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hcLHiev Time Um Cqrae lFiw FT ? log eirs NEW AMBULANCE FOR MERCY FLIGHTS The twin-engine Beechcraft above-went into service this week as one of three planes used by Mercy Flights, Inc., only non-profit air ambulance corporation in the United States. The plane is one of Two Mew By Mercy Mercy Flights, Inc., of Med ford, the only non-profit air ambulance corporation in the United States, today an nounced the acquisition of two new aircraft. One of them went into serv ice this week. The other will be ready soon. They will replace two planes which have been used by the firm for the past four years. Both the new and old planes were obtained through the Rogue Valley hospital, from Air Force surplus stocks. The old planes will be re tired from service, and the ambulance firm will continue to operate three planes, the new ones, both twin-engine Beechcraft, and the twin-engine Cessna it has owned for two years. The lighter Cessna is used mostly at smaller, more inaccessible landing strips in the mountains. The larger, faster Beeches are used for longer flights. Leased by Hospital Under U.S. surplus property laws, the hospital is eligible for surplus materials, and is the owner of the planes. It leases them to Mercy Flights on a nominal fee basis, and Besty Beck is Queen of Gold Rush Jubilee This Week End Jacksonville Betsy Beck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al fred M. Beck, Jacksonville--Central Point highway, was selected queen of the Jack sonville Gold Rush Jubilee Wednesday night at the queen's dance. Princesses who will help rule over the Jubilee this week end are Sharon Huff man, Shearon Poole, Barbara Gysin and Jackie Rummel. Other candidates in the month-long ticket selling con test will serve as official hos tesses. The queen and her court will be honored .tonight at a banquet at the Jacksonville community hall at 7:30 o'clock. They will ride on the queen's float in the Jubilee parade Sunday. Coronation of the queen and special ceremonies at 10 a.m. Saturday will open Jubi lee festivities. Local, county and state officials and repre sentatives of the various Cen tennial groups in southern Oregon will attend the open ing events. Three Parade The first of three parades will begin at 10:30 a.m. with "Kids Centennial" partici pants in walking groups and on decorated bicycles and floats. A "western shoot-out" at the U. S. Hotel will' be held at 11 a.m., a watermelon eat ing contest at 12 noon, and a pie eating contest at 12:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon activi ties begin at 1 pjn. with a girls gold panning sponsored by the Northwest Mining council; 2 p.m., Bliss Heine drum and bugle corps; 2:30 p.m., kids Gold Rush and the Mountaineers; 3 p.m., archery exhibition; 3:30 p.m., boys' gold panning; 4 pjn., Jackson Creek 59,ers, F. J. Cliflord ballads and beard judging contest; 4:30 pjn., greased pig scramble. Beginning at 5 p.m., Coleen Hope will present a Western Revue; 5:30 p.m., box lunch at the Assembly of God church; 6 p.m.. Eve Prentice Accordion band; 7 p.m., Alex ander's Hawaiian band at the hotel and youth rally, Assem . bly of God church. Pageant A pageant, "An Oregon Trail," writtten and produced by Mrs. Scott Hamilton, Cen tral Point, will be presented on the high school grounds at 8 p.m. Doc Tweedy and Ernie Hood are directors. Events Saturday night will include awarding of a prize beef at 8:30 p.m. and the Ju bilee ball at the Community hall at 9 pjn. Dick Spain's band will provide music for dancing , which will continue until 1 a.m. Three church services will begin Sunday Jubilee observ ances. They will be, held at Aircraft Flights TMs Week the ambulance takes full re sponsibility for their opera tion and maintenance. The corporation, formed in the fall of 1949, began opera tions in January, 1950, 9V4 years ago. It carried its 996th passenger Monday, and ex pects the 1,000th patient prob ably some time next week. For the past several years, patients have averaged - 150 each year. The service has received in ternational recognition, and has been the subject of articles carried by Coronet, many oth er smaller magazines, and by Associated 'Press and United Press International. It derives is operating funds from pre-paid "subscriptions," entitling subscribers to free emergency medical transpor tation in a 400-mile radius. A majority of its flights are from Medford to either Port land or San Francisco, but an increasing number are from areas in southern Ore gon and northern California to Medford, . as this .city has grown in importance as a medical center. Non-subscribers in Jackson county and other nearby counties pay St. Joseph's Catholic church and the First Presbyterian and Assembly of God churches.