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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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YEAR!