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Halt at Fla ami no m nous mgBM i fi v: - I Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages. Be First Stop on Asian Itinerary Russian Leader To Meet With Nehru Moscow -(UPD- Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev left Moscow today for a three- week goodwill mission to Southeast Asia that may prove as tough a test of his personal diplomacy as his American tour. The trip will take him to India, Burma, Indonesia and Afghanistan. All, with the ex ception of Afghanistan, have been embroiled recently with Russia's major ally, Commu nist China. Peiping Trip Reported His departure came amid reports in local diplomatic circles that Khrushchev re cently flew to Peiping secret ly to discuss the situation with Chinese Communist leaders. Accompanying Khrushchev were many of the Kremlin ex perts he took with him on his tour of the United States last fall. Mrs. Khrushchev, who also made the U.S. trip, stayed home this time. She was re ported not feeling well. Khrushchev's first stop on the tour is New Delhi. He is due there Thursday to begin a five day visit which will in clude talks with Indian Pre mier Jawaharlal Nehru. Important Nation If Communist China is their most important ally, Soviet leaders tend to regard India as the most important neutral nation in the East-West tug-of-war. The Red China-India border dispute set a delicate diplo matic stage for Khrushchev Communist Chinese encroach ments on Indian territory have alienated virtually all politi cal and public factions in In dia. Nehru has insisted that the dispute be settled in direct talks with the Peiping regime after Chinese Red troops have pulled out of territory India claims. It is doubtful that Nehru would relish the idea of a third party, such as Khrush chev, mediating the dispute. Cardinal Stepinac Dies in Yugoslavia Belgrade. Yugoslavia (UPD Aloysious Cardinal Stepinac, Roman Catholic primate of Yugoslavia, died today at his home village of Krasic, his phvsician announced. He was 61. Dr. Bitihomir Bigicevic an nounced that the cardinal died of pneumonia. Boston -(UPD- An all-male jury has been chosen to de cide the fate of Dutch radio operator William M. L. Van Rie accused of murder in the shipyard slaying of a wealthy Chicago divorcee. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy and cooler tonight. Valley fog early Thursday. Increasing cloudiness Thursday afternoon. Low tonight 32. High Thursday 48-50. TF.MP. Highest Yesterday 4f( Lowest this Morning . 36 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:36 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:15 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 6:23 a.m. Full Moon Feb. 12 PROMINENT CONSTELLATION Orion, in the south ... 8:24 p.m. To the south and east of Orion is found Sirius. brightest of all the stars: and to the north of Orion is seen Capella, the fifth brightest star. On O Cranberry Growers May Apply for Federal Loans Washington (UPD Emer gency loans have been made available to Oregon cranberry growers, Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) said today. ' Norblad said the Agricul ture Department made the loans available to growers who have been unable to re alize on their 1959 crops and who are unable to obtain credit to finance their 1960 MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1960 RIVER DESTROYS HOMES Some 25 homes along the Fox river at Dayton, 111., were destroyed today when the river over flowed its banks causing slush-like ice to run over a wide area. Among destroyed homes is the one in the foreground, a two story frame building, turned completely Dr. Durno Porter's House Seat Republican State Senator Edwin Durno, Medford, an nounced, in Salem today that he plans to enter the race for the Fourth Congressional Dis trict seat in Congress now held by Charles O. Porter. Durno is the second GOP candidate for the post. Lane County Sheriff Ed Elder pre viously ! announced his inten tion to run. Durno is a practicing physi cian in Medford. He first en tered politics in 1958 when he won the Jackson county seat in the state senate. As a freshman he won sev eral important committee as signments. On Committees He was vice - chairman of public health and also served on ways and means, resolu tions, alcoholic traffic and the building committee as well as on the education, higher edu cation, public welfare and public health sub-committees of ways and means. He is now a member of in terim committees on taxation and fiscal matters. Durno said he "plans to conduct a high level campaign and present a positive and well - defined program and platform." "As a native of the Fourth District, I feel deeply and