- -f"-Vr - An old-fashioned 'dress pa rade down California st. will begin at 1 pjn., followed by a grand gold rush parade be ginning at the high school at 1 pjn. and the men and wom en's gold panning contest and Passenger Train Mishap Hurts 85 Menomonie, Wis. ttJPD The North Western Railway's speeding Twin. Cities "400" passenger train went off the tracks at the edge of a cliff today and the sheriff's office reported at least 85 persons injured. There were no immediate reports of any fatalities. Every available ambulance in this rugged northwest Wis consin area was rushed to the derailment scene 12 miles west of Menomonie, near Wil son, Wis. The injured, many of them reported to be children, were brought back in loads of four to five to an ambulance to Me nomonie Memorial hospital and Baldwin Community hos pital. The sheriffs office said sev en cars of the train went off the tracks as it sped out of St. Paul, Minn., en route to Chi cago. The cars tipped over perilously close to a cliff overhanging Highway 12. About 250 passengers were aboard the train. Council to Consider Demolition Contract The Medford city council tonight is slated to consider awarding a contract for de molishing the Western Auto building on the Eighth st. ex tension right of way east of South Riverside ave. A previous call for bids brought but one response, which the council rejected. The apparent low bidder when new bids were opened at city hall. Wednesday was Robert Gray, Eugene, in the amount of $2,490. Other bid ders included R and M Con struction company, Central Point, at $2,500 and Miller and Kanehl, Portland, $2,900. The project includes demol ishing the building and sal vaging its materials, to make way for Eighth st. extension work between South (River side and Bear creek. An alter nate in the bidding involves Dreaking and removing a con crete floor, but this may be undertaken later at less ex pense in connection with the road work. two obtained through Rogue Valley hospital from Air Force surplus. Majority of flights by the ambulances are from Medford to Portland or San Francisco,- although flights to valley from other areas are increasing. Accporedl rates figured at the cost of operation. Others pay com mercial rates, although Mercy Flights has a policy of non competition with commercial services when such are avail able. Started through public do nations, the service began with one plane, later obtain ing two others It has operated three for the past six years. A number of them have been replaced as they wore out. With the two new planes, the service will have used a total of nine planes in its 9V years of operation. Founder and chairman of Mercy Flights is George Milli gan, a Federal Aviation agen cy employee. Policy is set by a board of trustees which meets quarterly, and opera tions are directed by an execu tive committee of the board. Trustees include Milligan, George Flanagan, vice chair man; Mrs. Jeanette Thatcher Marshall, secretary; Eric W. Allen Jr., treasurer, and Mrs. Stephen Nye,: Seth Bullis Dr. Paul Walker William Brooks, Vern Smith Harold Frye, Frank Perl, and Dr. C. I. Drummond. " ; ; Ashland Kiltie band perform ance, 2:30 p.m. A youth rally is .scheduled at the Assembly of God church and the Mountaineers will perform at the hotel at 3 p.m. ', -. Gold Panning Championship gold panning will take -place at 3:30 p.m. and Grants Pass Barnstorm ers will present "East Lynne" at 4 p.m. In the high school auditorium. ; The old-time fiddlers con test will be held at 4:30 p.m.; Coleen Hope revue and Hay stack Scramble, 5 p.m.;' Eve Prentice band, 6 p.m.; and the Shadows, 7 pjn.' . Concessions, including cot ton candy, .food and drinlcs, carnival and pony rides, will be open until 11 p.m. , Special events also are planned for the Jacksonville museum. Other entertainment will be announced from the bandstand at the hotel. Proceeds from the Jubilee will begin a rehabilitation fund to restore the historic U. S. hotel. Ike Dunford, gen eral chairman, and Russ Jami son, coordinator, reported that "everything is ready" for the celebration. . - Copies of the Gold Rush Gazette, souvenir newspaper, will be on sale. This year's celebration is the 10th annual Gold Rush Jubilee. - Jacksonville Lions club is the sponsor. BARN BURNS A large barn at the Frank J. Cullen place, 1098 Ross lane, ; was destroyed by fire which broke , out late this morning. Firemen said that the roof of a chicken house and a tractor also were dam aged. The blaze started on the west side of the barn under the tractor but cause was not known, according to firemen. Call was received about 11:40 am. by firemen. Water was provided by Central Point rural fire district and Elk Lumber company tankers. Deep Space Probe May Foreshadow Rocket Shot Toward Mars Next Year Washington (UPD A deep space probe .planned for No vember may foreshadow a rocket shot toward Mars next year. Scientists believe they' could track a probe as far as Mars with radio transmitting and receiving gear now or soon to be available. How close they could come to Mars with existing rocket and guidance - equipment - is another matter. A miss of many thousands of "miles "ap pears unavoidable. 