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K Is 11 if lis MS Hi 3 II J 1 j f! -v 5 i1. i X BRIDGE SITE Construction, of the new bridge across Bear creek, that will form the final link in Medford's one way Eighth st. couplet, is now well underway, with a concrete support and pilings already poured on the" east side of the creek. Completion date is scheduled for Oct. 31. The picture Khrushchev Takes Vacation to Gain Strength for Trip Moscow-(UPD-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev flew to his hillside summer retreat over looking the Black Sea today . to "gain strength" for his trip to the United States next month. His meeting with President Eisenhower the middle of Sep tember may be the number one diplomatic project of his career, and Khrushchev was believed to be preparing care fully for it. At a Kremlin press confer ence Wednesday, attended by 300 Soviet and foreign corre , spondents, Khrushchev said the question of a peace treaty with Germany would be No. 1 on the list of questions the two leaders would cover. East and West ended their Geneva talks on the German problem , in failure Wednes day. Khrushchev made it plain he would stress the question with Eisenhower. "We believe the principal and most important question is that of liquidating the con sequences of World War II," he told newsmen. Khrushchev went out of his way ; to sound peaceful. He spoke with a geniality that represented a marked change from the tone of his two ear- liervmeetings with the press in the Kremlin. . . ' One of them produced the six-month Berlin "ultimatum" which has since been extend ed but never entirely with drawn. Prospector Finds Decomposed Body The decomposed body of a man identified as Charles Glenn Kincaid, 61, of route 2, box 220. was found in his Foots creek cabin Wednesday evening. : ;""v Carter Howell, Grants Pass prospector, reported to state police that he discovered the body about 5:30 pjn. when he investigated odors coming from the cabin, which ' is ap proximately 5.3 miles from Highway 99. ; " - A calendar on the wall, which had days checked off through May 6, indicated Kin caid had been dead since that date. An autopsy was to be -performed today. Police found a .22 rifle belonging to Kincaid lying across bis body. Officers notified County Coroner Carlos Morris and the body is at Conger-Morris Funeral home awaiting loca tion of relatives. Salem - (LTD - Three Oregon Supreme Court justices plan to attend the American Bar Association convention at Mi ami Beach Aug. 24-28. They are Chief Justice William Mc Allister, Justice . William Perry and Justice . George Rossman. - WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and warmer through Friday. Low tonigbt 55. High Friday 95. , , Temp. Highest Yesterday - 91 Lowest this Morning 52 Our Skies. Tonight Sunset today 7:2 p.m. . 5:09 a.m. 8:31 pan. Aug. II Snnrise tomorrow Moonset tonight First Quarter . . VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, seen right below - the Moon tonight, is now only about 35 million miles from the Earth.' Saturn, due south 9:16 p.m. Jupiter, low in south- west ' 9:34 p.m. Employment Rise Noted in Valley The (increase in employ ment which has been noted in the valley for several months appeared to level off somewhat in July, according to a report issued today by John J. Patton, Medford man ager of the Oregon State Em ployment service. , Employment was at a high level last month, but there was less new hiring as most firms apparently had built up their work (forces to maximum levels.' ; - - .. . , Oregon Wagons Approach River At Reduced Pace Quinton 0PB - The Oregon Centennial Cavalcade, taking it slo'w'in Oregon, creaked 18 miles from Arlington toward this Columbia river town of 20 persons today to 'set up camp at Phillipie's Rancho, a local landmark. The seven covered wagons left Wednesday's camp site three miles east of Arlington on the George Shane ranch and paraded through Arling' ton. Afterward the wagoneers were1 breakfast guests of the Arlington Chamber of Com merce. The wagon train has slowed its pace since crossing into Oregon two weeks ago when it was determined it was ahead of schedule. The Cavalcade is due at In dependence, Ore., Aug. 15, completing its trip along the Old Oregon Trail from Inde pendence, Mo. Before entering its home state, the wagon tram made an, average of about 20 miles per day. The illness of Walter Hil- liard of Myrtle Creek, Centen nial wagon train member who was taken to a Pendleton hos pital Tuesday, was diagnosed as the flu. Hilliard, who is ter rier for the train, was given a shot and returned to the wagons. . - He said Wednesday he felt little but not much better. Reports from the train indi- j : : . ' -aicu many wagoneers nave colds or some type of flu now. Cause has been tttributed to weather changes , the train personnel have gone through recently. v . ; Paving on Jackson Reported Complete Paving of a two-block four lane area of East Jackson st. by the new Medford Shopping center has been completed, City Engineer Vernon Thorpe reported today. Tru-Mix Concrete company was the contractor. - - r .Completion of road work at the Biddle rd.