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Newspaper Page Text54th Year Subscribers Recommended Price 10 Cents . . MEDFORD - A two-time Olympic athlete, bow almost 73 years old, makes his home in Jackson county. For his reflections and views on the games, see page 12 of to day's Mail Tribune. RIBTJNE To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141, in Ashland MU 2-1021, before 6:45 p.m. dailv and 10 JO a m. Sunday If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. United Press International Full Leased Wire, . United Press International Full Leased Wire 54 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1960 No. 276 "We Were Afraid The Might Say, 'I Will Go Pat McLaughlin Elected Medford Student Mayor Pat McLaughlin, Medford High school senior, will serve as Medford mayor during Stu dent Government Day activi ties Feb. 24 and 25, Mayor John Snider announced Sat urday, McLaughlin was elected in final elections Friday at 1 the high school. His opponent was Miss Linda Slessler, who lost by a close margin. Student city council mem bers are John Lacy and Linda Lowry, Ward I; Keith Berg and Wayne Thompson, Ward II; Elgan Cook and David Ryn, Ward III; and Judy Bash and Ron Daley, Ward IV. Daley is a senior at St. Mary's High school. Others are Medford High school sen-1 tice received Friday from the iors. (National Labor Relations Student officials will work with their official counter parts Thursday, Feb. 25, and will conduct a special coun cil meeting that day at 7:30 p.m. in the city council cham bers. Will Attend Meeting Students plan to attend the regular council meeting Feb. 18 to familiarize themselves with council procedures. Appointive offices for the Medford city government will be made later. - The program is sponsored by the Medford Elks lodge and includes city and county officers. Students are elected from schools in the Medford Elks lodge jurisdictional area. In addition to Medford and St. Mary's High schools, participating schools include Phoenix. Crater in Central Point, Prospect, Eagle Point and Butte Falls. Elections in schools other than Medford and St. Mary's Highs will name county offi- . ' ; ; 1 1 ! r II? lifiii Mw f ?v . j GREETED Congressman Walter H. Judd (R-Minn.), center, is greeted at the Medford airport on his arrival here Fri- day morning. Greeting him are, from left, -Don Stathos, state GOP secretary; Mrs. James Ragland, Alan Holmes Democratic Candidate To Cape Canaveral' " cers, who will be announced later. Purpose of the program which was started 13 years ago in Medford High school, is to acquaint students with election procedures and the operation of local government Grocery Clerks io Pick Union Feb. 24 Grocery store clerks of this area will vote Wednesday, Feb. 24, to decide whether they want to belong to the Teamsters union or that of the Retail Clerks, according to no- board The announcement receiv ed by Retail Clerks' union representatives in Medford follows an informal public hearing last week with rep resentatives in Portland of the rival unions - Teamsters and Clerks, according to Jerry Thorn, international represen tative of the Clerks union in Medford. The election will affect about 350 grocery' clerks in the Grants Pass -Medford Ashland district, and Klamath Falls later, according to both Dan Parker, acting secretary for the newly formed Local 265, and Thorn. The general charter for the new local has been issued, and Parker has established an office at 425 East Main st., telephone SPring 2-6600. Soon after the election, the Clerks' union representatives plan to start organizing the 300 department and variety store clerks in the four-city area, Thorn said Reds Agree to Lend Cuba $100 Million Washington-flJPD - U. S. of ficials Saturday viewed the Soviet Union's agreement to lend Cuba 100 million dollars and to buy five million tons of Cuban sugar -fver the next five years as an attempt to fish in troubled Caribbean waters. One source saw the move as a deliberate attempt on the part of Cuban Prime Min ister Fidel Castro to get close to the Soviet orbit. The agreement, signed in Havana Saturday by Soviet Bodies of Five Bomber Crewmen Found in Desert Tripoli, Libya (DPB The bodies of five of nine Ameri can airmen who vanished in the Libyan desert 17 years ago were disclosed Saturday to have been found earlier this, week in a new chapter of the mystery of the Liberator bomber, "Lady Be Good." The bodies were discovered 85 miles from the spot where the 'Lady" was stumbled up on by an oil exploration team last May, 380 miles south of Benghazi. Missing Since '43 The plane had been missing after turning back from a bombing mission to Naples, Italy, on April 4, 1943. The bodies were discovered Thursday by an oil explorer, James Backhaus, of Wyoming, according to a spokesman at Wheelus Air base, the Ameri can Air Force station near here. The site is 440 miles southeast of Benghazi. The bodies were the first to be found since the Air Force began a series of searches af ter the empty bomber was dis covered. ---w.