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Regional Edition 54th Year Price 10 Cents 20 Pages White En Breaking Bond A pproved A substantial majority of the 2,104 voters who cast bal lots in the Mcdford school dis trict election yesterday ap proved a $750,000 bond issue to finance a two-year build ing program to provide need ed classrooms. The total vote was 1,314 in favor and 790 against. The totals are unofficial, and will be canvassed by the school board Tuesday night. - The vote by polling places: Griffin Creek, 80 yes, 18 no; Jacksonville, 92 yes, 26 no; Howard, 61 yes, 50 no; Lone Pine, 44 yes, 35 no; Ruch, 36 yes, 34 no; McLoughlin Jun ior High school, 527 yes, 354 no; and Hcdrick Junior High school, 474 yes, 273 no, William A. (Bill) Barker, chairman of the school board, said the outcome of the elec tion is encouraging. He com mented, however, that he be lieves more people should par ticipate in school elections. The total number of votes east is somewhat more than have, been cast in previous school elections, but is still small compared to the total possible number of voters in Robert D. Dames Is Nominated for School Board Job A petition nominating Rob ert D. Dames, Medford law yer, as a candidate for a member of the Medford school district board has been filed with Wilson Slater, district clerk. The petition contained 32 signatures, Slater said. Dead line for filing for the board is 5 o'clock this afternoon. One board member will be elected in the Medford district May 2. William A. (Bill) Barker, present chairman of the board, is a -candidate for re election. Dames, who is city attor ney for Rogue River', received his pre-law training at the University of Minnesota and has a bachelor of law degree from St. Paul college of law. Practices Law Following service during World War II, he practiced law in North Dakota, where he was a member of the board of governors of the State Bar association and was a U.S. commissioner. He also served as assistant state attorney and was a part-time instructor at Jamestown college. He has been active In Boy Scout work in this area, and is a Sunday school teacher. He is currently on the Boys' State commission for the American Legion, and has been a member of the board of directors of the Medford YMCA. Dames is a past president of the Medford Lions club, and a former deputy district governor for the Lions. He has practiced law in Medford since 1949. He is married and has three chil dren attending Medford schools. Astoria - (UPD - The Coast Guard is Investigating the cir cumstances involving the gun shot death of seaman John E. Mackerell, 26, Beaver, Utah. U.S. Renews Outer Space Geneva - HOT - The United Slates renewed its demand to day that the Russians agree to outlaw military operations in outer space. It said such a ban could be inspected by "not more than 30 people." Western hopes were report ed to have risen at the sepa rate three-nation nuclear arms ban conference here for an early acreement among the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union for a treaty to outlaw nuclear weapons tests. Chief U.S. delegate Fred MEDFORD Section A Police Kill Issue the district, school officals noted. The district contains about half the total popula tion of Jackson county, which is estimated about 71,300. The population of the city of Med ford is about 26,300. Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, superintendent of the district, said the first of the bonds would be sold as soon as pos sible after the votes are can vassed. Bids on classroom buildings planned for next school year will also be called as soon as possible. Bids on buildings needed next school year will not be called all at one time, school officials said, but will be called within a short time of each other for the convenience of bidders. Planned Next Year Planned for next school year are classrooms at Hoover, Oak Grove, West Side and Hed rick Junior High school. Reno vation and completion of the old district shop will provide a boys' manual arts depart ment and two other class rooms at McLoughlin Junior High school. Also planned is renovation of a multipurpose room at Jacksonville, and the addition of a stage and boys dressing room at Ruch school. Additional classrooms fi nanced from the bond issue will be constructed as needed, and bonds will be sold as needed to construct new facili ties, school officials said. Stored Irrigation Water Said Short Stored irrigation water in the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation districts is only about 38 per cent of the