sincerely that our representa tive should be responsible to the needs of the people and that solutions should be sup plied to the many serious problems which have been neglected for so long." "I am not interested in de voting my time entirely to a campaign of pointing out the inadequacies of this district's current lack of representation in Congress," Durno said. "The people of the district feel this lack in their daily lives and should now be pre sented with an alternative," Durno said. Durno was born Jan. 26, 1899, at Albany and attended elementary and high school at Silverton. Oregon Graduate He is also a graduate of the University of Oregon and the Harvard medical school. Durno is a veteran of two world wars and was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds crops. The loans are made through the Farmers Home Adminis tration. . Cranberry growers in sev eral states were jolted last year when the government announced before Thanksgiv ing that a weed killer used on some crops, had produced cancer in some laboratory rats. Tribune dwell Jawimift to Seek DR. EDWIN DURNO 'High Level Campaign' received in Belgium in WWII. He was the University of Oregon's first all - American basketball player and later coached at Medford High school. Durno has long participated in civic activities, including Red Cross, Knife and Fork club, Masons, Oregon Medi cal society and American Medical association. He is now out of state on vacation. Singmaster Resigns From Ashland Posts Ashland - Ed Singmaster Tuesday resigned from the chairmanship of the Ashland public library and from mem bership on the Ashland hos pital board because he no longer lives within the Ash land city limits. Mayor Richard L. Neill ac cepted the resignations "with no regret." He appointed Walt Bosshard to succeed Singmaster on the hospital board and said he and the city council would ask the library board to recommend a suc cessor. Singmaster lived within the city when appointed to the two boards but since has moved to a suburb. Disc Jockey Tells Of 'Listening Fees' Washington -(UPD-A former Cleevland disc jockey testi lied today that record com panies paid him $12,000 in "listening fees" for advising them which of their songs sounded like hits. The witness, Wesley Hop kins, denied , to House inves tigators that the money he pocketed from record distri tors while he was a $400 a month employee of station KYW represented payola for giving favored treatment to certain records. 54th Year Price 10 Cents No. 273 over with only its foundation protruding through the snow and ice. Another two-story home is covered to the windows of the second floor, at right. Ice along the valley is 35 to 40 feet high and stretches about five miles downstream from a dam. (UPI Telephoto) Kennedy Sees Oregon Primary As Key Test . PortlanL-ll!PI)-..Sen--Joi F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) met privately today with offic ials of . Portland's striking newspaper unions and said afterward he would try io find some area ' in which government action might be useful in settling the dispute. Portland -(UPD- Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) set out to day on the second day of a carrmaisn swing through western Oregon convinced that the state's May 20 pri mary will be a key test in the 1960 presidential race. Kennedy said in a speech at Albany Tuesday night that for 50 years only one man was ever elected president without winning the Oregon primary Warren Harding. The Democratic presiden tial hopeful praised the Ore gon primary as the forerun ner of other state primaries. Kennedy spoke in Albany at a combined Chamber of Commerce and Junior Cham ber of Commerce dinner be fore 500 persons. He said the May 20 primary should "be given serious attention by candidates with serious inten tions." His schedule today included a breakfast with labor offi cials here, a speech at Oregon. State College at 1 p.m. and a visit to Newport to speak at a Democratic dinner. Kennedy, making his first Oregon trip since last Novem ber, attacked administration housing policies in a speech at Roseburg. He said present policies including high inter est . rates had "strangled the building industry." He called for new starts in public housing and in housing for the older population. Libraries Join to Apply for $23,000 Ashland-The Ashland pub lic library Monday night vot ed to join with Medford in ap plying for $23,000 in state and federal funds for im provement work in the two libraries. " , . " Attending the meeting was Omar Bacon, head librarian at the Public Library of Med ford and Jackson County. He said funds were available for general improvement and cat aloging work and that, under the plan, the two