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RIBUNE United Press International Full Leased Win United Press International Full Leased Wire 64 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1959 No. 174 MEDFORiUKmT o California Blaze Within 300 Yards Of Missile Base o Control Apparently Impossible for Days Los Angeles - (UPD - A multi million dollar fire burned to within 300 yards of a Nike missile site Saturday and ex ploded out of control on at leHst two other fronts in An geles National Forest. AU iiim-esseiiueu miuy jki- ah a sonnel were removed from the Nike site on Mt. Disappoint ment, although Fire Capt. D P. Hooper said the base itself appeed in no immediate danger. "Every effort" will be made to protect the base, he said. ; More than 2,100 men were fighting the five-day old fire, which had burtied 10,000 acres of valuable watershed. Hooper said - another 200 men had been requested. : No control appeared pos sible "for at least two or three days," Hooper and U. S. for est service information officer Don Porter said. e Porter Said damage would run into "millions," although it was impossible to give close approximations at this time. ; The latest flareup occurred on the northern flank of the fire, as . flames whipped across Angeles Crest Highway in the vicinity of Switzer's Camp. The hignway was a key line of defense for the grimy, tiring crew members, many of whom have been on the lines since the fire broke out six dayi ago. No houses are en dangered there. Visible For 40 Miles Smoke was visible some 40 miles away. Los Angeles was blanketed by it, and the city also suffered another major smnir at tapir 9 . Favorable weather condi tions earlier Saturday helped firemen prevent the blaze from spreading to homes near Altadena, La Canada and La Crescenta, as well as Big Tu junga Canyon. ' Most of the residents of 100 houses evacuated Friday in Big Tujunga were allowed to return home. However, about 30 persons, in one small can yon settlement, were kepi away because of the possibil ity the fire would spread -to the area when winds in creased Saturday afternoon. Another bombardment by 0 tanker planes was utilized to fight the flames in other wise inaccessible areas. V One man has been killed while fighting the fire - Leo Poblane, 50, a Zuni, N. M., Indian. He was apparently the victim of a freak accident Friday in which four other men were injured. A 600-gal-lon borate drop knocked the men from their feet. U. S. forest supervisor Rich ard Roege and Keith Klinger, Los Angeles county forest su pervisor, said steps would be taken to plan for reseeding the watershed before the fire is controlled. A team of flood control experts arrived Satur day to start a survey of the burned over area. Bones Probably Were White Man's The human bones found re cently on Raphael Gardener's ranch above Lakecreek are "probably" those of a male Caucasian, not an Indian, ac cording to state crime labor atory officials. Jackson county sheriffs deputies, who received the in formation in a letter dated Oct. 14, said today their in vestigation of the case would continue. The knife found with the bones was homemade, possi bly a good forging job but more likely made from a bay onet, according to the crime lab report. The bones were further identified as being those of a man about 50 years old and about 5 feet 8 inches tall. How long the bones had been in the ground, and the cause of the man's death, re mained . undetermined how ever. Senator Humphrey T esting the Climate' Denver (UPD Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) said Fri day night he would decide by early January whether he will seek the Democratic pres idential nomination. He said his meetings with Colorado Democrats were part of a "reconnaissance . . . I'm just testing the political climate, or terrain." MARINE BAND Part of the crowds at tending two performances of the Marine band at Hedrick Junior High school audi torium Friday afternoon and evening is shown above. The picture was taken during the afternoon concert before an estimated '2,500 students and residents. An estimated 2,000 attended the night performance. I. A. Mirick, Medford High school band leader, December Prospect Washington (UPD - Chances of an early December summit conference with Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev ap peared to be fading sharply Saturday, mostly because of heel - dragging by French President Charles de Gaulle. Officials said that unless de Gaulle changes his mind soon and goes along with the United States and Britain, there will not be enough time to prepare adequately for a December session. These officials, acknowledg ing de Gaulle's recalcitrance, never theless continued to hope that agreement could be County's Taxpayers Receive Statements A number of Jackson coun ty taxpayers were enjoying a calm before the storm ;this week end. Their tax statements were still in the county courthouse, thanks to a breakdown