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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1960
No. 33
BIG BARBECUE More than 900 prime
steaks were cooked on these king-sized out
door broilers yesterday evening to serve
those attending the installation banquet of
the 47th annual convention of the Oregon
Congress of Parents and Teachers at Hed
rick Junior High school. Caterer Henry
Officers Installed
At OCPT Meeting;
900 at Banquet
Delegates and officers of
the Oregon Congress of Par
ents and Teachers assembled
at Hedrick Junior High school
last night for the one "big
party" of the 47th annual con
vention. About 900 PTA members
and their guests ate a steak
dinner, witnessed the annual
installation of officers and
heard a concert given by
members of PTA Mothersing
ers. throughout the state under
the direction of Oscar Bjorlie,
Southern Oregon college fac
ulty member.
The installation ceremony
was conducted by Mrs. Leon
Price, Dallas, Tex., publicity
chairman for the National
Congress of Parents and
Teachers.
Installed Into Office
She inducted into office
Mrs. Wallace Van Hise, Bend,
second vice president; Mrs.
George York, Portland, treas
urer, and six regional vice
presidents. They are Mrs.
George McBride, Beaverton,
Region 1; Mrs. Casey Morgan,
Roseburg, Region III; Mrs.
Winfield Barnum, Milwaukie,
Region IV; Mrs. Lloyd Ed
ward, Springfield, Region V;
Mrs. Alonzo W. Elder, Athena,
Region VII and Mrs. Albert
Gassner, Bend, Region IX. Re
gions II and VI did not elect
this year.
During the ceremony Mrs.
Price spoke of the four "L's"
of leadership: learning, lis
tening, laughter and love.
In another ceremony Mrs.
Leigh Gustison, Medford, Con
gress president who presided,
presented Oregon Congress
life memberships and pins to
Mrs. Price and to Mrs. Jenelle
Moorhead, Eugene, professor
of health education at the Uni
versity of Oregon who is for
mer Oregon Congress presi
dent and former board mem
ber of the National Congress.
PtoDle Introduced
Seated at the head table
and introduced were Dr
George Roseberry, Medford
who gave the invocation; Mrs
Paul R. Smith, Medford, retir
ing president of Oregon Edu
cation association: Dr. Elmo
Stevenson, president of South
ern Oreeon college, Ashlana
Mrs. Moorhead; Bruce Nelson,
vice principal of HedricK jun
Inr Hiffh school and Mrs. Nel
son; Mrs. Owen Kunkel and
Mrs. Emerson Anderson, Med
ford. cochairman of conven
tion arrangements; Mrs. Ma
bel Mack, Corvallis, assistant
director federal cooperative
extension service: Dr. Leonard
B. Mayfield, superintendent
of Medford public schools and
Mrs. Mayfield; Dr. Carl Ash
ley, Portland, director of ma
ternal and child health, Ore
gon state board of health;
Winston Purvine, Klamath
Falls, head of Oregon Techni
cal institute and Mrs. Pur
vine, Duane Lemley, Salem,
executive secretary, gover
nor's committee on children
Signals Said Received
From U.S. Distance Flier
Tokyo - (BUI - A Pan Ameri
can airplane was reported to
night to have picked up new
radio signals from the light
plane In which American flier
Peter Gluckmann is trying to
fly nonstop from Tokyo to
New York.
U.S. Atr Force authorities
had said earlier that Midway
Island had lost radio contact
with Gluckmann and that he
was feared down t sea.
Fong of Kim's restaurant, Medford, had to
have three of the broilers built especially
for the job. Nine chefs tended the steaks and
serving was done by eight waitresses from
Kim's and 40 girls of the Future Home
makers of America. Potatoes for the banquet
were baked in the Beck's bakery ovens.
OCPT Favors More
State Funds for
School Operation
The Oregon Congress of
Parents and Teachers today
went on record favoring legis
lation which would provide
state funds, for about 50 per
cent of the operating cost of
public schools.
