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. fjlWMlJ,H liinfrf-.ii'fM grnrij. aarTWP-Ji KaMr to HA miw i Regional Edition MEDFORDTRIBUNE 14 Pages Leaders Note New Epo chin Man's Conquest of Space Rocket Photography Reviewed in Pravda Moscow - (UPD - Western Sci entists joined triumphant So viet leaders today in hailing the Lunik III photographs oi the back side of the moon, never before seen by man. They said it opened a new epoch in man's conquest oi space. Vasily Lobastov, assistant chief engineer of a depart' ment of the State Radio Elec tronics Committee, wrote in Komsomolskaya Pravda that the Soviet success has "in augurated the most perfect method of studying the plan ets - rocket photography." Lobastov noted that the Lunik's photo - television equipment oriented the inter planetary station in space, trained its cameras on the moon, photographed it in two different scales, developed ana aned tne turn in zero gravity and then transmitted the pictures to earth. . The actual photographs of the side of the moon forever hidden from man blazed across the front pages of the world today and showed man kind a luminous, crater-dotted face of the moon it had never seen before. Exultant Russians lined up in freezing pre-dawn temper atures to purchase special copies of Pravda and Izvestia, expanded from four to six ' pages;w-',""'"'""';'!CV'r'7' The pictures showed a side of the moon almost smooth when compared with the cra ter - pocked face familiar to men. There was one new sea, a scattered cluster of craters and a lone mountain range. For the moment the scientists could only guess at what this means. t Alexander Mikhailov, chair man of the Soviet Academy's Astronomical Council, s aid "astronomers and geologists are thus faced with an excit ing problem - to explain this phenomenon, which beyond any doubt, is associated with the question of the origin of moon's relief." : While they pondered, West ern and Soviet scientists and Soviet newspapers pulled out all the stops in unqualified praise of the Soviet achieve ment. Timber Sales Value Up onO and C Land Value of timber sold by the Bureau of Land Management in the five O and C districts of western Oregon' during the first quarter, of fiscal 1960 shows a substantial increase over the same quarter last year, the Department of the Interior announced today. ; Russell E. Getty, state su pervisor for the bureau of land management, which ad ministers the lands, said the district offices sold 207,011, 000 board feet of timber val ued at $7,232,707 during July, Aueust and September this year compared to 204,507 board feet valued at $5,550,- 417 in the same three-month period last year. Eighteen Oregon counties, of which Jackson is one, by law receives 75 per cent of the revenues from O and C timber sales and are current ly turning back a third of their shares for construction of access roads and reforesta tion activities. WEATHER FORECAST: ParUy cloudy through Wednesday. Valley fog early Wednesday. Low tonight 3i. Hifh Wednesday (5. Temp. Highest Testerday 73 Lowest this Morninf . 37 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:13 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:39 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow 2:4S ajn. New Moon Saturday PROMINENT STAR Caeella, low in north- -r east 7:2 P-m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, sets - - . P-- Saturn, low in south- . west P-- Venus, near the Moon. "- MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1959 ha COMPARES PHOTO Director Fred Whip ple of Smithsonian Astrophysical Observa tory in Cambridge, Mass., compares UPI first radiofoto of "dark" side of moon with model of moon as previously known. Dr. No Decision Made On Applegate District Question No decision, was reached last night on possible annexa tion ,of the Applegate school district to the Josephine coun ty school district unit, Alf B. Mekvold, county school sup erintendent, reported today. The Applegate questionwill be "referred to the Josehpine county school district reorgan ization committee for further study, the . Josephine county school board decided' last night. Since the Josephine county reorganization plan does not become effective un til July 1, 1960, the reorgan ization committee there tech nically is still operating, Mek vold said he learned last night. Operation the Sam If Josephine county decides to include Applegate school district, the 'district's basic operation would be much the same, Mekvold explained, but it would operate within the framework of the Josephine school district. Applegate's 33 high school students (this year's count) would continue to pay tuition to attend the Grants Pass High school. Applegate elementary school pupils would remain in the same school since trans portation to the