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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1960
No. 288
Ike Warns Latin
Americans on
(Freedom Threat
Bariloche, Argentina - (UPD -President
Eisenhower Satur
day night warned his Latin
American hosts that a threat
to democracy in any one na
tion was a danger "to all free
countries of the world."
Eisenhower, looking tanned
and rested, made the declar-
Suspected Drug
Found Here Said
Flour Mixture
A small sack of white pow
der, which Medford city po
lice first believed to be hero
in, is nothing more than a
mixture of flour and powder
ed milk, according to FBI
agents who came to Medford
from Portland last Friday and
conducted tests on the pow
der. The powder was found in
a room at a local motel Thurs
day, along with two hypoder
mic needles, two eye droppers
and a bottle of cough syrup.
Two Arrested
The motel manager, Charles
Duell Batten, who turned the
articles over to city police,
said that he thought they had
been left in the room by a
Negro man who had checked
into the motel Wednesday
night and left early Thursday
morning.
Police had already arrested
two Negroes, Ernest (Duke)
Arnold, 39, of Portland, and
William Matthew Miller, 32,
of Tacoma, on a charge of va
grancy. Each was sentenced
in municipal court to five days
in jail.
Indications were, according
to a police detective, that the
men had stayed in the motel
Wednesday night just before
they were picked up by city
police on a downtown street
at 4:55 a.m. Thursday.
Trouble Admitted
Arnold admitted to police
that he had been in trouble
with narcotics officers in
Portland.
Portland police were con
tacted by teletype and they
advised the local department
that the men might be wait
ing for a heroin "drop" from
a Negro woman who was fly
ing to the Medford airport
from California.
Police "staked out" the air
port and bus stations for two
days but saw no sign of the
woman, they said.
Pilot Possibly
Died at Controls
Shannon, Ireland (UPD The
possibility has been raised
that the pilot died at the con
trols moments before his Ital
ian DC-7 airliner crashed dur
ing takeoff from Shannon air
port Friday, killing 29 and in
juring the other 23 persons
aboard.
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SHRUBS PLANTED The first of some
240 Blue Lausson Cypress that will form
part of the perimeter of Blossom Hill Ter
race, subdivision being developed by the
firm of Goldy and Henselman, were plant
ed last week. One feature of the new sub
division is the fact that telephone and elec
tric wires ax underground. The 75 acre
ation at a formal dinner that
marked the start of a week
end of golf, fishing and se
cluded talks with Argentine
President Arturo Frondizi in
this Andes mountain resort
area.
Didn't Use Cart
Before the dinner he man
aged to get in four holes of
golf at the nearby Llao Llao
course, one of the toughest in
the world. The brief practice
round was believed to have
been the first time since his
1955 heart attack that Eisen
hower played a course with
out the help of a mechanical
cart to whisk him from tee to
tee. i
"When freedom, democracy
and national sovereignty are
in jeopardy in any country,
they are to some degree in
jeopardy in all free countries
of the world,"- Eisenhower
said.
"This is one strong reason
why the United States is vital
ly interested in the develop
ment and general well being
of all free nations. It is why
the United States, despite un
matched levels of taxation,
heavy economic and military
burdens and pressing internal
problems, continues to make
sacrifices in helping other free
nations of the world with
their problems of national
development."
To Discuss Aid
Eisenhower was expected
to discuss the question of
United States aid to its Latin
neighbors at length when he
and Frondizi take a helicopter
to the sprawling "Las Esta-
cas" ranch today for private
talks. The talks and the sub
sequent joint "declaration of
Bariloche" were the only or
der of business for the Presi
dent until Monday.
Concealed Weapon
Lands Man in Jail
Medford city police arrest
ed a 23-year-old man Friday
afternoon and lodged him in
the city jail on a charge of
carrying a concealed weapon.
Franklin Edward Presher,
who gave his address as a
local motel, was arrested in
his car near the corner of
Oakdale ave. and Monroe st.,
by an officer who had earlier
received a report that a sus
picious person had tried to
sell a gun at a local store.
Presher had a .38 caliber
revolver under the car seat,
which, he told police, he
bought to use on hunting
trips.
He told officers that he and
a girl friend left Fort Laucix
dale, Fla., last Feb. 3 and
drove to Medford where they
have been staying in the
motel since Feb. 23.
