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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1959)
wiiiiiw es CDoiDinni bd Mitchell's Sftirok Lep Sod SyppLr STORE OPENS Sears, Roebuck and com pany Manager R. E. Jacobson, left, is shown above handing the scissors to Medford City Council President James Dunlevy, who cut the ribbon opening the new store this morning. Also pictured are, left to right, W. Price Sullivan, Sears' northwest zone LARGE CROWD A few minutes after the doors opened at the new Sears, Roebuck and company store in Medford today, the building was packed with people, who turned out by the thousands despite a steady drizzle. The picture above shows the "sea" News San Francisco -(UPD- Repub lican Gov. Mark O. Hatfield, 37, of Oregon said today he would give "very serious con sideration" to accepting any bid for the GOP vice presi dential nomination in 1960. West Yellowstone, Mont. (UPD A hard aftershock hit this area at 10:30 a.m. (p.s.t.) today, sending persons run ning from buildings. At first report, there was no further damage or slides. Vandenberg AFB, Calif.-OJPD -Giant Air Force cargo planes left Hawaii today prepared to try a spectacular aerial snatch of the Discoverer VI satellite capsule in a few hours. Washington-UPD-The House Interior Committee today ap proved a bill to expand the Crooked River federal recla mation project in Oregon to provide water capacity to ir rigate an additional 2,900 acres. Washington- (UPD President Eisenhower and Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev are expected to hold brass tacks cold war talks when the Rus sian leader returns to Wash ington at the end of his 12 day tour of the United States. Portland (UPD Directors of the Southern Pacific Co. today raised the quarterly dividend and proposed a three-for-one stock split. The quarterly dividend was hiked from 75 to 84 cents a share payable Sept. 21 to holders of record Aug. 31. Briefs Flash Floods Inundate Section of Boise, Idaho Boise (UPD - Heavy rains touched off flash floods dur ing the night that inundated a large, section of eastern Boise and temporarily blocked a highway near the city. ' Sidewalks Covered Excess water from the flash flood and a plugged canal in the eastern section overflowed gutters downtown, sending water over sidewalks and cov ering intersections where storm drains were unable to take care of the heavy flow. There was an inch-thick layer of mud deposited on several sidewalks. The Boise police dispatcher said his officers reported "hundreds of basements flood ed." He also said there were( 5. Kiwanis Fair Opens At Armory The third annual Kiwanis County Fair opens at 5:30 o'clock tonight at the Med ford Armory. Exhibitors and work parties were busy yesterday and last night moving in and setting up booth displays for the four-day event, to be held through Sunday night. The purpose of the Kiwanis event is to stimulate interest in N the products of Jackson county, Manager Russ Jami son said, and a number of entertainers and other persons of interest will be on hand to liven the festivities. Probably the most intrepid visitor to the whole statee this year, Mrs. Emma Gatewood, the walking grandmother from Gallipolis, Ohio, is scheduled to appear at the Armory tomorrow evening. Arrives Tomorrow Mrs. Gatewood is due to arrive here tomorrow by plane, where she will be met Ashland Men Bid On Reservoir Work Elton Day and Thomas J. Parker, Ashland, submitted the apparent low bid today for construction of Recreation al facilities at Howard Prairie reservoir. Bids were opened by the bureau of reclamation at the Camp White office. The Ashland men bid $86,834 for construction of boat docks, boat ramps, a picnic area and for road clearance. Other bids were submitted by M. C. Lininger and Sons, Medford, $108,291, and. F. L. Somers, Medford, $119,711. The engineer's estimate was $97,057. reports of several buildings in. the foothills, being destroy ed, including the Boise police department's club house. " Residents Warned The -flash flood sent water roaring down out of the Boise foothills into the eastern sec tion of the city about 5:30 a.m. today. Police immediate ly started roving through the area with loudspeakers atop of cars warning residents sleeping in basements to get out. A sheriff's deputy said most of the eastern section was covered with water and that it had deposited silt on lawns and roads throughout the area. manager; E. R. Cameron, northwest director of public relations for the firm, and Hugh Coleman, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. The ctremony took place at the southeast entrance to th build ing Juit prior to th 9:30 opening. . . T of shoppers looking over the vast displays of merchandise. The large parking lot was filled