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London - (LTD - An East
Wgst summit conference
seemed certain today to be
postponed.
President Eisenhower, Brit
ish Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan and Soviet Premier
likita Khrushchev all had in
dicated their preference for
an earlier meeting.
But French Premier Charles
de Gaulle's suggestion Wed
nesday to postpone any sum
smit conference until next
spring apparently has short
circuited that prospect.
These were the develop
ments in 1he fast moving
summit picture:
-President Eisenhower told
his news conference in Augus
ta, Ga., that he still strongly
favors a western summit con
ference as soon as possible.
But he said he does not feel
the same sense of urgency
about a full scale summit
Reclamation Body
Urges Steps to
Build Agate Dam
Th e Oregon Reclamation
Congress has urged and re
quested federal agencies to
"undertake such steps as may
be necessary and appropriate
to accomplish completion" of
the Agate dam and reservoir
project. "
The Congress unanimously
adopted a resolution support
ing he project and the Rogue
iverg basin reclamation pro
gram at a meeting in Klamath
Falls earlier this week.
The Oregon group noted
tha the Agate dam and reser
voir project "will provide
storage of an additional 4,500
acre feet of water as an in
tegral part" of the Rogue ba
sin program. . V
Additional Acreage ,
The reservoir, which would
be located within the Rogue.'
River Valley Irrigation dis
trict, would provide "valu
able equalization and -peak
Sow control," and enhance
the operation of the irrigation
district's system. It would pro-a
vide water for an additional
1,800 new irrigable acres.
The project has been sup
ported by the state water re
sources board, which recom
mends its construction, and
the bureau of reclamation has
found that the project would
have a favorable cost-benefit
ratio.
The Oregon Congress urged
and requested the bureau of
reclamation, Congress and
other appropriate federal ad
ministrative agencies to take
steps necessary to accomplish
construction., "
Pool-Plan Shifts
Noted by Manager
A new set of plans for the
proposed Jackson park swim
ming poor will probably be
presented to the Medford city
council at its Nov. 19 meet
ing. City Manager Robert
Duff said today.
If the council approves the
-revised plans, then a second
call for bids will be issued,
the city manager said. Bids
would be opened about Dec.
11 which would allow comple
tion of the swimming pool
project by the next swimming
season, he said.
Included in changes for the
main pool would be a plastic
instead of a stainless steel
filter, a change iri depth of
some of the pits due to plumb
ing alterations, and a smaller
drain, Duff enumerated. V
Bids for the Jackson pool
project were rejected by the
council Oct. 1 as being too
high. Duff said he learned of
the proposed changes early
this week while attending the
League of Oregon Cities meet-
. ing in Portland. He met with
Stevens and Thompson, Port-'
. land engineering firm, vien.
Lowest combined bid of the
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582 submitted by the National
Gunite company, Salem. It
was $ll,582 more than the
engineer's estimate of $90,000
for the main pool, bath house,
mechanical plant and diving
tank.
i
Deferment
Certain
meeting with the Soviet Un
ion. -Soviet Ambassador to Par
is Sergei Vinogradov told re
porters after an interview
with French Foreign Minister
Maurice Couve de Murville
that "President Eisenhower
has proposed a summit confer
ence for the end of the year.
We are in agreement with
this." However, Eisenhower
emphasized at Augusta that
he had not made concrete pro
posals, but had outlined his
personal feelings in the mat
ter in communications to the
other world leaders.
-A Foreign Office spokes
man in London disclosed that
De Gaulle released his views
on the summit in the form of
a Cabinet communique Wed
nesday without warning Brit
ain beforehand.
-George F. Kennan, for
mer U. S. ambassador to Rus
sia, told a lunch meeting in
Washington that the West's
stand on Berlin today is
"stilted, cramped and inflex
ible," and said a compromise
is necessary. Berlin is one of
the principle questions which
must t be dealt with at any
summit session. Kennan also
said the! West "need have no
doubt" about the sincerity of
Khrushchev's desire to avoid
a major war. ' -No
Comment
-The Soviet press in Mos
cow published Wednesday's
French communique about
the summit without comment.
Khrushchev Visit lo Paris
, -Unofficial, but well-founded
reports -circulated in vari
ous capitals that De Gaulle
has invited Khrushchev to
Paris. !
. -Dispatches from Bonn said
West German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer is believed
to feel that" no summit meet
ing should be attempted until
February at the earliest.