The girl, Marilyn Louise
Jackson, 18, Fort Lauderdale,
was arrested Friday by Jack
son county sheriff's deputies
on a charge of lewd cohabita
tion and was lodged in the
county jail.
plot, located at the corner of Crater Lake
ave. and Buckshot rd., is laid out to accom
modate some 200 homes and tree plantings
for the whole area have been planned. Don
Waldron and Les Little of Elton's Farm and
Garden store, Medford, are shown above as
they planted the shrubs along Crater Lake
avt. Thursday.
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Proposed
Building in Medford
To Cost $2,365,000
The independent offices sub-1 lamation has leased facilities
committee on appropriations at White City, and the bureau
of the House is considering a
proposal of a new federal of
fice building in Medford.
The House public works
committee last week authoriz
ed construction of the struc
ture, and Senate committee
approval for ' the proposed
building has been received.
Cost of the structure is es
timated at $2,365,000, with
actual construction costs es
timated at $1,990,000. The re
mainder of the estimated to
tal-would - be used for- land
and equipment and other post
construction items, according
to a prospectus for the build
ing. 81,700 Square Feet
The building would contain
about 81,700 square feet of
gross floor space, with 54,700
square feet the net assignable
for agencies.
The proposed new building
would provide housing for
the post office department
and office space for agencies
currently occupying the fed
eral office building at 33
North Riverside ave., which
would be vacated for disposal.
The present building, the
prospectus notes, would be re
tained and postal space con
verted to general agency use.
According to the comprehen
sive housing plan, the present
post office facilities would be
converted for usage by the
department of interior. Bu
reaus of the interior depart
ment in this area include the
bureau of land management,
bureau of reclamation and
the national park service.
The prospectus does not in
dicate which bureaus would
be housed in the converted
post office building. The na
tional park service is now
housed in the post office
building, the bureau of rec-
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A Bad Sort, Kid'
Federal
of land management is housed
in a leased building on South
Riverside ave.
The present federal court
house facilities in the post of
fice building would also be
retained, with offices for the
federal marshal and U.S. at
torney expanded to include
1,540 square feet of floor
space rather than the present
497 square feet.
To House Other Agencies
In addition to the post of
fice, the proposed new build
ing would also house the de
partment of agriculture
(Rogue River National forest,
and Soil Conservation Serv
ice); civil service; defense;
health, education and welfare
(social security administra
tion); housing and home fi
nance agency; justice; labor;
selective service; treasury and
veterans administration.
The agencies would be
housed in 48,911 square feet
of floor space with an addi
tional 2,334 square feet left
for expansion, the prospectus
indicates.
The General services ad
ministration said in recom
mending the new building that
there is a critical deficiency
of suitable federal space here
The existing post office and
courthouse, the GSA noted,
was erected in 1916 and ex
tended in 1940, but it "is not
adequate for current postal
needs and is not susceptible
of further extension because
of site limitations."
"The existing federal office
building (33 North Riverside
ave.), former USO building,
acquired by the government
in 1947, was originally con
structed as a garage and is
structurally and functionally
deficient for use as an office
building. The design of the
building is not adequate to
conversion to permanent of
fice space," the GSA said.
Two Reasons Noted
In being recommended by
the commissioner of public
buildings services and approv
ed by Franklin Flpete, admin
istrator of general services,
two reasons were noted for
the need of a new structure
here.
They noted that "it has been
determined that (1) the needs
for space of the federal gov
ernment in this area cannot
be satisfied by utilization of
existing suitable property
now owned by the govern
ment, and (2) suitable rental
space is not available at a
price commensurate with that
to be afforded through the
proposed action."
The project would include
a fallout shelter. The site for
the proposed building is yet
to be acquired.
Homemade Bomb
Exploded in City
A homemade bomb explod
ed behind the Groceteria Su
per Market, 200 West Sixth
st., Friday evening but caused
no damage, according to Med
ford city police.
Witnesses said the bomb
exploded in a ball of flame
and smoke, at 8:20 pjn. No
one saw the person who set
the bomb off.
Police said it apparently
consisted of some gunpowder
in a bottle with a fuse attach
ed to the bottle's top.
Morse Advocates
'Open Talks' on
World Peace
Hatfield Race
Would Be Welcome
Pendleton, Ore. - (DID - Sen.
Wayne Morse of Oregon vis
ited three Oregon cities Sat
urday in his first official Ore
eon visit since becoming a
"favorite son" candidate for
president.
