Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 31, 1959, Image 7

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Newspaper Page Textt '- - , . 1111 ' - - I . wyr-T 1 W Paul . (Continued from Page 5) spearean Festival in Ashland . . . Interim zoning ordinance approved by Jackson county planning commission . . . Nine lightning strikes reported from thunderstorm over Rogue valley . . Jackson county court considers propos al for multi-purpose stadium at fairgrounds . . . Some 7,505 begin classes in Medford school district's 17 schools . . . Fire destroys White City Box company factory . . . Patrons of Phoenix and Talent school districts vote for consolidation of the two districts . . . State board of health approves $157,173 in federal Hill- Burton funds for construction of Ashland General hospital ... Jackson county court stu dies proposed plan for es tablishing work relief projects ... Hundreds of doctors at tend 3-day Oregon State Med ical Society convention here Construction starts on new Osteopathic hospital in Cen tral Point ... Dr. William W. P. Holt, Medford, named "Doctor of the Year" by Ore gon State Medical Society... Twelve-year-old local junior high ' school student shoots father and little sister to death, then takes own life . . Medford School Superintend ent Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield leaves for month-long trip to Russia and Europe . . . OCTOBER All bids for pool at new Jackson park rejected by Med ford city council . . , Otto S. Meyer, Eagle Point, suffers fatal heart attack on hunting trip ... Jose Manrubia Mar tinez arrested for burglary . Otto M. Brown assumes duties as superintendent of Crater Lake National park . . . Sen, Hubert Humphrey speaks at local breakfast . Represen tative Edith Green visits Med ford . . . Ashland burn area reseeded . . . John A. Perl, 85, dies in Portland . . . $2,000 taken from Shady Cove mar ket . . . Richard Wayne Mai- fi"ld, lO-yearld Ashland boy, dies of gunshot wound . . Lavern Watrud killed when gun accidentally fires . . John Moad and A. O. Samson, operators of sporting , goods stores, die . . . Ashland voters approve bond issue to help finance new hospital . . . Jose M. Martinez sentenced to state penitentiary . . . Two Shady Cove women kill cougar on Upper Elk creek . . . Construc tion company seeks extension of deadline for Bear Creek bridge . . Two more stores open in Medford Shopping center . . . Mrs. Esther E. Lonch, 31, pleads guilty to manslaughter . . . Mrs. Louvel la Russell, 71, Yakima, Wash., dies following car-truck col lision. NOVEMBER Omar A. Bacon named head of county library system . . . 35 reports of Halloween mis chief made to police . .' . City firemen accept toys for repair . . . Training courses set for agricultural census takers . . . C. W. Anhorns awarded $18, 000 for land in condemnation suit . . . Six youths arrested on arson charges following burning of empty Eagle Point house ... Medford receives school traffic safety award . . . Fred Karpstein, 34, admits robbery of Holly theater Dr. Leonard Mayfield returns from trip to Russia and Eu rope . . . Private forests to be posted fo prevent Christmas tree thefts . . . John Ralph Pennington, 38, dies of injur ies in car wreck . . . Donald Martin Thompson, 36, Klam ath Falls, arrested as suspect in Safeway robbery . . . Jun ior Chamber of Commerce plans polio clinics . . . Lavonne H. Peters, 44, Central Point, dies of logging accident in juries . . . 1,000 families to be contacted in county-wide can cer research project . . . Resi dents voice opposition to pro posed wrecking yard on High way 62 . . . Robert Carr Mix, 43, arrested on charge of as sault with a deadly weapon . .. . 3,064 persons receive shots in first polio clinic ... Bus inessmen visit schools on Education-Business day . . . Rynning honored en retirement County medical society ap proves having two general hospitals in Medford . . . George S. Reilly, Ashland, found guilty of failing to send 9-year-old daughter to school . . . $3,500 taken in burglary of Eastside Big Y market . Bids to be opened Dec. 8 on Rogue River bridge at Home stead and freeway overcross- ing at Grants Pass . . .Library open house honors new librar ian .. . Thedford Reddell, 34, electrocuted as Medco crane hits power line . . . Low water table reported in county . Federal grant approved for new Ashland hospital . . Medford wins state football championship . . . Santa Claus arrives in helicopter . . . Fa ber's market loses $1,023 to burglars . . . Body of miner, Walter H. Woodfin, 56, re covered, near Gold Hill . . . Orchardist Harold B. Jordan, 77, dies . . . Precipitation con tinues below normal. DECEMBER Western Oregon Assessors meet in