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Pifeit Is JoMfe l : - ? r-sl 1 ? S', ' SJ1 HIDE BUSSES Local business and Indus- ed by school busses to other schools in the trial representatives who attended the Edu- 'Medford district, where they met principals cation-Business day program at Hedrick Jun- and student body presidents and viewed ior High school this morning were transport- various aspects of the school program. BLRfl BBav Get Into Dfocreafoon FneCd By A- ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent - Washington The bureau of land management may get into the expanding federal re creation business by utilizing the O&C timber lands of western Oregon as an addition to the state's outdoor play grounds. BLM recently issued regula- t i o n s covering recreational use of the O&C lands. The original O&C act of 1937 pro vided for recreational use of 2.5 million acre former rail road land grant but until now no regulations . existed under which the government could implement this special public, use. The administration is hop ing that local government will take the lead in making use of the O&C lands by leasing specific areas and then devel oping them for recreation They could build campsites or picnic grounds. Developing Programs K BLM official noted that several counties in the O&C timber area have been de veloping extensive recreation programs. ' If local agencies don't make use of this opportunity, the new regulations permit BLM to - construct, operate and maintain such recreational fa cilities. This would be the first time BLM has ventured be yond its normal timber man agement functions. BLM, whether it or local government develops recrea tion grounds, will endeavor to protect them. The regulations provide that "in public recrea tional sites the use and dis posal of resources such as tim ber, minerals and forage shall be administered in such a manner as to minimize dam age to recreational or scenic resources and 'facilities. Such competing uses shall also be -regulated so as to protect routes of access to public re creational sites and to mini mize damage to scenic values along such access routes." No Squatters : The regulations also pro vide that the recreational uses shall not allow for squatters. BLM is charged with the re sponsibility of seeing that they are used to best serve the public interest, chiefly by those who wish to stay only for a brief time. Service charges deemed to be "reasonable" by BLM may also be imposed on those who use the grounds. . - j In addition to camping and picnicking, Interior envisions using lakes in the forests for boating and swimming. More over, during the winter, use of appropriate areas for ski ing will be a possibility. BLM's entry into the forest recreation business in Oregon would be similar to the forest service's recreation program Warm Air Mass Drives Arctic Front to Sea By United Press International A mass of warm air from the Southwest today routed a record November cold wave. The weather bureau said the last effects of the arctic front that set record temper atures and left foot - deep snows .'when- it - reached the East Coast were fading fast. Temperatures across the na tion climbed slowly above the normal, seasonal average. " Only the extreme Southeast still shivered in the frigid arc tic air. Temperatures were re ported below freezing in parts cf Mississippir Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. The ; weather bureau said tempera tures would dip riightly today from the north ern Great Lakes through-the Dakotas and snow flurries "7"i I for the national .forests. Sev eral years ago, the forest serv ice announced a long-range program of developing recrea tional sites in the national for ests. It was labeled "Opera t i o n Outdoors" but it has been slowed down by restric tions on funds imposed by the Budget Bureau in trying .to keep the federal budget in balance. BLM, apparently has no plan to ask Congress at this stage for funds to develop its own recreation program. It hopes the state or O&C coun ties will carry the ball. Assault Charges Filed Following Highway Incident Two Klamath rails men were arraigned in -Klamath district court Wednesday on charges of assault and battery arising out of an incident in volving two Medford men Saturday night on the Green Springs highway near Keno. ; Those arraigned were L. M. Pate and John J. Detto. Their cases were continued at the request of their attorney, to enter a plea. According to local reports, R. W. Miles, 2651 Table Rock rd and C. M. Lemacks, 2717 Howard ave., employees of Crater Lake Machinery com pany, Medford, had been sent to Klamath Falls Friday and Saturday to work on,the com pany s machinery. The men are a mechanic and a welder. Returning to Medford Sat urday evening in a pickup truck, the two Medford "men said they were forced off the highway by two vehicles. As they stepped out of the truck, they reported, Lemacks was beaten by 'two men from one of the other vehicles. Lemacks was reported to have suffered a cut lip and a black eye In the incident. Miles was not in jured, it was reported. Lemacks signed the com plaint against the two Klam ath Falls men Monday. Attor ney for the defendants is P. K. Pucket, Klamath Falls. Pate and Detto were released on $200 bail each, Klamath county . district attorney, re ported. Pickets have been at the Crater Lake Machinery com- uany b o t h in Medford and Klamath