-East Jackson intersection by the center has been postponed by the city awaiting construction of the state ", highway department's freeway through the area. ON FIELD TRIP ... ,Y Members of the Jackson county court and Howard Hopkins, Rogue River Nation al forest timber management officer, were on a field trip today ;to inspect the new Im- naha access road. They were to attend a meeting at Pros pect at 3 p.m. today to discuss the community ; garbage dump. " . " above shows the construction area in the foreground and the part of the Western Auto Co. building (dark roof) across the creek that is to be torn down to make room for the street. Demolition of the building was to start today. Hiring was only to replace turnover, Patton said, a "situ ation not unusual here during this time of year and which will probably continue until the fruit harvest gets under way this month." - Unemployment in Jackson county at the end of July was estimated at 650, a decline of about 25 per cent from June, when students were entering the labor market, and 35 per cent below that one year ago. Unemployment To Drop . Unemployment is expected to go "to a very" low level" when the pear harvest gets into full swing, although" not everyone will be able to work in the harvest.. Ladder work is too heavy for most women and. younger workers, leaving orchard labor mostly to older boys and men. . Availability of labor for the crop cannot- be -accurately judged ' until the harvest . is underway, he explained. Even with the slight drop in July hiring, most employers continue to be interested in interviewing applicants with good qualifications and most well qualified people with ex perience in skilled trades or office occupations have, little difficulty in obtaining employ ment. Skill Needed , The number of people mov ing into this area from other parts of the country, or indi cating a desire to come here, appears to be considerably larger than in recent years. Patton reported. Most who write to inquire about employment are now employed, but are dissatisfied with the community in which they -live. Some say they are tired of big city crowds and traffic and want "a little place in the country", and a vjob to keep the little place going. In the course of a year mi gration brings many new resi dents with excellent work ex perience and skill qualifica tions. Those , who lack such qualifications often find con siderable difficulty in locating work qf a permanent nature, he warned. . Neuberger Would Ask Nikita to Dedication m Washington (DPD Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) told the Senate Wednesday that he is in favor of inviting Sdviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev to attend the dedica tion of The Dalies dam next month. . ' , Dedication -ceremonies for The Dalles dam are scheduled for Sept. 2ft. ' Fou r New Patients F lown Break 1,000 The number of patients car ried by Medford's ' Mercy Flights, Inc.,' air ambulance service passed the 1,000 mark yesterday . , - One of the planes -flew to Bellingham, Wash.; yesterday morning, picked up two seri ously injured accident ' vic tims, and carried them to Portland, for treatment at the Goo. Samaritan hospital: They werer the 999th and 1,000th patients carried since Mercy; Flights, began its unique, non-profit service in January, 1950, nine years and seven months ago. The patients were Mr. and Mrs W. K. Dallas, Portland 54th M EDF0KD 30 PAGES Eisenhower Talks To Nation Tonight On Reform Pill - Washington- (UPD - President Eisenhower appeals to the na tion in a coast-to-coast radio and TV speech tonight to sup port tough labor reform, leg islation. Republicans hoped the White House appeal would bring a flood of letters and telegrams that would per suade the House to pass a stiff, Eisenhower-backed substitute Preside n t . Eisenhowei's speech tonight will be' seen on station KBES-TV at 6:30 o'clock. It will be carried on all valley radio stations, KMED at 6:30 o'clock; K Y J C at 7:15 o'clock; and K WIN. Ashland, at 7:30 o'clock. i instead of a middle-of-the-road cleanup bill approved by the House Labor committee. But some Democrats felt that Eisenhowers' ; interven tion could boomerang and ral ly southerners behind . the committee bill by injecting partisanship into the issue. Many southerners have favor ed the tougher substitute. Decide on Answer The Democrats were frying to decide who should answer Eisenhower's speech if the networks grant their request for equal time. They were con fident that the broadcasters would give them time to plug the committee bill before the House takes up the issue next week. . . All television and radio net Works will carry the Presi dent's appeal live between 7:30 .and 7:45 p.m. (e.d.t.). Some of, the radio networks will rebfoadcast . a recording of the speech later. . ' AFL-CIO President "George Meany goes on NBC radio two hours after the President in an attempt to muster support for a bill even milder than the committee measure, or no leg islation (at all. Key Republicans said Eisen hower would renew his en dorsement of the tough substi tute, offered by Reps. Phil M. Landrum' (D-Ga.): and Robert P. Griffin (R-Mich.). The Pres ident told his news conference last week that this measure was "a long ways closer" to