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54th Year Subscribers Recommended Price 10 Cents To report improper or non delivery ot the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MU 2-1021, Yreka VI 2-4077 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1230 pjn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. A feature article oa property owned by the City or Medford along Bear creek that could be developed for parks and recrea tion use appears on page 14 of today's Mail Tribune. United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 58 PAGES medford, Oregon; Sunday, july 12, 1959 No. 97 Western iplomcofts "I Can't Get Over It And He's a Fellow Texan, Too" Jet AniTuDinieir LoinidsSofeuy A Commission Plain) Geneva-UPD-The West this week end was reported work ing out a plan for a Big-four commission that would pre pare a cold war settlement of the Berlin, Germany and Euro pean security issues within three years. Details of the western pro posals to provide a breathing spell on the Berlin crisis with Russia emerged as diplomats began arriving in Geneva for a resumption of the East-West SteeB Management Negotiators EDoubt Accord IPossfiyilnty New York - (UPD - Steel in dustry negotiators said yester day there is "no possibility of reaching an agreement with the steel workers union before the strike deadline, of midnight Tuesday, and the companies prepared to shut down the mills. R. Conrad Cooper, execu tive vice president of U. S. Steel and chief industry ne gotiator, said the union has rejected another extension of the contract, which expires at midnight July 14. The U. S. Steel Corp. an nounced it would start bank- Officials Study Interchange Plan City officials last week were studying a revised state high way department plan for the proposed Highway 4 99 free way interchange at Crater Lake highway. " ' The new plan, some city officials stated,, represents an improvement over an earlier plan with respect to traffic flow and safety features but still leaves something to be desired. The federal bureau of pub lic roads, according to a state hjghway department official, has now approved plans for all sections of the freeway through Medford except the stretch from Table Rock rd to Morrow rd., which includes the proposed interchange. State right of way agents are currently negotiating for property along Biddle rd. and in the vicinity of the Cottage st. bridge, this official re ported. The city engineers may sub mit suggestions for improving the interchange plan, it is understood. But since the fed eral government is to finance most of the project, the BPR has the last word. Freeway con struction through Medford is scheduled to get under way next year. Army Rogue Plan Discussion Slated Travis Roberts of the sport fisheries and wildlife bureau will evaluate the U. S. Army corps of engineers' proposals with respect to effects on the fishery of the Rogue River basin project at a meeting to morrow night. The meeting was announced by William Jess, president of the Rogue Basin Flood Con trol and Water Resources as sociation. It will be held in the Jackson County court house auditorium at 8 p.m. The corps recently com pleted studies of potential projects in the Rogue River Basin which included such factors as irrigation, flood control, power generation, fish and wildlife, recreation, and municipal and industrial water supply. The Monday meeting will be chiefly concerned with the proposals effects on the fishery- The public is invited to at tend. BULLETIN Central Point Cheney Studs took over the lone lead by half a game in Area 4 southern division by de feating Lakeview 3 to 0 in an American Legion junior baseball gam last night. foreign ministers conference Monday after a three-week recess. Both Russia and the West had new plans. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter car ried new proposals with him when he took off from Wash ington for Geneva yesterday. Herter said he would "ne gotiate in good faith" with Soviet Foreign Minister An drei A. Gromyko. But he ad ded he has "no great expecta ing its blast furnaces at mid night today and, reduce the heat in the coke ovens Mon day. The last steel will be turned out of the furnaces Tuesday, unless the negoti ations take a turn for the better. Despite the gloom surround ing negotiators, the two four man bargaining teams agreed to meet again this morning in a last-ditch effort to . break the impasse. David J. McDonald, presi dent of the United Steelwork ers union, said he was willing to negotiate right up to the strike deadline in the hope the industry would give up its "strike