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irs Not Interested- Favorite Son Candidate "We're Haying Trouble With Thit Nose Cone, Chief" Jury Trials To Be Provided in City; Ho Funds The city of Medford will provide jury trials in munici pal court, effective Aug. 5, even though it has no funds budgeted to pay for the added expense, it was reported to day. The 1959 legislature passed a little-noticed law requiring that jury trials be made pos sible in all municipal courts. But no funds to pay the extra costs were included in the city's budget this year. City Manager Robert Duff said the change could neces- Heart Flutter Calms Gov. Long ' Santa Fe, N.M.-ttJPD-Louisi-ana Gov. Earl K. Long, be calmed momentarily by a .fluttering heart, conferred with Gov. John Burroughs to day before continuing his trip to Denver. The unpredictable, Long telephoned Gov. Burroughs and invited him to the Town House motel for a visit. The two state officials spent an hour and a half together. Long did not retire until 3 a.m. today, but he dropped off to sleep so ? deeply that his frightened aides, mistak ing the slumber for a coma, called a doctor and a nurse who found his heart "quite irregular." The governor blamed his condition on his fast ride Mon day from El Paso's 3,000-foot altitude to Santa Fe's 6,990 feet. Atlas Nose Cone Found in Atlantic Cape Canaveral, Fla.-(UPD-An Atlas intercontinental bal listic missile streaked 5,000 miles early today in the first successful test flight of the big war rocket in months but its performance was marred two hours later by the spec tacular explosion of the usu ally reliable Air Force Thor. The Air Force announced four hours later that the At las "dunce cap" nose cone was successfully recovered in the pre-selected impact area near the Ascension Islands in the South Atlantic. The Air Force said it was the first -'time, a "full-scale" Atlas nose cone has been recovered at ICBM range of 5,000 miles. California Governor Not Coming to Picnic Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown of California is defi nitely not coming to the an nual Jackson County Demo cratic picnic Sunday, July 26, Marvin Madden, pianic publi city chairman, said today. - Madden said "Democratic Central committee officials here are trying to arrange for Al Flegel, state representa tive from Douglas county, to attend ' the picnic scheduled for TouVelle State park. Eisenhower Tax Cut in Remaining Months on Job Washington OTPD President Eisenhower sees no chance of a real tax cut during his 18 re maining months in office even though he hopes for a Treas ury surplus of $2 to $5 billion in fiscal 1961. The chief executive feels thai 'the' government should have at least one year of a Budgeted sitate a full-time city judge, and more hours of service by the city attorney. In addition, jury fees will be required, he pointed out. Present Plans Duff said it is planned at present to select a jury as the need arises, and then meet the costs, probably from the city's emergency fund Reeder questioned the need for the act, stating that citi zens already are guaranteed a trial by jury through munici pal courts, because all cases can be appealed to a higher court with a jury trial. Some of Oregon's larger cities already provide for trial by jury. The first section of the act states that "In all prosecutions for any crime or offense de fined and made punishable by any city charter or ordinance, the defendant shall have the right to trial by jury, of six in number and juries shall be selected from the latest tax roll and registration books used at the last city election in the same manner in which juries are selected for circuit courts." Jury Feet Discussed Concerning jury fees, the act says: "Where provision is made for the payment of jury fees by the defendant to insure a jury trial, and where the de fendant is found not guilty, the deposit shall be returned to him." There is some speculation that smaller towns in Oregon will test the act in court, using the Constitutional home rule provision as grounds for oppo sition , Reeder said he expects to discuss the new legislation with Robert Moulton, special attorney for the League of Oregon Cities, Eugene, while he is in Medford Wednesday. Dulles Papers Go To y , Eisenhower Library Chicago -(DPD- Personal pa pers of the late John Foster Dulles, secretary of state have been given to the Eisenhower Presidential Archival Library at AbilCne, Kan., it was dis closed here today. Excavation Starts For Bridge Piers Excavation for footings on two center piers of the new Bear creek bridge on Eighth st. was started today, City En gineer Vernon Thorpe re ported. . . 