Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 30, 1959, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI FOasGi Ms S W8ei9 MiM Frail Mother Arizona MirouDs Son lOSOtt $ ' , ? ' ' v f I ' " ' ' " I . ' Y" ' - 'ill ; 4 (H - " W X ' "--' V - f '' C -V m nHir::,ir-iiinT-n V f r T i AT , s v S 5 11 TIGHT SQUEEZE Molly . the puppy dog seem to be somewhat uncooperative as 2V-year-old Joan Orr tries to put her in a pumpkin shell a la Peter Pumpkin Eater, and Joan at this point is about to give up Vashingtonian Dies of Injuries Suffered in Crash Mrs. Lovella Russell, 71, of the Yakima, Wash., area, died in surgery at a local hospital : following a car and logging truck collision this morning, according to state police. . The accident occurred on Crater Lake highway at Four Corners, when a car driven by the victim's husband, Har vey Allen Russell, 74, collid ed with a logging truck, po lice said, -j . f ' V ,The,' car apparently came . of Vilas rd. onto Crater Lake highway and collided with the truck, according to re ports. Klamath Falls Boy Dies of Injuries Ricky Wasing,' 5 - year - old son of Mr. and Mrs. Garmann T. Wasing, Klamath Falls, died this morning at Sacred Heart hospital from injuries suffered in a fall at his home Monday afternoon. ' According to Klamath Falls relatives, the boy was playing on a flatbed truck parked in the barnyard when he fell, hitting his head. He was im mediately flown to Medford by Klamath Falls Air flight - service where brain surgery was performed. The child never regained consciousness, it was stated. Survivors, in addition to his parents, include a sister, Garla, 2, and grandparents. Ferl Funeral home is in charge of funeral arrange ments. Lumber Price Index . Shows Steady Decline Portland-(DPD-The 75 items making up Crow's Lumber Price Index declined steadily in the two-week period end ing Thursday. The average decline was 54 cents per thousand board feet.' Briton's Book Criticizes Ike's Role in War Effort London -flJPD- Field Marshal - Lord Alanbrooke said in diaries made public today that ; President Eisenhower w a s -"just a coordinator" of the allies during World War II, not a real commander. . Alanbrooke, chief of the British General Staff during the war, was scathingly criti- r cal of Gen. Eisenhower's role i as Supreme Allied Command er in Europe. No Real Director "The main impression I gathered was that Eisenhower was no real d i r e c to r of thought, plans, energy or di rection," Alanbrooke wrote. - "Just a coordinator, a good i mixer, a champion of inter Allied cooperation and in those respects" few can hold a candle to him. But is that enough?" The criticisms were ci. tained in British historian Ar- i Allowable Timber Cut May Be Hiked In National Forest 1 Howard Hopkins, timber sale management officer for Rogue , River National forest. said last night that forest's al lowable timber cut may be in creased when calculations of recent inventories are com pleted. ' ' . " He spoke at a meeting of the Southern Oregon Conser vation and Tree Farm associa tion at the Jackson hotel. Hopkins could not give an estimate of how much any al IqwaMeutincrease ..might be, but he said he was sure there would be some increase Field work in the Applegate district of the forest was com pleted last week, he said, and calculations on that portion will be' made along with com putations on the rest of the forest. . Preparation Work. Forest service personnel have caught ip on about a three-month lag in sale prep aration work, Hopkins said, and major sales for next spring have been laid out, cruised and roads located The sales will be worked up this winter. The three-month lag, he said, was caused by a short age of personnel and funds at Police notified of Bomb at Drive-In A waitress at Cubby's Drive-in, 1275 South River side ave., notified city police Thursday that she had receiv ed a telephone call from a man saying that a time bomb had been set there to go off at 2:02 p.m. Arthur L. Brooks, manager, told police that he had check ed the area but no bomb was found. ' v The waitress, Mary Cullop, 1964 Mae st.; said that the voice was that of a man rather than a boy. ' thur Bryant's book "Triumph in the West." ; One of the major criticisms Alanbrooke makes of Eisen hower is for leadership after the end of the Normandy cam paign and before the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944. Alanbrooke said that on Nov. 24 he - expressed "my view on the very unsatisfac tory state of affairs in France, with no one running the land battle." Spent Time" at Golf : ; "Eisenhower, though sup posed to be doing so, is on the golf links at Rheims-en-tirely detached and taking no part in the running of the war," he said. . - "Matter got so bad lately that a delegation of Maj. Gen. Sir John Whiteley, Let Gen. Walter Bedell Smith and a few-others went up to -tell ''tn that he must get down and run the war, which ue adid he would." . " " " " the idea of a barking jack o-lantern as a lost cause. Joan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Orr, 86 Renault ave., Medford. ' (Knackstedt Phcr) a time when the industry was increasing its activity on sales and the allowable cut in creased. An additional $187,000 for the timber sale preparation program was more favorable this