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54th Year Subscribers Recommended Price 10 Cents Tribune FORD 2!f22:m Lb To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland MU 2-1021. before 6:45 p.m. dailv and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortlv after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. A story of the functions of the U.S. weather burean and the modern equipment added recently at the Medford station appears on page 12 of today's Mail Tribune. United Press International ruil Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wire 52 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1960 No. 252 Me 'Well, Those Are Outside The Country" State Tax Surplus May Be $23 Million Oregon may complete the current biennium with a sur plus of $20 to $23 million if the present rate of income tax collections continues, Don Mc Neil, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce, said he learned in Portland last week. McNeil attended a meeting of Oregon Tax Research, a state taxpayer association founded in 1935. He was elect ed a director for a 5 -year term The association reported Storm Sweeping Across Southwest , By United Press International A steady storm that will probably pick up intensity swept across the southwest Saturday night, dropping a 4 inch blanket over the Texas panhandle and covering mucti of Oklahoma a half-foot deep. Forecasters in the area said six inches were expected to fall over the panhandle by Sunday morning and that most of northern Texas would be plagued by heavy snows. Forecasters in the Boise City area said blinding snow was falling over nearly the whole state and that it was either raining or sleeting else where there. Texas authorities said the snow cut visibility to one-half mile at Amarillo and sur rounding communities, halt ing air traffic, and that driz rle and fog hung over the state where it wasn't snow ing. The Texas storm even forc ed cancellation of the Air Force Academy - Amarillo semi - pro hockey game be cause the Air Force team was unable to fly in from Colorado Springs. Two major storms had been anticipated in the southwest earlier Saturday, allowing the area to scarcely catch its breath from one of the win ter's worst which was just be ginning to blow itself out to sea. f-m BREAK IN DIKE Shown in this aerial photo is the break in the dike that allowed water from the North Sea Canal (upper right) to flow into and flood the low parts of the Amsterdam, Holland residential su that the state finance picture indicates current income tax collections are running about $1,100,000 per month above the budgeted figure. If this rate continues, and there is no economic upset, the state would have about a $20 million surplus at the end of the biennium, McNeil said. McNeil noted that in the last legislature. House Bill 670 was introduced to con sider the income tax, using the argument that at that time the state would face a $15 million deficit at the end of the biennium. Oregon Tax Research and other organizations fought the bill, McNeil said. The bill resulted in some adjustments in the income tax which in effect raised "enough money to meet the anticipated de ficit. Charges by OTR At that time, McNeil said, Oregon Tax Research charged that the tax department was ultra conservative and unre alistic in its figures when the bill was being considered. Oregon Tax Research is an independent, non - profit or ganization of citizens, busi ness and professional people and industries interested in tax equality. Primary purpose of the group is research to determine tax inequities. Edward A. Geary, former speaker of the Oregon house of representatives, was elect ed president of the organiza tion. He is a prominent Klam ath county rancher and seed man. Seminar on Traffic Safety Lists Plans Portland. Ore. (UPD - A traffic safety seminar for newsmen Saturday revealed plans to use psychological re search on traffic problems in the 1960s. The seminar was sponsored by the Oregon Traffic Safety commission in coopera t i o n with the Oregon Newspaper Publishers association, the Oregon Association of Broad casters and the Oregon State Motor association. burb of Tuindorp Oostzaan (lower left). Some 10,000 residents of the suburb were evacuated successfully from the threatened UPI Telephoto) U.S. Scientists Bounce Signal Off Big Balloon 10-Story-High Sphere Soars to 250 Miles Washington - (UPD - U. S. scientists made communica tions history Saturday by bouncing a radio signal off a huge balloon floating about 250 miles above the earth. The sphere, folded into a 26-inch container, was hurled aloft from Wallops Island, Va., in a 2-stage rocket.. It inflated at its peak altitude into a balloon as high as a 10-story building. After