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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1959)
Tot Labor Pa ojsnn 0)1 U I toy Moiiii-s Price 10 Medford 20 Pages 'It Looks As If A Good Corn Horse Show Sunday Opens County Fair Approximately 60 members of the county's 4-H horse clubs will take part in the Sunday horse show which will open the annual Jackson county 4-H and FFA fair. I Exhibits will begin arriv ing at the fairgrounds Sun day for the week-long fair the livestock must be in the stalls by 10 p.m. Monday. : A grand entry of members of the five horse clubs is ex pected to open Sunday's show at 10 a.m. Clubs represented will be Desert Pegasusr Eagle Point, Sis-Q Saddle Sitters, Ashland; Trail Blazers, Cen tral Point; Saddelites, Phoe nix; and the Westside Hay burners. ; Judging contests and halter classes are scheduled for the Sunday morning, with horse manship, trail horse, Texas barrell, pole bending and baton relay contests in the afternoon. , Leaders in Charge Leaders of the five clubs are in charge of the show. The fairgrounds will be open to the public from Sun day on, although the exhibit buildings will not be ready for visitors until Tuesday at 8 a.m. Some of the main events include a home economics judging contest and style re vue judging at 8 a.m., Mon day, rabbit and poultry events later the same day, livestock contests from 8:30 a.m. Tues day and Wednesday, swine and dairy events Thursday. Other events with audience appeal include guide dog obe dience judging, starting at 1 p.m.. Thursday; the livestock auction sale at 7:30 p.m., Fri day, and the tractor driving Action on Zone Change Property on Action on the controversial zone change request for more than 20 properties along Cra ter Lake ave. between East Main and East Jackson sts. was postponed again by the Medford planning commission last night. . The requested change, from single family residential to multiple family residential, aroused vigorous debate at a public hearing before the commission July 9. The planners continued the July hearing to last night's meeting, at which time they agreed to continue it again until further steps were taken in the comprehensive plan ning project now underway. Other Action In other action last night, the commission heard objec tions from South Oakdale ave. residents to Marshall Bessonette's requested rezon ing of a lot across the street from the Oakdale Big Y mar ket, 401 South Oakdale. Bessonette had asked re zoning from multiple family to restricted parking district to permit additional off-street parking facilities for the mar ket. After hearing the objec tions, he withdrew his re quest. Public hearings on O. H. Bengtson's request for rezon ing from single family resi Cents MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1959 We'll Have Crop Too" contest at 2:30 p.m., Satur day. The Jackson County Ki wanis Centennial fair gets under way at the Medford armory and grounds Thurs day. Theme of the fair to be held in conjunction with the 4-H and FFA. fair is "Jack son county, 1859-1959, Cent ury of Progress." Chile Conference Rocked by Insults Santiago, Chile -4UPD- West ern Hemisphere foreign min isters gingerly resumed today a conference thrown into tur moil by a violent Cuban-Do minican exchange of insults which may have included threats to murder Cuban For eign Minister Raul Roa. Conference Presidence Ger man Vergara expressed hope that the meeting would "de velop normally," but other delegates feared that new out breaks might demoralize it completely. The bitter exchange Thurs day was touched off by Roa's charge that this week's upris ing in Cuba was "organized and financed in Ciudad Tru- jillo," the Dominican capital Dominican Foreign Minis ter Porfirio Herrera Baez heatedly denied the charge, calling Roa a "squid who stains the Caribbean red." The Cuban leaped to his feet, call ing Herrera a "filthy, heart less assassin." Salem (UPD The State Board of Control has an nounced appointment of J. N Peet as assistant secretary. Crater Lake dential to multiple family res idential for three lots at East Jackson st. and Orange ter race, and on the request by Drs. James Bayliss and Ter rell Holliday for rezoning from 'commercial to light in dustrial to permit erecting a new veterinary hospital on Barnett'rd., were continued. Call Public Hearing The planners called for a public hearing Sept. 10 on a requested zone change from single family residential to light industrial for property north of the Oregon-Nevada-California Fast Freight ter minal at 680 Biddle rd. With respect to the Crater Lake ave. rezoning request, Commission President Paul Selby said he thought the hearing should be continued until planning technician Ned Langford's land use study for the city was completed. He said he considered it in the public interest for the com mission's decision to be based on sound, over-all planning policies developed as a result of the project. Dr. William Thompson, one of those requesting the change, said that since the property owners themselves, and a majority of their neigh bors, favored the change he could see no reason why ac tion could not be taken right Delay in On Basin A 60-day delay in a public hearing in Medford on the