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Newspaper Page Textr iT ATT Recommended An open house will be held at the new Hanley experiment farm n Hanley rd. Tuesday. A story about the new varieties of farm crops being crown there appears on pae 8 of today's Blail Trib une. A story about power de velopment in southern Oregon and northern California appears on page 14. 54th Yea Subscribers Price 10 Cents To report improper or non delivery' of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MO 2-1021, Yreka VI 2-4077 before 6.-45 pjn. daily and 12 JO pjn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 54 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1959 No. 109 RIBUWE Western Policy Split Develops Over Geneva Talks Britain Seeking 'Quickie' Wind-Up Geneva (UPD - A new Western policy split has de veloped oyer steps to wind up the deadlocked Geneva for- ; eign ministers conference and push toward a possible sum I mit meeting, authoritative conference sources have dis closed. " British Foreign Secretary ? Selwyn Lloyd, the sources said, wants "quickie" wind ; up of the present Big Four ; meeting and a summit get . together-early in September, j Lloyd was seeing Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan in London this week end and may launch his new push to- wards the summit Monday, the sources said. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, on the other hand, . was said to feel that prospects of an East-West agreement on 'Berlin at present are slim. f The U.S. delegation, it was learned, expects the present conference to go into a sec ond, much longer recess as soon as Vice. President Rich ' ard M. Nixon ends his Mos cow visit and the British par liament begins its summer re cess. The conference recess might last until October or November, U.S. sources pre- dieted, with a possible infor mal foreign ministers, meet ing at the -United Nations in New York. , The U.S. delegation now ex pects no -early summit meet ing. U.S. Gains Support The French and West Ger mans support the U.S. and are against any early summit moves. Britain, which all along has been ahead of its allies in demanding a summit meeting, was reliably reported prepar ing a four-point blueprint for steps to bring one about. . The British, in effect, were proposing that both sides should get off the present Geneva hook largely by cata loguing what they have dis cussed here and kicking most of it up to the summit for further discussion and possi . ble agreement. Differ ant Ideas U.S. sources, however, with . out publicly admitting any open rift, made it clear that Herter has radically differ ent ideas. The United States, it was learned reliably, believes the Western and Soviet positions still are so far apart that there is no prospect of agreement at the present Geneva talks. Douglas McKay Laid To Rest Salem (UPD - Oregon buried " ex-Gov. Douglas McKay to day, in a ceremony which lauded his rise from newspa per boy to governor to secre tary of interior in. President Eisenhower's first cabinet. '. McKay, 66, received a state funeral in the house of repre sentatives chamber in the state capitol building which - was banked high with flowers and filled with dignitaries and friends. The ex-secretary died Wed nesday of a heart ailment complicated "by kidney trou ble. His casket, draped in a 49 star flag presented' by the De partment of Interior, rested before the rostrum. Atop the rostrum was a five-foot white and green floral cross present ed by President Eisenhower. Outside the house chamber, crowds heard the funeral cer emony in the lobby and in the senate chamber by : loud speaker. Dr. Paul Newton Polingj pastor of the Salem First Pres byterian church of which Mc Kay was a member, conducted the ceremonies with the theme "Well done, good and faithful servant-" Gov. Mark Hatfield led the procession from the capitol building to McKay's inter ment at Bellecrest Memorial park. ...