fiscal year, Hopkins said, and allowed foresters to catch up on the backlog. Hopkins said a series of sal vage sales over an extensive area already accessible in the forest are planned1 for the near f utureHe. ,jioted ,1 that, sue hsales are not charged to the allowable cut. Dale Prentice, secretary manager of the association, re ported on recent meetings he attended as a representative of SOCTFa. One of them was a safety meeting, at which safety programs in mills were discussed. He urged associa tion members to consider de veloping safety programs in their companies. Prentice also reported on the forest pest action council meeting in Portland at which pests, diseases and other prob-1 lems were reviewed. Among insects discussed were the European pine shoot moth, spruce budworm, the mountian pine beetle, and the balsam woolly aphid. At tempts are being made to check th e European pine moth before it becomes too widespread, Prentice said, and the spruce budworm is not a serious problem in this area yet. Mountain Pine Beetle The mountain pine beetle, he said, could be. a major problem in second growth timber in the future, and is increasing in the Pacific Pacific northwest. A good control method of the moun tain pine beetle, Prentice said, is to keep second growth thin ned so remaining trees will maintain a vigorous growth. Prentice said research still is being conducted on an anti biotic which kills blister rust in white firs. Experiments with the antibiotic have been conducted on trees in the Rogue River National forest, he noted. . - Prentice reminded mem bers that the association's tim ber committee would discuss the Christmas tree trespass problem at a meeting at the Jackson hotel Monday, Nov. 9. Some form of control over trespass -will be worked out, he said. The problem is be coming worse each year, Prentice pointed out. County Officials Attend Conference Members tf the . Jackson county board of equalization and the county assessor are attending a one-day school on taxation sponsored by the Oregon State Tax commission in Salem today, the county court reported. , ,f Attending the instruction on new tax legislation are County . Commissioner Ches ter wendt, Arnold Bohnert. Central Point, Ed Singmaster, Ashland, and County Assessor Ray J. Schumacher. 1 Regional Edition MEDFORMilla 22 Pages Eisenhower Peace Mission To Europe Due in December Cracks in Western Front Need Patching London - (UPD - President Ei senhower's second peace mis sion to "Europe within four months to patch up differ ences among the Western Allies appeared a certainty to day. Informed government sources in both London and Paris said Thursday night that French President Charles de Gaulle has invited Eisenhow er, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to confer in Paris Dec. 19. They were expected to accept. To Seek Common Front The meeting, scheduled to last about three days, was de signed to produce a common Western front for the forth coming summit talks with Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev. As it stands now, there are some major cracks in that front. . The December talks will come almost exactly - four months after the President's late-summer trip to Europe, which he used to iron out Western differences before his personal summit meeting with Khrushchev in September. Two years ago, he made an other : important trip for the Western alliance, patching up a split among the North At lantic Treaty Organization members. Radio Station Here Sold to Couple Radio station KBOY, which was established here in 1954, has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Card of Colorado Springs, , Colo.T Clarence , , Et Wilson, f founder, has an nounced. , The new owners, Wilson said, hope to make their home in the Rogue valley in the future, but plan no direct par ticipation in the station oper ation. ; (. Winston K. Marks, station manager, has been appointed general .manager, and no pro gram policy or staff changes are being considered by Mr. and Mrs. Card, Wilson said. Wilson, who heads a group which has filed an applica tion for television channel 10 in Medford, plans to remain in the' valley operating his ranch west of Talent. Transfer of KBOY proper ty, which is pending Federal Communications commission approval, will include the AM, FM and multi-plex back ground music channels, Wil son said. Auto Industry Layoffs Total Nearly 190,000 Detroit UPD Auto industry layoffs due to the steel strike soared to nearly 190,000 to day, nearly all of them affect ing General Motors. 