Such funds, the Congress
agreed, would be distributed
on a formula that is fair and
equitable to all districts.
Support of such legislation
was included in the Congress'
legislation platform adopted
this morning at Hedrick Jun
ior High school. :
Some state funds are now
available for public school
operation, but the majority of
funds for school operation is
derived from local property
taxes. School administrators
throughout the state have
been attempting for some
years to broaden the tax base
for school operations to re
lieve local property taxpay
ers. Would Support Study
The Congress also said It
would support a "study and
evaluation of all tax resources
so a long-range tax program
may be developed that will
fit the economy of the state,
and provide such services in
the fields of education, social
and economic well being
which are recognized and re
quired by the people of Ore
gon." Other beliefs of the OCPT
which the organization said it
would support legislatively in
clude: That public education
should provide educational
opportunities which will en
able each child to develop to
the maximum of his capacity.
That each school should of
fer a course of study which
will emphasize the basic skills
and include such expanded
and youth; Alf Mekvold, su
perintendent of Jackson coun
ty schools and Mrs. Mekvold;
Mrs. James King, Sherwood,
first vice president of the Ore
gon Congress; Mrs. Stephen
Turel, Portland, convention
program chairman; Mrs. Wil
liam Kletzer, Portland, chair
man of the governor's commit
tee on children and youth; Dr.
Rov Lieuallen, Monmouth,
president of Oregon College
of Education; Mr. and Mrs,
Biorlie, Mrs. A. H. Monroe,
Portland, office manaRer for
the Congress; Judge Charles
Goodrich. Roseburg; Mrs.
Fred Dalziel, chairman of the
teller's committee; Mrs. G. T.
Haupert, Medford, food chair
man for th" convention, and
the newly elected officers.
About 175 women sang In
the combined Mothersingers
chorus which closed the pro
gram.
A Pan American plane fly
ing between Wake Island and
Honolulu was reported to
have heard radio messages
from Gluckmann, but It was
not in direct contact with
Gluckmann.
Gluckmann took off from
Tokyo Wednesday in Beech-
craft Bonanza in an effort to
fly nonstop to New York, an
airline distance of 8,500 miles,
curricular offerings as voca
tional education, kindergar
ten, guidance and counselling,
audio-visual aids, driver train
ing education, and adult edu
cation as essential components
of the educational system.
Strengthening Program
Strengthening the program
of special education for excep
tional children through ade
quate appropriations for con
tinuation and expansion of
services.
Continued improvement of
teacher training and in more
effective standards of certifi
cation as well as other pro
visions for developing a better
teaching process.
Continued and Increased
support of the OCPT tuition
scholarship program as one of
the means of recruiting quali
fied personnel into the teach
ing profession, and in the ap
propriation of state funds to
assist in teacher training in
special education fields.
Continued and increased
support for state institutions
of higher learning and the fa
cilities to meet educational
needs beyond the secondary
level.
Support Slate Agencies
Continued and increased
support of state agencies de
veloping such services a s
health, safety, library, recre
ation, educational television,
and family life education in
order to fulfill the unmet
needs of children and youth.
The Congress also said it
would support development of
programs for the prevention
control and treatment of juve
nile delinquency; protective
child labor and welfare laws,
and the constant evaluation of
existing statutes; Improve
ment of legal procedures that
deal with children, youths
and families; and strengthen
ing and enforcement of sex
crime laws and laws and regu
lations dealing with the dis
tribution of obscene publica
tions. Furniture Missing
From Local Store
An estimated $4,000 worth
of furniture and other appli
ances were taken in a bur
glary of the Buy-Rite Furni
ture and Appliance company,
1213 Riverside ave., late last
night or early this morning,
according to Medford police.
Tire tracks left at the scene
indicate that missing items
were taken away by means
of a large truck, police said.
Police said the burglar or
burglars broke open a door
at the rear of the building,
and backed the truck up to
the open door. loading the
furniture from there. Such
Items as davenports and large
appliances were taken.
