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Cong Sends ecessDoo Move Troops To ye RECEIVES AWARD Larry Wick, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Wick, Gold Hill, is shown above with Curtis Nesheim, district warden of the Oregon State forestry department, who presented Larry with a Green Guard award and a Service Under Fire certificate this morni- Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1960 No. 134 Castro Blasts OAS, Is An 'Enemy of Humanity' Havana - IUPU - Premier Fidel Castro called the United States an "enemy of human- ity" today in one of the most bitter personal harangues yet delivered by the Cuban lead- er. Cuba, Castro told a group j Cars Damaged At Construction Site Two cars were damaged, one of them beyond repair, when a boulder weighing an estimated six tons rolled down a steep embankment at a con struction site on the Crater Lake highway. No. 62, yester day, state police reported. . Both cars had been stopped by a flagman in an area where a tractor was working. The tractor dislodged the boulder, which rolled down the em bankment, struck the rear of a car operated by Robert Carl Edgren, 48, Pomona, Calif., and bounced onto the hood .of, a car operated by',: Lloyd V. Johnson, 35, of Portland. E d g r e n 's car sustained moderate damage, police esti mated, and Johnson's car was damaged beyond repair. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness tonight. Decreasing cloudiness and warmer Thurs day. Low tonight 52. High to morrow 78-80. Temp. Highest Yesterday 73 Lowest This Morning 53 Prcc. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today ... 6:59 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 5:29 a.m. Moonset tonight 8:15 p.m. First Quarter Aug. 29 The nlanet. Mars, rises 11:52 n.m. II is now in the constellation murus, Deiween its two brightest stars. Aldebaran and Klnatli. Aldebaran, the brighter star, Is on the right of Mars. , Oral Polio Vaccine Found 'Suitable' for Use in U. S. Washington (UPD U.S. Sur-' geon General Leroy E. Bur ney announced today that the government has found, the new oral live virus polio vac cine developed by Dr. Albert Sabin "suitable for use in the United States." Burney told '. a news con ference the public health serv ice expects to license the manufacture of this type of vaccine sometime next spring. He added that it would probably not be in mass pro duction before the fall of 1961. Eliminate Epidemics Burney told newsmen he hoped the use of the Sabin vaccine in conjunction with the Salk vaccine, a killed virus vaccine which is admin istered by Injection, would eliminate polio epidemics in the United States. He said the Salk vaccine had not been used as widely as it was ' originally hoped despite the fact that it was highly- effective. Burney defended what he called this government s con servatism" in approving the live vaccine despite evidence ' that if has been used success fully in a number of coun tries, notably Russia. He said the decision to approve the Sabin vaccine had been taken i with a sense of "grave re- sponsibility" toward the American people to work out American peopl V regulations for its safe use. . How to Administer Rurnev said the question ol how the Sabin vaccine can ; best be used "still has to be i determined." He said scien- N2a irig. Larry was responsible for turning in the alarm on the recent 1100 acre Table Rock fire and helped carry water to con trol It in its early stages. He also kept the fire from spotting across the highway until help could arrive. The awards are given through Keep Oregon Green Association. of women revolutionaries, is in the first trenches" of what he described as "a battle against rapacious, exploting, bloody and voracious Yankee imperialism." v Castro warned lie Ameri- can foreign ministers meeting in uosta rtica to be very careful" in what they decide to do about Cuba's ties with international Communism. He described the Inter American Conference dele gates as "vassals" engaged in a "conspiracy" against Cuba at U.S. behest. To Retain Red Ties The Premier defiantly said Cuba will retain its ties with Soviet Russia and Red China regardless of any conference decisions. ; He boasted that his regime was the hemisphere's ."most secure" -because soon every militiaman and even members of the grade - school youth partols will each have a rifle of his own. J The Castro attack was fril; lowed by an editorial in the. House Damaged By Fire During Night Fire of undetermined origin, last night did major damage to the residence of ThomasD. Balch, 15 Lincoln St., accord ing to city firemen. The fire apparently started in a bedroom of the house and was mainly confined to that area, but heat and smoke caused considerable damage to the interior of the rest of the house, firemen said. The fire was reported at 9:06 p.m. by an unidentified passerby. No one was home at the time. tists believe it can best be administered on a mass, com munity basis, rather than on an individual basis. Burney. said he planned to call in representatives of the medical profession, state and local health departments and others this fall in an effort to develop "a unified national program . . . to accomplish the total