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Newspaper Page Textrns Gets Fir to LGoonnogod Medford 18 Pages viiefts ' Pressed hw U. L5DTO 3.0171) Western Powers Shelve Variances On Summit Policy Geneva - (UPD - The United States and Britain shelved their wide open differences on summit policy today to press the Soviet Union, for a quick Berlin truce. The Big Four conference was entering its ninth week with no progress to date and diplomatic observers said the talks were In their final stages with this the -most critical week. Three major rounds of talks were scheduled for today in cluding the conference's first "working tea" this afternoon when the diplomats meet at 5:30 p.m. at the British villa. British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was to confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Anr'rei Gromyko at lunch, but Western sources said he in tended only to "probe" Rus sian intentions and. not to ne gotiate. Then the Western ministers crettine toeether for a strategy session an hour be fore the working tea. The Anglo-American differ ences were reported patched up Sunday night when Secre tary of State Christian A. Herter conferred for two hours at dinner with Lloyd. Ambassador John Hay Whit ney flew from London for the talks. Conference sources said Herter considered the Anglo American split so big it had assumed serious proportions and that it was time . to straighten out the differences before they got worse. The British were for a sum mit meeting at almost all costs. The United States, France and West Germany still wanted one only if there was some progress. Britain was said to fear that failure to call a summit meeting would give Russia the diplo matic initiative. Third Major League Founded New York - (UPD - William Shea of New York City an nounced today the founding of a third major, league to be known as the Continental Baseball League with found ing cities in New York, Hous ton, Toronto, Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Shea said that the league planned to play its first 154 game schedule with a mini mum of eight clubs in 1961. He added that the league could "conceivably be larger" and read a list of 10 other cities which are interested in joining the new circuit. The formal announcement of the circuit was made in a proclamation by Mayor Rob ert F. Wagner of New York, who called this Continental League Baseball Day and pledged that the new league would offer baseball of the highest quality in "stadiums second to none." Shea said the league was being formed within the struc ture of currently organized baseball and that it already had adopted a constitution and hoped to have league of ficers elected when it meets with National and American League officials in joint ses sion in New York Aug. 18.- Buffalo, Montreal, Atlanta, New Orleans, Portland, Mi ami, Indianapolis, Dallas-Fort Worth, Seattle and San Juan, P.R., are the other cities which are interested in join ing the league. BASEBALL Baltimore 5 8 2 Detroit . 2 S 0 Brown, Lom (7) and Tri andos; Bunning. Morgan (7) and Berberet. HR. Wood ling. Baltimore. Pittsburgh 2 5 1 Milwaukee 5 7 0. Kline. Haddix (8) and Burgess; Jay and Crandall. 54th Year for "Well, -Now To ' Higher Education Meeting Underway Ashland-One hundred. and twenty -five representatives from 43 colleges and univer sities in the Pacific North west heard University of Ore gon President Dr. O. Mere dith Wilson last night key note the Pacific Northwest conference on higher educa tion at Southern Oregon col lege here. Asking, "What is the meth od of obtaining the best yield from potential intellectual resources?" Dr. Wilson open ed the two-day conference by suggesting that there must be a cooperative interplay and a closer articulation from the first grade through college. Educators, he said, must as sure the best possible educa tional consequences for all children to be sure of com plete fulfillment of the bright est minds. Curricula Reforms "Curricula reforms are im portant," Wilson said, "but they are doomed to failure as long as we have a sociological Fire Damages Mill In Kirby Sunday Kerby, Ore.-IUPD-Fire of un determined: origin swept through mill "A" of the Cabax mills here early Sunday, lev eling it. Damage was estimat ed at $300,000. The other half of the Cabax operation here, mill "B," was untouched. The blaze broke out at 11:54 p.m. Saturday. Mill Superintendent C. R. Piller said the flames appar ently spread from a conveyer under an edger machine. Ex act cause of the fire was not determined. A filing room and boiler also were destroyed in the fire but a quantity of green lum ber was saved. A firefighting force which included the Illinois Valley Rural Fire Protection depart ment, State Fire Patrol mem bers and smoke jumpers from the Siskiyou National forest battled the flames. Police Seek Owner Of Slot Machine Medford police today sought the owner of an illegal slot machine confiscated Sunday after.ioon at 215 East Eighth St., a building currently being demolished. A patrolman spotted the machine through an open doorway at that address, ac cording, to the report. Police took the machine to the sta tion and left a property re ceipt at the scene. Washington-WPD-The nomi nation of John Kilkenny of Pendleton to be a