According to the owner of
the store, Wayne Hurst Jami
son, 110 Portland Ave., dam
age was also done to the
rear of the building where
the truck apparently backed
into it.
Jamison discovered the
burglary at 8:15 o'clock this
morning, and said the crime
occurred between then and
the time the building was last
checked 9 p.m. yesterday,
Acting Korean
President Forms
New Government
Vice President,
Family in Suicide
Seoul, Korea-d'PD - Acting
President Huh Chang formed
a new caretaker government
today to wipe out the fraud
and corruption of the Rhee
regime in a nation shocked
by the mass suicide of Vice
President-elect Lee Ki Poong
and his family.
Huh, known as a man of
deep honesty, called on the
news cabinet to wipe out il
legalities, irregularities, cor
ruption and confusion deeply
accumulated" by the admin
istration of Syngman Rhee
which ended in near disgrace
after a wave of violence.
Summons Independents
Huh spoke of the evil prac
tices and irregularities" of
the past and called in six in
dependents to help him forge
government that would
bring democracy to South
Korea, guard against Com
munism and end a system of
police terror.
Appointments of the new
cabinet has one major and im
mediate effect: It restores the
flow of U.S. economic aid,
halted temporarily because
Korea had no reconstruction
minister. U. S. military aid
had not been interrupted.
Today's events meant the
end of power for Rhee, but
his final ignominy was put
off. The National Assembly
which was to have met and
accepted his resignation
probably unanimously post
poned the meeting until Fri
day because of the Lee trage
dy.
Assumed Responsibility
Lee, who assumed "final
responsibility" for the recent
bloodshed and rioting in
South Korea, died with his
entire family at dawn in a
mass suicide pact.
The family gathered in a
secretary's apartment at the
presidential mansion to face
its chosen exeuctioner 2nd
Lt. Kang Suk, Lee's elder son
and the adopted son of ex
President Syngman Rhee.
At 5:55 a.m., Kang opened
fire. He killed his father, his
mother Maria and his young
er brother Kang Wook with
one bullet each from his .45
caliber Army automatic, then
turned the pistol on himself.
He committed suicide with
a bullet in abdomen and
another in his brain.
Airs. Adland's Trial
Scheduled for May 12
Los Angeles - (UPD - Mrs.
Florence Adland, 53, was or
dered today to stand trial on
five counts of contributing to
the delinquency of her daugh
ter. Beverly, 17.
The platinum haired di
vorcee must appear May 12 in
Superior Court for arraign
ment on the charge. The mis
demeanor counts each are
punishable by up to a year in
county jail. She is free on
$1,050 bail.
"Come In. Tell Me How The People Reacted
In India"
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Kingsley Flier Lost
Klamath Falls - IUPD - A big
search was under way off the
northern California coast to
day for a radar observer who
was ejected from a supersonic
jet fighter Wednesday night.
The pilot, Capt. Coleman
Baker, said the plane's canopy
blew off about 9 p m. carry
ing the observer with it at an
altitude of about 35,000 foot.
Temperature at that height i
Letters Pour in
As Chessman's
Death Date Nears
Sacramento, Calif, - (UPU -Nearly
200 letters and tele
grams concerning Caryl Chess
man were received today by
Gov. Edmund G. Brown-al-though
the California gover
nor says he is powerless to
act again on behalf of the
condemned convict-author.
Chessman, 38, is scheduled
to die Monday morning in the
gas chamber at San Quentin
Prison. It will be his ninth
date with death since he was
convicted as the Los Angeles
Red Light Bandit in 1B48.
The governor granted Chess
man his eighth reprieve on
Feb. 19, just hours before the
convicted r o b b e r-kidnaper-
rapist was scheduled to go
to his death.
Since then, however, the
state legislature has defeated
a move by Brown to have
capital punishment abolished
in California. Brown says the
state constitution makes it im
possible for him to take fur
ther action in the Chessman
case.
