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Newspaper Page Textin DD 1m log (Fires Jprtl Dm Iregisijs -laiiigeir Jigh Prineville Area Blaze Engulfs Ponderosa Stand Range Land Burns in Abert Fault Vicinity By United Pren International Two big fires, one of them in pine timber land east of Prineville were reported in Oregon today as fire danger remained high throughout the state. The weatherman said no rain, except ior possible thundershowers, was in sight for the rest of the week. Another blaze covered an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 acres of range land in the Abert fault area about 45 miles north of Lakeview. It was feared a strong wina mieht drive this blaze into the Fremont National forest. Some western Oregon log ging operations were shut down because humidity dropped below 30 per cent. Temperatures passed the 100 degree mark in some parts of the state on Sunday. 1100 Acres Burned The blaze in rich ponderosa pine timber in state and' f ed eralland about 45 miles east of Prineville was still'out of control today in the Mitchell area. About 1,100 acres were blackened by the flames. A rising wind this morning fan ned the blaze into increased activity. Th fire is "far from being controlled," fire fight ing officials said. About 200 men with several bulldozers were trying to trail the blaze. The fire "crowned" Sunday and spread rapidly at tree - top level. Spotting from burning- embers' touched off several small fires in nearby unburned timber, lack of roads in the area hampered crews and heavy equipment has had to build its own roads to get to the blaze. The fire started in the Prineville district of the state forest and was blown into the Ochoco National Forest. John C. Hunt of the Bureau of Land Management said the range fire east of Lakeview was quiet this morning and a scout Diane reported it was believed a fire line had been built around the blaze. -Borate Solution Dropped. "If it breaks ' loose again today and makes a run like yesterday it will go into the Fremont National Forest," Hunt warned. Three planes drooped a borate solution on the fire today. Eight bulldoz ers, three tankers and 50 men were on the fire lines. It was 'believed started by lightning. A 2,500 acre grass fire was renorted on the Warm Spring Indian reservation about eight miles north of Warm Springs. It was believed caused by a cigarette flipped from a car. Temoeratures Sunday in cluded 103 at Pendleton and Medford and Salem and The Dalles had reading of 100. Portland had 92. It was rela tively cool on the coast with Newport having a high oi 64, Warehouse Blaze Started by Sparks Sparks from an incinerator fire caused extensive heat and smoke damage to stock at the Rogue Distributor's ware house, 2502 Jacksonville high wav. Friday afternoon "Two pumpers from the Medford fire department re sponded to the call at 2:50 r, m and were at the scene for nearly VA hours, it was reported. Approximately half of the building was charred by the blaze. , Snarks from the screen type incinerator blowing into three large cardboard boxes next to the west wall of the building ignited and the fire spread into the building, fire men reported. The amount of stock damage is not Known at this time until an inventory rnmnleted of that ware house and another warehouse next door. The company stock is of the variety store type, it was reported. Owners of the company are W. W. Driskell, H. W. O'Con nor, and R. E. Browne, who were in the other warehouse when the fire was discover ed. mi , 4" - " f;m - - J HAPPY COINCIDENCES-Two valley wom en, who are sisters, recently had babies both boys, bom only eight hours apart in the same , hospital, with . the same doctor assisting, Mrs. Robert Frazer, 2418.Howard ave., Medford (left), holds Robert Donald Jr., the sixth child for the couple. Her sister, Mrs. Robert Colson, 6117 Table Rock rd., DA Rules That Board of Health Appoints Officer The Jackson county board of health appoints the county public health officer and de cides on his salary with ap proval of the Jackson county court according to District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder today in a written opinion. Confusion over who should appoint the new health offi cer originated when the coun ty court received a letter from Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state public health . officer, stating that the county board makes the appointment. Dr. Erickson wrote the county court that Dr. Inskeep, Med ford physician, had applied to the state board of health for the position here. The county court was interview ing Dr. Inskeep this moving. Dr. Inskeep was a member of the Oregon state board of health from 1943 to 1959 and was board president in 1950 and 1951, Dr. Erickson wrote. A replacement is - needed for Dr. A. Erin Merkel who will leave July 31 to take a position with the San Diego health department. Reports Given In Chamber Drive Ninety-three per cent