amount Fish and Four Mile lakes contained at this time last year, Medford Irrigation district officials said today. Water in Fish lake totals 4,411 acre feet, and in Four Mile lake 4,637 acre feet, or a total storage of 9.048 acre feet, district officials said. Last year the total storage at this time was 23,584 acre feet. The total storage, however, is 72 per cent of the 14-year-average of 12.500 acre feet. Fish lake's capacity is 8,300 acre feet, and the capacity at Four Mile lake is 16,600 acre feet. District officials expressed concern over the shortage of storage water, and said the shortage was considered "serious." A total of 99 inches of snow was measured at Four Mile lake during Medford Irriga tion district's monthly snow survey this week. Water con tent of the snow there was 26 inches, compared to a 14 year average of 28.2 inches. At Fish lake, 14 inches of snow with a water content of 5 inches, 43 per cent of the normal water content is 11.7 inches. Fish lake is 88 per cent of the normal storage of 5,000 acre feet, district officials re ported. Eighteen inches of snow with a water content of 8 inches was reported at the Rye Springs spur snow course. There are no previous records on this course for comparison. On the Billie Ceek divide snow course, 35 inches of snow with a water content of 15.3 Inches, which is 65 per Bid To Ban Operations rick M. Eaton was critical of Soviet tactics thus far in the parley. "We intend to talk disarma ment," Eaton said. "But up until now, I must say in all candor that our view Is that the Soviet bloc has been talk ing propaganda not disarma ment. "Until they change their tactics, this conference cannot move forward to do work en visaged for it by the U.N. Gen eral Assembly and by the four foreign ministers." MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1960 Up 'Ms' Kill Three In Philippines; Manhunt Started Wealthy Landowner, Wife Among Dead Manila (UPD Communist "Huks" killed three persons and wounded another today in the first serious outbreak of Communist violence in sev eral years. The Philippine Constabul ary immediately ordered a manhunt in Pampanga Prov ince, scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the Com munist "Huk" uprisings dur ing the early 1950s. Killed in the ambush this morning were wealthy land owner Jose Carrillo of San Luis, Pampanga, his wife, Carmen, and Miss Mariana Salas, a 25-year-old school teacher of Apalit, Pampanga. Daughter Plays Dead A 19-year-old daughter of the Carrillos survived by pre tending she was dead. She was later found alive but wounded. The victims were close rel atives of Filipino actress Cely Carrillo who is presently ap pearing in New York in the "Flower Drum Song." Colonel Ricardo Papa, Phil ippine Constabulary Pampan ga commander, said the mo tive was definitely established as vengeance. Carrillo was known to have cooperated with the constabulary in un dercover work against the "Huks" in the area. cent of the normal 23.4 Inches, was reported. District officials said it "was apparent that a considerable amount of snow has melted in the past two weeks on the Fish lake watershed below the 5,000-foot elevation, but the ground is absorbing much of the run-off." Because of this, they said, there has been no major change in the storage quantities. Second Wettest March Recorded The second wettest March on record in the Medford vi cinity has brought the total precipitation in the current agricultural year to an amount alread yin excess of that for the entire 1958-1959 year. Medford station of the U.S. weather bureau recorded 4.40 inches of precipitation last month, bringing the total since Sept. 1, 1959, start of the agricultural year, to 13.20 inches. Precipitation for the year Sept. 1, 1958, through Aug. 31, 1959, was ' 13.13. Normal precipitation for a year is 18.15 inches. Rainfall last month com pares to 5.54 inches in 1957 for the wettest March on rec ord. Precipitation last month was 2.88 in excess of the nor mal of 1.52. Rain from midnight up to 10 a.m. today was .05 of an inch bringing the season total up to 13.25. Additional Cuts In Budget Forecast Washington -fliPD- A $136,- 500,000 cut in President Eis enhower's foreign aid pro gram voted by the House Foreign Affairs Committee shaped up today as a mere starter. Additional cuts of more than $1,500,000,000 were forecast. The President asked for $4,- 175.000.000 to finance mili tary and economic assistance in the year starting July 1. The committee Thursday, all but finishing work on the authorization bill, trimmed this to $4,038,500,000. But