-v Cuban Police Foil Riot by Prisoners - Havana -UPB- Police- said Saturday they had seized a cache of weapons, including Molotov cocktails and home mad, daggers, at Principe prison and foiled a political prisoner riot timed for Fidel Castro's anniversary celebra tion today. Socialite Tells Of t. r"u..n:n, iGiiaiuii iviuuiiuiig Over bedding Plan Chicago-(UPD - The FBI re ported Saturday that socialite heiress Jacqueline Gay Hart said she "sort of exploded" be cause of tensions arising over her approaching wedding and decided to disappear for a while. The pretty 21 - year - old blande revealed she was in New York and Chicago during the 50 hours she was missing after seeing her finance, Stan ley Gains, 25, off on an air trip from Newark, N.J., air port last Tuesday night. Movements Traced The report by, the FBI veri- ied and traced the movements of Miss Hart during her dis appearance. Miss Hart, who originally told of being kid naped by two, heavy set, swarthy men, later admitted he first story was a hoax. Meanwhile, Miss Hart of Short Hills, N.J., her father and Gains checked out of their .Loop hotel, bound for an air port and an eventual flight to either New York or New Jer sey. ; v ' ' - But prior to their departure, two FBI agents conferred with Miss Hart and her father, ex ecutive Ralph A. Hart, in their Sherman hotel suite here. Lat er, the FBI issued its report to . verify the former college co-ed's second story. "There has been so much question as to why the FBI be lieves Miss Hart's second story that there was no ab duction, over her first story. of the kidnaping," said Rich ard D. Auerbach, agent-in-charge of the Chicago FBI office. ' ' Statements Check Out "The reason is that a check on the second story . . . has completely verified Miss Hart's second statement," he said. ""', ' "In essence," the FBI agent said, , "Miss Hart said that so much tension developed in her as a result of the very elabor ate preparations for her wed ding to . . . Gaines, with 500 guests, a. specially-designed wedding dress' and a number of - .other .. arrangements, that she 'sort of exploded.' " ,vIn her statement to the FBI, Miss Hart told.' of traveling to New York "in a daze" after seeing Gaines off at the New ark airport. The next morn ing, Auerbach said, Miss Hart 'Jfor no particular reason" bought a bus ticket to Chi cago, arriving here shortly af ter midnight Wednesday. The pretty heiress checked into a hotel and went to bed, the FBI agent said. The next morning (Thursday), she made arrangements to rent a radio and for the first time heard the news about her disappear ance, he said. That evening "in a panic," Auerbach said, and not quite realizing what she was doing, she took a cab around Grant park on Chicago's lakefront, walked for a while and then hailed the first police car she spotted. . When Miss Hart and her party checked out of their hotel Saturday, they refused to comment as they walked to a freight elevator and de scended to a rear entrance. They entered an auto and sped away from the hotel. But Gaines told reporters he and Miss Hart were "going to be married," although he did not specify when. Earlier, Hart, executive president of the Colgate-Palmolive Co., described his daugh ter as a "very sick girl," who had . suffered dreams and blackouts similar to her ex periences after an auto injury two years ago. Ray D'Aufremont Enters Guilty Plea 'Portland (UPD-Ray D'Autre mont entered a plea of guilty Friday to a charge of assault on a mail clerk in connection with the 1923 attempted hold up of a train in the Siskiyou mountains. Federal Judge Gus Solomon ordered a pre-sentence investi gation. D'Autremont has been in the state penitentiary since 1927 on a murder charge in connection with the - case. Four men were killed in the robbery attempt. - The- plea is part of a move by which he hopes to gain ventual parole. His brother, Hugh, was paroled early this year and died in March in San Francisco. i J v JACQUELINE HART 'Sort of Exploded' Dr. Drummondi To Be Part-Tjme Health Officer Dr. C. I. Drummond has consented to become Jackson county public health officer on a temporary part - time basis, Eugene Thorndike, act ing chairman of the County Board of Health, has an nounced. Dr. Drummond will assume the temporary duties Aug. 1 and will remain in that capa city uniil a qualified public health doctor is secured. Thorndike reported' that the board of health has several leads on interested qualified persons but none have been contacted at this time. The doctor recommended by the Oregon Merit council is ex pected to be contacted Mon day regarding the position, he said. . The ' council is ,the state agency that classifies public health personnel as to-qualifications.. These persons in clude doctors, nurses and san itarians. Served Previously ' Dr. Drummond was public health officer in the county from 1932-37. He received his medical studies in public health at Harvard university. Dr. Drummond's temporary appointment was announced following a special meeting of the board Friday noon. Five of the board's seven members and members of the county court attended the ses sion. . Dr. A. Erin Merkel will con clude 21 