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Newspaper Page Text-ft 1 54th Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers Recommended To repon improper or non delivery ot the Mail Tribune In Medford phone SP 2-6141 Ash land Ml) 2-1021. Yreka VI 2-471 before 6:45 pm. daily and 12 JO pjn. Sunday. 11 regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating, special messenger service. MEDFORD A research team, working with groups f Medford school children, are currently eonduet ioc extensive testa to lean "what makes Freddie Grow." This story on Pate 14 of to day's Mail Tribune Is a "must read" for every parent. United Press international Full Leased Wire United Press Interna ttonal full Leased Wire JiMf km Arc f TnTTI) TTTTT? s -I 56 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1959 No. 180 Premier of India' Pledges No War With Red China But Troops Rushed To Disputed Frontier Meerut, India -CPU - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Saturday pledged "no war with China" over the latest Red Chinese border raid on Indian soil. But he 5 was reported rushing troops to the disputed Kashmir fron tier. ' Informed sources said the heavily - armed Chinese unit which attacked an Indian constabulary unit killing J7 and wounding 3 still occupied Hot Spring in the Chang Chenmo valley of Ladakh in India-held Kashmir. There was speculation in New Delhi that Nehru would be forced to break diplomatic relations with Red China un less the Peiping regime agrees to a just settlement of the border quarrels that have erupted in Red Army attacks since last summer. Not Give Up' , In an address to his con gress party followers at Mee rut, in his home state of Ut- tar Pradesh just across the Red-held Tibet, Nehru vowed "our country will not give up her path or territory un der threat of intimidation." He warned that the border attack will have world-wide repercussions. The Ladakh area Kashmir where the Reds ambushed the Indians with mortars and ma chine guns last Tuesday "is our territory and will remain our territory," he said. Nehru, a neutralist whose government has sponsored Communist China's bid for a United Nations seat, said the obrder conflict was causing "grave anxiety." . The prime minister said that "even assuming it (La dakh) was a disputed area, this is not thejyay tosettle "the matter." :" - (See map on page 2) ; Charge of Rape Against Youth, 16 The IS - year - old Ashland youth remanded to juvenile court here last week from MacLaren School for Boys was arraigned Friday in dis trict court on a charge of rape. 0 His arraignment was con tinued to Monday. The youth was spending the week end in Jackson county jail. He was returned to this county last Thursday on or ders of the state board of con trol. MacLaren Superinten dent Amos Reed had told the board that the youth, commit ted to the school in August, was Jincorrigible." The board asked the juve nile court here for some as surance that the youth, if re turned, would be brought to trial and also stated that he ' never should have been com mitted to MacLaren in the first place. These and other comments on the case brought sharp crifllcism from Circuit Judges dward C Kelly and James M. Main here. District At torney Thomas J. Reeder, in announcing Friday that; the youth would be arraigned, also eriticized the board for "ridiculous and irresponsible" actions. . The youth, taken into cus tody last August, was origin ally charged with rape. But Judge Main elected to handle the case in juvenile court, arffl leaving the rape charge pending, committed him to MacLaren. The charge was filed anew Friday. The youth appeared before A. E. Piazza,"" district judge pro tern. Three Americans Nobel Contenders Stockholm (UPD - Three Am- $ o priean scientists .were consid ered Saturday as the top con tenders for the 1959 Nobel prize for physics to be an nounced Monday. Favored by observers to win the award was Dr. James Van Allen, prominent , Iowa physicist who discovered the "Van Allen radiation belt." - The other favorites, observ ers said, were Dr. Owen Chamberlain, 39, and Italian born Dr. Emilio Segre, 54, both of Berkeley, Calif. Excalibur a? efSsT' si it m 9 -"S II WMP I - Rural School Board To Appoint Member The Jackson county rural school board this week end faced the need, to appoint a new member as a result of recent shifts in election zones. The county school district boundary board last Wednes day accepted the rural school board's recommendations for these shifts. As a result of shifting the Talent school district from one V to Zone IV, Clarence Holdridee of Talent is losing. his seat on .the .hoard. as Zone V representative. The other changes involve no other unseatings. The board's action was pre- Benson Admitted At Medical Center . Washington (UP&- Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben son entered Walter Reed Army Medical Center Satur day with what his office de scribed as "abdominal com plaints." He was to undergo "obser vation and diagnosis," his of fice said. Hospital officials said his condition was "satisfactory." and his pulse, temperature and respiration all were normal. The secretary, who was 60 on Aug. 4, returned Oct. 9 from a tour of Russian and European farms. Benson, one of the original members of President Eisen hower's cabinet, has enjoyed apparent good health since he took office. Last December, however,- he fell while ice skating and dislocated his left shoulder. The secretary has been the center of , considerable con troversy because of his farm policies. Democrats have criti cized him bitterly, and even some Republicans from farm belt states have demanded his resignation. , . Eisenhower has backed up Benson all the way, however, and in recent months the criticism has died down. Mayor to Introduce Council Candidates Jacksonville t , Candidates for three city -council posi tions will be introduced at a town meeting in the Jackson ville Community hall at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Mayor E. O. Graham will introduce John Gaird, Harvey Parrott, John Crabb, Donald Wendt, Ronald McCay and Mrs. Ruth Browne Walker. Caird was appointed to fill the council position left va cant when Graham was elect ed mayor in the last city elec tion. The election will be held Nov. 3, between 8 a jn. and 8 pjn. at the city hall here. : Ernest Mclntyre and Robert Welch, present councilmen, are not seeking reelection. Council President A.r t h u r Davies has one more year to complete on his term. CaermM lS, file Psimer huomsms Co It Last DiMtt cipitated by school district consolidations throughout the county effected since the last zone changes were made in March, 1958. Specifically, the shifts aside from moving district 4 (Talent) from V to IV - in clude these: : In Zone II, districts 1, 2, 3, 10 and 100 were added. This was required by their consoli dation with 549 (Medford). Zone- in ; accordingly lost districts 10 and 100 to Zone II. And, Zone IV lost districts 1, 2 and 3 to Zone II. . The state law dictates that these changes produce five zones in the county "as near ly equal in population as may be practicable and measured along elementary school dis trict boundary lines." This, in the case of Jackson county, is easier said - than done. Zone H includes only one school district, 549, but thanks to consolidation this district (Medford) is over five times larger than the next in size. Its census population of chil dren aged 4 through 19 is 11,170. ZoneV, including districts 5 (Ashland) and 94 (Pine- hurst) has 3,479. Zone I has 3,643. This zone includes districts 6 (Central Point-Gold Hill), 35 (Rogue River) and 62 (Evans Valley) Next is Zone III. Districts 9 (Eagle Point), 59 (Prospect) and 91 (Butte Falls) add up to a 2,085 total. Last is Zone IV, with dis trict 4 (Phoenix-Talent) and 40 ( Applegate), which total 1,916. As County School Superin tendent Alf B. Mekvold ex plained it, the disparity in population is offset in part by the fact that the board's two members-at-large come from large zones: Sam ' Harbison, Zone II, and Ben Lombard, Zone V. Four zone representatives' seats will be up for election next May, Mekvold reported. These persons, include Wil liam - A. Starzinger, Zone I, Glenn W. Smith, Zone II, James 1 H. Grieve, Zone III, and the Zone V representa tive who succeeds Holdridge. Jeannette P. Grove, Zone IV, continues on the board until May, 1962. Mekvold commented that "rural" school board actually is a misnomer, since the board represents the entire county. WEATHER FORECAST: Fog clearing this afternoon. Fair and mild this afternoon and evening. Fog Monday morning. Clearing near noon. Bright and sunny Mon day afternoon. High today 68. Low tonight 43. High Monday 70. Temp. Highest Yesterday 77 Lowest This Morning .AS Our Skies Tonight Sunset today -5:15 pjn. Sunrise tomorrow -6:36 ajn. Moonrise tomorrow 12:37 a.m. New Moon Oct. 31 The constellation of Orion rises tonight at 9:5s pjn. and will be due south 3:2s a.m. Its two brightest stars are Rigel and Betelgeuse. Cuba Government Asks Extradition Off Ex-Air Chief ( Diaz Lanz Accused As 'Air Raid' Leader Havana - (UPD - The govern ment arrested more than 50 "counter-revolutionaries" Sat urday and demanded the ex tradition from the United States of former air force Maj. Pedro Diaz Lanz in connec tion with a rebel "air raid" last Wednesday. The crackdown came amid reports of fresh rebel air ac tivity in the provinces. A dis patch from Las Villas said an unmarked twin-engine air plane strafed a moving train near the town of Caibarien, but was driven off by gun fire from a military escort aboard the train. Diaz Lanz was accused of "manslaughter, wounding