Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 10, 1959, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text- in alt LTU Sa Regional Edition Medford 20 PAGES ' CPS i T7"4 1 NEWSPAPER PLANT PICKETED Pickets from the ing the picket lines. The newspapers have announced plans ' Stereotypers Local 48 parade in front of the Oregon Jouranl to publish a joint paper with supervisory personnel work building in Portland today. The Journal and Oregonian have ing the various departments. been struck by the union and the other crafts are observ- (UPI Telephoto) Portland Papers Tell Joint Plan In Face of Strike Portland, Ore. - (UPD - The Oregonian and the Oregon Journal, whose stereotypers went on strike today, an- joint newspaper "as soon as possible." The paper would be pub lished out of the Oregonian plant, using mostly super visory personnel. Only the engravers of the newspapers' various craft unions crossed the stereotypers' picket line. To All Subscribers -, The joint newspaper would carry the logotypes of both papers and would be distribu ted to all subscribers. Journal employees who showed up for work today de spite the strike left their desks and went to the Oregonian offices to help in the joint ef fort. M. J. Frey, president and publisher of 'the Oregoiuan, said he had no idea how long it-would take to get a paper together and start the presses, but indications were that an rffort would be made to go to press by noon or shortly afterward. The Stereotypers' Union T.neal 48. said the walkout was over working conditions rather than wages. Portland stereotypers now receive $3.61 an hour and have a 3-hour work week. Only one other city among the 31 largest in the United States has a higher hourly scale. The strike was authorized de spite the unusually high scale. Major Issues Among the major issues are: , "1. Whether a regular full time employee may lay off for his own convenience, forcing the company to hire a time and a half employee for his replacement. "2. A demand, despite the fact that it is clearly illegal, to force the publishers to com pel their foremen to be mem bers of the union. "3. A demand that the pub lisher employ four men to operate a one-man machine. This would mean hiring three completely unnecessary men on each of two shifts' at more than $25 a day for a total of $150 per day for unneeded men for each newspaper." BLM To Work Out Road Access Pacts Portland - (UPD - The In terior Department said today Bureau of Land Management offices throughout the west will take the initiative in working out agreements with rrivate landowners to assure access routes for sportsmen and others to large blocks of the public domain. , MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, Thompson To Be Arraigned Donald Martin Thompson, 36, of Klamath Falls, was 'ex pected to be arraigned in Jackson county district court today in connection with the Safeway store robbery here Sept. 6. --- Thompson was arrested in Klamath Falls Sunday night on a warrant from San Pablo, Calif., in connection with a similar robbery there, accord ing to officials. He is being held here on $25,000 bail. Police said his arrest cleared Suit Is Settled . Out of Court A damage suit involving the Southern Oregon Humane Society here was settled out of court last night. The case was originally scheduled for trial in circuit court today. Mrs. Beulah H. Richardson, Medford, former manager of the humane society, was given a settlement of $500 cash and a promissory note for $1,500 payable in 90 days by the humane society. . The ex-manager was seek ing $4,000 plus interest for money she claimed was due her for salary under a 10-year contract with the humane so ciety. The contract was sign ed on Jan. 1, 1950, and ex tended to Jan. 1, 1960. She was to be paid $200 a month, under the contract. ' ' She was discharged by ac tion of the society's board of directors on March 1, 1958, when they decided to cut ex penses by discontinuing the boarding kennels. The man ager's salary was paid from the boarding fees. Mrs. Richardson agreed to turn over all records to the society. Each party has been discharged from any 61aim to damages. She and Sidney Richardson, her husband, were ' the original organizers and created the Southern Ore gon Humane, Society' more than 30 years ago. She had been the manager and oper ator until discharged by the board. Grange Master, Opposes Price Support System Long Beach, Calif .