But the letters and tele
grams continue to pour into
the governor's Sacramento of
fice, where they are handled
by Clemency Secretary Cecil
Poole.
Favor Clemency
The overwhelming majority
of letters favored clemency
for the convict-author who
wrote four books in 12 years
behind bars.
Raw Materials
Said Plentiful
Portland Dr. Carlcton C.
Long, 51, director of research
for a Pennsylvania lead com
pany, said today there was no
shortage of key raw materials
in the world.
Dr. Long, here to attend
the Pacific Northwest Metals
and Minerals conference, said
there was neither a shortage
of petroleum nor of uranium.
"We've got uranium run
ning out of our ears," he
said.
He added that hard times
may be In store for producers
of uranium when government
contracts run out in three or
four years.
New exploration methods
never dreamed of years ago
now show vast quantities of
untapped petroleum, he added.
m ran
was about 50 degrees below
zero, the Air Force said.
The plane, an F-101 two
place Voodoo fighter, was
based at Kingsley Air Force
Base here, lt was on a routine
mission over the Pacific.
Identity of the radar observ
er was withheld pending noti
fication of next of kin.
Air Force officials said the
radar operator's parachute
New Catholic High
School Planned in
South Medford Area
Plans to build a new Cath
olic high school in Medford
were announced today by the
Rev. Carl Mai, pastor of
Sacred Heart parish.
The school will be located
on a 24 acre site along Black
Oak dr., just of Barneburg
rd. in south Medford.
The architectural firm of
Edson and Pappas, Medford,
has been retained to prepare
preliminary plans, according
to Mr. Mai. The date of the
Jury Finds Action
Is Not Warranted
A Jackson county grand
jury Wednesday decided that
the double fatality on Evans
Creek rd. Feb. 26 does not
warrant any further investi
gation or action, District At
torney Thomas J. Reeder said
today.
No complaint had been
filed or charges made. Reeder
had asked the grand jury to
consider evidence on the acci
dent. '
Two persons were killed
shortly before midnight when
a pickup truck collided head
on with a car on East Evans
Creek rd., 2V4 miles north of
Rogue River.
Killed were Mrs. Alice C.
Loge, 35, of Wimer, a pas
senger in the pickup, and 16-
year-old Gerry Lee Van Horn,
4960 South Pacific highway,
Rogue River, a passenger in
the car.
The grand jury also heard
the case of Albert M. Brown,
Eagle Point, charged with as
sault with a dangerous weap
on. It returned a not true
bill, meaning the group felt
there is not sufficient evi
dence to warrant an indict
ment, and further criminal
court action, thus clearing
Brown. He was charged with
shooting a rifle toward Carl
Milton Hoist, Eagle Point, in
Eagle Point Feb. 13.
Marion Republicans
Lead Democrats
Salem - (1IPI) - Republicans
still hold the lead in voter
registration for the slate pri
mary In Marion county, long
a GOP stronghold, but Demo
crats have narrowed the gap
by about 1.000.
County Clerk Henry Malt
son today announced that
total registration for this
year's primary in Marlon
county Is 50.142. or 1.183 less
than for the 1958 primary,
Republican registration this
vear Is 28.937 and Democratic
20,758 with 449 Independents
and others.
Registration for both major
parties was down from 1958
when the GOP had 29,987
and the Domocrats 20,793.
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was equipped with a one-man i
uic ion emu ciui Ki'iny equip
ment for oversea ejection.
The pilot told base officials
he lost his helmet and ear
phone communication when
the canopy blew off. He said
he did not suspect his radar
observer was missing until he
returned to base, groggy from
lack of oxygen.
Air Force and Navy units
lir- .fi n.A
start of construction will be
announced following appro
val of final plans and specifi
cations. Mr. Mai said that the popu
uation growth of the area,
and the resultant overcrowd
ing of the combined grade and
high school facilities of St.
Mary's made construction of
a new high school necessary.
The present school was
built in 1951, and has a cur
rent enrollment of 650 stu
dents. Of this number 155 are
high school students who will
be accomodated by the new
school.