(What appears to be in the
works is" a number of prelim
inary meetings before a date
for the summit is firmed up.
, De- Gaulle and Khrushchev
probably will meet in Paris,
for the French leader is
known, to want to hold a per
son to person session with the
Soviet' Premier before any
East-West parley.
License Payment
Received by County
;'. Jackson county has receiv
ed its share of the state motor
license payments for the
quarter ending Sept. SO, ac
cording to County Treasurer
Karl Janouch.
The payment was for $142,
711.76 and- will ' go into the
genera road funds. Janouch
said that the quarterly . pay
ment . was -more than $4,000
less, than for the same period
last 1 year. He added that the
total amount collected in the
state was 62 per cent below
1958? V
. No reason . was given for
the reduction by state officals.
Nigerian Engineer Studies County Roads
Tamajong Ndumu, an engi
neer-from Nigeria on the west
coast of. Africa, is visiting
Jackson .. county to study
roads, bridges and other pub
lic works projects.
.Ndumu, who arrived, here
Tuesday afternoon after four
weeks in Lane county, ex
pects to remain in Jackson
county 2Vs weeks.
He is about halfway along
on a six-month tour of the
United States under the joint
auspices of this country and
his .own through the Interna
tional Cooperation adminis
tration. "
Paul Rynning, county engi
neer and surveyor, this week
was conducting Ndumu on in
spections , of various road
projects. Ndumu, who was
graduated from the Univer
sity of London , in 1952, ex
plained that Jackson county
was selected for him to visit
because of its varied engi
neering problems and its suc
cesses in meeting them. . ...
- He is especially Interested
in roads constructed into pre
viously inaccessible 'areas,
which are projects of particu
lar and pressing importance
in his own country. He also
hopes to study mechanical
equipment, construction mate
rials and their sources, and
projects in such related engi-
Medford
36 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22,1959 No. 178
Italian Poet Wins
1959 Nobel Prize;
Dispute Possible
Writer Once Called
Sputnik 'God's Work'
Stockholm, Sweden -(UPD-The
1959 Nobel Prize for Lit
erature was awarded today to
Salvatore Quasimodo, a Left
leaning Italian poet who once
wrote that the Soviets took
over God's work when they
launched their first Sputnik.
It appeared the awarding
of the prize to the 58-year-old
Quasimodo might touch off a
major controversy in Italy
where Roman Catholics were
outraged by his reference to
"God's work" in his poem
"The New Moon."
The winning of the prize
also may alienate anti-Communist
elements who look
askance at Quasimodo's fall
ing in step with Communist
attacks last year on Russia's
Boris Pasternak who won the
1958 Nobel Prize for Litera
ture. Quasimodo described
Pasternak as a little bourg
eois who lives like a lord.
Quasimodo, the first Ital
ian in 25 years to win the cov
eted $42,610 prize, received it
for "his lyrical poetry, which
with classical fire expressed
the tragic experience of life
in our times," the Swedish
Academy of Literature said.
Quasimodo was a member
of the Communist party for
three months at the end of
World War II but he said he
resigned because he wanted
all his freedom and "I could
not limit my activity to a poli
tical field."
Schools Must
Hold Exercises
Salem (UPD - Oregon
schools must .hold exercises
Friday in memory of Francis
E. Willard, a crusader against
demon rum during the 1890's.
' Attorney General Robert Y.
Thornton said the law requir
ing the celebration is still on
the books. It was passed in
1917, two years before the
country voted in prohibition.
Thornton said most" school
officials probably a r e n o t
aware of their responsibility
in the matter.
The education committee of
the 1957 Legislature tried to
get rid of the 1917 law, but
backtracked when temper
ance advocates demanded
continuance of the ceremony.
City Finance Officer
Named to Committee
Darell Huson, finance offi
cer for Medford, was elected
to the executive committee of
the Oregon Association of
City Finance Officers at the
recent League of Oregon
Cities convention in Portland.
The finance officers associ
ation held its meeting in con
junction with the league convention.
VISITOR TO COUNTY Paul Rynning,
county engineer and surveyor, shows con
struction plans to Tamajong Ndumu, en
neering fields as water supply
and sanitation.