years as county pub lic health officer July 31 when he will leave for San Diego where he will be with the public health department. Ashlander Jailed on Slot Machine Charge Neal Patrick Chatterton, 29, of 657 Oak st., Ashland, was lodged in the county jail Friday night following his ar rest by state " police on a charge of possession of a gambling device. One slot machine found in Chatterton's residence was seized as evidence. He was ar rested on a warrant issued by District Court Judge Roy Bashaw , after state police signed a complaint against Chatterton Central Point Man Volunteers Central Point George Evans, Central Point post of fice .branch superintendent has volunteered to head a group of area residents inter ested in obtaining necessary information and enlisting sup port for a community swim ming pool in Central Point. . Interest in a swimming pooL which has been apparent for some time in Central Point, received a boost last week when temperatures went over the 100-degree mark for sev eral days. Central Point Mayor Free man Mason said there has been interest in a pool here for some ' time. Thursday night, the council called a special meeting for persons interested in a pool to discuss aspects of such a project. Mason said Evans, who lives Nixon Acclaimed By Thousands of Cheering Russians Hecklers, Press Continue Attack Moscow-flJPD-Vice President Richard M. Nixon won the acclaim of thousands of cheer ing Russians Saturday despite his first taste of Soviet heck lers and a new press attack on "American imperialists." Nixon held his own with the hecklers one of them ap parently a "plant" and gave as good as he got from them at .the Soviet agricultural and industrial exposition where other Russians cheered him and tried to shake his hand. Fresh from his rough-and- tumble verbal duel with Niki ta S. Khrushchev Friday, Nix on said he intended to tackle the Soviet Premier again on the issues of East-West peace Calls on Mikoyan He began formal rounds on meetings with separate calls on first Deputy Premiers Aanastas I. Mikoyan and Ffon R. Kozlov, both of whom, he had met before on their Amer ican tours. The meeting with Mikoyan started on a strained note. Nixon brought along Harold Boeschenstein, - president of Owens - Corning Fiberglas Corp., of Toledo, Ohio, ; to Mikoyan's office. "I thought you two business men could get togther," Nixon told Mikoyan who doubles as Soviet trade minister. . "The state department will decide that," replied Mikoyan who has critized U.S. trade restrictions. Nixon, a non-smoker, de clined a cigarette and the men sat-down to chat. As Nixon rode to Mikoyan's office, the communist party newspaper Pravda was on the streets with an attack on the American "Captive Nations Week" as "a coarse, dirty ad venture of American imper ialists.? - ' -ST. i.1 Shakes Hands Nixon enjoyed himself shak ing hands with scores of Rus sians at the exhibition. ' When he stood in an open limousine and shouted, "Sov iet and American friendship and peace," and "peace to all the world," there were roars of approval. The press took more notice of him and printed pictures of him opening the U.S. exhi bition Friday . at Sokolniky park. Footings Started For Creek Bridge Pouring of concrete foot ings for the Eighth st.-Bear creek bridge started Friday, city engineer .department of ficials reported. Construction of the bridge is being done by the R and M Construction company, Central Point. Progress was also reported by the department on other projects within the city. The asphalt paviflg of Jackson st. between Biddle rd. and Gen essee st. was completed Fri day and the concrete flooring for the pump station on the Berrydale sewer project was reported underway. - Hiking Grandma Welcomed at Baker Baker (UPD-Emma Gatewood, dimunitive 71-year-old great grandmother from Gallipolis, Ohio, was welcomed as tour ist of the year here Friday. The woman has walked from Independence, Mo., and is en route to Portland for the Cen tennial. on Gebhard rd., outside the Central Point city limits, vol unteered to head the drive and appoint necessary com mittees to look into the proj ect aspects. Lyle Walther, a retired en gineer who also live on Geb hard rd., has volunteered to design and serve as engineer for the pool project. Walther was an engineer in Josephine county for several years. He told city officials he would draw up preliminary sketches or a proposed pool and obtain necessary information on ma terial costs. Mason said the city has re ceived many favorable com ments about the proposed proj ect, but he