an appropriations sub committee handling funds for the program seemed certain to cut far deeper than that. M Three Africans arch in Women Protest Hiring of Guards By Newspapers Porlland-fl'NUA group of women carrying toy pistols and banners marched be fore the Oragonian building today protesting reported hiring of armed guards by the city's two newspapers. Mrs, Harold Bamberg, head of the Gals Against Labor Strife, said they also would march in front of the courthouse and city hall. A spokesman said the group was made up of some union members, union wives and "anyone sympathetic to the cause." ' Snow Forecast In Nebraska; 6,000 Homeless By United Press International Snow, sleet and even some April showers today hit the Middle West, already stricken by floods which drove 6,000 persons from their homes. Winds up to 80 miles an hour and hail battered central Kansas and Oklahoma. Three inches of snow were forecast for Nebraska, hardest-hit state in the Midwest flood belt. Although almost 4,000 per sons were homeless in Nebras ka, the floods failed to make a major break-through. Battle Being Won National guardsmen, civil defense workers and volun- teers were winning the battle of the levees with around-the-clock Sandbag operations Affninst this pnrnffprl rivers However, the tons of water surging down flooded streams i in the country's mid-section were pouring into the great Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Gates Battered Chunks of ice tore seven ton gates from an elec tric power dam on the Missis sippi at Keokuk, Iowa, the breakthrough was expected to cause a three-foot flash rise downstream. The Weather Bureau at Memphis, Tenn., far down stream, issued its first flood warning for lowland residents In five years. The Missouri river was out of its banks in parts of Ne braska and Missouri. Missouri Gov. James T. Blair ordered the National Guard to sand bag levees near Glasgow, Mo., to prevent a breakthrough. Slight Decline in Lumber Prices Noted Portland (UPD A slight de cline in lumber prices dur ing the two-week period end ing Thursday was reported today by Crow's Lumber Mar ket News Service. Green fir lumber led the down-trend with dry fir items remaining strong. Douglas fir plywood re mained at the $64 base price for sanded stock. "Darndest Race ? - Tribune Race Disput Armored Cars, Fixed Bayonets Oppose Crowd Africans Forced To Join March Durban, South Africa fUPD White police shot three Afri cans dead and wounded at least three others in the com mercial heart of Durban to day in the worst incident here to date of the current racial violence. Three Negroes, including one woman, were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds. The incident. came .when a crowd of several thousand Negroes from Durban's squal lid Cato Manor slum con verged on the city center in several columns, brandishing sticks, hatchets and sharpen ed pieces of wire. As the crowd stormed through the streets, it dragged other Africans out of shops, off bicycles and off the pave ments, forcing them to Join the march. Police backed by Saracen armored cars and troops with fixed bayonets called on the crowd to halt when it reached West St., which is the Times Square of Durban. Police Open Fir When the warnings were ignored, police fired into the air. Then shots were fired into the crowd of Africans. After the firing, the mob scattered. The Africans were dispersed in the side streets and life resumed Its normal course. . . In Johannesburg, mean- while, the government mobil- ier four reserve regiments and some units of the civilian home guard in apparent antic ipation of new racial violence Police reported "everything under control" early today af ter a night of sporadic clashes which killed at least one per son and wounded seven. The situation remained explosive. Areas Sealed Off The chief centers of poten tial trouble were the Langa anr Nyanga locations, Dur ban's Cato Manor slums, Wor cester in the Cape area and the university town of Stellen bosch. Trops sealed off Langa and Nyanga for the second day. Hunger was reported becom ing a serious problem in two native villages despite emer gency food shipments provid ed by the Liberal Party. The emergency food was earmarked for wonmen and children, leaving the men in the surrounding communities to fend for themselves. Appling Would Change Presidential Primary Salem (UPD The state's new presidential primary should be changed because it is not working out as it should, Secretary of State Howell Appling said Thurs day. I Ever Saw" No. WEATHER FOR KC A ST: Partly clnudv early