Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 26, 1960, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textt r 1 V r . t I J: t i I . ''' r TRUCKS USED Large trucks are used by French paratroopers to blockade a down town street around a building held by re Safety Council Awards to be Presented at Annual Banquet Seven Jackson county resi dents, including two Medford city policemen, will receive "saved-a-life" awards Friday, Jan. 29, at the annual awards banquet sponsored by the Medford Safety Council. These awards will be among a number presented at the event to be held at the Rogue Valley Country club. Speaker will be Vernon Murdock, Roseburg chief of police, who will tell of the cooperation of private and public agencies during the explosion there last August. Receiving the saved-a-life awards will be Paul Quinn, Ashland; Joe Bodack, Central Point and Mrs. Arlene Korn stad, Mrs. Ethel Kornstad, Kenneth Phillips, Sgt. Ray mond Seely, and Patrolman Dennis Perkins, all Medford. Quinn and Bodack will re ceive the award for their part in the rescuing of Alfred Dil lon, 18, after he lost consci ousness while swimming at Jackson Hot Springs, Sept. 6, 1959. Bodack pulled Dil lon from the pool, reports show and both men applied artificial respiration until the arrival of the Ashland fire department's resuscitator. Dillon is the son of Mrs. Claude Wright, 1813 North Riverside ave., and grandson of Mrs. Hazel Jack, Jackson ville. He is now serving with the U. S. Navy in San Diego. Saving Child The two women will re ceive their awards for saving Dan Edwards Kornstad, 2'2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Kornstad, 512 King st. The child fell in to a well April 8, 1959, while visiting at the home of his grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold F. Kornstad. According to re ports, the boy's mother, Mrs. Arlene Kornstad, talked to the child to keep him calm while his grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Kornstad, located a garden rake. The two women used the rake to keep the boy's head above water until the fire department arrived and pulled the child from the well. A swimming incident at Lake of the Woods July 4, 1959, earned the award for Phillips, it was reported. A boy, Edward Terry Love, 8, of White City, jumped into deep water near the boat dock and was pulled to safety by Phillips. Sergeant Seely was named for one of the awards for his part in the reviving of Mit chell Lynn Smith, 2, of 2555 Connell ave., after the child was overcome by gas fumes Dec. 20, 1959. When Seely arrived at the Smith residence the child had stopped breath ing. He administered mouth-to-mouth artifical respiration until the child regained con sciousness. Patrolman Perkins will re ceive the award for rescuing a man sleeping under the SPEAKER Ashland - Harvey Brown was scheduled to address the Ashland Chamber of Com merce's noon luncheon meet ing at Omar's today on legis lation needed to prevent acci dents involving small boating. Brown also was expected to cover current safety rules and regulations governing the sport. railroad freight dock at Ninth and Front sts., May 23, 1959. According to reports, a fire, started by the man, later spread to cardboard and wood on which he was sleeping and was discovered by the officer. The Medford Safety Coun cil's traffic engineering award will be presented to the city E. H. MANN Seeks Legislative Post Mann Announces For State Position E. H. Mann, 47 Rose ave., announced today he plans to file as a Republican candi date for state representative. Mann has lived in Medford more than 30 years and is owner and. operator of the E. H. Mann company which builds and manufactures truck bodies. He has served as state repre sentative from Jackson coun ty for three sessions, those of 1951. 1953, and 1955. While a member of the legislature he served on a number of committees including elec tions, medical affairs, mining. aviation and commerce, mili tary affairs, and forestry. Mr. and Mrs. Mann are the parents of one daughter, who lives in Medford, and a son in Bremerton, Wash. Mann is the first person to announce his candidacy for the legislature. Jackson county's two pres ent representatives are Ro bert Duncan, speaker of the house, a Democrat, and Mrs. Stephen G. (Evelyn) Nye, a Republican. Jackson county's state sen ate seat is held by Dr. Edwin Durno. a Republican, whose term has another two years to run. Elmo Smith to Seek GOP Committeeman Albany, Ore -4UP&- Ex-Gov. Elmo Smith today announced he would be a candidate in the May primary election for Republican national eommit- teewoman for Oregon. Smith, publisher of the Al bany Democrat-Herald, said he would seek the position now held by Portland attor ney Robert Mautz, who has announced he would not run for another term. Bremerton-(UPD-The carrier Coral Sea rejoined the U.S. fleet Monday after being re modeled for jet and missile age warfare. , bellious settlers in Algiers today. Held back by the Army barricades are large groups of Algerians. (UPI Telephoto) of Medford for its develop ment of the Main st.