said he would like to hear from more area resi dents. He noted that since the pool Flirt Ml JY HARRY HOLMES Retired Fruit Man Harry Holmes, 68, Dies at Hospital; Funeral Private Harry Holmes, 68, co-founder of the nation's largest gift fruit packing firm, died Fri day evening in a local hos pital. I He had served as president and chairman of the board of Harry and David gift fruit firm of Bear Creek orchards following the death of his brother, David, in 1950, and before his retirement a few years ago. Mr. Holmes' wife, Elinor Hunter Holmes, died in 1948. His brother was killed in an automobile accident. His son, John R. Holmes, will be, a junior at .the Uni; versity of Oregon next year. The Holmes brothers mov ed to Medford in 1916, enter ing the stock business. In 1920 they acquired Bear Creek orchards and packing house and through the years added other properties and improvements. i In 1946 the partners incor porated the Harry and David firm. The story of their suc cess has been told many times in national publications and their fame in the once uniaue gift packing service has be come world-wide. The brothers, who origin ated the "Fruit of the Month" club, began the gift venture in the depression year of 1932. David H. Holmes, son of the late David Holmes, is now president of the firm. Mr. Holmes was born May 6, 1891, in Seattle, Wash., where he attended schools. He was graduated from Cor nell university. He served as president of many of the valley's, fruit or ganizations and was a mem ber of the Medford Masonic lodge, Elks club, Rogue Val ley Country club and Univer sity club. Perl Funeral home is in charge of private services. The family has asked that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the Heart fund. . BASEBALL COAST LEAGUE Phoenix 9, Spokane 7 " Seattle 5, Sacramento 2 " Salt Lake 7. Vancouver 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2 would be a community proj ect, the support of the ma jority of area residents is de sirable. When enough opinions are expressed and data on pools becomes available, the city will call a public meeting to decide what course of action should be taken. Mason said several persons have 'already indicated they would donate labor, and ex pected that much of the work involved would be through volunteer labor. Cash dona tions by some who cannot pro vide labor have been indicat ed, : he noted. City officials have written to the League of Oregon Cities and the University of Oregon for information on swimming pools, Mason said. The infor mation is expected soon. The greatest expense, Mason ear 1 losa oaum Hurricane Debra Damage Figured To Be Millions At Least Eight Reported Missing Houston, Texas-OJPD-Hurri- cane Debra, the worst tropical storm of the season, battered the Texas coast Saturday with 105-mile-an-hour winds and lashing rain squalls damaging property worth millions of dollars. At least eight persons were reported missing as the hur ricane moved slowly inland, aimed a bruising broadside at metropolitan Houston and veered to the east of the south's largest city, the worst of its fury spent. , The Coast Guard reported four persons were missing on a 26-foot cabin cruiser in the gulf south of.- Freeport, and two men were missing on Green laLe, northwest of Cor pus Christi. Storm Weakens - ' -Two other men were also missing-one at Freeport, and the other at Texas City. The storm weakened as it moved inland north of its brutal assault on the gulf coast. - But the weather:, bureau said it was still dangerous and a threat to life because of heavy rains. j Debra, the fourth topical storm of the season, exploded from a mild disturbance to a raging fury with little warn ing. . It caught, a - number of boats off shore, but most made it to shore under their own power or. with aid, from the Coast Guard. I ' Damage Not Estimated Officials- were unable to give an immediate estimate of damages, but it appeared cer tain, to run into millions, of dollars. More than . half a million dollars' damage was reported at Galveston, where a hurri cane in 1900 killed between 5,000 and 8,000 persons. The exact number was never es tablished.. Wagoneers Hold Worship Service Baker, Ore. -(UPD- Sunday worship services were to be held this morning in the circle of wagons of the Oregon Cen tennial caravan near Durkee. The wagorteers were treated to a potluck dinner and enter tainment Saturday night, by the people of Durkee, a small town near here. . .. The modern pioneers head ed out on the trail early Sat urday with a National Guard and State Police escort