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Newspaper Page TextRegional Edition 54th Year Price 10 Cents RIBUNE United Press International Full Leased Wire United Press Interns Uonal Full Leased wire 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1960 No. 275 TULA XT CAROLYN MENCKE Winners of Local Elks Contest Local Students Win Leadership Contest Miss Carolyn Mencke ana John Frohnmayer, seniors at Medford High school, won the local division of the annual Elks lodge Youth Leadership contest, Exalted Ruler Bill Ruck announced today. Miss Mencke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Mencke, 2141 East Jackson st., Med ford, and Frohnmayer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Frohn mayer, 1656 Spring st., Med ford, were two of seven stu dents from four area high schools who participated in the contest. Winners of the contest are judged on leadership initia tive, organizational ability Bids Called on County Projects Two Jackson county High way 99 freeway projects will be included when the state highway commission opens bids in Salem March 1 on pro jects totalling $8,100,000. Bids were called today, the commission reported. One of the Jackson county projects is the Homestead sec tion of the freeway about 10 miles east of Grants Pass. It calls for 3.35 miles of grad ing, and construction of three concrete structure. The second project includ ed in the bids is the Homestead-Rock Point section of the highway about 13 miles east of Grants Pass, and calls tor 2.1? miles of grading, and three concrete structures. Jacksonville Market Burglary Reported . Jacksonville - The Thrifty Food market at 106 West Cal ifornia st. here was burglar ized sometime between 7 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. yesterday, state police reported today. Taken were a wrist watch, a cigarette lighter, a "6-pack" of beer, two silver dollars and $1.80 in nickels. The break-in was reported at 9:25 a.m. yes terday by Jacksonville Police Chief Frank Carter. State police said entry was gained by climbing a fence at the rear of the building and pulling a screen from a rest room window about 15 feet above the ground. Satellite Identity Remains Unsolved Washington (17PD The De fense Department said today that neither the Air Force nor Navy have been able to iden tify the mysterious "dark" satellite that is circling the earth in a near polar orbit. The Navy's Space Surveil lance Radar System discov ered the mysterious object, which may be of Soviet ori gin. The Air Force's world wide tracking system has now joined in studying the space puzzle. The Russians have denied that they have put up a secret satellite. Committee Views Proposed School Work Members of the Medford school district budget com mittee yesterday afternoon toured five schools where con struction and renovation work is planned this year. The tour was planned to give board members an idea of what work is needed, and what probably will be in cluded in a building program to be financed by a bond is sue. " The - board decided Tues day that a bond issue would be the most feasible means of financing 13 additional classrooms needed next school year. This would be done through new construction, renovation of present facili ties, and completion of an ad dition at Medford High school. The group visited Ruch school, Jacksonville, West JOHN FROHNMAYER and influence on others; citi zenship appreciation; perser verance, resourcefulness and sense of honor; neatness and arrangement of brochure, and compliance .with instructions for entering the contest. Second Places Second place in the local contest went to Miss Patsy Charley and John Caster, seniors at Crater High school, Central Point. Honorable men tion went to Darlene Palmer, Phoenix High school; Beverly Tresham and Madison Pat rick, Eagle Point High school winners will receive awards from the local Elks lodge May 5 during the ob servance of National Elks Youth Day. Brochures of the first place winners will be entered in the state contest, and the state winners will be submitted for national com petition. Judges for the local con test were Hugh Shurtleff, Russell DeForest, and Past Exalted Rulers Dick Wood cock, Murray Gardiner and Frank VanPelt. Local winners last year were Miss Vernola Hutchison and Walter A. Barnes, both of Crater High school. Fireman Injured In Trailer Blaze A Medford city fireman sus tained eye-injuries last night after a can of paint tipped over into his face at a trailer house fire he was helping to put out at 602 North Riverside ave.. City police took the fire man, Merlin Dale Farnsworth, 503 Albert st., to Sacred Heart hospital where he was treated for eye burns and re leased. Doctors reported that the paint burned the eyeball and surrounding tissue, and al though his eye will be sore for a day or so, no serious in jury resulted. The accident occurred about 8:15 p.m. when Farnsworth was washing a wall under a