4 R and M Construction com pany are contractors for the bridge, which will be a major step in completing the city's east-west one-way grid system. Salem-TOPD-Oregon Supreme Court Justice William .McAl lister, Attorney General Rob ert Y. Thornton and Judge Jo seph B. Felton, Marion coun ty, will take part in the an nual juvenile court school on the University of Oregon campus at Eugene July 27-31. Sees No Chance of Real solid surplus under its money belt before considering a ma terial tax reduction. By the same token, the President regards any general tax increase, including ,a na tional sales tax, as beyond cur rent consideration lest public resentment set off a wave of tax law evasion reminiscent 54th Me 16 Pages Gromyko Warned To End Filibuster Against Truce West Said Ready To Halt Meetings Geneva-(UPD-The West warn ed Russia's Andrei Gromyko today that it is prepared to see the Geneva Big Four Con ference broken off unless he immediately drops his fili buster against, a Berlin truce. The East-West negotiations could break down within sev eral days-possibly Wednesday -unless Gromyko starts talk ing business, the western min isters declared at a showdown lunch meeting in Gromyko's own headquarters. Patience Runs Out The move made it clear that western patience had run out after 7Vfe weeks of Geneva foreign ministers' talks that brought East and West no where near agreement on Berlin. . . . - It also was made clear that the West was in full agree ment to face the risks that might go along with a break in talks. This included the risk of a hotter Berlin crisis if Russia carried out its threat to conclude a separate peace treaty and cut off western rights in West Berlin. Gromyko's Idea Rejected The West flatly rejected Gromyko's All-German Com mission idea on the grounds it would give the Communist East Germans, who rule a 17 million population, the same status as the Bonn govern ment freely elected by 50 mil lion West Germans. Herter already had warned Gromyko that continued in sistence on the All-German Committee as the price of a Berlin truce might weir lead to a quick end of the Big Four meeting. Valley Residents Report Bright Light Several Valley residents have reported seeing a bright bluish-green light appear in the northeast sky about 10:30 p.m. last Friday. Some viewers reported onlyt one light, which hovered, then zipped away. Others said the light was one of three, the others being red and white, of very intense color that first circled in a line and then scooted out of sight. . The lights were described as being as quite brilliant and steady. Secretary of M Commerce Chosen Washington OIPD President Eisenhower today nominated Undersecretary of Commerce Henry Mueller, 65, to be sec retary of commerce. Mueller succeeds Lewis L. Strauss, former Atomic Ener gy Commission chairman who resigned after his nomination was rejected by the Senate. The new appointee was . a Grand Rapids, Mich., furni ture manufacturer before he became assistant secretary of commerce for domestic affairs in 1956. He was named under secretary last Nov. 3. Mueller is an Episcopalian, a 32nd degree Mason, a Shrin er, a member of Tau Beta Pi national honorary engineering fraternity, and of the Congres sional Country club. Neuberger Asked To List Employees . Newport, Ore. (DPD Oregon Republican Chairman Peter Gunnar Monday night called on Sen. Richard L. Newberger (D-Ore.) to reveal publicly the number of employees he has and the amount of money spent for them. Gunnar spoke to Lincoln county Republicans here. of the widespread reaction to the whiskey prohibition law of the 1920s. By virtue of an excellent source it was possible today to present the President's views on a number of domestic mat ters ranging from taxes and the steel strike to 1960 politics. (See stories on Page 13) Year DFORD Ray D'AuIremont Takes Steps to Dispose of Charge Appears in Federal Court in Portland Portland -Ray D'Autre- mont appeared in federal court in Portland Monday (af ternoon to ask or an early trial which might dispose of a charge of assault on a mail clerk.