Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 26, 1959, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextJ , -" .' '7 1 nD n n 17 B rui UUUH IfU FOUND SAFE Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Storlie of Portland are shown with their son, Ken neth, 13, who became lost while on his first hunting trip Saturday. He spent the night in the Tillamook Burn area near Timber, Two Meetings Set On Reorganization A meeting in Grants Pass tonight and a public hearing in the Jackson county court house tomorrow night are ex pected to bring Jackson coun Jy two steps closer to a com pleted school district reor ganization plan, indicated Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent. The Jackson County School District Reorganization com mittee will meet with the .Tmonhin county unit board tonight on the possibility of the Applegate school district being annexer. to the Jose phine county unit- Students Selected As Local Finalists In AFS Program Six Medford High school ' students have been selected as local finalists for the Ameri can Field Service summer ex Mrs. Frank Liiau&cr f- Bash, local AFS president, has announced. ' Chosen were Nancy ' Hin man, Mary Kay Harris, De Anne Taylor, Martha Simp- son, Jim i raise, ana ua. Raesdale. - ? Students were screened last week by the local committee i i..j;mrt Viicrh crhrtnl and AFS luuiuuAUA personnel and other Medford residents. " TVTorp than 20 high school students here applied for the program which sends Ameri can High school juniors into m nnuntrips riurinB the IU"6" - - summer months. The students live with native iamiues ana aio9c abroad. - jJ Ui Dl - Mrs. Bash said that those se lected have until Oct. 29 to complete additional forms to be sent to the AFS headquar ters in New xoris tuiu decision of those making the summer trip and specific coun try assignments are made by AFS headquarters. In past years Medford has had at least one or two final ists chosen to participate in the international . program. Those from Medford who are accepted by New York will be notified in the late spring. Members of the interview ing committee here were Mrs. H D Christensen, area chair man; Mrs. Robert Sleeter, summer program; Mrs Jack Ingram and Mrs. Otto Ewald sen, members for homes; C. Weldon Kline, finance; Mrs. Grace Berg and Alex McDon ald high school deans; Ken Cook Medford businessman; Carolyn Mencke, 1959 sum mer exchange student; Bob Hamilton, Medford High school student body president, and Mrs. Bash.' WEATHER .abfpaST: Variable Hi t k EfcSSS-- low Sihi 42. Tuesday 65. Richest Yesterday Lowest this Morntaf Our Skies Tonight Sunset today - .- ; Sunrise tomorrow 3 ;" Moonrise tomorrow - I J 2rhXNoriS's"fa above every nisnt- 1 0 L? If the JoseDhine countv of ficials decline to say yes or no to the proposition, as they have repeatedly done in the past, then the Applegate dis trict will be left out of the preliminary plan to be sub mitted to the state board of education. , , Requested Extension This problem would be T&-. solved later, Mekvold explain ed. If Josephine county coun ty officials say yes then the proposal would be handled through consolidation and an nexation procedure as set up by state law, Mekvold said. The reorganization committee has requested an extension of the October preliminary plan deadline to Dec. 1, but has not yet received word from the state office. The public hearing. tomor row night is on proposed ad ministrative school districts of Districts Nos. 6, 59 and 549; Mekvold said. T : - Administrative districts are those which have schools for all . grades through high school. . . This hearing, as required by state law, is to inform school officials and the public on why the reorganization com mittee, state law and state board of education allows the districts to remain as they are without further change by the committee. ' . Punils 0 Grants Pass Applegate school district now sends its pupils to Grants Pass for high school, Mekvold said. The nroblem facing the reor ganization committee is a new one for this county, MeKvoia explained. It's one of allow ing a joint district to be formed across county lines. Tax-wise, residents of the Ap plegate .district would pay hieher taxes due to a differ ence in tax ratios between Jackson and Josephine coun ties, County Assessor Ray Schumacher said. The reorganization commit tee is meeting with the Jose phine county board since that county's reorganization com mittee