federal dis trict judge In Oregon was ap proved today by the Senate Judiciary committee. nLA XT MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, LBeirllDin) Find Some Facts" I climate content' with what it has: When excellence is hon ored, it will be impossible to prevent students from obtain ing it." . ; r r. Arthur Taylor, SOC professor, presided at the meeting last night and SOC President Dr. Elmo N. Steven son gave greetings from south ern Oregon. At the second general ses sion of the conference, held this morning, Dr. T. R. Mc Connell, professor of educa tion and chairman of the cen ter for the study of higher education at the University of California, discussed tests and studies used in the re-discovery of the gifted student. Panel Discussion Panel discussions followed, and at the noon luncheon to day, Dr. John L. Stalnaker, president of the National Merit Scholarship corpora tion, asked, "What is being done for the superior stu dent?" At the third general ses sion at 2 p.m. today, Dr. Jo seph W. Cohen, professor at the University of Colorado, was scheduled to speak on present trends in college hon ors programs. Dr. Charles Rothwell, pres ident of Mills college in Cali fornia, will speak tonight at a 6:30 o'clock banquet on "The ingredients of excel lence." A panel forum is scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow and at a noon luncheon Dr. Margery Bailey, director of renaissance studies institute in Ashland, will discuss "Shakespeare in Production." The conference adjourns to morrow at 2 p.m. and partici pants in the meetings are scheduled to attend the open ing of "Twelfth Night" at the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val. Federal' By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - The federal highway aid program is facing a financial crisis, causing further Oregon road contract bids to be. held up, largely because Congress last year ordered a step-up in high way building as an anti-recession measure. A variety of other factors have also entered the picture since Congress mapped out the long-range highway build ing plan in 1956 and directed that it be financed on a pay-as-you-go basis. Inflation was the most significant of these other factors. Explains Problem Bertram . D. . Tallamy, head of the Bureau of Public Roads, explained the .problem in de tail before the House Ways JULY 27, 1959 Trace Castro Returns As Cuban Premier After 10 Days Havana-dJPB-Premier Fidel Castro was officially back in power today with a "man date" from a half-million shouting, shooting peasants ready to turn their razor- sharp machetes against his foes. Castro told a wildly cheer ing mass meeting here Sun day night that he will "bow to the people's will" and re sume the post he vacated 10 days - ago to launch the squeeze play that overthrew President Manuel Urrutia. The peasants jamming Hav ana's new Civic Center yelled themselves hoarse, firing re volvers in the air and flash ing the machettes (jungle knives) which were acclaimed by Catstro as the new symbol of his revolution. Two baseball players were injured in a similar burst of exuberance just after mid night Sunday, when gun-firing soldiers swarmed onto the field during a night game. Cancel Games The Rochester Red Wings, after infielder Frank Verdi's head was grazed, by a stray bullet, hastily cancelled . a doubleheader scheduled Sun day. ' ' The Cubans were scornful. They pointed out" that their shortstop, Leonardo Cardenas, was hit in -the arm by a bul let "and didn't complain:" Castro's brother, Raul, pony-tailed commander Nof Cuba's armed forces, set the stage for his appearance with a speech saying that "the only thing we ask is that Fidel re turn." Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, who was installed as presi dent in place of Urrutia, then stepped forward to announce that Castro had decided to re sume his duties as premier "as a result of your mandate." Castro confirmed his deci sion in a 2V-hour speech, de claring also that anyone who opposed his land reform plans would face a "united front" of machete-wielding peasants like ' those who heard him speak. Baby Is Second 'Plastic Bag' Death Sandpoint, Idaho -(DPD- The second "plastic bag" death here in less than a week oc curred today when three-month-old Donna Lynn Gib bons suffocated this morning. County Coroner L. G. Moon said the child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Donald Gib bons, was lying in her crib when she apparently rolled over on to the plastic bag used as a crib protector. Moon said the child was dead when he arrived at the home. Another three - month - old baby, Jonathan Guy Skinner, suffocated last Thursday when he pulled a plastic bag over his face. Highway f rograin Faees (Ekisis and Means committee last week and advocated that Con gress solve the problem by raising the federal gasoline tax from 3c to 4Vc per gal lon for the next five years. Congressmen from both parties are looking for a less painful way out. Their sug gestions runs from issuance of revenue bonds to" borrowing funds for the highway trust fund from the general fund of the Treasury. Others in clude some cutback in the road program and a lesser in crease in the gas tax. Last year, Tallamy explain ed, Congress passed a special highway act