- ; Disposal of the federal charge could make D'Autre- mont eligible for parole from the Oregon' penitentiary where he has been held more than 32 years. ' He and his twin brother, Royt who is i n the , Oregon state mental hospital, and an other brother; Hugh, were given life -: sentences for the robbery of a Southern Pacific passenger train in which four mail clerks died. , Hugh D'Autremont died In San Farncisco in March a few weeks after his release. Asks Plea Acceptance At Monday's hearjng, D'Au tremont asked Federal Judge Gus J. Solomon to accept a plea of nolo contendere - a plea that implies acceptance o f punishment without ac knowledging guilt. Judge Solomon told him that he must plead either guil ty or not guilty, and appoint ed George Rhoten, Salem, a former president of the Ore gon " State . Bar, as D'Autre mont's attorney. Judge Solomon asked him, "Do you know that if you are found guilty on this charge I can either put you on proba tion or sentence you to a min imum of 25 years?" D'Autremont, who was de scribed as nervous and self conscious, said that he under stood the penalty and asked what the government "wished. They are to return to court when D'Autremont has de cided what course to take. Following appointment of Rhoten, D'Autremont thanked the judge profusely. In prison he writes a col umn for the institution's news paper and teaches Spanish and art at the prison's school for inmates. Iraq Planes Bomb Rebel Positions Beirut, Lebanon i-TOPD- Iraqi air force planes have bombed Communist-backed rebel posi tions in the city of Kirkuk, the" semi - official Egyptian Middle East News agency re ported today. , MENA also reported that 80 Iraqi army- officers had been arrested and 400 demobilized because of a defection of part of the army in Kirkuk. There was no immediate confirmation of the report here. i Iraqi Premier Abdel Karem Kassem has imposed strict censorship over the Kirkuk fighting and details have been scarce. Scandinavian Press Defends Criticism Stockholm (UPD - Scandina via's "hostile press" today de fended its right to criticize Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev by doing more of it. Some . newspapers com pared him with; Adolf Hitler., The Soviet Union Monday cancelled Khrushchev's visits to Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark with the expla nation that hostile actions by the press made the visit inop portune t this time. ' The action threw Scandi navia into an uproar and jolt ed the Geneva foreign minis ter's conference.' Scandina vians said the action probably cost him most of wliat little popularity he enjoyed there. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, 1955 Conditions Recalled; Little Belief Forecast . Forest service personnel to day recalled the 1955 Labor Day week end forest fire out break: in southern Oregon, noting that weather - condi tions now are similar to those which preceded the 1955 fires. - . The weather bureau fore casts similar conditions to night and tomorrow, with the possibility of dry , thunder storms in the mountain areas. , In 1955, after two days of temperatures ' near ' 100 and two days with, the mercury over 100, a dry thunderstorm started several fires in south ern Oregon and northern Cal ifornia. The largest fire was the Phoenix Plans Third Well for Additional Water Phoenix-The Phoenix city council last night approved a motion to purchase a tract for development of a third city water well. 1 The tract is located south of the Fountain Lumber com pany mill. The north end of the tract is - adjacent to the south city limits. Bids for drilling the third well are to be called as soon as the property is purchased, council members agreed. Mayor Arthur H. MacKin tosh asked for the transfer of $9,000 from the city sinking fund for water main replace ment to a fund for purchase of the tract, drillingand con struction of the well and pur chase of a pump and pipe line. The mayor said he had con sulted the city attorney and learned that any fund set for a specific : purpose and : not used in 12 years must revert to the general fund. The sink ing fund for the water mains was established July 2, 1947, according to city council min utes. . Examine Water Irving Hanscomb, Phoenix watermaster, said an examina tion of water in an existing well on the property proposed for purchase showed small particles of mill sawdust in it. The Jackson county public health department will not pass the water until a clearer sample is taken, Hanscomb said. Otherwise, the water tested pure,' he said. !'Mavor MacKintosh said water-witchers and well-dig gers have all agreed mat plen tiful water can be obtained in the general area containing the property for a new well. The city now has two wells near the end of B street, one of which is dry. Phoenix citv water has been rationed during July. Resi dents are allowed to water four hours every other morn ins on a staggered basis. Last week the city council per mitted two additional hours of watering, v WEATHER . FORECAST: Afternoon nd evening thunderstorms over mountains. Otherwise continued fair and hot through Wednes day. Low tonight 4. High Wednesday near 100 Temp. 104 63 Lowest this Morning Our Skies Tonight ' Sunset todar , 1'A 3 p.m. Sunrise torn rrow 4:53 a.m. Moonrise ton ght 8:38 p.m. Last Quarter July 27 PROMINENT STAR - Spica, in the southwest at sunset sets ....'