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Antarctica Expedition Account Starts Today Regional Edition 55th Year Price 10 Cents MEDFORD Tribune r-i.?T;r:-T:wtf'M;w; IM)) ( v 40 PAGES Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1960 No. 27 This is the Navy's largest, most power ful icebreaker, the USS Glacier, shown off the Ice barrier of the Amundsen sea during the Bellingshausen sea expedition Operation Deep Freeze 1960. The 310-foot ship, along with the USS Burton Island, penetrated a coast of An tarctica never before approached by land or sea. The Glacier, with 21,000 horsepower, was stopped several times by heavy ice during the expedition. Aboard the Glaicer were several sci entists who obtained data about the Bel-lingshausen-Amundson sea areas. Also on board were representatives of United Press International and various newspapers throughout the country, including Herb Rebel Forces End Uprising In Venezuela Caracas, Venezuela - (UPD - The main rebel forces In San Cristobal surrendered today after a 24-hour uprising and the government poured in troop reinforcements to wipe out the last small pockets of resistance. The attempted revolution against President Romulo Bet ancourt fizzled when rebel leader Jesus Maria Castro Leon failed to win the support of the army or people. , , Fled Into Jungles The government said Castro Leon had fled San Cristobal into the jungles of Venezuela and that all likely escape routes to neighboring Colom bia appeared cut off. .- Castro Leon's main lieuten ants were captured. Col. Juan de Dios Moncada Vidal was taken prisoner in Rubio six miles from the border. So was Col. Francisco Lizarazo who set off the rebellion Wednes day by turning the San Cris tobal garrison over to Castro Leon, a backer of ousted Dic tator Carlos Perez Jiminez. Very Few Casualties The San Cristobal rebels surrendered to armed civil ians loyal to Betancourt. To day truckloads of troops ar rived in San Cristobal from the garrisons at Barquisimeto and San Antonio. Others were en route. There were remarkably few casualties in the short-lived revolt, one of many attempted against Betancourt in the past year or so by Castro Leon and Moncada. Both are former government officials. Reports on Bullets Received in County Bullets fired from a .22 cali ber pistol taken from men arrested in Redding, Calif., were not fired from the same weapon that killed Mrs. Mar ian Stella Hamilton, an Ash land rancher's wife, March 15. The report was received to day by the Jackson county sheriff's office from the state crime laboratory at Salem. The gun was taken from two men by California authorities. The men are charged with armed robbery and kidnap. Leads being received by the sheriff's office are still being checked, sheriff's deputies re . ported today. Many of the leads come from other law en forcement agencies when an arrest is made of a person who resembles the artist's conception of a subject ob served near the scene shortly before the shooting. Ex-Portland Accused of Bank Robbery Greenville, S. C. -flltt- A former Oregon policeman was accused of robbing a bank here of $18,510. He was ar rested because of the "in stinct" of a Negro minister 11 minutes after the robbery. Willie Eldridge Patton, 35, former Portland officer, was arrested when the Rev. H. O. Mims saw him transfer money and a pistol from one car to another a block from the bank and change his coat and shirt. Instinct told me. 'that's the man'," Mimms said. He tent a - y Question of Family Counseling Talked Should the county enter the family counseling field? This is the question present ed at a public hearing called by the county court last night. Approximately 40 people, most of them apparently fa voring the proposal, attended the meeting in the county courthouse auditorium. Four or five persons from the rural part of the county backed the opposition of John Niedermeyer, Jaekson v i 1 1 e Hoover Bids to Be Opened May 10 Bids for construction of a classroom addition to Hoover school will be opened by the Medford school board May 10 instead of April 26, as previ ously planned, school officials has announced. Bids will be for ' a three classroom addition with two alternates. One alternate will be for a fourth room, and the second will be for two class rooms. The school board earlier this month authorized the school administration to pro ceed with plans for an addi tional two rooms at Hoover on the basis of necessity and The additional alternate of two classrooms at Hoover was approved because of inflation and the fact the rooms will be needed. Board members said they have been approached by district patrons encouraging the most economical program feasible. Plans 'for other classroom additions are progressing sat isfactorily, a d m i n i strators said. Bids