it unfolded, the Bell Telephone Co. at Holmdel, N.J., bounced a 960 mega cycle continuous signal off its reflective surface. The signal, which covered a total dis tance of about 300 miles, was received at the Round Hill station of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the outskirts of Boston. Historic First The Bell station continued to send the signal for about 10 minutes.. Officials said it was the first time in history that a man-made space reflec tor had been used in radio communications. The test was part of a pro gram to put into orbit a "ra dio mirror" satellite that will virtually revolutionize world communications. The balloon was visible for hundreds of miles along the eastern coast, glowing like an oversized planet. It was sight ed as far north as Stamford, Conn., and in such widely spaced places as New Lon don, Conn., three points on. Long Island, N.Y., and in Wilmington, Del. Court Will Ask Bids for 5 Cars The Jackson county court will advertise for bids Mon day for five sheriff's depart ment cars. , . -. , The bids will be submitted according to minimum speci fications recently established by Sheriff Joe Walsh, the county c o u r t's resolution stated Friday afternoon. County Commissi oner Ralph James was voted down by County Judge Earl Miller and County Commissioner Chester Wendt when he rec ommended that the county accept bids on cars below the minimum 119-inch wheelbase so smaller cars could be bought. "The sheriffs department has a specific place and speci fic jobs for the five cars," Wendt said. "Lighter cars would not be suitable. The lat est specifications would in clude such cars as Plymouths, Fords, Chevrolets and such larger makes as Buick and Pontiac. We don't want to buy something not suited for the job," he added. County Judge Miller said five more cars could be pur chased for the sheriff's civil department if the new budget permits. "Politics, is not the reason I suggested the amendment to the motion," James said em phatically. "I have felt the same way from the start." Antelope's Ready It's Leap Year! Providence, R.I. -dlPD-At-iention all unmarried girl antelopes! There's a husband wait ing for you at Roger Wil liams park, just for the ask ing. Park Superintendent Martin V. Noonan is look ing for a mate for Pancho, the park's 7-year-old South American antelope who's been a bachelor for the past four years. Noonan said he wants a bride for Pancho so badly that he would even trade a "well-groomed elk", for a female antelope. Henry Elected President of Growers League Charles Henry, Pinnacle Packing company, was elect ed president of the Fruit Growers League of Jackson county at the annual meet ing Friday in the Medford YMCA building. Other officers include Tom Spatz, Chrystal Springs, first vice president; Don Root, Root Packing company, sec ond vice president; and Shel by Tuttle, secretary. New directors elected for 3-year terms are Larry Hull, Paul Gulbertson, Dave Low- ry, Lyle Kinney and Don Root. 'Important Problems' "We met many important problems during the year," Robert Minear, immediate past president, noted in his president's report. Tuttle was appointed league secretary at first on a part time basis and later was put on a monthly basis. The league now operates offices at 766 South Grape st., Medford. Six bills were passed on migratory labor. The county assessor's office has now placed a" valuation on fruit in storage as of May 1 for taxation purposes. Chief Activities The annual pear-packing school and the pear decline study were two chief activi ties sponsored by the league, Minear noted. The meeting ended with a talk by Frank Suigi, Port land, head of the commodity department of the Oregon Farm bureau. He urged all growers to join a fruitgrow ers Farm bureau group being formed in the Medford area. The league went on record recommending all pear grow ers join. (See story on page 6.) Hey, Mister You Forgot Your Change.' A gas station attendant at the Chuck Risse Rich field Service. 204 South Central ave.. told city po lice that two men short changed him of nearly $20 Thursday night. He described the incident as follows: Two men drove into the station and purchased a quart of oil. One of the men gave the attendant a $20 bill for the oil and the at tendant gave him his change. The man then gave the attendant the right amount of change for the oil and asked for his twenty back, which the attendant re turned to him. Next the man bought a can of Bardahl for which he gave the attendant the right amount of change. Then he asked for his change back and gave the attendant the twenty again. The attendant made change for the twenty and the two men drove off. After they had left, the attendant discovered that somewhere in the lengthy transaction