This will alleviate the over
crowded conditions and allow
for the expected Increase in
the grade school enrollment
in the next few years, he said
The new high school will
be so designed as to accomo
date immediate enrollment
and anticipated growth.
Reorganization
Again Rejected
Evans Valley - Residents of
the Evans Valley school dis
trict last night again voted
down proposed reorganization
of their district with that of
Rogue River, 148 to 64, ac
cording to an unofficial count.
The percentage of voters re
jecting reorganization Is about
the same as the one held in
March, when 134 persons
voted no and 54 voted yes.
The Jackson county reor
ganization committee will
meet Tuesday, May 3, to can
vass the election results and
consider further plans for the
two districts.
They can revise the plan
and go through the entire
procedure again. This in
cludes adoption of a plan by
the reorganization committee,
required local hearings in
Rogue River and Evans Val
ley and submitting the plan
to the state board of educa
tion, further local hearings
held by the state board, then
action by the state board on
the proposed plan. If the re
vised plan is approved by the
state board of education then
it will call elections again on
the reorganization plan.
Their other choice is to re
submit the same plan, with
out change, to the voters of
the two districts, Rogue River
and Evans Valley, after a year
has lapsed.
Bids Called for 10th
St. Bridge Construction
Bids will be opened May
10 at 9 a.m. at the state high
way building, Salem, for the
construction of the 10th st.
brlge over Bear creek.
The bridge will be 52 feet
wide to accommodate four
lanes of traffic with two five-
foot sidewalks. It will be 207
feet in length.
The project is part of the
arterial street program ap
proved by the voters in 1958,
AT CONFERENCE 1
District Judge Roy Bashaw
and Deputy District Attorney
Brian Mullen left today for
Eugene wherp thev are at
tending the Eighth Oregon
Traffic Court conference. The
men will attend the confer
ence through Saturday.
Portland - IUPD - Portland
Transit company has reported
a gain in 1959 net income, at
tributed to a reduction In ex
pensca. Passenger traffic was
about the same, the firm said
at Sea
were
taking part
the
search, centered about 50
miles west of Crescent City.
A radar picket ship also was
within 60 or 100 miles of the
ejection area, the Air Force
said. A Navy tug left San
Francisco early today to join
the search.
The plane was attached to
the 322nd Fighter-lntercepter
Squadron based at Kingsley.
CENTO Leaders
n Pre-Summit
Talks at Tehran
Tehran, Iran -WPD- Top
leaders of the CENTO (form
erly Baghdad) Pact met here
today to reaffirm their deter
mination to maintain the de
fenses of the non-Communist
world along Russia's southern
border.
High diplomatic sources
said the three-day meeting
would be an important fea
ture of Western pre-summit
discussions even though it Is
unlikely to produce any
major new decisions.
Assurance Expected
Secretary of State Christ
ian A. Herter and British
Foreign Secretary Selwyn
Lloyd are expected to assure
the CENTO allies of firm sup
port in maintaining the de
fenses of Asia's so-called
"middle tier" states.
They are expected also to
promise that Iran, Pakistan
and Turkey Britain's part
ners in the central pact - will
be taken Into "close consider
ation" in any summit agree
ments on "coexistence ' with
Russia.
The United States, al
though technically not a mem
ber of the pact, participates
in the activities of its mili
ary, economic and anti-sub
version committees.
Firemen at Sawdust
Fire Five Hours
Firemen were on the scene
for more than five hours last
night and early this morning,
after a spark from a nearby
burner ignited sawdust in a
large bin at Kogap Lumber
Industries.
They said that it was neces
sary to empty the 40 by 50
foot bin and extinguish the
fire as it was carried from
the bottom of the bin to the
bottom of the conveyor.
Two pumper trucks and the
aerial ladder were sent to
Kogap when the alarm was
turned in about 7:30 p.m
Twelve on-duty firemen and
seven volunteers responded.
