They have visited Lenin grad, Kiev and Tiflis. They are scheduled to leave for Tashket, Alma Ata, in central Asia Friday. The governors are sched uled to Wind up their tour and return home July 18. Report Meeting For Jubilee Contestants The first weekly report meeting for queen contest con testants of the Jacksonville Gold Rush Jubilee will be held Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the U. S. hotel in Jackson ville. ' Awards will be presented to the leading contenders at the meeting. Ike Dunford, general chair man, reminded residents that copies of the Gold Rush Ga zette for mailing outside of the area may be obtained at Jubilee Headquarters, . U. S. Hotel, or Jacksonville busi nesses, stockade or Siskiyou summit, Medford and Ashland Chamber of Commerce offices or from the queen contestants. They may also be obtained by mail from Jubilee office, box 1859, Jacksonville. , Proceeds from the jubilee project are earmarked for the U.S. Hotel project of the Jack sonville Lions club. Washington-OJPD-Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger has urged the state department to re consider its decision to deny Supreme Court Justce William O. Douglas permission to visit Red China to prepare a maga zine article. ' port on alleged vice condi tions in Lincoln county. Allen, owner of Station KGAY here and other radio stations, said broadcasts about the State Police were based on "truth, freedom of speech and the right to say it." Allen and Utley were also indicted on a charged of libel ing State Police Superintend ent. H.G. Maison in other broadcasts, but trial on this charge was to be set at a later date. ' Maison To Be Witness Maison was scheduled to be the first of some 30 defense witnesses after selection of a jury today. . One defense witness was to be Otto Cahill, Nelscott, for mer Lincoln county justice of the peace, who was convicted Mil "Peace, Brother Don't Start Anything" Dominican Tightens Security As Rumors Persist Ciudal Trujillo, Dominican Republic -(UPD- The Dominican government tightened securi ty measures today against the possibility of a terrorist cam paign or an armed invasion aimed at overthrowing 'the Trujillo regime. This capital was filled with rumors of an invasion launch ed from Cuba through Haiti, of abandoned invasion boats being sighted on beaches, and of arrests of underground agents. ;' . Security Tightened None could be confirmed but a government spokesman said the armed forces had tightened security measures and were maneuvering around Santiago, second largest Do minican city. Political observers familiar with the situation said there was an extremely high possi bility that a campaign of ter rorism would be the next step in the Caribbean war. of nerves, particularly in view of the success of Fidel Cas tro's similar operations during his revolution in Cuba. Informed sources said there were three explosions in pub- Portland Restaurant Damaged by Flames 'Portland (UPD An early morning , fire at the Corral drive-in restaurant in Port land caused an estimated $15, 000 damage to the building and equipment. : The fire, of undetermined origin, required extra equip ment to be brought under con trol, the fire bureau said. Washington-flJPD-The Senate has passed and sent to the House a bill to set up a fed eral program for eradication of the predatory dogfish shark in the Pacific Ocean. Chief Opens of misappropriating - miblic funds. He was sentenced in 1956 after a legal battle but was freed three months later when ex-Gov. Robert D. Holmes commuted his sen tence. The Lincoln county vice in vestigations which gave rise to some of the broadcasts were conducted in 1953. Thornton Scheduled Among defense witnesses were expected to be Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton, several justices of the peace and newspapermen who wrote about conditions in Lincoln county. One of the results of the Lincoln investigation into gambling and prostitution by three grand juries was that Utley was dismissed from the State Police at Newport. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, Wis! Republic lie places in Ciudad Trujillo Saturday nightl The govern ment explained only one of them.'' ' Support of People - . v Dominican, authorities said they ''felt wellt, able, to ... cope with any 'terrorist.' campaign because the government has the support of the people. . The navy and air force were maintaining around-the-clock patrols of the coast but most observers expect any in vasion would be launched across the border from Haiti, which shares this Caribbean island with - the Dominican Republic. - Pear Packers School to Open The annual vocational pear packers school will be held from July 16 through 31 in Medford, according to C. W. Guches, chairman of the pack ing school committee of the Jackson County Fruit Grow ers league. The . classes will be held daily and will include two three-hour sessions. The morn ing class will meet from 9 a.m. until noon, and the sec ond session from 1 until 4 p.m. Classes for the ten-day course will be held at South ern Oregon Sales packing Mabel Penlund in charge. Those interested in making application may do so by con tacting the various packing houses in the area or Guches at the SOS plant. ' During the past 10 years more than 1,100 pear pack ers, have received training through the course, Guches said, e : " ' . '-, : The school is sponsored jointly by the Fruit Growers League, Oregon state depart ment of vocational education, Medford Pear Shippers asso ciation and the Medford pub lic school system cooperating with Oregon State college ex tension service. 