brinkmanship" a 1 1 i -tude. Blame Each Other Cooper and McDonald blam ed each other for the dead lock, which seemed certain to trigger the sixth post-war steel strike. Such a walkout by 500,000 men would cost the economy heavily in lost pro duction and wages. McDonald told newsmen after a one-hour Saturday bargaining session that the union had made a number of specific offers to the industry in an effort to lead off a strike, but that these were re jected. The industry revealed in a prepared statement that it is ready to negotiate a two-year contract calling for improve ments in insurance and pen sion prqyisions the first year and a modest wage increase the second year, if the union would agree ta certain con tract revisions. No Offer on Table Despite the industry state ment, McDonald told news men flatly the union has no offer on the table from the industry. McDonald warned that the "hour is late" and urged the steel industry to make an of-, fer to the union. He accused the industry of demanding a wage freeze at a time when it was making "oodles of money. Cooper said the contract re visions suggested by the in dustry were not designed to wreck the union, as McDonald has charged, or to deprive steel workers of their rights, but rather to improve ef ficiency and economy in plant operations. He said the four most im portant issues were revision of local working conditions to eliminate waste, stronger contract language to discour age wild-cat strikes, elimina tion of the inflationary cost-of-living escalator clause, and a non-inflationary contract." 'Bard's Heyday' Scheduled Today . Ashland - The Oregon Shakespearean Festival com pany is preparing for visitors this afternoon at the combin ed "Bard's Heyday" and open house of the new Festival theater. Tudor Guild 'members will be in costumes in the theme of "Tudor Fair." A variety of booths, both inside and out side the theater walls, will be in operation beginning at 1 o'clock, and the tours will continue to around 6:30 o'clock. i Pantomime c o m p e tition among the Shakespearean ac tors will be seen again this year on the stage. No admission fee will be charged and the general pub- ue is invited to attend. tions for success." Gromyko arrived in Geneva yesterday ahead of all the Western ministers. Western diplomats in Moscow said they believed he had "new instructions." The Soviet diplomat arrived with a plea that the confer ence be. a "starting point for really making the internation al climate warmer." Sources said the West plan ned to propose to him that the Soviet demands for the Allies to get out of West Berlin be "put on ice" for at least two years in exchange for a sum mit conference. The Soviet press yesterday continued to call for a summit meeting and said the "imedi ate duty" of the foreign min isters was to "clear a path for such a meeting.'' Big Four Commission It was reliably reported that the western plan to be presented this week calls for a big four commission with East and West Germans as advisors. This would meet on such issues as Berlin, German uni fication and European secur ity and prepare a settlement over a two or , three-year period. Gromyko last June 19 pro posed an 18-month time limit for withdrawal of Western forces from Berlin. But he insisted that was not an "ulti matum or dictate." Interim Settlement This gave the West hope that Russia would agree to an interim settlement, freez ing the situation in Berlin and allowing the major powers to go on to a sumit conference something Soviet Premier Ni kita S. Krushchev' wants. Herter, British foreign sec retary Selwyn Lloyd and French foreign Minister Mau rice Couve De Murville sched uled a pre-conference skull session today in Geneva. West German Foreign Min ister Heinrich V6n Brentano also would be on hand. Herter left Washington yes terday morning on the gov ernment's "VIP" version of the new Boeing 707 airliner. Instead of flying directly to Geneva, he detoured to Ot tawa for a three-hour confer ence with the Canadian Prime Minister and external affairs minister. Herter wanted to sound out- Canada's leaders on their views toward a proposed sumit east-west conference. Bear Creek Trip Planned A "show me" trip of Bear creek will be undertaken Thursday, July 16, with the cooperation of Robert W. Root, state water resources board; Cole Rivers, fish biolo gist, state game commission, and the Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton league. The group of interested persons will meet in Haw thorne park at 1 p.m. near the Main st. bridge, where those making the trip will board buses. The group will proceed to the north end of