has already received approval of its plan to allow Grants Pass to operate within the Josephine county unit as an independent district. ' No Changes Proposed The public hearing is being held tomorrow on proposed administrative districts where no changes in territory are proposed. Phoenix and Talent districts, District No.' 4, have consolidated recently and no changes will be made there, Mekvold explained. District 6. Central Point, completed its last consolidation by 1951 and has made only minor bounda ry changes since then. Pros pect, District No. 59, is an iso lated position and doesn't meet the criteria for consoli dation or reorganization, Mek vold explained. Medford, this spring, consolidated with Lone Pine, Howard, Ruch, Griffin Crek and Jacksonville, so will be left alone. Khrushchev Returns From Romania Visit Moscow (OPD - Premier Nikita Khrushchev, reported rested by a secret six-day trip to Romania, goes before the Supreme Soviet parliament Tuesday with what is expect ed to be a full-scale review of international developments. "lliiJlt Ore. He was in excellent condition when found by the rescue party. The butt of his rifle which he held onto during his ordeal is in the foreground. (UPI Telephoto) Portland Youth Found Safe After Night in Woods Timber, Ore.-UPD-A drama tic search ended on a happy note here Sunday afternoon when searchers found Ken neth Storlie, a 13-year-old Portland deer hunter, safe and well after he .was lost overnight in the Tillamook burn. It was feared that the boy could be unconscious in the timbered area because he had previously suffered from spasms which rendered him unconscious. ; More than 100 volunteer searchers and police officers combed the area near Wheel er pond west of here. Kenneth, calm and unex cited, walked into search headquarters with the man who found him, Farrell West of Timber. - He had become lost while hunting with his father, E.:L. S.orlie. of Portland. Saturday afternoon. 7 ' " . c v Kenneth said he had wan dered for hours in the area shouting and firing shots with his rifle. He then went to sleep under a tree. He said he spent a cold night, but was unharmed. 1 . , 15-Year-0ldShof In Hunting Mishap La Grande - (DPD - Ross Jay Chamberland, 15, was fatally wounded in a hunting mishap southeast of here in the West Eagle area early Sunday to push the state's hunting death toll to 22, 10 of them by gun shot. , State police said Chamber land was riding on the run ning board of his parents' pickup when the rifle he was holding. by the muzzli acci dentally discharged. The bullet pierced his hand and struck him in the head, lodging in his brain. He died several hours later at Grande Ronde hospital here. Rogue Valley Edition MedfordTribuwe 18 PAGES Sen. Heuherger Plans Revisions In Seashore Sill Portland-(UPD- Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said today he had made substan tial revisions in his bill to establish the Oregon Dunes National Seashore Area. They would allow , cottage owners in the area to retain possession of their properties until the death of their young est children, and would pro vide federal payments in lieu of taxes lost by counties by removal of private land from the tax rolls. These and other changes were made to meet sugges tions and criticism at recent hearings of the Senate Public Lands Subcommittee, Neu berger said. . The modifications would add 7,300 acres to the pro posed park, bringing its total area to a maximum of 40,000 acres. The additions would in clude Tahkenitch lake and the Umpqua lighthouse state park embracing the high dunes south of the Umpqua river. Meets Criticism "I have gone an awful long wav to meet the criticism of the original bill," Neuberger said, and some supporters even" sav "'I am making too many concessions. But I feel it is so important for our state to get this park, that I have gone as far as I can go to get it." The original bill provided that property owners could stay for 25 years or until the- owner s death, but the re vised version extends private occupancy until the death of the owner's last surviving child who was alive when the federal government acquired the property. Other changes would allow minting of migratory water fowl, and fishing, if the state approves, and provide for re location of Hiehway 101 only with the consent of the state and without expense to the state. President's Cold Improved, Lingering Washington-(DPD- President Eisenhower's