prevention of polio outbreaks." ig. j'.j&.V" - iSS-'; ,r'lv v f --- REMOVE BUILDING A 52-year-old build ing which served as the Central Point bank until the depression and more recently as the Central Point city hall and jail is being torn down by Mr. and Mrs. George Fulcher of Medford. The city hall has moved into Tribune Says U. S. government newspaper Revo lucion which called U.S. con gressmen "rats" for their al leged anti-Cuban actions. Florida Rep. . Paul Rogers was described as "Rogers the rat" for his suggestion the U.S. break diplomatic ties with Cuba. Rep. Francis D. Walters (D-Pa.) also was call ed a "rat" for proposing that the U.S. aid Cubans fleeting Castro political persecution. State Officials To Meet Tonight A public meeting at which Jackson county residents may present their problems and suggestions to top Oregon state department personnel will'be held between 7:30 and 9:30 o'clock tonight in the Jackson county courthouse. Attending the meeting will be Freeman Holmer, director of the department of finance and administration; Dean El lis, former chairman of the state tax commission and now counsel for various tax com mittees; Victor Wolfe, admin istrative assistant to the state highway engineer; and An drew F. Juras, . assistant ad ministrator of the state wel fare department. The meeting is part of the governor's program to have key administrative personnel visit each of eight regions in the state. Echo I Can Be Seen . Tonghf, Tomorrow Portland - (UPII - The Ore gon Moonwatch team said the Echo I balloon satellite was scheduled to make four passes over thii area Wed nesday night and early Thursday. The schedule: 8:49 p.m. at 87 degrees above the horizon in the south-southeast sky, travel ing west-southwest to east northeast, 11:06 p.m. at 81 degrees in the north-northeast. 12:54 a.m. at 68 degrees in the south-southwest. 2:53 a.m. at 59 degrees in the south-southwest. The last three passes will be from the west-northwest to the east-northeast, the team said. - - V- 4 ' ' - . T..--V i President Gets Senate Okay to Cut Foreign Aid Forest Service Chief Visits In Medford Area Richard E. McArdle, chief of the U.S. forest service, Washington, D.C., was a Med ford visitor last night and this morning. He spent last night here, af ter an inspection trip through parts of the Rogue River Na tional forest in the company of J. Herbert Stone, regional forester, Portland, and" staff members of the forest. McArdle, whose visit to the west coast is timed to coincide with the fifth meeting of the World Forestry Congress, Se attle, Wash., Aug. 29 to Sept. 10, expressed interest in a demonstration area being de veloped in the Union Creek district of the Rogue River forest, where many of the multiple-use activities of the forest service will be on dis play, and explained through the use of signs and a bro chure. Asks Information He indicated he has asked for full information on the idea so that it can be circulat to other regions of the forest service, to help interpret its mission, Accompanying McArdle on his tour of the forest were Howard Hopkins, t.lrnber man agement officer, and Ralph Weise, recreation officer. Car rol E. Brown, forest supervi sor, was out of town to attend the wedding of his daughter this week. McArdle pointed out that it is an honor for the Pacific Northwest to be chosen as the site of the World Forestry Congress, which is drawing foresters, technicians, conser vationists and writers from approximately 70 nations, speaking some 50 languages. The Congress this year is under the official sponsorship of the U.S. government, and as such McArdle will serve as one of the hosts. Valley Hospital Gets Accreditation Rogue Valley hospital has been awarded a certificate of accreditation for three years, the maximum period granted without reinspection, by the joint commission on accredi tation of hospitals, according to Charles Gustafson, admin istrator. The commission i n s p e cts hospitals throughout the na tion and awards certificates after its study shows that high standards are maintained at the hospitals. The commission is com posed of representatives of the American College of Physic ians, American College of Surgeons, American Hospital association, and the American Medical association. ' ' - - -'' '. '! "r.J new offices next to the fire station and library. The old building was constructed in 1908. Mrs. Fulcher found some Central Point State Bank checks and a picture of a girl sitting on a table at a party among other papers found during the demolition. Washington - (UPD - The Senate voted today to give President Eisenhower authori ty to cut off foreign aid to any country providing arms or eco nomic assistance to Cuba or weapons to the Dominican Re public, The action, by voice vote, came on two amendments to the $3,989,054,000 foreign aid spending bill. The amendment aimed at Cuba was offered by Senate GOP Policy Committee Chair man Styles Bridges (N.H.), who also called upon Con gress to reaffirm the Monroe Doctrine as a warning to Rus sia not to interfere in western hemisphere affairs. Morse Amendment The curb on military aid to the Dominican Republic was contained in an amendment by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.). It covered the Trujillo regime by reference to "any country in Latin America being sub jected to economic or diplo matic sanctions by the Organ ization of American States." Both amendments were adopted by voice votes. The Senate was pushing to ward speedy approval of the foreign aid bill carrying prac tically all the cash Eisenhow er requested. : Nixon Says U.S. 