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Newspaper Page TextSubscribers 54th Year Price 1 0 Cents Recommended IvlEDFORD To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland MU 2-1021. before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. Plans for construction work on the Highway 99 freeway in this area, and a review of the state highway department's activities in 1959 appears on page 12 of today's Mail Tribune. 1-KliSUJM , United Press International Full Leased Wirt) United Press International Full Leased Wirs 48 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1960 No. 246 i r "Er . . . Maybe We Could Patch Things Up' CopynsM. I9M. Tn St. Louis Hillbilly Singer Elected Governor of New Orleans - (UPD - Hill billy singer Jimmie Davis stormed into his second term as governor of Louisiana Sat urday night over dapper De lesseps Morrison, the mayor oi XMew urieans Davis, the sharecropper's son who was governor from 1944 to 1948, will replace Gov. Earl K. Long. The musician - actor - gover nor held an invincible 59,000 vote lead over Morrison with 1,902 of Louisiana's 2,109 pre cincts complete. He had 407, 046 votes compared to 343,319 for Morrison, who was losing his second straight try ior the governor's mansion. Grabs Early Lead Morrison grabbed an early lead and held it until the rural precincts began to roll in. Then Davis, who wrote and made 'famous the song "You Are My Sunshine" in his campaign 16 years ago, roared ahead. Morrison refused to con cede but Davis, who promised to preserve segregation, an nounced that victory was his. Davis was carrying his en tire runoff slate of five can didates into office with him. This included C. C. (Taddy) Aycock for lieutenant gover nor, who had a margin similar to Davis' in his race with Morrison candidate George Bowdon. 'Good Soldier' Morrison said he was a "good loser like a good sol- 'Man of the Year To Be Named Jan. 21 Ashland - The Ashland Chamber of Commerce's first annual . "Man of the Year" award will be presented at a banquet Jan. 21 at the Oak Knoll golf course restaurant, the chamber announced last week. Also to be presented at the joint banquet are the Jaycees' award to Ashland's outstand ing junior citizen and the Kiwanis award to the city's outstanding senior citizen. The chamber said nomina tion forms must be returned . to its headquarters by Jan. 15. Previously the deadline was Jan. 10 1 VU S'LJ LEAVE SEATTLE - With about 100 people to see them off, the crew members of the 100-foot refrigerator ship. Alert, leave from Seattlt dock for a new lift in the Galapagoi Pulitzer Publishing Co. Post-Dispatch Louisiana dier, and I'll just wait and see. Election in Saturday's run off is the equivalent of being elected governor of Louisiana, where Republican opposition is minor. Davis was drawing his sup port from the rural areas of north Louisiana, where most of the segregation bloc lies, and in scattered south Louisi ana parishes (counties). Mor rison, whose suDDort came from the big cities, primarily New Orleans, faded fast ,in the face of the country vote. Bead to Review Medford Police Lt. William P. Beall, Berke ley Calif.. Police department, will be in Medford this week to review the local depart ment's organization and pro cedures, Chief of Police Charles P. Champlm has an nounced. Lieutenant Beall is coming to Medford at the invitation of Champlin and other city officials, the chief explained. The California police officer was in Medford during 1951 at the request of the Medford mayor and city council to sur vey the local department. As a result of his report at that time the department was com pletely reorganized. Chief Champlin explained that he asked Beall to return to Medford due to the elapse of time since the departments reorganization and the city's ffrnwth. Reviewed will be record procedures, with the thought of possibly eliminat ing or changing the current methods; future planning, handling of complaints, and the officer training program. Beall, who is in charge of the officer training program of the Berkeley Police depart ment, is recognized by other law enforcement agencies for his knowledge of police de partment organization and his training in this type of po lice work. Champlin explained that Beall will spend the majority of his time in the valley at the Medford police station. RRVID Directors Reject Proposal to Build Dam Water Year Runoff Expected to Be Below Normal Water year runoff from coastal streams in southwest ern Oregon will be consider ably short of the 15-year aver age, assuming precipitation the rest of the winter will be normal, the weather bureau's river forecast center in Port land has announced. Present indications in . all basins are that the average water year flow will be re alized onlv if maximum pre cipitation is received, accord ing to the report. The weather bureau noted that months with above norm al rainfall in southwestern Oregon have been few and far between during the past year and a half. The area entered the 1959-60 runoff season with almost the