Fordyce st. in Ashland and will inspect various parts of the creek from there to below Central Point. Traveling with the group will be Rivers; Dave C. Hend ricks, county watermaster; Clem Ault, U. S. soil conser vation service; Quentin Bow man, representative of state water resources board, and a member of the parks depart ment and landscape division of the state highway depart ment. During the tour, problems of Bear creek and possible so lutions will be pointed out by the accompanying officials. The tour will end at ap proximately 5 p.m. at Haw thorne park. Composer Remains In Critical Condition Portland (UPD Composer Ernest Bloch, 78, remained in critical condition' at Good Sa maritan hospital here yesterday.-He was under treatment for cancer. Bloch, who reached world fame with his music, lived at Agate Beach before moving here last year. i Gov. Long Ft. Worth, Loudly at Fort Worth, Tex.-flJPD-Gov, Earl Long of Louisiana flew into Fort Worth last night cursing so loudly a woman covered the ears of her little girl and said, "he must be mad." . . Long, 63, hopped a plane at Shreveport, La., and flew into Texas on the first leg of a western vacation to rest up from the ordeal that has seen him in and out of three mental Khrushchev Visit Proposal Further Support Washington-HJPD-A proposal for Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev to visit the United States picked up steam yes terday with the endorsement of two more key Democratic and Republican senators. "I've thought all along that we should let him see this country," Sen. John Sparkman (D-Ala.) told a newsman. "The more these fellows come over here, the better." "A good idea," echoed Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt.) Both senators are members of the foreign relations committee. Such a visit has been dis cussed more and more serious ly in recent weeks. It got new impetus with the proposal of former New York Governor Averell Harriman that Khrus chev be invited either to visit or in connection with a pos sible summit conference. So far there has been no dissent from any official quarter, either in -the admin istration or at the capitol. The much traveled Khrush chev has been reported by many Moscow visitors as be ing most anxious to add the United States to the string of countries he has seen. This was confirmed some what by both Aiken and Sparkman, who said they got the impression from Harri man that the Soviet leader wants to come here for a first hand look at his country's main rival. The former ambassador to the Soviet Union, who talked for esveral hours with Khrushchev recently, said a visit might clear up miscon ceptions the Soviet boss has about relative Russian and American strength. Harriman said he fears Khrushchev may miscalcu late both the strength and in tention of this country and blunder into a war. Matlack Retained To Boosf Exposition Portland (UPD Publicist Jack Matlack of Portland has been hired by the Oregon cen tennial Management commu te to promote an altout effort to hike Exposition attendance here. The committee appropriatr ed $10,000 and guaranteed Matlack an additional $250 a week. Indications were Mat lack's main job for the next six weeks would be to em phasize special events and days at the Exposition. Gaining Reaches Cursing Newsmen hospitals in the past two months. Long cursed newsmen who were on hand to meet him, and was plainly irked because a car wasn't waiting to take him to his . hotel He stepped off the plane and told waiting newsmen "you're all a bunch of . . ." Remind ed that there were ladies in the crowd at Amon Carter field, he said "I don't give a . . . ." Long arrived in Fort Worth in time to see an hour long television show of his rant ings before the Louisiana leg islature " advertised as "not recommended for children." Covered. Ears As airport attendants whisk ed him inside the offices of Trans-Texas airways, just off the airport main waiting room, he cursed so loudly and viol ently, chiefly at newsmen,' that one -woman covered the ears of her little girl and said: "He must be mad. I had wondered , before, but now I know." . Long had to wait nearly 30 minutes before a car arrived to take him to his hotel. While he waited, a Trans Texas employee brought him a cup of coffee, but he refused it saying: "It's too damn hot." Before leaving the "pea patch" farm at Winnfield, Long went for a long drive in the country. He had his bags packed and the station wagon loaded with .watermel ons. He insisted on putting a few more choice melons in the wagon before leaving. First Trip Out , It was Long's first trip out of the state since his now