100 Tons of Trash Collected Last Week Nearly 100 tons of trash was picked up last week dur ing Medford's "clean-up" day which lasted for three days, officials of the City Sanitary service reported today. ' The pick-up was not com pleted until last Thursday due to the quantity of trash set out by residents for collec tions. City trucks and trucks provided by City Sanitary Service covered the entire city in the collection. The event was in connection with the "Make Medford Beauti ful" campaign. The trash has been burned, it was reported. Tribune ; JULY 7, 1959 4 Mays' Triple Off Ford Scores Winning Counter Yankees' Ace Yields Three Hits Pittsburgh-(UPD-Willie Mays tripled to score Hank Aaron with the winning run, climax ing a two-run eighth inning rally which gave the National league a 5-4 victory over the American league in the 26th annual All-Star game today. The underdog American leaguers had scored three runs in the top of the eighth to take the lead, 4-3, just before the roof caved in on Whitey Ford, the New York Yankees' southpaw. Boyer Starts It ;- Taking over in the bottom of the eighth, Ford, the fourth pitcher used by Man ager Casey Stengel of the American league, yielded a single to Ken Boyer, pinch hitting for winning pitcher Johnny Antonelli. Dick Groat sacrificed Boyer to second and Hank Aaron then singled to score Boyer with the tying run. ; ; Mays, who had gone hitless in three previous times at bat, rifled a fast ball to deep right center, over center fielder .Harvey Kuenn's glove, and Aaron raced home with the run that gave the 11-10 Na tional league favorites the tri umph."' ; rIt broke a two-game Amer ican league winning streak in this ' mid-summer game and was the National league's 11th victory against 15 defeats in All-Star competition. Bid by American ; The American leaguers made a bid. in the top of the ninth against Don Elston, Chi cago Cubs relief ace. Elston retired the first two hitters but Nellie Fox then singled after missing a home run by two feet down the right field line. Fox went to second on a wild pitch. Kuenn rifled one out of the park down the left field line, but it was foul by 12 feet. Kuenn worked the count to three and two and then popped to third baseman Boy er to close it out. Gus Triandos, whom Sten gel had refused to let hit in the clutch last year, had dou bled with the bases loaded in the eighth, sending the Ameri cans into a 4-3 lead. LINE SCORE: American 000 100 030 4 8 0 National 100 000 22x 5 9 1 Winning Ditcher: Antonelli. Los ing pitcher: Ford. Six Youths Bound Over fo Grand Jury Six Medford youths are being held in the county jail today on charges of contribut ing to the delinquency of a minor. The six youths were bound over to the grand jury yester day by District Judge Roy;Ba shaw on the charges which in volve sexual relationship. Being held are Chester Leon Allison, 19, of 1119 West Fourth st.j Earl Bruce Stew art, 19, of 1120 West Ninth st.; Basil Victor DeRushe, 20, of 332 May st.; Waymon Ross Blackwood, 20, of 2520 Merri man rd.; Samuel Keith Gar rett, 20, of 1120 West Ninth st.; and Jerry Arthur McLeod, 18, of 1051 West 11th sj;., Medford. j According to the complaint the incident occurred in the Applegate area July 4. WEATHER FORECAST:.. Fair., with.. ome cloudiness through Wednesday. Low tonight 50. High Wednes day 82. Temp. Highest Yesterday ; 73 Lowest this Morning 50 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today .. 7:51 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:42 ajn. Moonset tonight S:44 pjn. First Quarter July 13 PROMINENT STAR Antares, due south 9:33 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mercury, near the Moon. Venus, sets 9:43 p.m. Saturn, due south ...11:22 p.m. 'Jupiter, low in south west H:31 p.m. Price 10 Cents ' - ' j. a..i'nrtoa.?wBaies . 4.... .. ........ .iX.5.-SR I FIRE AT SEA The Belgian tanker Anvers blazes in the Gulf of Mexico near Cameron, La. Burning magnesium and fuel oil created such intense heat that the ship's hull glowed SCS and Engineer To Be Consulted On Diversion Dam The soil conservation serv ice and the county engineer's office will be consulted on the diversion dam on the Apple-gate-river near the proposed county recreation site, County Judge Earl Miller said today. The decision followed a meeting this morning of a group of the Comstock ditch users on the Applegate, Med ford Attorney Karl Clinkin beard, representatives of the U. S. forest service and Jack son County Watermaster D. C. Hendrix. The six ditch users protested that if the pro posed recreation site a mile above the McKee bridge is used; by. the general public their! diversion dam will be destroyed. They are seeking assurance from the' county court today that something would be done" to protect the temporary diversion dam and the ditch intake near the dam. Money in Escrow County Judge Earl Miller said this morning that the county has put the money into escrow required to purchase Earl Gebhart's mining claim, but that it has not yet been definitely proven that Geb- hart has a clear title. The next