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i ai n n u Threatens To Alert Said Ordered To Test Washington -JUPD- The Pen tagon has disclosed that Mon ray's mysterious combat read iness test for all U.S. military commands was ordered by De fense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. from Paris. The unannounced exercise gave some civilians the jit ters. The Defense Department said Gates wanted to check high-sped military communi r l r- l i regional camon 16 Page MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY J fct La t mMSA-: f5" I If lift SNO-CAT DISCUSSION E. M. Tucker, president of the Tucker Sno-Cat Company of Medford, (at right, wearing hat) Sunday discussed his vehicles with Congressman Charles O. Porter, told him of their success on last year's trans-Antarctic expedition, and suggested their use in taking people to Crater "lake in the winter. Porter (at right, reading letter) showed interest in the Med- Nixon Says Hatfield Can Have Government Role if GOP Wins Portland-ilIPH - Vice Presi dent Richard Nixon believes Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield is one of the "top leaders in the Republican party" and says that if the GOP continues in the White House after Novem ber "he will have a part to play to the extent that he wants to participate in the administration." Nixon's remarks were made in a filmed interview. The questions were submitted to Case Withdrawn by Irrigation District The Eagle Point Irrigation district voluntarily withdrew its suit in Jackson county cir cuit court yesterday afternoon which sought an injunction against Mrs. Ann Stone Todd and her husband. Howard F. Todd, two Eagle Point Irriga tion district water users. Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly granted permission for the district to enter a motion for voluntary non-suit. The district, as represented by Medford lawyer Ben Day, earlier had sought an injunc tion asking that the Todds be permanently enjoined with interfering with, meddling in and harrassing regular and special meetings of the Eagle Point Irrigation district. Yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Todd also presented a motion to dismiss the case for want of prosecution. WEATHER FORECAST: Vartahlf rtoudlnr tnnicht and Wdnedav. Srnt tfrpd licht thowpri. Low tn nicht 3S-40. nih Wfdnesdiy 60-62. Temp. Hlchrtt YMtrrdiiv 61 Lowest thli Mnrntnc 43 Prfc. to 10 a.m. today. Trace.. Our Skies Tonight Snmet today 7:? p m. Sunrise tomorrow ...... 4:47 a.m. Moonrlse tomorrow .. 1:22 a.m. Last Quarter todas- ...11:S a.m. PROMINENT ST Vt Arrturua, high In south - H:l I N VISIBLE PLANETS JuplKtr, low In iouth- att 1121 p m. Saturn, low In louth- east . a m. Mara, low In east ... . 1:11 a.m. t fn i gfii cations as well as the alert status of America's armed for ces. Although Gales tried not to attract public attention, word of the test spread across the country soon after midnight as some pilots were reported "scrambling" for their inter ceptor planes. The circumstances sugges ted the test was designed to check President Eisenhower's m a y T ford-made product, and promised to look into opportunities for their further use. At left, Mayor John W. Snider of Medford and Park Superintendent Otto Brown (back to camera) look on. Members of the party later rode in the Sno-Cat, driven by Ralph Ash (background, on snow), a veteran Sno Cat expert. The group met at the parking area at the rim of Crater lake. Nixon by newsmen George i to Oregon to campaign in the Sanders and Wallace Turner primary campaign because he and his answers filmed in! had to make a basic decision Washington, D C. regarding primaries. "Since I Nixon said that any attempt 'laJ no opposition in the pri to specify the Republican maries, I decided that if I vice-presidential nominee be- wcn' into or: state it would fore the convention would be I be necessary to go into all, "premature." He described the new concept of a vice president and said ideolog ical or geographical consider ations should not be domin ating factors in the selection of a running mate. "... the vice presidency under President Eisenhower has acquired a different posi tion in our national life than it had previously." Nixon said, "and it is important in selecting a vice presidential nominee to do it on the basis of whether he can work with the presidential nominee and whether he will be able to contribute more to the posi tion than any of the other candidates." The vice president said in the interview that the chief issues in the forthcoming cam paign would be peace, eco nomic security and progress. Nixon said he did not come Humphrey Write-in Campaign Launched Portland - rt'Pti - A write-in campaign for Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) for vice president opened today for Oregon's primary election Friday. Norman O. Nilsen, state la bor commissioner and head of the Humphrey movement In Oregon, said he was advised from Washington, D.C. that Humphrey i s "entertaining the idea" of becoming a can didate for vice president. He said the senator's administra live assistant brought up the possibility. Humphrey's supporters here met Monday night and voted unanimously t o recommend that his friends and backers write him In as a vice presi dential can-';iate on the Dem ocratic ticket. IS u it ability to keep instantaneous touch with the Strategic Air Command and other nucler striking forces when he is out of the country. No one but the President can order these for ces into action. Informed sources said Eisenhower obviously had ad vance knowledge of the ac tion taken by Gates, who is in Paris as an adviser during Price 10 Cents rnce iu venib 17, 1960 No. 49 and because I had so many duties in Washington, I thought that the better de cision was not to personally campaign . . ." Nixon is the only candi date on Friday's Oregon Re publican ballot for president. Phoenix School Budget Approved Phoenix The budget fori the new Phoenix administra-1 tive school district passed yes- terday, with 232 district pa trans voting yes and 101 vot ing no. according to Phoenix School District Clerk Florence Drake. The 333 vote total is ap proximately half of the total of 630 votes cast last week for school board members in the district, she commented. Total estimated tax levy for the 1960-61 school year is $500,895.82. including both general fund and bond inter est and redemption fund. This is a decrease of $6,973.96 com pared to the total of the Phoe nix and Talent levies' total of $507,869.78 last year before the two districts were con solidated, according to Super intendent Ernest James. The amount exceeding the 6 per cent limitation in the proposed budget is $369,276. 43. This is $75,672 less than the amount exceeding the 6 per cent limitation in the total current Phoenix and Talent districts' budgets passed last year. The $35 per census child al lowed recently by the Jacksor county court will provide on additional revenue of Sid, 775 for the combined district, the superintendent pointed out, and will fur'mcr offset the district's Ux levy. tfi. If If (Tb Sign Communications summit talks. Gates called off the test after about seven hours. When word of the alert spread Defense Department spokesmen were unable for several hours to give an ex planation. They had not been forewarned and were unable to deal with inquiries pouring in from across the country. Eventually, the Defense De mm m lorrenuai Belt Midwest Area BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL A storm system belled the Midwest and plains sUles with tornadoes, high winds, hail and torrential rains Mon day night. The storm caused widespread damage but no serious in juries. Winds of 80 miles an hour lashed Keokuk. Iowa. Tor nadoes destroyed farm buildings in Illinois. Kansas and Missouri. Flash flood warnings Wisconsin. The Keokuk storm uprooted trees, knocked down a radio tower, capsized 75 private boats moored on the Missis sippi river, and tore the roof off an industrial plant. About 20,000 homes in North St. Louis lost electric power for a short time when thunderstorm swept across the city. Hailstones as big as golf balls fell in St. Louis county. Strong winds and heavy rain also knocked out elec tric power temporarily in Ed wardsville, Iill. Several power lines were downed, and one fell on a tractor-trailer truck, starting a small fire. A tornado destroyed farm buildings near Peoria, 111., and Kirksville, Mo. Other damage to farm buildings was reported near Chillicothe, Wheeling and Chula, Mo. Funnel clouds also were sighted near Tulsa, Okla., but they apparently did not touch ground. Police Investigate Medford Explosion Medford police are investi gating an explosion which shook the General Machine Works building, 322 East Fourth st., near midnight last night. The blast apparently oc curred just outside of the building on the sidewalk and was of such force that it broke 15 windows out of the west side of the structure. Police said no other damage was done, and it did not ap pear as if the building had been broken into. The only evidence found at the scene of the explosion was a small piece of blasting fuse. Two youths who were sleep ing in a home some distance from the building told police they heard the blast and when they looked they saw a cloud of smoke coming from the corner of the building. They said thev observed a man run from the blast area and climb into an awaiting car just be- fore police arrived. 50 Per Cent Voter Turnout Expected Salem - HTM - State Elec tions Director Jack Thompson predicted today that not more than half of the registered voters in Oregon will turn out for Friday's primary. "The maximum that I ex pect is 65 per cent," he said. Oregon has 797,036 persons eligible to vote in the pri mary. If Thompson's predic tion comes true, less than 400,000 registered voters will go to the polls to nominate candidates in the two major parties for the Reneral elec tion in November. McLoughlin Cftorui Sings of FDR Dinntr The 70-member McLough lin Junior High school chorus, under the direction of Ray Lrwis, participated in the pro gram at the Roosevelt Memo rial dinner Saturday. Previously it was reported that the Hedrick Junior High chorus provided entertain ment, a report which was incorrect. Jfr (p S partment issued this state ment: "A communications readi ness alert affecting all U. S. commands was held and com pleted Monday night and early this morning. It was conducted at the direction of the Joint Chiefs of Staff." The slatcmcnt was accurate as it went. It was disclosed later, however, that the Joint Chiefs acted on Gates' orders. reams were issued for southwest Deputy DA Says $8,953 Collected For Non-Support Chief Deputy District At torney Gerald Scannell today disputed a statement made earlier this year by James Pullman, Jackson county wel fare department administra tor, and said his office has collected $8,953.85 from non support cases during the first three months of 1960. Earlier this year before the legislative interim committee on public welfare, Pullman said his office records show only $800 has been collected in non-support payments. He also said there is "an honest difference of opinion between our two offices over what non-support cases should be prosecuted." They were referring to cases where fathers fail to support their families. In many of these cases, the fam ilies had been forced to turn ot the local welfare depart ment for financial help. Scannell said today that re search by the county clerk's office shows S10.863.87 in non-support payments were collected in 1958, and $24. 451.24 in 1959. He estimated that non-support payments collected by action of his of fice should total about $36,- 000 by the end of 1960. Paymstnls lo Clerk "This year we are attempt ing to run all payments through the county clerk's of fice so we will have some record," Scannell explained. "However, unless we have a court order requiring pay ment to the county clerk's office, the money is usually paid directly to the mother or wife involved." Scannell noted that last year the district attorney's of fice was able to collect $1,500 from a man in Missouri who was not paying his wife in Ashland. A reconciliation was reached later and she went to live with her husband in Missouri. This money was paid directly to the wife so no record was kept. "When a complaint comes in we have a personal inter view with the man involved. Then, he either pays the money directly to his wife, as usually happens, or to the dis trict attorney's office or the county clerk s office, Scan nell explained. "Every case coining into our office has action taken on it. We feel it is our duly to decide what action is the best action to take since it would appear if a man has potential capabilities of making sup port payments to put him in jail would cause the county to support both him and his family," he said. Pullman replied today, "I only wished that our clients could realize a proportionate benefit of this amount of money which they claim they are collecting. And if the dis trict attorney's office is infer ring that this is being collec ted on behalf of our recip ients, I would like to review i the re.MTds from wMclt lit igvt the figures." mmw mum r 2 , .- -s r."V.'.rf 'a.-. 5 T pi! I f i i J j pa ' VISITS FORMER HOME President Eisen hower, right, and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, left, walk in a garden at Marines-la-Coquette, Franch, after arriving for a short visit. The village is where Eisen Wildlife Service Studies of Rogue Well Advanced U.S. fish and wildlife serv ice studies of fishery prob lems associated with the Rogue river project are well advanced, the service inform ed Representative Charles O. Porter recently. The service said it expects to complete field operations. which will be concerned chief ly with temperature and flow correlations, by Nov, 1. Design criteria will be for warded to the Corps of En gineers starting Jan. 1. 1961, the service said, for the en gineers to incorporate in proj ect planning. "We expect to finish our report in July, 1961, and the Corps of En gineers expects lo complete its report in July, 1961, and the Corps of Engineers ex pects to complete its report in September. 1961," the serv ice added. (This means the proposal cannot be presented to Congress before 1962. or the second session of the 87th Congress.) The service said fishery problems associated with tributary development at Elk creek dam, Meadows dam on Evans creek, and Copper dam on Applegate river have been worked out. Faced With Problem "We arc still faced with the problem of designing measures In prevent serious losses to fisheries by construe- tion and operation of Lost creek project on the main stream of the Rogue river,' the service added. The service said It has un der way, in cooperation with federal and state agencies, a study of temperatures in rela tion to stream flows through out the main stream and tribu tary areas of the basin. "We hope that on the basis of these investigations, meas ures can be developed lo In sure desirable quantities of high quality water in the Rogue river to improve condi tions for the important fish ery present in the Rogue riv er," the service said. La Grande Counts 8,887 in Census La Grande - The 1960 pop ulation of La Grande has been set at 8,997 In the prelimi nary report of the Bend dis trict office of the Oregon census. This compares with 8,635 listed in the 1950 census. However the figure is under jthe 9.11)11 population estimate I in the Oregon Blue Book. a gcSlCT Parks Commission Asks Action on Youth Camp Area The Jackson county parks and recreation commission has requested immediate action from the county court on rec ommendations to establish a youth camp area on the How ard Prairie reservoir. In a letter to the counly court, Ed Strothcr. Shady Cove, commission chairman, asked that the county court, with "concurrence of the bu reau of land management and the bureau of reclamation." work with all interested par tics in selection of an area and approve preparation of plans and specifications for the youth camp. The camp would be estab lished this summer, Strother said. "When ready for use it would be controlled for purposes of administration, operation and maintenance by the Jackson County Parks and Recreation organization." "It is understood by the Masons Take Over Plaza Cafe Area Ashlnnd-Space which for merly house the Plaza cafe damaged in a fire last fall will be opened by Ashland's Masonic lodge sometime this fall as an office and large banquet room. Frank H. Barnthouse, re- corder for Ashland's Masonic lodge, said today the new ban quct room also will Include space for dancing. The lodge owns the build ing, and previously had leased the downstairs as the Plaza cafe. The lodge office, now on the second floor, will be moved to the cafe area. The banquet room will be In the space formerly used as a din ing room. Barnthouse said renovation of the downstairs is now be ing done. There is no dead line for completion, but he said the spaces should be in use "sometime this fall." The lodge will continue to operate its third floor dining room and kitchen for smaller groups. A large conference room on the second floor will en able more than one Masonic organization to meet simul taneously. About eight organizations connected with the lodge meet in the building, and these groups. Barnthouse said, "have outgrown" the space available on the second and third floors. da hower lived when he was commander of the Allied Forces in Europe In the early 1950s. At center Is Maj. John Eisenhower, the President's son. (UPI Radiotelephoto) commission that funds, mate rials and labor have been committed without charge to the counly toward the pur pose of establlsing the camp," the commission chair man wrote. Strothcr pointed out that technical help is available from the national park serv ice and plans for a youth camp would be subject to re view by the service before work is started. Representatives of various church and youth organiza tions appeared before the counly parks and recreation commission recently to re quest a youth camp area bo created at Howard Prairie reservoir. The request had been tabled until a special meeting May 12 because of lack of a quorum. Possible Park Sites Meanwhile, the commission is planning a trip Monday, May 23, along Bear creek from Medford to Ashland to look at possible park sites on the creek as suggested by Mark Aslnip, Salem, land scape engineer for the slate highway commission. "We need lo submit a plan immediately to the state high way commission for proposed park development," Robert Haworth, Medford recreation director, said today. Haworth has been hired by the county to work with its parks and recreation commission. The plan Is possibly to have the new freeway contractors' crews stub out the park sites as the new highway Is con structed through this area. Russell W. Deforest. Med ford lawyer, and chairman of the Bear creek anti-pollution committee, said yesterday the group has completed its studies on the pollution prob lem, and is now starting to draw up a report which will be ready in a month. Counfy Treasurer Receives Boot Money County Treasurer Karl Ja. nouch reported today that he has received a check for $4,0B5 as the county's share of boating licenses and permits. Janouch said another check Is expected In July from the state marine board. The coun ty court said recently that it does not plan to earmark the funds for marine recreation area development or enforce ment of the new boating regu lations. The money will go into the general fund, it was reported. sou on, fi reaty Premier Going To East Berlin On Wednesday Public Apology by Ike Could Save Talks Paris-ilTD - Premier Nikita Khrushchev boycotted an emergency session of the col lapsing Summit Conference today and Communist sources made it known he is prepar ine, drastic new moves against West Berlin. The Eastern sources reveal ed Khrushchev is ready to carry out this week his threat to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, ending four power rights in the ap proaches to West Berlin. Khrushchev told a sidewalk new conference today he would fly to East Berlin Wednesday unless President Eisenhower made a public apology for U2 spy plane "aggression" against the So viet Union. Eisenhower re fused and Khrushchev prepar ed an even bigger Berlin crisis even as the summit talks were dying. Face Empty Chair President Charles de Gaulle Invited the heads of state to the Elysee Palace in a desper ate effort to save the confer ence. But Khrushchev, who had been on a picnic, drove instead to the Soviet Embassy and the three western leaders met with an empty chair fac ing them. Eisenhower, de Gaulle and Prime Minister Harold Mac millan called a final meeting tonight to decide whether to write off the Paris summit for good. There were nw known plans for Eisenhower lo meet Khrushchev. Gravest Crisis Seen Within minutes Communist diplomats leaked word that Khrushchev would fly to East Berlin Wednesday to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany a move that could plunge the world Into lis gravest crisis since World War II. Khruschev has made it clear that such a treaty would end all western rights in West Berlin and he warned in a series of violently anti-American speeches last week any attempt to save Berlin with force would be met by force. Communist diplomats said this afternoon Khrushchev considered the period of nego tiations with the allies on Germany terminated for the time being and that Russia would proceed unilaterally on Berlin. Repeats Ultimatum The Communists said a draft peace treaty already had been worked out by Com munist experts and that Khru shchev brought it to Paris, ready to sign it. They said Khrushchev now felt himself freed from last year's Berlin truce accord with Eisenhower and other western leaders. And twice today Khrush chev repeated his ultimatum to Eisenhower to apologize publicly for the U2 spy plane incident and condemn the "treacherous incursion" o f such planes. Eisenhower re fused although he disclosed Monday the flights had been slopped. First Khrushchev repeated his demands to newsmen be fore setting out on a country drive. Then, after skipping the four-power session, he is sued a ' rm-I statement at the embassy announcing an impossible d mand - he was ready to return to the summit if the United States publicly condemned its "aggression, ' punished all those responsible and assured Russia the flights will not be repeated. Red Propaganda Starts II was clear the United States could go no further than to end the flights. To go further would be public hu militation before the eyes of the world and an admission thai the Soviets were the "peace" leaders and the West the "aggressors." Elsenhower took note of the remarks Monday. He said Khrushchev had flown all the way from Moscow to sabotage the summit talk. He did not reply to Khrushchev's with drawal of his Invitation to Eisenfcjwer to visit Russia. Sun Valley, Idaho - lUPD -0 E. C. Dwyer, president of che Dwyer Lumber Co. of Port land, has been elected to fill a vcncy on tle board o trustees during opening ses sions of the Douglas Fir Ply wood ftiiocxaUon, i CO 0. ( ) 0 t Q (0 (?) (7) (O