and imperfect assassination" in an incident Wednesday in which an airplane dropped anti-government leaflets on Havana. Two persons were killed, sup posedly by persons incited by the leaflets. (The Federal Bureau of In vestigation reported in Wash ington Friday that Diaz Lanz admitted engineering the leaflet flight. Officials at that time declined to say what ac tion, if any, might be taken against him.) Fled Last Summer Diaz Lanz, a former chief of the Cuban air force, fled last summer to the United States where he testified be fore a U.S. Senate subcommit tee investigating Communist subversion in the Cuban gov ernment and armed forces. Minister of State Raul Roa said telegrams had been sent to the Cuban embassy in Washington and to the con sulate in Miami, where Diaz Lanz now resides, demanding that U.S. authorities arrest him and extradite him" to Cuba as "a- common crim inal." : ' ' ' ' ; Thirty of . the persons ar rested Saturday were accused of plotting to' assassinate gov ernment officials and blow up a bus station with home-made bombs. J t .. ' Feeling High Anti-American feeling con tinued to run high in the wake of Premier Castro's at tack oh the United States and he was expected to renew his charges that the United States permitted attacks on Cuba by American-based planes during a million-man rally scheduled in Havana on Monday. More aerial leaflet raids oc curred Friday night in the Havana area. Undersecretary of State Francisco Chavarry called in U. S. Ambassador Philip Bon sal to assure him "the Cuban people do not harbor' resent ment against the people of North America." But there were reports that Bonsai might go on a "lengthy vaca tion." ' Adding , fuel to Castro's charges that "war criminals" of the ousted regime of Dicta tor Batista were operating against him from America was the FBI report that former Cuban Air Force Chief Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz : admitted in Miami that he staged Wednes day's leaflet "bombing" raid on Havana. In Washington, the United States asked the Inter-American Peace commission to in vestigate flights over Havana by U.S.-Based planes in 1 an "earnest desire to it desire to "remove of misunderstandings." causes MOB DEMONSTRATES Armed men line Premier Fidel Castro during an one-hour the roof of a Havana police station as a mob work stoppage . Thursday. Police reported demands the release of Roberto Salas Her- relieving the prisoner of a long knife, nandez, charged with trying to assassinate CUPI Telephoto) z Zs K1 pLi-nrr-' , mmmmwmm . Vi 1Z LINED UP Football teams from 16 of the 17 schools in the Medford system are shown on the football field at the high school stadium Friday , night. 'More than 800 boys participated in the half time ceremonies. It was the Community Club In Phoenix Plans Hallowe'en Fete Phoenix - Approximately $300 in prizes will be given during the Phoenix Hal lo ween iFestival scheduled for the Phoenix Community club from 12 noon to 9 p.m. Sat urday, a club spokesman said. Prizes for this carnival event have been donated by 45 merchants in the Phoenix area and range from water skis to a gallon of ice cream. They include, besides these two items, a Pyrex coffee maker, a rug, various merch andise certificates, theater tickets, a tire, at least six free restaurant dinners, bowling shoes, free bowling games, free gas and various other prizes. "We will have enough games to suit everyone," said Lloyd , O. (N i c k) Nikpdym, Phoenix, chairman of the game planning. "We hope people from nearby towns will come and enjoy them selves." Activities include a ; cake walk, baseball throw, "feed the dragon" contest, nail driv ing and various other events. This event takes the place of the annual Phoenix Spring Festival which has been held every year to raise money for maintenance of the spacious clubhouse. This year the fes tival committee is hoping to raise enough money, also, for recreation equipment so the clubhouse facilities can be used for a teenage recreation center. All organizations who are participating in the festival Saturday are asked to send representatives to the Phoenix Variety store on South Pacific highway, Phoenix, to obtain allotments of tickets. Festival prizes are on display in the : variety store, . Med f o rd School District Youth Participate More than 800 boys from 16 of the Medford school dis trict's 17 schools participated in half time ceremonies Fri day night at the high school football stadium 'here, r ; ,; Lee Ragsdale, director of hekltMaifeSicali: edtaca tion, termed the mass display of football players the "Foot ball Preview of 1960-61-62-63 and 64" because the boys "make up the teams of. the Medford Black Tornado for the next six year." Boys from -13 elementary schools and two junior high schools, and the senior high school team, appeared on the football field in full , dress. Each team was introduced by Ragsdale. ' , - -' . In presenting the teams, Ragsdale said "It is inspiring that in an age of unparalleled luxury and ease so many of our boys choose the hard men tal and physical discipline of football as an after school ac tivity. Surely the spirit of the pioneer and the adventurer of old cannot be dead when so many will enter into this rug ged and challenging game." 