ordering that an increasing of $1.6 billion in road apportionments to the states be made beyond the capacity of the highway trust fund to handle. The trust fund receives its money from the Price 10 Cents T No. 110 Meeting of Union, Steel Industry Scheduled Today Federal Mediator Calls Conference New York - (UPD - The first joint meeting of steel union and industry negotiators since the beginning of a nationwide strike 13 days ago was sched uled to be held today under the call of Federal Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finnegan. Finnegan, however, held out no hope that the meeting presaged an early settlement of the strike of 500,000 mem bers of the United Steelwork- ers who normally produce 85 per cent of the nation's steel. Further meetings were also scheduled for today between negotiators for the nation's Big Three aluminum com panies and the Steelworkers Union which has threatened to go on strike if agreement is not reached before expiration of current contracts, July 31. The trade weekly, Steel Magazine, said today that wages of $135,200,000 and sales of $378,000,000 will have been lost as a result of the steel strike by the end of today. Supporting Industries The figures did not include losses to steel - supporting transport and mining . indus tries which have laid off an estimated 78,000 workers be cause of the steel shutdown. Former New York Gov. Averell Harriman said Sunday that President Eisenhower had been "wishy-wahy" and pious" about the steel strike when he should have called in representatives of the USW and the industry and "knocked their heads together." Harri man made the statement on a local television program, i Four-man negotiating teams representing the union and the. 12 largest steel producers began contract talks on May 11 and have reported no pro gress since that time. The in dustry demanded a wage and price freeze as a means of combatting inflation. The union has said the industry has so increased profits that it can pay a wage increase without an inflationary price rise. 30,000-Acre Range Fire Under Control Boise, Idaho - (UPD - A dev astating range fire scorched 30,000 acres of sagebrush and blazed to within three miles of Boise before it was brought under control late Sunday. While tired fire fighters were controlling the. blaze, two smaller fires, one in the Silver City area and another near Mayfield between Boise and Mountain Home, taxed the efforts of other fire fight ers. Mopping-up operations were m progress m the Gowen Field area south of there where the range fire burned for approximately 24 hours and at one time threatened Boise. Flames ate to the edge of Gowen Field, an Air National Guard base south of the city, and six C124 Globemasters of the 101st Airborne Division were flown out as a precau tionary measure. i gas tax and certain excise taxes. Oregon's Apportionment Under this act, Oregon's apportionment made last July for fiscal year 1960 (which started July 1, 1959), came to a grand total of $56,455,389. The breakdown on this was: primary roads' $6,789,530; secondary, $4,75i,847; urban, $1,805,637: interstate, $43, 108,375. For the interstate money, the matching formula for Oregon is 92.37 per cent federal, the balance state: For the others, the so-called ABC money, the matching formula for Oregon is 61.86 per cent federal, the balance state. After the apportionment is made available, as this was a yeaY ago, the state submits a program of projects to the Bureau of Public Roads. Af ter the general program is ap I Jj s. ' "- nij TOUR RUSSIA-Touring U.S. exhibition in Moscow, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ap parently are on pleasant terms. Moment Tuesday Luncheon Here to Honor Mark Hatfields Three county precinct work ers for the Republican party will have official roles at the Tuesday luncheon honoring Gov. Mark O. Hatfield and Mrs. Hatfield. v The three workers are Mrs. John' Lynch, 139 Kenwood ave., for accomplishments she has made in the 50th precinct; Robert Nelson, 1645 East Mc- Andrews rd., committeeman for precinct 29A; and Mrs. Ralph S. Brindley, Ross lane, a precinct area leader. Mrs. Lynch will introduce Governor Hatfield at the luncheon. Nelson has been des ignated official host to the governor during his Medford stay. Mrs. Brindley will be official hostess to Mrs. Hat field. Activities of the Jackson County Republican Central Committee between now and the 1960 general election will be discussed by Don Stathos, committee chairman, at the noon luncheon at the Jackson hotel. . , Emphasis for the year will be , on intensive registration of. new. Republican, voters, and to add 14,000 active Republi can workers to the state party organization, Stathos said. ' Deschutes Fire Said Controlled By United Press International A big fire in the Deschutes National Forest was reported under control today after burning through some 50 mil lion feet of prime pine timber. Other Oregon blazes also were reported in check but the fire danger remained high with virtually no rain forecast through Saturday. , The Deschutes blaze, which started last .Wednesday, cov ered more than 30,000 acres. A dry lightning storm gave forestry officials trouble in eastern Oregon Sunday. A big sage and rangeland fire in the Jordan valley covered an estimated 