Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1960)
"Well, I'll Be Darned" 2,20 Mem Batth Hog Fwe Study Asked on Stadium Proposal By Parks Group . Members of the Jackson I county parks and recreation1 commission last night voted "yes"- and "no" concerning a proposed athletic stadium south of Medford. The commission voted "yes" that a' thorough study should be financed , by the county court, before putting the pro posal on the election ballot. It voted "no" on stadium con struction at this time. Three commission members were ab sent but were to be polled by telephone later. Robert Haworlh, city-county parks and recreation direc tor, said an architect's -study of the proposal would cost from $2,500 to $3,000. Robert J. Keeney, " Phoenix, vice chairman, said that a detailed drawing would not be. re quired. A typical section of the proposed stadium could be drawn, and dimensions multi plied, he explained -j', : Argument! Against Among arguments against the stadium proposal ' were that the county does not have the money for such a plan, the stadium is not in the county's recreation picture at this time, construction of a . stadium would be more of the function of the. city or public schools, and county capital improve ment funds should be used for developing present park and recreation areas first. Commission members em phasized that ' they are not against a stadium, but do not feel it is practical at this time Gene Garner, Medford, rep resenting a citizens stadium group argued that people who i iT. err ffiii v. .' BOSTON TRAFFIC JAM This-aerial view gives an idea of the traffic jam on the Mystic River bridge, main artery leading into down town Boston, early today. A complete shut down of Boston s giant MTA transit system has affected nearly 7 million persons in the ' do not have transportation or are physically unable to use the park and recreation areas would use the stadium. . The Camp White stadium seating must be open at no charge to domiciliary mem bers so profit from ticket sales is limited. The Cheney sta dium on the fairgrounds south of Medford is In poor repair and the high school stadium does not have sufficient park ing facilities, he said. County Court to Consider The county court now will consider whether it wants to put the proposal on the ballot or follow commission recom mendations that a thorough study of the proposal be made. A study would make it impos sible to get it on the ballot for the November general election. The proposal must be ready, for the ballot 70 days before the election. Only six days remain before that dead line, Haworth said. In other business, the com mission referred' a proposed agreement between Medford and the county on operation of the Willow creek reservoir recreation area to the district attorneys' office for study. Commission members pointed out that the agreement pro tects the city, but - not the county. The county should be protected in case of damage to the city's reservoir facili ties, it was pointed out. The area involves about 928 acres near Butte Falls. Regional Edition Medford 16 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1960 No. 133 Powers May Not See Wife Again For Three Years Moscow -IUPII- Barbara Pow ers was reunited for an hour today with her husband, American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, 31, in a tearful scene that she said may be their last meeting for three years. Powers' father, mother and sister visited him earlier in the Soviet Supreme Court building. Newsmen got the Dression they did not plan to see him again. Powers Cried Barbarar. 25, said her hus band began crying, put his arms around her and held her close when he learned he nrnhahlv wnnld face the next three years without them. Barbara s"aid her husband did not know which prison he would be sent to. She said she probably would be allowed to see him every two months. . TWanso nf the infreauen- cy of such possible visits, Bar bara indicated she may not remain in Russia as previous ly planned. Powers was convictea last wopW nf csmonaee for the United States against the So viet Union by flying a uz rprnnnaissance plane over So viet territory May 1. He was sentenced to 10 years' depri vation nf lihertv." with the, first three years to be spent in jail and the remainder probably at a work camp. Ho wnnlri be worried about how I was living and I would be upset every time I saw him," Barbara said. "It may be better not to see him at all until he gets out of prison and into . the : labor camp, where I may be able to stay with him a couple of months. ' "He was very emotional knowing we would be going away." Salem -IUPII- Census takers are going to be coming around Sept. 6 but this lime they will be checking the outdoor recreation preferences of Ore gon citizens rather than counting noses. greater Boston area. Gov. Foster Furcolo has declared a state of emergency. The strike ended at 12:30 this afternoon when MTA General Manager Thomas J. McLernon agreed to six union demands. (UPI Telephoto) ) Hammerstein Dies of Cancer OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN Dies of Cancer Senate Defeats GOP-Sponsored Medical Aid Plan Washington - IUPII - The Sen ate today overwhelmingly de feated 67-28 a Republican- sponsored medical aid to the aged plan. It then prepared for a showdown on a rival Democratic plan which faces a veto threat. The key vote came on a broad voluntary state-federal health care program intro duced by Sen. Jacob Ki Javits, (R-N.Y.), and backed by' Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the GOP