Falls since Oct. 27 when members of the Hoist ing and Portable Engineers, local 701, known as operating engineers, went out on strike. Pate and Detto, both mechan ics, were employed by the company prior to the strike. according to company rec ords. Neither Miles or Le macks "are union members, company officials here said. would dampen the Dakotas, Montana and the Washington Idaho area. But warmer air caressed the rest of a nation hit by some of the nastiest Novem ber weather on record. Ore boats and barge tows plying the Great Lakes and Mississippi river, respectively, were reported still hampered by ice that formed on the river and in bays off the lakes. . . But the Coast Guard said the lake freighters - carrying vital iron ore to recently re opened steel mills - still had time for .more deliveries de spite an early freeze-up and a half -foot -thick ice cover at the ports of Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., on Lake Superior. . . Ashlander Serves As Own Attorney In School Case George S. Reilly, who de scribed himself as only part-time resident of 338 Laurel st., Ashland, acted as his own attorney today when he faced charges that he has failed to send his child to school. Reilly, 59, appeared in dis trict court before Judge Roy Bashaw. His wife, Jean, 28 sat with him at the defense table. Reilly is charged with failure to send the couple's 9-year-old daughter, Jeannie, to school in Ashland. Stating that the real issue of the case is" the actual resi dence of the' Reilly family, Judge Bashaw repeatedly warned Reilly against the long speeches Reilly made in termittently during the morn ing. , The judge- also cautioned Mrs. Reilly against interrup tions, . and at one point: sent her from the courtroom for answering questions which Deputy District Attorney Gerald Scannell had directed to her husband. Scannell rested the state's case late this morning, after .presenting four witnesses for the prosecution. They were Edward Har mon, attendance officer for Ashland school district; Alt B. Mekvold, county superin tendent of schools; Gordon Hayes, Ashland police chief; and Eric W. Allen Jr., manag ing "editor of the Mail Trib une. Judge Bashaw, showing no lack of patience with the couple's ignorance of court procedure, gave both Mr. and Mrs. Reilly opportunity to tell their views of the case. He advised Reilly on when to question the prosecution wit ness and gave further advice on presenting the defense case. Testimony Harmon testified to the fact that the couple's daughter, Jeannie, had never been in school in Ashland. Chief Hayes told the court that he lived near the Laurel st. ad dress and that his own chil dren walked to school from that area. Mekvold's testimony also dealt with school authorities' reports on the girl's non-at tendance. He indicated that the schools seldom grant any request for teaching children at home and referred to the state law pertaining to chil dren attending school be tween the ages of 7 and 18. In his examination of Mek vold, Reilly quoted what he said was a supreme court rul ing that some youngsters are exempt from attending school if they live at too great a dis tance. He said they live in a mountain home 10 miles from the nearest school. Letters written by Reilly to editor of the Mail . Tribune were identified by Allen. The managing editor said that he recalled at least six or seven letters from Reilly at 338 Laurel st., Ashland, which had been published in the Mail Tribune. Judge Bashaw admitted the letters into evi dence on the issue of resi dence. Taking the stand on his own behalf, Reilly aired com plaints against, the city of Ashland, which he said had shut off his water and electri city at the Laurel st. house. Other complaints concerned a lack of newspaper coopera tion in his fight against com munism and the lack of law enforcement agencies to fol low the Bill of Rights. When Scannell asked him the real reason why he did not send his daughter to school, he said, "I don't want her to learn socialism." Both he and Mrs. Reilly declared that the girl could read and write, and was well-versed on the Bill of Rights. Rogue Valley Edition Medford 38 Pages WW (Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles concerning Russian educa tion, written following a recent trip to Russia.) By DR. LEONARD MAYFIELD Medford School Superintendent ' If there is one area in which the Russian school stu dents might be judged better than ours it is in their strict obedience to the rules and regulations of the schools and community. There is appar ently no juvenile delinquency as we recognize it in Ameri ca. The reason for this can, be explained in that the parents of Russian youth are held strictly accountable for the conduct of their children. When a child fails to conform to the required norm, if in school, the parents are brought before a committee of parents and school staff members. In strong and force ful language they are advised to see that their child im proves in his studies or his conduct or both, whatever the complaint it. If the child does not, the parent will be reported to the civil authorities which could mean the loss of their identi fication or good citizen card This would probably result in loss of rights to make cer tain purchases of food and clothine. travel rights, and eyen their jobs. It is consid ered an act of disloyalty to the state when a parent allows his child to misbehave