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Newspaper Page TextDe Gaulle Says Delegates Arriving For Congress Off Parents, Teachers More than 1,000 delegates are expected in Medford Tues. day for the 47th convention of the Oregon Congress of Parents and Teachers, The convention will continue through Thursday. Members of the executive committee arrived today for a meeting this afternoon. Reg istration will start this eve ning and continue Tuesday morning. Mrs. Leon S. Price, Dallas, Texas, publicity chairman for the National Congress of Par ents and Teachers, will be the keynote speaker for the con vention. She will speak on "The In dividual's Challenge to the PTA." Her address is sched uled for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. Later in the convention she will install officers and par ticipate as a consultant in the publicity-historian workshop. Mrs. Price has been a mem ber of the national board since 1953 when she was pres ident of the Texas Congress. She is now the nominee for vice president of Region VI for the National Congress. Congress President President of the Oregon Congress is Mrs. Leigh Gusti son, Medford. She will preside at the general sessions held at Hedrick Junior High school. Theme of the convention will be "The Individual-His Needs-Potential and Fulfill ment." At the beginning of the con vention Gov. Mark O. Hat field and other civic and edu cational leaders of Jackson county and Oregon will ex tend greetings to the dele gates. Tuesday's schedule follow. Ing the keynote address will include committee reports and presentation of candidates and a luncheon for unit and coun cil presidents. Tuesday after noon a symposium on "The Individual's Challenge to the Community" will be held. At 4:30 p.i.i. voting on officers will begin at Hedrick school and at 5:30 p.m. regional din ners are scheduled. Dr. Paul Wright, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Port land, will speak at 7:30 p.m. on "The Individual's Chal lenge to the Home." Hospital Opening Set Next Month Formal dedication cere monies and a two-day public open house next month will officially open the new Crater Osteopathic hospital at Cen tral Point. The modern $250,000 hos pital will be open for public inspection on both Saturday and Sunday, May 21-22. Dedi cation ceremonies are sched uled for 2 p.m. Sunday. Local and state dignitaries are ex pected to participate In the program. The single-story 29-bed hos pital is built for easy expan sion to 60 beds. It is a com plete hospital, with two major surgeries, modern X-ray and laboratory, maternity wing, television piped to all patient rooms, and the latest hospital equipment. Some $50,000 is being spent for new equip ment. The new hospital will be be occupied following the dedication. It will replace the present Medford Osteopathic hospital, founded in 1935 by the late Dr. W. W. Howard, Medford. A painting honor ing the founder who pioneer ed osteopathy in southern Ore gon will hang in the hospital lobby. Portland - IUPD - The contro (ial $25,000 mural at the Pa cific International Livestock building was to be painted over today at a cost of $650. Sweepstakes, Winners Told Sweepstakes winners in the 1960 Pear Blossom Festi val Parade Saturday were St. Mary's Cub Scouts, best theme portrayal; Michael and Mark Lamont, best design, and Scott McDonald, best comic entry. First place winners includ ed Shnrlene and Harold Ross, non-powered individual divi sion; Brownie Troop 105, vehicle decoration division; Teresa and Eric Hogan, ani mals or pets; Walter Lee and Kathy Kurz. costumed walk ing groups; Central Point Jaycettes, organ i z a 1 1 o n a 1 floats; Cub Scout Pack I. or ganization division, and Ethel Marrs, Granuj Pass, Individual division. MRS. LEON S. PRICE Convention Keynoter Talent-Phoenix School Board Has 14 Candidates Fourteen candidates have filed for election to the school board in the newly organized Talent-Phoenix area district, according to the county school superintendent's office. Registered voters of the Wagner Creek-Talent-Phoenix areas will elect a seven man board during school district elections May 2. Residents of the Wagner Creek and Talent areas will vote in the Talent grade school and those of Phoenix in the Phoenix grade school gymnasium from 2 to 8 p.m. that day. All voters vote for the board of seven directors, ac cording to Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent. They will vote for three names representing Zones 1, 2 and 3 of Wagner Creek and Talent and four names representing Zones 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Phoe nix. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes will serve a five year term, the next highest 4 years, and the next two candidates, three year terms, the next candi date, two years and the re maining candidate, one year. Those running for election for the Talent and Wagner Creek zones are James B. Cyphers, Joyce Goodrich, Samuel O. James, Lynn W. Newbry and Harold L. Schmelzer. Candidates from the Phoenix zones are Pauline M. Baker, J. Curtis Barnes, Opie Eugene Frazier, Jean nette P. Grove, J. Allen Har ris, Melvin J. Lattie, M. Don ald McGreary, Merle Sim monds, and Fred H. Wilcox. Were You Counted? Campaign Starts With the 1960 census of population and housing vir tually completed locally, Dis trict Supervisor E. G. Bates today announced the begin ning of a "Were You Count ed?" campaign to insure that no resident of the area has been overlooked. Those who believe they have been missed by census takers are urged to notify the census district office by means of "Were You Counted?" forms. This form is available in today's Mail Tribune on Page 3 B. Prompt mailing of the form, it was reported, will speed up the compilation of pre liminary population figures for the area. Hatfield Industrial Park Plan Praised Salem-dlPB-An aide to Presi dent Eisenhower today prais ed Gov. Mark Hatfield's pro gram to establish a huge In dustrial park along the Co lumbia river In eastern Ore gon. First Place for Parade Other winners will be list ed in Tuesday's Mail Tribune. Queen Cathy Carlon and King Vance Navarretle reigned over the proceedings. Guests for the event Included the princesses of the Rhodo dendren Festival, Florence. Bands from a number of Jack son county schools partici pated in the parade. Russ Jamison, president of the Pear Blossom Festival as sociation, served as master of ceremonies at the awards pre sentation. Robert Boyer in troduced the Parade Marshal Sen. John F. Kennedy. James Dunlevy, president of the Medford .city council, spoke representing Mayor John W. Snider. ... , France Big 3 Failure To Destroy Pile Would Bring Step Joint Session Hears Frenchman Washington-dJPD - French President Charles de Gaulle told Congress today that un less the United States, Britain and Russia agree to destroy their nuclear weapons, Franch will be compelled to stock pile them. He told a joint session of the House and Senate that not only peace but life itself "will be in jeopardy if the tempta tion and the threat of war re main hanging over the world due to nuclear weapons." De Gaulle, whose govern ment exploded the first French atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert earlier this year, said: "Failing the re nunciation of atomic arma ments by those states who are provided with them, the French Republic obviously will be obliged to equip itself with such armaments." Leaders End Talks De Gaulle spoke to the joint session after he and President Eisenhower con cluded their pre-summit talks in general agreement on grand strategy for next month's Paris meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khur shchev. The American and French leaders and their foreign min isters conferred only a few hours after Khrushchev said in a speech in the Soviet city of Baku that the western pow ers would lose all rights of access, even by air, to Red encircled Berlin if they re fused to sign a peace treaty with Communist East Ger many. Camp David Conference Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville sat in with the two presidents to hear their strate gy decisions, made at a top secret Camp David conference Sunday. De Gaulle and Eisen hower reported after the Camp David meeting they were in general accord . on "how we shall proceed at the summit which begins May 16 in Paris. Hatfield Schedule Told for Tuesday Gov. Mark O. Hatfield will arrive in Medford Tuesday morning at 9:42 o'clock from Salem. Shortly after his arrival he will give greetings to the Con vention of the Oregon Con gress of Parents and Teachers, which begins T'lesday in Med ford. He will speak at Hed rick Junior High school. Following his talk he will address a joint meeting of the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs at the Rogue Valley Country club at noon. Local Republicans will hold an informal reception for Governor Hatfield between 2 and 3 p.m. at Republican Headquarters, 3 West Sixth st. All county Republican candidates will be present. Prior to his return to Sal em, Governor Hatfield will visit the site of the proposed Agate dam project in the Antelope Valley, and the Med ford armory. The bureau of reclamation report approving construction of the Agate dam project is now in the hands of state officials, and must receive the governor's approval before be ing considered by coigress. The governor also was instru mental in obtaining funds for seating at the armory, and has expressed an interest In its further development as a multi-purpose community fa cility. The governor will leave Medford shortly after 6 p.m. TUESDAY SPEAKER Ashland - Walter Higgins, executive director of Rogue Valley Manor, will be guest speaker at tomorrow's noon luncheon meeting of the Ash land Chamber of Commerce at Omar's. WEATHER FORECAST: Cloudy with little light rain tonight. Variable rloudlneii with a few ihowert Tufftriay. Low tonight 40. High Tueiday 0. TKMPFRATURR Htcheit Yesterday Lowest Thin Morning 41 PRECIPITATION To 10 a.m. Today Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 1,95 p.m. Runrlse tomorrow ...... 