Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 05, 1959, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textfo)snfl 5)UUl i. 4 r i n -.ft ,:! Is If ! -1 j . J fa t 4 54th Med 16 Pages CCIhpfls AgeEnies Aoninomiiice IPOain o (DDeami Up ColnflinbDa Clover Portland-IIPD-Plans to clean up the lower Columbia river by March of 1961 were an nounced today by Oregon, Washington and federal water pollution control authorities. The program . is an out growth of a 1958 conference among the U. S. Public Health Service, the Oregon State Sanitary Authority, the Wash ington Pollution control Com mission and other groups. The conference was held to discuss pollution of the Columbia be tween Bonneville dam' and Cathlamet, Wash. A public meeting will be held at the Interior building here Sept. 3 to discuss details of the program. Plan Listed The plans provide: ' 1. "So pollution will be tol erated which interferes with "legitimate water uses," which include public water supply, commercial uses in cluding sport fishing. -f- Change Proposed For Post Office In Jacksonville A change in the Jacksonville second-class post office, mak ing it a branch of the Medford post office, has been proposed bv the cost office department, according to word received bv Sen. Richard Neuberger W. E. Birdsall, director of the post office department's bureau., of operations, in formed Senator Neuberger that a recent investigation of the Jacksonville office has in dicated change is advisable. Conversion to a branch would save $1167 annually for the department and would alleviate future problems when Medford eventually ex pands, to encompass the Jack sonville area, Birdsall "wrote, Piesent city delivery serv ice from the Medford office currently serves within 2.05 miles of the Jacksonville of fice. The change should also ex- nedite a good percentage of the Jacksonville outgoing mail by one day, according to Birdsall, and bring incoming mail to the city on the 4:45 cm trip, expediting 15 to 20 per cent of the mail now dis patched from Medfora the lot . lowing morning. Mrs. Dorland'LaVae Math- eny was installed as acting Jacksonville postmaster July 24. If Jacksonville , post office is converted to a branch, pa trons would retain present mailing addresses, it was ex plained, and outgoing mail would continue to' be post marked with Jacksonville in Hiria The office would re main the same. Edgar Guest Dies In Detroit Home Detroit-flJPD-Poet Edgar A. Guest died early today at his home here. The 77-year-old poet laure ate of Michigan had been ill for several years. His physi cian said death was caused by a rerebral hemorrhage. Guest, who has been called "the noet of the plain people, had been writing verses for mnrp than 50 years. When he stoDned counting in 1930, he octimatoH he had written more than 30,000 poems." ' Salem -(UPD- Two charges of neglect homicide were filed Tuesdav aeainst Clifford James Crowe, 18, Warm Smines. following an automo bile accident Saturday that killed two pedestrians north Year FORD MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 51959 2. All Oregon and Wash ington industries on the lower Columbia from Bonneville to Cathlamet or "immediately adjacent thereto, or involved in operations so as to produce an effect not consistent with water quality requirements" will be required to submit re ports listing detailed plans for abating pollution. 3. All industries discharg ing wastes into the streams will be required to halt their pollution by March, 1961. 4. All cities contaminating the river "shall take effective action to construct sewage treatment works comprising not less than primary treat ment and effective disinfec tion." Time schedules for com pletion of these projects will be decided at next month's meeting. 5. No slimes in such amounts: that will interfere with specified legitimate uses" will be tolerated. 6. No bacterial contamina tion of the river by cities or industries will be allowed above rigidly specified levels considered safe for, .human and animal use. Portland Cited , , . ,1. I The announcement said that the proposed program is adopted in its present form it would be enforced by the two states with the help of the federal government. Any industry needing ad ditional knowledge" on its problem or possible solution may file a supplementary re port. " The Oregon Sanitary Au thority said the program is ex pected to be welcomed by commercial fishermen and sportsmen who have long complained about heavy slime growths m the uoiumma. Portland was the only ure- gon municipality listed as un satisfactory in the report. The Sanitary Authority filed suit last March 2 to force improve ment of the city's pollution