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Subscribers Recommended Price 10 Cents To report improoer or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ash land MB 2-1021, Trek- VI 2-4077 before 6:45 pjn. daily and 12:30 pjn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. A story about diving for gold on the Applegate river by sev eral valley men as a hobby may be found on Page 12 of today's Mail Tribune. ' t United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wir 50 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1959 No. 115 MEDFORDrfRIBUIE rjilderville Fire Contained; Store, Post Office Burn Grants Pass A forest fire which destroyed a Wilderville store, three homes, one of which included the post office, and other smaller buildings was reported "contained" last night. The fire, which started near the Wilderville store about 1 p.m. Friday, had burned about 800 acres by late yesterday, and state forest officials said they hoped to have it under control by late last night. The fire's spread had been reported stopped, although there were still some trouble spots at about 10 o'clock last night. The home of Arthur Young blood, which also housed the Wilderville post office, was destroyed. A home owned by Robert Eastwood also was des troyed, and another man, Merlin Nelson, was burned when he extinguished a blaz ing roof at his home. Nelson suffered second de gree burns on his ears and arms, according to a Grants Pass physician who treated him. The physician said Nelr son's hat caught fire. , Reports that other homes had been destroyed could not be confirmed late Saturday. Barn Destroyed J- Barns owned by Ted Gal vin and Mrs. Marie Twete also Three Churches Reported Scenes Of Crimes Here One hundred and fifty dol lars "intended "for'a 'church camp was stolen from the Zion Lutheran church, 516 West Fourth st., sometime Fri day night, according to Med ford police. A theft and an attempted burglary, at two other Med ford , churches were also re ported, police said. Forty dollars was reported taken Friday afternoon from a desk in the Apostolic Faith church, 404 North Central ave. St. Mark's Episcopal church, 212 North Oakdale ave., was broken into Friday night though no money was taken, police said. The Rev. H. C. Coovert, minister of the Zion Luthern church, told police Saturday morning that about $150 in cash and checks was taken from a small combination safe inside a metal cabinet in the church Friday night or early Saturday morning. Two silver dollars and some small change were left by the burglars, police said. Entry to the building was possibly gained through unlocked doors. At the Apostolic Faith church, a leather purse con taining two $20 bills and some change was taken from the desk drawer of Wanda Varian Day, 10 East Clark st. The theft occurred between 3:30 and 4:30 p Jn. - Friday while she was in another part of the building, according to police reports. The Rev. George R. V. Bol ster of St. Mark's church told police that D a g w e 1 1 hall, which contains offices and Sunday school rooms, was broken into between 9 pjn. Friday and 8 ajn. Saturday. There was no money in the building, he said, but the en trants went through some of fices, pried open a metal box, and removed a molding strip on a door before they left. The entry was discovered Sat urday morning by Burt Triep, 606 South Central ave., a jan itor af the cjiurch. Twister Reported Qu Mafifnrrl Man vj riwuiviu nun A Medford man reported that a whirlwind twisted over Jiis three acre field of straw yesterday afternoon in the Kenwood - Grandview area and scattered it "all over the place." Lyle Jsrmin, 1289 East Mc Andrews rd said the whirl wind, after traveling through his field, dissipated itself over the new Sears lot It cut a swath about 100 feet' wide, Jarmin said, and "dumped the straw all over the house and lawn. It was really an oddity." were destroyed, according to reports, confirmation of otner barns deStroverl could not be made immediately, although "about" a dozen sheds and barns were reDorted burned. Grants Pass sources said Erling Twete had to forceably remove his mother from the burning barn. She was trying io exunguisn tne blaze, the sources said. Curt Nesheim. warden for the southwest district which includes Jackson and Jose phine counties, said the fire was contained after burning an acre and a half about 3:30 p.m. Friday, but unexpected gusty winds whipped the blaze, and spotted it in several areas. It quickly sDread throush the dry brush and grass, he said, and by late Saturday had covered about 800 acres. Highway Closed HIgl way 199, the Redwood highway between Crescent City, Calif., and Grants Pass. was closed for a while late Friday when the fire burned too hot on each side to allow traffic to pass safely, Nesheim said. More than 100 men and five tractor-type bulldozer tractors were on fire lines; Saturday and by late last night there were still 60 men and two tractors working. Nesheim said about 80 men would be fighting the blaze today. The fire late Saturday was chiefly south of Highway 199 and west of the Applegate rd. Some fire remained north of Highwayl99. Most of the fire, until late Saturday, was in reproduction growth, brush and grass, but by yesterday afternoon it was sweeping in to steep