presidential nomi nee. ' The Senate then quickly called up . for debate and a vote by night-fall a proposal introduced by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.), and co sponsored by Sen. John F, Kennedy, the Democratic presidential nominee. It call ed for extending health bene fits as part of social security. (See Earlier Story on Page 2) Goldwafer Lauds V. P. Selection Washignton-IUPn-Sen. Barry M. Goldwater told Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon today that selection of Henry Ca bot Lodge as Nixon's GOP running mate was "probably the most brilliant stroke the Republican party has taken in years." The Arizona senator, a lead er of the GOP's conservative wing, told reporters "I never would have said that six months ago or even six weeks' ago. However, Goldwater said, Lodge "has strengthened the ticket throughout the country, particularly in New England." As a result, Goldwater said, Republican prospects have im proved considerably for hold ing doubtful Senate scats in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Gold water, chairman of the Repub llcan Senatorial Campaign Committee, also said GOP senatorial chances have im proved in South Dakota, Wy oming'and Oregon. He said that, since the GOP convention. last month, "It has become obvious that Lodge has great strength" and "teams up well with Nixon's strength in the foreign field." This, Goldwater said, is some thing the Democratic ticket of Sens. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson -"cannot acquire." WEATHER FORECAST: Partly rloudy through Wednesday. Low to nltht SO. Illih tomorrow 7. Temp. Illtheit Vettrday . 6.1 I.oweit This Morning SO Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 01 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:00 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow , S:2 a.m. Moonset tonight j:44 p.m. rlrst Quarter . . . Aug. 20 PROMINENT STAR y,f;fi,,h' '.overhead 1:37 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, near the Moon. Jupiter, due south... 7:34 p.m. Saturn, due south :S4 p.m. sun'"' M,h outh,"t ' Tribune Famed Lyricist Dies at Farm In Pennsylvania Doylestown, Pa. - IUPII - The bright , lights of Broadway will seem misted over tonight. Oscar Hammerstein II is dead. Hammerstein, writer, pro ducer and lyricist who helped mold the American musical stage, died early today of can cer at his farm home here. He was 65. Since 1943 Hammerstein had collaborated with com poser Richard Rodgers in creating such musical greats as "Carousel," "Oklahoma," South Pacific," "The King and I" and "The Sound of Music," which still is running on Broadway to full houses. But long before the Rodgers and Hammerstein team was formed, Hammerstein, a mem ber of one of Broadway's most famous families, wa a Broad way institution. He collabor ated in creating seven shows in seven successive seasons in the 1920s, including "Show Boat," with music by Jerome Kern, in 1927. Rodgers 'Falling Apart' Rodgers -was not-arvailable for comment immediately fol lowing the death of his close friend. "The guy is falling apart, a friend and business associ ate, public relations agent Lynn Farnol, said of the com poser. Hammerstein had had two major operations in the past two years, the last one for stomach cancer. It had been thought at first that the can cer operation was, a success, but Hammerstein then suf fered a reslapse. Died at Farm Home He came to his 150-acre "Highland Farm" earlier this month, and Rodgers said then that he was afraid Hammer stein would never leave it, Farnol said. Rodgers visited Hammer tor several hours last Satur day. Hammerstein's son, Wil liam, who was among those at his bedside, said Hammer stein had been working on several new songs for movies of "Stale Fair" and "Flower Drum Song." The younger Hammerstein said he did not know whether a new Rod gers and Hammerstein Broad way musical was being dis cused. ' The applause for the cur tain calls at "The Sound of Music" had ended only about an hour before when Ham merstein died at 12:15 a.m. Local CAP Takes Part in Search Four aircraft from the Med-J ford squadron of the Civil Air Patrol planned to go to Yreka, Calif., today to participate in the search for a Cessna air craft missing since Aug. 15. A search conducted by the Oregon state board of aero nautics, in which the local CAP unit assisted, was termi nated last Thursday when the search failed to uncover the missing aircraft. Local CAP officials said the Fourth Air Force has request ed help from CAP units in California and Oregon. Head quarters for the Air Force search have been established in Yreka. The plane, carrying four persons, disappeared after re fueling at the Medford airport on a llight to Modesto, Calif.,' from Bellingham, Wash. Reported aboard the miss ing aircraft were Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Klefecker, all of Hawthorne, Calif. The search directed from Yreka will include northern California and southern Ore gon, local CAP officials said. 4 Home Rule Study Committee Sets Meeting Tuesday Election of 9th Member on Agenda The newly appointed Jack son county home rule char ter committee will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, in the county court hearing room to elect a ninth mem ber and formally organize the committee. Yesterday afternoon, Coun ty Judge Earl Miller told the committee it had 80 days in which to organize and appoint ninth member. The com mittee unanimously nominat ed Medford Lawyer Frank Farrell as temporary chair man and Miss Jo Whitman, of the county clerk's