-(UPD-National Grange Grand Master Herschel D. Newsom was on record today opposing the cur rent system of farm price supports while neither favoring or opposing "a return to full fre.e competition for agricul ture." ' The Columbus, Ind., farmer criticized the "present price- fixing programs wherein the government itself guarantees to take off the market all commodities not absorbed by the market at some pre-determined fixed price level." However, he noted that industry's wages and prices have long been supported by a broad system of government measures. . ' - "Thus," he said, "glib talk out of agriculture or any other segment to our economy is worse than sheer folly it is tantamount to economic disaster f Tribune Expected about 17 robberies in Oregon and California during the past year and a half. All of the rob beries were in groceries and supermarkets y.$ Thompson was identified .by Eugene and .Medford super market employees Monday as the man who robbed the mar kets earlier this year. The two thefts netted more than $6,000. Lt. E. W. Tichenor, who ac companied Thompson, here from Klamath Falls late yes terday afternoon, said Thomp son was brought here on two warrants of armed .robbery. He is wanted in connection with robberies in Sacramento, and other Bay area markets, in addition to San Pablo. Three Events Are Slated for Vets A breakfast at the Veterans of Foreign' Wars hall, 42 North Front st., Medford, will start Veterans day activities in the Rogue Valley tomorrow. The breakfast, which will be served between 7 and 11 ajn., is one of three events scheduled.' A parade will be held at 11 a.m. and a dance is scheduled at the Medford armory tomorrow night. The parade, sponsored by the Jackson County Veterans Allied Council, will start from the Library park with various veterans' marching groups, re-' serve units, area high school bands, and at least one float, according to Del Boyd, parade chairman. ' Arrangements for the dance are being handled by the American , Legion. Public offices, and schools will be closed tomorrow, but most retail stores in the valley will remain open. Salem-(UPD-Donald ' C. Ro berts, president of Capital Ice & Cold Storage Company, died at his home Monday. Washington-IUPD-Senate Re publican Leader Everett M. Dirkson (111.) will fly to Flor ida Thursday for a rest. about getting the government Price 10 Cents 1959 No. 194 Assault Case Goes To Jury After Yh Days of Testimony The case of Clarence Fred erick Farleigli, 69-year-old Medford laborer, charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, went to the jury at mid-morning today following IV2 days of testimony before Circuit Judge Edward C. Kel ly. . ; Court - appointed attorney for the defense was O. . H. Bengston. Gerald J. Scannell prosecuted the case for the district attorney's office. Farleigh is charged with stabbing Stanley James Steege, 30, of 401 East 12th st., in Medford Aug. 2. Prose cution witnesses were Windy McNally, of Olympia, Wash.; Stanley Steege,- and Medford Police Officers Jerry Butler, Sgt. Ray Seely, Don Pursel and B. E. Stephens. Invited to Drink v Windy McNally testified she and her escort were in vited to a drink by Farleigh. Drinking in a car near a house trailer at 322 South Riverside ave., Farleigh used bad language and Steege said he pushed the man out of the car. After Farleigh was pushed from the car and was stand ing at the back of the car Steege got out, approached Farleigh and put his hand on the man's shoulder. Then Far leigh whirled around and jabbed the knife into Steege's stomach, the victim testified. The officers testimied to Farleigh's verbal tape-recorded statement admitting to the stabbing. The tape recording was admitted as evidence as was the pocket knife used. Bengston did not place any witnesses on the stand. He claimed self defense. Nor did the defendant, Farleigh test ify on his behalf. Bengston argued that the state had to prove Farleigh's guilt beyond any reasonable doubt and that he did not have to prove his innocence. Salem-OIPB-The State Board of Control has approved the letting of bids on an $800,000 project at F. H. . Dammasch state hospital near Wilson ville. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable high cloudiness tonight and Wednes day. Low tonight 23. High Wednesday SS. Temp. Highest Yesterday 69 Lowest this Morning 26 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:55 p.m. Sunrise tdmorrow . 