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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.
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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.