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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-
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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.
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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.