cities would do considerable work on a joint basis to avoid duplica tions. The Medford library board probably will make the appli cation immediately, Bacon said. It will go to the state librarian after approval by tfce court. Bond Issue Seen For Local School Building Needs The Medford school district; budget committee last night decided that a bond issue would be the most feasible way to finance new class rooms needed by the district next school year. The board asked school ad ministrators to prepare nec essary estimates and docu ments for a bond election, which the board indicated probably would be called early in April. Last month, Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, superintendent, reported to the school board that a minimum of 13 ad ditional classrooms will be needed in the district next school year. Basis for Estimate The estimate is based on current enrollments and the school census, and on a sur vey by Dr. Keith Goldham mer, bureau of educational research, school of education, University of Oregon, made in cooperation with district administrators. The budget committee last night reviewed classroom" needs and discussed the over all budget for the district, in cluding anticipated salary in creases for teachers. In view of an expected in crease in the regular budget because of possible teachers' salary increases, and a gen eral increase in expenses, board members felt that in cluding a building program in the regular budget would in crease it too much. They agreed that a bond issue would be more desirable since it would tend to keep any overall increase in the millage at a lower figure. General Increase Last month, the school board indicated that the ' 13 classrooms needed may be fi nanced from the regular bud get. However, that was before ocmatiQEL was available which -would indicate a gen eral increase in the regular budget. Preliminary estimates of cost for the 13 classrooms will be available as soon as pos sible, Dr. Mayfield told board members. District personnel are now preparing the pre liminary budget for next year. The board indicated the bond issue probably would be sufficient to handle addi tional classrooms needs for the next two years. Dr. Gold hammer and local school ad ministrators estimated that in the 1961-62 school year, an ad ditional 12 classrooms will be needed. Minimum classroom needs estimated for next school year include two classrooms at West Side, two at Oak Grove, three at Hoover, two at Hedrick Junior High; and completion of the old district shop into a boys' manual arts department at McLoughlin Junior High. The latter woud include a woodshop and draw ing room downstairs and three classrooms upstairs. Renovation Planned Also planned for next school year is renovation of a multipurpose room at Jack sonville along with painting and repairing the outside of the building. A stage for a multipurpose room and acous tic tile for the ceiling is also planned at Ruch. The budget committee de ferred any decision on salary '. . . . Is My Ball increases for teachers and custodian personnel until aft er the preliminary budget has been prepared to get a better estimate ' of how much the overall budget will increase. P. G. Humphreys was elect ed chairman of the budget committee, and H. D. Christ ensen was named vice chair man Mrs. Thomas Eaton was elected secretary. Robert Minear was appoint ed to the budget committee to replace Otto Frohnmayer, who was disqualified from serving as a member because he has been retained by the district as legal advisor. Other budget committee members are Louis Straube and regular school board menbers W. A. Barker, Ed ward Branchfield, Otto Ewaldsen, Keith Hockersmith and Frank C. Bash. William Underwood and Russ Mcln tyre are advisory members to the budget committee. New Building for Bottling Company Planned in Valley A new building to house the Pepsi Cola Bottling com pany of Medford will be com pleted in the White City area about June 1, John W. Snider, owner of the firm, announced today. The local company is one of the oldest licensed Pepsi Cola bottlers in the United States, started in 1936. The Snider family has been in the soft drink business since 1921 and the dairy business since 1904. The new plant, to have a capacity of 9 million bottles per year, will employ 15 per sons including production, office and driver - salesmen during peak production, Snid er said. Manager Named - Manager and vice president will be Dick Woodcock. De partment managers . include Clem Neihaus, sales; Ronald Adkins, production, and El don Vinson, business. Wiley company, Ashland, submitted an apparent low bid this week for the plant construction with a bid of $69,500. Eight bids were re ceived