he had lost $20. Can you figure it out? WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy with occas ional rain or snow or both mixed today and tonight. Show ers Monday partial clearing. High today 40, low tonight 32. Temp. Highest Yesterday .....38 Lowest This Morning 31 Precip. to 4 pjn. Yesterday .06 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:05 p.m. 7:37 a-m. Sunrise tomorrow Moonrise tonight 9:13 pjn. Venus, Jupiter and Mars (named in order as they now rise) will soon be joined by Saturn in the morning sky. The four planets, in the order of their brilliance at this time, are Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. Mystery If Dean Charged With Murder of Protege lj (UPI Telephoto) NIKOLAI BELYAEV He Gets the Boot - Red Farm Chief Relieved of Job Moscow - (UPD - Soviet press reports Saturday indicated that Nikolai Belyaev, who shared the blame for the worst Soviet grain harvest in four years has been remov ed from his job as Commu nist Chief of the Agricultur al Republic of Kazahstan. The government newspaper Izvestia and the official Tass news agency listed Belyaev as among four officials awarded a high honor for "labor prow ess."; The other three men were carefully : identified : as party- secretaries - of the Lat vina, Estonian, and Kirghiz republics. There was no such identification for Belyaev. Belyaev was singled out by Sovet Premier Nikita Khru shchev in his Christmas day speech to the central commit tee, in which he revealed that the Soviet grain harvest in 1959 was the poorest in four years. Khrushchev put much of the blame on the Kazakhstan republic and its leaders. He said that thousands of trac tors and harvesting machines were out of commission dur ing the harvest because they needed repairs. Belyaev, he said, did not notify Moscow of the trouble and more than three million acres of grain went unharvest ed. Demonstrations Said Insignificant Honolulu-(UPD-Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi said Saturday the demonstration in Tokyo over his trip to the United States were "distaste ful" and "insignificant." Kishi said the demonstra tions, by Ultra left wing stu dents against his going to Washington to sign a new se curity treaty with the United States, were "insignificant, consisting of a small segment, a minority of the National Students union." 145 Prisoners on Trial in Cuba for invasion' Plot Havana - (UPD - A five-man military tribunal conducting a mass trial of 145 accused "counter-revolutionaries" Sat urday rejected a defense con tention challenging its legal competence. The ruling represented the first action in a court battle that is expected to run through the middle of next week. The "court room," an offi cers' theater inside La Caba na fortress, was filled to ca pacity with 1,000 persons, in cluding wives, relatives and friends of the accused. They greeted the prisoners' arrival with a mixture of applause and weeping. White-helmeted guards cir culated through the auditor ium advising "no smoking," but the air was soon thick with cigar and cigarette smoke. In the street directly across from the theater, ice cream and cigar vendors hawked their wares. The trial, biggest yet in the year-old Castro regime, was Baton Rouge, La. -(UPD- The district attorney Saturday ac cused Dean George H. Mickey of the Louisiana State uni versity graduate school of telling a false story about his whereabouts for 2Vz hours on the night of the bludgeon murder of his pretty biology professor protege. The period of the alleged false alibi was from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the night of the murder of Dr. Margaret Ros amond McMillan, 38, LSU as sistant biology proffessor and research expert in the gov ernment space program. Her prone body the skull cracked by 13 savage blows of a sharp instrument was found at 6:30 a.m. last Sun day on a lonely road 5V4 miles south of the LSU cam pus here. Dr. Mickey is in jail on a charge of murder. The district attorney and sheriff have an nounced that fresh spots of human blood, of the type of the dead woman, have been found on Dr. Mickey's auto mobile. Saturday's accusation was in a joint statement by Dis trict Attorney J. St. Clair Favrot and Sheriff Bryan C. Clemmons. It said that Dr. Mickey had made statements indicating that between 5:30 and 9 p.m. last Saturday he met a representative of the graduate fellowship section of the U. S. Department of Ed ucation from the defense ed ucation act. The district attorney said the dean has consistently de nied being the murderer. He said that the investigation is continuing, : with the sheriff's office checking every possible lead. r'-.i ' :7.if;s. Tests of the clothing that Dean Mickey had worn Sat urday night are being made in state