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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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