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Newspaper Page Textfo) o) to ill j i Price lOXents Medford 28 Pages Russian Premier Charges America With Interference Kozlov Extends Warm Greeting Moscow-flmVice President Richard M. Nixon, arrived in Moscow for an 11-day good will tour today. He was met by a chorus of anti-American ism led by Premier Nikita Khrushchev himself. Nixon and his pretty wife, Pat, were greeted warmly at the airport by an official par ty headed by First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov, but at Imnst the same moment Khrushchev was telling an au dience elsewhere in Moscow that America is 'interfering in Soviet internal affairs." ' , 'Should Have a Look' - The premier, reacting an irrilv to President Eisenhow er's proclamation of "Captive Nations week." said sarcastic ally that Nixon should "come and have a look at the 'en slaved people gathered at the stadium." Although neither the Presi oroclamation nor the congressional" resolution that K inspired it mentioned any na tion by name, Khrushchev and the Soviet press were quick to identify it as an at tack on Russia. Attacks Capitalists "Nixon has asked to talk to ordinary people," Khrushchev said in a 40-minute speech to 1 a Soviet-Polish friendship ral ly. "He thinks that as soon as they hear an American they will understand that -socialism is evil and that capitalism is good. ' "Well, he can go to see any body he wishes. Let him hear what the Soviet people think and say ... "When enslaved people want to liberate themselves, they get rid of the capitalists and exploiters. The capitalists regard as free those countries where they could plunder and not be responsible for their anti-popular actions. Denounced by Press ' The official Soviet press nil Tsdio also hurled denun ciations at America, inspired for most part by tne "captive nations" proclamation. Today's issue of the Navy newspaper Soviet Fleet pub lished an article, - Americans about America," quoting U. S. newspapers and magazines and the Congressional Record to present a picture of hard times in tne united oiaies Kozlov. who recently visit ed the United States, said in a speech welcoming Nixon at the airport that he hoped the resident's stay here would help to clear up "preju dices and misunderstandings" between the two countries. Nixon replied with a prom ise that he would do what he could to help achieve better understanding because "we have reached the point where we must either learn to live nfPther or we will die to gether." Mount Shasta Girl Wins Title in Beauty Contest Time Beach. Calif. -(UPD-Ter ry Lynn Huntingdon, a 19-year-old UCLA coed who re fuses to give up college for an acting career, is the new Miss U.S.A. Won Over Four Blondes The green-eyed dark-haired beauty from Mount Shasta, Calif., won the title Wednes day night over four blondes in the final round and will represent the United States against 33 foreign contestants in competition for the Miss Universe title which gets un der way tonight. Miss Uni verse will be chosen Friday night. i The 5-foot, 6Vi-inch, 120- MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1959 I : 2 Military Men Said Afraid To Speak on Waste Washington-flJPDAA major general and a rear admiral were afraid, to come before a congressional subcommittee and tell what they knew about alleged waste in the foreign military aid program, . it was disclosed today. Rep. Otto E. Passman (D-La.), chairman of the House foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, said the two officers feared "charges of insubordination might result if they should testify publicly ..." Passman said the two high- ranking military ' men told him privately that the Penta gon was "forcing" some for eign countries to accept much more war equipment than they could use. The congressman did not identify the two officers but Fire Danger in Forests Remains In Critical Stage Fire danger in the Rogue River, -national forest, re mained in a- critical stage, Howard Hopkins, U. S. forest service official, reported to day: . With Medford in its eighth straight day of over 100 de gree weather the fire danger is apt to become worse be fore it improves, Hopkins said. Wednesday's tern perature high was 103 with the lowest this morning 71. Today's pre dicted high is for near 100. The longest period of con secutive days over 100 in the local . weather bureau's 48 year history is seven. Friday's prediction is for a high of 95, according to the weather bureau. Another Period There is only one other period during the past 12 years which is comparable to current critical fire danger conditions, Hopkins said. That period was. September, 1955. Forest service ratings of fire danger are on a 10-point scale with a Class, 10 day in the explosive fire danger category. ' ' . Hopkins said that during the past seven days the Ash land ranger station has had one Class 7 day, one Class 6, and five Class 5 days. During the critical period of Septem ber, 1955, one Class 7 and Class 6 day and two Class 5 days were reported. He ex plained that on the average, there are five Class 5 or 6 days in a fire season usually scattered throughout the year. Higher fire danger read ings have been reported this