'First In World' Detroit -IUPU- Vice President Richard M. Nixon declared today tne united States is "first in the world" militarily, economically, scientifipallgf'.. ana educationally. "We have the determination to maintain that position in the years ahead," the Repub lican presidential nominee said. Nixon made the statements before the 61st convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Nixon told the veterans that the nation's military pos ture must be "stronger in fact" than that of any nation which opposed us and "strong er in the minds" of those with whom we may bargain. Powers' Parents Head For Home Moscow-IUPll-The parents of U2 pilot Francis Gary Pow ers headed for home today, saddened at leaving their son behind to serve a 10-year espionage sentence in the So viet Union. Mrs. Oliver Powers said at the airport shortly before de parting for the United States with her husband, daughter, Mrs. Jessica Hlleman and sev eral friends, "We hope some day we might be able to come back and get our boy." Mr. and Mrs. Powers Issued a statement on the eve of their departure saying they were broken up over his con viction, but that their "hearts were less heavy" than when they came. Power's wife, Barbara, did not leave her hotel room to bid her in-laws farewell. Jones Brothers Are Bound Over Riley Filmore Jones, 21, and Guthrie Edwin Jones, 25, brothers from Tulsa, Okla., were bound over to the Jack son county grand jury yester day in district court on charges of burglary. They arc being held in the county jail on $2,500 bail each. The Joneses are being charg ed in connection with the bur glary of Dunham's, Inc., north of Medford early Sunday morning. They were caught in the act of burglarizing the store by John H. Tizekker of Western Detective Agency, who called Medford police and notified Jackson county sheriff's deputies. Washington - (UPD - The Forest service said today that damage to the nation's timber supply from fires burning in national forests in California and other western states will be felt more in about 20 years than ntWt v If J ; - , wwmw i wrtKwne m t im iin RECORD DROPP-In this previously unpub- of 102,800 feet Aug. 1 for a record para- lished photographtaken with camera, Air Force Capt. Joseph M. Klttinger miles before Jr. is shown at the Instant he the open gondola Of a balloon jviedforcf Receives Achievement Plaque Fo r Sa f e ty Medford yesterday received a "certificate of achievement from the National Safety Council tor its school traffic safety education activities. It was the third consecutive year Medford has received the cer tificate. The plaque ' was presented to Mayor John Snider at a luncheon at the Rogue Valley country club. Making the pre sentation was Edward J. War moth, executive secretary to the governor's traffic safety commission and safety direc tor for the state motor vehicle department. About 30 persons attended the meeting of the Medford Safety council where Med ford's annual traffic safety in ventory was presented by Warmoth. The traffic safety director met yesterday morn ing with city, school, and safe ty administrators to discuss the report, and afternoon con ferences were scheduled. Medford scored 71 out of a possible 100 points on the overall inventory. In 1958, the city scored 73 put of a possible 100 points. Warmoth noted that the drop of two points does not mean that traffic safety ac tivity in the city has reduced. It probably means, he said, that activity in other cities; has raised the recommended performance on which the in ventory is based. Scores 80 Per Cent Medford scored 80 per cent on its school traffic education section, compared to 83 per cent in 1958, Warmoth noted. The city became eligible for its school traffic safety edu cation plaque by achieving 80 per cent In the division. Other categories in which the city's traffic safety pro gram is Inventoried include death and injury record, acci dent records, traffic engineer ing, police traffic supervision, traffic courts, public, traffic education and organization for traffic safety improvement. -The state average for cities in the 10,000 to 25,000 popula tion group, in which Medford is placed, is 52.9 per cent, compared to Medford's 71 per cent, Warmoth noted. Several r e c ommendations were made by the National Safety Council in the inven tory report. Among Recommendations Among recommendations were; more time being devot ed to processing accident rec an automatic' chute drop. stepped from photo from at an altitude Prog ra m ords, a study comparing acci dent experience to enforce ment activity, parking be pro hibited or restricted during rush hours along more arterial streets, a study ol prohibiting turning movements at certain intersections. Improving clearance and arrest rates in hit-and-run cases, and inten sify police activity