sink at the trailerhouse in order to put out any sparks that may have landed there. According to police reports, the sink tipped over under its own weight slashing the can of paint into Farnsworth's face. The fire department report ed considerable damage to the kitchen and living room of the 28-foot trailer belonging to Ed J. Burgeson. They said the fire apparent ly started as a result of a short in electrical wiring under the kitchen sink. Mystery Submarine In Argentina Bombed Buenos Aires -(WD- Uncon firmed reports said that Ar gentine sea and air units at tacked a mystery submarine as it surfaced in Golfo Nuevo Harbor early today but that it crash-dived without appar ent damage. Salem - (UPD - Most state of fices were closed today, Lin coln's birthday, as employees took the day off. Side, Oak Grove and Medford High school. Work at Ruch will include a stage for a multipurpose room and acoustical tile ceil ing in the gymnasium, which is now unfinished. It also would include the foundation for a cafeteria under the stage area. However, the cafeteria will not be constructed until the need demands it in the future. The long range building plan at Ruch makes it desir able to install sufficient foun dation for a cafeteria now since it would -be located be low the stage area with little if any excavation needed, Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, superin tendent, pointed out to board members. Work at Jacksonville would include renovating a multi purpose room, where there are now storage facilities Khrushchev Says United States ' 'Worn Out Horse' Development Loan Agreement Signed . New Delhi, India-(UPD -Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev today boasted of Rus sian rocket successes, accused the West of trying to step up the cold war and referred to the United State as a "worn out horse." Khrushchev spoke to 100,- 000 Indians at a civic recep tion at the Ramlila Fair Grounds shortly after India and the Soviet Union signed an agreement by which India will get a -low-interest de velopment loan of one and half billion rubles ($378 mil lion). Situation Reviewed Khrushchev and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharal Nehru looked on as their rep resentatives signed the finan cial agreement. The two chiefs of state earlier conducted a wide review of the interna tional situation. Nehru disclosed to Parlia ment shortly afterward that he had sent a new note to Red China on the border situa tion. He said he is standing firm in his refusal to nego tiate with the Communists. Khrushchev told the civic reception that the Russians had challenged the United States to a peaceful economic competition rather than an arms contest. Output Said Increased Referring to the United States, Khrushchev said: As the saying goes, 'There was a horse but it is worn out.' In the last six years the Soviet Union has increased her per capita industrial output by 71 per cent whereas the United States has hardly registered any increase." Nehru and Khrushchev con ferred alone. No official re port was issued on the talk but informed sources said the two premiers thoroughly dis cussed Communist China's border attacks on India. Planners Suggest Denying Billboard The Medford city planning commission recommend ed last night to deny a re quest for a zoning variance to erect a billboard on fair grounds property at the south end of town. The vote was unanimous. The recommendation will now go to the city council which will take final action on the requested variance. Foster and Kleiser com pany, which had made the re quest, was not represented at last night's meting. All discus sions at the meeting was in opposition to the Tequest. Commission Chairman Paul Selby read two letters, one from Foster and Kleiser com pany making the request, and the other from Robert H. Huff, president of the Jackson county chapter of the Izaac Walton League. Huff said in the letter that the state convention of the Izaac Walton League in 1957 had gone on record against billboards on highways and freeways and said the Jack son county chapter is also opposed. Boston-(UPD-The prosecutor charged today that Dutch ra dio operator Willem Van Rie, 31, beat a gay divorcee "into helplessness" in her shipboard cabin and dumped her body overboard. along one wall, and paint and repair the outside of the main structure which housed Jack sonville High school before the districts consolidated. Part of the lacing on the upper part of the Jackson ville building has fallen off, and the cupola atop the build ing is in disrepair. Renova tion work Would include re moving the cupola since it now serves no purpose and could become dangerous if allowed to remain. Dr. May field noted. , The group viewed loca tions for proposed additional classrooms at West Side and Oak Grove schools, where two classrooms are planned at each site. .At Medford High school, board members viewed the location of the boys physical