or fail t do his, assigned school work or tasks. We did notice that when the school children were in the corridors (they have tan minute recess between each period) or on the playground under informal conditions, they acted exactly like ours They were friendly, inquisi tive, and wanted to taiK to us. Those who could speak English appeared proud of their achievement, Incidental- lv. teachers, although more rpsprved. conducted them selves in a similar manner. Religion Discouraged It is auite evident that tne communist state has set about to deliberately kill religion their country- Evidence contradicts their contention that the Soviet is a land of religious freedom. There is one Protestant, one Catholic, and one Ortho dox church in each .of tne cities of Leningrad and Mos cow. Leningrad is reported to be a city of more than 2 mil lion people and Moscow more than 5 million. The church leaders told us that they would like to con struct more churches. This -i i J tho was impossiDie uuu resent attitude of govern ment officials because they say that all materials are needed fof the state's con struction nroeram. It is illeg al for a person who is under 18 years of age to jum church. Under present condi tions, religion can only be vouth bv parents in the home. Religious affilia tion or acknowledgement on the part of a young person practically isolates mm irom the group. Strangely enougn, ana to our amazement and concern WEATHER' FORECAST: Generally cloudy through Friday with a chance of a few light showers. Low tonight 36. High.Firday 58. Temp. Highest yesterday '. 4 Lowest this Morning 36 Our Skies Tonight Prec. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace. Sunset today 4:46 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:08 a.m. Moonrise tonight 8:32 p.m. Last Quarter Nov. 23 PROMINENT STARS The Pleiades, in the .east 7:54 p.m. Aldebaran, below the Pleiades. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, low in south west 5:55 p.m. Venus, low in east 3:34 a.m. cra bedlfieimce liSed' -'Schools MDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1959 m. this "Godless dictatorship' appears to be doing a good job in seeing that its citizens. young and old, conform to a high - standard of morality without benefit of religious precept. The Soviet education is in a state of flux. Premier Khrushchev has been ex tremely critical of certain as pects of the current element ary, secondary, and college programs. The preachment, "from each according to his ability and to each According to his needs," 'will be fol lowed more closely than ever, It is to be achieved through making everything taught be practical and useful to the soviet state. It is to be achieved manly through re quiring every student to have part-time work experience on .collective farms or in the fac tories the last two years in secondary" schools. In addi tion, a high school graduate who applies for admission to college is given preference if he has had one or two years of full time work experience. It was reported that the col lege teaching staffs were un happy - about this require ment. . . ves Two Hospitals , The Jackson County Medic al Society Wednesday evening voted by an overwhelming majority that they favor two general hospitals in Medford. The action followed a dis cussion by Dr. James C. Luce and Dr. Donald McGeary, president of the staff of Sacred Heart hospital, regard ing the problem of continuing to have a two hospital sys tem in Medford. ' It was brought out at the meeting that it had been re cently learned that Sacred Heart hospital , was contem plating making some changes due to the age of the building and the inability of the hos pital administration to finance and construct a replacement for their present facilities. Sister Luke, administrator of Sacred Heart hospital, told the Mail Tribune today that Sacred Heart hospital : could not afford remodeling of. the present structure. She sai that any planning regarding Sacred Heart hos pital would not' originate at the hosiptal. She added that it is imperative that someone else take the necessary steps, possibly the community. Sister Luke said that there is no acute problem at Sacred Heart hospital right now, but the building is becoming more and more obsolete. She added that the hospital is now handi capped particularly by the lack of space. - Ford to Discontinue Edsel Line of Car Detroit (DPD Ford Motor Co. announced today it is dis continuing its Edsel line of cars, launched only two years ago at a cost of 250 million dollars, because of disappoint ing sales. , A Ford spokesman said pro duction would halt "as soon as possible." The Edsel was introduced two years ago for the 1958 model year. The company said retail sale of the Edsel line have been "particularly dis appointing and considerably below sales in the periods fol lowing 1959 and 1958 model introductions." Ford said demarid for other lines of cars was up since in troduction of the 1960 models and that "in view of this high consumer preference for other lines and the severe decline in the demand for Edsel cars, the continued production of the Edsel is not justified." a society Appro Two More About To Blow ' ' ' ' " 'r' '''''''' Officer Resigns From Health Board The state board of health Wednesday regretfully accept ed the resignation of Dr. Har old M. Erickson as state health officer, a position he has" hed since xsio. The resignation was sub