proposed Rogue basin develop ment project was requested last night by the directors of the Rogue Basin Flood Con trol and Water Resources asso ciation, according to Chairman Bill Jess, Eagle Point. The hearing was scheduled for Medford originally on Sept. 17, Jess said. He said the association is aiming at authorization by the 87th con gress of project construction. The 87th Congress will meet from January, 1961, to Sep tember, 1962. The request was made fol lowing a Grants Pass meeting last night when further data was released on the proposed basin development by the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers' representatives and the U.S. bureau of fish and wild life. Greater Benefit Both agencies and the 125 members of the audience unanimously agreed that greater benefit to the basin would result if additional studies were made. The direc tors also recommended further study. , "The association, although keenly disappointed with fu ture delay, fully recognizes that the people of the basin will live a long time with the project,". Jess said this morn ing. "It is hoped that the delay in the report will not result in additional delay in project authorization." The delayed hearing was scheduled with the corps of engineers to determine. if an interim report could be issued on the tributary projects-Elk creek. Meadow on the. Rogue river and Copper-'Ott- the-Ap- plegate without jeopardizing completion of the main stem report at Lost creek. After this is determined the associa tion will decide whether to request a delay in the corps hearing until completion of the main stem studies or to proceed with the report on the tributaries and follow it at a later date with a hearing on the main stem segment of the project, Jess said. Fishery Benefit The feeling of those meet ing at Grants Pass was that current basin development plans do not provide adequate fishery benefit. They felt that a delay is necessary especial- ' 'Continuing Drive' For Relief Announced The Jackson county chap ter of the American Red Cross has a "continuing drive" for immediate emergency relief for the victims of the Rose- burg disaster, it has been an nounced. Chapter members here said that all donations will be sent direct'.- to tne Roseburg cnap ter, whose funds are complete ly depleted. The local office is at 60 Hawthorne ave. Request for Ave. Delayed away. He said he could not see why a public hearing should be held at this time otherwise. Would Oppose Request Commission .Member Larry Schade replied that if a deci sion were to be made at once, he would vote against the request. He said he con sidered that the present mul tiple family zone covered too many uses, some of which would be undersirable on the street. Among Oakdale ave. resi dents opposing Bessonette's request, on grounds that they wanted no changes that would encourage business in the area and that a parking lot across from the market would in crease congestion and be a traffic hazard, were William J. Warner, Frank Applegate, E. H. Hedrick, Zopher' Agee, John Jensen, Gordon Warner, Bob Burke and Ivon White, Bessonette pointed out that since the parking district zon ing was actually more restric tive than the multiple family zoning now applying to the lot, those opposing the change would find it in their interest to favor it. He jexplained that the parking lot would be less objectionable than some uses, such as a hotel, permitted un der multiple family zoning. But he withdrew his request 54th Year Tribune No. 120 Hearing Sought ly for further study on Lost creek and Elk creek sites. Storage on the main stem of the Rogue would provide some benefits but the fish and wild life service representa tives last night could not tell how much water should be stored. Col. Paul H. Weiland, Med ford, surprised the audience with a strong plea for a Lost creek site dam. Previously he had been opposed to any main stem dams. Howard Norwood, Rogue River businessman, and Weiland, an Izaak Walton League member, further sur prised the audience by agree ing that more study is needed on the storage problem. The two men had been continu ally opposed in their views. Jess added that it would probably take the chief en gineer of the corps nine months to review the basin report. Nesheim Appeals For Cooperation In Dry Period Curtis Nesheim. Southwest district warden for the state rfpnartment of forestry, today annealed to the neODle of this area to be "exceedingly care ful" of fire during this ex tremely dry period. TJc reauested cooperation of the public in providing infor mation on how fires may have originated. "Wo have had altogether too many, roartcausediires this year," Nesheim said. "People have been too careless." He stated that not just one but several blazes have been de liberately set. Some Identification The warden asked that per sons who are first to a fire scene notice who is there. record some sort of identifica tion such as auto license num ber, of individuals they do not know, then notify the dis trict office. All information which can be Drovided will help "unravel the mystery of fires deliberately set, Nesheim remarked. ' Anyone planning to do any debris burning must have a permit, Nasheim also warned. Those conducting burning