week at the Applegate, Pros pect and Butte Falls ranger stations, Hopkins said.' . Low humidity reports here have been 15 per cent, Hop kins added, which is higher than that reported in 1955, but the hot weather has con tinued for a much longer period of time. pound college sophomore, who measures 36-23-36, threw her self into the arms of her moth er, crying: "Momma, Momma! I can't believe it. When I stood there in the wings I just couldn't move." . Gets Cash, Personal Items Her mother, Mrs. Iola Hunt ingdon, a, slim gray-haired woman', replied: "I knew you had it all along, honey." Commercially, Terry's vic tory was worth $1,000 cash from a make-up firm and per sonal items including a $500 wardrobe. said in testimony made public today that they were serving in American military aid. mis sions overseas. Practices 'Unpardonable' Passman said hearings by his subcommittee showed practices in the military "aid program which were "almost unpardonable." Most of the alleged irregu larities were uncovered by in vestigators for the general ac counting office which acts as Congress' " watchdog on gov ernment spending. GAO .witnesses -testified, however; that" their "inquiry had been hampered by the re fusal of the defense depart ment and the International Cooperation Administration to provide the agency with cer tain reports and other infor mation. ' Loose Administration Comptroller General Joseph Campbell called the refusal "one of the most serious things that could happen in government."; He said investigations by His auditors showed a "pat tern of loose, lax administra tion runs through the entire complex" of America's for eign aid program. Ashland Manager Pays Court Costs East Side Abattoir Manager Leslie Lusk, Ashland, paid $5 court costs in district court Wednesday when he appeared on a charge of polluting Bear creek. District Court Judge : Roy Bashaw said today that he did not give Lusk a six-month suspended jail sentence aslwas reported to the Mail Tribune Wednesday by. District .At torney Thomas Reeder.- The erroneous report arose from a "misunderstanding be tween the reporter and Reed er. Imposition of any fine or jail sentence was suspended six months and on the condi tion that Lusk comply with court requirements that . he install an additional septic tank, refrain from placing in Bear creek any solid waste, prevent the septic tank from passing waste into the creek, and prevent liquid waste from reentering the stream. The abattoir operator was described as having one of the cleanest of the county's slaughterhouses. Following the court action, Reeder said further prosecu tions of operations along the creek would follow unless im provements are made, by those using the stream. Boat Goes Aground In Columbia River Astoria (DPD The fishing boat Dora B out of Astoria went aground in the fog off Desdemona Sands in the Co lumbia river off Hammond, Ore., six miles west of here near the mouth of the Colum bia early today. Lamb and Mutton Gracing Continued Washington -(DPD- Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben son, in a surprise move today, announced that federal meat grading of lamb and mutton will be continued." 54th Year (Tribune No. 107 State Funeral For Douglas McKay To Be Saturday Rites Planned in House Chamber Salem -(DPD- A state funeral will be held here in the Ore gon House of Representatives chamber at 10 a.m. Saturday for Douglas McKay, 66, for mer governor and secretary of interior, who died Wednesday. ' The Rev. Paul Newton Po ling, of the Salem Presbyter ian church will lead the serv ice. Interment will be in Belle crest Memorial Cemetery here. , . McKay, who sold newspa pers as a boy in Portland and later became the second man from his home state to serve in a presidential cabinet, was head of the U. S. section of the International Joint Com mission at his death. The com mission deals with water problems arising between this country and Canada. Hatfield Represents Ike Gov. Mark Hatfield was asked by President Eisenhow-( er to be the chief executive's personal representative at the funeral. McKay's physician said death was due to "uremia, secondary to hardening of the arteries in the heart and kid neys, and high blood pres sure." McKay entered the hos pital here earlier this month. Friend and foe alike joined in personal tribute to the dy namic man who. worked his way through Oregon State col lege', established a successful automobile business here, be came mayor of Salem, served in the state Senate from 1934 to 1948. and was twice elected governor. He was severely wounded while fighting in France in World War I. Grants Pass Man Killed in Mishap A Grants Pass man was killed ' and another injured yesterday in a logging acci dent in the Jackass creek area about five miles from Butte Falls-Prospect highway. Oliver Roy Ragan, 345 Val lev View dr.. Grants Pass, died almost immediately when struck by a log which rolled from a truck being loaded, the Jackson county coroner's office said. Lovd Silva, 287 Union st., Grants Pass, suffered leg and possibly other injuries, ac cording to Medford Ambu lance service, which took him to Josephine General hospital in Grants Pass. According to reports, the accident occurred when the