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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
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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"
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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.
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