education, health and class room addition, which will Appropriations Group Votes Interior Funds Washington -(UPD- The House Appropriations Committee today approved a money bill to run the Interior Department and a batch of related agencies that was almost 7 per cent above their current budget and apologized for not giving them more. The committee voted approval of a $543,375,600 interior appropriation, $6,954,700 less than President Eisenhower re quested for the fiscal year starting July 1 but $34,722,347 more than the amount appropriated for the current govern ment bookkeeping year. In a report accompanying the bill, the committee said it was concerned that it could not recommend "the considerably higher appropriations that could be profitably expended," particularly on such activities as national forests, parks and other public lands. But it said this was im-. possible due to "the serious fis cal suuauon now lacing uie nation." The committee said it was allowing only 310 of the 750 new jobs which ' Eisenhower requested in the bill. The lawmakers voiced con cern over the size of agency staffs in Washington, regional and district offices and an nounced it planned to study ways of cutting out some of these jobs so field office pay rolls could be expanded. Money for Agencies For the Internior Depart ment, the committee granted $358,628,000, or $4,138,000 less than the request. The rest of the money in the bill would go to agencies ranging from the Civil War Centennial Commission to the Smithsoni an Institution. The committee chopped in half the $1,100,000 request for funds to finance loans for exploration of strategic and critical minerals, stating that the amount allowed should "provide adequately for re quirements." , Breakdown of Funds An extra $150,000 was add ed, however, for experimen tal wor kon the aerial plant ing of grass with pellet seeds. The committee also added $245,000 for additional re search on blackbird control, fish-rice farming, and hatch ery rehabilitation. The committee approved without a change Eisenhow er's $116,817,000 request for the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Likewise, the Bureau of Mines budget of $29,656,000 was un changed. The bill carried $82,985, 000 for the National Park Service, a $3,326,000 cut. For national park construction the committee voted $18 million. This was $1,400,000 more than the President asked. Firmness Noted in Green Fir Items Portland-(UPD-A slight firm ing of some green fir items was reported today by Crow's Lumber Market News Service. The firmness was partly due to liquidation of a num ber of transit cars earlier this month. Crow's said that while transit cars remain a market factor, the over-supply is not as acute as it was earlier and therefore mill buying prices had been able to firm grad ually. The Douglas fir plywood market remained slow. Sand ed stock remained at the $68 list and 5-8 inch sheathing brought $92-94 mill. Scio, Ore. - (UPD - Scio City Councilman Vardie E. Shel ton died Thursday after a heart attack. His 80th birth day was Wednesday. add five or six teacher sta tions, depending on how the structure is designed. The structure will be between the new band rooms and shop facilities, which also were tourned. Another tour probably will be scheduled soon for mem bers to visit Hedrick ' Junior High, McLoughlin Junior High and Hoover schools, where additional classrooms are planned. On the tour yesterday, in addition to Dr. Mayfield, 'I were Board Members P.' G. Humphreys, chairman, Mrs. Thomas Eaton, secretary, and Louise Straube and Robert Minear, and . Advisory mem bers Russ Mclntyre and Wil liam Edwards. Russ Acheson, assistant superintendent N in charge of transportation ' and facilities, accompanied the group. Work on Pool is Progressing Work on the Jackson park swimming pool project is pro gressing,. Vernon Thorpe, city engineer said today, even though the wet weather has held up construction for sev eral days. Thorpe said the contractors plan to pour cement for the floors of the dressing and maintenance rooms this next week if the warm weather holds.' The contractors finished pouring cement for the found dation yesterday and work will start on the walls of the buildings as soon as the floors have hardened, he said. The rain and resulting mud of the past week have slowed up work he said, and it halted construction altogether for two days last week. Parks and Recreation Director Robert Haworth said recently that it is not yet known how the city will raise the additional $15,000 which is necessary to include a. div ing pool in the project. Several recommendations are being considered he said, and it . is hoped that the city council ; will make some de cision on them soon. The .city's .60-day contract option, giving the city that much time to make a decision on whether it can afford to build the diving pool or. not, expires Feb.