Equipment was returned to
the station at 12:55 a.m.
Youngster Injured
In Fall From Car
Christopher John Ragland,
2Vj-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Ragland, 3182
South Pacific highway, was
reported in fair condition at
Rogue ' Valley hospital this
morning after he fell from a
car near Kim's retaurant on
South Pacific highway,
The boy Is suffering from
a possible fractured skull, lt
was reported.
Jackson county sheriff s
deputies were notified shortly
after 9 o'clock this morning
of the accident. It was be
lieved that a back door in the
vehcile came open and the
boy fell out.
Pay Hike for
Workers Goes To Senate
Washlngton-niPII - The ad
ministration's tight against a
pay raise for federal white
collar workers moved to the
Senate today and fell upon
unreceptive ears.
Chairman OUn D. Johnson
(D-S.C.) o' the Senate post
office and civil service com
mittee said that if the nation's
steel workers deserved ( pay
hike then "maybe" govern
ment employees deserve one
too. If administration officials
thought otherwise, he said,
"Wt should know why."
I (he major cities of Turkev
and the government imposed
martial law to prevent an
other Korea.
The riots began in Istanbul
and spread swiftly to Ankara,
the capital; to Izmir, the Aeg
ean seaport city which is
NATO area headquarters, and
to Erzurum, in eastern Tur
key, site of Ataturk Univer
sity. At least three students
were killed and many were
injured.
Laws Protested
Thousands of students boil
ed into the streets from Istan
bul University during the day
to protest new government
laws giving unprecedented
powers to Parliament.
Police met them with tear
gas and fired volleys of rifle
shots over their heads. Some
shots were reported fired in
to the crowd when the stu
dents failed to disperse.
Pnemer Cancels Trip
The government of Pre
mier Adnan Menderes acted
then and proclaimed martial
law effective. Manderes al-
eady had canceled a trip to
the CENTO meting in Tehran
because of the crisis.
Thousands of students were
involved in the day-long riot
ing which began early today
and which still had not been
put down when martial law
was imposed.
Scores Said Injured
First reports said scores of
students and three policemen
were injured in hand to hand
fighting, perhaps inspired In
part by success of the student
riots in South Korea against
the regime of President Syng
man Rhee.
The student riots were di
rected, specifically against
newly strengthened parlia
mentary investigative powers
which gives pro-government
committees powers to investi
gate and arrest members of
the opposition.
Many of the committees'
powers were thought by the
tudents to usurp the judicary
and the military.
Registered Demos
Exceed Republicans
The number of Democrats
registered to vote in Jackson
county in the May 20 primary
election now exceeds regis
tered Republicans by 149,
County Clerk Marvin Madden
said today.
The final and complete
count as of April 19, Madden
said, is 16,388 Democrats, 16,-
239 Republicans and BBJ mis
cellaneous. Changes in pre
vious figures released by Mad
den resulted from duplica
tions caused by reregistra-
Hons, he said.
The total number of voters
registered to vote in the May
20 primary, 33,310, Is some
what less than the 33,au reg
istered voters in the county
as of May, 1958. At that time.
there were 17.ZZB nepuDu
cans, and 15,972 Democrats,
a difference of 1,256 more
Republicans, registered in the
county.
Senate Candidate in
Medford Wednesday
William B. Murphy, Port
land, candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for the U.S.
Senate, was In Medford Wed
nesday In connection with his
campaign for office.
Murphy, owner of Port
land's radio station KPVA, is
for "more aid to senior citi
zens and blind, public power
and Income tax reform, and
pensions for World War I vet
erans." Federal
Budget Director Maurice
H. Stans replied that the pro
posed pay boosts, estimated
to cost about $1 600.000,000
a year, would be "fiscal ir
responsibility" at a time when
the budget ia precariously
balanced.
Roger W. Jones, chairman,
of the civil service commis
sion, said Congress should
await preliminary report,
due In September, which
would better correlate federal
pay scales to those in private
industry.
V,