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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1960
No. 270
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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.