Medford mail tribune., September 28, 1960, Image 1

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Crews Mop Up
100-Acre Blaze
Near Emigrant
Applegate, Williams
Areas Hit Hardest
An eruption of some 45 fires
from lightning strikes in Jack
son and Josephine counties
from yesterday's thunder-
storm had fire fighters of the
state department of forestry
and the Rogue River National
forest busy today.
In addition, state forest
patrol crewmen were mop
Lightning caused a fir
at Hoover lakes in the
White City area about 3:20
p.m. yesterday when it
struck high tension power
lines. Central Point rural
firemen said.
A power pole, trees and
grass were burned.
Nature cooperated with
lhe firemen. Heavy rain
put the blaze out as firemen
arrived.
ping up on a 100-acre grass
'and scrub oak fire on Samson
creek near Emigrant lake.
Heaviest concentration of
lightning fires was in the Ap
plegate and Williams areas.
Rogue forest reported 13
blazes, all in its Applegate
district.
Josephine unit of the south
west state forestry district
had about 25 fires, a good
number of them in the Wil
liams creek vicinity. Seven
lightning fires were on state
forest protected land in Jack
son county.
Uses Jumpers
The Rogue forest used jump
ers on two blazes and dropped
borate solution on two. Forest
headquartors here said this
morning thait ie'Iargest fires,
"up to this point," were one
acre in size and all were man
ned. Southwest district reported
three lightning fires in the
Applegate area, two in the
Evans creek area and one
each in Sams Valley and on
upper Elk creek. One other
spotted yesterday morning in
the Butte Falls vicinity was
out. Largest fire covered an
acre.
The state forestry office
here said it understood the
Samson creek fire started
from a welding operation.
Patrolmen were notified about
4:40 p.m. Four tank trucks
and 30 men, ligely pick up
workers, were dispatched.
Some 30 men were on the
fires on state protected land
this morning with 12 of them
mopping up on the large fire.
William Myers, 63, Milo,
was treated at Ashland Gen
eral hospital for burns on his
hands and knees reportedly
suffered at the Samson creek
fire scene.
Largest of the lightnirg
strike fires on state land was
said to be about one acre.
Overhead personnel were be
ing called in to help cope with
the Josephine fires.
Castro Heading
Back To Havana
New York - HJPD - Cuban
Premier Fidel Castro packed
his bags to return to Havana
today, convinced his free
wheeling indictment of the
United States has had a pro
found effect on the United
Nations.
The bearded 34 -year -old
revolutionary checked out of
the Theresa Hotel in Harlem
this morning and boarded a
Cubana airliner for Havana.
In Havana, the Cuban Con
federation of Labor called on
all workers to gather at the
presidential palace late today.
Castro was expected to speak
to the massive throng from a
balcony.
Friends of Castro said he
was elated over achieving a
life's ambition - a world-wide
United Nations forum for his
political views.
'Day in History' Only
Routine News in Russia
Moicow-'l FD-Th Russian press today reported only down-to-earth
news events on Sapt. 27, I960, rumored beforehand
to be the day whan the Russians might bring a man back
alive from space.
The official recording of Tuesday as "a day in history"
was patterned on Maxim Gorky's "day in the World" of
25 years ago. On Stpt. 27, 193S, ht chronicled in detail th
events of the world and Its paopl.
Reports and speculation that the Russians would drama
tise Tuesday by bringing back alive a man from spaca war
not born out by tha Russian press and Radio Moscow.
Fires Started by Lightning
Papers Assert
Lumumba Bid
For Soviet Aid
Leopoldville, The Congo-WPD-The Congolese council of
high commissioners set up by strongman Col. Joseph Mobutu
release documents tonight alleging that ousted Premier
Patrice Lumumba's government had appealed to Russia and
Communist China for direct aid in arms and "volunteers."
The council also released a photostat of a long letter
allegedly written by Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah to
his "brother" Lumumba advising him in detail on how to
win the present struggle for power with President Joseph
Kasavubu, and how to deal with the United Nations.
56 Per Cent of
Ashland - Talent
Goal Is Pledged
Ashland The Ashland-Tal-ent
United Fund achieved 56
per cent of its $21,968 goal
during Its two-day blitz cam
paign and volunteer workers
will be making followup calls
throughout the remainder of
the week. ' " .