country- southwest of wuaervuie. Nesheim said the fire ap parently started from a dow- erline behind the Wilderville store. Two Other Fires Meanwhile, crews were mopping UD two other laree fires in Josephine county. Both were contained after about 120 acres in each had burned. One was four miles west of Merlin and the other was near Dryden on Thomoson creek about four miles east of Selma. Thirty-five man crews were at each site. The weather forecast is for temperatures to continue in the mid-90s through Sunday with no precipitation in sight. A cooling trend was expected in the northern part of the state, but the Medford weath er bureau station said it would not be felt in southern areas. Seetng-Eye Dog Saves His Master Ashland -0PD- Alert action by a black Labrador seeing eye dog saved his master from possible death here Fri day. Al Kinser, 35, of Ashland, and his dog narrowly missed death when a five-ton loaded oil truck broke loose and rolled backward from a side street toward them. The dog stopped the man by jumping in front of him and waiting motionless while the huge truck raced down the hill, executed a U-turn and smashed into a store front directly in the path of Kinser. The dog held the man mo tionless while glass sprayed, according to police, and then led him around the truck and proceeded. Police chief Herb Hayes said a citation would be is sued to the Whittle Oil com pany, owners of the truck. Officers said the vehicle was parked without brakes locked and not in gear. The driver was not present. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair, warm and dry through Monday. High today 95. Low tonight 38. High Monday 98. TEMP Highest Saturday 94 Lowest Saturday 57 Our Skies. Tonight Sunset today . 7:31 p.m. 5:04 oi 4:20 a.m. Sunrise tomorrow Moonrise tomorrow PROMINENT STARS Square of Pegasus, in the east : 10:45 pan. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, low in west 8:12 pjn. Saturn, due south 9:33 pan. Jupiter, low in southwest 9:49 pan. "Quiet! V"-! I , &r-r I CATS ' - t n. rQ"lU 1 Raging Blaze Nears Yosemite as Smoke Halts Use of Borate Usona, Calif. (UPD A rag ing forest fire blazed to within four miles of Yosemite Nation al park last night, sending up dense billows of smoke visible to the hundreds of campers in the national vacationland. An army of 750 fire fighters fought to prevent the fire from moving closer to the park. Cal ifornia division of forestry of ficials said they were hopeful the fire could be stopped and partially tamed by dawn. It has already devoured 8,000 acres of timber and brush, including a large area of trees in the Sierra National forest. . - .Fire .fighters were hamper ed by the thick smoke. , Division of forestry officials said visibility was considerab ly restricted at the headquar ters camp here near where the blaze was burning in a border area of Mariposa, Madera county. Aircraft Grounded Aircraft being used to drop borate compound on the flam es and for reconnaisance work were grounded because of the smoke rising high into the air over the burning area. About 650 men were man ning the fire lines with 150 more, including 100 expert firefighting Indians from Ari zona and New Mexico, brought in yesterday by Sier ra National forest officials. One-third of the blackened area is reported to be on for estry service land. "The situation is fluid," said a ranger spokesman. "We have requested another 100 Indians for tomorrow." Separate Camp The forest service has set up a separate camp at Cold Spring Meadow, a few miles to the east. Forestry personnel hoped if there were no strong winds yesterday afternoon they might be able to contain the fire before today. There still was about a mile of open line on the northeastern edge of the blaze, they said. . "If we get another blow out," a forestry spokesman added, "it will run for prob ably another 2,000 to 3,000 acres and take two or three more days to control." Yosemite park officials re ported they weren't at all Attendance at Shakespearean Festival Plays Reported Showing Ashland Early season at tendance is showing a strong gain over last year at the Ore gon Shakespearean Festival, William Patton, general man ager, said yesterday. Last night's performance of "Twelfth Night" was a sell out, with people reported waiting in. line for standing room tickets. . . . Rumors that tickets for August had been sold out, however, are false, Patton said. "Goorl seats remain for all performances," he said, "with an excellent selection on most nights." . With the elevation of the rear rows, the removal of the blocking light towers, and im provements in both sight and sound, patrons have a much broader choice in premium seats, he noted. Audiences at the opening I'm Busy" worried - about the flames reaching their area at the present time. They explained there were several high peaks the fire would have to climb before it could reach the southern edge of the park. Kennedy fo Wait Till Next January To Tell Decision Portland (UPD - Sen. John Kennedy (D-Mass.) said yester day he planned ' to make no formal announcement until next January on whether he will be a candidate for the 1960 presidential nomination. The senator, who arrived here for a three-day visit, said the announcement .would come no sooner because of the busy Senate session. After