6:57 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 3:15 a.m. Full Moon '- Nov. 15 MORNING PLANET Venus, low in east 3:22 a.m. The second magnitude star seen well above Venus is Denebola and the cluster of many faint stars well to the left of Dene bole form the constellation of Coma Berenices. Polio Clinics Are Set in County in Jaycee Program Information Sheets Distributed in Area Information concerning the Junior Chamber of Commerce public polio vaccination clinic, which is scheduled throughout the county Satur day, is being distributed to school children throughout the county to take home, Lar ry Allen, president of the Med ford Jaycees and chairman of the program, said today. Eight clinics will be held in the county as part of the Jay cee state-wide program. Clinics are scheduled in the courthouse health department office, the American Red Cross chapter house, 60 Haw thorne ave., Medford, and at the Crater High school cafe teria in Qentral Point between 2 and 6 p.m. Saturday. Other Clinics Other clinics are scheduled between 3 and 5 p.m. that day at the Jacksonville school music building, Talent city hall, Rogue River kindergar ten building, Shady Cove grade school gym, and the Eagle Point grade school gym, Allen said. Individual shots will cost $1, with a family receiving all its vaccinations for $3,. Allen said. Hestressed that no per son would be turned away for lack of funds. Saturday's clinic is the first of two scheduled. The second will be held Dec. 12 to ad minister the second shot in the series. Allen noted that the full series of four shots will be given at the clinics. Many physicians now rec ommend the fourth shot. The first two shots are a month apart, while the third and fourth" are several months apart. Volunteer Assistance The Jackson County Medi car Society and nurses associ ation have volunteered assis tance in administering shots. One physician and two nurses will be present at each clinic," Allen said. The Jaycees under took the polio vaccination clinic be cause of the number of people who have not yet received shots. The situation was high lighted when several cases of polio were reported in the state. Allen said he expected the information sheets to be taken home by school children to day and Thursday. Included in the sheet are two consent forms, one for Saturday's clinic and the other for Dee. 12, for children whose parents do nt accompany them to the clinic. Morse Asks Fisheries Program- for Columbia Washington - (UPD - Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) asked the Senate Commerce Com mittee Monday to approve a comprehensive fisheries pro gram for the Columbia Riv er Basin. 1 Salem-IUPD-E. Carl Charl ton, 65, Salem city alderman and former assistant police chief, died at his home here Monday. 'You Mean There's No From Going o Ill (UPI Telephoto) STRONGARM ROCKET Shown is -an artist's concep tion of the Army's five-stage rocket, dubbed "Strongarm", launched at the Wallops Is land, Va., station of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration today to meas ure upper atomosphere elec tron densities. The bottom stage is an Honest John roc ket, second and third stages are Army Nike boosters. fourth stage is a modified recruit. The fifth stage is a scaled-down Army Sergeant and a 15-pound nose cone con taining instrumentation. Farm Federation Urged To Fight For Water Rights Ontario - (UPD - The Oregon Farm Bureau Federation, holding its .28th annual con vention here, was told Mon day by art official of the na tional organization that re establishment of the old con cept of state administration and control of water rights must be fought for. Charles C. Butler, director of the Land and Water Use Division of the American Farm Bureau Federation, crit icized the U.S. Justice depart ment for some of its recent decisions regarding water rights. ' Legislation Urged " Butler urged immediate na tional legislation to protect water rights of the states. He said the Justice Depart ment constantly contends that state water laws do not apply to federal agencies. A Senate measure which would create a power corpora tion was attacked by Butler, who said "residents of the Pacific Northwest should take a good look at this socialistic proposal and then bury it deep in the Pacific ocean." State Agencies To Tackle Fishing Laws Astoria (UPD Legislators from Oregon and Washington agreed to let appropriate state agencies try to solve the prob lem of a conflict in the two states' fishing laws. Other Way to Keep Them Communist?" n Puiitnr Pvoiuuaa ca u. Prompt Halt on Cranberry Sales Urged by FDA By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington-Two shipments of Pacific Northwest cranberries-some believed to be on Oregon retail grocers' shelves and possibly in the hands of Oregon housewives-have been found to be contaminated by a chemical which induces can cer in rats. The food and drug administration, in announcing this Monday, urged that all sales of cranberries be halted im mediately until some plan can be devised for isolating con taminated berries from those fit for human consumption. The justice department . has been asked by FDA to go into federal court in California in an effort to seize a ship ment of 600 40-pound bags of Oregon cranberries which FDA found