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54th Year Price 10 Cents Subscribers Junior Achievement is a pro gram designed to promote bus iness education among high school students by having them start and operate their own companies. Read about this pro gram and what Medford wii have to do to get one on page 12 of today's Mail Tribune. Tribune BFORB To report Improper or nn" delivery of the Mail Tribune u Medford phone SP 2-6141. Ashland MU 2-1021. before 65 pjn. daily and 10 JO mm. Sunday If regular delivery arrives ahortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating; special messenger service. United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press International Full Leased Wir 52 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1960 No. 270 Recommended Me For More KENNEDY SIGNS UP Senator John F. Kennedy signs a certificate of candidacy for President in the West Virginia primary as West Virginia Secretary of State Joe F. Burdett looks on.. The signing took place Saturday in Charleston, W. va. Irrigation Outlook Only Fair The outlook for the 1960 Irrigation water supplies in the Rogue - Umpqua water sheds is only "fair" with near ly all sections sure to have shortages in the late season," according to W. T. Frost, Port land. Frost is snow survey super visor for the U.S. department of agriculture, soil conserva tion service, Oregon agricul tural experiment station and the state engineer. "Stored water supplies," he said, ''are far below normal and expected inflow .to the reservoirs will be extremely short." Water content of the moun tain snow cover, he added, is more than double that ot last year at this date, but it is still only 54 per cent of the Feb. 1 normal. Snow Pack Low In a normal winter about two-thirds of the total win ter's snow pack is on the ground by Feb. 1, Frost said. Kennedy Claims Johnson Top Foe Bismarck, N.D. - (LTD - Sen. John Kennedy said Saturday he considers Sen. Lyndon Johnson his strongest opposi- dential nomination, despite Johnson's statement Friday night that he is not a candi date. Kennedy said "There is nothing new about Johnson's statement. I still consider him my strongest opponent and have no doubts he will go to the convention with solid sup port." Kennedy arrived here Sat urday, after filing in the West Virginia primary. He planned a visit to Jamestown to confer with state Democratic leaders, who are admittedly behind Sen. Hubert Humphrey. "Oh, There Might Be A Slight Gap In Some Areas" Deferred on Money for Research (UPI Telephoto) Water This year, however, the snow accumulation to date has been only 36 percent of a normal winter's total. Contrasted with last year is the presence of a fairly satis factory, but still below norm al, low elevation snow cover, Frost said. The soil mantle under the mountain snow pack is still extremely dry except for the top few inches, Frost said. The dry soil will soak up more than the normal amount of early snow melt, he added. , "Stored water in local reser voirs is about 73 per cent normal, but less than half of that available at this time last year," Frost noted. Flow of streams in this area has been extremely low this fall, and winter. Flows of the Rogue have averaged only 38 per cent normal, while the Umpqua has averaged only 25 per cent of its normal, ac cording to preliminary data from the U.S. geological sur vey, Portland. Forecasts Vary Forecasts of expected flow of local streams during the coming irrigation season, which is April through Sep tember, vary from 80 per cent normal on the Rogue and 77 per cent on the North Ump qua rivers to 68 per cent normal on Little Butte Creek, Frost said. Forecasts of inflow to Four mile, Fish and Hyatt lakes are 70, 68, and 77 per cent of normal, respectively, he add ed. Flow of streams heading In low elevations will be ex tremely short this year, he said, but probably slightly better than last year. Statewide, Oregon's water supply outlook for the spring and summer months varies from only "fair" to "very poor" and is similar to last year's "short" water situation. Request Salem-flJPD-Action has been deferred on a request for another $11,000 from the state toward research into pear decline in the Medford area. The action was taken after Chancellor John Richards of the state system of higher ed ucation itold' the board he would recommend to the board of higher education that it dip into reserves so that the study may be con tinued. Jackson county pear grow ers appeared before the emergency board and told them for lack of funds, the research might have to be dis continued next June 30. The research is in its second year. Two officers of the Jackson county fruit growers league delivered a petition to the board, and were accompanied by former Republican State Sen. Paul Lowry. Medford. 