that he hopes to visit Africa. Kennedy, often mentioned as a leading Democratic nomi nee, said the Oregon primary race would be "significant." When asked if he would cam paign actively .in the state if he is a candidate he replied, "Quite obviously if you're go ing to be a candidate, you're going to be in Oregon." Under a new state law, the secretary of state may put on the primary ballot the names of all presidential and vice presidential candidates "gen erally advocated in national news media." r Following the announce ment of Sen. Hubert Humph rey's (D - Minn.) candidacy, Humphrey supporters in re cent days have outlined Ore gon campaign plans. Kennedy said Vice Presi dent Nixon's Soviet trip was "good" but except for an "im mediate . advantage," he doubted its political signific ance. The Senator said he ap proved the idea of Russia's Khrushchev visiting the United States. He also said he thought New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller could not be discounted as a GOP presi dential nominee in 1960. plays, Patton said, commented on improvements, mentioning especially the increased audi bility. Tickets for all nights are now available at the central box office in Ashland from 9 a.m: until 9 p.m. daily, and from 1 until 9 p.m. on Sunday. Reservations may also be made at Mann's Department store, -Medford, Patton said. Attendance at the four opening nights indicates new box office records. Following the record-breaking opening night crowd of about 1,200, the second evening audience established a new second- night mark. Seating capacity in the new theater is 1,144. A total of 612 attended "King John" Wednesday, and 640 viewed "Measure for Measure" Thursday, Patton said. "Anthony and Cleo 0 and C Counties Get Record Share Of Timber Income Over $2.3 Million For Jackson County Portland - Oregon's 18 O and C counties will receive a record - breaking $14,761, 926.48 as their share of re ceipts from timber sold dur ing the last fiscal year on revested Oregon and Califor nia Railroad grant lands, Secretary of Interior Fred A. Seaton announced today. The total represents slight ly more than half the total receipts from timber sales of $28,192,225.66, Seaton said. Payments range from Lincoln county's $53,142.94 to Doug las county's $3,706,719.74. Jackson county's share of the O and C receipts is $2, 314,670, compared to $1,720, 960.67 during fiscal year 1958, Seaton said. , Josephine County Josephine county will get $1,774,383.56, compared t o $1,319,256.84 the year before. Total payments are up more than $3.8 million over a year ago. Both the bureau of land management and the forest service topped their previous high timber sales mark with an increase of more than $6 million over last year's sales. Total forest service timber sales on the half-million O and C acres under its admin istration grossed $3,096, 139.34, and BLM receipts to talled $25,096,086.32. Net Payment The BLM said the checks to counties represent net pay ments after deduction of the counties' contribution toward construction of forest access roads and . reforestation of cleared forest lands. Under an agreement with the .federal., government, the counties' are making avail able about one-third of the 75 per cent share of receipts to which they are entitled for road building and reforesta tion. ' Lost Creek Figure Hi The minimum release from the suggested Lost Creek res ervoir in the Rogue river ba sin program would be at least 700 cubic feet per second, ac cording to Henry Stewart, of the Corps of Engineers. Stewart notified William Jess, president of the Rogue River Basin Flood Control and Water Resourcase association, of this figure. It is a 40 per cent increase over an original estimate of 500 cubic feet per second noted in an earlier statement. Stewart is expected to re view the proposed project at a public meeting of the asso ciation at the Shady I Cove school gymnasium at 8 p.m. Monday. He also is expected to an swer questions that remained unanswered at a recent meet ing of the association in Med ford. Also scheduled to be at the meeting is Travis Roberts of the U. S. sport fisheries and wildlife service. To be discussed are the pro posed programs for Lost creek, Elk creek, Meadows on Evans creek and Copper on the Applegate, and the effect of the reservoirs on the fishery. Strong Gain patra" Friday drew 948. The total so far this season is 3,357, he said, an increase of 824 over gate counts in the opening round last year. The Festival is again oper ating the nightly Bard's Evergreen Bus service from Medford. The bus leaves the Medford hotel at 7:30 p.m., and the Jackson hotel at 7:35 p.m. It goes directly to the Elizabethan theater. The bus returns to Medford after each night's play. Also under way is the Fes tival's new film program featuring two outstanding motion pictures each week J with daily showings at 10 a.m. and 2 pjn. . Screening times are alternated daily for the convenience of Festival visitors. The film festival' is in the- American Legion halu adjacent to Lithia park on Winburne way. INI 5 2i mi IP o- pm h Ai red im dodi, TV odd Eiuissd JUBILEE QUEEN-Miss Betsy Beck, center, has been named queen of the Jacksonville Gold Rush Jubilee. She was crowned yes terday morning at opening ceremonies at the U.S. Hotel in