will be called soon for construction of classroom addtions at West Side and Oak Grove schools, and Hedrick and Hedrick and McLoughlin Junior High schools. Woman Burned by Electric Heater Mrs. Lloyd Black, 2467 Barnett rd., is in serious con dition at Rogue Valley hos pital from burns suffered at her home this morning, ac cording to a hospital report. City firemen, sent to the Black home when a house fire report was received, stated that Mrs. Black was severely burned from the waist down when her clothing ignited from contact with an open-faced portable electric heater. The hospital said Mrs. Black also received burns on her back. She was taken to the hospital by ambulance. Firemen were called about 7:40 a.m. Policeman high school student racing for police. The robber had flashed his pistol at the teller's cage of Mrs. Bobbie Furr in the South Carolina National bank and forced her to fill a paper sack with money. Pattnn was turned over to the FBI and bond was set at $3,500. In Portland, police said Patton left the department last year after seven years of service. Officers quoted him as saying he was fed up with police work. Grey, advertising manager of the Mail Tribune. Press representatives were Invited on the trip as part of the Navy's program of public relations and a policy to take news paper representatives on expeditions so they may observe first hand how the Navy op erates. Grey recently returned from the 70-day trip, which is considered one of the most important expeditions by the Navy in the Antarctica. During the trip, he kept account of his impressions of the experience, the places he visited, the people he met, and the things he did. The first installment of the account ap pears on page 6B of today's Mail Tribune. area farmer and businessman. At the end of the meeting, a doctor favoring the idea thanked Niedermeyer for "pointed and probing" ques tions, which he said helped clarify the thinking of the group. Many of those attending were representatives of the Jackson County League of Women Voters, doctors and their wives, social workers, and representatives of the public health association. Proposal Reviewed The proposal is for the county to contribtue $2,000 toward adding a family coun seling service to the present program of the county's child guidance clinic. Total cost would be $8,250. Of this, $400 would come from other clinic income such as memberships, $300 from clinic fees, $2,150 from the United Medford Cru sade, and the remainder, $4,850 from the state board of health. Expenses in the tentative budget include $7,200 for a psychiatric social worker, $600 for travel, $150 for office expenses and $300 for educa tion and publicity. The $2,000 which the coun ty would contribute to the family counseling program would be in addition to the $2,000 it contribtues each year to help operate the child guidance clinic, it was ex plained. The state would pay 50 per cent of the counseling pro gram the first year, but the county would be expected to assume an increasing share of the costs after the first year, according to Harold Snod- grass, president of the South ern Oregon Child Guidance clinic. (Additional details on the public hearing will appear in the Mail Tribune Friday.) $11,000 Approved For Decline Study Salem (UPD The state board of higher education has approved a request for $11, 000 for continued research on the problem of pear decline in the Medford area. Researchers are not sure yet what has caused the pear trees to wither and, in many cases, die. The situation has given growers concern since 1957. The $11,000 will be added to $5,000 from Oregon State college and $2,000 from the growers themselves to make up the $18,000 needed to con tinue the project. Jackson county pear grow ers appeared before the emer gency board last February and said the needed research would be discontinued June 30 if additional funds could not be obtained. Jackson Takes Oath For Highway Post Salem -(UPD- Glenn Jackson, Medford, today was sworn in by Gov. Mark Hatfield to an other three-year term on the State Highway Commission. Powell Tax Evasion Case Received by Jury New York-iUPtt-The tax eva sion case of Rep. Adam Clay ton Powell Jr. (D-N.Y.) went to jury in federal court today. Communication Satellite Orbit Attempt Planned May 5 Set as Launching Date Houston, Tex. (UPD Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Texas) revealed to day that the United States on May 5 will try to orbit a com munications satellite which he said could "completely revo lutionize global communica tion. Johnson, in a speech here, said that television can be ex pected to "benefit greatly" from the satellite - called Echo. The satellite will be a 100- foot balloon. The National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration will launch the balloon, folded into a 26-inch container, with a three-stage Thor-Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. An attempt will be made to put it into a 1,000-mile high orbit. Johnson said NASA is an nouncing the Echo project to day. He said the agency agreed to announce this launching two weeks in ad vance, instead of just one, at his suggestion. The longer notice, he said, would enable the world's' scientific com munity to prepare for more adequate tracking and com municating with the satellite. Johnson challenged Russia to join America in peaceful attacks on the problems rang ing from space to disease and disarmament. In a prepared speech before a state Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, he said this country's peaceful inter est in outer space already has been demonstrated. Counties Asked To Help Chambers Members of the Jackson and Josephine county courts Wednesday afternoon discuss ed a request by Ashland, Med ford, Grants Pass, andCave Junction Chambers of Com merce for financial help in the printing of a district brochure. According to Judge Earl Miller, a request for $8,000 from the two counties had been made by the chambers. The brochure would promote the two-county area and re place numerous pamphlets and leaflets now printed by individual chambers. No decision was reached, Miller said. The requested $4,000 from Jackson county would be double that given the chambers by the court in previous years. Last year the court gave Ashland $750 and Medford $1,250. Further discussions are be ing planned by the two courts, it was reported. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloiirtv to nlffht and Friday and r older to night with low temperature 30 32. High Friday 6Z-6S. Temp. Hleheit Yeitfrday 65 Lowest thll Morning 39 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 02 Our Skies Tonight Kunspt today 7:00 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 5:20 a.m. Moon hue tomorrow 3:51 a.m. New Moon April 25 The planet. Mars, seen near the Moon tonight. It slowly growing brighter, It Is now about 174 million miles from the Earth. "I Think Thoie Demonstrations Are In East To Gontsol Traffic United States Applies Pressure OnSyngman Rhee Cabinet Quits as Result of Rioting Seoul, Korea - lUPI) - The United States was reported applying strong pressure on President Syngman Rhee to day to fire controversial Vice President Lee Ki Poong and give his enraged political op position another crack at the job. Rhee's entire Cabinet re signed today as result of Tuesday's bloody near-rebellion in which official figures said 115 persons were killed and 748 injured. Rhee still had not formally accepted the resignation, but a cabinet re shuffle appeared certain. Started Over Elections Tuesday's violent anti-gov ernment rioting was touched off originally by nation-wide resentment at the recent presi dential elections in which Rhee's hand-picked candidate, Lee, defeated incumbent Vice President John M. Chang. Rhee's political opponents said the elections were rigged and that there was widespread fraud. They note'1, that Chang easily defeated- Lee the last time they were epposed and that this time Chang did not carry the big cities where the opposition Democratic party has great strength. New Elections Urged U.S. Ambassador Walter P. McConaughy conferred with Rhee for more than an hour sources said he was applying strong pressure for Lee to re sign, for Rhee to reshuffle his Caoinet and for Rhee to call new vice presidential elec tions. Chang called on President Eisenhower to help force the South Korean government to call new elections but said there must be new presi dential elections as well. He said it would be "utterly il logical" just to hold vice presi dential elections. Salem Man Sure Suspect Not Killer Salem - (UPD - The owner of a men's clothing store here told police that a young man who walked out of the store Wednesday with more than $200 in cash and clothing re sembled a police drawing of an Ashland murder suspect. Alex Jones of the Alex Jones men's wear store said afterward, however, he felt sure it "wasn't the same per son." Salem police detectives con tinued the investigation today. The drawing, in artist's conception of the man who may have been involved In the March 15 slaying of Mrs. Marian Stella Hamilton in Ashland, has been circulated to Oregon police agencies. Passive Resistance The American Tradition" erlin tmi Mm I "fi'J 4 , V - - vf k - ,4 I BALLOTS PRINTED Holding a sample ballot for the Josephine county Democratic party, Royal Bebb, president of Commercial Printers, Medford, compares Its size with a Jackson county Republican ballot being held by Employee Mrs. Paul Parson. The Josephine county ballot is 38 inches long, one of the largest ever printed