to capacity. Also attracting a large crowd of people was the new Safeway store that opened this morning in the Medford Shopping Center. Tonight by the wife of Medford mayor, Mrs. John Snider, and the mayor's mother, who is her self a native of Gallipolis. Exhibits .at . the fair, for both competition and display, are expected to range from food to flowers and to include textiles, land products, "ani mals and poultry. A special display will be an Oregon wild flower garden designed and planted by Marcel LePiniec, owner of the Garden Center Nursery, complete with the insect-eating cobra plant. A 4-H beef will be awarded Sunday night as a prize. Fly 'Salute' .. Jamison has been advised that planes from Kingsley Air Force base (F-120s) will fly over to "salute" the fair ac tivities shortly after 1 p.m. tomorrow. Mrs. Dorothy Jean Chase of Eugene (Mrs. Oregon for the Centennial year) will ap pear on Saturday and Sunday at the fair, following her ar rival here Saturday. Her appearance is being sponsored by Purucker's Piano House and Big Pines Lumber company. Mrs. Chase will make several appearances at the stage shows, will serve as a hostess at a special booth, and will be available for pho tographing and autographs. Going from the sublime to the ridiculous, a shaggy dog will act as official host for the children's events sched uled Thursday evening. Agree to Appearance The dog, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Berthold Barnum, has agreed to today's appearance but could not guarantee other appearances. Scheduled for stage shows and anticipated "bonus" ap pearances as well as roving entertainment are the Shad ows, young local musicians; the Novel'aires, a marimba-guitar-singing group; the Bor den family of Medford, seven talented musicians; and Miss Codgie Clark, a vocalist and violinist. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy with occa sional light showers tonight. Partial clearing Friday. Low tonight 50. High Friday 75-78. Temp. Highest Yesterday 73 Lowest this Morning 53 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 24 Our Skies. Tonight Sunset today 7:07 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:24 a.m. Moonrise tonight 8:14 p.m. Last Quarter Aug. 26 Saturn, the ringed planet, is now nearly stationary among the distant stars in its back ground. In a few weeks it will resume its usual slow eastward movement among the stars of the ecliptic. torm Fire, Danger A storm centering over northern California, n o r t fa- western Nevada and south central Oregon brought to the Medford vicinity this morning its first measurable precipi tation in 54 days. Medford station of the weather bureau reported a rainfall total of .24 of an inch between 3 and 10 aJn. today. It was the first precipitation recorded at the airport weath er station iere since June 26. Rainfall amounted to .02 of an inch on that date after .09 on June 25. The weather bureau said that Medford was on the northwest side edge of a storm which had brought 1.29 inches of rain to Klamath Falls by 10 a.m. today. Re ports for 8 a.m. showed .99 at Fish lake, .89 at Copco, Calif., .73 at Chiloquin, .23 at Prospect and .18 at Toketee Falls. Sexton mountain weath er station had only .03 by 10 a.m. Light Rain Forecast Occasional light rain is an ticipated here tonight with partial clearing Friday. Speakers Listed For Air Pollution Meeting Friday Robert Church, meteorolo gist in charge of the Medford weather bureau, will discuss air inversion factors affecting the Rogue valley and possible controlled burning at an or ganizational meeting of a citi zens air-pollution , abatement committee Friday Those interested in the problem have been invited to attend the meeting at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 21, in the Jackson County courthouse auditorium. John Hale Foster, Medford, will discuss a program of how to eliminate or reduce some of the present problems, and Mrs. H. P. Bosworth Jr., Med ford, will review what action is being taken at present re garding air pollution. . Temporary Chairman Bruce Manley, Medford at torney, will serve as tempor ary chairman at the meeting. Purpose of the group would be to coordinate charges and statements, and outline conditions concerning the local air pollution prob lem and to assist authorities in solving it. City and county officials, representatives of the state air pollution authority, and representatives of the lumber and fruit industry in this area have indicated they plan to at tend,' Manley said. Spokesmen organizing the meeting said committees would be appointed to coordi nate and work with county, city, and state officials and the fruit and lumber indus tries. GRAND JURY AT WORK District Attorney Thomas Reeder is presenting four cases to the county grand jury to day.1 Findings on all four are expected Friday morning, he said. 