'Baffling Matter' Lowry said the loss in vi tality of the pear trees is a "strange and baffling matter." It was first noticed in 1957. Now many trees are dead and others are producing less, he said. Paul Culbertson of the league said said 73 per cent of the orchards in the area have been affected. Pears con stitute 51 per cent of Jackson county's agricultural econ omy. And we don't know yet what it is," he said. "It's a kind of pear cancer." League President Charles Henry said the industry is threatened with extinction un less the disease is checked. An estimated $18,000 will be needed next year to continue the program. Oregon State college has been directing the research through Prof. Henry Hartman. F. E. ?rice, dean of agriculture-;; OSG,' said -the school could contribute another $5, 000. The growers, who have al ready expended $27,000, said their funds were limited only to another $2,000. The $11,000 difference is sought from the state. Duncan's Move House Speaker Robert Duncan (D-Medford), board member, moved to defer the request after other members voiced reluctance to allocate the money from the gency fund. emer- Price agreed with Duncan that the pear problem is "as serious an agricultural prob lem as any in the state." Senate President Walter Pearson (D-Portland), board chairman, spoke for the board, telling the Medford delegation it would get the "appropria tion one way or the other." Congressman to Give Talk Here Congressman Walter H. Judd, (R-Minn.), a physician and surgeon, will speak dur ing the Abraham Lincoln club luncheon meeting at noon, Friday, Feb. 12 in the Jack son hotel, a club spokesman said. Tickets may be purchased from Manville Heisel, John Dellenback, both Medford at torneys, and Sheriff Joe Walsh, or at the door Friday noon. The congressman has spok en in Medford before as a guest speaker of the Rogue Valley Knife and Fork club. Judd was a medical mis sionary and hospital superin tendent in China from 1925- 31 and 1934-38 under the for eign mission board of Congre gational churches, it was re ported. After firsthand observation of Communist movement in China beginning in 1927, and invasion of China by Japan in 1937, he returned from China in 1938 to spend two years speaking throughout the United States to arouse Americans to the menace of Japanese military expansion and the threat to world peace of Communist subversion in China, a spokesman said. Congressman Judd is a member of the House foreign affairs committee, was a con gressional delegate to the Council of Europe, Stras bourg, France, 1951, and con gressional ' delegate to the World Health Oreganization, Geneva, 1950, among other activities. Kennedy Says Thanks - Thanks for What? Terre Haute, Ind. - fUPD Sen. John Kennedy took pains to thank each well wisher in a long reception line at a Democratic gather ing Friday night. Midway through the line a smiling man shook Ken nedy's hand and said. "I hope you get beaten." "Thank you very much. Sir." Kennedy said, already turning a beaming face to the next person in line. Weather Boosts Employment Over Winter Average Generally mild, dry weath er this winter brought a high er than usual level of employ ment in Jackson county, John J. P a 1 1 o n, manager of the Medford state employment service office, said Saturday. The high unemployment usually associated with Janu ary has not occurred, he not ed." In late December, Patton said, there was a considerable amount of unemployment which continued into early January because of freezing weather accompanied by storms in the mountain areas. As a result, some logging op erations closed down and much outside work had to slow down. Unusual Trend The situation proved, to be of short duration, he added, and by the end of the month many employees had return ed to work "This trend of re employment is unusual at this time of the year," Patton pointed out. "It generally oc curs about 30 to 60 days later in the season." Unemployment claims filed during January covered about 5 per cent fewer weeks of uik employment than for the same period, last year, and were about 45 per cent below the level experienced two years ago. While job conditions are better than usual for this time of the year, Patton said, they are not encouraging for new job seekers with much de pending on weather condi tions. No General Layoffs There are no general lay offs in any industry, he not ed. Even if bad weather should now be experienced, the resulting shutdowns would be of short duration because of the lateness of the season. In the event of such bad . weather, the beginning of the seasonal upturn in em ployment could still be ex perienced by the end of March, he added. "If the present mild weath er continues, the season will start even earlier," Patton added. Orchard operators have found the mild weather fa vorable, and are making good progress with pruning and no present shortage of help, he said. Job placements made by Patton's office were slightly more than double the number made last January, he said. This is a good