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Newspaper Page Textf ! 3 3 o Regional Edition Price 10 Cents Medford Tribune 20 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16,1 959 54th Year No. 173 pfefe- ZI-M 4bJl yW'- - tetsfl 1 l a 1 'J J A1 f t J" . J- sr. i - i -f 'A BAND BENEFIT About 3,000 students of Medford public schools, coming in shifts, attended the smorgasbord luncheon in the Groceteria parking lot yesterday, which was held to raise money for the Medford High school band fund. Part of the crowd of children, including band members who Sporting Goods Shop Operators Die of Attacks Operators of two sporting goods shops in Medford died yesterday afternoon of heart Stacks, one while fishing on the Rogue river southwest of Grants Pass and the other at his home here. John Moad, about 59, of 571 Pierce rd., Medford, operator of Jack's Sporting Goods shop, 1232 Court st., died while fisfcing about 2:15 p.m. yester day. , A. O. (Sam). Samson, 54, of 53 fto: court, Medford, op erator of Sam's Sporting Goods, 23 South Central ave., died at his home of a heart attack late yesterday after noon. He operated the store for the Past 14 years. Mr. Moad was fishing with two friends, F. E. Bowman, 1212 Court St., Medford, and K. W . Pellett, Grants Pass, near Irinis Riffle about 15 miles southwest of Grants Pass. i Bowman and Pellett told authorities that Moad com plained of feeling ill while c fishing from a rubber raft aDout p.m. tie was tatcen to shore and a short time later he said he had recovered. He began fishing from the bank after that, they said. . A few minutes later, he collapsed. Relatives said he had been under treatment for a heart condition. Funeral arrangements for Mr." Moad will be announced by Perl Funeral home. . .... Sam's Sporting Goods store will be closed until after a complete inventory . is taken, store personnel said today. Funeral arrangements for Mr. Samson appear on page 11 of today's Mail Tribune. o Post Office Change iaid Abandoned W. E. Birdsall, director of post office changes division, Washington, D.C., has inform ed Congressman Charles O. Porter that plans to convert $e Jacksonville post office to a classified branch of the Medford office have been abandoned. In a telegram to the Mail Tribune, Porter said that 0 Birdsall told him "they de cided to take no further ac tion on the plan at this time because 'of the representa tions which have been made'." Porter was notified last July 29 that the post office department was considering the conversion. ' Several petitions against the proposed change had been circulated in the Jacksonville area. The petitions were to be forwarded to congressmen and senators in Washington, accorSing to Jacksonville re pots. , '- . Chessman Awaifs Result of Hearing ' Sacramento, Calif.-flJPD-Con-vict-author Caryl Chessman, Sho has fought to escape the gas chamber for 11 years, began a week end of waiting Today while Gov. Edmund G. Brown considered clemency. Brown promised to an nounce by Monday whether 9e would grant a commuta tion to the 38-year-old con victed kidnaper, rapist and robber. . Yugoslavia Turns Down Security Seat United Nations, N. Y. -UP- Yugoslavia's refusal to be come a compromise candidate complicated the deadlocked East-West battle for a U. N. Security Council seat today. 25 Rounds of Voting Poland, running with Rus sia's backing, and Turkey, supported by the United States; went through 25 rounds of voting with neither able to muster the 'two-thirds vote required for election to one of three two-year seats be coming vacant Jan. 1. Ecuador Amendment to Be Drafted for Pool Fencing Ordinance Medford City Attorney Joel Reeder is to draft an amend ment to the new swimming pool fencing ordinance, the city council directed i last night. The amendment was pro posed following a committee study by Councilmen Ed Hall, Al Bradford and Jimmy Dun levy. The proposed amendment will specify that before the type of fencing or protective hedgerow can be arranged, the swimming pool owner must record the proposed change with the city 15 days before the change is to be made, Dunlevy explained to the city council Ashland Votes on Hospital Bonds Ashland - Ashland's 3,536 registered voters faced clear skies and warm temperatures today to vote on the proposed $350,000 bond issue to finance a new hospital here. The polls were to be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., with the two polling places the junior high school for Ward II and the city hall for Ward I. The general obligation bond issue, if approved, would pro vide funds to match on the required, 2-to-l basis a $157, 173 federal Hill-Burton grant approved last month by the surgeon general in Washing ton. The deadline for provid ing the matching funds