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Newspaper Page TextRecommended How can farmers of this area establish a stand of forest trees on their farms? A story on page 14 of today's Mail Tribune carries an explanation by forest er Carl Hawkes, on how the program works. 54th Year Subscribers Price 10 Cents MEDFORD To report improper or non delivery ot the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land MU 2-1021. Treka VI 2-4077 before 6:45 pjn. daily and 12:30 pjn. Sunday II regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. RIBUNE United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press Intern? tional Full Leased Wire 56 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1959 No. 123 TV IT t fl Higher Gas Tax Almost Certain Within 40 Days All Signs Indicate Boost by Congress Washington -UP&-It seemed almost certain this week end that the nation's motorists will be hit with an increase in the federal gasoline tax within the next 40 days. All signs indicate that Con gress, confronted with a choice of two evils, will boost the present 3-cents-a-gallon tax rather than permit a tem porary shutdown in the fed eral highway construction program. The big question-to which motorists may get some an swers this week-is how high will the tax be raised. Democrats on two powerful House committees are locked in a furious intra-party battle over that issue. The Democratic - controlled House Public Works commit tee insist that's too- heavy a bite. Want Hike Cut As the price of sending the highway-financing legislation to the floor, they want the increase cut back to a half cent or so a gallon. Tax legis lation traditionally is consid ered in the House under a rule prohibiting amendments. Speaker Sam Rayburn has urged the rebellious Demo crats on the Public Works committee to go along with the recommendations of Ways and Means. But they insisted that it s up to Ways and Means to back down, if Congress is to act to meet the highway - financing crisis. "We're not going to have something jammed down our throats," one of the balking Democrats on the Public Works committee insisted Sat urday. Ouick Settlement Rayburn wants the issue settled quickly. "The speaker is going to have to knock some heads to gether early next week," ob served one neutral lawmaker. President Eisenhower re - quested a one and a half cent increase. The proposed one cent would require some cut back in the scheduled alloca tions of federal highway funds this summer. Once it passes the House, -the legislation would face a, determined drive in the Sen ate to reduce the increase. Norblad Charges Labor Fought Him Washington-(DPD-Rep. Walt er Norblad (R-Ore.) Saturday charged that labor contributed more than $10,000 in an effort to defeat him in the last con gressional election. Norblad made the charge in a letter to James B. Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. The Oregon lawmaker was among 229 members of the House who received letters from Carey, threatening po litical reprisal. All had voted for the Griffin-Landrum re form bill. Norblad called Carey's let ter a "disservice to the union movement and its members. "The great majority of them (union members) will be ashamed of your effort to in timidate," the congressman wrote to Carey. Norblad accused labor of trying to defeat him in 1958. "The records show that labor contributed in excess of $10, 000 to my opponent in an effort to defeat me in the last election," he said. Ashland Child Drowns in Ditch Ashland - Twenty-month-old Mark Gail Brewer drown ed in an open irrigation ditch a quarter of a mile from his home about noon here Friday. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gail S. Brewer Jr., 1400 Ashland Mine rd. State police and Ashland po lice and firemen were called to the scene but resuscitation efforts by the fire department failed. The boy was pronounc ed dead by Dr. Robert Turner "t 1:12 p.m. State police said the boy was discovered in the ditch, just west of the Brewer home, by Karl Axson, 1360 Ashland Mine rd., and Mrs. James Waddell, 1370 Ashland Mine rd. I , c Si - rwmm AUCTION LIVESTOCK One of the high- bidder was the Groceteria, Medford. Miss lights of the livestock auction at the 4-H Watson is shown leading the prime Here- and FFA fair Friday night wasthe sale of ford around the arena, while Auctioneer the grand champion fat steer, which brought Bill Bray, of Midway A'uction, on podium at its owner, Marilyn Watson, of Central Point left, keeps the bidding lively. Beef club, a price of 75 cents a pound. High Livestock Sale Climaxes Fair; $9 a Pound Bid on White Rabbit A livestock auction Friday night climaxed week-long events at the Jackson county 4-H and FFA fair at the county fair grounds here. This was the last main event of the fair. Saturday evening farm trailers were feeing backed up to the various fair barns and former prize exhibits were either carried, or were led into the various conveyances for the home ward journey. . Dusty and tired 4-H and FFA youngsters munched on their last hamburgers or hot dogs as they supervised the loading operations. .The fair was all over Sat urday night but for the