15,000 acres and 150 men were battling to check it. John Hunt, bureau of land management spokesman, said two other fires were believed checked. One covered about 600 acres in Jordan valley and another about 400 acres in the Owyhee Breaks area. The Little Honey creek fire in the Fremont National for est was reported controlled. Men were being pulled off this blaze. Much of Oregon remained hot Sunday with Pendleton and Medford having 95 and Burns 94. It was 78 m Port land. proved, the state develops de tails and proceeds to call for bids on construction contracts. After the contractors get go ing, the state submits vouch ers to the federal government. Hold Back Contracts . A number of states are now holding back on letting fur ther contracts, but not all be cause of the depletion of the federal highway trust fund. In some cases, states are hav ing trouble with their own share of the financing a bu reau spokesman said. The Bureau has made no new apportionment this year because of the deficit it faces. It is waiting to see what Con gress will come up with as a revenue provider. When Congress passed the 1956 highway act, the cost es timates for the 40,000-mile in terstate system -came to $25 feast' to Open Festival Tuesday The 1959 season of the Ore gon Shakespearean Festival opens Tuesday, with the 6 p.m. "Feast of the Tribe of Will" in Lithia park. Following the feast the premiere of "The Masque of the New World" will be pre sented in the new theater prior to the play "Twelfth Night." The next three nights the other plays scheduled for this year's season will be present ed. They include "King John," "Measure for Measure," and "Anthony and Cleopatra." The four plays will rotate nightly through Sept. 5. Final Dress Rehearsal Final dress rehearsal will be held tonight for "Anthony." Dress rehearsals for the other three productions were held Friday night and during the week end. Festival patrons have until midnight tonight to purchase membership tickets for this year's season. The $17.50 membership entitles the hold er to eight transferable ad missions. Orders must be post marked -.before midnight, or may be purchased at the cen tral box office in Ashland or at Mann's store in Medford. Again this year the winner on the "Queen For a Day television show will attend the opening night festivities at the " Festival as well as the three other plays. The winner, Mrs. James Marino, and her husband, will be guests in the valley for a four day stay, which will include trips to Crater Lake National park and the Oregon Caves. Ticket Sales Ticket sales, which are run ning well ahead of previous seasons, show the audience favorites to be "Anthony' and "Twelfth Night." These plays will be directed by James Sandoe and Producing Director Angus L. Bowmer, respectively. Sandoe will also direct "Measure for Measure." Richard Risso will direct "John." The "New World Masque" will be directed by Jerry Turner. 11,780 Persons Sign - At Welcome Stockade A total of 11,780 persons have registered at the stock ade on the Siskiyou summit as of Sunday evening, accord ing to Ernie Hood, Jackson County Centennial association coordinator. Among the visitors last week were families from Wempe, Fife, Scotland, and from the Fiji Islands. Sun day's visitors totaled 342, it was reported. California leads the list of states with the most persons registered followed by Ore gon and Washington and then Canada. billion. Now the estimate is that it will cost the federal government $33.9 billion. Slice for Inflation Tallamy said the largest slice of this increase goes for inflation. He said highway construction costs rose 12 per cent "as a result of general nationwide price increases" during the interval from mid 1954 to the end of 1956. In flation represents $4.1 billion in cost increase estimates. Another factor, he explain ed, has been "extraordinary increases in traffic experienc ed in the last few years." Ad ditional traffic lanes needed will -boost the cost by $1.3 billion. Additional interchanges and changes in locations of some highways to serve local needs of small cities have increased the cost estimate $3.8 billion. later they1 staged wordy argument concern ing aims of two countries. From' left: U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, Nixon, Khrushchev and Milton Eisenhower. Last minute preparations by the technical department and landscaping crews will be completed tonight, it was re ported. During the dress re hearsals the acting company adjusted to the full-performance factors of costume, make up and lights. Covered Wagons Continue West After Durkee Stop r Durkee, Ore.