control program but the case has not yet come to trial. Exposition May Not Close in Black Portland (DPD - The Oregon Centennial Commission's chances of breaking even at the Centennial Exposition now seem ' "very . difficult, Centennial Fiscal Officer Wil liam Garrenstroom said Tues day. He said an mcrease in paid gate attendance would be needed to put the Centennial Exposition in the black finan cially. Garrenstroom told the Cen tennial Commission at its monthly meeting that budget should be "continually re viewed and new expenditures eliminated unless they will increase gate attendance." July income. at the exposi tion here was $516,461 with expenditures totaling $600,- 000. Fire Levels Frame Building in Portland Portland (DPD An early morning fire today leveled a three-story frame building in Portland. A nearby shed was also destroyed and two ad joining structures were dam aged. Loss has been estimated at $48,000. - "The fast spreading blaze de stroyed a vacant Luilding pre viously used as a chicken hatchery, killing plant and store at 17050 S. E. Stark. Dr. A. JDaackthe owner. said the vacant building hou'sed refrigeration, feed mixing and other equipment which had ben used in the hatchery. Los. was placed at $45,000. Cause of the fire was undetermined. iv IS A XT oys Hie FIRST FOR JURY-Floyd J. Shore, 1309 Locust st., was the first name drawn by City Treasurer Darell Huson to fill a 200-member preliminary jury list for municipal court. Mrs. Lyda Connolly, traffic clerk (left) records names for the list which was drown from 1,350 names" taken from poll books of registered voters. They will supply jury members in com pliance with a new state law municipal courts throughout Western I Commission Plans Medford Meeting Between 80 and 90 mem bers of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Edu cation will meet in Medford this- week end for the annual meeting, according to Frank Van Dyke, commission mem ber and former chairman. The commission includes members from 13 western states. An executive meeting will be held Friday evening preceding the Saturday and Monday morning sessions. State Sen. Alfred Corbett, Portland, senate chairman ot joint ways and means com mittee during tne last two sessions of the state legisla ture, will speak at the Satur- dav noon luncheon at me Rogue Valley Country club. Corbett was vice chairman of the agriculture committee' during the last session of tne legislature and was a memoer of the iudiciary committee. He is presently a member of the state emergency Doara, legislative fiscal committee, and the mterstate compact commission. : Educational Exchange The commission is charged with working out details of educational exchanges among the western states - providing for residents of one state edu cational facilities not avail able there. Under the program, for in stance, Oregon students can studv veterinary medicine in Washington, while residents of Idaho can study dentistry or medicine in Oregon institu tions of higher education. The commission is also engaged in a study of mental illness, and thev training of personnel to cope with it. Following Saturday's ses San Bernardino Fire - San Bernardino, Calif.-TOPD-A 10,000-acre brush.fire which the forest service said "defin itely -was set by man," was 70 per cent contained today with full containment possible by evening. . ' A force of 1,700 firefighters succeeded during the night in pushing firelines around the 30-mile perimeter of the fire that broke out Sunday near Lake Gregory. One man, a Zuni Indian, was stricken with a fatal heart attack early today while on the fire lines. He was identi Tribune making jury trials available in the state. n te rstate sions the former chairman of WICHE will be honored at a dinner and reception at the club. Several committee meet ings are scheduled Sunday, Van Dvke reported, with a barbecue scheduled for Ash land Lithia park that evening followed by attendance at the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val's production of "Twelfth Night." Final sessions will be held Monday morning. Oregon representatives on the commission in addition to Van Dyke are Mrs. Edna Scales, Sandy, and- Dr. Jolyi R. Richards, chancellor, Ore gon system of . higher educa tion. . Western states represented on the commission are Mon tana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada. California, Hawaii and Alaska. Nixon Leaves for Washington Today Keflavi!