In all three stops, Eugene,
Portland and Pendleton, Sen.
Morse touched on the United
Nations and its place in assist
ing in keeping world peace.
He advocated "open" talks
with all nations concerning
world peace as opposed to
the "summit conferences"
consisting of just the leading
nations.
Never Backed Off
Commenting on his candid
acy for president, Morse said
he was interested in the "pro
motion of the general welfare
of the people."
Sen. Morse said he tried to
avoid the presidential race in
Oregon but entered officially
when friends obtained enough
signatures to enter his name.
He said he had never backed
off from a political fight in
his life.
He said right at the mo
ment his choices for the Dem
ocratic candidacy would be
Adlai Stevenson and Stuart
Symington. Morse said he
thought Stevenson was going
about his campaign wrong at
the moment.
Wants To Beat Hatfield
About his future political
plans, Morse said he hoped
"the Republicans parade Gov.
Mark Hatfield out in 1962" to
oppose him for his position
in the Senate. "I would like
nothing better than to defeat
Hatfield," Morse said.
Back to the presidential
race," ' Morse said ' that Sens.
John Kennedy (D-Mass) and
Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.)
were the two men who vice
president Richard Nixon
could beat for the presidency.
He said in the cloak rooms
of the Senate those are the
two names which come up
most often as the ticket for
the Democratic nomination,
depending on which backer
you talk to for the order of
the ticket.
Clarence Tedrick
Killed in Crash
A 70-year-old Medford man
whose wife died just three
weeks ago was killed Friday
afternoon in a three-car acci
dent on highway 99 about 20
miles south of Eugene.
Killed was Clarence C. Ted
rick, who only last week had
rented his home at 2104
Spring st. so that he could
move to Eugene and live with
his son.
Tedrick's son, Gene, was
driving a pickup truck which
carried some of his father's
furniture and other belong
ings. Following him in a sec
ond vehicle was Mr. Tedrick.
State police said Tedrick's
northbound car crossed into
the southbound lane and col
lided with an auto driven by
Mrs. Wilbur Workman of Cot
tage Grove. Mrs. Workman's
car bounced into another
southbound auto driven by
Lon M. Estep of Lebanon.
Mrs. Workman was taken to
Sacred Heart hospital in Eu
gene, where her condition was
listed as serious. Estep was
treated for minor injuries and
released. - .
Tedrick died en route to the
hospital. Funeral services are
pending at Perl Funeral
home.
IMlevs
Washington-UPD-The West German government, in a
major new move in rebuilding its once-mighty air force,
has placed a $120,000,000 order for American Mace guided
missiles, it has been learned.
Edwards Air Force Base. Calif.-(CPD-The National Aero
nautics and Space Administration has formally taken over
the first of three X-15 rocket-powered space research planes
to begin testing both the airplane and its pilot in space.
Bogar, Indonesia (UPD Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev and Indonesian President Sukarno were reported
preparing to sign a draft agreement granting Indonesia as
much as $250 million worth of Russian economic aid.
Wallops Island, Va. The Civilian Space Agency rock
eted a 100-foot' "radio mirror" balloon into space Saturday
over the Atlantic coast and reported success in bouncing
a human voice transmission off the sphere's aluminiied
surface.
Uiotaee Erupts m $m&lm
;Ms
OREGONIAN OFFICE DAMAGED An in
cendiary fire which authorities believe may
have been started by a bomb, charred the
inside of the Oregonian circulation office
Two Persons Die
In Head-On Crash
On Evans Creek
Two persons were killed
shortly before midnight Fri
day when a careening pickup
truck collided head-on with a
small foreign car on East Ev
ans Creek rd. 2V4 miles north
of Rogue River.
Dead are Mrs. Alice C.
Loge, 35, of Wimer, a passen
ger in the pickup, and 16-year-old
Gerry Lee Van Dorn,
4960 South Pacific highway,
Rogue River, a passenger in
the car.
State police said the pick
up, driven by Robert L. Loge,
40, husband of the dead wo
man, had drifted back and
forth from the road to the
ditch for a distance of some
700 feet before smashing into
the small car near the center
line.
Driver of the car was 18-year-old
Ronnie M. Le Master
of Gold Hill, who suffered a
possible fractured shoulder
and numerous facial cuts.