same antecedent precipitation and streamflow conditions as last year. Wet September Durins September, precipi- tation was about 150 per cent of normal, the weather Bu reau noted. October precipi tation was one-half the norm al amount, and November totals were only 15 per cent of normal. The 3-month total for the area was 40 per cent or normal. December precipitation was light and the average of monthly totals was only 40 per cent of normal through out the southwestern area, the bureau said. Snow depth at Crater Lake National park Jan. 4 measur ed 30 inches, compared with measurements about Jan. 1 of 26 inches in 1959 and 97 in ches in 1958. The water year flow on the Rogue river below the south fork -is forecast at acre feet, which is only oa per cent of normal The water vear flow is the forecast for the period from Oc tob e r through September ana is based on a 15-year average. Low Residual Flow The residual flow, that is from January through next September, is forecast at 620, 000 acre feet, or 53 per cent of normal. Tht water vear flow on the North Umpqua below Lemolo reservoir is 245,00 acre leet, or 73 per cent of normal, and at the Upper Klamath lake net inflow, it is 944,000 acre feet or 64 per cent of normal. In south central Oregon, water supply prospects appear "rather dismal " unless maxi mum precipitation occurs dur ing the remainder of the sea son, the weather bureau said. Water year runoff is forecast to be near 50 per cent of normal. . WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy to day and Monday with occasion al rain showers in the valley and snow above 3,000 feet. High todav 42 and low tonight 32 and high Monday about 45. Temp. Highest Saturday 45 Lowest Saturday 34 Prec. to 4 p.m. Saturday trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today '. 4:57 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:40 a.m. The Moon sets 5:34 a.m. tomorrow and Is in Apogee. PROMINENT STARS The Twins, rise 5:12 p.m. Capella, high above the Twins. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, rises (:05 a.m. Venus, low in . southeast ... 8:21 a.m. Mars, rises 6:48 a.m. islands, which are off the coast of Ecuador. Twenty-two colonists left Friday to be join ed by 10 mora who ara meeting the boat in Costa Rica. (UPI Telephoto) A proposal to build a tem ?? porary dam at or near the proposed Agate dam site was ected Saturday by the Rogue River Valley and Med ford Irrigation districts board of directors, an irrigation dis trict official reported. "We decided it would be too late to go ahead with any temporary dam construction now to ease the predicted wa ter shortage during the irri gation season this spring and summer," the official said. The project as proposed by the Medford irrigation district officials would have been a joint one for the two districts, a MID official said Saturday. Chief proposal was to con struct a partial dani across Dry creek and temporary spillway. This would have served as a base for the bu reau of reclamation dam if and when the Agate dam pro ject is approved by Congress either separately or as part of the Rogue Basin project, the MID officials figured. Joint Project "This would have been just another joint project for the two districts," an MID of ficial explained. "The two districts already jointly own the irrigation structure from Bradshaw drop to Four Mile lake, one of the two sources of water for the districts. MID would have used its rehabili tation money to finance the dam construction, hoping that Congress would authorize a repayment. Work would have started immediately." The dam would have formed an equalizing reser voir, the official explained. In other words, irrigation water transmitted to RRVID from MID would go into the reser voir first then be fed out through the RRVID's system as the water was needed. This would have avoided' trans mission losses from having to equalize water through the spillways as is done now. Storage Problem Another problem besides the time - and' cost factors havP been a storage ca :t nrohlem; Total height r f reclamation of the bureau of reclamation dam is 73 feet, according to bureau plans. If the 39-foot high partial dam were con structed, only 1,300 acre ieei of water could have been stored since the bulk of the water storage would be in the upper half of the overall 73- foot dam, an MID official ex plained. Other dams proposed were at sites on Ameiope creek and Lake creek. In 45 davs a better predic tion on the water supply out look can be made and further action may be taken then, the RT?VTn board decided. Mean while, a general tentative policy was adopted requiring all irrigators to use the water as efficiently as possible. If water users fail to use good irrigation practices such as rarefullv maintaining their heaA ditches and farm deliv ery systems they would be cut off immediately, an RRVID official said. 'Farmers attending the meeting felt we could pos sibly extend the water supply by careful use to make a ma jor difference," the kkviu official said.