Jacksonville. Her court Jacksonville Gold Rush Slate Features Big Panning Jacksonville Large crowds braved the heat yesterday af ternoon to participate in first day events in the week end Jacksonville Gold Rush Jubi lee. The Jacksonville Lions club is sponsoring the event, to raise mpney for the U.S. Hotel project. It will continue toSay with the main feature the international gold pan ning contest scheduled at 3:30 p.m., at the Northwest ern "Mining Council's ' booth on California st. Opening the Centennial celebration was Dr. Edwin R. Durno, state senator from Medford, who represented Gov. Mark O. Hatfield. Fol lowing his brief remarks about Jacksonville and the Jubilee, Dr. Frank Haines, president of the Siskiyou Pi oneer Site Foundation com mented on the history of Jacksonville. Other opening ceremony guests included County Judge Earl Miller, County Commis sioner Ralph James and Jack sonville Mayor E. O. Graham, who. welcomed visitors on be half of Jacksonville residents. Mrs. Shirley Lillie John son, Jubilee queen at the last event three years ago, crown ed Miss Betsy Beck, Jackson ville, queen following the opening ceremonies at Jubi Visit by Khrushchev Seen Deadlock Hope Geneva - (UPD - Russia refus ed again yesterday to guaran tee Western rights in Berlin after a projected truce. West ern officials looked to a U.S. visit by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as the only possi ble way of breaking the East West deadlock. Sources close to the stale mated Big-Four foreign minis ters conference here said theJ Western allies already have approved the idea of President Eisenhower inviting Khrush chev to the United States. U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter conferred for nearly four hours with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko. Western officials and Soviet spokesman Mikhail Kharlamov said there was no progress. Herter Tried Western sources said Herter tried to get a statement from Gromyko that Western rights in Berlin would be unchanged at the end of any truce. Gro myko avoided any such com mitment, they said. As a result of Gromyko's evasiveness, and with the conference scheduled to end Wednesday,' hopes of western diplomats were pinned imme diately on a future Khrush chev visit to America as a means of breaking the dead lock. Sources close to the big four foreign ministers con ference here said British, French and West German leaders were informed by the United States that Eisenhow er is considering an invita lee headquarters in front of the U.S. Hotel. Bozo the Clown Pinto Colvig, "Bozo the Clown" who was born in Jacksonville, is official host for the two-day event, and led the Kids Centennial pa rade yesterday morning. A float depicting early gold panning entered by Douglas and Susan McGinty, children of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Mc Ginty, 1805 Roberts rd., Med ford, was" judged first in the Kids parade. Other popular contests yesterday included a water melon eating contest in which about 40 entrants participa ted, and a pie eating contest with about 30 entered. Alice Schminky, 12, was judged champion in the girls' gold panning contest, . and Dennis Hancock, 11, was nam ed champion in the boys' con test yesterday afternoon. Sec ond place winners were Kath leen Neal, 10, in the girls' division, and her brother, Patrick Neal, 15, in the boys' division. Fiddling Honors , In yesterday's fiddling con test, Okonogan Slim carried off top honors, with Marion Hulfe, second, and Glen Op pie, third. Eugene Gemaehlick, Jack sonville, won the prize for the tion to Khrushchev as a re sult of Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon's visit to Russia. The allies were said to have made no objection to such a move. There was no official con firmation of the report. Eisenhower is considering an invitation to the Soviet leader possibly before the end of Nixon's current Mos cow trip, or soon after the vice president returns home and reports to the President, the sources said. A U. S. delegation spokes man said he was aware of the reports but was unable to confirm or deny them. New Flames Seen East of Mariposa Mariposa, Calif.-(UPD-A new forest fire, about 13 miles northwest of the raging Sierra National forest fire, was spot ted at 1 p.m. yesterday in the Bryceburg canyon. Firefighters said they would not try to tackle the new blaze, located about 14 miles east of Mariposa, until it reached the top of the Bryce burg canyon hill. U. S. fores try service men were attempt ing to make a fire line at the top of the 750-foot brush cov ered hill. Eight planes bombed the blaze with borate yesterday afternoon. A fire' lookout said it would turn into a "pretty good size blaze" by the time it reached the top of the hill. includes, from left, Jackie Rummel, Sharon Huffman Shearon Poole and Barbara Gy sin. Miss Beck will reign over Jubilee events today, the last of the week end event celebrating Oregon's Centennial. Contest most artistic beard. Dean Salt- marcn, Medford, was pro nounced the man with the bushiest beard, while the prize for the scraggliest growth was shared by James Pickard, Jacksonville, and Robert Kin kade, Ashland. A feature attraction last night was the presentation of "An Oregon Trail," a pageant written and produced by