mitted to the board at a meet ing of the group at the Rogue Valley hospital here. Dr. Erickson will become deputy director of health for the state of California. The resignation is effective Jan, 13. In his letter of resignation Dr. Erickson said "I have been greatly concerned in re cent years, and particularly during the 1959 session of the Legislature, by the lack of recognition of the increasing complexity of community health problems and the re sulting need for more ade quate support of state and local health services. "Chronic illness, mental ill ness, radiation, ana air ana water pollution need consider ably more attention than now is 'being given." He also said many otner neaitn programs need strengthening. He stated that a number of counties of the state have had to abandon essential health de partment service because of inability to finance these func tions, and added that in many cases, regardless of the efforts of a number of enlightened legislators, the Legislature, on two occasions, has railed to take any action to remedy the problem. Community Health Dr. Erickson explained that good" community health is purchasable. He said that Oregon in the past has enjoy ed a relatively excellent rec ord of health because of the outstanding quality of , its many health facilities , and agencies. Failure to provide the necessary expanded sup port of these facilities is lead ing to increasing occurrence of preventable illness and death and to a corresponding reduction of the health status in comparison to other states. In the board's statement fol lowing Dr. Erickson 's resigna tion they pointed out that his resignation "emphasizes in creasing pressure upon neces sary public health services im posed by inadequate financial support." 'Increasing technicality of health conservation, growing population and other demands for health services have not been paralleled by financial provisions of-local and state governments in recent years." In a lengthy afternoon ses sion the board approved by a vote of 5 to 3 the granting of $259,200 federal Hill-Burton funds to the proposed Pendle ton Community hospital. CoprrlaM The PuMtzw Potltshtaa Ca it Uols Past-QisMtca The hospital's request was turned down at the last meet ing of the board in Portland. In making the provisional grant, Dr. Harold Erickson ex plained that the hospital group must raise matching money by March 1 and sub mit a financial assurance of ability to 'operate for two years taking care of any de ficit. The approval was granted following testimony from a number of Pendleton resi dents and discussion by the board: With the granting of Hill Burton funds to Pendleton, certification may now be giv en by the board to the Ash land and Curry county fund requests. The board must certify, prior to each granting of funds, that there is no other area in the state that has ap plied for funds with a greater hospital need. Dr. Erickson, in comment ing to the board regarding the cranberry situation, said that the test for aminotria- zole-contaminated cranberries is so delicate that even some berries which have not come into contact with the chemical may show a positive result. Among other items of busi ness discussed by the board was physical therapists' li censing; regulations concern ing travelers and tourist fa cilities; grants and aids to. local mental health programs; nursing home ' records, and tuberculin screening program for state employees. Also reviewed were confer ences attended by board mem bers since the last meeting. The annual meeting of the board will be in Salem Jan. 12. Portland-(DPD-Mrs. Grace O. Peck has been named honor ary chairman of National 'Re tarded Children's Week which runs until Thanksgiving Day. Spectators Ordered Away Of Hawaii Crater by Park Honolulu -UPD- Thousands of Volcano spectators were ordered away from the east rim of Kilauea Iki crater Wednesday night when the fountain of molten lava shot to a new high of 1,050 feet. Authorities said the move was necessary because of the fire hazards brought about by hot pumice blown onto the crater rim. The wind-blown pumice set off brush fires as far as one mile away from the crater. Early today an Aloha Inter- Island Airlines spokesman said the outer windshield pane in the pilot's compart No. 202 ED Limited Amount Of Berries To Be On Shelves Soon Berries Will Be Certified, Labeled Washington (DPD The government today approved a plan to put on grocery shelves immediately a limited amount of cranberries certi fied and labeled as safe for consumption. - Arthur S. Flemming, secre tary of health, education and welfare, told a news confer ence that the food and drug administration has tested some 7 million pounds of cranberries and found them to be free of taint of a weed killer that produced cancer in rats. The tested cranber ries will be available to housewives as quickly as they are labeled as uncontam inated. Industry spokesman told newsmen they have tested an equal amount and found them uncontaminated. Flemming said these industry-tested cranberries also could be put on the market immediately if they lived up to standards of the food and drug administration. Approval Announced . Approval of the industrv- backed testing-labeling plan was announced by Flemming who had warned 11 days ago that some of the 1958 and 1959 , cranberry crops had been contaminated by the weed-killer. He said the plan calls for special labelling, of