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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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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
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,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.
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