'Light?" MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER fnnnn n ?Mfp? Ij? nn 1 ' : : Union Appeals To High Court For Review Court Asked To Stay Injunction Washington -(OPD- The Unit ed Steelworkers Union for mally appealed to the Su preme. Court today to review the Taft i Hartley injunction ordering the 500,000 steel workers back to work. The union filed ;a petition challenging the constitution ality of emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act under which the government sought to halt the strike for 80 days. At the same time, the un ion asked the high tribunal to extend a stay of the injunc tion until it finally decides the case. . The U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, upholding a Pittsburgh District Court deci sion to issue the injunction, gave the steelworkers until Monday to appeal the injunc tion,- -:.;v;' . The union's 28-page petition said the injunction presented questions of utmost gravity that should be decided by the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court has never tion procedures Wants Law Interpreted , The union said the consti tutional validity of the entire emergency procedure is at is sue and that the court should review the matter "so that all concerned-unions, employ ers and the government-may be able to rely upon an au thoritative interpretation of the statute." . The Justice Department was expected to reply to the peti tion within a few hours. The petition was filed by Arthur J. Goldberg, chief at torney for the steelworkers After the Justice Depart ment replies, the court must decode whether to accept the case for review. If it does so, it will hold arguments, prob ably one day next week, and later hand down an opinion, 39,632 Auto Mishaps For Year in Oregon Salem (DPD The Motor Ve hicle Department said today 39,632 traffic accidents had been reported to it during the first eight months of the year. Injuries numbered 12,477, up about 15 per cent over the first eight .months of 1958. ITWWf m wmivm run TVT A TT I (MP? RECEIVES PLAQUE B. Sam Taylor of Elk Lumber company and a member of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree "Farnr'associafion presents a plaque to Mrs. Lewis L. (Doc) Simpson, wife of the founder Cigarette Stated in Court The first Jackson county case of youths' being arrested for illegal possession of ciga rettes was scheduled to be held in district court today, according to District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder. The two youths, arrested by Medford city police at 1:20 a.m.. are from Ashland and Empire, Ore. They were noticed -walking on South Central ave. at Stewart ave. by officers and were picked up by an automobile before the police car could turn around. The officer stopped the car and when the driver, Alfred Gilhouse, route 4, box 442, Medford, failed to have a driver's license, the three were taken to the police sta tion. While questioning the 16 and 17 year old boys, "the officer noticed that each had an open pack of cigarettes on his person. The youths were released to the custody of the Ashland boy's father, and the case was turned over to the district attorney's office for prosecu tion,' since the city ordnance barring possession of tobacco by minors under 18 has not been revised to state standard. The state statute provides for a maximum of $5 fine and not more than two days imprisonment for each of fense, Reeder said. Seattle -UPD- Cascade Nat ural Gas Corporation has an nounced a merger with Con sumers Gas Company of Bend, Ore., subject to approval by stockholders of the Bend firm and the Oregon and Washing ton Public Utility Commis- WEATHER J i i f FORECAST: Fair -through Sat urday except early morning valley fog patches. Low tonight 28. High Saturday 65. Temp. Highest Yesterday 59 Lowest this Morning 21 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:08 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:43 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow .. 6:18 a.m. New Moon : Tomorrow PROMINENT STAR Altair. high in south west 7:17 p.m. The little cluster of dim stars above and a little to the left of Altair is the constellation, Delphinus, also popularly known as Job's Coffin. Tribune 30, 1959 Plaque Cites Work SJT Mrs. Lewis L. (Doc) Simp son, wife of the late founder of the Southern Oregon Con servation and Tree Farm as sociation, r last ' night was awarded a plaque in his honor for his contribution to the as sociation. : . . -' The plaque and a check were presented Mrs. Simpson at a meeting of the associa tion at the Jackson hotel. B Sam Taylor, of Elk Lumber company, made the presenta tion in behalf of SOCTFA. Taylor referred to Mr. Simpson as the association's "super president," - and to Mrs. Simpson as the organiza tion's "assistant super presi dent." For many years, Mrs. Simpson assisted her husband in operation of 'the radio net work organized by the group, and only recently retired from the 24-hour job. The plaque read: Gratitude of Industry "The gratitude of the forest industry for Lewis L. Simp son's dedicated and unswerv ing loyalty to the promotion of forestry and the forest in dustry in Jackson and Jose phine counties Oregon is ex emplified by these words of commemoration. "'Doc' was the driving force in founding the, South ern Oregon Conservation and Tree, Farm association in 1947. In 1949, 'Roxy Radio' was born, followed closely by 'Sexton.' He fought aggres Young Portland Housewife Tells of Smothering; Portland-flJPD-A young Port land housewife was booked on a first degree murder cnarge Thursday night after she told Multnomah county authori ties she had killed her month- old baby nearly two months ago. Used Plastic Mattress - ' Mrs.' Ruth' Daisy Kilgore, 19, told officers she smoth ered her infant son, Silas, with a plastic mattress cover from his crib last Sept. 4. She said she had killed the infant because the child made her nervousv She said choking Price 1 0 Cents , No. 185 of the organization. The. award was, pre sented for