his own, ideas than any other proposal. Public Hearing on Council's Agenda A public hearing on paving Mary st. from East; Jackson st. north' to Saling ave., at an estimated cost to i property owners of $7 per front foot, heads the Medford city coun cil's agenda for its meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight at city hall. $ Other paving projects, sani tary and storm sewer projects and a water main project are subjects of ordinances and resolutions before the council tonight. The councilmen are slated to award a contract for' re painting the airport terminal building, and to grant Cali fornia Oregon Power com pany an easement lor two power poles atop Barneburg hill. ; An agreement with South ern Pacific railroad . for sig nals at the Fourth st. grade crossing, at a cost to the city estimated at $6,110, is also to be considered. ? Mark for Mercy Flights who were seriously burned two weeks ago when the plane in which they and four others were flying crashed and burn ed on Blakely island in Puget Sound. They were hospitalized in Bellingham. Dallas is sales manager . for Textronix, Port land electronics firm. Means of transporting the couple to Portland were sought, and it was found that Mercy Flights had the only plane in the Pacific northwest with a door wide enough to accommodate the patients, whose arms are suspended and held rigidly away from their bodies because of severe burns. " Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1959 Herter Higher Education Commissioner to Speak Here Aug. 9 Homer D. Baddidge Jr., as sistant commissioner for high er education 'of the office of education, Washington, D.C., will speak Sunday at the Western Interstate Commis sion for Higher Education meeting here. He will speak on "implica tions of the National Defense Education Act for the West." Approximately 80 persons, including 39 commissioners, are expected ' here for the three-day event which begins with a meeting of the execu tive committee Friday eve ning. Three commissioners from the 13 Western states are ex pected to attend the sessions. All committee meetings and dinners will be' held at the Rogue Valley Country club with the exception of a Sun day evening barbecue in Li- thia park, Ashland. WICHE was organized fol lowing World War II for the purpose of arranging for the exchange of studies in the professional . fields to ' avoid the expense of unnecessary duplication. Since that time it has become . a . research and planning agency on a wide'r scale. The Medford meeting is the first time that the commission has met in Oregon.' : Business sessions are sched uled Saturday and Sunday and Monday mornings. Satur day noon speaker will be State Sen. Alfred H. Corbett, Portland,"whowill tell of "the role of WICHE from the standpoint of state legisla tures. - Reserve Group On Active Duty Approximately 70 officers and enlisted men of the Sec ond Battalion, 414th Regi ment (BCT), 104th Division,, Medford, are at Yakima Fir ing Center, Wash., for two veeks of active uuty training. Lt. Col. Robert A. Elliott, Medford, is commanding offi cer of the local Army Reserve group. Also undergoing training is another group of local men under the leadership of Capt. Robert 'D. Stephensen, com manding officer of the Re ceiving company of 104th Di vision. Ten enlisted men and Captain Stephensen are at Ft. Ord, Calif. ;' AH of the men will return to Medford Aug. 15, it was re ported. Men at the Yakima center are members of Headquarters, Headauarters company, and companies E., F, and G, Med ford. i C More . than 2,500 officers andxnlisted men of the North west 104th Division are. at tending the annual summer encampment at Yakima. Washington-nJPD-The Senate Indian Affairs subcommittee today reported ' favorably on Sen. Richard L. Neuberger's bill providing for early trans fer to the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Klamath water fowl marsh. Yesterday The plane, a twin-engine Beechcraft, has a specially modified wide door, to handle stretcher patients. It is one of two which Mercy Flights is disposing of to make way for two similar but newer air craft recently acquired from Air Force surplus stocks. It was. the last flight the plane will make for Mercy Flights. The new planes will have sim ilar wide doors soon. Later yesterday two more patients were carried by an other Mercy Flights plane, bringing the tota number of patients up to 1,002. The num ber of patients carried has av eraged about 150 per year in recent years. Flies Home 'Next Month? Why Yes, I Think I Might Be Able To" N ixoh Reports to Security Council On Russian Tou r Washington-UPD-Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon report ed to the . National Security Council today on his Russian tour and the importance of Soviet Premier Nikita Khru- shchev'sJJ. yjsit .nxt months Nixon, who returned Wednesday from a two-week trip, through Russia and Po land, brought back some up to the minute tips on dealing with the impetuous and hard hitting Soviet leader. . He thus is expected to take a leading role, in devising strategy '.for, dealing with Khrushchev when he arrives next month for a visit with President Eisenhower and his first look at the United States. Nixon, who