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Senate Oa ffr Meirinie Lzhm iiDD WINNERS-Among the blue ribbon winners at the 4-H horsemanship contests at Jackson county fairgrounds yesterday were brothers Ken (left) and Steve Stewart. Ken, 17, won the senior division halter showmanship Livestock in Fair Spotlight Beef and sheep take the spotlight in the Jackson-coun ty 4-H and FFA fair tomor row at the fairgrounds. As estimated 430 head of livestock will be shown by their young owners and handlers in both 4-H and FFA classes. The three FFA chap ters of Crater at Central Point, Phoenix, and Eagle Point will enter the competi tion rings first since they have the smallest number of en tries. Tuesday's events get under way with swine and sheep weighing at 6 a.m. at the fair grounds. Swine events will be held Thursday. The 4-H girls 1 will have their home eco nomics exhibit judging at 8 a.m. The livestock judging con test follows at 8:30 a.m. The beef fitting contest will be held at 10 ajn., wool judging and beef showmanship at 1 p.m. and beef showmanship championship at 7 p.m. The beef contests will prob ably be the "most colorful events of . the fair with the large Herefords and Angus almost dwarfing their owners as they parade them around the show rings. Both 4-H and FFA members have been schooled on how to prepare and display their animals. Slock Preparation Preparation of stock for the show ring will be demonstrat ed in the beef fitting contest. The fine points of showman ship or handling of stock in the show ring will be tested by the judges as they wstch the stock paraded before them, then carefully worked into standing positions. Both 4-H and FFA members will also demonstrate how well they know what makes good beef and wool animals Festival Attendance Is Over Last Year Ashland-Attendance for the first 20 performances at the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val is 3450 persons ahead of a year ago, Festival officials reporf. The Festival has play ed to 17,174 persons so far this season. "Twelfth Night" and its pro logue "Maske of the New World" lead in audience totals, with "Artony and Cleopatra", in a close second. Although the tallies for "Measure for Measure" and 'King John" are lower, each has shown rising trend at the box office Five full rounds of produc tions remain with nightly per formances through Sept. 5. General Manager William Pat- ton reported that good seats remain for nearly all perform ances. Widest choice is for the final round of the four plays from Sept. 2 through 5. Forest Fire Suppressed After Burning Home A forest fire which lad se rious potential was suppress ed Saturday evening about lVi miles below the Metho dist church camp at Dead In dian Soda springs. The Rogue River National forest office here reported that the fire broke out about 5 pjn. and burned a summer home owned by A. A. Guches, Thomas rd. The blaze spotted across Little Butte creek set ting fire to the woods on the south side of the creek. A large group of men from I a Methodist Laymen's camp, federal forest service person al and one state department of forestry crew fought the fire. An aerial borate drop about one hour after the fire broke out is credited with do ing much to control the blaze during the livestock and wool judging contests. Today's events included home economics judging con test and style revue judging at 8 a.m., rabbit and poultry judging, and poultry and rab bit showmanship. Fair officials estimated they have more poultry and rabbit entries than they have ever had before. Official count esti mates 120 rabbits' and 40 poul try. County 4-H and FFA mem bers and leaders spent most of the week end preparing barn space. Roads into and through the fair grounds have been scrapped and chuck holes filled. A Kogap lumber com pany water wagon and driver have been donated to keep the usually dusty grounds dampened. Entrance Tests for Six Year Olds Set Central point School en trance tests for youngsters will be given at Central Point j Grade school on Thursday and Friday, Aug. 20 and 21 by Mrs. Viola Laird. The tests are for children who will not be six years of age until after Nov. 15, 1959 and who wish to enter schools of District 6 at Sams Valley, Gold Hill or Central Point. School Superintendent C. A. Meyer said that children will be tested by appointment only. Appointments may be made by telephoning the sup erintendent's office in Central Point, NOrmandy 4-2793. Meyer stated that the child ren will be given this school reading test only if six years old after Nov. 15 and before Jan. 15. Those who show mental maturity of five years and 6 months will be accepted on a trial