LeMaster and two passen
gers from Loge's vehicle, Har
old Austin and his wife Glad
ys, both 34, of Rogue River,
were taken to Josephine Gen
eral hospital in Grants Pass
by Hull and Hull ambulance.
Loge was not injured, police
said.
The hospital said all three
patients were in fair condi
tion Saturday morning.
Mrs. Loge and young Van
Dorn represent Jackson coun
ty's second and third traffic
fatalities of 1960. As of this
date last year, seven persons
had been killed in county
traffic accidents.
Funeral arrangements for
Mrs. Loge will be announced
by Conger-Morris, funeral di
rectors, and for Van Dorn by
Perl Funeral home.
Vatican City (UPD Pope
John XXIII today spent two
hours at the Rome Seminary
Major of the Lateran where
he studied for the priesthood.
He officiated at mass for the
125 present seminarians.
Briefs
Ow Eiaeial Teoisiotro
Water Measurement
In Snow Said 80
Per Cent of Normal
Storage reservoirs and
snow courses measured bv
Medford Irrigation " district
showed amounts more than 80
per cent of normal March 1,
Jack Hoffbuhr, district man
ager, said Saturday.
But "the most important
factor this season," he said,
"is the amount of deficiency
in the soil mantle that will
have to be satisfied before any
run-off occurs."
This is a factor which can
not be determined, he added.
There were 25Vi inches of
snow at Fish lake March 1
with a density of 36 per cent
and a water content of 9.3
inches, Hoffbuhr said. Normal
for March 1 is 10.1 inches
water content, making this
year's measurment 92 per
cent of normal.
Water Absorbed
Hoffbuhr said there has
been 6.1 inches of precipita
tion measured at the cone
gauge at Fish lake during Feb
ruary, meaning that 4.6 inches
of water has leached out and
has been absorbed by the
ground. There are no visible
Sports Bulletins
Medford high rolled to its
fourth basketball victory
over Ashland here last
night downing the Grizzlies
78 to 37 in a Southern Ore
gon conference game. The
Black Tornado had 21 to 8,
40 to 13 and 68 to 24 quart
er gaps. Ken Durkee had 16
points for Medford and Phil
Tucker tossed in 14 for Ash
land. Klamath Falls Klamlh
Falls Union High school
subdued Crater 77 to 52 in a
Southern Oregon confer
ence basketball game here
last 'night. The Pelicans had
a 34 to 19 halftime lead.
Dave Sharp put in 19 points
for Crater and Steve Bin
ney 14 for Klamath.
California 62, Oregon State
47 ,
Oregon Tech 77, Oregon
College 58
Oregon 68, Idaho 46
Portland State 66, Eastern
Oregon 54
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair Sunday. In
creasing cloudiness Sunday night
and Monday morning. High to
day SS. Low Sunday Bight 25.
High Monday SS.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 52
Lowest Yesterday 19
Precip. : . None
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today .
5:59 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow
6:49 a.m.
Moonset tonight 8:27 p.m.
PROMINENT STARS
Betelgeuse, high
in south 7:32 p.m.
Sirius, due south 8:23 pjn.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Jupiter, low in
southeast
-4:2 a.m.
..5:32 a.m.
5:5 a.m.
a.m.
Saturn, low in
southeast
Mars, rises
Venus, rises
in Salem early Friday. The Oregonian is
one of two Portland newspapers that have
been struck by stereotypers since Nov. 10
of last year. (UPI Telephoto)
signs of run-off from this
leaching, Hoffbuhr added.
1 t- i i i i .ten
r imi iaKe nas risen ooo acre
feet, compared to a gain of
358 acre feet in January and
568 in December. The reser
voir now has 4,140 acre feet,
compared to a normal amount
of 4,700 acre feet, or 88 per
cent of normal.
The Billie Creek snow
course, Hoffbuhr said, shows
47.3 inches of snow with 35
per cent density or 16.6 inch
es of water content. This is
a gain of 6.3 inches in the
past 30 days, but the 14-year
normal is 20.6 inches. The
snow course is 81 per cent of
normal.
Rain Lack Noted
The combined drainage
area of Fish and Four Mile
lakes, he said, totals 24,000
acres. At the present time,
the snow covering the area
contains about 26,000 acre
feet of water, and of this, 16,
400 is required to fill the two
reservoirs. A yield of 63 per
cent would be necessary, he
noted, to fill the reservoirs.