54th Medford 32 Pages The big new Sears Roebuck & Co. store on East Jackson st. will open for business in about three weeks, it was re ported today. Ralph . Jacobson, store manager, said the "target date" for the grand opening is Thursday, Aug. 20, al Budgets Accepted Without Change After Opinion The Medford and Central Point school district budgets for 1959-60 are acceptable without change, County As sessor Ray Schumacher has reported. Earlier, Schumacher; . re jected the budgets as invalid, because of an apparent con flict with an attorney gener al's opinion. A second opin ion, from, the state tax, commis sion, was sought, he said, and an examination of it revealed that the two budgets in ques tion will be accepted as being within the 6 per cent limita tion. : The opinion he received yesterday was from Ira Jones, attorney for the state com mission, and after conferring with Deputy District Attorney Gerald Scannell, Schumacher said that he now felt he could accept the school budgets and still comply with the intent of the law. The budget difficulties, he explained, were purely tech nical in nature and the possi bility of the school districts being left without adequate funds had not been present. The problem arose- over a consideration of whether the school districts had under gone "annexation" or "consol idation." They are considered now to be annexed and their tax' base is in accord with the budgets as proposed. The delay in re ceiving the state's opinion ap parently was caused by tech nical complications of the matter, since the opinion sent to Schumacher was eight pages in length. West Coast to Fly To Additional Cities Seattle-flJPD-West Coast Air lines said today several cities would receive its scheduled service for the first time soon. On Friday service will be started, to Salem, Bend-Redmond and Newport-Toledo in Oregon. Service to Lakeview and Burns will start Sept. 15, the company said. Washington -(UPD-The U. S. Court of Appeals ruled today that the Communist party must register with the govern ment under the 1950 subver sive activities law. The justice department has been trying to win the case for about nine years. Still, a shot in the general direction of the red planet, when it reaches a favorable losition for such an attempt on Oct. 1, 1960, would pro vide a good test of long-distance communications over planetary routes. The National Aeronautics and Space administration (NASA) would not comment on suggestions that a Mars shot may be on the agenda for next year. The' agency had hoped to launch a probe toward a near iujldiiig. ta Open .-Aug, .20 Year MEDFORD, though it may miss that by one or two days, . Preparations for the open ing are going ahead rapidly, he reported, with basic con struction of the building com plete, the last finishing touches being put on the in terior, and the stocking of some of the departments al ready under way. The Safeway store in the same shopping center location is planning to open at the same time, it was reported. Jacobson reported that some 50 employees have already been hired, in addition to con struction crews. He said store employees will total about 140 on a permanent basis, and that 85 to 90 per cent of them will be local people. r- ' Certain key personnel, such as some department heads, will be brought , here, from Sears Roebuck stores in other areas. ?'.,V- ' The store manager recently moved here from Olympia, Wash., where he managed the Sears-" itoxeA-Hnumber of Sears executives and special ists are in town helping to prepare. the store for opening. Carpeting Laid A tour of the building shows seemingly hectic but in reality well-organized activity on all sides. Most of the 10,000 square feet Of carpeting has been laid, lights have been in stalled, the air conditioning is ready to function, and several of the offices are staffed and operating. When ready, to open, the building and its contents will represent a multi-million-dollar investment for the com pany, Jacobson said. The store will have a total of 52 depart ments, and will be "the most complete and most modern store we know how to create,' store officials said. It will of fer merchandise and services ranging from baby clothes to TV sets, and garden tools to insurance policies. One department will be a complete 12-car service sta tion, offering all automotive services and supplies except gasoline. The building proper covers 85,000 square feet, of which nearly half, 40,000 feet, is in display space, with the rest for storage, offices and service areas. Parking for 600 cars will be provided immediately adjacent to the building, and some 1,200 more in the shop ping center as a whole, dur ing the first phase of con struction. Paving of the parking area is finished, and decorative shrubs along the front of the building were recently plant ed. Other stores and shops in the area will be opened as completed, but probably not by the Aug. 20 date, it . was reported. SalemMUPD-Gov. Mark Hat field leaves by plane late to day for San Juan, Puerto Rico to attend the National Gover nors Conference. er neighbor, Venus, when that bright planet was in a favor able position last month. But technical difficulties prevent ed, -and Venus won't be a suitable target again until Jan. 13, 1961. , - Meanwhile, NASA is going ahead with plans to test the feasibility of using solar pow er to run radio transmitters and instruments aboard probes designed to venture millions of miles into space. rats OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1?59 "You Obviously Recognize Our Superior Facilities For Putting Things Into Orbit" Miss Helen Webster To Ventura Position . Miss Helen E.. Webster, li brarian for the Medford and Jackson county library for the past four years, left Med ford this week. forVentura; CallCrwnere v she .wATTSe supervising librarian in charge of the Ventura city library headquarters of the county library system. : . Miss