basis. According to Oregon law, youngsters are accepted lor September en trance in school without test ing if their sixth birthdays are on or before Nov. 15. Tribal Secretary Voices Indignation Chiloquin, Ore. - (UPD - Mrs. Marie Norris, Klamath Indian tribe member and secretary of the Klamath Reservation Dis cussion group, expressed in dignation today over the pro posed transfer of the Klamath Marsh to the U. S. Fish 'and Wildlife Service. She attacked the plan of Sen. Richard L. Neuberger CD- Ore.) regarding the proposed early transfer... of the marsh so that approximately $500, 000 could be used to help tide. over Klamath families during the interim period when tim ber sales are suspended. which was being mopped up by crews early Sunday. Howard Hopkins, timber management officer of the Rogue River National forest, said that the fire was on a Steep slope in snags and dry grass. He reported that the forest area burned was "very minor" but pointed out that a L much more serious blaze could have resulted because of the dry condition of the woods. Defective wiring ' was thought to have started the summer home fire, Hopkins reported. The forest service had about 40 men on the scene to control and mop up the fire. He stated that sever al men were on the area all day yesterday and that the blaze is considered out. competition and Steve, 15, took the senior division horsemanship award. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Victor V. Stewart, Neil Creek rd., Ashland. MEDFORD 14 Pages Six Meet Accidental Death (During Week End Auto Collisions, Boating Account For Fatalities By United Press International At least six persons met death in Oregon week end auto accidents and drownings. In addition a Salem woman was killed in an accident near Che'halis, Wash. ' Lawrence Patrick O'Rourke, 8, of Joseph, died in a hospital Sunday from in juries suffered Saturday eve ning when he was struck by a car wmie riding a Dicycie a mile east of Joseph. Estacada Couple Killed John Turnbull, 53, and his wife, Emily, 50, of Estacada, i mi i r-i J n:Mut were Kiiieu , octLuiuay uigm when a foreign-made- car plunged off the Clackamas river road about 16 miles east of Estacada. . The auto rolled down a 350-foot embankment and came to rest at the edge of the Clackamas river. Both victims were thrown from the vehicle. . . Mrs. James Lloyd Norman, 61, Myrtle Creek, was injured fatally Sunday in a collision between a pickup truck and car a mile south of Myrtle Creek. Her husband and Rob ert O'Connor,. 18, and Ronald Hartman, 21, both of Myrtle Creek, were injured Donald McDowell, 18, Portland, was lost Saturday when an outboard motorboat turned over near the mouth of the Columbia river. Body Found in Lake The body of George Hillgen, 45, Redmond, was recovered Sunday from Paulina lake about 40 miles south of Bend. He drowned late Saturday when a boat overturned- Anna E. Jones, 42, Salem, was killed when the car her husband was driving crashed against a concrete pole on a Highway 99 overpass six miles south of Chehalis, Wash. Her husband- was injured critically. The Coast Guard reported Sunday that the body of Fred Bennett, 63, Viking, Alta., was found 5V& miles from the mouth of the Umpqua river on the southern Oregon coast. He was lost July 19 when a boat capsized. Also lost in the ac cident was Dr. Arthur T. Trenholm of Gresham, whose body was recovered then. Oregon Centennial Coordinator Quits Portland -(OPD Ted Hallock announced today his resigna tion, effective Wednesday, as state coordinator of the Ore gon Centennial. The job pays $12,000 a year. Drinking Crackdown Crowds Marion Jail Salem-dJPD-Salem city jail was crowded with more than 60 persons after a week end crackdown on drinking in a downtown park called Marion Square. , ' BASEBALL Cleveland ... 4 8 0 Detroit .... ......5 8 1 - Bell and Nixon, Brown (4). Foylack and BerbertL. BEAUTY BATH-Marilyn Watson, left, and Carol von derHellen had their hands full yesterday, and got almost as wet as the cow, when they washed down this good- MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, 'AUGUST 17, 1959 'Say, Those Local Officials Down There Are Serious About That Law-and-Order Stuff" Jj ' TT" B PR to Open Bids On Road Project Southern Oregon highways will receive approximately 20.85 per cent of money allo cated for highway construc tion in Oregon, an informal meeting of the highway com mission revealed here Satur day night. Members of the highway commission met with the coun ty courts of the southern Ore gon area or District 3. The highway commission's District 3 extends -orth to Eugene and includes all of the Fourth Con gressional district. The bureau