"With the lack of fall rains
and the extremely dry season
preceding this period, it
would appear at this time
that a 20 to 30 per cent yield
would be the maximum that
could be expected, or a total
yield of 6,500 acre feet,
which, added to the presently
stored amount, totals 14,800
acre feet," Hoffbuhr said.
This compares to the full
capacities of 24,700 acre feet,
or 60 per cent of normal.
GOP Chairman Sees
South Backing Nixon
Richmond, Va. - (UPD Re
publican National Chairman
Thurston B. Morton said here
the South will support Rich
ard Nixon for President be
cause both Nixon and South
erners recognize the nature
of the Russian threat.
Monday County Deadline
To Purchase
Monday is the last day to
buy dog licenses without pay
ing the $2 penalty, Chris Hag-
ler, county dog control officer,
warned Saturday.
Purchase of dog licenses is
slightly ahead of last year
at this time, he reported. So
far more than 5,000 license
tags have been sold. The tags
are different than the previ
ous type since the small,
bright piece of metal now
dangles from the collar where
it can be easily seen. All dogs
not having these tags can be
placed in the pound, Hagler
warned.
The dog control officer said
the dog-pound at 2872 How
ard ave. woud be open Sun
day to sell dog licenses to
those - hoping to beat the
White Men Use
Baseball Bat on
Negro Woman
Shots Fired Into
Homes of Negroes
Atlanta (UPD - Two white
men beat a Negro woman
with baseball bats in Mont
gomery, Ala., and terrorists
fired shotgun blasts into two-
Negro homes in Chickamauga,
Ga., in new outbursts of ra
cial tension stemming from
sitdown" protests through
out the south.
At the same time, fighting
broke out in Nashville, Tenn
where at least 16 persons
were arrested over interracial
sitdown" protests against
lunch counter segregation. f
The attack on the Negro
woman occurred in front of
a department store in down
town Montgomery - the Con
federacy's first capitaL
Struck Several Times
Witnesses said the woman
was strucK about tne neaa
several times with miniature
baseball bats wielded by two
white men. Several police
men were reported in the im
mediate vicinity, but no one
was arrested.
Earlier in the day, shotgun
blasts were fired into two
Negro homes at Chickamauga,
15 miles south of Chattanooga,
Tenn., where racial disturb
ances broke out Tuesday when
Negroes attempted to eat at
downtown dime store lunch
counters.
A 15-year-old boy was
showered by pellets when a
blast tore through the front
door of one of the homes. An
investigation showed three
shots struck the home causing
considerable damage.
Scufflers Arrested
In Tuskegee, Ala., a white
man and a Negro college stu
dent were arrested when they
scuffled on a sidewalk during
a Negro protest march in the
center of the small town.
The wave of violence in
Alabama followed a sitdown
protest at the Montgomery
county courthouse by 35 Ne
groes who tried to order cof
fee and doughnuts in the
white snack bar shortly be
fore noon Thursday.
Approximately 400 Negro
students from Tuskegee insti
tute marched two abreast into
the city square shortly after
noon Saturday in support of
sitdown protests throughout
the south. The Negroes said
the march was also in protest
of Alabama's denial of voting
rights and maltreatment of
Negroes.
Duncan Suggests
Welfare Secretary
Robert B. Duncan, Speaker
of the Oregon House of Rep
resentatives, in a statement
released in Medford Saturday,
said that he had recommend
ed to the chairman of the In
terim Committee on Welfare
that they consider seriously
employing Assistant Fiscal
Officer Clayton Penwell as its
executive secretary to replace
Bruce Bishop, who recently
resigned.
Duncan pointed out that
Penwell had attended most
of the committee meetings
and was familiar with its
work.
Dog License
March 1 deadline. All dogs
six months and older must
have licenses, Hagler said.
Male and spayed female lic
enses cost $1.50, unspayed fe
males S3.
Licenses can be obtained
also in Jacksonville at Ras
mussen's Super Service and
the police department; at Ap
plegate, Shopping Center; at
Phoenix, police station; at Tal
ent, police office; Ashland, at
police station; at Central
Point, city hall; at Gold HilL
Gail's Market; at Rogue Riv
er, Rogue River Feed and
Farm Supply; at Eagle Point,
city hall; at Butte Falls, city
recorder; at Shady Cove, Cove
Valley Supply, and at Pros?
pect, Boothby's Sport ins
Goods. y
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