to ward the week end campsite at the V. S. Kerby ranch, a mile north of. Durkee. ' All highway traffic was stopped and then routed slow ly past the wagon train by the escort. - The week end camp site is in the middle of an area rich with history of the olo" Ore gon Trail.. An old well still stands about one half mile north of Durkee that was once an overnight camping spot for pioneer wagon trains. " To Head Pool Project said, probably will be for equipment such as filtering, heating and other facilities, and may have to be financed through bonds. He said, how ever, that the amount which would have to be bonded would be small compared to the total cost- of the pool, when consideration is given donated labor and cash con tributions. ' The pool, he said, would fiance its own way. The city would not expect to make a profit. ' Three sites are available for a pool, Mason said. They are the present city park at Sixth and Laurel sts., city property at the machine shops at Sixth and Ash sts., and the city park on the Jacksonville-Central Point.highway. Water for the pool would be Will! taidliii Pr P VssP ' milk: atltle tawdiol "It Seems To Be Kind Rocceffes, Rockets Club Canned Food Collection Brings Report To Police The: officers and members of the Rockettes and Rockets club were contacted by city police Thursday afternoon af ter a worried adult thought their. campaign . for. canned food was illegal. According to city police an official of the American Red Cross contacted them regard ing a group of children who were collecting canned food for the Red Cross for distribu tion to the needv. To Keep Selves Busy The collection was , being conducted in the Roberts rd. area near Crater Lake ave. Police discovered that the children, who had formed the club for the summer, had been told that permission to conduct the drive had been given them from their par ents who had contacted tne Red Cross office by telephone July 22.. The six club members, who did turn; the collected food over to the Red Cross, formed the club in an attempt to keep themselves busy with various constructive ' projects during the vacation period. Police said that the children, who did not show any indica tion of wanting funds for their services, were looking for per sons who were unable to care for their yards, such as elder ly people, whom they could help. , .-They were allowed to continue.their project. Members of the non-profit group, according to police, all WEATHER FORECAST: Fair, hot and dry through Monday. Low tonight 56. Low tomorrow night 58. High to day 103. High Monday 100. Highest Saturday 101 Lowest Saturday morning 55 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:38 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:58 a.m. Moonrise tonight .... 11:15 p.m. Last Quarter tomorrow 6:22 a.m. Venus is now at - its greatest brilliance. After a few more weeks in the evening sky, it wiU disappear in the-rays of the setting Sun. In September it wUl reappear as a morning planet. . furnished by a city well, which is now usedor irrigation pur poses. Mason said water from the well has been used in emergencies in the past, and tests substantiate its purity. A meeting between the city council and city planning com mittee is planned in the fu ture to further discuss the pool and decide what action should be taken. Mason said, i uuncvci) I.., ed persons want to obtain the reaction of more area resi dents on the proposed project. Cards and letters may be sent to the city hall in Central Point. , Mason- said that although plans now are indefinite, ac tual construction of the pool could possibly start later this year it enough interest is expressed. Of A Favorite Theme" 4tniS IMtMlaiM Mr ca. live on Biddle and Morrow rds. They include Robert Wayne Edwards, 13, presi dent: Donna Marie Wilson, 14, vice , president; Janice Faye Johnson, 14, secretary; Emmy Lou ' Johnson, 12,; treasurer; Christy1 Irene Elmore, 13 and John William Elmore, 12, who were listed by police as "mem bers. Higher Retail Milk Price Seen - Recent developments in the dairy industry indicate that the retail milk price may go up a cent a quart here. Causes are a half cent a quart ' raise, roughly, to be given the milk producers of Jackson and Josephine coun ties efective Aug. 1 and the fact that the Teamsters are now operating under an ex pired contract in the Southern Oregon area indicating a pos sible future wage raise. Dick Westerberg, Coordi nated Milk Sales manager, said Friday that effective Aug. 1 all distributors or dairy processors will pay the dairy