nearest Jose phine county district elemen tary school would be too long a trip, Mekvold explained. If the Josephine county re organization committee favors Applegate annexation, then favorable petitions must be presented by residents of both districtsN to boundary boards of .both, counties. Meeting jointly, the counties' bound ary boards would call . elec tions in both districts. A ma jority vote in each of the two districts would be required for the annexation-consolidation of Applegate with Jose phine county unit, Mekvold said. " -. . - . Firemen and Police Mobilize to Combat , Skunk Under House For Medford city fire men fighting fir with fir it nothing nw. But they cam up with a now plan of attack yesterday morning-fighting odor with odor. Firtmen rcivd a call from 716 Pin it. reporting a skunk under lh housa creating "a vary unpleasant odor." They contacted the polic about the possibility of shooting the animal with firemen, of court, standing by. Investigation showed, however, thai lh hous had no foundation and retted too clot to tha ground to permit access to th area occupied by th akunk. It was than tuggttd that a pti exterminator b sum moned with th hop that placing moth crystals under th hous would create an odor unpleasant to th akunk. Castro's Ca b i n e t To Revive Havana (UPD Premier Fi del Castro called in his cabi net today to revive firing squad justice for traitors to the revolution and for the pi lots of American-based planes he said are bombing Cuba The bearded revolutionary leader revived the thought of revolutionary justice in an angry, three-hour denuncia tion of the United States Mon day night before a crowd of 250,000 peasants and workers jammed into the plaza in front of the presidential palace. Castro charged American officials were "accomplices of murderers" or else were "de fenseless" to prevent planes from raiding Cuba in spite of the vaunted U.S. radar de fense screen. He again questioned indi rectly the right of the United States to hold the giant naval base at Guantanamo. "What do you think?" he asked and the crowd roared "no, no, no," Castro asked for a show of hands on the revival of the revolutionary trials under which more than 600 "war criminals" were executed by firing squads early this year. Officials Urge Care In Stale's Forests Klamath Falls -(UPD- Forest Service officials, in the: wake of a week end fire that burned more than 200 acres of repro duction growth pine near here,-today urged late-season hunters in Oregon to be care ful about their camp fire.. The fire was still being mopped up. .. ; Although the general 'deer hunting season in Oregon ended Sunday, extended hunt ing continues on week ends through ; November in some sections of the state. The Cali fornia deer season ends next week end. Last week end's forest fire was between Bray and Ten nant, in the Klamath National Forest and was fought for half a day by' more than 40 men, six tankers and three bulldozers. OSC Gets Preliminary Permission to Grant Degrees In Two Liberal Arts Divisi Portland -(UPD- Oregon State college Monday won . prelim inary permission from the state board of higher educa tion to grant degrees in two divisions of liberal arts the social sciences and the hur inanities. The. announcement was made at a meeting here by Chancellor John R. Richards. Indications were that final ap proval would come at the board's next meeting, in Jan uary. ' ::''! The action came in the face of protest from the University of Oregon. Richards said Oregon State will be allowed to make its liberal arts division a liberal arts school but at the same tima " OSC " must primarily I 00 1 Whipple described as "remarkable" the Rus sian feat of photographing reverse side of moon from rocket. Other pictures are on page 9. V (UPI Telephoto) Squads "To the wall, to the wall," the crowd thundered as a sea of hands was raised. Castro then announced the Council of Ministers Cabinet would meet today to discuss a decree to re-establish the rev olutionary tribunals. This touched off chants of "yes, yes" and "to the wall, to the wall." Castro said he realized the action would bring criticisms but "we have no alternative for defending the country and ourselves." Board Members to Attend Tax School Three members of the Jack son county board of equaliza tion plan to attend a state tax commission school in Sa lem Friday. They are Chester Wendt, county commissioner and chairman of the county board, E. H. Singmaster of Ashland and Arnold Bohnert of Cen tral Point. The state has also invited county assessors to attend. The one-day school provides in-service training. Since the yearly turnover is large, the school includes explanations of basic duties and procedures of boards. ' Also to be discussed are the board's position in the property tax appeal process and problems of law. A spe cial feature will be a detailed explanation of assessment ratios in Jhe light of. a new law requiring uniform 25 per cent ratios throughout the state in 1961, - State Tax Commissioner Charles Mack," former Klam ath county judge, assessor and board of . equalization free-hold member, will be a featured speaker. Last year, a record 68 board members from 25 counties attended the school. 