Webster, who resigned here recently, will assume her new duties Aug. 1.' She will participate in dedication cere monies there Aug. 16 of the new library headquarters. The county library serves a population of about 135,000 through its Ventura library headquarters, 17 branch . li braries, and two bookmobiles. It has a collection of 166,304 volumes with an operating budget of $288,317, Miss Web ster said. During her four years in Medford, the use and attrac tiveness of the library read ing rooms have been in creased. The library's book collection was built up, and collections at branch libsaries throughout . the county were revamped in the same way. For the first time a complete catalog and inventory of all book resources of county li braries were achieved. The local library staff has been departmentalized and trained , in specialized respon sibilities,' under- the super vision of Miss Webster, and professional librarians have been : employed to provide better reference and advisory service to readers. Miss Webster also instigat ed a regular program for in forming county residents by newspaper and radio releases of the books and services available to them. During the past four years the overall library, use in creased 20 per cent each year. Adult use of the library doubled during the first three years of Miss Webster's ad ministration. As a library public service, Miss Webster resumed this year the "Neighbor Lady" broadcast begun in 1952. She has published one book. Shower Parties for All Oc casions, which serves as a source for answering ques tions of library patrons. She has also had published a num ber of general and profession WEATHER FORECAST: Hot and - dry throngh Friday. Low tonifht 55. High Friday 100. Temp. Highest Yesterday .J : 95 Lowest this Morning ., 55 Our Skies. Tonight Sunset today 7:35. p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:02 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 1:43 a.m. New Moon Aug4 PROMINENT STAR Aretnrns, in the west 10:17 pjn. Classified among the stars as a "normal giant", Arctums is 3( light years from the Earth. Tribune I90U al articles in professional journals. . - Miss Webster came to Med ford in 1948 from Ft. Harri son, : Mpht., to establish the 'libraries "of 'the Camp White Domiciliary. From 1951 until 1953 she held the position of women's director at radio sta tion KMED. She left Medford for two r years of foreign travel and for county library work at Grays Harbor, Wash. Upon the retirement of Miss Faye Woolsey in 1955 Miss Webster was appointed Jack son county librarian to suc ceed her. . Miss Webster was a resi dent of southern California from 1921 to 1942. She re ceived her education in librar- ianship at the University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley. She worked from 1930 until 1942 in the Long Beach, Calif ., public library, and entered the service of the Veterans Administration in 1942, remaining with the VA until 1950. Salk Polio Vaccine Shortage in County There is a definite Salk polio vaccine shortage here as there is throughout the United States, Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer, said today. He said that the Jackson county health department is completely out of the vaccine and has no assurance of re ceiving a new supply until the first week in September. He stressed that this short age shouldn't worry those in dividuals whose second or third, shots are due during the shortage. He said that a variance of one or two months may be had without loss of effectiveness of Salk shots previously received. Dr. Merkel said that he had checked with a number of physicians in the area who are in the same situation. He recommended that those need ing the shots to keep in touch with their family doctor to see when he will have a new supply on hand. Portland-(DPD-Temperatures simmering round the century mark were predicted for Fri da by the Portland Weather Bureau, after today's torrid tops. BASEBALL Baltimore 2 7 0 Detroit ....ll 15 0 O'Dell, Johnson (3), Fish er (7), Hoeft (8) and Gins berg; Lary and Wilson. HR: Kaline, Detroit. Boston 3 6 0 Cleveland 4 12 0 Brewer, Fornieles (8) and While; Grant, Locke (9) and Nixon. HR: Malxone, Boston. Prjce 10 Cents No. 113 Talk Construed To Mean Possible 'Big Two' Session Vice President Goes Into Mine in Urals Leeytarsk. U.S.S.R. - (UPD - Vice President Richard M. Nixon told a Russian miner in the depths of a copper mine in the Urals today that "our leaders must have a chance to talk seriously in a climate where something can be done without resort to force." Nixon's remarks were con strued as a broad hint of a possible meeting between President Eisenhower and So viet Premier Nikita Khrush chev. Some people around Nixon feel strongly that a Khrushchev visit to the Unit ed States would be helpful. Nixon's copper mine appeal for a top leadership talk fol lowed by one hour a similar suggestion made in front of a Russian audience in a near by area. Shortly before going 700 feet down into the mine, Nix on said in drinking a toast at a lunch given by officials: . "This certainly is an occa sion ' to point out that what we need for the future is to reduce -the suspicion and re duce the area of conflict which exists. Wants Personal Contacts "Certainly one of the most effective ways