Some problems known to
Jackson county have their
counterparts in Nigeria,
Ndumu notes. One example is
timber access roads. Nigeria's
hinterlands have large stands
Commission IKiears
Ferguson Appeal!;
Record 8s IPransed
Salem -(UPD- An appeal by
Clifford Ferguson from his
firing as head of the rail
transportation division of the
Public Utility commission was
heard today by the state civil
service commission.
Ferguson was fired in Sep
tember by Commissioner Jon
el C. Hill in a reshuffling of
the department. Hill charged
Ferguson with insubordina
tion and other failings.
The opening session of the
hearings saw witnesses de
fending Ferguson on the
stand. -
Morgan Backs Him
E x - P U C Commissioner
Howard Morgan,' now a live
stock rancher, called Fergu-
608 Acres Are
Seeded to Grass
Ashland A total of 608
acres of land in the Ashland
watershed was aerial seeded
to grass Monday under the
direction of Harold Thomas,
forest service ranger for the
Ashland district.
Seeding was done by a
specially equipped forest serv
ice plane piloted by Ed
Scholz. The operation took
eight hours, and 8,600 pounds
of seed were applied.
The seeding is a prelimin
ary erosion prevention treat
ment of the land in the Ash
land burn area. The grass is
used to obtain a ground cover
and bind the soil, the forest
service noted. Trees will be
planted later to obtain a for
est stand.
City of Ashland, forest serv
ice and bureau of land man
agement land was seeded in
Monday's operation.
Thomas also is constructing
check dams and contour fur
rowing portions of the burn
ed area to prevent erosion as
much as possible. Although
some erosion is inevitable un
til such, time as the grass be
comes firmly established, the
furrowing and check dam
construction will tend to al
leviate this, the forest service
said.
State Calls Down
Tallowbox Lookout
Southwest district of the
state department of forestry
called down its last lookout
today.
The lookout was John Gro
ner, who has manned the Tal
lowbox post in the Applegate
area.
Patrolmen stated that the
fire season is not yet over,
however. Decision on its of
ficial ending is up to the gov
ernor. Whether any lookouts
in the district are manned
again ; this year depends on
the weather, it was said.
of such timber as mahogany
which have yet to be logged.
Washouts and floods are oc
casional problems here. But
they could hardly compare to
conditions in Nigeria, where
Ndumu reported it rains in
some areas as much as 26
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son "an aggressive, honest
public servant." He said he
had more dealings with him
than any "of his other depart
ment heads.
"He never lied or was dis
honest," Morgan said.
At the time of his dismissal
there were hints he was fired
because of pressure by the
railroads on Gov. Mark Hat
field's office.
Witness Robert Bulger, Med
ford, said Ferguson had a
record "far above reproach."
Tom Reynolds, Grants Pass,
plant manager for Spaulding
and Sons, said Ferguson was
very helpful in getting clean
and repaired rail cars into
his area. c .
Shippers Said Happy
Raymond Martin, director
of the Southern Oregon Ship
pers association, said Fergu
son was. "the finest public
representative we have met
in the PUC."
He said southern Oregon
shippers were' happy with
what Ferguson had done for
them concerning southern
Oregon's perennial boxcar
shortage. Ferguson worked
with the governor's emergen
cy transportation committee
on this matter.
George Brown, political ed
ucation director for the Ore
gon AFL-CIO, said Ferguson
was "especially qualified" to
deal with the boxcar shortage
problem. Brown was a mem
ber of the emergency com
mittee in 1955 and was its
chairman in 1957.
Ferguson was hired by ex
PUC Commissioner Charles
Heltzell.
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Extension of Time
R and M construction com
pany, contractors for the new
Eighth st. bridge, said today
they plan to seek a 30-day
extension from the state.
Although the city of Med
ford is financing construction,
estimated to cost $51,038, the
state is doing the engineering
so would have to approve the
extension of time, City Engi
neer Vernon Thorpe said.
The bridge was originally
set for completion by Oct. 31,
but due to a delay in engi
neering plans and steel ma
terials delivery, it will not be
completed until later in No
vember, company officials es
timated. The company was awaiting
engineering plans on the foot
ings which have been poured.
The walls are being raised
now and the beams will be
poured about a week from
Monday, a company official
said. Prefabricated steel truss
es are expected next week, it
was reported.
Construction on the new
bridge started July 16.
gineer from Nigeria who is here to study
roads and other public works.
inches in a single day.
In his country, which gains
full independence from Great
Britain next year, Ndumu has
been executive engineer in
charge of all public works
projects ' in a" district about
the size of Jackson county.