of the mailing machine Friday morning. But at least half the tax statement envelopes had been stamped and sealed before the machine was temporarily jammed by a power outage. These went into the mail, and their addresses in most cases have already received the news. Processed Monday ; The remaining statements, in any case, were to be pro cessed Monday morning -barring of course the chance of another power outage. The statements again this year are accompanied by a pamphlet published jointly by the county assessor, Ray J. Schumacher, and the county sheriff and tax collector, Joe Walsh. The pamphlet's purpose is to explain procedures involv ed in evaluating and assessing properties and in collecting the taxes upon them. The pamphlet explains where each, property owner's tax dollar goes. . - "Most taxpayers" according to the pamphlet assume they they are being taxed for the ownership and use of the property itself. "This is not true," the pamphlet states. "You are buying the services of . government, roads, police and fire protection, schools, sewer trunk lines, sewage dis posal systems, water trunk lines, reservoirs, welfare, health and many other ser vices." School Levies On the average, school lev ies account for 81.6 per cent of property taxes this year, according to the pamphlet. Taxes by city governments ac count for 16.8 per cent, while rural fire, districts account for 1.3 per cent, water districts for 0.2 per cent andV sanitary districts for 0.1 per cent. v Jackson county itself, as a taxing unit, has not collected any tax for, the past . three years thanks to income from O and C timber sales and oth er sources. : Taxable property in the county is being assessed on a ratio of 25 per cent of its ac tual appraised value, which is Summit Conference Seen Fading Sharply reached. They declined to au thenticate reports circulating in London that de Gaulle wanted to explode a French atomic bomb before a summit conference is held to give him a strong bargaining weapon. They said rather the French president's delaying tactics more likely stemmed from his long-held view that a summit conference will do more harm than good unless it makes major headway is settling world problems such as the Berlin crisis. . Not Enough Time De Gaulle is known to feel that not enough time exists between now and early De- the property's market, or true cash, value. Taxing units such as school districts or sanitary districts divide the total amount of money they require to meet budget and bonding needs by the total value of properties in the district, and come up with the tax, levy millage rate. Millage Rate : This millage rate multi plied by the individual prop erty's assessed value, which is 25 per cent of its appraised value, yields the individual property tax. Taxes are due in quarterly installments, the first pay ment deadline being Nov. 15. If the full amount of taxes is paid by Nov. 15, a 3 per cent discount is allowed. If three; fourths of the amount is paid by then, there is a 2 per cent discount, and if half the total is paid, one of 1 per cent. School district levies this year range from a high of 203.5 mills for Prospect's dis trict 59 to a low of 31.7 in Pinehurst's district 94. .... Municipal levies range from 33.1 for Phoenix to 16.9 for Ashland. Medford 4-Hers Take Top Honors . Portland (UPD - Two Med ford 4-H club members nabbed first places in the 4-H wool show at the Pacific In ternational Livestock exhibi tion in Portland Saturday. Carol Deter, Jacksonville, took first place honors in Co lumbia class and Craig Wright, Medford, took both first and second places in the Southdown class. Gene Hunter, Harlan, was named champion of the 4-H wool show with a clean, carefully-prepared Lincoln fleece. Philip Krouse, Grants Pass, was tops in the Corriedale class. A Central Point girl, Mar sha Watson, placed third in both the cross-bred class and the Suffolk class. The annual wool show is sponsored by the exposition and the wool growers assn. of Oregon. A total of 55 fleeces were exhibited by 4-H'ers from Oregon and Washington. said the band fund will be increased by a "substantial profit" realized from the the presentation by the Marine band. Its ap pearancee here was sponsored by the Med ford High school band to help defray ex penses to the annual East-West Shrine foot ball game in San Francisco. (Knackstedt Photo) cember to lay the proper groundwork for settling the Berlin problem. In addition, he has his hands full at the moment winning agreement from both Algerian rebels and French rightists for his plan to end the five-year-old Alger ian war. The United States, while it agrees a meeting is useless un 1 e s s it accomplishes some thing, goes along with Great Britain that an early meeting is desirable. Khrushchev is expected to agree to any summit date pro posed by the west, but the sooner the better. . As. one Soviet diplomat here said: He'll meet tomorrow if you want to." This is the