- The same official indicated that uniform water-use poli cies may be adopted by irri gation districts throughout the Rogue valley. V "It is extremely uniiKeiy we will get enough rain and snowfall to make up the ma jor water supply deficiency we have now," he concluded. .The Agate dam proposal was the second idea presented in the last 30 days to allevi ate the critical irrigation wa ter shortage. Some prominent pear-growers had suggested in mid-December that work on expansion of Emigrant reser voir be halted and the reser voir be filled immediately. Cops Crack Down On 'Night Riders' Albert Lea, Minn. - (UPD -Police cracked down Satur day night on elusive bands of "night riders" who spread fear and destruction in this town torn asunder by strike violence. The wave of beatings, tele phone threats, window -shat-terings and car burnings stemmed from the 72-day-old strike against the Wilson and Co. packinghouse on the edge of town. Target of most of the vio lence were the 500 or so non union workers who cross the ranks of angry pickets daily to work at the jobs formerly htld by tha strikara. - HSullllef in Redding, Calif. - (WD -Five prisoners, described at dangerous, escaped late Sat urday night from the Shasta county jail here after wounding one jailer and taking a gun from another. The five men, imprisoned for forgery and robbery, fled on foot into th streets outside the jail in down town Redding. Police, sher iff's officers and the high way patrol immediately launched a hunt for the es capees. All were a r m d with knives1 taken from the jail kitchen as well as the .38 caliber revolver seized dur ing the escape. Nixon Quietly Enters Race for GOP Nomination Washington (UPD Vice President Richard M. Nixon made a soft-shoe entrance in to the 1960 GOP presidential race Saturday. It was his 47th birthday. He dropped the first shoe quietly in Oregon by inform ing Gov. Mark Hatfield that he will definitely be in that state's May 2 0 presidential primary. Hatfield told a news con ference that Nixon apparently had "decided to announce his candidacy in this way." Other Shoe in N.H. The other shoe was to fall a little more loudly in New Hampshire, where Gov. Wes ley Powell arranged to file papers for Nixon's candidacy in the state's March 8 pri mary the nation's first. Nixon's office stuck to a firm ho comment about either event obviously preferring, to let the events speak for themselves, at least momen tarily. Now unopposed for the GOP nomination Nixon has shown no "desire to rush the pace of his pre - convention campaign. Body of Crash Victim Found Bolivia, N.C. - (UPD A body found washed ashore at a resort beach was identified Saturday as that of one of 34 victims killed four days earl ier in the crash of a National Airlines plane. The body of Julius A. Frank, Westport, Conn., at torney, was found about 16 miles from here, near. Kure Beach w h e r e' investigators had found pieces of fuselage skin . and other bits of the plane. Marine helicopter crews which spotted Frank's body from the air also found a row of three airplane seats on the sandy beach Saturday. Officials were unable to de termine how long Frank's body, without legs, had been in the water. An autopsy was planned. Investigators piecing to gether clues to the crash like a jigsaw puzzle called off their search for the last body - that of Carlos Ramos Valdes of Havana, Cuba - and wreck age late Saturday after the most intensive efforts since the pre-dawn -crash Wednes day. - .- Winter Enrollment Tops SOC Record Ashland - Winter' term en rollment atT Southern Oregon college hit an- all-time high last week when 1,122 stu dents, including. 674 men and 448 women, registered for classes. , ..- .: . Last -yea rs -final . winter term enrollment was 1,052, the previous record, accord ing to SOC Registrar Mrs. Mabel W. Winston. , College officials cited the registration deadline of Jan. 18 in predicting an even more impressive final total. Marked increases, the col lege reported, were noted in the 4-year general studies de gree program, the number of lower division students, spe cial students, elementary teaching and state of Oregon veterans. Oak Harbor, Wash. (UPD Two bodies were recovered Saturday from the sunken wreckage of a heavy attack Lopez Island in tha San Juan Islands Monday, lo) Ulfll Ipl I" a iii riiw" . .yj..