Mrs Scott Hamilton, Central Point. It was directed by Doc Tweedy and Ernie Hood, Other attractions yesterday included various musical groups, an archery exhibition, and the Jubilee ball last night at the community hall with Dick Spain's band. Today's agenda includes, in addition to the gold panning contest, an old fashioned dress parade at 1 p.m., and the grand parade at 1:30 p.m Both parades will go along Califor nia st. Entertainment groups participating today include the Mountaineers, the Barnstorm ers of Grants Pass and their presentation of "East Lynne," and an Old Fiddlers contest. The latter is scheduled for 4:30 pjn. Visitors from Afar The Jubilee Saturday at tracted visitors from Vancou ver, Wash., Redding, Calif., and a visitor from the Canal Zohe. Bus service from Medford to Jacksonville is available along West Main st. Buses leave downtown Medford at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. and return from Jacksonville at 12:45 and 5 p.m. Shasta Battlers Seek Fire Control Redding, Calif. - (UPD - For estry official! hoped to control a 3,500-acre blaze in Shasta county last night with the clos ing of one more mile of con trol line. . j Joe Nobie, dispatcher for the Trinity Shasta National forest, said that men bn foot were chopping the final mile in country so steep that bull dozers cannot reach it. He reported that the fire had destroyed 25-million board feet of timber worth $625,000. Watershed damage amounted to $35,000. In all, 625 men were fight ing the fire, which broke out of earlier control lines Friday in the Pollard flat area, about 25 miles north of here. Another blaze started in Siskiyou county yesterday aft ernoon, about 50 miles west of Yreka in the Klamath Nation al forest. But assistant federal dispatcher Bob Winter said tanker planes and 30 men got it under control before it de stroyed more than five acres of timber. Sports Bulletin Memorial Stadium, Camp White - Eugene McCulloch Chain Saw edged the Rogue Valley Dairy Maids 2 to 1 hr last night in Northwest Women's Major Softball league gam. A Wide Program To. Break Down Barriers of Fear Vice President Urges Contact, Cooperation Moscow -(UPD-Vice President Richard M. Nixon last night proposed in a broadcast to the Russian people a wide pro gram of Soviet-American co operation and communication. to break down barriers of fear and give the world "peace based on mutual respect." . Russians tuned in on radio and television to hear the vice president tell them that only an aggressor nation" has any thing to fear from America, the country with the highest living standard in the history of the world. Nixon ranged over military, scientific, social and cultural aspects of the cold Var in his 4,000-word speech which was advertised beforehand by the Soviet radio and TV networks. He emphasized that both Rus sia and the United States are so strong a war would bring chaos. ' "This means that if we are to have peace, it must be peace based on mutual respect rather than a peace of surrender or dictation by either side." To achieve this end, he pro posed: More contacts between Am erican and Soviet officials which some observers took as another hint of a Khrushchev Eisenhower meeting. Regular broadcasts to each other's countries by the Ameri can president and the Soviet premier. An end to Soviet jamming , of American broadcasts and a freer flow of news publica tions to both countries. Agreement t h a t all of Khrushchev's and Eisenhow er's foreign policy speeches be printed in each other's country. More study of the Russian and English languages by stu dents. A sharply expanded pro-. gram of cultural exchange and tourist traffic. Scientific cooperation be tween Russian and American scientists. Space Cooperation "Let us cooperate in the ex ploration of outer space," he said. "As a worker told me in Novosibirsk (Siberia), let us go to the moon together." Throughout, Nixon stressed the theme of peace, but not the Soviet idea of "peaceful co-existence," which he re jected as a negative attitude that divides the world into Communist and anti-Com munist camps. "Putting it bluntly," he said, "both our peoples want peace. But both of us also are possessors of great strength and much as we want peace neither of us has, or will tolerate being pushed around." He warned that anyone who started a war would be "in sane." But he said both Rus sia and the United States must realize "we have some very real differences that they are not easily settled." Nowhere did he say any thing about inviting Khrush chev to the United States. But he did say that his visit, like those of First Soviet Deputy Premiers Frol. R. Kozlov and Anastas I. Mikoy an to the United States was a means of "developing solu tions" to problems. Khrushchev himself hinted during the day that he would like to go to the United States, "when the time is ripe, in good time." Eisenhower Praises Nixon's Tour Conduct Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Eisenhower has sent a personal message to Vice President Richard M. Nixon praising his conduct during his "peace and friendship" tour of Russia, the White House announced yesterday. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the President expressed his "admiration and respect" for Nixon's per formance during his 10- day visit.