men were checking binder chains on a loaded log truck. One log rolled off the load, striking the two men. The accident haDDened about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Two Small Fires Reported in Area Two small fires in the Rogue River National forest, apparently holdovers from lightning strikes, were report ed this morning. The U. S. forest service re ported that three smokejump ers were dropped to a fire in the Applegate district in the California portion of the for est. The fire is at the head of Alex creek, a branch of the Elliott fork 'of the Applegate. A crew from Lake of the Woods ranger station was dis patched this morning to .a fire in the Klamath district, near Four Mile lake. Salem-flJPD-Paul H. Connet, Gold Beach, has been appoint ed justice of the peace for District No. 2, Curry county. "Don't Worry, Boss. Hitler Final Rehearsals Start at Festival; Building Complete Ashland - Construction of the new $275,000 theater has been completed, and final dress rehearsals are in prog ress for the opening next Tuesday, of the annual Ore gon Shakespearean Festival in Ashland. Festival officials said prepa rations, sloped by the simul taneous construction activity, are advancing on a day and night schedule. The . Festival opens next Tuesday with the traditional banquet, - the rf'Feast of the Tribe of Will" at 6 p.m. in Lithia park. Following that, "The Maske of the New World," an original produc tion written for the Festival by Carl Ritchie, will precede the first play, "Twelfth Night." Curtain time is 8:30 p.m.. Plays this year will be staged in the new theater, and patrons will find other extensive improvements in the theater grounds. These in clude new Tudor Fair build ings, elevation of the rear .seating rows, installation of new stadium seats, new rest rooms, and removal of the obstructing light towers. Most Complicated Most complicated of the 1959 staging problems, Fes tival officials said, has been "The Maske" production. Serving as the theater's salute to the Oregon Centennial, the piece is set in Elizabeth's court. "The Maske" depicts a 16th century revel occasioned by the explorative departures of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis- Drake and Sir Martin Frobisher. The royal company, in honoring the guests, stages a gala "maske" or court entertainment. Small Sawmill on Galls Creek Burns A small sawmill in Galls creek south of Gold Hill burn erf about 2 o'clock this morn ing, state forestry department officials reported. The mill is known as the Old Jeddeloh Mill. Cause of the fire is not known. One crew responded to the call and mopping-up was com pleted by another crew. For estry officials reported that the sawdust pile was stm smoldering. Another crew was called at 8 D.m. Wednesday for a spot fire near Dardanelles. Mopping-up of a fire in Sardine creek Friday evening has been completed, officials reported today. " The fire, which burned nine acres of grass and brush, was started by a spark from a tractor which ignited a bale of hay. Four f o r e.s t r y department crews fought the blaze. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable 'clou diness with cooler tempera tures through Friday. Low to night 68. High Friday 95. Temp. Highest Yesterday . 103 Lowest this Morning 71 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . "7:41 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:55 a.m. Moonrits tonight 9:44 p.m. Last Quarter ? July 27 PROMINENT STARS The Big Dipper, in the north west at moonrise. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets 8:56 p.m. Saturn, due south ....10:14 p.m. Jupiter, low in south west 102S p.m. They Didn't Like Either" Original music has been composed by W. Bernard Wiridt, choreography was cre ated by Jdhn Hawkins, with lighting devised by Hugh Evans, and costumes designed by Douglas Russell and exe cuted by Marie Melinat. Rich ard Hay has designed scenery and created special effects for the production. It is being directed by Jerry Turner, and involves almost everyone in the. company. The 30-minute production will serve also to launch the new Elizabethean staged -. Festival officials said ad vance ticket sales continue to be about 60 per cent ahead of last year. Opening night has been completefy sold out, they said General Manager William Patton urged patrons to com plete their 1 reservations as soon as possible. Besides "The Maske" and "Twelfth Night," other plays this season are "King John, "Measure for Measure," and "Antony and Cleopatra." The four plays will rotate with nightly performances through Sept. 5. Juvenile Escapees Returned to Home Almost a dozen sheriff's deputies and state and Med ford police officers scoured an area near the county juve nine detention home on South Pacific highway Wednesday evening ;n search of two juve nile escapees.. The two aged 13 and 16, were recaptured about an hour after they left the juve nile home grounds ' where they had been working in the yard. Part of the chase was made through waist-high water. N Mrs. Kay Crowell, county juvenile officer, said the escapes were the second and third which have occurred since the home opened 19 months ago. . The boys were doing yard work under the supervision