shout ing and that will be done when the fair awards, other than ribbons, are presented during the first annual 4-H fair dinner in the National Guard armory near the fair grounds next Friday. The Jackson County Young Farm ers club and the fair board are hosts. Saturday's events wound up with dairy showmanship, and a tractor-driving contest. Rabbit High Friday night's livestock auc tion saw a fluffy, white "Easter-bunny" rabbit take the highest per-pound price bid that night, and perhaps during any of the livestock auction nights. It was $9 a pound given for the 4V2 pound champion market rabbit exhibited by John Bradshaw, member of the 4-H Peter Rabbit Misfits. Buyer was Phillip Nye, Phoe nix, at a total price of $40. This was the only rabbit on the auction block. A top price was also bid on a pen of chickens $2.50 a pound for a champion mar ket pen of chickens owned by Craig Wright, Medford 4-H club. Top bidder was Faber's Market, Central Point, which paid a total bid price of $80. These were the only chickens auctioned. Top price for sheep was re ceived by Terry Gail, Gold Hill 4-H club, with $1.30 a pound or total price of $110.50 paid by Tom Thumb market, Camp White area, for his 85 pound grand champion prime grade Southdown sheep. Sheep bid prices per pound generally went several cents higher than even . the current retail prices and. brought much higher prices than the average Rockefeller's Son Married in Norway Sogne, Norway (UPD - Stev en Bockef eller, an heir to one of the world's greatest for tunes, Saturday married Anne Marie Rasmussen, once his family's kitchen maid, at a country church wedding that ended when he hugged her and whispered "darling" in her ear. A heavy rain that would have reduced an American bride to tears fell before the 22-minute ceremony in the steepled little Lutheran church, but everybody smiled because in Norwegian tradi tion rain on a wedding day means a happy marriage. And as the nervous bride groom and his starry-eyed bride stood together before the altar, the sun burst through the clouds and infused the scene in a rosy glow through the window1. paid - in auction yards. Aver age sale price for sheep Fri day night was 42 710 cents per pound. This average price is up about 2 cents over the previous year, fair officials said. Swine High Swine buyers Friday night also bid high with Midway Meat company paying a top price of $1.01 a pound for a grand champion choice grade Berkshire weighing in at 215 pounds and owned by Marie Jones, Gold Hill 4-H club member. Total price figured at $217. East Side Abattoir in Ashland ran a close second, bidding a dollar a pound for a grand t ham p i o n choice grade 205-pound Hampshire hog owned by Ron Anderson, Eagle Point FFA chapter member. These top prices followed a sudden spurt of lively bidding as Auctioneer Bill Bray, Cen- Frink Brothers Win Tractor Test Jim Frink of Central Point took first place in the senior division of a tractor - driving contest Saturday afternoon at the 4-H FFA county fair. Russell Frink, his brother, also of Central Point, took top honors in the junior di vision. Eight youngsters pitted their driving skill and knowl edge of. tractor safety in a serpentine course, obstacle run and written test in the tractor competition. Other place winners were Bob Kuest, Central Point, senior, second; Tom Herriott, Applegate, junior, second; David Christensen, Applegate, senior, third; and Greg Schmidt Central Point, junior, third. The youngsters each drove a tractor, one of six donated by local dealers, along a zig zag route similar to a slalom course. Six barrels were set up in a line, 20 feet apart, and the boys had to weave the tractor through them -with a trailer attached. Then they did it backwards. They also drove through an obstacle course in which a plow had to be hitched and un-hitched from the tractor. They were checked for both speed and safety in the events, and a written test on tractor safety was also con sidered in the judging. Petitions Arouse Objection by Morse Washington - (UPD - Sen. Wayne Morse CD-Ore.) said Friday he did not want to have his name placed on the Oregon presidential primary as a "favorite son" candidate through circulation of nomi nating petitions. Morse said in a letter to E. G. Neal of Salem that he thought the ballot should con tain only the names of those candidates known to be seek ing the Democratic nomina tion, and he said he was not one of them. However, Neal indicated the petitions would be filed with Secretary of State Howell Appling. tral Point, and his men in the ring were spurring on bidders. Bray, professional livestock auctioneer in this area, ac knowledged a number of "old reliables" and some new bid ders on the scene. Bidders ranged from automobile com panies, to doctors, to logging companies, and markets. The various meat companies and groceries of the area carried much of the burden for the bidding. Average sale price for swine Friday night was 36 cents per pound. Beef Not as Well Beef did not dp as well as the other divisions in bid pric es received. However, the 4-H and FFA youngsters display ed their skill in handling the beef animals irf the sawdust