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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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