De 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. .