Medford . . . Loren Ritchie awarded contract for new Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan building . . . County court considers pos sible new stadium ... Ronald Harding, 22, dies of injuries received in traffic mishap . . . Water shortage in Central Point being studied . . . Work under way on new building to house bigger press for Mail Tribune ... Paul Rynning retires after 35 years as coun ty engineer . . . County court considers new fair building . . . Excavation tests made for proposed athletic stadium at fairgrounds . . . Studies should be made before county-wide zoning attempted, planners told . '. . Eight contractors take out plans for Jackson park pool . . Light rain eases ILLINOIS VALLEY Yule Party Held By MARGARET M. CROWL Cave Junction-International Order of Job's. Daughters held its regular meeting and Christmas party for secret dads Dec. 21 at the Masonic temple in ,Kerby . . Escorted to' the East and welcomed were Past Associ ate , Guardians Hap Lloyd, Homer Snider and Earl Spen cer, who is worshipful Master of Belt Lodge 18, and Carrol Banks, worthy Patron of Western Star Chapter 64 OES. Queen Linda Prather intro duced Sandra Piper, senior princess and lirand tsetnei representative of New Mexico in Oregon, and all the secret dads present. Diane Blue, guide, gave a report on the installation of Bethel 182 in Crescent City. Seven girls of Bethel 36 at tended. Queen elect Sandra Piper reported plans for her instal lation, which will be held at 8 p.m. Jan. 23 in the high school gym. Tentative plans were made for girls to attend installation of officers for Bethel 55, Med ford. The date will be an nounced later. Guardian Stella Piper asked that , all girls be present at the next meeting, Jan. 4, for practice and fitting of the new robes for the installation of the new queen. . R a Thrasher, librarian, read a poem called "A Little Bit of Christmas" by Garnett Ann Schultz. Associate Guardian Milt Pierson presented merit award-pins and gave a brief resume of the duties and ac tivities a "Jobie" must per form to earn the award. Queen Linda, Tony Whitely, Diane Blue, Sharon Prather and Kathy Basham received their first year pins. Second year pins were earned by San dra Piper, Beverly Sewell and Loraine Steiner. Each award was , earned by scoring 200 points during the year. A skit, "The Cats Meow, was put on by Gloria Hare, Beverly Sewell and Kathy dry conditions ... 3,030 per sons receive polio shots at sec ond clinic . . . Southern Ore gon college coach Ted Schopf injured in accident in north ern California ... About 500 paperback books added to library . . . Low h,id of S89, 293 submitted by National Gunite company and Holiday Pool company for Jackson park pools . . . Rogue Valley Art association formed . . . American Legion announces plans to build community building . . . Gas pipeline to Medford under consideration . . . First municipal court jury trial held . . . Alfred Charles Offord, 32, killed in logging mishap . . . Medford city coun cil approves zone variance for Siskiyou Memorial park mor taury . . . Schools change programs because of contin ued heavy fog ... First Na tional Bank of Oregon to establish branch at Phoenix . . . Local architect, Ben Todd, 63, dies at home . '. . Mail volume at Medford post office 20 per cent more than last year . . . C. Weldon Kline, valley forester, dies . . . For mal Christmas tree relighting program planned by local United Nations association . . . Representative Charles O. Porter seeks opinions of in dividuals and organizations on Agate dam project . . . County court discusses the TouVelle scholarship fund with County School Superin tendent Alf Mekvold and Judge Edward C. Kelly . . . Hearing oh Eagle Point Ir rigation district injunction re sumes in circuit court . C. ... Ground broken for new Jack son park swimming pools . . . Testimony starts in case of Donald M. Thompson who is charged with robbing Safe way store here. Basham. Diane Blue w in charge of entertainment. A gift exchange preceded ad journment to the dining room for refreshments. American' Legion Post 70 and Auxiliary are sponsoring a New Year's Eve dance at the Legion hall. There will be music by the "Tunesters," re freshments, hats, horns and noise makers.