'At least one third were newly-appoint ed. This year, some 40 new board members alone are ex pected. keep its emphasis on exact and natural sciences such as engineering, agriculture and pharmacy. Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, president . of University of Oregon, said the plan was "not satisfactory." . Strong Technical Minor Another requirement ac companying the ruling favor ing OSC stipulates that every Oregon student enrolled in a four-year course for the new degrees must take a " strong minor in a technical field. The minimum for this second field was set at 27 hours.' Dr. Wilson said the univer sity could not accept the board's decision without greater "polarization," mean ing the relationship ' between j Price 10 Cents No. 182 Pacific Air Lines Plane Crashes; 19 Of 20 Are Saved Co-pilot Killed in Santa Maria Mishap Santa Maria, Calif.-(UPD-The decisive action of a former combat officer and quick work by firemen led to the miraculous escape Monday night of 19. of the 20 persons aboard a Pacific Airlines twin engine plane that crashed on takeoff. . , ' "It was a miracle ' that everyone was not killed," a fireman who was among the first at the scene said. "They. everything, plane and pas sengers were just floating in gasoline." Co-pilot Joe Flanagan, 31, Mountain View, Calif., was killed and pilot Capt. Charles Craig, 42, San Mateo, Calif., was injured seriously. But all 18 of the ! others aboard escaped serious injury. There were three crewmen and 17 passengers aboard the Los Angeles to San Francisco craft. Calms Passengers Phillip French, Paso Robles, Calif., a rancher and former combat Army captain, told newsmen that after the crash he turned to the other passen gers and announced: "Everyone be calm. Just follow me." The plane had smashed through some trees and nosed into the ground, leaving pas sengers looking "straight down."- It's' gas tanks split and .inflammable fuel -i was pouring out when' French made his announcement. :. French spotted Mrs. Laura Hutchison, Hayward, Calif., holding her 8-monti-old son Jeff in her seat several seats behind. Led To Safety "I took hold of the hand of a woman (Mrs. Hutchison) who was holding a baby and led her out the door," he said. "The rest of them just fol- lowed. "I have been in many tight spots before, but never have I seen a group as calm as this one was," French said. Fire engines from here and nearby Vandenberg Air Force Base missile facility rushed to the scene, played foam oVer the plane and prevented an explosion. (See picture on Pag 5) Committee to Study Neuberger's Bill Salem-(UPD-Dan Allen, ex ecutive secretary of the State Natural Resources Commit tee, said today his committee would give- "full considera tion" to Sen. Richard Neu berger's new prosposals for a Dunes national park on the Oregon Coast. Neuberger made public a revised plan for the Dunes park in Portland Monday. Although no official meet ing of the committee has been set, Allen said the changes suggested by Neuberger prob ably would be studied today. The Oregon senator advo cates extending the park so that it would include approxi mately 40,000 acres extending from Reedsport south to Ten Mile creek. ons by State science and non-science cours es. -: . ' Wilson said Oregon did not want to "quarrel" with any institution. The problem is, he said, "how do we get distin guished education." An OSC alumni spokesman, Ursel Narver of Portland, said the board's announcement was "most encouraging." He said rivalry should be kept "on the football field and not in curriculum." The board concensus made it plain, that OSC would con tinue as mainly a science spe cialty school and board mem bers A. S. Grant of Baker and Douglas McKean of Portland said they- hoped the sciences at OSC would continue to grow. BACK TO WORK Part of the almost 2,000 workers, carrying lunch buckets instead of picket signs, are shown as they return to their jobs at the Kaiser Steel mill in Fon- tana, Calif., today. The Kaiser organization Second Firm Signs Contract; Court to Announce Decision Pittsburgh (UPD- United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald announced today that a ' second firm, Detroit Steel Corp., has signed a con tract with the union in the 105-day steel strike. . . Detroit Steel, which pro duced 447,613 tons of steel last year, was one of the firms operating under a contract extension with the USW. Its employees were not on strike. The announcement, which came only hours before an ap peals court in Philadelphia was to announce its decision on an appeal of a Taft-Hartley back to work injunction, was the second crack in the indus try's "solid front" negotia tions. 