es tranged wife, Blanche, and others had him admitted to John Sealy Psychiatric clinic at Galveston, Tex., May 30 for mental treatment. Since then Long has been in a New Orleans hospital and a Manileville, La., state men tal hospital for brief periods and kept the state wondering about his next moves. His physical condition has been reported failing rapidly, but despite a slight heart failure and a heart condition he went on a grueling political stump tour a week ago. He spent two days in seclusion at the state capital in Baton Rouge last week while reports circulated that he was very ill. Long, 63, apparently has been irked by the reports and publicity and has refused to see newsmen in over a week. Grandmother Ahead Of Wagon Caravan Buhl, Ore.-DPD-An Ohio grandmother who is walking to Oregon for the centennial from Missouri has passed the Oregon wagon caravan. Ivan Hoyer, news director for the cavalcade, reports that Mrs. Emma Gatewood, Galli polis, Ohio, who started walk ing from Independence Mo, April 4, was 60 miles ahead of the wagons by July 9. The wagons left Missouri April 15 and passed Mrs. Gatewood earlier in the trek. ' Mrs. Gatewood is averag ing about 30 miles a day on her hike, more than any day's mileage for the wagons. LAUREL CANYON FIRE REVIVES TO INCREASE LOSS OF HOMES Hollywood (UPD-Smoldering embers flared up suddenly yesterday to destroy the 35th home caught in the devastat ing Laurel canyon fire after the blaze was brought under control 12 hours before. The damage from the brief but devastating fire was un officially estimated previously at about $2 million, destroy ing, precious watershed as well as the 35 buildings. Val ue of the homes, one of which formerly was owned by the late Harry Houdini, ranged from $30,000 to $150,000, with the remaining loss sustaned in other property and water shed damage. Firemen were completing clean-up operations yesterday when a house on Lookout Mountain dr. unexpectedly burst into flames, apparently from embers which drifted on the roof from a hot spot in the fire area". The year's worst heat wave signaled the danger of even greater disaster in the picturesque-Hollywood Hills, al though the temperature was "only" 97 yesterday com pared to Friday's . 103. A four-story mansion, the former Houdini home, most recently owned by Mrs. Frances Wethern, was one of the most unique structures in Hollywood. A. huge foun tain and a log cabin were placed in the huge basement by the builder almost a half century ago. The cause of the devastat ing fire was still not known yesterday- Chief PeteJThomp- son said arson investigators were seeking an unidentified woman who said her husband may have set the fire. But he called it "only one of many stories and reports we are checking out." 35 in Area Thompson said there were 35 fires in the metropolitan area of Los Angeles Friday and that in a second fire two miles from the Laurel Canyon conflagration there was "ab solutely no indication of ar son." "If you're going to connect the two canyon blazes you might as well connect all the others, too," he said. More than 200 firemen and volunteers battled the Laurel Vandenberg Fire Deliberately Set Lompoc, Calif.-flJPD-Fire of ficials said yesterday that a blaze whipping out of control in timber near the giant Van denberg Air Force missile base was deliberately set. Santa Barbara county of ficials said the fire, which had swept over more than 1,000 acres of pine and brush, broke out "unexplainlably" at three spots late Friday. A passing motorist report ed to the highway patrol that he saw a can in an old coupe throw something into the woods in the area of the fire about the time the blazes were discovered. A search for the man was underway in this area. The fire, with some 400 men on the firelines, was centered nine miles north of here and had cut off state highway 1 from Harris Grade, adjacent to the Vandenberg base. 1 The fire was reported still out of control, but had jump ed the highway and was burn ing away, from the missile center. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued fair and hot today with summer after noon cloudiness and thunder heads along the mountains to south and east. Monday a little clear and scattered thunder storms rn the mountains. High today near 95. Low tonight 60. High Monday near SO. TEMP. Hightest Saturday 98 Lowest Saturday 60 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:49 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:46 a.m. Moonset tonigt 11:34 p.m. First Quarter tomorrow 4:01 a.m. The first planet seen after sun set is now Venus and the last stars to fade out before sunrise are now Vega, in the northwest, and Capella, In the northeast. canyon fire. The blaze broke out shortly before 4 p.m. Fri day in the Hollywood hills, only two miles from the down town area of the movie capi tal. Highest in 52 Years Conditions were worsened by 100-degree plus heat. The temperature of 103 in down town Los Angeles was the highest for July in 52 years. Duty fire chief Elwood M. Culp said the latest official figures showed 35 homes de stroyed, some of them stately mansions clinging to the hill Rear A dm. Rickover Guides Frol Kozlov On Atom Plant Tour Shippingport, Pa. (UPD-First Deputy Premier Frol R. Koz lov of the Soviet Union toured the world's first commercial atomic - powered electric gen erating plant here yesterday under guidance and with the advice of one of America's foremost nuclear energy ex perts. . Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rick over, known as the "father of Several Blazes Reported Locally The Medford fire depart ment reported three grass fires occurred Saturday after noon and the state depart ment of forestry reported two small "smoker" fires by Ruch. The largest of the three fires to which Medford fire men were called was at the Sheriff's Posse grounds on Sage rd., north of Medford. Twenty acres was burned. Cause was given as the ex haust from a tractor. A second grass fire occur red on Biddle rd. where an area of 250 by- 150 feet of grass was burned. Cause giv en here was burning, grass after hours without a permit. The fire was extinguished by the fire department. A third grass fire occurred at 1025 East Main st. when a trash fire burned onto 400 square feet of grass. Two small fires, one a quarter of an acre and the other less, occurred near Ruch, according to the state department of forestry. Flip ping burning cigarettes from passing cars was blamed. Deer-Car Crash Puts 3 in Hospital Klamath Falls - (UPD - Three persons were hospitalized as the result of a deer-auto colli sion about 32 miles north of here yesterday. Reported in serious condi tion at Klamath Valley hospi tal here is Mrs. Achsa Lucille Thompson, 53, Springfield. She suffered rib fractures and a cracked vertebrae. Her father-in-law. 82-year- old Edwin F. Thompson of Trail, B. C, suffered serious back injuries. Being held for observation was Sylvia Hast ings of Eugene. Driver of the car. Thomas F. Thompson, 50, husband of the injured Mrs. Thompson, was examined and released. Police said the 1959 model car struck a four-point buck deer in the middle of U. S. Hiehwav97 north of Collier park. The car skidded, flipped end over end and came to rest on its top after hitting the animal. The deer was killed instantly. Castro Defector Tells of Communists Washington-ttJPD-A defector from Premier Fidel Castro's air force has told- senate in vestigators of Communist in filtration into Cuban armed forces, it has learned yesterday. sides along Laurel canyon boulevard. Another five were damaged, and embers from the fire seared the roofs of many more. Laurel Canyon boulevard, linking Sunset boulevard with the San Fernando valley, and part of Mulholland drive were closed yesterday. Total acreage involved was fixed at 300. The fire was termed a "ma jor disaster" less than an hour after it broke out. One fire man called it the "worst in 27 years" in the area. the Atomic submarine," greet ed the touring Russian offi cial on behalf of President Eisenhower with some point ed remarks on the "great political and moral respon sibility" in handling the forc es unleashed with the devel opment of nuclear energy. Kozlov and Rickover, speaking through, an inter preter, kept up a running fire of comment as they inspect ed the nuclear reactors which generate the heat to make the steam which spins the generators of the Duquesne Light Co. power plant here in the Ohio River valley, 28 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. A Sharp Edge The running commentary which Rickover interspersed with technical explanation of the plant's operation, while always lighthearted, often carried a sharp edge. After viewing a scale model of the atomic reactor, Koslov. re marked, "it would better to build atomic -surface vessels rather than atomic submar ines because atomic submar ines are for purposes of des truction." .To this Rickover retorted: "sure, all Soviet naval vessels have doves oi peace on their masts." Continuing in his dead-pan manner, Rickover at one point asked Kozlov, are you smart enough to understand every thing I'm explaining to you?" Kozlov grinned and said yes. The two of them examined a 2,2000-volt pump and Rick over assured Kozlov, "even a politician can understand this." Exchange of Experts Rickover suggested an ex change of atomic experts, providing you (Kozlov) send people as amiable as you are, then your specialists will be able to tell you whether we're telling you everything." "You won't tell us every thing," Kozlov replied, still smiling. "That's because I think that by not telling you everything the peace of the world will be better preserved," Rick over responded. "You're a diplomat," Koz lov continued. "No," Rickover said, "just a naval oficer. You're the dip lomat because you hide things." 