of public roads is. to open bids Sept. 3 on the first contract for the Lake of the Woods road in Klamath and Jackson counties, accord ing to County Judge Earl Miller who attended the Sat urday meeting. The project must be com pleted in 250 working days which would carry it through the year, explained Paul Ryn ning, county- engineer. This first project includes 4.64 miles of grading of an 11 mile section of road in Jackson county. Another 4 miles would be graded later in Klamath county. The estimated cost of $600,000' will be paid by the bureau of public roads under its forest highway program. Crater Lake Highway Another road section com ing under this same program is the proposed re-alignment for the Crater Lake highway section from Prospect west to ward Trail. Estimated cost for taking out major curves and widening the highway is $700,000. . FIRE NEAR JACKSONVILLE Southwest district of the state department of forestry had three pumper trucks and 11 men bn a grass and brush fire early this afternoon west of Jacksonville cemetery. The blaze was reported to cover two or three acres. Patrol men were called about 12:10 p.m. . I " - i Judge Miller said he learned the primary expenditure for the district highway develop ment for the fiscal year is $2,370,000 of this $630,000 is for urban work and $1,655,000 for secondary roads. The state wide allocation is $23,040,000. Saturday night's meeting here enabled the county courts to become better acquainted with the highway commission and to present their road con struction problems. It capped a 290-mile tour of U.S. High way 99, the Pacific highway, from Portland to Medford and a view to 63 million dol lars of -recently completed highway projects. . Four Day Tour This jaunt is the first leg of a four-day tour which will cover more than 900 miles of highways in western and southern Oregon, the Oregon coast and lower Columbia riv er. The aim is to note the progress of the state's biggest money-spending program and to judge needs for new proj ects when additional funds be come available. Saturday, the group inspect ed the Lake ofthe Woods high way. Commission members also saw work progressing on the U.S. Highway 99 freeway between a point north of Grants Pass and Central Point. This project is scheduled for completion to Gold Hill in 1961 and past Medford and Ashland in 1962. .' WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and cooler to night and Tuesday. Low tonight 45 High Tuesday. 88. ' TEMP. Highest Yesterday 96 Lowest This Morning 55 Our Skiei Tonight Sunset today 7:11 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:21 a.m. Moonrise today 6:33 p.m. Full Moon Tuesday a.m. PROMINENT STARS Arcturus, sets 11:30 p.m. Capella. low in northeast 12:31 a on. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, due south 8:31 p.m. Jupiter, low in . .southwest .... . 8.55 pjn. sized Hereford for entry in the 4-H and FFA fair' now in progress. The cow, Prin cess, belongs to Carol. Both girls are mem bers of the Central Point Beef club. 54th Year Tribune No. 127 Third Major Fire In Cave Junction Destroys Gate Cave Junction - The third major fire to strike here in the last three months "com pletely gutted" Nowman's cafe yesterday morning, ac cording to reports, and caused ah estimated $20,000 in damages. Jack Nowman, owner, col lapsed during the course of the fire and is under medical care today. He is reported to have had heart ' trouble in 1948. The Cabax mill here burned on July 26," also a Sunday, and on May 14 the Chit Chat cafe and cocktail lounge burned. - Yesterday's fire broke out shortly after 4 a.m., in the kitchen of the cafe; Earlier, Nowman had extinguished a fire in anjpyen'. which began when some Tbacon grease was spilled. Shortly afterward he no ticed a fire in the ceiling of the cafe. He attempted to put it out with a fire extinguish er but was unable to. He then went outside the cafe to phone the fire department, and collapsed. '. . The fire finally was report ed to the Illinois Valley fire department by Norma Fay Spencer and by Mr. and Mrs. John Tillery. Fairview Home Superintendent Dies Salem - (UPD - Dr. Irvin B. Hill, 44, superintendent of Fairview home for the men tally retarded here since 1946, died today. Dr. Hill, who had been seri ously ill last" year, lapsed in to a coma while visiting his parents, State Rep. and Mrs. Earl Hill of Cushman. He died in an ambulance en route to Salem about 5 a.m. Dr. D. L. Callicrate, assist ant superintendent, will take over the superintendent's job for the time being. Dr. Callicrate said . death was due to an acute asthmatic attack complicated by heart damage suffered in Dr. Hill's recent illness. Flags were, lowered to half mast at state institutions in his honor. Survivors include his wid ow, Evelyn; sons Robert, 18, Richard, 16, and Douglas, 14, and his parents. Funeral ar rangements were pending. Portlander Hurt on Lake o' Woods Road . , Klamath Falls -UPD- Jams Connors. 