to provide about a 15 per cent increase In convictions for hazardous traffic law violations. Also recommended were courts with jurisdiction In traffic cases be courts of rec ord, that the judge make ap propriate remarks about traf fic safety at each court ses sion, and that a school for traffic violators be available for referral of defendants by the court. Bicycle ' safety ' Instruction was suggested for all elemen tary and junior high school students, and practice driving instruction was recommended to be expanded to Include all eligible students. The recommendations will be reviewed and studied dur ing the next few months, and action to improve safety ac tivities may be proposed and carried out. Master of Ceremonies Ralph Matthews of the Medford Safety council was master of ceremonies, and in troducing the speaker was Capt. Clyde Flchtner of the Medford police department and traffic inventory coordi nator for Medford. The plaque, which will be kept with the two previous awards at the city hall, is one of five such awards given this year in the state to cities in Medford's division. ' Medford has participated in the NSC program for 10 years, according to Flchtner. In re viewing Medford's safety ac tivities, Warmoth told the luncheon delegates that Med ford "really shines" In its de velopment. He noted that the city has "a real good pro gram" and acknowledged the cooperation of the Medford school system, TO CALIFORNIA ' Two men from the Prospect district of the Rogue River National forest were sent to California Tuesday to aid in combatting fires which are burning out of control there. They will act as fire crew supervisors. Klttinger fell more- than 16' opening his chute. (UPI Tele- National Geographic Society) , .; t .); Says Russia Will Orbit Man 'Soon' Berlin r - (UPD - Professor Leonid I. Sedov, head of the Soviet Space. Agency, said to day the Soviet Union would launch a manned satellite soon." : He told the West Berlin newspaper B.Z. that there will be further tests with un manned Sputniks before man ned satellites are launched.' Asked when a manned satel lite would be launched, he answered Vsoon." The satellite will return to earth." Sedov said sending a man ned space ship around the moon lies far in the future . perhaps 20 years. American rocket expert Wernher von Braun in an in terview with the newspaper Tuesday said the United States hopes to send a man ned rocket around the moon In 1963. ., Washington - IUPD - The nuclear - powered submarine Seadragon has blazed a new trail across the top of the world and is now headed for the North Pole, the Navy an nounced today, - ' "A Brilliant. Production; But Confidentially, Don't You Think The Second Act , , . Sagged ,000Soliders Sent To Kasai o End Warfare 'Thousands' Reported Killed In Fighting Leopoldville, The Congo - (UPD - The central Congolese government poured more than. 000 troops into Kasai Prov- nce today to put down a secessionist movement and end bloody tribal warfare that has claimed "thousands" of lives. Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba airlifted the troops into the Kasai capital of Lu- throw the so-called mining throw the socalled "mining state" proclaimed two weeks ago by Baluba tribal chief Albcro Kalonji. Kalonji declared the min- ng state independent of the rest of The Congo, announced he was its new president and allied himself with President Premier Moise Tshombe of the secessionist Katanga Prov ince. Many Natives Killed Kalonji claimed in the Ka tanga capital of Elisabethville today that 300 warriors have died In fighting between the Lulua and Baluba tribes around Luluabourg since Tuesday. He added that thousands" had been killed in bitter fighting since The Congo won its independence June 30. Such warfare be tween the two primitive tribc3 has gone on for years, but it flared into new intensity with independence. It was not immediately known here if Lumumba s heavily armed, troops, flown in to help the Luluas over throw the Baluba state, were Involved in the fresh Lulua bourg fighting. ' Meanwhile; Gen. Roger Gheysehs, commander of the Belgian forces in Katanga, said order has been restored in, the town of Albertville where Mali Federation troops of the United Nations were' reported to have mutinied Tuesday night, ; Denies Mutiny Report Gheysens denied that the Mali troops, had mutinied. He said the reports arose when some Mali troops fraternized with rioters trying to take over the local railroad station, and airfield. He said the Mall troops did not join the rioters. Gheysens said Belgian troops killed two rioters in clearing the airfield and sta tion. Irish troops began flying Into Albertville this morning, U.N. forces said. They will replace the Mali contingent which is being j, withdrawn from the area as a conse quence of the dissolution of the Mall Federation last week end. Peterson Quits As Assistant Secretary Washington-fflPI) - Ervln L. Peterson, 50, a native of North Bend and former di rector of the Oregon State Agriculture Department, re signed as assistant secretary of agriculture Tuesday night. Peterson had served as as sistant secretary for the past six years. His resignation is effective Sept. 16. A Little?" : J