here. Press man Paul Parson looks on. A total of about Dog Control Law Not Publicized Jacksonville Mayor E. O Griham: said. . today that pub lic hearings on the city's new I dog control ordinance had not been publicized. A Mail Tribune story Wed nesday said the hearings "had been well-advertised." Graham added that he had checked with City Attorney Ervin Hogan, who told him it is legal to put through an ordinance without advertis ing it." He referred to pub licity on public hearings. Speaking o the petition signed by 33 persons and pre sented to the council Tuesday night, Graham said a dog con trol law definitely would be placed on the ballot for the Nov. 8 general elections. The council usually makes it a practice to publicize pub lic hearings on proposed ordinances, Graham con tinued, but "slipped up" in not doing so on the dog con trol issue. Hearings on recent zoning and building code or dinances were publicized, he explained. The new dog control or dinance, passed March 15 and enforced beginning April 1, is still in effect. Graham also added that a long-standing ordinance controls dogs from April 1 to August 1, often re ferred to as "garden days." 218 Pints of Blood Collected in City ' A total of 218 pints of blood was collected during a visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile at the local chapter house yes terday, Red - Cross officials said today. Quota for the Medford visit was 290 pints. There were 121 "drop-In" donors, Red Cross officials said. They expressed appreciation for the number of drop-in donors. At Shady Cove Tuesday, 85 pints were collected. Quota at Shady Cove was 100 pints, The Bloodmobile will re turn to Medford In June, local Red Cross officials said. Delbert Crow Returned To Jackson Count Delbert Lee Crow was re turned to Jackson county last night by Jackson county sher iff's deputies from the state penitentiary. Crow was returned here after Circuit Judge Val D. Sloper, Salem, Friday set aside Crow's 25-year state prison sentence. Crow was sentenced Aug. 3, 1955, for burglary involving explosives of the Mason and Ehrman company warehouses, Mid-lord, Police SW District Elects Wendt as AOC Airs County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt of Jackson county was unanimously elected chairman of the southwestern Oregon district of the Associ ation of Oregon Counties yes terday at a meeting in Grants Pass. County Commissioner Fred Flynn, Curry county, was elected alternate. County Judge Jim Harrison, Coos county, was commended for services given while he was chairman. In other action yesterday afternoon, the AOC district members voted to refer a re quested allocation for study of allowable timber cut data to the AOC public lands com mittee. The committee will be instructed to get an explan ation from the regional office of the forest service on its allowable cut policy. Survey Already Done Jackson County Judge Earl Miller said he thought it was foolish for the AOC district members to contribute $10, 000 to finance a survey which has already been made. A member of the lumber indus try said today he thought the national forest was doing a "realistic job" on allowable cut. Joe McCrackcn, executive secretary of Western Forest Industries association, said a survey made by an indepen dent forestry consultant show ed the forest service was too conservative in setting allow able cut figures. Timber can not be "stored on the stump," he declared. Kenneth C. Tolenaar, execu tive secretary of AOC, review ed legislation proposed by the association which will be pre sented the state legislature in January. This included establishing Repossession Sought in A suit was filed In circuit court ' this week by Frank Fanger, executor for the es tate of the late Cora Henrick son, seeking repossession of savings bonds accidentally sold at a public auction. The complaint asks restora tion of six $750 savings bonds which were found by Floyd Havnlear after he bought for 25 cents a waste basket con taining the bonds and other miscellaneous articles. Sole Beneficiary Nebraska Wesleyan univer sity of Lincoln, Neb., is the sole beneficiary of the estate. Mrs. Henrickson, whoss hom Fail in Try on Railways 48,000 official and sample ballots for both parties will be off the press in about a week, at which time sample ballots will be distrib uted throughout the county, according to County Clerk Marvin Madden. Primary elections will be held Monday, May 20. The Jackson county Democratic party primary ballot will be about the same length as the Josephine county ballot. Chairman; Problems county service districts service costs could be charged to the people benefitted, li- f In East Germany, the Com censing businesses outside in-1 munist-run National Front corpora ted cities, retirement program for county