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i BY mm an FOR BP v: Rogue Valley Edition Medford 40 PAGES SCATTERED LUMBER Four stacks of lumber at Kogap Manufacturing company south of Medford were toppled Wednesday when a sonic boom Jarred the valley shortly Court Considering Suggestions for Pollution Control The Jackson county court yesterday accepted for con sideration recommendations on air pollution control made by the Medford Chamber of Commerce legislative com mittee. The letter urged that the county and Medford make the necessary air pollution study because many of the indus tries are outside the city. The city and county planning com missions or the local air pol lution committee should make a further study toward defin ite plans before funds are spent for additional air pollu tion surveys, the letter recom mended. ' This arid other committee recommendations were ap proved by the chamber's board of directors at its reg ular meeting Sept. 22. Problem Coordinated "The planning commissions should lay out a proposed plan describing the type of community we should plan to build during the next 15 to 20 years," the letter stated. "If such a plan is outlined then the air pollution prob lem should be coordinated with the plan." "Positive action should be taken toward setting up the program so that industries will be in a position to coop erate and know in advance the ordinances under which they will be required to op erate," the letter stated. "It was the concensus of the committee that air pollu tion does exist and that some orderly procedure should be taken to attempt to improve the situation. There is Just as much haz ard of overly controlling air pollution as there is lack of control. This can result in elimination of industries due to the small profit margin, the committee concluded. Candidates Reminded Of M-T Space Offer The Mail Tribune, as in past years, plans to offer free space for statements by candidates seeking elec tion to Congress from the fourth congressional dis trict, candidates for the state legislature, and candi dates for county offices. The statements, which must not exceed 500 words in length, must be in the Mail Tribune's news room on or before Oct. 1. Candi dates are reminded of the doadline, and statements received after the Oct. 1 deadline will not be used. Clarifying Words on Dog Control Ballot Not Likely, Opinion to Madden Reads It is not likely that a clari fying paragraph will appear on the November general elec tion ballot regarding the wording of a dog control measure. The opinion was sent to County Clerk E. M. Madden Wednesday by Deputy Dis trict Attorney Gerald J. Scan nell Jr. In his letter, Scanncll said that "I would also state thnt I do not feel that it would be legal, or at least the matter would be open to question hv Dcrsons who would be dis pleased by any measure pass- MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1960 Request for Lease Of Ball Park Land Being Considered The Jackson county court and fair board yesterday took under advisement a requested lease for the area in front of the ball park for commer cial use. Robert Taylor of Dean and Taylor Pontiac company, Med ford, requested lease of the area to complement an adja cent commercial strip he is planning. Taylor said the land he has purchased extends from the service station and Kim's restaurant to the fair grounds, and back to the Cali fornia Oregon. Power com pany installation. The land measures about 670 feet wide by 500 feet deep. The. area he proposes to lease measures about the same highway frontage and Jumpers Dropped On New Blaze Rogue River National for est this morning dropped three smoke jumpers on a newly spotted lightning fire in the Applegate district. The blaze brought to 14 the number of lightning strikes on the Rogue forest from a Wednesday storm. Fire fighters had the other 13 out or in the mop up stage. All were in the Applegate district. Patrolmen of the state de partment of forestry also were mopping up today on the rash of lightning blazes on state-protected land in Jackson and Josephine coun ties. Nine fires resulted from the Wednesday storm in Jackson county and some 25 were reported in the Jose phine unit of the southwest forestry district. Newest fire on federal for est land was near Gulf but'e over the state line in Califor nia. The Rogue forest used a total of 13 jumpers on five fires ( two or three to a fire) because of the rugged country. The slate department of forestry reported no new fires in Jackson county after spotting one near Battle mountain in the Evans creek area yesterday afternoon. It was the third lightning fire from the storm found in that area. Four state forest patrol crewmen were mopping up today- on the sight of the Samson creek fire which broke out Wednesday. One hundred acres of grass and scrub oak were burned. ed at this election as to any narrow description being in serted as to what a 'yes' or 'no' vote would accomplish." The wording on the ballot for the dog control measure will be simply "for or against dogs running at large." The opinion further stated that it was the feeling of the office that proper news re leases to all news media would be the best way of approaching the problem which "obviously" existed at the time of the primary elec tion in May. Scannell said that the dis Tribune after 1:30 p.m. The stacks of lumber were 16-feet high. No one was reported near the stacks at the time of the accident. (Knackstedt photo) is 150 feet deep, Taylor ex plained. The Medford auto dealer requested a long term