op erations who fail to have a permit will be cited into court, he said, stressing that "it is so dry we can't afford to gamble at all." Nesheim reDorted that for est patrolmen are still mop ping up on last week end s Ashland burn and that the area is in "good shape." He reported no significant progress in the investigation of last week end's 4,000-acre fire west of Ashland, but said the probe was continuing. This was confirmed by the state police and Jackson coun tv sheriff's office, also par ticipating in the investiga tion. Howard Hopkins, timber management officer for the Roeue River national forest. reported that 90 men, with three heavy tankers and five power saws, were engaged in mopping-up operations on fed eral land today. Bids To Be Called Soon for New School Ashland-A bid call is ex pected to be issued late in September for construction of the Ashland Junior High school. Plans are being pre pared now by Architect James L. Payne, 611 East Jackson st., Medford. The new structure, to be a combination of block and wood frame with concrete slabs, will allow an old build ing to be abandoned as a junior high school. The new building will be designed to accommodate 700 pupils, and will be expand able to a capacity of 1,000 in the future. Titan Explodes On Launching Pad Cape Canaveral, Fla.-(DPD-A Titan intercontinental ballis tic missile lost thrust one second after ignition today and fell back to explode in a huge ball of orange flame on its launching pad. (Site Castro Forces Seize Trujillo Transport Plane American Plays Trick on Invaders Havana -(UPD- The Cuban army Thursday night cap tured an arms-laden transport from the Dominican Republic to smash a 5-day-old "inva-. sion" attempt in central Cuba, the government announced today. . . Government sources said that an American, Maj. Wil liam Morgan, played "double agent" in order to trick the invaders into sending the arms and munitions to Trini dad Airport. Directed by Castro Premier Fidel Castro was in the area directing the smashing of the "invasion" from the Dominican Republic, the government . announce ment said. 1 It said the captured trans port was piloted by former Cuban army Lt. Col. Antonio Soto, who flew ousted Dicta tor Fulgencio Batista into Do minican exile last Jan. 1. The government announce ment placed blame for the "invasion" attempt squarely on the shoulders of Dominican strongman Rafael Tfujillo. Four of the 10 persons aboard the transport were killed in a gun battle with Castro forces, the government announcement said. The oth er six were injured. (Continued on Page 6) Hotel Restoration Plans Announced Plans for- the restoration' of the historic U.S., Hotel in Jacksonville will be prepared by R. J. Keeney and Jeffrey Shute, Medford architects, it was announced Thursday night at the monthly meeting of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites foundation. & Frank Haines, foundation president, said that plans are being volunteered by the foundation. It will take some time to prepare them, he said, because a complete structural examination of the old build ing will have to be made. In other action, the foun dation announced that the date for the dedication of a marker at the roadside rest area at the Gold Hill turnoff on Highway 99 has been set at 2:30 p.m. Labor Day, Sept. 7. . The marker will commemo rate the first post office in Jackson county, established in 1854 by Col. William G. T'Vault. The public is invited to the dedication. The . foundation also drew up plans for a booth at the Kiwanis fair, in which ex hibits of pioneer buildings will be 'presented. Attempt To Free Prisoners Fails Oregon City -UPD-,A Den ver man was held here today after police said he tried to force his way into the Clack amas county jail while .armed with a shotgun to free pris oners. A jailer took the weap on away from him. Lewis Albert Lott, 50, Den ver, was held under $10,000 bail on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon and two burglary counts. Sheriff Joe Shobe said the prisoner told him .he had no "special reason" and denied any connection with two Den ver men arrested last Sunday after being found in posses sion of firearms. They are Harold S i e g 1 e r, 33, and Charles Manuel Sanchez, 36. The incident occurred late Thursday night. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Sat urday with variable high cloudiness. Low tonight 52. High Saturday 90-95. Temp. Highest Yesterday 90 Lowest this Morning 50 Our Skies. Tonight Sunset today 7:15 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:18 a.m. The Moon sets 2:18 a.m. tomorrow and rides low. Full Moon Aug. 18 Saturn, seen to the right of the Moon tonight, is itself ac , eompanied on its orbit around the Sun by 9 moons. Saturn's distance from the Earth is now about 871 million miles. MI MANOR PROGRESS-Reinforcing steel rods for the concrete columns forming part of Jlogue Valley Manor's foundation are fabri cated at the site and lowered onto 'their footings by a tall crane. The $5Vfc million Fleeing Russian Vessels Narrowly Miss Ferry Boat Copenhagen, Denmark-fllPD-Three Soviet warships rushing headlong from the scene of a collision with a small German coastal vessel Thursday al most hit a loaded