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Al Flegel Calls For Change in 'Archaic' Rules Salem (UPD State Rep. Al Flegel (D-Roseburg) called up on the legislative interim highway committee Saturday to instruct the state highway department to "erase old and archaic regulations" in its permit section. Flegel said although mil lions of dollars are being spent to improve highways, the issuance of permits "be comes more complex each year and this despite the con stant enlargement of the per mit department." He said there should be less restrictions and greater elas ticity in granting permits to truckers. Formtr Chairman Flegel, a former chairman of the committee and himself a truck firm operator, also made other suggestions. These include: A greater weight allow ance following a California plan for transport of various types of logging and contract or's machinery. -New flagging procedures, after the Washington . state plan. -Standardization of rules covering legalizing of loads at weighing points. His remarks were seconded by Robert Knipe, Portland, of the Oregon Trucking associ ations and Robert Wilhelm, Portland trucker. Flegel cited an instance last month near Roseburg where a log truck was weighed and found to be overloaded. The weighmaster, he said, ordered the driver to remove one of the logs before proceeding and in so doing the truck over turned and the driver "nar rowly escaped death." Discretionary Powers He said the discretionary powers granted to state weigh masters should be looked at. The committee voted to hold over until its next meet ing further consideration of new drunk driver legislation. Friday an official of the Oregon Farm Bureau Feder ation, George Dewey of Sa lem, urged a reexamination of the statute providing state gas tax refunds to farmers. Under the program farmers may file claims for the six-cent-a-gallon state gas tax for every gallon used off. the highways. Dewey said one of every four applications from farm ers in recent years has been returned by the state due to difficulties of administration. Nominations for DSA Submitted to Jaycees tf3 - it J. D. PIERCE Nominated by Church DR. RICHARD NELSON Nominated by Active Club GO FOR BROKE London -(UPD- Burglars stole Alan Matthews' record col lection last month. He said they returned Friday and took his record player. Sawdust S&H GREEN STAMPS Medford Fuel Co. Tel. SP 2-21 11 Court 4 McAnd. I I Eugene Man Killed In Cuba Crash Eugene --(UPD- Mrs. Thomas H. Frost, Eugene, said Satur day that the State Department has notified her that her son, Robert Ellis Frost, 30, was killed in a plane crash in Cuba. The message said her son was killed at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 18, near Matanzan, Cuba. Mrs. Frost earlier said her son was a flier and was in Cuba, but she didn't know what kind of work he did. She said the information about her son came from the U.S. Embassy in Havana. Arrangements to bring the body to Eugene for burial were being made by a Spring field, Ore., mortuary. Frost and a man identified as Robert Kelly, were killed when their small plane ex ploded over a Cuban sugar-field. Nominations have been sub mitted for the Distinguished Service Award to be given at a banquet sponsored by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce at the Rogue Val ley Country club, Thursday, Feb. 25. Richard Courtright, chair man of the Medford Jaycee project, said the award is pre sented to the man, age 21 through 35, who has made the most outstanding contribution to the community during the past year. State Treasurer Howard Belton will speak at the DSA banquet, Courtright announc ed. Tickets to the event can be purchased at Robinson Brothers, 114 East Main st. A panel of three senior citi zens will choose the winner from among those persons nominated. Courtright said the nominations were made by local organizations and service clubs. Those persons up for the award are Delbert T. Landing and Harold W. Gardner, nomi nated by the United Medford Crusade; Dr. Richard D. Nel son and Gale G. Kimball, nominated by the Medford Active club; E. Gregory Orr nominated by the Crater Lions club; Jerry S. Lausman and Jennings D. (Jay) Pierce, nominated by the First Pres byterian Church Men's club; and Donald W. Carlson, nomi nated by the Loyal Order of Moose. Prince Philip To Visit United Slates London (UPD Prince Philip is to visit the United States and Canada this June, it was announced officially Friday shortly after he had become a father for the third time. .The prince will make brief visits to Ottawa, Toronto and New York between June 7 and 10. In New York, the British Information Service said the prince will arrive June 10 from Canada, and leave for London by plane in the eve ning. The husband of Queen Eli zabeth will fly to Canada June 7. COTTON GOODS Birmingham-Sheets, towels and blankets account for more than one-half of all the cotton used for the manu facture of goods needed in households. BURK'S PRE-SEASON Canvas toning Sale 11(0)7 b OFF Your test time 4 MMS 'til March 15 VESWBUSHEP 1896 f GREEN (stamps -if Whan warm weather arrives this year you II be ready for il! Ready r unfurl your gay, protective canvai awnings and enjoy the cool shade they provide. No rush-season waiting . . no hurry-up choice of color or fabric. To have your awnings installed the day you want them ... to assure careful custom styling ... to take advantage of easier payment plans. - FREE ESTIMATES 17 3MTK FOR ALL YOUR AWNING NEEDS 314 East Main SP 2-4472 County Drivers Get Licenses Suspended Salem-The department of motor vehicles has released names of 322 drivers whore licenses were ordered sus pended during the period be ginning Feb. 8 and ending Feb. 11. Length of suspension varies, depending on charges involv ed, recommendation of court, discretionary action by the department or requirements of Oregon law. The depart ment said some of the licenses involving court recommenda tions may have been reinstat ed after suspension was or dered. The department warned drivers that the penalty for driving while suspended is a jail sentence of no less than two days and up to six months, and- there may be imposed a fine up to $500. Under licensing procedures, this will also result in an ad ditional year of suspension. Among those suspended in Jackson county were:' Driving While Suspended (In cludes any conviction for violation of traffic laws, Involving operation of motor vehicle, while driving privileges were suspended) Frank Grimes, 39, of 288 Patter son St., Ashland, driving while sus pended, 1 year. Robert Eugene Parker, 31. of Bear Creek Orchards, Medford, driving while suspended. 