-.: --".:: -f Paxson to Discuss Highway 62 Plans G. S. Paxson, Salem, assist ant state highway engineer, will discuss future plans for Highway 62 at a meeting of the Rogue Wonderland asso ciation at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15, at the Rogue River lodge. - Also attending the meeting will be Frank Morgan, Rose burg, district engineer, and representatives of the nation al park service, the forest service, the state legislature, the county court and the Med ford Chamber of Commerce. Richard Easton, association president, said the organiza tion hopes to learn more about plans for straightening sections of Highway 62, which leads to Crater Lake National park. and Manville Heisel. Dr. Judd spoke at the Lincoln day luncheon at the Jackson hotel. Story about hit talk appears on page 14 of todays Mail Tribune. .-(KatduUdt Photo) Deputy Prime Minister An astas Mikoyan, is not expect ed to have any immediate ef fect on U.S.-Cuban trade, in sugar. The Unites States pays Cuba, under the sugar act, virtually twice as much for its sugar as the Soviet Union pays. U.S. purchases amount ed to more than 3,000,000 tons last year at a price of about 5.5 cents a pound. The latest Soviet purchase of 345,000 tons; announced while Mikoyan was in Cuba, was made at 2.78 cents a pound, slightly less than the world market price. The officials feared, how ever, that the Soviet trade deals would build up pressure in Congress to cut Cuba's quota in the U.S. market or to reduce the price paid Cuba for its sugar, when the act is renewed this year. Five Indicted for Blasting Trucks Portland - (UPD - Five men were indicted here Saturday by the Multnomah county grand jury in the Jan. 31 dy namiting of 10 trucks con tracted to haul for the struck Oregon Journal and Oregon ian. True bills charging injury to property by explosives were returned against Gerald Couzens, 20, Portland; and three brothers, William Sny der, 19, and Charles Snyder, 23, both of Boring, Ore.; Ed ward Snyder, 23, Portland, and Levi S. McDonald, 51, Portland, member of the stereotypers' union negotiat ing committee. . Maximum penalty if . con victed is 20 years in. the Ore gon state prison and a $500 fine. The five were expected to be arraigned either Monday or Tuesday. , Couzens . .Thursday night confessed to the bombing and implicated the.'Snyders. plus McDonald, !. who was named as the payoff man. The others actually set off the dynamite. , Portland -UPD Nine Reed college students were arrested Saturday and two other stu dents were being held in cus tody after failing to disband from a mass demonstration in front of the struck Oregonian building. Red Cross Blood mobile To Be Here Feb. 23 The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Medford Tuesday, Feb. 23, between 1 and 6 p.m. at the Jackson county chapter house, 60 Hawthorne . ave., Red Cross officials here have announced. Quota for the visit is 290 pints, for which 350 donors are needed, officials said. Ap pointments may be made by telephoning the Red Cross of fice at SPring 3-3813. Reds May Accept Nuclear Test Ban With Moratorium Underground Tests Believed Key Point London - (UPD - A high Com munist source said here Satur day that Russia would accept President Eisenhower's plan for a limited nuclear test ban if it were coupled with- a "moratorium" on all under- ground tests. The Soviet Union, the source stressed, stood commit ted before world public opin ion to a policy of banning tests everywhere and for an indefi nite period. Nevertheless, it was added, a bargain might be struck on a compromise formula, with President Eisenhower's plan as its basis. The Eisenhower plan pre sented two days ago called for a controlled ban on sur face, atmospheric and major underground tests which are detectable by available scien tific methods. The U.S. plan, however, excluded small underground tests from a projected test ban treaty because the United States holds they are not at present reliably distinguish able from earthquakes and therefore,not controllaDie. Negative Reaction The initial Russian reaction in Geneva was negative. So viet delegation chief Semyon Tsarapkin at first termed the nlan a western "conspiracy. In a late talk with news men, however, he hinted on second thouizht he might be open to suggestions of a com promise that would couple the limited controlled test ban with a moratorium in nuclear weapons tests not immediate ly covered by a treaty. Nixon Could Beat Kennedy --Morse Somerville. N J.-flJPD - Sen Wayne Morse Saturday night listed a. host of Democrats who he said could beat Vice President Richard M.. Nixon in the coming presidential race. But he said ben. jonn . Kennedy was not one of them. Morse, told an audience of 200 at the Jewish Community center here that he believed Nixon could be defeated by Adlai Stevenson. Sens. Hu bert H.' Humphrey and Stuart Symington, Govs. Edmund Brown of California. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and Rob ert B. Meyner of New Jersey, and Rep. Chester Bowies. But he said he believed Kennedy could not win be cause of his record on natur al resources, civil rights and lahor. He said Kennedy might get some support from a few unions but that tne rank-and-file of labor would be against him. Sports Bulletins Medford whirled en un beaten in the Southern Ore gon conference Saturday night by clipping Grant Pass high basketball team 77 to 53 here. The Black Tornado had a 39-24 half way advantage. Jerry An derson collected 26 points for Medford. Phoenix Phoenix high basketballert regained lone lead in the Rogue league here Saturday night by trouncing Rogue River 66 48. Tom Atchison had 24 points and Jim Floyd 20 for the Pirates. Klamath Falls Klamath Falls defeated Ashland high 68-40 Saturday evening in a Southern Oregon confer ence basketball tussle. Paul Bishop was high scorer for the Pelicans with 13 mark ers. Southern Oregon College came from behind to romp to a 83-71 victory over Oregon College of Educa tion here last night. Ron Jones hit 35 for OCE but Gordy Carrigan hit 22 as all five Raider starters hit in the double figures. Eastern Oregon 68, Ore gon Tech 66. - Dick Evans scored 13 points and Bob Evans 12 here Saturday night to pace St. Mary's high to a 50-46 " win ever Eagle Point. enow Biunroes Dfixne fw J!r vX FAMILIAR CLOUD France's first atomic bomb forms the familiar mushroom cloud after being triggered Friday just south of the Oasis of Reggane in the Sahara in the World Fears Russia Nuclear Weapons to Washington - (UPD - France's explosion of a World War H model A-bomb Saturday trig gered a ripple of fear around the world that nuclear weap- County Can't Up Funds, Says James County Commissioner Ralph James said '- Saturday -that right now he did not see how the county could increase its O and C fund allocations to the various school districts. However, he emphasized that nothing definite would be decided until the regular county budget committee hearings start March 1. A group of school superin tendents and school board members had asked the coun ty court to increase the allo cation from timber receipts about 2V2 times what it . is now. This would amount to about $50 per census child, James said. conroared to the $20 per census child which the coun ty allocated starting last year. State law requires a grant of $10 per census child. The monev is used to Day off building costs.The requested increase would be applied to rediire nronerty taxes, a school official said. "Nearly every school dis trict has a building program or is paymg off on bond is sues," a spokesman for the crouD exnlained. "Each school administrator is faced with rising budgets and costs. A lareer Dortion of the county's share of timber sale money from O and C lands would help to offset this." The school spokesman em phasized that this allocation is outside the county's rural school budget. A meeting on the rural school budget will be held in the county school suDerintendent's office Mon day as both the board and lay committee start official work on the budget. One Vet Wounded Another in Jail An Eagle Point get-togemer of five veterans resulted in a shooting Saturday afternoon. Jackson county sheriffs deputies said Carl Milton Hoist, 56,. Camp. White domi ciliary, is in good condition after being wounded in the arms, legs and body by frag ments of a bullet shot from a 30-30 rifle which hit in front of him shattering and pene trating his body. Deputies said the shooting apparently resulted from an argument at the home of Al bert Milton Brown, 60, Eagle Point, who reportedly ordered Hoist from his home and when he wouldn'y stay away, fired a shot in his general direction. Brown is in the county jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. on production may spread to I even more countries includ ing Red China. American officials long have feared, what they call the "fourth nation situation" which would be created by France joining the present atomic "Big Three" .- Britain, Russia and the United States. Sweden announced some time ago to the United Nations that she ' eventually . would undertake to build : her own nuclear weapons unless- there was an end to testing by other countries. And a recent scien tific report prepared for the National Planning Association listed seven o t h e r nations with the known capability of producing their own A-bombs Nevs By United Press International Washington Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black Saturday turned down a new bid for a stay of execution for convict-author Caryl Chessman who for IIV2 years has fought against death in California's gas chamber. Honolulu The 40-man crew of a sinking Japanese ship was rescued by an American oil tanker 950 miles south west of here in the Pacific Saturday night. Tokyo Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi declared Sat urday that Japan will protest France's first nuclear test set off in the Sahara desert. Chicago Chicago's mushrooming police scandal reach ed to "incorruptible" suburban Evanston Saturday with the arrest of Evanston chief of detectives Sigmund Wrobls-wski. New York Jack Paar said Saturday night he was through with his nightly television show and that the Na tional Broadcasting company could either give him another assignment or go to court. Albert Lea, Minn. Several thousands union members from Minnesota and Iowa flocked to a huge rally here Sat urday with food and moral support for 1,100 workers striking a Wilson & Co. plant. Madrid The Spanish government gave final approval Saturday to six American companies to begin oil explora tions in Spain's African "Sahara" Province. Washington A management spokesman said Saturday he was "quite optimistic" that 257 strike-bound super markets which sell 75 per cent of the retail food in the Metropolitan Washington area will reopen next week. Washington Commissioner George A. Larrick