farmers $6.32 per 100 pounds for milk with 4 per cent butterfat. This means a 23 cents per hundred pounds raise. This means an increase to the processors, of the -two-county area of roughly a half cent a quart. The forthcoming milk-price increase is the first such raise received by the dairymen of the two-county area in 3Vfj years, Westerberg said. The price of hay fed dairy cows is how up 60 per cent above a year ago, according to the United States Department of Agriculture reports, Wester berg pointed out. Labor costs are higher and now steel pric es threaten to climb higher. This rise would be reflected in the costs of farm machin ery and equipment and re placement parts. ' - Oriental Wins Universe Contest Long Beach, Calif. - (UPD -The first Oriental beauty to win the Miss Universe crown - Japan's Akiko Kojima - said Saturday a movie career may be nice for some people, "But all I want is to find an honest man and make him a lovely wife." Nevertheless, said the 22 year - old high - fashion Tokyo model, "Two movie studios - - 20th Century-Fox and Warn er Bros. - have expressed in terest in me, and I will make a screen test next week." The black - haired, black eyed Oriental was named Miss Universe Friday night before a cheering throng of 4,500 in Municipal auditorium. Miss Kojima stands 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and measures 37-23-38. Convicts Brought In To Help With Control of Flames Timber on Fire In Trinity County Susanville, Calif. -(UPD- Fed-. eral and state firefighters in northern California called up all the men they could get Saturday as one blaze passed the 15,000 - acre mark and , another started in virgin tinr ber. The bigger fire, 35 miles north of here in Lassen coun ty, has been burning 900 acres of rangeland every hour since 6 a.m. Saturday. State fores try officials see no hope for immediate control. Blustery winds pushed the flames northeast toward cat tle herds that roam the moun tainous area, but ranchers conducted a day-long round up and got the animals out. Convicts Arrive Another lOO convicts from San Quentin were to arrive at midnight, bringing the to tal fire fighting force to 450. Seven aerial tankers, a heli copter and two patrol planes circled above, dropping bor ate solution and directing men on the ground. The new blaze started on Federal timber land in the mountains of Trinity county, about 50 miles north of Weaverville. Sixteen smoke jumpers from Redding drop ped near the blaze shortly after it was reported at 2 p.m., but could do little by themselves to bring it under control. P. A. Pettigrew, zone dis patcher, said "we're trying to get it under control tonight,' but added that high winds could ruin hopes. He said that convicts from conservation camps in Lassen and Mendocino National For ests were on their way and that by midnight there were expected to be 150 on the fire lines. - Four aerial tankers had been dropping fire suppres sant, he continued, but thick smoke over the steep moun tainsides forced them to quit at 5:30 p.m. Said Man-Caused He added that the fire was man-caused. About 300 miles to the south, in Calaveras county, 350 men were still patrolling a fire that had .destroyed 700 acres of ponderosa pine and douglas fir. Charles Toy, dispatcher for the local state forestry station, said the fire had been brought under control at 6 a.m. but that there was still danger of a flareup. This was the fire that trop- ' ped 30 men Friday ' until aerial tanker planes dropped borate suppressant and clear ed a trail for them to get out. Safety Awards Presented To City Medford received two traf fic safety awards last week, according to Medford Mayor John W. Snider. One award was issued by the American Automobile as sociation for Medford's record of one year without a pedes trian fatality on the city streets, while the other was presented the police depart ment by the Walker Manu facturing company, Racine, Wis., and National Police Of ficers Association of America. The second award was pre sented for "meritorious serv ice for the public welfare by materially reducing traffic ac cidents, fatalities, and pro moting highway safety in their community during 1958." The AAA citation was based on the report submitted by the city for the 1958 AAA Na tional Cities Pedestrian Pro tection contest. Medford won the citation in competition with 1,668 competing cities of all sizes. The citation commended Patrolman Theodore H. Whis ler, records and identification officer of the police depart ment for his leadership in the pedestrian safety program.