5:14 a.m. New Moon today 1:45 p.m. PROMINENT CON ST F.I.I. ATI ON l.en. In the tooth at iiimel will he in the west at . . 12:1 a.m. The Moon (now InvttiMe pastes through l.en every month. May Be QUAKE WRECKS IRAN VILLA6E Many Women, Children Among Death Victims Estimated 1,500 Killed by Temblors Tehran, Iran - IUPD - Two iiiajui ctti uiquuKt-'S L'Ullipieuy i razed" the remote village of i Lar in the midst of a chil dren's day celebration Sun day, and rescue crews work- I ing in scenes of horror and confusion estimated the dead at 1,000 to 1,500. First reports said most of the quake victims were wom en and children. Most of the town's youngsters were as sembled in the school when the first tremor hit, collapsing the structure. One official said the death toll "might even exceed" 1,500. By noon today, 400 bodies were report ed removed from the wreck age. Three hundred were buried immediately to ease the threat of epidemic. Troops Ordered To Area Shah Mohammed Reza Pah levi ordered Iranian troops into the stricken area with tents and supplies. Small air planes landing on a hastily carved out emergency land ing strip airlifted food and medicine and were bringing out some of the most serious ly injured. However, they could carry only six persons at a time. Lar is 500 miles southwest of Tehran, the capital, and is accessible only over a danger ous mountain road or by light plane. Houses Rased An eye-witness report giv en by a Red Cross official on the spot said: "This is the worst scene of disaster and devastation I have ever seen. All the houses were razed to the ground. "Mothers begged us to try to have their children from under the,,.r.uiiu jt(U hoping they were alive. "The poor peasants were trying desperately to dig their cattle and sheep out of the ruins - in many cases this they had left in the world." stock was the only possession Damage Suit Enters Third Day in Court The $58,500 damage suit in volving Mrs. Mildred Wilkins, Medford Convalescent home operator, and a Los Angeles driver entered its third day today In Jackson county cir cuit court. Testimony presented In be half of Mrs. Wilkins, the plain tiff, is expected to finish to day. The case results from an auto accident on Aug. 9, 1957 at Eighth and Holly sts. when cars driven by Mrs. Wilkins and Englebert Stengler, Los Angeles, Calif., collided. Mrs. Wilkins claims she re ceived injuries during the ac cident which hampered her from operating her convales cent home. Those who have testified for Mrs. Wilkins so far in clude three doctors and the plaintiff. Salem-IUPll-Wesley A. Phil lips, Gladstone, has been named executive secretary of the Oregon Nixon - for Presi dent committee with head quarters in Portland. "Tell Me, A One Old Soldier To Another, How Doe. It Feel Actually To Run A Government?" Forced Regional Edition Medford 16 Pages Symington Not Interested in Oregon Votes By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - Sen. Stuart Symington doesn't want anyone to vote for him in the Oregon primary May 20 -the only presidential candi date who can make that state ment. In contrast to the three other announced contenders -Sens. Wayne Morse, John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humph rey, all of whom are seeking votes in the Oregon primary Symington is shunning this localized test of strength. He has not been to Oregon since the presidential race got going, and he does not plan to set foot in the state until after the primary. The reason for slaying clear of all the primaries is that Symington thinks he can win the nomination without test ing his popular appeal at this stage against the other Demo cratic aspirants. He is relying heavily on some polls taken of the persons who served as delegates to the 1956 Demo cratic national convention which show him to be the sec ond choice of a majority - second to Sen. Kennedy. Expects Switch Symington believes that as the contenders enter the con' vention at Los Angeles in July, Kennedy and Sen. Lyn don B. Johnson will be out in front with the largest blocs of delegates. He is counting on neither of them being strong enough to defeat the other, and when one falters that his delegates will switch to Symington. The Missouri senator . has had a confidential talk with ex-President Harry S. Tru man, but he won't tell anyone what the result was. It is generally thought Truman will endorse Symington at the convention. Between now and July, Sy mington is planning a series of speeches around the coun try to cover all