VICTIM TREATED-!-Cuban doctors treat head Wednesday. At least two Cubans were
a victim of stray machine gun fire which killed, and many more injured.
sprayed Havana during an air battle over- v (UPI Telephoto)
Cuban Newspaper Implies U.S.
Involved in 'Bombing' of Havana
Havana-(UPD-The newspaper
Revolucion, semi-official voice
of Premier Fidel Castro's gov
ernment, implied today that
the United States was involv
ed in Wednesday's leaflet
bombing of Havana.
In the subsequent attack on
the leaflet raider and in a
series of ground bombings
and wild shooting escapades,
at least two persons were kill
ed and almost 60 wounded.
The night attacks culminat
ed a day of anti-Castro ac
tivity in this island republic
and brought a call for a mass
labor demonstration today in
support of Castro's regime in
its latest crisis.
Castro scheduled a tele
vision appearance tonight to
discuss the air incident and
the treason charges levelled
against Maj. Hubert Matos,
former military commander
of Camaguey Province. Matos
is in jail, while another of
ficer in the Camaguey area
committed suicide. Others also
are under arrest.
Jn an editorial today, Rev
olucion said the leaflets sign
ed . by the "traitor" Maj.
Pedro Diaz Lanz indicated he
had accomplices in the U.. S.
Senate.
Diaz Lanz, former Cuban
air force major who fled Cuba
last July and later told a
U. S. Senate subcommittee
County Youths
Back from Fair
County 4-H Agent Glenn
Klein and Jackson county 4-H
members who attended the
Pacific International Live-,
stock exposition, in Portland
returned to the valley yester
day. Klein reported that county
4-H members received above
market prices for their steers
and lambs at the auction sale
Wednesday morning.
Receiving 30 and 31 cents
per pound for steers were
Judy Bradshaw, Eagle Point;
Carol von de Hellen, Central
Point; .Allice Woolfolk, Eagle
Point, and Jon Jennings, Cen
tral Point. The market was
reported to be 28 cents.
Terry Gail, Gold Hill, re
ceived 23 and '27 cents- per
pound for lambs, which were
considerably above the 19
cents market price. t
Klein said the group was
fourth in beef herdsmanship
and ninth in sheep herdsman
ship. The county livestock judg
ing team of Rick Anderson,
Eagle Point; Truman Elmore,
Applegate; and Bill Anhorn,
Central Point, placed 11 in
that category, Klein said. The
score was high enough to place
them in the blue ribbon
group.
Mletan
Havana, Cuba (UPD Po
lice said an assassin attempt
ed lo kill Premier Fidel
Casiro with a knife today.
H was not successful.
about Communistic elements
in the Castro government, al
so was accused by Revolucion
of having U. S. accomplices
in Florida.
So far as is known, the leaf
let raider was not hit.
Other persons were be
lieved to have been injured
by motorized raiders who
sped through the city later
Wednesday night, tossing
home-made bombs or hand
grenades out of the windows
of their cars. i
Delegates to the convention
of the American Society of
Travel Agents that opened
here Monday watched excit-
Candidates To Be
Featured at Event
Jacksonville Candidates
for the city council will be
introduced at a town meeting
at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25,
in the Jacksonville commun
ity hall, Mayor E. O. Graham
has announced.
Councilmen will be named
in the city election Tuesday,
Nov. 3-
Candidates for the three
council . positions are John
Caird, Harvey Parrott, John
Crabb, Donald Wendt, Ronald
McCay and Mrs. Ruth Bowne
Walker.
Caird was appointed to fill
the unexpired term of Gra
ham, councilman who was
elected mayor in the last elec
tion. - The- election . will be held
between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 3, in the Jack
sonville city hall, corner of
South Oregon and California
sts. '
"They Don't Just Want The Answers They
Want Money, Too!"
edly as warplanes roared low
over (Havana, their machine
guns spitting fire. None of
them was injured.
The air battle and the
bombings caused momentary
panic in the heart of Havana
but the citys life went on
much as usual. Night spots
and gambling places remained
open although there were few
tourists on hand.
The leaflets that showered
down on Havana were signed
by Maj. Pedro L. Diaz Lanz,
a former commander of the
Cuban air force who resigned
and fled to the United States
last spring in protest against
what he described as growing
Red infiltration of Castro's
revolutionary regime.
