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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
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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. ,