office, tem porary secretary. Meetings Open The- committee probably will take most of two years to study a charter for county home rule which, if adopted by the committee, must be ready for presentation 90 days before an election, Mill er explained. He said all com mittee meetings must be open to the public. Most of the session was spent considering names of possible candidates for the ninth committee m e m b e r, Several were mentioned? and committee members were asked to contact people they recommended to see if they would be willing to serve on the committee. ' Wilfred Davics, Eagle Point, committee ' member said he preferred another lawyer on the committee and possibly a Democrat. Mrs. Lester Adams, Applcgate urged representation from Rogue River. This is an area not now represented on the committee. J ; ' Prevention Plan Here Evaluated An evaluation of Medford's 1959 traffic accident preven tion program was presented to city and school officials today by Edward J. Warmoth, exec utive secretary of the Oregon Traffic Safety commission. At a luncheon, a plaque from the National Safety council was received symbol izing special recognition for Medford's school traffic safe ty education activities. The annual inventory, pre pared by the National Safety council with the assistance of several advisory organiza tions, staled that traffic acci dents involving local resi dents cost the community an estimated $600,000 annually. Medford's overall safety program, compared with 411 cities in the 10,000 to 25,000 population group, received a rating of 71 out of a possible 100 points, down two points from 1958. Four local needs were re viewed by Warmoth, some which might require state leg islation. These include (1) ad ditional training for accident records supervisor and police supervisory personnel; (2) ex pansion of high school driver education classes to cover all graduating students; (3) in creased enforcement activitiy against intoxicated drivers; and (4) establishment of a school for violators under the supervision of the court. . Castro's Actions Create Bank Crisis Havana IUPII - Fidel Cas tro's rapid-fire expropriation of U.S.-owned sugar mills has produced a serious bank crisis in Cuba, informed sources said today. The sources believed na tionalization of all banks -both foreign and domestically owned - was near at hand unless the situation eases. The trouble stemmed from the sudden loss of deposits which the expropriated mills had maintained in various banks. . The , Castro regime transferred their funds with out warning to the Agrarian Reform Institute's Central Agricultural Bank. The amount of these funds was not known, but the sources said some smaller banks in. Camaguey and Orienle Provinces lost up to one third of their total de posits in single stroke. III fT ifKPwi 'I BARBARA VISITS HUSBAND Mrs. Barbara Powers (center), with her mother, Mrs. Monteen Brown, leaves the Soviet Supreme Court in Moscow today after visiting her husband, U2 pilot Francis G. Powers. Powers and his wife met for an hour in a tearful reunion which she said may be their last meeting for three County Population Rises 25 In Past 1 The population of Jackson pnuni v Innreased 25.3 npr centl . a ,u in . intn uuwllK . 1U llu. ... io mou, according 10 ine pre llmlnary U.S. census report. Preliminary figures gave Jackson county 73,318 rest dents as of April 1, compared to 58,510 during the 1830 cen sus. Seven other counties in Oregon showed increases greater than Jackson coun ty's. Census bureau officials not ed that the final report, which will be issued sometime be fore November, may differ from preliminary totals. County population increases ranged from Polk county's 03 per cent increase to Cur- Administrators To Meet in City Four Oregon state admin istrators Willi be in Medford Wednesday evening as part of the. governor's program to have key administrative per sonnel visit each of eight re gions In the state. The four will hold a pub lic meeting from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Jackson county court house. An earlier ses sion in Grants Pass is also scheduled. : Purpose of the meeting is to allow individual citizens to present their problems and suggestions to lop stale de partment personnel. ' The four administrators In clude Freeman Holmer, di rector of the department of finance and administration; Dean Ellis, former chairman of ' the state tax commission, and now counsel for various tax committees; Victor Wolfe, administrative assistant to the Oregon Stale highway engi neer and Andrew F. Juras, assistant administrator of the state welfare commission. - 700 Invitations Sent to Business Firms To Take Part More than 700 invitations have been mailed to Medford business firms by the Medford Chamber of Commerce, invit ing them to participate in tne third annual Business-Education day Thursday, Sept. 8, Don McNeil, chamber man ager, has announced. Purpose of B-E Day, McNeil noted, is to provide a better means of communication be tween educators and business leaders in the area.- B-E Day has been accepted enthusias tically by business firms In the past, he said. - Teachers visit business firms- and - industrial plants where, they discuss several factors relating to , business and tour facilities. McNeil said the chamber hopes to have more business firms participate in the event ir years. (UPI Radiotclephoto) Per Gent 0 Years 1 ry county's 129.3 cent .rise Seven counties - Clatsop, uiuniDia, xammu, w neeier Grant, Wallowa and Malheur - showed population decreas es during the 10-yoar period The population of the state as of April 1 'was 1,757,691 the census bureau reported an Increase of 236,350 people or 13.5 per cent. Greatest Increase Of the cities fn Jackson county with a population of 1,000 or more, Medford show ed the greatest increase 40.1 per cent from , 1950's 17,305 to 24,246 as of April 1 this year, bince that time, the city's population has increased about 100 residents through annexations. , ' ',. Central Point showed, an in crease from 1,667 in 1950 to 3,274 last April 1, a 36.4 per cent rise, while Ashland.show ed a 16.2 increase, from 7,739 to 8,992. ' . ,; Jacksonville, the only other Jackson county incorporated city with 1,000 or more peo ple, showed a decrease of 2.7 per cent. In 1950, there were 1,193 persons counted in Jacksonville, and as of .April 1 the count was 1,161. ' - Medford had the second largest percentage Increase in the state in the number 'of housing units. The 1960 census of housing units showed 8,990 in Medford, compared to 6,203 in 1950. Eugene noted a 46 per cent increase in the num ber of housing units. The only decrease among places of 10,000 or more in habitants in Oregon was in Astoria, where the number of housing units declined from 4,476 in 1950 to 4,407 this year, a difference of 7 per cent. There were 621,240 housing units in Oregon as of April 1, the census bureau said in its preliminary report. This is an increase of 97,237 units, or 19 per cent, over the 524,- 003 units reported in 1950. in Business-Education Day this year. Businessmen par ticipating are expected to re turn the visit Oct. 27 when Education-Business Day will be held in Medford schools. McNeil said the chamber "believes these exchange visits have done much already to build . a better understand ing of business and its prob lems among teachers and havo created a - greater awareness among business leaders re garding the excellence of the educational program in our school system." , . This year, arrangements will be made for a half-day visit, McNeil said.'-. Teachers will meet at 8:30 a.m. at Hed rick Junior High school where they will be then assigned business hosts at 9:15 a.m. - Assignments range from 3 to 30 teachers, depending on Three Huge Fires Blacken 75,000 Acres of Fores) 100 Million Board . Feet of Timber Lost , Truckee, Calif. - ItlPD - Mor than 2,200 men fought to gain control today over a huga forest fire in the High Sierra at crackled across the stale ine into Nevada. The blaze, one of three which broke out Saturday, has acKencd more than 35,000 acres of forest. Together the three fires have destroyed 75,000 acres and more than 100 million board feet of tim ber, enough to build mora than 6.500 average sized homes. The most serious fire burn ed out of control along a 55- ile perimeter in the area of Donner lake. Flames reached to within three miles of the lumber community of Vertlt Nevada and to three and one-half miles of Truckee. Tanker Trucks Sent U.S. Forest Service officials sent 30 tanker trucks to Truckee as a precautionary measure. They said a line h?d been dug around the fire In the Truckee area, and that If the winds don't rise, tl-.ere 3 good chance that every thing will hold. 'The fire has to come over the top of a hill and then down a ridge before it reach es Truckee," said Ed Grant, U.S. forester at Donner Ridge. Gusty Winds Forecast 'Today will tell the story," he said; Success in controllirj the fire, he said, depended un slackening winds. Weather bureau forecasts, however, called' for gusts of 30 to 35 miles perrhour later today. Grant said the Donner fire was 60 per cent contained and that a control line had been established to protect a pop-, ulated area extending from Hobart Mills, Calif., to High way 40. Residents Alerted . To .the west, a crew of 1.- 800 men worked to stem a 30,000-acre fire in the Forest hill area which was burning out of control on one front. Monday night, the Calif or- . nia Highway Patrol alerted residents of the summit com munities of Emmigrant Gap and Blue Canyon to be ready to leave their homes as the Foresthill blaze approached Highway 40. But the wind shifted to the northwest and carried the fire away from the highway into steep, unpopulated tim ber areas. Molotov Named IAEA Representative Vienna - (UPI) - Former So viet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov has been appointed representative of the Soviet Union to the Internationa Atomic Energy agency, it was officially announced today. ' A communique said the agency director, Sterling Cole,, had been notified of the ap-s. poinlment. Molotov, who was purged.' as foreign minister In the So viet anti-Stalinist drive in' 1956, held the post of a So-.' viet envoy to Mongolia in re-; cent years. i Molotov joined the agency in a reshuffle of Soviet rep-, resentatives. He replaces al ternate delegate Leonid Zam yatin, who has been moved up to governor in place of Prof. -Vassily Emelyanov. the size of the firm and capa bility. Luncheon arrange ments will be handled by the Individual firms. 1 -. During the luncheon period, business leaders and teachers 1 will have an opportunity to discuss, on a question and answer basis, various eco-. nomic factors concerning the. business. ' ; ; . v ' i.v H. D. Christensen, chairman of the chamber's education , committee, is in charge of ar rangements for both B-E Day and E-B Day. Other commit- i tee members are Lawrence -Clark, Russ Jamison, William'' J. Thompson and John Eddy. ' Arrangements are being mad , with the cooperation of Elliott' Becken, assistant superinten dent of Medford pub lit' schools. 1
