Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 18, 1959, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text(7 IM IM 17 fo UJy dm u t Medford 24 Pages D'Autremont Appearance rf;v4'V v rVTj?? -321 ! PREPARE CALF-Earle Fichtner, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Fichtner, 2547 Corona avc, sprays his calf, a 4-month-old guernsey which he bought this year from Power Failure Paralyzes Area OfNewYorkCily New York -(UPB-The worst power failure in New York City history paralyzed a vast rea of upper Manhattan for up to 13 hours Monday and early today, leaving half a million residents sweltering during the most intense heat wave of the season. The heaviest one-day use of power in the city's history attributable to 90-degree heat -was blamed for the massive power failure which knocked out all electricity in a 500 block section of the upper East and West Sides, leaving tenants without cooling de vices, elevator service, lights, radio and television. Power to the East Side area affected-a stretch bounded by 73rd and 110th sts. and the East river and Fifth ave.-was restored by midnight. Service to the West Side section hit from 59th to 110th sts. and from Central Park west to the Hudson river-was back to normal at 3:42 ajn. (EDT). The power failure, result ing from peak use of air con ditioners and fans, occurred at 2:49 p.m. (EDT) Monday when seven cables of the Con solidated Edison Co. burned out on the West Side, knock ing out electrical service in the area. The company in turn decided to shut off the remain ing 13 cables of the network, situated in the East Side, be cause, officials said, they would not have been able to handle the load alone. Humphrey Accuses Defense Department Washington-(UPD-Senate Dis armament Chairman Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) accus ed the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Com mission today of creating ob stacles to agreement at the Geneva nuclear test ban talks. Faubus Pressured Little Rock Ark.-flJPtt-Gov. Orval Faubus was under pres sure today to use "all of the forces at your command" to oppose a federal court order for desegregation of a school district 42 miles south of Lit tle Rock. Petition Circulated A petition was being cir culated in the Dollarway School District, situated out s' de of Pine Bluff, asking Faubus for "relief from the illegal federal court orders and injunctions" ordering the desegregation Sept. 8. A spokesman for the group be hind the petition said it would MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1959 his sister,. Cecilia, for $25. Cecilia is enter ing the calf for him, along with livestock of her own, in the 4-H fair. She is a member of the Central Point Cud Chewers. , Carolyn Tiegs Is Champion Poultry Showman, Exhibitor A Talent rooster and hens had something to crow and cluck about this morning. Their 4-H mistress, Carolyn Ashland Without Justice of Peace Ashland is now without a justice of the peace and will continue to be until Gov. Mark Hatfield appoints one, County Judge Earl Miller said today. The temporary 60-day ap pointment of Mrs. Frances I. Gallatin, 148 Central ave., Ashland, expired Friday. She was appointed as acting jus tice of peace by the county court on June 17. Lee Peers Wilmeth, who was serving a four-year term as justice of peace, had been taken to the hosptial following a heart at tack and later died. Miller questions whether further temporary appoint ments can be made. Mrs. Gal latin has been instructed to keep the justice of peace of fice open "but to transact no business," the county judge said. Miller said he called the governor as Friday's expira tion date neared and was told the governor would make an appointment Friday night. Re peated calls to the governor's office have failed to result in an appointment so far, Miller said. "If we had county home rule the board of commission ers could make the appoint ments," the county judge said. "Now here I am sitting be tween statutes and if nothing is done pretty soon Til get the blame." be presented to the governor next week. Federal Judge Axel J. Beck of Elk Point, S.D., Monday re jected a motion that the inte gration of three Negro stu dents be postponed. Beck had ruled Aug. 4 that the students, Ernestine Dove, 16, James Warfield, 14, and Corliss Smith, 12, be admitted to the school. To Appeal Decision Lee Parham, president of the Dollarway School Board, said the board would appeal Beck's decision "immediately" to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. Tiegs, last night was named champion poultry showman and grand champion poultry exhibitor