lingering cold may have improved somewhat during his rainy gomng stay last week in Augusta, Ga., the White House said today. , Asked how the trip affect ed what the President has des cribed as his chrome bronchi tis plus a cold, Press. Secre tary James C. Hagerty said, 'he still has those traces ot it. It isn't any ,worse and its seems to be a little better:" . "10,9,8,7..." . . . , - . - - -. CwfrfMk rf0 tin yww Pytwt C . MEDFORD, The new bill deletes the Sea Lion Caves area, but calls for it to be included later if the governor requests such action. Trouble Seen Neuberger said he has "a good deal of faith" that the new bill will get park serv ice support, but that the sec tion providing federal pay ments in lieu of taxes might run into trouble with the bureau of the budget. Proposed inclusion of Tah kenitch lake would mean that Crown Zellerbach's tree farm also would be included. The bill provides for an exchange of bureau of land manage ment lands as compensation. Neuberger said the lake was necessary to provide enough recreation in the park to persuade tourists to stay ior two or tnree oays, a con dition favored by the park service and one not met by the sand dunes themselves. Mrs. Lonch Pleads Guilty to Of Manslaughter Mrs. Esther Elizabeth L o n c h , 31-year-old Medford woman, pleaded guilty in cir cuit court today to a charge of manslaughter. ' : The district attorney's in formation to which she plead ed guilty was amended and an earlier charge of second de gree murder was dropped fol lowing her plea. :, , Circuit Court Jiidge Edward Kelly, at the request of Dis trict Attorney. Thomas J. Reeder, ordered a pre-sentence investigation. Mrs. Lonch's attorney, O, .H. Beng ston, read a brief statement of what he called his own pre sentence investigation. H e said Mrs. Lonch is one of 11 children. Her life would not be wasted if given a chance for rehabilitation because she could obtain help from her family, he said. Bengston add ed her parents believe she may have received head injur ies at the time of her birth, When a child her mental pro cesses were slow and she was subject to temper tantrums, Bengtson reported.' He also read a statement from a Los Angeles guidance specialist in the school system there, re porting Mrs. Lonch was slow mentally as a child and had difficulties in her parent-child relations. . The district attorney's infor mation was amended to read that the fatal blow was struck "without malice or fore thought and without delibera tion." Reeder said the charges were reduced "due to the cir cumstances of the case." Mrs. Lonch was charged with striking William B. Sim mons, retired 62-year-old rail road switchman, across the face and on the head with a shovel during a day-long drinking party at 2122 Crater Lake highway in August. Interim Committee on Agriculture to Meet Farmers will take their problems to the' county court house when the state legisla ture's interim committee on agriculture meets at 7:30 p.m. The committee was sched uled to tour the Southern Ore gon Branch Experiment sta tion on Hanley rd. this after noon under the guidance of Harold H. White, station su perintendent. One of the problems which may be discussed tonight is duplication of. agricultural offices which assist the fann er with technical advice and programs. Charge OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1959 M CONGRATULATED Dr. Joseph Palmieri, right, congratulates Dr. Owen Chamberlain outside cyclotron lab following announce ment that Dr. Chamberlain had won the Nobel prize in physics. He shared the $42,- WINNER - Czechoslovakian Chemist Prof. Jaroslav Hey rovsky, 69, winner of his na tion's tirst wobel . prize, is shown here i in a recent por trait. He won the prize for discovering the polargraphic method of chemical analysis by electro-mechanical means.' (UPI Telephoto) Morse Says Breach Is 'Irrepairable' Portland-(DTD - Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) termed his breach with Sen. Richard Neu berger (D-Ore.) "irrepairable" on a television interview here Sunday. Morse said the feud was caused by differences over is sues rather than personal ties. He singled out Neuberg- er's support of the federal gasoline tax as the most strik ing difference. Morse said he was strongly opposed , to the tax and had worked hard for the reduction of federal ex cise taxes. Morse, said he felt the gas oline tax could possibly lead to a federal sales tax. When asked by