- (UPD -Oregon's covered wagon train rolled westward again today after a week end stop at the V. S. Kirby ranch IVi miles north of here. The wagon train is due at Independence, Ore., on Aug 14 with a big celebration scheduled for the next day Baker was the next big stop for the caravan. The week end campsite here was in the center of an area rich in the "history of the Ore gon trail. An old well which still exists about half a mile north of here once was the overnight camping spot for pioneer wagon trains. Several miles to the east is rugged Iron mountain, one of the few distinguishable land marks in the area used by the pioneers to guide them on to ward the Columbia. Services Held ounaay worsnip services were held in the circle of wagons. The modern pioneers were treated to a potluck din ner and entertainment by the people of Durkee Saturday night. un Saturday the wagons traveled from Huntington to the local area campsite, a dis tance of about 23 miles. Three state police cars, two National Guard jeeps and nine patrol- ihen and National Guardsmen escorted the train. Hignway traffic was stopped and routed slowly past the wagon train. George McUne of Medford, driver of the Rogue River wagon, spent his third straight day treating a dislocated shoulder which became too painful to permit him to drive. Wagonmaster Tex Serpa drove for him. The wagon train left Inde pendence, Mo., April 19. Truck Fire Delays Highway 99 Traffic Traffic was delayed for a short time Friday afternoon l Highway 99 about two miles south of Rogue River when a fire occurred in a truck loaded with acetylene and oxygen tanks. State police said they re ceived a call about 4:30 p.m., but that upon their arrival at the scene the fire had been extinguished by the Rogue River Rural Fire Protection district. Police said the fire occurred in the cab of the truck and that damages less than $50 resulted. Due to the possibility of an explosion, traffic was tempor ily halted well away from the fire scene. The truck was owned by Industrial Air Products com pany, Medford. Sweet Home-flJPD-Local area residents today appeared to favor a plan to change the name of the proposed Green Peter dam on the South San tiam river to Douglas McKay dam. Klamath Falls -UPD- A stor age shed at the Klamath Basin Pine Mills burned Sunday night Rickover Tours Ice Breaker After Early Run-Around Vice President Flies From Moscow Leningrad. U.S.S.R. (DPD Vice President Richard M Nixon got a friendly welcome to Leningrad today. But after a "run-around" in touring the Soviet ice breaker Lenin, he put the pressure on and saw to it that Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover got a thorough look at the vessel. Rickover, who had com plained after a one-hour tour of the ship that he was getting a run-around, was invited to stay longer. After staying for another three hours, he said: I could see everything I wanted to see. They asked, 'Were you satisfied?' T id No, but I'm pleased. Sees Reactor Plant T don't think any Ameri can has had the opportunity to see what I saw. I am th first American to have the opportunity to see the entire reactor plant." It was not known immedi ately whether Nixon had in terceded on Rickover's behalf. Nixon flew here from Mos cow on a Soviet TU104 jet on the second leg of his 'Vap and friendship" swing through ouvki union. Nixon, Mrs. Nixon, and th. rest of his entourage got a hearty welcome from some 1,500 persons at Leningrad airport along with Soviet First Deputy Premier and Mrs. Frol Kozlov, who at the last mo ment were surprise additions to the passenger list. Photographs Released During the one-hour and nine-minute flight, Nixon and A-oziov reached an agreement enoing tne toviet ban on ship ment to the United States of undeveloped film of pictures taken by American photogra phers accompanying Nixon. The ban, imposed last Friday night on grounds that past pictures in Moscow were "un- friendly," was lifted for all film taken by American cam eramen since Nixon's arrival in Russia and through today's Leningrad visit. Crowds gathered wherever Nixon went in Leningrad dur ing the day. At the shipyards where the Lenin is being com pleted, he was surrounded by some 1,000 shipyard workers who applauded him when he said "This ship is a symbol of peace of the United States and the Soviet Union - the atom, only for peace, not for war." Nixon was courteously re ceived by the captain and crew and shipyard officials when he went aboard the shiD with Vice Adm. Hvman O. Rickover, "father" of the atomic submarine, U.S. Am bassador Llewellyyn Thomp son and Dr. Milton Eisen hower. Ask Same Courtesy But, although they were al lowed to look at the ship's reactors from a catwalk, they were not permitted on the floor of the hold where the reactors were located. They stayed there only a few min utes. Rickover, who had given Kozlov a guided tour of the Shippinsport, Pa., reactor sta tion, insisted that he wanted to see the insides of the shin. He was told by Boris Klopo tov, the shipbuilding plant manager, that the matter would be tiken 'up and a deci sion made soon. (See Story on Page 10) 20th Consecutive Day Of Hot Weather Today It the temperature climbs above 90 degrees today-as it may do-it will be the 20th consecutive day of 90-or-above temperatures for the Medford area. But the weather bureau. while forecasting fair and warm weather, sees no imme diate return to the 100-de-gree-plus weather of last week. Fire danger in the area's forests and rangelands continues high. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Tues day. Low tonight SO. High Tues day 92. TEMPERATURE Higheit Yesterday 95 Lowest This Morning Si Our Skiei Tonight Sunset today . 7:37 p.m. 4:59 a.m. 11:48 p.m. Aug. 4 Sunrise tomorrow Moonrise tonight New Moon PROMINENT STAR Vega, high overhead 10:23 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in west 8:36 p.m. Saturn, due south 9:58 p.m. Jupiter, low in southwest 10:12 p.m.