...10:29 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS . . . Venus, in the west at sunset, sets 9:04 p.m. Saturn, due south ....10:23 p.m. Jupitor, low in south west ....10:38 p.m. 1RIBUNE JULY 21, 1959 Haystack burn in Klamath National forest just south of the state line! Major fires in Jackson county included Tim ber mountain near Jackson-' ville, Blackwell hill and one near Wimer. Forest service personnel said a dry lightning storm could produce the similar fires now. Sixth Consecutive Day Today marks the sixth con secutive day with tempera tures of more than 100 de grees,, the longest period of 100-or-more . readings since 1950. A high of 103 was fore cast for today. ri i g h temperatures since last Thursday, when the first reading of more than 100 was recorded, are: Thursday, 102; Friday, 104; Saturday, 106; Sunday, 103; Monday, 104. Weather bureau officials said 100-degree plus tempera tures are not unusual through out the summer in the Rogue valley, but usally they last three or four days, theh "there is a eooling trend. - Slightly cooler weather is forecast for the area later this week, but weather bureau of ficials said it would be only a few degrees less than current temperatures. t Lightning Fires Dry lightning storms start ed several fires in Siskiyou and Umpqua National forests Sunday, and assistance of per sonnel from Rogue River Na tional forest was provided. Eighteen fires were report ed in Siskiyou forest in Jose phine and Curry counties, and 20 were reported in Umpqua National forest in .Douglas county. Three lightning strikes were reported in Rogue River Na tional forest Sunday, all in the Applegate district in the Dutchman peak . and Dono more meadows area. All three were controlled with the aid of five loads of borate, the forest service said. Smoke jumpers from Cave Juntcion were called out on many of the fires. Smoke jumpers from Okonagan, Wash,, and Missoula, Mont., were tl lown in for assistance. Caution Asked in Traveling Jackson Motorists using Jackson st. were asked today by City Engineer Vernon Thorpe to travel at low speed between Biddle rd. and Gennessee st. Construction crews are ap plying base rock to the street in preparation for paving the four-lane stretch. Thorpe said loose rock makes the street rough and dangerous unless motorists travel slowly. , He advised drivers to take another route, such as Mc Andrews rd., when possible. The route is expected to be paved within the next week or two.'" . O&C Timber Accounts For Bulk of BLM Cash Portland -UPD- The Interior Department reported today that timber sales on revested Oregon and California rail road lands in western Oregon accounted for 68 per cent of the total receipts from Bureau of Land Management activi ties in a three-state area dur ing fiscal 1959. O&C timber recipts were $25,096,086 from lands under BLM jurisdiction and $3,096, 139 from lands under U.S. Forest Service jurisdiction. Total receipts from all activ ities in Oregon, Washington and California we're $41,568, 132. The previous year the re ceipts were $35,268,032. Price 10 Cents No. 105 Three Considered Out of Control; Klamath Has Five Lava Bed Flames To Burn Selves Out By United Press International Lightning storms peppered tinder-dry southern Oregon range and "timber lands with monotonous regularity during the past two days and more than 90 separate fire were reported. Late this morning, however, only three fires were consid ered out of control. The larg est, a 1,000-acre grass fire, was racing over the inaccessi ble lava beds east of Devils Garden in northern Lake county. The other two, both about 20 acre fires-one south west of Silver lake in Lake county grassland, and the oth er in the Siskiyou National forest-were being brought un der control today. Big Blaze Mopped Up Bureau of Land Manage ment Fire Dispatcher John C. Hunt said crews controlled two fires