Drive Chairman Dr. John
W. Bradshaw, in announcing
today that more than $12,000
had been donated Monday and
Tuesday, said the drive has
been "very successful" and
proves that Ashland and Tal
ent residents 'lean take a
tough job like this and get it
done."
During the final hours of
the two-day effort last night,
130 volunteer workers under
12 division chairmen blanket
ed the Ashland-Talent area
for donations and pledges.
Exceeds Donations
Donations from the staffs
and faculties of Ashland's
schools, Dr. Bradshaw said,
have exceeded last year s to
tals in all cases. Over $1,100
was received from Southern
Oregon college alone.
It's apparent, the chair
men added, that local resi
dents and business firms "are
giving more than their
shares."
Purpose of the shortened
drive the one in 1959 lasted
five months was to complete
all the leg work in the short
est time possible. Dr. Brad
shaw said the idea "has cer
tainly been well received.
Followup calls slated for
the rest of the week will be
made "with all possible
speed," Dr. Bradshaw added,
and Fund headquarters at 285
East Main St., Ashland, also
will be open throughout the
week. Telephone number Is
MUrdock 5-0771.
Contract Signed
For New Hospital
Ashland - Mayor Richard
L. Neill and F. R. (Scotty)
Fairweather, Medford con
tractor .signed the contract to
day for construction of Ash
land s $375,898 new hospital.
The signing follows city
council approval in August of
Fairweather's low bid for the
34-bed hospital.
Elmer Biegel, city superin
tendent, said construction at
the hospital site on the corner
of Maple and Chestnut sts.
will start Thursday.
Terms of the contract call
for completion of the project
within 270 working days.
Biegtl estimated the comple
tion date will be in November,
1961.
Enrollment Reaches
1,220 at College
Ashland-With three days of
registration remaining, en
rollment at Southern Oregon
college yesterday was only 30
students shy of last fall's final
figure of 1,250.
SOC s second day enroll
ment figure of 1,220 included
662 men and 558 women, the
college announced. Total for
the corresponding day of last
I fall was 1,121.
The president of the Leo
poldville provincial govern
ment predicted meanwhile
that civil war would break
out in the capital between fol
lowers of Lumumba and Kasa
vubu within one week unless
their bitter quarrel was set
tled beforehand.
The provincial premier Cle
ophas Kamitatu, declared at a
news conference that he had
appealed to the United Na
tions to put troops at his dis
posal to maintain order in
this tense capital.
Ghana Blasted
A spokesman for the coun
cil of high commissioners,
Mario Cardoso, revealed the
contents of the documents
about Lumumba's alleged ap
peal to the Communist bloc
powers at a news conference.
He also blasted Ghana for
wanting to "colonize the Con
go." He said he wanted to de
nounce "colonization of blacks
by blacks."
Meanwhile, a planeload of
Mobuto's officers toured the
Congo provinces to invite war
ring political leaders to a
summit conference in Leo
poldville to stabilize the Con
go government.
Table Rock Rd.
To Be Closed
Table Rock rd. near the
Medford Meat company will
be closed for six months,
County Judge Earl Miller said
today.
No definite date for the
closure has been set, but it
will be in the near future, he
added. Purpose of the closure
will be to build a new bridge
over Bear creek for the Table
Rock rd. overpass for the new
freeway.
The county judge has re
quested the state highway de
partment to install and main
tain a detour and signs. The
possible alternative route of
Biddle rd. will not handle
heavy loads which normally
are carried over the Table
Rock rd., Miller explained.
The state highway depart
ment is also preparing for
construction of the second
section of the McAllister Soda
Springs Lake of the Woods
connection with Klamath
Falls. Bids for the road con
struction will be advertised
today by the bureau of public
roads and opened in the Port
land office Oct. 19, Judge
Miller said he has learned..
This will be part of the
over - all Winnemucca to the
sea route. The first section
constructed consisting of ap
proximately 4 610 miles ex
tended "pretty well into the
Lake of the Woods areas," the
county judge explained. The
new section will be part of
the new all-weather route to
Kalamath Falls.
Area Convention
Planned in City
An area convention for 20
30 International clubs from
Oregon, northern California
and part of Nevada, will be
held in Medford Nov. 11, 12
and 13, Bill Brew, local con
vention chairman, has an
nounced. The convention is expected
to attract between 200 and
400 members of about 50 20
30 clubs in the area and about
45 Active clubs. Since the two
International organlza tions
are in the process of merging,
Active clubs in the area have
been invited to participate in
the convention proceedings.