indication of the improvement of business conditions over a year ago, Patton noted. A shortage of well quali fied stenographers still is a problem and many skilled oc cupations are still on relative ly short supply, he added. Roseburg Firm Submits Low Bid The Todd Construction company of Roseburg submit ted a low bid of $437,400 to construct the proposed Med ford Motor hotel. Bids were opened Friday at the office of Robert J. Keeney, one of the architects for the proposed motel which, according to its owner, Asa I. Arnsberg, will be the larg est between San Francisco and Portland. Arnsberg said the motel will have 60 units forming a U-shaped structure in the center of which will be a heated swimming pool. - The motel will be construct ed adjacent to the Medford hotel which is also owned by Arnsberg. The Todd Construction com pany's bid is one of seven that are now being taken un der advisement by Arnsberg. Medford, Italian City May Join As Sister Cities Group Recommends Selection of Alba Alba, Italy may become Medford's sister city. The Town Affiliation com mittee unanimously recom mended Friday that Alba, a city of 16,000 population in northwestern Italy, be select ed as Medford's sister city. The recommendation now will go to the city council and if approved Mayor John Sni der will invite the Mayor of Alba to join with Medford in an exchange of visitors, arts, culture, gifts, music, litera ture and ideas, to promote a better understanding between the cities. If the two cities do become sister cities it will make them the two smallest cities in the world to participate in the Town Affiliation Program which President Eisenhower recommended in 1956, as a means of combatting Com munism. Portland is the only other Oregon city to have a sister city affiliation. It is affiliated with Sapporo, Japan. Person-io-Person Committee Chairman Rob ert Baccus said it is the intent of this program to foster bet ter relationships through cul tural exchanges on a person-to-person basis as distinguish ed from official government contact. Baccus said that in making the recommendation the com mittee wanted to find a city of comparable size to Med ford with similar interests and cultural background, and decided that a city in Italy would best meet these quali fications. They asked the American Municipal association if they could help and they indicated that Alba .-.would- be a good city and also that they are interested in the program. Oldest in Italy Alba is located on the Ta- naro river in northwestern Italy. It specializes in agri culture, light manufacturing of silk and food products, and it is said that it is the oldest city in Italy, Baccus pointed out. The Town Affiliation com mittee with Baccus as chair man was appointed by Mayor Snider a year ago to gather information on various cities and make a recommendation. Besides Baccus, other com mittee members are Bill Barker, Mrs. Justin Smith, Bill Singler, and Dick Wood cock. State Official to Address Luncheon Roy Smith, southern Ore gon representative of the wage and hour division of the state bureau of labor, will speak at Monday's Medford Chamber of Commerce round- table luncheon. He will discuss his activi ties and the services that the bureau provides for this part of the country. The round table will be held in the Jack son hotel at noon and anyone may attend. Sports Bulletins Grants Pass Grants Past trimmed Ashland 67-35 here Saturday night in a Sou thern Oregon conference basketball scuffle. Medford high ran its un defeated record in the Southern Oregon confer ence to 10 straight games last night by beating the Crater basketball quintet here 73-37. The Black Tor nado led. at the half 35-13. Booth Deakins collected 15 points and Jerry Shults 14 for Medford. Dennis Ed wards' 10 was high for the Comets. Ashland - Southern Ore gon College held off a late rally by Eastern Oregon College to defeat the Mount, ies 75-72 here last night. Pasco Arritola of EOC paced all scorers with 20 points while Gordy Carri gan hit 19 for the winners as the teams split a two game series. Corvallis Oregon State's Jim Woodland sank two free throws with 20 seconds remaining in the game here Saturday night to give the Bearers a 55-54 victory ever Oregon, World Issues Tops, Says Nixon GRONCHI IN MOSCOW Italian President between them is Italian Foreign Minister Giovanni Gronchi (left) is greeted by Soviet Giuseppe Pella. Just behind Gronchi is So Premier N i k i t a Khrushchey after ar- viet President Klimenti Voroshilov. riving at Moscow airport Saturday. At rear Conrad Gives Absence at Springbrook W. H. Conrad said Satur day he was not on the job for 13 days at the Spring brook sewer installation be cause he had to complete work on two small sewer in stallations before it rained. He could have told the city council this, he said, if they had notified him that he would be asked to account for those 13 days at last Thursday's