of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce's $38,000 "min imum" goal was reported this morning at the third report meeting of the "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" campaign, The total reported to date is $35,742. Forty-two new members have joined the chamber for a total of 92 new members. Three groups now over their minimum goal are the auto motive . and. transportation, real estate and insurance, and diversified groups. Campaign officials said that with a lit tle more effort during the two remaining days, the minimum goal should be exceeded and the groups will be well on their way towards the com munity potential goal of $40, 000. ' , The campaign will be con cluded with a victory lunch eon at noon Thursday at the Jackson hotel. At that time all campaign cards are to be accounted for. Campaign officials express ed confidence that they would reach the "community challenge" goal and pointed out that only 50 per cent of the contacts have been made to date, so that a great deal of work remains to be done in the next few days before the campaign ends. Khrushchev Ca heels Scandinavian Tour Because of Threats 'Stockholm! Sweden (UPD Soviet Premier Nikita Krush chev today abruptly cancelled a scheduled tour of four Scan dinavian nations. A formal Soviet note said the surprise decision was due to a bitter press campaign against the visit and threats of anti-Soviet demonstrations. The move was a diplomatic shocker that indicated a pos sible major turn in: Soviet policy. Word of the diplomatic snub arrived in Scandinavian capitals in a series of notes less than three weeks before the unpredictable Soviet chief was to have begun a grand . swing through Den mark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. The trip had been planned down to the final detail. Top- level Soviet officials," includ ing chiefs of security and pro tocol,' already had gone over the ground. The Krushchev bombshell threw the Geneva Big Four talks into turmoil. Western diplomats had no means of knowing whether it indicated the Soviet chief might be ill or whether some important new cold war might be in the making. ; Sources close vto Danish Premier H. C. Hansen said the Danish government tentative ly believed the cancellation might' be due to health rea sons. They pointed out that Soviet authorities negotiating with Danish officials about the program for the Krush chev visit repeated ly had stressed that the program should not be too crowded Some official quarters here tended to believe that Krush Irrigation Held to Allocation as Irrigation . water - supplies remain near the critically low stage at both Medford and Talent Irrigation districts, managers of both districts re ported today. Water-users are being held strictly to the 18-inch alloca tion, Walt Hoffbuhr, manager of the Talent irrigation dis trict said. Those users . going beyond that allocation will be cut off, he added. He estimat ed that available water should be sufficient for three good orchard irrigations. The or chardists are reported to be on their second irrigation now. Jack Hoffbuhr, Medford Irrigation district manager, said his district's water-users should have enough water for late, irrigation of ., pear, or chards unless the orchardists Central Point, holds her first child, Rodney Alan. The Frazer baby weighed 8 pounds, 13V2 ounces and was born July 16, at 8:34 a.m. at Osteopathic hospital.. His cousin arrived at 1:30 a.m. the following day. Grandparents of the babies are Mr. and Mrs. . H. G. Malot, 3009 Table Rock rd., Medford. chev's present tour of Poland might have exhausted him more than was foreseen. But the Soviet note, as re leased by the Swedish For eign Office said the decision was due to Scandinavian criticism of the tour. It ex pressed the hope that the visit could be rescheduled, "per haps in a year." The Krushchev decision was announced by all four Scandinavian governments. Fleet Adm. Leahy Dies in Washington Washington-UPD-Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy, wartime chief of staff to President Roosevelt, died here today. He was 84. Death came at the Navy Medical Center in nearby Bethesda, Md., the Navy re ported. A cerebral vascular acci dent was listed as the cause of death. With him was his son, Rear Adm. William H. Leahy, , commander of the Norfolk Navy shipyard at Portsmouth, Va. It was Leahy who-both be fore and after his retirement from the Navy-helped fashion the foundation for victory in World War II and for the peace that followed. .... Leahy was the man who, as chief,, of naval operations from 1937 to 1939, sold Con gress on the idea of building a big Navy. His salesmanship may have saved the nation from going under after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. District Water Users wait until after Aug, 20, which may be too late. Both men expect little hold over in water supplies for the next irrigation season. The weather bureau 1 predicts 30 days more of hot, dry weather. Howard