tonight and cloudy early Saturday, h e c o m 1 n g partlv cloudy with a few Isolated snnwers aaiuroay afternoon. ww tonigm 3b. High Satur day 60. , Temp. Highest Yesterday 44 Lowest this Morning 40 Our Skies Tonight Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 5? sunset toaay 6:37 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:53 a.m. Moonset tonight . Midnight First Quarter April 3 This month the stars of Spring I Dcruim more prominent in the I eastern sky. Amung them (looking from north to south) are Vega, Arr.turus and splca. French Ignore Khrushchev; Set Off Blast Paris -(UPD- France trigger ed its second atomic explosion in the Sahara today, ignoring objections from Soviet Pre mier Nikita S. Khrushchev who is here on a slate visit. The blast went off success fully at the desolate French test site near Reggane lust a few hours before Khrushchev and President de Gaulle were to resume their secret talks. Would Be Displeased Only last Wednesday Khru shchev had said It would be better for humanity if no more nuclear explosions were set off ever. In addition, It had been reported that before arriving March 23 he sent word ahead to Paris that he would be displeased at any French nuclear blast while he was on French soil. But de Gaulle; avowedly aiming to ntuke France the world's fourth atomic power unless there is general global disarmament, brushed off the objections and told nuclear of ficials not to hold up any tests just because of Khrushchev s visit. Accord Hinted Soviet sources said Khru shchev would not regard the explosion as an affront. West ern sources said they doubted it would affect the current: trend toward a nuclear test ban agreement in Geneva among the United States, Bri tain and Russia. Khrushchev fully aware that France was getting ready for a second atomic explosion, hinted Thursday night that the Big Three might reach a nuclear accord within six weeks. The announcement of to day's explosion said it was of low power," indicating that the device was smaller than the first blast Feb. 13 which had an estimated yield of 60, 000 to 70,000 tons of TNT -about triple the yield of the Hiroshima explosion in World War U. Grants Pass Paper Honors Publisher Grants Pass - (UPD - Em ployees of the Grants Pass Courier today honored Pub lisher A. E Voorhics upon oc casion of the newspaper's dia mond anniversary. The first edition of the newspaper was published April 3. 1885. Voorhics, who will be 91 in June, has been publisher of the Courier for 63 years. Employees today presented Voorhics with a diamond to be placed in a solid gold printer's rule which was given the publisher on the news paper's 50th anniversary. About 75 employees, for mer employees and friends gathered at the newspaper. Dr. Engle Nominated For Board Position Ashland - Dr. Daniel Engle, Ashland dentist, was the only candidate for the vacancy on the Ashland school board early today, spokesman at school district headquarters reported. Deadline for peti tions submitting is 5 o'clock this afternoon. A petition is being circu lated for possible second candidate, the spokesman said. The board vacancy is for I five-year term. I" zfrn,5Tjymm?xw ' " 111 " i Iff'" ' s t' s t'f ;s'-V' , . il d !'J , , S3 : imnt - it- I lit.;. - I I I Second Election Set in Districts April 27 has been set for a second election in the Evans Valley school district on the proposed reorganization plan, according to County School Superintendent Alt B. Mek vold. Petitions from Evans Val ley containing the required number of signatures of leg ally registered voters have been filed in the county school superintendent's office calling for the election, Mck void said. A total of 112 signa tures of the 120 submitted have been verified. A number equal to 50 per cent of those who voted on reorganization before is required. The election will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. April 27. If a simple majority in the Evans Valley district approves reor ganization with Rogue River district the new administra tive district will become ef fective July 1, Mckvold said. If a simple majority fails to favor reorganization then the Jackson county reorganiza tion committee may change the reorganization plan and resubmit it to the state board of education or it can wait a year and submit the same plan. In either case, the plan will go through the same pro cess as before, Mekvold said, including hearings and an election. ; North Bend Worker Killed in Accident Coos Bay - IUPI) - Norman Hobson, North Bend, a shift foreman at the Georgia-Pacific hardboard plant near here was killed today while work working on a board unloadcr. 