police laboratories, Favrot said, but some of them are time consuming and re sults will not be known for several days. Budget May Include Reclamation Plans Washington (UPD Rep. Walter Norblad R-Ore.) said Saturday he was "reliably in formed" that President Ei senhower's budget message to Congress Monday would in clude at least $5,926,000 for Oregon reclamation projects plus increased funds of $1, 767,950 for agricultural re search. Reclamation projects for which funds were slated in cluded: Crooked River, $2, 235,000; Rogue River Talent project, $2,450,000; Klamath project, both in Oregon and California, $868,000; rehabili tation of Rogue river basin project, $200,000. Some $173, 000 will be included or a new project starte on Vale-Bully creek. Albany, Ga. (UPD President Eisenhower and his friends spent a long day in the hunt ing fields Saturday lunching on quail broiled over a camp fire and getting the full bag limit of birds. expected to run through the night. The defendants were given an early supper before they shuffled into the theater where 25 defense attorneys waited to present their cases. Some 51 witnesses were to be called including Castro himself, his brother Raul and Maj. William Morgan, a one time U.S. Army paratrooper from Toledo, O., who joined Castro's revolution and was acclaimed a hero in the balk ing of the alleged plot against the rebel government. , Death Not Asked Although firing squad jus tice has been authorized for counter - revolutionaries, the government was asking a maximum of only 30 years im prisonment for the nine al leged ringleaders. Sentences ranging from 20 to 25 years were demanded for the rest. The trial grew out on an "invasion" plot allegedly hatched by the Dominican government of strongman Rafael Trujillo, who is Cas tro's sworn enemy. Surrounds ' NIXON IN MIAMI Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon are shown here on their way to a reception in Miami Sat urday. Nixon said Saturday Russia has "no weapon we can conceive that could completely power." Russians Can't Stop U.S. From Hitting Miami Beach - (UPD - Vice President Richard Nixon said Saturday he was confident Russia does not have any nu clear weapons capable of wip ing out the United States power to strike back. Nixon told newsmen he did not know -what new weapons Russia may have but said there was "no weapon we can conceive that could com pletely destroy our own retali atory power." : As long as Red leaders realize this, he said, they will not dare risk a nuclear at tack. Sports Bulletins A bulging margin in the first half carried Medford high to a 64 to SO Southern Oregon conference basket ball victory over Klamath Falls her. Saturday night. The Black Tornado had quarter spreads of 16 to 5. 39 to 21 and 46 to 34 in its fifth straight 1 . a g u . tri umph. Jerry Anderson re corded 21 points for Med ford and Fred Biehn had 13 for Klamath. Grants Pass Grants Pass high nosed out Cra ter 57 to 56 here Saturday night in a Southern Oregon conference basketball con test. Eagle Point Bill Wil son poured in 31 points as Yreka, Calif., high downed Eagle Point 66 to 45 here Saturday night. Phoenix Phoenix high gained its second Rogu. league basketball victory Saturday night with a 37 to 35 nod over Illinois Val ley here. Prospect avenged an earlier loss to Days Creek by defeating them 46 to 25 in Saturday night basket ball action at Prospect. Prospect forward Craig Gardner was high point man with 17 points. Tight defense by the Prospect squad held the fast-breaking Days C r . k five in check. Quarter scores were Prospect 6 to 2. 18 to 3, and 29 to 13. Monmouth Southern Oregon college scored a 72 to 58 victory over Oregon College of Education here last night. Dennis Spencer led all scorers with 19 points for the OCE Wolves while Gordy Carrigan can ned 18 for the winner. The win for the Raiders evens the two-gam. series at on. game each. Eugene, Ore. - (UPD - Ore gon's Ducks defeated the University of Portland 65 S0 here Saturday night to av.ng. a Friday night loss at the hands of the Pilots. Ball handling mistakes proved costly to the Pilots Saturday night as they lost -the ball 18 limes. ra destroy our own retaliatory (UPI Telephoto) Back-Nixon The Vice President and Mrs. Nixon arrived here Fri day night on a trip which unofficially kicked off his 1960 campaign for the Re publican presidential nomina tion. The Nixons were honor guests at a reception attended by the' state's top GOP of ficials Saturday afternoon. Nixon told a news confer ence he thought the Republi cans stand a 50-50 chance of carrying Democrat-dominated Florida in the 1960 campaign. Florida went Republican in the last presidential election and Nixon said the odds were "approximately even" that the state would go the same way again. Nixon, wearing a candi date's flashing smile and shaking hands, talked about politics, the cold war, and the Cuban situation at the news conference. Adenauer Vows to End Anti-Semitism Bonn - (UPD - Chancellor Konrad Adenauer Saturday vowed to stamp out anti-Semitism in his country and show the world that Naziism and its hatreds "do not live on in Germany." "My government is com pletely behind the Jewish people of this nation," he said in a radio and TV broadcast. "On that I give you my word." As Adenauer spoke, the number of anti-Jewish swas tika daubings steadily de creased in West Germany. However, incidents continued in West Berlin where vmore hate signs were found Satur day in the American sector. Bakersfield, Calif.-OIPD-Gov. Edmund G. Brown Saturday was urged by a California Democratic party caucus of legislative and state elected officials to enter the 1950 presidential race. De Gaulle Prepares for Toughest Political Crisis Paris - (UPD - President Charles De Gaulle put a stop Saturday to the worst politi cal crisis yet of his Fifth French Republic, but his growing opposition threaten ed to start it up again at any moment. De Gaulle first went to work Friday. He called each rebellious cabinet minister in to his office and told each in turn to stick with him or get out - and to decide then and there what to do. One Man Resigns The ministers, with one ex ception, decided to stay. In dependent Max Flechet re signed as secretary for eco nomic affairs. But the increasing opposi tion to De Gaulle's rule will have plenty of opportunities next week. Texan May Have Sent Friend to Death in Plane Crashes in Which 76 Died Being Checked New York-(UPD-FBI agents investigating suspected murder-suicide inthe death of 34 person in a New York-Miami plane crash 10 days ago re ported Saturday discovery of mystery surrounding the earlier cash of another plane operated by the same airline. In the investigation of the Jan. 6 crash of a National air- linos DC-6B, agents were tracking down suspicions that Attorney Julian Frank may nave blown up the plane in diabolical murder-suicide plot so his widow could col lect nearly $900,000 in in surance. The other crash occurred Nov. 16. All 42 persons aboard a National airlines DC-7B died in a crash in the Gulf of Mexico on a flight from Miami to New Ordeans by way of -Tampa. A coast guardsman saw a "red flash," in the sky over the scene of the crash. Very little wreck age and 10 bodies were re covered. Doctor was Ex-Convict An FBI report released in Miami Beach by the Civil Aeronautics board said that one of the passengers on the DC-7B was listed as Dr. Rob ert Spears, a Dallas, Tex., naturopath, ex-convict and ac cused abortionist who once allegedly offered to blow up a hospital for $5GG. ; i The FBI refused to elabor ate on the report, which was contained in a letter the bu beau sent to , the CAB. The letter, read at a CAB hearing. quoted Julian Blodgett, chief investigator of the Los Ange les district attorney's office, as saying that Spears may have had someone travel for him to collect a large insur ance policy naming Mrs. Spears as beneficiary. Friend Still Missing Tampa police speculated that the person listed as Spears on the plane may in fact have been his good friend and drinking companion, William Allen Taylor, a Tam pa salesman who has . been: missing since the night the plane took off. None of the bodies recover ed from the Gulf of Mexico was identified as that of either Spears or Taylor. In Dallas, Mrs. Spears was high ly agitated at reports that her husband might have arranged for another man to travel for him on the ill-fated plane and that Spears might still be alive. The theory was that Spears might have taken out insur ance in his own name, with his wife as beneficiary, and then sent Taylor in his place. ROAD TO BE CLOSED Highland dr., between Sis kiyou blvd. and Roxy Ann place will be closed Monday because of storm sewer con struction at that point, the city engineering department has announced. City officials said work should be finished by Monday and Highland dr. will be opened to traffic Mon day night. On Monday, negotiations are opening with Senegal and the French Sudan. United as the Mali Federation within the French Community of Na tions, they are seeking inde pendence. On Friday, De Gaulle is calling in his chief civilian and military administrators in Algeria to report to him on the current situation there. Attacks Increasing They are expected to tell him that the Moslem rebel army is less active in the field but that gun and bomb attacks are increasing in the cities. The political crisis was caused by De Gaulle's ouster of Finance Minister Antoine Pinay because of disagree ments over economic and for eign policy.