of Superintendent Robert Swan and ran away when he went around a corner of the building to check another group, Mrs. Crowell ex plained. The younger boy, who was returned to the home, is being held by the court since he is considered to be beyond parental control. The older boy was Jodged in the county jail. He is charged with atr tempting to rape a minor girl. Performance Slated For Actors Orphanage Lond"on-DP-More than 100 top stage and screen stars from the United States and Britain give a two and-one-half hour benefit performance at London's Palladium to night. Proceeds go to the Actors Orphanage. Washington -flJPD Ma j. Gen. Donald E. Kalrn, director of the Air Force's nuclear pro pulsion program, says the United States should go ahead with construction of an atomic powered airplane. Salem-fllPD-Gov. Mark Hat field has urged Congress to rjass legislation which would provide additional funds for construction of sewage treat ment plants. Last-Ditch Try To Circumvent Differences Set Herter Assails Soviet Proposal Geneva-flJPD-Formal negotia tions in the Foreign Minis ters' Conference appeared near collapse today, and the Big Four scheduled new se cret talks in a last-ditch effort to justify a summit meeting. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter said the conference has "little hope for success" unless Russia withdraws the "unacceptable" demands it has attached to a Berlin truce. Assails Proposal Herter specifically assailed the Soviet proposal for "All German" talks on reunifica tion, saying that the master-and-puppet relationship be tween Russia-and East Ger many would mean in. effect that the Russians would be negotiating with West Ger many with the western pow ers shut out. Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko insisted stub bornly that acceptance of Rus sia's terms is essential to agreement on any .kind of Berlin truce. . No Dale Set Faced with this new evi dence of an unbreakable dead lock in the talks, the" minis ters adjourned without setting a date for further formal negotiations. They agreed to meet for lunch at Herter's villa Friday to make a new attempt to iron out their differences in secret talks. Many observers believed the conference had reached the point at which there was no use in going on unless one side or the other had some thing new and dramati" in mind. John Day Sets Climbing Record ;-John; Day, 50, valley ranch er and sportsman, and two brothers from Seattle, Wash., this morning climbed Mt. Rai nier m record time, he re ported. Day and Louie and Jim Whittaker, former guides at Mt. Rainier National park, started about 1 o'clock this morning, and reached the top in five hours, ,20 minutes. They stayed on top about 20 minutes, and returned to the starting point in two hours, 10 minutes, he said. Total elapsed time was sev en hours, 50 minutes. Previous best elapsed time was made by Bill Butler, Mt. Rainier ranger, 25 years ago. The previous best time climbing the mountain was held by Dick McGowan, pres ent head guide at Mt. Rai nier, when he went up the mountain in six hours, 50 min utes on a rescue mission last year. Day said Mt. Rainier is rec ognized as one of the toughest mountains in America to climb. The climber starts at about 5,500 feet elevation, and goes, to 14,410 feet, about a 9,000-foot vertical lift cover ing about eight miles. The climbers used ropes on the top half of the mountain, and remained roped until half way down, Day said. The Whittakers have climbed Mt. Rainier more than 100 times between them. Day said it usually takes a guided trip two days to climb the mountain. Washington Escapee Has Brief Freedom Milton-Freewater - IUPD - Er nest W. Green, 32, a Washing ton state penitentiary inmate had two hours 6f freedom be fore being captured by a city policeman and a state patrol man here Wednesday night. Portland (DPD George Kro nenberg, commissioner of the Port of Bandon, has been named president of the Ore gon State Public Port Authori ties association. Grants Pass Burns; Owner's Wife Seriously Hurt Grants Pass -UPD-Fire early today destroyed the former Grants Pass Golf and Coun try club here. The building housed a restaurant owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Zottola, Grants Pass. Mrs. Zottola, 59, who was alone in the building when the. flames broke out about 1:30 ajn. was seriously in legate Fire Hover 30.000 By United Press International A lightning caused fire, called the worst in the DesrhnlM National forest since 1945, today. About 175 men including. smoke jumpers plus planes using water and a borate so lution were being used to combat the blaze, located some 30 miles southeast of Bend. xae tire was burning in aH reproduction area of young trees, heavy sage and dry grass. It endangered a stand of marketable timber. The northern tip of the fire The power outage in Medford Wednesday about 2:40 a.m. was caused by a forest fire north of Klam ath Falls. California Oregon Power company officials re ported. The fire was reported in the area of the 23.000 volt line which switched open when fire burned equip ment, they said, causing a momentary interruption of service. this morning was 'about 20 miles directly east of New berry Crater. It