- Twenty-five needy families in the Illinois Valley received Christmas boxes of food and toys were provided : for the children. Toys were donated by the Lions club while food and money to buy supplies not donated was provided by the following: Kerby, Ever green and Selma Grade schools; Illinois Valley High school; Immanuel Methodist church; Illinois Valley Garden club; World War I Veterans; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Salvage; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bald win and the American Legion and Auxiliary. A farewell dinner honoring Mr. and Mrs. Allan Markley was held recently at the Tode lope cafe. The Markleys are moving to Orland, , Calif., where they have owned a home for several years. Markley has been secretary of the Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce and news editor of the Ilinois Valley News. Mr. and Mrs. Markley have been in the Illinois Valley more than three years, coming here from California after he had retired from active news oaDer service in that state. Their plans are indefinite ex cept that they intend to take a long trip through the United States. . . , . The Rev. Gene Denning an nounced that there will be a New Year's Eve watch party and service at the Community church. Everyone is invited to attend. URBAN STATE Sacramento Less than 10 per cent of California's pop ulation lives on farms. Biggest News Events During Past 10 Years New York - am - Here are some of the events that made the biggest news during the 1950s: 1950- North Korea invades South Korea; U.S. and its Al lies intervene as United Na tions "police force." Puerto Rican nationalists try to assas sinate Truman. ' 1951-Truman fires Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Sen. Estes Kefauver calls under world figures before his com mittee at televised hearings. 1952- Eisenhower sweeps into office as first Republican president in 20 years. U.S. ex plodes H-bomb. Elizabeth II becomes Queen on death of her father. King Faro'uk is kicked out of Egypt. Capt. Kurt Carlsen makes heroic stand aboard his sinking ship "Flying Enterprise." 1953 - Josef Stalin dies. Cease-fire in Korea. Atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosen berg electrocuted. Bobby Greenlease kidnaped and murdered. 1954- Army-McCarthy hear ings. Puerto Rican national ists shoot up U.S. House of Representatives. Supreme court rules public school ra cial segregation is unconstitu tional. Dr. Samuel Sheppard convicted of murdering his wife. . 1955- E i s e n hower suffers heart attack. Salk polio vac cine a success. Princess Mar garet decides not to wed Peter Townsend. i 1956- Russian tanks crush the Hungarian revolt. Britain, France, Israel war on Egypt over Suez canal. Liner An drea Doria sinks after colli sion with Stockholm. Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier. Eisenhower re-elected. : 1957- Russia launches first artificial earth satellite. Fed eral troops ordered into Little Rock to enforce integration. Khrushchev emerges as undis puted boss of Russia. 1958-U.S. launches its first satellite. Sherman Adams re signs under fire. Pope Pius XII dies; Pope John XXIII succeeds him. Alaska becomes 49th state. 1 959 - Khrushchev visits U.S. Soviet rocket hits moon. Eisenhower well received on 11-nation goodwill tour. OSC to Complete Assistance to Thai University Corvallis - A 5V-year Ore gon State college program of technical assistance to Kaset- sart university in Thailand will be concluded next April when the contract between the two schools and between the U.S. and Thai govern ments expires, President A.L. Strand has anounced. OSC has been assisting the Thai university in develop ment and expansion of teach ing, research and extension service programs. Fifty-nine Kasetsart staff members have been brought to this country for training under the contract and 19 OSC staff members have worked in Thailand on one month to two-year special as signments in various fields of agriculture, forestry, science and home economics. , Important Project Training of Kasetsart staff members to carry out an im proved and expanded total program after the technical aid was completed has been one of OSC's most important objectives. The program is fi nanced by the Thai govern ment and the U.S. state de partment's international co operation administration. Significant advances have been made under the pro gram, Strand said, in pointing to the rapid growth and de velopment of the Thai institu tion in recent years. Kasetsart university, locat ed about five miles out of the capital-city Bangkok, empha sizes most of the same subject areas as OSC. Agriculture is the principal school with oth er major work in forestry, fisheries, science, agricultur al engineering and home eco nomics. The original contract, sign ed Sept. 14, 1954, called for a 30-month program of techni cal assistance. Two additional extensions of the program were requested and approved with April 14, 1960, as the termination date of the last extension. XMAS TREES, ANYONE? Watsonville, C a 1 i f . (UPI Alderman Cecil Smith Jr., re turned home from a Christmas trip to Nevada this week and found his lawn piled with