in the Jackson coun ty 4-H and FFA fair here. The teenage 4-H member took blue ribbons in all breeds of poultry advanced, the sin gle pullet class of Leghorns, all varieties, in Leghorns, all varieties, with her two pullets in Leghorns of all varieties and won a red ribbon for sec ond place with her two hens and one rooster in Leghorns of all varieties. Fair officials said yester day's events included the largest poultry and rabbit classes the annual Jackson county 4-H and FFA fair has ever had. The rabbit events ran into the evening hours. Winners in the rabbit divi sion were Mike Burrell, Val ley Experimenters, champion in the Californian, intermedi ate doe class, and Ronald Becker, Southwest Medford 4-H club, champion in the California, senior buck class. The 4-H home economics classes were also active yes terday. Named senior cham pion in the camp cookery judging was Jim Woodell, Ashland. Cynthia Charley, Medford 4-H club, was named junior champion. Club team in the event was Jim Waddell, Steve Stewart, and Lynn Mer riman. Senior champion in home living judging was Pat Strip lin, Medford. Named to travel to the state fair as a judging team were Pat Striplin, Glen na Brown and Aletta Myers, all of Central Point. Linda Cornutt, Central Point, was named senior cham pion in foods judging. Club team in this event in cludes Linda Cornutt, Cen tral Point, Marsha Watson, Medford, and Sharon Cauff man, Central Point. Named to travel to the state fair as a team were Linda Cornutt, Central Point, Marsha Wat son, Medford, and Carol Foote, Central Point. Sheep and beef were pa raded around the fair show rings today as events in this section started 8:30 o'clock this morning with a livestock judging contest. Home eco nomics exhjbit judging started at 8 o'clock. Beef events continue tomor row with some judging start ing at 8:30 ajn. Crops and forestry judging and identifi cation starts at 10 a.m. Other beef classes will be completed with beef market steer judg ing at 1 p.m. and beef steer championship runoff at 7 pjn. 54th Year tribune No. 122 Ray Expected to Enter Plea on One Of Five Charges Ray Charles D'Autremont, 59, who is serving a life sen tence in the Oregon state penitentiary for murder, is scheduled to appear in Jack son county circuit court at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. His appearance here grows out of an application filed with the -court earlier this year asking for a "speedy trial" on indictments still out standing against him. District Attorney Thomas Reeder said D'Autremont would appear on one of the three remaining first degree murder indictments. The other two indictments still outstanding against him are for "attempting to commit burglary" and "stopping a railroad train with intent to commit larceny." Attempted Robbery The indictments were brought against D'Autremont, and his two brothers, Roy and Hugh, in November, 1923, following an attempted train robbery in tunnel 13 in the Siskiyous in which four men were killed. Ray D'Autremont's appear ance is another step in the legal process followed by his younger brother, Hugh, which could lead to freedom for Ray. Hugh D!Autremont gained parole from the Oregon peni tentiary early this ..year, and later died in San Francisco. Hugh pleaded guilty to one of the remaining charges, asked and received dismissal of others, and was paroled. Ray D'Autremont may follow the same pattern. Ray D'Autremont will ap pear before Circuit Judge James Main. His twin brother, Roy, has been in the prison section of the Oregon state hospital in Salem for several years. Footlighlers Play Opens Here Tonight The Footlighters' produc tion of "On the Bridge at Mid night," directed by Bob Ford, opens at 8:30 o'clock tonight at the Footlighter theater. The melodrama, written by Bruce Brandon, is scheduled to run for five nights, Tues day through Saturday, for the next two weeks. This year's cast includes past performers as well as newcomers. The play centers around an about-to-be-married comely ex-dancer who tries to save her reputation and her marriage. Washington -4UPD- The Post Office Department has ac cepted the bid of Robert D. Morrow of Salem for con struction and lease of the new Vista station of the Salem post office, according to Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.). "What Kind of Exchange Set uGTogatiioin) Water Supply aid Critical Supplies of irrigation water in Jackson county are "critic ally low," but lands lying within irrigation districts should have enough to get by until Sept. 15, it was reported today. D. C. Hendrix, county watermaster, said, "This is the worst I