'Really Desire' He presented every boy in the -' Medford district ' who "really desires to play foot ball, for no boy is ever cut from" a Medford squad be cause of size or ability.: "Each of these teams," Rags dale continued, "plays a game of football each week. Seldom do any (of them lose a game to a team outside our school district. Even more import ant, each boy is preparing himself to meet the stern competition and the challeng ing opportunities of the years ahead." Ragsdale said, "We believe in playing to win within the spirit and letter of the rules. We believe, that boys should have fun along with the nec essary work when they play .first! time all .-the football players in the Medford district have been in one place in full dress at one time. Lee Rags dale, director of health and. physical education in the . distict, arranged the program. in football. We believe, that we can teach character.. :while winning games . just: as well as if . we were losing them. Above all, we . believe in . our youth.' i "; .V.-i';u'.' i c-i V ArefWonderful', ; ;. -.i " TWe know "their -courage, their idealism, their integrity, and their ambition We think boys ; of all ages (and girls, too) are wonderful.'' Our: foot ball program is only "one" of many school activities ' m which they prove it to us each year."- ' " ' :"; ' Workers Granted Jobless Benefits For '58 Shutdown ' Portland-(DPD-Workers who were out of work last year in a long, strike-shutdown in volving the Associated Gener al Contractors in Oregon can collect unemployment com pensation. . . , ; The Oregon unemployment compensation appeals board made the ruling .Friday. ' ; The board decision is with out Oregon precedent; accord ing to union and management spokesmen.' " : The .decision overruled the findings of a referee. Vote 2-1 . Two of the. three members of the new board created by the 1959 i Legislature,- voted for the new ruling. They were Ben Anderson and Mrs. Meta Baufman. The third member of the board, who dissented, was Sam Fletcher. The state estimated total benefits expected to be paid under the . ruling at . $60,000 to .$80,0001 This was figured on the basis of $40 per week maximum individual pay ments.' ' . , Board members disagreed on the number of workers who would receive the com pensation, but it was between 1,400 and 2,000. ' "Strike Against All" , . Members of the Operating Engineers and Teamsters un ions struck heavy construc tion projects in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The employers, saying a strike against' one was a strike against all, shut down con struction projects in the areas. This lasted from July to mid- August; : ' Others were forced out of work, and members of the Carpenters, Pile Drivers, Ce ment : Finishers, Plumbers, Iron Workers and Pipefitters unions applied for compensa tion on the theory they were not directly involved in the dispute and had nothing to gain from it. Among workers in this, area affected by the work stoppage were those on the Talent rec lamation project. I The program Friday night was planned as a tribute to the football players and the coaches in the district. The only school in the dis trict which does not have a football team is Ruch,- where the enrollment is too small. Ruch will compete with other schools . in basketball, base- J ball and track, coached by Bruce Matheny, Ragsdale said. . Teams, Coaches f -Teams and the coaches in troduced included Washing ton, Loren Soderlund; How ard, Bill Colley; Jefferson, Don - Littman; Hoover, Jim Akerill; Jacksonville, Herb Colley; Wilson, Bill Essel styri; Roosevelt, Cliff Mc Lean; Lincoln, Don Wendt; Griffin Creek, Roland Grif fith; Lone Pine, Ralph Mon roe; West Side, Herb Wing; Oak Grove, Jim Hennebeck; and Jackson, Don Perry. Junior high school teams introduced were Hedrick sev enth grade reds, Marty Ramp; Hedrick seventh grade blues, George Cooksey; Hedrick eighth grade, Don Stroh and Tom Colley; Hedrich ninth grade Hornets, Barney Riggs and Don Ferguson; McLough lin seventh grade whites, Bob Radcliffe; McLoughlin sev enth brade blacks, Jack Burg; McLoughlin eighth grade, Dale Bates and Marion Jack; and McLoughlin ninth grade Bulldogs, Ralph Perkins and Ed Doran. . . Frank Roelandt, John Ko venz and Art Keith, coaches, and their Medf ord j u n i o r varsity team were introduced. Hillsboro Crash Takes Four Lives Hillsboro-(UPD-The toll of a volent two-car collision near Hillsboro