the prominent issues and to express his point of view on them. He wants to abolish all thojght that he is a "one issue" candidate who can't deal with anything but the state of American de fenses. Symington explains that as senator assigned to the Armed Services, Agriculture and the Space committees, he has concentrated on those fields. This explains why he talks mostly about military and farm problems, he says. Two Benson Mistakes On the farm problem, Sy mington thinks Secretary Ezra T. Benson has persisted in two mistakes - that lower support prices and acreage control would reduce production. The farmer needs more dollars to pay off investment and costa, so he produces more instead To Stockpile Nuclear Weapons MEDFORD, of less, says Symington, who would impose production con trols in terms of commodity units - bushels or bales, etc. He would also put 25 per cent of foreign aid out in terms of surplus farm commodities, and as President he would in stitute a food stamp plan to channel more farm products into the pantries of the needy at home. On defense, Symington maintains having a second rate Air Force is like having the second best poker hand. Better than spending $46 bil lion to be a second rate power would be to spend nothing and be a fifth rate power, he argues. He contends that America needs the military power to get off the deck and hit back at any aggressor, to make cer tain the world knows this, and to fight a limited war and to safeguard our allies. He thinks the U.S. is in danger of losing the first and no long er has the last of these capa bilities. Must Recognita Strength The most perplexing feature of getting agreement on nu clear arms controls is that Red China is not participating but may soon have atomic weapons. Short of diplomatic recognition. Symington thinks the U.S. muskxecognize the uninese strengin in mis re spect and initiate talks with China in any way possible, preferably by swapping news papermen. Symington supports federal aid for education in the con- text of training generations to come to meet the challenge of Russia. With the Soviets plac ing heavy emphasis on educa tion, he thinks we can't afford to do otherwise. He favors the so-called For- and bill for adding hospitali zation benefits to the social security program. He chal lenges the charge that this Is socialized medicine by saying the money would end up go ing to private .doctors and hospitals. He thinks such a program is needed, socially speaking, by the growing number of elder citizens; and he thinks it will help stabilize the economy. The senator believes it Is vital that second class citizen ship for minorities be elimi nated in the North as well as the South. In addition to giv ing all American citizens their rights, he says this is neces sary if we are to avoid giving the Communists a condition which they can exploit in other areas of the world, such as Africa and Asia, where the colored races are looking at both East and West with a critical eye. Symington believe the Pres ident should take a more ac tive role In averting national strikes in key industries, such as the steel industry. The White House should not enter into the collective bargaining in labor disputes, but it should use its moral power to bring the sides together and urge them to reach agreement In the national interest to avoid a strike. He deplores what he regards as the aloof ness of President Eisenhower in not being active enough to stop last year's steel strike until the steel companies In ventories had become deplet ed. Symington notes that steel profits for last year, de spite the long strike, were higher than in the previous year. Khrushchev Warns Western Powers Londnn-flJPII-Sovlet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today the western powers would lose all rights of access to West Berlin if they refuse to sign a peace treaty with Commu nist East Germany. Chlloquln - IUPD - Pine seed lings are being planted on some of the Klamath Inidan reservation timberlarid burn ed over last year In a fire which destroyed 12,000 acres of Umber. OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1960 PHESS PROGRESSES The new press is taking shape this week, and will be ready for use sometime before the latter part of May, according to Business Manager Gerald T. Latham. The press, con structed by the Walter Scott company tq the Mail Tribune's specifications, is being erect ed by Jim Paterson, press erector for the Scott company,' in the new brick building Autos, Drownings Claim Six in State By United Press International At least six persons met ac- cidenal death in Oregon dur ing the week end, four in traffic mishaps and two by drowning. The victims Included one fisherman, Carl A. Peterson, who drowned In the Deschutes river west of Cove state park. Peterson, of Grcsham, slipped from the bank into the stream and was swept