gist of diplomatic activities going on regarding a summit meeting. Most of it is going through secret diplo matic channels. Minds Changed A week ago, Britain and the United States were con vinced a meeting , could be held in early December and that de Gaulle could be talk ed into going along. Develop ments last week changed their minds. French Ambassador Herve Alphand talked nearly a half hour Friday with Undersecre tary of State Robert Murphy at Murphy's request. The usually effusive Alphand emerged grim-faced. He re fused to comment in any way. A short time later British Ambassador Sir Harold Cac cia discussed the timing of the summit conference with Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. He told newsmen no time had been set for a heads-of-government meeting and that there were different points of view among the countries involved. Consultations Planned Nevertheless, top level dip lomatic consultations are be ing planned for November, obviously with the idea that a December meeting might take place. British Foreign Secretary Sir Selwyn Lloyd will go to Paris early in November to confer with French officials. Soon after that, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will journey to London for conference with Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan. Later in November, Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni and his foreign minister, Giuseppi Pella, will go to London to talk with Macmil lan. Island City Youth Killed by Shotgun La Grande - (UPD -. An Island City youth became the eighth hunting fatality of the season by gunshot wound Friday night. Thomas Leeds Bailey, 17, died in a hospital from a shot gun wound suffered Wednes day while hunting at Morgan Lake five miles south of here. The youth was wounded when a gun belonging to a companion, Leslie , McClune, 16, of La Grande, discharged. At least 10 other fatalities, attributed to heart seizures, have been recorded during the current hunting season in Ore gon, making a total 18 deaths. Chessman Crimes Confession Told By Man in Europe Italian Says Another Confessed His Guilt Stockholm, Sweden - (UPD -An Italian living in Sweden said Saturday he had sworn under oath that an American had confessed the crimes for which Caryl Chessman faces death in five day's time. - Italian Piero Chiapponi, 36, said the American had con fessed to him that he, not Chessman, was the "red light bandit" for whose crimes Chessman was first sentenced to death in 1948. Chessman, convict - author, has fought to escape the gas chamber ever since. The la test execution date is Oct. 23. California Gov. Edmund G. Brown was considering clem ency for the convicted kid-nap-rapist. But in Stockholm Saturday, Chiapponi came forward with his story that an American celled "Bob" and "Silvano del Puppo" had confessed he was responsible for the crimes for which Chessman was convict ed. Back to Picture Chiapponi went back to the motion picture in which he and the unidentified Ameri can appeared as bit players in 1956. He was studying stills from the film Saturday in an attempt to help police identify and locate the American. The Italian told the story Saturday just as he had told it under oath to Einar Van De Velde, a Swedish lawyer who acts as legal advisor to the Italian Embassy here. Chiap poni said he gave his story under oath, with Notary Pub lic Bengt Steuch present as a witness. Chiapponi said he first met the American, who wanted to be called "Bob," when they appeared in the Swedish movie in 1956. They met oc casionally during the follow ing years. The American came to Sweden off and on for three years, sometimes using the name "Silvano del Pup po," Chiapponi said. Brought Up Case Soon after they met, Chiap poni said, the man brought up the Chessman case, and time and time again during their acquaintance mentioned it. The American always in sisted that Chessman "was not guilty of the crimes of which he was accused." Chiapponi said the Ameri can's "confession" came last July. He said he had kept the affair to himself for fear of breaking a confidence until lately, when the pressure for Chessman's approaching ex ecution date caused him to go to the Italian Embassy with his tale. Bonds Approved For New Hospital Ashland-Ashland residents Friday approved by almost 5 to 1 a bond issue to help finance construction of a new hospital here. The count was 1,075 in fav or and 224 against the $350, 000 bond issue., The funds will provide money to match federal Hill Burton funds, which will be available for construction of the hospital if bids are award ed by next May 1. The Hill-Burton funds were approved last month by the surgeon general. The city council is expect ed to consider the possibilities of a hospital site at the next council meeting Oct. 27. City officials this week plan to at tend the League of Oregon Cities convention in Portland. CURTAIN STIFFENED Vienna - (UPD Communist Hungary and Czechoslovakia are