-, Iceland-OIPD-Vice President Richard M. Nixon left here today at 7:08 a.m. (p.d.t.) for the last leg of his return to Washintgon from his visit to Russia and Poland. He had a stop over at Ice land of an hour and 48 min utes after his plane reached here from Warsaw. His arriv al time in Washington is now estimated about 1 p.m. (p.d.t.). In leaving Poland, Nixon was given a thunderous send off from thousands of cheer ing, flower-throwing Poles. fied as Leo Zunie, 50, Zuni, N. M. Halt a dozen other Indian firefighters were caught in a brief flare-up on the line and suffered varying degrees of burns. Another firefighter suf fered a possible fractured leg when he. was struck by a roll ing boulder on a hillside. Forest service fire control officer, Lloyd Britton, said crews were able to make good progress throughout the night and that if favorable weather holds through the day the fire could be contained by night Price 10 Cents No. 112 Wishes to Talk Peace Without 'Saber Rattling' Moscow-UPD-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today he would visit the United States next month "as a peace ful man" and that he wanted to talk peace "without saber rattling." In a rare news conference in the Kremlin, Khrushchev said the object of his history- making visit to the U. S., and the return visit later in the autumn of President Eisen hower, would be to find a common language, and a common understanding, of questions to be resolved." He said there are "real pos sibilities" that the U. S. and the Soviet Union could build up their relations on a basis of "peace and friendship." But, he said, "we must come together to talk peace without saber rattling." Berlin Stalemate Continues This was Khrushchev's third news conference since the one ne neid last JNovember in which he originally set a six- month deadline for the west ern allies to get out of Berlin, Today, with the Berlin ques tion still unresolved and the Geneva Foreign Ministers con ference a failure, Khrushchev and Eisenhower were making preparations-f-o r top-level talks which could pave the way to an eventual settlement. Khrushchev said today there will be no change in the status of Berlin as long as negotiations are in progress." Khrushchev started off the news conference by reading a lengthy statement in which he called for better relations be tween the U. S. and Russia. But, as usual, the meat of what he said was packed into his answers to questions after ward. Stresses Peaceful Purposes One reporter asked him if he would show Eisenhower a rocket base in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev ridiculed the reporter and replied that as far as he was concerned: "I know that America has rockets, but I am going there as a peaceful man for peace ful purposes. If I am invited to see rockets, I will not agree to see them." He also made the point that the meeting with Eisenhower will not replace a s' mmit con ference of the major powers, which he said Russia still favors. Instead, it will simply be a bilateral conference of the two strongest powers, he said, and there will be no agenda for the talks since they will be unofficial meetings and not negotiations. Hearing Tonight on Proposed City Sewer Eagle Point - A public hear ing of all Eagle Point property owners on the proposed city sewer will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the grade school gymnasium. : The hearing, called by the city council, will be attended by J. M. Gerow Jr., Oregon State Sanitation commission; John Pletsch, Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan as sociation: B. Kent Blackhurst, and a representative irom the John Cunningham association Hearing Control fall. Control was possible by Friday, Britton said. Elwood Stone, fire investi gator for the Forest Service said it still was not known whether the destructive, four day blaze had been purposely or accidentally set. Firemen were hampered by the extreme ruggedness of the area. ' . . . The fire was centered in a northern section- of the moun tains, surrounded at several miles distant by - such com munities as Lake Arrowhead, Crestline, Lake Gregory, Deer Park Lodge and Hesperia. Its t liliiiliil S:'?:':::o;A;w:::v:y::-:-:::v 4 5 HOT. SPOT A huge pillar of heat and smoke rising from a mountain top in the picture above, indicates the intensity of the forest fire which burned over an estimated 160 acres of , brush and timber land in the Gold Hill area yesterday. Emerging from the smoke column, a plane, which is in the Gold Hill Fire Burns 160 Acres Of Brush, Timber A fire, which swept through an estimated 160 acres of grass, brush and some timber along Highway 234 about two mils northeast of Gold Hill is "under control but still very dangerous," Curt Nesheim, southwest district warden of the state department of for estry, reported this morning. The blaze, which broke out shortly after noon yesterday, has been classed as a "smok er" fire. Nesheim said that a smoker was the most logical cause. Fire fighters, now mopping up, should be able to handle the situation but may encoun ter trouble before the day is out, particularly if the wind comes up, according to Nes heim : :V.