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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Savings & Loan Association
29 North Ivy
Will Be Closed Monday, Feb. 22
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