moderator Tom McDall on the program "Viewpoint" about his cam paign plans for the Oregon Demicratic nomination, Morse said he would call together his Democratic advisors to dis cuss an all-out campaign as a favorite son if his name was placed on the Oregon primary ballot. . Young Governors Speak on Elections Hollywood (DPD Two of the United States' youngest governors - a Republican and a Democrat - Sunday told a nationwide tele vision au dience what they felt the re actions of their states would be in next year's presidential elections. Mark Hatfield, 3 7, Republi can of Oregon, told a news panel Meet the Press, that he felt if the primary elections were held today his party would easily nominate Vice President Richard Nixon as standard bearer. - ' J. Howard Edmondson, the 34-year-old Oklahoma gover nor, said he felt that in the general election the Demo crats would have more diffi culty in defeating New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller than they would Nixon. Keds to Publosh Pictures olf Moon Moscow (DPD The Soviet News Agency Tass today re ported the first details of pictures taken of the "hid den" side of the moon. . It said a vast crater sea had been named the "Sea of Moscow." " Moscow-(UPD - Kussia will publish Tuesday the first photographs of the side of the moon never before seen by man, the Soviet news agency Tass said today. The official agency said the pictures, taken by . Russia's thirdrocket sent into, outer space as it passed around the moon, would be published in Moscow newspapers Tuesday. Six Killed in Highway Crashes By United Press International O r e g o n traffic accidents claimed at least six lives dur ing the week end, four in a two - car mishap near Hills boro. In addition an Athena man died in a Washington accident. " - T Jerry Lee Strunk, 19, Gold Beach, was injured fatally Sunday when a car in which he was a passenger left the road and struck a tree 'near the Gold Beach city limits. Anders R. Kald, 53, Port land, collapsed and died a short time after his car col lided with another vehicle and plunged over a bank and burned near Corbett on High way 30., 7 " Four elderly Portland wom en were' killed Saturday when their car collided with another vehicle near Hillsboro. Dead were Mrs. Lena H. Gill; Mrs. Florence Albright; Miss Estel la L. Chapman; and Agnes Burns. ... v Dale R. Scown, 37, Athena, Ore., and Walter E. Outcolt, address unknown, were kill ed Saturday night when their car overturned five times on a roadway south of Union Gap in Yakima county, Wash. I Five Members of Family Arrested on Burglary Charges; Home Albany, Ore. (DPD Five members of: an Albany fam ily and a . family friend from Colorado were scheduled to be arraigned here today on burglary charges in District Court. . . All six were arrested Sat urday in a cooperative move by local 'police, Linn county sheriffs officers, state police and Colorado and Washing ton authorities. Police chief Roy Maddy said. Howard C. Moore, 41, a former law enforcement of ficer, Sunday signed a state ment admitting 12 burglaries in the . Linn-Benton-Marion county area that netted some $10,000 in firearms. Price 10 Cents No. 181 610 prize with Dr. Emilio Segre, 54, for their discovery of the anit-proton in 1955. Both are connected with the University of California. (UPI Telephoto) It was presumed on the basis of earlier promises that they would be released to the world at the same time. The Tass . statement, the most detailed ever made of the operation of the camera like device aboard Lunik IH, said the photographs to be released are the first ones ob tained from "preliminary pro cessing." They were taken during a 40-minute period m which La nik HI coursed beyond the moon - the first man made object to do so. 'Considerable Number' - "A considerable number of photographs of the moon have been obtained," Tass said. News correspondents ' here expected to receive the pho tographs shortly after 11:30 a.m. p.s.t. today for transmis sion to the West. :? Meantime, Tass said, "the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. has set up a commis sion for naming the craters, mountain ranges and other features of the unseen part of the moon." The statement also forecast the eventual fate of Lunik IH. It said the rocket would "enter the dense layers of the earth's atmosphere and burn out" after it had made "11 or 12 revolutions around the earth," or "about half a year from the moment of its