step would be for the forest service to give the county a special use permit for the land now under their jurisdiction 'Jim vCorson, Applegate farmer, acting as spokesman for the group said the ditch users had been having trouble with limited recreational use of the pool created by the di version dam erected each year. However, much more trouble is anticipated with wide public use of the spot. It costs the ditch-users approxi mately $200 J:o have the dam raised by a bulldozer during the low water period, Corson pointed out. The weakest point of the dam is the sand fill portion near the proposed recreation site, he added. People Walk on Dam Corson said the ditch:users have had trouble with people mainly adults walking on the dam and tearing it down. They also block the ditch in take with large boulders and logs to maintain the deep swimming pool behind the dam, he added. Recent public ity on the spot has attracted many more people, the Apple gate fanner said. The same day the dam was .raised. two busloads of youngsters and 20 adults came to the spot, Cor son said. The Applegate farmer said the ditch-users have a special use permit from the forest service to use the .ditch. The ditch is older than the state and is the second oldest ditch on the Applegate, he added. Damage or potential threat to the ditch hurts the value of farm property using the irri gation ditch, he explained. If recrsational use of the area seriously threatens the dam and the ditch the farm ers could make other arrange ments, Corson said. However, this would remove the present dam and the swimming hole created by it. New York-(UPD-United Press International and . the Com mercial Telegraphers' union, bargaining unit for the com pany's telegraph operators, has accepted an arbitration award providing a $4 weekly wage increase retroactive to midnight Jan. 31, 1959. Public Hearing On Proposed County Budget Thursday A public hearing on the pro posed $3,633,536.32 county budget for this new fiscal year will be held in the county courthouse auditorium at 8 p.m. Thursday. This budget for the new fis cal year totals $197,648.23 more than the $3,435,887.09 for 1958-59. The hearing will be before the county court and budget committee. The budget will be approved un less there is strong opposition against it which can be back ed up by facts, County Judge Earl Miller said today. Two new items in the budg et this year are a $65,000 capi- Burglars Attempt Safe Jobs in Area Burglars struck three times last night, twice in Medford and once in Central Point, but according to Medford police the total loot was only about $4. Police and sheriff's deputies today pressed their investiga tion of these and other recent burglaries. The $4 was taken from a cash box in the office of In dustrial Air Products, North Pacific highway, police re ported. An attempt to break open the office safe apparent ly failed, according to investi gators. David Denton Blair, a mer chant patrolman, informed po lice about 3 a.m. he had ob served two men attempting a burglary at Ekerson's Paint and Roof store, 619 East Jack son st. Police surrounded the area, but the burglars had es caped. They had broken into the store through a skylight on the roof, according to the report, but apparently had taken nothing. About half an hour later, city police were called to as sist in investigating a bur glary at Lucas and Howard Furniture store, North Pacific highway, Central Point. Here again, according to the report, nothing was taken. The bur glars attempted unsuccessful ly to crack the company's safe. . Burglaries over the week end were reported at the Reter Fruit company office and Nu-Way Cleaners. An at tempt at the Oakdale Big Y market was also reported. Injured Men Still In Hospitals Today Three men injured in traf fic accidents Sunday and Mon day remained" hospitalized to day. But they were reported doing as well as could be ex pected. Kenneth O. Thompson, 35, of route 1, box 181, Gold Hill, was still in fair condition at Rogue Valley hospital. He was struck by a station wagon yes terday morning as he walked across Highway 99 near the Star-lite Drive-In theatre. Burt Adams, 77, of 1309 South Tolman Creek rd., Ash land, and Arneth Myers, 34, of 1131 South Tolman Creek rd., were reported in fair and good condition, respectively, by authorities at Ashland General hospital. Their ve hicle, with Myers driving and Adams a passenger, was struck by another car head-on Sunday on Highway 99 at Faith ave., Ashland. red hot. All members of the crew were saved, but the ship was finally abandoned to the fire. tal improvements sinking fund, and $90,838.41 allocated for a cash working fund. .The capital improvements fund provides a source of money for any construction or building improvements for county offices. It was estab lished after the county budget committee considered a pro posed all-purpose building for the county fairgrounds and rejected it. The capital im provements fund can be used to help finance such a build ing but it must be approved by the county budget commit tee first, County Judge Miller said. '' "..;';.' , ': . The ' cash working fund is authorized under a 1957 lav and is designed to take care of county taxing units during the period of July 1 and Nov. 15-a .period . before" ' receipts from taxes' start coming in for the new "fiscal year. Under