is not by let ters : and not by statements made ; halfway, - around , the world, but by personal con tacts such; as this today.' I' do not mean that personal con- tack will solve our difficulties, but it will serve to reassure each of us and reduce the area and it does create a climate in which difficulties can be solved without resort to force, "This occasion is for this reason a most happy one for all of us. I hope that it may be one of the first steps toward understanding and will be fol lowed by other increasing con tacts among leaders and peo ple." From the lunch, Nixon went to the mine head, donned a miner's outfit, and with a group of mine officials and members of his entourage, went by elevator 700 feet down into the innards of the Russian Urals. Officials to Speak At Water Meeting Henry Stewart of the U.S. corps of engineers, and Travis Roberts of the U.S. fish and wildlife service will speak at a meeting of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources association in Shady Cove school gymnasium at 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3. They will discuss the corps of engineers suggested pro gram lor Lost creek, .ik creek, Meadows on Evans creek and Copper on the Applegate. The effect of the reservoirs on the fishery will be con sidered and questions which were unanswered at the asso ciation's last meeting will be answered, according to Wil liam Jess, president. Cite tig Covered Wagons Head For Strickland Meadows Strickland Meadows (DPD The modern pioneers manning the seven Oregon Centennial covered wagons headed for overnight encampment here today after a busy pace in La Grande Wednesday. The wagon train was es corted into La- Grande by riders from the Elgin Stam peders and the La Grande Mavericks. After lunch served by the Salvation Army, City Com missioner Gordon Clark gave Wagonmaster Tex Serpa a key to the city and bathing and swimming facilities were pro vided for the Fifty-Niners. Premier Makes No Comment on End To Geneva Talks Tens Reports Speech At Dnepropetrovsk Moscow-flJPD-Premier Nikita Khrushcev said Wednesday night that "the time . has come" for the Big Four to hold a summit meeting, it was reported today. The official Tass agency, reporting a speech made by Khrushchev in Dnepropet rovsk, quoted him as saying that the foreign ministers in Geneva "are coming up against big difficulties because they have to deal with com plex unsettled international issues." , He did not comment direct ly on the impending breakup the deadlocked Geneva talks. "These unsettled . interna tional questions are more amenable to discussion, and especially to solution, by the heads of government, because the heads of government have vast experience of settling international problem s," Khrushchev said. "They also have wider powers. "It seems to us that the time has come for the heads of government to tackle this difficult job. Let the minis ters exert fresh efforts to find mutually acceptable solutions and reach agreement on what they can agree upon. "The other, most difficult matters, matters of principle, will be considered by the heads of government." Khrushchev also revealed some details of his private talks six days ago with Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who spent today in Sverd lovsk, 1,200 miles from the Ukrainian city where the pre mier spoke. : He said Russia wants a Ber lin settlement to avert the danger of a war which he said West Germany might start. Seeds laid for- Geneva (DPI) Russia today laid the seeds of another ma jor cold war wrangle by de nying any part in the decision to break off the Geneva for eign ministers conference next Wednesday. . Soviet Foreign Minister An drei A. Gromyko was clearly understood to have agreed to ending the Big Four meeting in his talks Wednesday with Secretary of State Chritsian A. Herter. But only a few hours after leaving Herter's villa, the Soviet diplomat be gan backing off from the agreement. "There was no agreement to end the Geneva talks," declar ed Soviet delegation spokes man Mikhail Kharlamov. "Our position is that we should continue working here for positive results." U. S. delegation spokesman Andrew H. Berding's reply to this was, "I repeat what I said -there was an arrangement between Herter and Gromyko to end the conference next Wednesday." Cave Junction Fire Is in 'Good Shape' Grants Pass-A forest and brush fire which spread over 631 acres about five miles south of Cave Junction on Tuesday was reported in "good shape" today by the state department of forestry. The blaze has been under control for 36 hours except for a brief flare up resulting in a spot fire about noon yes terday. About 80 men were still at the scene this morning. A garage and shop burned down Tuesday afternoon, caus ing the larger blaze.. Dinner was on the Lions club and Junior Chamber of Commerce and later in the evening the wagoneers were driven to Eastern Oregon col lege for a presentation of the Centennial production of "A Doctor in Buckskin Calf.' The play, the story of the Whitman family prior to their massacre, was produced and performed under the direction of Dr. Alvin Kaiser. Strickland Meadows is 19 miles northwest of LaGrande. The wagon train is due in Pendleton Saturday morning. A rousing welcome is planned. Cold War Wrangl