processed cranberries and cranberry products "which the house wife can look for to be sure the package, can or bottle she buys is from a tested lot con taining no aminotriazole." Aminotrizole is the weed killer which Flemming an nounced had rendered the 1958 and 1959 crops suspect. A hurry-up program of test ing by the government's food and drug administration was immediately begun on all cranberry crops. Flemming said today that the safety program, worked out in cooperation with in dustry, "assures testing of fresh cranberries and pro cessed cranberry poducts in all stages of maketing, whole sale and retail, before they are offered to the consuming public." North Entrance to Park Closed Today Klamath Falls - (UPD-The north entrance to Crater Lake National Park was closed to day. Park rangers said the er trance would probably re main closed until next spring. Asnow depth of two inches was reported in the park to day following a four-hour snowstorm Wednesday. Total park snowfall this year is eight inches compared to 50 inches on this date in 1958. On Nov. 19, 1958, there was 20 inches of snow in the park. Chains were advised for park travel. The weather today was cloudy and overcast. Portland (UPD Darrel Jones of Clackamas county has been elected president of the Asso ciation of O & C Counties suc ceeding County Judge V. T. Jackson of Roseburg. ment of one of the firm's F-27 jet-prop planes was cracked by a piece of lava that shot up from Kilauea Iki Wednesday night. The aircraft was struck by the lava as it circled the cra ter to give passengers a better view of the fountain, believed to be the highest ever wit nessed here. The eruption be gan Saturday night. Spectators were ordered away from the crater by Ha waii National Park Service officers who reported the op eration was carried out "very smoothly" with no panic or disorder. $81 Billion Seen As New Spending Figure by Sfans ! Budget Director, Ike Meet Today AuEUSta. Ga.-fDPD-Strnnff in. dications of a new federal budget in excess of 81 billion dollars and a deficit this year because of the steel strike came out of a meeting be tween President Eisenhower and Budget Director Maurice H. Stans today. Stans met here with the ' ' President for two hours, go ing over non-military items in the budget for fiscal 1961 which begins next July 1. The budget for the present fiscal year is estimated at about $78,900,000,000 and the ' administration had been hop ing . for a revenue of about 100 million dollars. Stans told reporters before flying back to Washin shortly before noon that be cause of the steel strike and : lower steel comnanv nrnfits ! "the odds are swinging against a Datanced budget" this year. Resulting Increase "The recouDment of tMl profits probably will come largely m calendar 1960," Stans said, addine that h. resulting increase in tax reve- v nue to the government would come in the next fiscal year, rather than this year. Stans said that "built-in" increases in federal smwriino pointed to an increase of about two billion dollars in expenditures during the next fiscal year. Thus, he said it seemed highly unlikely that the government could come up with an overall budget that did not reflect thi in. i creased cost." 1 The size , of the militarv budget for next year is ex- pected to be about 41 billion ' dollars, and this, considered 5v together with what Stans call- ed "built-in" increases in nth. I er forms of government spend- ( ing, pointed to an overall bud- i get. of 81 billion dollars and I probably more.. ... f Military Budget The difficult military bud-1 get will be the subject of I another major conference Saturday when Eisenhower confers with the individual secretaries of the armed serv- , ices. Stans conceded today that the military budget was "get ting closer scrutiny than it has in several years" with a view to adjusting in the most economical manner to the continually rising costs of newer weapons. , Stans said the administra- ' tion would watch for everv . possible opportunity to econ- jj. omzie this year in an effort : to head off a deficit but that lower corporate tax collec tions because of the steel . strike definitely put a balanc ed pudget in jeopardy. Stolen Property Recovered by Police i Property taken in a house robbery in early October, has been recovered, city police re ported today. Jose Manrubia Martinez, 28, who was arrested in Oc tober, admitted the house burglary at 2460 Hillcrest rd., Medford, but would not tell where the loot, valued at about $300, was hidden, ac cording to city police. Martinez was convicted on a charge of grand larceny and sentenced to four years in the Oregon state peniten tiary. A few days ago, Oregon state police received a call from the old C.C.C. camp near Roxy Ann butte, saying that property hidden in one of the buildings had been dis covered. An officer was sent to recover the property, some of which was from the bur glary. from Rim Service Hawaiian Volcano Observa tory officials reported today . that from midnight to 5 aJtn. . the thousand-foot lava foun- tain was plunging back to the crater's floor forming a vast river of lava. Meanwhile, observatory of- : ficials said earth tremors be- 1 came noticeably stronger than Wednesday morning, rattling : windows at the Volcano House hotel. Park officials estimated that some 18,000 ' to 20,000 visitors have viewed the spec tacular showers since the in itial eruption Saturday night i