25, a Portland police officer, was in Klamath Val ley hospital today with back injuries after a one-car acci dent Sunday. Connors was heading west on Lake of the Woods road when he swerved to avoid hitting cows on the highway. The car struck the shoulder of the road and rolled over. He was brought to the hos pital by a passing motorist. iedferdl Stores UmitioD 9 'Clock Adm. 'M' CMsey Succumbs in Sleep Fishers Island, N.Y. (UPD - Fleet Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey, 76, commander of the Third Fleet in the Pacific during World War II and leader of America's first of fensive move after Pearl Har bor, died Sunday in his sleep. The implacable fighter who had carried his attacks to the Japanese homeland by the end of the war was pronounced dead by a coronary occlusion at 11:45 a.m. (e.d.t.) Arrangements Pending His body was flown to New York city from this small island off the Connecticut coast where he was vacation ing, and was to be taken to Washington today. Final funeral arrangements, how ever, were delayed pending arrival of his family at the nation's capital. President Eisenhower, in a statement released at Gettys burg, Pa., said he had lost "a personal friend" and "all Americans have lost one of their great national leaders." "His great personal contri bution to the successful cam paigns in the Pacific and the exploits of the forces under his command are a brilliant part of American military his tory," the President said. , " ; It was Bull Halsey who vowed while the war was rag ing that he would ride the em- Eleven Persons Die in Three-Car Crash in Missouri Columbio,: Mo. 4 (UPD -Eleven persons, including " six chil dren, ' were killed Sunday night in a three-car collision eight miles east of here. Eight other persons were, in jured. They were admitted to Boone County hospital. Officials worked during the night to identify the bodies, most of which were mangled beyond recognition. ' Four of the dead . were identified by relatives as Billy J. Eddy, 27; his parents, Gus Eddy, 59, and Mrs. Helen Eddy, 54, and a niece, Rae Denise -Eddy, 4, all of White Hall, 111. Two women were tentative ly identified as Mrs. Jessie Thompson and her mother-in-law of Richmond, Mo. . Relatives En Route The other unidentified vic tims, including four children, were believed to be related to Mrs. Thompson. Relatives were en route from Richmond to assist authorities in identi fication. Highway patrolmen said the accident occurred when one car swerved off the shoulder of the road. It skid ded back on the highway and into the path of an oncoming car in which the Thompsons were riding. Moments later a third car, from Pine Grove, Mo., following the Thomp sons, crashed into the wreck age. Police said that it was not known how fast the first two cars were going. The third car apparently was not travel ing very fast, however, be cause the occupants were only shaken up. Castro En Route To Chile Conference Santiago, Chile - (UPD - Raul Castro and a band of Cuban revolutionaries were flying here today to "rescue" the Cuban foreign minister and to present proof that the Domin ican Republic was trying to overthrow the Cuban govern ment. However, Castro got- only as far as Lima, Peru, today and decided to remain there overnight, continuing on to Santiago Tuesday. The conference itself met this morning as a general committee to begin final dis cussion of the resolutions de signed to cool off Caribbean tempers and encourage demo cratic growth and economic cooperation in the area. W. F. 'BULL' HALSEY Pushed Japanese War. peror's wnite horse through the streets of Toyko. He did not keep that promise, but he did push the war to the em perors' doorstep, attack i n g Tokyo, Honshu and Hokkaido and ranging up and down the Japanese coast in July and August, 1945. Wife Survives Between July 10 and Aug. 15, when the war ended, Hal- sey!s forces destroyed or dam aged 2,804 enemy planes and sank or damaged 148 war ships and 1,598 enemy mer chant vessels. Halsey married the former Frances Cooke Candy in 1909. She survives him. as do his son, William F. Halsey HI, his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Hal sey Spruance, and six grand children. Wagoneers Due ay Portland - (UPD - A full day was " in store today for the hardy members of the Ore gon Centennial - wagon train who concluded their 2,000- mile trip from