this law the county can allo cate a sum equal to 2V6 per cent of the total county budg et for the working fund each year. However, when the total of the working fund reaches 10 per cent of the total county budget more money cannot be allocated.' . Other changes in the pro posed budget include $600, 000 less in the general county fund than during the previous year, $50,000 less in the coun ty road fund, $5,000 more in the emergency fund, $11,000 more for maintenance of the courthouse and $425,040 in the county schools fund com pared to $206,160 during the previous year. Search Underway in Siskiyous for Man State police, Jackson coun ty sheriffs deputies and Ash land police about noon today were searching the area near Blue Star Memorial park in the Siskiyou mountains for a man who allegedly attempted to rape a California woman tourist. State police said they re ceived a call from a passerby that the California woman Was resting in the park when a man came out of the nearby brush and grabbed her. He hit her in the eye when she screamed and kicked, then dropped her and ran off, state police said they were told. The man is described as being about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, wearing light brown slacks and shirt and between 45 and 55 years of age. Russia Sees Possibility Of Manned London -(UPD -Soviet scien tists today hailed the rocket flight of two dogs and a rab bit as proof that man will for the first manned space One said that day will "not be far off." Western scientists saw it as proof the Russians are work ing desperately to beat the United States into space and said there was a chance the Russians might succeed this year. Two Major 'Firsts' They based their predic tions on the fact the Soviet already has two major space "firsts"-the first satellite and the first missile to leave the earth's gravitational field and Hostages Freed Without Injury After 14 Hours Well-Placed Shots End Arrogance Monroe, Wash. (UPD T w o ticklish minutes punctuated with tear gas today ended a fantastic escape plot by four convicts and freed 38 hostages they had threatened to muti late or murder. After nearly 14 hours of swaggering arrogance in the visitors room at the State Re formatory' here, the rebels were back behind bars. And 24 civilian visitors, including 18 women and children, walked to safety. Cartridges Do Job A well-placed pair of tear gas cartridges did the job aft er a bit of trickery conspired by Dr. Garrett Heyns, director of state institutions, and Re formatory Superintendent Er nest Timpani, set up the play. Timpani announced shortly before a 4 ajn. (ps.t. the con victs had sent out word that "they're going to start throw ing out bodies at six o'clock. "We're going in after them at four o'clock. The four convicts were baited to the window in the visitors' room door with the announcement Heyns, who was actually at the state capi tol in Olympia, wanted to talk to them. No One Hurt "As soon as they came to the window, a guard let them have it with tear gas. There was no one hurt." Two of the guards being held hostage, Lt. Rudolph B. Maley and Joseph Harris, grabbed two of the rebel con victs as the gas exploded and wrestled them to the floor. It was all over seconds later as more officers stormed into the room. The convicts had two butch er knives and two meat forks for weapons. They never had a chance to use them. The . women, eyes streaked with tears from effects of the gas, .walked out of the room, most of them carrying chil dren. The guards followed. Hugh J. DeWalt, 38, was near ly overcome and had to be assisted by Harris and Maley. Revived a short time later. Guard DeWalt said he wasn't sure "we had only two hours to live." Mrs. Virgil Turner, 24, held her 5-month-old baby, Elaine, tightly to her bosom. Hostages Speechless "It wasn't bad at all," she said. "None of them acted real fierce." The convicts had demanded they be given an escape car in which they planned to drive to Canada. They said they would take four host ages. Timpani rejected three ul timatums, the third with the surprise tear gas attack. The Quickness with wnicn the ordeal ended left the host ages seemingly numb. As they filed downstairs to the main lobby of the administration building, there was not a word from the women, not a whimper from any one of the children. Hot' Barrel Said Undoubtedly Hoax Richland, Wash. (UPD A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commission said to day that the white "mystery" barrel marked as atomic waste that washed up on an Oregon beach July 4 "un doubtedly was a hoax." The statement was made by L. D. Weir, assistant public information officer for the AEC here, after the barrel was flown here and experts had examined it and its contents. Flight 'Soon' become a planetoid around the sun. They also were impressed by the weight of the latest So viet rocket payload which car ried the rabbits and dogs slightly more than two tons, or perhaps eight times the weight of the American rock et's payload which took the monkeys Able and Baker on a 1,500-mile flight over the Atlantic in May. Exact weight of the U.S. vehicle has not been announced. Bid Seen This Year The American target date fir the first manned space flight is the autumn of I960. British and other Western sci entists think the Russians may make their bid this year.