passenger ferry, it was disclosed, today. The three Soviet warships, a heavy cruiser of the Sverd lovsk class and two destroyers of the. Kotlin class, sped into the JNorth0.Sea. after one.of .the destroyers hit and damaged the 259-ton coastal vessel Christel. At High Speed The route of the .fleeing So viet vessels which had been eavesdropping on NATO na val exercise Freshwater took them at high speed through the Great Belt dividing the Danish islands of Zeeland and Langeland. The passenger ferry Mjol ner was cutting across the Great Belt from Korsoer to Lohals when the captain looked up and saw the three Russian warships speeding to ward him in a narrow V for mation. The Russian ships sig naled Mjolner to get out of the way. Slowed Down Copenhagen press reports quoted the ferry captain as saying he had the right of way but decided not to argue the point under the circumstanc es. He slowed do.vn and the Russians passed in front of him at 20 knots. There were many reports from Danish points that the speeding Russian warships caused high waves which threatened small boats moored along the shore and pounded shore installations. No actual damage was reported, how ever. Naval sources here and in other NATO countries dis missed the apparent Soviet spying as nothing unusual and said NATO vessels often shadowed the shadowers. Play Attendance Notes Big Increase Ashland-The Oregon Shake spearean Festival started the fifth round of shows Thursday night with an attendance lead of almost 3,000 over the same date last year. As of Thursday night, 14,359 persons had passed through the sates to attend one or all of the series of four plays. At the same time in 1958 there had been 11,448-giving the current season a lead of 2,911. . "Twelfth Night" leads at tendance figures, not having yet played to an audience of less than 1,000, and "Antony and Cleopatra" is in second place. "Measure for Measure" and "King John" are reported gaining at the box office. Fes tival officials said that this year's high attendance figures can be attributed to a con sistently high level at all four plays. Salem - (UPD - Salem Waste Paper company, destroyed in a fire here Monday, will be rebuilt. retirement home atop Barneburg hill is to have a maximum height of 10 stories, per mitted by a variance from normal zoning restrictions granted by the Medford city council. Money Paid for Repairs Returned County Judge Earl Miller this 'morning returned the money paid his garage for re pair of his county car. Miller said he handed Coun ty Treasurer Karl Janouch a chck for $237.09 for work done on the county Judge's car by Miller Motor Service. Dist rict Attorney Tomas J. Reed- er issued a legal opinion yes terday afternoon stating "payment to Earl H. Miller for repairs of the county- owned, yehicle was improper and contrary to law. "It is further my opinion that Mr. Miller must re imburse Jackson county com pletely and in full for the money that Miller Motor Serv ice received for the aforesaid automobile repairs Request Made The request for a written legal opinion was made to the district attorney by County Cierk Marvin Madden when Madden noticed that the county voucher for the re pairs had been returned with Miller's endorsement. Planes Gather for Satellite Recovery Vandenberg AFB, Calif. -flJPD Eight giant Air Force cargo planes took off from Hawaii today to rendezvous, over the Pacific ocean for an attempt at the world's first recovery of a satellite package from space. The Air Force Ballistic Mis sle Division announced the first flight of four planes took off at 10:30 a.m. to get into position for scheduled ejection of the capsule between 1:30 and 2 p.m. However, the Air Force added that probability of aeri al recovery attempt "still is uncertain" since the first phase of the operation, suc cessful ejection of the capsule from Discoverer V, must be achieved at the right time. This is planned on the satel lite's 17th pass around the earth. Roseburg-OJPD-W. E. (Dutch) Mills, fire chief here since 1949, resigned Thursday be cause of ill health. Reconstruction Work Moves Ahead In Explosion Roseburg- (UPD -Reconstruction work has begun in earn est, but business still lies idle in this blast shaken southwest Oregon city of 13,000. Thirty blocks still lie empty and are under the watchful surveilance of patrolling Ore gon National Guardsmen. - During daylight hours bull dozers crunch their way through the ruins and shaky condemned structures which were weakened and toppled by the tragic blast and fire that ravaged a large portion of Roseburg last Friday. Remains Found The official death toll stood at 12. Bodies of Martin Lust, 42, and Wayne Townsend, 35, who had been listed previous ly, as missing and presumed Upon hearing of the legal question on the repair pay ment, Miller Thursday offered to repay the county the ;sum collected if the district attor ney deemed the transaction improper. The county clerk had. sent the judge a letter Wednesday explaining the steps taken and enclosed a copy of the letter to Reeder requesting the opinion. He suggested that the county judge put the money received in trust with the district attor ney ' pending -receipt of the opinion. In his opinion Reeder quot ed from Oregon law: "No member of the court or board shall be interested in any way, directly or indirectly, in any contract or purchase made for or on behalf of the county." The district attorney added that the law is specific and quite clear. Problems of Area Topic for Mayors A meeting late in Septem ber will be held in Central Point of the mayors of Jack son county towns and the county court. Central Point Mayor Free man Mason will be chairman. On the agenda will be a dis cussion of the current and possible future problems of the local area with the pur pose of formulating questions to present to the League of Oregon Cities at its forthcom ing meeting. The announcement, of next month's meeting was made Thursday night at a similar joint meeting the second this year of most of the mayors of the county and two mem bers of the county court. The meeting Thursday night was stimulated by the Rose burg disaster although Mason said that earlier in the year it had been hoped such meet ings could be held on a month ly basis. ' Discussed Thursday night were air and water pollution, community disaster relief, zoning and a general voicing of opinions and complaints relevant to the Jackson coun ty area. - Shattered Roseburg dead, were identified by the state crime laboratory in Port land Thursday, Coroner C. H. Babbitt said. However, more human re mains were found Thursday in rubble at S.E. Pine and Oak sts., less than a block from the explosion center. People Dig In The people of Roseburg have not held their heads and wept this past week. They have dug in and begun the long, painful, and often un pleasant task , of scraping through the cinders and debris to find solid founda tions on which they can build a new, better city. ' So hard have the citizens toiled that Mayor Arlo Jack lin and City Manager John Measure Voted Over Opposition Of Union Leaders Passage Gained On 303 To 125 Vote Washington-(UPD-The House passed by a decisive margin today the labor reform bill that President Eisenhower and business groups said is needed to stop labor corrup tion and racketeering. The measure, toughest of three bills considered by the House, was approved over vigorous opposition of union leaders and lobbyists. They charged that its controls would punish honest unions and their members. Passage was on a roll call vote of 303-125. The 178,-vote margin was in contrast to Thursday's 28- vote margin on tentative ap proval of the bill. This was another bitter setback for labor lobbyists who had tried to hold down the final margin. Voting for the bill on final passage were 156 Democrats and 147 Republicans. Oppos ing it were 122 Democrats and 3 Republicans. The measure now goes back to the Senate which passed a much milder measure last April 90-1. Final Passage Delayed A Senate-House conference committee will be assigned to work out a compromise. Final House passage was anti-climactic. The floor bat tle which began Tuesday end ed for all practical purposes Thursday when the House tentatively approved the measure, 229-201. Final pas sage was postponed until Mon day on a technicality. Rep. Clare Hoffman (R- Mich.) had blocked final ac tion on the measure Thurs day by demanding an "en grossed copy" of the final version. This required an overnight printing job. With the two other milder measures scuttled, the administration-backed bill picked up tremendous overnight sup port. Some members who had bitterly assailed the measure as anti-labor wound up voting for it when they were faced with voting for that or nothing. Residents to Attend Electronics Show Representatives of the Jack son and Josephine County Chambers of Commerce and the California Oregon Power company will spend four days in San Francisco next weelc, during the Western Electron ic show and convention, dis cussing plant locations in the Rogue valley with leading electronics firms. Cooperating with the local group will be the Oregon Development commission and Gov. Mark O. Hatfield. Sev eral members of the commis sion will be in San Francisco during the convention, and the Governor will host indus try executives at a luncheon Aug. 20. Scheduled to make the trip are Mayor John Snider, Wil liam B.- Smullen, Glenn L. Jackson and W. J. Williams, Medford; and Mayor E. D. Potts, Howard Hanson, and Hugh McKmley, Grants Pass. Headquarters for the oper ation have been established in the Clift hotel. , Polaris Shot From Underground Tube Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (UPD A Polaris test rocket shot up from a "pop gun" under ground tube and its engine ignited in flight today in a dazzling first test of the sub marine missile's operational firing method. Warburton announced .the business section of Roseburg will open on a limited scale Saturday. Meanwhile, contractors and merchants are busy with their work, replacing broken win dows, mending cracked plaster, patching shattered roofs and ceilings. Hearing Scheduled Meanwhile, the Interstate Commerce Commission has set a public hearing Sept. 1 here to determine the cause of the dynamite explosion which killed 12 persons and injured about 50 others at Roseburg. The accident occurred Aug. 7 when a truck owned by the Pacific Powder Company of Seattle, carrying 6Vi tons of explosives blew up.
