Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 20, 1960, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textn I .n O C3 o m o O n Regional Edition Price 10 Cents ?TRIBUNE f V.J MEDFORMgS f v ' ft n v.. .'" ' HELPING WITH HESCUE Peter Bading. her and four other iniured rlimbers, includ- left, whose wife llelga, is trapped on the ing John Day, Central Point, Ore. slopes of Mt. McKinley near Summit, Alaska, is helping to direct operations for . (UPI Telephoto) EN ROUTE TO ALASKA Shown above is are, left to right, Pete Schoening, Jim Whit- the party of which John Day, right, is a taker and Lou Whittaker, all of Seattle, member as it left the Seattle airport for Picture was taken by Charles K. Moore of Alaska last Saturday. Others in the party Seattle. Riverside Ave. Widening Due Medford City Manager Rob ert A. Duff has been directed by the city council to negoti. ate with the state highway commission for the widening of South Riverside ave. from Ninth st. to the Central ave. intersection. The commission has already submitted a tentative propo sal to the city in which they offer to pay 75 per cent of the cost of widening by 12 feet Riverside ave., from its present 36 feet of pavement to 48 feet of pavement. The project would also in clude curbs and sidewalks where there are now none. Duff pointed out that the widening would cause the re moval of some trees between 12th st. and Central ave. He suggested that a con tract for widening include the provision that whatever trees are taken out shall be re placed by the correct street tree on the adjacent property. He said the cost of this re placement would be small. Total cost of the project is estimated at $104,000. with the city's share being $26,000. Public Works Director Ver non Thorpe said the city's por tion of the cost would be paid from the Arterial Street fund. Girl, 16, Loses Leg After Attack Santa Cruz. Calif. -HJPP- The left leg of a 16-year-old high school girl was amputated above the knee Thursday aft er a maneating shark attacked her during a beach picnic. The victim, Suzanne Ther iot, was attending the picnic with her sophomore class, which had been given a half day holiday for selling the most yearbooks at Mora Cath olic High School in Watson ville. Miss Theiot and 37 other sophomores went to Hidden Beach, about six miles south east of here. She was holding onto an inner tube with three frieods inside the breakers, about 50 feet off shore. With her were Nick Buak, 16, Larry Cronin. 15, and Tes sie Lfttunich, 15. On Htr L3 "Larry and Suzanne were swimming around the tube and Nick and I were on it," I.IiiS Lettunich said. "Suzanne sc-nanied that something was on iter leg. Larry grabbed her arm, and Nick told me to pull Hartman Visits in Valley on Prof. Henry Hartman, horti culturist at Oregon State col lege, was in Medford yester day for his first trip to Med- Open House Slated At Kingsley Field Klamath Falls - The 408th Fighter group at Kingsley field will observe the 11th an niversary of Armed Forces Day with an open house, pa rade, static displays and other events tomorrow, Col. Jack W. Williams, base command er, has announced. Open house at the base is scheduled tomorrow after noon. Other activities include a parade in downtown Kla math Falls starting at 11:30 a. ., fly-overs by various jet aircraft, displays of equip ment and armament, a jet en gine, radiological monitoring equipment, mobile medical equipment and crash equip ment. Also scheduled during the afternoon is a scramble and intercept mission over the base, a fire crash rescue dem onstration, and free motion pictures at the base theater. An Armed Forces Day mili tary ball at the base will cli max the day's activities. by Shark my feet up onto the tube. Then we saw the shark's fin." Suzanne was rushed to Do minican Hospital here, where surgeons removed the leg dur ing a four-hour operation. Hos pital officials reported she was in fair condition, suffer ing from shock and loss of blood. SUZANNE THERIOT Shark Spoilt Picnic V!'1 ft 4 Thursday ford following his heart at tack. He was accompanied by Dr. Mel Westmood, also a horti culturist at OSC. Professor Hartman is resuming his work on the pear decline study, and Dr. Westwood is supervising the horticulture work at the county experi ment station here as well as checking into the pear , de cline problem. Both men, who plan to return to Corvallis Friday, will make periodic trips to Medford. . Accompanied by Cordy The men, accompanied by County Agent Clifford B. Cordy, horticulturist, visited orchards checking for pear decline. Cordy said that while some orchards that have not looked too good in the past, having shown some symp toms of decline, are looking better this year. He added, however, that in some orchards which looked good last year and produced good crops, now show ad vance symptoms of decline this year. Washington Program Cordy stated that Dr. West- wood had worked with the pear decline program in Washington for a number of years, and has been able to help the local orchnrdisls by showing symptoms and tech niques as used in that state. Also in Medford this week was Dr. Ron Cameron, plant pathologist with OSC, a mem. ber of the decline team study ing the disease aspects of the problem. He was here Tues day, Cordy said, taking samples of the pear decline back to Corvallis with him. Khrushchev Delays West Berlin Action Berlin-OIPH-Premicr Nikita Khrushchev said today he would take no action against West Berlin for at least six to eight months w hen he hopes another summit confer ence can he called with the next U.S. President. He made it clear he would never again meet with Presi dent Eisenhower. Chinese Reds Sfoge 'Hate America' Rally Tokyo-dTti Millions of Chi nese Communists staged a "hate America" rally in Pei- ping and its suburbs today and a top Commuist leader likened the U.S. posilion at the summit conference to murderer fleeing the law court. k'cmMmsr; . i 11 U uudoBHi DROP PREPARED U. S. Air Force crews load equipment and oxygen for a drop to five injured mountain climbers on the slopes of Mt. McKinley. Helicopter rescue Helicopters Fail In McKinley Rescue Summit, Aiaska iliHU Of ficials at rescue headquarters here said today it will be im possible to airlift five injured and stranded climbers off Mt. McKinley via helicopter. The copters made several attempts to land at the 15.000 foot level of the mountain Thursday and today but were turned back every time. This morning, another ski- equipped copter failed in its attempt to rescue the injured climbers. Worsening Condition The helicopter was forced to return to Fort Greeley for repairs. Paul Crews, leader of the stranded group, radioed that "All five persons are in wors ening condition." An Air Force pilot tried to land in a 300-foot area to res cue Mrs. Helga Bading, 31 who was reported "in a deep coma" on the 15.000-foot level of the mountain. She is suf fering from mountain sickness caused by lack of oxygen and overexertion. An H21C helicopter was flown here from Anchorage and will make another rescue attempt later in the day after it is equipped with skis. Of ficials said it would take about five hours to equip the larger helicopter. Woman Near Death If the attempt to rescue Mrs. Bading this morning had been successful, the pilot would have tried to pick up the four men who are at the 1 8,300- foot level. They were injured "critically" after falling down the mountian slope. Ground parties also strug gled up the mountainside, but doctor with Mrs. Bading said the climbers could not reach her in time to save her. Last Helicopter Attempt The Air Force said today's flight probably would be the last attempt at a rescue by helicopter. Mrs. Bading and the four men were members of sepa rate climbing parties. Six rescuers were listed as having passed the 10,000-foot level. Forty more mountain eers, most of them from Seat tle, were being lifted to the 10,000-foot level by helicopter to start their climb. Census Bureau Gets Last of Area Books Census district headquar ters in Eugene received the last of the census books enum erating residents of Jackson county this morning, it was re ported today. Thomas A. Redlingshafer, acting district director Eu gene, told the Mail Tribune this morning that the book is now being audited and pre liminary totals for Jackson county will be available Mon day. Yesterday it was reported that the census takers in the western half , of the county had completed their calls Wednesday night and that the last of the census books had been mailed. Redlingshafer said that when books are received they must be audited and checked for errors before preliminary totals may be released. Residents of the county who were not contacted by a cen sus enumerator may use the "Were You Counted" form published in today's Mail Trib une. ; t:,V.f I O ' I 24 Pages attempts ha vp failed and ground rescue teHms, including five visiting Japanese climbers, are making rescue efforts. tUPl Telephoto) Bill Schlelpf, coordinator of the rescue parties, estimat ed it would take at least 60 men to bring the five down. A twin-engine Air Force C123 piloted by Capt. William Miller, Minneapolis, dropped oxygen, a litter and medical supplies to the injured Thurs day evening, hoping to aid them in their battle for survi val. However, it appeared the odds were against them. At least two of the injured were critical and all were frostbit ten. The temperature at the 15.000-foot level Thursday Dedication of Hew Hospital Scheduled Central Point- Formal ded ication and a two-day open house are scheduled at the new 28-bed Crater Osteopath ic hospital in Central Point Saturday and Sunday. Dedication of the hospital, which will replace Medford Osteopathic hospital, will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday, ac cording to Dr. Paul T. Rutter, Medford, chief of staff and head of the $250,000 project. Open house will be held both days between 1 and 5 p. m. Equipment from the pres ent hospital Is expected to be moved throughout next week, and patients are expected to be in the new hospital by June 1, Dr. Ritter said. Facilities At Hospital Built in an X form, the new hospital has private, and two and three-bed wards, two ma jor surgeries, emergency sur gery, recovery room, mater nity wing labor and delivery rooms, X-r a y, laboratory, kitchen, dining room, lobby and business offices. The nurs ers has a capacity of 16 bas sinets. A second utility building, separate from the main hos pital, houses heating and air conditioning systems, laundry and workshop. There are con crete walks nil around, and a parking lot for more than 60 vehicles. A special ambulance en trance is situated so it can not be blocked, Dr. Rutter noted. Some $.50,000 has been spent for latest hos pital equipment, h added. An automatic timing, 300 milli ampere X-ray machine is be ing installed, and the adjoin ing laboratory contains the most recent equipment and fa cilities. A four-unit electronic car- discope installed in the sur geries visually records heart beat measurements and Im pulses continually so any change in pace can be imme diately noticed. The heart beat device shows a constant electro-cardiogram and eludes a cardiac pacemaker WEATHER FOR r.C A ST: rinudv with i frw ihnwrri tonight. 1'irtial rear ing with Bntt?rit ihowrri in mnuntalnt ft turd a ?, I.nw to nlKht 38-40. HUh ftaturday fiV Temp. HtKh'it VMterrtav 74 t.AwrM Ihla Mnrnlnc SI Pree. to III a.m. Today 01 Our Skies Tonight Runtt tftdar 7:31 p.m. Rtinrlic tomorrow .... 4:41 a.m. Moonrlse tomorrow .. 2:S1 a.m. Nf Moon ., May 2i PROMINENT RTA1 Vera, low In the northratt it unipt, will be near th zrnlth at . 2:S4 a m. and hlrh In In wtst at mnrlif. night was 15 degrees below zero and winds were better Ihnn 20 knots. The four injured men were identified as John Day, 50, Central Point, Ore., and Pete Schoening and James and Lou Whitaker, 31-year-old twins of Seattle. Paul Crews, leader nf Mrs. Bading's group. Dr. Rodman Wilson, and the other two members of the party, Andy Drauchli and Chuck Metzger, were hiking back and forth between Mrs. Bading and the four men, keeping a close chock on the injured. to send impulses to the hrnrt to renew action should it stop during surgery, Dr. Rutter said. Hospital Payroll The hospital's payroll will total about 30; he said. Four teen doctors of the Rogue Val ley are on the staff, and the hospital will serve patients in the general area of Central Point, Medford. Jacksonville, R"ogue River, Grants Pass and Ashland. The hospital was construct ed so additions can be con structed to allow for a BO-bed hospital. It is on a six-acre tract. The Medford Osteopathic hospital will be closed and the property sold. It was founded in 1935 by the late Dr. W. W. Howard, and a large painting of Dr. Howard will hang in the new hospital lobby and a room will be ded icated to his memory. $2,450,000 Set For Talent Work Among the more than $5 million in reclamation funds for Oregon projects approved today toy the House Appropri lions committee in Washing ton, D. C, was $2,450,000 for the Talent project. James A. Callan, Talent project engineer for the bu reau of reclamation, White City, reported that the money for the 1960-61 fiscal year would enlarge three laterals in the project and the Emi grant dam. Laterals will be the west lateral along the foothills from Ashland to Griffin Creek, the Talent lateral from the town of Talent to Griffin Creek which parallels the west lateral approximately ',-4 mile to the east, and the Ash land lateral which starts near Songer gap at the south end nf Emigrant reservoir area to Ashland, about 12 miles in length. With the completion of the lateral and dam enlargements, only minor work on sublat erals will remain to be com pleted in the fiscal year 1961 62, Callan said. The project Is expected to he completed in 1962. Atlas Missile on 9,000-Mile Flight . Cape Canaveral, Fla.-WP-Amerlca today fired an Atlas missle with a dummy war head on a D.OnO-mlle flight to a point off the tip of Soulh Africa. MEDFORD, State Showery On Voting Day Portland -ilTI Oreuonians turned out in overcast and sometimes showery weather today to pick candidates for offices in November and to decide the Democratic presi dential primary contest be tween Sens. John Kennedy and Wayne Morse. Elections Chief Jack Thomp son forecast a turnout of about 400,00(1 of the state's Voting before noon today wbi light according to a check made of eight pre cincts at the Jackson county courthouse and four at Med ford High school. Members of the elections boards said the rain may be to blame, but that it was difficult to attribute the light voi juhl to rainy weather. Election workers at the courthouse reported a steady but light stream of voters. More were expected in the afternoon. 797.038 registered voters. Democrats outnumber Repub licans 420,958 to 365,377. Kennedy, the front-running candidate for the Democratic nomination, has forecast he would lose to Morse but many nf hie umnnrlprt wpfp nrP. dieting a victory. Morse be- lived his "grass roots" sup port would get him 60 per cent of the Democratic votes. The Massachusetts senator has won six straight primaries v.ie ...a. uA int contest of the 1B6U presiden Hal primaries. Sens. Stuart Symington (Mo.), Lyndon Johnson (Tex.) and Hubert Humphrey also were on the Democratic bal lot. Humphrey Is no longer a presidential candidate and the other two did not cam paign in Oregon. School Board Rejects Bids The Medford school board lale yesterday rejected three bids submitted for construc tion of an addition to Oak Grove school because they were considerably more than estimates. Bids were submitted by H. C. Goldsmith, Medford, $67, 543; Don L. Jacobs Construc tion company, Medford, $71,- 158; and Harold W. Salter, Rogue River, $72,990. Esti mates for the addition ranged between $51,000 and about $54,000. The school board asked that plans be reviewed. Bids on the work will be called again. The addition Includes three classrooms, a restroom, and plumbing and heating facili ties. Architect William H. Sei bert, is architect. The board also postponed opening bids on the Medford High school boys physical ed ucation plant. Bids originally were scheduled to be opened next Tuesday afternoon. Opening was postponed for consultations with construc tion authorities on certain as pects of the addition to help reduce costs. Bids for an addition to the West Side school will be opened by the board at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 26. Yamhill, Polk Populations Told Salem-MPII-A final prelimi nary census for Polk and Yamhill counties was an nounced today by the District Office of the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Yamhill county population was listed at 32.267, slightly under the 1950 figure of 33.484. Polk county census was listed as 26,395, above the 26,317 census for 1950. Crow's Reports FaJmg Market Portland WPD A falling market for most grades of di mension, boards and plywood sheathing was reported by Crow's Lumber Market News Service here for the W3ck ending today. Crows said buying in a categories continued to be spotty. OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY Kennedy flew to Lewiston. Idaho, for a speech at i fund raising dinner and returns to Portland tonight. Morse voted in Eugene and awaited elec tion results there. He returns to Washington, D.C. Saturday night. Vice President Richard Nix on was not opposed on the Republican presidential bal lot in Oregon. Polls opened at 8 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Residents Warned 01 Sewage Drain in MID Ditches A number of residents of the area immediately south west of Medford have been warned by letter about drain ing septic tanks into Medford lrrigraion district ditches. Dis trict Attorney Thomas J. Reeder said today. They are I allowed three months to cor ! red the condition. A public meeting to Con sider annexation of that area to Medford and connecting with the city's sewer system has not yet been set, it was learned. Meanwhile, sheriff's deputies are continuing to in- veslisate the drainage DroH- - lem. The area includes Lozicr Inns rinvor lnnp Peach si and the Maple Park addition. Domonstration of Unity "In many cases raw sew- .The heartening demonstra age is going into open ditches lion ot unity began as soon and toilet paper is clearly "s Eisenhower alighted from visible strung out along somi of the districts laterals in In area," an observer reported In his letter, Reeder warn ed the people draining sew- age into an irrigation alien that this practice is prohibit ed by slate law. Maximum penally Is $1,000 fine or by imprisonment in the county jail for one year, or both. Craalti Condition "The Medford Irrigation district believes that the drainage of sewage into their ditches, laterals and canals has created an intolerable situation as far as their users and members are concerned," Reeder wrote. "Moreover, such conduct creates a serious public health hazard. It is foreseeable that the widespread lack of prop er sewage facilities and pol lution caused can cause an epidemic of a number of dis eases which would not only affect your area but the en tire community." 'I am aware that due to the lack of zoning restrictions, and also due to the lack of proper housing development in your area, you do not have proper sewage facilities," the district attorney continued. "I also am aware thai none of you are Intentionally violat ing the law. However, it is my duty' to prosecute the viola tions of this law that have been called to my attention, notwithstanding the individ ual hardship involved "We Said We'd Soon 20, 1960 No. 52 Soviet Reasoning Remains Mystery, President Says Plane Said Overdue Near East Germany Washington -HIPII- President Eisenhower returned today to a cheering Washington and said it "remains a mystery" why Russia chose this time to scuttle the summit confer ence. The President, greeted in tears by Mrs. Eisenhower, said America's hopes were "not too high" when he left. Rut he said it had seemed there was a chance of progress on some of the problems in which Russia had indicated in terest. Further Iritationi Sean "Therefore it is a mystery and remains a mystery why at this particular moment the Soviets chose so to distort and overplay the U2 incident That they obviously wanted no talks of any kind and in fact made it impossible to begin them," Eisenhower said. But he said that further ir ritations with Russia may take place. He said that a half hour be fore his return a C47 Air Force transport was overdue on a flight near the Red East German border. The President also told the airport crowd he was deeply appreciative of the big wel- co He said: "It truly means a lOl 10 mo. ngton his plane at nearby Andrews Air Force Base. It continued as he drove through the sub urban Maryland countryside and the crowd-filled streets of Washington back to the White House. Political differences were cast aside during the turn-out aimed at showing the Presi dent that he can count on de termined popular support in cold war challenges which may lie ahead. The welcome ome reception also served s a tribute to his conduct at Paris In the face of the abuse nd threats hurled at him by Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev. A farifare of trumpets soun ded as Eisenhower stepped from the Air Force jet. He flew here from Lisbon, Port ugal, where he made a state visit. Tornado Vrtoay Wrecks Kansas Town By United Press International Tornadoes swept death and destruction through the plains states and the Midwest during the night, virtually leveling the small town of Meriden, Kan. Authorities said almost all the homes and business estab lishments in Meriden, a town of 388 persons, were demol ished by the twister. One per son was killed and at least SO injured. Have A Man In Space" ( 0 fa) (?)