ring under . the bright show lights as the auctioneer's chant and the barked bid acceptance from his assistants kept the hefty animals edgy. Marilyn Watson, Central Point 4-H member, received 75 cents, a pound, however, from the Groceteria for her 1,100 pound grand champion prime grade Hereford. A grand champion, high choice grade Angus owned by Rus sell Frink, Crater FFA chap ter, received a 54 cents a pound bid from the HLT ranch, showing the spread in bid prices between the ani mals receiving the first bid in each division and the oth ers. Average price for beef was 40 cents per pound, up 5 cents from -last year's aver age price. Fair officials were well pleased with the auction pric es. All prices were well above the current wholesale market prices. (See Pages 10 and 14) Gen. Prentice Gets New Duties Brig. Gen. William H. Pren tice, 1432 Crown ave., will become assistant division com mander of the 104th (training) unit of the Army Reserve, ac cording to Brig. Gen. Eugene C. Cushing, Vancouver, Wash., commanding general of the unit. v . - Underground ON BArlrJlNC" NUCLFAR TESTS Solons Swamped; Mail, Wires Ask Stiff Labor Law Action Predicted By Middle of Week Washington -(UPD- House- Senate conferees on the con troversial labor union reform bill were swamped this week end with letters and telegrams demanding a strong measure. They reported a "phenome nal" volume of mail since they started work last week ironing out differences be tween the stricter bill passed by the House and the milder measure approved by the Senate. They said the mail was running heavily in favor of the stiffer House Landrum Griffin version. Most non-controversial is sues already have been set tled. On Monday, the con ferees will tackle disputed provisions which would curb secondary boycotts and or ganizational picketing and close a jurisdictional gap be tween federal and state pro visions for dealing with labor cases. Action Predicted Two conferees from the House predicted final action on a compromise measure by the middle of this week. A check of the conferees' offices showed that most of the hundreds of telegrams they have received came from businessmen, but letters were pouring in from plain citizens as well. - Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (R Pa.) said his mail volume was "out of this world." He has already hired two extra sec retaries and plans to add two more. Kearns said he had re ceived 1,500 telegrams alone in three days. Rep. Carl D. Perkins (D Ky.), who' voted against the Landrum-Griffin bill in the House, said he is getting 300 telegrams a ; day from busi nessmen urging him to back it in the conference commit tee. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.) received more mail on the bill last week than on any subject in his senate career. His aides counted 2,249 letters and telegrams, about 1,900 for the Landrum-Griffin bill and about 300 from labor interests opposing it.' Aides said about one third of the pro Landrum Griffin mail came from busi nessmen. Rep. Graham A. Barden (D N.C.) chairman of the House Labor committee ,said he is getting 600 to 700 pieces of mail daily, much of it hand written letters from average citizens. "In 25 years in congress, I have never before seen a piece of legislation that so aroused the people," he said. Phoenix Man Dies in Crash Klamath Falls (UPD - Roland Albert Maurer, 53, of Phoe nix, was fatally injured Thurs day in a one-car accident about 10 miles west of here on Highway 66 near Keno. State police said Maurer ap parently lost control of his car on rain-slickened pave ment and careened off a curve. He was thrown from the car and a large rock, dislodg ed by the car, rolled onto his chest. Experiment FAITHFUL PAIR George McUne, Med ford, member of the Oregon Centennial wagon train that recently completed its 2,000-mile trip from Independence, Mo., feeds Fibber (left) and Molly, the team of mules that pulled his wagon the entire dis Hiking Grandma From Gallipolis Welcomed Here The Kiwanis county fair's favorite visitor Friday eve ning was Mrs. Emma Gate wood, the spry cross-country hiker from Gallipolis, Ohio. Mrs. Gatewood, 71, the .charming grandmother who braved hot sun and hoards of shutterbugs to walk 2,200 miles to Oregon to help this state celebrate its Centennial arrived at Medford airport Friday afternoon. She was greeted by Medford Mayor John W. Snider, with whose mother, Mrs. Maude M. Sni der, she was a houseguest this week end. Mrs. Gatewood flew from North Bend, after winding up a tour of the Oregon seacoast by gleaning two gay kerchiefs from the Coos Bay Pirates. Among her brightest memor ies of , the coast excursion were a trip up the Rogue river from Gold Beach and a chance to stee'r a Coast Guard boat on the high seas. Russ Jamison, fair mana ger, escorted Mrs. Gatewood to the armory stage Friday evening with Pat Rushton, Miss Jackson county. Tour of Exhibits After introducing "the two best-looking ladies in Jackson county," Jamison took Mrs. Gatewood on a tour of the exhibits on the armory floor. Among those that absorbed her interest were Marcel Le Piniec's botanical exhibit, the exhibition of paintings and Kogap