stiffening the iron cur tain with new and higher barbed wire fences and more mine fields, it was disclosed Saturday. WEATHER FORECAST: Lowering cloudi ness today with a chance of a few showers afternoon and eve ning. Mostly cloudy tonight and Monday. The high today 75. Low tonight 50. High Monday 68. Temp. Highest Yesterday 85 Lowest This Morning 37 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:26 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:28 a.m. Moonrise tonight 6:53 pjn. PROMINENT STAR Deneb, high overhead at moon rise. 1600 light years away. Deneb is the most distant of the bright stars. Like Capella and Vega, it is visible here at least yart of every dear night of the year. - i V imill TIME MARCHES David J. McDonald, left president of the United Steelworkers, check ed his watch Friday before getting down to brass tacks with R. Conrad Cooper, right, chief steel management negotiator. A re vised union proposal raised hopes of an Crossfield Flies X-15SecondTime: 'Very Satisfied' Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.,-(UPD-The experimental X-15, half airplane and half rocket ship, flew for the sec ond time under its own power Saturday, soaring more than 60,000 feet above the Mojave desert. ' Scott Crossfield, test pilot for North American Aviation, said he was "very satisfied" with performance of the X-15 on the 10-minute flight. The stub-winged craft, designed to carry man to the fringes of space, was cut loose by its B-52 "mother" ship at 10:23 a. m. PS T, and flew for 10 minutes before a dusty, but perfect, landing at Roger Dry lake. The pencil - shaped craft looked something like a duck as it came in for a landing. The X-15 which used up its fuel in about four minutes in a demonstration of top ef ficiency flew at speeds of about 1,400 miles an hour. The altitude of 60,000 feet was 10,000 feet higher than that reached on the first pow er flight Sept. 17. Weather conditions were perfect for Saturday's flight from this base 65 miles north east of Los Angeles. However, there was a smokey haze from the distant Angeles forest fire that formed a grimy back drop for the light. Trailing the VX-15 were three jet planes, one piloted by Maj. Robert White. White is expected to be first man to make an attempt to fly the X-15 100 miles toward space at a speed of 4,000 miles per hour. While the Air Force declin ed to give a definite date, it was indicated the next power ed flight would be attempted this week. Several more low altitude, low-speed flights are planned before North Amer ican winds up its tests. Dying For Herblock it away 5 I Pllljfil ill! Ill I t r I I; P I IIS agreement to end the worst steel strike in the nation's history, but these hopes were dashed at least temporarily when offers by both sides proved unacceptable. (UPI Telephoto) United States Claims Soviet Mistreatment Of Moscow Official Washington-IUPD-The United States Saturday accused Rus sia of forcibly seizing the U.S. Embassy security chief in Moscow, trying by threat and bribe to compel him to spy for the Soviet Union and then ordering him out of the coun try when he refused. The State Department said Russell A. Langelle of Long Beach, Calif., head of person nel security at the embassy, would leave the Soviet Union as requested. But it said "the United States rejects the So viet accusation againsfhim and protests these improper actions." It was the first ouster of an American diplomatic official from Russia since the spring of 1958. And it was the first sour note in U.S.-Soviet rela tions since Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's recent visit with President Eisen hower. SOC Announces Record Enrollment Ashland - Enrollment at Southern Oregon college reached an all-time high on Oct. 13 with 1,250 students registered, according to Mrs. Mabel Winston, registrar. The total is 9 per cent over the enrollment at the same time last year, she said. The number of freshmen in creased 26.3 per cent over last year. The percentage in crease at SOC is the highest of any college or university in the Oregon system of higher education, Mrs. Wnston said. Enrollment in the fall term 10 years ago was 782 students, she noted. This year's enroll ment represents an increase of 468 students. A Smoke CoerrlfM. The Pulitzer PoblMIBi Co. It Latlit Poll DifPJtcA du to illneu The President was kept ful ly informed on the episode but had no immediate com ment. . . " r The State Department said Langelle was kidnaped Fri day and held for an hour and 45 minutes, during which he was accused of spying, he and his family were threatened with harm, and he was offer ed money to turn traitor. The embassy promptly fired a note to Soviet diplomatic of ficials protesting "this flag rant .violation, of diplomatic immunity." The Soviet ministry coun tered that it had been inform ed on "competent" authority that Langelle had been car rying out "intelligence work not compatible with his dip lomatic