said Saturday the food & drug administration "will welcome any help" that a White House study can provide in pro tecting consumers against possible perils from chemical and drug additives in food. V Raleigh, N.C. Police arrested more Negro students on trespassing charges Saturday and nipped a new protest dem onstration against segregated lunch counters. London Undiscouraged by reports that "it won't be this weekend," women knitted placidly in the rain outside Buckingham Palace ; Saturday waiting for the announce ment that Queen Elizabeth's baby had been born. New Delhi Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, look ing tired and travel weary, returned to the Indian capital Saturday after visiting a Russian-supported stale farm at Suratgarh, 200 miles west of New Delhi Miami Beach Teamsters President James P. Hoffa said Saturday trucking industry employers do not have the 'guts" to adopt the strike insurance plan to check his bargaining power in major negotiations next year. Tulsa, Okla.-Twenly-nine were acquitted of price fixing U. S. District Judge Royee H. Savage, who ruled that the government failed to prove its charges that the firms con spired to raise price during the Sues crisis. heart of the desolate area known as "the region of total thirst." The explosion made France the world's fourth nuclear power. - (UPI Telephoto) May Give Chinese if they wanted to spend the effort and money. Bomb for China? The well-advertised French test came as no surprise but the actual explosion tended to underline fears here and abroad that other nuclear capable countries may decide to try to get into the act them selves. Officials speculated wheth er Russia might try to come up with an atomic partner to offset the addition of a new free world power to the "nu clear dub." It was considered possible Russia ' might ship a nuclear weapon to China and help the Chinese Communists to ex plode it. Briefs major U. S. oil companies charges late Saturday by Winter Storm to Hit New England, Northeast States Sleet, Freezing Rain, Flooding Predicted Washington-TOPD - The U.S. Weather bureau warned that the winter storm sweeping from Dixie would dump six to 12 inches of snow Saturday night and Sunday on the northeastern states and New England. It said the snow would be accompanied by some sleet and freezing rain in coastal areas, and that tides, whip ped by gale force winds, would be two to four feet above normal through most of New England. Some local flooding in low-lying areas was fore cast. In a special 11 p.m. bulle tin, the U.S. Weather bureau at Washington warned the storm would dump six to 12 inches of snow Saturday night and Sunday as it moved north ward into New England. The weather agency said the disturbance causing the storm was located over the upper coast of North Carolina late Saturday night and was ex pected to move along a north northeast course at 30 to 35 mph. Hazardous driving -condi tions were in effect from eastern Kentucky and Ohio, across the Virginias. It said snow had stopped falling but that hazardous driving conditions continued to prevail in interior Virginia, western North Carolina and Tennessee southward across northern Alabama and Missis sippi. ' The bureau said snow was from four inches to more than a foot deep over much of this area. Roanoke, Va., reported 14 inches at 7 pjn. and more than a foot was reported in the Huntsville, Ala., area. Gale warnings were dis played from Jacksonville, Fla., to Eastport, Maine. Public to Hear Review of Law Salem - The new Senior Worker Law, which prohibits discrimination in employment because of age, will be re viewed during a public hear ing in Medford, Tuesday, Feb. 23. The Medford hearing, one of a series sponsored by the state bureau of labor, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the main floor con ference room of the Medford city hall. The Medford hearing opens a second week of hearings on administrative interpretations of the law, according to La bor Commissioner Norman Nilsen. It will be followed by one at Klamath Falls city hall Wednesday, Feb. 24. The labor department expects to conclude the hearings in a few weeks. 4-Year-0ld Boy Hit by Car Here Little Clyde Hartford Smith, 4, of 246V2 Beatty st., is in the Sacred Heart hospi tal today after being struck by a car operated bv William Theodore Jennings, 820 Mos ier lane, Saturday at 5:25 p.m. City police said; the acci dent occurred in front of the boy's home when he appar ently ran into the street from between two parked cars and was struck by the Jennings auto. - Police do not know the ex tent of the injuries, if any, but do not believe them ser ious. Jennings was not cited, police said. WEATHER FORECAST: Mostly clondy with a few showers this morning be coming partly cloudy this after noon. Mostly cloudy tonight and Monday morning. High 52. Low tonight 32. High Monday 50. Temp. Highest Yesterday 48 Lowest Yesterday .34 Precip. to S p m. Yesterday J 2 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:4! p.tn. Sunrise tomorrow 7:10 a.ra. Moonrise tonight 8.-08 p.m. The great constellation of Orion is in the south at moonrise to night, Ursa Major (the Big Dipper)- is in the northeast, and the Sickle of Leo is in the east. No planets will appear nnUl Jupi ter, the largest one, rises at 4:18 a.m.