over a small falls. The other drowning victim was 14-monlh-old Gregory Three Men Arrested In Yreka for Thefts Yreka Three men arrest ed by Siskyiou county sher iff's deputies Friday on bur glary charges were scheduled to appear in court today. Held in county jail were James E. Gilpalrick, 21, of Weed; Robert D. Jones, 29, of Sweet Home, Ore., and John J. Sands. The sheriff's office said all were arrested In connection with the burglary of Fletch er's tavern in Montague Thursday night and that of the Dorris Drug store earlier In the week. Deputies said all three were In possession of property an swering the description of that taken from both the tavern and drug store. Seaside - WPII - A Roseburg man, Kenneth W. Fitzgerald, has been elected president of the Oregon Collectors Asso ciation. Grants Pass Assist in Arrest of Forgery Suspect Grants Pass -WPII - Valerie Eckstein, 17-year-old baton twirling daughter of Deputy Sheriff George Eckstein, to day was credited with an as sist In an arrest Sunday night near the Josephine-Douglas line. Suspect Broke Away Valarie, one of Grants Pass high school's top baton twirl ers, was with her father when he stopped a bus on Highway 99 to remove Julius Lester Ha gen Jr., 20, Klamath Falls, a forgery suspect. Eckstein said that while he -f Tribune Mall Tribune's constructed Scott Wyatt, who drowned In the Sluslaw river. The body was recovered early Sunday. The traffic victims includ ed Edwood Brill, 41,' Dallas, killed Saturday when his log truck went out of control west of Falls City after the brakes failed. Brill was struck by the trailer as he leaped from the vehicle. William Kenneth Trumbull, 2B, Portland, was killed early Sunday when his car struck a bridge abutment across the Molnlla rive. ' George E. Udaloff, 46, Port land, was killed Saturday In a two-car collision on High way 101 near Cannon Beach. Magnus W. Nelson, 55, Med ford, died Friday night near Cottage Grove In an accident Involving his car and a log truck. Woman Killed Near Mt. Hebron Summit Yreka - A 56-year-old Wal nut Creek, Calif., woman, Mrs. Marie Hickox, was thrown from her car and killed Fri day night when the vehicle slid on snow about 1.2 miles north of Mt. Hebron summit. California highway patrol officers said the crash oc curred at about 8:20 p.m. when Mrs. Hickox's car slid into the east bank, threw her out, crossed the roadway and careened off the west bank. The body was taken to O'Hara's mortuary in Kla math Falls. Mrs. Hickox Is survived by a son, Howard Rowe, also a Walnut Creek resident. Girl, 17, Credited With was checking the man's iden tification near the steps of the bus, Hagcn broke away and ran toward where Valerie was standing. Girl in Pursuit The deputy sheriff said he yelled without thinking, "Grab him Sissy." As the sus pect disappeared In darkness and brush beside the highway with the girl In pursuit Eck stein fired two warning shots into the air. Then the deputy yelled, "Where are you Sissy?" Price 1 0 Cents No. 30 to house it on Grape St. The I press will give greater flexibility to the newspaper's operation, and permit it to handle larger papers with less difficulty. It It is a part of the newspaper's continuing program of growth and Imprvement, . the better to serve southern Oregon and north--em California. .. ... ..;-.;. Statewide fight AgainsfJmog Plan of Group Portland-(UPD-Don Willner, Portland attorney and candi date for a Democratic seat in the state Senate, today an nounced organization of a statewide fight against smog. Willner, a former state leg islator, said he an dseveral other candidates from around Oregon have banded together to fight for an anti-smog law. Their first aim, he said, is a law similar ot one passed re cently in Californlt, which re quires all new cars to be equipped with exhaust filters. Concern Said Stirred He said the alarming In crease of smog in Portland al ready has stirred concern among state agencies. Joining with Willner In the anti-smog fight are James Weaver and Richard Eyman, both Democratic candidates for state representatives from Lane county. He said several . other incumbents and candi dates have promised their sup port, including Richard Ken- , ncdy and Mildred Russell in . Lane county. ; Living Costs Up To All-Time Peak Washington - IUPD - Living costs inched up to an all-time peak last month, the Labor Department announced today. A bigger than usual increase in food prices sent the con sumers price index up by one tenth of 1 per cent to 125.7 per cent of average 1947-49 prices. Rlgh here, Dad," came the answer. "Where Idd the fellow go?" asked the deputy. "Oh, I've got him," came the reply. All Were Scratched Eckstein's arrest report said the next thing he knew hi daughter was "holding the suspect down 1 na blackberry bush." By the time Hagen was handcuffed, all three were somewhat scratched by black berry briars. .