council meeting. The council finetj Conrad $325 for 13 days in which he did not work out of 60 extra days ;it took him to complete the Springbrook sanitary sewer project, after he was unable to account for those days when he was asked to do so by the council. Conrad said if they had no tified him ahead of time, he could have referred to his work sheets and given them the reason but he was not able to remember that far back on the spur of the mo ment. He said he feels that he completed the sewer installa tion in a reasonable length of time because the contract, based on city estimates, read that 125 cubic yards of rock would have to be removed when there were actually 688 yards. Incorrect Estimates This is 5Vi times the amount of rock that the city engineers had estimated, he said, while it took him only 2Vi times the contract time to complete the project. He said the city wants to fine him for 13 days he did not work on the Springbrook sewer when he was actually doing a rush job on other sewers for the city. Conrad pointed out that he contracted for the other sewer jobs before he found that the rock estimate by the city was so incorrect as to extend the time necessary to complete the Springbrook job far beyond the original 60-day period. rnese two smaller sewer Budget Estimates To Be Discussed Preliminary budget esti mates will be discussed at a meeting of the Jackson coun ty planning commission Wed nesday evening. The commission s freeway committee will further con sider the barrow pit problem along the new Pacific high way right of way. The com mittee may propose zoning besides including limiting clauses in state highway con tracts. WEATHER FORECAST: Showers and par tial clearing today and tonight. Cloudy Monday with rain be ginning by afternoon. High to- aay a, low tonight 42. High Monday 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday 52 Lowest Yesterday 41 Precip. to s pjn. Yesterday .03 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:32 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:19 a.m. The unseen stars in the Sun's background are now those of the constellation, Aquarius. The Moon, appearing tonight between the start, Betelgeuse and Elnath, eta tomorrow 4:17 a.m. and will ha Full Feb. 12 Reason for installations had to be com pleted before it rained, which would have made work im possible, meaning the people in these areas would have been without sewers for the winter. Because the Springbrook sewer could be worked on under adverse weather con ditions, he left that project for 13 days to finish the smaller ones, then returned to spring DrooK and com pleted it as fast as possible, he said. Daily Inspection All of thpso inhc wpre Vio- tmi.t "w i - ucxxj, tors from the same city de - partment so the city should have been aware that he was not working on the Spring brook project, he said. Conrad said he realizes the property owners are go ing to pay more than they first expected and it would certainly be adding insult to injury to assess them an extra $25 for each day on which he did not work. "But," he said, "isn't $25 per day quite a sum to pay because a city inspector, who is a monthly paid employee of the city, drove past the project once a day at no ac tual cost to the city?" News By United Press International Washington Top U.S. officials held a special confer ence Saturday on preparations for the East-West disarm ament talks scheduled for Geneva about March 15. Washington Sen. Wayne L. Morse Saturday post poned until "sometime next week" his announcement on whether he will enter the Maryland Democratic Presi dential primary May 17. Northfield, Vt. Russia plans to hurl into space within the next two weeks a lest capsule capable of carrying two men. rocket expert Willie Ley said here Friday night. Washington Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, former Army Chief of Staff, suffered a broken arm, cuts and bruises when struck by a taxicab Saturday evening in downtown Washington, authorities reported. New York Two elderly spinsters wearing high-button shoes and black 1900-style dresses were found hanged Sat urday night in their immaculate three-room apartment. Police said they had committed suicide rather than be evicted from their home of 25 years. Hollywood Lindsay Crosby married a Las Vegas dancer Saturday in a brief Roman Catholic service, to become the third of Crooner Bing Crosby's four adult sons to wed. Washington German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will confer with President Eisenhower here on March 15, the White House announced. An Adenauer visit here had been anticipated for some time but the exact date had not been set officially. Taipei, Formosa Red Chinese coast artillery bombard ed the Nationalist Northern Matsu Islands Saturday for the first time since September, it was announced. Oil City, Pa. House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck accused