- .'TOV -' " : WriTg--' t REACTION In what looks like a reaction to the current anti-Semitic vandalism, is a house in Brussels, Belgium, daubed with Cuban Officials Foil Prisoners' Plot to Escape " Havana - (UPD - Cuban revo lutionary authorities announc ed Saturday they had foiled a daring plot by 70 prisoners to escape from La Cabana fortress through, ancient se cret underground pass age- ways. The prisoners, some of whom face the death penalty, were among a' group of 190 awaiting, the start of trials, probably next week. They are accused of complicity in the alleged invasion attempt from the Dominican Republic last August. Capt. Joaquin Rodriquez, prison chief, ordered a special alert, increased security pre cautions and cancelled ail visits as a result of the dis covery. Starts Investigation He began an immediate in vestigation to determine how the prisoners, who were con fined to cell block 13, were able to dig two deep holes toward centuries old under ground passageways. The prisoners apparently discovered the existence of the passages by the hollow sounds of their, footfalls as they paced their cells. The holes discovered by guards were said to be nar row, apparently designed as test borings to see which would be the best direction to dig. Sports Bulletins Medford High school cag ars turned in their fourth victory against no losses in tha Southern Oregon con ference Saturday night by downing Grants Pass 69 to - 48. Tha Black Tornado, with Jerry Anderson piling up 24 markers, had 16 to 13. 41 to 28 and 53 to 39 quarter leads. Rex Banner cored 19 for Grants Pass. . Tha confident KlamalM Falls basketball club swoop ad to a 64 to 46 victory over Ashland high Saturday night on the Klamath gym floor. Sparked by Fred Biehn, the Pelicans dom inated all but tha third quarter. Quarter scores were 14 to 1, 32 to 14, and 40 to 26.- High ; point man for ' Klamath was Bob, Lewis" with 20. Bob Hardy had 12 for Ashland. La Grande-A second half splurge gave Eastern Ore gon college a 64-54 victory over Southern Oregon col lege, in La Grande last night. The game left each team with a one win one loss record at the end of tha first series of Oregon Col legiate Conference play. At half time both teams shared a 30-30 tie. - Prospect Prospect de feated Rogue River 56 to 33 during cage play at Pros pect Saturday night. Dave Carter of Rogue River was high point man with 23. Craig Gartner had 22 for Prospect. - roan ATTACK Jewish Stars of David and pro-Jewish slo gans. The phrases mean "Long Live the Jews," and "Death to the S.S." (UPI Telephoto) New Rash of Incidents Reported in U.S. By United Press International A new rash of anti-Semitic incidents was reported Sat urday. The painting of swastikas and anti-Semitic statements on Jewish buildings - and a few others as well brought declarations of sympathy and appeals for tolerance from the Vatican and Protestant leaders One group Of leading Prot estant churchmen, including Billy Graham, and Dr. Nor man Vincent- Peale . said through the National Council of Churches that the pattern of anti-Semitic behavior ap peared to be organized in the same "vicious" way it was in Nazi Germany. Teen-Agers Caught Two teen-aged boys were charged in New York City with defacing a Bronx public library wall with a four-foot black swastika and the words "Jews go home." They were caught by a janitor, who caught them with a can of black L paint and dripping paint brush. A foot-high swastika was painted on the front door of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Brooklyn. In suburban New Rochelle, N.Y., two swastikas and the word freedom" were smeared on City's Water Outlook Poor to very poor, is what Medford City Water Su perintendent Robert Lee calls this year's water outlook. The city expects no water shortage this coming summer because it does not use the maximum amount of water that is normally available, but if next year is as dry as the past and present years have been, then there may possibly be a shortage the summer after next, Lee said. In anticipation of a possible shortage, the city water com mission has authorized the wa ter ' department to proceed with the design and plan for a $150,000 water canal which will connect Four Bit creek with the Willow Creek reser voir. Water From Big Butle Although the city gets its water directly by pipe - line from Big Butte Springs, it niust maintain the- Willow Creek reservoir for the sole purpose of releasing water in to the south fork of Big Butte creek for the Eagle Point Ir rigation District. It is necesary to do this in the summer months, Lee said, when the city is using more than its pro-rata share of water from the Big Butte Springs drain age area, which includes the city's source of water at Big Butte Springs. Both the EPID and the city have water rights on this drainage area. The canal will not be built this year if April's snow sur vey indicates that the water supply will be adequate, but if past experience means any thing, Lee said, it will show an inadequate water aupply Anti-Semitic the doors of St. Luke's Luth eran church. In La Crosse, Wis., two large swastikas and "Jews get out" were painted in red on the wall of the Congregation of Sons of Abraham syna gogue. Swastikas in Florida Large Nazi swastikas and "Heil Hitler" were scrawled in red paint across the front and side of a Jewish temple in Sarasota, the fourth Flori da city, in which anti-Semitic vandalism has been reported recently. The words "Die Jew," also were painted on Temple Beth Sholom in Sarasota. Swastikas were painted on three synagogues, a rabbini cal college, a public ' school and a shopping center in Bal timore. Jewish leaders said they feared the vandalism was the work of an organiz ed group. FATAL CAR CRASH State police reported a fatal traffic