is Jan. 15. The -funds would also per mit meeting a second Hill Burton requirement, that the institution prove it would have the financial resources to operate for one full year. The estimated cost for the new 34-bed hospital is $471, 520. Contracts, according to another Hill-Burton stipula tion, would have to be award ed by next May 1. Assassin Misses French Lef (winger Paris -flJPD- Terrorists tried but failed to assassinate for mer Cabinet Minister Fran cois Mitterand early today just as the National Assembly was voting overwhelming ap proval to President Charles de Gaulle s Algerian peace plan. . - The leftwing senator was not hit by the assassins' bul lets.' The attempt on his life fol lowed a warning in the Na tional Assembly by Gaullist Deputy Lucien Neuwirth that "commandos of killers have crossed the Spanish frontier" and "the public figures to be cut down have been desig nated." Oregon, Washington Farm Groups To Merge Salem--(UPD-The Oregon and Washington Farmers Union groups decided to merge at a convention meeting which runs until Saturday. New name of the organiza tion will be the Oregon-Washington Farmers Union. Candidacy and Ceylon were elected on the first ballot. The General Assembly spent most of Monday , and Tuesday in fruitless efforts to break the Polish-Turkish stale mate and then suspended fur ther voting until next Mon day. Candidacy Declined There had been hope that Yugoslavia might become a compromise candidate accept table to both Russia and the United States. But the Yugo slav delegation late Thursday declined any candidacy. furnished music for the affair, are shown in the picture above. Total receipts from the luncheon will not be known until later today, according to Assistant School Super intendent Elliott Becken. The smorgasbord was sponsored by the Southern Oregon Salesmans' club. This, he said, throws the burden of proof on the pool owner and relieves the city building inspector's depart ment of having to check swimming pool fencing for variances from the city ordi nance. Object to Variances The committee study and amendment came after Coun cilmen Ed Hall and R. L. Van Sickle objected during the Oct. 1 city council meeting to the variances requested by pool owners. The variances had been presented to the council for approval. The swimming pool fencing ordinance provides, "In lieu of maintaining a fence or wall, such person, firm or corporation shall provide a pool cover or other protec tive device approved by the city council, provided, how ever, if such a pool cover or protective device is used a competent person shall keep the pool under observation at such time when the pool is uncovered or unprotected." The question on permitting variances from the ordinance arose over use of a hedge as a portion of the , fencing requirement. Court Comments On Agate Dam . The Jackson county court has declined to commit itself at this time to taking an in terest in recreational possi bilities at the proposed Agate reservoir. County Judge Earl M. Mil ler forwarded the decision Wednesday in a letter to Ed win Strother, chairman of the county parks and recreation commission. Srother in a letter Oct. 6 had asked the court on the commission's behalf to write Harold Sexton, manager of the Rogue River Valley Irri gation district in which the Agate , project would be lo cated. The commission, according to Strother's letter, wished the court to state its interest in the recreational aspects of the proposed dam and to ask "for more specific information on its possible development." "The County Court," Judge Miller's reply stated, "recog nizes future possibilities of such a recreational site, but at this time does not wish to commit the county to a proj ect on which construction has not begun and the overall dis trict irrigation policy unde termined." Safety-Check on Cars Is Saturday A vehicle safety-check will be conducted on 10th st. be tween Central and Riverside aves. between 9 a.m. and 4 pjn. tomorrow by the safety committee of the ' Medford Safety Council and the Med ford Lions club. The safety-check is being conducted to help develop public awareness of the need to have vehicles checked per iodically and to maintain them in safe driving condi tion. Included in the check will be brakes, front lights, rear lights, steering, tires, exhaust system, glass, windshield wipers, rear view mirror and horn. ' Motorists whose cars pass the saf etyncheck will receive a "circle of safety" member ship card. Dr. Lee Mellish is safety check chairman for the Lions club, members of which will conduct the test. Salem -flJPD- Some 600 ele mentary school administrators from all parts of Oregon are expected here Monday and Tuesday for their annual meeting. " Plane Carrying Nuclear Bomb