have seen it dur ing the nine years I have been in office." He added that this is a drier , year than the critically-low years of 1951 and 1955. . "Fish lake is down below 400 acre feet, or as low as you can get it and still pass Four Mile lake water through the fish screens and gates," reported Jack Hoffbuhr, Med ford Irrigation district man ager. "Four Mile will have only 2,000 acre feet of water by the end of the month," he said. Tomorrow, Medford Irriga tion district will shut off Fish lake water completely for 24 hours, to determine the nat- House-Senate Conferees Tackle Labor Legislation Washington-flJPD-The bruis ing congressional battle over labor reform legislation shift ed today to a House-Senate conference committee for what may be the decisive round. To this group of seven sen ators and seven house members-representing all shades of political philosophy - fell the task of working out a bill that bbth'chamber s would ap prove and. that President Ei senhower would sign. . This could be as difficult as trying to" defuse a land mine while blindfolded. But an air of harmony prevailed at least, for the time being. Two Bills Wait Study The joint committee was scheduled to begin work this afternoon on the Senate side of the Capitol. Before it were the Kenne-dy-Ervin bill approved by the Senate and the tougher Lan-drum-Griffin bill passed by the House last week. Techni cally, however, the House merely amended the Senate bill. The Senate agreed after a long wrangle Monday to send the bill to conference rather than vote immediately on whether to accept the House amendments. Ike To Proclaim Hawaii Statehood Washington -4DPD President Eisenhower will formally pro claim statehood for Hawaii Friday, the White House an nounced today. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the President at the same time will reveal the design of the new 50-star American flag. Vandenberg AFB, Calif. -(UPD-Firing of the Discoverer VI satellite scheduled for to day has been called off due to technical reasons. Programs Are These?" ural stream flow in North Fork. State water rights exist along the stream, he ex plained. The district usually takes what is left after water users with state rights take their water, he said. The ques tion this year is whether there will be enough for both state rights users and the district. No quotas have been set yet for the Medford Irriga tion district, Hoffbuhr said. "Because picking must be done in dry orchards the bulk of the orchards are tempor arily through using water. However, many orchardists are planning a return to irri gation prior to the Cornice harvest which follows the cur rent Bartlett harvest," he added. Third of Water Rogue River Valley Irriga tion district takes a third of water from the same source as the Medford Irrigation dis trict. So, it is in the same situation, Hoffbuhr said. Both districts hope to get through to Sept. 15 when the irriga tion demands normally drop off. Walter Hoffbuhr, Talent Irrigation district manager, said his district is in fan shape and on a ration of 18 inches per water user should make it to Sept. 15. The new ly created Howard Prairie reservoir has helped. Water is being drawn from Howard Prairie for supple mental supply instead of draining Hyatt lake. Talent Irrigation district plans to hold 5,000 acre feet of water in Hyatt as carry-over for next season. Emigrant reser voir, another district water source, will remain out next season as. work is completed on. enlarging tne. reservoir and raising the dam and the carry-over supply will be needed then, it was explained, From Big Butte Creek Eagle Point Irrigation dis trict draws its irrigation sup plies from Big Butte creek. This is down to 80 per cent of normal stream flow, the county watermaster reported. Irrigation district officials re port they are low in water but have enough to carry them through Sept. 15 when the bulk of agricultural de mand is over. This district runs irrigation water the year around, officials said. Gold Hill Irrigation district is low on supply but-officials there say they have enough water to supply all district water-users. The district re cently put another log on top of the wing dam on the Rogue river, its water supply source. Pay Telephones in Area Are Robbed Blow-torch bandits collect ed an undetermined sum yes terday and last night from six pay telephones in Jackson and Josephine counties, local police reported. The bandits, who reported ly used a blow-torch to cut out the coin boxes, attacked telephones in Medford at Grandview market, 2230 Cra ter Lake ave., and the Flying A service station at 836 Cra ter Lake ave., city police re ported. In "Ashland Monday after noon the bandits robbed the telephone at Wolff Brothers Chevron service station, 1217 Siskiyou blvd., according to Ashland police. The Grants Pass police de partment reported three thefts last night. A spokesman for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company here said that dam age to the telephone them selves was a greater loss to the Company than that of the money taken. He said this damage would be at least $100 for each telephone. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night. Fair Wednesday. Low to night 46. High tomorrow 80. Temp. Highest Yesterday 2 Lowest this Morning 4J Our Skies. Tonight Sunset today 7:10 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:21 a.m. Moonrise today 7:10 p.m. FuU Moon today 4:50 a.m. The ' dim stars seen in the Moon's background tonight are in the constellations, Aquarius and Pisces. And the first mag nitude star seen nearest the Moon (well below it) is Fomal haut of the constellation, Piscas Austrinus. G. W. WELLINGTON On Governors Board Medford Lawyer Named to Board Of Governors G. W. Kellington, Medford lawyer, was one of four new members elected to the board of governors of the Oregon State Bar yesterday. He will represent Oregon district four. Others named to the 12-man board include Robert C. An derson, Astoria; William M. Dale Jr., Portland; and J. T. Monahan, Mil ton-Free water. Kellington,-56, is with the Medford law firm of Roberts, Kellington and Branchfield. He and his family live at 87 Perrydale ave.; The lawyer was president of the Jackson County Bar! in 1957, and is a member of the Southern Oregon Bar associa tion and the Oregon State bar. He also is a member of the Rogue Valley Country club, the University club and the Eagles. Kellington was born in Minneapolis, Minn. His wife is the former Mary E. Rose berry, Medford. Retiring from the board af ter three -year terms are George Hibbard, , president, Oregon City; Carl G. Helm Jr., La Grande; Hugh- . L. Biggs, Portland, and Andrew J. Newhouse, Coos Bay. In stallation of the newly-elected members will take place in Bend Sept. 23-26. Bids Opened for Billings Siphon Bids for the construction of a 6,000 foot, 30 inch preten sioned concrete pipe siphon in the Billings site of the Talent project were opened' this morning at the office of J. A. Callan, construction en gineer at the bureau of recla mation, Camp White. Apparent low bidder was C. H. Strong , Engineering and Construction, Eugene, at $156,481. Eight bids were received. River Bend Contractors, Inc., Portland, submitted a bid of $158,818, and Peter Kiewit and Sons, Medford, bid $167, 552. The engineer's estimate had been $08,352. Construction of the siphon is expected to begin early this fall. The contract will also call for excavation and fill work, gates, inlet and out let structures and other con struction work. SaIem-UPD-Gov. Mark Hat field leaves here Wednesday for San Francisco to attend the Western Electronics show. 4 Missing Needles, Calif. - (UPD - Four railroad section hands were missing today and hundreds of motorists marooned by a desert cloudburst that flushed out highways and bridges east and west of this Colorado river community. Crew Swept Away Six members of a Santa Fe Railway road crew dispatched to check a rail washout 15 miles north of here Monday night were swept away by waves 10 to 15 feet high that overturned their truck. Two of the men, identified HILL TUMBLES, DAM THREATENS MAfJY CAMPERS West Yellowstone, Mont.-(0PD-A series of mighty earth quakes smashed into southern Montana near Yellowstone Park Monday night and early today and a reported 16 persons were killed. Montana Highway Patrolman Robert Spears said there could be 25 dead in the main slide and the toll "could go even higher." The . quakes brought an 8,000-foot mountain tumbling down, threatened to shatter a dam on the Madison river and endangered upwards of 150 campers in the river valley. Helicopters from the western states, some carrying para medics, were sent to the scene. The park is located mostly in Wyoming and also extends in Montana and Idaho. . 'Copter pilots were expected to' try to lift to safety the campers marooned downstream below Hebgen dam and trapped by the 200 to 300-foot slide that closed off the only avenue to safety from the box canyon. Idaho Family Trapped by Slide Four of the reported dead were members of the Purley Bennett family of Couer d'Alene, Idaho, buried when the quake split the mountain and triggered the main slide seven miles downstream. Another couple nearby also were killed. The Montana Civil Defense headquarters said it had been informed by Idaho state police that eight dead had been found in Reynolds Pass on the south fork of the Madison river in eastern Idaho. Two more unidentified persons were killed in a rock slide at Cliff lake, 12 miles we:,t of Hebgen lake. The first nnalrp hit at in-3n m fnctt t j-.. ..,;tv i. -1 " -.w.w yp.