-j. The' blaze, which ran fast because of strong wind, ex tended up Nugget butte. From 60 to 70 men who fought the flames yesterday included pa trolmen, "pick-up" labor and logging and mill crewmen. Two tractors were put on the fire and a line around it was completed about 9 p.m. Medford Air service, under contract to the U. S. forest service, cascaded five loads of borate,, about 3,000 gallons, on the fire at state forestry de partment request. One spot fire jumped the trail this morning but patrol men thought they would be able to get it out without too much difficulty. Forty men were on the mopping-up op eration. Pioneers Hearing Columbia River Arlington (DPD Oregon's 1959 Centennial pioneers trav eled due west today headed for "a wagon train encamp ment four miles east of here and their first glimpse of the Columbia river. Tonight's encampment will be made overlooking the river. . Tuesday night the wagon train camped on the football field of Union High school in Boardman and lunch and buf fet supper was provided by Boardman residents. Ray Waters, shipyard mas ter of the Pacific Inland Navi gation company of The Dalles, Tuesday outlined the train's barge trip down the Columbia Monday. He said the barge, a 220 foot long and 22-foot wide converted LSM, would leave The Dalles city port dock at 8 a.m. Monday and the barge's expected time of arrival at Willa-uette park in Portland was about 10 pjn. foremost front was six miles away from the Mojave Desert. Meanwhile, in nortnern California 475 men encircled a fire that burned over 1,100 acres in Plumas National For est between Greenville and Susanville and destroyed the Lights Creek ranger station Federal foresters expected to have it under control today. A fire in the High Sierra near Mariposa was brought under control within 3Vfc miles of Yosemite National park. Also controlled Tuesday night was a fire that burned over 1,420 acres of redwood, brush and slash at Harris near the Oregon line. process . of releasing a load of borate, is barely visible. Five loads of the mixture were dropped to help "cool!' the fire in sev eral areas. About 70 men helped put a trail around the fire, which is now in the mop ping up stage, according to state forestry department officials. Malheur Range Fire Burns 35,000 Acres United Piest International Firefighters corralled a dev astating Malheur county range fire early today after more than 35,000 acres of range land and grain fields had been blackened. The blaze burned to with in four miles of the eastern Oregon city of Ontario, and before a shift in wind, threat ened the city. U.S. forest service crews controlled a 650-acre timber fire burning in second growth pine near Sisters in the Cas cades early today. Fire Danger Renewed . . Rising temperatures and drier weather throughout the state have begun, again to push the fire danger toward the' critical mark: The bureau of land man agement said some 150 fire fighters and several hundred ranchers and townspeople fought the Malheur county fire. The fire, caused by a burning cigarette flipped from a passing auto on U.S. Highway 30 about eight miles north of Ontario, was fanned by winds up to 35 miles per hour. BLM officials said the range fire was Oregon's larg est in the past 10 years. The fire near Sisters, also man-caused, destroyed much young reproduction in addi tion to the second growth pine stand. No New Fires Reported No new fires were reported overnight by either the For est ' Service or the BLM. Crews were still mopping up earlier blazes. BLM officials at Vale said the Malheur county blaze might not have made it to Commission Files Condemnation Suit A condemnation complaint was filed Monday by the state highway commission against Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Kelm, William H. Breeding, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Anderson, Rogue River. The complaint states tnat the litigating parties nave been unable to reach an agree ment regarding the value of a parcel of land belonging to the defendants. The land. .207 acres m area, lies about one half mile west of Rogue River. The con demnation proceedings are in connection with the new free way that will pass through that area. BASEBALL Detroit 0 5 3 New York 3 8 2 Mossi and Wilson; Shantz and Howard. HR: Mantle. New York. WEATHER FORECAST: Continued fair to night and Thursday. Warmer Thursday. Low tonight SO. High Thursday 88-90. Temp. Highest Yesterday 89 Lowest