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mm 1 1 m Ml Plomnmed Two Buildings To Be Completed Sometime in 1961 Project North of Shopping Center Plans were announced to day tor the construction in Medford of a convalescent hospital and a cooperative apartment at a cost of about 1.3 million. Details of the projects were reported by William Brooks and Walter Graff, two of the several developers, following the tentative approval ' of their request for a zone change by the city planning commission Thursday eve ning, The developers had re quested that a 10-acre site north of the Medford Shop ping center be changed to multiple family zoning. The area is now a wheat field. The 100-bed convalescent hospital will cost approxi mately $700,000 and will be called the Hawthorne Conva lescent hospital. It will em ploy more than 40 persons. The cooperative apartment will include 43 units and cost $682,000. It will be the sec ond true consumer coopera tive apartment' in Oregon. Brooks reported that part of the 10 acres of a 24-acre site north of Stevens st. and adjacent to the shopping cen ter, will be used for' the proj ect. The hospital is expected to be completed,;brmid-1961 with rthe apartment'' later in the year. ' ' ; -x ' ' Construction Soon Construction is expected to itart as soon as architect's plans are approved. The 10 acre area, to front on Stevens st., will be bisected by a 60 foot paved street which will be an extension of Hawthorne ave. . The convalescent home will be one story and built in the shape of an X with the lobby in the center. A screened gar den and lawn area will be at the rear of the building. It will include X-ray facilities, medical , laboratory, physical therapy room, and a regis tered nurse will be on duty at all times. The hospital's annual pay roll will be about $160,000. Brooks said that the de velopers decided to construct the hospital after a survey showed that a convalescent home was needed in. the Kogue valley. General administrator will be Alfred Paulson, Ashland, also one of the project de velopers. Paulson is present administrator for Ashland General hospital, a position he has held for 12 years. Apartment Plans The Hawthorne Garden apartment will be built'jn a U shape, facing on btevens st. The interior court will in- elude a five-hole putting green, swimming pool and ca bana. The entire area will be landscaped. The two- story structure will have six apartments on each side on each floor with nine apartments across the back of the property. Deluxe, bachelor, and typical apart ments will be available. The deluxe apartments includes a fireplace and is larger than the other apartments, Brooks said. The bachelor apartments are the smallest, and will have one bedroom.' A building superintendent will be on duty at the apart ment. Both the hospital and apart ment will be air-conditioned. The exteriors will be of red wood siding and brick.. Monthly payments for the apartment will include prin cipal and interest payments, taxes, exterior upkeep, insur ance and building main tenance. Crow's Sees Hope for West Lumber Market Portland - IUPD - Crow's Lumber Market News Serv ice said today a fast spread ing curtailment program in the Douglas Fir plywood in dustry offered some hope this week to an otherwise lifeless market for western lumber and plywood. . , nron VAoar R Hun. Odieui ,u " - tcr has been named Assistant Oregon State Highway Divi- , n il I lion Engineer in i-uiumm, Regional Edition Medford 28 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST School Issues No decision on the pro posed Phoenix school district boundary change will be made immediately, according to County Judge Earl Miller, county bouridary board chair man. The board is waiting for a state attorney general's opin ion on whether the board may overrule a decision of the county school reorganization committee, which previously approved the boundary change. . The decision will not be made immediately, but the boundary board went ahead last night with hearings on the issue. ' Concern over the decision Ski Resort Plans In Ml. Ashland: Area Announced ' The Mt. Ashland area, south west of Ashland is under con sideration as a ski resort and all around recreation area, according to tentative plans reported to the Jackson coun ty court today. Sidney E. Ainsworth, Ash land lawyer, one of the proj ect promoters, wrote ' the county court requesting that it inspect the area. County Judge Earl Miller said that he would answer the letter and arrange for an inspection trip. Ainsworth wrote' that the $150,000 anticipated for construction of a ski lodge is available. Financing ar rangements are also possible for installation of a chair-lift, he wrote. Thomas J. Parker and associates,. Inc., an Ore gon corporation, and some persons outside the firm would provide the financing. Chief Problem . Chief problems in develop ing the area would be road construction, the Ashland law yer said. Heavy snowfall is anticipated on the road lead ing to the lodge site at the lower fringe of the saddle, just east of the summit, he pointed out. This would in volve the road from the site down to the Bull Gap road extension where it takes off from Tolman creek access rd., Ainsworth explained. Several "extreme switch backs" and a steep grade in the section of road to the lodge would have to be eliminated. About 14V4 miles of road sur facing to the South Pacific highway would, be required, plus eight miles of snow plowing. Ample water sources are available plus a possible pow er source through Colestine, Ainsworth said. Southern Gas Efforts Pushed Salem-fflPD-Efforts to obtain a natural gas transmission line from Klamath F'alls to the Grants Pass-Medford-Ashland area are - continuing, Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Will oriiH TVinrcriav. Hill said he was pleased Gas Transmission company for a line . ms, v., aprnce Trlntirt Oi-offon nnrl Washington to California. Hn,,; ho ovnressed Power commission order which gas for Oregon customers. . Hill tho Foripral Power commission staff had orig. inally approved 50-million cubic feet of gas a day for Ore gon users south of Pendleton but that the final order reduced the amount to 30 million for the three northwest states. Hui v,. foorc nrounn mav lose a portion of the 30 million feet if other consumers are not added to the Pacific Gas Transmission line which will import the Canadian gas. "Tt ie rtooirahio that a rnnnectiiig line be run from Klam ath Falls to a Rogue river with facilities of California present purveyor," be said. for Med District Voiced was shown by both residents of the area proposing annex ation to the Medford school district, and those living in the Phoenix school district. The Medford school district itself is remaining officially neutral. Discussion, which was ani mated from the start, grew more emotional as the eve ning wore on. To Make Choice The boundary board now has to choose between the wishes of the area's residents to have their children go to school in Medford at schools closer to their homes, and the dsire of the Phoenix resi dents to keep their district intact. The area residents feel that since they live within the Medford city limits, their children are more closely tied to the Medford school system than to the Phoenix school system. , Phoenix, residents fear that this splintering of their dis trict may continue. Because of the loss of children and tax sources, they feel that the ability of the district to main tain a good school program may be weakened. Same Problem That other school districts are seriously concerned with this same problem was shown by John Reid of Lake Creek. Reid, a member of the Ea gle Point school board, said that the board wanted to go strongly on record as oppos ing such splintering of a school district. This same type of argument could be used on the Eagle Point or any other district, he said. One of the biggest surprises of the meeting came when Walter Higgins, executive di rector of the Rogue Valley Manor, said that the 340 peo ple who will reside in the manor are expecting to move to Medford not to Phoenix. He said that they were sold on this idea and that it was his personal opinion that the manor was part of Medford. This morning he said that If he had to make the choice, he would prefer to see the manor in the Medford school district. This was because the manor is part of Medford and should be "all the way," he said. Ballistics Reports To Be Studied Here Jackson County Sheriff Joe Walsh said today that ballis tics reDorts from the shooting in Pasco, Wash., in which four people were killed, would be forwarded to his office. The reports on the bullets will be checked against the bullets which killed Mrs. Marion Stella Hamilton, Ash land area rancher's wife, in March. Oregon at the approval given Pacific disappointment at a Federal reduced the .reservation for point - where it would connect Pacific Utilities company, the Price 10 Cents Tribune 12, 1960 No. 124 Hammarskjold Leads UN Force Into Katanga Chilly Reception Accorded Official Elisabethville, Katanga, The Congo - IUPD - United Nations Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold led a U.N. military force into this capital of secession-minded Katanga prov ince today. The reception was chilly. The first group landed at 1:49 p.m. and was escorted into Elisabethville from the airport by a Katangese army officer. But they almost didn't make it. Greeted by Shouts Hammarskjold was greeted by a crowd of Europeans shouting "Long live Katanga President Moise Tshombe" and "Down with the United Nations." The secretary gen eral walked past them stony faced. : The secretary general also had an uneasy moment when he found himself obliged to bow before the flag of "inde pendent Katanga, to the ob vious delight of Tshombe and the crowd. -. , Only five minutes before Hammarskjold's white U.N. Convair plane came into view, trucks manned by Katanga troops were run out on the airfield to block the runways. Plane Circles Field It was reported that Katan ga Interior iMnister Godfroid Munongo had ordered his sol diers to stop the arrival of the U.N. contingent made up of Swedish troops until Tshombe began his talks with Hammarskjold. The mix-up was cleared up only after Hammarskjold's plane had circled the airfield three times. Robert Rothschild, delegate of the Belgian Technical mis sion here, finally was able to dash across the dusty airfield to the control tower and ad vise Hammarskjold by radio that both he and the U.N. troops could land. Less than five minutes aft er Hammarskjold landed, the first U.N. troops came into Katanga peacefully. Truck Overturns, Ties Up Traffic Hornbrook - Traffic on highway 99 was tied up for several hours last night when a Pacific International Expo sition truck and trailer load ed with flower pots overturn ed about eight miles north of Yreka. No one was injured. Driver of the truck was Richard W. Roderick, 35, of Portland. Cause of the acci dent was too much speed, ac cording to the California high way patrol. It occurred at 5:40 p.m. Traffic, which was heavy at the time, was rerouted down an old road along the Shasta river. At 10 o'clock last night the rig was being unloaded and traffic was go ing through on a one-way ba sis. Chiloquin Woman Killed by Train r Klamath Falls (UPD M r s. Alomeda Lotches Ashworth, 59, Chiloquin, died today in the Klamath Valley hospital of injuries suffered in a train- car accident Thursday night, Mrs. Ashworth was struck by the train while attempting to push a stalled car off the tracks here. She was a pass enger in an auto driven by Mrs. Ferrol Smith, Warm Springs. Mrs. Smith was not seriously injured. . The car was carried 250 yards by the train. The engi neer of the train said he did MttL He the stalled car. fcird XI5 Pilot Sets Altitude Record Of 131,000 Feel 1,700 Miles an Hour Top Speed Recorded Edwards AFB, Calif. -0JPD-Air Force Maj. Robert White today flew the X15 to a world altitude record of 131,000 feet -nearly 25 miles above the earth. White, 36, said after his 12 minute record hop: "There was a band of light at perhaps 60,000 or 70,000 feet up and above this there was a much darker blue sky." White said he was im pressed with the panorama of sky, horizon and earth that unfolded before him as he nosed the plane into a sharp climb toward the sun. He said he was in a state of near weightlessness for "perhaps a minute at the top of the arc." Top speed during today's flight was approximately 1,700 miles an hour. 'Really Fantastic' This is fantastic," said White shortly before he reached his peak altitude. This is really fantastic up here." Today's flight shattered the old record of 126,000 feet set Sept. 7, 1956, by the late Capt. Iven Kincheloe in tne xz. White's flight followed by eight days a record speed flight of 2,150 miles an hour by Joe Walker, the other pri mary pilot in the research program.- :.. . ... ... National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials stressed that the 131,000-foot altitude mark was on the conservative side" and would be corrected on later exami nation of flight data. Over-Height Truck Collapses Bridge A county bridge across Evans creek on the Upper Evans Creek rd. collapsed this morning after an over-height loaded log truck struck one of the steel cross braces. . The overhead structure, bridge and the log truck fell 14 feet into the creek, accord ing to Bob Carstensen, county engineer. Carstensen said that the road will be closed for ap proximately a week until a detour could be constructed. The bridge is about Vt mile west of the junction of Evans creek and Ramsey Canyon rds. The bridge, built In 1993 of old steel trusses, was sched uled to be rebuilt next year. Carstensen said that a site study for the new concrete bridge had been completed. It will cost about $30,000. Operator of the truck, whose identity was not learn ed immediately, was not in jured. SaIem-(UPll-Gov. Mark Hat field leaves Sunday for a 10 day out-of-state vacation. "Now All We Have To Haven't Been Here The Past Seven Years SO ' ....ir - CCl ,.A.u?DFrtrW; AlP 6PUCATI0N! help the mn 1 15 ' RETRIEVES ORBITED OBJECT The U. S. retrieved a man-made object from orbit Thursday for the first time, scoring a vital psychological-technological beat in the international space race. The history-making advance toward space travel by man was achieved when the 300-pound Agena capsule fell inside a 200-by-60 mile recov aosule Recovered Discoverer XIII Object Snatched From Pacific Vandenberg AFB, Calif-(UPD A Navy ship brought back from the Pacific today the first man-made object ever re covered from an orbiting sat ellite. The Haiti Victory steamed to Honolulu with a 300-pound Air Force space capsule which was ejected Thursday night from orbiting satellite Discov erer XIII and plucked undanv aged' from the ocean by : Navy frogman. '::v ' The 27-by-33 inch capsule was filled with instruments. Sleppad-Up Program. The successful ejection and recovery after nearly a year and a half of trying by the Air Force heralded the start of stepped-up recovery programs aimed at leading to man's first steps into space and his safe return. Mice and monkeys are ex pected soon to ride in 300 pound capsules such as the one recovered from Discover er XIII, and eventually man will go into space and return in a somewhat similar cham ber. Discoverer XIII, launched Wednesday, kicked out the capsule on its 17th polar orbit Thursday at a height of about 200 miles over the North Pole. Located by Plane Air Force planes were un able to snag it as hoped with trapeze -like devices trailing behind their planes because they were too far away. They were able, however, to locate it as it floated in the water. They circled the precious floating capsule until the ship Haiti , Victory steamed up from 100 miles away. A helicopter took off from the Haiti Victory, hovered about 20 feet over the capsule and 3C Boatswain's Mate Rob ert W. Carroll of Keene, N.H., leaped into the water to be come the first man in history to touch an object returned to earth from orbit. (See Story on Page 2) Do Is Prove That We Minimum Meets Opposition On Senate Floor Washington-IUPD-The Demo-' cratic-sponsored minimum wage bill ran into continued opposition on the Senate floor today and chances of a final vote this week appeared slim.l The prospects of several more days of debate was brought out in a colloquy Ashland Councilmen File for Reelection Ashland - Dr. Glenn Revel, one of three Ashland city councilmen whose terms ex- nft-a fhie vonv cnl4 fn4n ho le ..' , , prewy sine lie wm i.ie iui- reelection put tnai i naven i made a definite decision yet." Revel said he will file early next week if he decides to run again. Both of the other council- men have filed, George Ward submitting his petition Wed nesday and Emmett Whltham filing yesterday. No opponents have filed. Park Commissioner Eldon Scripter yesterday filed for reelection, joining Frank Barnthouse, who filed Wed nesday. No opponents have filed against the two incum bents. Mayor, Richard L. Noill Tuesday filed for reelection to a four-year term. Other can didates for his post are W. R. Brown and Norman Llndahl. Ram Price Plunge Cause of Alarm Pendleton - (UPD - A severe plunge in ram prices at the annual Oregon Ram Sale here has caused alarm among east ern Oregon sheepmen. The sale saw choice rams selling for less than half the amount they brought last year. Ram sale chairman L. E. Pearson of Pendleton blamed the slow ram sale on lamb prices, which, he said,- were the lowest in ten years. ', At the sale, the generally top - selling Rambouillels brought an average of $46 per head, compared with $113 last year. Hampshires sold for only $28 per head, a stiff drop from last year s $64 per head. 4-H, FlAlaYGets Under Way Saturday The "big show" gets under way Saturday when Jackson county 4-H youngsters start the annual Jackson County 4-H and FFA fair horse show. Horse judging contest starts a 10 a.m. Saturday In the area next to the small park south of Medford. During the last five years this annual fair event for the county's rural youth has more than doubled, according to senior 4-H club Leader Bill Bigham, Eagle Point. He esti mated entries at about 200 beef animals, about 250 sheep, 150 dairy animals, 150 hogs some milk goats and lots of rabbits and chickens. (See stories in Section B) ery area between Hawaii and Kodiak island, but outside the reach of waiting snare trailing C-119 cargo planes. It was plucked from the water by an Air Force helicopter. The artist's drawing shows the Agena sat ellite (lower) as its retro-rocket fires to slow it down and permit it to follow the curved path into the earth's atmosphere. (UPI Telephoto) Pay Bill Thursday between opponents of the measure and Democra tic Presidential Nominee John F. Kennedy, lis chief sponsor Vole Prediction Rejected Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois rejected a prediction that the vole might come by Saturday night. Sen. Spessard L. Hol land, (D-Fla.), said he would object to any limit on debate this week, although he as sured his colleagues he had no Idea of filibustering, Kennedy said that he would stay In Washington "all fall if necessary" to get the bill passed. But he said other im- portant legislation would be held up if there were any de- . , reachlne a showdown 0n the wage measure The Democratic bill, which has labor backing, would boost the minimum wage in steps from $1 an hour to $1.25, and extend the wage- hour law to cover an addition 4,971,000 workers.- - Sen. Barry Goldwater, (R- Ariz.), estimated that 500,000 persons might lose their jobs within a few months after the bill became law. Job Reduction Seen Sen. Norris Cotton (R-N.H.), said passage of the bill would wreck main streets in many small towns across the coun try. He said, "a few will do the work many had done be fore." The measure compares with a House-approved bill which would increase the minimum wage to $1.15 an hour, and expand coverage to 104 mil lion more workers. (See itory on Page 2) Portland -(UPD- Preliminary plans have been approved for the first unit for the Oregon Primate Research center In Washington county. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Sat urday. Low tonight 33. High Saturday 95. Temp. HI K host Yesterday 98 Lowest This Morning S3 Our Skies Tonight K linnet today 7:17 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 5:16 a.m. Moonrlse tonight..: 10:41 p.m. Last Quarter Aug. 13 I'KOMINKNT STAR Allatr, high In south 10:33 p.m. V1HIMLK J'LANKTS Venus, sets 7:36 p.m. Jupiter, due south 8:18 p.m. Ha turn, due south .... 9:39 p.m. Mars, due east 2:43 a.m. Twining's Retirement May Result Washington -(UPD- Gen. Na than F. Twining's retirement as chairman of the ; Joint Chiefs of Staff may signal a far-reaching shakeup In the military high command dur ing the waning days of the Eisenhower administration, NATO Shift Seen Reports of seemingly cer tain changes in the Army's top echelon were accompanied today by speculation about shifts in the top leadership of the Air Force and the North Atlantic Treaty forces, which are headed by U.S. Air Force Gen. Laurig Norstad The White House confirmed Thursday that Twining, an Eisenhower's Voice Bounced Coast To Coast Largest Man-Made Object in Space Cape Canaveral, Fla. -(UPD- The United States today put a mammoth communica tions satellite into orbit and then used it to bounce Presi dent Eisenhower's voice coast to coast to prove its value as a "radio mirror" in space. The President invited any other nation to use the satel lite "for similar experiments in its own Interest." This pre sumably included Russia. Ha said information necessary for using the sphere was dis tributed weeks ago. , Significant Step The chief executive's mes sage was tape recorded more than three months ago before) an Echo launching attempt Eisenhower's message pro- . claimed the feat "one mora significant step in the United States program of space re search and exploration." The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Eisenhower's voice was ra dioed from California to New Jersey via .the silvery sphere 1,000 miles in space. Largest Man-Made Object The radio test results were announced in Washington less than an hour after the agency reported it had successfully orbited the new Echo satellite the largest man-made object ' ever placed In space. It was America s second . spectacular space achievement -this week. The United States -fired a Discoverer rocket Wednesday and recovered its ejected capsule in mid-Pacific Thursday night. Today s satellite will ba visible to the unaided eye at eunspt. and KlinriRf. Message Transmitted On the first pass of the shiny sphere1 over the United States, a taped message was transmitted from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory station at Goldstone Lake, Calif., to tne Bell Telephone Laboratory at Holmdel, N. by bounc ing ft off the satellite. In Its orbit Echo I will come 1,018 miles from the earth at its. closest approach- and will be 1,160 miles out at its point of greatest departure. 5ome Pear Picking Reported in Valley The Rogue valley pear harvest started "In a very small way" today, according to local pear growers. Pear picking has. started near tne Meaiora airport, north and east of Medford and some near Jacksonville. It was reported to be a little early to tell about the pear quality. The various packing houses in the area are start ing work today mainly to get their crews lined up. Full scale pear picking is expected to be under way next week and by the week of Aug. 22 the Bartlett har vest is expected - to hit its peak, one grower said. Georgia-Pacific Cuts Plywood Production Portland IUPD Georgia Pa. clfic Corp. announced Thurs day it will operate all its Douglas fir plywood mills on a curtailed basis starting next week. The company also an nounced an Increase in list prices from $60 to $64 for its index item of W-inch A.D., with a proportionate increase in all other items. Brookings - IUPD- A sharp drop in Income from sale of Easter lily bulbs over the past 10 years was told to members of the legislative Interim com mittee at a ... meeting here Thursday. in Shakeup Air Force general who will be v 63 in October, is planning to n retire from his post as the top - American military man but -said no date had been set. The s target date was believed to be . in September. . f - Lemnltier Seen Choice " Barring a surprise, Gen. Ly man Lemnitzer, Army chief of staff, was regarded as a shoo-in as Twining's successor. Lemnitzer ; will be 61 this ' month. - '.. - : ' " s i - : A front runner to succeed Lamnltzer is the present Army vice chief of staff, Gen. George H. Decker, a long-time friend of President Elsenhow er, and a man with a dis tinguished Army record. ,