for the project. The building, of tilt-up con crete construction, will be the first food processing plant in the White City area. It will be 90x120 feet and will house bottling facilities, warehouse space and offices. All new equipment will be installed. The firm is the supplier of Pepsi Cola and Canada Dry products in Jackson and Jose phine counties. Plant opening and dedica tion will include the appear ance of Joan Crawford, Pepsi Cola company director and widow of the late . Alfred Steele, former company presi dent, Snider announced. OSC Student Faces Charge of Burglary Corvallis (UPD An Oregon State College student from Portland today faced a charge of burglary of a fraternity house. Michael C. Goodrich, 20, was held for the grand jury under $1,500 bail. In Your Way . . .?" i m H I ..... . .v-... .. if p ' IKE GETS LOOK President Eisenhower purses his lips as he surveys activity at a Titan missile pad during his tour of the big missile test center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., today. In the background, surrounded by a white-painted gantry tower, is a Titan being readied for a future test. UPI Telephoto) fke Gets Briefing At Missile Cape Canaveral, Fla. -UPD-President Eisenhower made a brief trip to the Air Force Missile Test Center here to day for a first-hand look at this country's primary space age installation. Eisenhower brought De fense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr., and other White House and Defense Depart ment officials on his flying trip to this barren, sandy mis sile and rocket center. The President was led on the tour by Maj. Gen. Donald H. Yates, commanding officer of the Test Center. After a lengthy, top - secret briefing, Eisenhower was whisked to launch complexes for Amer icans two biggest war rockets, the Titan and" Atlas intercon tinental ballistic missiles. Then he was taken to facili ties for the Polaris, a submarine-launched missile, and the Pershing solid - fuel mis sile. . He then visited the Thor facilities. The President then left the cape on the return flight to Washington. White House reporters traveling on a chartered press plane were not permitted to land at Canaveral but were shunted 18 miles away to Pat rick Air Force Base. The re porters were permitted to watch the President's plane land, but then were separated from the White House party for security reasons. Eisenhower's trip came Board Reelects 17 Principals Seventeen principals and the elementary superior su pervisor were reelected by the Medford school board last night. The board also elected three teachers to replace three who have resigned be cause of personal reasons. The teacher appointments were effective as of Feb. 1. Principals reelected are Lester Harris. Medford High school; Glenn L. Linn, Hed rirk Junior High. Berl Cox, McLoughlin Junior High; Herb Wing, West Side; Mrs. Myrna Frink, Griffin Creek; Lee Meriman, Lone Pine; Francis Guidry. Jacksonville; Harold Boner, Howard; Boyd Gibson, Ruch; Jack Holmes, Lincoln; Roy Gilbertson, Hoo ver; Bruce Metzger, Jackson; Kenneth Huburt, Jefferson; Robert Phillips, Oak Grove; Robert Sage, Roosevelt; Ron ald Weatherford, Washington; and Robert Baccus, Wilson. The three teachers elected are Mrs. Marcia Padgham, Mrs. Barbara Ann Reedy and Mrs. Rosanne Jacks, who re place Mrs. Elvera M. Cullen, Mrs. Delores Gandee and Mrs. Margardelle Hiatt, who re signed. Oregon Said Having Epidemic of Flu Portland (UPD Oregon is having a flu epidemic al though the disease is not as serious as it has been in past years, a State Health Board spokesman said today. " - -v v ;'V. 1 if Center amid debate among lawmak ers, active and retired mili tary leaders, and administra tion officials over how well this country's missile strength stacks up against Russia's. Three Arraigned In Assault Case Three Ashland men were arrested yesterday on war rants charging them with as sault and battery in a Satur day morning fight involving two Southern Oregon college students. . "Arrested on warrants is sued by Jackson County Dis trict Attorney Thomas J. Reeder were Eldon E. Fagan, 20, of 159 Wightman St.; Gene L. Rashe, 20, of 1995 Vine st., and Joseph A. Roberts, 21, of 129 Granite st. They were arraigned in district court this morning. The case was continued until 4 p.m. tomorrow, at which time they will enter pleas. Fagan, Rashe and Roberts were released in custody of their fathers today on pay ment of $500 bail each. They were arrested about 4:30 p.m. yesterday by Ashland police and Jackson county sheriffs deputies. Reeder issued the warrants after reviewing reports by Ashland police and state ments signed by the two stu dents, Mark M. Musgrave, 21, and John E. Heitsmith, 26. The fight occurred