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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
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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
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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.
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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.