'Independent Organizations' Rickover pointed out that the 60,000-kilowatt generat ing station was built and op erated by three "Independent J organizations" Duquesne Light, Westinghouse Electric Corp. and the Atomic Energy commission. The admiral told Kozlov that the group had "been able to believe in and trust each other without written formali ty." "The reason is the complete trust between the three organ izations," Rickover said. "This is a necessity of relationship between any two organiza tions' or individuals. The writ ten word is not enough. There must be a moral obligation as well." The power plant tour here ended a two-day visit to the Pittsburgh district by Kozlov. Friday the barrel-chested So viet official, a one-time steel mill foreman, inspected the sprawling Homestead, Pa., work of U. S. Steel corp. Two Wheels Lost During Take-Off Hobbles Big Plane 102 Passengers Were London Bound New York-flJPD-A crippled Pan American World Airwave jet airliner carrying 113 per sons landed safely at Idle wild International airoort with two wheels missing early Saturday after circling the field for nearly four suspense-packed hours. No one was injured, and the passengers ate dinner while they waited for the plane to land. The big Boeing aircraft, with a crew of 11 and 102 passengers, lost two of its 10 wheels as it left Idlewild In ternational airport at 8:37 . p.m. Saturday for what was to have been a non-stop flight to London. It touched down safely at 12:29 a.m. Sunday, while New York city firemen stood poised with, fire hoses and ambulances were prepared to take on casualties. Skindivers stood ready to go into Jamaica Bay to rescue passengers and crew if the plane had missed the runway. The Red Cross had arranged for emergency blood supplies. Ministers of all faiths were on hand to com fort casualties, If they should be needed. Huge Crowd A huge crowd of curiosity I seekers lined the airport I fences to watch the drama. The crowd cheered as the plane came to a halt, and passengers " said they, too cheered and applauded when the pilot, Capt. Edward Som mers declared the emergency at an end. Among the passengers were movie director-producer Otto Preminger, who made the re cently released "Anatomy of a Murder" and "Porgy and Bess," and British actor Law rence Harvey, star of "Room at the Top" and husband of actress Margaret Leighton. As soon as the emergency was declared, the stewardess es began serving dinner. The passengers ate while the crew sweated out the crisis. Emergency Chute When the plane pulled to a halt on the runway, passen gers slid down an emergency chute on one side of the plane and went down a ladder on the other. Some were laughing, some were whitefaced. A steward ess dashed over and seized a reporter by the hand - and shouted, "We made it, we made it." "I still like jets and I'm going to London by jet, yet sir," one excited passenger said. The plane is one of 40 Boeing 707 jetliners in civil ian use. The model went into commercial passenger service last October. Billed as one of the most thoroughly tested civilian planes in aviation his tory. A special model of the 707 has gone into government services to fly President Eisenhower and other govern ment officials. , Local Man Jailed On Assault Charge Ashland - State police Fri day night arrested a Central Point man near here on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape. Arrested was Robert Morris, 41, of Wilson rd.. Central Point. Police said Morris admitted the assault in a signed state ment. The woman victim, a California gynecologist, filed a complaint following' the in cident. Police said the incident oc curred Tuesday in the area near Blue Star Memorial park, on Highway 99 in the Siskiyou mountains. The doc tor told police that a man came out of the nearby brush and grabbed her -while she was resting in the park that day. He was reported to have hit her in the eye, then dropped her and fled when she kicked and screamed. Morris was lodged in Jack son county jail and is expect ed to be arrainged in district court Monday.