this Morning 51 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today Sunrise tomorrow Moonset today 7:27 p.m. 5:08 a.m. 7:57 p.m. Aur. 11 First Quarter PROMINENT STAR Deneb, high overhead 11:52 p.m. Located in one of the densest parts of the Milky Way, Deneb is, like Altair, a bright white star with strong hydrogen lines. Ontario even if it had contin ued in that direction because of several miles of irrigated land and the Malheur river in between. I Early this morning the hot test spot of the blaze was in the southwest corner at Mal heur Butte. Much of the blackened acreage was pri vate land, and some was in grain. - A BLM spokesman said no ranches or farms were re ported destroyed." All of the burned land near Sisters was U.S. forest serv ice land, under the protection of the state. . Mrs.Lonch Held To Answer Charge Mrs. Esther Elizabeth Lonch was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of sec ond degree murder at a pre liminary hearing this morn ing in district court. She is charged .with the murder on Aug. 2 of William B. Simmons, Camp White. The state called three wit nesses during the hearing. Raymond Lee Clark, driv er of tne ambulance that transported Simmons to Sa cred Heart hospital on Sun day, testified that Simmons quit breathing" en route to the ' hospital and was pro nounced dead on arrival. Deputy Coroner Gordon Hays testified that Simmons had a severe contusion of the forehead, a deep lacera tion on the head, a minor black eye and a laceration on the hand. - Medford Police Detective Dean Abshire was questioned about the statement Mrs. Lonch made to city police on Sunday. He said that in her statement she admitted strik ing Simmons with a shovel. The defendant, represented by Medford Attorney O. H. Bengtson, called no witnesses. District Judge Roy Bashaw held that sufficient evidence was presented to hold Mrs. Lonch to answer. She is being held in the county jail with out bail. 'Say What Ever Happen To This Quiz Program?" ' ' hursday Radio, V Talks Set; Seeks Tough Law Democrats Demand 'Equal Time' Washington UP& President Eisenhower will make a na tionwide radio and television speech Tliursday night in an effort to prod Congress into passing a tougher labor re form bill. Congressional Democrats immediately de manded "equal time." , The White House announced that radio and TV networks had agreed to set. aside 15 minutes, from 7:30 to 7:45 p.m. e.d.t., for an address by the President on the need for an "effective" labor reform bill this year. ' , Press Secretary James C. Hagerty refuses to say wheth er the President would call for passage of a tougher bill than the one already approved by the Senate or a middle of the road version sent to the House floor by its Labor Com mittee. But key congressional Re publicans said . Eisenhower would renew his qualified en dorsement of the tougher bill. He will endorse it in sub stance, if not in name," one GOP member said. Demand Equal Time Democratic leaders were equally certain that he would plug for the stronger bill, and demanded that the TV and radio networks grant them equal time to reply. Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mont) said Sen. John F. Kennedy (D Mass.), author of the Senate bill, should be granted air time to answer the President. Rep. Steward L. Udall (D- Ariz.) said that Speaker Sam Rayburn or somebody desig nated by him should be given time to defend the House Labor Committee's bill. The House heads into a Donnybrook on the issue next week. Rayburn favors the milder labor committee bill over the tougher version spon sored - by- conservatives with Eisenhower's support. . The . President has said any labor bill must include curbs on "blackmail" picketing, and secondary boycotts." At his news conference last week,: he gave qualified en dorsement to " the Landrum Griffin bill which is consid ered tougher than the Senate approved bill or a middle of the road bill reported to the House by its Labor Commit tee. Opening Dates of County Schools Told - Medford district schools, in cluding Jacksonville, Griffin Creek, Rush, Lone Pine and Howard, will open Monday, Sept. 14 for the 1959-60"school year, according to the county school superintendent's office. Also opening Sept. 14 will be Phoenix schools and Dist rict 6C schools, including Central Point, Gold Hill and Sams Valley. Tuesday, Sept. 8 is opening date for Talent schools, Applegate school and Eagle Point, schools, including Shady Cove and Elk-Trail. Ashland schools will open Friday, Sept. 4; Rogue River and Evans Valley schools, Firday, Sept. 11; and Pros pect and Butte Palls, Monday, Aug. 31. Opening date for Pinehurst school will be announced later. of here.