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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1960
No. 246
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"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
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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,
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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.