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IPOain o (DDeami Up
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.