Rams Tanker Explosive Said Found Intact Hardinsburg, Ky. -OJPD- Air Force disaster crews picking through the wreckage of a B52 jet bomber which collided with its tanker plane found the nuclear bomb it was carry ing today, and the Air Force said there was no danger of explosion or radiation from the bomb. An Air Force spokesman in Washington emphasized that the bomb was found intact and presumably would be re moved from the area at once. He said that had the weapon been broken apart by the im pact, there might liave been limited radiation danger, as occurred in a crash at Flor ence, S. C, last year Three Airmen Die 'At least three airmen died in the bomber's flaming col lision with a fuel-filled KC135 tanker. Seven more were miss ing. Four survivors had been found, injured. The giant eight-jet Strato fortress and its KC135 jet tanker, both from the Strate gic Air Command Base at Columbus, Miss., collided while refueling over Ken tucky with an explosion that was seen for more than 100 miles in all directions. The Air Force said that in spite of the tremendous flash which lit the sky, there, was no nuclear explosion and that there was no danger of one. Fall Four Miles Apart The planes fell about four miles apart in low-wooded hill country about 20 miles south of here and- about 75 miles southwest of Louisville. Four members of the bomb er crew were picked ud alive and apparently not seriously injured shortly after the crash. They were taken to an Army hospital at Ft. Knov 30 miles east. No interviews with them were permitted. -. Eagle Point to Vote on Proposal Eagle Point-Voters in Eagle Point will go to the polls Monday, Oct. 19, to decide whether the city council may sell $130,000 in bonfs to fi nance a city sewer system. Letters explaining the pro posal have been sent to all registered voters in the city by the council and Mayor Ed Putman. Putman said that the state health department has "been after Eagle Point for quite a little while" to install a city sewer system because the present lack of an adequate disposal system is a health hazard. The council is seeking an amendment to the city charter by adding a section giving the council authority to sell the bonds. The proposal fol lows many months of discus sion and a public hearing con cerning a city sewage system. Polls at the Eagle Point High school gymnasium will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for all registered voters in the city limits. 'I'm Sorry, Sir. It Seemed Like A Cute Idea XSffeWS 47 -FOR A jp S tets l M ai mi a g m it MbBu Stotol CBS Will Drop All Prize Shows From Network Broadcasters Move To Curb Rigging Washington -(UPD The Co lumbia Broadcasting System revealed today it is dropping all big prize TV quiz and give-away programs from its network. The announcement was made in New Orleans by CBS President Frank Stanton who said "we are now convinced that games whose major ap peal is the winning by con testants of large sums of money or lavishly expensive prizes ought not to be car ried on the CBS television network." "The dangers inherent in such programs, as presently conceived, have been high lighted for all to see, and we do not believe that any sys tem of policing, public or pri vate, however carefully de vised, can plug up all the pos sibilities of hanky-panky w in the production of the pro grams," Stanton told a meet ing of the Radio Television News Directors Association. At the same time, the head of the National Association of Broadcasters said the entire radio and TV industry will act to preyent the rigging of quiz shows.. The developments followed testimony before a congres sional investigating subcom mittee that the outcome of some major - quiz programs were decided in advance. The hearings are to be resumed on Nov. 2. NAB President Harold E. Fellows told the regular fall meeting of more than 300 radio and television execu tives, here that the industry has proven "it can clean its own house when necessary," and there is no need for the government to step in. General Motors , Named in Suit Washington -0PD- The gov ernment filed a civil anti trust suit .against General Motors Corp. today ordering the firm to drop its -interests in the Euclid Road Machinery Co., Cleveland. Acting Attorney General Lawrence E. Walsh announced here that the suit was filed in U. S. District Court at New York. General Motors acquired Euclid as a subsidiary in 1953. Euclid is the nation's largest producer of off-highway dump trucks used in all types of heavy construction. CowrUM. TIM Palmer PuBlimun St. Loait Pett-DiiPalcb (UPI Telephoto) NELSON ROCKEFELLER Slates Western Tour Rockefeller Plan To Visit Oregon Pleases Hatfield Salem-flJPD-Gov. Mark Hat field today expressed pleasure that New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller will visit Oregon Nov. 14 to give an address on national and international af fairs. . But the governor would not commit himself "on the possi bility that Rockefeller might be a candidate against Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican nomination for the presidency or that Rockefeller's western tour might be for the purpose of testing his strength in such a Contest. ; -i v.