officials, repeal of the county school levy, appraisal of farm lands a heir agricultural value for I. purposes and not as pos sible subdivisions, giving the counties authority to issue Bancroft bonds for street im provements, and a state con stitutional amendment which would make it pos. ible for a tax base, once established, to remain available as the basis for computation of a future tax levy even though more than three years have inter vened since the date of the last levy. It was noted that many counties are adopting welfare work relief programs. Doug las county is contacting peo ple now for a pilot program. - Most of the morning session was taken up with an explan ation of a new predatory and pest control program for counties under the U.S. fish and wild life service adminis tration. The state and federal governments would pay 60 per cent of the cost of hiring government trappers, the counties the remainder. The counties would also pay 40 per cent of mileage costs, the cost of keeping a horse, and frienge benefits for the gov ernment trappers. Montreal Ready To -Wecome de Gauffe Montrcal-IUPIt-French Presl. dent Charles de Gaulle was to fly here from Quebec City to day Into what Is expected to be the greatest welcome Can ada's biggest city has given anyone except British royalty. of Savings Bonds Is Circuit Court was at 103 Lapree at., Talent, died Nov. 8, 1959, In an Ash land hospital: Property of Mrs. Henrick son was appraised Dec. S, and Inventory taken, the com plaint states, but the presence of the bonds was unknown to Fanger at the time, according to the complaint. Furniture, furnishings and household effects of Cora Hen rickson were sold at public auction at the Henrickson home by B St B Auction com pany. It was there that Hav nlear bought an empty two gallon milk can and the waste basket for 23 cents. Move Part of Effort To Stem Refugee Flood West Berlin Police Race To Stations . Berlin (OPB Communist po lice entered West Berlin today and tried to impose anti refugee control on elevated railways in the allied areas. They fled back across the Iron Curtain when West German police showed up. ine move was part of a des perate Communist effort to halt a sudden mass flight of refugees from the Soviet oc cupation zone. Earlier the Reds had ordered a slowdown in their nationalization of small businesses to try to stem the tide of refugees. Travelers Questioned The elevated railway, un der four - power occupation statutes, is run by the Com munists. But this was the first time in two years they had tried to carry out controls on West Berlin stations. Today tney questioned travelers and searched their luggage. West Berlin police raced to the railway stations despite protests of Communist work ers and halted the searches.. Two East German policemen were arrested; others jumped on the trains and rod back. into the eastern sector. In the past week more than 8,000 East Germans have fled to West Berlin -the highest figures since the anti-Corn-' munist revolt in June, 1053. Many ot them travel on the elevated railways which have sofiese passenger checks than (other border crossings. said no new steps would be taken to force craftsmen and small businessmen into collec tives. The Communist drive against private farmers and businessmen was behind the new flood of refugees. The last private farms were col lectivized last week, and hun dreds ot farmers fled rather than go to work as laborers on land they once owned. Other refugees included properous members of the middle class in large numbers for the first time. These en gineers, shopkeepers, and craftsmen were also hit by the nationalization of their prop erty. Treasurer Leaves For Bend Meetings Karl Janouch, county treas urer, will leave Friday morn ing for Bend where he will attend a special meeting of the County Treasurer s associ ation. Prior to meeting, he plans to attend sessions of the city finance officers' group. Among speakers at the county treasurer's meeting . will be State Treasurer How ard C. Belton and the chief state auditor who handles the justice court records. ' Agenda Items include the segregation and allocation of the new tax on trailers and the new license fee on boats. Hood River - UPD - County Judge Arvo A. Hukari, 66, died today after suffering a stroke. Suit Here Mrs. Havniear reportedly discovered the bonds while sorting the items In the bas ket. Havniear has demanded that Fanger endorse over to him the bonds he (Havniear) claims. Fanger, in turn, demands return of the bonds. His com plaint alleges that the bonds were not part ot the basket claimed to have been pur chased by the defendant. Attorney Frank Van Dyke represents Fanger. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Dennis are said to be handling the Havinears' legal affairs. i i