status," and that his further presence in the Soviet Union was "undesirable." As Langelle got off a bus about a block from the U.S. Embassy, on the way to work, five civilians seized him. One held a hand over his mouth while the others dragged him into a parked car. He was driven to a nearby building and forced inside. He produced his diplomatic card, protested the treatment he was being given, and asked permission to call the Ameri can embassy. Football Scores Ashland Oregon Techi cal Institute defeated South ern Oregon College 14 to 6 here last night in an Oregon Collegiate conference foot-, ball game. Each team scored on runs made on recovered fumbles. Oregon Tech also tallied on a 20-yard drive after a pass interception. Mississippi 53, Tulane 7 Texas Christian 39. Tex as A and M 6 Arizona Slate 24, Colora do State 9 Iowa Stale 27, Colorado 0 Pugel Sound 6, Whit worth 0 Oregon Slate 66, Idaho 18 Alabama 7, Tennessee 7 Oregon 20, Air Force Academy 3 Oklahoma 23, Missouri 0 . Pennsylvania Slate 21. Boston U. 12 Pennsylvania 36, Brown 9 Syracuse 42, Holy Cross 6 Yale 23, Cornell 0 Princeton 42, Colgate 7 Harvard 38, Columbia 22. Illinois 14, Minnesota 6 Michigan Stale 19, Noire Dame 0 Ohio Stale 15, Purdue 0 Northwestern 20, Michi gan 7 Wisconsin 25, Iowa 16 Army 21, Duke 6 Auburn 7, Georgia Tech 6 Indiana 23, Nebraska 7 Kansas 33, Kansas State 14 Louisiana Stale 9, Ken tucky 0 Georgia 15, Mississippi Slate 0 Vanderbill 13, Florida 6 Baylor 14. Texas Tech 7 Rice 13, Southern Metho dist 13 Steel Settlement Hopes Deflated; New Offers Fail Fact-Finding Board 0 nans Parley Today Washington (UPD - Hopes for a voluntary settlement of th 96-day-old steel strike wer punctured last night. Union and management each reject ed offers made by the other. The steel companies prV -sented their new offer at crucial closed-door negolitt ing session. The union de nounced the offer as "totally? unacceptable." Industry in turn rejected scaled-down union proposal as too costly. Failure of the last-ditch n gotiating effort apparently5; threw the next move to Presi- ? dent Eisenhower's s p e c i 1 fact-finding board which will meet with union and com pany bargainers at 11 a.m. to day. - Neither side would flatlf concede the talks had col lapsed. But most observfrs saw little chance th. " goveri? o ment use of a court injunction to send the strikers mandtt rily back to the mills for a 80 day "cooliflg off' pari could be averted. Both union president Dtvit! J. McDonald and chief influ try bargainer R. Conrad Coo er said their negotiating tttms were still available for fea ther talks before the Sunde r session with the fact-findna Infamous Demands" But McDonald said the "1 12" company offer mad "im famous demands" on th mi . ion and would give mans ment "the unilateral right tt use a black snake whip tm the backs of the worker." Cooper said that undtr tfi circumstances, "we see litttgl hope of accomplishing e agreement." But he shiaC away from applying the tsw "collapsed" to the situatio. McDonald called a meeting of the union's executive bor last night to acquaint sift members with development at the two hour and 15 mim ute session with the miuf c ment spokesmen. o Cooper said he could "6t see any profit" in mSetin again with union represent tives last night. Like McDonald, he saifl R would be on hand to mito with the fact-finders. Chairman fJeorse W. Tv- lor of the fact-finding bogrfc o said "it makes you sad" ko hearing the development. 0 He said today s hearing wcg to "get the present position oj both parties to embody in ou3 report to the President.", I guess we 11 work all nih tomorrow night," he told g reporter. Tavlor said the board htm drafted most of the report -cept that it does not contai the latest positions of bcri& sides. He said the hoard member . were each going over the r port separately last night l- 4 cause "there is a great? dl to digest." Union demands for a mon ey increase in the form of & wages and benefits and man agement insistence on cnanges in work rules at the jplantso were still the stumblinf blocks to settlement of th longest and costliest stel strike in U. S. industrial his tory. Hurricane Judith Threatens Florid; ( Miami (UPD - Hurricane Ju dith, a small storm as tropictl) hurricanes go, aimed 75-mil an-hour winds at the heavilj populated Tampa Bay are oS the Florida Gulf coast Sttulo day night. The storm sprang up At denly in the Gulf of Mexico and gave residents of th threatened shoreline areas on ly a few hours wrnine QO Evacuation of the beach aretg was slow in starting. At midnight residents wrtf? Q reported streaming off th beaches near Bradenton,o about 35 miles south of Tam pa, u Only the winds in sili area around the cloudy ey of Judith reached hurricnt o pitch. The principal danger o the storm appeared to lie noC c?0 in wind, but in flooding. Fear was expressed for thft O multi-million dollar citru crop which lay exposed in ih 0 expected path of the storm. o o