1 1 Ninth Ranked Kaiser Steel Corp., the na tion's ninth ranked producer, signed a pontract with the' un ion Monday, night., after, hold ing separate talks: Detroit Steel employs about 4,000 workers and has its main ; plant . at Portsmouth, Ohio, and other installations at Hamden,' Conn., and De troit.. ... . . . .. . raiser sieei t;orp., a mem ber of the industry's steel companies coordinating com mittee, put increased pressure on the. other firms by signing a contract agreement Monday City To Get Plaque In Safety Program Vernon Hill, state director of motor vehicles, will repre sent Gov. . Mark O. Hatfield here Thursday, Nov. 5, when he presents Medford with a plaque for the . city's 1958 school traffic safety program. This is the second year in a row that Medford has receiv ed the award for its school traffic safety program. The presentation will be made during the city council meeting in the council cham bers. City Manager Robert Duff will introduce Hill, who will make the presentation to Mayor John W. Snider. Present for the occasion will be S. D. Larson, president of the Medford Safety Council, and other council officers. The Rev. John Ilg will repre sent St. Mary's school and Elliott Becken the Medford public schools. . The Medford public schools received 96 points on a 100 scale for their school traffic safety program. The non-public schools received 69 points for a Medford rating of 83. Board A report by W. D. Purvine, head of Oregon Technical In stitute, was presented to the board outlining OTI's 1960-61 curriculum. In other action the board approved initial plans for re modeling Oregon College of Education's Jessica Todd hall. Also approved was another classroom building at Port land State, purchase of the Hunt and Laslett properties at OSC, and site of a fourth dor mitory for the University of Oregon. Oregon's No. 4 dorm will cost $1,845,000. The board heard a report estimated total enrollment this year in the state system at 23,000. This was 812 less than expected. i night in Washington, follow ing day-long talks. The remaining major steel producers, despite the Kaiser pact, appeared adamant in their unified stand against the union's demands. The third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadel phia will announce this after noon its decision on a USW appeal against a Taft-Hartley back-to-work injunction. Meeting Here For Two meetings for. public officials are underway in the city hall today. ' This afternoon between 10 and 20 persons are attending a W a t e r Works Operators conference. Water operators from Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and Lake counties have been invited to attend the annual event. The other meeting, attend ed by some 40 law enforce ment officers and firemen, is being conducted by the U.S. Army in explosive ordnance reconnaissance training.' At the afternoon conference, information on water works advancement and public re lations will be discussed. Al lan Alsing, Ashland, will speak on the relative merits of various types of pipe for distribution systems. Ted Gerow, Grants Pass, district engineer for the Ore gon board of health, will also attend. The conference is sponsored by the board. The Medford Water commission will be host. . . In Medford for the explo sive oranance course arc Specialist 6 Floyd F. Veatch Jr. and Specialist 4 Richard R. Robinson, both with the Sixth Armv Explosive dis posal group at Vancouver Bar racks, Wash. Attending the all-day meet ing are Medford city and Ore gon state police, Jackson and Klamath county sheriffs dep uties, and Medford fire de partment personnel. Ashland Boy Bound Over to Grand Jury Winfred Lee Quails, 16, Ashland, was bound over to the grand jury yesterday aft ernoon following his arraign ment in district court on a charge of rape. The youth is being held in the Jackson county jail on Aug. 6. He was remanded to juvenile court here last week from McLaren School for Boys and was returned to Jackson county last Thurs day on orders of the state board of control. MacLaren Superintendent Amos Reed had told the board that the youth, sent to the school in August, was ' incorrigible. The board asked the juve nile court here for some as surance that the youth, if re turned, would be brought to to trial and also stated that he never should have been committed to MacLaren in the first place. - These and other comments on the case brought sharp criticism from Circuit Judges Edward C. Kelly and James M. Main and District Attor ney Thomas J. Reeder. , completed