Thousands of leaflets fell
in the vicinity of the hotels
where the ASTA delegates are
staying.
Earlier Wednesday, Castro
flew to Camaguey to deal
with a new "Diaz affair" -the
resignation of Maj. Hu
bert Matos, military comman
der of Camaguey Province,
in protest against "Communist
influences within the govern
ment." Wash House Destroyed
By Flames Yesterday
" A wash house at the rear
of the William Blunt resi
dence, 3954 South Pacific
highway, was destroyed by
fire yesterday morning.
Medford firemen called to
the scene said that the blaze
apparently started from a de
fective stovepipe. They re
ported that the 16 by 16-foot
building was completely in
volved in flames when they
arrived and was a total loss.
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Arguments Held;
Judges to Decide
Early Next Week
Panel Continues Stay
Until Decision Made
Philadelphia - (DPD - A panel
of three federal judges finish
ed hearing arguments today
on a back to work order ap
peal in the 100 -day steel
strike and said it would "dis
pose" of the case early next
week. The court continued a
stay to the back to work order.
until it reaches a decision.
Chief Judge John Biees Jr.
heard more than three hours
of arguments from represen
tatives of the United Steel-.
workers union and the gov
ernment. -
"We will not be able to
reach a decision, of course, in
this case today or tomorrow,"
Judge Biggs said. "We will
however endeavor to dispose
of the case early next week."
Biggs then adjourned court
until next Wednesday morn
ing when it will resume its
normal case list. The steel
case was completed today.
The jurist indicated that a
decision might be handed
down Monday or Tuesday in
the steel appeal.
Union President David J.
McDonald, who had promised
to fight the injunction in the
highest court of the land if
necessary, said the union
made a "substantial argu
ment" to have the Taft-Hart
ley injunction dismissed.
"Now we will wait for the
decision of the court which
I understand will be some
time next week," McDonald
said.
The union challenged the
government's claim that the
strike imperiled the nation
and said the walkout "could
continue until 1960 without
any adverse impact on the
economy."
A panel of three . judges
ordered an indefinite stay of
a DacK to worjE oraer nanaea
down Wednesday in Pitts
burgh. But the stay merely
supported another ruling Wed
nesday which staved off en
forcing the injunction.
Arthur J. Goldberg, 53, gen
eral counsel for the union,
said the court should toss out
the injunction on grounds
that the Taft-Hartley Law was
unconstitutional and the na
tion was not imperiled by the
strike.
"I would say our evidence
shows that the strike could
continue until 1960 without
any adverse impact on the
economy," Goldberg said.
He was asked by one of
the judges whether he had
any idea how long it would
take to. settle the dispute.
"President McDonald (un
ion President David J. Mc
Donald) says were it not for
the fact that the companies
count on these 80 days, the
strike would be quickly set
tled," Goldberg said.
John Biggs, Jr., chief judge
of the Third U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals which is
hearing the union's plea to
dismiss the work injunction,
said the "stay will be con
tinued until the arguments on
the merits have been heard."
He then began taking testi
mony on the merits of the in
junction appeal.
At the same time the appeal
was being heard. President
Eisenhower said at Augusta,
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ed down production of vital
missile base facilities and pro
duction of the missiles them
selves. He said the walkout
threatens to "imperil the na
tional health" and added that
steel supplies were "nearing
the exhaustion point."
Goldberg said it was the
"plain intent of Congress that
there should be an immediate
danger before Taft-Hartley is
invoked."
Taft-Hartley is unconstitu
tional because it vests in the
courts a nonjudicial function."
McDonald, who had vowed
to fight the injunction in the
highest court of the land if
necessary, was in the crowd
ed courtroom. McDonald said
he was there "merely as an
onlooker."
WEATHER
FORECAST: Considerable cloud
iness with a little light rain
tonight. Patchy fog in valleys
and partly cloudy Friday. Mild
temperatures. Low tonight 52.
High Friday 6S-70.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 51
Lowest this Morning 50
Prec. to 10 a.m. Today .21
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 5:20 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 6:33 a.m.
Moonrise tonight 9:47 p.m.
Last Quarter Oct. 24
PROMINENT STARS:
Square of Pegasus, high . In
south - 9:38 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANENTS:
Jupiter, sets 6:32 p.m.
Saturn, low in
southwest 7:34 p.m.
Venus, low in east .
3:28 a.m.