The clubs in Medford and
Salem have already merged,
and are now known ai Active
20-30 clubs.
Invited to the convention
are Clint McClure, El Paso,
Tex., president of 20-30 Inter
national; Jack Kummert, San
ta Rosa, Calif., first vice presi
dent of 20-30; Ron Bolter, Og
den, Utah, second vice presi
dent; and Owen Barnes, Seat
tle, Wash,, president of Active
International.
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KHRUSHCHEV,' TITO MEET-Soviet Premier Nikita Khru-
shchev, left, welcomes one-time arch foe Marshal Tito of
Yugoslavia to the Soviet UN headquarters on New York's
FPC Renders Far
Reaching Verdict
On Gas Prices
Washington-Wll-The Feder
al Power Commission handed
down today a far-reaching
ruling that would speed up
the setting of natural gas
prices for nearly 4.000 inde
pendent producers by use of
a scale of rates based on geo
graphic areas.
The impact on consumer
prices or producer rates could
not be predicted immediately.
But the ruling rejected the
traditional public utility ap
proach for independent pro
ducers. This was based on
cost of service and rate of
return.
And independent producer
is one which sells gas in in
terstate commerce but is not
affiliated with a pipeline com
pany. Basic Purpose
The FPC ruling asserted
that the basic purpose of its
area price plan was "to set
prices adequate to maintain
the gas supplies needed by
the nation's consumers, but at
prices no higher than neces
sary to accomplish that pur
pose." In Portland, a spokesman
for Northwest Natural Gas
Co. said the firm expects the
ruling to have no "direct and
early effect" on gas rates to
its customers in Oregon. He
said It might result in higher
rates eventually if the deci
sion means that some inde
pendent gas producers in the
Southwest are able to raise
the prices they charge El Paso
Natural Gas Co. Northwest
buys Its gas from the El Paso
company.
. Let's All Bunch Up Like A Rocket
And Start World War III!"
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1960
City, State Still
Far Apart on Fair
Price for Acreage
Medford City Manager Rob
ert A. Duff said today the city
and the state highway depart
ment are still "pretty far
apart" in trying to establish a
fair price for Hawthorne park
property that will be needed
for the Pacific tieeway.
The city and the stale have
been negotiating for the past
three months on a price to be
paid the city for the park
property. Duff said he hopes
an agreement can be readied
in "the next, couple of
months."
The freeway, following a
route through the center of
town, will chop off some 4.6
acres at the west end of the
17-acre park. According to
Parks and Recreation Direc
tor Robert Haworth, the 4.6
acres represents about 20 per
cent of the developed park
property in the city.
Try To Replace Values
Duff said in negotiating for
a fair price on the property
"we are trying to replace the
values that we will lose in
Hawthorne park with other
park property."
The city has its eye on some
property along Bear creek,
south of town, that would
possibly make a good park
site. Duff said that the money
which the city is paid for the
Hawthorne park property
could then be used to pur
chase the land south of towi.
If this land is purchased,
Duff said, it would make a
park quite a bit bigger than
Hawthorne park and would be
developed over a period of
years.
in Southern Oregon
Park ave. Tito said "hello"
Negotiations are made diffi
cult with the state, Duff point
ed out, because of the diffi
culty in trying to appraise the
value of park properly.
The city has had two outside
appraisals made of the land
neither of which have proved
satisfactory, Duff said, and
the city is now making a third
appraisal of its own.
One of the things, that
makes it difficult to determine
the value of park property,
Duff said, are the "intrinsic
values." These values include
such things as beauty, and all
the other park uses. There is
no market price for such val
ues he said. A park is also
peculiar from the standpoint
that it cannot be compared to
any other kind of property
Tne state has made one
"unofficial" offer, Duff said,
which was not thought by the
city to be a fair price.
All of the negotiations so
far have been verbal and un
official, he pointed out.
Five HS Students
High on NMS Test
Five area high school stu
dents today were named semi
finalists in the 1060-61 Na
tional Merit Scholarship com
petition. They are Harold W. Bailey
and Karen G. Chrlstensen,
both Medford High school;
Peter Jon Krelsman and Lin
da Ray Neal, both Ashland
High school; and Larry F.