accident near Miller's Gulch about 12 miles north of Gold Hill at 10:17 p.m. Saturday. Two cars were involved in the accident, police said, but neither details of the crash nor identities of the dead or injured were avail able at press time. and the canal will be built. He said the 3-mile long ca nal can be built in foud or five months so that it would be done in plenty of time to prevent any water shortage for the EPID next year. The carial Will be open only in the winter moAths and take the surplus water from Four Bit creek routing it into the reservoir. In predicting a poor water outlook for the coming year, Lee said "it is possible that the precipitation during the rest of the year might make up for present lack , of raid but," he added, ."very few years that have been as dry as this one has so far, have fully recovered their normal amount of rainfall." Lee referred to an agricul tural year, which runs from Sept. 1 to Aug. 31. From Sept. 1 through Dec. 31, last year, only six inches of rainfall had been recorded at the city's Big Butte Springs weather station. This is in contrast to the 15 inches that normally fall in this same period and which account for 40 per cent of the annual rainfall. Last Year Also Dry Last year, which was also a dry year, only 25.27 inches of rain fell at the weather station. This was only 68 per cent of the normal 37.85 inch es recorded there. Lee said averages are based on the years since 1941, when the city started operating the Big Butte weather station. The pro-rata water rights in the Big Butte creek drain age area are divided between tha city and tha Eagla Point reds Harry Accuses Russians of Missile Invasion Former Chief Cites High Handed Tactics Phoenix, Ariz. - (UPD - Har ry Truman accused the Rus sians Saturday night of using high handed and brazen mili tary pressure to force their will on the world," by making a 'missile invasion" of the Pacific ocean. The former president said he referred to an announce ment by the Soviet News Agency Tass that beginning Jan. 15 and until Feb. 15 the Russians will launch a series of missiles (in the Pacific) for the declared purpose of developing a more powerful space rocket. This act of provocation." he said, "is intended missile invasion of the Pacific. The placing of a specific area of open seas under quarantine demonstrates again that the Communists have not chang ed their methods and that they intend to keep up their military pressure to force their will on the world." Truman said this action "is as high handed as it is brazen. Without prior discussion or negotiations with us or our al lies, the Russians are roping of arbitrarily a large area in. the Pacific and have warned that all ships and planes, un der whatever flag, keep out of this area for a period of 30 days. "This part of the Pacific has no proximity to Russian terretorial waters and on the contrary, it doaa involve peace lones of commerce and air travel, and obviously land and waters of direct and vital interests to the United State and -our allies. "The Soviet Union, added the former president; "has ex pressed an interest In meas ures to reduce tha common peril of war, but the Russians rarely make moves that have any relation to their words of peace." "It is clear," ha said, "that in this action the Soviet Un ion is exploiting an advantage that, unfortunately for tha world, it now pos esses in mis siles and satellites and space technology." The former president's ac cusation was contained in a speech for an Arizona Demo cratic party fund-raising din ner, at which he offered some of his typical "give 'em hell" political remarks. 'Poor' Irrigation district so that for every 30 units of water that flows through a check point on the city's pipe lines from Big Butte Springs, 100 units must flow through the EPID's check point on the south fork of Big Butte creek. During the dry summer months the city uses more than its share and opens the dam at the Willow Creek res ervoir to permit the flow of water through the EPID check station to increase to the proper ratio. In the summer months the city finds it necessary to al low an average of 5,700 acre feet of water out of the res ervoir to bring the water flow in Big Butte creek to the proper ratio. More Water Needed At present there are 4,300 acre feet of water in the res-' ervoir, which has a capacity of 7,000 acre feet. This means that an additional 1,400 acre feet are needed so that there will be enough water for the city to meet its obligations this year. Even in the driest year on record, some 1,600 acre feet flowed into the res ervoir from the watershed so there will be no problem this year. However, when this year is over the reservoir will be practically empty with no re serve for the following year. This means that 1960 to 1961 must be a wet year to supply the needed 5,700 acre feet or there will be a shortage. If and when the Four Bit canal is constructed, however, it will supply enough water to the reservoir to bring it to maximum capacity, even in tha driest years, Lea said.