early this morning near Lakeview. One had blackened about 1.000 acres and the other about 400 acres since Monday. Those two and the huge 25,000 acre range fire in the Lake Abert area were all in the mopup stages this morning. Hunt said the fire in the lava bed area was burning in a 35-square mile area that was "completely inaccessible." He said the flames would be allowed to burn themselves out, except for the northeast corner of the area where a pumper was stationed to pre vent spread of the flames into usuable grazing land. Five' fires were reported started by lightning Monday nieht in Klamath county. D......4inM i fun on niTniw Two small fires, one on the south side of Pole Butte in the Sycan Marsh area, north east of Klamath Falls and the other about a mile northeast of Klipple lake, were reported by the. Klamath Forest Pro tective Association. State offi cials reported a . lightning strike near Tartin Butte in the Kings Cabin area north east of Klamath Falls and two fires were reported on the Klamath Indian reservation. All were under control. Another blaze just north west of Shake Butte, also in Klamath county, was spotted by a patrol plane at 7 a.m. today and crews were dis patched. , Prineville Flames Held An 1,100-acre forest fire east of Prineville was con trolled Monday. A 3,000-acre grass and brush fire north of the Colum bia river near Roosevelt, Wash., was extinguished about 4 a.m. today. It started Mon day afternoon from the ex haust of a combine. Some 255 acres of choice wheat near Pendleton was burned Monday afternoon when sparks from farm ma chinery touched off the blaze. No rain was in sight, the weatherman said, except for scattered showers accompany ing thunderstorms. Highest temperatures in me tat wprp recorded at Med ford and Pendleton Monday with a reading of 104. Red mond had 102, Lakeview 94, and Portland a relatively cool 88. Centennial Wagons Arrive in State Nyssa, Ore. (UPD Oregon's Centennial wagon train ar rived in its home state today, three months and two days after starting out from Inde pendence, Mo. Wagonmaster Gordon (Tex) Serpa of Ashland unlocked a chain in the center of the Snake river bridge between Oregon and Idaho and the seven covered wagons then crossed over to Oregon terri tory, v. Oregon Democrat Deeply Moved by 'Many Requests' Same Goes for X Vice Presidency Washington-UPD-Sen. Wayne Morse said today he had no intention of becoming Ore gon s favorite son presiden tial candidate in 1960 even though "several , thousand" persons want him to run. He said the same goes for the vice presidency. The Oregon Democrat told a news conference he has been "deeply moved" by the "per sonal friendship and political loyalty'' expressed in requests that he become Oregon's fa vorite son. "Nevertheless," he said, "I am advising my friends that I am not a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomi nation and I am urging them not to place my name on the ballot in the 1960 Oregonjires- ldential primary election." Statement to Appling Under Oregon law, the in dividual's name, can be placed on the ballot unless the per son specifically requests that it be kept off. Accordingly, Morse said he is sending a notarized, sworn affidavit to that effect tg Ore gon Secretary of State Howell Appling. The Oregon primary is next May. Under questioning, Morse said he would not personally support" any one Democratic presidential candidate in the primary. But he told Appling that "it is my hone that in I 1960, the name of each party leader . who , has recognized, widespread national support for his party's presidential nomination will appear on the Oregon presidential primary ballot." Candidates Listed In the case of his party, Morse said, the list of candi dates should include "at least" the names of Sens. Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.), Hubert H. Humphreys (Minn.), John F. Kennedy .(Mass.), and Stuart Symington (Mo.); Govs. Ed mund G. Brown (Calif.), Rob ert B. Meyner (N.J.),'and G. Mennen Williams (Mich.), and former Gov. Adlai Stevenson (111). : : 1 ' Morse did not name those who he said have been sug gesting him for the presidency or vice presidency. "But I understand several thousand persons have been involved, he said. Steel Meeting Slated Wednesday New York-(DPD-Federal Me diator Joseph W. Finnegan, striving against odds to find a way to settle the week-old steel strike, said today that scheduled separate meetings with representatives of the steel industry and the United Steelworkers Union have been put off until Wednesday. Finnegan said this will en able him to study statistics and data provided to him at his request by both sides in the controversy. He also reported that he was informed that David J. McDonald, president of the Union, would be busy today interviewing his own repre sentatives and considering the status of current wage negotia tions With the aluminum in dustry. Elizabeth Given Clean Bill of Health Edmonton, Alta.