'Mind You, We're In Eases Rogue River National forest personnel "breathed a sigh of relief" as a result of today's rain. "It is just what we have been wanting," Carroll Brown, Rogue forest supervisor, de clared. He added that "It just relieves a very tight situa tion." Brown reported that the rain is going to have a good effect on the Ashland burn area and throughout the for est in general. He pointed out that the fire danger has been high consistently for the past six weeks and that the rain relieves it at least temporarily. Smokes Show Up Smokes have been showing up every day on the Ashland burn area and forest service crewmen have been finding them and putting them out, Brown said. The forest serv ice had 65 men on the burn yesterday and about the same number this morning. "I just hope it continues," Doyle Stockton, assistant dis trict warden for the state de partment of forestry, remark ed concerning the rain. He stated that the rain will help temporarily the fire situation generally through the south west district. Stockton had re ports of .20 of an inch of pre cipitation in the eastern part and said that the rainfall may have been heavier in some spots. He reported, that while there was some rain in most of the district only a trace had fallen up to mid-morning in the Applegate and Forest creek areas. Stockton emphasized that people in the district still need a permit to do burning. Six patrolmen were engaged in mop up work today in the state forestry department's sector of the Ashland burn. Lookouts If the rain continues, the district hopes to give lookouts .a day or two off, 'Stockton said. "If the rain continues today it will help us considerably," Walter Hoffbuhr, Talent Irri gation district manager said "It will help eliminate fire haz ards and it will be of some help in the pastures." Hoffbuhr said that the rain was not expected to have an effect on the inflow at the lakes and that wet conditions would be of no help to fruit orchards, now beginning the harvest. Medford Irrigation district reported that Fish lake had .99 inches of rain as of this morning. Some relief on the demand in the valley was ex pected, but no appreciable in crease in storage is antici pated. Replace Pumps Rogue River Valley Irriga tion district said that those who had recently been asked to remove their pumps from Bear creek were allowed to put them back this morning, "for a little while," at least. Picking of Bartlett pears, which had just moved into "full swing," has been halted by the rain. County Horticul tural Agent C. B. Cordy said the stoppage would increase pressure on Bartlett growers to complete picking wnile the fruit is at its optimum stage Other crops in the valley have not been damaged by the weather change, he report ed, although some nutrients would be washed from drying hay or other such crops. - Favor Of Growth " Price 10 Cents Medford 32 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1959 No. 125 Interim Report on Air Pollution in " City Is Delayed Lack of Manpower Hinders Progress An interim report from the state on Medford's air pollu tion study should be ready by the end of September, Med ford city officials were told this week. R. E. Hatchard, air pollu tion control chief for the state sanitary authority, informed them of this in a letter dated Aug. 17. He explained that the re port's delay has been occa sioned by a lack of manpower. - Meanwhile, . a manpower problem at city hall repre sents at least a temporary stumbling block to the suc cessful continuation of the joint city-state study. Don Kent, city printer who has helped in the conduct of the study as a secondary re sponsibility, is resigning ef fective the end of next week. City officials must find a re placement to carry out the duties of changing air sam pler filters and jars on sched ule and conducting special smoke surveys. Suspended Temporarily "The preparation of the in terim report of the air pollu tion study in Medford has been suspended temporarily during the past month," Hatchard wrote. Mr. James Agee transferred to the state board of health, occupational health program on July 1. The report prepara tion was one of his assign ments. We have. not yet been successful ill employing a re placement. , "However, most of the data and field information is avail able and we do expect to have the interim report com pleted by the end of Sep tember." . . Accept Resignation City Manager Robert A Duff has accepted Kent's resignation effective Aug. 28, A replacement in the print ing department is necessary as well as one for continuing the air pollution study. Kent's air study duties, as agreed upon at the start of the city-state project last