Janssen, Grants Pass Higji
school.
They are among 10,000
high school - students In the
country who scored the high
est in the National Merit
Scholarship qualifying test
given in more than 15,000
high schools last spring.
Semifinalists will take
another examination, the
three-hour scholastic aptitude
test of the college entrance
examination board, Dec. 3.
Students whose scores on the
second test substantiate their
performance on the qualify
ing test and who are endorsed
by their high schools will be
come finalists In the compe
tition. I
As finalists, students will
be eligible for scholarship
awards sponsored by 115 bus
iness and Industrial ograniza
tions, professional ' societies,
foundations, individuals, and
the National Merit Scholar
ship Corporation Itself.
Names of the merit scholars
will be amounted about May
1, 1961, and the exact num
ber will depend on the ex
tent of sponsor support of the
merit program.
Tribune
and went inside the building,
(UPI Tclcpholo)
Bids Considered
For Physical Ed
Plant at School
Bids from five contractors
were opened by the Medford
school board yesterday after
nbon for construction of i
boys physical education plant
at Medford High school.
No action was taken on
awarding the contract until
after basic bids are studied in
relation to the seven alter
nates. Some action is expected
Thursday morning before the
board goes on its second tour
of district facilities. School
administrators indicated yes
terday that the contract would
be awarded as soon as pos
sible. Basic Bids
aasic bias received were
Ausland Construction com
pany, Grants Pass, $175,950;
Batzcr Construction company,
Medford, $178,350; Wiley
Construction company, Ash
land, $179,497; Harold Salter,
Rogue River, $179,800; and
Loren Ritchie, Medford, $186,-
396.
The seven alternates figures
for block walls instead of tilt-
up construction, for omitting
roofing, interior and exterior
painting, not finishing gym
floor, omitting suspended
ceilings in some rooms in the
building, and a monoform
roof.
Edward Branchflcld, chair
man of the board, said he was
pleased with the bids, and
noted that they are within the
funds available.
The project Includes a gym
nasium, which will be used
for boys physical education
classes only, and several class
rooms. No spectator scats arc
included in the gym, and the
classrooms are expected to be
ready for use soon after the
second term of school starts.
The work is part of a two
year building program being
financed through bonds ap
proved by district voters.
Los Angeles -IUPD-The sec
ond murder trial of Dr. R.
Bernard Finch and his para
mour, Carole Trcgoff, is in its
final phase, 14 weeks and
three days after it started.
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Denmark Offers
Proposal for
Disarmament
Greenland Offered
For Inspection
United Nations, N.Y.-IOT-Th
United Stales today put
President Eisenhower's five
point African development
program before tha General
Assembly for major debate.
United Nations, N.Y.-IUPII-
Denmark today proposed com
plete reorganization of dis
armament negotiations and
offered for international in
spection its possession of
Greenland where the United
States has a major base at
Thule.
The proposal was put be
fore the General Assembly by
Danish Foreign Minister Jens
Otto Krag. He did not spell
out details for his proposed
new disarmament commission
except tq call for an expert
study of adequately control
led nrms reductions measures.
His proposal raised a prob
lem for the United States
which has an important mili
tary network in Greenland as
well as the main base
Thule. But since the United
States already has offered to
open Arctic areas under its
control to mutual inspection
with Russia, Washington was
not cxpecetd to oppose Krag's
plan.
Khrushchav Kaaps Busy
Krag made his proposal as
Soviet Premier Nlklta Khru
shchev pushed ahead with his
plan to reorganize the United
Nations along his own lines
despite a succession of sting
ing defects in the current
General Assembly.
Krag also threw Denmark's
Support behind Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold
in his handling of the Congo
crisis.
Khrushchev, holding major
conferences this morning with
President Tito of Yugoslavia,
was a late arrival today. Brit
ish Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan and Prime Minis
ter Jawaharlal Nehru of India
already were seated when he
arrived.
Bulgarian Communist party
boss Todor Zhikov challenged
the United States to give aid
to dependent countries "with
no strings" attached and said
Washington spends "huge
sums on blackmail, bribes and
provocations" in the under
developed areas.
Each Has Thama
Zhlkov's was the daily in
stallment of Communist at
tacks against the United
States and its allies. Each
Iron Curtain speaker appar
ently had a different theme
to hammer home and the Bul
garian's assignment was the
U.S. aid program,
Fidel Castro of Cuba head
ed for home today, while
more government chiefs rush
ed to New York to take part
In the most acrlnonlous Gen
eral Assembly meeting since
the U.N. was founded in 1945.