a . separate signing with Steel Workers Union yesterday to become the first company to end the 105-day-old strike. (UPI Telephoto) Primary Could Be Real Contest of Men, Solon Says Salem - (UPD - Sen. Richard L. Neuberger said today that Oregon's presidential primary next spring "should be a real contest between genuine can didates." He praised Sens. John Ken nedy (D-Mass.) and Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), al though expressing top prefer ence for Adlai Stevenson for Democratic presidential nom ination, and urged all nation al candidates to visit Oregon and let voters "size them lip." Neuberger spoke at a meet ing sponsored by the Marion County Democratic Central Committee. Many of his com ments appeared aimed at. Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.), who may be a favorite son. candi date in the primary, although he -didn't .-mention Morse's name. : ..-.. Mors May Campaign Morse has said he probably will be on the primary ballot as a Democratic presidential candidate; b y petition and over his protest. But he im plied that if he is on the bal lot, he will campaign hard for the state's nomination in or der to boost the state's influ ence at the Democratic con vention and to avoid a poor showing at the polls only two years before he will be up for re-election to the senate. Neuberger, running for re election next year, said today: "Attempts to utilize the primary as a 'holding oper ation' or a political platform subvert the intent of the law. I do not believe that the citi zens of Oregon desire to for feit their right to influence the conventions in order that their votes may be bartered away in a hotel room." Guinea President Confers With Ike Washington (UPD Presi dent Sekou Toure of Guinea conferred with President Eisenhower for an hour today, and reported he was deeply gratified by Eisenhower's in terest in "a realistic and dy namic program for the evolu tion of Africa." Toure and his chief advis ers talked at the White House with the President, Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, and other American officials. Picking CwMaMi JJJ 2jJ2JutbUM at Separate Contract Signed With Union Welcome in Area Fontana Plant Fires Started by Crews Fontana, Calif . -(UPD-About 1,000 jubilant workers s re turned to their jobs at Kaiser Steel ,Corp. plants here' and in Montebello today for the first time since a nationwide steel strike began 105 days ago. The men were called in for "firing-up operations," a Kai ser spokesman .said, to start preliminary firing of fur naces. He said lighting of open hearth furnaces, would be started immediately but they would take a day to get hot. ". .' More men will be called back for each succeeding shift "as operations phase in," Kaiser spokesman Dick King said." Man Go To Work Nearly 500 maintenance men went to work at mid night to get things started and the total work force of 7,850 at the two plants was expect ed to be back to work within a month, King said. The separate signing by Kaiser Monday with the Unit ed Steelworkers Union was welcomed by local business men as well as the workers and their families. Edgar . F. Kaiser, board chairman of the company, called the agreement between his firm and the union a "new concept in labor-management relations." "We believe the agreement Kaiser Steel Corp. signed Monday represents a major contribution toward the con tinuance of the American free collective bargaining system." Two-Year Agreement The company said the two year agreement provides "for wage, insurance, pension and supplemental unemployment benefits which will cost the company 11V4 cents an hour for each of the next two years.' - '. " 1 - Kaiser officials took to lo- cal radio station after the set tlement to ask their idle work ers to report in by telephone ' to receive instructions for re turning to the plants-. .Kaiser had been among a group of the 12 largest steel producers putting up a solid front against steel union de mands before signing its sepa rate agreement. UMC Collections Now Total $91,008 A total of $91,008 has been pledged to the United Med ford Crusade, according to re ports given at the final Mon day noon luncheon of the local campaign. The current total is $4,386 over the contributions at this time last year, according to Del Landing, campaign chair man. Collections for the week totaled $17,918. Only division to reach their goal so far is the public service division which had reported collec tions of $12,803. Two special events to bene fit the UMC were reported at the luncheon. The Footligfit ers, little theater group, has donated 150 tickets for their current run of the play "The Show-Off." On Nov. 7 the an- , nual United Medford Crusade Gold tournament will be held at the Rogue Valley Country club. Season O t ft 1 K ! t i- A