Mr. Simpson's (."dedicated and unswerving loyalty to the promotion of for estry and the forest industry" in Jackson and Josephine counties. (Knackstedt Photo) Simpson larion sively for more beneficial for est . management research in southern Oregon. Fruits of his leadership, organizing ability and tenacious determination brought fire foreman training schools, a fire cooperative agreement, equitable freight rates and most of all a cooper ative spirit of forest industry competitors and public forest land managing agencies." Training Schools The fire training schools were organized following the Labor Day week end fires in southern Oregon in 1955, when a lack of supervisory personnel was apparent. The schools have been held each year since then, and personnel trained at the school has been called to fires in other sec tions of the state. More equitable freight rates went into effect for southern Oregon shippers about a year ago after several months of consideration by the Federal Interstate Com merce commission. Mrs. Simpson op e r a t e d Roxy Radio, a radio network set up by the association for its members, until earlier this year. She retired as its operator because of pressing personal business at home. It is now manned by Dayle and Carol Waltermire of Medford Ambulance Service. Child; Made spells the baby suffered had upset her. The infant had leen hospi talized with the affliction a short time before its death. Husband Found Child A coroner's report attribut ed the cause of death to lung trouble. Mrs. Kilgore, married less than two years, said she had held the mattress cover over the infant's face for about three minutes while he lay on a bed in the Kilgore's small trailer house. -The dead- child was dis Gullies Become Death Traps as Storm Rakes Area Southern California . Swept by Gale Winds Phoenix, Ariz. -flJH- Flash flooding, loosed by a lashing storm in the desert, took the lives of two children who were swept from their moth ers' arms Thursday night. One victim was a two-year-old girl, pulled from , her mother's grasp as she tried to toss the child to safety when the family car was caught by a torrent of water rushing through a desert dry wash. Car Knocked Off Trail The other victim was a four-weeks-old child, who was washed away when the par ents' car was knocked 6u0 feet off the old Apache Indian Trail east of here and buried in sand and water. Dry washes and gullies in all parts of the state became potential death traps as the violent storm raked Arizona and Southern California with rain, hail and snow late Thursday and today. . A number or' deer hunters in the northern hills of Ari zona for the opening of the season at dawn today were stranded by snow. Swept Off Highway V Francis Lee Mears, 22, of Tucson, his wife Rose Mary, 20, and their baby, Shanon Lee, were traveling along the Apache Trail highway east of here when the car was swept off the highway by water gushing through the Davis wash. "I Was waist deep in sand and my baby was washed out of my hands, and I couldn't do a thing about it," sobbed the young mother to a high way patrolman who came to their rescue. Officers search ed unsuccessfully with flash lights for the baby. Two-year-old Maude Eld ridge was ripped from her mother's arms and drowned when a churning wall of wa ter raged out of a dry wash flooded by rain and overturn ed the woman's car north of here. Mrs. Theresa Eldridge of Cave Creek, told sheriff 'r of ficers she got one daughter -five-year-old Patty to safe ty, but the strong current pulled Maude away from her as she attempted to toss her to safety: The child was swept a mile down the wash. A violent wind storm pack ing gusts of up to 70 miles an hour swept Southern Califor nia, uprooting numerous trees and raising a thick blanket of dust. L.A. Wil jout Electricity 0 Thousands of homes in su burban Los Angeles areas were without electricity when power lines were blown down or knocked down by felled trees. Heavy rain accompanied by a severe electrical storm struck the Imperial Valley, but flooding was reported confined to uninhabited des ert areas in Southern Califor nia. Visibility was cut to 10 feet by the swirling dust in the Ontario-Colton area, and a thick blanket of gritty dust lay over most of .the south land not visited by rains. A large tree was torn up in Al- tadena and hurled by the wind into the house of Frank Powers. Powers and his wife were in the living room when a four-foot branch of the tree smashed through the ceiling. They were uninjured. Lowest Oct. 30 Temperature Noted Lowest Oct. 30 temperature on record for the Medford station of the U.S. weather bureau was registered this morning. The mercury dropped to 24 degrees. Previous low for this date was 25 degrees recorded in 1920. A low of 28 is forecast for tonight. Her Nervous covered by her husband, Mil ton, when he returned from work about 1 a.m. Sept. 4. Mrs. Kilgore was watching television at the time. Kilgore said he did not know until Thursday that the death was not due to illness, officers reported. Wanted to Clear Mind The woman said she called police Thursday afternoon be cause she wanted to get the death "off her mind." She was being held in the Multnomah county jail with out baiL I f t s -1 t - r- '- i - -1 t - " i I . 3 -, - i 3 .4 4 .