Portland - IUPD - Members
of the Northwest Marine
Terminal association meet
here Thursday to determine
the degree of compliance with
a Federal Maritime Board or
der suspending free -storage
privileges in some ports.
Jackson County Gets
CD Emergency Hospital
Jackson county was one of
two Oregon counties today to
receive civil defense emer
gency hospitals. According to
Oregon Civil Defense Direct
or A. M. Sheets, Salem, tho
two new units bring the total
now stored in the state to 22,
The 200-bed emergency hos
pital unit was unloaded this
morning in Ashland under the
direction of Arlo Miller, civil
defense director there.
Stored At Collage
The unit is being stored at
the Southern Oregon college
gymnasium. It includes hos
pital supplies and equipment,
x-ray unit, and a certain
amount of drugs, It was ex
plained. Com plcte surgery
and operation equipment Is
Included in the field type
emergency unit, it was re
ported,
Session Seen
Major Break in
Summit Impasse
K-Ike Meeting
Still Not Planned
New York - IUPI) - Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
and British Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan will meet
at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the
Soviet headquarters in tha
first major East-West summit
contact, the British U.N. dele
gation announced today.
The session shaped us as
the first major break in a
summit impas.se since tha
abortive Paris conference.
Diplomatic sources reveal
ed the Khrushchcv-Macmillan
plan following a post-break-l'ast
conference between Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Lord
Home and Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko at
the Russian headquartors.
President Tito of Y u g o-
slavia meanwhile visited
Khrushchev at the Soviet
headquarters today.
Nasser Suggestion Fails
Reports of a possible Mac
millan - Khrushchev meeting
began circulating Tuesday
when President Eisenhower
and Khrushchev failed to
adopt a suggestion by Presi
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser of
the U.A.R. that they meet
under U.N. auspices to patch
up their differences.
Khrushchev told newsmen
in one of his curbside Inter
views Tuesday such a meet
ing with Macmillan might ba
possible.
Khrushchev still had no
comment today on a possible
meeting with Eisenhower.
When a reporter asked him
this morning he replied, "No
body told me that I'm sup
posed to talk to him."
No Plans Held
The White. House said in
Washington there were no
plans for Eisenhower to meet
with Khrushchev. However
the White House kept alivo
the. possibility Eisenhower
may . return to New York to
make further personal efforts
to counter Khrushchev's at
tacks on the United Nations.
Diplomatic sources believed
worldwide disarmament
would be the main topic ot
the Macmillan Khrushchev
talks although it was recalled
that Macmillan was the go-
between who set up the May
Paris summit conference.
American and British officials,
however, discounted the like
lihood of Macmillan trying to
mediate in the present situ
ation.
Dr. Merkel To
Return to County
Dr. A. Erin Merkel, former
Jackson county public health
officer, will return to his old
job here Nov, 1, according to
H. P. Jewctt, chairman of the
Jackson county board of
health.
Jewctt said this morning ha
received a long-distance tele
phone call from Dr. Merkel
which reversed a recent de
cision not to return to Jackson
county. Dr. Merkel is now
chief of the division of pre
ventative medicine In the San
Diego county department of
public health. He has been
working In the San Diego
county health department
since he left here Aug. 1, 1959.
Jewett said Dr. C. I. Drum
mond has officially resigned;
as head of the county health
department because of 111
health He became ill this sum
mer and took a leave of ab
sence for July, August and
September.
Dr. Merkel had been in
Jackson county for 21 years
previous to leaving for tha
California position. He had re
turned here recently while on
vacation, and had considered
returning to his former posi
tion then, Jewett said.
inc couege made spaca
available for the unit and an
area had been wire enclosed
for it. The gymnasium was
selected since in cases ot
emergency a campus building
nearby will be used for the
unit to be assembled.
Bought By Government
The units, purchased by tha
federal government at $25,000
each, are stored In preparation
tor nuclear attack or other
disaster.
This is the second emer
gency hospital unit for Jack
son county, according to Jack
son County Civil Defense Di
rector Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks.
The other unit, received about
two years ago and identical 1
to the unit received today, is
stored at the Veterans Ad
ministration Domiciliary,
White City.
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