Independence, Mo., to Independence, Ore., Saturday. The wagons and about half of the 28 persons who made the trip were to be brought here by flatbed truck and then parade to the Centennial Exposition grounds. -The seven wagons will be on display near the Frontier Village until the Exposition closes. Many of the horses and mules which pulled the wagons from Missouri have been purchased by Oregon stockmen. More than 40,000 persons jammed Independence, Ore., Saturday to watch the train end its long trip with a pa rade. Many failed to see it because of a traffic jam out side of town. .There were no formal doings at Indepen dence Sunday but about 10, 000 persons; visited the wagons. It was estimated some four million persons . saw the wagon train on its trip west. KF Boy Injured in Boating Accident Klamath Falls-OIPD-Robert Shaw, 14, Klamath Falls, suf fered severe leg injuries Sun day in an accident at Lake of the Woods when he was struck by the propellor of an outboard motorboat. State police said Shaw and another boy were swimming about 75 feet out when the accident occurred. Fred Har tin, owner of the boat, told officers he was .making a swing into the pier pulling a water skier and that the mis hap occurred as the skier cut loose. The boy suffered a frac tured left leg and lacerations of both legs.. $1,667 Donated for Relief at Roseburg Portland (UPD The Ameri can Red Cross received a do nation of $1,667 from the Portland unit of the Contract Bridge league over the week end for relief for victims of the Aug. 7 Roeburg disaster. For Busy p Heated Wrangle Ends in Move To Seek Compromise Republicans Seek Vote Assurance Washington -UPD- The Sen ate agreed after a long and heated wrangle today to send the tough House labor bill to a congressional conference committee to see if a compro mise with the milder Senate version can be worked out. Republican senators who favor the House bill did not press a move, favored by some, to bypass the Joint House-Senate conference and force an immediate show down on the Senate floor. But they kept the Senate tied up for more than two hours while they sought as surances from Democratic leaders that they would have an opportunity to vote on the House bill later if the confer ence became deadlocked. The action to send the bill to conference was approved with only a scattering of "noes" heard. Mundt Chief Objector Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-SJ3.), vice chairman of the Senate Rackets Committee, was chief spokesman for the opposing conference group although he never formally offered a mo tion to bypass it. He said he was not trying to block , the conference but only to prevent the "Unhappy eventuality" that the Senate would never have an oppor tunity to vote fop a measure stronger than the Kennedy Ervin bill approved by the Senate. He expressed fear the con ferees either would weaken the house-passed Landrum- Griffin bill or would reach a stalemate. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.), who will be ranking Republican Senate conferee, served notice that he will, move to discharge the confer ence if there is no progress within seven days. School Addition Bids fo be Received Ashland-Bids for the con struction of an addition to the Bellevue elementary school will be received until 8 pjn" Aug. 31. Six classrooms, two bathrooms and a kitchen will, be included in the addition. Plans may be obtained at the Medford office of. James L. Payne, Salem architect. Specifications call for frame construction, with a concrete slab floor in the kitchen and wood" frame floors in the classroom areas. Walls are to. be plastered and the ceilings acoustically plastered. - Glued laminated beams will support a two-inch roof deck and sash will be aluminum. Bids will be opened at the district's administration office, 885 Siskiyou blvd. Orleans Forest v Fire Uncontrolled Orleans, Calif.-UPD-The Or leans forest fire, which has destroyed 2,000 acres of tim ber and caused an estimated $250,000 damage, was still out of control today. The U. S. forest service feared the fire, raging in northeastern Humboldt coun ty in the Six Rivers National forest, would destroy 5,000 acres before it is stopped. More . than 750 men were on the fire line today and were holding 13 miles of the line under control. Damage from the blaze was listed as $192,000 in timber, $55,000 in water sheds and $1,000 in miscellaneous de struction. TV Star in Portland On Way to Location Portland (UPD Television star Richard Boone was a Portland visitor Sunday. Boone is the star of the se ries "Have Gun, Will Travel." He said three of the shows would be shot near Bend in central Oregon. pemi BnigIhit