1,030 REGISTER Ashland- Enrollment at Southern Oregon college after the fourth day of registration is 1,030, (lie college announced today. The figure represents a 15 per cent increase over the same day of last spring term. SATELLITE LAUNCHED The United States today launch ed a Tiros earth satellite carrying two television cameras to photograph the world's weather from 400 miles deep in space, ine satellite is snown tne tnira stage ot the three-stage Thor-Able launch vehicle, as it was given its final check before launching. At right, the rocket, carrying the 270 pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Satellite To Take v Clouds Cape Canaveral, Fla. -(UPD The. United States put a sa ellite into urbit around the earth today to photograph the world s weather conditions from space. There were re ports it showed a big storm area over the Midwest. A Weather Bureau official in Washington said several hours after launch that the Tiros satellite already had sent back some "very fine pic- lures" of the earth's cloud and storm pattern. Feasibility Shown Harry Wexler, chief mete orologist for the Weather Bu reau said the satellite's suc cess "established the feasibil ity of space weather stations no question about it." The 270-pound satellite's findings may give scientists a way to predict well in advance the weather movements that trigger tornadoes, hurricanes and storms that lash the earth's surface. Although a civilian project, Tiros may have military im plications. Such a satellite would be useful In predicting weather far enough in ad vance to enable exact plan ning of troop movements dur ing wartime. Information Supplied T. Keith Glennan, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said in Washington it is too early to evaluate information from Tiros. All that NASA officials would say is that the satellite has been Interrogated and that It has supplied infor mation, NASA said it had achieved a high degree of accuracy in putting the satellite in orbit. Dr. Abe Silverstein, direc tor of space flight programs April Fool's Not New To London - (UPD - April Fools Day is the one time of the year that Mrs. Audrey EUls- don finally gets some relief from the practical Jokes her husband always la playing on her. Her husband, as Mrs. Ellis- don explained It in a Daily Express Interview today, Is a manufacturer of April Fools Jokes. Since today marks the height of the season for him, he la Just too busy and too tired to do the usual things, like, for instance, putting bugs in her breakfast cereal. "Life has Just been a string of exploding cigars since my marriage 12 years ago," Mrs. Ellisdon Mid. in the above photo, resting on pound satellite, blasts from its (UPI Telephotos) Photos tor the agency, 'said the satel lite was . circling the earth once every 99.15 minutes. At its low point it is 435.3 miles above the earth and at it high point 468.28 miles. May Releas. Pictures Silverstein said the satel lite's orbit comes very close to the perfect circle intended. The orbit is at an angle of 48.327 degrees northwest from the equator, almost exactly the angle attempted. Morris Tepper, chief of NASA's meteorological satel lite program, said "we have been in touch with the satel lite and it seems to be per forming quite well." Tepper said the agency - hoped to be able to distribute to the press pictures sent back to earth by the TV cameras. The delicate compact pay- load rode in the nose shroud of the Thor-Able rocket, one of the most reliable in the U.S. stable of space vehicles. Public Hearing ime Is Announced A public hearing on state public welfare legislations will begin at 10:30 a.m. Tues day, April 5, in Medford. The hearing will be con ducted by the state legisla tive Interim committee on public welfare. It will be held the courthouse auditorium. The hearing, to get local views on welfare administra tion in Oregon, is one of sev eral being held throughout the state. Salem UPD James F. Short was sworn in today as th. I state's, director of agriculture. Day Jokes This Woman "When I first met my hus band, he always had odd little things in his pocket. I am smoker, and he would hand me cigarettes that went bang. He put floating beetles in beer and wiggling worms In wa ter." Mrs. Ellisdon said these little jokes still were In full swing and she had even be come accustomed to having April fools yean Instead of days. "It's all part of our lives," she said. She struck a match to light a cigarette and It exploded. "See?" she said with a milt.