Democratic Congressmen Saturday night of "playing a fast political game to get the farm vote." Cairo Officials said Saturday the United Arab Re public would reject Israeli conditions for a discussion of border flare-ups between the UAR and Israel. Cologne, Germany-A young German who said he paint ed swastikas on a synagogue "to redeem the honor of Ger man soliders," was sentenced to 10 months in prison Saturday. Concord. N.H. The names of Adlai Stevenson - mad Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller officially appeared Saturday in Mew Hampshire' first4a-the nation Presidential primary (UPI Telephoto) Italian President Begins USSR Tour Moscow-(UPD-President Gio vanni Gronchi of Italy began a six day visit to the Soviet Union Saturday expressing hope that it would be a "con tribution to the cause of peace." Soviet President Klimenti Voroshilov, who returned only 50 minutes before from a trip to India, Burma and . Nepal, handled the official greeting duties as the host chief of state. Premier Nikita S. Khru- shchev. who is head of the government, was on hand but - v i, 1 ',A ' As the 72-year-old Gronchi's plane circled for a landing, seven Soviet planes roared over in salute, Carla, their son, Mario, and Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella. A crack regiment of the Moscow military garrison staged a brief march past. Voroshilov told Gronchi he hoped the visit would "pro mote the strengthening of mu tual relations between us, and the relaxation of internation al tension which is the wish of all people: Briefs U.S. 'Strongest Nation Claims Vice President Addresses California Newspaper Group Los Angeles - (CPD - Vice President Richard M. Nixon said Saturday "the interna tional issue in all its aspects' -including national defense would override all domestic issues in the 1960 Presiden tial campaign. Nixon told members of the California Newspaper Pub lishers association "We have a complex of strength so great that no potential aggressor can launch an attack and can be certain that he will knock out all our deterrent power." The Vice President, after earlier stating his entry in Presidential primaries of New Hampshire and California in dicated "conclusive proof he was an active candidate for President, was asked what he believed the major campaign issues would be. He said the international issue would be No. 1. He elab orated by saying this included the security and survival of the U.S. of America, national defense, foreign policy and the non-military aspects that go with it, including the cold war. ' The Vice President dis counted what he called the fal lacy of "the numbers game" in the so-called missile race and defense. He said the na tion had no choice but to maintain a deterrent force that will keep an aggressor from risking an attack. "As long as they (potential aggressors) are convinced we are going to be firm they will I cm. th fnllv of maintaining , terrific balance of terror." ! said Nixon. ."The U.S. has the resoure-es-and we must have the will -to maintain an adequate de- i A t 1 i.U t meeting of the newspaper publishers, who gave him a standing ovation after the give-and-take of a question-and-answer session. "We can and will maintain a deterrent that will discourage any ag gressor." On the question of the "missile gap," Nixon said, "I think when you do this (speak of numerical comparison) you make a grave error. Numbers are important but what is more important is that we have no deterrent or lag." Ike Names Global Goals Commission Washington-flJPD - President Eisenhower appointed an 11 member national goals com mission Saturday "to identify the great issues of our gen eration" and recommend na tional policies for the next decade or more. "The commission has the opportunity to sound a call for greatness to a resolute people in the best tradition of our founding fathers," the President said in a memoran dum outlining its job. Saturday's long-delayed an nouncement carries out a plan first proposed by Eisenhower in his 1959 state of the union message to congress id months ago. The membership includes five educators, two business executives, a labor leader, an editor, a retired general, and retired jurist. It was announced Wednes day that Dr. Henry Wriston, former president of Brown university and now president of the American Assembly at Columbia university, would be chairman of the commis sion. Frank Pace, former sec retary of the Army and now chairman of the board of Gen eral Dynamics Co., Inc., was also named vice chairman. Trial to Continue Los Angeles (DPD The sophisticated surgeon who brought a jury to tears by re lating his wife's dying words will explain Monday how he fled in panic from the scene to the Las Vegas apartment of his mistress. When Dr. R. Bernard Finch completes his version of the fateful night for the defense his story will come under the disecting scalpel of cross-examination.