Lumber Industries' dis play of forest product utiliza tion. Mrs. Gatewood then took the arm of Medford Police Chief Charles P. Champlin, and, flanked by Jamison, was escorted to the livestock auc tion at the 4-H, FFA fair next door. Here she was intro duced again, and received a warm welcome. After signing autographs at the auction, she returned to thejarmory for one more introduction before retiring. Saturday, Mrs. Gatewood visited Crater Lake with May or Snider, his mother, and other relatives. Otherwise, she took it easy. She reportedly plans to leave Monday for Eu reka, Calif. While stating emphastically that "the head is more impor tant than the heels" (if the one doesn't want to, the oth ers won't), Mrs. Gatewood re ported that comfortable foot wear is also important for long walks. She said she wore heavy nylon hose on the trip to Ore gon, . and men's cloth shoes with Dr. Scholl's arch sup ports. She Said she started off with six pair of hose, and still had one left. (See Pictures Inside) Commercial Jet Sets New Mark Seattle, Wash (UPD A" giant Pan American World airways intercontinental jet clipper wrote a n'ew page in aviation history Saturday with the first non-stop commercial jetliner crossing of the north Pacific ocean. The Boeing 707 "Clipper Liberty Bell" made the 4,820 mile crossing in just nine hours and five minutes for an average speed of 530 miles per hour. Nomads Nab Crown With Musical Talent In Kiwanis Club Fair The Nomads, a sextet of young Medford singers and musicians, last night won the Kiwanis county fair all-star talent review. Fair officials reported that the more than 1,500 visitors to .the event at the National Guard armory yesterday swelled the attendance total to 2,500 - about on a par with last year's gate. Today, parachute jumps at 1 and 5 p.m., peanut scrambles, Many Missing At Yellowstone West Yellowstone, Mont. -(UPD The official 'search for victims, of Montana's moun tain - shattering earthquake was called off Saturday but the agony of waiting in un certainty continued for. the relatives of some 1,500 per sons. The Red Cross said it had a list of 1,500 persons who might have been in the area when the quake hit Monday night. , Most of the missing, the Red Cross said, will probably turn up later when they get in touch with relatives. But until they do, worried relatives could only hope. The Howard Evans family of Salem, believed to be in the Yellowstone area and re portedly not heard from since the earthquake there on Mon day, are the daughter and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Burk, 9 King st., Medford, the Mail Tribune learned yes terday. The family includes two children. They were unre ported since last Sunday when they sent a card from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, saying they would arrive in Yellowstone the following day. The Medford chapter of the American Red Cross said it had received about six calls from local area residents, re questing information about" friends and relatives in the quake area, and that all visi tors to the national park from this area have been accounted for. Doyle Bransom Scores West Win Pendleton-(UPD-Doyle Bran som, a high speed halfback from Jacksonville, grabbed the opening kickoff and ram bled 90 yards for a touch down to pave an 8-0 West vic tory in the annual East-West Shrine Class B All Star game here Saturday night. Bransom, ' who wasv named the game's outstanding play er, raced untouched through the entire East squad for the score. The West scored two more points late in the fourth stan za when the whole West line drove left end Dick Ruhl, Hepner, into the east end zone for a safety. Bransom, a 170-pound right halfback, gave Coach Ron An derson of Yoncalla the West's first win since 1956. Overall, the West holds a 5 to 3 advantage. tance. McUne said the animals, unlike some of the horses, put on a little weight. Each of the mules went through ten sets of shoes, which wore quickly because of the animals' shuffling. McUne displayed the animals at the Big Y all day Saturday. a pig chase featuring a fine animal donated by Jim Vargo, Butte Falls, and the drawing for a succulent beef as a door prize were expected to draw large crowds. The four-day event which began last Thursday is being held for the third year in an effort to revive the county fair tradition and to raise funds for the Kiwanis dental clinic, which provides care for children of Jackson county. The Nomads include singers George Koch, Ted Lawson and Jim Clark and instrumen talists Jim Collins, bass, Buzz Goodwin, drums, and Lynn Offord, piano. All are Medford High school students. Others competing in the finale last night were Nick Gier,. accordionist, a n d a young vocal trio called the Twilites. Art Winners The winners of the art ex hibit were also announced yesterday. Don Staley, a 19-year-old from Eagle Point, who is cur rently in the U.S. army in Germany, took first in the oils division with a painting en titled, "Conversation Piece." First in water colors was Bea Coram" Medford, with a picture she called "Winter." Kent Scheffer, Medford, won both first and third prizes in the mixed-media di vision with "A Landscape" and "Tennents." Others placing with oil paintings were Ruth Tucker, Ashland, second; Russ Rose, Medford, third, and Bess Mitchell, Medford, fourth. In watercolors, it was Ar lita Pletsch, Medford, second, and Alexander M. Zeveley, Lakeview, third; while in the mixed media, Olive Chriss Binker, Camp White, took sec ond place. Judges were Eugene Ben nett, Warren Wolfe and Jack Teeters. Mrs. Oregon Expected . Mrs. Dorothy Jean Chase of Eugene, "Mrs. Oregon" for the Centennial year, was ex pected to appear again at the fair today. An event scheduled for 3 p.m. today is a baton-twirling exhibition, featuring Bonnie Wilson. Other entertainers on tap include the. Novelaires, Miss Codgie Clark, the familiar Shadows and Medford's own talented family, the Bordens. Numerous exhibits, from insect-eating plants to wood products and from exotic poultry to crazy-quilts, are also on display in the armory. The building was expected to remain open until after 10 p.m. tonight. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and warn through Monday; except pos siblity of afternoon and evening thunderstorm activity in the mountains to south and east of the valley. High today 90. Low tonight 54. High Monday near 90. Highest Saturday 87 Lowest Saturday 49 Our Skies. Tonight Sunset today 7:0? p.m. 5:37 a.m. Sunrise tomorrow Moonrise tonicht 9:48 p.m. Mercury is now making one of its brief appearances. Low in the east just before sunrise, this planet is now about 85 million miles from the Earth. Paradox ically in the next few days Mercury moves further away and grows brighter. Nikita Khrushchev Scheduled to Visit Seven U.S. Cities Press Conference On Television Slated Gettysburg, Pa. - (UPD The vacation White Houses an nounced Saturday that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev will visit at least seven Amer ican cities on his historic journey to the United States next month. He will see Washintrtmv New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Des Moines and Ames, Iowa, and Pitts burgh. On Khrushchev's travels outside of Washington, hp will be accompanied by Hen ry Cabot Lodge, U. S. ambas sador to the United Nations who will serve as Piwiripnt Eisenhower's personal repre sentative. Khrushchev will arrive here on Sept. 15. His visit to this country will . end Sept. ti, according to the latest itinerary. Eisenhower will in turn vis it the Soviet Union later in the fall as part of a big two exchange aimed at easing cold war tensions. ' Informal Talks Here is the Khnishrhov itinerary: . After arrival, he will stay in Washington SeDt. 15 and 18 where he and the President will hold informal talks. He will be in New York City Sept. 17 and 18; Los Angeles, Sept. 19; San Francisco, Sept. 20 and 21: Des Moines and Ames, Sept. 22 and 23; Pitts burgh, Sept. 24, then return to Washmgton for further talks with the President un til his departure on Sept. 27. While in Washington, Khru shchev has, agreed to speak at the National Press club on Sept. 16 and engage in a free wheeling question and answer press conference after his speech. The session will be televised. In New York City, he has been invited to speak before the general assembly of the United Nations. Joint Planning Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the Khrushchev itinerary was worked out by state department officials in cooperation with the Soviet embassy in Washington. Asked if Khrushchev would visit U. S. defense installa tions, to which President Eis enhower said he would be in vited, Hagerty said he could not answer that now. Asked about a possible visit to Abi lene, Kan., Eisenhower's boy hood home, Hagerty merely noted that it was not on the schedule. At his last news conference. the President had mentioned both Abilene and Levittown, Pa., as places he would like the Soviet leader to see as typical of America. Twelfth Night Has Top Crowd Ashland Friday ' night's overflow audience at the Ore gon Shakespearean Festival's production of "Twelth Night" and "The Maske of the New World" was reported the largest crowd yet to attend a production during the 1959 season. A total of 1,200 per sons, including 80 standees, watched the seventh perform ance of the combined bill, swelling the season's total gate to 22,069. This is a lead of 4,461 over last year at this time, when 17,608 had attend ed, officials reported. The popular comedy and its Centennial prologue have played to capacity houses six t'mes. One staging, earlier in the season, opened with a doz en tickets unsold. Festival Founder and Producing Di rector Angus L. Bowmer di rected "Twelfth Night." The "Maske" an original produc tion saluting Oregon's 100th birthday was directed by Jerry Turner. The duo has taken a strong lead in box t fice tallies, with "Antony and Cleopatra" second. Some tickets remain for the August 25 performance of "Twelfth Night" and an excel lent choice remains for the Sept. 2 staging, but the Sat urday night,. Aug. 29, per formance has been sold out for two weeks. Rain has threatened only once so far, but no showings have been cancelled. If good weather continues for the final four rounds, a new attendance is assured. 1 r.