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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.
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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.