- 22. Excavation for the pool it self has been held up by the contractor pending the city's decision. Haworth said the wading pool, which will be financed as a club project by the Cra ter Lions club, will probably be constructed at the same time as work is being done on the other pool or'pools. The project is scheduled to be completed by May 6. Nixon 'Make-Up' For Television Denied Milwaukee, Wis., -(UPD- Re-' publicans today denied they hired a New York advertis ing agency to "fix up" Vice President Richard M. Nixon before he appeared pn televis ion Monday. . Wisconsin Democrats Thursday charged "a crew of make-up men" were brought in to apply pancake make-up and to check lighting and camera angles before the taped television show was made. Vale, Ore. (UPD Dedica tion of a new $400,000 court house is set for Saturday here. 'Don't Forget The Spirit Of Camp David" Hatfield Happy To Aid Party in Next Elections Race Against Morse Said Possibility Seattle -(UPD- Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield, in Washington state to speak at a Lincoln day fund-raising banquet at Olym- pia tonight, said he is happy he isn t a candidate this year. "I've campaigned every two years since 1950," Hatfield said, "and I'm happy to have the opportunity this election to do some campaigning for Republicans generally." Ready To Help Hatfield told newsmen he expected his own campaign ing this year to be confined pretty- well to his own state but he stood ready to help wherever he could. "I'll put most of my efforts into campaigning for a Re publican Legislature and elec tion of Republicans for our county courthouses," he said. "If we can establish that foundation, it will carry through to the national elec tions." Morse Contest Possible , Hatfield predicted the GOP vice - presidential candidate will be selected from the Mid west. He said Rep. Charles Halleck (R-Ind.) "certainly is a major contender." As for his own political as pirations, Hatfield said at the moment he is looking forward to another term as governor, "because I would like to see carried forward some of the things we've started." However, he did not rule out the, possibility that he would become a candidate in 1962 for the Senate seat now held- by Democrat Wayne Morse. "It will depend upon political ' conditions at the time." Ashland Men Plead Innocent to Charges Three -Ashland men charged with assault and bat tery in a fight involving two Southern Oregon college stu dents pleaded innocent in dis trict court yesterday. Trial was set for April 19. Eldon E. Fagan, 20, Gene L. Rashe, 20, and Joseph A. Ro berts, 21, were arrested Tues day on warrants issued by Jackson County District At torney Thomas J. Reeder. All were released Wednesday on payment of $500 bail each. The fight occurred early last Saturday outside an all night restaurant in downtown Ashland. The SOC students, Mark M. Musgrove, 21, and John E. Heitsmith, 26, were hospitalized, Tut have since been released. Musgrave suffered a frac tured jaw and Heitsmith's in juries included a broken nose. Florence Man Guilty Of Negligent Homicide Salem -(UPD- A Marion Cir cuit Court jury Thursday found Willard Leon Cox, 21, Florence, guilty of negligent homicide. The mill worker was charged following a .Salem traffic accident last Septem ber which claimed the life of Mrs. Beulah Bernice Lance. A pre-sentence investigation was ordered by Circuit Judge Pro Tem James Main, Medford. 5 mmm Mi k Traelk Ipaiitiirags f H WW H? M .?3f & 3 if- -inr : r BOMBING CONFESSED Shown above are three of the five men charged in the bombing of 10 trucks in the Port land newspaper strike. In the upper photo, Gerald Allen Couzens, 20, of Portland, confessed his part and implicated four other men, including a union member. Two brothers, Eddie Snyder, lower left, and Charles Snyder, lower right, also confessed, authorities said. (UPI Telephoto) Cold Wave Tightens Grip on Midwest By United Press International A sub-zero cold wave today tightened its grip on the weather - battered Midwest, still digging out from a de structive storm that killed more than 50 persons on its marauding trip from Cali fornia to the Great Lajtes. - For the second consecutive day, the temperature dropped to below zero in parts of Min nesota and North Dakota. Readings near zero were com mon throughout the Midwest in the wake of winter's dead liest storm. 54 Deaths Listed A United Press Internation al count listed 54 deaths since the storm roared out of the Pacific last week end and lashed California with tor rential rains and 40 foot ocean waves. There were 18 dead in Wisconsin, 8 in Iowa, 7 in Illinois, 6 in Michigan, 4 in Nebraska, 3 each in Texas, California and Kansas, and 2 in Arkansas. Gunfire Exchanged On Israeli Border London-(UPD-Damascus Ra dio said Israeli military forces and Arab "peasants" ex changed fire along the Israeli Syrian border today, with two Israelis killed and one wounded, but no Arab cas ualties. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable clou diness tonight with chance of a few showers. Partly cloudy Saturday. Low tonight 35-38. High Saturday 50-52. Temp. Highest Yesterday 50 Lowest this Morning 31 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:38 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:13 ld. Moonrise today 6:02 p.m. Full Moon today 9 at a-m. (Next month's Full Moon will be totally eclipsed) Regulus, the bright star seen near the Moon tonight, U ac tually many million times far ther away than . the Earth's satellite. Road crews were near col lapse and snow plows broke down from the long battle against a snowfall that reached 25 inches in some communities. Volunteers Sought Milwaukee, hit by the second worst storm in its his tory, called for volunteers to dig out firp hydrants buried by 12 foot drifts. City officials were fearful the hydrants couldn't be found in time if a fire broke out. Police and sheriffs officers in southeast Wisconsin an swered dozens of pleas for help in getting sick and in jured persons to hospitals. , Small foreign cars all but disappeared under the moun tainous drifts. One snow plaw dug into what appeared to be a mound of snow and badly damaged a small sports car. Rural Roads Closed Most main highways in the storm's track were reopened Thursday, but hundreds of rural roads remained snow clogged. The storm, which caused damage estimated in the mil lions of dollars, blew itself out over Canada. Only a few snow flurries were expected today in Michigan and parts of New England and New York state. Sen. Kennedy Raps Leadership by .6(D)P Spokane-TCPD-Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Masi.) charged Thursday night that the Soviet Union used the past seven years "to catch up with us, to surpass us and to take away from us our prestige and our influence and even our power in the world community ." Kennedy, on the campaign trail for the Democratic presi dential ' nomination, told a partisan Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner audience the nation under Republican leadership had "stood still, sought the easy way and looked to the past." He said Democrats in Congress had tried to fight ad ministration . programs for reducing armed forces, cutting military and space budgets and holding back missile pro grams. He added. "But we did not control the Defense De partment, 'nor the Budget Bureau of the White House. In 1961 we will." v Union Member Implicated in Confession $400 Said Paid To Carry Out Job Portland - (UPD - Five men, including a member of the striking Stereotypers Union, were held today for the dy namiting of 10 newspaper trucks Jan. 31. Arrested were Gerald Allen Couzens, 20, Portland; Levi McDonald, the union member, and three brothers, William and Charles Snyder, Boring, and Eddie Snyder, Portland. Sheriff Francis Lambert said Couzens made a full con fession, implicating the oth ers, and that the brothers also had made admissions. The c o n f e s sion implicated Mc Donald, he said. Bail $90,000 Bail on McDonald in Mult nomah and Clackamas coun ties was raised to $90,000 today. The others were held in lieu of $10,000 bail. The district attorney's office said all five were booked on charges of injury to property by explosives and that McDonald also was charged in Clackamas county with third degree arson. Couzens' told authorities that he and the Snyder broth ers were paid $400 to carry out the dynamiting, according to, Lambert. . The trucks had been used to haul newsprint and . news papers for the Oregon Jour nal and Oregonian which were struck last Nov. 10 by the Stereotypers Union. Tip-Off Received The sheriff said he received a tip-off on the case late Wednesday from an unnamed person. Officers then worked around the clock and the ar rests were made Thursday afternoon. Couzens, under questioning, said Eddie Snyder had spoken to him about the plan about three weeks before the dyna mitings. "He told me it wasn't dyna miting at first and he asked me if I would like to go in on it. It would be $200 for each and there would be three jobs." He said he understood at first the "job" would be fix ing the trucks so they would' not run. Garag Used He said he later met with the three Snyders and "Lee McDonald who picked me up." They went to the places where the dynamite bombs were to be placed and then he and two of the Snyders re turned to Eddie Snyder'i house. "We made the charges up that night in Eddie Snyder's garage, Eddie, myself, Charlie and Bill (William)." Charles Snyder, an auto me chanic, said "I'm not mad at the Oregonian or Journal. I just did it for the money." Corvallis To Vote On School Budget - Corvallis -flJPD- A budget of $2,560,236 for the Corvallis sphool district for the 1960-61 year will be presented to vot ers April 5. The budget is $428,407 higher than that of the current year. Corvallis - (UPD - The city's new downtown street lights were to go into use today.