launching." . Previous Soviet statements had indicated this might hap pen. But the possibility . had been left open that the Lunik might hit the moon eventual ly or continue in orbit around the earth indefinitely. Will Appear Tuesday Tass said-the photographs will appear Tuesday "with the necessary descriptions." The Soviet moon rocket was launched Oct. 4. It took its pictures of the dark" side of its first circuit around in back of the moon and trans mitted them to earth Oct. 18 when the satellite was only 29,515 miles from earth on its return journey. . j Moore and his 40-year-old wife Garnette were arrested at their home here, his son, Jerry, 20, was arrested by state police near Salem, and a daughter, Mrs. Lela Lusk, was arrested as she attempted to buy a gun at a Salem pawn shop. Mrs. Lusk's husband, Oliver, was arrested by police in Akron, Colo. The other man, Don Collins, 21, was taken into custody at Ft. Lewis, Wash., Saturday night. Moore, who filled in as po lice chief of Brownsville, Ore., this year for Chief Robert Kemnow after Kemnow was wounded in a gun battle, prev iously served as a deputy sher iff in Arapahoe County, Colo. Linn county sheriff George Other Companies May Follow Path Of Kaiser Firm .Injunction Expected Tuesday Afternoon Pittsbureh-fflPn-Steoi ft-?L- negotiators. on a back to work injunction exDected Tnpsrinv tta held individual bargaining wuy wiui an indication that another strikphnnn4 may follow Kaiser Steel Corp. in negotiating separately with UU1UI1. New develoDments i ed: -The third Circuit Court f Appeals in Philadelphia an nounced it would rule at 1 p.m. Tuesday on a union an. peal of a Taft-Hartley back to work order. -Kaiser Steel Corn, anri th United Steelworkers Union began talks in Washington on a separate settlement for Kaiser's 7,500 workers. -Indications were that a second major steel producer would follow Kaiser's lead in breaking with the industry stand against "inflationary" wage increases. In Washington. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty repeated President Eisenhower's "hope and de sire that both sides will recog nize the obligation they owe to the United States and try to get this, the strike settled by negotiation." Kaiser announced Sunday night that it would bargain separately from the other 11 big steel company members of the industry co-ordinating committee involved in the 104-day strike. No Terms Announced Kaiser did not announce whether any terms had been agreed upon with the union, but the industry committee which it deserted said a settle ment such as Kaiser con templated would cost the cor poration ' 10 cents per man hour for the first year of a three-year contract. The committee said for other companies, the same package would cost 17 cents per man hour, which "clearly represents an ' inflationary agreement-" The other companies said they found terms of the Kaiser proposal "unaccept able." However, an industry source told United Press In ternational that one of the other companies composing the industry coordinating committee may also accept an agreement on the same -terms as Kaiser. The industry source refused to identify the firm. Meeting Set on Air Pollution Abatement Progress of lumber and fruit industries in air pollu tion abatement programs will be discussed at the air pollu tion control meetmg called by the county court for 1:30 pjn. tomorrow, according to Coun ty Judge Earl Miller. George Flanagan, Elk lum ber company general mana ger, will report on the pro gress made by the lumber in dustry and Dunbar Carpen ter, local orchardist, will speak for the fruit industry. Representatives of the var ious mills in the area are ex pected to submit written re ports to be read at the meet ing. Carpenter is expected to report on what progress grow ers have made on replacing open pots with less -smoke producing varieties. Said Arsenal Miller said a deputy was be ing, sent to Colorado to re turn Lusk, who has waived extradition. Maddy and Miller said Moore, his son and Lusk tried to join the Albany police force and the Linn county sheriff staff, but had been turned down. Police said Moore had a loaded gun on his person when he was arrested. Of ficers said the Moore home was an "arsenal." Loaded guns were placed near all doors and windows with am munition stored nearby. Some 48 guns of all varie ties from pistols to rifles were found in the home. I- 9 'QmM ITQ 1- s - - - m Ltm i mm iii i --k' 4- TGDDJTO U :