lease, about 20 years, which would allow erection of an auto sales office, but no showroom. County Commissioner Ralph James said such an operation would mean erecting a small building similiar to what used car dealers have. Taylor said he plans to erect attractive commercial build ings along the entire highway frontage, properly spaced, with easy access roads to them. Taylor said he has com mitments from two gas com panies, two car dealers, a farm equipment company, a nation. al appliance company and a furniture dealer. The lease would not inter fere with possible construc tion and operation of a sta dium or operation of the ball park, he said. Fair Board Chairman Col lier Buffington suggested that the property be leased on a front foot basis. The fair board was asked to make a recommendation to the county court. Meanwhile, the county court will ask for a legal opinion from the dis trict attorney's office on how long the county can lease property, and any other legal technicalities. Ausland Awarded Building Contract Ausland Construction com pany, Grants Pass, was award ed a contract by the Medford school board this morning to construct the boys physical education and four-classroom addition at Medford High school. Ausland submitted a low bid of $176,060, which in cludes the basic bid and a monoform roof, was $3,258 lower than the next lowest bid, school officials noted. Next lowest was Batzcr Con struction company at $179, 318, including an alternate for the monoform roof. The monoform roof was chosen because of its reduced maintenance qualities. It is a sprayed on fiber -glass ma terial roofing which requires less maintenance and with stands weathering longer than other types of roofing, accord ing to school officials and contractors. Work is expected to start within 10 days, according to Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, dis trict superintendent. Bids on the project were opened Tues day afternoon. trict attorney's office is still awaiting receipt of an attor ney general's opinion con cerning the effect of a repeal of the county-wide dog con trol measure In Medford and Rogue River that approved dog control in the primary election In May. In hia letter, Scannell said that the questions asked of him by Madden regarding dog control are peihaps prema turc." He added that If the county measure had failed In the prl mary it would not have con trolled the city measure. 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 165 MRS. ELIVERA DOUD Private Bites Friday Mrs. Eisenhower's Mother Dies in Sleep at Denver Denver -(DPI)- Mrs. Elivera Doud, 82, mother of Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower, died in her sleep at her home here Wednesday night. Death came at 10:44 p.m from cerebral arteriosclerosis Mrs. Doud had been in poor health for several years. Dr. E. Paul Sheridan, a specialist in internal medicine who was present at the time of death, said Mrs. Doud had been fail ing ''for a long time" and in critical condition for the past week to 10 days. He said her death had been more or less anticipated." Private Services A spokesman for dinger Mortuary, where Mrs. Doud's body was taken, said private services for "a very few friends" and members of the family would be held at her home .here Friday afternoon. The spokesman said time of . the services would not be disclosed, to discourage crowds. She will be burled in Fair mount Cemetery, beside her husband, John S. 1 Doud. Mrs. Eisenhower was flying here from Washington by way of Chicago, where the Presi dent was to make a speech tonight. The President was ex pected to continue on to Den ver later for the funeral. Seven Trials Set For U.S. Court Seven trials and two hear ings are scheduled for federal district court which will con vene in Medford at the U. S. courtroom in the post office building Monday, Oct. 3. U. S. District Judge Gus J. Solomon will preside for the session which will continue through Thursday, Oct. 13. This is the first federal dis trict court scheduled in Med ford this year. The sessions are usually scheduled In May and October, The May court was cancelled due to a heavy court schedule in Portland. United Plane Lands Safely With Bad Tire A United Air lines plane which had blown a tire at take off at Eugene made a safe landing here last night, city firemen reported. Firemen were summoned about 8:40 p.m. and asked to stand by while the air liner landed. Tu fire trucks were ent to the airport. . rn - , iJ t'l i "tit Congressman Is 'Disinvited' To Meeting Tonight Congress m a n Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) has been "dis invited" to a meeting of the board of tho Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources association set for to night. But he said this morning he's going to show up any way, as scheduled, to talk about the Rogue River project to anyone who may be there. The associations meeting was cancelled. It was sched uled for the Rogue Riveria, near Rock Point, at 8 o'clock this evening. After a half-hour telephone call between Porter, in Med ford, and Ben Hilton, chair man of the association, in Grants Pass, Hilton told Por ter he would try to "reinstate" the meeting for tomorrow night. Wire to Porter The board early this morn ing sent a wire to Porter (with copies to newspapers in the area,) in which the invitation to appear was withdrawn be cause Porter had issued a press release covering what he was planning to say con cerning the Rogue project, and because of "the non partisan nature" of the as sociation. Porter, In his conversation