-Eighth st one-way couplet, eliminating several traffic bottlenecks, and for the depart ment's overall progress in traffic en gineering. State Industrial Accident Commission awards of merit will be given to Gulf Red Cedar, Central Point; Ideal Cement company, Gold Hill; California - Pacific Utilities, Medford division; and Jed deloh Brothers Sweed Mills Inc., Gold Hill. They will be presented by O. H. Smeltz, district supervisor for the In dustrial Accident Commission. The council's citations for traffic safety will be received by McGrew Brothers Logging and Bruce Blew Trucking, both for driver performance records; and Steve Wilson Logging for its safety educa tion program. Distinguished Citizen Winners of the distinguish ed citizen in safety plaque and the Frank Hull trophy will not be announced until the evening of the banquet, Capt. Clyde Fichtner, general chairman, announced. The trophy, a traveling award started last year, is now held by Kogap Lumber Industries, which won its for its safety record in 1958. A firm must win the award three successive years in or der to get permanent posses sion, Fichtner said. Tickets for the dinner, which will start at 6:30 p.m., may be purchased from coun cil members or from Captain Fichtner at the Medford Po lice department in the city hall. In addition to the presenta tion of awards, officers for 1960 of the Medford Safety Council, will be installed. Africans Battle Police Blantyre, Nyasaland-UPD-A mob of about 1,000 shrieking Africans battled with police for 40 minutes here today in front of the hotel where Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was having luncheon. Snow White And The Seven Astronauts 1 French Settlers Appear in Oran With Weapons No Violence Is Reported Thus Far Algiers - fUPD - Ana - De Gaulle demonstrations broke out in nearly a dozen Alger ian cities and towns today. Aroused French settlers pour ed by the thousands into Al giers and appeared in the Port of Oran for the first time with weapons in their hands. At least 5,000 settlers mass ed in the center of Algiers in response to a rallying cry from the diehards crouched behind barricades in defiance of the government's demand for a return to order. Barricades were also thrown up in Oran, but insurgents and army troops both with held their fire in the mount ing tension. Premier Michel Debre made a flying trip to Algiers during the night and returned to Paris this morning to an nounce emphatically that the government would follow through on its determination to let Algerians decide their own future. Strikes and demonstrations sprang up all over Algeria -in Bone, Constantine, Sidi Bel Abbes, Tiaret, Tlemcen and Orleansville - as well as in Algiers and Oran. Demonstrations Peaceful Thus far, the demonstra tions were peaceful. But a wild or stray shot from either side might set off another day of violence such as that which triggered the fighting in Al giers Sunday. The crowds poured into the critical area in response to an "order of the day" sent out by the embattled settlers whose barricades are ringed by tough French paratroops. By 10:45 a.m. more than 5,000 persons had poured into the square in response to the appeal and others were troop ing into it from all corners of the hillside city. At that time there had been no fighting although 27 per sons were killed-and 136 in jured Sunday when police fired on a mob of 20,000 die hard settlers who oppose President de Gaulle's plans for ending the Algerian war. Further trouble was expect ed later today when the insur gents begin burying their dead. Two more victims of the Sunday fighting died to day, to bring the total to 27. Ad Valorem Tax Conflict Seen Salem-flJPD-The Interim Tax Committee's subcommittee on timber and transportation taxes was told Monday after noon that the state's present ad valorem tax is in conflict with sound forest manage ment. David T. Mason, consulting forester from Portland, asked the committee to consider two things as it revises ad valorem tax laws. Mason said the breakdown should include: -A yearly ad valorem tax on an owner's forest soil val ued as bare soil at true cash value. This would, at the same time, disregard any for est growth on the property. -Make all forest growth on the soil subject to the annual ad valorem tax. This, he add ed, should be measured only by true cash value of timber taken from the land the year before. Regional Edition M 12 Pages Hatfield Sees No Additional Taxes In Next Budget Salem-flJPD-Gov. Mark Hat field said today that he fore sees no additional taxes in the next state budget. A report given to the Legis lative Interim Tax committee today estimated that if gen eral fund monies continue to come in at the present rate, a surplus at the end of the 1959-61 biennium would be not less than 16 million dol lars. And it could be as much as 28 million, according to the figures. The report said that income and corporation excise reve nues are running between 8 and 9 per cent above esti mates made during the 1959 Legislature. Hatfield cited two main reasons for the expected sur plus: "The economic upturn in the state and economies in state government." At the same time, he said that the announcement will no doubt bring comment of possible tax reductions. He said he wanted to emphasize that "the surplus is not in hand, but predicted." "When and if it is in hand, we will have a positive pro gram of tax reduction," he said. The governor estimates the 1961-63 state budget at 328 to 330 million dollars. The budg et currently is $312,500,000. The revenue estimates were prepared and delivered to the committee by the State Tax commission. Hatfield said that compared to other states, the fiscal situ ation in Oregon is "remark able." "It must place us as one of the most fiscally sound states in the nation," he said. Building Entries Admitted by Boys Ashland City police Mon day arrested four Ashland youths on charges of break ing into four buildings over the past few days. Arrested were brothers, 12 and 11, and brothers, aged 15 and 11. They reside with their parents in neighboring cabins at an Ashland auto court. Police said all four youths signed statements admitting they broke into a private home at 343 Granite st. Jan. 17, and three buildings on Winburn Way, which runs alongside Lithia park, over the past few days. They said they broke into the Women's Civic clubhouse and the American Legion hall Friday night and the Clover leaf dairy Saturday night. All the buildings were thoroughly ransacked, police said, but the only items re ported missing were $2 in change and an unknown quantity of ice cream from the dairy. The two older youths were taken to juvenile detention home while the 11-year-olds were released in custody of their parents. Morse to Speak at Thursday Luncheon Sen. Wayne Morse will speak in Medford Thursday, Jan. 28, at a no-host luncheon at Kim's Restaurant, 2321 South Pacific highway. Senator Morse will arrive in Medford at 11:18 a.m. His luncheon appearance will be sponsored by the Jackson County Democratic Central committee. Immediately fol lowing his talk the senator will leave for Grants Pass where he will address a din ner meeting that evening. Friday Senator Morse will be the keynote speaker for the first Democratic State con vention in recent years, to be held in Salem. The Thursday luncheon here is open to the public and in formation may be obtained by calling K. C. Wernmark, SPring 3-4040, or Mrs. E. M. Madden, KEystone 5-2526. Salem (UPD The state will auction off 56 used state ve hicles at the State Fair grounds here at 11 ajn. Saturday. IKE PERPLEXED 1 EDF0RD MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1960 fell Pmls " -Hil BRIDGE OPENS - Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10:30 o'clock this morning, eastbound traffic started across Medford's new Eighth st. bridge. Occupants of the first car across (above) were Mayor John Snider, City Manager Robert Duff, who drove, Councilmen Al Bradford, Bob Baccus and Condemnation Suit Underway in Court Lester Gilman, owner of Gilman Dairy farm near Cen tral Point area, testified this morning in the state highway condemnation suit involving part of his farm. Gilman was the first wit ness to testify in the case which started in Circuit Judge Edward Kelly's court yester day. The jury was selected yesterday morning then the court adjourned the case be cause a state witness was ill. The jurors were taken by bus yesterday afternoon to inspect the farm,.. . The 'state has condemned approximately I9V2 acres, a strip running on both sides of Bear creek, for the new Pa cific highway freeway. Fences would be placed on both sides cutting off access from the farm for irrigation. Irrigation Access - Lester and Leila Gilman are seeking $40,000 if the state will allow irrigation access to Bear creek. Other wise, it has been indicated, the Gilmans might seek high er damages. The entire farm includes 60 acres. A part of this is tillable. Mothers to Seek Question Answers Mothers participating in the March of Dimes Mothers March Thursday night will present questionnaires to householders to seek informa tion about birth defects, arth ritis and polio, Mrs. Edward Brain, county Mothers March chairman, reminded residents today. The Mothers March will be conducted through out the county Thursday evening as a highlight to the National Foundation's month-long cam paign. Among the questions which mothers will present are "Does any person in this household have arthritis? Was any person in this household born with a defect? Has any person in this household had polio? How many persons live in this household altogether?" and "How many persons in this household have had 3 or more Salk polio shots?" Mrs. Brain pointed out that information obtained from the questionnaires will be confi dential and used only by the Foundation and the local chapter in determining where assistance may be needed. Salem (UPD Freezing rain with chains required was re ported at Warm Springs junc tion and Pendleton today. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Wednesday with patchy valley fog Wednesday morning. Low tonight 34-36. High Wednesday 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday 54 Lowest this Morning 44 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today .01 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:16 pjn, Sunrise tomorrow 7:31 a.m. 6:47 a.m. Moonrise tomorrow - New Moon ....Wednesday night. PROMINENT STARS Square of Pegasus, in the west ...X 7:33 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus and Jupiter, low in southeast 6:21 a.m. Mars and Saturn, rise 6:34 ajn. V CASTRO ATTACK! Gilman testified this morn ing as to his farm and dairy operation. He said he now leases 12 acres of land from his sister in addition to his own. The dairy farmer said he could accommodate 125 cows on the 72 acres. With out the leased land he has averaged 100 head of milk cows during the last three years. Removal of the con demned property, and with out the leased land, would al low for approximately 60 head of milk cows and would reduce the number of young stock considerably, he said. First in Series Of Articles on Missile Gap Today ' What are the facts about the "missile gap"? Is this nation in danger? Is it seriously behind Rus sia in military missile strength? Washington Colum ist Joseph Alsop has dug into these questions, and presents his finding in a series of six articles begin ning today in the Mail Trib une. Alsop says: "The missile gap is some thing new in America's ex perience, at least since the Civil War. It is a problem involving the actual nation al survival of the United States. Unhappily, it is also a problem which is almost universally minimized or misunderstood at present. "The main reason that this vital problem is misun derstood is the simple fact that all its complex, deeply interesting facets cannot possibly be crammed into the narrow compass of an ordinary news story. For these reasons I am present ing a series of six inter-related articles on the missile gap. The articles will con tain much previously un published information of the most vivid interest, but the main aim will be to pre- -sent the problem in its true proportions, with due re gard for all the dfferences of expert opinion." First of the six articles appears on Page 4 of to day's Mail Tribune. Research Director Says It Five Years To Put Large Washington -(UPD- The De fense Department's research director told Congress today the United States would need "at least five years" to catch up with Russia in the field of placing large payloads in space. But the official, Dr. Her bert F. York, minimized the military importance of the U. S. lag in development of large booster rockets. He said present U. S. inter continental ballistic missiles boosters are "adequate" to meet today's military require ments He said the Defense Depart ment had an indirect interest in the large booster programs Tribune Ed Hall; and County Judge Earl Miller. The second car was that of Dr. Frank Rob erts, who said he used to ford Bear creek in the early days with a horse and buggy, be fore there were any bridges. Mayor Snider cut the ribbon opening the new bridge. Ribbon Cutting Marks Opening Of Bridge Today Mayor John Snider cut a ribbon across the west en trance to the Eighth st. bridge at 10:30 o'clock this morning, and opened it to traffic. City Manager Robert Duff drove the first car across the bridge, followed by a steady stream of traffic routed to the bridge by city policemen. Accompaning Duff in the car were Mayor Snider, Coun cilmen Ed Hall, Bob Baccus, and Al Bradford, and County Judge Earl Miller. With the Opening of the bridge, which provides for two lanes of one-way traffic east bound, the Mam. st, bridge was changed from a two - way structure to two lanes of one-way traffic west bound. City policemen were on hand to direct traffic on the two bridges and prevent cars from turning left onto River side ave., from the right lane on Eighth st. Traffic in this lane will now be required to proceed over the bridge. Traffic Pattern Change Another change in the traf fic pattern as a result of the new bridge is that traffic in the west lane on Riverside ave. will be required to turn left onto Main st. Cars in this lane will no longer be allowed to proceed across Main st. The opening of the bridge completed the eastern end of the one-way couplet project which is part of a 10 -year street improvements program approved by the voters in 1956. Both Main and Eighth sts. are now one-way from where they intersect shortly east of the bridges to Elm st. on the west side. Both streets will eventually be made one-way to the west city limits. The bridge, which was built at a cost to the city of $51,000, was originally scheduled for completion last fall but bad weather plagued construction and it was not completed un til yesterday. Portland - (UPD - The Port of Portland signed a five-year lease with the Navy Monday to permit it to use the Navy owned drydock at Swan Island. for "prestige" reasons and be cause "deterence has two sides-how good your weapons really are and how good the enemy thinks they are." York testified before the House Space committee. York told the committee the Defense Department's rocket programs are "not designed to overtake Russia." He said the programs had "legitimate ends in themselves." He said he felt the U.S. was "doing about the right thing on the development of missiles." The committee had chal lenged what it called the "all eggs in one basket" approach Price 10 Cents No. 260 Cubans Assured U.S. Plans No Interference Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower assured the Cu ban people today that the Uni ted States has no intention of interfering in their domestic affairs or becoming a party to any reprisals at this time. The President said he and Secretary of State Christian A. Herter were concerned and perplexed by recent attacks on the U.S. by Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. Eisenhower added, how ever, that the American peo ple still have the greatest af fection for the Cuban people and expect their "firm and mutually beneficial friend ship" to continue. The President discussed the Cuban crisis at his news con ference. Immediately following the conference, he issued a re statement of U.S. policy to ward Cuba which was critical of Castro for prompting the "unfounded" illusion of ag gressive acts and conspirator ial activities aimed at the Cas tro government by the U.S. Relations at Low Ebb While professing close friendship for the Cuban peo ple, Eisenhower said recent statements of Castro and members of his government would "hardly facilitate the development ... of relations of understanding and compe tence" between the two gov ernments. Castro's increasingly "in sulting remarks" about the U.S. government, including charges that it is plotting to overthrow his regime, and his seizure of some American owned property in Cuba have brought U.S.-Cuban relations to a low ebb. U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai was recalled from Ha vana last week for consulta tions with Eisenhower and Herter.. Research Money Given to College Ashland Southern Oregon college has been allocated $2,000 from the state board of higher education for four re search projects, the college announced today. The announce m e n t was made by Dr. Eugene W. Bow man, coordinator of research and curriculum at SOC. Funds were allocated for these projects: Group dynamics, the school and delinquency - Dr. Fred erick J. Trost, division of social sciences, $1,000. Determina tion of the amount of destruction of ac arines (soil mites) in the burn area of the, Ashland water shed - Howard Sanborn, di vision of science mathematics. $50. Study of youth of chelating ion exchange resins in the analysis of traces of heavy metals in the presence of high concentration of electrolytes Dr. Lloyd D. Pennington, di vision of science mathematics, $400. Development of a tiprimet ric method for determination of cyanide ions - Dr. J. Ken n e t h Bartlett, division of science mathematics, $550. Will Take Payload Up to the U. S. man-in-space pro- gram. The committee published a staff study which warned that failure to develop at least one other program to parallel Project Mercury could turn out to be "a costly mistake." The report said that in ad dition to Project Mercury, which will cost an estimated $344,500,000, "there are a number of very promising al ternative approaches to put ting man in space." It conceded that the U. S. couldn't afford to finance a large number of parallel programs.