Prairie reservoir water will be used starting to morrow according to James Calhoun, bureau of reclama tion, resident engineer. This won't effect the total . water supply appreciably, but it will compensate for water which must be carried over in Hyatt lake for next year's opera tion. By mid-August the water in Emigrant reservoir should be drawn down . to the cof fer dam and the water by passed through the new tun nel, he -added.. The draw-down from both Clean Up Started At Fairgrounds By 4-H Leaders Revisions Announced In the Fair Program Jackson county 4-H leaders were busy Sunday . cleaning up the Jackson county fair grounds for the annual coun ty 4-H and FFA fair schedul ed for Aug. 16 through 22. The county agent has agreed to tear down two metal build ings and replace them with a new building for next year. Members of the Jackson coun ty fair board are consulting with an architect now to draw plans for the new building. The county court has agreed also to provide a dump-truck to haul away manure and straw or shavings cleaned out the livestock barns each day during the fair. The county will keep the main roads into the grounds graveled and a watering truck will be used to keep down the dust, mem bers of the county fair board were told during a recent meeting with the county court. Revisions A number-of revisions have been made in the fair pro gram. The fair, will be one day longer this year to handle the greater number of ani mals to be displayed, accord ing to County 4-H Agent Glenn Klein. Rabbits and poultry events will be held Tuesday through Saturday. The horse show will be held Sunday, Aug. 16. A new class will be added to the fair this year, that of dog obedience for the 4-H members who are raising guide dogs for the blind. Also, market animals will be judg ed prime, choice and good on the hoof this year, Klein said. Those judged less than good will be sold Friday afternoon during fair week at the Mid way livestock auction. Friday, Aug. 28, the 4-H and FFA banquet and awards presentation will be held. The Jackson County Young Farm- ers club and. the Jackson County 4-H Leaders associa tion are sponsoring the event. A 4-H style show and awards program will follow the ban quet. Successful Run Sunday by Riders - The Ashland Sage Riders carried the Pony Express mail from the . Siskiyou summit stockade Sunday to the Jackson-Josephine county line in 3 hours and 17 minutes, Mrs. Mike Jacoby, president of the Riders, reported today. The run, three minutes fas ter than the June run, went off without a hitch, Mrs. Ja coby said. Earl Root, in the run through Medford, was clocked at 30 miles an hour. Medford city police, who convoyed the rider . through town, reported that "the horse exceeded the posted speed limt at times, but he wasn't being operated in a reckless manner," and no cita tion was issued, officers said. Twenty-one : riders on 21 horses, three of which had rubber shoes, made the coun ty run. Within the county 150 letters were picked up, Mrs. Jacoby said. ' In the county for the event was Stanley Thompson, Port land, president of the Oregon State Pony Express club, who observed the riders through Jackson county and into Jo sephine county. Supply Dwindles Four Mile and Fish Lake res ervoirs in the Medford Irri gation district is approximate ly 10 days ahead of what it was in the dry year of 1955, Hoffbuhr noted. From June 1 to July 17 the water in Fish Lake has been pulled down from a total of 8,106 acre feet to 3,675 acre feet. Water at Four 'Mile reservoir has been drawn down from 16, 579 acre feet to 10,946 acre feet. - - ' . Jack Hoffbuhr said the dry periods in this area seem to run in four-year cycles. The recent dry periods were in 1947, 1951 and in 1955. "It all depends on what happens from here on out," Jack Hoffbuhr said comment ing on the future irrigation supply picture. "Orchardists expect to start 'picking Aug. Price 10 Cents Medford 16 Pages MEDFORD, Two Persons Die In Auto Crashes On Oregon Roads Hot Weather Sends Many To Resorts By United Press International At least nine persons drowned in Oregon during the week end as hot weather sent residents to. rivers, lakes and beaches. Two persons died in highway accidents to bring the week end fatality count to 11. Jimmie Ray Rogers, 7, son o Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rog ers of Redmond, drowned in a deep hole in the Deschutes river near Cline Falls State park, about four miles west of Redmond Sunday. He slipped from an inner tube on which he was floating. His body was recovered. Ranch Hand Drowns Thomas Martinez, 58-year-old Nyssa ranch hand, drown ed Sunday while attempting to swim the Owyhee river. State police said Martinez was on a picnic with his family and several friends about 17 miles south of Nyssa. The body was recovered. Robert Lee Scarbrough, 18, Creswell, died Sunday while swimming in an abandoned rock quarry east of Highway 99 near Creswell. Two com panions told officers the youth got