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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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