old pine and fir trees. Someone had posted a sign reading: "W ante d used Christmas trees." LAKE COUNT Michigan is said to have more than 11,000 lakes. Europe Spends Past Decade Under Almost Constant Threat off Warfare i Londcn-IUPD-The fear-ridden j 1950s was the decade of the Cold War and Ithe nuclear" stand-off in Europe. It was the ! decade in which Russia's Sput- ' niks and Luniks rocketed mankind into a new era the Space Age. It was the decade of the North Atlantic alliance, of a Europe striving for unity for the first time in its history, of a Germany reborn, of up risings against Communist en slavement in East Berlin and Hungary, of the Anglo-French Suez invasion that drove the world to the brink of war. Two giants Russia's Joseph Stalin and Britain's Sir Win s t o n Churchill disappeared from the Cold War area Sta lin killed by a brain hemor rhage in March, 1953, and Churchill forced by advancing years into a reluctant retire ment. Their places were quickly taken by Nikita Khrushchev in Russia, Harold Macmillan in Britain,' Gen. Charles de Gaulle in France and Dr. Kon rad Adenauer in Germany. Toward Abyss of War The '50s siw Russia and the West hurtle more than once toward the abyss of a third World War, only to recoil each time from the unknown hor rors of a nuclear holocaust and possible world suicide. As the decade ended, the war clouds seemed to be slow ly rolling back. Western Eu rope looked toward the pros pect of an East-West summit conference in the spring of 1960 and the vistas of peace it opened up after 15 years of Cold War tensions. Throughout most of the de cade, however, Western Eu rope shivered in the recurrent blasts of the Cold War. To save themselves from being swamped by militant world communism, the West ern European nations banded together under U. S. leader ship in NATO. NATO first came into being a little before the decade opened as a direct sequel to the Berlin blockade of 1948. West Germany Needed But without West Germany, rising from the ashes of total defeat in World War II, the alliance was incomplete. In 1952, the Western Allies concluded a treaty setting up a ' European Defense Commu nity and a European Army,' to which resurgent West Ger many' was to contribute 12 desperately needed divisions, But the French, jealous of their national sovereignty and fearful of a rearmed Germany, killed EDC by a hostile vote ,of the National Assembly on Aug. 30, 1954. A new start was made France stifled her fears and on May 5, 1955, West Ger many became an independent state, freed from the shackles of Allied occupation, and aged Chancellor Adenauer led her into NATO as its 15th full and equal member. Meanwhile, on June 17, 1953, the East Berlin workers rose against Red rule and So viet tanks crushed the upris ing, killing 16 Germans. But the West refrained from intervening and the w scare receded. The Big Four foreign minis ters met in Berlin in January, 1954, but failed to solve the festering issues of German unity and Berlin itself. "Keep talking" rather than "keep threatening" has be come the keynote of East-West relations. But, together with peace hopes, the new decade brings with it the risk of more strains on the Western alli ance, particularly if the Cold War eases up. To meet this danger, Western leaders in creasingly concentrating on the promotion of political and economic cooperation among the NATO members, particu larly in the field of economic aid to under-developed coun tries. The '50s saw Western Europe seek unity, both econo- FREAK FATALITY Clinton, Mich. -(UPD- Alfred Hack, 58, Saline, Mich., es caped unharmed when his car collided with another near here Wednesday night but was killed by a truck as he crossed the highway to tele phone police about the acci dent. " Midland, Tex. (UPD Mete orologist Bill Ashcraft issued this forecast for Friday: "For the Dallas Cotton Bowl Friday afternoon . . . cloudy and mild, with the temperature near 60. Winds southerly at 15 to 20 m.p.h. Texas 20, Syra cuse 8." SEE Dean & Taylor USED CAR AD Page 5 AMONG TOP STORIES - Third of the top news stories of the decade, according to a poll of executives and editors of United Press International, was the 1953 death of Josef Stalin, marking a new alignment of power in the Kremlin and the first signs of thaw in the cold war. Shown above are the pallbearers at Stalin's funeral. Prom inent by his absence is present Soviet Pre mic and political, for the first time in its history. The Council of Europe was set up in 1949 as the first European parliament, and now comprises all West Euro pean states except Spain, Por tugal and Switzerland. In 1953,, six European na tions France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg p o o 1 e d their entire coal and steel re sources. Common Market The same six nations in January, 1959, set up the Eu ropean Common Market com prising 160,000,000 people. Their aim was to make this into a complete free trade area in 12 to 15 years. They also pooled their atomic energy resources, in "Euratom." Britain, not a member of the Common Market, retali ated by setting up a rival "Outer Seven" group. Her aim was to get the six Common Market nations ultimately to join the "Outer Seven" in an all-European free trade area. All indications are for in creased efforts by the Euro pean nations to push for clo ser unity in the '60's. The '50s was the decade in which the European nations saw heir once mighty colonial empires breaking up under the pressure of Africa and Asian independence demands. Britain granted independ ence to Ghana, the West In- South Korea Navy Denies Gun Scrape Seoul -(UPD- A Republic of Korea Navy spokesman said today the Soviet charge that a South Korean patrol boat fir ed on a Russian survey ship Monday night, causing casual ties and some damage,, is "ri diculous and unfounded." The spokesman said the Russians apparently are try ing to blame this country for an attack actually inflicted by armed vessels from Com munist North Korea. He said South Korean pa trol craft cruising off north east Korea saw but took no part in "some kind of gun fight in the darkness" off war-battered Wonsan. Blaze at Salem Destroys Boxcar Salem (LTD One railroad boxcar was destroyed and two partly damaged late Wednes day near the switchyard in southeast Salem. The cars had been aban doned and were due for junk ing, according to firemen. Exact cause of the blaze was not determined but a fire de partment spokesman said some kids playing in the car may have acciaenttiiy touched it off. Another fire which broke out in a large business garage on the northeast edge of Sa lem was quickly brought under control early Wednes day. Nebraska has had a uni cameral legislature since 1937. 15 dies, Singapore and Cyprus and promised it to Nigeria in 1960. France was forced to give freedom to Morocco and Tu nisia. De Gaulle, swept to power in June, 1958, set up a French "community" in Afri ca as part of France's Fifth Republic. All former French African colones became semi independent members. Guinea chose complete independence. 'New Deal' Promised Through the last five years of the decade, France fought a bloody war against Arab nationalist rebels in Algeria and de Gaulle sought to end n lit do i n r I V Enjoy the holi Ja is i I : i safe and sound I yhen homeward. yjM HAPPY NEW To All Our Southern Oregon Friends May HEALTH and PROSPERITY Prevail mier Nikita Khrushchev. At extreme right is Laventri Beria. Opposite Beria at the . head of the pallbearers is Premier Georgi Malenkov. Behind Malenkov, left to right, are N.' Shvernik, Lazar M. Kaganovitch, Nikolai Bulganin, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Vassily T. Stalin. (UPI Telephoto) the fighting with promises of a " new deal" for the rich North African territory. Belgium saw her vast Congo colony wracked by revolt that forced her to promise inde pendence early in the '60s. For Europe the new decade brings new hopes and dreams hopes of a gradual easing of the Cold War, hopes that East -and West can live to gether no longer under the ghastly threat of the long range rocket and the H-bomb, hopes of increased economic prosperity and higher living standards, hopes of a better, richer life. MILK btidwMS lcagu I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thursday, Dec. 31, 1959 Portland Pianist Victim ot Robbery Portland-(UPD-A man wear ing a white mask and toting an automatic pistol robbed Portland composer - pianist Dent Mowrey and his wife of about $50 in cash in their home Wednesday. Mrs. Mowrey told officers she was awakened when the burglar placed a hand over her mouth and directed the beam of a flashlight in her face. Mowrey entered the room and the intruder demanded the money. They could not give a good description of the man be cause he kept the flashlight in their faces and there were no other lights on. Clues Sought in Portland Slaying Portland (UPD Police today sought clues to the slaying of Charles Edwin Redd, 47, whose body was found in his hotel room with a .32 caliber bullet wound in the chest. Police theorized that Redd, who was awaiting trial Jan. 15 on a charge of assault with intent to kill, was aroused from bed by an intruder. The body was clad only in under clothing and socks. The room had been ran sacked, but police said the question of whether robbery was the motive remained in. doubt. ALL UNION BARBER SHOPS Will Be 1 CLOSED SATURDAY JANUARY 2 local 269 JBIU YEAR!