-',: ; .. -:.-.v "Either will make a splen did President and I am de lighted the people of Oregon have an opportunity to see, hear and converse with both within . little more than a month's time," the governor said. Nixon was here last week for the dedication of The Dal les dam. "As I have indicated many times, should the governor and the vice president become candidates for the presiden tial nomination it is my hope that Oregon voters will have the same open opportunity to choose between them as the convention delegates will have in Chicago," the gover nor said. Hatfield said he would be glad to return hospitality offered him by Rockefeller when Hatfield visited Rocke feller's home in New York in June. Fire Starts From Power Outage A power interruption this morning caused a five-minute break in electrical service to the Medford vicinity and start ed a 300-acre fire near Ash land. California Oregon Power company said the interruption resulted from a "fault" on the transmission line from Copco, Calif., to the Medford area. A power line fell back of the state department of forestry's guard station on Nevada st. at Ashland. Grass was ignited and the blaze spread into smoe scrub oak, patrolmen re ported. Six crewmen with three trucks were dispatched and the fire was under control early this afternoon. - Astoria - flJPD - A strike against the J. J. Newberry and F. W. Woolworth stores here has been scheduled by Local 147 of the Retal Clerks union. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Sat urday. Low tonight 40. High Saturday 82. Temp. Highest Yesterday 77 Lowest this Morning 40 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:29 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow ' 6:26 a.m. Moonrise today 5:45 p.m. Full Moon today 7:48 a.m. PROMINENT STAR Vega, high in the western sky after sunset. Like Capella, Vega is above the horizon enough to be visible at some hour of every clear night of the year in this latitude. Lost Yoytihs GDDDO S OnvMt" Hcibd : Government Camp -(UPD-Searchers again today hunted the lower slopes on the east ern side of Mt. Hood for two teen-age deer hunters missing since Sunday. Bloodhounds were pressed into the hunt Thursday, but no trace of the two youths was found. Missing are Doyle Reed, 18, Portland, and Jerry Leighton, Yl Oregon City. The pair was to have returned home late Sunday after hunting on the mountain. Reed's car was found Wednesday parked off the Mt. Hood Loop highway. Leigh ton's car has not been found. Boy Carried Money Officials Thursday said the search might be discontinued because it was thought per haps the youths had left the area in Leighton's car. How ever, it was decided to con tinue the hunt today. Education Group Opens Conference Ashland - The Student Ore- g o n Education . association opened a two-day meeting at Southern Oregon college this morning with a welcome ad dress by. Dr. Elmo .Stevenson, president of SOC. Theme for the meeting is "It's Our Profession." Don Sutton of Grants Pass and Myrtle Converse of Ashland are co-coordinators for the convention. Wayne Paulsen, Central Point, is president of the Southern Oregon college branch of the SOEA. Among speakers at the con ference are James McDonald, Central Point, former presi dent of the Student National Education association, and Miss Maxine Smith, Medford, president of the Oregon Edu cation association. Miss Smith will give the keynote address at 10 a.m. tomorrow ; at Churchill hall auditorium. Preston Butcher, state presi dent of the SOEA, will pre side at convention sessions. Lumber Index Drops 84 Cents Portland - (UPD - Prices cov ered by Crow's Lumber Price Index dropped an average of 84 cents per thousand board feet in the two-week period ending Oct. 15 and this week's market was described as ex tremely low. Crow's Lumber Market News Service, reporting the Index, said the reason was largely due to effects of the steel strike. Green fir dimension in stan dard and better grades man aged to hold its own but low er grades lost ground, the Service said. - Plywood held firm with un changed prices, sanded stock going at $68 and' fiveeighth inch sheathing near $92. HOMES THREATENED-A fire truck stands ready at right as flames reach out into the smoke-blackened sky from hills in back of La Prieto Canyon, threatening these homes. The fire