rose to four dead late Saturday afternoon when an elderly Portland woman died in Tuality hospital here. Agnes Burns, about 65, Portland, was ,the fourth vic tim of the crash. Three other Portland women were killed outright. All were riding in the same car. Two persons in the other car were also hos pitalized. ; Killed outright in the crash were Florence Albright, Es tella Chapman, about 65, and Lena Helen Gill, 76, driver of the car. Washington county sher iff's deputies said the acci dent occurred at the intersec tion of River road and Minter Bridge road near here. . Driver of the other car, Mrz. Leah Amrein, 26, Hills boro, and a passenger, .Mrs. Joyce E. Fritz, 22, Portland, were taken to Tuality hospital for treamtent. Attendants said Mrs. Amrein suffered bumps and bruises. Mrs. Fritz suf fered a gractured ankle Mrs. Amrein's four-week- old daughter, Judith Ann, es caped injury. Negotiators Meet Again to Attempt Strike Settlement No Progress Report ' From Saturday Talk Pittsburgh - (UPD - Union and management negotiators, trying to hammer out a settle ment of the 103-day steel strike, met for two hours and 30 minutes Saturday and scheduled another session for today. Todays' talks will convene at 11 a.m. P.S.T. When Saturday's session broke up, R. Conrad Cooper, chief bargainer for the man agement team, made a brief statement on behalf of the in dustry and the union: "We have had a discussion. We will meet again tomorrow at 2 o'clock. We have noth ing further to say at this time." . :f ... Before the meeting started at 2:10 p.m., Cooper was asked if there might be a breakthrough. He r e p 1 i e d "We are always hopeful, al ways striving," but refused to say whether management had made a new contract pro posal. USW President David J. McDonald merely said that both sides were "going into collective bargaining. Four-man teams represent ing the union and the 12 ma jor steel companies which are carrying the ball for the in dustry convened in a session which so far had been the only positive outcome of the government's effort to get the ( 500,000 striking workers back to work under a Taft-Hartley act injunction. Stayed Provisions The third U. S. circuit court, of appeals, acting on a peti tion by the union, stayed the back-to-work provisions of an order issued by a Pittsburgh federal court, permitting only that part which required new bargaining to remain in ef fect. The negotiators were fight ing against time Saturday. The circuit court is expected to make its full ruling on the appeal early this week, prob ably Monday or Tuesday. There was no indication, however, that either the un ion or the industry had any thing startling to offer. The bargaining session was the first since peace talks in Washington blew up Oct. 17. 'Negotiate Now' . Saturday's negotiations were the result of the circuit court's "negotiate now" ac tion. After conferring with his top policy makers Friday, USW President McDonald proposed that negotiations resume Monday with all o the 96 steel and iron ore com panies affected by the strike. The steel companies coun tered with a proposal for Sat- urday s meeting between the four-man teams which have been battling over- wages, fringe benefits and working conditions since last May. The union acceded. Before the negotiators met. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty said President Eisenhower had expressed sincere hope that the negoti ators would "realize fully the obligation that they owe the United States and that they remain in consultation and negotiation" until the strike was settled. Should the circuit court or der the mills re-opened for the 80-day period provided by the labor - management act, Eisenhower said he intended to reconvene the board of in- . ouiry to resume its study of the precedented-setting dis pute. The strike is the long est industry-wide walkout in fhe nation's history. Football Scores Southern Oregon 20, Oregon College 7 Louisiana State 9, Florida Pennsylvania 22, Navy 22 . Texas Christian 13, Pittsburgh 3 Holy Cross 34, Columbia 6 , Princeton 20, Cornell 0 , Virginia Tech 24, ViUanova 14 Vale 21, Colgate 0 Dartmouth 9. Harvard 0 Army 25. Colorado State S Northwestern 30. Notre Dame 24 Michigan. State 14. Indiana 6 Michigan 14. Minnesota 6 Purdue 14, Iowa 7 Iowa State 26. Kansas State 0 CtncinnaU 21, College of Pacific 1 ; Wisronsin 12. Ohio State 3 North Carolina 21, Wake For est 19 t Mississippi 28. Arkansas 0 Southern Methodist 21, Texas IS Oklahoma 7. Kansas 6 Baylor 13, Texas A4M Missouri 9, Nebraska 0 Penn State 20, Illinois 9 Utah State 22, Montana State 13 Idaho State 14, Colorado Col leee 8 Washington 13. Oregon 12 Wyomine 21. Utah 7 Oregon State 24, California 29 Southern California 30, Stan ford 28 Washington State 27, Idaho 5 Whitworth 42. British Columbia Georgia 14. Kentucky I SOC 20, OCE I 1 i -: