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Newspaper Page Text1 o to o O o 0o O O o O occ O o e 0. Q O 0 o o o O nO o O 00 o N OKLAHOMA TORHADG b :;:zco c:: cz do c-3 cJ go O O n O o o o Oo Regional Edition'-' Medford 24 PAGES U.S. Requests 'Full Facts' 0n Downed American Airplane Information on Fate of Pilot Sought in Note Khrushchev Ordered Firing of Rocket ' Washington -flJPP- The Unit ed Stales has asked the Soviet Foreign Office for "full facts" bout the U. S. plane which Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev ordered shot Jown over southern Russia lftSiSun dy, the State Department an. nounced today. Department Press Officer Francis W. Tully Jr. said a note was delivered to the Rus sian Foreign Office this morn ing and "we are now awaiting reply." Ask.d About Pilot The note asked particularly what happened to the pilot of the aircraft. The State Department as sumes it was a civilian-piloted weather observation aircraft which is missing from its base in Adana, Turkey. The De partment said it was "entirely possible" that the pilot was unconscious due to failure"of hii oxygen system at 50,000 feet, which was reported in hi last message to his home base. Summit Plans Unchanged The White House said there has been no change in plans for President Eisenhower's at tendance at the May 16 sum mit meeting in Paris or his visit to Russia next month. White House Press Sccre . tarv James C. Hagerty "re served comment at this time" on Khrushchev's bustling speech Thursday attacking the United Statec and expressing "little hope" for progress at the summit. Hagerty said Eis enhower had been informed of the latest statements from Moscow that an American plane was shot down by a Russian rocket last week end on Khrushchev's p e r.sjft n a I orders. "7.' Officials Pusiled Meanwhile, American offi- , cials expressed some puzzle ment as to why the Russians were going to such length to boast about their shooting down of the plane. Some U. S. officials said that Khrushchev appears to be trying to lay the foundation for blaming the West if the Big Four summit conference fails to ease tensions. Nepal Royalty Visits University of Eugene - IUPD - King Mah'en. dra and Queen Ratna of Ne pal visited the UniveSty of . Oregon campus today its 'they continued a tour of the United States. The royal couple flew, here Wrong Pamphlets Sent to Residents County Clerk Marvin Mad den said today 1,343 new vot er's pamphlets are being mailed to residents of Pre cincts 21 to 29A in Jackson county. Democratic party camphlets were mailed out from Port, land to Republican party members of those precincts by mistake, he said. The clerk's office sent a new list of reg , Istered voters in those pre cincts to Portland. Meanwhile, sample election ballots- are being distributed to various county locations. So far 152 absentee 'ballots have been mailed. Madden said. These must be applied ' for five days before the May 20 primary election. Other wise, applicants must have an affidavit from a doctor to get aa absentee ballfet on the clay of election. SMCKZD MEAT n Firemen colled to the horn of Eugene Williams. 1212 West 10th it., about 5:20 p.m. yes terday found that meat on Vb broiler had overcookea. caus? ln mlnoumoke dam?A Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 6, Princess SAM ZICR Named to New- Position Administrator For Osteopathic Hospital Named Sam Zier, SO. of 2217 Dell wood ave., Medford, who has been affiliated with Medford Osteopathic ' hospital for the past six years, will be admin istrator of the new Crater Os teopathic hospital at Central Point. . Dr. Paul T. Rutter, Med ford, head of the $250,000 new' hospital project, announced Zier's appointment. Zier joined the Medford hospital in 1954 as a labora tory and x-ray technician.. He entered hospital laboratory work in 1941, after becoming interested while a tuberculo sis patient at Salem. He attended buiness college in Walla Walla, Wash.; where he was born. He is secretary treasurer and immediate past president of the Oregon Soci ety of X-Ray Technicians, dis trict 4. ... The new administrator will take over his duties following the hospital's move in late May to Central Point. He also will retain his former hos pital position in lab and x-ray work. Dr. Rutter said. : A two-day open house and special dedication is planned May 21 and 22 at the new hos pital. Oregon from Salem this morning and was greeted with a 21-gun sa lute upon arrival on the cam pus. They visited the Museum of Art and the Institute for Molecular Biology at the Sci ence Building. They had lunch at the Erb Memorial Union building with members of the Board of Higher Education, Univer sity and city officials and Ne- palese students. They were to fly to San Francisco this af ternoon. Taken To Dallas Thursday Gov. Mark Hat field took the king through the state capitol building and to Dallas, Hatfield's birth place, for a tour of the Wil lamette Valley Lumber Com pany mill. Queen Ratna, not feeling well, skipped both events and also missed the state dinner in the Marion motor hotel Thursday night. WEATHER FORECAST: nentrftily rlondy tonlcbt and Saturday with orri ilonal light riln. Partial riar Inr. and showers lat Saturday. !.tw tonight 43. High Saturday is. Terns. kHIrhMt Yetlrrday , 71 lvwch una morning ,. Our SfcirTMiga Sunt ft feday . 1:17 p.m. Sunrltv tomorrow H 4:3t a.m. Mnnvrt tomorrow M l:nS m. ,run non May Tt 1 PROMINENT STAR capeiia, low in north- SAton. rises lt:2 a m. Jnplttr. dot south .... :21 a.m. Mars. Inw In at . 3:34 a.m. Tribune Weds Nervous Couple Leaves Aboard Royal Yacht London -(UPP- The Princess and the commoner were mar ried today. Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong Jones were as nervous as any other couple, and the queen mother wept. And while the bells of Lon don still were pealing their congratulations, the newly weds sailed away for a tropi cal honeymoon. In late afternoon, the royal yacht Britannia, spick and span from an overhauling, took the bride and bride groom aboard and headed for the Caribbean. There was a family farewell in the gravel ed court of Buckingham Pal ace, to which the wedding party had returned after the ceremony at the abbey. Crowd Approve Hundreds of thousands of cheering Britons proved be yond doubt they approved this marriage performed be fore Westminster A b b e y's great altar even if most of Europe's royalty stayed home. Stricken once with stage fright, the little princess stum bled over the lines "for bet ter, for worse," and had to repeat them again after the Archbishop of Canterbury, When she promised to love, cherish and obey the man of her choice, her voice barely was audible. : Armstrong-Jones rubbed his thumbs together and nervous ly fingered his upper lip un til the Duke of Edinburgh whispered to him and his seri ous face broke into a smile. Quttn Is Serious As the archbishop an- nounced them married "in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost," a tear trickled down the face of ti-fc queen mother. Near the queen mother sat Queen Elizabeth, far more serious than usual. Once she heaved a deep sigh, and she smiled only twice. That was when Margaret curtisied to her before leaving the abbey and when Prince Philip call ed her attention to the eight little bridesmaids sitting primly on cushions in the aisle of the nave. (Continued on Page 2) Ashlander Jailed On Drunk Charge Ashland - Herman M. Wise, 53-year-old Ashland beekeep er, was arrested on a warrant and booked into city jail to day on a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxicating beverages. Wise, of 276V4 B st., was ar rested by city police after a complaint had been signed by Southern Oregon college stu dent Larry Derry. The two were involved in an accident in Lithia park Sunday evening when Wise's car plowed into a parked auto. Derry and three other students were in the parked car. City police first arrested Wise on a charge of being in toxicated while on a public street but that charge was dis missed today after Derry filed the complaint. Wise, held on ' $200 bail, pleaded not guilty to the charge when he appeared be fore Judge Richard C. Cottle in Ashland municipal court this morning. His trial was set for Wednesday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m. Police said It may be a jury trial. No one was reported injured in the crash but both can were heavily damaged. Bill Washington -flJlD-The Sen- ,! approved a 951 million raft rievelopmit bill todHy and sorit it to president EistVi hnwefc) who has indicated he will veto it. Price 10 Cents 1960 No. 40 Tentative County Budget Totals $4,434,090.72 Tentative Increase Of Nearly $1 Million A tentative overall county budget total of $4,434,090.72 was agreed upon by the Jack son county budget committee yesterday afternoon. This represents a tentative increase of approximately $1 million over the current year's total of $3,642,809.78, accord ing to County Commissioner Ralph James. A firm budget total will be established after an account ant checks the estimated ex penditures against the coun ty's estimated receipts for the 1960-81 fiscal year, County Judge Earl Miller said. It may be necessary for one more committee meeting to cut down on tentative budget figures already agreed to, he explained. The county's allocation to the county school fund is still undecided pending the balancing of receipts against proposed expenditures. Miller said. However, the budget total allows for an increase per school census child, but Miller declined .to disclose how much. . 1 $2,000 Grant The committee yesterday agreed to a grant of $2,000 to add a family counseling pre gram to the Southern Oregon Child Guidance- Clinic. This would mean a yearly grant would be required. Miller said. It has not become t fixed part of the county budget.. The committee tentatively increased the capital outlay fund to $150,000, up $85,000 for a possible all - purpose building at the fair grounds to house the county extension offices. The Public Library of Medlord and Jackson county was granted the requested $46,264 for the system. Ash land public library was grant ed $4,733 and Rogue River $321. Neither of the latter are part of the county system. The county treasurer's sal ary was raised to $6,545, an $1,000 increase equal to the other department heads. The raise at first was somewhat less, but the county treasurer had complained. Other items agreed to yes terday afternoon were $3,500 for county employee life in surance, $1,500 for flood con trol and water resources, $2,000 for timber survey, $3, 600 to establish welfare re cipient labor force program, $26,165 for county extension office: $11,228 for constable, up $1,602; $1,793,896 for gen eral roads fund, up $206,382; $46,000 for building construc tion and improvement; and $26,430 for historical fund as presented, tip $671. Eisenhower Signs Civil Rights Bill Washington (UrD Presi dent Eisenhower signed the hard-fought 1960 civil rights bill today, hailing it as "an historic step forward" in as suring equality for all citi zens regardless of color or race. 'i The six-point law provides new federal help to Negroes who are denied voting privi leges, and enables the govern, m e n t to prosecute "hate" bombers and mobs obstruct ing court-ordered integration of public schools. It is the second civil rights law enacted during Eisenhow ers' term of office and only the second enacted since the reconstruction days following the Civil war. BassSzall AUtEBICAV LIACUS Detreit Ill 11 Baeaaa, (Ml Vie T. evSiw. 10. Three Arrested Alter Tip for Recent Burglaries Men Admit Part in Four of Seven Job An anonymous tip and a quick response by Medford police led to the arrest this morning of three persons. They, are suspects in the re cent rash of Medford bur glaries. After more than two hours of extensive interrogation the three admitted to police that they are responsible for four of the seven burglaries com mitted here In the last week. All three have been charg ed with burglary not in a dwelling and are lodged in the county jail awaiting arraign ment. They are Junior Lee Hammonds, 22, of 331 Marie St.; Paul James Stewart, 18, of 19 Jeanette st., and a 17-year-old juvenile, also of Medford. Police say the arrests solve the burglaries at the Olympic Petroleum and Equipment company, 1050 South River side ave., the Desert Service station, 6779 Crater Lake highway, the Dick Kaye Texa co service, 1207 North Court St., and Jim's Union service, HOI West Main st. Still to be solved are the recent burglaries at Foss' Bil liards, 415 Ea3t Main St., the Big Y Feed and Seed com pany, 1948 North Pacific highway, and the Buv-Rite Furniture and Appliance com pany, 1213 Riverside ave. Another reported burglary. at the Cal-Ore Machinery company 1105 Court st., was declared unfounded by police rouce received a tip about 2:30 o'clock this morning that three suspicious persons had men spouea in a car near the location of Wednesday night's burglary at the Olvm. pic Petroleum and Equipment company. A police officer resrnnrifri immediately to the call and stopped the car containing the irio at ine intersection of Bar- nett rd. and Riverside ave I The officer found one firth of -whiskey in the car, of the same brand taken from the Olympic company the night before, and a three-foot long crew oar witn yellow paint on one ena. xne officer thought me pamt -would match that on- the Olympic company door andv took the three into custody. 1 ; After they admitted in sign ed statements to the four bur glaries .they also told police they were trying to burglarize the Olympic company a sec ond time, before they were caught. Only one of the trio, the 17-year-old, had any prior rec ord with the Medford police. He had been arrested in con nection with another burglary several months ago, police said. College Students To Vofe Again May 9 Ashland - Southern Oregon college students will vote Monday in a second run-off election to name a student body president. Polls at num erous spots on campus will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Votes cast in Wednesday s election were thrown out aft er It was discovered that some were ineligible. Initial count showed Barry Pitts of Klam ath Falls ahead of Dale Truax of Ashland 208-207 but a re count placed Truax ahead by the same margin. "Yea, Matter. Whom Do You Wish Me To Strike Down?" w o U-""""" Wilburton Nearly A. - . Obliterated; 250 I IT 7 - v vw.vj, aMaMaaaiiMMMMaaaaMaMMMMMMMMijM r. TORNADO are shown WREAKS searching Green Springs Powerplant Starts Operation Today The Green Spring hydro electric powerplant in the Talent project has been placed in regular commercial opera tion, the department of inte rior announced today. The plant is supplied with water from Howard Prairie reservoir southeast of Ash- and in the Green Springs. Water is diverted into the reservoir by a series of col lection canals. The Green Springs power- plant, the department said. has the highest head of any plant operated by the bureau of reclamation. After release from Howard Prairie into small forebay reservoir at Keene ureeK nam, me water passes through two tunnels, 4,000' feet Of pipeline and 9,000 feet of steel penstock for a total drop of . 1,983.5 feet to the 23,500 horsepower 4-Jet Impulse turbine. The powerplant has a rated capacity of 16,000 kilowatts. Power is ' purchased by the California Oregon Power company at the switchyard. Energy output in the pres ent irrigation season, the de partment said, will depend on irrigation requirements of the Talent Irrigation district. Storage in Emigrant reservoir will not be possible until en largement of the dam is com pleted to permit greater water storage. The Green Springs power- plant Is a key factor in the repayment plan with water users of tiie Talent Irrigation district, the department noted. Power revenues are expected to return about $16 million of the $24,273,200 estimated cost of the Talent project. Gronfs Pass Man Killed as Auto Flips Grants Pass -IUPII- Vincent Louis Noble, 45, Grants Pass, was killed about 3:20 a.m. to day when his convertible fail ed to negotiate a turn inside the city limits and flipped over. An investigating officer said the top on the convertible was down. The accident oc curred near the Seventh street entrance to the city park. HAVOC Rescuers for more bodies at Wilburton. Okla., where a tornado destroy ed more than 30 square blocks last night. (UPI Telephoto) City Officials Are Criticised Counts at Medford's city administra tion was criticised on two counts at last night's city council mceting-once on its method of annexation and once on its alleged failure to determine the validity of a petition. The council meeting had hardly gotten under way when William Doernbach, 143 Mace ave., a frequent critic of Medford's city government, admonished the city for try ing to annex the "island" in j the northern section of the cilv without consullina the property owners there; A nrnnnnnl In onnrv tills area will be on the city's May primary ballot. ' He further contended that the recent annexation of the Berrydaie distrlrt was done o n I y by -"gerrymandering" around 51 opposition votes: Following Doernbach's un scheduled protest, the council opened discussion on a pro posal to pave Niantic st. from Maple to Edwards sts. Receive Petition The city has received a pe tition reportedly bearing the signatures of property owners representing 52.3 per cent of the footage which would be affected by the paving. The city had allegedly checked out and verified the validity ol this petition. Mrs. Jeanette Marshall, daughter of one of the prop- Principal Hired To Fill New Post Dealous Cox, Evans Valley elementary school principal was hired as new county school administrative assist ant and elementary super visor, during Jackson county rural school board action last night. Cox will assume his new position July 1, a position created by the rural board and budget committee by eliminating the curent posi tion of elementary supervisor and assistant county school superintendent. His salary will be $7,200. No replace ment has been named for the Evans Valley school, accord ing to County School Supt. Alf B. Mckvold. . - Official election results fol lowing the board's canvassing last night are for the rural school levy, 2,812 yes, and 2,332 no; for rural school board member, Zone 1, W. A. Starzinger, 618; Zone 2, Glenn Smith. 2,262; Zone 3, James H. Grieve, 432; Zone 5, Har old C. Bush, 342, and George W. Nichols 180, and member at large, John Spangler, 4,098. The board did not name its new chairman, vice chair man and secr'iry last night. This will be uune later, Mek void said. Firestone Heir Plunges To Depth Havana - (UPD - Harvey S. Firestone III, St. Petersburg, Fla., handicapped 32-year-old heir to the Firestone rubber fortune, plunged to his death Thursday night from a 20th floor room In the HftVana Hil ton le. on Two Meeting erly owners in the area, con tended that the petition did not contain over 50 per cent of the fnotnen hpcause several of the signatures were not vnliri She said the Apostolic Faith church, 404 North Cen tral ave., had not signed prop erly because the pastor had signed instead of the board of trustees. Another property In the area, she said, had three own ers and only two of them had signed, the third declining to do so. Because all the owners had not signed, she said, the CBtiuy oiku- ed tip Discount Signatures By discounting these two signatures then, she said, only 42.7 per cent of the property is signed for, not enough to order in the paving. On hearing this a number of the more than 40 members n the audience protested, say- ng they had been Informed by the city that the petition was valid. Mrs. Max Weston, president of the Lincoln school PTA which has been pushing the proposal to pave Niantic st. for the past three years, said he had been informed by the ily engineers office and by the city manager that the pe tition was valid. Her husband. Max Weston, snid, "the petition was pre sented to the proper city of ficials, ok'd and certified and it makes the city council look bad, after all those steps had been made and all that PTA work done." He said the city should have someone who could certify it. This caused Councilman Donald Hansen to say, "we made a mistake, we're not perfect, but we're continuing to try and solve the problem. We don't expect anyone to be perfect. City Manager Robert Duff was not so quick to admit a mistake and said the petition might be valid but it could not be known for sure at this time. The council agreed to re consider the entire matter at a future meeting. (Continued on Page 2) Sister Shawn Grant for Summer Study Sister Shawn Marie, mathe matics instructor at St. Mary's High school, is one of 11 Sis ters of the Holy Names in the Oregon Province named to re ceive National Science Foun dation grants for summer study this year. The announcement was made by Sister M. Dorothy Ann, provincial directress of studies for the order. This is .the second time Sis ter Shawn Marie has received an NSF grant, and on June 20 she will begin eight weeks of advanced study in mathema tics at Seattle university which she attended for a simi lar period of study last sum mer. - According to Sister Shawn there are about 80 partici pants, mostly lay students, in the Seattle university sum mer program. Of these, ap proximately 50 receive sti pends comparable to hers. Be- i d e mathematics, courses Persons Injured 30 Square Blocks Of Town Destroyed Wilburton. Okla. - (UPI - A brood of ucly tornadoes, herd ed by boiling black thunder clouds, slashed across Okla homa and Arkansas during the night leaving hundreds of persons dead and injured, many more homeless, and nearly wiping this town of 2,000 off the map. The known dead totaled 30. At least 250 were injured, nearly all in eastern Okla homa. Thirteen Wilburton res. idents were killed and an esti mated 100 injured. Many Turned Away Hospitals in some areas had lo turn away all but the most seriously injured. Delbert Garner, superinten- , dent of schools at Wilburton, said it "looked as if a bomb had heen dropped on main street." About 30 square blocks of this southeastern Oklahoma college town was crushed; about 12 blocks leveled and the rest approximately 50 per cent destroyed. Rescue workers digging through stacks of kindling that once were homes and business buildings reported 13 persons dead, and up to 125 others injured. They expected the death toll to go higher. Began About Dusk The tornadoes began skip ping across Oklahoma about ausK ana nammerca a dozen communities in Oklahoma and Arkansas. The tornadoes struck Mene- fee, Greenbrier and Prescott, . Ark., early today. One person . was killed and 25 others uv jured at Menefee. Other twisters killed two persons at Sapulpa, three at Moffett, two at Keota, two at Bnstow and one each at notl- man and Checotah. Other fun nel clouds were sighted m eastern Oklahoma near Co weta, Paden, Afton, Musko gee and Wynnewood.. One dipped out of boiling, black thunderheads into Wag oner near Fort Gibson lake and ripped up an estimated $100,000 worth of property. but no injuries were reported. Another struck at Piney, Ark.. about 13 miles southeast of Clarksville, and destroyed one house and a packing shed, but caused only a few minor njuries. Student Application Okayed for School The application of P. An thony Marshall, son of Mr, and Mrs. John B. Marshall, 716 West 14th st to attend the U.S. Air Force academy, has been approved, according to information received from the office of Representative Charles O. Porter in Washing ton, D. C. Marshall, student body president of St. Mary's High school, was the principal ap pointment of Porter to the academy. He has passed all tests except a physical exami nation for admission to the academy, it was reported. , The student is a member of the National Honor Society, Glee club. The Lancers which is the Pep club at the school, and is staff photographer for the St. Mary's High school newspaper and annual year book. Washington fUPD President Eisenhower today designated Sunday as Mother's Day. Marie Gets are offered In physics and chemistry with all three lead ing to advanced degrees in natural science. Her teachers, she added, have been lay pro fessors. Sister Shawn Marie is a na tive Oregonlan from the Sa lem area and a graduate of Marylhurst college. In her third year at St. Mary's, she is sophomore home room teacher In addition to being mathematics instructor. Prior to her Medford assignment she taught at Holy Names academy in Spokane and at Sacred t Heart academy in Salem. Another of the Holy Name Sisters receiving NSF grants this year is Sister M. Eliza beth Jean who taught at St. Mary's for several years prior to her transfer two yeari ago. Now at Sacred Heart acad emy, Salem, she will use her grant this summer for ad vanced study In physics at the University of California. A o (?) Ooe:z3 G3 G 0 OC0G3 QOOG2S) ( (2) 0 3) fe) (m)