to be contaminated. The second contaminated shipment was sent from Washington State into Oregon and eluded food and drug agents. A-spokesman for FDA said Monday night: "That lot has been distributed to retail outlets and pos sibly even sold to housewives. " 'The size and shipper of this shipment of cranberries was unknown," he said. The shipper of the Oregon-to-Cali-fornia shipment will be re vealed -when the justice de partment files legal papers in court, a spokesman said. FDA said the cause of the contamination apparently was the improper .use by some growers of a chemical weed killer, aminotriazole, which the department of agriculture in 1958 had approved for use in cranberry bogs - but only after the berries had "been harvested. Said Used Before Approval "Unfortunately many cran berry growers used the weed killer prior to harvest of the 1957 crop," declared Secre tary of Health, Education and Welfare Arthur S. Flemming Monday at a news conference. "As a matter of fact, I under stand that some growers used the pesticide even' before the department of agriculture had approved directions for its use on cranberry bogs. As a re sult of the misuse of the chemical," plants took up the aminotriazole and some of it got into the berries. "Contaminated berries from this 1957 crop, amounting' to 3 million pounds, were With held from the market, Flem ming said, and are now being buried by bulldozers near Al bany and Coquille, Ore., and Centralia and M a r k h a m , Wash. This burial job will take until Christmas - just for the 1957 contaminated ber ries. A small portion of the 1957 Massachusetts crop is also being destroyed. (Continued on Page 2) Kennedy Defends Labor Bill Vote Portland -(UPD- Sen. John Kennedy (D-Mass.), wound up a four-day tour) of Oregon Monday night with a speech to the Central Labor council here where he recently was criticized by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.). The two had differed over the Landrum - Griffin labor bill. Kennedy, a possible 1960 presidential candidate, told the Labor council delegates: "I respect his (Morse's) opinion, it is possible he is right and it is possible I am wrong. I am not omnipo tent ..." Morse had criticized Ken nedy's vote for the recently passed labor bill. Recreation Off icials Slated Regional Conference on Aging Nov. 14 Six recreation officials will discuss carious phases of rec reation for older people at the day-long Southern Oregon Regional Conference on Ag ing at the Medford Methodist church Saturday, Nov. 14. The conference here is one of several throughout the state, following a state con ference will be held. A White House Conference on Aging is scheduled after state confer ences are completed. Elliot Cohen, field consult ant for the National Recrea tion association, New York City, will moderate a panel discussion on recreation in which he will be helped by Clayton Anderson, newly ap pointed recreation director for Oregon. Cohen recently completed a two-weeks recreation insti tute in Seattle, and is spend ing one day here en route to San Francisco. The conference keynote ad dress will be given by Miss Jeanne Jewett, administrator of the state public welfare commissjan, Portland, on the Corvallis Youth Faces Charge in Dynamite Blast Corvallis (UPD- State police said Monday they were to ar rest an unidentified ' 18-year-old Corvallis' youth today for touching off a Saturday night dynamite blast which rocked a wide area of the mid-Willamette valley. Officers said the youth and eight other juveniles, includ ing two girls, had set off a full case of dynamite in an open field across the Willamette river from Corvallis, about one-quarter mile east of the city limits. Windows Shattered The blast shattered win dows in nearby residences and broke out some plate glass windows in downtown stores. One woman was reported knocked from her chair by the concussion. The crater made by the blast was found in an aerial search Sunday morning by a Benton county sheriff's offi cer. The blast was set off in a field which is part of an Ore gon State college farm on the east bank of the river. Felt 10 Miles Away Police said the blast was felt as far away as Albany, 10 miles to the east, and Philo math, 6 miles west of here. The juveniles, already ap prehended, told police they had set a long, slow-burning fuse on the dynamite and ,it went off about an hour after they had left the field. Courtney Johns, Linn coun ty district attorney, said the teenagers had agreed to make restitution for the damages. He said they would not be prosecuted, but the 18-year-old would face criminal charg es. New Salem Armory Approved by Thornton Salem -(UPD- Construction of a proposed new Salem armory-auditorium