a cramp and went under despite their efforts to neip. Clackamas Claims Two Vera Lawrence Sell, 5Vfc, Beaverton, drowned in the Clackamas river -at Willsada ! park near Carver bunaay. The child was with his par ents, Mr. and" Mrs. Robert Sell. A 55-year-old Portland woman, Helen Carrillo, drowned near the same area Saturday. ' William David Beck, 18-year-old Selma youth, drown ed in the Illinois river near Deer Creek 35 miles south of Grants Pass Saturday. He was trying to unsnag a lure his fa ther had cast when he stepped into a deep hole. Walter Harvey Knapp, 33, Klamath Falls, drowned Sat urday in Hyatt lake southeast of Medford when he fell from a boat while fishing. Dentist Drowns , The body of Gresham den tist Dr. Arthur Trenholm, 67, was recovered early Sunday from the Umpqua river. . The body of his companion, Fred Bennett of Alberta, Canada, was still the object of a Coast Guard search today. Both men fell into the water when their small skiff capsized. Cecil Cronin, 44, Condon, was killed in a head-on colli sion about five miles north of Madras Saturday night. James H. Stagg, 31, Inde pendence, was killed late Fri day night when his car struck a power pole on Highway 192 in Polk county. . Washington -flJPD- President Eisenhower will hold. a news conference Wednesday. Being 4. As soon as they start pick ing, use of irrigation water will drop since they can't pick and irrigate too." He. predicted the Medford district would supply enough for everyone's crops if the water-users are careful. He predicted the Medford district would sup'ply enough for ev eryone's crops if the water users are careful. He said there probably would not be enough water for late sum mer and early fall pasture irrigation. Lack of water then, he added, should not kill the grass since fall rains usually come to bring green back to pastures. He thinks, however, that dairymen and beef grow ers might be putting their cattle on feed earlier than usual. SrawSiigs mi OREGON, MONDAY, JULY "These Guys Aren't Even Members of Congress, Much Less Texans" :!! JIM Hi .-ATJXAl Herter Proposes Big 4 Commission On German Problem Geneva (DPD - Secretary of State Christian A. Herter pro posed today that the Geneva deadlock over Berlin be brok en by- converting the present Bie Four conference into a permanent commission on Germany with East and West German advisers. Herter said such a body would have no time limit on its activities unlike the all German committee proposed by the Russians which would have to complete German re unification within 18 months. Sensible Way The U.S. secretary of state told the' Big Four conference j that setting up a permanent commission would be a "sen sible and businesslike way" of breaking the east - west dead-lock here. Today's Weather Is More of Same Yesterday's high tempera ture mark , of 103 degrees marked the city's fourth straight day : of 100-plus de gree weather, but Medford residents who were here ex actly 13 years ago, on July 20, 1946, will recall that on that day the mercury pushed its way up to the all-time high for the city a sweltering 115 degrees. Today's weather is ex pected to hovef around 100 and the same is predicted for tomorrow. However the weather bureau in its five day forecast today promised some slight relief from the current hot spell. The ther mometer is expected to drop down to the 90s, and possibly lower, by the middle and end of the week. State forestry department crews were mopping up two lightning fires in the McLeod area this morning, officials re ported today. The strikes were reported at midnight and 6:45 a.m. fol lowing a lightning storm which traveled through the area around midnight. Six lightning strikes were report ed to the district's office in Josephine county from the same storm. A crew was dispatched to each strike, officials reported. The spot fires did little dam age, although the forests re main quite dry during the current hot weather, they said. ; ', Portland - (DPD - Karlin M, Capper-Johnson, professor of international affairs at lewis and Clark college, has been elected president for the seventh time of the Oregon United Nations Association here. 54th Year Tribune 20, 1959 No. 104 o.5; caPitul BL-pa. ! Herter spoke .lor the west as a whofe when he delivered the proposal to a plenary ses sion of the East-West foreign ministers conference this af ternoon. Shortly before, the U. S secretary had put the plan privately before Soviet For eign Minister Andrei Gro- myko during a big four lunch meeting in the villa of Brit ish Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. . It was the first move by the West during the resumed Ge neva talks to swing over to the offensive and seize the initiative from the Russians. Herter sharply attacked the Russian proposal for an all German commission, describ ing the Red plan as "totally unacceptable." Herter charged that Russia was demanding that the west accept Moscow's all - German committee plan witihout any