1 year. Ina Pearl Phillips. 35, of 255 Charlotte Anne rd., Medford. driv ing while suspended, 1 year. Driving While Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor (Manda tory suspension) Emma Catherine Atwood, 34, of 81? Broad St., Medford, 1 year. Discretionary Action of Department Phillip Cameron Rodenmayer, 19. of 1629 Parker St., Ashland, driving record, 30 days. Oil Company Building Broken Into Here Someone broke into the Cash and Save Oil company, 3602 North Pacific highway Thursday night or Friday morning and took $25 in cash and a carton of cigarettes, ac cording to city police. Police said the burglar or burglars apparently entered the building by breaking and crawling through a window. The money was taken from a wooden filing cabinet, they said. HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station KBOY 730 K.C. Morse Outlines Demo Tasks for Texas Audiences Houston, Tex. - (UPD - Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said Saturday that one of the Democratic party's greatest tasks in the 1960 elections campaign will be to "set the record straight" about Vice President Richard M. Nixon's foreign policy record. Morse said Nixon now is "trying to drape himself in the Eisenhower cloak of world traveller." But, he said, Nixon must be held account able for playing a "vital" part in the "brinkmanship" phi losophy of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles which "trafficked with Amer ican lives", during the Indo china crisis and brought the United States to the brink of war "several times." In an address prepared for delivery to a statewide meet ing of Democrats of Texas clubs here, Morse said the GOP ."and its emerging lead er, Mr. Nixon, are no men of peace." Behind The Scenes - "Behind the scene s," he said, "they have taken us to the brink of war several times . . . trafficked with American lives and during the Indo china crisis were nalted at the brink of war not by Ameri cans, who knew nothing . of what they were doing, but by the British." Morse, ' an . avowed Presi dential candidate entered in three state primaries, said Nixon . also was "deeply in volved" in "tightrope philoso phy'' during the Formosa crisis later in 1954 and 1955 and in the Mideast crisis in 1957. He said Republican leaders gave New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller a "political dunking" and are . trying to "cram" Nixon "down every one's throat." "It is a sad thing," Morse said, "that the Republican voters in America will have nothing to say about who shall carry their party stand ard in the presidential campaign." Bids Opened on Plutonium Reactor Richland (DPD Sound Con struction Co., Seattle, was the apparent low bidder at $1, 694,719 on the first perma nent construction at Hartford's new plutonium production reactor site. Bids were opened here Thursday by Kaiser Engi neers for the subcontract which will include excava tion and substructure con struction for two buildings. Kaiser holds the prime con tract for construction of the reactor project, estimated to cost $145 million. EDENS WILL RESIGN Dunham, N. C. -(UPD- Dr. A. Hollis Edens, 59, Friday an nounced he will resign as soon as possible after 11 years as president of Duke univers ity. He said he was resigning to allow a new president will ing to serve "a longer period of time than I would wish for mine" to lead the univers tiy's 76-million-dollar develop ment program. O MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Sunday, Feb. 21, 1960 Chemical Plant Damaged by Blast Newark, N.J.-flJPIPAn explo sion and fire ripped through a chemical company plant Sat urday, injuring at least five and perhaps six persons. The blast at the Diamond Alkalai company knocked out all the windows in the three story brick plant. Police said five or six per sons had been removed and taken to hospitals. William' Schaefer, 42, a shift engineer, said the explo sion occurred about noon just as the workers were about to go to lunch. QUAKE HITS . Lahore, Pakistan -(UPD- Sev eral cities in western Pakis tan, including Lahore, Raw alpindi and Peshwar, were shaken by an earthquake that lasted about 40 seconds Fri day. No major damage was reported. Electrician Killed In Alaska Crash Anchorage, Alaska - (UPD -An Anchorage electrician and his passenger were killed in stantly Friday when their plane hit a pressure ridge on an ice floe while attempting a landing. The pilot, Ward Carroll, 43, was flying a hunting expe dition to Cape Lisbourne on the Alaska side of the Bering Strait opposite Siberia. The passenger was identi fied only as Stanley Gordon. Patrolman's Memory Good in Columbia Columbia, S.C. (DPB Traf fic policeman Fred Gardner thought a motorist he stopped Friday seemed "mighty famil iar" and said so. The driver, impressed by the policeman's memory, drove to the police station and paid a fine incurred four years ago when Gardner stopped him for a minor traffic violation. WOODED COAST Ankara - Almost the whole seafront coast area of Turkey is woodland, often to a depth of 75 miles. 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