gave the Presi dent a first hand - report Wednesday immediately on his return from abroad, met wth Eisenhower and members of the Security Council at its regular meeting today. The session, as is usual, was held behind "closed doors : of the White House Cabinet Room. Time With President The vice president spent an hour and 15 minutes with the President Wednesday. The President was to get another report today on deal ings with the Soviets from Sec retary of State Christian A. Herter when he returns from the Geneva foreign ministers' meeting. ' . ' ' ' The importance that Nixon attaches to Khrushchev's forthcoming visit was appar ent as soon as the vice-president stepped from his plane at' Washington National air port. In a statement to the en thusiastic crowd of 3,500 offi cial and unofficial greeters, he urged Americans "in the in terest of peace and justice" to Ashland Man Injured In Logging Accident Ashland - Ray Ashcraft, 25, of 80 Coolidge st., was taken to Ashland General hospital this morning for treatment of injuries he received m a log ging accident in the Dead In dian springs area. Members of the family re ported that he was in surgery shortly before noon. It was believed "that he suffered a broken leg when a log rolled onhim. . BASEBALL Detroit ... -'-4 10 0 New York . .... ..0 3 1 Foytack and Wilson; Dit mar, Maas (9) and Berra. HR: Wilson, Detroit; Yost. Detroit. Kansas City 3 5 Boston . 4 4 0 Herbert. Tsitouris (8) and Chili, House(4); Casale, Kie ley (9) and White. HR: R. Williams, Kansas City; Tut-, He, Kansa; City. show the Soviet premier "the same courtesy that the people of the Soviet Union showed me." 1 ' - r -: V .White House -Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said later that 1 the PresidemVtfelt Nixon's remarks of the sub ject were "very well -said and very much -in order." - Week End Events Includes Fiesta : Southern Oregon events this week end will include a -Centennial Fiesta at the Medford armory and the 1 gladiolus street parade highlighting the Grants Pass Gladiolus festival. ; Persons attending the fiesta will have an opportunity to visit many booths planned by Sacred Heart parish and view advance yuletide items at a Christmas stall. Over 6,000 prizes will be awarded during the three-day celebration which begins with a talent show at 6 p.m. Fri day. The old-fashioned conces sions will , open rt that time. Strollers and other facilities for toddlers will be available. Games for' all ages,' refresh ments, rides, movies and con tests will be held throughout Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. W A free dance is scheduled for 9 p.m. Saturday with Tay lor's Trio Plus Two. - - Items dating to 1880 and earlier will be on' sale at Mrs. Marie Shere's antique booth. Buttons the clown will appear Saturday afternoon. Among attractions will be an old country store and the "Table Rock Saloon" serving sarsaparilla and root beer. ; The gladiolus street parade will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sat urday in 'downtown Grants pass. , Klamath Falls Has; Pedestrian Death Klamath Falls (UPD Klam ath Falls recorded its first pe destrian traffic, fatality in more than two yearsx today with the death of a 66-year-old contractor. . Emerick Hult died at Klam ath Valley hospital about 6:30 a.m. today from injuries suffered Wednesday night when struck by a car. . . Driver of the auto, David T. Eittram, 79, of Klamath Falls, told police he did not see Hult until the moment of impact. He was not cited. - Survivors include two sons, Iver of Medford arid Sven of Portland. ' Oregon City -(UPD- Six chil dren were rescued from a burning home here late Wednesday. Price 10 Cents No. 113 Secretary Says Conference Eased Threat to Berlin Geneva (UPD Secretary of State Christian A. Herter flew home today, convinced" that the 10-week foreign minis ter's conference . here . had eased the Communist threat to West Berlin. Herter -made no formal statement before his convert ed . Boeing 707 jetliner took off for Washington, but he is known to feei that the Rus sians -have , tacitly withdrawn their Berlin ultimatum. ; Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, whose . turboprop IL-18 left for Moscow 13 mi nutes before Herter's depar ture, read a parting speech which said the conference "performed useful and. not in considerable work" and ex pressed hope that further ne gotiations might produce more! tangible results. ; 'Climate Warmer' Gromyko also said the coming exchange of visits be tween President Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khru shchev proves "the climate of international relations is get ting markedly warmer and better." : : - ? Herter is scheduled toland in Washington with first-hand information about the tenta tive aereement on . new dis armament talks which saved the foreign ministers confer ence from total failure... . Foreien Minister Maurice Couve de Murville leaves for home later today. . ..Fpreign ' Secretary Selwyn T.lnvd returned to London Wednesday night. A . mildly-worded commu nique closing the conference said it had brought the foreign ministers closer together on "certain points" but did not say what they were. " The only concrete achieve ment