win ter, have been on a part-time basis to be carried out dur ing regular working hours without encroaching upon his printing assignments. The problem in providing a re placement is to find another employee who has time avail able for the air study in addi tion to his regular work. Kent reportedly received no compensation for his air study work although he did receive overtime pay when this work required extra hours, city of ficials explain. Sonic Boom Show Slated in Klamath Klamath Falls-An expected sonic boom demonstration at 2:45 p.m. tomorrow will high light Kingley Air Force base's "roll-out" ceremony, the for mal introduction to the public of the F-101B Voodoo. Open house will be held at the base . beginning at l.p.m. tomorrow to introduce the Voodoo, an interceptor air craft which recently replaced the Sabrejets. Ashland Man on Trial On Boating Charge Six witnesses for the de fense were expected to ap pear today in the district court trial of Wallace Mitchell Lar son, 21, White motel, Ashland. Larson - is charged with reckless navigation involving operation of his boat near Savage Rapids dam July 19. Sheriff's deputies made the arrest on a complaint signed by a private citizen. Judge Roy Bashaw is pre siding in the. trial which is expected to last all day. BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 13 2 Cleveland 6 8 0 Ramos, Hyde (8) and Courtney; Grant and Fitzgerald. GRAND CHAMPION Marilyn Watson, member of the Cen tral Point 4-H Beef club, is the owner of the grand champion fat steer, selected at the 4-H and FFA fair last night. She is pictured above with the animal, Husky Hank, a 17-month-old Hereford. The picture was taken in a drizzling rain this morning and Hank shows disdain for the inclement weather, by holding his ears akimbo. Marilyn is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watson, Ross lane, Medford. Central Point Girl Has Hereford Grand Champion at Fair Marilyn Watson and Lloyd Toner, both of Central Point, left the show ring last night with ribbons for the grand champion steer' and reserve grand champion, respective ly, in. the Jackson county 4-H and FFA fair. Hereford steers won both awards. Other champion awards won in the 4-H beef division were Nikki Hammond, Cen tral Point, junior champion and grand champion with a registered Angus, senior heif er calf; Jo Anna Malloroy, Antelope, senior champion, registered Angus cow and calf Justice of Peace Named for Ashland Mrs. Frances I. Galatin, 148 Central ave'., Ashland, is the new Ashland justice of the peace, County Judge Earl Miller said today. The appointment, by Gov. Mark Hatfield, became ef fective 12:01 a.m. today, Mil ler said. Mrs. Galatin will serve until the next general election. The post is one to which the late L. Peers Wil meth was elected last fall. She had been serving under a temporary appointment made by the county court. Her temporary 60-day term expired Friday and the coun ty judge anxiously had been awaiting a permanent ap pointment by the governor. Mrs. Galatin served as a clerk to the late justice of the peace for several years. While awaiting the perman ent appointment, the county court directed Mrs. Galatin to turn the office key and moneys over to the county treasurer. The county weigh master had been directed to route all cases normally handled by the Ashland jus tice court through the district court in Medford. 15,324 Register at Stockade on Summit A total of 15,424 persons have registered at the wel come stockade on Siskiyou summit as of late Wednesday, William Black, personnel co ordinator for the stockade an nounced today. He reported that an aver age of 150 persons register every day at the stockade with more than half of them inter ested in scenery and camping information. He added that about 20 per cent requested information on the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. Portland OIPD The one-millionth visitor to the Oregon Centennial Exposition is ex pected Sunday. 54th Year Tribune in production class; Patsy Charley, Central Point, senior champion and grand cham pion, registered Hereford, senior cow; Larry Wright, junior champion; registered Hereford, senior heifer; Steve Stewart, Sis-Q, , junior cham pion and grand champion senior cow entered in- other Herefords class; John Cox, Upper Rogue, senior cham pion and grand champion, reg istered Shorthorn, senior cow; and James Christensen, Ap plegate, junior champion, reg istered Shorthorn, junior calf. Events Today Fair events today got un der way with swine judging at 9 a.m., and dairy judging was scheduled to take up much of the morning and afternoon. Also scheduled were market sheep judging and swine showmanship. Guide dog obedience judg ing is a new class this year and is designed to put both dogs and