was halted when it was only a few v- Sheriff R. L. Gillmouthe of Hood River said if the bays had become panicky '"aiey could be any place. And , if they are out in the brush and they are not on the trail, they have panicked," the sher iff concluded. Theory Discounted "You can't go in any direc tion for over a mile from this area without hitting a trail," he added. Searchers admitted that the boys may have been injured and unable to summon help, but this theory was largely discounted. The sheriff said Reed was carrying $90. Federal Court Case Testimony Continues Today Testimony continued today in the federal court case here og Hugo C. Johnson, San Jose, Calif., against John and Ellen S. Bakshas, Grants Pass. Seven witnesses, including one of Johnson's attorneys and Johnson testified Wednes day and Thursday before Johnson's attorneys rested their; case.-. f---- Witnesses included William F. Johnson, attorney; John Weldon, certified public ac countant; Melvin Frost, paint shop owner; Waldemar Wiik, owner and operator of the Riverside Motel; the Rev. Le- roy Fraser, First B a'p t i s t church, and Circuit Judge Or- val J. Millard, all Grants Pass. The suit concerns an al leged partnership claimed by Johnson in the Home Gas company, Grants Pass. Testifies Thursday afternoon, Bak shas estified in his own behalf with cross examination of the defendant resuming today. It was interrupted to allow tes timony to be heard from Gene Brown and Donald Boulter. The men are both Grants Pass attorneys for Bakshas. Brown was described as the "key" witness for Bawshas. Cross examination of Bak shas resumed prior to noon to day and started 1 again ' at 1:30 p.m. More than 30 exhibits have been entered so far in the suit presided over by U. S. Dist rict Judge John F. Kilkenny. Johnson's attorneys include H. H. Phillips, Portland, and Johnson.:' Attorney for Bak shas is Hubert Anderson, Portland. The case is expected to con tinue throughout today. Vernonia Hunter Suffers Heart Attack John Day-(UPD-Claude Wil liam Johnson, 60, Vernonia, suffered a fatal heart attack Thursday while hunting in the Deer creek area about 50 miles southwest of John Day, the coroner s office reported. hundred feet away from these houses. There was no general evacuation although a few familes left temporarily. Story is on Page 2. -(UPI Telephoto) - y . Supply Ordered Channeled Into Missile Program Non-Struck Mills Affected by Order 0 Washington-(DPD-Steel man agement negotiators agreed today to study a scaled-down union wage demand in an ef fort to settle the 94-day-old steel strike. The union's new proposal was presented at renewed di rect negotiations between un ion and management, the first direct talks since Oct. 6. o To Meet Saturday R. Conrad Cooper, chisft management negotiator, told reporters after a one hour and 45 minute session thjfc the revised proposal woult be examined. Both sides agreed to meet again Saturday afternoon in Cooper's hotel suit. The development came s the government ordered avail able steel supplies channeled to the nation's missile and atomic defense programs. The action, in effect, di verts all available steel com ing 1 from non-struck mills from civilian use. . 0 Sett Priority System Special rules to establish priorities were issued by the Business and Defense Serv ices Administration of the Commerce Department. The order was issued under the defense production act "to reduce disruption to mili tary and atomic energy pro grams resulting from the steel strike." At present, it applies to the non-struck steel mills which are producing about 15 per cent of the nation's capacity. However, the same priority will apply to the mills? now, closed by the strike, when they resume operation. Immediate Priority Under the priority system, steelmakers were directed to give "immediate top priority" in producing and delivering supplies for "urgent programs such as missiles and launch ing sites and nuclear-powered naval vessels." Meanwhile, Cooper told newsmen that "we are. on both sides, strenuously en- deavoring to reach an aggse- ment to settle this issue." Neither he nor Steelwork- ers President David J. Mc Donald would comment on terms of the new peace offer. Kennedy Opens Portland Office Pnrtland-fllPD-Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) a possible candidate for president next year, opened an office in Portland Thursday. Kennedy will visit Oregon next week for the third time in six months. The vouthful-aDDearine sen ator in scheduled to arrive in Salem next Monday night and give an address at Wil lamette University Tuesda? at 10 ajn. ' Kennedy then will come to Portland to address a lunch eon meeting of the League f Oregon Cities. V if ? 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