started near Squaw mountain, raced across Aspen flat and headed toward Mahogany Butte. Leonard Mayfield To Be Able to Go f o Russia in Fall Medford School Superin tendent Leonard B. Mayfield aDDarently will be -able to visit Russia this'fail,after'all . Dr. Mayfield was one of 30 U. S. school administrators in vited to join a tour of other educators to the U.S.S.R. to study Soviet education. Orig inally, the Medford school board planned to help finance the trip, but a recent ruling of .the attorney general banned such use of school district funds. Now, however, two anony mous donors have presented Dr. Mayfield with funds total ing $1,500 of the $1,700 need ed for the trip from New York to Russia and back. No Concerted 'Drive' School board members said there is no concerted "drive" to collect the added funds needed for Dr. Mayfield's trip, but they indicated that a num ber of people have expressed an interest in making contri butions to assure that it is possible. The superintendent plans to attend a meeting of edu cators in Chicago en route back from the Russian trip. Dr. Mayfield said he would use his personal tunas lor whatever expenses are not provided otherwise. In making their contribu tions, the two major anony mous donors indicated their feeling that the trip would benefit the school district here by providing its chief officer with a greater and broader understanding of educational programs, both here and abroad. Contract Bridge Championships Set Chicago - (UPD - The summer national championship of the American Contract Bridge league opens here Saturday. The Arthritis and Rheuma tism Foundation will be given check for $140,000 repre senting the bridge players' contribution to the foundation for the year ending June 30. Restaurant Building jured as she jumped from second-floor window to escape the quickly-spreading fire. She was reported in satis factory condition at a hospital here suffering from fracture dislocations of the right ankle and right shoulder. Damage was estimated at more than $50,000. Zottola was in Crescent Meres spread over some 30,000 acres , ' Officials called it the worse fire in the Deschutes forest since the 1945 Minto Pass fire. The fire area was "bombed" at daybreak today by planes loaded with water and a bor ate solution. The Fox Butte lookout station was aban doned during the night as it was in the center of the fire area. A small timber fire broke out west of Meacham in east ern Oregon along the Union Pacific railroad. Lightning also started two fires over night in a single area of the Umatilla National forest. Ken Trumbull, Union Pacif ic agent m Pendleton, re ported the railroad line fire started Wednesday afternoon about two miles west of Mea cham. The fire was con trolled along the tracks but was still burning in timber higher up the mountain ridge. In the Umatilla national forest one blaze was in the Dale area near Clear creek and an other in the same area. Crews were on the way. Rain in Portland The first measurable rain fall since July 7 fell in the Portland area today and the fire danger eased somewhat west of the Cascades. But the: danger of f irecausing thunder storms remained. ' In . Lake county 34 fires' have been started by light ning in the last three days. One blaze covered 1,000 acres in ponderosa pine and white fir timber 25 miles northeast of Lakeview.. Ten bulldozers and some 200 men hoped to; have the fire trailed by to night. Vehicles Abandoned Men had to abandon two pickups and a bulldozer late Wednesday when the wind shifted suddenly. All three were recovered later, scorched but not destroyed. A fire in the Fort Rock dis trict in northern Lake county covered some 2,500 acres. An other fire called the Derrick Ranch fire, near Fort Rock, had covered 15,000 acres, much of it in timber. Officials hoped to have it under con trol by tonight. More favor able weather Was reported in the area today with an over cast. X The state Wednesday again had readings of more than 100 degrees with Pendleton having 105, Medford 103, and The Dalles 101. It was 91 in Portland. Combined Bid Low For School Bonds Rogue Valley .State bank and Foster and Marshall, Med ford, this week submitted the low combined bid for $175, Q00 worth of bonds issued by Rogue River school district for construction of additional elementary school facilities. The firms bid on an ef fective interest rate of 4.284 per cent, which would amount to $61,057.50 over the 15-year life of the bonds. Other bids were submitted by First National Bank of Oregon, 4.287 per cent, or $51,102.50 in 15 years; and the U. S. National Bank, 4.358 per cent, or $62,105 in 15 years. The bonds, approved by voters in a recent election, will finance construction of 11 new classrooms, office space, a library, a cafeteria and kitchen in a building which will join the present structure with a walkway. The bids were opened Tues day by the school board. City, Calif., at the time of the fire. Officials of the Grants Pass rural fire department said four rural fire trucks and one state forest patrol pumper were used to keep the fire from spreading through dry grass to nearby woods. The Zottolas acquired the building from the Grants Pass Golf club three years ago. 4 !