-flJPD-Queen Elizabeth II received a clean bill of health from her doctor today and then resumed her 15,000-mile tour of Canada. The Queen set out on . a round of official engagements after being sidelined two days in the Yukon with an upset stomach. Salem - (UPD - The 40 and 8, honor society of the American Legion, holds its state conven tion in Salem Wednesday with a round of fun, a parade and business activities. Pump Failure Klamath Water Supply Klamath Falls -UPD- Users of Klamath Falls city water urged Monday not to use wa ter for anything but drinking purposes because of trouble in the electrical system at the pump station. Water company officials were working around the clock to reestablish adequate water service. "If a bad fire broke out, we'd be in sad shape to fur nish water to fight it," said John Voth o the Oregon Wa ter Corporation here. ML' if "! SEN. WAYNE MORSE Race Not for Him Temporary Order Issued in Suit About Sprinklers Circuit Judge James M. Main yesterday afternoon granted a temporary restrain ing order, forbidding the city of Medford to enforce a city ordinance requiring installa tion of fire sprinkler systems in the basements of two down town buildings. Judge Main said to refuse the restraining order would be like denying the owners of the buildings their day in court. Joel B. Reeder, city attor ney, represented Medford in the show cause action, as to, why the city should not be en joined temporarily from en forcing the ordinance while the several cases arising out of the ordinance are pending trial. George Roberts repre sented Fluhrer Building, Inc., and Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Cross man, San Francisco, owners and managers of the Medical Center building. Sprinkler Systems A section of the city ordi-. nance pertains to installation of complete sprinkler systems,; and would require them in the basements of the Fluhrer building at 5 South Central, ave. and the Medical Center ave. A total of eight complaints were filed in circuit court May 29 by the owners of a i . j i numoer u uuwuwwu uu"" ings; The plaintiffs are asking that "trip Htv's 1957 fire Dre- vention ordinance, or at least the sprinkler system require ment, be nullified. Warren Olson, 1430 Euclid ave.. manager of the Fluhrer building, and Crossman, who manages the Medical Center building for his wife, the ac tual owner, testified yesterday afternoon. Both said installa tion of sprinkler systems in the basements of their build ings would be expensive. Olson said installation or the sprinkler system would handicap use of the basement selling section of Barker's men's store. Crossman said a sprinkler system has been installed in the boiler room of .the Medi cal Center building and in the receiving room used by Wool- worth's store. Woolworth's, he said, would prefer not to have the sprinkler system installed in the rest of the basement since it would interfere with their storage, and experience in . their several chain stores has indicated it is not neces sary. Roberts argued that the city ordinance is unconstitutional from the standpoint of Oregon and federal constitutions, is void because of its indefinite- ness and is unreasonable since it gives the fire marshal or fire chief the power to deter mine if a crime has been com mitted in violation of his order. Unemployment Claims Reach 7,388 in State Salem (UPD Despite weath er conditions favorable to out door work, the number of per sons claiming unemployment insurance benefits in Oregon rose to 7,388- last week slightly over the previous week's 6,920. But it was less than half the 16,768 of a year Curtails The electrical equipment trouble Monday cut out all but one pump, Voth said. The water company has been pumping about 12 million gal lons of water a day during the current hot spell. The single pump has a capacity of about 3,000 gallons a minute or 4,320,000 gallons during a 24 hour dayt Voth said. The trouble occurred in the water company's equipment and was not a power outage, officials said. Vx. f : - r 1 - - I . i