about 3:30 a.m. Saturday outside an all-night restaurant in down town Ashland. Pacific Coast Storm Gives Way To Clouds Gales that battered the Cali fornia and Oregon coasts for two days weakened today and gave way to partly cloudy skies. Forty-foot waves pounded the Pacific coast Tuesday. Beach homes were smashed, fishing boats thrown, onto rocks and boulders tossed across scenic coastal highways. Fire Department Gets New LaFrance Pumper Medford Fire Chief Gordon Barker and Ed Evans, a me chanic with the fire depart ment, have returned from El mira, N. Y., with a new American LaFrance 1,000-gal-lon per minute pumper for the department. The pumper was purchased by the Medford Rural Fire Protection district, which con tracts with the city for fire protection, for $25,100, in cluding equipment and addi tional items to meet local specifications, Barker said. The pumper was purchased from a fund established by the rural district for buying additional equipment. It will be used both in the rural dis trict and the city, Barker said. Tests of the pumper will be conducted by the Oregon In surance Rating Bureau next week before the equipment is finally accepted, he said. Barker said the city decided Huge Drifts Close Schools, Clog Highways Up To 10 Inches of Snow in Chicago By United Press International A vicious winter storm bat tered the nation's midsection today with foot-deep snows. lashing winds, hail, sleet and Texas mud. The giant storm took a toll of lives and caused wide spread suffering as it rode across the Great Plains on tornadoes and blinding dust clouds and virtually para lyzed parts of the Midwest with a bewildering assort ment of weather. Gales drove snow into huge drifts, closing schools, block ing highways and stranding travelers from Nebraska to lower Michigan. Chicago was hard hit. Up to 10 inches of snow slugged the city's north side and northern suburbs. Scores o metropolitan and suburban schools were closed, traffic slowed to a snail's pace or stalled completely on some highways and thousands of commuters didn't even try to scoop out to their jobs. A dozen or so communities in southeastern Iowa were left without power or commu nications when freezing rain and sleet were compounded by snow that measured up to 12 inches at Ottumwa and Dubuque. The storm, a chain reaction frmo gales and blizzards that swept the Pacific Coast, was blamed for at least 14 deaths three each in Texas, Kansas and California, two each in Iowa and Arkansas, and one in Michigan. Texas mud fell on Indiana. Forecasters at Indianapolis cleaned a coat of mud off the top of cloud-height measuring equipment. They said dust picked up by high winds over the southwest plains fell with. rain over Indiana. Forecasters said the storm would race on toward New) England today but dwindle to light snow flurries in most of the East. - - - - In its wake, a new cold wave speared down across the Plains. Public Meeting on Pesticides Set A public meeting on the health hazards in the use of pesticides in agriculture will be held in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18. Dr. C. I. Drummond, pub lic health physician, will serve as chairman and mode rator of the meeting. Attending will be Dr. Wil liam F. Durham, chief of the Wenatchee field station, U.S. public health service; Rich ard E. Hatchard, chief of the air pollution control section, Oregon state board of health; Dr. J. D. Patterson, chief chemist for the Oregon de partment of agriculture; and Jack Foster of the Citizens Air Pollution Abatement league. Dr. Durham has conducted a survey of the effects of or chard sprays on human be ings in the Wenatchee area for several years, and Hatch ard recently conducted a sur vey of the air pollution prob lem in Jackson county. Dr. Patterson is the chief of the service which licenses all pesticides and similar prod ucts in the state. Persons interested in the use of sprays and other pesti cides in this area are invited to the meeting. to drive the vehicle to Med ford because it would then receive a thorough road test to bring out any mechanical problems. He said none ap peared. The trip took eight days of driving . the 3,007 miles from Elmira. En route, one - day stops were made in South Bend,. Ind., and Cheyenne, Wyo., where Barker and Evans serviced the vehicle and checked it. Powered by a V-12, dual ig nition LaFrance engine, the pumper includes a 750-gallon water tank, special connec tions for lines, a 20 - gallon foam solution tank for fight ing gas and oil fires, and warning lights meeting city specifications. While in Elmira, Barker and Evans toured the American LaFrance factory, which cov ers about 20 acres, where all component!" for the pumpers are made. i