trainers through their paces. Raising and train ing of the pups for the guide dog program has been a Jack son county 4-H project for some time, but this is the first public demonstration of what the youngsters do with the dogs. Dairy judging continues Fri day with classes set for 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Breeding sheep judging starts at 9 a.m. and sheep showmanshiD at 1 p.m. The top livestock goes on the auction block at 7:30 p.m., Friday, when individuals and companies bid up the prices on the ' animals which were paraded around the show-ring all week. Dairy showmanship starts off the final fair day Saturday at 9 a.m. This will be followed by a tractor driving contest. The 4-H and FFA fair offici ally ends at 6 p.m. with the release of all exhibits then. Chamber Basin Association The board of directors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce this morning voted to join the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources association. The latter organization, headed by Bill Jess, Eagle Point, has been the spearhead for the effort to secure de velopment of the Rogue basin for multiple-purpose use. The chamber's action means that it associates itself in the continuing effort to obtain federal construction of a series of dams on streams of the area, if and when an ac ceptable plan of development is worked out and approved by people of the area. The chamber group also ap Labor Secretary Calls for Prompt End of Walkout Serious Shortages Of Steel Possible Washington -flJPD Industry officials and the United Steel workers Union both claimed today that the fact-finding re port of Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell supported their widely divided positions in the 37-day-old steel strike. The industry said Mitchell's statistics showed high wages, lagging profits and lowering worker productivity. Huge Earnings Contended The union contended the re port, made public Wednesday night, revealed huge industry earnings and great employee productivity. Mitchell himself declined to interpret the 18 -pages of charts and figures he gath ered but urged that both sides knuckle down to hard bar gaining and settle the strike "promptly." Serious Shortage Possible Unless the steel strike is settled by "the latter part of September or the early part of October, very serious short ages of steel may be appar ent," he added. Wait By Ike Seen This statement was viewed as an indication the govern ment probably would wait at least another month before President Eisenhower consid ered invoking the emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. This section permits an injunction to end a strike for 80 days if the President finds the stoppage is a threat to the national health and safety. In New York Federal Me diator Josj?h F. Finnegan ar ranged to meet privately to day with the two top negotia tors in the steel strike but said the outlook still was "gloomy."' . It was reported from Unity House', Pa., where the AFL CIO Executive Council is meeting, that the council is considering a plan to raise cash contributions from near ly every union member in the country to aid the steel strik ers. (Continued on Pag 11) Hearing Scheduled On Zoning Request A controversial zone change request for properties on East Jackson st., turned down by the Medford planning com mission, is slated for a public hearing before the city coun cil tonight. The requested change is from single and two family residential to limited com mercial for properties on the south side of East Jackson between Genessee and Stark sts. Clif Ouelette, Medford at torney representing the prop erty owners, appealed the case to the council after the planners denied the change June 11. Other matters on tonight's council agenda include ap proval of plans and specifica tions for the West Jackson st. swimming pool project and the extension of Fourth st. east across Bear creek from Riverside ave. to East Jack son st.; the approval of rates and routes for the Evergreen Bus Lines local service which began this week; and chang ing the starting hour for city parking meter operation from 8 to 9 a.m. The council meets at 7:30 o'clock in city hall. Joins proved the proposal to post pone for' 60 days the corps of army engineers hearing, scheduled for Sept. 17, to per mit a more complete report to be compiled. The postponement was an nounced yesterday by Con gressman Charles O. Porter, after conferring with the en gineers office in Washington, D. C. . The board's action came after Jess discussed the cur rent status of the basin plan, and gave an outline of the work of the flood control and water resources group over the past several years. More than 60 organizations in the valley have joined to form the association.