on the Oregon State Fairgrounds was ap proved today in an opinion by Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton. Salem (UPD Willard Mar shall, manager of the Gideon Stolz Bottling Company .of Salem, has been elected new president of the Salem area Chamber of Commerce. subject of current trends and major needs in the field of aging. Others participating in the panel on recreation include Dr. Frank Roberts, Medford, recreation chairman, Rogue Valley Council on Aging; Bob Talbot, park and recreation director, Grants Pass; Robert Haworth, Medford park and recreation director; Mrs. Hel en Zollinger, Portland, pres ident of Oregon Senior Craftsman; Ralph E. Ash, recreational director at the Camp White Domiciliary; George Price, Klamath Falls director of park and recrea tion; and Lindsay Vinsel, dir ector of adult education, Med ford public schools. Other panel discussions will be on housing, moderat ed by William Hoxie, execu tive secretary, Jackson La bor Council; employment-income, moderated by C. L. Williams, Ashland represent ative of the National Associa tion of Retired Civil Service Employees; and health, mod erated by Miss Jewett. Panel discussions will be State and Local Governments Ban Sale of Products Clarification of Warning Awaited New York-(UPD-One of the nation's major food chains and several state and local governments banned sale of all cranberries and cranberry products pending "clarifica tion" of a government warn ing that some may be con taminated with a cancer-producing substance. The na tion's largest chain, A&P, halted all sales of cranberry products., No Evidence Claimed A spokesman for the na tion's cranberry growers said there was no evidence of con tamination to any of the can ned or fresh cranberries pres ently on grocers' shelves and said further that he believed the danger from even con taminated berries was great ly exaggerated. Nonetheless, state health of ficials in Ohio and city auth orities in San Francisco ban ned all cranberry sales. Cali fornia state authorities order ed a check of all new stocks entering the state. The Michigan State Depart ment of Agriculture recom mended that retailers and' wholesalers halt sale of cran berries but said it would not make an order until it re ceives further information from federal authorities. The A&P store chain an nounced that all cranberry products have been with drawn from sale in its more than 4,000 stores across the country "until the situation is clarified by competent au thorities." Other food chains followed suit. The 44-store "Food Fair" supermarkets in the Detroit area, 185 Bohack markets and 125 Gristede Bros, stores in the New York metroplitan area, took cranberries off their shelves for the duration of confusion. The Grand Union company withdrew all fresh and can ned cranberries from its 446 markets in 11 eastern states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. (See stories on page 2) Three Injured in One-Car Accident City police are investigating a one - vehicle accident this morning which hospitalized three persons, one in serious condition. Injured were Diana Rae Tomlin, 17, of 225 South Oak dale ave., driver of the auto ftiobile, and her sister ' and brother, Terry Lynn, 6, and' Walter Trenton, 4, The trio was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Med ford Ambulance service about 11 a.m. According to police, the ve hicle struck a California Ore gon Power company pole at the intersection of 11th st. and Oakdale ave., after it ran over the curb and across a driveway. Still reported in surgery at press time was Terry Lynn, who suffered deep lacerations of the face and- throat. Miss Tomlin complained of a left arm injury, officers said, and possible internal injuries. The small boy was hospitalized for observation, it was reported. to Attend held between 11 a.m. and 12:25 p.m. and at 2:15 p.m. A luncheon starting at 12:30 p.m. in the Methodist church will feature addresses by Cohen on "Recreation for 111 and Handicapped," and Dr. Arthur C. Jones, Port land, director of the Rehabil itation Institute of Oregon. Reservations for the lunch eon should be made as soon as possible, according to Mrs. C. A. Thatcher, chairman of the conference. Reservations may be made by telephoning Mrs. Thatcher at SPring 2 5103; John Gribble, SPring 2 5932; Mrs. Elsa Walker, SPring 2-4318; or Mrs. Rita Holmes, TAlbot 6-4351. The closing ; session will start at 3:30 p.m. Mrs. Zol linger will review what the community can do in prepara tion for the state conference on aging, and Donald C. Sut cliffe, regional representative of the department of health, education and welfare, San Francisco, will discuss "The Community and the White House Conference."