of the talks appeared to be the "useful exchange of views'" on disarmament nego tiations, announced in a sepa rate communique. Bus Line's Request To Be Considered Evergreen Bus Lines plans a resumption of service to and from -the business district for Medford's east and west sides,- according to L.' R. Pilcher, the company's manager. A franchise permitting the service for a 10-year period is scheduled for consideration by the Medford city council at its regular meeting at .7:30 o'clock tonight at'eity hall. Pilcher said today that the operation would begin xug. 17, with a single, 11-passenger Volkswagen bus providing hourly service from 7:15 a.m. to 6 p.m. with an hour's break at noon. He said that the bus would : operate daily except for Sundays and holidays. . Other buses would - be placed in service if the de mand developed, pilcher said. The fares, routes and sched ules are subject to the city council's approval. Pilcher said he would discuss the fare question with council mem bers tonight. Today State's Polio Incidence Said Worst Since 1955 .Portland -(UPD- The State Board of Health said Wednes day Oregon's polio incidence is the worst since 1955.. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer,-said Ore gon has recorded more fatal cases of polio, more paralytic cases ana more laboratory isolations of the dangerous type I polio virus during the last 17 weeks than during any comparable period during the past three years. Six more cases of polio were reported in" Oregon last week, bringing to 31 the number officially reported in the state so far this year. Three -of the six came from Portland and one each from Klamath, Marion and ' Mult nomah counties. Two of the cases were 11-month old in Has Slretch-Out Plan For Construction No Suggestion Made - To Jtaise Money Washington-ffiPB-The House' Public ! Works committee re jected today a plan calling for a drastic cutback in the construction schedule for the 41,000-mile network of inter state highways. It came up instead with a plan for a more moderate . stretch-out of the program to neip meet the highway fi nancing crisis.' The committee made no recommendations for raising extra monev needed tn yif up the highway trust fund even if the moderate stretch out were put ino effect. ' Thus, it tossed the ball back- to the house way arid means committee, whichvtechnically has the responsibility of find-: ing revenue for the highway fund. ,; , . ; Plan Delays Program f ihe ways and means com mitteers last week rejected' President " Eisenhower's re quest for a 1V4 cent increase in federal gasoline taxes and ' recommended this two - part plan to solve the money mud dle: . , . - - i Issuance of one billion dol lars in new revenue bonds to get over the immediate finan cing "hump." -Stretching out overall con struction of the highways to meet the long range problem of how to keep the program in the black. - . :, The ways and means com mittee plan called for slashing apportionments to the state beginning next July 1. This would be cut to $600 million- compared with the $2,500, 000,000 in present law. There would be correspond ing cutbacks in apportion ments for future years. . , But the public works com mittee recommended - that next year's apportionment be scaled down to $2,200,000,000 and - apportionments for the following. 11 years be fixed; at the same amount. - , r ,: If the ways and means-committee accepts, a different fi nancing . proposal would be necessary to pull, the program out of theJ red. The billion- dollar bond issue would not be enough. , Higher Tax Possible Chairman Wilbur D. Mills- (D-Ark.) said he will call his! ways - and means commiuee- into session Monday, to take, another look at the revenue, picture.. . , , The threat of a sharp reduc tion in the road-building pro gram has revived . talk that Congress might reluctantly decide to approve some form of gasoline tax increase after " all. ; ; ' ' San Bernardino Fire Near Containment San-Bernardino, Calif. -(UPD-' Fire fighters today contained 80 per cent of the 35 mile perimeter of a giant forest fire in San Bernardino National forest. Full containment of the 11,- 200-acre blaze by 1,800 fire fighters was hoped for by tonight. .- ' ; The blaze broke out Sunday in a stable and arson investi gators said it definitely had been set by a man. ' An investigation was under way to determine whether it was- set accidentally or on purpose. . Six firemen received inju ries battling the fire and one ' fire fighter died when he suf fered a heart attack while on fire lines. ; ' fants, one 18 months, one three years, one six years and one 36 years. " . Dr. Erickson said the situa tion was not likely to im prove because too few Oregon residents have obtained Salk. vaccinations. The state sup ply is now virtually exhaused and the federal government has asked drug manufactur ers to restrict shipments to states listed a s epidemic areas. " 1 He said "there are indica- ; tions suggesting .that inci-' dence could reach epidemic levels ' within the next few weeks." He has appealed to the U.S. surgeon general and to the regional medical direc- tor of the U.S. Public Health -Service for vaccine to help prevent any possible' epidemic. House Group