&.K. A'lVJlUOJ Willi a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale." The San Francisco ecuuiquane 01 i.auo measured o.zo. The temblor was felt throughout the northwest but hit hardest near the juncture of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming in the Rocky mountains. Jolting aftershocks followed at 12:59 a.m., 1:44 a.m, 3:08 a.m. and 8:28 a.m. 17-Foot Crack Appears in Hebgen Dam .. '. . Three hours after the first shock a 17-foot crack appeared in Hebgen dam in Gallatin county. The Hebgen impounds, the headwaters of Madison river which flows north into the Missouri river. Hebgen dam is only a few miles from the west entrance to Yellowstone Park where damage was reported light. How ever, rangers barred tourists from Old Faithful geyser. United Press International Reporter Paul Quinn said after a flight over the dam that "the entire side of a mountain was torn away, there were trees and rocks all over the top of the slide niled 200 to 30f fott ahnvs TUwh K w w v dam and the slide downriver torn up. "Cars were scattered all along the way with people stand ing outside," Quinn said. "Women and children were waving handkerchiefs and bandanas. SOS signs made with white clothing showed up clearly." About 30 cars were located next to the downriver side of the dam Several Homes Floating in Lake The series of quakes, first death-dealing temblors to strike this area since 1935, split open foothills as though they were eggshells. The north shore of the lake behind the dam was cropped off 6 to 15 feet, submerging the highway there. The south shore heaved up 6 to 15 feet as though the whole lake were tipped in a giant saucer. . Several homes floated crazily in the lake. Telephones and electrical power were knocked out in West Yellowstone. Chimneys fell, gasoline pumps tipped over and buildings were shifted from their foundations. Quinn said the giant slide looked from the air "as if it had been shoved off a mountain top by a huge hand. It blocked the highway and trapped the tourists between it and the dam seven miles away." Idaho state police blocked off Highway 191 leading to West Yellowstone. Cracks and sinkings were reported in the highway. ' Downstream from the slides, residents of Madison Valley under order of Sheriff Lloyd Brook of Virginia City, Mont. fled from their lowland homes to higher ground. Slides Close Roads in Yellowstone Rock slides closed roads throughout most of the west half of Yellowstone Park and telephone service was knocked out ' in this tiny resort town of approximately 300 persons. The National Park Service said-roads were closed be tween Mammoth Hot Springs and Gibbon. The Firehold Cas cade road between Madison Junction and famed Old Faithful geyser also was blocked by slides. Three bridges crossing the Madison river north of here were closed-and a 15-foot crack in the earth was reported along the side of one of them. A spokesman for the Galliston county sheriffs office said a car. plunged into the crack, but he did not know if anyone was hurt. Many of the old buildings were damaged at historic Vir ginia City. A 12-foot section of wall plunged into the second floor courtroom of the courthouse built in 1876. A few bricks fell from the schoolhouse built in 1876, and the Masonic Temple-built in 1864-was badly damaged. (Additional Stories Inside) in Desert Cloudburst by a railway dispatcher as track foreman George Ash more and Geronimo Rodri guez, later were found and taken to Needles Municipal hospital. Trains Rerouted The dispatcher said the missing men possibly were drowned in the swirling flood waters that flashed down desert canyons. Search crews began looking for the men at dawn. East and westbound trains of the Santa Fe system were rerouted around the stricken "If t w iiifj" aj A.. .L't-1 W sections of the highway were area because of bridge wash outs and weakened structures. An inch of rain fell in the area during the cloudburst. Highways Blocked Police said Highways 66 and 95 on both sides of the Colorado river were blocked and would remain closed for up to 12 hours while detours around the damaged bridges were made. The cloudburst struck an area surrounding Highway 66 betwen Kingman, Ariz., and Essex, Calif. Highway 95 con nects . Needles with Las Vegas.