guarantees in exchange. Two Hearings Set For Reorganization Hearings on proposed re organization of Pinehurst school district with Ashland will be held tomorrow night at Pinehurst and Thursday night at Ashland, the county school superintendent's office said today. The hearing tomorrow is scheduled for 8 p.m. at Pine hurst school. The hearing Thursday is scheduled at 8 p.m., in the Lincoln school gymnasium. Following the hearings the Jackson county school dis trict reorganization commit tee will discuss the pros and cons of the proposal and reach its decision. The committee's proposal will be part of a plan formulated for school district reorganization in Jackson county and delivered to the state by Oct. 1. Ashland Man Arrested On Pollution Charge Leslie Lusk, manager of East Side Abattoir, Ashland, posted $100 bail this morning following his arrest by a Jack son county sheriffs deputy on a district court warrant charg ing him with dumping an of tensive substance in Bear creek. Lusk is scheduled to appear in district court Wednesday at 10 a.m. According to the district at torney's office, the warrant for Lusk's arrest was issued following a complaint by R. S. McDonald, 1125 Mt. Pitt ave., Medford, a member of the Medford Sportsmen club. large Number' Claimed Hanged; Fighting Spreads Censorship Veils .Most Happenings Beirut, Lebanon -(DPD- Two Cairo newspapers reported to day that a Communist uprising in Iraq against the govern ment of Premier Abdel Karim Kassem in the oil city of Kir kut was still raging and that the Communists were hanging a "large number" of notables there. , The death toll was estimated at between 50 and 100 persons. ' A clandestine radio calling itself the voice of Free Iraq also reported today the fight ing had spread to the city of Anah across the top of Iraq from Kirkuk and that Com munists there had made "an other attempt" to capture the city. . Reports Conflict Conflicting reports received in London from the British embassy in Baghdad indicated that "the situation in Kirkuk now seems to be calm," a Brit ish Foreign Office spokesman said. The spokesman said the reports from Baghdad were dispatched late Sunday. Most of the happenings in Iraq were veiled by heavy gov ernment censorship but the government confirmed that the Communists began an at tempt on July 14 to seize con trol. July 14 is the first anni versary of the uprising against King Faisal. The major fighting was re ported confined to the city of Kirkuk where an army brigade there mutinied and joined the Communist rebels, the semi-official Middle East News Agency reported in Cairo. Reports today said the Reds held large areas of the city and had seized an arms depot. Decries 'Blind Fanaticism Kassem, in a radio appeal to the nation, asked Iraqis to avoid "blind fanaticism" that might lead to further civil war. He warned that his government would "settle ac counts" with the Communists and other anti - government forces but expressed hope no further force would be nec essary. The Damascus newspaper AI Wahdah said the Commu nists began "fierce battles" in Kirkuk three days ago and that Communists and Turk men tribesmen battled in the streets. The Communists hanged eight of their corpses on gal lows and dragged the remain ing two in the streets of the city," the Middle East News Agency reported in Cairo. Army Unit Defects It said army units rushed to restore order but one army unit, the second regiment, de fected to the Communists side. It said the Communists assas sinated the anti-Communist second-in-command of the de fecting unit, dragged his body through the streets and then seized "control ... of im portant sectors of the city." The Communists have De- come increasingly influential the Kassem government since he came to power last year and Western diplomats have expressed fear tney would try to lake over the oil-rich nation. Reports from Iraq today indicated that the Communists' major effort may have started. . Body of Drowned Man Recovered From Lake The body of Walter Harvey Knapp, 33, of 1145 East st, Klamath Falls, was located late Sunday by Jackson Coun ty Sheriff Joe Walsh and Deputy Verl Vanoose in Hyatt lake, following skin diving operations by the department since Saturday night. Knapp was fishing on the lake Saturday with his two sons when he fell out of the boat. It was reported that he could not swim. Portland-(DPD-Jan Markstal- ler, 22-year-old former nose Festival queen here, nas Deen selected Miss Oregon Wool for 1959. WEATHER FORECAST: Isolated thnnder- nxrmr mniintlittc this evening. Otherwise fair and hot tnrougn luesoaa-. ww innism 64. Hieh tomorrow near 100. . TEMP. Highest Yesterday 13 Lowest This Morning 6 Our Skies Tonight Snnset today Sunrise tomorrow Moonrise today 7:44 p.m. 4:52 a.m. 8:00 p.m. Last Quarter July Z7 Jupiter today resumes its usual eastward movement among the stars that will bring it to where Saturn now is, next March. The following year Jupiter wUl pass to the east of Saturn.