with Hilton, asked that his side be heard. And in a state ment after the telephone dis cussion, he said: "This is a campaign. One of the most important issues in the Fourth District is which candidate for Congress can best advance the Rogue Basin project. I would expect the association to hear both sides. I hope that the meet ing will be re-scheduled. "Of course I know the as sociation is a non-partisan group, and that it must remain so in order to be effective. All that I want is a chance to present my own case to them personally. Press Release Porter's press release, sent out from his office in Eugene for use after the meeting, said in part: " 'If the Rogue River proj ect is ever to be built, 11 will have to be built with the help of the Democrats in Con. gross,' Representative Charles O. Porter told a meeting of the Rogue water resources group Thursday evening. " 'The Rogue project was sleeping when I took office, he said, 'and planning money for the project was being taken from it and used on the Columbia river. Protests " 'I protested this, and we have received funds and the project is moving along , . . " 'Green Peter dam on the Sanliam river is the only new project in the state recom mended by the administration. and that only in an election year. Since the Democrats re gained control of Congress in 1955, we have forced five new dam starts on the administra tion . . . New starts on the Rogue project will be done through the Democrats or not at all, Porter said. " 'The Army engineers have Plywood Company Closing One Week Medford Veneer and Ply wood Corporation announced today that Its operations at White City and at Crescent City, Calif., will shut down for one week commencing Oct. 3. Medford Veneer and Ply wood Corporation operates a green veneer manufacturing plant at Crescent City, and a plywood manufacurlng plant in the White City industrial area near Medford. Approxi mately 160 men are employed at White City and 50 at Cres cent City. Company officials said that increased production in the plywood industry coupled with reduced demand make it necessary to adjust produc tion. They also said that fu ture adjustments in produc tion may be required depen dent upon market demand. WEATHER PORKCAHT: Fair Ihrouih frl day. law lonliht SO. Illlh Fri day near SO. Temp. llllheit Yt.ttrday 7 Lowest Thli Morning . 47 Our Skies Tonight Suniet today JUT p.m. Sunrlie tomorrow .... '-07 a.m. The Moon ieU 1:1S a.m. tomorrow and If In Perltee. Pull Moon .. . Oct. 4 VISIBLE PLANETS Venui, Mil Sill p.m. Jupiter, low In aouUi- wnt I-4T p.m. latum, low In couth- - Ml p m. Mar., rlin !: p.m. told me that studies on the project so far are very en couraging. They are begin ning core drilling on the Lost Creek dam site, and they have said the streamflow and tem perature studies , , , have been favorable so far. Local Support "Porter emphasized that a project such as this must have almost unanimous local sup port for passage He told the group that 'I have worked for this support and want to con tinue to encourage and de pend on it.' " Hilton s wire withdrawing the invitation was based on this news release, and said, in part: The directors of the association invited, you to meet with them to learn your views as our incumbent con gressman on the project as you see It. We also had hoped that you would be interested in our views. Because of the non-partisan nature of our as sociation we regret that your news release . . . impels us to withdraw our invitation at this time." Scientists Find Virus Linked To Human Cancer New York - (UPD - Scientists have discovered a virus link ed to human cancer. The newly-found virus is associated with at least eight cancers of different types from various parts of the hu man body, the researchers re ported. If further research pins down the virus as the cause of cancer, broad new possibili ties for combatting the dread disease will have been opened. These might Include vaccines to prevent cancer and early detection of cancers by spot ting the virus in the system of a cancer victim, - , , Second Discovery ,; This was the second cancer virus discovery announced this year. Last March, Dr. Ste ven O, Schwartz of Hektocn Institute for medical research, Chicago, revealed he had iso lated a virus that caused leukemia, or "cancer of the blood." So far his work has not been Independently con firmed by other scientists. The new discovery was made by Drs. Hclcne W. Too- lan, Gilbert Dalldorf, Marion Barclay, Satish Chandra and Alice E. Moore of the Sloan Kettcrlng Institute for Cancer Research here. It was reported in the proceedings of the Na tional Academy of Sciences. Found In Tissues The new virus has been found In the tissues of cancer patients, but not in the can cer itself. It also has - been found in the tissues of rats carrying spontaneous rat can cers. It was not found in the tis sues of cancer-free human be ings or canccr-frce laboratory animals. i "Tb t ft r I I & k AH ft I Li wk I ' P vtu zUU-'&t!sa W'vjr'.MU! tftVufcfcvV5 GROUNDBREAKING Construction of the new J. J. New berry .company store In the Medford Shopping Center got under way officially this morning s Mayor John Snider (left) and Medford Newberry Store Manager Harley M. Williams turned back the first earth with pair of shovels, above. Attending the ceremony were managers of various shopping center stores and other local dignitaries. The Hunters Cautioned About Fire Danger While in Mountains Hunters have been cau tioned by forest service per sonnel and owners of tree farms in the area to be care ful with fire while in the woods this season. Deer hunt ing season opens Saturday morning. C. E. Brown, supervisor of Rogue River National forest, said closures in the forest will be lifted, effective at midnight tomorrow night. The action is not because of a decrease in the fire hazard, he said, but is to open all areas to hunters. Brown said the forest is now the driest it has been all season, and that fires must be completely extinguished when left. Although the ground may hi. damp in the mornings, ne Teacher Shot While Hunting Happy Camp-TerrlU James Ready, 41, eighth grade teach er at Happy Camp Elementary school, was fatally shot late Wednesday while hunting southwest of Happy Camp. According to Siskiyou coun ty sheriff's deputies, Ready apparently tripped and fell over a log about 5 p.m., acci dentally discharging his rifle. He was killed almost In stantly. The body was found on. a road near the Willamette saw mill housing project where the Ready family lived. A search party had been look- ing for the man all night after he failed to return home for dinner. The Readys moved to Hap py Camp earlier this month from Montague where he was a teacher. Mrs. Ready is the second grade teacher in Hap py Camp. They have three children, Bruce, 8; Gerald, 7, and Stuart, 5'4. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Phais T. Ready, Grenada, Calif. said it takes little time to dry as the day progresses. Haiardous Summer In spite of a hazardous summer, we have been fortun ate in having only 12 acres of protective area burned. We wish to keep this down, and will need complete coopera tion from hunters and other forest users," Brown said. Operators of tree farms In the area have again opened their land to hunters, but the Industrial Forestry association asked hunters to use fire with caution. Last year there wore only two hunters' fires on tree farms. They burned only one acre, a favorable d e c r e a s from the previous year's acre age burned during hunting season. Tree farms in this area which have been opened to hunters include those operat ed by Elk Lumber company. Fir Milling and Planing' com pany, Kogap Manufacturing company, Medford Corpora tion, Timber Products com pany, and Weyerhaeuser com pany, SOC Enrollment Reaches New High Ashland - Enrollment at Southern Oregon college es tablished a new record Sept. 27, when 1,252 students had been registered. Last year, the final enrollment ' was 1,250 students, college offi cials said. Registration will continue today, tomorrow and Satur day, and additional enroll ments are expected. Of the total so far register ed, there are .721 men, com pared to 602 on a comparable date last year, an Increase of 4.1 per cent. There arc 531 women now enrolled, com pared to 404 lust year, an in crease of 14.4 per cent. , Mmiii-tfi rrtfT new store, located In about the middle of the hoppln center, will be three times as big is tho Newberry stort In downtown Medford, Williams nald. The firm will occupy the new building about June 1, 1961. The present stort will continue to operate after the new one Is open, Williams added. I Russian Premier Yells Opposition, Bangs on Desk Arms Talks Should Be by Technicians United Nation. N.v. im - British Prime Minister Harold Maemillan fired back at Com munist attacks on Africa and lisarmament today In a sting ing U.N. SDeet-h that nt N i k i t a Khrushchev into a burst of fist-haneinir. hnnl. ing opposition. A dramatic Maemillan nrn- posal for "nonpolitical" dis armament neeotiatlons hv ex. perls rather than propagan dists was almost overshadow ed by Khrushchev's incredible performance. Hitting by Name The British nrlm mlnlsf,,,.. hitting at Khrushchev by name in the first western Big Three reply to the Russian's condemnation of the West last week, called for handing arms- cuuing negotiations over to technical experts, scientific. military and administrative." . . It would not at this stage be political and contro versial," Maemillan declared. The prime minister thus launched a major attempt to break the disarmament im passe shortly before his meet ing with Khrushchev this eve ning. The Russian's behavior in the General Assembly did not bode well for this first top - level East West contact since the abortive Paris con ference last May. Four Khrushchev Outbursts There were four table- thumping outbursts by Khru shchev. His heckling and shouts of disapproval caused the Assembly president to gavel Khrushchev to order. Khrushchev's first outburst came when Maemillan threw his support to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and rejected Khrushchev's ef forts to try to mold the Unit ed Nations around Commu nist lines. The Russian pound ed, his desk with both fists so ldudly. other delegates turned ahd'.stared., if " Reads Communique Maemillan spoke of the breakup of the Paris summit conferences last MaV blamed by the West on Khru shchev and read an allied communique expressing wil lingness to resume the talks at any time. Khrushchev exploded at this and yelled, "Yes, let's talk about Paris. Don't send the U2 and don't try to cover up aggression." Maemillan, the picture of dignity, in dark blue suit, his silver hair gleaming in the bright lights, looked down his nnra nt thn Pnsatnn nntlpo and continued his speech. (Continued on Page 2) Bulletin Waihinston - IUPD - The Civil - Aeronautics " Board authorised five major Dir. lines today to increase jet liner coach fares is much as 17 per cent. The five air lines are American, Contin ental, Northwest Orient Trans World ind United. "v 1 fi Jf I ,:-V j'.f- 0:
